₦airaland Forum

fmc1:
I hope it is not the same old story.GOD help naija

That's why we call it change.
For old things has passed away, behold all things become new.
Let's share the grace.

The change is getting realler and realler to the realest.
Lalasticala you feel am?

Nigeria is aiming to hand over the $4.5 billion Ajaokuta steel complex to private operators this year as part of a plan to kick start its industrial and mining industries, Minister of Solid Minerals Development Dr Kayode Fayemi has said.Construction of Ajaokuta, which lies on the Niger River and was supposed to have an installed capacity of 5 million metric tons of steel a year, began in 1979. Work was delayed by the government’s failure to pay the builders, Russia’s Tyazhpromexport, onschedule. By 2004, when it was taken over by India’s Ispat Industries Ltd., it was yet to produce any steel. Ispat’s concession was revoked in 2008 and Nigeria is yet to resolve all outstanding legal issues, Fayemi said.“Ajaokuta Steel Mill is one of the major issues I have put on the table,” Fayemi said in an interview in Cape Town yesterday. “Under my watch” it will be revived, he said.Fayemi was appointed in November by President Muhammadu Buhari, about seven months after he won elections that marked the first change of power in Africa’s biggest economy since democracy was restored in 1999. Buhari is trying to boost the slowest economic growth this century by spending on infrastructure and diversifying economic activity away from oil, the price of which has fallen by about 70 percent over the last two years. In addition to steel, Fayemi said the government aims to improve the implementation of mining laws, make available better data on the country’s deposits and act to regulate informal mining. Because of the global rout in commodity prices, Fayemi doesn’t expect significant investment soon.“The sector has been comatose for sometime. We will be ready for the next boom,” Fayemi assured.Initially the focus will be on industrial minerals for domestic consumption, he said. Limestone for cement production, iron ore for steel, bitumen for asphalt, barium for oil drilling and lead and zinc will be focused on, he said.The country will also try and attract investment into gemstone mining and will improve data on gold deposits in Zamfara State and elsewhere before trying to attract investors in 2017, he said. An attempt will also be made to revive thermal coal production for power generation.

http://thenationonlineng.net/4-5b-ajaokuta-steel-mill-ll-be-completed-this-year/

StunningCEO:
Given the choices that we had....GMB all over again... ...no regrets..

All the time

SamJed:
hmm it's true o

You can see now

SamJed:
So Oyedepo has filled the wailers form...watching

He has always been a wailers.
Forgotten gate of hell before the elections

Bonapart:
Do i look like someone who can ever vote an abok! Into power? How much more a tyrant, murderer like buhari

Mitcheeew.
As if you voted for the abokii.
Did you know how many that voted for Mr Ineffectual Buffoon regretted after Dasukigate?
Nonsense, if e pain you go and die.
Buhari till 2023

TonyeBarcanista:
Bros wetin I do na?

Check am yourself na

LordAdam:
You are heaping hot coal on your head. So all those things mean nothing to you abi?

Issorait! You deserve what you are getting in Bubu.

Don't quote me again. You are an ungrateful hypocrite.

-Lord

Blah blah blah.
The jobs Jonathan created was just a mirage.
Only on papers

millhouse:
if only it was a BJ. kai

What's bj

fitzmayowa:
I should be grateful that PMB is fulfilling his promise When he was elected to fix what he campaigned to fix This is the reason why we are moving at this rate in this country...


If I may ask which of the promise has he fulfilled When the budget that's suppose to Carter for nigerians is riddled with corruption Or when we don't have any economic direction Or when people are losing their job on a per second basis Or when we still don't have constant power supply Or when there is joblessness everywhere Or when the fight against corruption is at best media charade


I begin to wonder the promises he has fulfilled so far...SMH

1:Power suplly increment.
2:fighting corruption to a stand still
3:many to come

LordAdam:
Jonathan transformed Agriculture and automobile industries as he promised and grew our economy from being the 29th largest to being the 21st largest. He increased minimum wage, NYSC allowance, health workers' salaries, and tertiary institution lecturers. What SH1T are you talking about?

Jobless Mofo!

-Lord

To what end

Job freak

fitzmayowa:
I guess rebuilding our economy is not one of PMB's campaign, I guess the economy is not important, provided PMB "pight kworuption", sometimes I just wonder how some of my nigerian brothers reason...SMH

You should be grateful he is fulfilling of his promises.
Back then none was ever fulfilled, or maybe we bought SHOES for him.

Baba is here to fight corruption, the next president after him(prime minister fashola) will not have tough like what baba is having now.

MaziOmenuko:
Lol...you self see am baa?

The only reason Metu was shouting up and down was because he was aware the arms probe will get to him. He wanted it to look like he was being persecuted for being vocal against the govt. We all saw thru his lousy tactics, it didn't work, dude has turned deaf, dumb and blind.

It is the same old trick fayose is playing. We know them, but I am happy that nothing will deter justice; if them like, let them go and buy court injunctions like Peter Odili.

I'm just watching them.
Can't wait for fayose turn.
It will fun to see

poshestmina:
Dakuku should go and rest abegi
Rivers have decided and it's PDP all the way

Wike has started working and 99% of Riverians are behind him

Thou shalt not be silly saidth common sense.

igwe123:
U think the struggle is about one person?? Defeat Kanu and watch another person rise

OK and that person Will either run to Gabon or Togo

When metuh and fayose dey run their mouth anyhow for Buhari head, una no know say na disrespect to the office of the president?

Ifa vex den

Leboska:
APC & desperation fayose them clean & clear in all elections the said it is rigging, wike floors them & the supreme Court they said he bribed the judges. with APC don't bother looking for the enemy cos with them Nigeria is just heading for doome

Says someone that never believed in Nigeria but Biafra.

Many a Nigerian continues to wonder why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) andGovernor Wike’s supporters went on wild celebration across Rivers State, as early as9amon the day of judgment even if the actual verdict was handed down at about6:20pmof that day.

I remember this, even tonyebarcanista celebrated here on Nairaland
This was his comment by 3:13pm

TonyeBarcanista:
@HopeAtHand how market?



Wike is set to win

This is the page link.

https://www.nairaland.com/2894462/rivers-updates-supreme-court-wike/3

Mixty:
I asked once again...why has Metuh been silent since he was released from bail?
This is a man that will never shy away from offering constructive criticism against the PMB led administration. He was a very active mouthpiece of the largest opposition party in Nigeria, PDP. Now, he is just a docile onlooker in the state of affairs of Nigeria.
Is opposition politics finally dead in Nigeria? We need a vibrant opposition to challenge this current APC government to perform.
If Oliseh has chosen the path of silence, he should resign so that another vibrant man can emerge as the chief spokesperson for PDP.
The beauty of democracy is effective opposition.
Democracy must live!

Mixty


cc lalasticlala please post on FP for the survival of democracy

Ifa slap you enn

doctokwus:
Thought it was all made up but with this reply by Wike,i am having second thoughts.
Wike might have been told of the error he made in the euphoria of his victory celebration,probably inebriated with too much exotic wine.
Now in his sober state and the speech having been leaked by some people, he is trying damage control.
If in a weeks time there is no leak of the video, then I wud accept it was all made up,but something tells me Wike did meet those justices.

Leave that to sahara reporters
They with surely come up with atleast an audio for that.
Fear them ooo

Accuses him of holding secret meetings with judges before verdict

His allegation,aimed at inciting presidency against Riverspeople-Wike

The last is yet to be heard about the concluded litigation on the Rivers State governorship election as Honourable Dakuku Peterside of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) hasaccused Governor Nyesom Wike of influencing the outcome of the judgment of the Supreme Court.Peterside, who was the APC governorship candidate in the 2015 election, made the accusation while addressing a press conference at the party state secretariat, Port Harcourt,on Tuesday.However, Governor Wike said the essenceof Peterside's allegations were aimed to further incite the presidency and the Nigerian Armed Forces against the people of Rivers State and the entire Niger Delta region.Addressing newsmen, lateTuesdayevening, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Austin Tam-George, also said the allegation was "a cynical reaction to his electoral and judicial defeats. He surely would not win any victory by diverting attention."It would be recalled that the apex court had, on January 27, 2016, upturned the verdicts of both the election petitions tribunal and the Court of Appeal which nullified the then disputed governorship election in the state and upheld Wike as the winner.Peterside also accused the governor, with his recent comments, of becoming a threat to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and also warned himto desist from insulting President Muhammadu Buhari and the security agencies.The APC governorship candidate said, although he had accepted the apex court ruling, the utterances of Governor Wike, especially his statement at a thanksgiving service, last Sunday, had seemingly gave credence to doubt being expressed in the public space about the judgment."Many a Nigerian continues to wonder why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) andGovernor Wike’s supporters went on wild celebration across Rivers State, as early as9amon the day of judgment even if the actual verdict was handed down at about6:20pmof that day."It clearly suggests that they might have been in the know of what the judgment would be long before the Supreme Court pronounced it."This is coupled with several comments, especially on the social media some three weeks earlier, such as “Thank God there will now be no need for a rerun election.....It is surely ending at the Supreme Court, etc, etc."Credible information confirmed that Nyesom Wike had earlier confessed to some persons of having met one of the justices of the Supreme Court in Mbaise during an important burial, another at Owerri in a hotel and yet others in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, respectively. These justices were in the panel that decided the matter in Wike's favour", he said."However, the most striking revelation by Nyesom Wike is contained in his account atthe thanksgiving service last Sunday. He obviously stunned his audience and the watching world when he confessed that when it came to the judges, Dr Peter Odili and the wife, Justice Mary Odili (a justice of the Supreme Cout), were his advisers."This simply confirmed his earlier statements that he had contact with the justices, after several attempts to reach the Chief Justice of the country failed."It is therefore obvious that the decision of the Supreme Court on the Rivers State election was not a product of justice, but rather a product of compromise and orchestrated contrivance to legalise electoral violence and rigging and, in turn, reward injustice. This calls for serious introspection by our judiciary and judicial officers", he said.He also described as a threat to INEC and 'others' the governor's warning that anybody who planned to rig the forthcoming rerun elections in the state would be treated as armed robbers.He said, despite his having accepted the Supreme Court judgment but with mixed feelings, Governor Wike, while addressing civil servants in the state, after the verdict, allegedly threatened to deal with INEC personnel in the state in respect of the rerun election.
Peterside said Wike dared Buhari by allegedly saying, “If you like bring your Boko Haram soldiers to Rivers State, I willenter INEC office on Election Day, let me see who will push me out.”He said such a statement clearly demonstrated the person of Wike as"someone lacking in respect, patriotism andcharacter of being a councillor much more a state governor in the Federal Republic of Nigeria."Let me draw the attention of Nyesom Wike to the fact that it is most callous of him to demonstrate such level of denigration on the gallant officers and men of the Nigerian military who are putting their lives at risk every other day to safeguard the Nigeria state and citizens when he referred to them as Boko Haram soldiers."Denying all the allegations, The commissioner said, Peterside and APC did not ever truly accepted the Supreme Courtverdict in the first instance, adding that their true reaction can be found in what transpired during Peterside's recent meeting with the APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, in Abuja."At that meeting in which Dakuku Peterside was inciting the president and the people of Nigeria against the peoples of the Niger Delta and the Government and people of Rivers State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said "I still find the judgment on the Rivers State governorship election totally astonishing."Chief Odigie-Oyegun then proceeded to announce that the Supreme Court would beprobed for doing their work simply because verdict was not given in favour of Dr Dakuku Peterside."Dr Peterside and his APC have not accepted the Supreme Court verdict and would do anything to destroy the Supreme Court and the integrity of its justices for daring to uphold existing jurisprudence."The attack on Governor Wike, who merely warned that nobody should come to Rivers State to rig elections, is contrived to misinform and create confusion so that APC would, as promised by their national chairman to Peterside, forcefully intervene in Rivers State by means of election rigging in order to win all the seatsup for re-election in the state House of Assembly, with a view to impeaching Governor Wike."Governor Wike is not the first politician to have warned against the consequences of election rigging. The President and Commander-in-Chief had himself used strong language to warn against election rigging when he said in the course of campaigns last year that:"God willing, by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fairelection or they go a very disgraceful way. If what happened in 2011 (alleged rigging) should happen in 2015, by the Grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood"' he said.Tam-George also denied that Governor Wike threatened INEC personnel or any other person, adding that only riggers and potential riggers should therefore be worried about the statement of the governor.He said the statement was rather aimed atbolstering INEC's ability to conduct free and fair elections which "Peterside and Rotimi Amaechi are determined to undermine so that APC could win one oil-producing state.He described Peterside as a pathological liar for claiming that Wike had made a revelation of the Supreme Court judgment,describing the allegations as scornful, demented and laughable..."Why then did Governor Wike lose his appeal to the Supreme Court on the proper venue where the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal should sit?
"After all the distinguished Honourable Justice Mary Odili was on that panel of the Supreme Court and Governor Wike lost the appeal. Then, "there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the Supreme Court".On the issue of violence in the forthcomingrerun election in the state, the information commissioner said Governor had never preached violence but rather choose to sacrifice his ambition for the people of Rivers State.He said Governor Wike had never insultedPresident Buhari and was in full support ofthe fight against corruption, adding former Governor Amaechi and his co-travellers were rather known abuses and invectives on former President Goodluck Jonathan without any words of caution by the APC leadership ."It must be observed that Governor Wike'scommitment to the fight against corruptionis total, complete and unequivocal. It is on record that, upon assumption of office, he instituted a Commission of Inquiry with judicial approval."That Commission's Report has been givenapproval in a Government White Paper. One of those indicted is Mr Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers State."The governor merely condemned a fight against corruption that abrogates the rule of law, is one sided and is obviously targeted at political opponents. These are concerns that all Nigerians are freely expressing. Why pick on Governor Wike?",he said.He also said the governor never referred to the Nigerian soldiers as Boko Haram, but merely alluded to the fact that even if the soldiers, hardened and experienced by their fight against Boko Haram, are brought to assist APC rig elections in the state, they still would not be able to defeat the will and resilience of the people.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/node/29946

Lalasticala, mynd44

Tomorrow
Make Buhari leave our brother oooo
Rep north central.

The nation news online na dot com not be dot net

hammariise:
I believe in change 100%, but I doubt if it'll be effective in four years, maybe 8yrs

There is always a starting point

hammariise:
Cool down bro, I'm the change agent

OK but why you dey talk like the world.....

TheFreeOne:
Impeached by whom and for what

NASS or Buhari

Or you think Ekiti is Lagos where you know who can remote control the governor and state HOA

E go happen like film trick. Wait dey see

TheFreeOne:
I beg to disagree. Fayose guber election has been laid to rest at the supreme court.

As for those who still believed Fayose rigged, I say they are on a long thing cos should that election be conducted again with Tinubu or Buhari as candidates it will still be a landslide for oshokomole.

The undeniable fact: Fayose is a grassroot politician, very popular and acceptable to his people.

He will soon be impeached then arrested.

So he is not entirely immune?
HIV fit catch be that.
Good news to me.
Bad news to .....

Hmm