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Nackzy:
Buhari has really tried, i collected my salary yesterday with Minimum wage included, but Not Arrears as stated, but anyways thank you to Buhari, for the first time

Esseite:
6 mths budget?... N8.83trillion is a 6months budget? - a budget is only a cap on expenditures.

where was salaries and expenditures drawn from the 6 months prior?
Maintenance and upkeep aswell?
Debt servicing and overheads?

Esseite:
Read again!!

50% of capital expenditure, the FG obviously didn't meet 100%, moreover what consumed the 50% in 2019 if I may ask?

princemillla:
I love this woman roles in those days Indian movies. Disco dancer.

I am a disco dancer""


Rip ma'am. May you find peace in the presence of your maker for the positive impacts

The Senate on Wednesday sought to provide legal backing to the provision of Constituency Projects in Nigeria’s annual budget by a minimum of twenty percent.

A statement on Wednesday by Mr Lawans’s Special Assistant on Press, Ezrel Tabiowo, said the move to do so was initiated with the consideration of the Constituency Projects (Budgetary Provisions) Bill, 2019, sponsored by Senator Stella Oduah, PDP, Anambra North.

Mrs Oduah, in her lead debate, said the intention of the bill is to ensure that good governance is delivered to the people, most of whom statistics show, are seventy percent rural dwellers.

According to her, Constituency Project is one of the ways of attracting federal presence to Nigerians from across the states.

“If not for these projects, majority of federal constituencies would not have a single federal project due to lopsided nature of project allocation in the budget,” the lawmaker said.

Noting that Constituency Project is not peculiar to Nigeria alone, Senator Oduah stated that in countries like Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and India, mechanisms such as the Constituency Development Fund has been institutionalized.

“Instead of vilifying the National Assembly on constituency project, people should advocate for an institutional framework for the implementation of the constituency project as it is the case in Kenya.

“This bill, therefore, is an attempt at providing both institutional and legislative framework for the operation of constituency projects in Nigeria, thereby making it part of our national budget,” she said.

The lawmaker added that if passed, the Act shall be community based in order to ensure that the prospective benefits are available to all inhabitants of a particular area.

Mrs Oduah added that all projects under the Act when passed, shall be defined as “projects” and may include costs related to feasibility studies, planning and design or other technical input for the project, but shall not include recurrent costs of a facility.

Projects under this category, according to her, may include the acquisition of vehicles, machinery, land, buildings and other equipment for the constituency.

“It is instructive to note by way of educating the general public that members of the National Assembly merely identify the needs of the constituents and recommend same to the executive during budgeting.

“Ultimately, they have no direct control over their implementation; hence the award, financing and supervision of constituency projects are the preserves of appropriate agencies other than the National Assembly,” the lawmaker stressed.

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, after the bill scaled second reading, referred same to the Committee on Finance for further legislative work.

Workers losing patience over minimum wage implementation process, IPAC tells Nigerian govt

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has disclosed that only five states have started implementing the new national minimum wage, eight months after passage into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a communiqué issued at the end of its one-day stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, the labour union listed Lagos, Kaduna, Kebbi, Adamawa and Jigawa states as those paying their workers the new salary package.

The communiqué was signed by the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, and National Chairperson, Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (Trade Union), Abdulrafiu A. Adeniji.

The NLC listed the states that are yet to set up committees, to include: Bauchi, Yobe, Rivers, Benue, Gombe, Kwara, Imo, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo, Anambra, Taraba, Cross River, Ogun, Enugu, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kogi and Delta.

The communique reads: “Each state should immediately convoke an emergency executive council meeting and state congress of all workers to brief them on the outcome of the stakeholders’ meeting on the new national minimum wage implementation;

“States that are still on the discussion table (Category 2) should expedite discussions to conclude the negotiations on or before December 31, 2019;

“States which have not commenced discussion should quickly constitute a negotiating committee and expeditiously conclude discussions on salary adjustment consequent on the new national minimum wage on or before December 31, 2019.

“In the event that any state fails to comply with these resolutions on or before December 31, 2019, organised labour will not guarantee industrial harmony in such state.”

danduchi:
No light here since early morning

Quality20:
These Igbo guys shd just set up a war in d north, so dat children will be orphaned and just steal as many as they can. Presently we don't even know how many children were stolen from borno state n IDP camps to Igbo lands

The Police in Kano has confirmed the rescue of another child kidnapped from the state and sold at Onitsha, Anambra state.

The spokesman of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday, said the 11-year-old child, Mohammed Ya’u, was kidnapped from PRP area of Kano metropolis by Paul Owne and his wife, Mercy, in 2014.

Daily Trust gathered that the child was sold to Ebere Ogbodo who renamed and converted him to her religion.

Both Paul Owne, his wife and the buyer of trafficked Kano kids, Ebere Ogbodo, have being in police custody since last month over the same alleged offences.

The syndicate was said to be responsible for the kidnap and trafficking of eight children earlier recovered from Anambra.

Kiyawa said efforts are on top gear to rescue more of the children missing from the state.
“In continuation of the Command’s effort to rescue the children kidnapped from Kano to other parts of the country, between 05/11/2019 to 08/11/2019, the Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Team of Operation Puff Adder carried out another rescue operation where one Muhammed Ya’u ‘m’ 11 years old kidnapped in the year 2014 at PRP Quarters Kano, was successfully rescued at Onitsha in Anambra state.

“Victim was kidnapped by Paul Onwe ‘m’ and Mercy Paul ‘f’ and *sold to Ebere Ogbodo ‘f’ at the sum of Two Hundred Thousand Naira (N200,000) and renamed as Chinedu Ogbodo,” Kiyawa added.

He said all the suspects are currently under investigation as the command intensifies effort to rescue more missing children.

mu2sa2:
RIP, chief Imam. Those ipob who say there are no muslim igbos...... I used to believe the humongous lie until i heard a guy who did his national service in SE debunk it. One igbo muslim said their family has always been muslim.
Check out the deceased's family members- very decent igbos, so refreshingly different.

Skepticus:


Igbo-born Muslims, though a quiet minority, have a decent population in Enugu and Imo States.

I met quite a few of them, including this Imam in Owerri. I think he was the imam of the mosque at the Police barracks near the Government house.

docadams:
From 2002 to 2016!

Poultry farmers and other stakeholders in the industry have given their support to the policy of the President Buhari-led administration on the closure of the country’s land borders. They also pleaded that the borders should be permanently closed. This, according to them, would drive the nation’s economic growth and food sufficiency.

Speaking during the opening ceremony of this year’s Nigeria Poultry Show organised by the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), the poultry farmers said that Nigeria could only get better with the border closure, as it would equally boost sales and production in the industry.

While giving his address on the theme, “Nigeria Poultry Industry: Managing the Value chain for National Development,” the President of PAN, Ezekiel Ibrahim supported the border closure, saying that it would translate into greater employment opportunities in Nigeria.

Poultry industry saves N50 billion due to border closure

Represented by the National Secretary, Prince Joseph Aladesuyi, Ibrahim cautioned PAN members against unwholesome practices and unnecessary increase in prices of products, as he appealed to them not to do anything that could frustrate the gains of the border closure.

He also called on the Federal Government to alleviate the sufferings farmers encounter due to high interest rates from banks.

“I also want to appeal to the Federal Government basically on behalf of the Nigerian farmers. We are suffering because of the high interest rate from our banks. We appreciate the ongoing Anchor Borrowers programmes but it does not go to all farmers. Please, the Federal, State and Local Governments, your interest is very important in the poultry value chain in Nigeria,” the PAN president said.

The plea of the poultry farmers did not come as a surprise as Nairametrics recently reported that the border closure had saved the local poultry industry more than N50 billion since its commencement.

Before now, Nigeria consumed two million tons of poultry yearly, 70% of which was imported. However, this is not the case anymore as the border closure has helped to reduce the high consumption of imported poultry.