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Foreign Affairs / Re: U.S Notified Russia Of Biden's Ukraine Visit (Photos) by brent07(m): 7:36am On Feb 21, 2023 |
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NYSC / Adamawa Copper by brent07(m): 8:55pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
Please is there anyone going to adamawa from ilorin please contact me WhatsApp:+234 701 282 8345 |
NYSC / Re: Taraba State Camp. by brent07(m): 8:45pm On Oct 18, 2021 |
Please do we have adamawa copper here please let stay in touch |
Romance / Re: Why Can't Guys Date Without Having Sex? by brent07(m): 11:22pm On Apr 30, 2021 |
Rosement:don't get depressed it will get better |
Celebrities / Re: Reekado Banks Blasts Lil Kesh: “I Better Pass Him Papa” (Video) by brent07(m): 9:40pm On Dec 31, 2017 |
Vinstel:Bleep u dude |
Phones / Re: MTN Loses 714,000 Internet Subscribers by brent07(m): 10:26pm On Mar 25, 2017 |
kelvinrhs:how does that work and which plan is that cos I also use airtel and am not giving 1gb |
Phones / Re: Nokia 8: Release Date, Price, Specs And Rumours by brent07(m): 7:44am On Mar 23, 2017 |
Chidex2442:how much is that to Nigeria money |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Champions League Round Of 16 Draw LIVE! by brent07(m): 7:20am On Dec 13, 2016 |
What about the draw of europa champion league |
Agriculture / Re: Made In Nigeria Rice From Niger & Kebi States (Photos) by brent07(m): 12:51pm On Aug 01, 2016 |
blackpanda:u are right bro all this hate are not suppose to be in Nigeria to eat this rice |
Politics / Re: At BBC, Lai Mohammed Quoted A Yoruba Proverb by brent07(m): 1:12pm On Jul 23, 2016 |
policy12:the like of olamide and lil kesh |
Politics / Pres. Buhari Congratulates British/ Nigerian Boxer, Anthony Joshua by brent07(m): 11:43am On Apr 25, 2016 |
Pres. Buhari congratulates British/
Nigerian boxer, Anthony Joshua
President Buhari has congratulated British/Nigerian
boxer Anthony Joshua for winning the IBF
Heavyweight championship. The president in his
congratulatory message asked Nigerians to support
him as he defends his heavyweight title.
The statement from President Buhari came through
his Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora and Foreign
Relations, Honourable Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Joshua is
ranked the world’s sixth best heavyweight boxer and
will be defending his title by June 25th, 2016.
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Politics / Okonjo And The Politics Of Political Will By Ebelo Goodluck by brent07(m): 9:55am On Apr 25, 2016 |
Read the article by Ebelo Goodluck below...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has had a distinguished
public career. Twice finance minister and
economic tsar, as the coordinating minister of
the economy in her last iteration, she has
hands on experience of the country’s
financials. That can’t be denied her. Recently,
speaking on the economic crisis in Nigeria at
George Washington University, Washington
DC, she said the current economic crunch was
down to a lack of political will to foster
savings.
"We tried it in Nigeria, we put in an oil price based
fiscal rule in 2004 and it worked very well. We saved
$22 billion because the political will to do it was
there. And when the 2008 /2009 crisis came, we
were able to draw on those savings precisely to issue
about a 5 percent of GDP fiscal stimulus to the
economy and we never had to come to the bank or
the fund.
This time around and this is the key now, you need
not only need to have the instrument but you also
need the political will. In my second time as a
finance minister, from 2011 to 2015, we had the
instrument, we had the means, we had done it
before, but zero political will.So we were not able to
save when we should have.
That is why you find that Nigeria is now in the
situation it is in. Along with so many other
countries.” Now, the way this has been reported, and
has been latched on to, even by those who have
made a career of destroying NOI’s record of service
to her fatherland, creates the impression that there
was a paralysis in the government headed by
Goodluck Jonathan, or at least very little appetite in
trying. Coming at a time, an especially absentee
style of governance has taken over Abuja. Senior
government officials, like the governor of Edo State,
declaring a minister in the previous government of
stealing USD6b , with a facetious rider that a senior
US government official told him . Remember,
Oshiomhole featured prominently on every photo-
OP on the president’s trip to the US. Add to the
manic churn of the APC rumour mill: USD 90 billion
recovered from the former petroleum minister,
USD 200 billion recovered and to be repatriated
from the UAE, trillions of naira liberated by the
Treasury Single Account.
If a quarter of these were true, even a-kite-in-the-
sky president like Muhammad Buhari would not risk
over fourteen hours of flight time for the sights of
burgeoning China. Blaming the previous
administration seemed to have run its course as
poor management of the economy, most especially ,
a near-blindness to our diversity has robbed the
government of popular support. This is the fallow
land NOI’s comments, inadvertently or not , are
coming to water. The “inability” of the previous
administration to save was not for want to trying.
As we shall see, the previous administration did
save. What can't be argued against is that we could
do with much more savings. As it were, the gall in
NOI’s comments, is what is left unsaid. A little
context: NOI, as was President Jonathan, were
stalwarts of savings. But they were up against
governors who understood and exploited our weak
revenue laws and constitutional fuzziness . Bukola
Saraki, Rotimi Amaechi and Babatunde Fashola are
the trinity of earn and spend governors, who twice
took the federal government to court on the Excess
Crude Account. By some wonderful twist of fate ,
they are all leading lights of the current ideas-
challenged APC government .
What kind of political will could have stopped them
except an amendment of the constitution, which was
an impossible feat given the death-like grip,
governors wield over the state houses of assembly
or a resort to constitutional breaches that made the
federal government a present danger to our
democracy in the Obasanjo years. President
Jonathan created the Sovereign Wealth Fund. First of
its kind in Nigeria. Thanks to NOI herself, Segun
Aganga, Adesina Akinwunmi and the support of the
Nigerian people. Even here, part of the ECA had to
go just to stave off a constitutional challenge.
For any money to be saved in the nation’s financial
architecture, it has to get into the ECA first. But this
process was ambushed in the legislature by the
Aminu Tambuwal (another APC peacock) led House
of Representatives with the unwarranted increase in
the benchmark whenever it had to deal with the
Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) or
even the budget once it got to the floor of the
National Assembly. Raising the benchmark invariably
vitiates the savings anticipated and thus less money
in the ECA.
The major drain on the ECA through the Jonathan
years was the subsidy payments. NOI suffered more
than her fair share of name calling when the
Jonathan’s administration moved to remove the fuel
subsidy. The removal can't by any stretch be seen as
a lack of political will. Hence, it’s rather bewildering
that she would lay the depletion of the ECA on the
doorstep of Jonathan.
Indeed, were memories not that short, many would
recall that the sponsorship for the Ojota rallies
against the removal of the subsidy regime was from
the coffers of the Lagos State government. And just
last year, the Buhari government disbursed two
tranches of funds. First , was dividends from the
NLNG which the Jonathan government had saved
and the second, bailouts to near-bankrupt states
Needless to state that all that happened, once you
excuse certain acts of larceny that could be pinned
down to some individuals, are to the glory of all that
served the government . Collective glory, collective
responsibility. 1 Like |
Music Business / Check Out Brymo's Creepy Art For Cover Of His Soon To Be Released Album by brent07(m): 9:42am On Apr 25, 2016 |
[/color]Brymo just announced that he's releasing his 5th studio album next month titled 'KLITORIS'.[color=#990000]Brymo just announced that he's releasing his 5th studio album next month titled 'KLITORIS'.Brymo just announced that he's releasing his 5th studio album next month titled 'KLITORIS'.
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Education / Meet Uniben S.u.g President by brent07(m): 9:20am On Apr 25, 2016 |
....She is Lauretta
Obakpolor,a 400 level student of Pharmacy,The
outspoken,bold and charismatic Lauretta won five
other contestants to emerge the winner of the
polls.Uniben students eschewed gender bias and
voted her because she was arguably the best of all six
candidates,she is the second woman to lead the
Students’ Union Government.She won her closest
rival Iyekekpolor Clifford Efosa by a margin of over
800 votes.This is a pointer to the Nigerian society
that women can excel politically if Lauretta could win
amidst gender descrimination.congrats my dear 4rm
COM.BRRNT
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Education / Naps Presidency: Open Letter To President Mohammedu Buhari by brent07(m): 8:41am On Apr 25, 2016 |
Polytechnic Students Demand The Promised Change Now; sir, we applaud your frantic efforts directed at revamping our economy through several economic policies and measures capable of salvaging the nation's treasury from the strongholds of political robbers. With keen interest, we are following the Anti Graft Campaign, the sudden reawakening of CCT, the general increase in prices of basic foods and services-students having to pay through the nose back to their respective homes. Anyway, as objective citizens, we are still exercising patience. However, it is better to clearly point out that our vault of patience on the dehumanizing HND/ Bsc Dichotomy is exhausted. The polytechnic graduates or HND holders have been under this unjust treatment for years. As a most awaited Messiah, who rode on board of the propagated change, the immediate abolition of the discrimination against HND Certificate should be part of the flagship program. Your Excellency sir, I supposed government is a continuum ; in May 2014, the committee set up by the federal government to work on the Dichotomy between holders of HND/Bsc was inaugurated. Amongst others the committee was saddled with the task of reviewing the content and curriculum of the HND program to be equivalent to the Bachelor of Technology, such that this will grant HND holders the right to reach the highest grade level in the public service. It is no crime for your administration to consolidate on that. Also, "A Bill for an Act to abolish and prohibit Dichotomy and Discrimination between First Degree and Higher National Diploma in the same profession or Field " was sponsored by Senator Ayo Akinyelure (Ondo. Central Senatorial District ), this is an auspicious leverage to effect the desirable change. Sir, the traumatizing experience of HND Holders in their places of work, the continuing injustice, disparity and discrimination meted on products of polytechnics in Nigeria is |
NYSC / Re: Kwara State '16 Batch A, Lets Meet Here by brent07(m): 6:44am On Apr 25, 2016 |
Anyone that want to know about kwara state and the camp group should contact my whatapp number 07034577457. God bless kwara state |
Crime / Re: Man Murdered By Assassins In Abakiliki, Ebonyi State. Photos by brent07(m): 6:14pm On Apr 18, 2016 |
May his soul rest in peace end time death |
Politics / Re: FG Releases 7,000 Outstanding Petrol Loading Tickets Of Independent Marketers by brent07(m): 10:09pm On Apr 10, 2016 |
IOAGEM:God bless u too my man 1 Like |
Politics / Re: FG Releases 7,000 Outstanding Petrol Loading Tickets Of Independent Marketers by brent07(m): 10:08pm On Apr 10, 2016 |
IOAGEM:God bless u 1 Like |
Politics / Re: We Now Have 23hrs Eletricity Supply In My Area: Is It The Same In Your Own Zone? by brent07(m): 7:31am On Dec 28, 2015 |
the light have improve as alot even in ilorin eleko students area where light is not always constant has improve thanks buhari |
Politics / Re: Hassan Umoru, New Commander To Battle Boko Haram by brent07(m): 7:56am On Dec 19, 2015 |
kill them all |
Sports / Re: Free Single Bet Of The Day by brent07(m): 7:50am On Dec 19, 2015 |
my whatapp no; 07034577457:08177343145 |
Politics / Re: Photos from Saraki’s trial at Code of Conduct Tribunal by brent07(m): 11:14am On Sep 22, 2015 |
1lovenaija:yes ooo today na today he must be impeach [color=#990000][/color] |
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