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This minster of darkness can lie for Africa

Useless propaganda government
Useless rocket scientist

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the 10,000 megawatts target given by the Buhari administration, needed to supply the country with adequate electricity by the end of 2019 is achievable.



He stated that the public is not bothered about how much energy is gotten on the grid but how accessible energy is.

Speaking as a guest on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Mr Fashola said that “Sometimes when we sustain energy over 4,000 or 5,000 the feedback I get suggests to me that if we added a little more, we might as well be getting a little closer, but we must continue to work harder.

Comparing Electricity Distributed In 2015 And 2016

Mr Fashola noted that on May 29, 2015, the amount of power available on the grid was 2,690 megawatts while on May 29, 2017, the amount was 4,014 megawatts.



He also added that in February 2016 the power grew to 5,074 megawatts

Mr Fashola attributed the drop in power due to attacks on the pipeline, “We have had 16 consecutive attacks on the pipeline since we grew to 5,074 megawatts.

He also noted that some of these damages done to the pipeline that supplies electricity are poor metering from the estimation of electricity consumers, resulting from tariff rates.

He also added that the government alone can not do all the work but enjoined the private sector to assist the government in ensuring the target is met.
http://www.channelstv.com/2017/05/31/10000-megawatts-2019-still-achievable-fashola/

And in Nigeria people are still electing their ancestors as president and the vegetable is spending our money in England to wake up

Useless people

Useless government

They will rather vote for a dying hausa man than this eminently qualified individual

Useless people

When Ekweremmadu said this some heediots abused him

Useless lying propaganda government

A waste of time and space

Low energy..........sad

All this for arsenal

Since when is the holding of umbrella a sign of anything

La click la bend

Some people don't have ambition in life

Jfrankination:
e go also clear virus?

Yeah but also everything on your phone storage

Jfrankination:
haw can i format android manually abeq...virus don kill.mhe

Go to settings

Then click on back up and reset

You will see factory reset

Since when is it a sin to keep cash in your house

Useless government and their badly directed action movie

• Transparency accuses them of creating fake contracts
• Says officers launder proceeds in U.K., U.S.,defence faults report

While the Federal Government and the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East count their losses, some military officials are profiting from the crisis.

This was the position of Transparency International as it released a report on the crisis. But the defence headquarters yesterday strongly dismissed the report as false and that it was meant to weaken the fight against terrorism.

“Corrupt military officials have been able to benefit from the conflict through the creation of fake defence contracts, the proceeds of which are often laundered abroad in the United Kingdom (UK), United States (U.S.) and elsewhere,” TI declared.


The report alleges that corruption in the military is weakening the country’s efforts to battle Boko Haram.
It underlines the difficulty of achieving two key campaign promises of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015: tackling endemic corruption and defeating the insurgency that has claimed over 20,000 lives and displaced millions.

The allegations of misappropriation of funds meant for equipping the military have persistently trailed the battle against Boko Haram. Thus, the dismissal of the report by the military as false should not stop the government from investigating the allegations of corruption.

TI noted that last year, the vice president said around $15 billion had been stolen from the public purse under the previous government through fraudulent arms procurement deals.

It said this had left the military “without vital equipment, insufficiently trained, low in morale and under-resourced.”

“This has crippled the Nigerian military in fighting an aggressive ideologically inspired enemy such as Boko Haram,” the watchdog added, pointing to cases of soldiers taking on the militants without ammunition or fuel.

Reacting to the allegation, Defence spokesman, Brig-Gen. John Enenche, at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, said the TI was seeking to block the support Nigeria is getting in the war against terrorism by concerned countries. He said the leadership of the Armed Forces of Nigeria had done a lot to train, boost troops morale and procure vital equipment through due process, for the North East operations against Boko Haram in particular and other operations.

Enenche noted that the military had already been commended by the United Nations (UN) on the war against corruption, adding that it was this good image that the TI was working hard to destroy.

The Defence spokesman said: “The attention of Defence Headquarters has been drawn to an inciting corruption allegation against military officials, by Transparency International . Let me start by making it clear that this sweeping allegation is false with the following clarifications:

“The present leadership of the Armed Forces of Nigeria has done a lot to train, boost troops morale and procure vital equipment through due process, for the North East operations against Boko Haram in particular and other operations.

“The Defence Headquarters, Army, Navy and Air Force headquarters have established procurement branches that are guided by the rules and regulations of the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP). The Ministry of Defence deals directly with states and governments on defence equipment procurement without using contractors or vendors any longer.”

Enenche said a sweeping statement of corruption against military officials at this time was rather disheartening. “More so that the Nigerian military was on 22 March 2017 credited by the U.S. as having done very well to fight insurgency and extremism among others, with advice to other countries to learn from Nigeria. That such an allegation is coming at the peak of consistent successes being recorded at our areas of operational engagements, the North East in particular, it must be treated with utmost suspicion,” the Defence spokesman said.

Enenche assured the general public that there was no calculated, deliberate or institutionalised corruption in any form within the military, stressing that the Armed Forces of Nigeria remained focused and committed to providing security to lives and property, and totally loyal and subordinated to the Commander-in- Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, the Defence Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, has said that the Federal Government has so far freed more than 4,000 persons held hostage by Boko Haram insurgents.

In a keynote address at a two-day retreat organised by the ministry in Jos, Plateau State yesterday, Dan-Ali said the figure included 106 Chibok girls who were abducted in 2014.

The retreat, holding at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), has the theme: “Enhancing civil-military relations, a panacea for promoting security and national development.”

He said, however, that more needed to be done to consolidate on the efforts to sustain the peace and security in the region. “For more to be achieved, the military components of the ministry and the civilians must work hard, understand each other and have mutual respect and trust,” he said.

According to him, the combined efforts of members of the armed forces have successfully degraded the Boko Haram insurgents, making it difficult for members to regroup and carry out organised attacks.


Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, described the retreat, targeted at enhancing civil-military relationship, as “apt and of great significance.”
Lalong said that Plateau had had its share of security challenges and had seen how collaborations between the military and civilians had ensured a quick resolution of internal conflicts.

The governor called for more bridges of understanding between the military and civilians, saying that such unity was key to an effective discharge of constitutional duties.
https://m.guardian.ng/news/how-military-officials-benefit-from-fight-against-boko-haram/

Niran Ikuomola, the permanent secretary of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board, who was kidnapped along with his driver on Sunday evening has regained his freedom according to family sources.


The medical doctor was abducted by unknown assailants while driving along the Lokoja-Abuja expressway for a meeting in Abuja.

It not known how much the kidnappers were paid in ransom to get Dr. Ikuomola released.


http://saharareporters.com/2017/05/19/kidnapped-ondo-state-state-permanent-secretary-released

So that it would be re looted . Useless government

The useless governors wheel barrow is working

The bastard even pasted his name on it

Idiots celebrating failure

IdeyFindWife:
All these pot-bellied polithiefcians giving people the run-around with their Pentium2 brains; i dunno why Nigerian youths are having such a hard time seeing through them.

Wheel barrows. A f00l who should be looking at leaving a legacy of catalyzing the growth of complete Agricultural value-chain framework set-ups after his tenure.

Come 2019 now, the same poverty-stricken f00lish people will still vote him in...hopeless governor.

If the Heediot cannot save his people from Fulani herdsmen how can grow the agricultural or any sector

He wants them to use the wheel barrow to transport those Fulani herdsmen murdered

This Heediot is the worst governor at the moment

And we wonder why the west are better than us

So many strange characters on this forum

Andy ubah is the worst thing to ever happen to anambra

BREAKING: Courts frees ex-PDP governor Aliyu on bail Premium Times is reporting that a High Court in Minna has granted bail to former Niger state governor Babangida Aliyu. According to the report, his former Chief of Staff Umar Nasko was also granted bail. The two men are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged corrupt practices while in government. Babangida Aliyu was released on bail by a court in Minna The two were remanded in prison custody by the court on April 25 after they were docked by the EFCC. Nasko was also the Niger State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015. Just minutes before reports of their release emerged, former aviation minister and PDP chieftain Femi Fani-Kayode demanded their freedom as well as that of Sambo Dasuki.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/1102602-breaking-courts-frees-pdp-governor-aliyu-bail.html

This deadwood should know that Nigeria is bigger than him and resign


African leaders and their die in power mentality

This deadwood should know that Nigeria is bigger than him and resign

This is one of the angels and saints bubu took 6 months to assemble

The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East has indicted the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, for mismanagement.

The investigative panel specifically asked relevant agencies to prosecute the suspended SGF for allegedly awarding contracts worth N500m, through the Presidential Initiative on North-East, a rehabilitation programme under his office, to a company in which he had interests.

This was part of the recommendations in the final report by the panel, which was laid before the Senate by its Chairman, Senator Shehu Sani, at the plenary on Wednesday.

The report was later sighted by our correspondent.

In the final report, the panel recommended that “all resources that have been misapplied or stolen by public officials should be retrieved and anybody found culpable of contravening any of the provisions of the Public Procurement Act 2007 and the Federal Government Financial Rules and Regulations, pertaining to the award of these contracts, should be duly prosecuted by the relevant authorities.

“That the banks transactions of Rholavision Engineering Limited and the confirmation by (the) Central Bank of Nigeria that the Bank Verification Number of Babachir David Lawal is still the signatory to Rholavision Engineering Limited accounts and 13 other accounts, some with different names. The committee is of the opinion that Babachir David Lawal has contravened the provision of Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (As amended); the Public Procurement Act 2007 and breach the Oaths of Office as Secretary to the Government of the Federation and should be prosecuted by the relevant authorities; and

“That the committee also recommends further investigation by relevant agencies of government on why contract-benefitting companies paid over N500m into Rholavision Engineering Limited, a company in which Babachir David Lawal has interest.”

The panel also stated that since all the contracts awarded by PINE were done under the principle of emergency situation, PINE should forward a detailed report of all contracts awarded by it to the Bureau of Public Procurement in accordance with Section 43 (iv) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007.

It added that since it was observed that there was no bill of quantities on most of the contracts awarded by PINE under the emergency situation, the BPP should undertake a revaluation of all such contracts to recover any proceeds from over-inflated contracts.

The panel further recommended that the relevant agencies should ensure that contracts, partially executed but fully paid for, must be completed by the concerned contractors or be asked to refund the equivalent money of outstanding jobs to the government treasury.

The Senate had earlier called for Lawal’s resignation, probe and prosecution based on the interim report by the committee, which was released on December 14, 2016.

The lawmakers specifically called on security and anti-graft agencies to arrest and prosecute Lawal for allegedly owning and being a signatory to one of the companies awarded contracts in the rehabilitation of the North-East.

Lawal had last Thursday failed to appear before the committee on his third invitation.

The lawmakers had said the non-appearance of the former SGF would not stop the committee from presenting its final report on its probe into the alleged mismanagement of funds meant for the rehabilitation of the geopolitical zone.

The former SGF had been re-invited by the committee to answer questions on his role in the alleged mismanagement of funds by the PINE under his watch.

Lawal, who was suspended over his indictment by the interim report of the Senate panel two weeks ago, had asked the lawmakers, on the second invitation to him, to fix another date for his appearance before the committee.

The embattled SGF, however, failed to show up on Thursday, a development that angered members of the panel.
http://punchng.com/grass-cutting-scandal-senate-panel-indicts-suspended-sgf-recommends-prosecution/

Frustration might kill this afonja

Nairaland pls take note of this man and his mental state