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Facility
There are different criteria for the facility preparation for GMP inspection. Mostly base on the nature and scale of business.
Micro industry can use Room self with kitchen that is properly ventilated or 2 rooms with kitchen.
Small scale can go from 2bedroom to mini hall that is properly label and partition to differentiate the production process.
Factory are the big player and they build it most times to follows guidelines that are closely monitor.

Call 08185401797 for requirement
● NAFDAC registration for all local and foreign products
● NAFDAC Import, Export and Advert Permit for all NAFDAC regulated products
● Trademark registration for products, brand name and Logo #40,000
● End User Certificate (EUC) for special purpose import permit
● SONCAP registration and SONCAP import permit
● Business name registration with CAC #12,500

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Let discuss why some product fails at NAFDAC
1 ~ Poor packaging: Local or foreign product regulated by nafdac should follow proper guidelines for product packaging. If you packaging are complicated, nafdac will invite you to come and explain your mode of packaging. They send email and calls to your correspond number twice which if your responds to the compliance issue rised your product will be rejected.

2 ~ Poor product Labelling: as consultant, I have seen the worst of Labelling, using not properly spelled, poor use of English languages in description of product, omitting nafdac no spot, production and expiration date with batch no section on the label

3 ~ Lab analysis .. Sometimes client need to understand that passing GMP is not the real deal but scaling lab analysis. Whatever you might had submitted to lab is not the final, clients have to be deliberate about what they package for lab, what you had submitted as lab analysis will be checked in the laboratory of nafdac. Once an infractions is detected your product will be rejected.

I will share more details as time goes bye. These are some of the infractions noticed this month approval meeting and the product released.
All the seven local products submitted for July and six out of the Nine product submitted in the different nafdac offices in August were approved but 2 came out rejected due most to poor product handling by clients . The good thing is that we will be resubmitting the products in September.

Other services we render ...
~ Trademark registration for #40,000
~ Business name registration for #12,500
~ Soncap registration
~ NAFDAC import and advert permit

Call or chat 08185401797 for enquiries and requirements

With the rising in dollar to Naira and the economic challenges in Nigeria, many entrepreneurs are looking inward while those in the food and drinks packaging space are looking to officially get the regulatory body to recognize their products to be able to fill the gap that foreign SKU are leaving due to challenge of sourcing for dollar and regulation issues.
NAFDAC as a body incharge of regulatory of Foods, water packaging, beverage, bread, local chops and drinks like zoo, yogurts, Soya beans, tigernut etc packaging will have to approve your products before any super stores or supermarket can collect your good for display.
I will be taking you through what the hurdles you will face are and how to resolve compliance issues too. So I will be glad to get all your questions.

You can call 08185401797 if you don't want question in public domain, I will attend to you and also throw Somelight on it here too.
So welcome to this journey of NAFDAC regulations made issue.

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I will be answering some challenging questions and requirements for your local and foreign food packaging or import permit to bring your products into Nigeria market.
Do you have compliance notices or you are having difficult on the step to take ing registering your products.
Drop you questions and I will treat it as soon as possible. Free of charge

Good one, lot of start-up have this challenges. Most times when they seek NAFDAC registration we are confronted with poorly packed products. We NAFDAC consultant try our best to educate and shows them the need to have the right packing system to save shelves life of products

Sometimes we need to start forcing them to stay home

madampresident:
That costs alot

Yes, the government is trying to make sure that every tom dick and harry dont bring in goods into the country, turning the country into dumping ground. They are also trying to encourage local producer to compete favourably

Have you ever try importing food and drinks into Nigeria. The process is not that friendly trying to do it all alone, in the processes of find out information, I learnt a lot of useful things and not useful information, I made a lot of friends too.

■ So let me share what I find out about Nafdac import permit and registration

Registering your food or drinks are in stages of about 3 but the true is that you have within 180days of applying for NAFDAC registration to complete all the process. So you have to be financially ready and willing to provide all necessary documents been asked for.

1st stage -
● Registration form is #2500
● Import permit $135
● Processing fee $1161
● Certification fee $135

Documents most have for this stage

1. CAC certificate (company here in Nigeria)
2. Trademark (Brand name of the product)
3. Power of Attorney or Contract manufacturing agreement
4. Contract manufacturing agreement
5. Free Sales certificate
6. Comprehensive certificate of Analysis
7. GMP invitation letter

Stage 2

if you want to complete the processes to bring in goods in bulk quantity *(truck load or container of the goods in MT)*.
■ GMP inspection fee is $11,500 VAT inclusive.
Breakdown
Official payment is $10,990
PR for consultant is $510
paid within 180 days of starting your NAFDAC registration.

You will need to lease or rent a warehouse and fumigate it

You also will have to add documentation fee for this � depending on your pocket and consultant estimated this to cost between 300k to 500k

♢ Power of Attorney or Contract manufacturing agreement
♢ Contract manufacturing agreement
♢ Free Sales certificate
♢ Comprehensive certificate of Analysis
♢ GMP invitation letter
♢ Plus ETLS doc from ECOWAS if it is from ECOWAS countries
♢ Fumigation of warehouse agreement and certificate
♢ Product analysis
♢ health and embassy clearfloods for goods and personal from Nigeria embassy or Ecowas abroad offices

Some above requirements will be issued both here in Nigeria and the company of origin of the goods.

Summary
if you want to bring goods in trucks or containers loads
Import Permit - $135
Processing fee - $1,161 per variant
Certificate - $135
GMP Inspection - $11,500
Documentation - #300,000 or #500,000
Cost of warehouse - depend on size and location
Admin Approval fee - $2322 (official or government approved fee)

Also note that if any mistake happens during analysis and you are to reapply for another analysis NAFDAC charges #140,500 with vat inclusive.

Hope this explanation is useful and clear enough for bulk importation, this are only NAFDAC processing and documentation fees. You go find out how to do your custom import duty wahala from their agents or I can provide one for you if you need one.

■ Note..
This figures are mostly as a result of my effort asking around and working with some good agents here in Lagos. They are other requirements that time and space won't permit me to write here.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK OR CHAT ME UP.
SEE YOU FOR MORE UPDATE

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Hello everyone,
Congratulations to those shortlisted by the kaduna state government for CBT test, which started 7am today 7/10/2019. For the 47 candidate that have written wishing you all the best of luck and for those yet to write here are some tips to help you prepare that is if you see the message before 1pm.
General view of the exam, I will say it a great initiative tailored along the FMCG employability test, so if you were able to do the mock test then you are a step head of others.
Most of the 30 questions are on logic and arithmetic, 4 history and 3 use of English mostly opposite of some words like condign or similarity of ...... . If you are currently reading everything about kaduna state like I did than you in for a shocker of you life.
Go back to mean, medium, Area, perimeter, radius, percentage and x+y calculation. 20min for 30 question, each question carries 2mark just like the mock test
Good luck guys

Eleven-year-old George is disrespectful. When Mom says, “No,” George uses sarcasm or a mean remark as he leaves the room. When Dad gives an instruction, George rolls his eyes or makes an offhanded remark. Mom and Dad try to talk to George and explain why he needs to follow instructions or why Mom said, “No.” George responds disrespectfully. Mom and Dad are frustrated because nothing seems to work.

George has a problem. His pattern of expressing his displeasure is inappropriate. He needs correction. But the focus of the correction needs to be on the way he’s treating his parents.

Dr. Scott Turansky shared the scenario above in his Christian Parenting Handbook. He went on to give the steps the parents in this situation used for correcting their son’s disrespect: No more dialogue about the issue, but instead, move quickly to the process of how the child is handling the conflict. The parents corrected for George’s tone of voice, sarcasm, and poor choice of words and required a better response from him before moving forward.

This strategy began to work. Instead of getting mired in the issue – getting homework done, doing chores, etc. – they immediately focus on the real issue: the disrespect the child is using in interactions with his parents.

So what’s the one thing to do if you want respectful kids? Focus on how your child treats you – the words they use and their attitude – instead of getting sidetracked onto the specific incident at hand.

Here’s another great example of how to do this from Dr. Turansky.
1. Understand the problem.
Gary realized that his teenage daughter was disrespectful to him in front of her friends. He’d seen the same sarcasm and unkindness when they were alone, but it was particularly disturbing in front of others. Gary knew that although the “public” routine matched the “private” routine, the embarrassment was greater with an audience.

2. Come up with a plan.
Gary didn’t want to just look good in public, however, so he began to change the way he and his daughter related in private. When Gary sensed that his daughter was being rude, sarcastic, or unkind in their discussions, he’d stop the dialogue with a statement such as “That wasn’t kind” or “You don’t have to treat me unkindly because we disagree.”

3. Have a Plan B.
In some situations the comment was enough for his daughter to snap back into healthier dialogue. On a couple of occasions though, his daughter was particularly angry and refused to back down. Dad required a break from the dialogue to settle down and even told his daughter that she needed to stay off the computer and even out of her bedroom until she was willing to talk to him about the problem in a mature way.

4. Act confidently, but calmly.
After working on the relating pattern for a few weeks, Gary found himself again receiving disrespect in front of his daughter’s friends, but this time he was ready. Gary called his daughter out of the group into the other room and confronted her. She received the correction in part because of the homework that he’d done the preceding weeks, and she knew he was serious about the change.

5. Be patient.
Patterns take time to adjust and often require that parents focus on relational routines. The next time you’re frustrated with the interaction you see from your child, stop and consider whether it’s a pattern. If so, try to figure out what the triggers are that get it started. Next, identify some new ways of relating. Then practice them over and over again until they become the new habit. Remember this great metaphor for how children are works in progress too.

Do you think these ideas will help you get your children to be more respectful? Are you patient with your kids when they’re disrespectful or do you blow up?

https://blog.edupoint.org.ng/2018/08/08/want-respectful-kids-do-this-one-thing/

ATIKU AND THE JEFFERSON SCANDAL

Atiku Abubakar was Nigeria’s vice president from 1999-2007. He has not visited the the United States since leaving office. He blames it on US authorities not granting him visa to visit the country. Anyway, it is connected to a corruption case concerning one William Jefferson, a former American Congress man. He was involved in promoting US businesses in Africa.

In June 2006, a letter from the Attorney-General of the United States sought the help of the Nigerian government to investigate a case of bribery, wired fraud and conspiracy involving a US company iGate and Netlink Digital Telivision (NDTV), a Nigerian company. The US listed the names of thirty persons involved in the deal and Atiku Abubakar is believed to be one of them. The request was an opportunity for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to handle another high profile corruption case, this time involving the number two citizen of Nigeria.

How did the failed deal unfold?

The Nigerian company NDTV had entered a deal to procure some information technology equipment from iGate for its proposed satellite television. Jefferson had infracted US law in his dealings, but the US needed Nigeria to help nab his collaborators.
Atiku was suspected of using his office as Vice President to corruptly enrich himself and his friends who were involved in the deal on the Nigerian side. He was also suspected to be prepared to received kick-backs from Jefferson for the role he played in facilitating the deal.

Atiku’s involvement stems from his role as the supervisor of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). President Obasanjo had in April 2003 approved 125million Dollars for the running of the PTDF. With the knowledge of Atiku, the amount was deposited in Trans International Bank (TIB) and Equitorial Trust Bank (ETB).

In October 2003, without the approval of the Federal Executive Council, Atiku gave the Accountant General of the Federation the go ahead to release some 20million dollars to the PTDF.
If the findings of the administrative panel that examined EFCC report on the scandal is anything to go by, the Executive Secretary of the PTDF Yusuf Abubakar on receiving the 20million dollars deposited same for 365days in an interest yielding account in TIB. 
In the heat of the investigation the Executive Secretary fled the country.
Let’s look at the amounts deposited in TIB:

Findings have it that the initial 10million Dollars deposited in the Bank as PTDF money was converted to loan for NDTV owned by Atiku and friends. From EFCC report as soon as the PTDF’s Secretary deposited the second installment of 20million Dollars, NDTV received another loan of 730 million Naira.

According to the EFCC, it was from these loans that NDTV remitted 6.5 million Dollars to US Company iGate.
The EFCC suspected Atiku was a direct beneficiary of the deal as he had interest in NDTV. Reports have it that the office complex of NDTV in Abuja belongs to Atiku. The EFCC also reported that the office complex was bought with part of the money meant for PTDF.

The EFCC report also reveals that it was after some 50 million Dollars of PTDF money was deposited in Equitorial Trust Bank that Mike Adenuga’s Globacom paid 20million Dollars non refundable deposit to the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) for the bidding of the second National Order. 
You would recall that Adenuga had interest in the defunct Equitorial Bank. The EFCC also suspected that Atiku has 12.5% share in Globacom.
According to the commission, the 12.5% share belonging to one Prince Babatunde Akinyera was only a front for Atiku.

Atiku was therefore accused by the administrative panel set up by President Obasanjo of abusing his office and diverting federal government money into private ventures. The panel wondered why Atiku was in a hurry to release funds meant for future project far ahead of time. Doing this in flagrant disobedience of due process raised serious questions of corruption.

Atiku had said he disbursed the money without recourse to FEC having received the approval of Obasanjo for the 125million Dollars. He felt there was no need going back to request approval to spend the money.

The panel indicted Atiku and recommended he be brought before the Code of Conduct Bureau for necessary action.

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State Affairs

ATIKU IN A CAGE

Wole Soyinka recently corroborated the story of how Obasanjo had to beg Atiku to retain the presidential ticket of the PDP in 2003. Atiku had the party in his pocket.
Soyinka spoke at a reading session in Lagos, to mark the presentation of his latest book, “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Gani’s Unfinished Business”.

In his words:

“Before the PDP primaries in January 2003, Obasanjo got everyone he knew could reach me on the surface of the earth including Yemi Ogunbiyi and my son, to get me to help him intercede when it was clear that (Abubakar) Atiku was in a position to take his job”

“But I can confirm to you that Obasanjo as President knelt down before Atiku so that he would not lose his job”

He continues:

“But I warned Atiku that for making Obasanjo to kneel down for you, be sure you would have to pay heavily for that”

Did Obasanjo knee down to beg Atiku?
In a 2007 interview in the Nigerian Tribune, Atiku said it is not true Obasanjo knelt down for him.

In his words:

“It is not true the way people described it that I made the President kneel down for me. The president never knelt down for me”

Having won the 2003 election, Obasanjo, perhaps woke up to the humiliation of the 2003 begging of Atiku. The story is that Obasanjo always pays back like Soyinka suggested. In the book “A Paradise for Maggots” Wale Adebanwi describes Obasanjo as a man “widely and historically famous for his vindictive nature.”
When Obasanjo moved on his vice, it was not vindictiveness that was investigated. It was about corruption.

Chinua Achebe in his lifetime hoped for the redemption of a country with beleaguered reputation. He described Nigeria as a “den of thieves, replete with corrupt, uneducated political thugs and business hooligans.”
This was the Nigeria Obasanjo governed and Atiku wishes to control. Controlling the Nigerian state under the present condition means the use of instruments of violence and the massive deployment of agents of corruption and hate.

In the case of Atiku, it was only a matter of investigation before Obasanjo pinned corruption offenses on him. Obasanjo was sure to have something on his man. When the opportunity came, he grabbed it and ruffled Atiku.

The Jefferson scandal remains fresh...

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The Fundamental Flaw in our Federal System
The hues and cries for restructuring in our nation appear not to have been well received by this present government. The inquisitive may ask: “Why must we restructure?” We must restructure to correct the flaws in our federal system. A federated state is defined as “a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federal union[21].” In a true federal system, previously sovereign states agree to confer their individual sovereignties on a central government. In other words, the states create the federal government, as was the case with the original thirteen American colonies. This was also the case when the Nigerian federal system was originally conceived by our founding fathers. Prior to the coming of the colonialists, sovereignty was domiciled in empires, kingdoms, city-states and republican villages. It was, however, taken over by the colonialists at which point it resided in the British Crown. At Independence, as negotiations for the framework of a new sovereign entity took place, sovereignty had taken another geopolitical form – regional. It was these regional units that had agreed to federate at the London Conference which led to the Lyttletton Constitution of 1954. Our founding fathers agreed that Nigeria would be “a truly federal state with limited and specific powers allocated to the federal government and residual powers inherent in the regional governments.”[22] This agreement was the social contract upon which the Nigerian state was formed, but this social contract was broken on May 24, 1966 through the Unification Decree by Gen. J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi’s administration. That was the day Nigeria died.
Five decades later, in spite of the reversal of the Unification Decree by Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s administration resulting in the division of Nigeria into twelve states, this deviation from the landmarks set by the fathers is a crucial reason for our disjointed nationhood and the perennial socioeconomic decay. It is why efforts at economic diversification by government after government, including the present government, have failed to yield the expected results. It is what has led to the infrastructural decay. It is why we run bloated governments that hitherto spend over 70% of annual budgets on recurrent expenditure[23].
The Imperatives of Restructuring
To understand why we must restructure, let us take a quick look, for example, at the administration of education in Nigeria. At Independence, the entire Northern Region, which comprised the current nineteen northern states, had one Ministry of Education headed by one Minister. The entire Western Region, which comprised the current six states in the South West and roughly two states in the South South, had one Ministry of Education headed by one Minister. The entire Eastern Region which comprised roughly five states in the current South East and four states in the current South South had one Ministry of Education with one Minister. Therefore, there were only three Ministries of Education headed by three Ministers in the entire country and they were responsible for the rapid educational advancement that took place in that era as the regions competed through such policies as free education to achieve socioeconomic development. Today, we have thirty-six Ministries and thirty-six Commissioners for Education which, together with the Federal Ministry of Education, consume a huge chunk of the limited education budget through recurrent expenditure. This is a very huge drainpipe in our economy. It ranks pari-passu with the cancer of corruption in hampering our growth and development as a nation. Imagine how much we could save with six efficient and effective ministries in education and other relevant socioeconomic sectors in six geopolitical zones.

http://tundebakare.com/looking-into-the-future-with-the-eyes-of-faith/

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Whether you're trying to sound sophisticated or
simply repeating what you've heard, word fails are all
too common and can make smart people sound
dumb.
In his latest book, "The Sense of Style," Harvard
cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker explores
the most common words and phrases that people stumble over.

The book is like a modern version of Strunk and
White's classic " The Elements of Style," but one based
on linguistics and updated for the 21st century.
Since there is no definitive body governing the rules
of the English language like there is for the French
language, for example, matters of style and grammar
have always remained relatively debatable. Pinker's
rules and preferences are no different, but the
majority of the words and phrases he identifies are
agreed upon and can help your writing and speaking.
We've highlighted the most common mistakes
according to Pinker using examples directly from
his book along with some of our own.
Here are the main ones to look out for:
• Adverse means detrimental and does not
mean averse or disinclined.
Correct: "There were adverse effects." / "I'm not
averse to doing that."
• Appraise means to ascertain the value of and does
not mean to apprise or to inform.
Correct: "I appraised the jewels." / "I apprised him of
the situation."
• As far as means the same as but cannot be used
the same way as as for.
Correct: "As far as the money is concerned ..." / As
for the money ...
• Begs the question means assumes what it should
be proving and does not mean raises the question.
Correct: "When I asked the dealer why I should pay
more for the German car, he said I would be
getting 'German quality,' but that just begs the
question."
• Bemused means bewildered and does not
mean amused.
Correct: The unnecessarily complex plot left me
bemused. / The silly comedy amused me.
• Cliché is a noun and is not an adjective.
Correct: "Shakespeare used a lot of clichés." / The
plot was so clichéd.
• Credible means believable and does not
mean credulous or gullible.
Correct: His sales pitch was not credible. / The con
man took advantage of credulous people.
• Criteria is the plural, not the singular of criterion.
Correct: These are important criteria.
• Data is a plural count noun not, standardly
speaking, a mass noun. [Note: "Data is rarely used as
a plural today, just as candelabra and agenda long ago
ceased to be plurals," Pinker writes. "But I still like
it."]
Correct: "This datum supports the theory, but many
of the other data refute it."
• Depreciate means to decrease in value and does
not mean to deprecate or to disparage.
Correct: My car has depreciated a lot over the
years. / She deprecated his efforts.
• Dichotomy means two mutually exclusive
alternatives and does not mean difference or
discrepancy.
Correct: There is a dichotomy between even and odd
numbers. / There is a discrepancy between what we
see and what is really there.



http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-58-most-commonly-misused-words-and-phrases-a6754551.html

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We have found increased resources for capital expenditure only by severe cost-cutting. In the 2016 estimates, we have decreased recurrent expenditure by 50% of the 2014 actuals. Government House expenses for 2016 are projected at N563.7 million, a 70% cut from the N2.1 billion that the previous government spent in 2014, the same year that they appropriated only N300m to Ministry of Health for capital projects.

The draft budget allocates resources in strict conformity with our prioritization of necessary interventions. We have therefore proposed the following spread of capital investments:
• Education with N27.5 bn for the renovation and reconstruction of schools; primary school feeding; uniforms and tablets for secondary school students; and provision of school furniture. The public has responded with enthusiasm to our free education policy by raising school enrolment rate by 50%. We have a duty of continuous investment in this sector to reduce current congestion and improve quality.

• Health with N6.6bn for 255 primary health care centres (one in each ward), modernized, equipped with items like ultrasound scans and other tools that can assist safe deliveries; upgrade of 23 rural hospitals and refitting of our general hospitals;

• Works, Transport and Housing to take N31bn for:

o Transport: A rapid rail transit system for Kaduna metropolis;

o Roads: Township Roads reconstruction within our major urban centres, and continuation of selected roads that link our many population and farming centres,

o Public Housing through PPP with interested developers packaged with mortgages to enable our civil servants and citizens purchase homes and pay over 15-20 years,

o Street lighting, in our major urban centres to improve security, encourage our economic activities at night, and enhance quality of life;

o The establishment of a Facilities Management Agency to professionalize and centralize the maintenance of government assets for efficiency and effectiveness;

o Rural feeder roads to connect our major agricultural and commercial settlements that build on the successes of the World Bank-financed RAMP 1 in the state;

• Water with N11.4bn for Zaria Water project arrears and current payments, waterworks rehabilitation projects in Ikara, Kafanchan, Kagoro, Kaduna, Kwoi, Manchok, Saminaka, the old Zaria plant and the ABU Samaru waterworks. Investments towards the completion of the Zaria Water Project will continue on a focused manner. RUWASSA will continue investments in rural water supply and rehabilitate all borehole projects that have gone into disrepair or needing maintenance. During 2016, we hope to restructure the water sector based on the Water Supply Bill that will be before this Honourable House to ensure the financial sustainability of the State Water Board.

• Agriculture with N5.5bn for:
o A price support system to guarantee minimum prices for our farmers at the beginning of the farming season for grains and other produce;

o Availability of low-interest loans for our farmers generally, and for MSMEs, rice production, commercial agriculture and the introduction of a private-sector driven statewide tractor hiring scheme;

• Other flagship capital investments:
o KADGIS: The Kaduna Geographic Information Services will develop and manage a centralized, electronic land registry to provide marketable titles for all land owners, including our farmers; while raising significant revenues from ground rents, land use charges and titling fees for the benefit of the State and Local Governments.

o Pampaida Scale-up: to replicate the success of the Pampaida Millennium Village in selected rural communities across the state in a phased manner, with the support of domestic and international donors;

o Kaduna Ring Road is a 90km toll road that will link the Eastern and Western sectors of Kaduna from behind Rigasa and across River Kaduna beyond Millennium City. The project is intended to be a PPP and discussions have advanced with domestic and international firms to begin construction in 2016. The amount in the budget is for feasibility studies and engineering designs plus equity contribution for the project’s take-off.

o Kaduna Sports Academy: In order to provide avenues to engage our youths and develop talent in sports, we plan to establish a Sports Academy in the State. Already, the site for the Academy has been identified along Kaduna-Abuja Road in Kagarko Local Government. A provision of N30,000,000 has been made in the 2016 budget for planning and preliminary design of the Academy with the expectation that construction will begin in the 2017 financial year.

o Comprehensive Security Interventions in partnership with neighbouring states to confront cattle rustling, kidnapping and the remnants of terrorism and violence afflicting our region;

o Textile Revival is a key ambition of the APC administration. It is a multi-state and intergovernmental effort aimed at debottlenecking the Cotton-Textile-Garment value chain. We are investing to support revival of cotton production and organizing our tailors with the schools’ uniform program as pilot. In cooperation with the federal government, intend to work round the clock to get the Gurara and Kudenda electric power projects completed and put into use in 2016,

o Climate Change Interventions, Shelter Belt and Tree Planting programme entails the planting of hundreds of kilometers of desert-resistant economic trees along our borders with Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara and Niger States, while flagging off a statewide plan to plant 10 million trees before May 2019 by God’s Grace. This tree planting program will target 50 urban and rural women from each ward in the same manner we engaged 6,500 women and youths to clean up Kaduna, Zaria and Kafanchan metropolitan areas in October 2015.

o Accelerated Computerization of our Courts: The Kaduna State Judiciary is among the most respected for its transparency and efficiency, particularly in the settlement of commercial disputes. We intend to support the efforts of the Chief Judge with a program to computerize and digitize case management, record of proceedings and access to case law and precedents in Kaduna State courts.

• Cost-Cutting: In the 2016 estimates, we have decreased recurrent expenditure by 50% of the 2014 actuals. We have demanded sacrifice, and political appointees will follow the lead of the Deputy Governor and I by taking pay cuts. We shall be reducing Duty Tour Allowances and Estacode rates by 25% across the board. In the public service, there will be no automatic annual salary increments in 2016. There is no alternative to belt-tightening within government if government is to avoid becoming a parasite, and its functionaries being perceived as such by society.

• Productive and Effective Recurrent Spending: The budget proposals make room for the discharge of our recurrent obligations. We have made provisions for timely repayment of domestic and foreign debt; enhanced funding of our Contributory Pension Scheme and the Retirement Benefits Redemption Fund, and the clearance of vetted and accrued gratuities. We will undertake a review of pension payments on the Pay-As-You-Go system and recommend legislation to streamline and rebalance outlays to achieve fairness and equity such that all pensioners, not a few, have a pension they can live on for their past services to the State and country.

• Internally-Generated Revenues: In basing our revenue estimates on sub-$40 oil, we are mindful that this moment of potential fiscal peril is precisely the time for a state like ours to get serious about generating and collecting more internal revenue. Mr. Speaker, honorable members, with your support we shall be forwarding legislation to create the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service to collect all tax revenues in the state. It is a matter of survival that we succeed in ensuring that we pay our bills with what we raise, and have a government whose size and cost we can afford.

Our Moral Compass
In promoting the public good, we shall not create clusters of entitlement but will encourage a society of empowered initiative. Our programme is structured to ensure that poverty does not stifle a child’s ability to gain decent basic education or kill a pregnant mother during childbirth, and that young people have the skills and access to finance to actualize their agency in creating jobs or in doing well where they are employed. We seek to reduce the possibility that pregnancy becomes a multiple, sometimes fatal ordeal for father, mother and infant. We seek to stand by the hardworking and the honest, to promote initiative and to reward merit without religious or ethnic preference.

This is our first budget. We look forward to early passage so that we can implement it to make change real in the lives of our people.

Mr. Speaker, honorable members, I wish to acknowledge and appreciate the kind cooperation of the leadership and membership of the Kaduna State House of Assembly. We salute the efforts of the Chief Judge in the remaking and development of our judiciary. We should continue to strengthen the partnership in the service of our people.

On behalf of my colleagues in the Executive Branch of Kaduna State government, we thank our people most profoundly. We thank the citizens of Kaduna State for believing enough in us to vote for us in March and April this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve, while appreciating them for their patience and perseverance. We promise to do our best or die trying. Our people deserve nothing less.

Thank you for listening. God Bless Kaduna State. God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, OFR
Governor of Kaduna State

Budget of Sacrifice, Restoration and Change

Address by Malam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, at the presentation of the Draft 2016 Revenue and Expenditure Estimates to the Kaduna State House of Assembly at the Lugard Hall, Kaduna on Tuesday, 1 December 2015

The Right Honorable Speaker, Deputy Speaker
Principal Officers of the Kaduna State House of Assembly
Honourable Members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly
Members of the Kaduna State Executive Council
Permanent Secretaries, Clerk of the House and
Gentlemen of the Press
Ladies and Gentlemen

Thank you for permitting me to address you today. The first time you accorded me this privilege, I stressed that change requires partnership; that the three arms of government must cooperate to deliver progressive service to our people.

At the time of that visit, we were still learning the dimensions of the problems we were elected to solve. We had campaigned against the poor conditions of our schools, hospitals and roads, the lack of jobs for our people and the division and insecurity that fester in the state. With our election, this big stack of challenges we had railed against became ours to try to overcome. We accept this daunting task with courage and determination.

We are here today to present to you in concrete terms and greater details on how we intend to execute our solemn duty to make life better for our people, which is the only meaningful way to make Kaduna State great again. Our budget proposal is based on the Restoration Programme, the Kaduna State specific version of the APC manifesto on which we campaigned. Permit me to narrate how we have plotted the journey by describing where we are starting from.

Where Kaduna State has been
The Kaduna State Government we inherited was one that had grown accustomed to presenting big budgets that it lacked both the revenues and the discipline to implement. Whatever the capital to recurrent expenditure ratio was on paper, previous governments were only fastidious about the recurrent side of the budget which recorded almost perfect performance. Thus the cost of taking care of those working for or leading the government or close enough to it took a minimum of 80% of available resources. Yet this bazaar of the incumbent powerful had little room for the retired and retiring public servants as arrears of gratuity and unremitted and unfunded pensions piled up, and now stand at about N14.3 billion.

The net effect of this excessive focus on the wellbeing of the political elite and the public servants meant that very little was left for the welfare of the majority of our people. The result was severe under-investment in schools, hospitals, investment-stimulation, jobs and security. In our first week in office, we learnt that at least half of our school pupils sit on bare floors, while many schools had no roof, windows, doors, water or decent toilets; compounded by the shortage of teachers and inadequate qualifications among many of the teachers currently in service. In some instances, school is just an open space or an overcrowded cluster of ramshackle buildings. In Rigasa, I visited a school designed for about a thousand pupils with 29,000 pupils! While 67% of Kaduna pupils manage to complete primary education under these sorry circumstances, less than one in four of them move on to secondary school.

We have also inherited the third highest infant mortality rate in Nigeria, with parents losing 95 babies out of every 1000 births. The mortality rate for under-fives worsens to 155 out of every 1000 births. We have learnt that every year, we lose over 103,000 mothers during childbirth due to a dearth of ante-natal care, midwives and equipped facilities. This means we lose about 300 women per day, and about 12 every hour all year. The public health service was dependent on the exertions of less than 200 doctors, with a quite a few of them youth corpers.

Even this emphasis on consumption that recurrent expenditure represents was being funded by resources that were dependent on federal allocations. A well thought-out plan, executed in a determined manner, may be thwarted or impeded by sudden catastrophes. But to fail to plan how to fund one’s appetence for consumption is surely to invite certain calamity.

Mr. Speaker, honorable members, Kaduna State has a young population, with 87.5% of its residents being under 35. People below 18 constitute 44% of the population. We have a duty to ensure that this abundance of youth is transformed into potential that propels growth, rather than peril. To ensure that they have a future, we – the older generation above 35 years of age - must all make sacrifices, free up resources for development and commit to upholding law and order while promoting harmony across our communities.

Cutting costs is a clear testament of sacrifice. That is what we began to do since May 29th 2015 when my deputy and I announced that we shall return 50% of our salaries and allowances to the treasury. We reduced ministries to 13 and appointed only 13 commissioners against the 24 of the last government. We followed up by slashing overheads spending by 60%, and taking steps to establish actual numbers of serving public servants and pensioners. Then we implemented the Treasury Single Account (TSA) as a pragmatic way of managing liquidity and controlling public finances. This laid the basis for us to commence preparations for the 2016 budget on the Zero-based Budgeting (ZBB) framework. ZBB enabled Ministries, Departments and Agencies to cut respective budgets to a realistic size and to ensure that its line items are realistic, implementable and funded.

Performance Review of Previous Budgets
Actual capital implementation in 2013 stood at 26% and 38% in 2014. In 2013, health capital sector implementation was just 14%. We inherited a 2015 budget that was plagued by the perennial mismatch of statement and action. A lot of its items had been aligned towards winning the election. Between January and May 2015, releases of about N26 billion had been authorized by our predecessor, but only about N2bn was cash-backed, compelling us to request this Honorable House to approve two virements totaling N16.8bn for priority capital and recurrent expenditures. So far we have cash-backed N5bn, and the balance will be expended for critical interventions before year-end by God’s Grace.

The Draft 2016 Budget
Mr. Speaker, honorable members, I present to you the Budget of Sacrifice, Restoration and Change. This, in a nutshell, is the thrust of the 2016 budget: sacrifice by the political and public service elite, to restore the fundamental purpose of government in empowering people to change their lives for the better. A better future grounded in hope and optimism.

Change in the way government works and in the orientation of the public service is a basic expectation of the masses who elected us to serve them. Some of our citizens have been so battered by hardship amidst the wastefulness of the elite that they believe change means the doling out of cash to them as the politics of yesteryears prescribed. As a party of change, the APC does not regard poverty as a condition to be celebrated or exploited, but as something to be tackled in a way that empowers and dignifies people. This philosophy is being pursued with single-minded determination in this state starting with this budget.

Thus pro-poor programmes are at the heart of the 2016 Budget proposals, which reflect a move away from solely funding the running of government of a few to providing infrastructure and services to millions of citizens. The budget proposals restore the minimum of 60:40 ratio in favour of capital expenditure. This is in keeping with our agenda to expand access to Education, Healthcare, Jobs and Security. Our investments in infrastructure and interventions in school feeding, planting of economic trees, and waste collection, are expected to create 200,000 direct and indirect jobs amongst youths, women and other vulnerable groups.

Following the town hall meeting and other public consultations, we have revised upwards the capital estimates to accommodate projects like the reconstruction of the collapsed dam in Birnin-Gwari, clearance of inherited arrears on Zaria Water project and construction of access roads that will bring the Kagoro Hills tourism project closer to realization.

Mr. Speaker, honorable members, the 2016 revenue and expenditure estimates add up to N171.7 billion, comprising N109.3bn (64%) capital and N62.4 (36%) recurrent components. Our fiscal assumptions are based on a conservative benchmark crude oil price, at about US $39.50 per barrel.

Any excess revenues arising from oil price appreciation will be saved and accounted fully to this Honourable House for supplementary appropriation if needed, as required by the Constitution before spending.

With your accelerated passage of our fiscal responsibility, land administration and tax reform bills into law this year, we intend in 2016 to grow internally generated revenue such that it attains parity with federal statutory allocations. Our intention is to be paying all public service salaries from IGR by the end of 2016.

Permit me to spell out the details of the 2016 estimates as follows:

2016 BUDGET SIZE
Recurrent Budget 62,378,578,647
Capital Budget 109,353,099,067
Total Expenditure 171,731,677,714

Recurrent Revenue
Opening Balance 38,851,356,689
Internal Generated Revenue 45,773,866,438
Statutory Allocation 33,795,300,000

Capital Revenue
Value Added Tax 12,626,460,737

Internal Soft Loans and Credits 18,250,000,000
Internal Grants 12,447,480,841
External Soft Loans and Credits 6,807,924,241
External Grants 2,079,288,767
Sales of Public Assets and Companies -
Survey and demarcation of layouts Fees 100,000,000
Land Recertification and Regularization Fees 1,000,000,000

Recurrent Expenditure
Personnel Cost 30,699,417,332
Overhead Cost 31,679,161,315

Capital Expenditure

Economic Sector
Agriculture & Forestry 5,577,475,527.60
Commerce, Industry And Tourism 1,336,000,000.00
Works, Housing And Transport 31,352,898,071.95
Total: 38,266,373,599.55

Social Sector
Education 27,548,679,874.23
Health 6,661,683,063.73
Social Development 461,551,200.00
Total: 34,671,914,137.96

Regional Sector
Environment & Natural Resources 2,115,820,161.00
Water Resources 11,403,208,639.35
Total: 13,519,028,800.35


General Administration
Executive 19,812,695,408.71
Governance 2,155,942,120.00
Law And Justice 512,945,000.00
Legislature 414,200,000.01
Total: 22,895,782,528.71

Grand Total CAPITAL
109,353,099,066.57

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