The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
The corporation, in a statement, noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.
The NNPC said the Port Harcourt refinery was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while Warri refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol.
Providing insight into the rehabilitation exercise, the NNPC noted that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation strategy after the Original Refinery Builders, who were initially contacted for the project came up with unfavorable terms.
It said, “Though a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries, we were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms.”
The NNPC stated that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It added that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
The corporation said, “The phased rehabilitation strategy which entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all the refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law, also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.”
The national oil firm said the phased rehabilitation programme, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70 per cent reduction in costs which helped largely in mitigating the financing challenges of refinery rehabilitation.
It observed that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention has now moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company which was billed to come on stream soon.
saintopus: Dec 06, 2024 The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai.
The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
AMINDA: Tinubu is in court begging for the documents to not be released. How can you be litigating against the release of a document and then turn around to gleefully ask for the whereabouts of the same document? Tinubu has not attended UNGA for three consecutive years. Ramaphosa publicly declared that he was ill and despite Russia and China currently being direct rivals to the US and tacitly at war, Xi was in the US a few weeks ago on the invitation of Trump. None of them have controversies surrounding their entry into the US. Tinubu does. Tinubu has diplomatic immunity and will likely not be arrested. Why is he still afraid?
Na why you dey set trap for Bola laik dis?
Shebi Maduro had diplomatic immunity when Trump picked him up from his bedroom with the wife?
AMINDA: Wike will be discarded if Tinubu manages to win the election. If Remi feels thus strongly about the rainbow coalition, then it tells you all you need to know about what she thinks about Wike. Use-and-Dump merchants.
Remi tinubu just brutally crushed the crude hubris of wike and his rainbow coalition nuisance/shenanigans..
Without questioning, she got the guts to emphatically echo this for wike to hear, not the lily-livered cronies within the apc massaging his ego 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZSKQ4qzurV
Wike's chochocho overwiseness has boxed him into a corner yet again.
The beggarly ologogoro tout thinks that money is everything.
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
aworatak: Although Lulu briggs was born into a family of wealth and riches, it’s no guarantee that he would keep his words if elected. Political power can bring out the worst in people.
Is that how it brought out the worst in Peter Obi who is using lamba to excite his tribalistic flip flopping fans
anonimi: Anambra doctors call off strike after 13 months February 28, 2012
After over a year of down tools, Anambra State Government employed medical doctors have finally called of strike. According to Dr. Emma Ekwesianya, Chairman Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), the striking doctors decided to pick up tools again because of the plight of the ordinary people in the societ. “It is true, we have called off the strike. We have just signed the agreement with government about an hour ago. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) signed for the government. A technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu was set up to execute the agreement.” He confirmed.
“We decided to take the 60 per cent offered by government because of our people. Government has been rigid and we do not want to continue with the rigidity of government. We are serving the people, not government and our people are suffering.” Speaking further, Ekwesianya, revealed that a technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu had also been set up by the association to see to the implementation of the agreement with government sequel to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peter Obi-led government on Monday.
Chief Medical Director, Anambra State University Teaching Hospital (ASUTH), Amaku, Awka, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor also confirmed the new development: “Well I’m happy to tell you that the strike has been amicably resolved, even though, like you said, it’s been a prolonged one but suffice it to say that it has been resolved and the doctors have resumed work.” “The call off was yesterday (Sunday). The doctors had some negotiations and held their congress yesterday, during which they agreed to call off the strike. So they resumed duty today. They are in their clinic. Well, I was not privy to the agreement but I will say that our representatives were satisfied with the arrangement, hence they decided to call off the strike.” He disclosed.
TopBanter: Lol....and what is the shameless fraudster Ikemefuna doing other than.embarassing himself and additionally, Nigeria daily?
How can anyone embarass our country more than the worst rogue whose Aso Rock lease agreement expires next year? The clueless balablu bulaba town hall clown who has destroyed Nigeria to the point where his 2011 expired Buhari now seems like a brilliant chap.
anonimi: Nigeria remains fourth largest economy in Africa despite rebasing
July 21, 2025
Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that expanded the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the economy expanded to N372.8 trillion ($243 billion) in 2024, down from N314.02 trillion in the prior year as more sectors in the informal economy were considered in its calculations.
The statistics bureau adopted 2019 as its base year away from 2010 that’s previously reported.
The rebasing exercise covers the period from 2019 to 2023 and reflects changes in the economy’s structure, sectoral contributions, and data sources.
Despite the overhaul, Nigeria fails to reclaim its erstwhile status as the largest economy in Africa.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Africa remains the continent’s biggest economy with a GDP of $410.34 billion for a country with little over a quarter of Nigeria’s population.
Following the Southern African nation is Egypt with a GDP of $347 billion while Algeria maintains its third position having $268.9 billion as the size of its economy.
Although Nigeria’s economy grew 30 percent above the projected $188 billion estimate by the IMF this year, the rebasing was poised to place the economy as the biggest in Africa.
seunmsg: He was in the US last year. He attended UNGA in 2023. He has better things to do in solving Nigeria's many problems as at the time than attending a talk show that the Vice President can handle.
Tinubu gave the same response to the CSU suit by same Greenspan and the court still ruled that the CSU records should be release. The records were released and absolutely nothing came out of it. So, stop trying to blame Ikemefuna's incompetency on Tinubu's sensible position.
FBI and DEA have also asked the court to dismiss Greenspan's suit, same position with Tinubu. So, how is Tinubu the one blocking your golden records? Why are you not accusing FBI and DEA of blocking the records when it is obvious the court will listen more to their argument than that of Tinubu?
This shalaye explanation funny gan o.
Was he solving Nigeria's problem in France when Macron left him there to attend your talk show?
What is Greenspan, FBI and DEA compared with the testimony of Tinubu's never-happening ambassador nominee to Mexico
UzorIyke: Nice gesture. Let them enjoy, but i doubt this are really the best, or people that bought the connection with money, Nigeria is something else.
How will our country not remain something else if you continue praising this peripheral announcement that does not address fundamental gaps in free education of all children
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
oneMalik: The mata deh pain you sha ! No going back thou .
Of course, no going back for Stockholm syndrome sufferers who feel no pain as long as it is inflicted by their own personal person in true tribalistic scam.
A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
rummmy: 50% of the registered voters in south west and 30% of the registered voters in the entire north are from south east... So chill,it will shock Apc.. Creating registration center in every street of Lagos and Kano while in south east one have to travel in order to be registered is very common as how south eastern people were defranchised.. More over a greater percentage of us have no confidence in inec and election at all
Is the 2023 election result in the SE vis-a-vis in Tinubu and Atiku's regions a testimony of this lack of confidence in INEC
Is Ekiti also having less than 5% schools owned by government like Lagos state after 27 years of Tinubu's lootocracy master plan that grew the budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion?
How many teachers have been recruited by Oyebanji since 2022? Are they up to 19,500? That is the number employed by Makinde, who does not claim to be a progreThief politician.
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Nigeria loses 47% of dollar millionaires, retains 4th position in Africa
Nigeria has lost nearly half of its dollar millionaires over the past decade, with the population of high-net-worth individuals falling by 47 per cent between 2015 and 2025, according to the 2025 Africa Wealth Report by Henley & Partners in collaboration with New World Wealth.
Despite the sharp erosion in private wealth, Nigeria retained its position as Africa’s fourth-largest hub for dollar millionaires, with 7,200 millionaires, 20 centi-millionaires (individuals with investable wealth of at least $100 million) and three billionaires, trailing only South Africa, Egypt and Morocco.
The report showed that South Africa remained the continent’s wealthiest country by number of dollar millionaires, with 41,100 millionaires, 112 centi-millionaires and eight billionaires. Egypt followed with 14,800 millionaires, 49 centi-millionaires and seven billionaires.
clothingonline: Just watch your video this absolute rubbish showing dam refurbishment that is not Complete talkless of pumping water to house around dam Showing state government building borehole in rural area so shameful in 2026 when we have local government chairman I guess the governor is collecting their money as reported
Lagos doesn’t have water issue and 2 local government chairman is enjoying water corporation water
What is the point in telling lies that are easily proven to be false
MEGAWATCH: My prayers should never be a problem to you.... It is a wish for people to meet their ends depending on what they are doing today. It is even a natural law of nature: Whatever you plant, you will harvest in dew time. I don't know why it should be a problem to you my dear. 😎😎😎
Could you please point out the part of the post that you interpreted to be a problem.
MEGAWATCH: My prayers is that God will reward everybody according to whatever you are supporting in Nigeria today.
If you are supporting good, may you receive a goodly reward.
If you are supporting evil, may evil stay with you and your family now and forever more... 😎😎
Should we scrap our law enforcement agencies and dismantle the judicial system?
What do we need them for, when we can simply pray for God to reward good deeds and evil deeds? What is the point of wasting money and time on the police force, prison guards, judges, bailiffs etc
By the way, how do you understand that God made all of us in His image, when we are all physically different from each other?
watchindelta: some time is not about tribalism or ethnicity bro many Nigerians have metal issues 🤔 why you think say the government always run Nigerians like shit?
Because too many unstable citizens with metal issues in Nigeria.
In what ways are local, state and federal governments different from the people who own them and allow a few from their own midst to emerge into public office in the legislative and executive branches?
Do you know
Can any government exist without the public wanting it to exist?
ManknowThyself: Mr reader “ prof” they are not his children, two blood can not do that at the same time without one having a rethink.
That’s my point.
Not interested in your emotional history cos I knew it happens either way but not two children even their mum conspiring saying they were not the ones that did it.
Nothing knew under the sun but this is a case of bastards.
Will a better one be the employment of teachers to make education free for all children, and the employment of workers to make water available to all households?
What do you think that Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu are doing for over 27 years with the trillions annually generated from Lagosians apart from stealing it since they have done far less than Makinde did in 8 years?
From dams to households, Oyo State continues to expand access to safe water — keeping the promise of sustainability and service. Watch this documentary about the progress made so far by the Water Corporation of Oyo State under Omituntun 2.0. pic.twitter.com/bz6TAcFwM1
anonimi: NUT commends Oyo over recruitment of 19,500 teachers
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Oyo State, has commended Governor Seyi Makinde-led government for recruiting 19,500 teachers in five years.
The union, in a statement signed by the NUT Chairman, Oladimeji Raji and the Secretary, Salami Olukayode, noted that the appointment of 5,000 teachers in his first term and 14,500 since the inception of his second term into the state primary and secondary schools was noteworthy.
The union said the ripple effects of the recruitment were that it would address the problems of inadequate manpower in the education sector and promote teaching and learning.
The statement read, “Your disposition towards turning the tide of the education system of Oyo State remains unprecedented and unmatched not only in the annals of recruitment history of our dear state in recent times but also across the entire 36 states of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory.
“Your Excellency Sir, your achievements in the education sector since assumption of office particularly, on the successful recruitment of over 14,000 qualified teaching professionals and about 3,500 non- teaching personnel, aside from an appreciative number of caregivers is a clear cut and a perfect reflection of your results-oriented style of leadership aimed at providing free, qualitative and quantitative education to the amiable citizens of Oyo State. This gesture shall, without doubt, have a significant touch in our classroom and as well enhance educational service delivery to our school children.”
affable4: The celebrities brought this upon themselves all in a bid to show off and be “accepted”.
There is a proper and organized avenue to project your philanthropy. The street you long to live you will keep making you pay. It’s a parasitic relationship, you have to keep paying for the “love”.
You don see them hold VDM to pay them? Keep it real my people.
You have to keep paying for the love, even if it means stealing from the people who allow you to exercise their sovereignty for a while.
Is that how Tinubu is operating since before 1999, squeezing revenue out of the public and removing subsidies to pay for the love that sustains his power grab
Onegai: Lekki is the scariest place for these boys and you'll even see teenagers amongst them, harassing you if you're walking and chasing cars like mad
This is the Lagos that master strategist bola built in 27 years of growing the state budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion without employing well paid workers to make water available to all households and make education free for all children, among other failures in basic government services and utilities.
Is he so successful because we are sadistic, Stockholm Syndrome tribalistic oppressors ourselves?
ThePEACEFULBOY: Snake plants hardly need much maintenance but what you did aided it well.
Just like In all things, with the right support, environment and time, it will bloosm
So what and who is stopping us Nigerians from giving our country the right support and creating the right environment for us to blossom with time like UAE and Qatar that got independence a year after our civil war, just like Bangladesh broke out of Pakistan in 1971 also. Even Chinese people abandoned communism in the seventies.
Resourceless Singapore and South Korea only became independent countries in 1965!
Do you think that our tribalistic zoning and rotation of political power is responsible for the enduring failure? Rotating power in local, state and federal governments to just share the national cake of corruption.
stanluiz: It is reverse the case. The gaslighting won't work. See Yoruba enemies here
Jagaban of Borgu knows that his fellow northerners are not the enemies of Yoruba people. This is why the brilliant man who failed to do primary and secondary education before showing up in Reno’s Chicago documentary, is always betraying Yoruba people to favour northerners.
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
ManknowThyself: They are not his children, they knew the truth and they acted deliberately. Men should never hesitate for DNA immediately after birth of their kids. No two true blood can have that same purpose in their heart at the same time against their father if truly the kids were the ones involved. The children belongs to can’t be trusted. May his soul Rest In Peace.
Is this the first time that a child/ children have killed their parent? There was a son who killed his father several years ago in the Redeemed church estate. The father was a lawyer, if I recall correctly.
Moreover, parents kill their children too, like Marvin gaye was killed by his father, ironically with a gun that he bought for the father.
You should read widely to understand that “strange” things happen.
VanuatuWycombe: None of them is truly ready to fix problems we are facing in that sector.
Any Nigerian president that can’t fix power problems can’t score more than 20%, in own grading o. Fixing that problem alone carries more than 40% of problems we face.
What percentage is fixing the problems in NNPC refineries, so that Tinubu can crash the price below N185 he promised, if he can’t reach the N70 that APC said is the upper limit in 2015?
That’s the year Tinubu begged Buhari out of retirement to make Jonathan a one term president.
Politics › Re: Port Harcourt Refinery Workers Threaten Shutdown Over 7 Months Unpaid Salaries by anonimi: 9:48am On Oct 07
