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UnknownT:
The privatization under him was never pure

Lolz,

is it now that, it is pure.

they are all bird of same feather.

But i think Obj is biting his finger now, regretting what he should have done when in power, but did not do, that why he is speaking up.

just my thot oooooooooooooo.

UnknownT:
I am not holding brief for any government past or present but OBJ wants to come to equity with dirty hands. You made mentioned of enabling environment, why didnt the enabling environment work for Nitel and Mtel? The other ones are owned by private business men who wouldn't want to play with their investments, the reason they made sure everything worked out for them

i think in my previous post, i said it hard for gov to run a profitable business, this is very simply and straight forward, corruption play a big role in this aspect.

those gov issue license to in the oil and gas industry and power sector, are they not private investor as well, then why didnt they go ahead and start operation after the issuance of license to them. or you want to tell me, that they get the license on a platter of gold.

UnknownT:
So how come the man u are praising for 'revolutionizing' the telecom industry did a shoddy deal in the privatization of Nitel and Mtel? I still repeat that telecom would have still come under any 'democratic' government. ECONET saw that the time was right to come to the country and they applied and were given license to operate. Any govt can give license to any private telecom to operate

My broda, no point in argument,
any gov can issue license, good and fine by me, what about the enabling environment to allow them operate, i dont think you are verse with this country,
If i may ask, do you know how many company have been given license to build and operate refinery in this country of our, since 1999. obj tenure involve as well

again do you know how many company as well have been given license to build, generate, distribute and transmits power in this country of our, since 1999. obj tenure involve as well.

think deeply, any democratic gov can issue license as you said, i agree, but what about the enabling environment for them to operate

have you see any new refinery since 1999, any new power station since 1999. am not talking of geregu that was repainted and commision. very laughable
this is our country, we all know how things work, don't let us be sentimental

pro01:
What did OBJ do in the telecoms industry? Are you saying that even if Baba Suwe or Mr. Ibu had been the President of Nigeria between 1999 and 2007, we would not have liberalised the telecoms industry within that period? Are you aware that even Abacha had awarded GSM licences in early 1998? Which African country did not have GSM by 2007?

Only nitwits would count telecoms - GSM - among OBJ's achievements in office. What happened to the state-owned NITEL under his watch? Make una no make person vex abeg. Euthanasia should be administered to the old bloody fool. His nuisance value increases daily.

Bros try to know what going on both in and outside your country,
if telecom industry is not count as achievement, then on what ground should GEJ count Ebola eradication as 1920 refurbish train as achievement

nothing more to add. enjoy your day.

UnknownT:
Any small thing, look at telecom, d telecom would have come under any oda democratic govt. We shouldn't judge him with telecom but rather what happened to Nitel and Mtel, if Econet n MTN that entered then were Government companies, do you think they would have still been in existence now? If he revolutionized d telecom, 0804 mobile network would still have bein in existence now

My broda, are you a new born baby in this country, or you are just been deport back to the country, you and I knows that government hardly run a business successfully, so why are you now surprise that 0804 no more exist, not 0804 alone, where is nigeria airway and a whole lot of government company like that. the truth is the advance country we want to be like, their government dont run all this things, for example British Airway that will all know as UK national carrier is run by a private company, but regulated by the government, same with Lufthansa, Air france.

let me digress a bit. as at now, this is exactly what we are facing with our oil sector, NNPC monopoly. it can still be name NNPC, but not run by FG. china largest oil exploration and production company is CNPC, (just like our NNPC) is run by private body, and as well they even operate outside the shore of china, they are present in africal, last yr i think they apply for license in our country as well, to start exploiting our crude just like shell, chevron and the like, Even BP, British petroleum operate outside the shore of UK.

But because of corruption, it hard for our government to stop running NNPC. and one basic reason why the likes of shell, Total, Mobil etc refuse to build a refinery in this country,


It quite hard for government to run a business.

ILIDEFI:
Stop sounding grossly inexperienced. What did he do in telecoms? Give Econet, MTN and Glo licence to operate in Nigeria. Is that an achievement? Did he establish any of them by himself? Moreover, he made a lot of money from those telecom guys. That was why the cost of sim cards were terribly high at the beginning, cos they had to recoup the amount the spent in lobbying FG and obtaining licence. Obj did absolutely nothing plausible in telecom. He just happened to give them licence, which any dummy in power would have done.

i laugh at your ignorant level, any dummy in power would have done, without providing the enabling environment. the day you stop taking side is the day your brain will start functioning well, i.e thinking straight on national issue

since 1999 till now, did you know how many power station FG have sign agreement with and given license as well, with that i dont think we should have power issue anymore, yet we are worst of interm of power,
All successive FG use this means to divert money to themselves and their aides, even this same obj we are talking abt did same, GEJ is presently do his own as well. Dangote build a power station within 18month. so what now happen to our FG with million dollars spent since 1999.

HNosegbe:
Ex-president Obasanjo telling us all what to do. But what did HE do about unemployment while in office?

my broda, not that m support this man, cus he have good eight yr to himself to turn around this country, but he did not, but in term of employment, he tried, look at the telecom industry, that is the only area i can say the old man live a lasting foot print, from Top manpower, to middle level, even to the illiterate,thousands if nt millions are feeding there family thru that industry alone,

if each successive FG can face one sector and revolutionize it, in no time we will get to the promise land.

I think GEJ and Odua renovate our airport with billions, wit their road show to western country, USA, CHINA, UK,
hahahaha, deir is GOD ooooo, tax payer money has been swindled away.

Am jealous of this man.

kind of youth, thou little above 40. we need to lead this country.

It is one in a million occurrences that a young man would be given a contract worth billions of naira to execute and he would do the job without diverting the fund for personal use.

Honesty as a virtue is rare among today’s youths, because the youths lack discipline and they are in a hurry to make money without actually earning and working hard for it. It is no wonder, therefore, that integrity has been thrown out of the window in this generation.


In this edition, we celebrate Tonye Cole, the MD of Sahara Group. Tonye has had opportunities in the past to prove himself and he did just that, emerging as a man of profound integrity. With the help of his partners, he has built one of the biggest energy companies with over 30 branches in the world.

He has provided employment for a lot of youths and sent many to different fields of acquisition. Tonye Cole is currently a minister at the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He is that man who prefers sharing his birthday with school children from the slums as against dinning with the high and mighty in a presidential suite somewhere in the Bahamas.

Enjoy!

Tonye Cole is husband to Slyvia Cole and father to three lovely children. He is a man with many parts. He was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where he hails from but he was raised in a privileged home in Lagos state.

Although he was raised in that type of home in which money wasn’t a problem and even attended one of the best primary and secondary schools money could afford,this did not affect his humility.


Also his background didn’t make him to sit down and expect life to give him everything he needed. He knew early in life that he had to work hard and work true.

His creation, the Sahara Group, and its expansion is a living proof. Sahara Energy some what kicked off in a match box setting and has replicated to over 30 branches worldwide. Tonye schooled abroad but he did not forget his he roots. He is an architect who studied in the University of Lagos before proceeding to the University of Brasilia in Brazil.

Tonye Cole, after graduation, worked in a Brazilian architectural firm known as Grupo Quartro in Brazil. He was part of the team involved in the design and implementation of the urban planning and city development of Palmas, the capital city of the newly created state in South America. After returning to Nigeria in 1993, Tonye was employed as the Director of Operations in EMSA S.A., a Brazilian Civil Engineering
Company, said to be the 7th largest engineering firm in Brazil.

The company was awarded a World Bank-financed water project valued at about $58m for the Lagos State Water
Corporation which was a success.


INVESTMENTS

Tonye is the Managing Director of Sahara Energy Resource Limited, a company that was co-founded in 1996 with his two friends, Tope Shonubi and Ade Odunsi. Sahara Energy started out as an oil and gas company whose core business at the time was to trade excess fuel oil from some places in the Niger delta refineries.

Sahara Energy later moved away from being a ‘middleman’ to become an established trading entity diversifying into storage depots and vessel ownership as well as building depots in strategic locations with a combined capacity of 55,000 metric tonnes and a fleet of five vessels moving products across West Africa.

Sahara Energy today is a major employer of labour with staff strength of over 300 people. Tonye Cole launched another project for his church known as the NEHEMIAH PROJECT. The project is to rebuild, just like that of Nehemiah’s in the bible.

Tonye Cole is the brain behind all the restructuring in Redemption camp. Tonye Cole is one of the sponsors of Monalisa Chinda’s Foundation, Slum2School. Slum2School foundation is a non- governmental organization for children living in slums to have access to good education and life. Tonye Cole’s mission statement any day is: one should promise less and give more.



www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/inside-world-sahara-group-md/

tit:
this news is infantile.
so,
1) sudan army sold missiles to deby, then Sudan security arrested deby at the border or
2) sudan sold missiles to deby, then Chad security arrested deby at their border?

who mumu reach to believe the story?

no one else but you.
simply because you are not sensitive to happenings around you.

simplemach:
The only news that will look interesting now regarding the arrest of this man is to bring him to area boys for lynching.

no b small thing

eejo:
Nigeria should armed chadian rebels and see if boko haram will not stop all this because of oil in chad basin

hummmmmmm.

no b small thing

MudRaker:
Only the north, southwest and middle belt will not know peace

If amaechi thinks he can start nonsense in Rivers then he is truly mad

I talk am bfor pikin escape from zoo,

you need to go back to your cage.

Nonsense.

stevedeey:
A calabash does not have a base to comfortably balance itself..... All the perpetrators of evil will not have rest until they face the wrath of the Lord, utterly destroyed and get wiped out totally

Amen

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Cameroonian investigative journalist, Bisong Etahoben, is reporting via Twitter the arrest of Mahamat Bichara Gnoti, a close associate of Chadian President IIdriss Déby Ito.

Mr. Gnoti was reportedly arrested on the Chadian-Sudan border with 19 SAM2 missiles he purchased from the Sudanese army meant for Boko Haram terrorist in north eastern Nigeria.
Mr. Gnoti who claimed that President Idriss Déby gave him the funds to purchase the weapons, had waved a presidential pass issued to him by Mr. Deby’s office in order to get past border guards but was stopped and searched by the guards who found the deadly weapons on him.

There has not been an official confirmation or denial either by the Chadian or the Nigerian authorities. A text message sent to the office of Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), the National Security Adviser in Nigeria regarding Gnoti’s arrest did not receive a response, an aide said Mr. Dasuki is traveling to Mexico.

However, the arrest of Mr. Gnoti, if confirmed, will provide solid evidence that the Chadian president is largely behind the Boko Haram lightning insurgency in Nigeria’s northwest.
Mr. Derby recently swindled the Nigerian government out of millions of dollars in Nigeria's failed attempt to negotiate the release of some 200 high school girls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok town last April.

On September 8th President Goodluck Jonathan made a dramatic visit to N’djamena to meet with Idris Derby, Mr. Jonathan was accompanied on the trip by the former Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sherrif.

The visit was condemned by opposition figures and civil society groups in Nigeria as they see it as an open embrace of individuals funding Boko Haram militants.

An Australian negotiator, Stephen Davis had accused Mr. Sheriffand former Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika ofactively funding Boko Haram.



www.saharareporters.com/political-associate-chadian-president-idriss-déby-arrested-missiles-meant-boko-haram

MudRaker:
Tambuwal disobeyed a court order which declared his sit vacant.

The police are enforcing trespassing and impersonation laws.

pikin just escape from zoo.

are u in dis country at all, which court pronouncements declare his sit vacant,

since the issue is in court, they why cant the presidency and PDP wait for the outcome of the case. their action is very babaric. bth tambuwal and the police force, even the presoidency as well. if they cannot settle deir differences amicably, what moral right did they all have to lead this country.

show of crazy, in demo-crazy.

majekdom2:
oh very good. Have we have not bothered to ask ourselves why these IOCs are not key players in the downstream.the only IOC that runs filling stations is TOtal. I have not seen shell or chevron, whereas they are key players in this sectors abroad.

nt only total, we have Mobil, agip, MRS form part of chevron, bt it like chevron have buy back the share fr MRS, thon not too sure.

aviation oil gaint is shell thru out the world, they ooerate in ghana, here they only exploit our crude.


going back to your question, it simply because of inconsistent policy from our government, because of their diff political gain after every election year,


if we have a policy that they could be sure of, that will work for minimum of 50yrs upward, the oil giant will waste no time to invest in our economic.
SLS, try it best to give our economy a facelift, but the FG itself is a stumbling block to his good policy.

IBROHIM:
I agree with you my brother but why not government build lots of refineries first then when they start producing, we close our boarders to fuel products importation then competition will drive the price down! Whatever we do let's put the masses first! Let's not put the cart before the horse! It's obvious the government only want to task the already suffering masses more! It's a shame!!! Peace!!!

my broda, let take it from this angle, is it only petroleum we have in this country. so why is it that FG is directly involve in the industries. why dont we have ministry of limestone, ministry of charcoal, ministry of iron ore and the likes.

Either FG or state, they have not thing to do with the industry, eithe downstream or upstream, all they need do it have agency to regulate the industry, that all.
my broda, this is why the gaint company in the world the likes of shell, Total, BP, Cnpc, chevron have refuse to build refinery in our country, instead they exploit our crude at chicken change, that our leader are fighting over, and make alot of gain after refining,

we provide job for them indirectly, why our own economy is sinking.
the Government cannot run a business successfully without sentiment.

therefore. what they only need to do is to provide rules and regulation.
then the oil gaint will have faith in our economy and invest building refinery, it will be dificult for them then to transport our crude to their various country and import the refine product back to us.

my pple in as much as I dnt wnt GEJ to come back in 2015, pls removing subsidy will benefit all of us on the long run,
but this timing is too short, they should just make it middle of 2015. from now till then, enlightenment should go on around the whole country, from jingle to advert on newspaper, for we the masses to know better, on the immediate effect and the long term gain of the removal. nw just for them to wake up this morning and tell us they will remove it tomoro.

it totally a misplace priority.

samflexxy:
let's keep it civil people court wedding which one is traditional again is it not the one you do to feed ppu in your village

what is this one saying

I do ask same question.

as far as am concern, our traditional wedding supersedes all.

court wedding, I dont knw y we dey copy the white, before you talk, you go see people telling you different story, such as it make the wedding legal, if you want to travel out wit your wife, you will need it at embassy bla bla bla.
my question is must we go there.
ir did our own embassy require the white couple to do our own traditional wedding before they could visit our country..


church wedding is still understand able

desgiezd:
Not only that out teachers lied to us, those teachers are morons, they didnt know anything. Even the writers and publishers of the Arithmetic/Mathematics textbooks we used are dullards.

Let us all go back to elementary schools with PDP syllabus but before we do that, our brains need to be properly adjusted to the present reality otherwise we would still continue to think and believe that 7 is lesser than 19.

I cnt stop laughing, brain to be adjust, let me add reorientate. to mak it easier for us to cope wit PDP syllabus.

@op
can u pls come bak and tell us now that the speaker is still not impeach.
the job was simply suspended on monday, due to the early outcry of the press and masses.

the hatchet job was finally carried out.

7 greater than 19. if previously 16 is greater than 19. why should we be surprise of 7 greater than 19.

my pple, I think we need to go back to pry school, cus Is either our theacher lied to us then that 2 is greater than 1. if nw 7 and 16 are greater than 19.

speaker finally impeach by 7 Pdp member.

Fela say AUSTERITY na him be latest one.

yes he was not impeach but a protem speaker was appointed.

when you have a speaker. and yet another speaker was appointed. so what does that mean to you. can two driver drive a bus at the same time.

my broda wake up from your slumber.
check www.punchng.com to see detail.

thanks

impeachment postpone
but a protem speaker was appointed.

that is to say any moment from now the main speaker will be impeach to pave way for the protem speaker to be swear in. 7 pple out of 26.

all bill pending in the house were approve by just 7pple. lik list of commisioner. LG caretaker commitee.

the show just begin.

Ekiti house of assembly speaker is about to be impeach by 7 PDP house member.

the house consist of 26 member, how come 7 is now greater than 19.

this take us back to governor forum election, where 16 is greater than 19.

let see how event unfold.

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Focus nigeria
AIT

In as much as i agree with you all, that money motivate staff, how often do organization increase wages, probably once in a year, some every two year or so, money is jst for a short time, once you receive the new wages for like 2mnth, you start to hope for another increment, sometime once you the new package, you will ask, you will be tempted to ask, why the increment was very small like this.

Things that really motivate staff, to want to do more and beat their previous work rate, check this out

Recognition - With a small gift (not money) that have the company logo on it, that you will keep seeing for like 5yrs

Training - Training will always take you out of your conform zone, to do more, add creativity to your work

Paid vacation - Go on vacation, all expense paid by your company, most pple if given the cash will not go on any vacation will use the cash for something else.

Job Security - When you are sure of your job security, you will always be motivated to do more for your company

Career growth - company that provide career growth for their employee, hardly loss staff, in respective of the pay, steady growth is key to retaining and motivating staff.