₦airaland Forum

The Nigeria Navy needs a big time shake down. The officer's core of this service has proven to be completely unprepared and lacking the will to combat terrorism in our waters. The daily harassment on the waterways must be stopped.

take dat: Infantile tantrums.

Nah you dive kota

take dat: Even though, unlike you I am not an ethnic jingoist. Let me remind you in case you have a short memory.

The Oghara people who organized aggressive protest marches to shield Ibori from the jaws of the EFCC are no longer Deltans? The same people who celebrated a jail bird's birthday in absentia. Delta is now a haven free of corruption, right?

You dealt with Lucky, Alams and Sylva? How? Through plea bargain, presidential pardon or cavalier prosecution Tell us the role you guys played in the get-out-of-jail cards offered to them? You are a clown!

You people are very good spin doctors. Bottom line, fix your house leakages before talking about mine. The only clowns are the pretentious breeds, {our most intelligent and sophisticated noisemakers}. Unfortunately, for them most people refuse to take them serious. Their noise are being ignored and Nigerians will keep ignoring their loud mouth nonsense.

take dat: And who is shaking or pushing your fragile frame? Is hypocrisy etched in your genetic make-up? When the misdeed of one of your own is being highlighted, it is then you remember that each region should 'worry about their respective political criminals' even when its known to all that you are excessively obsessed about the cabal of elite in the SW. I do not shy away from the fact that, we are being lorded by criminal elite who abound in all regions/ethnic groups.


Can you give us examples of how you have successfully dealt with your thieving public officials?

Take it or leave it, my state of delta, lead by deltans fought Ibori to standstill. When certain regions provided him safe haven. The same can be said for Edo with their ex gov, and Bayelsa. Fight corruption in your zone and worry less about other people's backyard. I want you and your e-warriors, to turn your energy on public officials from your neck of the woods.

The house of rep will hate getting involved in this matter. Entering the NDA comes with some basic qualifications. The first question that needs answer, how many northern Muslim applicants from the states in question met those qualifications. After the members of the house of rep see the raw numbers, they will simply close this investigation and go home. You cannot treat applicants applying to enter the NDA differently, it's not a unity school admission process.

take dat: We have many of them here also. Those whose line of defense is rested on the guilt of others, and those who label an individual involved in reckless expenditure as a victim of ethnic vendetta and witch hunt.

And you are the man free of bigotry? This is Nigeria, shake us, we will shake you, push us and we will push back. Enough of the noise making. Worry about the political criminals in your neck of woods, you are overrun with them. We can and have always dealt with our own public officials, when public funds are mismanaged. Can you say this for your zone/region

Nigeria’s Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Paul Botwev Orhii and some ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Wednesday escaped an air disaster that would have thrown the entire nation into another round of mourning.

The DG of NAFDAC and some ministers boarded an undisclosed Lagos-bound aircraft in Abuja, when at the point of departure the pilot suddenly announced that there were some technical hitches that would prevent take-off. The officials of the undisclosed aviation company provided another aircraft which could not take off at departure time due technical problems.

The top government officials were forced to contact the embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Odua, who then ordered that another aircraft be provided for them. However, at the point of departure, for the third time, the pilot told the already exhausted government officials that the technical snags on the third aircraft were worse than those of the previous two inoperative aircraft.

The NAFDAC DG Paul Orhii told this mind-boggling story himself on Wednesday at an interactive session between him and operators of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) at the Lagos State Chamber of Commerce ad Industry(LCCI) Conference and Exhibition Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. However, he did not disclose who the operators were, neither did he divulge the names of the ministers on board.

The DG told the story while explaining to stakeholders in commerce and industry, the reason for his late arrival at the session. The event was expected to begin at 10.30 am but BusinessDay checks showed the DG arrived at the venue few minutes before 1 pm.

‘’Please I want to start by apologising for being late. It is not in the character of NAFDAC to come late to events. What happened was that our first flight was about to take-off but the pilot suddenly announced that there was a slight problem.

‘’We boarded another aircraft. The door was closed and we were about to take-off. But the pilot also said there was a problem with the flight. I was with some ministers.

We disembarked but they said they were bringing another aircraft, but we asked them not to bother.

‘’Incidentally I called the Minister of Aviation who now asked them to provide another aircraft for us. But the door of the third aircraft was closed and our seat belts were already fastened when the pilot said the problem in that one was worse than the problems of the other two,’’ narrated Paul Orhii.

This story reinforces the worries of stakeholders and Nigerians that the country’s aviation sector needs total overhaul.

Fresh air is slowly blowing our way in delta.

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a N58.6 billion contract for the construction of ship building facilities and dockyard in Delta State.

Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, at the State House.

Umar said the contract was approved to end the huge capital flight in the procurement of ships by Nigerians from outside the country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

He said the project was also in line with the mandate of NIMASA under Section 22 (1k) of the enabling law of the agency.

The law provides that NIMASA shall develop and implement policies and programmes that will facilitate the growth of local capacities in ownership, manning and construction of ships and other maritime infrastructure.

Umar said that the contract was split into two; package one will cost N40.2 billion and package two will cost N18.4 billion.

He said package one of the contract would involve the provision of maritime equipments and structures, ancillary buildings and electro-mechanical works and facilities for the ship building facilities.

The second package of the project, he said, would involve the entire civil works and the infrastructure works for the facilities.

“We have a very serious dearth in the ship building capacity in the country and it is, therefore, imperative that we develop the facility in order to curtail the incessant capital flight that is being experienced by the Nigerian economy.

“Annually, we have to be acquiring vessels and ships outside the country which is telling on the economy.

“This project has the propensity to drive sustainable development and step up capacity building in the maritime sector of the economy.

“It will also help Nigeria to take its rightful place among the developed maritime nations across the world,’’ he said.

The minister said that upon completion, the shipyard facility would have the capacity for dry docking of ocean going vessels, which would be useful in the training of the cadets of the Maritime Academy of Nigeria.

He said presently the cadets were being sent out of the country for the training and it was causing the country huge amount of money.

Umar said that after the development of the facility, there would be a tripartite agreement between NIMASA, the contractor and the private sector to ensure sustenance of the facility.

The minister also disclosed that the FEC approved N274.9 million contracts for the consultancy services for the dredging of escravos, Warri, Aladja to Koko channel also in Delta.

“In our determination to ensure safe and navigable channels for the proposed dredging of the escravos, it became necessary to engage the services of reputable consultancy to carry out the necessary berth-metric study and other studies.

“The studies will also prepare the pre-contract document for the project implementation and look at the safety and environmental implications of the project.

“The studies will also impact on the proposed gas to energy revolution project of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources in Ogidigbe, Delta,’’ he said.

Umar said that the contract for the dredging of the escravos would be awarded in 2014 at the completion of the consultancy services contract.

The foundation that supports Wikipedia's volunteer editors announced this week that it is suspending more than 250 accounts accused of being paid "sock puppets" who may have manipulated articles on behalf of clients.

“It looks like it is manipulation on a scale and a level that we haven’t seen before in the encyclopedia,” Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation’s executive director told The Wall Street Journal. “There has never been an investigation of this scope, scale, duration and seriousness.”

In a post on the Wikimedia Foundation site, Gardner said they are currently assessing "all the options" to continue monitoring the situation.

"Editing-for-pay has been a divisive topic inside Wikipedia for many years, particularly when the edits to articles are promotional in nature," Gardner said. "Unlike a university professor editing Wikipedia articles in their area of expertise, paid editing for promotional purposes, or paid advocacy editing as we call it, is extremely problematic. We consider it a 'black hat' practice. Paid advocacy editing violates the core principles that have made Wikipedia so valuable for so many people."

The announcement is an unusual move for the online encyclopedia as Wikipedia prides itself on self-governing where the community will often weed out unattributed or biased edits to articles.

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www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/10/wikipedia-suspends-accounts-suspected-of-editing-

Rep. Matt Cartwright called Sen. Ted Cruz’s wisecrack that Nigerian scammers are running the Obamacare exchange website an appeal to “backward” people that make up the Texas senator’s base and believe the president is from Africa.
The Pennsylvania Democrat brought up Cruz’s remarks to a Houston crowd that all the Nigerian email scammers have been hired to run the website on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show.”



“Jokes about Nigerian scammers, you know, I wonder how much off the cuff that really was, and how calculated it was to appeal to Sen. Cruz’s base, many of whom believe that the president is from Africa,” Cartwright said on Tuesday.
Cartwright was discussing how moderate Republicans might feel their brand is damaged by people like Cruz, saying he thinks they would “cringe” at comments like that.
Asked by fill-in host Michael Eric Dyson why Republicans play to “implicit” racial tensions, Cartwright stopped short of affirmatively declaring the comments had a racist motivation, but said he suspected it.
“I don’t know that they’re doing that, Michael, but I will say that I suspect it. And whether they’re doing it on purpose, it does appeal to the people who think that way,” Cartwright said. “There are, you know, a lot of fairly backward people that are a part of the base of people like Sen. Cruz. And comments like that just are right up their alley.”

www.politico.com/story/2013/10/matt-cartwright-ted-cruz-nigerian-joke

Pretenders never change. Now they don't want a conference but a constitutional amendment. Give them a constitutional amendment, they will throw up another name.

The All Progressives Congress has said it will not participate in the planned national dialogue announced by President Goodluck Jonathan on October 1.

It hinged its decision on the fact that the “dialogue was nothing but a mere constitutional amendment process’’ which is already being carried out by the National Assembly.

This decision was taken at the party’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

It coincided with the Progressive Governors’ Forum’s threat to use all constitutional means, including legal action, to compel the Federal Government to pay all shortfalls in allocations to the 36 states of the federation.

Some of the governors elected on the platform of the party were also at the meeting, which was also attended by a former governor of Lagos State, Aswiaju Bola Tinubu.

Briefing journalists after the meeting, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the planned conference as diversionary.

Besides, he said the Federal Government lacked credibility to organise such a conference.

Mohammed said, “What we see today is that this government has lost focus; it has lost credibility, it has lost control of the economy.

Insecurity and corruption have attained an uncontrollable proportion and at this point in time, this government lacks the credibility to organise a meaningful national conference.

“In any event, we see this thing as nothing but a diversion and what are we talking about a national conference for when even the President(Dr. Goodluck Jonathan) himself has said the outcome of the conference would be subjected to the approval of the National Assembly?

“So, what we really have to do is a constitutional amendment, not a national conference and we shall not be a party to that.”

Asked to be categorical whether the party was going to boycott the conference, Mohammed said, “There is no issue of boycotting. I have put it clear to you: this is diversionary.

“If it is a clear or meaningful national dialogue, we will participate, but this isn’t. The President himself has said whatever is discussed will be subjected to National Assembly. So, what you are having is a constitutional amendment.”

Tinubu, who had spoken against the conference when he returned from a medical trip abroad recently, did not speak with journalists after the meeting.

He simply walked away when Mohammed was speaking with journalists.

Also on Tuesday, the PGF rose from a short meeting in Abuja with a threat to employ all constitutional means, including going to court, if the Federal Government failed to pay up all outstanding allocations to the states.

One of the governors said, “When we mentioned constitutional means, it also means going to court if need be.”

Members of the forum had at the meeting discussed several issues, including the dwindling federal allocation to the states.

The meeting was attended by Governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Rauf Aregbesola (Osun); Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo); Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe); and Rochas Okorocha(Imo). The governor of Borno State Kashim Shettima was represented by his deputy, Zannah Mustapha and The governors of Lagos, Edo, Zamfara, Ogun and Nasarawa states, did not send representatives.

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, was said to be attending an event in Lagos where his Lagos State counterpart, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), was also said to be present.

The other governors were said to have travelled out of the country.

The meeting, which was held at the Ekiti State Governor’s Lodge located at Asokoro, Abuja was brief.

Fayemi, who briefed journalists after the meeting, said the time had come for the governors to employ all constitutional means to deal with the several deductions from the states’ monthly allocations.

He added that they were no longer comfortable with the way the Federal Government was treating them on the matter.

Fayemi said, “We discussed issues that are pertinent to national finance, particularly the Federation Account Allocation Committee work.

“We have come to a critical juncture as far as FAAC discussions have gone over the last three months.

“You aren’t unaware of what has been going on; you are also aware of what our finance commissioners have had to do in removing themselves from the meetings of FAAC and we continue to insist that we condemn the illegal and unconstitutional deductions.

“Averagely, all our states lost 40 per cent of their normal earnings in the last two to three months from the FAAC and we believe this isn’t defensible in any way.”

He said that the benchmark that the National Assembly agreed for 2013 budget was still very realistic because there was no time from January till now that oil has sold for anything less than $105 per barrel.

Fayemi said that even at some particular time, oil sold for $110 per barrel.

“So, there is still no basis for the kind of incomplete allocations to the states in this regard and we have decided to take appropriate constitutional measures in order to tackle this flagrant abuse of the Constitution of Nigeria and the Appropriation Act, particularly of the National Assembly,” he added.

Also speaking , Okorocha said the APC governors condemned the conduct of the Delta Central Senatorial election.

He claimed that its outcome might be a prelude to the conduct of the 2015 general election.

The governor added that the meeting demanded a fresh election in Oguta Federal Constituency in Imo State, since the previous one was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He said that for the past two years, the people of the zone had been denied representation by INEC.

Okorocha said, “We are very much concerned about the danger posed by the recent election in Delta State and we condemn in this respect, that that wasn’t an election at all.

“The reports that we have received so far show that it was mere manipulation of the entire electoral process and we are worried that this poses a great danger to the 2015 elections.

“From what we are seeing, we must stand up to those things now or Nigerians might pay a bigger price for it in 2015.”


www.punchng.com/news/apc-to-boycott-national-dialogue

What can I say. This woman full ground remain.

Maybe we will go with Ghana. We have our Midwest, SS or Nigerdelta republic. Yorubas NEVER

A typical Delta pidgin goes this way:“Play play naim de turn to eat and go”. The Delta Central Senatorial by- election which took place on October 12, 2003 turned out to be such that most people in Delta felt the APC, a party that had nothing on ground and the DPP decided to change the fortune of the Urhobo Nation by coming back in their droves to vote PDP and reclaim the glory which the PDP lost narrowly in 2011 to DPP.
I knew and told anyone that cared to listen after the unfortunate demise of Senator Pius Ewherido, a former PDP man, who joined the opposition DPP and literally ran away with the Delta Central Senatorial seat, that PDP would win back the temporarily lost mandate. For one, in Delta, the PDP’s goodwill and love by the people has remained intact.
One could see how odd it looked with the lone Senator in the Red Chambers representing a major ethnic group. Recall that the Urhobos were calling on the Federal Government’s attention to the seeminglymarginalised plight of the Urhobos .
This time around, to retake what belonged to the PDP by virtue of its popularity, the Urhobo Nation spoke as One-Man, in very loud voice to proclaim their “Ovuovoness” and common destiny by emphatically voting in a Tsunami style, reminiscent of the 2012 flood by giving the PDP 263,024 votes to defeat eight other candidates.
The PDP won in all the eight local government areas in the Senatorial district; indeed it was PDP all the way as it moved fast like a train ready to crush any obstacle on its path.
Though the victory was predictable, a lot of zeal had gone into its execution as the PDP leadership ensured that they were not taken for a ride a second time. With the kind of scenario playing out in some parts of the country where some seven rebelling governors had the effrontery to test the will, authority and determination of the ruling PDP, Delta State,with Governor Uduaghan, a staunch supporterof President Goodluck Jonathan, the least expected of him was to overrun all the opponents even in their strong holds and bedrooms. And permanently erase or wipe any traces of the opposition in Delta where PDP is the only party standing.
As expected, the losers have given several excuses why they lost out, alleging that the election was rigged and characterised by massive fraud. We know that in Nigeria, people do not accept defeat at the polls, especially when a party that was registered two months ago like APC was expecting miracles to happen and record victory on a platter of gold. They wrongly described the election as a sham and alleging impunity and violence.
For Dafinone: “We are here to tell the world that the people of Delta Central were denied the right to choose a Senator of their own choice” (whatever this means).
Emerhor, the APC candidate, said: “I hereby place it on record that no bye election took place in Delta Central on October 12, 2013. What took place was a sham calculated to select a Senator.” What do we make of this?
The APGA candidate is moving to the court with his team of lawyers. These reactions are also too familiar and Delta PDP had witnessed several election tribunal cases and had won them all. These threats would not be different and the Governor is ever so prepared to take them all in his stride.
Uduaghan’s tradition after winning an election is usually to church to give praises to the Almighty. It was not different this time as he said that it was the power of God that “the PDP regained its lost territory in the state which is Delta Central Senatorial District. The victory is worth celebrating as some parties had even written petitions … while the election was going on, claiming there was no election in the state.”
He urged Chief Emmanuel Aguawariavwodo to give effective representation to his people and attract democracy dividends to the state.
For the PDP State Chairman, Chief Peter Nwoboshi, the oracle turned miracle, told the opposition party leadership in this frank response to the DPP chairman: “I do not want to respond to unfounded allegations by the losing parties”. He pointedly told the DPP Chairman, Chief Eseagwu that: “He is not even a political party chairman because he was not elected by any congress. You are journalists, go and find out.”
[b]Peter Nwoboshi, a lawyer said that by the provisions of the Electoral Act, the DPP with Ezeagwu and APC do not have any party chairmen in the state but the PDP did not want to rely on technicality to knock their parties out of the polls. Its votes speak of its general and broad acceptance anyway.
“And that was why we said let us go to the polls and prove who is who,” I can recall Nwoboshi saying.
The outcome of the by-election has again proved beyond doubt that Dr. Uduaghan is not just a true Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, but also as a task master of the art of winning elections. This he did by pushing back what I would call a band of OPC mercenaries from OduduwaRepublic with a mixture of some miscreants from Edo and Abiku enclaves. Governor Uduaghan has sent a very strong message to the invading political merchants who mistook Delta for EdoState and believed that they could re-enact Tinubu’s and Buhari’s party in DeltaState.
For turning them back to their zones, the Governor has proved that he is solely in charge in DeltaState and would not brook all any rubbish from those trying to use brooms to sweep themselves into power.[/b]
‘Delta No dey Carry Last’.
So, what the opposition have been told, in their numbers and quantity, and not necessarily quality, and also in very emphatic terms through the bye election in Delta Central, is that 2015 will have a similar show of PDP supremacy in the governorship poll and all other elections, including the council poll.
The senatorial bye electionsis a dress rehearsal; the biggest is coming and what would hit the opponents in 2015 will be a bomb shell- a political equivalent of Hiroshima where a nuclear bomb was dropped off by the Americans during World War Two.
I have spoken with stakeholders and the people and all they are saying is: Welcome, Aguawariavwodo Emmanuel, relate well in Abuja and keep all the election promises. THE PEOPLE TRUST YOU!

BY WILLIAM BOZIMO a veteran journalist, wrote from Asaba, Delta State
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/urhobos-senatorial-tsunami

That all the Itsekiri land and ancestralterritories in Delta and
Edo States which have been taken at gun point must bereturned
to Itsekiri and compensation paid.[quote]What land are you talking about You mean the land you almost stole from Urhobos and Ijaws

Ibadan – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, said the army had commenced massive recruitment to tackle the security challenge in the country.
Ihejirika said this while opening a five-day seminar organised by the army’s Department of Civil-Military Affairs at the 2 Div. Odogbo, Ibadan on Monday.
“I have commenced the recruitment of 9,000 persons in our various training institutions’’, Ihejirika said.
The COAS, represented by Maj. Gen. John Ewansiha, said the objective of the seminar was to foster better working relations with civil society organisations toward winning hearts and minds.
Ihejirika reiterated the intention of the army to train and retrain its officers in order to meet the security challenge of the country.
“Indeed, the Nigerian army is currently occupied with domestic challenges in several parts of the country, especially in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States’’, he said.
The Chief of Civil-Military Affairs, Maj. Gen. Bola Koleoso, said the seminar was part of the quests to resolve the crisis currently facing the nation.
“As we all know, the civil society organisations stand for the defence of human rights everywhere as well as in crisis situations.
“The military aims at defeating insurgents as well as protecting law-abiding citizens’’, he said.
Gov. Abiola Ajimobi, who was the guest of honour, stressed the need for constant engagement and discussion between the civil and military publics.
“The modus operandi of the military is force; obedience to order and immediacy of that obedience. The modus operandi of the civil public is persuasion and constant engagement, which takes time“, he said.
Ajimobi said the task of such relationship should thus be how to bring the two publics together to pursue same agenda for the democratic vision of the nation.
“The Nigerian civil public cannot afford to stand aloof from the military.
“Since independence, the military has fought wars toward the sustenance of Nigeria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“It has lost thousands of its men who are martyrs of the peace and nationhood we enjoy today.
“We cannot but support the military in its quest to protect the nation and her territorial borders’’, the governor said.
The theme of the seminar is: “Consolidating Civil Society Organisations/Military Relations for Improved National Security.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/army-begins-massive-recruitment-ihejirika

hercules07: Bad loans to herself which wiped out both depositors fund and shareholders fund, my brother she stole just like akingbola.

Bad loans my ass, that was the joker to destroy the bank. Who owns that bank today.

hercules07: Em she stole and had to be bailed out, please what is the name of the third party.

What did she steal?? she made bad loans secured with papers, that lost value with the market meltdown.

vire: you are a dreamer....the line they sold to you is really hooking your throat ......if you dont know i am urohobo too so i know them wella.....you think say na beans to be former Governor and wont get kick backs and use ur connections to pull strings.....even Dangote they lie to you as the cleanest money in Nigeria and africa has in hands in poo......all business men know what i mean.....

You cannot even spell your tribe, please take your lies to hell

Magic Bishop: Aero is not owned by Cecilia Ibru but by the Ibru family who never made a dime from government.

Cecilia Ibru messed up in managing Oceanic and Sanusi used the heavy hammer on Aero because they were extended loans by her.

This led to Aero nearly going under due to liquidity problems

Cecilia Ibru was just destroyed for Oceanic bank. Ibrus come from Old money Nigeria.

How old is this OP

emiye: You either open a thread on uduaghwan achievements or keep shut.

I wont entertain you any further.

Bloody ediot, did I ever address your stupid rear end.You are suffering from serious inferior complex. Take your junk to somebody else.

emiye: If i tell you to post pictures of achievements of Delta state governor with six(6) times the budget of Ekiti state and has been governor for close to 7 years, you will chicken out.

Shove your delta state to your asss.

Are you high on some cheap Ekiti Indian hemp or what Mind yourself and sell your rotten products to your fellow APC e-rats

One of the reason, I like Nairaland, people are compelled to post pictures of their so called achievement. I hereby forgive and offer a public apology to the chairman of Ughelli south local government area. For all the insults and arguments, we have had together.You have done well compared to this pictures from Ekiti state.

Begging my foot, send koboko their way. How was the Power Plant .

The Nigeria Police authorities may soon begin a clampdown on ad hoc security formations put in place by some state governments, citing the example of Rivers State where an Israeli organisation has been contracted to provide protection by the state government.

The trend, which security sources described as alarming and dangerous, had degenerated to the extent that these private guards had assumed the functions and responsibilities of the police in some of these states.

Investigations conducted by Sunday Tribune revealed that there were no less than 20 of such organisations in the country that had usurped the functions of the police. The police, it was said, were worried that many of these organisations did not get approval for their operations.

The source revealed that the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, recently sent signals to all zonal Assistant Inspectors General and state commands’ Commissioners of Police to clamp down on such illegal organisations usurping the functions of the police.

It was also gathered that in some states, members of such organisations assumed the functions of controlling the traffic and arresting vehicles.

A top police source gave an instance of what was happening in Rivers State where it was alleged that the embattled Governor Rotimi Amaechi had secured the services of an Israeli security agency to assist him in the provision of security in the state.

This development, the sources revealed, was due to the face-off between the governor and the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mbu Joseph Mbu, whereby the Police Commissioner no longer took orders from the governor.

However, the controversy is whether or not the Israeli organisation was operating under the supervision of the police, which is yet to be cleared.

A top police officer, however, disclosed to Sunday Tribune that the police were yet to get confirmation on whether it was the Federal Government that gave permission for the Israeli agency to provide security in Rivers State.

The source added that if it was the government that gave the approval, then, the Israeli agency would be made to operate under police supervision. But should the answer prove otherwise, members of the Israeli security agency, he threatened, would be arrested and charged to court.

Efforts to get the police side of the situation proved abortive. But Sunday Tribune gathered authoritatively, that the police hierarchy was getting worried about the trend of individual organisations carrying out police functions in some of the states and would soon move against them.

INNO18: just heard on NTA that jonathan would be 'escorted' to the Holy land with 19 Christian Governors! This is preposterous to say the least, why does foreign travel always have to be a jamboree with him? That's more than Half the Administrators we have in Nigeria, not to talk of the ministers,reps,senators and co that would equally 'escort'him with them.
This is so not right!

Nigeria has 19 christian govs?

0lumide: I'm laughing at you silly.


Should Lagos also start using the port without paying? all revenues from MMA henceforth should go to Lagos state alone. No more payments to the center..

Wait? So you are openly admitting that there is oil theft of 600k/day scale going on? ok.. I will save this for when you try to lie that GEJ is performing.

600,000 and counting. Nobody steals what belongs to them. Lagos does not own the seaport and airport. Oil money built MMA in the 70s and expanded Apapa port. Build your own seaports and airports in Lekki as you have been promising for 10years , then you can keep, whatever monies you make there.

0lumide: OK.... can you tell me what is stopping Jonathan from sending a resource control bill to the SENATE?

WHY?

Fool you think you have just spoken? You are one hell of a tailless cow with cholera infecting flies blocking your sight and mouth. So all you acknowledge to see as truth is of utmost disgust and all you spew out your mouth is disease you can only infect those who never took their shots of quality education during childhood.

Jonah will not send any bill anywhere. We don't need any bill to control our resource. We are already exporting, almost 600,000 barrels per day. When more capacity is added, we will export more. Just ask your states how many trillions they are no more getting. Just sit and watch. Your cowardly infested DNA will learn a lesson for ages to come