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sweetgala:
Many people that were not Igbo identified with the biafrans cause for whatever personal reasons they saw fit. That does not mean they are Igbo.

It is like trying to argue with bukola Saraki that he is Yoruba, while the man sometimes identifies as different.

It is called Political expedience!

OP is mischievous just like Oliseh.


If only Kaduna Nzegwu their brother, could see the slave his people have become.



Kaduna Nzegwu people are not igbo, I wish Gowon and Co knew this back then, alot of us igbos would have been spared all the trouble.


Imagine calling a coup led by Kaduna Nzegwu and yoruba officers igbo coup.



Ndiigbo we have truily suffered.


Oya Sunday drop the two igbo names before them go blame us for the madness wey dey una bloodline.

tunshe:
Let's drop who did what and stop comparing 2 leaders who have both strengths and weaknesses.

Our focus is results,that's what will benefit Nigerians.

How about let us give credit where credit is due.


Buhari must have repaired the refinery from his personal bank account, inview that he claims not to have met any money in treasury.

ladyF:
He has, but not publicly as we all expected . He will declare it publicly before 2019 elections...that I am sure of.

This is a joke right? Nigerians don enter one chance.

ladyF:
Eeyah

Blame his media team for under publicity. What were they getting paid for?

My sister the thing tire me O. This is how dey lost the election. It is either PDP media team are lazy or novice.


I don't see how Buhari can be getting away with yet another fraud on Nigerians.


That man has not done anything since assuming office. Not even simple declaration of asset as he promised.

otimize:
saTAN is back. Buhari is light!!!

Deception can only get u so far, before people start to find out that you are a fake. There is no light in lies.

IbnSultaan:
park well

Are u one of them?

FG Signs TAM Contract with Builders of Refineries

11 Jan 2012
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Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke


By Chineme Okafor

Worried by the frequent demand for functional refineries in the country as a way out of petroleum products’ importation, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has disclosed that Nigeria will this week sign a formal contract for the planned turn-around maintenance (TAM) of all its traditional refineries with their original builders.

She said in a statement in Abuja Tuesday that the contract or agreement for the TAM would be signed by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the original builders of the refineries.

She also said that some other investors from China had also indicated interest to build more refineries in the country.

“In order to ensure that we get our refineries to 90 per cent utilisation and to show Nigerians that we are serious this time around, we actually went back and brought the original contractors that built our refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna.

“Already, they have given us an aggressive timetable and they have assured us that within 24 months all three major refineries will be producing up to 90 per cent capacity utilisation,” she said.

In the statement that was signed by the Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma, the minister assured Nigerians that within the next 24 months Nigeria would become a net exporter of petroleum products, adding that with the removal of fuel subsidy, several investors are ready to invest in the nation’s economy.

The four refineries have a combined installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day (bpd) and a comprehensive network of pipelines and depots are strategically located throughout Nigeria to link them.

“With this policy in place, millions of jobs will be created and the economy will become very viable for investment,” Alison-Madueke stated.

The minister also explained how the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government would help curb the widely reported incidence of corruption in the downstream sector of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.

She noted that apart from providing the flexibility for re-investment of key funds into the provision of critical social infrastructure, the removal of subsidy on premium motor spirit (PMS) would help erase corruption which has trailed subsidy claims and counter-claims.

According to her, “It is not possible to have petrol at N65 per litre at the pump in Nigeria; in Chad as much as N200, in Ghana at N175 and in Niger at N190 and yet you expect people not to move the product across our borders?

“It is simple economics especially when you consider the nature of our international borders. So in the last 16 months, while we have fought so hard to keep the country wet with petroleum products despite some level of disparity in prices, some people have taken the products to other neighbouring countries where they can sell it for as much as three times the price in Nigeria.”

Alison-Madueke added: “It is a matter of simple economics that when you have this massive differential in price between you and neighbouring countries, nothing can stop the smuggling of the product.”

She noted that it is impracticable for anybody to expect government to stop the incidence of corruption in the downstream sector which is largely due to the subsidy regime and yet expect government to do so without removing the incidence of subsidy which is the biggest incentive for corruption in the sub-sector in the first instance.

“In the bid to sustain the gains of the fuel subsidy removal, a massive transformation and re-organisation is taking place in the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to ensure uniformity of prices of petroleum products in the downstream sector.

“We have put in place a much more robust and aggressive transformation in the regulatory agencies of the downstream sector. PPPRA and DPR are being reformed as we speak. Sweeping changes are beginning to go across them as we speak. We have done this so as to tighten the regulatory indices in the oil and gas sector,” she said.

While suing for understanding from Nigerians, she called on organised labour to reconsider its decision on the strike and return to work.

Alison-Madueke added: “In fact, the policy is a transfer of negativity to positivity in such a way that funds will be put to better use. The subsidy transfer as I choose to call it will lead to a situation where international Trunk A roads will be built for Nigerians.

“Major roads such as Abuja-Abaji, Benin-Ore-Shagamu roads have already been earmarked, major railway lines that will help in the freighting of petroleum products and irrigation projects that will help to supply water to Nigerians have already been pencilled down.”http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-signs-tam-contract-with-builders-of-refineries/106886/

walemoney007:
una go just dey yearn nonsense.how many days has he spent in office dat u are sayin he has done notin,are u sure u are ok sha? What are d works of gej dat is takin credit for?wia in d constitution is it written dat,he must declare his asset to d public?

That is why I did not give the full list of his electoral manifesto. The promises are endless. Does it take 4 years to declare asset? I mention asset.

Buhari is just a fraud, no amount of excuse can change that fact. A man without a qualification that lied on the very form presented to inec and lied his way to power is doomed to fail.

walemoney007:
how has he shown himself as a failure?

Buhari have not declare is asset. In short Buhari have done nothing apart from take credit for GEJ works completed. Change to Mediocrity

hakeem4:
by 2019 you'd know he's not a failure

We dont want further mouth action. It is too much, we don tire. Let Buhari do more and say less.

zeestunner:
And your father is successful? I doubt if ur dad has ever held a position of authority b4 not even class rep. Abeg if dis is ur definition of failure ah I want to be a failure o lols

Let us face issues and leave distractions. My father is not president and enjoys a quiet life. He has his children and grand children, a happy and content God fearing man of God that has never harmed a fly. Never killed anybody or played judge, jury and executioner.Would he trade that for fame glory and ending up in hell? hell no!

Buhari is president, we will discuss him even as he has turned out to be a failure.

Everyday all this abo.ki children will come here to defend Buhari.


My question to them is this, did a bomb not kill people again today in Maiduguri?


Perhaps since GEJ is no longer president, let them die. No more GEJ is boko and all the other shenanigans.


I laugh at the geographical expression created by the British called Nigger-area.

hakeem4:
he's a failure like your father

Buhari apologist make me laugh, comparing Buahri with my father is like comparing Bicycle to Bombardier jet.

My father flies around in a Bomardier Jet and has never been in Government.

This is why Buhari is a failure. He is a benefit junkie that depends on public purse.

Without Presidency it is bicycle all the way for Buhari.

BUHARI HAS SHOWN HIMSELF A FAILURE.

koolpal:
C mumu

Buhari abi?

He should have touch the amnesty now. Did he not make mouth about removing it.

No be for mouth Oooo! Buhari mouth action is tooo much!

The mouth President.

I still feel like we should no be one country. Nigeria should never have been created by the British.

9jii:
With or without?

Which one is with or without, the man said with. It is not by force to comment, must u add your own?

I don't even know wat to think or make of this comment by Gowon, so i will for once be reading opinions.

Gowon: Nigeria is better off with Igbos

on July 26, 2015 / in News, Trending 6:11 am / Comments


Nigeria’s wartime leader, Gen Yakubu Gowon, says “Nigeria is better off with Igbos.” He spoke while delivering an oration at the burial service for Chief (Mrs.) Chinyere Asika, wife of the former Sole Administrator of East Central State; just as the governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, described the deceased as a woman who exemplified the virtue of patience, charity and humility. The service took place at the All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Onitsha, Anambra State.

(FILES)- A March 2, 2012 file photo shows an Ohafia cultural troupe entertaining bystanders during the burial of Nigeria's secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu at his native Nnewi country home, in Anambra State eastern Nigeria. Odumegwu Ojukwu, who championed the campaign for an independent Republic of Biafra in eastern Nigeria in the 1960s culminating in a 30-month civil war which left more than a million dead was buried at his Nnewi family home in Anambra State. Its name is synonomous with the declaration of independence and updates on the brutal conflict that followed, but nearly 50 years after Nigeria's civil war, Radio Biafra is again making headlines. AFP PHOTO
(FILES)- A March 2, 2012 file photo shows an Ohafia cultural troupe entertaining bystanders during the burial of Nigeria’s secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu at his native Nnewi country home, in Anambra State eastern Nigeria. Odumegwu Ojukwu, who championed the campaign for an independent Republic of Biafra in eastern Nigeria in the 1960s culminating in a 30-month civil war which left more than a million dead was buried at his Nnewi family home in Anambra State. Its name is synonomous with the declaration of independence and updates on the brutal conflict that followed, but nearly 50 years after Nigeria’s civil war, Radio Biafra is again making headlines. AFP PHOTO
Gowon’s declaration was borne out of a deep appreciation of the commitment and sacrifice of the deceased and her husband, Ajie Ukpabi Asika, to the survival of Nigeria as one entity. The former Head of State recalled that when he proposed the post of Sole Administrator of East Central State, Asika told me, “I prefer to do this for the good of Igbo people.”

He went on: “I was struggling to get an administrator for the newly created East Central State when the name of the late Ukpabi Asika came up. He was then a lecturer at Ibadan. When we met, I did not know which one of us was younger. But he exuded strength of character and understanding, and wanted to start work immediately. I cautioned him to think about it. I told him, `you must consult your brothers, and your wife to know if you would accept’. I came away convinced that this was the man I needed.

“I did not know how to place his wife, Chinyere, but when she arrived from Kenya, she plunged head-on into the idea. She was a courageous woman, caring and humble. I remember her efforts in “Otu Olu Obodo”- a public service initiative which she used as a tool of empowerment for her Igbo kinsmen and women.”

Obiano told the children and the Asika family to imbibe the virtues of patience, charity and humility from Mrs Asika, while urging the congregation and Ndi Anambra to remember “her good deeds and pray for the repose of her soul.”

The service was attended by many prominent personalities including a former Minister of Defence, Gen T.Y. Danjuma, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/gowon-we-are-better-off-with-igbos/

Seun mods not his son but her friend son.

e4e5d4d5:
Lmaooooo. . . ..ochi egbuem ebea. .kedu ebe I gutara nke ahu

source. https://www.nairaland.com/2470997/igbos-actually-described-practising-jews

We know our religion before colonialism was Judaism.

IlekeHD:
Neither of the two.

How did you drag Yorubas into an Akwa Ibom issue?

Guy find yur level, me and u know get talk.

IlekeHD:
Quit hyperventilating.

Everyone is Yoruba. Such paranoia.

ok u are a igbo man. in ur dreams.

[size=14pt]LOOKING AT THIS THREAD, ONE THEME IS CLEAR, ONE YORUBA PERSON STARTED IT AND FUELED IT WITH MULTIPLE MONIKER.



IT IS A THREAD THAT BELONGS IN THE TRASH CAN, WELL DONE TO ALL THE SS/SE THAT POSTED ON THE THREAD.




YORUBAS TRY ANOTHER THREAD TOMORROW, BECOS OF FEAR OF BIAFRA AND THE RESPONSE WILL BE THE SAME.




IGBOS WILL NEVER SEEK ANY OFFICE IN SOUTH SOUTH.




WE WILL ONLY DO DAT IN LAGOS AND ABUJA, WHICH ARE NO MANS LAND.



IF U YORUBAS DONT LIKE IT OR IT PAIN U, COMMIT SUICIDE AND WE WILL STILL TAKE OUR OFFICE IN LAGOS AND ABUJA.[/size]