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Non-passage of PIB Threatens Nigeria’s Sovereignty

13 Sep 2011
By Ejiofor Alike

The non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) is threatening the sovereignty and security of Nigeria, as the lifting of the country’s crude oil for export has remained in the hands of foreign companies, THISDAY’s investigation has revealed.

It was learnt that the domination of the country’s crude oil export business by foreign players has the potential to jeopardise the interest of the country and collapse her economy in the event of a diplomatic face-off with other countries.

According to investigation, the proposed PIB targets to ensure that at least 30 per cent of the country’s crude oil export is controlled by Nigerian indigenous companies, as part of the measures to ensure greater participation of Nigerians in the oil and gas sector.

However, due to the non-passage of the PIB by the sixth National Assembly, foreign companies have continued to exercise 100 per cent control of the crude oil export business, a development that could collapse the country as a sovereign nation, in the event of a diplomatic face-off, with the international community.

Confirming this fear at a recent conference in Lagos, the former Chairman of the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on the PIB, Senator Lee Maeba said it was not in the best interest of any country for 100 per cent of her crude oil export business to be controlled by foreign companies.

“What of if there is diplomatic problem and the multinationals stop work? The implication is that crude oil export will stop and the economy will collapse. But if export is in the hands of Nigerian people, no matter what happens, oil operation will continue, even if the country is fighting war; even if the country has diplomatic problem with any other country,” he said.

Maeba, who is also immediate past chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), stated that one of the critical focuses of the National Assembly Committee on PIB was to ensure that Nigerians were actively involved in lifting of crude oil for export.

According to him, the PIB has an ambitious target to ensure that within the first five years of its operation, at least 30 per cent of the crude oil export from Nigeria would be carried out by Nigerian indigenous companies.

“We believe that was the best way to go,” he added.
The PIB is an Executive Bill sent to both houses of the National Assembly in late 2008, by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, with the aim of instituting reforms of the legal and regulatory framework of the Nigerian petroleum industry.

It seeks to provide for establishment of legal and regulatory framework, institutions and regulatory authorities for the country’s oil and gas industry, and to establish guidelines for the operation of the upstream and downstream sectors.

The mandate and approach of the National Assembly joint committee were to recommend a PIB that deregulates petroleum product prices; establishes a progressive fiscal framework that encourages investment in the sector, while increasing revenue accruing to the Federal Government; creates a commercially viable National Oil Company; enhances exploration and exploitation of petroleum resources for the benefit of all Nigerians and also creates strong institutions and efficient regulatory entities, among others.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/non-passage-of-pib-threatens-nigeria-s-sovereignty/98336/

LagosShia:
all the illitrates posting here:

what you saw on the 2nd of september,2011 is called INTERNATIONAL QUDS DAY.this is a day designated to remember al-Quds (Jerusalem).in other words the occassion is known as "INTERNATIONAL JERUSALEM DAY".this is commemorated annually on the last Friday of the Month of Ramadan to remember Jerusalem,which is the third holiest place in Islam after Makkah and Madinah.


the International Quds Day is especially commemorated by Shia Muslims.the Islamic Movement of Nigeria headed by Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky happens to be a Shia Muslim organization.the holiday to commemorate "al-Quds Day" was first declared by the late Ayatollah Khomeini,who in his days happened to be one of the highest shia authorities know as "Marj'a" or "religious juris-consult".also,the day is commemorated by Sunni Palestinians and all Muslims be they Sunni or Shia,the world over, who want to show solidarity with Jerusalem and use it as devotion to Almighty God to stand against occupation and oppression.everything has a day,then Jerusalem which is under occupation should also be remembered and a day must be given to it.that is the rationale behind observing such a day by Muslims who see Jerusalem as a holy land.

so all those posting nonsense should rethink.

Don't be silly or an ignoramus,
Israel is a friend of Nigeria; Nigeria has strong bilateral relationship with Israel, chanting death to a friend in any guise is ignoble, idiotic, stu.pid, and a serious demonstration of crass ignorance, and misplacement of priority.

They have ridiculed what is it they are celebrating; and will garner as much sympathy as their colleagues in Boko Haram and Al Qaeda! And that is zilch!

@ Topic,

People that should be marching on the street and chanting for an End to Boko Haramism, slaughters in  Plateau, and corruption in high places are wasting displaying their ignorance shouting death to another country.

Bunch of abokis!  

alj_harem:
so you are relating Boko haram with northerners ? are you ?

No please Ode-Harem, the bombs are by the Southerners, especially SS and SE, with tactical support by the SW. Mumu!

alj_harem:
LOL

Now enough of the chit chat and insults

Ok, ever since jonathan became the president, I and northerners have always supported him and wished him the best

boko haram has nothing to do with the north

boko haram is killing northerners so why would we support them at the first place ??

the people that are making this country ungovernable are the triablistic leaders and not the average citizen whether north or south

i hope u understand and please stop associating Boko haram with Islam. thanks

Supporting him indeed by bombing abuja, UN, etc, and terrorizing innocent citizens of other zones and tribes. Why dont you keep those 'support' in your closet or bomb yourselves. Only and aboki will consider terrorism and suicide bombing support! Shame!

alj_harem:
you don't say

so you are ezeuche. if u intend to vote for someone just because he is from your region or just to spit a group of people then i think u need to visit the hospital and get urself examined

Ok, I am Ezeuche. Now can you kiss my as$, and lick my feet.   Stupic homo aboki man, looking for his man-friend.  

I repeat, if your clannish (I see that struck a cord) Kanuri folks in Boko Haram prevent GEJ from carrying out his transformation agenda, we the people of Nigeria will vote massively for GEJ, even if it just to spite you or call you bluff.

I hope you can comprehend better now, retardeen Ode-harem

alj_harem:
if he performs. Nigerians would not just vote based on ignorance and tribalism

if he performs then yes if not then let a better person be elected

Dont be silly. I said if your clanish Kanuri folks in Boko Haram does not allow him to perform, we will vote him again even if it just to spite you or call your bluff!

alj_harem:
you are very very stu.pid for that statement

have u people not been tribalising VERY SINGLE DISCUSSION we have here

or what are u talking about

lol. Mention the names of the people tribalising discussion and provide proof of their tribes. After that explain to me how that is a greater evil than the tribalistic, religious Boko Haram Islamist bombs originating from the heart of Kanuri land in Maiduguri!

sweet9ja:
Rubbish GEJ as much as you want but, remember elections (in naija) are not fought and won on NL. And yes, the SAN is very correct, I bet many of you haters have ever seen a copy of the constitution and those who did, have never bothered to read it. If GEJ decides to run no one can stop him and don't think Nigerians are fools to blame him for the state we are in today. Many actually understand that the violence in various parts of naija are sponsored and orcestrated in order to frustrate his efforts in putting the country on the part of development and to make people believe only Hausa/Fulani muslims can rule the country. Believe me it won't work, violence will never be rewarded.

Thank you oo.
If Boko haram bombs dont allow him to govern and he asked for another term. We, the people of Nigeria, will vote massively for him!  

alj_harem:
i think u are drunk. where did you get that rubbish from

do you people just post rubbish on the internet who told u the north does not want a database

i think it is the east that has always fought against database. fact

It can on come from an Ode-harem, shame.  

alj_harem:
well i should have known

another igbo ideeiot out

I trust Ode-Harem to know.

alj_harem:
trust me it is not Nairaland  but SE people that are always trying to tribalise things

See how ignorant, divisive and devilish you can be.
When it suit you you point at agbaworo and other SE posters and to buttress that it's a Nigeria (nairaland matter), at another time you claim one or two posted whose content you dont like represents the SE.

You are really a true Kanuri man - a cunning, butchering, devil. You are now officially[b] Ode-Harem![/b]

alj_harem:
Where did you get that from

which Nigerians, you mean those that are forcing there happiness so they would not look stu.pid that they voted for PDP

I mean the real Nigerians that voted for GEJ, not the Nairaland Nigerians that voted for Buhari, and certainly not the Boko Haramist (or should I just call them Boko Kanuris   ). Silly aboki.

^^^

Sly you.

You make it look as if there is a choice.
At least you should have given us a choice between the Devil and the deep sea. Not between the Devil and Satan, cos that is just semantics.

Alh Harem = Boko Haram, and the reverse is the same.

Yes, PDP is here and Nigerians are happy.
So tell your vampire folks in Maiduguri to cease the bomb; if they mistakenly touch the nerve of the country, it will explode in your face and their faces. I bet you know how to reach your terror cells and camps. Phockimg boko haramist!

alj_harem:
in your right sense really do you thing GEJ WOULD HAVE WON WITH SS AND SE votes

no think of it

if the some Northern states and SW states did not vote for GEJ, do u think he would have won. this is another tribal crap that has blinded your people

OK now please tell me the states GEJ WON apart from SS and SE

Lagos, ogun, ondo, oyo, kwara, abuja, ekiti, benue, etc

and 40% of all northern states so what tribalism are you talking about

You really are an eediot. So I have to spell out the tribalism to you. Please read s-l-o-w-l-y.

1. Buhari did not campaign in the SS and SE unlike GEJ because of tribalism.

Once you understand that point, then perhaps I will remind you of the other points raise by Ediclove. Silly Buhari apologist!

alj_harem:
rubbish tribalitic bigoted mo.fos

U will wound if you keep following me up and down like a fly. I have told you several times, I dont suffer fools lightly. If you have a love affair with Ezeuche or whoever,  that is you stinking biz. Go look for him and kiss his as$ as much as you wish.

I am not your normal kind of poster. I am someone you do youE best to keep away from. The more you strong guy with me the more you increase your blood pressure, and you will always go home bruised and sad. I can assure you.

But if you insist you want to continue chasing me up and down for a rematch of

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-739353.0.html

trashing, then you better go and equip yourself with something that will give you a mental protection. I generally don't like dealing with trolls like you, but because of quota system and federal character, I am constrained to give you some time. Please dont abuse your privilege - my semi enlightened aboki!  

^^

I cant stay indoors on a National holiday, unless it my personal choice.
I fear no foe! One million Kanuri Boko Haramist will not surmount me.

^^^

Hypocrite! What is wrong with that thread being on the front page! The Mod should be kind to ignore him.

There is a third option: my employer. What do they think or say?

alj_harem:
you are an extreme ideeiot bigoted animal that sees nothing other than ethnic groups and religion

is this the way your parents brought u up ?

just to hate anything that is not aba, ebonyi, anambra, enugu and imo

you are sick and need deliverance

mumu

Is that you answer to the reason Boko Haramist of Kanuri origins are blowing up the country? And you try to pass yourself off as intelligent?

alj_harem:
mumu this is not about religion u [size=14pt]BIGOT[/size]

this is about GEJ and You have successfully polarise this to a south west thing instead of a Nigerian issue. By saying anti-GEJ are south-westerners and bring out sanusi write up In GEJ thread

mumu maybe you should tell us if SR owner is yoruba or not

or Agbaworo is yoruba

rymes

ibime

etc are all south westerners . you bigoted ideeiot

It's just that when I see you online. I am particularly interested in knowing why Kanuri people, just like their late brother Abacha, enjoy butchering people like they are doing in Maiduguri (Kanuriland). It must either be in your Kanuri DNA or perhaps in your blood.

So you can call me bigot all you want, but that will not explain the fact that Kanuri men and perhaps women are the Boko Haramist. They are either doing it to gorge themselves with blood or perhaps to satisfy the cravings of some god. Since you are half and cold blooded Kanuri man, any chance you will explain before we continue with the topic at hand?

Demdem:
_{No doub you are BEAF but i wont fight u as long as u stick to this. but on seeing BEAF, then u are in soup}

Interesting if its so. however Sahara to me its still more credible than most of these infected coward dailies we av here. however, they all have their faults.

As you wish.
Choosing a confirmed lying media (Sahara) over an alleged biased media (Tribune) shows how 'unbias and objective' you are. I can only pity you!

alj_harem:
who is this ideeiot

GEJ opponent are Nigerians. singling out southwest because you are ethnically biased EZEUCHE

is agbaworo a south westerner etc

u are dumb

bloody tribalist

Are you done sacrificing the blood of your fellow Nigerians to your god allah and his goon commander mohammed?  
Blood thirty Kanuri jihadist and boko haramist

^^^

Smart thieving alec, that man. His time will come. The chicken will come home to roost!

^^^

I prefer Tribune to Sahara, cos I dont know of any online media aside from Sahara Reporters that deliberately doctor images to deceive readers.

Be the judge:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-568502.0.html

Kolababa:
These GEJ fans are not objective in their contributions. When Egyptians wanted to send Mubarak away, they put religion and sentiments aside and they spoke with one voice. Even some of the Anti-Mubarak protesters were from his hometown. The same thing happened in Libya and Algeria but in Nigeria, ethnic sentiment and religious madness always becloud our sense of reasoning to realise that poverty, insecurity and unemployment have no tribe or religion. I went to one newspaper stand, I saw south west, south east, south south, northern and middle belt unemployed graduates sharing pop corn. This is what poor masses share in common.
The same way these politicians will put aside ethnic and religion affiliation when they want to loot and share our national cake.
SO PLS LET US SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE AGAINST MISRULE AND CORRUPTION.
I am a Yoruba man, Obasanjo ruled for eight years, South West did not benefit anything from his government. I think I would be silly to  be supporting him because he is a Yoruba man. If it is an Ibo man that will bring security, jobs , power and eradicate corruption, I will continue to be voting for him even if my relattive contest against him.

On the contrary it is the anti-Gej people that are ethnically bias. On how can someone who won a landslide in many Zones in the country, and has just assembled a crack team of technocrat asking us to give him a further 9 months suddenly beome a failure. Something is wrong with this picture.

Indeed it is obvious that most of this GEJ opponents are mainly from a section of SWners who mostly supported either Buhari (because of the Bakare) or Ribadu but failed turn up to vote in the last election, when it was obvious they were losing. Now they are back in their game trying to discredit the GEJ. We can never support this attempt to bring GEJ down. Because it is ethnically motivated! I tend to believe Sanusi at time when he said:

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention. When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.