omenka:
Potential leader in either Yaba Left or Kirikiri.

Tell these clutterheads to make Fayose a councillor in their state and they'd tell you "God forbid" or "Allah kiyaye!!"

Aromas:

Asin d guy is to courage of himself.

modath:


Awon ti won fe je iwo o ni ye beere ..


@ OLADEEGBU

Tiwa n Tiwa niyin?

Mo ro wipe awon Araabi ti won fi yoruba boju ni o..

ki02020:


That idea is what I call own goal

Mekus68:
In other words, the PDP governors hv chosen him as their presidential candidate in 2019.

chikel2000:
Fayose the true leader from the south west, others are there bowing down to PMB

Eboski:
Fayose my man........
the only out spoken governor.....
the nightmare of APC
the man who send APC parking from Ekiti state
From Governorship to state House of Assembly...
Federal house of Reps....
Senate......
A region of birth of APC........
God bless Ekiti state
God bless Governor Fayose
God bless Nigeria

bejeiodus:
Fayose has become an issue in Nigerian politics. His political trajectory points at a man destined for a higher office. He has become a thorn in the flesh of the APC. He is one man that will play a big role in the rebuilding of the PDP.

OLAADEGBU:
Gbogbo aluala ologbo ___________________________

Luckylife:
Bro saraki and buhari are of APC members , legislative are mostly occupied by APC members, And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Wise question a non zombie will ask him or herself , who are they fooling and taking for a ride of shameful return? Definitely I must not be one ! Are u ?

Luckylife:
Both the executive and legislative have to blame, the initial budget of fraud was presented by the executive,stolen and later padded which was also confirmed by the presidency. We all condemn it because that is the most corruption budget in the history of this volatile nation . In the process of righting the wrong legislative use that opportunity to add some clause to favour their constituency .

The reconciliation committee of the National Assembly on the 2016 budget may return the corrected details of the appropriation bill to President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday (today), findings revealed on Friday.

The committee is chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Suleiman Lasun.

A second committee from the side of the executive is chaired by the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma.

Investigations by Saturday PUNCH revealed that the two committees would meet, fine-tune the details of the budget and forward it to Buhari possibly today.

The President and the leadership of the National Assembly had agreed to set up the committees after a brief meeting on Wednesday night in Abuja to reconcile the “grey areas” in the N6.06tn budget.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, as well as the principal officers of both chambers attended the meeting, which was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Some senior officials of the National Assembly confided in Saturday PUNCH on Friday that the members of the Lasun committee worked all night on Thursday in a bid to speed up the reworking of the budget’s details.

“The Deputy Speaker and the other committee members slept at the secretariat on Thursday.

“They will likely sleep there today again (Friday) because their plan is to ensure that the budget details, as corrected, will reach Mr. President on Saturday,” one of the officials stated.

It was gathered that some members of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations, which created the “distortions” in the first place, marveled at the work pace of the reconciliation committee.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that among the grey areas, which would now be deleted from the budget, were the N40bn lawmakers added to the original vote for zonal intervention projects.

Buhari initially proposed N60bn for the projects, but the lawmakers jacked it up to N100bn with an inflated N40bn.

Similarly, projects worth over N4bn, which the Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, allegedly earmarked for his constituency in Kano State without the knowledge of his colleagues, would be removed from the details.

Saturday PUNCH also gathered that Buhari opposed all cuts in his original projections that were up to 40 per cent.

A source said, “The President wants the original figures retained because he feels the cuts will affect the implementation of the projects the funds were meant to serve.

“Any cut that is up to 40 per cent will be reduced. Of course, this will still not affect the overall budget size of N6.06tn.

“What will happen is that we will juggle round the details and adjust the smaller figures but still retain the N6.06tn.

“Distortions that crept into the budget will be removed to get the document ready for Presidential assent hopefully by Tuesday, next week.”

The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas, confirmed that it was the expectation of the National Assembly that the work would be “done with over the weekend.”

He added that the National Assembly hoped that the budget controversy would be resolved after May 1

LordAdam:


Another round of emotional diatribe.

I'll ask you a very simple question, Nigeria is 55 years old, show me a president or military dictator with more achievements than GEJ in Nigeria's history?

That alone is enough reason to show he was the most qualified person to rule Nigeria in 2015. Those who voted against against him were simpletons with very vague knowledge of history.


The present conditions vindicate that assertion.

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LordAdam:


You know deep down that what you typed is balderdash.

The decision by Soyinka was flawed not necessarily because he hated GEJ, but because he miscalculated the existential politicking of 2015.

Soyinka has been a staunch critic of Buhari, he made the U-turn because he was led to believe that PMB was a repentant democrat. That is the reason for the flawed decision he made. Normal humans can be reformed, but not Buhari. The antecedents were very clear.

A 73 years old former head of state, oil minister that has never worked for anything in his adult life. No company, no fund, no philanthropic activity, no business aside his native herdsman occupation which he was raised with. In fact, he had just 150 cows as a man of his status.

Until 2014, Buhari has been the poster-child of the North's oppression of the South and he had been very vocal about it. From absolving Abacha of all wrongdoing to confronting the Oyo state governor about farmer-Fulani clashes, to inciting the 2011 post-election crises in the North, to calling Boko Haram members sons of the North. He even outdid Babangida.

However, in barely one month because of a coalition of political parties, Nigeria's most celebrated literary icon believed that a man with such precedence had become a reformed democrat. Let that sink in, IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH!

Suddenly, the man who was protecting Boko Haram and even pointed out as a trusted negotiator promised to squash BH. A man who was oil minister under the most corrupt military regime claimed to be a man of integrity who would rid Nigeria of corruption.

When Obasanjo ran for President in 1999, he was the most qualified ex-military dictator. Why? Because of his antecedent. He oversaw Nigeria's most prosperous economic period during the military era and handed over to civilian rule willingly. In contrast, Buhari oversaw Nigeria's worst economic period during the military era, when people queued to buy salt, and he overthrew a legitimate civilian government.

Soyinka, though a respected man of letter, and one I certainly have utmost respect for, failed with his support of Buhari. The only person worse than Buhari that could have contested was IBB. Every other Northern presidential hopeful at 2015 was better than Buhari. Atiku is better, even el-Rufai would have been a better choice, even Ribadu would have been a better choice.

Everyone makes mistakes, and Soyinka's support of Buhari is the worst mistake of his post-1999 stint. A reformed democrat would show signs of being reformed years before saying so, he contested elections 3 times, in 12 years and never showed signs of being a reformed democrat, but someone who purports to be intelligent believed he would become reformed magically if he assumed the seat.

What we are experiencing is not a surprise. It was expected. Anyone who did not see this coming is, without mincing words, a F00L.

If Buhari can rule Nigeria after all he did and said, Hitler can rule Nigeria.

-Lord

nnachukz:
In the last administration, they took the payment of salaries, arrears and allowances for granted because it was always paid between 22nd to 25th of every month. But today they are praising and also begging for their allowances and arrears which are even their entitlements. Such is life.

Okanokan:


Are they genuises? Maybe Pat Utomi, but they do make grievious mistakes that one is bound to ask are these persons really lettered.

iflywithbuhari:

You backed up my points, indicating that this government is a colossal failure, and that the country is being punished for its unintelligent choices. Thanks for agreeing with me.

themall:
he can't answer that query. his comments were a dead-on-arrival.

emi14:


I am not interested, people are dying and your still discussing Jonathan. Soyinka's emotions to Jonathan can't stop the massacre in Enugu. Do you understand?

iflywithbuhari:

No fuel, No light, fulani terrorism, and you call that governance. You think PMB is happy. Have you forgotten the prayer " MAY MY ENEMIES LIVE LONG TO SEE WHAT I WILL ACCOMPLISH". God will keep PMB alive to see, Nigerians revolt against him, and drag him, his wife, his 1st class flying daughter, out of Aso Rock.
As for Doyin Okupe, and the SW, they are paying the price of betrayal. Mr Okupe couldn't even deliver his own ward. He is useless, to the party. God is with Diezani, all is well with her

emi14:


Whatever made Soyinka to hate Jonathan is hunting everybody including him. Calling Fulani's herdsmen to order and reminding Buhari his constitutional duties, to protect life and property should be our priority.The past administration's shortcomings should later.

Okanokan:


True! But remember "That in the life of every genius, there is a period of madness". 2015 was Soyinka period of MADNESS

iflywithbuhari:

PURE RUBBISH. PEJ never wanted to control Dickson's political choices. Right in your analysis, you even contradicted yourself, by claiming that She doesn't weigh in on Wike's decisions. It was the likes of you and Amaechi that went to town with those horrendous lies. As I said earlier, God will punish every last one of them, for you can't outhink the thinker. Just like Michael Corleone did in the Godfather, so will GEJ do to all of them. Just watch and see

jerseyboy:


Jonathan was mediocre at best. He was a weak and indecisive leader. So much so that he can hardly get credit for the few good things he accomplished. It was easy for any person given to uncompromising standards to not like Jonathan. But then elections are about choices. And given not much of a choice between Jonathan and Buhari anyone with the love of civil liberties would have held their nose and supported Jonathan.

There is a Yoruba saying that even when we are crying we must still be seeing.

I could understand the generation that came of age after Hausa-Fulani military rule not having experienced the complete subjugation of other Nigerians to second class citizenship. But Soyinka's generation witnessed the conquest and effects first hand.

Obasanjo's greatest achievement as president was the neutralization of some of the institutionalized 'privileges' the military had built for the Hausa-Fulani oligarchs. This first grabbed my attention when during his regime when at a Nigerian Embassy I over heard a conversation between two northerners complaining bitterly how the unimaginable is happening at the villa as Yoruba language is being spoken in the corridors of power at Aso Rock Villa. Hither to Hausa had become the semi official language of the military and of government. By insisting on merit on many things Obasanjo began a roll back than at the end of his tenure he was the most hated Nigeria by the Hausa-Fulanis.

On a last note for those who say 'if they don't perform we will vote them out in 2019 just as we did Jonathan' you are on a long road. Obasanjo who was brought in by the north because the trusted him having been at their beck and call as military head of state became their biggest regret the second time around. The more time removed them from direct power at the center the more desperate they got. Jonathan became a nightmare for them. They imagined as an Ijaw man he could announce one day that Nigeria was dissolved. Now that they are back in charge they will never give that power away again.

Khd95:
Excuse me mr kwankwaso,ure no longer the Governor so u nd ur shittie political ideology should fvck off.

Let whom the pple voted for take charge ok

iflywithbuhari:
May God punish and destroy my enemies, like he is destroying the ingrates that ganged up on GEJ. Saraki, Tinubu, Kwansako, oby, and the rest. Amaechi get ready for your own dose

jerseyboy:
Soyinka's support for Buhari in 2015 was perplexing for a man of letters. So many were blinded by hatred for Jonathan that they failed to see clearly that they were marching us back to the Egypt of our Fulani internal colonial masters.

HsLBroker:
The Simplest Way To Calculate The Numbers Of Blocks U Need For Your Fence


The simplest way to calculate the numbers of blocks you need for your fence project, assuming you are fencing a land measuring 120 feet by 60 ft, a standard plot

This calculation is based on 9 inches block fence .
The measurement we are using is 120 ft (length) and since we have two lengths that is multiply by 2 which is 240 ft. (120 x 2) = 240

The breadth is 60 ft and also since we have 2 breadths that equal 120 ft (60 x 2) = 120
Then (240 + 120) that is 360 feet perimeter line fencing.

The calculation

(we are to convert this 360 feet to inches ) since a foot is 12 inches , now let us multiply 12 inches by 360 ft which is 4320 inches.

Now to get the line numbers of blocks that will go around the fence perimeters of 4320 inches or 360 feet, we would need to divide 4320 by 18 inches, since the length of any block be it 6 inches or 9 inches is 18inches.

Now 4320 inches divide by 18 inches is approximately 240 line of blocks , then we must multiply that by the numbers of coaches of blocks you want for your height, assuming 7 ft which is 9 coaches that means 240 multiply by 9 which is 2160 blocks and that is all you need anything aside from this is fake and fraud, this calculation is derive by me professionally and i have been using it without any mistake, but always remember to add 10 % of blocks to it because of broken blocks, and for this work, you only need 30 bags of cements, one bag of cement to 70 blocks, is standard.

for your pillars between the fence, let assume 6 blocks far from the next pillar, that means 6 divide by 240 which is 40 pillars, 1 bag of cement to 2 pillars standard, that is 17 bags plus 40 bags that is 47 bags is need by me to do this fence, if i'm in position and you should also to add 15 bags for floor blinding of the fence making 62 bags of cement.

Then, we need to minus the gate and the pillars that are also taking space in the fence.

The gate is 12 ft, let us assume the gate columns or pillars is 14 inches each, we have 2 pillars holding the gate, that is 28 inches or 2. 4 feet plus 12 feet that is 14.4 feet or approximately 15 feet.

Remember we already calculate the pillars that 40 pillars is need for the measurement.

Each pillar or column for 9 inches concrete is 9 inches square, 9 x 40 = 360 inches that is (30 feet + 15 feet = 45 feet ) / 18 inches = 30 blocks multiply by the number of coaches, 30 x 9 = 270 block minus 2160 blocks = 1890 blocks in total.

40 lengths of 12mm iron rod, since one pillar is equivalent to 1 length.

3 lengths of 16mm iron rod for the 2 big pillars holding the gate.

90 planks of soft wood for the framing.

1 truck of granite (granite would be use for the wall foundation and columns)

5 trucks of sharp sand

Thanks for the opportunity giving me to explain this simple arithmetic.

Regards
Adeniyi

benedictnsi:
That's a nice one.....


Let there be light indeed......


What a shame, Nigeria now switching to Solar.....



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