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Supremos:
Yes regulation of water ways is the responsibility of federal government and hence they can site ports anywhere they want.

Saying that I'm lying to myself won't change the obvious

We're arguing about if Imo is land locked. Don't change the subject. Attacking a strawman won't help you hear. Define landlocked then go from there. I gave you an example then you make up a lie about Rhine River for no reason.

diadem10:
Waters and Land belong to the people of that state. Sink that into your skull. That's why people opposed water bills.

This is one of the reasons why people say Igbos are not different from Fulani. They're two sides of a coin. Land grabbers. And they're so entitled.

Why are you afraid to cite the constitution? You just making claims without evidence boy. Regulations of waterways and interstate commerce is in the federal domain. You don't have to like it. We're not talking about who owns the water we're talking about what entity regulates the uses.

Supremos:
Whatever the case maybe with River Rhine, Imo state is not landlocked

Keep lying to yourself then.

Supremos:
Imo isn't Landlocked. Rhine is man-made

The Rhine is not man-made. You're making that up like the other guy was making up facts. Go ahead and cite your sources if you have evidence. Imo is landlocked because it had no direct access to the sea. Rivers don't count or else Switzerland isn't Landlocked either.

Supremos:
I love you bro. No Homo

Lol, you just like that we agree with each other on this topic. You probably won't feel the same when we disagree. This project does make Imo not landlocked. Switzerland is considered landlocked even though the Rhine River empties into the north Seas.

favor914:
Quite obvious Labor Party na Empty Barrels, oblivious nuisances.

Everyone is on this issue. Lol, the only thing the federal government cares about in the exclusive list is taxes (oil revenue) and force (police and military). States dusobeying minimum wage laws is not their concern.

Lol are they going to force the states pay it.

Christistruth00:
The Part of the Constitution that made them a State

Land in the Nigerian Constitution includes Waterways

diadem10:
See self entitlement. Every land and waters belong to the people of the land. Hence Rivers state have a direct say in this. Besides, dredging from Imo state to River is too far and could cause adverse effect such as ocean surge. It would be River people who would suffer it. Why don't you dredge from Abia state? Whichever ways, River state have to be carried along.

Lionnation:
this one na pure olodo, ignoramus

You didn't cite the constitution like I asked. Do you know what the word cite means? You're just making claims without showing evidence. Rivers doesn't have power over interstate commerce or waterways that cross multiple states. Read these sections of the Constitution below.

Second Schedule Legislative Powers Part I Exclusive Legislative List

29. Fishing and fisheries other than fishing and fisheries in rivers, lakes, waterways, ponds and other inland waters within Nigeria.

36. Maritime shipping and navigation, including

-(b) shipping and navigation on the River Niger and its affluents and on any such other inland waterway as may be designated by the National Assembly to be an international waterway or to be an inter-State waterway;

64. Water from such sources as may be declared by the National Assembly to be sources affecting more than one state.

Part II Concurrent Legislative List Extent of Federal and State Legislative powers

17. The National Assembly may make laws for the Federation or any part thereof with respect to-
(a) the health, safety and welfare of persons employed to work in factories, offices or other premises or in interState transportation and commerce including the training, supervision and qualification of such persons;

Christistruth00:
Rivers State will need to approve it because you will need to pass through Rivers State to reach the Coast

I didn’t say it couldn’t happen I only asked if Rivers State was part of the Project

Can you cite what part of the Constitution gives them the power over waterways?

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diadem10:
Boko haram has reduced. They were occupying more than 14 local government before na..

Does insecurity only mean Boko haram and not violent crime in general.

Did Tinubu say this? I'd be surprised if he made this unforced error.

Blue3k:
Lol, this is why Statistics matter even if you can lie using them. What's the rate of murder, kidnapping, or robbery per 100k in 2015 vs 2022? Why did the government stop bothering to release crime statistics if they're doing so, well? It's doubtful violent crime rates are falling considering the bandits are constantly rampaging. They'll never quantify their claims because they're lying.

Lol, they don't respect Nass because they're all bark no bite. Appointees are stooges of the executive and not much else. They know they won't be sacked, have budgets cut or their department eliminated. They should just scrap these MDAs and or merge them with similar MDA.

I've always argued the there needs to be a constitutional amendment to make it possible for NASS to impeach these people unilaterally. Currently the president needs to ask before they can act which is foolish. Just tailor the proposed amendment after the US Article 2 section 4. The appointees will be more accountable to the NASS afterwards.

By Queenesther Iroanusi

The MDAs have repeatedly failed to appear before the Senate Public Accounts Committee to respond to queries raised in the Auditor General's report.

The Senate has threatened to cut down 2023 budgetary allocation of over 100 Ministry, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the country.

The threat is based on the grounds that heads of the MDAs have repeatedly failed to appear before the Senate Public Accounts Committee to respond to queries raised in the Auditor General's report.

In the report, from 2015 till date, the Auditor General indicted some MDAs for queries like frivolous spendings, misappropriation of funds, inability to account for money spent, payment if salaries to dead or retired staff, among others.

Some of the affected MDAs include Ministries of Interior, Finance, Health Information, Foreign Affairs, Women Affairs, Communications and Special Duties.

Others are the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police, State House, AMCON, NHIS, NEDC, INEC, Debt Management Office, NEMA, NAFDAC, National Human Rights Commission, Ministry of Works and Housing, among others.

The Senate's threat was sequel to a Point of Order raised by Matthew Urhoghide, chairman of the public accounts committee.

The lawmaker, under Orders 42 and 95 complained that the indicted MDAs have repeatedly ignored letters of invitation and summons sent out by the committee. He said they have failed to respond to queries raised by the Auditor General.

He reminded his colleagues that they are empowered by the Constitution and their Standing Orders to summon the indicted MDAs through arrest warrants or demand from the Senate President. He therefore prayed that they exercise their power.

In his response, the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said any public officer who accepts to serve and use public funds, must be prepared to account for the funds. And anyone who feels he is above the law, should quit.

He read out the names of the MDAs, over 100 of them, and gave them one week to reach out to the public accounts committee and fix a date for hearing.

"If any of them fail to do so, with no communication or verifiable reason, we will slash their 2023 budget," he added.

See list of some indicted MDAs:

Office Of The Accountant General Of The Federation.
Federal Ministry Of Interior.
Budget Office Of The Federation.
Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc.
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.
National Emergency Management Agency.
National Commission For Refugees, Migrants And Internally Displaced Persons.
Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corp.
Ministry Of Defence.
Office Of the Special Assistant To the President On Niger Delta Affairs.
The State House.
Presidential Fleet.
Ministry of Finance.
Nigeria Army.
Navy.
Airforce.
Police.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Ministry Of Petroleum Resources.
National Inland WaterWays Authority, Lokoja.
Federal Ministry Of Health.
Presidential Amnesty Program.
Ministry Of Agriculture And Rural Development.
Federal Civil Service Commission.
Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority.
National Health Insurance Scheme.
Ministry Of Communications And Digital Economy.
Tertiary Education Trust Fund Tetfund.
Federal Ministry Of Youth And Sport Development.
Ministry Of Environment.
National Hajj Commission Of Nigeria.
Revenue Mobilization Allocation Fiscal Commission.
Federal Ministry Of Information And Culture.
Nigeria Defence Academy.
National Human Rights Commission.
Nigeria Centre For Disease Control.
National Security Adviser etc.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/569401-breaking-senate-threatens-to-cut-budget-of-over-100-mdas-for-ignoring-summons.html

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sulaak:
NBS should give us the unemployment rate.

They always stop right b4 elections. Foolish people never notice.


● In the 2019 election The last unemployment stats was published for 2018:

● For this upcoming 2023 election we only have 2020 unemployment numbers.

https://www.nairaland.com/7371819/notice-nbs-hides-unemployment-crime#117361362

how does the government recoup when this graduate japa’s?

A lot more information is needed to properly access this policy. But I do believe it is an initial step in the right direction. Government can’t continue to subsidize education - cause they are doing a terrible job at it. Make each university more autonomous. Allow them charge a bit higher, hire better lecturers and allow each school s’ governing council determine its salary band, build better facilities for students and lecturers, expand the no of students they can take in, etc.

If they JAPA nothing much they can do. The loan will accrue interest while they're gone. Unless the government makes the tied to mandatory work. I doubt they'll strip their passports to make sure they don't leave.

Market competition is the answer to most government-induced problems. They refused to raise taxes adequately to fund their school and won't let schools set prices. After universities are allowed to set their prices it wont matter how many of them there are. It's total madness that a lot of people prefer cheap bad service to good service at the market price.

Napata77:
SHUT UP. ALL THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE ACCUSED OF BEING CORRUPT THIEVES, HOW MANY OF THEM DID YOU INVESTIGATE BEFORE ACCUSING THEM? CRIMINAL.

Make me shut up pussyboy. There's just empty speculation until someone in the state or federal government wants to bring a case. I don't care for your gossip girl behavior bring the evidence for us to review. If criminal activity is going tell the clown to file a lawsuit already.

abdulrahmanyaku:
Nigerians have heard that before, and no one could hold any Government to pay for their failed promises. Just tell us how you will do it.

brain54:
The way Nigerians held buhari responsible?

Lol yall held Jonathan responsible by not giving him a second term.

Weird Peter Obi did all this stealing and not one investigation happened during the war on Corruption.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
What careers should be in demand in Nigeria (not global trend), get the number of jobless 1st class and 2:1 graduates from those fields before we talk about the next thing.

Student loans in Nigeria is a literal way of telling people to stop aspiring to pursue what's out their league, just like ASUU said.

How do you improve the economy? More fake sectors (paper sectors) should be created at the expense of the real economy.

Tell me, how's the American system coming along.

If you're taking a loan all these factors should be in your head. It seems you believe people dont have agency. The government can walk and chew gum in terms of improving the economy and giving loans. Whether you believe they should is another issue. I listed my issues with loans.

You and ASSU are yet to articulate how a no-interest or low-interest loan stops you from attending school. It's like saying you'd have an easier time buying a car if car notes didn't exist which is not true. Even if it's a high interest loan it wouldn't matter because you wouldn't be able to go to school anyway. The mortgage market in Nigeria compared to America is a good comparison to that.

Lol, how do "paper jobs" take away from the "real economy"? Do you think economics is zero sum? I don't see anything wrong with a diversified economy. The American system is better compared to most countries in the world.

The union rejected what it described as the government's "arrogant insistence on handing down an award" instead of a bargained salary package for its members. It also accused the government of attempts to turn the relationship with the workers inito a master-slave situation.

The union also condemned the government's continued withholding of the academics' salaries for seven and a half months, saying it would not accept the alleged casualisation of its members' work through the payment of October salaries on a pro-rata basis.

Lol, why do you think it's the taxpayer's job to pay you not to work? If you feel like a slave why don't any of you quit your jobs?

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Have you factrored in today's Nigeria? Or did you just googled student loan?

How many first class engineers are roaming the streets?

In other words and as said by ASUU, a way of stopping poor people from attending University.

If you(your candidate) has no idea how to improve an economy and open it up to jobs, he should Park. You don't improve the economy the economy by 'pegging' who and who attend universities and studies what.

Old man thinking we can't create jobs, let's reduce the number of job seekers, who does that, Jagaban.

Why did ignore the first response just to ask me rhetorical questions? If you're not economically illiterate you wouldn't take a loan for a career there's no demand for. That's foolish, to begin with. I also mentioned there's alternatives to a college education but you decided to go blind. Lol, we see the issue isn't about the loans for you it's about Tinubu. You assume I like him because I don't think loans are the devil.

Anyway improving the economy and providing loans are two different issues. His other economic policies will determine how vibrant the labor market is. If it's anything like Buhari's more increases unemployment and stagnant economic growth is the future.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Are you clowns genuinely advocating for student loans? Even for going as far ASUU names? Nigerians really deserve what they get.

Student loan, take the American model, what's the end and ben for of it?

Poor guy takes a loan of 1.5m to study public admin, come out into what? POS vending business to pay back a loan on a useless degree?

It's a pity Nigerian students are only interested in tiktok and Instagram. This is really sad.

The fact that a front runner in the election is calling it innovative model is even sadder.

Lol if you're taking those sorts of loans it shows you're desperate and economically illiterate. Nobody is forced into a college classroom. trades, tech jobs, and the military are options. Community College and transfer is also an option. A normal person would make sure their prospective careers would be able to pay for the loan.

Now let's get into the real issues of government-backed student loans. For starters it creates incentives for schools to constantly push prices up, they crowd out the private sector and they have a knack for encouraging dumb behavior. The last part in the sense.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Seriously? People struggling to pay 80,000 tuition would gladly take loans of 1.5m to attend University?

It's not compulsory to defend every perversion pls.

Student loans are paid after the student graduates or leaves school. Assuming they work and go to school they can pay down loan early. It's not compulsory to complain without thinking. Remember having access to money means you go to school. Your ability to pay off the loans depends on your career and labor market.

saintopus:
Person take loan to be paid back by the person, é dey vex ASUU.
Wetin con concern loan wey I take with ASUU qwanuuu!!!

Lol, it's because the government won't endlessly increase the subsidies and they hate it. Right the students are irrelevant because the government is their main customer. They would rather charge the taxpayers than go to the students with increased prices that they'd have to Justify with better service.

These ASUU guys protest too much. Only the status quo is unacceptable to them. How dare parents and students take up the bulk of their education cost when the tax payer is there right? I wonder why an economist isn't speaking for ASUU in these matters. They never bothered to explain how student loans would make it harder for poor students to go to school. They also never explained why and who in the government advocated for a stop to subsidized education.

Student loans would make it easier for more people to go to school. The issue is schools may begin to charge more knowing the government will increase the loan amounts to compensate. This is what happens in America because these loans aren't dischargeable via bankruptcy. I'm honestly amazed they believe demand for universities will shrink after more loans are factored into the equation.

By Qosim Suleiman

ASUU condemned the introduction of a student loan bill passed by the National Assembly, saying it is a dangerous initiative that has failed in other climes.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Nigerian government of attempts to 'systematically' wash its hands off the funding of public universities with the introduction of a student loan bill by the National Assembly.

Both chambers of the National Assembly have passed a student loan bill that was first introduced to the house by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, in 2016.

If assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari, the government would be mandated to establish an education bank which the bill proposes would provide education loans to students.

But ASUU, in a statement by its President, Emmanuel Osodeke, a Professor of Soil Science, condemned the move, describing it as an attempt to make university education beyond the reach of poor Nigerians.

In the statement released after its quarterly National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at the University of Calabar at the weekend, ASUU claimed the education loan being proposed has failed in other countries where it was introduced.

"We find it troubling that the proponents of the policy are so eager to foist it down the throat of Nigerians when they have done more to push the working people of this country into poverty through sheer incompetence in handling the economic fortunes of our nation," the statement reads in part.

On salary

The union rejected what it described as the government's "arrogant insistence on handing down an award" instead of a bargained salary package for its members. It also accused the government of attempts to turn the relationship with the workers inito a master-slave situation.

The union also condemned the government's continued withholding of the academics' salaries for seven and a half months, saying it would not accept the alleged casualisation of its members' work through the payment of October salaries on a pro-rata basis.

"The union calls the attention of Nigerians to the lingering issue of renegotiation of the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement which was the initial issue that led to the just suspended strike action. More worrisome is the increasing anti-labour posture of the government, suggestive of attempts to abrogate the principle of collective bargaining agreement. NEC rejects in totality the government's arrogant insistence on handing down an award instead of a bargained salary package," the statement added.

ASUU, therefore, called on Nigerians to prevail on the government to urgently address all outstanding issues between it and the union in the interest of the students and the country.

"Finally, NEC appreciates the resilience of our members and their families. Their understanding and perseverance, in the face of hardship and provocation occasioned by government's intransigence and insensitivity, shall be rewarded by posterity."

Backstory

The industrial dispute between ASUU and the Nigerian government, which has resulted in incessant strikes that characterised the country's university system has ushered in conversations about the funding of the universities.

Government officials have on different occasions stated that the government cannot continue to fund the universities alone but ASUU has rejected this.

At a recent event, the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Is-haq Oloyede, suggested a model similar to the National Health Insurance Scheme where the government can help indigent individuals pay a certain percentage of the school fees after they must have subscribed to the initiative.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/569219-student-loan-bill-attempt-to-abandon-public-funding-of-nigerian-universities-ASUU.html

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Lol, why don't these clowns ever talk this tough to violent criminals? There are too many cowardly bullies in this society. It's only because they not punished violently with a good punch in the nose.

Praxis758:
Yes o, he’s a firm believer in everything foreign since he’s allegedly to have been born outside the country.

Atiku ooze everything FOREIGN.

Lol you conspiracy kooks are silly. Didn't this silly matter go to court already?

“any Ministry, Department or Agency that fails to submit its salary schedule latest today (Monday) will be sanctioned. Any agency head who obstructs the process of scheduling will face disciplinary procedures.”

Wow, the gull of the bureaucrats. There's no reason this shouldn't be public information, to begin with. The reason there's so much corruption is that they're allowed to operate in the shadows.