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eaglechild:
Lagos has been the capital of Nigeria since 1914 till 1991. Way before Akwaibom came into existence.

And prior to that was the major British colony in West Africa even in the 17th century.

For someone to wake up and start showing pictures of painted kerbs and Lagos skyline, fraudulent PPPs and substandard architecture in a megacity that is centuries old.

And worst of all go ahead and compare it to a state that is a few decades old is extreme stewpidity.
Which further buttressed the monumental failure Lagos is.

Before you scream allocation.

Lagos IGR more than makes up for this.
The FG presence in Lagos is unparalleled as virtually all the major bridges are FG owned and serviced as well as different FG ministries.
The private companies apart from taxes have a cooperate social responsibility that Lagos heavily benefits from.

So what does the state do with all the IGR.
Where is Lekki international airport?

Wher is Eko Atlantic?

Where is Lagos light rail?

No standard sport facility in a megacity.

These are the projects we should be asking of, not Brown 3 story buildings built for friends and tagged estate.

semitunde:
Did the figure capture those who decided not to be counted? Or those who decidedly went to their state of origin for such enumeration?

aresa:
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Plot to sack Muazu, NWC: PDP leaders in dilemma
May 16, 2015
Written by Gbade OGUNWALE


Key stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are are caught in a dilemma over the next line of action on the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, and his team in the National Working Committee (NWC).

Two separate meetings of the party’s national leaders and elders, called by President Goodluck Jonathan during the week, failed to take a definite position on the fate of the elected party officials.

While some of the stakeholders are calling for the sack of Mu’azu and his subordinates, others have argued that they be allowed to complete their tenure, which expires in March, 2016.

The disagreement is coming just as a prominent chieftain of the party has fingered the President-Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the ruling party’s “nemesis”.

Our correspondent’s investigation revealed at the weekend that all the party’s outgoing governors have insisted on outright dissolution of the NWC, to pave way for a new set of executives.

The governors, investigation further revealed, are being backed by a leader of the party in the Southwest zone, Chief Olabode George and a few others. A source privy to the meetings said President Jonathan has chosen to remain neutral.

Our source also said the President had directed the stakeholders and contending parties to embark on further consultations, with a view to finding amicable solution to the raging crisis.

The anti Mu’azu forces, particularly Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, had argued that retaining the present crop of the party’s executive members would be counter-productive.

According to them, rather than mobilising support for the President in the last election, the Chairman and his team members were preoccupied with pecuniary pursuits to the detriment of the party.

Allusions were made to instances where the party officials shared money among themselves when they were supposed to disburse same for campaign purposes.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, had at a recent media briefing, stated that members of the NWC collected N30 million each.

Metuh however, explained that the money was for the backlog of allowances and medical expenses of the NWC members.

Apparently, the money was part of the proceeds of sales of nomination forms for the various elective positions in the last general elections.



He had insisted that funds were not made available to the party officials for the presidential campaign, saying the funds were directly placed under the control of the Presidential Campaign Council.

Buttressing Metuh’s position, a high ranking member of the party’s top decision making organ said the NWC should not be blamed for the crushing defeat the PDP suffered at the poll.

The official, who craved anonymity, said the PDP faced the most formidable opposition in Buhari and Tinubu who he described as the party’s nemesis.

Said he: “I think it’s high time we stopped this fruitless blame game. Buhari and Tinubu were our nemesis and not the NWC members.

“If you are a member of a club, you must be bold enough to say the truth when things go wrong. Tell me, how many of us can match Buhari’s popularity in the entire north? How many of our members can stand against Tinubu in the Southwest, even in the states that are not under the control of the APC?

“Let me tell you something, during the campaign, some of us from the north were compelled to chant ‘Sai Buhari’ by the same people we tried to sell our presidential candidate to.

“So, whatt can anybody do in a situation where your audience insisted that you must hail your opponent. So many of our people in the North see Buhari as a kind of god. We were helpless.”

Meanwhile, the Post Election Assessment Committee set up by the party to review PDP’s poor performance at the poll has called for memoranda from members across board.

At a media briefing in Abuja on Friday, the Committee Secretary, Senator Walid Jibril said there was need to seek input from diverse opinions within the party.

According to him, restricting contributions to leaders and chieftains of the party would not yield the desired result, stressing that contributions from followers, who constitute the bulk of the voting segment are very crucial.

He vowed that any party chieftain found to have acted in ways and manners suggesting anti party activities would not be spared.

Jibril, who is also the secretary of the party’s Board of Trustees, added that the PDP would succeed in putting its house in order sooner that most people expect.

“I can assure you that we are working very hard to get our rhythm back. We have put the last election behind us and we are focusing on the future of the party ahead of 2019”, he stated.

fastguy10:
One Nigeria is a big fraud

Which court stops jonathan from relocating $500m oil project from lagos to bayelsa

lagos is nt one of d oil producing state in Nigeria and them can never be

Gej if u dnt ignore dat court n do ur wish I will nt be happy wt u at all we deserve it becos it is our right

DS ONE NIGERIA IS A BIG FRAUD

gists:
I think the message has been passed and its now clear/understood.
We NEED the grid. But for now, we have to focus more on local generation in order to decentralize power generation due to the cost and time required to upgrade the national grid to a level that will effectively serve its purpose. Its like someone who is hungry and instead of walking to the nearest buka, he decides to start planting yam Granted, the cost of eating in the buka maybe a bit more than cooking at home, he certainly would have been long dead by the time the yam is ready to be harvested.
I hope the new people coming to Aso-Rock are reading.

I laughed when I read the idea of transporting gas to power plant in cylinders. Not impossible though, but who has time and resources for that logistical nightmare?

victorels:
What do you think the project is?
The letter said the president approved the relocation of the project to bayelsa. That means their had been negotiation already. This woman is only attracting public sympathy because she felt the project is going to be removed from her region. Besides, she is an employee of the federal government. The government is not asking them to relocate their company to bayelsa but the project they helped the federal government execute.
From my understanding, the project is a floating object. Its not something they are going to start rebuilding. And every instruction from government is an order that must be obeyed.

porka:
[size=16pt]That's not true.

The multi-billion dollars NLNG headquarters was relocated to Port Harcourt.[/size]

Chiaka:
Oil production is in Bayelta, Rivers , Warri area etc and service is miles away. The first time I learnt about this project it really got me wondering but its better now, it should be close to base of operation. That's the right thinking thing to do

meccuno:
seriously...I agree with your submission. I blame GEJ for these miscalculated steps....since the North has decided that we cannot have true federalism,the best thing to do is site projects where they are supposed to be.....imagine kaduna having a refinery and they do not produce a single drop of oil.......we have major ports in Nigeria like onne,calabar and warri ports....but they are not functional to reasons I do not understand......lagos and abuja have gotten a large share of federal assisted projects and I think these development should be spread across.....lagos is being congested......dangote is about to build a new refinery in lagos......that is concentrating too much there....I think another move is to return all head offices of the oil firms back to where they belong....that is the Niger delta.....at least when things are done how they are supposed to be done,I doubt if there would be shouts of marginalisation.......and I heard that the letter to this effect was dated 30th april....so the decision was made before the elections

jpphilips:
Do you know how much it cost to do 5km standard grid that can carry 20,000MW of electricity, can you guess?
we dont need a national grid at this stage, development is one at a time, it is cheaper for ikeja GENCO to construct a 5,000MW grid over 30km to cover Ikeja alone than doing 20,000MW round the country, bros this matter na common sense naa!!
He already knows that Ikeja will never exceed 5,000MW in the next decade!!

sojas:
Uniport certificate questionable? Then you need a brain surgery. The Institution is not at fault, is the individual here.

luvinhubby:
Considering the horrors of being experienced in bunkering, why locate an oil & gas project in an area that does not produce oil or gas?
Locating it in Lagos initially was just political, relocating it to Bayelsa is more logical & sensible.

chukwudi44:
As long Okigbo and Elumelu panel reports are also revisited, I don't mind but the lower Niger region would resist any witchhunt or selective probing of it's leaders

udordike:
I am in love with this Dipreye guy.
GEJ's lost is bigger than mismanagement of Nigeria. It boils down to his Igboness( the support he was getting from SE and the SW attitude of calling everybody from his side Igbo)
He ran his government the same way all our past Leader did theirs, but he gave the petroleum ministry to a lady(ijaw/igbo). Most yorubas were not happy with Mrs Diezani Mmadueke and her way of operation. When their son OBJ was in charge of that ministry, they didn't complain. And they didn't understand why Mrs Ngozi Iweala continued as finance in charge.
It was the SW propaganda that prompted the Northern awakening, otherwise why didn't they support GMB before. The subsequent threats to Igbos in Lagos is an off shoot of what Nigeria has been and will continue to be.
I pray that GMB wiLl rise above all our tribalistic and nepotic tendencies and heal this country. Otherwise, instead of GEJ he will be that last Presido of a united Naija.

God bless us all
God bless Nigeria

Tallesty1:
Same way he's promising to curb corruption, forgetting that he is sitting, wining and dining with corruption.




Let's see how he will do it.

gists:
Ok maybe we are saying the same thing from different angles.
BUT I still don't think we should abandon the existing transmission out-rightly. We have seen generators and transformers go up in flames. That can also happen to a local power station. The idea of national transmission is to create room for flexibility and maneuvering. Imagine something happens to Eko disco that is exclusively generating and serving Lagos. If anything happens to the transformer or generator without the flexibility of "sharing" power with the rest of the country, the entire state will be under darkness while their will be power in Mowe and Ibafo

I think the national grid should be left alone for now and concentrate on local/regional generation with the possibility of taking/pushing power from/to the national grid when it becomes necessary. Let us not get too carried away and throw away the baby with the bathwater.

gists:
But there is no where in the world where distribution is phased out.
Where do we draw the line? State level, LGAs, LCDA, Street? There is need to generate power in a central location within a region and distribute within that region. Except you are advocating everybody should generate their own electricity (which is pretty much what we have now with the numerous noisy i-pass-my-neighbours) there is no way you can eliminate distribution.
You are right, there is nothing stopping enugu from generating from coal and kano from solar. But every street in enugu cannot have a coal power plant! In the same manner, ever street in kano cannot have a solar farm. That is why there should be a central location in enugu/kano where the coal plant/solar farm will be installed and DISTRIBUTED across the state.

But I disagree with the idea of transporting gas in bottles to power plant. The recurrent logistics/efficiency/risk is just not worth it. Run a pipe to a central place like it is being done by some now. Generate the electricity and again DISTRIBUTE across the state or jurisdiction (if we are using discos that cut across a number of states)

Bayswater:
Wow, double speak but you expected GEJ to fix it in 4 years. Oniyeye.

anonimi:
Please do you know the man in the picture with our freshly minted messiah?
I understand he spent $16 billion for eight years (1999-2007) to produce more BLACKOUT




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Why is it so easy to ALLOW ourselves be taken for stewpid FOOOLS by these Looters in Power (LiPs)
Why?

EMANY01:
Right.....you apc folks are so smart you will basically write the book in the field of micro power generation and distribution in no less a place that in developing africa.
The more I think about it I have visions of a nobel price of some such award going to the buhari government for inovation in power infrastructure development in developing countries.

My now obviously inadequate education in engineering lead me to believe that in a hundred and thirty years of reserch , development,management experience and inovation in the field of electrical power generation,transmission and distribution, there is a valid reason that the disteibuted power infrastructure models have be only cousarily examined and discarded repeatedly.

The laws of physics not to mention economics will slap the fantasy illusions from your eyes soon enough all the propagandar defence in the world will not even come close to being enough.