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Demdem: That White-papers and stories behind it exist is not in doubt however the abuse of it by the current govt is the main issue here. How come virtually all white papers (if at all it gets to that stage) never gets implemented? What logic is there putting in scare resources on a venture that u well know from the onset that u will thrash besides why even set up committees on every "gaddam" issue? what then is the function of ur aides and assistance?

Will like u to refer us to other govts in the world like u reffered earlier that operates on committee over committe over the original committee. that was the reason for that post of mine u qouted. WAITING !!!!

Are you entertaining the 'white paper' detraction of this silly hack? Do we not have examples of how serious Governments behave throughout the world to know that the expedited delivery of solutions, especially for critical sectors, has nothing to do with dubious excuses? What, for example, stops GEJ issuing directives demanding the immediate implementations of key and crucial solutions suggested? If you waste time entertaining yahoo-yahoo boys then they will waste your time with their utterances that show they shuttle around carrying out petty scams instead of noting how decent Nations are run worldwide.

Billyonaire: Hahahahah Red Eyed Old man, Gbawe the m/o/ro/n, if there was serious money to be made in Yahoo Yahoo, I would have been there. But I really doubt your mental agility in political terrain cos you dont even know any thing about Governments Chains of command. You Gbawe are a very big fool judged by your antecedent on Nairaland. I am an award winning personality with many of your types on my Payroll.

Delusions of grandeur mixed with lunacy What awards have you won you lying hack? Awards for stupidity? Deception? Whatever it is you fool yourself and others you do, I am sure you cannot even afford one pair of shoes my youngest child has in her wardrobe so stop this garbage about people on your imaginary payroll. You don't write like someone capable of being a boss to even a year old child. Suwegbe.

From how you talk here, I am 100% sure you are an absolutely pathetic wannabe only fit to be pitied. Lest you know it, real achievers do not brag. They have no need to.What they don't reveal about themselves is far, far greater than what insecure fools like you are eager to lie about regarding your so-called status.

Billyonaire: You are very predictable, I knew you will come raining insult as always. In sincerity, if there is 237 365 electricity, will you praise GEJ ? The answer is NO!, you will be afraid cos your jurisdiction of criticism will be zeroed. And how do you intend to measure the transparency in the Oil Sector ? The Answer is; You can not. But I can, cos am a hardworking Nigerian with tentacles in every sector that matters. Your life is negative blogging against Governments in Power. The day you will stop being anti-Government is when ACN wins Aso Rock, but i have sad news for you; The sad new is, It will never happen. If your motive is to change course of governance, then you got to do it from the inside. Join the winning team, be the power of effective change.

Sharrap. You lost the right to be taken seriously ages ago so spare me this nauseating fake show here. Show some backbone and stop the pathetic grovelling. Yahoo-yahoo clown. Don't you have some scam emails to compose? That billion you emptily obsess about will not make itself you know.

Demdem: Billygoat, did u just say the retardeen can go ahead to set up another committee over Ribadu's committee?

You mean Sillyonaire. Another pathetic yahoo-yahoo boy nursing plans of 'making it big'. Shame Nairalanders have to put up with his lies and appalling delusions of grandeur.

CyberG: Shoo...if SUFFER fit kill una make the thing HAMMER una joor! I and a LOT of Nigerians who don't even partake in daily sufferings in Nigeria have shouted and written enough but some compromised bastardos are always bent on supporting the government that doesn't give a damn! If your president doesn't give a damn, you don't give a damn for yourself and coming generation, then LET your sufferhead like hammers you to pieces: I don't give a damn!

My guy, 'Stockholm syndrome' is a terrible thing. Combined with the ethnic bias many Nigerians wear with pride, like a badge, then you get the aberrant utterances/conduct seen here daily.

Billyonaire: You have to leave the red-eyed old man called Gbawe to continue wasting his old age in delusion. Everyone has ignored him and he has lost steam here. Dont give him opportunity to insult you.

Oga, how far spending the imaginary billions your olodo imagination obsesses about yet your pathetic lack of ability and very poor reasoning will never allow you to acquire? Delusions of grandeur is the companion of epic failure. Clown.

[quote author=Adura_ngba]That was how this same fraudster opened his mouth and started a topic about how GEJ was frustrating the power reforms during the Manitoba issue until well discerning NLs put pepper in his butt hole and he cowed away like a snail bathed with salt water. this nonentity copies and paste anything that makes no sense all in the bid to be seen to be making sense and in the end disgracing himself. Mr. old fool.[/quote]You are not only semi-illiterate but a shameless liar also. Why don't you show where what you claimed happened? If anything, it was you, hiding behind another ID, and many others who ran away after superior argument about the 419 conduct of the hollow messiah you worship. Simply point us to what you claim or accept yourself to be a shameless liar.

[quote author=Adura_ngba]You old foool still have the mind to talk. I have told you my mind, you are one old man that needs his head shaved and paraded on the streets of Osun like a thief caught in the night. Agba iya.[/quote]First you pretend to be a woman. Now you have taken to deceiving yourself others are older than you are despite the fact age is not attached to posts made here. Whatever takes your fancy loser. I am 100 years and you are 18 if that will make your feel better about your pathetic inadequacies and wretched existence.

You are not bright enough to appreciate that you are only displaying classic behaviour of those who are failures, losers and insecure little men condemned to walk in the shadow of others. Failures in life behave exactly as you do. I.e seek to discredit others with lies and 'feel good' fabrications that make you feel better about your own inadequacies. Tell us why 2 weeks has turned into three months. Stop running from pillar to post. Mumu.

Demdem: Infact, now i appreciate the fact that the report was leaked before it was even submitted to the retardeen. Whoever did this should be given a national award. Welldone.

Had the report not been leaked to Reuters, then the usual 419 would have happened. Now sensible Nigerians can see the proffered solutions the ultra-corrupt GEJ is ignoring. It is not for nothing folks now round against GEJ home and abroad. Even his fellow leaders, flawed as they may be, see a disgrace to leadership with how GEJ is blatantly failing to take simple actions, for the betterment of his Nation, entirely within his powers and at his total discretion.

Omexonomy: Finnaly, b4 i go, all this ur insult in nairaland will not make fash a president. Take dat demdem that is found of calling people slowpoke Garrix2 musiwa and Gbawe every body is entitle to his own opinion on this forum so stop insulting people.

Sharrap. You deserve to be told off for the utter garbage you call "opinion".

[quote author=Adura_ngba]and to think you are one foolish old man who reels foul incentives on the internet. Speaks how hollow your brain is, and I wonder what kind of children your nasty mind would have produced. Your entire lineage are not only cretins, but fools, retar.ded and moronic in nature. Worthless old cargo. Your mates are out there making billions, you are here spreading falsehood and copying and pasting nonsense all over the internet, and thinking you are making sense. Yoruba people call people like you Adagba ma ni ironu.

I repeat what I said before, this is the second time the old cargo OP will start the same topic, you are just so stoopid. Go get a life, you fraudster.

Dont worry if I am a Nigerian or not, you at your old dieing age should have better things to worry about. Ars.e wipe.

This is what you will do for the rest of your life. Dont ever think your ACN will get to power, and then you will spend the rest of your life on the internet, shouting and screaming and copying and pasting. Foool.[/quote]Back your utterances with factual arguments if you can. A bigoted Ignoramus and coward posing as a woman can only engage in stalking/following others here. You are not capable of establishing your own independent identity here or defining your own distinct argument. All you do is follow others slavishly and try to gain their attention with your bellicosely unintelligent antics. This is where folks like you always want to take every debate. I.e into the realm of insults you hope will mask how you have nothing between your eyes.

The Ribadu task force has submitted its findings and offered solutions regarding the problems bedevilling a sector very critical to Nigeria's progress. GEJ is at total liberty to implement these logically lucid solutions solution whenever he wants. No distracting talk and focus on individuals, rather than on issues, can detract from that. If anything, the way you talk highlights your inherent bias and clannish attitude. Tell us why 2 weeks has turned into 3 months or clear off. Bigoted tool.

Demdem: Fool, are u sure u know what us in that report? This ur lie na worldclass ooo

Are you minding the cretin? Let me jog his memory and that of others who may be tempted to come here in sycophancy. People like them are the real enemies of Nigeria.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ribadu-panel-s-controversial-report/129753/

However, the nation was jolted last week when the Ribadu Panel report which is yet to be submitted to the president was leaked to Reuters. According to the confidential report, a total of $183m in signature bonuses paid by oil companies to the federation is missing.

Beside, the report said Nigeria may have lost $29billion in the last decade in the sweet-heart gas deals with major oil companies, such as Shell and Total, just as crude oil theft is reaching an alarming level of 250,000 barrels daily at a cost of $6.3billion per year.

The report however confirmed the saying in many quarters that in deed corruption as a cankerworm has eaten deep into the Nigeria’s oil sector. During the fuel subsidy crisis, a report from the National Assembly panel had revealed that Nigeria has lost $6.8 billion since 2009, through a fuel subsidy programme, designed in part to keep petrol prices low, is rife with corruption. According to the committee report,“If the PSF (Petroleum Support Fund) scheme was properly managed, this sum of 1.07 trillion naira ($6.8 billion) would have been available to the three tiers of government for budget enhancement.”

The report detailed what has long been suspected in Nigeria oil industry, describing a lack of accounting, overpayments, wilful disregard for regulations and outright incompetence in managing the programme.

Quoting the report of the 17-member task force, headed by Ribadu, Reuters said the146-page document provides new details on Nigeria’s long history of corruption in the oil sector, which has enriched its elite and provided the oil majors with hefty profits while two thirds of the people live in poverty.

The report concluded that oil majors - Shell, Total and Eni - made bumper profits from cut-price gas, while Nigerian oil ministers handed out licences at their own discretion. This, while not illegal, did not follow best practice of using open bids. Hundreds of millions of dollars in signature bonuses on those deals were also missing, Reuters reported.

The report alleges that international oil traders sometimes buy crude without any formal contracts, and the NNPC had short-changed the federation of billions of dollars over the last 10 years by selling crude oil and gas to itself below market rates.

The report also said foreign oil firms had outstanding debts. For example, Addax, now a unit of China’s state-owned Sinopec, owes Nigeria $1.5 billion in unpaid royalties, part of a $3 billion black hole of unpaid bonuses and royalties owed by oil bonuses.

Shell owes Nigeria’s government N137.57 billion ($874 million) for gas sold from its Bonga deep offshore field, the report said, while oil majors owed $58 million between them for gas flaring penalties. They were also not adhering to newer higher fines.

[size=14pt]The report also revealed that Nigeria was the only nation to sell all its crude through international oil traders rather than directly to refineries, adding that such trades were often opaque.
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It said some international oil traders who were not “on the approved master list of customers” had been sold crude oil “without a formal contract” so little could be obtained about the details of these deals, which can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

“This logically will serve to reduce margins obtainable on sale of crude oil,” the report observed, said there are no informal contracts and there is “an official tender put out every year,”

NNPC gets an allocation of 445,000 bpd of crude oil to refine locally but has been selling its allocation at cut-down prices, a practice which cost Nigeria $5 billion in potential revenue between 2002 and 2011, the report said.

It said that Oil ministers between 2008 and 2011 handed out seven discretionary licences but there is $183 million in signature bonuses missing from the deals, the report said

The Ribadu committee further recommended that NNPC be re-organised or scrapped, an independent review of the use of traders to be set up, and a transparency law that should be passed requiring oil companies to disclose all payments made to Nigeria. The leaked report however attracted reactions from some quarters alleging that government was trying to cover up the report in order to protect some culprits.

take dat: Featherbrained eediot without knowledge of the report's recommendations. Ignorant arrogant fool!

My guy, not every Cockroach deserves a response here. This forum is a congregation of the nastiest, most bigoted and most dishonest tools parading themselves as Nigerians. Use the link to the article I supplied and scroll down to the comment sections. Almost all submissions make the only logical conclusion any sane mind can make over this development. Yet come to Nairaland and see display of lunacy and open support for 419 antics that has gotten us where we are today.


http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-may-dump-ribadu-report-on-oil-industry/

take dat: ^^^ How can a lady be this foolish? It is people like you who encourages the lackadaisical attitude of those in government and are very comfortable with maladministration so far your bread is buttered. For a committee that was given two weeks time-frame to submit a white paper that would make the recommendations in the report implementable, yet three months after nothing is heard and you dare label those willing to ask why as propagandists. You need to have your head examined!

The setting up of those committees were to serve as Red herrings. Apart from the Ribadu report, nothing is been done to the Orosanye's report on civil service reform and many others. GEJ doesn't have the political will, to grandstand is all that matters to him!

Please don't be fooled. Lady my azz. This forum is full of cowards who enjoy hiding behind female identities because they think that will allow them go around in mischief only for others to 'go easy' on them in return. Women, in my opinion, tend to be more honest than men. They tend to be more connected with the notion of consistently supporting what is right and just. With politics, you will find women are the least sycophantic or dogmatically inflexible anywhere in the World. It is therefore difficult to believe this character is female.

I don't think any female Nairalander will talk of "propaganda" regarding Governments duplicity and shameful inaction in a very critical sector. This is why, more and more, GEJ is being viewed a saboteur home and abroad. I think this character is just another multiple-ID fraud taking advantage of how many Nairaland male are sad saps who openly discriminate in favour of women here. The calculation is that a female ID enables them to get away with all manners of nonsense. I cannot say that calculation is wrong given what I have seen on this forum.

yokiti: And the apostles of Fresh air will not allow us to breadth. Its obvious that our commander in chief is not interested in total deliverance of Nigeria from the shackles of Corruption?
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Why am I bothering myself When those to be convicted are my President's right hand man?
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May God bless my country Nigeria with good leaders and "active" followers.

Man mi, these people are the enemies of Nigeria. What is any sensible adult, anywhere on Earth, to make of a leader who ignores the ultra-lucid and workable solutions he insisted, expensively, others deliver? Yet some support this open show of leadership deception because of their irredeemable bias. All they do is disgrace Nigeria as a nation full of unreasonable, highly biased, ultra-sectional and fraudulent folks who are their own greatest enemies.

Why still selling crude through traders months after Ribadu suggested this must stop considering GEJ can indeed bring a stop to that odious practice whenever he wants? It is revelations like those that is now gaining GEJ criticism beyond Nigeria. Others, even very hardened politicians worldwide, cannot understand such brazen and open insincerity.

[quote author=Adura_ngba]Again? We have been through all these propaganda before on a thread by the same OP on the same topic.[/quote]Look, stop following others around you worthless cretin. This development, with the disgraceful handling of the Ribadu report, is the sort making the entire world converge in criticism of Nigeria's current leadership. Many areas of National administration are in crisis. When workable solutions are suggested, the entire world has the displeasure of watching the Nigerian government, elected to deliver solutions, playing 'enemy of progress' by discrediting/ignoring those solutions that can turn things around for Nigeria. This is why many, even beyond Nigeria, are now exasperated with "fresh air" and "Mr.Transformation".

Yet clannish and reprehensible folks like you find it expedient to make everything about the "propaganda" of other posters. I just always wonder how people like you were raised to be so mentally unhealthy to the extent you can never rise above biases and affiliations enough to ever call a spade a spade. Ribadu stated Nigeria is the only major world supplier of crude selling its endowment through traders.

He suggested this practice, long rejected by others, must stop because it only abets corruption and aids lack of transparency plus mire our oil sector in sleaze and poor accountability. GEJ could demand that this odious practice stops instantly if a solutions provider. He has not done anything and sane folks, throughout the world, even if you are too clannish to be included in that category, must wonder why.

Furthermore, other equally important suggestions were ignored. Yet you can only dishonestly, disgracefully and myopically make this about "propaganda" on a blog when important issues concerning the future of a nation is discussed. Is it "propaganda" GEJ has ignored the solutions suggested? Is it propaganda that 3 months of inaction over the Ribadu report is 3 months of self-inflicted lack of progress for Nigeria? Yet on another topic, your ilk will blame the West for all Nigeria's problem.

I really dislike having to view someone like you as a fellow Nigerian. A Nigerian you are not. A highly clannish and biased person you are. Nothing else explains your jingoistic and biased stance on every issue that makes you comment inanely.

As if balanced Nigerians did not expect this outcome anyway. The part in bold shows Nigerians, not into deceiving themselves or others, what the GEJ government is entirely about.


http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-may-dump-ribadu-report-on-oil-industry/

FG may dump Ribadu report on oil industry

FEBRUARY 5, 2013 BY NIYI ODEBODE AND OLUSOLA FABIYI 8 COMMENTS


There are strong indications that the Federal Government has commenced moves to kill the report of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task force headed by ex-boss of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu.

Three months after the Ribadu panel submitted its report on November 2, 2012, the much-expected White Paper that would make the recommendations contained in the document implementable has not been released.

Checks by The PUNCH in Abuja on Monday indicated that the Federal Government appeared to have lost interest in the report, the content of which was hailed by many analysts at the time of its presentation.

A top government source confided in one of our correspondents on Monday that the Federal Government considered the Ribadu report as “not comfortable” and that most of its “embarrassing” recommendations would be missing whenever the Wogu committee submits its report.

The source added, “Right from the outset, government displayed nonchalant attitude to the report. As things are, there are moves to either kill the report or turn down many of its recommendations.

“It seems the government believes what some people are saying that the committee did not sit enough though we know this is not true.”

Few days after Ribadu submitted the report, however, there had been concerns that the government would eventually dump it when a presidential aide described it as “inconclusive.”

President Goodluck Jonathan’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, had said the report appeared to be the work of “certain quarters” to “disparage the genuine efforts of the President to bring sanity and cleanse the Nigerian oil sector once and for all.”

Among other findings, the Ribadu Task Force said in its report that it found that whereas successive ministers of petroleum resources between 2008 and 2011 handed out seven discretionary oil licences, a total of $183m (N28.73bn) in signature bonuses paid by oil companies to the federation was missing from the deals.

During the presentation of the report, the committee’s deputy chairman, Mr. Steve Oronsaye; and another member, Benard Oti, faulted Ribadu over the process that produced the report.

Oronsaye, a former Head of Service of the Federation had alleged that the report did not reflect the position of all members, adding that they were not carried along.

But Ribadu had accused Oronsaye of staying away from the panel’s meetings.

Jonathan had nevertheless constituted a White Paper committee on the report.

The committee, led by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Emeka Wogu, was constituted since November 15 and given two weeks to submit its report.

But three months after the deadline, the committee had not submitted its report.

The committee was said to have sought for extension of time from the President.

There were reports on January 4, 2007 that the White Paper committee would submit its recommendation on January 7 but the day went without the report.

In his attack of the Ribadu report, Okupe had also accused the committee of stepping outside its terms of reference.

One of the major terms of reference of the committee, he said, was “to work with consultants and experts to determine and verify all petroleum upstream and downstream revenues (taxes, royalties, etc) due and payable to the Federal Government of Nigeria,” adding that the committee neglected that aspect of its assignment.

“Unfortunately and most regrettably, this paramount duty of the PRSTF committee could not be accomplished as stated in paragraph four of the covering note signed by chairman Ribadu and secretary of the committee,” he said.

Okupe however denied on Monday that the Federal Government planned to kill or “sit on the report.”

He said, “We just came back from the New Year break and I’m sure the committee is busy with the reports. The committee was given just three weeks to work?

“I’m sure that the report will be published very soon. There is nothing to sit on in the report. There is nothing absolutely to sit on. If there is any problem, it is strictly administrative.”

donchris33: So it is only maryam babaginda you saw in my post? You didn't see turai yaradua and stella! For your information I hate pdp with passion. But I am highly against these unbridled and crude method of trying to bring Gej down. Sorry I have a job as I am typing from my office. Well paid job, I don't need to be a political jobber before I air my views. Thank you anyway.

Are you that blinded by bias and sentiments you cannot appreciate it is GEJ bringing himself down? The man deliberately deceived Nigeria by claiming he would be "fresh air" and "transformation". That was what his whole election campaign was built upon !!!! As such Nigerians, rightfully, expected him to move away from the unacceptable excesses of past leaders as GEJ indicated he would.

When he is doing the same and even worse than past leaders, are you so irredeemably jingoistic you can't understand that, naturally, the backlash will be vociferous from a people who feel deceived and the victim of a monumental 419 scam? Have you ever stopped to think why a man who enjoyed so much goodwill, after being sworn in in 2011, is now vilified mercilessly throughout the world? Who squandered that goodwill GEJ once enjoyed if not GEJ himself? Was GEJ voted in to come and be doing the same deleterious things, seen from past leaders, Nigerians voted him to to move away from? Guy, get real and try to shun the bias that makes you blind to what is very obvious to most dispassionate and pragmatic adults.

take dat: You guys should stop portraying GEJ like a president held hostage. He rode to power on a transformation mantra, if he feels OBJ and his people were corrupt he should bring them to book. All these silly excuses means nothing!

This is another factor working massively against GEJ. He came in as the "fresh air" to usher out the rancid odour left by our past leaders. Yet he is behaving exactly as they have with how he is persevering with mindless profligacy, bloated governance, monumental corruption, gradualism and a very glaring inability/unwillingness to put some deleterious practices, now ultra-rare worldwide, to bed , once and for all, for the sake of Nigeria's progress.

OBJ, in my opinion, was a failure and GEJ is failing too. Their camps should tear into each other. They are all birds of the same feather.

OBJ and GEJ are both crooks. In fact they are all crooks. What has riled people, home and abroad, about GEJ, more than others, is his penchant for open wastage, mindlessly unhidden profligacy and "don't give a damn" conduct. Nonetheless, OBJ has probably stolen more secretly , deceiving all home and abroad, in my opinion.

GEJ is just not very clever at covering his tracks and the social networking age has become a monster in GEJ's time to the extent every 'misconduct' of the GEJ government goes 'viral' creating millions of critics. OBJ is no different to GEJ. OBJ is worse in my opinion and I pray Nigeria moves on from these sort of leaders who were selected as 'tools' to protect the interest of those who have been ravaging Nigeria for decades.

Abeg make CIV go jo. Drogba's 'fried' hair Pony tail is a total eyesore. Uncle sef no get shame with that perm.

Vital tackle Mikel. Phew !!!!

what a goal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I no tell una !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Believe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ideye should not have headed that into the ground. Straight and across at that distance.

alaoeri: Don't let's deceive ourselves naija can't defeat CIV unless miracle happens.

What are you basing this on? CIV playing better now but they did not show up in the first half and the game is still balanced now. The CIV goal has changed things a bit but this is still a game Naija can win.

Bad spell for Naija. Lads need to calm down !!!

Absolutely ridiculous goal to concede !!!!! Come on Naija !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITbomb: It's increasing looking like one of those games where Nigeria do all the playing but Ivory Coast emerge as winners."

What are you basing this on? My take is that it is looking like one of those games where one team simply has the measure of another. 2-0 to Naija.

[quote author=Omo_Tier1]Nigeria should resume the second half with the same patience cum tempo play. Nigeria has more options going forward than CIV..[/quote]Totally true. They should remain calm and focused. After 10-15 mins of second half, CIV will surely have to play with more urgency. Concentration will be need then so any desperate foray forward can be punished with an efficient Nigeria counter attack.

omodapson: Can't believe the SE is leading. ..

Believe it. I don't really know what is going on with CIV but they appear totally lethargic and heavy-footed. If second half is the same and we keep concentration level high, no way back for CIV.

Unless we switch off spectacularly, I see Nigeria winning 2-0. Nothing about the CIV so far suggests they can get back into this game .

Much deserved goal !!!!! Great strike !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!