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Two lawyers and a Fulani patron scrutinizing the budget... No accountant, no economist, no financial expert to analyze the figures.
Is that not crazy?

Wonderful piece that has called a spade a spade

They want to shift our attention out of the hardships faced in the land caused by their All Propaganda Cult, so they come up with a story to keep us busy.

Standing in futility

It's nothing to be proud about, all most every where in the world , people have come to see us as scammers and warn there kids to avoid Nigerians.

When GEJ said it, opposition and his haters twisted it in a different context and kept dancing to it.

If I call Buhari a dullardino, some people will say I don't respect their president. Does that old man not know at his age that charity begins at home? We never heard any official or unofficial statement from him about agatu or other Fulani mayhem on innocent people but look at him showing solidarity to Belgium quickly. Olodo

tuale4u:
Buhari Deserve Some Credit Despite Inconclusive Election.

Any objective and sincere mind will commend Buhari govt for inconclusive elections recorded so far as a major positive change in Nigeria recent electoral history. Anybody who believe in law and order, anybody who hate impunity will agree with me. It is a step in d right direction from extreme impunity to law,rule and order.

We should understand dat d major reason why inconclusive election is common today is because Buhari does not want to associate himself with massive rigging done with extreme impunity. And I know for sure, many APC members especially those who cross carpet from PDP are unhappy with Buhari for this. They see him as being Naive or unwise for not using his power to spread the political office held by APC. There are many like Sylva in Bayelsa, who believe Buhari may live to regret it. Many APC members in Bayelsa and Rivers are unhappy with Buhari 4 being too nice to d opposition. Because in those region all they know b4 now is dat power win election not d people.

INEC can chose to declare every election conclusive by just writing results and announcing it. That will be the end. The aggrieved can only go to court. This was d case in some of d concluded elections under previous govt. Under previous govt, Even when people protest that election was not done in their ward or LGA, result will be announced and d election will be concluded.

Case study: Bayelsa Gov Election vs Abia Gov Election.

Bayelsa election was declared inconclusive because Sylva rigged election in Bayelsa south. There was result for the election. The returning officer of Bayelsa south actually submitted result to the REC in which sylva of APC had enough lead to win d election. But INEC knew d result was rigged. After much consultation with Abuja, the REC councelled the Bayelsa South election even though he had no power to do so. if all that was important to be commended was conclusive election, Sylva would have been governor of Bayelsa today. Sylva is still dissapointed in Buhari till today for not aiding him to rig massively.

In Abia State in Aprill 11 election, the returning officers submitted result highly inflated in 3 LGA in order to cancel all d lead of APGA candidates in more than 7 LGA. The REC announce on live TV that result was cancelled. The governor of Abia State, Olisa Metuh and other PDP big win storm d collation centre with support from Abuja, the REC revised himself and declared d result he already cancelled on live TV.

Leave politics aside, we are only seeing inconclusive election because Buhari has some more degree of integrity compared to previous Nigeris govt. Buhari is not 100% perfect. I strongly believe Buhari can tolerate subtle rigging which can be at d level of some irregularities. But when it is massive and glaring like in d case of PDP in Abia state and APC in Bayelsa state, he wont tolerate it.

Case study 2: Kogi Election
In d case of kogi, d election was already clearly decided. It was declared inconclusive to fulfill all righteousness by following the rule to d letter. It could have been declared conclusive by d REC if he wanted to just d way d final result of Bayelsa was declared despite dat d margin of victory recorded by Dickson (PDP) is less than d total cancelled votes.


We should understand that reforms bring changes slowly. We should sometimes see beyond party politics and commend good tins when we see one. People who condemning PMB for inconclusive elections, may end doing themselves dis service because we all know all it takes for election to be conclusive is for the returning officer to announce result whether people voted or not. The practice announcing fake result is what made most elections in d past conclusive.

in as much we all would be happier with a perfect concluded election which is free and fair, we also should also agree that inconclusive election which lead to d will of d people is better than concluded election where d will of d people is stolen from them with total impunity.

Any non partisan Nigeria who love truth, will see truth in my article.

Is time we recognise reduction of Evil is good and positive. Because positive dont come only by increasing what is good it also come by reducing what is bad.

With impunity, to conclude election is d easiest thing. We must not forget where we are coming from when assessing where we are today and while assessing where we are going to.

Note: I am not a member of any political party. Aisha, APC or Buhari dont even know I exist. But i know positive good changes when i see one.

Mr I am not a member of any political party A.K.A zombie, please never you consume so much space here again just to spew jargon. I see some APC supporters find it easy to claim neutrality but yet praise the Daura President

every state has a prodigal son, i guess senetor Sani is Kaduna's prodigal son, Amechi is Rivers state prodigal son ....more prodigal sons coming soon

The zombies will tell you that he's going to recover looted funds in Equitoral Guniea. I really wonder what's wrong with delegating this numerous travels to his vice or ministers?

BUHARI DROPS IN APPROVAL RATINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME

A monthly poll tracking the performance of governments at all levels in Nigeria has recorded President Muhammadu Buhari’s first major approval rating slide.
The February survey by Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria, GAIN, said more Nigerians for the first time since December 2015 scored Mr. Buhari low on jobs, economy, and power.
In earlier months, the poll found that majority of respondents did not blame President Buhari for Nigeria’s current economic troubles. They blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan instead.
The trend however shifted significantly in February as the nation’s economic crisis bit harder, in what the poll coordinators said suggested the president’s “honey moon” might have ended.
“The survey was administered using electronic media between February 22nd and 29th, 2016. A total of 757 complete responses were received. The survey results have a 4% margin of error at a 95% confidence level,” said Malcolm Fabiyi, one of the poll’s coordinators, who previously served as a visiting professor at the Lagos Business School.
The February result showed that Mr. Buhari’s approval rating dropped from 63.4% in January to 32.8%, and more Nigerians held the president responsible for the struggling economy for the first time.
The president scored low on jobs, economy, power, and rule of law. A huge 79 per cent of respondents rated the government’s handling of recurring clashes between herdsmen and farmers poor.


The poll also found that the Nigerian Senate maintained the lowest approval rating of all governmental institutions. The army was the highest rated national institution.
Respondents also rated Ibeh Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum, as Nigeria’s best minister so far.
Here are key highlights of the poll
– Buhari government scores low on jobs, economy, power
– More Nigerians hold Buhari responsible for the economy
– Overall approval for the Buhari government declines
– Nigerian Senate maintains lowest approval rating of governmental institutions
– Nigerian Army remains highest rated National Institution
– Kachikwu rated best performing minister
– Concerns about abuse of rule of law grows
– Majority hold negative view of the selection of Ali Modu Sherriff as the PDP Chairman
– 79% give poor ratings to government’s handling of Fulani Herdsmen clashes
– 72% of Nigerians do not support any political parties
Source: Nigeria Info Abuja 95.1 Facebook page

1960 mentality men leading in 2016

Money miss road... Plus baby looks malnourished

He should go train as a panel beater or better still Mind farm business. This is too archaic and unsophisticated for the 21st century

Nice music concept to capture the state of the nation

This is the group Buhari said he is waiting to see their leaders so they can negotiate with the FG. Over a million lives have been lost to these terrorists, billions of citizens and government naira have been lost because of these group yet Mr Buhari is willing to negotiate with them. What a foolish leader

Bihari is a dullardino . Northern dictator

Dullardino of Nigeria

fulanimafia:
FALSE.

These hirelings are desperately trying to promote their propaganda. On the other thread their queen wailer claimed there is no budget breakdown, but here the confused lots are even claiming to know how much was allocated for feeding .

I challenge anyone to provide the budget breakdown which showed the allocation to the Presidency. N1.7 billion indeed .

Here is proof Thomas


http://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/pdfs/2016/2016AppropriationBill.pdf

Let them know

Why are the Yoruba's pained about Biafra issue? The jealousy is very visible and obvious

Imagine the way these people are trying hard to paint Jonathan black.
Suddenly everyone wants to pretend we didn't know of a former president that came out of jail with less than 100,000 naira in his bank account but ended up having a multimillionaire university, mega million farm, world class presidential library among so many other known and unknown investments and at least he is a multi- billionaire today.
What about all those northern heads of states both dead and alive whose acquired/embezzled wealth after leaving office is enough to feed up to two small African countries comfortably.
I often wonder if Nigerians have short memories or is it the intentionally pretend to forget?

Diya, the coward , cry cry baby army general

menix:
Rabbish..

Why some of our eastern Governors get fish brain

Abia that is the worst state on infrastructure in nigeria, sure some workers re still owed yet nah Marathon this Gov Ikpeazu Onye Uwa Mmebi see organise..

Trust Abians nah them go chop Akpu that

morning believing for strength only to wake in the hospital..

Instead of creating jobs nd paying salaries...

You don't know what you are saying . Aba half marathon is proudly organized and sponsored by a private radio station in Aba.

Yes because it is Buhari, his followers are ready to suffer and pretend to smile just to save face.
After all it is "there Godsent PMB ( whiter than white, man with no sin and the only mr integrity of Nigeria/Africa

IS IT BECAUSE IT IS BUHARI?

I marvel at the way and manner we think in this country, worst of it the way we think in the north. It is just a few months ago that we all continually lambasted president Jonathan's cluelessness, I referred to him as the "drunken master of Otuoke", and nobody harassed me, and now because they fear the power of the media that brought them to power they want to castrate the social media, with Buhari firing the first shot in an interview with Sahara reporters' Adeola in New York, why, is it because it is Buhari?

We demonstrated against pump price increment for petrol, government of president Buhari wants us to swallow the same pill we rejected a few months ago, yet some of my
northern compatriots see nothing wrong with that, is it because it is Buhari?

When three sons of Sheik Zakzaky were murdered during the Jonathan administration, El-Rufa'i called it genocide by the jonathanian army, now under Buhari more than
200 are killed, their mosque and houses destroyed under Elrufai's nose as Governor of the same state, he has not called it genocide by the Buharian army, is it because it is Buhari?

Under the Jonathan administration subsidy payments were termed as fraud, and there were hues and cries to crucify oil marketers, Buhari even called it a fraud himself, we also thought so, Six months later the same Buhari is paying for subsidy yet nobody is calling it a fraud, why, is it because it is Buhari?

We criticized Jonathan for keeping a large
fleet in the presidential fleet and wasting monies
on maintenance, only recently President Buhari's spokesman admitted 2 billion Naira was spent on their maintenance, when other presidents are even doing away with their jets, yet we sit down and watch helplessly, is it because it Buhari?

Fuel scarcity is biting harder, value of the Naira is
going rock bottom, inflation is now on auto pilot,
while profits are dropping, purchasing powers are becoming weaker, yet we are asked not to query them, is it because it is Buhari?

If we criticized Jonathan for cluelessness, we will also criticize Buhari for helplessness. While tribal and regional jingoist see nothing because it is Buhari, what I see first is Nigeria and not whether Jonathan is a southerner or Buhari is a Northerner, we. Cannot continue to be trapped in the closet of tribalism,regionalism and religious bigotry yet expect our country to remain one and grow.

Yes! we might be of different orientation and background but what is good is good any where any time and what is bad is bad, I cannot be suffering and keep smiling because "my brother" is the president.

By Mustafa Yahaya

The Sahara reporter spy in the court was drunk or sleeping when he copied the false news to his paymasters in newyork or wherever they operate from

An Open Letter to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari by Bruce Fein (Constitutional Lawyer and Author)

President Muhammadu Buhari
Aso Rock, Abuja
Nigeria

Dear President Buhari:

When you visited the United States Institute of Peace last July, you pledged that you would be "fair, just and scrupulously follow due process and the rule of law, as enshrined in [the Nigerian] constitution" in prosecuting corruption.

Such loftiness is laudable. As the Bible instructs in Amos 5:24: "[L]et justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."

But to be just, the law must be evenhanded. It cannot, in the manner of Russian President Vladimir Putin, be something that is given to punish your enemies and withheld to favor your friends. If so, the law becomes an instrument of injustice bearing earmarks of the wicked rather than the good.

In the United States, you declared a policy of "zero tolerance" against corruption. You solicited weapons and other assistance from the United States government based on that avowal. But were you sincere?

During your election campaign, you promised widespread amnesty, not zero tolerance. You elaborated: "Whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in would be pardoned. I am going to draw a line, anybody who involved himself in corruption after I assume office, will face the music."

After you were inaugurated, however, you disowned your statement and declared you would prosecute past ministers or other officials for corruption or fraud. And then again you immediately hedged. You were reminded of your dubious past by former Major General and President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who succeeded your military dictatorship. He released this statement:

"On General Buhari, it is not in IBB's tradition to take up issues with his colleague former President. But for the purpose of record, we are conversant with General Buhari's so-called holier-than-thou attitude. He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister. Secondly, he presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF, which records we also have.

We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those two portfolios he headed. Or we will help him to expose his records of performance during those periods. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. General Buhari should be properly guided."

You then swiftly backed off your zero tolerance policy because you would have been its first casualty.

You opportunistically announced that zero tolerance would be narrowed to the predecessor administration of Goodluck Jonathan because to probe further would be "a waste of time." That conclusion seems preposterous. In 2012, the World Bank's ex-vice president for Africa, Oby Ezekwesili, estimated that a stupendous $400 billion in Nigerian oil revenues had been stolen or misspent since independence in 1960. The lion's share of that corruption spans far beyond the Jonathan administration.

Your zero tolerance policy seems to come with a squint to avoid seeing culpability in your political friends. A few examples are but the tip of the iceberg.

A Rivers State judicial commission of inquiry found that N53 billion disappeared from the Rivers State Reserve Fund under former governor Rotimi Amaechi. Former Lagos governor and head of your campaign finance team Babatunde Fashola was accused ofsquandering N78 million of government money to upgrade his personal website. The EFCC has ignored these corruption allegations, and you have given both promotions: the Ministry of Transport to Mr. Amaechi, and the Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing to Mr. Fashola.

In contrast, you have played judge, jury, and prosecutor in the newspapers to convict former PDP Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke of corruption.

Is this evenhanded justice?

United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson taught: "[T]here is no more effective practical guaranty against arbitrary and unreasonable government than to require that the principles of law which officials would impose upon a minority must be imposed generally. Conversely, nothing opens the door to arbitrary action so effectively as to allow those officials to pick and choose only a few to whom they will apply legislation and thus to escape the political retribution that might be visited upon them if larger numbers were affected."

To investigate or prosecute based on political affiliation or opinion also violates Articles 2 and 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is unworthy of a great nation like Nigeria.

Make the hallmark of your administration justice, not retribution, and you may live for the ages.
I am a United States citizen and lawyer. I have no political standing in Nigeria. Some might argue that my speaking about the administration of justice in Nigeria bespeaks impertinece. But you chose to vist the United States to solicit weapons and other assistance from my government--a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The United States government represents me. What the United States government does reflects on me. I thus have an interest in addressing the actions of foreign governments that receive United States government aid.

Sunshine is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Sincerely,

Bruce Fein
Fein & DelValle PLLC
300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20001

link.. https://www.facebook.com/NigeriaInfoAbuja/photos/a.521594751252638.1073741826.514395005305946/925235840888525/?type=3&fref=nf

Babatunde is in charge of housing, Raji is in charge of power and Fashola is responsible for transport

If the presidential aides observed the weather forecast for the day before the old man went to cross river state, he should have been told it's going to rain instead of turning their insensitivity to a breaking news

madridguy:
EFCC should face their primary assignment by arresting and prosecuting our politician. This is the problem of we Africa, we like taking panadol for someone else headache. When last did FBI, Interpol or any of their yeye agency paraded any White for their crime on Africa soil. Millions of Barrel of crude oil continuing to leave our shore to their land, Trillions of stolen money in their various bank and yet they are doing nothing and when they claimed they are helping they will release 1 out of 10. Abacha loot is a clear example. I am not supporting SCAM but Oyinbo are not saint too.

Have you imagined the damage that guy's fraudulent act will cost other innocent and hardworking Nigerians who the New Zealand lady and her people who have heard of this scam will come across from hence forth? Have you also imagined how the good people of Nigeria will be seen by other countries who have heard of this scam?
lets call a bad thing bad

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MrMann1:
I have a challenge with my admission. I applied for a graduate program, in the course of the application process, my transcript had to undergo evaluation, now the evaluation report said I am not eligible for a graduate program, that my HND academic transcript is equivalent to a 3 years undergraduate study with transfer credit. Now the institution are not offering me admission, and I am trying to tell them to fix me into the 4th year undergraduate program so as to be eligible for the graduate
program... Please is this possible, cos the report of on the transcript evaluation have a clause that relates to such. Please advise me on what to do. I have put much efforts into the admission process.

I always advice polythecnic graduates applying for masters to always send their ND together with HND transcripts for evaluation to WES so that they can qualify for direct graduate program instead of forwarding just their HND transcripts only and be considered for undergraduate program