Good for our democracy. the investigation should be carried out, by the statutory agency, not DSS. And I know for sure that Adams Oshiomhole is innocent, and will come out top!! President Buhari has again proven to be a President that does not interfere with issues involving corruption.

It so Simple, Atiku cannot claim to have more workers than Dangote, unless they are indeed ghost.

Intimidation of Atiku was done by a special security squad of army, police and paramilitary agencies sponsored by the Muhammadu Buhari government. This is just one big lie from The PDP Public Relation Officer. Immigration Officers did the Search in accordance with international Procedures, Nobody is above search !!!!!!

So GEJ never signed the contract all this while! Same Buhari that Some individuals from Southeast are so blinded by hate to see any good work from, is the man that Has signed a binding contract on construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge.

The Nigerian government says it has spent N250 billion on its Social Investment Programme (N-SIPS) since the beginning of the scheme in 2016.
This claim was made on Thursday at a media roundtable by the presidential aide on N-SIPS, Mariam Uwais, in Abuja.
N-SIPS was set up by the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration to improve the living conditions of millions of Nigerians across the country.

According to Mrs Uwais, N500 billion was requested by the Social Investment Programmes Office for its four component programmes in 2016, 2017 and 2018 budgets.
However, only N250 billion has so far been released, she said.
The programmes include N-Power, National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), National Cash Transfer Project (NCTP), and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).

Mrs Uwais said over 9,300,892 children in 49,837 government schools in 26 states are being fed under the School Feeding Programme. She said this requires 6.8 million eggs, 594 cattle and 83 metric tons of fish to be supplied to cooks every week.

”We have also engaged 96,972 cooks with over a 100,000 small-scale farmers being part of the value chain, supplying locally sourced ingredients. It is noteworthy that currently, public schools require 6.8 milion eggs, 594 cattle and 83 metric tons of fish to be supplied to the cooks, every week.

”The Home Grown School Feeding Programme is a programme that is aimed at feeding young children in our public primary schools, with the aim of improving their nutrition, increasing school enrollment and reducing the incidence of malnutrition.

”So far, we are feeding over 9,300,892 children in 49,837 government schools in 26 States. Being a programme that also aims at empowering communities, we have also engaged 96,972 cooks with over a 100,000 small-scale farmers being part of the value chain, supplying locally sourced ingredients.



‘”These statistics do not take into account the boost that is evident in the production and supply of rice, wheat, soya bean, orange-flesh potatoes, fruit and vegetable by farmers, to mention a few,” Mrs Uwais said.

She furthered said the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme is giving out N5,000 monthly to 297,973 households in Nigeria and is being implemented in 20 states, adding that they have trained 3,000 community cash transfer facilitators in every ward where the programme is ongoing.

”This programme is giving out 5,000 Naira monthly to 297,973 households in Nigeria. It is currently being implemented in 20 States.

”We have trained almost 3,000 community cash transfer facilitators in every ward where the programme is ongoing, to build the capacities of our beneficiaries and support them to become productive and take ownership of their lives.

”The methodology of selecting our beneficiaries is deliberate, tried and tested to assure of credibility, as well as aimed at enabling the capturing of biometric data for financial and social inclusion.

”Beneficiary households are selected by the communities directly, with their household and community data being uploaded onto Social Registers by trained enumerators at State and LGA levels, as a means of ensuring that we continue to keep a keen eye on their progress, towards weaning them out of poverty.”

She said that the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) which comprises the MarketMoni, FarmerMoni and the TraderMoni have spent N27.4 Billion in interest-free loans reaching over 1.1 million beneficiaries across the 36 states of the Federation, with N27.4 billion in interest-free loans

”The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) comprises the MarketMoni, FarmerMoni and the TraderMoni. We are making available to micro-businesses credit facilities to improve their businesses through this scheme. It is managed by the Bank of Industry, who have the wherewithal to recover loans.

”We have so far reached over 1.1 Million Beneficiaries across the 36 States of the Federation, with N27.4 Billion in interest-free loans, ranging from N10,000 Naira to N350,000 Naira disbursed so far. In particular, the aim of the Trader Moni programme is to take financial inclusion to the grassroots, considering the daily contributions of millions of petty traders to our economic prosperity and development.

”Indeed, especially because this category of citizens has hitherto had no access to credit to support their businesses, this is a deliberate effort at assuring of financial credit and a sense of belonging as an entitlement of these citizens, who are also Nigerians deserving of support. She said.



According to Mrs Uwais, the N-power scheme has employed 500,000 youth graduates which are paid a monthly stipend of N30,000

“N-Power is currently employing 500,000 youth graduates. It is the largest post-tertiary employment programme in Africa, where beneficiaries are paid a monthly stipend of N30,000 and deployed as volunteers into various sectors of need in the public space, such as health, agriculture, education and public finance.

”They are given devices to facilitate their service delivery, and as a continuous learning avenue. We have also supported 20,000 N-Power non-graduate volunteers, who have been trained in skill centres in every State, and given tool boxes to enable them to apply their newly-acquired expertise in the building and automotive industries.

”Both schemes have assured of volunteers in all the Local Government Areas of the 36 States of the Federation and the FCT.

Mrs Uwais noted that government was having challenges of some beneficiaries not getting the stipends because they did not enter their correct details.
She also said government learnt some people who posed as Social Investment Programme staff threatened to remove beneficiaries out of the system just to extort money from them.

She, however, asserted nobody can remove anyone from the system who has been registered in it.

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I don't know what people will gain in twisting President Buhari words, Twisting of words will not give nor gain Votes for PDP supporters.

ManirBK:
Dear senator Shehu Sani you are one of the senators I love and respect so much but I must confess that your assumption on this Npower program is not correct. This is the first time that I am very proud of a govt initiative that is very free and fair. The present govt may have gotten other things wrong but they deserve some accolade on this Npower program. Please do not politicize it, sir. When we talk of Nigeria we dream of this is one of those things we want to see in the future. A Nigeria where everyone has equal privilege and opportunity without having to know one politician, uncle or Godfather.

SO ON POINT!!!!

Kudos to Nigeria Army on this feat, No place to hide for terrorist elements. President Buhari administration is committed to ensuring that the territory of Nigeria is secured from internal and external insurrection.

I wonder how some claim not to know that Nigeria under Buhari has the largest Social investment programme outreach in Africa, and second to India in the World. Well, reporters in Nigeria have lost their pedigree to the extent of reducing Reportage to the highest bidder.

Wanted to just read and pass, but this two-pointers below is a fact that Labour union should be going on strike for-

Abolish SECURITY VOTE in NIGERIA

Abolish CONSTITUENCY PROJECT FUNDS

PDP is just one weak opposition. During PDP The Chairman is revered as a demi-god, on this matter, DSS has already invited Ohshiomhole and has answered questions regarding the allegation. APC continue to show they are more democratic than PDP!!!

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According to Kolawale, “We wonder how an Atiku that can donate lavishly to buy cars for women will find it wrong that Nigeria wants to play its big brother role to other Africa nations. This is double standard at play at best and we advise the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari not to join Atiku at the level to which he has sunken. It will amount to wrestling a hog in the mud.

“A right thinking person that looks beyond the meanness of satiating only his own avarice would have seen that there are gains to Nigeria when the donations to Guinea Bissau are well exploited.

“For one, a revived Guinea Bissau or any other African country provides fertile grounds for Nigerians to go exploit since we fortunately have enterprising Nigerians that have made marks for themselves in their places of sojourn. We believe that helping other nations to stay afloat when we can is a strategic way of ensuring that our country’s huge population is able to spread outwards to these other places and earn their keep.

An intelligent person will realize that remittances from the funds repatriated by such Nigerians will go a long way to helping the economy back home.

“It is understandable that Atiku is projecting his own values unto others because this kind of donation would have found its way into private pockets between 1999 and 2007 when he was vice president. The absence of such slush fund must have been responsible for his recent gimmick of under-declaring his income so that he can keep back some more money from tax avoidance.

If this Pictures above does not depict that Work is ongoing at the site of 2nd Niger Bridge then I do not see what will convince some People, The bridge, of course, will benefit all Nigerians and not just Igbo extraction. But at least for the first time a government is working on that site, despite the region is in the opposition.

For years, why didn't they complete the Project, rather it is left for ruins and they are busy around awarding elephants project so they can be siphoned more money! PDP FINISH NIGERIA SHA

everybody is just Attacking Akpabio on this thread. Akpabio is referring to PDP 16years of the federal rule. and not Akwa Ibom state 16 years of PDP rule.

The questions, we should be asking ourselves is that why did PDP refuse to complete Projects left by the Military, rather they embark on Elephant Projects so that Money can be siphoned. Government is continuous, and the PDP failed in this aspect.

Nairaland has turned to a forum where people come and spread all sort of rumors, The OP just decided to manufacture sentences to suit his delusion. no source, no link to the information.. SAY NO TO FAKE NEWS!!!!!!

PDP claim that Atiku will reduce the pump price of petrol to N90 only showed that the former Vice President was ignorant of the economy. This is a white lie. He is obviously playing to the gallery!!!

Government is supposed to be continuous, Buhari recognize this, hence didn't rush into any elephant project , but the PDP didn't even deem it fit to continue Projects the Military couldn't complete, they embark on Elephant projects like the Mambilla power plant, Kudenden power project, which Buhari is painstaking trying to complete ..Despite the huge Oil windfall during PDP they still left a catalog of Liabilities.

You see the reality, The East do not vote if we do a comparative analysis of PDP strongholds(south-south, and South East) with APC stronghold of Northwest and Southwest. The APC stronghold has more voters than PDP strongholds.

So Saraki is suddenly the Man That decides who Nigerians will vote for!! He is obviously misleading Atiku Because the Nigeria Populace will not follow The elites to Vote, but who is more rooted in the welfare of Nigerians.

It is very necessary to increase Teachers remuneration, so as to improve the quality of teaching and Education at all Levels. The government has continued to show that its major concern is the welfare of the Nigeria People.

The APC has gained enough yard into PDP control territory. Akwa Ibom is already standing on a 50/50 for both parties in terms of Presidential Election, Delta is gradually becoming same, and PDP has no federal Power to massively Rigg Rivers election. AS PDP concentrate on gaining territories in Southwest and North West, APC is already in Southeast and South-south.

“To pass the School Certificate, candidates had to pass examinations in a variety of groups. It was compulsory to pass English Language, but not Maths, in order to gain the Certificate. The number of candidates who sat for the WASC Hausa examination in 1961 was 152. Our records show that Hausa was set in the Northern Region in 1961,’’ the statement read.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/we-can-only-release-buharis-certificate-if-he-requests-for-it-cambridge/

The link above is a vanguard newspaper link where the Cambridge assessment stated clearly that the Hausa Language was part of the subject 152 students sat for in Northern Nigeria.

The way APC is encroaching into PDP stronghold is obvious that Rivers, Delta And Akwa Ibom that normally churn out Millions of votes for PDP will not be an easy ride again for PDP.

Unuagha is a joker!!! what Oshimhole has done in APC is to give the members level playing ground. His stance on Rochas and Amosun forcing Candidate on the state is a welcome development and good for Nigeria Democracy.

Politics of bitterness and hate, will not make PDP supporters convince Voters to vote in Atiku. I'm surprised at so many comments above me that President Buhari is involved in the attempted Assassination of Ike Ekweremadu. It's so unfortunate that most people have allowed Politics to cloud their judgment.

mining title holders comply with mining laws and regulations- the present Federal Government has shown commitment to diversifying the nation's economy, unlike other previous government that never for once saw the need to check the mining sector as a revenue generating sector.

9 million children are currently being fed under the programme in 26 states as a way of encouraging schools enrolment AND that the programme had created a value chain in the agricultural sector and had also led to the employment of Nigerians thereby creating a market for agriculture.

Presently, each child eats at least an egg in a day, adding up to 6.8 million eggs being consumed weekly by children under the programme in just 26 states. the programme is helping the agricultural sector to grow.

Atiku should just put Politics aside and applaud the Federal Government on the wage Increase. it is an act worthy of praise which should be accepted and appreciated by all and sundry.

The Federal Government have taken the right position on the minimum wage increase, And the opposition has nothing to say but to applaud the Federal government for this timely wage increment.

They should returned our stolen asset..Invasion 1898 in mind.