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PapaBrowne:
Wait oh! Who is OPC?? Na cutlass OPC  dey use ooh!
Joint patrol ni, abi disjointed patrol ko??


Compare & Contrast

OPC
Average Monthly income per head: 3000 Naira
Weapons; Sticks, stones & Cutlasses.
Mode of transportation: Legs and hands

MEND
Average monthly income per head: $2000 average for junior cadre personnel, millions of dollars for senior personnel.
Weapons: Sub Machine Guns, Rocket Propelled Grenades, Bombs, Dynamites and an endlesss list of assault weapons.
Mode of transportation: High speed gun boats, underwater patrol abilities, clandestine mobility.

You forgot to add Mend also have brain.

i agree - have u ever tried doing business in Nigeria - country full of longa throats.

jacob05:
Learn Python first

Why the hell should he learn python - Learn Java  simplest language / u will pick it very fast not that i know anything about python / but when u run into problems u have a large community that can help.

So IG also executes contracts - Na wa for this country - Nigeria in ten years tome doesnt look bright at all if things dont change.

Lawmakers need not be subjected to 'turnover', says Ekweremadu

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in an interaction with newsmen in Enugu responded to various national issues including the demand by PDP senators for automatic ticket in 2011. LAWRENCE NJOKU was there.

You must be elated by recent ruling by the Appeal Court affirming you as Representative of Enugu West Senatorial District, aren't you?

I thank God for bringing that battle to an end. Uzo Onyeama is a part of my constituency; I don't have issues with her. She has exhausted her constitutional rights; she didn't resort to violence but took the legal option. We should be able to respect the decision of the courts and this will help us to have order in the society. I thank my lawyers and appreciate the steadfastness of our courts and tribunals, not just in election matters but also in legal issues that come their way. I am proud of our courts; they are one of the best in the world. I once visited the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague and the President of that court was singing praises for Nigerian lawyers. He told me that I should inform Nigerian lawyers who are ready to work with the Court to apply and they are willing to take as many as possible because they possess sufficient skills and they are simply wonderful. So, I have absolute faith in our judicial system.

The case certainly dragged while you attended your duties in the Senate. Did it convince you to include the provision for a limited time for election petitions in the electoral reforms?

Yes, we are going to look at it. I was part of the team that worked on the 2000 Electoral Act and when we came to the time frame to conclude electoral matters, we were confronted by Supreme Court position that you cannot deter the court in terms of timing for delivering judgment. They believe that for purposes of fair hearing, there should be unlimited time for courts to conclude cases. But I am also aware that in 1979 Constitution, there was a provision in the Electoral Act for limiting the time frame for the conclusion of electoral matters. We intend to explore that option. But I must say also that Nigeria is not the only country with a fluid system. In Minnesota U.S.A., there was a senatorial case that just ended last week in an election that was held last year. Because of the peculiar nature of Nigeria, I am sure we are going to look at the legal possibility of creating a time frame for courts to conclude election matters, making sure in the process that we do not jeopardise justice.

What is your position on the demand by senators elected on PDP platform demanding automatic tickets to the Senate in the next election?

It is not automatic ticket. In America, from where we drew the bulk of the provisions of our constitution, you don't just change parliamentarians that easily. You don't just change parliamentarians at every election all the time because a lot is spent on training them. Nigeria has the highest turnover of parliamentarians in the world. And when you send people to seminars, trainings, workshops and they sit in parliament from year to year and at the end of the day, they don't return, those monies are wasted. We are thinking that as much as possible, as much as our system can accommodate, we are going to ensure that we reverse this trend. A situation where about 80 per cent of our senators don't return is not healthy for our system. If we can turn the other way and say, let 20 not return, let 80 per cent return, I think that is path of growth. When in the making of 1999 Constitution, our leaders at that time thought it wise to say, 'in parliament there is not term limit,' you can contest and win and then come back to the parliament as many times as you can, I think they were not stupid because they knew the implication. They knew the need to have parliamentarians stay much longer in parliament because it creates what is called institutional memory. In being a senator for 20 years or 30 years, you would have seen successive presidents and if issues arise in the country that requires institutional memory, you have to fall back on some people. That is what our mates have thought. We are trying to ensure that our system runs like every other system, especially those we have borrowed from. And in most places, senators are even appointed. Like in Canada, senators are for life.

What is informing such agitation now bearing in mind that in the last 10 years, people have been coming and going to the National Assembly?

[b]Nobody is praying for what happened in the last two or three elections when a whole parliament was swept out only for us to start all over again because of the impact that this might have on the parliament. We felt this is time to start addressing this issue. If for instance, you are a parliamentarian, you have not been representing your people well, what will make you want to come back; nobody will encourage you to come back. Nobody will say that you should come back. But when you have done well and the only problem that you have is the issue of zoning and then you are somebody who has been quite competent and then you say he won't come back and then, you will go and put somebody who will come and start learning the ropes. Sometimes, he is less competent than the person who is going. It is not good for the system. It is not good even for that constituency. And you know that in parliament, people are considered based on experience in appointment of committees. So, if you send a brand new parliamentarian, it will be unlikely that he will be chairman of a committee, talk less of being presiding officer. So, it has so many advantages in keeping parliamentarians.[/b]

Why is the National Assembly still foot-dragging in Constitutional review?

We want to proceed with our brothers in the House of Representatives. We wanted a way that all of us will work together. It's going to be cheaper for us; it is going to be cheaper for the parliament. It is going to be cheaper for the country. The time management will be enhanced. A situation where you go your separate ways and then come back at a point for conferences, I mean, it could have wasted everybody's time. And some of the things that we are going to address are things that are time related because we are looking forward to 2011 elections where some of the amendments will be tested. So, if we say, let us go our separate ways, by the time that we finish our process of harmonisation, 2011 would have come and gone. But the Senate feels that it is better we work with the House of Representatives. But unfortunately, it has not been easy to get them to work with us. But we have kept trying. We want to exhaust every possible avenue. If that fails, then we go ahead.

How did you see the amnesty granted Niger Delta militants by the President?

The Niger Delta question is hydra-headed. It is a major problem. It is a very complex problem for us as a country. And it is just like any person with a major health issue. When somebody comes to you and suggests a particular native doctor, you are bound to go there; another person suggests an orthodox doctor, you go there. Once they suggest a prayer house, you go there. If they suggest a prophet, you go there. That is the position that we find ourselves on the Niger Delta issue. If they tell you some of the panacea and you do not try it, they will say, 'oh, if you had tried it, it would have worked.' I just hope that the issue of amnesty will work. But it is just an option. We are only hoping and praying that it will work. We are all concerned about what is going on in the Niger Delta. You can see what is happening in our oil production and marketing. So, it is affecting the economy. The resources of our country are going downwards. So, every possible thing that needs to be done is going to be done.

On the issue of constituency funds, is it right to assume that the Senators are making good use of it?

We have answered this question over and over again. I am surprised that you are still asking this question. We made it clear severally. For the last time, nobody receives 10 kobo for constituency project, no parliamentarian. I am not talking about senators, even the House of Representatives, even the Houses of Assembly. Nobody gives any parliamentarian 10 kobo for constituency project. When the concept of constituency project came up as a result of the need to ensure equitable distribution of infrastructure and that every part has a representative in the House of Assembly, in the House of Representatives and they have in the Senate, and so if you allow a governor and a senator to decide where to cite a project for instance, there is no way he can come up with a project that will cover every part of the country. There is no way you can draw a policy to ensure that water and electricity is in every part of the country. And then you ask yourself, why will you go and put electricity project in my constituency and you don't put one for somebody from Kano State. In order to address the issue, we said, okay, let every parliamentarian come with something be believes in, which his constituency requires. So, if it is water, it is N6 million. If we all come with this project and the Federal Government includes it into the annual budget and then awards contracts at their own time and their own manner and everything is done, it means that constituency projects have been done this year. That is just the concept of constituency project. It is just for you to initiate a project and think out what your people want because you are representing them. You are expected to go and find out what they need. You present is to government. They capture it in the budget, then they award the contract. That is what constituency project is all about.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/policy_politics/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=230709&ptitle=Lawmakers%20need%20not%20be%20subjected%20to%20%27turnover%27,%20says%20Ekweremadu

is bayela part of the new republic.

Maybe u joing bayela to republic benin - so they can have electricity

viewlekan:
LOL, I hope u are not been sarcastic

cause u make statement - five minutes later u apologise - lol

I dont need his apologises either -

What is the use of being on national grid - when electricity no dey.

This one na Mr Apologise - u go soon apologise to the remaining 367000 members

tpia - wetin u dey smoke abeg pass me joint jare ,

viewlekan:
Honestly, I am not trying to be patronising.I just feel that we could have a meaningful discussion without name calling or without trading insults.I apologise if my reference to Ghanian forums sounds condesending,but I just feel that 3/4s of the thread has been dominated with back chatting,as a result we loose sight of what could have been a very interesting discussion.

Why the hell r u apologizing - This is nairaland land of chaos - get used to it - it is reflection what is happening in Nigeria

stalking u ke ?

emi get better things to do

tpia - u r have serious issues

viewlekan:
@ Tpia and Co

That is precisely why Nigeria is not moving forward.We have a forum that is largely frequented and utilized by young people and all you can come up with in an arguement/discussion is Ya mama/Ya papa analogy.No wonder we are been left behind in the scheme of things in Africa, not to mention the World.I think you guys need to visit Ghanian forums and see intelligent banters and arguements substantiated with facts and knowledge.You seriously need to cop on.

Tell them

koni koni people

Ibime:
hmmmmm. . . . never occurred to me. . . . Yara is more spineless than I thought.

I would have formed a Mob squad on becoming a president - to round all them up to be executed. - i forget Yar adua " mr rule of law"

Eziachi:
He has more chance of being honored in Oduduwa republic than in Nigeria (no chance) as his enemies or old/former friends are still very much alive. When Yar Adua can't even confront those that killed his brother but is rather dinning with them, all in the name of being in power.

True Point - with all the power the man is gutless - maybe it about the "money " life dont mean shi t

Tudór:
How many times are we gonna see this same stupid topic?
With 1million dollars he could fu*ck a million ashawos in nigeria!
Why pay that just to view the top of beyonce's boobs??

please help ask the poster

useless thread - is this ashy section or policitics section

Cool - just wish we had an enabling environment in Nigeria.

Circle of Madness but the people are so hungry and helpless include me - how can i stop this madness

@ op

what is the point of this question - ?

NDI OKEREKE-ONYIUKE: Amazon in the saddle

When the young and ebullient Dr. (Mrs.) Ndi Okereke Onyiuke assumed duty as the Manager and Head of Research and Information Services Department (now Research and Infotech Department) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in January 1983, little did she realise that come January 2000 (seven years after), she would be at the apex of the Corporate Ladder as the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer.

Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke’s journey in the corporate world began at the New York Stock Exchange where she rose to managerial cadre before she answered the clarion call to come and develop her fatherland ( Nigeria ).

She is a study in all round development. Top on her sterling qualities is the divine gift of intellectual prowess. Her fertile imagination became noticeable right from her early education when she emerged as the best among her equals. The records are quite revealing: At Queen’s School, Enugu , Nigeria , She passed out with Grade 1 in her West African School Certificate Examination in 1965. This was capped with a distinguished performance at Higher School Certificate Examination in same school in 1967. The intellectual strength manifested in her graduation with First Class Honours (Magna Cum Laude) in Business Administration, Computer Sciences and Economics at the prestigious Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1975.

Still in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece, she obtained her Master of Business Administration, (MBA) specialising in Finance and Computer Science at City University of New York, Graduate School in 1977. By 1980, Dr. Okereke-Onyiuke had comfortably completed her Doctor of Philosophy/Doctor of Administration in Finance and Securities Market at City University Post Graduate centre, New York .

Her exceptional brilliance earned her chains of awards off-shore: She has won the following awards:-

· The Foreign Student Academic Excellence Tuition Waiver, 1972 - 1976.

· Cuny award for summer Study at Universite Parix-ix , France , 1980

· Beta Gamma Sigma Award for Summer Study at Cambridge University , 1977.

· The Goldman Sacks Awards for Best Thesis; Academic Dean’s List, 1972 - 1976.

· Nominated and listed in “Who is Who in America ” 1981.

· She won $20,000.00 Cuny Post Graduate Research Award/Teaching Fellowship as Adjunct Professor, 1978.

· Nominated and Selected for President Carter’s Executive Exchange programme, 1980, The White House Washington DC.

· Awarded Order of the Niger (OON) by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2001.

Armed with her impeccable academic honours, Ndi was fully prepared to be a colossus in the emerging international financial district. Besides, she is eminently positioned as a great intellectual lieutenant to the immediate past Director General, Apostle Hayford Alile.

On assuming duty in 1983, she dazzled the Council and Management of The Nigerian Stock Exchange by strengthening the organisation’s research base. She was highly instrumental to the computerization of the Exchange in 1985, a development which included the creation of “The Nigerian Stock Exchange” All Shares Index - a barometer that gauges the mood of economy. In the same year, She spearheaded the training of potential Stockbrokers by starting off The Stock Exchange’s Authorised Clerkship Examination. Today, the examination is midwifed by the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS). The credit goes to her that Nigeria ’s Stockbrokers have a pride of place in the international stock markets.

She brought her technical know-how to bear on the Exchange at the inception of the Privatisation and Commercialisation Programme of the Federal Government. As the head of the Exchange’s Quotations Department, she was the Chairman for the Technical Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation (TCPC) now Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE). Her laudable contributions to the committee’s achievements earned her special commendation from The Exchange and Federal Government of Nigeria.

In April, 1997, her efforts as the Project Director of the Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Limited was crowned with success with the commencement of automated delivery that is Central Depository, Clearing and Settlement System. Her concerted efforts with Rasak Oladejo, the Project Director of Automated Trading System (ATS) culminated in the success story of the new trading regime in April, 1999 (T+5) and on March 1st, 2000 (T+3) in line with developments in advanced markets. As an accomplished securities strategist, she emerged as the Chairman of the African Stock Exchange’s Association (ASEA) listing Committee whose mandate is to produce a standardized Minimum Listing Requirements for ASEA Members to facilitate cross border listing in Africa . She has always served on the ASEA Committee on harmonisation of qualifying examination for stockbrokers in Africa .

Apart from her continued contributions to the growth and development of The Nigerian Stock Exchange, she is ever ready for any national assignment that can uplift Nigerians living standard. She has served as a Director of the National Directorate of Employment in addition to distinguishing herself on the Boards of major companies and two banks operating in Nigeria .

In the field of sports, she is a national figure. She is the current Chairman of the Nigerian handball Federation and Vice-President of the Nigerian Baseball and Softball Federation as well as the International Vice-President of Baseball Worldwide.

She maintained an enviable balancing of her administrative callings with social activities. This probably explains the perception of some of her admirers who insist that “Doctor” has three Voices - Administrative Voice, Intellectual Voice, and Social Voice. Her administrative voice is believed to be “bulish”, an observation which earned her the nick-name - “Margaret Thatcher”, a euphemism for “Iron Lady”. She is a goal-getter and a perfectionist. Her intellectual voice is noticeable whenever she emphasizes her special interest in capacity building while the social voice is full of didactic jokes.

When the history of the African Capital Market is chronicled, Ndi Okekere-Onyiuke’s name shall be engraved as the first woman in Africa to head a stock market, as well as one of the first two women in the world to head a stock market. By any yardstick, the two, are personalities for the famous Guinness Book of World Record.

http://www.newswatchngr.com/editorial/Notable%20Leaders/leaders11115164230.htm

oyb:
when the going gets tough, the morons begin to show

the good DGSE is a failure. it only took the current downaward trend to show it

it is in times like these that we see true leaders and visionaries, not when the going is good. the share prices are STILL in free fall - and all she is doing is yarning op.

abeg get rid of the failure! see all the good she did to transcorp

The true fact - Major installations around the country are being managed by incompetent people.

samparian:
This shows you didnt invest in shares and clearly you failed economics and mathematics in school

Thank you sir Mr Mathematics and Economist - I passed the two subjects - but i dont have shares so maybe my knowledge is limited / Naija Shares get K leg.

Nonsense ranting has started here ,

Anybody here ever tried stop what has failed to move for the past two years?

*Says Nigeria Loses 900,000 Barrels Daily In N'Delta

By Rotimi Akinwumi, Correspondent, Abuja

Total deregulation of the oil sector is inevitable and no amount of opposition would prevent President Umaru Yar'Adua from carrying it out.

That was the pitch of Minister of Petroleum, Rilwanu Lukman, on Tuesday when he spoke as a guest at a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) session with Ministers in Abuja.

He also admitted that the Niger Delta crisis costs the country an average 900,000 barrels per day (bpd).

Daily Independent had reported exclusively on Tuesday that Aso Rock is in low spirits with skyrocketing crude prices, which on Monday jumped over $64 per barrel (pb) on the global market.

The report quoted a source in the Villa who alerted that Nigerians may "very, very soon wake up to a full fledged deregulation of petrol and outright removal of subsidy as efforts are in top gear for this."

Lukman said the National Assembly (NASS), the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have all agreed to full deregulation.

He noted that the only problem is the opposition of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), but "this is being discussed very extensively at various fora and a decision is being arrived at."

Donald Payne, Chairman of the Africa and Global Health Committee of the United States House of Representatives, had last weekend claimed that Nigeria loses 20 per cent of its daily oil production to bunkering, carried on with the connivance of Aso Rock.

Lukman on Tuesday acknowledged that the oil industry is under the siege of bunkering, and pipeline vandalisation, leading to a loss of 900,000 bpd.

He said output, which was 2.3 million barrels per day (mbpd), has since reduced to 1.4 mbpd.

"Our target is to have 40 billion barrels in our reserves by 2010; presently we have 37 billion barrels. The target for next year's production is four mbpd."

He insisted that the removal of subsidy is inevitable because it costs so much such that little resources are left for projects like health, education, and roads.

The amount is more than total capital budget, he added, something untenable, and unacceptable.

"We have virtually reached that point and the ministry has now finalised the approach, which will be in the next few months, when we get ready to effect this for the benefit of our economy and, more importantly, for the benefit of our teeming population.

"Petroleum products are not available in the quantum we need to satisfy demand. What is happening is that there are certain groups of people who corner the market. Because other people will not do it, the price is such that people are not able to import freely.

"When we liberalise the market, free the market by deregulation, it will be possible for people to bring in petroleum products freely. When they do so, there will be enough."

There may be surge in the price at the beginning, Lukman warned, a little bit more, but when the market is free and products flow freely, "the price will tend to moderate and will certainly go down. This is what we intend to achieve.

"We have given license to 18 companies to build refineries but nobody has built because the market environment is such that nobody will bring in large sums of money and build refineries, pay the Federation Account - as the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) is doing at international price for crude - sell the product in a market that is regulated, and then unable to recover even their investment."

Lukman enthused that with deregulation, more people will build refineries, more refined products will be available and, ultimately, the beneficiary is the ordinary man in the street, as products will be available at fair prices.

"We have extensively consulted with the unions. Fortunately, the NUPENG and PENGASSAN and, of course, the TUC (Trade Union Congress) are positive with the discussions.

"We still have a bit of a challenge with the NLC, but we believe when they see the facts and realise what is happening, they will come on board. They are already more or less on board.

"So, the unions are fully in the picture, and they have supported this 100 per cent. Equally of importance is that we have got the National Assembly to support it. We went to the Senate and the House and explained to them what is happening and they all came out in support of it.

"As elected representatives of the people, we were talking to them as if we were talking to the ordinary people, because they represent their constituents, and then they understood why this has to be done."

Lukman said the government will be realistic and introduce the reform over a period of time to minimise the impact.

He promised that savings from subsidy withdrawal will go into the coffers of federal and state governments to finance projects essential for the benefit of the people.

"If this money is not available, it means that the projects to be executed will be attenuated to the extent that we don't have the money. Having the extra money in your pocket means you can do something."

Lukman confirmed that the damage in Atlas Cove in Lagos has been repaired, and security there has been beefed up.

http://www.independentngonline.com/news/tfpg/article01