₦airaland Forum

Just divide the bloody country.

Twelve members of the National Assembly Constitution Review Committee on Tuesday urged the Assembly to create new states or forget about the entire review exercise.

Assembled under the aegis of Forum of the National Assembly for the Actualisation of State Creation, with membership drawn from the Senate and the House of Representatives, the lawmakers reiterated that the task of demanding for state creation was given to them by their constituents back home.

The new states, which must be given priority in the constitution amendment, they insisted, must be created before the 2011 general elections in the country.

Chairman of Senate Committee on Information and Media Affairs, Ayogu Eze, presented the group's demands to newsmen on Tuesday.

Eleven other members of the group accompanied Eze to the press conference.

They include Interior Affairs Chairman, Lekan Mustapha (PDP, Ogun), Chairman of Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Smart Adeyemi, Adego Efrekaya and Sulemian Nazif as well as members from the House of Representatives.

"We met this morning and we have taken some very far-reaching decisions. Some have left for different assignments. This place was full. And all of us agreed on one thing; that there can be no constitution amendment in Nigeria without state creation.

"All of us have been sent here by our people. And our people have asked us to be part of the constitution amendment if they are creating states.

"We believe that state creation is very possible and highly realisable within a civilian dispensation.

"We are going to dialogue among ourselves and put structures in place to make sure that we bring this about before the next election," Eze said.

He added: "These states that will be created will take part in the next election. We are going to continue this dialogue. We are going to continue to meet and in the course of the meeting we will carry you along as we continue to push this agenda".

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

presido1:
Are u becomerich?

Ikey is becomrich twin

koni koni people

u r in the wrong section - please move to the romance or meetup section.

and also i know a few lonely Yoruba men here in the U.k maybe i can help -  are u in new zealand?

definately need a man in your life - r u married if not visit www.match.com

descend now and show your true color - u definately made a name for yourself on NL

tpia.:
I still dey here waiting for those who are in charge of chasing me off nairaland.

So post and dont be shy.

seriously

When we go hook up

tpia.:
I dey jobless oh- you people should show up nah.


sebi una chop eba and cocoyam before logging on today?

make we dance oh.

Whatever u ate surpass wetin those people chop.

^^^ U get strength and time

spikedcylinder:
Owning a Jet is one thing, maintaining it is another. . . . .

Dont worry about that one / The God that provided for plane will provide for service money

see how these have derailed the thread.   fighting with people u will never see

tpia.:
na so so deny them go dey deny.


The American dream- success typified by the picture of a house with a picket fence

The Nigerian dream- success typified by having multiple women at your beck and call.


Do I lie?

Yes u Lie

You should know better not the stereotype.

Becomrich:
if you were in redeemed church more than 15 years ago. you may remember Kunle Olowojure he was in freedom hall.


https://www.kunle.org/images/family.jpg

Are u saying this a sham marriage.

hard earned money washing toilet and cleaning train stations - Only God know how many hours of work be that

let do some calculation


Illegal immigrant working at train station maybe earning £7.00 per hour after all deductions maybe u get £5.20 per hour

so £15,000 / 5.20


= 2885 Hours of Work

tpia.:
the OP doesnt mean jumbo jet. He's referring to anything that can fly. In Nigeria, there's no distinction.

So yes, a doctor or accountant can buy a private jet if they're rich enough and have that kind of exposure.

However, in a country where the ultimate Nigerian dream is amass as many women as possible, a lot of the rich people there have the same goals as illiterates, I'm sorry to say.

Thread De rail - u need healing

back2back:
Yes you can!

A fairly use Cessna is cheap.

This one is for $60,000.

lol

bush person dont know the difference btw a jet and light aircraft.

It is called survival of the fittest - when their is nothing back home - it is sad but to be expected.

nobody is going anywhere until oil finishes

so what about the 250 Million Dollars paid upfront.

Wait

Maybe she has a point  -

You have a share at  X amount  it then drops to Y amount due to the recession. As an investor u only actually lose money when u at sell or redeem your share at Y amount.

We hope so - but i doubt it the oil bunkering business is very lucrative.

ha ha

Afaukwu:
Blacksta

It is a matter of fulfilling the federal character thing and I am happy about that. What is good for Yoruba/hausa-Fulani is good for Igbo. When Tafa and Ehindero where there, crime did not reduce in Yorubaland as well.

So why the hell are u celebrating a failed individual? but u say federal character. I would prefer a more suitable person irrespective of where they come from someone who who will do the job better.

Poster u don mental


What is point of having a igbo IG and the people dont benefit from it . Igbo IG is not going to reduce crime, stop extortion and police brutality in Igbo land.

It is not everything u read one has to believe espcially coming from Shara reporters. First fact that paper is very anti yar adua and the second point if i am yar adua cousin i would not need to smuggle goods into Nigeria and i will simply tell my cousin Yar adua to make me untouchable like Dangote.

davidylan:
Do Kosovans even know that Yar Adua exists? 

lol

i doubt it-  U wonder who advises this clown called Yar adua -  The EU is strong backer of the Country of Kosovo and nothing is going change that as long as the EU remain a strong force  - The only people shouting about the status of the country of kosovo are the Non EU members Russia and its sympathizers

Black_Revo:
Please my sister no kill me with laughter ooooo, i one die for here

well you can go to ghana

I was made to understand that we have already sold our gas supply for export for the next 25 years

The only country in the world that has crude oil and gas reserves yet imports all kinds of crude oil end products and now gas

Please my sister that said who cares where the gas comes from as far as there is electricity, lets not think this way and forget about the effective use of our resources oooooo,

But successive government have failed to use home resources to their advantage. Since Nigeria is a master Import " Make we carry go" If u have to import get electric - fire at full speed ahead.

kokoA:
who is this idiot?

Special Advisor to Yar Clueless on National Assembly matters. Another glorified post creating no value to the masses.

I am sure the masses will care less where the gas comes from even if it is from the Moon. All we want is constant Electricity.

So are u saying if i change lane for the outer left to the middle i will get fined?

Another Yes Man - Is it possible to bite the hand that feeds you - In Nigeria i guess the answer is no.

Dr. Cairo Ojugboh , a medical doctor turned businessman and politician has in his ten year political career built a reputation that compares with his towering physical frame.

Dr. Ojugboh sharpened his political teeth as Special Assistant to Chief Tony Anenih , the former Minister of Works and was subsequently elected to represent Ika Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives where he served as chairman of the House committee on Petroleum Resources between 2003 and 2007.
Dr. Cairo Ojugboh



Dr. Ojugboh is presently the Presidential Laison Officer to the Senate.
In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he articulates issues concerning President Umaru Yar‘Adua’s relationship with the National Assembly, showcases what he describes as the laudable achievements of the President even as he recommends a second term for Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State.
Excerpts:

What are your duties as presidential liaison officer to the senate?

My job is simple and interesting. I am an aide to the president in the National Assembly especially the senate in liaison capacity, it means that the President sends me on errands.

The senate can also pass messages through us to Mr. president and Mr. president passes messages through us to the senate it is as simple as that. That is our job.

Two years after, how can you assess the administration?

I have been in government before as a member of the National Assembly, I have equally served as a special assistant to a minister for four years in the first four years of the Obasanjo administration and so I am in a position to compare what is happening now to what was before.

This is a man who is very calm and he is a man who is very sincere. He is a good man, he is God fearing and he loves his country. He has this principle of being slow and steady and you know slow and steady wins the race.

He is not in hurry to make mistakes. In the last two years the President has sat down put a lot of things in various sectors of the economy, done a lot of research and has found ways of going into implementation. He has promised that by December we will produce 6000megawatts in the power sector, he is also working seriously on distribution.

You will notice that this is the first time that we have leadership in this country that went through the four walls of a university as at when due and that is a sort of maturity and civilization that he has brought to bear.

He is a very civilized human being, and he takes everything in his stride and calmly. This is the sort of thing that we need for the development of this country. That is why you see that people love him, Nigerians love him.

They trust him that and that is why he has no alternative, he has no choice but to perform, and he is performing.

But your assessment of his performance is not in tune with that of the general public?

That is the problem with most Nigerians they want fire brigade approach solutions and they won’t be patient. All they require is just patience and you can’t rush this government the government will perform and is performing.

Sir in what sector can you say this government has performed?

Take the petroleum industry, look at the bills he has sent to the National Assembly how he is reforming the industry, take the power sector where a lot of contracts have now been awarded for engineering, procuring, construction they take time they are not overnight affairs.

Take the innovation that is been now brought in the education sector.

The government has taken a serious look and is improving the standard of the unity schools, the universities are now been properly equipped, the equipping of the teaching hospitals is now continuing and so many others.

But the universities are grounded, lecturers are on strike?

Yes, they are on strike it is an inherited problem. You know that is the problem with Nigerians. If you are asking for salary increase, for government to be able to implement this salary increment it has to be included in the budget.

If we do not include this salary increment in the budget the National Assembly will say why did you spend money without budgeting? So everything has to be done in order. This is a government that ties itself and rightly so in the rule of law.

You cannot compare the quality of education now and what it was four or five years ago. There is obvious improvement, for a long time ASUU has not been on strike it is not easy to manage this country for heaven sake!

How do you assess the relationship between the President and the National Assembly?

The National Assembly has a president that is very cooperative. The senate is very mature, the leadership of the senate is perfect the leadership of the house of representative is very loyal and the loyalty of the president to the National Assembly is unparalleled.

But there is some assessment among some senators that the President is snobbish of the legislature?

I have never heard that no senator has said that to me. This is the first time I am hearing that. If you know any senator who believes so say it so we can go and ask him,

I will give you an example. Senator Ugbane has just come out of detention after one month in prison. Is that not reflective of the snob?

Is Mr. President a prison officer or a judge? Or is he a police officer?

This President will tell you go and do your job.

The president does not interfere in any way.

The National Assembly has a self cleansing mechanism and there are plenty of people with such accusations and in any case it is just mere accusation until proven in the court nobody can do anything about it and you cannot blame the president for that.

So it is a matter with the police, the court and the president has nothing to do with it and I can assure you. Don’t ask such a question because it is a question that can bring acrimony between both arms of government. You should ask questions that will lead to development, questions that are honest.

Sir I raise the issue on the fact that if your government claims an adherence to the rule of law should it then hold a citizen in prison for more than one month irrespective of whether the person is a Senator or not. What if the person is innocent of the charge?

Friend, how does that now become an offence of Mr. President? If the president now goes to interfere it is you journalists that will say President you are encouraging this you are encouraging that.

It is the responsibility of journalists to make this country governable for everybody and make life easier for everybody you must ask questions that are meaningful questions that can bring about cordiality and improve the society, don’t ask questions that will cause problems because whether I work for Mr. President or not you too you know very well that it is not Mr. President’s responsibility or for Mr. President to interfere in such things that you know and I know you know that.

What is your assessment on the progress of the electoral reform bills now before the National Assembly?

This is to tell you that this is a government of rule of law Mr. President does not interfere. Mr. President has taken a bill to the National Assembly and that is as far as he can go after now what the National Assembly does with it is no longer his responsibility.

One of the elements of the electoral reform bills introduced by the President is to stop decamping. Do you welcome it?

Well, the President and the executive always try to make sure that they please the opposition. The opposition are always crying that their people are decamping.

The President said fine no problem if you want your people to stay where they are you don’t want them to enjoy the big party, the PDP, let it be so. So what has the president done wrong again?

So do you agree with him, is it a good intention?

It is a law before the National Assembly so they will look at it dispassionately.

Yes, it was proposed by the Justice Uwais committee and the President accepted it…

Yes, the President, the National Council of State, the federal executive, forwarded it. That is the beauty of democracy it is now going to the people of Nigeria, the people of Nigeria will now decide.

So sir, what do you now see of the President personally receiving governor Yuguda into the PDP despite proposing a bill to prohibit decamping?

Journalists! The bill has not been passed yet. It is not an act yet, it is not an act yet!

But it is the spirit of the bill. Does he really share the spirit, does he believe in the intentions of the bill?

The bill has not been passed. In physics everything continues in its state of rest or of motion until the application of an external force. He is law abiding, he is within the ambits of the law until the law is passed.

If that bill is passed the President will not do that, so please give the president some credit.

So what is your assessment of the state of affairs in Delta state?
Good! The governor this is his first term he has done two years and he has performed beyond imagination of most of us and we are encouraging him to continue.

For a second term?

Of course we have a lot of pressure groups that are campaigning for his second term and I am in the leadership of one of them, that is Uduaghan Vision 2020 and I believe that he has done well and I have called upon my friends, the leaders of Delta North and my political associates that there is a need for stability.

Let him have his eight years finish with it and then the Delta north can look towards the younger generation.

I don’t believe that my self at fifty in the next six to eight years should be contesting the governorship of Delta State.

We should allow the younger ones who will be around 40 to 45 then to contest.

Those of us who have contested before did not get it, because of the acrimony and difficulty we went through a lot of us sat down and agreed that we should advice ourselves not to be greedy about the situation not to make it a matter of life and death, or do or die.

We should all sit down and look for a younger one who will carry the flag of the Delta North in the year 2015.

That is the resolution we have reached and we are hoping that everybody will cooperate.

A lot of Nigerians are aggrieved that the federal government is waging a war against the people in the Niger Delta region?

You can see that the President is a listening father, the issue has been addressed. The federal government has said ok we stop, the militants you stop we grant you an amnesty. What else?

What of the basic issues that led to the insurgency?

Yes, the militants have spoken the youths have spoken, they have made their points the federal government says you give us time to look into these issues you have raised.

By now the East West road would have been completed if not for the crises. You remember that Julius Berger had to pull out and we lost one year.

A lot of activities that were earmarked for the last two years have not been actualized because of these crises.

So we have appealed to the youths to accept this amnesty and give the federal government time.

Let the federal government go back to the drawing board operate the Niger Delta Development Commission master plan. If there is no peace, if the youths do not lay down their arms how can the federal government prove itself? So that is why we are appealing to the youths accept this amnesty so that the government can go in and work.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/07/18/yar%E2%80%98adua-has-no-alternative-but-to-perform-%E2%80%93-cairo-ojugboh-plo-senate/