uspry1 , well said

[center] How well do you accept this statement:
"HIV test and counselling"

are you scared and would rather not do it?

or you are willing and don't know where to take the test ?[/center]

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SO WHERE DOES THE SENATE STAND

PTDF: Senate C’ttee Indicts Atiku, Carpets Obasanjo
• Recommends prosecution of Fasawe, others
From Sufuyan Ojeifo in Abuja, 02.28.2007


The Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and other Related Matters or Organisations has indicted Vice President Atiku Abubakar of certain wrong doings in the affairs of the agency.
But the committee fell short of indicting President Olus-egun Obasanjo after concluding that he and the Federal Executive Council acted in disregard of the law establishing the PTDF in the approval of, and payments for, certain projects.
In the report of the Committee laid on the table of the Senate yesterday by its Chairman, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), Obasanjo was said to have acted in disregard of Section 2 of the PTDF Act by giving anticipatory approval to some projects commenced by the PTDF last year, which the Federal Executive Council (FEC) later ratified.
The report, which will be debated by the Senate in plenary today, said Atiku abused his office by aiding and abetting the diversion of public funds in the sums of $125 million and $20 million and further stated that he should be sanctioned for any offences disclosed.
The report also indicted Atiku’s friend, Otunba Johnson Fasawe, Ahmed Vanderpuye, former PTDF Executive Secretaries, Hamisu Abubakar, Husseini Jalo and Adamu Maina Waziri of different acts and recommended that they make appropriate refunds to the agency’s coffers in addition to prosecution in some cases.
Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, said he would initial the 75-page report before it would be circulated to each Senator ahead of today’s debate in order to guard against allegations of doctoring that has trailed the list of corrupt candidates by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
According to him, "The time of propaganda is over; this is the time for facts and figures; it is not the time for emotions. I will initial every page here so that there will be no kind of doctoring".
Chairman of the Committee, Ndoma-Egba (SAN) had cautioned the media against publicising the report that was not initialled by the Senate President and had refrained from commenting on the details of the report at his weekly press briefing with Senate Correspondents.
He disclosed that Senator Titus Olupitan who was a member of the Committee had indicated his intention to submit a negative view on the Committee’s work and had therefore declined to append his signature to the report.
Ndoma-Egba stated that what Senator Olupitan would do today would not amount to submitting a minority report as, according to him, "Section 102 (F) of our Senate rules does not allow for minority report".
The Committee’s recommendations are as follows:
•That Otunba Johnson Oyewole Fawsawe should be made to refund the sums of N400 million purported loan to NDTV from TIB, N420 million purported loan to Mofas Shipping Company Limited and N730 million purported loan to NDTV and be prosecuted for any offences disclosed. EFCC had recovered N100 million from him.
•That Ahmed Vanderpuye should be made to refund the sum of N300 million purported loan to Transvari Services Limited from TIB and be prosecuted for any offences disclosed.
•That Hamisu Abubakar, Executive Secretary of PTDF from September 2000 to July 2005 abused his office by diverting public funds in the sums of $125 million and $20 million approved for specific projects to deposits in banks, some of which were fraudulently converted as loans to NDTV, Mofas Shipping Company Limited and Transvari Services Limited and other criminal acts and should be prosecuted for any offences disclosed. EFCC had recovered N200 million from him.
•That Husseini Jallo, the Executive secretary of PTDF from July 2005 to November 2005 having abused his office through criminal acts and for which N49 million and six vehicles have so far been recovered from him by EFCC should be prosecuted for any offences disclosed.
•That his Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of the Federal republic of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, abused his office by aiding and abetting the diversion of public funds in the sums of $125 million and $20 million respectively approved for specific projects to deposits in banks, some of which were fraudulently converted as loans to NDTV, Mofas Shipping Company Limited and Transvari Services Limited and should be sanctioned for any offences disclosed.
On President Obasanjo and the FEC, the Committee said:
•In respect of some projects commenced by PTDF in 2006, particularly the establishment of African Institute of Science and Technology in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); incorporation of Galaxy Backbone, Plc; and purchase of computers for civil servants under the Computer for all Nigerians Initiative (CANI) for which Mr. President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, gave approval and subsequently obtained the ratification of the FEC, laudable as they may seem, were outside the mandate of the PTDF as provided for in Section 2 of the enabling Act.
•The President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the Federal Executive Council acted in disregard of the law establishing the PTDF. Though the ratification by the FEC may mitigate this breach of the law, it however does not absolve the President and the FEC.
The report continued: "The Committee therefore recommends that the President be advised to adhere strictly to the provisions of the law establishing the PTDF at all times in either approving projects, expenditure of funds or howsoever.
•The Committee further recommends that the projects which are outside the purview and contemplation of Section 2 of the PTDF Act should not receive any further funding from the PTDF. The Committee also recommends that the said projects be verified and evaluated".
The report stated further in respect of other recommendations thus: •That in respect of the Progress Report on Obasanjo Administration and Photographs for State House Library, though the sum of N4.5 million approved for the project by the then Executive Secretary of PTDF, Alhaji Adamu Maina Waziri was within his approval limit, he should be made to refund the said sum of N4.5 million to PTDF nevertheless as the project was outside the contemplation of Section 2 of the PTDF Act.
•That all the projects approved for the PTDF from 2003 till date should be verified and evaluated by the relevant Committees of the Senate, that is to say, Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) and Committee on Public Accounts, or alternatively by Ad-Hoc Committee for this purpose.
•That the relevant committees of the Senate should be alive to their oversight responsibilities over the PTDF.
•That Marine Float Accounts should be independently investigated by the relevant organs of government especially Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) since the initial investigation by the EFCC had generated controversy.
•The taxes payable on the bill by Emmanuel Chambers should be recovered by the PTDF and paid over to the relevant Tax Authorities. The said Chambers should also itemise its bill.
•That all the accounts in the name of the PTDF within and outside Nigeria should be established by the Senate Committees on Petroleum (Upstream) and Public Accounts, or in the alternative, an Ad-Hoc Committee established for that purpose.
It further recommended that "The PTDF Act should be amended to: provide for a Governing Board/Board of Trustees; provide for the constitution of the Board which should reflect Federal Character; in view of the increase in bonuses, the funding of the PTDF should be streamlined by formalising the limits of bonuses payable to the Fund to either 25 percent of bonuses or $100 million per annum whichever is less; and statutory provision for audited accounts of the Fund".
The report added: "The management of Fund should be re-organised/restructured to enhance its capacity to deliver on its well-defined objectives and to insulate it from politics.
"The Agencies like the Central Bank of Nigeria, Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Department of Petroleum Resources and the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation that have direct bearing with the Fund should play their roles as expected to aid the Fund in meeting the objectives for which it was established.
"The PTDF Act when amended should include the Solid Minerals sector and should be renamed Petroleum Technology and Minerals Development Fund".
The Committee in arriving at the recommendations said it relied on its findings on such issues as placement of deposits with TIB, loans to Otunba Fasawe and the NDTV/PTDF link; placement of deposit with Equitorail Trust Bank, its relationship with the Vice President, Otunba Mike Adenuga and GLOBACOM; and additional approval of $20 million for PTDF in 2003, among others.
For instance on the issue of release of N20 billion and N10 billion to PTDF and the use of the same to fund third term agenda as alleged by the Vice President, the committee stated as follows: "On 10th May, 2006, the PTDF obtained Mr. President’s approval for the sum of N20 billion for the execution of the following projects: Final finishing touches to the upgrade of eight federal universities; the upgrade of Petroleum Training Institute to Federal University of Petroleum Engineering, Effurun, Warri; the procurement and supply of Laboratory Equipment Project to 102 Unity Schools and six Federal Polytechnics;
"The ICT Centres in 102 Unity Schools, 20 Colleges of Education and 24 universities; the National Technical Institute, Bonny, Rivers State; the Federal Polytechnic, Tugba, Bayelsa State and the Post Graduate Overseas Scholarship Scheme.
"From the submission of the PTDF, the Committee noted that on 13th September, 2006, the Accountant-General’s office authorised that N10 billion should be released to the PTDF.
"PTDF Management in their oral testimony confirmed that till date only N10 billion out of the required N20 billion has been released to the Fund. Therefore, the evidence before the Committee is that so far, only N10 billion of the approved funds were released to the PTDF".
According to the Comm-ittee, other facts included among others, "The information gap between the PTDF and the Accountant-General of the Federation regarding the inflows or out flows from the PTDF Reserve Account. That some of the accounts kept in the name of PTDF by the Accountant-General of the Federation were not known to the PTDF.
"The decision to restrict the funding of the PTDF to a limit of 25 percent of signature bonuses or $100 million per annum whichever is lower was done without legal backing.
"The supervision of the PTDF by the Executive has been grossly inadequate and this is compounded by the lack of the exercise of proper oversight responsibilities over the PTDF by the relevant Committees of the National Assembly particularly the Committees on Petroleum (Upstream) and Public Accounts.
"As a result of poor supervision, bogus and unrealisable projects were recommended and funds approved for them", and "Many of the projects for which monies were approved have not been implemented’".
The Committee said it looked at the Marine Float Accounts and found out that it was at best a second line beneficiary of the PTDF fund, adding that it noted that "contrary to arguments that no PTDF funds were lost in the various placements, the sums of N400 million loaned to NDTV, N420 million to MOFAS Shipping Company Limited, N730 million to NDTV and N300 million to Transvari Services Limited by TIB remained unrecovered.
"Though the loans have since been restructured with the acquisition of TIB by Spring Bank, Plc, the loans cannot however be recovered outside the restructured framework without endangering the financial health of the bank".
At a briefing yesterday, Senator Ndoma-Egba maintained that the Committee did not invite Atiku to appear before it, adding that it was the Vice President who insisted that he wanted to personally appear before the Committee.

but the aspect of lying is never acceptable

i think when the amount is big ,then common sense tells she should tell her husband
but when its just some change it shouldn't be a major concern

Try other areas ,i think your actual location of job search maybe full of such racist ,bt its not like that all round,
and if at all there is no chance ,you are worth much more back home , it would have just been good if you get at least a year experience from there.

wrong message people, am no yahoo boy, not saying this because i am trying to impove an image. afterall its been dented. what i mean is that she dumped me because of some shit i did for someone. i never expected this thing to grow this wild. i was only trying to pass a message across to someone. u all came uninvited, but nevertheless, i say a big welcome to you all. am no drop out like some claim, and not jobless. i am a computer student in lagos university, in my final year. i alo teach computer studies in a computer school.
she misjudged me for its worth. and i have given up because i dint believe that no matter the shit i did, she would go as far as insulting me this way.
so many of you who insulted me here, are like those who pulled a stone before reasoning.
how many of you can beat your chest proudly and say of a truth that they are innocent.
pot calling kettle black.
she calls me senseless, and a thief or what ever. well believe me am my own self. i have been my own self long before she even knew it.
people meet others for a reason, what i have learnt from this experience is my bussiness. damsol
maybe am the fool u have been trying to paint me all this while, but then remember that you and i have never had a moment to talk and get to understand each other. when u listen to your friend, try to also listen to the other party.
and to u, u know am talking to you, i no vex for anyhting we happen. just the way you took it.
when people quarell, they try to listen to each other and talk. even if it can't be resolved, u don't make a public show of the whole thing. u say i don't deserve you? yeah u right i don't. i accept.
just whatever take care. and don't be in a hurry next time to cast a blame. u might be too much in a hurry to realise your mistake.
afterall if i wanted to scam you, i had all your information, it was a simple thing for me to have scamed you.
i never chose to, and will never choose to because i respected you genuinely.
for yall who says i should be arrested. well i havebeen arrested, but in a different way.
thanks for all the listening ears, and understanding hearts. it shows some respect others sometimes, and not just opening your mouth because its was made to be opened.

Izeek ,

I actually have a lot to ask you from your last post , but i decide to ask you just one question and that should answer the rest .

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well i read this today on Vanguard :

Obasanjo not corrupt — Ribadu * Identifies ‘pillars of corruption’

By Emmanuel Aziken
Posted to the Web: Monday, February 26, 2007

ABUJA — CHAIRMAN of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has given President Olusegun Obasanjo a clean bill of health, and traced recent negative publicity on the EFCC’s activities to a few individuals he termed “the pillars of corruption” in the country.

In an interview with newsmen, weekend, Mallam Ribadu linked the “pillars of corruption” to the publication and circulation of a false list of indicted political office candidates which he said was meant to create confusion in the polity.

While he confirmed Senators Mukhtar Aruwa and Usman Albashir to be on the list of indicted candidates, he said neither Senators Victor Ndoma-Egba nor Ike Ekweremadu was on the list he compiled. He linked their inclusion in some publications to the “pillars of corruption” who, according to him, are bent on pulling down the country with themselves.

The EFCC boss also said the commission was now prosecuting at least 15 state governors on various charges of misconduct even as he vowed that the battle against corruption would not be sacrificed for the pleasure of a few people he said had held the country hostage.

On the status of investigations into allegations raised by Governor Orji Kalu against President Obasanjo and the President’s depth of involvement in the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) saga, he expressed reservations on the commitment of Governor Kalu to the anti-corruption crusade. According to him, the governor repeatedly ignored the EFCC’s entreaties to help the commission’s investigations on the allegations against the President.

On the President’s involvement in the PTDF saga, he said: “From our own findings, we never saw a single occasion, one single instance where Obasanjo sat with anybody to transact business involving PTDF money. We never saw where Obasanjo gave money to a bank through PTDF. Never! We never saw Obasanjo directing any officer in the PTDF to do this or to do that. We never saw Obasanjo sitting with businessmen to transact business involving money of PTDF. We did not see one single evidence where money coming from PTDF entered into his own account and you do not expect me that simply because people are aggrieved with the investigations going on, go about saying that Obasanjo took 10 billion dollars, a hundred million this, everyday you see different figures but on the face of it… You can say anything.

“We did the investigation, we saw who was running the PTDF, we saw who was giving the instructions, we saw for example who sat with bank executives, we saw when the money went into PTDF where it went in a verifiable manner with the cheques, with the bank tellers and I can assure you we did not see Obasanjo’s name there and if it is not there nobody can manufacture it."

On the circumstances that led to the circulation of different lists of indicted political office candidates, he said: “We never sent any list to the media, almost all that appeared in the print media were not from us, they were fabrications, they were forgeries, they were made by people who want to continue to confuse everybody and so many of the names you saw there were never part of those that we mentioned as indicted or corrupt people.

“So, it is part of the problem that we are complaining of in Nigeria. Whatever you try to do, bad people are out there to destroy it, to manipulate it, to change it, to doctor it themselves. It was not government that doctored it, it is actually those with interest, those who believe that this work has to stop, cause confusion in the process, confuse innocent Nigerians, deceive and thereby, at the end of the day come out on top of it.”

On the allegation that four Senators were originally listed on his list of indicted candidates, he said: “I believe for example that two out of the four you mentioned were there, Aruwa and Albashir. Definitely Ndoma-Egba is not on that list. Victor’s (Ndoma-Egba) name is part of the mischief that we are complaining of. Yes, I can also authoritatively say that Senator Ekweremadu was not on the list of those indicted.”

He again blamed the “pillars of corruption” for the mix-up. “I am suspecting the politicians we are fighting. I am suspecting those who I consider and call pillars of evil in our country, pillars of corruption in our country today and they are very few people and they are the ones who are responsible for what is going on. They are the ones who are distorting things. They are the ones responsible for overheating the system today and raising the tension of everything. They are the ones who are threatened. They are the ones who for the first time are being asked to account for their own bad behaviour and misdeeds.”

Justifying his compilation of a list of indicted candidates for the presidency and the political parties, he said: “It is the Constitution of Nigeria that says so. The Constitution says that if you indict a person for fraud or embezzlement. Indict, not conviction, and I have seen a lot of misunderstanding and confusion on this. There is a big difference between conviction and indictment. Conviction is done by the court, indictment is done by law enforcement agencies. Indictment means to accuse, to establish a case against a person.

“The Constitution gives us power to indict but the Constitution says indictment cannot stand unless it is accepted by government and that is exactly what we did. After submitting to the government of Nigeria, the government is at liberty to accept it or reject. By giving government to accept, invariably there is a power to even reject and that is exactly what happened. Nobody seems to really go into the details of what the law says.”

Asked on the action taken against the governors he listed as culpable of corrupt deeds before the Senate last year, he said: “Already we have charged about 15 or so cases."


SO GUYS WHAT DO YOU NOW THINK hmmm Niger !!!

lol ; very funny post
ve u tried it d other way round ?

If you state the location it may help in giving you a good advice
Netcom is good ,bt i hope it won't be too expensive, depending on your plan

Congrats !!!
make it a point of duty to help/direct others who desires such breakthrough

its simple , which do u value most ? "vaginity" or "top modelling" i don't c why u confused

am not in support of Atiku, bt wondering if truely it's the end for him regarding 2007

   
Atiku, others stand disqualified —IWU

ABUJA — THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared yesterday that candidates for this year’s elections who could not scale through the  verification conducted by it stood disqualified, and their parties have lost the right to contest.

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   Could this be the end for Atiku ?

watch "prison break" or "24 hours" you will forget everyother movie

@vivienne
good luking ;under-statemnt

Guyz u know what there is no need giving a long sermon

i will rather cast my vote to utomi and he losses(God forbid) than to keep my vote to my self or waste it on any other politicians out there

cos there isn't any sincere 1 as UTOMI

if we all begin to ve dis mind ,we will make dis change , we are due for this change

i read this on his site (www.patutomi2007.com)

Nigerians, just a simple plea, put me beside them. Put the commitment I have shown throughout my life to service. Put the ones they’ve shown throughout their lives to public service. Put my competence in terms of education and all of that in front of them. Put the ones they have shown. Put down my team spirit, put down theirs and compare it. Put my character and their values down. If you put all of this one against the other and theirs appears higher than mine, please, vote for them. But if mine is higher than theirs, do your conscience a duty

  Guyz   OUR CHILDREN MUST REFERENCE THIS REVOLUTION STORY  we must vote ooo and he must win , am tired of seeing the present state of Nigeria ,haba !!

hey vivienne ,emmmm it's actually nt ma style bt i kip chking dt pix of urs , re u really d  1 thr ?   

Omo Eko:  that harsh sha
and it's not is fault his a yahoo boy, blame our economy and our government
am sure his a graduate student, it's situation that pushed him there
who knows maybe his the one sending himself to school.
people need to put themselves in his shoes before judging him

Omo Eko ,since you are a lady maybe u'll be the match hammah referred to for this yahoo boy

u seem to know how to cook up excuse

i wonder if a thief rubbed you at gun point and do away with your valuable possesions, will u give same excuse

Jeeezz what d h, !
Omo Eko and every other person that follows your suite
We are all responsible for whatever we do or be ,no one is responsible ,
you can not use wrong to correct wrong
you can not use evil to achieve right
  for goodness sake what are u saying

mennnnnn plsssss hanhan

infact your next post on nairaland izeek is
"they caught me because i'm a yahoo yahoo boy"
how can you be proud doing this
we are now admitting wrongs to be right in this nation ;that is awful and sadening

those doing menial jobs are respectable/responsible than internet thieves

Tuface did not finish/go to school he is a super star today ,his song is being played on all radio station in Barbados 

Omo Eko U better stop encouraging this young guys in this manner

AND WE SHOULD STOP BLAMING OTHERS FOR OUR STATE OR ELSE WE REMAIN IN THE SAME SPOT IF NOT WORSE

[center] the next stage after 'dumping' is 'catching'
you are not only going to be dumped u will be caught  [/center]

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Hey izeek yahoo boy ,give your address and phone number or give the girls contact

       since you ve d gut to post this SHAMELESS JUNK here, 'll help u put d gut @right place     

  WHAT!!!!!!     could dt be your picx on your profile    
  what is happening to us in this country ??  being confidently corrupt ,haba!!

From Sunday Vanguard
PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Yola expressed regret for picking Vice president Atiku Abubakar as his running mate for the 1999 and 2003 general  elections, describing him as a disaster and a disappointment to the entire political system in the country.


He stated that there were the likes of Professor Jibril Aminu, Senator Iya Abubakar, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and others who could have served the country diligently  but for Atiku’s closeness to the late Alhaji Musa Yar’adua, who never lied to him, he (Obasanjo) opted for Atiku.


The president, who was speaking at the Adamawa chapter of the PDP presidential rally, told the people of the state to accept his apology for making a wrong  choice.


    So people how can you tell "He isn't making another mistake choosing Yaradua"
don't tell me Yaradua wasn't choosen or else ,

   Despite the fact that i know OBJ has done quite a number of things for Nigeria ,i still don't beleive in PDP(it appears too dictative and sole on its 2007 presidential ambition,that doesn't represent the true Nigerian voice).
it's time for a change ,the change is PAT UTOMI,the TRUE NIGERIAN VOICE .

@shutmouth
www.utomi4president2007.com

THUMBS UP 2U shutmouth