₦airaland Forum

Jaga Jaga:
I own a GTBank Mastercard and i want to pay €60 visa application fee on an embassy's website. Is it possible for the said amount to be taken from the card in dollars.

MADRID/BERLIN (Reuters) – European happiness with the death of Osama bin Laden was tempered on Wednesday by details showing he was unarmed when shot dead and qualms about whether torture of prisoners helped U.S. forces track him down.

Al Qaeda leader bin Laden -- the world's most wanted man -- was shot in the head in a U.S. special forces raid on his walled villa hideout in Pakistan on Monday.

In Germany and Spain, legislators questioned Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero over their enthusiastic praise of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Television and radio hosts zeroed in Washington's revision of certain details of the operation, such as the fact that bin Laden was not armed and that the woman killed had not been used as a shield, saying his death looked more now like an execution.
Speakers on a Spanish talk show questioned the official version of the burial at sea of bin Laden's body and said Obama's image would suffer among Europeans who would rather have seen a capture and trial.

Europeans also jumped into the renewed debate over torture and so-called enhanced interrogation technique after U.S. officials said key sources of initial information that led to bin Laden came from at least one prisoner that was tortured.

Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper expressed misgivings about the legality of the killing.

"Which law covers the execution of bin Laden?" wrote Heribert Prantl, a senior editor at the left-leaning daily.

"U.S. law requires trials before death penalties are carried out. Executions are forbidden in countries based on rule of law. Martial law doesn't cover the U.S. operation either. The decision to kill the godfather of terror was political."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110504/wl_nm/us_binladen_europe;_ylt=AiDguU8bZYv2Hcl2uZY28E9H2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTM0M25tNXJiBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwNTA0L3VzX2JpbmxhZGVuX2V1cm9wZQRjY29kZQNvZmZnYjUwawRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNldXJvcGVhbmRpc2M-

violent:
It's too early in the morning to be smoking deep shít!

The goal in any operation as in crack down of miscreants or terrorist, is to apprehend them alive if possible, and in turn, bring them to face Justice.  The Boko Haram  leader was captured, handcuffed and killed by the Nigerian Police, ---- I will repeat those words again[b] "Captured and Killed"![/b], no one gave the order, the Police simply took over the responsibilities of the courts to implement Judgement.

Osama's case is a completely different scenario, the standing order on Osama is to either capture or killed in action.  whichever is more convinient, clearly the Americans would have preferred the later!

violent:
For the sakes of we the uniformed, could you give examples of at least one country in Africa and another in Europe that have adopted Sanusi's
reforms and borrowed his ideas?. . . .I will bet my apple juice you couldn't find one!

Sanusi is just a civil servant who has performed extremely well in his role, if the members of the NASS or the President blew a whistle, his job is finished, his supposed influence is gone and the wheel goes on!

My point is, it's only sensible to say a man is influential if he could get millions of people both locally and globally to do his bidding effortlessly and not because of the powers that come with his office.

Literary speaking, how many people do you suppose would be willing to take a bullet for Sanusi?. . , In comparison, how many do you suppose could commit suicide if Justin Beiber had an headache?

The US Secretary of State, Senator Hillary Clinton, in a statement issued on Tuesday night said: “On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I applaud the people of Nigeria for their enthusiastic and orderly participation in the April 16th presidential election.

“This historic event marks a dramatic shift from decades of failed elections and a substantial improvement over the 2007 presidential election.”

The statement, though, noted that the election “was far from perfect”, it said it “represents a positive new beginning for Nigeria”.

The statement also condemned the violent clashes that trailed the election and called on all “candidates, political parties and supporters to respect the results of the election and channel any grievances or challenges peacefully through established, administrative and legal redress”.

While commending the collaboration and dedication to democracy by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, civil societies and any other people in government, the statement said: “They provided a real opportunity for the Nigerian people to select their most senior leaders.”

It also noted that this would position Nigeria to build its democracy through strong governance, transparent institutions and economic development.

The statement however urged INEC “to transparently review and take appropriate and transparent action on all allegations of ‘under-age’ voters, violence and intimidation, ballot stuffing and inordinately high turnout in some areas of the country”.

On the gubernatorial and state Assembly elections coming up next week, the statement said the international community would closely watch the exercise and also called on all Nigerian stakeholders to support a credible and peaceful electoral process
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/obama-sarkozy-felicitate-with-president/90011/

Ishilove:
I can't access my yahoo account with opera,only with a PC. If i try using opera i am told my id/password is invalid. What could be the problem??!

GMcompere:
BB already stated CATEGORICALLY that the office of the first lady wont exist during their tenure. Remember she was not even in the limelight during Buhari's military regime. And Pastor Bakare remains the only pastor in Nigeria (That I know) whose wife is not a pastor and also not in the pastoral board of the church. Pastor Tunde will tell you that, God call me and not my wife , simple!

Members of the National Assembly doubled the legislature’s 2011 budget allocation to N233 billion from the N111 billion proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan in order to establish the independence of the legislature and ensure its ability to check the excesses of the Executive, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations Mr. Ayo Adesuen said in Abuja yesterday.

Despite recent warnings by the Central Bank governor, among others, that the National Assembly was consuming too much of the Federal budget, the legislators effected a doubling of their budget when they passed the 2011 Appropriations bill on Wednesday.

Defending the action when he spoke to Daily Trust yesterday, Adeseun said, "Out of the N5 trillion budget, only about N300 billion naira comes to the legislature and the Judiciary because the Judiciary got N100 billion naira. That is what we need to make them independent and be able to check the excesses of the executive."

In the budget proposal forwarded to the MPs by President Goodluck Jonathan in December last year, the Senate was given N60 billion naira while the House was allocated N84 billion naira. Another N20 billion was allocated to the joint National Assembly office. Similarly, the president proposed N2.5 billion for the National Assembly Service Commission, another N4 billion for legislative aides; N260 million for the Senate Committee on Public Accounts; House Public Accounts committee N280 million, while General Services were to gulp N28 billion naira.

However, in the new Appropriation bill that is now awaiting presidential assent, the MPs increased their budgetary allocation to N232.7 billion naira, representing over 100 percent increase from the initial proposal.

The National Assembly is also being put under the statutory transfers under the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation together with the National Judicial Service Commission (NJC), the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Independent National Electoral Commissions (INEC) as a result of the amendments effected to the 1999 constitution last year, which sought to guarantee the financial independence of the legislature and the electoral body.

Speaking to Daily Trust on the telephone yesterday, chairman House committee on Appropriations Rep Ayo Adeseun said contrary to general assumptions, the budgets for all arms of government including those on the first line charge from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation "were usually subjected to scrutiny" before they were approved.

He said, "We still peruse their proposals and is subjected to regular appropriation processes but what this means now is that once it is appropriated, we cannot take away from them and they decide what to do with their money. We are trying to build a balance of forces by ensuring the autonomy of the three arms of government so that none of them encumbers the others."

House spokesman Rep Eseme Eyiboh (PDP, Akwa Ibom) on his part told Daily Trust yesterday, "The Executive brings an estimate to the legislature and we have the responsibility to increase or reduce based on need assessment. It is the Executive who owe us explanation on how they arrived at the initial proposal of N111 billion naira."

Asked what those "need assessments" were, Eyiboh said, "it was not something that can be talked about rhetorically, unless the full details of the budget is considered. For instance, when you are coming into the National Assembly you will see people from the Anti-bomb squad permanently based at the entrance with their facilities. Assuming that as at the time the budget was proposed this was not captured, it is natural that the budget will increase. There are a lot of security challenges in the country and when we look at the budget item by item, we will come to the conclusion as to why we arrived at that."

texazzpete:
Also there's a flaw in your logic; the permanent voters card is exactly what the name implies. A permanent card to replace the temporary one issued during the registration process. So how was Jega supposed to accurately estimate the number of people who would come out to register so as to know how many permanent cards he'd print? What if he had made a budget for 50 million permanent cards then, would you have been amenable to him requesting for additional money?

Waiting for the numbers to come in before making the cost estimate was the wise option to pursue IMHO.

Nsiman:
@ klas, pls when was 2010's supplementary budget passed/approved?

Nsiman:
@ dis guy, nigeria's annual budget ends in march, ok?

The commission submitted its first revenue allocation proposal to the National Assembly, giving the Federal Government 41.3 percent, states (31 percent), local governments (16 percent) and a total of 11.7 percent for special funds, consisting 1.2 percent allocation to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); one percent each to ecology and national reserve fund, agriculture/solid mineral fund, and 1.5 percent and Basic Education and Skill Acquisition (BESA), seven percent.

Work on the proposal halted in the National Assembly for about eight months, until April 2002, when the Supreme Court delivered its verdict on the resource control suit initiated by Akwa Ibom State on behalf of the 36 state governments, which nullified the special fund in the then existing formula.

In spite of the ruling, Mr. Obasanjo, through an executive order in May 2002, appropriated the management of items on the special fund to the Federal Government, giving it control of 56 percent of the Federation Account, while the states retained 24 percent and local governments 20 percent.

Following the outcry from the other tiers of government, the Federal Government, through another executive order in July 2002, conceded 1.32 percent from its allocation, to keep a share of 54.68 percent, while 24.74 percent went to the states and 20.60 percent to the local governments.

Another attempt

In January 2003, the revenue allocation, in compliance with the ruling of the Supreme Court, drafted and submitted to the National Assembly a new formula for ratification, which gave the Federal Government 46.63 percent share of the Federation Account, states 33 percent and local governments 20.37 percent. But again, the Obasanjo administration, apparently motivated by the desire for the Federal Government to control the lion share of the Federation Account, in November 2003, unilaterally asked the National Assembly to withdraw the proposed formula by RMAFC, alleging that fake versions of the recommendations were in circulation.

In May 2004, Mr Obasanjo issued executive orders derived from section 315 (2) to modify the formula giving 52.68 percent, states 26.72 and councils 20.60 percent. The former President was said to have appropriated the 7.5 percent of the allocation for the Federal Government. Mr Tukur has always criticized the attitude of leaders to the revenue formula.

Beaf:
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Your logic is fraudulent and meant to decieve the ignorant and the foolish only. If you believe the above though, then you really have problems.
GEJ has no power of the sharing formula. It is enshrined in the constitution.

Your states produce nothing, and when your governors and LG folk go on their begging trip, fools like you people scream about GEJ. Get your state to generate revenue locally, that would be a first step and a very sensible one.

As long as the constitution says money is to be shared that way, so it will. When people like me preach true federalism, ignorant folk like you better sit down and listen; if you had done that in the past, you wouldn't be saying daft things now.