lalasticlala and Seun, pls move to front page. This is something good from Covenant University where their PhD is not up to OAU's 2.2

bloodkiIler:
* omenka omenka omenka omenka omenka omenka omenka omenka omenka omenka ngeneukwenu modath passingshot midolian abduljabbar4 HungerBAD koboko69 *

The people you are calling do not live in Nigeria. Hence, don't expect responses from them.

However, the government claimed that what it did was price increase and not the removal of subsidy or deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.

Are people not seeing the above?

This is too harsh a beg! Even someone with 1.4kg was given 4 years in FHC Abuja even after confessing that he smokes the shi't.

I still do not have constant Power in my house.

Govtspy:
Following the recent improvements in electricity supply in Nigeria, I decided to carry out a research on the people that managed the billions of dollars spent on the power sector under Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Please see below names of MDAs and their DG/CEO:

1. Federal Ministry of Power – Prof. Barth Nnaji and Prof. Chinedu Nebo

2. Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Power – Dr. Godknows Igali

3. Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) – Dr. Sam Amadi

4. Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) - Mr. Wonodi Rumundaka

5. Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) – Mr. Clement Okeke

6. National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) – Mr. Reuben Okeke

7. Rural Electrification Agency (REA) – Mr. Kenneth C. Achugbu

8. Operator of the Nigeria Electricity Market (ONEM) – Barr. V.N Osuhor

9. Nigerian Electricity Liability Management Limited (NELMCO) – Dr. Samuel J. Abogun

10. Electricity Management Services Limited (EMSL) – Mr. Peter Ewesor



Section 14)3) and (4) of the Constitution states:

14(3) “The Composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to effect the federal Character of Nigeria and the need to promote National unity, and also command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies’.

14(4) “The composition of the Government of a State, a Local Government council, or any of the agencies of such government or Council, and the conduct of the affairs of the Government or council or such agencies shall be carried out in such manners as to recognize the diversity of the people within its area of authority and the need to promote a sense of belonging and loyalty among all the people of the Federation”.



WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY TO DELIBERATELY SABOTAGE THE SECTOR?

PLEASE BE THE JUDGE!!!



Sources:

http://power.gov.ng/

http://www.nsong.org/AboutUs/Management.aspx

http://www.nigeriapowerreform.org/

http://www.naptin.org.ng/about-us/naptin-management/management-team/

http://nbet.com.ng/about-nbet/executive-management/

http://www.nelmcong.org/mgtteam.html

http://www.onem.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&page=team

http://nercng.org/

http://www.rea.gov.ng/node/48

Nawa o! Anyways, I'm here to read comments

Good one from Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta! God Bless you. We Africans say NO TO SODOMY!!!

Again!!! Don't people have conscience? PMB must jail some people for this if true.

Good!

This should be replicated in all MDAs, especially NDIC!

zik4ever:
He should be fired and replaced with a competent and incorruptible Northerner?

Don't mind the Op, they are plotting another plan to remove ndigbo. It won't work!

ABUJA – NORTHERN delegates at the on- going National Conference have threatened that if President Goodluck Jonathan presents himself for re- election in the 2015 presidential election, it would plunge the country into political chaos.

According to the Northern delegates, the draft Constitution as prepared by the Justice Idris Kutigi led Secretariat was a third term agenda designed primarily to allow for President Jonathan, other incumbent elective office holders whom they alleged as not qualified to contest to run for the election, even as they warned that if allowed to sail through, it has the potential of throwing the country into violence and anarchy.

Addressing Journalists Tuesday at Gombe Jewel Hotel, Wuse 11, Abuja, Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF and former Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Coomasie warned that if the document which he described as a third term agenda was not killed at the conference, it would like in 2005, lead to anarchy, violence and chaos.

The northern delegates who distanced themselves from the draft Constitution, however noted that its appearance on Monday was a surprise to them as well as shocking and what they described as disappointment to them as northern delegates and Nigerians in general, just a they said that as members of the National Conference and by constitution, it was not within the purview of delegates to draft a new constitution, adding that the document was illegal.

Coomasie said, ” Given the observation under (iv) above, adopting a new Constitution is therefore calculated to enable incumbent elective office holders who are statute-barred from going for 3rd Term at both Federal and State levels, to run for offices again under the guise of running under a new Constitution. This will also have the consequential effect of depriving aspiring politicians from all political parties, as well as all Nigerians, of their rights to choices and preferences as enshrined in the constitution.

“If not arrested, the 3rd Term agenda, as in the past (2005), is capable of plunging Nigeria into another circle of political chaos with potential of violence and anarchy.

“We, Northern Delegates to the Conference wish to assure patriotic Nigerians, and all lovers of democracy, that we are neither privy to, nor were we accessory to the emergence of the controversial “New Draft Constitution 2014″. We, therefore, unequivocally disown it, and emphatically disassociate ourselves from it. Accordingly, we will have nothing to do with it, for the following legal, moral and political reasons:

“Delegates to the conference were not elected, and therefore lack both legal, and moral authority to draft a new constitution for the Nigerian Federation. Rather, we were constituted to serve as an ad hoc advisory mechanism for to The President, as representatives of broad interests across the federation, and cannot, therefore, legally arrogate ourselves the far-reaching function of making a “new” constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That can only be done by an appropriately constituted Constituent Assembly.

“The Secretariat of the Conference has indicated in chapter 7 of the draft Report Vol. 1 that the so called ‘new Constitution’ is to be brought into effect through a national referendum to be specifically held for the purpose. To this we say, without any fear of contradiction, that there is no legal provision in our Constitution for the holding of such a referendum. The reference to a referendum, made by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in his inauguration address at the National Conference on 17th March
2014, was purely speculative, as it was predicated on the National Assembly introducing a provision in the Constitution that will permit the holding of referendum
“… if at the end of the de liberation the need for a referendum arises”. We want to say, with authority, that such a proposal has since been turned down by the National Assembly. Inquiries at both the Senate and House of Representatives have since shown that efforts at tabling the case for referendum, through private member-bills, were rejected twice, and cannot, therefore, be reintroduced in the life of the present Senate.

“From the foregoing, it is now abundantly clear that the conference has been infiltrated by fifth -columnists whose goal is to subvert democratic processes and plunge the country into deeper, but avoidable political Crisis.
(iv) To all intent and purposes, the introduction of a “new
Constitution 2014″ for Nigeria, is a calculated attempt by some people to take advantage of Court of Appeal’s ruling in 2003, as delivered by Justice George Adesola Oguntade, (JCA as he then was) in the celebrated case of Attorney-General of the Federation Vs. ANPP, and Others (A.G, Fed. v. A.N.P.P. [2003] 15 NWLR (Pt. 844).

“Wherein Governor Abubakar Abdu of Kogi State (then) was challenged over his eligibility to run for a second term in 2003, having had a first term which ended in May 2003. The contention was that having been champion and uphold democratic principles, as enshrined in the constitution and other legitimate sources of law-making.”

It would be recalled that as delegates resumed plenary on Monday after a month break, the Conference Secretariat prepared a draft Constitution to be sent to the National Assembly which was distributed along side the Bill and two volumes of the final report of the Conference to delegates. It contained some alterations in the Constitution as part of the recommendations during Committee sittings and plenary.

Coomasie, a delegate representing the North West Zone was flanked at the briefing after the over two hours meeting of the Northern Delegates by Mohammed Umara Kumalia; Lt. Gen. Jerry Useni; Prof. Iyorchia Ayu; Bashir Dalhatu; Gen. Salihu Ibrahim; Amb. Ibrahim Gambari; Air Vice Marshal Mutari Mohammed; Emir of Askira, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibn Muhammed.

The hall was full to the brim by the Northern Delegates. Some delegates who were present include, Senator Saidu Dansadau; Col. Bala Mande; Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai: Senator Ahmed Aruwa; Hajia Aishatu Isma’il; Gen. A.B. Mamman; Arc. Ibrahim Bunu; Sani Zoro; Hauwa Evelyn Shekarau; Nurudeen Lemu; Naseer Kura; Ishaq Modibbo Kawu; Magaji Dambatta; among others.

After reading the five page text, Coomasie and other delegates however refused questions from Journalists.

The text read in full, “You are welcome, and we thank you for responding to our invitation.
Our purpose for holding this press conference is to brief you, and through you the entire country, about the latest developments at this crucial stage of the 2014 National Conference. As citizens of Nigeria, we are greatly concerned about this development and its wider implications to sustainable democracy, political stability, peace, and development of our Country.

“The first indication that there was going to be problem was on Monday 30th June, 2014, when a front page report in a national daily (Daily Trust) alleged that a member of the leadership of the conference had been lobbying members of the Northern Delegation to be able to smuggle in a “new constitution” at the conference. A delegate drew the attention of the Conference to the publication under MATTERS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE: the integrity of the Leadership of the Conference and it was demanded that the Leadership should make a categorical statement on the issue.

“The Leadership claimed ignorance of the existence of any such document and demanded to see a copy of it. This was immediately made available, and after going though it, the Conference Chairman made the following statement as reflected in the Conference Hansard of Monday 30th June, 2014, on page 14:

“We know nothing about the paper in circulation. We know nothing of the consideration of any Committee, we formed no Committee apart from the standing Committee we set up …We are not aware of that…We have nothing to do with it. That matter should be closed!”

“Ordinarily, the matter of a “new constitution” should have died a natural death. But that was not to be. The issue was brought over and over again in the course of plenary sessions, but each time it was overwhelmingly rejected by the delegates. And when attempts were made to bring in the issue of “referendum”, as a means of actualising the outcome of the conference, it was always strongly and painstakingly explained that the operating Constitution does not have any provision for such a referendum. The only instance when a referendum can be held is in relation to the creation of new states or boundry adjustment, per the provision of Section 8 of the CFRN 1999 (as amended).

“You are aware, by now, of the surprise, shock and disappointment with which not only delegates to the conference, but many patriotic Nigerians, have reacted to news of the sudden appearance of a “New Draft Constitution 2014”, among other documents distributed to delegates, when we resumed at plenary, last Monday, August, 11, 2014.

“We, Northern Delegates to the Conference wish to assure patriotic Nigerians, and all lovers of democracy, that we are neither privy to, nor were we accessory to the emergence of the controversial “New Draft Constitution 2014”. We, therefore, unequivocally disown it, and emphatically disassociate ourselves from it. Accordingly, we will have nothing to do with it, for the following legal, moral and political reasons:

“(i) Delegates to the conference were not elected, and therefore lack both legal, and moral authority to draft a new constitution for the Nigerian Federation. Rather, we were constituted to serve as an ad hoc advisory mechanism for to The President, as representatives of broad interests across the federation, and cannot, therefore, legally arrogate ourselves the far-reaching function of making a “new” constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That can only be done by an appropriately constituted Constituent Assembly.
(ii) The Secretariat of the Conference has indicated in chapter 7 of the draft Report Vol. 1 that the so called ‘new Constitution’ is to be brought into effect through a national referendum to be specifically held for the purpose. To this we say, without any fear of contradiction, that there is no legal provision in our Constitution for the holding of such a referendum. The reference to a referendum, made by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in his inauguration address at the National Conference on 17th March 2014, was purely speculative, as it was predicated on the National Assembly introducing a provision in the Constitution that will permit the holding of referendum “… if at the end of the deliberation the need for a referendum arises”. We want to say, with authority, that such a proposal has since been turned down by the National Assembly. Inquiries at both the Senate and House of Representatives have since shown that efforts at tabling the case for referendum, through private member-bills, were rejected twice, and cannot, therefore, be reintroduced in the life of the present Senate.

(iii) From the foregoing, it is now abundantly clear that the conference has been infiltrated by fifth-columnists whose goal is to subvert democratic processes and plunge the country into deeper, but avoidable political crisis.
(iv) To all intent and purposes, the introduction of a “new Constitution 2014” for Nigeria, is a calculated attempt by some people to take advantage of Court of Appeal’s ruling in 2003, as delivered by Justice George Adesola Oguntade, (JCA as he then was) in the celebrated case of Attorney-General of the Federation Vs. ANPP, and Others (A.G, Fed. v. A.N.P.P. [2003] 15 NWLR (Pt. 844). Wherein Governor Abubakar Abdu of Kogi State (then) was challenged over his eligibility to run for a second term in 2003, having had a first term which ended in May 2003. The contention was that having been elected Kogi State Governor in 1991, his tenure 1991 – 1993 should be regarded as a first term and the tenure 1999 – 2003 should have been regarded as second term. Accordingly, he should stand barred from contesting for another term in the 2003 election, as that would amount to a violation of the subsisting Constitution, which has provided that a person could only be elected into the office of a State Governor for two terms and no more.

“In that decision, the Court of Appeal upheld the eligibility of Governor Abubakar Audu of Kogi State, to stand for re-election as Governor, on the ground that his first tenure (1991-’93) was under a completely different Constitution (CFRN 1989), while the country was at the material time operating the 1999 Constitution, which was a new Constitution.

“(v) Given the observation under (iv) above, adopting a new Constitution is therefore calculated to enable incumbent elective office holders who are statute-barred from going for 3rd Term at both Federal and State levels, to run for offices again under the guise of running under a new Constitution. This will also have the consequential effect of depriving aspiring politicians from all political parties, as well as all Nigerians, of their rights to choices and preferences as enshrined in the constitution.

(vi) If not arrested, the 3rd Term agenda, as in the past (2005), is capable of plunging Nigeria into another circle of political chaos with potential of violence and anarchy.

“We, as pan-Nigerians and democrats reject this agenda, in its entirety and call on stakeholders of all persuasions and institutions especially political parties, national and state houses of assembly, the media, Civil Society Organizations, faith based organisation women, youths, etc., to reject same, and continue to champion and uphold democratic principles, as enshrined in the constitution and other legitimate sources of law-making .

Thank you, and God bless.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/contest-plunge-nigeria-violence-anarchy-northern-delegates-warn-jonathan-others/#sthash.8sJHAZ78.dpuf

miftpulse: The use of the word cowboys in your quoted post was to imply the more you hear the less you understand. With that said, Oando PLC is a group with OER as one of its subsidiaries and having a stake of about 92% which later increased to 93.6...%. Oando PLC is planning to reduce its stake by issuance of equity to get some other things done I guess: they have eyes into other acquisitions like; Total's OMl 138 which sale failed to sail through to Sinopec and other similar acquisitions..
A

Thanks for your response.

Cc: Dexterax

miftpulse:
#15th minute
Oando PLC planning to divest from OER by equity placement.......Hmm..COWBOYS ooh

Hmm... Before I respond to the above, let me first say hello to everyone in the house. I have been following the thread for a while now, getting investment tips here and there. Shout out to ogas Born2berich, Dexterax, myjoy08, Dragonking, Yem0350, evilspirit and other great men and women here.

Back to the above quote. Please, can you assist in explaining the divestment further...I hope WT will not turn oando plc to a shell company soon.

Thanks

Chibuke56: No matter hw many players dey sign dey cnt beat man u
*team van gaal
*team man u

Really!!! because of LVG? I sure he wouldn't say that himself!

GREAT!!! The Drog is back!!

youngice:
Arise, O compatriots,
Nigeria's call obey
To serve our Fatherland
With love and strength and faith.
The labour of our heroes past
Shall never be in vain,
To serve with heart and might
One nation bound[b]BOMBED in BONDAGE, peace and unity [/b]
Has anybody ever stopped to meditate and ponder on these words

Fixed

Symphony007: Some nigerians are just dumb skulls!! If a monorail or any sensible mass transist system was launched in lagos in the 80's and subsequent governments chipped in, would lagos be the traffic mess and metropolitan disgrace that it is today? A growing city and planning for it's future and some partisan and intellectual hacks are here vomiting trash.

Mr. Oga, I agree with you. I can only imagine what Lagos would have been now had Buhari's administration not frustrated Jakande's Monorail project in the 80's. It's just a shame that some people still want this man in power..a man that couldn't see the future....let me stop here to avoid bashing

seniourman: You block brain

Aro candidate!

verakooler: ABEG WHERE CAN I WATCH THIS MATCH

You can come to my house!!!

Rolex pass Rolex bro!!

Always made in China or India

zeelo2014: The hair looks like it was made last week.

I concur

More than 500 years ago, three children climbed Llullaillaco volcano in Argentina and never came down, the probable victims of human sacrifice. Since their well-preserved mummies were discovered in 1999, scientists have studied them in hopes of reconstructing the last months of their lives. New evidence shows that all three regularly ingested coca and alcohol and suggests that the drugs might have played a more-than-ceremonial role in their deaths.

The children—a young boy and girl, and a female archaeologists call the Llullaillaco Maiden, whom new research estimates to have been 13 years old—were part of an Incan sacrificial ritual known as capacocha, in which children were killed or left to die from exposure at the peaks of high mountains. Found sitting within small shrines, the bodies were naturally mummified by the cold, dry climate of the nearly 7000-meter mountain.

Most of what scientists know about the lives of the Llullaillaco mummies comes from their hair. The Maiden, in particular, has long, tightly braided locks that had been growing for at least 2 years before her death. In 2007, scientists analyzed the carbon and nitrogen isotopes found in her tresses and detected a marked change in her diet about 1 year before she died, when she went from eating mostly potatoes to consuming more animal protein and maize.

This time, the team didn't stop with food. “Anything that circulates in the blood will eventually end up in the hair”—including signs that an individual consumed drugs like alcohol and coca, the plant processed to make cocaine, explains Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York, who was not involved in the study. When scientists measured the levels of a few key metabolites along strands of the Maiden's hair, they saw that her consumption of coca and alcohol began to increase around the same time that her diet changed, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her coca use peaked about 6 months before she died, while her alcohol consumption skyrocketed in her final weeks. The boy and the girl, both of whom were 4 to 5 years old and had shorter, less kempt hair, also ingested the two drugs but in much smaller amounts than the Maiden.

By analyzing the Maiden's hair, “we’re starting to see a picture … of an emerging sequence of events that culminated in her sacrifice,” says Andrew Wilson, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom who led both studies. He suspects that her initial change in diet and drug consumption likely coincided with her selection as an aclla. In Incan culture, these “chosen women” were “selected to live apart from their families at around the age of puberty, probably under the guardianship of priestesses,” he explains. Significantly, acllas were trained to produce chicha, a fermented maize drink that was probably the Maiden's principal source of alcohol. Meanwhile, coca was—and in some Andean cultures, remains—a “revered” ritual substance, Wilson explains. Indeed, radiological scans reveal coca leaves clenched in the teeth of the Maiden’s mummy, suggesting that she was chewing them when she died.

The importance of coca and alcohol in capacocha rites “is something that we hypothesized for a long time, and it’s really, really nice to see it confirmed,” says Corthals, who has studied the mummies in the past. But the drugs’ role in the sacrifices may have gone beyond ritual.

Capacohca rites were complicated religious and political ceremonies that may have been partially intended to instill fear in communities recently conquered by the Incan empire. Although historical sources report that being selected as a capacocha sacrifice was considered an honor, Wilson wonders if the alcohol may have been used to sedate the Maiden in the weeks leading up to her death. What’s more, alcohol impairs the shivering reflex, so if she was left to die of exposure drinking could have hastened her death. But the presence of coca complicates that picture somewhat, because it can slightly increase body temperature by causing the blood vessels to constrict.

Although it’s still not clear how the combination of drugs may have affected the bodies and minds of the Llullaillaco Maiden and children on the mountaintop, Wilson suspects that the Maiden, at least, was likely heavily sedated and placed in the shrine and left to die of exposure. While other high-altitude Incan mummies show signs of head trauma, the Llullaillaco mummies appear to have died peacefully. There were “no outward signs of fear” such as vomiting or defecation in the Maiden’s shrine, Wilson says, and the fact that she was found sitting in a cross-legged position surrounded by intact offerings suggests that she didn’t struggle once inside. Still, it’s possible that her body was arranged in that position just after death, implying that a more deliberate act, like suffocation or poisoning, might have taken her life before the harsh environment of the mountain had a chance to do its work.

Sources: http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/07/llullaillaco-maiden-may-have-been-drugged-sacrificed

and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ifNDqD-cs

Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen delivered the moment of the night in the Capital One Cup as he pulled down Nicklas Helenius' shorts while trying to tackle him.

Fans at Villa Park were left relieved (or not) that the Dane decided not to go commando on the night, as a falling Vertonghen reached out and yanked his trews earthward as he prepared to shoot.

Helenius, only just into the match as a half-time substitute, played on and even got a shot away.

The puzzling part is that, in this age when referees are meant to be cracking down on shirt-tugging, Villa weren't awarded a penalty.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/see-spurs-jan-vertonghen-pull-2298314

gbosaa: You all should shut it...what the hell is saddle bags??...

Those are femoral angle pads and differentiates lekpa nyash females from sexy voluptious "particulars" carrying honies.

Heaven knows lots of men love those pads abi na bags..Yes i love them..

To hell with exercise..how dare you try to rid of those God given features..

They are there for a reason..female peacocks have bright feathers to attract the randy males....apart from brazilian and peruvian hairs,women are naturally equipped with those lovely features/paddings for se.xual/reproductive reasons.

Any female nairalander with those femoral angle deposits i say this to you..God bless you abundantly...We love em.

3 Gbosaas for you man!!!

Supatra Sasuphan, who may be known as “monkey face” or “wolf girl” is the worlds’ hairiest girl, but has not let anything get her down in life.

The young schoolgirl is faced wit ha rare genetic disease which only 50 people in the world currently have.

Rather than let it bring her down or ruin her life, Supatra is happy with her life and how she is currently the record holder for the worlds’ hairiest girl. She is also very happy with how things are going and is expected to do well at school.

A teacher has said she works very hard at school and even has ambitions to be a doctor, so that she can look after the sick and her family.

Supartra insists her condition is “who she is” and is happy with how she is. Her family consider her a “normal little girl”.

Supatra is just one of fifty people with the rare disease, Ambras Syndrome which is caused by a faulty chromosome. Before this rare genetic disease was found it use to be branded as “the werewolf”.

She has thick hair growing over her eyes, nose, eyes and arms and has undergone multiple types of surgery to try and treat it but nothing has worked to even stop the hair from growing.

She has been asked by people before “what sin have you done to deserve this” she explains what it is and ends with “this is who I am”

Locals pray for her and hope that one day she will be cured, but to this day no cure has been found, not even to stop the hair growth so if shaved off, it will always grow back.

http://www.boltedmedia.com/12-year-old-is-worlds-hairiest-girl/?utm_source=taboola