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Politics › Re: Diezani’s Slush Cash: Wike Ordered Me To Collect N700m From Bank – PDP Scribe by Caseless(op): 6:34am On May 21, 2016

TPAND:
Wike the fearless... Buhari can do you nothing until after 2023.

we shall see.

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Politics › Re: Diezani’s Slush Cash: Wike Ordered Me To Collect N700m From Bank – PDP Scribe by Caseless(op): 6:34am On May 21, 2016

Burger01:
As far I'm concerned, every single one of those yam sharers and yam eaters should be jailed, killed or buried alive. See them sharing naija money like they shared kulikuli.

Jonathan is a curse to this country... and yeah his conscience will judge him

if Jonathan is God-fearing (i know he is not), he won't sleep.

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Politics › Re: Diezani’s Slush Cash: Wike Ordered Me To Collect N700m From Bank – PDP Scribe by Caseless(op): 6:33am On May 21, 2016

MossadAgent:
[s]When will the lizard traitor of Ubiama realise that the world knows him as a corrupt thief?

Amaech,i buhari will soon discard you as a used toilet tissue.

Wike isn't your problem and no matter the lies you concoct it wont stop the fact that you looted Rivers treasure to sponsor that dullard.[/s]

Did you read the report at all?

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Politics › FEC Okays Dangote For Lokoja-ilorin Road Construction by Caseless(op): 3:52am On May 21, 2016

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the proposal for business mogul, Aliko Dangote, to construct Lokoja-Obajana-Ilorin Road.
Dangote Cement’s Obajana factory is located along that axis.

In return, Dangote will hold back 30 percent of his company’s income tax for some years.
‎The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He was accompanied by the Ministers of Information, Lai Mohammed; Labour, Chris Ngige and Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
He said: “We presented a memo to council for consideration. The memo seeks to take benefits of the existing policy and regulation. It seeks to take benefits of tax policies, tax laws for the purpose of using them to drive infrastructural development renewal.

“So we presented a proposal by one of the subsidiary of Dangote group, a construction company, for the construction of a section of Lokoja-Obajana-Kabba-Ilorin, specifically the section between Obajana-Kabba Road using cement as demonstrative of how perhaps we should continue to build going forward in order to reduce maintenance on the road and the company proposing to fund the construction of that section of the road in exchange for some tax remissions.

“Companies are ordinarily suppose to pay income tax‎. There are existing policies in our laws which enable government to consider and give taxes incentives.
“So Council consider and approved the proposal for Dangote construction company to build that section of the road because the tonnage of cement being produced from the factory has increased and the traffic in that area has increased, there had been unfortunate accidents also.

“So it is a total economy policy which council considered and approved because it gives support to industry, it enables us take benefit of our tax law to renew infrastructure at a time we are really challenged for resources to finance all our routes. It also enables us to save lives by quickly and urgently rebuilding that road so that other commuters who also depend on that road for their livelihood would also benefit from the road.”

https://www.today.ng/news/national/124059/fec-okays-dangote-lokoja-ilorin-road-construction

Politics › Diezani’s Slush Cash: Wike Ordered Me To Collect N700m From Bank – PDP Scribe by Caseless(op): 3:41am On May 21, 2016

The detained Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Samuel Johnson Okpoko, has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission that he collected N700million poll bribery cash from Fidelity Bank on the instruction of Governor Nyesom Wike.

But while Okpoko will soon be charged to court, the anti-graft agency might put the invitation of the governor on hold because of constitutional immunity.
The immunity, however, does not prevent the EFCC from investigating the allegation against the governor and keeping vital information for his trial after his tenure.
According to a source in EFCC, Okpoko admitted that he collected the cash in two tranches at Trans Amadi branch of Fidelity Bank Plc in Port Harcourt.

The source said: “Operatives of the EFCC, have grilled the Rivers State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Samuel Johnson Okpoko , for collecting N700million from the controversial $115milloon lodged with Fidelity Bank Plc, by the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke.
“Okpoko, who was the Rivers state’s PDP campaign coordinator in the 2015 Presidential Election collected the sum of N700 million in two tranches of N600 million and N100 million respectively at the Trans Amadi branch of Fidelity Bank Plc, Port- Harcourt.
Investigations by the EFCC revealed that Okpoko cashed N600 million on March 27 and N100 million on March 31,2015.

“Explaining how he became involved, Okpoko said he was instructed by the then PDP governorship candidate, Nyesom Wike to go to the branch of Fidelity Bank to cash some money there.

The source quoted Okpoko as saying: “I was with my governor in his house sometime 27th day of March 2015, when he got a call and Chief Barrister Nyesom Wike after the phone call told me that the call was from Fidelity Bank and they have some money for him”.
But Special Assistant to Governor Wike on electronic media, Mr Simeon Nwakaudu, said: “We are not aware of what you talked about in your text message”
He said Okpoko was already in the custody of the EFCC and would be charged to court soon.

Responding to a question, the source said: “Since the governor enjoys immunity by virtue of Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution, we cannot invite Nyesom Wike now for interrogation on the allegation by Okpoko.
“This however does not prevent the EFCC from probing issues connected with the payment of the N700million and asking for refund from the beneficiaries.”
Section 308 of the constitution reads in part: “Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this constitution but subject to sub-section 2 of this section- (a) no civil or criminal proceedings shall be instituted or continued against a person to whom this section applies during his period of office; (b) a person to whom this section applies shall not be arrested or imprisoned during that period either on pursuance of the process of any court or otherwise; and (c ) no process of any court requiring or compelling the appearance of a person to whom this section applies, shall be applied for or issued.”

https://www.today.ng/news/national/124333/diezanis-slush-cash-wike-ordered-collect-n700m-bank-pdp-scribe

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Politics › Re: Why There Are Doubts That A REAL Chibok Girl Was Found - Cramjones by Caseless: 10:52pm On May 20, 2016

MrKong:
Look some secondary school students can't speak English for sh!t, doesn't mean they don't understand....she's allowed to speak in the language she's fluent in to express herself well

And to the other girl strapped with bomb, Pls provide evidence that she's was paraded as one of the chibok girls. And if you think she's the same as the rescued girl, you really need a eye glasses, they are clearly different people.

It's nobody's fault that you drank too much garri growing up and now it's affecting you vision

cramjones has a very big problem. Look at the pictures he posted, how do they resemble each other?

Politics › Re: FG Sacks John-Kennedy Opara As Christian Pilgrims Boss by Caseless: 10:46pm On May 20, 2016

Eyya!

That man was in every political or pdp programme that took place under gej.

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Politics › Re: The Fuel Subsidy Conversation: Between 2012 And 2016, By Japheth Omojuwa by Caseless(op): 3:54pm On May 20, 2016

Lalasticlala , mynd44, omojuwa want you to pick his call.

Politics › Re: The Fuel Subsidy Conversation: Between 2012 And 2016, By Japheth Omojuwa by Caseless(op): 3:43pm On May 20, 2016

cktheluckyman:
You knew all this and yet you opposed the removal of subsidy in 2012? are you for real?

read and learn!

Politics › Re: The Fuel Subsidy Conversation: Between 2012 And 2016, By Japheth Omojuwa by Caseless(op): 3:36pm On May 20, 2016

What then is inducing 2016’s fuel price hike? A global reality. Before addressing this global reality, I must address the failings of the Buhari government on this issue. You cannot find a more confusing situation than the dollar exchange regime. We have an official exchange rate of N199/$1, then petrol importers now have an exchange rate of N298/$1 while the parallel market continues to speak in different tongues; on Tuesday, it was about N350. Such a state of chaos and absolute uncertainty helps no one, certainly does not encourage private investment. The current FOREX regime is nothing but a form of subsidy for the rich and privileged, it has to end! Apart from this, I will reecho what Dr. Omano Edigheji stated in his recent article, “Where is the APC government’s Development Agenda?” How long are we going to be using piecemeal moves to fix a system that obviously craves a structural change? Something has to give!

Back to the global reality, Venezuela has increased fuel prices by 6000 per cent. You read that right, six thousand per cent! It has also devalued its currency, the Bolivar. The government then increased the minimum wage by 30 per cent. This sounds amazing until you hear the new minimum wage is now just about $13! That is N4,550.00 at N350/$1. Venezuelans despite the increase apparently still get to buy fuel at the world’s cheapest price but the reality should not be lost on anyone, arguably the world’s most socialist country today has been forced to make adjustments, increasing fuel prices for the first time since 1996!

Qatar Petroleum laid off some 3000 people in 2015. RasGas, the gas company, did its own firings. Qatar Museum and other companies including the almighty AlJazeera have had to reduce their staff strength. The sackings continued into 2016.The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company laid off 2000 staff members about two weeks ago. In Kuwait, salaries and other benefits are being reduced while the oil company is sacking those even less fortunate. Kuwait is OPEC’s third largest producer, also holding eight per cent of the global oil reserves.

Hardly any Nigerian conversation ends without comparisons to the United States, despite the obvious disparities in our realities. According to Houston-based Graves and co., Global Oil and Gas job losses have topped 350,000. As of the last report, it stood at 351,410 and counting. Between October 2014 and January 2016, the US alone accounted for nearly 100,000 job losses in oil and gas and supporting segments, understandably, more than half of these job losses are from Texas. This is according to the US Bureau of Labour. There are more examples to pick from but having outlined the reality in five countries above, anyone who cannot see a trend has either simply refused to see it or does not have the ability to see it.

These global realities are one thing, Nigeria’s Dasuki-Dezianian exceptionalism is another. This country has been stolen dry to its bones. Nigerians have been left mostly poor and with frail hope. Despite selling oil above $100/barrel for the better part of the last half a decade, we went on a splurge where “people sat down and shared the money as if it was lunch or dinner.” We are here today with the price of oil and the attendant exchange rate dealing us twin blows! Surely, something has to give! Or the house will come down fast.

No matter what happens, the poor must be protected. The government must make sure its N500bn intervention plan reaches the poorest of the masses; we cannot afford another Dasukian reality here. Apart from this, Nigeria must be intentional about strategically pursuing a structural change in its economic and development agenda. Even Saudi Arabia is advancing plans to restructure its economy and compared to Saudi Arabia, we earn peanuts from oil, even when we were earning a lot.

In summary, the 2012 price increase was necessitated by election-induced corruption; the 2016 fuel price increase is being necessitated by the reality of oil’s dwindling fortunes globally and the effect it is having on foreign exchange earnings and exchange rates added with Nigeria’s poor choices of years past. One cannot protest like one did in 2012 for President Buhari to go after thieves, he appears more desperate to jail them than the average Nigerian. These are my explanations for those who were genuinely asleep and required assistance to be woken up to smell the coffee. Those pretending to be asleep need no such help.

http://www.radar.ng/2016/05/the-fuel-subsidy-conversation-between.html?m=1

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Politics › The Fuel Subsidy Conversation: Between 2012 And 2016, By Japheth Omojuwa by Caseless(op): 3:19pm On May 20, 2016*

Having spent a whole week in Germany travelling through villages in Lusatia, Brandenburg and attending lectures in Berlin studying the German Energy Mix for the purpose of understanding lessons Nigeria could learn, today’s article was meant to start a conversation on that but one would be missing an opportunity to address the most pressing issue of the day: the petrol price hike. The conversation on the energy mix can happen at a later date.

I have seen a lot of arguments around, “Why are you supporting subsidy removal now when you occupied Nigeria against it in 2012?” It is a valid question when asked by those who intend to indeed know the rationale behind such differing positions. There’d be a zero need to address those who ask the question, not because they indeed want to know why but because they see the question itself as a conviction of your person because as far as they are concerned, it does not matter what changed, you simply do not change your position on an issue. To this group of people, to change your position, you must have been paid – I even had one refer to me as a low grade paid agent of the government – because the fact that the realities surrounding one’s previous position have changed are not enough to necessitate a change of position. This article is not for those and their kind, instead, it is for those who are indeed interested in knowing one’s rational position.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan increased the price of fuel in January 2012 and President Muhammadu Buhari did just that in May 2016. How can anyone react differently to the same action by these men? To a logical mind, you then have to go beyond both actions to “why they did what they did!” What is done cannot be as important as why it is done. The January 2012 increase was induced by the subsidy payments of 2011 that crossed the N1tn line. According to the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Nigeria paid N198.11bn for subsidies in 2009, the sum went up to N416.45bn in 2010 and then some extraordinarily amazing thing happened in 2011, the subsidy numbers against reason shot up to N1.9tn! You need not be an expert in Mathematics to see that the 2011 number was way out of line. We paid just N219.72bn in 2006 and N236.64bn in 2007.What happened in 2011 to take the subsidy numbers to celestial realms? It was the 2011 elections. Not only did President Jonathan and his ill-fated co-travellers fund his 2011 election from the subsidy payments, they also depleted the Excess Crude Account to $3m in 2011 from almost $20bn in 2009.

This was what happened before January 2012. [b]Something had to give. It was too late to stop those who got the windfall of N1.9tn from getting something smaller the following year. The President then decided to transfer the burden to Nigerians. This was what Nigerians rejected in 2012! This was why there was a lot of argument on “Cut waste not subsidy” and “Kill corruption, not Nigerians” during the protests. These amongst other issues were the prevailing conversation. There is no need to state that something similar happened for the 2015 elections, only this time, the money mostly came from defence spending.

Bottom line; President Jonathan increased petrol prices in January of 2012 because of the looting that had happened right under his nose and mostly for his own benefit. Several probes proved this in different ways; including the Nuhu Ribadu report, the KPMG report, and the ill-fated Farouk Lawan report that got shot down with the active connivance of the then Presidency. The people naturally protested the fuel price hike of 2012 because all of these were apparent to the general public. Despite the protests, the government succeeded in raising the fuel price. It set up a Subsidy Re-Investment Programme called SURE-P. The scheme was better known for the scams committed under it than for anything else.[/b]

Politics › Re: Strike: Why We Parted Ways With NLC –TUC President by Caseless: 8:50am On May 20, 2016

seunmsg:
There is no strike anywhere. The purported strike is only a figment of Ayuba Waba's imagination.

that drunkard has lost touch with reality.

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Politics › Re: THE NATION Newspaper Crops Obanikoro's Picture From Full Photograph by Caseless: 8:37am On May 20, 2016

theshadyexpress:
Why is the apc pigs scared of obanikoro?in the words of NAS 'people fear what they don't understand,hate what they can't conquer ,that's just the theory of man'

Oya apc e-goats come and defend the rubbish party and their media wing.

Freedom of information my aSssss

shame on you

Politics › Re: SHOCKER!!! 2016 PROPHECY: Biafra Nation Is Real, OBJ Will Die,nig ‘ll Breakup by Caseless: 8:35am On May 20, 2016

Trash!

Tell us the date obj will die.

Politics › Re: Kidnap And Release Of Chibok Girls: Reality Or Script Playing? by Caseless: 8:34am On May 20, 2016

bender79:
People argue' she can't speak english' and I ask how many people in their village community schools speak English?

most grammar school in the east are guilty of this; they're taught in igbo.

Politics › Re: Kidnap And Release Of Chibok Girls: Reality Or Script Playing? by Caseless: 8:32am On May 20, 2016

falseman:
So how do they pass WAEC? I once worked in SEC and I can tell you one of my bosses can't write a simply memo. Guess what? Yeah you are right he's from the North.
Now that's what I call double standard knowing fully well every other part of the country study hard to make it through yet won't find a job he is qualified for.

Oga, I've the opportunity of being in abia and other eastern states, you have the worst educational set-up.

I served in the east, as a teacher , my greatest challenge is the attitude of your people towards education. Those in ss3 preparing for WAEC will make you cry when you allow them to say anything in English language.

Politics › Re: Kidnap And Release Of Chibok Girls: Reality Or Script Playing? by Caseless: 8:28am On May 20, 2016

The wailers can choose what to believe for all I care. I don't need them to act otherwise.

BUHARI till 2023(insha Allahu)

Politics › Re: Borno Light-years Ahead In Agricultural Innovation, Despite Boko Haram by Caseless: 8:07am On May 20, 2016

Those whose states cannot function or put any infrastrucure on ground , maybe when 50 teachers decide to protest on the street, will call borno that's facing insurgency and putting this gargantuan infrastructure in place as backward.

Sai North!

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Politics › Re: Jonathan's SURE-P A Monumental Fraud: Tinubu by Caseless: 7:54am On May 20, 2016

So true!

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Politics › Re: Strike: Why We Parted Ways With NLC –TUC President by Caseless: 7:51am On May 20, 2016

jhydebaba:
... and I say NO, it is in the interest of your pockets.

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Politics › Re: Strike: Why We Parted Ways With NLC –TUC President by Caseless: 7:50am On May 20, 2016

Why am I not feeling this strike?

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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Tag Your Friends And Enemies (Game For Romancelanders) by Caseless: 7:43am On May 20, 2016

AngelAhnie:
Fine dear, where is fedayeen?

it's been long I saw him. I'm sure he's around. Goodmorning...

Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Tag Your Friends And Enemies (Game For Romancelanders) by Caseless: 12:59pm On May 19, 2016

AngelAhnie:
how have u been?

I'm doing just fine.

How are u?

Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Tag Your Friends And Enemies (Game For Romancelanders) by Caseless: 12:43pm On May 19, 2016

AngelAhnie:
You back!

I'm here.

Jokes Etc › Re: When You Sai Baba! Inside The Church by Caseless: 12:22pm On May 19, 2016

GudluckIBB:
Anty Nkechi Skirt is enough to make another curtain for the church.

Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Tag Your Friends And Enemies (Game For Romancelanders) by Caseless: 12:18pm On May 19, 2016

Angelahnie!

Celebrities › Re: Laide Bakare Steps Out In A Lovely Outfit (Photos) by Caseless: 12:10pm On May 19, 2016

Bleached!

Trashy....

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Politics › Re: Protest In Bauchi In Support Of Fuel Subsidy Removal by Caseless: 3:59pm On May 17, 2016

mesoprogress:
if they did, that's excellent. We would have progressed much by now

then , the people doing it now are right. They didn't trust Gej so, they resisted the move. They now have someone they can trust at the center.

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Politics › Re: Protest In Bauchi In Support Of Fuel Subsidy Removal by Caseless: 3:48pm On May 17, 2016

mesoprogress:
These people are protesting in favor of deregulation not because they know the economic advantage of deregulation of PMS but, because it is Buhari . Assuming it's a southern president, they would be be protesting in opposition to pump price hike. That said, I am a southerner, a critic of buhari administration, support deregulation because that's the best way to go. I also advise that naira be completely floated to boost economic development. If he had floated naira earlier, we might have avoided some of the mess the country is in at the moment.

These are truly zombies, northern Nigeria has a long way to go.

ss and SE protested in favor of subsidy removal in 2012, can we now say all this about your people? You have a long way to go.

Politics › Re: Nigeria Is World Leader In Anti-terrorism Fight – US Deputy Scribe by Caseless(op): 6:35am On May 17, 2016

caleb404:
How zombies cling to the statement of foreigners to pad Buhari claimed integrity is baffling!!

The people he rules over ironically have tales of woes and woes.. Suffering and smiling!

you need help!

Politics › Re: Nigeria Is World Leader In Anti-terrorism Fight – US Deputy Scribe by Caseless(op): 6:35am On May 17, 2016

youngaz:
He who says Nigeria shuld nt progress shall nt live to witness d rise of diz nation........itz a prayer nd itz a cause ooo depends on ur mindset
#IfYouKnowWhatIMean

amen!

Mind44, lalasticlala , etc, pick up your call.

Politics › Re: Buhari Announces New Measures In War Against Corruption by Caseless(op): 6:33am On May 17, 2016

donphilopus:
When you're done blabbing, you lemme know!

don't mind them.

Myn44 , lalasticlala , pick up the call.

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