₦airaland Forum

Reptyle:
Apologies if I came across that way.

Apology reciprocated.
I actually have no excuse for my choice of words in that exchange.

Ziggyblaze:
Why shld pple be so foolish that they cant read simple english and understand, the govt subsidized dollar rate not sponsored Pilgrims dumb heads

And in your understanding of English did you try to apply some basic arithmetic and see how much the subsidization amounts to?

Reptyle:
I am aware there is a differential. But I am sure you can deduce from most of the responses that most are under the impression that the government is going to be handing out envelopes of dollars to intending pilgrims.

By the way, throwing insults at people or speaking condescendingly to others on a faceless forum doesn't make you look intelligent...actually does the exact opposite.

Your point is noted. However read your initial comment and see if same advice should not be applied to you?
You were condescending in your choice of words as you lumped thoses of us who were aware of the differential and referring to that and those who assumed envelopes were being given out.

CocknBull:
What is the importance of pilgrimage, does make one holy? I've been & still curious about this! Or is God in a particular location?

Scam organised by political pressure groups masquerading as religious organizations; CAN and SCIA

Reptyle:
Errrr....is there anybody that has responded to this post that actually read beyond the wrongly cast headline

Where in that entire article did it say anything about government "sponsoring" pilgrims

Seriously guy!!! C'mon!

Are you too daft to see the exchange rate there?
Do you think the differential is offset with monopoly money?

The stupidity of this govt is fast approaching GEJ levels.
After running, we will count miles. We will reward success and punish failure in 2019. It is the only power we have.
How do you defend this crap?

If true, I wish her God's intervention and quick recovery.
No one is above God's mercy.

ObongOluomo:
Well said bro,these people here calling her thief or criminal will do the same or even loot more if they are the ones there.

Very lame argument.

If she had cancer while in office, I would have expected d her to be more circumspect and prudent in handling the resources at her disposal.
Imagine what she would have 'stolen' if she did not have cancer?

floragregs:
Beautiful skin she got. She's good musically but mehhhhn she needs to work on her lyrics! Too many "ribabba, ribbabba, skibili, shigaga, rigigiraga" inside her songs! Just listen to "sugar" and "pose" u will be wondering what she was saying. Make she better thank her beats maker.

Welcome to naija music.
Mediocrity forever rising to the top.
Even genuienly talented ones are thumbing down their talent for commercial success.

marygold:
God will definitely come to your aid!

through humans.

Buhari needs to call Oshiomole to order.
The man needs to be a bit more circumspect and talk less.
As i see it, Edo state is still undeveloped and he has a few months to end his tenure.

CreampieAngela:
He is a PDP Governor

What party he belongs to is irrelevant.
Are you not seeing the scam Okorocha is running in Imo?

We still do not know what happr d in that camp on the said day.
However going by this Brilla interview which I listened to o, Oliseh has a very long way to go.
He was just dissing Enyeama subtly. So he means Enyeama I'd not disciplined? Did enyeama tell him that he intrnds teiting soon? For a keeper ,Enyeama is still young even when you factor in African age.
Besides, his down was very condescending. It was as if Enyeama is an irritant.
I actually wonder why Enyeama is involved in all this mess, why not just leave the team for them. It is not as if you Fred from national team NB or are you going to win the world cup with them. All this patroism crap can miss me . He can even spend international breaks with his family. This country is not worth stressing for. Especially when you are led by arrogant ,aloof fellows like Oliseh.

The clamour by Nigerians for the incumbent administration to curb profligacy and slash the cost of governance, may continue to be a pipe dream if moves by the House of Representatives to increase the number of committees in the lower chamber from 84 in the seventh assembly to 95 gets the final seal of approval.

This is coming as several ranking lawmakers of the 360-strong member chamber intensify lobbying for the headship of “Grade A” committees or what are otherwise considered “plum” committees.
It also coincides with the appointment of 112 aides by the Taraba State Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku, in the facing of dwindling revenue.

THISDAY scooped from the recommendations of the report of the just-concluded Selection Sub-committee on the Formulation of Ground Rules for the Placement of Members into Special and Standing Committees that 11 new committees may be created in the lower chamber, bringing the total from 84 to 95 in the present parliament.

The selection sub-committee is chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Yussuf Lasun. Other members of the committee are Hon. Onawo Ogoshi (Nassarawa PDP), Hon. Babangida Ibrahim (Katsina APC), Hon. Aisha Dukku (Gombe APC), Hon. Ayo Omidiran (Osun APC), Hon. Betty Apiafi (Rivers PDP) and Hon. Goodluck Opiah (Imo PDP). They represent all the six geopolitical zones.
The selection sub-committee submitted its report to the Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, on Monday.
Should the House increase the number of committees from 84 to 95, the lower legislative chamber is expected to record a rise in total allocation to the various committees.
In contrast, the US House of Representatives has only 21 congressional committees comprising 20 standing committees and one select committee.
Not a few Nigerians have continued to express outrage over what is perceived as the huge annual budgetary allocation to the National Assembly, calling for drastic cuts.

With a precipitate fall in oil prices triggering a more than 50 per cent decline in revenue, the clamour for a radical cut in the National Assembly budget as well as the remuneration of other public servants has even become more strident, culminating in the reduction of the parliamentary annual budget from N150 billion previously to N120 billion in 2015.

By trying to increase the number of committees from 84 to 95, many Nigerians would see this as a serious contradiction by the House when government institutions should be rationalising and cutting cost in the face of prevailing economic realities.
In arriving at 95 committees instead of the original 84, the selection sub-committee unbundled some existing committees while others are totally new.

For instance, the Committee on Education is now broken into Basic Education & Services and Tertiary Education & Services.
Judiciary has also been unbundled into FCT Judiciary and Federal Judiciary; while Marine Transport now stands as Ports, Harbour & Waterways and Maritime, Safety & Admin Committees.
Agriculture was also broken into Committees on Agric Production & Services and Agric Colleges & Institutions while Information & National Orientation Agency now comes with two committees — Information, NOA, Ethics & Values and Information Technology.
Some of the proposed new committees are FoI Reform of Government Institutions, Lake Chad, Local Content as well as Insurance and Actuarial Science.

In addition, in order to guide the House in the allocation and operation of committees with a view to ensuring equity and fairness, the Lasun committee recommended that no lawmaker should belong to more than two committees considered as Grade A.
Grade A committees are 30 in number (including the selection committee), Grade B are 34 while Grade C are 31.
Membership of the committees, according to the recommendations of the selection sub-committee, should be on the basis of one per state.

Perhaps, because of its “juicy” nature, the selection sub-committee also recommended that a member of the Appropriation Committee should not be a chairman or deputy chairman of another committee.
The so-called plum Grade A committees are those of Appropriation, Public Accounts, House Services, Niger Delta Development Commission, Public Petitions, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Federal Character, and Constituency Outreach.
No member should also belong to more than one of such committees as Public Affairs, Finance and House Services, just as membership of standing committees should be pegged at 27, with the exception of committees whose membership is drawn from each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The selection sub-committee also recommended that committee chairmen should carry their deputies along while such committees should meet regularly, at least monthly in line with Order XVII, Rule 110.
Committees that operate below expected standards are to be sanctioned henceforth, the report said.
In carrying out its assignment, the Lasun committee equally recommended that Telecommunications Committee should revert to its former name of “Communications” in view of the fact that its scope also covers postal services.

A lawmaker told THISDAY yesterday that with the report of the selection sub-committee now ready, the scramble for plum committees was on the upswing with many lawmakers trying to court Dogara to look in their direction.
It was gathered that this would include many ranking lawmakers from the South-east who lost out in the distribution of principal offices.
But in a bid to deflect the discontent that may arise from the eventual announcement of the chairmanship of the House’s committees, Dogara has chosen to play safe by asking the state caucuses to select among themselves heads of committees that would be allocated to their states.

The arrangement has however not gone down well with key supporters who worked for his emergence as speaker.
This group, who were front-liners of the “Consolidation Group”, which backed Dogara in his bid for the speakership post, believe this could undermine their status as “Dogara's men” if they have to lobby their state caucuses for chairmanship posts, particularly as the arrangement does not guarantee that they would pick their desired committee slots.
The group, whose members have for long believed that the chairmanship of any committee they want is theirs for the taking, is particularly miffed that Dogara has chosen not to exercise his full powers to assist their interests.
THISDAY investigations revealed that even though he is statutorily the Chairman of the Selection Committee, Dogara constituted the sub-committee headed by Lasun to come up with ground rules to guide the composition and leadership of each committee.
A lawmaker, who spoke with THISDAY on the condition of anonymity, said the speaker has shifted the battle to state caucuses to choose who would be in each committee.

“They will now give a number of committees to each state, like two Grade A, two Grade B and a couple of Grade Cs, so among themselves, they fill the committees, thereby absolving the speaker,” the lawmaker said.
“But the issue remains how the Speaker would ask his loyalists to go and get their rewards from the state caucuses when they worked so hard for his victory against the House Leader Femi Gbajabiamila,” the lawmaker added.

The lawmaker however agreed that the speaker was simply trying to ensure equity and fairness.
Another lawmaker, who is one of the speaker’s loyalists, admitted that several lawmakers were not happy.
“If we worked hard for him – some of us stuck our necks – then it’s only fair that we are not left out in the dry,” the lawmaker who also asked not to be named lamented.

However, as the House made moves to constitute its standing committees, President Muhammadu Buhari last night held a fence mending meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly.

Meanwhile, the Taraba governor has approved the appointment of 50 special advisers and 62 senior special assistants, totalling 112 aides who shall be advising him in the Government House.
Similarly, the governor also approved the appointment of a former member of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Daniel Ishaya Gani, as the chairman of the state-owned football club, FC Taraba.
Although Taraba was not one of the states that applied for a bailout from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay the backlog of its workers’ salaries, the state is one of the poorest in the country and has a huge infrastructure deficit, thus raising concerns over the governor’s decision to appoint 112 aides who will serve as a drain on the meagre resources of the state.

According to a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Alhaji Hassan Mijinyawa, among those appointed special advisers were a former senatorial candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Aliyu Sunday Dankaro and Elijah Nyaro.
Also on the list were the former Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Charity Green, Dr. Alfred Yahaya Kobiba, Hon. Henry Shawulu and a former member of the state House of Assembly, Hon Aminu Umar Jalingo.
The list also includes Rev. John Simon Jatutu, Hajia Zainab Idris Waziri, Alhaji Danjuma Ayuba, Hon. Tahir Nyawo and Mr. Soji Datanimu as well as Mrs. Veronica Alhassan.

Among those appointed senior special assistants are former ALGON chairman and gubernatorial aspirant, Obidah Bitrus, Mr. Phillip Ikyabo and Mr. Amfani Abdullaziz.
Others are Hajia Mairo Usman Bibinu, Mr Adamu Idi Tukura, Mrs Alice Ade, Alhaji Misa Abdullahi Chull, Mr Raphael Y. Mallum, Alhaji Akilu Dalhatu S. Maindy and Hon Tina Musa.

According to the statement, the date for the inauguration of the new political appointees would be announced in due course.
THISDAY however learnt that the list of appointed commissioners would be announced before the end of the week.

warrior01:
Where do they even get all these useless governors from? Only in APC. From Aregberascal, to Oshiomole, to Rochas . God save his people

Useless governors is not a preserve of one party.
Look at Suswan, Wada and Fayose.

This is what happens when you elect an Abidjan-trained scammer as governor .

Even in old age, some thieves have no honour.
It had better be the onset of dementia.
Nothing else can excuse this.

ushafe:
wike is not saint for sure ,PDP members never pretend to be saint, now the problem is this, Amechi and is party claim they are free of corruption that was why we supported they, so, anyone found wanting shuld face the law.

They should all be hung by the balls. Both pdp and apc leaders.

IzonOwei:
The system called nigeria is just a wasted space with foolish thieving leaders...

It is a pointless exercise. Not worth expending energy.

alcmene:
http://www.punchng.com/news/amaechi-spent-n53bn-from-n55bn-reserve-fund-panel/

Amaechi has a lot to answer for but this is a pure hatchet job.
I struggle to beleive that a retired judge made such sweeping accusations. vague and general in nature. so he just took 53 billion out of the 55billion fund and shared it to nameless individuals.

tayebest:
Ameachi remains innocent until claim guilty in the court of law!

Dazzol

Just like Dieazani Madueke

I feel sincere pity for Kogi folks. I do not envy the poor choices facing them; an ex looter and a present clueless, inept crook.

ZinadineZidane:
I agree. Enyeama and his fan club need to calm down. The coach always has the authority move roles as it suits his style of management. It's sad that this is causing discord.
Oliseh has my support. Super Eagles will qualify!

No need supporting either of them until we hear what exactly happened.
The different accounts we are hearing do not tally.

An incident occurred, we are hearing two completely different versions.
How do we draw conclusions?
The only thing I know is that I heard Oliseh address the issue on Brilla FM and he sounded very haufhry and arrogant about it, was subing Enyeama with subtle digs that I found irrelevant.

MissOpeyemi:
Tiwa Savage Exp0sed Her Priv@te Part Again On Stage


http://downloadwapaz.com.ng/2015/09/12/tiwa-savage-exp0sed-her-privte-part-again-on-stage/

Are you not too old for this crap?

Oliseh is a drama queen.

He did not list how much he spent on drinks at Quilox.
Turn up master.
I struggle to accept the medical purchases he has listed. I go to lasuth regularly and the place is in a state of disarray. Buying X-ray machine in a place where wards and toilets are not cleaned due to non payment of support staff.

If these are the 21 names, why did it take 4 months to announce?
Once again, we have a government that arrived with so much goodwill but is frittering it away on the altar of directionlessness.
Why exactly are the remaining names still pending? It must be a hard job defending this government. At least GEJ's government did not pretend to care. APC are as bad but better pretenders.
There is no need to worry, let them enjoy there four years, same way we voted out GEJ due to ineptitude and brazen corruption, we will address APC in four years time.
The change we have sworn to is this; WE WILL NEVER REWARD FAILURE.

I wish the new ministers the best in their new positions of responsibility.

Originalsly:
I am still waiting to see policies to promote self sufficiency and develop local industries instead of waiting in vain for oil prices to rebound.

Even the best of such plans are long term and will have no effect in the short term and would not address the issue at hand. Oil prices will not rebound. We are acrewed in the short and medium term and if we do not do something along the lines you mention, we are doomed in the long term too

ibedun:
Please explain?

I can't understand how fiscal policies could offset the exchange rate/currency issues cause by drop in oil price and the reckless depletion of reserves accrued from the recent oil boom.

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