mistypiper:


I dont know if you live in the country or not but I'm sure you can see and hear well. If the government can't tell the private investors what they should do to improve the cost of living of the masses , something is wrong with that government.

I'm not happy with the program simply because we still have more people out there finding it hard to eat just once. You mention that people like me would make billions or million from the project, how?

No offense but you just didnt make sense with any of that post. Because if we cant even afford to live in the mega city , whats the purpose of building it ? Banana island for example how many people can afford to live there?

Instead of trying to force a city out of the water front, they can build low cost housing estates in developing areas.

No hard feelings, it's just my own view and opinion.

Private sectors are in for profit while delivering service/product.

What is your definition of low cost housing estates? What kind of houses and at what cost? Can a man who cant afford to "eat just once" afford it ?

but, that bayelsa, what does the governor do with all that money, a state with freaking 8 local govts, and smallest population, yet no tangible devtal. projects.??

fr3do:



State the perceived repercussions and weaknesses so they can be worked up on to move things forward.

. I shouldnt be doing that for you, it is your responsibility. there are very obvious ones, especially when u consider that close to half of the biafrans are not earning livelihood on the biafran soil. in clear terms those ones loses rights and priviledges of a citizen, and becomes foreigners, loss of jobs, loss of right to vote or be voted for, chance of maltreatment and deportation is higher, stiffer taxes and penalties, trade embargo, food sustainability , right political leadership, renewed internal strive, e.t.c I don't see any one talk about these , evidently all u see is the strength, a recipe for disaster

JuanDeDios:

No doubt about it. Aganga simply work and delivered - noise. Nigerians like razzmatazz, that is why Adeshina's noise always got him noticed.

looking at deliverables, he was slightly above average when one considers the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) brought to the country in the midst of the insecurity in the country.

I rank Minister of Investment , Aganga ahead of Minister of Agric sef.

Saorchy:
As we countdown to May 29, 2015, when the Goodluck Jonathan administration will vacate the seat of power, it is not all gloomy as there are outstanding men and women in the administration that used the instruments of their office to better the life of the common man on the street.

Naij.com has compiled 5 of these outstanding individuals that Nigerians won’t forget in a hurry.
Read below:

1. Professor Chinedu Nebo: The former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka has indeed been outstanding. The Minister of Power have overseen a tedious privatisation process of the power sector devoid of rancour as was the case in the past. He has also been consistent with his regular briefing of the media and Nigerians in order to keep everyone up-to-date on the progress in the sector. Though not much have been achieved yet, Nigerians will no doubt start to see the manifestation of his handiwork in the nearest future, provided the incoming Buhari administration continues from where he stopped and make corrections where he made mistakes.



2. Dr. Omobola Johnson: It is not really a surprise that she has performed well. Not your typical politician, Johnson left her position as the Country Manager of Accenture to take assume the role of Nigeria’s Minister of Communications. Her sterling performance and revolutionary policies are visible for all to see. She has also focused heavily on empowering young girls in Information Communication Technology and it has paid off immensely.



3. Ambassador Aminu Wali: The Kano-born former Nigerian Ambassador to China has brought to bear his diplomatic experience at the foreign ministry. A perfect gentleman, his robust foreign policies have seen Nigeria,for the first time, stand up to ungrateful countries like South-Africa, United Arab Emirates and some Asian countries. Wali has done a good job in standing for the rights of Nigerians abroad although much still needs to be done in this direction. But he has started on a right note, and it is expected that whoever fills his big shoes in the Buhari administration, will continue from where he stopped.



4. Osita Chidoka: Chidoka’s short stint in the Ministry of Aviation has proven that saying that says “It is not how far, but how well”. The former head of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) hit the ground running immediately he assumed office. In an industry that has been under consistent crisis, Chidoka became a rallying point for all the stakeholders in the industry mostly because of the professional way he handled issues pertaining the industry. He has worked tirelessly to improve on the safety standards of the industry and has carried on working despite Jonathan’s loss at the polls. Nigeria definitely need men like Chidoka in public service.



5. Dr. Akinwunmi Adeshina: This list would not be complete without the name of Dr. Adeshina. It is not for nothing that he is currently one of the leading contenders for the role of the president of Africa Development Bank (ADB). Adeshina’s revolutionary achievements in the agricultural sector has opened up opportunities in the sector that was hitherto comatose and begging for attention. From the availability of fertilizers to the ordinary farmers, to the loans available to them and the investment flowing into the sector, Akinwunmi is no doubt the most outstanding Minister under Jonathan and he should be proud of himself. One can only wish him luck in his aspiration to lead the ADB.

Source: http://www.naij.com/443519-5-jonathans-ministers-that-performed-well.html

Cc: Seun, Lalasticlala, Ishilove

The moment i saw chinedu Nebo, Minister of power, i thought it was sarcasm.
All i see chinedu does on tv is to moan and whine about vandals and speak tall tales, at a time i begin to wonder if he acquired his degree in moaning /whining engineering. If Vandals keep breaking pipelines, and you do is to repair over and over again and moan, something is wrong with you. Thinking out of the box is not his strength

I hope those secessionist minded people have done a SWOT analysis of these biafra /lower niger parade ? by SWOT, i mean the strength, WEAKNESS, opportunities and THREATS. Only a fool will be fixated about the strength and opportunities of an idea without looking at the weakness and threats or be under the illusion there are none. When you have assessed the negativities of an idea, you plan for mitigation.

I no wan hear story that touch down the line ooooo. Wish u luck with ur biafra/lower niger, but put it in mind there will be repercussions.

EbuGeneral:
i understand, but i will prefer a fully fit Isaac Success to Taiwo Awoniyi.

I was about to reply you, and then i saw her response to you which is in line with what i wanted to say.

In young age grade football, the rate of change of player performance can be very astounding, and some will outgrow the others.

In japan 93, under 17 tourney, a tournament that had Kanu Nwakwo, Wilson oruma was the biggest star, the goal poacher, and actually won the golden ball of the tourney, but three years after, Nigerians knew the real between Nwakwo Kanu and Wilson Oruma. Kanus impact in Atlanta 96 and subsequent years can not be forgotten.

EbuGeneral:
did you watch their under17 african championship? if you did, you would curse the injury that happened to success at UAE

and 3 years after the injury what have we seen of him? Samson siasia under 23 coach had to borrow awoniyi in a make or break away match in Zambia to qualify for all Africa games. match ended 0-0 in Nigeria, it took awoniyis brace to secure a 2-1 away victory for qualification.

anwe:


Some people sha them no de see truth as it is unfolding in Burudi. If someone has done well accept it simple. President Jonathan is a man of his word.
Ok people die in Ivory Cost and Gbagbo is still alive & will not be killed. He can only go to Jail. life goes on

hush with your sycophancy! who told you gbagbo won't be killed BTW,his wife already on over 20 yrs imprisonment more like life imprisonment. Gbagbos trial is ongoing.

Jonathan was under enormous pressure, much of it from the outside world, even wen some of his sycophants were threatening he will hand over to the military . The external world will react differently to a case of Nigeria with 200 million population than a tiny Burundi. My point is that without these internal and external pressures and alarm on him pre election, the story would have been different.

BackDatAssUp:


Your Ooni Gbese failures is not a yardstick

Rather than ask why your parasitic state is owing you are using other states non payment of salaries as justification why your panla dry rascal governor is owing you fools


Finally, Akwa Ibom is not owing jacksh1t as at today so you can shove that useless article up your pile ridden azz

Foolish Taju

bloody assshole, hush and STFU again.

You morooons leave your bigger problems and focus on others. Is anything more mooronic than that? Thief Orji you all called devil and the worst governor in the globe was hugely rewarded with a senatorial position gift.

Tout leaders are only effective when not in opposition, that must be the cause of his silence.

Firefire:


What an elder saw while sitting, a youth cannot see it standing


Watch-out for the final taming of the Judas.

Like Elder Orubebe?

BackDatAssUp:


Story!

Poverty is no excuse.

Akwa Ibom is not owing their workers. It is only Cross River that is owing.

And for your info all ND states have since adopted federal wage rates.

Osun state workers earn less than their counterparts in Cross River.

And if there is any state that has it worse as per reduced allocations it is Cross River which is no longer an oil producing state since losing oil wells to Akwa Ibom and Bakassi to Cameroun but you don't hear their state governor lamenting.

Useless osogbo fool

Keep shut u ediiot !.

It emerged on Friday, May 22, 2015, that 18 out of 36 states of the federation would begin an indefinite strike on Monday, May 25, 2015, over unpaid salaries and pensions.
The states involved are Abia, [size=18pt]Akwa Ibom[/size] , Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Ekiti, Imo, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers and Zamfara.
The General Secretary, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, who gave the hint said the congress had sent its task force team to the states to enforce the strike.
“The various Task Forces are working. Plateau is on strike, Cross Rivers is going on Monday; the various task forces are working. A team is leaving for Benue to commence action; they are now free to commence action and we are supporting them,” he said.
He said Abia State had not paid salaries of workers of the State Teaching Hospital for nine months; owing workers of the Hospital Management Board eight months’ salary; Abia State Universal Basic Education Board, six months; Abia State Polytechnic, five months; local government workers, four months; and teachers, three months’ salary arrears.
Furthermore, he said though Enugu State had paid salaries of civil servants up to date, parastatals were owed 12 months’ salaries and pension and gratuity remained unpaid since 2010.
Other states owing salaries are Osun State with six months’ salary and pension arrears; Plateau with six months salaries and seven months pension arrears; Benue with five months salaries and four months pension arrears; Kogi with four months of pension and salary arrears; and Oyo which owes three months salaries and between five and 11 months of pension arrears, he said.
“Jigawa owes judiciary workers a month salary arrears in 2015; Ondo one month salary and pension arrears, while Ogun owes one month salary and 52 months of unremitted pension deductions to the Pension Fund Administration.
“Although Zamfara State has paid workers’ salaries up to date, the salaries of workers who were recruited in 2014 have not been paid,” he stated.
The NLC also stated that Rivers State owes one month of workers’ salaries and three months of pension while Kano has yet to pay newly employed teachers for three months.
Meanwhile, a senior civil servant in the Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Mr. Ojo Owolabi, has attempted to end his life over his inability to feed his family due to the failure of the state government to pay salaries.
Civil servants in the state have not been paid their salaries in the past six months, it was learnt.
Owolabi was reported to have attempted to take his life by drinking a large quantity of insecticide at his residence last Saturday.
Owolabi, a sanitary officer at the council, was rushed to the hospital and was receiving treatment.
Sources said he became frustrated as a result of his inability to meet his family’s needs.
“Baba Ibeji drank herbicide. He was frustrated because he has been unable to feed himself and other members of his family. You are aware that the state government has not paid workers for some months now. I think he just lost hope and decided to take his life by drinking Gramoxone,” the source said.
The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Mr. David Owoeye, who confirmed the incident said: “We don’t want to make it public so that it will not embarrass the family.”
A factional Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Gambi Yusuf, said that unpaid salaries had caused workers untold hardship.
“Anybody who is not paid for six months is a walking corpse. What do you expect him to eat? How do you expect the workers to feed their children?” he queried.
He advised government to be more serious about workers’ welfare.
“We are appealing to the government to pay workers because workers deserve their wages,” he stated.

dailyindependentnig.com/2015/05/workers-18-states-begin-strike-monday-unpaid-salaries-pensions/

This man sha, he tried to write sanely, but still he misses the mark.

No one was turned back from voting for card reader not reading his/her fingerprints after all said and done , so, what is the fuss?.

The international pressure and concentration was enormous, so GEJ had only one life saving option to accept his loss. Nigeria is no burundi, the secretary of state , USA was here to meet the two political gladiators weeks to the election, Obama specifically spoke to Nigerians and political actors in a special video message days to the election, Obj & co kept reminding GEJ what happened to Gbagbo of Ivory coast. GEJ would be deposed in matter of weeks , if he had refused to accept the loss.

BackDatAssUp:


Forget those sophisticats, their mumuism knows no boundaries

STFU, OVER 18 states are owing workers, even Akwa Ibom state with the fattest allocation.

Osun state currently has the least allocation. What Akpabio earns in 0ne year, Aregbesola has not earned in 4.5 years.

Osun state govrn has ambitious projects at the least to show, many of the state governors owning have not paid salaries, and can still not point to any tangible projects even 8 years down the line.

Most Nigerians did not trust GEJ and crew with the proceeds from the subsidy, as we saw with the failed SURE-P, which was financed from partial removal of subsidy.

New refineries can be built in 18-24 months. I learnt even with the current scarcity , over 1.8 billion naira is spent dailly,on subsidy of petrol price.

Subsidy must go immediately after the probe of the sector, Govt must build at least 3 new refineries ASAP to surpass our current local demands and put an end to importation of refined fuel, it might later privatise the refineries in phases.

I have said times without number, this ben bruce lee fellow is rarely in touch with reality, he is a megalomaniac.

How much is an electric car btw?

Put this fellow as an executive of a state, then it will be tales of white elephant projects, and building castles in the sky.

All these horsetrading and rigmaroling is because the South east did not vote a returning APC senator.

He should be charged for "attempted suicide" in Nigeria, but he must be extradited in the interim, and then if he makes it back to Nigeria, he will face the attempted suicide charge

The day this fool contested for the senatorial post and won is the day he deserves to be extradited,

The idiiot had no business holding an elective or selective post, so as to avoid public scrutiny, but the gods wanted to kill him, they made him mad first. I hope edwin clark who advised him to contest as senator will follow him to the usa.

The empty headed money bag in typical PDP style spent money like it was going out of fashion to secure election victory, he manipulated the poor and ignorant with wads of dollars&naira, hundreds of thousands of packaged rice, and gifts to get their votes. If he is not reined now, the empty drug lord will be gunning for the number 1 position in Ogun state. He is Fayose's right hand man, and was instrumental to fayose's rice project victory in ekiti.

I am not surprised about the exploit of the Yoruba General, history of yorubas in getting breakthrough in complex warfare abounds.

Even, the only victory by Biafra in the Nigerian civil war through capture of the midwest was by a Yoruba man who was recruited from captivity. Gowon also recruited a yoruba man from captivity to serve as his vice president during the war.

The man is an idiiot, Lack of term limit is one of the biggest reasons why there are lots of sit tight irresponsible leaders in many African countries , in actual fact, no country should have a constitution not indicating term limit of two terms. Burundi is now looking like it will go back in to the yesteryears of wars and coup, because the president wants to go for third term unconstitutionally.

Systems and institutions not individual.

Lagos saves 15% of its monthly igr, it is from this , it service its bonds, it currently has over 100 billion in that account, meanwhile Lagos debt is like 150 billion naira. No cause for alarm about Lagos debts.

They should give birth to the babies, and they can be offered for adoption on request of the mothers

Like play Like play, Fayose don spend 8 months as governor, wetin he don commission sef ? ok, which major project has he embarked on? ok ooooo , he don use like 20% of his tenure sha

A thread like this exposes the uncommon braggadocio of akpabio. Lagos and Akwaibom has about the same annual budget, but Akpabio has a richer capital expenditure budget than Fashola, He claims to allocate 80% of his budget on Capital Projects, but when it is time to show these projects, the project rack is close to empty, Akpabio only dusts the likes of Seriake Dickson of bayelsa. In this WWW world, no one needs to be in Akwa ibom to see projects, just like you dont need to be in Lagos to be aware of Lagos state projects. I can bet this thread has even made some living in Lagos to be more aware of Lagos state projects, even though they have always lived in Lagos.

Ibos and persecution complex.

That is why a wicked part of me wants ibo to get biafra, the epic disaster in waiting is better imagined. .

I laugh in Biafra.

Ogun will have no cause to worry about Federal allocation in less than 4 years from now, that is heartening news.

A lot happens wihin that eastern axix that stays unreported, i learnt Obiano now tackles kidnapping in Anambra by demolishing buildings of kidnap kingpins, and many buildings have been brought down.

soe:
Lol

So it took him 7days to debunk the allegation.

Anyway, i have yabbed him already.

And like i said before, it is not about how many votes the yorubas gave to buhari, but how many votes they denied Jonathan.

Take the 1.8 million votes given to Buhari by southwest and add it to Gej's votes..what will you get?

Buhari: 15.4million - 1.8million = 13.6million
Jonathan: 12.4 milion + 1.8million = 14.2 million

So do you see what the Yorubas did for Buhari?

Anyone saying Yorubas didn't help Buhari as much as the North did should not be referred to as a fool cos that will be unfair to him

A fool is someone who has refused to use his brain.

You cannot call a brainless fellow a fool...i mean... It's just not available noni

It was actually 2.4 million votes from SW to buhari