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datguru:
What about the loot ?

A former vice president and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar, may be setting a precedent as he plans to earn a token N1 as salary per annum, if he is elected president in the February 2015 election.

This indication emerged on Saturday ahead of the Policy Retreat Review at the Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, which begins Monday.
The retreat is part of the campaign strategies of the former vice president, who on September 24, formally declared his intention to seek the APC ticket, come December.
The Nigerian president currently earns a basic salary of N3.5 million annually while the vice president takes N3.03 million.
However, the president is entitled to other benefits/allowances. These are regular allowances such as hardship allowance of N1.7 million; Constituency allowance, N8.7 million; leave allowance of N351,470.50: severance gratuity N10.5 million; and motor vehicle loan N14.1 million.
The other allowances are for accommodation, furniture, utility, vehicle maintenance, entertainment, medical, security allowance, newspaper/periodicals and domestic staff. The costs are not provided by the Commission Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, the body which fixes the emoluments of Nigeria’s political, public and judicial office holders.
Mr. Abubakar, who served for eight years as vice president in the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2003, had earned an annual basic salary of N1,938,000, the same as the Senate President and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, before it was reviewed upwards in 2009 by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC.
At the time, Mr. Obasanjo earned N2,586,000 per annum.

Raiders:
Tb Joshua is nothing but a scam artist

WIZGUY69:

it will end soon I believe.
the people that did it are the main boko.
the ones clamouring for cease fire are fake ones.
thank you

PinkObsession:
Do marry abeg

disloman:
What is this again?thot. They av agreed on ceasefire.

1shortblackboy:
HIAN MAKE DEM NO DO O!! IF CHERNOBYL KIND OF SCENARIO HAPPEN HERE NKO. GOD ABEG O

JEITO:
take it easy bro! U kw american sabi feel like king of kings

ChimaAdeoye:
E be like say dem don kill senator or politician pikin. That is the only time that killing Nigerians is unacceptable.

Max24:
Why didnt the Apc forward their letter too to EFCC, ICPC concerning the Diezanis $20b accusation. Why did they and Sanusi make it a media war?

Federal Government has said that the construction of Abuja (Idu)-Kaduna Standard guage rail line is 85 percent complete and would be delivered by December this year.

The Minister of Transport, Senator Idiris Umar, said this in Abuja at the 2014 Ministerial Press briefing on the programmes and projects of the ministry and its agencies. He said the ministry has been working in the past two years to provide the nation alternative transport system with the railway.

He said that out of the projected 187.5km rail line, the ministry has achieved 155 km, adding that the remaining 32 km would be completed and delivered by the end of this year.

He said that the Abuja-Kaduna standard guage rail project was funded with the $500 million facilities from the China Exim Bank.
Also, he said that the construction and the rehabilitation of Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard guage rail line would be completed by the second quarter of 2015, adding that the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan standard guage (double track) 2 x 180km had been awarded and would commence as soon as funding arrangement is concluded. He said the ministry has also awarded rehabilitation contracts to the tune of N1.616 trillion covering 1,796 km rail lines.

“These include the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan 180km standard guage valued at $1.53 billion, awarded to CCECC Nig. Ltd; the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard guage line covering 274km, awarded to Julius Berger at a cost of N33.1 billion; the Lagos-Kano modernisation rail project, awarded to CCECC Nig. Ltd. at a cost of $8.3 billion covering 1,342.50km, out of which $257.4 million has been paid by the federal government.

Through the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC and with the administration’s determination to revive and modernise the railway system in line with the 25-year strategic vision to bring back the railways to remove the pressure on roads, the rail lines are getting renewed attention, which was unprecedented since the 1980s.”

Giving further update on ministry’s achievements, Senator Umar said the main target was to connect the six geopolitical zones via speed rails so as to make transportation of persons and goods easier and less stressful.”

He said the number of passengers’ conveyed by rail line increased from 4,155,988 in 2012 to 4,328,789 in 2013 with a projection of over 5,000,000 passengers by the end of 2014.

Gorgeous58:
What other method will be more effective?

tomakint:
.....and this is the same man some bloody fools here called 'Baba ooo' some miserable elements here even called him their 'Best Nigeria President Ever Liveth' indeed, the youths are Nigeria's current problem! True talk Sir! Obasanjo is a bloody hypocrite who deserves no second look for the woes he indirectly brought to Nigeria. The r.ape on our constitution was his Government-led 1979 constitution for instance...

tomakint:
.....and this is the same man some bloody fools here called 'Baba ooo' some miserable elements here even called him their 'Best Nigeria President Ever Liveth' indeed, the youths are Nigeria's current problem! True talk Sir! Obasanjo is a bloody hypocrite who deserves no second look for the woes he indirectly brought to Nigeria. The r.ape on our constitution was his Government-led 1979 constitution for instance...

nuclearboy:
Who wants to wager? They will keep postponing the review until after elections THEN will implement the 4000 payment