₦airaland Forum

Amajerry83:
That day will be bloody. Kanu will be at home watching tv while some Biafrans will be on the streets taking bullets for what they believe in.

If you followed the May 30th seat at home order. Same will happen. Not even a fly will die.

Think about this. How else can Buhari prove that he has delivered nothing substantive on healthcare than for him to escape to London instead of getting teeatment from the hospitals he has spent billions on for the last 2 years? The hospital that Buhari trusted his life with in London wasn't built for the prime minister or for special dignitaries from a messed up 3rd world country. The hospital was built for mere citizens of the UK. Everyone in the UK can access the same quality of medical care that our President abandoned Nigeria to go enjoy. Yet none of the buffoons following him around could ask him why we can't have the same kinda hospitals in Nigeria. The best hospital that almighty Fashola or wonderful APC could show for 16years of rule in Lagos is LASUTH and it's one hopelessly substandard hospital by global standards. The question then is when will Nigerians start asking more from the politicians they idolize so much when the politicians themselves know that their best achievements in office ain't good enough for them?

Nigeria is doomed to remain underdeveloped when a govt cannot equip just one hospital well enough to treat the president and an educated governor declares public holiday to welcome back a sick President. When it's still absolutely normal for thousands of educated, illiterate, intelligent and dumb Nigerians to go welcome the president at the airport with joy and pride after 103 days of vote-of-no-confidence on the healthcare system of the country by the same president. You just wonder if people think at all. As for development sha, let's hope we get there in the next century cos with this kinda of thinking, there is simply no hope for Nigeria

No now. This is extreme

The speech is coming at a time when unpredictability thrives in the seat of power. PMB has only had one media chat since he took over. Every other national address has been on democracy day or independence day.

How necessary is this address?

What necessitated it?

Will he officially reveal his medical records?

What did his doctors tell him that may have led to his return and now this speech.

Will you be surprised if he takes a bow and hands over to Osibanjo to face his health.

What are your expectations for this unique national address

Ok

It's 6 hours from London to Nigeria. When it was 3pm and no news of his return I knew that jobbers are at it again. Shame

Is he back or visiting

Look at a nation where things work.

This is pure democracy.

Imagine police protecting other country citizens.

Nigeria is a joke. We are not practicing democracy yet

patola080:
he too want to go and build is own business centre let wait and c wot will happen in d next few months

Guy building business centre and growing it is not easy. If not, all of us would have been pastors.

For every mega church you know making waves in wealth. One million more are in abject poverty and penury. We focus on those churches making it

Elbowroom:
Why do u clamor for restructuring?

Because nothing has improved in Nigeria since I was born.

Why are you against restructuring?

Where is the love of God. Just imagine that God excommunicates all of us anytime we sin.

If men were God wahala for dey.

The man has every right to take a walk from priesthood if he is not happy or disagrees with the system.

Bloggers will write anything to gain traffic.

Keep selling falsehood. You will look for truth in your life and won't find it

Any sector that makes noise will get money.

any region that makes noise will get attention.

how the present contraption is designed

ok

These people have engendered this northern hegemony.

But why are northern elders scared of restructuring

Tolexander:
These Chinese are committing crimes which they will never take from Nigerians in their country. The worst part of it is that our government is doing nothing about it.

Indians oga. Chai

The pictures continue

Blood thirsty vampires.

there was a country

Did anybody see the word ''DISLOGED Members of Bokoharam''

People are viciously killing from Borno to Adamawa and now Kebbi and they still leave in delusion that they have been disloged and technically defeated

Lubbish....according to my friend

i got into a heated discussion last night with some friends and they argued that Nigeria is irredeemable.

One person asked any of us to mention one thing in Nigeria that has gotten better or improved since we were born.

The whole place went quiet.

I ask. what has gotten better in Nigeria since you were born?

This question is largely for those who oppose restructuring

think be fore you answer.

This country is iredeemable

If he had eloped with the money, the bank won't have spent less than 2 million publishing his image and paying the police to hunt him yet they wont have the brain to give him atleast 2million

Others

Bokoharam is purely political

APC had a golden opportunity but blew it to the wind.

Just start shouting and start disturbing in Nigeria. You will be rewarded in politics.

okay

Dlordsamurai:
leave them, they will continue to be below south south and south west for the rest of their lives, the only thing they have is to come online and post ewedu soup and ass lick Niger deltans.

I am a Niger Deltan indeed.

Your conscience has been buried and you know the truth.

Be proud of being Yoruba. it doesn't hurt.

God did not make a mistake

Ok

this masturbation over Biafra is something else

In fairness to her, we have never seen document evidence published by EFCC. All we see is pictures of properties.

she challenged EFCC to publish documenst of those properties and account details of which she is being accussed.

I have not seen any evidence from EFCC and its time we ask EFCC for evidence

In doing that, I cut the subsidy bill to the Nation by almost 50% and put my life under immediate threat. Yet, I was accused, in the now defunct NEXT magazine, of taking bribes from these same companies. At end December 2011, I directed PPPRA to move for complete deregulation, to rid the Oil & Gas sector of the speculators, the bloated middlemen and the parasitic influence of God-fatherism. This was in an attempt to create a far less corruptible system as it was quite clear that the intended benefits of the Subsidy system were not reaching the masses but were being hijacked by unscrupulous middlemen cabals.
And finally, to allow the true market factors of supply and demand to come into play….. And as you all know, the country pushed back against it. Even after that, in early January 2012, I sought the permission and received the approval, of President Jonathan to write to EFCC asking that they please come in and investigate the entire Subsidy program and the fraudulence embedded in it (Annex-2D). And yet, I was called the corrupt one. It is pertinent to note here, that the incumbent government themselves maintained the full subsidy regime for over one year until they realised (as I had pointed out in 2011 and had championed continuously), that it was unsustainable.
My Stewardship
I would like to state for the record that I performed my duty as Minister of Petroleum Resources with the utmost sincerity and sense of responsibility, ensuring that all Nigerians irrespective of creed, gender or tribe enjoyed their rightful benefits from the Oil and Gas Sector.
$5.6 Billion LNG Dividend Fund
It is pertinent to note that at the end of my tenure, I left behind in the LNG dividend fund, for the incoming Administration, the sum of $5.6billion(five billion six hundred million US Dollars)(Annex-6A). I did this to ensure continuity in the crucial gas sector development which underpins the entire Power and Energy Sector and which was and still is, absolutely imperative for the Country’s current and future economic development.
Local Content
Having pushed for the full implementation of the Nigerian Local Content Act, despite resistance from various stakeholders, I actively promoted the benefits of ‘Nigerians Right to First Consideration’ in both the downstream and upstream sectors. The immediate effect of my actions was that for the first time in history, thousands of Nigerians were able to break through the barriers of a sector that had hitherto been the preserve of a few powerful groups with vested interest, and thereby earn a living. This remains a source of pride to me, that not only did it create wealth across the entire economic value chain but it also ensured the unparalleled transfers of knowledge and expertise for our indigenous operators. It is noteworthy that the template is being adapted for use in other countries.
Fuel Scarcity
It is on record that I immediately took the issue of incessant fuel queues head-on and in my time as petroleum minister, Nigerians rarely experienced fuel shortages. These queues had long dominated our landscape, causing untold hardship to millions of ordinary Nigerians stuck in fuel queues for hours; like the bus driver who was unable to earn enough to go to the market, and the market woman who, therefore, earned less and so could not afford school fees. This example, though at the most basic level, caused a chain reaction which was replicated in various facets throughout the economy. So, on the macro economic level, the main benefit of ending the fuel queues was an immediate increase in GDP, reduction in inflation and easier facilitation and movement of people, goods and services, across the country. The continuing effect of all these measures were that even in the most remote locations, Nigerians could buy and sell petroleum products.
Gas Supply & Infrastructure
As soon as I assumed office, I put into play my wealth of experience in the oil and gas sector, knowing that gas was imperative for our future growth and prosperity. I put together a team to look at all aspects of growing Nigeria’s Gas with the intent of turning Nigeria into a Premier Gas Exploring and Producing Country, even more than an oil producing country. We started working on Gas for Industry – The commercialisation approach, Gas for home use – LPG, and Gas for Power generation. We even sponsored a pilot scheme for Gas to power vehicles. I implemented a short, medium and long term project to put in place sustainable gas supply to underpin the power sector and began laying the requisite infrastructure that was virtually non-existent when we took office. We worked with NERC and the CBN to put in place the necessary fiscal levers, to ensure that Gas supply would be competitively priced. I left behind a comprehensive and detailed plan for the rollout of LPG and the Industrialisation of GAS e.g. the Ogidigben project.
Petroleum Industry Bill
I personally worked tirelessly through the night on many occasions, with the committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill, to finally get it to the point where for the first time in over 12 years, we could place it before the Federal Executive Council, and the National Assembly. I championed this in a bid to create a less corrupt, more transparent, accountable and responsible NNPC and Oil and Gas Industry as a whole. It was also to create additional funding inflows for the Nation. This was in spite of the fact that there was major resistance from powerful interest groups within and outside Nigeria. I take personal satisfaction, even now, that the PIB template I presented to the country is still the benchmark for the current and future development of the Oil Sector in Nigeria. The Template is already being adapted for use in other countries.
MY POSITION
It is saddening that after eight years of serving my country, my experience as a public servant has been fraught with continuous malicious castigation and character assassination, all in the name of ‘personal vendettas’ or political horse trading. It has become apparent to many that these untruths told were at best well-crafted fables. The most dramatic and damning accusation was the infamous missing $49.8 Billion Dollars, that went from to $12 Billion and then up to $20 Billion and which was alleged missing from NNPC.
Today, we all know that the PWC report that was published cleared me of any wrong doing and no one up till now has been able to controvert the PWC report nor has anyone found the “missing” 20 billion, or who took it. In addition, the Makarfi-led committee in the Senate of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, in a series of publicly-held hearings, also vindicated me on the matter of the purportedly missing funds. Yet, we are all silent as if these events never occurred!
The allegations that I have addressed above are no different, the character assassination continues, this time with a new set of hirelings. One of the basic tenets of the human trait is that we all have shortcomings and we all make our fair share of mistakes, whether we are in positions of Leadership, or not. However, one error that cannot be ascribed to me is STEALING FROM NIGERIA & DEFRAUDING MY COUNTRY!
It is therefore sad and distressing that in spite of all that I tried to do in the best interest of our Nation, I continue to be faced with constant demonisation, unproven accusations and deeply personal insults. In response I have chosen not to insult, accuse or demonise anyone, any person or persons. In spite of all the allegations that have been made against me, not one has been factually proven. I remain very proud of the fact that all the policies, tenets and plans that I initiated in the Oil & Gas sector are still underpinning the entire structure. This is because they were put in place with the good of the entire nation and its people in mind. They were not factional or tribal, neither were they based on religious bias.
I am a woman from the Niger Delta, who through perseverance and sheer hard work rose to one of the highest positions in the Country’s premier International Oil Company, and in tune with my ethos of hard work I earned the prestigious British Foreign & Commonwealth Chevening Scholarship Award and was thereafter admitted to my MBA program at the World renowned Cambridge University. In 2006, I was appointed as the first female executive director in the history of Shell Petroleum, Nigeria. Just over a year later, I was nominated and appointed as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, culminating in my appointment as Nigeria’s first female Minister of Petroleum, where again by dint of hard work I was appointed as the first female in history(in a completely male dominated space) to hold the Presidency of OPEC. I can therefore, NO LONGER SIT BACK and allow the fabricated accusations against my person designed by unscrupulous persons with a vengeful agenda go unchallenged.
As a Christian, it is my sincerely held belief that in the coming months, history will be the judge of exactly who Lied and who told the Truth. By the Grace of God, I shall be here to see the day when truth prevails.
The fight against corruption in Nigeria will be far better served if the EFCC focus on incontrovertible facts, as opposed to media sensationalism and completely distorted stories, in their bid to demonise and destroy a few specially chosen Nigerians. Documentary evidence is available to support the facts.