₦airaland Forum

ilugunboy: This bridge is going to be tolled after all said and done.....

I wonder what the reaction would have been about the tolling if the President is a Northerner or S/westerner.

....there would have been shout of blue-murder!

Jman06: You can keep your advice to yourself or betterstill direct it to Ilugunboy. This is a social networking site where people pay less attention to English skills. If we are to meet in an essay-writing competition, then we 'd know who is who. Mind you, i never said i knew it all, rather your Ilugunboy did.

asha 80: do you realize that the whole stretch of the bridge will connect to both the enugu onitsha and onitsha owerri expressways?

Sincere 9gerian: It is called a Second Niger Bridge because there is already an existing bridge.

More over, I wonder why you'r having migraine because of the proposed tolling on a non-existing Second Niger Bridge.

The challenge now is to build the bridge first, we can worry about the payment of tolls later.

I wonder rather have an alternative but tolled bridge than NO alternative at all. The past clueless and wicked leaders left us with NO alternative at all but GEJ is about giving us an alternative but tolled bridge.

Also, I wonder why an Igbo hater like you is obsessed with issues that affect Igbos. My impression is that you'r mentally unstable.

asha 80: not to defend government but the total bridge is 12km.

Garri the 1st: Misleading title

Sincere 9gerian: How do I know he is asking genuine questions since APC e-warriors and their allies derive pleasure in foolishness in stupidity?

Anyway, the answer to his question is in the report

ROSSIKE: Get a life you spiteful dullard.... Airports are not required to ''nice up'' the entire area surrounding them. Here's Gatwick airport... I don't see any great landscaping going on.... we can equally call it ''this dirty absurdity with overgrown bush all over''........Dullard.

Gatwick airport UK

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Sincere 9gerian: I'm sorry for the delay in responding to your post. You know I can only respond to one rat at a time.

Now, the minister cannot build without the directive or approval of the president. However, when it comes to engaging in illegality or corrupt practices, the minister or civil servants can go it alone. Sometimes, the oga at the top maybe involved but you must show that is the case before accusing oga at the top. Otherwise, the blame for illegality or corrupt practices should go to those directly responsible. I hope I have not exceeded you comprehension capability?

Sincere 9gerian: In real life, every case is dissected and blames apportioned to individuals based on their involvement in the case. A president cannot be guilty based on the corrupt practices perpetrated by a minister, even though he appointed that minister. A father cannot be punished for the crimes committed by his children. Your husband cannot be guilty for the several murders you committed. And so on the so forth.

shine eye: aviation minister that you and sahara reporters,FFK,fashola etc wanted her head for for doing good for the country,this is the reason i said earlier that APC lack ideas and political sorphisication

stevoski059: this man is not worth living not to talk of continuing being a leader at the house of reps, rubbish.

Sincere 9gerian: Splendid! The president is doing all of these in spite of the following:

1. Having to spend N1 trillion on security because of Boko Haram. This is N500 billion more than what Yar Adua and OBJ spent on security.

2. Having to spend N900 billion on fuel subsidy alone.

3. The political distraction and sabotage by men of yesteryears (Buhari, Tinubu, OBJ et al). The political distraction orchestrated by evil forces led by OBJ forced a forced substitution of ministers on the president.

Now imagine what this country would have achieved if we had followed the Ghana example and supported our president post election? If there was no Boko Haram and we had removed fuel subsidy like was done in Ghana, a massive over N1.4 trillion would have been freed for the govt to use in executing infrastructural development across the country. Unfortunately, Nigeria is not Ghana.

Sincere 9gerian: ^^ Nonsense! Was it the spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs that prepared the budget? Was he the one that presented the budget to the NASS? The right people to contact are those in the budget office and ministry of finance.

Sincere 9gerian: And you arrived at those conclusions based on a single newspaper report? Have you heard from the other side (those who prepared the budget)? Cant you see the damage desperation and frustrations are doing to your senses? Who can reache those sort of conclusion after listening to only one side of a story? Only a senseless idiota!

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ogbole Odeh, told PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview in Abuja on Tuesday that the provision for aircraft fuel cost in the budget for the foreign missions was strange, as the federal government does not maintain aircraft in any of its embassies abroad.

Segeggs: at enugu, the crime capital of the world? Criminals would have stolen the wire overnite.


Why is ordinary christmas light giving igbo smoking people headache and diarhea?

collynzo2: Tompolo and co might be buying private jets but that doesn't mean that they are the only ones benefitting from this ''resource control''. A lot of Niger-delta youths have been able to live good lives and provide for their immediate and extended families with proceeds from the control of their resources.
The Federal government right from the military era have failed the people of Niger-delta. How do you convince them to stop stealing oil when they know that their oil money will most likely end up in the pockets of people like Tambuwal instead of being used for capital intensive projects that will benefit them.
Please tell me what this is denying me personally.

collynzo2: The people of Niger-delata have found another way to control their resources.
Shut up Tambawal!

jerseyboy: Whose oil is it anyway?

naijaking1: Common on Alhaji fraudulent Speaker, not doing enough to stop a crime doesn't equal to sponsoring a crime. Too bad you didn't learn that in law school.

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FG sponsors crude oil theft – Tambuwal

GOWON EMAKPE, Abuja

Crude oil thieves are being sponsored by the Federal Government, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has said, insisting that the crime is not being perpetrated by ordinary criminals, but by those who enjoy the backing of government.

Tambuwal, said this at the inauguration of the House Ad-hoc Committee on Crude Oil Theft in Nigeria in Abuja, noting that the only way to fight the crime is for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest and prosecute suspected crude oil thieves in the country.

He said the House would ensure that law enforcement agencies were well equipped to carry out investigation of those engaged in the illicit business.

“This House must use its influence to ensure that the law enforcement agencies approach their investigation of the criminals engaged in oil field theft from a more sophisticated angle.

“We need to put in place the right kind of legislation to improve the monitoring of on-shore and off-shore areas in order to discourage vandalism.

“We need to establish a robust regulatory framework to plug all loopholes through which all sorts of official and unofficial corruption thrive in the oil sector,” he said.

He said that oil theft had reached a level that required the assistance of every Nigerian to check the dangerous trend.

“Oil theft in our country has now reached an industrial scale, we need the concerted efforts of all stakeholders who must be invited and heard at a scheduled 5-day public hearing.

“There is also no doubt that we must try, as much as possible, to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), as soon as possible,” he said.

He urged members of the committee to scrutinise the report by the Royal Institute for International Affairs, which alleged that Nigeria’s oil was being stolen not just from pipelines, but also from tank farms and export terminals.

The Chairman of the committee, Bashir Adamu (PDP-Jigawa) said illegal bunkering costs Nigeria an estimated N780 billion annually.

Mr. Adamu said unless government summoned the courage to fight the menace, the situation would further worsen the country’s economic woes.

The legislator explained that the rising level of crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism, particularly in the Niger Delta region, had assumed higher dimensions.

He said that the ugly development had made operations in the oil and gas Industry one of the most expensive in the world.

“Attacks on production facilities have led to several shut-downs and declaration of force majeure by the international oil companies (lOCs), ultimately resulting in loss of revenue to the government,” he said.

Adamu recalled that in April 2013, oil giant – Shell Petroleum Development Company – shut down the 150,000bpd Nembe Creek oil pipeline due to the urgent need to clear illegal connections.

He called for serious efforts to combat the menace, adding that the trend had become more complicated because of its international slant.

“Cooperation between the government and private sector is vital to achieving effective maritime security and prevent crude oil theft within the nation’s maritime domain”.

It would be recalled that the House, during its sitting, set up a 14-man committee to investigate people or institutions behind oil theft in the Niger Delta.

The House had earlier called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately overhaul the operations of the Joint Task Force (JTF), in the Niger Delta to ensure a more proactive security check of all oil installations in the country.

Adopting a motion introduced by Aliyu Sani Madaki (PDP-Kano) on the issue yesterday, the parliament, without debate, resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to look into the propriety of contracting the protection of the country’s waterways and oil pipelines to private firms, among others.

It also mandated the committee to investigate the allegations made by the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Patrick Akpobolekemi, of the involvement of influential people in oil theft and the fact that the organisation had seized ships belonging to the oil thieves and report back to the House within two weeks.

The Federal Government had in the discharge of its constitutional responsibility, awarded pipeline surveillance contract to protect the country’s waterways so that crude oil theft could be curbed.

But the House said engaging a private firm to man the country’s waterways had worsen the level of the oil theft thereby making its presence unnecessary.

It noted the revelation by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who said the illegal oil theft (bunkering) could be as high as 400,000 barrels per day.

This, according to her, led to a 17 per cent fall in official sales of the crude oil in international market.

The House last October accused President Jonathan of doing too little to curb increasing oil theft, and said the government’s reluctance to deploy improved methods to end the theft was tantamount to “economic sabotage”.

A spokesperson for the House, Zakari Mohammed, said the government had no explanation for not addressing the theft with new technologies available, but choosing to offer excuses.

taharqa: I do not regard PremiumTimes as a Credible Source, nor do I bliv their stories without sm level of collaboration from other sources.... Asking for details, esp from d MOFA, MOF and d Budget Office is d minimum, bliv me