₦airaland Forum

ziego:
Buhari is a genius
He has successfully crashed nija
In 6months

intbizoil:
am a federal worker and I have been paid. I was paid on the 27th

philips70:
Place a framed picture of Buhari side by side Jonathan and the PDP a hundred times I will vote the picture again and again. And I want to say confidently Buhari will still beat Jonathan in any free and fair election any day any time.

Did we get here in 6 months?
Confused bunch.

JaaizTech:
These are some of the achievements of the last 6 months:

1) Security: In the last 6 months, Buhari's Govt. have ensured BH remained on the back-foot. BH's control has been reduced severely and their capabilities dealt a big blow. B4 this Govt. BH was attacking our military and taking over barracks, the story is different now. BH's attack has been limited to sporadic suicide bombing, which is a sign of BH's frustrations. There is no gain saying in the fact that the war against BH is more in favour of the Nigerian military.

2) Financial Transparency & Management: Successful implementation of TSA is perhaps the biggest achievement of this country till date. The TSA is a unified structure of government bank accounts that gives a consolidated view of government cash resources. It is a system whereby all monies belonging to the government are domiciled in one account with the Central Bank of Nigeria; with payments out and collection into the account done via an electronic payment. The consolidation into a TSA paves way for the timely capture and payment of all due revenues into government coffers without the intermediation of multiple banking arrangements. This prevents leakages in terms of revenue loss and mismanagement by operators of all revenue-generating agencies.

N.B: This Govt. is still running the previous Govt's budget.

irondome:
And the irony is ---" the mum herself didn't fully cover her own face and breathing nose in the name of culture & religion". Why subject a baby to such ordeal?

carinmom:
Don't worry at all. You don't need to take Panadol for another's headache. This culture has been going on for ages and it is safe. Had it been it has any health implications, doctors would have advised women to stop. This is how the children are brought up, so no big deal.

ephemm:
if u don't understand someone's tradition/culture/belief, their actions may seem foolish in your eyes.

I had a discussion with an Indian colleague of mine and he criticised the way woman carry children in Africa, either in front (chest) or behind (back), his point is that, the way our women carry children limits the vision of the child, but that in India, their women carry their children strapped with wrapper by the side, such that the child can see what's happening in front or behind - that's his opinion.

the child in the picture above can breath very well...
you just won't understand

omowolewa:
May be its cold

Lovexme:
That's common in the north.

rebelXYZ:
don't mind them.. the problem that's happening around the world today is because we lack the ability to accept one another's beliefs, culture and way of life. I don't know why the op is shocked about this.

fagbalex:
Learn to respect people religion and belief. Before they born your generation Hijab has existed. It's an epitome of Muslim woman. So RESPECT us with our believe. After all she's not those women that expose their body for sexual healing.
Alhamdulilah am a Muslim because Islam explain vividly how to live life.

QuotaSystem:
How does reposting the article change the confusion you were ravaged with regarding the new contention over the $1billion? Or does it change the fact that GEJ has roped himself into a fix with his denial despite Dasuki's assertion that acknowledgement letters were received for funds he claims were unapproved.

Next time read to understand and not to wail.

wirinet:
Buhari himself does not yet know the total amount allegedly stolen or misappropriated by the last administration, the ministries and parastatals are many, NNPC, Defense, Pensions, customs, etc; and most of them did not audit their accounts for many years.

how the defense budgets had been spent is still a mystery to this new government, the records don't just add up. The government is trying to ascertain which loans they are liable for.
The defense budget for most of Jonathan's tenure averages 1 trillion naira (over $5 billion) yearly. What was done with it, and where are the inventories of the Equipments bought?
Below is the defense budget from 2008 to 2013;
2008: N 444.6 billion (Umar Yar’Adua)
2009: N 233 billion (Umar Yar’Adua)
2010: N 264 (Umar Yar’Adua)
2011: N 348 billion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2012: N 921.91 billion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2013:N1.055 trillion (Goodluck Jonathan)
2014: N968 billion (Goodluck Jonathan) - See more at: http://www.nigerianobservernews.com/2015/01/11/budget-nigerian-ministry-defence-need-accountability/#sthash.WvOQMV72.d8E5D2OP.dpuf
Jonathan spent over 3.5 trillion naira on defense ( over over 18 billion dollars) not minding the alleged $1billion loan. Is it out of place for the new government and Nigerians in general to ask how these monies were spent?


Various committees he had inaugurated, EFCC, and others. If the national assembly was not so useless, they too should be investigating how close to $20 billions were spent on defense in five years and our military is still ill equipped.
He doesn't seem to have got any one right since.

QuotaSystem:
Rubbish.

Reports from the Presidency stated that documents detailing the unaccounted expenditure of over $2 billion between 2007 and 2014 on arms have been reviewed by the arms purchases probe panel as contained in its interim report.

Furthermore, Dasuki himself has admitted receiving acknowledgement of delivery letters of untraceable purchased arms from GEJ's service chiefs. Hence those funds were released and assumed to have been spent. Monies that have now been denied to have been approved by the same GEJ.

The $1 billion you refer to was applied for at the tail end of the last administration and is now also being investigated by the panel. You're only grasping at straws now that the world is about to be reminded of GEJ's incompetence, corruption, and possible culpability in the massacre of thousands of his own citizens.

If you're confused, seek clarification and avoid peddling ignorance in public.

Arms Deals: Fresh Controversy Over $1b Loan Approved For Jonathan

-Ex-president returns home, loyalists regroup to defend tenure

-Dasuki writes EFCC, asks for more time

More questions may be awaiting former President Goodluck Jonathan on arms deals during his tenure after his weekend denial in Washington DC that he never incurred a bill of $2 billion on arms procurement.This includes the whereabouts of the over $1billion loan approved for him by the 7th National Assembly for arms purchase to fight the Boko Haram insurgency.

It was unclear last night whether the loan was accessed by the administration before the expiration of its tenure on May 29.

His loyalists claimed yesterday that the money was not made available before he left office.

There were suggestions that the Special Investigative Panel on arms procurement may be asked to establish the truth about the loan.

More military officers, ex-ministers and arms contractors may be invited for clarifications, it was gathered.

Jonathan returned to Abuja from the USA on Friday with his ex-members said to be regrouping to defend arms deals during his presidency and other allegations against the administration.

Jonathan had on July 16, 2014, written to the 7th National Assembly for the approval of a $1 billion loan for the fight against Boko Haram.

The ex- President said he needed the cash to upgrade military equipment and for training as well as logistics for the Armed Forces.

Jonathan made the request in a letter entitled: “Tackling ongoing security challenges: The need for urgent action.”

On September 25, 2014, the Senate approved the loan following the submission of the report of the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and that of Local and Foreign Debt by the Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

A reliable source, who spoke in confidence, said: “In spite of the submission of Interim Report, the ongoing probe of the arms deal is continuing. One of the areas being looked into is what became of the $1billion loan approved for Jonathan by the 7th Senate.

“Actually, the loan was approved going by the records made available to the probe panel. So, if the panel is talking of $2billion, it must have been based on records in its care.

“This development may lead to the invitation of some ex-ministers to clarify the status of the loan and whether or not it was diverted to other use.”

But a former Minister said: “Initially, the vote was about $900m but the leadership of the 7th Senate advised the Executive to ask for $1billion to accommodate unexpected financial challenges in fighting Boko Haram.

“The Ministry of Finance ought to write letters to those advancing the loan and those companies supplying the arms on how the government will remit the funds.

“We however did not get the $1billion loan because the former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, did not sign necessary papers as a result of the inability of her office to receive the required votes and proceedings from the National Assembly.”

Ex-President Jonathan returned to Abuja on Friday with his erstwhile cabinet members regrouping on how to defend their tenure.

A highly-placed source said: “We have resolved to respond to any issue raised by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari on facts and figures.

“Ex-President Jonathan has started it in the US, we will no longer keep quiet because the stigmatization is increasingly becoming unbearable.

“We will not confront Buhari government but we will be replying on points of records.”

Embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was said to have written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for more time to appear for grilling over the arms deals.

The letter was submitted to EFCC on Friday by Dasuki’s counsel.

A source in EFCC said: “We have received Dasuki’s letter, we will get back to him accordingly.

“If after Monday, he continues to evade appearance before this commission, we will have no choice than to obtain a warrant of arrest from a court to pick him.

“We have tried our best to be civil and handle the case in line with international best practices.”

Seun,Lalasticlala

http://thenationonlineng.net/arms-deals-fresh-controversy-over-1b-loan-approved-for-jonathan/

QuotaSystem:
Are you unable to see that delaying the process is the subject of the article itself? Who is asking for extra time? Buhari or Dasuki?

Read before commenting next time.

QuotaSystem:
My friend, nothing you say can change the fact that hundreds of thousands of lives have been needlessly lost to the massive corruption under GEJ through arm purchase scams, and he with his NSA Dasuki MUST defend the heavy allegations against them or bear the full consequences of directly or indirectly sponsoring terror and Boko Haram like the former NSA, Late Azazi alleged before he was assassinated.

E don set.

tee4naija:
What are you trying to say. a minister is just a political head of a ministry. There are lots of qualified economists and financial experts as career officers in the ministry. Even if she has no background in economics, there are people who have been doing the job only for the minister to ratify.
Why don't we let her be. At least she was screened by the NASS which comprise of technocrats as well.

OrlandoOwoh:
Could you tell us, in specific term, what exactly makes unqualified or why she should have be made a minister for state?

StOla:
Before Okonjo Iweala, did we have foreigners as our finance ministers?

FOLYKAZE:
The OP is reporting Kogi election incident of 1:30pm at 1:04pm. Even vanguard would have the news delayed before publishing. So who is lying? Vanguard or the silly OP?