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BuddhaPalm:

myola: :

6-3-3-4 was started in 1988, Before then secondary stopped at form 5 or you can call it class5

I think they used to have Standard 6 way before 1988. I've heard my pops mention that a number of times.

ihearYou:

superstar1: :
Let me allow you to enjoy your thread, at least it is not a crime to earn daily living from PPP.

If I take you and your Aregbe on, I will take you to the cleaners as usual.

The golden question Aregbe and sycophants have refused to answer is:

"is the infrastructure on ground commensurate with the level of indebtedness?".

And in your mind,u think u are smart. What do u have to offer other that stupid criticism that have no bearing to reality. People like u are dream killers who have no joy in other people's achievements. Like it or not,d project is here to stay,and shows that despite all d lies being written about Osun and its governor, things can only get better. And before u spew your usual nonsense,pls avail us of d strides or own state governor has done to make life easier for d people of ur state.SMH!!

Goke7:

kenny987: :



Understand my point and stop being rude. Why is it just two towns in the entire SE? Meanwhile in other regions you have one or more routes through each state? Is Aba in Abia the only area or city in the whole SE?

so it must pass through 10 towns in the SE before we can believe there is no marginalization, like I said earlier in one of my posts, if am PMB, I won't bother any longer cos nothing seem to please you guys after all even your lawmakers don't care either.

mikeapollo:
Very lazy hinking government! It is not only Ojota that deserves to have a foot bridge! There are many spots along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway that deserve to have pedestrian bridges e.g. Mongoro. Cement,Iyana Ipaja, Abule Egba etc. Same for Oshodi-Gbagada Expressway and many other places

agabusta:
Just looked up pelican crossing.

It doesn't make sense for an highway.

We are having a traffic problem in Lagos, installation of a pelican crossing on a very busy highway will be very senseless and irresponsible.

A well designed bridge wth disabled facilities just as LASG said they would do should solve the issue. I wonder how you missed the part where LASG said the new bridge will have facilities for the disabled.

Something similar or better than the pedestrian bridge at CMS. There is also huge pedestrian traffic at CMS.

I think something close to pelican crossing is on Maryland bridge, but not sure if the lights for pedestrians is still working sef.

CACAWA:
Why waste money on pedestrian bridges on a busy road . Save more money and be more disabled people friendly by creating a pelican crossing instead. It is within a built-up area for God's sake.

Tonyosas101:
There is a governor that listen but my dear Fayose wil neva take sure step.....early dis week, d people of Lagos complained abt d bridge nd dis same week, d governor said he wil do sometin abt it nd i knw he wil,
here in Ekiti, if we complain, Fayose wil only come nd inspect it nd start tellin us the woes nd rubbish PMB is doin nd sum youth wil be glorifying him 4 his intelligent, then he wil bring himself low to we d mass by doin wat a common man can do nd his magic wil work on us to d extend dat we wil 4get abt our complaint.....

WHISH WAY NAH FAYOSE?

Beeman1:
But oga farmers,Una stomach infrastructure governor talk say make china no borrow us money,all because him dey fight Buhari. Sometimes,I wonder how good people of EKITI state end up with this thug call Fayose.
Hmm! God bless naija sha.

vroom:
this is fallacy,i don't think u are all angels from your state

Sanchez01:
1. www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192720-apc-vows-to-fulfill-n5000-unemployment-package-other-campaign-promises.html

2. www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/payment-of-n5000-to-unemployed-youths-begins-next-year-fg/

3. www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192653-senate-rejects-proposal-to-pay-unemployed-youth-n5-000-monthly.html

I'm a big fan of Buhari but I can authoritatively tell you that the APC lie a lot.

ffrreeee:
Hope you are aware that the company doesn't belong to osun state again. Aregbesola sold it to a Chinese company. Its still a good move because the company employed a lot of osun indegene, even if aregbe didn't use the money he collected for the people of osun.

The partnership between Government of Osun and Golden Monkey China to revive the cocoa production after fifteen years is a 70-30 equity.

Read more at: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/213349/osun-will-soon-be-hub-of-cocoa-production-in-nigeria-aregbe.html

Sanchez01:
I voted PMB, not because of the N5,000 but because I felt we needed to give him a try. I honestly knew from day one that the N5,000 feat is not realistic. To be honest, the sum is small for an unemployed graduate to live on. We need to start seeing manifestos of politicians as the situation of a man who would say the sweetest words bees cannot produce just because he wants a lady to say yes to him. I'd prefer the money is channeled into several other productive sources that would be beneficial to not only the country but also to the unemployed.

If this is true, then I believe it is far better than asking people to queue somewhere while they're being handed 5k. Have we been scammed? I guess not. We'd need to wait and see if this present administration has done well or otherwise. Job creations is key to the survival of any nation, either developed or developing. Manifestos are just what they are; to woo and win over.

TheGoodJoe:

MrMandilas: :
What i want you to understand is personally, i am not happy that my state was excluded from the route.Aba,Ph,Onitsha,these three cities are from three states that have common boundries with Imo,why were we excluded?

You should have made the point earlier. It is a coastal railway, that it is passing waterside areas. I do not think Owerri is a coastal area. That is why Owerri is not there.

Firefire:
Is this a new rail line or same approved by last administration ?

Goddex:
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The Lagos - Calabar coastal rail was a Jonathan project. Buhari is only expected to build on it.[/size]

freedom96:
That awkward moment when you ask patience jonathan to write a book

MinCeteris:
The good people of Ekiti should call the rascal to order.

Beremx:
Fayose weyrey!

Was that the reason he went to China?

VivianUdeogu:
How I wish Fayose can rule us in Igboland. Fayose is greater than all the Governors in Igboland. Fayose is greater than Governor Willie Obiano

Adonis86:
Not bad for PDP,... Bible even warned us
about APC BUT we don't read our bible.
.. Can someone open to Proverbs 24 vs
21 and 22...
My son fear the Lord , And fear the King
as well; Do not associate with those that
say "CHANGE "
22: For their calamity comes quickly. ..
and the disaster the both may bring. .

NKJV

tivta:
I blame the educational system, even with facts staring at your face you still refuse to see reason, no wonder the country is in the mess that it is...

Besides its people like you that believe that murder is manslaughter, really shameful...

Guyman02:
The Naivete of Southern Senators and Honourables has been exposed by the North. Now they are seeing how politics is being played; I will not blame Sen Ben Bruce and Akpabio because they are still greenhorns in the Senate but now I am sure their eyes don open.



The Southern Senators are too shocked to speak, they thought they could TRUST their Northern counterparts; the SW has been keeping quiet also as the Lagos - Calabar project benefits them also.
Imagine a Honourable putting N4.9b into the budget for his constituency and Ben Murray Bruce could not add anything for Bayelsa and Aba where he is asking to buy Made in Naija.

Yyeske:

GreatSE: :


NOO, It sucks to be a Yoruba Man...... when will you ppl stop stabbing your fellow Southerner at the back..... you ppl voted for change not knowing Northerners voted for power, the only reason you are crying about that railway is because it will benefit the SW more than SS and SE...if not you ppl would have called Amaechi a thief. undecided

You please STFU, aren't you ashamed that funds meant for the south is being siphoned to the north and you have southern law makers all keeping quiet, if not for the hate ingrained in you and your type, what makes you feel the SW will benefit more from the proposed rail line. Better remove hate before it hurts you more, it's your type that'll cry marginalization tomorrow. Mind you, I'm Igbo living in the SE.

HRich:
All this Hausa people just d use us any how.

Abdulmumin Jibrin Hausa

Dasuki Hausa

At the end they will Blame Jona.

How David Mark doubled National Assembly’s budget and enthroned secrecy
July 18, 2015Bassey Udo
Senate president, David Mark and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu
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By the time the curtain fell on the 7th session of Nigeria’s National Assembly in June, one of the most prominent characters of that era, who retreated backstage as a member of the 8th session (after his party became a minority), is former Senate President, David Mark.
Mr. Mark, a retired army general, would be remembered for his ignoble role in deepening and institutionalising the culture of secrecy at Nigeria’s federal legislative body.
In 2003, total National Assembly budget was about N23.347 billion.
The next year, the figure rose to about N32.229 billion (2004) and then N55.422 billion in 2005.
Although the figure dropped to N39.810 billion in 2006, the allocations have remained on the upswing ever after.
Immediately Mr. Mark became Senate President in 2007, the National Assembly’s budget rose from N66.488 billion to a shocking N104.825 billion in 2008, before dropping marginally to N96.052 billion in 2009.
By 2010, while he was still in charge, the allocation had a geometric jump, skyrocketing to unprecedented levels to a peak of about N154.2 billion.
With the Nigerian public increasingly scrutinizing the spiraling annual allocations to the National Assembly, questions about why the lawmakers got so much, amid rising overheads in the national budget, became inevitable.
Foramfera
To block Nigerians from knowing details of how the National Assembly’s jumbo allocations are spent, and how much lawmaker’s earn in allowances, Mr. Mark’s leadership wrapped up the federal legislator’s finances in utmost secrecy.
In one master stroke of legislative brinkmanship, the National Assembly budget, hitherto open to public scrutiny, like those of all ministries, departments and agencies, suddenly became secret.
Details of the allocation were never made known, and Mr. Mark and his team resisted all efforts to pry it open.
By 2010, the National Assembly legislated to make itself member of an exclusive club of agencies whose budget details are never disclosed but whose finances are deducted en-bloc (first-line charge) via statutory transfers.
This group includes the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the National Judicial Council (NJC), the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Public Complaints Commission (PCC).
Agencies in this group receive their annual budgetary allocations in bulk without providing breakdown of expenditure details.
Under Mr. Mark’s leadership, details of the National Assembly’s N150 billion allocations remained secret, despite public outcry against it.
For the first time in several years, the federal lawmakers agreed to cut their jumbo allocation by 23.3 percent to N115 billion in 2015.
Yet, details of how the fund would be spent remained secret.
Disturbed by the trend, the Lead Director, Centre for Social Justice (CENSOJ), Eze Onyekpere, citing the Freedom of Information Act and Section 48 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, demanded budgetary and expenditure details from both the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Finance.
When Mr. Mark failed to grant the request, Mr. Onyekpere went to court.
After several adjournments, the court, on February 25, 2014, ordered the Minister of Finance to oblige the civil society group with details of all statutory transfers.
But Mr. Mark and the finance ministry ignored the order.
The closest anyone got to knowing how lawmakers spend Nigeria’s hard-earned money was the indication given by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi.


Mr. Sanusi had said expenses by the National Assembly accounted for about 25 percent of the total overhead cost by the federal government.
Apart from allocations for salaries and allowances, Mr. Sanusi said all other items packed under different sub-heads in the appropriation bill consist mainly of expenses on the personal benefits of lawmakers.
According to the former CBN boss, the National Assembly under Mr. Mark perfected a curious system of “retiring” the huge allocation.
“There is an entire structure within the National Assembly whose job is to prepare different receipts and vouchers to cover every item in the budget,” Mr. Sanusi had said.
A review of the details of the National Assembly budget for 2009 highlights some items the lawmakers spend their huge annual budget on.
Out of a total appropriation of N106.64 billion for that year, recurrent expenditure was N101.39 billion, or 95 percent, allowing just N5.25 billion for capital projects.
Under the recurrent, overheads accounted for N87.69 billion, or 86.48 percent, with personnel cost allocated N13.69 billion, or 13.52 percent.
Apart from payment of salaries and other fringe benefits, which takes an average of about N10 billion, Mr. Sanusi said the bulk of the allocations were shared among members according to pre-agreed formula after allocations for such items as constituency projects, budget tracking, software, hardware, implementation and monitoring; NASS equipment; judgment debt; renovation projects; general goods and non-personal services; general travels and transport (local and international) as well as general training.
Other provisions include general utilities; general materials and supplies; general maintenance services; security vote, consultancy and professional services; insurance premium charges; fuel and lubricants; contingency; NASS programmed activities, NASS law magazine; media and Public Relations as well as miscellaneous expenses.
Mr. Mark stepped down from the leadership of the National Assembly in June. He would most likely be remembered more for the lack of accountability under his watch

modath:

aieromon: :
Funds were discovered to be "floating" in the budget. Funds under the Ministry of Transportation were then moved to other ministries to construct roads without designs,salon kits,water pumps,grinding machines,tricycles and town halls. grin grin

Instead of the southern senators to come out with one voice and order their colleagues to review the budget, they came out to scream the rail project was not originally in the budget.

I hope their eyes open on time to see the foolishness in cutting their nose to spite their face.

I doff my hat for Goje and Jubrin.

I'm raising left yansh for dem join!

They are both northerners (aberration & unfair), and they think of themselves as bros first before budget enter.

They know that the "crazies" from the south put party politics before regional development so they did what they gat to do...... All man for hinsef.

seunmsg:
So far so good, Northern law makers have smuggled in so many project for their constituencies. Can we see the projects smuggled into the budget by southern law makers?

Revelations from this 2016 budget have really exposed the south to be a politically immature region. We all come online and engage in silly e-wars while northerners stay back and observe our silliness. Our elected law makers are even more sillier. Party sentiments and selfish political interest have so blinded their eyes that they couldn't see anything wrong in cancelling the Lagos-Calabar railway project and appropriating the funds meant for it to complete the Kano railway projects and build new roads and town halls in the north.

Lagos-Calabar rail line that was presented and defended by the transport minister was rejected because it wasn't part of the initial budget submitted by the president while new roads and town halls in the north that was never designed, presented or defended by any ministry was included and appropriated huge funds. Yet, southerners still come online to support the decision of the national assembly due to party sentiments. Seriously, it sucks to be a southerner.

The Oyo State lawmaker said that the argument of the appropriation committees that they could not accommodate the Calabar – Lagos rail project because it was not included in the budget presented by Buhari was not tenable because a supplementary provision was supplied.

He explained that a similar situation happened in the Committee of Solid Minerals when the rents on some of the ministry’s properties were omitted in the budget presented.

According to him, officials of the ministry were asked to re-present a supplementary budget of N5 million which was included by the committee and presented to the Appropriation Committee and was accommodated in the final document. http://linkis.com/thenationonlineng.net/9ktmH

yang:
This is the job of the Northern Parasites

Steal Money from the Oil Producing Land and go to use it to build the North.

You people have finished building Abuja abi? Its now time to build Bebeji

When are we dividing this zoo . . .This Theft must stop

garfield16:
you are clearly a dull*ard!

This was a not communcation between governments. The Nigerian government does not need to communicate anything to the British government because The British government knows the true state of affairs just like you, I and most reasonable Nigerians.

tivta:
Stealing is corruption? Yet you claim to be a graduate?

steal
/stēl/
noun
1.
a bargain:
informal
"for $5 it was a steal"
2.
an act of stealing something:
"New York's biggest art steal"
verb
1.
take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it:
"thieves stole her bicycle"
synonyms:
purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, ... more
2.
move somewhere quietly or surreptitiously:


cor·rup·tion
/kəˈrəpSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery:
"the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places"
synonyms:
dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, ... moreantonyms:
honesty
2.
the process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning to one that is regarded as erroneous or debased.

Now tell me how stealing is corruption

amaechi1:

basingstoke: :
Dullard of daura ? that is an insult, he is now THE DULLARD OF NIGERIA. daura is too small. later he will be the dullard of africa. Yeye president

The "dullard of Nigeria" is useful than PHD holder in zoology who does not know that stealing is corruption. Talk more of his "yam and goat" theory. I am quite sure that his supervisors during his studies will be ashamed of him as a student.

IVORY2009:
Just give him the chance, in 2019, he will prove u wrong!