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manny4life: Look at question, how can I provide a link or document showing something is removed? When a budget line item is removed, the figures are readjusted... What that means is that the line item for that budget no longer exist on the budget submitted to NASS. The onus is on you to prove me wrong and I will gladly accept, but if you find the link to the new budget for the presidency which states 1 billion food, please post.

I would go even further to demand that they produce a genuine link (outside of El Rufai's rumours) to back up the false 1 billion for feeding claim.
We cannot continue to live in a country where educated people peddle false rumours as fact.

[size=14pt]Jonathan may sack MDAs’ chiefs for distorting 2012 budget[/size]
By Agency Reporter

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President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that he would sack all Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who lobbied the National Assembly to distort the 2012 budget.

The President stated this in his remarks shortly after signing the 2012 appropriation bill at the State House, Abuja.

Jonathan said the attitude of MDAs lobbying for increase of their budget by the National Assembly had been responsible for the difficulties in budget implementation.

He said that he already had security information on some heads of parastatal agencies who lobbied the National Assembly to increase the 2012 budget, adding that he would make scapegoats of them.

“One of the greatest problems I have noticed from the day I assumed office as a vice president in 2007 till date is that Federal Government budgets have not been based on proper planning. `

`In most cases, when the budget comes out from the Planning Ministry and Finance along the line, people distort the budget, especially some heads of MDAs go to lobby the National Assembly to put figures that are not based on planning.

“And that is why it has been very difficult for federal government to achieve targets.

``This year, we clearly frowned at it and I am going to use some heads of parastatals to show people our new direction. I got security reports – that some heads of MDAs came to lobby for their budgets to be increased; I will use some people as an example. I will ask them to leave because we cannot run a country without planning.

“We cannot run a budget that is not based on planning because these figures don't just come from the blues, people sat down and compute figures and see how it fits into fiscal responsibility and other issues.

``So we will not allow a situation where one person, because of personal interest will distort the budget of a nation,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the president as saying on Friday.

He pleaded with the National Assembly to always resist overtures from heads of MDAs to increase their budgets.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/43003-jonathan-may-sack-mdas%E2%80%99-chiefs-for-distorting-2012-budget.html

[size=14pt]Loot recovered by pensions task force hits N182b[/size]
Posted by Information Nigeria in Home » Uncategorized on April 13, 2012 - Leave Your Comment

Abbdulrasheed-MainaPanel denies bribing Senate committee

THE Pensions Reform Task Force set up by President Goodluck Jonathan is still making progress in recovering funds looted from the scheme by some key functionaries of the state.

From the fresh facts unveiled yesterday by the Task Force Chairman, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, the panel has now retrieved N182 billion as against N151 billion it recovered from the pensions’ managers in the public sector.

Only on Wednesday, the panel had disclosed that N74 billion of the N151 billion loot that it retrieved had been channelled into the 2012 budget.

Maina has also declared that there was no time the team attempted to bribe the Senate Committee on Establishment because “there was simply no reason to do so.”

In a reaction to statements credited to the Senate panel chief yesterday by some national dailies that the task force attempted to bribe his members, Maina said: “It never happened.”

The task force boss, who addressed journalists on the activities of the body in Abuja, said he refused to believe that the allegations were really coming from the Senate committee, asserting that all the information that the Upper House committee had on corruption in the pensions scheme were given to it by the task force.

Maina said he respected the leadership of the committee and that of the Senate, and therefore did not believe such allegations could have emanated from them; “not when the minister of finance had informed them that she had frozen the recovered money on the team’s request.”

He also allayed the fears of the public, especially pensioners, whom he noted had been apprehensive that the team had been disbanded.

According to him, the team would continue to work until Jonathan asked it to stop.

“It’s as a result of the work carried out by the pensions reform task team that we were able to recover such colossal funds; about N182 billion. Mr. President instructed that all pensioners must be paid their benefits, the beneficiaries of those that have died must be paid their death benefit while those who have never been paid must be paid their accumulated pensions.”

“Definitely in doing that, we will step on so many toes and in trying to cleanse the system, you will have resistance. We have had this issue for over 44 years. The President has delivered on pensions and we are going to accomplish more tasks in sanitising the pensions system in Nigeria. Pensioners from other pensions departments such as Nigerian Railways, Nigerian Airways are calling us to come and cleanse their offices. We will wait for the President’s directive as per that.”

The task team, he continued, “is a creation of the Executive arm of government and the President has not wound up the pensions reform task team yet. We have information going round that the task team has been disbanded. It has not been disbanded. We are working as directed by the President and he has ordered us to ensure that pensioners are paid as at when due.”

He said the team had built an institution, which would continue to function even if he (Maina) left office. “It’s not only if I’m here that things will work. We have developed an e-pension solution. In the past, we have seen how pensioners were dying in the office of the Head of Service (HoS) and how they used to live under the bridges in Abuja.”‘

Maina, however, warned pensioners against dubious individuals, who now use the name of the task team to defraud pensioners, with a promise to help them get their benefits increased.

“We were able to intercept a few people who use the name of the task team to collect money from pensioners promising to help increase their pension benefits. We have arrested one or two,” he said, and urged pensioners not to fall victim of such claims from anyone.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Chairman of Rules and Business Committee in the House of Representatives, Sunday Adepoju, has described as barbaric the scam in the Police Pensions Office, saying a situation where those, who were to superintend the scheme, end up misusing the money called for concern.

The lawmaker told journalists in Ibadan on Thursday that he was opposed to plea-bargaining as a means of acquitting corrupt political office holders in the country.

Adepoju, representing Ibarapa East/Iddo Federal Constituency, argued that plea-bargaining was a tacit way of encouraging corruption in high places.

The lawmaker lamented that corruption had eaten deep into the fabrics of the society and called for a holistic approach to curbing the menace for the nation to make progress.

http://www.informationnigeria.org/2012/04/loot-recovered-by-pensions-task-force-hits-n182b.html

This is either boko haram or an arsehole.

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All hail BB, the everlasting candidate!
Buhari wuz 'ere; 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011. Will be deh 2015, 2019, 2023, 2027. In "spirit" from 2031, 2035, 2039 etc etc etc etc

Burnt the phucking place down in '11.
"Who is boko haram?" Lol!

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Ilaje43: As an elderly Yoruba mon, I wish to implore the moderators to place this poll on the FRONTPAGE even if it is just gonna be for the last 24 hours of voting. Thanks


Moderators, e joo, mo fi irun funfun die ti mo ni be yin lati gbe poll yi lo si frontpage, ki awon omo kaaro-oojire gbogbo le ri. Gbogbo eyin omo Yoruba rere, e se ojuse yin. A mo nkan ti a fe, e re iwosi yi danu. Oodua a gbe wa o.

My brother, please tell these people jare!
I find it difficult to understand why some people feel so insecure that they have turned a fun thread into an expression of their low self esteem, claiming to be "defending" something or the other.

A couple of them even asked if I understand the meaning of June 12, whereas I was among those who carried it out on the street (a few times on NL I have told how we blocked a column of tanks from Ikeja, at palmgrove during June 12, with nothing but courage; the commander came out and raised his shirt to show us his MKO tee-shirt).
I am also one of the few NLers that can describe the inside of MKO's house, Diya's house etc; but here, I am described as "ajekotumamamomi" by snotty nosed types who cannot point out their ancestral compounds even with the help of stadium lights.

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Williams new test driver looks much better than her car.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17682392

Susie Wolff:

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Abeg, mek una lef Musiwa jare! His is our new champion.

jmaine: [img]https://www.nairaland.com/download/680157[/img]

So na Beaf dey bully my man Jason123 like so . . .Beaf dey careful 00h! cos na your blokos jason dey aim for now

Di nex frame of di film show when I don pull im head comot!

Hm! You're quite good!

[size=23pt]All hail Aare Musiwa I!
Chop and quench e! Food is no problem![/size]

One of Musiwa's princes gets a hairdo for the big do. No be small owambe today o!

[size=16pt]It is a great day at the crowning of Aare Musiwa I.
Mrs Musiwa looks on with great pride and joy:[/size]

More entertainment from the Western Niger:



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From Igbo land...
No be small tin o!

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From Eko in the Western Niger:

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[size=23pt]All hail Aare Musiwa I
Hail! Hail!![/size]



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From Itsekiri land in the Western Niger:

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[size=23pt]The crowning ceremony begins![/size]
From Urhobo land in the Western Niger... Sasoma!

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Pipo! Pipo! Pipo!
Let us organise a befitting crowning ceremony for the Aare Ona Kakanfo of NL, Oba Musiwa I.

I suggest that we have dance troups from all over the country, especially the various cultures of Western Niger and Benin Republic.
Who will be the MC?

Ileke Idi: Beaf why you no dey reply that post ehn?


Your exact words nau. . . . grin

Beaf o, sofrey sofrey. . . . make we gist on another thread ehn. Make I go breastfeed my baby kiss kiss kiss

Abeg, stop seeking my notice jare, I have exhausted my anger an am proceeding with the crowning ceremony of the Aare Ona Kakanfo of NL, Oba Musiwa I.
Tank you.

E be like say my piksho's don vex some pipo sote, dem no come get sense again!
The left hooks to Aregbesola and Tinubu have caused some red eyes to attempt ethnic blackmail. As if ACN is an ethnic group.

I de ask wetin konsain Aregbesola and Tinubu wit Aare Ona kakanfo of NL na?
Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

Desola: in that case, yours must be s.perm wasted from conception.

And you have been silently praying for mine init?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]no, it's not ACN.
It's your foolish assumption that one has to be a primary source in order to acknowledge a situation.[/quote]No need to lie, its all about ACN. Tinubu and Aregbesola are ACN people abi? Phuck them, one is a drug baron and the other slaps people and talks high stories. Does that pain you more?

What a sad life to live, attempting to use ethnicity to stop me slamming ACN. It is unfortunate.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]This is simply ignorance. Where you there when boko harams decide to unleash on people? Yet you speak so violently on the topics as if you were a primary source.

Where you there when Tinubu supposedly using drugs?

When you there when Aregbesola slapped who he supposingly slapped?

Come off your high horse for once.[/quote]Is it ACN wahala that is at the root of this?
PHUCK ACN, the fascist party. Does that make it worse?

ekwy nwa: @ beaf [size=28pt]she is in her mid mid 30s.[/size]

If that is true, then it is a life already wasted.

Desola: Bullshit!

Can you prove it?

Get anybody who was on Ikorodu road and lets discuss. You phuckers cannot think beyond your narrowminded arses. I am sure people like you were under their beds while we were out on the streets, risking life for belief. Then puffs of gas like you pop out of you dark crevices to talk about "defending."
Do you know what defense means? I really pity you people.

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Go and sit down jare! You said you knew about June 12. Internet clown, where you there organising people along the railway line from Iddo to Oshodi?
Did you go see Wole Soyinka and Gani at Yaba? You are "defending" your people by being a grumpy irritant; do you know what it means to defend anything?

noiseless: Our april 12 has turned to june 12.

Na so we see am o!

[size=23pt]All hail Musiwa, the Aare Ona Kakanfo!
Make jealous pipo go die jare![/size]

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]See as the dude dey always go crazy on every Yoruba thread, esp posting abrasive insulting messages. Who does not know what June 12 stood for?

Call it what it is. . . . instead of hiding in the closet. The ones that irks me the most aren't the tribalist themselves (those ones I even can stand), but the ones who pretend not to be. Even when displaying characteristics of a tribalist.[/quote]You know what June 12 is? Lol!
I was a student on Ikorodu road facing tanks from Ikeja, where were you? Where you there when tear gas was dropped from helicopters and people were shot? It is cowardice to claim to be "defending" whatever on NL; I can bet that you will be first to run away on the ground.

Bullshiit defender.

I really pity you.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]In my early 20s? Chaii!!! God forbid that one.

I'm surprise that you didnt use your "it's because I love Yoruba language" excuse this time. Sofrey sofrey, gentileman.[/quote]Carry on with whatever direction you've decided to head down.
If you choose to coral your mind and jump at your own shadow, its your life really.

Why even bother to come on NL or anywhere else to mix with people from other ethnic groups if you are so narrowminded? I am sure if I greet you in Yoruba today, you will find a way to say I am insulting you. I am not sure if you people understand how weird and crazy this thing comes actoss as.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Your unnecessary need to provide excuses.

Just maintain a small drop of self-control to put up the pretense wall again. Mr. Nigeria.[/quote]What excuses? I regret nothing and will do it all over again.
I really pity you. When you first started turning this way, I warned you many times.
Look what you've become, no fun in your life. In your early twenties at the max, you are already a hateful creature whose vision exists only through ethnic lenses.
Seriously, I am sorry for you.