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devour129: What humans can do for money and power.

donchris369: The question begets for answer " is amaechi on his own? " is this not sule lamido the governor of jigawa state who is one of the PDP governors who have been rebelling with their party and romancing the APC as evidenced in the NGF election. Hmmmm! Choi! Politics too bad oo. All the PDP governors are now clearly getting the message and signals as amaechi is battling for survival. Choi! Even tinubu go leave amaechi run when the heat gets unbearable. Choi!

Sincere 9gerian: I see some people are trying to raise the DEAD here. The last time such miracle was recorded was about 2,000yrs ago when Lazarus was raised from the DEAD. Any chance of that happening again? No chance. APC is DEAD and buried.

Sincere 9gerian: I see some people are trying to raise the DEAD here. The last time such miracle was recorded was about 2,000yrs ago when Lazarus was raised from the DEAD. Any chance of that happening again? No chance. APC is DEAD and buried.

egift: After this meeting, 5 days later - Rivers State is becoming a war zone. All hail the silent Militant.

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OPEC to lose market share in 2014 as rivals pump more
Wed, Jul 10 06:51 AM EDT
LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - OPEC's share of the world market willshrink in 2014 as rising supply of U.S. shale oil gives the exporter group little comfort from the fastest growth in world demand in four years.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast in a monthly report that demand for its oil in 2014 would average29.61 million barrels per day (bpd), down 250,000 bpd from 2013, as an increase in supply outside the group outstrips an expansion in world demand.
The report points to a looming supply surplus next year should it keep pumping oil at present levels. The 12-member group has a target to produce 30 million bpd and in June, it produced 380,000bpd more than the target.
"This would imply a further build in global crude inventories, which currently stand at high levels," OPEC said in reference to the market outlook for next year. (Reporting by Alex Lawler; editing by Jason Neely).

CFCfan: ^^
The aerotropolis will have those things in place.

Billionaires: State of Emergency should be imposed on Rivers State and Amaechi sacked immediately.

The military should take over for the sake of peace while EFCC investigates Amaechi and Representatives, all of them.

Billionaires: That is what happens when a Governor can not manage his own state, he stubbornly disobeyed the PDP leadership in his state and was suspended alongside some state house of assembly members. So, apparently, PDP can not help him with this. He can no longer manage his own state but he is thinking about managing Abuja. This is just a prove that pride goes before a fall. I can assure you, that since PDP suspended the other members, those 5 can legitimately impeach the government, cos I am very sure that the impeachment must have been communicated to the State chapter of PDP before it was authorized and the court will always respect the decision of the PDP State Chapter. Amaechi needs to kneel down and beg, cos he made so many strategic enemies, from his own cousin he uprooted to his former allies. Pride goes, fall comes! Hahahahahahaha

saxywale: I don't know how long it would take a tanker to navigate the high seas all the way from Nigeria to China. By the time we factor the distance and the fact that the Chinese would have to leave other oil producers in Europe and the middle east to come all the way to Africa. They would want our oil for a dirt cheap price.

Despite criticisms from some quarters, the Zamfara State government will go ahead with its plan to providearms for men of the state’s vigilance groups because itis part of Governor Yari Abubakar’s administration move to improve security at the grass roots.

Key officials of the state government, who spoke with LEADERSHIP Weekend on the development, said that the arms had been bought and were in the custody of the state police command.

Governor Yari had, during his recent visit to Kizara village where 60 people were killed by gunmen, disclosed that his administration had procured firearms for distribution to the vigilance groups across the state for self-defence and to check incessant attacks by gunmen.

Already, some members of the National Assembly and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have kicked against the move and appealed to the state government to tread softly.

Yari had said that the firearms had been purchased with collaboration of the security agencies and were inthe custody of the state police command for the federal government to issue a permit to that effect.

When asked whether the state government would ignore the opposition to the plan and go ahead with its implementation, the special adviser to the governor onmedia and information technology, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi Tsafe, yesterday said that “the issue is with the police and the state government will not say anything again until the process of acquiring the permit is accomplished”.

Tsafe said any further information on the issue should be sought from the state police command, which is in custody of the arms.

But a senior official of the state government who sought anonymity told LEADERSHIP Weekend that the purchase of the firearms had been done and they were awaiting “distribution to some trusted members of the vigilance groups across the state”.

The exercise will be handled by a highly placed security officer,” he said, adding that “the project was initiated with the collaboration and consent of security agents”.

The official stated that, apart from Zamfara State, “there are some states which legislatures are currentlydeliberating on the issue with a view to making a law backing similar projects”. The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is currently working on how to come up with a common decision on the issue, he stated.

“I don’t want to make an issue out of this,” he said. “This has been the practice in some parts of this country, particularly when one looks at the situation in the Niger Delta. Who arms the militants in that area who are also civilians?”

The state commissioner of police, Mr Akila Usman Gwary, did not respond to enquiries on the position of the police on the matter. Phone calls and text messages sent to him were not replied.

The speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Sanusi Garba Rikiji, could not be reached for clarification on any resolution or law passed by the legislature backing the purchase and distribution of firearms to the vigilance groups, but a member of the legislature confirmed that the Assembly was yet to deliberate on the matter.
Similar attempts to get the police high command to comment on the Zamfara incident failed. The force spokesman, CSP Frank Mba, did not respond to repeated requests on the police’s stand on the issue atthe time of filing this report.

Although he promised to make an official statement on the statement credited to the Zamfara State governor, he did not do so by press time.

But senior police officers told LEADERSHIP Weekend under condition of anonymity that the proliferation of guns in the country had become a worrisome trend, especially against the backdrop of wanton killings of innocent Nigerians as well as security agents. They averred that the current wave of insurgency might not end unless the government blocked all avenues of illegal arms entering the country.

One of the officers disclosed that police measures aimed at mopping up arms and wresting them from the wrong hands had not arrested the situation. According to him, on the contrary, almost on a daily basis, guns continue to find their way into the hands of criminals.

The officer revealed that, at present, state governors are in the practice of procuring arms for private individuals who they claimed are helping to maintain law and order in their states. He affirmed that the caseof the Zamfara State governor was not the first of its kind, saying that “they governors) are doing it secretly”.
The officers were all in agreement that statistics had shown that the guns in private hands far outnumber those with the security agents.

engrfcuksmtin: Your head dey there, Smart has not done anything spectacular in his constituency apart from the borehole project he did when he was seeking for election in his first term. That guy don't give a damn about his people. A visit to his constituency will shed more light on my point. To all the Kogi people making noise here; Kogi is underdeveloped as a result of bad governance, governance in Kogi is governance of share the money. Yes the state is endowed with natural resources but there is nothing to show for it. The capital city Lokoja is having poor infrastructure and amenities (roads, health services, water)

Dis Guy: Y'ALL BETTER START LEARNING CHINESE!!! LOL

and teach your children mandarin cos when these people come for their money eh

ACCRA, Ghana, June 7 (UPI) --Ghanaian authorities have arrested 168 Chinese for illegal gold mining while Gabon plans to recover assets from a subsidiary of Chinese oil giant Sinopec amid a growing wave of resentment across Africa against Beijing's efforts to lock up vital resources.
In March, Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria's central bank governor, spoke out against Chinese exploitation of Africa and its vast resources and warned that Africa "is opening itself up to a new form of imperialism."
In a scathing commentary for The Financial Times, he cautioned: "China takes from us primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism."
Trade between China and Africa was worth more than $200 billion in 2012, 20 times what it was in 2000 when Beijing initiated a policy of "accelerated engagement" with the continent for access to its oil and gas, copper, gold and many other mineral resources that China needs to sustain its economic power.
The actions by Ghana and Gabon are emblematic of the turnaround in the relationship that many African states are undergoing these days despite the extensive infrastructure projects Beijing had undertaken, using its vast cash resources.
China's new president, Xi Jinping, toured Africa in March, underlining the continent's strategic importance to Beijing in its relentless drive to acquire vital resources in return for massive investment.
He declared in Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, where he inaugurated the $10 billion Bagamoyo port project designed as a hub for trade between East Africa and Asia, that Beijing will make good on a 2012 pledge to provide $20 billion in loans in three years for African infrastructure development, agriculture and business.
Oil and coal accounted for half of China's imports from Africa in 2012, minerals and other raw materials made up most of the rest.
However, one of the main purposes of Xi's African tour, his first foreign trip as president, was to change the growing perception across Africa that China is just another imperial power exploiting the continent for its labor and resources.
But, the bottom line is resources, supply routes and maritime security -- in the Indian Ocean, and the chokepoint Malacca Strait through Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia -- were the central drivers of Xi's tour.
"China's economic growth, even if it is slowing, still consumes vast amounts of imported raw materials and energy," the U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor observed.
"Long gone are the days when China could be self-sufficient, and even its agriculture is reaching the limits of supplying food to its vast population.
"This presents a strategic dilemma for Beijing, which must keep China's economy active and growing in order to maintain social stability and to provide work, income and materials to China's citizens.
"The economic activity has made China ever more dependent on overseas-sourced raw materials as well as markets," Stratfor noted.
China has long boasted of its role as a supporter of African efforts to throw off Western colonialism. But now many Africans are starting to view China as just one more foreign exploiter.
Beijing, through the China Export-Import Bank, the financing arm of Chinese projects in Africa, is making huge investments in the oil, mining and construction sectors.
This concessional financing, combining loans and grants, has mainly targeted commercially driven projects in more than 40 countries in Africa, with Ethiopia, Angola, Sudan and Nigeria -- the last three key oil suppliers to Beijing -- being the key beneficiaries.
But anti-Chinese sentiment has been building for some time. In August 2012, striking Zambian coal miners killed a Chinese supervisor in a wage dispute.
The arrests in Ghana were the latest crackdown by authorities. Some 120 illegal Chinese miners -- there are 10,000 in the West African state -- were rounded up in March.
"Illegal mining in Ghana has assumed alarming proportions," the Ministry of Natural Resources said. "Foreign nationals, especially the Chinese, have made the problems a lot worse.
"They have access to huge funds which they've been using to bring in enormous numbers of excavators, which can destroy largeareas of forest in just one day."
Gabon's move against Sinopec, which comes as the country prepares to license offshore oil exploration, is part of its drive to wring better terms from foreign multinationals and clamp down onlarge-scale tax evasion, with China a primary target.

Ikeja -The Chairman, Committee on Lands and Housing, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Bayo Osinowo, on Thursday said that more than 60 per cent of the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) in the state were fake.
Osinowo said this during a plenary session of the assembly.
He said that the state’s Properties Protection Bill, 2013, which had scaled through the second reading, would correct the anomaly, if passed into law.
The chairman said that the proposed law would also check other wrongdoings associated with landed property ownership and sale in the state.
“In Lagos State, land is our major resource; therefore, nothing will be too much to protect it,“ he said.
Mr Sanai Agunbiade, Chairman of the House Committee on Human Rights and Public Petitions, said that the bill would take care of agents who took landed property forcefully.
“The bill would prevent `Omo-onile` (indigenes) from exploiting potential buyers before or during construction work, “ he said.
According to Agunbiade, the proposed law would prevent anyone who, without lawful authority, uses violence to secure entry into any landed property.
Mr Mudasiru Obasa (ACN-Agege I) suggested establishment of a special court to try persons who would contravene the provisions of the proposed law.
He noted that the bill recommended three years imprisonment or N300, 000 fine for offenders.
The private member bill has been committed to the House Committee on Lands and Housing as well as the Committee on Human Rights and Public Petitions.
The committees are expected to submit a report on the bill within a month. (NAN).

idupaul: The article does not say where he raised over 600million naira from to buy the donations .. I have added his constituency allowance for 8 years and it no where near the 600m , Abi senator don benefit from oilblock allocation and sale?

Published: June 7, 2013 at 3:34 PM
ACCRA, Ghana, June 7 (UPI) --Ghanaian authorities have arrested 168 Chinese for illegal gold mining while Gabon plans to recover assets from a subsidiary of Chinese oil giant Sinopec amid a growing wave of resentment across Africa against Beijing's efforts to lock up vital resources.
In March, Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria's central bank governor, spoke out against Chinese exploitation of Africa and its vast resources and warned that Africa "is opening itself up to a new form of imperialism."
In a scathing commentary for The Financial Times, he cautioned: "China takes from us primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism."
Trade between China and Africa was worth more than $200 billion in 2012, 20 times what it was in 2000 when Beijing initiated a policy of "accelerated engagement" with the continent for access to its oil and gas, copper, gold and many other mineral resources that China needs to sustain its economic power.
The actions by Ghana and Gabon are emblematic of the turnaround in the relationship that many African states are undergoing these days despite the extensive infrastructure projects Beijing had undertaken, using its vast cash resources.
China's new president, Xi Jinping, toured Africa in March, underlining the continent's strategic importance to Beijing in its relentless drive to acquire vital resources in return for massive investment.
He declared in Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania, where he inaugurated the $10 billion Bagamoyo port project designed as a hub for trade between East Africa and Asia, that Beijing will make good on a 2012 pledge to provide $20 billion in loans in three years for African infrastructure development, agriculture and business.
Oil and coal accounted for half of China's imports from Africa in 2012, minerals and other raw materials made up most of the rest.
However, one of the main purposes of Xi's African tour, his first foreign trip as president, was to change the growing perception across Africa that China is just another imperial power exploiting the continent for its labor and resources.
But, the bottom line is resources, supply routes and maritime security -- in the Indian Ocean, and the chokepoint Malacca Strait through Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia -- were the central drivers of Xi's tour.
"China's economic growth, even if it is slowing, still consumes vast amounts of imported raw materials and energy," the U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor observed.
"Long gone are the days when China could be self-sufficient, and even its agriculture is reaching the limits of supplying food to its vast population.
"This presents a strategic dilemma for Beijing, which must keep China's economy active and growing in order to maintain social stability and to provide work, income and materials to China's citizens.
"The economic activity has made China ever more dependent on overseas-sourced raw materials as well as markets," Stratfor noted.
China has long boasted of its role as a supporter of African efforts to throw off Western colonialism. But now many Africans are starting to view China as just one more foreign exploiter.
Beijing, through the China Export-Import Bank, the financing arm of Chinese projects in Africa, is making huge investments in the oil, mining and construction sectors.
This concessional financing, combining loans and grants, has mainly targeted commercially driven projects in more than 40 countries in Africa, with Ethiopia, Angola, Sudan and Nigeria -- the last three key oil suppliers to Beijing -- being the key beneficiaries.
But anti-Chinese sentiment has been building for some time. In August 2012, striking Zambian coal miners killed a Chinese supervisor in a wage dispute.
The arrests in Ghana were the latest crackdown by authorities. Some 120 illegal Chinese miners -- there are 10,000 in the West African state -- were rounded up in March.
"Illegal mining in Ghana has assumed alarming proportions," the Ministry of Natural Resources said. "Foreign nationals, especially the Chinese, have made the problems a lot worse.
"They have access to huge funds which they've been using to bring in enormous numbers of excavators, which can destroy largeareas of forest in just one day."
Gabon's move against Sinopec, which comes as the country prepares to license offshore oil exploration, is part of its drive to wring better terms from foreign multinationals and clamp down onlarge-scale tax evasion, with China a primary target.

The party leaders, led by the state party chairman, Felix Obuah, had a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan and also apologised to the president for the governor’s actions, which they described as ‘shameful.’