₦airaland Forum

anonimi:
This mass importation is what the Jonathan/Sambo team is making steady progress in rectifying with creative import tariffs, intervention funds for target industries etc.

Senior Partner and founder, Joe Tacopina exclusively informed Pulse that the firm had indeed been retained by Obanikoro.
“I can confirm that the Senator [Obanikoro] has retained my firm to represent him in a possible lawsuit against Sahara Reporters,”

studded:
How?

naijaking1:
Ridiculous explanation of a silly idea.

So, 500 Nigerians use opera right, then on the night of this survey, ALL the 500 lined up and were dialing the polling center one minute after another, in turn,and in sequence, and you still don't think there is something wrong with sampling
Actually, you couldn't call that sampling anymore!
You can do better, ok!

redsquare:
At last, somebody is thinking. I've said it severally, Nigeria will not turn to El Dorado overnight whether PDP continues or APC takes over. Where do they want to get the money from and how do they intend to deliver on their bogus promises? It's very unfortunate that most Nigerians are easily swindled by the same people always.

Kenai:
Was the 1984 New York Times article I posted exposing the fact that Buhari signed a pact with Brazil to refine our oil outside the country also owned by MKO Abiola, or are you looking for new ghosts to blame for that one?

When NANS came out a few days ago to say they would NEVER support Buhari, did the APC fanatics not claim they were PAID BY GEJ? Yet this article I posted has REVEALED why they never liked the man.
Who are you going to blame for that one too?

Keep looking for ghosts to accuse for the crimes of your hypocritical Mr. Integrity.

Those were my words in this column two weeks ago in an article titled: Like a Punch in The Face) and I’ll like to tender my unreserved apology to Mr. President for painting such a wrong picture of who he is. Wrong, not in the sense of being incorrect, but rather in the sense of being incomplete. Incomplete in the sense that I forgot to add that he is also a liar, a very good one, a divisive tactician and an evil genius. On Tuesday May 29th, instead of giving an honest account of his one year in office, Mr. President embarked on a campaign of lies and falsehood that would make even the devil clap in admiration, and to cover his tracks, he announced that the University of Lagos (UNILAG) would now be known and referred to as the Moshood Abiola University, Lagos (MAUL) in honour of late Chief MKO Abiola, an icon of democracy and winner of the annulled June 12 1993 Presidential election.
This undemocratic and diversionary announcement has expectedly generated a lot of controversies, and has ultimately distracted us from scrutinizing the falsehood that permeated that day’s broadcast and indeed critically assess the President’s achievements, or lack of, in the past one year. As a teacher however, giving my students a report of their academic performances at the end of every term/session is an essential part of my job, and one that I don’t joke with. As such, I refuse to be distracted by that new track on Jonathan’s National Distraction Album and choose to focus on his performance in office in the past one year. So Mr. President, here is your report card.

HzRF:
Yar'Adua also pay fine that worth the project?

Jakande Blames Buhari, Shagari for Failed Lagos Metro Project


Lagos — First civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, yesterday said the duo of former President Shehu Shagari and former military ruler, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), were to blame for the failed metro-rail project, which he initiated to solve the traffic problem in the metropolis in 1983.

Jakande, who made the disclosure at his Ilupeju residence in Lagos while speaking with newsmen as part of activities marking his 80th birthday, said it was Shagari, whom he described as a good friend, that ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to release N70 million mobilisation fund for the metro line project. According to him, "President Shagari was angry for two reasons. First, I did not congratulate him on his re-election in 1983. Second, he stopped the fund because I was not his party member"

Explaining how Shagari and Buhari worked against the metro-rail project, Jakande said there was delay after the N700 million metro-line project was awarded to a French firm with the arrangement to first pay N70 million and pay the rest in the space of two years.

He said the delay compelled him to ask "my commissioner for works to investigate why the N70 million mobilisation fund was not released. The commissioner investigated and discovered that it was President who asked the Central Bank of Nigeria not to release the money.

"I was told President Shagari was angry because I did not congratulate him after his controversial election and because I won election on the platform of an opposition party. I later approached him and explained the problem facing execution of the project and that CBN refused N70 million reserved for its take-off.

"President Shagari said it was because there was fuel crisis. He said the CBN governor would visit him that evening and that he would get back to me after talking to him on the metro-line project fund. I quickly replied that I would wait for him since I considered him paramount to undo the knots on the release of the fund," he said.

Jakande who clocks 80 today, said: "The CBN governor finally arrived, and President Shagari raised the issue of N70 million metro-line project fund. But the CBN governor said the fund cannot be released at once. He asked me to withdraw as many times as possible citing the reasons of bad economy and increasing fuel crisis at the period."

The former governor explained that he had resolved to withdraw the money in line with the advice of the CBN governor, "but the military coup of Gen. Buhari stopped the process".

He said after the Buhari administration took off, the then military administrator of Lagos State, Air Commodore Gbolahan Mudashiru, initially pledged to complete the project.

"I was in the office of Mudashiru one day when I heard that the metroline project had been cancelled despite the fact that there was an initial promise by the Mudashiru administration that the metro line project would be executed without let or hindrance. This is what Buhari has done to Lagos State," Jakande said.

Commenting on his decision to serve as a minister under the military regime headed by the late despotic leader, Gen. Sani Abacha, Jakande said he had no regret serving his fatherland between 1993 and 1994 as minister of works and housing.

Nigerian Federal Government has suspended US $8.3 billion Lagos-Kano rail project awarded to Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) by former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

A senior Nigerian presidency official confirmed that contract awarded to CCECC in 2006 had been suspended to allow government to make a comprehensive review of the project.

The project has been widely critcised for its sluggish pace in rebuilding and rehabilitating Nigeria's single track rail line. The project has also been accused of inflating prices.

Fact finding committee leader Garba Lado at Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) offices said he was skeptical about commitment of CCECC to the project, but said he was not aware of suspension.

"There was no record before Senate indicating that contract was given due process. This is the first time committee is hearing about the suspension. I want to believe that it is because of the various accusations from different quarters that company is not serious about the job," he said.

Earlier, while addressing management staff of NRC, Mr Lado alleged that a group was behind inefficiency of rail system in the country, saying an effective rail system was vital to development of any nation.

"From our own assessment, I do not expect anything positive, because last time we came here, we met similar equipment. It is like nothing is done here. We want action and progress," he said.

He said House was concerned that first phase of the project spanning 1,315 kilometres from Lagos to Kano, estimated to cost US $2.5 billion in line with international per kilometre rate for railway modernisation project was awarded for $8.3 billion to CCECC.

While government had only paid a small fraction, of US$250 million of project's cost, Mr Chi Hong Bing, project representative, said his firm had made some progress on 1,315-kilometre Lagos-Kano double track standard gauge, which is the first phase of the 25-year-long modernisation project.

Nigeria has a network of 3,505 kilometres of narrow-gauge single track lines, covering nine of country's 36 states. Most of its 200 locomotives however, broke down long ago, reports stated.

AlphaGentleman:
Nigerians don suffer

nzeadachie:
MY BROTHER JUST WATCH THEM, THEY WANT TO PUT ALL NIGERIANS IN ALMAJIRI STYLE, SO CHILDREN WILL BE CARRING PLASTIC PLATES TO SCHOOLS LIKE ALMAJIRI ABI? BUHARI KEEP THAT IDEA FOR NORTH 9JA DON PASS THAT LEVEL ONLY IN THE NORTH YOU CAN TELL THEM THOSE THINGS TO KNOW IF THEY CAN BE ABLE TO GO TO SCHOOL

Free primary school meals for all pupils was one of the recommendations of a recent review of school food by two founders of the Leon restaurant chain for the Department for Education.
Analysis

By Sean CoughlanBBC News education correspondent
The idea of free school meals for all pupils has been cooking away for many years.
There have been several pilot studies and researchers analysing the outcomes last year claimed that a free meal for all helped to narrow the divide in the achievement gap between rich and poor pupils.
Supporters argued that children with a regular healthy meal were more likely to be able to concentrate, get better academic results and were less likely to be obese. It's a public health approach, covering everyone for the long-term benefit.
A similar project saw free fruit being given to the infant years, with its advocates saying that the gains from this measure would be felt decades in the future.
The quality of school food has also become an issue, since Jamie Oliver exposed the dark underbelly of twizzler cuisine.
Now Nick Clegg's announcement will see free meals offered as the recipe for better results.
It concluded that packed lunches were nearly always less nutritious than a cooked meal, and that giving all children free lunches would raise academic standards.
The new policy does not ban packed lunches, but the aim is that having the hot, free option, will boost the numbers of pupils having school dinners.
Mr Clegg said: "My ambition is that every primary school pupil should be able to sit down to a hot, healthy lunch with their classmates every day.
"Millions of parents across the country are feeling the squeeze... I am determined to do all we can to help put money back in the pockets of these families.
"We will start with infant school pupils because teaching healthy habits young, and boosting attainment early, will bring the biggest benefits.
"Universal free school meals will help give every child the chance in life that they deserve, building a stronger economy and fairer society."

(20) Q. What channels of communication exist between candidates and WAEC ?

A. WAEC discourages direct communication with school candidates. School candidates are expected to send their complaints to WAEC through their school principals, while private candidates contact WAEC directly.

ILIDEFI:
Guy stop being plain dumb. Was Buhari the head of state in 1977? So we would as well attribute the revitalization of our rail transport to the minister of transport, abi? Moreover, the articles you quoted was talking about the lubriating oil complex and the petrochemicals section of the refineries. Don't tell me you don't know the difference between those and the mainstream crude oil refining.
Guy, buhari is corrupt. To imagine that he presided over our government when 3 refineries were on ground and running, and yet could give Brazil such a concession is the height of cluelessness and corruption. Buhari is as bad as GEJ, but to make matters worse, he is an illiterate.

aguiyi:
that guy justice salami was as corrupt as corrption, if was your classmate them there is more reason to xray you again to be sure you would not do worse.

he is one of those who dragged our judiciary into the mud

D9ty7:
I have seen a loophole in some comments here in the last few minutes. I have seen some people saying that if Buhari/APC decides to respond to the certificate issue it will cause distration during the course of their campaign.
I find that very ridiculous.
Are they saying that if Buhari is elected president, while he is tackling the issue of corruption, he will neglect the issue of security, so that he doesn't get distrated? Aren't there media teams of the party who can expertly respond to the certificate issue with evidences to back provided by Buhari, where is the distration in that?
While supporting Buhari, most of you are making mistakes that, thank God you are on Nairaland. If you were to be a top APC member, you know what that means.

100Cents:
Now, who first implemented the policy framework ?

barcanista:
As an apostle of change and a selfless promoter of the Amiable General Muhammadu Buhari, one of the attributes that attracted me to the General is his calm, sincerity and constistency.

When the issue of the certificate first came up about a month ago, I had expected the APC campaign team to officially write the Army Headquarters requesting the return of Muhammadu Buhari's Credentials that was allegedly ransacked by the IBB regime in 1985 along with his properties. I also expected the APC Presidential Campaign Team to write the United States Army War College, Buhari's Secondary School, WAEC Office and other instutitions that Muhammadu Buhari attended to request for a copy or Certified True Copy of the rspective certificates that they awarded the Daura-born General. Doing so would have laid the matter to rest and save the embarrassment that the General is being subjected to.

It is not too late for the APC to consider these options, if not for anything but to protect the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari. I for one stll have faith in the integrity and sincerity of the General and except proven otherwise, I will continue to stand by the General. The APC must play their own part.

I appeal to our brothers in the Jonathan camp to take it easy with the General and not rush to cast aspersion on his person. I also urge supporters of the General to continue to keep faith in him and be optimistic that the General will triumph at the end of the day. Our task to re-build Nigeria must not weary, whether we support APC/PDP or Buhari/GEJ, we must put Nigeria first.


God Bless the General
God Bless Nigeria
God Bless Nigerians

Promhize:
Listen to yourself! Reading your post I thought you would say money wasn't involved. The service charge is free uhn?

T[b]he current composition of petroleum products consumption is
heavily biased toward gasoline, which accounted for 42% of the total in
1981, and automotive gasoil, with 26%, followed by household kerosene
with 16%, fuel oil with 10%, and jet fuels with 5%. Miscellaneous other
products account for the balance. While gasolines and gasoils are mainly
used in transport, five to six percent of this consumption, about
400,000-500,000 tonnes/year, is probably used to operate private standby
generating plants, a situation necessitated by the poor performance of
Nigeria's power utility.[/b]
1.8 Table 1.1 presents the Mission's projection of demand to the
year 1995. The overall annual rate of growth is 7.7%. The share of
motor spirits is assumed to decline to 37% by 1995, partly from the pro-
posed aggressive promotion of LPG as a vehicle fuel.
1.9 The share of fuel oil is assumed to increase to 15%, on the
basis of the proposed development of a major bunker fuel market in
Nigerian ports. This, of course, would be another form of oil exports.
Developing a bunker market may not be economic, however, given the low-
sulphur, premium quality of Nigeria's fuel oil which might bring better
prices in offshore markets. If this were the case, the demand for domes-
tic fuel oil in 1995 might only be about eight million tonnes. This
would reduce the annual average rate of growth for all petroleum products
to about seven percent.

There are three refineries operating in
Nigeria, at Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna -- all owned by the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company (NNPC). They have a combined crude distilla-
tion capacity of 260,000 bpsd (11.7 million tpa), but only 210,000 bpsd
are in operation because crude oil receiving facilities have not been
completed for a component of the Kaduna refinery. The facilities are
needed because Nigerian crudes are not suitable for lube production,
necessitating imports of Venezuelan stock. Other refining facilities
include vacuum distillation with total capacities of 47,200 bpsd, cataly-
tic refining with 47,100 bpsd, and catalytic cracking with 47,000 bpsd.
Of the catalytic cracking facilities, the 26,000 bpsd facilities at the
Warri refinery operate only sporadically because of frequent breakdowns.
1.26 Production Deficits Present facilities are not able to process
all the crude needed to meet domestic market demands. As a result, in
1981 some 2.4 million tonnes of petroleum products had to be processed
from Nigerian crudes in offshore refineries. On the other hand, one
million tonnes of surplus products, mostly high-pour fuel oil, had to be
exported.
1.27 [b]If all facilities were in good operating condition, potential
production of about nine million tonnes could be realized. However, this
still is not enough to cover projected demand. Table 1.6 summarizes the
likely surplus/deficit positions, based on the mission's demand scena-
rio. By 1985, major deficits would be limited to gasoline, with needed
imports of some 1a8 million tonnes and a moderate deficit of 340,000
tonnes of kerosene. [/b]By 1990, however, all major product categories would
show substantial deficits amounting to 8.0 million tonnes. These would
grow to about 14.4 million tonnes by 1995.

NNPC tentatively has decided to construct two grass-root refin-
eries of 100,000 bpsd capacity each, one at Port Harcourt and the other
at Calabar, each with fluid catalytic crackers (FCC) to maximize yields
of gasoline. In addition, the crude distillation capacities at Warri and
Kaduna also are to be expanded by 20,000 bpsd each. This will increase
total distillation capacity to 500,000 bpsd. Planning for the new Port
Harcourt refinery is proceeding quite rapidly. According to a recent
Bank review mission, the refinery is likely to have a high economic rate
of return and therefore should receive high priority in the investment

olaboy001:
Shut up

beetruth:
If it came from Jonathan's camp would we take ur as error?
Pls let's be objective in our judgement and criticisms. may Gods preffered win