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Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by demstone: 9:32pm On Jun 24
WITH TINUBU'S COURAGEOUS REFORMS
EVEN D BLIND ARE BEGINNING TO SEE A WEALTHY FUTURE FOR NIGERIA

MARK MY WORD
WHEN TINUBU COMPLETES HIS 8YRS

HE WOULD NOT JUST B THE FADA OF MODERN NIGERIA, JUST AS HE IS IN LAGOS

HE WOULD B D SUPREME EADER OF MODERN NIGERIA...
Akalia:
Let me put it to you that all these aforementioned achievements are all inconsequential because of the rising ugly heads of insecurity and economic hardship in Nigeria as at today.
The stings of insecurity and economic hardship is felt badly by the majority of Nigerians as at today;this is in sharp contrast to the gains of those achievements which are not felt by the majority of the masses except a privilege few.
So it's better BAT got it right with security and economic prosperity than those propaganda achievements you enumerated up there.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by bentenny(m): 9:39pm On Jun 24
Out of the frying pan and into the fire!
He who appoints also has the power to fire!
The state commissioner of police will do as he or she is told by the state governor!
If the state CP.is asked to arrest a political opponent,the CP will do so or get fired!
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by demstone: 9:40pm On Jun 24
BRO!!!
U SAY U'RE NOT BLINDED BY TRIBAL & RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT

DEN PROBABLY U NEED TO GO FOR URGENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING
MAYBE DEN U WOULD UNDERSTAND D IMPORTANCE OF

MISSION
VISION,
COURAGE
TAKING HARD & DIFFICULT DECISIONS


FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A VERY VERY LONG TIME

NIGERIA IS MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
blackgold2018:
that’s the problem with you people. I’m from rivers. So wanting a competent leader has now become I want my brother.

Am I not supposed to tell you this allegation? If I check your life, you fit be one poor follower that can’t afford 3square meal. See the way the country is. But as far as is your god and savior Tinubu is in seat, it’s none of your business
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by demstone: 9:44pm On Jun 24
GET UR FACTS RIGHT!!!

GOVERNORS CAN HIRE
BUT OMLY THE PRESIDENT ND POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION CAN FIRE
JUST AS IT IS WITH STATE CHIEF JUSTICES
bentenny:
Out of the frying pan and into the fire!
He who appoints also has the power to fire!
The state commissioner of police will do as he or she is told by the state governor!
If the state CP.is asked to arrest a political opponent,the CP will do so or get fired!
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by dododawa1: 9:47pm On Jun 24
Implementation



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The koko
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Toktee(m): 9:47pm On Jun 24
This is hilarious. grin
Basic123:
TINUBU WILL BE REMEMBERED BY WELL MEANING NIGERIANS FOR MANY LANDMARKS REFORMS
(Most are what pundits all agreed on their importance but each president have always been scared to touch because of fair and politics)


-Subsidy removal
-liberalization of forex
-TAX Reform
-NELFUND
-LG Autonomy
-Lagos-Sokoto highway
-Lagos-Badagry Highway
-MMIA reconstruction
-Regional commissions in all geopolitical zones
-Electricity devolution and decentralization bill
-Latest STATE POLICE
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Lzkdy: 9:49pm On Jun 24
Barbarism
Severe hardship
High cost of living
Naira devaluation
Subsidy removal without accountability Tribalism
Loans upon loans
Insecurity
Basic123:
TINUBU WILL BE REMEMBERED BY WELL MEANING NIGERIANS FOR MANY LANDMARKS REFORMS
(Most are what pundits all agreed on their importance but each president have always been scared to touch because of fair and politics)


-Subsidy removal
-liberalization of forex
-TAX Reform
-NELFUND
-LG Autonomy
-Lagos-Sokoto highway
-Lagos-Badagry Highway
-MMIA reconstruction
-Regional commissions in all geopolitical zones
-Electricity devolution and decentralization bill
-Latest STATE POLICE
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Basic123: 9:54pm On Jun 24
Lzkdy:
Barbarism
Severe hardship
High cost of living
Naira devaluation
Subsidy removal without accountability Tribalism
Loans upon loans
Insecurity
This just POLITICS!

Severe hardship
High cost of living
Naira devaluation

ARE ALL short term entropic effect of the reform

As regard lack of accountability?
Let's set politics aside and discuss the real economic issues.

When people ask, "Where is the money saved from fuel subsidy removal?" I hope that question is not directed solely at President Tinubu or the Federal Government.

First, it is important to understand that Nigeria still runs a significant budget deficit even after removing fuel subsidies. The savings from subsidy removal alone are nowhere near enough to eliminate the deficit. In other words, removing fuel subsidies does not automatically end government borrowing.

What subsidy removal does is increase the amount of money available in the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). However, FAAC funds do not belong exclusively to President Tinubu or the Federal Government. Constitutionally, those funds are shared among the Federal Government, state governments, and local governments. The President cannot spend FAAC allocations at will, nor can he dictate how state governors or local government chairmen use their respective shares.

Therefore, if the question is, "What is the subsidy savings being used for?" that question should not be directed only at the Federal Government. It should also be asked of your state governor and your local government chairman, since they receive constitutionally allocated shares of the increased FAAC revenue.

Secondly, even the Federal Government's share of the additional FAAC revenue is insufficient to cover Nigeria's annual budget deficit, which remains substantial. As a result, the country still has to borrow. The difference now is that, in principle, borrowing is no longer primarily intended to finance fuel subsidies or recurrent obligations such as salaries, but rather to support capital and infrastructure projects.

This shift in fiscal policy has contributed to improvements in Nigeria's sovereign credit outlook. Rating agencies such as S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings have upgraded Nigeria's outlook in recent times, partly because of reforms including fuel subsidy removal and exchange-rate liberalization.

Finally, Nigerians should not expect these reforms to produce an immediate and drastic reduction in the prices of goods and services. The more realistic expectation is that they will help stabilize inflation over time, restore macroeconomic stability, and gradually improve purchasing power as the economy adjusts. Economic reforms typically take time before their full benefits are reflected in the cost of living.

As regards to insecurity-He is making effort.Part of this efforts state police.

If you hare still bitter after this explanation.Then double wahala for your deady body.
You will feel the pain of hate and the person you want as president that is making you see things upside doen will still not be president
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Akalia(m): 9:55pm On Jun 24
demstone:
WITH TINUBU'S COURAGEOUS REFORMS
EVEN D BLIND ARE BEGINNING TO SEE A WEALTHY FUTURE FOR NIGERIA

MARK MY WORD
WHEN TINUBU COMPLETES HIS 8YRS

HE WOULD NOT JUST B THE FADA OF MODERN NIGERIA, JUST AS HE IS IN LAGOS

HE WOULD B D SUPREME EADER OF MODERN NIGERIA...
Any future built at the detriment of many would demand more detrimental costs to sustain.
Tinubu is building a modern Nigeria that will take shape in the future without ensuring the availability of security of lives and the means of livelihood of the masses in the present and you think that the modern future would come to be?have you seen where development festers in the face of alarming multi-faceted insecurity?
Oga you are just a stooge, abeg hush.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Basic123: 9:56pm On Jun 24
Toktee:
This is hilarious. grin
Its better than you crying sha.
No matter how yoh see it,that is the fact.
Mind you,peter OBI is not nearing that seat grin
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by VanuatuWycombe: 9:56pm On Jun 24
What are federal offenses now? What of state offenses?

We need clarifications.

FG should be charging states for using FG’s prisons, pending when states will build theirs.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Justnation: 9:56pm On Jun 24
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Basic123:
TINUBU WILL BE REMEMBERED BY WELL MEANING NIGERIANS FOR MANY LANDMARKS REFORMS
(Most are what pundits all agreed on their importance but each president have always been scared to touch because of fair and politics)


-Subsidy removal
-liberalization of forex
-TAX Reform
-NELFUND
-LG Autonomy
-Lagos-Sokoto highway
-Lagos-Badagry Highway
-MMIA reconstruction
-Regional commissions in all geopolitical zones
-Electricity devolution and decentralization bill
-Latest STATE POLICE
All this amount to total rubbish.
tinubu achieved nothing
tinubu has totally destroyed Nigeria
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by planetx: 9:57pm On Jun 24
discusant:
Police Heads in states, regions or counties are elected, not appointed.
This State Police in Nigeria shall end up a failure, like everything in Nigeria if state governors are allowed to appoint Police Commissioner for the states.
Police chiefs in the US are appointed not elected.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Lzkdy: 9:58pm On Jun 24
I can see U are living in a fool's paradise
Basic123:
This just POLITICS!

Severe hardship
High cost of living
Naira devaluation

ARE ALL short term entropic effect of the reform

As regard lack of accountability?
Let's set politics aside and discuss the real economic issues.

When people ask, "Where is the money saved from fuel subsidy removal?" I hope that question is not directed solely at President Tinubu or the Federal Government.

First, it is important to understand that Nigeria still runs a significant budget deficit even after removing fuel subsidies. The savings from subsidy removal alone are nowhere near enough to eliminate the deficit. In other words, removing fuel subsidies does not automatically end government borrowing.

What subsidy removal does is increase the amount of money available in the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). However, FAAC funds do not belong exclusively to President Tinubu or the Federal Government. Constitutionally, those funds are shared among the Federal Government, state governments, and local governments. The President cannot spend FAAC allocations at will, nor can he dictate how state governors or local government chairmen use their respective shares.

Therefore, if the question is, "What is the subsidy savings being used for?" that question should not be directed only at the Federal Government. It should also be asked of your state governor and your local government chairman, since they receive constitutionally allocated shares of the increased FAAC revenue.

Secondly, even the Federal Government's share of the additional FAAC revenue is insufficient to cover Nigeria's annual budget deficit, which remains substantial. As a result, the country still has to borrow. The difference now is that, in principle, borrowing is no longer primarily intended to finance fuel subsidies or recurrent obligations such as salaries, but rather to support capital and infrastructure projects.

This shift in fiscal policy has contributed to improvements in Nigeria's sovereign credit outlook. Rating agencies such as S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings have upgraded Nigeria's outlook in recent times, partly because of reforms including fuel subsidy removal and exchange-rate liberalization.

Finally, Nigerians should not expect these reforms to produce an immediate and drastic reduction in the prices of goods and services. The more realistic expectation is that they will help stabilize inflation over time, restore macroeconomic stability, and gradually improve purchasing power as the economy adjusts. Economic reforms typically take time before their full benefits are reflected in the cost of living.

As regards to insecurity-He is making effort.Part of this efforts state police.

If you hare still bitter after this explanation.Then double wahala for your deady body.
You will feel the pain of hate and the person you want as president that is making you see things upside doen will still not be president
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Basic123: 9:58pm On Jun 24
Akalia:
Let me put it to you that all these aforementioned achievements are all inconsequential because of the rising ugly heads of insecurity and economic hardship in Nigeria as at today.
The stings of insecurity and economic hardship is felt badly by the majority of Nigerians as at today;this is in sharp contrast to the gains of those achievements which are not felt by the majority of the masses except a privilege few.
So it's better BAT got it right with security and economic prosperity than those propaganda achievements you enumerated up there.
They are all consequential!
Its better for him to get it right in all I mentioned and at the same time get it right in insecurity(something the STATE POLICE is also meant to solve)

Now get out with your whataboutism!
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Gjrich(m): 9:58pm On Jun 24
donleo92:
H.mmnmm

I trust edo governor to abuse this privilege grin

In as much as I love this ehn,
But our politicians fit use this one run monopoly of the state..

Kogi state also comes into mind angry
The Edo State Governor is doing excellent work on security. He has declared a crackdown on cultism and kidnapping, with plans to establish mobile courts that will try offenders within two to three weeks. Anyone convicted will face the death penalty by public execution at Ring Road in Benin City.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Basic123: 10:01pm On Jun 24
Lzkdy:
I can see U are living in a fool's paradise
Go and treat your glaucoma grin
Abi Cataract de ni
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by bentenny(m): 10:02pm On Jun 24
demstone:
GET UR FACTS RIGHT!!!

GOVERNORS CAN HIRE
BUT OMLY THE PRESIDENT ND POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION CAN FIRE
JUST AS IT IS WITH STATE CHIEF JUSTICES
You are actually the one who doesn't have his facts right!
Nowhere in the passed bill does the president have the powers to fire a commissioner of police in a state.
If there is,please post it here!

The state governor has the powers to not only appoint but to also fire the state CP without needing the permission of the police service commission.

Let's even assume without conceding that the president was the one empowered to sack the state CP,that will be ludicrous and will amount to undue interference which will ultimately go contrary to the laws of decentralization of state policing!

Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Basic123: 10:02pm On Jun 24
Justnation:
We





All this amount to total rubbish.
tinubu achieved nothing
tinubu has totally destroyed Nigeria
Its normal for opposition scums to sound stupid in quest for powergrin
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Jahwinaboy(m): 10:03pm On Jun 24
Juliette5803:
My problem is with the State Governments, they might turn them to personal services
You should know that no matter how bad a state governor is, it's better than federal government. At state level, it can be easily rebuffed by state assembly, traditional rulers or ethnic groups unlike Federal. A very welcome development
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Misterone: 10:07pm On Jun 24
Vision101:
Hahaha 🤣😂 Obi proposed it but Tinubu copied it. That's why Obi doesn't want to give us details of his plans anymore..... hahaha 🤣😂
Obi proposed what! You guys are smoking something not good. State police that's been in the offing since Obasanjo's regime! Ah! This thing una dey take bad o!
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Tareq1105: 10:10pm On Jun 24
commoditiesnig:
Very welcome news.. I just heard on news now.

Swift action by the Senate.. Let the state HOAs now expedite action as well

State Police is now!


It’s a good one by the Anambra government
State police would create employment for someone like AMINDA and LagosOrigin.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by bentenny(m): 10:10pm On Jun 24
So the state governor is given the powers to appoint a state commissioner of police based on the 'advise' of the police commission council just the same way the IGP is appointed by the president based on the advise of the national police commission council.

Secondly, majority of the state house of assembly will have to approve and we already know that all state assembly members are in the pockets of their respective state governors.


Ultimately,the state police will eventually be abused by the state governors just as I said earlier.
I see a situation where some state governors will order policemen to restrict or impede a certain political opponent from entering his state.

I hope during harmonisation between the assembly members,they should try as much as possible to look into this clause to empowers the state governor to appoint and fire the state CP.

Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Johnson5258: 10:11pm On Jun 24
While releasing of funds is not Tinubu's problem. Most of them couldn't pay salaries back then and now doing as if they did their job well. Let us hear their excuse of insecurity after it has been pased. Logically Tinubu is not governing Nigeria with intent to win second term, he has indeed done great. Lekki people will not forget him.for the coastal road. It is a game changer.



blackgold2018:
so you get sense finally.

For me it’s a game orchestrated by your government. Deep down they don’t want this bill to see light of the day. By end of the day something must happen to disrupt it. At the end Tinubu will carry the praise for attempting to create state police but never happened.

If Tinubu want this bill implemented, he will see through it. Weather it means to release more funds.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by erico2k2(m): 10:20pm On Jun 24
AsomughaChuks02:
What then becomes of Hisbah the Sharia police operating in Muslim states, since the new law expressly forbids state police from applying religious bias in the work?
They are now toast
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by commoditiesnig(m): 10:25pm On Jun 24
Tareq1105:
State police would create employment for someone like AMINDA and LagosOrigin.
Lol 😂. Una too get bad mouth eh
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by press9jatv(m): 10:32pm On Jun 24
Bluna:
They will abuse it. That's the problem. Let their power be limited for now. Laws can always be amended.
exactly. The abusing part will be much.
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Juliette5803(f): 10:52pm On Jun 24
State Assembly?
Jahwinaboy:
You should know that no matter how bad a state governor is, it's better than federal government. At state level, it can be easily rebuffed by state assembly, traditional rulers or ethnic groups unlike Federal. A very welcome development
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Reloadedisraelp: 10:53pm On Jun 24
Tjra:
Tinubu na man you be abeg
I swear the guy really stubborn... grin
Re: Senate Passes State Police Bill, empowers Govs to appoint Police Commissioners by Reloadedisraelp: 10:55pm On Jun 24
If the north like mk them still dey bite tinubu through bandit n kidnapping....I trust tinubu to divide the country grin
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