₦airaland Forum

GavelSlam:

Remind me if I'm wrong but didn't you kick against the government getting loans for railway projects?

Did you not applaud Fayose and his antics?

Now you want rail projects?

Na madness dey worry dem..

piagetskinner:
unfortunately for you, your days of asslicking is severely numbered

I am getting the project with associated employment, while you are getting the sadness..
Poor you.

Employment for my people..

Rail for Development...

piagetskinner:
good one...but we are kicking buhari back to daura in 2019

Unfortunately for you, your "we" is insignificant in number..

Employment for my people..

Rail for Development...


Gbeja mi lo ju pali, bi ota ba fi ejo mi sun o loju dozen, gbeja mi loju pali



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MxLSrH2A6U

GavelSlam:
Please come and defend her as usual.

You know yourselves.

Ozekhome the looters Lawyer, rejoiced too early..

Again, Court Orders Temporary Forfeiture Of Funds Linked To Patience Jonathan

Channels Television
Updated May 8, 2018


A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted an interim forfeiture of the sum of N9.2bn and $8.4m linked to the wife of former President, Patience Jonathan.

The money is to be forfeited to the Federal Government.

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun granted the order following an application filed before her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after it had consolidated all similar applications on the subject matter.

On April 14, while delivering the ruling on an objection raised by Mrs Jonathan to the EFCC’s first ex-parte application on the funds, the court had held that the move by the anti-graft agency was an abuse of court process.

The judge reached this conclusion because the funds which the commission sought to forfeit to the federal government were already the subject of litigation before two other judges.

The judge, had, however, ordered the commission to publish the order in a national newspaper to give any interested party an opportunity to come before the court within 14 days to show cause why the sums should not be permanently forfeited.

Patience Jonathan, five firms and one, Esther Oba were listed as respondents in the suit.

The firms that were listed as second to sixth defendants were; Globus Integrated Services Limited, Finchley Top Homes Limited, Am-Pm Global Network Limited, Pagmat Oil and Gas Limited and Magel Resort Limited.

An investigator with the EFCC, Huleji Tukura, who deposed to a 15-paragraph affidavit in support of the ex-parte application claimed that investigations by the anti-graft agency revealed that the funds found in the bank accounts and linked to Patience Jonathan emanated from the coffers of Bayelsa State. The funds were said to have been moved at a time when the former first lady served as a permanent secretary in one of the ministries in Bayelsa State.

According to Tukura, Mrs Jonathan first opened a First Bank account and then “procured” the then Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, to fund the account with “proceeds of unlawful activities.”

“The said Dudafa Waripamo-Owei procured one, Festus Isidohomen Iyoha and Arivi Eneji Peter, who were domestic staff attached to the State House, Abuja, to deposit the funds, reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities, into account of the 1st respondent (Patience).

“In depositing the funds into the account of the 1st respondent, the said domestic staff, in a bid to conceal their identity, deposited the funds, reasonably suspected to be proceeds of an unlawful act, into the 1st respondent’s account, using fictitious names.

“The total sum of $4,036,750.00 (Four million, thirty-six thousand, seven hundred and fifty United States’ dollar) reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities, were deposited into account No. 2022648664 domiciled in First Bank Plc in the name of the 1st respondent.

“On the 28th day of September 2016, the 1st respondent, in dissipating the property sought to be forfeited, transferred the sum of $3,640,794.72 to the 1st respondent’s account No. 2031277178 domiciled in First Bank Plc.

“On the 5th day of October 2016, the 1st respondent withdrew the sum of $1,000,000.00 cash from the said account leaving the balance of the sum of $3,645,013.73 which sum we are urging this honourable court to forfeit in the interim to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

”As at the time the various sums were deposited in into exhibit EFCC01, the 1st respondent was a serving permanent secretary in the employment of the Bayelsa State Government.

“The funds sought to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria are not the 1st respondent’s lawful earnings but are rather reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities”, the deponent averred.

The deponent further averred that the companies mentioned in the application were not into “any legitimate income-yielding business venture” but were rather incorporated at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) for the purpose of warehousing proceeds of unlawful activities for the former first lady.

He claimed that every now and then domestic servants at the Presidential Villa were sent to deposit money into the companies’ accounts for Mrs Jonathan.

“The depositors into this account are domestic staff of State House, Abuja, who was procured by the said Dudafa Waripamo-Owei to deposit the funds sought to be forfeited in a bid to conceal the true origin of the funds,” Tukura said.

The case has been adjourned to the 11th of May, for interested parties to show cause why the funds should not be finally forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/05/08/breaking-again-court-orders-temporary-forfeiture-of-n9-2bn-linked-to-patience-jonathan/

GavelSlam:
If Cameroon and Benin Republic encourage smuggling it wouldn't change the government's emphasis on local production and if you have no suggestions on how it can be better managed you should keep wailing.

Exactly!

Increase in local production will bring down the price and make smuggling unattractive..

34webers:
So what did that fool from otueke do when election was around the corner?

He commissioned second Niger Bridge bill board ...

Reality is different from gimmicks.

slimfit1:
I see know reason why people can not work in Lagos and live in ibadan or Ilorin.

We are getting there. Slowly but surely. It will take a lot of pressure off Lagos..
Sai Buhari!

Sai Amaechi!

CodeTemplar:
Modular refineries are some of the few things Buhari inherited and couldn't put a stop to. Govt around the world have stake in approximately 70 of oil businesses. So stop defending a failing govt blindly. Rice smuggling was highest 2018 according to Benin Republic, Niger and Camerounian figures. So what agric output are we talking of? What of yam output? I like to hear about that.

You can google to find any information you want to see by yourself..

Yes Rice smuggling appears to be on the rise and Custom is working to curtail the new challenges with news of seizure every now and then.

Even OBJ that piloted the affairs of your PDP.g for 8 years , has this to say about the modular refinery.. The enabling environment provided by Buhari is why many investment projects are springing up here and there. It was not a coincidence. Otherwise, they would have happened under dumbo Joe..

Modular Refinery Licence: “PMB Has Succeeded Where We Failed” - OBJ

Published 3 months ago

on February 18, 2018

By Osa Okhomina

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo weekend described as “commendable” the decision by the President, Muhammad Buhari to award operational licences to twenty-two firms for the construction of modular refineries in the country. Obasanjo, who performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Azikel Refinery, the first private modular refinery in the oil and gas-rich Niger Delta region, admitted that unlike the present administration, 18 of such licences were qapproved under his administration but they failed to actulise it..

The proposed Modular Refinery, which would be built and known as Azikel Refinery is owned by Azikel Petroleum, a subsidiary of Azikel Group of Companies with Azibapu Eruani, an indigene of Bayelsa as its Group President, is located at Obunagha community in Gbarain Kingdom of Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

The 12,000-barrels refinery is sitting on a 19.92 hectares of a swampy land that was reclaimed with over 2.7million cubic metres of sand, which dredging lasted nine months and It is expected that Azikel Refinery would come on stream in 2019. Speaking at the event on saturday, Former President Obasanjo commended President Muhammadu Buhari for awarding modular refinery operational licences to 22 firms, including the Azikel Petroleum. He noted that out of the 22 licenced operators, Azikel Petroleum is the only company that had actualized its dream of establishing a modular refinery. The former President said he was delighted at the commitment of Azikel Petroleum, adding that none of the 18 licenses earlier awarded by his administration came to fruition. Obasanjo said, “I have been told that President Buhari and his government gave 22 licences and Azikel Petroleum is the only license out of the 22 that is really actualized. “Before then, we gave 18 and not one was actialized.They gave all manners of excuses including insecurity and oil prices. But those excuses thy give are still there. But they were not genuine entrepreneurs. They were after collecting licenses to get crude oil. And that is why in an occasion like this we should pay special tribute to people like Eruani. “I join you all in thanking President Buhari for giving four licences more than we gave. And he (Buhari) is lucky that he has a man like Eruani to be the only one to actualize” He also commended the Bayelsa State government under Governor Seriake Dickson for creating the enabling environment for the take-off of the modular refunery project. Obasanjo also lauded the technical and financial partners of Azikel Petroleum and advised the Group President of Azikel Group of Companies not to betray the trust and confidence reposed in him by his partners. In his welcome address, the Group President, Azikel Group of Companies, thanked President Buhari for the licence and expressed hope that the refinery project would mitigate the frequent scarcity of petroleum products and curb youth restiveness in Bayelsa and in the region, Eruani, who noted that some youths who would work at the facility were currently undergoing fabrication engineering training in the United States, said that construction and production phases of the refinery project would provide about 1,000 jobs. “Our journey is one with lots of interests and challenges. But our committed drive to industrialize the Nigeria Delta is unwavering. For the first time we will refine crude oil at home. This is the beginning of reversing the incessant scarcity of petroleum products. “But more importantly, this will bring several businesses in the state and in the Niger Delta. We will puts youths to work and we will be engaging communities. This will largely curb youth restiveness”, Eruani said. In his remarks, Governor Dickson said the Azikel Refinery was very important to Bayelsa as the government creates the conducive atmosphere for private sector investment to thrive. Governor Dickson, who at the event signed two Certificates of Occupancy and handed over them over to Azikel Petroleum and Azikel Power, another subsidiary, also commended President Buhari “for finding Azikel Group fit and proper”to be granted licence, stressing that “we expect more of such friendly gestures”. He said that his administration would continue to support the refinery project and any such business ventures that would stimulate economic growth and development in the state, describing Bayelsa as a safe haven for investment. In their separate remarks, the Chairman of the event and former Military Governor of old Rivers State, Alfred Diete-Spiff, Senator Paulker Emmanuel (Bayelsa Central) and former Minister of Petroleum, Edmund Daukoru, said the establishment of Azikel Refinery was the greatest thing that has happened to Bayelsa. They commended the courage and vision of Eruani and thanked Buhari for deeming it necessary to award the company the licence build a modular refinery in the state

https://leadership.ng/2018/02/18/modular-refinery-licence-pmb-succeeded-failed/

CodeTemplar:
Local production of yam in Benue or Plateau?
Or
is it the dormants refineries that have defied the presense of Buhari himself.

See, let us argue with facts and our common sense, otherwise we will both be wasting our time.
Yes, local production all over the country including Benue, Plateau, Ebonyi or Oyo state.

The refinery is a National asset and selling or concessioning it, is not something the President can do overnight.
We all agree that Govt involvement in running a state business should be minimised. But you are aware of private investment encouraged by the same FG. Next year, Dangote refinery will come on board. Some modular refineries are under construction with some scheduled for completion by the end of 2018. Whether you agree or not, it does not change the facts. These are projects that are happening for the first time in the history of this country.
Dangote refinery alone will cater for all our local petroleum products need with more to export..

Opportunity lost can never be regained.
Nigeria will be lucky to recover 20% of all the money stolen. Not to talk of the inflation effect.

CodeTemplar:
Higher than it was in 1984 and 1985.

So what is Buhari doing to reverse the unprecedented ~85% weakening of the Naira?
[from N201 to N365 for 1usd].

Buhari is encouraging local production. The less we import, the less the demand for dollars..
We can never develop if we keep importing what we can produce, while unemployment is rife locally..

lilfreezy:
North is our problem simple

North is your problem, not mine..
Hypocrite. You go to another thread to Atikulate, meanwhile you come to a thread like this to shout North is your problem. They will continue to be your problem as long as you believe so..

CodeTemplar:
So if it was a Nigerian project what made you think the guy you replied will prefer to discuss it. Why not almajiri schools, 12 additional federal universities, or YouWIN?

12 universities in name with buildings that are not up to Aregbesola Primary school ? Youwin for a handful of less than 2000 PDP.g members? Almajeri school is a disgrace to PDP.g.. A Local Government Chairman cannot brandish that as achievement.
Is that what your lords in PDP did with the unprecedented income from oil?

CodeTemplar:
You started the ethnic/regional coloration now so don't cry IPOD when they reply you o.

Cry? That is for cry babies.. Bring it on if you have the liver..

Moreover, what is ethnic in 2nd Niger Bridge? I thought it is a Nigerian project...Ode.

comos:
yal project your APC partyour PD has initiated and completed since 3yrs.

Nigeria will not fall for another propaganda and lies by your type

I know you will prefer to discuss the second Niger Bridge that was initiated, completed and commissioned on paper / bill board by your PDP.g

Sai Buhari!

Sai Amaechi!!

Ovamboland:
Demdem will run away from this thread,

They are allergic to good news about Nigeria. Due to bad belle, good news makes them sick and sad.

Why Nigeria is poor and underdeveloped.

Sai Amaechi!

Sai Buhari!!

Track laying commences on Lagos-Ibadan fast rail


By Abdullateef Aliyu, Lagos | Publish Date: May 8 2018


Finally, the laying of tracks for the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge project has commenced, it was observed today.
This commenced during the inspection of the project by the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

However, the laying of tracks has now commenced beginning from Itori section of the project in Ogun state.
The Transport Minister also confirmed the development during the ongoing inspection.
Our correspondent observed two track laying machines at the project site which is a beehive of activities. It has fabricating yard housing their plants and many engineering plants.
The project is being handled by the China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC).
At the moment, the high-powered team is meeting at the CCECC yard to added pending encumbrances to the project like water and gas pipelines, bridges, among others.
The tracks laying has not commenced in Lagos section because of the obstructions.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/finally-track-laying-commences-on-lagos-ibadan-fast-rail.html

Pecuman:
he lives in the USA so 200,000 would be a small amount there school fees alone there can be up to the equivalent of 40 million and the minimum wage there is $6 per hour with a part time job being 4 hours in a month someone living on minimum wage takes 257,000 naira home in a month so yeah for someone living in and having a job in USA it is a small amount it can't even pay for his plane ticket back to New York, USA

Read the article again. The amount in question is $200,000 and not N200,000. Please learn to pay attention to the details.

littlewonders:
I am not against the persistent news of looter's trace: my issue is how many have faced trials, jailed or meant to face the law? None! And I read news like this everyday.

Abge make dem stop to dey engage our relief or probably political happiness with unrealistic juice. Nonsense!

Many looters are currently in court facing trials. Asking the President to jail people is undemocratic. There is separation of powers. Court cases take time and its like that in most part of the world. Nigeria case is worsened due to the large number of the court cases and the large number of looters being dragged to court.Their conviction will happen. What you cannot deny is the assets recovery. Conviction too will follow. The naysayers will still have something to whine about then

naijjaman:
A gold fish has no hiding place.

Anything stolen from us must be returned

Even after 2023. May thunder fire the devils and corrupt among us.

Amen o.

There is no hiding place for the looters. There will be no respite for the wicked and their supporters.

IgboDelta:
Only two roads are listed above. The rest are repetition of the same roads. Buhari government is a bias, fanatical, shameless, incompetent, evil and corrupt government. Come 2019 Buhari will be voted out and chased back to daura.

The roads were divided into sections due to their stretch.. Same with the SW. Feel free to vote for candidate of your choice. Buhari supporters will not lose any sleep over that.

DaniDani:
in South West zone, almost all the projects are completed except no. 4&9. Tribalism at its peak. Well done Fashola for the good work and also for the favouritism.

Haha. Even with the number of road projects going on in SE compared with SW?

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Infographics Status of Completion of Priority Highway Projects By Buhari Admin as @ Apr 2018, in all the geopolitical zones of the country .

Even with the low cut offs, may be only 2 candidates will apply from Borno/ Bauchi. While the rest of the school in the North will be populated by candidates from the South..

Krisddon:
"This is people"? I no know why Buhari supporters bad gan for English. Kai!

This is people??