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I don't like king Turner for any reason at all but is the DSS allowed to destroy property while conducting searches ? Even the police with their lousy attitude don't do such.

E.K Clark next

Next is E.K Clark

DSS under this administration of impunity have reduced themselves to Oshodi thugs.

PSquare actually stole the beats of Erema from Blackface for their own song Do me I do You then went ahead to quickly release their version before Blackface. The case caused quite a stir in the music industry but was amicably settled. Blackface should forget the past and move forward with his career.

I'm back again after an undeserved and meaningless ban by our favorite nairaland terrorist you know na M***4*

On to the matter, op you're just being mischievous by half or deliberately trying to cause ethnic tensions here.
Voodoo worship is synonymous with ALL traditional African societies especially in the sub Saharan regions. So don't claim

Government of impunity breaking doors and conducting searches without warrants game go soon enter overdrive

This is the fifth part of the #SaatahBudgetSeries. This part promises to be the most interesting of all Ministries whose budgets I’ve analysed so far. With a budget increase of over 200%, the Federal Ministry of Interior should have a lot to offer us.

The total budget for the Federal Ministry of Interior stands at 498,453,097,241; 428,374,007,241 out of the total budget is allocated for “Recurrent Expenditure” while the remaining, a rather meagre 70,079,090,000 has been allocated for “Capital Expenditure.”

Firstly, following our tradition since the beginning of this budget analysis series, I’ll outline the agencies and institutions that find themselves under the Federal Ministry of Interior, so as to pass my message across in a very clear and understandable form. These agencies/institutions are as follows: Federal Ministry of Interior—HQTRS, Nigerian Prison Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Civil Defence, Immigration and Prison Service Board (CIPD), Custom, Immigration, Prison Pension Office (CIPPO), Federal Fire Service, Police Pension Board, Nigeria Police Academy , Police Formation and Command HQTRS.

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF INTERIOR

“Fellow Nigerians” the Federal Ministry of Interior has a budget for books. Err actually this isn’t a red flag, instead I find it beautiful, that since our President didn’t see reading as important enough to put it in his budget, others have decided to read. Now let’s begin the analysis in earnest. The Federal Ministry of Interior has a budget of 347,750,647 for the “Purchase of Computers.” In 2013, the Federal Ministry of Interior “Purchased Computers” worth 75,343,403. This year, they’ve taken their maddening wasteful spending 450% percent higher, to a towering 347,750,647. This is more than the total amount budgeted by the Ministry of Science and Technology on the same item for three years; 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The Federal Ministry of Interior has also appropriated the sum of 576,500,000 for the “Construction/Provision of Electricity.” I don’t know, but what I’ve deduced from that budget is that the Federal Ministry of Interior must have been operating with lanterns and candles since inception. Nothing else justifies the spending of such a huge amount of money. If you’re wondering what 576,500,000 can achieve, it’ll electrify 33 communities; 30 communities in Ondo and 3 communities in the FCT according to the budget of the National Rural Electrification Agency.

In 2014, the Federal Ministry of Interior budgeted88,706,193 for the “Repair/Rehabilitation of Office Buildings,” while in the 2015 budget, it was 24,464,846. In the 2016 budget, the “Rehabilitation/Repairs Office Buildings,” that was done in 2104 and 2105, “elephantined” by almost 2500% to 595,606,148. Another thing I want you to know is that according to the 2014 budget, the Ministry of Interior building was damaged by a storm, and the 24,464,846 in the 2015 budget was for storm damaged rehabilitation, compare with the 595,606,148 in the 2016 budget.

The Federal Ministry of Interior will spend 6,200,000,000 on “Research and Development”. Firstly, that is more than the budget for the Ministry of Women Affairs, 3,974,395,038. To put this in perspective, 32 Agricultural Research Institutes and Colleges will spend a cumulative total of 4,411,236,320 on “Research and Development.”

The 2016 budget takes a very predictable trend. I have noticed that where the drafters of the budget don’t find creative ways to budget money that’ll probably end up inpersonal bank accounts; they put it under “Research and Development.” The Federal Ministry of Interior isn’t different in any away, everything about this budget smells of high level graft and the budget for “Research and Development” does more than prove this. The funny thing about this is that, when the items are broken down, the amount for “Research and Development” is only 200,000,000 and the bulk of the money, 6,000,000,000 ends up going to the “Special Intervention Fund for Police Formations and Command.” While the Police Formation and Command with a total budget of 300,100,330,698 didn’t give a breakdown of how it plans to spend its capital budget.

The Nigerian Prison Service has a budget of 3,519,266,507 for the “Construction/Provision of Prisons” and another 5,093,363,237 for the “Rehabilitation/Repairs of Prisons.” The problem here isn’t the amount budgeted for these items. Such huge sums have been budgeted over the years, but yet our prison system remains the same or sometimes gets worse than it was met. I hope these monies will be channelled and properly utilised.

I feel the funniest part of the budget for the Nigerian Prison Service is the part where 500,000,000 was budgeted for “Research and Development. “Furtherbreakdown shows that that amount will actually be spent on “Capacity Building.” Talking of a real building, according to the budget of the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, we can spend that same amount to get 6 blocks of 3 classrooms.

The Nigerian Immigration Service will spend 200,000,000 to “Acquire Land.” It is an open secret that government doesn’t buy land, they “collect” and “pay compensation”. I’d love to know how they plan to spend the 200,000,000 set aside of that purpose or maybe they’re compensating an entire village.

2,120,000,450is what the Nigerian Immigration Service will spend on “Security Equipment.” That’s an increase of over 800% from the 2014 budget for same item which stood at 258,000,000 and a 2500% increase from the 2015 budget where same item had a budget of 86,057,143.

The Nigerian Immigration Service spent 250,000,000 to “Construct Office Buildings” in 2014 and 133,302,386 in 2015. In the 2016 budget, the Nigerian Immigration Service changes the game; they have a budget of 1,301,229,706 for the same item. That’s an increase of over 400% from the 2014 budget and almost 1000% increase from the 2015 budget. There’s also a separate 500,000,000 that is meant for the “Rehabilitation/Repairs of Office Buildings.”

The Nigerian Immigration Service will also spend 450,000,000 for the “Provision of Solar Powered Boreholes.” They also want to spend 1,300,214,210 on the “Purchase of Patrol and Operational Vehicles.” Now, here’s the problem; they also budgeted another 1,385,131,167 for the “Purchase of All Terrain Vehicles for Land Patrol.” I would love to know the difference between these two items because they look like the same thing to me, “Patrol Vehicles.”

The Federal Fire Service has budgeted 5,622,131,167 for the “Procurement of Fire Fighting Equipment for Existing Fire Station in Abuja and Lagos.” Another 749,943,030 is budgeted for “Rehabilitation of Firefighting Equipment (Abuja and Lagos).” There seems to be an agreement that the rest of the country can burn to the ground.

The Police Formation and Command HQTRS failed to give a detailed breakdown of what their 17,009,090,000capital budget will be used for.

We have come to the end of the fifth part of my budget analysis series. What I’ve noticed with the budget for the Federal Ministry of Interior isn’t entirely different from what I’ve noticed with other Ministries; there is an inflation of budget sums in a lot of areas and there also exists some very unnecessary/vague items put in the budget with millions (or billions in some cases) allocated to them.

As I leave you to apply rational reasoning concerning this budget, let me add a little in-between: In the 2015 budget for the Ministry of Land and Housing, 200,000,000 was set aside for the “Completion of Construction of a Mausoleum and Library Complex in Honour of Late Rt. Hon. Dr NnamdiAzikiwe.” In this year’s budget for the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, 1,143,575,058is budgeted for the same item. Another 137,552,031 will be spent on “Provision of Furnishings in the New Mausoleum and Library Complex in Honour of Late Rt. Hon. Dr NnamdiAzikiwe.”Dr.NnamdiAzikiwe must be clapping in his grave for this Houdini-like stunt.

Saatah Nubari is on Twitter @Saatah

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By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke

ABUJA— THE Senate Committee on Education, yesterday, uncovered N9,982,258,479 hidden in the budget of parastatals by the Federal Ministry of Education.
PIC.23. SENATE CHAMBER DURING THE INAUGURATION OF THE 8TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY (9/6/15). 3023/9/6/2015/CH/BJO/NAN
SENATE CHAMBER

The committee, which discovered the amount at the commencement of its 2016 budget defence, said the amount was hidden in the ministry’s parastatals.

The parastatals allocation for the year, according to the Senate Committee, increased at geometric progression by almost N10 billion while the entire personnel cost for the ministry and all its subsidiaries including schools and colleges declined drastically when compared to that of last year.

To this end, the committee chairman, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, ruled that the permanent secretary and the ministry should go back to the drawing board and come up with a more sensible overhead cost, saying its discovery was that the huge sum was deliberately hidden under parastatals’ personnel cost.

As seen, the ministry’s parastatals’ personnel cost rose from N88.1 billion in 2015 to as high as N98.1 billion in 2016 estimate proposals while the personnel budget of universities reduced by as much as N16.245 billion, declining from N227.2 billion in 2015 to N211.0 billion in 2016.

Similarly, colleges of education budget decreased from N40.2 billion in 2015 to N37.6 billion, while polytechnics’ personnel cost which previously stood at N61.44 billion in 2015 was trimmed to N58.23 billion just as unity colleges’ budget had been cut from N288.7billion to N7.588 billion.

While the ministry itself reduced its budget by only N244.9 million from N3.768 billion in 2015 to N3.523 billion in 2016, UNESCO Paris was the worst hit with the drastic reduction of its budget from N288.3 billion in 2015 to N7.588 billion in 2016.

Minister of State for Education, Professor Anthony Anwuka,who appeared before the Senate Committee on Secondary School Education for budget defence, in company of the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Folasade Yemi-Esan, gave account of the education budget performance in 2015.

He said N483.183 billion budget was earmarked for education in 2015, with only N13.279 billion released.

Anwuka added that only 50 per cent of N23.5 billion, amounting to N11.9 billion was released for capital education.

However, after his submission, a member of the committee and Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye, queried the rationale behind the increase in only the budget of parastatals by only about N10 billion while the budget of universities reduced by as much N16 billion.

Adeyeye wondered while parastatals which were meant to support the institutions should have their personnel budget increased by such a huge volume. He, therefore, demanded for an explanation.

“If you look at personnel cost on page 28, almost every sub-sector of the ministry lost some money except parastatals that got increase. What is special about the parastatals that they gained more than universities, colleges, polytechnics and unity schools? Why should the parastatals that are meant to serve them keep growing in personnel cost?” Adeyeye queried.

The minister pushed the question to the permanent secretary who for want of expression said they would go back to look into it.

She said: “We will go back and find the aggregate of the parastatals put together so that we can look into the details and find out those that are increasing and the difference between them.”

Dissatisfied by that response, Adeyeye insisted that the ministry must explain how a whopping sum of about N10 billion was added to the parastatals’ personnel budget at the expense of institutions which actually need budget increase.

He said: “The budget of the parastatals have N9 billion extra while others lose money. We can’t have a situation where schools are losing money and parastatals are gaining. How did parastatals have such a quantum leap?”

Responding again, Yemi-Esan said the reduction in personnel budgets of schools and colleges was not imposed on them. Rather, she said it was what they submitted that the ministry collated and submitted as their personnel costs.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/senate-uncovers-n10bn-hidden-in-education-budget/

These CNN people are IPOB youths and wailing wailers

shizzy7:
"Nigerians" constitutes manufacturers, importers, business owners and other stakeholders involved.......
I believe they can oppose it IF the President decides to sign....
MAN, NLC and other associations will also have a say in this issue....

did anybody from MAN & the NLC follow or will they join his delegation ? Remember he recently rejected sane advice from his minister of finance against signing a treaty in the UAE as the terms were heavily lopsided against us as a nation. I fear Buhari will just say "yessa masta" and sign any document dumped in front of him since he's the only intellectual technocrat in his government. He should prove me wrong sha

shizzy7:
This is not the first time they are coming with their treaty.....
They brought one during Jonathan's tenure, Aganga rejected it now they are bringing another one during Buhari's tenure....

I have a feeling that bubu might accept it because of the economic downturn but Nigerians will reject it...

Nigerians won't reject what they know nothing about except those in our manufacturing sector whom this treaty will push out of business finally (though the FG's present policy flip flops & ineptitude is doing a great job of pushing them out of business already sha)

The EPA sword of Damocles, manufacturers are officially finished in Nigeria when this thing gets signed

auntysimbiat:
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Chei!!! You all !! Meet her younger brother .. retraced step, you think she s gonna stop smoking cos she removed the picx??[/size]

and what's your business if she smokes ? Is it your mouth, lungs and money she used to buy her cigarettes ? Use the brick between your ears abeg, she has removed the pictures and it's none of your business what she does in private with her life. Smoking is not a crime

And okpo like you doesn't know that's a parody obj account abi ? Anyways the elders say if nobody applauds a lizard, the lizard will do so by itself hence the constant nodding. Continue in your tomfoolery op

She "learnt her lesson" and removed it yet you still came here to post her photos with her username here again. So if she was useless once and retraced her steps, what does that make you now that you've done the same ?

Translation

"the oil in the Niger delta belongs to those of us who fought civil war on the part of Nigeria and that's why we own most oil wells"

Papa Ajasco

It has never been a hidden thing so why all the hoopla now ?

WHY NOT TALK ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE KILLED IN DALORI ? WHY IS THIS GOVERNMENT SO INSENSITIVE ?

[quote author=AbuMaryam1 post=42505191][s]We trust the head of the government, no more ATM Dusuki. Handcuffs and shake is still existing. No shaking Buhari carry go.[/[/s]quote] typical

Chimezie250:
The case of the more you look the less you see

abracadabra

Eleganza33:
Loving my lumia 925. I cnt watch video freely why, i mean wen it play 4 sum time it wil stop and start again it wil stop it goes on nd on

network issues, it's normal

Photo shoot and you bloggers are already shouting. Enemies of progress

Akpan107:
hmmmmm.... may God have mercy! the killings is just too much. sometimes the comments of must Northerners do not help matter, i could remember how they use to call GEJ boko haram, some will even say " any unrest that last more than 24 hours, the government has a hand in it" while others will say they sae an helicopter supplying foods and ammunition to boko haram in sambisa and they will all mock goodluck and called him names such as, clueless, jonadunce etc. may God heal the North and save the people of North East from these calamities. Amen.

amen my brother

Second time Fashola is bringing up this topic, know that they've already gone far with implementation.

I hope Oshiomole will cry out again this time that it's true just like he did under Gej when it was a lie

THIS IS WHY THE SAI BUHARISTS HAVE SUDDENLY GONE MAD TO REASON AND CLEAR EVIDENCES OF CORRUPTION AND IMMUNITY BY THEIR IDOLS

- Minister of Information Lai Mohd has a special funding mechanism from the office of the COS. He has so far received N23b since from May 29th

- PMB gave an order that the Chief of Staff should always make available funds to Lai Mohd at all times. PMB believes in propaganda.

- Lai Mohd had been instructed to fund both conventional & unconventional media at all times. Lai Mohd has graded them into A & B categories.

- Channels TV, AFP, BBCAfrica, BBCHausa, VOA, Punch Newspaper, DailyTrust & social media are in category A.

- Category B are unfriendly media like AIT, Aljazeera, PremiumTimes, ThisDay, Vanguard. Those in category A are to be patronized and funded.

- For instance, Channels was given N500m to carryout out documentaries, etc showing that the Nigerian Army had defeated Boko Haram.

- Online blogs and influencers are also being funded. Sahara Reporters has gotten massive funding by Alhaji Lai Mohd.

- Tolu Ogunlesi & Japheth Omojuwa both got N40m each for influencers. They were directed to pay 40 pro-APC online influencers N2m Naira each.

- This led to the creation of the Online Bloggers Association of Nigeria in order to check how funding can be properly coordinated.

@stoPropaganda

I just pity the jobless vuvuzelas' ranting here for bubu while their mates are raking millions of blood naira in Abuja. So when you are called an IPOB youth just smile and ignore their idioçy because you now know the source of the insult and it transcends Aisha's jollof rice

A fight against boko haram is a fight against the north - Papa Ajasco

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-military-offensive-against-boko-haram-anti-north/149256/

Flashh:
I knew your job is to asslick wike's ass. You're paid paid for it, so I won't take it serious.

it's usually a tedious exercise humouring neanderthal moróns with replies s so I ignore your kind mostly. I won't blame you for your pathetic existence but next time leave kids out of your problems with their parents. Nobody stopped you from going to Gucci store to get a change of wardrobe for those children. Busy body

Flashh:
He can't even buy them good clothes. The boy is putting on oversize okrika.

you see your sad life ? Just look in a mirror and cry for yourself

smiling is now news in this country