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TheGoodJoe:
Cramjones, I can recommend a good eye doctor in Port-Harcourt that can attend to you. The girl strapped with bomb, looks nothing like the Amina Ali kidnapped by the Boko Haram monsters.

Look at the pic below and tell me there is a close resemblance of Amina Ali to the strapped girl pic you posted.

You goofed! The picture you labelled Amina Ali does not even look like the real her displayed. You see why people are doubting that school abduction thing. Nobody is sayiing that boko haram did not abduct young girls in Chibok, but people are saying that using secondary school children for that lie is too cheap! It is not selling!!!!

True talk! Real scam!!!

Vice President Osinbajo defrauded by accountant general


– Yemi Osinbajo the Nigerian vice president has been reportedly duped

– About N324billion has been discovered missing in the oil report presented at the NEC

– Some shady deals have been discovered in the report

– The Accountant General of the federation has been fingered in the anomaly

A very huge scam has been detected in a comprehensive oil report presented to the National Economic Council (NEC).

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Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo addressing the guest at the National Economic Council Meeting retreat at the State House Conference in Abuja.
Premium Times reports that the report was silent on a whopping N323.58 billion earned as crude oil revenue under the President Goodluck Jonathan government.

The report, submitted to NEC by Mohammed Dikwa, the then director of funds, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), revealed a startling discrepancy of about ₦323.58 billion, which his analysis failed to explain.

President Muhamadu Buhari later appointed Mr Dikwa Acting Accountant-General of the Federation before Ahmed Idris emerged as the Accountant General.

The oil report, exclusively dated June 29, 2015 was presented at the 58th Meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC).

The NEC comprises of the 36 state governors, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and other co-opted members. The NEC is chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The report detailed NNPC’s crude oil revenue, remittances to the Federation Account and amount withheld by the NNPC.

Mr Dikwa presented crude oil revenue streams of ₦1,844,764,591,969 for 2012; ₦2,727,834,769,083 for 2013; ₦2,541,454,301,641 for 2014 and ₦1,031,691,963,044 for the first two quarters of 2015. The total oil revenue for the period stood at ₦8,145,745,652,737.

For the amount paid into the Federation account, the report showed the sum of ₦927,312,350,868 for 2012; ₦1,466,951,625,000 for 2013; ₦1,341,545,651,272 for 2014 and ₦591,681,318,358 for the first two quarters of 2015.

The total remittance for the period of 2011 to June 2015 was ₦4,327,490,945,499.

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Even though there were ongoing arguments about the legality of NNPC withholding certain amounts of crude oil revenue, the report showed that NNPC withheld ₦774,382,841,100 in 2012; ₦1,179,883,171,083 in 2013; ₦1,114,306,750,369 in 2014 and ₦426,102,269,704 in the first two quarters of 2015.

The total remittance for the period of 2011 to June 2015 was ₦3,494,675,032,256.

Accorsing to Premium Times analysis of the figures, for 2012 and 2013, the sums of ₦143,069,400,000 and ₦80,999,973,000 were not captured in the report either as a​mounts paid into FAAC or withheld by NNPC.

This mystery continued in 2014 and 2015 as ₦85,601,900,000 and ₦13,908,374,982 were also unreported either as amount paid into FAAC or withheld by NNPC.

Naturally, the amount paid into Federation account and that withheld by NNPC should equal the crude oil revenue for each year. But that was not the case with the OAGF report.
Year Crude cost (Revenue)

(a)
Amount Paid into FAAC

(b)
Withheld by NNPC

(c)
Unreported Amount in FAAC

d=a-b-c
2012 ₦1,844,764,591,969 ₦927,312,350,869 ₦774,382,841,100 ₦143,069,400,000
2013 ₦2,727,834,769,083 ₦1,466,951,625,000 ₦1,179,883,171,083 ₦80,999,973,000
2014 ₦2,541,454,301,641 ₦1,341,545,651,272 ₦1,114,306,750,369 ₦85,601,900,000
2015 ₦1,031,691,963,044 ₦591,681,318,358 ₦426,102,269,704 ₦13,908,374,982
Total ₦8,145,745,625,737 ₦4,327,490,945,499 ₦3,494,675,032,256 ₦323,579,647,982

​Cumulatively, the report by the OAGF failed to explain what NNPC did with ₦323,579,647,982.

Kagarko:
Point of correction!


If you are not educated you can't be an Imam or Islamic leader. May be it's possible elsewhere but not in Islam.


Anyway the scenario is really a paradoxical.


God bless Nigeria and Nigerians

Smart! You dodged!!!

Kkkkk

WELL SAID ..., BISHOP KUKAH
"Nigerian educational systems have surprising outcomes. The smartest students pass with First Class and get admitted to Medical and Engineering Schools. The Second Class students get MBAs and LLBs to manage the First Class students. The Third Class students enter politics and rule both the First and Second Class students. The Failures enter the Underworld of crime and control the politicians and businesses. And best of all, those who did not attend school become Prophets and Imams and everyone follows them. What a paradox of life. This can only happen in Nigeria where corruption is the order of the day."
- Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah on the paradox of the Nigerian society.

Ijaya123:
Which media house did the trial take place?

How did you hear the story in the first place?

Joke of the century!!!! This government is a big joke! Whose children are they feeding? Wait a minute, you want to spend money to be feeding children when their parents are hungry and unemployed? Shaa! Who is fooling who? For how long will you feed these children? Will you also pay their school fees, from primary through to tertiary institution?
Kudos to my neighbour Adamu, he has been warming up to add more wives... this news will truly spur him to produce more children for apc government to feed!
They scrapped SURE-P and sacked their workers, stopped YouWiN programme and seized Awardees' funds. No job creation, only to feed almajiri!
What a visionless government!

It's such a wonderful period today as two students of a particular school engaged themselves in a chat. One, after leaving the chatroom later surfaced and wrote: "Honestly my opponent went hard on me and I couldn't challenge him further so I went underground and digged out a writting I read from someone's page. I posted it and my oponent laughed and ran away". This is the post, attempt the questions if you can:

ATTEMPT ALL QUESTIONS

1. If Gej is a constant, while Apc is a variable, and if 1year has been used for blaming past administration; with the aid of a diagram, discuss the probability of Apc blaming Gej for the next 3years for:
i. Dollar increase.
ii. Fuel Price increase.

2. If Apc = All promises cancelled, where pmb is a constant, discuss the speed at which peoples suffering may increase.

3. Define the term, ''Budget padding''.

4. Mention 3 types of apc propaganda you know, and how they can be used in 21st century politics.

5. Mention 5 Prisoners you know that feeds with N14000 everyday.

6. Mention the next 3 countries pmb will travel to after london.

7. If pmb is silent when herdsmen kills people and buys jet fighter when Biafra is mentioned, solve the equation in correlation to x.

8. Write short notes on these mad phrases; masquerade dressing, importation of grass and pencil production by 2017.

9. If x is chanji and y is lies/propaganda, solve the equation, 2x + 5y = ?

10. If you used to be corrupt, but now fantastically corrupt. Explain the effect of gravitational force on you...

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FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT COUNTRIES: Fayose blames Buhari for Cameron’s Comments

By Rotimi Ojomoyela

Ado-EKITI—Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s utterances outside Nigeria was the reason the British Prime Minister, David Cameron described Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt”, saying; “What do you expect from the international community when the President of a nation keeps going abroad to say that his people are corrupt?”
He said it was annoying that President Buhari said he was embarrassed and shocked by Cameron’s comment, adding that instead of saying that he was shocked, the president should apologise to Nigerians for demarketing the country and his people.
The governor, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka said it was on record that in February this year, President Buhari said in United Kingdom that “Nigerians’ reputation for crime has made them unwelcome in Britain” and went on to warn Nigerians to stop trying to make asylum claims in Britain, saying that their reputation for criminality has made it hard for them to be accepted abroad.

Fayose
He said; “When a president mounts the podium in foreign lands and gleefully says that his own people are criminals, that they are corrupt and that those abroad should be sent back home, why won’t heads of other countries brand all citizens of such a country as fantastically corrupt?
“Rather than this grandstanding from the presidency, conceited efforts should be made to redeem the image of Nigeria that the president has destroyed.”
Governor Fayose, who said he was not against the anti-corruption efforts of the Federal Government, added that all he was saying was that it should be done in accordance with the laws of the country and that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must stop behaving as if it is above the law.
Gov throws weight behind protesting hospital staff
Meantime, protesting staff members of the Federal Teaching Hospital (FEHTI) Ido-Ekiti in Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State yesterday prevailed on Governor Fayose to support them over their agitation and demand for immediate removal of their Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Lawrence Folorunsho Ayodele over of alleged official misconduct and insensitivity to the plight of th e hospital staff.
Fayose, who arrived the gate of the hospital at about noon yesterday into the arms of a mammoth crowd of the staff and residents of the community, was prevented from entering into the hospital as the aggrieved staff demanded that he addressed them outside the gate of the hospital.
All pleas by the governor and the leaders of the staff unions/ associations to them to allow Governor Fayose gain entry into the hospital and meet with their leaders fell on deaf ears of the angry staff.
The governor, after about an hour of waiting at the gate, eventually succumbed to the will of the staff and addressed them, saying: “I’m not here for the Medical Director, Dr Ayodele. I’m here for you. This is a federal hospital. As much as you don’t want him again. I support you.
“Yesterday, I was with your leaders and Dr. Ayodele and I told them my mind and I told Dr. Ayodele that he did not do well with these people. I told him that if we were in an advanced democracy, if I were him, I would have resigned. I reminded him about the sayings of the elders, that you cannot be bigger than the institution, the community, whether you are the governor or the President.”

doyinisaac:
You can abuse them for all you like but david Cameron just insulted your country but because of politics you don't mind to sell your country just to score dumb political cheap points....

it is easier for an elephant to enter inside the hole of a needle than for you to write sensible comments...

Sure he did, but just in support of Buhari. The last time he went there he told the whole world that Nigerians abroad are all criminals! As you make your bed so you lie on it!!!!!!

oduastates:
YOULOSE

If that's what you wish yourself, so be it!!!!

It was truly a horrible experience for the Minister of Finance today as the YouWiN3 Awardees blocked the entrance gate of the ministry demanding for their payment.

The Minister came in ans saw the Awardees holding banners, she called one of her Directors who was in a meeting with the Awardees' representatives. The Director on behalf of the Minister said they will close the issue of BVN today so that they can compile the list of those with BVN by tomorrow and give the Minister for onward approval. He later said , they will begin payment of tranches to the Awardees as soon as possible within a month time.
Pressmen from different radio and TV stations covered the event from outside the ministry's gate because they were not allowed into the FMF premises.
Let's pray that God will help these Awardees to receive their funds so as to continue with their businesses across Nigeria.
Lalasticlala, Seun, Mynd44... let the world hear the voice of these youths. You are a youth only once!

YOUWIN: Awardees protest non-payment at Ministry of FinanceBy Samson Atekojo Usman

Awardees of YOUWIN programme in the last administration of President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday protested at the the Federal Ministry of Finance, demanding that they should be paid their grant having trained and engaged some youths in their various businesses as well as fulfilled all processes.

The awardees, in their numbers, claimed that the inability of the last administration to pay them was due to an alleged missing N5.05 billion counterpart funding which the World Bank released to the Federal Ministry of Finance.

Spokesperson of the group, Engr. Jonathan Ango, who spoke to DAILY POST at the Ministry of Finance, stated that the payment to beneficiaries was split in three ranches, but few beneficiaries were selected in first and second tranches and payed peanuts as if to suggest that the programme was successful.

“You see the World Bank did released over N5.05billion as part of its counterpart funds, but the Secretariat would call few beneficiaries and less than 10% in the first and second ranges, and we later got to discovered that the money has been embezzled and that was why we were no longer comfortable,” Angola alleged.

“The programme was captured in 2012 up to 2015 budget of the Federal Ministry of Finance, so where were those funds?” he asked.

A World Bank Consultant attached to YOUWIN Secretariat, who identified himself as Femi, told the protesters that the delay was caused by BVN, assuring them that the authorities were on top of the situation.

He declined comment on the missing World Bank Counterpart Fund and asked journalists to wait for the appropriate person to come and clarify issues.

Meanwhile, all efforts by our correspondent to speak with the Permanent Secretary or Director in charge of YOUWIN programme as at press time proved abortive even after waiting for two hours.

nigeriancritic1:
igbo will never see anything better about Buhari. i know better.

Until Buhari start seeing something good about IGBO! It is a law!!!

nigeriancritic1:
It is a budget. It doesn't mean he will spend that much. He is more likely to return unspent funds unlike GEJ. Buhari is not hungry.

Abi? But he claimed to have borrowed his party registration fee for presidency. Yet he is not hungry!

I understand one thing here, that a life lived without JESUS is a vain life no matter the achievement. All men are grass, and vanity upon vanity remains vanity. My plea to everyone of us is to always think about the last day. Always make amend on time before death calls. To Freeman, it is all over, only you and I that are now here can bear record of events. Praise him from now till tomorrow, it is only time-wasting, for he hears not.
Funeral messages are for the living. If you cannot amend your ways while alive, no amount of praise-singing can do it for you. We all have only one time to live before we die, and after death, a new chapter opens for us - eternity, either with God or satan.
We can do better now by making peace with God through His Son Jesus Christ - the Saviour of the world!
Jesus is the Lord, acknowledge Him!

omolola15:
If i like make i reason from my diick na me get am. What I'm saying is simple. What does Buhari stand to gain from islamising this country? So you are telling me someone will go to the core East and force them all to be Muslim? It sounds so stupid for me to believe it. Even when he was military man. He can do it then and go Scott free. He has the full military behind him yet he didn't do it. In this era of democracy you are all here shouting islamizatiion. And every other part of the world will stand and watch him turn over 80 million Christians to muslim? (I'm not sure of the figure though) but again what do i know. I'm just 12 years old like you claim.

happney65 do you agree with me on this?

Your opinion. But you have to watch it.

If they are not fulani herdsmen, who are they? And if we don't blame fulani herdsmen, whom do we blame... Buhari, their patron or northern politicians, their sponsors?
Nigeria is a big JOKE!

Keneking:
Our yams, this month of May is critical for Jonathan.

He has a date with EFCC before the first anniversary of PMB government.

Recent revelations from those who served in various capacities in his government are sufficient to nail him.

He can keep moving from city to city and country to country, the time is now to retrieve all that his government stole from Nigeria.

Those that love him are beneficiaries of his corrupt government. Nonsense

Jonathan sef

Do you see why not many people will take you and this your Buhari-led government serious? Your post has a tinge of hatred attached to it. I don't jealous you at all because all of you in this government are like witches and wizards. You are very sad and pained when others are laughing, including your subjects.
Anybody that is living comfortably must be a criminal in your own estimation. No wonder you are all beggars!!!

Nigerian politicians trying to remain the best. Why wait till the tail end of his administration? He is trying to put the incoming government to a tight corner. Oshiomole was among the governors that received the bail-out fund from FG.
God is watching everybody's action ooooh!!!

willibounce1:
Yeah you can fast and pray to meet her. Maybe she is going to give u a room in her house and some cash give away.

Your headache though. You will alqays confess your poverty state in public. If you need house, I can accommodate you free. Name the area: Abuja; Lagos; Owerri or Kano.
I don't sound like I am lacking anything, do I? Even the Linda you talk about is a baby to me. Don't try me...

willibounce1:
Yeah you can fast and pray to meet her. Maybe she is going to give u a room in her house and some cash give away.

Your headache though. You will alqays confess your poverty state in public. If you need house, I can accommodate you free. Name the area: Abuja; Lagos; Owerri or Kano.
I don't sound like I am lacking anything, do I? Even the Linda you talk about is a baby to me. Don't try me...

omolola15:
So in this era people still think like this? So you believe in this islamisation bullshit. Someone will come and knock your door and force you to be a Muslim. As big as Nigeria is I don't see that shiiit happening.

That's how far your little sense can carry you. When your security fence is broken down, you have no option than to succumb. You need to grow up and stop quoting me when you want to reason from your anus.

We saw these pictures last year. These soldiers are using the brains of Nigerians, and trying to glorify their endless waste of money and resources in Borno rather than securing Nigerians against the Fulani Herdsmen.
For all I know, Boko Haram in the north became history towards the end of Jonathan's administration. The Fulani Herdsmen we hear about today are the same people sent to the south in the name of cattle rearing to kill, destroy and establish an Islamic emirate as well as installing an emir the way they did in Kwara.
Let the truth come out....!

Wait … is that a rule? Ten everyday grammar mistakes you might be making - Penny Modra and Max Olijnyk

1. Mistaking style issues for errors
Should you use italics for movie titles? Do you put full stops inside or outside quotation marks? Is the Oxford comma for all lists … or just some lists? Should that ellipsis have had a space on either side of it?

The correct answer to each of these questions is “it depends”. In other words, they’re style decisions. In writing, as in fashion, you just have to figure out the style that’s appropriate to your situation and apply it consistently. Unfortunately, many of us spend our professional lives being corrected by people who believe the style guide they once saw on their nanna’s bookshelf is The Official Grammar God’s Eternal English Rule Book.

2. Mistaking ye olde conventions for rules
Beyond style decisions, most of the things people mistake for “rules” in grammar and punctuation are just conventions that crawled out of the swamp at some point and got a foothold, either in a school curriculum or as a recommendation in a 19th- or 20th-century grammar screed.

Don’t start a sentence with a conjunction? That’s never been a rule. True story. If anyone tries to start trouble with you about this, hand them the Chicago Manual of Modern Style:

There is a widespread belief – one with no historical or grammatical foundation – that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as ‘and’, ‘but’ or ‘so’.

And then finish them off with the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage: “Everybody agrees that it’s all right to begin a sentence with ‘and’.”

What about ending a sentence with a preposition? Avoiding this has never been a rule, either. As Winston Churchill said: “This is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.”

Grammar snobs are patronising, pretentious and just plain wrong – video

3. Over-correcting
You: “Hey, mum. Me and Tim are going to the milk bar.” Your mum: “You mean, ‘Tim and I are going to the milk bar.’”

When you’ve spent your childhood receiving slaps on the wrist for using “me”, you spend your adult life replacing every “me” with an “I”. That’s over-correcting.

Grammatically, “me” is always the right choice when you need an objective pronoun. You wouldn’t say, “Hey, Tim, want to come to the milk bar with I?” or, “The CEO will be interviewing I next Thursday”. (Unless your friend’s name is I, which wouldn’t actually surprise us. We met a kid named Better the other day.)

4. Capitalising things because they feel Important
Modern tribes: the grammar pedant | Catherine Bennett
Random capitalisation is a slippery slope. If everyone put a capital on everything they thought was important, we’d live in a city full of Sausage Sizzles and Footy Tipping and Pop Up Shops and Flat Whites. Tone it down, team. Capitals can’t be decided via a Dennis Denuto-esque “It’s the vibe of the thing” logic, because everyone has a different vibe.

Let’s stick to what we can all agree on: capitals to start sentences and capitals for proper nouns. Is a job title a proper noun? That’s a can-of-worms decision for your style guide.

5. Misplacing or confusing your pronouns
Pronouns stand in for other nouns, including people’s names. It’s nice to give people the pronoun “who”, and save the pronoun “that” for everything else. For instance, “the guy who won the footy tipping” arrived in “a car that bloody well breaks down all the time”.

What about animals? Many people like “who” for animals – but it does feel weird for spiders: “Have you seen the funnel-web who’s been lurking on the ceiling all week?”

Also make sure your reader can easily understand which noun your pronoun is standing in for, or you’ll put many innocent pooches at risk.

6. Using the wrong modifier
Modifiers can be single words, phrases or clauses. They’re optional elements that are inserted to change the meaning of the words around them. There are three kinds of modifier error, ranging from the confusing to the hilarious.

A squinting modifier modifies two things at once: “Cycling up hills quickly tones your thighs.” Wait, should I ride quickly, or will my thighs tone up quickly?

A misplaced modifier modifies the wrong thing: “The food truck served tacos to customers in boxes.” Wow. Did they have much elbow-room in there?

A dangling modifier ends up modifying the wrong thing because the thing it’s trying to modify isn’t there: “Having studied for the exam, my coffee machine was a welcome sight.” Full on. Coffee machines are getting smarter by the minute!

7. Which or that?
Whether it’s “which” or “that” depends on whether you want to listen to the convention police. You’re not wrong if you ignore it, but the convention is to reserve “which” for non-defining relative clauses (“The couch, which has a stain on it, is dirty”), and “that” for defining relative clauses (“Here is a couch that has a stain on it”).

Ecuador's radical grammar pedants on a mission to correctly punctuate graffiti
To translate from High Grammarian, if it’s between commas or after a comma, err on the side of “which”.

8. Creating run-on sentences
Independent clauses are great don’t mash them together. Just a little grammar joke for you.

When you’ve got two main clauses in a sentence, you’ll need something in between – and a comma doesn’t qualify. Independent clauses are great; try joining them with a semicolon. Independent clauses are great but don’t mash them together. If you subordinate one clause to the other, you can totally use a comma. See what we did there?

9. Freaking out about apostrophes
When you’re not sure about apostrophes, your natural instinct is to put them everywhere. Understandable. But this can lead to strange-looking plurals such as banana’s and peach’es, and (at least 50% of the time) the wrong it’s.

Remember: don’t put an apostrophe in “its” unless you mean “it is”. Things get difficult with possessive apostrophes only because style guides differ on how to form the possessive when singular nouns end in “s”. If your name is Chris and you’re opening a cafe, most non-American style guides will tell you to name it Chris’s Cafe. But some American style guides (including AP Stylebook) will recommend Chris’ Cafe.

Definitely don’t freak out and name it Chris,s Cafe.

10. Not going with the flow on contemporary usage
How longeth wilt thou persist with “amongst” and “whilst”? Yea though thine prose doth ring fanciful, long hath the “st” lain banish’d ’pon the pebbl’d shore. (These days, it’s always “among” and “while”.)

nijanigga:
Ipob or Buffon did Pastore bakare said he was given a bundle of dollars when he visited gej when he first assume office ?

The same Bakare told Nigerians that Buhari wanted him to commit perjury!

All liars will go to hell fire!!!!! I thought this BLAME GAME THING has stopped?
Anyway, Buhari visited Aso Rock more than 15 times at the period, so he got a fair part of the sharing? 15 x $100, 000 = $1, 500, 000! Buhari must be probed!!!!

donphilopus:
I wanted to contribute to this topic. The only reason I wouldn't say anything is this: 'Why should the Comptroller-General of Prisons be moving with a 20-car convoy?' Even the President of Nigeria wouldn't move with that ridiculous number of cars in his convoy. I blame the gate men who even allowed him entrance to the National Assembly with such convoy.

There were other dignitaries hat went there with him.

CharlieMaria:
At 50? A New husband? Was she married before? If yes, can't they stay in one marriage? *Just asking*

The husband died.

donphilopus:
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Cry me a river! Did you not see the letter from EFCC which shows the man has since been cleared? It even passed through the desk of the then Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) under Jonathan, Anyim Pius Anyim. Why then is this silly counsel to Saraki bringing up the issue that has since been concluded again? Umar was even too cool on him.

If Saraki is found guilty, there's nothing you lots can do about it. You would only wail and wail!

Guy, you lie!!!!!

Is history going to repeat itself? This is never a good wish for Nigeria, but I pray that God will deliver all of us from economic crisis!