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Bros,

Simply delight in being yourself. You don't want to walk in Peter Okoye's shoes and assume his limitations

I find it ridiculous that a blogger can type that someone earns 60 million naira a month...this is ridiculous. These bloggers just spew falsehood

I think the OP is overblowing an issue. We cannot suddenly emerge like the United States. We are not compelled to do so. We must develop our ways. From your report, what is important is that there is a channel to contact your rep, and the rep responded. Is this available in Nigeria? May be yes. let me expatiate

I finished my first Masters in 2004 in LASU. We then had problem with getting our results. In 2007, someone told my wife about the channel to approach the new VC(Prof. Hussain), which is a simple email. I composed an email, and sent it to the email address, complaining that 3years running I'm yet to get my MSC results. Fast-forward 2 weeks later, I received a phone call from the PA to the VC, who informed me that the VC commissioned him to investigate my case, and they found out that I was right. My result was subsequently forwarded to the Senate and the Senate passed it that day he called me and that I should come for it......

So one good turn deserved another, I sent another email thanking the VC and PA. I further informed them of an initiative I was priviledge to know which will benefit LASU - A specialized computer learning and development that a Nigeria Prof in the US (can't remember his name) partnered with UN for some select Nigerian Universities. As at then the Prof took it to UNN (his alma-mata) and OBJ's bell University. I recalled I had asked him why those two and why not others. He informed me of the means through which others could come in. All this information I gave to LASU. Note all these were email exchanges. I never met Prof. Hussain and his PA till date

When Fashola was governor of Lagos State, a Unilag lecturer sent him an email on suggestion of how to solve the traffic gridlock at TBS-NITEL area. That is what led today to the by-pass by Muson.

I know many Senators, House of Rep members and some other governors (Including the crude Fayose) have designated email address, through which you can communicate to them. Over 70% of our Senators have twitter account

Now the problem I see is that many people will get rebuffed or ignored when they neither make any tangible contribution or get unnecessarily abusive while communicating with them. When Japhet Omojuwa organised a tweet-meet with Ambode, some people almost made a waste of the limited time. Instead of bringing issues and fact-based challenges, some chose to abuse him, and later wondered why he did not respond to them.

For me, the solution is not in comparing with America and quickly start condemning us. We are evolving and we need to understand what fits our profile and orientation as people. America uses email channel, Nigeria uses town-hall meetings....it is the end that will justify the means

kinharold:
Seriously, Peterside in NIMASA, Ibim Simi in NDDC, both are Amaechi children from Rivers state. Where will they keep O'tega Emerhor of Delta state, Timipre Sylvia of Bayelsa and the others.

I think a whole lot goes into the calculation of these placement and it may not be as simple as we see. O'tega and Sylvia may not have proven their mettle in the rank and file of the party yet or there are some other positions penciled down for them

Forwetinnah:
Engage your brains damned muppet. ..like some of the people under GEJs aren't Booooohari's buddies or working in his administration? Why are they protecting this individual? Haven't we been hearing names of all the supposed criminals under GEJ?! Why is this an "individual" , you dolts think you can phool everyone but you end up looking like phoools. See you, see reason

Bros,

I give up, your level is so rock-bottom

I see that I risk getting "stained" by engaging in any discussion with you.

blueseacats:
No sir , ignorant past administrations brought that idiot to nimasa , I thought this government should know better, but guess not.

My Brother,

Leadership transcends paper qualifications, if not, people like Dangote and Bill Gates would have been "idiots". Running NIMASA is not rocket science. What had plagued NIMASA is that the previous government used it as one of the hot conduit for corruption.

blueseacats:
A master mariner who knows one or two things about maritime world or even someone knowledgeable in maritime law. If you are in the maritime sector you will know how much we need someone that really understands one or two things about maritime, you will know how sickening this appointment is . It's just like appointing an accountant to the office of the minister of health.

You mean someone like Apkolobokemi?

Omo ti ku Iya o gbo

Have anybody noticed that these are not state security agents (police, miltary, DSS or NSCDC) but simply private security company staff. The person in question should lodge a complaint at the police station and social media should pick this up

Fools. Values have so been eroded, you mean students that fail to pay their school fees will go on rampage and hold the school to ransome. The state government should simply suspend the union, close the school and ask all of them to re-apply. The arrow heads should be sent packing.

Forwetinnah:
At variance with which context? You're extremely dumb! While you sit here to hallucinate about the past administration, things are going terribly bad right under boooooohari and you're here blabbing rubbish!! You lack comprehension!! Let the APC tell us the individual* involved in this scam..we all know if this was linked to GEJ, the entire congregation of APC e loosers (you included)will be on rampage. So much for trying to be intelligent. Tell us who this individual is or hide under a rock!!

APC should tell you the individuals involved in missing monies under GEJ administration? How dumber can you get? #DumbAlert. This is a share waste my time....... I better expend my energy on someone who can reason

kaeforum:
how?

I mean I don't see the relationship of your comment with my comment you quoted. Except you elaborated

mavinc4u:
Your level of Assimilation is bad, Your Argument is baseless because you have no point. Are you really that daft that you need years of experience to differentiate between wrong and right; that is weird. As for the exposure, you probably have not left your environment for once to be arguing blindly so i will pass.

Madam, cool down! your simply too average..

cheers

Forwetinnah:
See you see insult. ..i think you should take your advice, while at it..can we please know the "individual" involved?

Insult? consider that as even patronising. It is shameful enough that you referenced a link and argue stuupidly at variance with the content, context and essence of the report?

kaeforum:
Even the so called PMS we have is limited to one octane range which is 87, we dont have higher ranges like 91, 95 which some of these modern cars the politheifcians drive, these cars need to be run on high octane fuels if not the engines fails with time.

So called octane boosters is just alcohol it does no good for these cars, owners of passat,audi, bmw etc will understand what i mean.

I think you have mistakenly reference me here

quickly:
We shd focus on being no 1 exporter of pms in Africa . Dat way u will be getting revenue and also creating jobs.

In addition 2 major market waiting to be exploited are Gas and Petrochemicals

Lucasbible:
Very depressing. Totally makes me and other Nigerians feel hopeless. People voted out GEJ because they thought he couldnt revive refineries, he couldnt give us 247 electricity and that the airport / railway and trains were not 21st century compliant. We didnt even know that we had gold in our hands, we didnt know that GEJ was divine opportunity.

I apologize for voting for Buhari, I wish I can take my vote back and give to Jonathan. Forgive me my brothers, I wanted change, now I am in chains.

Stop selling a failed GEJ story, it won't work. You did not vote for Buhari, and we know your type (sponsored liar)

modik:
Common sense is never common.!

How many by-products do we lose when we don't refine?

Everybody is thinking PMS, forgetting huge loss of many industrial by-products derivable from crude oil.

Even the creme of the society are thinking the other way??

In Femi Kuti's voice :

"I'm sorry for Nigeria" "I'm sorry for Africa "

My brother,

We have a bunch of arrogantly ignorant folks here who hardly think or learn

chinchum:
Only new refineries can change the story, those 4 refineries are outdated, no point refurbishing scrap.

The govt should get partners who can site new refineries on the same spot the old ones are.

1. OBJ had the same view when he sold Kaduna refinery to Dangote. He was miffed that YarAdua reversed it. Lagos state became the opportunity predator in this case, by quickly giving Dangote the land to build a refinery that will have a capacity more than all the current 4 combined
2. There are investors already working in the background to build refineries, mostly modular, so that they can recoup their investment in reasonable time
3. The refinery game changed some few years back. Before crude heavy in sulphur was discouraged and commanded less value in the market, as the need to remove the sulphur is another investment entirely. This made our sweet crude which had negligible sulphur to command premium price in the market. Today technology has changed. First of, new refineries are able to extract the sulphur out easily and such is sold in another market. Also this new refineries extract more derivatives from heavy crude as such they have more to sell. Our sweet crude which is light has relatively fewer derivatives, so premium price before as now become lower price

Abagworo:
It is better to refine locally and operate at loss than to import with profit. That is the only way to develop. Everything including texiles, frozen livestock and poultry, shoes, soft drinks etc are cheaper imported than being produced locally but if we must develop then we have to stop importing.

This is a sacrifice we must be willing to take. Besides, the full picture of local refining is not show in this reports. A single barrel of crude oil has at least 12 other derivatives which are potential industries in the making. The Eleme Petrochemical company for example was at 20% capacity when government sold 75% of its shares. The new investors did not sack a single Nigerian staff and in less than 1 year it was operating at 100% capacity.

This report is limited because it's simply viewing the value stream of refining to PMS, Diesel and Kerosine alone

Lebee4:
I think we are having more headline readers here than the readers of the main news.
after all the explanation made by the minister, I am disappointed by most of the comments on this post.

Welcome to NL filled with more Lazy idiots than rational thinkers. The OP went on a confused spree and other fools sheepishly followed suite. I can hedge my bets that 70% did not bother to read the article, 20% relied on the faulty premise of others to make assertion and less than 10% read and could not decipher the ministers drift.

obasiken:
Is this the kind of utterances that should be made by a minister of Nigeria? Instead of him to be thinking of a way to make production of PMS cheaper in Nigeria he has already admitted failure. This is why APC is failing cos they are PESSIMISTS.

Unfortunately your case of crass ignorance and comprehension deficit, did not make you to see that all your answers lie in the same report you referenced

Forwetinnah:
While this got missing under boooooohari in less than a year

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/fgs-n3-1-trillion-revenue-loss-traced-to-an-individual/

By the time boooooohari is done with Nigeria, the 15million Oponus who voted him will be picking their jaws off the floor. Shiooor

Where do you nincompoops emerge from? Did you bother to read the article you referenced?

Sajio:
I thought they hired PWC to re-Audit NNPC? How come they didn't publish their Forensic, Auditor General must be an APC member.... else APC should get a nuetralist to do this job joor.. lies everywhere. so is now $16b and not $49.8b?

Were you living in Mars or just plain ignorant. The PWC report was published in February 2015 http://cloudflare.qurium.info/premiumtimesng.com/docs_download/Full%20report--20billion%20dollars%20missing%20oil%20money.pdf?cf=1

LadyExcellency:
Is the auditor General now a substitute to PwC'S Forensic Audit Report On Finances Of The NNPC commissioned by Oshemohle and Elrufia lead National Economic Council?


Where is the forensic report?

Quit the folly! Even PriceWaterHouse flagged the caveat that the report was limited as they were not availed necessary documents to carry out a complete forensic report.

"The procedures we performed did not constitute an examination or a review in accordance with generally
accepted auditing standards or attestation standards. Accordingly, we provide no opinion, attestation or other
form of assurance with respect to our work or the information upon which our work was based.
" http://cloudflare.qurium.info/premiumtimesng.com/docs_download/Full%20report--20billion%20dollars%20missing%20oil%20money.pdf?cf=1

Even from the limited audit, you could see the loose ends......See some exerpts

"He said that the report indicated that “the gap between the company’s oil revenues between January 2012 and July 2013 and cash remitted to the government for the same period was $18.5bn”. He said the report also outlined the questionable expenses parts of the missing money were spent on.

The PwC report also indicated that some of the billions should have been expended on providing subsidy on kerosene and that the “executive secretary of the agency charged with administering subsidies confirmed that, acting on Yar’Adua’s orders, it had ceased granting subsidies on kerosene. There was no appropriation for such a subsidy in the 2012 or 2013 budgets,” Sanusi said in the article.

The Emir of Kano believed that $12.5 billion out of the $18.5bn in revenues that the state oil company did not send to the government, according to his calculations, was diverted." http://guardian.ng/news/pwc-audit-report-confirms-18-5bn-was-diverted-from-nnpc-account-says-sanusi/

amtaken:
Don't let Liar Muhammed and the rest of APC know that you are passing their lying glory to another person.

OMG! I just realised I have wasted my time with a no gooder IPOB irritant

isnovic:
Mapet, you will not see the good GEJ did until you close your eyes to the war of propaganda by APC and open your eyes to objectivity based on the constraints and the interest group that exist in the Industry ab initio.
It is on record that the Light situation was improved greatly even if it wasn't where we ought to be as a nation.

You asked if body language matters? The answer is Yes.
It is the difference between confidence and cluelessness.

Of solution to being lost.
Of control to guess work.

1. Please show us the records that showed that light situation improved during the time of Jonathan. Bros, I work in an industry that is a feeder to the power sector. Or do you call the shameless reply to CNN "ask Nigerians, they have light" that GEJ gave, as records?
2. The other part of your response here is pretty confusing.
3. You do not need to be fully mislead to come to a conclusion that someone is misleading you. GEJ unfortunate tenure is pretty unfortunate. I had said it that the mistake we made was the emotion of having vociferously clamoured he'd be allowed to become acting president and subsequently president based on a percieved cabal that wanted to hold this country ransome. He had no antecedents to justify his ascension to presidency neither did he leave anything of note to show that the country improved under him......the country regeressed under GEJ bro.

mavinc4u:
I am sorry dear but you are actually the naive one who has refused to read and understand. The truth is not hidden, the truth is bare there for you to see. I have even used a scenario for you yet you didn't understand. Don't mind me but you have comprehension issues.

Classic! Comprehension issues. I'll probably take that as a consequences of the limitations of your exposure. Argument is irrelevant. When you've worked few years more, review this stand of yours and see your folly

isnovic:

Abagworo: Jonathan never allowed Barth to work and deliberately distorted the Geometric plant in Aba. Barth Nnaji is highly needed by Buhari Government if they want accelerated progress in power sector.

Exactly my point.
They will naturally fit the position.

I have an exception though, Nnaji's tenure was tainted with a moral dilemma. How can a sitting minister be the Chairman of a company that was about to be given concession of power station? For me that knocks him off

amtaken:
If you wanna talk about liars then you channel your criticism towards Buhari, Liar Mohammed and other APC propagandist. Did you hear that?!?

You are a blatant liar. Simple. Show us when GEJ government generated 6GW.

You do not even have an iota of idea of what this is about

isnovic:
You mean the likes of Prof Nebo and Barth....if you look at their pictures they do not look lost at sea when they visit power stations.
They are natural fits.

And hey...crawl back into the dark whence thou came from..... the results are in the archives for the deaf,dumb and blind to see.

You are a joker. Barth Nnaji and Pat Nebo and what did they leave us with? So you measure their performance on how they look in pictures when they visit power stations?

Peak power during Obasanjo government was circa 4GW. GEJ's government after billions of dollar investment declined it to less than 4GW on the average, please tell me what is in the archives to see, beyond the show of shame (case in point derelict Enugu coal power station)

some of you guys are simply more ridiculous beyond the low level reasoning I imagine. You're so shameless you don't even know what to acknowledge. A country of over 200million people and we're struggly with 4GW, when SA with less half our population are crossing the 100GW mark.

It is idiotic trying to explain to the world about your private life. AY, you're simply playing into their net.