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Dutse — The Jigawa State government said yesterday that over 86, 000 children with severe cases of malnutrition have been cured.

Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Lawal Abdu, while speaking at the inauguration of a 19-member technical committee on food and nutrition in state, said the free treatment was carried out by the state government in partnership with non-governmental organizations.

He said Jigawa initiated a community based management survey on malnutrition aimed at eradicating the menace among children and rural dwellers.

"With the help of development partners such as ACH International, UNICEF, MSF (Doctors without Boarder) Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN), we have been able to tackle issues of severe malnutrition in selected communities in the state, and over 86, 000 children have been cured in the past 2 years," he said.

He charged members of the committee to work hard and coordinate with donor agencies in the area of food nutrition as well as coordinate the planning and implementation of all food and nutrition programmes in the state.

In his remarks, the committee's chairman and Director General of Gunduma Health System Board, Usman Tahir, commended the state government for the confidence reposed in them, and assured of their commitment towards the realization of the set objectives.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201307300270.html

Demdem: [b]Throwing monies to problems every now and then does not necessary mean the problem will be solved.
So far, the ND region receives the most money than any other region currently.
Starting from states allocation to 13% derivation to huge interventions from NDDC, ministry of Niger delta and even oil companies interventions. Of cos not to forget the billions on amnesty and even undocumented monies.
The question is with all these interventions which is far more than any region currently what has the people got to showcase? Are they better of? Can we justify the amount spent on ND so far.
Let ND justify what has been given so far and see me in the fore front of those advocating for nothing less than 50%.
Money isn't the problem in ND, already there is abundance, the problem is their leaders.
Focus more on ur leaders who are by far ur greatest enemies than a distant FG.
The FG has been extremely fair to ND since 1999. That's a fact but has the people been fair to themselves? That should be the main question here.[/b]

It will be quite unfair and factually untrue to say the region has not seen massive development in the last 10yrs. Remember the 13% derivation did not come into full force till 2003, the NDDC and Nigerdelta ministry started receiving cash backed allocation in 2008. The Nigerdelta of 1999 and the Nigerdelta of 2013 is without and doubt not the same place. Those advocating for 50% minimum revenue allocation, is because of the solid principle of resource control. There's something call fiscal federalism and some of us want to see this principle applied in this country. I hope the day will come when states in Nigeria keep 87% of their vat taxes, Petroleum taxes, minerals royalties, payee taxes etc and remit 13% to Abuja. It should never be the other way round. Then people will have reasons to hold their local representative accountable, than this hybrid rubbish we have now.

DaLover: it makes sence, but the question of how it is funded comes into play,

The current monies allocated to them can be a good starting point. The states in zone can also help with funding. Also the PIB is setting aside another 10% for community reinvestment . That can be used to drive meaningful inter state projects in the zone, than this nonsense currently prevailing at the NDDC and the Nigerdelta ministry.

DaLover: NDDC should be scrapped, no intervention agancy will ever achieve development of the niger delta, allow the communities to develop themselves, I wonder why we keep feeling our salvation lies in someone or some government.

Then the government has to hands off the resources. How do you want them to develop themselves, after you have confiscated all their resources, polluted their farmlands and rivers in the name of the land use act. Nobody is seeking salvation from government, but government seems bent on sending the Nigerdeltans to hell.

All those calling for repealing and scraping the NDDC and the Nigerdelta ministry are wasting their time, that is not going to happen. I will like to see this two, merged together and restricted to only inter state projects. The region needs an improved waterway system. An inter state rail system. Not classrooms and markets buildings, that are suppose to be function of local governments and state governments.

[quote author=IGBO-SON]I think things like school blocks, rural roads and provision of boreholes; such things should have been left to the oil producing states and their 13% derivation! The NDDC should have focused its budget on massive world class projects like an inter-state rail system, seaports, 5-star tourist centres and Hospitals![/quote]I have to agree with you on this point. The NDDC and the Nigerdelta ministry need to sit down and figure out a game plan, to finance massive infrastructures, that cut through the entire states in the region. Schools, hospitals and farm projects should remain state functions.

Nigeria’s Osun State has begun offering the country’s first Islamic bond, taking a major step towards developing an Islamic finance industry in Africa’s most populous nation, bankers said on Thursday.
According to Reuters, the issue makes Nigeria the first big economy in sub-Saharan Africa to market a sukuk, although Gambia has been selling small amounts of Islamic bonds for several years.
Other African countries including South Africa, Kenya and Senegal have been laying plans to issue sukuk seeking to tap into growing global demand for Islamic debt, particularly among cash-rich Islamic funds in the Gulf and southeast Asia.
Osun’s issue of up to 10 billion naira ($62 million) of seven-year sukuk, denominated in local currency, will pay investors a fixed return of between 14.25 and 14.75 percent, according to a prospectus seen by Reuters.
The offer will close at the end of this month, the bankers said, declining to be named under briefing rules. The sukuk is based on an ijara structure, a common leasing arrangement in Islamic finance, which bans the payment of interest.

Governor Aregbesola of the State of Osun
Local credit rating agency Agusto & Co gave an A rating to the sukuk, suggesting it will attract ample investor demand. Bankers said earlier that Osun hoped the issue, which is expected to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, would be bought by local pension funds and international investors.
In March this year, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules facilitating issues of sukuk. About half of Nigeria’s 160 million people are Muslims, giving it sub-Saharan Africa’s largest Muslim population.
The cocoa-producing, western Nigerian state of Osun has a population of about 3.5 million people. The proceeds of the sukuk will be used to build schools, the prospectus said.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/09/19/osun-state-selling-nigerias-first-islamic-bond/

President Goodluck Jonathan and members of the G7 group of aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appeared to be heading for the rocks, following indications that the G7 members may dump Atiku Abubakar and are thinking of Accord Party as an option.
Accord Party is believed to have been formed by loyalists of former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, ahead of the 2007 general election, but was later taken over by former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja.
Sources in the polity, however, told the Nigerian Tribune that the aggrieved governors of the PDP were eyeing the Accord Party, to strengthen their negotiations with other parties.
Besides, it was learnt that the governors believed that President Jonathan was not ready to shift his position on any of their demands, especially the call for an end to what they called harassment from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
“The governors are worried that the president will not cede anything to them, as the body language in the last meeting showed. He seemed to have made up his mind, going by the dissolution of Kano State PDP executive in the midst of the talks,” a source close to the G7 governors said.
Sources said the group was being careful in teaming up with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), as the choice of the party’s presidential candidate would determine whether or not they could work with the merger party.
It was also gathered that loyalists of Obasanjo, who kick started the rebellion in the PDP, became uncomfortable that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was becoming the rallying point in the agitation, with Atiku reportedly positioning the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) to reap the benefits of the rebellion.
Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the G7 team of aggrieved PDP governors had, therefore, decided on the Accord Party as a viable option to achieve many things at the same time.
A source said one of the plans on the agenda was to push the PDP to hasten the acceptance of their terms, while also open up to other parties as the beautiful bride.
A source said the decision had been taken ahead of the October 7 meeting at the Presidential Villa, so as not to get caught unawares by President Jonathan.
“The reason for the decision to move to Accord Party shortly is to prepare our minds for the worst. We are not hearing anything new from the meetings.
“The president appears not to be feeling the heat of the rebellion and the earlier we actualise our option, the faster the message will sink,” a source among the aggrieved governors said.
No deal yet with Jonathan —New PDP
THE reported cease-fire and peace deal between the warring factions of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has been disowned by the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-led faction of the party, as it denied ever endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election in 2015.
The Baraje-led faction specifically accused the Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, of lying about the outcome of the reconciliation talks, while it urged Nigerians and supporters to ignore what it called “the concocted tales of Governor Akpabio.”
In a statement signed by the factional national publicity secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, the faction urged its supporters to “ignore the tissue of lies and propaganda from the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the party on the outcome of our meeting with President Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on Sunday.”
The faction noted that “the fact of the case is that no agreement has been reached on any of the issues tabled before the president and until we see results, Nigerians should ignore the present efforts by the Tukur camp to deceive them.”
On whether President Jonathan should contest the 2015 presidential election or not, the faction noted that the PDP had “a mechanism and system of electing its standard-bearers for any election and until the time to choose the party’s presidential standard-bearer comes, any speculation on this is just a mere academic exercise.”
The party accused Tukur and other forces around the president of lacking seriousness in the search for peace within the party, noting that “just a few hours after Sunday’s meeting , Tukur-led faction once more showed its disdain for peace by unilaterally setting up a caretaker committee to run the affairs of Kano chapter.
“This was done without recourse to either the leader of the party in Kano State, Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, or other stakeholders of the party from the state.
“This illegality is a clear violation of our party’s constitution and was hurriedly done just to spite Governor Kwankwaso.”
While urging party supporters in Kano to ignore the caretaker committee, the statement said the faction had set in motion, machinery to organise a proper election as stipulated by the constitution of the party.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/

Contrary to the claim by oil and gas company, Oando Plc, that former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, owns “insignificant” shares in the company, British prosecutors, Tuesday, provided overwhelming evidence that the convicted money launderer owns almost a third of the company.

A crown prosecutor told a British Crown Court in Southwark, London, that Mr. Ibori told a Swiss private bank in 2004 that he owns up to 30 per cent of Oando.

Mr. Ibori is believed to have laundered more than N12.5 billion (£50 million) stolen from the treasury of oil-rich Delta State during his tenure as governor. The case has been described as one of the biggest embezzlement cases ever seen in Britain.

More details of how he hid his illicit wealth in a maze of shell companies and offshore accounts are expected to be revealed in a the three-week long asset confiscation hearing that started on Monday.

According to Ms. Wass, while opening an account at Swiss bank, PKB, through a shell company called Stanhope Investment, Mr. Ibori told the bank he owns 30 per cent of Oando.

Reading from internal PKB documents, Ms. Wass said the former governor passed himself as the owner of an insurance company and 50 per cent owner of a Nigerian Bank.

She also revealed that N180 million ($1.2 million) was transferred from Oando in three instalments into Mr. Ibori’s account in PKB. She said the money was subsequently transferred into a fund meant to purchase a N3 billion ($20 million) private jet for Mr Ibori.


Oando, Nigeria’s biggest indigenous oil company, issued a statement Monday denying that some of Mr. Ibori’s wealth was hidden in the company.
“Based on our current shareholding register, Mr Ibori’s shareholding stands at 443 shares out of a total issued and paid-up share capital of 6.8 billion ordinary shares, which is clearly insignificant, and cannot be considered as a large part of Oando,” the firm said.


Oando shares dipped 10 per cent at the shock market, on Tuesday after news of Mr. Ibori’s involvement with the company broke.
Money like the Kennedys
Internal document shows that Mr. Ibori awed officials of PKB with his enormous stolen wealth so much that the bank likened him to a descendant of the Kennedys in the U.S. The bank described Mr. Ibori as being from a wealthy Nigerian family with decades old wealth gained from investment in the petroleum sector.

“We could compare these families with the Kennedy dynasty which also mixed business and politics,” the bank document said.
Another part of the document also described him as “an extremely rich man as he was doing a lot of business before becoming governor”

Recent evidence has shown that Mr. Ibori started out as a career petty thief who stole building materials in Nigeria and shoplifted in cohort with his now convicted wife in the U.K.

Oando had claimed Mr. Ibori owns insignificant shares of the company.

Contrary to the claim by oil and gas company, Oando Plc, that former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, owns “insignificant” shares in the company, British prosecutors, Tuesday, provided overwhelming evidence that the convicted money launderer owns almost a third of the company.
A crown prosecutor told a British Crown Court in Southwark, London, that Mr. Ibori told a Swiss private bank in 2004 that he owns up to 30 per cent of Oando.
Mr. Ibori is believed to have laundered more than N12.5 billion (£50 million) stolen from the treasury of oil-rich Delta State during his tenure as governor.

The case has been described as one of the biggest embezzlement cases ever seen in Britain.

More details of how he hid his illicit wealth in a maze of shell companies and offshore accounts are expected to be revealed in a the three-week long asset confiscation hearing that started on Monday.

According to Ms. Wass, while opening an account at Swiss bank, PKB, through a shell company called Stanhope Investment, Mr. Ibori told the bank he owns 30 per cent of Oando.

Reading from internal PKB documents, Ms. Wass said the former governor passed himself as the owner of an insurance company and 50 per cent owner of a Nigerian Bank.

She also revealed that N180 million ($1.2 million) was transferred from Oando in three installments into Mr. Ibori’s account in PKB. She said the money was subsequently transferred into a fund meant to purchase a N3 billion ($20 million) private jet for Mr Ibori.
Oando, Nigeria’s biggest indigenous oil company, issued a statement Monday denying that some of Mr. Ibori’s wealth was hidden in the company.

“Based on our current shareholding register, Mr Ibori’s shareholding stands at 443 shares out of a total issued and paid-up share capital of 6.8 billion ordinary shares, which is clearly insignificant, and cannot be considered as a large part of Oando,” the firm said.


Oando shares dipped 10 per cent at the shock market, on Tuesday after news of Mr. Ibori’s involvement with the company broke.
Money like the Kennedys

Internal document shows that Mr. Ibori awed officials of PKB with his enormous stolen wealth so much that the bank likened him to a descendant of the Kennedys in the U.S. The bank described Mr. Ibori as being from a wealthy Nigerian family with decades old wealth gained from investment in the petroleum sector.

“We could compare these families with the Kennedy dynasty which also mixed business and politics,” the bank document said.

Another part of the document also described him as “an extremely rich man as he was doing a lot of business before becoming governor”

Recent evidence has shown that Mr. Ibori started out as a career petty thief who stole building materials in Nigeria and shoplifted in cohort with his now convicted wife in the U.K

premiumtimesng.com/news/144843-ibori-owns-30-per-cent-oando-

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/nigerians-ll-hold-atiku-6-northern-govs-responsible-if-urhobo-youths/

UGHELLI — URHOBO youths, under the aegis Urhobo National Youth Council, UNYC, have said that former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and the six Northern governors opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan, would be held responsible if there was a break-up of the country.
Speaking with newsmen in Ughelli, Delta State, yesterday, National President of the group, Mr. Monday Oyeghe urged Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF “to call these set of persons to order because a fight against President Jonathan is a fight against the people of the South-South region, whose resources are the economic mainstay of the country.
“Some people boasted that they will make the country ungovernable for the President and since then, there has been the insurgency of the Boko Haram Islamist sect, which led to the killing of innocent citizens and destruction of property.
“Now that Mr. President is winning the war against terrorism, others have come up with another ploy to divert his attention from the transformation agenda.
“We urge Mr. President to stand firm in his fight against corruption and ensure that all those found to be corrupt are arrested and brought to book.
“We assure Jonathan of our support in his 2015 re-election aspiration, which the constitution of this country guarantees and nobody can stop him.”

ilugunboy: A$$hole.....

Bounce! A fvcking criminal....

I give you my address in Warri, or I will meet you anywhere in Nigeria, You will have the opportunity to open your mouth and display your juvenile delinquency. I will fix that problem your parents refused to correct once and for all.

ilugunboy: Mr Yahoo yahoo....

If not for restriction on NL...I will paste your life history on this forum...for everyone here to see you for what your are.

A fraudulent and hungry looking goat.

Meanwhile....your written English sucks.

The floor is all yours.

ilugunboy: Blockhead....

You don't need to quit so soon.

There has to be a difference between mad men and "otto normal menschen" I refused to be dragged into a juvenile discussion. My kids enjoy that, I don't.

ilugunboy: You sure sound amazingly deluded...it's not hard to figure that out.

Meanwhile....after your fake billionaire handle has been exposed for what it's is....a fraud, you want to go on the same inglorious way with this one....

I swear I will help

Have a nice day, seek out another 20 year old to trade your juvenile banter. I thought, you were a grown up man. Sorry my bad

ilugunboy: person!

As Jmaine threatened...let your President make an attempt at Tambuwal....

You lot reason obviously with nothing except with your a$$...

Fuckktard which primary teacher school abused you so much, for your mental state to be permanently disabled I'm I talking to a juvenile delinquent here

ilugunboy: I thought one of you is asking that your President should do the RIVERS abracadabra ?

I've realized that most of you paid agents from the SS / SE are emotional jerks....and profoundly dumb and naive when national politics discourse comes in...

Naive is a word you should never use, to describe anybody, after displaying your SS1 government class thought process on this forum. You are really not smart to think, people are getting paid to represent their views on issues. So, who is paying you to post the thrash you drop here all the time. I know, you people are most sophisticated and most intelligent Nigerians, but keep it to your neck of the woods.

ilugunboy: Let your President attempt a wrong move on Tambuwal....

You are the one crying impeachment not my president.

ilugunboy: I laugh at so many ignorant ASUU enabled kids on NL these days.....


If GEJ has the liver...let him make the slightest push...

Learn to keep quite and stop making a jerk of yourself. Move your impeachment motions, if you dare.

Alexgeneration: LWKMD, Look at this Nigerian making unneccesary noise, pls for your information, your kindergarten president can always be impeached if the need arises. LOL

Who is stopping you Your adult lawmakers walking around in pampers should try it.

Desric: And who said GEJ's administration's exposure of Fuel subsidy thieves has helped us or our Economy in any way? If they've curtailed subsidy expenditure as they always want us to believe, then why is the FG still paying heavily on subsidy even when the poor masses are forced to be paying so much extra on petroleum products from the status quo? Where is the benefit of all those nonsense, that GEJ could not allow Nigerians to say happy new year to their people in peace before he hurriedly declare that wicked, Criminal and heartless removal of the fuel subsidy? I have agreed that Ibori did defraud the people of Delta State and maybe starched his money in Oando,, but is it the reason why we cannot have a functional Refinery in Nigeria with all the money and resources we've got? Now we are waiting for Dangote to build a refinery for us maybe for us to hear very soon after Jona must have left office that Jona also starched his own looted fund in the proposed Dangote refinery. Besides, I thought Nigerians celebrate Dangote, Adenuga and the likes because they choose to reinvest their own looted funds in our Country, why is Ibori's own different? Fuel subsidy, GEJ, and their cronies all of them are all fraudulent and balderdash.
Finally Ibori is there because GEJ wants him there, if you investigate GEJ's tenure from deputy governor-governor-vice president- Acting president-President, he might serve more severe jail terms than Ibori. They are all one and the same corrupt individuals with no vision or conscience for National development only GEJ's might be more higher considering the time spent and offices held without a single tangible thing to show for them other than his desperate attitude to achieve his desperate ambition all the time..

Sorry, the story is about the finances of Oando. Stay on subject. Open a new thread and discuss refineries, oil subsidy and whatever you need. But the story here is conversion of state monies into private asset via Onado by James Ibori.

Jarus: This is serious bad press for Oando, especially for an organization going global, trying to break into American markets.

Interestingly, one investment banker from US contacted me just last week asking questions about Oando/Wale Tinubu. While researching , he came across a positive article I did on Tinubu/Oando last year, sought me out, and was asking questions about Oando. I told him to the best of my knowledge, Oando conducts her business with integrity.

I just pray Oando comes out clean from this, because it is a company that occupies special place in my heart.

Poor research made you pass over bad info to that banker. How did Onado perform, one year after the subsidy saga They cannot even find financing, for assets they are trying to buy from conco WHY. You can cook your books for a while, it will always come back to bite you.

dayokanu: Nth usernames? You must be twisted somewhere

Answer the question Is it Bad belle thats making Niger Deltans blow pipelines?

The belle capital in this world is located in your backyard. That should answer your question, always attempting to sabotage others success, because you cannot stand to see, other Nigerians better themselves.

This was one of their major anger against Jonah by these gang of thieves, during the fuel subsidies saga. All this fake oil companies, used as front to convert government funds into private assets. Their free money was exposed and stopped, why will they give up without fighting. Supporting the masses, as they bleed them dry. Everywhere you turn, same people shouting corruption from the rooftop while they gladly pocket billions

dayokanu: Ok So na Bad belle dey make dem dey blow pipeline for Niger Delta?

Bad belle of who If I may ask

Ask yourself that question? with your nth degree usernamessssssssssssssss

Demdem: No wonder. Oponu.

You will kill yourself with another man success. The only Oponu here are the bad belle infants like you.

berem: Obviously you have nothing to say!

You bet you, I have nothing to say.