₦airaland Forum

ajepako:
PDP was bad and its member are looters-in-chief

Yet our economy was gradually thriving

Electricity supply was bad but at least we had fuel to power our generators

We never had it so bad even under the so called' clueless' one because although they stole but AllinsonMadueke knew her onions. She understood the system perfectly, paid the cabals their dues and enriched herself and her croonies but we never lacked for fuel.

Fuel scarcity then were as a result of one strike or the other by NUPENG OR PENGASSAN or their face off with government over one issue or the other or even maybe seizure of the tankers or dispute over parking right or space and all these were promplty addressed..

But under the 'new saint and sheriff' Nigerians dont even know the cause of this fuel scarcity and government has virtually exhausted all explanations and promises, yet the hardship persists...

We just hope someone somewhere knows what he is doing and swiftly up his ante because we are fed up..lt is going to be a really bumpy ride to 2019...

nickxtra:
Kindly advise if it is wise and good to a car engine if I change engine oil to 5w30 engine oil from the current Total quartz 9000 5w40 which I have been using to service my Nissan Primera for the past 13 months when it came as a tokunboh? Although, the car manual says 5w30 for ambient temperatures or 10w40, 20w50 suitable for hot climate. I was advised to settle for 5w40 then, since it is equally suitable, especially for hot climates. The car has been performing smoothly, but now, I think I should change servicing oil to 5w30 from the 5w40 for better or enhanced performance . Or what do you think?

UyiIredia:
Interesting. So what is atheism ? The belief that there is God abi. You are being foolish. One can have no belief in God and as well believe there is no God.

KingEbukasBlog:
You seem to be the one trolling here . Here is your statement :





We all know atheism as the belief there is no God . Meaning they dont exist . Then you are now saying no , Atheism is the non belief in a God . This simply means that there is indeed an eternal conscious entity but you dont see him as a God . Same way trees and rocks exist but you do not have the belief that they are gods

cc : winner01 , Joshthefirst , UyiIredia . Please oo am I misunderstanding this

Abeg just stick to your we-believe-there-is-no-God-He-does-not-exist stance and stop obfuscating issues

KingEbukasBlog:
I deduced from the above post that God indeed exists but you dont believe in Him . How am I wrong ?

KingEbukasBlog:
The emboldened text is not lucid enough . So you are saying that indeed there is a God - an eternal conscious creator - but you atheists dont believe in Him ?




No you are the one making the argument - if the trees and rocks are the gods they are purported to be .

The point I was trying to make is that since he is an atheist - assumes there is no God or no god exists - then trees and rocks worshiped as gods dont exist . Which obviously does not make any sense . So with this understanding , we can conclude that an eternal conscious entity does exist but the atheist chose not to see him as a God .

I mean the tree or rocks can be empirically proven to exist . Macro-evolution which no one has observed can be putatively proven through certain "scientific" methods . So this eternal conscious entity does exist and His existence can be proven though certain ways . Right ?

KingEbukasBlog:
1. Atheism believes that there is no god - no proof for any god's existence . The fact that trees and rocks are worshiped as gods refutes that .

2. If you are trying to make an argument to disprove my first statement with this:



Then it simply implies that an eternal conscious entity surely does exist but its not God .

With this understanding we Christians have to prove that the eternal conscious being/entity that exists is our God . Right ?

UyiIredia:
Not so. God's position is a solution to the uniques question of a cause for the universe.

UyiIredia:
By definition, God requires no explanation.

TheSuperNerd:
#smiles

Sir, I'm afraid you assume way too much.

But you're right about this.... I'm a youngster. #smiles

I didn't want to go down the "Edmundo line" because I saw no direct correlation of "that" to what we were discussing.

Then you "assumed" I don't know who Edmundo is. Hahahaha.... #smiles

I started following soccer as a 7 year old in 1999 but you'll be surprised at how much a younsgter born in the 90s can know about soccer from as far back as 1954. #smiles

Tell you what, you sound like a "legend" of the game, you could register your presence on trending national team threads in the Sports section.

Will be kinda fun. #smiles

And uhmm... All those Clubsides in "bold", I know them all (from Asec Mimosas of Cote d'ivoire to Al-Ahly of Egypt all the way to BCC Lions, Leventis Utd led by John Mastouroudes, Stationery Stores and the likes....... Not forgetting Zamalek of Egypt-Al-Ahly's eternal rivals, and even TP Mazembe and all). #smiles

The first question in bold is a rhetoric..... Of course it's not easy.

I'm many things right now going by my rising profile (unknown to many here and for good reasons) and I've been privileged and I'm still privileged to lead individuals even older than I am. I'm currently in my 20s (did my 24th birthday couple of days back).

Most times, I try to hide away from leadership but it keeps coming my way and I know I have to do things right and seek advice where I'm limited.

For the fact that leadership isn't easy or that I'm a youngster (as with other youngsters here) trying to make a point about our "Heroes of Nigerian football" or because I'm no ex-international is no excuse for anyone to go on and fail and then turn around and stop me from saying, "but you could have done better".

Look Sir, it's true a lot of people on NL and other platforms don't know "jack" about soccer and it's history in Nigeria, Africa and the world and it's true some of us dropping comments are "young' uns"...... #smiles

.........But you do not do well to place us all into "one box"

Some of us are very very knowledgeable and super passionate (not hooligans) about the game of football despite our different backgrounds and central fields of interests on planet earth.

I personally have done a lot of history digging, studies and researches on soccer and some other sports. So please, don't see our young age as reasons to shut us up or look down on us.

It's not fair.

It's dangerous to use the general stereotype of many to also judge a few.

It's so not cool classifying all youngsters as clueless.

@last bolded question: I did that to show that I saw the question. But I think I've said enough for one night. Maybe some other time.... #smiles

Goodnight Sir.

forgiveness:
So, what are you saying? Stick with local coaches or get a foreign coach?

safarigirl:
you who said we have no talent?

I may not know much, but I surely know more than you.

Just noticed the moniker, have a good night

safarigirl:
it is foolhardy to assume that people at home do not know better because they are at home.
.

Call me whenever NFF are willing to hire a 21-year old, female undergraduate to coach the National team.

I already expressed intention to get a Coaching certificate, in a matter of years, .

I may not be sitting at home like you have so ignorantly stated like the shallow person you must be.

Never despise the days of little beginning, even the Siasia you glorify and applaud was once sitting at home.

KingEbukasBlog:
You are missing the point I was trying to make . I'll let you figure it out

KingEbukasBlog:
Trees and rocks are worshiped as gods too . I guess you dont believe they exist . Your unbelief does not mean God does not exist

logoscope:
I have 2 questions...

1. If Jesus Christ and the current new testament is false, how do pastors perform miracles?

2. If Yoruba creation story is wrong, why do charms and incantations works?

Thank you.

safarigirl:
no, managers can be wrong too..... sometimes, they know nothing.

Did Moyes know best when Man U was sinking? What of Mourinho with Chelsea? The manager is not God, he is prone to mistakes and wrong calls

TheSuperNerd:
I'm sorry Sir. I'm no errand boy. My points are well placed. If you're not satisfied then let it be.... Ciao.

TheSuperNerd:
It's not matter of "anybody thinking he/she knows better or can do better" but common sense.

Siasia goofed and there was no way he was going to win that game by benching 3 of our lethal attacking options in Iheanacho, Iwobi and Simon Moses.

Any keen analyst knew that. One even said moments to the game that Nigeria can't win without an Iheanacho on that field. We had no shots on goal for the entire first 45 mins. Why? Our sharpest shooter was benched.

You don't have to be a tactical genius to figure out that Siasia actually goofed in players selection. Whatever reasons other than talent he had for selecting that First XI can never be justified. You don't teach Class to Super Talents... They have it inborn.

Yes, Talent is never enough but in this case, that was what we needed to overcome a non-spectacular Egyptian side.

In the name of tough decisions, he got blinded to his way to victory over Victory and took the bend to defeat. His best attacking options were right there behind him.

TheSuperNerd:
I understand you Sir. But it doesn't deny the facts on ground.

Besides, sometimes our misfortunes at tournaments or in competitive matches are down to coaches not utilizing properly the talents available to them.

Case study: Manu Garba @New Zealand 2015

Most recent case-study: Siasia vs Egypt yesterday. He benched better talents in Iwobi, Iheanacho and Moses Simon and went with Aminu Umar, Ahmed Musa....

TheSuperNerd:
Yes we do have the talents!!!!!! Even soccer analysts in the English media and top officials in the English FA agree to this.

One of the analysts even said, "It seems the future of world soccer rests with the Nigerians........" #he said much more.

So, the sooner you return to bed and wake up afresh, the better.

safarigirl:
We have all the talent we need, more talent than the likes of Netherlands, England, Algeria, CIV....we have a golden generation in our hands, boys who have it in them to break the records of Yekini, JJ Okocha, Kanu and Finidi George, but poor management and a corrupt administration will kill those talents every generation we get to.

nikkyejike:
Minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, on Tuesday apologised to Nigerian over the lingering fuel scarcity in the country and his faux pax when he stated that he was not a magician.

Kachikwu appeared before the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources, (Downstream) and noted particularly that his comment that he is not a magician to cause fuel queues to disappear overnight was not meant to insult Nigerians.

He rejected the call for him to resign over the biting fuel crisis but assured that the fuel queues would disappear within the first two weeks of April, 2016.

He said “Let me thank the Senate for taking time out from your recess to come to dialogue this issue. It shows the importance you attach to the petroleum industry and the feelings of Nigerians.

“Let me just digress. I share the pains of Nigerians. I feel that pain every day when I walk the streets. On Easter day I was in Lagos monitoring fuel distribution and the depots, I have given 24 hours attention to the problems.

“I have continued to work with one sole purpose which is that every problem must have a solution and I think that is the reason I was picked.

“I do apologise for the comment that I made jocularly with my friends in the press about being a magician and it offended Nigerians. It was not meant to be, it was a side jocular issue.

“I did go on to explain what needed to be done. I did not know that it would create the kind of hyperbole that it did.

“Let me first admit that I am not a typically experienced politician. I am a technocrat. I come to work.

“Some of the phraseologies that I may use, while being acceptable in the arena in which I play obviously will not be acceptable in the public political arena.

“So if any body’s sensibilities were offended by those, I totally apologise.”

“I share the pains of Nigerians. I feel that pain every day. I worked the streets and those who are following my trajectories since I resumed office would see that even on the Christmas day, I was at the refineries.

“Like I said on the Easter day, I was in Lagos, monitoring fuel distribution at the depots. I have given 24/7 attention to the problem in this industry which were unbelievable.

“I have continued to work with one sole purpose in mind, which is that every problem will have a solution.


“I am a very humble person even imagining the thought that I dictate to Nigerians. I am not somebody like that.”

On the reason for the current fuel scarcity, he said, “Let me put the reasons for the scarcity in three categories. First, what did I meet? When we came in August, this country had arrears of unpaid subsidy claims that were in excess of N600 billion which were not paid for over a year.

“So, progressively over a period of eight months, prior to my coming on board, people have been staying away from importation not at a heavy level but by about 10 to 15 percent of allocation were not being met. But there was hope that ultimately if the subsidy regime continues, they would get paid. So, some people continued to import, but by the time we came in, people had reached a breaking point and most of the companies didn’t have the liquidity even to go to the banks and open letters of credit and that became a major issue, and we succeeded in paying, late October last year, the N500bn subsidy.

“Some element of the subsidy like the foreign exchange components remained unpaid, which has been carried into this year’s budget. It became clear to me that having regards to the difficulty that we faced in terms of paying for the subsidy, the country can no longer, quite frankly, afford subsidy payment.

“We were faced with the challenge of ensuring supply of petroleum products without the need for a subsidy regime. As of January 1 this year, the country is no longer paying subsidy, saving us a cumulative of over N1trillion in a one year period. That was the first major issue.

“Second major issue was that once the N600bn subsidy money was paid, the ability of marketers to import the product became a challenge because they could not raise letters of credit and up to this point that still remain a major issue.

“So even if they wanted to import, they needed letters of credit and adequate foreign exchange cover. Some of them were owing arrears of liabilities as a result of commitment I had made on petroleum importation prior.

“So, whatever money they had was taken by banks to offset certain obligations. Going forward now, they didn’t have money to import fuel again. What that meant was that by late August last year, we moved from the expected obligation of the NNPC to bring in 50 percent of the national consumption of about 45 to 50 million litres per day but we now have to cover a 100 percent platform because nobody was bringing in the product, the consumption was still static and we needed to cover the gap.

“We took up that challenge without increase in crude allocation, without any excess allocation as it were and we have to work exceedingly hard from August last year to cover the gap but we didn’t cover it 100 percent because we didn’t have the ability to do so. So, the gap we could not cover was responsible for the queues. That was responsible for the 80 percent of the problem.

“Third issue is that of pipeline vandalism. We met pipelines that were in comatose, for instance, Mosimi was not working. This morning, after a three months intensive work with private partners, we just been able for the first time, to recover the Escravos to Warri pipeline and about a month ago, we recovered the Brass to Port Harcourt pipeline. For the first time, we will be able to pump crude to the refineries without the need to use vessels which are extremely expensive which I stopped as soon as I came. For the first time in six years, we are trying to recover the pipeline.

“We have 18 depots across the country. 90 percent of them are not in a state of use. They have not been maintained. They have been abandoned for years. Money was needed to work on them. But we have advertised for joint partners to come in and work with us to put in the required facilities to get depots working and get pipeline repaired. But through hard work we have been able to recover some pipeline from Mosimi up to Ilorin but with a few punctured points. The crude pipeline from the South to the North again being recovered. The absence of the pipelines, makes movement of the products from Lagos taking up to a week.

“Because the importers are not bringing in the product, the logistics of the NNPC had been expanded, creating great nightmare for us. Not only do we bring in the product but we also lighten it and take it to the storage tanks of the majors and some cases if you notice, we also are taking intervention trucks and taken products into the stations of this individuals because if they do not sell and the stations are empty, it is a challenge. NNPC basically overextended itself in terms of what it was set up to do and what it has the capacity to do.

“Lack of infrastructure too is affecting us because we are moving up to 3,000 trucks round the country every day this is not the best way to circulate or distribute products in a civilised world but that is the only option that we had. NNPC was losing N40bn every month when we came but this had been reduced to N3bn by December last year. We met a company with a debt profile of N4trn and with that of NPDC which is about N1trn. The access to open up letter of credit continues to be a challenge.”

On diversion of products by marketers he said, “Marketers are diverting the product, some days we load 300 trucks from Lagos coming to Abuja and one third of that, are dissipated into areas where people could make quick returns and so they won’t get to Abuja. We do not have a computerized system that will enable us to track every truck that is loaded from our depots. We are however working on this; it has not been there for 20 years.

“We are currently working very collaboratively with the oil majors that is upstream producing companies to see how they can sell us foreign exchange for the naira components they would require for their local operations. When they bring in the foreign exchange, they give us the first call. We are using that module to cover up the foreign exchange gap. We are also working collaboratively with the CBN within the limits of what it can tolerate to give us a little bit of foreign exchange.

“Additionally, we also brought in the DSDP programme because the number of litres of consumption as a nation was spectacularly false. We were carrying figures of up to 55 million litres per day that was geared towards creating opportunities for people to make more money during the subsidy regime. We did the analysis and we discovered that we were consuming 45 million litres which means that we are saving about 10 million litres per day.
“April begins the DSDP programme which will save us $1bn a year. This means that the contract upon which we were importing fuel in the past was extremely faulty. Once that begins from April 2, we have commitment of much more arrival of the product. That covers the 60 percent that our crude allocation can deal with. There is still that 40 percent gap which importers had got to bring in. That is being worked on through the collaboration of oil majors and the CBN.

“We are also setting up, for the first time, strategic reserves for the first time in this country of close to about two million tonnes to provide products always. That would be operational as from May. It would contain between five to seven cargoes of fuel as a reserve. Once we do that we should be away from the incessant fuel crisis that we have.

“We expect that between now and about the 6th to 7th of April, the fuel queues will disappear, the DSDP will begin and the foreign exchange allocation will see us smoothly through the track.

“The refineries will be working and the volumes they would be producing will be sent to the strategic reserves to address difficult times. In April, we are expected to get to get 150 percent of the volumes that would be needed. A lot of that will go to storage tanks. Hopefully, that should sort out the problem.”

http://www.theheraldng.com/kachikwu-apologizes-for-magician-remark/

nikkyejike:
Minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, on Tuesday apologised to Nigerian over the lingering fuel scarcity in the country and his faux pax when he stated that he was not a magician.

Kachikwu appeared before the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources, (Downstream) and noted particularly that his comment that he is not a magician to cause fuel queues to disappear overnight was not meant to insult Nigerians.

He rejected the call for him to resign over the biting fuel crisis but assured that the fuel queues would disappear within the first two weeks of April, 2016.

He said “Let me thank the Senate for taking time out from your recess to come to dialogue this issue. It shows the importance you attach to the petroleum industry and the feelings of Nigerians.

“Let me just digress. I share the pains of Nigerians. I feel that pain every day when I walk the streets. On Easter day I was in Lagos monitoring fuel distribution and the depots, I have given 24 hours attention to the problems.

“I have continued to work with one sole purpose which is that every problem must have a solution and I think that is the reason I was picked.

“I do apologise for the comment that I made jocularly with my friends in the press about being a magician and it offended Nigerians. It was not meant to be, it was a side jocular issue.

“I did go on to explain what needed to be done. I did not know that it would create the kind of hyperbole that it did.

“Let me first admit that I am not a typically experienced politician. I am a technocrat. I come to work.

“Some of the phraseologies that I may use, while being acceptable in the arena in which I play obviously will not be acceptable in the public political arena.

“So if any body’s sensibilities were offended by those, I totally apologise.”

“I share the pains of Nigerians. I feel that pain every day. I worked the streets and those who are following my trajectories since I resumed office would see that even on the Christmas day,  I was at the refineries.

“Like I said on the Easter day, I was in Lagos, monitoring fuel distribution at the depots. I have given 24/7 attention to the problem in this industry which were unbelievable.

“I have continued to work with one sole purpose in mind, which is that every problem will have a solution.


“I am a very humble person even imagining the thought that I dictate to Nigerians. I am not somebody like that.”

On the reason for the current fuel scarcity, he said, “Let me put the reasons for the scarcity in three categories. First, what did I meet? When we came in August, this country had arrears of unpaid subsidy claims that were in excess of N600 billion which were not paid for over a year.

“So, progressively over a period of eight months, prior to my coming on board, people have been staying away from importation not at a heavy level but by about 10 to 15 percent of allocation were not being met. But there was hope that ultimately if the subsidy regime continues, they would get paid. So, some people continued to import, but by the time we came in, people had reached a breaking point and most of the companies didn’t have the liquidity even to go to the banks and open letters of credit and that became a major issue, and we succeeded in paying, late October last year, the N500bn subsidy.

“Some element of the subsidy like the foreign exchange components remained unpaid, which has been carried into this year’s budget. It became clear to me that having regards to the difficulty that we faced in terms of paying for the subsidy,  the country can no longer, quite frankly, afford subsidy payment.

“We were faced with the challenge of ensuring supply of petroleum products without the need for a subsidy regime. As of January 1 this year, the country is no longer paying subsidy, saving us a cumulative of over N1trillion in a one year period. That was the first major issue.

“Second major issue was that once the N600bn subsidy money was paid, the ability of marketers to import the product became a challenge because they could not raise letters of credit and up to this point that still remain a major issue.

“So even if they wanted to import, they needed letters of credit and adequate foreign exchange cover. Some of them were owing arrears of liabilities as a result of commitment I had made on petroleum importation prior.

“So, whatever money they had was taken by banks to offset certain obligations. Going forward now, they didn’t have money to import fuel again. What that meant was that by late August last year, we moved from the expected obligation of the NNPC to bring in 50 percent of the national consumption of about 45 to 50 million litres per day but we now have to cover a 100 percent platform because nobody was bringing in the product, the consumption was still static and we needed to cover the gap.

“We took up that challenge without increase in crude allocation, without any excess allocation as it were and we have to work exceedingly hard from August last year to cover the gap but we didn’t cover it 100 percent because we didn’t have the ability to do so. So, the gap we could not cover was responsible for the queues. That was responsible for the 80 percent of the problem.

“Third issue is that of pipeline vandalism. We met pipelines that were in comatose, for instance, Mosimi was not working. This morning, after a three months intensive work with private partners, we just been able for the first time, to recover the Escravos to Warri pipeline and about a month ago,  we recovered the Brass to Port Harcourt pipeline. For the first time, we will be able to pump crude to the refineries without the need to use vessels which are extremely expensive which I stopped as soon as I came. For the first time in six years, we are trying to recover the pipeline.

“We have 18 depots across the country. 90 percent of them are not in a state of use. They have not been maintained. They have been abandoned for years. Money was needed to work on them. But we have advertised for joint partners to come in and work with us to put in the required facilities to get depots working and get pipeline repaired. But through hard work we have been able to recover some pipeline from Mosimi up to Ilorin but with a few punctured points. The crude pipeline from the South to the North again being recovered. The absence of the pipelines, makes movement of the products from Lagos  taking up to a week.

“Because the importers are not bringing in the product, the logistics of the NNPC had been expanded, creating great nightmare for us. Not only do we bring in the product but we also lighten it and take it to the storage tanks of the majors and some cases if you notice,  we also are taking intervention trucks and taken products into the stations of this individuals because if they do not sell and the stations are empty,  it is a challenge. NNPC basically overextended itself in terms of what it was set up to do and what it has the capacity to do.

“Lack of infrastructure too is affecting us because we are moving up to 3,000 trucks round the country every day this is not the best way to circulate or distribute products in a civilised world but that is the only option that we had. NNPC was losing N40bn every month when we came but this had been reduced to N3bn by December last year. We met a company with a debt profile of N4trn and with that of NPDC which is about N1trn. The access to open up letter of credit continues to be a challenge.”

On diversion of products by marketers he said, “Marketers are diverting the product, some days we load 300 trucks from Lagos coming to Abuja and one third of that, are dissipated into areas where people could make quick returns and so they won’t get to Abuja. We do not have a computerized system that will enable us to track every truck that is loaded from our depots. We are however working on this; it has not been there for 20 years.

“We are currently working very collaboratively with the oil majors that is upstream producing companies to see how they can sell us foreign exchange for the naira components they would require for their local operations. When they bring in the foreign exchange, they give us the first call.  We are using that module to cover up the foreign exchange gap. We are also working collaboratively with the CBN within the limits of what it can tolerate to give us a little bit of foreign exchange.

“Additionally, we also brought in the DSDP programme because the number of litres of consumption as a nation was spectacularly false. We were carrying figures of up to 55 million litres per day that was geared towards creating opportunities for people to make more money during the subsidy regime. We did the analysis and we discovered that we were consuming 45 million litres which means that we are saving about 10 million litres per day.
“April begins the DSDP programme which will save us $1bn a year. This means that the contract upon which we were importing fuel in the past was extremely faulty. Once that begins from April 2, we have commitment of much more arrival of the product. That covers the 60 percent that our crude allocation can deal with. There is still that 40 percent gap which importers had got to bring in. That is being worked on through the collaboration of oil majors and the CBN.

“We are also setting up, for the first time, strategic reserves for the first time in this country of close to about two million tonnes to provide products always. That would be operational as from May. It would contain between five to seven cargoes of fuel as a reserve. Once we do that we should be away from the incessant fuel crisis that we have.

“We expect that between now and about the 6th to 7th of April, the fuel queues will disappear, the DSDP will begin and the foreign exchange allocation will see us smoothly through the track.

“The refineries will be working and the volumes they would be producing will be sent to the strategic reserves to address difficult times. In April, we are expected to get to get 150 percent of the volumes that would be needed. A lot of that will go to storage tanks. Hopefully, that should sort out the problem.”

http://www.theheraldng.com/kachikwu-apologizes-for-magician-remark/

ogechieku:
It is not what you think, it is not how you think it...but i am glad that i was able to control myself. i am really glad.

Tufanja:
So lets also not judge a guy's size