normac: Lol, saying David Mark shouldn't criticize Maku because of his past antecedents would amount to the fallacy of argument against the man, as opposed to the man's point. For the record, I agree with David Mark's analysis of Labaran Maku, doesn't stop me from still holding my opinion that David Mark is a dishonest Arrow who should be sharing a cell right now with his bum buddy IBB

gbam

Maku was right in what he said now. The senate president could not jus take the truth, so he had to jus speak out of emotions which is very wrong for a senate president. He is the one that is a careless talker, and should watch his tongue before it leads him into trouble.

Louis88: BasH Ali finish work. The guy went hard on Bala Mohammed accusing him of dodging him severally in the office. Oga Bala nearly piss for pant

o boy bash dey provoke ooo, make that FCT minister better answer am ooo before him tear am 50kg punch.

We need more of this town hall meeting. I watched the live broadcast till the end. Kudos to the minister in charge of the tour.

nothing wey witches and wizards no go talk. people just dey find fault up and down. If Jonathan do wahala. If Jonathan no do wahala. I bow.

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^You know of any on-going federal projects in Akwa Ibom?; i can't think of any.

That is why I want them to come so that we clarify certain issues. A lot of rumours everywhere. There are roads claimed to have been done by Akpabio which the opposition claims is being done by Fg. The tour will definitely reveal the whole truth.

I want to know when this team will visit Akwa Ibom. They will sure have a lot of projects to sample in Akwa Ibom.
It's goona be fun having them around especially Maku.

dedeike: SAHARA SHOPRITE OF LIES.
After putting the whole social media in a round of hot rumours over the death of Patience Jonathan, they have realized the futility of this blackmail venture and decided to do a sommersault to say she is now alive. Very shameful.
Look at how desperation is stripping people of their God given conscience. Because you have an axe to grind with the president over his unwavering resolve to transform Nigeria, you now engage online liars to concort negative stories against the Wife.

This same SAHARA SHOPRITE of lies said the president's wife caused Dana Crash because she blocked the airspace for landing.
This same SAHARA SHOPRITE of lies told us that the president's wife suffered appendix rupture and every discerning mind on Nairaland wondered how a rupture of appendix would have survived a 6 hours flight to Germany. Gradually, it's turning out more to be fibriod surgery.
This same SHARA SHOPRITE of lies posted midnight that the president had cancelled his trip and their "SOURCE" briefed them of the rumours in Aso Rock over the president's wife death.
This same SAHARA SHOPRITE of lies have done a U Turn in less than 3 hours to change the story to President's wife s alive.

Now can any objective mind tell me why we should ever take SAHARA SHOPRITE OF LIES seriously again?
All through the night, the likes of DAYOKANU and OLD GBAWE were awake like WINCHES and were gloating over the rumours of Madam Patience from their new CNN-SAHARA SHOPRITE OF LIES.

Somebody should go and tell them that their darling CNN has made a volte face to say our first lady is Alive.
Somebody should also take them on tutorials on the distinction between a serving president and a first lady. Such tutorials will help them understand that while YarAdua's whereabouts is of the essence, Patience Jonathan's whereabouts is inconsequential. There is no semblance whatsoever.

Bros, Na bad belle dey worry them. They just dey envy woman wey no get office. Jobless people! For their mind, JONA wife don die ooo. Una don loose again be dat.
Nothing will happent to the woman. She will come back hale and hearty while they continue hating and gossiping. That's their proffesion and after all it's big business according to GEJ.

The only party where candidates can freely aspire to hold public office without recourse to the dictates of a godfather who controls therapies. In PDP, there are many godfathers, not a grand commander.
The space in PDP is large enough to contain every shade of opinion and sphere of life.
It is not sectional.
It was not formed out of rebellion nor for the presidential aspiration of an ex military general.

Abeg make we hear word from all these old politicians. Support today, condemn tomorrow! Wetin they want make GEJ do for them after one year? Transform NIGERDELTA to Dubai?
They are high on Ogogoro. Nigeria not Nigerdelta is Jonathan's constituency. They must understand this and stop whinning like kindergarten kids.

East west road that they mentioned had issues arising from the first award by Obj. Only last week, the FG announced the re award of that road under SURE P. if I were them, I would rather concentrate on monitoring the execution of that project as soon as possible. But they will prefer to hang around Aso Rock for pocket money.
The biggest beneficiary of PIB if passed will be the people of NIGERDELTA. We are the ones who will occupy the stipulated 25% stake in ownership of oil ompanies exploring oil in the region. We are the ones who will reap from the new legislations on gas flaring.
Jonathan strategically integrated our brothers and ex militants into safeguarding the waterways for oil exploration and shipment. This step has not only enriched some of our brothers but has increased oil production to a record of 2.7 million barrels per day for the overall interest of Nigeria.

Jonathan has started two federal universities in both Bayelsa and Delta state. The Nigetian law school has a opened a campus in Bayelsa. Kolo-Nembe-Brass is seriously under construction. The Benin-Ore road which was awarded and undergoing construction by this government will serve the people of Niger Delta. The power plants in Ughelli, calabar, IHOVBOR, Afam, and Sapele gas plants have all been refurbished under jonathan.

Are we not enjoying the improvement in power supply? Come to Uyo, we have light for an average of 18 hours per day. Make dem give jonathn chance abeg to continue his privatision

PapaBrowne: This Government is doing things that were not done in the last 25 years in Nigeria.

Power- For the first time, We are feeling the impact.

Agriculture- Tremendous change is happening there!

Roads- There is highway construction happening in every region and they are countless. It could be faster.

Railways- Small small renovations of tracks. We need faster tracks.

Airports- Not only have they remodelled the horrible prisons we called airports, they are building brand new terminals!! Excellent!

The Police- The police force has begun to solve very mysterious murder cases in very explained fashion.

There are only two area this Government has not yet hit a home run- 1) Corruption 2) National security!

We need to accord them accolades when they perform!! And I think they are sitting up fast!!

dedeike:

Even on corruption, the government has hit the ground running. There has been revolutionary probes into our public finances and oil revenue.
Increasingly, accountability and transperancy has become a key issue in an oil sector hitherto shrouded in secrecy. More than ever before, govt initiated investigations into subsidy management in this country.
They also took the bold step to transfer subsidy funds from first line charges to the national budget for accountability. Any informed Nigerian can now access the exact amounts slated for subsidy yearly. Gradually, we are witnessing the criminal prosecution of untouchable subsidy cabal. The minister of Finance is fighting it out with marketers over subsidy claims. Probity is gradually setting in.

For the first time, a probe report is conclusive and being enforced with a long list of indictees meant to refund over 400 billion Naira to national coffers.
The budget bazaar is over as the minister of finance insists on thorough verification before release of funds.
Pension scammers are being exposed and currently standing trial.
EFCC is set to charge more suspects when the courts resume next week.

Bros, sometimes I feel like the Nigerian media and opposition have been unduly critical of this govt. I have this strong feeling that despite all the curses and abuses, Jonathan may turn out to be the best president in history

You guys amuse me on Nairaland. One doesn't need to be a medical doctor to know that ruptured appendix cannot survive a 6 hours flight to Germany.
This is just cheap gossip generated by social media journals and multiplied by some newspapers.
The truth is yet to come out.

folaked: dis people wit dia lies sha, so dia is no qualified doctor in naija treat appendicitis only in Germany??.. GEJ doesnt even trust d naija doctors on dis one.flyin his wife on emergency 2 Germany just 2 cure APPENDICITIS!! D truth will soon b out!!

Bros, Na so u dull? So you don believe this story now now? This is a junk news which is unconfirmed. The writer himself said so that it is unconfirmed reports.
Until it is confirmed, it is all gossips and rumour. Hold your comment till then

Let's leave this matter. Some people prefer the dictatorship and imposition of flagbearers. Shocking

CHUKWUKAHE: Is this a new recruitment. if it is which news paper was it publish?

bros, Na dis english you wan speak for the interview ? Lol.

The removal of subsidy is long overdue. No economy can ever grow under this arrangement were a quarter of national budget is used to subsidize one product.
The subsidy thing encourages importation and kills local production. I undertstand the govt under Obj issued licenses for people to build private refineries but all of the beneficiaries abandoned it in favour of importation.
In a business sense, It's more profitable to import than to start building refineries which is capital intensive and can only yield returns at the long run. The best thing is to close subsidy so that real investors can come in to build refineries as it is the practice globally. Government should not have any business in the oil sector apart from regulatory role.
When subsidy goes, it will pave way for deregulation of the downstream sector. Let market forces and competition between the private refineries dictate pump price, not the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Those who are deceiving the masses with the gist that subsidy withdrawal is anti people will be shocked when their predictions of doom fail. Because when private refineries come on board, there won't be need for importation so prices will even fall far below the current rate. In addition, there will be massive employment opportunities for Nigerian youths in the private refineries.

ubandire: Mr. Peter Obi and Arthur Eze spoke our minds. Jonathan deserves another term. He has really tried.
We have never had it so good in appointments. Our son is an army service chief for the first Time in history.
All our ministers are grade A ministers with Grade A portfolios.
Our daughter is the co ordinating minister/prime minister.
Our son is the SGF.
Our daughters head immigrations, SEC, and other big agencies.
Our son is the DG NYSC.
our daughter is Aviation Minister and has shut down Enugu Airport completely for overhaul.
Last month, Aba depot started operations after many years of neglect.
Owerri-Onitsha has been pursued vigorously and nearing completion.
Onitsha -Owerri is undergoing slow rehabilitation.
9th mile was refurbished for use.
Second Niger bridge awarded.
New projects and refineries been commissioned by Jonathan in Anambra.
Power has improved in the south East significantly.
our son was given an opportunity to spearhead the reforms in power sector and will come back to own the emerging power companies in a post privatisation era. It's obvious in the way GEJ spoke glowingly of him in Anambra.
The devil we know is better than the angel we don't know.
We stand by GEJ

GEJ really dey favour Igbos oooo.

Elueme: Now it is becoming obvious that this malam has realized how disgusting he appears before Nigerians and he's trying to be civil.. Well, it is never too late to repent of your evil... But it will take a very longtime of being reasonable and PR to launder his self battered image... However, GEJ has an open arm and a very forgiving heart and the last time I checked the umbrella was still wide enough to accommodate even deviants like him... The earlier the better

GBAM!

tiwasiaife: Only thing that has not be tampered is Quaran. So he means that Inec has tempered with holy Bible? Buhari buhari buhari hw many times did i call ur name?

Don't mind the religious bigot

And Nigerians are ready for you. After you have disturbed our peace with Boko Haram and post election violence, you expect us to vote for you?
Try another trick. This one ain't gonna work.
Our minds are made up for GEJ. Even if he is not the one, we can't vote you

brightmon:
Who is (are) this Cabal ?. names pls or is the Cabal not PDP? Abegyyyyyyy

brightmon:
Who is (are) this Cabal ?. names pls or is the Cabal not PDP? Abegyyyyyyy

This is the cabl as exposed and being punished by GEJ.

Alminnur Resources Limited, Brila Energy Limited; Caades Oil and Gas Limited, Capital Oil and Gas Industry Limited and Capital Oil Plc. Ceoti Limited, Conoil Plc, Downstream Energy Source Limited, Eterna Oil Plc, Eurafic Oil and Gas Limited, Heyden Petroleum, Lumen Skies Limited, Majope Investment Limited, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Matrix Energy Limited, Menol Oil and Gas Limited, MOB International Services Limited and MRS Oil and Gas Plc.

In addition, Nasaman Oil Services Limited, Naticel Petroleum Limited, Ocean Energy Trading and Services Limited, Pinnacle Contractors Limited, Sifax Oil and Gas Limited, Tonique Oil Services Limited and Top Oil and Gas Development Company Limited

NUPENG should face the issues. The issue is who is trying to sabotage the present efforts by TEAM GEJ to sanitize the oil sector?
Before our very eyes, NUPENG went on strike insisting that those who were indicted for subsidy loot should be paiid. Isnt that sabotage?
Coming at a time when govt is yielding to public clamour for probe of the oil sector, the strike was, to say the least,wicked.

I read so many reports that indicated that NUPENG was heavily sponsored by the cabal to do what they did. And I believe it otherwise why should NUPENG go on strike to protest the non payment of outstanding subsidy claims even in the face of AIG's report indicting the said companies for 400 billion.

OGA JONA, KEEP WORKING. your work is showing already. Light is constant in my area more than ever before.
I heard you have reawarded East west road which was abandoned due to kidnapping and paucity of funds. my friend cleared his Camry from wharf in less than a week.
If Na only this one alone you do, I'm ok.

texazzpete: If they illegally conspired to defraud the nation, shouldn't they be prosecuted? What's my own with 'refunded' without prosecution?

How many Armed robbers are let off the hook if they offer to refund the stolen money?

Stale Air!!

Bros if your DSTV don expire, make you tune in to NTA so that u fit they watch news.
KOROKORO, we dey see EFCC officials arraign these so called subsidy thieves.
The last one I watched was when the court denied the thieves' application to travel abroad.

take dat: You must think we are all fools to believe you.Eventhough we all agreed that OBJ mis managed funds meant for power project but we also know that his govt conceptualized almost all existing projects.In your bid to give GEJ all the credits,you claimed Yaradua did nothing for 3yrs when we knew that GEJ was part of the team n they were working towards 6000mw though till this day it still remain unrealistic.Power gen,tranms and distribution is a gradual and continuous thing even GEJ attested to that lately that before Nigerians can rejoice it will be around 2020.So please dont pull others down just because you want to paint GEJ as the messiah he did not start from ground Zero he also met some on going projects and existing structures.

Bros, Abeg no vex. Pls tell us one single power plant that Yaradua revived during his term. It is even on record that YAR ADUA abandoned the power generating thermal stations under NIPP.
Megawatts during Yaradua hovered between 1500 to 2700 during rainy season. To tell you how incompetent Yaradua was on power, the identity of his power minister has faded from our consiousness. He was never as visible and active as the current minister-Prof Barth Nnaji.
Make we try dey talk true Abeg.

bilms: Goodluck Jonathan himself,Diezani Maduekwe, okonjo Iweala and Sanusi Lamido are the biggest problems in Nigeria today, I believe they are the people who are really making this country ungovernable for Mr President. These guys are behind every horrible policy that this govt is churning out,from eating with 1billion naira, to fuel subsidy removal, increase in tax,new plate number, tariffs on nearly all public utilities and now they are here again with the #5000 single note. Are these people truly Nigerians?

Na you be our problem. If you can't understand the powerful reforms being spearheaded by the trio then you are the real problem.

Okija_juju: We are paying Terrorists 700million Dollars a day to protect Oil Pipelines from themselves... #PIRCELESS..

ONLY IN NIGERIA!!

Bros, Na u call am terrorists. What is on paper is that Global West Vessel Specialist Agency has been contracted to safeguard our waterways.
And it is yielding results. From 1.8 Mbpd to 2.7mbpd. No attacks on pipelines. No shutting down of SHELL or CHEVRON flow stations or facility.
We re meeting our OPEC quota. The oil market is booming. Revenue dey accrue. That's what's up.

dedeike:

Still advertising his ignorance further. Anybody following our debate so far right from the first page will simply laugh you to stupor.

In your desperation to attack GEJ, you came out blabbing that there was nothing like 4477 MW. You even dared me to prove it. You gave the mischievous impression that I concorted the 4,477MW figures myself.
I went the extra mile to source the evidence for you. Having been confronted with the stark reality of your foolishness, your story has changed.
You have resorted to the lame and laughable argument that my links are from sources that work for govt
So the NATIONNEWSPAPERS now work for Govt?
DAILYTRUST also works for GOVT? SMH*

When you saw how laughable this sounds? You somersaulted again to rephrase the issues to Barth NNaji's expenditure as if that has ever been the issue here.
But let me still join issues with you on that score because you re like a drowning man seeking for any last straw to cling on.
The entire power sector was allocated just about 200 billion Naira in 2012 budget. Even if Barth Nnaji has squandered all in refurbishing the power plants, which we know it's impossible given the 56% budget performance, it's still doesn't come close to your imaginary billions of dollars.

I await a further public show of your ignorance on this thread.

Na you even get time to explain to those f.ools. Left for me, I enjoy seeing the likes of CHUKY 234 fool themselves here.
It provides comic relief

WINCHES don come out to celebrate our loss of 300MW but unknown to them GEJ has recovered capacity through rehabilitation of gas plants and so we still have above 4000 megawatts to fall back on.

afam4eva:
I don't understand this statement.

Is he saying that Nigeria is the most populous nation with large Christian and Muslim population or is it calling Nigeria an Islamic nation that is populated by the largest number of Christians? If the latter is what he said then it's a shame that Goodluck Jonathan even associates with people that have such a mindset not to talk of making such a person a minister. It just shows that GEJ has bad people advising him because he picks his ministers based on the advise he gets from people.

The constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria makes it mandatory for the president to appoint a minister from each state of the federation even when he doesn't know anyone from there.
The said minister may not have even been personally known by the president and may have been nominated by the Governor and stakeholders of his state of rigin. Any wonder why he is a Minster of state.

Tinubu should keep quiet. Who is he trying to hoodwink?

We are not as gullible as his US audience. It is a fat lie that Jonathan controls the federal legislature. It is common knowledge that Jonathan has no authority whatsoever over the House of representatives as Tinubu alleged in his diatribe. Rather there's even stronger evidence that Tinubu manipulated the emergence of Tambuwal as Speaker of House Of Reps hence the serious legislative/ executive face off at the national level.

Can Tinubu say same of his ACN controlled states? In Lagos, even a toddler knows that speaker ikuforoji was installed by Tinubu and he exerts his authority over him.
Why is Tinubu so hypocritical?

HNosegbe:

Should it go the "sons of the soil" or the ordinary people themselves?

Both the sons of the soil and ordinary people.
The revenue generated from the peace and stability prevalent in the Niger Delta is for the benefit of us all.
It means increased funding for the FG budget generally.
It means increased statutory allocation for lagos state govt to work.
It means increased 13 % derivation for Akpabio to continue his transformation of Akwa Ibom
It means increased funding for NDDC and all their schorlaships and interventionist programmes no matter how small.