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Kudos fg thank u for reviving most of this things that fetch the economY money that were deliberately killed off by our past leaders

…as OMT inaugurates two marine tankers in Warri …It’s a fulfillment of local content initiative- Allison-Madueke
Written by  Ebenezer Adurokiya - Warri Monday, 26 August 2013 02:31

After about 17 years of comatose and foreign domination, Nigeria may just be on her way to recover her lost glory in the maritime sector with the inauguration of two indigenous cargo ships, at the weekend in Warri, Delta State by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Jonathan, who heaved a sigh of relief that the prolonged over-dominance of foreign vessels in the shipment of crude oil in the country is gradually coming to an end, made this conclusion during the inauguration of two indigenous cargo vessels, MT Abiola and Igbinosa, at New Port, Nigeria Port Authority complex, along Warri/Sapele Road, Warri.
This is just as the Special Guest of Honour at the event, Minister for Petroleum, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, during her keynote address, disclosed that the feat is one of the results of the Local Content Act initiated by the present Federal Government.
The two sea tankers, named MT Abiola and MT Igbinosa, meant to ship crude oil to national and international markets, were acquired and being managed by Ocean Marine Tankers Limited, a member of the OMS Group of Companies with Dr (Captain) Idahosa Wells Okunbo as chairman.
The inauguration witnessed the attendance of the crème de la crème of the society which included Minister of Petroleum, Minister of Transportation, Senator Idris Audu Umar, Chief Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Dele Ezeoba, osn of late business mogul, MKO Abiola, Chief Kola Abiola, Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr Ziadeke Patrick Akpobolokemi, Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, among others.
President Goodluck Jonathan, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Maritime Matters, Mr Olugbega Leke Oyewole, said that the hope of the country was restored with the acquisition of MT Abiola and Igbinosa, owned by a Nigerian company, to boost the marine sector as it relates to the oil and gas industry.
“Nigeria is back in the international shipping business; the shipping line that went out of Nigeria 17 years ago. Today, our hope is restored and our dreams have come true,” Jonathan noted

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Thief el rufai

Deconstructing El-Rufai
on August 25, 2013 at 12:12 pm in Viewpoint
Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nasir Ahmad El Rufai’s relentless criticism of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have become a regular feature of some Nigerian media in recent times.
What is so interesting, in this, is not the substance of his diatribe which is mostly vituperative but the virulence with which he had always responded to reactions to his criticisms by Presidential and PDP aides. It is quite obvious that he thinks of himself as irrepressively and unapologetically committed to bringing down the Jonathan government and its party platform at all costs.
Since he became the protem Deputy National Secretary of the newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC), some weeks ago, he has intensified his vicious campaign to discredit the government and the PDP, apparently, in a bid to show that his party, which is yet to find its feet, can produce a viable alternative to the present administration. Nigeria is a democratic country and, therefore, no one can contest El Rufai’s right to criticise the government of the day, whether as an individual or as a spokesman for his party, the APC. In the same vein, he cannot be denied the right to sell his party, which is even yet to have a manifesto, to the electorate. But he can be taken up on the way and manner he exercises either or both of these rights, if it falls short of acceptable standards and global best practice.
Any intelligent observer of his vicious campaign against the present administration, and, in particular,  Jonathan, cannot but notice his penchant for making allegations which are not substantiated. He is ever quick to blame the President  and the PDP for everything that may be percieved to be wrong or inadequate in the country, including the challenges that the past administration, in which he served as  minister.
El Rufai, recently, made some allegations against Vice President Namadi Sambo, one of which was that the man, during his watch as governor of Kaduna State, committed the state to a heavy loan burden.
He was immediately challenged by the office of the Vice President to substantiate the allegation but he has been unable to do so. Similarly, he has not been able to show evidence to prove any of the allegations he levelled against the President in his various commentaries  in his newspaper column, opinion write ups and interviews in both the print and broadcast media.
Each time he talks carelessly, he hopes somebody is listening but what he does not realize is that the people are not looking for scape goats to blame for their problems. They are looking for concrete answers and solutions to the challenges facing the country. He keeps talking about unfulfilled promises of government but the Jonathan administration never promised to solve all the problems at once and it has been honest with the modest achievements it has recorded so far.
He is sure to be humbled and disappointed in the long run, if, as it is widely suspected, his motive is to incite the people against the present administration. The truth of the matter is that the institution of government in Nigeria lost the confidence of the people a long time ago because of its inability to meet their aspirations.
This includes the administration in which El Rufai served and he knows it. But he keeps shedding crocodile tears, lamenting that the country would have been better than what it is now if the administrations which succeeded their own had continued  their  policies and programmes. But let us ask him what that administration achieved, for instance, in the power sector with all the billions of dollars it claimed to have spent on it.
Why are we still grappling with the issue of erratic power supply? Thank God for the Jonathan administration’s transparent handling of the current transactions in that sector, Nigerians can track the developments with hope of attaining sufficient power supply in the nearest future. Everything going on there now is public knowledge.
What is most worrisome in El Rufai’s conduct is his reckless disrespect for the office and person of the President.  In fact, some of his statements, such as his description of the President as the godfather of the oil thieves in the Niger Delta, are not only abusive but also libellous.
From all indications, he is still lacking the noble qualities of a statesman. If he could say all the uncharitable things he said about his benefactor, former President  Olusegun Obasanjo, in his recent book, what could he not say about a political opponent that he and his principals are desperately forging conspiratorial alliances to unseat?
Finally, El Rufai is not somebody Nigerians should take seriously. He is not anywhere near the saint he wants people to believe he is. The legislative probe of the transactions at the Bureau of Public Enterprises, some time ago, showed breaches of due process committed under his watch as Director-General of the organization. Of course, he quickly put the blame on Obasanjo, claiming that he was not given free hand. Why did he not resign his appointment? He played the good boy and was rewarded even with ministerial appointment. So, who is he deceiving?
Mayowa Adeyemi can be reached via email: alphavision1970@yahoo.com

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Alxmyr: Pray, you tell that to Alh. Lai Mohammed, Chief Bisi Akande, Mallam El- Rufai and other APC goons like you.

tom ikimi,bello massari,achike udenwa,audu ogbe (one time pdp chairman)

bcomputer101: SEE WHAT YOUR Papa-Decieve-Pikin(PDP) AS DONE TO NIGERIA.

•Pdp as spend over $600billion in the past 14 years? Tangible and imaginary achievements?
•23.9% unemployment rate in 2011, spiraling upward and growing at 16% per year.
•ranked 153 out of 186 countries in the UN Human Development Index(Poverty Index), External Debt of $6.67billion, Lending rate of 22% and above.
•ranked 139 out of 176 countries in TI's corruption perception index.
•A party that has spent over $16billion to generate less than 5000megawatts of epileptic electricity.
•Mismanaged over N2trillion on fuel subsidy.
•A rising domestic debt profile, import dependent economy, phenomenally- parlours state of infrastructure etc.

We all can see how PDP's culture of waste and. mediocrity has sustained a generation starved in the circle of poverty of hope, ideals and basic necessities of life....



LET'S GIVE ANOTHER PARTY A CHANCE!

lemme ask u what is the unemployment rate in lagos state that apc control? Lagos is the highest indebted state in nigeria with 611 million dollars what of other Apc states that their debts has skyrocked since apc took over with nothing to show..... All what u wrote above also prevail in a state that has beeen ran by your apc for 14 years hypocrite

ITbomb: Did anyone notice that this happened on a Saturday after being brainwashed by the Imans on Friday's Jumat service.
This people thinks like cattle with analogue On and Off switch , no processing power .
How on hell did I come to share the same nationality with these people

that is why the likes of buhari and other northern leaders control them like maalu.....

fagbalex: el-rufai anything you said, some people might quote you wrong, as for a rational thinker who are not sentimental will know that everything you're saying were all true. thump up for APC.

ur elrufai was part and parcel of Pdp for more than 10years is he and other pdp members now in apc Are the failures...what did he achieve when he was a pdp minister, were no fools. He was part and parcel of this same pdp and he was part of those that looted nigeria dry

omenka: Poverty of the mind is killing Nigerians! Of what economic benefit is Ethiopia to Nigeria that these pple are jumping up n down all over the place like circus chimps? What is the volume of trade between the two countries??

This is the height of idiocy I tell ya.

hypocite but you were one of the people that celebrated amosuns 150 ghost taxi on another thread...leave them to celebrate bad belle apc bigot. to topic am from the sw and am happy for my easthern brothers..gej thank u for spreading development

[quote author=omenka]Poverty of the mind is killing Nigerians! Of what economic benefit is 150 taxi to ogun state citizens that these apc hypocrites are jumping up n down all over the place like circus chimps? What is the volume of masses that 150 taxis would carry??

This is the height of hypocracy I tell ya HYPOCRITE

Channels its prof kimse okoko.great lecturer

Welldone gej for gradually bringing back the railway transport system that was abandoned for more than 20 years

Maxymilliano: [img]http://transformationwatch.files./2013/08/cargo-train-journalsts-ed.jpg?w=300&h=225[/img]

Nigerian roads should literally be in ''jubilation'' as the revamped railways sector has facilitated the long haul of containerized cargoes by rail to distant parts of Nigeria as far as Kano and Kaduna, over 1,000 km away from Lagos APM Terminals, Apapa Wharf, Lagos.
 
With 20 loaded wagons on the maiden trip (each can carry two 20ft or one 40ft containers), between 20 and 40 trailers or trucks will be off the roads, reducing incidents and wear and tear on our motorways.

[img]http://transformationwatch.files./2013/08/cargo-train-4ed2.jpg?w=300&h=225[/img]

[img]http://transformationwatch.files./2013/08/cargo-train-3-ed3.jpg?w=300&h=225[/img]

http://transformationwatch.com/2013/08/23/breaking-photonews-first-haulage-of-containerized-cargo-in-decades-leaves-lagos-for-kanokaduna-by-rail/

where are the apc hypocrites that said it was a lie when someone posted about this news yesterday...GEJ would continue to disgrace u people on nairaland... am waiting for u people to come and claim it's obj's project

release of  N30 billion to 61 universities in the country to execute projects and pay of allowances.

The former Senate President made this known during a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice Chancellors of Public Universities.

Anyim said N100 billion is to resolve infrastructure deficits and N30 billion for earned allowances for university staff.

He also narrated how much of the 2009 agreement the federal government has fulfilled, especially its efforts to resolve the bone of contention- the earned allowances by staff.

“From the foregoing, it is obvious that the Federal Government has demonstrated sufficient commitment to the implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU (Academic Staff Union of Universities) Agreement.

“By this, it is clear demonstration of commitment to revitalise the university system, government hereby, urges every staff of the nation’s universities to return to work as all issues are being resolved.

“With particular reference to the contentious issue of “Earned Allowance’’, every staff of the universities that is so entitled should verify his claim with his university council and accordingly get paid.

“President Goodluck Jonathan is fully committed to bringing the students back to school and appreciates the patience of parents and students.

“Government is making every effort to revitalise the university system, ’’ Anyim said.

Also, Prof. Kimse Okoro, the Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities, commended the government for its efforts.

Okoro called on chancellors to use the funds judiciously and appealed to ASUU to show some understanding.

Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, the Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities, said that the institutions would put more efforts to ensure that regulations were followed.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/23/asuufg-fg-approves-n130-billion-for-infrastructure-allowances/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

FG Releases N250 Billion For 3rd Quarter Capital Projects
Posted by: Channels Television date: August 23, 2013 In:
The Federal Ministry of Finance has released the sum of N250 billion for capital projects for the third quarter of the year, a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Paul Nwabuikwu said.

The statement added that “In line with the priorities set out by President Goodluck Jonathan, the funds will be deployed to expedite the execution of key infrastructure, security and social projects captured in Budget 2013”.

“The latest figure means that a total of N850 billion has so far been released for capital projects this year”.

The statement further added that “Also, all the funds released have been cash-backed”.

Nwabuikwu “recalled that N400 billion and N200 billion respectively were released for capital projects in the first and second quarters of the year”.

He also said that “Implementation of various capital projects across the country is ongoing and currently, utilization of the released funds for capital projects for this year stands at 71 (per cent) %”.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/23/fg-releases-n250-billion-for-3rd-quarter-capital-projects/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

deebrain: wonderful. Way to go amosun! As long as these cute rides dont ply akute and ajuwon routes, they would do just fine. Up APC!

dr PETER ODILI a pdp governor lunched over 200 taxi cab way back in 2002 when he was in his first term as rivers governor.what was the AD governors which includes bisi akande your apc chairman doing then in 2002?.maybe They were busy looking.Ameachi,akpabio,chime,peter obi,timipre silva etc all lunched more than 150 taxis way back....u people should keep celebrating mediocrity.

[quote author=ibezomam@yahoo.]I still cannot find the letter from Lagos State...still waiting. Cheers[/quote]now that youve seen the letter.u don believe

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The lying opposition would have us believe that nigeria is not progressing

owolabifunke14: Is Shakue really dead? Mek una no giv us false hope

if his not dead dont u think we would have seen another video of him? If i dont see a video of him by the end of today... or any rebuttal by him on his dead. i would beleive his dead...

Shekau’s death excites BRIC investors
on August 23, 2013 at 1:00 am in News
By UDUMA KALU with agency report
The reported death of Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram insurgency, is making foreign investors look favourably towards investing in Nigeria.
Such investors are said to be frustrated by the low level of profit they are currently making from the BRIC nations of Brazil, India, Russia and China,  authoritative US journal, Forbes, has reported.
The report, published in Forbes, yesterday, said success in cracking down on security threats in the Niger Delta is also changing the security situation for the better.
And while terrorist disruption recedes, money keeps flowing into Nigeria.
In the last six months, U.S. corporations like Procter & Gamble PG -have committed at least $700 million to build new factories and agricultural facilities in the country while the Nigerian government itself announced a $1 billion fund to nurture the local software industry, which officials think can ultimately capture $20 billion a year from rivals like India, the magazine continued.
The leading American business magazine said though putting Lagos on equal footing with Bombay or Sao Paulo as a global capital hub in three years would be quite a feat, the foundations for such growth are already in place.
However, Nigeria, it said,  was one of the world’s four best-performing markets last year with a 35.45 per cent gain and is the biggest and most dynamic frontier economy in Africa, with a GDP at par with global capitals  like Hong Kong and Singapore.
Lagos, it went on, reminds fund managers of Houston multiplied by four times the population.
The report  written by  Hilary Kramer, who also writes for Wall Street Journal as equity analyst and investment manager, noted that though  many investors still think of Nigeria as a dangerous market engulfed by unrest and corruption, “ the $31 billion currently moving on the Nigerian Stock Exchange represents annual economic activity of $268 billion.
To buy the same amount of productivity in Singapore, for example, would cost nearly $737 billion, or 23 times as much.
Even in relatively mature emerging markets like Brazil and Russia that are unlikely to enjoy much in the way of future growth, have domestic equity trades at a 200 per cent to 300 per cent premium over what it would cost in Lagos.
The Nigerian economy is growing at an annualised rate well above six per cent, faster than any of the top-tier emerging markets, short of China itself, Kramer noted.

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mendaymi: see them Aro student,Yaba left applicant , when u said they can not tell us how to generate 40,000MW I taught you have sense not untill you type rubbish, see opposition party can never tell you how to make thing right now,because of the timing and is like giving their glory to the ruling party or are u a dump? Oh sorry I remember Aro and Yaba left

are this people not the same people that made this same promise when the were in the pdp.they can deceive ur likes not intelligent nigerians. Lemmi ask u a question was AUDU OGBE who's now part of the people reeling out this promise not a PDP chaiman for 4 years?. Aminu bello masari who is part of the people making this promise now a one time speaker of the house of rep.how mAny promises did bisi akande fullfill when he was governor of osun state for 4 years.what of tom ikimi babangida's boy we know the regime he served under and how they institutionalize corruption in nigeria..... we know them they are the same past failed politians and majority of them are the same rogues who made this same paper promise when they were part and parcel of this same pdp they are now trying to demonize. Apc leaders are mostly pdp members who and other failed politicians who had the chance to turn things around in nigeria for more than 14 yeArs ago in nigeria but intead choose to enrich themselves now they are looking for another way to come and loot again under the guise of progressives. were waiting for them at the polls

Maxymilliano: Perhaps they plan to distribute hurricane lamps and candles

lol

zynzyn: APC must know that he will not win them the ticket in 2015

and the same pdp big wigs who have held sway in various arms of government for the past 14 years are now the saints cos they are now in apc. Audu ogbe who we see in this pic was pdp chairman for close to 4 years lemme also remind u that bello massari in the pic was speaker of the house of rep for 4 years when he was a pdp member and of course tom ikimi was a pdp big wig for years and also a prominent member of the ibb junta that annulled june 12 elections. Who would have taught that one day bisi akande and bola tinubu would be working hand in hand with ibb and his boys in their so called progressive...so please forget about this pdp this pdp that.the sAme rouges in the pdp has been flused to apc... pls take note

emiye: Oh !,good. So you know it is a cook up figure and lie.

Then don't propagate lies if you know it is not true.

so u also know that the apc cook up figures and lie too .abeg make we hear word hypocrite, because. It involves a progressive theif is now a lie.. if really he is a true progressive why is his son not wedding in nassarawa!!since u lot claim the opposition states are heaven and has transformed than any other state.a progressive spending 1.5 billion for sons wedding in far away yankee. Just like u people claim fashola has restored the lagos state health sector with modern and world class equipments.but his master Tinubu is abroad receiving treatment.

emiye: I always believe everybody has commonsense and conscience, they might only deactivate it.

Common sense should tell you, how did the opposition arrive at such figures?

Conscience should tell you why am i propagating lies simply to discredit the opposition?

just like how ur apc cook up figures and lies against the ruling party. Now ur questioning the figure cos its not a pdp governor.... Another progressive logic

emiye: campaign of calumny

PDP, you no dey tire !

...if the report was about a pdp governor it becomes ok but when is about a apc governor its a campaign of columny.i guess that's the new logic of the progressive. Nigerians are wiser

[quote author=Itoroetti ]Are APC politicians brand new politicians send from above?
Have each of them not handle electoral office b4?
Talk is cheap as sum1 said above.[/quote]this is the same party that has tom ikimi that served under ibb. They didnt add even 1kva to national grid ,audu ogbe was pdp chairman during obj period how many kva did they add to the national grid? El rufai also attended fec meetings with obj as a pdp memeber,what of achike udenwa who did six years as governor in imo state as a pdp member these are some of the strong men of apc who for more than 10 years were pdp members.but today this same people would open their mouth and say pdp has ruled for 14 years without achieving nothing.while they were part and parcel of that 14 years rule.most of the formal corrupt pdp governors,ministers senators and house of rep members that misruled nigeria are now the leaders of the so called progressive.but in 2015 they would find out that nigerians are no fools

awodman: You have said it all..the OP needs to learn how to read and comprehend

most of the people on nairaland cant read and comprehend and this most are the simpletons that call the president all sorts of name

[quote author=St_Ichimaro.Gin]haha, a proverb says " a fool's tongue runs before his wit".

fella, its SO CLEAR my mouth has been talking in mini seconds before that brain of mine does its work.

I am what they call a "Monkey-bread" head.fixed[/quote]hahahahah see how u just described yourself and your arguments on this thread with this ur proverb and ur comment. but I have fixed it to describe how ignorant and shallow your reasoning is.

[quote author=St_Ichimaro.Gin]U have been talking from ur an.al oriface since this conversation has started..but as usual, its my responsibility to let u know its normal for one to think & write with his brains, and not with his brain inside his a.ss[/quote]continue with ur foolery am enjoying how londoner is schooling u and how ur making a fool out of yourself on a public forum....