₦airaland Forum

yjgm:
Am glad you did mention it as his private business. The moment he equated that 'private business' of his with the happenings in the public and minimum wage, he's made it public.

The moment he became a senator thereby bringing himself to limelight, it is public.

The moment that business of his employs a thousand people, it is public.

The moment that 'private business' of his is for public consumption and he makes profit from there that he pays his staffs with, it is public.

So, that guy that criticized him for selling popcorn @800 is a stakeholder and deserve some respect.

Reason: a customer is always king.

No to oppression of customers, Nigerians.

starG7:
yes u re right even obj said it to remind the tribe that Is not right and to show his discomfort wt it, any way let me nt call him king because he is not crowned as dat, let me say hez Holden the tribe in captivity

starG7:
that same one man is the king of that same tribe, and reps the entire tribe

3Div:
Last week Sunday?.

I'm afraid if it's been 9days the window of recovery might have passed. Armed Robbers usually dispose off stolen vehicles within 48 hours.

With 9 days passed. the trail would have gone cold except by some stroke of luck might we be able to recover the vehicle.

If you can post the area where the robbery take place might help to know the direction to look towards.

Hardluck

-3div.

askYomi:


Werey wo leleyi bayi

starG7:
as if u don't know who is behind the mask

basilo101:
Yoruba and Area boy politics. Sanusi was very right

basilo101:
Yoruba and Area boy politics. Sanusi was very right

MduZA:
lol...so you are retaliating?

HungerBAD:
Three years after federal government investigative reports confirmed that more than 20,000 federal projects have been abandoned, the federal government said September 15 2013 it had set up of a task force to halt the rogue fleecing of the nation.

If the executive arm of government under former President Goodluck Jonathan was guilty of gross inaction and insensibility, the legislative arm too had demonstrated no serious commitment in checking the waste of government funds in the abandoned projects that litter the constituencies they supposedly represent. However, much is expected from the Muhammadu Buhari administration in examining the legion of abandoned projects and making the fleecing contractors and rogue bureaucracy to give account.

For instance, two years after, the National Assembly is yet to pass the bill mooted to check unbridled wastage and corruption in abandoned projects; mum is the word from the National Assembly, as if they were unconcerned that the welfare of their constituencies means nothing to them so far their pecuniary appetites are lustfully satisfied.

Former Head of Service of the federation Mr. Danladi Kifasi said in Abuja before directors in the service that government was worried by the waste from abandoned projects by federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).

He said government had resolved to set up a project performance and monitoring taskforce to punish contractors who collect mobilization funds and disappear. However, this cannot be unless the odious image of the Civil Service is redeemed in order to restore public confidence and reverse nation that “government business was nobody’s business”. To what extend Kifasi can clean the Service rot, which has become a cankerworm?

Indeed, the abandoned projects by Federal Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDA) had climbed from 11,886 three years ago to 20,000, going by figures supplied by the former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Former Speaker House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal had mooted in July last year a bill to compel MDAs to implement national budgets in order to halt disturbing trend of failed and abandoned projects. His words, “It is time we changed from the so-called cash-based budgeting system to performance-based budgeting….We hope that all arms of government, especially the Legislature and the Executive will learn to build the kind of synergy that will encourage budget implementation and reduce poverty in the land.”

In addition, Tambuwal noted, “The Presidential Projects Assessment Committee (two years ago) estimated that over 11,886 projects valued at N7.7 trillion were abandoned after government had spent N2.2 trillion on them, and N9 trillion is required to complete the abandoned projects. This is unsupportable wastages. I advocate performance budgeting.”

Indeed, when similar unaudited abandoned projects by the 36 states and 774 local governments are added, the figure would be astounding. Many National Assembly members fleece through bogus and unaccounted constituency project votes. The legislative –executive feud over N80 billion constituency projects has bogged down implementation of the 2013 Appropriation Act.

This unchecked fiscal indiscipline, Okonjo-Iweala had regretted has allowed the country’s debt profile to climb to $37 billion, almost to the position before the expensive bailout during the Obasanjo administration. Despite executive agencies and the Presidency failing to check rein in fiscal indiscipline, the Finance Minister is strangely advocating the collection of more foreign loans when previous loans have remained unaccounted for and projects not seen to benefit the people.

The Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) was enacted in July 2007. Unknown is the impact of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission set up to manage prudently the nation’s resources, ensure long-term macroeconomic stability, secure greater accountability and transparency in fiscal operations . Bureau of Public Procurement, established to check these frauds, has been ineffective.

The NASS that should perform oversight function on the executive has largely slept on its duty. This is why in the past 14 years federal recurrent expenditures is about 75 per cent to service a few thousands of public office holders while a miserly 25 per cent takes care of the rest 160m million people.

During a tour of abandoned projects two years ago former Minister of Information Labaran Maku had fingered that the desire for ego credit taking, rather than service delivery, was behind the drive for new projects and abandoning of old ones. The embarrassing trend might stall new projects in 2014 and 2015.

The abandoned projects include power projects, for which billions of dollars have been committed with no production of electricity, road, rail, and water transportation infrastructure to jumpstart the economy and provide job opportunities, education, and health institutions provisioning, infrastructure to provide domestic self-sufficiency in food and fuel.

Other factors are pitiable planning, inadequate budgeting, delay in releasing project funds, which leads to project execution delay, increased contract cost variation and ultimate abandonment and contract splitting to give jobs for the boys. President Goodluck Jonathan cannot affect positively on peoples welfare without urgently curbing corruption by officials using fraudulent ploys: upfront payments for contracts prior to execution, white-elephant money-laundering projects proposed principally to pull out money from the treasury.

Exposing contractors that have collected money for jobs not done and bringing them to trial will effectively check the culture of impunity in abandoned projects. The abandoned projects badly affect peoples’ welfare countrywide. There is urgent need for the Buhari administration to revisit the abandoned projects scandals for the sake of accountability, probity to discourage looting spree with impunity.



http://www.mynewswatchtimesng.com/buhari-and-fgs-20000-abandoned-projects-3/

obailala:
Paris to Lagos trip; flight computers failed just as plane plane was about to take off (lucky to still be on the ground); we taxi back to the dock; they call in engineers to fix the plane; about 3 hours later, we are still locked inside the grounded plane with engineers battling to fix it (luckily the A/C was ON unlike some Arik cases ); agitations increases for them to let us out of the plane or give us some food; they say the only food they have was reserved for airborne sharing; captain of the plane who had since been silent finally speaks up but adds salt to injury by threatening those agitating to go back to their seats or face disciplinary action This misguided outburst leads to increased agitations; eventually the door opens and we step out on the tarmac; Lo and behold, the tarmac was lined with heavily armed anti-riot police; many saw it as an insult that they brought policemen for us because we were black Nigerians; the shouting match continued (this time even with the quiet policemen that were even minding their business); I stepped back into the lounge and sat there another 5 hours before they managed to replace the flight. In all, my flight was delayed by almost 10 hours, we landed Lagos after 1am as against 4pm when we were meant to land.

I missed my appointments, there was no option of compensation (even though the shouting match continued by some people who were insistent they must be compensated). I didn't bother myself about the delay, or a compensation, cos in the typical African manner, I was more grateful to be alive than to be angry about the delays.

At the end, I re-learnt a lesson which I already knew before, "if AirFrance with a fleet size of 235 air crafts could delay me by 10 hours without an explanation or compensation even at their HQ (Charles de Gaulle), then I would be pushing my luck too far if I don't expect worse from Arik with a fleet size of 24.

scholes0:
https://s8.postimg.org/ytjyyukol/BBC.jpg

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/704/cpsprodpb/A82D/production/_86835034_bbcpic.jpg

The UK Government is about to inject £85m a year in enhancing and expanding BBC services around the world including in Russia, North Korea, the Middle East and Africa (Yoruba, Somali) as part of its expansion programme.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34902244

Pls Front page, let us inform fellow Nigerians about this. Thanks.

milychocs:
Go to Equatorial Guinea
Right here in Africa