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how about local councils within a region being empowered to generate their own revenue and take care of themselves.no more allocation(how i hate that word in Nigerian context) from Abuja.

you cited Ibadan.as big as Ibadan is why can't they be allowed to generate their own revenue to take care of itself without Abuja allocation.taxes and what ever money generated in natural resource in any local council or local governmet should at least 50% remain there while the rest goes to the region that local council belongs to.

you stay in UK remember council tax?

Thanks Asha u were spot on the guy has no idea what he is saying

Is an economy where states spends 96 percent of their revenue paying civil servant an economy that is likely to grow in the long run? These are difficult questions that we need to ask.

The state government forwarded an Appropriation Bill of a whopping N309 billion for 2011, out of which 80 per cent is devoted to capital projects, thus making the state the highest in capital to recurrent ratio in the country.

Neighbouring Rivers State, which is also one of the best performing states in the federation, has 64 percent reserved for capital expenditure.

If you own say 40% of a 3trillion worth bank,for example, then you're not just an ordinary MD.

Yorubas remain the most backward and mentally debased tribe ever to exist

I still maintain my list except that I'm including Oyin ooo to it.

How did this[b] bedridden miscreant named Eze Chikamnayo [/b] get to the position of Special Adviser

Gunmen kill prison official in court

By Our Reporter

•Judge’s car sprayed with bullets •Court registrar shot


IT is like a scene from an action-packed movie.

A judge adjourns an alleged robbery and kidnapping case, ordering the suspect to be remanded in prison custody. The court rises and a prison warder leads the accused out of the courtroom.

Suddenly, gun shots ring out. There is pandemonium, with litigants and court officials running for dear lives. By the time the dust settles minutes after, the prison warder lies dead. Gone is the accused. Also gone are the gunment.

It was no movie, but real on Wednesday in Kogi State where unknown gunmen suspected to be members of a robbery gang whose member was standing trial attacked the Ihima High Court.

The Media Officer of the State High Court, Mr Saqeeb Saeed, in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area, confirmed yesterday that the attack took place on Wednesday.

He said Justice Moses Gwatana had adjourned the case against Abdulrazak Nasiru, who was ordered to be remanded in prison custody.

The accused was released to an official to take to the Okene Medium Security Prison in a Nigeria Prisons Service pick-up van.

Saeed said before the van took off, the attackers, numbering between 10 and 12, apparently lurking around a primary school near the court, stormed the premises, wielding dangerous weapons and shooting indiscriminately.

“They shot dead the warder whose name was not immediately known and released the accused while the court officials, litigants and helpless security agents, scampered for safety during the operation that lasted 10 minutes,” he said.

The News Agency Nigeria (NAN) learnt that although the judge escaped unhurt, his official KIA Sorento SUV was sprayed with bullets. Mr Bakare Sunday was shot in the ear.

Saeed said the body of the prison official had been deposited at the Obangede General Hospital mortuary. The court registrar has been admitted in the hospital for bullet wounds.

Kogi State High Court Chief Registrar Mrs Comfort Toluwashe has lodged a complaint with the police, saying the accused was initially involved in an armed robbery in which a man was kidnapped.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/24412-gunmen-kill-prison

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This post is totally unfair

Is the white lie against Aregbesola slapping his deputy and Fashola a fair one! neither did I begin the rumour of the Governor sleeping with his wife's sister, things obviously got a really hot in that house-hold that someone or one of the aggrived party in that house-hold felt the only way out is to wash their linen in public. They would have to deal with their mistakes and their intrasigence.

Are you aware that the PDP in Bayelsa is factionalized into about three: Sylva, Jonathan and Ebebi's groups. Ebebi and Jonathan will likely close ranks and he will be compensated but Sylva will be the ultimate loser.

The party can also refuse you its ticket if the National Executive Committee decides so as it was in the case of Muhammed Abacha in Kano CPC. So, that you win a primaries does not guarantee you the party's ticket. Now you can see where Jonathan will wield the big stick.

Whichever way you look at it, Sylva will lose without Jonathan's backing

If Mbadinuju was excluded (according to him) in 2003, what stops PDP from excluding Sylva in 2011.

Any way we look at it, Sylva's likely loss will not make history

Mbadinuju claimed that he was excluded from the governorship contest in 200[/b]3 despite winning the PDP primaries because Uba and President Olusegun Obasanjo opposed his candidature.[4] In his place, Dr. Chris Ngige ran for the PDP but was beaten by the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Eventually, after the election was nullified and re-ran, Chris Ngige took the post.[12]

Am saying this because am convinced that Silva will get PDP tciket for another 4years even if he had not done anything meaniful for the state. Its the useless system we find ourselves in.

Quote from: KnowAll on December 28, 2010, 10:13 PM

@Siena, How much it would cost me to convert Peugeout 406 petrol from right to left. Cost both in London and Niaja preferable. You can email me on aolugbeniga@yahoo.com.

Thanks.

The Peugeot 406 isn't one of the models I'd convert. Only Peugeot models I currently convert are:

Peugeot 206.
Peugeot 207.
Peugeot 307.
Peugeot 308.
[b]Peugeot 407.[/b]Peugeot 806.
Peugeot Boxer Van.