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Embedded systems should be one of them etc.

I go with this person. Gowon can't admit his mistake in helping to consolidate the core-northern grip on power. We must restructure.

See what Buharinomics has cause. Instead of looking forward to christmas celebration, we now look forward to end of inter-regional debate.

Scamambra . . . Scambiano . . . Scanitsha.
Goberment op scamp.

EternalTruths:
That is why government should focus more on Citizen's Income Sources ( CIS ) than IGR.

? ? ? What did u take to type such sophisticated trash.

OP is missing something. People who deny existence of these things are mostly into one form of practice or another.

What a question! Yes. Everybody needs God.

Who mapped it for Anambra ? MUSIWA ?

sarrki:
Both APC and PDP have vested interest in maina

It is now clear APC can't justify any of its actions without dragging PDP into it.
Even if PDP truly have vested interest in Maina, being the 'anti-corruption' party APC is, what is APC suppose to do ? Reinstate and protect him ?
Think and stop acting all zombie.

iamsholex:
Chad

lol . . . funny but possible.

Impressive.

Good to hear. What did Osun generate within same period?
Mapet/deomelo, you may be interested in this.

Statsocial:
Adventist are still trying though. Anglicans don't give any dime whatsoever to Ajayi Crowther and of course don't collect anything either. Apostolic faith still gives 300 m- 500m to Crawford annually, Living Faith gives between 1.7 billion - 5 billion annually to Covenant.
Their contributions are still small in comparison with FG funding for the likes of UI which gets 13 billion annually as wage bill and Infrastructure from FG annually which is apart from intervention funds like Tetfund.

That puts the average money govt spends on UI grad per year at over N500,000.00

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Speaking against the backdrop of the agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria, Osinbajo said when there was rampant corruption that crippled Nigeria to what it is today “how many Christian leaders stood up to complain”, insisting that no nation could have survived the kind of corruption, which Nigeria went through in the recent times.

According to him, “It is my view that the Nigerian elite, religious leaders and politicians think alike when it comes to corruption and they were always very selfish playing religious and ethnic cards when it pleases them.”

Osinbajo added that “when you look at the high-level of corruption in the country, it has no ethnic or religious coloration, our elite and politicians are united when it comes to corruption. I have never seen a situation where an Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and other tribes joined hands to steal money and they argued about it.” The vice president therefore suggested that in order to build a new nation men and women of integrity must be raised.

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His words: “It is important for us as a nation to change our idea and insist on merit. We must continue to advocate that there must be merit in our appointments and do away with sentiments and Nigeria will be where it ought to be. When our football teams are playing, we do not ask questions where the players come from because we want to win. In the same vein, if we want to win in Nigeria, we must insist on merit. We must insist on fair minded and just people in positions. That is how countries are run all over the world. It is only in this country that the first thing we do is to ask for quota system”.
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Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has rejected the quota system being practised in the country saying it is detrimental to the progress of any nation. He therefore insisted that Nigeria must insist on merit in the conduct of our national affairs.

The Vice President also attributed the lack of development of the nation to corruption perpetrated by politicians in collaboration with the elite and religious leaders.

Professor Osinbajo spoke in Lagos during Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference, with the theme: “Towards A Better Nigeria” which was convened by the Senior Pastor and founder of Foundation of Truth Assembly, (FOTA) Pastor Yomi Kasali.

According to Osinbajo, Nigeria may never progress if successive governments continued with the quota system saying that adopting merit was the only way to develop the country.

His words: “It is important for us as a nation to change our idea and insist on merit. We must continue to advocate that there must be merit in our appointments and do away with sentiments and Nigeria will be where it ought to be. When our football teams are playing, we do not ask questions where the players come from because we want to win. In the same vein, if we want to win in Nigeria, we must insist on merit. We must insist on fair minded and just people in positions. That is how countries are run all over the world. It is only in this country that the first thing we do is to ask for quota system”.

Speaking against the backdrop of the agitation for the restructuring of Nigeria, Osinbajo said when there was rampant corruption that crippled Nigeria to what it is today “how many Christian leaders stood up to complain”, insisting that no nation could have survived the kind of corruption, which Nigeria went through in the recent times.

According to him, “It is my view that the Nigerian elite, religious leaders and politicians think alike when it comes to corruption and they were always very selfish playing religious and ethnic cards when it pleases them.”

Osinbajo added that “when you look at the high-level of corruption in the country, it has no ethnic or religious coloration, our elite and politicians are united when it comes to corruption. I have never seen a situation where an Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and other tribes joined hands to steal money and they argued about it.” The vice president therefore suggested that in order to build a new nation men and women of integrity must be raised.

While he expressed confidence that Nigeria would take a new turn in the next few years, Osinbajo challenged the leadership of the church to eschew religious and ethnic sentiments in their approach to the issue of Nigeria, saying that the failure of Christian leaders by placing too much emphasis on Islamic Agenda as if they were looking for demon was a big mistake.

He asked, “Why can’t we have Christian agenda based on the principle of the Bible as the Lord Jesus Christ teaches. The Church must begin the process of uniting Nigeria by uniting itself. What Nigeria needs to survive are already contained in the Bible. We cannot practice two gospels. The reason the country is what it is today is because we (Christians) care to practice what the Bible teaches.”

He also debunked the sentiments that the crisis of the Fulani Herdsmen killing got escalated when President Muhammadu, who is of the Fulani origin became president.

According to him, “The Fulani Herdsmen crisis became rampant as far back as 1996 and it took a devastating effect in 2014 during the Libya crisis. On the agitation for restructuring, Osinbajo said the problem with the demand was that there was yet to be any concrete agreement even among those championing the cause.

He however said what the manifestos of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says is devolution of powers, which he (Osinbajo) subscribed to.

He charged the church leaders to henceforth speak for the sanctity of human lives and not necessarily emphasizing that religious extremists were killing Christians or southerners.

He argued that if many of the people agitating in the southern region took their time to visit and see the kind of devastation in the north, the level of destruction and loss of human lives and even Muslims “our perception would change. We must be able to stand up and condemn whatever kind of killings”, he said.

Also speaking at the conference, Director-general, Institute of National Transformation, Professor Vincent Anigbogu, in his address, titled, “Towards a Greater Nigeria, the Role of Church,” lamented the current state of affairs in the country, declaring that the church had also failed to play its assigned role.

Also speaking, the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission(TREM), Bishop Mike Okonkwo, observed that Nigeria had not done much with the God endowed resources available to it, submitting that churches in the country were asleep and most times, their lights only shined in the big structures erected to depict their presence all around.

He equally lamented the poor state of the country’s road, health sector, leading to several avoidable deaths, and called on church leadership to help build synergy that would help the country out of its current challenges rather than building empires.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/osinbajo-rejects-quota-system-says-nigeria-embrace-merit/

aribisala0:
Pipeline length from gas source is not the issue if it was people would not invest billions in LNG which more than doubles the price. There are dozens of factors to consider and to somehow make that the most important is strange

I do not see the logic about how this reduces vandalism?

Vandalism again is a multifactorial issue bjut primarily it has to do with PEOPLE and the MOTIVATION for their action chief of which is unemployment which derives partly from poor education and training as well as the politics of the Nigerian question.
Afterall there are pipeline all the way to Ghana.There are pipelines from Russia to Europe longer than Nigeria.
If Nigeria were to industrialize there must be gas pipelines across the whole country even if not for power plant for cooking or are we to cook with kerosene for ever while Europeans cook comfortably with Nigerian gas? Even countries that have no gas AT ALL and use NIGERIAN GAS have extensive pipelines.

It is not pipeline length that is the issue. Gas pipes are very very deep compare to oil or petrol and are often vandalized at source or
pumping stations
We need to always look at the big picture.

Even if you have power plants in Akwa Ibow what about the electricity generated will it not enter a transmission network.Could that not be vandalized if the motivation to do that is there ? Why is that motivation so high in Nigeria and not in Qatar or Algeria?

I disagree. Take Kaduna refinery for example, The distance of the pipeline carrying unrefined fuel there makes it super easy for vandals to come in vandalize it. If that same refinery was located in Warri it would be much more difficult for vandals to have the space required to vandalize so often.

lilytender:
Hatred for Islam and Muslims has made this guy to develop hypertension, definitely, he will slump and die any moment.

What hatred? You described your feeling for infidels.

The larger they come the better. We need more large power plant like this.

This is what I have always advocated. More power plants in the SS to minimize pipeline length from gas source and all its associated challenges like vandalism maintenance.

shervydman:
I guess so, my guy.....imagine, it was 4.5b before and d govt has miraculously paid 3.6b, then 11b, and all of a sudden 69b. and d govt will still deduct the already spent 3.6b from the concessioned project. I smell foul play too.

The state can't pay salaries and the governor is aggressively propagating the projects completed. I suspect he is doing that to lay a solid foundation for the looting ahead.

bonechamberlain:
story for the gods, so 100 billion naira and 295 million dollars is the cause of this epileptic economy.

Part of it.

shervydman:
70b naira is a whole lot of money!!!!......let them invest on better infrastructure in the state like pipe-borne water n good intra-city road among others. Osun state does not need a local airport talkless of int'l. Let them revive the Ibadan airport jare, it will serve Osun state. 70b loun loun for a needless airport.rubbish!

I strongly suspect someone wants to use this project to siphon money. A state that's owing.

Nigerians! Never trust them.

Edo Airways . . .

TheShopKeeper:
Baba Salami wants to enjoy his retirement in peace and doesn't want to be involve in the nastiness of fake corruption fighting by the PMB administration...surely it doesn't worth the stress...

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Spylord48:
#69b?
Aregbe should stop abeg. Osun don't have any need for airport yet.
This one is a,real white elephant project

I go with you here. Why embark on a phantom project. Osun can't pay teachers and yet is trying to build airport. Who told Aregbe investors need airport more than power, industrial estates, security and support ?
@deomelo/mapet, what do you have to say about this beautiful project that's billed to cost Osun over almost N70B ?

UfuomaUN:
IGR this IGR that! IGR depends a lot on the efficiency of the state govts taxing system. Many states in Nigeria don't take taxing as seriously as Lagos for instance. The wealth of a state should is better judged by GDP or per capital wealth

IGR reveals how well the state govt performs and per capita GDP is more appropriate in measuring the welfare the citizens. The OP is comparing Ogun to SE but I think Ogun state can do twice as better as what it is currently doing.
To me it is all about the room for improvement, if there is any, then let's push the govt further.

MyNewJackeT:
someone has to die in the middle East for Nigeria to survive



this is the Trump-Iranian tensions.

The funny thing is Nigerian muslims who are ready to burn Nigerian Christians down in solidarity of percieved injustice against Iranians are the ones benefiting most from the oil money.

Good news.