₦airaland Forum

I wonder if these are Imo citizens or citozens from other Ibo states.

seunmsg:
Contracts of huge financial implication to the country ordinarily are presented to FEC for approval. The minister of justice just like any other ministers can raise objections to any of the clauses in the contract agreement before approval. What Malami is proposing is absolutely unnecessary. It will only worsen the bureaucracy that is already a huge challenge in our public procurement process.

I am trying to understand what statutory power authorized him to vett federal contracts? I guess in Nigeria individuals can just make pronouncements and it automatically becomes normal expectations, no legal challenge or opposition. I guess the minister of communications will come up soon with his own rules; Finance will give her own rules.....and soon these rules will be copied at State level and every aspect of government is locked up in rules and oversights. Very disgusting!

Does IPOB have Abbo's travel itinerary?

Yusman316:
The ignorance of some people in this country, is just too telling. In a properly functioning democracy, the only way to see the President officially is through the President's chief of staff. Unless the President deemed it otherwise

Thats true! Except we are not talking about "anybody". We are talking aboit those who "run the government".

Chief of Staff is not part of running government. The government will function whether or not a Chief of Staff is in place....but government will not function if you dont have Ministers.

So ministers run govt. They are not visitors to President....they are the taskmasters that make his govt function.

CoS can gate visitors, thats understood. Ministers are not visitors. In fact in America, whose system we copied....Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) is fourth in line to succeed President after VP, House Speaker, Senate President.

Obere4u:
They've to.. It's due process

MelesZenawi:
IPOB Attack: Igbos Can’t Be Trusted With Presidency- Junaid Mohammed


Lagos – Elder statesman and the Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed has said the unwarranted attack on former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a clear testimony of how the Igbos will behave if they produce the President.
Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, Junaid who condemned the attack on Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany also said the South-East region cannot blackmail Nigerians into ceding the Presidency to them by engaging in acts of violence..
While calling on the Federal Government to handle IPOB with an iron fist, Junaid also warned politicians in the South East who are secretly funding the organisation to learn from the attack on Ekweremadu
“I do not support an attack on any person or his family because of his political belief”.
“I hope those of them who have been fanning the embers of disunity and those who think they can blackmail Nigeria into conceding the Presidency to them will now think twice and see clearly that they have shown their character in their attitudes towards power”.
” That is very disastrous and I don’t think Nigerians should hand over power to these kinds of characters”.
“First, they have shown that they are not reliable and also, they have caused a lot of mayhem in the history of Nigeria from 1966 till date. They caused tribal coups and very bad handling of their minority in and of course, they are directly responsible for the loss of the Southern Cameroun from Nigeria to French Cameroun. They have a lot to learn from living with other people and must see that other people from ethnic groups different from theirs are entitled to be respected”.
“They must also know that they can’t use blackmail to achieve what they want. That seems to be their own idea that they can use raw power which can be dangerous to our democracy”.
“So, it is a pity that Ekweremadu was manhandled by IPOB but at the same time, they should also know the kind of local champions they are sponsoring with their own money,” he said.


https://www.independent.ng/ipob-attack-igbos-cant-be-trusted-with-presidency-junaid-mohammed/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

...why is it a problem to let them go and form their own republic, and be President over themselves?

Ecstasy154:
The Federal Government will prosecute everyone linked with the contract that resulted in the judgment of the United Kingdom, Business & Property Courts (the Commercial Court) which awarded a cumulative sum of $9bn award against Nigeria and in favour of a private firm, Process & Industrial Developments Limited, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abuabkar Malami has said.

Malami, who questioned the sincerity of those behind the contract awarded in 2010, argued that it formed part of the inglorious legacies of past administrations, which this government is being made to grapple with.

He spoke in Abuja on Thursday, while unveiling his agenda on his first day of resumption at the Federal Ministry of Justice.

He said henceforth, contract of certain categories will be vetted by the Federal Ministry of Justice before it is signed by any Federal Government agency.

Malami, also expressed worry about the impact of public corruption and the connivance of financial institutions in the thriving crime of illicit finance flow out of the country.

He said henceforth, financial institutions, linked with financial crimes, will be prosecuted along with the culprits.

Details shortly…

https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-fg-to-prosecute-those-linked-with-9b-uk-judgment/

It is not the Ministry of Justice's job to vett contracts.

Your job is to prosecute those breaking laws. Ak47 carrying herdsmen are breaking laws....focus on that!

Any minister that goes through Malami to have contract in his dept vetted is ignorant and doesnt know what his place and power is.

Ministry of Justice is not a vetting parastatal.

Kaabiyesi O!

Sorry to hear that.
May her soul rest in peace!

9jatriot:
Even for corporate sector, na personal secretary or PA de arrange oga meeting

Do you tell Board of Directors to go through PA to see a CEO?

Ctorch:
That's their plan all these while that buhari should die in office so that Osibanjo will take over....lol


Same reason Tinubu contact Zakaria of CNN to pop out an unknown quiz sometime ago..


If awolowo didn't change before he died, his line won't change either.


The write up is not about Abba kyari but about Osibanjo and death sentence for buhari...

If Buhari himself is proactive about his own death....why are you pained that it is a subject for discussion?

It is because they were two steps removed from the power play.

In our democracy a Minister is like a Head of State...the power play in a parastatal is at the Permanent Secretary level down. However well knowledgable and well intent a Minister is the Perm Sec and those under him can make a very skilled technocrat and eligible Minister appear incompetent.

To truly know who holds the reins of power in these Ministeries and how events will play out.....we now know who these Ministers are....how many of us know who the Perm Secs in the respective Ministries are, and what to expect?

Let us find out and list names of Perm Secs here. We need to be involved in shaping government going forward. Lack of knowledge robs us of civic participation and we become complacent....waiting for handouts of bags of rice, kerosene, agbalumo and 500 naira.


Join me on this task fellow Nigerians....give us names of Perm Secs currently heading Govt Ministries.

ordinary mc oluomo show body for Oshodi...everybody closed shop and vamoose before he has turned the corner and park his car. These are people who want to dare Oro. mmmmtcccheeew...

To all you guys denigrating ancestral customs and traditions, you will impress me greatly if you would go stand at the crossroads and call out to the four corners of earth to bear your witness and then you lay curse on your ancestors past for choosing to worship earth and nature, instead of worshipping Jesus and Mohammed.

lilytender:
PDP pigs who are children of hate, anger and bitterness expect communications to be channelled through the wife of the President as in the case of imPatience Jonathan who used that opportunity and several loop holes to become richer than all the states in the country.

If the Chief of Staff and the SSG do not coordinate government activities, who should? President's side chicks? Go and read about the duties and responsibilities of the Chief of Staff and SSG in a State or Federal Government and stop letting the world know your low intelligence.

Your mindset paints an image I alluded to above, "illiterate". The States follow what they see done at national level in a monkey-see-monkey-do style.

No one says the CoS should not coordinate President's schedule....you missed the fine writings between the notes. Do you not recall that two years ago in his second medical trip the letter signed by the President for Senate recognition of VP as Head of Government was modified and would almost have striped the VP of his statutory role? This was done at a time Buhari had not designated Kyari as a buffer. What do you imagine could happen now if Buhari travels for medical trip or dies in office?

Answer this simple question first before I present even more complex intrigues.....buried and hidden from the perception of "illiterates" like you.


Are you even aware that the Chief of Staff is not vetted by Senate? He can assist President but the line must be drawn where Ministers vetted by Senate must go and get their request and appointments approved first by Chief of Staff. It's an insult on the Legislative body, and like you, I'm not sure they know or care. Government is process....Buhari tainted the process with this indiscretion.

People they get arrested around the world Yoruba sef dey report arrest.

Yoruba no get liver for crime nau. Wetin Yoruba know about arrest?


Make I howler at my brothers small....

KWENU!!! KWENU!!!! KWENU!!!!

Come see Yoruba get arrested for traffic offense.

Base1line:
I observed that many Igbos on NL have been ceaselessly wailing over the appoint of Aregbesola as the interior minister. Those who have not been to Osun State to see the work n transformation the state witnessed under him continue comparing him with the fat kerosene sharing clown Ikpeazu that turn Abia into a shithole it indigene can’t wait to be evacuated from.

There are several pages with project Aregbe accomplished in Osun, if any Igbo believe any of their PDP governor past present n those to come in the future can compete with him in terms of infrastructural development, I make bold to say for every project “be it school bridge road hospital whatever” any Igbo governor from PDP completed I will list 3 for Aregbe.

While you pile the completed project by your former present n future governor to compete with Aregbe, I like to point out the most undeserving minister reappointed by Buhari is also an Igbo.

The jerk of a foreign affair minister Geoffrey Onyeama as supervised the most brutal killing butchery n massacre of Nigeria abroad in the history of this country. Be it from Malaysia Indonesia China India Saudi Arabia South Africa the only news we now receive is about relentless weekly slaughtering of Nigeria at any flimsy excuse.

This is who the Igbos should be wailing their tears over considering they suffered the most causality but bigotry n hate won’t allow they speak out about his glaring failure but I have decide to take the bulls by the horn to save other Nigerians abroad while Onyeama watch like a fool the weekly slaughtering of Nigerians like festive ram.

For the records, all the PDP miscreant that have been wailing ceaselessly over Aregbe’s appointment, note Aregbe was not interior minister when Abba Moro slaughtered over 32 Nigerian Corp member after defrauding them of billions with fake employment scam. So, either way you look at it Aregbe can never have his recorded tinted that miserably so he outperformed the 16 years ruins slaughter n fraud of the PDP without even starting.

I love this. Very well said!

Aregbe Amaka!

Some of my people think by speaking articulated grammar they get a pass from citizens.

What is Fashola going to say about a Minister, a policy maker, having to first submit request for review and approval of a Chief of Political Staff, before he can meet with President?

Enough of big grammar abeg.

ChristianEast:
Tinubu wins again.

Interior is a very powerful position for someone positioning to be a president. I don't believe Buhari could fire Dambazzu for Rauf. Tinubu is really playing his politics well but look at the positions again, the Kaduna mafias are also strategically positioned.

Cc: Metaphysical

I dont like posting serious inputs in daytime....it will be thrashed by Onitsha bridge head touts prowling around in daytime. I wait till they are away from internet before I can comment on Tinubu.

ChristianEast:
Earlier this year I was part of a defence team that represented one of your brother in a court in Ikorodu opposite the Methodist Church. You won't believe what we saw.

Your king lives in a house built with mud.

I just laughed. That is a kind of place we breed goats.

Remove Igbos from Lagos and the place will osogbonised like the sophikated ones Ibadanized Ibadan when we left it for them.

But unfortunately, all the gods and ancestors of yoruba land cannot pursue Ndi Igbo out of Lagos not to talk of a tout that can't project his powers outside Oshodi. We would not give you guys the opportunity to ruin Lagos like you guys did to Ibadan

Cc: Metaphysical
Oyatz

Is that so?
Thats the mode Eze of Akure was when he sleepwalked into a mud palace occupied by Deji. Ask your Eze what he thinks of Deji after he woke from that slumber.

Switruth:
Kanu just dey bite these guys for brokos

He is right!
Many of these people in government have no clue what power they have under the law. Serious!

hotswagg12:
Good write up @op. It's very educative and an eye opener.

Thanks

After BBN ban govt need to move in and ban this song

Modified....
Ban the song, not this curvy girl o.

Afamed:
No mind her ,her invitation is full of interior motives. Especially now she wey she dey fight me.

Ada is in heat! I got the water hose to cool her down and stop the fights.

Ada, let me know when you are back in town. Im coming to Wukari for your yam.

MudRaker:
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Fowler is a gonner

Tinubu has been used and soon to be dumped in Kuje prison general latrine

Argue with your Madam Lauretta

Why is your forehead and armpit soaked with sweat over Tinubu going to jail or Lauretta going home?

MudRaker:
Helinues seunmsg MetaPhysical

This is the beginning of the unbundling and final discarding of your frog eyed gbana bastard

Fowler will squeal like the afonja pig he is and rat out Tinubu


The massive theft in FIRS under Tinubu's alpha Beta is why the cabal is sacking alausa affiliated rodents like lauretta Onochie, Fowler and BMC miscreants.


As for the general oyoruba populace, get ready to see Alhaja Yemisi Osunbade impeached over his trade moni RCCG tithe thieving fake pastor coordinated heist.

Loving Kyari hashtag

...and what trophy do you win when all Alausa affiliates are sacked? Do you become the world super heavy weight 'I told you so" champion?

davidnazee:
You Yorubas keep saying Yorubas founded this, Yorubas started that, Yorubas invented this, Yorubas Kingdom did this..
Yet most historical discussions is about Benin, most artifacts and art works are from Benin, most historical conquests and greatness is about Benin, most historical exploits are about Benin... Even Lagos history starts with Benin.
So please tell me what did Yorubas actually do or own?

History by who, Olfert Dapper? Im glad he did not write about Yoruba. That would have been a catastrophy....how would we have been able to clean up his lies across the globe? Did I tell you he also wrote about China? ....and like Benin, he never visited China. The Chinese banned all books containing his journals and references on China. Yoruba would have had to do just that had Dapper written about us like he did Benin where he chronicled that your walls are washed and chalked and afterward glisten and shine like mirror. What a fable!

Lagos history starts with Benin, whose history equally started with Ife.

This Governor is very down to earth....if he can keep his money hand clean.
He speaks his mind and often it ties in with the public sentiment. Its like he speaks for the multitudes when I hear him sometimes.

b3llo:
I won't be surprised one bit if this guy ends up becoming our incoming VP come 2023. I would have said president but he doesn't look like a crowd winner. Abba Kyari, a master at his game.

no comment...waiting on ministerial portfolios.

This is an awareness thread!

Inputs from Onitsha bridge head touts will not be acknowledged. Don't even try!


I have two areas to raise awareness on as follows:

1 - Buhari does not believe he will live through his next term. In case of the death of a President in office, statutorily the VP becomes President. If Buhari dies in office, Osinbajo will take oath of office as President. Following which the power rotates South and a repeat of Yaradua/Jonathan succession. Where does that leave North? The question has been answered by the new directive and order given to the incoming Ministers. In other words, Abba Kyari, a non-elected government officer will be the channel, the medium....the go-to-person for any Ministry that wants to communicate with the President. In the absence of Buhari, Abba Kyari becomes the custodian of government and its policies. What this means is that Abba Kyari has full capacity to hijack the government and hold it hostage if anyone were to succeed Buhari. This is so because all of the policies and business relations in each Ministry, practically the Government, will not get to Buhari unless he has first reviewed and approved it. Simple! In Buhari's absence Kyari can withold and lock up all Government briefings, period! Abba Kyari is pro-ruga.

Northerners have taken an insurance against a non-consented succession and Abba Kyari is their premium. Abba Kyari becomes godfather in Aso. If you do not bow to him your request to the President might be pushed aside and or outrightly denied in your face!


2 - We need a civic class and a democracy tutoring for all Nigerians from top to bottom!

In any system of government, the Head of Government keeps a Staff. Staff is a broad headline for numerous job positions created to assist smooth running of the in-house....or internal machineries that run tasks of giving the administration a good and healthy image in the public. Underneath the banner you have "Political Staff". Chief of Staff is the head of political jobbers for the administration. In other words, Chief of Staff and all the people working underneath him or her are there for POLITICS.....not POLICIES! There is difference between the two terms.

Policies are the stratagems developed to make government keep to its social contracts with citizens and maintain a good relations with the world. They often begin from ideas and ingenuity and thoughts into values and metrics and then into action items and tasks, followed by implementation and deployment, and lastly by approval and audits.

Example -
Idea: how to improve living conditions for the citizens of community XYZ through sustainable power supply.

Values & metrics: how are they getting power now? There are 100 housing units in the community and every unit has a generator set. So that's 100 generators in the community. If all are working at a particular instance the pollution, wastage and inefficiency is enormous. Therefore Government will set a goal "reducing environmental pollution in Community XYZ by 50% over a 12month period".

Action Items & Tasks: communicate to the households the dangers and hazards of 100 generator sets running simultaneously; let them know that a solution exists which will replace the individual ownership, meet their power consumption need, reduce polution significantly and has a backup for load balancing, offer and get their buy-in for cooperative power generator. Give government commitment with a buy-back program.

Without turning this into a policy discussion...I am sure you all see what a policy can look like and the steap action to progress it into reality and better life for citizens. Ok. So now what is the job of political staffers?

In democracies typically two powers run the govt....a ruling and its opposition power. The two form a balance and curtail excesses by the ruling party. In a truly democratic society where these two counter-forces exist, there is so much heat and pressure, and thrown from different angles from its opposition that the ruling party in power must constantly stay preoccupied dousing the heat and cushioning the pressure. Those hired to diffuse opposition's attacks on the ruling power and promote the President in good public light are Political Staffers, and the Chief of Staff is their boss...or their coordinator. So in essence, a Chief of Staff is a bridge between the ruling party and its President. He is there to make sure opposition does not discredit the President or the party and also run a propaganda office to shine the President's image.

Abba Kyari as Chief of Staff is therefore a political anchor. He should never ever be involved in policy matters within the Presidency.

The head of policy makers (Ministers) is the President who approves goals & implementation and signs to release money for the cost. He is deputized by the VP. If he must designate this power it should be to his deputy, and not to Kyari, the party liaison.

Ministers are responsible to the Nation, not to APC. Abba Kyari, as Chief of Staff represents APC party interests in the Presidency. Because we are illiterate about separation of powers and the roles that these various positions are designed for....we have ended with muddled up roles and power....and now a Chief of Staff, who heads the President's image makers....is being made to review and approve government policies before it even gets to President.

....and to even believe that amongst the Ministers directed to go through Kyari are SANs like Fashola, a respected technocrat and voted as an eligible candidate for President of this country....it is mind boggling that he has not spoken against the directive or resign and walk away in protest of the abuse of office and power.


Im waiting to see who gets what Ministry. I will share with you whether or not power is coming to South. The list will be my tea-leaves.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday told incoming ministers that all requests for meetings with him should pass through his chief of staff, Abba Kyari.

Mr Buhari said this in his closing remark at a presidential retreat for minister’s designate in Abuja.

“In terms of coordination, kindly ensure that all submissions for my attention or meeting requests be channelled through the Chief of Staff, while all Federal Executive Council matters be coordinated through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation,” Mr Buhari said,


The president’s speech at the event was sent to PREMIUM TIMES by the presidency.

Mr Kyari has been criticised by some Nigerians including members of the ruling party, APC, for his influence over the president.

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, is one of those who have complained about the powers Mr Kyari wields in the presidency.

After Mr Buhari’s re-election in February, some APC members protested against the re-appointment of Mr Kyari, a longtime ally of the president.

The president, however, reappointed him to the position.

Read Mr Buhari’s full speech to the ministers-designate below.

Protocols

After two days, we have come to the end of a successful retreat. However, you will agree that our work is just beginning.

2. These last two days have been very instructive for me personally, because I have had the opportunity to know many of you new Ministers-Designate better. I was also pleased to see that you have all equally enjoyed debating and deliberating on the various challenges before us over the next 4 years.

3. Ladies & Gentlemen, majority of our people are poor and are anxiously hoping for a better life. A Nigeria in which they do not have to worry about what they will eat, where they will live or if they can afford to pay for their children’s education or healthcare.

4. Our responsibility as leaders of this great country is to meet these basic needs for our people. As I mentioned yesterday, this Administration inherited many challenges from our predecessors to mention a few:

· A country in which 18 local governments in the Northeast were under the control of Boko Haram;

· Decayed infrastructure in which our rail lines and roads had severely deteriorated;

· A rent seeking economy that depended largely on oil revenues and imports;

· Significant unpaid pensions, subsidy debts, legacy contractor debts. I can go on and on.

5. In our first term, we laid the foundation to rebuild our country. We recaptured those 18 Local Governments previously held by Boko Haram, whose activities are now limited to sporadic attacks against soft targets. Our investments in road and rail infrastructure are without precedent, and many of you can attest to this. We also focused on diversifying the economy from oil towards agriculture and industrialization. Despite reduced revenues from oil and gas compared to past governments, we have broadly addressed many of the legacy debts they left behind.

6. Whilst we have obvious successes to celebrate, the challenges ahead are significant as you would have observed in detail over these two days. Nevertheless, from the quality of the deliberations, it is clear that solutions to our problems are well researched and have been well articulated.

7. We have discussed solutions relating to addressing Insecurity; Macroeconomic Stability; Agriculture and Food Security; Energy Security for Petroleum products and Electricity; Transportation and Critical Infrastructure; Industrialization and SME Development; Human Capital Development; Social Inclusion; Anti-Corruption; Housing Financing and Consumer Credit.

8. Public service is not easy work, and at times it can be thankless. I am therefore charging you all to see this opportunity to serve as an honour, to give your best to deliver on this mandate, for a more prosperous Nigeria, not for some, but for all Nigerians.

9. You will find that working collaboratively and purposefully will enable us to achieve quicker results, recognizing that four years is not a very long time. For the new Ministers, make sure you engage and benefit from the experience of the older Ministers and former Governors in the cabinet.

10. In terms of coordination, kindly ensure that all submissions for my attention or meeting requests be channeled through the Chief of Staff, while all Federal Executive Council matters be coordinated through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

11. I would like to thank the Office of the SGF for coordinating this successful Presidential Retreat. I would also like to thank the National Assembly leadership, the Party Chairman, Chairman of the Governors Forum, and resource firms, for the active engagements and contributions.

12. Once again, the challenges that lie ahead of us as a country are significant. But I have no doubt in your individual capacities and our collective patriotic commitment to deliver a better Nigeria for us, our children and a brighter future for all.

Thank you and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

DNA of Ig_ _

Kwenu! Kwenu!! Kwenuzuo!!!


God be with Obinwanne up there in Virginia.