₦airaland Forum

xharder:
I think the media is part of our problem in this country

kennycalls:
majority of nigerians are pessimists!! but I don't blame them, they've been frustrated and undermined by 16 years of PDP misrule, but hey, in my 2face's voice;" I know you cannot trust nobody, but you have to trust someone"

voltron:
Mrs. Adeosun. I respect your office and will not go beyond this contribution

A Cap on Salary increase is not a strategy. what needs to be looked at primarily is Operating Expenditure vis-a-vis Revenue generated on Income earned. CAPEX is another angle.. but really should Ministries be doing such?

Key Areas to be looked at is
1: Clear Functional Goals for each Ministry.. This should align with their Constitutionally-established Function nothing more nothing less
2: Removal of Duplicitous functions and offices for "Settlement Appointees"
3: Independent External Audit of Processes (HR, Accounts, Management Policies)
4: Removal of Security Votes

There is a lot of wastage especially in Lagos.. an SA of a previous administration comfortably pays rent for his extended family from the allowance for Stationery you can imagine what other allowances are leeching monies from FG's pocket.

I doubt sincerely that you can make any serious impactful change in your position as Minister. If you are to do so then you can expect threats to your life. It would be a pleasant change if you can.

AdaNri1:
Why my mother was kidnapped – Okonjo-Iweala

The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finace , Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala revealed Monday that her
mother, Prof Kamene Okonjo was kidnapped by those who claimed their fuel subsidy payments were blocked and the non-release of SURE-P funds.

She said her mother was neither given food nor water during her kidnap.

Professor Kamene Titi Okonjo, the 82-year-old retired professor of Sociology at the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, was released six days after a 10-man gang seized her from her home at Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/why-my-mother-was-kidnapped-okonjo-iweala/
Well, if she knew who they were, why not go after them. Are they untouchables? #just asking#

daretodiffer:
I pray whatever you serve delivers you from your stupid.ity and idio.cy

Adesiji77:
The previous government’s Agriculture Transformation Agenda (ATA) aimed to reverse the decline. Policymakers believed that impediments to private investment had stymied the sector. Among the proposed reforms were steps to encourage increased production and processing of tomatoes. Four years after the launch of the ATA, not a single local or foreign company is processing fresh tomatoes in Nigeria.

The new government of President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in May, has yet to define a new policy. When it comes to tomato paste, the prospect ofexploiting local production to create an efficient, fully Nigeria-­based supply chain is still so daunting that private sector players from Nigerian business magnates to multinationals ­ are wary of the substantial investments that would be required to even attempt such a feat.


http://businessdayonline.com/2015/12/havard-graduate-works-to-produce-tomato-paste-in-nigeria/

ShakurM:
You voted for Buhari abi

ijustdey:
While disclosing his plans for OPEC, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, promised to do his best to delay Iran’s intended oversupply of crude oil, to control pricing.

Speaking with reporters in Lagos, he said: “I think the key thing will be obviously crude oil price. There is a lot of sensitivity on that, $42 currently and with potential to go down if Iran throws their barrels into the field.

“My first target as I meet with ministers one-on-one is to try to delay Iran’s flooding of the market to the last quarter of next year. I will be talking with Iran’s oil minister on that so that we can stabilise the price.


http://dailypost.ng/2015/12/02/minister-of-state-kachikwu-replaces-alison-madueke-as-opec-president/

daretodiffer:
Keep your BS to yourself

Jonathan ruined everything for us and for him. He is the worst president ever.

gabman700:
What a country... No light, no fuel, loss of jobs, High FX exchange rate for business, Reduced stock price, Insecurity amongst others.
Where is this change!!!

daretodiffer:
Good!

Our patience is wearing thin

neolboy:
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Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said she can save as much as $5 billion annually by cracking down on waste in more than 450 government agencies, a strategy that will determine how well Nigerian economy weathers its slowest growth spell since 1999.

Adeosun, who took office in November, offered an early glimpse of how Africa’s top crude exporter plans to navigate a crash in oil prices that has beset petrostates globally.

Nigeria’s government revenue has fallen by about 60% from the height of the oil boom more than a year ago, she said.

To compensate for those lost funds, the London-born former accountant and investment banker said she would scrutinize the prices government agencies pay for plane tickets, office supplies and other items.

Next year’s budget will also include caps on increases to government workers’ salaries, she said.
“We’re trying to rein everybody in,” Ms. Adeosun, 48 years old, said from behind the desk vacated in May by her predecessor, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. “I don’t expect anybody to like it, but I also expect people to understand that where we find ourselves, there’s no choice.”

Ms. Adeosun was finance commissioner for Ogun State before she was appointed minister.


Source:www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/we-can-save-5bn-annually--finance-minister/122288.html

neolboy:
Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said she can save as much as $5 billion annually by cracking down on waste in more than 450 government agencies, a strategy that will determine how well Nigerian economy weathers its slowest growth spell since 1999.

Adeosun, who took office in November, offered an early glimpse of how Africa’s top crude exporter plans to navigate a crash in oil prices that has beset petrostates globally.

Nigeria’s government revenue has fallen by about 60% from the height of the oil boom more than a year ago, she said.

To compensate for those lost funds, the London-born former accountant and investment banker said she would scrutinize the prices government agencies pay for plane tickets, office supplies and other items.

Next year’s budget will also include caps on increases to government workers’ salaries, she said.
“We’re trying to rein everybody in,” Ms. Adeosun, 48 years old, said from behind the desk vacated in May by her predecessor, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. “I don’t expect anybody to like it, but I also expect people to understand that where we find ourselves, there’s no choice.”

Ms. Adeosun was finance commissioner for Ogun State before she was appointed minister.


Source:www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/we-can-save-5bn-annually--finance-minister/122288.html

Image123:
Hope you can see that it is the Senate that has been delaying payment of the subsidy claims by the marketers? Buhari has sent this supplementary budget over two weeks, today they are looking at it and saying rubbish. Yet everybody will blame Buhari, not the senate, not GEJ. Buhari has approved for the debts to be paid 2weeks ago, Senate is busy asking whether to summon Buhari or whether budget money is enough.

somez:
Dont dare say that on a fuel queue.

ihatesycophant:
And we were told the economy is robust by PDP. It was only Iweala that said last year November that government would borrow to finance budget and to pay federal workers salaries.

mpowa:
I don't have energy for any nonsense trashy discussion, you cannot sell Jona to me, he might be your rose model or ur Zero, that's ur cup of tea, u guyz still want to push Jona down our throat probably to make urselves feel good i dont know, they're still cleaning up his corruption laden administration till now, but it was good radiance, if you still want him as ur president, just relocate to Otuoke, he can be ur president forever there.

Rexnegro:
u dey mind the foolish and useless bastard called a gov? am proudly ashamed am from ekiti because this thug....am sure he won't finish his tenure...slow but steady his own case file will soon be opened and all those fools calling him their role model will start saying he's been witch hunted.

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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gretblue:
You are the confused miracle seeker here.What did your Hero do with our oil money when the price of crude oil got to peak in the international market .when the oil revenue was booming for close to 4yrs.Your lone hero was busy looting.Now you could suddenly blame a new govt in power since you couldn't achieve anything in the last 16yrs .

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.

More from: http://allafrica.com/stories/201311150323.html

BABANGBALI:
noise maker,notice me tout

mpowa:
Every thing under Gej where growing on paper, they were the best at putting false statistics together(Paper Economy), the more people are suffering, the more the economy was growing...at least bubu is not lying about the nation being broke.

eazydon:
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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bokohalal:
The change you voted for will not manifest in six months. Not after the ruination that the PDP left after sixteen years of unabated continous damage

Amuga:
Tori don change

xymmie01:
End time employment and end time lies.......APC can lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Abi na ghost dem employ

ace15:
Whats d relevance of this here
"Wailers"

adicious:
Please, How can I join The Wailers? Any space for me?