₦airaland Forum

zik4ever:
They send signals to their various commands and traditionally, it is by word of mouth or personal recommendation of their staff. Those who are informed of how it works won’t deny this -you often find someone whose dad or mum worked there, to also work there. Of course, they also spread the information informally. They may be exception, but don’t publish in Newspapers normally! Also, Ogar as PRO was a rare deviation as in; DSS also did not really have designated PROs in the open media space. You'll notice, the new management has also gone back to the old format more or less -just issuing statements. Infact, back in the NSO days, they rarely issued public statements.

Mynd44:
I will need to see why they were fired before I support or oppose.

I am leaning towards opposing right now though

IYANGBALI:
6, identify and retrench pot belly officers

KanwuliaJara:
4. STOP CHOPPING BRIBE!!!!

5. STOP HARASSING TRAVELERS!!!!!

PassingShot:
I'm surprised you failed to understand that this thread is more about saying the wailers left behind have NOTHING to offer than about the guy.

I am indirectly saying, they are empty. Whether we like it or not, there has been no opposition since his exit.

PassingShot:
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48noble:
President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his recent appointments criticised by many Nigerians as lopsided, saying he nominated people he could trust, and who had worked with him for years.
The president said the Constitution allows him full control over the choice of his closest officials, and made clear the appointments also served as reward for those who remained loyal to him for years, who refused to be lured by power or material wealth.
Mr. Buhari made the comments in an interview with BBC Hausa on Tuesday. It was his first direct response to the controversy generated by his first round of appointments.
The president also spoke on Chibok girls, military gains against Boko Haram and his administration’s war against corruption.
Mr. Buhari faced public outcry two weeks ago after naming the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, his Chief of Staff, head of Immigration and Customs, among others.
Critics slammed the decision as “lopsided”, as it became clear Mr. Buhari’s 30 nominations so far lack regional and gender balance.
An overwhelming majority of the president’s senior appointees are from the northern region of the country, where he comes from, and at least two are from his native Katsina State.
The South East has no appointee yet.
The president’s aides had earlier assured that subsequent appointments would ensure balance.
Asked by the BBC about the controversy, the president said, “This is the nature of Nigerian politics”.
“If they will do justice to me, as an elected Nigerian president, let them look at the Constitution a Nigerian president works with, there are people who will closely work with me that don’t need to be taken to the Senate,” he said of his critics, according to a translation of the BBC interview, by Daily Trust.
“If I select people whom I know quite well in my political party, whom we came all the way right from the APP, CPC and APC, and have remained together in good or bad situation, the people I have confidence in and I can trust them with any post, will that amount to anything wrong? I have been with them throughout our trying times, what then is the reward of such dedication and suffering?
“They did not defect because of positions, they did not involve themselves in the pursuit of personal gains, and they accepted their fate throughout our trying moments. What is wrong if I make you the secretary (of the federal government) because I have confidence that things will go normal?”
The president said Chibok girls, who were abducted in April 2014 by Boko Haram, had been dispersed and were kept in units at different locations.
He said many of the girls had been forced to convert to Islam.
“They have scattered them, and are being guarded at dispersed locations. Most of the girls are Christians and were forced to embrace Islam. And the sect’s cruel leaders have married some of the girls, obviously against their wish. Others have been left to practice their religion but their condition could hardly be ascertained.
“Both ground and air security personnel in the Sambisa forest could spot where the girls are, but since the insurgents have also kidnapped housewives and other women, no one could say whether they mixed them or how they dispersed them,” the president said.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/189705-buhari-breaks-silence-over-lopsided-appointments-says-chibok-girls-dispersed.html

Buhari is a man. he will die. Certainly the SE will outlive Buhari because it is a geographical region. However you are wrong to claim Buhari is wicked. He does not hate the SE and does not bear a grudge agaist the region in my opinion. Wait to see the major appointments in sectors that can transform Nigeria before you conclude hastily. I personally don't understand why people make a fuss about positions like SGF which I consider to be the office of a glorified pen pusher.

The SGF, along with most appointees of Buhari so far, cannot directly impact on health, electricity, infrastructure, agriculture, security, economic diversification, SME proliferation et al as competent Ministers can. If Ministerial appointees are merit-based, and Governors perform well, then that is what Nigeria needs to make progress. For certain positions, where a high level of loyalty is required given the treacherous nature of Nigerian politics, I have no issue with Buhari going with tried and trusted compatriots even if they are from his region.

i will personally wait for confirmation of this from more sources. If true then I hail this development as absolutely the right thing to do. It is time we all begin putting partisanship and bias aside to see and support what is right. Others do it worldwide so why are we Nigerians different? Ogar was horribly and openly partisan/compromised in a position requiring the highest level of professionalism and political neutrality. Where do you Nigerians see this worldwide? i.e the spokesperson of a Nation's security service taking side shamelessly and openly with a political Party? If people put sentiments asides it will be obvious the likes of Ogar have no place in sensitive positions of public service in in a progressive Nigeria. Africa needs strong institutions and not strong men as Obama surmised.

The likes of Ogar, who are unprofessional and easily compromised, will never be the manpower that will allow the emergence of strong and independent institutions. Her open bias and utterances , like when she stated that each time the APC lost an election a spate of bombing followed, are simply disgraceful and unacceptably biased. When have you guys ever seen the spokesperson of the FBI or MI5 openly acting as a lackey of a political Party in the USA and UK respectively? Those who cannot see what matters and speak in support of Ogar do not mean well for Nigeria. We need to get rid of the Ogars and the Mbus to build professional, driven, motivated and independent security forces with the capacity to serve the public professionally always while refraining from serving the agenda of politicians and interest groups. That is the only way forward for Nigeria. It is as simple as that and I personally hope Ogar has indeed been sacked. She deserves it.

CSTR2:
Fair enough.
I am sure if we demand buhari declare his assets after leaving office, his fans will call it wailing.

CSTR2:
Of course, i know that.
Ideally declaring before and after is the correct thing to do.
But since Nigerian politicians only declare once, then i choose the better option.
Under the current system, a politician can declare 2million, and embezzle 2billion and nobody will know.

martyns303:
Because the declared some shady assests he thinks he's now in any moral position to give orders on who's to declare assets.

Firefire:
Buhari has made a partial assets declaration, most of his assets are presumed to be in his wife's name.

However, we expect all the looting governors both present and immediate past to be compel to declare their assets for posterity.

PassingShot:
My candid submission:

1. Given the fact that Nigeria for the first time witnessed a real/true change of government (from one party to another), it is expected that economic activities will slow down within the first few months of the new govt as it takes time to formulate a new direction. This fact is more reinforced when one considers the type of economy the new government inherited. It was an economy that the PDP/FG borrowed to pay its workers in March and April of 2015. Had PDP won, they would have continued the borrowing as crude price slides further.

2. Most of the economic performance figures given in this analysis were for the first two quarters of 2015 which are Jan, Feb, March, April, May and June. Of those six months, Jonathan was in charge for five months. So, if any blame is due for apportioning, it is to GEJ's government.

3. There is surely brighter future for Nigeria given that the new government has shown capacity to block avenues for leakages and wastages as seen with past governments. It is such efforts that have increased our foreign reserves from $29 billion left by GEJ (he met $47.7bn) to above $32bn in just after two months of PMB. It's same efforts that have increased states' and federal allocations for two consecutive months in June and July.

4. As we restructure NNPC and look more in other directions such as mining, improved IGR and farming, our dependence on crude oil which has brought this glooming economic picture will reduce in the coming years; and Nigeria shall return to better outlook.

5. With reduced corrupt business environment, investors' confidence will improve and Nigerian economy will soon start to pick up especially with the incoming new cabinet ministers in this month.






You all represent proof of poor education. Waiting for your usual insults. I am immune to them.

tinkinjow:
I wonder where this guys ll report when the niger delta finally take control of their oil.
It's happening sooner than later.

ECOTERRORS:
I always laugh at the way you people have turned IBB and Abacha to saints.

patrick89:
I can unequivocal state that you are very silly and foolish! what is wrong in awarding oil well to emeka? but your ugly monkey obasanjo awarded ot otedola, adenuga and folorunsho! you silly dimgbat can call me tribalist but your are irritating! I know for sure, that since I was born I have never seen a yoruba person condemn what his brother or sister does in his presence! If you like be his padi padi! he will go mute!! gerraourahere!!! vultures..

Dhugal:
So,I read through all this twice and nowhere was Emeka Offor linked,either to this deal or the parties involved.
Subtly trying to whip up primordial sentiments to serve political purposes again,ain't you Gbawe?

[size=14pt]How President Jonathan, AGF Adoke, Awarded Chinese Oil Company Linked To Emeka Offor $3b "Judgement Deal" Days Before Leaving Office[/size]


A few days before the end of his tenure, former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Bello Adoke, connived to award more than $3 billion in crude oil to a Chinese oil company linked to a controversial businessman, Emeka Offor, SaharaReporters has reliably learned.


The highly questionable deal was consummated through a judgment handed down by a High Court judge who was also in on the deal, according to a source close to the deal.

In December 2014, Addax Petroleum Development (Nigeria) Limited and Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) Limited, sued the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) seeking a huge financial award in what the company described as miscalculation of oil royalty and taxes, and breach of their 1998 “production sharing” contract with the NNPC in respect of certain oil fields.

The contract covered oil-prospecting licenses (OPL) 98/118 (now Oil Mining Leases 123, 124, 136 and 137).

In an extensive interview with our correspondent, the source claimed that Addax’s lawsuit was at the urging of Mr. Adoke, who should have been protecting the Nigerian public’s interest.

In a letter dated April 2, 2015, Mr. Adoke proposed that President Jonathan approve an out-of-court settlement of the lawsuit, tagged FJC/ABJ/CS/1099/2014 and filed on December 23, 2014. In the letter to President Jonathan, the then Attorney General and Minister of Justice also indicated that he was attaching a letter dated the same day from the legal department of the NNPC.

Mr. Adoke’s letter was fast-tracked in a manner that two legal authorities separately described as “highly unusual” and “unseemly.” On May 25, a mere four days before the end of President Jonathan’s tenure, a Federal High Court judge in Abuja had concluded the terms of the out-of-court settlement. The judge’s “judgment order” excluded the office of the AGF because Mr. Adoke did not send any lawyers to represent the government at the final judgment.

“It’s highly curious that the ‘judgment order” did not list the AGF’s office as a defendant in the lawsuit. Yet, the AGF [Adoke] was the person generating a legal memo to the president [Jonathan] for an out-of-court settlement,” said an Abuja-based lawyer after reviewing the case.

Nonetheless, the judge read out the terms of the agreement and gave an order sealing it, but his judgment order did not include the hidden cost of the judgment.

This act of judicial concealment has baffled the lawyers who looked at the document. SaharaReporters obtained a copy of the hidden terms of agreement that puts the total value of NNPC’s indebtedness to Addax at more than $3 billion—specifically, a whopping $3,491,588,729.64. The judgment debt would be paid to Addax via crude oil lifting that could last for numerous years, an NNPC source disclosed.

Addax Petroleum has claimed that a letter signed by Funsho Kupolokun, who was adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Petroleum, gave the company the right to a production-sharing contract relating to the oil fields named in their original lawsuit.

Addax also claimed that, because of that letter from the presidential adviser, his company spent about $3 billion on the development of the oil fields.

One of the lawyers who reviewed the case for SaharaReporters wondered why it took Addax no earlier than 2014 before they sued the Federal Government for the alleged breach of contract.

Contacted by SaharaReporters to disclose Mr. Offor’s full involvement in the judgement scam, his representatives expressed preference for communication by email.

Hours after we complied, Edwin Ndukwe of the Communications Department of Offor’s Chrome Group sent a response in which he denied that Mr. Offor was the 'outlet' through which Addax facilitated the settlement.

“Sir Emeka had absolutely no hand or control in the proceedings of the court, which led to the outcome you inferred,” he said. “He is not a shareholder and he did not enter into any agreement to influence or sponsor the outcome of the court's decision. Addax Petroleum is gigantic enough to weigh in by itself on any judicial matters bothering on their business conduct in Nigeria.”

He asserted that the Addax/Kaztec business to business relationship began in 2010 when Kaztec was awarded the TB 1921 contract for the installation of subsea pipeline and topsides in OML 123.

“Since then, the relationship grew between the two as evident in the project being duly completed. Kaztec is a wholly 100% owned indigenous EPIC service provider in the oil & gas industry. It has performed very well over the years and have received numerous commendations for their technical competence and their ability to deliver on projects timeously and at significantly reduced cost from not just Addax but other firms.”

We also reached out to NNPC spokesperson, Ohi Alegebe to ask how the NNPC intends to pay the debt as stipulated in the final judgement. He said he needed to reach the Legal Department of the NNPC to find out the details, but did not get back to us at the time of publishing this story.

For their part, Addax offices in Abuja told our reporters that all of the company communication personnel were tied up in a training which involved the Managing Director, Mr. Cor Zegelaar, and cannot respond to our inquiries until next week.

In a recent interview with Premium Times, former President Obasanjo openly accused Mr. Offor of scamming Nigeria out of billions of dollars in the so-called turn-around maintenance of refineries, calling him an ‘amateur’ who knew nothing about maintaining a refinery. He stated that Mr. Offor had infiltrated the police and anti-corruption agencies and NNPC officials to facilitate his scams.

“[We met] refineries that were not working, refineries that were given to an amateur for repairs, for maintenance, what they call turn-around maintenance, to the company of Emeka Offor – Chrome Group,” he said of his government. [size=14pt]“Where has Emeka Offor maintained refineries before? Where has he? That’s what we met. So the refineries were not working.”[/size]

Reminded by his interviewers that despite that discovery he did not recover any money from Mr. Offor, the former President replied: “What can you recover? A man ‎who was paid upfront? He had people. He got some police…people were there. And like they have said to you now, look, if it works for a week, that’s all you get. And Emeka Offor, after I left he became friends with every government that has come. Now he’s not only into refinery and oil and all that, he’s now also in energy!”

Cjrane2:
[size=13pt]The truth is that SE will outlive Buhari and his wickedness.
History of Nigeria will also be unkind to his memory.
He can do all the WICKED things he wants to do, or that he thinks he can do to wicked fellow Nigerians, including little children that did nothing to him.
Those little children shall become presidents too, authors, historians etc someday and will have the sole pleasure of addressing his beastly nature.
Even Adolf Hitler was outlived by the Jews, talkmore Buhari.[/size]

Whynotthetruth:
I gave you all the facts you need to dig up the particular example I used here among many others...I don't blackmail or do false accusation here or anywhere else...
Everybody know who it is his or their stock in trade

Whynotthetruth:
I can't start digging your profile just to prove innanities... Truth isn't too far away here...I gave the moniker of Op and thread was about Gbajabiamila speaker ambition...You're as dirty as what you preach against bro

dunkem21:
Oga, we no be 'omo kekere' tata for here o ..

I dey fear to mention you sef ..

..

Whynotthetruth:
Joke apart...I don't think any sane being will want to cut off his nose to spite his face

Why ridicule SE just like Joe Igbokwe, & co simply because you're APC

How many of your SW friends including Gbawe who's a bigot too(I remember his post in NewNigeria's or something thread) will open threads to ridicule SW voting pattern which is predictable since independence or their pattern of life or whatever

Can Hausa do same as you did here?

You can't spite your people just to prove you're not a bigot and to earn your fellow APC's accolade...

Have you ever seen Fayose & co ridicule Yoruba for voting ACN which was an ethnic political party?...Same reason even Osun indigenes wanna sink with APC because of ACN therein...Have you seen FFK or Omisore ridicule Yoruba as bigots because they prefer ethnic political party?

When the chips are down, a woman who tells the neighborhood that her husband is mad, will still be referred to as wife of a madman

chukwudi44:
Anyone who thinks this impostor is igbo needs to have his/her head examined.

Rawani:
Gbawe any protection left?

Godfullsam:
wailers food is ready....

joeyfire:
Ogar displayed crass bias with her choice of words and disposition I don't disagree. I am against unilateral, vindictive actions like sacking her on account of a grudge. Sack her for constructive reasons. Nigeria can't afford another Abacha because of "change".

joeyfire:
Gbawe - don't mix things up o. She was the public relations person not an investigator like u mentioned. Her job was to communicate on behalf the DSS

joeyfire:
1. I don't get your point. How has Ogar flouted the rules of the DSS that employed her and why exactly was she fired. There is nothing stated so we are left to deduce its childish politics by buhari and his lame kitchen cabinet. Your comparing her to 90 year old nazis is neither here nor there.

2. This APC administration has at its core, some of the most dishonest ppl on this earth so "conjectures" shouldn't be new to it. After all we were exposed to some of the most vile propaganda pre-elections but how many ppl were chased after in such petty fashion.

3. Hahaha you are worried about what the west thinks about buhari having Marilyn Ogar still employed by the DSS but there is nothing wrong with Buhari appointing Hon. Kawu to his kitchen cabinet. Kawu the world saw throwing blows in the NASS not too long ago.

Such legendary hypocrisy by buhari. Very pitiful state of things. I am waiting for the reason she was fired.