₦airaland Forum

i know there will be critics but i applaud these Muslims.
moderate Muslims need to take steps lest extremists steal their faith from them.
one visit will not be enough to erase the bad image but this one step is applauded.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=846203.msg9968764#msg9968764 date=1326629970]This "65 naira or nothing" gang is not helping matters. They are putting so much pressure on NLC and that might not help us all.
I support the removal of subsidy but would want a phased approach with clearcut deliverables and timelines.

I also support the mass protest for "better governance" from our leaders. Elimination of every kind of waste , but that is not to mean we blind our eyes to market dynamics in the oil sector.

Some are even fraudulently now saying there is no subsidy and i simply ask, on what basis did labour agree on 70 naira in 2007 and on what basis was it reduced to 65 naira later?

What else has remained at same price since 2007? lets be wise. we need concessions from both labour and govt , if we heat the polity up we all stand to lose when "jungle mature".[/quote]when we return to 65 naira first, then we can address the phased removal in phases with palliative measures in place.
most importantly any agreement with govt without addressing the waste in the governmental system will be a failed strike.
even 141 with a removal of most of the waste in govt is not even a failed strike.

last chance!!
i will willingly accept 141 naira with a couple of solid structural changes to the systemic corruption and ineptitiude we are saddled with.
Much more than  65 naira,we need solid concessions from this govt.
if we miss this chance, it might not be peaceful next time.
something just has to give. this system is just not sustainable.

mbulela:
a govt that can't address a lack of security.
a govt that can't arrest monumental corruption bedevilling fuel subsidy.

what exactly is this govt good at?

oh i forgot, they are good at sharing monthly allocation to 36 emperors.

a govt that can't address a lack of security.
a govt that can't arrest monumental corruption bedevilling fuel subsidy.

what exactly is this govt good at?

fine analysis by SLS but misplaced all the same.
akin to using skin grafting as a cure for eczema.
how is the removal of subsidy a cure for the monumental corruption he has revealed?
if he has as much balls as his fans say he has, he should suggest that GEJ removes Deziani-Madueke and prosecute her and others who have over seen these corrupt empire over the last 2 years.
this govt seems completely useless and powerless.
Boko Haram has infiltrated the govt and security agencies. instead of effecting a purge, a helpless president announces the infiltration to a traumatized nation.what does he want us to do about it?
fuel subsidy has been corrupted by importers and their accomplices in the oil sector, what does he do? remove the subsidy as he is unable to arrest the corruption.
we are expected to clap for him (GEJ),right?

@OP, we as a people do not lack intelligent men/women.
what we lack are men/women with a conscience and sincerity.

who else watched Channels mins ago?
Femi Kuti had me in stitches. He wanted to sing but the presenters were begging him not to.
He said 'don't worry they will come and arrest me,not you'. they still begged him not to.
earlier he said 'i thought you called me here to talk about suffering and Ojota park, you are busy asking me about entertainment'.

montelik:
Good news. For me this clearly an exaggerated case of hardball contract negotiations. D boy and his agent are just ffg d way Rooney and Keane before him, played hardball and managed to eek out big deals for themselves. Of course there is d danger United get a little annoyed at this and get rid of him.

if so, then he is an idiot besides being a thug.
following keane and Rooney's steps before he has broken into the first team?
football has long lost its soul so i am not surprised.

chamotex:
He has started running . . . will resume full training in 2 weeks.

thanks. he should not be rushed o!
Anderson is crying out for him.

any news on Cleverely? the saviour of the world.

BAMMZ:
Just thinkin. . . . What if fgn reverses back to N65? Gues,masses wil celebrate,NLC wil laff,a good laff. Then Jona & crew wil think of plan B. But what if fgn/nlc settles above N65 to say N100. . . .what wil the masses do(keep occupying?) and how wil Nlc pass the message? Just thinking.

funny enough, that is the cross labour is bearing now. anything short of 65 naira will be a failure.
i guess they can reach an agreement on staggered removal or complete removal at a later date with agreement on palliative measures.
more importantly, if labour do not get concessions on the cost of governance,with or without 65 naira the OCCUPY thing has failed.
this bazaar of the absurd called a democratic govt cannot just continue unabated. GEJ must take drastic steps to tighten his and his lackeys belt else there might be no announcement prior to the next civil unrest. it will be sudden and great like a might rushing wind.

BAMMZ:
. . .and some people dont need to talk on this issue becos we know their stance if they were in this govt. El-rufai would have confronted the protesters on the street if he were a minister today. Same 4 Fani kayode e.t.c - LOSERS Inc!

gbam!!

coogar:
rooney is worse.

chairman!! you don come again o!
wetin be the basis for the comparison?

BAMMZ:
I gues we'r all saying the same thing here. No mata how much we'v been failed before, we must still trust. We'r all talking of building trust,how can that be if the chance is not given. Keeping faith is what we must keep doin.we dont stoping eating food cos it choked us before neither do we stop luvin cos of a broken heart. Infact NLC shld not be trusted. They'l only make us waste time,money,lives and everythg only for them to compromise;ask Mr Oshiomole how it works. NLC leadership shld be of learned people and not touts. People who understand economics and not civil service antics,people who should advice govt and masses even before issues arise and not just wait for masses to blindly determine the course of action. Or maybe we the masses are our own problem for letting things just happen. Lets wake up and see the new dawn. Things cant continue as before,we must accept changes;positive changes.

We are not saying the same thing.
This fuel subsidy thing is just a rallying point. folks are not protesting about fuel subsidy per se. we are protesting an insensitive govt that has eaten our present and is about swallowing our future. a govt that has presided over waste and gluttonous consumption of our commonwealth.
you don't earn trust by the sort of silly items i see in the 2012 budget. take a look at a few pointers below, take a deep breath and come back to tell me why this govt deserves trust. Like i said earlier, this fuel subsidy thing is not firstly an economic issue, it is more of a moral thing. for a govt with such items on its budget to be talking of subsidy removal and trust is immoral and ungodly.

[b]A review of the budget provisions of 21 out of 50 Ministries, Departments and Agencies revealed the following amounts for some recurrent and capital expenditure items:

· Travel – local and international – N13B

·Stationery, Magazines, Newspapers, etc – N 4.5B

·Maintenance of vehicles, furniture, etc – N17B

·Training – N5B

· Fuel and Lubricants for cars, generators, etc – N4B

· Miscellaneous: welfare packages, refreshments, meals, etc – N9B

· Acquisition of Computer Software – N2.5B

· Research and Development: whatever that means! – N27B

- The actual provisions in the budget would be at least twice these amounts, and total about N160B of waste. This amount is equal to the amount budgeted for the power sector!

- Some examples of some of the wasteful spending under ‘Research & Development ’are N2.498B for ‘citizens call centres’ under the Ministry of Communications & Technology, N1.2B in the Ministry of Agriculture to incorporate commodity marketing companies! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to spend N322 million to acquire ‘computer software’. This is very expensive software indeed!

- A lot has already been written about the budgets in the Presidency. The following are some weird examples of what has been included in the State House (Villa) budget:

-Overhead is about N7.2B, or about N20 million per day to keep our President and VP happy. Their local travel budget is N724 million or N2 million per day, including weekends, while their international travel budget ix N951 million or nearly N3 million per day.

- The president’s office has N285 million to hand out as ‘welfare package’, N265 million to buy computers, N150 million to buy scanners, N161 million for buses, N295 million for new furniture, and N1.8B to ‘maintain existing furniture, office and residential quarters’.

- The intend to buy desktops for N300,000 each, laptops for N314,000 each and scanners for a whopping N190,000. The public address system in the President, VP’s office and Banquet Hall will cost N150 million! The SGF wants to spend N65 million on tree planting. Note that planting a million trees in Abuja over 4 years cost the FCT Administration less than N50 million then!

[/b]

A former Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kayode Eso (retd), has said the constituency allowances of the National Assembly members should be stopped while the bogus allowances of the executive arm of government should be drastically reduced to provide funds for provision of infrastructure and other social services for the masses.

If implemented, he said, there might not be a need for fuel subsidy withdrawal.

In a telephone interview on Wednesday, he said the money that would accrue from the constituency allowances and the executive allowances could be enough to sustain fuel subsidy.

January 13, 2012

By Tunde Bakare




Today is the 5th day of our on-going civil protest against the oppressive policy of the Federal Government as they feed fat on our resources while expecting the citizens of our nation to fast and pray, and at the same time try hard to remove the crumbs the poor depend on for survival.

I salute all Nigerians and our compatriots for making the rallies as peaceful as they have been. From the first day till now, our watchwords remain: NO REVENGE, NO REPRISALS, NO RAGE, NO RESENTMENT, and AND NO VIOLENCE even in the face of provocation and unimaginable threats.

Across the nation and on so many TV stations, serious advertisements are being aired to stir up the people against us, while news coming from the Freedom Park, Ojota is being censored, though the crowd is being shown.

We are not unaware of the tendency of authoritarian regimes to use manufactured ‘public opinion’ to diminish their own role as they react to the very passions they have created in their people. We know that when the arrow of truth shoots, there will be no traces of falsehood. In spite of the lying propaganda, it is part of our responsibility to channel our collective energies in the right direction and remain focused on the main issues rather than using ‘ring worm’ medicine to cure leprosy.

I have four major pieces of information to share with you this morning:

CRITICAL INFORMATION 1

It is predicated on the little painting hung on the wall of my primary school’s auditorium: ‘Honesty is the best policy: Tell the truth and let the devil be ashamed.’

Time has come for the government to tell the whole truth to the citizens of this country in respect of fuel subsidy.

I will share with you the information we have on the Fuel Subsidy Pay-outs in 2011:

Fuel Subsidy Pay-Outs in 2011 were Fraudulently to Cronies:

The purported expenditure of between N1.4 and N1.6 trillion on ‘subsidizing’ PMS and Kerosene is indefensible and at least three quarters of the amount is fictitious, fraudulent and grand corruption.

The amount budgeted in 2007 for subsidizing ALL imported refined products (petrol, diesel, kerosene, and aviation fuel) was about N300B. In 2011 the amount earmarked was N240B – an average of N20B a month as FG’s contribution towards the import price subsidy deductions for petrol and kerosene. Diesel had been ‘deregulated’ since 2008, with little improvement in price, supply chain stability and quality. Where did those ‘savings’ go?

The deductions went up six times in the months just before and after the elections due to fraud perpetrated by the products’ importers in collaboration with officials of NNPC, PPMC, DPR, PPPRA and Petroleum Equalization Fund.

Prior to this, the NNPC had been making other deductions from oil revenues before remittance to the Federation Account which the FMF and State Finance Commissioners had been disputing. Two audit firms – KPMG and S S Afemikhe & Co. were contracted by FMF to ‘undertake a process and forensic review of NNPC, claims of indebtedness against the FGN by NNPC, and Review of Petroleum Product Subsidy Processes.’

The two audit firms submitted their report to the FMF in the third quarter of 2011. The current ministers of Finance, and Petroleum Resources and the Presidency are fully aware of the key findings and recommendations which I will highlight.

Revenue leakages from Federation Account estimated at about N800B and their sources were identified for immediate corrective actions by FG.

Revenue leakages estimated at N1.2T from the downstream sector operation of the NNPC including the ‘subsidy system’ were also identified and reasons given.

The leakages largely arose because of the multiple and conflicting roles of the NNPC as agent as well as customer of the government of the Federation, enabling it to play games to the disadvantage of FG and the State governments. NNPC also makes claims against the FGN that no one is in a position to independently substantiate and verify.

At a period of generally high oil prices, about N1.6T was paid as subsidy between January 2007 and June 2010, representing an annual average cost of N460B to the federation – i.e. FG and 36 state plus FCT! Why did it become N1.6T in 2011 alone? What parameters changes? None.

The top ten marketers received 80% of the subsidy paid during the period. They are MRS (Sayyu Dantata), Oando (Wale Tinubu), African Petroleum/Zenon (Femi Otedola), Folawiyo Energy (Tunde Folawiyo), Aiteo Energy, Rahmaniyya (Yar’Adua’s In-law To Be), Northwest Petroleum, Total, Sahara Energy (Tonye Cole) and Conoil (Mike Adenuga).

About 36% of purported stocks of refined and imported products for which subsidy of N296B was paid between 2007 and 2009 were questionable, and not available for sale to the public (i.e. non-existent!). The demurrage paid of N32B during the period was equally questioned. The auditors provided the names of the companies involved in the imports, storage and demurrage issues. They include Addax, Sahara, MRS and Oando, among others.

Some product importers/marketers might have claimed subsidies using bills of lading with apparently altered dates (Lloyd, Dee Jones and Rahmaniyya). Pinnacle, and Sahara Energy got paid subsidies with questionable documentation. Mobil, Vitol and Northwest were thought to have claimed subsidies in spite of issues with their documentation, with FG losses estimated at nearly N5B.

The auditors identified and named 27 companies that apparently got overpaid subsidies by nearly N25B between January 2007 and June 2010. The minimum expected of FG here is to recover the money and prosecute the accessories to the overpayment.

The auditors made many recommendations to remedy the problems identified, the most fundamental being the need to enact the Petroleum Industry Bill to lay the solid foundation for the deregulation of the oil and gas industry.

The point is that there has been a systemic infrastructure of fraud, corruption and impunity in the fuel subsidy regime and everyone is aware who the potential and actual culprits are. An audit report has identified them.

Why are they not being investigated, funds recovered and prosecuted?

Is it easier to impose a tax on 167M Nigerians than to deal with a handful of rich fat-cats?

This is a governance issue not one about economic policy only.

Leaders unwilling to sanction their friends are not fit to lead.

Leaders that rush to punish ordinary citizens for the fraud and greed of their friends are even worse.

This administration has exhibited both negative tendencies. We must go beyond the subsidy debate and demand accountability and good governance in public life. No more, no less.

We hereby call on the National Assembly to investigate the N1.3T unappropriated funds paid out as subsidy in 2011, as admitted by the Federal Government, and take all the necessary actions to stop this haemorrhage in our economy before the nation bleeds to death.

CRITICAL INFORMATION 2

Budget 2012 contains Waste and conveys Wrongful Spending Priorities

1. The budget of N4.749B assumes an oil price benchmark of $70 a barrel, oil production of 2.45M barrels per day and zero deduction from Federation Revenues for the fuel subsidy.

2. Yet, the budget contains a deficit of 2.77% of GDP. (The nominal GDP has been estimated by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to be about N36T in 2011), so essential about N1 trillion of the budget is to be borrowed, or relies on exceptional income like privatization proceeds, loans and grants-in-aid.

3. Accordingly, out of the capital budget proposal of N1.32T, only about N300B will be available from our federal revenues. If the ‘subsidy’ is not withdrawn, the deficit will be even higher and the FG would then contravene the 3% cap on deficit in the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007.

4. None of the so-called SURE projects have any NEW source of revenue to finance them other than what have been described above UNLESS:

(1) the oil price benchmark is raised above $70 or

(2) the Naira-Dollar exchange rate allowed to slide thus raising more Naira for the government.

Some examples of wasteful spending decisions are itemized below:

5. A review of the budget provisions of 21 out of 50 Ministries, Departments and Agencies revealed the following amounts for some recurrent and capital expenditure items:

· Travel – local and international – N13B

·Stationery, Magazines, Newspapers, etc – N 4.5B

·Maintenance of vehicles, furniture, etc – N17B

·Training – N5B

· Fuel and Lubricants for cars, generators, etc – N4B

· Miscellaneous: welfare packages, refreshments, meals, etc – N9B

· Acquisition of Computer Software – N2.5B

· Research and Development: whatever that means! – N27B

6. The actual provisions in the budget would be at least twice these amounts, and total about N160B of waste. This amount is equal to the amount budgeted for the power sector!

7. Some examples of some of the wasteful spending under ‘Research & Development ’are N2.498B for ‘citizens call centres’ under the Ministry of Communications & Technology, N1.2B in the Ministry of Agriculture to incorporate commodity marketing companies! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to spend N322 million to acquire ‘computer software’. This is very expensive software indeed!

8. A lot has already been written about the budgets in the Presidency. The following are some weird examples of what has been included in the State House (Villa) budget:

9. Overhead is about N7.2B, or about N20 million per day to keep our President and VP happy. Their local travel budget is N724 million or N2 million per day, including weekends, while their international travel budget ix N951 million or nearly N3 million per day.

10. The president’s office has N285 million to hand out as ‘welfare package’, N265 million to buy computers, N150 million to buy scanners, N161 million for buses, N295 million for new furniture, and N1.8B to ‘maintain existing furniture, office and residential quarters’.

11. The intend to buy desktops for N300,000 each, laptops for N314,000 each and scanners for a whopping N190,000. The public address system in the President, VP’s office and Banquet Hall will cost N150 million! The SGF wants to spend N65 million on tree planting. Note that planting a million trees in Abuja over 4 years cost the FCT Administration less than N50 million then!

Conclusion: There is a lot of waste, and misplaced spending priorities in the Budget which can be reviewed to free more funds to finance subsidies, capital investment and improved governance.

CRITICAL INFORMATION 3

Thursday, January 12, 2012 – Eso calls for withdrawal of NASS constituency allowances

A former Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kayode Eso (retd), has said the constituency allowances of the National Assembly members should be stopped while the bogus allowances of the executive arm of government should be drastically reduced to provide funds for provision of infrastructure and other social services for the masses.

If implemented, he said, there might not be a need for fuel subsidy withdrawal.

In a telephone interview on Wednesday, he said the money that would accrue from the constituency allowances and the executive allowances could be enough to sustain fuel subsidy.

Eso stated that constitutionally, members of the National Assembly should not be involved in the execution of projects in their constituencies, adding that the allowances of the executives were astronomically high.

He said the Federal Government and Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress should go into the ‘root cause’ of lack of provision of basic amenities instead of fighting over subsidy withdrawal.

Eso said, ‘The allowances of the executives are incredible. They are more than the subsidy that are given to us for fuel. They should remove all the allowances. This is the time to look into everything and everybody will be happy

‘They should remove the subsidy (i.e. constituency project funds) being given to the National Assembly. They have no right to have them. They are there to make laws and not to become contractors. The governors are there to take care of their states. If we have all that money, there will be less demand for subsidy to go.

‘The governors are the people to do the project. Legislators have no right to do any project. We voted them in to make laws and not to execute projects. Who gave them assignment to execute projects? The Constitution does not permit them to do that. It is not part of their work. Their only work is to make laws and that applies to all legislators all over the world.’

Eso urged the Federal Government and the labour to holistically address issues hindering development in the country.

He said the problem of lack of infrastructure and good governance transcended fuel subsidy removal.

According to him, this is the time to fix Nigeria and tackle those challenges and concerns that have retarded national growth.

‘What is important is that the Federal Government should go into the root of the whole matter. Why do we need the money when there is money somewhere that should not be there? We should find out the amount the subsidy will yield, how much are the members of the National Assembly taking as constituency allowances? We should find out that and see whether removal of subsidy is necessary at all.

‘The immediate solution is for labour and FG to meet immediately and go to the root and not the surface. What they are attacking is just the surface.’

CRITICAL INFORMATION 4

We welcome the decision of PENGASSAN to shut down the oil wells by midnight tomorrow, Saturday. On our part, we will give you further information on our strategy before the close of today. Let it be clear to those who underestimate the will of our people and their resolve to kill corruption instead of allowing themselves to be killed by corruption, that there is no army strong enough to kill an idea whose time has come. Nigerians from all walks of life have regained their voices. We will, by God’s grace, continue and sustain this protest until the government sees reason to revert to N65.00.

No retreat, no re-think & no surrender. We are persuaded that we shall overcome because ‘the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment’ (Job 20:5).

Thank you. God bless you and God bless Nigeria.
http://www.thenetng.com/2012/01/13/press-release-by-the-convener-of-save-nigeria-group/

coogar:
but we should ask the simple question - why has it taken ferguson to bed this guy into the first team.
it's been clear to all and sundry morrison has been ready for 2 years now and yet fergie relies on giggs and scholes in the midfield when he should be looking inwards and develop the young talents in the academy.

chairman, you have come again this new year!!
it takes more than raw talent to play at the top.
how many youth team games of Morrison have you seen?
how many training sessions have you seen? Fergie is in the best position to judge this as it is difficult to judge based on a few youtube clips or even one or two youth team games.
More importantly, is Fergie expected to be bedding Morrison while he was busy doing runs for Salford mobs?
The boy has mental issues and if Fergie is willing to give up (as i doubt he would be asking for 100k a week),then i am willing to trust his judgement on this.

afrodoc:
agents r rily destroying d game in certain respects cos all they r afta is a bigger slice of d football pie! mikel obi n anelka r prime examples of agent assisted career
wreckage.

na today
they have long wrecked the game. this one is just a business that some of us like you and i are deluded enough to think is still a game.
football agents are worse than PDP.

i refuse to get into the debate, i just love De Gea. i am desperate for him to succeed. I am convinced he will.

Ravel was offered a contract, he and his agent rejected it.
Agent is looking for buyers at present.
SAF says Ravel made unreasonable demands in contract talk.
I am always on SAF case in recent times but if he is not willing to bite, i side him.
He may have weighed the options and decided it is just not worth it. there are a lot of ifs with that Morrison case.
I am only curious to know the kind of demands he was making.
reminds me of the time Hughes let Sturridge go because he was asking for around 90k while he was yet to break into the 1st 11 years back.

.

South Africa has enough Missionaries.
How about doing more evangelical work in the north where the demon of BH is taking root?

on a related note, for you to get a work visa as missionary, you need to be invited by an already existing organisation there.
your brother cannot invite you if you intend getting a work visa.

11 Jan 2012


By Chinedu Eze


Over 500 passengers were stranded yesterday following the cancellation of flights by foreign airlines which were supposed to airlift them on Monday and Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The passengers who could not go back to town slept at the airport, using their bags as pillows and mattresses, uncertain about when their suffering would be over.

Following the notice to airmen (NOTAM) issued on Sunday by aviation unions, notifying foreign airlines about impending strikes, which started on Monday, some of the airlines, including Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, KLM and Lufthansa cancelled their flights, living their passengers stranded at the airport.

The abandoned passengers swelled when more airlines cancelled their flights yesterday and some of them which arrived the Lagos airport were not able to depart as aviation union officials prevented airlines’ crew from gaining access to the terminal building.

Some of the affected passengers were those who were billed to travel with Virgin Atlantic, Arik Air, which had South Africa bound flight, Ethiopian Airlines and Emirates Airline.

By 4.p.m. yesterday aircraft owned by these airlines were still parked at the international terminal of the Lagos airport, as their tails and livery signal that they were still in Nigeria beyond their departure time.

Some officials of the unions explained that they had to allow the airlines to land in cognisance of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) regulation.

The unions include the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), the Air Traffic Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) and the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE).

At the international terminal of the Lagos airport, Comrade Abdulkareem Motajo, the acting Secretary–General, NUATE led other union leaders to foil efforts by the Ethiopian Airlines officials to board their passengers through the back door.

The union leaders also visited Qatar Airways office and sent away the passengers that were boarding there as well as the airline’s officials attending to them.

The unions had warned the foreign airlines not to endanger the lives of the innocent passengers by airlifting them when the air traffic controllers that were supposed to clear them before flying were on strike.

“The fact that we are delaying the flights does not mean that we are denying the passengers their rights to their flights which they could embark on when the strike is over,’’ Motajo said.

Distraught and angry with the action of the union officials, the passengers confronted them when the former came to the airlines’ offices to enforce the strike action, thus ventilating their frustration.

The passengers flooded the departure hall of the airport while complaining that the various airlines’ officials had failed to tell them what next would happen to them.
Some of the passengers who had spent hours waiting made their bed on the floor of the departure lounge, while children who could not hide their hunger and distress, wailed in varying tones as their parents were not sure what would happen next.

“We called some of the airlines on phone and they said we should report for our scheduled flights despite the industrial action,” said one of the anxious and worried passengers.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/passengers-stranded-as-foreign-airlines-cancel-flights/106878/

PointB:
The die is cast! Job seeker, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Occupy vacant positions!

no be that kind work dem dey find o!

queensmith:
may bishop oyedepo send her a mighty thurderous slap!

ha ha ha ha

I guess the buses will be used in fuelling our generators and those of SMEs around?

There is something in the tea they serve in Aso rock that corrupts the brain.
This interview is proof.

the man too is an i diot.

@OP, things like Condoms were made for friends like yours.
if you can sleep with a man you do not know is married,there are many other things you may not know; like the virus he is carrying.

efisher:
Many of you are conveniently avoiding all the other points in 12 & 13. You are only focusing on the 25% cut. Let's be sincere, GEJ is doing exactly what most of us have been asking for here on NL. Ignoring those points is just a sign of bitterness on our part.

there is no bitterness here. At least none that i see. The entire points in 12 and 13 are vague points that cannot be measured presently. why did he not increase the price of fuel in such vague manner?
in reducing fuel price he was precise but in addressing the cost of governance and paraphernalia of office he is speaking grammar.
why did he not determine the exact measure of cut to the cost of governance before making the speech or even before removing the subsidy?
is he just making up these policies as he walks by?
the budget was presented a few weeks back and in that budget billions were voted for the renovation of the VPs house. Does that sound like a sincere govt to you?

manny4life:
This is what I found, I'm not even asking if it's true or not

BENEFITS OF SUBSIDY REMOVAL
Pls my people see this breakdown for 2012:
Feeding the Presidency :                       N992.57million
Kitchen and Household equipment:      N45million
Refreshment:                                        N293million
State House clinic:                                N1.2billion
Foreign trips:                                        N11.25billion3
New presidential fleets:                       N 1.9billion
Maintenance of Guest House:              N 1.5billion
Bullet proof cars:                                  N280 million
Extension of presidential villa              N75 million
Renovation of state house                  N530 million

Blood of God!!!!
Please can someone confirm the lies above.
I am feeling my chest tightening!!!

enough of all these internet talk.
i beg where are the protests holding on Monday?
I need to make myself available. the fear of bullets is not enough. After all, some people dies in their sleep last night. Dead that was defeated on the cross over 2000 years ago, can't keep us down.
We need change and we need it now.
Enough of these stale air!!