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I'm still baffled at Rochas having presidential ambitions and yet he doesn't have bloc support from his home base. His rigging skills must be top notch because there is no way Imo people voted him for a 2nd term.

Ancient kingdom? Just stop!

You already know!

dragonking3:
why are they going back to GEJ policies. I thought you guys said GEJ was clueless

The policies in themselves aren't the problem it's the implementation. If he gave pipeline protection contracts to the communities who would be complaining? It's the intentions behind his plans that were problematic. Even his own kinsmen have recently come out to chide his government. Enrichment of the people rather than a few private pockets is why the "same" policy when reinstated can be lauded while in another iteration it is deemed clueless. Abi?

MrGerald:
Changing tone now, no more kill them all

I never was for military action unless dialogue did not work. I've always championed resource control and restructuring. You don't know me. Don't come for me if I didn't send for you.

OG NAMED THE NAMES!?!?! He's about that action!!!

If it stops bombings then fire on!

About 86 out of the 96 standing committees of the House of Representatives have failed to produce any report on the 2017 budget, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

The development is an indication of more delays for the N7.29tn budget.

The Committee on Appropriations wrote the House for the second time on Thursday to complain that “over 80 per cent” of the committees had not reported on the budget.

This implies that just about 10 out of the 96 committees had produced their reports after over three weeks of consistently failing to meet the deadline for the submission of the reports.

The committee’s complaint, which was read to members on the floor of the House by the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, noted that the House might be forced to pass all executive proposals in the budget in the absence of the committees’ reports.

“Three weeks after the deadline, over 80 per cent of standing committees have yet to submit their reports,” Dogara read from a document submitted to the House by the Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Mr. Mustapha Dawaki.

SUNDAY PUNCH had reported exclusively last week that most of the committees had unresolved issues with ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government regarding the details of their budget proposals.

As of Friday, investigations showed that the committees were still struggling to reconcile figures after receiving budget details from “a number of MDAs.”

Our findings also indicated that without the reports, the budget would not be passed by the legislature.

Similarly, a source in the Committee on Appropriations said there were unanswered questions that were supposed to guide the committee taking decisions.

The source said, “For instance, will the budget size increase or reduce? Are we retaining $42.5 as the benchmark? Are we retaining the proposed N305/dollar exchange rate or it will change?”

Speaking on the issue, the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas, confirmed that the March 30 date scheduled for the passage of the budget by the National Assembly was no longer feasible.

Namdas explained that apart from the committee reports not being ready, the Federal Executive Council was approving additional projects to be included in the 2017 budget.

“There are a number of issues and we can’t promise that March 30 is sacrosanct. There is a new budget software different from the one in use before, and besides, the FEC is daily approving new projects to be included in the budget. However, we will try our best to ensure that all the committees submit their reports,” he said.

On its part, the Senate has extended the period for which its committees are to submit their reports on the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the Committee on Appropriations for harmonisation, it was learnt on Friday.

The committee is expected to present a unified report to the Senate for passage.

The upper chamber of the National Assembly said the delay was caused by other legislative work, including the confirmation hearing held for the acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and the summon and appearance of the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.).

The lawmakers had planned to pass the budget on March 8, 2017.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, who is also a member of the Committee on Appropriations, told one of our correspondents that the submission of reports was expected to be concluded this week.

He said, “I don’t know anything about deadlines; we have a time line. But if you look at the way we have been working, other things have interrupted the process and the period of work. We are making efforts to see that by next week, we are able to conclude the receipt of reports.”

Not one lie was told!

And some will say the anti corruption war is toothless.

Again?

That would be a very interesting arrangement.

doctokwus:
Pls don't lump them together.
D people behind Igbere TV are d most useless,brainless sets of human beings u wud c on d face of d earth.They are a monumental disgrace to any tribe,and even some monkeys av better brains than dey do.
Imagine d brainless, cheap lies.

I wish they would just stop.

We are watching

paschu:
Unfortunately some people seem to think otherwise - especially amongst the elites.

I am begining to also think this denial is because the nation (in its diversity) is structurally designed and engineered to favor the few elites at the expense of the vastly impoverished majority.

Say it louder for the people in the back!

Eazybay:
What is timely about dis? Is it not PMB dey negotiated with? As for Anambra I wish dem all d best. Those indegenes in the oil producing communities should start packing..

No threat while VPYO was acting but as soon as PMB lands it's ultimatums? The delta has been ravaged for over half a century. That's not up for disputing. But the government is actually attempting to use the funds to make right the wrongs of yesterday.

Blowing pipelines will only worsen the situation. The civilian population being molested by soldiers won't decrease with renewed bombardment of oil installations. I want justice for the region but this is not going to achieve it.

The government on their own part needs to be more proactive because it's not only when threats and bombing occur that attempts should be made for dialogue. They are tired of talking they want results. The FG can do way more at present to calm the region but they keep trying to slow play the ND and they aren't going for it.

As for Anambra it shall be well. Egbogah is at the helm of the oil and gas sector on the government side. He is a world renowned technocrat who is responsible for the amnesty program and the original PIB. He'll make sure OPCs in the state are well taken care of.

Eazybay:
Think what u want, some of u don't even know dat GEJ suffered vandalism setback also! It was so bad den dat the Senate prescribed death penalty 4 vandals as d solution.

Avengers stopped bombing long ago and reached a ceasefire agreement. Now an observer like u should ask if d terms of d agreement has bin strictly adhered to. We are talking of a region wea u can b picked up and tortured without proof, and d army can just call ANYBODY a militant.

I pray oil is found in ur state so u can enjoy what oil communities are enjoying.

Anambra is lobbying to become an oil producer. I don't doubt the injustices being done to the region but the NDA seems to have peculiar timing with their threats.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, Senator Shaaba Lafiagi has said the National Assembly is to pass the 2017 appropriation bill in the next two weeks.

Speaking in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State at the weekend, Lafiagi said all ministries, parastatals and agencies had defended their proposals, and the committees were currently deliberating on it and would provide feedback to the Committee on Appropriation once everything was tidied up.

Speaking on the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the senator stressed the need to broaden the bilateral relationship between Nigeria and other countries and said the issue would be tackled diplomatically. “The Nigerian Parliament would ensure that the attack is put to an end,” he said.

Speaking on federal roads in Kwara State, the senator said some of the dilapidated roads had been captured in this year’s budget and reconstruction would commence immediately the Appropriation Bill was passed into law.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-nass-to-pass-2017-budget-in-next-two-weeks/188885.html

NDA=PDP. I'm convinced now after 50+ days of no PMB it's quiet but now as soon as he returns it's beef again? Fool me once...

omenkaLives:
Oh my days! Ignorance na terrible thing.

When people can't refute they resort to insults. If that's all you got then keep flinging mud. You already know I'm above such actions. But please continue on.

Edit: autocorrect got me. I wrote restful but you see what happened. Enjoy your laugh at my expense.

ozoebuka1:
considering that main market onitsha is the biggest market in the whole of west Africa, any sincere mind will agree with me that a seaport in onitsha will be more feasible.

Couple that with Anambra being the most restive & security conscious in the SE/SS Region.

ogboa2017:
But they were shot by Army/Police . People like you have accepted that this kind of extra judiciary killing is ok . White people will investigate what happened 100 yrs ago and do justice to it . Nigeria has to wake up and catch up with the rest of the world . The citizens accept any inhuman treatment as normal . Nigeria is a jungle . We have to come out of jungle life

Nonsense! Nigerians are nonstarters when it comes to injustice. Look up HR40 and the US senates refusal to review it. For profit prisons and the us iran contra scandal which flooded the black community with drugs and broke up millions of families. They won't give reparations to US black people nor the countries they colonized and subsequently sponsored coups and impoverished. Wether Turkey, UK, USA, Australia, etc they are barbaric and are inept in the category of justice. Don't let them fool you. After all who presided over the nuptials of our present day homeland of The Federal Republic of Nigeria?

datola:
What nonsense crown that does not translate to any economic gain for the common man.

EXACTLY!

SycophanticGoat:
Only foolish southerners don't think/know this.
Even the north the mean is basically the likes of Sokoto, Bornu, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Yobe, Northern Kaduna, Adamawa, Niger, Nassarawa, etc. Others like Kogi, Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Taraba, Kwara, etc are just mere tools used by the core North to achieve their goals.

It's disappointing...

They want a "unified" country and yet all of their statements stink of division.

Wonderful!

I'd vote for Amina Mohammed any day.

I hate how any thread about an Igbo agenda towards progress gets derailed. When the SW meets not a peep. When Arewa makes provocative statements I don't hear kpim. But as soon as Igbo leaders want to develop the SE and SS it's a problem?

Yes! Now only the federal left to do the needful.

It's too early for this!!!