₦airaland Forum

demmy: Why is it difficult to expect a former General to still have contacts in the service he once led?

demmy: One was a serving governor and the other was the former Chief of Defense Staff. They were both well within the protocol to use chopper.

pDude: Guy i go buy you Moet

There is no principality nor power that is going to drag me back to that shithole country called Nigeria. See how my former colleagues and classmates, some who have jobs and some who don't are bombarding my facebook mail and bbm with requests of 100 dollars for xmas. That is the same country you want me to return to? The company i was working for was paying me peanuts after all the years I spent in university: so that is where you want me to return to? When I relocated to Aba from Lagos Almost 3 years ago, na so mosquito almost kill me for inside that filthy city, come see as my body and face come rough. Right now after just 8 months of staying here in Yankee, come see as my skin don fresh sotay I don dey resemble Akata . So you are telling me Nigeria is better than US? I applied for a job here, when I went in for the interview with an American chinko, she told me that it was a temporary job but a day later, she called me back and told me that she fought for me so that they changed it to a permanent job. She gave me the necessary documents and that same day I got a job. A chinko that didn't know me from Adam fought for me and gave me a good job with one of the big healthcare companies here.

In short, OP, thunder faya you for ever opening this idiotic thread

kunzel: "We have told him that if the president leaves in
2015 without the completion of the East-West
Road, we are finished. The man kept telling us
there is no money. "When IBB was there, there was money. When
Abacha was there, there was money. When other
people where there, there was money. How come the money disappeared when Jonathan
got there? Orubebe will account for all the deaths
on the East-West Road."

AVIATION SECTOR GENERATES 60,000 JOBS IN 12 MONTHS -- MAKU
NAN
December 12, 2012 19:28

Aviation
Abuja, Dec. 12, 2012 (NAN) The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Wednesday said that the aviation sector had created no fewer than 60,000 jobs in the last 12 months.

Maku said this while briefing State House Correspondents about the outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, at the State House, Abuja.

He said that most part of the council meeting was devoted to review of the progress made in the last 12 months by Ministries of Aviation and that of Telecommunication Technology, respectively.

Maku said that in a power-point presentation by the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, the
council was shown the progress made in the reconstruction of the local terminals of 11 airports across the country.

He added that the sector witnessed significant improvement in the installation of safety standard equipment, comparable to those in developed countries of the world.

He said that Oduah had also proposed the expansion of six new international airports in 2013, while
the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, would be made regional hubs of aviation in West Africa.

Maku said the plan to have a national carrier that would be private sector-driven was ongoing and special cargo terminals would be constructed in some states to promote the agriculture sector.

The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, also made a power-point presentation to the council on the ministry’s achievements in less than 18 months of its establishment.

Johnson said the ministry had shown commitment to the development of the broad-band technology to expand Internet and telephone services.

She said the ministry had developed programmes of access to computer by children, capacity building for civil servants in the field of technology as well as local content development.

She noted that the ministry contributed 5.7 per cent to the country’s GDP and enhanced
job creation for youths.

She added that the ministry was developing e-governance platform through the establishment
of ICT Contact Centre, where people could assess information on the country. (NAN)

Gorilla unit: if he fires him, you will now take over abii, and start blabbing.

Mandelaguy: you will grow old on this I asssure you. Nairaland is not enough for this. Can't you find your way to Aso Rock?

utumunta: What is d thrust of ds post? Is maku on d brink of losing hz job cum d mch anticipatd cabinet shake up nxt yr?
If Maku is so good in hz job why is dz govt d most criticized in our history? I dnt have anything agaisnt Maku bt i think Mr GEJ nids 2 fire evrybody connect wt selling hz image n govt. They hav done a bad job of it.
Maku wl function better as a minister of Labour.
I remember Jerry Gana, John Nwodo & Walter ofonagoro....

Pk001: I think the contest is between Labaran Maku and Frank Nweke jnr.

Louis88: with this your comment, it's not hard to tell that you are the low life.

Kidnappers urged to release Nigerian minister's mother
By Tife Owolabi and Tim Cocks
OGWASHI-UKU/ABUJA | Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:22pm GMT

(Reuters) - The family of Nigeria's finance minister made an emotional appeal for kidnappers to free her 82-year-old mother on Monday, saying the elderly woman was in fragile health.

Kamene Okonjo, mother of Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was abducted from her home on Sunday in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta state where kidnapping is rife.

"Around lunch time yesterday, some gunmen came to the compound and forced the gate open and took my mother away. The family is upset and traumatised," the minister's younger brother Onyema Okonjo told Reuters at the house.

"To abduct a grandmother more than 80 years old is sad. We appeal to them to release her as soon as possible because her health condition is not good," Onyema added.

Other members of the family sat outside in the sweltering heat as dozens of people arrived to offer support. The compound was surrounded by police.

Police said someone purporting to be one of the kidnappers had phoned on Monday to make some demands, but it was impossible to say whether the call was genuine.

"We have to identify the source of the call ... Anybody can make spurious calls and demands," said Delta state police spokesman Sergie Ezegam, without giving details of who was contacted or what was demanded.

"We still don't know the reason for her abduction. What we know is that this is a crime, the woman's life is in danger and we are making frantic efforts to rescue her," he added.

REGULAR KIDNAPPINGS

Criminal gangs regularly kidnap people for ransom in Nigeria, but it is rare for them to target members of the political elite.

Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has received threats in the past, her special adviser Paul Nwabuikwu said on Sunday.

Her drive to reform a corrupt and closed economy has made the economist popular with Western powers and Nigerians hoping for change.

But the former World Bank director has also made enemies along the way, especially among fuel marketers benefiting from a corrupt state subsidy scheme.

News of the kidnapping came as Okonjo-Iweala was locked in negotiations with parliament over the budget. It was not clear whether the abduction would affect her schedule.

Delta state Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan told journalists he had ordered security forces to rescue her within 24 hours.

Abductions are most common in oil-producing areas like Delta state. The majority of people abducted are Nigerians, but foreign oil and construction workers have also been targets.

Abductions spiked during years of militancy in the Delta, until an amnesty in 2009, but they remain commonplace.

The father of Chelsea football club player John Obi Mikel was kidnapped in central Nigeria last year and later freed. Authorities declined to comment on how he was released.

(Additional reporting by Anamesere Igboeroteonwu in Onitsha; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

KenGali: Where were the kidnappers when OBJ, IBB, and their cohorts were stealing us blind.

ochallo: you are still obviously in deep delusion, the notes were newly printed, it was a planned job, the N5000 notes were to have been used. the money would resurface in 2015.

DJTee: Well in Nigeria: Lack of Control + currency denomination issues = CORRUPTION of monumental proportions!!!

ochallo: Imagine if it was now N5000 notes, it would have been 10.2 billion Naira, exactly what sanusi wanted, i hope Nigerians are beginning to see beyond their rose colored glasses

Dollarman101: Just returned from the office and saw that this Sahara resident liar has been around advertising his foolishness on Nairaland.
The problem with joining issues with a resident clown like you is that one risks dignifying the tantrums of a mad man.

However, I am constrained by an overwhelming sense of social responsibility to respond to your allegations of financial impropriety against Maku. I do this with all decency and proof so as to show conclusively that you are a mad man on the loose.

FACTS
The NGGT is funded from the Ministry of Information’s 2012 capital budget. Costs are incurred mainly on payment of duty tour allowances of participants, security personnel, publicity and logistics.  So far the Federal Ministry of Information has not spent more than N5 million in each State visited.  The N5 million comprises DTA based on government approved rates for about 100 participants for a minimum of 3 days per State; transportation; security; medicals, secretariat facilities, etc. The participants are paid Duty Tour Allowance only and strictly for exactly the number of days they participate in the project.  I make bold to say that there has been no other known source of funding or expenditure for the project. The costs are managed by a Project Accountant in strict conformity to government financial regulations.  The NGGT is one of the most prudent and austere projects ever managed by the Federal Ministry of Information.