₦airaland Forum

This is how a president should think and act.
I keep on loving this man.!!!

God bless Nigeria!!!

God bless GEJ.!!!

A debate between the two is more better!!!

No matter what, GEJ will make it through. It is in the power of your PVC!!!!

God bless Nigeria!!!

God bless GEJ!!!

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
Jonathan's snipers are attacking Gombe in other to give credence to his election postponement arguement

Politicising the fight against terrorism is as bad as lighting fire while in a filling station.

My friend, better stop it. Terrorism does not know tribe, religion, culture etc. Let us join hands and condem any act of terrorism against the nation.

vicostyle200:
PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO raised alarm Friday on the alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to simulate attacks on some of its own leaders with a view to accusing the PDP of being responsible for the attacks.
In a statement by Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, said, “it has been brought to our attention that a section of the leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has now perfected plans to simulate violent attacks on members of their own party and then point fingers at supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP for such attacks in order to portray us as being violent.
“As diabolical as this plan appears to be, it should come as no surprise to the Nigerian people given the antecedents of the APC. It is their stock-in-trade and their hallmark to engage in cheap propaganda and blackmail and to indulge in the most hideous form of violence. The recent torching of some of the branded buses of our party by the APC in Jos did not come to us as a surprise.

“Again the attacks on the convoy of our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, whilst he was campaigning in Katsina, Bauchi, Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna States were all carried out by members of the APC and the supporters and disciples of General Muhammadu Buhari.
“As an example of their sheer deceit and chicanery, there is a video of the burning of our campaign buses all over social media. This video footage showed a group of hoodlums offering songs of praise to General Muhammadu Buhari and chanting war songs whilst they indulged in a gruesome and unrestrained orgy of violence. Yet the APC still attempted to deceive Nigerians by claiming that the burning of the buses was carried out by members of the PDP in Plateau State.
“The fact of the matter is that our party was not embroiled in any violent intra-party fracas in Plateau state. Furthermore our party leaders and members in Plateau State have demonstrated the highest level of decorum and civility even in the face of sponsored violence in the state.
http://naijafussion..com/2015/02/apc-plans-to-attack-its-leaders-fani.html

This reminds me of Magnus Abbe, a senator, in Port Harcourt, were he was shot at point blank by Police commissioner Mbu Joseph, only to see the man on TV without any injury.
APC can do anything.

Nigerian army it is time for action in Sambisa, smoke them all out and rescue those girls.

Randerl:
You just lostED me with your post.

ok "lossed " abi?

BeeBeeOoh:
Summary abeg.. O mehn! C epistle, @ oga Op are u Paul name

Is it too long? Well, I want people to read it well cos many workers will lost their jobs. Most Agencies and Parastatals are there for nothing.

RevDesmondJuju:
The long march to slavery.

Hahahaha!!!

BeeBeeOoh:
Summary abeg.. O mehn! C epistle, @ oga Op are u Paul name

Me? I am not Paul. Why "you ask "?

RevDesmondJuju:
I just lost my mind with this gbagun.

All is well!!! , Things will be ok!!

Many will lost their jobs!!!

• SGF directs Finance Ministry, AGF to stop funding of listed agencies
• Salaries of affected workers to be suspended

THERE is growing anxiety among Federal Government workers as the Presidency has commenced the implementation of the White Paper on the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of parastatals, commissions and agencies.

Workers of agencies listed to be abolished, merged, commercialized or privatized seem to have resigned themselves to fate based on the White Paper printed by the Federal Government Printer Lagos in March 2014.

While they await the full implementation of the recommendations, they are shocked by the sudden stoppage of their salaries last month by the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

IPPIS is one of the transformation agenda of the Federal Government aimed at creating a centralised database system for Nigeria’s Public Service with single, accurate source of employee information that provides integration with other business application.

IPPIS ensures prompt payment of salaries directly to employee’s account with appropriate deductions and remittances of third party payments including tax, pension, cooperatives, union dues and bank loans.

Days after The Guardian sought official response to the development, spokesman for the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) was yet to give response.

But the letter dated November 13, 2014 titled “Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions that should not be provided for in the 2015 budget” with reference No: SGF.12/S.11/C.9/T/3, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, directed the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy to stop funding the affected agencies from the 2015 budget. The same directive was issued to the AGF on December 1, 2014.

The letter, sighted by The Guardian read: “Recall that as part of the decisions of Government in the White Paper on the Report of the Presidential Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies, Government accepted the recommendation that it should cease funding the attached list of Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions with effect from the 2015 Appropriation.

“Accordingly, I wish to request that you take adequate steps to implement these decisions by ensuring that these Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions cease receiving Government funding with effect from the 2015 Appropriation. Attached herewith is a list of the Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions Affected.”

Although the 2015 budget has not been passed by the National Assembly, it is not immediately clear why the salaries of the affected agencies were not paid in January.

For the workers affected by the new order, while their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) battle to find words to explain the sudden development, many have been given some stipends to survive on. Such allowances were hurriedly sourced by concerned CEOs. Many of such CEOs were also caught napping, as they do not also know their fate. Official explanations do not seem to be coming in as fast as actions are being taken.

It is not also clear why government decided to commence the implementation of the report while clear cut policies on the fate of workers in affected agencies, the legal status of the affected organizations, and the privatisation framework (for those scheduled for privatisation) had not been formulated.

The Guardian could not immediately confirm if any correspondence had been sent to the National Assembly on the development. But it was learnt that shortly after the White Paper was printed in March last year, the SGF immediately did a memo to the parent ministries of the affected departments and agencies highlighting the details of the White Paper as it affected them.

The letter titled ‘Re: Restructuring & Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies’ stated: “Please recall that in August, 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan set up a Commission to advise on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government’s Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies and make appropriate recommendations to either restructure, merge or scrap some, to eliminate such overlap, duplication or redundancies and to advise on any other matter incidental to the foregoing which might be relevant to the desire of government to prune down the cost of governance.

“The Federal Government has since received the recommendations of the Committee, considered and released the White Paper on the Report of the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies. I wish to convey to you the pertinent decisions of the Federal Government with respect to your Ministry/Departments/Agencies as follows…”

The White Paper had rejected most of the recommendations of the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies. Government, however, accepted some of the provisions of the report.

For instance, it rejected the merger of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and renaming of the Code of Conduct Tribunal to Anti-Corruption Tribunal.

It accepted the scrapping of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) but preserved the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in its current form. The Federal Government also rejected the recommendation for an amendment in name and status of the Federal Civil Service Commission to the Federal Public Service Commission. It, however, accepted the recommendation for a single term of five years for the Chairman and members of the commission.

The White Paper also okayed the recommendation for the scrapping of Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) and directed the Attorney-General of the Federation to initiate necessary action for the abolition. Government further directed that the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) should perform the function of Fiscal Responsibility Commission. Government endorsed the recommendation that the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission’s enabling law be repealed and the functions of the commission be subsumed under Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

The Nigerian Financial Reporting Council ceases to be funded by government from 2015, while the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) would be self-funding from 2014.

Government rejected the recommendation of the merger of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and Voice of Nigeria (VON) into one body to be known as Federal Corporation Broadcasting of Nigeria (FCBN). Government, however, accepted that the NTA be fully commercialised by 2015.

It accepted the recommendation that the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) be privatised in view of its potential to generate adequate funds through its training activities, while government should stop funding the organization.

Government also threw out the recommendation that the law establishing the Border Communities Development Agency be repealed and its functions reverted to the National Boundary Commission. It rejected the recommendation that government should disengage from funding current expenditure of National Institute on Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) from the 2015 fiscal year and limit itself to certain essential capital requirement of the institute.

Government also jettisoned the merger of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Refugees Commission into one agency to be known as the National Emergency Management and Refugees Commission.

The recommendation for the Debt Management Office to become an extra ministerial department in the Federal Ministry of Finance and be delisted from the office of the Vice President was rejected.

Government also objected to the recommendation that the Act setting up Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) be repealed and also rejected the recommendation that Road Safety of the FRSC be reverted to the Highways Department of the Federal Ministry of Works.

Government also vetoed the recommendation that the enabling law of the National Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS be repealed and also that the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria and the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission be abolished and their functions transferred to a department under Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Similarly, it refused the recommendation that government stops sponsoring pilgrims and pilgrimages with effect from 2015 Fiscal year.

Government also rejected the privatisation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in view of the security situation of the country.

It discarded that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the regulatory functions of Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) be brought together under a unified management structure to be known as the Communications Regulatory Authority of Nigeria,  among others.


http://theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=42272

olas24u:
vela took more money than expected when he was travelling

Ok, got it. So Fela was a criminal, I did not know that sha!! I only know him as an Afrobeat singer, and not a thief to be arrested and incacerated. But maybe you are right, you never can tell with these criminals "Fela "

olas24u:
All Politicians that was sentenced to prison by the 1984 Military Tribunal were found to either enrich themselves with public funds or diverted public funds. Non were convicted by fiat

Including Fela too?

ego le kwanu!!!

mkpakanaodogwu:
especially here on political section with multiple account

You are correct

Good thinking, good product!!!

mkpakanaodogwu:
Does buhari have a choice?

I think if he does not, his party seem to have. Based on online and social media.

This is not the first time elections are postponed. I think the Presidential was shifted in 2011.

I remember in 2011 GEJ was in his village when JEGA announced the postponement.

I saw it on TV then.!

I think non or complete distribution of PVC is a bigger danger if the election should take place on Feb 14.
One is simply trying to imagine the chaotic situation this may have led to.

kennynelcon:
Me too, if u left Center of Unity in Fear please come back or hunger will vote for u

Please, explain more, so you are ok with the postponement?

ALMOST 48 hours after the
polls shift announcement,
President Goodluck Jonathan
yesterday okayed the decision
but pledged that the May 29
handover date was still
sacrosanct.
In the same vein the All
Progressives Congress(APC)
presidential candidate Maj-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari yesterday
endorsed the shift but urged
the authorities to ensure the
March 28 rescheduled date for
the general elections remain
sacrosanct.

http://theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=41872

MAYOWAAK:
Looking at the bigger picture; a Buhari Presidency may end up being a prescription that would produce more grievous ailments:
The Niger Delta and other parts of Nigeria would simply become the new theatre of strife, as is expected, while Buhari can manage the visible BH menace, he would by the same token be in a disadvantaged position to manage the latent but ever-present Niger Delta Militancy.
If Gen Buhari is elected President, successfully appeasing or gaining Boko Haram complimentary cessation of activities could be possible (though the chances are very narrow)
On the other hand, a Buhari President, all things being equal, could have grievous implications for Nigeria; there is a very high probability of a resurgence of hostilities by Niger Delta Militants
The terrible edge the Niger Delta militants have is that they hold Energy Resources and the Economy as tools of bargain………..very important tools needed to finance a war, gain sympathy and international friends and alliances!

Good thinking, good product!!!

berem:
....And those that threatened war if Jonathan is not re-elected are walking freely and even going on with their threats.

Shame on Jonathan and Marilyn Ogar!

Jonathan will go down in history as the first civilian president to intimidate political opponents using security agencies.

I thought that is the method that GMB will use come May 29. Why are you complaining if someone is picked up and put to jail without interrogation.

Sai Buhari!!!!

Help me hit like!!!

I want to use the "Likes " for soup!!!

lol!!!

There is nothing wrong in serving juju or anything, afterall, our politicians who took their oath of office with the Quran or the Bible turn out to be the greatest thieves.

Somehow, I feel our politicians should take their oath of office before their village juju. Corruption will cease immediately among them if they swore before a shrine.

SR reporting this kind of news? They have been a little bit kind to PDP these days. Too good to be true!!!


Maybe SR website may have been hacked.!!!

SR reporting this kind of news? They have been a little bit kind to PDP these days. Too good to be true!!!


Maybe SR website may have hacked.!!!

Bizinton:
Slowpoke like you

I love slowpoke is it the new type of coke?
My daughter will love it!!! Which supermarket are they selling it?

yummy slowpoke!!!

nelsonoba:
This is why i sometimes wonder what has become of the common sense of some Nigerians who peddle or believe trash stories like this!

Nigeria's annual budgets as approved by the National assembly over the last 5years has been an average of about N3.5trillion yearly, the budget for this current year to be passed is just over N4trillion.

Now explain to me Mr Soludo or Mr rumour peddler, how could Jonathan have stolen or mismanaged N30trillion in 5years as President when the total budget available for the whole 5-year period is less than N20trillion

Simple Maths: if average budget per year is N3.5trillion

total budget over 5years = 3.5trillion x 5years = N17.5trillion

Now, inside this same N17.5trillion the Federal government has been disbursing money to state and local governments, the Federal government has been paying salaries and contractors inside this same N17.5trillion, the Federal government has been meeting all other obligations inside this same N17.5trillion.
PLEASE Mr Soludo or Mr Rumour Peddler, show us how it is still possible to steal N30trillion from inside this same N17.5trillion budget over 5years.

My brother you have said it all. If today, Charles Soludo said the amount was 300 Trillion naira missing NL's with poor reasoning will still believe.
Some people actually think 30 trillion is 30 pieces of paper that one can put inside pocket and fly to America with.

One have to be careful and check very well what these Profs always say.

These learned people always believe that "A mistake from a professor will forever remain the greatest wisdom of a nursery school pupil ".

mikeansy:
I am from Imo and I know that power within PDP may likely rotate to the North in 2019 with North Central or North East given more priority

I expect Ndigbo to continue to present candidates for PDP primaries in 2019 but I expect nothing less than the Vice Presidency in 2019.

GEJ can not single handedly hand power over to the South East. No one is under that illusion.

But no matter who the President is at the Center the South East must continue to protect its interests through strategic engagement and the best way to protect our interest at this moment is to continue to support GEJ. I really dont see how Buhari protects any of our interest.

I have always said this is not about who or where the President comes from. But if it was what it is all about then APC is not offering any of that to Ndigbo because 2015, 2019, 2023 nor even 2027 is not in sight for Ndigbo in APC.
Buhari will do 8years. Osinbajo VP will most likely come from the North. So what exactly is the point of your argument?

Good thinking!!! Good Product!!!
GEJ 2019!!!

timonski:
dumb question. My parents are eckists. I was in eckankar for 12 yrs. Why do u want to know my Id. Well, ID=22**56

ok thank you most sincerely