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Hmmmm, corruption gaining more fan than the anti-corruption? That means there is something wrong with this fight against corruption.

People are throwing in there supports for corruption to survive?

Infact those senators that joined forces with Sariki are IBOPs

checkolatunji:
During the past administration when election holds, places that election didn't take place due to violence, we get results for those places or Lga, how come? What we hear next is court proceedings. But in this case, you don't hear result for Lga's where election didn't take place, so what we have is re-run and not court proceedings.

For me, that's a plus to Inec for been sincere and not biased as we have before now because of federal might. APC could have done the same thing PDP usually do by announcing results for where election didn't take place cos they have the federal power.

So, inconclusive is not a bad idea, I will just call it " Sincerity from INEC "

mgbada

NgeneUkwenu:
Another Major feat and dividend of democracy by the PDP controlled State government...

EZI

If you are a married man and you find school children attractive, you should swore uniform for your wife. By Mugebe

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The other guy resemble wizikid?

This man always has tale to tell, why?

So some people still use block of flats as governor's office in Nigeria?

Well done ma. Please help anut kemi on Econs 101, it seems she is lagging on the basics.

Anut kemi thank me later, lol.

Crime is nobody's identity, both young and old commit crime

Kusaa:
Nnaji is the owner of the company that owns Enugu distribution company let him ensure the stable light to his coverage area SE to take him serious. All these Ipob bad loosers always suggestions their son to federal government,if they good enough Elect them as your governors,senators or house of reps.instead you elected people like theodu oji,Stella odua, etc.North elected Tambuwal,dangwanbo and elrufai because of their excellence performance at federal level

You are one of the reasons why this country is in retrogression. Real Change comes from the within (thoughts) . Tell me how do we develop this country with your type and likes in the system?

Naija9090:
Nnaji was chased out by the same people that chased Onyeka Onwenu. People who want to maintain the status quo...hold Nigeria to ransom. Same people that chased Stella Oduah, same people that chased away Aruma Oteh. Same people that are after Madueke and Okonjo Iweala till today to destroy their reputation. Same people that tried 10x to assassinate late Dora Akunyili. ONE NIGERIA FOR YOU...destroy good people that want to bring change for us!

Sentiments aside, we need Prof.B. Nnaji to fix our power system now. When he was there everyone felt his impact even nigerians abroad was calling home to confirm if the development was real.

we need his services again

I ve been a visitor on this forum for years but due to terrible power and economic situation of my beloved country i have to open an account to proffer solution. My2cents

I refuse to agree with a friend of mine who after a long heated argument about a prominent Nigerian, declared: “Nigeria is a land that consumes its own”. I refuse to agree with him.
Nigeria is a great land, replete with great men and women, accomplished in their respective endeavours and many are willing to dedicate their all to see this country take its rightful place. Greatness! Professor Bartholomew Nnaji is one of such Nigerians.
Bart Nnaji as he is popularly called earned his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from St John’s University. He also holds a doctorate in industrial and systems engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and state university in the United States. He has researched and worked intensively in the areas of Robotics and Computer Aided Design. That’s not all. Bart Nnaji holds a Doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the United States. He has lectured as a professor of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, also in the United States.

However, as the great William P. King said, “Great men have not been concerned with fame.The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.”
This is true for Bart Nnaji as he was neither swayed by the panache of his achievements nor the good life he was living in the United States. He refused to relax and enjoy the ‘onions and garlics’ in Egypt. He has always had his heart in Nigeria. His interest and frequent visits to Nigeria opened a door of opportunity for him to contribute to the national development. He was appointed the Federal Minister of Science and Technology of Nigeria in 1993. However, the administration was short lived and so was his tenure. Nonetheless, he didn’t live without living an indelible mark in the then newly created capital of Nigeria, Abuja. He led the team of engineers and consultants that designed and built the power plant in the Federal Capital Territory in 1993.
Bart Nnaji is a man that wears many hats. He was Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1983-1996); Alcoa Foundation Professor of Engineering at University of Pittsburgh (1996-2002); William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Engineering, and Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for e-Design (2002- Present) – a multi-campus NSF Center of Excellence consortium of the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Central Florida, Virginia Tech, and University of Massachusetts. Bart Nnaji has been a strategic member of many organizations such as: Department of Defence, Boeing, Kodak, General Electric, International Business Machine, Ford Motor Company and Lockheed Martin etc.
Still in the United States and elsewhere around the world, he has served as principal or co-principal investigator on over $40 million research sponsored by the NATO, Department of Defence, and many companies. He has published 5 books and over 100 technical articles. His book, Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering, won the 1994 world best text book prize for Manufacturing Engineering. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Design and Manufacturing and has served as Editor of many professional journals.
He has served as Chairman of many conferences including the World Conference on Robotics Research (1991); the UN Institute for Training and Research Workshop for diplomats from various parts of the world at the UN headquarters on debt and financial management for developing countries (2001 and 2002).

His role in the Nigerian power sector was not yet over. After the election of Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria, he was appointed the Special Adviser to the President on Power and the Chairman Presidential Task Force on Power. Later on, he was appointed the Minister of Power which was again short-lived.
He was appointed the minister of power in July 2011 at a time the country was generating a miserly 2,800 Mega Watts of electricity but upon his resignation in August 2012, the country was generating 4,348 Mega Watts. This is a feat he achieved in just 14 months. The circumstances that surrounded his resignation was that of integrity. Unlike conventional ‘do or die’ Nigerian politicians, he didn’t allow his office and personality to be compromised over the allegations of malpractice.
The government was privatising the stat-run power companies which was aimed at improving the power supply of the country. There were accusations that a company he was linked to, was bidding for an electricity contract at the same time he was overseeing the ministry. If this were exactly the case, then it would have been wrong. There is a Code of Ethics that prohibits such action under the National Council on Privatization. However, the Professor has been long vindicated. As a man of integrity, he resigned anyway.
However, in his official statement about the whole ‘crinkum-crankum’, Bart Nnaji wrote:
“I would like to reiterate that before I accepted to serve as minister, I resigned my directorship of all companies that I had interest in and put my shares in those companies in a Blind Trust; this means that I was not privy to the day-to-day business decisions of those who ran this Trust. In addition, I publicly declared the participation in the privatization process of a foreign company that did business with a company that I had interest in. This fact came to my knowledge only during the course of evaluating the consortia that were bidding for PHCN successor companies. Consequently, I also voluntarily excused myself from participating in the selection process. These actions, I should think, are in line with the finest traditions of transparency and accountability in governance.”

In the defence of Bart Nnaji and the power sector, Nasir el-Rufai (now the Governor of Kaduna State), wrote on his Facebook page:
“His resignation is a set-back for the power sector reforms. He is one of the few ministers in GEJ’s cabinet that knows what need doing in his area of ministerial responsibility. The whole thing was clearly avoidable. There are many ministers far less competent than Barth and under whose watch massive fraud, corruption and more serious crimes have been committed. Yet, they continue to sit pretty and not asked to resign. Perhaps, there is more than this ethical infraction….”
Just with recent development that revealed how weak and manipulative GEJ was, it is now believed that Bart Nnaji was simple offset by cabal in the power sector who prefers the nation darkness over personal interests and gains. Undeterred by this conspiracy against his goodwill to stabilize power in Nigeria he created Geometric Power company which has the capacity of 1,080 MW (megawatt) with the first phase of the project generating 500 MW (megawatt) expected to be completed in 2019 at a cost of $800 million.
Years have gone and the Nigerian power sector is still in shambles, worse than he left it. The words of el Rufia were true. His resignation seems to have brought about a perpetual setback. The political vultures that have held the country’s power sector hostage did not allow him to finish the good work he started. The burgeoning question now is, who in Nigeria is better positioned to reform this sector? The Nigerian government from the local government to the federal government should learn how to make use of the best and not political factotums.

Finally, as Professor Bartholomew once said:“I have a fundamental belief that there is nowhere that it is written ‘on the forehead of Nigeria’ that ‘thou shall not have reliable quality and affordable electricity”.
Please my people, it does not behove us to give the cap to whom we want, whether it fits or not. He who the cap fits, let him wear it.

#Barthnnaji4powernotFashola


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