barcanista:
What has changed?

He is now virtually a remote station whose command and control centre is beyond his access.

barcanista:
Bros na wa you o. You and I know that Buhari is a man that doesn't accommodate corrupt practice. He will not sit on such report. He doesn't have such antecedent.

Buhari doesn't believe in doctrine of transparency hence can't be reliable

The Buhari you thought you know (the General in 1985) isn't the same man that is contesting for 2015 presidential election.

Many waters have across under the bridge.

barcanista:
they don't have a choice other than release the result.

For sure, they will.

However, we all know Buhari and his sponsors won't do such a thing for whatever reasons but would rather tell interested parties and Nigerians to go to court as the government is not mandated to make such report public according to our laws.

Winken:


it is the hand work of bishop obinna. He wants iheanacho but his plans wont work. People in the church have cautioned him and he doesn't want to listen. Rochas was endorsed in orlu zone as there gubernatorial candidate irrespective of party affiliation. All the powers that be in orlu held a meeting and came up with that. I have no fear because I know there is no vacancy in Douglas house. Rochas till 2019 maka odinma imo state

A catholic from Orlu will listen to his priest and bishop before those politicians hence the odds are going against him.

He needs to up his games and enter into begging and consultation mode

LRNZH:


I think you intentionally ignored this part of my post you quoted maybe out of tunnel vision.

Kindly respond to these:

I told you to stop believing hearsays from premiumtimesng and saharareporters until real news outlets with verifiable source breaks the news.

The President just received the PwC report today.

It seems Catholic Church in Imo State wants Gov. Rochas Okorocha out from Dougla's House accusing him of using monetary incentives to lure and convert some Imo State citizens to Islam

Rochas Okorocha needs to up his game. Over confidence is working against him.

I want him to win a second term while the opposition gets majority in the House of Assembly to keep his toes hot.

I like this debate by Dr Iweala and Prof Soludo as I have a lot of catching up to do.

I appreciate any new entrant who will further enlighten the populace and help deepen our democracy.

I am enjoying the discourse.

egift:
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After all you insults you will still complain why the North and SW are not supporting Jonathan. You better tell the Zoologist to start packing.

Get lost Mr man. What has someone's right to unimposed personal opinion got to do with National fault lines?

I see, you are trying so hard to justify a career imposed self hatred against your conscience.

nagoma:


Are you a learner? You must have been a toddler in the mid and late 90s or you are just been mischievous by comparing the excellent and efficient PTF project execution to the the looting and no work that goes on in GEJ's government now.

You are the toddler here who thought Nigeria is synonymous with Core Northern Nigeria.

May be it was massive across Northern Nigeria at the expense of equitable national distribution.

Buhari is an ethno-religious champion and yet he wasn't able to reduce the number of Almajiris being recruited to the streets on yearly basis.

What a pity.

LRNZH:


NLs are aware that any stories of PTF corruption never indicted GMB and no one was prosecuted even by a hostile OBJ Gov't and EFCC.

OBJ recently said that GMB's PTF was given a clean bill of health from a corruption perspective under his administration

It's a pity this same mumbo-jumbo by OBJ will be quoted by some gullible researchers in the future.

It is important to remember Buhari's categorical assertion that Abacha's regime wasn't corrupt and what we now know.

MayorofLagos:


....this takes me back to my debate episodes in secondary school. This is a preparatory stage!

What research outcomes, what policies?

I agree with you on statistics and the last two lines in your input.

At least I want to hear someone quote a research by UNESCO, WHO, FAO, Millenium Development Goals etc.

Some quotes like "one in every 20 women die during child birth", "poverty rate in Nigeria according to so and so studies will be x% in 2020 if this or that is not done", quotes on climate change and its effects on farming, cost of health services according to WHO etc will suffice.

The contestants are not debating about the differences on their policies, implementation and the feasibility thereof.

They are just discussing on what possible problems and what to do as they read/heard from Nigerians on the social networks and gossip columns from print and online media.

None of them is quoting statistics, research outcomes, they are not even challenging the present policies (as what to reform, change and especially how) let alone coming up with convincing methodology on tackling the challenges at present.

LRNZH:


This is exactly what I mean. A lot of fond memories of PTF's achievement by people from various walks of life / ethnicity can't be erased just because of elections

Nobody is talking about what money can do or did rather the flaws in its management as it relates to equitable distribution across regions and the exaggerated estimates without details for further verification for most listed items which I know are lies.

PTF was synonymous with corruption against what the article portrayed and the distribution was engraved in ethnocentric policies hence my criticism of the whole write-up.

Smart007i:

Is this person even a Nigerian ? I doubt it,
For The record, till date... go to school Liberies and General Hospitals Nation wide, you'll still see work done by PTF
The good thing is they are always Branded. they are not hard to find.

All these children on Nairaland with zero life experience won't learn from gladiators but choose to rely only on search engines when they can't distinguish between fictions and real life stories.

The good thing about my comments and critiques are their credibility and reliability borne out of rich experience and on the spot analyses.

I guess Nuhu Ribadu is the suitable for the job

Let's cross the first bridge on 14th February, 2015 as we return the Transformation Pilot to Aso Rock for the next four years

eGuerrilla:
Let's hope thisday's article can be used as a case study of 'poor journalism' in years to come.

Statement in response to Nigerian Presidential election enquiries -- http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/statement-in-response-to-nigerian-presidential-election-enquiries/

In Logic(s): The statement wasn't specific to drive home your point

In which Countries in West Africa to be precise was Hausa offered as at 1961?

From antecedents, I am afraid this is untrue.

Buhari nearly replicated Awolowo's Wartime Economic suffocation of South-East in 1984/85.

Buhari reminds me of hunger and kwashiorkor that killed approximately 2 million defenceless women of Biafra extraction.

Buhari may be true this time around but can never be trusted hence I can't put my bet on him.

Obiagelli:

I have made my point just as you have made yours, i have my reasons, you have yours.

Btw, How is the ridicule of the deputy governor demand coming along? Has Agbaje given us an igbo deputy governor? I thought that was the earlier stand.

Who and who are Involved in this your "Us"

Politics is all about interest and no person or group has the right to use intimidation, threat or violence to force people against their will and interest.

Ballot is the greatest power they got to bargain for their interests. EOD

Obiagelli:

Well said, i wonder why these groups can't just keep quiet, after rubbishing us with senseless demand for deputy governor, they have come to this again. Whatever happened the igbo man flying the apga ticket?

It is non of your business which party or candidate the Igbo community in Lagos decides to support. Maintain your lane and stop hating.

As ilugunboy said earlier, the Hausa community endorsed Ambode and nobody is threatening fire and brimstone.

By the way, Ambode and Agbaje are Yorubas while Agbaje is an Indigene, Ambode is just a stakeholder according to Fasola's narrative.

Obama's government is also not effective and this led to lost of both Legislative chambers to the opposition.

If American citizens are not satisfied with his regime then he has no moral authority to advise another government on what he failed in delivering to his own people.

Another mischievous and politically oriented report from misinformed and aggressive opposition States representatives

Please pay attention to the statements in highlight for another allegation and the response to the earlier misinformation.

$30 billion not missing from Excess Crude Account — Okonjo-Iweala

December 27, 2014Bassey Udo



Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has denied that $30 billion is missing from the Excess Crude Account as alleged by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.

“The widely published comment by Gov. Adams Oshiomhole alleging that 30 billion dollars is missing from the Excess Crude Account is shocking and totally untrue,” a spokesperson for the minister, Paul Nwabuikwu, said in statement Saturday.

“The comments reflect, once again, the unfortunate tendency of some political players to politicise the management of the economy on the basis of half-truths and sundry distortions.

He said Mr. Oshiomhole’s comments gave the impression that the Federal Government doles out whatever it wished to the states from the Federation Account.

“But anyone who is familiar with the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) process knows that this is simply not true.

“The meetings are held every month and Commissioners of Finance and other officials represent their states and agreements are reached on issues including the distribution of proceeds from the Account.

“There is no 30 billion dollars missing from the Excess Crude Account as alleged by Governor Oshiomhole,” it added.

The response followed an allegation by Mr. Oshiomhole that given the number of barrels of oil produced in the country and the dollar rate in the last three years, the amount raised in the Excess Crude Account fell by at least $30 billion.

The governor also said the revenue in the account had not been shared in the last 18 months and yet the account went empty.

“Over the past three years, whereas the budgets have been based on an average price of between $78 and $79 a barrel, the average price of Nigeria’s sweet crude has been around $108 per barrel. That gives a surplus of over $30. Ideally, we ought to be saving $36 per barrel.

“With 2.3 million barrel a day over the past three years, if you look at these numbers, you will find that what we should have in our excess crude oil account should be over $30billion. But, as we speak, we have barely $3 billon,” Mr. Oshiomhole said.

The Chairman of the Commissioners Forum in the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), Timothy Odaah, who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES on telephone on Saturday expressed surprise at the allegation, saying he would not comment on the allegation till he confirmed with the authorities at the Ministry of Finance.

“I am yet to get in contact with the AGF (Accountant General of the Federation) or the Minister of State for Finance on the issue. There is need for me to verify from them to confirm if the allegation is true that Edo State have not been getting anything,” he said.

“I cannot competently comment on the information, because none of my members (Commissioners for Finance from the 36 states and FCT) have called me to complain,” he added.

But the minister, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, said the governor’s claim could never be true.

“How can such a huge amount be missing from the ECA and the Edo State governor will be the only one privy to this?”

After sharing about N1.196 trillion wind-falls as revenue allocation for the months of August and September 2013, the then Minister of State for Finance and Chairman of FAAC, Yerima Ngama, had announced a resolution by members to henceforth stop the “culture of augmenting monthly allocations by drawing from the ECA, whenever available revenue fell short of the budgeted for the month.”

The resolution was in line with the Federal Government decision to ensure that at no time would the ECA balance be allowed to fall below $10 billion, to provide cushion to the economy in times of unexpected shocks.

Despite the resolution, members of the FAAC, consisting the Commissioners of Finance and their Accountants General from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, continued to withdraw from the ECA to augment statutory allocations.

As at December 2013, the balance in the ECA was about $6.9billion.

Mr. Yerima said an additional $2billion transferred to the account had raised the balance to $8.9billion in January 2014.

Mr. Yerima said another $1billion was withdrawn at the end of the month for sharing among the three tiers of government, bringing the new balance in the account to about $7.9billion.

Between May and June, various deductions were also made from the account. Another $2.7billion was withdrawn in September 2014.

At the end of the FAAC meeting in October, Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, said the balance in the ECA was about $4.11 billion.

But, the meeting for November ended on a controversial note on December 16 as representatives of the 36 states and the FCT accused the federal government of not accounting for about $1billion (about N168 billion) of excess crude oil money withdrawn from the account.

The minister later denied that $1 billion was missing.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173865-30-billion-not-missing-excess-crude-account-okonjo-iweala.html

ionsman:
Na zo.....Who ask uniport?

Punchng asked and received the feedback

barcanista:
You can't be a judge and a participant at the same time bro. Focus on bringing your points, we will take care of ours

Accepted, what next

barcanista:
NEXT...

I am in for it provided your usual junks remain unacceptable among admissible points.

PassingShot:
Good idea but I doubt the Jonathanians agreeing to this.

Why not, provided information from gossips columns, editorials and obfuscation of verifiable facts remain inadmissible and banned.

It wouldn't work if the Executive is required to bear responsibility for the failures of Legislature and Judiciary neither should President Jonathan be blamed for inefficiencies of past regime of OBJ and Atiku

barcanista:
Add ECONOMY. Also Add RULE OF LAW.

Remember, he said debate based on facts meaning editorials, gossips and opinions are secondary or not admissible.

Will you accept Government's figures from ministries and agencies including CBN, NNPC, World Bank, Commissioned Research works, Court verdicts/convictions (not indictment/allegations), Statistical Data from reorganised bodies including PwC and other audit results and other verifiable trusted sources?

Separate Executive functions from Legislature and Judiciary duties

The rule should be fixed with not more than 5% tolerance for diversions.

I was shamed of Professor JEGA when he said INEC Database is beyond hackers.

Whether the INEC Database is permanently offline or temporarily online, provided humans (System and Database Administrators) have access to the systems, it can be hacked - Fact

barcanista:
I never said a recommendation letter replaces certificate, I said the recommendation letter is a confirmation that Buhari has been educated up to secondary school level. And I stand by it!

Sai buhari jooor

The man, Buhari has already stated in INEC form that he has WASC and from military records, he stated the subjects he passed without producing the result.

Remember, he swore an oath to affirm the existent of the WASC record.

mrmetoo1:
Again can we please let this thing go? Someone asked for WAEC number it's been provided. Go do your own research yourself too

@barcanista does this satisfy you? I don't know how you'll make anyone make you feel bad about him being literate or not. Didn't you see his fine handwriting in the application letter he wrote? Abeg o, I like objectivity but don't cross the line to indulging this silliness

Is this the certificate?

Why waste so much time producing big lies to cover a smaller lie.

From all indication the certificate is non existent and the paper you presented is another fraud.

For more than thirty years Buhari couldn't apply for a covering note from WASC nor for replacement of his certificate and you are trying to convince us that he is an ingenious character