₦airaland Forum

What we are seeing in this pix never happened in any military rule.

Those condemning Buhari should take note.

Start parking ur things May 29th is not far. I'll advice you to renovate kirikiri prison now, better install A/C because you can't escape it.

With N215 to a dollar?

anonyguy:
Op please check your link again.. Ain't going here.. I need to watch this video

Check 's Facebook page posted about 2days ago. Video is on her page.

I downloaded the video.
https://fbcdn-video-h-a.akamaihd.net/hvideo-ak-xfp1/v/t42.1790-2/10997211_690705861040000_2106050985_n.mp4?oh=aaaedbca4f0a01dc589dd181edac7485&oe=54F5C7C3&__gda__=1425395488_79eb7ce26a26ee9a579948544050cb16

Who is inciting violence now?

After GEJ go start his (na wash) talk "my ambition is not worth anyone's blood"

#Ihavedecided to vote for #Change.

FG Lied: Annual budget is N20 Trillion, not N4.3 Trillion – Reps


The House of Representatives said on Sunday that the Federal Government’s yearly expenditure was “over N20tn,” contrary to the N4.6tn (2014) or N4.3tn (2015) disclosed to Nigerians as the country’s annual public budget.

The president had on the 23rd of February 2015, made the remarks putting the Annual budget at between N4.3 trillion and N4.9 trillion yearly. This he did while defending the allegation by the Former CBN Governor,  Charles Soludo that N30 trillion had either been mismanaged or missing.

Its Public Accounts Committee, which made the disclosure in Abuja, noted that, an ongoing examination of the finances of government and its 601 agencies showed that the N4.3tn given as the total spending budget for this year was a “far cry” from the reality.


The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Adeola Solomon-Olamilekan, who spoke on the issue, explained that, unknown to Nigerians, the N4.3tn, for example, did not include the expenditure of many “statutory and extra-ministerial departments” of government.

He added that his committee found out that these other agencies not captured in the regular budget, generated and spent their money as it pleased them without seeking the approval of the National Assembly.

The lawmaker put the budget of these other bodies at over N16tn.

Solomon-Olamilekan explained further, “The N4.9tn, N4.6tn or N4.3tn, as the case may be, is the budget that the whole Nigerians are listening to but in the true sense of it, the budget of other statutory and extra-ministerial departments put together is about N16tn.

“So, the total overall budget year in year out is over N20tn, which the executive arm operates, but nobody is asking questions as to the implementation of all these budgets.

“Nobody is bringing information on the implementation of all these budgets; and this is one area Nigerians need to start asking questions in order to move this country forward.”

Solomon-Olamilekan stated that though the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, made adequate provisions on how these bodies should be held accountable, the law was observed in breach.

He cited the “stifling” of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation as one of the ways to shield government agencies from opening their books to scrutiny.

Solomon-Olamilekan said this was done by starving the office of funds “over the years” to a point where it no longer had the financial power to effectively audit the accounts of the implementation agencies of government and its extra-ministerial departments.

For instance, he revealed how the government cut the capital budget of the AGF’ office from N1.9bn to a “meagre” N100m in 2015.

The lawmaker said his committee was at a loss on how the AGF’s office would audit the accounts of 601 agencies with N100m and the country’s 144 foreign missions.

The PAC chairman added, “How can we imagine that the capital budget of the office of AGF for the year 2015 was reduced from N1.9bn to N100?

“Can you also imagine an office of the AGF that has 144 foreign missions to audit and as we speak, between 1999 to date, that office has not audited up to 30 of these foreign missions while three quarter of these foreign missions are also revenue generating agencies?

“So, there is nobody to audit the revenue generated and the expenditure they incur.

“The office of the AGF has been short-changed and the budget has been reduced to nothing. As such, the government of the day is having a field day to carry out whatever its wants to do because they know they have an office that is not functioning.”

The PAC has also been saddled with the responsibility of retrieving the full report on the audit investigation into the $20bn reportedly ‘missing’ from the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation from the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

The House had, in plenary on Wednesday last week, given the minister seven days to submit the full report to the lawmakers.

The president had earlier made the remarks putting the Anual budget at between N4.3 trillion and N4.9 trillion yearly, this was as he was trying to oppose an article that had been put forward by the former CB Governor, Charles Soludo.  Jonathan had sought to explain widespread impression of his government as being terribly corrupt, saying such allegations are often fed by spurious claims made by notable figures like Mr. Soludo.

“So you’ll see that there is a lot of politicking about some of the serious issues. Not too long ago I read in one of the papers, I think Vanguard, that former chief economic adviser to President Obasanjo who also went to become a CBN governor… Soludo is a professor and first class material. Yes, making a first class in economics, he is a brilliant person. His secondary school records are fantastic. So by all standards he is a brilliant person. So the Vanguard wrote that he accused Ngozi; that N30 trillion was stolen under the watch of Ngozi in four years,” the president said.“Ngozi became a finance minister, let’s say from 2011 till date. From that time till now, our annual budget is between N4.3 trillion and N4.9 trillion. So even if you put all together, it is about 18 plus trillion naira, and not 30 trillion. The budget for these four years is less than N20 trillion, but Soludo said that under Ngozi’s watch they stole N30 trillion. This is in the papers, social media, stored in the clouds and will continue to be there. And when you type it in it will come out that during President Jonathan’s time they stole N30 trillion.”
But while the president hinged his explanation on realized budget figures for Nigeria annually, Mr. Soludo, in his article, based his N30 trillion claim on funds available to the government, amounts not reconciled and what the country should have earned earn if there had been quality economic policies.
“Under you as the Minister of Finance and coordinator of the economy, the basket of our national treasury is leaking profusely from all sides. Just a few illustrations,” he wrote to the finance minister in January.

“First, you admit that ‘oil theft’ has reduced oil output from the average 2.3 – 2.4 million barrels per day to 1.95 mpd (meaning that at least 350,000 to 450,000 barrels per day are being ‘stolen’). On the average of 400,000 per day and the oil prices over the past four years, it comes to about $60bn ‘stolen’ in just four years.
“In today’s exchange rate, that is about N12.6tn. This is at a time of cessation of crisis in the Niger Delta and the amnesty programme. Can you tell Nigerians how much the amnesty programme costs, and also the annual cost for ‘protecting’ the pipelines and security of oil wells? And the ‘thieves’ are spirits?
“Second, my earlier article stated that the minimum forex reserves should have been at least $90bn by now and you did not challenge it. Rather, it is about $30bn, meaning that gross mismanagement has denied the country some $60bn or another N12.6tn. Now, add the ‘missing’ $20bn from the NNPC. You promised a forensic audit report ‘soon’, and more than a year later, the report itself is still ‘missing’. This is over N4tn, and we don’t know how much more has ‘missed’ since Sanusi cried out.“How many trillions of naira were paid for oil subsidy (unappropriated?)? How many trillions (in actual fact) have been ‘lost’ through customs duty waivers over the last four years? As coordinator of the economy, can you tell Nigerians why the price of Automotive Gas Oil, popularly called diesel, has still not come down despite the crash in global crude oil prices, and how much is being appropriated by friends in the process?
“Be honest: Do you really know (as coordinator and minister of finance) how many trillions of naira self- financing government agencies earn and spend? I have a long list but let me wait for now. I do not want to talk about other ‘black pots’ that impinge on national security.”
Mr. Soludo added, “My estimate, Madam, is that probably more than N30tn has either been stolen, or lost, or unaccounted for, or simply mismanaged under your watchful eyes in the past four years. Since you claimed to be in charge, Nigerians are right to ask you to account. Think about what this amount could mean for the 112 million poor Nigerians, or for our schools, hospitals, roads, etc.“Soon, you will start asking the citizens to pay this or that tax, while some faceless ‘thieves’ are pocketing over $40m per day from oil alone.”

In his interview with ThisDay, the president said after reading the former CBN governor’s claims, they (cabinet members) simply asked Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala about the impression of her former colleagues at the World Bank, about Mr. Soludo’s charges. He said they were convinced it was political.

“We asked Ngozi how her colleagues in the World Bank saw the accusation and she said they were laughing and couldn’t believe it. There are certain things that you just cannot believe and if that is coming from somebody considered to be cerebral like Professor Soludo, then of course you know what the ordinary person would say. It is all political,” the president said.



http://www.nigerianeye.com/2015/03/fgs-annual-budget-is-n20-trillion-not.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&m=1

Ministry’s audit reports indict Wik
February 26, 2015
Written by Bisi Olaniyi, Port Harcourt

An internal audit reports of the Federal Ministry of Education have indicted Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governoship candidate, Nyesom Wike.

 The audit reports were for 2013 and 2014, when the Rivers PDP’s standard bearer was in charge at the Federal Ministry of Education.

 Following the 2011 general elections, Wike was made the Minister of State for Education and was later elevated as the Supervising Minister of Education. But with the 2014 appointment of Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau as the substantive ministe, Wike reverted to his former position.

He resigned last year to seek nomination of the PDP to succeed Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

Wike, a former Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt and a two-term Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State,  denied the issues raised in the audit reports.

 The PDP candidate, who spoke through the Chairman of Media and Publicity Committee of his campaign organisation, Emma Okah, said: “The issues raised in the purported audit reports are false, unfounded and a figment of the imagination of the originators.”

The auditors expressed shock that after resigning as minister, late last year, Wike refused to hand over five official vehicles of the Federal Ministry of Education.

 The audit report noted: “Recently, representatives of the ministry were sent to the former Minister of State for Education (Wike) to recover the five official vehicles with him, as is the normal procedure, but he blatantly refused handing over the vehicles.

 “It was later discovered that he had already offered one of the vehicles, a Toyota Landcruiser  Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) to the Rivers State Chairman of the PDP (Chief Felix Obuah). The vehicles he is yet to hand over are: two Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep, a Toyota Prado jeep, a Toyota Lexus jeep and a Toyota Pickup (Hilux).”

 The 2013 revelation by the auditors involved N2.9 billion, consisting of N2.4 billion for the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs’) intervention projects in schools in the six geo-political zones and N500 million for monitoring of the MDGs’ projects.

 The audit report on the MDGs’ projects in schools stated: “None of these projects was fully executed. This is in direct contradiction of extant financial regulations. Payments were made for the projects, even as none was executed. Payments made were totally devoid of the following procedures, which are mandatory for any government payment to contractors: minute of ministerial tenders’ board committee and completion certificate…”


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/ministrys-audit-reports-indict-wike/

pacifique:
But the Bible teaches him 'forgiveness'. More so, that he is a "pastor".

How old are you?
Childish talk.

DEFAMATION: Osinbajo Seeks N2b Damages Against Fani-Kayode
March 3, 2015 • By admin

Henry Ojelu

Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the running mate of All Progressives Congress, APC’s presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, has commenced a legal action against Femi Fani-Kayode over claims that he swore an oath with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He is seeking N2 billion damages and other reliefs for the alleged defamatory statement made against him by Fani-Kayode.

Fani-Kayode, the spokesman for the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, during a press conference held recently in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital,  had alleged that Prof. Osinbajo had a secret oath with Bola Tinubu to be his surrogate as Vice President for a period of six months after which he, Osinbajo would resign.

Fani-Kayode had also alleged that the secret oath was to give way for Tinubu to eventually become VP to Gen Buhari in the event that the APC wins the presidential election.

In a pre-litigation letter, Prof Osinbajo through his lawyer, Femi Falana, demanded a retraction of the defamatory statement which was published in national print and electronic media.

In the letter, Falana contended that the statement credited to Fani-Kayode portrayed Osinbanjo as someone who is complicit in a fraud against the Nigerian people.

Falana said that the statement was a vicious, wicked and reckless ploy to impugn the reputation of Osinbajo and lower him in the estimation of right thinking members of the public.

The letter stated: “The direct meaning, purport and innuendo or insinuation of the false, misleading and defamatory statement is that our client, Prof. Osinbajo is deceitful and participating in a devise that constitutes subterfuge and lacks integrity in concert with others who you also describe as evil, insensitive, wicked, selfish and desperate.”

Falana also alleged that Fani-Kayode’s statement portrayed Osinbajo who is a pastor, professor of law, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, as having engaged in a conduct that is incompatible with his faith, role and ethic as a senior and respected lawyer.

Falana subsequently demanded from Fani-Kayode an immediate retraction of the offensive and derogatory publication and an apology which must be aired on four television stations and published in four national newspapers with N2 billion as payment for damages already caused by the publication.

Falana said his client would proceed to the court to seek appropriate legal redress if  Fani-Kayode failed to comply with his demands.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/03/defamation-osinbajo-seeks-n2b-damages-against-fani-kayode/

Unibenstudent:
The answer is simple to deceive Nigerians into reelecting him,Nigerians its all a drama..just think yourself as watching a poorly scripted Nigerian film..that's why he always surrounds himself by people in nollywood.

Because hour believes Nigerians are fools to believe anything thrown at them.

If Buhari can make GEJ wake up from 6yrs of slumber, imagine what he would do when he is president.

#Change

@op read this letter with shipopo's pix on it, make it a video do it can go viral.

No everyone visit Nairaland.
Very beautiful piece I must confess.

Obviously PDP want to rig the election.
With card reader, rigging is less possible.

My brother, this is exactly the same question I asked myself few days ago.

I bought dear shares till date no certificate and no dividends.
It's all scam!
#WhereIsMyDaarShareCertificate

pastorKosiso:
Buhari can't stand GEJ..... Olevel and PhD no be mate....

Ur PhD president defined "stealing is not corruption" as "when you leave goat and yam together, the goat will chop the yam"

If this is what it takes to be a PhD holder, abeg make I go learn work.

#Chai this man no get shame at all

Sometimes I wonder the way people think about this debate of a thing.

We all know who ran away in 2011 because he wasn't given questions in advance.

A man who define "stealing is not corruption" as "you leave a goat a yam the goat will chop yam"

I hope Buhari debates GEJ and see who will bring shame to this nation.

GEJ is not formal in his speeches, I wonder how he got his degree.

Ministry’s audit reports indict Wik
February 26, 2015
Written by Bisi Olaniyi, Port Harcourt

An internal audit reports of the Federal Ministry of Education have indicted Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governoship candidate, Nyesom Wike.

 The audit reports were for 2013 and 2014, when the Rivers PDP’s standard bearer was in charge at the Federal Ministry of Education.

 Following the 2011 general elections, Wike was made the Minister of State for Education and was later elevated as the Supervising Minister of Education. But with the 2014 appointment of Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau as the substantive ministe, Wike reverted to his former position.

He resigned last year to seek nomination of the PDP to succeed Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

Wike, a former Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt and a two-term Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State,  denied the issues raised in the audit reports.

 The PDP candidate, who spoke through the Chairman of Media and Publicity Committee of his campaign organisation, Emma Okah, said: “The issues raised in the purported audit reports are false, unfounded and a figment of the imagination of the originators.”

The auditors expressed shock that after resigning as minister, late last year, Wike refused to hand over five official vehicles of the Federal Ministry of Education.

 The audit report noted: “Recently, representatives of the ministry were sent to the former Minister of State for Education (Wike) to recover the five official vehicles with him, as is the normal procedure, but he blatantly refused handing over the vehicles.

 “It was later discovered that he had already offered one of the vehicles, a Toyota Landcruiser  Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) to the Rivers State Chairman of the PDP (Chief Felix Obuah). The vehicles he is yet to hand over are: two Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep, a Toyota Prado jeep, a Toyota Lexus jeep and a Toyota Pickup (Hilux).”

 The 2013 revelation by the auditors involved N2.9 billion, consisting of N2.4 billion for the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs’) intervention projects in schools in the six geo-political zones and N500 million for monitoring of the MDGs’ projects.

 The audit report on the MDGs’ projects in schools stated: “None of these projects was fully executed. This is in direct contradiction of extant financial regulations. Payments were made for the projects, even as none was executed. Payments made were totally devoid of the following procedures, which are mandatory for any government payment to contractors: minute of ministerial tenders’ board committee and completion certificate…”


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/ministrys-audit-reports-indict-wike/

Why now?

PDP accepting defeat already.

Up GMB!

I have never seen a party as dull as PDP.
Attacking Tinubu is giving APC more popularity. We all know it's not possible. Do you think Osinbajo is your mate to be brain washed?

PDP has failed obviously and they have nothing to campaign on. Can somebody fast forward March 28th? PDP need exit door, let us try another party.

Is FFK still talking?
After failed planned protest?
With 2 count charge in court with Festus Keyamo against him?

He should be thinking of how to put A/C in kirikiri o, those prisoners go blow e yansh eh! Na napkin e go dey wear, I swear.

Yes this video confirmed it, it's true!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152755079911939&id=602596938&_rdr

Or here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAtLpywjtA

authenticated:
Is a shame to nigerian journalists that they can't carryout such press conference in the country. How many nigerians will listen or watch this interview. Is he speaking to the citizens of uk and few nigerians in tthe diaspora. Or he should be speaking to we nigerians and the s.'s. I don't really know what is so special about this so called chatham house that Apc and their bunch of thugs won't let someone rest.

Bad belle!
NSA did same there was nothing wrong, in case you don't know, GEJ is a gonna, international community already know that GMB is our next president.

Deal with it.

PDP script abi?

Will be on by 11am

Who is now taking us back?

Fayose new title is MUP
Mentally
Unstable
Person

Woke and Fayose are birds of same feather.

Bunch of touts.

femicyrus:
I don't get, why is it that Nigeria is moving forward around Gej but in reality, we are actually going backward. I was expecting inprovement in power supply after all the commissioning of new power plants but now the normal 4hrs per day in my area had been reduced to less than 40minutes in 3days. Can we say APC is also responsible? Or what? If you have noticed any positive changes about power supply in your area recently please share here

Commissioning done to deceive voters? I laugh in swahili

Truth is like plastic inside water, no matter how you bury it, it will sure come out.

Lec25:
Sai GEJ, The man with the answer of nigeria economic problem

Wake up day don break.
A US dollar is N215

MEILYN:
Robot, how far nah? Na 24 hours you dey work?

Na robot na! Them programme am to work round clock.

When campaign is finished.
GMB giving PDP touts sleepless nights.

Buhari, the mention name in Nigeria. That's popularity. Can somebody fast forward March 28, I just can't wait to make this credible man president.

PrinceMario:
Please kindly fill in the blank space.

South West Governors and their profession

1) Lagos State Governor ------ Lawyer/SAN

2) Ogun State Governor -------- Chartered
Accountant

3) Osun State Governor -------- Engineer

4) Ondo State Governor -------- Medical Doctor

5) Oyo State Governor------- Business
Administrator/ (BA, MBA)

5) Ekiti State Governor ----------- ...............
..........?

Ekiti Gov. - (MUP) Mentally Unstable Person