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oil for my belle,,,
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walnuts with the shell no time to crack,,, swallow
moringa with aloe vera as treatment
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I dey think say my life don finish…
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say the driver wey kill bingo wan come beg me!!! … Na im I Shouted
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where is the picture?

• NNPC, FAAN, NCAA, NIS, several ministries yet to comply
• CBN, FIRS, NIMASA, DPR, others compliant
• FG sets up committee to recover public property
Our Correspondents

Following the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari last week and a follow-up memo from the Head of Service, Mr. Danladi Kisali, on the remittance of all government revenue to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), investigations by THISDAY have shown that several ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the federal government were yet to comply with the directive by the weekend.


But despite the poor level of compliance, the presidency has set up a committee to recover all government properties — cars, houses, generating plants etc — which are yet to be turned in by the officials of the previous administration about three months after leaving office.


Comments by some of the agencies further revealed that they were ignorant of the circular from the Head of Service on the president’s directive.
FOR MORE ON THIS STORY
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/mdas-struggle-to-comply-with-directive-on-treasury-single-account/217687/

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday clarified what he meant by stealing is not corruption, saying he was quoted out of context.


Responding to questions during a presidential media chat on Wednesday, the President explained that the remark flowed from a discussion he had with a former chief justice of the federation, who told him of how he had to distinguish straight acts of stealing from other forms of corruption he acted upon.
“People who told you I said stealing is not corruption did not tell you I said stealing is good. That is why philosophers say that the primary reason people disagree is because people use one statement to explain two typical things or vice versa.
“I made that statement because I quoted the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mustapha, (when) I called a meeting then, with the anti-crime organisations and the judiciary.
“The CJN, Mustapha decided to take a look at the files that dealt with corruption and more than 80 per cent of them were just cases of stealing. But people use corruption to cover all. What I am saying is that let us go to the South-West and go to a typical community and they look at you and say this man is corrupt, people will be looking at you. But call that same man “ole”, that is thief, and see what will happen to him. Our people hate thieves more than corrupt people, yet most times, we use corruption to cover the lapses.
“A thief should be called a thief and treated as such. In my village, when an adult steals, they strip him unclad, humiliate him and his family, but if you say this man is corrupt, they won’t know what you are talking about. We are using corruption to cover it all up.
“So, let us communicate properly. It was not me that said it, I quoted Mustapha. He examined the corruption cases and he saw that they were just cases of stealing.
“We are identifying thieves; we can talk about what the agencies are doing. We have made more convictions in this period than before. But I always say that the answer is not convicting more people. We must make sure that they don’t steal. Do not put the money where they can steal it. That is what we are doing.”

http://www.informationng.com/2015/02/jonathan-explains-stealing-is-not-corruption.html

Written by Bayo Oluwasanmi
Nigerian Senate is a senate of fools, blockheads, Ignoramuses, and idiots. Yes, of course I know this description of Nigerian Senate by a Nigerian is offensive to some, may be more than some people. Nonetheless, it is true. The Senate is made up of callous, indifferent, stupid fools who keep silent in the face of tyranny while the nation and its people are dying.

Nigerians are their own worst enemies to a country we all pretend to love and care for. The 81 senators who backed Saraki no doubt were co-opted by the forces of greed. It's no surprise that the 81 fools, blockheads, ignoramuses, and idiots passed vote of confidence on Saraki for fraud and forgery that reward him with the senate presidency.

Thanks to these fools for given refuge to a con artist who presides over a senate of one of the richest countries on earth, yet with the largest number of poor. Frankly, there is something very wrong with us as a nation and as people. The elected 81 senators sold their souls, their bodies even their mothers to Saraki.

Nigerians have never learned anything all these years. We're taken for a ride, a wild dangerous and reckless ride by our not so honorable senators. Eighty-one senators in cahoot with a crook and thief whose family for more than a decade have taken us for a wild ride to the dark side of life, to poverty, and to looting our banks and the treasury.

Nigerians keep returning same damn people back to office. In fact, our National Assembly is no different from the feudal lords of the Dark Ages, passing their seats from father to son or to daughter. Make no mistake about it, they all laugh at us as we line up every election to cast our votes. Do you blame them? Of course not! They have good reasons: we don't take any actions against those who vote or support the devil against us, the citizens. We return them back to office.

There is such a frightening criminal collusion among the 81 senators. The disaster, suffering, sadness, poverty we have been experiencing as a people is a result of this collusion. As Nigerians, we handed over our destiny of a decent honorable life to a bunch of crooks, and decadent senators.

Everywhere you turn, it is the crooks and thieves that run the National Assembly, run the treasury, run the Central Bank, and until March 28 run Aso Rock. Nigerians, do you ever wonder why the 81 senators passed vote of confidence on Saraki who should be in jail by now? What do you think of the character and caliber of the 81 senators?

The 47 PDP senators and 34 APC senators who passed vote of confidence on Saraki did not support or share the anger of Nigerians over the forgery of the Senate Standing Order by Saraki and co-forgers. The senators claimed that the criticisms and police investigation into the forgery of Senate Standing Order amount to sustained interference in the internal affairs of the senate by distractors and media propaganda against the senate and senators by selfish politicians.

Internal affairs of who? By who? And for who? When has criminal offense such as forgery become “internal affairs”? Is the Senate now a family affair? Who owns the Senate? Nigerian people or the damn fool senators? Can you see the lawmakers at their best as lawbreakers? The 81 senators who support Bukola Saraki the heir to the Saraki Family Corruption Dynasty are severely retarded. They are just smart enough as fools. This is why they fight back with something other than facts since they're impoverished by lies and greed.

Th 81 intelligently disabled senators by passing vote of confidence on the leadership of Saraki means they are birds of the same feather – they're crooks and thieves. A vote of confidence on the leadership of a pathological thief who has nothing to offer the nation but to “steal and kill and destroy”?

See, the same APC senators who joined the PDP senators to support the leadership of Saraki rode on Buharimania to win the election are the very enemies who are against President Buhari's reformist agenda. See, by winning the election, we thought the stage was set to reclaim our country from the plunderers. But the very enemies are now dictating how not to run the country.

“As a Senate President,” Saraki assures his colleague fraud senators, “you have given me the responsibility to ensure that our primary responsibility is place on table not under the table.” Really? Who gave you the responsibility? Sir, you became the Senate President by under the table forgery. Meaning you rigged the game! By so doing, in reverse, you have trapped Nigerians under the table.

“It is time,” Saraki continues with his advice, “we remind ourselves of the solemn promise to deliver to our people real change.” Are you serious? How can a trickster like you who hijacked the people's mandate deliver the same people from the same con man? Can you give us example in ancient or contemporary history of a swindler who became a leader and who delivered his people?

The battle lines are drawn. The new fire is lit. This is a battle for the soul of Nigeria. The March 28 Democratic Revolution will complete its full course by getting rid of spoilers like Saraki and the 81 senators. No matter what, Nigerians will prevail because our need for progress is stronger than the ignorance, the foolishness, and the idiocy forced upon us by Saraki and the 81 senators.

http://www.olufamous.com/2015/08/could-this-be-true-senate-now-run-by.html

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thinkdip:
The Trent can confirm that Mr. Gordon Obua, former Chief Security Officer to President Goodluck Jonathan has passed away in the custody of Department of Security Services (DSS) in its Abuja Headquarters where he had been detained since Thursday, July 16, 2015 on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Sources who have been monitoring the situation have confirmed Obua’s passing to The Trent.

Obua, who was being detained by the DSS in an underground dungeon for undisclosed reasons was being denied access to his lawyers, family, and his doctors on the orders of the new Director General of the DSS, Lawal Musa, which serves as Nigeria’s secret police.

Our sources say Obua’s remains are still in the custody of the DSS at the time of filing this report.

This is a developing story and we shall be updating you later
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I pray this is not true

The CSO is alive according to the cable,see the details and link below.

Gordon Obua, the former chief security officer (CSO) to former President Goodluck Jonathan, is now in a “stable condition” after falling ill on Monday, TheCable understands. Obua, who has been detained by the SSS in Abuja since the night of July 16, had embarked on hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention. He was denied access to outsiders, including his doctor, lawyer and family members – and his lawyer claimed on Sunday that Obua was also denied his medications for hypertension and diabetes. The effect of the hunger strike took its toll on the detainee on Monday and he fainted, according to an SSS source, leading to speculations that Obua had died. The source added that Obua was taken to the hospital and was treated and discharged on Monday, after which he was returned to SSS headquarters where he is being
https://www.thecable.ng/just-jonathans-cso-hospitalised-discharged

Gordon Obua, the former chief security officer (CSO) to former President Goodluck Jonathan, is now in a “stable condition” after falling ill on Monday, TheCable understands. Obua, who has been detained by the SSS in Abuja since the night of July 16, had embarked on hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention. He was denied access to outsiders, including his doctor, lawyer and family members – and his lawyer claimed on Sunday that Obua was also denied his medications for hypertension and diabetes. The effect of the hunger strike took its toll on the detainee on Monday and he fainted, according to an SSS source, leading to speculations that Obua had died. The source added that Obua was taken to the hospital and was treated and discharged on Monday, after which he was returned to SSS headquarters where he is being detained.



https://www.thecable.ng/just-jonathans-cso-hospitalised-discharged

Babs Omotowa,

• Discloses Buhari’s backing of company’s growth plans • APC demands probe of previous NLNG payments to FG

Chineme Okafor and Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

Apparently responding to insinuations that the recent remittance of $1.6 billion income and education tax by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited to the federal government was politically motivated to boost the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, the NLNG authorities have given a sound economic explanation on the timing of the recent payment.

NLNG said that contrary to the reports that it might have delayed payment of the tax to the government until such a time as this, it actually followed laid down laws of the country on the payment of such revenue to the government.

Members of the governing party, All Progressives Congress (APC), and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had recently engaged in counter claims over the source and timing of the NLNG payment.

But the Managing Director of NLNG, Mr. Babs Omotowa, in an exclusive chat with THISDAY weekend in Abuja, explained that the company had only made the payment in line with extant laws guiding its operations in the country, which mandates it to remit its corporate income tax to the government on or before the end of June of every year.

NLNG, it was learnt in this regards, could have as well made the remittance before former President Goodluck Jonathan handed over the reins of power to President Muhammadu Buhari, except that it was auditing its accounts.

Omotowa however noted that notwithstanding the impact of the $1.6 billion tax revenue to the finances of the federation as it is now with regards to its revenue shortfalls, the remittance was rather done in accordance with the law, but it ended up coinciding with the country’s dire financial situations.

“We did not pay the government $1.6 billion dividend but $1.6 billion corporate income and education tax, which is different from dividend. This of course is from our activities in 2014.

The payment is for the 2014 accounting year, which ended in December. Of course, the law said that we must make this payment on or before the end of June and we kept to that law because we are a world class company that follows standards and laid down laws,” Omotowa said.

Speaking on the impact of the remittance, he explained that it had come at the time, but that the company did not keep it back.
“In any case, this is not the first time we are making such payment to the government, because in 2014, we also made such payment. NLNG paid $1.4 billion as income tax and education tax, perhaps, the circumstances at the time we paid that was not as it is today,” he explained.

When asked how the company was able to pull off such amount of tax despite its revenue cut by almost 30 per cent because of the instability in oil prices, Omotowa said: “It is correct that in the first half of the year, we have seen revenue decline but that impact on corporate income tax will be on the 2015 figure which we will pay in 2016 and that will not be for this year but the next.”

He also spoke on the company’s expansion plans, vis-à-vis its planned Train-7, which has remained unattended to, and disclosed that President Buhari had given his backing to such expansion plans.

“Of course, we have been working on Train-7 for quite a while and as you may know, issues around constructing a train requires upstream gas suppliers to also develop fields. As a result of that, since 2008 which was the first time Train-7 Final Investment Decision (FID) would have been taken but for the challenges that have arisen out of the uncertainties around the PIB, issues around the upstream funding of gas projects as well as some of the security challenges, have been the key reasons over the past years.

"Work has been ongoing to resolve these key issues and we are pleased that we are able to meet Mr. President a few weeks back, who assured us of government’s full supports to our growth aspirations and so we continue to work to get all these issues resolved so that the project can move ahead,” he said.

On NLNG’s LNG export plans for 2015, Omotowa said: “For the first half of the year, we have exported about 150 cargoes. Our business plan for this year is 324 cargoes, that is what our business plan is and we are still working on that.”

But in order to resolve the controversy over the payment of such tax in the past, the APC has urged the federal government to investigate what happened to the past company income tax/education tax as well as the dividends paid to the Nigerian government by the NLNG, against the background of published reports that the funds were never paid into the Federation Account as they should have been.
The party, which deplored efforts by the PDP to discredit President Buhari for granting states bailout, said the opposition party must be asked where it kept the $5.5 billion, which it said was the dividend paid to the federal government by the NLNG before the 29 May handover.

In a statement issued yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also described as a glaring example of grandstanding opposition the attempt by the PDP to distort the facts about the source of the $2.1 billion that was approved for sharing by the three tiers of government by Buhari.

"Whereas the presidency corrected the initial erroneous report that the shared money was sourced from the Excess Crude Account (ECA), the skittish opposition continued to insist it was from the ECA and that it was part of the 'savings' by the Jonathan administration," it said.

While explaining the source of the bailout fund, APC said: ''We can tell Nigerians that the $2.1 billion was sourced from the $1.6 billion company income tax/education tax paid to the federal government on June 17, 2015, over two weeks after the Jonathan administration left office, as well as the $500 million tax paid by Shell."
According to the party, this was the first time the payment of the company income tax/education tax by the NLNG was being disclosed by any government, in addition to paying it into the Federation Account for sharing, adding that those who termed it their 'legitimate' earnings should be asked why they did not demand the sharing of such 'legitimate' earnings in the past.

"We can tell Nigerians that apart from the said $1.6 billion NLNG payment for 2015, NLNG also paid $1.4 billion as company income tax/education tax in May 2014, paid $0.3 billion as education tax to the federal government in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and $1.2 billion in VAT and With-holding Tax to the federal government since 2009. These payments are just those made in the past six years alone, hence there were other payments before then.

"In addition, dividend payments totalling $4,728,136,946 was paid to the federal government between 2004 and 2009, out of which only $127,851,348.19 was credited to the federal government's Independent Account with JP Morgan, leaving a balance of over $4 billion. The questions to ask therefore are why all the past taxes and dividends were neither fully paid into the Federation Account nor shared by the three tiers of government and what happened to the funds," it asked.

APC said now that President Buhari had started to ensure that all funds due to the Federation Account are paid in there as well as plugging all financial leakages in an effort to restore transparency to the system, it was important to let Nigerians know why all due funds were not paid into the Federation Account in the past and what happened to such funds.

The party also said as part of the investigation, the PDP must be asked where it kept the $5.5 billion, which it said was the dividend paid to the federal government by the NLNG before the 29 May handover.

"Since, according to the PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan asked that the money be 'left for the incoming administration to manage'. It is important for the party, therefore, to tell Nigerians in which account the money was 'saved' because it is definitely not in the Federation Account," it said.

APC insisted that for any opposition to be credible, it must not only be factual and truthful, it must eschew pandering.
"Had the PDP embraced these cardinal principles, it would not have, in the rush to belittle the package that was approved for the states by President Buhari and to discredit his administration, engaged in outright lies and selective perception. While the PDP became fixated on the source of the money shared by the states, it forgot that there were other measures in the package that included a special intervention fund of between N250billion and N300billion from the CBN as a soft loan available to states to access for the purposes of paying backlog of salaries.

"The PDP also forgot the debt relief programme designed to assist the states to restructure their commercial loans of N660b, with a view to extending the life span of such loans and reducing the states' debt-servicing expenditures. That way, the states are freed from their perennial inability to pay workers' salaries, and more funds are available to the various governments to use for the benefit of the people.

They have forgotten that the only time in the country's history that this kind of rescue package was made was also during the tenure of Muhammadu Buhari as military Head of State," the party said.

It advised those who are showboating and distorting facts to tarry a while, as what they are seeing is just the first step in a long journey to clear the rot left behind by years of purposeless governance, plug all financial leakages, ensure that all funds due to the Federation Account are paid there for the benefit of all.

"The revelations concerning the deep rot in the system that will come in the weeks and months ahead will shock even the most ardent critics of the Buhari administration's salvaging efforts," APC said.

But in a swift response, the PDP described the call for enquiry into past NLNG payments as misleading and outright falsehood.
The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metu, said NLNG has been on tax holiday in the past 10 years.

"The truth is that the NLNG had been on a 10-year tax haven until 2014. Within this period, successive governments, right from President Olusegun Obasanjo never shared nor tampered with the cumulative dividends.

"Whatever taxes paid from the NLNG go through the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) and recorded as part of the income of the Federal Government.

"It is imperative to note that by the end of the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan, NLNG dividends had risen to a cumulative $5.6billion and not a single cent was ever taken from the funds.

"Although it is within the rights of the APC administration to spend the funds in any way they may decide, it is however cruel for them to inflict on us all such malicious falsehood while the current presidency, without the benefit of economic advisers and relevant statutory organs of government unilaterally decided to deplete the funds without thinking of the attendant future investments and financial obligations of Nigeria in the NLNG project."

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nlng-due-process-not-politics-oversaw-1-6bn-tax-remittance

Presidency: ECA intact, $1.7bn shared came from NLNG

Tobi Soniyi and James Emejo in Abuja

As part of measures to provide concessionary loans to cash-strapped states, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will embark on quantitative easing to increase liquidity in the financial system, which will in turn be lent to states under the 250 billion to 300 billion special intervention fund approved by the National Economic Council (NEC) to assist the state governments pay their backlog of salary arrears.

This is just as the federal government has provided clarification on the funds shared by the three tiers of government during the extraordinary meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Monday night, stating that the $1.7 billion (N359,374,355,607.60) came from tax paid by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) and not the Excess Crude Account (ECA).

The new Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, had on Monday erroneously announced that funds to be shared by the federal, states and local governments would come from the ECA, sending shock waves through the financial community that the Buahri-led administration had approved the decimation of the ECA which constitutes part of the country’s foreign reserves.

Speaking on the quantitative easing to be implemented by the CBN, a top official of the central bank said the special intervention fund of between 250 billion and N300 billion will be lent to states that are interested under concessionary terms in the next one or two weeks.

A central bank implements quantitative easing by buying specified amounts of financial assets from commercial banks and other private institutions, thus raising the prices of those financial assets and lowering their yield, while simultaneously increasing both broad money as well as the monetary base in the economy.

The CBN official, however, added that the states would have to meet the conditions precedent set by the central bank to access the intervention fund.

This, he said, is strictly to enable the states pay the backlog of salaries and would be deducted from source from their FAAC allocations.

“There will be moratorium on the concessionary loans for states that elect to borrow from the fund, following which the loans will be recovered as a first line charge on their FAAC allocations,” he explained.

During the extraordinary FAAC meeting on Monday night, the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele had informed the state governments, represented by their finance commissioners, that the federal government was worried about the inability of some states to meet their obligations to their workers.

He acknowledged that the inability of most states to pay salaries had arisen for their huge debt burden, thus necessitating the restructuring of N660 billion commercial loans owed the banks.

Emefiele observed that most states take short-term loans for long-term projects and servicing their monthly obligations to the banks hampers cash flows, thereby restricting them from payment of salaries.

The CBN governor also informed the states that the central bank was willing to assist such states in restructuring the loans owed the commercial banks.

He directed the affected states to submit to the CBN, on or before July 8, 2015, the list of their loan obligations and other indebtedness to enable the CBN assist them restructure the loans to tenures of 15 years.

He explained that the assistance by the CBN was in the form of concessionary rates to the interested states.

Emefiele said the CBN will schedule a meeting with the states upon receipt of the required data and expressed optimism that the process will be completed before next week.

He advised recipients of the CBN loans from the special intervention fund to prioritise salary payments as its first line charge, before meeting other obligations.

The meeting was chaired by Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-Nwaobia. Also present were the Accountant-General of the Federation, state Commissioners of Finance, state Accountants-General, and representatives of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Nigerian Customs Service (NCS).

Meanwhile, the federal government and presidency have both clarified that the $1.7 billion shared by the three tiers of government on Monday was not deducted from the ECA but funds paid to the Federation Account by NLNG.

In a statement from the Accountant General of the Federation, he noted with great concern that the information in the public domain was inconsistent with the details of the amount distributed at the extraordinary FAAC meeting held on Monday.

The statement signed by Kenechukwu N. Offie, Head and Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations in the office of the Accountant General, said: “The amount distributed was not from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) but rather the accrued company income tax (CIT) realised from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) N359,374,355,607.60 ($1.7 billion)

“The amount that was distributed was less the cost of collection. The federal government got 56.68% amounting to N181,745,674,112.72, the state governments got 26.72% amounting to N92,183,834,705.62, while local government councils got 20.60% amounting to N71,069,872,564.96.”

He stated that Idris was making this clarification in order to provide Nigerians with the correct and authentic information about the outcome of the proceedings at the FAAC meeting, adding that no withdrawal was made from the ECA and that the current balance still remains $2.1 billion.

Similarly, the Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina stated that the relief package by the federal government for states and local government councils to pay their workers’ backlog of salaries would not be taken from the ECA.

In a statement he issued yesterday, Adesina stated that the measures approved by President Muhammadu Buhari did not include drawing down the remaining balance in the ECA or the “liquidation” of the account.

He said: “No such decision has been taken or approved by President Buhari, and last week’s meeting of the National Economic Council clearly concluded that the Excess Crude Account should be left untouched at this time.”

Adesina ‎listed the measures approved by Buhari to deal with the problem of unpaid public sector salaries in many states as:

·The sharing of the $1.7 billion tax paid to the Federation Account by the NLNG;

· A central bank-packaged special intervention fund that will offer financing to the states, ranging from N250 billion to N300 billion. This, he said, would be a soft loan available to states for the purposes of paying backlog of salaries; and

·A debt relief programme designed by the Debt Management Office (DMO) which will help states restructure their commercial loans currently put at over N660 billion, and extend the life span of such loans while reducing their debt-service obligations.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-excess-crude-account-intact/214173/

Jorussia:
FFK is right,when enahoro first moved the motion,i think in 1957 (not so about the exact year) ,it didn't scale through the Parliament, it was when his dad

re-moved the motion in 1959 that it then scaled through the Parliament and our independence was subsequently granted.

In July 1958 he successfully moved the motion for Nigeria's independence in the Federal House of Assembly. He argued that independence should take place on 2 April 1960[4][5] (the minutes of Hansard, 1958; Richard Sklar's "Nigeria's political parties:Power in an Emergent African Nation", World Press, p. 269; p. 269; Professor Onabamiro's "Glimpses in Nigeria's History", p. 140). In 1959 there was a further motion that was moved in the Nigerian Parliament asking for a slight amendment to the Fani-Kayode motion of July 1958. This new motion, which was moved by Sir Tafawa Balewa, asked that the 2 April 1960 date for independence which had already been accepted and approved by Parliament and which had been acquiesced to by the British colonial authorities, should be shifted from 2 April of the same year to 1 October instead. This motion of amendment was passed and approved by Parliament and it was acquiesced to by the British and that is how the date for Nigeria's independence, 1 October 1960, was finally arrived at.
where are the history scholars...

In July 1958 he successfully moved the motion for Nigeria's independence in the Federal House of Assembly. He argued that independence should take place on 2 April 1960[4][5] (the minutes of Hansard, 1958; Richard Sklar's "Nigeria's political parties:Power in an Emergent African Nation", World Press, p. 269; p. 269; Professor Onabamiro's "Glimpses in Nigeria's History", p. 140). In 1959 there was a further motion that was moved in the Nigerian Parliament asking for a slight amendment to the Fani-Kayode motion of July 1958. This new motion, which was moved by Sir Tafawa Balewa, asked that the 2 April 1960 date for independence which had already been accepted and approved by Parliament and which had been acquiesced to by the British colonial authorities, should be shifted from 2 April of the same year to 1 October instead. This motion of amendment was passed and approved by Parliament and it was acquiesced to by the British and that is how the date for Nigeria's independence, 1 October 1960, was finally arrived at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi_Fani-Kayode.[

PDPwayoo:
from social studies to history, i never see or hear where they mention ffk father among people that fought for independence. I guess is OPC independence.

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A letter has been uncovered in which the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido of Nigeria exposed to President Goodluck Jonathan the continuing refusal of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to honour its legal obligations, including failure to remit $49.8 billion to the Federation Account between 2012 and 2013.

Surprisingly, the amount represents a whooping 76% of the value of crude lifted during the period...
The CBN governor's complaints contained in a letter to President Jonathan dated 25 September 2013, read:
“Our analysis of the value of crude oil export proceeds based on the documentation received from pre-shipment inspectors shows that between January 2012 and July 2013, NNPC lifted 594,024,107 barrels of crude valued at $65,332,350,514.57,” the letter said. “Out of this amount, NNPC repatriated only $15,528,410,098.77 representing 24% of the value. This means the NNPC is yet to account for, and repatriate to the Federation Account, an amount in excess of $49.804 billion of the value of oil lifted in the same period.”

Drawing attention to an attached table of analysis of the crude oil liftings and repatriations as prepared by the CBN, Governor Sanusi noted that the failure of the NNPC to repatriate the amounts constitutes not only a violation of constitutional provisions but also of both Nigeria’s foreign exchange and pre-shipment inspection of exports laws.

Also drawing attention to previous occasion in which he had expressed concern about what appeared to be shortfalls in remittances to the Federation Account in spite of the strong recovery in the price of oil, Mr. Sanusi said that a point of departure ought to be to insist that the NNPC account fully for all proceeds that were diverted from its accounts with the CBN and the Federation Account.

“As an indicator of how bad this situation has become, please note that in 2012 alone, the Federation Account received $28.51 billion in Petroleum Profits and related taxes but only $1013 from crude oil proceeds,” he informed Mr. Jonathan. “In the period January-July 2013, the corresponding figures are $16.65 billion and $5.39 billion, respectively. This means, Your Excellency, that in the first seven months of the year, taxes accounted for 76% of the total inflow from this sector, while NNPC crude oil proceeds accounted for only 24%.”

Sanusi specifically recommended to the President to:
Require NNPC to provide evidence for disposal of all proceeds of crude sales diverted from the CBN and Federation Account;
Investigate crude oil lifting and swap contracts, as well as the financial transactions of counter-parties for equity, fairness and transparency; and
Authorise prosecution of suspects in money-laundering transactions, including but not limited to BDCs who are unable to account for hundreds of millions of dollars.
http://www.olufamous.com/2013/12/exposed-lamido-sanusis-letter-to.html#more

Ijiego: [b]Edo state hv not pay me my [/b]september allowee o. Nysc posted me to Edo state, i did relocation to Abuja. So Edo state ought to pay me for d first 3months before Abj wil continue. They paid 2months, and they hv not pay the last month which is september up till now. I dnt hv their number, i dnt know who to call and dnt know wht to do. Anyboby who know wht can be done should pls help me. Thanks

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The Group Managing Director of Access Bank, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, has said the tight monetary stance of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is saving Nigeria’s economy from falling into another crisis.

Aig-Imokhuede, who spoke at an interactive session with journalists also hailed the CBN for given priority to the growth of the SMEs and sustainability of the agricultural sector, which he said would have long term positive impact on the nation’s economy.
The interactive session was designed to roll out the communication strategies created to extend the frontiers of the Access Bank in the financial sector.

Aig-Imokhuede noted that if not for the CBN, the country’s currency would have been hammered.
According to him, “And for him, it is important that the currency does not get hammered because over the past 20 years anytime the naira hammered, a banking crisis had followed, which was due to the devaluation of the currency.

“For him, though the CBN under Sanusi may be tough, it is often right and if the CBN has not taken some of the actions it took, Nigeria would have been battling another banking crisis.”
Speaking further, he pointed out that democracy had brought a lot of good to the banking sector and that CBN operations have been smoother under the regime.

He said: “Democracy is good for banking because it helps CBN to work better. It is obvious that civil rule provide enabling environment for CBN regulation and that has helped the growth of the banking sector more than when we were under the military rule,” he said.

On the need to build a sustainable economy, he expressed concern over unbridled reliance on the current economic crisis in the US and Europe, which has become blessing sort of for Africa. To this end, he stated that stakeholders should strive to have economic solutions that Nigeria could always rely on, even after the developed economy might have bounced back.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/aig-imoukhuede-cbn-s-tight-monetary-stance-is-saving-the-economy/157890/

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WE are seeking forgiveness from the people over the number of people killed in the country. I appeal to those who lost their loved ones to our activities to forgive us and on our side we have forgiven all those who committed atrocities against us. I want to state clearly that we have no hands in the unfortunate attack on the secondary school.”

With these words, Imam Muhammadu Marwana, an influential member of the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram sect, on Monday confirmed a ceasefire agreement with the Federal Government to end their deadly activities across most states of Northern Nigeria, which have claimed about 4,000 lives and destroyed properties worth billions of Naira since 2009.

The agreement came exactly 82 days after the Federal Government raised a 25-man committee to work out modalities for granting the amnesty to the sect.

Also, the Federal Government has confirmed that it had signed a ceasefire agreement with the militant group. Minister of Special Duties and Chairman of the Peace and Dialogue Committee in the North, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki announced the ceasefire agreement on the Hausa service of Radio France International in Kano.

The announcement came on the eve of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan expected to start Wednesday.

President Goodluck Jonathan's Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki said:
“We have sat down and agreed that Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lidda’awati wal Jihad, known as Boko Haram will lay down their arms as part of the agreement so as to end the insurgency. Government agreed with ceasefire and will look into ways to ensure that the troops relax their activities till the final take off of the ceasefire.”
Confirming the truce, Boko Haram agent, Imam Muhammadu Marwana, said: “This ceasefire, in sha’Allahu, from the time I am talking to you (Radio France Hausa Service) we have ceasefire because of the discussion held so as to have peace over this struggle.”

Sounding apologetic during the Radio news, Imam Marwana declared that “I appeal to those who lost their loved ones to our activities to forgive us and on our side we have forgiven all those who committed atrocities against us”
http://www.olufamous.com/2013/07/boko-haram-begs-for-forgiveness-signs.html

Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko, Tuesday said he has been vindicated following the lifting of the suspension order slammed on him by the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) two weeks ago.

He also called on the national leadership of the party to see to the possibility of recalling his Rivers State colleague, Rotimi Amaechi, who was suspended last month.

Speaking in an interview with the Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service
monitored in Sokoto Tuesday, Wamakko maintained that the lifting of his suspension by the NWC, was an indication that truth had prevailed in the end, as he did not do any wrong to warrant his suspension in the first place.

More to follow...
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/wamakko-i-have-been-vindicated-calls-for-amaechis-recall/150784/

BREAKING NEWS!
Nigeria’s players are locked in a bonus dispute with the Nigeria Football Federation and are in danger of not making the Confederation Cup.

Following their African Nations Cup victory, the NFF slashed team bonuses by half from $10 000, and also cut down on backroom staff in what was seen as a cost-cutting measure.

But the players have rejected the cuts and are threatening not to fly to Brazil.

The squad were scheduled to fly out from Namibia on Thursday afternoon, but the players have refused to go to the airport.

NFF President Aminu Maigari has refused to back down, and neither are the players, who say they will rather return to Nigeria than accept the slashed bonuses.
http://www.kickoff.com/news/35008/nigeria-could-miss-fifa-confederations-cup-over-boycott

This has always been the fear of many Nigerians who say they are indeed tired of the ruling PDP and want a fresh party to take over the leadership of Nigeria, OluFamous.Com observed. Will the opposition be able to bury their personal ambitions and put the interest of the country on the front burner?

Well, it seems the road is going to be very rough as serious tension is already mounting in the soon to be registered mega opposition party, All Progressive Congress...

As you already know, the APC is a product of a merger between the ACN, CPC, ANPP and APGA, and it has an avowed mission to dislodge the PDP from power through the 2015 general elections.

But sources within the APC have disclosed that there had been disagreements over the sharing of offices and other powerful positions among the stakeholders from the different parties.

Investigations showed that the CPC and the ANPP disagreed over the post of the National Secretary, which both are insisting must be given to them. ACN has the Chairman as it has more states than others.

A source within APC confided told Punch that “The ANPP, specifically Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, wanted the position of the protem National Secretary but was schemed out. The CPC and the ACN conspired. The CPC insisted on the position of secretary or nothing. Those in the ANPP are not excited about this.

“There is also a proposal that the CPC in addition to producing the secretary will get the presidential slot while the ACN gets the chairmanship of the party in addition to producing the Vice-Presidential candidate.”

But when the ACN and CPC grab these juicy offices and positions for themselves what will become of the ANPP and the Governor Rochas Okorocha-led faction of APGA?

Will the opposition be able to get their acts together before it is too late?
http://www.olufamous.com/2013/06/crisis-hits-opposition-party-apc-over.html

Premier League clubs' revenue reached a record £2.36bn in 2011-12, according to football finance experts at Deloitte.

It estimates revenue grew to £2.5bn in 2012-13, and will grow by a further £600m, or 25%, in 2013-14, when the league's new broadcast deal kicks in.

Deloitte says this should take the projected revenue of Premier League clubs above £3bn for the first time.

It says this cash, plus new spending rules, "could provide huge benefits to the long-term development" of football.

"Despite operating in a challenging economic environment, English club football's profile, exposure and increasingly global interest have continued to drive revenue growth for the top clubs," said Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.

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The total wage bill, across all employees, of Premier League clubs in 2011-12 was £1,658m (up 4%), ranging from £202m (Manchester City) down to £35m (Swansea City)”

Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance 2013
Across English football, the revenue of the top 92 clubs exceeded £3bn for the first time in 2011-12.

However, worries remain about the proportion of revenues being spent on player wages.

Almost 75% of the Premier League clubs' revenue increase in 2011-12 was spent on wages, which increased by £64m, or 4%, to £1.7bn. It meant the overall Premier League wages-to-revenue ratio remained at 70%.

"It is the age-old picture; revenues continue to be healthy and wage levels continue to be a concern," said Mr Jones.

In the second tier of English Football - the Championship - spending on wages increased by £53m (13%) to £476m in 2011-12. Deloitte says this was driven in part by the number of clubs being in receipt of parachute payments from the Premier League and the change in the mix of clubs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22766638

Northern senators Wednesday appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan not to utilise the funds of states and local governments under emergency rule to prosecute the anti-terror campaign in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno States.

The senators made the appeal after a meeting of the Northern Senators' Forum (NSF) where they assessed developments in the three states where the president had declared emergency rule on May 14.

Chairman of the forum, Senator Umaru Dahiru, while briefing journalists after the event, said the forum was not opposed to resolutions reached on the floor of the Senate on the proclamation of the state of emergency in the three states.

He however said the forum was only concerned about the wellbeing of the affected people and called on the president to leave the funds in the interest of the states.

He said: “As concerned senators from the northern end, we felt we should be monitoring from time to time what goes on and what goes out regarding the emergency rule and it is in this regard we decided to have a meeting today (Wednesday) and reached these resolutions.

“The forum, after an exhaustive deliberation on the security of the people of the affected states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, in particular and Nigeria in general, resolved and concurred with the resolution of the National Assembly that the statutory allocation of the affected states and local governments are paid in full as and when due and no part of it whatsoever should be withheld.

“Secondly, that the federal government should pay more attention to the humanitarian situation in the affected states by providing more humanitarian assistance.”

Deputy Leader of the Senate, Abdul Ningi, also said no funds of the states and local governments should be touched because the states were in some financial difficulty.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/emergency-rule-northern-senators-urge-jonathan-not-to-touch-states-8217-funds/149561/

The Senate Wednesday declined to approve the N4 billion proposal for the construction of the African Peace Mission Building in the 2013 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) budget as it passed the N259 billion FCT Statutory Appropriation Bill into law.

While presenting the report on the budget for approval, Senate Committee Chairman on FCT, Senator Smart Adeyemi, said appropriating for the building project would be unnecessary in view of ongoing litigation on the proposed site for the project, which he said would make access to the money impossible.

“We cannot appropriate for a land that is not available,” the report said.

However, Adeyemi said of the N259.6 billion proposed for FCT operations this year, N160 billion was approved for capital expenditure; N48.6 billion for personnel costs; N50.5 billion appropriated for overhead costs with a surplus of N48.7 million.

Adeyemi also told the Senate that whereas N306.4 billion was appropriated for FCT in the 2012 fiscal year, there was a fiscal surplus of N90.5 million, adding that the total revenue realised from January to December by the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) was N180 billion.

He also disclosed that the total revenue utilised during the last fiscal year was N133 billion out of which N40.8 billion was spent as personnel costs, while N29.1 billion and N63.0 billion were spent as overhead costs and capital expenditure respectively.

According to him, the FCT Committee found that the overall performance of the statutory allocation in the year under consideration was only 43 per cent with most of the projects initiated still ongoing because of what he described as the ineptitude of getting the due process certificate.

He also reported that both the new and ongoing projects in FCT were not sufficiently funded because “of delay in the release of funds occasioned by bureaucratic bottlenecks.”

After his submission, the budget was passed through a voice vote.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/senate-rejects-n4bn-appropriation-for-first-lady-s-peace-mission-project/149513/

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
for those who have both legs yet choose to beg this should be a lesson and should learn from this guy i was challenged and told myself that i dont have any excuse not to succeed in life.

Run for your life the lady did i just call her lady...sori the ....does not deserve ur family however it your world against hers now that you have given in to her by kissing her what i will advice is simply play cool and try to be smart by recording your conversation cos she will definitely blackmail you if you turn her down so be wise ma brother.

Chocboyslim: Honestly, i don't know what to do.....My elder bro wife to be is dying for me & my only brother who trusted me so much never notice it.

All this started when i celebrated my birthday last year & my elder bro funded everything such as drinks,foods etc, except the cake & the party house decoration which was funded by his fiancee. She even bought me a 'Rolex stone watch' as a birthday gift right before my brother.

I never knew that she had feelings for me then, until one fateful morning, when she blew it open by sending me 'morning love texts' confessing that she loves me & will do anything to make me happy. First time i saw the text, i thought it was a mistake, that she wanted to send it to my bro but when i call to confirm, she told me that the text was for me. At first i couldn't say anything, i was speechless, never believed it until when i met her one on one in my bro absent that she make it clearer to me that she was madly in love with me & even ended it up with a hot kiss.

Honestly, my brother's fiancee is truly beautiful that no man can resist her easily & my bro who trusted me so much never noticed dis.......

what should i do? Should i make this known to my bro or should i keep it secret & enjoy her ?

Pls am confused now, need your advise!

Side Effects from Vaccines

As with any medication, there are possible risks and side effects associated with vaccines. However, the risk of serious allergic reaction is very rare. In comparison, the risk of severe complications, hopsitalization or death from vaccine-preventable disease is much greater. The benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks.

Vaccines undergo rigorous safety testing prior to being approved by the FDA and are continually monitored for safety. All vaccine ingredients are tested to be safe. Vaccines are also studied to be administered together, to work in conjunction to safely prompt your child's immune sytem to build protection.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in most cases vaccine side effects are minor and go away within a few days. Side effects vary according to vaccine type, but generally mild side effects may include:

Pain, redness, tenderness or swelling at injection site
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While serious side effects are rare, parents are encouraged to report any severe side effects to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) which serves to report, analyze and make incidences of adverse side effects available to the public.

Jonathan orders release of detained suspected terrorists

As the military offensive to dismantle Boko Haram terrorists activities and the camps in North East Nigeria continues, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the release from Police, SSS and Military detention centers, of hundreds of persons held in connection with the insurgency.

The action of the President which took many Nigerians and security agencies by surprise is however interpreted by presidency sources as the ‘Carrot and Stick’ policy by the Commander in Chief to bringing an end to the Boko Haram debacle.

Vanguard gathered that the beneficiaries will cut across such states as Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano, `Kaduna, Gombe and Niger, though the exact number was not revealed.

The federal government however explained that the decision to order the release is sequel to the request of the Presidential Committee in Dialogue and Reconciliation set up to explore the possibility of amnesty for converted terrorists.
A statement to that effect signed by the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade said “Consequent upon the directives of the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the Defence Headquarters will be releasing from detention a number of persons being held in connection with terrorist activities”.

“The move is in furtherance of the Federal Government position in response to requests by the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Reconciliation”.

“The measure which is in line with Presidential magnanimity to enhance peace efforts in the country will result in freedom for suspects including all women under custody”.

“The details of the directives and those to benefit from this gesture have been communicated to field units and the Joint Task Force”.

“The beneficiaries will be released to the State Governors who will be involved in further rehabilitation before these suspects are released to their respective community leaders/relations”.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/jonathan-orders-release-of-detained-terrorists/