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Another mad propaganda from the pit of hell. Till they "light the bulb" ala Jona, then all these has no meaning. Here is a list of power projects under OBJ in addition to the upgrade at the existing power stations at the time. However, where has "the bulb light"? That is the main issue.

"In summary, when our administration came in in 1999, we met seven power stations —Kainji, Jebba, Shiroro, Egbin, Afam, Sapele and Delta — all together in different stages of disrepair and obsolescence, generating about 1500MW.

My scorecard on power

"By 2007, we have added six new stations as follows with the seventh almost completed at Alaoji:
a) Okpai in Delta - 480MW by Agip

b) Afam II - 276MW

c) Omotosho - 330MW

d) Palalanto - 330MW

e) Geregu - 414MW

f) Ikot Abasi-Ibom Power - 145MW - to which Federal Government is a partner.

g) Alaoji - 545MW

h) To these must be added about 2000MW produced by Rivers State

i) We must also take cognizance of the heavy rehabilitation works in all the existing power stations: increasing their available capacity significantly.

"There are six NIPP projects in the pipeline and the expansion of Omotosho, Papalanto, Geregu and Alaoji to about 1000MW each by combined cycle and 2500MW from Mambilla.

In other words, in eight years of our Administration, we have provided six new power generating units of almost 2000MW.

Till date we are still talking megawatt, gigawatt, kilowatt, disco, reggae bla bla bla. All these has no meaning to the welder and electrician at my water side.

Did ABC list the South East and South South roads as some of the roads that are "getting better"?

Amadioha will strike liars O.

ROSSIKE: ...............................................Kettle Calling Pot Black

Is this an attempt to blackmail the Catholic Bishops? You should be more intelligent than this.

What of the Federal Highway Patrol Barracks and the Area F command just opposite? That one sef no go receive "massive" renovation?

Another achievement for President Zonathan, we praise the Lord.

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]The facts dished out by Lai are serious facts that any sane and rational person will consider seriously, shamefully many simpletons who can't rise above ethnicity and partisanship will always exhibit their exceptional stupidity...

[/quote]Very serious facts! The west are actively looking to break away from OPEC and research is at its peak. Every serious minded person and nation knows this is a threat that should not be ignored. However, what we have are m0r0ns listing "paint factory and fruit juice factory" as cushions against the threat. It's a shame, a very big shame.

Omexonomy: 1 bons industries (food additives and chemicals
2 fruity and nuitty ( juice drink )
3 sigmakalon (marine paint and industrial chemical
julius beger new ashplat and reserch complex.
In short their more than five hundred of new factory [color=#000000]
1 bons industries (food additives and chemicals
2 fruity and nuitty ( juice drink )
3 sigmakalon (marine paint and industrial chemical
julius beger new ashplat and reserch complex.
In short their more than five hundred of new factory [/color]
1 bons industries (food additives and chemicals
2 fruity and nuitty ( juice drink )
3 sigmakalon (marine paint and industrial chemical
julius beger new ashplat and reserch complex.
In short their more than five hundred of new factory

So this will be enough to meet your Foreign Exchange needs? This is what diversification means to you?

Go and study so you can understand what the man has said there. He has submitted genuine threats to the economy, it is left for those with ears to listen

thelastPope: Negative meaningless rants like these cannot derail what is ongoing. Your comments means absolutely nothing! What has OBJ in 2003 got to do with GEJ in 2013? Funny atempt to derail the thread. Your bitterness and bile in oozing from your post. Onitsha river port is complete and will soon be commisioned. Under GEJ, Anambra is now an oil producing state. Ebonyi is about to join. You now completed your fooolisness by saying "when election is coming". Election is 2 years away. GEJ is doing this half way into his 4 year tenure. See your fooolishness exposed for all to see? SMH!

Mr man shut up your mouth, opio like you. How many ships have berthed at Onitsha? Was it not said to be completed in 2011? We are in 2013 two years later how many ships have berthed there? Oh it is still being 'concessioned', ehn anumpam? What has OBJ got to do with GEJ in 2013? Has anything changed? Is it not the same fraudulent PDP gang that has never implemented 30% of capital projects in its budgets? Or has GEJ ever hit at least 40% in capital budget implementation? If you ask that question again then you must be the biggest he-goat no n'ama.

Another Onitsha river port project, I laugh in Isiekenesi. Dem just dey use my Igbo brothers play chop-I-chop.

When Obj wanted to contest in 2003, he did the ground breaking of the Onitsha-Owerri road project awarding construction to Uba's CCC. We are in 2013, 11 good years, PDP is still on that road.

Every time wey election dey reach, dem go find one project rub ororo for this mouth, meanwhile the whole of the South East remains a complete mess.

Igbo muruanya! Unu a'bana na mmiri ncha n'agba unu n'anya

Racist cap28 again

ROSSIKE: There is not a single country on earth that has not relied on foreign investment for its development in the last century.

There are failures and there are success stories from attracting FDIs. As Nunenkamp and Spatz (2003) put it,

Positive growth effects of FDI are anything but guaranteed. Rather, host country and industry characteristics as well as the interplay between both sets of characteristics have an important say on the beneficial impact of FDI in developing countries.

We also have the issue of crowding in or out of domestic investment, socio-economic effects, absorptive capacity etc.

Like every economic issue, it is not a 'one way' traffic. It is subject to never ending debates.

Lenny5000: I thought MTN was a foreign company (SA) and also not an oil company? Pls correct me cos I dont reside there... Also I might suggest you discuss or debate instead of arguing in a public forum. It's obvious you are angry at Foreigners investing in Nigeria because you see them as exploiters, but before you do business in any country, Nigeria included you are guided by Laws, and you sign papers to adhere to these laws and if you see the companies breaking these laws you can either report them or stop using their services are a sign of protest. When Ken Saro Wiwa was Killed, I stopped buying Fuel from Shell that is seconds from my house.. Some Nigerians here laughed at me asking how that would affect Shell... Well you know the rest of the story. Stay positive, keep your head up and applaud any little progress you see in Naija. Bless

These benefits are not assured. I wrote an essay in 2005 where I debated these issues using relevant literature and the conclusion was, benefiting from FDIs is much more difficult and complex than attracting FDIs.

I urge people to read about FDIs and capital flows. Read economic texts, read journals, you get a better an wider view of FDIs. It is a very interesting study.

PapaBrowne: Are you guys serious?? You posted a graph that clearly shows GDP growth in a consistently upward direction for 2012 and you are complaining about 6.6%?
Are you serious? And someone said we should grow at 15%? Do you understand economics at all? Even China tries to avoid overheated economic growth and sometimes takes adequate measures to slow down its growth. It is wicked and unfair for anyone that claims to understand economics to look at that graph and think the economy did badly in 2012. There was a dip in the first quarter and it was clearly attributable to the strike that happened in January.

Do you have any evidence suggesting China's conscious attempt to slow down its growth to avoid a crisis? Please provide a link to an article, I will appreciate.

China seeks to keep Labour cost low and from what I understand, there is a conscious drive to keep exchange rate and inflation low by holding large foreign reserves. This could potentially slow or boost growth. It is not a one way thing.

Secondly, why should a country be envious of your growth rate with all the Boko Haram, killing and maiming going on?

That brings me to the point I made earlier, it is not all about growth, quality of growth is the most important thing. Even lesser countries have grown at much faster rates over the years, however, just like Nigeria, it does not change the socio-economic crisis that bedevils such countries.

You know the difference between you and those countries you want to compare with? They have their steel mills, they have their chemical industries, they have their heavy duty industries, if they want to build their major infrastructures tomorrow, it will be done by indigenous engineers while you in spite of your population will bring engineers from China and Germany.

So my friend please take a sit.

ROSSIKE: We did NOT grow at 10% in 1990. More like 8.2 percent, but only for that year, as it came crashing back to 4.7% the next year, and 2.2% the year after.. Neither did we grow at 30% in 2004. Your figures are bogus. Here's the graph:

https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:NGA&dl=en&hl=en&q=nigeria%20gdp%20growth%20graph

The difference over the last decade is that there has been very little fluctuation in GDP growth, compared to the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which makes it's measurement more meaningful, and points to real, steady progress.

Also, recent GDP growth has been attributed primarily to growth in the non-oil sector - telecoms, retail, agriculture, financial services, construction, and manufacturing.

Lastly, only 14% of Nigeria's annual GDP is derived from the oil and gas sector.

Mr man I don't do google. I took stats from UNCTAD which puts it at constant 2005 prices per capita to take away population and inflationary distortions- which is the appropriate thing- and these are the figures I got.

Secondly have an understanding of the concept of stabilization for an economy that receives the bulk of its FOREX through primary products. Get an understanding of government spending and macroeconomic stability then you can come understand what I mean.

Till then adios.

Such growth for a country that still gets the bulk of its foreign exchange through oil exports is meaningless?

A little slump in oil prices will push growth down. Quality of growth and not quantity is the most important thing. What really drives growth?

At 1990 we grew at 10%, 2004 was put at about 30% according to UNCTADSTAT (mainly due to rising oil prices), did it change anything? How many of you knew we grew by 30% in 2004?


As long as the oil money keeps flowing in, GDP will continue to rise, nothing extra-ordinary.

Good governance tour is good, it gives Labaran Maku a platform to further show his foolishness bla bla bla bla. Ehhhn we done hear.

Meanwhile Osho say in no dey sponsor, pack your bags and gooo. No come chop the one wey we left for old papa dem for Etsako.

We no dey do, shapam! No basket for rotten mango.

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Elueme: Oshomohle should stop playing a hero and act appropriately. The national good governance tour I learnt was a product of a consensus between the federal executive council and the governor's forum and I am surprised that my Oshomohle is now dancing a different tune even when his argument against the said tour didn't sail through at the forum. Democracy is a game of both number and superior argument and he( Oshomohle) was short of these two virtues when the issue was discussed before the tour was formally endorsed.
The agreement was a partnership between the federal and state. The state provides accommodation and feeding for the visiting team which comprises Nigerian union of journalists, civil society Organisations as well as government officials.
Despite the monetary involvement, I think the concept behind this tour is commendable. This is what our media houses ought to live up to by taking their time to do a thorough investigative journalism to ascertain what government at all levels are doing in the areas of infrastructural development. The citizens fora which I have watched so far had afforded many opportunity to air tbeir views and also to make contribution by way of informing the govt or suggestion on pertinent issues. Also, this tour will make many state governors to seat up, if regularized.
My humble advise is for the governor to play along if he had nothing to hide.. His position is most uncalled for and amount to being a betrayal. He is unnecessarily putting the state in the news for the wrong reasons but most unfortunately some may not see it this way that Oshomohle, though a good and a pragmatic leader, is an opportunist.

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Bollocks

Labaran Maku aka Minister of Fura de Nunu, fleecing States via his fraudulent tour.

Am I not being proved right that this man is a born criminal.

Details here

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/i-wont-use-state-resources-to-finance-good-governance-tour-oshiomhole/

Another scam by the minister of misinformation Liebaran Maku aka fura de nunu minister.

I talk am, this man Maku is the most criminally minded minister in Zona's government. I thought they said Labaran Maku spends only N5 million in each of the states, funded by the ministry of misinformation's budget, managed by the project accountant bla bla bla. How come Maku has been extorting each state of the federation?

This man is a rogue! So you take money from the Ministry's budget and then go for egunje from the States. For what? To continue his consumption of fura de nunu.

JONA FIRE MAKU NOW!!!

A very corrupt system.


Why should a Police College bother about feeding its recruits when there are more important things to do?

You pay them N25,000, why not outsource management of your canteen and focus on more important processes?

Open bids and get at least two organisations to provide food for your recruits in each of the colleges. Your recruits buy meal tickets, they make their money, they pay an annual fee to you, you check regularly for quality, the canteen becomes well managed, everyone is happy.

But they don't think, the money wey dem go thief done make all of them loose their brain.

Errmmm welcome back madam, hope Orisha-gear-four prayed for the soul of Abati because he needs it more.

Madam you "died seven times", Abati has died over 1000 times. In fact he has no soul again.

RIP Reuben Abati

From today anyone that disturbs me with any news on BBA, I will send amadioha to destroy you.

RIP Goldie

peckhamboi: The truth is they married when she was studying in the U.K and they were still married till she died, The brand "GOLDIE" was entirely Andrew's concept because he used to work in

Public Relations in the UK before he started working for Total Petroleum in Malaysia. Andrew figured out that Goldie or Susan might not be accepted if people

found out she was married to a white so he created the brand GOLDIE. Susan Harvey always travel to Malaysia to meet her husband every 2 or 3 months.

I am pretty sure that Prezzo too knew she was married but decided to play along and milk the publicity for all its worth.


R.I.P Susan Harvey

So you self know all these things since na in you no tell us

You deserve 30 strokes of the cane

elampiro: What reason do you have to back your claim that BBA is make believe.

In the BBA house you see everyone's character. In Goldie's season, four housemates were sent home for fighting (physical fight). Two withdrew by themselves due to misunderstanding. If you have been watching you would see it's a pure reality show that runs for 90 days.

Goldie was herself and she was a good person. Her interpersonal relationship was excellent, such is rare to find.

Read through the man's posts to understand.

The photo does not seem a fake or 'arrangee' marriage as some have insinuated. That was a proper wedding, the location looks like Chapel of Christ the Light at Alausa, Ikeja and I believe the marriage was going strong even till her death.

Read the man's posts.

What I can tell from this, is that the whole BBA thingy seems fake and make believe. Probably used to push the DSTV brand.


It seems the man like every loving man had to play along to get his wife's career going, not a big deal in the western world.

RIP Young Lady.

NA WAOH, MATTER DONE PASS MATHIAS HERE O!!!

I no understand this one again O.

ROSSIKE: Actually Congo is not a dictatorship. Second, what empirical evidence for what assertions are you requesting? Be more specific. Oh.. And singapore has just 5 million folks while being a historical magnet for western multinationals targeting the Asian market, similar to Malaysia, so they've attracted heavy FDI over the last 6 decades that dwarfs all the fdi received by most African nations in that period. So you would expect them to have achieved rapid development.

Development is one variable, freedom is another variable, do you have any empirical evidence suggesting causality between both variables? Sudan, Uganda, Chad, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan -during the Taliban rule- are examples of dictatorships. Why did they not see such changes?

And why have you not attracted sufficient FDIs to meet your development needs? It is a tool for development. Countries compete for FDIs and the fact they beat you in the drive for FDIs is no excuse.

ROSSIKE: You really are ignorant. Go back and read all I've typed on this thread regarding south Africa. Not sure why you're listing Zambia, Brazil Angola,, Venezuela etc. Those places have serious power issues as well. I'll just put your rant down to poor exposure and lack of research/reading, and possibly low IQ.

Do you have any empirical evidence to support your assertions or is it another spurious relationship between development and freedom? I'm not saying you are wrong, however, there is hardly any empirical evidence to support such assertions.

Malaysia and Singapore are good cases of democratic developing countries that have witnessed transformation within a short while. Congo DR on the other hand is a dictatorship that has not seen such transformation. So how do you reconcile both?

1] Benin - Sagamu road has been awarded and presently, the commuting time has been reduced from 12 hours and above to 4 hours.

2] The Lagos - Ibadan Expressway concession was decisively dealt with and immediate rehabilitative efforts were carried out by Julius Berger and RCC, which reduced the burden on commuters on that road during the Christmas holidays.

I will dig General Sani Abacha out of his grave or return IBB to come and continue. Why not? Abacha built roads, he maintained these roads, there were no pot holes on the road through out his time. But that is not the level we want to operate. We deserve better, we deserve better than the mediocrity of Abacha and Zonathan. We deserve better than PDP spending billions and over 10 years and still counting maintaining the Benin-Ore road.

Another daft report card designed by Labaran Maku aka Minister for 'Fura de nunu'. He is very daft and so you can tell when he is the one behind the lies. Of all the people behind Zona, he is the least intelligent

Incidence of youth unemployment has been a global challenge in the last few years with Europe having over 40 percent youth unemployment. Spain and Greece have been the worst hit with 50 percent and 82 percent youth unemployment respectively.

Where is the reputable data source to back this, I know what the unemployment figures are in Greece. You see, when you have not done anything, you start throwing lies about.

Today, Nigeria has reached an unprecedented 60 per cent sufficiency in rice production, a feat, which the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) recently described as capable of raising world rice output to a record high in the next 12 next months.

Is it that at Oyingbo and Mile 2 majority of the rice on sale is made in Nigeria at the moment? Another lie! Where is the verifiable data source?

taharqa: You mean I planted this story in DailyTrust, and then The Nation, Thisday, Guardian, Rueters, VOA, AFP etc etc?? And then when the Chief of Defense Staff visited Nigerian troops in this town, which was shown in many Nigerian TV stations, I must also have planted that in those Electronic Media using 'Photoshop in Motion', abi? CHoi, I must be very POWERFUL and INFLUENTIAL then; I mean even Water, Fire, Air and Wind- the 4 Elements of Nature- listen to my commands, I control them all LOL

You must be extremely daft to believe I will think an empty brain like you can plant stories in the media. As wetin now, a low life crumb catcher like you

Bring your story of Banamba liberation from Reuters, VOA and AFP or else amadioha will strike you and that 'Thief of Defence' staff. The rebels ran away from Banamba on Feb 2, when the French and Chadians had already pushed them as far as Timbuktu?

What they did as usual was to plant the story using the ever hungry and willing Nigerian press. What a big shame!

Taharqa you are a fraud!

How did Nigerian forces liberate a town that was never held by rebels?

Scores of people marched through the streets of Banamba town in northern Mali to welcome the Nigerian troops who liberated the town from militants.
The militants were in control of the town before the deployment of Nigerian soldiers there earlier this week.

Amadioha will strike you and the criminals planting stories in the media to coverup their failures.

If at all Banamba was occupied, it would have been the first town to be rescued by the French considering its proximity to Bamako. But they started off at Diabaly which was at risk at the time. If they had waited for a criminal and incompetent Nigerian government, by now the Militants would have leveled the whole of Mali.

They are very shameless people! Instead of pondering over their failures and incompetence, they plant stories in the media to deceive people.

Tamuno where are you to punish these people one after the other. Ehn Tamuno, biko, why don't you just destroy these devils once and for all so we can have peace.