₦airaland Forum

abagoro:
This thread just like every other one of its kind lends [b]credence to my earlier assertions that no single federal road in the South-south [/b]and Southeast is good from one end to the other except Owerri/Onitsha road.

JiggamanGh:
I believe Ghana is nigeria's closest friend. Apart from our unhealthy rivalry, we do everything together. Most Ghanain Nigerian fights happens online

christopher123:
Education is a wasted project on u...i have given up on u


The money used in thr education shuould hav been used for fish farm

christopher123:
You have seen sense in my logic...i broke it down for you to comprehend in the base level

So show appreciation to master

christopher123:
In order to observe protocols your deluded

Or amnesia

So you have forgorten that igbos are delta north

Amnesia 101

warripekin:
Really? Ibori political machine weak? I don't think so. Did they actually loose at the ward congresses? Well for all I know, those that matter in PDP delta state are still ibori boys. From the governor to party leaders who matters. That's where the real politicking is. Tony obu not a dark horse? U will agree with me that until few months ago, tony obu was no where but only came on strong as the primaries draws nearer. Mark my word the preferred candidate remains okowa. As for the gov running for senate and James manager stepping down for him. That is being sorted out. The same senator James manager is still part of ibori team. For the guber election, even some of the top contenders know who the preferred candidate is and gov uduaghan will always tell them, convince me of ur popularity but he has his candidate already.

warripekin:
From what I know, the two contending candidates now are senator Ifeanyi okowa and tony obu. Ifeanyi okowa has always been the preferred candidate since he is part of the ibori political family but obu is an emergent dark horse. UPU as a social cultural group is trying to negotiate for position. In may or also they have had meetings with some of the candidates from delta north. I am aware that Ifeanyi okowa, ndudi elumelu and some others have had meetings with them. Again if, u look at it carefully, how many candidates are there from delta Central campaigning for gubernatorial election apart from ogboru in labour party. Come to warri , ask any PDP steward he tell u that it's delta north turn. Besides ibori has already endorsed his candidate and he is Ifeanyi okowa.

christopher123:
Igbos are in delta north or do u want to deny their tribes and confuse it with states


We have three tribes in delta but all are neighbours not brothers.....


THATS IT....

size38:
To me, there is nothing like Delta Igbo in Delta state. Delta state is Delta state and belongs to Delta people. So anybody who says he is a Delta Igbo in Delta state is an illegal immigrant in the state. The tribe known tribes in Delta state are the Uhrobos. Itsekiris and the Ijaws.

BuddahMonk:
Urhobo people go and eat pork and drink kai kai abeg, phools that are not ashamed of themselves having produced an Ibori who looted billions in 8yrs

automaticcars:
Son of a slut you are. You fellow citizens are your fellow Nigerian.

automaticcars:
Since terrorist attacks on your fellow citizens should be taken as normal way of life, may terror come into your household before Christmas so we can also move on the same way you want everyone else move on whenever it happens.

automaticcars:
Go ahead and buy a new G4 if you like. Since terrorist attack should now be a normal way of life, I say once again may terror be witnessed in your household by Christmas so we can move on five minutes later and pretend like nothing has happened as you want us to behave. Amen.

automaticcars:
You son of a slut. May terror visit your family so we can also move on five minutes later since it is nothing to you when terrorists attack your fellow citizens. May death visit your family before Christmas since terror is a normal occurrence to you.

It shall never be well with you and your entire family.

rhymz:
Another lie you lot like to tell to yourselves. You honestly believ that Buhari did not profit from heading any of these agencies or there was no accusation of corrupt enrichment?

Have we all forgotten that as commissioner (minister) of petroleum, 2.8 million dollars (billions in today’s currency) went missing under his watch. Till date they say he was not the thief. Others stole it. Okay oh! At this juncture, I think it is imperative that we discuss his chairmanship of PTF:

Gen. Buhari was Executive Chairman of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund from its inception in 1994, to its disbandment by the Obasanjo administration in 1999. According to the report of the Interim Management Committee, which was set up in that year to investigate the affairs of the Fund, the total income accruing to the Fund from mid-1994 to July 1999 was in excess of[b] N181 billion[/b]. There were six major areas in which the PTF intervened directly during the period. They were: roads and waterways; supply of educational materials and rehabilitation of educational infrastructure; food supply; health; water supply; and what was curiously termed other projects.

The management structure of the Fund was so capricious, from start, as in retrospect to suggest that the executive chairman was far more impressed by his position as an alternate Head of State, an Interventionist Czar who was answerable to no one, not even the Head of State himself, than anything else. First, he unilaterally appointed a single consultant, Afri-Projects Consortium, as the sole adviser to the Fund. Then he delegated virtually all his powers to this agency. Afri-Projects Consortium was given the exclusive power to initiate projects, assess their probable cost, approve the costs, execute the projects, and assess the quality of execution, all alone. The Consortium's decisions could not be questioned by anyone outside the Fund. Even the statutory members of the Fund's Board of Trustees found themselves helplessly watching as huge sums of money were paid out for questionable projects. And not surprisingly, the three professional management firms recruited by the Interim Management Committee to audit the performance of Afri-Projects Consortium came up with the unanimous conclusion that APC had over-charged the Fund for its services to the tune of over N2 billion.

APC directly managed the HIV/AIDS Intervention Programme of the Fund. Its managerial incompetence was found to be staggering. It knowingly imported sub-standard, poorly packaged, poorly stored, expired, or soon to expire treatment kits and drugs. And in the end, the auditing firms that investigated APC's performance concluded that it had cost the government N579 million by stocking huge silos of useless drugs and kits, purchased at inflated prices.

PTF's intervention in other areas of the health sector was equally atrocious. For instance, under the supervision of the omnipotent APC, PTF purchased large quantities of spectacle frames which were at the time costing only N800 a piece locally, for N1,900 a piece. This cost the public treasury over N45 million in inflated charges.

Ambulances whose going price at the time was N3 million each were found to have been purchased for N13 million each, leading to a loss to the treasury of N900 million.

PTF, through APC, purchased general drugs at the cost of N3 billion. The Interim Management Committee's consultants concluded that the Fund had been cheated by as much as N1.5 billion through inflated charges, and because most of the drugs had already expired before they could be safely used.

The Interim Committee's consultants also discovered that PTF had decided, without approval from the government, to build a residential estate in Wuse, Abuja, a project which was clearly outside the scope of its intervention mandate. The project purportedly cost PTF N703 million. But the consultants concluded that a realistic valuation of the project could not exceed N328 million. The project cost was inflated by more than 100 per cent, at N375 million.

In virtually every other area of PTF activity, three separate consultants engaged by the Interim Committee, and working independently, concluded that there had been massive fraud or criminal mismanagement of funds belonging to Buhari's empire. The Headquarters Extension and Renovation Project of the PTF cost the Fund N461 million. The consultants determined that it should not have cost more than N326 million. The Fund had been defrauded by N135 million.

The PTF had three main bank accounts. The independent consultants concluded that the Fund had been short-changed by as much as N3.6 billion by way of short payment of interest accruals from deposits, or excessive charges on Cost of Turnover by preferred banks.

The Rural Water Supply Scheme was another funnel from which huge sums of money were siphoned away. The independent consultants determined that as much as N1 billion was recoverable from inflated costs and mobilisations for work that was never done. They discovered, also, that the Fund had lost as much as N900 million in the Educational Materials Supply Scheme, through inflated charges and non-performance of contracts duly paid for.

The Rural Telecommunications Development Scheme was another such scheme from which money was cynically carted away by favoured clients. The scheme was designed in two parts: a Pilot Phase, and the Main Phase. The Pilot programme was intended to determine the viability of the project. But this did not deter PFF, under Gen. Buhari, to award contracts for the main programme to the tune of N1.6 billion, without any contracts signed, and before any conclusions could be drawn from the Pilot project.

It is a horrendous story of criminal negligence, cynical fraud, and unprecedented disregard for all civilised standards of prudence and transparency in the disbursement of public funds. In the end, the independent consultants concluded that of the N181 billion that accrued to PTF in the four and a half years of its existence between July 1994 and July 1999, as much as N25 billion was either stolen or improperly expended.

The great man's defence

Sources from within the PTF Interim Management Committee assert that when Gen. Buhari was invited to comment on the findings of the committee's consultants regarding the conduct of the empire over which he presided, he coyly retorted that he was not aware that such massive fraud went on his watch, but that in any event, he could not have benefited personally from the hideous purloining of the treasury.

That may be true, but it does not detract from the fact that he delegated to this outfit the sole and exclusive power to initiate projects, assess those submitted by other companies, approve variations on contract sums, and determine the quality of work done. He also, by his own admission, according to our sources, approved in writing all recommended payments from the Fund. But he did not know, he claimed, that those to whom he had delegated virtually all his powers were stealing the country blind. And no one has a right to call him to account, since to do so would be to question his famous reputation. So much for a clean slate, no nonsense leader.

Olusegun Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, on Friday said the Federal Government has attracted new private sector investment worth $7 billion into the cement sector in the last three years.

Aganga stated this at the 4th Annual Seminar for Industry, Trade and Investment Correspondents and Editors in Abuja.

According to him in 2011, the installed capacity in the cement sector is 16.5 million metric tons per annum.

“Today it is 39.5 million metric tons. When we came in, there were about $9 billion investment in the cement sector, but today it is more than $15 billion.

“In 2011, the direct and indirect jobs from the cement sector was less than 600,000 today the sector provides about 2.2 million direct and indirect jobs,’’ he said.

He said the federal government spent at least $5.2 million in the importation of cement, but since 2013 the present administration has not issued any import license.

“Our main focus for the cement sector, going forward, is to improve the standard of cement and to bring the price down. Cement manufacturers must do it because we do not do price regulation.

“There was announcement a few days ago that one of the cement manufacturers is bringing down the price of its 32.5 by 40 per cent from N1,700 per bag to N1,000.

“The 42.5 is coming down from around N1,800 to about N1,150 per bag,’’ said the minister.

He said there have been complaints about what was happening in the sector, urging Nigerians not to worry because the government was aware of its policies.

The minister said that a new anti competition policy that would provide a level playing field for all investors in the Nigerian economy would soon be rolled out by the federal government.

“We have a competition policy, we have anti-trust law that we are looking at and we have competition Bill that is going to the National Assembly.

“We will make sure that industrialists and investors across the country continue to have the confidence that everyone will play on a level playing ground,’’ he added.

Aganga noted that President Goodluck Jonathan had initiated and implemented far-reaching industrial policies which have helped to diversify the nation’s economic and revenue base.

“The policies are also to attract fresh foreign direct investment, create employment and increase the capacity utilisation of key manufacturing sectors of the economy.

“When the name of the Ministry was changed from Commerce and Industry to Industry, Trade and Investment the emphasis was for us to focus on industrialisation, trade and attracting investment across all sectors,’’ he said.

The two-day seminar is expected to end tomorrow.

komekn:
[s]He hasn’t made my day AT ALL.

Its question of standards, what is your standard for deliberative democracy? I am neither for PDP or for APC I am for proper democracy, the removal of god fatherism and the rule of law


The first question is who started this fight? and why

The second question is there any justification on the part of the two protagonists to have carried on the way, we have seen them over the past year plus, the abusive of governmental institutions in achieving personal vendettas. Who has suffered the most? Who has been disenfranchised? its simply the common man.

ujoinme:
You are not from rivers state, and hence do not know what is happening there, you scurry to threads about amaechi hecause he joined APC yesterday. You have abosolutely no idea what you are talking about.
Rivers state is the third most important city in Nigeria After Abuja and Lagos.These are places that the FG has invested heavily since the early 1900's to make them economically viable, these has nothing to do with the impacts of their present leaders, Amaechi inherited the oil capital of west Africa and in 8yrs has ran it aground with abandoned projects everywhere, schools, PHC, Karby white hospital, clinotech hospital, monorail, all incomplete and blaming the FG for lack of funds while the Federal allocation + IGR makes rivers state the second richest state in the country after Lagos.

In 8yrs Akpabio has taken Akwa Ibom a former LGA and village in the scheme of things in the then Nigeria into a place of reckon in Nigeria. the fact that we are even making comparism is a testimony to the ability in the charismatic leadership of Akpabio.
Overseas scholarship,while it may be Novel in rivers state is nothing novel in Akwa Ibom of today, Akwa ibom Has been doing overseas scholarship for eons, mentioning that in AKS will not buy you any political capital for since the days of Attah the state has been sending batches of hundreds every year for training a trend that has been sustained by akpabio, the Akwa Ibom State university trained 90% of its present staff strenght in UK US and canada majority who have choosen not to come back, there is hadly any major family in AKS today that does not have at least one person or known one person who has been a beneficiary.
you mention pabod breweries in rivers state, you probably never heard of champion breweries in Uyo a subsidiary of Heineken one of the largest brewers in the world.

Rivers state can be better and am praying for it to get better a strong rivers state is good for Akwa Ibom , the south South and Nigeria in General. Amaechi had an oppurtunity to work with the president a portharcout boy himself married to a rivers woman, but insted of him to cooperate with the president and help build and enviable SS he decided to let his ego have the best of him. can you imaging what the SS region would have been with Amaechi, oshimole, uduaghan, imoke,dickson, and akpabio allworking together with the president to make the region and the country better, instead he choose to fight the presidency. History will not forget the saboters and thank God that Jonathan has another 4 years, hopefull SS will elect leaders in tha mold of Akpabio who know how to hold a united front with their brother president.

ujoinme:
APC propaganda mill,I am really happy about the kind of Attention that Akwa Ibom Stadium is getting from trolls from APC and hate filled Nigerians. In this parts of Nigeria where we are blessed with the sweetest species of mango fruits in the world, we believe that the mango tree that bears the sweetest fruits gets the highest number of stones and shaking from the people.
Akwa ibom is onto something here kudos to my amiable governor for this wonderful vision.
APC keep hating Akpabio for thats what haters do. But i can assure you that in no distant future all of you will be boasting about this uyo stadium and most of the other infrastructure that Akpabio is building, Mark my words.

Am watching this thread for pictures of Amaechi Stadium stadium, because unlike most of you guys am rooting for rivers state to succeed (despite their current crybaby governor who is a disgrace to the Niger delta people because he is a saboteur whose ambition for VP is driving him insane) cos they are our neighbours we can look from our backyards and see rivers state, if rivers succeed I am all happy for it because i can participate in their success and share it with them, There is more that binds us to the people of rivers state then divide us despite the seeming animosity between the two governors, Govs comes and goes but the people will remain.

frankyychiji:
Akpabio has really done so well for his people. They will never forget him. He gave them confidence and a pride of place. Today, Akwa ibom is like a beautiful pride everyone wants to marry. He has ran a good race. He has finished his course. Let the next man take the people to the next level.

lasher1:
I think You should best face the question asked and stop running away, you claimed Buhari's move which discouraged importation resulted in the deindustrialization of Nigeria and massive job losses, am sure to boldly asert this you would know at least 3 companies or industries largely affected. Pls mention one or two just to prove that all your previous rants about GMB's ban on importation was not just another senseless propaganda full of lies and deceit. Remember again, the years are between 1983 to 1985

Eziachi:
George Bush will be lynched on the street of America, not asked to resign if Alqeada had taken a metres of U.S territory, never mind 16 local government areas, never mind renaming U.S cities with some Arab names, never mind hoisting some strange flags and never mind sharing sovereignty with Shekau.
If some of you takes the toga of Nigeria poisonous ethic politics off your eyes for even a second, you will realise how indefensible Jonathan presidency has been on just insecurity alone. Don't even go to corruption.

VolvoS60:
^^^^
The info I have requested for is critical to holding government accountable. I have stated this several times on this thread. But the FG and those who defend it have refused to make the info available to all Nigerians in a clear and unambiguous format. Is this for sinister reasons? Is it because most Nigerian roads that are in a poor or bad state are federal roads? Is that the reason?