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Also l couldn't use Google play store while the phone was working. Thanks.

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Also l couldn't use Google play store while the phone was working. Thanks.

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Clerverly:
When Will Buhari Stop all these political witch hunting and face governance? The international price of Crude is on a free fall because he is yet to put in place a cabinet but he is busy witch hunting Deziani Madueke. Between how much did she even steal? This government is a Scam!

Sarcasm!

A report on Sahara Reporters
claim that the Comptroller
General of the Nigerian
Customs, Abdullahi Dikko
Inde, has submitted his
resignation letter to President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Quoting sources in the presidency,
the report said Dikko indicated his
willingness to leave his present
position on August 18, 2015.
Interestingly, the Customs boss
tenure will come to an end in two
years time. It is however unclear why he has decided to vacate his office.
The report however stated that
several top-shots in the Customs are
currently under investigation for
corruption and some of them may be
shown the way out or arrested.
Buhari reportedly earlier turned
down Dikko’s resignation in order for
him to look into the affairs of the
service, but later agreed to let Dikko
go, even as there are talks that the
president is lining a replacement for
Dikko with an officer from the South-
South region.
Recall that a similar situation played
out in the events that culminated in
the firing of the former National
Security Adviser, Col. Dasuki Sambo
(rtd), when the president turned
down his resignation, but later fired
him.
Dikko’s tenure as the Customs boss
has been enmeshed in series of
controversy. From the constant
allegations of corruption, to his
alleged forgery of his academic
credentials.
In 2009, one Olajide Oyewole in a
video testimony, confessed that he
assisted Dikko to illegally obtain
some of his academic certificates,
belonging to Nigerian Institute of
Management; certificates No 10912
and 10993 and West African
Examinations Council Certificate No.
NGSG 37836.
https://www.naij.com/513866-fear-buhari-customs-boss-set-resign-two-years-tenure-expires.html

The Management of Transmission
Company of Nigeria (TCN) on
Wednesday stated that the National
Grid Transmission has recorded
another peak of 4662 megawatt (mw) of electricity.
In a statement by TCN General
Manager, Public Affairs, Seun
Olagunju, it said the new peak was
attained at 08.00pm on Tuesday.
The statement recalled that TCN
management had announced the
attainment of the previous peak
transmission of 4656mw on 15th July this year.
Power generation and transmission
have been recording new peaks
above 4500 mw following
improvements in gas supply to the
generating stations as well as
equipment/infra-structure upgrade
and enhanced human capacity of
system operators.
TCN assures that it would continue to work at enhancing the capacity to
transmit more power to the
electricity distribution companies.
It would be recalled that during the
immediate past administration,
electricity output crashed to an all
time, historic low of 727 mw.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/07/30/buharism-nigerias-power-supply-now-at-4656mw/

Nigeria’s gross government revenues
rose for the second consecutive
month in June to 485.95 billion naira
($2.44 billion), up 33 per cent from
May, the finance ministry said.
The total for distribution to the three
tiers of government was 518.542
billion naira including a 6.33 billion
refund by the state oil company,
value added tax of 64.99 billion naira
and an exchange rate gain of 6.69
billion naira.
The balance of the Excess Crude
Account stood at $2.207 billion, up
from $2.078 billion on June 23.
Some business analysts have
attributed the revenue increase to
President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-
corruption drive which is geared at
blocking leakages particularly in the
oil sector.
Buhari is optimistic that the most
populous black nation can recover
some of its stolen funds that have
put in foreign accounts across the
globe.
In a recent state visit to the United
States, he got assurances from the US
government led by President Barack
Obama that Nigeria will recover
monies stolen by politicians and
public office holders.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/07/28/buharism-nigerias-revenue-rises-for-second-consecutive-month/

mistabiola:


Why is tinubu ,fashola, oyegun and the likes still moving about with security details.

They are all former state governors and are entitled by law to security details in retirement. This is not applicable to ex-ministers.

Labour insisted yesterday that federal
lawmakers must further cut their
N120 billion budget —in line with
economic realities.
The Joe Ajaero-led Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) faction said the
reduction of the National Assembly’s
budget from N150 billion to N120
billion “is too token and not far
reaching enough”.
It threatened a mass revolt should
the lawmakers and the executive fail
to bring down their recurrent
expenses.
The faction’s Deputy President,
Comrade Issa Aremu, who is also the
General Secretary of the Textile
Workers Union, advised National
Assembly members to appreciate the
mood of the nation for leadership
sacrifices, resource allocation for
national development and common
good as opposed to self-help.
He spoke to reporters in Kaduna.
But a House of Representatives
member, Mohammed Abdulkadir,
said the N120billion is not all for
salaries.
Labour said “nations prosper when
their leaders are willing to sacrifice;
while nations fail when leaders
engage in selfish self-help agenda.”
The factional NLC group asked:
“Should 109 senators and 360
members of the House of
Representatives gulp as much as
N120 billion in a year, which is twice
the 2015 budget of Ekiti State
(N80.774 billion), a state with the
population of 2,384,212 people?
“How equitable is it for less than 500
national legislators to gulp N120
billion annually when Osun State with
a population of 3,423,535 people and
unfunded 2015 Appropriation Bill of
N201 billion is yet to pay salaries for
seven months?
“Benue State has as many as
4,219,244 people; it budgeted N98.54
billion; Zamfara has 3,259,846
citizens and budgeted N92.80 billion;
and Ebonyi, budgeted N80.02 billion
for 2,173,501 people.
“The respective budgets of these
three states is half of the budget of
the National Assembly. How
equitable is that?
“There has been illegal and
unconstitutional concentration of
scarce national resources in the
hands of our legislators and
Executive office holders alike that
must be reversed now.
“For instance, Kano State budgeted
N210 billion in 2015. Kano State has
9,383,682 people. The budget per
capital of Kano, estimated at
N22,379, is miserable, compared to
budget per capital of the National
Assembly at N293,398,533!
“No country can prosper with this
wide and widening gap in resource
allocation between the governed and
some elected government officials.
“The National Assembly members
should take the advantage of the
current goodwill of Nigerians in
making anamend failing which they
provoke mass revolt of the people.
“NLC, therefore, is advocating that
the first step is that the National
Assembly budget should be reversed
to 2003 budget of N50 billion, which
will certainly cut the existing budget
of the assembly by more than 50 per
cent.
It stressed that since 2003, “the
number of members remains the
same while most of their
infrastructural needs have been met.
Secondly, the national economy can
hardly afford this legislative pay.
“The eighth National Assembly must
make a difference. It should be
accountable to Nigerian people, just
as many Executives have done.
“The eighth Assembly must
complement President Muhammadu
Buhari in his resolve to cut cost of
governance fuelled by corruption,
the worse form of which is
outrageous pay for public office
holders.
“They must emulate governors like
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna
State and his deputy who have cut
their pay by 50 per cent and urged
the Members of the House of
Assembly to follow suit.
“Kano State Governor Abdullahi
Umar Ganduje also reduced the
salaries and allowances of public
office holders in the state by 50 per
cent.
“Significantly the legislators must
reject the Greek allowances Revenue
Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC) generously
accorded them. These allowances are
unsustainable. They are not based on
needs in a depressed economy.
“For instance, why pay legislators
who already collected over a million
naira wardrobe allowance?
“It will take a minimum wage earner
about two years and five months to
earn what legislators earn as
wardrobe allowance of N506,600.
”The eighth National Assembly
should rightly redirect national
resources to priority sectors, such as
education, health and road
construction.
“The assembly must also urgently
review the minimum Wage Act of
2010 which, according to the Act,
expires next month.
“The Assembly should constitute the
Tripartite Statutory Committee based
on equal basis between government,
organized labour and organized
private sector,” it said.

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The Crude for Petroleum Products
Exchange Agreements, better known
as crude oil swaps, and Offshore
Processing Agreements (OPAs),
entered into by the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and
oil traders between 2011 and 2014,
are to blame for the abysmally low
output from NNPC’s refineries and
the high importation of petroleum
products into the country, THISDAY
has learnt.
Extensive interviews with officials of
NNPC and industry operators
revealed that contrary to the
perception that has been created for
some time that the nation’s four
refineries were operating at
suboptimal capacity, thus
necessitating the massive
importation of petroleum products,
certain elements within the system,
with endorsement of the former
Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke,
ensured that the refineries were
starved of crude oil.
Last Thursday, NNPC’s public affairs
unit announced that its four
refineries would resume operations
next month.
Spokesman of the corporation, Ohi
Alegbe, said the refineries – the
210,000 barrels per day (bpd) Port
Harcourt plant, 110,000 bpd Kaduna
plant and the 125,000 bpd Warri
plant – would commence operations
after a successful overhaul of their
facilities.
He said: “The turn-around-
maintenance has been on (going) for
some time. We did not just want to
make any noise about it. The
refineries will start production as
soon as they have delivery of crude
oil for refining.
“Even when the refineries work at full
capacity, they can only produce
around 19 million litres of petrol per
day.”
With Nigeria consuming 40 million
litres daily, to make up for the
remaining 21 million litres, Nigeria
will still have to rely on importation,
he added.
Expectedly, NNPC’s announcement
aroused interest and questions were
asked as to how come the plants,
which had not functioned almost two
decades, were suddenly ready to be
brought back to life under the
administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Investigations showed that efforts to
repair the refineries started when the
management of the plants, under the
supervision of the former Group
Managing Director (GMD), Mr.
Andrew Yakubu, and a former Group
Executive Director, Refineries and
Petrochemicals (R&P), Mr. Tony
Ogbuigwe, worked surreptitiously to
ensure that the plants were
functional. Ogbuigwe was before his
promotion to GED R&P, the
Managing Director of Port Harcourt
refinery.
THISDAY learnt that after the
nationwide protests over the removal
of fuel subsidy in 2012, Alison-
Madueke had promised to fix the
plants using the original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) instead of
awarding the contracts for their
repair to journeymen contractors.
However, after protracted
negotiations with the OEMs, NNPC
failed to go ahead with the
rehabilitation due to the exorbitant
fees they had demanded for the
repair of the plants.
With no progress made with the
OEMs, Alison-Madueke, in November
2013 announced that the refineries
would be privatised under the
supervision of the National Council
on Privatisation (NCP).
But the NNPC chapter of the Nigerian
Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
(NUPENG), whose members
threatened to go on strike if the
refineries were privatised, resisted
her push for the sale of the plants.
Frustrated with the impasse, Yakubu,
using his approval limit as the NNPC
boss, but without the knowledge of
Alison-Madueke, started making $2.5
million monthly to the management
of the three refineries and
encouraged them to revamp the
plants with local and external
engineers.
Under this arrangement, the
refineries were fixed about a year
ago and ready to churn out
petroleum products, which would
have slashed the volume of imported
fuel by more than 50 per cent and
significantly reduced pressure on the
country’s foreign reserves.
In addition, the construction of a
power plant for the Port Harcourt
refinery was concluded at the
beginning of the year to enhance its
ability to operate efficiently.
However, instead of ensuring that
crude oil was made available to the
refineries for domestic consumption,
Alison-Madueke, in conjunction with
the Pipelines and Products Marketing
Company (PPMC), increased the
crude oil swaps and OPAs from some
270,000 bpd to 445,000 bpd, thus
starving the refineries of crude oil.
The swaps and OPAs were awarded
to Aiteo, Ontario Oil & Gas Limited,
Sahara Energy, Taleveras Petroleum
Trading BV and Swiss firm, Trafigura,
among other oil traders.
When contacted on the issue, an aide
of the former minister claimed that
the reason crude oil was not made
available to the plants was because of
frequent crude oil theft and
vandalism of the pipelines, resulting
in losses of up to 30 per cent.
“Also, when the crude oil got to the
refineries, the Fluid Catalytic Cracking
(FCC) units were not working, so we
were getting mainly base oils such as
naphtha, low pour fuel oil (LPFO),
kerosene and diesel.
“Meanwhile, petrol, which is PPMC’s
major requirement and accounts for
more than 70 per cent of all
petroleum products consumed in the
country, was not being produced.
“The lack of production of petrol,
which is one of the lightest distillates
from the refining process, also
resulted in another loss of 30 per
cent.
“This in turn impacted on NNPC’s
ability to remit funds to the
Federation Account since monies
from the procurement of crude oil
meant for domestic refining by NNPC
is supposed to go to the federation
for sharing by the three tiers of
government.
“It was based on this that the former
minister called a meeting and
increased the allocation for the
swaps and OPAs such that little or no
crude oil was made available to the
refineries,” the aide explained.
Yet, further investigations by
THISDAY revealed that even though
there were frequent cases of crude
oil theft and vandalism, the crude oil
swaps and OPAs could have been
largely avoided because there is a
subsisting contract to move crude oil
from Chevron’s Escravos oil terminal
to the Warri and Port Harcourt
refineries by marine vessels.
Despite the subsisting contract, the
operator was not allowed to lift
crude oil to the refineries since last
year but continues to be paid by
NNPC.
An oil industry operator, conversant
with the lifting contract by marine
vessels, explained that elements
within the petroleum sector that
preferred the swaps and OPAs
ignored this arrangement because of
the loopholes that allowed traders to
lift crude oil and under-deliver petrol
including the derivatives or base oils
to PPMC.
He explained that the recent probe
by the Department of State Security
(DSS) into the swaps and OPAs had
scared the traders into importing
outstanding cargoes, resulting in the
increased arrival of fuel-laden vessels
at Nigeria’s seaports in recent weeks.
The operator, who preferred not to
be named, confirmed that before the
marine vessel lifting contract was
awarded, NNPC was losing up to 40
per cent of its crude oil to theft and
vandalism of the pipelines.
In order to stop the theft, a contract,
he said, was awarded to an Israeli
company to lift crude oil from
Escravos to the Warri refinery in
February 2011 under a Proof of
Concept Agreement, but it was
unable to meet the terms of the
contract.
“Subsequently, a Nigerian firm,
Ocean Marine Tankers (OMT) Limited
founded by Captain Hosa Okunbor,
Tunde Ayeni and others, took over
the job. At first, OMT started moving
crude oil from the Escravos terminal
to the Warri refinery.
“OMT invested heavily in a very large
crude carrier (VLCC) with the capacity
to lift 2 million barrels, then
transferred the oil to smaller vessels
that moved to the refinery and
offload their content at the plant.
“You would recall when OMT
commissioned MT Abiola and MT
Igbinosa in 2013 in Warri to convey
crude oil to the refinery.
“In spite of this arrangement with
OMT to circumvent oil theft, this was
stopped with the swaps and OPAs,”
he said.
Confirming the development, an
official of OMT said his company had
not been allowed to convey crude oil
with its tankers since last year but
continues to be paid by NNPC.
“When we took over the contract
from the Israeli firm, with the ship-
to-ship transfer mechanism, we
reduced losses to 0.19 per cent as
opposed to the 0.5 per cent
allowable under the contract.
“In fact, the former GMD of NNPC
(Yakubu) was so satisfied with the
arrangement that he classified it as
security contract and extended it to
include the Port Harcourt refinery.
“But since last year, we have stopped
conveying crude oil to Port Harcourt
and Warri due to the swaps and
OPAs,” he said.
When asked how NNPC ensured that
crude oil was not diverted under the
marine lifting contract, the OMT
official said a shipping letter was
issued to his company, permitting it
to obtain a bill of lading to load from
Escravos.
“Like all crude oil lifting contracts,
officials of Chevron, Department of
Petroleum Resources (DPR), NNPC,
the Navy and other security agencies
must verify that we have loaded 2
million barrels to our VLCC.
“Owing to the shallow draft at the
refineries, the VLCC stays offshore
and transfers to the smaller vessels
which then move to refineries to
offload. Then checks are done to
verify that the quantity lifted from
the terminal is the same as the
quantity of crude oil offloaded at the
refineries,” he said.
The OMT official added that at the
end of the month, the refineries also
undertook a reconciliation process to
ascertain that the crude oil delivered
was the same as what was lifted at
the terminals, “because the yield
from the crude oil that is delivered to
the refinery is accountable to PPMC”.
“But like I said, this has stopped since
last year because of the desire to
sustain the swaps and OPAs,” he said.
The company official also alleged that
oil theft and vandalism by criminal
elements that hot-tap the pipelines
have continued unimpeded while
persons who want to disrupt OMT’s
marine vessel lifting contract recently
attacked their vessels.
Further enquiries from NNPC
revealed that its officials are
presently confident that the FCC units
at the refineries have been fixed and
have the capacity to produce petrol
and other products.
One official informed THISDAY that
crude oil accounts for almost 90 per
cent of refining cost, and if the
refineries were allowed to function,
this would significantly reduce the
federal government’s subsidy bill,
because at current crude oil prices of
slightly over $60 per barrel, the
plants could operate at a profit.

Source: Thisday, Sunday, 21 June, 2015

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