cesctotti:
this is d best request you've ever asked of me. And that's the best gift I Eva offer u.... My prayers.... Be assured of it my dearest friend... Open yourselves to God's grace and experience Him in His wonder working nature...be diligent in ur prayers.... And pray like a person who knows the power of d God He serves.

Amen, thanks my brother.

Congrats guys,

Your situations constantly give me, as a Nov hopeful, a hope that it will also end well soon.
Cesctotti, you always emphasise prayers, I also do that always, please pray for me and other Nov candidates.

Pesuzok:
Out of all these comments, no solution is suggested. All the graduates here think that economic team means magicians. The country is not earning enough for example to sell to everyone, it's simple. It either you buy at 400 to $1 or you look inwards.

Abeg, don't put blame on people. Aren't there people already paid to pilot the leadership and our economy? They have to justify their pay. People have right to moan and complain as the things go.

Amin23:
I am assuming these dangote people that were screaming that those who haven't got their passports should go it are on vacation now. I remember vividly the Hr telling us then @ d psychometric stage that the training should have commenced since (& dat was in Nov'15) 3 months ago. Also, those awaiting medical invitew were also assured by "ashaf" last month that they will be called in February...today is Feb19 so you know. My advice as advised by Dangote Hr ...take your mind off it...go on with other plans, apply for other jobs, get married, have kids, stop waiting endlessly and putting your life on hold for dangote. Have a good day everyone

That bolded got me laughing. But you spoke the truth sha.
In any case, the recruitment process may look slow and frustrating, but it looks promising and fair, so keep hope alive.

Congrats @AltarBoy1.
Are you based in Lag or where? Wanna ask few questions about the biscuit biz. Thanks

I may be wrong though, but I sincerely hope and pray the recent FOREX restriction on abroad studies will not affect the overseas training if there is any.

All the best.

Can you guys see how we yorubas, instead of joining you in the yabbing game, are condemning this act?

That's civility and maturity. Preying on your fellow brothers is irresponsible and disgusting.

Change your ways.

koboko69:
Do people actually expect a Military Grmeral to come on air and admit foghting enemies with sub standard weapons. ..

Who's in the better position to assess their weapons; Minster of information who knows nothing about arms or Military General?

So you still expect us to believe Lai Mohammed's statement above the General's?

Bravo to you.

Remove your political goggle, read with open mind, then you will know #2016Budget is a budget of corruption and Buhari isn't acting what he's preaching.

Buhari preaches austerity, but lives flamboyant lifestyle, his Daughter schools abroad while he's frustrating foreign students with FOREX policy and telling them to come home.

Buhari receives medical treatement abroad, not even at state house clinic.

Buhari, upon failing to auction the fleet, spent 5 days abroad and packed the jet abroad while tax payers' money was used to cater for the charges involved.

Buhari has failed to withdraw the fraudulent Budget, even after his minister DISOWNED the budget, thanks to the NASS the stopped its passage.

Buhari has failed to name or probe his so-called 'Mafia'. If 'Mafia' truly changed the budget, one expected a man of integrity that wasn't a part to immediately order the probe and angrily withdraw the budget after all these revelations.

In addition, who are the 'mafia'? Recall Buhari removed and replaced Permanent Secretaries with his own trusted ones. He used 5-6months to select his 'Angelic' Ministers, yet the Budget is marred by fraudulent figures.

Buhari and his Ministers are yet to declare their assets publicly as promised. What are they hiding? Why is it taking them this much time.

Just as before, or even worse, few days after #Dalori attack, where hundred were killed and burnt, Buhari went to Ogun and danced to Olamide's SAKITIBOBO while people at Dalori were mourning. Do you remember GEJ was accused of the same act?

It took wide condemnation before Buhari visited Abuja blast victims, the President has failed to address the nation; fuel scarcity period, bomb blast etc. We mean nothing to him.

Our NASS are yet to release details of their 115bn allocation, still as before.

You will ask me why I'm holding all these against Buhari or ask "didn't GEJ do same?" Need I remind you that Buhari campaigned on CHANGE? and all we see are status quo and even worse in some situations.

No matter how bad/good GEJ faired, he will not be Buhari's standard to judge him. We shall judge Buhari based on his promises to change the status quo.

My Question from the Budget; WHO ARE WE PAYING THE STATE HOUSE RENT AT ASO ROCK VILLA TO? WHO IS THE ASO ROCK VILLA LANDLORD?

Buhari’s Shameful 2016 Budget: It Is Time To End The Honeynoom & Draw A Line In The Sand By Ilesanmi Omabomi


That a country as blessed as Nigeria will present a budget with dodgy and shoddy figures as are being revealed calls into question the competence of the people President Buhari is relying upon to handle the finances of his government. Nigeria parades a citizenry made up of professionals trained in some of the best academic institutions in the world and have been in charge of multi-billion dollar budgets in different capacities around the world. What Nigerians must bear in mind is that the 2016 budget is only $30Billion with the official rate and $20Billion with the black market rate.   

President Buhari must himself explain to Nigerians why after taking almost five months to appoint his ministers with the excuse that he was searching for the best hands, this disjointed, incoherent, elementary and pedestrian document called the 2016 federal budget is the best they can produce. In the absence of a cogent explanation from each and every minister and senior official associated with this budget, the president should ask for their resignation or fire them with immediate effect. Those guilty of willful conduct should be arrested immediately and prosecuted.

In addition, the President has some explanations to do himself. He must explain to Nigerians why the Aso Rock kitchen continues to get tens of millions in budget allocations every year for the purchase of utensils without Nigerians being told of what happened to the ones purchased the year before. Why does the guest house continue to get hundreds of millions every year for renovation and new contents without an explanation of what happened to previous allocations. He needs to explain why the Aso Rock  Clinic that caters to fewer than 2,000 people is getting more money for capital expenditure than all the teaching hospitals that cater to over 170 million Nigerians. Why does the President need N1billion to buy food items at a time when the average Nigerian is starving. The President, not his assistants, has a lot of things to explain about some of the allocations in this shameful budget. Before the president forgets, I will encourage him to take a brief trip down memory lane to review how former president Goodluck Jonathan ended up in the mess that he is in now.

GEJ started off by telling Nigerians he did not “give a damn” about making public his assets declaration. Then he appointed the worst people into strategic positions and then began the  worst treasury looting in the country’s history. Treasury looters were rewarded with national awards and entrusted with more money. Those who dared to challenge the looters were accused of crying wolf, humiliated and fired from their jobs. At the time it looked unfathomable that the opposition will be able to produce a candidate that will dislodge the then almighty PDP from power. Then came along the APC, candidate Mohamadu Buhari and the 2015 presidential elections. We all now know how the PDP deck of cards all came crashing down.

I supported President Buhari and will continue to support him until I run out of patience with him and his government. I hope it will not be soon.

Millions of Nigerians voted for PMB and his party and are pinning their hopes of a better future on his legendary Spartan lifestyle and no frills leadership style. They have sheeted their swords in the last seven months in the hope that he will soon come good on his promises even when some aspects of his leadership or lack of it have given them reasons to at least question if their hopes and aspirations have been misplaced.

The ongoing revelations of the shoddy, fraudulent and incompetently prepared 2016 national budget is the latest in a long list of misdemeanors over which Nigerians would have been prepared to hang the former president but have been patient with PMB because of their faith in his personal integrity and his undoubted desire to pull this country out of the woods. Other disturbing matters that arose before now and were overlooked are being re-examined to see if a pattern of disrespect for Nigerians is being exhibited by this government. A short list of some of them will suffice.

The President’s promised public declaration of his assets within 90 days of assuming office was less than “kosher” In addition to his failure to publicly make available his asset declaration forms, the methodology used for arriving at his N30m or $150,000 net worth based on the then existing exchange rate was not empirical. While most of the newspapers gladly announced that the president was worth only N30million what they forgot or failed or willfully chose to be blind to was the value of items that were not included in the calculation of his total net worth. Some of those things included the monetary value of his five homes and two mud houses, his shares in three companies as well as his two undeveloped plots. We all know that plots of land can sell for or be worth as much as N500million in a place like Abuja and houses could be worth hundreds of millions in some parts of Nigeria. If in doubt ask Ekpemepulo Tompolo who allegedly sold one to the federal government for N13Billion! On a serious note, I am not raising these points to imply that the president is corrupt or provide the ammunition to those who are determined to see the president fail because of his anti-corruption war, far from that. But the truth must be told. The point here is to draw the President’s attention to the fact that Nigerians have cut him a lot of slack and it is his turn to reciprocate.

Very few will deny the fact that GEJ government’s maintenance of a fleet of 12 or more aircrafts in the Presidential Fleet at a time when the country was in and continues to in a fiscal death row cost him considerable votes in the election. Since Buhari assumed office on May 29, 2015 many Nigerians, including myself, who have been eagerly waiting for the news that he has ordered a sell off of at least 2/3 or 8 of the planes have been disappointed. Even a story that the president had ordered the selloff of the planes a few weeks into his presidency was denied. Like one popular columnist said Buhari is “keeping all the planes with style” This luxury is unaffordable and its continued existence is a source of irritation for Millions of Nigerians who struggle to survive on less than a $1 a day.

The president’s frequent overseas trips is another worrisome issue. Even when the cost of these trips are not taken into consideration, some of these overseas trips are not worthy of the attendance of the President of the most populated and richest black nation on earth. Attendance by the vice-president or ministers would be more in order and cheaper. The president recently announced commencement of a short five-day vacation during a trip to Europe. While I do not begrudge him for taking a vacation only eight months into his presidency, it appears that the presidential plane that flew him to Europe will remain parked at the airport during his vacation and Nigerians will have to pick up this unnecessary cost at a time when the country is bleeding financially. If the Prime Minister of Britain will fly commercial on his vacations, is it too much to ask the president of a country that receives economic and military aid from Britain to do the same?

There is the issue of corruption in the judiciary. We have heard the President express his concerns or doubts about the willingness of the judiciary to support his anti-corruption war. Most Nigerians share his concerns. What baffles many Nigerians is why Buhari is refusing to take on the judges and other judicial officers who earn civil service or slightly better than civil service remunerations but are openly living in mansions and living lifestyles that supply conclusive evidence of their corruption. The Supreme Court and courts below it continue to render decisions that are clearly designed to frustrate the anti-corruption war. Why the government will not make billions available to the anti-corruption agencies to hire thousands of additional agents to swiftly deal a deadly blow to this type of corruption is beyond anyone, especially when the funds to be recovered will far exceed the costs of doing so.

Most of the corrupt officials and political appointees put in the place by the GEJ government that almost bankrupted Nigeria are still occupying their positions. Why was the wife of Bode-George still the acting D-G of a sensitive federal agency like the NDLEA until today? Why is  NAFDAC still headed by the corrupt protégé of a corrupt former Attorney General? It is not like they are career officers who got to their position on merit. Hundreds of federal agencies critical to the economy of this country and the anti-corruption fight continue to be under the control of GEJ appointed corrupt PDP stalwarts. How difficult is it to find competent Nigerians to staff critical government agencies and institutions?

The handling of the petroleum subsidy removal was another coup de shame. Given the President’s earlier promise not to remove the subsidy (assuming there was ever one) and his subsequent decision to remove it, one would have expected that such a sensitive national issue that affects the wellbeing of over 90% of Nigerians would have been the subject of a national broadcast. Instead, Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum resources made the announcement in several pieces as if using every piece to measure public reaction. I do not blame him though. Yet, Nigerians let it be. Anyone who remembers the long and protracted struggle Nigerians put up against previous regimes in order to protect what they believed to be petroleum subsidy would advise President Buhari to be very thankful for the understanding and trust shown him by Nigerians with their peaceful acceptance of his government’s decision to remove whatever was left of the petroleum subsidy.

Despite the appreciable efforts being made at the federal level, corruption continues unabated at the state and local government levels. Governors and local government chairmen/women who grumble over having to pay the miserly N18,000 minimum wage, an amount that one of their numerous girlfriends will refuse to accept for a taxi ride, are erecting or buying mansions within and outside Nigeria with stolen money and training their wards in some of the best universities in the world. They spend hundreds of millions renovating buildings that were built or renovated less than a year ago. They are not making cuts to their bureaucracies, expenses nor retinue of often incompetent and unproductive special assistants.  Many of these erring governors are from the same party as the President!

Nigerians continue to expect the President to tackle corruption in the National Assembly. The corruption ridden institution continues to resist every reasonable attempt by Nigerians to make  it accountable. There is a limit to the separation of powers. If the allowances being drawn by these lawmakers are illegal as we have been told several times by RMAFC, what is stopping the law enforcement agencies from arresting and prosecuting those who issue the checks and those who cash the checks?

The President may honestly believe that he is being “slow and steady” but the situation on the ground calls for something more urgent. The President must be prepared to dismiss with dispatch those who are singing a different tune from his government’s, he must learn to delegate, and be prepared to take the risk of trusting those he has not worked with before in the full knowledge that those who err will be taken care of by the law.

The PDP in particular and the general opposition maybe in disarray right now just the same way the opposition was in disarray before the emergence of APC, the President must personally take his own time to read up on how GEJ found himself and his government on the slippery slope from which they never recovered. President Mohamadu Buhari has a golden opportunity to write his name into the history of Nigeria and maybe become the genuine father of modern day Nigeria. But he must bear in mind that time waits for no one and Nigerians are daily dying of hunger, ignorance and preventable diseases. He cannot allow himself to be seen as daring Nigerians! When all is said and done, he will have to take full responsibility for the failures of his government because it is his government. If he has been let down by trusted aids, Nigerians want to see him hang them out to dry. 

/20JMwKB

www.saharareporters.com/2016/02/09/buhari’s-shameful-2016-budget-it-time-end-honeynoom-draw-line-sand-ilesanmi-omabomi

babyfaceafrica:
Lienus OP...she controls the judiciary and she APC lost in courts...you just dey find trouble,....IPOd!!!

I should educate you that the post was asking if she boasted of controlling judiciary or not. I don't understand Hausa, but if she had truly said that, that's shameful and corruption not minding whether he successfully carried out the threat or not.

And why do you think all you have to reply to every post is "IPOD/IPOB" isn't that cliche already?

You can do better by engaging your thoughts and arguing logically instead of just posting IPOD/IPOB on every thread.

I'm not IPOB, I'm yoruba, but the IPOB thinggy is becoming nauseating and childish.

BLESS

Where is the lolzzzz that started this disgraceful thread? And to think he can't even stand the heat, he left the thread then they bombarded the thread with gory sights of Aba.

You guys claim you're brothers, yet you disparage yourselves openly here. You've just made a mess of the so-called Biafra.

I'm sure an average Anambran will never wish Imo and Abia develop just to continue denigrate and ridicule these states, same thing will go for an average Imoite and Abian towards Anambra. How do you co-habit in your 'Biafra' if you never wish your neighbouring states develop?

SMH in shame for all of you.

I'm not an abian, Imoite or Anambran, I'm a yoruba man. This thread is disgraceful.


I SPIT ON IT!!!

tunwumi:
As much is i don"t subscribe to #budgetofcorruption i will still give it to PMB who directed the ministry to publish the budget online. thank God as nigerian are getting more and more consious of event now.

#bringbackoursanity.

Need I tell you that Budget used to be uploaded 24-48hours after NASS presentation? This Govt had no intention of letting the public see this budget, but thanks to outrage from Nigerians who demanded that the budget be uploaded and @BudgITng that initially uploaded the first version of the budget.
the precedence of past Govt, no matter how corrupt you call it, of uploading the budget after NASS presentation was one of the standard this people couldn't deviate from, we forced them to upload it,hence they would have passed behind us.

Beef or favoursim apart, OP killed this agbada pass E-money. It looks perfectly well on him.

OP pls ansa the questions as regards how much your tailor charged and how many yards you used.

cesctotti:
Smiles.... Yeah u guys are outstandingly logical.... I'm earnestly praying they start calling on those awaiting med invite for theirs. Plz I urge those in the waiting list not to give up hopes. For working with u all is my desire.. And God who is the chief orchestrator of our destiny will make everything beautiful in out career...in His time. Amen. I just believe many of us here will get this Job... Your wait....our wait...will not be in vain.

I always love your assuring posts, I remain positive while waiting for Interview Invite and believe God it will go and end well. God bless us all.

BTW, have you got your Int'l passport? if you never had before. I think you guys have to reiterate that Int'l passport thinggy.

Condmening Buhari for that disgraceful statement isn't that we're supporting corruption, every country has corrupt Nationals, but their Presidents rather choose to market their positives. Do you know how many illegal Mexican Immigrants in USA? Should their president go on air and chant "My People are corrupt"? Mexicans are also experts in drugs, how many times have their presidents aired that?

Rape is common in india, do they air this internationally? Other nationals won't help you solve the mess, they will rather disparage you for it, why going to their land to mess up our personality when we have far more sincere Nigerians we can use to market Nigeria.

Going by this statistics, I'm sure there were more Nigerians than 167 jailed ones in 2014, why do we have to denigrate other sincere thousands of Nigerians because of criminals who are minority? How does this help in driving investors to Nigeria or rebranding our image?

The true test of integrity is not in haunting down your opponents or enemies, but in standing against it when your allies err. Buhari is shielding Amaechi, Fayemi, Fashola etc from various petitions written against them, even if they are innocent, let EFCC act on the petitions against them and prove their innocence.

Buhari removed and replaced new head of civil service and various PMs with his own allies, yet they produced the #BudgetOfYams, after earlier branding it as Budget of Change. Now when the condemnation was viral and the frauds in the budget were exposed, they are blaming 'budget mafia'. Who're the mafia? Buhari's appointed Permanent Secretaries?

Again, I'm asking; how much was/is used for Daura Helipad.

Ovamboland:


I made no conclusion about your voting choice the statement was meant as an open ended question. I will tell you again you are following the wrong person on the journey to your pet confab report implementation. You should instead engage your rep and senator. Those are the people closest to doing zilch lawfully about the recommendations.

Recall becomes difficult or impossible if the people who want it in a constituency are too few or they are not passionate enough. That's why we need to understand the strategic importance of the legislature, it's not a place to settle good boys or recycle indicted public officials. Or a place take turns to chop their own national cake.
It's our duty as citizen to turn it to issue based campaign.
Imagine if the party under whom the last conference took place are so interested in the report, with their large numbers and the influence they had on choosing house leadership, the report should be number one issue in the house.

That's why they left agitation to those who have no idea why the conference was organised in theffirst place. It failed them as they lost the last rlelection and have since dumped the report

You're getting it wrong. As long as most of these lawmakers are concerned, they'll remain with status quo. The sensitization starts from me and you, I don't expect anyone that claims he wants confab implemented to support this Senator. When I voice out, when you voice out, the third person also learns, he voices out, the advocation for confab report becomes more intense.

Irrespective of the party, we must advocate for what is right.

Ovamboland:

As eloquent as you have written, and if your passion for implementing the confab report was so high did you vote for any national assembly candidate who campaign on the basis of constitutional reforms or implementation of confab report. Many times Nigerians are fond of misdirected agitation. Have you commenced recall of the member representing you in Abuja for not bringing confab report up in the assembly?

You're a funny dude. How did hastily conclude about my voting choice? I'm a fan of confab implementation. I followed @AbdulMahmud1 on twitter bcuz he was one of the delegates and still advocates for confab implementation. He's not a GEJite.
As for recalling a Senator/Rep, do you know how easy/hard it is? Do you know this particular Senator who was also the one that sponsored Social Media Bill is/was facing a process of recall, how has it been successful?
Tell me anyone that has been recalled before. It is possible, but near impossible.

doctokwus:


Don't come here saying thrash and trying to weep up useless sentiments.
I detest senator Na 'Allah because he seems anti people and was the one that proposed that social media bill,but he made a lot of sense in regards to the national conference.
What Na'Allah basically said is this:that GEJ had no legal backing to have conveyed that confab because Nigeria operates a constitutional democracy,that GEJ conveyed the conference by fiat,which is clearly illegal.
That if GEJ was serious about d confab,he should have found a way of enacting a law or act to give effect to the confab.
It's almost similar to what the supreme court has done with the card reader because it claims its not in the electoral act.
Na'Allah made plenty sense.One may detest the man but in this,gej has again been exposed for his utter cluelessness.
Meanwhile Op,u are irritating to have brought tribe into this.So this govt is against the confab recommendations bcoz it favors the Ibos?
Instead of projecting the Igbo race,its your type that continue diminishing the Ibos in the eyes of people that otherwise hold them in high regards with this abhorrent victim mentality.

I join you to condemn the OP for being tribalistic about this issue. But your hatred for GEJ must be spelt out; Confab wasn't just put up by GEJ, it was supported by people from all walks of life, there was nothing clueless about it. Confab wasn't meant to be a law, so I don't see why GEJ needed law to start it. Confab was all about recommendations to change the status quo, and these recommendations were made by delegates with all regions, genders and even youths & students well represented.

Are these recommendations worth consideration, are they good for us? Then let's now consider how to integrate them into our constitutions. Not debating if it's a law or what, Confab was never meant to replace our constitutionn but to offer recommendations.

And as for GEJ didn't have right to set up Confab, who else? Confab wasn't all about GEJ's personal profit, so why playing politics with it or alluding that confab is synonymous with GEJ.

exthar87:
That is not an excuse

Osun state students are lazy and lack the zeal to learn

A state where English language is taught in yoruba Where the students are addressed in yoruba

I don't know how true this claim of yours is, but in any case, there was a time Aregbe advocated that all subjects would be taken in yoruba to promote yoruba culture. So blame Aregbe for that.

martineinstein:
Nigerians should get some senses. Bruce went to buy this vehicle and branded it with silverbird just to reply the guy...

LOL, you need the common sense more. You mean Bruce bought the innoson bus, panited it immediately to reply the guy?
Actually, the news of SilverBird using Innoson bus was on NL front page few days back. You may try to search for it.

@Jayhumble, sorry for that ugly experience, you will surely come out stronger and wiser. Better offers on the way.

BTW, Do you teach people?

MACSTANN:
on my med letter it was oil refinery...

Thanks for the update, please do not hesitate to update the forum as more infos reach any member of the thread.

@Aremu01 and other August hopefuls, I can feel your apprehension, if I, a Nov CV based awaitee, can't also wait any longer.
I join my faith with yours and others that it will all end well for us very soon.

Naira hits record low against the dollar and other major foreign currencies yesterday in the parallel market, extending the wide gap between official rate and that of black market.

The naira, which has been hit by the collapse of crude oil prices, fell  to 311 a dollar in Abuja and Lagos, some dealers reported.

The British Pound Sterling  was sold at N432 yesterday while the Euro exchanged at N331 at the parallel market. The interbank rate, as at yesterday, was 199.25 a dollar, 290.92 to Pound Sterling and 223.24 to a Euro.

There are lots of pressure on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to devalue the naira in order to adjust to the reality due to the fall in the price of crude oil in the global market.

Oil and gas generate about 95 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange. In recent times, a barrel of crude has fallen to $27.

The naira had lost about 30 per cent of its value at the parallel market following the suspension of the weekly auction to the Bureau de Change operators (BDCs) last month by the CBN.

The governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele, said recently that the widening gap between the parallel market and the interbank is not an issue as the parallel market is very insignificant to forex transactions.


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/business/naira-falls-to-record-low-at-311-a-dollar/132280.html

I have long before foreseen the prospects in this LPG biz, I knew it would take over kerosene business.

What size of tons does one need to be an wholesaler?
Thanks.

Good biz