emkz:
One of the greatest anomalies in northern Nigeria is the misappropriation of resources on matters that have no developmental value to those states, for example:

(1) Ramadan feeding
(2) Hajj subsidy and outright payment
(3) Mass weddings.

Internally generated revenue in some of the states doing these things are extremely poor. They include: Sokoto, Kebbi, Jigawa, and Kano. The quality of life of the population is also disturbing, yet they invest in things that cannot improve the lives of their citizens. For example, do all these states have good drinking water? Are their citizens gainfully employed? Are their children in school? Is infrastructure in top shape?

Okay, the funds allocated for Ramadan feeding: are the included in the budget? If not, how will the funds be accounted for? After Ramadan, will the people not eat again? Is it the responsibility of state governments to feed citizens during Ramadan? Do the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia feed their citizens with public funds during Ramadan?

Then to the issue of Hajj sponsorship: when the sponsored return from Hajj, would they return to an eldorado state of affairs or they return to an endemic poor state of affairs?

Northern governors must separate personal spiritual pursuits from public funds. Public funds belong to the public and should be geared towards public good and not fund people's private spiritual pursuits.

As for the Jigawa State Commissioner for Commerce suspended for alleged mismanagement of iftar feeding programme funds, I think the state government and entire cabinet ought to suspend themselves too for misappropriation of public funds to a feeding programme unknown to the state's appropriation bill.

headboyprince:
hello, youre the blockhead here. your audacity to compare nigeria with tier 1 countries baffles me. imagine a wheel barrow comparing himself to an airplane. you dont even know how taxation works in advanced country, so just shut your mouth.

Everlastingson:


You paid over 2 million, the way Alpha Beta pays in Lagos abi. Your master Tinubu is a downright hypocrite. Tinubu taxed Lagosians to penury but Alpha Beta, his shadow tax firm in charge of the state IGR, never paid a dime as tax to the Lagos State coffers.

Everlastingson:


Says one who has never paid tax all his life.

bionixs:
mugu ! After all your years in school, this sloppy analog is what you could come up with ?

The countries where you claim to have visited In your dreams perhaps, this is how their electricity works ? This how security is ? This is how hunger and terrible policies hold sway ?
This is how their street roads are dilapidated.

A big SHUTUP to you .

The Federal Executive Council concluded its meeting that started yesterday today, Tuesday May 14, 2024.

After exhaustive deliberations, the council approved a number of policies and projects that will further boost the economy, facilitate investments and promote the ease of doing business in the country. The under-listed are the major highlights:

1. Council supported a series of initiatives set to be launched that will revolutionize Nigeria's Infrastructure and Housing sector through Public-Private Partnerships

The initiatives which can unlock about N2 trillion are aimed at transforming the nation's infrastructure and housing mortgage sector, meet the urgent demand for critical infrastructure and affordable homeownership, fostering job creation, inclusive growth, and long-term productivity enhancement.

Inspired by the 1970s era, the government envisions a future where ordinary Nigerians can access 25-year mortgages at low-interest rates to realise their dream of owning a home. By collaborating with private institutional investors, the government seeks to replicate past successes and address current challenges effectively.

This strategic partnership aims to leverage the expertise and capital of private investors to accelerate the delivery of vital projects, driving sustainable development and economic progress for all Nigerians.

2. FEC approved that all users of Federal airports all over the country must now pay tolls at the gates. No one is excluded. The President and Vice President of Nigeria will also pay the toll.

3. The council announced a ban on sand dredging 10 kms from all Federal bridges throughout the country.

4. Council annouced a 4-week deadline for review of visa policy to enable tourists, business people, and creative professionals visit Nigeria. The ease of doing business, the council agreed cannot materialise if prospective visitors face a herculean problem getting our country’s visa. Part of the review envisaged is that visa applicants can apply for the visa online and get one within 48 hours. Also visas may be waived for holders of visas of some countries.

5. The council granted approval for the supply, installation and training of operators of disabled aircraft recovery system at Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. The contract will cost N4.2 billion. Similar contract was awarded in 2021 for Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in 2021.

6. Council approved Special Purpose Vehicle to be created on a PPP basis to develop 90,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable to increase Nigeria’s internet connectivity by 60-70 percent. The SPV intends to copy the NLNG model.

7. Council approved a consultancy service for the reconciliation and expansion of the remittances to NITDA.

8. Council approved the request of the Ministry of Communications to convert the property at 324 Jackson Street, San Francisco, USA into a Nigerian Digital Technology Exchange Programme Hub. Property owned by the Nigerian government is valued at close to $7million.

9. The Federal Executive Council also approved the award of contract for the building of bus terminals and other transport facilities in the Federal Capital, Abuja. Terminals will be built within 15 months at Kugbo, Abuja Central Business District and Mabushi. The whole project will cost N51 billion and will be executed by Planet Projects Nigeria Limited, which did similar contracts in Lagos and Oyo states.

10. Council approved the award of contract to Messrs El & Matt Nigeria Limited to upgrade Kwaita-Yebu Road in Kuala Area Council of Abuja at a cost of N7.6 billion. Completion time is 18 months.

11. Council approved contract for the building of the Court of Appeal Abuja Division at a cost of N37.2 billion. Project will be executed by Messrs Visible Construction Limited.

12. The Council awarded contract at a cost of N412million for street lights on Bill Clinton Drive, Airport Expressway. The job includes the procurement of 8 back-up generators, which will be powered by Compressed Natural Gas( CNG) or Solar, in line with government’s decision about migrating from fossil fuel to renewable energy. The council discussed extensively the need for this energy transition, as it is climate friendly, because of low emissions and also because it will reduce cost of transportation and inflation.

13. Council approved the request by Nigeria Customs Service to buy 200 Toyota Land Cruiser Buffalo V6 at a cost of N12.5 billion. All the vehicles will be CNG powered. Government also approved insurance cover for the vehicles at a cost of N522 million. The cover will be provided by NEM.

14. Messrs Yuan Resources Limited was awarded the concession to deploy a revenue assurance platform under PPP arrangement in the lottery and gaming sector. The concession which will be for 15 years, will be done via DFBOT option, which means Design, Finance, Build, Operate and Transfer.

15. Before the Monday meeting was adjourned till Tuesday, council approved several road projects. Among them was the reconstruction of Iseyin-Okeho-Iganna Road in Oyo State.

16. Council approved Section 2 of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Superhighway for construction, at a cost of N1.6 trillion.

17. Approval was granted for the award of contract for reconstruction of Koton-Karfe -Abaji Road (Abuja bound), along Abuja-Lokoja Route in Kogi state at a cost of N89 billion.

18. On Day 2 of the FEC meeting, approval was given for the award of contract for the equalisation of Lokoja-Benin Road, Okpela Section, Lokoja-Benin, Dualised Auchi Section -Uromi Link Road and Lokoja-Benin Road, Ekpoma Section. It was on this road that a fuel tanker fell into high water recently, with villagers having to swim to rescue the occupants of the tanker. The reconstruction will be financed by BUA Cement at a cost of N120 Billion under the tax credit scheme.

19. Council approved contracts to various contractors to build roads and bridges in Kaima-Tesse, Kwara State, Benin-Agbor, BeninByepass and Ngaski-Wara in Kebbi State. All the four contracts will cost N546 billion.

20. Messrs CCECC was awarded contract at N230 billion to build Kano Bypass. The road which is 37kms long will include bridges and several flyovers. The company has 36 months to complete the work.

21. The Council approved for procurement the Sokoto-Illela-Badagry superhighway, which is meant to join the Lagos-Calabar Coastal superhighway. The road was first awarded in 1976 and then abandoned.

fof1:


Ur Lies and Falsehoods will haunt ur Generation...Stop this Stupidity Calling it Politics

CountinBlessins:


Fūck you satire and sarcasm too
All three of you can stand in a circle bend over and fūck yourselves hard

CountinBlessins:


Stay off drugs bruv where did you see this in the article ?

After today's Federal Executive Council meetings, we have secured 2 approvals that offer significant opportunities for Nigerians in general, but also specifically for our digital startup ecosystem.

The first is the launch of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that will support the delivery of an additional 90,000km of fibre optic cable to complement our existing connectivity infrastructure and deliver a stronger national backbone for universal access to the internet across Nigeria.

Over the last few months, we have put in extensive groundwork to set up this SPV which will be modelled in governance and operations similarly to some of the best Public-Private Partnership setups in Nigeria, such as NIBSS and NLNG.

Working with partners and stakeholders from the government and private sector, this SPV will build the additional fibre optic coverage required to take Nigeria’s connectivity backbone to a minimum of 125,000km, from the current coverage of about 35,000km. Upon delivery, this will become Africa’s 3rd longest terrestial fibre optic backbone, after Egypt and South Africa.

This extensive coverage will enable us optimise the unique benefit of having 8 submarine cables already landed in Nigeria and therefore drive an uptake of the data capacity that the cables offer, beyond the current usage level of 10%.

Building on our existing work with the Broadband Alliance, this increased connectivity will help plug the current non-consumption gap by connecting over 200,000 educational, healthcare and social institutions across Nigeria, ensuring that a larger section of our society can be included in the benefits of internet connectivity.

Some of these immediate benefits include:

1.Increasing internet penetration in Nigeria to over 70%
2.Potential reduction of the cost of access to internet by over 60%
3.Inclusion of at least 50% of the 33 million Nigerians currently excluded from access to the internet
4.Delivering up to 1.5% of GDP growth per capita raising GDP from $472.6 billion (2022) to $502 billion over the next 4 year

It was my honour and privilege to host
@PeterObi today. -AA

Kukutente23:

I'm glad you mentioned Sunak's approval and not his ministers. The public have no business with assessing a minister they did not employ. That's diversionary and cheap populism.

If Ms Hadiza is now asking the public to do her job for her, then I suggest we should start by assessing her cause I remember Tinubu said clearly that her job is to assess ministers based on set target and milestones. If she has failed in her assignment, it is disingenuous to push it to the public. She should just resign!

Let me give you an example. The public perception against the minister for power is strongly negative based on mispeaks. While it is true that his ministry has performed poorly since he took office, his sector has been impacted more by the unavailability of gas which has affected power generation capacity. Meanwhile we have a state minister for gas who has been sleeping with both eyes close while the minister for power has been taking the flack. Also, cooking gas prices has soared by over 50% when same minister took office but no one is calling him out. So in the eyes of the public, the minister for power is a failure while the state minister for gas gets a pass.

The APC as a party has not been able to organise itself into a veritable, policy and administration vehicle of governance since it took power 9 years ago. It is not just about this administration. APC is far worse than its predecessor in terms of governance. They excel in political brinkmanship and gamesmanship than actual governance. Tell me one policy or concept that APC has birthed in its 9 years successfully. The social welfare that became its signature has been riddled with corruption and inefficiency. So it's not just about a bunch of men. It's about the driving principle of the party. The leaders in the party need to sit down and decide what is really important for them. Is it the retention of political power or governance for public good?

Putindbutt:
Nairaland is full of illiterates and half baked graduates, the fact that most of these ministers are not in the media making noise does not mean they are not working.

youngrichnigga:
Is she still on suspension or sacked already, I don't trust this government as she might have been restated through the back door

Kukutente23:
1. The most incompetent minister who needs to leave the administration like yesterday is the minister for petroleum. He managed to botch the fuel subsidy removal agenda and now we're even queueing for fuel. The PH refinery is still not working while fuel theft is yet to be curbed. But for reasons only known to the Op, he finds it convenient to excuse that failure of a minister in his unsolicited jamboree. Perhaps he is one of the minister's die- hard minions which will make this thread nothing more than barefaced hypocrisy.

2. The exercise this thread is expected to achieve is a charade. Ministers are employees of the president and they serve at his pleasure. It is he who sets the agenda and assignment for them and is thus most qualified to assess them with his own parameters. It is a frivolous exercise to assess ministers based on likes and shares when those doing the assessment have close to no knowledge on the expectation from the principal for each official. The best you'll get is media visibility and perception which most times is a ruse. The official directly employed by the good people of nairaland is none other than the president himself. It is he we are most qualified to judge with our likes and shares cause we have direct expectations from him based on the job we gave him. A thread on his performance is more meaningful than a thread on the performance of his subjects. For example, from this thread, only 2 of his ministers will survive the axe while no questions will be asked of the man who put them there to fail abysmally. But I suspect the Op won't dare touch the big elephant cause he's one of the glorified hallelujah boys who go about in borrowed togas of public commentators with jaundiced and half-baked opinion.

The thread is meaningless and a waste!!