yns4real: Total cleasing of the system has jst begun
Total without BAT is like Africa without Madagascar- INCOMPLETE. The grand-master, capo di tutti capo of corrupt people in Aso Rock continues to protect his own personal persons. ****
OrlandoOwoh: Fred Dalton Thompson was an actor and senator in the US.
Are you saying that Fred Thompson combined his work as a senator with that of acting at the same time? Did he continue acting while he was senator (1994-2003)? Please kindly confirm exactly what you are saying to avoid misleading fellow Nairalanders unnecessarily. Thanks.
GuyfawkesAB: Anonimi, is it government that will compel the private sector to set up development infrastructures in places other than where these individuals desire?
In spite of several incentives, waivers and amenities, the availability of a ready market to sell and distribute their products still determines where they take their businesses to.
Rather than blame the federal government only (which is trying it's best to create more interconnectivity between cities through good roads and railway) we all can stimulate the development of value chain for different products, so as to reduce urban migration trends and make other cities and towns grown.
I never said the private sector should set up development infrastructure. If I did, please point it out. Thanks.
The three tiers of government-
- federal - state and - LGA
have to provide infrastructure and then incentives such as TAX regime to encourage people to set up in their areas. Do you not hear state governors going abroad to meet/woo investors? The citizens need to be more VIGILANT at all the tiers of government.
zik4ever: State governors are still spending billions of naira from public funds on foreign trips in the name of seeking foreign investors, despite the cash crunch facing their states. With dwindling federal oil allocation, coupled with dismal internal revenue, the states’ chief executives have not cut down on their foreign travels against their campaign promise of slashing the cost of governance.
Daily Trust investigations showed that about 25 governors have travelled abroad at an average of 10 times in the quest for investors since May 29 when they came to office. The governors, usually with large entourage that include close aides and family members, spend fortune from their cash-strapped treasuries on first class airlines tickets, luxury hotels, estacodes, among others. But unlike for lawmakers and judicial officers, the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) does not set a limit on estacode for governors. The commission also does not specify the amount to be collected as Duty Tour Allowance (DTA) for local trips. The RMAFC simply said estacode and DTA “would be provided upon request by governors.” Finding by Daily Trust shows that a first class return ticket to Dubai on Emirates Airlines is N886,743, while the same airline’s first class return ticket to New York is N1.4 million. A first class return ticket to London on British Airways is N799,145. From 1999 to 2007, Jigawa’s Saminu Turaki carved a niche for himself as the most travelled governor, while Katsina’s late Umaru Musa Yar’adua was the least travelled within that period. But findings show that very little investments have been brought to these states despite spending so much in those trips. Opposition parties and civil society organisations across the states told Daily Trust the governors’ globetrotting hasn’t resulted into foreign direct investment, rather it only guzzled funds meant for development. Among the most travelled governors are Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Nasiru el-Rufai (Kaduna), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo). The least travelled governors include Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe, Aminu Masari of Katsina, Nyesom Wike of Rivers, and Samuel Ortom of Benue. Analysis of the trips shows that most of them are personal visitation of family members, medical checkups, vacations, among others. The recurrent destinations of the state governors include United Arab Emirate, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, United States, China, Australia, South Africa, India, France, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia and Italy. Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, for instance, has so far travelled to Saudi Arabia three times, USA once, Dubai twice and India once since May last year. Ganduje’s first trip to Dubai was for the graduation of his daughter while the second was for an investment forum. Kano’s commissioner of information, Malam Muhammad Garba, said many investors had indicated interest in investing in the state because of the trips. But a former aide to Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso, Sharu Garba Gwammaja, said though “the governor has been to Saudi Arabia, US, Morocco, Senegal and India but not a single investor so far invest in the state.” Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has been to Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Italy, China, Niger and the USA. Tambuwal’s spokesperson Imam Imam said only trips to China and Italy were meant for investors, while the rest were at the instances of President Buhari. However, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretary in the state Alhaji Kabiru Aliyu said Tambuwal’s trips were a waste of public fund because “we have nothing on ground to justify them.” In Plateau state, Governor Simon Lalong made six foreign trips to Brazil, Israel, China, Dubai so far but all without any official announcement to that effect. Just few weeks after he was sworn in last year, Lalong was first in Brazil on a two-week visit. He was also in Israel last year for a two-week visit which he said was to pray for the country. The state PDP chairman, Ramond Dabo, said Lalong’s trips were “secret and worrisome.” In Ogun state, Governor Ibikunle Amosun has made no fewer than 10 foreign trips across Europe, Asia and Africa. His media aide Adejuwon soyinka said as at January 2016, five of the automobile firms had concluded arrangements to have assembly plants in Abeokuta. But the state chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Comrade Olawale Aremu Oduntan, said the governor’s “foreign tour is with no clear cut mission, it is as good as a jamboree exercise.” In November last year, Katsina state governor Aminu Masari led a state delegation to India and Dubai on a five- day visit in search of foreign investors. During the trip to India, Masari visited Mahindra group, an India-based company with operations in 18 industries that include aerospace, agribusiness, automotive, industrial and farm equipment. The state chairman of National Conscience party Abdulmumin Sani said Masari’s investment drive is a mirage as up till now not even a single pin factory had been established in the state. The state commissioner of information Hamza Borodo said the trips were yielding fruition from recent interests shown by investors. Bauchi State Governor Muhammed Abubakar has travelled to Czech Republic, the United States and China. Bauchi State commissioner of commerce, Alhaji Garzali Abubakar said the state was trying to use its naturally endowed potentials to strengthen its economy and provide an enabling environment for international and local investors. However, a PDP stalwart, and a former commissioner to the former Governor Isah Yuguda, Alhaji Salisu Barau said the frequent travels by the governor should not be priority at the moment. Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state has made dozen foreign trips in the last one year. Chairman of a civil society organisation, Northern Youth Assembly, Munnir Haidara, described Yari’s foreign trips as jamboree. “No single investor was attracted by this government since its inception in 2011. And the worst part of it is that the development partners are going away,” he said. The state commissioner for commerce and industry Hajiya Fatima Umaru Aliyu Shinkafi said she would speak on the matter at the appropriate time. Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has been to United Kingdom, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, China and France to woo foreign investors. Media aide to the governor, Samuel Aruwan when contacted, promised to furnish Daily Trust with details of the governor’s foreign trips and the investments they had attracted soon. In Yobe, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam was in China on September 1, 2015, in an effort to empower up to 40,000 youths on irrigation scheme for self-reliance, across the state. Spokesperson to the governor, Malam Abdullahi Bego said the visit was an invitation by Chinese agriculture and infrastructure investors. Gaidam rarely travelled outside the country, unless to Saudi Arabia for religious purpose. But he spent most of his days in Abuja and Kano. Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has been to China and Turkey twice; Ireland and Kosovo once and China thrice from May 2015 to date. Deputy governor’s spokesperson, Uche Onwuchekwa, said the governor’s trip to China led to the building of refinery and industrial park, among others. The former publicity secretary of PDP in the state Enyinnaya Onuegbu said since the governor travelled to Turkey with 100 people after receiving the bailout funds, no investor had come to the state. Governor of Oyo State Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi has been to United States of America, United Kingdom, China, Canada, Lebanon and many other countries of the world, in search for foreign investors. In Benue state, Governor Samuel Ortom has been to USA and China since May last year. Speaking on the outcome of the governor’s foreign investment trip, his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Terver Akase said Ortom used the opportunity to attract a number of investors to Benue. But the former Lagos state police commissioner Abubakar Tsav said Ortom’s foreign trips were for pleasure because “he has not properly addressed the issue of insecurity in the state. Who will invest in a place without adequate security?” In Lagos, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has embarked on a number of foreign trips in search of foreign investors but only a few of such trips have attracted media attention. The latest among such trips was the governor’s recent participation at the 10th Biennial US-Africa Business Summit hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February, 2016. As for Kwara’s Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, he is said to have travelled only once since May last year. Jigawa state Governor Mohammad Badaru Abubakar has travelled to China, Saudi Arabia and France. Speaking after his two-week trip to China, Badaru, said a team of foreign investors from China, Lee Group had planned to invest $120 million sugar cane factory in the state. The acting deputy chairman of PDP, Aminu Jahun described governor Badaru as one of the most travelled governors in the country, saying there was no result up to this time for his globetrotting. The governor’s spokesperson, Bello Zaki said Badaru only travelled thrice out of the country.
Your attempt to deflect the fact that you are beyond ignorant about how developed nations & Intn'l Air travels work is glaring, quit it & concentrate on your mediocre foto bombing!!
This is beyond road transport, EDC, Chisco road transport moves, it's international trade, you think they care about your national petty politics? Airline is supposed to run on sentiments to please your people I believe...
You deliberately glossed over the fact that Air France cant operate port harcourt as a stand alone route & has to join it with Abuja, simply because there isn't enough passenger traffic to drive....
Why is Obiano not moving his Ugwu through PH airport?
Is Eldoret the capital of Kenya? Is it even the second or third city in the country. Yet =>
Kenya: Eldoret Airport's Maiden Flower Export 4 FEBRUARY 2008
Gbawe: No. Not feasible or economically sensible from a return-on-investment (ROI) point of view. A very rich politician can advertise his Banana Island property for 10 billion Naira and wait for it to sell for that price for years. Developers, because they often take loan to finance their projects, need to get their capital and ROI (return on investment) in much sooner to stay afloat. 20 billion Naira is over 4 million pounds sterling. You cannot sell an apartment, however prestigious, for that amount in Nigeria, a third word Country, because most residential buyers will be priced out at that price bracket. Meanwhile investors will be unwilling to commit when, for example, the same amount could get them a portfolio of 5-10 properties in London, New York, Paris et al.
I concede the average apartment will be beyond the reach of most Nigerians but this is similar worldwide whereby prestigious development , like the Palms in Dubai, tend to be targeted at wealthy buyers or investors who can source credit.
In summary, this is another bad business by the All ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC party just like the Sunborn Yacht hotel, not so
hooged: The Omoluabi Train of Glory is moving to serve in freely ferrying the masses of our people this Easter season to and fro Lagos-Osogbo with stop-overs at Abeokuta and Ibadan throughout this festival… Join the train of glory now.
From Tomorrow Thursday 5th April 2012, Departure from Lagos 1.00 p.m. Arrival Osogbo 7.00 p.m. GOOD Friday 6th April 2012: Departure from Osogbo 11.00 a.m. Arrival in Lagos 5.00 p.m. Saturday 7th April 2012: Departure from Lagos 10.00 a.m. Arrival in Osogbo 4.00 p.m. Easter Monday 9th April 2012: Departure from Osogbo 12noon Arrival in Lagos 6.00 p.m. Speacial Features: Fully Air-conditioned Standard Coaches, Canteen, drinks, food, fun, music… Travel Safe, no muggings, No accident and No Hold- up… Savour the Holidays, Odun A Yabo Fun Gbogbo wa o. Osun A Dara
aresa: Ogbeni Aregbe commissioned scales and more projects than the states in SE combined so what's your silly ipob point? You want me to prove or show you and embarrass your sorry, incompetent and pathetic village governors.?
AreGbese also commissioned free rides in the trains revived, renewed and expanded by Jonathan that you and other HATERS derided as locomotives, not so?
hooged: The Omoluabi Train of Glory is moving to serve in freely ferrying the masses of our people this Easter season to and fro Lagos-Osogbo with stop-overs at Abeokuta and Ibadan throughout this festival… Join the train of glory now.
From Tomorrow Thursday 5th April 2012, Departure from Lagos 1.00 p.m. Arrival Osogbo 7.00 p.m. GOOD Friday 6th April 2012: Departure from Osogbo 11.00 a.m. Arrival in Lagos 5.00 p.m. Saturday 7th April 2012: Departure from Lagos 10.00 a.m. Arrival in Osogbo 4.00 p.m. Easter Monday 9th April 2012: Departure from Osogbo 12noon Arrival in Lagos 6.00 p.m. Speacial Features: Fully Air-conditioned Standard Coaches, Canteen, drinks, food, fun, music… Travel Safe, no muggings, No accident and No Hold- up… Savour the Holidays, Odun A Yabo Fun Gbogbo wa o. Osun A Dara
CSTR12: No, enugu airport was not used because it is probably not as capable as MMIA, and there is no regional syncronized plan to fix it and make it capable. With APGA, i believe there would be a synchronisation of ideas and policies by the eastern governors.
The earlier this is done the better. They should not behave like our Yoruba people who launched DAWN since 2012 i.e. four years ago but there is absolutely NOTHING to show for it except plenty but empty vocabulary making us the laughing stock of others.
nduchucks: Last year, amid fanfare, SW leaders announced a composite Regional Integration and Development Agenda for the Southwest claiming that the agenda has therefore become imperative in order to fulfill the immense potential of the Region.
Over a year has passed and after watching the players with kin interest, I'm afraid I cannot find any pertinent progress to report. If anyone has any information on DAWN and its implementation, I'd appreciate the information.
The word boondoggle keeps ringing a bell when I think of DAWN, lets hope my instincts are wrong.
No wonder our detractors can deride us like below =>
Noneroone: you are trying so hard to justify the undue monopoly enjoyed by MM airport. We have airports in Enugu, Asaba and Port harcourt but Anambra had to export products through far away lagos. And you are openly supporting a system that harbours such injustice. Do you really think this will go on for long? You and I know it won't.
Thank you so much. What modath has used is plainly reverse psychology. Many of the developed countries that we are aiming to PROGRESS to their level have viable towns and cities APART from their capitals that are linked by efficient railways etc. Not so? Is it not MYOPIC to simply want to concentrate all development in Lagos yet these same HYPOCRITES will be complaining that non-Yoruba people are claiming Lagos as their own. Is there any way to satisfy these type of perpetual complainants Reminds me of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey's song about the horse, the man and his son.
Please note that all APC members in the Assembly are duly protected and pronounced saints by our grandmaster mafioso in Aso Rock. Abi which party presented late Audu as candidate for Kogi state? Which party presented Akpabio as candidate for Bayelsa state?
Anticorruption: the fools are trying to make halliburton husband look innocenf
nonsense
Real nonsense, I tell you, bro. They think we are all brain-dead zombies afflicted by the brooms of their witches and wizards. We should constantly remind them that we are NOT!
goodlifehyd: Keep changing the date MR Robot, your previous post it was 2015 now its 2014, soon you will change it to 2010
Abeg point out to what date I changed. Do you think that everyone is a LIAR like the witches and wizards of the All ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC party ni? I dare you to point out the changed date, you that are not a robot. The LIES that propelled your perpetual FAILURE of a presidential candidate to Aso Rock have EXPIRED.
TheGoodJoe: Keep Hustling. Do Not Send The Haters.
Haters must Hate. No matter what you do, You can not please the Haters.
So long as he pleases his grandmaster of CORRUPTION who keeps him protected in Aso Rock, the fact that he stole Rivers people money to bankroll his election does not matter. Or does it
Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari
The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.
One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.
He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”
One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.
Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.
It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.
Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.
According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.
gwales: Obasanjo initiated the project and pmb completed it Any person with counter opinion is an IPad miscreant - obasanjo
#Dazzol
Was the Ebola Owu in power in 2009 i.e. seven years ago as per the OP below?
gists: About seven years after its commencement, the first phase of the Abuja-Kaduna Standards Rail Gauge was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari, with a pledge to ensuring that the country has a working rail system.
Politics › Re: List Of 31 Ex-Governors That Will Face Corruption Charges by anonimi: 9:15am On Jul 28, 2016
