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Rivers gov tribunal ‘induced by hearsay,’ S’Court rules

Maigari says: “Yes all the voters identification and verification results were hearsay we hear. Now future elections must be conducted as per the manual system such that Nigerian elections votes have to be manually counted, recounted and verified before anyone talks of any advancement on democracy.’’

Perryy: “why did the card readers not stop election riggers in the north? You mean that the over 2 million voters that voted in Kano were accredited with card readers? If that is true, it means INEC deliberately programmed the card readers to fail in the south, which in itself is another crime. Let us be realistic for once.’’
Izedomi: “Supreme Court turned British justice bequeathed to us on its head.‘’
Ralf: “Card readers cannot supersede voter register. Card readers failed voters who were waiting to vote. They finally cast their votes as Nigerians.’’

Maigari: “No one said the card readers are above the voter register. No, it is just that by this, the court has completely sidelined the card reader and we all know what that means. It is not about the merits of the Court’s jurisprudence on legislative intent and the conclusion it produced in the ruling.’’
Perryy: “Tell the law makers to amend the electoral act such that manual accreditation is no longer allowed, until that is done, Supreme Court is very right in its judgement as card reader is not recognized by the constitution or any act of the land, and hence, it can’t be a basis for cancelling election.’’

30 dead in fresh Boko Haram raids on Borno villages

AriseNigeria says: “Where is the Nigerian army? Their strength and guns are targeted against unarmed IPOB and MASSOB peaceful protesters and people that are praying, but armed terrorist that need armed confrontation are raiding innocent Nigerians and going scot free.’’

Ogaga: “This is a nightmare. Please our government and the military should wake up. This is no time to play politics as innocent people are dying by the day. Nigerians need to take this more seriously.’’
Tunde008: “Where are these Boko Haram coming from? Are they still inside Nigeria? I thought the presidency said they have been contained. This is embarrassing. Something is not right with the way our military is fighting this war. If they are technically defeated, they should not be able to launch any attack on any village on our soil. So I suspect the government or the army is not telling us the truth.’’

A nation’s budget blues

Genchez19C says: “After all the campaign, beautiful speeches of good intentions and vision, the budget is a document that concretizes and embodies all the policy and vision of any organization. It is putting your money where your mouth is. The budget shows in clear and unambiguous terms the policy direction the government intends to pursue, leaving no one in doubt as to what the government priorities are.’’

Razorblade007: “Jonathan they say was clueless, it’s 7 months into Buhari’s government and I must say he is making the Jonathan government look very competent.’’

FirecloudOFGOD: “On a serious note, I feel very sorry for Buhari’s government. Was he too trusting or was he just unaware as to how powerful those civil servants are? They make a big mockery of his government. Time to form a sound economic team to advise his government.’’

Genchez19C: “It is very sad when people, for whatever reason or motivation place blame where it has no business being placed. 100% blame and responsibility for this budget fraud is to be placed on the president’s doorstep. The first step to fighting corruption is accepting responsibility. Who is running this government?’’

‘The budget has exposed who the real criminals in Nigeria are’

Stan says: “Either way, Buhari should take the blame. The APC and the presidency blamed Jonathan for the excesses of his administration. The APC has been unrelenting in assigning blame to the ex-president for everything that went wrong. In the same vein, Buhari and the APC must take responsibility for this obvious attempt at defrauding the nation.’’

NonPartisanElder: “Anybody who believes that President Buhari could be part of a budget scam can believe anything. One cannot
vouchsafe all the men in the presidency and the bureaucrats in the ministries; but as for PMB, we can rest assured. Let the lawmakers perform their job honestly and meticulously.’’

Genchez19C: “So sad that rational people are defending the President here and exonerate him from being part and parcel of this fraud. Who presented this budget to the NASS? Are you saying he is not aware of what is contained in the document he presented? The possibility of this is even more frightening. It amounts to negligence and dereliction of duty on his part, an offense in both the civil service and the military.’’

Shareidea: “If it is to take credit for a policy like TSA, his supporters will praise him for such. Now, the issue of fraudulent budget is in public domain, APC supporters are blaming the civil servants and corrupt people.’’
7stephen7: “The problem lies in the time it took to appoint the ministers. The ministers cannot be held responsible for this error, and also this is the first time APC is actually managing the 26th largest economy in the world. There is bound to be some teething mistakes.’’

Maigari: “ Is it not too much to blame Buhari for the machinations of some civil servants who have long cultivated and sharpened the habit of budget padding? This is a process that has gone on for decades it is only because Buhari has nothing to hide that the whole scheme was exposed.’’
Larry: “There’s always going to be thieves, fraudsters, looters as usual, as long as there is old wine in the new bottle.’’
Tunde008: “No settlement for NASS, that is why this was exposed. Under Buhari every kobo spent must be accounted for.’’

NNPC raises fuel import, as Kaduna, P’Harcourt refineries remain shut
Bobo says: “Just build new efficient refineries. These so called maintenance have not been working.’’
Emmanuel: “In the light of the money saved by the operation of the refineries, the government should place more focus on securing the pipelines. We are losing over 5 million dollars, which we could probably use to secure our pipeline and ensure that crude oil gets to the refineries. There should be no consideration given to continued subsidy of fuel, the whole sector should be deregulated.’’

Anthony24g: “There are other and better ways to improve the lives of people in oil producing areas which economic sabotage cannot and will never do.’’

Mantu: PDP has benefitted me, I will not decamp

Tony says: “Mantu, I see you as an apostle of life and regeneration. All hands must be on deck to do the right thing, whether we are politicians, civil servants or business people. All of our illegal actions affect our national development. Well done Mantu, stick with your party and try to fix it for national development sake.’’

Stanley: “Mantu is an honest man whose conscience fears no accusation. As for the PDP defectors, they have studied the situation carefully and they know that APC is the hideout. By 2019, they will come out of APC not minding coming out with empty stomach and go back to PDP, their home sweet home.’’

Ogbemi: “Nigerians will not forget in a hurry his ignoble role in trying to conscript the NASS members into supporting the diabolical third term agenda of OBJ. He should remain where he is and ask God for forgiveness.’’
Shareidea: “Though I’m not a fan of Mantu but he was honest to acknowledge the sorry state of PDP and Nigeria by extension contrast with APC members.‘’

Ministry plans ICT parks in Ibadan, Katsina

Komolafe says: “The world is a global village. ICT has made positive changes in
the world; most people now majorly depend on ICT for information purposes. In the
 past, most people depend on town criers and other means of passing out information’s. 
Before now, people depend on newspapers to get information and if you can’t
afford a newspaper you source for news through friends. ICT aids in news
gathering, appointment creations and passing out information’s.’’

Adigo: “The minster of communication should not only talk the talk, he should resolve with immediate effect the issue at NITDA so that the people who were employed be allowed to resume work. Why give out new appointment letters to another set of people when the ones who were employed since November 2015, don’t have their names on the payroll?’’

Kola: “If the purpose is to spark innovation, why Katsina? why not Jos, Kaduna or Abuja. How many people go to school in Katsina? What is the pass rate of Katsina in the scheme of education in Nigeria?’’