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And Obi wept!

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Premium Times should be exact on whose record they want. Is it records for Atiku Abubakar? or Saddiq/Sadiq Abubakar?. It's obvious that Atiku Abubakar has no known academic record but a certain Saddiq Abubakar whom they now claimed metamorphosised to Atiku Abubakar has some crude primary and secondary school records.
My question is, how can a man be born Atiku, then changed his name to Sadiq which is on his certificate, then after school changed back again to Atiku. Is he a masquerade? Who is fooling who?

Better and more dignifying. You shouldn't be openly rolling on the floor and gutter each time you meet davido just to let us know you're close to him or work for him.

I like Dj Chicken. I play his songs every Sunday when I eat rice and Chicken.

Why are these Labour folks always labouring in vain. Ojukwu once told Obi that he'll never achieve anything policaly if he leaves Apga. Seems Obi has taken that bad luck to labour.

Very bad arrangement. The road starts from Abule Egba in Lagos and goes through Sango Otta in Ogun then to Abeokuta. If you tell Ogun state to only work on its own section that's Otta to Abeokuta and toll it. Then who works on the Lagos section? Wil they also be told to work on it with their money and build another toll gate too?
Its a federal road. The section of it that falls in Lagos is equally very bad. Is it going to be ignored? Why make arrangements only for the part that falls into Ogun state and leave out the side that falls into Lagos state. Sanwo Olu should please week clarifications on this immediately.

Nice one but I think Anambra mis named their two establishments.
The Airport should have been name after Ojukwu whose father was even a major industrialist while the State University at Uli that was named after Ojukwu would have been best named after Achebe who is a world class Acedemic.
I wish they could swap the names.

They must have discussed this over lunch yesterday and shared the incoming positions. When I saw Wike cooking lunch/chopping with Femi COS yesterday it wasn't for nothing. I knew something was up, I knew something was cooking, apart from their lunch that was on fire.

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The greatest president so far. Tormentor of PDP and ipob. Not only is he the greatest Nigerian president, he was also the greatest opposition leader when he was in the opposition many years back. Never jumped from party to party to party like 'woman voice' Obi and 'serial loser' Atiku. But remained focused in one place.
Take a bow Bola.. You came, you saw, you conquered!

Hmmmm

Malroux:
Nigerians irrespective of tribe and religion are unanimously expecting Peter Obi's divine mandate to be returned to him by the PEPT. All eyes on the judiciary.

Joker of the year!

Why does all labour party election challenges always dwell on disqualifying their opponents instead saying that they Labour had the highest number of votes cast. It's like they already know that nobody voted for them so they try to base all their challenges on finding one thing or another that happened one century ago that they can claim should disqualify their opponent. To me it's a cowardly approach of trying to steal other people's mandate. The truth is that they lost woefully and will also lose woefully again if there's a rerun so the easiest way out for them is to try and get their opponents out of the way by disqualification and not by ballot.

It's very unprofessional to leak an internal security memo. Now the terrorists will readjust their plans rather than being caught by surprise.

He likes coming late to occasions so all will see him walk in and recognise him. Looking for relevance.

The visit is proper and good but at least he should have looked more serious and show a sense of solace. Someone just died there and you are visiting them sporting a face cap with your hands in different pockets, posing and showing your swag. More like a kid going for a football match. Doesn't show respect to the occasion.

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Ronaldo effect! The GOAT effect!

Maybe the junta want to use him as a bargaining chip. Now that the sanctions are bitting harder and new infrastructural projects cancelled in Niger, they will want to tell Ecowas to lift sanctions so that the president will be pardoned.
A sign of despiration as sanctions alone in that landlocked country can cripple them in 2 or 3 months.

So Obi is not even claiming that he won the elections. He's not even seriously contesting the results. All he's asking for is that Tinubu be declared not qualified. I even thought the guy has a case that he got the highest number of votes. What a complete clown he is!

Na waooo

Intresting

Fuel subsidy: Don’t join planned strike, Olisah Metuh urges Southeast NLC


Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh has urged the South-East Chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to not participate in the proposed nationwide strike slated for Wednesday.

Metuh implored the South-East-based workers to reject the strike and “see beyond the immediate difficulties and consider the larger benefit of ending the corrupt subsidy regime which has benefited the rich against the poor and ordinary Nigerians.”

The ex-PDP spokesperson said this on Sunday in a statement titled, ‘Open Letter to the NLC, South-East Chapter on Need to Reject the Strike.”

Metuh said, “I passionately appeal to the South-East chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to in the overall interest of the ordinary people, toe the path of their comrades in the South-West and northern states’ chapters and pull out of the proposed strike action over the announcement of the removal of subsidy on fuel by President Bola Tinubu.

“Without necessarily agreeing with the seeming sudden nature of the subsidy removal, I urge the South-East Chapter of NLC to see beyond the immediate difficulties and consider the larger benefit of ending the corrupt subsidy regime which has benefited the rich against the poor and ordinary Nigerians.

“It is important that the people of the South-East, including Comrades in the NLC, realize what is imperative to us and put it beyond any other considerations.

“You will recall that in 2001, then as the Chairman of the South-East Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Committee (SERRAC), I worked with the leadership of the South East NLC in resisting the attempt to work against the increase of fuel price to N40 then.

“That effort was predicated on the fact that fuel subsidy has never benefited the South-East as fuel price has always been exorbitant in the South East; always higher than what is obtainable in other parts of the country.”

He stated that fuel subsidy has never been advantageous to Nigerians, but the rich few are the beneficiaries, and that was the reason he also opposed the strike when PDP was in power in 2012

“Recall also that in January 2012, as the National Vice-Chairman of the then-ruling party, I worked with the South-East chapter of the NLC to reject the nationwide strike that paralysed the entire country on the premise that the strike was of no benefit to the South-East as a region. Fuel subsidy has never been of benefit to the masses of the South-East, it has only been beneficial to the rich and the economic saboteurs in the land.

“It is on that premise that I come to you once again to resist the attempt to be blindly lured to shut down our region for a fight that will not benefit the ordinary people of the South-East. The South-East should rather focus on our immediate challenges to activate our God-given ingenuity to work.”

Metuh further said, “We must use the energies of our Labour fronts to get the current administration to address the issue of insecurity, economic retrogression in the South-East as well as the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from incarceration; imperatives that were disregarded, ignored and even encouraged by the last administration.

“As the people are being asked to make sacrifices and without prejudice to the petitions in the Presidential Election Petition Court, I call on President Tinubu to show leadership by immediately taking steps to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians by cutting down on the size of government, end profligacy associated with governments and channel the resources to projects, amenities and facilities that directly impact on the wellbeing of the people.

“We cannot remove subsidy on fuel and still continue to subsidise the lavish lifestyle of political office holders, spend government money to maintain the luxury presidential fleet, service posh government houses, buy expensive vehicles, secure luxury apartments and finance wasteful trips for government functionaries to the detriment of the wellbeing of the people.

“The end to subsidy on petrol must mark the end to luxury government guest houses, long convoys, hiring of private jets by governors and public officers, foreign medical trips and jumbo allowances for political office holders.

“President Tinubu must be ready to cut the budget of the Presidential Villa by removing luxury items. He must reduce the number of Presidential aides and appoint ministers, special advisers and other aides who are ready to forgo luxury cars, expensive accommodations and fat allowances but, instead, be ready to live with the people and make do with public amenities and facilities with other Nigerians.

“I urge the South-East Chapter of the NLC to review their stand to shut down our region for a protest that benefits the oppressors and not the oppressed. The life wire of the South-East is our entrepreneurial spirit that thrives on daily commercial life and which, we must not repress by shutting down our own homeland that has been greatly impoverished by sponsored security challenges"




https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/fuel-subsidy-dont-join-planned-strike-olisah-metuh-urges-southeast-nlc/

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I like it when a man makes a campaign promise and keeps to his manifesto. If we were to reject subsidy removal, the fight ought to have started from the campaign period. Unfortunately for NLC even their master Gregory Obi and Atiku also promised the same. So they kept quiet then.
The alternative for Tinubu would have been to keep borrowing massively like Buhari did and then ultimately put Nigeria into a slavery and complete bankrupt situation. God forbid.
What we should be fighting now is to make sure that Tinubu's promise of diverting the saved subsidy money into key sectors of the economy that will eventually mitigate any hardship and put our economy on the right path is done accordingly and appropriately.
In that way the future will be bright.

Citizen Gregory Obi must be weeping bitterly wherever he is now. So Sad. Hope his doctors are close by.

Be careful Tony, lest that woman bewitch you. Many have gone. That her hug is suggestive and shameful...its too close for comfort!

We had almost 10 years of planning and building to get it right, yet a new mega Port and huge industrial estate has been rushed into service without an effective Trailer park. What is wrong with us in this Country. Upon all the catastrophe Apapa brought yet we learnt nothing!
THIS IS A DISGRACE!

Traffic chaos looms as trucks besiege Lekki Port for cargoes

• Absence of Holden Bay Worrisome - Truckers • Electronic Call Up coming soon-NPA

Traffic chaos looms as trucks besiege Lekki Port for cargoes
The arrival of a container vessel, GSL Alice at the Lekki Deep seaport at the weekend has led to massive entry of trucks into the Lekki area, apparently scouting for cargoes to lift out of the new seaport. This is even as the truckers have lamented the absence of a Truck Holden Bay at Lekki port, a development that they claimed might lead to trucks parking along the Lekki-Epe-Eleko highway while scouting for cargoes.

Recall that a container vessel, GSL Alice, after discharging some cargoes at Tin-Can port last week, headed for Lekki port on Friday to also offload some cargoes at the new port, signaling the beginning of cargo evacuation processes at Nigeria’s first deep seaport.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune exclusively on cargo arrival at Lekki Port, the Chairman of the Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO), Chief Remi Ogungbemi explained that over 500 trucks belonging to his group has headed towards Lekki port in anticipation of businesses.

According to Chief Ogungbemi, “It is a welcome development that we now have cargoes at Lekki Port. Some of our members, about 500 in numbers have headed towards the port since we heard of the arrival of the container vessel. Some importers have been reaching out to our members about cargo evacuation processes.

“However, the problem we might have with the new port is the absence of a Truck Holden Bay.

“The last time we went to Lekki Port on a visit, the operators showed us a massive land space earmarked for the construction of a Truck Holding Bay. However, as at our last check, nothing has been done on that land, so the plan to build a Truck Holding Bay is still in the works.

“That’s how these things work. That’s how it started in Apapa and Tin-Can. We don’t expect Lekki Port to be an exception. The government should just ensure that the roads leading to the new port is not clogged,” the COMTUA National President warned.

With Lekki Port boasting of barges that can also serve as means of cargo evacuation via the waterways and save the ports access roads from unnecessary traffic chaos, findings by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that the expensive nature of movement of cargoes via barges might force many cargo owners to opt for road haulage of cargoes.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune exclusively over the option of taking cargoes via the waterways on barges, Dr. Kayode Farinto, acting President of the largest Customs brokerage group in Africa, the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) said that more cargoes will leave Lekki port by road rather than by water due to the cheap cost of road haulage.

In the words of the ANLCA acting President, “It is sad that an edifice as massive as Lekki Port is not yet connected to rail haulage. That’s how we do things in this part of the world.

“AlthoughLekki [Port has barges that are ready to move cargoes via the waterways, but how many cargoes will leave by barges?

“It’s more expensive to clear cargoes by barges, so many cargo owners will go for road haulage, and I can’t predict how that Lekki-Epe-Eleko road will look like in weeks to come when different ships start calling at Lekki Port and thousands of cargoes start leaving by road.”

On the plan to implement the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Electronic-Call-Up system, Trucks Transit Parks (TTP), the firm handling the Electronic Call-Up system for the NPA at Apapa and Tin-Can ports explained that the initiative will soon be extended to Lekki Port in weeks to come.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune exclusively, Managing Director of TTP, Jama Onwubuariri explained that, “We have been holding meetings with the Lagos State Government over extension of the Electronic Call-Up system, which has been a success story at Apapa port, to Lekki Port.

“We also have meetings this week and I can assure you that very soon, the Electronic Call-Up system will soon be extended to the new port to ease traffic issues around the port area.”

In 2020, Nigeria embarked on an audacious attempt to wrest back lost cargoes from neighbouring and rival West African ports of Togo, Benin and Ghana through the construction of the Lekki Deep seaport in Lagos.

With a main breakwater of 1.5km long with a turning circle of 600 metres, enough for a vessel of up to 16,000 standard containers, and an approach channel of 11 km long, Lekki Port has three terminals: the container terminal, the liquid terminal and the dry bulk terminal. The container terminal has an initial draft of 14 metres, with the potential for further dredging to 16.5 metres. The terminal is able to handle 2.5 million twenty-foot standard containers per year.

The deep-sea port of Lekki is the first port in Nigeria with Ship-To-Shore (STS) cranes. It has three of these container gantry cranes; they belong to the “Super-post-Panamax” group – this means that they can reach and unload the rearmost row of containers even if the container ship is wider than the Panama Canal (49m or 160ft maximum boat beam).

The STS cranes have a fixed rail at the quayside. They can lift 65 tons in twin-lift mode, 50 tons in single-lift mode or 85 tons under a hook. The outreach from the quayside is 61 meters (this corresponds to 25 container rows). – The world’s biggest container ship (as of 2022), the EVER ALOT, has a width of 61,5 meters. The air draft (the maximum height from which containers can be picked up) is 52 meters. Each STS crane generates 300 lux of light, which means that even at night the area around the crane will be nearly as bright as daylight. Cameras will assist.

The layout of the port, including the layout of the approach channel, turning circle, and harbor basins have been derived from optimizations based on port operations, construction costs, and possible future extensions.

Two different breakwater concepts were applied for the main breakwater: A rubble mound with geo-bag core for the near-shore sections and a composite breakwater for the more exposed sections. The main breakwater is 1.5 km long.

The secondary breakwater was replaced by a barrier. The barrier consists of a core from sand, internally fortified by a protective geo-bag layer, a revetment on the harbor side, and an artificial beach on the seaward side.

The port’s computerised system will allow container identification and clearance from the office, and human interaction will be minimal in the physical operations.

When the Phase 2 is completed, the deep sea port will have three liquid berths. The liquid cargo terminal will handle vessels up to 45,000 DWT (dead weight tonnage) and can expand to reach a capacity of 160,000 DWT.

Liquids (like petrol or diesel) will be handled at a tank farm near the port. The docking area is equipped with loading arms. It is also connected by pipelines along the breakwater.

The bulk terminal with available quay length of 300m can accommodate a Panamax class vessel (75,000 DWT)


https://tribuneonlineng.com/traffic-chaos-looms-as-trucks-besiege-lekki-port-for-cargoes/

JealousCobra:
Thiefñubu don grease this one's two palms. . . . No bi juju be dat 😎

Why are Obi supporters so daft and empty headed.

Obasajo..." God will not forgive me if I support Atiku for president"
When even your boss says you're a thief then you truly must be a great robber!