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I cum dey notice say for all Burna boy FOTO, he must show teeth ....

Na dis same shamelessness na im dem take jail R Kelly and P Diddy o..if it happened to you, testify.dats the way to go for man wey dey use prick think

PheelzAlmighty:
Imagine the shamelessness

No mind the goat,, Dem dey talk of Obi,he dey call Kanu,, these APC supporters all be like Bwala,no brains

Streetinvestor2:
Kanu does not even recognise the Nigerian nation. Obi is presidential candidate the whole SE has come to accept
They are completely two different case

IF anyone still doubted that Nigeria’s budgeting process has descended into institutional absurdity, the 2026 budget of the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education should end the debate.

It is difficult to imagine a more glaring illustration of how far the country’s appropriation process has drifted from reason, planning and accountability than assigning an education commission billions of naira to build roads.

The commission, established by law in 2023 to coordinate interventions aimed at reducing the scourge of almajiri and out-of-school children, was allocated N8.4 billion in the 2026 budget to construct roads in Ogun, Katsina and Ekiti states!

As if that bizarre assignment was not enough, it was also saddled with procuring ambulances, dental X-ray machines, dental chairs, solar street lights and empowerment tools.

Nothing could better signify the decay of Nigeria’s budget process.

Road construction is the statutory responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Works and the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency. Ambulances and dental equipment belong to the health sector. Solar street lighting falls within the mandates of relevant energy and public infrastructure agencies.

The Almajiri Commission has no business executing any of these projects.

At a time when Nigeria still has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, estimated by UNICEF and other stakeholders at between 15 million and 20 million, every available resource should be devoted to expanding access to education, improving learning facilities, training teachers, supporting vulnerable children, and reforming the Almajiri education system.

Instead, billions meant for one of the country’s most pressing educational emergencies have been diverted into projects bearing no relationship whatsoever to the commission’s statutory responsibilities. It is budgeting without logic.

The commission has since explained that the projects were inserted into its budget by members of the National Assembly as constituency projects, in line with what has become an entrenched but indefensible practice.

That explanation confirms that federal agencies are increasingly being converted into convenient vehicles for executing constituency projects, irrespective of whether such projects align with their legal mandates, technical competence or institutional priorities.

The commission is expected to rehabilitate township roads in Ogun State; construct internal roads in Katsina communities; build roads within Government Science College, Iyin-Ekiti; purchase ambulances and dental equipment; install solar street lights; and distribute empowerment tools.

How any of these assignments will reduce the number of children roaming Nigerian streets without education remains unanswered.

It also raises a fundamental question. If an education commission can be turned into a road construction agency today, what prevents tomorrow’s budget from assigning hospital construction to the National Library or flood control to the National Orientation Agency?

Alarmingly, this is precisely what is happening. Daily Trust reported on Saturday that 16 federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies received N205.96 billion in the 2026 Appropriation Act to implement constituency projects outside their statutory mandates. This is bad budgeting.

Once statutory mandates become irrelevant, the entire architecture of public administration collapses.

As expected, fiscal accountability advocates have condemned the development.

The Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre and Head of Transparency International Nigeria, Auwal Rafsanjani, rightly described the allocations as a troubling case of mandate distortion that weakens institutional specialisation, encourages duplication of responsibilities and undermines accountability.

Umar Yakubu of the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity warned that the commission risks becoming another conduit for political patronage instead of addressing Nigeria’s worsening education crisis.

Unfortunately, the Almajiri Commission is only the latest casualty of a budgeting culture that has steadily deteriorated over the past two decades.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo rejected the 2000 Appropriation Bill after accusing lawmakers of inflating it by about N2 billion.

In 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan initially refused to sign the budget because legislators reportedly increased the NASS’s allocation from N120 billion to N232.74 billion before a compromise was reached.

In 2016, the country witnessed one of its biggest appropriation scandals when the then Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, alleged that principal officers inserted about N284 billion worth of questionable projects into the budget.

The Muhammadu Buhari administration repeatedly complained about arbitrary legislative insertions.

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In 2019, Buhari objected to an increase of about N90 billion in the budget. In 2020, his government protested the insertion of about N264 billion worth of irrelevant projects.

In 2021, it warned of over N500 billion in duplicated and vague projects. In 2022, Buhari criticised lawmakers for creating over 6,500 new projects after reducing allocations to more than 10,000 executive projects, while also inserting N36.59 billion for NASS projects. In 2023, another N770.72 billion in questionable insertions was flagged.

The controversy deepened in 2024 when a senator, Abdul Ningi, alleged that about N3.7 trillion had been padded into the budget. He was suspended as a result.

BudgIT’s analysis of the 2025 Appropriation Act revealed that the NASS inserted 11,122 projects worth N6.93 trillion.

The report identified 238 projects valued above N5 billion each, thousands of constituency projects, 1,477 streetlight projects costing N393.29 billion, 538 boreholes worth N114.53 billion, over 2,100 ICT projects valued at N505.79 billion, and N6.7 billion allocated for the “empowerment” of traditional rulers.

It exposed numerous projects assigned to agencies whose mandates had absolutely nothing to do with them.

Now the 2026 budget features a so-called ghost agency allocated over N1.3 billion and an education commission transformed into a construction company.

Budget integrity, planning, monitoring, accountability and implementation become meaningless when agencies implement projects outside their legal responsibilities.

It explains why abandoned projects litter every part of the federation.

According to the Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria, more than 56,000 public projects worth about N17 trillion remain abandoned.

Nigeria cannot continue budgeting this way.

The country is grappling with shrinking revenues, rising debt service obligations and widening fiscal deficits.

It borrows to finance critical infrastructure while simultaneously wasting scarce resources through irrational project allocations that satisfy political interests rather than national priorities. This is fiscally irresponsible.

The persistence of these insertions also suggests an unhealthy accommodation between the executive and legislative arms of government.

Rather than insisting on discipline and protecting the integrity of the budget, the Executive appears willing to tolerate legislative insertions in exchange for smooth appropriation processes. At the same time, lawmakers increasingly substitute rigorous oversight with the pursuit of constituency projects.

That is a betrayal of constitutional responsibility.

The legislature exists to make laws, approve expenditure, scrutinise government proposals and hold the Executive accountable. Legislators are entitled to advocate projects that reflect the needs of their constituents and influence where federal projects are located. But they are not project executors. They should not convert MDAs into procurement vehicles for politically negotiated constituency projects.

Constituency projects themselves require urgent reform. Where they are considered necessary, they should be transparently identified, fully disclosed, independently costed, aligned strictly with the mandates of implementing agencies and subjected to rigorous procurement rules and public monitoring.

Above all, the NASS must stop treating the Appropriation Act as a political compensation document.

The budget is Nigeria’s most important economic policy instrument. It should reflect national priorities, not legislative patronage.

Civil society organisations, the media, professional bodies and citizens must, therefore, remain vigilant. Investigative reporting, budget tracking and public scrutiny have become indispensable tools for defending the integrity of public finance.

The Auditor-General, anti-corruption agencies and parliamentary ethics mechanisms should also intensify oversight of mandate violations and questionable insertions.

Nigeria’s economic challenges are too severe for this level of fiscal recklessness.

A country struggling with 141 million multidimensionally poor citizens, huge infrastructure deficits, insecurity, millions of out-of-school children and rising debt cannot afford a budgeting process driven by political bargaining instead of development planning

It a good news worthy of commendation....but make una stop all this bad belle talk

Richtaiwo:
Chai, just yesterday, abducted school children were rescued and now this. Some people will get heart attack.

Nigerians mumu sha, face your lives and leave these politicians alone. Obi here, Obi there, Tinubu here Tinubu there.... Every day na fight online. Life goes on

Na only him know wetin he see,, so no castigate am, u no dey there wey the thing happen

Mostly that one wey dem dey call Hell-anus,,he dey see this kind posts run,

Ewedegubbler:
APC 30k dogs go think say this thread na sambisa forest and they'l[url][/url][url][/url][url][/url] l scamper for safety

In Naija as long as you dey the ruling party ur sins are forgiven. And even if dey opposition na just a slap in the wrist u go collect.... Wayward kwantree

So you know the cause...then do the reversal,, drink lots of water,eat enough fruits to get your bowels soft for safe landing..e don finish. Then less I forget, forget sugary foods.

Drebreezer:
I am not
It's cause by strong stool
Constipation
Ingestion
Not drinking enough water

She better not o.2 persons with almost the same vibes does better.but 2 persons with such different goals and life's ambitions may not click.make your sister prayerfully consider the thing well well..make she no go use sake of age take trap herself inside a marriage where she go work herself out o.

Gentlesoul2021:
Are u saying just because time is not on her side and with the aforementioned, my sister should goto where she will be footing the bill 100%...

I no understand. Inside the grocery store wey I suppose say other people dey, how the guy take tear cloth come rape pikin? That guy konji must be super high

African teams and their coaches have psychological and inferiority complex problems.. our mentality falls short... Let's hope Morocco no go be like this

A nation cannot continue to measure progress by how creatively its citizens cope with suffering.

This line make sense.....

Who cares about ur propaganda? There's a reality on ground but you always talk of life like a dream,you can't be a lover of Nigeria more than our brothers and sister and children feeling the heat...I guess u live in a high brow area like myself,if not I'll suggest u carry this ur fake propaganda enter Keke or bus,then you'll live to regret ever saying things that are against realities on ground.

naptu2:
You people never say anything that makes sense. You ignore the topic and resort to some emotional nonsense that nobody cares about.

U chop belle full.so u fit talk freely.after all we live in a free world

naptu2:
The trolls are arguing against Mrs Tinubu's action not because there's anything wrong with it, but because they have to.

Every single one of their arguments is nonsense and laughable.

Due to the fact that they are arguing just for argument sake, they are saying a lot of things out of complete and total ignorance. What are the things that they are saying? I'm going to list them so that sensible people can laugh:

⚫️ Akara, corn and kulikuli

These people act as if the only thing that Mrs Tinubu said was akara, corn and kulikuli. They didn't hear about the ICT traning, they didn't hear about the scholarships, they didn't hear about the business training.

⚫️ ₦50,000

They act as if all Mrs Tinubu is giving to beneficiaries is ₦50,000. The ₦100,000 grant does not exist? The ₦150,000 grant does not exist? The ₦200,000 grant does not exist?

⚫️ It's government money

Do they do charity with government money?

Anyway, I'll address all these things tomorrow.

Firewood one piece for my area na 500 naira o.so how many u wan use ? Remember this na commercial setting o,as u dey fry,u add wood to the fire to keep it burning.

CodeTemplar:
Firewood 1,500
Oil 10,000
Bean 5,000
Ingredients 5000

It can Oga.
Where the wackness comes in is thinking about such when we are exporting raw materials to pay loans that have been wasted n looted.

The blame game is a normal thing in Nigeria.Buhari blamed Jonathan and pdp.Tinubu came and blamed the rest before him.so na normal life guy.

joseph1832:
Weak people always tend to blame others for their woes and misgivings.

The opposition have continued to show, they are just like many Nigerians, who don't bother to do their findings, but rather, rush in to join the crowd. When shown the error of their ways, they rush to blame others.

It's just like those complaining about what Remi Tinubu said, ask them how much do they think an Akara seller should be given, and let them write a proposal for it, and you'll see them rain insults upon insults on you. It's just a pity. The Olodo Uprising is now a problem to the Nigerian state itself.

This is no joking matter .you knew quite well what the consequences for ur actions might turn out to be,and you dug in.before now you mo tell her say if belle come my hands no dey o..now e don burst you dey run. I'll tell you for free, she may be your missing link in life,don't do what you're actually thinking now.. forget that your everybody dey chop her mentality.take ur responsibility after all you enter and na you she hold,hold her back and live ur life

papiSNEH:
see na small thing dey make me vex.. which one be wedding and naming?

Ur so called dogs,DSS. They're equally criminals too.the ones they brought to one of our refineries in the south south to protect the company's infrastructure,at the end of the day,they were caught stealing the same things they were brought in to protect.... since then I lost my respect for them....I know u no like any body wey dey critical of this failed government.so that explains ur comments...you sef I believe prefer to support the terrorists and bandits than support those wishing for a better country....

yarimo:
This is very commendablefrom the DSS

Na dat one tire me pass.how u go select for me when and how to use the data I buy from u? How na?

Amovingman:
Glo are bunch of thieves why night data go high pass day data

Earlier news said the bandits released the dead body and the wife, how come now it turned to rescued.... I no understand again

I wonder o.in the video I saw somewhere.the guy just hold the dress so tight that the left bwest was just dangling to n fro..that guy must be a bad guys

MrsNwaAmaikpe:
What did her mammary gland do wrong?
Men are the same everywhere. Any little crime committed, the next thing Una don bring out bwe.st.

Watch out for eagles next time out....but I pity "the boys the boys" in this world cup..too many tears to cry the way they'll be dealt with.

IronGalaxy:
What stopped the eagles from doing good so they could go?lol

Yea as Africans minus South Africa.... we're at ease not being at the world cup.but ur team would do worst than the eagles that didn't go.

IronGalaxy:
"Our Morrocco" lol.. you're not Morroccan..your team is watching at home

[shifting goal post won't help here.. They'll still score you more goals.hope you saw our Morocco last night, playing the almighty Brazil like the real pro's they are.quote author=IronGalaxy post=139690157]So we shifting goalposts now ?[/quote]

Who are u guys playing next,let me predict ur predicament for ur the boys the boys in the midst of real men.

IronGalaxy:
And im certain the same immigrants have been a bastion of good behavior in South Africa right? You guys need to stop acting like you're some victims, you're not.

Here we need no heater our air conditioners are working..... Ur country men have made u guys a stench in noses of all Africans

IronGalaxy:
Yes, we lost.. but what has changed for you?
Has your electricity start working 24/7
Has the insurgency stopped?

Im the one who will go to bed with a heater on

You get sense so?

seunmsg:
This is not a suit but a threat to sue if certain things are not done. It is similar to the threat Peter Obi issued against People's Gazette, till today, he never sued. So, this is just another face saving public stunt by Peter Obi. He should go and refund the money he collected from NDC aspirants in the south east.

Again, Nigerians can now see the kind of duplicitous character this Peter Obi is. He's not yet president but already using legal threats to silence those opposed to him. One can only imagine how he will threat the opposition, activists and the media if he ever becomes the president. Dude can't even take a pinch of what he normally dishes to others.