₦airaland Forum

Section8:
He suppose order the execution of the artist

Section8:
Heheheheh warrisdiz?? The statue be like say na better sh!t and hunger dey fire am

[img]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/09/11/108207700-small_trans++YQNnVpRdJUy4jFi6LmeQ1BQE1nRp5w6q4jA7p00ka7s.jpg[/img]
Robert Mugabe unveils a new statue of himself.

President Robert Mugabe has unveiled a 3.8-metre statue of himself at the same time as Zimbabwe suffers its worst economic crisis in years.

The cartoon-like statue depicts the 92-year-old in defiant attitude, with one arm raised above his head and fist clenched, wearing his trademark thick-framed glasses.

It was produced over six months by Dominic Benhura, a local sculptor whose work has been exhibited around the world.

Mr Benhura was pictured standing nervously beside the statute along with Mr Mugabe and his wife, Grace.

Mr Mugabe said the work had been donated as “charity”.

“To see oneself reproduced this way, it’s something that should be more appreciated than just by saying 'thank you',” he was quoted by the state Herald newspaper as saying during the unveiling ceremony. “I will say in an African way and in our own way, personally, thank you in a deeper way because it has gone deep in my heart.”

Mr Benhura said he had spent six months producing the likeness of Mr Mugabe after being commissioned by the presidency.  

“I wanted to make it as big as possible,” he said. “This is our number one so I wanted to give it a strong impression.”

But his work was ridiculed by Zimbabweans on social media, who characterised it as: “Superman in the style of The Simpsons".

Others suggested that Mr Benhura had committed "career suicide". "The poor chap is probably at Chikurubi prison by now," another wrote, referring to Zimbabwe’s best-known jail. 

The unveiling came after Patrick Chinamasa, the Zimbabwean finance minister, completed a tour of Europe in a bid to secure agreement for an International Monetary Fund bail-out. The government has also announced a plan to axe 25,000 public sector jobs.  

The dire economic conditions have prompted a rare strike by teachers, doctors and nurses and even more rare protests against Mr Mugabe’s regime by a coalition of opposition parties which police have put down brutally.

Mr Mugabe warned on Friday that his “patience” with such indiscipline had limits and hinted at a ban on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter that are thought to have helped bring together protesters.

“"Let these opposition parties and all those groups be warned that our patience has limits and will definitely soon run out,” he said. "If we take actions which are painful they have only themselves to blame."

Ishilove:
The thunder that will fire all these people collaborating to make life hard for the average Nigerian has table of contents.

drss2:
witchhunting news everywia. dis govt is trying to distract nigerians from sometin.

The National Assembly management failed to account for a total expenditure of over N9.4 billion in 2014, the latest audit report has revealed.

The money included N9.39 billion for which no “documentary evidence” was provided and a N47 million to be returned to government coffers out of which only N360,000 was returned; giving a total of N9,440,844,572 (nine billion, four hundred and forty million, eight hundred and four thousand, five hundred and seventy two Naira).

The audit report of government bodies (2009-2014) was submitted to the Clerk to the National Assembly in March 2016 as statutorily provided. The full contents were recently publicly disclosed by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation on its website.

The report indicted several government bodies of illegal and profligate spending, and failing to remit over N3 trillion into government’s treasury.

Apart from the National Assembly, other key bodies indicted include the state oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Ministry of Interior, the Presidency, Central Bank of Nigeria and some foreign missions.

According to the report, between January and December, 2014 under the leadership of David Mark as Senate President and Salisu Maikasuwa as the Clerk, the Management Department of the National Assembly Commission transferred N9,392,995,515.00 (Nine billion, three hundred and ninety-two million, nine hundred and ninety-five thousand, five hundred and fifteen naira) from the general services account to other accounts in different banks.

The purposes stated for the transfer include Senate General Services, Appropriation, Constitutional Review, House of Representatives Services, UNDP Projects and Research Office Services.

However, “no expenditure returns or documentary evidence were rendered to account for how these sums were expended,” the report said, raising question of accountability and legality.

In another case, the report disclosed that the National Assembly management remitted only N360,000, out of a N47 million balance of total personnel vote release and actual expenditure for 2014.

“It was further observed that the total Personnel Vote release for the year 2014 was N1,856,510,517.00 (One billion, eight hundred and fifty-six million, five hundred and ten thousand, five hundred and seventeen naira), and the Actual Expenditure for the same period was N1,808,661,460.18 (One billion, eight hundred and eight million, six hundred and sixty-one thousand, four hundred and sixty naira, eighteen kobo), resulting in a balance of N47,849,057.00 (Forty-seven million, eight hundred and forty-nine thousand, fifty-seven naira).

“However, only an amount of N360,115.08 (Three hundred and sixty thousand, one hundred and fifteen naira, eight kobo) was paid back to treasury at the end of the year.”

No Denial

In May – after the audit report had been submitted to the National Assembly, the Senate Committee on Public Accounts led by Andy Uba (PDP-Anambra) held a public hearing during which a number of government bodies refuted certain findings of the audit report, particularly the disclosure that they didn’t submit their internal audit reports between 2009 and 2014.

Some of the bodies that challenged aspects of the report were CBN, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) and Nigeria Pension Commission.

However, the National Assembly has not denied the findings of the audit report as they related to the lawmaking body – though its committee castigated the then Auditor-General of the Federation, Samuel Ukara, for an “unsatisfactory report”, cashing in on complaints by other government bodies.

The law says the National Assembly should refer the audit report to its committee on Public Accounts for consideration.

After considering the report, the committee is empowered to pass a resolution to either publish the report in the National Assembly journal or government’s official gazette.

Since the committee considered the report, it has not passed the resolution for its publication in either channel.

Efforts to reach Mr. Uba for comments were not fruitful. He did not pick calls to his phone or reply to text message.

https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/Screenshot%202015-12-13%2018.45.56.png?itok=ZRVxdSz6
National Assembly

casttlebarbz:
ar u serious or just bein sacarstic

Tallesty1:
Even without arms, his village uncles still won't let him be

It was a tragic situation in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital yesterday when an armless man fell from a moving train and died on the spot.

The incident, according to THISDAY checks, occurred around Post Office area, GRA, Ilorin at about 9.10am when the Lagos to Kano train took off from the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) station in Ilorin.

The victim, it was gathered, was said to be traveling to Kano for the forthcoming Sallah celebration when the incident occurred.

Confirming the development to journalists in Ilorin yesterday, the Station Manager, NRC, Ilorin, Mr. Godwin Ehinziyore said the station had warned that no passenger should hang on the train.

Ehinziyore explained that the announcement had been repeatedly made in Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa languages to the effect that hanging on a moving train was risky. He said the corporation could not be held responsible for whatever happens to illegal passengers who choose to hang on the train.

He, however, said the corpse of the victim had been deposited in a mortuary in Ilorin by the officials of the corporation.

Ishilove:
Nothing wrong in a nose ring. You Nigerian men are so local

Ishilove:
So this is how they toast woman in ya village? By stronging face?

LuvU2:
Which ward

BeeBeeOoh:
You are scarce in politics section these days, its like the Chainji dey romance you wella