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A vessel carrying imported gasoline has exploded in Lagos killing and injuring yet- to- be determined number of people according to Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

The explosion occurred around 1 am Nigerian time at the Atlas Cove jetty in Apapa area of Lagos. The raging fire is still ongoing as at 10 AM as firefighters and the NNOPC battle to shut down pipes at the jetty.

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bolaino: It's a question that should be answered with utmost sincerity, with all honesty and with no religious bias (but I doubt my christian folks will be able to do that).

But let's examine the death of jesus, christians from time immemorial have given us the illusion that it was the greatest and noblest thing any man or God could have done for his people, by paying the ultimate price, ( giving up his life),

But I chose to disagree, in the case of jesus, he is said to be God, and he created all things, having this knowledge how would coming to earth and dying and going back to splendor a big deal? I know of people who have gone through a lot worse for no reward at all, not to talk about jesus, who is supposed to be the beginning and the end, this should have been like a walk in the park for him.

But it was'nt, even knowing fully well that he was going to rise up again and be praised in heaven and on earth for all eternity, he was still scared, begging himself in heaven not to allow the whole thing happen.

Personally I would go through all jesus went through just to be given one billion dollars, I know of people who would go through same tin or even worse for less, did jesus suffer more than the slaves in america? Or did he suffer more than the people who were tortured and beaten to death, in places like cambodia, uganda, rwanda etc, the answer is No, so christians should stop saying how difficult it was for jesus to lay his life down for sinners.

God is just and He would not allow a sinner go unpunished. We are not saved because Christ was flogged and crucified... Christ at the garden of Gethsemane was not talking about the whips of the soldiers and the cross when He said let this cup pass over me. He was talking about God's wrath and an eventual separation from the father he is one with. God crushed him for your sins and my sins. He paid the price in full, drank every bit of the wrath in that cup. You can never ever go through what Jesus went through. The death that should have come to me as a result of my sins has been paid for in full, that is why I can stand justified.

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and who says international oil prices won't fall to $60 before the year runs out?

Bakare summed it up months earlier

Were you not the same people saying “we did not vote for PDP, we only voted for Jonathan”, idiots! How do you separate one from the other, idiots? Is it not your elders in the church that saw the hand of God in massive rigging and called the Lord Jehovah , “Jehovah Rigger” ? Idiots! How long are you going to endure this banditry? They have stolen your heritage, you are now begging for crumbs from the master’s table. My God will always have a witness. Is there a witness in the house today? I feel like breaking the microphone and preach no more. I feel like going away far from the madding crowd, or maddening crown for it looks like we have lost our minds. Our children have no future. Every father will have to create his own business for the survival of his own family. And when we say let’s rise, you’ll be the first to cal us ‘Area Pastors’ , because you too refined, Your house will burn! You go check the bible, Your wives will become harlots, Your children will be slaughtered on the streets, this is what Amos said!! “But, let justice roll like water” I think I will come back to finish this. You see, I got to a place where I began to examine “are Nigerians really human beings?” “Are they cows?” “Are they dogs?” “Are they cowards?” “Who are Nigerians?” “Is this what you designed from the beginning?” “Is this the great nation you had at the back of your mind – that will save Africa” “ Is this what we are made up of , that we are talking from both sides of our mouths, that we have no vision, that we have no future, and we just sit in temples, in churches, in congresses, in conferences, collecting people’s money, idiots?!” Let it begin from the house of God! Let it begin from the temple!! Let the leaders rise, let us march, let us take over back our heritage from bandits!!!

This means a 12.5 kg gas cylinder will now sell at GHc17.02 (N1,796.76)

This same cylinder sells for 2800 - 3000 naira and we dont import the gas. We have it in abundance.
This may be our fate if full deregulation is allowed. It is necessary but ill timed and the government CANNOT be trusted

phreakabit:
Are we suppose to think this is a clever brilliant post? People change my good friend! Besides he was in power then and wouldn't have anything take that position from him. If anything I would say your post is reason enough for him to be the prime suspect. Reason, you ask? Well, By experience only Gen Buhari knows how potent the effect of terrorism is on the psyche of a President .

You are a standard bastard for trying to bring Buhari into a matter which there is no shred of evidence linking him to it. You are a fool for trying to explain away the incompetence of Jonathan by tarnishing the image of another man. GEJ is basically an ineffective leader. Why hasn't he sacked the head of the police force? Why would he award him with a medal when there is utter insecurity? I won't be surprised if the Vatican's statement came earlier than GEJ's statement on the issue.  You pinned the murder of innocent corpers on him when your clueless president looked the other way as it happened. You now want to pin the murder of innocent christians on him? If he is that evil, pick him up and jail him or assassinate him like the US did to Osama - At least PDP isn't a stranger to assassinations.

We are lost in this country. You see loads of comments devoid of any reasoning.
GEJ has repeatedly told us lies. He promised all manner of things during his campaign that he has shown no intention of honoring. Yet, it's a man who in his years of public service there is no shred of evidence of wrong doing against his character. What we have are only hearsay that cannot be substantiated. The unjust murder of innocent people during the election was pinned on him when the c in c was silent for days. They have tried to repeatedly associate him with Boko Haram. Attempts have been made to rubbish his achievements during his time @ PTDF. History has been re-written about the dangerous path the Shagari administration was taking Nigeria the corruption and economic mismanagement because of this man.
He has his flaws like every other man but he has shown himself to be different. No matter the falsehoods he has made his mark in Nigeria. He will die and we'll continue suffering because we just don't get it!

EL-RUFAI SPEECH TO THE SENATE : YOU ASKED FOR BRIBE


October 6, 2003


I want to thank the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, through you Mr. Chairman and members of your Committee for its resolution to investigate the allegation published in some national newspapers that a couple of Senators demanded money from me, to facilitate my clearance as a ministerial nominee. The Senate has by its resolution displayed great courage and given the people of this country hope that our country is indeed turning the corner of the perception of a corrupt nation where anything goes. The Senate has also voted overwhelmingly in support of transparency in public affairs and upholding the democratic principles of openness and fair hearing. Once again, I thank you distinguished Senators.
Let me start Mr. Chairman with a clear statement of my respect for institutions in general and the National Assembly in particular. I have spent all my years in public life lamenting the collapse of our institutions, and I will be the last person to disrespect the Senate or the House of Representatives. Indeed, as some Senators and the President, the Vice President and the Governor of my home state, Kaduna know, sometime in 2001, I actually had discussions with them to run for legislative office in 2003. I would not have considered that, if I thought that the legislature is not an institution worthy of serving, and building. Instead, it was my destiny to remain and build the Bureau of Public Enterprises into an institution that even international organizations and our detractors have acclaimed for professionalism, competence and integrity, until I was privileged to be nominated as a Minister by Mr. President.
Permit me to recall, Mr. Chairman, that the Senate blazed the trail in the war against corruption by passing the Independent Corrupt Practices Act in 2001, and had the singular courage of investigating its members in the past. These are actions worthy of respect and recognition.
It is important Mr. Chairman, to make this point to differentiate between my disappointment with the conduct of two members of the National Assembly, and my respect for the legislature. In the Senate, there are two former Vice Chancellors of my alma mater, Ahmadu Bello University, Professors Iya Abubakar and Daniel Saror, impeccable role models, and Barewa Old Boys like Dr. Dalhatu Sarki Tafida, and Professor Jibril Aminu. There are several others, including Senators Udo Udoma and Victor Oyofo, and my brother Senator Amah Iwuagwu, (with whom I worked together for General Abdulsalam Abubakar’s government to design and supervise the transition programme, which led to this republic), and others too numerous to mention. It will be a wild contradiction in law and fact to impute any disrespect to the Senate from the statement I make here today. Indeed, it is because I greatly respect the Senate and believe that our Senators are honourable and distinguished persons, that I felt the need to bring into the public domain, acts unbecoming of members of this Upper House.
Let me now go into the circumstances leading to the publication of the allegation. As part of our enlightenment programme on the President’s Vision to Retrieve the Abuja Master Plan, we had intensive interaction with several journalists. Some spent hours with me and my staff talking about the vision, and visited many sites within the Federal Capital Territory. I gave several interviews, and the quesiton was raised about how many people think that my boss, the Vice President, made money as the supervisor of the privatization programme, and how I must have facilitated it. I explained the impossibility of that happening due to the well-applauded transparency of our programme and its inherent checks and balances. This led me to relate a personal story which had disturbed and caused me great distress. This personal story was reported in the papers, and it has been my lot to handle the intended and unintended consequences flowing therefrom. I believe strongly that God has a reason for making this personal experience public at this time and for bringing us here today.
In June 2003, the President nominated me for appointment as a Minister. The President asked me to meet with as many Senators as possible to ease the process of screening. This I did, and many of you are aware that I made efforts by telephone and personal visits. It was a time when many Senators had not moved into official residences but I tried to see as many, and talk to as many distinguished Senators as possible. It was gratifying that many Senators felt that there was no need for me and many of my colleagues to go to the length we did to present ourselves to the Senate. It was a very enriching experience for me personally, as I moved from my comfort zone of a technocrat, to that of a potential politician.
The Vice President departed for a trip shortly after the announcement of the nominees, but left a message that I should meet with the Deputy Senate President Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu and other principal officers of the Senate. Though I did not get the Vice President’s message, a distinguished elder brother also reached me and communicated the same message. During my BPE days, I enjoyed excellent relations with Senator Mantu, who had at various times introduced businessmen and party members to me with interests to purchase shares in the Abuja Sofitel, and some other companies. We handled all the introductions in accordance with laid down procedures of the National Council on Privatization. Whenever we met, Senator Mantu used to comment on my youth and claimed to have told the president that he felt that I had the wisdom of Solomon without the age of Methuselah. I would naturally say then that Senator Mantu would support my nomination. However, trying to contact him as advised, I observed that he became evasive. And after several attempts and missed appointments, when I caught up with him in his office, I waited for over 6 hours with a former Senator without having a meeting with him. During this period, I was fortunate to meet or speak with most of the other principal officers, except for Senators Tafida and Zwingina, who were abroad.
With the intervention of several ex-Senators, I finally met with Senator Mantu in his house, and he assured us of his support but pointed out that some detractors were bent on blocking my nomination. He was quite specific about who these detractors were, and how he had been asked by "the Villa" to nominate a replacement for me due to the unlikelihood of my being cleared. None of what the Senator said was believable but I went along, since he then promised to apply his skills at scuttling the effort of these "detractors." Several meetings over a couple of weeks with the screening dates and schedules being shifted over and over, I was visited by an individual who said that I needed to meet Senator Zwingina who had just returned from a trip to South Africa. I was taken to Senator Zwingina’s house in Asokoro for the first time, on July 6, 2003.
We had a brief meeting with Senator Zwigina, who suggested that we drive to Senator Mantu’s house. We met Senator Mantu who restated that in spite of his best efforts, I still had serious problems, and my detractors had recruited many Senators to block my nomination. He added that he brought Zwingina into the picture to counter their move, and that the two of them were "expert" in these matters. However, he added that money would be needed to recruit an army of Senators to act as my defenders, and stated that about N54 million would be needed to secure the support of a minority of senators excluding four or five senators that he was sure would vote for me without payment, and making allowance for absenteeism. He added that many Senators felt I had made money as DG of BPE and should therefore cough out part of it now.
Senator Zwingina added that Senators also felt that I would be difficult to get much from, once I became Minister, and it was safer to have something up-front. I explained that I did not believe in paying for any job, which in any case, was likely to be a difficult and thankless one and have never had such money. I reiterated that I made no money in BPE, and was actually indebted to a couple of people. He added that he was aware that I was being posted to FCT where the sale of a single plot by the Minister would make up for the "investment." I tried without success to convince them of the impossibility of what they are requesting, while they advised that I go and think about it. They were passionate about the opportunities I would miss if I fail to scale the screening, and I was adamant that I could not do what they asked. We parted on this unhappy note.
Corruption is an interesting concept that I have observed over the years. As a professional in the construction industry, I have faced situations of offers and demands for bribery for twenty years. I have during these years strove to maintain my honour and integrity. Not once in my career as a private and public sector technocrat, have I been found to desire what is neither legitimate nor due to me. I have never and will never compromise on the issue of corruption. The few instances that we came across in BPE, we dealt with decisively and relentlessly.
This is my story. This happened between the three of us. No one else was present except God Almighty, and no one else made any demand of me except these two Senators. I immediately shared my ordeal with the available authorities as the president was away on a trip, and also with my inner circle of friends. Naturally, I was disappointed, disturbed and outraged.
Nobody invites witnesses to demand a bribe. Corruption situations are best understood in terms of power dynamics. In allegations of corruption therefore, the question to ask is who has the power to extort? Who would want to part with his legitimate earnings unless a gun is placed on his head? Why would I relate this story if it did not happen? Why would I pick on two Senators out of 109? In what way do they constitute an impediment to my current position or well-being? Why should I have entered details of my meetings on 6th July 2003 with Senators Mantu and Zwingina in my Activities Record Book if same did not occur as recorded?
Since this story broke out, I have personally maintained my silence on the subject while other corroborating and circumstantial evidence have been unearthed. Those who think I have no "strong proof," that it will in the end, amount to my word against theirs, I wish to remind that it is evidence that leads to proof, and that both the Senate and the Nigerian society are not gullible, but intelligent and discerning.
Finally, Mr. Chairman, permit me to make a few remarks in response to some of the speculations and statements in the media on this subject over the last two weeks or so.
Furthermore, attempting to blackmail the President and the Vice president by widening the theatre of disagreement – suggesting that I was recruited to make the allegation to spoil the existing cordial relations between the executive and legislature is even more pathetic. The misconduct of two Senators out of 109, and an allegation by one minister (for now) out of 40 is not reflective of the reality on ground. Finally, this is nothing personal. I have had no prior negative relationship or ill-will towards any of the Senators mentioned. Trivializing the situation and diverting attention from the investigation are unhelpful, and the Senate should remain focused and not waver. I am grateful to the President and Vice president for affording me the opportunity to serve this administration, and I will give up my life in the defence of their honour and integrity. Those that attempt to smear them should carefully weigh the consequences because I intend to see this to a logical conclusion.
I have been counseled by many of my friends and well wishers that desperate people do desperate things. My life has already been threatened, hints that the FCT will receive zero allocation have been passed and a forensic audit of my tenure at BPE is being undertaken. None of these is new or unexpected even from my previous job. With the support of God, the president and Vice President, my colleagues in the Federal Executive Council, as well as the prayers of ordinary Nigerians who are tired of the hypocrisy and corruption of some of our elite, I am ready for any eventualities.
I understand the great risk I took by this action, but it has to be done and somebody had to do it, for the integrity of our Senate, our administration and our country. My generation in all spheres of our society, traversing the membership of the current National Assembly, the public service, the private sector, and civil society are sick and tired of pretentious public officers, brazenly corrupt and having the audacity to point fingers in other directions. We are tired of people who equate politics with open corruption, and who think that the way to obscure and bury the truth is to ethnicize, regionalize or politicize it or rope other people through blackmail and intimidation. I stand before you as a citizen of Nigeria, and say I have nothing to hide. My life, my bank accounts, my assets, my liabilities and my record of service both in public and private sectors, are an open book, and I challenge those I have mentioned to offer themselves to the same level of scrutiny. Afterall, we are all public officers and subject to the Code of Conduct.
Mr. Chairman, distinguished Senators, I hope my statement will assist you in the discharge of the onerous assignment given to you by the Senate. Let me avail myself of this sitting to thank you immensely for giving me the opportunity to tell you my side of the story. I wish you success in your assignment and tenure in the Senate.
God bless you all, the National Assembly and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Mr. Chairman, distinguished Senators, I thank you very much.


Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, OFR.

He was in government when he made this speech. You can criticize him all you like but he is better than that slow poke occupying Aso Rock now.

All these Nigerians supporting these show of joblessness by the senators get what they deserve!

They should criminalize and sensitize Nigerians on pedophilia. The rate is sickening in this country now

It's animals like you that the senate should focus on. They shuld criminalize sex with minors which is prevalent in our society not some dumb gay shit that can never be practiced openly in our culture.

It is important to first understand that no man-lover Nigerian, as far as anyone knows, is seeking marriage — in Nigeria.You can comb the breadth of our decidedly homophobic media “Homosexuals are in trouble!”; crowed The Sun Newspapers, no doubt mirroring the excitement of its upright editorial board), and there is neither anecdotal nor empirical evidence of a clamor, even a quiet one, for man-loving-men to be married in churches, mosques or courts.

Still, our legislators were hard at work over a considerable number of weeks while the rest of sane Nigeria, in a state of suspended disbelief, ignored them; convinced that, in a country with pressing issues such as fuel subsidy removal and debilitating insecurity, this frivolous legislation would not see light of day.

Can't you guys read? This dude isn't supporting homosexuality. It's the attention the lawmakers gave to an issue that is a non-issue presently in Nigeria.
We face more threat from pedophiles sleeping with underage children and these senators have not done anything about that. We have animals walking the street preying on the young and nothing is being said or done. We have bills that have been in the senate for years that is stalling.
Homosexuality, to me, is depraved but let's face it, it is not a priority in Nigeria today.

And here we go again blah blah blah blah. So easy to scream about revolution and do nothing about it
How many of you will leave the comfort of your houses to protest against injustice?
How many of you have spoken against the little crimes that we see everyday?
Won't you prefer parting away with 200 naira than confronting that idiotic policeman wasting your time?
What manner of people would vote a party that has impoverished them for the 12 years they have been in power on the basis of religion and ethnicity?
In all honesty, majority of the so called youths would fare no better than the current crop of politicians.

There is no revolution coming soon even if they increase the price of fuel to 150 naira.

Someone has started telling GEJ what to do, This is so unlike him to do the right thing even if it took forever to happen

Money wasted - Jonathan's election in April 2011