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Customs only seize goods in Lagos, hardly hear of seizure in borders between Chad-Nigeria, Niger-Nigeria and Cameroon-Nigeria. May be smugglers do not exist on those axis

Mikehell:
Waiting for Osinbajo to express his own opinion before i can talk..........

That one, he is the harbinger of the islamization agenda. Unfortunately, he, Amaechi and Okorocha did not know what they were ing. When they were warned, they called it politics. Buhari has NEVER hidden his islamization agenda. I am wondering what Papa Adeboye would be feeling now. Being an instrument in the hands of the devil is the biggest mistake any man of God will ever make.

Clemzzz:
NLC??
Abeg,where is my pillow?



Snoring...

Do we have NLC again? Since fuel became #200 where has Ayuba been? Cars that have been budgeted for and paid for from padded APC budget. When are you going to protest against presidential BMW bullet proof cars? When is NLC asking the president to sell off some of the planes in our presidential fleet?
When is NLC going to protest hike in electricity tariff? When will Ayuba call out the people to protest INEC inconclusive elections? NLC that could not stand against El-rufai wants to face 108 senators. Mtcheew!!!

Add AREGBESE

Activa:


I don't care what happens to whoever.

Saraki is number 3 in Nigeria today.

He deserves attention more than any other person except Buhari and Osinbajo.

You're free to open another thread on any other person you feel should be picked up by EFCC.

Don't muddle this up with the usual fallacy of 'what of Mr X?'

A THIEF is a THIEF!!! If Saraki stole as governor in 2006, why do you think Tinubu stealing at that same time should be done away with? Be objective bro Activa!!! Except you are asking us to forget the past to which Saraki's CCT trail also belong to. EFCC need to scrutinise Tinubu's 8 years also. That is JUSTICE my brother. Don't bend it.

Activa:
I don't know what the EFCC is looking at or doing with the kind of mind-boggling revelations that are coming out from the CCT trial.

Those who submit themselves to high offices should submit themselves for high scrutiny.

You mean a public officer bought a N522m house in 2006?!!!

EFCC should act! Probe the 8-year tenor our dear Senate President spent as as governor in Kwara state.

CCT punishment is not enough at all.

I your views and suggestions. But let us start with states with high IGRs. I think EFCC can start from Lagos State. The 8.Years of Tinubu should be scrutinised since CCT made an error in freeing him. What do think bro Activa? There are many thieves walking freely in Nigeria, including OBJ and Fashola!






Are you still there Bro Activa

Who side? Na politics the man dey play. He no sabi Ogoni people by the time they resume sabotage him go mellow

I have no pity for someone who betrayed a party that gave him 8 years of office as governor, 4 years as senator. When he was leading New PDP senators to oppose Jonathan, these same people were urging him on. Now the same people want to drown him, is he expecting PDP to help him? No way!! If I am a PDP senator, this is the time to betray Saraki for his betrayal of Jonathan.
It will teach others like him lessons in future not to bite the finger that fed them. As for APC, it is time to go down the drain. To your tents oh ACN, C and ANPP. Perhaps only Amaechi and Okorocha would be needing new political platforms.

fiizznation:
If Jonathan refused to take any decisive action against boko haram when he was the C-in-C then that was his cup of tea, so as you can see my friend, buhari is entirely different from Jonathan.

Those of you encouraging Buhari forgot that OBJ regime was brought to her knees by this same militants. Even then they never tasted amnesty bounty. Now, they are more emboldened. Again pipeline vandalism is not conventional warfare but hit and run. Ask yourself a simple question, if you are an oil worker, would you dare go to a militarised region? Who will drill the oil, soldiers? I wonder how military can police the length and breath of Nigeria pipeline network. I wish Buhari luck on this adventure. By the time two or three oil workers are kidnapped and killed, other will be forced to vacate. Situation like this deserve negotiations and not bravado!

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joborskill:
Democracy cannot flush out these looters because the courts and corrupts judges will always be at their mercy. No matter how hard buhari tries, his efforts will be frustrated by the number one enemy of our nation called "DEMOCRACY AND RULE OF LAW". The likes of badeh, metuh, Dasuki and the rest are still in courts despite obvious evidences of looting perpetuated by them. Nigeria is not ripe for democracy. Our Leaders (Mis-leaders) exploit the loop holes in the law to escape justice. We need a tyrant dictator to fix this nation. I wish we can practice North korea's totalitarian rule for one year which empowers Buhari to be the almighty with no law checking his powers. Then the corrupts elites will flee or be executed on live TV and our dear nation will be saved [/s]

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I think you need rehabilitation as your thinking is way off course.

Until this senator turns his allocated Toyota jeep into taxi for common Nigerians, I will not be fooled.

Oga Buhari, please implement what you have now. If you do not know, please understand that you can send supplementary budget to NASS as you did last year! Kilodeeee? This is half year and you are still "masturbating" the budget. Please, rise up and move forward oga!!!

joborskill:
Where is the evidence of the alleged donation? Pictures of cash or check? I think it's time for Buhari to ban social media so there will be secrecy in the affairs of the goverment. social media is a tool for peddling lies and falsehood against change regime of PMB. We all heard when Osinbajo said they have no money to donate because they recieve half salaries. The PDP is full of bloody liars who are obviously pained by the electoral loss of the thief called GEJ. Aisha will never recieve such money at the expense of Kogi workers. Its time to ban the internet and social media in Nigeria cos it seems we are not ripe for it yet

, I think posts like this should not only earn a ban, but total deactivation of . If social media is banned, definitely NairaLand is being banned. This is a clear violation of rule 7 as seen below.

Rule 7. Don't say, do, or THREATEN to do anything that's detrimental to the security, success, or reputation of Nairaland.

Special Invitation!!!

The Government and people of Rivers State cordially request the pleasure of:

Honorable Minister of Transportation

Mr. Rotimi Amaechi

To road infrastructure facility tour of Rivers State of Nigeria.

Date: Any day before May 29, 2016
Venue: Rivers State of Nigeria

Signed: PDP and Good People of Rivers State

NB: The people would expect the Honourable minister to also tour and take picture beside the pillars of Ubima monorail.

Dawdy:
A 73 years old man walking in a snow without Cardigan just to rescue the battered economic status of Nigeria and some senseless people said he travels too much as if he travels for partying or merry making ......
God bless Nigeria.

Please, why do you people love celebrating idiocy and mediocrity? A man travelling to a cold temperate region forgot to kit up properly and you are here celebrating! Even his aides would be ashamed as his hosts would conclude that they are also not smart.

To all those shouting NASS this and that, let us wait for their reply. As for me, we do not need a coastal rail to be financed by concession. That means that the Chinese would build, operate and transfer the project, just like Lekki concession projects. If you understand what that means.

Questions to ask are:

Why not develop any two of Calabar, Warri and Onne or any other seaport with this fund? That would decongest Lagos ports and be of better benefits to SS & SE, if you love the people so much. Unless we are saying that SS & SE would perpetually be dependent on Lagos for import and export.

Why rail, to serve what purpose? To move goods from Lagos to the SS and SE? Why not complete the second Niger bridge instead?

Why are you concessioning only the Calabar-Lagos rail of all rail lines in Nigeria? Meaning, the cost would be recouped from s who incidentally would be SS and SE.

We should reason things before castigating others. have we even heard from NASS??

kel4soft:
Budget showdown looms as
Buhari withholds assent by Yusuf Alli, Managing Editor,
Northern Operation/ Yomi Odunuga,
Abuja, April 10, 2016 at 12:15 am in Featured, News • Ministers stop Buhari from g
‘mutilated’ budget
• NASS tampers with key projects
• FG spots eight key defects in
budget details
• Legislators slash allocations for completion
of major road projects nationwide
• Ministers end scrutiny of details,
send
package to Udoma The Presidency and the Federal
Executive Council (FEC) have
identified eight major ‘assaults’ by
the National Assembly on the 2016
Appropriation Bill sent to President
Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday for his assent, The Nation learnt last
night. The infractions were detected by
the ministers at their Friday’s
emergency meeting called to vet the
budget details. This development is now stalling
the g into law of the bill by the
President until his return from a
week-long trip to China. But he plans to engage the National
Assembly in talks with a view to
resolving the issues, sources
familiar with the matter said. In contention are funds proposed
by the executive for key
infrastructure projects but which
were either removed from the
budget or slashed drastically by the
National Assembly in the details presented to him. One of these is the Coastal Railway
project which the President plans to
discuss with the Chinese
government during his visit. He is departing Abuja today for
Beijing at the start of the visit. Government earmarked N60billion
counterpart funds for it but the
NASS removed it completely from
the budget details. It was gathered that Buhari had
planned to assent to the
Appropriation Bill yesterday but the
“strategic and fundamental errors/
oversights” in the details may now
delay it by a week. The Presidency also found that the
NASS: *Expunged the Calabar – Lagos rail
line project from the budget details; *Reduced allocation to the
completion Idu-Kaduna rail project
by N8.7b; *Slashed allocations for the
completion of all major road
projects across the country; *Proposed new roads for which
studies have not been conducted; *Dropped proposals for the
purchase of essential drugs for
major health campaigns like Polio
and AIDS; *Cancelled or reduced allocations
for diversification projects under
Agriculture and Water Resources;
and *Diverted funds for rural health
facilities and boreholes for which
provisions had been made
elsewhere. Throwing light on the issue, a well
placed source said: “The National
Assembly transmitted the details to
the President on Thursday, April 7,
2016 and because he was desirous
of giving assent to the Appropriation Bill before leaving for
China, he directed that the Ministers
should review the provisions/
appropriations of their respective
ministry to fast-track the process. “The document was distributed
same Thursday to all ministers and a
meeting was agreed for Friday to
get everything sorted out for the
President’s briefing and assent. That
was why the Vice President, who is the Head of the Economic Team
presided over the meeting and not
the President. “At the meeting, it was noticed that
some very key aspects of the
Budget, which have to do with
government’s core infrastructural
focus were removed. One of which
is the subject of the President’s trip to China – the Coastal Railway
project – for which a counterpart
funding of N60b was provided, but
which was completely removed by
the National Assembly.” The Executive is working on two
major rail arteries, among other rail
projects, to service the northern and
eastern part of the country – the
Lagos-Kano line and the Calabar –
Lagos line. The source said that while the
provision for the Lagos-Kano rail
line was left untouched, the Calabar
– Lagos line was removed entirely. Both projects are to be funded
tly by China and Nigeria. The
source said that the amount
proposed for the completion of the
Idu-Kaduna rail project which “has
reached an advanced stage was reduced by N8.7b, a development
which will make it difficult for the
project to be completed.” Continuing, the source said: “The
other fundamental area noticed was
in respect of completion of on-
going road projects. While the
Executive had provided for the
completion of all major road projects across the country, the
National Assembly reduced the
amounts provided and instead
included new roads which studies
have not even been conducted. “The amounts provided by the
National Assembly for the projects
can neither complete the on-going
road projects nor the new ones
proposed. At the end of the year no
significant progress would have been made.” Asked of the next step, the source
said: “Because of these
observations, the President is
engaging further with the
leadership of the National Assembly
to resolve them and hopes that it would be resolved by the time he
returns from his trip to China. “The President is desirous of
g the bill into law so that the
implementation of the provisions
could begin in earnest for the
benefit of the people. “That is why the moment he
received the document on
Thursday, a meeting was convened
for Friday to immediately start work
on it.” Another source in the cabinet said:
“We have all completed the review
of the budget details sent to the
Presidency by the National
Assembly.” All ministers were directed to send
their observations (if any) on their
allocations to the Minister of Budget
and National Planning, Senator Udo
Udoma. The Ministry of Budget and National
Planning will thereafter compile all
observations and comments in line
with the proposals of the Executive
arm and guide the President
accordingly. Another reliable source spoke
yesterday of how ministers and
of the president’s
economic team stopped him from
g the ‘mutilated’ budget. The ministers, according to the
source who was at the Friday
meeting, lamented the “reckless
mutilation” of the original
documents which the President
tendered to the National Assembly, noting that the details were clearly
un-implementable. The source disclosed that Buhari,
who had earlier been scheduled to
address the nation after g the
budget had to call off the broadcast. He said: “All the ministers, aside the
Defence Minister who was a bit
positive about the figures
appropriated for his ministry, totally
kicked against the so called budget
details. “They said it was mutilated beyond
recognition and therefore cannot
be implemented under the present
condition. Notably, the Minister of
Health told the gathering that what
was returned to his ministry was even worse than what he kicked
against when he went to defend the
budget in the National Assembly. “As a matter of fact, the budget
details made nonsense of the
planned visit of the President to
China because the lawmakers
removed that aspect of the loan
completely from the details that were scrutinized by the ministers
yesterday (Friday).” Asked what steps the Presidency
would take next, the source said
two options are open for the
President. He said the documents
may be sent back to the lawmakers
with a detailed note on the mutilation and a call for rectification
or he may be persuaded to sign the
budget and then ask for
modifications.
thenationonlineng.net/budget-showdown-looms-buhari-withholds-assent/

He should sign the thing jare! Why is it that the coastal rail is the only one planned for BOT (Build, Operate & Transfer). Indirectly, the Chinese would manage the rail to collect their money. The rest of the rails in Nigeria are not private projects. you can see through the veil that indirectly, the Niger-Deltans would pay for the project. Instead of coastal rail, develop three seaports with the funds. Of what purpose is a coastal rail to Nige-Deltans? Again why would you be funding a project frm the provider of your resources with counterpart funding? It is not what it seems, fellow Niger-Deltans, Na gbese like Lekki Concession!!!

This is really hilarious!!! Nigerians will force you to laugh when you thought otherwise!
What a CHANGE!!!

I predict that Saraki and his senators would fight back soon. Expect an impeachment notice to the president in the coming weeks. , I said this on this forum!

Imebong4real:
For those of you who claim PMB is illiterate I'm convince they are also illiterate, and unexposed. The President has the so call graduate in his cabinet why don't they advise him to do something if you feel leadership has to do with Education, search yourself can you lead and control a ward in your local government or control a group assigned to you in your CH.? If your a Christian the Bible says we should pray for our leaders. Choir cordinators,Sunday sch.teachers, pastors,etc. Are you sure your write up or contribution in social media will take you to Heaven. Be careful . 2. Honour your father and your mother so that you will eat the fruit of the Land. Not just your biological parents but those older than you. Just shout up if you can't pray for him.

You should have reminded Pastors Osinbajo and Bakare about these scriptures when they were disparaging Jonathan last year, calling him clueless and all sort of names or were you in Sambisa forest then? You just woke up, smell the shit that you guys gathered in the name of politics and ethnicity.

fctguy:
Please where is our minister of Information? why is he suddenly quiet this period of acute fuel scarcity? Cuz we need accurate info from him concerning this rough situation.

He is on fuel queue at Wuse NNPC filling station. Unfortunately, he was still blaming Jonathan for not buying enough tankers to supply fuel.

David Mark is the new Senate President (if Saraki is forced out), hence their fears!! So, we can understand some people's desperation to smear his name.

TonyeBarcanista:
NgeneUkwenu how is the fuel situation in your area?

He does not use fuel. His camel only drinks water

See his first son below

[size=18pt]Children of APC chieftains are good enough for IFRS and CBN.
Zombies are good for police recruitment ... to bodyguard children of APC chieftains in the future.[/size]

[size=18pt]Do not worry, Nigeria will be great again. By 2019, we would have depots in our houses. No need to queue at petrol station
"If not for Jonathan and PDP, we would be living those in paradise by now" - Tinubu

APC!!! ... CHAIN TO THE PEOPLE [/size]

[size=18pt]When is baba going to AUSTRALIA?[/size] Na only that place remain ooo!

NgeneUkwenu:
Yeye party! instead of setting up a special committee to return over 30 Billion Dollars of our common patrimony stashed away by Jonathan-Led- Gang of thieves...they are busy looking for another avenue to bleed us more...

Useless party

The $150 Billion (Buhari) and $20 Billion (Sanusi) or $30 Billion (you) would be used to remove Buhari in 2019

[size=18pt]WORDS ON MARBLE[/size]

[size=18pt]"APC, stop deceiving Nigerians if you must succeed" - Emir of Mubi[/size]

ruphytelecom:
Are they coming back from the dead

That makes them ZOMBIE

Who have they been probing all the while, Abacha abi IBB? Mtcheeew!!!

Since the time of Oshomole as NLC president, Labour Unions in Nigeria have never called off any strike. They only suspend the strike and that is the end. Can you all that they are still on suspension on the 2012 Fuel Subsidy removal strike under GEJ
A set of unserious and corrupt labour leaders..

They stole or were found with a total of GH cedi 145 which equivalent of N7500, the proceed of their crime. Without justifiying or ing the act of stealing, they should be flogged and made to do community service (washing public toilet) for one month and let go. Bigger thieves and political elites are in Ghana enjoying themselves.