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Na my...de work o.

Dino the street fighter. Dino fighting corruption eh. Wonders they say shall never seize to end.

She fyn sha.

Let the girl get better. That's the most important thing

RIP the 'boss' adieu

Atleast they are being productive. Good for them. Better than the nonsence news we hear everyday about bump shots and nudity

When are we going to play by the book. Violence is not the answer.

This thing is getting really messy.

Dogara has been busted. He was at a cross road if not, e wouldn't have sacked Jibrin as the Chairman House Committee on Appropriation. The president asked him to deal ruthlessly with those involved in the budget padding and all he could do was to use Jibrin as the scapegoat. All those involved must dance to the tune of the music.
#stampoutcorruption#

Let there be peace in our land

Buhari must hear this

Na wa o. We exported our 419 ways. Naija I hail o.

Ibrahim Dooba wrote on his Facebook page

Protesting the lack of electricity in Niger State
(Please share)

“How is the electricity situation now,” I asked our security man when I arrived Abuja.

“E don they stable now o,” he said.

Knowing that I just left Minna, where we enjoyed (or suffer) two hours of light out of 48 hours, I thought I didn’t hear him correctly.
But he was right. Electricity has become relatively stable now in Abuja. For example, I returned home at 8pm yesterday and when I didn’t hear sounds of generators, I knew there wasn’t a power cut. I’m writing this at 9am (more than 12 hours later) and the light hasn’t gone off.

So I thought it must have also improved in Minna and called home to check: “It only got worse,” my wife said, “since you left [two days ago] we’ve not seen anything.” This means that rather than improving, it got worse from 2 hours in 48 to zero in 48. And we share the same distribution company (AEDC) with Abuja.

But that is not all. My wife told me that electricity is also available in Bauchi. This is indeed sad. Many parts of Niger State lived in darkness for the entire month of Ramadan.

Paul Mamman wrote a letter in the Daily Trust newspaper a few days ago where he asked all the right questions. I agree with him.
The logic is simple. If the government acknowledges that 90% of the country depends on the electricity generated from Niger State – especially when the gas stations can’t generate – then the community which provides this 90% deserves some consideration. And if you can’t give them any priviledge, at least they shouldn’t be worse than everyone else. Right now, Niger State is probably worse than other places!

When we took a poll here to determine whether we should go out and protest this wickedness, the majority who voted said we should. I still get phone calls today by people asking “when are we going out for the protest?”

Although calls by those who urge caution is important, those who told us that the protest can degenerate into something unintended. But I don’t think we would have problem getting the support and protection of the security agencies. After all, they suffer what we suffer.

Some people also advised us to first write to Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). So, here’s the letter. (Individuals and organizations should simply write in the comment, “I/we endorse this letter” followed by their name or the name of the organization. With enough endorsements, the entire page would be printed and sent to NERC.)

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Chairman/Chief Executive Officer,
NERC Headquarters, Adamawa Plaza,
Plot 1099, First Avenue, Off Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District
Abuja, F.C.T (info@nercng.org)

Dear Sir,
THE PEOPLE OF NIGER STATE DO NOT DESERVE THIS DARKNESS
1. We appreciate the work you do, including how you protect the average electricity consumer through your regulation of the sector. We however, have some discontents:
2. The hydro power stations in Niger State provided electricity to Nigerians long before the gas powered plant were built. Still, the nation depends on the hydro stations when generation from other places become spotty. Only recently, the Federal Government admitted that 90% of the nation depends of the electricity generated by the hydro stations in our state.
3. However, while Abuja and other states enjoy relatively stable electricity, Niger State is in darkness. We spent the entire Ramadan in darkness. We are still in darkness. Sometimes we get two hours in 48 hours, sometimes, nothing. Does that sound right to you?
4. Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), which serves us, does not respect us. It refuses to provide us prepaid meters and charges us estimated billing even from those who have paid for the meters – refusing to provide the meters. It has also refused to talk to the people. And AEDC doesn’t announce or explain to the people why we have this problem.
5. Those from whose community gas is produced get special agencies, a ministry, scholarships, etc., while we get nothing. We get darkness.
6. Well, we’ve resolved to no longer accommodate this nonsense. Therefore, we demand only two things:
i. That AEDC should provide prepaid meters for all its customers in Niger State. We realize that those who enjoy electricity are people with prepaid meters because if they don’t give the light, AEDC doesn’t get money from these customers. But they still get money from us (those who have no prepaid meters) through estimated billing.
ii. Whenever electricity is available, we demand to be served first. And when things go bad, it isn’t unreasonable to count us among the first to be considered.
7. Right now, our people are quite angry as a result of this inhuman treatment. We could have channeled that anger inappropriately, but we didn’t do that because we’re not violent people. Therefore, we resolved to do the following:
i. Write a letter to NERC. This is the letter.
ii. We will wait one week for NERC to intervene. If nothing happens, we would stage a peaceful protest in the streets.
iii. We would wait one more week after that. If nothing happens, we would peacefully ask the electricity generating and distribution companies to leave our state. If we can’t take benefit from what is generated from our communities, nobody should.
Yours faithfully,
Yunusa JG Muhammad
Adamu Kenchi
Maikudi Chado
Haruna Musa
Shuaibu M.Z Kolo
The undersigned.

Cc: lalasticlala, seun, mynd44

Omisore Surrenders, Reaches Deal With EFCC On Alleged N1.3 Billion Fraud
A former Senator and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Iyiola Omisore, was on Friday night released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he agreed to refund the over N1.3billion he allegedly received from the office of the National Security Adviser, people familiar with the matter have told PREMIUM TIMES. The EFCC arrested Mr. Omisore in Abuja on July 3 for allegedly collecting the huge funds from a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

BY PREMIUM TIMESJUL 23, 2016

A former Senator and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Iyiola Omisore, was on Friday night released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he agreed to refund the over N1.3billion he allegedly received from the office of the National Security Adviser, people familiar with the matter have told PREMIUM TIMES.

The EFCC arrested Mr. Omisore in Abuja on July 3 for allegedly collecting the huge funds from a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

The former NSA is being prosecuted for allegedly mismanaging billions of dollars meant to procure arms and ammunition for the Nigerian military which has in the past five years been battling a deadly insurgency in the North-East of Nigeria.

The PDP chieftain had since his arrest battled hard to regain freedom from the custody of the EFCC.

The anti-graft commission moved him to the National Hospital, Abuja, after he complained that his health was failing. He was however kept under close watch by two well-armed police officers.

Then his lawyers approached the Federal High Court in Abuja to press for bail but the court, on July 15, dismissed the application for lack of competence.

This week, the former deputy governor capitulated, those close to him said. He approached the EFCC and agreed to refund the money he was alleged to have fraudulently received.

On Friday, the EFCC granted him administrative bail after he struck a deal with the commission to refund the N1.3billion in installments.

He paid the first installment of N300million before he was allowed to go home, this newspaper learned.

Those familiar with the negotiation said before his release on Friday, Mr. Omisore issued a letter authorising his bank to release N170million to the EFCC, being the entire amount in his frozen account.

He also gave the anti-graft commission a draft of N130 million, bringing the first installment of the repayment plan to N300 million.

Mr. Omisore, a former deputy governor of Osun State and PDP flag-bearer in the 2014 Osun governorship election, will return to the Commission on Monday for further negotiations regarding how he would stagger the refund of the remaining one billion, our sources said.

Mr. Omisore had denied benefiting from #Dasukigate and had sued the EFCC, seeking N10 billion damages, after he was declared wanted in May.

However, according to our sources, Mr. Omisore, while in detention, admitted to collecting the sum from Mr. Dasuki.

Mr. Omisore, our sources disclosed, had initially claimed that the over N1.3 billion he received from Mr. Dasuki was meant for a certain parcel of land he sold to the office of the NSA.

The politician was however unable to provide documents backing the transaction, those close to him said.

EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, could not be reached to comment for this story early Saturday morning.

Mr. Omisore too could not be reached by this newspaper. But the Nigerian Tribune quoted him as saying after his release, “Thanks for your support and prayers. I also thank my supporters for their steadfastness. I’m back at home in Abuja.”


Iyiola Omosire was People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the recently concluded Osun election.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/07/23/omisore-surrenders-reaches-deal-efcc-alleged-n13-billion-fraud

Lalasticlala seun mynd44

First of all, God will punish the evil hands that perpetrated this dastardly act. Their punishment has just started with a warm up.
But then, have anyone noticed the synergy exhibited by NSCDC to the police. The police messed up at the point of taking over by trying to take the glory off NSCDC. That's the major problem with our security outfits. All trying to outshine one another instead of working in synergy as all tasks has been clearly stated by relevant extant laws as enshrined.

He's on spot. Good riddance

Yes o. God bless PMB's led FG

FAAC: FG revenue rises by N301bn, shares N559bn with states, LGs ON JULY 21, 201611:01 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS For the first time in the 2016 fiscal period, the federal, states and local governments got monthly allocation from the Federation Account of N559.03 billion. This is as the gry the federation increased by N301.32 billion, the highest in almost two years. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, announced this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing newsmen at the end of the FAAC meeting She attributed the increase in revenue to efficiency in collection by the revenue generating agencies. “The big cause of the increase is the improvement of non-oil revenue from FIRS. The FIRS improved its performance between last month and this month by N165 billion. “And that accounted for the change in revenue and also, there was also an improvement of N12.6 billion by Nigeria Customs Service, as well as the exchange gain of N79.2 billion. “This is a significant improved performance especially customs that was able to do so in spite of the scarcity of foreign exchange and the restrictions on the 41 items. “So we are quite encouraged by that because it means that some of the reforms that we had started around collection improvement are beginning to bear fruit,”. Giving a breakdown of the amount shared, Adeosun said N412.3 billion was distributed under statutory allocation; N67.4 billion under Value Added Tax revenue while the balance of N79.27 billion was allocated from gains made from exchange rate differential. She said the Federal Government received N199.75 billion; states N101.3 billion, local governments N78.11 billion whileN17.12 billion was shared to oil producing states based on the derivation principle of 13 per cent. For VAT, she said the Federal Government received N9.7 billion, states N32.35 billion while local governments got N22.67 billion. “The gross statutory revenue of N538.78 billion received was higher than the N237.46 billion received in the previous month by N301.32bn. “The average price of crude oil increased from 32.26 dollars in February to 38.64 dollars in March2016, resulting in 92.99 million dollars increase in federation export revenue. “There was an outstanding increase in Companies Income Tax and Petroluem Profit Tax with complementary increases in import duty and royalties.” Adeosun put the balance in the Excess Crude Account at 3.94 billion dollars as at July 20, indicating an increase of 1.68 billion dollars over the the 2.26 billion dollars in the previous month. When asked about plans to stimulate the economy away from the looming recession, the minister said that there was no need for panic as the fundamentals of the economy were still strong. Meanwhile the Chairman, Commissioners of Finance Forum, Mr John Inegbedion, said with the improved revenue for the month, all 36 states would be able to pay salaries for the month. Also, the Commissioner of Finance, Cross River, Mr Asuquo Ekpen River, Mr Asuquo Ekpenyong, said the state would start processing May and June salaries for payment.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/faac-fg-revenue-rises-n301bn-shares-n559bn-states-lgs/

Lalasticlala, mynd44, seun

God go punish them.

Very true

He can't jump ship just yet. Lest e commits political suicide.

Use*less people. Am tired of this electricity brouhaha

Kudos to the NA and Buhari led FG. We will get there

A welcome development. Fire on FG. Alternative sources is welcomed.

NORTH Vs SOUTH..

SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT.

By Oladapo Michael Ilori

======NORTH======
1. SGF
2. Chief of Army staff
3. Chief of Air staff
4. Chief of staff
5. NSA
6. Special Adviser on media & publicity
7. GMD NNPC
8. MD NPA
9. Chief of Defence Intelligence
10. Special Adviser on Planning
11. INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu
12. DG DSS
13.CG Customs Service
14. CG Immigration Service
15 CG NSDC
16. IG of Police
17. DG DPR
18. MD AMCON
19. ED AMCON
CEO of NAICOM
20. DG EFCC
21. DG FRCN
22.DG NTA
23. DG NBC
24. DG NOA
25. MD NIWA
======SOUTH======
1. Head of Service of the Federation
2. Chief of Defence Staff
3. Chief of Naval Staff
4. MD NIMASA
5. Chairman NNPC Board
6. Chief Economic Adviser
7. Special Adviser on media and publicity
8. MD FIRS
9. Special Assistant on National Assembly matters
10. Group Executive Director NNPC
11. Executive Director AMCON
12. Special Adviser Niger Delta Amnesty
13. DG Budget Office
16. DG NAN
17. DG VON
18. MD Nigerian Gas Company
19. Commander Multi-National Joint task force on Bokoharam
20. Ag. MD Bank of Industry
21. DG NEITI
22. Senior Special Assistant (Media)
23. MD NDDC
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Aside from having the following Major positions to persons from the southern Nigeria:
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1. CBN Governor
2. Minister of Finance
3. Minister of Trade and Investment
4. Minister of Petroleum (state)
5. Minister of Foreign Affairs
6. Minister of Health
7. Minister of Transport
8. Minister of Works, Housing and Power
9. Minister/ Chairman National Planning Commission
10. Minister of solid Minerals
11. Minister of Communication technology
12. Minister of Science and Technology
13. Minister For Labour and Employment
14. Executive Secretary of NCDMB.
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Mr president don't want us to look at positions with that mentality that one is juicer than the other, he wants all positions to be embraced as a national call to duty to serve. But even if we were to go the traditional old thinking way of juicy positions, the South is favored with more of such positions.

They are in charge of Works, housing, power, finance, Niger Delta, Transport, Health, foreign affairs, petroleum, National planning, Justice, solid minerals, interior, defence. You then wonder what ministries are left to the North.
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So the next time someone is telling you that president Buhari appoints only Northerners, tell that person politely that based on empirical facts available sir/ma, you are very very wrong.

Ps: we should be concerned about what dividends we would collectively gain rather than where Mr A is from or Mrs B was born. This mentality didn't give us much in 16 years of our democracy. In fact those we call our sons and daughters have done more harm than good to our immediate constituencies..you only need to check our history.

Cc: lalasticlala, seun, mynd44, obinoscopy, ishilove

Falana should just be appointed the AGF. He seems to be everywhere talking and directing the AGF.

Ooni doing it in style. I love this man

Happy anniversary COAS. May your days be long if you mean well for Nigeria on that seat.

EFCC the heart ache of looters. Do they know how many they have sent to their early grave because of their looting?. Karma is a b**ch.

Even from a small local council as Chanchaga? Na wa!!!. Heads will roll. The chairman his subordinates and those at the top echelon of Niger state government have some explanations to make.

Having nearly milked the Federal treasury dry, the yam eaters had to enter the local council's barn. There is God. This is a no-brainer.

NSCDC leading the way.