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Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Ameachi has urged local contractors to show the capacity to play big rail construction projects going in the country to earn the contracts they crave.

The Minister stated this in Lagos while responding to agitation from local contractors on why they were not often considered for the award of rail contracts.

According to the Minister, “a contractor must have at least five years experience and genuine evidence of work done to be awarded a contract”

He continued: “We are not using our local contractors because they are not qualified. If you want to participate, build capacity. We can’t give you a life-threatening contract if we don’t trust your capacity

“We said five years experience but a contractor in Nigeria will take a photograph of another man’s job as his own. How many Nigerians have done project management in railway? yet they are applying. I am not against them applying but we don’t want them to go give the job to other contractors. show us you have the capacity and equipment and we will choose you.”

However, the minister noted that Nigerians would henceforth handle the maintenance of rail because some of them have acquired the knowledge hence “the contract between the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC and the China Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC for rail maintenance will not be renewed.”

Responding to concerns raised on poor remuneration of NRC workers, the minister promised to work with stakeholders to ensure upward review of their earnings.

“Nigerian Railway Corporation has for about 10 to 15 years, not had salary increment and we all need all hands on deck to change it.

I don’t have the power to do so. Only the President and the Salaries and Wages Commission have the power but, I will join them in the fight to see that there is an improvement. I am prepared to work with them if the law permits,” he pledged.

The minister speaking with Journalist Envisaged a decrease in Lagos_Ibadan road traffic as he disclosed that 42,000 passengers travelled by Rail in the month of June.

On why the construction of the Port-Harcourt/Maiduguri was yet to commence, Amaechi had this to say: “We have paid the contractors some money and we are ready but we have to really wait until the public procurement department, the Federal Executive Council and the supervising engineers give us approval.

“If the supervisory engineers are not in place to take off the drawings, you can’t construct, and that’s the problem we have with the Kano-Maradi rail line.

He also decried the poor maintenance of rail infrastructure saying, “the spare parts are not available. The President has just approved the purchase of new spare parts but it’s not that easy. We have to make advertisements for people to apply within and outside the country.

Thereafter, we take them to the public procurement department for approval and that will take you some time. It’s not about competent engineers but the availability of spare parts.”

GEEBITE:
Most people dont know he was Tuface's ghost song writer,a lot of those Tuface's hits like "enter the place,implication, ma lo ro pe omo pewo nikan loma lowo" etc were written by him and W4 his protege from the same Satellite T hood . In fact some of the.songs like Jangbatis dated back to secondary school days at Feggo Ogbomosho. RIP Lanre Fasasi a.k.a Ephredine ,a.ka Sound Sultan.

Samzzysamz:
And after doing that, also ask yourself where the god came from and how it came into existence. Keep the same logic.

youngpresidooo:
oga I never insuinated what u wrote.
All I say is that his story of being a christian or how he said he is a christian is not biblical.
And if we should go by bible, Tb joshua was never a christian

Willzkid:
So you have to twist their arms to embrace someone they know nothing of his spiritual roots? Someone whose born-again experience is in doubt? A refurbished syncretist, false prophet who only became popular because of so called philantropy..
I don't blame OP, you don't read your Bible or you don't know his beginnings... I also blame the mainstream men of God for not living up to their name.
Imagine blackmailing Peter and Phillip to recognize Simon the sorcerer

Mikecold:
He is talking of a spiritual warfare

We don't see that realm so we can't take side on that apparently what this means is that T.B Joshua is of the devil in his opinion

Is that possible since T.B Joshua preaches love etc I would tell you even the devil takes up the garment of sheep too

So it's all for God to decide

youngpresidooo:
it has always been since the early christians go and study about the early christians some claimed to be of peter, of apollo's of paul.
Despite the apostles clearing things. The apostles argued on some doctine. See doctrine are man made rules to help follow God's word. That's why the bible refer to christians in the bible to follow the apostle doctrines not God

safesurfer:
Then y'all will turn around and accuse them of hypocrisy if they attend the funeral. We sabi una style. The thing is, these mega pastors have nothing for, or against the late TB Joshua. But you can't associate with a person you can't vouch for. Adeboye, Kumuyi, Oyedepo, Eneche, Olukoya etc all mingle with one another, because to a certain extent, they can vouch for themselves. Even Pastor Chris that collaborated with him just once, quickly dissociated himself from him.

joe4christ:
They will never think beyond their indoctrinations. They can't think beyond that. Reincarnation was part of the bible and several books that originally was compiled to be made the holy book. But due to politics some of this books were removed cos the doctrines doesn't align with their agenda. The only part of reincarnation they forgot to remove the story of Elijah reincarnating as John the baptist. Yea. That was an error that was left in the scripture. And Elijah and Enoch will still reincarnate according to the book of revelation to preach to the world before the end. So, u see some of the contradictions!

Ibime:
Na on Monday I go send code

youngpresidooo:
you have said it all.
No one is even accusing him of doctrine but devilish acts
Ok talk about his salvation, no root or bearing at all .
Even if he had said oh an angel appeared to him and so on. Better but not that you are saved from an Alhaja's womb..
Like are you kidding me.
Even Jesus had to demonstrate how born again is important by being first baptized before starting any ministry.

expressglory:
The reason a lot of people doubted TBJ was because he said..."He got born again from his mother's womb". Hmmmm...how dare you say that..if you understand what salvation is?
I am therefore not surprised that mainstream pentecostal pastors.. locally and internationally are careful of associating with him.
But as far as I am concerned..he is dead...he is back with his maker, the righteous judge. Let everyone stop all these noise making. When the man was alive, he didn't associate...and he was not universally accepted...Why are we making noise that some pastors didn't attend his burial ceremony?
When Oshoffa Samuel,the founder of celestial church died in 1985,na everybody go there...?

ednut1:
They are all conmen regardless. Don't practice what they preach too

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc Olamilekan Adebgite, has disclosed the launch of made in Nigeria Barite to stop the importation of the commodity.

Adegbite made the disclosure during the visit of a delegation from the Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, led by Dr Ogbonnaya Orji, to the Ministry, on Thursday, as contained in a statement signed by the Director, Press and Public Relations Department, Etore Thomas.

According to him, it is part of the Federal
Government’s commitment to diversify the economy and stop unnecessary capital flight through the importation of Barite to the detriment of local industries that have the capacity to develop the nation’s huge deposits of barite including the development of value chain of other mineral resources across the 774 local government areas.

He further said it is to achieve the Ministry’s Presidential mandate to prioritize and develop seven strategic minerals in the Mining Roadmap, hence the launch of the Nigerian-made barite.

While giving hope to local industries in the barite industry, the Minister made it known that the Ministry has succeeded in achieving the development of barite
from extraction, milling and bagging stages to support local industries, as well as for export, adding that Nigeria bagged barite has “Proudly Nigeria’ as its logo.

He said: “The Ministry of Mines and Steel
Development in its bid to develop the value chain of mineral resources in the country and achieve its Presidential mandate to prioritize and develop seven
strategic minerals in the Mining Roadmap, the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development is set to launch its made in Nigeria Barite soon.

“The Ministry has succeeded in achieving the development of barite from extraction, milling and bagging stages to support local industries, as well as for export, adding that Nigeria bagged barite has
“Proudly Nigeria’ as its logo.”

He also commended the role and impact of NEITI in the solid minerals sector, described the agency’s performance as an impressive contribution by, “Ensuring transparency and accountability in the
sector.

“The Ministry is working at updating and upgrading its ICT infrastructure to enable it to link the 10 agencies in the Ministry to ensure that all data of royalties paid and funds received would be properly
monitored and uploaded to the Ministry’s server for online real-time accessibility, and we assure the Ministry’s continued cooperation with NEITI.

Also speaking was the Minster of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, who appreciated NEITI for the visit, noting that the collaboration between the Ministry and NEITI is of great importance as it would ensure mining accruals are transparently monitored.

Meanwhile, speaking earlier, the Executive Secretary, NEITI, Dr Ogbonnaya Orji, explained why the purpose of the visit, which was to deepen the relationship with
the Ministry and share data that would enable the organisation to report accurately and transparently the activities in the sector, because “the Ministry has
data NEITI can rely on.”

Orji pointed out that sharing information and data with NEITI would attract investors as well as build confidence in the mining sector.

He, therefore, requested that the Ministry’s website be uploaded regularly to enable would-be investors to get the right information from the Ministry’s webpage.

humberjade:
When Rohr was saying it, albeit mainly because of the grudge pple already had against him, people were abusing him...but the football scammer was just stating the fact�

We all (at least those of us who follow football with our hearts and brains) knew from the onset that our home based eagles have no chance whatsoever against the Mexicans... players from our gbas gbos league? Naaahhhh!!!