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just look at this igbo boy, they are some efiks who speak only igbo, does that make them igbo?
your an idiot
Igbo people, no wonder obong of calabar refused to allow your eze to do rubbish in our land, kicked you people out

i did not hear about igbos running away from calabar.

FG Finally Removes Subsidy On Petrol                                   http://www.independentngonline.com/news/tfpg/article03         
By Chesa Chesa Snr State House Correspondent, Abuja

The Federal Government has finally approved the full deregulation of the petroleum sector to end subsidy for 'inefficient and fraudulent' operations.

Given by President Umaru Yar'Adua, the approval is sequel to the recommendations of the Steering Committee on the Global Economic Crisis which met at the Villa in Abuja on Thursday and convinced him on the "institutional deficit and structural bottleneck" which the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has become.

Finance Minister, Mansur Muhtar, who chairs the Committee briefed reporters on the deliberations. He was accompanied by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, and Petroleum Resources Minister, Rilwanu Lukman.

Mansur recalled that N640 billion was spent to subsidise petroleum products last year alone, yet leakages continue in a system characterised by corruption, inefficiency, which showed that the "whole system has been compromised."

He said there will be a review of the PPPRA template, and a Competition Bill is in the works to combat oligopoly in oil and other economic sectors.

According to him, money saved from subsidies will be spent in other areas of need. The Committee endorsed the reversal of the last increase in pump price of diesel.

His words: "The huge fiscal burden we cannot continue to meet. We have found out that we are really subsidising inefficiencies, fraud, racketeering in the whole production chain and in that context basically given the competing needs for scare resources, government felt we needed to do something. We are also subsidising other countries."

A committee headed by Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, has been set up to devise the action plan and time frame for the deregulation process.

Other members of the committee are the federal Attorney General, Presidential Economic Adviser, Ministers of National Planning, Finance, Labour, and Petroleum, representatives of Labour and the private sector, as well as Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole.

Muhtar also announced the government's resolve to stop pumping money into the refineries which have become drain pipes. Crude oil will be sent abroad for refining and freighted back home without necessarily selling crude to the refineries.

Only the cost of refining will be paid to supplement imported refined products until the local refineries are privatised and private ones come on stream.

Yar'Adua also approved the resumption of the sale of foreign exchange (forex) to licensed bureau de change, a reduction by 25 per cent of the fees charged by the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and a review of risk management procedures by financial players.

Mechanisms will be strengthened to effectively co-ordinate financial system through a committee chaired by Soludo, and there is removal of five per cent excise duty on all products, except cigarette and alcohol.

@tamme

I repeat is Kanu Agabi igbo?I am not a girl.

Udueze your an idiot

Many Efik people speak igbo does that make them igbo?
Igbos and their wahala, thats why Biafra will never happen

Who are the igbos?

Me, I don talk my own. The stories that my elders told me are what you are hearing now. My elders are no illiterates, but a Royal family who were involved in governing PH and Rivers State. If you consider it a prejudice, then hopefully this prejudice would go some way to explaining why Rivers State was divided over the Biafra issue. If Igbos are interested in unity, then they must address these long-held grouses to do with their mismanagement of the former Eastern Region and their imperialistic attitude to their former trade-partners

Well you might have a point of imperialistic attitudes of 'igbos'.However saying that the former eastern region heade by okpara was characterized by mismanagement i am not too sure because the eastern region at that time under him was regarded as the fastest growing region or zone.

I know .It is just that becomerich said that in a thread i cannot remember now.

Get rich or die trying-50 cent

Becomerich talk true.Yardua will rather die in office than resign and handover to goodluck.

Was PH not in the former eastern region  

@nuzo

It seems you do not know enziga and how he thinks.Udezue will lecture you better.Do not waste your time with him.

Simply because I do not believe that igbos are experiencing genocide, if we were thousands upon thousands of us would be dying, Not when you get 300 igbos dying, 150 yorubas dying and other people from other places dying, and then you choose to focus on only the igbos who died, u then call that genocide, Abeg abeg abeg, genocide ko, mass murder ni, I read the same report and it said both mosques/churches were burnt down, stop choosin what part you want to see and read the whole thing, Am igbo myself but i refuse[b] 2 become part of the ignorance which pervades my people. [/b]

FG: Nigeria’s Classified Documents Stolen
, to write US •Wins first leg of case on Ajaokuta Plant http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=136703
From Juliana Taiwo in Abuja, 02.26.2009

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The Federal Government yesterday said it was petitioning the United States government over the use of its official documents in the legal tussle over the ownership of the Ajaokuta Steel Company. The government feared the documents were stolen.
It also disclosed that Nigeria has won the first leg of an arbitration arising from the cancellation of the contract between it and an Indian firm, Global Infrastructure Holding Lim-ited, over the steel company.
Addressing State House Correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, and his Information and Communication counterpart, Prof. Dora Akunyili, said the three arbitrators who made up the panel sitting in London on Tuesday quashed the “conservative order” sought by Global Infrastructure over its acquisition of Ajaokuta Steel Company.
The company had sought to be paid damages in addition to the refund of the money it originally paid to acquire the Ajaokuta plant.
Global Infrastructure acquired the multi-billion dollar project constructed by Tiajpromexport of Russia during the sale done by former President Olusegun Obasanjo regime but the President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua administration in April 2008 reversed the sale.
The gigantic project had attained 98 per cent completion in the early 90s but vandalism of the plants and decay arising from its non-utilisation had made it more of a white elephant project.
Aondoakaa said government frowned on some documents presented to the arbitrators by lawyers representing Global Infrastructure, which he said were classified, stressing that even though Nigeria won the first leg of the case, it was protesting formally to the US government over the matter.
He said the lawyers that used the documents claimed to have obtained them from the US.
He said: “You recall that the Federal Government’s dispute with Global Steel over Ajaokuta had to do with what the government felt that the contract was entered not in conformity with our laws here. We felt that was not proper and this contract was terminated.
“Now, they took us to court, in arbitration before a court in London. In the arbitration, each party is supposed to nominate one person, they nominated theirs and we nominated ours and the two arbitrators chosen were to nominate the third arbitrator. At that point, they now brought an application for conservative measures. What this means is to restrain government from taking any steps like privatisation of Ajaokuta Steel, taking any steps towards reforming the Ajaokuta Steel and also to restore them in the position they were pending the determination of the case. And we resisted this, we canvassed our argument and this matter also brought out other serious issues.
“Before evidence arguments were concluded. They tendered documents from government, which we believe bridged national security. They tendered documents emanating from the highest office in the arbitration and it was shocking for people who are not government officials, who are not resident in Nigeria to come and tender official documents of government.
“We contended that those documents were actually stolen and there are official secret documents of government of Nigeria and that is a criminal offence under our laws for anyone to come into this government and go to the extent of getting official documents in the Presidency to tender in a case. And as God would have it yesterday (Tuesday), each of the arbitrators looked at the totality of our arguments and ruled that the conservative order they sought should be dismissed. They were unanimously dismissed by the three-man panel of arbitrators. The implication of this is that even the arbitrator nominated by them dismissed the measures. That is the happy news we have.
“We have just crossed one portion of the case, we will now go to the main case which we are sure that we will take all steps necessary to ensure that Ajaokuta Steel comes on stream; all legal impediments of Ajaokuta Steel are resolved.
“Mr. President’s agenda has always been that if the steel is not properly developed, you cannot have industries take off. You cannot refurbish your railways, you cannot develop a car in Nigeria without having a steel industry; you cannot even have a hoe to go to farm without a steel industry and this is why we find this Ajaokuta Steel very critical to steel development and we feel that whatever is going to be done must be done in national interest. The judgment is a welcome development.
“We had to brief the press so that the world will know because there was so much rumour that Nigeria has lost the case and it was laughable only for a Minister to run to my office and inform me that the case has been dismissed. It is on this premise we are briefing you.”
Asked if the Federal Government had found out those who stole the documents and what punishment would await them, he replied, “That is the machinery that the government is putting in place and it’s a serious matter and the office of the Attorney-General of the federation is taking it very seriously. We are going to write to the government of the United States because the lawyers that used those documents claimed to have gotten them from unknown persons resident in the United States. We are also going to take it very seriously at diplomatic level because no where in the world will you allow official secrets of government or communications between the Presidency and any minister which is classified become a matter for public consumption.
“Two communications are there, communication that is classified is deemed to be under Official Secret Act and such communications are not ordinarily released except you have applied and obtained it. And in Nigeria, a document emanating from Nigeria must be certified by an official of government where the person obtaining it will state his name, address and rank before it is even admitted in a Nigerian court.
“What surprised us was that a communication between the President and a minister and of the SGF and a minister in relation to an official act became subject of complaint for conservative order in the hands of a claimer who is not an official of government; who is not resident in Nigeria and the lawyers who tendered those documents are resident in America. And the government is already taking appropriate measures to complain officially to the various persons, to the governments involved and to the governments of those people who are resident to have this matter settled once and for all.
“We are going to apply the full wrath of the law against persons found to have abetted this act but in doing so we are going to be thorough and follow the law.”
On the electoral reform, the FEC set up a three-man committee headed by Aondoakaa. Other members are the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, and Permanent Secretary, SGF office, Dr. Akeem Baba Ahmed.
They have also been given authority to co-opt any member of the cabinet into the committee to deliberate on key areas of the report and present the report next Wednesday.
The Attorney-General said in setting up the committee, government was not in anyway foot-dragging.
“On the electoral reform report, we are not foot-dragging. I as the chairman of the committee that was set up sought for two weeks but the President overruled us that our sub-committee must submit the report by next Wednesday and also cancelled all activities of government and that we should sit from day to day over the weekend and make sure the report is ready.”






How were the documents stolen

hehe that one na 1970 this is 2009
Igbos make ona go sef your wahala odikwa serious too much

I wonder how udezue would feel about the above statement?

yaaaaaaaaaaaay Donald Duke my towns man

Backward mentality.

I wonder why we are disturbing ourselves.Most guys in the present southsouth want nothing to do with igbos so why bother?

Moderator please lock this thread or transfer it to the joke section.

Why are you naming these guys?Nna na wa for you.

How do we unite when you made that statement that i am refering to?If we want unification some things have to be thrashed out first.

Who do we back when presidency returns to the south?thats the question.

Is this relevant to the topic

Naija guys no kill me

How did free borns marry slaves

@Abagworo

I asked who are the igbos because people say igbos are the people in the political south east.People at times get this feeling that everyone in this zone understand each others igbo dialect which is false.Have you ever heard a typical ohafia man speak?You might think he is speaking efik.

Personally i understand your dialect of igbo,the anioma dialect and even ukwuani more than i can understand ezza dialect or afikpo dialect that is been spoken in ebonyi.

The afikpo man can sell me in his dialect.Do you now understand what i mean by language continum.Do you now understand what i mean by who are 'igbo'

@Abagworo

That is why i asked you the question who are the igbos because you said the 'igbos' are good at copying and that they copied your oru language.You do not seem to realize that that statement does not create an atmosphere for reconciliation.

Ubani mara nma!!!

Is this not igbo.I think it is hightime we acknowledge that igbo is a language continum with varying dialects across former eastern nigeria.

I asked what they speak in Opobo because i just finished watching a documentary on the people of Opobo and quite frankly what they where speaken sounds very much like the dialect been spoken in the present day nkwerre,isu,njaba axis.

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Oru in Imo state.we never miss saying we are not igbo but oru.also that igbo is our true brother.as for languge adoption,i doubt if igbo could have influenced our original language because igbos are good language borrowers.i rather believe igbos adopted our original language

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@abagworo

Who are the igbos?

Ibime what language is been spoken in Opobo?

becomerich prove them wrong. show them the satellite maps from 500 AD

No, not at all.

What I'm doing is looking at the full scope of things.

Why is CAN sending out a bill that will enable many more people to be armed, [b]when they could instead send out a bill that can help disarm those you're complaining about?[/b]If more people are allowed to carry arms, and tension persists, you are asking for nothing short of civil unrest on a massive scale.

My guy this is what is supposed to happen in civilized world however nigeria is a different kettle of fish.

And we wonder why yahoo yahoo is the 'in thing' in nigeria.