₦airaland Forum

Brilliant piece

They want to run down the best Aviation Minister since I became grown up

awodman: C[b]apt. Dele Ore ?...this name sounds familiar..wait is this not the same man who said Entry of Ethiopian airline into Enugu airport will kill aviation industry..
www.nairaland.com/1482435/entry-ethiopian-airlines-into-enugu

Now look at his words here


This means that the author of this article is not making wild allegations.Now the picture is getting clearer...Stella is going nowhere!

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My brother, you have seen it na. I pity the gullible who just rush to join the bandwagon of anti Oduah. Gradually, the truth will come out.

gregg2: She is not resigning. Stella is a performer! We need her.

Fashola bought three armored cars for 600 million naira at 200 million naira each.

Until date, Fashola nor APC has not come out to deny it. An online news media even

insinuated that this is the reason Liar Muhammed cannot come out openly to criticize Oduah this time

because his hands are tied. He has skeleton in his cupboard.

APC is dodging.
Those that live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Rubbish journalism.
Waste of megabytes.
Very silly piece.




How did this poo make front page sef?

gregg2: That means Fashola and Tinubu's armoured cars costing 200 million naira each will be like 4 times the cost of the British PM car. Liar Muhammed is scared to show face and criticize this time because he knows he will be exposed.

Somebody should tell Liar Muhammed to venture criticize FG on this issue na. . . Why is the mad dog scared to come out. He is sending his foot soldiers and hiding behind mischivious Lagos media propaganda.

The guy knows that those who live in glass houses don't throw stones

It's well. Wish them speedy recovery

Has anyone wondered why APC is yet to come out with a statement on the NCAA purchase? It's because Fashola purchased his own for 200m naira

FreeGlobe: tell us why you folks from south west particularly insist on dragging Stella oduah into this arranged mess other than Fola DG of NCAA who is solely responsible. Why was the SW not also dismayed when Fashola and Tinubu squandered 600 million on SUV's

Hm

KenGali: All the same woe betide Jonathan if he dismisses another Innocent Igbo person for the penchants of the same people that wants his head on a platter of gold.
In the gust shall we then leave him to his fate in an evil wind gifted by those he seems to want to die to please or rather fear!
Fetus Odumegwu is still lingering in my mind.

I assure you, the President is way wiser than this. The conspiracy is becoming obvious. PUNCH of today alone has about seven stories on this issue. Surely, they will gather but. . .

North ready for National Confab – Aliyu

on october 19, 2013 at 4:03 pm in news

Yola – The Governor of Niger, Alhaji  Babangida Aliyu, on Saturday said the North is ready for the proposed National Conference.
Aliyu made the declaration in Yola during the conferment of the traditional title of Talban Adamawa to Mr Daniel Mustapha, held at the palace of the Lamido Adamawa, Dr Barkindo Mustapha.
The governor, who is also the Chairman, Northern Governors Forum, said the region was prepared to participate in the conference without any fear.
“The North is ready for the conference, no matter what happen, we will come up better, more developed and indeed more united.
“And I believe what will come out from the conference is for the advantage of Nigeria and its unity.
“There is no doubting the fact that all parts of Nigeria need unity,” he said.
Aliyu also defended the decision of the seven PDP governors to challenge the national leadership of the party, saying it was in Nigeria’s best interest.
“Many people in the country did not understand why we came out to challenge the leadership style of the Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee.
“All we are saying is that we wanted democracy, because whatever happens in PDP affect Nigeria and Nigerians.
“The reason for our action was that we were looking for true democracy, justice, equity and fairness in our great party, the PDP.”
Earlier, the Lamido, had while conferring the title on Mustapha, appealed to Nigerian leaders to be more committed to the unity and development of the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that among the dignitaries at the ceremony were former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, legislators, Emirs and Chiefs as well as top government officials. (NAN


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/north-ready-national-confab-aliyu/#sthash.98mIkbPb.dpufk

Your analysis is good but what about the
PDP candidate too?

Paentera: When was it bided for? 2010 too? I doubt

Yes, they were awarded in 2010 by the same President Jonathan who is now commissioning them. Read the bolded below:

Will Nigeria’s initiatives on electricity work?

08 October 2013, Abuja

The development of a nation from experts’ view is often rated by how much resources it has committed to improve lives and how effective such efforts have been. Power outages in the Nigerian environment are no news even in the wake of myriad policies on electricity improvement.

Nigerians have literally continued to wail due to fluctuating electricity supply. Government has not been so candid on overhauling the ailing sector. Rather, a shoddy and berserk public power utility system mercilessly sucks the people dry at maximal efforts to get even the barest wattage of electricity supply.

The National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) was conceived in 2004 as a fast-track government funded initiative to stabilize Nigeria’s electricity supply with focus on generation. The federal government also incorporated the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) in August 2005 as a limited liability company to supervise the NIPPs.

The encomiums this development enjoyed at inception did not last due to political interruption following a change in government administration in 2007.

[b]It was however reawakened two years after and by 2010, contracts were awarded for the execution of 10 medium-sized gas powered generation stations in some states.These plants which are now at various stages of completion include,

1) Geregu phase II in Kogi State which is expected to generate 434 megawatts (MW) electricity;
2) the 513mw Omotosho II plant in Ondo State;
3) Olorunsogo II in Ogun State with 754mw;
4) Ihovbor (Benin) plant with 451mw in Edo State;
5) the Sapele II 508mw in Delta State.
6) Omoku II with 265mw in Rivers State,
7) the 1,131mw Alaoji power plant in Abia State,
Calabar 634mw in Cross River,
9) Gbarain 254mw in Bayelsa,
10) Egbema plant in Imo State with 381mw expectation.

Although one out of the 10 plants was commissioned last Thursday, the final completion stage is slated shortly before the provisional take over by private investors in June 2014. With the commissioning, Geregu phase II became the first of the 10 projects to be completed under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) initiative, despite being the last project that was contracted.

Managing Director of NDPHC, Mr James Abiodun Olotu, said contract for Geregu plant was awarded in April 2010 to Siemens Limited[/b] consisting three Siemens SGTS-200E gas turbines operating in a simple-cycle mode and with a designed combined site output rating of 434MW. The plant is designed to use the route from the switchyard of the already privatized (Amperion Power) 414mw Geregu I route to Benin substation. Geregu II had however acquired an additional route of 330/132kv substations in Lokoja and Gwagwalada with new transmission lines to connect Abuja. Mr Olotu further disclosed that the Omotosho power plant would also be ready for commissioning soon.

At the ceremony, President Goodluck Jonathan commended NDPHC’s efforts in handling Geregu II project despite apparent challenges. He reassured Nigerians of a fast coming era of adequate power supply. He said: “This is part of the great effort of this administration to provide regular electricity to the teeming population of our great country, Nigeria. With the commissioning of other NIPP power plants, we should have close to 5000mw in our generation capacity.”

The NIPPs are not the only interventions in enhancing the nation’s power sector. There are pockets of projects like the recently awarded and ongoing 700mw Zungeru hydroelectric project in Niger State as well as a planned Mambilla hydropower in Taraba State. Other efforts at generating power are in place from Independent Power Producers (IPPs), for instance, Geometric power plant in Abia State owned by a former minister of power, Prof. Barth Nnaji.

Challenges at hand
It may be justified that a lot is being done to salvage the nation’s epileptic power supply, the number of these generation plants when completed should help us to get it right this time. But one may ask if low electricity generation capacity has been the only bane to stable power supply in Nigeria.

Proper investigations and survey into power generation, transmission and distribution would reveal quite more than fathomed as there are other posers such as transmission system failures, low and poor personnel, pipeline vandalism and inadequate gas infrastructure.

System failures have accounted for several megawatts loss often times paralyzing business activities in hubs and city centres across the nation. Despite occasional upgrades of transmission infrastructures, incessant cases of system failure keep rising thereby raising concern that the transmission network is either being sabotaged by unseen forces or is too weak to withstand any additional capacity. There is hardly any parallel effort to rehabilitate aging transmission facilities of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) with a lopsided attention given to generation and perhaps, distribution.

President Jonathan while unveiling the power roadmap in August 2010 clearly noted that the transmission network was so weak that, “even with the completion of the extant PHCN and NIPP transmission projects, for which funds have already been provided, the gap between generation capacity and the capacity of the transmission grid is expected to widen considerably over the next three years.” He had also stated a 30% increase in evacuation capacity of 330Kv transmission network to move it from the then 4,500mw capacity. The only visible outcome of that was the added Geregu – Abuja transmission network, yet to be explored.

Even in recent times, frequent system collapse has put major towns in total blackout. For instance, Minister of Power Prof. Chinedu Nebo in June while inaugurating a 13-member Technical Investigative Panel on System Collapse after major collapse of 330KV towers and other electricity infrastructures, revealed that the ministry had recorded more than 15 power system collapses in the previous five months. They occured in Bayelsa, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Gombe states, among other states and in Niamey, Niger Republic.

The panel after two weeks had blamed the collapses on weak system infrastructure, aged personnel and poor financing. There is thus an indication that as the country increased generation capacity, our transmission lines will continue to weaken with the additional load. However currently, government is making more investment in TCN and its consulting firm, Manitoba Hydro International, recruited more indigenous engineers to restructure the TCN. But as the Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi has said, “government must complement its efforts with requisite corporate governance to achieve best practice TCN.”

The issue of gas and its infrastructure is another poser that ought to be checked instantly. Rising trend in pipeline vandalism which affected Afam IV, Afam VI, Rivers Independent Power Plant (IPP) and Olorunsogo power plants recently threw the power sector into coma when it recorded drastic grid reduction from a fluctuating 4000mw to less than 3000mw. Even some ongoing NIPPs like Imo State’s Egbema plant, Calabar plant, and Gbarain plant of Bayelsa State are already having varying issues of gas evacuation risks of which, pipeline insecurity is the highest issue.

As the nation’s power sector transforms into a private-sector situation, new transmission initiatives ought to be created. While most electricity generation and distribution facilities are being privatized, government is still holding fast to the mid-section, ‘transmission’ which is stirring more public concern. Many are still in a fix whether the better duo and a singly-ostracized transmission would satisfy the need of Nigerian electricity consumers waiting anxiously to enter the ‘Promised Land’ of reliable power supply.

http://sweetcrudereports.com/2013/10/08/will-nigerias-initiatives-on-electricity-work/

ikeyman00: Last time i were in Naija

it has still not be done

This your grammar ehn. . . which part of abroad are you sef?

Oshiomole has to stop noisemaking and
really concentrate in governance.

gregg2: Don't mind these stinking e-rats. This issue was in the public domain then and neither Fashola nor LASG objected. So, who are the dogs objecting on their behalf now?

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pogolowa1: Why do u support such rubish. Such an amount on cars when millions of nigerias aя̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ umemplyed. Cant that money be utilised in anoda way. What nonsense and a complete waste of public funds

Fashola once bought three armoured cars at 600M naira (ie 200M each) - two for himself and one for Tinubu. Only very few people cried out but the sky did not fall. All these tribalist running their mouths in the media today kept mute.
See a link:

http://www.modernghana.com/movie/12652/3/govfasholaasiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu-get-n600-milli.html

gregg2: Everything about APC in South West is fraud. Imagine these:

1) Road Construction:
APC states = 1billion naira for every 1KM
PDP states = Less than 500million for every 1km

2) Power Plant Construction
PDP Akwa Ibom State = 120M naira per 1MW
PDP Federal Govt = 160m naira per. 1MW
PDP Bauchi State = 230M naira per 1M
APC Fashola Lagos State = 320M per 1M

3) Bullet Proof Cars
PDP minister Oduah = 115m naira each
APC Fashola = 200m naira each

Bros, those guys are con men. The reason they will never allow FOI bill to work in Lagos state

Liars on the prowl. First, it did not rain yesterday.
Except the rain only fell on MMIA roof and did not get to neighboring Ajao Estate where I stay.

Governor of Lagos State,Babatunde Raji Fashola and his political Godfather,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu just took delivery of new acquisitions.

Source identified the buy as three bullet proof cars- Jeeps- with bomb detector apparatus and surveillance cameras.

Findings revealed that two of the purchase are with Governor Fashola for official usage as the helmsman of Lagos state. Asiwaju Tinubu is said to have one to his name as party leader.

The brand of the bullet proof cars is identified as Toyota Prado Jeep.

The cost of each jeep- including handling, registration, insurance and other fees- is two hundred million naira. The three jeeps are valued at 600 million naira.

The cars are customized- by special order.

It is however believed that the Lagos state government footed the bill for the cars.

The three automobiles were reportedly bought for Asiwaju Tinubu and Governor Fashola on grounds of 'security'

Insiders revealed that the two political figures have not gone public with their jeeps.


http://m.modernghana.com/mobile/12652/4/govfasholaasiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu-get-n600-milli.html

Fashola bought three bulletproof SUV's at a cost of 600 million for himself and Tinubu. That amounts to 200m each by far costlier than what Aviation ministry for theirs. Nobody talked about it. All of you bedbugs crying and vomiting rubbish can get lost.

iterator25: Ok, kindly give us an estimate of the cost, eko ile will get back to you.

FG = 160 million per 1MW

Bauchi State govt = 230 million per 1MW

Lagos state govt = 320 million per 1MW

Just 10MW plant that the thieves built at an outrageous 3.2 billion naira.
The article deliberately refused to tell how much the plant cost most likely because
of the outrage that followed it on social media last week. Inflation of contracts is now a
norm among APC states. If they are not awarding 1 billion naira per 1KM road, it is 320 million naira per 1MW

ASUU are to blame.
The guys are just heartless and highly political.

HNosegbe: You insist the vehicles weren't over-priced, so I ask: Have you ever heard of a bulletproof BMW sold for $800,000, anywhere in the world?

Is Oduah the Procurement Director of Ministry of Aviation? Is she the Permanent Secretary of that ministry? These are officials that carry out procurement activities for the ministry - sourcing, bidding, negotiation, ordering, receiving.

utumunta: It is a notorious fact that Tinubu's popularity is on a speedy decline. He caged Gen Buhari because the general talks out of turn, yet he struts around making bogus statements.
A one-man business dies with the sole-proprietor and that has been the story of APC.

Gbam

1) 2baba, the most humble?
Blackface will not agree with you oh . . . Lol

2) I think Ramsey Noah, Mikel Obi or King Sunny Ade should replace Olamide.
Olamide is not so well-known outside Lagos/South West.

3) Really, me thinks 2baba and Don Jay are on point

4) Gene carries herself as someone that has pride

5) For Funke . . . hm, her breakup and the interviews she granted were nasty

Progre thieves

Demdem: It's plain stupidity for asking those who don't control surep funds to give account.
Jonathan campaign managers control surep funds nationwide. In otherwords, Jonathan controls surep.
The only person that should give account is no other than Ebele Retardeen Jonathan.

I thought you were intelligent.