₦airaland Forum

nikkiking:
Apology accepted


Honestly naija has a long way to go.......In other countries such don't happen, for example in USA whatever level you are in politics no one knows when they pass.


But here in naija all road get blocked just because a certain person elected for one post can now uses the influence to ride on the people who voted them in.


Naija polithiefs i hail una ooo.

Wrong. In US, the President and the VP moves with all the paraphernalia of escort and security. New York's traffic in most commercial places is hell. Park avenue in New York is always a log-jam during working days. That's why the rail substitutes it. Even at that, many people that will drive dread the traffic.

New Jersey is another horrible place traffic-wise. Currently some road constructions is going on, the mammoth bridge is being reworked........

Joburg with their modest population and one of the best road/infrastructure networks in the world, faces the challenge of traffic at rush hours

In summary, traffic is one hell of a headache for cosmopolitan cities. Even with rail system available, it's something that will require management all for a long time.

IamAtribalist:

Onijagidijagan: :
Don't forget say igbo spirit dey inside enyeama too. was dat d reason he was asked to play in kaduna and he caused commotion with it

Enyeama is NOT Igbo, he is Ibibio.

Nobody will be Igbo at this rate...

Bambless1:
Abeg Who Is Oliseh?

How old are you?

modath:
Own the license[b/] if that is what you prefer!! Like you didn't understand my point.


[b]BUT


Do you think its right for an Individual/ portfolio coy to be contractors/custodian/License holders as you are claiming with zero technical expertise in the field?

Tell me how many of them actually utilise the licenses, they in turn contract it out to major oil coys like folorunsho alakija did with chevron on the agbami oil field& danjuma did with Agip.

Minus the relationship to the govt of the day, what other criteria was used for the awards?

Get off your high horse, we are not all ignorant, neither are all objection malicious..

It is wrong, that is all!! I'm no tribalist..

1. As much as I try to hold off, your ignorance still amazes me. Please accept that your knowledge of oil and gas is not beyond what you skim from pages of blogs and online news.........
2. The PSC regime clearly states that the FG is the OWNER of all Oil and Gas assets. Producing communities and by extension states are other stakeholders. In a PSC arrangement government is the owner of all assets including the one you put on ground
3. Who told you companies have zero technical expertise Please educate us and name the companies that have zero technical expertise.
The question of what is fair is relative. First off, the Federal government offer licenses for take either in bid rounds or discretionary awards. In bid-round it's a case of winner takes it. You outbid your opponents, you get the license. In discretionary awards a lot come into play. Yes ex-heads of states, government officials and friends are given these licenses, but not free of charge. These people then go look for foreign partners.
4. In the industry, you cannot even operate the license if you don't have the expertise and war-chest. Many of these OPLs are lying there for over a decade because the owners cannot secure the requisite investments to explore not to talk of development and production. Imagine if you're to invest $100m in exploration and you find nothing. This explains the foreign investors presence.
5. Your Alakija angle just sparks naivety on your part. Even before she came into the scene, many indigenous producers had partnered with multinationals on working equity basis. This is the fastest way to develop an asset at a relatively quicker means and will not put a huge debt burden on you. Besides banks are slow to fund exploration exercise. So if banks wont fund exploration, is it not better to solicit the assistance of the multinationals who have the resources and experience?
6. If you want to know what criteria was used for award of license, you need to go to the NNPC website and read it up. Yes some friends of the government get the license and it cuts across all tribes.
7. On this, you're flat-out ignorant. Please stop flying ridiculous statement from a more ignorant Senator Enag. Ownership of oil asset is NOT 75-80% North......

tete7000:
How often did Oliseh honour national call during his own playing days? Is he not one of the foreign-based players Nigerians used to be angry with for his lackadaisical attitude towards national assignment? He himself is witnessing first hand what his managers then went through in the hands of then players (Oliseh inclusive). Let him just be careful with his approach in resolving Enyeama dilemma. If not handle well, it might backfire.

Bros,

In as much as you're entitled to your argument, the part in bold is a question you should refrain from asking. Oliseh it was that will personally call all his team members on phone, to make sure they come for a forth coming match (something he learnt from Keshi and he took to new heights.)

Oliseh it was that asked the coach to put him in a match Nigeria was about to loose, despite the fact that he was down with Malaria..........

Don't downplay or disrespect they labour for Nigeria

omonnakoda:
Obviously you are an intelligent person making a rational argument but that is a lot more for those on the other end . Their thinking is one track :

IboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafraIboOjukwuAkpuBiafra

Any other information and all you will hear is ; This programme has performed an illegal operation and is about to shut down.

My Sis,

You're are engaging no-gooders in discussion. Don't waste your time. I went to FGC briefly in 1989. Nobody was complaining then and nobody but people that can never make the cut in the first place.

shizzy7:
I've never heard about the school until I read about unity schools on this thread. ...
If this is how some people will be complaining about unfairness,,, they should just cancel it because they will become Disunity Schools..

modath:
Individuals & portfolio companies are not even supposed to own oil wells, that is the corruption we are talking about...

The current composition of 75 or is 80% of wells being owned by northerners is a travesty & injustice as well..

The sane thing to do is to award them with the principle of federal character enshrined to real oil firms with real stake & expertise in the biz & not political associates....

Bros,

Slow down there.........stop spewing Ignorance

1. The Federal government has stopped JV arrangements over 20years ago
2. Today all Oil wells belong to the FG. Non-JV Oil companies are mere contractors/custodian/License holders.
3. It is an outright FALSEHOOD, to alledge that 75-80% of wells being owned by northerners. This lie started by Senator Ita Enang is in bad taste, many of you guys spread, sometimes ignorantly and sometimes maliciously. The below link will give you a picture

http://saharareporters.com/2013/03/14/thisday-real-ownership-indigenous-oil-blocks-revealed-segun-adeniyi

Monogamy:
Oya, igbos where uhna dey? Let the party begins... No igbo 4 d list at all.... Ngigie is yoruba-ibo, while onu is hausa-delta-ibo.

ojoborsun:
The ministerial list are all APC members, it higj time we run all-inclusive govt

Becos we had an all inclusive voting abi?

Rekadobello:
President Muhammadu Buhari has released his ministerial list, only 3 women made it.

1. Aisha Alhassan

She's from Taraba state and was the All Progressives Congress, APC gubernatorial candidate for the elections which held early this year.

Senator Aisha Jummai
2. Kemi Adeosun
She's from Ogun state. Served as Commisioner of Finance in her state and is popularly known as 'The Diezani' of Ogun state.


Mrs Kemi Adeosun - Ogun State Commissioner for Finance
3. Amina Mohammed

Source: http://www.nigerianewsheadlines.com/?p=10002

She's the president's ministerial nominee representing Kaduna. She formerly worked as the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning.

I have never heard the underlined

PassingShot:

dBard: :

Dude, I know u can be objective tho annoyingly partisan.
This list wasn't worth the wait. If it had been released a month/2 months ago, we wouldn't have an issue, But after the LONG wait and the talk of a Technocrat based executive, you now get a list of 80% politicians with a smattering of technocrats, the list leaves a very Sour taste in d mouth.
Take a small census around ur area and you'll realize how disappointed ppl are.
Its still largely pay and reward and we're getting disillusioned.

P.s; this whole talk of who voted who is getting old and deviating from issues. Let's call it as we see it.

Good you admit I am objective. I have no apologies for being partisan as there is not a single soul who is 100% non-partisan. Are you?

Neither the president nor his party promised you a 100% technocrat ministers. The delay, as explained by the president on many occasions was to enable him institute rule/principles of engagement for his new team. He said it severally that he needed to clear the mess and rot left behind by PDP chop I chop ministers. Should he have continued with the same rotten system left by PDP where many ministries had several bank accounts they didn't even know exist? I wait for your answer.

My point remains very valid: those who have been nominated have largely been around the president during the campaign and it gave an indication to very reasonable people of the kind of ministers we were going to have. To pretend not to know smacks of stark ignorance or pure insincerity on the part of those who feign ignorance.

Now answer this question: Did you ever want the president there? If yes and feel disappointed in the list, can you reasonably claim not to have expected 80% of the names on that list? Stop fooling yourself around mister and face reality.

At the end of the day, getting the job done is not about the so called technocrats as ministers. It's about the type of leadership offered by the president and his vice. After all, we saw the last regime with many technocrats who delivered pains sorrows and sufferings.

Stella Oduah and Diezani were technocrats........

Nellybii:

INTROVERT: :


Ladies and gentlemen. Is Ibe kaichukwu not the GMD of NNPC currently and from Delta state. So the delta ministerial slot has been taken which means GMB will appiont another gworo eater as GMD of NNPC. .....

correct me if am right.








lalasticlala, I actually had to move from one position to another to hold this spot.



BY THE WAY NAIRALANDERS, am actually looking for a job now. I just finished my MSC in Energy Economics from the prestigious University of Ibadan and will be graduating by November and I have my BSC in Economics from another prestigious Nigerian university. I have 2 years banking and consulting experience to go along with all that. Gracias

Wish you good luck because I was in your shoes. I will only advice you that some of your so called gworo eaters might be of help so don't be smarter than God.

unfortunately, this is where many of them get to see the consequences of life........humility is profitable for much......

ebukabanky:
Not impress.....i cant find Peter Obi on dat list

..better shine your eye. This is not Jonathan's list or Ohaneze meeting...

Mynd44:
A blend of Technocrats and politicians.

People like Fashola, Fayemi, Kemi Adeosun, Amina Ibrahim, Ibe Kachikwu excites me.

Only disappointment is that Donald Duke is in the PDP and did not make the list.

Wale Edun too but oh well.

Donald Duke is a fine young gentleman. I also would want his given an appointment, even though he is of PDP stock

edey2real:
What are their portfolios?

Are these the technocrats we have been waiting for?

what other "technocrats" do you have?

obum88:
The appoint was not on merit but for hardwork

and what appointment will be on Merit?

Realistically yes

obum88:
Ministerial appointment was no angels and saints but rewards for the hard work of those who got Mr. President on that position

Kulas:
Fashola doesnt suppose to be there in the first place.None.

Your "engrish" doesn't suppose to be here in the second place

TruthisGOD:
Am only here to learn not haulin insult on ppl. Your type keeps on typing without learning anything. That dude you quoted was making some valid points and i learnt from him. People like you only insult, nobody learns from you.

Then buzz off before I swat you with my wallet

MightySparrow:
THANKS for enlightenment..THESE Alaba trained Igbos are. illiterates. WHY are they always crying. FOUL? If you are so rich and want to be independent why not start building your own school to spite the rest in the zoo?

...bunch of illiterates, filled with hate. Meanwhile these are people that did not even attempt common entrance in their days, talkless of passing it. Those of us that went to FGCs had related with people from East, West and North and we've grown up having smart friend from all parts of the country. Yet it's the "markate" sellers with limited exposure to school and with comprehension deficit and shout the most...

TruthisGOD:
I was thinking that you will say something very important to add up or buttress the points he already made but you ended up spiting and insulting people. Next time come up with a superior reasoning not insults and tantrums. Better still don't comment if you don't have any reasonable thing to offer.

.....and who are you.....a despicable insect, I would imagine

chuna1985:
BUT when 40 appointments are shared in Nigeria, igbos get none and the Yoruba n Hausa claim "most qualified"

Bros,

This is not about politics and let's separate politics from education. It is not about appointment. It is about education for our children regardless of where they are from.

What if you become the education minister today, will support education of the northern children?

NoMoreTrolling:
another duunce spotted

do we now see how Nigeria is churning out duunces, seemingly on a per second basis

men, even as I'm driving, nigggahs can't even understand how to turn at roundabouts here in Lagos, as soon as they get to the roundabout, they just go full on duunce mode with erratic lane switching and other duunce moves... which way Nigeria

a quota system should apply when students of different ethnic groups have similar scores, not a system that implies that some people are inferior or superior to others

men!!! in the words of yuzedo, "i giv up"

which way naija

You see all this your gutter slurry speeches, simply tells me you're yet to make it to an entry level of intelligence. I cannot see at what stage I can engage you

Scholes007:
so what you mean is that every northern candidate should be admitted because they have low/under enrollment or simply put the quota system is for the advantage of the north...||(that makes the OP right in his claim about injustice againist some region in favour of other regions)
so you accept that the current system of government is fraudulently structured? Anyway am not ready to talk about the country called Nigeria
nice

1. Comprehension deficit
2. Where did I say every nothern candidate should be admitted? and where did I say quota system is advantage to the North?
3. This is how we continue to spread falsehood just to satisfy our whimps.

Bros, It will seem I need to keep breaking it down for the likes of you, I don't know how far this should go

1. Each northern states should rightly fill their deserved and allocated slots. No state should be short-changed, either east, west, south-south or north
2. Quota system is an advantage to all. It's simply an avenue to make federal government investment in Unity schools accessible across all states EQUITABLY.
3. I never said our current system of government is fraudulent, that's coming from you.......it's not in the context of this debate as far as I'm concerned

xtrorse:
Hey, hold it there before you spill more trash... At this age you should be in the know that SW has the highest illiterates in the South of Nigeria despite the over-hyped Awo's free education and Yorubas' much taunted 'sophistication'.

Google will unravel some truths to you. Just follow the steps hereafter and search for:

1* the States/region in Nigeria with the highest enrolment rates into the universities in Nigeria

2* the States with the highest JAMB cut-off marks for universities across Nigeria

3* the States/region with the least out of school children in Nigeria

4* the States/region that are required to have very high score for admission into the Unity Schools in Nigeria in the last decade

5* the State with the highest number of professors in Nigeria

6* the region with the best MDGs attainment

If you don't find your Yoruba tribe leading in any of the 6 categories it then means your ranting is senseless, and as far as the Igbos are concerned you remain a piss in the wind!

Ignorance indeed is a disease and an educated illiterate is even worse off.

Well It's unfortunate that I have to deal with another bigot.......

Bros,

1. The issue is not about Igbo vs Other tribes, except you want to make it so.
2. I do not think it is sane to encourage needless bigotry. If some Igbos want to claim superiority of everything......they should please themselves......
3. But it is wrong to misrepresent facts and claims Igbos are marginalised. This classic case of quota system is one clear example
4. Quota systems was introduced to allow for a balance in access to a Federal asset (Unity Schools). It is only logical that since there are limited spaces, each state will be alloted numbers. So for example, if Enugu has 500 slots, Jigawa too will have 500 slots. Enugu CANNOT overfill their slots are take some of Jigawa slots. Quota system is simply a benchmark that says, we can effectively fill Enugu's slot if we set the cut-off mark to 65, most likely judging from students performance in Enugu, about 500 students (or a little less) will score 65 and above. Likewise can we effectively fill the Jigawa slot, as judging from students performance in Jigawa that about 500 of their students will cross the 17 benchmark score.
5. It is only fair that these slots are distributed evenly across all states.
6. Cut-off marks are not the real scores. They are benchmarks. 25 students from Zamfara (scoreing over 85%)could be among the top 50 best students, yet Zamfara can still have a cut-off mark of 9.

Now to the fools that sees everything as bragging rights (I lump you all together), this is the simple logic all your wasted education can simply not comprehend.

Kinganaba:
Igbos were not the only ones with high cut off mark. People should stop complicating issues. Am also Igbo.

Bros,

Thank you very much. Some Igbo folks here on NL are just showing your crude they are in reasoning. Quota system had been in existence before virtually these little minded folks were even concieved. How can you as a citizen expect that it is only your tribe that should benefit from a federal government arrangement and expect there will be peace?

If these folks don't get it, tell your state government to make the cut-off marks for Notherners 350/100 in Eastern state-owned schools, if that will pacify their jaundiced and myopic thinking.

That igbos are the best and the most intelligent in the world......Oh! shove it. It is only idiotic fools that celebrate such "ridiculous" feat, celebrating cut-off marks as if they are results. Bunch of Illiterates!!!. I would imagine that this is coming from shallow, inferiority-complexed or illiterate folks. Educated and decent (Igbo) folks will be more interested in engaging in enobling discuss and creating value.

One would have thought that you will celebrate the fact that these cut-off marks are good indicators to encourage our children to work hard, knowing fully well that provided they beat the cut-off marks, they develop a winning mentality. My daughter went through these exams 2 years ago scoring 179/200 and the cut-off was 120. Most important thing was the preparation she got that molded her into a champion..............

Bros,

Let me respond to your points.

1. If you flip this knot around as we try to understand it better, we should be realistic with our position on what is feasible. Even with the low cut-marks, some nothern states will not take up their quota. They will simply be under-enrolled.
2. The magnitude between the cutt-off marks goes beyond a moral questions. Under the current arrangements we run as a government, every states deserves their quota of the national cake; be it oil, ministeria appointment or Unity Schools.
3. A way to "bridge the gap" is for government to sell off all these schools and allow private owners to run it. There and then you will have cutt-off marks that is regardless of where you come from..........

Scholes007:
all you just said there is what we all know but the questions are, is the margine in cut off mark between these regions logical and morally sound?, is there no other way to bridge these gap without been bias?... These and many more is what a serious institution/state/country should discuss about not giving these excuse after many years of running such institution

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
You are the idiot here because both Students can't be and are not naturally meant to be in the same class without those failures limiting the capacity of the ones with higher IQ thereby destroying the potentials of gifted children

Another irritant brain.......... Your explanation is as useless as you come. I know you cannot comprehend, neither can I help.....

Have you ever wondered why some scholarship slots are reserved for African students despite the fact that some foreign nationals who would have scored higher in SAT, TOEFL and GSCE are not given such priviledges? because African students have better blood?

StOla:
Each state is filling its guaranteed quota in a federal education scheme designed for unity. It is not an admission based on academic merit but on compulsory NATIONAL representation.

It is nobody's business what low score or high score you require to fill up your own state quota. The high score only suggest better literacy indices in the South as opposed to the North.
No state is cheating the other, neither will any state yield its quota to another state until there's no candidate from the original state to fill their rightful quota.

The high cut-off score in the South is what internal competition demands to fill up their quota, while the low cut-off score in the North is what the low literacy levels ensure would fill up their own quota also.

Anyone who has no space to fill in their state quota can always try the myriad of state owned public schools or private school.

Lastly, what has the released marks got to do with a specific targeting of Igbos? You guys should please shut the hell up.

Enough of this unnecessary misinformation.

Bros,

1. I am very happy each time I see some idiots get schooled by people like you. It gives hope that sane people still do exist.
2. If someone's brain has regressed to the point of "Igbos are this-and-that....." then a translation from neurosis to physchosis is on the way.
3. Unfortunately other idiots will latch on to a flawed position, established by a prior idiot and then idiocy is perpertuated...

modath:

egift: :
Bloggers spinning headlines with mad tendencies. A simple press release will soon be transformed to something else. Bloggers fear God

I don't blame the bloggers, it is our people who don't know the constitution that I blame.

Bloggers know there is army of ill informed bitter citizens who will definitely keep visiting their blogs so they will keep churning out these kind of rubbish to line thir pockets...

No demand, no supply...

....and what about a lot of empty brains on NL that cannot decipher between the statements made and the useless headlines used for it? Where in the report did PMB say "the constitution cannot stop me from being a Petroleum Minister..."?