₦airaland Forum

HNosegbe: Oga Jona hasn't even implemented Ribadu's report.

I'm supposed to take him serious?

Ribadu's report was strictly a fact-finding report

Ngige said he used N300million constitution allowance to build executive toilets

Its all good

donphilopus: The man(Jonathan) already knows he's a Loser

Since you are very sure of this..your earnest prayer should be that PDP presents him as their candidate..so it will be a very easy ride for APC

werepeLeri: and you think they are not afraid of GEJ running?

Exactly..they are scared of the man running...

I think Lai Mohammed should even be encouraging PDP to field Jonathan so that APC can have an easy ride at the polls...or is there something he is not telling us?

ba7man: You really can't blame people for the pent up anger towards the FG.

You and i are aware of past deeds they've carried out involving similar or larger amounts. We know how wasteful the FG can be so when we here this one, it appears like the regular mismanagement we're used to hearing about.

That perception can't vanish in just a few years.

Exactly..the mistrust is so much and clearly the media team of the current administration aint doing enough to educate the public..

But that shouldn't be an excuse ƒσя us not to be rational...

taharqa: Don't know why I am writing this, but here it is: the FCT is building two DISTRICTS on d outstricts of Abuja, which wud include Roads, Bridges, Hotels, Shopping Complexes, Tourist Spots, the Gates themselves, etc. And this wud be done using d Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement. This clarification has bn made various times by FCT Officials, including d Minister himself. This was reported by sm Real Newspapers, and brought here on NL.... Like I said previously, only a hopeless IGNORAMUS wud bliv that Govt wud spend #64billion (not million but billion) on just 2 Gates, cos sm persons said so!! For God's sake, how cud people be so daft, and bliv just about anytin sm Power Mongers tell them

I listened to the such clarification when the SA media to the FCT minister appeared on Raypower's Political platform..like you said its not just a gate but includes hotels,shopping malls e.t.c and it is the private sector that is bringing the cash..

I really wonder if we have discerning peeps in this country..just make an allegation in billions and everybody starts getting furious with some even foaming from their mouth...after all the hue and cry,we will all discover we channeled our energy in the wrong direction

1.Staple crop processing zone (part of the cassava flour value chain)
2. Post flood housing estate (272 units of housing)

1.Ongoing construction work on Lokoja-Benin Expressway
2.Part of 33 silos been constructed nationwide by FG
3.Greater Lokoja water works
4.Confluence Hotel

Very good move..I think they will be making that plan because of this policy

www.nairaland.com/1502041/fg-give-10-year-tax-holiday

ba7man: One building, one interior, one stadium, one waterwork, 3 silos, one road and dregging of a river and some people are already falling over themselves excitedly.

Mediocrity is seriously engrained in some people's DNA.

The team also inspected the following projects
constructed by the president Goodluck Jonathan led
administration in Kogi State viz New River-Port at Jamata,Nigeria-Korea Friendship Vocational institute, new Federal High Court Complex, Lokoja, Federal university Lokoja, Accelerated Rice Farming Project, new Lokoja Confluence Stadium, Soya Beans farm in Karara, new Kogi Secretariat, Specialist Hospital Diagnostic and Imaging Centre, Lokoja, 272 Post Flood Housing
project Bologi, Staple Crop Processing Farm in Alapa
(Agbadu), College of Education (Technical),Abuja-okene-Lokoja

All these projects above were inspected in the first day..note the team is still in Kogi

I wonder how a senator can make such an ignorant assertion....its a pity

Its common knowledge SURE-p is shared between states and FG at the ratio of 41% for FG and 59% for states and LGAs..What Kolade committee recieves is the FG's share of 41%...
www.sure-p.gov.ng/index.cfm/faqs/

Now let's do the maths..the senator alleged that from his calculation N800bn should have accrued to NNPC due to savings on subsidy(well let's even believe this figure is correct..now calculate 41% of this N800bn then you can judge for yourself..

taharqa: A new terminal is actuali been built from d $500m Chinese Loan, and a World Class one at that. 5 of them are planned; Constructn work in at least 2 hv already started

Work has started in all locations....

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State on Tuesday night
denied subjecting his wife, Mrs. Clara Chime, to house
arrest and has vowed to protect her from being exposed to ridicule.

Chime made this denial in the presence of some
journalists, his wife and her elder brother, Mr. Tony Igwe.

Also present were the governor’s siblings, Mrs. May Oji and Dr. Jide Chime, as well as Mrs. Chime’s neuro-psychiatric doctor, Dr. Aham Agumuo, among a few others.

At the interview session, the governor’s wife denied
sending any petition to the National Human Rights
Commission alleging unlawful detention by her husband.


She also denied hiring the services of Mr. Femi Falana to seek her freedom from an alleged house arrest at the
Governor’s Lodge, Enugu.

Falana had claimed in his letter to media houses and the
Inspector-General of Police that he was engaged by the
governor’s wife to seek her freedom from alleged house
arrest.

The state governor, however, stated that it was “so
disturbing” for him to speak out publicly about his wife’s
health challenges.

He vowed to do all within his power, no matter the
personal pains, to protect her from ridicule.

“Well, my wife has some medical challenges and it would
be very unkind for me to talk about her condition on the
pages of newspapers.

“I have done everything to protect her integrity and I’m
not now going to expose her to ridicule because some
people want to exploit her situation to drag me into a
needless war of words,” Chime said.

www.punchng.com/news/im-protecting-my-wife-from-ridicule-chime/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

otokx: This is a satanic lie; road that i passed 3 weeks ago. No work done at all in Bayelsa and the flooding is a massive challenge. Instead of SETRACO to channel the water elsewhere they are just dredging and dumping sand only for mother nature to swallow it up. Work on the bridges are on going but slow. This work can't be finished by 2019 even if they work 24 hours. Its like trying to dig a dry hole in the ocean.

I would have appreciated it if you picked out the specific sections as listed by the reporter and prove his "satanic lie" by providing valid contrary evidence...

HNosegbe: Meanwhile, what's up with the PIB?

You know that's not their priority..don't you?

Tambuwal is a kid...jeez!!

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Akwa Ibom
State Command, has arrested a Power Holding Company of Nigeria service manager and eight others for allegedly
engaging in illegal poles planting and cables theft.

The eight men were said to have been nabbed following a
tip-off from residents that some vandals were tampering
with the PHCN installations at Nung Oku in Ibesikpo/Asutan Local Government Area.

It was learnt that the service manager, Ibesikpo/Asutan
LGA’s PHCN office was arrested for alleged complicity in the crime.

The command’s head, Public Relations/Protocol, Mr. Ime
White, told PUNCH Metro in Uyo on Monday that following
the tip-off, the state commandant of the agency, Mr. Pedro Ideba, quickly mobilised patrol teams to the area.

He explained that the command’s prompt action was also
necessitated by the fear that if the vandals were quacks,
they could be electrocuted.

White said following the arrest of the suspects, the
command impounded the truck they were using, which
had PHCN label indicating that the vandals were from the
Port Harcourt district.

He noted that investigation, however, revealed that though the vandals posed as PHCN workers, none had ever worked with the parastatal.

He added that NSCDC had impounded feeder cables,
insulators, ladder and other working tools recovered from
the suspects.

He said, “We discovered a purported contract of
transplanting poles being undertaken by one Jenkins
International Limited.

“It was the duty of the service manager, PHCN, Ibesikpo/
Asutan LGA, to have notified the Uyo District of such jobs,
but that did not happen.

“Upon the arrest of the suspects, we discovered that the
truck they were using had PHCN label that has to do with
metering project of Port Harcourt district and not Akwa
Ibom. Although they posed as PHCN workers, we
discovered that none of them worked with the company.
Feeder cables, insulators, ladders and other working tools, were all impounded here.”

He stated that when the command contacted Uyo office of the PHCN to verify if there was any contract they gave to Jenkins International Limited, the office denied knowledge of such deal.

www.punchng.com/metro/phcn-manager-others-arrested-for-alleged-cable-theft/

vizboy: if person meet president of nigeria na so e dey be.


See the way these guyz humble

As in eh..all this guys wey d curse GEJ for here,if dem meet am na so dem go humble kwa

esuabassey: Hey!!!...

What's up?...how is the training at NAPTIN going

This action by the so called Airline Operators reinforces my belief that Stella is been "lynched" because she has changed the old order as regards the aviation sector..

The crisis buffeting Nigeria’s troubled aviation industry
escalated on Sunday with Nigerian airlines announcing that they will no longer pay any money to aviation agencies until the sector is rid of corruption and corrupt people.

Stella Oduah, Nigeria’s embattled aviation minister,
testified before the House of Representatives Committee
on Aviation on 31 October following revelations that the
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, bought two BMW
bullet-proof cars for her at the hefty sum of N255 million.
Oduah denied allegations against her and put all blame on others, but documents show she approved the purchase of the expensive cars that were not budgeted for and that were beyond her approval limit of N100 million.

The Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, announced on
Sunday that Nigerian carriers have stopped remitting all
fees to aviation agencies because of the gargantuan
corruption rocking the sector.

The remittances of aviation charges stopped on 1
November, said Mohammed Tukur, who spoke on behalf of the airlines.

Tukur said the airlines stopped remitting any money to the NCAA, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA,the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, and other relevant aviation bodies to protest against the rot in the sector.

He warned that Nigerian airlines may also ground their
operations if nothing is done to ‘clean up’ the sector.

“Due to the ongoing crises, we have resolved to stop the
remittances of all charges, both current and outstanding
debts to the agencies, pending the time they reform or
come clean on the taxes and charges they have collected
which runs into several billions of naira,” Tukur said on
behalf of Nigerian airlines.

The airlines argued that while aviation charges have
continued to skyrocket, the money paid has continued to
be misused by the aviation ministry and agencies to buy
expensive cars.

Consequently, AON called on the federal government to
intervene in the astronomical charges imposed on Nigerian airlines.

“The suspension of payment of taxes, charges took effect
from November 1, 2013. We call on the Federal
Government and all concerned to set up investigative
panel to resolve these anomalies,” Tukur said.

The airlines have been struggling with numerous charges,including landing and parking charges, remittance of five per cent taxes on every ticket sold, fuel tax, multiple navigational charges, airport tax as well as very expensive office spaces among other numerous taxes.

The $3000 and $4000 newly introduced by the NCAA for
charter operators with Nigerian registered aircraft paying
$3000 and foreign registered charter operator parting with $4000 for a single take-off and landing.

Analysts say the numerous charges imposed on airlines are eventually passed on to Nigerian travellers who pay
expensive air fairs for poor services.

The carriers expressed disappointment with obsolete
infrastructure dotting the nation’s airports and epileptic
navigational tools that many say have contributed to air
crashes and serious air incidents in the country.

Tukur said AON was studying the involvement of two of its members with the reported BMW car scam and may be sanctioned them if found culpable.

The House of Representative Committee on Aviation
probing the alleged scam had fingered an airline operator
(name withheld) for its involvement in the procurement of
the two limousine cars allegedly acquired for Oduah.

Beyond Nigeria, it was learnt that an international
organisation has written the government to express
concerns over safety issues in the Nigerian aviation sector
as well as the loss of independence of the country’s
aviation regulatory body-the NCAA.

This has further heightened the fear that Nigeria may lose
its coveted Category One aviation safety status granted the country four years ago by the United States Federal
Aviation Administration, FAA.

pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/11/03/nigerias-aviation-corruption-airlines-stop-payment-of-charges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PmNewsNigeria+%28PM+News+Nigeria%29

Abeg eclipse d carry rain?..cos e d rain here for aba ooooo

Good step in the right direction..another way of tackling the Boko Haram menace from its roots because we all know military approach is not the only solution.

Northerners ruled this country for decades yet they have the highest number of out of school kids...and yet this kids will be the one chanting the elites name and will even get to vote them for no just reason other than been from my tribe ..very pathetic

Mr Aboki: In fairness, work had started generally on the East- west road a long time ago with significant progress achieved. But the Eleme part had not been touched. The road there was still bad. That entire road is being constructed by RCC and I know it like the back of my hand. But the work picked up 'extra-ordinary pace' around Petro chemical area which leads into Okrika just for this funeral. They even took it as far as Eleme junction.

Okrika can only be accessed by road from Eleme express road. The only other access is by water from the part of Okrika that sits on Port-Harcourt mainland (Abuloma).

Thanks for the explanation...we really need to stop this eye service thing,it can never help us to grow

Mr aboki when exactly did work pick-up in this Eleme axis you are talking about and when was it finished?

Does that Eleme road lead to Okirika?..I want to understand how exactly it is connected to the PEJ's mum burial

President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos on Friday said
that the Federal Government would soon commence a
10-year tax holiday for local tyre manufacturers.

Jonathan made the declaration at the opening
ceremony of the 2013 Lagos International Trade Fair.
Represented by Mr Olusegun Aganga, the Minister of
Trade and investment, Jonathan said the tax holiday
was part of the commitment of the government to its
new automobile policy.

The president said that the value chain on key
automobile products like metals, iron ore, plastic, and
tyres would also be improved.

“In terms of product development, you need tyres.
Michelin and Dunlop died many years ago because of
poor government policy. We are bringing them back.

“The policy for tyre, part of the problem was that some
of the tyres were brought in at 10 per cent, while
some are 20 per cent and 40 per cent.

“Anybody that goes into tyre production like Michelin and
others will start bringing in tyres at 5 per cent based
on the level of commitment to produce tyres locally.

“They will not pay tax for the next five to 10 years.

“Also to promote the automobile sector, we are
making investments in the petrochemical sector.

“Last month, Mr Aliko Dangote announced an
investment of nine billion dollars on a petro-chemical
plant.

“The plant will offer an immediate employment to
8,000 engineers, and then a subsequent 85,000
workers.

“It is also needful to diversify the economy, despite
our plans for the petroleum sector,” he said.

The president also said that adequate measures would
be provided to support the annual trade fair and make
it bigger to boost the real sector.

He said he had taken necessary legal steps to reverse
the full concession of the trade fair complex. (NAN)

businessnews.com.ng/2013/11/02/fg-give-10-year-tax-holiday-tyre-manufacturers/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=fg-give-10-year-tax-holiday-tyre-manufacturers

THE crisis dogging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
may have become more interesting with a remark by
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that a plan to split
the embattled party had remained in the works for four
months.

In an interview in his Abuja home with a team of
journalists from Rariya, a Hausa newspaper based in
Abuja, Atiku also spoke on the situation of things in the
‘new PDP.’

Atiku, who had led a withdrawal of a number of governors
from the venue of a recent PDP convention, claimed that
“we have been planning for some time because we have
spent almost four months planning how to split the PDP.”

The former number two man in the country said that he
decided to join the plan because the reasons of the
sponsors aligned with his long-standing grouse about the
situation of things in the party.

“At first, I didn’t know the arrowhead, but they eventually
came and met me and I joined them because their
reasons are the same with the ones I have been fighting
against within the party — lack of fairness, honesty and
tyranny. If I can fight the military to restore democracy,
why can’t I fight fellow politicians?” he said.

According to him, his faction of the party had appealed the decision of the courts declaring it illegal.
“We have appealed and we are planning seriously.You will
see what will happen,” he said.

Responding to a question on the reason some chieftains of the party took offence to the purported ambition of
President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015,
especially since the president had not categorically
expressed his interest in another term in office, Atiku said,“he did (say that he would run) since he said he had the right to run. What else is remaining?”

Atiku was, however, silent on whether or not he would run for the presidency in the next general election. “Why are you in a hurry? Don’t worry, it is not yet the time for you to know,” he said.

In the meantime, the Turakin Adamawa denied being in
the know of any plans of the newly registered Peoples
Democratic Movement (PDM), declaring that “I am not a
member.”

PDM is believed to belong to Atiku’s associates and those
of the former Chief of General Staff, the late General
Shehu Musa Yar’Adua.

www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/25348-we-planned-for-4-months-to-split-pdp-atiku.html

Great..now let the hard job of getting electricity to our homes begin

Like Fashola like Amosun...Transparency is the last thing on APC's governors mind. No wonder they have refused to domesticate the FOI bill

Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has
barred state government officials include Speaker of the
state House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi, commissioners
and Head of Service in the state from addressing
newsmen.

The governor gave the order through a circular with
reference number SSG/ADM/22/173 Issued from the office of the Secretary to the State Government, Barr. Taiwo Adeoluwa dated October 2, 2013.

In the circular which was obtained by our correspondent
yesterday the governor directed that, no public official
should disseminate information about the government to
the public without “ due clearance from the appropriate
quarters”.

According to him, to this end, the governor of Ogun state,His Excellency , Senator Ibikunle Amosun has further instructed that public officers should desist from making statements on matters of policy without due clearance from the office of the Head of Service.

“Furthermore, all speeches to be presented at public
functions must be cleared with the speech production unit of the Office of the Governor, at least 24 hours before such functions”, the statement said.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/amosun-bars-speaker-commissioners-hos-others-talking-journalists/