₦airaland Forum

kuuljay:
illiterate igbo youth want a project without a budget

So, why is there no budget?

Meanwhile, there was the supplementary budget.

Say something else pls

I wish to congratulate the Op for this!!!

Those hiding behind budget should know that there was a supplementary 2015 budget by Buhari and non-passage of 2016 is as a result of one thing and one thing alone -incompetence!!!

Sharaaap there!!!


You consumer of propaganda. How many lies have Osibanjo told since he came into limelight?

I'm not talking about Lie Mohammed, the Minister of propaganda

Aufbauh:
Prof Osinbajo really hit the PDP below their loins with his eye opening revelation on their failure to start a project from inception to completion. Since then their camp particularly the Jonathanians have not known peace.

I was personally taken aback by the revelation which i have to painstakingly analyse and verify, but with the PDP especially the locust years of Jonathan any failure is possible.

Dry!

LegatusGlaber:
A needless publicity stunt and unparalleled playing to the gallery

Yes, bro.

That same old trick.

But we are wiser now. QED

Naijacitizen:
Mr. Chukwu, pls read this part: [b][/b]

A 13 year old cannot do anything willingly. Reason: because a minor cannot decide for himself or herself.

That's the point.

I'm in Ikeja so I can't really say but I just got the news feed from Pega.

My aim is for ppl to be informed to be cautions around d entire area and for those who can reach security agencies to do so asap.

U never know who might me affected in d mob action

Source no be me
Source=Pega news online

Breaking news
It has just bn confirmed that the Hausa's are now entering houses in Agility area and killing people. People are now fleeing.

Please be vigilant

Ethnic Tensions Rise In Lagos As Hausa/Fulani Thugs Attack Orile [VIDEO]
We received the update below from a citizen reporter and it is accompanies by a video showing the carnage and residents testifying to what happened. It reports on events in the Orile area of Lagos on Friday, March 4, 2016.

Happening Now: Orile Lagos on fire as a bloody fight erupts between the Yorubas and Hausa/Fulanis

Fulani/Hausa is right now as we speak attacking Orile community in Lagos State.

A whole community was razed down by Hausa/Fulani and a Yoruba man burnt alive. This is following the bloody riot that happened in Mile 12 area of Lagos Wednesday.

A citizen i-Reporter claimed the Fulani/Hausa men were accompanied by policemen. That the law enforcement agents stood by and watched them burn houses and destroy properties, the reporter said so far, he has seen one burnt body believed to be a Yoruba lynched by the Hausa/Fulanis as they invaded Orile Community in Lagos.

The reporter stated that the Yorubas were seen in groups chanting, “We don’t want 1 Nigeria again, everybody should go their separate ways.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQeK5qfKGw

Source : http://www.thetrentonline.com/ethnic-tensions-rise-lagos-hausafulani-thugs-attack-orile-video/

Op, who wrote this?

Whenever we voice out that the northern oligarchy is out to pest on entire southern Nigeria, the reaction from our fellow southerners is always shocking.

I sometime wonder; are we so daft down south??

Ese's case may just be one of the few that came out from a gamut of bizarre poaching spree by the nothern elite who view the south as their stepping stool.

Your oil is their oil. As if that's not enough insult, your young and underage female children are for their pleasure, entertainment and for them to exploit as they wish.

All over the place in the south, their agents are roaming the streets and the back bush routes, headhunting for the pleasures of their masters.

Deep in their hearts and thoughts, the south is home to their perpetual slaves, that's if you don't already know

obailala:
I dont know about the other 2, there's no evidence. But for you to say he lied about no new roads in 10 years, that speaks volumes of your level of intelligence. Thanks

Out of three assertions, you don't know about two.

Why didn't you just keep quiet.

What's your JAMB score? Do your people enter high institution with 33.3%?

codedguy1:
Apologies accepted.

But I feel this govt seem to want to play to the gallery using it as their modus operandi. FYI I wasn't too impressed with GEJ.

I hope the VP will be able to show us roads STARTED and COMPLETED after their 1st tenure.

We will have to wait for that.

It all starts from the BUDGET!!!

What new roads are in the current budget proposal And he's opening his mouth wide

obailala:
So if you guys know this, why did you guys not say it?... Instead you chose to lose sleep and then start labelling the VP a liar? Where is the sense in that?

He's a liar!

He lied about crusade crowd which he said was his campaign crowd picture

He lied about no new roads in d past 10years

He lied that he didn't quarrel with El Rufai when he actually did

efilefun:
The same TSA your fellow wailers had been crying about? Lmao confused lots

Bros, just mention one new initiative APC has brought to the table.

Anything new pls!

efilefun:
GEJ always looking clueless as ever.

GEJ always a hero. FOI signed into law by GEJ.

See the result? No hiding place. Another kudos to GEJ. Add credible elections, bank consolidation, BVN, TSA, SIM Reg, IPSS.

GEJ try o

APC, when una go start ur own??

fortune1968:
Do you understand the meaning of the word -built or build ?

Many new roads were built my people.

If it will help, a visit to FERMA will provide a lot more.

There were many brand new constitutional projects of the Federal Govt. Including Udi-Amokwe-Obeleagu road, Obinofia-Umumba-Umana-Ebenebe Road; all by Ogbuefi Ozomgbachi, House of Rep Member for Udi Ezeagu Federal Constituency. Many more at Mpu-Uburu-Ohaozara.

I have a cousin that works at FERMA and he expressly told me that our VP goofed big time in that unresearched statement. But later said that it was same VP that posted a picture of a massive church crusade as his rally. That such a man lacks credibility.

Howbeit, the Question dear people is "is it new roads that Nigerians need or good pliable roads?

I personally careless about NEW road. I want GOOD roads

tuale4u:
You are only ranting. You are living in election mode. I am living in governance mode.
I dont care about what campaign promise were. I only care about good governance. Any campaign promise that is not realistic today can go to hell.

For those who cares so much about campaign promises, you can use ur PVC in 2019 and vote what u want.

Leadership is about optimising available resources for the best of the country. Not wasting it on project in order to look good.

Let's even take it at governance mode; I ask, what has changed?

Beyond all the noise about looted funds, what else? Media trial, that's all.

Meanwhile, as of today:
Total accused of looting -thousands
Total arrested -hundreds
Total charged to court -units (actually 2; Olisa and Dasuki)
Total convicted -none

BY CONOR GAFFEY ON 2/24/16 AT 6:13 PM

Nigeria's budget has descended into farce after copies went missing, irregularities were introduced and the budget chief was sacked.

Nigeria’s budget for 2016 has not had an easy ride since it was first proposed, amid great fanfare, by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2015.

The West African giant is facing a number of economic challenges, including a slump in global oil prices and calls for its currency—the Nigerian naira—to be devalued to deal with falling foreign exchange revenues.

Buhari was elected partly on an anti-corruption ticket and has made tackling graft a key priority of his administration, with a number of high-profile arrests taking place during his tenure. Yet two months into 2016, Nigeria is yet to approve its fiscal plan for the year and the budget issue risks undermining the president’s battle against corruption.

Newsweek looks at how the budget went from a symbol of change to a laughing stock in five steps.

Step 1: Buhari’s Record Budget is Delivered

In December 2015, President Buhari announced his first budget since he was elected in March that year. And it was ambitious.

Buhari declared that a record 6.1 trillion naira ($30.6 billion) would be spent on the economy and infrastructure in 2016, a 20 percent increase on the previous year. Buhari said Nigeria’s deficit was expected to double to 2.2 trillion naira ($11 billion), but that this would be covered by raising 900 billion naira ($4.5 billion) in overseas funding on top of 984 billion naira ($4.9 billion) borrowed domestically.

The president’s budget also predicted that of expected revenues of 3.9 trillion naira ($19.6 billion), just 820 billion naira ($4.1 billion) would come from oil, despite petroleum exports constituting almost 92 percent of the total value of Nigerian exports. In a break with tradition, Buhari proudly delivered his budget to the National Assembly in December 22: the task was usually left to the finance minister under the previous administration of Goodluck Jonathan.

Step 2: O Budget, Where Art Thou?

The first chinks in the shining armor of the budget began to show in early January, when hundreds of hard copies of the document went missing from the Nigerian Senate, the upper house of the National Assembly.

As well as causing national embarrassment, the unfortunate incident led to the Senate accusing one of Buhari’s aides of quietly withdrawing the budget in order to iron out discrepancies, with senators refusing to debate the budget until it was presented in its original, undoctored form.

The issue of the missing copies fell by the wayside when Buhari sent amendments to the budget on January 19, but the fiasco had hinted at more mayhem and mischief to come.

Step 3: A Well-Padded Budget

Following the sideshow of copies going missing, the budget really began to unravel in early February. An analysis by Nigerian news site Premium Times found a number of dubious allocations: these included a 3.8 billion naira ($19 million) allocation for the State House Medical Center, which treats just a few patients including the president and his family, while just 2.7 billion naira ($13.6 million) was allocated for the constructions of hospitals across the 180 million-strong country.

Furthermore, almost 5 billion naira ($25 million) was allocated for the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to spend on books—more than many of Nigeria’s state universities—while 22 billion naira ($111 million) was set aside to pay rent at the State House, occupied by Buhari, with spectators baffled about who the rent was going to.

Oluseun Onigbinde, co-founder of Nigerian transparency group BudgIT, said that the discrepancies in the budget—which also included 795 million naira ($4 million) set aside to update the website of one unnamed ministry—were “a disservice to the idea that this government has come to represent change.”


Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, pictured submitting his budget to the Senate chamber in Abuja, December 22, 2015, has promised that those responsible for padding the budget will be punished.

Step 4: Rats Sniffing Around the Budget

Now the fiasco was really getting into full swing. Nigerian Health Minister Isaac Adewole, speaking to the Senate Committee on Health on February 8, disowned his ministry from the controversial budget proposals. “This was not what we submitted. We’ll submit another one. We don’t want anything foreign to creep into that budget,” said Adewole.

The minister also disassociated himself from the massive State House Clinic budget, saying the president’s private clinic did not come under the health ministry and adding, “I hope it’s not the same rats that changed things in our budget that changed it [the State House Clinic allocation].”

All this talk of rats and a “budget mafia” of anonymous civil servants padding the financial plan has severely delayed the budget’s implementation. On February 9, the National Assembly postponed a vote on the budget from February 25 to an unspecified date in the future, with those in charge of the budget citing the need for more time to prepare a final and, hopefully, foolproof edition.

Step 5: Budget Chief Gets the Bullet

With two months of wrangling over the budget, it was perhaps inevitable that heads would roll. The Nigerian presidency announced on February 15 that Yahaya Gusau, the director general of Nigeria’s budget office, would be replaced with immediate effect by former banker Tijjani Abdullahi. No reason was given for Gusau’s abrupt departure, but it is hard to believe it is not linked to the comedic turn of events that have occurred over the past few months.

Buhari admitted on Tuesday that the saga had been “embarrassing and disappointing” and that those responsible for padding the budget would not be allowed to go unpunished. It remains to be seen, however, whether the president and his government’s anti-corruption pledge can recover from this damaging turn of events.


http://europe.newsweek.com/muhammadu-buhari-429906?rm=eu

The most amazing thing is that Buhari obviously doesn't care. All he thinks and says openly is that Nigerians are useless; are criminals.

Has Buhari uttered any statement that shows he cares about the masses, except for the North?

Saint Buhari

blackpanda:
Chim ooo! Akara kwa....tufiakwa!!

Stop that rubbish!

There is an entrepreneur. She is into food processing and vending, a key value chain activity that's even more valuable than primary production.

I bet you, she knows where her bread is buttered. While you are busy tufiaring, she's footing her bills, supporting siblings and generally smiling to the bank

VirginFinder:
But the abokkki should've paid obeisance instead of snubbing the Baale.
Haba!

What is the place of obeisance in the constitution of federal republic of Nigeria that binds us together.

Real primitive people claiming sophisticated

Freedom4us:
Our sophisticated western country men and their traditional rulers sef.

If they are not threathing to drown people ,they are beating them up

Soon now dem go blame Orijin

Bros, ur list no complete...

Add as follows to the boldened:

...Or beating their wives to death or derobing a hapless Eze Igbo.

I am very pleased that it is clear that the initiatives working in Nigeria polity, government and business spheres to fight corruption and corrupt practices generally (not just corrupt enrichment) were all from last administration.

I am therefore encouraged to add more to the list (below) and ask a vital question (further below):

TSA - past administration
BVN - past administration
IPSS - past administration
E-dividend - past administration
PVC / card reader - past administration (votes now count)
NUBAN - past admistration
E-payment platform - past administration
E-cheque clearing - past administration
Post UMTE - past admistration (check jamb racketeering!)
E-CMR / Autoreg - past administration
ATM - past administration
Mandatory GSM reg - past administration

Further proof that: fighting corruption is best achieved by policies and systems not personal vendetta.

Now, for all ye who seek cover on the matter of implementation, continue to fool yourselves. But a moment of quiet reflection should tell you that every initiative has its timeline and deadline. All those initiative that have deadline beyond may 29, 2015 when current administration took office are all now being claimed as achievements of current administration.

Instead of repeating the question I asked earlier (i.e.Tell me a single new initiative introduced by current administration?)

I will rather now ask, tell me any one policy directive gazetted by current administration to prove that they were the ones implementing those initiatives -directives, new deadlines, and the likes, any please?

And:

Is it too early for a focused and serious administration to start reeling out its own initiatives? Even if it's by mentioning.

So, tell me any new initiatives of current administration. Any pls. List if you have many.

N.B. I will be listing other initiatives of past administration once I hear from you. I just don't want to appear to intimidate you with a long list

fulanimafia:
Your post is a bit incoherent as you're shooting all over the place hoping to hit something.

First of all, theft, corruption and graft are the root source of most of the maladies you refer to.

Second of all, you have zero substance to back your claim about APC governors looting to finance Buhari's election. It's all hearsay and repeated hogwash that is beneath my scope of discourse. You're only grasping at straws to justify the shameless looting of our treasury for Jonathan's failed re-election bid that led to the loss of thousands of lives as a result of diverted defence funds.

Finally, it takes more and longer to build than to destroy, hence if you're expecting a reversal of Jonathan's six year damages in eight months then I'm unable to honestly take you seriously.

@fulanimafia, the emboldened refers pls.

Theft, corruption and graft is not the reason for wholesale massacre of unarmed Shiites on the road and further in their base.

The generalisation will not help matters. Please condemn evil when you see one. Your bias is so clear.

She'd you obvious bias; I will remind of Rivers Govt Judicial enquiries later.

Oh, sure, Shites! Gosh, I yet to get used to the islamic divide.

Thanks.

So, it's not about theft or graft. It's about obvious silence to many maladies we were so brazen in criticising in the past.

Meanwhile, @fulanimafia, don't convince me u believe the propaganda about looted/recovered for its an elite thing. Funds looted by Jonathan men to fund pdp campaign were also looted by APC governors to fund Buhari campaign.

But the real (common sense) question is: since the (better) govt started it's recovery campaign, how has life of common Nigerians, you and I, improved?

fulanimafia:
Oh I read it, and quite thoroughly indeed. The 'unarmed' Shiites (not Sunni) were constituting a parallel government and failure to contain their excesses is the exact pattern of mistakes that led to the blossoming of BH.

Still does not affect the substance of my posts .

fulanimafia:
To effectively address any failure, you must locate and address the source otherwise it's a pursuit in futility.

Nigerians are not daft, we know the hole we just came out front so blaming Buhari is the inalienable preserve of misinformed and sentimental iPod touts. If not for the grace of God, Jonathan would have still been in power and would have buried us deeper in the mess that his uncontrolled looting and incompetence put us in. Imagine the ineffectual buffoon in this period of lack.

You have not read the post. Read it first before defending.

Shooting of unarmed Sunnis and fuel subsidy were mentioned. Did you read that?