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[color=#990000][/color] >:35015172]Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/nlc-to-lawmakers-slash-n120b-vote-or-face-revolt/


Labour insisted yesterday that federal lawmakers must further cut their N120 billion budget —in line with economic realities.
The Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) faction said the reduction of the National Assembly’s budget from N150 billion to N120 billion “is too token and not far reaching enough”.

It threatened a mass revolt should the lawmakers and the executive fail to bring down their recurrent expenses.

The faction’s Deputy President, Comrade Issa Aremu, who is also the General Secretary of the Textile Workers Union, advised National Assembly members to appreciate the mood of the nation for leadership sacrifices, resource allocation for national development and common good as opposed to self-help.

He spoke to reporters in Kaduna.

But a House of Representatives member, Mohammed Abdulkadir, said the N120billion is not all for salaries.

Labour said “nations prosper when their leaders are willing to sacrifice; while nations fail when leaders engage in selfish self-help agenda.”

The factional NLC group asked: “Should 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives gulp as much as N120 billion in a year, which is twice the 2015 budget of Ekiti State (N80.774 billion), a state with the population of 2,384,212 people?

“How equitable is it for less than 500 national legislators to gulp N120 billion annually when Osun State with a population of 3,423,535 people and unfunded 2015 Appropriation Bill of N201 billion is yet to pay salaries for seven months?

“Benue State has as many as 4,219,244 people; it budgeted N98.54 billion; Zamfara has 3,259,846 citizens and budgeted N92.80 billion; and Ebonyi, budgeted N80.02 billion for 2,173,501 people.

“The respective budgets of these three states is half of the budget of the National Assembly. How equitable is that?

“There has been illegal and unconstitutional concentration of scarce national resources in the hands of our legislators and Executive office holders alike that must be reversed now.

“For instance, Kano State budgeted N210 billion in 2015. Kano State has 9,383,682 people. The budget per capital of Kano, estimated at N22,379, is miserable, compared to budget per capital of the National Assembly at N293,398,533!

“No country can prosper with this wide and widening gap in resource allocation between the governed and some elected government officials.

“The National Assembly members should take the advantage of the current goodwill of Nigerians in making anamend failing which they provoke mass revolt of the people.

“NLC, therefore, is advocating that the first step is that the National Assembly budget should be reversed to 2003 budget of N50 billion, which will certainly cut the existing budget of the assembly by more than 50 per cent.

It stressed that since 2003, “the number of members remains the same while most of their infrastructural needs have been met. Secondly, the national economy can hardly afford this legislative pay.

“The eighth National Assembly must make a difference. It should be accountable to Nigerian people, just as many Executives have done.

“The eighth Assembly must complement President Muhammadu Buhari in his resolve to cut cost of governance fuelled by corruption, the worse form of which is outrageous pay for public office holders.

“They must emulate governors like Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and his deputy who have cut their pay by 50 per cent and urged the Members of the House of Assembly to follow suit.

“Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje also reduced the salaries and allowances of public office holders in the state by 50 per cent.

“Significantly the legislators must reject the Greek allowances Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) generously accorded them. These allowances are unsustainable. They are not based on needs in a depressed economy.

“For instance, why pay legislators who already collected over a million naira wardrobe allowance?

“It will take a minimum wage earner about two years and five months to earn what legislators earn as wardrobe allowance of N506,600.

”The eighth National Assembly should rightly redirect national resources to priority sectors, such as education, health and road construction.

“The assembly must also urgently review the minimum Wage Act of 2010 which, according to the Act, expires next month.

“The Assembly should constitute the Tripartite Statutory Committee based on equal basis between government, organized labour and organized private sector,” it said.[/quote]Analysis has always been a common man contributions to the nigerian government, well" let's hope they don't come and settle you and the common man continue analysing from where u stop! Good luck anywere!!

adonbilivit:
OK this happened to my friend. so he proposed to his girlfriend after dating for over a year. she neither said yes nor no but just laughed out loud. this has been bothering my friend. He feels she might be thinking he is not man enough probably because he is only 24.

N.B: he is a graduate and financially stable. the sex is good too.

sorry I am a girl for everybody and for nobody!

lurther:
http://www.punchng.com/news/fresh-crisis-brews-in-apc-over-senate-posts/

fine the poster am eating!

Dygeasy:
https://punch.cdn.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/National-Publicity-Secretary-Action-Congress-of-Nigeria-Alhaji-Lai-Mohammed-360x225.jpg



SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/politics/buhari-has-already-surpassed-jonathans-achievements-apc/

I hope gay marriage will not be a token for these assistance to nigerians! Just saying ooo!

Have nothing to be caution

HeGeMon:
These are evidence of continuous Fulani incursions and their rampage on innocent pple who simply go to their farms, as we can see in the pictures, some of the dead were on their farm gear killed between their farm ridges. This Madness must stop, while the military are busy collecting monies from the herdsmen & even helping them to facilitate these ethnic agenda, pls lets help these pple of Riyom, Barkin- ladi LGAs these are a daily occurrences that are not even given attention in the media or government attention, it is most important that something is done and done urgently.

one day the shall be a revolution in these country. RIP victims

phemmyutd:
Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the All Progressives Congress, APC  claiming that her former party has lost focus.
The   former senator who represented Abia central senatorial zone for two terms  2007 to  2015 said she had to leave because the party has derailed .

In  a  defection  ceremony, which held yesterday at the campaign office of the governorship candidate of the APC in the 2015 election Chief Nyerere Anyim, in Umuahia that brought together some of the party’s chieftains and supporters, Senator Nwaogu said  that she waited this long to see if the party could show any remorse.

“I had to leave because the party has derailed, because they have been in power since 1999 so they think it will continue like that, they failed to recognise that democracy has evolved and developed over the years and when a democratic party fails to be fair and just then it has derailed”.



http://leadership.ng/news/440384/senator-nwaogu-dumps-pdp-for-apc-says-party-has-lost-focus

now that the party needed u most that's the same way u will dump APC for one selfish reason too! Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

ionsman:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/what-federal-and-state-legislators-earn/#sthash.QFFRJJh8.dpuf

. Boring

4000m:
[img]http://radiobiafra.co/images/photos/Yoruba-igbo-protest.jpg[/img]

No oo! I was just passing