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yemmybx:
Can any of our politicians do these when latest car are there?

“Change is no instant coffee,.....

AceRoyal:
Go back home......

insisting that he had only promised that he could supply a community in the Lekki area of Lagos with power from an Independent Power Project in the state within six months with the permission to do so.

KPhantom:
NLC got nothing to offer

funlord:




No one gives a _fuck about this grandpa!


Maybe you should go and tell his "olodo rabata of a son" that is currently hiding in drogba's backyard in the ivory coast so that he can buy him a cake baked in otueke!


Rubbish!

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Minister for Information and Culture with the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Monday, said the Federal Government is considering opening a robust dialogue with the Niger-Delta militants on the need to stop militancy in the oil rich region.

The duo who spoke an interactive session with a coalition of civil societies in Lagos, chaired by Dr. Moses Ilo, founder of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, stressed that nefarious activities of militants is currently sabotaging efforts being made by the government to revamp the nation’s economy.

Mohammed while lamenting the situation said there was no other solution to the issues happening in Niger Delta other than engaging them in meaningful dialogue.

According to Kachikwu the government has come to realize that rolling out military tanks against the militants would not solve the problem.
“The military barrels cannot stop or solve problem of militancy in the Niger–Delta region. I will have to go back to my brothers, they are our brothers we will go and dialogue with them,” Kachikwu said.

He said the continued audit of the country’s daily fuel consumption resulted in weeding out 10 million liters of fake petroleum products that was daily subsidized by the previous administration.
Kachikwu lamented that the fund spent in subsidizing the pretentious consumption daily could have been used by the Federal Government to fix the refineries, roads and other basic amenities across the country which would have helped improve the Nigeria’s economy.

Zakzaky is demanding an order of court directing his immediate release from custody.

From Paul Osuyi, Asaba

FORMER Chief Economic Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Phillip Asiodu has attributed the economic challenges facing the country to lack of articulated and clear long-term vision on the part of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Asiodu described Buhari as a man with impeccable personal credentials for pro¬bity elected on the promise of change particularly the end to corruption and re-introduction of good governance that will pursue public interests.

“However, he (Buhari) leads a party, which like the other political parties, has not articulated a clear long-term vision for Nigeria, nor a manifesto with clear programmer’s and projects for the transformation of Nigeria into a first world state. It has not explicitly adopted Vision 2020 even as a basis for further long-term planning,” Asiodu said.

He spoke in Asaba as the chairman on the occasion of the second edition of the bi-annual lecture series in honour of the first premier of the defunct Mid-West Region between 1964 and 1966, Chief Dennis Osadebey.

The lecture with the theme: ‘Strong Institutions as a Panacea to Good Governance in Nigeria’ was organized by ASDEV ‘81 Club Asaba, a sociocultural organization working for societal progress.

Asiodu who was first appointed Special Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari and chairman of Cabinet Com¬mittee on Economic Affairs in 1983, gave a graphic illustration of how the nation gradually arrived at its present economic status.
“Our population which was 40 mil¬lion at independence is now about 180 million and is projected to continue growing at 2.8 per cent per annum over the next four years and more. The proportion of the population living at below poverty line in 1960 was about 20 per cent. The proportion today is about 70 per cent.

“In 1975, Nigeria was at about number 56, a low middle income country, today we are about number 158 and still a low middle income country but overtaken by so many countries. Nigeria’s HDI (Human Development Index) ranking in 2011 was 156 out of 187 countries.

“Nigeria is still a mono-cultural economy exporting crude oil and LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) which account for 95 per cent of our export earnings. Manufacturing contributed just under 4 per cent to GDP, and export of manufactured goods less than 0.7 per cent in 2011 and has fallen further. Only 40 per cent of Nigerians living in urban centers have access to electricity,” he explained.

On the way forward, Asiodu who said strong institutions were critical to the foundation for good governance, advocated a revolutionary approach towards building strong institutions, and urged President Buhari to call the nation to order.

“I believe that the nation is ready and will respond to President Buhari should he call the nation to order regardless of how all the key players have arrived at their present positions – a call for a revolutionary change of attitude regarding the object and conduct of politics, to embrace good governance in all its aspects and genuine patriotic service in the public interest,” he said.

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti

There was an outrage on Sunday over the Friday night attack by criminals suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Oke Ako in Ikole Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State.
Two persons died from the attack while three others are receiving treatment in separate private hospitals in Ikole Ekiti and Ado Ekiti.
Governor Ayodele Fayose has warned that there could be reprisal attacks on Fulani herdsmen in the state if they did not desist from invading communities and attacking the people.
He described the assailants as “agents of the devil that must be fished out and punished accordingly.”
The governor, who commiserated with the people, especially the family of the deceased, vowed to do everything within his power to forestall the reoccurrence of such attack and safeguard the lives of Ekiti people.
Fayose in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said the Fulani herdsmen were becoming a major threat to the unity of Nigeria.
“I will not fold my hands while armed herdsmen invade communities in Ekiti, killing people and destroying farmlands at will as they have done in other states.
“I have directed the police and other security agencies in the state to fish out the killer herdsmen. I am in constant touch with the security agencies and I hope that the killer herdsmen will be fished out wherever they are and made to face the full wrath of the law.
“The people of Oke-Ako should therefore remain calm while the security agents do their job. However, the security agents must be mindful of the fact that the people’s patience has a limit and they must therefore act promptly and decisively.”
A member of the seventh House of Representatives, Bamidele Faparusi, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, to investigate claims by residents that policemen from Ikole demanded N12,000 for fuel and did not respond promptly to distress call.
Faparusi, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, urged Arase to punish anyone indicted to serve as a deterrent to others.
“The villagers revealed that the police in Ikole Divisional Police Station demanded a sum of N12,000 before they can go to Oke Ako to rescue the people. This is an issue that must be investigated thoroughly.
“The IGP should send a powerful delegation from Abuja to carry out an investigation and those found guilty should be punished.
“The police cannot afford to toy with the lives of the Nigerian citizens. I am sure that if they had acted swiftly when the incident was reported, that could have helped in reducing the severity of the attack,” he said.
The governor, who described activities of the Fulani Herdsmen as inimical to the revival of agriculture in the country lamented that farmlands worth billions of naira had been destroyed in states in the South-West, South-East and North-Central zones of the country.
“One wonders how Nigerians can go back to farming when those already in the farms are losing billions of naira worth of crops to destruction of their farmlands by the Fulani Herdsmen and the Federal Government is not doing anything about it.”
“I am sounding a note of warning to the Fulani herdsmen and those who can talk to them should also do so now. If they continue with these wanton attacks, killing of the people and destruction of farmlands in Ekiti, I cannot guarantee that there won’t be reprisal attacks.
“I can also not guarantee the level that the reprisal attacks can get to because as a governor, it is my responsibility to defend and protect my people.”
Fayose called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop paying lips service to the Fulani herdsmen’s menace, saying as patron of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, the president had the capacity to caution the herdsmen.
“President Buhari should therefore call his people to order because this is Ekiti; our people have the rights to defend themselves.
“Most importantly, President Buhari must be reminded of how he was so concerned about the killing of Fulani herdsmen in in Saki, Oke Ogun Area of Oyo State such that he, as a private citizen led Arewa to Ibadan on October 13, 2000, to confront the then Governor of Oyo State, late Alhaji Lam Adesina.”

AngryNigerian:
Can someone remind me again why such a lovely programme was scrapped

He said. President Muhammadu Buhari has “Cut Funding” for the amnesty programme, citing corruption.