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rOsy247:
Like I said before, we all have flaws and I doubt if we will like people to discard or reject us cos of our flaws. Don't judge somebody cos they sin differently from u. Cast stones on her if you have no flaws.

Talking about the drama queen stuff, I've said it many times in my previous post. Ceecee n Alex are the drama queens left in the house, but ceecee is stronger. Despite her flaws, she represents a strong woman. #ceeceeToTheFinals

No one should judge CeeCee for her flaws..I agree.

But neither should she get any laurels for them. Bad behaviour should never be rewarded. If you are looking for a "strong woman" to support just because, you've got Anto and Alex...and even BamBam.

mostHandsome01:
dont mind hypocrites, People feel its kul to hate somebody just because everyone is hating that person without taking time to knowing that person, Cee C is the most real housemate in that house. she not wayward likewise, she has her flaws, yes but shes sure not a bad person from what have watched and will sure take out time to vote for her.

Viewers simply do not have the time to "get to know anyone" on the show. It is an open platform shared with other contestants and if you got it, then bring it out and put it on show.

You can't keep radiating negative vibes day in and day out and then blame viewers for forming a negative impression.

Viewers don't know you beyond what they see on their TV screens and have no choice but to judge you based on that.

At least the "big sister" seems to agree with the conclusions reached by most viewers about Cee C.

The only difference is that since they are sisters, she has an invested interest in tolerating the short comings and making excuses for her sister; a luxury the viewers don't have.

She sure looks good for a woman who is "homeless", has sacrificed a lot, doesn't know where her husband is and whose child "cries for daddy all the time."

She will be all right.

Oh let me add that before GULMA, there were another series of prototypes called AMEBO.

We have researches and prototypes going back all the way to 2007.


http://www.defenceweb.co.za/mobilesite/defenceweb/home/item_id-33115/

Needless and pointless controversy as usual. GEJ commissioned a prototype UAV called GULMA. PMB commissioned an improved and operational version of GULMA called TSAIGUMI.

2 President's, 2 phases of the same project; one country, Nigeria.

Did GEJ commission the first locally built UAV? Yes!

Did PMB commission the first "operational" UAV? Yes!

Will another President commission the planned Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV)? Yes!

These calls for celebration and not pointless brickbats.

For as long as we pussy foot around this issue of petroleum pricing, fuel scarcity will persist.

There is simply no way the independent marketers who account for the bulk of products sold in the downstream sector, will retail fuel at N145 after importing at between N170 - N175 per litre. The FG/NNPC can also not continue to shell out billions to subsidise the product in the long term...it is simply not sustainable.

The FG needs to bite the bullet and push for full deregulation once and for all. Sadly we lost a great opportunity in 2012 under the last government with the nationwide protests that greeted the new year announcement of deregulation. It was simply a case of wrong timing given the Christmas season, and the fact that there wasn't any prior engagement with the public and sensitisation. I hope lessons have been learnt on both sides. Government must engage and educate the public on initiatives before implementation.

The government must as a matter of urgency begin to engage at all levels in preparation for full deregulation. The engagements should clearly state all of the palliative measures that will be rolled out in the short term to cushion the short term effects of the anticipated petrol price increase. Also government should as a matter of urgency review and implement the long anticipated increase in the minimum wage to reflect current realities.

The downstream must be deregulated! There is no escaping that bitter pill.

This bunch of housemates are such a let down walahi!

I remember previous editions where the house will become as quiet as a graveyard whenever the housemates lose a wager. These current jokers just moved on with life, laughing, cracking jokes and eating up a storm after losing two tasks back to back. Big shame!

Then there is that obtuse HOH called Tobi, under whose watch the housemates have lost their wager twice now. Rather than show some remorse and hold himself accountable for the losses, he is busy chasing Cee-C's waist all over the house like a he-goat on heat.

Thirdly, a big shame to the organisers for selecting these sorry bunch of losers as housemates. I mean, how do you increase the prize money from 25 to 45 million naira and then lower the selection bar so badly that this boring set of jokers emerge out of the thousands that must have turned up for the auditions? Has the entertainment value of the average Nigerian youth fallen so low that the organisers will have us believe these were the best they could get?

I wish I could suggest to the organisers that for the next task, the housemates should be forced to wager 100% meaning that if they lose, they get nothing. I also think Biggie should have a one on one with each of them in the diary room and read them the riot act: Raise your game or get kicked out! After that he should give each of them a strike.

If that doesn't shake them up, I don't know what else will. I am not holding my breathe though. This lot look absolutely hopeless.

The governor committed a grievous faux pas with such a careless statement.

The armed forces is one of the last bastions of this nation's unity and a careless statement like this can sow a seed of discord capable of starting a major crisis.

The governor's careless statement is akin to ascribing a relay team's victory to the man who ran the last leg only. Such a team would most likely lose subsequent races.

I hope the governor sees the wisdom in issuing an apology and clarifying his statement immediately and for the field Commander to also issue a statement commending his predecessors and assuring the rank and file on ground in Maiduguri of his trust in their ability to deliver and sustain the drive to vanquish boko haram, regardless of tribe or religion.

Olumaeme:
They suddenly want him back after him luck don dey shine... Kolewerk..

I have told people that, blood is not thicker than water, those who look after me, contribute to my success are my family.

If the same mother born us and u don't do anything for me, and someone else does, the person is my brother.

They should move on with their lives, when he was staying with Eric's family, why is the mother and father not visit him and buy him stuffs.

Even in Nigeria, there are sometimes, you stay with your mother's family, but your mum will still send you clothes, money and even food during the holidays, call and pray for you, advice and and all that, but No, they left him in the confront of another family.

When they took care of him, turn his life around and things become sweet, they resort to begging.. They should park well

Are you sure you read the article fully? Doesn't strike me like he was abandoned in the true sense of the word given that both parents have consistently tried to reach out to him and involve him in their lives.

Seems to me like he his angry with his parents for breaking up having tasted what it feels like having both parents live together by living with his adopted parents.

I feel for him and his parents and I hope he opens up and restores his relationship with his parents so he does not regret when he gets older.

Oh Nigeria!

A land where the poor prey on the poor while the rich and powerful smile to the bank.

nwabobo:
There's no more freedom of expression.

Are we in a military regime?

Beyond the usual mass hysteria and the fuss, let me ask a question:

Is there anyone of you that has the guts to publicly criticize or call out your employer on mainstream or social media and still retain your job?

NTA belongs to the Nigerian government and they set the code of conduct for their staff. If you cannot comply, simply tender your resignation and then you can feel free to criticise as openly and viciously as you want.

NTA was conceived and setup purely to act as the mouthpiece of the government, communicating only positive information about the government of the day. It was that way before I was born and will continue to be as long as they exist. That is why no one interested in hearing balanced news tunes in to them.

This is such a crude thing to do. If the girl stole from you, relieve her of her job or if you want to be extreme, hand her over to the police.

Buy uploading the nude video on social media, the madam has broken the Cybercrime law and could get a long jail term.

All the young girl needs to do is get a good lawyer to fight her cause.

SalamRushdie:
The F16 Falcon cost 18 million dollars per unit yet the Nigerian govt wants to buy archaic propeller driven plane for 41 million dollars each ..I beg the senate to halt that deal as it is filled with intense corruption

If the US is giving us this kind of grief over the purchase of a few propeller driven birds, do you think they will be willing to sell us any jet propelled fighters even if we are willing to pay double the market price?

However, I agree with you that the prices of these Super Tucanos are grossly inflated even if one works in the cost of training, spare parts and munitions.

PHILipu1:
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Keep dreaming.
Anambra election should tell you what to expect even in south-east in 2019.
Votes in south-east and south-south will be shared 50/50 between APC and PDP.

There are things that have changed between 2015 and 2019.

PDP controlled the army,police,dss,inec etc in 2015 but APC now control this agencies.
So it will be difficult for PDP to use them to rig south-east and south-south as usual.

PDP had ministers and political appointees from this zones in 2015 why APC didn't,but it's APC that now have ministers and political appointees from this zones and this people will do all it takes to perform well in their wards,LG and states in this zones so as not to fail their boss because they also know that if Buhari is voted out that they too will lose their jobs and positions too.

And i will tell you that even though most politicians in the south in all parties including PDP will not say it openly,majority of them prefer Buhari to just finish the north 8 years and handover to the south than voting another northerner that will stay till 2027.

And i am a southerner who has stayed in the north for more than 20 years and i can tell you that one of Buhari cow will defeat Atiku with landslide here in the north.
So,stop dreaming that Atiku will give Buhari headache in the north.

So even the south-east and south-south that you think will be walk over for PDP and Atiku is where the battle will be fought and Anambra governorship election should give you a pointer and don't tell me that all the people that voted APGA and Obiano will vote PDP in 2019.
Some will vote PDP and some will vote APC.

My sentiments exactly.

I keep telling people that if Buhari chooses to run in 2019, Atiku wont win ANY state in the North. Buhari will even defeat Atiku in his ward and the polling unit inside his own compound.

Imagine someone her saying that Atiku will defeat Buhari in the Northeast? That is the craziest thing I have heard in a while. I toured that region recently working with the IDPs and I can tell you that Buhari is like a religion in that region.

Even Kwankwaso will give Buhari a better challenge in the North than Atiku would.

freeze001:
Kindly read and digest my original post properly. It was clear to all sane persons that Buhari was a failed person who should never have come back to be president. She would have been better off advocating someone else other than Jonathan and Buhari if she really wanted a change. If Jonathan was so bad, the alternative could not and never should have been Buhari. She and her likes should have known better so now, seeing the folly of their ways, they come with their sanctimonious bs and won't let PDP/Jonathan be. Rather than condemn APC roundly for their clear ineptitude and failure, they find a way to rope in PDP just to justify their poor choice.

Hardly anyone has been more consistent and vocal in their criticism of the present government than Madam Ezekwesili. That doesn't mean her position on the previous government has changed.

freeze001:
Oh Daddy! I'm shaking in my boots right now! Ur rudeness will not allow u be great and have simple comprehension. I have said what I will, knock yourself out. Point of correction, she supported Buhari.

She did not support Buhari in the real sense of it.

She campaigned against the re-election of Jonathan.

The same difference I hear you say; but a difference nonetheless.

sdindan:
See people's reactions

Madam Oby was never a member of APC.

GoodGovernance:
Are you people not tired of all these nonsensical error finding business?

You guys behave like very starved poultry chicken,always ever ready and very fast at picking up the next available grain on the floor,whether poisonous or not.

It's like any negative report about the government,is food for you?



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Perpetual wailers,I hail thee oooo....

Why don't you allow these people enjoy their circus in peace?

I love reading through threads like this where you see the sheer ignorance of the average Nigerian youth on full display.

Cable Newspaper need to carry out more investigations before publishing stories.

ZombieTERROR:
Stop deceiving the public with lies
Buhari will fail this Time because the middle belt has turned their backs against him since he can't call his herdsmen brothers to order
Majority of the core north will go with Atiku
Ss and SE with join together with the North Central

Who needs the Sw?

While I tend to agree with you about the NorthCentral, majority of the core North won't go with Atiku. Buhari is a "religion" in that region.

doctokwus:
My problem with this # is the notion of waiting to send him back in 2019.
At the rate Buhari is going,if he rules us through one more year,the outcome may be calamitous because as it is he has done enormous damage to Nigeria and Nigerians.
What stops Nigerians from making a massive call for his his immediate resignation?
Dead people,economic hardship,fuel scarcity,maina gate,BH resurgence,secret appointments,corruption everywhere,inter agency rivalry, SARS killings,kidnappings and you still feel u can live peacefully thru a year more of his rule!

Truth be told, we lived through the same challenges and even worse, for 16 years of PDP rule in this country so let's not pretend it all started with this government.

Let the old man finish his tenure in peace and hopefully leave in 2019.

I believe great lessons have been learnt and we will make better choices in the next elections.

SalamRushdie:
That Buhari is completely incompetent is a fact that can never be argued, infact the man has been an ultra super failure so far and the the only thing we Nigerians owe him is to send him back to Daura in 2019 , remember to sending Buhari back to Daura is now a civic duty and also remember if you dont send him back to Daura he will send you back to your village .. Please embrace the Hash tag #BACK2DAURA on all yor social media handles as we commence a great movt to send incompetence back to Daura in peace .#BACK2DAURA

Beyond the feel-good factor of having a trending hashtag, what else is there?

Do you have your PVC? Will you brave the odds to go out and vote in the next elections? Will you mobilise your friends, family and neighborhood to vote in the next elections?

This is Nigeria and not America. 90% of the real voters don't own a smartphone and won't see your trending hashtag.

Elections are a different ball game and the streets, creeks and suburbs is where it matters. Not fancy hashtags on social media.

Jokes apart, if you come at my wife like that, I will hunt you down and beat some respect into you.

If I find out you are stronger, I will shell out good money to hire some professional "Bleep up treatment specialists".

Its just a temporary injunction compelling government to maintain status quo antebellum until the determination of the substantive suit. I wonder what the lawyer is excited about.

LxgIncrediboy:
Oga read the whole chapter and under what it says before you shoot yourself in the foot

Oga I have "studied" the whole chapter and I understand exactly what it says.

Thank you.

khiaa:
That's why the scriptures said to interpret so the non-believers will believe.

"Mysteries spoken to God".

Why would a prayer I am saying in tongues to God need interpretation?

A word of knowledge or prophecy delivered in tongues would need interpretation so that the congregation can understand the message.

But praying in tongues is distinct from that and needs no interpretation. It is a personal and direct prayer to God under the unction of the Holy Spirit.

LxgIncrediboy:
Madam read down to 21... It says speaking in a foreign language... There's no where in the Bible it says praying in tongues is between you and God.

Are you sure?

1st Corinthians 14 vs 2

"For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit"

khiaa:
Just because someone speak gibberish doesn't mean they are speaking to Yahweh. I could walk into a church with my babbling and it doesn't mean that I'm talking in tongues.

If you walk into a church blabbing, that would be between you and God now wouldn't it?

Doesn't mean the person next to you is doing same as you are. That's why it calls it "mysteries" spoken to God.

SARS is a highly disorganised and corrupt unit of the Nigerian Police.

But the truth is that 60% - 70% of all of the stories on the #EndSARSBrutality# trend are figments of the authors' hyperactive imagination.

With the plethora of negative stories about SARS, one could easily conclude that they are a bunch of no-good, trigger-happy and demonic men who just go around totting assault weapons and shooting at any and every body they come across.

I have encountered SARS on several occasions driving around in Lagos and I know that that claim is far from the truth. Like every Nigerian setup, they do a lot of good work and have a few bad eggs...well maybe more than "a few". But they aren't beyond redemption.

I say reform SARS! While at it, reform the entire Nigerian Police force because there is a lot that is wrong with their orientation.

nwakibie3:
• Members denounce N11tr collectible revenue
• Seek oil price benchmark increase from $45 to $50 per barrel
• Mull scrapping of VOA, NOA, other ‘wasteful agencies’

Debate on the general principles of the 2018 budget proposal began on a heated note at the Senate yesterday, with some members describing the fiscal document as “unrealistic, ” “fictional” and “imaginary.”Many senators who contributed to the debate across party lines declared that the N11 trillion collectible revenue proposed could not be met and called for increase in oil price benchmark from $45 to $50 per barrel.

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia State) was unsparing in his assessment of the proposal, declaring it “dead on arrival”. Joshua Lidani (PDP, Gombe State) called it “wishful thinking”. For Ben Murray Bruce (PDP, Bayelsa), it was merely “a budget of active imagination”.

Senate leader, Ahmed Lawan, however found one of Abaribe’s expressions uncomfortable and sought leave of the chamber to mandate the senator to withdraw the word.“You cannot describe as ‘fictitious’ the budget presented by Mr. President to a joint session of the National Assembly,” said Lawan.

But instead of renouncing the term, Abaribe said if ‘fictitious’ was unacceptable, “I withdraw the word and say that it is totally imaginary.”
Senator Abubakar Yusuf (APC, Taraba North) regretted that instead of the presidency to make agencies responsible for non-oil revenue generation brace up, it was projecting unrealisable revenue collections, as witnessed this year where only N155b was realised out of projected N807b independent revenue generation.

Deputy whip, Francis Alimekhena (APC, Edo North), also faulted the proposal. “Year in, year out, we are faced with bloated budget estimates that cannot achieve performance implementation beyond the 15 per cent it achieved this year,” he said.

He noted that since the price of crude oil in the international market is now above $60, the oil price benchmark should be jerked up from the proposed $45 to $50, as a way of maximising the projected N6.387 trillion oil revenue, since the projected N5.597 trillion non-oil revenue is not realisable.

The lawmakers spoke as the upper chamber kick-started consideration of the general principles and second reading of the 2018 budget as contained in a bill for an act to authorise issue of N8,612,236,953,214 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Of the amount, N456,458,654,074 is for statutory transfers; N2,233,835,365,699 is for debt service; N3,494,277,820,219 is for recurrent (non-debt) expenditure; while the sum of N2,427,665,113,222 is for contribution to the development fund for capital expenditure for the year ending December 31, 2018.

Lawan, who gave an overview of the budget, said that in keeping with the administration’s policy, 30.8 per cent (N2,652 trillion) of the aggregate expenditure was allocated to capital budget.The Yobe North lawmaker said that the fiscal operations would result in a deficit of N2,005 trillion or 1.77 per cent GDP. He reminded his colleagues that the deficit would be partly financed by new borrowing estimated at N1.699 trillion.

While 50 per cent of the borrowing will be sourced externally, the balance will be sourced domestically. The balance of the deficit of N306 billion is to be financed from the proceeds of privatisation of some non-oil assets by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

Lawan also reminded his colleagues that the budget was predicated on the following assumptions: oil price benchmark $45 per barrel; oil production estimate of 2.3 million barrel per day; exchange rate of N305/US$; real GDP growth of 3.4 per cent and inflation rate of 12.4 per cent.

Hardly had Lawan concluded his overview when Abaribe took the floor.“The 2018 budget is designed to consolidate on the achievement of 2016, 2017 budgets. What was done in 2017, when less than 15 per cent of that budget was released? Nothing. That is why I call it fictitious. Nothing was done in 2017. That is fact that we all know.

“As at last week, the total receivable government got was one tenth of what was stated publicly. Instead of the budget in 2017 of more than N800 billion to be received, what was received was N150 billion. In what sense will this 2018 budget be predicated on an assumption that the facts have already been destroyed? You are assuming N11 trillion, yet you are getting less than N1 trilion.

“This is imaginary. We beg this government to be very specific in the indications of the assumptions underlining this budget. The assumptions are totally wrong and totally off the mark,” said Abaribe.

Lidani said the performance of the 2017 budget especially as it related to capital performance was abysmal. “It is expected that by the end of the year, only 50 per cent of the capital fund would have been released. It is not certain that amount would be released. So, we end up having a budget that has performed below expectation. Unless we get the 2017 budget analysed, we will be building the 2018 budget on a very weak foundation.”

He added: “Non-oil revenue fell by 74 per cent, which means only 36 per cent was realised from it. This is very disturbing and alarming, especially when you consider the fact that the 2018 budget is predicated heavily on non-oil revenue.

“The non-oil revenue is supposed to contribute N4.165 trillion, which is almost about 50 per cent of the N8.6 trillion budget. If something goes wrong and we don’t realise this N4.165 trillion, it means the budget will be as good as dead. If we don’t get the fundamentals right, we are going to have a budget that will perform below expectation.”

Bruce said: “If you look at the budget from 1960 to the present, you have agencies that were designed for 1960, agencies that were designed for the Nigerian civil war, agencies that were designed to suit some certain conditions in life. 60 years later, those agencies still exist in the budget. If you look at the budget, you will see that some agencies get recurrent expenditure, they pay salaries, they get houses, computers, cars, but they have no money to do any work. Some agencies are so bloated. It defies logic but these agencies exist. So, we have 2.4 million people consuming 60 per cent of the recurrent expenditure of Nigeria. It doesn’t make any sense.”

He added: “I called President Obasanjo on phone two days ago and he said to me that the National Orientation Agency was necessary when we had no political parties. What is the value of the National Orientation Agency in today’s world for instance? Yet billions of naira is spent in it. Let us look at agencies that make no sense and sell them to staff. FRCN has 8,000 workers. Sell it to them. Sell NTA to the staff. Voice of Nigeria… Who listens to Voice of Nigeria? Sell it. If the staff want to buy, let them buy it. Set up a cooperative, like Awolowo did, sell it to them. If we spend 71 per cent on recurrent expenditure, we will never get out of this predicament.”

Senator Gbenga Ashafa noted that the 2018 budget could not be discussed effectively without reviewing the performance of previous ones. He said the major problem of the country’s budgets was poor funding. He said for instance only N700 million out of N11.4 billion had been released from the budget of the Ministry of Transportation.

Deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, who chaired the session, noted: “Without revenue, we will have no money to do expenditure. We must point out, in the course of the debate, how we will reduce deficit. Ben Bruce has told us that some government agencies that should not be in existence anymore including the Voice of Nigeria (VON), which nobody is listening to. We need to point out some of these MDAs that are of no consequence and are adding no value, so that we don’t keep spending money on them. That way, we will be able to reduce the ratio between capital and the recurrent and, of course, reduce deficit.

“I hope government will listen to such exposure and be able to do away with such agencies. If the government fails to remove those agencies from our budget, we have a responsibility to Nigerians to bring bills in order to repeal the laws that set them up and stop waste of our resources.”


https://guardian.ng/news/uproar-as-senate-debates-2018-budget-proposal/

They stand on the floor of the Senate and propose things like winding down irrelevant government agencies like NOA and VON".

But the moment government announces a plan to wind down such agencies and parastatals, these same Senators will start whining about how insensitive the government is.

Successive budgets have been undone by the sheer chunk that goes towards servicing recurring expenditure while only a tiny fragment goes towards CAPEX.

All we hear is plenty of talk with very little action to turn things around both from the Executive and the Legislature. Such a shame.