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seunmsg:
You don’t have to quote me to post your views since there is no correlation between my comment and yours.

seunmsg:
Bandits is now outdated. Let’s all be calling them terrorists.

WillyDave:
He will quickly sign this without a blink. Idiot of the highest order. If it is to sign the electoral act into law he will be giving flimsy excuses. Buhari would have written his name in gold if he had done that. We would have made significant progress in our electoral processes. Snatching of ballot boxes would have been a thing of the past. Rewriting of results would have ended. The right and popular candidates would have emerged after elections. Politicians would have known that without working, no reelection. Buhari and Malami are the worst thing that has ever happened to us as a country. If he had signed the electoral act, I would have forgiven him of all his atrocities as the worst president Nigeria ever had. My heart bleeds because the future of this country looks so blick.

BarrElChapo:
Fire fire
In our country country
Gimme plenty water
Make I quench the fire

The National Assembly has transmitted the 2022 Appropriation Bill to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for assent.

The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the Federal Government’s budget on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, respectively, raising the total estimates from the proposed N16.391tn to N17.126tn.

The oil benchmark was raised from the proposed $57 per barrel to $62.

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, had said the budget would be transmitted to Buhari by Thursday.

A communication from the Clerk to the National Assembly, Ojo Amos, to the Presidency, a copy of which our correspondent sighted on Tuesday, showed that the budget was transmitted on Friday and received by the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President on Saturday.

The letter of transmission, with Reference Number NASS/CNA/37/Vol.1/35, was addressed to the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and titled ‘APPROPRIATION BILL, 2022.’

It read, “In consonance with the Provisions of the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, I wish, with due respect, to forward to Your Excellency, the authenticated copies of Appropriation Bill, 2022, for your consideration and assent.



“After Your Excellency’s assent, one copy of the signed bill should be retained in your office while the other two are to be returned for our further action, please.


The National Assembly had with the 2020 budget returned the country to a January-December budget cycle.

Buhari had signed 2021 Appropriation Bill into law on January 1, 2021, while it’s life cycle was expected to expire on December 31, 2021 (Friday) but for the recent extension of the lifespan of its capital component three months by the National Assembly.

The President is expected to assent to the money bill by Saturday.

vickydevoka:
2000 born downward, fear them

onthehill:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CX_9Uv9rEli/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Islie:
Failure to hit 2.3m bpd oil target puts FG’s 2019 budget on edge



https://www.sunnewsonline.com/2022-gloomy-start-for-oil-sector-as-nigeria-slashes-oil-prices/

Racoon:
ESBS @ Independence Layout?

gale2626:
You can't blame them if you've not tasted poverty like they had... I just pity this country.

The Headquarters of the Enugu State Broadcasting Service located at the Independence Layout near Agric Bank Junction was on Tuesday morning gutted by fire.

Although the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report, the inferno was said to have completely destroyed the newsroom and presenters office.

It was gathered that an HD Cameras and computer laptop of one of the staff was burnt to ashes.

Staff of the station told our correspondent on condition of anonymity that the fire started shortly after the station was opened for the early morning broadcast around 5.30am to 6.00am when a generator was put on.

He said that safe for the timely response of the State Fire Service, the entire station would have been gutted by fire.

Another staff also told our correspondent that they were at loss about the incessant fire incident at the station since policemen were deployed to guard it shortly after the nationwide #EndSARS protest last year.

“Since the station was built in 1983, we have not heard or witnessed fire incident. But less than a month a police detachment was deployed to the station, our store with equipment was gutted by fire. That storehouse had no electricity supply and there was bush around it yet it was gutted by fire. Till today, police were yet to release their investigation report on that incident before this one.

“Shortly after that first incident, the policemen were removed and a new set of people were brought and now it has happened again. I am not saying that those policemen were behind the incident but a thorough investigation should be conducted on this fire incident.”

The General Manager of the station, Chukwuma Ogbonna, who spoke to our correspondent shortly after the fire was put out by firefighters, lamented that the incident was the second fire incident at the station this year.

Although, he said that the current incident could be attributed to power surge, however, the first incident had remained a puzzle.

“I really thank God that the Fire Service came on time and saved the station otherwise I don’t know what could have happened. The firefighters have put out the fire. It didn’t destroy many things, at least we can go on air.”

Lamenting on the previous fire incident, Ogbonna said “that one happened in our store and all the equipment were totally destroyed. Till today the cause of that fire has remained a puzzle because there was no electricity supply to that store.

“After the incident, police interviewed all the staff and their report hasn’t been released. So it has remained a puzzle. But this one that happened today can be attributed to a power surge. I think there was a problem at the control panel that led to the fire incident this morning.”

Telecom consumers under the aegis of the National Association of Telecoms Subscribers have kicked against the plan by the Federal Government to introduce a suite of digital tokens to enhance the verification of the National Identity Number, effective January next year

According to the Federal Government, the digital token consisting 16 alphabets and numbers will be accepted for third-party verification, instead of the 11-digit NIN.

The development has been greeted with mixed reactions from Nigerians.

However, the President, NATS, Adeolu Ogunbanjo, said the move was currently uncalled for, and shouldn’t be implemented without proper consultation with stakeholders.

He said, “Why can’t the FG engage stakeholders before coming up with this plan? It is a serious policy and they didn’t even engage stakeholders. Why can’t we do that?

“Until they discuss with all relevant stakeholders, and we look at the merits and demerits; they can’t impose this on us.”

Ogunbanjo recalled the development was coming barely a year after the Federal Government mandated citizens to link their SIMs to their NINs within a short period, forcing many Nigerians to besiege registration centres.



He said, “I do not know why the FG is always rushing things on its citizens, remember when they were also going to start the SIM-NIN linkage, it was announced in a hurry too.

“Why is this government rushing its citizens without proper enlightenment? Nobody knows what this V-NIN is all about, they are coming up with it this month and they want to implement it next month. They must start educating the citizenry first.

“We are not sure if the Federal Government doesn’t have an agenda with all these things. This is because we now have about five or six different means of national identification.”

Bullet01:
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BeeBeeOoh:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/502230-were-in-final-phase-of-fight-against-boko-haram-buhari.html

tiger28:
How old is Trump? How old is Biden? Meanwhile , the younger nigerian politicians like Saraki , yahaya bello or Obi are worse thieves as well. African mentality is cursed!

seunmsg:
The above statement by the minister is absolute nonsense. Why should the operational capacity of our transmission and distribution still be hovering around 5,000 megawatts despite the contract awarded by FEC for the same purpose in 2018? Fashola gave this same figure to support his argument for the award of the contract for the expansion back then and this current minister is quoting the same figure. So, what happened to the contract awarded by Fashola for the same purpose?

How many times will FEC approve contract for the upgrade of transmission and distribution capacity without any significant impact? I don’t get it.

fergie001:
Terrorists from Mali planning to infiltrate borders, attack Abuja, Immigration alerts officers



[url=https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/terrorists-from-mali-planning-to-infiltrate-borders-attack-abuja-immigration-alerts-officers/%3famp]SOURCE [/url]

bolaayenimo:
By Temidayo Akinsuyi

LAGOS – The South-West Agenda for Asiwaju 2023 (SWAGA’23) has said Asiwaju Bola Tinu­bu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State gover­nor, will win the presidential primary of the ruling APC irrespective of the mode of primaries adopted by the party.

Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Honourable Bosun Oladele, SWAGA’s National Secretary, said the group during its formation has made provisions for whatever primaries the party will adopt by enlisting the support of former National Assembly members who are statutory delegates in the case of indirect primary and grassroots politicians who can effectively mobilise people in the case of direct primary.

He said “People have been talking about whether direct or indirect primary should be adopted. The idea is that every former member of the National Assembly, be it Senator or Reps are automatic statutory delegates.

“If they say it is indirect primary tomorrow, even if they have gone to another party, wherever they are, they are among the delegates that will vote by rights and by law for all the parties. For example, I am from Oyo state. Every four years, Oyo state will turn out 14 House of Reps members and statutorily, every state has three senators”.

“So, if you look at Oyo state, assuming we are able to get 14 Reps and three senators, that is 17 votes already in the delegates’ election. So, we decided to bring former members of the national assembly together, with the belief that we already have some votes in the kitty in case the indirect primary is adopted.

“With the benefit of hindsight, we also look at the possibility of direct primary where all party members will vote. So, we decided to bring in notable politicians at the grassroots level that have a bond with the people at the grassroots. These include former and serving local government chairmen, house of assembly members, councillors and other party leaders that could mobilise support for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

“That was why we had members who were not national assembly members in the group. That was the concept of SWAGA. At the time we were forming SWAGA, we just believed that we should have a political pressure group for advocacy on behalf of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

“We started by constituting the Central Working Committee made up of two members per state. When we got to Lagos state, we had to accommodate four members because of the size of the state. Honourable Oye Ojo did a great job in terms of networking. We were all driven by the passion to see what we can do for Asiwaju given the fact that he has done so much for the South-West and the progressive family.”
https://independent.ng/direct-or-indirect-tinubu-will-win-apc-presidential-primary-swaga/