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wow these kleptomaniacs, how will you build a refinery without any oil. They wanted to thief ND oil for the refinery as usual but thank God the PIB has come to the rescue. Perhaps Fashola should use the excess water from the Eko Atlantic to run the refinery.

The proposed 300,000 barrel per day
Greenfield Lekki Refinery located in
Lagos may remain in the realm of
wishful thinking of the Lagos State
government and the stakeholders if
the alleged flaws in the new Petroleum
Industry Bill (PIB) are not immediately
addressed.
Some of the investors told LEADERSHIP
Sunday in Lagos that they backed out
of the project because of some of the
contentious clauses in the PIB before
the National Assembly. “The
International Oil Companies (IOCs)
driving the Lekki Refinery are
reluctant to risk their money in the
project because of some provisions in
the PIB. The bill is not in our interest.
We want the status quo to be
maintained as in pre-PIB Joint Venture
Agreement with the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and
the Lagos State government,” said one
of them. “Right now, I must tell you
that investors are worried that the
passing of the PIB in its present form
will automatically reverse the earlier
agreements.
The provisions of the PIB cede too
much power to the government at the
expense of the investors. There is also
this feeling among the investors that
when the PIB is eventually passed the
host communities’ equity participation
in the upstream oil and gas industry
will be increased. The 8 per cent the
IOCs think is right going but the PIB
will increase it to 10 per cent.”
He added that these facts, coupled
with frequent changes in the top
management of the NNPC by the
federal government, had made
sourcing of funds for the $8 billion
project difficult.
LEADERSHIP Sunday’s visit to the Lekki
Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), the proposed
site of the refinery, showed that the
envisaged 2017 streaming date might
not be realised as nothing was on the
ground to demonstrate the seriousness
of the investors to deliver the project.
It was observed that, since the signing
of the agreement between the Lagos
State government and the NNPC in
collaboration with a consortium of
Chinese investors known as ChinaState
last year for the establishment of the
refinery under a public-private
partnership (PPP) arrangement,
nothing tangible had been done.
If the stakeholders had gone ahead
with the construction of the refinery as
planned, it would have, in addition to
the above crude output, produced
500,000 metric tonnes of liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) per annum.
Under the arrangement, the Chinese
are expected to provide 80 per cent of
the funds, leaving 20 per cent to the
NNPC. The Lagos State government
will, in addition to providing the land
for the project, construct
infrastructure such as road to the site
and electricity.
Optimistic that the partnership would
work, Governor Babatunde Fashola,
who recently received a delegation of
the investors led by the group
executive director, engineering and
technology of the NNPC, Billy Agha,
said the state was set for the multi-
billion-naira refinery
The governor said the project was
coming at the most opportune time,
adding that the government did not
foresee any hurdle in the project with
the involvement of the Chinese
investors because the state was
already partnering with another group
of Chinese investors on the
development of the first phase of the
LFTZ.
The NNPC management hopes that the
Lekki refinery, when completed, will
provide over 7,000 jobs for both skilled
and unskilled labour.

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/48482/2013/02/24/chinese_company_may_abandon_8bn_lagos_refinery_project.html

This is sad. These stories keep repeating itself, where are the families, the churches and mosques (millions in lagos), the oba, the illajes, the society. As a feminist and as a human I totally condemn this act from this young man, request he faces life in prison and ask our elders and society to stand up against this resident evil.

34-year old man, Kehinde Paul Layode,
has been arraigned before a family court
in Ikeja for allegedly defiling a three-year
old girl (name withheld).
The incident, which happened at 3/5, John
Crescent, Igando, Lagos,wouthwest
Nigeria, was reported at the Igando Police
Station.
The accused, if found guilty, risks spending
a minimum of five years in jail under the
Criminal Laws of Lagos State.
According to the girl’s mother (name
withheld) who spoke with P.M.NEWS
correspondents, Kehinde was one of her
neighbours and she left her daughter in
his custody to get drugs for the girl when
the man allegedly took advantage of her.
“I was going to make my hair in the salon
when I discovered that my daughter’s
temperature was high and I told
Kehinde’s wife to help me take care of
her. But she asked me to leave her with
her husband since she also wanted to
make her hair and that we should go to
the salon together.”
“It wasn’t up to ten minutes after I went
to get the drugs for her that I returned to
the house and asked Kenny (Kehinde) to
open the door but he didn’t. Instead, he
told me that the girl was sleeping, that I
shouldn’t bother myself about her. Then I
asked him to at least open the door for
me to see my girl and he said that he was
in the bathroom.”
The girl’s mother said she was shocked
when the door was eventually opened
and she discovered that the girl had been
defiled.
“I insisted that he opened the door. At
this point, my daughter was lying down on
the bed but was not sleeping. I asked
him why he told a lie but he did not
respond. I only observed that my girl was
looking rather disturbed.
“When I opened her pant out of suspicion
to check her, I saw sperm in between her
thighs. I got really mad at him and asked
him what happened but he went really
wild and told me that he did not do
anything. ‘How could I have raped her?’
he asked me and when neighbours came
around, they were also as surprised as I
was,” she narrated.
The doctor’s report confirmed that the
girl was defiled following the tests carried
out on her.
It was also alleged that the accused had
pleaded with the family to settle out of
court but the girl’s family insisted that
they wanted justice to prevail.
When the matter was initially taken to
the magistrate’s court, he pleaded not
guilty and was granted bail in the sum of
N250, 000 with a surety and the matter
was adjourned till Friday, 22 February,
2013.
However, the matter was tranferred to
the family court. The court did not sit on
22 February and the matter was
adjourned till 8 April, 2013.
—Ayodeji Dedeigbo & Damilare Okunola

Alfamann: This sounds like an Yoruba proverb. I am beginning to doubt whether you are really from nnewi or an impostor. Which igbo proverb says "cut your ear"?

saintohia: ^^^^^

Yeah, though not completely correct,

That's the only concern I've on Alex101 being Eze Igbo NL, his time of response.

There are situations that time of response would save more than a million.

If not always, he would have delegates that could follow things through for him, else it would certainly bring us back to Odumchi's scenario.


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yes, hopefully he would appoint a cabinet for that. The thing is that odumchi did not appoint any cabinet and he was not doing anything himself at all so that should not worry you.

#Alex101,2013

PointB: Odumchi's resignation is effective only after a new Eze has been appointed. That much he said in his resignation notice. I personally don't want to appoint anyone, as I am also an appointed official. As per the constitution, only the Eze and his cabinet should appoint. Hence, either Odumchi or Ogugua should do the appointment.

what balderdash! He resigned. Its not like his tenure ended. Not like he said he would tender his resignation after the election like Pope did. He ceased from having any powers the moment he tendered his resignation. The remaining electoral tribunal memberds should meet and appoint someone to replace the vacant position or since you said their is an ezenwanyi, she should do that.

Symphony007: The personification of pure idiocy called the lagos state government is upgrading lagos to a mega city so lagosians should also change their mentality to a mega status...what's market? Start shopping in malls!! Fashola's lagos is not for poor men o, if you can't meet up return to your home state.

what a fool you are. So where will the indigenous Lagos poor people numbering millions return to? to your house? fool

#Alex2013

Alfamann: Here we go again. Eze Odumchi the second. He has not even been elected first and he has already started apologising for absences.

its not about being on nairaland 24/7. its about making an impact whatever minutes you are on nairaland afterall odumchi is a Mod on nairaland, he stays on nairaland 24/7 but with 0 impact on his ezeship.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]May I humbly recommend that those of you hard headed, old fashioned, and ignorant posters such as Syncan, who post only in Igbo, that they terminate this behavior ASAP. This behavior alienates many Igbo youths who were born abroad or outside of the East and thus unable to read or write Igbo. These people are nonetheless as Igbo as Ojukwu himself.

One of the signs of political maturity is the inclusion of all constituents in all matters Igbo and ensuring that no one is disenfranchised. Mind you, these youths who are being alienated by the old coots who continue to post in Igbo without any interpretation, are the Igbo leaders of tomorrow.

Nuff said.[/quote]stfu

PointB: 9ja_I_hail, Ujchief, and Afam4ever please for your attention and speedy ruling.

*** I haven't seen Ujchief since the beginning of this election. If Eze Odumchi is reading, I urge him to wade in and appoint a replacement.

odumchi has resigned. His resignation has been accepted. He lacks the locus standi to appoint anyone. The electoral committee should appoint a replacement and handle the issue by themselves. Why do you always work without any drop of professionalism?

The problem is that Fashola abandoned governance for tribal war. I dare him to shut down Alaba intl market so he can be shut down from govt house.

PointB: You are correct we have electoral body. The electoral body consist of the Electoral Commissioner and the Electoral tribunal. As I explained ealier to you, I am the current Electoral Commissioner. 9Ja_I_hail, Afamdever and Ujchief are members of the tribunal. As the Electoral Commisioner I have the mandate to take decisions such as disqualifying a candidate or not based on strength of evidence of breach of rule. But the Tribunal reserves the right to over rule or uphold my decissions.

If you noticed, I asked for either more evidence on okija's case or the petitioners should approach the tribunal.

Bottomline, I am not taking the decisions alone. By the way have you read the constitution. If you have not, kindly do so.

for you, more evidence is never enough, even if Okija announces he is not igbo today, you will need more evidence. Stop using this more evidence to divert attention. In any case where is the electoral tribunal we should report top when only one has been active since inception of this election. When someone asked you to recruit him to the tribunal, why did you refuse when you have shortage of active staff.

btw.... 3 members were appointed into the electoral team and only one is active?

berem: for where? It was when i got married i started speaking igbo. I hear and write igbo but i don't speak fluently back then .no be my fault na! lagos life don enter my head.thank God am now perfect. So don't be surprised i don't know nada about igbo history.

Hmmmm, Alhaji Harem somebody?

PointB: Umunna,
I have gone through the links provided, and must say that some of the comments ranged from myopic, to ignorance; some are distasteful and indeed promote disunity contrary to our objectives.

But we must also agree with Okija_juju that since we have punished him in the past for these infrations, it would amount to double jeopardy to punish him again for them. Certainly it would be unfair to punish someone twice for same offence.

I would therefore maintain that only offence commited after the last election with any of the candidates' known multiple ids will be admissible in this matter. The electoral team will conduct further background checks on all the top contestants. We are encouraged to help in this effort by providing information on them.

In the case of Okija (aka Mad Cow), only recent information from Nov 2012 to date will suffice. Until further information Okija remains in the run. Further appeal may be directed to the Electoral Tribunal who reserve the right to upturn my decision.

why are you taking these decisions by yourself? I thought we have an electoral panel/body/committee/whatever. why not take the matter to them to vote. We operate democracy here. You have made erroneous judgements in the past for us to trust you with another .