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barcanista:
I can't make any sense out of this. You have nothing to say man, I can't go with your back and forth argument with your Tinubu and Buhari(Who are not even part of the subsidy government at any point).

Enjoy

My reference to Buhari was on the thinking capacity of those following him like cows doing Moo_Moo all over the place.
Thief'nubu was in reference to his paper, The Nation, which I quoted.

Understandably you cannot make any sense of FACTS because you are allergic to them as you prefer LIES

Arch1:
The only tarred road in Bayelsa state, the presidents home state is the road leading to the government house

Why would you tell such a RICULOUS lie

Ngwakwe:
The Oil money is shared by three tiers of government - Fact.

Just to buttress the above point and reflect the GREATER transparency of the Jonathan/Sambo federal administration =>

FAAC REPORT – Revenue allocation to states and LGA for December 2013, shared in January 2014



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The three tiers of government in the country [Federal, State, and Local Councils] enjoyed an expanded take-home income from the Federal Account Allocation Committee [FAAC] in the month on December. The FAAC says it shared N581.498 billion between the Federal, States and Local governments. The amount for December is less than the previous month of November which was N675, 650billion.
The gross revenue collected in December was N64.725 billion.

The Minister of State for Finance, Dr Yerima Ngama, announced that the amount originally budgeted for the month was N623.768 billion, however the figure actually distributed was N473.607 billion (amount excluding refund by NNPC, VAT, and fund from SURE-P).
The allocated amount of N581.498, includes N7.617 billion refunded by NNPC, N64.725 billion from Value Added Tax (VAT) and N35.549 billion from SURE-P Programme.

A breakdown of the distribution indicated that the Federal Government received N221.161billion, (52.68%), while the State received N112.176 billion (26.72%) and the Local Government received N86.483 billion (20.60%). Furthermore, a total of N48.461 billion representing 13% derivation revenue was shared among the oil producing states.

(This is demonstrated clearly in the table below).




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From: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/oilgas-reports/faac-reports/157561-faac-report-revenue-allocation-states-lga-december-2013-shared-january-2014.html

barcanista:
I repeat, you are VERY ignorant of Kano State and Nigeria. BTW, Nigeria is practising a "False" federalism, we are calling for true federalism. it is not just rhetorics but in practice. As for the subsidy, Nigerians elected Mr. Goodluck Jonathan to lead at the Federal level and Goodluck Jonathan made those promises, without achieving ONE.

Shebi General Muhammadu Buhari cluelessly promised true federalism in 2011 =>

15 MARCH 2011

The presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhamadu Buhari (rtd) and his campaign team yesterday stormed Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, promising to practise true federalism in manning the affairs of the country.

Expressing appreciation to thousands of his supporters, Buhari assured Nigerians that his government would bring back federalism into the country if voted into office.

The CPC presidential flag bearer also promised to address the problem of power, road, education and other sectors which had retarded the nation's economy. He also pledged to improve workers' poor condition of service, adding that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration had impoverished most Nigerians.

Buhari advised voters to come out en masse and ensure that they monitored their votes to frustrate the efforts of saboteurs.

Pastor Tunde Bakare, his Vice Presidential candidate, took some minutes to pray for the success of the CPC which, according to him, was determined to restore sanity to all sectors of the economy.

Bakare disclosed that Pastor Enoch Adeboye and many traditional rulers in the country had prayed for the CPC and advised its leaders to move forward in their quest to transform the country.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/201103150432.html

The wayo old soldier must think we are all FOOLS like his numb skulled followers to utter such trash.
Did he "practise true federalism in manning the affairs of the country." when he was the military DICTATOR and MAXIMUM ruler of this country
It is now that he has SINators and representaTHIEVES to validate ANY change in our constitution that he is "promising to practise true federalism in manning the affairs of the country."

What gullible folks does he take us for?

barcanista:
You are just blabbing. Who and who were prosecuted/arrested? Don't they have names? We keep hearing government doing this and that in the pages of newspapers. Put me to shame by telling me WHO and WHO were prosecuted and convicted and I will do the verification.

By The Way, the SUbsidy scam runs into HUNDREDS of Billions and you are telling me one imaginary N4.5billion, which shows that you are a pathetic liar

And I thought you were redeemable in your self-destruct journey
Anyway I guess it takes "senseless and useless people" to follow the clueless General

You can check with Thief'nubu's paper whether the journalists did not do their verification four months ago before publishing, okay

If the EFCC Director wanted to lie about recoveries made why would he go for such a paltry sum? Have you asked yourself that question or you are simply too dumb for such logic?

Sibabasibaba1:
joseph1832

If there is no portable water in my village, my governor has failed--no matter his party. It is not the job of FG to provide potable water in my village. But it is the job of the FG to maintain the federal road that passes my village. If my village has no potable water and the federal road is not maintained, I have to 'attack' both my state government and the FG. If I attack the FG and leave out my state government because the governor is in my party, then I am the worst of hypocrites! That's my point. And it seems you are getting it now. To me, for one to be shouting FG every now and then and leaving one's governor because he is in one's party means that tomorrow if that party comes to the centre and starts fumbling one will look the other way.

I salute your being forthright.
However you may need to check if the road in your "village" is actually a federal road.
Cheers.

barcanista:
I have one problem with you, you keep going off-point. Who are the people involved in the subsidy fraud and who are those allegedly prosecuted? Stop bringing long articles that talks about local oil thieves in bayelsa state. Are they the subsidy thieves? Do you even understand the subject discuss or you just google search and paste?

Continue to shoot yourself in the leg as you embark on your self-destruct journey of propagating LIES for whatever your selfish objective is.
Right here in the article from Thief'nubu's newspaper that I quoted =>

Uwujaren said: “Oil subsidy scam: As we speak, I think there are about 17 oil marketers that are being tried, and I am talking of persons who are being tried in court over subsidy scam.
“But if you add the individuals and their companies, we have over 40 cases on trial for obtaining subsidy from the Federal Government without supplying products. Those cases are ongoing; they are progressing in court at different stages. Apart from the one we have in court, there are also a number of investigations that are going on.
“Investigation of subsidy is not a straight-forward thing; it is a very complicated procedure. It is not something you can just conclude within a country; you have to deal with organisations with proper jurisdiction, and these things take time.
“That is reason some people think we don’t have enough people standing trial in court. It is a complicated procedure, and that process is still on.
“In terms of whether or not we have recovered money from the subsidy thing, I say yes. I recall that about two months ago, the Executive Chairman of the EFCC announced that the commission had recovered N4.3 billion from the subsidy scam. That is very significant, considering the complicated nature of those transactions. We are not relenting in our determination to get to the root of the matter.”

barcanista:
Tambawal is an evil man along with those eedeeots in the parliament. I call on us all to reject all of the parliamentarians(Senators and Reps) at the polls irrespective of party affiliation. Tambawal is a monumental disgrace, a fraud worse than Jonathan

Now you are talking.

barcanista:
President Yar Adua spent a total of N1.356 trillion on subsidy bills for THREE Years( 2008- N256.3bn, 2009- N421.5 bn and 2010- N673 bn) as at time when petrol was N65/ltr. President Jonathan came onboard and spent a whopping N2.19 trillion in just 2011 alone when fuel price was the same N65/ltr. He spent another N1.049trillion in 2012 after adding N32 to the pump price, and has spent a total of N5.222 trillion on subsidy alone since coming to power despite his deregulation policy. This is excluded from the hundreds of Billions that he allocates to SURE-P annually.
The President accused some phantom cabal, the same cabal are the ones funding him and it has been business as usual. no significant infrastructural development nor improvement to the life of the citizenry.

That is why you are accused of peddling half truths.
Is the same QUANTITY/litres of fuel sold in the periods you are comparing

Ditto for your LIE about PHANTOM cabal and funding him.
Below is the result of the QUIET but effectively efficient anti-corruption work that does not breach law & order and is not built on HYPE but rather SYSTEMATIC reform of the more transparent Jonathan/Sambo team =>

EFCC arraigns 121 suspects for fuel ‘subsidy scam, oil theft’
June 17, 2014

In what may be its biggest haul of suspected economic criminals till date, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned 121 suspects, including companies, for alleged fuel subsidy scam and oil theft in the Niger Delta.
It has also recovered about N6.53 billion from evaders of customs duties at the Lagos ports.
EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, addressed reporters yesterday in Abuja on the agency’s activities between March and June.
The spokesman said some Internet fraudsters had been arrested and prosecuted.
He said Jesse Omokoh, who allegedly obtained $90,000 from a 67-year-old Australian, Jette Jacobs, in a romance scam, is on trial at an High Court in Ibadan, Oyo State.
But the agency’s biggest hauls were in its war against theft in the Oil sector.
The breakdown of the figures showed that 17 oil marketers, 23 oil marketing companies and 81 suspects have been arraigned for alleged oil theft.
The commission has also seized 11 tanker vessels and 16 tanker trucks used for alleged oil theft.
Uwujaren said: “Oil subsidy scam: As we speak, I think there are about 17 oil marketers that are being tried, and I am talking of persons who are being tried in court over subsidy scam.
“But if you add the individuals and their companies, we have over 40 cases on trial for obtaining subsidy from the Federal Government without supplying products. Those cases are ongoing; they are progressing in court at different stages. Apart from the one we have in court, there are also a number of investigations that are going on.
“Investigation of subsidy is not a straight-forward thing; it is a very complicated procedure. It is not something you can just conclude within a country; you have to deal with organisations with proper jurisdiction, and these things take time.
“That is reason some people think we don’t have enough people standing trial in court. It is a complicated procedure, and that process is still on.
“In terms of whether or not we have recovered money from the subsidy thing, I say yes. I recall that about two months ago, the Executive Chairman of the EFCC announced that the commission had recovered N4.3 billion from the subsidy scam. That is very significant, considering the complicated nature of those transactions. We are not relenting in our determination to get to the root of the matter.”
On how the EFCC collaborated with other security agencies to fight oil thieves in the Niger Delta, Uwujaren said: “Oil theft is a subject that is of concern to every Nigerian. For us as a commission with a mandate to check oil theft by arresting and prosecuting offenders, I’ll like to report that commendable strides have been recorded in checking this menace.
“Of course, what we have done in this area could not have been possible without the assistance of sister-law enforcement organisations, notably the Navy and the Army.
“For some of you, who want hard statistics on the records of the commission in fighting oil theft in the Niger Delta, it is my pleasure to report that the commission, from January 2013 till date, investigated 21 cases of crude oil theft. Eleven tanker vessels and 16 tanker trucks were recovered, while 81 suspects have been charged to court.
“A few weeks ago, two Indians – Sailesh Kumar Singh and Chadrashekar Sharma – were jailed after successful prosecution by the commission for oil theft.
“The two were among the 12 suspected oil thieves arrested in Brass, Bayelsa State, in 2012 by the Joint Task Force (JTF) with 157,882 litres of suspected stolen crude oil. They are to serve 15 years imprisonment.
“This should serve as a deterrent for others still engaged in the nefarious trade.”
On evaders of import duties, Uwujaren said a large-scale investigation on the scandal at the ports led to the recovery of N6.53 billion unpaid Customs importation duties in Lagos.
The EFCC spokesman said the battle had shifted to Onne Port in Rivers State against duty evaders.
He said: “The desire to encourage local collaboration and erase unnecessary rivalries in law enforcement is the bedrock of our cooperation with the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS).
“Our joint recovery team in Lagos recovered N6.53 billion evaded Customs importation duties in Lagos between July 2012 and March 2014.
“Another joint recovery has began operations at Onne in Port Harcourt in April 2014 to recover Customs’ revenue in the Southsouth. We will be briefing you in the future on the outcome of this exercise.”
Uwujaren said the EFCC had been unrelenting to stamp out Internet crime.
He added: “Several cases were brought to trial in the last couple of weeks. First is the arraignment and conviction in Kano of Daniel Okpara, who defrauded people through a facebook account he opened in the name of the Executive Chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde.
“Okpara lured his victims by promising them jobs with the commission. As we speak, he is in prison, serving a three-year jail term.
“Early this month, the commission arraigned at an Ibadan High Court, a suspected Internet fraudster, Jesse Omokoh, who allegedly obtained $90,000 from a 67-year old Australian, Jette Jacobs, in a romance scam.
“Omokoh, 28, allegedly met the lady in an online dating site and struck a relationship with a promise to marry the woman. The lady relocated from Australia to South Africa in November and the accused left Nigeria to meet her in Johannesburg on February 4, 2013. Unfortunately, five days later, she was found dead in her apartment.”
The EFCC spokesman said the accused fled South Africa but was arrested by the EFCC because of the collaboration it has with the Australian police.
Also, Uwujaren said officers of the commission were recently in Australia and Spain, where they worked with their counterparts at the West Australia and Spanish National Police.
“Such engagements enable us to assist the host agencies in pending trans-national investigations, while exposing our staff to international best practices,” he said.
According to him, the commission has also hosted investigators and prosecutors from Zambia, the United States (U.S), the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Niger, World Bank and Africa Development Bank (ADB) and signed international memoranda of understanding (MoU) or joint working agreements.
Other international partners, such as the British Serious Fraud Office, the Economic Crimes Network (New Zealand) the Global Fund, the United States Trade Commission, the World Bank and a host of others had also been sealed.

From: The Nation

egift:
Show be your friends and I will show you who you are. Jonathan is a very bad guy for being surrounded by very bad guys and protecting very-very Bad guys.

Same for General Muhammadu Buhari's utterly CORRUPT friends, right

egift:
karlmax2, have you seen Akwa - Onitsha Road? If you use that road, you will drag Jonathan to the Market Square and give him the beating of his life

And have you seen the Benin-Ore road?
If you do you will drag the Arewa People's Congress, APC "navigator" OBJoke to the Market Square and give him the beating of his life for wasting eight years budgeting and doing nothing only for Jonathan to fix it in less than four years of being voted as president.

Yet some clueless ranters will say there is more corruption under GEJ rather than acknowledge greater transparency that state governors are HIDING away from saying the FoI bill passed by our National Assembly does not apply to their states

barcanista:
The first emboldened is a very irresponsible statement from a sane mind. The Government duty is not just to provide but to see that what is provided is used according to its purpose.

Just like Fash'OLE's buses right =>



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barcanista:
We have a website government

Are you talking about Fash'OLE Lagos state government and the computer renderings of

- Lagos Light rail
- Lekki International airport
- Lekki Sea port

egift:
Again Buhari has been Vindicated!

This corrupt Presidency and his party must be voted out.

I would be very careful in my comments if I were you given the cause of the drop and the timing.
In case you did not notice the drop was caused by gas pipeline vandalism and happened in the past one week.

When did Buhari make his speech that you now say he is vindicated
Given his Boko Haram stance I would say tread carefully, ok?

Moreover, the announcement further reflects the greater transparency of this Jonathan/Sambo federal administration.

JonBee1:
The first line of responsibility is to the executive arm of the Nigerian govt. The President is the one the minister is delegating for.
Simply put the ministers work for & report to GEJ. He is responsible & accountable for their success and failure, first & foremost.
He selected him, gave him his brief and entrust him with roles and responsibility.

Abba Moro woeful failure result in the death of 23 sons and daughter of the land. And as usual, GEJ did not apply consequence management; he became speechless on matters he ought to be a voice for...
Simply put, GEJ did not put Abba Moro in check as he saw nothing wrong with death of 23 Nigerian graduate in that circumstance.

How does ethnicity and partisan politics got drawn into Abba Moro killing of 23 Nigerian graduate through poor organization and incompetence? How convenient to talk about oversight function of N'ASS when GEJ who is the senior partner in the FG refuses to demonstrate visible leadership? Ever heard of leadership by example or you just don't give a damn?

You could have saved yourself a lot of emotions by answering my question about what the legisLOOTERS in the NASS have done (or not done). That can't be so difficult, really?
My question did not in anyway absolve GEJ or did it

Meanwhile in case you have forgotten, the same GEJ sacked the Aviation minister in the fullness of time.

JonBee1:
Simply put, GEJ did not put Abba Moro in check as he saw nothing wrong with death of 23 Nigerian graduate in that circumstance.
So yes, the man is just plain heartless.

Can you please share with us what our SINators and representaTHIEVES did about the incident with their oversight powers?

Let us not forget that the House of Reps is overfilled with Arewa People's Congress, APC and the Speaker is even with them!

Deeman87:
OBJ publicly told the world that GMB is an upright man

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=191083

And OBJoke is now a good standard for measuring if a man is upright or not
Interesting!
Upright ko, downleft ni!!!

Perhaps that explains why the Arewa People's Congress, APC crew went to solicit him as their national ship's "navigator"

What a bunch of jokers!!!



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fitzmayowa:
@PointB...your signature got me laughing...

"If any thief joins the APC, he is new creature! Old things have passed away, behold all things becomes new"

A thief in PDP is a saint in APC...provided he defects

That should be =>

......provided he defecates (some billions into their party coffers)!

Tomis14:
Newly single actress Ini Edo has acquired a brand new 2014 Mercedes Benz G65 G-Wagon worth a whooping #38million.

Can Nollywood money fetch her this car?

If Nollywood can't fetch her the car perhaps her "newly single" status can

naptu2:
4) And most importantly, we need to train our manpower to take up the opportunities that would be created by this policy.

Many thanks for your well researched inputs on this thread as usual.
I hope our youths realise that the above will not be with university degress mainly. Most of the jobs will require TECHNICAL and VOCATIONAL schools training and real hands-on skills.

hisblud:
@ghostmode1
You shouldn't just give us some yeateryears of what he did, since you failed to identify what he did recently, here I copied PointB for all to adjudge the man buhari

Please can you provide the link to the initial post?
Thanks.

collynzo82:
You are not making sense. Go and Die

You go first then I will think whether to follow you

collynzo82:
Mr Crayon, This is the topic: Jonathan's Oil Revenue As Much As Yaradua, Obj, Abdusalami & Abacha Combined

I know you will smuggle Lagos or Tinubu to this, must every thread be turned to Fashola and Tinubu? Open a new thread if you want to discuss about Lagos, stop derailing every thread with your stupidity. Shameless hypocrite.

Talking about yourself, right
Duly noted that you said stupidity and NOT false or lie.

fluteman:
Great anonimi......you can actually be rational if you are not overtly obsessive of Tinubu and APC. Please, we want more of this side of you

There are elections next year and I will continue doing my utmost best to ensure the WORSE criminals who are good at pretending they are saints are REVEALED in their true colours.
Any problem with that

laurel03:
politicians can lies? i stay around adamasingba in ibadan and d area is one of d area that have tap water in ibadan... 17years ke? big lie from d state governor... water was rushing well during ladoja regime even akala regime in our area and other areas. AJIMOBI with full of propaganda... oni ro buruku. y not107yrs?

Thanks for your revelation.

mcpat:
I dont care if he spends #200bn, all i care about is that kamoru gets free ride to a state owned school every morning looking smart in his new uniform and nice bag..before fashola kamoru never knew what the four walls of a classroom looks like

Do you care how many kamorus are out of school and may become area boys and armed robbers that will oblige us to continue living in self-imposed prisons that we call homes

manutdadex:
if lagos is borrowing dat amount frm world bank to provide street lights, wat hapnd to all d internally generated revenue? Moreova d lekki exp road and lightin is financd by banks who will collect tolls frm dat raod! Lagos has d best tax system in d country and yet they borrow N160b!!! Hmmmm!

The slow but steady unraveling of the smart crooks in Alausa house is gaining momentum.

IGR grew from N7.2 billion in the whole of 1999 to N246 billion in 2013 with borrowings from different angles, including the JagaBandit's offshore accounts plus OFF Balance Sheet donations from companies etc yet the BASICS of modern life are not provided. Such basics like:

- TAP water
- well maintained and expanding FEEDER roads
- education for ALL our children (for which LASG received extar allocation of almost N6 billion from the federal government's UBEC)
- Primary Health Clinics and General hospitals

PaulJohn1:
One of the few reasonable policies the country has made in 5 years.

Leading to the increase in Vehicle assembling plants in the country.

Table of vehicle assembling plants in Nigeria.

The policy is very good no doubt.
However the relevant officers in government should be careful in reporting progress and impact to avoid giving figures that may be construed as non-factual if not supported by concrete, verifiable data.

Sibabasibaba1:
What was your minimum wage during Abacha? What was our population then? What was government spending then and now?. How much was allocated to states then and now?

Thanks for raising these valid, pertinent points.
You forgot to add the allocations to LGAs. Lagos state received some N10 billion that was seized by OBJoke for LGAs. That is quite indicative.

It is just like comparing how much Fashola gets for Lagos now and what the Marwa had without factoring many other things.

For the above you may wish to note the following =>

LIRS is the major revenue generating Agency of the Lagos State Government saddled with the responsibility of collecting taxes. Over the years LIRS has increased the State’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by executing various pioneering programmes and implementing strategies which have impacted positively on revenue generation and collection, with the IGR moving from a monthly average of about 600 Million Naira in 1999 to approximately 20.5 Billion Naira in 2013.

More from: http://www.irs.lg.gov.ng/

That means last year LASG received N246 billion directly and/or indirectly from our pockets, wallets, bags and handbags compared to a paltry N7.2 billion the whole of 1999.
In short it received almost three times the amount in one month what it received in the whole year of 1999

Have services to Lagosians equally improved and increased THREE times

yeshi:


Ajimobi's infrastructural projects have really affected lives indeed especially d road dualisation in Ogbomoso & Oyo. In fact d pipe-borne water is in excess.

The Water Corporation needs to INVOICE people and have a solid debt collection scheme so people are very mindful of how they use the water supplied.
This are EMPLOYMENT avenues for the youths that will create revenue-for-services to the government and ensure expansion of such services.
Not rocket science!
Oyinbo nor get two heads

django1:
Water is flowing quiet alright but the water is leaking roads all over the city and spoiling those roads, the under ground pipes are mostly bad, something needs to be done about that.

That shows the haphazard, incomplete nature of the work.
Hopefully Ajimobi has COMPREHENSIVE plans to also address these shortcomings.

Gbawe:
This news is not really current news. The problem is that Nigerians play politics with everything when they really should concentrate on holding their leaders to account and keeping up with what they doing.

http://www.naijaniche.com/mobile/read_nichenews.php?sid=aaU1k176&typ=Nat&page=4

Thanks for the greater details provided from the article quoted. It would have been also useful to indicate the date =>

December 18, 2013

BTW, the 1996 overhaul/rehabilitation mentioned in the article must be the one done by Brigadier Ike Nwosu at N 1 billion that Abacha commissioned.

NoContract:
[img]http://abundanttruth.files./2012/08/ignorance.jpg[/img]

Are you satisfied?

Partially since you have the last one above.
So how do we cure/address the ignorance?
What role can we (you & I) play in that task