₦airaland Forum

papparatzzi2013:
What happened to the share of the FG? Will the state share have not been looted the same way the FG's own too was looted, if they have not collected it?

NOI was a failure. She was more interested in her dollar denominated salary than the economy of the nation.

She met a vibrant economy and left our economy in ruins and tatters.

QuotaSystem:
Apart from producing world standard cars that have carried our leaders for decades from the 504 to the 406 and the latest, Peugeot 805 unlike the cut and join vehicles Innoson is welding, PAN Kaduna has started production of the luxury cutting-edge 805 and 301. Another one from the 'backward North'.

Bad belle, it's allowed.



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modath:
Let's agree the 36 govs forced hero's hands & they took out the state's share from the ECA, what happened to the FG's share nah? Did it Evaporate?

danmasani101:
Its better than you, who is collecting peanuts for each post your make on the social media.

The current president benefited from it by collecting 2 bulletproof SUV.

PassingShot:
And what did Ngozi achieve for our economy despite unprecedented earnings during her time......

FG, States, LGs Share N568.4 Billion for Oct



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Also, $1billion was proposed for distribution to complement shortfall in expected revenue." The $1billion is a compromise by the FG over its words in September not to augment shortfalls anymore.

Responding to the presentation, the chairman of the States Commissioners of Finance and Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Mr Timothy Odaah, lamented that the statutory allocation was getting smaller and smaller. "It appears this is the worst in terms of returns. This is the least in allocations as far as this year is concerned. We are mourning the dearth of funds and this is a wakeup call for states and local governments to buoy up their internally generated revenue."

While appreciating the "magnanimity" of President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the $1billion from the excess crude account and to be shared among the federal, state and local governments, Odaah expressed disappointment with the returns made by the NNPC.

He said that [size=14pt]the states had requested for $2bn[/size] to complement for the shortfall in revenue but got only $1billion. In September, Odaah and fellow commissioners had walked out of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) when the federal government said that the framework of the 2013 budget was no longer realistic and it won't augment shortfall in revenue. Odaah raised issues with the statutory allocations of previous months.

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obasiken:
In 1983, people had to line up to buy a tin of milk. Go and ask your father. This policy is an ancient policy or you now know better than 2 former CBN governors sanusi and soludo who have come out to say the same thing.

aresa:
His fans and bottle carriers on NL are hypocrites just like the man they are defending.

They can demand accountability from other people and even blame other people for their deeds, errors and mistakes, but they themselves are not used to accountability...

Bunch of hypocrites..

Obiagelli:
anonimi if you run from this thread en

Obiagelli:
Oh, you want to start what you described as Blame game moments ago?

Obiagelli:
Blame ke, we are just drawing up a list of our ineffectual buffons

Obiagelli:
Its unfortunate that 16yrs of Pdp rule could not diversify the economy, a consequence o SAP

baralatie:
To even mention IBB SAP programme as your problem in 2016 is unfortunate

Tallesty1:
Can't stop laughing. How can there be fund when Buhariwalker is spending the available fund on his space travels..

GMB‬ Speech While Addressing Nigeria Community In The United Kingdom.


I Will Maintain a modest lifestyle as President -Muhammadu Buhari.

“One of the major killers of our economy apart from corruption is waste. Our scarce resources are being plundered away very carelessly and unnecessarily wasted. Let me give an instance, presently, there are more than 6 aircraft in the presidential fleet. What do you call that? Billions of naira is budgeted every year for the maintenance of these aircraft not to talk of operational cost and other expenses.

You may want to ask what a Nigerian President is doing with so many aircraft when a Prime Minister of Britain fly around using the same public aircraft like an ordinary Briton.

Go and check and compare with that of any developed country in the world, the office of the Nigerian President is a very expensive one inspite our high level of poverty, lack and joblessness. Despite all these, you still find a Nigerian Minister spending about N10billion to charter an aircraft for just one year. Now, for me, when we come into office, all these waste will be blocked and properly channelled into our economy. We intend for instance, to bring back our National carrier, the Nigerian airways. [size=14pt]We shall do this by bringing all the aircraft in the presidential fleet into the Nigerian airways[/size] and within a year increase the fleet into about 20.


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IYANGBALI:
you see now. Benue people too dey fall my hand

IYANGBALI:
if the man like himself make him no come out again to contest in 2019 because na shame him go carry go home then. For now go back to the senate to warm and watch drama

fako1:
Na wah o! APC lately showing sign of good governance wenever dey lose a post. PDP never did this during their adminstation. This is a sign of sportsmanship. You dont win all, you lose some.

ochejoseph:
President  Goodluck Ebele Jonathan congratulates Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on his victory in Saturday's governorship election in the state. The President commends the Independent National Electoral Commission and national security agencies for ensuring that the elections were free, fair, credible and peaceful in keeping with the avowed commitment of his Administration.

President Jonathan also applauds the people of Osun State who came out en masse yesterday in all the local government areas of the state to peacefully and freely exercise their democratic right, trusting in his assurance that all necessary measures would be taken to ensure their safety and the sanctity of their votes.

The President  believes  that the free, fair and peaceful conduct of the elections have fully reaffirmed his administration's determination  to positively reform Nigeria's electoral processes.

The outcome of the election has also given the lie to the false, unfair and uncharitable allegations that measures put in place by the Federal Government for the Ekiti and Osun State elections were partisan and designed to achieve a favourable outcome for his party.

As Governor Aregbesola prepares to begin a second term in office, President Jonathan looks forward to continuing to work with him and other state governors to further improve the living conditions of Nigerians in Osun and other states of the country.

He wishes Governor Aregbesola continued good health and a successful second term in office.

 

Reuben Abati

Special Adviser to the President

(Media & Publicity)

Jonathan congratulates Aregbesola, says outcome of Elections reaffirms FG's commitment to free & fair elections

http://reubenabati.com.ng/PRESIDENT-JONATHAN-CONGRATULATES-AREGBESOLA-SAYS-OUTCOME.html

http://tsuntsumediaservices..com/2014/08/president-jonathan-congratulates.html?m=1

TheFreeOne:
APC congratulates David Mark whilst Onjeh protests results

That'll be a real change if that tweet is not denied soon cos APC and inconclusive elections are like bread and butter.

PANAFRICANA:
Is Amosu an Igbo man? Yoruba warn your thieving brothers.

Sibrah:
A man who couldn't run NTA, host a party, have a Cinema for average Nigerian thinks he can tweet his way to political followership.

Mostprecious:
Citizens, patriots, look at d ppl dt swore to serve our country. How much cn u finish before ur demise? Der is no difference btw u nd d kidnappers, robbers nd d swindlers on d street. Instead of dem to device a means to help situation nd life in ds country. Well Remember we came to d world wth nothin nd we'll go bk wth nothing, God is watching us all... All is vanity!
Let's pray for our country Nigeria!

sukkot:
yup. any identified looter. as well as your soul anonimi for being the biggest supporter of corruption in nigeria. anonimi your soul is required in hades

Kenai:
The Rivers Monorail has already arrived...

And it's about to take off...
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... To outer space.

tushbobo:
But one 'PEN' robbery results in hundreds/thousands of gun robberies.If 100 persons steals 10 billion naira each... this totals 1 trillion naira. No basic infrastructure coupled with a bad economy means the level of hopelessness and frustration is high hence robberies will occur.

MathsChic:
Some days ago, I was at a secondary school in Surulere (across the bridge from the Island) in Lagos for a friend's event where he is educating secondary students about the perils of peer pressure. I honestly wasn't expecting what I saw as the state of this secondary school.
It left me wondering if this was a school or a dump yard. Why in heaven's name are Nigerian leaders looking the other way while the young ones study in this sorry environment?

The attached pictures are what I saw. This is no secondary school. It's a hopeless shanty. I hope this gets to front page and attracts the necessary attention.



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sukkot:
fayemis soul is required in hades too

scribble:
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Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari

The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.

One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.

He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”

One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.

Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.

It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.

Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.

According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.



Joe Francis wrote in from Port Harcourt.


http://www.theheraldng.com/dollarization-apc-primaries-amaehi-vanquished-atiku-saibuhari/

Kenai:
Chei. Confusion in the tower of babel.

Act 1

PMB: I present to you, dear senate, the budget of change. With our 6.08 trillion naira budget, we are prepared to take our country to greater heights. As you may see, this is Zero budgeting, with no interference from Otuoke man's kwarrapt team. I worked with perm secs for 4 months before appointing a cabinet, because perm secs are the important ones.

Gbajabiamila: This is the best budget of all time!

Omenka: Buhari will take us to El Dorado! Shame on IPOB youths.

Ngene: I'm so proud of Mr. President! This is a corruption free budget.

Beremx: At last, change has come!

TheShadyExpress: Hmmm... Something doesn't seem right.

Ngene: Sharrap! IPOB Youth!!!


Act 2:

BudgIT: This budget is fraught with fraud!!!

Omenka: BudgIT is an IPOB propaganda mouthpiece, people. Don't be fooled! The "IT" stands for "Ifeanyi Tochukwu"!

Caseless: Good observation, Omenka! IPOB Youths are full of hate!

BeremX: iStandWithBuhari!

PremiumTimes: This budget is inflated!

Omenka: IPOB Youths have hacked PremiumTimes.

Caseless: Damn you IPOB Youths!

PunchNG: This budget allocated more for information than agriculture, but claims it wants to diversify our economy.

Omenka: Nnamdi Kanu, is that you? How were you able to sneak that phone past the prison guards and into your cell?

Ngene: IPOB has hacked PunchNG.

Vanguard: Fayemi budgeted 790million for a website.

StOla: It's very understandable. Web protection costs a lot these days.

PapaBrowne: Are you fucccking kidding me?

Ngene: Sharrap dia IPOB!

TonyeBarcanista: I rushed in immediately I heard someone say "protection". Anything for me?

Beremx: iStandWithBuhari

Act 3:

SenateNGR: The budget is missing!

StOla: Phew! I support Buhari on this! Many items in that budget were simply inflated.

Omenka: Good call, Buhari. Now, correct those figures.

Caseless: Finally, Baba can correct those inflated figures.

SenateNGR: The budget has now been found, but it appears to have been tampered with. Figures haven't been reduced per se, but just interchanged.

Omenka: Cool. I like them like this.

Caseless: Me too! I like them this way. It's good he didn't correct it.

Ngene: Baba, you are the best.

StOla: Uh, yeah, totally. It's good he didn't change it afterall. Baba knows best.

TonyeBarcanista: Is protection still there?

Beremx: iStandWithBuhari

Act 4:

SenateNGR: The figures are inconsistent. Let's observe a break.

Caseless: Saraki is Kwarrapt.

Liar Mohammed: This is not my budget. I didn't write it.

Isaac Adewole: I will present my budget.

PMB: Rats padded the budget.

StOla: This is all GEJ's fault somehow.

Arresa: The perm secs are corrupt and under the employ of the Otuoke man.

Onatisi: You mean the same perm secs PMB preferred to work with for months?

Ngene: Sharrap dia IPOB Youth!

Beremx: iStandWithBuhari.

Act 5:

Liar Mohammed: The budget wasn't padded but I know this is GEJ's fault somehow.

StOla: I knew it!

Liar Mohammed: Well, in the mean time, let's cover up our incompetence by trending the Ekiti state election results that happened since 2014.

Caseless: Thanks Baba!

Beremx: iStandWithBuhari.

sukkot:
jonathan your soul is required in hades

mrmetoo1:
Lol so you're looking for convictions now. Please which of the court cases have been concluded? Or the judge should just give a conviction without all parties concluding? Or is it Buhari you expect to hand out judgement? This same guy that's looking for convictions will be the same person that'll be crying when they start sending them to jail. When that times comes, we'll be hearing Buhari is sending opposition to jail. Don't worry they'll go to jail, I'm sure the accused are not in such a hurry as you are. Everyday they can buy with different motions their lawyers file is a good day for them.

All these corrupt people freedom fighters on this forum, no shame. Fact is the past administration was highly corrupt. Even Jonathan admitted it.

HungerBAD:
What?
This is bad. Is there anybody from the Government of Goodluck Jonathan that did not steal? for those that say Nigeria is not a God Worshiping Country, must really not be appreciating what he did by taking these people out of Govt.

Imagine if PDP was still ruling.

Guyman02:
Credit: Olofin O Emmanuel:

Can a Leopard change it spots? CHANGE 2015, CHANGE, CHANGE?

APC Lists of Gubernatorial Candidates for the 2015 Elections:

1] KWARA: AbdulFatah Hamed (former PDP)
2] KEBBI: Abubakar Atiku Bagudu (former PDP)
3] KATSINA: Aminu Bello Masari (former PDP)
4] KANO: Umar Abdullahi Ganduje (former PDP)
5] KADUNA: Malam Nasir El-rufa'i (former PDP)
6] JIGAWA: Alh. Abubakar Badaru (former PDP)
7] BAUCHI: Barr. Muhammad Abubakar (former PDP)
8] GOMBE: Alh. Inuwa Yahya (former PDP)
9] NIGER: Abubakar Bello Sani (former PDP)
10] ADAMAWA: Umar Jibrilla Bindow (former PDP)
11] PLATEAU: Mr Simon Lalong (former PDP)
12] BENUE: Dr Samuel Ortom (former PDP)
13] TARABA: Aisha Jummai Alhassan (former PDP)
14] RIVERS: Dakuku Peterside (former PDP)
15] IMO: Rochas Okorocha (former PDP)
16] ENUGU: Okey Ezea (former PDP)
17] ABIA: Dr Nyerere Anyim (former PDP)
18] EBONYI: Dr Steve Egbo (former PDP).
19) Sokoto: Aminu Tambuwal. (Former PDP)

Who is now talking about CHANGE? Who is Changing who?
Is it these PDP rejected,Black sheep and Bad eggs that are calling for CHANGE?

NIGERIANS MUST SHINE THEIR EYES AND NOT BE DECEIVED BY CHANGE CROONERS.

bamdexfarms:
he gave them a level playing ground. No politician was jailed during his 6 years tenure. GEJ is the father of all thieves.

...F A C T.. C H E C K ...

'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI.
They built NONE for Nigerians.

Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians.
NONE for themselves.

NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC....



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Olaolufred:
Good luck is a hero.
Raised more billionaires than any other among past Presidents.
Just that it all happened at the expense of Nigerian masses.

Obasanjo shared $74million Halliburton bribe, Okiro Panel says: • OBJ also pocketed another $5 million with PDP • Interim Panel report disappeared in Aso Rock
MAY 18, 2010

President Olusegun Obasanjo, who led Nigeria from 1999-2000, during which time he swore to fight corruption in the country, obtained considerable helpings of the infamous Haliburton bribe money, the Special Investigation Panel headed by Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, has declared in an interim report.


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brainpulse:
Where you born dumb or you inherited it from a gene from your prts. Monies were recovered, the next thing your brain thought about was there was no court injunction. Was it stated in the law that efcc can not recover stolen funds without injunction.

blackpanda:
I think u are trying so desperately to provide defence (no matter how ridiculous) for persons who themselves are more inclined to bargaining and returning their loot. Every right thinking Nigerian knows how public officials in the last administration looted without care. Infact, the President encouraged them to steal more and reminded us that stealing isnt corruption. The rot and impunity of Jonathan and his men was disgusting!

Jan 30, 2015

At my backyard in Aba. our own train over here is very real. 2 times in a day it vibrates the ground.



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TTC in talks to sell old trains to Lagos. Are they safe enough?
AUGUST 10, 2011



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As Toronto trainspotters gleefully take maiden rides on the TTC's Rocket, commuters in Lagos, Nigeria may be about to get some new trains of their own. Our old ones.

A TTC spokesperson has confirmed that the commission is negotiating with a private group to sell up to 260 used train cars to the West African megacity's new transit project.

"I can confirm that the TTC is in discussion with a third party that wants to purchase trains for Lagos," said commission spokesperson Brad Ross. "Over a period of time, they will be taken out of service and then transported over to Nigeria."

The cars being considered for sale are the TTC's old H-5 and H-6 models, which will be decommissioned as the TTC rolls out its new fleet of Rockets. Ross predicts the earliest they could be shipped to Nigeria is sometime in 2012.

Traffic snarls are already a major economic problem in the Nigerian capital, a booming city that will reach an estimated population of 25 million by 2015. A new above-ground rail system designed to carry 1.5 million people a day has already broken ground, and Lagos Governor Babtunde Fashola has said it "will be the most multi-dimensional and most impactful" of the government's efforts to reduce traffic congestion.

Fashola visited Toronto earlier this year to inspect the TTC trains.

The Lagos deal would be the first of its kind for the TTC. Decommissioned cars are usually sold for scrap metal and can fetch up to $1,500 dollar each. While Ross declined to discuss specific figures, he says the sticker price for Lagos is "significantly more" than scrap prices, putting the potential profits to the TTC in the millions of dollars.

It is not unusual for technology from western nations to end up in poorer countries. Marketplaces in Africa and Asia are flooded with North American clothes, computers, and even cars, but the purchase of larger technology like trains is rarer.

The cars will have to be significantly refurbished to fit existing infrastructure in Lagos, and some Nigerian media reports have lamented that the government appears to have settled on "tokundo," or used, trains instead of brand new vehicles.

Although half the cars are more than 30 years old, Ross is adamant they are perfectly safe and are only being decommissioned for capacity reasons. But he also admitted the TTC is not required to make sure the cars meet any safety standards before selling them.


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