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snailspeed:
Purchase of Tables, Ministry of ICT = N415,500,000

Purchase of Chairs for the Ministry of ICT = N585,000,000

Almost 1 Billion for tables and chairs

Details of President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed 2016 National Budget currently before the National Assembly are beginning to emerge.

According to analysts, Buhari’s budget provides a shocking figure of N1.7 billion for feeding the Presidency.

LRNZH:

Ngwakwe, Happy Sunday and Merry Christmas

First, the interview was in Hausa and translated to English by a PT journalist. The error in translation is what you caught there.
Secondly, you should be commending the president for cutting down the number of ministries and ministers to save FG's overhead.

Learn to look objectively at the big picture and stop clutching at straws just to be a wailer.

FastShipping:
These wailers are pathetic. They are making APC stronger with every lie they spread. This is the fourth thread about lie of 1.7B food budget without anyone of the wailers giving us source of their information. To my surprise, one wailer said this morning that we should prove Buhari made no budget provision for 1.7B food.

Somalia has issued a ban on Christmas celebrations in the Muslim-majority country after the Southeast Asian sultanate of Brunei announced a similar prohibition earlier this month with the threat of five years in jail.

Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow, director general of Somalia's religious affairs ministry, said on Tuesday that Christmas and New Year celebrations threatened the country's Muslim faith.

"There should be no activity at all," he told reporters, adding security forces had been ordered to break up any such festivities.

"All events related to Christmas and New Year celebrations are contrary to Islamic culture, which could damage the faith of the Muslim community."

Sheikh Nur Barud Gurhan, of the Supreme Religious Council of Somalia, also warned against celebrations, saying they could provoke al-Shabab "to carry out attacks".

Last year, the armed group launched a Christmas Day attack on the African Union's heavily fortified headquarters in the capital Mogadishu, killing three AU soldiers and a civilian.

Somalia, which issued a similar ban in 2013, follows the Islamic calendar that does not recognise January 1 as the beginning of the year.

There are almost no Christians left living in the country, although a bombed-out Italian-built Catholic cathedral remains a city landmark Mogadishu.

Foreign diplomats, aid workers, and soldiers living in the AU compound are permitted to mark the day privately.

Santa hats banned

Similarly, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has also banned public celebrations of Christmas.

Religious leaders in the oil-rich sultanate warned the ban on Christmas would be strictly enforced, with violators facing up to five years in jail.

"Using religious symbols like crosses, lighting candles, putting up Christmas trees, singing religious songs, sending Christmas greetings ... are against Islamic faith," imams said in sermons published in the local press.

The government warned last year that Muslims would be committing an offence if they so much as wore "hats or clothes that resemble Santa Claus".

Christians represent about nine percent of Brunei's 430,000 population.

Businesses have been warned to take decorations down and authorities have stepped up spot checks across the capital. Hotels popular among Western tourists that once boasted dazzling lights and giant Christmas trees are now barren of festive decor.

Mynd44:
Somebody cannot even troll you people again?
Ordinary christmas morning trolling and you people are vibrating.
Do us a favor, gerrarahia

Prophet Paul Okikiiesu

A Lagos prophet, Paul Okikijesu was not quite clear with his prediction, but said correctly that Buhari might be voted for. He said “If Buhari can surrender his heart to me, he will win the election. Nevertheless despite people’s mandate, they will neither release power to him nor swear him in as the president of the nation. His situation will be similar to Abiola that had people’s mandate, but was not given the chance to rule the country.” It is not known whether the APC candidate “surrendered his heart” to the cleric, but as for now, he has been declared the winner.

F22RAPTOR:
something is not right about this...poor guy is in the middle of a power play.

eye4eye:
I hope Obama can now smell the coffee. There is need to invade Saudi Arabia. They are the one funding these jihadists. I don't know why the U.S government keeps treating them as untouchable. They are agents of death that should be bombed to pieces.

tomi01:
Threads full of criticism of the new Administration is all over NL.
why can't we Nigerians continue to pray for the success of this Administration
instead of finding faults and trading blames.
NB: Pray for the peace of Nigeria, they shall proper that love thee.