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size38:
We should all applaud jega and Inec for the wonderful work. I watched it on NTA today when Jega was demonstrating it to the senators of which many were impressed apart from few members who were expressing fear because they are used to rigging election. Card reader is being used in many countries today for elections. So let's try it in other to reduce rigging, election crisis and litigation that follows every election.

How many people can the card assess with 5 hours?

afolag:
The past:
where graduate get job easily some with official car
the value of naira out weigh much of its counter part
the country do not solemly rely on petroleum product.
discipline ar uphold dat pple dont rush to enter public buses or urinate any how any where.
corruption isnt well pronounced as it is today.
pensions fund ar payed on time and workers salary ar not withheld.
All we need is to support the only man on record who can help curb menace of corruption, do u know wat it means for a one time head of state and so many public office holder not to be guilty of corruption?

Your post show you don't know the nation called Nigeria.

The fool Paradise you mentioned above happened immediately after independence, when the wealth our colonial masters was still in abundance.

After the mismanagement from our ex leaders. We find ourselves where we are now.

Let me ask you.

If our ex Presidents (buhari inclusive) had maintained our power sector to the standard our colonial masters left them without adding to it, will we be crying for power?

If they (Buhari inclusive) had maintained our railway, will we not be talking about speed train now?

If they had kept our airports in good shape during their tenures, will be not be talking of suffisticated airports now?

If they had maintained all our universities, will our universities not compete with Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities

If they had maintained our refineries will we be buying fuel, talking of subsidy, looking for crude buyer, will our naira be devalued?

Space will fail me and for those who will need summary. I draw the curtain here.

Myopic people blame the failure of today on today rather than the neglect of yesterday.

Don't let your children repeat this scereno next 10 years. You have the key to put the nation on a good footing.

Vote PDP
Vote Gej

fairheven:
So you don't know by constitution,the vice president is the chairman of economic council of the federation?keep arguing sometin u know nothing about,go an read the article SOLUDO wrote to the finance minister an see were he pointed that out

Chairman of economic council of the federation is an office. I asked state one the that office can do or has done in previous government?

If vice not an office? What power do an unelected office have?

Stop believing every nonsense you read either from soludu or soluda, check the things vice has done since Nigerian creation if your not less than 18 years.

MARKone:
Curses and bewitching is real.

There is this Friend that I know, though quite older, who was dating a particular lady, after series of failed promises of 'I will marry u' coupled with numerous abortions this lady had for the guy, dude later on married another lady. Then the curse. The ditched lady told the man, that for what he did to her, that he will never hear the cry of a child in his house. Karma? 30+ years of marriage, no issue, but the thing is, the wife takes in, but most times, the baby is still born. Unfortunately, it could not be reversed as the ditched lady passed on a long time ago

It can be reverse by a greater power

squaddy:
GOV. FAYOSE’S PA WRITES PIECE COMPARING OBASANJO WITH JONATHAN


Hell is the home of those who see white and calls it green during the era of moral phenomenon, says Danthi Allegieri, a French Scholar and Motivational Speaker.

Fellow Nigerians, please permit me to tell you some lies and let me explicitly say that I am ready to bear the insults and attacks these lies might generate from readers, most especially those rooted in party ideology, norms and beliefs.

The lies are about the comparative character and idiosyncrasy of two Nigerian leaders.

Olusegun Obasanjo, the Owu born former Military-Maximum Dictator turned Civilian Ruler and Otueke born Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, who God currently saddles with the responsibility of distributing dividends of democracy to all Nigerians.

Obasanjo had, in the last 15 months, been going from one public fora to the other, blasting and mesmerizing the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan. Obasanjo had declared and still declaring Jonathan a grossly incompetent and an epidemically corrupt leader while Jonathan had refused to pick up the gauntlet with Obasanjo for reason(s) best known to him.

However, after critically studying the frosty relationship between the two leaders, I wish to declare without any fear of intimidation that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo should stop insulting the common sense of Nigerians with his unnecessary diatribe against President Jonathan because Obasanjo has no moral right whatsoever to be doing what he’s presently doing against the incumbent administration.

For the 8 years Obasanjo ruled Nigeria, he built only one University which was for himself. Bell University, Ota, Ogun State is owned by Olusegun Obasanjo. Today, Jonathan has built 12 Universities for Nigerians and the generation yet unborn. Today, no skyscraper can be traced to Jonathan any where in Nigeria unlike an opposition leader in the South West who had bought 40% of his state resources. Readers, kindly remember that Obasanjo built his library and hilltop in Abeokuta when he was in office. Jonathan, today, via the intervention of TETFUND, has built more than 30 libraries for Nigerians and generations yet unborn.

Read on after the cut....



Obasanjo conducted an election in 2007 that he tagged “do or die.” The winner of the poll, late Umoru Yar’adua, publicly confessed that it was characterised by irregularities. He fought Yar’adua, the Prince of Kastina till his death in 2010 for accepting that Obasanjo un-democratically imposed him on Nigerians. Meanwhile, in 2011, Jonathan conducted an election which was nationally and internationally adjudged to be free, fair and credible.

Furthermore, for 8 years, Obasanjo could not do anything on Lokoja-Abuja road which he awarded without mobilising the contractor. The road is almost completed now. Gory cases of motor accident and robbery has drastically reduced on the road.

Ore-Benin road is now pothole free courtesy of Jonathan’s transformation team. The busiest road in West Africa sub-region, the Lagos-Ibadan express road is now under re-construction and expansion of international dimension.

Akure-Ilesa road is presently under a never-seen-before massive re-construction. Ikorodu-Sagamu road was awarded by Jonathan two weeks ago but majority of the highly compromised Nigerian news medium refused to publicize the contract award of the road. I am also pleased to inform Nigerians that the reconstruction of Ibadan-Oyo express road has been completely done. Second Niger bridge is under construction. Our Airports have been re-fixed. The rail transportation system has been fixed.

Many Nigerians had adjudged Jonathan’s administration to be corrupt! I am going to react to the allegation empirically. The number one anti-corruption organisation in the world is Transparency International. In 2006, Transparency International, under the watchful eyes of Olusegun Obasanjo, rated Nigeria as the second most corrupt country in the world. In 2014, under the leadership of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Transparency International rated Nigeria as the 44th most corrupt country in the world. Now, I ask, who fights corruption more between Obasanjo and Jonathan? Fighting corruption is more than arresting ex-governors today, parade them on television tomorrow and release them next tomorrow.

In terms of unemployment, I want to ask, which job did Obasanjo provide for Nigerians when he held the insignia of power? Apart from the poorly organised National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), which job did Obasanjo gave to Nigerians? Obasanjo destroyed the Nigerian Telecommunication (NITEL), sending thousands of Nigerians into labour market. Today, NITEL in on the verge of being re-organised.

I also make bold to say that Obasanjo ruined the National Electricity Power Authority (NEPA). Today, power supply has been privatized and handed to private individuals. Transcorp Hilton, Abuja is said to be owned by Obasanjo, however, today, no establishment can be said to be owned by Jonathan. The 12 new Universities established by Jonathan has employed about 20, 000 Nigerians. YOUWIN has produced more than 1, 000 millionaires in Nigeria.

For the 8 years Obasanjo ruled Nigeria, he only recruited 1,957 Nigerians into the Federal Civil Service. Today, Jonathan’s administration has recruited 4685 graduates into the Federal Civil Service. The Military, Nigeria Civil Defense, Nigeria Police, etc had employed more than 15, 000 under Jonathan’s Presidency. Nigerians should note that unemployment amongst graduates was at 70% in 1984 when General Buhari was the Head of State.

Also, as I write, the Jonathan’s administration has built 127 Almajiri Schools in the north, reducing illiteracy in the region in the process. More than 5000 Nigerian graduates have been sent abroad for post graduate programmes by President Jonathan.

Fellow Nigerians, most especially my fellow Yoruba youths, please I urge you to put aside your religion, ethnic and political interest and say the truth! Who has governed Nigeria better between Jonathan and Obasanjo? Those of you set to vote Buhari because his running mate, Yemi Osinbajo is a Pastor in your church should have a rethink! Those of you set to vote Buhari because he’s from the north should think about ONE NIGERIA because Information from the Federal Ministry of Works has it that Jonathan has constructed more roads in the North than in the Southern Nigeria!

Obasanjo had been blasting President Jonathan over the activities of Terrorists in the North Eastern Nigeria but I wish to ask him (Obasanjo) that despite his military background whether he was able to solve the militancy problem in the Niger/Delta region when he was the President of Nigeria? Please what moral right does a former military dictator who failed woefully to confront militancy have to be blasting President Jonathan over the activities of political terrorists in the Northeastern Nigeria?

President Goodluck Goodluck is not a magician. He is the only President that has governed the nation of Nigeria in line with the rules of law. Despite the incessant attacks and insults on him in the media, he has refused to jail any Journalist, socio-commentators and bloggers. Jonathan has respected the fundamental human rights of Nigerians than any other Leader Nigeria ever had.

The Change Agents have been tested in Lagos State, what they gave us was cosmetic governance. We tested one of them in Ekiti, it ended in 16-0. A change Agent in Osun has refused to pay workers’ salary for 3 months. Same in Oyo State. Edo State civil servants are the worst paid in the country. No Street Light Pole is working in the whole of Rivers State. The National Leader of the Change Agents has bought virtually all that is gold and glitters in Lagos State.

They said PDP has ruined Nigeria, meanwhile, Obasanjo and Atiku, the Chief Navigators of the Change Agents spent 8 out of the 16 years PDP has been governing Nigeria. 26 out of the 31 Governorship Candidates of the Change Agents are former members of the PDP.

Lastly, I wish to advise Obasanjo to start talking like an Elder statesman he calls himself. George Bush would not talk to Obama the way Obasanjo has been talking to Jonathan. Thambo Mbeki would not talk to Jacob Zuma the way Obasanjo has been talking to Jonathan. Gordon Brown would not talk to David Cameroon the way Obasanjo has been talking to Jonathan. Is Obasanjo the only former President in Nigeria? Why always Obasanjo?

Nigerians, think! Think!! Think!!!

This article was written by Sunshine Anifowose, the Personal Assistant to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State. You can reach him on sunshineanifowose@yahoo.com.

Source: The Scoop

Only those with eyes not covered will see your point of view.

egift:
Meaning Nigeria is still more corrupt than 135 countries on the list. Also "Just Kidding" forgot to tell them that under Jonathan more money have been stolen than any other administration in Nigeria.

Can you prove this? Before the passage of the bill, can you tell how much the each government spent on improving any sector of the Nigerian economy?

And which sector of the economy did each government gave a face lift?

antiquity:
My friend who is from a royal family has an ancient statue that was passed to him by his parent which was also passed to them by their grand parents and great grand parents and so on...... It is a family legacy that is been passed in their family from one generation to the other

The trouble started when my friend no longer wanted to keep their family statue because according to him, the statue looks fetish, ancient and outdated. So he decided to dispose it by throwing it inside the river but something terrible happened

My friend girlfriend called my line and i explained that something terrible has happened to my friend that I should come quickly to the river. I drove down to my Ifa priest house, took him and along side his bag of charms and medicines

It became very scary when we got to the river, my friend could not recognize me, he was paralyzed. He could not talk or move. His girlfriend narrated her ordeal, she told us that "as her boyfriend was about throwing the statue inside the water, she heard a loud slap. The statue fell from him to the ground, he fell separately on the ground and when she started calling his name, he could not talk or move."

The Ifa priest consulted his oracle and told us that the statue was a deity and that the diety was angry with my friend for trying to dispose it that we should get some spiritual items to appease the angry deity or else my friend will die within 24 hours.

Women sha... una too dey emotional. Lol, una nor get mind at all. Look at the way my friend girlfriend started crying uncontrollably like a big baby when she heard her guy had only 24 hours to live.

To cut the long story short, we bought those items and my friend was revived within 24 hours.

Now what should we do with such a statue (deity)?

According to the Ifa priest, he said "Elaho the statue (deity) was created in the royal palace of the Oba of Benin by 7 powerful Ifa priests and Orisha priests in 1440 AD. Elaho material is bronze and copper. Elaho weigh 5kg, Elaho height is 12cm

Should we sell Elaho or keep Elaho?

If we should sell Elaho, what price should we put on Elaho?

If we should keep Elaho, what use is Elaho to us?

Your answers and contributions are well appreciated

Below are Elaho pictures...

How dare your friend fight a spiritual battle through a physical means.

OEPHIUS:
I saw this picture and something stirred within me. I still can't imagine that people I share the same nationality with has been reduced to mere beggars by the people they voted in as leaders.

Why must we continue in this? We need to wake up and develop some self pride.

As much as what you said is true. The world favors only those who contribute to his prosperity. If you don't contribute anything to the prosperity of the place you are, you will soon turn a beggar.

Take a good look at America; the world use 90% of their inventions

The next world emerging economy, China; is having a field day solving the world industrial problem and the world is paying for their services.

The world is tipping Nigeria as the next economic giant on the rising. If when don't give the world anything to buy, they will never come knocking on our door. We will continue to beg and receive alms.

The above is as true of a nation as it is to individuals.

dokyOloye:
So if d CIA gives a northerner money and arms to go kill his brothers,he'll foolishly do that?
This is why some of us r of d opinion that d north shld be left to burn to d ground since their leaders are more interested in using d insurgency for political gains than tackling it.
I bet it's d same CIA and MOSSAD that instructed past n present northern rulers not to educate their ppl,even up to today.

Not really, but if you put 2 and 2 together as to the foreign military training their leaders recieved at the early stage of their operation. you will not just brush the fact away so easily.

If you remember an interview with some boko harram members. They said they had training in country like sudan. Who bank rolled the trainings? Who organised the trainers? who provided the logistics and more questions coming up. The point is, the boko harram in the street who bomb houses is not a boko harram but a tool of boko harram. The boko harram is the people giving these boys instruction, the bad news is. He may be just the next guy beside you or that will comment after me.

Ebubeslym:
Make I kukuma run go withdraw the remaining N2000 wey I leave for one yeye bank account before this pipo turn am to bank money.

Did you read the post? what do you make about this.

The CBN stated that three months to the end of the six years, both the account holder and the next-of-kin would be notified, adding that revalidation of inactive/dormant accounts would not attract any charge to the account holder as the banks would have made ample use of the idle funds.

omanifrank:
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The phones were designed by SLOK telecom, a company said to be owned by Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia state. I want one!

Source - http://wurl.cc/ZQc

Orji uzor na funny man ooo

Gbawe:
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/16/new-york-times-slams-president-jonathan

Its time we take US as a nation and not a God of the world. New york time is not different from saharareport. I refuse to give importance to a nobody in a far away land that knows nothing about my nation.

If a foreigner loves my nation more than me, am a lost cause.

Everyone has an interest, till they come clean on it. Am still a patriotic Nigerian

iwaeda:
In this interview with ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, a national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, speaks on the recent comments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and other national issues

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Goodluck Jonathan plans to perpetuate himself in government like the former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo. What do you think of this comment?

He (Obasanjo) says he is a Christian and as a Christian, it is emphasised in the New Testament of the Bible where Christ said judge not so that you will not be judged. But his judgment is no longer about the policies of Jonathan. He has gone down to the extent of saying Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will jail you (Jonathan), that is why you are afraid. I am holding my breath because in an African setting, you talk to elders with respect and that is why I am trying to get the right words to describe my feelings. Baba (Obasanjo) is not a young man. He was Head of State at 39. So averagely, he should be about 84 or 85 and I am requesting that he should graciously fade away into the midnight. In the Bible, Romans chapter 13 states clearly that we should pray for those in authority. It says pray for your leaders so that they don’t run aground. So, to me that is my own interpretation. If baba (Obasanjo) had attended the Council of State meeting in Abuja, where they were very well briefed, and that it was decided that only the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, that could pronounce a postponement and that he should go and come up with a decision and Jega addressed a press conference. Now to start comparing our President with Gbagbo in Cote d’Ivoire is unjust, unsavoury and unfair because what is the population of Ivory Coast? What are the tribal sentiments of Ivory Coast? Are they the same here? I want to plead with Baba. God has been kind to him and he has served his own time. I don’t want to conclude that his life will be like King Saul in the Bible. I pray it will not be so. Baba has played his role. No generation can finish any job. Nation building is a continuous exercise. You come, do your own and go back into history.

Apart from the issue of insecurity which Jega gave as the reason for the postponement of the elections, do you think INEC was ready to conduct the elections on February 14 and 28?

I granted an interview recently and there were two posers that I gave to Jega. Thank God Jega is a professor. He told us that there was an 88 per cent collection rate in Borno State where there is massive insurgency as well as in Yobe and Adamawa states. Here, where there is calmness and civility, only 30 something per cent of the populace had collected PVCs. It is just improving. I think as of last Friday over three million had collected as against 5.6 million. And he is saying we are ready. Without the Permanent Voter Cards, you are immediately disenfranchised. Ask Jega that as a professor, will it be fair to conduct an examination whereby you have (students who have) covered 80 per cent syllabus and another class where you have (students who have) covered only 30 per cent syllabus. Is it fair?

The other question is this issue of card readers. Have they been tested? I am talking as an electronic engineer of 48 years in practice. You just bought equipment from China and the last time it was tested was in China. Our own environment is not the same. Look at the vagaries of the temperature here from the swampy areas of the South and the savannah in the North. Who has tested the equipment? Now, I am not saying they will not all work but if there are almost 9,000 polling units in Lagos, is he saying all the 9,000 card readers will be functional? If the card readers fail to work in some polling units, what shall we do?

Why did the military surround former Governor Bola Tinubu’s house?

[b][i]If Bola Tinubu finds his way into national government, I will go on exile. [/i]He hasn’t the temerity and the calmness of mind. They don’t even know what to do in power. Because the vice-president is his boy, he will just order that Bode George should be picked up. He said soldiers came to him but he must have been dreaming. When he said soldiers had surrounded his house, I drove down there because my house is not too far from there. I know the hierarchy of the military and its behaviour. That they surrounded his house is lie number one because on either side of his house are two buildings. There is also one at the back. So, I wondered where the soldiers were hiding. Why would you lie for public consumption? So when I got down there, I knew that his spin doctors were working. These days people go on the social media and the story went viral. Why would he (President Godluck Jonathan) from Abuja, be running after Bola? Let them be very careful about the statements they are making. More so, if Obasanjo is now linking Jonathan with what happened in Cote d’Ivoire and coup; not in this 21st Century. That is past and gone forever. No nation goes through this kind of tribulation twice and survive. We have had our own experience of Civil War and I pray that God does not direct our minds in that direction and our people have to watch their mouths.[/b]

The general perception in Lagos is that the governorship race is between yourself and Tinubu.

Absolutely not! In the PDP, no individual owns the party. I happen to have been the first national vice chairman, South-West PDP, and then became deputy national chairman South and then deputy national chairman for the whole country and having done that, they have honoured me that as long as I remain in the party, I remain a member of the Board of Trustees and I am the only one representing the South-West in the national caucus forever. That is a great honour in our party but I don’t decide who becomes a candidate. Primaries were conducted and in this particular case, the voice of the people became louder than anybody’s. I am not like Bola Tinubu, I don’t have the papers of the party in my pocket. I don’t even have a veto power. But the other side doesn’t practice democracy. We have friends that are members there. Jimi Agbaje has no godfather but will not behave like an authoritarian governor.

But Senator Musiliu Obanikoro said you were the one that imposed Agbaje.

That is absolute garbage, he knew he was lying. You know he came from their party and that is why he was saying it was me. He has now retracted the statement. We are now one indivisible party and we are ready for election. All the vagaries and all that happened during the primary was a test of the ability and the strength of our party and we listened to the voice of the people. The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Jonathan’s perception in the South-West is not as favourable as it was in 2011. There has been blame on you and other PDP Yoruba leaders for allowing Buhari to increase in popularity in the South-West.

If you had said this about two or three weeks ago, I would have agreed. I got these feelers straight to my face. People came to me and said they would vote for Agbaje but they will not vote for Jonathan because he had done nothing for us here. And I explained that there is a general misunderstanding of the concept of operation in this country. The long periods of military rule presupposed that the Head of State was responsible for everything and it is that same thinking that is responsible for this situation. We are all hands on deck explaining the differences between military governance and democratic governance.

Highly educated people, my age groups, were asking me this question but I explained to them that 60 per cent of the impact the President will have on you is through the federal allocation to your state. Does he give every state and every local government allocation? Yes. They collect it religiously every 30 days. In the area of security, he guarantees it. It is only three states in the North-East battling insecurity. There is peace and he guarantees that. What of infrastructure? All federal roads in Lagos from Alfred Rewane in Ikoyi all the way to Third Mainland Bridge and Ebute Meta are federal roads. Are they like the roads in Somolu and Akowonjo?

Secondly, the APC refused to participate in the National Conference. Since he (Buhari) has refused to debate, what will he do about the resolution unanimously reached by the National Conference? What will happen to the report? The decisions of the National Conference are so germane to the future of this country. The more reasons why the man who conceptualised it should be allowed to implement his decisions.

http://www.punchng.com/politics/ill-flee-nigeria-if-apc-wins-bode-george/

Some people just saw the title of the post without reading and started commenting. The leaders of tomorrow are a lost cause. Hopefully, the children of our leaders studying abroad will not take to hard drugs because they are the last hope of the future of this country if we can not read a simple interview.

We cry no time for this or that, but we spend more time doing nothing.

Ericardo7:
Buhari's agenda for nigeria is to fight corruption while GEJ's
agenda is transformation/development.
So my people let us vote GEJ for president and Buhari for EFCC
chairman!

HAHAH, guy you got me laughing but for real. This is what all Nigerians should be canvasing. Let each man pick a position he can do well in.

Goodluck for president

Buhari for EFCC chairman

babaireti:
It’s more news the North wants GEJ out of the way, so their licenses can be renewed cos most of them are expiring from 2016 upwards.
Monumental injustice is being perpetrated to the people of Niger Delta on whose soil the oil was found.
These people constitutes the main opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan today. Please Read on:
(1) This oil block business is so lucrative that Danjuma’s Sapetro divested of its investment in Akpo condensate for $1billion dollars. This business is second to none in Nigeria. That is why any attempt to investigate the activities in this sector will always be futile. The money is so much that they give bribes in millions of dollars.
A birthday gift or child naming gift from an oil block owner to a government official could be as paltry as $2million dollars, and if the official’s father died, the condolence gift could reach mere $3 million dollars. When they want to bribe legislators, it is in millions of dollars and any ongoing investigation ends within weeks. They are so confident that with excess money they can buy up Nigeria and they are succeeding
(2) OML 110 with high yield OBE oil fields was given Cavendish Petroleum owned by Alhaji Mai Daribe, the Borno Patriarch in 1996 by Sanni Abacha. OBE oil field has estimated over 500 million barrels of oil. In layman’s language and using average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel, translates to $50 billion dollars worth of oil reserve. When you remove the taxes, royalties and sundry duties worth about 60% of the reserve payable over time you get about $20billion dollars worth of oil in the hands of a family.
(3) OPL 246 was awarded to SAPETRO, a company owned by General Theophilus Danjuma, by Sanni Abacha in 1998. Akpo condensate exports about 300,000 barrels of crude daily.
(4) NOML 112 and OML 117 were awarded to AMNI International Petroleum Development Company owned by Colonel Sanni Bello in 1999. Sanni Bello is an inlaw to Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Head of State of Nigeria.
(5) OML 115, OLDWOK Field and EBOK field was awarded to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi from Niger State. Indimi is an inlaw to former Military President Ibrahim Babangida.
(6) OML 215 is operated by Nor East Petroleum Limited owned by Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Gambo.
(7) OML 108 is operated by Express Petroleum Company Limited is owned by Alhaji Aminu Dantata.
(cool OML II3 allocated to Yinka Folawiyo Pet Ltd is owned by Alhaji W.I. folawiyo
(9)ASUOKPU/UMUTU marginal oil fields is operated by Seplat Petroleum. Seplat is owned by Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, cousin to the Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi. This oil field has the capacity of 300,000 barrels of oil daily. This translates to $30million dollars daily at average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel. Deducting all sundry taxes, royalties etc , this field can yield $12billion dollars daily for the owners .
(10)Intel owned by Atiku, Yarádua and Ado Bayero has substantial stakes in Nigeria’s oil exploration industry both in Nigeria and Principe and Sao Tome.
(11) AMNI owns two oil blocks OML 112 and OML 117 which it runs Afren plc and Vitol has substantial stakes in oil blocks. Afren plc is operating EBOK oil fields in OML 67. Vitol lifts 300,000 barrels of Nigerian oil daily. Rilwanu Lukman, former OPEC Chairman has stakes in all these named three companies.
(12) OPL 245 was awarded to Malabu Oil& Gas Company by Sanni Abacha. Dan Etete, Abacha’s oil minister owns Malabu Oil. In 2000, Vice President Atiku Abubakar convinced Obasanjo to revoke OPL 245 given to Malabu Oil. Etete had earlier rejected Atiku’s demand for substantial stakes in the high yield OPL 245 and it attracted the venom of Ota Majesty who revoked the licence. However, in 2006, Obasanjo had mercy on Dan Etete and gave him back his oil block worth over $20 billion dollars.
(13) OPL 289 and OPL 233 was awarded during Obasanjo era to Peter Odili fronts, Cleanwater Consortium, consisting of Clenwater Refinery and RivGas Petroleum and Gas Company. Odili’s brother in law, Okey Ezenwa manages the consortium as Vice Chairman.
(14) OPL 286 is managed by Focus Energy in partnership with BG Group, a British oil concern. Andy Uba has stakes in Focus Energy and his modus operandi is such that you can never see his name in any listings yet he controls OPL and OML through proxies
(15)OPL 291 was awarded to Starcrest Energy Nigeria Limited, owned by Emeka Offor by Obasanjo . Immediately after the award, Starcrest sold the oil block to Addax Petroleum Development Company Limited (ADDAX) Addax paid Sir Emeka Offor a farming fee of $35million dollars and still paid the signature bonus to the government. Emeka Offor still retains stake in ADDAX operations in Nigeria.
(16) Mike Adenuga’s Conoil is the oldest indigenous oil exploration industry in Nigeria. Conoil has six oil blocks and exports above 200,000 barrels of crude daily.
(17)The oil block national cake sharing fiesta could take twists according to the mood of the Commander-in –Chief at the particular time. In 2006, Obasanjo revoked OPL 246 which Abacha gave to Danjuma because he refused to support the tenure elongation bid of the Ota Majesty. In 2000, Obasanjo had earlier revoked OPL 241 given to Dan Etete under the advice Atiku. However, when the Obasanjo-Atiku faceoff started, the Ota Majesty made a u-turn and handed back the oil block to Etete.
(18)During the time of Late President Yarádua , a panel headed by Olusegun Ogunjana was set up to investigate the level of transparency in the award of oil blocks. The panel recommended that 25 oil blocks awarded by the Obasanjo be revoked because the manner they were obtained failed to meet the best practices in the industry. Sadiq Mahmood, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum endorsed the report to then president with all its recommendations. As a result of the report Yarádua revoked eleven oil blocks.
(19) In April 2011 Mike Adenuga attempted to buy Shell’s OML 30 for $1.2 billion dollars. The Minister for Petroleum and Nigeria’s most powerful woman refused the sale of the OML30 to Adenuga citing national interest. This block was later sold to Heritage Oil for $800 million dollars eleven months later.
(20) In the name of competitive bidding, which Obasanjo introduced in 2005, Officials bring companies overnight and through processes best described as secretive and voodooist they award blocks to party faithful, fronts and phoney companies. They collect gratifications running into hundreds of millions of dollars which is paid into offshore account and the nation loses billions of dollars of revenue to private pockets.
During the third term agenda, Obasanjo was deceived that the allocation of oil block to party faithfuls is to fund the third term agenda. With the failure of the third term, the beneficiaries went home with their fortunes and thanked God or Allah for buttering their bread.
Senator Andy Uba co ordinate the award of the last rounds of oil block by Obasanjo in 2005 and 2007. The then minister of petroleum, Edwin Daukoru was a mere errand boy who took instructions from the presidential aide
The process of sharing Nigeria’s oil block national cake is as fraudulent now as when Ibrahim Babangida started the process of discretionary allocation of oil blocks to indigenous firms. Discretionary allocation of oil blocks entails that a president can reward a mistress who performs wonderfully with an oil block with capacity for cumulative yield of over $20 billion dollars without recourse to any process outside of manhood attachments.
Babangida, Abacha, Abdulsalami and Obasanjo awarded discretionary oil blocks to friends, associates, family members, party chieftains, security chiefs and all categories of bootlickers, spokespersons and cult members without any laid down procedures.
The recipients of such oil blocks will get funds from ever willing offshore financiers and partners to graciously settle the benefactors, the awarders, facilitators and the Commander-in-Chief through fronts. These settlements mostly paid into foreign accounts runs into hundreds of millions of dollars according to the potential yield of the block.
Sometimes, the awarder (sharer of national cake and direct intermediaries) demand additional stakes in the bidding company. The awarder sends fronts as part of the directorship and management of the bidding firms without leaving a link to them. That is how the oil block national cake is distributed to a few Nigerians.
Signature bonuses which are paid when an investor successfully bids, wins and signs agreement with the petroleum ministry, running into tens of millions and sometimes hundreds of millions of naira ,is often waived off. There is actually no waiver; rather a diversion of what would have been paid to government t coffers is paid into private purse as appreciation gifts.
That is why those in the Petroleum Ministry dread retirement as though it signifies going to hell fire. No matter how little your influence, something substantial must enter your hands especially in hard currency. The nation loses billions of dollars in diverted revenue whenever any round of auction occurs.
The regime of President Goodluck is not showing any signs of changing the status quo. Controversies have trailed the activities of the Minister of Petroleum and many players in the Industry accuse her of demanding stakes from every oil deal. It is hoped that President Goodluck Jonathan will remember his transformational promise to Nigerians and endeavour to face the hawks in the oil industry.
The angst in the air is so much that if this monster of illegal allocation of oil block is not addressed, the much touted revolution could begin all of a sudden and all who condoned this illegality at the expense of hungry Nigerians may have nowhere to hide.
Culled from How Babangida, Abubakar, Abacha, Obasanjo Shared Nigeria’s Oil Blocks – Written by Obinna Akukwe

Not only are patriotic Nigerians shocked, we look forward to the change take Goodluck will bring into the oil sector as it is in the railway sector.

Everyone was expecting Obasanjo to leave PDP but not in this chidish manner

fairheven:
The words an promises of the son (the vice)is as good,sure-banker promises of the father(the president to be)...it is called " synergy"

Then you don't know what the office of a vice means.

Can you point to a few things a vice has done both in the federal and state level?

nku5:
Who will ask Obasanjo to shut up?

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/will-ask-obasanjo-shut/
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By Shehu Dikko

I promised to shut up and take a long break but since I had asked Obasanjo to disappear and he won’t, I thought I should dart in with some justification as to why he really ought to be told to shut up and disappear, and, for me, personally, also to say to him: you can’t fool me. It is a slightly revised version of a comment I offered in another discussion. It should explain itself.

Thanks for sharing Dan Agbese’s 2000 article about Haroun Adamu’s probe of the Petroleum Trust Fund. It seems that people are digging.

Buhari didn’t run the PTF. He left it to somebody who allegedly came from his circle of friends and family, and went to sleep. It was alleged to have been run just like any old inept Nigerian government venture. No difference whatsoever. Its officials allegedly took bribes, awarded overinflated contracts and the like. As a result, one of the men on the board of the PTF, the late Group Captain Usman Jibrin, who would have none of it, decided to resign. Buhari stayed put.

I also see you paying attention to Obasanjo’s self-serving talk. Not many are seeing the self-serving disposition right now but it is to the credit of Jonathan that he has actually grown the balls to refuse to continue to take dictation from him. If truth be told, it is easier to point to where Jonathan has spent money in his four+ years than it is to show what Obasanjo did in his first term.

Let us be concrete. Obasanjo faced turbulence, Sharia riots, Odi. Obasanjo failed to punish the perpetrators of the Sharia riots, that served to embolden others including the Haramites; he was high-handed in dealing with Odi, that served to further militarise.

Jonathan has had to deal with the consequences of Obasanjo’s failures in addition to the BH which is now a problem with a serious destabilizing foreign dimension. This has provided a very tough environment for government.

Worse still owing to the circumstances in which he came into office and the sense of betrayal felt by the many northerners who consider their turn to rule as having been hijacked, as well as his failure to properly reach out to the disgruntled, he has been unable to win the confidence and support of influential sections of the North.

This failure is what I foresaw in 2011, and warned that it could lead to division. That North is also suffering from another problem which is a direct consequence of the Babangida privatisation programme which was accelerated and completed by Obasanjo.

I have a problem with the privatisation of vital social services but that is irrelevant here. Recall the old days. There was a time when people looked forward to Board appointments, First Bank, NITEL and the whole battery of other huge government owned enterprises.

Membership of those boards afforded people the opportunity to use their influence to serve the interests of their immediate communities, and because of the Federal Character principle, this patronage was widely spread but always what were seen to be the choicest positions were invariably occupied by northerners.

Federal Character also ensured that there was a spread of offices of those companies occupied by local employees thoughout the country. That disappeared completely under Obasanjo. The persons who bought the privatised companies were mainly persons from outside the North, ditto those who stepped up to fill the vacuum created by the disappearance of NITEL who have only been driven by market considerations which cannot overlook employee competence.

It’s not been noticed by many but the handful of companies bought by northerners, like Nigerian Ropes and Steyr, have floundered or have been comatose since they acquired them. For a North used to widescale patronage, it has been hard to deal with new realities, which is why so many there are intent on doing whatever they can to ensure a return to the old comfort.

One new reality from which there is no escaping is that Jonathan has actually shown a commitment to making and fulfilling promises which is why he has been running for re-election on his record, something which Obasanjo did not do in 2003.Obasanjo could not have done so. He built a stadium in Abuja, and its Games Village. That’s it.

He channeled a lot of money to power generation. The rest of the time, Obasanjo was away from his desk on extended visits abroad. He left Atiku to run the government. Obasanjo and Atiku were later to build their own private schools and universities.

By contrast, Jonathan has built new government schools and universities; built a major new railway line, Kaduna-Abuja, for the first time in a hundred years; built a road between Abuja and Lokoja that is the finest in the country; is building a metro line in Abuja; empowerd Innoson Motors of Nnewi to manufacture transport buses that are visible on our highways. All these are things he committed to doing in the aftermath of the oil subsidy saga, and he has managed to do them despite the major challenge of BH.

I have not dismissed the view that aspects of the complex BH problem are the work of persons working to return to that which they had grown accustomed. But what’s your general take on the election campaign so far? I honestly fear it may all end up being of only “academic interest.”The stakes are very very high. There are operators with ugly records who will stop at nothing. There is trouble on the horizon. I have sent out warnings. I hope they are heeded.

*Dikko lives in Abuja.

Well done for the information, but someone is coming who will tell you to summarize because he or she is too lazy to read.

Nigerians are too lazy to even read. All you see is please summarized. How will you not be deceived when you can not sit down and study to know.

A reader is a leader in the making. Only a leader can know a great leader, but it seems most Nigerians are afraid of leading. Therefore, they cannot spot a good leader to follow

JustCurious:
It was my first time hearing him, speak. And, I was highly impressed. He seems a great guy with great ideas.

Every Nigerian has a great idea, if you think am wrong. Visit a viewing center and see many Nigerian coaches watching matches, visit nairaland business section and see many Nigerian churning out business idea in millions.

Our problem is not idea, but how to bring the ideas to reality.

meekhat:
I am a young man from the east who used to support PDP administration with my whole family ofcourse for ethnic reasons. After listenning to APC manifesto through the VP candidate, Prof Yemi Osinbajo in a town hall interactive session with the youth (south East) held at Enugu on AIT this night, I did not just change my mind alone, my elder brother who happens to be a bigot and a fanatic supporter of GEJ did same. I saw and perceived change in Osinbajo's words. Sincerely speaking, truth always stands out and one will always differentiate truth from propaganda if he/she is a truthful fellow. I was almost sheding tears at the level of lies, propaganda and misrule PDP has subjected Nigerians to all these while. Finally, i am happy my family now believe in CHANGE.

A vice President to be gave you a promise and you bought into it without the stamp of the President to be himself. Let me ask you, If the vice fail to live up to his promise who will you hold responsible?

Secondly, what do you think is the role of a vice in a government?

Can I hear what Buhari said not what Osinbajo said?

gidado14:
VERY CORRECT AND ALL THEY ADVERTISE ARE ALL FALSE STORY WE NEED ACTIVE ACTION NOT PLEAGES. GEJ ADMINISTRATION HAS FAILED US.WHAT U HAVEN'T DONE IS 6 YEARS YOU CAN'T DO IT IN 4 YEARS SO GEJ BACK OFF

If you assume all they advertise are false stories, we will appreciate a thread of pictures to your stories. Don't you think with will add more credibility to your own story (addresses should be added for verifications)

SweetJoystick:
Very correct, the works would speak for themselves, it's so annoying seeing sponsored programs on national TV showing what the state or federal government is doing, such works are visible

That will be true if Nigeria was as small as Ghana. But false in a country as big as Nigeria. How many state of the federation have you traveled to?

nelsonoba:
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nnpc-audit-report-apologise-to-jonathan-alison-madueke-group-urges-sanusi-others/201942/

Many people in Nigeria are so proud that they can not do the needful. After the accusation has been found to be false, it is necessary that an apology to that effect is tendered.

Since inception, I had maintained that president GEJ is a new crop of politician who is ready to stake his integrity to the progress of the nation and will not stain his image with such a little sum of money.

I urge all Nairalanders also who has wrongly accused the president to publicly apologize to the president on this forum. With this I ask that someone open an open public apology thread to the president on Nairaland to the above.

Thank you.

nnamdiosu:
brother but the Bible says in the book of acts that the Ephesians who had magical books which of couslrse are demonic, all brought out their books and burnt the. all. why didn't Paul just tell them to 'bind'. the spirits behind the books? there is a reason for burning demonic items. its a spiritual concept. just leave it like that.....

The significant of burning demonic objects is to avoid returning to them during trial times as Israel was always wanting to return to Egypt when they encounter obstacles. Not to expel the demon behind the objects

saharachic:
i was asking some of my pdp friends this question
and i almost got a black eye for it
so i am asking here to gauge public opinions?
you who say jonathan is corrupt, why do you say so?
please keep your comments matured and clean.

I read the entire first page of this thread, l couldn't see any corruption charge against the President.

I began to think, something is wrong.

We have been sold a lie without fact.

The funny thing about this lie is we can't say this is the person that sold us this lie.

They made us believe we created these lies by ourselves. This means no one is responsible for the aftermath but us.

There are smart. We are our own enemies.

Boss13:
Foreign media just know how to embarrass our president

They read the insult we give to the presidency and act like wise.

No matter how weak you are, until your people insults you no stranger dares

Change2015:
This only goes to further illustrate the timidity, incompetence and waywardness of the pdp under Jonathan. Instead of disciplining Obasanjo as an errant member, they have let him seize the initiative, and now he has delivered another public blow to the pdp. Jonathan always too slow to act, too beholden to the wrong people, too ignorant of the right thing to do. They can suffer the consequences of their own folly,while the nation looks on thoroughly bemused.

#change
#GMB
#APC

After Gej has been sworn in as the new President of Nigeria a new political course will be given to his leadership style.

Ochedi:
ave you ever wondered why people find it easy
and convenient to run down pastors and cast all of
them in the same mold? Pastors are fraudulent,
they are thieves, they are no good.
The story can go on and on. I find it quite
intriguing when I listen to Christians make such
blanket and loose statements. There is no doubt
that there are pastors who are fraudulent. There
are those who are immoral. And there are those
who are involved in voodoo while calling on the
name of the Lord.
But my grouse really is: Why cast all of them in
the same mold? It is sad that you hardly hear
people talk about the great work that God is using
pastors to do in our society. Nobody talks of their
sacrifices. Nobody talks of the pain they go
through in trying to give birth to a sane society.
Nobody is talking about their labour of love.
I know of pastors who will rather use their money
to pay school fees of members children than use it
for urgent family needs. There are pastors who live
in rented apartments and yet have large
congregation they could take advantage of to have
their own building. I know of a professor (don't
want to mention name) who for years did not live
in luxury. And he is still not living in luxury. He did
not own a house of his own though he could
afford one.
He was so consumed in working for God and doing
missions that he forgot about personal comfort. At
a time in his life he rode on okada. He was ejected
from his uncle's house and he was left in the cold
until God intervened. (the intervention is a long
story)
Now, this man who turned down an offer to
lecturer in a foreign university having completed his
Phd programme to come back to Nigeria to do
missions now has a sprawling estate devoted to
mission work. He host mission conferences in the
estate in Kwara State. This professor is over 70
and he is still firing for the Lord.
Those who don't know his story will now come
and say he is fraudulent. Will that not be a
disservice? Many of the great men we find
convenient to run down today have had to pay one
price or the other to get to where they are.
Perhaps some of us do not know that the RCCG
G.O left his duplex as a lecturer at the University
of Ilorin to live in a dingy room in Imusin, Lagos as
the G.O. of the church. Now people see the
glamour and scream.
Recently, one Rev. Adah who runs a free school for
about 400 children in Taraba State was killed by
Fulani herdsmen. This man gave his life and
resources to children who are not his own. He fed
them free of charge and took care of them before
he was hacked down by agents of darkness. You
hardly read commentaries on such stories but
rather we dissipate so much energy talking about
the few bad eggs in the fold
While I do not subscribe to a flamboyant lifestyle, I
think is just normal that these men of God deserve
some level of comfort. And I think we should rather
promote the good they do than lay undue
emphasis on the bad ones among them.
I do not run a church and I don't know the
temptation that will make me run one. I don't even
like the title pastor. I'll rather remain a brother. But
when people say churches are now big businesses,
my simple reply is: go and start one and see how
easy it is to gather people. There is no doubt that
many have turned it to money spinning enterprise
but there are quite a lot who have been genuinely
called of God and who are doing God's bidding.
Let's tell the good story about these servants of
God. Lets talk about the exploits God is using them
for. Lets talk about the good things about them.
By doing that we will encourage them to do more
and perhaps the bad ones among them will take a
cue.

Kill the shepherd and the sheep will all scatter. That is why devil is after the church and pastors. But they will not succeed.

RexBrita:
[size=14pt]Introduction[/size]
Before i present this for your esteemed insights, I need to state clearly that I am not an atheist by any stretch of the imagination. I am just concerned that too many people (including my humble self) have been 'sold' a notion which may be disturbingly deceptive.

[size=14pt]Need for prayer[/size]
we've all heard many reasons for prayers but the major reason seems to be the control of the physical manifestation of wishes and expectations. others may include answers to questions and the need for godliness. but careful examination will take it back to the stated major reason.

[size=14pt]History[/size]
No, not with dates and quotes. A look at the natural human progression from ancient to modern civilization shows how man consistently tried to control events and outcomes in his favour. His studies in the field of outcome-management led to different interests like the horoscope, dream interpretation, many forms of 'fetishism' (voodoo, occult, bizarre rituals), religion in all its many forms, and then science.

[size=14pt]Spread of religion and practices[/size]
Since different religious practices promise the faithfuls some expected results, it is not difficult to see the corelation between new forms/ patterns/ sequences of prayers and the supported new doctrines all in the same attempt to achieve predetermined outcomes. Hence the different religions/ practices with their many shades of denominations all promising to do better than the others.

[size=14pt]So do prayers realy work?[/size]
You be the judge. has all of yours ben answered? but before you hasten to reply, think of this:

1) What do you pray for?
Are they things that can ordinarily happen or things that are seemingly improbable or impossible. Although the definitions of both may not be very categorical, prayer is supposed to answer the latter but just to 'belong', a lot of faithfuls parade the former as miracles.

2) When is your prayer answered?
Every prayer should have a time frame. most christians (I am one too) will say God's time is the best but this is in direct contrast to Mark 11: 24, with particular emphasis on the word WHATSOEVER used in the verse.

3) Differences
We all seem to want the same thing regardless of religion. we all want a happier, easier life although what constitutes 'happier' and 'easier' may differ. It is usually some form of possession or the other that improves us. That is being mild because in most cases people want what makes them stand out so as to directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously, oppress those who do not 'belong'. You may not agree but it is embedded in the practice of testimony sharing in churches, and flaunting of our best stuffs.

[size=14pt]Science and Prayer[/size]
The word of God in Mathew chapter 7, starting from verse 7, says we will receive what we ask for, seek for, etc.
Science is the act of systematically seeking to find, recording these findings and analyzing the results all in a healthy attempt to establish truths. Technology simply employs science to address human challenges. So science and religion are not at war. The Lord created it. Science answers a lot of our prayers with a lot more certainty and timeliness. In our respective lives, a number of issues can be addressed by simply observing with purpose and objectively analyzing our observations. Examples abound even in your life. Faith is the key to answered prayers - be it in science or in our religious applications.

But religion, as projected (especially in Africa) seems to numb the perceptive faculties. No, it makes most of us unwilling to employ our observatory capabilities. Does religion tend to teach only TO ASK without TO SEEK and TO KNOCK? Maybe that is why somewhere in the book of James, the Bible says the reason men pray and fail to receive is that they pray amiss.

Frankly, I will love to know how to pray. I know it has all to do with the application of faith. But what is Faith? Is there an established scientific method for applying it with 100% certainty? I reckon that a lot of people in the world want to be among the 1%. A lot of us want to see peace in many parts of the world. A number do have very pressing questions that need urgent answers. It will be nice to get the rewards we seek. Don't tell me your pastor has an answer. He probably wants to be richer than JayZ. Or Bill Gates.

Prayer is not asking for supernatural intervention. Prayer is communicating with God, the means does not matter. We seems to attach more importance to verbal prayer than to thought prayer.

Anytime you are thinking about God or the things of God, you are praying.

For answer to prayer. I have never read anywhere in the bible where God gave a time frame to answering our prayer. The duration of the answer to our prayer depend on a lot of things like:

How close you are to God: A son will readily receive from a father than a servant/stranger

Faith in God: Imagine a son who sees his father as very poor asking a million naira from the same father. How do you think the will present his request? etc

Diekola17:
I followed my mum to a particular church yesterday only for me to see d pastor delievering membas of hs congregation. cm see as demons dey form levels, they release gbagaun speeches. Pastor dey shout in the name of Jesus demon dey say I will nt go! So, this leds to my question? Can a believer be possessed.

No a christain can not be demon possess but can be oppressed by the demons.

Know that not everyone who goes to church is a christian.

Burning a demonic object doesn't stop the influence of the demonic object. Ignorance is what is causing a lot of spiritual rituals in the church. The demonic object has no power at all, what is powerful about the demonic object is the demonic spirit behind the demonic object. If you bind the demonic power behind the demonic object, your deliverance is settled. But if you burn the demonic object without binding the demonic spirit behind the object, you just created an enemy you don't know.

Our weapons has never been carnal.