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NwaAmaikpe:


Wow,
So D'Banj writes like Lanre Gentry?


Well, the truth may hurt or sound harsh, but it doesn't stop it from being the truth.

D'Banj of DKM/DB records can never be the D'Banj of MoHits Records?

He should borrow a leaf from Obiwon and register in a Pastoral school. He will excel more as he is charismatic.(you can't take that from him).

Can't he follow the steps of other failed artistes.
He could also be a presenter like Teju BabyFace, a backup studio voicer like Djinee or a video vixen like B-Red

If he is wise, he should be licking the feet of the real El Chapo (Don Jazzy) if he must ever be musically relevant.

1. As far as am concerned, "El Chapo" is one of the most creative of his personal works that I have listened to. It is trending in Europe, top 4 on the bill-board chats in Nertherlands for starters
2. Some of you lot have myopic views. D'banj and Don Jazzy have chosen different paths. While Don Jazzy decided on the local captive market, D'Banj decided to go and slug it out global......and he is doing pretty much very well
3. Before you call someone a "failed Artist", I suggest you assess yourself....... If you're worthy to call someone "failed".........

seunO4:
You don't have to reply all critics

but he replied only this one.......

I think a bigger lesson is that we should choose our words carefully, it is not necessary to volunteer opinion when you should know it will end up hurting the person. We should also not take on celebrities just for clicks.....they have lives to live and should be left to lead the path

Zeze06:
Ok, maybe I need some education, can I book you for tutorials?... I really need to work on my intelligence, need to upgrade my reasoning capacity and stuffs

Sure, but I'll rather refer you to the right place........

Take a bus to Yaba, ask for "the place", it's on the left

DEADALIVE:

Shakingdbumbum: :
They are sick. leave it at 160. after all there is post ume. stop making admission hard for Igbos. after u will blame north.

I have read comments all along, to say the least you are a good Democrat who understand how to turn policies to favour his people.
people still don't understand how power is taken...it is not by standard it is by intelligence.
I wish the south can understand that requirement is different from standard.
once again I admire your intuitive thinking.

In as much as I try to ignore post that look ethnically-laced, this has some "strategic content", that is interesting.
1. State Universities, Polys and COEs can better serve their "indigenes" as to encourage catchment-enrollment......that is what the northerners have done, while we southerners have been "strategically asleep"
2. The cut-off is a ranking tho', not an absolute. So student will still need to do the work of clearing 3-4 hurdles (WAEC/NECO, Post UTME and Interview(s))

@OP,
1. There is nowhere in that report that says "reject"
2. Stop misinforming the public
3. The minimum cut-off benchmark was fixed by VCs, RSUST VC inclusive.
4. Each University can fix their cut-off marks provided it is not below 120.
5. This is what RSUST has done.

Zeze06:
If you are here to teach me what is welfare or humanitarian services and how buhari has done well in those areas please go ahead...

Honestly not. I am simply appalled that you do not know the meaning of "welfare and humanitarian services"? makes me wonder.......you know.....you're level of intelligence, reasoning capacity.....and stuffs

Zeze06:
Not sure, just describing buhari's disposition towards welfare or humanitarian services, he doesn't give a sh*t he's as cold as f**k

Welfare and humanitarian services? Do you know what you're talking about or you just chose to pick words and use loosely? Is the event about welfare and humanitarian services?

femi4:
Just 1m....Buhari stingy sha

Trust me, this is either the generous PMB or Madam PMB forced his hand. PMB that was once reputed to question the rationale behind giving millions to U17 boys, as they are teenagers and what will they be doing with millions instead of concentrating on their books

jaxxy:
Exactly my point! The property is forfeited bt from whom? And if so why don't they prosecute. Diezani now claims it doesn't belong to her that dey have no evidence and she ws never served any papers or contacted by efcc. Its like an incomplete job.

Jelal0007

Your point? You never get it do you?

BroZuma:
Bro my point is to stop bombarding us with who stole what and do something...fighting corruption is not BBN.

If she's the owner of said properties and if they were as a result of her "unbelievably strong stupendous kleptomania" jail her and have her extradited for said crimes.

Next government will still do the same thing, she stole Yes or No...Yes Jail her straight up...No...None of my business but whichever way this wind blows I am yet to get the dividends of democracy as preached by APC.

Your point betrays your incapability of reasoning clearly. You want them to "do something" and you do not see the interim forfeiture leading to a final forfeiture..... as something? You want her extradited for said crimes while she is yet to complete the pending prosecution in UK? You're yet to see the dividends of democracy, when the thief that plundered our treasury is found out and undergoing various prosecution. I guess your "dividends of democracy" is to revert back to the wanton pillage of our treasury......

Bros, you should be ashamed of your reasoning capabilities, because it's way inverted.

gabbywatch77:
make una dey there make pant dey wear una, have you ever seen where a Nigerian will deliberately forfeit what's his or hers without putting out a fight no matter how small. was there any money said to be missing in the purse of nnpc.

Did you just wake up and decided to make a mockery of yourself? or is it that you're too young to come to a simple logical conclusion

jaxxy:
Its was traced to her yet she says she can't forfeit wat she never owned. Efcc needs to do their recovery job properly so that this is seen to be clear and fair. We agree she did it bt its about evidence.

Oh! Like EFCC went to court with mere "hear say"? I thought interim forfeiture means if there is any other persons contesting the properties in question, they have a stipulated amount of time to come forward and say otherwise

Cinkq:
Diezieni might not be that clean ,but she is not also as bad as the media is painting the whole thing. While serving under gej, She offended people who are now finding it difficult to forgive her and they are all out to teach her the lesson of her life.

......you mean like the following people
1. American Govt
2. The British Authorities
3. The American Media -
4. the British Media

for starters?

Aragon:

ateamblezing: :
We really should stop this,I don't know why we all are being tribalistic, we are Nigerians and we should be unified,enough of afonjas and Igbos.
How do we think the nation is going to better if we are disintegrated, I am neither afonja or Igbo but I love everyone just the same

I looked at your pics after I read your comment and I am proud to say " Young, Beautiful and Smart!" It is this type of post I love to be Reading from our Youths who the Future belongs to, and it's people like you I should be dashing lil stuff here. Pls send me your number lemme give you a lil Airtime.

Honestly you beat me to this. I was about posting almost the same words, especially the underlined

ashjay001:

SalamRushdie: :
Again Fashola is being economical with the truth ,Even though nothing stops state Govts from generating power there is a clause that makes it impossible for them to utilize the power but instead forces them to send it into the National grid so lazy northern states can enjoy free electricity .

Not being economical, but, actually denying that false claim!

That claim, discouraged Tinubu from investing in power. Fash was able to do some with d Alausa n environs power supply project.

And, probably having actually studied d laws from d govt position, he realised it was just sabotuers policies that were being implemented!? The past govt employees were discouraging individual states involvement for personal gain!

...and this is additional lessons for proponents of "An Engineer must be minister of power". Prof. Barth Nnaji once professed that the problem of the power sector is not technical, rather Business and Legal blockades

juman:
Fake news.

APC repeat the same news several times.

Bros,

You know "Intellect-wise", you're not supposed to be here

okooyinbo:
The number one reason is not lack of power, but the bureaucratic bottleneck and insufficient legislation. At least this act is not new. Fashola is pointing to the act, and I asked why he couldn't invest in the power sector while he was a governor?

Lagos and Edo State actually bidded for the License then, but were disqualified from the process

udees:
No ipp in lagos that was or is built by the government of lagos state--it is a privates thing,the only two state in nigeria that built their power generation plant is Akwa Ibom State 197MW and River State [250MW] BUT Ameachi sold that of River state just before he left office to firs generation power company--Go and do investigation on this -stop promoting what you dont have knowledge about.
ok

It did not make business and economic sense for states to go 100% into building and operating IPPs. This why we have many abandoned factories. What Lagos state has always done and still does is to partner with private players, so they investor funding will be more on the private side.

vincent10:
Reality has dawn on Fashola. It is more easier to criticize from outside not until when you are inside.

Actually there is progress, what we need is a sustained progress and not retraction.

What reality? Rather we better thank our stars that we have a pragmatic, well rounded and cerebral, practical and experienced in Fashola as a leader overseeing our power sector. If it was in the hands of "politicians" we will have been "badly worsted"

arinzeejikonye:
Apart from the plethora of issues bugging down the power sector, it is not just enough to give nods and licence to establishment of ipp, the nerc fosters uncompetitive market, with clauses that allows for compelling inflow into the National grid system with risk aversion, so the hammer isn't hitting the nail on the head,

The off-grid chain market will grow to full capacity, but decentralizing the National grid system at a swoop at the moment will have a reverberating shock across the power sector, and the consumers will bear the brunt, however, I guess this slow approach by nerc, is to cushion the effects of the shock, and disintegrate the National grid system through a gradual time frame.

However, in line with the circumstantial situation;

There is need for reformation of transmission sector - the transmission company of Nigeria needs to act as commercial administrator, market operator and independent system operator.ease of liquidity constraints will dishamper the cumbersome accumulation of debt

Also distribution coys need to aid the value chain with provision of smart meter for consumers, To forestall some cases of loss

Lastly there is incontrovertible need for reformation of gas sector, thus liberalization of gas to power market, domestic supply obligation needs are to be considered to ease the price of gas, in line with the gas reform programme.

I think we need to make something clear. NERC as of post GEJ's privatisation did not force GENCOs to put power to the grid. This is a big misconception. The reality is that investment in the grid is huge and no private player is willing at the moment, hence virtually everyone pushes to the grid.

Secondly, the NERC regulation also made provision for "Embedded Power Generation". In other words, Discos and partner with other private players to generate and distribute power at a privately agreed price. That is why private coys are in conversations with residents of VGC, Lekki and Ikeja GRA for starters. That is why Lagos IPP and Disco have private arrangements with companies on the Island business district. Whoever that can shoulder the brunt of investment in private grids can do so.

SalamRushdie:
Again Fashola is being economical with the truth ,Even though nothing stops state Govts from generating power there is a clause that makes it impossible for them to utilize the power but instead forces them to send it into the National grid so lazy northern states can enjoy free electricity .

.....and you find it convenient not to include such clause in your submission?

deomeelo:
This should not be limited to states, private entities should be allowed to step in like signing generation and distribution contracts with communities to generate and distribute electricity 24/7 and bill the customers directly and even lay their own transmission cables to cut the government out completely.

This has already been done with the prior privatisation. The only problem is that it was badly executed

menxer:

Blue3k: :


Agreed but NASS has to make law change. Till then we have get permission to channel our power for our own benefit.

I don't think I understand your point.

The Minister didn't say anything about what happens to the power generated, unless the mini-grid he mentioned will address that, Only no law stops a state from generating power, which is true in the case of Akwa Ibom.

I think the law was misinterpreted up till this clarification from Fashola. I also don't think there is need to differ to National Assembly, the NERC Act is clear. What is needed is private grids which is another headache entirely. Who will invest in it is the big question? If the Disco does, CAPEX on that goes to customers sooner than later

menxer:
The problem is sending the generated power from those IPPs to the national grid to be shared back to those that generated it in the first place.

Akwa Ibom has IPP, but do we have constant power? NO, because the power we generate is sent to the national grid to be allocated back to us.
That policy makes sense right?

We should be sending our excess output to national grid.

Tinubu was the first governor to be frustrated out of such ventures. When Tinubu's govt built AES barge [formerly Enron] in Ikorodu, It was upsetting that Lagosians hardly benefited from the investment. It was sent straight to the national grid and that was the end of it. Hence Tinubu's government stopped at the first phase of the project.

When Fashola came in, he just concentrated the IPPs on off grid mode and fed areas of need directly (Govt infrastructures like Water-works, street lights , Hospitals and others). It was very difficult to send power to those that need them.

One of the biggest undoing of the previous govt's BPE was to "politically" exclude states from bidding for licenses then. It just did not make sense. Some states like Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kaduna, Kano and Abuja had the borrowing capacity to have addressed all the infrastructure gaps the current Discos and Gencos are struggling at. They would have built private grid-lines faster and more sensibly these should have been one of the areas for state to generate revenues rather than the rent seeking mode. Lagos State bidded for both Lagos and Ikeja Disco and were disqualified from the shortlist, when there was nothing in the law that precluded them from doing so. This is what Fashola has come to correct.

So Governor Ambode, your wish (3GW for Lagos) is coming to pass. Fire at will.......

Evablizin:
Behold the role model of slay queens

NwaAmaikpe:


Who N-power EPP?

Purposeful people

Why don't we all make educated and rational submissions, instead of senseless one induced by unnecessary anger

1. Where are the certified record that says this rice mill is the biggest in Africa?
2. When was this rice mill first built? What was the agreed feed? Which farms were supposed to supply rice to this mill? I want to believe the govt that built this rice mill did not just build without a linkage with farm(s) for supply
3. Which states did the Anambra and the operator of this mill sign bilateral agreement with?

For those of you blaming PMB, it is just a crying shame that you have decided to sacrifice the little intelligence you have to embrace idiocy. This pictures show a dilapidated mill and not a new one. Which govt started it, you did not state. There was is a JOSON rice mill in Anambra, I guess, which I believe is Private sector driven. Is that not what your attention should be more focused on, that a somewhat ill-concieved project that many govts did not touch.

Finally, I think people should be able to understand what should ideally be news as against hate-inciting statements. This news has no value and was just mean to incite hate. It seem when we get hate-filled, we abandon reasoning......

IamHopeful:
Instead of you to either mind your own business or reasonably make your corrections, you're here insulting my comment (obviously not me).

Thanks anyways, learn how to mind your own business next time. Peace!!!

That is why people like you hardly grow. Correction you won't take, you just continue to display crude ignorance . Don't worry on, on you I will take your advice

IamHopeful:
BTW, which one is Solicitor General again It's only in Nigeria that you'll hear different titles....... Congratulations anyways!

Instead of you to use google........

The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Acting Solicitor General, Jeffrey Wall, took office on March 10, 2017.
Solicitor General of the United States - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_the_United_States

he United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per 28 U.S.C. § 503, concerned with legal affairs, and is the chief law enforcement officer and chief lawyer of the United States government.
United States Attorney General - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General

seguno2:
What is the essence of building model schools when most children cannot go to cheap public schools with adequate teachers and the expensive private schools are not monitored for quality?
Which useless father sends one child to nice schools while his other 10 children are roaming the streets?
By the way, what happened to his opon imo? Dead and buried?
As for the STORY of his paying so much from the bailout, why should anyone believe his propaganda? Let him give breakdown of what was paid to himself and his political jobbers separate from the payment to civil servants.

You make me wonder if I am reading from a juvy.......

1. What is the essence of building model schools? Are you for real? You mean you do not understand that learning needs to be done under a befitting environment? Meanwhile are you just conjuring things up? Most children cannot go to school in Osun state? Expensive schools not monitored? Bros if you are going to lie, at least not at the expense of coming out looking ridiculous.......

2. Please give me the stats of those roaming the streets...... I would imagine that you do not know that school enrollment rate increased in Osun state since 2013 and as at this year Osun state has the highest enrollment rate and lowest out of school children.

3.Did Osun state tell you something happened to Opon Imo? Have you been told it stopped?

4. Re: Bailout - You are just being ignorant. The status of bailouts was independently verified by other sources, BudgetIT for starters. But what ridiculous question do you ask. A breakdown of what he gave himself? Abeg Bros, lay off what you're not competent to process cos you are turning this into a comic show

Zeze06:
This is really sad, he should also show some love and empathy, cos that's what makes a good leader...

seguno2: :


Your humble nigga should prove real humility by paying salaries and pensions owed for several months and years instead of inflating contracts upandan that he will never complete on top of plenty loans and gbese for the next governor.
Don't let the bojuboju humility of Baba Hafusa deceive you.
If he is humble, let him pay LAUTECH lecturers' salaries so that the school can reopen after two years of idleness.
Humility ko, rascality ni.
SMH.

@Zeze06,

Records needs to be set straight .....
1. Aregbesola just used the N5.3b Paris club refund he recently collected to clear most of the backlog of the half salaries. He was the first governor to publish how he spent the first tranche of the Paris club refund.
2. The issue of half salary is something the people twisted a lot and misunderstood. Levels 1-7 that constituted over 50% of the workforce received FULL salary, levels 8-12 received 75% and levels 13+ received half salary. This was a measure to manage the megre allocation from FG (a drop of over 60%). Painful as it is, it was a recommendation and agreement by the joint labour and government committee set up to look into how to manage the steep fall in monthly allocation due to fall in Oil price.
3. It is funny that an Aregbesola that made sure "something" was paid was among the most vilified while Govs that paid nothing like Fayose for almost a year is seen as a star.

I just returned from Osogbo last month, and for me Aregbesola is more pragmatic in governance (his Model schools are a beauty to behold) than most of the governance. Sometime people need to go thru a period of pain before prosperity. I believe Osun state may be going thru theirs

Masculity:
That's not what I mean, please. Our major problem is leadership in this country. Good leaders are the backbone of every society. Do not misunderstood me, what I mean is even if they are destined to loot, because they are very good in it, they should spend MOST of it within their community or state.
Think of it, had it been all our looters spent portion of, possibly more than half of it to develop their state. Where do you think we would be by now?

Where will we be by now? We will still has been this backward. The same looters who will through crumbs at you under the guise of "spending portion or MOST of their loot within their community or state" will always come back into leadership, since logically they will keep substantial part of re-election. .....and the cycle continues

Why should someone loot in the first place? Why should you even try to rationalise and process looting? What decent execuse can you adduse to looters' act? Like the ridiculous one you had up there - "what I mean is even if they are destined to loot, because they are very good in it"

Please don't get your reasoning twisted. You do not need loots to put infrastructures in your communities. IT IS YOUR RIGHT.