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What stops him from throwing those things inside the bush or nearby stream instead of taking it into the state house. How can you hold those dangerous items and walk into a meeting that you want to see the minster. Did he put any phonecall or email correspondence with the minister before going to see him.

He must be very stupid if he is innocent of this crime, so i can just carry a nuclear bomb and walk into a G8 meeting that i want to show obama the bomb i found inside my room.

It seems people don't know the difference between the justice ministry and the judiciary.

PeterKbaba: Mumu, its not the job of a president to give permission to judges to carry out their jobs... he also gave efcc permission also... this means before any fraud case is carried out, the president as to take the list of names to PDP as ask for permission, then take it back to work and permit the judges.... lol beaf u no go kill person... you most be from somalia

The president has not given any judge the permission to carryout their job as the attorney general is a presidential appointee that can receive orders from the president. You are confusing the two and concerning efcc, they can be ordered too and just like the justice department, they do not always need an order or directive as they can start any prosecution on their own.

Usually when the case is of national important or of high sensitive proportion like the fuel subsidy probe, the justice department or efcc might want to look aside if there are no presidential order or directive.

Gbawe: You guys need to quit this nonsense that is rubbished very easily by GEJ's own direct history as President. You should be better than this !!! Why not just refrain from talking instead of bullishly backing a President who has been discredited for this type of empty grand-standing in the past? You folks should tell us which Nigerian Halliburton culprit is in jail after GEJ "ordered" their "prosecution". To be honest, it is disgraceful any Nigerian is holding brief for this President several examples has discredited as a leader comfortable with corruption and working with a totaly damaged moral compass.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/06/halliburton-presidency-orders-suspects-prosecution/

So we should now blame Jonathan for a case that started before his time and moreover you should direct your grievance to the relevant quaters from this link http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=158115:court-frees-halliburton-bribe-suspects-after-sloppy-prosecution-by-efcc&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8

It is not every case that leads to jail because from your conclusion, you are judging the accuse before they are produced guilty. The outcome of a prosecution determines the punishment an accuse receives at the end and if there are no negative outcome then they are free to go shikena.

PeterKbaba: Just answer... (1)Is it right for a president of a country of over 160/200 million nigerians to be in charge of a fraud case. (2) what is the job of the judiciary? if they can not willing perform their jobs without permission... lol... very soon president go give permission before jugdes go fit judge stollen chicken case... lmao ( A President ).... I'm sure world leaders go dey watch nigerian news and laughing so loud (with their pop corn in their hands)... our leaders are even worse than the colonial monsters......

1) The president is not in charge of the case but merely directing the justice department to do that and they with the efcc and the police will be in charge of the case.

2) The judiciary in this case will here the prosecution submission, analyse and make final judgement that determines if the accused are guilty oo not and thereafter pronounce appropriate punishments.

Please the ministry of justice or justice department is different from the judiciary, so don't confuse the two and the judiciary does not need any bloody permission from the executive.

buhari and elrufai will not win any election in nigeria no matter the vice president that they pick.

Yesterday the argument was that he will not prosecute them or order for their prosecution . . now today he has ordered their prosecution and people want to still give excuses in order to hang the president.

Why don't you people tell us what he is suppose to do if not what has been mentioned above in the article?.

What the aliyu guy is right but the topic is too sensational and next time he should also think before commenting on things that matters to the northerners.

Dis Guy: well we know what happens to one man business in the face of competition, when you have just one person tweaking the codes and running the business aspect at the same time waving off suggestions for improvements

these guys are not smiling, only 'yesterday' i was among those watching iroko on youtube, dis year they got $8m backing = exposure is a good thing sha

But then again i guess he can stick his tongue out and say wetin u don do sef

Lol we are coming to do our own thing too . . . just watch out and i must say that it is not easy and we are only trying to encourage him to do more and take the opportunity before him. The worst thing he would want is for people to see something more intersting than nairaland and they spend more time there. Sometimes if you lost it . . . you can never get it back just like myspace.

Thank God you can see the support these guys are getting, they are not google but if you open yourself to growth then you will surely attract investments. There are so many capital venture companies around the world looking for any slight opportunity in African and gbam they will provide the needed capital funding. The main individual investor in irokotv is from india i think and they got some funds from a venture company in sweden.

I mean if you dig well around nairaland, people told seun to move into nollywood, music and improve the market place section. People told him to spin off from a forum to a website, employ people and get proper management. I don't know why he is ignoring all these calls and people will ask for simple things like child boards for auto section, science section and many more but he will ignore them. He has the human resources to diversify nairaland at his fingertips and he is doing nothing with it.

Well i will let it be and allow things to play out but some years into the future . . .we will all look back and remember this day. Whatever it is worth i am appreciative of this site and what it has given me and will always wish them well.

[quote author=haka_nai]short term solution but i say they process this food surplus and package them.Call the Chinese and you can get cheap machinery to dry and process this items instantly.For the Long term i suggest building of processing plants and packaging plants.Also i suppose we send them to chad and Niger if its not needed in Nigeria.Atleast they could use extra food for oil. [/quote]Thank you, our lack of processing industry is affecting our agriculture sector and they can actually market these product to other places in need of it.

Dis Guy: how can you say theres no connection between the pdp and the passing of the bill..what is stalling the bill then?


I'm just wondering where the bill is anyway; one would expect a bill backed by the PDP executive will get a backing from a PDP dominant house abi

I mean conventional wisdom will mean Obama should have a problem passing a bill when the Democrats are the dominant party in the house
the obstacles come from the opposition, any in house opposition can be dealt with over time

You can check my replies to Gbawe as i have answered the points you raised in your posts. The democrats and PDP are two different parties with different modes of operation or idealogy. PDP is a collection of people with diverse interest so it doesn't mean they agree on everything. This is a party that could not agree on zoning or where the president should come from. PDP is a national party and a sad reflection of Nigeria. Just as there are diverse interest in Nigeria then there is bound to be diverse interest within PDP.

Please you can see from the last article i posted that the Northerners are the ones against the PIB and not those from the south.

Gbawe: Mate, you are wasting your time trying to spin what stakeholders and experts , very involved with the PIB, accept as the truth 100%. If, for example, you know the efforts of David ugolor towards the passage of the PIB, then you will take his utterances below seriously and accept it as somewhat authoritative instead of this your reduantant attempt at spin.

There is nothing to go against him in what he wrote in that article and again how does this new article support your notion that the passage of the bill is stalled by the majorly PDP dominated executive and legislative branch of government?. It seems you are not getting my point, i am not saying that some Nigerian leaders ( especially in the senate ) are not stalling the process but the blame is not on PDP as a party.

Concerning the part of the article in red, yes the president might have placed all necessary politcal will behind the bill but there is a brickwall there in the national assembly. That is where it is make or break situation in the whole process and not these stakeholders who do not have a say in the actual voting. The problem is there at the national assembly, the senators have various reasons why they are against the bill and this has nothing to do with any party.

I repeat they do not vote in blocks, like pack of zombies or whatever because the party is a platform on which they used to gain entrance into the assembly. After that there are regional, zonal, tribal, ethinic, religious and other selfish interest that guide their disposition towards different bills and policies emination from the assembly floor. In this case this is beyong party affiliation and about regional interest and other industry interest. Some people have been benefiting from the present statusquo and they are not going to like the changes. It has nothing to do with parties as each and every senator is not taking directive from the parties but from their regional interests etc in this particular case.

You can also read the article below, especially the highlighted passages and tell me if PDP is the problem with the PIB passage.

ACF mobilises Northern Senators, Reps against single term •Moves against Petroleum Industry Bill

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Sunday, 16 October 2011
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The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) is midwifing a number of strategic meetings aimed at tackling President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal for a single term in office for executive office holders through the planned constitution amendment exercise.

Sources at a number of meetings held at the instance of the ACF on October 4 indicated that the North is determined to pull down the proposal whenever it surfaces at the National Assembly.

A meeting was also organised with the Northern caucus in the Senate, where issues relating to interests of the zone were discussed.

A source at that meeting confirmed that issues of the Petroleum Industry Bill(PIB), the Constitution amendment and the single term proposal were discussed at the meeting with the Senate caucus.

It was learnt that a meeting of a delegation of the ACF with the Northern caucus of the House of Representatives had last week decided on the need to block the single term proposal and ensure that certain policies of President Jonathan do not sail through at the legislature.

A source said that the caucus has also set up a 19-man tact team to x-ray all bills and even motions coming up on the floor of the House with a view to ensuring that all such bills and motions are washed clean of anti-North sentiments.

Sources confided in Sunday Tribune that the North has identified some actions of President Jonathan as inimical and that plans are underway to stop those actions coming into fruition.

It was gathered that some Northern members of the House of Representatives have been compiling offences allegedly committed by the President with allegations that some South South candidates are being “planted” in certain areas.

At one meeting held in the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, shortly after a courtesy visit of the ACF, it was learnt that the North sees the Speaker as the only pillar of the North in the current administration and that members of the House of Representatives from the zone were told to put in all efforts to ensure his victory in June.

[b]A source at the closed door meeting told Sunday Tribune thus: “The Northern caucus in the House has put in place a team of 19 experts, saddled with the responsibility of critically looking into any Bill that is before the House with a view to ensuring that its negative effect on the North is addressed before its eventual passage.”

One source stated that in that light, the North has x-rayed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is seen to have been skewed against the North.

One participant at the meeting was quoted as saying: that “the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), in its original form, was arranged and prepared to scheme out the North in the revenue formula. We are determined to ensure it dies at infancy.”

Another source told Sunday Tribune that one major fear of the ACF and the North is the planned single term proposal by President Jonathan.

It is feared that some unknown and yet to be disclosed toxic items are embedded in the proposed bill,” a source said, adding that the Northern caucus is primed to see the proposal in the light of the failed third term agenda of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Said a source close to the meeting: “We are calling on the ACF to continue to speak out for the North, as there are many things that we see but which we cannot speak on, but which the ACF can give appropriate response.”

Another source at the closed door meeting submitted thus: “The issue of the planned proposal of a single term tenure in office for president and governors agitated the mind of a senior member of ACF. He told the caucus that the idea is another third term agenda in disguise but members of the Reps caucus stated clearly that the single term tenure is a non-issue.

“Members specifically submitted that the proposal will ultimately be defeated and that even though the proposal is yet to be tabled in the National Assembly, it would be defeated anytime it surfaces.”

One of the conclusions of the meeting was the advise that strategic planning as regards the 2015 Presidency should start in earnest and that the ACF should galvanise opinions in the North to avoid divisive interests that failed the region in the past.[/b]


http://tribune.com.ng/sun/front-page-articles/5361-acf-mobilises-northern-senators-reps-against-single-term-moves-against-petroleum-industry-bill

Gbawe: Dude, I don't have time for this back-and-forth game. You made a statement. You are asked to defend the statement. Instead you are flip-flopping.

This is the problem with Nigeria. Too many folks bent on distractive mischief to fool the majority who are scantily educated in regards to politics and the real power a ruling Party, with majority representation everywhere, possesses to effect changes with.

It really is very simple. The PDP has the majority and clout in the executive and legislative arm to see the PIB passed today if that is what the ruling Party wants. We all saw GEJ bullying the legislative arm to ram subsidy removal down the throat of the legislative arm with a so-called executive fiat. Funny those sort of provisions are never available when policies concerning the accelerated progress of Nigeria is on the menu.

I can't remain here indulging you and entertaining the spurious notion that the PDP, enjoying a very healthy majority in the legislative houses, and even devastatingly more so in the last republic when the Party promised to deliver the bill, is now somehow 'hamstrung' by events beyond its control.

People came here to make statements that PDP is stalling the passage of the bill when there is nothing like that from the articles above. You want me to defend my statement when you cannot break it down for us how you came to believe that PDP is stalling the passage just because they have majority representation. Even a PDP senator from Ebonyi state is urging the senate to pass the bill quickly and you want us to believe otherwise.

You keep on talking about having majority vote and now i want to give you a clue to my defense, do these PDP senators vote in blocks or like zombies?. Party affiliations was basically the platform they used to get into the senate and after that the bond does not always affect their decisions in the national assembly. I have an article to prove my own opinion and i will post it here later but simply answer the question.

Do PDP senators vote in blocks, move collectively in the same direction or like zombies that is directed from one source. How can a proposed bill from a party dominating the executive branch be stalled by the same party dominating the legislative branch if there are no superior interest beyond party affiliations.

P:S Its not compulsory you indulge me, you can post whatever you like while i also post mine as well.

Gbawe: Then tell us the "factors" stalling the PIB you feel has nothing to do with a Party, in real and definite terms, that totally controls the executive and legislative arm of Governance.

Why don't you start first by telling us how PDP is stalling the passage of the PIB, please break it down with evidence and show us the national assembly members ( including their party affiliations ) that are voting against this bill.

Some people will still not vote in order to hide their ethnicity.

Dis Guy: he is trying considering its 'one man business' the others you compoare him with have partners
or backers hence the pressure to grow and make a return

I believe he started before them and nothing stops him from doing the right thing because these people just only need to encroach into this social sector and nairaland will be relegated. Facebook overtook myspace when they thought they were the shit, Apple came to change the rules of the game in mobiles, and google came to wipe msn and yahoo from the search business. Other Nigerian newspapers have to open up their sites to comments when they saw the followership of saharareporters, 234next and vanguard newspapers.

Ibime: Actually Seun has done his best to make this place more interactive, despite you guys Occupy Nairaland protest.

Further integration with Facebook, twitter and such has helped Nairaland stay on top of the game and seasonal events like elections also drive followership to Nairaland from sites like Google, twitter and such.

Nairaland members are also dwarfed by unregistered guests who I believe also drive most of the advertising revenue, so I think NL is on the right track.

I don't get what you mean by the statement in bold but just want to say, it is a discussion and i don't go that path.

It is by default in every forum that the number of guest is usually more than the registered members and especially for nairaland without forced registration. No one is saying that he has not tried enough, two heads are better than one but if he still wants to go it alone then fine with him. Traffic or membership is not the only issue here, if he wants more traffic the best way to do it is to give incentives to existing users or viewers. I know the impact of linking it with facebook, twitter and google or google+ but some of us are more particular about the diversification and not only traffic.

^^^

This is not the first time that the issue has been raised and as people said, he is just stingy or doesn't know how to go about it. This was someone i had to rebuke for promoting google question and answers here on nairaland, i think he was the one that even created the thread. Even if he did not i think he should have closed that and his excuse was that he doesn't have the resources to compete with google and both sites were moving in different direction which is not entirely true to me.

I believe most people criticizing him are not after the revenue but genuinely wants to see a nigerian site corner the Nigerian internet market. Even facebook is not the dominant social sites in many countries in asia and europe so there is no way that facebook should serve nigerian better than nairaland.

afam4eva: Not until Nairaland expands and starts offering more products. Not everyone is interesting in joining a forum but they may be interested in having a Nairaland Email, reading Nairaland News etc. I think Nairaland should venture into other endeavors in order to expand the member base of the site.

Thank you my brother, the first difficult task is to get the membership or followership and after that, you think about diversifying and stabilizing the revenue.

Dis Guy: wey this bill sef?


in a PDP dominant assembly you'd think these sort of bills get considerable amount of debate till its passed

dis dodo guy wey dey rock just dey chop bread and abakaliki rice

Please there is no connection between PDP and the factors stalling the passage of the bill so leave them out of this sir.

Those numbers up there are not active members, check around the homepage or at the bottom then you will see the number of active members each day ( Both registered and guest ). One thing i have come to realize is that, nairaland got this huge membership on the
cheap and to imagine that facebook is on a race to one billion members.

Other forums would have been more innovative than nairaland if they could have such large number of members but nairaland is so lacking and just resting on advertising income. New innovation will make more money in the future than nairaland, check dealfish, iroko partners and so many more.

With all due respect nairaland is a sad reflection of nigeria, just big and depending on one source of income like nigeria. Google started with search but see where they are today, iroko partners and dealfish are moving with break taking space while nairalist is going down. Nairaland has the largest free collection of intellectuals of mostly nigerian origin but sadly they could not leverage upon that.

Trust me you really need to dig well and you will see the amount of talent and opportunities embedded here but when the management is solely Nigerian then just expect disappointing incompetence ( in most cases ). The companies that would take over nigerian internet space will be from abroad or will have support from abroad. Iroko partners is now trying to be a company while nairaland still wants to be a one man business and corner all the revenue. It won't last and facebook will not be what it is today if it was still run by mark alone.

List of nigeria tribes

http://www.onlinenigeria.com/tribes/

Not all private schools are worth being called one and as it was indicated in the article, the Lagos state government is responsible for the proliferation of such this menace. They should do more in monitoring, awareness and i don't care if they go to the extreme, but there should be severe punishment for all parties involved from the parents to the illegal school owners.

Sometimes i wonder why kids are sent to these schools, the lack of state schools in some vicinity should not be the only excuse IMO.

Little Bimpe Akande sat precariously on the dirty blue plastic bucket. The bucket served as a makeshift toilet. She is one of 100 other kindergarten pupils at Alfred Missionary School, Apapa in Lagos.

“This is our toilet. Our aunty told us to use this bucket anytime we are pressed,” the 4-year-old Akande told this reporter. The bucket was already half filled.

There is nothing conducive about the school or its environment for learning. It is surrounded by a block of six rowdy shops. Spare parts dealers, cosmeticians, food vendors, black oil marketers and technicians all jostling for attention in their respective shops. The neighborhood is filled with nauseating stench emitting from waste bins heaped to the brim and blocked drainages.

The entrance into the one room school is a narrow path caked in dirt. The classroom is not illuminated and has ventilation of no kind. The roof has no ceiling. There are signs on the wall suggesting the classroom must once have been flooded.

“Truth be told, this wasn’t where we were using before now. We only moved here few weeks back after the demolition of the church compound which we named the school after. That particular building was destroyed by officers of the fire service team who claimed it was an illegal building.

“This place we are now is a temporary abode. It is a football viewing centre which we begged the owner to spare us for the mean time,” Ebere Okeke, the proprietress of Alfred Missionary school, said.

Neighbors confirmed to Daily Trust earlier that the school was sent out from the church but she had spent several months at the football viewing centre.

There were many other inconsistencies in Okeke’s account. She said she planned to leave the place by end of May but had not yet secured anywhere. Neighbours put the population of the school at 100 but when Okeke was asked she initially said 30 then changed the figure to 40.

She also would not say if her school was registered with the state government but kept insisting her operations were legitimate.

Upon enquiring from the state Ministry of Education, the Public Relations Officer, Lanre Bajulaiye said Alfred Missionary School is an illegal school.

“Yes we are aware that many illegal schools are in existence but this particular one is not known to us. What we are doing actually is to be compiling a list of these substandard schools and then ask our inspectorate unit to go after them. Those that deserve to be approved will be approved while those that do not will be asked to pack up. You know it is not wise to treat each of these cases in isolation. I’m sure such school must be an illegal school. It doesn’t have our approval,” Bajulaiye said.

But Ayo Shonubi, State President, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Lagos blames the state government for the proliferation of illegal schools.

“First, it is the responsibility of the state government to guard against proliferation of private schools. When you formulate policies, there must be a room to monitor compliance and enforcement. If government fails to do that, no one will do it. Secondly, we need to find out if government made provision for an alternate school in the area. I’m sure it could be the desire of people within the neighbourhood to have a school that forced them to patronize such ramshackled school,” Shonubi said.

A recent audit report carried out by the state Ministry of Education in partnership with Department of Infrastructural Development (DFID) through its Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) revealed that a staggering population of one million pupils attends over 12,000 illegal schools in Lagos state.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=162697:lagos-proprietress-trains-kindergarten-pupils-in-one-room-viewing-centre&catid=13:education&Itemid=205

A former Governor of Kaduna State and leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has warned of an imminent military coup or revolution in Nigeria.

He said in Kaduna on Friday that unless a Sovereign National Conference was convened, a drastic solution to the myriad of problems besetting the country was inevitable. Although Musa noted that the convocation of the SNC was risky, he said it was the only way to avert the impending revolution in the country.

The former governor said this in a paper entitled, Towards Enthroning and Sustaining Democratic Practices and Ethos in Our Polity, delivered at the 2012 Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association, Kaduna branch.

He insisted that as long as Nigerians were being denied by their leaders to have a say in national issues, the nation’s democracy might he heading for danger.

Musa recalled that the regimes of Gen. Sani Abacha, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and former President Olusegun Obasanjo failed to correct the ills done to the country because they failed to fully involve the people in the national conferences they conducted.

He said the country was gradually tilting toward dictatorship because the current political system in operation was just a semblance of democracy.

He said, “If the national conferences to be established, conducted and controlled by the sovereign people of Nigeria cannot hold, then Nigeria runs the risk of undemocratic forces taking over political power as happened many times in the past.


“There may even be a social revolution qualitatively superior and more effective than the present Arab Spring in the form of a Sovereign National Conference, which must proceed with a revolutionary struggle to establish a new reality of power to replace the existing one and establish an interim administration to conduct, direct and control the conference which can review and renew Nigeria.

“Only the people of Nigeria are sovereign and they can assert their sovereignty when there is no peaceful alternative. The sovereign people of Nigeria constitute all Nigerians aged 18 years and above and are registered voters.

“There are risks in both National Conference and Sovereign National Conference, but the risks of continuing like this and the political adventure involved are greater.


“Those who realise the risks and fear them and still want the National Conference or the Sovereign National Conference must be good in reducing or even eliminating the risks. That is what other leaders in other countries that achieved or are achieving greatness did and are doing.

“Why should Nigeria be different and pathetic? The present work of amending the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly lacks credibility and the possibility of solving the problems of the negative state of the nation.”

He said during the British colonial rule in Nigeria and the First Republic, because of the leading role of public interest, there was more nationalism, patriotism, credibility, quality leadership and performance. He said even though resources were meagre and the system controlling all developments was colonial, semi-feudal and conservative, the ruling classes consciously protected the system that was given birth to and sustained them unlike the present bourgeois ruling class.

“What we have in Nigeria has nothing to do with democracy. It is a combination of narrow self interest, dictatorship and anarchy.

“We have a civilian rule instead of military rule, and it is this civilian rule which we wrongly call and regard as democracy.

“As preferable as civilian rule is, it is not democracy because it can be more irrelevant and dictatorial than military rule.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/revolution-looms-in-nigeria-balarabe-musa/

The allowances and other perks for members of the House of Representatives have been slashed to an all-time low, just within a few months and that is generating rip-ples, Sunday Mirror investigations have revealed.

Besides the whittle in alllowances for the legislators, the lawmakers may not get official cars until the third quarter of 2012, which begins in July and ends in September, this year.

While the gross quarterly allowance package for each of the 360 members was about N42million in the sixth Assembly when Dimeji Bankole held sway as Speaker, it dropped by 80 percent in the 2nd quarter of last year when Aminu Tambuwal took over as Speaker.

But about N27million quarterly allowances were said to be settled for the House members by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Com-mission (RMAFC) in the First Quarter (Jan-March, 2012), before it was further reviewed downwards to a relatively paltry N17mil-lion.

A member of the House, Hon. Bimbo Daramola (ACN/Ekiti) who spoke with Sunday Mirror last week, said “My brother things are getting worse.” “The allowances have not only been slashed, these days you cannot even nominate your choice Mil-lennium Development Goals Projects (MDGs). Even when you do, you are not sure they will be implemented by the Presidency”.

Another member from Katsina/Logo Federal Con-stituency of Benue State, Hon. Emmanuel Udende, said “Even Directors in the National Assembly service are enjoying bigger allow-ances and other benefits of office than legislators”.

A member, who did not want his name in print, told Sunday Mirror earlier that “on other occasions, we (lawmakers) would have taken it up with the Speaker, but we know it is not re-ally his fault”.

He, however, denied that the falling perks of office have “anything to do with the anger of the Presidency over the manner we voted presiding officers”.

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, have at different occasions called for the slash in the perks of public office holders, including members of the National Assembly.

The calls have since pro-voked the Legislature to commence work on laws that would subject the budgets of CBN and other agencies under the Executive to legislative scrutiny.

The slide in perquisites of office, have also affected House powers over Appropriation as enshrined in section 162 of the 1999 Constitution.

Despite the express pro-vision of that section of the Constitution, members were allowed little or no in-put by the executive arm in the 2012 budget.

Meanwhile, more than 400 cars which were ordered for about N2.5billion as official cars for members of the House of Representatives are yet to be delivered after one year of their order by the leadership of the House at a meeting with the Directors of Procurement and Supplies, and Finance & Accounts of the National Assembly bureaucracy last year.

Chairman of a Committee in a chat with Sunday Mirror, revealed that the Chairman of the House Services Committee, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, said “The cars were yet to be fully delivered for distribution to members”.

The House Services Committee according to the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives, Seventh Edition Ordered to be reprinted 28th July, 2011, the jurisdiction of the committee shall include: “welfare of members, bud-get and appropriation of the House; maintenance of the House Chamber and premises including offices and accommodation; office accommodation for Mem-bers, provision of equip-ment and materials for House premises.

“Provision of utility vehicles for House Committees, monitoring of the Finances of the House, to address such other matters as may in the course of the assign-ment be referred to it”.


http://nationalmirroronline.net/news/40315.html

Where is the source?

He spoke the truth and nothing but the absolute truth, ACN just wants everyone to believe that they are the only good alternative out there for southwest.

I would rather go with ilama the camel that picked chelsea after correctly predicting the fa cup final also. That sissi of an oracle was influenced from the video which i saw and this is his first prediction so not gonna follow that.

Ilama the camel already predicted a Chelsea win and he also predicted Chelsea FA cup Triumph.

Ilama from England already predicted a Chelsea win.

If he is right then he will be used for the euro championship

bakila: Ask Ojukwu's Father inlaw. He had to buy the whole matchet in a market to drive home his point that he is not going to tolerate rigging. Abeg read history.
Whatever meaning one attributes to Buhari's words, we are where we are now due to significantly because those in power do not respect the people because they most often get into office from a flawed process.

Please in our present dispensation now, can you tell me any major party that does not rig electionS? PDP, ACN, CPC, APGA, LP ETC.

P:S I want 100 percent free rigging status and if you attribute even a percentage form of rigging to any party then they are all the same. Its a winners take it all society and until we can conduct a free and fair election, then let the best rigger take the day.

Wetin conern PDP and constitution reform, everybody should hold their representative on the neck and leave party affiliations aside. It has absolutely no determinant in this case for a national party like PDP.