₦airaland Forum

taharqa: Finally, we have been saved the SHAME of always taking the Black Box and other on-flight Equipments to the US and other Western nations for their Recording and Analysis anytime there is an Aircraft Accident.

NOW, other nations, esp African, would come to us to do their Analysis here.

ANOTHER PROMISE FULFILLED.

...... And, May God Continue to Bless the hard-working Minister Stella Oduah for Us all.

Amin.

Tomoarika: Hello.
I'm one of the 522 recently employed engineers in TCN. The recruitment was conducted by external consultants not by Govt directly. Yes the quota system was used (if it isn't used, some educationally-challenged zone will complain of marginalisation) and to be best of MY KNOWLEDGE merit was then used.
I do not know anyone in Govt before someone accuses me of being a beneficiary of godfatherism.
And I hope there will be an conducive environment for d new system to succeed (hence d massive clear-out with good pay-off package) cos I don't want to be part of failure.
So abeg pray for us new guys going there for us to succeed in dis massive task. Cos let's face it, stable electricity supply is for everyone's benefit, no need to play d political card here, it shdn't be a privilege but a bare necessity in d modern age.
Regards

take dat: I like this part, especially the attitude and the language employed to emphasize this 'bitter truth'. Many servile leaders who a$slick the Superpowers would not attempt to touch on the subject. Thoroughly impressed!


#Jonaballs

Ayekotoo: South Africans are buying up major investments in the country to support and move their economy higher to where Nigeria can never attain. These falseful patriots are cooking up propaganda all over the media.

taharqa: That's whats up. Other serious persons looking at d FACTS and positioning themselves to get d most Benefits possible, WHILST a few local HATERS desperately playing d we-go-spoil-am-if-we-no-get game. They will FAIL, and this country wud continue to Stride Forward and fulfil her Great Potentials in our time........ NB: Nigeria moved 38th places UP d Ranking in 10 yrs

CFCfan: Waternogetenemy's 2nd pic was an earlier draft of the new terminal, which has been discarded. The building on the left in the 1st pic is what will be built.

Orlando Owoh: What is so special in ringing the bell of the NYSE? The President, in a post to his friends on FB, said he had the opportunity of ringing it.

amarilo: did he complain of no spare parts for his personal car if he has one.

Sincere 9gerian: Why cant Lagos buy buses from Innoson Motors? If they buy local, availability of spare part will not be an issue. Why import what can be bought locally?

software man: of all the NIPP(now niger delta holding company) plants only sapele and olorunsogo stands a good chance of being commisioned before 2015(there is no guarantee that it will even be available to the national grid) Most of the others are at mostly 20% completion stage.

The truth is that even if olorunsogo(750MW) and sapele (450mv) come on stream , there is no transmission capacity to handle it as most transmission expansion projects are still at mostly 20% completion.

Kairoseki77: Always good to see this!

Question though, is this really an accomplishment?

take dat: ^ Bruh, how do you expect me to reply this epistle on a monday morning?

* For the 2010-2011 fuel subsidies, GEJ granted an executive fiat to corruption and made a god out of graft. FACT!
* Do you get to buy fuel at the fixed price everywhere in the SE? NO!

* On the privatization of PHCN, the winners of the bidding exercise are PDP sponsors, business allies of those in government. FACT!
* Did the extended window granted to Interstate and North-West raise objections? Yes!
* Did major newspapers report that Emeka Offor's Interstate is backed by influential figures in the Villa? Yes!

dgitrader: I dont mean to burst your buble, indeed it was QUOTA SYSTEM AND NOT MERIT WAS USED. THIS IS AUTHORITATIVE. The politicians and top govt bureaucrats had their fair shares.

Onlytruth: since this company is involved in a very critical strategic national development sector, I hope that the engineers were picked BY MERIT not by some stupid quota system. I sincerely hope so!

Nigeria's problem in these types of sectors is not lack of skilled manpower or talent, but the evil of quota system.

HIRE THE BEST NIGERIANS.

take dat: That isn't the point of my argument. For the mere fact that SR got the name of the Hotel right and Abati never disproved it shows that there is iota of truth in what was reported. Where the president lodge is not what am worried about!

take dat: Nigeria cannot progress with empty promises. We are always inundated by promise after promise of plans to attain 10,000 megawatts year in, year out.



@Topic; the president spoke well, and truly there are few fully merited ministers in his cabinet while others are a block of wood. The minister of agriculture deserves commendation.

*He said his government implemented the most transparent privatization exercise, yet tales of cronism and personalisation of public properties trailed the exercise. Also, the claim that $3billion is the highest ever realized from sale of government companies is not far fetched. PHCN is one of the biggest monopoly and revenue generating government corporation, the cabal of elite who bought it will make their returns within 3 to 5 years of operation.

*The President forgot to tell his audience that his administration perpetuated the largest scale of misappropriation and mismanagement of oil subsidies and one of the subsidy thieves(Femi Otedola) was part of his delegation.

take dat: And who told you all the delegates are billed to attend UN General Assembly? Many of them are there to shop using the estacode received from public purse while some are there to philander. Don't be a learner, this is Nigeria!

awodman: The Presidency has denied reports that the President
Goodluck Jonathan, who is in New York to attend the
United Nations General Assembly is in the United States
with a 600-man delegation.

In a statement signed by Reuben Abati, the Special
Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, the
Presidency said Jonathan arrived New York with “less
than 30 persons as members of his entourage.”

The statement went further to assert that “There is also
no substance to the rehashed charge of profligacy
which SaharaReporters annually makes against the
President when he leads Nigeria’s delegation to the UN
General Assembly.”

Read the full statement below:

We have noted with regret the continuation today by
SaharaReporters.com of its usual scurrilous and
baseless attacks on the Jonathan Administration with
publication of a false claim that the President is leading
a 600-man delegation to the 68th Session of the United
Nations General Assembly in New York.

While we trust that discerning members of the public
who are already very familiar with SaharaReporters’
usual fare of mischief, outright falsehood and erroneous
speculation will rightly dismiss this latest claim as a
fresh manifestation of the online medium’s ill-will
towards President Jonathan and his administration, we
wish to affirm for the benefit of the unwary that there is
absolutely no truth in the allegation that the President
took a 600-man delegation to New York.

There is also no substance to the rehashed charge of
profligacy which SaharaReporters annually makes
against the President when he leads Nigeria’s
delegation to the UN General Assembly.

The truth is that less than 30 persons arrived in New
York with the President this morning as members of his
entourage. Other than them, the only other persons
who are in New York for the UN General Assembly with
the President’s knowledge and approval are relevant
ministers and few essential aides.

President Jonathan’s official delegation is definitely not
out of proportion with Nigeria’s size, role and relevance
in Africa and the global community.

SaharReporters’ claim that the President’s delegation is
the largest at this year’s General Assembly is an
unjustifiable fabrication which can never stand any
rigorous test of truthfulness.

We are certainly aware that many Nigerian citizens are
currently on visits to New York. These persons are here
for their own purposes and neither President Jonathan
nor his administration has any responsibility for the
presence of these persons in New York.

We will not be surprised if it is such persons who
include Nigerian businessmen who are here for an
African Business Roundtable event, members of non-
governmental organizations and tourists that
SaharaReporters has been counting, for the sole
purpose of mischief-making, as “members of the
Nigerian delegation”.

taharqa: No need for shouting, Bros. Nobody is disagreeing with you here. GEJ took 6000, not even 600 as reported, delegates to UN General Assembly in New York. We believe you. Even though the 547 Civil Servants that SR just said accompanied him are more than d entire No of people in d Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we still believe you people. They must hv collected more Civil Servants from other Ministeries, like d Ministry of Education whose staff are lazying about doing nothing cos of d ASUU strike, in order to make up d 547 persons. They chartered d Entire Aircrafts in Nigeria and many more Big ones from d US in order to take these huge No of Delegates to New York. I saw them myself. I also saw them while they all landed in New York. You know, since there is no way 600 persons can possibly get Accomodation in New York on d week of d UN General Assembly, half of them are scattered in other nearby cities, esp in California, from where they wud be brought to New York daily by those same Planes that was chartered (by d way did I mention that all those Planes that brought them to New York was actuali chartered for d entire week), whilst about 100 of them are currently squatting at d Basement of Nigeria's Embassy House in New York. I am looking at them with my own eyes as am tying this now. I should not forget to add that since these huge Nos of persons cannot fit into d UN General Assembly Hall during Pleniary, arrangements hv been made to provide HUGE Canopies for them just outside d Hall so that they can be hailing GEJ as he gives his Address tomorrow. An impaccable Source (who I cant name cos he doesn't want his name in Print) confirm this arrangement; he also said that d Contract for the Canopies was given to d lovely wife of d President, Dame Patiene Jonathan, herself.... I can go on and on; but suffice it to say that on this one we completely believe You and SR. So please lets not fight over this, abeg. Thnks

luvinhubby: Where is Sahara reporters and their fabricated lies.

In what is a major milestone towards tackling the challenge of electricity transmission in the country, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has received newly recruited 522 engineers from the Federal Ministry of Power.

It would be recalled that Chinedu Nebo, minister of power, had in August said the Federal Government had designated $1.6 billion for the expansion of power transmission facilities in the country.

With the increase in the engineering capacity of the TCN, which is saddled with the responsibility of electricity transmission between generation and distribution companies, Nigerians expect better management and maintenance of the nation’s transmission network and improved service delivery by the company.

Receiving the new employees in Abuja, Don Priestman, managing director and chief executive officer of TCN, expressed satisfaction that TCN is bringing in a crop of young and skilled people with the potential to keep the future of the company unfolding as it should.

While charging the new employees to be hard working, he said that TCN holds an extremely satisfying career path for young engineers.

tyson99: Sebi na u be the d whole population in naija dat will vote alone and ur uncle na jega...oponu ayerada

tyson99: I wish i have a gun,i would have blown ur head off immediately to pieces dat ur teeth might be found in kano and ur eyeballs in lagos....omokomo oshi radarada.....iwo ati GEJ koni sorire

McDoe: Men, c'mmon, be objective. I lived in PH btw 2010 and 2011; during this time, Rivers state was turned to a construction site. Politics aside, Gov. Amaechi has tried and is still doing his best for the state within available resources. Praise a strong man and he will do more.

StarBoard: Stop this madness, I say.
Amaechi is telling the truth about FG roads in Rivers State.
The East-West Road is a prime example. Unless you do not live in Rivers State, you would not be typing such hogwash to defend your paymaster.

Sincere 9gerian: There is a difference between policies and physical project execution. If you dont understand or buy a policy you may not appreciate or benefit from it.

Comparing the fertilizer distribution policy and construction of dams is like comparing apples and oranges. The later is a physical project while the former is a new policy.

Also the fertilizer distribution policy is a collaboration between FG, state govt and the farmer (shared 25-25-50). So if the governor of a particular state for instance fails to cooperate (pay its 25% or does not understand or buy the policy), the programme automatically encounters challenges in that state. So while the fertilizer policy may be successful in a states like Kogi, Anambra, Abia,Kebbi,etc because of cooperative governors, it may encounter challenges or even be stalled in a states with un-cooperative governor.

The issue of building a dam is COMPLETELY different. This is physical project being executed wholly by the FG. The FG has both the knife and yam.