₦airaland Forum

And what about the judge(s) involved? Bribery is two-way, give and receive. Are they going to be arraigned or Were they working in tandem with the EFCC otherwise this is a waste of time as they will wriggle themselves out somehow.

Guess Who I Saw Preaching In A Bus Today: (pic)


I entered a bus from 2nd Rainbow going to Apapa/Wharf, lol and behold this police woman was preaching. She even said she's a Catholic. Yea, Catholic are not big with bus preaching or any form of public evangelism generally.

Elosky20:
must u abuse me, cant u make ur own point

Actually yes. In today Nigeria. I really do.

Elosky20:
how does it help nigeria

u r that stewpede?

Oil prices scored their biggest one-day gain since 2009 Friday after hitting 12-year lows a day earlier, as hopes of production cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries fueled a rally.

The roller-coaster ride for crude oil kicked into high gear as the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, rose 11.5% to settle at $29.23.



Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose 10.1% to $33.09.

The spike came after a United Arab Emirates Energy Minister suggested that OPEC members "are ready to cooperate on a cut," TheWall Street i reported Thursday.
That remark served as a beacon of hope for oil producers that have been crushed by the commodity's slide. WTI on Thursday hit its lowest closing mark since May 2003, according to the Oil Price Information Service.

A production cut by OPEC would help ease the global glut of petroleum that has been created by the market-share war in the Middle East, fresh output by U.S. shale producers and a tepid global economy marked by a slowdown in China.

Cuts by OPEC would mark a reversal. In January OPEC increased production by 280,000 barrels per day to 32.6 million, according to an International Energy Agency report released Tuesday.

Follow USA TODAY reporter Nathan Bomey on Twitter @NathanBomey.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/02/12/crude-oil-prices-opec-cut-rumors/80286228/

Scam me once shame on you, scam me twice shame on me. Nigerians 2019 is not too far. Done bring shame on yourselves.

kilokeys:
Terrorist tribalist herbalist confusionist

The -list are endless

Easy abeg. No wound yourself on top matter wey no concern you.

Meet the Sheik!

Emerging facts revealed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has consistently turned a blind eye to volumes of petition calling for the arrest and prosecution of corrupt members from the All Progressives Congress, APC, despite overwhelming evidence at its disposal.

This came against the backdrop of statements credited to the EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu, trying to defend allegations of political witch hunt against the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and failing to arrest and prosecute corrupt members of the ruling APC.

Magu while responding to comments from participants at a forum recently alluded to the fact that a lot of Nigerians have a feeling that the ongoing war against corruption appears targeted at members of the opposition, but maintained that the commission has not received any petition against alleged corrupt APC members.

“Such accusations have come up a lot, but we work with petitions before us. In fact, I am eager and waiting for something from the other side, but nothing has come so far,” Magu had said.

See: Why we cannot arrest corrupt APC big weight – EFCC

However, documents obtained by Post-Nigeria through a reliable source showed that the EFCC as at September 29th, 2014, received and acknowledged a petition against a chieftain of the APC and current Minister of Solid Minerals, Kayode Fayemi and has refused to take any action.

The petition was signed by one Comrade Oke Ayodele and titled; “Complaint of fraudulent practices against Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and others: call for investigation and prosecution.”

In the petition, the petitioner under the umbrella of Save Ekiti Coalition, alleged that the former governor of the state perpetrated a N2.6 billion fraud through the construction of new civic centre and mismanaged the sum N383.9 million earthwork for the new governor’s office.

It went further to add that the former governor diverted funds meant for the States Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, and Local Councils through contracts worth N4.2 billion and also inflated road contracts worth over N10 billon and diversion of N1.2 billion FADAMA fund.

Political stakeholders have called on the EFCC chairman to come clean and tell Nigerians why its anti-corruption crusade has only being targeted at perceived opponents of President Muhammadu Buhari, while remaining tacit on corruption allegations levied against top APC chieftains working with the present administration.

See Attached document ….
The Opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had earlier noted that while former PDP governors and ministers are being arrested over orchestrated petitions, their APC counterparts, with more damaging petitions are being shielded by the presidency and given “juicy” ministerial positions.

“Instead of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, to act on the petitions against Messrs. Fashola and Amaechi, they were being “rewarded” with ministerial appointments,” PDP had stated.

Meanwhile, the EFCC on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 arrested a former military governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the APC Lawal Jafaru Isa.

The former governor is said to be the first chieftain of the APC arrested by the EFCC since the beginning of its sweeping probe into the alleged diversion of $2.1 billion meant for arms purchase by officials of the immediate past administration.


Source: http://www.post-nigeria.com/exclusive-how-efcc-ignored-volumes-of-petition-against-apc-heavy-weight/

PDP Handed Nigeria Over In A Better State Than It Met Nigeria - Soludo

Every team serious about ‘change’ starts with a clear identification of the baseline from which it measures deviations/progress. Nigeria has had 16 uninterrupted years of democracy with the PDP controlling the federal government as well as majority of the states. APC is now in charge at both the centre and majority of the states. A minimum standard for measuring ‘change’ is the extent to which APC government beats the record of the PDP in measurable terms. As the saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve/change it!

Government must strengthen the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and preserve its independence to produce and publish credible national statistics. It needs serious funding. I really wish our policymakers can be a little less careless or casual about the use of official statistics. I criticised the last government for relying on ‘estimates’ by World Bank staff instead of the NBS statistics. When I hear the narrative so far in the media by the new government regarding the economy, I take it largely as the kind of ‘usual propaganda’ new officials deploy to show that their predecessors “did nothing” and therefore lay the ground for claiming that they are “doing everything for the first time in our history”. Fortunately also, there are many people as well taking a hard look at the numbers and recording scores. At AfriHeritage, we are developing a template for measuring government performance. As Nigeria has largely evolved into a two party state in a democracy, I prefer to frame the discourse on the baseline as ‘PDP’s legacy and the APC’s challenge’!

Since it is the practice to blame the PDP for every ill that befell our country in the last 16 years (and there are many of them) it is also fair to credit them with the positive ones. According to data from NBS, one outstanding legacy of the PDP is that in 16 years it held sway, it more than doubled the GDP of Nigeria (indeed with average year-on-year GDP growth rate in excess of 6% over the past 12 years, the GDP actually doubled within the last 12 years. It met average annual growth rate of about 2% and raised it to 6-7%, led by the non-oil sector. Yes, non-oil sector, and the “diversification” reported in the recently re-based GDP happened within the last 16 years. Will the economy more than double in the next 12 years under the APC? For me, if only the APC can double the size of GDP from about $550 billion to $1.1 trillion in 12 -16 years, and further half the poverty index, Nigeria will indeed be on course to be one of the largest 10 economies in the world by the end of this century.

As at 1999 when PDP came to power, Nigeria was largely a pariah state still lucky to have survived as one indivisible sovereign, especially in the context of the struggle by NADECO and restiveness in many parts of the country. On corruption, Transparency International scored it 1.6 out of 10 and ranked 98 out of 99 countries in 1999. Nigeria was listed among four countries that were non-compliant on the anti-money laundering rules by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). We could not service our external debt and relied on stressful rescheduling, with all the intrusive donor conditionalities. Poverty was estimated at 70%, and unemployment at nearly 20%. The 1990s will go down in our economic history as the decade of stagnation: when per capita income growth was zero. [b]Average oil price in May 1999 when President Obasanjo took over was $15.24 while stock of reserves was about $5 billion.

After 16 years, several challenges remain and some have even worsened (especially insecurity). Although President Jonathan’s regime had the worst economic management relative to the resources at its disposal, it must be stressed that tremendous progress was made in the aggregate 16 years of PDP government. Yes, it should have left more than $100 billion in reserves but left only $30 billion (still about six times of what it met). We also wish that Jonathan’s team did not leave Nigeria with unprecedented rate of debt accumulation.

But, according to statistics from NBS, the PDP handed over a $550 billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th in the world), with 7.5% unemployment rate (better than European Union, France, Sweden, Belgium, etc although the underemployment figure is much higher); 32%?? poverty rate (as claimed by the former Finance Minister, or 61%??: NBS needs to clarify this claim); a stock of reserves of $30 billion; GDP growth rate averaging 6% over last 12 years; a relatively more diversified economy, with ICT penetration from 0.2% to over 60%, and a new contributory pension scheme now with trillions of Naira in pension fund. Our external debt is down although total debt stock is escalating. Our Gini coefficient (degree of inequality) is not different from China’s.

Nigeria has consolidated and stronger banking system that currently finances both government debt and the private sector, with a relatively vibrant capital market. The capitalization of the Nigerian Stock Exchange grew from less than N1 trillion to N12 trillion as at handover. For the first time, Nigerian economy is now rated by credit rating agencies (Fitch, and Standard and Poor’s). Even on corruption perception, Nigeria is far better today than in 1999, and PDP created the two major anti-corruption agencies— ICPC and EFCC, and as at 2014 TI scored Nigeria 2.7 and ranked 136 out of 175 countries.

PDP secured debt relief for Nigeria, thereby relieving Nigeria from the stranglehold of the IMF/World Bank policy conditionalities. APC does not have to negotiate with Washington on many economic policies. The list is long. [b]The point therefore is that despite the fall in oil price, APC is starting from a much stronger base than PDP did in 1999 and the challenge now is to do far better. In the coming years, Nigerians will be asking APC to show us their figures!



Source: http://www.thewhistler.ng/story/pdp-handed-nigeria-over-in-a-better-state-than-it-met-nigeria-soludo

Jeez.
I think that guy is dead already.
Rest his soul.
Smh.

I got a mail from the federal scholarship board inviting me for Selection Interview at Abuja.
Yes I applied. Has anyone else in the community gotten an invite too?

The Federal Government has clarified the amount spent for independence anniversary celebrations between 2010 and 2015.

Information obtained from the Office of the Secretary General of the Federation (OSGF) in a letter dated October 12, 2015 and made available to BudgIT Nigeria, an organisation committed to exposing transparency and accountability in public finance, apparently showed that the Jonathan administration spent N333, 600, 000 for four years to hold independence day celebrations.
According to the letter by OSGF and signed by the Director (Finance & Accounts), Mohammed Lawal Garba, no funds were released for the independence day anniversary celebration in 2011. In 2012, N107,600,000 was released for the celebrations. In 2013, only the sum of N45 million was approved and in 2014, only N180 million was spent.

Recall that following the announcement that President Muhammadu Buhari earmarked only N70 million for the 2015 Independence Day Anniversary, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, took to his Facebook page on October 1, 2015, alleging that the administration of former President Jonathan spent N64 billion to celebrate Independence anniversaries between 2011 and 2014.

According to Governor El-Rufai, Jonathan’s administration spent N13 billion in 2011, N15 billion in 2012, N14 billion in 2013 and N22 billion in 2014.
See El-Rufai’s post below:

El-Rufai's Facebook post on Jonathan's spending for Independence Anniversaries (2011-2014)
Governor El-Rufai’s Facebook post on Jonathan’s spending for Independence Anniversaries (2011-2014)
But in a swift response, the immediate past Minister of National Planning during the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, Abubakar Sulaiman, said the Jonathan administration only spent N333 million on three independence anniversaries (2012-2014) and not the billions of naira being bandied about by the Kaduna State Governor.

Read Suleiman’s response here
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/jonathan-replies-el-rufai-i-spent-n333m-not-n64bn/

However, when Vanguard checked Governor El-Rufai’s Facebook page as at the time of filing this report, the controversial post had been deleted.

Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/jonathan-didnt-spend-n64bn-on-independence-celebrations-fg/

When your girl tells you to pack your stuff and get out and you are all ypu brought into the relationship.

In which country do they use a jet for patrol? Nigeria.

And some fools are pleased with this. This is either a jet of the customs or someone is lying. This is too lame for patrol. Patrol aircraft should have versatility. It's like combat. This one needs a runway to come down. A luxury a patrol craft cannot afford. And we are talking austerity and some guys accused others of wanton spending.

Wake up mugus.

chowlade:
what's wrong with what she has said? look at ur cheap foolish reply. if u people are stubborn with it must u quote?

Another pitiable inferiority complex infested mind. This 'people' pay task and pay for the goods and your lands you sell them. They even marry your ladies. What's wrong with your small minds? Assert yourself. Be a man. Be a woman. Stop whining. It's your land. The best bet is that you will be buried in it. Alongside many others. Now what else do you want?

coolitempa:
See how good neighbourliness is conducted.... ....checking the activities of miscreants in their midst.....unlike the flat.heads who will start protesting that they have a right to kidnap anyone..... ....God bless the Fulani people...

You smack of grave inferiority complex.
Stand up and hold up your head high or be forever servant.

Let's watch out how this complicates things for APC and Amaechi screening. A kpa bio doesn't Bluff.

ExInferis:
1. EFCC arrests you to answer questions and then promptly gives you bail to go home with the understand your presence may be required at a future date.

2. EFCC invites you to answer some questions and then allows you to go home with the understand your presence may be required at a future date.

What's the difference?

If you can't find it the your brain needs to be invited then arrested and 'given' bail urgently.

TitiJJ:
By KIKELOMO IWAJOMO


When President Muhammadu Buhari will sit to choose the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika - who hails from his home state of Katsina - is favoured for the juicy portfolio. 51-year-old Sirika was one of the 18 ministerial nominees confirmed earlier this week by the Senate. For those not in the know, Sirika has been a hardcore loyalist of President Buhari for decades. He was a member of the 19-man transition committee. Sirika, a former senator, represented Katsina North Senatorial District under the platform of Congress for Progressive Change(CPC). He was a Member of the Federal House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007.


As senator, Hadi Sirika was member of the Senate Committee on Aviation. He also has a career as a pilot spanning decades. Sirika has an Aircraft Engineers' License from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Training Center, Zaria in Kaduna State, while he acquired his Pilot License from Delta Aeronautics International, USA. Not many know that Sirika is one of Nigeria's biggest polo patrons. He owns the Rubicon Polo Team which has its players including Sirika participating in high handicap tournaments in the country. Sirika started playing polo in 2002 and is a member of Lagos Polo Club where he has been playing for over 12 years. He's ambassador of the Federation of International Polo to Nigeria, responsible for promoting polo in Nigeria.


http://dawntodusknews.com/former-senator-hadi-sirika-tipped-to-be-nigerias-minister-of-aviation/

What's his source of the billions? The Polo Club? Smh. News in Nigeria is thrash.

After all the shakara in favour of the APC and specifically in what is generally seen as blackmail of the PDP, Oby Ezekwesili is one name some would have expected to be among the lists.

But ....

One of the biggest problems contributing greatly to our underdevelopment is nepotism. It has been our albatross; and there is no sign that it would abate very soon. I was not shocked that President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list is coated in nepotism. Our president does it with impunity.


The Afri-Projects Consortium links (a key consultant to the defunct PTF when Buhari was its chairman) is still very much alive. This country cannot make progress with paddy paddy arrangement. The nominees from Kebbi State, Suleiman Hussain Adamu was a principal consultant to Afri-Projects Consortium.


Now, let’s look at Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, another ministerial nominee and her connection with Buhari. She founded Afri-Projects Consortium. Yes, that same key consultant to the defunct PTF.


The CPC connection is also obvious here. Adebayo Shittu, the nominee from Oyo State was CPC’s gubernatorial candidate in Oyo State in the 2011 general election. The nominee from Kebbi State, Abubakar Malami was the CPC’s National Legal Adviser. He was also the lead counsel of the legal team for the defunct CPC from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court when Buhari challenged the outcome of the 2011 presidential election. Senator Hadi Sirika, the nominee from Katsina State was also a CPC chieftain. Sirika was elected into the Senate in 2011 on the platform of the CPC. Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the nominee from Edo State was the state’s Coordinator of Muhammadu Buhari’s Campaign Organisation.

Part of the bigger article on ThisDay: Boko Haram and Jonathan: The Truth Unfolds.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/boko-haram-and-jonathan-the-truth-unfolds/222396/

searching4love:
[b] USELESS MAN. A MISTAKE WE COULD HAVE AVERTED. A DISGRACE TO EVERY BAYELSAN AND NIGER DELTAN AT LARGE AN ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT OF 6YRS THAT CANT USE HIS POSITION TO INFLUENCE DEVELOPMENT IN OTUOKE. HIS PEOPLE LACK COMMON POTABLE WATER DESPITE PRODUCING A 6YRS PRESIDENT BUT WILL ALWAYS SHIELD HIM FROM ATTACKS EVEN THO THEY ARE POVERTY STRICKEN (na our son mentality).THAT MAN LOOTED THE COUNTRY BLIND AND WAS NEVER FIT TO BE A LEADER. HIS CLUELESSNESS OOZES TO EVERY PART OF THE WORLD. THE DUMB FUCCK CLAIM TO BE FIGHTING CORRUPTION WITH TECHNOLOGY AS IF NA COMPUTER GO ARREST HIS FELLOW THIEVES. DID THE UK AUTHORITIES ARRESTED MADAM FROG EYES (DIEZANI) WITH TECHNOLOGY NIGERIANS WILL NEVER FORGIVE THAT HEARTLESS CORRUPT MAN DUE TO THE WAY HE RAN THE COUNTRY AGROUND. NEVER AGAIN SHALL WE HAVE AN ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT LIKE GEJ WHO BELIEVES STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION.

A SORE ELECTION LOOSER CLAIMING TO BE AN HERO OF DEMOCRACY AFTER SEVERE ATTEMPTS TO MANIPULATE THE SAME DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.


I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY THE IGBOS CAN'T STOP SUPPORTING HIM DESPITE HIS FAILED PROMISE OF A SECOND NIGER BRIDGE STILL ON PAPER [/b]

Search more for love. You most definitely need it. Poor soul. Smh.

Speaking of hypocrisy, this is Omojuwa example. Karma is a bitch

"It weakens me to see us reduce ourselves into predictable machines of hatred against everything President Buhari does. It is not healthy"
-Omojuwa October 7, 2015

"Thinking of buying a pig. I will give it two names. One for morning and one for the evening. Goodluck and Jonathan."
-Omojuwa December 3, 2012.

ThePeacemaker:

Buhari is qonna be the best president Niqeria ever had......... comparinq Buhari to GEJ s like comparing Dstv to Gotv
GBAM

What your tiny brain forgot to take note of is that both are owned by the same Multichoice.

rhymaster:
See Buhari, Osinbajo and Nigeria's APC government in action! Yet the dumbest president ever was uselessly talking about goat and yam theory in defence of corruption for 6 years! I can't wait to hear this thieving woman questioned in front of cameras. She would just try to ignore the questions or lie! Where are the wailing wailer beasts to go and cry our oyel, our pikin? Losers!!!!

You sound stewpede.

EXCLUSIVE: UN counters Nigeria, says country properly invited to missed Boko Haram meeting

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, (UNOCHA), has told PREMIUM TIMES that Nigeria was officially informed and properly invited to a high-level event in New York where the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin was discussed.

This is contrary to the claims by the Nigerian presidency that the country was neither informed nor invited to the meeting where Nigeria’s neighbours and key humanitarian agencies brainstormed on how to tackle the refugee crisis caused by the conflict.
The event was organised by UN Under-Secretary-General, Stephen O’Brien, but Nigeria, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency, was absent.
Reuters news agency reported last week that U.S. and European Union diplomats were disappointed that Nigeria was not represented at the meeting.
The news of the absence of the Nigerian delegation at the meeting attracted condemnation back home with many blaming it on the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint ministers.
They argued that a competent minister of foreign affairs would have ensured that the country was represented at the meeting where such an important issue was discussed.

In an email to PREMIUM TIMES, on Sunday, backed up with a list of events the President’s delegation was invited to participate, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, insisted the presidency did not get an invite to attend the meeting.

“There is no record of any invitation to the Nigerian Mission as confirmed by the Permanent Representative, Prof Joy Ogwu,” he said.

But a spokesperson for UNOCHA, Jens Laerke, who is based in Geneva, told PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone that not only was the office of the Permanent Representative of the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations officially informed and invited for the event, an invite was in fact sent to the office of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, prior to the departure of the Nigerian delegation to the UNGA.

“I’m almost 100 per cent sure that Nigeria was invited. One of the reasons was that I read the original speech by O’Brien in which he acknowledged the presence of the Nigerian government,” he said.

Mr Laerke, however, asked to be allowed to double-check with his colleague in New York, who was in charge of inviting participants for the meeting. He called back four hours later after checking with his organisation’s New York office.

“I’ve just been in contact with my colleague in New York and we can assure you that the government of Nigeria was invited to the event and my colleagues in New York did what they could to ensure that they were provided with the invitation,” he said.
When asked which organ of the Nigerian government the invite was sent to, Mr Laerke responded: “Actually, the government was invited both by direct communication to the Vice President and then subsequently through the permanent representation in New York.

“My colleague told me he actually went there personally to hand over the invitation to make sure they receive the invitation. We really made an effort to make sure the government was aware of the invitation because we really want them to come.”

When asked to for documentary evidence that the Nigerian mission was actually informed, and indeed received and acknowledged the invitation, Mr Laerke demanded an official letter before that could be made available.

PREMIUM TIMES did exactly as he requested.
In an email to this newspaper on Tuesday, Mr Laerke said the New York office of UNOCHA was yet to revert to him.

“I have not obtained any reply regarding your request for access to written documentation. In the meantime, however, I have double checked the matter and I can assure you that Nigeria was invited to the event. We don’t know why they didn’t come.

“You may want to raise this with the Permanent Mission of Nigeria at the UN in New York.
Allow me to add that the Nigerian Government is a valued partner of the UN and UNOCHA,” he wrote.
PREMIUM TIMES contacted Nigeria’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations but its spokesperson, Tope Elias-Fatile, declined to provide categorical answer when asked if the Mission received an invite for the Boko Haram event.

This newspaper sent Mr. Elias-Fatile an email on Monday asking him five questions, including two dealing with Nigeria’s invitation to and representation at the Boko Haram event.
Other questions dealt with President Buhari’s attendance at the session where Pope Francis addressed the UN.
But in his response, the spokesperson gave a blanket answer which did not categorically answer any of the questions.

He merely said, “Only one answer with brief explanation will suffice to all the questions:
“Mr. President arrived promptly to all events in which he was scheduled to attend, including Pope Francis’ address to the United Nations.
“Specifically, Mr. President arrived promptly at the General Assembly well ahead of Pope’s address and he listened to the address. You can verify this by any video coverage of the event.”
Efforts to seek clarification from Permanent Representative Joy Ogwu by telephone was unsuccessful.

Since Saturday, multiple calls to the Mission’s telephone numbers were answered by an automated voice prompt that kept linking the calls to what appeared a dead extension.
A separate email to the official address of the permanent mission, sent Saturday, has also not been replied.

When contacted on the insistence by the UN that Nigeria was invited to the event, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said, “Ask them to give you evidence that the invitation was delivered, and the name of the staff who received it. Prof. Joy Ogwu said there was no invitation. We need evidence before anyone can say what she said is inaccurate.”

Laolu Akande, the spokesperson for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, whose office UNOCHA said it also informed of the event, could not be reached to comment for this story. His telephone was switched off the several times PREMIUM TIMES called.

From: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/190783-exclusive-un-counters-nigeria-says-country-properly-invited-to-missed-boko-haram-meeting.html

They keep rewarding mediocrity.

The average bus driver buys "ticket" at his first/initial point of departure and one when he reaches the end of his route. Then in-between there are a handful of the ubiquitous agberos collecting "white" (50bucks) or more at intervals depending where. All this come to at least NGN2000 daily. This is my observation, it could be fairly higher than this. Let's do some maths:

For 10,000 buses (I bet there'd be more in Lasgidi)

NGN2,000*10,000 = NGN20,000,000 daily

NGN20,000,000*30days = NGN600m

We are talking bus owners'/drivers' only contribution to Lagos. How much of this gets to the government and how much feeds the network of official agberos synonymous with Lagos?

When you next you come across bus driver, respect him.

A friend said it is actually up to 4000 daily. If it is so then we are talking 1.2Billion monthly. I have some doubt though on the figure. I'm sure some of us would know better here how much they part with daily.

Oktoberfest:
owk sorry bt hw exactly did buhari chase him away please?

Sorry for what? Be sorry for yourself.
If you didn't see when it was reported that Buhari reprimanded the CBN governor for inviting elumelu when he visited the US then the joke is on you.
Nigerians need to rise above nepotism and support things that will move us forward expecially economically at this time.

Oktoberfest:
driven by buhari indeed,how many votes did his anioma people give him in delta pdp guber primaries?

The wealth and employment he creates are they for his "anioma people" or for all of Nigerian.

By Ena Ogufara on Facebook.

"Please look at this picture and you will see Nigeria's own Tony Elumelu, driven away by BUHARI because of Buhari's bias against 5 percenters and true business (Elumelu is Deltan) here representing France government in their negotiation with Nigeria. Elumelu was also a speaker when Obama was in Kenya, invited by the Kenyan government.

This man Elumelu of course had his pride of place under the intelligent GEJ, but of course it takes more than NEPA certificate to be able to appreciate international business moguls like this.

As was Ghana gold and everything African, it takes the white man and others to let us know what we have is special.

THE ELUMELUS ARE WHAT EVERY ECONOMY NEEDS.... PRIVATE WEALTH CREATORS AND EMPLOYERS."

Somebody replies Ena thus:
"And note that he is the only black man on that side of the table. Money talks anywhere in the world."

And he quips:
"Not just money... Intelligence. Dangote is not there. Dangote is a beneficiary of government policies and monopoly. Elumelu Like most 5 percenters triumph with intellect. He has no product where he has a monopoly in Nigeria unlike Dangote and Cement and rice and sugar and flour."


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206554420552667&set=a.3577993921934.152433.1035691586&type=1&fref=nf