₦airaland Forum

KashyBaby:
With all the monikers u can choose...damn Bastian! *u remind me of someone*

LOL....for real?

KashyBaby:
what she did? "Snake in the monkey style"? Lol....funny as hell but juz do it and see for urself maybe she will have a new diff styles in store for u...

C'mon, help the brother male out.

ELVISHOT:
Lawmakers have retained the N500 billion intervention fund for the poor in this year’s N6,077,680,000,000 budget.

The Muhammadu Buhari administration plans to dole out N5,000 to the poorest in the land and feed school pupils, among its populist programmes.

But the National Assembly yesterday passed the 2016 controversial budget with a reduction of over N17 billion.

President Buhari on December 22, last year presented to the joint session of the National Assembly an Appropriation Bill of N6,077,680,000,000 for consideration and passage into law.

The lawmakers passed N6,060,677,358,227 as the 2016 budget, slicing off N0,017,002,641,773.

Passing the budget, the House of Representatives gave a proviso that Section 318 of the constitution must be strictly adhered to.

Section 318 stipulates that the Appropriation Bill will run for 12 months, starting from the date it is assented to.

While considering the bill for second reading at a plenary chaired by Speaker Yakubu Dogara, the lawmakers said the Excess Crude Account is unconstitutional and should no longer be operational.

The budget oil benchmark is $38. Oil has hit $41, the highest in months.

However, the mood of the lawmakers was difficult to guage when the item for N100b Constituency project came up for approval.

The lawmakers also questioned, through loud murmurs, when an item N3.43b Bulk Trader, in addition to N10b Sinking Fund came up for adoption.

Senate Committee on Appropriation Chairman Mohammed Danjuma Goje, who presented the report of his committee, noted that in view of the revenue and general economic challenges confronting the country, “the committee has, in a landmark decision not witnessed since the advent of the present democratic dispensation in 1999, reduced the size of the aggregate expenditure and consequently reduced the total recurrent, deficit and borrowing plan.”

Part of the highlights of the budget as passed include Aggregate Expenditure N6,060,677,358,227; Statutory Transfers N351,370,000.000 (retained); Debt Service N1,475,320,000,000 (retained); Recurrent Expenditure reduced from N2,648,600,000,000 to N2,646,389,236,196; Capital Expenditure also reduced from N1,845,540,000,000 to N1,587,598,122,031; Fiscal Deficit N2,204,936,925,711.16 and Deficit/GDP 2.14%.

The same benchmark of $38pb was proposed by the Executive.

The Executive proposals of crude oil production of 2.2 million barrels per day and an exchange rate of N197 to $1 were also adopted

The committee observed that the late presentation of the budget affected its timely passage.

The committee also said that the 2016 Appropriation Bill, after its presentation to the National Assembly, was seen to be “fraught with some inconsistencies from ministries, departments and agencies, given the subsequent reference by them to different versions of the budget”.

Goje, who said that the inconsistencies in the fiscal document were also noticed at the level of the sub-committees, described them as “strange and goes against proper budgetary procedures and processes with attendant implications”.

The committee chairman told the Senate that they observed that the available revenue for appropriation was grossly inadequate to meet the huge demand of MDAs to prosecute needed programmes for national development across all spheres of the economy.

Goje said: “The 2016 (Appropriation) Bill seeks to stimulate the economy by the recurrent expenditure as compared to the capital component at a ratio of 30:70% is still very high. This takes away from the infrastructure-stimulus funding that the country so desperately needs for development.”

He noted that the Appropriation Bill contained some omissions, particularly in personnel cost.

Goje added that “though the Appropriation Committee has filled some of the gaps, there are many outstanding cases which could raise serious concern in the course of the year”.

The committee recommended, among others, that subsequent budgets should be submitted in strict compliance with the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act to enable the National Assembly conduct proper engagement and to conclude the budget in good time.

The committee also said that there should be proper engagement in future between the Budget Office and MDAs on the budget contents to avoid what appeared to be a disconnect between them in the processing of the budget proposals.

Goje specifically referred to a situation where some MDAs disowned their budget before the Appropriation Committee.

Some statutory transfer allocations include National Judicial Council N70b; Niger Delta Development Commission N41,050b, Universal Basic Education N77,110b; National Assembly N115b; Public Complaints Commission N2b, Independent National Electoral Commission N45b and National Human Rights Commission N1210b.

Debt Service: Domestic debts N1,307,400,000,000 while N54,480,000,000 was allocated for Foreign Debts Service.

Presidential Amnesty Programme stipends and allowances of 30,000 Niger Delta ex-militants was allocated N7,875,000,000, Presidential Amnesty Programme operational cost N1,834,149,261 and N10,290,850739 was voted for Presidential Amnesty Programme reintegration of transformed ex-militants.

Other allocations: Ministry of Agriculture N46,175,963,859; Ministry of Defence N130,864,439,542; Ministry of Education N35,433,487,466; Ministry of Health N28,650,342,987, Ministry of Information and Culture N6,071,503,956; Ministry of Interior N61,713,279496; Ministry of Justice N879,736,744; Ministry of Solid Mineral Development N7,332,623,257; Ministry of Niger Delta N19,440,328,551; Ministry of Transportation N188,674,679,674; Ministry of Works, Power and Housing N422,964,928,495.

Senate President Bukola Saraki remarked that there was no bickering over benchmark.

He noted that the budget “reflects efficient and equitable allocation of resources to reduce the challenges that we are all aware of”.

“The budget is now a product of bipartisan engagement, commitment and one that is broadly nationalistic”.

“It gives me great joy to commend and appreciate all the efforts that you have all put in . It is the duty of the executive to ensure full implementation of this budget as part of the campaign to bring succuor to our people.

“While implementing, we charge the executive also to consider the areas of supporting locally produced products in order to help our economy.

“We have all seen the earlier hiccups in the beginning of the budget and we hope that by the time we are about to get the 2017 budget, the agencies and the budget office would improve their level of interaction and government itself would bring the budget much earlier to give ample opportunity. It is very important that we do this.”

“Nigerians have been waiting for us to pass the budget. I think at this time too, the implementing agencies should ensure that they get to work quickly in implementing the budget.”

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu said: “I am a bit worried about the observation made by Goje as contained on page five of the report, which says the 2016 Appropriation Bill contained a number of omissions particularly in the area of personnel cost.

“Though the Appropriation Committee has filled some of the gaps, there are many outstanding cases which could raise serious concern in the course of the year.

“The executive presented what we considered as proposal and so the ultimate responsibility for this budget rests on us the members of the National Assembly.

“If there are mistakes on the part of the executive, it ends at the point they presented the budget. If anything happens after that and we pass the budget, we cannot blame them any longer.

“I therefore want to know what these outstanding cases are because it appears that it is in relation to personnel cost.”

Goje said: “This budget exercise was full of negotiations, going forth and back. When the budget was presented as attested by many committees, there were shortages discovered, including personnel cost in various committees, and the total amount involved was presented to the executive and in the course of our interaction with the budget office we presented the shortfalls for personnel and other overhead costs, which we believe was being taken care of.

“Somehow they did it halfway, so since they did it halfway, we also did it halfway but for critical organisations, most of them were satisfied.”

“We still have pockets, few that we believe will have some problems and the Budget Office confirmed to us that they may come with something to make it up.

“Because this budget is full of controversy, we didn’t want to add more controversy. If we add more controversy, the report wouldn’t have been submitted now and the National Assembly will be blamed for delaying this budget.

“That is why we did everything possible to ensure that we beat the deadline instead of continuing back and forth and Nigerians will not understand; they will say the National Assembly is playing politics with this budget, meanwhile we are doing everything possible to ensure that the budget is as implementable as possible.”

Defending the budget work at a news conference, the joint Appropriation Committee said almost all parts of the bill presented to the National Assembly were tinkered with, except President Muhammadu Buhari’s N500b intervention programmes.

Goje said: “We did not tinker with it; nobody asked any questions; we just approved it because we believe, the interventions can touch the lives of Nigerians.”

Goje also disclosed that when calculated, what was passed yesterday was N1.05 trillion as the capial component of the expenditures of some agencies in the Presidency were not available to the Committee.

“When the capital component of the expenditure of all those Commissions are added, then it will amount to N1.060 trillion,” he added.

Abdulmumin Jibrin, Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation said it was the first time since 1999 that the country has witnessed a reduction in aggregate expenditure.

He said though the budget estimate is huge, contrary to widely held belief that the National Assembly would add to it, the reverse was the case as N17b was reduced from the initial estimate.

“We all know the challenges that accompanied this bill and often times, with overheads being most contentious.

“We engaged the Executive and the Budget Office on it because we also discovered that several critical items that were not in the budget. We had to allocate funds to those areas.

“We also have to tilt some allocations in favour of security, anti corruption drive in order to strike a balance with the policy thrust of the government”.

The Committee however enjoined Nigerians to focus less on the padding controversy. “Don’t concentrate on how the padding issue was resolved but on light at the end of the tunnel.

“This is because we cleaned it up and we believe that most of these problems won’t occur again in future. For the fact that this is a transitional government from one political party to the other, this should not be too strange. We are sure this will not occur again,”Jibrin said

http://thenationonlineng.net/n500b-cash-poor-stays-n6-06tr-budget/

A country that wants to diversify the economy spends less on Agriculture, mining ,health and education and spends more on Niger delta ,defence and interior. if you want to move away from the dependent on oil to other sectors, then you should spend more on those sectors. That's What I think.

eyinjuege:
Hmmmm..

I had quite a number of course mates then in uni who actually got married, afterwards. There wss even a couple who got married as students then. We all thought they were mad then, but their kids are much older now and they're gradually getting over childrearing

some end up so while others are very disastrous. had few in my class which after the whole years of school marriage didn't get married.

ernesty20:
Make una take am easy nah.

Never get high bp yet

O.p this news fit cause war oh shae you know

naughtynaughty:
Universities are hotbeds for all kinds of relationships, from
everlasting true love to awkward one-night stands.
Arriving at uni straight from an all-girls grammar school, I
was completely delighted with the huge number of guys dt wooed me back den..

But I've learned a few things along the way. Relationships at
uni are important; they make you grow up a lot quicker, u learn hw to tolerate ur partner etc


However, there are some kinds of relationships that you
should steer clear of.
So freshers, I offer you my list of things not to
do; third-years, hold your heads (and aching hearts) in shame
if you've ever made these mistakes.


1. Relationship wit ur lecturer
Yes! Dis is veeerrryyy common in evry institution..even secondry skul. U date_sleep wit ur lecturer, bcus of marks or money or jxt for d fun of it.
Some of dem evn threaten to fail u if u dnt sleep wit dem. Its nt a vry wise thing to do cos at some point d relatnshp wil come to an end and you'll have to endure the awkwardness and
pain of forced contact with an ex who still holds the position
of power over you.
Plus don't think ur coursemates dunno oo, 50prcnt r gossipin abt it


2. Relationship wit ur flatmate
Having a relationship with someone you already live with
escalates everything; you can get close really quickly, but
that makes it harder if you then split up. "Don't do
It, he is der to c all d new guys ure with nd he might be a bone in ur neck

3. Relationship with ur fellow church worker_choir mate, ushering unit etc

Rilli? I mean wu does dt? Banging each oda overnyt nd waking up d nxt morning to praise God in church? Rilli?
Lord hav mercy
Lol how awkward.

Pls feel free to add urs. Cc seun lalasticlala

Relationship with your course mate whose same level as you. it breeds jealousy as both of you won't be free to interact with other people and so many eyes will be on your matter.

lordkit2:
Nicki Minaj shares $exy photos on IG to thank her SA fans for great reception


see more pics @ http://flexygist.com/nicki-minaj-shares-exy-photos-ig-thank-sa-fans-great-reception/

How that one take better their lives, rather, bois go take to soaping themselves. smh

impactteam2015:
It is important to note that normal urine color is yellow and it is due to a yellow pigment called urochrome– that results from destruction of hemoglobin.
But it can vary from pale yellow to deep amber, depending on the amount of fluids you drink. The more fluids you drink, the clearer your urine will be.
If your urine has an unusual color, there’s a good chance that the color change is caused by a harmless factor, but it can also be a sign of disease and disorder in the body.
Before you flush, here are a few urine changes to look out for, and what they might be telling about your health.
Clear Urine: Clear or transparent urine means you are drinking lots of water and may even need to cut back on water consumption. However, this condition could also be a sign of diabetes. If you have symptoms of diabetes such as increased thirst and frequent urination, then you should immediately check with your doctor.
Pale Yellow Urine: That’s means you are normal and staying well-hydrated.‎
Dark Yellow Urine: This is another normal color for your urine, but it is an indication of dehydration....Read more on http://impacttowers.com/2016/03/19/what-your-urine-colour-says-about-your-health/

Really educating

Daminaj1:
He had to drag PDP in. lol

Basketmouth posted the photo below and captioned it:

''Motivational Speaker With the way things are going this girl might become the next PDP chairman.''

https://www.instagram.com/p/BB8SUQxHTtN/?taken-by=basketmouth

Lol

elrony:
you sure bro?....I hope so

I had crazy fun man.fresh palm wine and funny peeps

elrony:
aiit bro.... I'll sure give it a try!...

You want be disappointed.

elrony:
I no go Akwa ibom again... make dem no post me go Ika (make dem no go dey imagine as my big head go be for Afang soup).

Lawd! !!!

lol. aside ika, Akwa ibom, is a fun place to be oh. beautiful people nd nice environment. they are corpers friendly

elrony:
hehehehe. .. by "History" u mean what exactly? ..... (make i dey know now o)

cannibalistic history in Ika .lol

elrony:
as long as barbarism ain't on the plate...I'll definitely come to the table. .

Go witness history first hand bro .lol

elrony:
lol....Them dey post ppl go there?.... my fam won't allow me anywhere near the "North".... now you are talking about cannibals in the South...

Barbarism,??...seriously?

It's an experience you would love... if you don't like the place if you being posted there, you can repost out of the place now.

Olochedavido:
enlighten us on this place called "Ika" in akwa ibom please. My mind dey dia

They isnt much to say about the place "ika" only the people are not friendly both to akwa ibomites and visitors alike. they are still living in the dark age of barbarism and cannibalism. No bank is around that area except you come out to Abak town as @then oh don't know about now.

Trendy247:
Rumour monger... u served in abak, wetin cari u go ika?

I was an exco nd it's pertinent we go round sub zones under our zone. ika, is under Abak.

olac21:
What's with that Ika you mentioned pls?

The people are barbaric unfriendly nd cannibalistic in nature.

itstpia8:
Where is the place and why are people warned to stay away?

It's in Abak lga in Akwa ibom.The people are unfriendly and barbaric.

[quote author=joe4christ post=41776302]The IKA people in particular are not friendly generally both to Akwa ibomite nd corpers. the place is even in an interior environment. Ukanafun is far but It's better than IKa.AKWA IBOM is a great place to serve generally I most confess.

Akwa ibom, is a cool place to serve as long as you will stay away from a place called IkA.aside that, the environment is nice and the people are corpers friendly. The school I served, Community high school, Afaha obong, Abak .have accommodation and the state pays 10k monthly.Goodluck but not Jonathan.

coollabman:
hmmm...

thanks for the book anyway, I will read it later.

Please can you share let me read and be enlightened. sebastianalexander25@gmail. Thanks in anticipation

Aare2050:
screenshots below

source: https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1063912273659146&substory_index=0&id=105479482835768&refid=7&__tn__=%2As

Nicely Said but his regime was characterized by high level corruption that's affecting the country.

ochuciano:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/194288-sss-disobeys-court-order-ejects-ex-dg-kayode-are-from-lagos-home.html

The both men are corrupt.Mr.Are under obj regime subjected operatives of the dss in an unbearable hardship and am sure he and daura had issues back then which daura is settling now via is position.Daura, on his own doesn't hard regard for laws cos he feels he is backed by the president.

phemmyutd:
Their Noise tell all the story

I they tells you. chai nose don't lie

nikkiking:
In Amechi's mind..... una papa

I go show una say abi the real lions of cross river.

Cross river? mehn smh

ukeme200:
Good...... Welcome to federal republic of northern Nigeria.


FTC for the first time.

Nairalanders, give me some likes Biko..

The poster below;

I suspected this move chai pmb is so predictable.

haywire07:
Did miss gwagwalada think we are for jokes? Gerrarahere jor!

See original vex oh... them no explain to her what the show was about.

[quote author=DFemaleBoss post=39527310]And the so-called Nigerian president Buhari is busy gallivanting around.
[/quote
Gallivanting to create an economic situation through bilateral trade. oil is not selling he is doing marketing for a better country believe it or not.

[quote author=saintuu post=39466388]my opinion is... just kukuma speak pegin abeg[/quote
AZIN ehn person just dy strain brain and eyes ni oh..

You try but ......

SmartMugu:
Good old days... would any woman dressed like those in the first pic attract anyone today?

Sure man.... different strokes for different folks