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Chapter IV Fundamental Rights

44 (3) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the entire property in and control of all minerals, mineral oils and natural gas in under or upon any land in Nigeria or in, under or upon the territorial waters and the Exclusive Economic Zone of Nigeria shall vest in the Government of the Federation and shall be managed in such manner as may be prescribed by the National Assembly.

Exclusive Legislative List:

39. Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas.

315. (5) Nothing in this Constitution shall invalidate the following enactments, that is to say -

(d) the Land Use Act,

jumper524:
ganduje is very much anti child marriage as he already declared compulsory and free primary and secondary education..

12Monkeys:
Where is that Yaribanza MURIC member Blue3k?

knowledgeable:
Worshiping ourselves?... Bro, explain further because this is beyond my understanding.
The point I am trying to make is simply base on geo-econmic-military-political realities of the time we are living in. Turkey is on the rise in furtherance and in defense of Islam/Jihad and Africa have become the most fertile ground for them, as Libya provides the entry point for that. I am afraid, that Turkey's action in Libya might even trigger the second scramble in Africa because all these Western Powers are not comfortable with China in Africa.

12Monkeys:
See how you are just exposing your. Backwardness and low IQ.

Yaribanza

The Federal Government may be trying to replicate the amnesty programme of the Niger Delta militants, she said both situations were not the same noting that after all, the amnesty programme did not stop militancy.

scribble:
Just strolled past there, den don remove am already

knowledgeable:
[s]Honestly young man, most of you Yoruba's shallow way of thinking/your cognitive understanding of how Nigeria/rest of the world work is "the most potent poison" in the backwardness and the primeval state Nigerians have found themselves in.(enthroning Buhari as president comes to mind). Some deep thinking Igbos have over the years suspected that flawed understanding of the 'truth' as it should be by your folks, may have its root on jealousy towards the Igbos .(cos of some natural endowed attributes.. of which you Yorubas have also) It is becoming clear by the day that your triple heritage (Isam, Christianity and traditional African religion) have flawed your value system, ethics, politics and etc... Including the perception of the Igbos/everything else.

Turkey is on the rise to revive the Othoman empire. The Europeans knew the Empire as a Caliphate Turkish empire from 13th century up till 19th century. The area they controlled ( parts of South Eastern Europe, West Asia and North Africa, they were known as Ottoman Empire or Ottoman Turks, and have deep connections with the Fulanis and other groups in the Sahel/North Africa. Uthsman Dafodio and his Teaching/Jihad deep inside the Hausas states were inspired by the Ottoman Empire. After the fall of Byzantine Empire (which was Eastern Roman Empire), Anatolia which later became Turkish Empire took over Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul and gradually deciminated the predominantly Christian population under it. In recent time, their military industrial sector can rival to a lesser degree though any other advance military industrial entity.[/s]

husbandsnatcha:
...buhari pays them afonja , he has central bank on his palms

Suffersticated is bad

12Monkeys:
Yaribanza, when SHTF in Libya and you begin to see and hear of boko brigades getting mowed down with your Lord Khalifar Buhari crying over their deaths and sending resources to get them out of Libya maybe the your oyoruba frog myopic eyes go open.

12Monkeys:
Yaribanza, do you expect both Turkey and the Tripoli based GNA to admit recruiting ISIS lunatics?

Look at the source you imp. I provided the Guardian as source from over a dozen other sites so your moronic self won't start screaming fake news.

Stick to APC and Amala local politics as your room temperature IQ range can not grasp the extent at which your boko Buhari has turned Nigeria into a source for disposable armies.

Yaribanza !

Both Ankara and Tripoli have repeatedly denied the presence of Syrian fighters in Libya, as has the SNA. The Guardian understands that Syrian fighters in the country have since been banned from posting any evidence of their whereabouts to social media.

The fighters have signed six-month contracts directly with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), rather than with the Turkish military, SNA sources said, for $2,000 (£1,500) a month – a vast sum compared with the 450-550 Turkish lira (£52-£72) a month they earn in Syria. All have been promised Turkish nationality, a carrot Ankara has used to cajole fighters in brigades on its payroll for several years.

12Monkeys:
Ankara has supported the Syrian opposition since the early days of the battle against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, even as the original Free Syrian Army umbrella group grew weak and splintered because of infighting and the growth of Islamist elements within rebel ranks. Turkey now uses some rebel fighters as proxies against Kurdish-led forces despite allegations of human rights abuses from watchdogs.
“This is a very different situation to Syria,” said Claudia Gazzini, a senior Libya analyst with the International Crisis Group. “Anti-Turkish sentiment is already strong because of Ankara’s intervention and could grow as a result of this, playing in Haftar’s favour.”
An initial deployment of 300 men from the second division of the Syrian National Army (SNA), an umbrella of Syrian rebel groups funded by Turkey, left Syria through the Hawar Kilis military border crossing on 24 December, followed by 350 more on 29 December.
They were then flown to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, where they have been posted to frontline positions in the east of the city.

12Monkeys:
You've always been a typical ITK Yaribanza who assumes he is knowledgeable when you are as dense as rock.

Erdogan's foray in Libya with the Tripoli based and UN backed GNA hovers around a controversial territorial waters grab by Ankara which saw Turkey carving large swaths of the eastern Mediterranean sea as its waters towards exploiting natural gas reserves. This deal was reached after signing a controversial deal with Tripoli but this has made Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and Israel see an incursion into their own territorial waters and stirred the ire of the EU after Erdigan claimed international waters as Turkey's.

The reason for all this is because the Syrian gas pipeline project from the Gulf via Turkey is dead with Assad still in charge and their jihadist war defeated and destroyed with the help of Russia.

Erdogan now wants to exploit gas reserves in the Mediterranean to challenge that of Russian gas supplies to the EU.

The Greek, Israeli, Cypriot and Egyptian govts have since signed a deal to exploit the gas reserves in their waters and to build a pipeline bypassing Turkey totally in preference to Greece.

Erdogan now thinks if he can prop up the puppet govt in Tripoli he could get most of the eastern Mediterranean but never in his deluded Sultan wannabe delusions did he think the Egyptians will challenge him.

Let me stop here as your nigger fish brain may not be able to comprehend the entire geopolitical struggles currently ongoing in Libya that is set to pitch foes and allies alike on each other.

Just know that Erdogan, the Saudis, Israeli, EU, France, UK and US will be shopping for disposable auxiliary canon fodder boko recruits in the impending cluster FCK that is about to be another major conflict in Libya.

At the end, it is all the best as your bokos will be diverted to fight and die for their handlers in another remote country.

12Monkeys:
Yaribanza, Turkey is paying displaced ISIS fighters in Syria €2,000 to relocate to Libya to fight the LNA.

Your bokos are affiliated to ISIS now, so that means they will be armed and drafted into the fray. So this news of turkey arming BH does not surprise me.

12Monkeys:
Yaribanza, Erdogan provided passage, cover, weapons, money and even helped sell stolen Syrian oil on behalf of ISIS. Afonja musilimi, Turkey is using Sunni Terrorist groups like All Nusra and ISIS to wage genocide on Kurds in northern Syria.

Oyoruba Tajudeen Ismaila, Turkey is now recruiting displaced ISIS fighters and drafting them to fight in Libya.

The $600 million moribund Tinapa facility in Cross River State is up for sale as American investors expressed interest.

Dedetwo:
Since the law enforcement agencies in the shithole called Nigerian have overburdened with security or lack thereof, the national assembly should have passed the law for law-abiding citizens of the country to able to bear arms.

"Today, Nigeria is not competitive, compared with Ghana. Because of the ECOWAS protocol, you can produce in Ghana and sell in Nigeria. What am I doing here (Nigeria), where there is no power, no water, no security and no logistics."

Sammy07:
But I think he made some valid points

This Day (Lagos)

By Obinna Chima

The federal government has expressed dissatisfaction with the non-utilisation of railway transportation system for the movement of cargoes.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, said yesterday in Lagos that such a situation was not good for the growth of the rail sector.

He spoke on the issue while discussing "Rail Infrastructure: Progress and Plan" at the Nigeria 2020 Economic Outlook organised by Deloitte.

According to him, unless businesses and individuals start utilising the railways for the movement of goods, it would be difficult for the federal government to recoup the huge amount spent in constructing the railways.

He said: "Itakpe to Warri railway is ready, where are the cargoes for it? So, you said the federal government should provide infrastructure, which we have done; we have awarded another contract to construct railway from Abuja to Itakpe, to connect Abuja to Warri, with a new seaport to be constructed at Warri.

"But at least for now, Itakpe to Warri is ready, but where are the cargoes? Nobody is talking about moving cargoes from Lagos to Ibadan, or from Ibadan to Lagos.

"When you talk about railways, if it is to move passengers alone, then there is no need to construct railways because it is very expensive."

He added that the federal government would soon commence construction of the railway from Ibadan to Kano, which he said would cost $5.3 billion, for the distance covering 860 kilometres.

Amaechi stated: "And all you want to do is to carry passengers at subsidised rates?

"So, the reason for constructing railway is to provide logistics for the movement of goods.

"We have finished Abuja-Kaduna railway, not even one cargo has been moved. We have moved from 300 passengers a day to 3,700 passengers a day.

"So, we need to change the thought pattern of Nigerians."

He attributed the development to the fact that Nigeria is not a producing nation, just as he stressed the need for Nigerians to start looking inwards.

"We must start producing in this country. In Nigeria we produce nothing, but we blame government for everything," he said.

According to him, the private sector in Nigeria is an extension of the public sector and without support from the public sector, a lot of operators in the private sector would go out of business.

Amaechi faulted news making the rounds that the train from Lagos to Ibadan takes three hours to get it to its destination.

"When we start running Lagos to Ibadan, there would be three kinds of operations. The first would be those who are rich; we would give them services that would start from Lagos and end at only three locations and there will be another one that would be dropping people at different locations.

"We have paid for 200 wagons, but it will carry nothing! Where are the cargoes? If all we are hoping to do is to jump into the trains and get to Ibadan, it will cost the federal government more money to run that because we would not break-even," he said.

The minister stated that the first standard gauge railway in Nigeria was developed 34 years ago, but was not completed. That is from Itakpe to Warri, which is 350 kilometres.

He expressed satisfaction that the Buhari administration has completed the project.

The minister added: "If you add that to Abuja to Kaduna, which is 186 kilometres and then Lagos to Ibadan, which is about 600 kilometres of railway, there is an approval I am going to seek from the president in the next one week, if I get the approval and we commence construction, we should be leaving Nigeria with another 3,000 kilometres of railway.

"But that still makes us one of the countries with the lowest kilometres of railway in Africa or in the world. South Africa has about 35,000 kilometres of railway.

"The problem Nigeria has is both the leadership and the followership; but more of the followership. First, the railway we met, there was no maintenance and nobody was asking questions.

"When we came, there was no railway contract that was awarded to the seaport. For me, the movement of goods is the essential element of railways.

"So, all the president has said is that we would leave enough infrastructures for the next government. We believe that when the factors of production are okay, the cost of production would reduce.

"Today, Nigeria is not competitive, compared with Ghana. Because of the ECOWAS protocol, you can produce in Ghana and sell in Nigeria. What am I doing here (Nigeria), where there is no power, no water, no security and no logistics."

The Akwa Ibom State government will soon list the shares of its own Ibom Airlines, the governor, Udom Emmanuel, disclosed on Tuesday in Uyo.

The governor disclosed this when the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Alex Okoh, visited him in the state government house, Uyo.

Mr Emmanuel, who was represented by his deputy, Moses Ekpo, said the floating of an airline, Ibom Air, by the state government, was part of his administration’s efforts to industrialise the state and create investment opportunities.

He said the plan for the airline would be to float the shares of Ibom Air on the floor of the Nigerian Capital Market to afford Nigerians the opportunity to buy and own the shares of the company.

“Ibom Air was a strategic investment to help grow the economy of the state. We plan to expand the scope of the investment further, considering the tremendous success the airline has become within so short a time.

“We will soon float the share of the line on the Nigerian Capital Market for interested Nigerian investors to buy into the success of the company as co-owners with the State Government.

“However, we will give preference to indigenes of the state to exercise their right of first refusal in the acquisition of the shares of the airline,” he said.

he government said the state would leverage on the expertise of the BPE towards the industrialisation policy of the administration and called for greater synergy between the privatisation agency and the state.

The governor expressed concern over the lingering crisis over the ownership of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria(ALSCON) located in Ikot Abasi.

In 2004, the Nigerian-American consortium, BFIG, emerged the preferred bidder for ALSCON after the National Council on Privatization (NCP) declared it the winner of the bid for the plant with a superior offer of $410 million.

The company’s co-bidder, UC RUSAL, was earlier disqualified by NCP for violating the bid guidelines.

But, BPE canceled the bid in controversial circumstances. BFIG protested the decision and took the matter before the court. The case dragged till the Supreme Court.

On July 6, 2012, the apex court in a unanimous ruling affirmed BFIG as the winner of the bid.

However, since 2012, BPE has refused to carry out the order. After two other court orders for the enforcement of the Supreme Court ruling failed, BFIG on April 4, 2019 commenced contempt proceedings against BPE.

The BPE DG is currently facing contempt proceedings initiated by BFIG which accused him of his serial disobedience of the Supreme Court order over the resolution of the ownership controversy on ALSCON.

On December 17, 2019, Justice Anwuri Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered Mr Okoh, to be remanded in prison for a minimum of 30 days.

Controversy has continued to trail the alleged stay-of-execution order BPE claimed it procured against the order by the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Job creation

Earlier, Mr Okoh told the governor he was in the state with his management team as part of activities for the Bureau’s 2020 Management Staff Retreat in Uyo.

He informed the governor that the federal government was concerned with the lingering legal tussle surrounding ALSCON and had placed the issue on the front burner.

The DG noted that if ALSCON was functioning, it would have provided about 8,500 direct jobs and 35,000 indirect jobs to Nigerians, which Akwa-Ibom State would have been the greatest beneficiary.

Mr Okoh commended the state as a trail-blazer in Nigeria, the West-African Sub-region and indeed, the world for floating an airline which he noted, meets international standards.

He informed the governor that since the over 30 years of the Bureau’s existence, the agency has reformed over 230 previous Public Enterprises (PEs) in the Banking Sector, Oil & Gas, Telecoms, Pension and Debts’ managements among others.

On the power sector, which is the biggest reform exercise executed by the Bureau, he said if the privatisation was not carried out in 2013, the sector would have collapsed.

He said the federal government was addressing the hiccups being experienced in the sector.