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how we wan take solve this particular case my fellow Nigerians

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Most Nigerians change their preferred choice of study at the death after seeking admission for years.

Let's hear yours…

Flyingngel:
Look at few of our so call youths; I know in this forum we have many Jambites roaming around but unfortunately they don't want to read and learn rather they are very good at throwing insult at any reasonable person.
Leave the messenger and attack the message.
Exxon Mobil is a multinational company, the question is, Can they distribute this same refurbished cars to their Country - USA?
This type of reasons make foreigners to come into our country and exploit our natural resources with reckless abandon cos they know that we can't do shi.t.
After all we are all divided and greedy.
God help us all.

Thank you!

valar dohaeris

Ayo8:
Hunger
Hardship.
Poverty
Unemployment
Thuggery
Sea piracy
Underdevelopment
Etc...
atleast he donated something...

90% of politicians are of the xteristics u listed, but do u expect multinationals to follow suit? really?

AsomughaChuks02:
You want them to be giving you free money to show that they are nice?

pls read to comprehend not to attack. Gracias.

AsomughaChuks02:
Which one did you donate, honourable?

This is also an issue.. but for the truth exxonmobil has not been so nice to the people of akwa ibom state knowing fully well this is where they get 80-90% of their products.

PRESS RELEASE.

ExxonMobil’s Continuous Impudence; Why Akwa
Ibom State Government Should Reject Those
Refurbished Vehicles.
I have read on the website of ExxonMobil of their
seeming act of benevolence, donating
Ambulances, other vehicles, beds and medical
supplies to support Nigerian Covid-19 response,
Akwa Ibom State inclusive.
While many will applaud and appreciate these
apparent kind gesture from a Multinational that
is exploiting our mineral resources and
contributing less to the development of the core
oil producing communities, as a Representative
of the people from this region in the National
Assembly, it is important to state that these
provisions from ExxonMobil is another way of
insulting the sensibilities of Akwa Ibom people.
I am aware that the oil giant, has never procured
used or refurbished vehicles for their own
operations or for their staff for that matter. I find
it therefore, very worrisome, why they should
donate to Akwa Ibom State government,
refurbished abandoned vehicles that they used
for numerous operations in their different
facilities across the state about 20 years ago or
thereabouts. The excuse of using them for
contact tracing is laughable and demeaning. The
beds and mattresses donated are not even fit for
the worst correctional homes and are a complete
eyesore and disservice to the avowed standards
of Exxonmobil. If they could do this with
vehicles, how do we trust the test kits donated?
Akwa Ibom state government deserves the best
of medical equipment, vehicles to commensurate
their tranquil working relationship with
ExxonMobil in the course of their operations in
the region to support the fight against Covid-19,
but they choose to spite us with used
refurbished vehicles, poor quality equipment and
retrenchment of indigenous workers. We would
have thought that they had learnt lessons after
the poor showing in the distribution of the $
50,000 palliatives last week and make restitution
but no, they choose to rub salt to the injury.
I hereby call on the Akwa Ibom State
Government to reject those refurbished vehicles,
antiquated beds and dirty mattresses until
ExxonMobil learn to deal respectfully with her
host State and Communities.


Hon. Patrick Ifon
Eket/ Esit Eket/ Ibeno/ONNA

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rubbish! I posted this first!

varlar doharis

dominique Sissy3 do the needful

In case you missed it the first time the story
broke , the most expensive water in the world is
sold in a 750ml 24-carat solid gold bottle that
retails for €60,000– or about $72,000 USD.
Outrageous, right? We couldn’t believe it
ourselves, so we’d figure we’d share the details
so you can add this to your trivia knowledge:
Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani — also
known as the “Most Expensive Bottle of Water in
the World” according to the Guiness Book of
World Records — is as fancy as the name
suggests.
One bottle of Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a
Modigliani water, above shown, costs $60,000.
The water is sourced from France and Fiji (two
points literally on opposite sides of the globe,
which likely adds to the cost) and is sold in a
bottle designed by Fernando Altamirano of
Tequila Ley (the same guy who designed the
Cognac Dudognon Heritage Henri IV bottle, which
is the most expensive bottle of cognac in the
world).
https://gardencollage.com/inspire/art-design/worlds-expensive-bottle-water-costs-60000/

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BY FAROOQ KPEROGI
On paper, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari’s choice as Buhari’s Chief of Staff is so far the regime’s most luminous appointment. Gambari is undoubtedly one of Nigeria’s most credentialed and globally visible citizens for whom the position of Chief of Staff to the President is actually a positional, even symbolic, downgrade.
Ordinarily, the office of the Chief of Staff to the President is informal, discretionary, and of no consequence. Its inconsequence is underscored by the fact that the constitution does no recognize it and does not require the president to appoint anyone to perform its duties. That was why Umar Musa Yar’adua didn’t have one.
The only reason the position of CoS to the President has become uncharacteristically visible in the last five years is that Buhari is both too cognitively incapacitated and too splendidly incompetent to function as president, so he needs a proxy or, as I pointed out in my April 22 status update, “a babysitter, a political and intellectual babysitter.”
As a military dictator, Tunde Idiagbon was Buhari’s political babysitter from 1983 to 1985. The late Salihijo Ahmad’s Afri-Projects Consortium (APC), was “the sole manager of the PTF projects,” according to Ray Ekpu’s June 5, 2018 article titled, “Petroleum Trust Fraud.” In other words, Buhari couldn’t even manage a government agency as small as the PTF without needing babysitting. Of course, most people know that since 2015 until his death, Abba Kyari was Buhari’s proxy.
Mamman Daura, on whom Buhari is intellectually and emotionally dependent, “created” Abba Kyari for Buhari but Kyari later grew into a Frankenstein that almost devoured his “creator.” Daura wants no repeat of that and sees a potentially dutiful factotum in Gambari who was Buhari’s external affairs minister from 1984 to 1985.
He seems like a person who would do a good job of concealing Buhari’s cognitive and mental infirmities from the public and from government officials, which is what the position of CoS to Buhari has now been reduced to.
Although Gambari has intimidatingly impressive academic and professional credentials, he has no reputation for lofty, high-minded principles, which explains why he would even accept this position, which relegates rather than elevates him.
He defended IBB’s ruinous invalidation of the June 12 presidential election, justified Abacha’s heartrending judicial murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists, and, according to the New York Times of Oct. 5, 1997, opposed something as innocuous as a planned renaming of a New York street after the late Kudirat Abiola who was murdered in cold blood by Abacha’s junta, which Gambari served.
He also evinces what I call the overzealousness of the identitarian periphery, by which I mean people who are on the margins of a desired identity tend to go overboard to assert their membership of that identity in order to impress people who are rhetorically constituted as the core of that identity.
Gambari is an Ilorin prince, but his middle name (and the name by which his close family members call him) is Agboola. “Ibrahim” is just for show. Although he traces patrilineal descent from the Fulani, he is culturally (and obviously genetically) Yoruba and doesn’t look anything like a Fulani man, yet Yoruba people won’t accept him as one of them.
He’s on the geographic, symbolic, and cultural fringes of western and northern Nigerian identities, but he identifies as, and indeed is, a northerner. People who know him say he works excessively, if quietly, hard to prove his “northernness” through exaggerated subnationalist gamesmanship of the kind that someone from Kano or Sokoto with a similar educational and experiential exposure as he would find a little too extreme.
People like that are often happy and willing tools of puppeteers who come from the identity they want to be seen as central to but to which they are marginal. My sense is that he won’t be nearly as powerful and as influential as Abba Kyari was for as long as Mamman Daura is alive.
The only silver lining I see is that he probably won’t be as lazy as Abba Kyari was. Kyari was an indolent, self-absorbed presidential gatekeeper who allowed files that required urgent presidential attention to gather dust and who attended only to issues that feathered his nest.
I hope Gambari would at least bring his considerable experience to help lubricate the rusty wheels of governance even while doing the bidding of his benefactor(s).

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