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@ poster

We dont need people like you here. Why dont people consult the visa requirment section of the apporiate embassy webiste rather than give money to a so called travel consultant.

Dear travel consultant why dont you offer a service " NO VISA NO FEE" i am sure your office will be swamped. If you really know your stuff u are bound to make a killing.

I would love to help but will require more information as mentioned by other posters. it is shame we all reaping what other bad nigerians have sowed.

I can never fall victim to a fraudster.

Siena:
True, no one can.

I'm still waiting for travel2uk to assist me to move to the UK, and get all the benefits he mentioned.

@ travel2uk:

I'm still waiting!

hope you have not parted with money yet. I would advice you do your own research . The british immigration website is a good starting point. The u.k government recently change the crieteria for getting into the u.k as a skilled person . I understand they are not looking for engineers, doctors, nurses and i t people anymore. but will consider application from cotton pickers, clowns, sheep barbers etc

bawomolo:
the priority argument is getting lame. some of you guys are plain cynical``

I disagree. Dont you feel that their are more pressing matters to deal with rather than spend millions on computer system that would not be maintained.

Nor mind dem

Jobless Globetrotters!!




- What a combination of Written english. This one na classic - Globetrotters that are jobless.

This is corruption at the highest level. I dont suspect the Italians i would think it is the Nigerians working at the embassy. Only God can save this Country. Anything Nigeria = corruption.

I smell a rat

Email me i am london based. I dont see any reason why i should call you.

travel2uk:
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This one sounds a bit dodgy.

how can anybody guarantee employment, housing etc.

pictures and vin # pls

SOLD SOLD SOLD another one to a fellow NL

Nigeria’s electricity woes
By Ben Nanaghan
Published: Tuesday, 3 Mar 2009

Writing on Nigeria’s energy and power problems is like rewriting the history of corruption in Nigeria. And it is not a convenient and palatable topic because Nigeria has been held hostage by a very powerful clique of buccaneers who have refused to let go.

It is not that Nigeria lacks the technological, natural resources or human capital potentials to generate more megawatts to meet the nation’s energy requirements; but those Generals (and their allies) in their hilltop castles remotely control every activity in order to maintain their strangle-hold and vice-grip on a Nigeria that is daily struggling to breath. Nigeria is blessed with resources vast enough to meet all her energy requirements. The river network makes hydro electricity our single largest potential source of electricity. In the same perspective, our hydro potential, which remains obsolete and largely untapped, is sufficient to provide up to 50,000 megawatts of electricity if fully harnessed.

Other untapped sources of energy are solar, clean coal, oil and gas and wind. All of these, if fully harnessed, will make us major vendors of electricity to other African countries.

During a media chat in December 2007, President Umaru Yar’Adua promised to declare a state of emergency in the power sector to get Nigeria out of its economic predicament since power is the tonic for industrial growth. So, the President knows the critical importance of energy and power? He promised that all hands would be on deck to increase our electricity power from 3,000 megawatts to 10,000MW by the end of 2008. He also promised the nation 30,000MW by 2011 and a whopping 50,000MW by 2015. Was the President dreaming? Was he joking? Was he just flying a kite? Or was he fooling Nigerians?

By August 2008, our 3,000 megawatts had plummeted to 2,000 and by December 2008, the President’s projected 10,000MW was less than 2,000. 2,000 MW for a population of 150 million! That is an incredible 75,000 people to one megawatt, against the recommended ratio of 300 people to one megawatt for developing nations. I do not cast any doubts on the President’s optimism, sincerity of purpose and intentions. I rather pity the President’s “stubbornness” for trying to go beyond the precincts of his masters’ delineations. I see the President as willing horse but with a brit-controlled mechanism to checkmate his overzealousness and over-enthusiasm; a mechanism to compartmentalise the President and ensure he operates only within a prescribed precinct and zone.

For instance, all the President’s talk about vision 2010 and all the millennium development goals put together are hogwash and a political charade to hoodwink a gullible and compliant society into an irredeemable state of hopelessness if energy and power are not given top priority. This is because there is an unavoidable nexus between electricity and industrialisation.

Early in February 2009, the Federal Minister for Mines and Power told the whole world that the Federal Government would soon start work on the National Integrated Power Projects. This followed a meeting of the Presidential Steering Committee on NIPP headed by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

The minister said, “Some outstanding logistics and funding issues have slowed down the project,” but he did not elaborate on these ‘outstanding logistics’ and funding issues. He was diplomatic enough not to let the world know that the greatest problem of the NIPP is unexecuted contracts. Contracts worth hundreds of billions of Naira have been awarded to certain very powerful members of the same clique that controls this country. All monies were paid up-front but not a single equipment has been mobilized. Let the minister deny this.

The problem with the Nigerian energy sector is that the more money you inject into it, the less you will see of the impact and outcome. An estimated $16bn has been pumped into the energy sector since 1999, with the aim of increasing our megawatts from 3,000 in 1999 to 10,000 in 2009. What a tragedy!

Nigerians spend about $120bn annually in fueling generators. This is good money that could have been put to better use to boost the economy. Early this year, the Federal Government went a step further by ensuring uninterrupted electricity through an unprecedented budgetary allocation of $2bn (about N300bn) to run and maintain generators for government officials. Even the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), an agency devoted to fighting corruption, got $250,000 (about N37.5m) for the running and maintenance of its generators this year.

Do you still wonder why Nigeria, with its expanding population, cannot exceed the almost jinxed 3,000MW? It is not that Nigeria cannot have constant electricity. South Africa, with a population of 45 million, has electricity facility of about 50,000MW, which is about 900 people to one megawatt. About 80 percent of South Africa is electrified. In Malawi, Mozambique and some West African countries, it is a paltry five percent. In Nigeria, actual electrification is about two percent when outages are computed.

Is it that we cannot enjoy uninterrupted electricity as does Ghana? We can; but the situation is very complex. Presently, China, even with the global economic downturn, is boosting her economy with a massive generator trade boom with Nigeria’s faceless billionaire generator importers. These faceless economic saboteurs will even kill to ensure continued darkness in their fatherland.

Apart from the generator importers, there is another very lucrative reason why Nigeria must continue to be in darkness. The same people who made it possible for an oil-rich country like Nigeria to depend on imported finished petroleum products to run its ailing and comatose industries, are the same people who have made it impossible for her to operate just one semi-functional refinery.

The absence of functional refineries, the greed of generator importers and the allocation of diesel and petrol importation to a single importer are the three greatest fatalities that combine in a macabre fashion to deprive Nigerians of adequate electricity. And darkness will continue in Nigeria as long as these three conditions prevail. The Obasanjo administration overflogged the issue of building more refineries. It encouraged private refineries but did not approve of any, for obvious reasons.

The cannibalization and prostrate condition of the refineries are the greatest crimes committed against us all by our past and present rulers. The criminals are still alive, bestriding the nation with pomp, pride and applause. A directory of generator company chairmen and importers will shock Nigerians, as it includes former very senior government officials, ministers, commissioners and directors-general. But I have a firm conviction that a change is on the way. Either the Rawlings’ way, or the Obama way, a change will surely come.

Now, many of the nation’s big industries are planning to relocate to Ghana due to quarterly losses resulting from an increased expenditure on generator servicing and diesel. So, when you see the next pack of a local toothpaste, watch it; it might have been imported from Ghana. Ghanaians will gain so much from this and the domino effect on the their economy will be astronomical.

Oh, Nigeria! When shall thou see thy wholesome days again?

The borrower is forever a slave to the lender.

It is well noted a former governor once requested jeeps should be sent rather agricultural machines from the foreign organisation One of the jeeps is now is official car. Can we stop kidding ourselves. 85% of money will definitely be mis managed.

Fhemmmy:
Till those families that are making billions of naira on yearly basis importing generators into Nigeria on a daily basis stop funding the campaign of the elected Senators, house of Rep and President, there is no way out of the dark for Nigeria.
But Nigeria is not caused, but we just lack what it takes to get rid of all these greedy fools, but then, how many of us will pass away such opportunity, when even the child in the womb knows the fun and the freedom that comes with money.

Can please supply concrete facts and stop alleging . I would advise that we stop jumping behind such excuse as the reason why we cant generate electricity in Nigeria. I believe it is just down to the fact that we have incompetent leaders.

Ovamboland:
Any figure between 0% - 100% is a proportion to one's income

1Co 16:2  On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.


The above simply means as the Lord has blessed you . I would not give 10,000 if the lord has blessed me with 1 000 000 that would not be an apporiate proportion.

Please be advised - we must decide to serve God and not money , our giving must be to advance the kingdom of God espcially the work of the local church , to help those who are in need , our giving should always be voluntary and generous and our giving should be cheerful.

dont give under any kind of pressure.

@ kunle

lets us forget about tithes and offering for A minute but will you agree that our giving SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN PROPORTION TO OUR INCOME?

@ poster

Psl 3v 9 honor the lord with your possessions and with the firstfruits of all your increase
psl 3 v10 - so your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine.


I strongly believe we are to honour God as he is the giver off all good things. As we shall reap whatever we sow. No doubt the church needs money to function but i dont subscribe to teaching if i dont pay my tithes or offering something bad will happen. My tithes or offering is demonstration of the following

1. That God is my ultimate source
2. That i love God
3. I Would like further the gospel of christ - u need money to do this

I also believe that 10 percent mark should be used as bench mark of one's giving


P.s we also advised to give cheerfully as propsed in one's heart. If you are giving under any kind of stress it is merely a waste of seed.

This person needs some serious deliverance - 7days of fasting and prayinh

Fhemmmy:
I will like to know how much has been recovered so far and where is the fund and what they have done with it if any, or what are the plans for the recovered loot

Are you serious - This must be the biggest joke of the century

We are finished in this Godless country. I thought positions are filled on merit

Can somebody please explain the link between Generator sellers or importers and the Government not being able to fix this electricity issue.

Good Ridance to bad rubbish

The husband is also on trial.

dont not click on the link - it is spam

The wife of Zambia's former President Frederick Chiluba has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Regina Chiluba was found guilty of receiving stolen state funds to buy three houses and a commercial property while her husband was in office.

She married Mr Chiluba after he stood down in 2001, having served two terms.

The BBC's Musonda Chibamba in Lusaka says Mr Chiluba, who is also on trial for corruption, shook his head as the magistrate read out his verdict.

Our correspondent says Mrs Chiluba - usually a glamorous dresser - was wearing a simple traditional "Chitenge" outfit in court in the capital, Lusaka.

She continuously mopped her face with a handkerchief during the two-hour judgement.

Every available seat in the court was taken up and many more people stood at the back of the room while others blocked the door, our reporter says.

A shocked silence filled the court when the conviction was read out.

"These were serious allegations and were casually explained by the accused, and I now convict you accordingly and sentence you to three-and-half years simple imprisonment," AFP news agency quotes Magistrate Charles Kafunda as saying.

Some relatives began to silently weep and had to be helped out; others began to sing Christian songs, our correspondent says.

Soon after judgement was passed, a court clerk took Mrs Chiluba's fingerprints while the former president joined her in the dock.

She was then led to a waiting car and driven to the Lusaka Central Prison to begin her sentence.

The court ordered that all the properties in question be forfeited to the state.

Her lawyer has indicated that he will appeal against the sentence in Lusaka's High Court.

Mrs Chiluba was also convicted of receiving a television set that the prosecution proved belonged to the state and for failing to explain how she came to have nearly $100,000 in her personal bank account.

Her husband, whose immunity from prosecution was lifted in 2003, denies stealing millions of dollars of state funds.

Levy Mwanawasa, who launched a high-profile campaign after succeeding Mr Chiluba in 2001, died last year.

President Rupiah Banda has promised to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor.

Please let me hear word. Others have tried and all have failed just ask the most recent one " Nigeria development Movement" You no get stamina

@poster

Complete nonsense

Nigeria are the greatest masters of adaptation. like fela talk am suffering and smiling. We need a revolution.

@ poster

u don miss road - no ifa or orunmole can save yr ass - u better stay for U.k

Doomed Doomed, Doomed _ Can we fast track a revolution. This is a serious matter

Please refer to my signature

Another toothless ambition from EFCC. Please be advised nothing is going to happen. Nigeria is a failed state