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ilugunboy: Do you know APAPA -OSHODI express way?

Lagos asked for restrictions of tankers and container trucks to certain period of the day......FG overruled the state government on Fed roads.


Some of you just open mouths to comment on issues you have no iota of knowledge about.

Rubbish as usual, what has government giving control to Lagos got to do with an accident. You with your one billion percent knowledge, should tell your saint of a gov. To accept responsibility for an accident in his state and pipe down.

This is just unreal, a tanker has an accident on the roads of your state. You blame NNPC, railways, and mama Sola,and the Federal government. No where, does your state of Lagos claim any responsibility for an accident that happened in your domain.

Alcatraz001: Am really impressed byt what am seeing up there...it shows that development can be attained in the Niger Delta Considering the immense capital being allocated to these states as Revenue allocation.Uduaghan has always come across to us in the western part of the country as a non performer due to what we have been made to believe in the Media but with this projject and many more to come (hopefully) from his administration before it comes to an end next year,I am hopeful that Emmanuel Uduaghan can re-write his name in Gold on the annals of Delta State.Kudos to the Delta State Government Once again.

PDP has performed better in delta than any state in this country in all sectors.. All we lack is high tech propaganda.

President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged his critics to compare the achievement of his administration with any other before they criticise saying that his administration has in two years and eight months performed better than any administration past and present in the country.

The president, who was addressing People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts from the north western zone of Nigeria who were in the Presidential Villa on a solidarity visit, said that it is blackmail for anyone to say that he is anti-north, insisting that he was the first to establish nine universities in the north at one time as well as the Almajiri schools to emancipate people from the shackles of poverty.

He decried the challenges of insecurity in the north promising that he will do more for them by the time he gets rid of insurgency in that part of the country.

Channels Television’s State House Correspondent, Chukwuma Onuekwusi reports that the president called on the ministers of state for works, education, mines, agriculture and power to give a bit of their scorecard one by one in the north western zone in line with the transformation agenda of the administration..

A former chairman of the PDP and leader of the delegation, Dr Alero Mohammed reeled out the efforts of the administration and promised to support the president at all times.

He also reports that the president called on them to see the amalgamation which brought Nigerians together as a source of unity promising to use the national dialogue to cement the bond.


http://www.channelstv.com/

Amazing how a group of people from one region attempt to politically assassinate an opponent. I just thank God, I don't have to deal with demons like them. The Minster should simply ignore, these children of hate, anger and bitterness.

All yea supporters of Pat Utomi, advise him to stay away, from this party of anger and bitterness.

The election and inauguration of an interim executive for the Delta State chapter of the APC was marred by infighting as leaders of one of the legacy parties fought against alleged distortion of an already determined deal. Were they crying foul or wolf?
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor and Austin Ogwuda
SUGGESTIONS that the last state chairman of one of the legacy parties that formed the All Progressives Congress, APC, had turned a clog in the wheel of progress of the new party would have shocked many.
Chief Adolo Okotie-Eboh, the last chairman of the Delta State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, however, had his beef and it was serious last Friday.
“I am not satisfied with the list of those to be sworn in, (and) the reason is that that list has not been approved by the national body of APC in accordance with the guideline,” Okotie-Eboh told newsmen who thronged the Grand Hotel, Asaba venue of the scheduled inauguration of the interim state executive of the newly merged party.
Okotie-Eboh, a scion of the Festus Okotie-Eboh family had few years ago and against odds, turned into a fiery critic of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP led administration in Delta. He was particularly critical of the administration’s failure to conduct local government elections and the use of caretaker committees.
It was a surprise to some that Okotie-Eboh, an Itsekiri would agree to lead the opposition party to a government led by an Itsekiri son in the person of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan.
He was, however, not alone as he had as fellow crusader, the former member of the House of Representatives, Ms Temi Harriman who made a name for herself when she became the only southern member of the PDP who openly stood against the third term constitution amendment in 2006.
So given his antecedents, Okotie-Eboh’s strong reservations against the consolidation of the new opposition party was bewildering to many last Friday. But not totally surprising given the impression that Okotie-Eboh was about to be edged out from his place of reckoning in the leadership of the APC in Delta State.
Last Friday he, however, had a cause, at least in his own consideration. He was especially grieved by what he claimed was the distortion of the original harmonization committee empanelled by the national secretariat of the party for the state.
“The NEC of APC should immediately come out with a definite statement as it concerns the Delta State Harmonization Committee (DSHC) and that the ACN’s list should be restored to its original form and the two names substituted be restored”, Okotie-Eboh told newsmen last Friday.
The former ACN chairman also raised issues with the constitution of delegates for the election of interim executive of the APC. Okotie-Eboh was especially grieved by the fact that whereas the former All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, ACN, and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC got 9, 7 and 6 slots to the delegate congress last Friday, but that the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP which was not an integral member of the alliance at the national level got 10 slots.
Party sources say that Okotie-Eboh’s claims against the allotment of slots to the DPP was the reason for the postponement of the election of the interim executive which was earlier fixed for last December.
Allocation of slots
The opposition to the allocation of slots to the DPP was, however, dismissed by the party’s interim national executive which as it was learnt had in its wisdom decided to recognize the DPP in Delta State as one of the legacy parties given the drive and devotion of the DPP in the state to the merger with the APC.
It was also understandable that the DPP in Delta State would be accorded the highest number of slots because it had by far the largest presence among the legacy parties.
In choosing delegates to the election of the interim executive, the national secretariat had stipulated that national leaders of the party, former and serving governors, former senators and serving senators, the state chairmen and secretaries and women leaders should be recognized as delegates to the election of interim executive.
Based on these criteria, DPP emerged with the highest number of slots a development that peeved Okotie-Eboh and some of his associates who marshaled the demonstration against the conduct of the APC election.

However, whatever sympathy Okotie-Eboh garnered was equally undermined by impressions that the demonstration against the election and inauguration of the new APC executive was instigated by agents of the PDP in the state and where not, by the PDP administration.
Inferences to this was especially conveyed by the alleged presence in the vicinity by a former stalwart of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN who has returned to the PDP from where he came from and is now known to be actively working for the political interests of the state administration.
Besides, the policemen that were alleged to have guided the demonstrators to the hotel were said to have been policemen deployed to one of the leading political office holders in the state.
Peeved by the action of the demonstrators, Chief Tom Ikimi, the national vice-chairman, South South of the APC whose duty it was to preside over the election and inaugurate the new executive was reported to have told officials of the APC already in Asaba, the Delta State capital that he would not come until the protest was calmed.
When the commotion died down and Ikimi with his entourage arrived, he was quick to dismiss the insinuations conveyed by the demonstrators and insisted that the DPP had won its slots meritoriously.
Dismissal by the national secretariat
“There was no violation of any sort. We are in order,” Ikimi said as he noted that issues raised against the inauguration had in the past been channeled to the national secretariat which dismissed them.
“Ikimi also told us that he was not surprised that the opposition in Delta State had for long not been able to bite given what happened on Friday,” one of the delegates told Vanguard on the condition of anonymity.
The delegates who voted were chairmen and secretaries of the four legacy parties that formed the APC in Delta State and party elders including former Senator Francis Okpozo, former Deputy Inspector General DIG Donald Ugbaja, former union leader Chief Frank Kokori among others.
Of a list of about 32 expected voters only 26 it was learnt were accredited for the vote.
At the end of the voting, the following were elected as interim officers of the party in Delta.
1)Rev Jones Erue- interim chairman, 2)Mr Chidi Okonji-interim Secretary, 3)Mr Akpodafe Edewor-interim Treasurer, 4)Mr Precious Enweayoi interim Publicity Secretary, 5)Hon Harvest Igben-interim Organising Secretary.
How the new officials proceed from now would determine the shape and structure of the opposition against the dominance of the PDP in Delta State.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/apc-delta-chasing-shadows/#sthash.rpqBCNW2.dpuf

U-Get-Sense:
Cassava beer?! YUCKS!!
I wonder how they'll eliminate that pungent odour of fermented cassava.

Btw, I see a great potential in cassava biz should the brewers pull this off.

The beer is already in the market. Cassava has become gold in delta state.

How Far?:
grom
Unlike you and your imbecilic sidekick Omo_lier, I know Edo interest lies in the SS not SW.

Don't get fooled by that guy and his lying image call Omo_tier. They have tired to disgrace us on this forum with their, I am from SS bullshit. I had to expose the liar, Omo liar on the delta thread, the maggot ran away. The liar probably doesn't know the way to Benin from Ondo.

Clerverly: Keep inviting curse to your children by defending fraud and criminality! dimwit!

The curse over running your life, as we see you act it out on this forum.

Clerverly: So says a crook on the loose

Look at this criminal, trying to create a crime where there was none. You these children of hate and bitterness need another hobby than spreading lies.

Clerverly: The woman stinks of corruption...Like president like minister

Na so crazy dey start. This woman will make you hug transformer soon.

Gboliwe: Most of us are used to traffic jams on our highways, Lokoja- Abuja's isn't different. What we (users) complain of is the everyday fatal accidents on that road. Who is a Nigerian who doesn't know of someone that died on that road. If its the dualisation thta will stop the accidents, then kudos, but if its just to ease traffic, I'll suggest the fund be pushed into another worthwhile project

The battle lines are becoming clear as we enter 2014

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday has accused the All Progressives Congress of planning to impose Islamic agenda on Nigeria.

In a statement by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the party said an Islamic cleric, Ambassador Yusuf Garba and the Religious Equity Promotion Council REPC, had exposed the plot by the APC to balkanise Nigeria along religious lines. It alleged that the party is planning to impose an Islamic agenda like the Egypt Muslim Brotherhood.
The party therefore called on Nigerians to stand up and defend the unity of the nation and resist attempts by the opposition to destroy the nation’s common heritage as a people.
“The PDP wishes to make it manifest to Nigerians to stand up and resist this evil machination by enemies of the nation. “This revelation, which came even from Muslims, goes to vindicate the PDP and confirm our earlier stand that the APC is a party of bloodthirsty, religious and ethnic bigots averse to the unity of the country and the peaceful co-existence of our people.”
PDP said the revelation explained that the reason the APC had been promoting violence, divisions and bloodletting, all aimed at making the people to lose faith in the Nigerian project and set the grounds for mayhem.
“Nigerians are now no longer at loss on the real reason the APC has been desperate to hold power. They now know why they have been moving round the country organising protests and investing heavily in planting seeds of discord and disagreements among the people using their stock-in-trade of propaganda, deceit, falsehood and doomsday prophesies.
“This revelation also explains why they have been arming thugs to disrupt electoral processes. “A case in point being the importation of hundreds of armed thugs to disrupt the Anambra governorship election last December. But for the police which arrested some of the thugs, the APC would have unleashed mayhem on the state and use it as a test for its larger plan in the 2015 general elections. “We are happy that Nigerians are no fools. Genuine Muslims know that Islam stands for peace.
Therefore, any attempt to use religion to divide the country must be resisted. We thank all Nigerians, especially true Muslims for exposing and rejecting the APC and its devilish plot. “Now that their plot has been exposed, we advise the APC to retrace their steps and purge themselves of their evil machinations.
“It is our unshakable creed that Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians irrespective of religious, tribal, ethnic or regional affiliations. This country belongs to Muslims, Christians and citizens of other religious persuasions alike and our people are free to live and work in any part of the country and aspire for any office irrespective of religious or ethnic affiliations.
“The PDP remains committed to the national unity as encapsulated in our manifesto and the ideals of our founding fathers and on that note will resist anything that seeks to balkanise our country and cause divisions among our people.
“The PDP is a party that is built on the principles of freedom, equality, justice and service. In this great party, considerations are not made based on religious, tribal or ethnic interests. Here, there are neither Christians nor Muslims; Hausas nor Yorubas; Fulanis nor Ijaws; Igalas nor Igbos and so on. The PDP remains a large family with enough room to accommodate all opinions and interests without compromising the national interest.”
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/2015-apc-plans-impose-islamic-agenda-pdp/#sthash.dMVMhPdb.dpuf

fresh air till 2019

The Managing Director of Indorama Eleme Petrochemical Limited Mr Manish Mundra has said that the companies US$1.2 billion dollars Fertilizer Project is on course.
According to the latest edition of the companies in-house magazine Indorama-Nigeria IMPACT Magazine, Mr Mundra said; “we were able to put together a massive US$1.2 billion dollars for our fertilizer project and our Chairman, Mr. S.P. Lohia was here in April to perform the ground-breaking. Since then, the construction of the plant has been going on as planned.”
The ground-breaking took place on the 11th of April 2013 and the project is expected to be ready in the fourth quarter of 2015 with production starting in the first quarter of 2016.
Mr Mundra disclosed that indorama is already constructing an 83 kilometre gas pipeline to fetch gas to the fertilizer plant while an export jetty is also being constructed at the Onne port to facilitate evacuation of the products.
Mr Mundra also stated that the fertilizers would be of high quality, yet cheaper for farmers thereby helping them to improve their agricultural yields and that the project would help to revolutionalise agriculture and help to fight food security in the country. According to the magazine, the M.D. also stated that the fertilizer plant would help the government stop importation of the product which gulps huge foreign exchange every year and also enhance food security and create employment opportunities for teeming Nigerian graduates who need jobs.
The companies website revealed that $800million dollars of the $1.2 billion dollars would be financed by lenders while $400 million dollars was in equity. Financial partners involved in the $800 million loan are the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Standard Chartered, African Development Bank (AfDB), Africa Export Import Bank, Bank of India, KFW and DEG of Germany, Commonwealth Development Corporation, FMO Entrepreneurial Development Bank, Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, United Bank for Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank and Access Bank.
Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Limited Nigeria (IEFCL), which is West Africa’s largest polyolefins producer, is providing equity of $400 million dollars for the project.
The companies website also revealed that Global TOYO Engineering of Japan would be handling the construction work, and the project would be the world’s largest single-stream gas-to-urea plant which has capacity for 1.4 million metric tons of urea serving both domestic and export market.
The Singapore-headquartered Indorama Corporation, the holding company of the Indorama group, has 45 manufacturing sites across 20 countries around the world. It is also the second largest producer of nitrile rubber gloves. The $10 billion dollars Indorama Corporation is owned by an Indian family, with industrialist S.P. Lohia as its chairman.
Indorama Corporation, which has over 20,000 employees, started with the establishment of a spun yarn manufacturing plant in Indonesia by S.P. Lohia in 1976. The group is a global manufacturer of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester fibre, filament and spun yarns, fabrics, and medical gloves. Its products are shipped to over 90 countries across four continents.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/

OlayinkaKazeem: Jonathan is a loser. It's s sad how the SS have ended up hanging around with such an unfortunate group as the Igbos. What an embarrassment

Your frustration brings joy to my heart.

Kponkwem: Have you heard of the biggest African palm research institute in Biase, Obudu Cattle Ranch, Metropolitan Hotel-all in Cross River State, University of Calabar? These legacies will always commend Okpara.

And how is it possible that only the minorities were compelled to pay tax in eastern region? Why have the so called minority states, with allocations two times bigger than that of the entire SE still unable to lift their people out of poverty? You see why some of us are advocating an eastern renewal- not necessarily to re-unite SS/SE- but just to clear some of these false indoctrinations.

I am really supporting GEJ, but I would like to watch the fire after APC takes over power and begin to revise these fat oil derivation allocations, PIB, Amnesty allocations, and oil blocks license rounds. I was part of the state-wide outcry in Akwa Ibom when Obj re-introduced offshore-onshore oil dichotomy. And a repeat is inevitable after Boko Haram has been sold to the Americans as a product of poverty and lesser oil revenue in North relative to SS bogus allocations.

Some of our brothers in SS are too myopic, brainwashed and wired from childhood to grope in Igbophobia. Half education is dangerous. Tufiakwa!

That impostor OP is not from the SS

citizenY: @OP

And what/ who are you... Nepa or Nitel... wire don cover ya brain?

Na by force to post topic for NAIRALAND?

I am your worst nigtmare

SLIDE waxie: ur foolishness is becoming more transparent...and ur madness, more chronic. In due time, we shal get u a cure.

People are talking on facts, u will only talk on some warped logic that failed on a 6-yr old reasoning!

Post ur facts and let the film roll.

And who is this child of bitterness seeking my attention

kel4soft: What is he saying?

Take your inferior complex back to where you belong.

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kel4soft: This Warri man, don't ever quote me. If you can't prove am impersonating.

I have told you am from the Ibani clan of Ijaw root. Because am not Pro-GEJ doesn't mean, am not Ijaw. Beside Ogbia is only political Ijaw. If you look at the real Ijaws. Nembes and Ogbia will be strike out.

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Rubbish Answer your name

kel4soft: This Warri man, don't ever quote me. If you can't prove am impersonating.

Shameless impostor, your time is up.

citizenY: Time has passed o.

This Clark was sacked by Murtala Mohammed for enriching himself. He bought some cinema houses in Benin and they were seized. He claimed that he bought them with inherited family funds.

Now he is a godfather. So much for integrity!!

Tell us where OBJ got his billions? how much did his father leave him. EK Clark comes from a great family in brutu. Who is OBJ Take your time and review Who the Clarks are in Nigeria.

kel4soft: Because he is a kunt that has planted Orubebe as MND to siphon our regional development.

This was the same man, that opposed Odili's Presidential candidacy. I wonder where he was when OBJ was going from state to state campaigning for Jonathan prior 2011.

Edwin Clark fails to answer some of the questions raised by OBJ, instead he was attacking the evil one (OBJ).

Shame less impostor who is the kunt?

Sloan: Senseless post! How does that erase the incompetence of this ill-luck government of Gaffeluck Jonathan?? What he is doing with the appointment is done in a lopsided way, but its still because he practically has no options! He is a retardeen and will sent back to Otuekwe ASAP!

Coming from a chief cry baby on this forum like you, one of your lies has been busted again.

i) The NSA in-charge of security in the whole country is Fuiani from Sokoto state.
if) The SGF is Ibo from Ebonyi State
iii) The Principal Secretary to the President is Fuiani from Adamawa
iv) The Commander, Brigade of guards is from Cross River
v) The ADC to the President is from Kogi
vi) His Speech writer is from Edo State, while the Senior Special Adviser on Media is Yoruba from Ogun State
vii)Chief of Staff to the President – Edo State
viii) Principal Secretary to President is Fulani
ix} The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Custom Service is Fulani from Katsina
x) The Chief of Air Staff is an Ibo from Kwara State;
xi) The Chief of Naval Staff is from Delta State
xii) The Chief of Defence Staff is from North
xiii) The Chief of Army Staff is Ibo from Abia
The Inspector-General of Police is Hausa
xiv) The Director-General of DSS is from Cross River
xv) The Director-General of Immigration Service is from Plateau State
xvi) The Director-General of NSCDC is Yoruba from Ogun
xvii) The Executive Secretary of PTDF is Yoruba from Ekiti
xviii) The Chairman of FERMA is Yoruba from Osun while the MD is Ibo from Delta
-xix) The GMD NNPC is from Kaduna State
xx) The Acting DG NTA is from Edo State
xxi) Director-General of Inland Waterways – from the North
xxii) The MD of NPA is Hausa Fulani
xxiii) The CBN Governor is Hausa/Fulani from Kano
xxiv) The FRSC Chairman is Ibo
xxv) The Director-General of NAFDAC is from Benue.
INEC Chairman is Hausa/Fulani from Kebbi
NDDC Chairman is Ibibio from Akwa Ibom State
Director-General National Orientation Agency is from Nasarawa State
The Economic Adviser to the President is Ibo.
The Chief of Protocol to Mr. President is a Yoruba man.


- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/open-letter-youre-trouble-maker-clark-lambasts-obj/#sthash.q6exDJgd.dpuf

kel4soft: With the derivation from Agriculture proceed accrued to them pre-state era i.e during regional government.

Why Awolowo was busy developing the Western and mid-western region with University and free education and creating institutions for them. Our so called leaders (Eastern region) then was busy collecting tax and oppressing the minorities (Ijaws, Ikwerres Efik etc). They made sure the minorities suffer. When my Grand Dad, a fisherman then, sail all day and night only for him to be apprehended by this selfish leaders at the shores for unnecessary tax without providing any amenities.

Awolowo helped in establishing the University of Ibadan in 1948, it took Azikiwe and Co more than 15years after to established a University in the eastern region, even later than Ahmadu Bello University.
They seized all our lands in Port Harcourt, imposing heavy fines on our people.

They (Zik and cronies) only developed the Igbo region ala Enugu. Citing all FG structures there. PH and the rest were left to the mercies of God. Untill Gowon created Rivers State in 1967. Your Azikiwe made sure the minorities suffered for been part of you people.
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Now you want us to join you to actualise Biafra, do you can resume your fore fathers stopped. No way! No way!

Never in your miserable life, ever say Awo developed the Midwestern region. Take your lies and impostor personality to hell.

Publish their names. Don't give us 70% are from the Nigerdelta nonsense. I want to see a list with peoples names.

mutiply: What's with you and the party? can't you err your mind without interfering it with the political party?

Oh, you have a problem with me calling the Kai slapper an APC man? In the same state where a GOV asked a road side vendor to go and die? You referred to bode in your comment, why him?