Ikengawo:
not doubting the man is in germany for the event. but he's definitely not at the meeting. Perhaps he's in the G7 tourist task force, but the G7 meeting isn't anything the nigerian media can wax one way without evidence of claims the way the do things in Nigeria. Buhari is not at the meeting, he's visiting Germany during the event and this is why he was greeted by the Governor of Bavaria upon arrival and not the Head of State

Ikengawo:
HAHAHAAH! i like this news! he's making a statement and obviously the man has more sense then you people cause he's the president of the most powerful black nation in the known world and you work for the canadian postal service and post threads on websites.

You people just want a reason to blame him for your poverty so everything he does is a problem. If he wants to go with more ppl then all the african nations combine then awesome, he's obviously trying to seperate himself from the pack of african nations and nigeria is better then all the african nations combine anyways.

if spain did this you will start asking why nigeria didn't do it.

seunmsg:


I think the child right act as clearly stated 18 to be the age of consent for marriage. The only problem with its enforcement is that it has not been domesticated in all states of the country.

I also think this new law will really make it more difficult for anybody to marry a girl that is under 18. If it is now illegal to sleep with a girl under 18, marrying a girl under 18 will technically be illegal since sex is inevitable in a marriage. My opinion though.

Thanks to a legal loophole, the average age of marriage for girls in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria, is 11 years old. The law is often manipulated and exploited for perverse ends, but it's rare that one forgotten detail in legislation can affect an entire mass of people quite so profoundly.

Section 29 of the Nigerian constitution allows any Nigerian of full age (18 or above) to renounce his or her citizenship. However, a subsection of that law adds that women can only be deemed of full age when they get married—a convenient loophole that's become easy to exploit by any adult man in the mood to snatch himself up a child bride.

lomprico:

So what's ur point?

bushdoc9919:


I have read what you said....and I am still convinced that people who molest a child would get life imprisonment.

Or are you saying that the law says that those who molest under 18 get off scott free?

Anyway....I might be wrong...and a legally trained person can set me right....but as far as I am concerned....Nigeria's laws have no hiding place for those who molest kids. Enforcing the law is another story....but this law is a step in the right direction.

bushdoc9919:


Have you ACTUALLY read the bill?

Isn't it clear enough that anyone molesting a minor is subject to life imprisonment?

Liable means that the person WILL be sentenced if proven guilty!

If you want to talk about enforcement...that is another thing!

6.-(1) A person Who commits an act which causes penetration with a child aged Sexual activity with a child eleven years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life.

(2) A person who engages in sexual activity with a child between the age of twelve and fifteen years is liable upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life.

Shymm3x:


Sir, I have always wondered why NOI isn't that big in the UK. I know they have a Mosque in Brixton, and I have an Uncle who's a member (he has been a member since like forever now). But that's about it.

Right now, the consciousness of black youths in the UK is changing, and I meet loads of conscious black youths (girls and boys) everyday. Heck, I met an Afrocentric naija chic on the train a few weeks ago (shocked at first), and she tried inviting me to a seminar they were having. Then you have the rapid growth of Islam among black youths, which is somewhat troubling. I believe the NOI can step in and at least provide leadership for these people, rather than the fanaticism Arab Islam preaches. We can't be pawns to white folks and also do dirt for the Arabs.

doctokwus:
Hope Adesina starts work soonest as d senior of the 2 presidential spokesmen because Garba Shehu eventhough competent and effective,has this habit of being too forward with his press releases, only to realise later he has misrepresented PMB and made a big issue out of nothing.
He was d same person that told Nigerians that AIT was barred from covering d president elect then due to security and family concerns,while Buhari had no idea of what was happening.
Then with this asset stuff,he told us that was a "public declaration" when it was even clear to us from far off that the CCB had to vet d assets first.Another faux pas.
I now see d wisdom in bringing in Adesina as a senior media adviser.The job maybe too big for Shehu alone to handle.

More knocks: US, EU, also condemn Nigeria over Al-Bashir

July 17, 2013



The Federal Government yesterday, came under strong criticism by the United States’ Government and the European Union (EU) over its refusal to apprehend and hand over the Sudanese President, Omar Al Bashir, to the International Criminal Court, ICC, for prosecution over alleged crimes against humanity.

READ: Hague Court Blasts Nigeria For Not Arresting Sudan’s President, Al-Bashir

The US described Nigeria’s decision as regrettable. In a statement by Information Officer, Rhonda Ferguson-Augustus, the U.S. government said: “We regret Nigeria’s decision to welcome a visit by Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir. President Hassan al-Bashir and other Sudanese individuals are subject to ICC arrest warrants for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur. It is serious cause for concern that these individuals remain at large and continue to travel across international borders.”

In the same vein, the EU noted that President Al-Bashir was under an arrest warrant by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It stressed the need for all member states of the United Nations to abide by and implement the resolutions adopted by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, in this case UNSCR 1593(2005).

The EU said, “The High Representative is concerned by the visit of President of Sudan, Al-Bashir, to Nigeria, a state party to the Rome Statute of the ICC.” in a statement by High Representative, Catherine Ashton.

The Sudanese president was in Abuja last weekend, to attend the just concluded African Union conference on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Tanker Accident: Osinbajo visits Onitsha, commiserates with victims

June 3, 2015

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VP Osinbajo Visits Sudan As GEJ’s TheTrent Begins Malicious Campaign

In Abuja high court today ordered former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, to pay N50 million as well as accrued interests over a landed property he bought under the table while he was head of the Nigerian police. Mr. Okiro was not in court as Justice A.M. Talban gave the ruling earlier today.

Acting Inspector General of Police Mike Okiro, his immediate predecessor Sunday Ehindero and several other serving law enforcement top brass have been implicated in a cash scandal currently rocking the police.

We can authoritatively report that John Obaniyi, a commissioner in charge of finance at the police headquarters, and a principal target of investigations into the source of N21 million seized while being moved out of Police Headquarters in Abuja, has named Okiro, Ehindero and others in shady financial deals.

Okiro reeks of corruption, appointment as head of PSC a national tragedy – Ribadu

Sep 24 2013



Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has reacted to remarks in newspapers on Tuesday by former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okire where he denied that convicted former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, facilitated his appointment then to head the police.

In a statement by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, his Media Assistant, Ribadu described as a perennial peddler of falsehood who reeks of corruption, adding that “it is a national tragedy that a man of such flawed character has now been appointed to head an important institution like the Police Service Commission.”

The statement reads; “Our attention has been drawn to the shameless lies a former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro recklessly spewed to the media yesterday (on Tuesday). [b]The cause of Mr. Okiro’s anger, the statement, in a London court, by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu that James Ibori was instrumental to his emergence as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) needs no further equivocation as it was an open secret to everybody in the government circle then.

“If Okiro is now denying this in public, there is no way he can deny this open secret to a number of people including an influential governor from the North-Central then, and a couple of other people who helped facilitate his selection by Ibori.

“It was this same shameless method of desperate lobbying that Okiro, a chronic political jobber and sycophant of the first order would use in getting subsequent appointments as Chief Security Officer to the PDP national chairman and later, regrettably, as the chairman of the Police Service Commission.

“The assertion by Okiro that Ribadu wanted to be the IGP further underlines the former IGP as a perennial peddler of falsehood. The truth is Nuhu Ribadu’s focus then was consolidating on his modest efforts at the EFCC, especially at a time when he was working on high-profile cases, including that of Okiro’s godfather, James Ibori. We therefore challenge Okiro to name those people he called Ribadu’s friends that narrated the fictitious story of Ribadu’s interest in becoming the IGP to him.

“The highest distortion in Okiro’s statement, however, is his attempt to rewrite the well-known and widely documented assassination attempts on the former EFCC chairman, and Okiro’s hands in it all. It is ridiculous that Okiro is now desperately trying to paint himself in another colour after all the schemings he orchestrated.

“It beats our imagination that Okiro would want a Nuhu Ribadu he was fighting to destroy to report those incidences to him. It would have been a case of having a culprit to be a judge in his own case. At the time, the trio of Micheal Aondoakaa, the former Attorney General of the Federation, Okiro and Mrs Farida Waziri, the former EFCC chairman, had created a hell out of the world for Ribadu.

“The only sensible thing to do was to avoid these characters and seek solace somewhere else. This notwithstanding, it is a blatant lie that Okiro telephoned Ribadu “several times” but that he did not answer his calls. “What Ribadu and other Nigerians easily recall was an elated Okiro rushing to address the press to deny something he knew nothing about. The bullet-riddled car Ribadu drove during that unfortunate life threatening incident is still there, if Okiro or any other person would want a further proof.

“On the issue of withdrawal of Ribadu’s personal security, if Okiro is suffering from selective amnesia, let him be reminded that that was exactly what he did. He also redeployed Ibrahim Lamorde out of EFCC, to Bauchi State Police Command as Area Commander in Ningi. “He did the same thing to other top EFCC operatives that Nigeria spent a fortune to train as investigators. One of them suspected to be close to Ribadu was even locked up for months in police custody. This also belie his statement that as IGP he could not have altered the postings of police within the EFCC.

“As for Okiro’s corruption credentials, we would like to alert the retired IGP that he is dancing naked in the gallery as his nasty record is something known to a lot of people.

“A man who clearly reeks of corruption, is Okiro denying that he is corrupt when we all know he cannot account for the source of the wealth he used in building a shopping mall in Jabi, a hotel with casino in Lugbe and a private school, all in Abuja? This is not to mention his property in Lagos and Port Harcourt, while he was still serving in the police.[/b]

“If a public servant, one tasked with the responsibility of protecting the lives of Nigerians and instilling discipline in the police, managed to amass such wealth, what gut does he have to talk of corruption? “It is a national tragedy that a man of such flawed character has now been appointed to head an important institution like the Police Service Commission. May God rescue Nigeria.”

More Trouble For Okiro As Whistleblower Slams N500m Suit Against Ex-IGP…24 Hours After Being Quizzed By ICPC

June 05, 2015



The rumbling at the Police Service Commission (PSC) over alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the last general elections has taken a legal dimension with a N500 million lawsuit hanging on the neck of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Chairman, Police Service Commission(PSC), Chief Mike Okiro. This is coming barely 24 hours after Okiro was quizzed by operatives of ICPC now investigating the former Police IG over the alleged N275 million fraud brought against him.

Also joined as respondents in the suit, now before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), Abuja, are the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 7, the Commissioner of Police FCT Command, Abuja and Mr. Suprem Kayode Ibitomi.

The suit was instituted by an aggrieved staff of the Commission, Aaron Kaase who is alleging gross violation of his constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights by the respondents. His lawyer, Kenneth Achabo who filed the suit, anchored under the fundamental rights enforcement procedure rules and sections 33, 34(1) (a), 36 and 37 of the 1999 amended constitution, sought an order of court, restraining all the respondents perpetually from further violation of the applicant’s fundamental human rights.

[b]Achabo hinged the case of his client, (as contained in the motion on notice) on the grounds that, the respondents have violated his right as guaranteed by Article 5 of African charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and enforcement) Act (CAP10) laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.

In a 39 paragraphs affidavit in support of the motion of notice, the applicant averred that he was wrongly accused of an attempt to blackmail the Chairman of the PSC and was made to appear before a panel set up by him (Okiro) but was not allowed to defend himself.

Specifically, he stated that the said panel which sat in the office of the Chairman of the PSC talked about a disgruntled staff (s) that had written an unsigned petition against the Commission’s Chairman at the Economic Crimes Commission (EFCC) for misappropriation of funds meant for the last general elections. The applicant further averred that he was shocked by the accusation because he had no knowledge of any petition against the Commission’s Chairman.

He stated that he was pained by the fact that he suffered serious humiliation at the panel whose composition included the Chairman of the Commission, Permanent Secretary, Directors, Senior Police and security officers, and several others, who took turns to disparage him without allowing him to utter a word.

To crown it all, Kaase said he was arraigned before Magistrate Ubani Chukwuamaka of the Wuse II Magistrate court on trump up charges and was subsequently detained at the Kuje prison for two days. He told the court further that the respondents have continued to intimidate him by the continuous threat to his life.

The applicant therefore urged the court to declare that parading him before a panel made up of all the Directors of the PSC, Permanent Secretary and officers of the Inspector General of Police on May 5, 2015 on the prompting of the Chairman of the Commission amounted to gross violation of his rights to dignity and fair hearing as guaranteed by the 1999 constitution.

In addition, his lawyer is seeking a declaration by the court that the invasion of the applicant’s privacy by down loading of call logs and bugging of his private mobile GSM line by the officers of the IGP on the prompting of 1st respondent (Okiro) is a violation of his right to private and family life as safeguarded by the 1999 constitution.

He further prayed the court to make an order directing the 1st respondent, his agents, proxies, or subordinates not to act or take any official further step on the outcome of the panel as it is a product of a breach of the applicant’s fundamental human right.[/b]

The motion on notice also sought for an order of court directing the IGP, AIG and Commissioner of Police FCT, their agents, proxies, officers, subordinates in any form not to take any further step in executing the outcome of the trial in the panel which is a product of a breach of applicant’s fundamental right, an order perpetually restraining all respondents from tapping, recording and down loading applicant’s call log and another order of court perpetually restraining all the respondents from using the contrived illegally tapped recorded and down loaded of applicant’s call log.

The applicant is seeking an order directing the respondents to compensate him with the sum of N500 million as damages for the unlawful infringement of his constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human rights.

Besides, the applicant has prayed the court for its order directing the respondents to issue a public apology in three National Dailies circulating in Nigeria. No date has been given for the hearing of the case.

I’m Not Fraudulent, Okiro Set Me Up For Trial: My Position, By Aaron Kaase



I am compelled to react to several statements from the police Service Commission in a desperate bid to discredit my person linking me with alleged U.S visa scam. I have deliberately avoided commenting on it because it is in court but the ferocity with which Mr. Okiro and his paid agents are misleading the public has compelled me to react.

In Sept.2014 while serving as the Protocol Officer to the Commission, I was approached by Insp. George Todunu the orderly to Mr. Okiro who brought one Mr Hart,whom he introduced as Okiro’s friend. Insp. George said Sir Okiro wanted me to help the man, his P.A and his younger brother acquire U.S visa without appearing at the U.S embassy.

My response was a swift “NO” ;and the reason (according)to him and Mr. Okiro was that his friend was (neither) a staff of PSC nor a government official and even (if)he was any of the above, there are laid down procedures for people travelling abroad on official assignment.

I advised Mr Okiro’s friend whom I suspected to be a man of fraudulent character because he and his co travellers have been denied visa previously by the same U.S embassy, U. K and other embassies despite the fact he claimed he had enough money to fund their trips. I thereafter advised him to follow the normal procedure allowed for private citizens to access visa in the embassy.

I want the world to know that I never solicited nor received any money from Mr. Hart,Okiro’s friend, if I had done so in my official or personal capacity Okiro would have published the official files at his disposal .

When it became obvious in the Police Service Commission that I had enough information to send Mr. Okiro to prison over his fraudulent acts, suddenly a petition from his dubious friend emerged in May 2015 that I collected money from him and in almost commando style the zone 7 Abuja police arrested me in Mr. Okiro’s office took me to my house and ransacked my house claiming to be looking for PSC documents in my possession, took me back to their station where I slept on the bare floor and was charged to court on frivolous charges the following day based on Okiro friend’s petition.

Despite the fact that I was given bail and met all the conditions, the police apparently acting on instructions from Mr. Okiro rather took me to Kuje prison where I spent the night. It took the intervention of the angry magistrate before the police left me off the following day.

[b]I want to put it on record that I worked as Head of Protocol for 6 years where I served two Chairmen including the respected former Chairman, Parry Osayande DIG (rtd) without blemish.

As a matter of fact it was during Okiro time that I realised how (dis)honest some top government functionaries could be. It was also in the cause of my investigation and exposure of Okiro fraud that I realised that his girlfriend, (name withheld) whom he gave mock training to was the same person Okiro lied to me that she was a consultant to the PSC and I should include her name in the application for his official visa to Ireland, which he never did despite collecting government money.

The embassy obviously sensing a foul play refused her visa. Mr. Okiro asked me to write an appeal attaching her so called links with the Commission. The embassy rejected the appeal again. It took a desperate Okiro to pay ‘ courtesy call’ on the ambassador before she was reluctantly issued a visa.

I am not fraudulent, have never been involved in crime .So I want Nigerians to know why I am so labelled by Okiro in a desperate bid not (to)answer to fraud allegations but attack and discredit me.[/b]

The Prospect of a Prosperous Nigeria

JUNE 5, 2015



Nigeria’s huge economic potential is no dream. It will not materialize on its own. It requires determination. The Buhari era can make or break the path to the Nigerian dream. When retired Muhammadu Buhari took over from Goodluck Jonathan, it marked the first peaceful transfer of power between rival parties in Nigeria. Unlike most advanced nations and many emerging nations, Nigeria has extraordinary economic potential. However, even favourable demographics are of little value without productivity, growth, and jobs.

As the Buhari era begins, Nigeria suffers from severe economic turmoil, painful political polarization and devastating security threats. What should be the administration’s priorities?

Ensuring security and stability

One reason why President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 elections was his failure to respond to Boko Haram early enough. As long as scores of young girls remain kidnapped and enslaved, no Nigerian can feel truly secure. Not only does Boko Haram pose a serious danger in northeastern Nigeria, it also threatens the cohesion of the multicultural nation. The belated efforts by President Jonathan to contain the terror, including regional initiatives, are a good start but far from enough. Moreover, full security also requires end to sectarian violence, which is fuelled by religious and ethnic tensions.

As the anti-corruption, pro-security candidate, President Buhari must now deliver. Most importantly, the administration must find the precarious balance – hit hard but with a sense of justice, proportion and future.

Initiating anti-corruption struggle

Today, every decent Nigerian is frustrated with pervasive corruption that strangles this beautiful nation. No corruption can be eliminated overnight, but all corruption can be contained over time. President Buhari needs to establish a long-term path for the anti-corruption struggle, with clearly defined medium-term objectives. That path must strengthen key institutions, including the National Assembly, political parties, the electoral commission, the private sector and the civil society.

In the short term, the integrity of President Buhari’s rule requires a broad and deep anti-graft campaign that will spare neither individuals nor institutions. In this struggle, the key focus should be on the transparency of government bodies, particularly the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. Similarly, President Buhari should push the international community to support the recovery of stolen assets, which belong to Nigerian people.

Unleashing economic potential

Without security, stability is not possible. With corruption, any semblance of stability will soon corrode. Consequently, successful economic policies require tough security policies and zero patience for corruption. Given the recent plunge of oil prices and the subsequent fluctuations, President Buhari needs to clean up the nation’s oil sector and to ensure that fuel shortages in the energy-rich nation will become relics of the past. Success in industrialization and urbanization is predicated on a modernized agricultural sector. Most importantly, the new administration needs to establish a sound, firm basis for a more diversified industrial structure. That is necessary to realize Nigeria’s economic potential.

These changes are inconceivable without a more responsive business environment that can truly support Nigeria’s greatest asset – its invaluable family and small-and-medium size enterprises (SMEs) that can create jobs and future for millions.

Overcoming poverty and polarization

As long as too many Nigerians live in poverty and hopelessness, the nation’s economic potential will remain an elusive dream. No nation – and particularly poor emerging economies – can offer full equality. But all nations should aspire to offer equal opportunities.

As emerging economies take off, income polarization has often deteriorated, at least in the short term. However, that is not inevitable, as President Lula’s Brazil demonstrated not so long ago. When the poor and the hopeless are truly included in the official economy, lower middle class will begin to expand and fuel growth that is more resilient and flowers will bloom even in the favelas.

In Nigeria, efforts at greater equity are vital for the economy, important for politics and critical for stability. As long as regional and religious differences serve as common denominators for economic inequalities, the roots of resentment and terror will linger on.

Deepening regional cooperation, broadening international ties

In the past, the United States has been Nigeria’s most important energy client and security partner. More recently, economic cooperation with China has taken off. In the Jonathan era, regional cooperation has increased as well. In order to realize its full economic potential, Nigeria needs broad-based cooperation regionally and internationally.

As the nation has now bypassed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy, it is well positioned to become an increasingly important actor in sub-Saharan Africa and internationally.

These regional and international ties are not something external, but vital for domestic economic prosperity, political vibrancy as well as security. In the past, these ties allowed many Nigerians to create a better life outside their home nation. In the future, they could bring back much of the entrepreneurial and high-skilled Nigerian diaspora.

Toward the Nigerian Dream

Today, Nigeria has an economy of $574 billion, about the size of Sweden. In the former, average per capita income is only $6,200; in Sweden, it is $47,200, adjusted to purchasing power. However, the Swedish population amounts to less than 9.8 million and is rapidly aging. In contrast, the Nigerian population amounts to almost 180 million and is overwhelmingly young. In favourable conditions, Nigeria’s population has potential to surpass that of the United States by 2050. It could reach 900 million at the end of the 21st century. That would create a foundation for a huge economy.

That is the Nigerian Dream – and one that the Buhari era could unleash.

BackDatAssUp:


And you don't care as long as your apc is in charge of osun

President Buhari attends one year remembrance service for Late Emir of Kano (PHOTOS)

JUNE 5, 2015

Earlier today, Friday, June 5, President Buhari attended a Jumat Prayer in honour of Late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Dr. Ado Bayero.

Prayers were said in one year remembrance of the Late monarch.

The president was accompanied to the prayers by Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari, Lt. General Dambazau Rtd. amongst others.

See photos below:

worksmart:
This was before inauguration.

Published on Jun 5, 2015
Meanwhile President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived N'Dijemina the capital of Chad in continuation of his official visit to Niger and Chad.

PointB:


This is an Osun State debt thread.

When such thread is open for other states, then perhaps we can discuss them. If you don't want to speak to the topic, that's your problem. Asking others not to, is not particularly bright.

We can't leave Osun State alone, the people there are filling our ears with their cries, and they wet our space with their tears. If you wish you can leave them alone, but we WON'T!

Get that into your thick skull!

Open data in government

The rationale behind open government data can be considered as twofold.[13] First, advocates contend that making government data available to the public in open formats increases government transparency and accountability. Second, open data should enable third parties to leverage the potential of government data through the development of applications and services that address public and private demands.

Several national governments have created web sites to distribute a portion of the data they collect. It is a concept for a collaborative project in municipal Government to create and organize Culture for Open Data or Open government data. A list of over 200 local, regional and national open data catalogues is available on the open source datacatalogs.org project, which aims to be a comprehensive list of data catalogues from around the world. Prominent examples include:

open-data.europa.eu - European Commission Data Portal.
Ghana Open Data Initiative - Ghana government open-data website, GODI. Launched in February 2012.
data.go.jp - Japanese Government open data website, launched in Dec 20, 2013.
Additionally, other levels of government have established open data websites. There are many government entities pursuing Open Data in Canada. Data.gov lists the sites of a total of 31 US states, 13 cities, and > 150 agencies and subagencies providing open data; e.g. the state of Maryland, the state of California, US.[14]

The United Nations has an open data website that publishes statistical data from Member States and UN Agencies:[15]

The European Commission has created two portals for the European Union: the EU Open Data Portal which gives access to open data from the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies [16] and the PublicData portal[17] that provides datasets from local, regional and national public bodies across Europe.

Samuel Ceezhar: A serious analysis of Osun state’s allocation and wage bill (the two versions)

June 4, 2015



Permit me to use this medium to analyze the speech (here) of the governor of Osun-Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at the inauguration of state house of assembly members. As we all know, speech analysis is the “in-thing” now, so, flow with me as we do this “trekking.”

I intend to use available data for this exposition after which you can make an informed conclusion on our case. You see, I live and work in this great state and I know first-hand, the effects of the financial crisis. The figures are from our dear budgIT, oagf and fmf.

It is straightforward: type in your stat(for budgIT) and year of choice, the year’s FAAC allocations will appear. For the other two, type in the month and year, the entire allocations for all the 3 tiers of government appears. I explain all this not because I think you are slow but knowing the social media peeps, one has to be thorough.

The figure you really need from all those numbers is the NET ALLOCATION. I believe now, we can begin the exercise.

ISSUES TO NOTE:

The governor in his maiden address to the house said the total allocations to the state from FAAC, IGR and other accruals are equal to N204 billion. Of this, FAAC and others excluding IGR amount to N108.3 billion.

2010: The Year of Oranmiyan

The governor came in in November and he declared the total allocation for the 2 months to be N4.2 billion. He also said the wage bill is N3.6 billion with a net gain of N573 million.

From the table below whose figures are obtained from the aforementioned sites (at least, we should be able to trust @seunonigbinde’s numbers), you will see it is different.



The total here is N6.0 billion, no? If you deduct wage bill of N3.6 bn from N6 bn, ‘you go definitely get answer wey pass the net gain.’ I am not an accountant but I try to trust my calculator.

2011: The Beginning of the Rule

Ogbeni said throughout this year, he got N29.9 billion, had a wage bill of N25.8 billion and a net gain of N4 billion- remember, his words, not mine. Again, let us turn to the trio:





You will find that summing these gives you N48.2 billion with an awesome net gain well above the one above. Anyways, as they say on #Twitter street, #netgainnooni.

2012: The Year of the First of the Deficit

My amiable, quintessential, articulate and ever conscious (sorry, I finished from OAU) Ogbeni said we got N28.4 billion and expended N31.6 billion leaving a deficit of N3.2 billion – the first of its kind.

I am seriously channeling @DoubleEph. Come with me to our table:



2013: The Second Year of Our Beloved Deficit

Now, I sincerely hope you are getting my message. For this year, we understand that N26.4bn accrued to the state out of which N36.9bn was expended giving us a ‘whopping’ N10.4 billion deficit. Turn up with me to the table:



Adding them together gives us N44.7 billion. If you remove the wage bill from this number (or vice-versa), there is no way you will have a deficit! I can understand if by now you are confused, trust me; I thought the people from my village have upgraded their operating system-like they did that rich guy who turned to a monk.

2014: The Year of Oil, its Crash, and Revenue Drop

To cut the long story short, “our statutory allocation fell further to N19.3 billion and by which time we were already defaulting on some of our obligations on emoluments, which had also dropped to N22.4 billion, but still left us with a deficit of N3 billion.”



Before we continue, you’ll notice the asterisks. On ‘oagf’s site, the breakdown page for the states were absent. See here, here, and here. In fact, on BudgIT website, 2014 allocations ended in June. For the month with 2 asterisks, they made a mistake of writing “allocation of October 2013 shared in November 2014-here. Having done that, let’s get back to the numbers.

Now, I know we do not have figures for 3 months, but is it not amazing that without those figures, summation still gives N27.4 billion! This is what I call amazeballs. It means we would have comfortably paid the wage bill of #22.4 billion.

Before putting my pen back in the basket of strange accounting, brethren, let us summarize the first main point. If you add all the figures from the tables, the amount accruable to the State of Osun (excluding IGR) from the year of our Lord 2010-2014 is #174.1 billion.



I am not trying to elicit anything nor am I forming opposition. As @ayosogunro said, there are two types of people in a polity: party faithfuls’ and citizens. I belong to the latter. My submission is this; obviously, there are two different figures here. Which one is true and which is false? If we say we are progressives, conservatives, fencists, etc., there has to be a converging point for us where true data is given and relied on. This definitely is confusing and I am sure people will take sides but if we are to be #activecitizens, we need to start asking serious questions about the figures we are given.

Personally, I think the governor owes us a breakdown of the allocations, debt profile and its servicing, government projects (completed, ongoing and untouched). This topic of salaries is a hot one as we are not the only one but if the figures above are true, then the governor of the State of Osun, @raufaregbesola, has no excuse.

I conclude with the words of @elnathan when tweeps were comparing FIFA with Nigeria. With these few points of mine, I hope I have been able to confuse you and not convince you of the need to not be just commentators or “mentioners” but people who hold government officials accountable.

Sorry sir, I do not want to plagiarize. Thanks for your time.

Samuel Ceezhar: A serious analysis of Osun state’s allocation and wage bill (the two versions)

June 4, 2015



Permit me to use this medium to analyze the speech (here) of the governor of Osun-Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at the inauguration of state house of assembly members. As we all know, speech analysis is the “in-thing” now, so, flow with me as we do this “trekking.”

I intend to use available data for this exposition after which you can make an informed conclusion on our case. You see, I live and work in this great state and I know first-hand, the effects of the financial crisis. The figures are from our dear budgIT, oagf and fmf.

It is straightforward: type in your stat(for budgIT) and year of choice, the year’s FAAC allocations will appear. For the other two, type in the month and year, the entire allocations for all the 3 tiers of government appears. I explain all this not because I think you are slow but knowing the social media peeps, one has to be thorough.

The figure you really need from all those numbers is the NET ALLOCATION. I believe now, we can begin the exercise.

ISSUES TO NOTE:

The governor in his maiden address to the house said the total allocations to the state from FAAC, IGR and other accruals are equal to N204 billion. Of this, FAAC and others excluding IGR amount to N108.3 billion.

2010: The Year of Oranmiyan

The governor came in in November and he declared the total allocation for the 2 months to be N4.2 billion. He also said the wage bill is N3.6 billion with a net gain of N573 million.

From the table below whose figures are obtained from the aforementioned sites (at least, we should be able to trust @seunonigbinde’s numbers), you will see it is different.



The total here is N6.0 billion, no? If you deduct wage bill of N3.6 bn from N6 bn, ‘you go definitely get answer wey pass the net gain.’ I am not an accountant but I try to trust my calculator.

2011: The Beginning of the Rule

Ogbeni said throughout this year, he got N29.9 billion, had a wage bill of N25.8 billion and a net gain of N4 billion- remember, his words, not mine. Again, let us turn to the trio:





You will find that summing these gives you N48.2 billion with an awesome net gain well above the one above. Anyways, as they say on #Twitter street, #netgainnooni.

2012: The Year of the First of the Deficit

My amiable, quintessential, articulate and ever conscious (sorry, I finished from OAU) Ogbeni said we got N28.4 billion and expended N31.6 billion leaving a deficit of N3.2 billion – the first of its kind.

I am seriously channeling @DoubleEph. Come with me to our table:



2013: The Second Year of Our Beloved Deficit

Now, I sincerely hope you are getting my message. For this year, we understand that N26.4bn accrued to the state out of which N36.9bn was expended giving us a ‘whopping’ N10.4 billion deficit. Turn up with me to the table:



Adding them together gives us N44.7 billion. If you remove the wage bill from this number (or vice-versa), there is no way you will have a deficit! I can understand if by now you are confused, trust me; I thought the people from my village have upgraded their operating system-like they did that rich guy who turned to a monk.

2014: The Year of Oil, its Crash, and Revenue Drop

To cut the long story short, “our statutory allocation fell further to N19.3 billion and by which time we were already defaulting on some of our obligations on emoluments, which had also dropped to N22.4 billion, but still left us with a deficit of N3 billion.”



Before we continue, you’ll notice the asterisks. On ‘oagf’s site, the breakdown page for the states were absent. See here, here, and here. In fact, on BudgIT website, 2014 allocations ended in June. For the month with 2 asterisks, they made a mistake of writing “allocation of October 2013 shared in November 2014-here. Having done that, let’s get back to the numbers.

Now, I know we do not have figures for 3 months, but is it not amazing that without those figures, summation still gives N27.4 billion! This is what I call amazeballs. It means we would have comfortably paid the wage bill of #22.4 billion.

Before putting my pen back in the basket of strange accounting, brethren, let us summarize the first main point. If you add all the figures from the tables, the amount accruable to the State of Osun (excluding IGR) from the year of our Lord 2010-2014 is #174.1 billion.



I am not trying to elicit anything nor am I forming opposition. As @ayosogunro said, there are two types of people in a polity: party faithfuls’ and citizens. I belong to the latter. My submission is this; obviously, there are two different figures here. Which one is true and which is false? If we say we are progressives, conservatives, fencists, etc., there has to be a converging point for us where true data is given and relied on. This definitely is confusing and I am sure people will take sides but if we are to be #activecitizens, we need to start asking serious questions about the figures we are given.

Personally, I think the governor owes us a breakdown of the allocations, debt profile and its servicing, government projects (completed, ongoing and untouched). This topic of salaries is a hot one as we are not the only one but if the figures above are true, then the governor of the State of Osun, @raufaregbesola, has no excuse.

I conclude with the words of @elnathan when tweeps were comparing FIFA with Nigeria. With these few points of mine, I hope I have been able to confuse you and not convince you of the need to not be just commentators or “mentioners” but people who hold government officials accountable.

Sorry sir, I do not want to plagiarize. Thanks for your time.

suwailad:
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barcafool can't even create a fake account to look real. what a shame.