₦airaland Forum

This country is soaked with the blood of the innocent. Too much bloodshed and how would the country move forward when there is ultra fetishness even among our so called leader. We need Gods intervention, workable security plan and system and no mercy justice for perpetrators of this kind of vices

engrkenny:
GMB your Lord and personal saviour.

gMB your stumbling block!

What about when we are running it by ourself? Nothing to show for it either. We are not good on our own and with them either. Don't forget Okonjo Iweala plays to the tunes of IMF. pMB might embrace their policy and rejects the ones not good for us

Let's be patient with this man. He is capable by God's grace

pDP must be high on Kashamu leftover drugs.

History unveiled to us that. Doyin pluperfect added bastard to his name

Why are u guys like this? Who told you gej used only one type of care? And moreover when u become president you can use 1960 bettle. What we ask for is good governance. Ordinary commissioner ride something more than that in some states. Let focus on real issues. See people thinking is it that the number one citizen and president of the Federal republic of Nigeria does not deserve to ride a certain level of car. Op note this

See how these thiefician defending the money they collects saying it is not enough. We must fight these

Maxymilliano:
Primary school administration is under the purview of Local governments, I don't what this has to do with David Mark.

Are u aware he collects money for his constituency every year. He was the longest serving senate president in the history of Nigeria and you can say this

I think some guys need crash course on the dividend of democracy in a country were true democracy is

These guys are not thieves they are murderers. Come to think of this, Nigeria moneymakers, sorry I mean lawmakers are the most paid in the entire world. I initially thought it was a propaganda until I heard it on BBC. I nearly passed out. Pls we have to do something about this. Politics practiced in Nigeria is not politics at all. It is not just too self centered but deadly to the masses

What do you think could be on President Buhari's mind?

You no get work oo at OP. May be you can start advocating by taking a full time job on snapping girls around. Anybody can dress the way he or she likes. She is not your wife or your family and she is not in a sharia state. Mind your own business. Don't even bother traveling out cos u will see a lot of these in developed countries while no one is bothered about it

Why would MOD push this kind of story to the front page? Snapping a lady without her consent, just because she were bum short. It is against your ethics and putting it online is uncalled for. Don't encourage this pls. If not you will start seeing guys snapping girls around so that they can make dp. Nairaland protect your name. Another observation: she came with a car... Not public transport. She is with a her guy or husband or brother. And he did not complain. South is different from north. Go back to your north and leave south biko

oppppp...have u seen this latest thread. Be very careful instead of snapping south girls
www.nairaland.com/2385706/100-killed-boko-harams-booby

bettercreature:
Lies from minas tirith

Gondor closed to Mordor the city of Sauron

I think the political class should reduce theirs but leave the civil servants with their peanuts. but can slash the huge allowances that some top officers collect

lol. leave him alone. you expect him not to sleep again after 7 hours journey

imhotep:
So UK wants to intervene in Buhari's flow of blood. Ok.

you guys used this pix to campaign against him pre-election period. it did not work and yet you are still using it against him when he is the president. move on bro

cc: lalasticlala ishilove

source: Vanguard ngr

Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i, has begged members of the House of Assembly to review their salaries and allowances downward in order to generate more revenue for the development of the state.
“The Deputy Governor and I have signalled our intention in this regard by announcing that we are taking a pay cut of 50 per cent of our salary and allowances until the fiscal situation of the state improves,” El-Rufa’i said, yesterday, when he paid a visit to the House of Assembly.
“We appeal to all political office holders to embrace this example and attitude of sacrifice,” h said, adding that after paying salaries of civil servants, government was left with only 20 per cent of its revenue.

According to him, “Once done with paying salaries, allowances, overheads and pensions, the state is unable to do much by way of building infrastructure or providing services. The stark fact is that Kaduna State spends 80 per cent of its total revenues on its public servants and political office holders.
“Can we as elected leaders deliver any significant service or implement progressive actions or attain desirable outcomes for the majority of our people if we devote only 20 per cent of available resources to their needs? Would we not be undermining the very rationale of democracy if, after being elected by majority vote, we uphold a system that solely serves the pleasures of a servant-minority?
“How many good roads or decent hospitals can we build and maintain when we leave so little monies for the things that actually matter? The elections that have thrust the responsibility of governance on us reflect the yearning of our people for leaders that are competent, responsive and willing to offer dedicated service.
“As elected officials, we must view our massive mandates as instructions by our people for unrelenting work on their behalf. The change they voted for is for substantive improvements in the delivery of public goods, a new way of doing things and the prioritisation of their needs.
“As you are aware, the executive branch of this government has been taking briefings from the ministries, departments and agencies that constitute the public service of Kaduna State,” he added.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/el-rufai-begs-kaduna-lawmakers-to-cut-salaries-allowances/#sthash.RBnlXRrI.dpuf

source: vanguard ngr

President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote yesterday said plans have been concluded to construct a gas pipeline to address power supply challenges in Lagos State.

He disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the office of the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.
He said; “We also assured him that we are going to do a Gas Pipeline from Bonny (River State) to pass under the sea (to Lagos.) When it is completed, Lagos state will never ever experience blackout. There will be electricity 24 hours a day.”
Addressing newsmen after the meeting with Ambode, Dangote said they also discussed the ongoing construction of the largest fertilizer plant of two to three million tonnes of Uranium and Amonia in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Ibeju-Lekki.

He noted that the company is also building ”the largest ever single refinery of 650,000 barrels per day, which is by far more than the consumption of Nigeria and that would satisfy our consumption at least for the next seven to 10 years by the time we finish.”
All these projects Dangote said are no small projects.
‘’We will have challenge in getting people to work there, because at the height of it, there will be close to 38,000 people working at the same location, this is something that we have to partner with the state government.
‘’Having 38,000 people on one site, not every one of them will be from the community, others will be from other states, there would be cultural issues and all that, we need to integrate everybody to ensure that the whole thing works out fine.”
He stressed that the visit afforded him the opportunity to assure the governor of his commitment to complete these ongoing projects already embarked upon by the company.
The business mogul promised to continue to support the state government initiatives geared towards securing lives and properties, adding “I have assured him that we really love doing business here, it’s a friendly state for doing business.”
According to him, “There are quite a lot of things that will come along with creating so many jobs. I think Lagos will be one of the fastest growing cities in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

‘’ I can assure you that we would do our own bit in terms of your efforts in policing Lagos, for security and whatever the need is, feel free to call us, we would partner with you and whatever you want us to do to make Lagos a better place”.
Responding, Ambode vowed to embark on strategies that would open the state for new investors, aimed at reducing the rate of unemployment in the state.

He said “I will just call on other investors that wherever it is that we can assist we are willing and ready to make sure that investors have comfortable life and comfortable business profile in Lagos State.”
The governor promised that his administration would open up the state to attract new investors and growth of existing business in the state, adding that the bottom line “is to create jobs for our youths.”

they should have let them work in public toilet. Just joking

Bonapart:
Buhari: bad news/bad luck

what has buhari done again some humanbeings sha. cant imagine

gbaam

sirugos:
Like Mbu like Fayose they are unimpeachable. Mbu my mentor fayose my daddy in the lord

it is well with you and your future considering your destiny mentors

Source: SaharaReporters
http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/10/stolen-assets-recovery-buhari-demands-fuel-imports-oil-marketers-implicated-fraud

Facing a huge cash crisis, President Muhammadu Buhari has resorted to unusual strategies for recovering some of the funds stolen from Nigeria’s treasury through a series of shady deals between former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and a group of indigenous oil companies and oil marketers she and former President Goodluck Jonathan favored.

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, brought the part of the illicit deals to public attention when he alerted Nigerians that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to deposit $20 billion of oil revenues with the CBN. In addition, Mrs. Alison-Madueke had inked some deals, with the blessing of former President Jonathan, involving oil swaps and the transfer of certain oil wells reclaimed from multinational oil companies to shady Nigerian operators, including Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko.

An investigation by SaharaReporters discovered that President Buhari’s administration has begun the difficult and complex process of retrieving some of the missing petro-billions. One approach so far adopted by the new president is aimed at addressing the fuel scarcity that has harmed the Nigerian economy and threatens to paralyze the country’s economic activities, according to highly placed officials in the government.

But one exception involves Mr. Omokore whose Atlantic Atlantic Energy Oil Company was involved in the controversial concession of oil wells. A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that Mr. Omokore had volunteered to return $500 million to the Federal Government. However, the source added that President Buhari nixed the deal based on information that Mr. Omokore, believed to be a front for Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Alison-Madueke, is in possession of $4.5 billion of funds that should have been deposited in the federation account.

The sources told SaharaReporters that the government’s immediate strategy involved targeting oil marketers and companies “caught red-handed in stealing huge sums of oil subsidies and oil revenues.” The government has pressured these companies and their owners to agree to repay the stolen monies traced to them by immediately importing more fuel into Nigeria.

The sources said the Buhari government has recorded significant early success in getting some oil marketers and their companies to accept the fuel-for-funds deals. “A number of them have agreed to import massive levels of fuel in lieu of the funds they received in shady transactions during the Jonathan administration,” one Presidency source claimed.

Another source revealed that the administration had started out by putting pressure on former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke. She was reportedly quick to deny responsibility for the illicit deals with the oil marketers. Instead, she squealed on her subordinates in the NNPC, accusing them of structuring and doctoring the deals that robbed Nigeria of billions of dollars.

“The [Buhari] government got her to write a formal account of her allegations against some NNPC officials and oil companies. What she put down gave a picture of how some of the funds went missing. The document was then forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the form of a petition,” one source said.

Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s “petition” reportedly named all the persons involved in the massive fraud in the oil sector, including some past and serving officials of the NNPC. Our sources said those she implicated in the NNPC include the current General Managing Director (GMD), Haruna Momoh, a former GMD, Austen Oniwon, Reginald Stanley and Sam Okeke, a former Group General Manager, New Business Division of the NNPC.

An EFCC source told SaharaReporters that a crack team of investigators was currently working on the former minister’s petition. He said the document had revealed new facts previously unknown by EFCC agents and Nigeria’s intelligence officials at Department of State Services (DSS). Among the scams disclosed by the former minister is information that at least four companies involved in an oil swap deal had not accounted for huge sums that should have been remitted to the account of the Nigerian government.

Among the companies implicated in her “petition,” Transfigura was reportedly unable to account for $80 million, Televeras $111million, while Aiteo apparently gulped down $150 million. Other oil firms named in the defrauding of the Nigerian people are Ontario, which failed to account for $135 million, and Sahara Energy, accused of skipping the payment of $120 million to the government.

Our EFCC source revealed that two companies, Transfigura and Sahara Energy, had made some gesture towards paying back some missing funds. However, a source at the Presidency told our correspondent that “so far the reconciliation has involved just paperwork and has not scratched the heart of the scam.” Investigators described Aiteo and Ontario as particularly problematic because they have completely cooked their records. An investigator also disclosed that the two companies are most directly linked to Mrs. Alison-Madueke and former President Jonathan. Both Ms. Alison-Madueke and Mr. Jonathan are currently in the UK, with the former Petroleum Minister reportedly undergoing a weeklong cancer therapy.

Some of the companies have agreed in principle to return the funds by bartering imported fuel for the funds they acquired illegally.

Our sources disclosed that other downstream companies caught in the storm of missing and stolen funds include Forte Oil, owned by businessman Femi Otedola, Folawiyo Energy, and, Oando, owned by Wale Tinubu and Honeywell Oil Company owned by Oba Otudeko.

Officials of the Buhari administration declined to give official confirmation of the stolen assets recovery process relating to other officials of the Jonathan Presidency.

DauraDullard:
Tinubu should go to hell! Who cares about his recognition? Old man wey no wan gree old. He thinks Nigeria is Lagos State

my brother, forget about Nigeria not been lagos. he is a party leader and the strategy that saraki used is not expected from a party member. if saraki can do that to his party because of his personal interest, then trust me, he(saraki) can do he same for his nation Nigeria as senate president

tociano009:
Shut up Dr wunmi you are mad and stupid where are you when Apc gang up against hon mulikat adeola, do you think God is not watching , political science my foot

u are wrong. not APC, But the northern senators. they don't like a lady to govern the affair of the house

omoharry:
IS HE GOD OR AN IMMORTAL BEING? AS LONG AS HE IS JUST A MAN, MADE UP OF BONE, FLESH AND BLOOD..THEN WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID IS "BY THE GRACE OF GOD' HE WILL STILL REMAIN RELEVANT AFTER BUHARI HAS LEFT OFFICE..ABEG WE ALL LIVE BY GOD'S GRACE.IRRESPECTIVE OF OUR SOCIAL STATUS IN LIFE.

yes by God's grace. but what the guy said is a fact

we should not forget that Tinubu has the interest of the Nation at heart unlike some other politicians

Tinubu