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39 wives!
When I grow up, I want to be just like that man.

In the simplest English, the governors are against every move toward true federalism. That is astoundingly hypocritical.

[size=14pt]Governors, Jonathan for stormy talks on N250b cut[/size]
By Nduka Chiejina, Abuja and Ogbonnaya Obinna, Abakaliki 21 hours 2 minutes ago

GOVERNORS are set for a crucial meeting with the President in Abuja over the September allocation to states, which they rejected. The meeting will hold on Wednesday.

The governors are insisting that the deductions from states’ allocations should be restored before they collect the cash.

“We will simply tell the President that it’s impossible for us to collect the allocations, unless they are fully paid,” a governor said at the weekend.

The meeting of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), which broke up on October, will now hold today.

Finance Commissioners, who walked out on FAAC chair and Minister of State for Finance Alhaji Lawan Yerima Ngama have now returned to Abuja.

They rejected the sharing of the September allocation from the Federation Account, unless the N250 billion deducted to service fuel subsidy is returned.

There are signs that rather than thaw, the relationship between the Federal Government and the states may remain frosty.

Governors are kicking against the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and the allocation formula, which favours the Federal Government, even as it has less to do.

And now, there are moves to abolish the Joint State/Local Government Account.

The account is where local government funds are paid, which directly ties the local governments to the states. The governors have always expressed misgivings about the plan to scrap the account.

There is an on-going battle between the federal government and the states over the creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and the review of revenue formula.

The states boycotted their September revenue allocation in protest over the deduction of N250 billion by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Elias Mbam said at the weekend that plans are afoot to scrap the Joint States/Local Government Account.

He spoke in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.

“The Commission is of the view that the Joint State/Local Government Account should be abolished. The local governments should be allocated funds directly to their accounts in order to reduce or forestall any possible abuse or leakages.

He said the measure will forestall any possible abuse of funds especially by state governments as allocations meant for local government areas would go directly to local government accounts without any interference from the state governments.

Section 162(6) of the Constitution states: “Each state shall maintain a special account to be called ‘State Joint Local Government Account’ into which shall be paid all allocations to the local government councils of the state from the Federation Account and from the government of the state”.

The RMAFC is the statutory body authorised to make proposals for revenue allocation from the Federation Account.

Mbam said in line with the wish of the governors, a new revenue allocation formula will be proposed soon.

“When I took office as the chairman, I addressed Nigerians on the need for a review of the revenue allocation formula and I promised Nigerians of our commitment to the review because it is long overdue. I went further to constitute a committee in that respect”.

“The Committee has commenced work. We are conscious of the sensitivity of the assignment. We will make sure we do detailed consultations, researches and that is why it is taking quite some time. I have promised the nation that the new revenue allocation formula will be ready for presentation to the President in the first quarter of 2012”.

He also said the Commission is working towards an amendment of the constitution which will provide RMAFC with the powers to monitor how the allocation is spent for the development of the states.

He urged state governments to work towards increasing their internally generated revenue instead of depending solely on allocation from the Federal Account.

He said the Commission has started a process of sensitising the governors on the need for revenue diversification.

The RMAFC boss urged the governors to direct their finance commissioners to return for the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC)’s meeting and collect the allocation which they rejected. He said the grey areas will be addressed in due course.

“I want to use this opportunity to call on governors to please direct their state commissioners of finance to attend the FAAC meeting and collect their allocation, while discussions on the issues of concern go on, because that will reduce the problem of distorting the governance and also heating up the polity,” he said.

Mbam assured that the new revenue allocation formula will be based on the constitutional parameters of land mass, population density, equality of states, among others.

The governors’ position on the SWF has been oscillating between rejection and acceptance.

The governors described the fund as unconstitutional and illegal, and revived their suit against it at the Supreme Court.

But Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole later dissociated his state for the suit. He said the explanation by Finance Minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala convinced him of the need for the fund.

“The federal government will need to amend the Constitution to scrap the account. They may not be able to get the amendment through.

“Don’t forget that in addition to the two-thirds of votes at the National Assembly, they require the support from two-thirds of States Houses of Assembly, to amend any part of the Constitution. They may not be able to get this,” said a source close to one of the governor last night.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/24684-governors-jonathan-for-stormy-talks-on-n250b-cut.html

Sun of god:
Thanks for that  . . . . . but you have not worked out all the percentages for us - 

Lol! Oliver asks for more!
At some point I'll produce a bar chart of the figures, but not today.
I'll do it with national debt and region represented.

@topic
Isn't it strange that those states that can barely afford it are the ones in debt to the tune of billions?

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=595435.msg9452720#msg9452720 date=1320075401]Well the procession continues Vettel wins again
My friend would you go home and crash!! I even quoted and highlighted you and you are still yarning dust. If he wasnt as good would he be in a position to take advantage?? With the KERS and DRS overtaking is not as hard as it used to be[/quote]This page is not that long to keep telling lie after lie. You will notice that over the several pages of this thread, we have all been civil, nobody has stooped low to tell lies, aside from you.
You are a liar, and I don't entertain that kind. Run along, liar.

olawalebab:
This guy call beaf is a funny and cunny man, imagine "disobeying the law because they did not follow police order" . Wonder shall never end

No?
I really wonder what you call disobeying the law! Aregbesola's action directly caused his aluta's to be arrested; nobody has the right to snob a police order. If Aregbesola wasn't covered by the id!otic immunity clause, he too would have been locked up.

^
Dude, the fact that you identified me as an Itsekiri man because I have strongly questioned your tactics only points to the ethnic nature of the battle you are fighting. For your info, I am not Itsekiri (although I have nuff Itsekiri blood flowing in my veins), indeed I am far more Urhobo and my families voice has been amongst the weightiest in Delta state since the early 70's. I am quite sure I know what I am saying when I tell you that your methods are courting bloodshed.

If you guys can convince your man, then he will find rivers of support in PDP. As for GEJ backing Uduaghan, you wouldn't have expected him to back someone in another political party, would you? On the other hand, I read a lot of meaning into the lack of any disciplinary measure or cautions from PDP to Chief EK Clark for his overt and total support for Ogboru against the interests of PDP. Also, Ogboru campaigned for GEJ.

Without Fashola, this would have been the daily occurence in ACN:

. . .[size=14pt]hundreds of aggrieved members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN[/size], yesterday,  stormed the party secretariat in Ogba, Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, and took to the major streets in Isolo Local Government Area to protest alleged imposition of candidates.
. . .
women and men, including traditional cult, popularly known as “Osugbo” [size=14pt]trooped to the streets to invoke evil spirits at a junction called “Orita Esu” (devil’s junction)[/size] in Isolo with various placards to show their grievances against the imposition of one Shamsudeen Olaleye, against the popular choice of Mojeed Adam as the party’s candidate for the coming council poll.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/council-poll-protest-rocks-lagos-over-%E2%80%98imposition-of-candidates%E2%80%99/

No!

PointB:
lmao.

Anyway, I wont be surprised if Gbawe is the editor Osun Defender! Cos, it sound more like AregbeRascal Defender!

Lol. The name even gives it out, "Osun Defender." Its like they are the to "defend" the offences committed by their bosses.

I took the time to format the data into a nice little table. Enjoy!

[table]
[tr][td]Name of Federal State[/td][td][center]Amount Owed[/center][/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Lagos [/td][td]$460.742million, representing 8.54 percent of the nation's external debt[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Kaduna State [/td][td]$175.433million, representing 3.25 percent[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Cross River [/td][td]$124.022million, representing 2.30 percent of the nation's external debt[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Oyo [/td][td]$93.990million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ogun [/td][td]$91.902million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Katsina [/td][td]$78.75million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Akwa Ibom [/td][td]$70.56million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Osun [/td][td]$65.332million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Kano [/td][td]$63.94million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ondo [/td][td]$60.794million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bauchi [/td][td]$58.8million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Imo [/td][td]$52.32million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Kebbi [/td][td]$51.644million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Kwara [/td][td]$48.557million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Edo [/td][td]$46.92million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ebonyi [/td][td]$42.149million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Enugu [/td][td]$41.66million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Nassarawa [/td][td]$41.35million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sokoto [/td][td]$41.206million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]FCT [/td][td]$37.664million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Rivers [/td][td]$36.501million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Kogi [/td][td]$36.203million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ekiti [/td][td]$36.201million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Abia State [/td][td]$34.048million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Yobe [/td][td]$31.690million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Adamawa [/td][td]$29.45million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Jigawa [/td][td]$29.120million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bayelsa [/td][td]$28.77million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Gombe [/td][td]$27.96million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Niger [/td][td]$27.438million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zamfara [/td][td]$27.186million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Plateau [/td][td]$26.974million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Benue [/td][td]$25.016million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Anambra [/td][td]$23.722million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Taraba [/td][td]$21.111million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Delta [/td][td]$17.63million[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Borno [/td][td]$14.036million[/td][/tr]
[/table]

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=792679.msg9453959#msg9453959 date=1320086915]olodo, onye ara ka obu. stop pretending to be a fool and an olodo, we know better. If you call this a distraction, then what do you call your own blatant and disgraceful manner in which you refused to admit the inadequacies of the governor of your state? abeg make we hear word - there is no list forthcoming.

@PointB, so you are this brilliant? One wouldn't have guessed. atosiloli.[/quote]The list, sir.

According to the eviction notice signed by Hanga, his agents would be visiting the party headquarters on December 27 to inspect the property as stipulated in the contractual agreement to ensure that the property is restored to “proper state”.

The notice gave CPC until December 31 to move out of the building or face forceful eviction.

This is damn funny! CPC on notice for eviction! LOLZZZZ!

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=792679.msg9453452#msg9453452 date=1320082123]To say I am disappointed in your newfound buffoonery and lack of depth would not exactly be an understatement. Your dishonestly which lead you to reaching eediotic conclusions about my statements, is rooted in your tribalist racism. Since you are a advanced degree holder, please lookup the following words: facetious, tongue-in-cheek, and the like, reread my statement and then hide your head in shame.

P.S. onye ara ka obu, additionally, okwute Palestinains and possibly egbe ndi Israeli, piafuka gi blokos. olodo. abriba banza.[/quote]Funny as the bolded lines are, they only reveal a man quick to anger and lacking in culture.

Disgusting.

. . .In the meantime, we are still waiting for your list. No matter how foul your tongue gets, we will not be distracted.

Imagine ACN without Fashola? No!
Who wants a party where the leader cannot even prove his identity?
Nobody knows his real name, who his father is, what schools he attended. . . Even if he has been in jail!

[size=33pt]No![/size]

Imagine a zoo without a keeper?!
With thugs like Aregbesola freely slapping all comers and Tinubu's area boys pelting the Gani Fawehinmi's for daring to seek and order mandamus to investigate Tinubu's whereabouts between 1982 and 1989? More than that, to investigate his Toronto certificate!

Without the gentleman, Fashola, ACN would be a veritable madhouse where thugs roam freely, abuse bystanders and commentators, and lynch babies.

Just imagine a legal al qaeda!

https://www.patitospost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gani_201_20060909__.jpg

ACN without Fashola?
Like Yaba Left without doctors and potent injections.

Threads like this really do not belong in the politics section. The one liner above is the sort of joke you crack in the market place.

If we continue to publish stuff like this without proof, it is only a matter of time before an NLer gets jailed.

auwal87:
Proof? I am no better than you as a Nigerian who wants the country to become a better place to be.

Even if Andrew Hamilton, the VC of Oxford come here to claim that Austen was never a student of the University, you will still find something to say.

So, done mine already, and I didn't kept silent, already reported. Left to them, do something or ignore. But I will keep exposing bad elements where ever possible.

So have you popped an email off to "Andrew Hamilton?" Or do you think name-dropping is good enough?
You cannot make such damaging claims without any iota of proof whatsoever. I am dissappointed that the mods have allowed this thread to subsist.

Post copies of the emails you have received to debunk the mans qualifications or desist.

auwal87:
See you, do you know what it takes to obtain qualification from high ranking universities, the time and money?

If this man can fake his way to become NNPC boss, there is no doubt he can fake his way to lift a million barrel of crude oil every month.

How can Nigeria move forward with this type of people?

I am yet to see any proof that the mans credentials are fake. Where are the copies of the emails you received from the schools in question?
You just can't wake up one morning to blacken anybody's name by rumour, that is a very dangerous path. Back up your claims or be prepared to be forever seen in very bad light.

[quote author=Em-my link=topic=792393.msg9451631#msg9451631 date=1320066745]My Uncle spoke with Ogboru about join PDP.
He (Ogboru) said it would be difficult cuz he promised 2 stop corruption and wonders how the pple would feel if he ascends power in a corrupt manner[/quote]Ogboru campaigned for GEJ and he should have that in the bank. GEJ is doing his utmost to reduce corruption in PDP, so Ogboru's stance would be a big plus. If he does the math properly, he will find that he has more than enough force to take over the party in Delta state.
Politics will always have an element of corruption, no matter where; so, we need to be practical about how to get things done. I don't see how DPP can even nearly succeed in 2015, there are etnic groups to be balanced and only PDP has a wide enough spread to juggle things around.

Gbawe:
Where will all this mischief get you? The original link is: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=20783 . You should give up all these cheap stunts . They only make you look patently dishonest and decietful.

If you are so concerned about the workers in Osun State, why not reach out to the labour leaders who insist they are happy to wait and be paid under a new wage table?

Lol! I now understand why you hid the link originally. Quoting from Osun Defender is like quoting from Ovation magazine! You can do better, Gbawe. Seriously.

The question of what has been done with the 129billion received in the past 11 months still remains totally unanswered. and please don't bring up how Aregbesola "bought" 40 wagons and coaches for the federal govt to run on the railway lines or any of Aregbesola's other high stories. Thank you.

[quote author=Em-my link=topic=792393.msg9451480#msg9451480 date=1320065371]He choses 2 support Ogboru cuz he knows he is who Deltans needI tink Ogboru have the solution 2 Delta State. . .
Ogboru said to attain maximum development,
they must be minimum corruption.

N.B:
Ogboru don't bribe to be voted for. . .[/quote]Let Ogboru join PDP where he can become of great use to the state in alliance with Chief Clark and Salibah Mukoro, instead of sponsoring this ethnic politics that will lead to bloodshed at some point.
I don't want to see an Urhobo vs Itsekiri + Ijaw battle. A lot of people don't understand the flames they are stoking, in fact most are here for ethnically bigotted reasons because I regularly ground Aregbesola and Tinubu.

afam4eva:
Doesn't this speak volume of the kind of people that Deltans are? They don't hide what's bad about their state unlike some other people. I think that's the kind of behaviour that should be emulated.

Exactly! While they hide crap like Aregbesola, they are always the quickest to jump on any train thats outside their ethnic group. While we were writing letter upon letter and sending petition upon pertition against Ibori (who in Nigerian parlance was "performing", they were building up walls around massive fraudsters like Tinubu and Aregbesola (the Osun governor who doesn't even live in Osun). It is shameful really.

^
And Gbawe quotes Nairaland!
The quote in the meantime, does not even address any issue raised here. Months do not even match. Na wa!

@topic
Instead of paying workers, Osun seems to have lost track totally and become the manufacturing ground of paid aluta howlers and sundry praise singers who are sent on aimless missions around the country. Some of that crowd were arrested just last week on an ungodly mission to Abuja. Does praise singing take presedence over workers pay and food on the table?

What has been done with the 129billion received in the past 11 months?

Gbawe! Gbawe! Gbawe! Why have Osun states workers not been paid? Is that question so tough? Or did the "PDP mouth, and confusionist on NL" stop the workers pay?
Stop dodging the issue, sir!
The workers in Osun are flesh and blood and have families to support. Of what use is a governor who cannot cater for his people?

highland:
It may be a crashed program for NNPC personnel and certificate issued.

Do such things exist?

It is quite possible that those courses have been discontinued or merged or that NNPC has garbled up the mans bio.
Regardless, it MUST be investigated.

I wonder why every last one of the responses of the Aregbe supporters on this thread has been an emotional outburst that has zero to do with the topic?
The answer to that is, the jamboree dancers who have jumped in here have no answers. Rather, they portray every sign of unserious jamboree dancing and aluta howling whereas very serious questions are begging desperately for answers. Billions have been received with nothing to show, except that the state’s economy is inexplicably distressed.

The article asks quite simple questions and makes easily verifiable claims, such as:

The party specifically challenged Aregbesola to explain why he had not paid the September salary of all workers at October 31.

Have workers been paid for the month today? They have not.
Next, we have the fact that over 100billion has accrued to the state in the last 11 months with absolutely nothing to show for it:

asked the  state government, led by Mr Rauf Aregbesola, to account for the over N100 billion that had accrued to it in the last 11 months

Does any in the emotional Aregbe defense squad know how this 100billion was spent? Its quite a straightforward question.
Now, this is not all, the "over 100billion" figure is further broken down so that we can arrive at a clear frightening total:

[list]
[li]Over N74 billion from the Federation Account allocations this year alone[/li]
[li]N25 billion loan the Aregbesola-led government took from the FirstBank in February[/li]
[li]N12.9 billion as special allocation in July[/li]
[li]N8.9 billion as special allocation in September[/li]
[li]N8.3 billion it inherited from the Oyinlola-led administration as unspent sum from the  N18.3 billion loan it took to finance the 2010 budget[/li]
[/list]

This lives us with an eye-popping total of N129billion! The simple question being asked, is what has happened to this money when there is absolutely nothing on the ground to show for it? Workers have not even been paid for goodness sake!

Rauf the champion rascal.

[size=14pt]PDP asks Aregbesola to account for N100bn [/size]
Monday, 31 October 2011

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the  state government, led by Mr Rauf Aregbesola, to account for the over N100 billion that had accrued to it in the last 11 months.

The party specifically challenged Aregbesola to explain why [size=14pt]he had not paid the September salary of all workers at October 31[/size].

A statement issued by the state chairman of the party, Chief Sunday Ojo Williams, said the call became necessary, following the classification of the state as  distressed in a motion before the House of Representatives, on Thursday.

[size=14pt]The PDP said Osun could not be described as distressed, when it was common knowledge that it had received over N74 billion from the Federation Account allocations this year alone, apart from the N25 billion loan the Aregbesola-led government took from the FirstBank in February.

The PDP also noted that the government collected N12.9 billion as special allocation in July and another N8.9 billion in September.[/size]

The state PDP boss challenged Aregbesola to also disclose what it did with the N8.3 billion it inherited from the Oyinlola-led administration as unspent sum from the  N18.3 billion loan it took to finance the 2010 budget.

The PDP said it noted a recent admission by the state Commissioner for Finance, Dr Wale Bolorunduro, that the state finances were good since the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) came to power and that it had saved N32 billion.

It said the people of the state would not accept that figure of N32 billion or the N29 billion announced by his boss, [size=14pt]“because the state knows the Aregbesola-led government has not executed a single project since it took over last year.[/size]

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/30467-pdp-asks-aregbesola-to-account-for-n100bn