₦airaland Forum

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Tonto again why always her... well I reserve my comment before this as**wo talk say she has past with my great grand father... mstwwww

I beg se na free.... just asking

What a pity....

I guess this business as come to stay in some part of this country...... chaiiii 1million dollapo.... well I cross am for my fingers

Let see how this will work cos I tire for Nigeria banks and their hidden charges, small time now them go dey charge for ATM maintenance fee.

Post any of tonto dike pictures or her tweets, I bet you e go apper for front page

Tolexander: curse seun papa and mama. Talk say e no go better for mukina. Swear for jarus and his family and then cast a spell on oam4j and his generation. With this, i assured u wont be banned but evicted from nairaland like vaughn in ultimate search season 2

LOL

Senator Babafemi Ojudu is the Vice
Chairman, Senate Committee on
Establishment and Public Service
Matters. He speaks with DAPO
FALADE on sundry issues affecting
legislative business and its oversight
functions.
IT is now more than one year that
you have been in the Senate. What
has been the experience?
Well, it has been very interesting in
the sense that when I was contesting
and coming in, I had all the high hopes
that I will make contributions that
would bring a kind of change; I was
fired up that I was going to a new area
entirely different from journalism. I
took the same passion in journalism to
the Senate, but when I got there, I
found out that it was a different ball
game entirely. Having practiced in
journalism, I had offended some
people in the past, through my
writings and reports and these people
I now had to confront on getting to the
Senate and they too were waiting for
me; that they would not allow me to
have a voice.
So, I had to live with that and also had
to re-strategise that if I am not going
to talk, then I have to go back to my
constituency and start working more
closely with my people. But again
looking at it, the plenary is not the only
thing you do as a senator; you have the
committees where you have oversight
duties.
Is there any basis for comparison
between being a journalist and
being a senator?
You know you can practice journalism
of advocacy and the same thing you
can do in the Senate, for example, for
good governance, human rights, anti-
corruption and for development. So
you can actually see some
commonality between the two. What is
different is that as a journalist, you are
an outsider looking inside and as a
senator you are inside to voice to the
people what you see.
With what you have seen so far, do
you have any regret contesting the
election?
Certainly none, if only for what I have
learnt so far. I used to think that the
problems confronting Nigeria can be
resolved within a short time. But it is
deep-rooted and with what I have
seen, I don’t think we can get out of
the woods so easily. The evil forces are
so entrenched that it would take a
revolution to change this country.
Talking about budget, the general
impression is that you lawmakers in
the National Assembly are not really
out to ensure effective implementation
of the budget…
If that had been the case in the past, I
don’t think it applied to this seventh
session of the National Assembly. I am
not saying that we have done perfectly
well but I think now there is an
improvement. People now want to
know how much is being collected;
they raise issues with the executive
arm of government over money
released. For me, gradually, we are
rising up to the challenges but I think
people still need more of training to
be able to know what they should look
out for.
The civil servants are getting so
clever. For me, that is an area the
National Assembly needs to look into.
From what I have seen so far, there
are quite a lot of waste and
duplications in the budget. If we look
critically and we decide that we are
not going to give you what you don’t
need, we will be able to reduce the
cost of running most of these
departments and agencies. I mean it
cannot be that it is every year that you
buy computers; you spend the same
amount to buy computers, furniture
and generators. There are lots of
things that are just there because that
is the way they do it. We need to
tamper with a lot of things,
particularly the budget.
During the defense of the budget of
the Federal Civil Service
Commission (FCSC), you were
particularly harsh on its chairman.
What really transpired between
you?
Well, I had to be harsh because in the
last one, people came to me with
stories about how officials of the FCSC
asked them to bring money to get jobs.
A young man or woman has just come
out of the university and he or she has
not been employed for two, three
years and somebody now asked such a
person to bring N500, 000 before he or
she can get a job. It is wickedness and
inhuman. For me, it was an
opportunity to have the top officials of
the civil service come before us and I
put it to the woman who only came,
according to her, this last May. And
she was vouching for her staff, but I
said no, ‘go and find out. That is what
is happening all over the place. The
people are challenging you; traditional
rulers are challenging you that this is
what they have been telling their
children, to go and bring and they
don’t have the money.’ Those young
people are roaming the streets
unemployed.
But the woman said she was unaware
and that her honour and integrity
were at stake…
I was not querying her honour and
integrity. Even from the budget they
brought before us; when we looked at
the 2012 spending, they were not able
to defend most of the items there. We
had to dismiss them and asked them to
go back and re-do their Arithmetics.
At that point, she was no longer talking
about her integrity; she knew that
there was a problem and she started
telling us that she was not there when
the money was spent. I said look, ‘was
there no handover note? Were you not
briefed when you got in there? How
could you come here and defend what
you believe in?’ that means some other
expenditures must have taken place in
the past before she got in there.
What is your take on the decision of
the commission on stopping the
usual examination for promotion
exercise?
I think they did not quite consult very
well. It was a decision taken without
even putting the committee on Public
Service Matters in the know. When the
Public Service came and we put the
same question to them, they said no,
that it is not true; that it just remains
at the level of deliberations. So, we are
also raising issues about that, that she
cannot just stop the exercise because
you have an idea that examinations
are no longer enough to decide on who
gets promoted or otherwise. So, are
they going to use subjective factors to
promote people? We will not support
that and we are going to raise issues
about that.
Generally, would you say the
current National Assembly is
performing its duties as the
legislative arm of government?
Well, there is always a room for
improvement, but so far, I think it has
tried. I guess that as the years go by,
things will continue to improve in the
National Assembly. But the lawmakers
can benefit from trainings; their aides
can also benefit. The budget of a thing,
the people just come in there and
throw their papers at us. We ought to
have received them much earlier and
then you tear it apart and raise
questions at the time you are talking to
those people. These are the areas
where we need to do some level of
work. We should be a little more
critical of whatever is coming before
us.
Another aspect which I think we
should work at is our relationship with
the executive. I think we are so much
a lapdog of the executive. How could
Senate pass about 25 bills and they
would be lying with the executive for
most of the year and nothing will be
done about it. I think this is wrong and
there is a clause in the constitution
that states that the legislature can veto
any bill that is not signed by the
president. You bring a resolution that
is debated and then pass it to the
executive but nothing is being done
about it. We are almost looking like
jesters before the public we are
serving; it is almost becoming like a
talk shop. Why should 109 senators
come together and decide that this is
not right and you send the outcome to
the president and it will not be
implemented. It is not good enough;
we need to do more.
The fact that the president of the
country comes from the political party
with the majority in the Senate does
mean that we must not have some
integrity and credibility for the
Senate.



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MTN my foot...Ghana suppose withdraw their lincense....

slimchimex: south west with their "White Elephant"......mtcheeewww

Oya tell your own people to come out with there own "GREEN ELEPHANT" .....mtcheeewww

Awon were...... sha na me come carry am

As far as i can say ondo and ekiti have received some of the buses,ekiti give it own to state own institution while ondo use it own as free school bus for public students in akure

ACN fall my hand big time

Abi dem swear for FG ni...were the hell is dat money

Street trading, hawking and parties in
Ibadan were banned by the Oyo State
government yesterday.
The state Commissioner for Environment
and Habitat, Barrister Lowo Obisesan,
disclosed this at Agodi, Ibadan.
“The government is now out to enforce all
environmental laws to the letter. Ibadan is
not a rural environment where anybody
does what he likes. As a result of this, we
are banning street trading, hawking and
parties in the metropolis,” he said.
Obisesan specifically mentioned Agodi-
Gate Bus Stop, Dugbe, Mokola, Challenge
and Ring Road, among others, as places
where street trading and hawking would
not be permitted.
“It has become an offence for anybody to
hawk in the streets. Any defaulter shall
pay a fine of N5,000. It has also become
an offence to hold parties in the streets or
roads in the state. The punishment for the
offender is one-month imprisonment or a
fine of N100,000.
“It has also become an offence for any
truck, either light or heavy, to be off-
loading at any of the following places:
shops, offices, commercial premises, on
the roads or streets, between 7.00am and
6pm. The punishment for the offence shall
be a fine of N250,000″, he said.
On how to enforce the laws, the
commissioner said: “Environmental
monitoring officers will be operating in
Ibadan from Monday to Fridays, and
anybody caught breaking the law will be
prosecuted.”

Source http://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=120521421317516&ref=stream&refid=52&_ft_=qid.5816899750990335143%3Amf_story_key.8927309642713570121

The Osun State Government has approved a N10,000 monthly allowance for the elderly, under its social security scheme tagged: “Agba Osun”.

The Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Special Needs, Mr. Biyi Odunlade, told reporters yesterday that 1,343 of the1,602 beneficiaries have received their first two allowances.

He said the remaining are yet to show up for the payment.

Odunlade said the state government carried out a population survey of elderly persons between February 27 and March 10 to identify those who need medical attention.

He said at the end of the survey, 114,814 elderly persons were identified in the 30 local governments.

Odunlade said the government would establish a rehabilitation and transit camp for the destitute and the mentally ill.

He said the Aregbesola administration has appointed six physically-challenged persons into political positions and given jobs to another six in the civil service.


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/osun-okays-n10000-allowance-for-the-elderly/

Am very sure that this man is speaking under the influence of India _______.How does he know I care about my citizenship in Nigeria. mstwweee Iraq here I come jare

Make them release /allocate another money to him abi. Ok noted

Why not Chinese instead of French......mstwwww

NAIRALAND

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF TONTO DIKE #POKO

GOOD PEOPLE, GREAT NATION BAD LEADERS

Noted....next picture

But wait ooo people get talent oooo... kia wetin be my own talent self...... this is great work

Let the movie begin

When is he planning to come back to Nigeria to seek job

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Na dem sabi i kuku dey enjoy my visafone and multilinks

seriallink: My friend is a dedicated Christian; he killed in self defense, though acquitted in court, he still feels guilty of murder and think it's terrible sin! Do you guys think it's a sin?

Did he kill with hand,gun or plank?