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The declaration came on a day Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, also said the House would not serve as a rubber stamp to the executive arm.

Both arms of the National Assembly were reacting to a statement made by Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, that the National Assembly had no powers to introduce new projects into the budget.

Osinbajo had alleged: “This last budget, the President presented it last December. Despite the assurances that it will be passed by February, it was not, until May.

“As it turned out, we were quite disappointed that it took a bit of time before it was approved. And thereafter, we had to go into negotiations with the National Assembly in order to get it right.

“Now, there are these two broad issues about who can do what. The first report is about who can do what. When you present a budget to the National Assembly, it is presented as a bill, an appropriation bill.

“Secondly, do not introduce entirely new projects and all of that or modify projects. This is something that we experienced last year and this year again. It now leaves the question about who is supposed to do what?”

The Senate, however, yesterday, warned the executive not to mistake its consultations with it on important national issues to mean that it was prepared to cede its constitutional powers.

Responding to a Point of Order by the Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, APC, Kebbi South, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, noted that the Acting President must have been quoted out of context on the 2017 budget.

He said: “I am sure the Acting President must have been misquoted because there is clearly no ambiguity in the Constitution of the responsibility of the National Assembly.

‘’This matter has been cleared and settled. So, I don’t think there are any issues here that are vague.”


Saraki, who assured that the Senate under his watch would not cede any of its powers to the executive, notwithstanding the desired consultations and cooperation between the two arms of government, said: “ I believe that as responsible statesmen, there are times we consult and do our best to work with the executive and assist them.

‘’But as we bend backwards, I don’t think that should be misrepresented that powers given to us in the constitution do not exist.

“That is not the case, and this Senate will continue to defend the Constitution and ensure that anything we do is in line with the laws of the land.

“I want to say that there are times we have a number of consultations and I want to make it clear that these consultations we do with the executive will not at any time mean that we will give up the powers we have in line with the constitution.

“I want to reassure our members on this because it is very important. Based on what we have heard, you may be concerned that one way or another, the leadership had given up some of these powers. That is not the case.”

Senator Na’Allah who spoke under Order 43 , drawing the attention of senators to Osinbajo’s alleged statement, said he was disturbed about the declaration, just as he wondered whether the Acting President, being a Professor of Law, was not misquoted having worked with him as a lawyer in Lagos.

Senator Na’Allah, who quoted various sections of the 1999 constitution as amended, however maintained that the Acting President goofed in his claims and in quoting from Section 80 of the constitution.

He said: “For the avoidance of doubt, this same Constitution we operated from 1999 to date has section 80, and the title of Section 80 is ‘Power and Control over Public Funds’. With your permission Mr. President, I read: All revenues or other monies raised or received by the Federation not being revenues of other monies payable under this Constitution or any Act of the National Assembly into any other Public Fund of the Federation established for a specific purpose shall be payable to and for one consolidated fund of the Federation.”Section 2 says: No monies shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation except to meet expenditure that is charged upon the Fund by the Constitution or where the issue of those monies has been authorised by an Appropriation Act, Supplementary Appropriation Act or Act passed in pursuance of Section 81 of the Constitution.

“Three, no money shall be withdrawn from any public funds of the Federation other than the Consolidated revenue fund of the Federation unless the issue of those monies has been authorised by an Act of the National Assembly.

“Four, 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. That is the provision.


“I want to reassure our members on this because it is very important. Based on what we have heard, you may be concerned that one way or another, the leadership had given up some of these powers. That is not the case.”

Senator Na’Allah who spoke under Order 43 , drawing the attention of senators to Osinbajo’s alleged statement, said he was disturbed about the declaration, just as he wondered whether the Acting President, being a Professor of Law, was not misquoted having worked with him as a lawyer in Lagos.

Senator Na’Allah, who quoted various sections of the 1999 constitution as amended, however maintained that the Acting President goofed in his claims and in quoting from Section 80 of the constitution.

He said: “For the avoidance of doubt, this same Constitution we operated from 1999 to date has section 80, and the title of Section 80 is ‘Power and Control over Public Funds’. With your permission Mr. President, I read: All revenues or other monies raised or received by the Federation not being revenues of other monies payable under this Constitution or any Act of the National Assembly into any other Public Fund of the Federation established for a specific purpose shall be payable to and for one consolidated fund of the Federation.”Section 2 says: No monies shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation except to meet expenditure that is charged upon the Fund by the Constitution or where the issue of those monies has been authorised by an Appropriation Act, Supplementary Appropriation Act or Act passed in pursuance of Section 81 of the Constitution.

“Three, no money shall be withdrawn from any public funds of the Federation other than the Consolidated revenue fund of the Federation unless the issue of those monies has been authorised by an Act of the National Assembly.

“Four, 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. That is the provision.

“The reason for this provision is that the Constitution recognises that Nigeria operates a federal structure, and it further goes on to recognize that it is multilingual, multi-ethnic, multi-religious.

“Therefore, in the constitution-making process, a lot of issues for domination and fear for domination were raised. That is why the framers of the constitution provided for representation on the basis of population and land mass and on the basis of equality of states. This is what gave birth to a bicameral legislature, the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House provides representation based on population and land mass while the Senate is based on equality of states.

“So, I know that the Acting President who is a Professor of Law is sufficiently trained in law to know that the National Assembly has powers to tinker with the budget. I am not making a case for him and I do not want to believe that he said what has been alleged that he said.

“I also want to assuage the fears of my colleagues that what was alleged to have been said does not represent the spirit of the framers of our Constitution. This explanation is necessary so that we put this matter to rest.”

Also reacting to the Acting President’s statement, yesterday, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said House would not be a rubber stamp to the executive arm of government.

Dogara, who stated this at yesterday’s plenary, said the constitution clearly spelt out the duty of each arm of government, noting that in the event of a conflict, the executive was not the appropriate arm to interpret the constitution.

The speaker said: “In the United States of America, where Nigeria copied the presidential system of government, once the President submits the budget to the legislature, it is considered dead.’’

He said it was only when the parliament worked on the budget and come up with an Appropriation Act that it could become a living document.

“I don’t want to believe the acting President said that. When it comes to the budget, the worst the executive can do is to withhold their assent. After 30 days, if we can muster two-third we will override the veto,” the speaker stated.

He added that in the event that executive refused to comply with Acts of parliament, they know what to do.

Dogara said further: “The executive is only one man—the President. The relationship between the president and other members of the executive arm is at best, a master- servant relationship.

“All of us here represent different constituencies. The House cannot be a rubber stamp of any executive arm under our watch.

“Budget is the document of the people and there is no way a budget can take on a life of itself by mere pronunciation of the President. It is only when it has passed through the legislature that it can be said to be a living working document supported by the constitution which vests powers on the National Assembly to enact it.

“So, I don’t think we should waste our time belabouring this issue at all, because if the contest is to be held, we all know who the obvious winners will be. We all know where the power lies.”

Thanks for representing us.. .this is not an embarrassment.. ..go do it if it's not your limb you will lose

I just hate student union government.. ..thank God lag doesn't have too.. .. U better go to school and forget unionism

JAMB is currently withholding 80,889 Results, and has said that all will be released before Admission for 2017/2018 Commence.

This brings the total of released JAMB Results at 1,606,901.
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Prof. Oleyede pointed out that the results of candidates with "Super Rich" parents, who paid 200,000 for upgrade of results are still under investigation, adding that "Next year we are going to put electronic jammers in all the CBT centres. They better start to think of another way because we know that is what they do and we will also plan ahead of them."

He said a total of 640 candidates could not write their exams because of Biometric Verification Issues. He said the issue has now been identified, and that this set of candidates will be made to write their own exams under his very own supervision.

He urged candidates who have problems with data to visit any JAMB-owned CBT centres for correction.

"Those who made mistake you will go and do the correction in JAMB CBT centres free of charge. We are not closing correction. Correction will continue. If you don’t have time now go next week or next month.

"At JAMB offices, they have been told to do the correction free once you have paid through TSA. Even the printing for you should be free," he added.

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and matriculation board, JAMB has stated that the board will soon conduct supplementary admission for candidates who had hitches in the registration and examination process.

These include about 640 candidates out of 1.7million that did not do biometric verification.

According to him, some of these hitches were caused by some CBT owners and cyber cafe operators.
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He said the candidates will be made to write the examination under his own very eyes.

Highlighting some of the cases of malpractice encountered during the examination, the JAMB boss mentioned cases hereby parents pay heavily to buy fake questions for their children, CBT Owners deliberately shutting down or disconnecting the network to be able to access questions on the computers and exploit candidates and also cases where CBT centres approach our staff promising N500,000 for them to give out questions.

He mentioned that in subsequent exams, the board will introduce electronic jammers to further reduce cases of malpractice.

He finally advised candidates to forward all complaints to designated JAMB CBT centres.

But what should I do? I realised basically it's not about the GP. Truly, that's what we've come to show for.... Meanwhile, that's not what we will live on. A third class student may outshine that first class person. *Don't be an excellent student, be an excellent person*

Life is not all about school. It's about education. School kills. School sucks. School destroys a lot.

Criticising school? No I'm not. I'm also a student. Sincerely, school has killed talents. School has killed individuality. We are compelled to learn from the same method when we have different capacities. Some love listening, some prefer seeing. That's why we prefer lectures. What suits us!

I am a student. I was asked, what next after PGG? i was dumbfounded. I don't know. Have master and PhD degrees. Have kids and be happy working for oil companies. Have mine and sorts... Then he asked, is that all? I realised that I haven't realised life after school. What's wrong?

*It's not all about that gp, it's about what you can achieve even with that gp*

I am not saying don't read. I'm not against first class. I desire the best. I don't want to be successful. I want to be excellent. When you are excellent, success chases you pants down. A lot of us are yet to discover. We compare. We admire. We condemn ourselves. But is that worth it?

Schooling differs from Education. Knowing differs from Cramming.

Biblical References

Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was successful, a king. Daniel was excellent!

Joseph and Pharaoh. Pharaoh was successful. Joseph was excellent.

These examples could have made you think that these successful ones brought this excellent ones to the limelight. That may be the case here, but Joseph and Daniel can't be forgotten and will be people's role models. Who will reckon with the successful ones, Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh.

Let's look at these ones.

Paul was successful. He left his success to become excellent.

David and Saul. We know that David was excellent and success chased him.

Jesus Christ is an excellent being. Who will not want to be associated with him.


We know who Bill Gates is. An average student that has brought put many on their toes.

I watched a video of Pastor Adeboye in a university in Nigeria. The VC,registrars that regulate the school rules bowed to him. You will ask, what is common to these people? God-factor! That's it. God uplifts, makes a ssce holder a president, makes an illiterate person a reliable and one of the best writer.
It takes God not School.

Excellence supersedes success. Intelligence supersedes brilliance.

Only if many of us can know, then the world of technology will no longer have people of high mediocrity rather, people who have learnt how to bring out something of nothing.

Why would a mechanical engineer call the service of a mechanic? A first class student of elect elect can't remove fuse or cut out. Civil engineers can't build without being supervised by foreigners. Old ones for that matter!

Then, they were not in school to read. They were there to learn. They were there to make impacts. They were there to affect lives.

I will stop here. I want you to realise that your life begins when you graduate from whatever school.

Ask, after higher institution, what next??

Adedamola Odukoya.
University of Lagos.


Lalasticlala,

sirusX:
I hope you know wet dream is different from having sex in your dreams

I know. ...then you should understand. I meant you have sex.. .then... .wet dreams. ..finish

Is wet dreams a sin? Probably you have sex in the dreams and you are even a godly person.. .is wet dreams a sin?

Lalasticlala and others.. .how na

They do say Ijebuites are stingy and are economists.

Is that true?? Had an experience with them before?? Share.. ..

when will we think?? lalasticlala when will we start thinking....?

I am ashamed of Nigerians not Nigeria

we have been exploited. we are still be played on. pdp shouldn't be existing. ffk should be behind rejected bar. useless clueless Nigerians. some Nigerians will still go into social war cos of them...

Arda1000:
Afonja always ready to defend the gullible vulture

wehdone Sir

My take On Buhari's Controversial Letter
By Adedamola.

I am so surprised a senator would have thought of criticising that letter without in depth thinking. If his point wasn't understood, he should explain himself further. Anything from this is an act of wailing and mere show of 'criticability'.

I cry for Nigerians, not Nigeria. I wonder, what's the point we are bringing out? A coordinator and an acting President?
President Buhari is the President of Nigeria and he COORDINATES the affairs of the country. The Vice President should therefore COORDINATE on his behalf. What's that showing?? Acting Presidency!

Ignorance at its peak here starting from our dear senator, to Fani Kayode, to Reno Omokri, to the member-wailers. I will not really blame them. Civic Education should have been introduced earlier by NERDC. FFK and his crew still cry at the election GEJ lost since 2015 and I Say ONLY IN NIGERIA would such occur! His crew are as well playing on the 'gullibility' of many Nigerians. Bring issues out of nothing.

The reference from the constitution clearly states what The vice president stands for in the absence of the President. The Senate President have ruled the 'Senator' out of other. This makes his position on the matter 'useless and disregarded'.

Buhari handed over to VP Osinbajo constitutionally. Whatever anyone says is no longer important. We want Nigeria to move forward yet, make this an issue? Clueless Us! Until we begin to act as reasonable Nigerians, we may not get what clearly belongs to us.

Every issue is an issue. I am proud of Nigeria but ashamed of many Nigerians. We show our stupidity in every issue. We display ignorance on social media. We criticise the good and the bad. We reject forwardness and backwardness. Where's your stand??

Long Live Buhari!
Long Live Osinbajo!
Long Live Nigeria!

I rest my case.. .


Nairalanders that are sensible are yet to come here.. .ignorance at his peak.. .go and learn.. .

Acting President WI do what?? Eat the country?? ?if not coordinate.. ....lol.. .that Senator sef his own don full.. .where be his wassce result.. .he pass English?? ?

dragonking2:
Osunbade the coordinator
More like mere commissioner .Buhari wicked no be small.
The yorubas never see anything yet.

Dullest Nairalander of the week.


Please go for Civic education class even if you're a father. Go to your sons and daughters

TippyTop:
Anyone who thinks a very sick Buhari would write to NASS, handing over power to a southerner is a political novice. I mean not when the north is unsure about the outcome of this latest trip.

Osinbanjo is Co-ordinator and Abba Kyari Presido.
Anyway what's the difference between now and June 2015 when Abba Kyari became our President?

All hail President Abba Kyari, otherwise known as Buhari's cousin.

okay. I understand

What am I seeing. Okay if he is called acting President, won't he coordinate?? What should be said. ..act in my place?? ?what is Buhari doing sef.. Coordinating the affairs of the country na. ..


NERDC should have introduced Civic Education earlier.. .


Nonsense!! !!

When I saw this, i started laughing. ...


You thyself judge.. .

Talk make hin go.. .he go. U call am back. Hin come. Now he do con come out. You talk say life precious pass. Make hin take care of himself.. He con go back.. .what gan. ..i be president make I con die
...say whatever you like.. .you dey crase well!

Elfaris:
Nawa o, you said system and you're showing us structure.. Wehdon

am I supposed to show system

Lalasticlala

See

Unilag ulultra modern library in progress

More.. .

See more

The debate continues here.

Which university has the best library system?

In terms ofbooks available, being conducive, Etc.

Which library? ?

Ibadan, Lagos, Abuja, Ife?? Which one

Pls i no fit laugh alone:
MADAM AND THE G.O (GENERAL OVERSEER) on phone.

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MADAM- Hello sir. Pls sir I need your prayers. I'm very worried.
GO- Madam, nipa ife Olugbala, ki yio si nkan. Whatapun?
MADAM- It's my baby that's giving me concern. All the time he's watching CBBC. He's not acting matured at all. I want you to help me pray for him to start acting his age.
GO- Which one is CCB?
MADAM- CBBC is one of the channels for children.
GO- Madam, I think you are just worrying unnecessarily o. Sebi baby le pe? He or she will outgrow that stage. Omode si ni. E joo, e ma fi tipatipa gba childhood e lowo e. O le affect e lojo iwaju. Madam, e je ko sere e.
MADAM- When i say baby, I mean my husband. I'm not talking of a child. He's an adult!
GO- Haa.... madam it's your husband that you are calling baby?! Eyin le ba nkan je o. Don't you know there's power of life and death in our tongue? So are you surprised he's acting the name you are calling him? How long have you been calling him baby?
MADAM- Since we got married about 15 years ago. That's just his pet name.
GO- Pet? So wa je aja ni? How can you be treating a human being like a domestic animal. Ko l'oruko ni? Ogun afowofa buruku leleyi. It's you that'll use that your same mouth to change it o. Apa mi o ka.
[Call ends]
G.O talking to himself after the call:
I don't know what's wrong with some of these women. Some of them will call their husbands oloriburuku...were....and all sorts of nasty names. When the man starts exhibiting the qualities in those appellations, like
1) Wearing academic gown to the Senate,
2) Lying that he has degrees from Harvard, and London,
3) Singing Ajekun iya ni o je, etc

They'll now be running to me for prayers. Oshisko!
E ma wo eleyi, ogun to fi 15 yrs gbin sinu aye oko e lo fe ki nmu jade just like dat?!
E joo e ma yo mi lenu jare!. Eje kin gbadun weekend mi...

As for me, I pick HEaven. Lol.. .


Tell me what WIll You pick if you are the one?