A northern group, Arewa Think Tank, has commended the former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the president/chief executive officer of Geometric Power Plant (GPP), Aba, Prof. Barth Nnaji, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu for their respective roles in making the establishment and operations of the GPP a reality.

Aba power plant, with the capacity to produce 188 MWT of electricity, was started 20 years ago, and it’s expected to supply power to Aba metropolis and eight other local government areas within the Aba ring-fenced area.

Senator Kalu representing Abia North at the upper legislative chamber was said to have granted a waiver to the company while in office as the governor which made it become attractive to investors.

In a statement issued by the chief convener of Arewa Think Tank, Muhammad Alhaji Yakubu, he recalled the important role the former governor played in bringing the plant to fruition.

Arewa Think Tank also commended the proponent of the Geometric Power Plant, Prof. Barth Nnaji who is the former minister of power during President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

The convener said, they have been following progressive events in this country, and consider it appropriate to appreciate the efforts of former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, who gave the initial waivers to Geometric Power Plant, thereby, reducing risk of the transaction.

He expressed assurance that if those waivers were not in place, no investor would have taken the risk to invest in such gigantic power generating business.

Yakubu also commended Kalu’s dedication to the Geometric Power Plant and his role at the early stage of the establishment of the plant, adding that without Kalu granting the company waiver at her formative stage, investors wouldn’t have shown interest.

“We also want to commend Prof. Barth Nnaji, the proponent of Geometric Power, Aba, who resigned as Minister of power during the Jonathan administration because of lack of technical expertise in the privatisation process. He insisted that all DISCOS must have two things, technical expertise and financial independence to operate, so as to weed out those who wanted to use privatisation to make quick money,” he said.

The Arewa group noted that after he left, many of the DISCOS eventually failed due to lack of technical expertise, and the banks they borrowed money from took over the assets.

franchasofficia:
Of course Tinubu made it obvious to all Nigerians that he doesn't have any blueprint or plans on how to govern Nigeria when:


1.) Tinubu refused to show up for Presidential debate to sell his agenda to Nigerian voters


2.) Tinubu went to Chatham house in London and when the anchor asks him questions on how he planned to govern Nigeria if he is elected President of Nigeria, Tinubu instead of using such a rare opportunity to showcase his leadership skills rather assigned various APC members in the room to answer each of the questions while he formed boss of a narcotic gang before the whole world


3.) Tinubu rejected all invitations by journalists and different Nigerian media houses to come and tell Nigerians how he plans to govern Nigeria differently from the calamitous Buhari.



Nigerians knew all these but tribalism and religious madness didn't allow some sections of Nigeria to reason well. Instead they went ahead to vote for a clueless, confused old man called Tinubu in the name of its Yoruba turn even after Yorubas produced Military President in 1976, Interim President in 1993, an annulled President in 1993, another civilian President in 1999 to 2007 and another Vice President from 2015 to 2023. Their conscience and voice of reasoning didn't tell them that they ought to tell their son Tinubu to step aside and allow their Igbo Southern brothers to try for once since 1970, and you guys think nature and God will be happy with Nigeria and Nigerians for such injustice and inhumane treatment of Igbos in Nigeria?




Worst off, the criminal, corrupt INEC Chairman helped some of the deluded heartless Nigerians that gave Tinubu the few votes he got legitimately by switching off the IREV viewing portal to enable Tinubu and his evil APC gang to carry out an electoral heist that led to the foisting of a clueless, drug trafficking criminal as Nigeria's President. Now take a look at where we are today?



Naira is becoming worthless by the day, tell me which other country's currency loses almost 15% of its value everyday?


Kidnappers, terrorists and foreign fulani herdsmen terrorists have taken over all Nigerian forests, rural communities and farming communities, wrecking havoc, molesting women, killing farmers, kidnapping road users and travelers, crippling our economy and rendering Nigerian children parentless and turning many to orphans on daily basis yet the man we call President doesn't care instead he is busy telling Nigerians an imaginary story of how to endure temporary for an unrealistic better tomorrow that even the failed Buhari promised during his own calamitous 8 year regime that never came.




Construction sector that employs majority of Nigerians is already crippled by exorbitant price of cement, agricultural sector that also employ most Nigerians in rural areas have been completely crippled by insecurity caused by rampaging foreign fulani terrorists imported into Nigeria by same APC politicians still Tinubu doesn't care.


Whatever Nigeria is going through today is self inflicted out of hatred and dislike for one another, especially unjust hatred for Igbos that have lasted for decades.


The hatred Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas have for Igbos when it comes to national politics and development is the reason Nigeria will never develop the way we desire. Until Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas genuinely repent of their evil mindset towards Igbos when it comes to national politics and economic development, Nigeria will continue to remain below par, it's not a curse, its scriptural.


You cannot cut off one of your hands and still expect yourself not to be handicapped?


Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas don't want Igbos to produce President of Nigeria so that the evil policies and hidden traps they set against Igbos after the civil war ended in 1970 wont be dismantled by an Igbo President, for this, they are happy a mad man from any other tribe becomes the President of Nigeria instead of a competent Igbo man becoming the President.


Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas want Igbos and Igbo region to remain underdeveloped to teach Igbos political lesson they had been teaching them since 1970 the civil war ended, and because of that they kept the entire Nigeria on the floor thinking they will destroy only Igbos and their 2x2 shop businesses



Nigeria make una brace up, the future of Nigeria as a nation looks so bleak

JagabanB:
Two policies placed Nigeria where it is today.
Obi and Atiku said emphatically they were going to do same thing when they assume office.
So the obidents clapping for Obi when he said it thought that fuel will reduce to 100/L when subsidy is removed?
Or naira will exchange for #1 to a $1 when it's floated?
Nobody in his right señsès wiII vote Obi, nobody who knew Anambra will vote Obi and most importantly nobody who's not swayed by trîbè and religîon will vote Obi.

Lindalilian:
With the price of goods and services in the rise, it is evident to note that Nigerians have resulted to alms begging as the only solution to hunger.

The moment Nigerians are being flogged in Lagos Island over 100 naira bread and yam has got people talking on social media, as captured in the video, the man who had the video on record claimed that only yorubas and Hausas are being flogged to be in queue for the bread and yam.

The lines were divided into two, one line for the yorubas, another for the Hausas, the recorder claimed that no igbos were amongst the crowd scampering for bread and yam.

Watch Video Below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVStSRqCxfE?si=js0eBlcC7RjM_PT2

BallisticToto:
Una go explain tire. Una go explain, explain, no evidence.

Samekaog:
Tinubu is not a magician, he need time to make things better. What he needs from us is support not critic he inherited a great mess from his predicessor and he is trying his best.

crossfm:
Hehehe.

He is right,if faith can move mountain,faith can also quanch hunger .

Shege pro max .
Nigerians are naive,the man who built Dubai, China, Indonesia, London, and Lagos will surely build Nigeria.

His only problem now is that when it got to building Nigeria, cement and other building materials became very expensive. Once the prices reduce,the building of Nigeria will commence .

Wainey:
Everyone should join the protest, forget political affiliations.
In a democratic govt, everyone will not support ur candidate.
When things goes bad, we should come together and Savage the situation, stop reminding us who put us in the mess just because they exercise their democratic rights. Your candidate may not have done better

Professor Usman Yusuf, former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, on Saturday, said he is surprised the South Eastern part of the country has remained quiet amid the worsening economic hardship facing the country.

This is even as he urged the President to buy food, flood the market and feed the people before things get too late.

Yusuf made this known on Saturday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme.

DAILY POST reports that there have been agitations against the increasing hunger in some parts of the country, most of them from the south west and northern part of the country.

However, Yusuf found it surprising that the South East has remained calm.

He said: “I honestly don’t know why the South East is quiet, uncharacteristically quiet. But the President needs to find out. The North is where I know I live; even my heritage is. The silence in the North is more lethal than anywhere else in the country. And the President needs to listen to that.

“The silence in the North, from the people of the North in spite of the suffering people are going through, is more lethal than people coming out.

“We are going into the month of Ramadan, people are going to pray. We ask the President to buy food, flood the market and feed the people before things get too late.

“The whole country is suffering. There’s hunger in the land. We hope you listen. Don’t listen to your advisers. Bring a whole lot of money for food, don’t wait for the governors.”

President Bola Tinubu, at a meeting with state governors on Thursday, had approved the constitution of a committee to explore the modalities for the establishment of state police.

The Nigerian Senate has stated that the federal parliament is ready to review the constitution to accommodate state police if the decentralisation of the security system would end insecurity.

President Bola Tinubu, at a meeting with state governors on Thursday, had approved the constitution of a committee to explore the modalities for the establishment of state police.
The police is currently on the exclusive legislative list in the constitution, barring state governments from establishing state police.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio had, earlier this week, constituted a 45-member committee to further review the 1999 constitution. The panel would be inaugurated next Tuesday.
The Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Friday, said the Senate was ready to read the body language of Nigerians and come up with laws that would make lives meaningful to residents.

He said, “The parliament is to make laws and the laws that the parliament will make will not be generated outside of the interest and aspirations of Nigerians.
“So, if either the federal government or the state governors or whoever wants state police, so be it. We are ready to review our laws to accommodate it.

“The Senate is about to inaugurate the constitution amendment committee and then when we put the panel in place, members will now go out there and meet up with all the critical stakeholders in Nigeria within the sectors, traditional rulers and so on and so forth.”

Adaramodu, however, said the state houses of assembly and the governors would still have a crucial role to play because at least 24 out of the 36 states of the federation must vote in support of any amendment to the constitution before it could be signed by the president.