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LIVE UPDATE: "PPPRA and DPR are mandated to ensure the N145 max for petrol price...Nigeria remains the lowest pricing destination for petroleum product"

LIVE UPDATE: "About 1.4 Trillion was going into subsidy from 2012"

LIVE UPDATE: "We were kind of producing subsidy for neighboring countries before now which was irrelevant"

LIVE UPDATE: "Subsidy was originally removed in January"

LIVE UPDATE: "800,000 barrels decline as a result of Attacks"

LIVE UPDATE: Ibe Kachikwu "3 refineries working perfectly well...600 billion subsidy debt was inherited and active for about a year till we came in"

Jonathan's Administration was owning 600 billion of subsidy claims.

LIVE UPDATE: Session resumed! Minister of State, Petroleum now before the House

LIVE UPDATE: Meeting on hold for now... Ibe Kachikwu still very much around the House of Assembly.

LIVE UPDATE: The Majority leader seconds.

LIVE UPDATE: Members are now seated. Minority Leader, speaking to make a move for a break.

LIVE UPDATE: Members refuses to sit down even as the Speaker orders.

LIVE UPDATE: The Minister is still not accepted into the house. Side meetings everywhere.

nabiz:
why are they behaving like primary school children? Do they even know that the world is watcching them?

You should know our legislator have no shame. They never had.

LIVE UPDATE: Members are trying to calm their fellow colleagues down. The house is rowdy at this moment.

LIVE UPDATE: Over half of the members are still standing. Waving the flag against the questioning of the minister.

nabiz:
but the majority are saying NO why are they still inviting the man

That's my worry...and why did Dagora approved of the YES, why the NO were just too much and loud. Something is wrong my brother!

LIVE UPDATE: Session on hold as meeting cannot continue. Minority whip and Major leaders in talks.
Members of the house still chanting NO.

LIVE UPDATE: The members of the house are presently chanting NO NO NO, all standing, waving the Nigerian flag as deputy speaker orders that Ibe Kachikwu be brought before the house.

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The Nigeria Football Federation on Sunday announced that President of Federation of International Football Associations, Gianni Infantino, will visit Nigeria in June.

A statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by NFF’s Assistant Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire, said that the visit was a fall-out of NFF President, Amaju Pinnick’s recent meeting with Infantino in Mexico.

The statement said that during the visit, the FIFA president would visit President Muhammadu Buhari and also attend the final of the NFF/ZENITH Bank Future Eagles Championship.


“He will also have an evening with Corporate Nigeria and as well as have an interactive session with a horde of African FA Presidents who will also be in Nigeria to receive him,’’ it said.

It added that Infantino believed that Nigeria was a big country and a massive football-playing nation that should help with the new FIFA leadership’s drive to truly develop the game.

Infantino assumed office as head of world’s football governing body after winning election at an extraordinary general congress in Zurich on Feb. 26, 2016.



http://punchng.com/fifa-president-visit-nigeria-2/

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The House of Representatives has cut short its resumption of plenary by one day — from Tuesday to Monday (today) — to take a position on the issue of the removal of the subsidy on petrol by the Federal Government.

The House summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on Sunday, to appear today and explain why the government jacked up the pump price of petrol to N145 from N86.50k.



The minister is to address lawmakers at the session to be presided over by the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, beginning by 12pm.

Dogara had on Friday last week, hinted that members would debate the fuel price increase this week and take a position on the new price regime.

He spoke in Abuja while granting audience to a delegation from the National Council of Ulamas of the Jamatu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah at the National Assembly.

Dogara had stated that the House would not support any policy that would “further impoverish” Nigerians, but clarified that the final decision would be taken by all the 360 lawmakers this week.

He said, “I do not want to come out with an opinion because I know that the matter, very soon, will come to the floor of the House of Representatives and as the presiding officer, I don’t want to give my opinion before that time.

“But, one thing we can take home and assure our followers is that we will never allow any measure to be embarked upon by the government that would further impoverish our people.

“And so, there are times as leaders, that we take very difficult decisions. The reason why we came to a position where this country was waiting to explode was because any time we were confronted with difficulties, we had always taken the easiest way out.

“We never involved ourselves in taking hard, very hard choices for our people. This is a matter that is subject to further re-examination and as a parliament, we will listen to all.

“In the House of Representatives, we represent everyone, whether it is the government, labour, whatever the institutions, we are their representatives; so when the matter comes, we will look at it and ensure that everything is resolved.

“Even if there is a conflict, I am sure we will play a mediatory role.”

Investigations by The PUNCH on Sunday showed that the leadership of the House resolved to convene the special session today soon after Dogara’s meeting with the delegation ended on Friday.

It will be recalled that in 2012, the House had convened a similar session to oppose the decision of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan to remove fuel subsidy.

Amid the mounting opposition from across Nigeria, the Jonathan-led administration later settled for a pump price of N97 per litre.

The administration later reduced the pump price to N86.50 before it jumped to N145 last week as the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari announced the total removal of subsidy.

The development came as the Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, a known pro-subsidy legislator, made a U-turn to kick against the continued retention of subsidy.

It was Gbajabiamila, who led a debate on the floor of the House in 2012 to berate Jonathan’s decision to remove fuel subsidy.

However, he told The PUNCH on Sunday that he was compelled to change his mind and support subsidy removal because the “overwhelming” evidence on the ground had shown that subsidy was not sustainable.

He added, “But, now, for the first time, I was at a stakeholders’ meeting with the Vice-President’s office, with labour leaders, by the time a graphic picture of what was happening, with facts and figures, was reeled out, and what was about to happen if we continued this way, much as I resisted, it was clear to me that we might not even have a country in a couple of months.

“I saw clearly that no state would be able to pay salaries in two months’ time, even oil-producing states would not be able to pay salaries, if there was no federal allocation.

“At that point, I was caught between the devil and deep blue sea. It was now a question of do you want to resist the removal of subsidy and then down the line you can’t even pay salaries?

“I came to the very painful conclusion that in the short term, deregulation was the best way to go and that in the long term, it will pay off for everybody.”

However, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party members described the government’s move as “laughable.”

They asked why it took the government so long to see what Jonathan saw many years ago and resolved to fix it but he was opposed.

The Minority Leader of the House, Mr. Leo Ogor, in particular, asked the government to apologise to the PDP.

The Chairman, House Committee on Public Petitions, Mr. Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, a PDP member, also called for an apology from the Buhari government.


source: http://punchng.com/reps-summon-kachikwu-fuel-subsidy-removal/



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Meeting scheduled for today. Issues of palliative measures would also be discussed.

MODIFIED: The fuel increment has been a major issue for the last few day. I think this meeting is an important one and i will take time out to sensitize the people on this meeting. I believe the benefits are enormous.

I'd rather not blame anyone on marital issue, the ending sometimes is always funny.

In as much as I condemn this barbaric act, I'm yet to see where ALTAR was mentioned in the article.

omoyemirally:
I know what I will be reading is ''end time pastor'' no muslim will come here to attack christianity,but for christian, dey insult islam cos of one person. World of hypocrisy

You're one of them.
How do know a Muslim moniker and a Christian one?

Nigerian officials penchant for looting surely knows no bounds as some officials have been caught red-handed stealing $3.8million aid meant to assist the country in battling the scourge of AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria.

The stolen money was donated to Nigeria by Global Fund. It was stolen between 2010 and 2014, part of the locust years of the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

Although Nigeria has agreed to refund the money, Global Fund has applied sanctions on the country, announcing it is suspending aid to Nigeria’s AIDS agency.

The Fund said it has evidence that the money was stolen by workers and consultants of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDs(NACA),

Spokesman Seth Faison said Friday that Nigeria’s government has promised to repay the money to the Geneva-based agency and to prosecute suspects.

A report by the fund’s inspector general says seven government workers and three consultants stole the money over five years between 2010 and 2014.

The report said the fraud continued because the National Agency for the Control of AIDS did not have proper audits.

The missing money is 95 percent of the amount budgeted to implement, administer and train users of a web-based reporting platform but a fraction of the $1.4 billion the fund has spent in Nigeria.

Summary of the Audit by Global Fund:

An Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit of Global Fund grants in Nigeria has identified significant problems in procurement, supply chain, financial and program management. The auditors found discrepancies of over US$4 million between drugs ordered and delivered; US$20 million paid to suppliers without confirmation of delivery; stock-outs of eight months for critical medicines; and a total of US$7.65 million in unsupported expenditures. The Global Fund is reviewing corrective measures, particularly with regard to risk management, identified by the OIG as the root cause of many of the issues.

With more than US$1.4 billion invested since 2003, Nigeria represents the Global Fund’s largest portfolio. Programs to date have contributed to 750,000 people living with HIV/AIDS currently on antiretroviral therapy, 310,000 new smear-positive tuberculosis cases detected and treated and 93.4 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets distributed to prevent the spread of malaria.

Regarding procurement, the OIG found that Principal Recipients, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and the National Malaria Elimination Program do not monitor the deliveries to the central medical store in Lagos of drugs arriving through the Global Fund’s Pooled Procurement Mechanism (a system that allows the Global Fund to bulk order health commodities at favorable prices). This resulted in discrepancies in antiretroviral drugs deliveries of US$3.7 million from 2013 to September 2015 and US$0.5 million in artemisinin-based combination therapy drugs. The OIG also identified payments amounting to US$20 million made to a procurement agent without confirmation of services rendered or goods delivered.

The auditors found major weaknesses in supply chain management including ineffective controls over inventory management and distribution directly affecting service delivery to patients in Nigeria. Stock-outs lasting 8 months of critical medicines such as antiretroviral drugs and artemisinin-based combination therapies were found in 42 health facilities visited by the OIG. In addition, HIV commodities worth US$5.4 million had expired in the last two years.

Although the OIG noted minor improvements since the introduction of a fiduciary agent in May 2015, financial management controls were found to be inadequate and ineffective. For example, the auditors identified a total of US$7.65 million of unsupported expenses linked to human resources, payment approval processes and advances management.

Significant weaknesses exist in the internal controls around data collection and reporting processes. This resulted in more than 10% of errors between the data recorded at the facility level and data reported to the state coordinator and the Global Fund. The issues identified were mainly for the HIV and malaria programs. Good practice, however, was observed on data recorded for the tuberculosis programs.

The OIG concluded that the Global Fund’s risk management framework in Nigeria is ineffective. The organization is unable to identify, mitigate and monitor the risks effectively. This explains many of the problems identified by the OIG audit. For example, although the Secretariat introduced the Pooled Procurement Mechanism to the Nigeria portfolio, limited preventative controls are in place to ensure that drugs procured through the mechanism are actually delivered and then distributed.

The Secretariat is currently reviewing a number of corrective actions including assessing potential recoverable funds, internal control deficiencies and the grant recipients’ ability to deliver key Global Fund objectives in Nigeria.



http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/05/breaking-news-nigerian-officials-steal-3-8m-hivaids-money/

diagro:
'Many of YOU' Who is the 'you' here? Now judge between you & me who is making UNREASONABLE conclusions. Meanwhile, dis pix has been posted here long ago.

Well, I don't live on NL how would I know...

diagro:
Old news or is this another case? But, i remember, dis is d same pix used before. Pls, people, always search b4 u report any news to avoid looking ridiculous.

Before you start making unreasonable conclusions, check date this article was published (May 9, 2016)
Wailers! He was blocked by this same people. Since many of you think the herdsman has got so much to do with Buhari.

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the cows after they were sent off the road

The convoy of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State was blocked for 30 minutes at the weekend by herdsmen.
It happened on Amakohia Orlu Road in Owerri the state capital.

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inside his convoy

The Governor was on his way to inspect a project with some journalists when his convoy ran into the herdsmen and their cattle.

They were however cleared from the road by the governor’s security detail.


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/05/09/okorochas-convoy-blocked-by-herdsmen/

So this more than an APC thing, these guys are operating independently and some political influence is behind this sudden uprising.

ITbomb:
It is the best for me. Get one good seo optimized post then sit back and watch above 2k traffic on that post alone every day for at least 2 weeks.
No need to have running battles with NL and Facebook group admins

I get you! It's pretty interesting to have such attention from Google. Especially when you know your way around SEO.
I'd prefer more than a post though, the traffic keeps rushing and they're pretty organic...so cute!
I've one of them on Google "How to Stop Your Man from Always Coming Home Late" ...every twist and turns about that longtail keyword has been topping Google Top 3 for almost a year now. That's just one and it feels good. Bloggers should learn SEO first especially if they write original contents not the CnP ones though.

The rules are just too much when you take Google as your only source of traffic.

Seun, Lalasticlala and relevant mod should help on its awareness.