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NgeneUkwenu:
Still bittered, you were removed as a moderator?

Abeg shift for road...Your choreographed lines are now boring, even though you are disguising as a woman..

Your mates have moved on to sustainable progressive living and you, after five years of babblings and political thuggery is still not able to find a meaningful profession to settle as age will no longer be on your side.

Why even responding to a ghost buyer? Poor me - SAD

NgeneUkwenu:
Ngwakwe the bigot! You will remained confused..

Ngwakwe? How?

You've been confused all your adult life hence no surprise.

Continue eating the crumbs.

175:
Luaretta just screen grab the replies by BMC crew come post here. . .shame on you Negene.

Ubani is not Lauretta, probably working for her.

I know him, so he isn't a lady.

If she wants to contest for senate, is it not Imo State that is her constituency?

Princess Stella Oduah is representing Anambra, so Mrs Amaechi is right.

He wants to sow "Guinness book" record breaking seed

Sell your children's inheritance and their mother's legacy to donate all to charity?

This is definition of madness.

Men can lie, no be small

rafindo:
many commentators here are just glorified village new mongers. International diplomacy is not Akara and akamu issues that people like ffk and fayose take any how. The issue of Jerusalem has been disputed since the 60s when Israel annexed for itself. Under the UN resolution Jerusalem status quo must remain until a peaceful amicable two state solution is meant. Have you asked yourself why the directive to move the Capitol from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been pending in the office of four former US President before this noisemaker Trump became president. Us major allies have backlashes this decision as a receipe to disaster and chaos. Even the Pope has voiced his opposition to that decision. International politics is different from this our clannish, tribalistic and fanatical response to issues we lack the requiste knowledge about but interest is the gain here. Illustratively Saudi and Egypt are almost mute about the the decision because they are the largest recipient of us aid which is running in million.

But USA has a law that wants her embassy at Jerusalem. Moreover, the proposed embassy location is in west Jerusalem which is not Palestinian territory.

If it was Turkey that moved her Palestinian embassy to east Jerusalem, these same mourners would've applauded her.

Pierohandsome:
[s]And the wife allowed this?

It is a mockery to even the wife herself[/s]

You mean the wife is the husband's shame bearer?

You deserve the same treatment meted to this wife beater.

This is what is called Community Court. The next good thing after the family court.

Nigeria should've abstained or followed many countries that never cared to express their votes.

Was it International politics that forced Togo to vote against the resolution or attachment to the Jewish State?

False flag

"Arrangy" sacrifice.

The same way Russia defended Syria against UN resolutions, so will US do for Israel.

meccuno:
[s]Thistle is not about racists. This is about not-racists. You’ve seen them before: the special class of white people who say racist shit and do racist

things but declare themselves the “least racist person you know.”

Their racism isn’t always intentional. Sometimes it is a byproduct of privilege, sometimes it is a deflection, and sometimes it is caused by the

vapid, shallow inability to care about or understand anything that they don’t agree with because they are the majority.

The population of not-racists is steadily growing. Not-racists voted for Donald Trump. Not-racists say that kneeling for the flag means you want

to slit the throats of veterans. Not-racists believe in Blue Lives, White Jesus and black-on-black crime. So we decided to do a countdown of the

10 most popular phrases so that you can easily identify not-racists, or play a game of not-racist bingo in your spare time:

10. “Why must everything have to be about race?”

One of the most used ideas in the not-racist handbook is that talking about race creates divisiveness. The theory rests on the premise that the

more people point out racism, the more ... umm ... I really don’t know how the second part works.

The truth is that talking about race makes white people uncomfortable because it reminds them of the filthy history of white supremacy. That’s

why Texas schoolbooks referred to slaves as “immigrants,” and Confederate-flag-wavers have twisted the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history into

something about states’ rights, tradition and the North’s hatred of sweet tea ... and declaring human beings to be personal property.

And I get it; it is very uncomfortable for white people to hear about the atrocities of racism knowing that their people are complicit in centuries

of mistreatment. It would give me the heebie-jeebies, too. It’s like cheating on a woman, confessing and then wondering why she’s always

bringing up old shit when you come home late.

But the only way America will ever cure the cancer of white supremacy is by talking about it and treating it as if it were a disease. If you found a

tumor in your left lung and your doctor brought it up every time you lit a cigarette, it would be stupid to respond with, “Why does everything

have to be about lung cancer?”

It’s killing you, man. It’s killing you.

9. “I dated a black guy/girl ... ”

A few days ago I received a message from a not-racist woman who genuinely wanted to know why I used the phrase “white people” (and its

more hilarious cousin, “wypipo”). I patiently replied to her (I don’t always clap back, but when I do, it’s in the mailbag), and she wrote back that

she understood. She explained that she wasn’t racist because her ex-husband was black and she had half-black children. Which left me

wondering:

Who are these black men and women dating these clueless white people and leaving them as unwoke as they found them?

You gon’ let her raise your kids, bruh? For real?

Who told wypipo that when a black penis enters a white vagina (or vice versa), the orgasm gives them a special immunity to being a bigot?

If so, where does it go? (The racism, not the penis, stupid.)

Instead of the March on Washington or the Montgomery Bus Boycott, should we have just marched around the country having orgies?

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

8. “I don’t see color.”

Do you stop at green lights? How do you play checkers, then? Not-racists will actually try to convince you that they don’t care about race and

that erasing the concept of race from our minds is a self-righteous, egalitarian attribute.

Bullshit.

Here is the thing: The idea of a post-racial society is really the desire for a white society. Even nonracist Caucasians don’t mind this because

they don’t understand that whiteness has surpassed the classification of a racial category in America and has become the default.

Black people want to be treated like everyone else. We don’t desire to be seen as everyone else. Most African Americans, Mexicans, Jews, etc.,

love their race and their culture. It is a large part of who we are. We don’t care that you see our color. We just want you to respect it.

Also, how do you play Uno?

7. “You’re the racist!”

In the September 2013 global quarterly Not-Racists, the executive board decided to introduce a clever bit of trickery into the racial discussion in

America. According to the memo obtained by The Root, Caucasians were instructed to respond to any claims of racism, no matter how subtle,

with the charge that black people were the racist ones. Since then, according to a poll never conducted by Pew Research, claims of reverse

racism have risen more than 389 percent.

I’m not one of those people who believe black people can’t be racist, because I, too, felt racism creep into my heart once when a Caucasian co-

worker offered me leftover potato salad. Even though black-on-white racism technically exists, it is rarely injurious.

Because—feeling butt-hurt is not a medical symptom.

6. “I grew up around black people.”

There are people who grew up in the “inner city” or played Pop Warner football on the Negro side of town who believe that they can’t be racist.

According to them, growing up around black people—along with Mandingo penis and black vagina—completes the Holy Trinity of racism cures.

When asked why the white boys raised on slave plantations; the millennials who went to integrated schools but carried tiki torches in

Charlottesville, Va.; and Darren Wilson, who worked his entire career as a police officer in a majority-black town before he shot Michael Brown

Jr., still had remnants of racism in their bloodstreams, white people collectively paused, gazed at their flip-flops for a few brief seconds and

replied, “Why does everything have to be about race?”

5. “Not all white people ... ”

Nothing upsets the #NotRacist stomach more than hearing the phrase “white people” used in any capacity. Only the term “white privilege”

causes more consternation.

That same woman who wrote the letter I mentioned earlier said this:

First & foremost, many of us “white people” could careless what racial label you bestow upon us because at the end of the day the same loving

GOD that created white skin created dark skin ... Why does there have to be a label? Why must we classify as a “color”? When we are all God’s

master piece? No one runs from what the classification of one’s skin color reminds them of! What happened years ago is embarrassing. It’s

hurtful! And morally disturbing. I am fortunate, my family did not participate in the barbaric behaviors as other whites. And God help our soul

had we ever considered using a racial slur at another person! No my family was not and is not perfect but sir not all of us were mentally

disturbed. And that is what someone has to be in order to hold another against their will in captivity. And sir, why would you want to write such

things that fuel the hatred? Why would you assume that ALL whites fit into one general spectrum? If this is so, does this mean that because you

are black sir that you are a gang banger? Do you see the issue here sir? ”

Although this is one of the most interesting uses of the “not all white people” variations, it raises an interesting point: I have a friend who is

black and owns a Tesla. When she hears a mechanic advise people to change their oil every 3,000 miles, she doesn’t say, “Not all cars!” My

friend is intelligent enough to know that the mechanic is referring to most cars or the typical car. Nothing in this world is 100 percent.

Somewhere there exists a cat who likes having mice around, but for the most part ...

People who object to the word combination “white people” do so only because they aren’t used to being stereotyped. When the letter writer

considered every black stereotype and decided to ask if I was a gangbanger, it did not bother me. You know why?

Because I am not a gangbanger.

I am also accustomed to living with the knowledge that my skin engenders certain thoughts about who I am. She does not have to navigate a

world that presupposes her psyche on a day-to-day basis.

And that, dear reader, is called “white privilege.”

4. “Go back to Africa!”

Not-racists believe that America belongs to them and that whiteness endows them with the power to excommunicate the offenders of their

country at will. This, too, is white privilege.

White privilege is believing that you have the right to tell anyone to leave the country they built with their own hands, for free. White privilege is

believing that America is in decline and can be made great again only by a billionaire trust fund baby, but simultaneously saying that black

football players have no right to criticize America because it made them rich. White privilege is the belief that this country is yours, and anyone

who doesn’t like it should kick rocks. White privilege is the belief that kneeling is cause for being called anti-American, but not the actual,

unconstitutional mistreatment of Americans.

That’s why I’m proposing that whenever we hear anyone complain about big government, high taxes, Black Lives Matter, traffic, not enough

pineapples on their pizza or ask whether something is gluten-free, black people should cup their hands around their mouths and bellow into the

world:

“Go back to Caucasia!”

3. “Why must you always be the victim?”

Another not-racist premise posits that when black people play the “race card,” they are blaming the failures of black people on racism. According

to them, we want to make white people the villains and ourselves the victims.

They are partially correct. Black people kill too many other black people. The black family structure is falling apart. Blacks should focus more on

education. Those things will help black people immensely.

But if black people did all those things and ignored the fact that a black college graduate is more likely than a white high school grad to be

unemployed, and on average earns less than one; or that schools with majority-black students receive less funds than white schools with the

same tax and income bases; or ignored mass incarceration, sentence inequality, the drug war, the history of redlining, banks giving blacks

higher interest rates, disproportionate police brutality ...

... that would be stupid.

It’s like asking someone who was sexually abused to never talk about it or even to keep quiet when the cops ask about it because it turns the

survivor into a victim.

We are the victims ... of racism.

2. “I don’t want to sound racist, but ... ”

I have been told, on numerous occasions, to never consider anything after “but.” The oldest sleight of hand in the book of racism magic is to
proclaim oneself “not racist.” It is a wondrous trick that never works.

It’s akin to R. Kelly opening up a day care center and using the motto, “I’m not a pedophile, but I’d love to babysit your kids!”

Also, whenever anyone says they “don’t want to sound racist,” brace yourself. Because they are definitely about to say some racist shit.

1. “Make America great again.”

I can’t even ...[/s]

http://www.theroot.com/notracists-be-like-the-top-10-phrases-used-by-peop-1819142064

Stop this divisive identity politics. It is a crime against humanity.

This politics led to Trump presidency and will also defile his low approval rating for his second term in office.

Black or Hispanic caucus in US legislature will White nationalist/caucus will be racist.

The greatest injustice perpetuated by the press in US is campaign against religious conservatives which have mostly Caucasian or better still whites.

It is a fallacy.


When you raise an invoice in Aba, Uyo, Port Harcourt or Owerri to buy any unified distributed company goods, the vat paid is always accounted for Lagos State just because the company's head office is situated in Lagos

obiageIi:
Nice road

Happy birthday

Who gave Falana one billion naira.

May be, he is one of the thieves.

augustine77:
[s]By Omoba Kenneth Aigbegbele

According to George Orwell, “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men/women stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” Soldiers do violence on your behalf. Being a soldier is not doing a job or having an employment, soldiering is not a career, but a way of life. A soldier can retire, have an honourable discharge, be physically challenged, imprisoned and more, but he/she is never off-duty, always standing on the line on the nation’s behalf. Behind them is an entire nation, in front of them, is an entire world.

The responsibility to stand on that line requires courage. They are nation-builders and democracy, according to Olisa Uzoewulu, is defended by them, we need to accord them due recognition and honour. To respect them, is not glorifying them; it is not constantly thanking them, but seeing and treating them as indispensable members of the society. In Nigeria, though, we see them differently, sometimes as members of the society doing the lowest jobs, and most times as those interfering in our nation’s democracy.

The Nigerian Army is a representation of the entity called Nigeria. It is a conglomerate, an association or an organization of men and officers who have given their lives and who have gone through rigorous military trainings to safeguard the territorial integrity of the nation and not just a minority or officers from a section of the country as it is believed in some quarters. It is a standing force that has sworn an oath of allegiance to protect the constitution, safeguard lives and property.

Whatever it does today has national and protectionist agenda and therefore, its activities across the country should not be misconstrued by mischief makers to serve their self-serving inordinate ambition.

In its task to safeguard and protect the lives of Nigerians, the Army has on several occasions sacrificed young career men and officers with aged parents and families left behind and in developed countries, these people are seen as celebrities, patriots and heroes; in Nigeria the reverse is the case. So, we need to engage Nigerians to begin to look at our military men and officers as heroes who are ready to pay the ultimate price for our peace and unity and therefore, deserve our accolades, commendations and honour for their oath of allegiance to our nation.

Since the present Chief of Army Staff (COAS) took over the mantle of leadership he has broken the fence between the army and the civil populace by the constant training of its personnel across board in building relationships with the civilian population where it operates. The Nigerian Army has never been so civil in its entire history like what we have today, all due to the proactive and human face leadership of the COAS, who is keen and interested in meeting with international best standards wherever the army finds itself.

It is high time, we celebrated the armed forces, and it is high time we accorded them their rights in their fatherland.

There are so many ways Nigerians can add value to our military today in terms of partnerships, collaborations, long term strategic initiatives and in their corporate social responsibilities (CSR) by providing social amenities, building infrastructure and making donations that will enhance the professional competence of the soldiers. It also involves sponsorship of deceased children in schools across the country, providing social infrastructure in the barracks, supplying hospital equipment/drugs to the medical corps and instituting initiatives that will cater for wounded soldiers and providing timely and accurate information to the Army when the need arises for intelligence gathering so as to get rid of criminal elements in the society

The Army deserves respect more than any other profession, for they watch every other profession by keeping vigil to protect the borders. The job comes with no weekends or break for public holidays as others break to rest, but they live and die for the nation and citizens. They sacrifice their lives in a brief second for us to keep living, and what do we do in return, dishonor them? Not at all! A country can survive without so many things, but not a day without the Army.

This truth is very necessary so that Africans and indeed Nigerians will come to realize the importance of the Army in nation-building. A lot of young and versatile Nigerians have paid the supreme price to keep us alive as fallen heroes. Nigerians indeed need to appreciate the nationalistic role played by the Army in keeping peace and effecting the total eradication of criminal elements and insurgents in the society.

Security and national development have been described as paramount component in the quest for the nation’s peace, stability and sustainable growth. The Army has become a major stakeholder in the security and development of the nation and as such deserves our commendations in course of safeguarding the nation and in its determined efforts to ensure the dislodgment and decimation of insurgents, and protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) relocated to their abandoned communities.

It therefore, brings to the fore, the thousands of lives lost in safeguarding the nation and also reminds us of the recent one year memorial anniversary of Col. Abu Ali, a gallant and fearless soldier, who paid the ultimate price with his life in order to defend the territorial integrity of his country. This is one example of so many lives cut short at their prime.

We need to do a re-think, and re-orientate our minds about our attitude to the Nigerian Army personnel, who go to work every day, not knowing what will befall them at their duty-posts due to the dangers of their profession. The country needs to change its perception of the military and find ways and means to enhance the morale and professional competence of the Army. Just as the COAS, Lt. Gen. Buratai reiterated recently, that efforts to ensure that troops adhere to the rules of engagement, according to the constitution, have been entrenched, pointing out that the Nigerian Army has established its own human rights desk, department of civil-military affairs, to ensure that fundamental human rights of citizens are protected by personnel, just as the rights of its own personnel are also guaranteed. He further stated that the welfare of troops and their families remains a priority in managing the affairs of the Army, adding that a total of about 4,000 children of deceased personnel were sponsored by the Army in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. The Army cannot do this alone, it therefore, needs the assistance of Nigerians and corporate organizations as part of their CSR to alleviate the challenges faced by the deceased soldiers’ families, build social amenities in the barracks that Nigerians can be proud of in this 21st century.

Though the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done so much for the military in terms of funding, welfare, purchase of equipment and human capital development, the Federal Government alone cannot do it and therefore, requires the concerted efforts of good spirited Nigerians and corporate organizations. Just as the Army, is strengthening its civil-military relations across the country by carrying out medical outreach where free medical tests and treatments for different ailments are dispensed, drugs, eye-glasses as well as mosquito nets for pregnant women are distributed, while the Army engineering corps also construct major roads and do repairs in regions where the needs arise.

In order to enhance the welfare and living conditions of the Army as in developed nations, new incentives and allowances including the provision of social amenities in and around working environments and the barracks across the country, have been enhanced and revamped, so as to be a morale booster for the men and officers. It is also agreed that the periodic self-assessment and continuous training of the Nigerian Army is vital in the accomplishment of the arduous responsibilities and challenges facing the nation.

As part of the COAS’ strategy to have a well motivated military force, he has built social amenities and rehabilitated formations, army ranges across the country. Just recently, it commissioned and gave a new look to the army headquarters, and during the unveiling the CDS, General Gabriel Olonisakin commended the COAS, for embarking on the project within his short stay in office. And he urged the troops to be agents of change anywhere they find themselves, and enjoined them to make best use of the facility as well as imbibe maintenance culture at all times.

In another development, the COAS has also enjoined soldiers to make good use of the recently commissioned multimedia and conference hall. The COAS stated that it was built as part of the efforts to add value to the infrastructure development which the Nigerian Army is embarking on across various army units and formations.

Consequently, in the determined effort to curb youth’s restiveness and continuous efforts to transform the youths in the barracks for better days through skills acquisition, the Nigerian Army Barracks Youths Foundation (NABYF) partnered the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC) Oshodi, for the training and counseling of its teeming youths across the nation. This partnership has greatly imbibed in the youths the “can do mentality,” which is also another morale booster for the families in the barracks.

Also worthy of note, is the recently commissioned “ST Foods Outlet” at the army headquarters which, according to the COAS, is a noble venture for “having a professionally responsible Nigerian Army in the discharge of its constitutional roles.” He said the outlet is another milestone of the present leadership to give officers at the Army headquarters the opportunity of having lunch without going outside the premises as well as spurring them to strive harder in the discharge of their responsibilities in more professional manners.

Howbeit, a lot of Nigerians have also paid glowing tributes to the Nigerian Army and our fallen heroes for paying the ultimate price for us all to live in peace and harmony. Some of these eminent Nigerians commented on this. His Royal Highness, Gbong Gwon Jos, Da Jacob Gyang, applauded the army for the achievements and successes recorded so far in the restoration of peace in the country. He assured the Army of continuous support and cooperation by his people to stamp out the insurgents and criminals within his domain. His Excellency, Governor Kasshim Shettima of Borno State, extolled the COAS for liberating the North-East, especially Borno State from the grip of Boko Haram. He painted a grim and hopeless situation in the North-East before the COAS assumed office, stating that the COAS has changed the situation, but has not only liberated the North-East region, but also restored the lost glory of the region in general and Borno State in particular.

Senator Mohammed Jubrilla, Governor of Adamawa State, also commended the Nigerian Army for their sacrifices and charged government at all levels, individuals, as well as corporate organizations to cooperate with the military by providing useful information to enable them function optimally. The governor stated that apart from the insurgency that there were other several security challenges that must be tackled and pledged the support of his government at all times, stressing that period in which insurgents were taking over territories was over. He called for a minute silence for the repose of the souls of officers and soldiers who lost their lives.

The governor of Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom, said that the government and people of Benue State were completely convinced that the Nigerian Army in particular and other military services in general were equal to the task of carrying out their constitutional responsibility to keep Nigeria. That he was impressed with the total commitment, patriotism and professional competence of the current leadership of the Army, in the fight against Boko Haram. He emphasized that the hard work and sacrifices of the military made all that possible, pointing out that Nigerians are proud of the efforts of the Nigerian Army to rid the South-South and South-East of militants and other criminal elements whose activities constitute serious security threats.

He also commended the Nigerian Army for doing a great job without which the story about this country would have been different. Owelle Rochas Okorocha of Imo State applauded the Army for its steadfastness in keeping the nation as an indivisible entity. He stated that the Nigerian troops have faced many challenges and proved their professionalism in the face of odd situations. He reiterated that the army has paid a supreme price in the course of defending the territorial integrity of the country during which many personnel lost their lives, adding that they should be remembered for their sacrifices.

In his words: “Let me at this point commend our gallant soldiers for the professional manner they have continued to carry out their constitutional roles in the defence of our democracy.”

The Pakistani Military also commended the Nigerian Army successes in the fight against insurgents and criminals across the country during a recent visit. The Director General, Joint Staff Headquarters, Pakistan Armed forces (PAF), Lt Gen. Najib – Ullah, lauded the Army and stressed that Nigeria and Pakistan have a long standing relationship in terms of military training, adding that the aim of the visit was to further enhance bilateral cooperation between both militaries.

In responding to all the commendations, too numerous to mention, from far and wide, the COAS, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, assured everyone that the Nigerian Army would continue to ensure that peace and stability reign in all parts of the country, emphasizing that the Army has diversified in various spheres of endeavours such as training, discipline, infrastructure development, procurement and the induction on military hardware and software, among others.

In order to sustain high ethical professionalism, that the Nigerian Army through its activities had demonstrated high capability in its constitutional role in securing Nigeria and Nigerian citizens, in addition to combating pipeline vandalism, crude oil theft, illegal bunkering, piracy, cattle rustling, kidnappings, among other threats to our nation, while having the rules of engagement and best international practices on its front burner and cardinal focus.



Omoba Kenneth Aigbegbele, is a brand strategist, civil rights activist, social crusader and is of Citizens Watch (CWN); National Coordinator, Nigerian Royalty Awards (NRA); President, COCMEGG and former media adviser to the former First Lady, Federal Republic of Nigerian (2010 – 2015)[/s]

Sponsored? - I guess

The Nigerian Army is an institutional ambrassment to ethics and structural discipline.

The foolishness of these internet rats continues.

I am yet to see an Easterner that is anti-integration. They have always been known to be masters in the language of the native populations. So what is the difference?

It is mostly Muslims that oppose integration.

Jonathan was internally sabotaged for his intentions to handover power to younger generation hence APC can't make such grievious mistake again.

Young Nigerians are their own nightmares.

The Nigerian Military is now seen as a terrorist outfit by Nigerians.

What a shame.

fulanimafia:
Have you not seen profitable companies suddenly go bankrupt due to poor management? What does the sudden mysterious absence of 2015 IGR tell you?

Do you have the revenue figures for the sale of Ebonyi rice (since that's where you expect your N9 billion magic to come from )?

Until you do so your submission is baseless.

The question should be, how come in some States there weren't 2015 IGR report and yet the so-called data managers went ahead to allocate figures for 2016?

My submission is baseless to you because you pretend to be blind.

ODVanguard:
Why are you picking on Ebony?? Give a concrete and fact-based reason why we shouldn't believe Ebonyi figures, coz the onus is on you to disprove the veracity of their declared numbers. The same Ebonyi failed to declare its IGR for about two straight years before 2016, probably coz they had nothing to show. Why not talk about Anambra who have refused to declare even N1 naira for 2016? You people can be so shameless that it ain't even funny. Una hypocrisy no get part 2.

Ebonyi State according to my argument generated 8.2 billion in 2012, then 10.4 billion in 2013 and 11 billion plus in 2014 suddenly got 2 billion in 2016 notwithstanding selling one bag of rice for N18000 in 2016 instead of N7500 it sold in 2014 .

Can't see there is abracadabra in the computation?

fulanimafia:
Why not? Sh!t happens, you can independently investigate the reason for the dramatic drop in revenue if you care.

Besides who am I (or you for that matter) to not believe the NBS? Do you have a more authoritative or reputable source of Ebonyi's data?

I think not.

How can a positive arithmetic progression (2012 - 2014) suddenly turn negative in 2016 upon all the State's investments in rice where they sold one bag of 50kg of rice for N18, 000 instead of the usual N7, 500?

It is certainly impossible hence the figures are grossly understated for whatever reasons best known them.

fulanimafia:
Ngwakwe the 2016 figures are contained in the infographic I already posted (in the last column)...abi ya eye dey pain you as you no see Anambra IGR?

Oya take link: http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/report/551

...and I'll repost it for you.

Do you believe that Ebonyi State according to my argument that generated 8.2 billion in 2012, then 10.4 billion in 2013 and 11 billion plus in 2014 suddenly got 2 billion in 2016?

Blue3k:
The states report their own IGR stats and base their budgets partially on it. Hence why Anambra is missing. If your saying Ebonyi is lying about their stats tell the thread what they benefit from it?

I agree nothing is very transparent in Nigeria. Lol sad your only excellent on half thought out post. You're simply mad you've been exposed for dull. You're excellency must be in some unknown area in life.

I had time to debate tonight but perhaps not on this platform due to the childishness of its contributors and their lack of manners.

I thought boys grew to become men but alas this is Nigeria where there is no improvement in human behaviour notwithstanding age count.

Bye.

fulanimafia:
Ngwakwe the former mod, those figures are based on data released recently by the Nigerian Bureau for Statistics as indicated in my post above.

Anambra was also missing on that list for some strange reason ( ) and the figures remain the same with the ones released recently. The ranking was simply done by comparing the IGR figures to federal allocation.

Leave Ngwakwe out of this and let's debate intelligently for the benefit of Nairaland free readers association.

Can we have the link to NBS 2016 IGR report and let's juxtapose it with the last three years compilations already posted.

Blue3k:
You're trolling miss. All they did is take official IGR and alllcation figures for 2016 and put them in a spreadsheet. There's nothing fake about stats. You can disagree with claims made. They made 3 big ones.

What do you mean?

Did you see any reference where the computation was derived?

The report is an assumption or at best partial computation where comprehensive reporting on States IGR where shredded in secrecy.

On a more serious note, learn not to be stupid rather courteous when next you quote my comments.

Fake news

Ebonyi State generated 8.2 billion in 2012, then 10.4 billion in 2013 and 11 billion plus in 2014 suddenly got 2 billion in 2016?


Ebonyi State generated more than the trash listed in the computation - Fact

Secondly a State allocation from FEC should be gross and not these manipulated figures.

A State allocation includes deductions incurred by virtue of loans collected.

obailala:
These are interesting figures. If just N3.8billion could build a 30mw gas/diesel plant, then I would assume N38 billion can build a 300mw plant and N380billion (~$1bn) can build a 3000mw plant.

N380billion is ~ $3 billion
The contract wasn't awarded last year

If these above figures are real, one begins to wonder how OBJ spent $16billion and GEJ spent about $8billion, yet power generation capacity is still not up to 6000mw.


This is one bloody expensive venture to operate, reason Nigeria should forget the initial capital cost and consider solar power.

[size=2pt]Attn: Lalasticlala[/size]

Nigeria has 12000Mw installed capacity but some are limited by transmission grid capacity (evacuation) and pipeline to supply gas.

Nigeria has 12,000mw installed capacity, but can transmit 5,000mw — Osinbajo

VICE-PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, said the country’s independent power plants (IPP) across the landscape have an installed capacity of over 12,000 megawatts, adding, however, that 5,000 megawatts of the total capacity could be transmitted due to inadequate gas supply to the plants.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/nigeria-has-12000mw-installed-capacity-but-can-transmit-5000mw-osinbajo

maclatunji:
The PDP is not a worthy opposition party in Nigeria. They were terrible in power and are now awful as opposition at the national level.

Only Intellectually challenged people will assume it ran Nigeria well in the past or will do so in the near future
when it cannot run its affairs smoothly,

It is impossible for the blind to compare and contrast hence nobody takes you serious on issues of national importance.


You are only good in the interpretation of Koran, bigotry and never anything that has to do with politics, economy, diplomacy and human relations.

How on earth are you contradicting all facts and figures steering us all at the present in the alter of political and religious persuasion.

PDP may not have not done as expected but never should it be compared with APC under Buhari so far.

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This agency is glorified OPC, Bakassi, Egbesu and other regional security outfits backed by law.

mrvitalis:
Give the reason

Like Kemi Adeosun like you.

You don't know anything about finance ministry.