UK Newspaper Honors Jibrin For Exposing Budget Padding

Abdulmumin Jibrin, suspended member of the house of representatives has been honoured with the African Voice Leadership in Legislative Governance Award by African Voice, a London based newspaper.


Jibrin was given the award for his commitment to legislative duties and fight against corrupt.

Mike Abiola, publisher/editor-in-chief of the newspaper, said the award recognised individuals who have shown dedication to developing their countries.

“The African Voice Leadership in Governance Awards recognises African leaders who have shown dedication to developing their state/countries, by demonstrating exemplary leadership,” Abiola said in a letter.

“The attention of the international community has been drawn to your commitment to the people of Nigeria and Kano state in particular. Your effort in helping to eradicate corruption is commendable.

“The 20th African Voice Newspaper Leadership in Legislative Governance Awards Investiture ceremony will take place on Saturday 5 November, 2016 and will be attended by foreign and commonwealth officials, African diplomats in the UK, British politicians, members of parliament and influential business leaders.

“The event has a dedicated followership of high net worth individuals and the crème de crème of the British diverse community.”

On his part, Jibrin said the award is a huge morale booster because it was coming at a very difficult and challenging time.

“Thank you African Voice Newspaper for this award. The award is a huge morale booster because it is coming at a very difficult and challenging period,” he said.

“It’s a period I had to leave my post as appropriations chairman of the house of representatives, suspended through subterranean means by Speaker Yakubu Dogara and received several threats to my life by the highly placed public officials I accused of corruption.

“My offence is disagreeing with some corrupt leaders of the house including the Speaker over the 2016 budget fraud and insisting that the right thing must be done,  exposing individual and systemic corruption in the house and rejecting immunity for principal officers of the house.

“Despite the difficulties I am going through, I will never be cowed to silence. I assure you I will never retreat from this worthy line of action. I shall remain committed to the fight against corruption in the House of Representatives and Nigeria as a whole.

“I dedicate this award to millions of Nigerians home and abroad who are suffering today because of the massive theft of our common wealth, budget fraud and monumental corruption in the house of representatives which assumed an unprecedented dimension under the leadership of speaker Yakubu Dogara.”

Buhari Proposes N6.8Trillion 2017 Budget (Details)

President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a proposal to spend N6.8trn in 2017, with debt servicing put at N1.6trillion.

This was based on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, read on the floor of the Senate during plenary on Tuesday. 

According to the MTEF, crude oil bench mark was put at

$42.50 per barrel, with production projected to be 2.2 million barrels per day and an exchange rate of N290 to a dollar. 

According to the MTEF, N65billion will be spent on the Amnesty programme compared to N20 billion budgeted for the same project in 2016.

N350bn will be spent on Special Intervention Programmes in 2017 compared to N300bn earmarked in 2016.

The MTEF reads in part: 

“Provision in the MTEF are drawn‎ from the government’s development priorities over the medium term, and more specifically, driven by its fiscal strategy and reflect the broad aggregates of the government’s annual budget over the period.

“The aggregates revenue to the fund the 2017 Budget is projected to increase over the 2016 estimates of N3.855 trillion by about 8 percent (or about N313 billion). 33 percent of this is to come from oil sources while the balance is derivable from non-oil sources – in consonance with the government renewed focus on diversification of its revenue base.

“The planned aggregates expenditure is estimated to exceed the provision of N6.6 trillion in the 2016 budget by 13.3 percent (or about N806 billion).”

Man Caught With 25 Cocaine Capsules At MMIA (PHOTO)

Odilli Onyekwere

This is the first time i will smuggle cocaine -- Suspect 

A Man identified as Odili Onyekwere, 47, was caught with cocaine drugs at Muritala Muhammed international Airport, he told the NDLEA that his inability to meet his family’s needs forced him into trafficking drugs.

He was arrested while trying to board a Kenyan Airways Flight heading to Madagascar.

After his arrest, he excreted 25 wraps of cocaine weighing 270g.

The Rivers State-born suspect blamed economic hardship on his action.

Onyekwere who is married with 2 children said frustration & inability to provide for wife and kids forced him to smuggle cocaine. He said his master promised to pay him $1000.

Budget Padding: Dogara makes U-turn, says ‘I am not above the law

Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives appears to have modified his stance on the propriety of the alleged padding in this year’s budget in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly.

Dogara yesterday denied reports suggesting that he could not be investigated or prosecuted over the scandal.

He also said reports credited to him as saying padding was no offence under the law were untrue.

He said his comments on the alleged budget padding were misrepresented and Nigerians now see him as insensitive to their feelings.

Jibrin Lied, No Money was Misappropriated or Stolen in the 2016 Budget --- Dogara

The Hon. Speaker of the House of Rep, Yakubu Dogara, on Saturday restated that No money was misappropriated, stolen or lost in the 2016 budget.

In a statement contained by this Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Turaki Hassan, insisted that there was NO ACT OF CORRUPTION by the speaker during and after the preparation of the 2016 budget.

Buhari, Nigerians will Benefit Greatly from Budget Padding scandal – APC chieftain

 

A chieftain of the All progressive congress, Mr Osita Okechukwu, has stated that Pres. Muhammad Buhari and Nigerians in general will eventually be the greatest beneficiaries of the budget padding scandal currently rocking the House of Representatives.

The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, stated this in Imo State, while fielding questions from newsmen at the burial of the former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abuja council, late Comrade Chuks Ehirim.

BUDGET PADDING: More Revelations by Hon. Jibrin

A former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Sunday said two state governors and three former members of the House of Reps were blocking him from meeting with President Muhammad Buhari to expose what really happened to him.

He added that the action was part of a perfected plot to provide a soft landing for Speaker Dogara.

Jibrin did not name the governors or the former Reps, but promised to expose them if they don't stop.

Nigeria's Mario Economy and The Way Forward

written by Egbeolowo-Ridwan

I write as a Bonafide citizen of Nigeria
I write as a compos mentis Homo Sapien
I write as a political and social animal
I write as Albert Estein of the Century

Am glad when it said *Thy glory, O Israel is slain upon high places:
How are the mighty fallen!

*Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the philistines rejoice, and lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exalt. That is the case when the hobo from the hobo-camp pejoratively hobnobs with the hobgoblin. Nigerians have been bamboozled, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz politically.

Budget padding: Fresh trouble for Jibrin as groups drag him to EFCC

A coalition of media and civil society organisations has dragged the immediate past Chairman of the House of Reps appropriation Committee, Hon Abdulmumunu Jibrin, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the controversy surrounding the alleged padding of the 2016 budget.

National Assembly Can No Longer Steal Our Money With Impunity

According to Abayomi who has been fighting this oddity since 2002 and has a case in court about it, there is nothing like constituency project since the National Assembly has NO power, whatever, to insert any project in a budget, the Nation reports.

Nigerians Would Suffer If I Stop Talking About The Current Government --- Fayose Boasted

Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti Governor

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has warned electorates in Ondo State not to vote for the All

Progressive Congress in the forthcoming guber-National election. The Governor boasted that if he stopped talking about the current governor, Nigerians would suffer.

He said “the APC government had failed the people of Nigeria in the last one year of its rule”

FG began the release of N350 b for capital projects

FG began the release of N350 b for capital projects which include:


1. Dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri Road (N13 b)

2. Lagos-Ibadan Express. (N5 b)

3. Benin-Sagamu Express (N8.7 b)

4. Gombe-Numan-Yola (N2.8 b)

5. Enugu-Onitsha (N5.5 b)

6. Ibadan-Ilorin (N6 b)

7. Second Niger Bridge (N13 b)

8. Odukpani-Itu-Ikot Ekp. (N6 b)

9. Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa (N4.4 b)

10. Sokoto-Tambuwal-Kontagora-Makira (N8.8 b)

11. Oju/Loko n Bridge (N14.2b

12. Kano-Katsina (N2.6 b)

13. Sapele-Agbor Ewu (N2 b)

14. Apapa-Oshodi-Oworoshok N5b

‪#‎PleaseMonitorTheImplimentation‬.

#2016_Budget: List of 25 Approved Road Projects And Costs Under The Supervision of Fashola’s Ministry

The disclosure was made by Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma on Thursday, May 12 while presenting the budget breakdown at the Presidential Villa.

1. Completion of provision of infrastructure ( Roads and Drains) for social Housing at Oron, Akwa Ibom State, Keffi and Nkwubor, Enugu state.
COST:N540,491,959
SUBHEAD: FMWPH017021408

2.Construction of infrastructure,Roads,Drainage and Asphalt finishing (Location(s) not stated).
COST:N430,991,190
SUBHEAD: FMWPHO17021459

3.Completion of ongoing construction of Roads, Drains and Culverts. (Locations not stated)
COST:N1,219,701,478
SUBHEAD: FMWPHO17021490

4.Construction of access Roads and Drainages linking and within the Estates.(Locations not stated)
COST: N582,151,577
SUBHEAD: FMWPHO17021491

5.Construction of Oju/Loko Oweto Bridge to link Loko and Oweto with approach Roads. C/NO 6108
COST: N9b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162014879

6. Dualization of Abuja – Lokoja Road.
COST:N10b
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162014890

7.Kano – Maiduguri Road ( Section I-V)
COST:N16b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH16201899

8.Rehabilitation of Apapa – Oshodi -Oworoshoki Road.
COST:N15b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162014904

9.Rehabilitation of other Roads including reimbursement to states.
COST:N42,764,974,872
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162020960

10.Rehabilitation of Lagos-Ibadan Road.
COST:N5b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH262020967

11. Concession of 2nd Niger Bridge in Anambra and Delta States.
COST: N17b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162020963

12.Rehabilitation of Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa-Bokani Road.
COST:N6b
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162020967

13.Rehabilitation of Sokoto-Tambuwal-Kontangora-Makira Road.
COST:N4b
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162020969

14.Pavement strengthening and Asphalt overlay of Ajebandele-Benin-Shagemu Road in Ogun State.
COST:N6.5b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162020974

15.Constructionof Apakun-Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road in Lagos State on DBFOMT bases under PPP scheme.
COST: N5b
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162020974

16.Rehabilitation of Hadijia-Nguru-Gashau Bamayari Road.
COST:N4b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162020975

17.Rehabilitation of Odukpani-Itu-Ikot Ekpene Road in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.
COST: N6b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH172020977

18.Constructionof Kaduna Eastern bypass, Kano Western bypass and Dualization of Kano-Katsina Road.
COST:N3b
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162020981

19.Rehabilitation of Enugu-Port Harcourt Road.
COST:N10b
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162020983
20.Maintenance and Construction of Bridges nationwide.
COST:N2b
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162020984

21.Rehabilitation of Mokwa-Bida Road in Niger State.
COST:N777,673,873
SUBHEAD:MOPWH162021016

22.Rehabilitation of Akure-Ilesha Road in Ondo/Osun State.
COST: N370,950,259
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162021045

23.Completion of Enugu-AbakalikiRoad in Enugu/Ebonyi States
COST: N29,349,852
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162021045

24. Completion of Mbok-Ikom Road in Cross River State.
COST:N13,821,513
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162021048


25.Nigeria-Cameroon Highway Project (NCHP). Construction of joint border Bridge.
COST: N820,000,000
SUBHEAD: MOPWH162021053