₦airaland Forum

warrior01:
Another Northerner again? I really pity Tinubu, no compensation upon all his struggle . He was roundly used and dumped like a dirty rag; from the post of the National Leader back to a mere local champion without a say in this APC government. Chai! Na so life be?

modath:
Egbere was used as a synonym for Wailer, & i know you get it's usage ...

I shouldn't have responded like originally would not but erroneously thought like firefire you are reasonable even if you hold dearly to your political affiliation.....

Keep wailing, it won't stop PMB from doing his will....

modath:
The onus is on him to prove himself worthless...

Don't start nitpicking on any perceived faults now, PMB didn't give him the ES job at TETFUND...

If you have any comma against him, keep it, it doesn't make no difference, nothing this govt will do is likely to get a pass mark from you, so stop caring!!

God, oro eeyin egbere yi ti su mi.. Always trying to create drama from everything damn thing!!

modath:
Its not a job for blockheads who have no reputation to protect..

Unfortunately Maurice Iwu & Humphrey Nwosu had none to protect...

modath:
Its not a job for blockheads who have no reputation to protect..

Unfortunately Maurice Iwu & Humphrey Nwosu had none to protect...

KwoiZabo:
Good move. This should be the priority of any Governor of Lagos state So that South Africans will not mock us for claiming to be the largest Economy in Africa while having poor road network.

Nigeria: Roads Top Lagos N48bn Jumbo Budget
23 NOVEMBER 2000

Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State, yesterday, announced a jumbo budget of N48.915 billion for the 2001 fiscal year. The amount is N6 billion or 1.39 per cent higher than last year's expenditure profile of N42.8 billion.

Road rehabilitation topped the sectoral allocation with the lion share of N4.245, signifying the importance the governor is attaching to road rehabilitation.

More from: http://allafrica.com/stories/200011270546.html

ChiSun27:
Ambode, please do something.

These people suffers to a great length whenever it rains heavily, it is part of Lagos. They voted for change....make them experience the change.

Thank you and God bless.



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Dannyset:
I don't know when we will see the handwriting on the wall that these people only mean well for themselves and not the masses.

wirinet:
This is the main difference between northern and southern politicians, while northern politicians collapse their personal interest into a single group interest in order to acquire and retain power, southern politicians - especially the southeastern ones destroy their group interest on the alter of personal interest, vendetta, hatred and jealously.

kunzaar83:
correct, haba, how dem go give person vp and still him 1 appoint Sen President, Speaker, and Ministers haba, kukuma let him baba 2 resign so that he'll be d Preseident now, that man is too power hungry, and even if PMB did not fulfill his promise I m happy as he's deal with tinibu

ayindejimmy:
This news is merely the fraction of the author's imagination.

We all know PDP had promised to use every dirty means to enslave Nigerians again.

Buhari and Tinubu know there is no friction between them.

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.

owobokiri:
Were they singing? "Share the money share the loot, the loot, the loot..."

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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/

BALLOSKI:
Niger delta first son!

Kenai:
The Rivers Monorail has already arrived...

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

Mogidi:
He delivered good governance hence his protégé was unsuccessful in his bid to become governor.
Amaechi is high on grade 1 Buhari urine.


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Technical Consultants Advised Amaechi Against Monorail Project After Collecting N22bn

As the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Rivers State Government to probe the sale of valued assets of the state and other matters continued its sitting on Friday, the technical consultant to the state on the monorail project, Arcus Gibbs revealed that he advised former Governor Chibuike Amaechi against continuing with the project.

Managing Director of Arcus Gibbs Nig Ltd, Wiero Viguezang, however said his company gave the advice only after collecting N22.9bn from the Rivers State Government since its services were enlisted in March 1, 2010.

Viguezang spoke when he appeared before the commission to explain the role played by his company in the monorail project being probed by the commission.

While being cross-examined by counsel to the commission, Dr. Zaccheus Adangor, Viguezang, stated that the monorail project was no longer tenable considering the shortfall in the state’s revenue and the inability of its original technical and equity partners, TSI Nig Ltd, headed by the former military administrator of Rivers State, Brig-Gen Anthony Ukpo (Rtd.), to fulfil its obligations to contribute 80 per cent of its equity holdings.

He disclosed that the state owes his company N1.1bn for its services.
He also said the company had in a letter to the Rivers State through the ministry of transport, in April, made a six-point recommendation to the Rivers State on how to unbundle the monorail project in such a way that the state government can salvage some financial benefits out of the N33.9bn so far invested in the project. The monorail project was originally estimated to cost about Euros2250m.

The technical partner had in its sixth point of recommendation suggested to the Rivers State Government to unbundle the monorail project and approach the manufacturers of the mechanical components and rail tracks in Germany and exploit the possibility of reselling components at a lower price to the manufacturers.

He said the company also advised the state government to consider the option of using the monorail facilities for other commercially viable purposes, mentioning the spaces between pillars and surrounding areas of the monorail project, stressing that the area between Azikiwe Road and the UTC axis could be put into very fruitful commercial purpose.
Viguezang also told the commission that his company and the state government had planned to unveil the monorail project last April specifically to mislead the people of Rivers State into thinking that the project, which has gulped N33.9bn, was still on course.

He admitted that his company wrote a memo to the commissioner for transport to arrange the unveiling of the project essentially for media coverage since the project was “technically uncompleted”.

According to Viguezang, “We actually wrote to the ministry of transport in January, to arrange for the governor to unveil the monorail project in April for the attention and coverage of the media based on the expectation of the people of the state.”

When asked to clarify if the unveiling was to deceive the people of Rivers State into believing that the controversial monorail project was ready, Viguezang admitted; “It was to deceive the people into believing that the monorail project was at last ready”.

The managing director, however, stressed that “apart from the media coverage and public attention that it is expected to generate, the monorail was not technically and commercially ready. Only phase 1a within phase 1 of the project was ready. So, there was no way the public would have been able to use the monorail as at April when we asked the ministry of transport to unveil the project to the media”.

Viguezang admitted that the Rivers State government enlisted services of Arcus Gibbs at the cost of N600 million from March 1, 2010 to December 1, 2010, after the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TSI collapsed because TSI could not raise revenue to fulfil the payment of its 80 per cent equity share capital.

He stated that part of its role as the technical service provider to the Rivers State government concerning the monorail project was to evaluate and assess the activities of TSI and give an independent opinion to the Rivers State government.


From: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/...-n22bn/218811/

Omotolu:
Tinubu should not turn Nigeria into his family circle. He has the Vice-President and few others. He should live and let others live.

Goke7:
Like I said on another thread, apc need to remove saraki latest by January or else PMB will get stucked.

Am sorry to say this, PDP owns the senate, apc need to get it back simple.

seunmsg:
This is why Saraki needs to resign or at least step aside to attend to the corruption case brought against him. Senate as an institution is bigger than any individual. Saraki cannot be preventing the senate from sitting and carrying out its constitutional responsibilities simply because he wants to attend to a case which is personal to him. This is totally unacceptable.

kestolove95:
Dix useless boy call mr jaga jaga...na ur gej no corrpt abi

greggng:
Is a shame youth of today has no respect for their elders anymore. If you wanna grow old pls respect ur elders. I am not in support of criminals but is on record that obj has never been indicted or convicted of any financial crime. Idris should becareful on his choice of words. He should rather approach the court and get a judgement against obj that way he can prove his case. He could be sued for this reckless comment.

tobtap:
eedris abdulkareem is a fool....

Nigeria's Obasanjo, his Untouchables, and the $16 Billion Power Scam

Frontline Catholic cleric and social critic, Rev. Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, perhaps, spoke the minds of millions of Nigerians when he said recently that former President Olusegun Obasanjo deserved to be formally tried for his alleged role in the squandering about $16 billion voted for resuscitating the near-dead power sector during his administration between 1999 and 2007. Kukah, a close family friend of the Obasanjos, was the Secretary to the National Political Reforms Conference (NPRC) initiated by the Obasanjo government in 2005.

More from: http://www.africaundisguised.com/newsportal/story/nigerias-obasanjo-his-untouchables-and-16-billion-power-scam

Aiyegbajeje2001:
Only a fool will call a giant and a leader like OBASANJO such despicable name. I expect him to have learn his lesson from past mistakes, and to desist from dragging baba OBJ and the ebora OWU names in the mud. A word is enough for the wise.

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

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.


More from: http://saharareporters.com/2010/05/18/obasanjo-shared-74million-halliburton-bribe-okiro-panel-says-%E2%80%A2-obj-also-pocketed-another

madridguy:
TRUE TALK FROM IDRIS ABDUL-KAREEM. OBJ THE BIGGEST THIEF OF THE CENTURY. BABA PLEASE RETURN BACK OUR MONEY. PDP IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO NIGERIA.

...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....
They too are seeking CHANGE!!!

Sourced from: https://www.nairaland.com/2146237/why...ive/4#30711260

Firefire:
Gov. Akinwumi Ambode, please do something before we start hearing stories that touches the heart.

hyfr:
Americans gave artificial arms and legs to a man who had none,and the man has won several medals at the olympics, Britain also gave artificial arms and legs to another victim,he has won several medals too. But in Nigeria,we brought a man without any brain,put coconut in his head,I'm glad to tell you he's currently the president.

Firefire:
According to the Yoruba leader, the administration has not done any tangible thing after spending five months in office.

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Buhary is still learning the arts of governance in the 21st century.

Ambode names Steve Ayorinde, Kehinde Bamigbetan, 34 others in cabinet list

The governor is requesting the screening and approval of 36 persons with 23 as Commissioners and 13 as Special Advisers.
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Also on the list are Agboola Dabiri; Ganiu Okanlomo Sanni; Anofi Elegushi; Rotimi Ogunleye; Adebimpe Akinsola, Femi Odubiyi, Musiliu Folami; Adeniji Kazeem; Adeyemi Labinjo; Toyin Suarau, Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti; Deji Tinubu; Mudirat Giwanson, Wale Oluwo and former Chairman Ejigbo LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan.

More from: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/190417-ambode-names-steve-ayorinde-kehinde-bamigbetan-34-others-in-cabinet-list.html

16 plus years of progreTHIEF administration by Tinubu/Fashola/Ambode with:

- Annual budget increased over 10 times from N42 billion in 2000 to N489.69 billion in 2015. The state budget has been consistently above N450 billion since 2011.
- Annual IGR increased over 53 times from N7.2 billion in 1999 to N384.26 billion in 2013.


Why should we still have people live like DOGS and PIGS in MANY parts of Lagos
More importantly HOW did we vote these people back into power?
Are we truly 200 million mumus :icon_ques

dihalao:
I just wanna be rich thats all i want.

OlujobaSamuel:
read the statement of the deputy director media again.

The exemption from the AGF’s office to the The Director, Central Bank of Nigeria, Banking & Payments System Department, referenced FD/LP2015/C/ADC/20/1/ /DF and signed by M K Dikwa, mni, further reads:
“Approval is hereby granted to your bank to exempt the Accounts of thirteen (13) MDAs (Category 6) as listed below the mop-up in line with the e-Collection Circular No. HCFSF/428/S.1/120 dated 7th August 2015 as these are Profit Oriented Government Business entities that are to pay their dividends into the Treasury Single Accounts Whenever there are declared.
“Please note that in line with the Presidential approval, the following as it relates to Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC as listed above (S/No.9) under Category 4 should also apply:
i. That NAPIMS remains classified as an MDA that is funded from the Federation Account under Category 4 of the Circular, being the NNPC Business Unit responsible for the management of the Federation’s investment in the upstream activities and funded from direct proceeds of oil and gas revenue.
ii. That NNPC will continue to preserve the status with respect to NAPIMS Operations Account as well as Escrow Account for Third Party Financing in view of the Joint Venture (JV) Cash funding currently being experienced.
iii. That all other NNPC’s commercial/Business Entities as re-classified as ‘Profit-Oriented Public Corporations/Business Enterprises’ under Category 6 of the Circular which requires that only dividends from these entities be paid into the TSA.”

nnamdibig:
Buhari Softens Stance On TSA, Grants NNPC, PHCN, 11 Others Exemption


President Muhammadu Buhari has re-considered his earlier position on the Treasury Single Account, TSA, where he had ordered all Ministries, Departments and Agencies to comply by September, 15th 2015.
DAILY POST gathered on Monday that the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has granted an exemption to thirteen MDAs in line with the e-collection and mop up exercise by the federal government.
Entities exempted are profit oriented government business entities that pay dividends to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
They are Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Bank of Industry, Nigeria Railway Corporation, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Bank of Agriculture and Niger Delta Power Holding Company/National Integrated Power Project.
Others are National Communication Satellite Limited, Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Ajaokuta Steel Company Ltd, Urban Development Bank, Nigerian Export – Import Bank and Transcorp Hilton Hotel.
The exemption from the AGF’s office to the The Director, Central Bank of Nigeria, Banking & Payments System Department, referenced FD/LP2015/C/ADC/20/1/ /DF and signed by M K Dikwa, mni, further reads:
“Approval is hereby granted to your bank to exempt the Accounts of thirteen (13) MDAs (Category 6) as listed below the mop-up in line with the e-Collection Circular No. HCFSF/428/S.1/120 dated 7th August 2015 as these are Profit Oriented Government Business entities that are to pay their dividends into the Treasury Single Accounts Whenever there are declared.
“Please note that in line with the Presidential approval, the following as it relates to Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC as listed above (S/No.9) under Category 4 should also apply:
i. That NAPIMS remains classified as an MDA that is funded from the Federation Account under Category 4 of the Circular, being the NNPC Business Unit responsible for the management of the Federation’s investment in the upstream activities and funded from direct proceeds of oil and gas revenue.
ii. That NNPC will continue to preserve the status with respect to NAPIMS Operations Account as well as Escrow Account for Third Party Financing in view of the Joint Venture (JV) Cash funding currently being experienced.
iii. That all other NNPC’s commercial/Business Entities as re-classified as ‘Profit-Oriented Public Corporations/Business Enterprises’ under Category 6 of the Circular which requires that only dividends from these entities be paid into the TSA.”

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/21/buhari-softens-stance-on-tsa-grants-nnpc-phcn-11-others-exemption?wt=3