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everybody opposing Gej has been their since he was actin president.

THE high turnover of legislators is having a negative effect on the implementation of constituency projects, as new members of the National Assembly demand for the inclusion of their preferred projects rather than the completion of the ones selected by their predecessors.

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, who made the observation while briefing State House correspondents, after presenting the progress report of the ministry’s budget to President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House, on Monday, also said the implementation of some health programmes had been affected by the reduction of their original budget allocations by the legislature.
This is coming as the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple, while also briefing State House correspondents, said her ministry had, so far, received about N6.7 billion of the N41.9 billion capital allocation for 2012.

Professor Chukwu, while responding to a question on the implementation of the constituency projects under the ministry, noted that they had posed a problem for the Federal Government, because of the demand placed on the lawmakers by the electorate.

He said rather than allow the existing projects to be completed, the lawmakers would want projects in their name, so as to remain in good standing with the electorate, adding that the Federal Government would prefer that ongoing constituency projects be completed before new ones could be selected.

The minister also complained about the constraints faced by the ministry, following the cut of its budget by the National Assembly, saying areas such as emergency preparedness and funds to take outbreak of diseases had been severely affected by the cuts.

According to him, “at the Federal Ministry of Health where we had a reduction of N4.4 billion, three major areas were affected. The area that has to do with the major mandate of the ministry, which is disease prevention, disease surveillance, disease control and preparation for emergency, whether it is due to violent causes, like we have the Boko Haram attacks and so on or to diseases epidemic like meningitis, among others.”

In her briefing, Ms Pepple, who also briefed the president on performance indicators of her ministry, said it had similarly obtained about N178.5 million of its overhead for 2012, about 47.7 per cent of the total amount for overhead cost.

She said the Federal Government was working towards increasing the percentage of affordable housing in the country to about 50 by the end of next year, while also developing the skills of professionals in the housing sector to make them more efficient.

The minister said the World Bank had made about $400 million available for training of artisans in the housing sector.

Nice one though, in as much as i agree with you i still have some reserve about this federalism. what would the southern kaduna do in a situation were the north adopt sharia.

I guess you are wrong, Lagos and Edo are only perfoming Gvnor in ACN, River PDP, Akwaibom PDP Ondo LP and whole lots of them. pls it has nothing to do with party is in individual thing.

Who confirms she is a witch(suspicion). Ignorance in black nations

Ignorance is our problem. who told you that the pastor is closer to God than the lady she slap. Did jesus condemn that adulterous woman? did Jesus ask Oyedepo to fight him, or is turning Christianity to other so call religion that take laws into their hands for their gods

If Gej act the way u wish naija might not survive it,

I c , so churches also means Government,

People that their parent does not even respect each other come online to castigate Gej for no just genuine reason it quite unfortunate.

@Poster i wish you end up like Ibori(in your own present level)

If he went to Jos for peace mission and has hidden agenda who knows.

it is obvious that Boko Haram is synonymous to Hausa/Fulani. it is annoying that just one tribe is holding a whole country to a ransom. i pray they stop otherwise what happen in Ruwanda might replicate in Nigeria.

Dasuki should be fooling himself, if he thinks that we dont know their plans to make the country ungovernable. I pray GEJ bows out 2015,and then they will know the meaning of ungovernable.

they are not thinking

jamace: When you fight corruption in Naija, corruption will fight back. I can bet that it is all a lie. The story is a fight back by corrupt oil barons to tarnish the image of amiable Farouk and his team.

Whoever believes this story is not wise.

what if the facts are there, the video will soon come online

in your own little way u can help nigeria, criticize constructively not condemn because i can tell you authoritatively that you are not a saint either

They are joking, they will run when the real bomb starts

We know they are all corrupt even the so call Buhari

PDP will have problem if they are divided, PDP need only 25% percent of 23 states of the federation to win the presidency, i dont think the merger make much sense, they gat only six states put together.

lily2012: it a gud experience to serve in lagos.
i pass out feb and i was nt accommodated.
ministry pay 15k why state govt schools pay 15k.
telecom company like visafone pay 35k, Etisalat pay 50k,Zoom mobile pay 22600.
NNPC 25k,Chevron 27k,

no more service with private coy dude

Tinibu want to spoil his career, associating with Youth Corper Killer, ACN will soon disappear as AD

courage89: Guys, I think you're barking at the wrong tree. Your propaganda will not work.
In this kind o f political dispensation, age is an asset not a liability.

are u from this planet?

when did obasanjo left power is it madness to have another yoruba as vice president is what it is.

Bleep them they are not sleeping too, soldier will deal with them fork their wives and give birth to nigga that will send them to their graves.

What is wrong with our self serving politicians, a man of 70, whose future is he fighting for, a future that he does not has a stake, men what is wrong with naija, what is wrong with our youth, are you saying buhari that was in power 30 years ago would still want to be president. are u saying in buhari world the young shall not grow, and the old will live forever.

There are strong indications that the Presidency has signified interest to fully implement the report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee that probed the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). UCHENNA AWOM writes that the sudden interest may not be enough political will for a hapless presidency.

Could it be that the presidency has been pummelled out of its self-imposed cocoon to begin to mull the full implementation of the probe report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee?

The committee had probed the activities of the commercialization and privatization activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) since inception to date. At the end of the painstaking investigation, which involved site visits of various blue chip public enterprises that were sold ignominiously and public hearings, the probe panel courageously turned in a 42 point recommendation.

The recommendations were adopted by the Senate last year wherein the lawmakers approved the immediate sack of Ms Onagoruwa for her alleged involvement in privatization scam.

However, indications emerged late last week that the presidency has called for the clean copy of the report to enable it to forensically study the findings and the recommendations, which observers believed was far reaching enough, with the aim of implementing it. So the question is: what may have propelled the new thinking in the presidency? Perhaps the people or is it intuitive?

Well, the findings were that President Goodluck Jonathan was said to have directed his Vice, Arch Nnamadi Sambo, to commence full scale implementation of the report.

It was gathered that the Vice President, who is the Chairman of the National Privatization Council (NPC), may have in turn asked the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Pius Anyim to raise a team to implement the report of the committee.

“I can confirm to you that the new copy has reached the president’s table now and the government is set to do something”, the source said.

It was also gathered that the presidency would follow the due process in implementing any report from the National Assembly.

The import of the declaration is that the recommendations could still be subjected to further investigation by the agencies with the aim of establishing criminal breach. Such development later will not only strengthen the hands of the president, but will also be pivotal in their final decision on the matter.

A large section of the Nigerian public has variously scoffed this approach, insinuating that it usually turns out to be a cover by government to sweep such matters under the carpet.

Why the sudden interest?
Well, observers opined that the ordered implementation may have been stoked by what insiders say is a renewed discussion between the Senate leadership and the President on the report.

The Senate had in a recent reaction through its spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe asked the executive to look at the report now and very seriously too.

According to Abaribe, the constitution only empowers the Senate to expose corruption through public hearing adding that it was the duty of the executive to implement the report of probe committees.

If that is the case then the embattled Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Ms Bolanle Onagoruwa, Former minister of Federal Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and others allegedly indicted in the privatization scam may yet warm up for a prolonged date with the people’s court.

They will need lots of convincing to pull Nigerians to their side, though political victimization allusion has always served as a fall back defence mechanism for indicted persons, but this time may present a hard scenario that would make it difficult to sway the Nigerian public.

The strident call for the implementation of the fuel subsidy probe report in the House of Representatives and the anticipated report of the pension scam in the Senate have toughened the public’s resolve to demand that examples must be set this time.

It was, however, not possible to confirm if the planned implementation committee will consider the over 42 recommendations of the Senator Ahmed Lawan led committee. But what is certain according to a source was that the ordered implementation of the report has put the BPE in quandary and may have also unsettled the BPE boss and her predecessors in office.

That notwithstanding, the renewed interest by the presidency to implement the report may have also put to rest, speculations about the where-about of the probe panel report. Before now, speculations were rife that the report got lost in-between its transition from National Assembly and the Presidential Villa.

The report and the Senate resolution
It could be recalled that the Senate had earlier in a resolution approved the immediate sack of Ms Onagoruwa ‘for illegal and fraudulent sale of five percent residual shares of the federal government in Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited (EPCL).

The call for her sack was one of the high points of the recommendation of the committee report. The Senate also specifically ordered the National Council of Privatization (NCP) to cancel forthwith the sale of Daily Times of Nigeria to Folio communication, the Nicon Luxury hotel to Mr Jimo Ibrahim for the failure of the core investor to inject at least an additional N2 billion for the furnishing of the hotel to a five star hotel.

Jimoh Ibrahim owner of Nicon Insurance was also asked to refund the sum of N900 million to the federal government as money paid by BPE for the recapitalization of the company in 2007 and another N1billion paid by BPE for the recapitalization of Nigeria Re-insurance plc.

It also recommended the immediate cancellation of the sale of Transcorp Hilton, Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja, Delta steel company to Global Infrastructure Holding, the Aluminum Smelting Company of Nigeria(ALSCON) to Dayson Holding BV .

The BPE was specifically asked to source for sum of N2.7billion to settle all outstanding staff liabilities in ALSCON , another N5.2billion to pay Delta steel company and N73million for the Federal Superphosphate Fertilizer Company.

The Senator Ahmad Lawan led committee also directed the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to further investigate the alleged fraud being “perpetuated against the nation at VON Automobile Nigeria Limited premises in Lagos by Barbedos venture limited (BVI)”.

That the taxes and import duties accruable to the federal government on all imported goods smuggled into the warehouses of VON automobile Nigeria limited should be computed and recovered by the Customs services. The committee also asked the EFCC to conduct a full scale investigation into the sale of Daily times Plc by the BPE.

It specifically asked the anti-graft agency to recover all assets sold to folio. The agency according to the committee should also work with the BPE to recover the sum of $70million of African Petroleum looted by the former head of finance and account of the company Mr M.O. Ajayi and former treasurer of the company Mr Pius Idigo.

The report specifically recommended that “the former director general of BPE, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai , Dr Julius Bala and Mrs Irene Chigbue should be reprimanded by the National Privatization Council for seeking approval directly from the president instead of NCP as stipulated in the public enterprise Act of 1999”.

The public pressures have become cacophonic and of course the presidency cannot afford to look away. So, they may weigh in to the current reality and what the present circumstance portends in the polity.

It, therefore, behoves the President and his top apparatchik to begin to do things that will elicit some level of public support as can be explicated with the kind of endorsement given to the report of the fuel subsidy scam in the House of Representatives.

Whatever may be the case, the President’s readiness to act this time will sure rekindle some level of optimism, yet the public can only wait and continue to hope.

this is what im saying he thought he can just take law into his hand and shoot whom he dream is corrupt. you cant operate democracy like that

In 1636, a university called the New College was established by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. By 1639, the college was as a mark of honour renamed after John Harvard, the then deceased wealthy Charlestown minister, who bequeathed half of his huge monetary estate and his very big library to the college. That was how the highly revered Harvard University came into being. Can anyone now say that the renaming of that institution after an individual diminished its status among global citadels of learning? Of course, New College despite answering an individual name today is one of the most profound and best universities in the world.

When he brags about his much vaunted prowess in “jailing corrupt public officials,” Buhari only exposes his lack of full understanding of what corruption is. Corruption is not all just about embezzled money. Corruption is also about power, and even more so, one can argue. By that yardstick, Buhari is the most corrupt himself: he usurped and misused power in Nigeria to perform dreadful and even criminal actions.


A symptom of power-corruption is using illegally obtained power with utter disregard for constituted law and order and elected government. When Buhari carried out a military coup to sack an elected government, he indicted himself as power-corrupt. In bragging about it, he makes the second point about power-corruption—arrogance. Years after essentially raping and destroying an elected government, Buhari insists to the hapless peoples residing in Nigeria that he will continue to try to seek the office of the president of Nigeria, no matter how many times he has to try! The "subtexted" message is that if military coups were still possible in Nigeria, he would have used that avenue once again to achieve his goal.

Military decrees are not laws: they are in fact military orders that must be carried out by civilian-citizenry, on penalty of death. Buhari set about issuing decrees and ensuring their enforcement In Nigeria between 1983 and 1985. During that period, due process, proper legal representation and process, presumption of innocence until formal trial and conviction, were trashed and would never be practiced as Buhari wielded the power of life and death over each single person and all living in Nigeria then.

The most unimaginable occurrence is when Buhari issued his Military decrees and then made them retroactive. Based on such cruel and unconscionable act and display of abuse of power, Buhari ordered the execution of persons who had earlier been convicted of drug offences well before his “regime terrible” locked down Nigeria. The death of such prisoners as such is in fact an act of murder by a psychopath, Buhari. Corruption with power does not get much worse than that.

Buhari registered Nigeria as an Islamic nation with the OIC—the Organization of Islamic Conference, reserved for Muslim countries. There was no discussion with the rest of non-Muslim Nigeria who constitute over half of the population and who would have bluntly said “No” to that. But, Buhari “had the power” and exercised it, without qualms. How else would one define “power-drunk” and corruption with power?

Buhari had a chance to show remorse or at least render some accounting and accountability for his inimical activities as a Military ruler of Nigeria at the Oputa Commission, an event reminiscent of the much successful Truth and Reconciliation commission post-Apartheid South Africa. But in sheer arrogance and contempt, Buhari refused to show up. Not quite satisfied, he went to court after intimidating the judge(s) and won an injunction successfully prohibiting the government of Nigeria from ever making the Oputa findings public.

A society is always threatened by corruption in any form, but power-corruption is invariably more frightening, devastating and lethal than money-corruption. Yet, there is even more danger when a society fails to recognize that power-usurpation and abuse is a form of corruption—and deadly at that. This failure results in the unthinkable: that given their records, persons like Buhari would actually show their faces to contest for public office, and that society would tolerate that.

Today, the peoples living in Nigeria will be tempted to vote for any candidate who claims that he is an “anti-corruption agent.” Characteristically gullible or otherwise influenced by other criteria, many will actually vote for such a candidate without even checking out the candidate’s past (and without learning from previous votes for such candidates). When corruption is narrowly defined around money, the peoples are lulled into accepting such blinders and fail to realize that power-corruption is a more lethal form of corruption. Buhari is probably correct by claiming that he did not touch any public funds; that does not make him any less corrupt, however, considering how he acquired power and how he used it in Nigeria. All it proves is that money corruption and power-corruption can exist independently.

But, the greatest failing of the peoples living in Nigeria is the inability to realize that the main problem of Nigeria is not corruption. When a society has “meaningful options,” the incidence of corruption is low, and the chances of getting caught and convicted are high. Nigeria does not offer such meaningful options; it has actually worked very hard to restrict them, and Buhari represents one class of those who have made it so.

Predictably—and unfortunately—there is nothing coming out of the current elections that is going to change this picture. Unless, of course, the peoples living in Nigeria demand and get a restructuring of Nigeria along the lines of Self Determination: that’s when their options will open up and their potential, collectively and individually, will be fulfilled and even surpassed.

“Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.

“The attempt at civilian-to-civilian transition provided the fillip for mayhem at the time. The elections were marred by massive rigging because incumbent political office holders were refusing to slacken their stranglehold on Nigeria Plc., mortgaged as the leaders private property. On the 31st December, 1983, Buhari struck under the cover of the political commotion that trailed the presidential election results. Buhari generally had no agenda for leadership but vendetta against those he called critics and rabble-rousers. Buhari did not see any moral wrong in his conversion of our oil money into his personal use. Rather he railed at the press and what he described as the self-righteous sections of the country for making a big deal out of the issue. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Satire saved my neck at the time. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.

“Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure. Haruna Adamu, who was appointed by Obasanjo to investigate the PTF before finally consigning it to the dung heap, allegedly quickly pocketed one hundred million naira of PTF’s money before operating table could be set up for him, thus forcing Obasanjo to hurriedly close the place down without further investigations. Buhari has been trying desperately since to return to power, perhaps to get a chance to shred the PTF documents? =================== Now, given these facts, why would anyone support buhari's bid for the presidency? Here is a brash, arrogant, unco-operative, belligerent, vindictive ex-military dictator who unleashed a 20-month reign of terror on the motherland. His only claim to relevancy in the present scheme of things is the phantom assertion that he is not corrupt. Now that this myth has been debunked, why would anyone support buhari for the coveted office? Any vote for buhari will just split the progressive vote and ensure that pdp and its money bags win the election by default with a minority plurality of the votes.

This is time to re-think. It's time to dump Buhari and let him descend to political oblivion where he belongs -- he does not have any major political party supporting him, and he is a political lightweight, even in his north domain. Buhari is unelectable. He is vindictive and unforgiving; he will not dialogue, even when he is wrong. The nigerian doctors he unpatriotically hounded out of nigeria a quater of a century ago are thriving all over the world, to the disadvantage of our motherland land. It's time for a new nigeria -- it's time to dump buhari -- for good!

I agree that rather than the Buhari camp getting upset, they had better start explaining and telling their side of the story. And it is not enough to ask that someone sue him to court. Probity in public life transcends legalism; the perception of wrongdoing is enough to tarnish a political career. Ask Congressman Condit in the Chandra Levy case. As I said earlier, if Buhari is shown to be corrupt, or has engaged in, or condone corruption, he loses all relevance in the present discourse.

If Buhari indeed does not have a foreign bank account, then the Midland bank story is false. The Buhari people have not confirmed that assertion, that Buhari does not have, and has never maintained a foreign bank account, either directly, or via a proxy.

In cases like this, there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. However in Buhari's case, it is one co-incidence too many. It appears that money gets missing whenever Buhari gets within one mile of Petroleum Funds. He and his team have an explanation to do. Reminds me of an Ohio case: a policeman's wife was reported missing. That was not extra-ordinary in itself, until it was pointed out that this was his fourth missing wife in 15 years. Now the whole thing takes a different meaning. He has been arrested and charged for murder, even though the missing wife's body has not been recovered.

Therefore, Buhari owes the nation an explanation of where all this money went, OBJ probe or no probe. The repetition of the occurrences has eroded away any presumption of innocence he might otherwise enjoy.

i am beginning to loose hope on this born to rule righteous man