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take dat: Such a mischievous post! @Op intentionally left out names of party officials who are christians in a bid to paint and taint the party as an Islamic party. Agreed that there are more muslims in APC's NWC reason being that its more of a SW-North coalition. Note that this is an hurriedly put together interim executive committee, while they will be having a fresh convention after registration.This one is more balanced |
[quote author=iwanchop]Which key positions are you talking about? OP refused to tell us that Masari is Deputy Chairman(North) just as Adebayo ,Okonkwo and Ikimi are Deputy chairmen for SW,SE & SS respectively. Shame on you OP. OP,I need to help you cos you forgot to also tell us that APC is peopled by Muslim members only,I will help you list some of APC members who are diehard muslims Olusegun Osoba Chris Ngige George Akume Rochas Okorocha Niyi Adebayo Annie Okonkwo Pat Orjiakor Tunde Bakare Tom Ikimi Rotimi Fashakin Rotimi Akeredolu Ogbonaya Onu Kayode Fayemi Emma Enukwu Joe Igbokwe .......and the list is endless[/quote can you please put their positions beside their names? |
sincerenigerian: Stop the lies and blackmail. Below are christians chieftains with APC:so which positions are the people you listed holding? please let GEJ pick a VP from bayelsa if the person is good let me see what you'll say. What you see on that list is the kind of thing that we accused Igbos of doing but are any better? |
emekatimsu: APC INTERIM LEADERSHIP AS SUBMITTED TO INEC FEW DAYS AGO:Ol boy!. these guys are making things easy for GEJ. im sure GEJ camp can't believe what they are getting- they've left a gaping hole in their ranks |
I CAN SEE U SEEM TO HAVE SUCCEEDED DOYIN OKUPE APPOINTED IN JULY AND JOINED IN AUGUST. IS THERE A COINCIDENCE HERE? THE GUYS UVE BEATEN MAY HAVE ONLY RETREATED AND ARE REGROUPING TO LAUNCH A CONTER-OFFENSIVE WHICH MAY TAKE THE SEMBLANCE OF A BLITZKRIEG. BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK. U GUYS(PRO AND ANTI GEJ,BUHARI,TINUBU, APC,PDP ETC) SHOULD BETTER NOT CONVERT THIS PLACE TO A BATTLEGROUND FOR SUPREMACY AT THE EXPENSE OF WHAT'S IN IT FOR THE MASSES. THE PEOPLE YOU ARE BOTH SUPPORTING ARE CROOKS, SHENANIGHANS,AND OPPOURTUNISTS. WE HAVE TO SINCERELY ACCEPT THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS PRACTISED AND ARE PRACTISING KLEPTOCRACY - RULE BY THIEVES AND NOT DEMOCRACY |
MY QUESTION TO APC:PLS WHAT'S IN IT FOR THE MASSES? I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY A REJUST TRUMPETING THIS WITHOUT TELLING US WHAT IN IT FOR US? WE NEED TO ADOPT A WHAT'S IN IT FOR THE MASSES ATTITUDE IN NAIJA POLITICS WHEN THEY, THEY DECEIVERS COME TO US AND IF POSSIBLE FORM A MOVEMENT WITH SUCH A NAME |
THE QUESTION FOR THE NIGERIAN MASSES SHOULD BE: WHAT'S IN IT FOR US? IF THERE IS NOTHING FOR US, WHCH I DO NOT THINK THERE IS, THEN WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT THEIR OBJECTIVES FOR SUCH UNIONS FAIL. |
FROM BABANGIDA ALIYU WHO PROFESSES CHANGE http://questionmarkmag.com/2012/12/picture-niger-state-governor-spends-millions-to-advertise-his-daughter-wedding-ceremony/ |
WHILE A GOVERNOR IS SAYING THAT, SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICALS SPEND >N120m BDAY CELEBRATIONS IN DUBAI. THIS IS COMMENDABLE AND SHOULD GO TO THE FRONT PAGE.. PLS RECALL THESE AMONG THE MANY: http://saharareporters.com/photo/photonews-former-governor-bola-tinubus-n1-billion-birthday-party-leads-scramble-food http://saharareporters.com/gallery/photonews-first-lady-patience-jonathans-n500-million-resurrection-thanksgiving-service-abuja http://saharareporters.com/news-page/four-northern-governors-rob-their-states-n1-billion-pdp-chairman-bamanga-tukur http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/imo-shut-down-for-okorocha-s-birthday-celebration/127200/ http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/jonathan-removes-perm-sec-over-dubai-wedding/ http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/en/component/k2/item/14418-tinubu,-senator-adeyemi-and-the-drama-in-dubai.html IF NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT THE CELEBRATION OF THE BIGWIGS, THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR CRONIES. WE WOULD ALL HAVE TAKEN ONE STEP FURTHER INTO AN IRREVERSIBLE FIASCO. IS IT NOT STRANGE THAT WE HAVE NOTHING TO CLEBARTE WHILE THEY THE ELITES CAN CELEBRATE LAVISHLY WITH OUR MONEY. THE NUMBER OF LAVISH CELEBRATIONS ARE GROWING GEOMETRICALLY DAY BY DAY AND IS NOW A MANIA. WE NEED TO STOP THEM!!! FRONT PAGE PLS |
Aderostock: Am not defending tinubu but he's way too smart and intelligent than the drunken and fisherman u called president.I think we Nigerians should not just compare Tinubu to Jonathan and try to see who is better. The truth is that they seem to have both lost it and they are not our messiah. WE NEED TO RESALISE THAT WE ARE NOT IN AN EITHER/OR SITUATION WE HAVE MULTIPLE OPTIONS Being a director in Mobil oil is quite an achievement and shows he has good business acumen but he seems to be using it negatively by economic neo-colonisation of Lagos which specks of nothing but greed. Allison-Madueke too was director in Shell Nigeria which is probably the biggest company in the entire continent. Tinubu’s wife was elected but we know Nigerian politics naa… Its more of a selection – for instance I can bet that whoever the ACN bigwigs select for Lagos governorship will definitely win. As for Jonathan’s wife as Perm. Sec.. That is laughable and shows political naivety on GEJ’s part. WE NEED TO CONDEMN THEM WHEN THEY DO ALL THESE AND NOT SIDE THEM BASED ON ETHNIC SENTIMENTS OR JUSTIFY THEM BECAUSE THE ‘OTHERS ARE DOING IT’. WHEN WE DO THAT, WHICH FROM WHAT I CAN SEE ON NAIRALAND WE’VE ALREADY DONE THEN WE’VE PLAYED INTO THEIR HANDS IN THEIR OWN VERY GAME – DIVIDE AND RULE N.B. We accuse the British of this but our politicians are the masters of the game |
Desola: Jonathan is a bastard! Tinubu is a confirmed bastard!My sincere hope is that as events unfold, Nigerians will realise more and more where the problem lies -- That our democracy is a government of the elite politicians, by the elite politicians, and for the elite politicians. Tinubu has been a governor. His wife is a Senator and wants to be the VP candidate for APC. The daughter is coming out gradually. Maybe she'll inherit her mother’s position. The family is now a royal family practicing feudalism ehn..? If you want to know more I’ll tell you what master dribbling artistry Tinubu’s nephew (Wale Tinubu) has deployed to defraud the shareholders of Oando. These people need to be cautioned. |
Novice1: Balderdash. Let him give us a genuine alternative to squarely face the wholesale corruption that will soon bring this country to its knees.This is not balderdash in anyway. He just threw more light on the alternative that many are proposing. In bringing Buhari as an alternative, the above should be taken into account because it is an actual fact. I'm sure 99% of Nigerian do not know anything about what Soyinka wrote there. If you're contesting to be the president of Nigeria, All your past and present deeds need to be laid bare. |
Containing the PHCN leviathan May 21, 2013 by Lekan Sote (lekansote@yahoo.com) Which do you pay to the Power (wit)Holding Company of Nigeria? Is it the amount you charged to your prepaid meter, the outcome of actual reading of your postpaid meter, or the estimate arbitrarily apportioned to you by the PHCN because you have no prepaid or postpaid meter? In other words, do you subscribe to, or pay a rate or a levy to the PHCN? In yet another danfo (Kombi) bus ride in the Lagos Metropolis, talk gravitated to the billing regime of the PHCN. It was late in the evening. The inner light of the bus kept flickering off and on, and someone had difficulties ascertaining the exact denomination of the naira note that he was pulling out of his pocket. He didn’t want to overpay the bus conductor. He then asked, in derision, “Oga Driver. Why the light for your bus no dey light well, well?” He stirred the hornet’s nest. The driver retorted, “Sebi you no kuku get light for your house.” Everyone laughed. Thereafter, a playful banter ensued between the team of the ebullient driver and the conductor on the one hand, and the passengers on the other hand. A man asserted that the “crazy bill” was a ploy by the PHCN staff to extort money from the public. People wanted to know how, so he gave the following explanation: For about one year, his electricity bill had been increasing by the double every subsequent month. So, he went to complain to the PHCN. He told them he had only 10 bulb points, three fans and a table top fridge, in his apartment. No television, radio or freezer. Nothing else. Someone went to verify his claim. He was then asked to write a petition for a bill review, and an application for a prepaid meter. His house had no meter. After two months, the bill got higher and no prepaid, or any kind of, meter was brought to him. Alarmed, he went to the PHCN office to complain. Someone called him aside and explained that there is an embargo on distribution of prepaid meters, and he should get used to the estimated bill regime. He explained that the Transmission Company of Nigeria expects the distribution companies, or discos, to pay for megawatts of electricity that it arbitrarily allocates to them without regard to their need. After deducting the amount paid by those who topped up their prepaid meters, and those whose postpaid meters were actually read, the disco shared out the balance as levy to those who have no meter. The PHCN man then whispered a proposition. If the sucker was willing to play ball, his monthly bill could be reduced drastically in the short run, and he could get a prepaid meter later. He wanted to know from his fellow wayfarers if he should go for the deal. The overwhelming verdict was that he should go for it, and end his agonies. Clearly, no one thought of an electricity consumer advocacy group to contain the wanton arbitrariness and abuse. The PHCN monopoly is so pervasive, people no longer bother about getting electricity supply. Their concern is how to contain its crazy bills that come even after their postpaid meters had been disconnected. They have figured out that the prepaid meter helps them avoid unnecessary billing, especially when they still have to endure the “one day on, one day off” electricity supply regime. Prepaid meter has advantages for both the PHCN and the consumers: The PHCN collects its money in advance, and the consumers control their electricity bills and also avoid the debt nuisance. The Minister for Trade and Investment, Mr. Segun Aganga, swears that proper metering should ensure proper inspection, verification and certification of billing systems beyond the electricity sector, to the water, petroleum and telecommunications sectors, of the economy. All together are currently losing about N775bn monthly. The mess in the electricity sector is graphically demonstrated by the fictitious Electricity Corporation of Kangan in Chinua Achebe’s novel, “Anthills of the Savannah.” Its operatives engage in “chaotic billing procedures deliberately done to cover their massive fraud; illegal connections carried out by their own staff; theft of meters; and a host of other petty and serious crimes including, if you please, the readiness, at the end of the day, to burn down the entire Accounts and Auditing Departments if any enquiry should ever be mooted.” When the Federal Government introduced the prepaid meters in 2003, it had set a 16 to 18 months completion target for the installation. But it was not to be. After discovering, in 2011, that only about 30 per cent of consumers had received prepaid meters, government gave a N2.9bn subsidy to accelerate the supply and installation. But a Panel, set up by the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, and led by civil rights activist and Lagos attorney, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, discovered that the funds had been misapplied. In addition, the prepaid meters were sitting pretty in PHCN stores. The employees simply refused to release them– maybe they are waiting for Godot. Someone suggests that they are kept until the new investors come in. But, why? This sounds like sabotage. If it is true that the Babangida administration ever promulgated a decree against sabotage of electricity supply, now is the time to apply it. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission must give clear guidelines about the prepaid meters. No one is sure any more if the meters should be supplied free by the PHCN or not. The NERC had announced that from June 1, 2012, prepaid meters would be given free to customers ahead of the Multi-Year-Tariff-Order. But the PHCN has a backdoor scheme, CAPMI, an acronym whose meaning is unknown. If a willing customer pays into a dedicated account jointly managed by the discos and the vendor or installers, a prepaid meter will be installed for that fellow within 45 days! Would the levy be charged to future electricity bills as suggested by the Managing Director of one of the discos? A PHCN official announced that the Abuja Zonal Office had installed about 232,466 pre-paid meters free to consumers. Who determines if consumers have to pay for the pre-paid meters? NERC, PHCN or PHCN employees? But really, the meters ought to be supplied free because the law says they remain the property of the PHCN. Apart from this unfinished business of pre-paid meters, there are some other niggling issues: It is common knowledge that some PHCN employees sometimes compel customers to pay for electric poles and transformers, even when contractors have been paid to supply them, and the equipment still remain properties of the PHCN. Also, many who got pre-paid meters, in Kano State, complained recently that they read faster than the analogue meter. Yet, a PHCN official insists that the unit meter reading, Meter Maintenance Fee and Fixed Charges are still N6, N100 and N500 respectively for three-phase meters; and those of single-phase meter remains N4, N30 and N120 respectively. Who can verify this? The Aturu Panel said something about confusion in the calibration of the Meter Maintenance Fee, VAT and other miscellaneous fees, that are loaded on the pre-paid meter recharge cards. Both NERC and the PHCN need to unravel the mystery of the voodoo metering. But isn’t it time for a consumer advocacy group to come to the aid of defenceless electricity consumers caught in the fangs of the predatory PHCN leviathan? http://www.punchng.com/opinion/containing-the-phcn-leviathan/ |
I’m amazed that in this country where we have numerous journalists and human rights activists, there is almost no coverage about the abuses of PHCN on its customers. To connect your building to the power grid you buy poles and cables and install them, and they become PHCN’s property. If you do not have a meter, they’ll give you an outrageous bill (N>20,000 per flat per month in Lekki Lagos) If you want to get a prepaid meter in order to escape the estimated billing you pay N55,000 (official price) which I think is too much if you actually take into account what the meter does – recording the amount of electricity consumed which is not more complex than a basic mobile phone. But then if you pay the N55,000 they meter will NEVER be delivered unless you follow it up with about N30,000 to grease they palm of those who will facilitate it for you. After paying all that, the meter will become PHCN’s property. While using the prepaid meter, a monthly N1,000 maintenance fee is charged in addition to normal fees whether you consume power or not. This fee has been cancelled but it is still being charged (at least in Lekki area) If the meter ‘which is now their property’ goes bad they’ll tell you it cannot be repaired and that you’ll have to get a new one which will still become their property and then you’ll be placed on the estimated billing (N>20,000 per flat per month in Lekki). To escape from the estimated billing you’ll have to get a new meter (N55,000 +N30000) and it’ll still become their property and they’ll charge you for its maintenance. As for transformers, If you need a transformer and you’re hoping they’ll give you because afterall you pay the for the light you consume, then you’re on a long thing. You go out of your way to buy the transformer yourself (N2m) but PHCN must do the installation and to do that they’ll take about N2m (still lekki). Then it becomes their property. If anything goes bad on the transformer you’re on your own. They don’t care but it is their property. SO ON AND SO FORTH…THESE PHCN GUYS ARE VERY CORRUPT . AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED, WE CANNOT BE SERIOUS ABOUT TACKLING ABOUT CORRUPTION AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS IF WE CANNOT EVEN ORGANISE OURSELVES AGAINST THESE PHCN GUYS AND THEIR ABUSES. IF WE CAN’T THEM ON, CAN WE REALLY TAKE ON THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS? IF YOU HAVE HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE WITH PHCN, PLEASE POST IT ON THIS THREAD. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH |
Eko Ile: You are going to be tolled because JB is funding the bridge and not the FG hence JB tolling you for decades to recoup their money..Uve started again. Where is the source of your info? GEJ is not fashola and people who'll use the bridge are not we Lagosians who'll keep mum in the face of tolling on several fronts |
PapaBrowne: Well LCC is handling a 51 kilometer 6 lane road for 60 billion Naira and on the 8th year its still on 37km.And the pundits keep saying that nothing is happening. I think we have to appreciate GEJ for the good he is doing and criticse him for his bad. This man is really working but some people are really out to put him down. To do that they try to publicise his bad and stifle his good, or make his good look bad. Some of them are in this forum. |
Here comes the trigger for the revolution that we've been praying for. I wish they succed in scrapping it because that'll make a child's play of what is happening in Brazil. |
As far as the masses are concerned. This is good new. But na Naija we dey therefore we'll only have to wait until december 2013 and then check back to see the level progress that has been made on these two projects. If good then more accolades will follow. Lagos-sagamu should be taken as the most expedient road project in the country |
Hardheolar: stop reasoning like an advanced idiot.Hey you! stop the insult. As a matter of fact the pic looks odd. Its also on the frontpage of one of the dailies. We need to know why what looks like the carcass of a vehicle is sufficent to almost overturn a train. I suspect the condition of the rail or the train itself as being primarily responsible. |
buchito1: Nawa oooooo!Thought it said that you can't stop a moving train. Why is it different here. Is there a Nigerian factor? |
johnie: Both New Road (which leads to the beach) and Alpha Beach-Lafiaji Road (which runs parallel to the ocean banks) need urgent attention.Please can someone upload pictures of the road here sothat we can even see how bad it is? |
veraponpo: The main problem we have in this country is allowing the Ibos to be staying with the rest of us. I have no apology fo saying this. For the following reasons:IS THERE STILL A MODERATOR HERE? |
All hands should better be on deck to ensure this succeeds instead of the ongoing zerosum game of positioning and re-positioning for 2015. |
Tell them |
This post don open many people nyash about their knowledge about simple states and capitals that primary school children will easily recite. Bayelsa, Kwara have been mentioned as state capitals ...lol After they'll tell their children that they always came first in school. |
chino11: These are the indisputable worst state capitals by zonesHave been to Damaturu? |
Eyeba2013: Alpha Beach road as transformed from being a road to a river. One needs a boat to navigate half of the road for most part of the year. Pls join us in our SHOUT OUT to BRF to fix our road (River?).That is not one of the worst roads in Lagos and na BIG BOYS area be that. The affluent people who live there should either arrange to fix or continue waiting. If I'm BRF I'll concentrate on the welfare of the poor and middle class. |
Smartsyn: 1. Mr Tony Nwoyethis is not about confusion. it shows the independent spirit of anambra people who dont leave power for anybody because it is their birthright. everybody has a right to vote and ne voted for. Rather than call the state a confused one, we should try to find out what gave so many people the boldness to contest. I think it is underlying social system which doesn't repress one over another and encourages anybody no his class to aspire to anything in life. |
Smartsyn: 1. Mr Tony Nwoyethis is not about confusion. it shows the independent spirit of anambra people who dont leave power for anybody because it is their birthright. everybody has a right to vote and ne voted for. Rather than call the state a confused one, we should try to find out what gave so many people the boldness to contest. I think it is underlying social system which doesn't repress one over another and encourages anybody no his class to aspire to anything in life. |
awhagwan: Story.The Eko Atlantic city is a landmark project. It is an exemplary one which we should all learn lessoons from. The fact is that anybody who is expecting to have a building (tallest in Lagos) completed there in 24 months in wallowing in fool's paradise. Pls what the per cent completion of the sandfilling of the first phase right now? |
Akanbi_edu: Lagos should implement a policy that allows school fees difference between Lagos indigenes, Lagos residents and foreign students.What we can see in the pic is not acceptable. The non-indigenes pay taxes, tenement rates, land charges etc. which the government happily pockets - N23 bn as at June last year and still rising. http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/06/18/our-igr-now-n23b-monthly-fashola/ The non-indigenes contribute much more to the economy of Lagos than the indigenes. They help keep Lagos's economy healthy. TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS EXPECTED. |
Kairoseki77: [img]http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/themes/goodnews/framework/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/BZM3.jpg&h=449&w=599&zc=1[/img]Hey that is MASSOB. If you're familiar with MASSOB you'll know they are the ones in the picture. Look at the flags they have. Look at the looks of the people involved. Do they look feminine? They are Agberos and 85% of MASSOB members are Agberos |
