₦airaland Forum

BUDGIT APOLOGISES TO LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT

BudgIT’s State of States report is a snapshot of the fiscal health of all 36 States in the country and it uses four metrics or stress tests to provide a fair overall Fiscal Sustainability Ranking of all the states.

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A previous graphic on the ability of states to meet their recurrent expenditure is hereby retracted.

According to Mr. Gabriel Okeowo, BudgIT’s CEO and Principal Lead, “No single metric, when isolated, provides a fair assessment of any state; and none of the tests we used evaluates state’s fiscals for insolvency.”

We are compelled to also use this medium to tender our unreserved apologies to @followlasg for the misrepresentation that has trailed Lagos State in the report.

Indeed, @followlasg cannot be included in the category of States with a recurrent deficit; thus, not borrowing to pay salaries.

Our metrics focused on NET FAAC and IGR as published by the National Bureau of Statistics due to the disparate nature of revenue framework among Nigerian states.

We also apologise for including a special debt financing program as part of the recurrent expenditure which might be a total representation of its finances.

We affirm that Lagos State remains way ahead of many of its peers in terms of fiscal health and the capacity to generate revenue internally; and it also has the least dependency on federally collected revenue distributed through FAAC allocations.

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We regret this inconvenience; hence, the previous design is hereby retracted and a review has been commissioned by our research team.

Mrbaz1:
yea, I checked the time and it states on the 26th 3am Nigerian time, so thats why am confused. and same here bro I want to also follow and live stream via twitter also..tnx for the reply.

Samakus:
Which supersport station will show this match? I use compact

UFC 253 fight card -- Israel Adesanya vs. Paulo Costa

By Brent Brookhouse


9h ago

A highly anticipated middleweight championship fight and a battle for the vacant light heavyweight championship will headline UFC 253 on Sept. 26. A location for the event has not yet been confirmed, with rumors stating the UFC APEX in Las Vegas and Fight Island in Abu Dhabi are both in play.

In the main event, Israel Adesanya will put his middleweight title on the line in his second title defense, taking on Paulo Costa in what has developed into a grudge match. Adesanya won the title last October by knocking out Robert Whittaker. He then beat Yoel Romero in March in a highly disappointing fight by decision. Adesanya is 19-0 in his career and 8-0 in the Octagon, with all eight UFC victories coming since February 2018. Costa is 13-0 in his career and a massive man for the 185-pound division. He has ended 11 of his 13 career fights by knockout.

naptu2:
Frank Olize was an NTA News correspondent. He became very famous in 1983 when he went out on the streets to ask people, "Who is the common man?" (Nigeria had an economic crisis which started in 1982 and people were always referring to "the common man", "Can the common man afford this?", etc, so he went on the streets to ask people, who is this common man that everybody is talking about ).

He also did similar hilarious interviews on the streets and he became known for that.

In the early 1990s, he took over as host of Newsline. Newsline had started c1988 with Yinka Craig and Patrick Oke as hosts.

He left Newsline in the late 1990s or early 2000s and started Tuesday Night Live (Abike Dabiri took over as host of Newsline) and that was the last show that he presented on the NTA.

naptu2:
Foreign correspondent: - Godfrey Odu and Lola Ogunbambi (usually reporting from Geneva or Vienna).

Newscasters: - Ronke Ayuba ( ) Elizabeth Nze ( ) John Momoh, Waheed Olagunju, Patrick Oke, Funmi Odubekun, Ruth Benamaisia, Sienne Allwell-Brown, Hauwa Baba Ahmed, Donald Ovberedjo (The Don, he was also an excellent cricketer), Bimbo Oloyede, Cyril Stober, Tokunboh Ajai, etc.

State House: - Segun Aderiye ( "State House, Dodan Barracks" ), Ladan Salihu, Sola Atere.

Wierd, humorous, crazy and thought provoking stories: - Frank Olize (I originally thought that nobody could do Newsline as well as Yinka Craig and Patrick Oke, but he proved me wrong).

Sports: Walter Oyatogun ( "NTA News" ), Yinka Craig, Charles Ojugbana, Tunde Orebiyi, Fabio Olanipekun ( ), Akinloye Oyebanji (They handed us back to the studio immediately after we lost the final of either Canada '87 or Saudi '89 and we saw Akinloye Oyebanji. His eyes were RED! You could tell that he had been crying ), Modele Sharafa Yusuf, Mainasara Ilo, etc.

Live state events: - Taiwo Obileye (Amazing voice and great attention to detail. He would tell you the name of the horse and how many similar events it had attended. He could probably tell you the name of every single soldier on the parade ground).


NewsWeek: - Maudlyn Park (and later) Chris Anyanwu

Port Harcourt: - Sele Eradiri.

Sokoto: - Mathews Otalike (for over 20 years! ). Very funny news report. I understood what was happening, but it was still very funny.

"The Award was given to Mathews Otalike. . . . "The Commissioner said that Mathews Otalike. . . . "4 people were given awards, including ******, Mathews Otalike, ****** . . . ." and at the end of the report "Mathews Otalike, NTA News". Old Man burst out laughing. Mathews Otalike had been referring to himself in the third person.

Judicial correspondent: - Kayode Idowu

Other correspondents: - Vera Ifudu (Dora Ifudu's sister and one of the main people involved in the missing 2.8 billion naira saga), Joan Oduwyer, Jennifer Iwenjiora (now Jennifer Atiku Abubakar),


Booboo Corner: - Kehinde Young-Harry (and Lola Ogunbambi).


I still can't remember the name