₦airaland Forum

Dedetwo:
Which 1999 constitution are you talking about?

. The constitution of federal republic of Nigeria as amended till date. The fact that you want to achieve an aim of nailing prof can't change what is stated in the constitution over night. If you can't buy a hard copy. Kindly download a soft copy

SmartchoicesNG:
Sagay is a public officer.... He lost his privacy the moment he accepted the chairmanship of the presidential anticorruption committee....

The presidential anti corruption is not an agency created by the national assembly. The Senate can only summon an individual or the agency with which it has power to make law.

As far as 1999 constitution is concerned, the Senate does not have that power. A private citizen does not fall within the bracket

Nukualofa:
Freedom of Speech but you supported buhari arresting a man that gave his dog buhari

Does his statement incite cause public disturbance

She was

denko:
These could not happen because prayers were offer

You did not pray for those who have died and even the crashed in other cases. Zombi

myplaydiary:
mumu but you couldn't point out one lie in my post and is it not funny some from Lagos Ibadan media is talking about lies. Do you want me to provide more picture evidence or colonial documents to prove to you.

Well let's stay on topic what do you have to say about the Yoruba epic fail.

You prefer to be told sweet lie but I have told you the bitter truth you don't want to hear

myplaydiary:
Awol owo (Money miss road) Aka Oju Eja will be dancing shoki in his grave for setting his yoruba clan 100 years back into stone age, of ritualism and barbarism that the colonialist knew yoruba for (It was well documented I have evidence to prove this). He properly planned and strategise their failure with free education and sharing of watery beans to their Ancestors the father of the modern day yoruba cone head clans. as soon as he saw is plan was in motion he self destruct with Ota pia pia that was made in Aba leaving yoruba cone head clans with new generation of stomach infrastructure leaders.

Yoruba have enter recession before Nigeria oo, kemi just put Nigeria there recently.

But yoruba is still ahead there are in Retrogression now, and dying of hunger per/sec billing

Lemme epp somebody with picture evidence.

You despise truth

Busy body lawyers. You can as well apply as the chairman

thuggCheetah:
My Highly educated brothers have never topped this list
The only thing we know how to do is boast about d size of our oblong skulls

The Abia I know can't ever be 1st, a state that depends on corper to teach, a state where the teachers that write answers for waec exams still have to consult the textbook for subjects they teach?

EmmanuelTimmy:
who im help?

Keep asking

[quote author=Neoguru3 post=54541796]http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/225923-ethnic-clash-ooni-declares-three-day-fasting-prayers-ife.html[/hquote]

Nonsense, how could he had run in a city where I work and the crises did not affect me let alone a king with standby escort

Splendid235:
That mod that removes my post,are you denying me my right to air my views? I will continue to share my own view.from the events that sorround the travel and abrupt return of Mr president,I strongly believe something sinister is happening.the selected phone calls,the flying pictures and the blatant refusal to address the nation from UK were all the cabal needed to perfect the plan of masking a man and fixing the voice to play the role of the president. mind you,there is no limit to what Nigerians can do retain power.you can fool some people sometimes but can not fool all the people all the time.Nigerians deserve to know the truth.

Whoever knows the parent of this person should act fast to seek forgiveness from buhari as it appears the man is about to run mad.

[quote author=BarristerNG post=54512898]BUHARI SHOULD NOT REST, HE SHOULD RESIGN- Umar Hassan Esq

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President Muhammadu Buhari announced soon after returning from a medical leave lasting a month and 19 days that Acting President Yomi Osinbajo was going to continue in that capacity as he still needed to ‘rest’.
I totally understand the need for that as a lot of us already knew he was battling something serious for the Presidency to keep the nature of his ailment under wraps. If it were a medical condition not worth losing any sleep over, I trust Femi Adesina to have disclosed it to us in a bid to allay fears,dispel mischief and assure us we weren’t sold damaged goods. But what we kept getting instead were updates on test results and who was visiting.
Mr Lai Mohammed as the publicity secretary of the Action Congress in 2009 demanded that the then Minister of Information updated Nigerians daily on the state of President Yar’adua’s health. It is ironic that in consonance with the hypocrisy we have now grown accustomed to, he didn’t do so when Buhari was away.
Soon after the President arrived 10 hours late to an APC Presidential campaign rally in Delta state, reports surfaced complete with a medical report on how the President was been treated for acute prostrate gland cancer at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria in Kaduna state. Nobody took them serious and we all waved them off as one of the PDP’s numerous antics at fighting off its most potent opposition ever. It felt like a desperate move at a most desperate time but in the present circumstance,those reports deserve a lot more attention than they got then.
Governor Ayo Fayose and others that warned us to choose life over death and not vote a man that could die in office now seem special recipients of messages from above. What we have to work with suggests we have a 74 year old President who suffers from an ailment grave enough for his doctors to refuse to release him before his test results are out and also grave enough to be kept secret from everyone.
If Buhari is half the man almost everyone thought he was, he would have tendered his resignation and gone on to cater full time to his health. If not for anything but for his love for this great nation.
The Buhari sold to Nigerians was one who believed we deserved the best from our leaders and one who was modest, contented and didn’t deem the Presidency a do-or-die affair.
A lot of those who clapped back at Governor Fayose back then actually vouched for his integrity by claiming the Buhari they knew wouldn’t spend an extra day in office if his age or health would constitute a hindrance to the effective discharge of his duties.That doesn’t seem to be the case.
In the end he is no different from the other politicians out there who would cling onto power at all costs. He is not more honorable than your average Nigerian politician who would rather die on the sick bed in his office than relinquish power. I saw a recent photo of the ex-Taraba state governor on a wheel chair and I wondered if Tarabans were actually waiting for the man to get well and resume in office.
Buhari’s man of integrity toga only makes it difficult to rationalize his reluctance to step down. He cannot claim to worry about what would become the fate of Nigerians if he does so as the acting President has proved more than equal to the task with the yeoman’s job he has done so far.
Virtually every poll I saw online ended with the majority wanting Osinbajo to continue in a substantive capacity. The Ag.President’s surprise visit to the Murtala Mohammed International airport Lagos to inspect facilities gave a lot of us an insight into what it felt like to have a vibrant leader on the good side of age.
And talking about age,the President himself has admitted it would limit his capabilities in honouring his bond with the people. Add that to his health state and you have a man who is guaranteed to serve us at a minimal capacity. This ought to have been the clincher if indeed he has sat down to consider towing the path of honour.
The theory that the profligacy of the PDP is responsible for all of our current problems has been disproved by none other than his Vice-President who needed just the amount of time the President was away to pay strategic visits to the Niger-Delta to meet the right people and pull the right strings in a more diplomatic approach a lot of us feared a ‘hard man’ like PMB wasn’t capable of adopting to ensure none of our oil installations were bombed ever since. He pursued rigorous enforcement of the CBN policy on foreign exchange and thanks to that its A lot of us remember even without this new policy,he was able to help the Naira claw back 14 points during President Buhari’s first medical leave.
The President’s performance quite sincerely has been below par and it would be better to leave and have Nigerians attribute it to whatever reason his honourable act propels them towards, most likely illness than to give them less than they deserve.


Umar Sa’ad Hassan Esq is a lawyer based in Kano.
He can be reached on Twitter:@alaye26
Email:uhassan077@gmail.com


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Don't you have any form of sickness in your own body? Have you resigned?

boman2014:
Good Questions

which nonsense question is he asking? Hasn't Osinbajo issued a statement? He even gave a matching order to the inspector general to deploy a powerful investigating team to investigate and punish whoever is guilty and many arrest have been made. Try to be current with happenings rather rushing to disclose biased truth. The governor had been there and had made available some relief measure.

I expected powerful Yoruba's to have condemned the clash

This policy will be counterproductive and will create hardship in the land.

APCHaram:
Already certain voices in the north are already crying out that "power must remain in the north " irrespective if Buhari is in a vegetative state in a London hospice or dead for good.

This should serve as a warning from the north to afonjas that they (north) will not agree to another Yaradua saga which going by the constitution, automatically sees Osinbajo taking over the reigns of power.

Virtually all the forces that tried to truncate GEJ assuming full power back in 2009 are back in the corridors of power and are backed up by desperados from the Abacha era who having been out in the cold since 1998 and who are not in any way willing to vacate Aso Rock.

There is also the very fractured state of the south since the 2015 elections which naturally should not see the SS and SE eager to put their necks supporting the same yorubas jostling for power between their Lords and masters up north.

In as much as some of you afonjas tend to like deceiving yourselves, every indication from how the cabal are handling Buhari's health condition and the snub they are extending to Osinbajo which led him (osinbajo) on a fence rebuilding tour with the SS/SE, points to the fact that the north will never allow a repeat of the Yaradua saga that saw GEJ assume full powers.

As things stand now, the only thing you guys have is a silent prayer that the north will adhere to the constitution.

I laff!

The north bowed to GEJ because of the leverage his region had on the polity.

What exactly are you guys going to do to counter a northern coup? Street protests? Social media rants? I laff!

Apart from Fayose and FFK, no single voice from the SW is complaining about the disturbing absence of Buhari. Rather the loudest voices condemning the President's absence is coming from both SS and SE.

This to me is a pointer of your cowardice and final acceptance of whatever fate the north has in the offing regarding an osinbajo presidency.

Personally, I will support a coup to prevent Osinbajo assuming full powers because I see him as a true definition of a coward who will end up being a northern puppet. Why support a puppet in place of the real deal?

In the nearest future, you guys will see just like the way fashola and Kemi are learning the hard way, that no be to open mouth dey yarn for outside but what you do when placed with the responsibility of office.

Osinbajo will be a big failure just like fashola and co and by that time ( if the north agrees to a kafuri president) una go know say GEJ was a true man and legend who weathered a full blown insurgency in the north sponsored and backed by Northern elites and their ignoramus population with GEJ successfully containing that boko nonsense in their useless north.

It came down to the north exploiting your greed, jealousy and envy to remove him from office.

Let us see Osinbajo smell the presidency when the cabal runs out of lame excuses on that Dead cadavar.

Soundtrack to your collective cowardice :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NUX4tW5pps

are you under any curse?

OreMI22:
So what did Ekiti fail to fulfill that Osun was able to do?
or better still, what did Ekiti fail to prove that Katsina was able to prove ?

Buhari is just a bloody tyrannical bully.

Now poor civil servants in Ekiti would go hungry simply because Buhari cannot stand their governor speaking the truth to power.

O go! get answers to your questions first

doublewisdom:
A yoruba Muslim? Good riddance.

Modified:
See mentions from Nairaland yoruba Muslims
One yeye and inconsequential yoruba muslim aide defects to APC and that is news?
Yeye dey smell!

from 1967, you have remained relegated and up till date still neglected tribe yet you still have the gut to insult another tribe

imam07:
Npower scheme is already failed apc program if the alert doesn't enter today.
Even if it enter what is the assurance that they will not owe us money in the coming months.
Apc with lies.

Opt out, ingrate. go join sure p

malware:
This is a flashback of statement issued by the embattled former GMD NNPC, Andrew Yakubu who stated that the then CBN Givernor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who accused the oil corporation of not remitting huge proceeds from oil sale, lacks proper understanding of how those proceeds are remitted to the Federation Account.

The news read as follows:

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engr. Andrew Yakubu Friday faulted the claim by the CBN Governor, Mr. Lamido Sanusi that the NNPC has failed to remit the sum of $49.8b from the sale of crude oil saying his claim is borne out of lack of understanding of how revenue from crude oil sale are remitted into the federation account.

The GMD in a press conference addressed at the Protea Hotel Asokoro Abuja, insisted that the NNPC is not in the business of withholding proceeds of crude oil sales due to the federation account or any other statutory remittances

The full text of the press conference below:

As you are well aware, it is not in our character to join issues or trade blames with other agencies of government. But considering the high level of publicity that the recent letter from the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the President has generated, and the erroneous impression it has created among Nigerians. It has become necessary to set the records straight.

The statement credited to the CBN Governor that NNPC has failed to remit the sum of $49.8bn representing 76% of total national oil receipts is borne out of lack of understanding of how revenues from crude oil sales are remitted into the Federation Account. I will therefore explain the process and put the figures in perspective in order for you to understand and let the world know that NNPC is not in the business of withholding any crude oil receipts due the Federation Account or any other statutory remittances.

All NNPC crude oil liftings is made up of the following:

1. Equity Crude
2. Royalty Oil
3. Tax Oil
4. Volume for Third Party Financing, and
5. NPDC equity volume.

It is important to stress that remittances of proceeds from the above liftings are made according to statutory and production arrangements. Accordingly, proceeds from Equity crude is paid by NNPC into the Federation Account which is held by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Proceeds from Royalty oil is paid to Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, whose designated account is managed by the same CBN.

Similarly, the proceeds from Tax Oil or Petroleum Profit Tax lifted by NNPC is paid directly into the Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS) account also managed by the CBN.

In the same vein, Third Party Finance and Trial Marketing volume are paid into designated Escrow accounts, while NPDC equity proceeds are remitted to NPDC account.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it should now be clear to all that NNPC is by statutory requirement is responsible for direct remittances of only one stream of liftings, namely Equity Crude.
Analysis of the figures is as follows;

The CBN letter claims that for the period 1st Jan 2012 to 31st July 2013, total National crude oil liftings was 1.287 billion barrels. Our records show that the total national crude lifting for the same period was actually higher at 1.330 billion barrels. Furthermore, total NNPC liftings during the same period was again higher at 618.552 million barrels as against the 594.024 million barrels stated by CBN.

We further wish to state that the proceeds from the total NNPC liftings comprising Federation Equity, Royalty Oil , Tax Oil, Volume for Third Party Finance, NPDC equity and volume for Trial Marketing Period amount to US$67.12bn as against the $65.33bn that the CBN stated. At this point, we wish to categorically state that all the proceeds amounting to $67.12bn have been remitted as statutorily required.

NNPC remitted its portion which is $18.48bn into the Federation Account being the total proceeds from Equity Crude and gas sales. This represents 27.5% of total proceeds of $67.12bn as against the 24% declared by CBN.

On the issue of US$49.8 billion or 76% of total national liftings and the alleged unremitted funds, we would like to clarify that this represents the proceeds from Royalty and Petroleum Profit Tax liftings. These, as I stated earlier, are remitted to the Department of of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) which are statutorily empowered to collect and remit same into the Federation Account.

For the benefits of those who may not be aware of the workings of the industry, it is imperative to state that the CBN, NNPC, FIRS and DPR meet regularly to reconcile liftings, sales and remittance of proceeds. Therefore, the data presented are jointly reconciled by CBN, NNPC, FIRS, and DPR.

The CBN further alleged that NNPC owes the Federal Government another N22bn in unpaid levies to the National Export Supervisory Scheme (NESS). It must also be noted that the levies under the NESS are paid to third party inspectors based on services rendered to the Federal Government. Payment to the NESS is update as per value of work done.

The current position is that NNPC has paid a total of $114.78 million from inception of NESS in 2009 up to October 2013 as against the total budget of $117.08 million for the same period. These payments have been reconciled with the CBN, who are again the custodians of the NESS account that is operated on a draw-down basis by the CBN.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is NNPC’s position always that in carrying out our statutory duties we will continue to maintain the highest level of transparency and accountability. Please be assured that NNPC remains available at all times to provide clarifications on these issues or any other matter relating to our responsibility to the Federation and the Nigerian people.

Thank you.

http://thewillnigeria.com/news/sanusi-lacks-understanding-of-how-revenues-from-crude-oil-are-remited-to-federation-account-says-nnpc-gmd/

the thieving population following good luck then said sanusi was lying

excelgrace:
Mmm crashed because people crashed it.these site don't pay people. It is a peer to peer system,where members pays or donate to each others,mmm was greatly affected by negative propaganda in the media just as you are protulating above.stop spreading panic news about donation hub around for goodness sake. Please if you are not interested in a platform let the platform be,after all it is not your money. Mmm shake in December 2016, but get help didn't shake.why? Answer is the media.please stop spreading panic news it does nobody any good.ask from people that lost out in mmm.

Don't say you were not warned

chinjo:
So how much do u think is the morally acceptable fee to be charged by a high ranking SAN like Mike Ozekhome? How much did u think Buhari paid all the SANs that defended him for not providing his certificate?

Tell us, corrupt suppoter

chinjo:
Have u also asked how much Rotimi Oyedepo collects from Efcc as his legal fee? FG just want to intimidate Mike Ozekhome to back out of the case since he refused to work for them and he keeps embarrassing the. EFCC and their lawyer in court.

Why don't you probe this first before that of Rotimi that is not in public domain

petrov10:
Useless efcc

Ole, thief barawo to all supporters of yam eaters

Legalaffairs:
He should be served with the same plates he washed for another. ASAP. He so much reasoned well here. Let the nation assembly head this call for his sake now.

unfortunately, his advice was not taken, so you can't apply same rule here

Lighthouseman:
This boko is a scam. Are we using tax payers money to army our army or boko haram? Most of the arms ends in the hands of boko haram at the end of the day.

it is a scam yet our arms end up in their hands? say something you know about

Nnamdd1:
How did the dollar manage to stay at N170 for 4 straight years under massive looting under former President Goodluck Jonathan? And how is it now at N500 - N510 under massive savings under President Muhammadu Buhari?

http://www.naijahelm.com/2017/02/how-did-dollar-manage-to-stay-at-n170-for-4-years-under-jonathan.html

which naira was stable at 170 under Gej? it is either the supporters are too young to know or prefer to be deceived. I was working in a company that depended on importations for its raw materials

trilobite:
I don't understand you. The price of a commodity is low and your suggestion is to produce more of said commodity? What are you saying?
The Saudis who produce more than us are also complaining.
Nigeria is blessed with abundant resources. I am not talking of agriculture alone.
Let me give you an instance: there is a village in the north east with abundant uranium, this mineral has contaminated their farm produce and is killing them. Imagine: people dieing from money.

Any responsible government will look at exloitaion of such minerals instead of foolishly focusing on oil.

Our challenge with crude oil is that we don't refine. If we can refine all our consumption within, it will not adversely affect us. Besides, the problem of niger delta militant necessitate looking for oil elsewhere. Our advice is for the government to develop all sectors, oil, mining, agriculture, industry etc

RZArecta:
We agree sir but BUHARI SHOULD PLEASE SHOW US HIS WAEC CERTIFICATE

Can you pls show us yours?

trilobite:
What is this one saying?
Low oil prices is what has caused this current recession, it makes no sense whatsoever to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on exploration .

An exploration that has been funded by obj, good luck yielded nothing. Now he is expecting a miracle. If only you know how much people are making on this stupid venture you'll rethink your support.

Since there is low oil prices, why can't you stop using petrol, stop producing. Despite low price, read what Saudi, Iran and other oil producing nations produce per day. All you need to do is construct more refineries produce more and let the price crash further as long as you don't import finished products, it won't affect you.
Let oil be in large quantity, develop all other sectors and that is all what diversification is about. Nigeria discovered oil and neglected agriculture like your recommendation and this is where such policy led us