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mikki123:
Rubbish letter.. The op is high on Edo weed.. Dr Usman Yahaya Zubairu is a disgrace and insult to Hausa land

FFK should be your uncle if not your father

Former aviation minister and one of the chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is known for his controversial statements.

Recently he alleged that there are people that are standing behind the removal of Goodluck Jonathan and election of Muhammadu Buhari.

Dr Usman Yahaya Zubairu writes an aggressive open letter to Fani-Kayode asking him to have a rethink of his attitude to country’s affairs.

Dear Mr Femi Fani Kayode, why are you playing hatred politics? Nigeria was created neither by you, your political elites, PDP, nor APC.

Why are you sitting in your village and making rubbish comments on every unnecessary point? What were your contributions when you were a minister and also fully involved in former administration, you make insult on every respected Nigerian, though history have not forgotten when you insulted GEJ, just because you were not given any political appointment.

But the reverse was when GEJ appoint you into his government. My advice for you, Mr. Kayode, to contact a psychiatric doctor for advice. You don’t look like a real Christian because no faithful Christian will insult someone, just because you want the attention.

Whenever I read your devilish write up I felt why a person like you will be given opportunity of being a minister of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Fani-Kayode you are an insult to Yoruba kingdom, you are an insult to Nigeria, you are an insult to PDP. Please, have a rethink of your attitude.


https://www.naij.com/954249-dont-look-like-real-christian-nigerian-man-attacks-fani-kayode-open-letter.html

People like you are the main reason why Christianity is dieing across the globe. .. Get a life, my God is not a lazy God, he ill perfect his work by himself.

ZKOSOSO:
FFK speaks the mind of over 121Million Nigerians. The Truth sets free....
FFK like Napoleon is always right... ask Ojukwu and Nzeogwu of blessed memory. Fulani jihadists are cameleons.

How did you get your statistic, yoruba and ibos put together are not close to 121Million. Go back to secondary school abeg.

madridguy:
Ok

Go back and read it

In this fresh piece, the former minister of aviation Femi Fani-Kayode highlights strong assets used by the Nigerians from the northern hemisphere.

The former minister further tutors the public on two Nigerian languages – its origin and use – as well as some other prominent African languages.

In the northern part of Nigeria two vessels were used as vehicles for conquest by the Fulani: religion and language.

Islam was imposed by the force of arms and the use of the sword by Sheik Usman Dan Fodio whilst Hausa, the language of the conquered people of the old Habe kingdom, was adopted as the official language of the new Fulani caliphate.

As brilliant and calculating as ever, the Fulani ruling class insisted that Fulfulde, their own native language, was spoken only by the Fulani themselves.

To them their’s was the language of emperors, kings and conquerors and they refused to allow their subjects and vassals to speak or learn it because they considered them to be nothing more than serfs and slaves.

For the conquered it was Hausa that was to be spoken and not Fulfulde because the latter was considered to be too good for them.

There are over 100 distinct and independent ethnic groups in northern Nigeria, each with their own cultural and historical heritage and distinct language, yet they are all compelled to speak Hausa.

Some of them have even forgotten their own native language or never learnt to speak it in the first place. Others do not know who they are or where they are coming from.

Some do not even know that they ever had a language or heritage of their own. Everything for them, from beginning to end, has become Hausa. This speaks volumes.

Ironically the white Boers of apartheid South Africa, who were originally from Holland, adopted the same strategy of linguistic and cultural conquest when they arrived in southern Africa and established their hegemony and racist enclave in the 17th century.

Their native language was Afrikaans (which was a local derivative of the Dutch language) and, like the Fulanis of northern Nigeria, for many generations they ensured that only they were allowed to speak it.

The black South African natives were not taught Afrikaans and they were not allowed to speak it because it was considered to be the language of the elite ruling class and their racial masters.

Allowing them to speak it would bear the implication that they were on the same level as their religious, racial and cultural masters and that was unacceptable.

They were only allowed to communicate in their own native African languages and English. This was very effective and it essentially kept the conquered in their place whilst it exalted the conqueror. That is the power and secret of language and linguistic conquest.

It is for this reason that the people of France, for example, refuse to speak English with you when you are in their country even though their English may be fluent.

They recognise the fact that once they adopt another man’s language as being the one that is commonly used in their own land it is an acceptance of subjugation.

They acknowledge the fact that such a concession or, to use a more appropriate word, “submission”, is essentially an acceptance and wholehearted espousal of a sinister and subtle form of cultural and linguistic imperialism.

Worst still it is symptomatic of the fact that your own culture and language no longer bears any relevance or has any value.

The English, who are undoubtedly the masters of the game when it comes to the art of cultural and linguistic imperialism, did it successfully to the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish, all of whom had and spoke their own distinct languages until they were conquered
and subjugated and turned into vassal states.

Today few of the Scottish, Welsh and Irish people are able to speak their native languages anymore. The language that they all speak now is English, the language of their oppressors.

Those that imposed and established Hausa as the lingua franca in the north and those that seek to establish it as the lingua franca of Nigeria know what they are doing and why they are doing it: and so do their British and, more recently, American friends and allies.

There is a long-term game plan unfolding and a not-so-hidden agenda. Yet sadly it is only those that are discerning, insightful, incisive and historically-literate that can possibly grasp or see it.

It is not for the dull, the unenlightened, the uneducated or the slow. Such souls cannot possibly grasp or understand such complex issues and one can hardly blame them for that because they are simply ignorant.

It is points like this that those in our country that know no better and that believe that Hausa is just a “unique language” which should be spoken and adopted by all in our nation fail to comprehend.

Such people fail to appreciate the fact that if you take a man’s language and faith away and super-impose another on him, for whatever reason, that man loses his identity, his heritage, his culture and his history and he becomes absolutely nothing.

Once that is achieved he is successfully stripped bare of who and what he once was and all memory of the past is erased. That is tragic.

From the 18th century when the Caliphate was established in northern Nigeria the forceful imposition of Islam and the Hausa language were used by the Fulani as tools of conquest and what the French describe as the “raison d’etra” (which means “rationale”) to dominate and rule over the people of that region.

They used both to reduce the so-called “minorities” of the north to slavery and servitude. They also used both to humiliate them and bring them to their knees.

It was brutal and ugly and it continued right up until the time that there was no more resistance and it was accepted as the norm.

Now they want to do the same thing to the rest of Nigeria. Many fail to appreciate or recognise this because they are shallow.

Yet a failure to fully grasp or appreciate such things will eventually lead to nothing less than slavery.

May God open our eyes, may He continue to guide us and may He give us courage and understanding. Shalom.



https://www.naij.com/953302-former-minister-femi-fani-kayode-tutors-two-nigerian-languages.html

Yes just like my grandmother... I know haters ill say it a lie.

Ekabo

Cover her face with pillow... Shikena

Orisirisi

Uncle lalasticlala... Your food is ready

Must you rant at every opportunity It's getting boring

An Australian firm has discovered a rare mineral resource that could turn Nigeria’s economic fortunes around

– The mineral resource, a 90 per cent nickel was discovered at Dangoma in the north-west state of Kaduna state

– Owner of the Australian firm, Huge Morgan says the federal government is in the best position to announce the discovery

Premium Times is reporting that Nigeria has hit pay dirt with the discovery of a rare mineral resource in the northern part of the country.

According to reports it published on Monday, August 29, the online medium quoted The Australian, an Australian national news daily as saying that a private mining syndicate headed by a mining industry veteran, Hugh Morgan made the discovery at Dangoma in the north-west state of Kaduna.

“The discovery is unusual because the nickel is found in small balls up to 3mm in diameter of a high purity in shallow soils in what could be the surface expression of a much bigger hard-rock nickel field.

“The nickel balls, rumoured to grade better than 90 per cent nickel and thought to be a world first given their widespread distribution, offer the potential for early cashflow from a simple and low-cost screening operation to fund a full assessment of the find that has exploration circles buzzing,” the newspaper was quoted as reporting.

Premium Times also quoted Morgan as saying that he expects the federal government of Nigeria to make an official announcement but reports that Olayinka Oyebode, chief press secretary of minister of solid minerals development, Kayode Fayemi, said he had no details of the discovery.

Oyebode however confirmed that Fayemi is scheduled to be in Australia next week as one of the speakers at a three-day Africa Down Under mining conference at Perth’s Pan Pacific Hotel, Australia.

“I know there is a mining conference coming up in Australia where the Honourable Minister is supposed to make a presentation.

“But I don’t have an advance knowledge of what he’s going to talk about but, generally speaking, he’s going to market Nigeria,” Oyebode was quoted as saying on Monday, August 29.

Meanwhile, Fayemi has warned newly deployed federal mines officers to pay maximum attention to matters relating to the procurement, transportation, storage and use of explosives in their respective states.

He declared that they would be held responsible for any diversion of explosives to unauthorised persons.

Fayemi gave the warning during a meeting with the 37 newly deployed officers in his office on Tuesday, August 9 while assuring them that they would be adequately equipped for the assignment.



https://www.naij.com/946482-goodbye-oil-nigeria-hits-big-money-freshly-discovered-mineral-resource.html

Do you know your grandfather is a man

Is it an app?? Pls tell me more about it.

Is it an app??

This CAN does not offer anything to chistians or Christianity aside complaining and crying. Smh

The enormous sums of money spent on the oil-producing Niger Delta region by the Federal Government between 2009 and 2015 delivered very meagre impact on the lives of the people of the area. According to the report of the Ministerial Technical Audit Committee on Contracts Awarded by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, the Federal Government spent over N700billion on 427 contracts and achieved a measly 8 percent impact, indicating that it was money not well spent.

The enormous sums of money spent on the oil-producing Niger Delta region by the Federal Government between 2009 and 2015 delivered very meagre impact on the lives of the people of the area.

According to the report of the Ministerial Technical Audit Committee on Contracts Awarded by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, the Federal Government spent over N700billion on 427 contracts and achieved a measly 8 percent impact, indicating that it was money not well spent.

Eighteen percent of the contracts were stalled, with only 12 percent completed. A hefty 70 percent remains under construction.

“The technical auditing exercise of the projects revealed that the intervention expected in the Niger Delta only commenced at the level of contract awards and practically did not address the yearnings and needs of the region, as clearly captured in the mandate of the Niger Delta Affairs Ministry,” the report said.

The beneficiary states are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Ondo, Edo, Imo, Rivers.

The distribution of capital projects shows that contracts were awarded for canalization, electricity, food and cassava processing plants, housing schemes, land reclamation/shoreline protection, rehabilitation/remediation of oil-impacted sites, roads, skills acquisition centres and water schemes.

The objectives of the audit, stated the report, included establishing the value for money and determining how impactful the contracts awarded have been in the communities where they were awarded. The audit also sought to ascertain the level of contract completion to date, determine the value of work done and level of payment, assess uncompleted projects and prioritize for execution as well as develop a performance evaluation and sustainable fund deployment.

To execute its assignment, the committee drew up a checklist of projects in all the states, using available documents in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, conducted field tours of all contract sites, interviewed contractors, and engineers representing them, as well as residents of benefiting communities and traditional rulers.

The committee also assessed the commitment/capacity of contractors, wrote detailed reports and ascertained the rationale for as well as the immediate functionality of projects, documented lessons on project implementation in the Ministry and recommended ways on how existing projects can improve the lives of the people of in the region.

During the course of its work, the committee studied a list of all the contracts, technical specifications and Bills of Quantity, projects/technical drawings, financial/bank guarantees, approved contract agreements, project performance monitoring reports, interim and final job completion certificates and approval letters as well as correspondence with important project stakeholders.

On training, the sum of N6, 091, 647, 748.28 was budgeted. For training, N14, 909,329,548.00, while N1,270,868, 251.8 was budgeted for food and cassava processing plants. Canalisation drew a budget of N6, 051, 864, 657; electrification, N2,404, 325, 571. 19; road construction, N631, 762, 221,046.61 and land reclamation/shoreline protection, N14, 367, 443, 759.00. Figures also show that housing schemes attracted a budget of N7.3billion, conservation and development of coastal eco-system, N217,366,668.75; skill acquisition centres N30.7billion; water schemes, N2.24billion and rehabilitation and remediation of oil-impacted sites, N1.31billion.

The failure of the projects to deliver the envisaged impact, noted the committee in its report, was a product of many factors. These include project cost vis-à-vis performance. In general, the committee observed that the costs of projects awarded by the Niger Delta Ministry were higher than those awarded by other establishments such as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), which also operates in the same area.

“One which calls for serious scrutiny is the cost of roads. For instance, there was no standard to determine the cost of a kilometer on two-lane, three-lane or four-lane roads,” the committee observed.

It also observed that the aggregate of value of contracts awarded during the period audited was N700,538,741, 691.30. This figure was exclusive of services such as security, rent, and facility management. Of the ascertained sum, a cumulative of N423,172,256,347.84 was paid, leaving a balance of N32,111,887,779.32. What this implied was that between 2009 and 2015, about 60 percent of contracts awarded were paid for, while approximately 40 percent of work was done.

Also observed was the trend of violating the contract award process. Right from procurement planning, observed the committee, there was indifference to the provisions of vital aspects of the Procurement Act.

Notably, said the report, there was indiscriminate award of contracts by initiating and benefiting departments of the ministry without the guidance of the procurement department.

“Awards never took cognizance of availability of funds and annual appropriation provisions. The structure and content of some contract agreements were loose for checks and balances, indeed hardly protected the interest of the ministry in case of disputes,” wrote the committee.

Similarly, the ministry’s management mechanism was dire. The committee found numerous abandoned/uncompleted projects, which it blamed on the inconsistency in government’s annual budgetary provisions and lack of capacity to deliver, especially in situations where funds released did not correspond with performance.

“Most contracts,” it said “were awarded with specific dates of completion, but were not captured in subsequent appropriations. This further exacerbated contractors’ poor performance and inability to achieve to achieve project objectives within the stipulated time frame. Consequently, no capital project was completed within the stipulated time frame,” the report revealed.

Another hindrance to the Federal Government intervention in the Niger Delta, noted the committee, was a duplication of functions, which manifested in the repetition of programs and conflict of projects in the region by the Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, NDDC, the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) as well as state and local governments.

For instance, the committee pointed out that the construction and supervision of Omelema Agada Road in Rivers State led to a conflict between the Rivers State government and the Niger Delta Affairs Ministry. A similar occurrence was noticed in the 15kva sub-station electrification project in Khana local government, which was replicated by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Rivers State government and the National Independent Power Project (NIPP). Also in Eleme, there was a replication of an electricity transformer contract by the Niger Delta Ministry and the NDDC.

The committee’s assessment of the impact of the projects on the regions was undisguisedly unflattering. “All projects were to achieve the omnibus objective of enhancing socio-economic activities, human capital development, and environmental protection. Sadly, very insignificant numbers of projects have reached practical completion to provide a sense of belonging to Niger Deltans across board. About 80 percent of the projects are either ongoing, abandoned after payments, total abdication or refusal to deliver as in the case of Youth Capacity Building Programmes,” the committee added.

It bemoaned that fact that the government’s well-intentioned intervention in theThe Federal Government’s well-intentioned intervention programme was shabbily implemented and has left serious consequences.

As a remedy, the Committee recommended that the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs must begin to comply with the Procurement Act, show strict budgetary discipline and ensure that track record and experience must be considered when seeking contractors.

It also recommended that the ministry should arrest the rot and unethical conduct in its construction unit, clean it up and ensure that only professionals of proven integrity and competence are engaged in the future. Also, the committee counselled that the ministry should be firmer in checking and punishing infractions in the award of contracts and delivery of projects.

Foreign companies with dubious track records, it further recommended, should be expelled from the country and individuals involved in dubious deals be punished. Similarly, the committee prescribed the reduction in project costs, notably by using in-house professionals to develop costing templates, systems, and procedures.

“The way billions of naira are mentioned in construction projects value in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has become so banal that very soon, it is believed, they are likely to escalate to trillions of naira, even though the values do not appear realistic vis-à-vis value added to the region through such contracts,” said the committee.

Another recommendation is that the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs should supervise and coordinate Federal Government interventions in the region. This entails making the NDDC and the Amnesty Programme parastatals of the Ministry.

On project impact, the committee prescribed that the ministry should extensively consult with the people of the region before projects are located to ensure they coincide with the needs of the people.

And given the current parlous state of government finances, the committee listed a number of projects as priorities that need to be completed. Among these, it said are all housing projects and skills acquisition centre in Akwa Ibom State, East-West Road sections 1 and 2, Imo and Cross River states water projects, rural electrification and environmental sanitation projects that have a direct impact on the community, education and youth empowerment programs.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/08/23/six-years-waste-how-niger-delta-ministry-blew-n800b-between-2009-and-2015

No truth in this world...























I dedicate this FTC to all my colleagues preparing for Bar finals. God will strengthen you all. Best of luck.

If Buhari and Jonathan were to contest 2015 election over and over again, i will always choose Buhari with my thumb up. I show no remorse. Quote fire

My Governor has gone mad again. By Ola Rotimi.

I hope he never said this...

Blame it on Buhari/APC and yelobas

Register how Where

Can it call my grandfather in heaven I have very important message for him

Greensea1:
Forget who Reno Omokiri is and concentrate on the facts my brother.

I have no problem with the fact neither do i have issues with Reno Omokiri... I just dont know what he's insinuating. Meanwhile, are you Reno, why do you have to quote me By the way.... Who is Reno Omokiri cos i read you say i should forget who Reno Omokiri is. WHO IS HE ABEG

He's thirsty cos of bad economic policy of President Buhari/APC

Mr Reno Omokiri... So what do you suggest

jashar:
To get away from.....

Not to meet ..............

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