₦airaland Forum

The Country loses 158 billion daily due to the strike of civil servants, so na we they pay dis politicians heavy salaries, anoda strike and protest ova their huge pay sul come soon!!!

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pls just say something abt the sack?

There are fresh facts that the Federal
Government may be poised to sack all civil
servants who stay away from work this
week.
It was also learnt that ex President Olusegun
Obasanjo prevailed on President Goodluck
Jonathan, few days before fuel subsidy
was  removed, not to do away with fuel
subsidy at this time.
Pointblanknews.com sources hinted that
Obasanjo spoke with Jonathan while his
administration was contemplating
removing subsidy on petrol.
According to our sources, Obasanjo
acquainted Jonathan with the implications
of kicking out subsidy at this time.
All government agencies and ministries
were empty today in Abuja as all civil
servants stayed away from their desks in
line with the directive from organized labor.
According to our source, permanent
secretaries have been compelled to compile
names of all civil servants who refuse to
turn up for duties on Tuesday.
Our source hinted that all those who fail to
report for duty would be sacked.
The permanent secretaries  have also been
mandated to advertise from next week all
staff who fail to report for duty on
Tuesday.
The Head of Service of the Federation,
Alhaji Bello Sali, said  security officers had
been deployed to the various government
offices to ensure their security.
He said government had discovered that
many civil servants could not report for
work due to lack of transport and,therefore,
directed that the various Ministries,
Departments and Agencies to provide staff
buses for the transportation of workers to
and from work.
It was also learnt that some government
agencies had opened fresh attendance

thanks for comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for comment!¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More comments!!!!!!!!!!!!

President GEJ, pls take a look at this b4 u
plunder d entire nation into unwarranted
war: OPEC Members:
Fuel Price Per Ltr.        MinWage.
1. Venezuela N3.61     N95,639
2. Kuwait N34.54        N161,461
3. S/Arabia N25.12      N99,237
,  4. Iran N102.05        N86,585
6. Qatar N34.54           N101,250
7. UAE 78.18 -
8. Algeria N63.55        N55,957
9. Libya N26.69           N23,813
10. Iraq N59.66          N25,813
11. Naija N140-200    N18,000?
NON-OPEC:
USA N157.00              N197,296
UK N334.41                N295,644
Oman N48.67             N91,583
(all figures are in NGN Naira)
Now, Mr. President, if u want Nigerians 2 buy
fuel in accordance with d int‘l mkt price, then,
pay us in accordance with d int‘l Minimum Wage! [b][/b][color=#000099][/color]

is high time we christains begin to defend ourselves, CAN president is right, we are just defending, not attacking, dont undastand what kumuyi is trying to say!

Boko Haram: Kumuyi rejects self-defence
call
JANUARY 2, 2012 BY OYETUNJI ABIOYE LEAVE
A COMMENT
THE General Superintendent of the Deeper
Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William
Kumuyi, on Sunday rejected the call on
Christians to defend themselves against
attacks by Boko Haram.
Christian Association of Nigeria President,
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, while reacting to the
Christmas Day bombings which claimed at
least 40 lives and dozens injured in parts of
the North, said Christians would be forced
to defend themselves if attacked by Boko
Haram again.
Oritsejafor hinged his stand on the lack of
response by Muslim leaders and that the
Christian community was also “fast losing
confidence in government’s ability to
protect our rights.”
However, Kumuyi, who addressed a news
conference at the International Bible
Training Centre, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos, said
retaliation was contrary to the biblical
injunction for Christians to “take an eye for
an eye, or a tooth for a tooth.”
He said the nation could be thrown into
anarchy if Christians chose to defend
themselves through violence or if they
resorted to taking up arms.
According to him, this can lead to another
civil war.
Commiserating with families of those who
lost their lives in the Christmas Day
bombings, the cleric urged believers in
Jesus Christ to demonstrate the virtue of
love, patience and forgiveness.
He said, “I wish to encourage our brothers
and sisters in the faith who were directly
affected by the spate of bombings in our
country to exercise a high level of restraint
and caution.
“While I appreciate the emotional
outpourings over these incidents, we must
nonetheless be circumspect so that we do
not exacerbate an already fragile and dire
situation.
“We must always adhere to the admonitions
of our Lord that we are not to retaliate or
fight back against those who openly
provoke us or make themselves our
enemies without a cause. We are to love
them, pray for them and continue to extend
hand of fellowship to them. This is the path
the Lord Jesus followed and which He
enjoins us to follow. This is what marks the
believers out as salt and light in the world,
provocations notwithstanding.”
He added, “We have to copy the example of
our Lord Jesus Christ who, though
persecuted, unjustly treated and brutalised,
committed everything to the Father without
retaliating.
“However tempting the situation, Christians
must not resort to violence. We cannot
afford to give up this virtue and resort to
retaliation, self help or bloodletting against
those who are practitioners of violence.
Ours is not a violent cause and we cannot
afford to lose our good virtues, even in the
most hostile of environments.”
He noted that life was sacred, saying
nobody has the right to take the life of
another person, no matter the level of
provocation.

pls post a better picture of the car!!!

from all replies, na men the buy credit,girls no dey buycredit, but ladies how much credit do you get from your lovers a day?

hello.hello

pls NL say somtin!!!

just tell i need it

Every force man stop me on the road and ask for particulars
-police ask of papers!!!
-Vio ask for papers!!!
-Road safety ask for papers!!!
At the end the extort money from me.
Pls nairalanders, help me whose work is to check for particulars and what is the work of the others?
This will help us all thanks!!!

guys u need to say something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REAL COST OF FUEL PRESENTLY IN NIGERIA, BUT ARE WE BEING DECEIVED BY THE GOVERNMENT!!! PLS READ AND COMMENT!!!!!

By Izielen Agbon Izielen Agbon

On December 10, 2011, if you stopped at the Mobil filling station on Old Aba Road in Port Harcourt , you would be able to buy a litre of petrol for 65 naira or $1.66 per gallon at an exchange rate of $1/N157 and 4 litres per gallon. This is the official price. The government claims that this price would have been subsidized at N73/litre and that the true price of a litre of petrol in Port Harcourt is N138/litre or $3.52 per gallon.

They are therefore determined to remove their subsidy and sell the gallon at $3.52. But, On December 10, 2011, if you stopped at the Mobil Gas station on E83rd St and Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, USA, you would be a able to buy a gallon of petrol for $3.52/gallon. Both gallons of petrol would have been refined from Nigerian crude oil. The only difference would be that the gallon in New York was refined in a US North East refinery from Nigerian crude exported from the Qua Iboe Crude Terminal in Nigeria while the Port Harcourt gallon was either refined in Port Harcourt or imported. The idea that a gallon of petrol from Nigerian crude oil cost the same in New York as in Port Harcourt runs against basic economic logic. Hence, Nigerians suspect that there is something irrational and fishy about such pricing. What they would like to know is the exact cost of 1 litre of petrol in Nigeria .

We will answer this question in the simplest economic terms despite the attempts of the Nigerian government to muddle up the issue. What is the true cost of a litre of petrol in Nigeria ? The Nigerian government has earmarked 445000 barrel per day throughput for meeting domestic refinery products demands. These volumes are not for export. They are public goods reserved for internal consumption. We will limit our analysis to this volume of crude oil. At the refinery gate in Port Harcourt, the cost of a barrel of Qua Iboe crude oil is made up of the finding /development cost ($3.5/bbl) and a production/storage /transportation cost of $1.50 per barrel.

Thus, at $5 per barrel, we can get Nigerian Qua Iboe crude to the refining gates at Port Harcourt and Warri. One barrel is 42 gallons or 168 litres. The price of 1 barrel of petrol at the Depot gate is the sum of the cost of crude oil, the refining cost and the pipeline transportation cost. Refining costs are at $12.6 per barrel and pipeline distribution cost are $1.50 per barrel. The Distribution Margins (Retailers, Transporters, Dealers, Bridging Funds, Administrative charges etc) are N15.49/litre or $16.58 per barrel. The true cost of 1 litre of petrol at the Mobil filling station in Port Harcourt or anywhere else in Nigeria is therefore ($5 +$12.6+$1.5+$16.6) or $35.7 per barrel . This is equal to N33.36 per litre compared to the official price of N65 per litre. Prof. Tam David West is right. There is no petrol subsidy in Nigeria . Rather the current official prices are too high. Let us continue with some basic energy economics.

The government claims we are currently operating our refineries at 38.2% efficiency. When we refine a barrel of crude oil, we get more than just petrol. If we refine 1 barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil, we will get 45 gallons of petroleum products. The 45 gallons of petroleum products consist of 4 gallons of LPG, 19.5 gallons of Gasoline, 10 gallons of Diesel, 4 gallons of Jet Fuel/Kerosene, 2.5 gallons of Fuel Oil and 5 gallons of Bottoms. Thus, at 38.2% of refining capacity, we have about 170000 bbls of throughput refined for about 13.26 million litres of petrol, 6.8 million litres of diesel and 2.72 million litres of kerosene/jet fuel.

This is not enough to meet internal national demand. So, we send the remaining of our non-export crude oil volume (275000 barrels per day) to be refined abroad and import the petroleum product back into the country. We will just pay for shipping and refining. The Nigerian government exchanges the 275000 barrels per day with commodity traders (90000 barrels per day to Duke Oil, 60000 barrels per day to Trafigura (Puma Energy), 60000 barrels per day to Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and 65000 barrels per days to unknown sources) in a swap deal. The landing cost of a litre of petrol is N123.32 and the distribution margins are N15.49 according to the government. The cost of a litre is therefore (N123.32+N15.49) or N138.81 . This is equivalent to $3.54 per gallon or $148.54 per barrel. In technical terms, one barrel of Nigerian crude oil has a volume yield of 6.6% of AGO, 20.7% of Gasoline, 9.5% of Kerosene/Jet fuel, 30.6% of Diesel, 32.6% of Fuel oil / Bottoms when it is refined.

Using a netback calculation method, we can easily calculate the true cost of a litre of imported petrol from swapped oil. The gross product revenue of a refined barrel of crude oil is the sum of the volume of each refined product multiplied by its price. Domestic prices are $174.48/barrel for AGO, $69.55/barrel for Gasoline (PMS or petrol), $172.22/barrel for Diesel Oil, $53.5/barrel for Kerosene and $129.68/barrel for Fuel Oil. Let us substitute the government imported PMS price of $148.54 per barrel for the domestic price of petrol/gasoline. Our gross product revenue per swapped barrel would be (174.48*0.066 +148.54*0.207+172.22*0.306+ 53.5*0.095+129.68*0.326) or $142.32 per barrel. We have to remove the international cost of a barrel of Nigerian crude oil ($107 per barrel) from this to get the net cost of imported swapped petroleum products to Nigerian consumers. The net cost of swapped petroleum products would therefore be $142.32 -$107 or $35.32 per barrel of swapped crude oil. This comes out to be a net of $36.86 per barrel of petrol or N34.45 per litre.

This is the true cost of a litre of imported swapped petrol and not the landing cost of N138 per litre claimed by the government. The pro-subsidy Nigerian government pretends the price of swapped crude oil is $0 per barrel (N0 per litre) while the resulting petroleum products is $148.54 per barrel (N138 per litre). The government therefore argues that the “subsidy” is N138.81-N65 or N73.81 per litre. But, if landing cost of the petroleum products is at international price ($148.54 per barrel), then the take-off price of the swapped crude oil should be at international price ($107 per barrel). This is basic economic logic outside the ideological prisms of the World Bank. The traders/petroleum products importers and the Nigerian government are charging Nigerians for the crude oil while they are getting it free.

So let us conclude this basic economic exercise. If the true price of 38.2% of our petrol supply from our local refinery is N33.36/litre and the remaining 61.8% has a true price of N34.45 per litre, then the average true price is (0.382*33.36+0.618*34.45) or N34.03 per litre. The official price is N65 per litre and the true price with government figures is about N34 per litre (even with our moribund refineries).

There is therefore no petrol subsidy. Rather, there is a high sales tax of 91.2% at current prices of N65 per litre. The labor leaders meeting the President should go with their economists. They should send economists and political scientists as representatives to the Senate Committee investigating the petroleum subsidy issue. There are many expert economists and political scientists in ASUU who will gladly represent the view of the majority. The labor leaders should not let anyone get away with the economic fallacy that the swapped oil is free while its refined products must be sold at international prices in the Nigerian domestic market.

The government should explain at what price the swapped crude oil was sold and where the money accruing from these sales have been kept. We have done this simple economic analysis of the Nigerian petroleum products market to show that there is no petrol subsidy what so ever. In the end, this debate on petrol subsidy and the attempt of the government to transfer wealth from the Nigerian masses to a petrol cabal will be decided in the streets. Nigerian workers, farmers, students, market women, youths, unemployed, NGO and civil society as a whole should prepare for a long harmattan season of protracted struggle. They should not just embark on 3 days strike/protests after which the government reduces the hiked petroleum prices by a few Nairas. They must embark upon in a sustainable struggle that will lead to fundamental changes. Let us remove our entire political subsidy from the government and end this petroleum products subsidy debate once and for all. It is time to bring the Arab Spring south.

Izielen Agbon Izielen Agbon writes from Dallas, Texas. izielenagbon@yahoo.com

He is former HOD , Petroleum Engineering Dept, former ASUU chairman, University of Ibadan, trained many operators in nation’s energy industry with pratical experience on our practices and policy focus in the last 20yrs

mbulela:
Prof. Aminu, why not ban SCIA too while you are at it?

seconded

by killing innocent people, nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Former minister of Petroleum and a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Jibril Aminu has called for the disbandment of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) as the only way to ensure complete peace in Nigeria.

Senator Aminu said to stop Muslim elements from forming a parallel national body that might be called Muslim Association of Nigeria, (MAN) which may not be in the interest of peace, CAN should seize to exist.
Aminu said this while delivering a paper at the ‘Peace Confab’ in Kaduna State.

However, Professor Aminu accused religious leaders of conniving with politicians to perpetrate injustice on the people through sectionalizing their religious faith.

He said Christian and Muslim leaders must ensure that the people get good leadership from their elected leaders, lamenting that Nigerian elites have replaced colonial masters by forcing themselves on the leadership of the country without allowing the people’s choice to prevail whether such choice is an illiterate or a graduate.

According to Aminu, “Similarly, religious leaders of all kind and at all levels and the media are set out to incite violence, intolerance and disharmony, instigating people against all public officers and make sure they are held in their homes.”
“ Yet there are constitutional Courts in every state and locality. We must also ensure that these Courts and the people that did their job are allowed. Most of the problems we have can be settled by an active constitutional Court.”

“Give the women a chance and find out what women in other developing countries are doing. A lot have being said about the youths. I do not believe that as a group, the youths are angry. If they really were, the situation would have been different. After all, they have example of what happened.”
Mahmoud said unless the Northern governors confront Plateau State Governor, David Jona Jang to take after the former Kaduna State governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi’s initiatives in solving crisis, the state would continue to live in chaos.

He gave the experience of Kaduna State from 1992 when the Zango-Kataf crises erupted up to when Makarfi looked into the problem from its remote causes and effected lasting peace in the state except for the last presidential elections crisis.

He said, “In 1992 after the Zangon Kataf riot, the same thing happened after every election in Kaduna. The day after election if you go to police force headquarters, you will see at least two thousand people, who are arrested for political violence, after two days they will all be released.”

“ Now that is one problem we have but the two things, I will like to tell you is that in Kaduna State, after all the commissions of inquiry and after the government discovered that it is not possible to punish those behind this crisis either because of the position or because of their political or religious positions, Governor Makarfi decided that why not look at the remote causes of this problems.”

“The remote causes of all the problems were that people of southern Kaduna were tired of emirate system. So, Governor Makarfi administration decided to create chiefdoms in the South and we now have relative peace. I hope all the Northern governors tell Governor Jang of Plateau that the only problem in Jos and the crisis will continue until this is solved.”

“I represented Jos natives during the 2009 inquiry before Ricky Tarfa commission, the only witness we called, Alhaji Sale Hassan said, he was then 69 years old. His grandfather was born in Jos but he is still being called a settler, his children cannot get job in even local government in Plateau State, he collects a certificate where the government recognized him as settler. An Igbo man in Jos is not called a settler, a Yoruba man in Jos is not called a settler but the Hausa /Fulani who settled for over two hundred years, who cannot locate any other place than Jos are called settlers. So if plateau state will take after what Kaduna did I believe the crisis may now be resolved?”

For Joseph B. Daudu, “There is no doubt that the dearth of enlightened and specialized security manpower in Nigeria is not the sole cause of the present inability of the police force to deal with the crisis referred to. The major cause is insincerity and corruption.”
“The later leads to a system collapse as is been witnessed in Nigeria. The Nigeria police force in reality has become a byword for corruption. Police stations have become business centres. The victim in most cases now has to finance the investigation of the crime against him.”
“There are other unpalatable happenings where law enforcement ought to be taken place. Their revelation is not for this forum. All that needs to be said is that the strategy for change and the achievements of results must proceed from the leadership of this country.”

http://pointblanknews.com/new/news/3218-disband-can-now-jibril-aminu.html

Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has described Boko Haram as rebels who are fighting for a change in governance.

Ribadu who was also the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 elections said that the world is gradually moving ahead and Nigeria should not be allowed to go down by acts of extremists.
“The emerging suicide bombers are rebels who are telling the nation that things are not right. So, it is time for us to wake up. This is the truth and the reality.”

“We have kept on talking about the likes of Sardauna of Sokoto, Tafawa Balewa and the rest of them because they did good job, they taught you people who are today our fathers and they left you with the responsibility to continue with the good work, some of you indeed carried it and did it very well.”


“We have learnt from you and we believe it is also our challenge today to continue with what you people have started,” he added.

“Today, it is a modern world. Today it is a different world. It is not the world of 1950s or 1960s; things have changed. Please, let us take note of that. Let us understand that this world we are talking about today is a different one.”


“We have new challenges, modern things, difficulties that require modern and new approach and solutions. This generation of young Northerners are asking for opportunity and chance for them to also play their own role, listen to them and give them chance,” Ribadu charged.


http://pointblanknews.com/new/exclusive/3219-boko-harama-are-rebels-who-want-change-ribadu.html

pls i have i question for mr president,
1: what is the important of them voting from there?
2: where did something like that ever happen in this world?
3: will that change the situation of this country?
Advice
1: forget those outside this country participating in nigeria's election despise they are nigerian
2: any one who one to vote should come back and vote in nigeria
3: focus on giving us light, water, better skool
4: do away with corruption to the best of your ability
thanks

A gud girl is a girl who doesnt make me her responsibility,, cos girls of nowaday you have to be responsible for them, just because you say u love them,,,,,
any girl who does not make me her responsibility, then i will be responble for her, cos i know she is not a nuisance!!!!

picture or photo of the thing, so i can advice!!!! Dont delay!!!

if keshi fail, they will still sack him!!!!!

just wondering where all the coins that we were forced to collect from bank are,
1; are they coins in the bank?
2; are they in people houses?
3; what made them valueless?
4; can coins be brough back for use again?

Where are they?

just wondering where all the coins that we were forced to collect from bank are,
1; are they coins in the bank?
2; are they in people houses?
3; what made them valueless?
4; can coins be brough back for use again?

Where are they?

The controversy over the conduct of post-University Tertiary Matriculation Examinations took a different dimension on Wednesday with the initiator of the policy and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board holding different grounds.

Former Minister of Education and proponent of the post-UTME, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji, appeared before the Senate Committee Education investigating the legality and propriety of the test, asserting that JAMB’s failure brought about the intervention.

But JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, noted that the conduct of the post-UTME was another matriculation examinations contrary to the law establishing JAMB and creating additional financial burden on would-be students.

He said the Vice-Chancellors had turned the test into a revenue generating avenue, flouting the directives of the National Council on Education that no university should charge more than N1,000 for the screening.

Ojerinde said, “The results of the post-UTME are being used indiscriminatingly by different universities for different purposes, even as they invite candidates far more than their carrying capacities to boost their revenue from the exercise even when they know that they will not admit them.”

He advocated that instead of another test, the universities should  screen candidates to ensure they were qualified for admission.

He added that the universities had mechanisms for checking and flushing out those who entered the system through fraudulent means.

But  Obaji told the committee that she recommended post-UTME in 2005 for admitting pupils to the nation’s tertiary institutions after discovering that results obtained by JAMB candidates were fraudulent.

“What we found out was that there was no correlation between the JAMB scores obtained by students and their performances in class after they had been admitted. It was obvious at the time that JAMB was messing up the admission, with various kinds of lists,” she said.

GUYS WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY

Thecontroversy over the conduct of post-University Tertiary Matriculation Examinations took a different dimension on Wednesday with the initiator of the policy and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board holding different grounds.

Former Minister of Education and proponent of the post-UTME, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji, appeared before the Senate Committee Education investigating the legality and propriety of the test, asserting that JAMB’s failure brought about the intervention.

But JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, noted that the conduct of the post-UTME was another matriculation examinations contrary to the law establishing JAMB and creating additional financial burden on would-be students.

He said the Vice-Chancellors had turned the test into a revenue generating avenue, flouting the directives of the National Council on Education that no university should charge more than N1,000 for the screening.

Ojerinde said, “The results of the post-UTME are being used indiscriminatingly by different universities for different purposes, even as they invite candidates far more than their carrying capacities to boost their revenue from the exercise even when they know that they will not admit them.”

He advocated that instead of another test, the universities should screen candidates to ensure they were qualified for admission.

He added that the universities had mechanisms for checking and flushing out those who entered the system through fraudulent means.

But Obaji told the committee that she recommended post-UTME in 2005 for admitting pupils to the nation’s tertiary institutions after discovering that results obtained by JAMB candidates were fraudulent.

“What we found out was that there was no correlation between the JAMB scores obtained by students and their performances in class after they had been admitted. It was obvious at the time that JAMB was messing up the admission, with various kinds of lists,” she said.