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I read some where during the remitta /TSA brouhaha that in just a couple of months the TSA was reading over 2trillion nairn (hence the 1% commission of over 20 billion by remitta )can imagine what it would generate in a year.

So keep calm and trust PMB

As they say you need to 'spend money to make money'. Like Kenyans like Nigerians you don't expect you president to sit at home and have anything to show after four years.


By Edmund Blair

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has been forced to defend his frequent travel abroad after an outbreak of mass ridicule on the Internet from Kenyans mocking him as a foreign leader making a fleeting visit to their country.

Kenyatta returned last week from trip abroad that included a summit in South Africa, a climate conference in France and a Commonwealth meeting in Malta. He is due to travel to Rwanda later this week.

Kenyans have been trading photos online that depict highlights of his "visit" to Kenya. In recent days, the criticism has gone viral on the Internet, with the hashtag #UhuruInKenya surging in rankings of posts on Twitter.

A popular road traffic information website with more than 300,000 followers joked that a major Nairobi street had to be closed so Kenyatta could stay at the Kempinski Hotel, where U.S. President Barack Obama lived during a visit in July.

Photos uploaded by Twitter users depict him on the typical itinerary of a visiting dignitary: signing a visitors' book, touring a national park, greeting religious leaders and meeting other politicians, labeled as "hawkers".

In a poor country where corruption has been a central issue for decades, the mockery has struck a chord with a public angry at the lavish lifestyles of the political class. Presidential spokesman Manoah Esipisu was obliged to defend Kenyatta's foreign trips at a news conference on Sunday.

"The cost is really nothing compared to the result," he said, noting a $1.5 billion Chinese loan secured during the summit meeting in South Africa as one example. "We cannot claim the leadership position we have in the region yet shun our obligations to deal with regional issues."

As for the size of delegations, "it would be folly to send two lawyers" to Paris climate talks when other countries sent dozens, Esipisu said.

The Daily Nation, one of Kenya's leading newspapers, said the president had been on 43 government trips since taking office in 2013, while his predecessor President Mwai Kibaki made just 33 in 10 years in power.

"It sometimes feels as if the president is more comfortable away than in Kenya," said John Githongo, one of Kenya's most outspoken anti-corruption activists.

Opposition CORD coalition spokesman Dennis Onyango said that while the head of state had to travel, his delegations included "quite a number of joy riders, people who really don't have a role."

Kenyatta's jet-setting ways are being compared with the cost-cutting announced by the newly elected president of neighboring Tanzania, John Magufuli, who since taking office last month has restricted official travel and banned perks like government-printed Christmas cards.

Twitter user Nyaigoti G. Nyasani suggested Kenyatta travel "to Tanzania and learn from Magufuli." User Emmanuel K. had another solution. Addressing Tanzanians, he asked: "Could we please swap presidents for 2 months?"


https://www.yahoo.com/news/kenyans-mock-visiting-president-over-frequent-foreign-travel-152038892--business.html#

So have they been sentenced?

I don't know why igbos deliberately refuse to see the fallacy of their claim of victims.

Igbos are the most culturally integrated people in Nigeria. Go to the most remote areas of the North and u will find igbos living there. I have seen igbo men who speak fulani, hausa, nupe, gwari etc. The house I lived in damaturu yobe state while I worked there was owned by chukwudi's uncle who in turn lived in his own house in Abuja. Igbos own a substantial percentage of Abuja. My point is nobody hates the igbos they just choose to indulge in collective paranoia that people hate them.

If igbos want to be taking seriously in politics they should play progressive politics and not politics of hatred and bias. Let them start by taking their own local parties seriously by voting them in their regional elections and then use that platform to engage other regions constructively based on respect and interest.

The rest of your allegations wishful thinking and victim-complex.

Does it have to be secret. With all the billions alleged to have been drawn under his watch it is only Buhari 's magnanimity that is still keeping him there

Same here in kaduna, kaduna north to b precise.

This picture looks photoshoped.

But trust NL, it will soon find its way to the FP

This is plain wickedness, and a disastrous policy. An average filling station has two 45,000 liters tank for petrol - that's 90,000 liters in all. If they sell 87,700 liters to the public and reserve only 2,300 for the use of the station staffs and their family (who couldn't attend to them and themselves while selling to the public) what's the crime in that?

Mind u, stations have dead stocks in their tanks (stocks that can't be pumped out) ranging from 300 to 1,000 liters, so even though they may have 2,300 not all may come out.

So I repeat this is plain wickedness

I don't know, but this isis ish is turning into some kind of publicity stunt.

They out rightly do all things islam forbids then play to the gallery with it. Islam forbids mutilation of dead bodies killing of women and children (even in war) yet these are the type of things Isis like to paint Islam as.

We r all from Allah and to Him we shall return.

RevDesmondJuju:
There must have been pockets of muslims in northern Nigeria prior to Uthman's jihad but they were clearly the minority.

The islamization or forced conversions to Islam is how northern Nigeria became monogously muslim.

That is to say, wherever islam is the majority religion, a dark past of jihad was responsible.

Guy I give up, read up and educate yourself. I can't be responsible for given you free history lesson. But just take this last one; Muslim sarkis started ruling kano as far back as the 13th century, while muslim Mai (kings) started ruling the borno empire from the 15th century. This shows Islam had been adopted as the religion of the majority of the leading figures as far back as those periods mentioned above. The fulani jihad happened in the 19th century.

Enjoy the rest of ur day.

RevDesmondJuju:
How did Islam get to Nigeria?

Was it through trade and migration?

Through trade.

And incase you are thinking of the fulani empire, Islam predates the fulani wars by more than 3 centuries.

RevDesmondJuju:
That's where you got it wrong.

Prior to the advent of Islam, all of what is now north Africa and the middle east ( excluding Saudi and gulf states) where once Christians.

Iran and Iraq where one home to Zooratism.

Native Egyptians were Christians before the Arab invasion. Now the indigenous Coptic Egyptians are less than 10%.

All over the Arab muslim world there are christian antiquities that prove that the middle east and north Africa were once christian.

The Arab invasion and jihad destroyed all that heritage and killed or forced the people to adopt their religion.

No where is this more disturbing than in modern Pakistan.

Reverend please get your facts right, invasion was not responsible for the presence of islam in the places you mentioned, rather trade, migration and voluntary conversion by the people there was.

Other wise, could you tell me which Arab army invaded Indonesia - the country with the largest Muslim population in the world.

RevDesmondJuju:
Trust me if all other religions adhered strictly to their tolerance doctrine only muslims will be alive in the world today.

That's the problem, you asked the questions not seeking clarification but confirmation of your existing prejudice.

I repeat, if all Muslims were like Isis, there would be no coptic Christians in Egypt, Jews in Iran, maguzawa (idolators) in kano etc

Trust me if the over 1 billion Muslims in the world were extremists, nothing will be left of the remaining 5 billion non Muslims. #muslimsarenoterrorist

The collective army of ISIS, BH, Al Qaeda, Taliban etc r less than 100,000, yet you use that as sample to judge over 1,000,000,000 Muslims in the world.

With majority of victims of Isis, BH being Muslims #muslimsarealsovictims

That's why with children silence is not golden

The same newspaper that said MTN has agreed to pay the 1 trillion naira fine, I think I will take this news with a pinch of salt

This thing needs to stop, murder is murder no matter who commits it, its a cycle that needs to be broken. Many of these deaths go unreported.
my neighbor traveling to jos last week on official assignment through kachia was killed by some boys after their car was stoped and he was found to be a muslim

Nowthis is what I call war front let some people come and tell me that this was also part of good luck achievement materializing.
some will even say nothing has changed, let me tell you what Changed:
no money has been invested in electricity yet power supply improved
oil revenue has been falling yet allocation to States from the Federation Account has been growing
the Nigerian Army has not invited any foreign mercenary nor received any weaponry from any country yet we are wiping out Boko Haram
ladies and gentlemen now that is Change

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pus30:
Babtunde Fowler should not be appointed as new Chairman of FIRS because he is a corrupt thief, who help to steal all of the money of lagos.. and no such criminal should ever been allow into any government office again.

Babtunde Fowler is a criminal which the police should arrest.. for his role in the crime of stealing the fund of lagos. lagos is owning $1billion because Babtunde Fowler help to steal the money.. because they are a gang of thief,

he is a dangerous thief and criminal.

U sound like a tiny flea screaming in a sealed glass. With the impressive IGR Lagos has registered over the years. U must be a wailer.

Here r mine but they are 12:

1. High-risk situations

Do not start up or shut down equipment or installations without using the appropriate written operating procedure.

Any situation where the risk level is temporarily increased is reported. Induced risks are identified and analyzed and compensatory measures are implemented.

2. Traffic: Machine/vehicle/cyclist/pedestrians

Do not exceed the speed limits.

Traffic rules apply inside and outside sites.

3. Body mechanics and tools

Do not carry out work if you do not have the right tools for the job and the environment.

Adopting an inappropriate posture when handling objects or using tools can cause physical harm.

4. Protective equipment

Do not access installations and perform work without wearing general or task-specific personal protective equipment (PPE).

Collective protection is preferred. Individual protection completes preventive measures already taken.

5. Work permits

Do not perform work without a valid work permit.

Any work performed on site requires a permit.

6. Lifting

Do not walk under a load while lifting is taking place.

For any work involving a crane, hoist or other mechanical system, a preliminary risk analysis is required. Equipment must be in good condition. Personnel must be qualified and access to the area must be restricted.

7. Work on powered systems

Do not perform work without checking that the power and product source supply has been rendered inoperative.

Some works require the energy to be safely discharge or the equipment to be purged and vented. In such cases a lockout system is set up to isolate the energy or product according to a specific method.

8. Confined spaces

Do not enter a confined space until isolation has been verified and the atmosphere checked.

Do not enter a confined space (container, tank, well, etc…) without supervision and only after the atmosphere and isolation have been checked.

9. Excavation work

Do not perform excavation work without a valid work permit comprising a map of all underground hazards.

Manual or mechanical excavation work, including dragging rivers and seabeds, can only start after a risk analysis has been performed to identify all hazards in the zone and related precautions have been taken.

10. Working at heights

Do not work at heights without a safety harness when there is no collective protective equipment.

Work at heights is performed on fixed or mobile platforms with a guardrail designed for the task at hand.

Work on rooftops (buildings, reservoirs) is performed only after the roof's solidity has been checked and appropriate protection has been set up.

Ladders are a means of access only; their use must remain exceptional.

11. Change management

Do not make any technical or organizational changes without prior authorization.

Any changes in technique or organization must be the subject of a risk analysis.

12. Simultaneous operations or co-activities

Do not perform simultaneous operations or co-activities without a prior visit.

All work or operations inside a unit in operation can increase risk levels. Interferences due to simultaneous operations or joint-activities must be identified and controlled.

- See more at: http://www.total.com/en/society-environment/industrial-safety/industrial-safety-core-focus-our-initiatives/workplace-safety-continuous-improvement#sthash.eZtPVXji.dpuf

Omo see gobe!

I tell u this CHANGE is contagious.

Under Buhari, Nigeria has a rare opportunity to make a
break with the oppressive yoke of corruption.

This has become a truism. Both friends and foes, PDP and APC, Christians and Musalims all believe that in buhari, Nigeria has a last chance. May God protect him as he carries out the daunting task of sanitising Nigeria

I swear immediately I saw were barcanista mentioned 'investigate before probe'. I was like . This guy is trying too hard to say nothing.
What sort of semantic gymnastics was that ?

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Buhari is indeed a leader. And he is given Nigeria what it needs now steady hands.

Ok

Sunofgod:
All I See Is Pollution!

While all we see is solution

I feel the guys pain. I seriously think twice before refrigerating anything these days.

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