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Welcome back Sir! May God continue to strengthen you.

Jesus is Lord

May God help us

Best of luck to the applicants

No matter how busy we are, it's very proper we flush the toilet after use. Prevention they say is better and less expensive than cure

Awujale is still alive. This news is not real at all

Thank you for the health tip

May their souls rest in peace

Al the best to him in his future endeavours

All the best to him in his future endeavours

Goodluck to all the applicants

AutosBay:
They post within your local government area, and not residential address

Yes, I know, but I answered him based on the question he asked

Residential address

This team is very very useless

I wish them all the best

adaksbullet:
Am do mine copper service their too


They are no no how too taked good care off ppl down hear


Am only used mine ear too ear alawi, am no seen it collet


Am tanked God that am serve finish today!!! No sense state too serve!!



Mtcheeeeeeeeee

This is a serious bullet

When is the match coming up?

A round peg in a round hole. We hope he turns around this comatose power sector.

How will he be manning the school gate now?

This Country is just something else.

Good riddance to bad rubbish

These people are just too callous

These people will never learn. It's just a pity

He must be a coward then

Hope the budget will not be padded this time around

Glo is biased I won't take it

House justifies budget ‘padding’
by Dele Anofi, Abuja , July 26, 2016 at 7:30 pm in Featured, News Update FacebookTwitterSMSWhatsApp
Dares Jibrin to show evidence of Dogara’s involvement in padding
The House of Representatives has said it is the ignorance of the workings of the budget process to accuse it of padding because there is nothing like that.
This is as the leadership of the House challenged the former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin (APC, Kano) to show evidence of complicity of the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and the others allegedly accused of padding the 2016 budget.
The leadership has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate Jibrin since his chairmanship of the Finance Committee in the 7th Assembly.
While stating the position of the House yesterday at a briefing, Chairman, Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazak Namdas said the House would not join issue with former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on the subject of padding and corruption because the National Assembly has the power to tinker with budget estimates.
He said: “Section 4, empowers the National Assembly to make laws for good governance of the federation while Section 59 confers on the Legislature final say on the budget.
“Section 80 (4) on the other hand, which confers on the legislature absolute power of control over public funds, states that: “No money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly.
“The word Manner confers absolute legislative discretion.
“When therefore, the National Assembly appropriates funds in the budget, it can never under any circumstances or guise be deemed or regarded as tinkering or padding.
“The legislature is therefore constitutionally incapable of padding the budget.
“What the Executive submits are mere estimates and proposal as stipulated in Section 81 (1).
“It is obvious that the Constitution uses the word Estimates advisedly. Consequently, it is therefore an exhibition of crass ignorance, abuse of language, outright mischief and or blackmail for a legislator, especially one who chaired the Appropriations Committee to use the word PADDING to describe the action of parliament on the budget.
“The removal, introduction of projects or the amendment of Mr. President’s estimates in the Appropriation Bill cannot be construed as an Act of corruption or impropriety   because it is at the core of appropriation powers of the National Assembly as aptly enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.
“It is therefore clear, that no crime or wrong doing can be legitimately imputed on the actions or conduct of Mr. Speaker, the Leadership or Members of the House of Representatives before, during and after the passage of the 2016 Appropriation Bill.”
However, he disclosed that Jibrin was actually investigated by the House for gross misconduct  as a result of complaints over his misuse of power by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) since his Chairmanship of Finance Committee in the 7th Assembly.
Saying that was the reason behind Jibrin’s  removal, Namdas added, “His removal was based on sundry acts of misconduct, incompetence, total disregard for his colleagues and abuse of the budgetary process, among others.
“Immaturity and lack of capacity to handle the Office of Chairman, Appropriations:
“One of the fundamental reasons why the House Leadership removed him is that, he was found not to be fit and proper person to hold such a sensitive office which exposes him to high officials of government at all levels.
“Furthermore, in the course of the performance of his duties as Chairman of Appropriations Committee, it became evident that he does not possess the temperament and maturity required for such a high office.
“Tendency and proclivity to blackmail colleagues and high government officials and misuse and mishandle sensitive government information:
“He was in the habit of collating, warehousing and manipulating sensitive information to blackmail people sometimes apparently for pecuniary purposes. And by the virtue of his position as Appropriations Chairman, he meets with very high and senior public officers at all levels.
“The Speaker and the Leadership were inundated with complaints by heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) over harassment from the House Appropriations Chairman to engage in conduct and acts unbecoming of their offices.
“The Leadership launched an internal investigation into these allegations and was largely satisfied that action had to be taken to remove him, in the interest of the integrity of the House.
“One clear example is the insertion of Funds for the so called Muhammadu Buhari Film Village in his Constituency in Kano State without the consent or solicitation of Mr. President. This has brought both Mr President and the government to disrepute.
“Again, it was found out that he was fond of inserting projects into prominent persons’ constituencies without their knowledge to curry favour and possibly use it as a means of blackmail against them when necessary.
“One of such is the numerous projects he claimed in a Channels TV interview in April 2016, to have cited in Mr. President’s home town of Daura, Katsina State without Mr. President’s solicitation or knowledge, in a desperate attempt to blackmail Mr. President as an answer and a justification for allocation of N4.1b to his constituency when confronted by the interviewer.
“He did not stop there. Hon Abdulmumin went about soliciting Honourable members to nominate projects for him to help them include in the Budget. When called upon to defend his actions as Appropriation’s Chairman, all he did was to be calling names of those members and the amount he helped include for them in the Budget in an unsuccessful  bid to silence them.
“Most of the affected members took serious exceptions to his despicable antics and sundry acts of  blackmail and protested to the Leadership to prevail on Hon Abdulmumin to expunge  from the Budget what he claimed he allocated to them since they did not solicit for those projects.”
Jibrin was also accused of being responsible for the friction between the National Assembly and the executive over the 2016 budget through his incompetence, mismanagement of the process and hidden agenda.
Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/house-justifies-budget-padding/#top

Metuh, Amosu, Umar beg EFCC: let’s refund our loot
by Yusuf Alli, July 20, 2016 at 12:10 am in
Agency gets plea bargain requests
Three of those on trial for alleged corruption are eager to return their “loot” for freedom.
They want to refund cash and surrender property to avoid going to jail, The Nation learnt yesterday.
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) source said that the agency got requests from former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh, ex-Chiefs of Air Staff Air Marshals Adeshola Amosu and Mohammed Dikko Umar.
Metuh is standing trial for allegedly receiving N400 million from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki. The cash is believed to be part of the $2.1 billion security fund that was allegedly diverted.
Umar was arraigned before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a seven-count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption of about N9.7billion.
Amosu was arraigned  at a  Federal High Court in Lagos alongside Air Vice marshal (AVM) Jacob Adigun and Air Commodore Gbadebo Olugbenga, on a 26-count of stealing about N50 billion.
The EFCC source added: “We have formally received letters of plea bargain from three accused persons  — Metuh, Umar and Amosu— we are studying their terms.
“ We may enter into a plea bargain with the accused persons if it will serve the public interest. The interest is getting back the stolen funds. If they can fulfill this condition (public interest), we may accept their offers.”
But he did not specify the details of the request from the accused persons “because we are still studying them”.
Also yesterday, it was learnt that following threats from unknown quarters, the EFCC strengthened security for its key witnesses against suspects on trial for the $2.1billion arms deals scandal.
Those affected are witnesses against a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, ex-Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, and ex-Chiefs of Air Staff Amosu and Umar as well as Metuh.
It was learnt that the anti-graft agency has struck an agreement with the police and other security agencies to protect the witnesses.
Most of the witnesses are from the account, procurement, and audit units of ONSA, the Air Force, the Army, and some government departments.
It was learnt that the EFCC was concerned that since the list of all the witnesses has been attached to charge sheets in courts in Abuja and Lagos, the witnesses have become “vulnerable.”
The special protective measure took effect for some of the witnesses in the past two weeks.
Apart from attaching riot policemen to some of these witnesses, some of them have been offered accommodation, transportation to and from the court, and feeding.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “By the new Administration of Criminal Justice Act, we are mandated to attach the list of witnesses to every case.So, we have a long list of witnesses which had become public knowledge. They include account officers, directors of finance and accounts, procurement officers, serving and retired military and security personnel; bank officials and personal aides.
“But some of these witnesses have been receiving threats and have come under pressure to either back out of the cases or frustrate the EFCC. These witnesses have chosen to be patriotic to serve the nation by testifying in courts.
“This was why at a stage, we approached the court to allow some of these witnesses to testify in camera.
“While we are looking into the threats, we have decided to be proactive by protecting these key witnesses, including  Air Commodore Salisu Yushau, who has been testifying against Badeh.”
Three of those on trial for alleged corruption are eager to return their “loot” for freedom.
They want to refund cash and surrender property to avoid going to jail, The Nation learnt yesterday.
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) source said that the agency got requests from former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh, ex-Chiefs of Air Staff Air Marshals Adeshola Amosu and Mohammed Dikko Umar.
Metuh is standing trial for allegedly receiving N400 million from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki. The cash is believed to be part of the $2.1 billion security fund that was allegedly diverted.
Umar was arraigned before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on a seven-count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust and corruption of about N9.7billion.
Amosu was arraigned  at a  Federal High Court in Lagos alongside Air Vice marshal (AVM) Jacob Adigun and Air Commodore Gbadebo Olugbenga, on a 26-count of stealing about N50 billion.
The EFCC source added: “We have formally received letters of plea bargain from three accused persons  — Metuh, Umar and Amosu— we are studying their terms.
“ We may enter into a plea bargain with the accused persons if it will serve the public interest. The interest is getting back the stolen funds. If they can fulfill this condition (public interest), we may accept their offers.”
But he did not specify the details of the request from the accused persons “because we are still studying them”.
Also yesterday, it was learnt that following threats from unknown quarters, the EFCC strengthened security for its key witnesses against suspects on trial for the $2.1billion arms deals scandal.
Those affected are witnesses against a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, ex-Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, and ex-Chiefs of Air Staff Amosu and Umar as well as Metuh.
It was learnt that the anti-graft agency has struck an agreement with the police and other security agencies to protect the witnesses.
Most of the witnesses are from the account, procurement, and audit units of ONSA, the Air Force, the Army, and some government departments.
It was learnt that the EFCC was concerned that since the list of all the witnesses has been attached to charge sheets in courts in Abuja and Lagos, the witnesses have become “vulnerable.”
The special protective measure took effect for some of the witnesses in the past two weeks.
Apart from attaching riot policemen to some of these witnesses, some of them have been offered accommodation, transportation to and from the court, and feeding.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “By the new Administration of Criminal Justice Act, we are mandated to attach the list of witnesses to every case.So, we have a long list of witnesses which had become public knowledge. They include account officers, directors of finance and accounts, procurement officers, serving and retired military and security personnel; bank officials and personal aides.
“But some of these witnesses have been receiving threats and have come under pressure to either back out of the cases or frustrate the EFCC. These witnesses have chosen to be patriotic to serve the nation by testifying in courts.
“This was why at a stage, we approached the court to allow some of these witnesses to testify in camera.
“While we are looking into the threats, we have decided to be proactive by protecting these key witnesses, including  Air Commodore Salisu Yushau, who has been testifying against Badeh.”
Source: www.thenationonlineng.net

And this thief would have succeeded in becoming the Governor of a State? He deserves to be sent to jail again.

This is very good! We hope these people comply.