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0lumide: loool SS money is now SE money? lmao!! Ans to shave off your dirty beards, oil revenue is lower compared to what other sources of income [provide for Nigeria.


So go and die mr man. We have told you to tell Jonathan to allow resource control but he won't!

Resource control and we will know who is who in Nigeria. What is stopping your lame duck Joe from sending a resource control bill to the senate? what is? oooohhhhh I get it.... He doesn't give a damn even about his people..

You people with your group thinking “hysterical delusional affirmation,” and “delusional synergy.” You are suffering from suspension of logical intellectual processes with a selective consideration of only confirmatory input. Paranoid people like your lots typically experience ideas of influence and control where they believe that they see things that others cannot. This process is often propelled by delusions of grandeur, quite often messianic in nature.”

You need this hell hole Nigeria more than I do.

Mylove55: he is not hiding,but running to aso rock in 2015,because Gej has eye but can't see what is under his nose,i wil vote 4 edward,because he knows how to see even with his eye close,i need somebody like dat to be d next in aso rock,what about u?

VOTE FOR EDWARD AND HIS BROTHER ALL YOU WANT. MY HOUSEHOLD WILL BREATHE FRESH AIR TILL 2019

Now my people are getting smart. Please buy more vessels. Na our money.

Good, he can run but he cannot hide.

Mr McJay: When GEJ was washing plates in Turai's kitchen, Bakare, Falana, Aturu, Soyinka and others were shouting themselves hoarse. Where were your people? Now that he is there, we have now turned to 'Yoruba noisemakers'?

All of you are coming here to beg for votes in 2015. Arent you? We go meet for Lagos.

MY PEOPLE WERE PAYING THEIR BILLS TO KEEP THEM SHOUTING. BEG FOR VOTES FROM WHOM. RUBBISH .

The minster will only wax stronger and strong in her position. All the town criers can keep wailing.

This man has done the minster a favor. If the cost in the US is N96M. Then Stella has done nothing wrong. The Nigerian supplier must make profit and pay taxes including all the duties. Please Dino should give us the finally numbers. If the car cost N96M in the United states.

WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING IN GOVERNMENT

Can this nPDP members finally commit mass suicide

An Abuja High Court on Friday ordered the Kawu Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party to desist from parading itself as a parallel faction of the ruling party.
The court also recognised the Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee of the party as the authentic leadership of the party.
Mr. Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC, who were elected at the Special National Convention on August 31, had instituted the case seeking to restrain Mr. Baraje and two others from parading themselves as executive members of the party.
The others are the factional deputy National Chairman, Sam Jaja, and factional National Secretary, Olagunsoye Oyinlola. A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who is a member of the faction, was also joined in the suit.
The ruling by the court came a week after a High Court sitting in Lagos dismissed a suit filed by the Baraje faction against the Bamanga Tukur-led leadership of the party.
Justice Adefope Okojie dismissed the suit on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter because it originated outside its territorial jurisdiction.
The Baraje faction had approached the court on September 1 , asking it to restrain Mr. Tukur and three other officials of his faction- namely Uche Secondus, Kema Chikwe, and Olisa Metuh, who are the Deputy National Chairman, Woman Leader, and National Publicity Secretary respectively, from parading themselves as national officers of the party.
The decision of the Lagos court followed the preliminary objection filed by counsels to Mr. Tukur- Joe Kyari-Gadzama, and Emeka Etiaba.
Both Counsels argued that the writs of summons did not comply with the mandatory requirements of Section 97 of the Sheriff and Civil Process Act because they were not endorsed.
However, counsel to Mr. Baraje and two other officials of his faction, Robert Emukpaeruo, in his reply to the objection, argued that the court had jurisdiction to entertain the suit.
Justice Okojie, however, stated in her ruling that even Mr. Baraje and his group had claimed in their affidavit that the course of action, which was the special national convention of the PDP, arose in Abuja.
The judge said the PDP had its registered office in Abuja and that none of the defendants was resident in Lagos State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had also on October 2nd turned down the request by the Kawu Baraje faction to recognise its National Working Committee, NWC, as the authentic leadership of the ruling party.
The Commission, in a letter to the factional National Secretary, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, said it would not withdraw recognition of the National Working Committee, NWC, led by Bamanga Tukur, as the authentic leadership of the PDP because it monitored the conventions that produced it.


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WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING WITH ALL THAT BILLIONS FROM IGRs

LAGOS — CAPITAL projects are on hold in many states due to disagreements between the Federal and state governments over remittance of financial allocation due the states.
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, lamented the cash crunch in the state saying the delay in remittances by the Federal Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, has continued to take its toll on completion of some major projects in the state. Though a few state governments have struggled to pay salaries ostensibly to avoid conflict with organised labour, the same cannot be said of local governments where employees are being owed salaries.
Even states which have paid have not been able to to pay when due. Consequently, salaries have been delayed. The disagreement between the state governors and the Federal Government cut across party lines, as governors of the President’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have also been loud in their objection to the financial allocation from the Federal Government.

Vanguard investigations showed that although some state governments have been able to pay employees, they are indebted to contractors.
Lagos: Governor Babatunde Fashola whose state is the commercial nerve centre of the country said though his government has recorded 70 per cent in the third quarter’s performance of its 2013 budget, “there is a lot of work that have been completed that we have not paid for. The core reason for that is the revenue shortfall we have been experiencing and delay in revenue that is coming from the Federal Government”.

*Fashola
while briefing the media on the quarterly review of budget performance at Alausa, Ikeja, yesterday said, the performance represented a slight dip in the overall aggregate of 72 per cent mid-year to 71 per cent. He said, “I think over two months now (between August and September), the FAAC payment did not come on time. The augmentation also did not come on time. As far as I am aware, not all of it has probably come from last report that I got. So, it distorts our plans.

Is 400,000 barrels of oil stolen every month?
“We hope that things will look upward and positive in the final quarter. We expect that as a country, we cannot continue to have this distortion in revenue collection and projection where the largest source of revenue comes from a single item. If we are reporting some of the excuses that we heard, 400,000 barrels of oil is being stolen. The story does not change. Some of the questions really are: Is it a fixed amount of oil being stolen every month? Even if oil thieves do not change, is it still the same amount? We need to look at this thing more rigorously.
“I am happy to report that most of the infrastructure projects are making progress. Roads are being completed in Epe, Ajah, Agege and Ajao. The Ajao link bridge has been completed now. We have completed the Iju road by-pass from Capitol Road. Road works are going inside Ikeja GRA, already approaching completion. Drainage works, primary health centre, cardiac and renal centre in Gbagada as well as new schools have been completed.
“There is a lot of progress in terms of capital works, and service efficiency is improving. Today, we are going to commission our power plant in Alausa. We are going to hand over a primary healthcare centre in Oregun. These are the projects completed in the third quarter. In delivery terms, I am satisfied. In number terms, revenue shortfalls do not enable us to pay. As the payment comes now, they may have grown into the fourth payment.

“Budget is expenditure and revenue. If you do not earn it, you cannot spend it. It affects everybody, but of course in varying degree. If you look at it, our dependence on statutory allocation as a state is not as high as the dependence of other states. Even then, what it simply means is that if the commissioners of finance, who go to Abuja, do not agree to accounts and remittances, it means money can not be transferred.
“During that period, we did not have strike here in Lagos that salaries were not paid. What it simply means is that we use revenue from our IGR that we should have used to pay contractors to keep the public service going. And of course, when the payment comes back, we will come and pay later. So, that distorts so many things. In some cases, we had to go for short borrowing if we did not have cash. We do not keep cash really in reserve. Everything is planned against expectation and commitment that we have made. It creates distortion and sometimes increases our deficit, because if we borrow, we pay some interest.

Allegation of theft of crude oil doesnt make sense
“The question really to ask is where are these shortfalls coming from? Where is this theft coming from? Is it the local crude oil that we should refine for consumption that is being stolen? If that is it, interestingly there has been no fuel queue in the country recently. It does not make sense to me. If it is what we sell for exports, I am not aware also that we have breached any of our agreements with our major buyers. There is no reported incident because those are things that should be reported at the FAAC meeting. They should be able to tell at the FAAC meeting that because we did not sell this, that is why we did not have this money. There are questions we will be taking up at the appropriate forum. It is just important that we get our hands off this and take ourselves as serious.”

Abia: In Abia State, government sources confirmed that “the failure of FAAC to fulfill its financial obligations to the federating units is actually affecting the state. As a result, the state has been experiencing some financial hiccups. It has led to salaries of the state workers being delayed. Also, government activities have generally slowed down with Governor Theodore Orji and his officials limiting themselves to running the government with internally generated revenue.


In Delta where the state has also paid its civil servants up to date as confirmed by state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan had complained loudly about the financial allocation.
In his address at a lecture marking the second anniversary of the fifth Assembly of the Delta State House of Assembly, tagged ‘Legislative Issues in Fiscal Federalism in Nigeria’, Governor Uduaghan lamented that “States have to go to Abuja and struggle and beg for what is due to them. I am sure many of you know my thought on the issue of fiscal federalism especially as somebody from the oil producing area.”

Senator Liyel Imoke of Cross River State at Government House.
Cross River: Governor Liyel Imoke in a letter to the state House of Assembly stated that “arising from shortages in projected revenue, certain revisions have been proposed for some capital projects and programmes to enhance the completion of some critical projects as some of these projects/programmes have been for upward/downward adjustments. Expenditure on infrastructure was slashed from N800m to N700m while the rural electrification projects were also slashed from N3bn to N750m.”
Although the state has been able to pay salaries regularly, it has been unable to to meet its financial obligations in the last three months. Consequently, the Cross River State government has been compelled to review the 2013 annual budget and also requested the State House of Assembly to release N800 million from the State Emergency Reserve funds.

Cross River not broke, though facing cash challenges

A source at the state treasury told Vanguard, yesterday, that though the State may not be said to be “broke in the sense of the word, but we are experiencing very severe cash challenges and many obligations are not being fulfilled by the state because of the short fall in allocation from the Federal Government.”

Governor Imoke in his letter to the state House of Assembly noted that, printing of revised secondary education textbooks was slashed from N300m to N200m. He said, while “comprehensive renovation of 40 primary schools was also reviewed downwards from N900m to N650m and comprehensive renovation of 60 secondary schools was slashed from N750m to N250m. The governor also urged the State Assembly to approve a request for the release of N800 million from the State Emergency Reserve Funds to expedite work at the State Polytechnic under construction at Ugep, in the central senatorial district of the state.
Yobe: The state commissioner for finance, Alhaji Kaigama Umar has said that despite delay by the Federation Allocation Accounts Committee, FAAC, in meeting up its obligation to states of the federation, the state government has been meeting up its financial obligation to the people.


Plateau: Core civil servants who do not have any problem during the recently concluded biometric staff audit have been paid their salaries up to September. The state Commissioner for Information and Communication,Yiljap Abraham, said, “Naturally, the non disbursement of federal funds affects all aspects of cashflow such as salaries and wages, contractual obligations, handling of security problems and the smooth running of government at all levels.”
Sad as the situation may be, Yiljap added, “Governor Jonah Jang has always ensured prudent management of state resources. However, the situation is not the same in all the local governments as four local governments have defaulted in staff salaries. A source said, “Jos North is owing us, I think Bokkos, Mangu and one other which I’m not so sure are also owing.”
Another civil servant said, “Some people have not collected from August till now. We don’t know if it has anything to do with allocation since we are used to not getting our salary monthly. We are believing God will touch their hearts to remember us.” Meanwhile, one of the sole administrators in a local government area who spoke on condition of anonymity said, “we are going for a meeting today. I don’t want to preempt the outcome of the meeting but I believe the issue of salaries at the local government will soon be resolved.”


Kogi: The failure of FAAC to fulfill its financial obligations to the federating units caused delay in the September salary payment in the State. Unlike before when civil servants receive their salaries between 26th and 28th of the month; this time the State workers had to wait till the second week of October before receiving alerts.


Osun: The state government has paid its workers their salaries and other emoluments till date despite the short fall in the allocation from the federation account. State Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Dr. Wale Bolorunduro, told our correspondent in Osogbo, yesterday, that the state government was able to pay its workers till date because it had made contigency arrangement for it.
Bolorunduro said the Aregbesola administration on assumption of office had been setting aside certain percentage of revenue accruable to the state on a monthly basis to take care of the ‘raining days’. The Special Saving tagged: ‘Omoluwa Trust Fund,’ he said, was part of what the government was using to augment whatever the state collected from the federation account and the internally generated revenue.


Next week’s FEC to address cash shortfalls
The commissioner, however, warned that if the situation did not improve, the state might run into crisis as the Special Fund was being depleted on monthly basis because of the shortfall on the revenue allocation to the state. He said that one of the major issues to be discussed at next week’s Federal Economic Council, FEC, meeting in Abuja would centre on the issue of these short falls.

Anambra: Salaries of workers in AnambraState up to date and workers in the state have received their September salary, though it came later than the usual end of the month.

Gov Obi
However, officials of the state ministry of finance say it was not as a result of non availability funds, but due to internal logistics. The state governor, Mr. Peter Obi, said recently that the state government had saved enough money to pay its workers even if the Federation Allocation did not come in three months.
Benue:

Findings by Vanguard in Makurdi showed that the state government had been up to date with the payment of salaries and wages of its workforce despite the inability of the Federal Allocation Account Committee, FAAC, to credit the state government with its full mandatory monthly allocation. However, despite the payment of workers salaries, civil servants in the state were faced with an unusual delayed payment of their salaries in the last two months unlike what obtained in the past when salaries were paid before a month ran out.

Wage bill offset from unusual sources
A source at the Benue State Ministry of Finance who preferred anonymity told Vanguard that the state government sourced funds from unusual sources to be able to offset the wage bill of it workers in the last few months. The source said, “You know that Benue is a civil service state and the government could not afford to delay the payment of worker salaries beyond a particular period. That prompted the decision of the state government to source funds elsewhere to ensure the payment of salaries which gulps over eighty percent of whatever comes in.”
Vanguard recalls that at last month’s ministerial press briefing, organised by the Benue State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Makurdi, the Benue Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Omadachi Oklobia, had revealed that commissioners of finance from states of the Federation were compelled to walk out of that month’s FAAC meeting because the committee failed to meet the financial allocation to states.


Oyo: It has been really difficult to pay workers’salaries since the FAAC has failed to give states the required funds.

Gov Ajimobi
Though Governor Abiola Ajimobi has dissolved his cabinet, one of his aides who said he did not get the nod of the governor admitted that paying workers’ salaries has been a tug of war.
He said: “We have not been finding it easy to pay our workers. You know, workers would not just understand. We have to get money by any means to settle them.”
Speaking on the incident, the Oyo State Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Bashir Olanrewaju, said it was unfortunate that something like this was happening.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/cash-crunch-capital-projects-hold-stateS

How was business in that location, can the new buyer see your books.

By staying where they are. They only cause trouble here.

There are loser and there are sore losers. Take your hate to the polls in 2015 and see how far it get you people. Most of the haters are just suffering from serious self esteem issues.

What is really happening in this country

Following the successful privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria’s (PHCN) 10 distribution companies (Discos) and five generation companies (Gencos), development finance institutions (DFIs) and Nigerian banks are increasingly keen to mobilise funding for prospective buyers of the assets of the 10 new National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs), BusinessDay has learnt.

The 10 new plants being built by the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) have capacity to generate 4,774 megawatts of electricity. At an estimate of $1.2 million per megawatt, the sale of an 80 percent equity stake by the Federal Government to core investors will amount to about $4.5 billion.

It would be recalled that in June 2013, the NDPHC, owners of the NIPP assets, ran a series of road shows in Lagos, London, New York and Hong Kong to generate interest in the sale of the power plants.

The recent privatisation exercise which has been described as “a big bang” has whetted the appetite of DFIs like International Finance Corporation (IFC), Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), African Development Bank, Proparco, Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft and Dutch development bank, FMO, BusinessDay investigations have shown.

DFIs are alternative finance institutions that play crucial role in providing finance to the private sector for investments that promote development and help companies to invest, especially in developing countries. Already, Nigerian commercial banks provided the lion share of the financing required by buyers of the PHCN successor companies, whose physical handover is expected anytime soon.

The acquisition of the companies, which was recently concluded with the payment of the 75 percent balance of the bid prices on August 21, generated over $2.7 billion for the government.

“There is keen interest from DFIs to invest in power projects in Nigeria. The expectation is that the local commercial banks will continue to play their part and I think what we need to look for is a situation where the appropriate party is taking the appropriate risk,” said Femi Akinrebiyo, senior investment officer and power sector country coordinator for Nigeria and Ghana, IFC.

According to him, the DFI community can lend for much longer tenure; commercial banks have limitations in the sense that they mobilise short-term funding, and if they are going to be lending to infrastructure projects, it requires long-term financing. “So this is where the DFI community comes in,” he added.

Olivier Follin, country manager of Proparco, who spoke at FBN Capital Project and Infrastructure Finance Conference recently, said there was no competition between DFIs and commercial banks as the capital requirement for the power assets financing was huge.

“It is about risk sharing. That is why you would hardly find any of the PHCN assets that were financed solely by one bank. Even the DFIs have a posture that requires that they include local commercial banks. There are certain kinds of risks and tenures which they can bridge that commercial banks may find a little bit challenging, not in terms of funds, but tenures,” Samuel Egube, corporate banking director, Diamond Bank, said, noting that the NIPP plants are technically easier to finance because they are new and strategically located, and that Nigerian banks would still have the interest to support the acquisition, just as they did during the sale of PHCN assets.

Egube added that since banking is a competitive environment and to the extent that there is healthy competition, various banking institutions would look for the best possibilities. “So to that extent, they will position themselves to have the best. There is sectoral limitations internally set by each bank, and that will determine how aggressive they will play and how they will diversify their risks within the sector,” he said.

Ayodele Oni, an energy law and policy expert and senior associate in the law firm, Banwo & Ighodalo, gave reasons why DFIs and local banks are interested in the 10 power plants.

“The reasons for such interest would include the success recorded so far in the privatisation of the PHCN power companies, despite the attendant challenges, especially since those challenges are unlikely to be encountered in relation to the NIPP plants,” he said.

Oni added that all of the NIPP plants are new plants without any liabilities or labour issues as are being encountered with the PHCN power companies, saying he believes these prospective financiers would have done their due diligence and are convinced about the state of the plants.

“It is also pertinent to note that the Federal Government of Nigeria, under the leadership of President (Goodluck) Jonathan, has shown a lot of political will in seeing the reforms in the power sector through. Apart from the foregoing, the gap in electricity demand, particularly where everything else is right, gives sufficient hope that the transactions in relation to the NIPP plants are bankable,” he said.

NDPHC recently announced the decision to sell 80 percent in the 10 power plants, which was informed by government’s intention to involve private sector operators who have the technical know-how to run the plants in an efficient manner.

About two weeks ago, the 434MW-capacity Geregu II plant, one of the NIPP assets, was commissioned by President Jonathan in Kogi State, where he indicated that the privatisation of the plants would be concluded before the end of first quarter (Q1) of next year.

The NIPP generation portfolio comprises 10 gas-fired power plants with a combined design capacity in excess of 5,453MW at ISO conditions and 4,774MW (net) with each of the power plants incorporated as a subsidiary company of NDPHC.

The 10 generation plants include Gbarain (225MW), Ihovbor (451MW), Omotosho (500MW), Egbema (338MW), Omoku (250MW), Geregu (434MW), Calabar (561MW), Ogorode (Sapele 451MW), Alaoji (961MW), and Olorunsogo (676MW).

Nigeria is targeting 40,000MW generating capacity by 2020 and will need to spend about $10 billion annually for the next 10 years to achieve this.

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By Ochereome Nnanna

Few companies can boast of playing the partnership role that construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, has played in the infrastructural development of Nigeria. The advent of this company of German origin (which was originally a specialist in bridge building, and hence the moniker of its disbanded football team as “the Bridge Boys”) reads like a Cinderella story.
In August 1965, the Federal Government, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and officials of Julius Berger Tiefbau AG, Germany, signed an agreement, which enabled German banks to loan Nigeria the funds to build the SecondMainlandBridge, which later came to be popularly known as EkoBridge. The Bridge connects Surulere at Alaka Bus-stop with Apongbon in LagosIsland. It was a major architectural marvel then (and even now) as it stretches about four kilometres over the mighty Lagos Lagoon.
Julius Berger became an instant hit. As soon as the Biafra – Nigeria war ended, Berger was also saddled with the task of rebuilding the RiverNigerBridge blown to bits by Biafra’s daredevil warrior, Col Joe Achuzia (Air Raid) to slow down the federal forces invading Onitsha from the Mid West. It took Julius Berger only seven weeks to repair the Bridge. The company thus warmed itself into fond embraces of Nigerians, both the high and low.
It was during the oil boom years that Julius Berger started reaping bountifully from its extension of goodwill that led to the birth of EkoBridge. By then, the company had diversified to virtually every section of construction activities. The oil boom led to the rapid increase in the population in Lagos, then the capital of Nigeria. The traffic nightmares began, especially after the Udoji Award, when a lot of people acquired their own cars.
The Federal Military Government under General Yakubu Gowon had to figure out how to ease the traffic gridlock. The lot fell on Julius Berger to construct the Lagos Inland Ring Road networks. These included the Lagos – Ikorodu Road, Apapa – Oshodi – Oworonsoki Express, Lagos – Badagry Express, and the Agege Motor Road that branched off into Agege with the left leg moving on to Ota in OgunState. All the beautiful flyover bridges in Lagos were built by JB nearly 40 years ago and funded by the Federal Government. It was the recognition that Lagos was simply no longer viable as a permanent capital that the idea of Abuja as the new capital (an original idea of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe) was approved in 1976. The then military Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed, on February 5, 1976, signed the FederalCapitalTerritory (Abuja) Decree No 5.For Julius Berger, there was no stopping.
From that moment on, it became the construction company of choice, so prized that top members of the ruling class became interested in it personally. In the early 1990s it became a Nigerian company and was later floated on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In fact, today, a Nigerian is the single largest stockholder of the company though the Germans still have a commanding presence on its board. Julius Berger’s reputation spread nationwide.
In 1987, I had just started my working life in a newspaper in Minna, Niger State. Julius Berger came to town, apparently to prepare Minna for the eventual homecoming of the then military President, General Ibrahim Babangida. Berger completed the ChanchagaBridge leading into Minna within three weeks.
They simply piped away the river, brought the pre-cast bridge parts and assembled them over the river bed. They worked day and night. It took the company less than a year to transform Minna from a sleepy rural railway town to an infrastructurally sufficient city where two former presidents and other retired generals now feel truly at home. Anywhere Nigerians saw the big “B” of Julius Berger on a project site, it was automatically concluded that government was serious not only in ensuring high quality job but also speedy execution of the contract.
However, in recent years, it would seem as though the magic of Berger is beginning to leave it. The company seems to have slowed down. The horrendous experiences of users of the Apapa – Oshodi – Oworonsoki Express, which the company is reconstructing, are simply unspeakable.
The reconstruction, which started over two years ago from Berger Yard Bus-stop, is just getting to Cele Bus-stop, barely six kilometres away, and that is only one side of the express. At this pace, it may take Julius Berger up to 15 years to complete a road that leads into the nation’s highest source of non-oil revenue; a road that services more than six industrial estates, two seaports, and numerous security and military installations and zones.
In fact, the former headquarters of the company (before it was moved to Abuja) is on this road. I do not know if this company has a functional media or public relations unit because efforts to find out why the work on this all-important Express by newsmen either hits the brick wall or produces little effect. All we know is that a company known to work day and night in its heydays now works only during the day, at the height of economic bustle. It does not turn up for work on this site during weekends and public holidays.
Sometimes the express is totally sealed for hours and nothing moves. And all complaints by the members of the suffering public and the many media houses on this stretch simply fall on deaf ears. Julius Berger is beginning to exhibit streaks of impunity as if it is now entitled to do whatever it likes without explaining to anyone why it is putting members of the public to such dehumanising ordeals on its worksites.
The Federal Ministry of Works must wake up and remind Julius Berger that the public is their main customer. And customer is still the king.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/julius-berger-lost-magic

lakhadimar: Here in kogi state north central Nigeria there is no visible presence of the federal government. For fourteen years the criminal government of pdp has milked kogi state dry we are tired of these pdp b*stards enough is enough it is high time we kick out these pdp crooks from kogi state

Ya right, Jonah was in your state 2 weeks ago to commission a power plant. Also the Ajaokuta steel plant is currently under repairs. The Benin lokoja road has been abandon by whom Stick to things you have proof and knowledge about.

Sloan: Another ibo man who cannot live without Yoruba dick banging his brain every day! LWKMD!

Don't derail my thread. Go open your thread and talk about your Yoruba P***enis

ogugua88: I can tell you never go pass Cotonou.

really, where is cotonou again

Nigerian passport goes anywhere as long as you have cash to clear huddles.

I have read several news feeds today, regarding the statement by the president. If the president intends to send whatever report from this conference to the NASS. We can as well stop this rubbish right now. Let's wait till 2014 and take our lives into our own hands. This is not a game, I hope the political class in this country, understand this fact. Allow Nigerians have whatever kind of conference they need, then subject those findings or agreements to a national referendum. Anything short is a fraud and must be called a fraud. I am hoping the president misspoke or was wrongly quoted. I don't need 445 members of the NASS, that are probably a step below the pathetic ASUU lecturers deciding on the future of this country.

How do we drive the message to the political class about having a national referendum, after this conference. Please make your suggestions.

emmatok: Guy cool down, wasn't Tompolo thesame militant being hunted by the Nigerian government?
Are saying there us no other qualified ND or Nigerian to do that job.
If a Northerner becomes the president after GEJ will you be happy if Boko-Haram leaders get national defence contract.

If he/she, brings peace and security to the Northeast and he or she gets paid with groundnut dollars, they can knock themselves out. Tompolo's company brought peace to the pipelines in the creeks. Mainly the Nembe line. How many times were those lines vandalized in 2011-2012 Since the noise makers killed the contract, how peaceful are the pipelines?? By the way neva compare the Nigerdelta fighters with boko haram. Only dishonest people attempt that fraud.

gsaint trinity: @op stop quoting vanguard and all newspaper.... what have u benefited from sure-p.
Oya talk.

Silly question, surep in my state of delta is for the needy . More like a social safety net. I thank God, I don't need government safety net. Because, I am not directly getting any rewards, does not disqualify the thousands receiving those help.

Harvesting Dividends Of Sure-P In Delta State

http://deltaoshobe.com/index.php/2013-06-26-13-14-17/inside-delta/1444-harvesting-dividends-of-sure-p-in-delta-state

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/18426-youths-from-ssouth-employed-under-sure-p-scheme-labour-minister/

Delta govt commends LGs on SURE-P package, 5,000 empowered - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/delta-govt-commends-lgs-on-sure-p-package-5000-empowered/#sthash.of5owR6g.dpuf

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/delta-govt-commends-lgs-on-sure-p-package-5000-empowered/

SURE-P empowers 744 persons in Delta

http://www.hallmarknews.com/sure-p-empowers-744-persons-in-delta/


Please post what you state is doing what their sure -p allocation.

debbleopto: see what they called future generation! Oh that is what leadership means in.your place. protest on behalf of people and amassed the wealth to yourself. Then the downtrodden people will still hailed him because he is their tribe. The fault also comes from those fathers. The time and energy to educate their children, have been spent on sepe at the creeks. Even MTN did the advert, where women are frying garri in the afternoon but men are sleeping. Only women fit get phone for the community. Men only buy ogogoro

So what Did we come crying to you? Your so call educated children still have to score less to attend school than my creek kids in delta. Keep pretending to yourself. Tompolo is not asking your phada to pay his bills, mind your own damn business.

kingoflag: What is my zone? Where is my zone? You bumbling oafs just kill me. Holy Cow! Are yall just dense for real or do you have oatmeal between ur ears where brain matter is supposed to be?

I hope we keep killing you. Keep your sophistication and most intelligent junk to your zone. Tompolo is not getting paid from your sweat.

kingoflag: You still dont have electricity, your roads are death traps, your educational sector is in shambles, as is Security, Health, Agriculture and Production/Manufacturing. Keep on hailing crooks and criminals just because youre too dense to think logically without religious or tribal sentiments. Its your future and that of your kids. You can keep on toying with it. That money is meant for all of you, not just one man, but youre obviously too slow to see that.

Keep your nonsense to yoursel. The day you begin to question the civil servant and political billionaires from your zone, will be the time to worry about your long list of ills in Nigeria. By the way, I did not complain to you, about any problem. What money is meant for all of you

eGuerrilla: @Sincere 9gerian,

I see you are no longer pounding the beat of transparency, now that you know Jonathan's campaign managers - and not just ordinary foot soldiers - are the arrowheads of SURE-P at state level. Funny - that.





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Nigeria: 2015 - Jonathan Men Take Over Sure-P -- http://allafrica.com/stories/201302100245.html?viewall=1

Are sure-p monies not allocated directly to states ministries of finance How can PDP members control executive decisions in states, where they are oppositions.