charles614: But this talk by APC na real matter , Atiku should give way for someone else to be the pdp flag bearer . PDP no be his property
Was that not what he tried before wicked ologogoro Wike scattered everything and chased Peter Obi out of the capitalists camp into the communist labourers LP camp
anonimi: 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.
hopedey: Oshiomole of old. APC really reset your brain. Oshiomole was a fearless man then. Now Oshiomole has joined bad group called APC
Do you think that Bwala was right after all
dre11: Joining APC Makes the Brain Stop Working’ and 4 More Daniel Bwala Anti-Tinubu Remarks
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. – Frederick William Robertson
Daniel Bwala, a staunch critic of President Tinubu, his administration and the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been seen frolicking with the President in recent days, which has infuriated the public.
For his past statements against the APC, Bwala, who was a spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council during the 2023 elections, has now drawn backlash.
He was an APC member until he defected to the PDP in 2022. He would later cite the ruling party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket as the reason for his exit.
While announcing his decision on X on July 10, 2022, Bwala wrote: “Tonight I officially resigned my membership of @OfficialAPCNg on principles and conviction that I hold so dear. At this time of our national existence, our efforts and energy should gravitate towards uniting our people.”
There are now speculations that he may return to the APC. He held a meeting with President Tinubu on Wednesday “to show appreciation and support for the bold decisions he is taking to deal with the crisis confronting [the] country”, and he revealed that he would support Tinubu without apologies, even if it meant going back to the APC.
Amid ongoing controversies surrounding Bwala’s recent interactions with the President, FIJ revisits five times in the past when he criticised the APC-led administration.
‘EVEN IF YOU GIVE TINUBU 30 YEARS, NOTHING WILL WORK‘
On December 25, 2023, Bwala expressed scepticism about President Tinubu’s ability to deliver within his four-year term. He argued that waiting for significant changes under Tinubu’s administration might not be feasible.
Bwala said, “When people talk about being patient and waiting, you have to look at the time frame the public officer is expected to execute the work. The President has just been voted into a term of four years. He is eight months into the term, which constitutes 31.8 percent of the total time that he has. He has less than 70 percent time in government; when is that going to happen? When President Buhari took over in 2015, it was the same language, and we patiently followed and he finished the first term and finished the second term. When there is a fundamental problem with policy, time is irrelevant; 30 years, it will not work.” + + ‘JOINING APC MAKES THE HUMAN BRAIN STOP WORKING’
Bwala made a post on X in November 2022: “The human brain is unique and miraculous. It works and functions optically 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, until you join APC, then it stops working.”
Since his post resurfaced on Thursday amid his unabashed declaration of support for the APC, Bwala’s cognitive abilities have been questioned by Nigerians.
An X user with the handle @chymaker wrote, “His brain stopped working.”
Another X user @Morris_Monye, wrote, “There’s something wrong with this man’s brain.”
“Your brain didn’t take that long to stop working. Either you forgot to go for an annual checkup or your network is not as strong as you think. Whatever the case is, learn to clean your mouth,” wrote @Gary_Mazi
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said politicians’ sins are forgiven when they join the ruling party.
Oshiomhole made this statement on Thursday, while welcoming new members to the party, at the APC presidential campaign in Benin.
As he reeled out names of those who have defected from the PDP to the APC, he said: “I am told that there are a lot of very very senior people from PDP who have decided to join forces with President Buhari to take the broom to sweep away PDP and to continue to ensure that APC continues to preside all over Nigeria.
“It includes my own brother, my friend who comes from my own clime, Henry Duke Genebe. He is the former organising secretary of PDP and we also have former vice chairman PDP and leader of Edo North of PDP. We also have my brother Chief Esheshi Godwin. He is also former council chairman and my very dear friend. We have quite a number of other leaders who have come.
“We have quite a number of other leaders who have come… in fact, once you have joined APC, all your sins are forgiven.”
aariwa: The man voted by every Nigerian in 2023 elections to put Nigeria on world map with his clear policy plan on spending on the masses to grow Nigeria from a consumption to a production economy
Why are you so shallow and allowing yourself to be mercilessly violated in the mind by a useless hypocrite and propaganda lying machine like Pandora Bitter Obi? Why do that to yourself
bennybuhari: “’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.
“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.
“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.
puremaker7: This governor dey try small small but dey should reduce hunger too
And one way to reduce hunger and poverty as well as starvation is to employ workers who will increase government services and utilities like water and sanitation, which are the things making Lagos rank as a glorified ghetto in the midst of global cities.
Do you know why Sanwo Olu and his three predecessors have failed to do this, despite increasing revenue for the past three decades
A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.
At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.
The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.
Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.
kedeojo: Crock, after all this noise, he will still vice Atiku. Things have changed politically since 2023, the Christian votes cant be gotten again against Tinubu who have shown tremendous support to Christians. Whether coalition or stand alone, Tinubu can't be defeated by either you or Atiku. Just go back to CKC Onitsha and start teaching.
He should NOT be allowed to be the running mate of Atiku, or any other strong candidate PDP is putting forward as a UNITED party with a clear capitalist agenda to rescue us from APC’s pseudo progressive socialist policies that have worsened everything in our country.
NaijaCowFarm: The next president has spoken, Obi does not support "It is my turn" mantra,
So why did the five Igbo states vote for him almost 100% unlike other tribes for their own candidates
What made him leave PDP in a hurry after wicked ologogoro Wike neutralised micro zoning to the south east? Any idea
anonimi: 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.
helinues: Oya shout his[b] Excellency president Tinubu[/b] three times.
Hope this won't make you to hit your head on something soft sha. I added picture too to increase the frustration
Are people not hitting their head on both soft and hard things, as they get killed in stampedes, fighting for palliative food because T-Pain is doing ebilokan continuity of Buhari and APC’s mismanagement of the economy
Glimpsetv: 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.
Odin13: Obi can be President of Nigeria .. if Igbos and southeast plays well
Tinubu 50milla .. means nothing ..
We go still chop his money look right .. we’ve been singing it ..
If he wan share all the politicians money .. we go chop am fight ourselves… like Dogarathe fight Bala… 27” no mean say we no go look right
Tinubu and his Yoruba government are just time wasters ..
Oga will end 2027 without a single project or achievement.. na propaganda on propaganda on hype
Power to the people
Obi jusg position yourself.. make Igbos no listen to Yoruba blackmail on Northerners and Arewa .
Tinubu has spend bills .. in naira.. wooing them.. and he’s failing
Do you understand Nigerian geopolitics better than Soludo If Pandora Bitter Obi and his tribal headless mob were conscientious about their role in making ebilokan possible, should they not be apologising and doing restitution?
jameshankss: Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.
The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”
Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.
But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.
The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.
Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.
“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.
“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”
Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.
Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.
He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.
“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.
“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”
Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
vowiski: If it were Atiku, he will pay 100m each..
The same man who uses dollar to win primaries, talking about democracy
Do you mean Amaechi and Buhari during the 2015 APC primaries
Why the distortion?
scribble: 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, A[b]maechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.[/b]
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.
Sonnobax15: The truth is that if our own country was good and everything was working, nobody would care about what an American president had said or has to say.......
Make African presidents and leaders try fix up our continent so that we won't have to bother about whatever impact Trump's laws may have on the rest of the world 🖕
You are so right except that the leaders are a reflection of the people who allow them to emerge from among their midst. So if we want to have different and better leaders than we currently have on the continent, what do WE have to do
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
moscow007: Inland dry ports all over the North, yet SouthEast and South South with viable River ports and Seaports are abandoned, till date u still can't import pharmaceuticals and useful industrial chemicals from Onne Port(Rivers State).
This is all in an attempt to keep South East and South South underdeveloped, tomorrow one slowpoke will mock the Eastern Regions for having low VAT returns.
What are the multitude of senators and representatives in the regions doing in Abuja since 1999? Fucking up and sleeping on the people's mandate to ensure that the federal government works for them
Do you know what to do now? Or do I have to SPELL it out for you
PressMyButton: Kaduna dry port, Kano dry port, now Katsina has joined in nine months after Tinubu inaugurated it. One by one, projects will be commissioned. Dey there dey ask what Tinubu is doing, you go old.
After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria
Since when did your god start making promises that he fails to deliver
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
However, pump price of fuel hit N537 per litre days after Tinubu ended subsidy.
On Tuesday, the price climbed further to N617, a development that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) attributed to “market forces”.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, a Fuji musician who performed at the rally, interrupted the president’s speech with chants as the crowd cheered.
On the campaign podium with the president were Vice-President Kashim Shettima; Pa Bisi Akande, interim National Chairman of the APC; Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President; Senator Gbenga Daniel; among other bigwigs of the ruling party.
Tinubu went further to say Nigerians would defy the acute fuel scarcity at the time and trek to cast their votes.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200/N500 per litre. Go and relax, we will crash the prices,” he had said.
*Promised jobs fail to materialise Uncompleted rail, customs template hamper operations * Kano-Maradi rail line contractor evacuates $200m construction equipment from Lagos port
Years after the approval and commencement of the Dry Inland Ports across the country, most of them are yet to operate optimally.
The ports, LEADERSHIP Weekend findings reveal, lay waste in states and communities where billions of naira has been expended to provide facilities that are meant to aid exports.
Investigations show that in many of these communities, the youth who were promised thousands of jobs still have their hopes high that these jobs will materialise.
State governments in Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Borno, Plateau and Oyo made thousands of hectres of land available to the federal government but poor planning and a lack of coordination between the ministry of transport, successive state governments and relevant agencies have made the ports inoperable.
The federal executive council had granted approval for the establishment of the Inland Dry Ports in March 2006 at six locations across the country namely Isiala- Ngwa- Abia State; Erunmu Ibadan – Oyo State; Heipang Jos – Plateau State; Funtua- Katsina State; Maiduguri – Borno State and Dala, Kano State.
However, Kaduna Inland Dry Port Limited, which was not originally part of the six approved in 2006, was commissioned by the federal government in 2018 as the first port of origin for export and port of destination for import for hinterland and landlocked neighbouring countries with no sea ports like Niger Republic, Chad, among others.
The Kaduna Dry Inland Port has been offering skeletal operations as non-completion of rail lines project to link the port is affecting the mass movement of containers from the seaports to the dry land, investigations revealed.
Our correspondent who visited Kaduna Inland Dry Port located in Kakuri near Railway Station reports that only a few long trucks load goods from seaports and off load to the dry port per day.
An official of the Kaduna Inland Dry Port who did not want his name mentioned explained: “In a day, only ten or fifteen trucks load from seaports in Lagos and bring goods in this port for onward movement to far northern states. We are not operating fully as it is supposed to be.”
In a telephone interview with LEADERSHIP Weekend, the general manager of Kaduna Inland Dry Port, Rotimi Raimi-Hassan, lamented the lack of rail lines linking the dry port, saying it is the major challenge facing the dry inland port operations.
The general manager identified other major challenges confronting the Kaduna dry inland port. He said, “Since we launched the Kaduna Dry Inland Port, we have been working perfectly well. Having said that, we have challenges like customs, railway among others we are facing.
“On the issue of customs there is no customs template for ICDs to operate and government should look into it. On the railway issue, inland dry ports cannot work effectively without rail lines connecting to them.”
Raimi-Hasaan said, “A dry port must have rail access from the seaport to dry port so that the transportation of moving goods from seaports to dry ports will be cheaper. There should be political will to back up dry port operations in the country.
“We have about 600 direct and indirect staff and workers working in our port. We have from 300 to 350 containers of goods from seaports every month to our port here. We welcome the new administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and we appeal to him to look into inland dry ports challenges to reposition it.”
The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai had in 2017 during the final inspection of the Kaduna Inland Dry Port before the commissioning said the facility will boost the country’s export capacity by over $50billion annually.
The port has the capacity to handle 29,000 tonnes of cargoes yearly and is estimated to generate about 5000 employment opportunities
The general manager of the Dry Port had earlier said the port stands out as most suitable for international trade facilitation in the North.
He said aside from being the first dry port in Nigeria, Kaduna Port stands out as the best in West Africa, with staff strength of persons having over three decades of maritime experience, matching knowledge with latest technology.
According to him, the port is a solution provider that has blazed the trail for other dry ports in the country.
In Plateau State, 17 years after the inauguration of the Jos Inland Container Depot (JICD), Heipang, in Barki Ladi local government area by former head of state, Gen Yakubu Gowon (rtd), the project is yet to commence operation in the state.
Duncan Container Dry Port Limited, the concessionaire, was given a presidential approval for the construction of Jos Inland Dry Port in 2006.
The JICD covers over 33.9 hectare of land provided for the JICD from 100 hectares acquired by the state government. When completed, it will create over 5000 jobs.
The Jos Inland container depot, JICD, suffered a great setback in 2014 when the site was demolished by former Governor Jonah Jang’s administration in August 2014 before Duncan Maritime International commenced work again.
In 2021, Plateau State government, under the leadership of immediate past governor, Simon Lalong, took over ownership of the Jos Inland Container Depot (ICD) from Duncan Maritime Ventures Nig. Ltd.
The memorandum of agreement signifying the change in ownership was signed between the Plateau State government and Chief Godfrey Bawa, managing director of Duncan Ventures, at a cost of N2.2 billion based on its economic benefits.
Speaking to our correspondent, Heipang youth leader, Chuwang Davou, said the presence of the depot will bring food to their tables, as a lot of youths will be engaged in the value chain.
According to him, their landlords too will benefit, as most of the houses will be rented out for people coming to do business in Heipang and its surrounding communities.
He pointed out that the value of their lands will appreciate and it will open up their villages to international communities and Heipang will be a hub where stakeholders in dry port business will converge.
Davou appealed to the state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, to engage a qualified concessionaire with a view to completing the project because of the economic benefits to the people of North Central zone.
Similarly, the federal government in February 2023 declared Funtua Inland Dry Port in Kastina State as a port of origin and final destination for import and export of cargoes.
The port has not been in operation since its declaration as a port of origin and final destination for the import and export of cargoes in February this year by the then minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo.
But a fact check by this paper on the facility revealed that it is lying dormant and is only used by some people to store their goods for some time, as efforts to reach director of the Port failed.
The Funtua Dry Port was first established in March 2006 by the Federal Executive Council as container freight station and was later converted to an inland dry port and that this critical transport infrastructure is based on the strategic framework of build, owning, operating and transferring (BOOT).
The state permanent secretary in the ministry of Commerce, Musa Sule, had recently said the state, as part of its contribution to the project, facilitated 16.2 hectares of land and also paid compensation to the land owners.
He explained that the step was taken based on the conviction that when fully operational, the port will create employment for the immediate community and its environs, support the revenue base of the state and facilitate trade within and outside the country.
Also, in August 2022, the federal government declared Dala Inland Dry Port, Kano, as port of origin for export of goods and final destination for goods brought into the country via the nation’s seaports.
The then minister of Transportation, Engr. Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, while making the declaration in Kano on behalf of the federal government, disclosed that the project was part of federal government’s reform programme to promote efficient transportation, decongest the seaports and bring shipping and ports services closer to importers and exporters.
Sambo said, “In today’s new global economy, speed to the markets with finished goods and lower shipping costs are the main drivers more than ever before. The Dala IDP will facilitate this and more.”
On why the project was located in Kano, he said, “The importance of Kano State as the commercial capital of northern Nigeria with huge agricultural trade and export volume is well documented.
“The State has a sizeable number of textile and agro-allied industries, assembly plants amongst others and several manufacturing industries. It is not only suited but most qualified”.
He equally called on shipping companies, maritime practitioners, land-locked countries like Chad, Niger and other port users to take full advantage of the Dala IDP for import and export of their cargoes.
But part of challenges hampering the full use of the dry ports is the lack of connection to rail systems.
On linking the railway to the Port, the managing director, Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Engr Fidet Okhiria, said, “The Board of NRC has approved track access to anybody or company wishing to provide the infrastructure, that is the rolling stock to operate on the track which i hope Dala Inland Dry Port will tap in so that they can maximise the essence of having rail track into their premises”.
Also, the general manager of the Kaduna Dry Inland Port harped on the need for incentives to be given to shippers to bring cargo to Kaduna instead of taking it to Lagos and other seaports in the south.
He said, “Since 2018, we have not been able to commence full dry ports. Kaduna is the first full dry port, and others are still coming. There should be a process by which dry inland ports should operate. We need at least five locomotives and 100 wagons for us to operate.
“The shipping companies should encourage shipping activities to thrive by sending their services to commence documentation processes for cargo destined for Kaduna Inland dry port by issuing true bill of lading.
The essence of the dry port is to decongest the ports and bring shipping services to the internal shippers, this has not been done.
“Most of our customers in the north, particularly in Kaduna and Kano, do ask the shipping lines that their cargos should be destined to Kaduna, but the shipping companies said the recognised ports are Apapa Port and Port Harcourt and they don’t recognise the dry inland port.”
Meanwhile, Mota-Engil has evacuated equipment worth $200million for the construction of $2billion Kano-Maradi Rail line from the Port and Cargo Terminals in Lagos.
The construction equipment which berthed in Lagos during the week is being added to Mota-Engil’s already impressive inventory.
Some of the equipment are Wheel loaders; backhoe loaders; crawler excavators; medium lift and heavy lift.
Others are truck mounted concrete pumps; concrete mixer trucks; telehandlers; motor graders; vibratory soil compactors; pneumatic rollers; mobile cranes; tipper trucks, among others.
Speaking with journalists while taking delivery of the equipment in Lagos, the company’s logistics manager, Nuno Colaço, said this latest acquisition is a strategic investment for the present and for the future.
He said further that the project was not only a landmark for the development of the railway infrastructure in Nigeria but also for the whole of West Africa.
The Customs controller of Tin Can Island Command, Adekunle Oloyede, said lately there has been a decrease of cargo throughput at the ports and expressed his delight at the sheer size of the Mota-Engil import, noting that it is evidence that the Nigerian economy is on the rebound.
Last month, MOTA-ENGIL had also taken delivery of some equipment which has been dispatched to their various project sites.
Among its many projects in Nigeria,is the construction of the $1.959 billion Kano-Maradi Standard Gauge Railway lines, the Sagamu-Benin expressway, the Lagos-Badagry expressway and is the reserved bidder for the 4th Mainland bridge in Lagos.
In 2018, Shoreline Group, the Nigerian energy and industrial conglomerate founded by Kola Karim, partnered Mota-Engil, a publicly listed Portuguese Construction Company to establish Mota-Engil Nigeria.
Afolue: Wherever one is in this life. It is worth thanking God for life. If only her trip to the Uk was never a success she most likely would have been very much alive wherever she was. Nature teaches mankind a lot of things. May her soul Rest In Peace
How do you know that she would most likely not have died a more horrible death wherever she was outside the UK
BadNews: 32-Year-Old Nigerian Woman Dies During Childbirth In The UK Shortly After Earning Master’s Degree
A 32-Year-Old Nigerian woman in the UK, Temitope Elizabeth Soneye Iwute, has passed away during childbirth.
Iwute died shortly after earning her Master’s degree.
The Nigerians in the UK Community (NIUK Community), announced Temitope’s death in a statement on X. The community also announced the launch of a GoFundMe account to raise money to support her newborn baby and her family for her burial.
''Dear NIUK Community,
We’re reaching out with heavy hearts to support the family of Temitope Elizabeth Soneye Iwute, a vibrant 32-Year-Old who tragically passed away during childbirth, leaving behind her precious newborn son.
Temitope had just completed her MSc at York St John University and was eagerly looking forward to her future. Now, we ask for your help to honor her memory and support her baby’s future.
Your donations will ensure a proper farewell for Temitope and provide love and stability for her son. Every contribution matters.''
I wonder if she is a Lagosian who japa'd despite the mega city bragging from a quarter century of T-Pain's magic master plan for increasing revenue without commensurate improvement in common services and utilities like healthcare, which is why it is not ranked among gloval cities.
ogugwa1992: EDO TRIBUNAL FIREWORKS: STAR WITNESS DESTROYS APC, OKPEBHOLO WITH DAMNING PROOF
…INEC’s failures exposed as witness cites Electoral Act and INEC manual …APC lawyer left flustered as witness flips questions and corrects false claims
Is this why comrade governor Oshiomole has increased his media presence recently? To launder his image after destroying the democracy that lifted him up in Edo? Will he also destroy the JUDICIARY that made it possible for him to be governor after Obasanjo's Iwuruwuru INEC denied him initially?
What will the former chairman of the Alliance of Past Crooks, APC do
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said politicians’ sins are forgiven when they join the ruling party.
Oshiomhole made this statement on Thursday, while welcoming new members to the party, at the APC presidential campaign in Benin.
As he reeled out names of those who have defected from the PDP to the APC, he said: “I am told that there are a lot of very very senior people from PDP who have decided to join forces with President Buhari to take the broom to sweep away PDP and to continue to ensure that APC continues to preside all over Nigeria.
“It includes my own brother, my friend who comes from my own clime, Henry Duke Genebe. He is the former organising secretary of PDP and we also have former vice chairman PDP and leader of Edo North of PDP. We also have my brother Chief Esheshi Godwin. He is also former council chairman and my very dear friend. We have quite a number of other leaders who have come.
“We have quite a number of other leaders who have come… in fact, once you have joined APC, all your sins are forgiven.”
ednut1: what ever is the issue in your head may the lord help you. Face topic and leave obi alone. Why is wike using rivers states funds to sponsor politicians
What money should be used to fund politicians if ordinary people like you don’t contribute your own money for the purpose?
Is this what Canadians, Americans, Britons etc do to make the politicians accountable to them and make their country better for us to japa there
the man is not presidential material but even so - the same PDP who had been collecting money from him did him dirty in the 2023 primaries
and they had no plan to placate him. expected he would take his betrayal lying down
they also have very little business calling out wike when they have atiku a much bigger ashewo who dealt a mortal blow to the party in 2015 back and calling the shots
i am actually surprised pdp has not split after what happened in 2023 - because the party is now funded by money from the SS states. the northern states are not brining anything to the table but they still play tribal politics during primaries
Wike did himself dirty with ambition for what you say he is not material for.
By the way, should ordinary citizens not be contributing money to political parties and campaigns like in the past and like in the japa destinations
How do we get accountability without investing in the political process?
anonimi: 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.
PresidObi: Rivers state money is used to fund elections for northerners.
No be today wey nyansh dey back.
scribble: 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, A[b]maechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.[/b]
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.
History555: When baale abiodun was accused of killing 6 cows, nigga was arrested, when herdsmen destroy 5 hec of rice farm, nobody is arrested. Yet Yoruba man is president, coas, ig of police, dg of dss, cjn. It's like buhari is still president
No. The Fulani asslicker is president.
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
casualobserver: That is why succession in govt is important so that those coming after you continue where you left off…..assuming you had a good plan in the first place. Some people will say Godfatherism but their hero has nothing too show for his time in office.
What exactly is there to show in this announcement
yoruboid: And they will wail in their hundreds under this thread
Hate as much and as hard as you like
Yorubaland will continue to progress
God bless Yorubaland and the Yoruba race
God bless the South South
God bless the North Central
A true Yoruba would be concerned about the sustainability of the yet to be implemented deal, seeing that the light rail is grounded after all the vuvuzela fanfare.
Are you sure you are Yoruba
RRsport2: Lagos State Government may have suspended operations on its Red Line Mass Transit Train Service (LRMT) until further notice.
Checks by our correspondent indicated that the operations of the train service ran into troubled waters last week. Many passengers observed mechanical failure on the morning belt of the train service last Monday.
A passenger, who preferred anonymity that boarded the train from Iju, said they had been told the train had developed a mechanical fault and when they got to Mushin, all passengers were instructed to disembark, as the train could no longer move.
ferdvict2: The leaders will see the video and ignore it. Besides, they and their children get medical treatment outside the country. Until they ban foreign trips, we are not ready for the best in this country.
When the best president we have had, Jonathan saw a similar video he did not ignore it.
naptu2: President Jonathan pays surprise visit to Police College Ikeja.
President Goodluck Jonathan made a surprise stop over in Lagos on his way to the Ivory Coast for an Ecowas meeting on events in Mali.
In Lagos, he undertook a tour of the Police College Ikeja, which has recently received negative reports in the media.
See pictures of Police College Ikeja from a previous report.
LailaIkeji1: New Pictures Of Work Going On At The Once Abandoned Police College Ikeja
A friend drove by the college this morning and sent me these pictures of work going on at the one time abandoned police college/training school that GEJ promised to renovate as soon as possible. It appears someone is keeping his word after all. Nice. Hope dey, guys. ( Look at the work going on within the fence. Like in the first pic, a carpenter is working on the roof)
Berankis: Where this guy they see money? N380million on a car? Sometimes, I just wonder if na the same country all of us they. If I get that kind money, na housing project straight and to startup a cool pharmaceutical business.
The taxman would know, based on his annual personal income returns. He may be into pharma already, like T-Pain was/is.
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’
Insurance9ja: Congratulations. Trying so hard to appease his wife.
Pls someone should gift me something, so I can use for food items pls. The hardship is Real. 8-1-3-one-fifty-fifty-7-5 ...Opay
In the absence of promised jobs from T-Pain and APC since their change scam 10 years ago, should you not find the nearest palliative food centre instead of begging online? Just make sure to avoid stampedes that can kill you.
Glimpsetv: 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.
Afrowits: If this same thing had happened in Nigeria, you will see where many people will be shouting victimization up and down, now that it happened in the US, it is okay by them.
Is this not how you defer to stronger people in your own community
Dollyak: This guy is corrupt to the core and has exposed the fragility of Americans democracy, and even more so the hypocrisy of the supposed western idealism which is nothing more than a facade.
Instead of this wailing about America, why don't you work on getting your own country as strong so its hypocrisy of idealism can be condoned by weaklings, who keep hiding their loot and their families in America
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
frankson1: What are those things you pasted as fantastic developments
Since your eyes are blinded to see the things Tinubu did as a Governor, my father, as a private citizen, built school, standard bore holes and not the type a certain person built in the North, opened roads, electricity etc. He funded these projects with his money and he has never been in the government.
Tinubu, during his time, out performed all other governors and left your governor way behind in development.
Government at all levels should think deeper and bring better development to the people.
Why are you bragging about your father's double jeopardy
Politics › Re: Your Desperation Root Of PDP Problems - APC Replies Atiku On ₦50m Claims by anonimi: 8:52am On Jan 29, 2025
