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@Sir Toktee To Me All Dis Guys Are the same.
How are we sure they change mk a positive impact in Nigeria if given d chance?

Let dem Leave politics for the younger generation.

A Another.
P PRoblem
C Coming

Vice President Sambo commended Nigerian
banks for the role in the electricity sector.
The Federal Government has earmarked $8
billion (N1.3 trillion) for the execution of the
Nigerian Gas Master Plan with specific
interest in meeting the gas-to-power
demand in the country.
Vice President Namadi Sambo stated this in
Abuja on Friday at a forum on investment in
the power sector.
He said the programme would be jointly
implemented by Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria Gas Commission
(NGC) and the private sector.
According to him, already $500 million (N80
billion) of the $1 billion dollars realised from
Euro-Bond would be utilized as counterpart
funding for implementation of the project.
He said government had also embarked on
an extensive programme for the upgrading
of the nation’s power transmission capacity.
‘‘We are also implementing an extensive
programme for the upgrading and
expansion of our power transmission
capacity. We plan that before the end of
2014, we can transmit up to 10,000mw and
by 2016 to transmit up to 20,000mw,” Mr.
Sambo said.
He said the total funding for the project is
estimated by the Transmission Company of
Nigeria (TCN) to cost about $3.7 billion.
‘‘I am pleased to inform you that funding for
these projects has already been arranged.
‘‘$1.6 billion is coming from the sale
proceeds of the NIPP/NDPHC ten new power
plants, $500 million from the China-EXIM
bank and the balance from the African
Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic
Development Bank and (from you) our local
banks,” he said.
Mr. Sambo announced that the PHCN asset
would be handed over to private sector
operators on September 30. He reassured
that government would continue to improve
the efficiency and affordability of power
supply in the country.
‘‘The Federal Government shall, in tandem
with the goals and objectives of the National
Electric Power Policy (NEPP), continue to,
among others, improve the efficiency and
affordability of power supply.
‘‘I will like to share with that we are
investing in improving their mix generation
capacity of this country by the construction
of the Zungeru hydro-power which would
add 700megawatts at the cost of 1.2billion
dollars, work is already on this project.
‘‘The construction of the Mambila Hydro
power plant which would add
3050megawatts and we are utilizing
N1.7billion from the sale proceeds of the
NIPP Power plant as counterpart funding for
this project that will cost 6.4billion dollars,’’
he said.
Mr. Sambo commended the private sector
and the banking industry for supporting
government’s efforts to improve the power
situation in the country through their
positive response to financing the
Independent power projects.
He particularly commended the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN) for kick-starting the
privatization process through its N300
billion intervention fund for the power and
aviation sectors of the economy.
‘‘Let me also congratulate the banking
industry for its contribution so far to put
our great country on the path of growth to
attain our aspiration to be among the top
twenty economies in the world through
reliable, affordable and adequate power
supply.’’
According to Mr. Sambo, in the coming
years, more demand would be placed on the
banking sector to support power
infrastructure renewal and the industrial
development to support the power sector.
In his remark, the Governor of the CBN,
Lamido Sanusi, said the forum was to
review the contributions of the banking
industry to the power sector reform
programme.
According to him, the CBN in collaboration
with the Ministry of Finance is reviewing the
Development Finance Institutions to
facilitate the financing of critical
development projects.
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/145560-nigeria-earmarks-n1-3-trillion-gas-power-programme-boost-electricity-supply.html

Nasarawa Governor vows to end ethnic
crises in the state.
The Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Al-
Makura, said on Friday, that only the All
Progressives Congress, APC, could rescue
Nigeria from its current challenges.
The governor, who disclosed this at the end
of a closed-door meeting between the APC
governors and federal lawmakers, held at
Lagos House, Abuja, said it was no longer in
doubt that the party, which was a merger of
some opposition parties, had come to stay.
“It is no longer questionable that APC has
come to stay, and the nation looks up to us
to drive the change process,” the governor
said.
“So, we felt it is time to rob minds on how
to promote the tenets of democracy in our
country. APC is the only salvation in this
country by virtue of ethics and principle. We
are the only ones that can rescue this
nation.”
On the ethnic crisis in Nasarawa State, the
governor vowed that his administration
would fish out and prosecute the sponsors.
While admitting that violence and communal
clashes had persisted in the north central
state before the advent of his
administration, Mr. Al-Makura, however,
regretted that it had assumed a hydra-
headed dimension.
He said that no amount of violence would
distract him from carrying out his
gubernatorial function, adding that it he
discovered that there were people who hid
behind veils to finance and promote
violence.
“We have discovered that there are certain
people, who are sponsoring these crises,
and this is criminal, but we are set to tackle
it headlong. We have set up a committee to
investigate those behind these incidents
from day one and we are going to bring
them to book. We shall employ all legal
avenues to prosecute everyone found
wanton,” the governor said.
Mr. Al-Makura described the instigation of
violence in the state as pure crime, which he
said, must be dealt with at once. He noted
that people should dismiss the stories that
crises were tied to religion or tradition as it
is all lies.
The governor dismissed the belief that there
were fetish attachments to the Ombaste
militants, saying the youth were merely
acting on the influence of narcotics.
Mr. Al-Makura disclosed that his
administration had constituted a team to
investigate the source of the narcotics and
to prosecute anyone indicted.
On how to end the crises, the governor said,
“There is limit to how you can apply force in
resolving crisis, so we are looking at
bringing the people to a round table to
dialogue”.
“But that does not mean we are leaving out
the criminal aspect. The criminals will be
investigated and prosecuted; we will surely
fish out culprits.”
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/145561-apc-can-rescue-nigeria-challenges-says-al-makura.html

He deserve It 100% Judging by his performance in d nations cup n confed. Cup.
Imagine how he outshine xavi n iniesta ag8 Spain. He also outshine cavani n suarez wen we played uruguay.
He is the holding midfielder in caf best evelen for dis year.
If dem no give am na ojoro.

Senator Ndume That was linked with the BH BOYS wer is he today?
Abegi Make we leave matter for marthias Nothing dem go do the So Called LawMaker, if not y dem no wan tell us him name??

N Lastly For ur information na 9ja We dey, once u hold pepper u are above the law.
Nxt topic pls.
I No FIt Show.

smartchoice: Thank God you are ALIVE! I was afraid I had lost the Billions on your head as bounty...._{make I gather my dane guns}

lol.. Make him neva die yet ooo
na him boys go use hammar

This is to the people, who call themselves
Nigerians; it is Shekau that is speaking since
you said he has died. Here is something new
(Shouts)
It is me that has come out to counter the lies
and speculations.
I believe you are watching and listening to
me. Sagir Musa (spokesman of JTF) will be
sad now and really angry. I pity Sagir Musa.
This is just beginning of another war that
will befall Nigeria.
It is just starting and new beginning. I
know Oladipo Diya will be sad, Jonathan too
will not be happy but angry, Obama will be
angry, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will be
sad too.
Francoi Hollande will be angry, Queen
Elizabeth is angry. Magrate Thatcher same
will be angry and all infidels throughout the
world.
I am alive and a new beginning has just
commenced.
The world should know am alive by the will
of Allah, who will call me at the appointed
time he desire and set for me.
If my end comes, no matter what, even if I
am eating, I will go. What I am doing, is not
my own but it is there in Quran, I challenged
all clerics in the world to come out and lets
debate. Even if its Tantawee or whoever,
they should know that I am not just doing
things, rather saying only what Prophet
Mohammed SAW was sent to do by God.
What we are saying is there in the Quran,
and so do not bother or suffer your selves.
What I see in Quran, I will continue to do
until the day I cannot breathe again.
Be vigilante and watchful, this is above you
and your imagination. Am alive contrary to
the lies, you are surprised that I am now
your tormentor in the this cause.
Shekau is really nothing; you should rather
fear Allah, the maker of everything you see.
You are just communists and leaders of
humor sexual. I swear, there will be nothing
like democracy, there is nothing like rule of
man to people. There is only rule of Allah to
the world.
Government for people by the people is
fake, there will only be law of Allah to
people.
This is Shekau, I keep quite deliberately. Is
this not me? I went underground and heard
all the lies, is this my picture Turakin
Adamawa?
Adamawa? Is this picture, Sagir Musa? Is
this my picture Jonathan? I will show you
soon.
This is Shekau, they said they killed our
brothers. Let me explain what transpired. I
gave permission for all these attacks since it
is from God and the foot soldiers are only
obeying God. If am not alive, it will continue.
This is our conviction. Is Mohammed Yusuf
not death? Are not seen how it is
progressing? Are you not saying that
Shekau is more radical than him? If death of
leader is the end of faith, our faith will have
died with the death of Prophet Mohammed...
Those sticks boys you are deceiving, we are
the ones that killed them in Monguno, they
came with sticks and Allah help us as we
killed over 200 of them. You lied that they
are about 20 and with over 30 missing. It is
above that as we killed them and the whole
place was blood bath and they were all
smelling and we have to leave the area.
We are also responsible for Benisheik
killings and carried yesterday killings. You
that claimed you are SSS and man of
knowledge. We slaughtered more than 200
people.Yes, these days in Monguno, after we
killed stick boys cwe seized several weapons
from army and now under us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-m7w7yJZ0

Bigcake: Op u r a fvcken bigot, must a man keep to his words? Why hasnt Buhari kept to his by not wanting to contest again? To all u moda fvcken northerners, fvck u all, fvck d abokis, fvck APC, fvck all d northern muslims. Fvck all the nairaland mods who banned me for fighting for Gej. Fvck Seun for allowing his head to be used unceremoniously. Am back frm d ban, ain't afraid of another ban cos i gat more than ten newly registered signatures for this purpose. Its either Nairaland allow everyone to air out his view clearly or face e-terrorism. HE THAT IS DOWN FEARS NO FALL. gej till 2019

see as u dey fool urself.

For Ur Information am a southerner. U beta read b4 u comment swin.e

Dike Chimezie: Remembering when Buhari in his crocodile tears b4 2011 election promised not to contest again if he fails to win 2011 election.
Also remembering when a certain Fashola vow not to seek for reelection as the governor of Lagos state.Speaking further he said that 'it is only a failed student that repeats a class'
#Just remembering#
GEJ TILL 2019.

gbam.

on february 01, 2011 at 1:41 am in news
BY DANIEL IDONOR
ANKARA, TURKEY — President Goodluck
Jonathan, yesterday, said he has no
ambition to stay in office beyond 2015,
assuring Nigerians in Diaspora that while he
will not contest the 2015 election, he will
ensure that this year’s election is free and
fair.
The President promised that if voted in for
the next four years, he would ensure
significant improvement in key sectors of
the economy — security, power, education,
road, health amongst others.
“Without security, there is no government.
So it is not debatable, it is something we
have to addressed and we are working
towards that with vigour. But if I’m voted
into power within the next four years, the
issue of power will become a thing of the
past. Four years is enough for anyone in
power to make significant improvement and
if I can’t improve on power within this
period, it then means I cannot do anything
even if I am there for the next four years.”
Jonathan said this while interacting with
Nigerians mainly diplomats working in the
United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa, UNECA, and the African Union, AU, in
Addis-Ababa.
While fielding questions from those present
at the interactive session on whether
Nigerians abroad will vote, Jonathan said: “I
would have loved that the Nigerians in
Diaspora vote this year but to be frank with
you, that is going to be difficult now.
Presently, the law does not allow the voting
outside Nigeria and so this year Nigerians in
Diaspora will not vote but I will work
towards it by 2015 even though I will not be
running for election.”
On the issue of security, Jonathan said the
government was doing everything possible
to arrest the situation. He disclosed that all
those involved in the October 1 bombing
had been arrested and were being
prosecuted. He, however, said he ordered
the release of the car dealers because they
were just businessmen who could not have
known that the vehicles were to be used for
such heinous crime.
On education, the President said, the nine
new approved universities were to be
specialised and to be headed by at least
three Nigerians experts in Diaspora.
On the concerns raised of having a database
of Nigerian experts in Diaspora, President
Jonathan assured that he was working on
creating a forum for interaction between
them and government and also develop a
database, where experts needed to address
the various challenges of the economy will
be drawn. He hinted that this was why the
Diaspora Commission was being set up as
the bill was already before the National
Assembly.
The President also disclosed that the
government is looking towards reviewing
the country’s foreign policy to ensure that
Nigeria gets maximum benefit from its roles
and contributions to international
organizations like the AU, UN and ECOWAS.
He lamented that right now Nigeria’s
contributions were not being recognized
adding that “there is need for Nigeria to
have something in return for our
investments. We are investing so much but it
is not being noticed and there is need to
reverse that trend.
On the concerns about road network and
transportation in the country, President
Jonathan assured that the railway system
will be revamp because presently heavy duty
vehicles were destroying the roads. “Why
we cannot have continuous road
maintenance for now because no contractor
wants to go into it because of the
continuous pressure on the road by heavy
duty vehicles. That is why we are working to
ensure that we revamp the rail”.
The President also assured that Nigerians
working in international organization and
institutions would be issued diplomatic
passports. He directed the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia to submit
the list of those qualified within the shortest
possible time to him.
On the 35 per cent affirmative action
implementation and the domestication of
protocols signed, he assured that he will
present before the National Assembly within
the shortest possible time

www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/i-ll-not-contest-2015-election-jonathan/#sthash.UQlDpg1E.pLZ2psNx.dpuf

the big Question is: has Gej Really Fulfilled his Promise to Nigerians?
Has He kept his side of the bargain with pdp?

Soldiers and officers of the SSS killed the
victims on September 20.
The Senate has ordered an investigation
into the killing of at least seven people by
Nigerian security agencies in Apo, Abuja, on
Friday, last week.
The Senate mandated its committees on
security, judiciary and human rights to
investigate the killings.
At least seven people were killed and about
a dozen injured when soldiers and officers
of the Department of State Security Service,
SSS, stormed an uncompleted building in
Apo area of Abuja.
While the SSS later claimed it was fired at by
suspected Boko Haram gunmen before a
gun battle ensued leading to the deaths, a
PREMIUM TIMES investigation showed that
the victims were unarmed homeless men
many of whom are petty traders and tricycle
riders; and who had been asked to leave the
house by the owner of the building.
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/145345-nigeria-senate-investigate-killing-7-homeless-people-security-officials-abuja.html

Some of the council chairmen had rejected
police security details.
Armed robbers are now targeting local
government chairmen in Sokoto State,
launching spates of attacks on the
residences of six of the chairmen, the News
Agency of Nigeria reports.
NAN investigations revealed that the local
government chairmen attacked recently
were those of Shagari, Kebbe, Tambuwal,
Tureta, Bodinga and Rabah Local
Government Councils.
There are 23 Local Governments in the three
senatorial zones in Sokoto State: Sokoto
Central, Sokoto East and West, and and
Sokoto South.
The latest of the attacks was on the
Chairman of Rabah Local Government
Council, Zayyanu Gandi, who sustained
injuries and was discharged from the
hospital on September 21.
Mr. Gandi has been receiving treatment at
the Uthmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching
Hospital, Sokoto.
The Sokoto house of Mr. Gandi had earlier
been attacked during the last Ramadan
fasting in July.
It was also learnt that the Sokoto and Tureta
houses of the Tureta Local Government
Chairman, Ibrahim Dansarki, were similarly
attacked by hoodlums. In some of the raids,
the men of the underworld had carted away
undisclosed cash and property, with scores
of persons injured.
Most of the armed robbery attacks were also
not often reported to various police
divisions by the affected chairmen.
Investigations revealed that some of the 23
Local Government chairmen were said to
have rejected the policemen attached to
their various houses.
The Chairman of Bodinga Local Government,
Shehu Badau, said there was need for
prayers at a time like this.
“We are only praying to God to provide a
lasting solution to all the problems affecting
Nigeria, including the current security
challenges,” he said.
Mr. Badau, however, confirmed that he had
asked the two policemen attached to his
house at his hometown, Badau, to leave due
to “some reasons.”
“One of them twice attempted to rape one
of my female domestic aides and I asked
them to leave.
“I had informed the authorities of the state
police command about the reasons for my
action.
“Only officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) are now operating at
my house in Badau, from 6.00a.m to 6.00
p.m. daily,” Mr. Badau said.
The spokesman of the Sokoto State Police
Command, El-Mustapha Sani, confirmed the
attacks but said that “most of them were
not reported to various police divisions.
“The Local Government chairmen were also,
hitherto, rejecting our police details but they
have now started accepting them back. This
is better,” he said.
He said the command was ready to ensure
the safety of lives and property of residents
of the state.
“This is our constitutional duty and we will
never renege in doing so, although we need
the support of all the strata of the people of
the state as usual,” Mr. Sani stated.


www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/145339-armed-robbers-attack-six-local-government-chairmen-sokoto.html

Pls Give A Name To Dis Head.




Which Mod On nairaland has this kind of head?

fabulousfortune: wat are u smoking over there?

Ur Head. Ode instead if u to follow topic u dey follow comment.

Congratulation to All Univerity Student.


ASUU Has Finally Called Off The Long Awaiting Strike Due To The Intervention Of The Senate President "David Alechnu Mark N ThE President Of The United state Of America Barrak Obama.

The Strike Lasted for 87 Days due to the over demanding of ASUU.



THE sUN NewsPAPER.
23/09/1983.
I Just Love Reading Old News Paper.

Lol:
we Better Go Learn Work.

The oil workers plan to begin their strike on
Monday.
Oil and gas workers in Akwa Ibom have
given notice to begin an indefinite strike on
Monday over plans by Mobil Producing
Nigeria Unlimited to sack them.
The workers, under the aegis of the Nigeria
Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers
(NUPENG), gave the notice in a statement
issued on Saturday in Lagos.
The statement was signed by NUPENG
General Secretary, Isaac Aberare.
“We warn against the alleged plan to
disengage 80 per cent of the labour
contract workers and replace them with
service employees by the end of September.
“We find this plan unacceptable and unfair
after our members have helped to
contribute their quota to the growth of the
company. We will resist it,’’ the statement
said.
The workers, in the statement, said that
some contract staff in Mobil had been
sacked and replaced with new ones on new
contracts terms that negate the collective
bargaining agreement signed with NUPENG.
“The union cannot watch and see its
members being sacked indiscriminately. It
will lead to bad precedence in the oil and
gas industry,’’ it said.
The statement said that the new employees
use tools, equipment, machinery, and
vehicles that belong to Mobil to perform
their jobs but they were denied the benefits
stipulated in the agreement.
It said that Mobil had also refused to give
mandate to labour contractors to hold the
quarterly Joint Consultative Council (JCC)
meeting.
The statement said that NUPENG had written
several letters to Mobil management on the
issues but all entreaties for dialogue were
ignored by the oil company.
(NAN)
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/145177-oil-workers-nupeng-plan-begin-strike-monday-akwa-ibom.html

In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES,
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,
speaks on President Goodluck Jonathan’s
eligibility to contest the 2015 presidential
election ; why he joined seven governors to
float the “New PDP”; his presidential
ambition, role in the registration of PDM and
other issues.
———————————————-
At what point did you decide to team up
with the seven governors and others to
‘make things right’ in the PDP, considering
the fact that some of them were never your
political associates and had in fact worked
against you at some point?
If you dig into the history of how the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was formed
in 1998, you will understand that one
cardinal objective of the party is to stamp
out dictatorship and executive high-
handedness in Nigeria. It was commonly
agreed upon among the founding fathers of
the party that the PDP was going to be a
political party that will operate and function
by the rules, and that decision-making in the
party would comply with democratic norms.
But along the line, and not too long after the
party won the presidential election in 1999
and also won the majority of seats in the
National Assembly, the PDP began to change
in character and in content. The change in
character had to do with the fact that some
elements in the leadership of the party
began to wield an iron fist; and the change
in content began when the PDP started to
change its own laws to gratify the desires of
a few powerful individuals in the party.
So, the effort to correct the wrongs in the
PDP didn’t just start now. And that is why I
will want to correct you on the appellation
of ‘rebel governors.’ Those of us who have
come together to champion crusades to
return the PDP to the dreams of its founding
fathers are not leading a rebellion against
the party. What we are doing is to further
strengthen the PDP and reconnect it to the
Nigerian people.
When did I join the governors? This
happened after four delegations, one after
the other, were sent to me. I did not give
them any terms or preconditions because I
believe in their sincerity or purpose.
Some say they saw this coming when some
of your associates moved to register PDM
and succeeded in doing that. Is it not safe to
conclude that you are in this to destabilize
the PDP because you now probably have an
alternative platform on which you could
realize your ambition? Or you are in this
because you are not getting fair deal from
the party as you complained recently?
Let me correct you on the two notions you
have raised here. One is that I do not have a
hand in the formation of the PDM. Absolutely
none! True, some of the people in the party
(PDM) may be my political associates; just the
same way they are political associates with
other leading members of the PDP. You will
recall that the PDM is the very back bone of
what we today have as the PDP. If some
members of the PDP feel aggrieved about
the way the party is being run and then
decide to float another party, the best I can
do is to persuade them not to go in that
direction. I do not possess the right, or even
the powers to prevent them from forming
and belonging to a political party of their
choice. The second wrong notion you raised
is to say that I am in this struggle because I
am not being fairly treated in the PDP. And
then, I should ask you: Am I the only one
who is not being fairly treated in the PDP? I
can confirm to you that over 70 per cent of
members of the PDP also feel that they are
not being fairly treated by the party. That is
why we are demanding for a change in the
way the party is run, and that is why the
actions we have been taking thus far enjoy
popular support among members of the
PDP.
With your action, haven’t you betrayed the
party leaders some of whom facilitated the
waiver granted you only two years ago?
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/145185-exclusive-interview-lured-baraje-led-pdp-faction-atiku.html

Men of the State Security Services, on Friday
evening, stormed the Emergency
Department of Asokoro General Hospital in
Abuja and quizzed the victims of the bloody
attack on an uncompleted building at the
Apo Legislative Quarters that left eight
people dead.
Although the SSS claimed that those killed
were members of the dreaded Boko Haram
sect, eyewitnesses and survivors had
denied the allegation.
Survivors alleged that the attack was
masterminded by the owner of the building
that was raided, who they said had strong
connections in government, adding that it
was done to force them out of the
premises.
But our correspondent who visited the
Hospital last night was informed that some
SSS operatives came on Friday evening
“wielding weapons in search of Boko
Haram suspects.”
A source in the hospital who spoke on the
condition of anonymity said the SSS
operatives arrived by 6:30 pm.
He said, “I saw the SSS operatives at about
6:30 pm in the evening. They went straight
to the Accident and Emergency Department
to obtain statements from the people who
were suspected to be Boko Haram
members. They came on a vehicle, about six
of them and went straight to the hospital.”
One of the victims also told SUNDAY PUNCH
that the operatives came with camera and
took the photograph of the ten victims who
are currently receiving treatment in the
Hospital.
“The SSS officials came with guns, other
dangerous weapons, took our
photographs, our names and other
important details. Their faces were
unfriendly and they neither laughed nor
smiled,” he stated.
Several calls and text messages to the Chief
Medical Director of Asokoro Hospital, Dr.
Ahmadu Abubakar, for his reaction were
not replied.
The victims of the attack, who are currently
receiving treatment in the hospital, are
Ibrahim Mohammed (Zamfara State 32);
Ibrahim Lawal (Zamfara, 25); Shamshudeen
Abubakar (Zamfara, 20); Sani Abdulrahman
(Katsina, 17); Yusuf Abubakar (Zamfara, 20)
and Yahaya Bello (Katsina, 20)
Others are Abubakar Auwal (Kano, 18);
Muritala Abubakar (Zamfara, 20); Ibrahim
Bala (Kano, 18) and Nuhu Ibrahim (Zamfara
State 20).
The SSS Deputy Director (Public Relations),
Marilyn Ogar, had on Friday claimed that the
victims were gunmen who engaged the SSS
operatives in a gun battle.
According to her, the security operatives
were attacked by the sympathisers of the
sect when they went to a building on Soji
Aderemi Close, off Bamanga Tukur Street,
Apo Quarters, to exhume weapons buried
in an uncompleted building by people
suspected to be members of the Islamic
sect.
She further stated that the attack was
sequel to information obtained from two
Boko Haram elements, Kamal Abdullahi and
Mohammed Adamu, who had earlier been
arrested for terrorist activities. She added
that the suspects led the security team to
two uncompleted buildings where arms
were purportedly buried.
Ogar declined further comments on Friday.
“I am busy now and I’m at a public place; I
can’t speak on anything, if I have any new
information, I will speak on it,” she said.
Some SSS operatives in six vehicles had
stormed two uncompleted buildings at Soji
Aderemi Close, Apo, where they shot dead
eight persons, injured 10 and arrested 12
others whom they described as Boko
Haram sect members.
Meanwhile, former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar has said that only an
independent investigation by Nigeria’s
parliament, the judiciary or civil society will
unravel the facts behind the killings.
In a statement by his media office on
Saturday, Atiku said, “For me, this issue
borders on human rights, the rule of law
and the sanctity of human life. Our security
services should stick to their role under the
constitution: make the country safe.”.
www.punchng.com/news/abuja-killings-sss-quizzes-victims-on-hospital-beds/

The National Coordinator of the Coalition of
Northern Politicians, Academics,
Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid
Mohammed, has criticised the call for a
sovereign national conference, saying the
proponents of the conference are asking
for another civil war.
In an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH,
Mohammed said the conference would not
solve the problems of corruption, illiteracy
and poverty facing the country and noted
that such national conferences had yielded
negative results in countries such as Niger
Republic, Benin Republic, Rwanda, and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
He said, “The most spectacular failure of the
national conference system is that of DR
Congo. DR Congo is a big country with big
problems. It’s a classical example of what
you call a failed state. They held a sovereign
national conference with so much fanfare.
At the end of the day, what they had was
not only a coup but a revolution.
“So, I have news for those who believe
national conference is the panacea for the
problems of Nigeria. Most of the problems
of Nigeria today are contextual problems.
The sovereign national conference in
Nigeria will not solve the problems of
corruption, illiteracy and poverty. It will not
give an honest and realistic government
and it will not give a sincere and
responsible revenue allocation formula.
These are the problems of Nigeria.
“No country, so far, has disintegrated
peacefully. What they are asking or
demanding is that we go through another
civil war. If they want that, they are more
than welcome. But they should be man
enough to come out and say we want to
disintegrate this country and we are
prepared for the consequences. The first
consequence is war; the second is the
attendant consequences of war. We don’t
have anything to fear.”
Mohammed argued that the North had far
more advantage over the South, when it
comes to war, stating that any set of people
who attempt to disintegrate the country
would be crushed in the way of Biafra.
“The last time the Igbo carried out their
own coup, in which they killed people from
other ethnic groups and there was
retaliation and they started talking about
war, we had war. Who lost? They did.
Over one million lives were lost and over 90
per cent of them were Igbo. And the people
who instigated the Igbo to go to war were
Lagosians. When they took up the
challenge, these people withdrew from
them. If they want that now, I wish them
good luck” he said.

www.punchng.com/news/supporters-of-snc-asking-for-civil-war/

Brazil World Cup winner Ronaldo has said he
believes Lionel Messi is a better player than
Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Ronaldo, who played for both Barcelona and
Real Madrid, told AS it was difficult to choose
but that, on balance, the Argentine was the
more influential and better all-round player.
"I would stick with Messi," he said. "It is
difficult. It is like when you are looking to buy
a house and they offer you many nice ones,
but you need to pick one.
"Messi seems more complete to me, or at least
more decisive. In the important moments, he
appears and scores goals."
Asked about former Real Madrid manager
Jose Mourinho's comments about there being
only one "real" Ronaldo -- "the Brazilian
Ronaldo" -- the three-time FIFA World Player of
the Year said: "This is Mourinho up to his
tricks … I prefer not to get into polemics.
"You must respect everyone's opinion. Each
player writes his own history, and the history
of another player does not erase it. I am
happy to have finished up with what I did."
Ronaldo said he believed there had been
more great players around when he was
playing.
"For me, there is less competition now," he
added. "I do not want to be the typical guy
saying things were better in my day, but I
look around now and I just see those two.
"Maybe Neymar is coming, but he has a long
way to go yet. But in my time there were
many great players. I competed with
[Zinedine] Zidane, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho,
[Michael] Owen, [Luis] Figo, [Gabriel] Batistuta
… there were many players who made their
teams great. Now I just see Cristiano and
Messi, although the truth is they are very, very
good."
He said that while both he and Real's current
Ronaldo were goal scorers, their games were
slightly different.
"We do not look alike when we play," he
explained. "I was more a centre-forward, and
you could say he is a second striker.
"Cristiano, in his most recent stage at Madrid,
has learned to score goals. And scoring goals
is the most beautiful thing in the world. If you
score so many goals, you must be very good.
Nobody scores a lot of goals by getting lucky."
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24hours, what type of crime would you
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Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Stella Adaeze
Oduah, has been accused of allocating funds
for multiple sham contracts ostensibly for
the rehabilitation and upgrade of eleven
airports across the country.
A petition by members of the National Union
of Air Transport accuses Mrs. Oduah of
touting the rehab projects as “quick-win”
strategies to burnish President Goodluck
Jonathan’s “transformation agenda.” In a
letter to the leadership of the Nigerian
Senate in July, the petitioners detailed a
series of scams at various levels in the
allocation process of the contracts.
Incidentally, the minister has drawn praise
from the Nigerian media for the ongoing
airport remodeling projects. But the
petitioners portray the exercise as an
elaborate scam and daylight robbery of
public funds. In the words of the petition,
the projects are “calculated to dupe [the]
unsuspecting Nigerian public.”
The petition discloses that the two-phase
projects have become a four-level scam.
The first part was the ministry’s allocation of
funds for “consultancy” service, which called
for select firms to draw up designs and
plans for the upgrade and rehabilitation of
the airports. The second part was the
allocation of the actual contracts to
predetermined companies through a rigged
tenders’ process that ignored advertising
the jobs to attract qualified companies. The
third and fourth segments of the alleged
scam involved the repetition of the first two
steps under a spurious tag called “Phase II.”
The petitioners alleged that, prior to the
award of the main contracts to “upgrade
and rehabilitate” the airports, Mrs. Oduah
had handed out consultancy jobs estimated
at N255 million. The contracts reportedly
went to three crony firms without being
advertised in order to attract bids from
qualified companies.
The petition also alleged that the
consultancy jobs were awarded without
first obtaining certificates of “No Objection”
from the Bureau of Public Procurement
(BPP), thereby breaching the due process set
out to guide the award of contracts.
According to the petitioners, Mrs. Oduah
“contracted three consultant firms to carry
out consultancy services for ‘urgent
upgrade’ and rehabilitation of terminal
buildings in the eleven airports in the
country. This, she labeled Phase 1 of the
airport remodeling exercise.” The unionists
added that, before informing the Tenders
Board about the allocation of contracts, the
minister had predetermined and given out
consultancy jobs to the three firms in a
selective tender mode.
“Messrs Ngonyama Okpanum and
Associates; Messrs Design Union Consulting
Ltd and Messrs Triad Associates Ltd were
awarded contracts for consultancy works
on the upgrade of the airports at the sums
of N99, 179,507.17; N60, 986,730.46 and
N95, 520,011.93 respectively without
advertisement, certificate of No Objection
from the BPP or approval by the tender’s
board,” the union stated.
The petition alleged that members of the
ministry’s Tenders Board were cajoled into
ratifying the allocations and to further
approve a “selective tender” method for the
award of the actual contracts. “The
Companies were awarded in ‘anticipatory
approval,’ with [a] plan that [the] certificate
of No Objection would be obtained (later)
from the BPP,” the petition alleged. Then
they contended that the minister’s action
amounted to “a criminal offense and had led
to impeachment of a seating senator at one
time.”
The petition alleged that Mrs. Oduah orally
informed the Aviation Ministry Tender’s
Board that she had approval from President
Goodluck Jonathan to adopt “selective
tendering” in awarding the contracts,
adding that such presidential approval was
non-existent.
SaharaReporters saw a correspondence
between the FAAN and the BPP where a
reference was made to the president’s said
approval, but the actual letter was never
seen, according to the union.
The BPP had relied on the virtual president’s
approval as the basis for approving the
selective tender mode for the ministry to
carry out the project. The BPP wrote: “On
the strength of Mr. President’s approval, Due
Process ‘No Objection’ is hereby granted to
Federal Ministry of Aviation to adopt
Selective Tendering Method for the urgent
Upgrade and Rehabilitation Works at Eleven
(11) Airport Terminals in the country.”
Based on the above, the Air Transport Union
insists that the minister’s use of “selective
tendering” to award contracts only to
companies that were predetermined by the
ministry, violated sections 40-42 of the
Public Procurement Acts. According to the
union, selective tendering is only acceptable
when a particular contract requires some
peculiar expertise available only to a select
few companies. “Renovation of terminal
buildings falls short of this requirement, but
BPP approved it for Selective Tendering
(notwithstanding),” alleged the union.
Meanwhile, the FAAN had cited “urgency” as
its reason for adopting the selective
tendering mode and had allotted six months
as the maximum duration for the projects.
However, according to the petitioners, the
projects, which began in 2011, have not
come close to completion, contrary to the
ministry’s hype.
An executive of the tender’s board told
SaharaReporters that the union’s petition
“has merit.” According to him, “They said it
was for urgency that they elected the
selective tender method and stipulated six
months, but it is over two years now and
you can see their basis for selective tender is
defeated. This is all fraud.” He added,
“Besides, what they called Phase II is
approval for second time on the same
projects they called Phase I.”
The union observed that the list of
companies proposed by the Aviation
Ministry to obtain BPP approval were
completely different from those the minister
eventually awarded the contract to, even
though she never sought again to ratify her
decision with the BPP.
Mrs. Oduah “got approval for the job using
some companies, but substituted the
companies later without writing back to the
BPP for fresh approval,” the petitioners
alleged, adding that the actual contracts, like
the Consultancy, were also not advertised on
official tenders’ journals or on any national
dailies. SaharaReporters learnt that some
members of the tender’s board had raised
questions during a September, 2012
meeting when the acting Managing Director
of the FAAN, Mr. Emeka Ezeh, had sought
their approval for said Phase II of the
project. Some board members reported
demanded a progress report on the first
phase they approved. They also questioned
the capability of the contractors proposed
by the Aviation Ministry to simultaneously
carry out a Phase II when there had not
been any significant progress on the so-
called Phase I. The union as well as tenders
board member who spoke to our
correspondent alleged that Phased II was
fraught with contract duplications from
Phase I.
“For example, Zakhem Construction Nig. Ltd
was awarded the contract for upgrade of
MMIA Lagos in the 1st phase at the sum of
N920, 191, 147.58. Curiously, [the] same
company was awarded another contract in
the tune of N981, 900,300.45 for ‘upgrade
and rehabilitation’ of MMIA Lagos, under a
spurious banner of Phase II.” According to
the petition, “the entire Phase II is sheer
duplication of Phase I.”
The union further alleged that the “various
contractors [were] still on site implementing
phase I, seven months after respective
awards, without any comprehensive project
status report to determine capability of the
companies, yet the Ministry awarded ‘phase
II’ jobs to [the] same firms.”
They also noted that the memos for the jobs
were initiated by FAAN, whereas the
contracts were for the ministry. The
employees also said the contracts had
always been awarded before the reports
were made. “The consultancy contracts
were merely [a] smokescreen to siphon
money,” the petition alleged.
In an exchange of correspondence between
the FAAN and the BPP, obtained by
Saharareporters, the BPP asked FAAN to do
more due diligence to ascertain that the
contractors had actual capability to
simultaneously carry on with another
project when they had yet to make any
significant progress in the said first phase.
The BPP had also requested that the FAAN
check with the Corporate Affairs
Commission (CAC) to ensure that the
companies it awarded contracts to were
“unrelated.” There was no indication that
the FAAN complied.
The petition stated that “most of the
contractors on site are not among those
approved by the BPP in the adopted
Selective Tender method,” adding a concern
“about the safety of patrons at the airports”
as well as the abuse of public funds.
In interviews with SaharaReporters, two
leaders of the union expressed
disappointment that the leadership of the
Senate had taken no action since receiving
their petition.

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A Food For Thought.

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i Don Already change my name



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