₦airaland Forum

Despite the declared state of emergency?

God saves Nigeria.

frosbel:
President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Muhammad Namadi Sambo will annually lose N878, 676 and N757, 693 respectively if the decision to cut basic salaries of political office holders in the executive arm of government by 25 percent is implemented.

The annual basic salary of the president, according to Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Act 2008, is N3, 514, 705 per annum while that of the VP is N2, 031, 572.50 per annum.

Of the N18.3 billion State House budget, N11.2 billion is for recurrent expenditure comprising N9.2 billion over head cost and N2 billion personnel cost; and N7 billion capital projects. N1 billion of this amount would be spent on providing food and other catering services for Jonathan and Sambo households.

The breakdown shows that N477 million would be used to pay for foodstuffs and "catering materials supplies" for the president's office. Additional N293m would be for his "refreshment and meals" and N45.4m for canteen and "kitchen equipment."

Also, Vice President Sambo plans to spend N1.7bn on trips in 2012 and N1.3 billion on office stationeries; N2.4bn on office maintenance, N314m on drugs and medical supplies; N477m on foodstuff and catering material supplies; N121 million on drugs and medical supplies and N11m on teaching aids and instructional materials.

Though the president also announced cuts on overseas travels for political office holders and the size of their delegations, the presidency's expenses for this year would largely remain unaffected.

The 42 ministers in Jonathan's cabinet, including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), and Chief of Staff to the President, will sacrifice N22, 797, 000 which constitute 25 percent of their annual basic salary of N91, 188, 000.

Chief of staff to the president, ministers, SGF and HOSF earn N2, 026, 400 each as basic salary annually. The president's 20 special advisers, by this arrangement, will give up N9, 629, 325 of their total basic salary of N38, 857, 500 this year. The act provides that special advisers to the president receive N1,942, 875 each as annual basic salary.

This amount didn't include dozens of senior special assistants (SSAs), special assistants (SAs) serving in the offices of the president and his deputy.

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201201091635.html

N878,000 is a peanut compare to the amount available in the bold.

IMO any strike that shuts down Lagos, Kano, and Abuja is a success.

Katsumoto:
You are not very clear; have you upgraded your rear? It appears that you are saying that you have upgraded your rear but you still want more upgrades??  So the Intel that OAM4J received might be correct afterall [/b]just that you are being an Oliver twist. I stand by my original assessment; greed dey worry you.  

That Intel is authentic jare. Idowu needs to learn what Yorubas call 'Itelorun'  

The bigger the berra is not good; I am sure all the guys in the house can testify to that. [b]We only have two hands; no guy wants to have to employ various equipment to be able to part the sea (I hope you catch my drift) before conquering new territory.   Leave it as it is, assuming its no longer flat like a frying pan.  

Are you suggesting that you want dudes to be able to jump up and down on your Bakassi like a kid in a bouncy castle? Mo gbe   *running as fast as his legs can carry him*    

What game do people play with sticks and tires  Sticks and tires? do little boys/girls in your area burn thieves?  

No, am not getting your drift, can you come again  

AjanleKoko:
Kats has been busted.
You were ajebota growing up.

kats na pure ajepako jare, he is just forming butter. I dont know who he is trying to play. May be Isale, or Mukina or Idowu. But am watching him. 

Yeah he deserves it. Congrats.

Deleted. Sorry about it.

hmnnnn. . . i reserve my comment

Beaf:
Ok, my bad.

Lol! You are the first person I've found who believes they can rid the police off corruption. Most people even go as far as saying they would wipe the lot of them out, because they serve no purpose. Armed robbers visit a neighbour, you go to the police and the next day armed robbers visit you to kill and ra'pe. Where do you start to clear corruption when the "roger" collected at roadblocks is a racket that extends as high up as Abuja? Where do you start without sacking the nest of vipers?

The fuel importing mafia is the same, only several times more powerful (as evidenced in the organisation of these "protests", all pervasive with the police, customs, judiciary, port authorities, shippers, govt officials, NASS members. . . where do you start when you are sorrounded? The only route out was to kill the eco-system that the creatures thrive on, and thats what GEJ has done. That is also why he will NEVER EVER back down, because in a fight to the finish, that means doom.

The subsidy and its creatures of the night are gone for good. Lets live with it, we must wrestle to force more concessions, accountabilty and total transparency from govt, anything more is a waste of time.

If these few people (cabals) are as powerful as you claim, more corrupt and powerful than the entire Nigeria Police Force and the government can not identify and deal with them, then we have a SERIOUs problem on our hands. Because I see them move into other sectors of the economy soon and prolly hijack the government.

I think we should declare Emergency in the presidency before they take over and before it becomes too late.

alj harem:
[size=13pt]They shld stop deceiving themselves. If Nigerian govt. can't build new refineries without removing fuel subsidy, they shld damn it. That's one of the things that must (needed to) be in place b4 they start dreaming about removing subsidy. If FG don't have money to build the refineries, they shld use one (or two) month salary and allowances of FEC, Upper & Lower House to build them as their own part of the sacrifice to the Nigerian course.

Secondly, we want the FG to show us a blue print that must be implemented, on how those that have cases to answer in the oil sector and Nigerian Economy will be probed, to regulate corruption.[/size]

What blue prints? Are you not you tired of blue prints from this government? What we need is action and results not another blue prints

adino:
@ Beaf
Try and be sensible for once. These people are too dumb they will never bother to read your explanations, neither will they want to reason. Just try and avoid some threads in NL since it is obvious that this forum has been overran by silly`, silly and ignorant people as well as local champions like Gbawe who think they know little things but end up showing gross hypocrisy.
Beaf, you are better than this. Stop lecturing morons because some people will never learn. These are people who believe in nothing and join the trend by insulting Nigeria and its leaders while they are not part of Naija's future.
These same people will begin to praise GEJ all over the place when things turn around. WAEC, NECO and JAMB clearly verify my claims.

Rather than calling other people positions silly, why not show us your how intelligent you are by disproving other people's 'silly' arguments with facts and not just sentiments. Am yet to see your high intellectual contributions to the debate. You might give me a link in case I missed it.

Beaf:
I am sorry, but you neatly dodged my question, which is about the realities on the ground. My instincts are that your position is biased, hence you do not wish to come out with a clear answer. The whole "trust" thing sounds a lot like apartheid, so please leave it aside and provide a concrete reply to my question, so that we can have a totally open discussion.

I answered you already'

OAM4J:
I will have to consider the implication cost of disbanding the old one to build a new one.

lemme expatiate on that. I cannot allow the country to go on without a police force while I build a new force. Also there is no guarantee that the new force will not be corrupted if I cannot deal with the corruption with the existing force. So to answer your question point blank, I will prefer to identify why the current force is corrupt, deal with it, retrain and re orientate the existing force. Nuru Ribadu did it with a crop of police officers that he got for EFFCC, he didn't recruit a new set of security officers for EFFCC.

Beaf:
That is a mentally lazy conclusion to reach from what I wrote.

I will ask you a simple question; if you are given the option to fight corruption in the Nigeria police force or to make a totally fresh start and build a brand new force, which would you choose and why?

Lets start from your reply.

I will have to consider the implication cost of disbanding the old one to build a new one. Using your analogy, I guess you prefer the people should suffer while building a new force, good as that might sound, there is a burden of trust also on this government, how can i trust a government that cannot deal with a problem with the existing force to handle problems that might come with the new force?

I am not in support of retaining subsidy, but I want the palliatives to be put in place before the removal of the subsidy simply because I do not trust this government to keep its promise judging from past experiences. I want a case where the government repairs the existing refineries, build new ones and then privatize. Also put the buses on road, complete the repairs of the railways lines and cut down the cost of government before removing the subsidy so we don't keep having pains with no gains.

^In other words the Government is weak and want the people to suffer for its ineptitude

pictures please

When will they stop talking about building these refineries and actually start building it. I have been hearing about this proposal for months now.

Umbrella

[size=14pt]Nigerians made a mistake not electing Buhari –El-Rufai[/size]

extract. . . .

The removal of fuel subsidy was greeted with mixed feelings. How do you see the action of President Goodluck Jonathan?

Well, I have already written about this fuel subsidy conundrum and I think that the timing and the deceit that went around the removal of the fuel subsidy is the main reason people are angry. I think the government has missed the point of peoples' anger about the fuel subsidy. It is not an economic argument; it is not a political argument because some of the people in government are accusing some of us in the opposition of being opposed to it for political reasons. It is more than that. It is a trust issue. Nigerians do not trust this government to use the resources well and there is nothing the government can do to earn that trust unless they get the work of the people done. This government has earned $200 billion from the sale of crude oil and taxes in the last four years and it has done nothing with it. Why would another $7 billion make the difference?

If you were President at this moment, how would you handle the situation?

As I said, the issue is one of trust. If another government was in power, let us assume General Buhari was the President of Nigeria, he would not withdraw the subsidy. He will fix the problem. He will audit who is taking the money in the subsidy, who is paying what, how the money multiply three times in one year and fish out the thieves and deal with them.

So, why do you think Jonathan lacks the political will to deal with them?

[b]Because they financed his election. But Buhari would have sorted that out. That is the first thing to do. Now, while you are paying the subsidy, even one quarter of what you are paying is a lot. General Buhari's administration would have ensured that within 12 months all the refineries are working at full capacity. His administration would have built the fourth refinery that will bring our domestic production to the point that we don't need to import a single drop of petrol. And once we can produce our petrol from our own crude oil, at out own cost, we can sell it at any price we like. That is what Buhari's government would have done. Nigerians made a very big mistake for not electing Buhari, and they are learning every day. Many people have told me that they voted for Jonathan and they are regretting it now.
There is no question of Buhari withdrawing subsidy because he has been Petroleum Minister, Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and so on. He built three out of the four refineries we have in this country. And he built that out of patriotism to ensure that we can produce domestically. So, the question of withdrawing subsidy would not even be on the table.[/b]


Let's talk about the security situation in the country. You are a Northerner and the Boko Haram sect happens to be a Northern group. How do you view its activities?

I don't like thinking of myself as a Northerner. I see myself as a Nigerian that happens to have been born in one part of Nigeria. Now, nobody knows really whether Boko Haram is from the North or from anywhere. Nobody knows for sure because their leaders were killed. Now, anybody can come to my house and plant bomb and say it is Boko Haram.

A few days ago, I saw on the internet pictures of some people covering their faces, wearing jeans and saying that they are Boko Haram; that Southerners should leave the North. I am sure that those people are not Boko Haram. Boko Haram people don't wear jeans. They wear Kaftan and their trousers are like this (folding his trouser to demonstrate the kind of trousers the Boko Haram members wear). There are people that are claiming to be Boko Haram and they are not because nobody knows who is Boko Haram. So anyone can make the claim. I think that what we have in Boko Haram and other insurgencies is not only Boko Haram.

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) paraded through Lagos, shooting in the air and the police ran into hiding. There are kidnappers all over the South-East. Insurgence in Niger Delta; these are all a symptom of the breakdown of the capacity of the state and unless the government stands up and secure the lives and property of the people, they are leading us towards failure. I believe that beyond Boko Haram, which is a metaphor for dissatisfaction with the state, there is something going on. There are forces within the government and outside the government collaborating to try to throw this country into crisis. I do not believe that some of these things in the name of Boko Haram and so on and so forth are (done by) Boko Haram.

That means the issue of Northern politicians sponsoring Boko Haram is baseless?


If Northern politicians are sponsoring them, they should name them. They should stop threatening that we know the sponsors. If you know the sponsors, why are they still working the streets? If you are a real government and you have your information, why are they not in court, being charged for what they are doing to this state?

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2012/jan/08/national-08-01-2012-005.html

[size=14pt]Nigerians made a mistake not electing Buhari –El-Rufai[/size]

extract. . . .

The removal of fuel subsidy was greeted with mixed feelings. How do you see the action of President Goodluck Jonathan?

Well, I have already written about this fuel subsidy conundrum and I think that the timing and the deceit that went around the removal of the fuel subsidy is the main reason people are angry. I think the government has missed the point of peoples' anger about the fuel subsidy. It is not an economic argument; it is not a political argument because some of the people in government are accusing some of us in the opposition of being opposed to it for political reasons. It is more than that. It is a trust issue. Nigerians do not trust this government to use the resources well and there is nothing the government can do to earn that trust unless they get the work of the people done. This government has earned $200 billion from the sale of crude oil and taxes in the last four years and it has done nothing with it. Why would another $7 billion make the difference?

If you were President at this moment, how would you handle the situation?

As I said, the issue is one of trust. If another government was in power, let us assume General Buhari was the President of Nigeria, he would not withdraw the subsidy. He will fix the problem. He will audit who is taking the money in the subsidy, who is paying what, how the money multiply three times in one year and fish out the thieves and deal with them.

So, why do you think Jonathan lacks the political will to deal with them?

[b]Because they financed his election. But Buhari would have sorted that out. That is the first thing to do. Now, while you are paying the subsidy, even one quarter of what you are paying is a lot. General Buhari's administration would have ensured that within 12 months all the refineries are working at full capacity. His administration would have built the fourth refinery that will bring our domestic production to the point that we don't need to import a single drop of petrol. And once we can produce our petrol from our own crude oil, at out own cost, we can sell it at any price we like. That is what Buhari's government would have done. Nigerians made a very big mistake for not electing Buhari, and they are learning every day. Many people have told me that they voted for Jonathan and they are regretting it now.
There is no question of Buhari withdrawing subsidy because he has been Petroleum Minister, Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and so on. He built three out of the four refineries we have in this country. And he built that out of patriotism to ensure that we can produce domestically. So, the question of withdrawing subsidy would not even be on the table.[/b]


Let's talk about the security situation in the country. You are a Northerner and the Boko Haram sect happens to be a Northern group. How do you view its activities?

I don't like thinking of myself as a Northerner. I see myself as a Nigerian that happens to have been born in one part of Nigeria. Now, nobody knows really whether Boko Haram is from the North or from anywhere. Nobody knows for sure because their leaders were killed. Now, anybody can come to my house and plant bomb and say it is Boko Haram.

A few days ago, I saw on the internet pictures of some people covering their faces, wearing jeans and saying that they are Boko Haram; that Southerners should leave the North. I am sure that those people are not Boko Haram. Boko Haram people don't wear jeans. They wear Kaftan and their trousers are like this (folding his trouser to demonstrate the kind of trousers the Boko Haram members wear). There are people that are claiming to be Boko Haram and they are not because nobody knows who is Boko Haram. So anyone can make the claim. I think that what we have in Boko Haram and other insurgencies is not only Boko Haram.

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) paraded through Lagos, shooting in the air and the police ran into hiding. There are kidnappers all over the South-East. Insurgence in Niger Delta; these are all a symptom of the breakdown of the capacity of the state and unless the government stands up and secure the lives and property of the people, they are leading us towards failure. I believe that beyond Boko Haram, which is a metaphor for dissatisfaction with the state, there is something going on. There are forces within the government and outside the government collaborating to try to throw this country into crisis. I do not believe that some of these things in the name of Boko Haram and so on and so forth are (done by) Boko Haram.

That means the issue of Northern politicians sponsoring Boko Haram is baseless?


If Northern politicians are sponsoring them, they should name them. They should stop threatening that we know the sponsors. If you know the sponsors, why are they still working the streets? If you are a real government and you have your information, why are they not in court, being charged for what they are doing to this state?

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2012/jan/08/national-08-01-2012-005.html

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All that from the name Odunnu, are sure you are looking at the name and not imagining her beauty? Stop dreaming o. She don get cover o. And don't ask if she is mine.   


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[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=816612.msg9916493#msg9916493 date=1325971555]I love it!  Another player just outed herself. 

OAM4J, Katsumoto, OAM4J, Ola, Debo. . . Say HI to the female Player, Naijababe.  May the best player win!  Oh, don't forget Idowuogbo.  Her own level actually scares me sha. [/quote]Na wa o

You mentioned me first and you have to mention me again in one line. O ga o. And I have not played you in any way nor intend playing you, rather you have been the one playing all of us I no be player o, or should I say am a retired player, I have passed the baton to Katsumoto and ola one. Son of man should settle down soon.

Idowuogbo:
Bros I think I might have to pay for your oju surgery,d only tin I will campaign for is DR90120 to strt doing bum enlargement on NHS,omo have u seen the VAT for nicki mileke type of assss .Me want free implants ooo

Idowuogbo:
Taaa liv talk my own go shake mehnnn,wen I walk it will be dancing galala witout me even moving my waist,omo my assss-seets go bedt gann o.My implants would b make from omi garri

Idowuogbo:
No haba u dint even ask wot oda ingredients will produce the implant,I forgot to include" Ogi".It will also be included to create the bounce effect,omo u better join campaign baba idi la fe create o.

Intel reaching me says your ikebe is heavily subsidized already, now you want more subsidy, you go wound o, hope you can handle it when guys began to protest and riot

Ola one:
^^Fight to finish.

From your gated compound abi?

Katsumoto:
Wetin concern agbero with over load? Whats my own with the problem in your country? I would have been concerned if it were just an Odua nation but my own people have their own credit or natural disaster problems.

I am just a spectator.

Not even for the sake of 1001 naija babes you dey chase? Dont you know with the subsidy removal, the cost of having and maintaining a naija babe will also go up?

Where are my people? Are they protesting?

looks like I saw Isale, ola one, katsumoto, naijababe and ajanlekoko in some of the pictures

And 2 of the people protesting in London look like debosky and idowuogbo.

Take it easy guys, Nigeria go better, am supporting you from my bedroom