₦airaland Forum

First good thing from this Senate

They are basically saying the same thing

Because we don't strap holy belt on scream allah akhbar and blow ourselves up because one mumuhead promised us 72 virgins

Laugh Don tear my belle

Lair lair pants on fire

BeeBeeOoh:
Wake me up whenever 1$=1N






Tonda Faya Devul

Your sleep will be an Everlasting sleep

And my beloved working Governor obiano is not on that despicable ajala list

The Federal Government said it would pay subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit from the recoveries made in the first quarter of 2016. This is contained in the latest Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) template released in Abuja. It said that between January and March, the Federal Government was able to save about N10 billion as a result of selling the product above the Expected Open Market Price. According to the new template, the expected open market price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) has risen to N99.38 per litre for independent and major oil marketers and N98.62 per litre for NNPC retail outlets. It added that the expected open market price was the actual price of the product without subsidy and it was based on the current exchange rate of N197 to a dollar. It said that at the current price of N86 per litre at NNPC retail outlets, the Federal Government was paying N12.62 per litre as subsidy on the product and N12.88 per litre as subsidy for other oil marketers’ price of N86.50. A breakdown of the template revealed that for NNPC retail outlets and independent and major oil marketers, the Landing Cost of PMS imported into the country was N84.32 and N85.08 per litre respectively, It stated that the distribution margin, which include retailers, transportation, bridging fund and dealers margin among others stood at N14.30 for both the NNPC and other marketers. According to the statement, this brings the current Expected Open Market Price to N98.62 and N99.38 for NNPC retail outlets and other marketers respectively.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/fg-pay-subsidy-pms/

Rocha's:As the only governor in SE I have written to buhari to end the heat

Everybody is vexing for that midget demon

Guseh:
Gbam!
Where is Ogun state governor na, make im put mouth for this matter

Mimiko

For me, I see the grazing reserves as aggravating the problem; though I’ve not read the law, I don’t see how that law can find comfort with the land user’s act; the control of land is vested in the governor of the state; I can’t see any federal law that will compulsorily acquire any land from any state government; in my state for example, it cannot work.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/04/11/mimiko-meets-opc-members-over-killing-of-colleague-by-fulanis-herdsmen/

I trust Ajimobi to treat their madness

Mr A: Buhari will win second term election 2019

Mr B : Fuel will be #5/litre next week

Mr A: Meaning ?

Mr B : I thought we were listing impossible things

KissCODE:
Too bad? Yes too bad...

It is bad that a nation like nigeria is wasting money sponsoring nonsense protest.

Fulani herds men are running down communities killing innocent nigerians, federal government is silent and nobody is protesting.

Fuel has become a highly scarse commodity in an oil producing country...nigeria. Yet no one is protesting.

No light, small generators banned... Yet no one is protesting.

Things going from worst to worst... yet no one is protesting.

but for SARAKI TO GO... #500MILLION NAIRA AND MORE WOULD BE SPENT...

I dey watch una shaa!!!

Welcome to the fraudlish change era where fuel is scarce dollar scarce Fulani herdmen running around and innocents murdered by the military yet nothing from bubu

They shall fail shamelessly

Somewhere shouting chains

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, said on Saturday that the Federal Government needed 700 million dollars to upgrade its refineries to produce at maximum capacities.
Mr. Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of NNPC, disclosed this while speaking with journalists during the re-inauguration of the Port Harcourt/Bonny Crude Supply Line at the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC), Eleme, Rivers.
He said that due to the fact that the nation did not have such amount, advertisements had been signed for investors to come in.
According to him, “we are not inviting foreign partners to take over the refineries; the total investment for that is up to $700 million and we don’t have that. Let us be honest about it”.
”So, the best thing to do is to find a very creative way to bring in investors, who will come in, work with our team here;
‘’Investors, who have the skills to reactivate and upgrade facilities in this place and help us provide technical support and we will pay through the flow-out of the refined products over time,” he said.
Mr. Kachikwu emphasised that there should be no confusion about what the investors would be coming to do, since they would not come to run the refinery.
”They are coming to provide funds to take our performance on these refineries to 90 percent and to provide us with technical skills.
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”So, the areas of intervention will be funding and technical support,” he said.
Mr. Kachikwu said that at present, Nigerians were consuming about 45 million litres of petrol daily, while the refineries were producing 12 million litres daily as they were working at 60 per cent capacity.
He said the nation will need to upgrade the refineries and let them develop to the point where they can perform up to 90 per cent.
He said by the time the refineries were upgraded to lstart producing at 90 per cent, about 20 million litres would be produced daily.
The minister said that with such production, it would only meet up with about half of the country’s consumption.
Mr. Kachikwu, however, apologised to Nigerians for their suffering due to the fuel scarcity and also thanked Nigerians for their patience.
He explained that the government had been able to recover the two critical crude supply pipelines; which were Escravos/Warri and Bonny/Port Harcourt crude supply pipelines.
Mr. Kachikwu said that the pipelines were down for six to seven years but had been repaired and were working and supplying crude to the refineries.
”For the first time, the refineries will get their crude, pay for it; they will sell their products and they will earn the income from that product.
”And then, they can develop and continue to maintain the refineries even after this intervention is over.
”Port Harcourt is back in production, Warri is back in production; Kaduna today is receiving and will soon be back in production. It is something of joy,” he said.
Mr. Kachikwu said, ”Lagos is easing off now from fuel scarcity and Abuja is doing the same thing; once Kaduna begins to produce, the North will see a lot of improvement.
”Over and above that, we are putting long term policies in place to ensure that while smaller marketers go out and do their stuff, we can then be the key suppliers for the rest of the country.”
He commended the workers and the contractors for a job well done; adding that he had signed the promotion letters of the Port Harcourt Refining Company staff as they deserved to be rewarded.


Mr. Kachikwu, however, said there is a lot still to be done, ”I told you I will never give up.
“We owe Nigerians the duty to ensure that the refineries are working. We owe Nigerians that, we can’t give up,” he said.
The minister urged Nigerians to remain resilient, “support what the government is doing because this is the only way to change the system.” http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/202317-nigeria-needs-700-million-upgrade-refineries-kachikwu.html?utm_source=

xpac01:
Wonders! Is her community anywhere close to Idemili of Anambra.

People like you never yet rush to cast aspersions

No puppet/zombie believes he is a puppet/zombie

ijustdey:
so after receiving the certificate of return from INEC and she winning her appeal in the appellant court.... she can't address herself as a member until been sown in......

this is just a way to frustrate her
a way to cage her because she is in the opposition

No she can't until she is sworn in

LadyExcellency:
Is it because she is a woman and opposition member?

This injunction is abuse of court process. The INEC certificate of return supersedes every partisanship abracadabra until appeal/supreme court(pre-election matter) or election tribunal throws her out.

She should be sworn in without delay.

What you wrote up there is emotional gibberish. There is no legal backbone stating inec certificate of return supersededs a court of law

There is a court order stopping her swearing in

Even if they have a picture of his boys assaulting the woman he will still deny it

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, illegally hired at least 396 more than the number approved by the Federal Character Commission, in a highly secretive process that benefitted relatives of President Muhammadu Buhari and ministers in his cabinet, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm today.
Although the Commission granted waiver for 513 people to be employed without advertisement as required by law, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that CBN raised the number to 909.
Many beneficiaries of the crooked process were family members of senior government officials, serving and past.
The acting FCC chairman, Shettima Abba, said in a response to PREMIUM TIMES’ enquiry that the waiver granted the CBN was for the recruitment of specific number employees.
Controversy over the recruitment scandal, first exposed by the news website, Sahara Reporters, has compelled the Character Commission to drastically review the number of employment opportunities for which government agencies could be granted waiver.
While large organisations now have a limit of 100, smaller ones have 50.
Henceforth, the Commission said there would no longer be waivers in respect of chief executives, directors and other top management positions.
Besides, its state offices have been empowered to monitor the recruitment of junior staff of agencies with specific guidelines that candidates were sourced from the catchment areas of the organisations.
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The spokesperson of the Commission, Abdullahi Idris, also told PREMIUM TIMES that following a request by CBN in April 2013, waiver was approved for the recruitment of 275 persons as enterprise risk managers, medical consultants, reserve managers, payment systems configuration, digital media/engagement, international trade and macro prudential and stress testing specialists.
Following the inability of the bank to conclude the recruitment within three months before the expiration of the waiver, Mr. Idris said a fresh request for revalidation was submitted in July 2015 to allow the completion of the process.
He said approval for the revalidation of the previous waiver was issued in September 2015, with a demand to forward to the FCC the character balancing index of the shortlisted candidates, indicating their states of origin, local government, sex, posts and qualification.
Mr. Idris said the Commission in its letter to confirm the issuance of certificate of compliance to the bank had warned against the substitution, replacement and alteration of the names of those issued with letters of appointment without its consent.
Besides, he said the Commission equally demanded that the updated staff nominal roll of the bank be forwarded to it within three months.
Although the nominal roll was still being expected, to confirm the conclusion of the recruitment exercise, the Commission said the CBN in December 2015 came with another request for revalidation of waiver to recruit another 238 specialists into various positions in the bank.
The bank said the fresh set of employees were to support the implementation of some key government initiatives, namely the treasury single account, TSA, increased financial institutions supervision and monitoring of FOREX utilization and other new policy guidelines.
But, the acting chairman of FCC who said the waiver granted CBN was for a specific number, expressed shock that the final figure over-shot what was approved by 398.
“All actions of the Commission in our engagement with MDA’s have in no way granted approval, encouraged or advised the CBN or any MDA to violate, disregard, or circumvent the federal character procedure for recruitment into the federal public service,” the spokesperson of the Commission said.
After several weeks’ wait for clarifications on the exact number recruited as well as submission of the updated nominal roll, the commission said CBN’s response last week was that “the number quoted was not conclusive” as it was still harmonizing the figures from its branches nationwide.
No CBN official was ready to comment further on the issue when our reporter visited the bank on Thursday.
The acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okoroafor, said he was not in a position to comment any further on the issue than he did initially.
When the allegation was first reported, Mr. Okoroafor had insisted that the bank did nothing wrong, as it got waiver from the FCC to conduct “targeted recruitment of specialists/experts without advertising.”
Regardless, another senior official of the bank, who asked that his name should not be mentioned, as he was not authorised to speak officially on the issue, told our reporter that the management had barred all staff from commenting on the issue in view of the fact that the matter was currently before the court.


“There is no issue about the recruitment. All records are there that the bank was given waiver to proceed with the exercise without advertisement. Whatever was the so called extra were junior staff from the catchment areas where the CBN branches are located across the country, which does not require advertisement before they are recruited,” the official explained.
The Federal Character Commission Regulation Act, 2008, requires that recruitments into government ministries, departments and agencies must reflect national character spread to ensure that qualified candidates from all sections of the country get equal opportunity of being recruited.
Besides, the law also requires that the recruitment must follow the due process of advertisement in at least two national newspapers giving qualified Nigerians a minimum of six weeks to apply.
But, the CBN recruitment violated those conditions by not reflecting federal character.
Most beneficiaries of the exercise were alleged to be relations of politicians and top government officials, including President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew; Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdulrahman Danbazzau’s son, and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu’s son.
Others included Inspector-General Police, IGP Solomon Arase’s son; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s daughter, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba’s daughter.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/202252-recruitment-scandal-cbn-exceeded-approved-waiver-employ-buhari-ministers-relatives.html

Saraki can never escape those 15 charges one must catch him

Saraki is melting like a cube of sugar placed in water

The Federal Government has amended the charges of false asset declaration preferred against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja.

With the amendment, Saraki will be facing two fresh charges in addition to the 13 counts originally preferred against him, which comprised false asset declaration and maintaining of offshore account while serving as Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.



The additional charges, include allegation that Saraki continued to receive salary and emoluments as Governor of Kwara State after the expiration of his tenure and at the same time, from the Federal Government as a senator between June 2011 and October 2013.

The offence is said to be contrary to section 6(a) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act. CAP. C15, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and as incorporated under paragraph 2(a), Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution.

It is said to be punishable under section 23(2) of the code of conduct bureau and tribunal act as incorporated under paragraph 18, Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution.

The other additional charge is that Saraki failed to declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau on assumption of office as Governor of Kwara State in 2003, his leasehold interest leasehold in the property at 42, Remi Fani Kayode Street, Ikeja, Lagos.

He was said to have acquired the property in December 12, 1996 through his company, Skyview Properties Limited from First Finance trust Limited.

The offence is said to be contrary to section 15(1)(2) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, CAP. C15, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and as incorporated under paragraph 11(1) and (2), Part I o the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution.

It is said to be punishable under section 23(2) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act as incorporated under paragraph 18, Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution.

Our correspondent learnt on Thursday shortly after Saraki’s ongoing trial before the CCT was adjourned till April 27 for further cross-examination of the first prosecution witness, that the Federal Government might further amend the charges before they will be read to the accused person.

http://www.punchng.com/saraki-faces-fresh-charges-for-receiving-governors-salary-as-senator/?utm_source

Department of State Security, DSS on Tuesday arraigned Secretary to the Rivers state government , SSG, Mr Kenneth Kobani and a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr Azubuike Chikere Wanjoku at a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt over alleged misconducts during the last rerun elections in the state that constituted threats to public peace. The SSG , Mr Kobani and others at large were among other things specifically charged for an alleged offence punishable by the Terrorism prevention act of 2011. The SSG, Mr Kobani pleaded not guilty to the three count charges read to him. The charges in part reads” that you Kenneth Kobani with others at large on or about March 3 ,2016 at a meeting held in your residence at Bodo community , Gokana local government did conspire to carry out activities that could cause the breach of the peace and break down of law and order on the 19 March 2016 thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 516 of the criminal code act Count two – that you Kenneth Kobani and others at large on or about March 19 2016 at the premises of INEC office, Gokana LGA, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court did conduct yourself in a manner that caused the breach of peace by leading and instructing your followers to barricade the entrance of the INEC office, prevent officials of the commission and other adhoc staff from discharging their duties and causing stampede in the vicinity thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 249 d of the criminal code. Count three that on or about 19 March ,2016 at the premises of INEC office , Gokana LGA, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court did hold Mr James Simon , an official of the commission and other adhoc staff hostage until their eventual rescue by security personnel, thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 11 of the Terrorism prevention act 2011. Kobani pleaded not guilty to all the charges. Justice Liman Mohammed later granted him bail on self recognition and adjourned the matter to June 15 for hearing. Kobani is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state. On his part , Wanjoku who was APC candidate for Ikwerre state House of Assembly constituency seat in the rerun election was charged for allegedly falsefully accusing the Ikwerre INEC Electoral Officer , Mr Kingsley Osifu of collecting some amount of money from him to disrupt public order and security, thereby committed an offence to and punishable under section 516 of the criminal code Act. The second count charge said the conduct of Wanjoku allegedly obstructed the public officer from discharging his official duty, an act punishable under the criminal code. The third count charge alleged that Wanjoku threaten to forcefully demand refund of the said money from the INEC officer , thereby committed an offence contrary to criminal code “. He also pleaded not guilty. Justice Liman granted him bail with the sum of N500,000 , ordering that he should get a senior civil servant to sign surety for him. The Judge also ordered that he be remanded in prosecution custody till the bail condition was met.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/rivers-rerun-dss-arraigns-ssg-apc-chieftain/

SarakiThe trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) resumes on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s session comes a day after the first prosecution witness alleged that the defendant failed to declare houses in the United Kingdom, as well as the upscale areas of Ikoyi, Lagos and Abuja.

The witness, Mr Michael Wetkas, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was led in evidence by the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN).

He gave the names of various companies allegedly operated by the Senate President while he was the Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.

The prosecution witness tendered the Senate President’s asset declaration form for the year 2011 as exhibit, with the defence counsel reserving its objection to a later date.

Earlier in the trial, the Chairman of the CCT, Mr Danladi Umar had declared that he would not suspend the trial of the Senate President to allow the Senate to continue sitting since the red chamber was not on trial before the tribunal.

Dr Saraki is facing a 13-count charge of alleged false declaration of asset while he was Governor of Kwara State
http://www.channelstv.com/2016/04/19/sarakis-trial-resumes-code-conduct-tribunal/

The Nation Nigeria


EFCC
$2.1b arms deals: Jonathan’s ex-aide Dudafa arrested
by Yusuf Alli, April 19, 2016 at 12:07 am in Featured, News FacebookTwitterSMSWhatsApp
Former presidential aide Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa has been arrested, The Nation learnt yesterday.
The former Senior Special Assistant ( Domestic Affairs) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan is to be interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with the investigation into the $2.1billion arms deals.
Sources said he was being grilled last night over $47million and 5.6million Euros (N10 billion) which were withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The cash was allegedly shared to delegates to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Primary Election on November 27, 2014.
Investigation revealed that Dudafa, who was at large, was intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos by operatives of the Department of State Security Service(DSS).
It was learnt that he was immediately handed over to the EFCC and flown to Abuja.
A source said: “Except for the vigilance of security agents at the airport, Dudafa would have gone through the checks unnoticed. But having been watch-listed, operatives of the DSS intercepted and arrested him.
“After handing him over to EFCC, Dudafa was immediately flown to Abuja for interrogation. He was brought in at about 9.15pm.
“The EFCC is excited by the arrest of Dudafa because he is central to many transactions as the SSA Domestic Affairs to ex-President Jonathan.”
The EFCC arraigned Dudafa in absentia with a former National Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, ex-Minister of Finance, Bashir Yuguda and a former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Mr. Shuaibu Salisu and six others for alleged N10billion loot.
One of the charges said: “That you Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki whilst being National Security Adviser and Shaibu Salisu, whilst being the Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser and Hon. Waripamowei Dudafa(now at large) whilst being Senior Special Assistant , Domestic Affairs to the President on or about 27th November, 2014 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entrusted with dominion over certain properties to wit: the sum of N10billion being part of the funds in the account of the National Security Adviser with the CBN, the equivalent of which sum you received from the CBN in foreign currencies to wit: $47million and €5.6million Euros committed criminal breach of trust in respect of the said property when you claimed to have distributed same to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Presidential Primary Election delegates and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.”
http://linkis.com/thenationonlineng.net/EABKM