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President Muhammadu Buhari has turned down a proposal to buy new cars for his use. He will stick to the vehicles he inherited from former President Goodluck Jonathan,The Nationhas learnt.The proposal from the Aso Rock bureaucracy is for Buhari to approve the purchase of five customised armoured Mercedes Benz S-600 (V222) cars at about N400 million.It was learnt that President Buhari rejected the proposal on Wednesday when he received briefings from the Permanent Secretary (State House), Mr. Nebolisa Emodi.The President has been receiving briefings from permanent secretaries since the beginning of the week on the activities of the ministries.He directed that the proposal, which was first made to ex-President Jonathan, be dropped.Jonathan had advised that the plan be left for Buhari to approve since it was made in the twilight of his administration and the cars would be due for delivery till after he might have left the office.Buhari, according to a sources, told thepermanent secretary that the cars he inherited from the Jonathan administration were good enough for him.“I don’t need new cars. The ones I’m using now are just fine,” the source reported the president as saying.He however approved the plan of the Permanent Secretary to reduce the operating costs of the State House andstrengthen its Finance and Accounts Internal Control Mechanisms.Buhari told him to capture all State House expenses within the approved budget, to avoid the frequent recourse to “Presidential intervention funds,” as it was rampant in the last administration.When he visited the United Kingdom inMay, shortly before his inauguration, the then president-elect rejected the exotic cars made available for his use by the Nigerian High Commission.When he arrived at Heathrow Airport, he turned down the Rolls Royce brought by the High Commission by telling High Commissioner Dalhatu Tafida, that his visit was strictly private and he had made arrangements for all his needs in the UK.A presidential spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu said “in keeping with his commitment to prudence in the management of national resources, President Buhari will continue to use the cars left behind by President Jonathan.”Permanent secretaries in the ministries of Works, Justice, Trade andInvestment, also briefed the president at the Aso Villa yesterday.The Justice ministry’s Permanent Secretary Alhaji Abdullahi Ahmed told reporters at the end of the briefing that his ministry will work closely with others to facilitate trial of those found wanting.“If the ministry receives investigations concluded by the responsible agencies, we will play our part.“We will play our part in the prosecution of whoever has been found wanting and the security agencies have concluded their investigation on them.“At the moment, the ministry is not in receipt of any report concerning anybody in that regard.“Ahmed said the ministry would continue to cooperate with the President to ensure that all the promises he made to Nigerians relating to the Rule of Law were kept.“We have briefed the President on how we conduct ourselves concerning the maintenance of the Rule of Law in the country.“As you know, Rule of Law is one of thecardinal policies of this administrationand we have given him a rundown of what we have been doing from 2011 till now.“We also pledged to him our continuedcooperation to ensure that all the promises he has made to Nigerians – as far as they relate to the Rule of Law are achieved.“Amb. Abdulkadir Musa of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment said his meeting with Buhari centred on jobcreation.Musa said the administration was working assiduously to attract more investments to Nigeria and encourage business.According to him, the President has given him the mandate to discuss withthe relevant people that will assist in driving the agenda.Mr. Dauda Kigbu of the Ministry of Works, said the Federal Government was considering funding road construction outside the annual budgetary allocations with the Public Private Partnerships (PPP).He said: “I took the President through the activities of the Ministry of Works. As you may be aware, 90 per cent of the ministry’s mandate is mainly on roads.“I went through all the major projects across the country and I emphasised the need of seeking other windows of funding outside of the national budget,particularly looking at PPP model as well as looking at various support, like multilateral supports from agencies, such as the World Bank.” He said
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Commissioners of Finance and Accountants General of the 36 states of the federation on Tuesday distanced themselves from claims by the former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that they were part of the decision to withdraw and spend $2bn from Nigeria’s excess crude oil revenue accountlast December.Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, and his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir El Rufai, had, after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday last week, accused Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala of unilaterally approving the withdrawal of about $2.1 bn fromthe $4.1 bn left in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) last November “without authorization”.But in a swift reaction, the formerMinister had vehemently rejectedthe accusation, describing allegations linking her to the allegations as “false, malicious and totally without foundation”.Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s reaction, conveyed through a statement byher Media Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, said all expenditures from the ECA “were discussed at meetings of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) attended by finance commissioners from the 36 states”.“It is curious that in their desperation to use the esteemed National Economic Council for political and personal vendetta, the persons behind these allegations acted as if the constitutionally recognized FAAC, a potent expression of Nigeria’s fiscal federalism, does not exist,” she said.But in a stern reaction on Tuesday in Abuja, members of the FAAC, under the aegis of the Forum of Commissioners of Finance, disowned the former minister, describing her claim as “misleading and far from the fact”.“It has come to our notice the statement credited to the former Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Honorable Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) approved the withdrawal from Excess Crude (Foreign) Account the sum of Two Billion U.S. Dollar ($2,000,000,000.00),” the commissioners said.“This statement is far from the fact and is misleading,” the statement said.The FAAC meeting for November 2014 ended in confusion when the then Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, could not explain how the balance in the ECA had dropped from $4.1 bn at the end of October to $3.1 bn.Prior to the October FAAC meeting, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala had told reporters that the balance of the ECA stood at$4.11bn, while the country’s external reserves rose from$36.6bn in June to $39.48billion as at October 16.Regardless, the then Chairman ofthe Forum of State Commissioners of Finance and former Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Timothy Odaah, had denied knowledge of any decision to withdraw from the account, insisting that none of its members was aware of the withdrawal.“No state knew how the $1 bn difference reported in the Excess Crude Account balance, between October and November, came about,” Mr. Odaah told reporters then. “The discrepancy has been noted for discussion at the next FAAC meeting. It calls to question how transparent the management of the excess cruderevenues has been.”Till the end of his tenure, Mr. Odaah, who later claimed reconciliation was ongoing with the Finance Minister, did not reveal his findings.However, several months later, Mr. Oshiomhole stirred the controversy afresh last week with the allegation that the former minister was economical with the truth about the country’sfinances.Mr. Oshiomhole had lambasted Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala over her claims that Nigerians knew whatthe three tiers of government usually collect through the State Finance Commissioners who usually attend the monthly FAAC meetings.The power to take money from the ECA, Mr. Oshiomhole argued, is vested in the NEC, an institution created by the constitution, and not State Finance Commissioners, who arenot known by the constitution.In disowning Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, the Commissioners’ Forum pointed out that the law setting up FAAC, which predates the ECA, “cannot approve withdrawal and has not done so in the past.”If anything, the Commissioners said, records of FAAC meetings show that members have alwaysqueried the activities on the ECA, and therefore did not decide any withdrawal.Although the Commissioners said they observed the withdrawal of $2bn from the ECA in December 2014, the then Minister of State Finance and Chairman of FAAC, Mr. Yuguda, had explained during plenary that approval came from former President Goodluck Jonathan.The withdrawals were to help pay subsidy claims to oil marketers, who had threatened to stop importing petroleum products.“FAAC did not and could not haveapproved, nor took the decision to withdraw the sum of Two Billion U.S. Dollar ($2,000,000,000.00) from the Excess Crude Account,” the Commissioners said.
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THE leadership of Nigeria Union ofTeachers (NUT), on Wednesday, warned state governors against possible diversion of the bailout funds approved by the Federal Government for the payment of backlog of workers’ salaries, including teachers in some states.Its national president, Comrade Michael Olukoya, while briefing newsmen in Abuja, said he had already directed the affected state wings of the union to closely monitor the disbursement of the funds, so that the “bailout does notdevelop wings.”He also told them that in the event of any delay in the disbursement ofthe funds, “the teachers in the state should declare a state of anarchy and exhibit unpleasant behaviours.”Olukoya, speaking at a programme commemorating NUT Founder’s Day, said “today, we observed with dismay that teachers of primary and secondaryschools in the country are being owed salaries for one to seven months in at least 18 states across the country.“This is in addition to non-payment or implementation of leave, transport grant and promotions, as well as non-payment of gratuity and pension to retired teachers in a number of states.”Olukoya, while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for approving bailout funds to ease the plight of the workers, also called on him to ensure that schools, particularly in the volatilenorthern states, were properly secured.He confirmed the death of 37 teachers in Tuesday’s bomb blast that hit Sabon-Gari, Zaria, in Kaduna State, saying several otherteachers who were victims of the latest bomb blast were in critical condition in various health centresin the state.He lamented that 272 teachers had lost their lives to the atrocitiesof the Boko Haram sect in Borno State alone, adding that over 19,000 teachers had been displaced in the North-East since insurgencies broke out in the country.Also, Nigerian workers, under the auspices of Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), on Wednesday, warnedthe state governors not to divert the fund released by the Federal Government as bailout to pay workers salaries.The JNPSNC gave the warning as it called on workers and their unions at the state levels to adequately monitor the disbursment of the fund and ensure that it was used for what it was meant for.Briefing newsmen in Abuja, national chairman of JNPSNC andpresident of Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU), Kiri Mohammed and the national secretary of the council and general secretary of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Marcus Omokhuale, commended President Buhari on the financial bailout.
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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has accused the former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, of toying with figures and being economical with the truth on the state of the economy inherited by President Muhammadu Buhari.Oshiomhole, who said the Federal Government is broke and would have been in worse shape than States if it had not resorted to borrowing to pay wages, added that the economy under Okonjo-Iweala as Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the economy was so mismanaged that waivers were granted to various organizations running into several hundreds of millions of naira.Speaking during an interview on a television network, on Wednesday, the Governor said: “with all due respect to the former Minister Okonjo-Iweala, she knows how to play around with statistics. I have made the point; she keeps opening part of the pages and not the entire book. The logic of transparency is that every minister must publish in full what is accruing to the federation account month to month and what is distributed to them. What she has beenpublishing is that this is what went to the Federal Government, this is what went to the state government and this is what goes to the local government.“What she never published simultaneously is what accrued during the period out of which this was distributed. So we can now know what was collected to what was distributed so we can know what is left in the excess crude account. You can see her changing the goal post. On the authority to spend, Okonjo-Iweala was a member of the National Economic Council. I was a member [of the NEC] and I am on record of asking her not to give us verbal reports on matters of federation account, give us written reports and that the power to spend is not vested in Commissioners.“Look at the constitution and tell me which sectiongives the Commissioner of Finance the power, all of them, they are unknown to ballot, they are not elected but the membership of NEC is clear, Governors chaired by the Vice President representing the President, the CBN and other relevant ministries.How will she avoid this level of accountability?“The decision to take money from the excess crude account, that power is vested in the National Economic Council. The NEC is an institution created in the constitution. What she is referring to is her own administrative arrangement. The $2 billion is her last sum because in her last report, she said we had$4.1 billion, she said so orally but it was capturedin the minutes only for her to come around again at the last minute to say “X” figure is left. We asked her, what did you pay for?”On States which owe salary arrears to their workers, Oshiomhole said: “Every employer of labor has an obligation, acontractual obligation to pay those who work. TheBible says a laborer is entitled to his wages. Once you have labored, ithas to be paid for and you don’t pay wages because you are rich andyou are able to afford it, you pay wages because the people have worked for it. It is not a gift from a kind-hearted employer,it is an obligation, it is a consequence for work.“I think what has happened is that at the peak of the oil boom, prices were high, people made projections about their expected expenditure and budget on the basis of those numbers. Down the line, there was a sharp drop and this sharp drop that people talk about is not just about a drop in terms of price of crude oil because prices have dropped below this level before.“What is new is the level of so-called crude oil theft. A situation in whichcertain persons, powerfulin the system, pretend not to know what was going on and simply excuse the huge lapses in terms of crude oil theft. So you have a double squeeze of drop in price and escalation inthe volume of alleged theft of crude. The combined effect of these is that the total inflow into the federation account dropped sharply.“This is also compounded by the fact that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the two of them working together, simply refused to transfer to the federation account a lot of the money that ought to have accrued. For example, over the past 4 to 5 years, the NLNG hadevery year made huge payment between $1.5 to $2 billion which ought to go to the federation account. This money was never transferred to the federation account, it was unilaterally expended by the Federal Government.“We were not even informed of the fact that this money was paid, and each time we ask[ed] the then Hon. Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy what was happening with the proceeds from the NLNG,no explanation was ever offered--whether in black and white, or in oral [statements]. There are several other federal agencies that made hugesums of money which were illegally and unilaterally spent by the Federal Government, without being allowed to flow into the federation account.“So when you draw up a budget on the basis of anticipated revenue and there is such a sharp drop in revenue arising from diversion and there is also [a] drop in price, obviously something will have to give.“The federal finances areeven worst hit. Over the past 9 months under the past government, [the] Federal Government could not pay salaries from her legitimate income. What she has been doing which States could not do; was to borrow, using the CBN through various instruments termed security, etc and basically drawing down the pension funds because they are the ones who have liquidity to patronize the bond market.“So if we were to be able to stop the Federal Government from borrowing to pay salaries, the Federal Government would have defaulted in payment of salaries much earlier than [the] States and the number of months the Federal Government would have been owing would be worse than the worst state in the federation.“Just look at the budget of the Federal Government over the past four years and you will see the level of deficit finances that was built into the budget. So in trying to understand the financial crisis, you shouldn’t limit yourself tothose who can pay. Eventhose who purport to pay, look at their source of funding [for] the payment. If you do, you will find out that the Federal Government frees itself to borrow quite recklessly, recklessin the sense that no serious manager goes month after month to borrow for the payment of salaries.“I speak on my honor that the Federal Government is just as broke and that they are borrowing using CBN instruments in trillions ofnaira to pay salaries.“Now part of the problemis talking about taxes and this can be proved inblack and white. The Federal Government illegally granted waivers to various organizations running into hundreds of billions of naira that ought to flow to the federation account.“Now those are taxes. When the Minister grantswaivers for you to bring cement into the country; grants waiver for you to bring vegetable oil into the country; grants waiver for you to bring vehicles into the country and when you look at thetotal sum, sometimes, even VAT are illegally waived. So how do you get taxes?“There are two kinds of taxes: Direct and Indirecttax. Personal Income Tax which is deducted from your pay before your net gets to you and indirect tax which is VAT,Royalties, import tax where you spend quality of time looking at your tariff policies designed toprotect your local industries and discourage importations.All of these are sources of funding of government.“We must understand that in other climes, government does not liveon rents from oil money. Governments worldwide are run on taxes. Now this last government is the worst in terms of granting unexplained sources of money in the name of waivers. Can you believe that even oil companies were granted so-called pioneer status?They will set up a small vehicle in the oil sector, give them certain transactions, give them so-called pioneer status so that they are excused from paying taxes.
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Egbin thermal stationNigeria’s largest power generation plant, Egbin Power Plc, is for the first time in eight years generating above 1,000 megawatts of electricity.This follows continuous investment and upgrade activities on the plant by the Sahara Power Group and Korea Electric Power Corporation, Egbin Power explained in a statement on Wednesday.Eight years ago, the plant hit the 1,000MW mark for barely two hours and never attained it again until now, according to the company.Prior to the privatisation of the plant in November 2013, the Egbin plant average generation was below 500MW due to the dismal state of its six units. At its lowest point, only two of the six units were operational, according to the statement.The Chairman, Egbin Power Plc, Mr. Kola Adesina, was quoted as saying that the feat signposted the unfolding success of the privatisation process and the power sector reform in the country.Adesina attributed the achievement partly to the direct intervention of the Federal Government in its determination to resolve the power crisis, which had resulted in recent improvements in gas supply.“This is driving the increase in power supply in the nation and boosting socio-economic development. Prior to this, we had invested heavily and had the plant ready to generate powerat full capacity, but there was no gas to do so. This, is indeed, a good development for the power sector in Nigeria,” he said.The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Dallas Peavey, also said the transformation in Egbin commenced following its acquisition by Kepco Energy Resource Limited, in collaboration with its technical partners, Korea Electric Power Corporation.He said, “Through the injection of close to N50bn in new capital into Egbin post privatisation, the Sahara Power/KEPCO partnership has brought to the power plant an unprecedented level of innovativeness, professionalism, human capital development and continuing investment in new technology. The control room panels, installed at the plant’s inception, havebeen removed and upgraded to state of the art digital panels.“The highlight of the main plant rehabilitation occurred in the first quarter of 2015, when the company successfully rehabilitated ST Unit 6, bringing an additional 220MW to the national grid and restoring the power plant to its installed capacity of 1,320MW.”
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Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osibanjo, on Wednesday arrived Maiduguri, Borno State on an unannounced official visit.The Vice President whose flight touched ground at exactly 10:43 a.m. is currently heading to an Internally Displaced Camp to meet with the displaced.The roads of Maiduguri is currently filled with soldiers who barricaded the road so that Mr. Osinbajo’s convoy moves safely through the streets.Most residents of Maiduguri whowere not aware of the VP’s visit were forced to return home as soldiers barricade roads or allow vehicles to pass through single lanes.Details later…
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A 42-year-old man, Joshua Apanisile, has been remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri after standing as surety for his wife, Kehinde, who jumped police bail in Idimu, Lagos State, western Nigeria.This followed his arraignment before aMagistrates’ court sitting in Ejigbo for perversion of justice over his wife’s escape.His wife, Kehinde, was involved in an alleged criminal matter and was arrested by the police at Area ‘M’ Command, Idimu, Lagos.Apanisile was contacted and he went to the command and stood as surety for her.Joshua signed the bail bond and promised to produce Kehinde any timethe police requested for her.The police released her to him based on the agreement they reached.However, Kehinde did the unthinkable after she was released from custody. She sensed that she would face trial and possibly go to prison for the alleged offence because of the seriousness of the crime.She packed her property from her husband’s house and moved out without informing her husband or any member of their family.Since then, she has been in hiding which has landed her husband in trouble and prison.P.M.NEWS gathered that when her husband contacted her on phone, she asked him to go to the police and sort himself out and switched off her phones.When police requested for Kehinde from her husband, he told the police that she has fled from home and he could not find her.The police arrested him and charged him to court for perversion of justice.When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty and the presiding Magistrate, Mr P.E. Nwaka, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.He was reamanded in prison custody pending when he will perfect his bail.The matter was adjourned till 8 July, 2015.
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The status of the former military administrator of Kaduna state was also immediately updated by Wikipedia, where it was stated that“he is currentlythe Chief of Staff to president Muhammadu Buhari” , despite there was no source given as the confirmation of the appointment.READ ALSO:Secret Source: See When Buhari Will Announce MinistersSahara Reporters, via its twitter handle, was amongthose who wrote about thenew appointment.FLASH: Former MILAD of Kaduna state Col. HamiduAli of Chief of Staff to@MBuhari— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters)June 29, 2015Contrary to the initial reports, a BBC Hausa reporter tweeted that presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, has denied the appointment of Ali as the chief of staff to the president.President@MBuhari‘s spokesperson,@GarShehuhas just told me that Hamid Ali was notappointed as Buhari’s Chief of Staff.— Nasidi Adamu Yahya (@Nasidi_Kura)June 29, 2015The presidency has officially denied reports that Buhari named his chief of staff, with Femi Adesina, another presidential spokesperson, revealing that no appointment had been made.According to Premium Times, he said“no appointment yet”, and refused to comment further.Buhari is still under fire forthe delay in announcing the members of his cabinet after about thirty days in office.
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Meka Akerejola, a staff of Rhythm 94.7 FM Abuja owned by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce is lying helpless in an Indian hospital in need of an urgent kidney transplant operation.News about Meka’s condition first went viral in the social media in 2012 when the hashtag #SaveMeka broke calling on Nigerian citizens to help raise funds for his treatment.BREAKING TIMES gathered on Thursday that the Management of Silverbird Communications isyet to lift a finger of help since Meka’s travails began in 2012.Meka Akerejola on his sick bedA Silverbird inside source who spoke to BREAKING TIMES on Thursday on condition of anonymity confirmed that Silverbird Chairman, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce declined an invitation to chair a private fundraising event for Meka in 2012. “They haven’t given him adime. It was so bad that for the Chairman to even attend a fundraising event organized for Meka in 2012, was a problem”, the source said.A fundraising event for Meka in2012Efforts to reach Senator Bruce toget his reaction failed on Thursday as his phone rang out.Senator Bruce recently was in the media spotlight when he boasted via his Twitter handle, his decision to donate his wardrobe allowance to Osun State unpaid workers.For those who live in the nation’s capital, Abuja, the name Meka Akerejola certainly rings a bell. He is a popular on-air personality on Rhythm FM 94.7 an adjudged one of Silverbird’s finest voices on radio.He was diagnosed with end stage chronic kidney disease and was on a twice-weekly dialysis since 2012 before his current trip to India. He is billed for a kidney transplant in an Indian hospital.Meka Akerejola is a native of Kogi state and graduate of Masscommunication from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
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A popular Lagos-based Islamic cleric and former lawmaker, Abdul-Lateef Abdul-Hakeem, has described Nigeria’s seventh National Senate headed by Senator David Mark as the worst senate in the world, not only in its activities, but in regard to corruption.Abdul-Hakeem, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly and top Islamic scholar, further slammed the Senate for milking Nigerians dry enriching themselves at the expense of poor masses.Speaking at a Ramadan lecture organised by the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Sanai Agunbiade, the cleric recalled how the seventh Senate “shamelessly”passed 46 bills in 10 minutes just hours to the end of the tenure just to cover up for their inactivity throughout the four years lifespan of that Senate.Abdul-Lateef commended Nigerians for clamouring for a pay cut in the budget of the National Assembly just as he warned the members of the National Assembly not to take this callfor a joke.He said while Nigerians are clamouring for this pay cut, the lawmakers have also explained that their various constituencies are their problem as they make financial demands at every opportunity.He therefore urged Nigerians to begin to discourage themselves from puttingfinancial pressure on legislators so as not to push them to steal public funds.He also said the constitution does not need any more amendment, and that ifthe government can focus on the Chapter 2 of the budget, Nigerians would not disturb lawmakers.Speaking further, Abdul-Hakeem called for Section 6 (sub-section 6c) ofthe Nigerian constitution to be expunged as it was a clog to Chapter 2of the same constitution which states that the responsibility of the the responsibilities of the government to the people of the country.According to him, Section 6 of the constitution states that no court of lawcan force the Federal Government to implement the chapter 2 to the latter.He said ordinarily, chapter 2 of the constitution says the responsibility of the government is the welfare of the people meaning that those not employed are supposed to enjoy somebenefits from the government till they get jobs.He said the constitution states that the government must provide free education at all levels for students, provide old-age benefits to old people and free health to Nigerian children.He commended Agunbiade for facilitating major projects including the Mile 12-Ikorodu Road to the area and added that the lawmaker had become a major force in the state Assembly.Speaking on the topic: ‘The Power of Iman (Faith) in Man’, Agunbiade, who said this was the fifth edition of the programme, added that from birth, human beings live by faith.He urged Nigerians to love their neighbours, preach peace and unity forthe country to move forward.He also promised to continue with the programme as long as he was capablet o do so.
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, says President Muhammadu Buhari as the APC leader, remains consistent in his belief that the National Assembly is independent and this would guide his approach to the leadership crisis in Senate.

He said this during an interview on the Thursday morning (June25) edition of Sunrise Daily on Channels Television where he did a review of the meeting held between Nigerian state governors and the President .He revealed that the President “mostly listened to what they were saying” and “in fairness to them, the governors took responsibility for the way forward.“They advised the President to maintain his posture not to be seen to be meddling in the affairs of the National Assembly ‘stay above it and allow us to handle it’ and I think this is what you saw coming from the governors.”Many Nigerians have wondered if the President would remain unwilling to directly get involved with the matter should the efforts by the governors fail to yield results but Mr Garba Shehu believes this would be fatalistic.“As a leader, the President has given guidance… His own position is that if the eye troubles you, whatever medicine you’re going to apply, don’t put a pin. The President is not unconcerned,” he said .He noted also that there must have been some misinterpretation of President Buhari’s promise during his campaign that he would not interfere with the activities of the parliament, especially if the lawmakers would consistently use the President’s pronouncement to justify their refusal of the party’s stance.“The party did a straw poll – an open and transparent one – which should have been respected. There is no confusion about anything. The party did a process, the President had wished that the party would take that to the very end but that didn’t happen.”He, however, noted that the President would not impose any candidate on the lawmakers for any position

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The crisis in the national assembly has been blamed on the All Progressives Congress, APC’s seeming stance that they do not have an individual as their leader,who could drive the effort to unify the party in times of crisis.“Does it need to be said? I don’t think it needs to be said that the President is the leader of his party. There’s no question about it,” Mr Shehu said. He added that there is need for Nigerians to understand the basics of politics as the country is no more in the military era when decrees are made by a single leader.“Politics, as its theory says, is basically about contest for interests and these interests may be fully defined by political party programme (while)some of these things may be outside political party programme,” he said, adding that coming from different states there would be different needs influencing the interests every politician would promote .He also noted that the lawmakers should be appreciated for allowing varying views, “They just cannot pile up in a single line and say ‘here we are,we are all present’.“When the governors met with the President they told him that ‘we are the leaders in our states and we have influence over all of these senators. They come from our places and from us and we can handle it.”He affirmed that if the governors are unable to resolve the matter then the President would wade in directly.“The President has a responsibility to the party, the President has a responsibility to the nation and as far as we are looking at the situation it has not gotten out of control. It is still within manageable parameters, it is a little storm we will overcome and Nigerians better get used to it.

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president Buhari had said while addressing state governors on the financial crisis being faced by many of them that expectations of the first 100 days in office “is bringing so much pressure even when one assumes (office) with a treasury which is virtually empty.“With debts in billions of dollars, with state workers and some federal workers not even being paid their salaries, its just a disgrace for Nigeria.“I think Nigeria should be able to at least pay its workers.”His Spokesman affirmed that the treasury has indeed been emptied, wondering why the media had not asked the former Minister and Deputy Chairman of the National Planning Commission (NPC), Abubakar Suleiman, to provide explanations about the 30billion dollars he claimed was left in the country’s coffers by Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.“We talk about the foreign reserves and the commitment that are well beyond the capacity of the new government especially given the responsibility that has brought forward coming from the election.“Its a woeful situation and the President needs understanding and he needs help.”He also spoke about the 100 days pressure which the President claimed to be under.“Coming into the election, there were all manner of promises thathad been made (but) the ground reality is that youmust read the books as handed over to you by the outgoing administration.“As you know, all of these things were kept late (such that) we were not allowed to see the skeletons in the cupboard until the very last minute. Therefore government itself needs time to to read and to understand where we are from the beginning and hope to build on all of that.”
http://www.channelstv.com/2015/06/25/the-president-is-the-leader-of-his-party-garba-shehu/

Nothing in many of our military personnel’s conducts has shown that that important institution has realised that the country is now under a democracy. And our reasons for sayingthis are legendary: an unidentified soldier in Kaduna State recently shot atruck driver, Abdul Saminu, who was conveying potatoes from Zaria to Kaduna for reportedly not yielding to his demand for N200 bribe. Saminu’s counter-offer of a bribe of N100 reportedly infuriated the trigger-happy soldier. Though the truck driver was lucky to have escaped with mere bulletwounds, it is high time these military men were lectured on civil-military relations.Also, residents of Omoyele Street in the Majidun area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, were reportedly dehumanised and dislodged by soldiers and officers of the Nigerian Navy sent there eight months ago to combat vandalisation of oil pipelines in the community. Apart from initial impounding of thousands of litres of petrol and arrest of culprits, the men in uniform reportedly seized about 20 houses on the street and closed shops under the guise of securing the area. Normalcy may elude the place for long except there is a quick official intervention.Two empirical cases of military brutality to the people of Majidun area will suffice: The first: Iyanu Chioma, a mother of three, gave a graphic picture of how her family members were compelled to relocate to Ogolonto areaafter the armed men ejected them fromtheir house: “This suffering is too much. Imagine my mother-in-law, my husband, my children and I living in one room. Feeding has been very difficult for us since we were sent out of our house in Omoyele. Those soldiers are now living in our house. My children cannot go to school again because there is no money. My husband is a commercial boat operator, while my mother-in-law had a shop, where she used to sell drinks. The military men closed the shop and also stopped my husband from operating on the river.”The second: Ola Omoyele painted a pathetic scenario of how they were dehumanised by the military men: “They told us to leave. I could only picka few of my property… The most annoying thing is that some elders on the street were also sent out. They should please allow us to move back to our houses.”The military’s reaction to the allegations by Colonel Mustapha Ankaof the 81 Division, was rather tepid: “Our officers are only there for anti-vandal operation. The residents are free to engage in lawful activities.”We condemn the conduct of the military in both situations. Quite a few other inhuman conducts, sometimes on the roads, have been unleashed on civilians and the earlier such is stopped, the better. The trigger-happy soldier in Kaduna must be fished out and duly punished for his criminal conduct. In Majidun, the military personnel were deployed to restore law and order and not to harass law-abiding citizens. Sadly, the fact that it takes months before the plight of the Majidun people was reported shows a failure on the part of civil society groups in the country. Most of them now see their platforms as a means of making cheap fortune.The occupation of others’ properties by soldiers without justifiable reason is illegal and this could not have been part of the brief given to the soldiers when they were drafted to Majidun. If the soldiers have reasons to believe that hoodlums and criminals still use the place as base, they should use all lawful means to flush them out. And, that, indeed, is what we expected the military authorities to say instead of trying to paint the picture that there is no truth in the allegations made by thedisplaced residents. We call on the military authorities to ensure that the soldiers are withdrawn from the place as soon as normalcy is restored there.
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/military-rascality/

Less than four weeks after his inauguration on May 29, Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufa’i,may have begun the implementation of aspects of the promised “change” which he believes will restore what he has consistently described as the lost glory of Kaduna.Indeed, the All Progressives Congress (APC) journey to the Kaduna Government House was laced with theparty’s change slogan which El-Rufa’i had vowed to execute. Some three weeks on and a couple of reforms already introduced in governance, the opposition is screaming foul, accusingthe Governor of adopting and promoting extremist measures in the admnistration of the state. During his inauguration, El-Rufa’i had declared that, “I say to you today, my fellow citizens of Kaduna State, that the time has come for us to face up to our responsibilities as citizens.Mallam El- RufaiWe must take many difficult decisions.We have no choice but to postpone immediate gratification and sacrifice the fleeting comforts of today for a better future for our children. This is what change means.” Perhaps as a demonstration of his commitment to the programme, El-Rufa’i also announced his decision to donate half of his salary and allowances to oil the change initiative.Difficult decisionsFor El-Rufa’i, any efforts at “repairing” Kaduna must begin with the mopping up of funds from various sources which will include blocking all areas ofleakages to enable more money accrue to government for the implementation of programmes that will have direct impact on the people.Having sacrificed part of his legitimateincome along with that of the Deputy Governor, El-Rufa’i had proceeded to the House of Assembly, literally cap in hand, begging the lawmakers to also make contribution to the donor basket,by approving a cut in their salaries andallowances. “We appeal to all political office holders to embrace this exampleand attitude of sacrifice,” the Governor told the lawmakers even as he explained that, “the stark fact is that Kaduna state spends 80 per cent of its total revenues on its public servants and political office holders.”It is not known yet whether the lawmakers are ready to thread the same path as the Governor, but for a state where majority of the people swim in poverty and diseases, according to El-Rufa’i, with a ranking as the second highest in HIV prevalence in the country and only 36 per cent of pregnant women having thebenefit of being attended to by skilled birth attendants, there may indeed be a certain level of justification for El-Rufa’i’s craving for more funds.Still in the health sector alone, El-Rufa’i told participants at a health summit in Kaduna last Tuesday that, “current coverage of measles vaccination is 56 per cent, a dismal immunisation coverage for 12-23 months-old children and latest available data suggest that only a paltry two per cent of under-five years old children with malaria are treated with ACTs.”There may be extraneous factors outside funding, for the poor report card especially on the compliance level for the nationwide immunisation programme as some parents in the north still forbid their wards from receiving immunisation against the known child killer diseases. But reports indicate that the general statusof healthcare delivery for Kaduna stateis miles away from being healthy. “Ourgoal is to deliver for Kaduna State citizens, better health and longer life expectancy,” El-Rufa’i insists, explaining why a cut in his salary and allowances alone may not generate the desired amount of money to handle the issues.The development may not therefore be unconnected with his decision to also prune the number of ministries as one of the cost-saving measures. In one deft move, El-Rufa’i slashed the number of commissioners to 13, from 24 even as he scrapped the Ministry of Information. Perhaps, for political patronage considerations under previous administrations, each of the 23 local governments in the state had at least a commissioner.But according to government’s explanation, reduction in the number of ministries, “is intended to cut costs, spur efficiency and improve service delivery. El-Rufai has repeatedly stated that the Kaduna State government must direct more of its resources to delivering public services,and that such a move requires a reduction in the proportion consumed by government. The realignment of mandate has also resulted in the emergence of two new departments. The erstwhile Ministry of Lands, Survey and Country Planning is being moved to the Governor’s office as a department. Similarly, the former Ministry of Rural and Community Development becomes a department in the Deputy Governor’s office.”However, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) describes some of the actions of government so far as amazing. “With barely three weeks in the saddle, steps being taken by the APC government have become asource of worry for the generality of Kaduna State people as they pose a threat to the legacies of socio-politicaland economic stability bequeathed by the PDP,” the state PDP Publicity Secretary, Ibrahim Mansur, told Vanguard.Although the PDP’s position is certainly debatable what may turn out to be even more controversial is El-Rufa’i’s latest decision to equally ban the allocation of fertilizers to traditional rulers and to prominent politicians across the state.Describing the previous process of distribution of fertilizers to farmers as corruption-ridden, El-Rufa’i directed that henceforth, fertilizers should be sold directly to interested farmers fromdesignated sales points.Extremist measuresBut in spite of El-Rufa’i’s confessed intentions for embarking on some of these reforms, the PDP contends that the APC government in Kaduna lacks focus. According to Mansur, “the other day, the APC government unwittingly conveyed their unpreparedness to Kaduna people before the state lawmakers by raising unwarranted alarm that almost 80 per cent of the state’s total income is spent on wagesof public servants and political appointees, leaving a paltry 20 per cent for payment of contractors and provision of social services for the people. The PDP views the ruling party’s lamentations before members of Kaduna State House of Assembly and other related tendencies as the highest degree of unpreparedness. It isan unwitting confession that APC has always lied against the PDP which recorded landmark achievements in the state in the face of greater challenges. The party’s lamentations are equally a subterfuge to evade providing a ‘paradise on earth’ which they had promised Kaduna people during their campaigns.“Kaduna people are sufficiently informed about the antecedents of the top echelon of APC government in the state – a cesspool of political opportunist who have found themselves in power on the platform ofopportunism. The PDP is vindicated because since two weeks in the saddle, the APC has continued to take steps that point in the same extreme direction. Time shall continue to expose their unmitigated arrogance in victory, naivety and incompetence.”Whatever the rhetoric may be, as the Arewa Consultative Forum observed on Tuesday in Kaduna, “the change Nigerians voted for in the 2015 generalelections is not only change in government but also change in the way and manner the elected leaders provide adequate security and welfare for the people.”Although Kaduna may have had its fairdose of the Boko Haram insurgent activities, the area still has other formsof insecurity to contend with. For several years, the authorities are yet tobreak the jinx concerning the deadly attacks on communities in the southern part of Kaduna state and the equally bloody sporadic raids on other communities at the Birnin Gwari axis.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/opposition-trails-el-rufais-kaduna-change-initiatives/

But even among those who should have the exact definition of the term ‘Big Girl,’ the descriptions are more varied than the unexpressed and religiously assumed expectations. To an Abuja-based insurance executive, Idongesit Etoks, a ‘Big Girl’ is a young woman, who, because of her educational background or complexity, decides to stay alone; or a woman who has children but detests staying with a man and obeys no orders from either her parents or any other person.As pedestrian as this view might appear, Aliyu Babangida, a Niger State-born commodity merchant based in Wuse Market, Abuja, offers a somewhat banal description of a Big Girl. “A Big Girl, to me, is noted for her ability to date big boys and wealthy men. She is the type seen at night clubs and the like. Whatever she wears, must be very costly and in vogue. Such Big Girls are everywhere here in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Lagos and other big cities. They are not after marriage or proper family life. Some of them are not really after money because they already have that. They are often girls who do not bother about marriage when they were younger, but when it is too late for them, they become desperate to get hooked to Mr Available,” Babangida claimed.However, in the words of a corporate lawyer, Hajia Zainab Bayero, “A Big Girl must, first of all, be properly educated, either as a degree holder or a polytechnic graduate. She must be a successful career lady with good reputation and defendable integrity.”According to a fast food owner based in Lokoja but who was in Abuja on a quick business trip, Kayode Ogunsola, Big Girls are usually hit singles mostly in their mid-30s and early 40s. Among them are divorcees with some claim to marital and economic independence. They live in exotic and well furnished houses and apartments; they drive flashy cars or ride in one even when they don’t have any.Ogunsola also added that Big Girls “are ladies who know whatthey want and how to get it; they do so either by hook or crook. They don’t care whose oxis gored in that process.” He argued that even in dating and mate selection, the Big Girls are equally cold-blooded in their approach. He said, “They go for much younger guys who they can control, manipulate like toy-babies and discard them at will for a better alternative. And when they go for the older ones, it must be for the sole purpose of sucking them materially with which they use to enhance their ‘big girl-ship.’ At social circles, the Big Girls are part of the crowd.”However, Big Girls could be conveniently classified into two categories: there are the family-oriented ones, with foundation in rich homes, and who only step up their effort at grossing wealth from the society. Also, there are others who acquire theBig Girl status by launching themselves from high profile prostitution to drug business and other fraudulent deals. The typical Big Girls or aspirants to that status, strive to keep up with the trends in fashion. A lot of them residing in Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Enugu and Port Harcourt, for instance, operate as government and corporate contractors and lust after multi-million hot deals that give them incredible financial leverage.They are known to own and control multi-million or billion naira or even dollar investmentsas the case may be. Some of them operate as business or investment fronts to their older rich male consorts who are either top politicians, well placed government officials, business moguls or city mandarins. In Abuja, for instance, some of the typical BigGirls are into hotel, real estate and fast food businesses. Some do not even have visible means of livelihood, but live large. Theyoften operate at dusk and retire to sleep in their cosy homes at dawn. Big Girls in this category easily keep company with top military and police officers and notable political heavy weights, just incase of trouble.In the ugly and risky game of intrigues, name-dropping, blackmail and high level treachery, they are involved. Some of them are adept at spewing lies and deceit, to suit their not-so-liberal agenda and fatal desires. There are equally arange of Big Girls with deadly capacity to make ‘fall guys’ of individuals. They are in the habit of putting people on the line, especially those who are uninitiated in their wiles or fast games. They also have men (of all categories) under their thumbs. And while such relationship lasts, they prefer to call the shots. Sometimes, their male consorts are skillfully made to come to them strictly by appointments.LEADERSHIP Weekend gatheredthat most typical Big Girls are rich, influential, and fun-loving worldly women who often enjoy the past time of flying around the global capitals and cities as often as they feel bored. And of course, money for their indulgence is certainly not the problem. They carouse in top world holiday spots like Honolulu, Hawaii and Southern France and, of course, on another person’s account even when they could afford it.As Tessy Uzoma, a typical Abuja Big Girl captures them: “Big Girls love cash you know. We like to live above our means because we have to keep up with good taste and comfort; it doesn’t matter to us how they come. A guy who is interested indating a Big Girl should be readyfor the financial implications. We are ambitious people, not necessarily hard working. To be a Big Girl, you must be confident. We simply love life’s comfort. We like to invest heavily on our body because that’s what attracts rich men to us. And a real Big Girl in our league should be educated and informed so that she does lose her deposits where and when it matters. You must know where and when to hit your target.“A good number of us are single mothers; marriage is not important to us. And if it comes the way we want it, good luck, but if not, no sweat. Nowadays, it is even becoming fashionable for some of us who care less about marriage to be both fatherand mother to our kids.”
http://leadership.ng/features/441799/the-anatomy-of-a-big-girl

http://leadership.ng/features/441799/the-anatomy-of-a-big-girl
The phrase ‘Big Girl’ is trending and is becoming a popular nomenclature. But who is a ‘Big Girl’ and how does she get her flashy car and cosy house(es)? Celestine Okafor, writes the phrase ‘Big Girl’ means different things to different people. It is used to describe a class of the feminine gender. And if you are familiar with the Nigerian social circuit a decade or two ago, the term ‘Big Girl’ was not really a common expression. The popular term used to describe today’s Big Girlthen was simply ‘Senior Girl.’ But at the turn of the millennium, especially in the late 90s or early year 2000, the term had gained currency and had stuck till today.And taking a more serious look at the tag ‘Big Girl,’ one wonderswho she really is. The term simply evokes class, power, clout, fortune, independence, influence and above all, dominance. But even then, the expectations that go with it are not quite simple to pin down. The ‘Big Girl’ looks rather difficult to reach, although the classification is paradoxically very popular. On a mere simple level, and by general enlightened assumption, a ‘Big Girl’ mostly, is well educated and highly cerebral too. At the level of the professions, she is quite successful on her own merit and also on top of her career. On this basis, she is economically liberated and has the capacity to comfortably shoulder her financial responsibilities as well as thoseof her dependents.By this standard assumption too, a ‘Big Girl’ is regarded as a high net-worth individual with strings of top level contacts at the social, business, professional and government corridors. She has taste, clout, class and guts. Others may see her as one on the fast lane; very aggressive, liberated and upwardly mobile. She is seen ashighly sartorial but most often, clinical in her cross-gender relationship. The ‘Big Girl’ is urbane in most cases, full of upper class affectations and is generally known to be fiercely independent. To some ladies who ordinarily should fit into this bill, the term ‘Big Girl’ is a recognition; an elevation of a sort.The group ‘Big Girls ‘ are ubiquitous in major Nigerian bigcities like Abuja, (the Federal Capital Territory), the commercial city of Lagos, the coal city of Enugu, the garden city of Port Harcourt, the commercial city of Kano, the tin city of Jos, the regional city of Kaduna and others like Calabar and Warri among others. In these cities, the typical ‘Big Girls’ are running things and dominating affairs in their domains through influence peddling.But the ultimate questions still remain: Who indeed is a Big Girl? What qualifies a woman tobe so tagged? What are the real characteristics, the supposed attributes that make her? Is she that young ‘show-offish’ jet age school undergraduate girl who seek to be noticed courtesy of physical endowments? Is the Big Girl that skin-bleaching, mini-skirt-wearing and sophisticated-looking woman, adorning extravagant make-upsand shoulder-length Brazilian hair? Could the Big Girl be that perpetual night-clubbing girl, with a glowing cigarette in handas she pounds the high street pavements, every day and night,squaring for a kill?Is she the worldly-wise globe-trotter, who cruises in sleek top-of-the-line cars all over the city’s high streets? Probably, the Big Girl might be that rookie actress or singer whose sudden fame or public endorsement gives a false image of herself as a celebrity figure? Or is she simply the warm, elegant, skirt-suit-wearing sussie communicating in upper class English accent commonly seen in well appointed corporate offices? The appropriate description of the Big Girl may not be quite easy to pin down here.

As there were preparations this week forPresident Muhammadu Buhari to meet with the head of the leading global corruption watchdog, Clare Shortthis week, a new allegation has been brought forward. Oil BlocAccording to Daily Times, acredible source has revealed how the Jonathan administration had sold an oil bloc for $1.85 billion, butmade available a meager amount of $100 million. This, which topped the agenda of the meeting will be probed to know what exactly went wrong.The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), Clare Short, is a world body committed to enthroning transparency, accountability and prudent management of revenues from oil, gas and mining to support development and reduce poverty in resource rich countries like Nigeria.READ ALSO:Why Adesina Deserves To Be President Of AfDB – Zainab However, the executive secretary of the EITI in Nigeria, Zainab Ahmed, said over $7.5 billion between 1999-2011 have been unaccounted for in the oil and gas sector in thecountry.“The amount represents clear cases of underpayments, under-assessments of taxes, royalties, rents… which have not been adequately addressed in the past. NNPC was unable to provide any evidence that the funds were remitted to the federation as required by law,”she said.READ ALSO:The Focus WillBe On Agriculture Not Oil – Buhari Recall that the former central bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, was sacked by Jonathan after raising an alarm about unaccounted $20 billion by the federal government in oil revenues between 2012 and 2013.Meanwhile, it is an open secret that government relyheavily on proceeds from bulk oil sales but there has been little oversight of how these are handled.
http://www.naij.com/465278-jonathan-remitted-100m-for-sold-1-85b-oil-bloc.html

Love him or hate him, without shadow of a doubt, PMB is the most popular head of state ever voted by Nigerians.The historic mandate accorded to him by millions of Nigerians is written in hieroglyphics, and in the annals of history. Just when he was about to move intothe presidential villa, PMB’s smart security detail discoveredthat the DG SSS had hired an Israeli security company to plant bugs throughout the villa.No any two ways about it, this is treason! This explains why PMB has refused to move into the villa until it is completely scanned and cleared of spying devices.To add insult to injury, the sameDG SSS is refusing to comply with presidential directive to supply the presidency with the list of SSS officers that will be working there for screening. This is why the 253 SSS officers sent to the presidency on Wednesday last week were promptly turned away.Now, if you were PMB, what would you do to this ingrate DG SSS?The CUPS organisation has a bombshell to drop.Keep watching this space.Dr. Idris Ahmed.
http://newsrescue.com/sss-used-israeli-company-to-plant-spy-bugs-all-over-aso-villa-idris-ahmed/#axzz3d7sTDs6I

The Chinese Defense Ministry has confirmed the latest testing of a hypersonic nuclear-capable delivery system.The hypersonic glide vehicle, dubbed the“Wu-14” by thePentagon, successfully passed its fourth testing on June 7, RT reported on Sunday. The extremely advanced strategic system is capable of traveling at over 12,000 kilometers per hour, which is roughly 10 times the speed of sound.According to reports, duringthe latest test, the missile successfully carried out maneuvers showing its capability to penetrate missile defense systems.The US’s current missiledefense systems are only capable of countering ballistic missiles with predictable trajectories, unlike those ofWu-14.According to a report in the US-based online paper the Washington Free Beacon, US intelligence officials have described the tests as“extreme maneuvers.”“The Wu-14 …is designed topenetrate US missile defense systems, meaning the PLA (People Liberation Army) is capable of defending China’s territorial sovereignty,”RT quoted a defense policy specialist at the Shanghai University, Professor He Qisong, as saying.China’s Defense Ministry has denied such allegations saying that “The scheduled scientific research and experiments inour territory is normal, and those tests arenot targeted atany country and specific goals.”SRK/HSN/AS
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/06/14/415877/China-nuclear-hypersonic-missle

The life of opulence of state governors in Nigeria has no bearing, whatsoever, with their legitimate earnings, based on the approved ‘Remuneration Package for Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders’ prepared by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) which became effective since July 1, 2009.Based on the package, a state governor earns annual salary of N11, 540,896.N 2, 223,705 is annual basic salary; and an annual leave allowance of N222,370.50. Based on that 2009 approved earning, the governor is entitled to 400 per cent of his annual basic salary, amounting to 8,894,820.00, as loan for vehicles and maintenance.FILE PHOTO: BUHARI MEETS APC GOVS/GOVS-ELECT. Photo: Sunday Aghaeze.Governors usually go about with long convoys of four-wheel vehicles, SUVs and other luxury cars. The entire N8.9 vehicle loan cannot buy some of the cars in the convoy.Accommodation, furniture are provided by the state government.The RMAFC package, meanwhile, doesnot set a limit to the amount of estacode (allowance in foreign currencies for foreign trips) governors can take from state coffers. It also fails to specify the amount to be collected as Duty Tour allowance for local trips.The provisions of the regulations simply said that estacode and Duty Tour Allowance would be provided upon request by governors. The states also bear the medical expenses of governors.Any governor who successfully completes his tenure receives N6,671,115 severance gratuity.A deputy governor receives annual salary of N10, 772, 296This is made up of annual basic salaryof N2,112,215; a vehicle loan of 8,448,860; and annual leave allowance of N 211,221.50. His accommodation and furniture are provided by the state government.Similarly, the state pays his medical bills, while, just like the governor, thereis no limit to the amount of foreign currencies he is to receive when embarking on foreign trips, nor limit to what he can spend on local tours.Each Secretary to State Government and Commissioner receives an salary of N10, 831, 522.This is made up of annual basic salaryof N 1,337,225; N4,011,675 for furniture; N133,722.50 leave allowance; and N 5,348,900 vehicle loan.They receive a separate severance gratuity of N 4,011,675; $ 600 and N 25, 000 per night for foreign and local trips, respectively.Chairmen of State Civil Service Commission, state Judicial Service Commission, Local Government Service Commission, State Independent Electoral Commission, Chairmen, and Chief of Staff to Governor receive similar pay.The accommodation of these public officers vary between 50 per cent , 60 per cent and 120 per cent of their annual basic salaries, depending on location of city or town.Local Government Chairmen, on their own, receive a total of N5,994,659. This consists of annual basic salary of N 908,312; N1,362, 468 for furniture ( once in four years); 90,831.20 as leave allowance and 3,633,248 vehicle loan.They receive severance gratuity of N2,724,936 at the end of a successful tenure.The Vice Chairmen receive a total of N5, 630, 169.60. This consists of N 853,056 annual basic salary; N1,279, 584 furniture allowance; vehicle loan of N3,412,224; and leave allowance of N85,305.60.They receive a separate N2,559,168.00as severance gratuity after a successful tenure.Local Government Councilors’ and Local Government Secretaries’ receive a regular annual pay of N 5, 341, 380. This is made up of annual basic salaries of N 809,300; furniture allowance, N 1, 213, 950; leave allowance, N80,930; and vehicle loan N3,237,200. They receive additional N2, 427, 900 gratuity at the end of a successful tenure.Governors annual salary:N11, 540,896.00 : N 2, 223,705.00 is Annual Basic Salary, Annual Leave Allowance of N 222,370.50. He is entitled to 400 per cent ofAnnual Basic Salary, amounting to 8,894,820.00 as loan for vehicles and maintenance.Deputy governors:N10, 772, 296.00Made up of an Annual Basic Salaryof N2,112,215.00Vehicle Loan of 8,448,860.00Annual Leave Allowance of N 211,221.50Secretary to State Government and Commissioner:Receive salary of N10, 831, 522.00.Annual Basic Salary of N 1,337,225.00; N4,011,675.00Furniture; N 133,722.50 Leave Allowance ; and N 5,348,900.00 vehicle loan.They receive a separate severance gratuity of N 4,011,675.00 as well as $ 600 and N 25, 000 per night for foreign and local trips.Local Government Chairmen:Receive a total of N5,994,659.Annual Basic Salary of N 908,312.00N 1, 362, 468 for furniture ( once in fouryears)90,831.20 as Leave Allowance; 3,633,248.00 vehicle loanSeverance gratuity of N2,724,936.00Vice Chairmen:Receive a total of N5, 630, 169.60N 853,056.00 Annual Basic Salary;N1,279, 584.00 furniture allowancevehicle loan of N3,412,224.00Leave allowance of N85,305.60

calebo101:
Before those APC slaves open their gutter to spill rubbish they should know that this is the effect of sound opposition at play.

Buhari just thinks he can do as he wishes but he's slowly being reminded that this is democracy. He tried it by banning AIT initially before he rescinded the decision. Now he tried it again by quashing sylvia's corruption charges but public outcry has pressured him again.

Congrats to the opposition both offline and on social media down to nairaland. I'm sure the 700 naira per day APC paid hacks read the information from nigerians here and pass it on to Buhari then he acts likewise.

Congrats Barcanista, chief tormentor of APC on nairaland. More ink to your biro .

u need to auction ur brain first at olx and buy another set of new brain at jumia
SIA BABA

barcanista:
I hope Buhari is aware that it is more than 2weeks into this Presidency?

guy buy yourself a brain at olx jare .They said the past government handover at the eve of their exits

luvinhubby:
Rather than rain abuses on the op, his points should be countered with facts where available, getting fed up with some childish insults flying around this forum.

what point again this guy is not intelligent at all then I thought he has brain but to my surprise he has none
Now to the topic did he expect magic within twelve days.He was corrected but he chose to continued with his bias tread

and pls my fellow Nigeria don't bother reading this trash

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And let me ask u a question mention anything we Nigerians benefitted under Gej,just one ,guy u nid serious check up before u kick the bucket.Hisssss mad man