AS Nigeria’s 95 percent oil dependent economy continues to dwindle, the nation seems to be running from pillar to post to salvage and stabilize the economy. One of those areas envisaged to quickly cushion the effects of the oil price decline on the economy is to cut cost and plug wastes. However, this can not be done without accurate measurement of income and expenditure of the country’s earnings. In equal terms, there is no way accurate measurement can be achieved with the present manually dependent revenue generation and accounting system that is so pervasive among all the tiers of government.

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has described Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” in a conversation with the Queen of England, Elizabeth II.

The leader of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah; founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and the National Coordinator of OPC, Chief Fredrick Fasheun and Otunba Gani Adams respectively, met over the tension brewing between the Yoruba and Ijaws in Lagos as a result of the threat by the Niger Delta Avengers to attack Lagos.

The narrative of the last election was deliberately made simple to fool the simpleminded: portray Nigeria as a ship heading for the bottom of the ocean unless the captain of the ship is removed because that captain was corrupt, unable to secure the land and the economy was also spiralling out of his control. In the aftermath of that electoral mutiny spurred by the greatest and most ideologically diverse members of the ruling elite since 1960, the captain was removed and anothercaptain put in command. Ever since then however, the worst fears have been realised particularly in the economy, subliminally with security and apparently with the unity of Nigeria. President Goodluck Jonathan was referred to as the “Ijaw Christian”

Some aggrieved Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, contractors have called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to compel the commission to pay their outstanding payments or they would start begging for projects to be funded, even when they have existing payment certificates.