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cyril83: says who FG invested oil money in lagos,if you say agriculture money fine![b]since the advent of this crude oil,tinubu and fash can account di amount FG had invested to the state...[/b]have you forgotten that obasanjo refused to pay allocation to lagos for years...@op you ursef know appropriate answer to this question,even if you ask a new born baby he will definately tell you LASGIDiHaba!!! Fashola was not even born when oil was discovered (the advent), he was probably in primary school when Gowon was building those bridges and roads you see with OIL money in the '70s. The entire Festac Town was constructed in 1977 by Obasanjo. Babangida completed the building of the Third Mainland Bridge in the early '90s. Why don't you ask if you are not sure? |
Megabyts: When otedola gave the dollars to faruk it was behind closed doors,,likewise when he mate the policce.why then cant he meet the house commitee behind same closed doors?i think he is bent on ensuring the report is dumped.When they were doing their circus show, called public hearing, it was televised live. When Farouk removed Zenon Oil's name from the BLACK BOOK, it was in the open. When Farouk was suspended from the headship of the Education Committee and the probe committee it was in the full glare of the public. |
[quote author=D'Soj]Why will Otedola dictate how the panel should sit.. Dats Nonsense.. Wen he went to sss, was it public? Wen he went to police, was it public? Wen Farouk was screened, was it public? As long as its gonna be done in camera, wats d big deal... Forget all dis media propaganda and face d panel. If Otedola wasn't a rich guy, would he av d effontry to be calling that shot.? Absolute Nonsense.... Is he above d law? Cut the crap. If he doesn't go, the reps should order his arrest joor...[/quote]Ore, the gist is that Femi Otedola obeyed the House of Representatives' summons. He can only be forced to come, which he already did anyway, if he did not honor the invitation, he cannot be forced to talk. If he was not a rich guy, his lawyer would still have represented him. You have a right to a legal representation in Nigeria, lawyers do pro bono every time. My two kobo to Tambuwal, 'let go of Farouk, else, this case will consume you'. |
Billyonaire: It is not necessary to criticize without first making efforts to research. Why do I have the courage to research and you just criticize without making efforts ? Its the difference between you and me. I find facts. Cos I am interested in the opportunities that might come.I guess that courage made you dismiss the people calling for their website? You should have simply point to the link instead of saying 'many companies don't run website', as if it's not necessary. And in your research efforts, please point to where I criticize you without making efforts? |
Billyonaire: Are you for real ? So you dont know about Better Business Bureau and you dont watch Bloomberg news on satellite TV, I weep for Nigeria. Go to the website and type "Vulcan" on the search bar.You are mixing things up. Slow down and read my replies. It's not everyone here that is after your life, ok. Some of us are for the projects. You keep asking me to visit one website or another yet you said websites for firms are not necessary. I asked you if the BBB stuff were not online, how then would I have checked it? That means I have to physically travel to the US to get what I need. Now that you have supplied it online, I don't have to. Same way a firm's website would have solved so many questions. For instance, serious firms would list their achievements and their directors details. Which can then be verified elsewhere; from your almighty BBB etc. |
Billyonaire: Seriously are you saying you can do business with company simply because you see website ? Jesus...go to better business bureau website to look legitimacy of companies in USA Better www.bbb.orgNo, you won't hear me say that. Serious companies should show-case their achievements transparently on their internet. It's not that websites are anti serious business are they? There's no serious business done without due diligence carried-out. The link you just posted is a website isn't it? Imagine you referring me to physically travel to the US in order to verify their claim. |
ambrosini593: www.thisdaylive.com/articles/acn-cpc-to-finalise-merger-talks-october/119216/Good for the country. October is around the corner. 2015 is not far. We are waiting. |
Billyonaire: What are you talking about, so if a Nigerian journalist wrote the news, does it change the fact the Vulcan is bringing money to invest ? Or will you refuse investment because the company does not build a 100 thousand naira website ? So many companies dont even run websites.Yes, so many companies don't run websites but serious companies should run websites. That's the first public interface. |
johnnyemman: How can you sign such a contract with a company that does not have a website?..........Nigeria we keep fooling ourselves, this is another way of taking funds out of Nigeria, OBJ did the same with a chiness comapny abt rail road. How can you sign 4.5 Billion dollar with a company that does not have a website.The bold refers. No sir, Obj's contract with the Chinese on rail-road was terminated by Yaradua to the laughable applause of many Nigerians at that time. Nigeria forfeited more than $500million on penalty though. |
likeme: So Nigeria's Trade Minister, Olusegun Aganga has signed an MOU with a certain Vulcan Petroleum to build 6 new modular refineries worth $4.5 billion... & I laugh in Swahili!I think you have made a valid point in bringing to fore many controversies surrounding this company and its alleged parent company. We will continue to monitor things as they unfold. However, to your question, please refer to Nigeria pre-MTN/Econet's adventure in 2001. Many people raised similar questions why the Oranges, the AT&Ts of this world did not show interest. Why some third rate telcos from Zimbabwe and South Africa? They asked. However, we have seen what their risk-averse, ask-questions-do-nothing, it-will-never-work, corruption-rife mentality has caused them. A life-time miss in opportunity to invest in a volatile but promising market. |
boyendowed: True but El-rufai has made similar accusations before.Is it true that El Rufai has a political ambition? This is the same guy who would tell you later that votes were rigged against him. Why are people so dumb? Nigeria has not collapsed yet, not likely to collapse soon. Why not wait till you have an ethnic country before you publicly spew out this type of thing? |
BBDelta: Home » News & Reports » NewsThe SIB is questioning Tunde Bakare for what? For 'preaching'? They should not play into his hands. They should leave him to make a fool of himself. He loves doing that. Questioning him for 'preaching' will only make him look like he is saying something reasonable. That statement of destiny nonsense cannot incite anybody against a dog even. Except it is for some other security matters though. |
Billyonaire: https://serving.thisdaylive.com/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4/assets/290412N.Adams-Oshiomhole.jpg?maxwidth=400&maxheight=540Security Agents (aka Governor's Team) born and raised in Nigeria, trained in Nigeria showing restraint in apparent assassination attempt of a sitting Nigerian governor? Were they working with the assassins? |
jerseyboy: Power Grab by an irrelevant useless and corrupt agency that is usurping work for local traffic corps. FRSC is a legacy of militarization of Nigeria from a federation into a unitary state. Scrap the FRSC and SAVE money.Oga jerseyboy, na wa o. Wole Soyinka, Olu Agunloye etc are not military men. FRSC is their brainchild. |
[quote author=israel ben-zion]Y are u advertising ur ignorance? Ever heard of d term checks and balances? So u hv never seen d Court restrain another arm of govt from doing an act declared unlawful by d Court? And dat it is before d Senate does not oust the jurisdiction of d Court, u hear? If u don't knw how the legal system works, ask a lawyer.[/quote]Oga, no court stop the Parliament from enacting laws. The law can be set aside or repealed after passage if found to be inconsistent with the constitution. |
[quote author=ndu_chucks]You and the commander-in-chief who seems AWOL at the moment can trivialize the current situation all you want. To the rest of us and others who have been personally affected by the bombings and indiscriminate killings by JTF, we are at war. shi kena Let us pray that bombs will not explode in your neck of the woods.[/quote]I sympathize with you on your personal losses. However, your second sentence has disproved your first. If the commander-in-chief is AWOL as you claimed, there would not have been JTF. Any reported indiscriminate killings will be investigated. I join in your prayer to say AMEN! |
[quote author=ndu_chucks]Nigeria is currently at war and these times call for unusual actions. The President should not fight the summons because fighting it does not help the security situation on ground. The President must be brave and comply. Out of respect and cordiality, the summon had an open date to enable the President to honour it at a convenient time.[/quote]Oga Ndu, I salute. Nigeria is NOT currently at war. Nigeria has security issues in the Northern part. The National Security Advisor and the Service Chiefs + the IG of Police are enough to answer any questions the NASS would need. Issuing a summons to the president is not a respect. |
Kobojunkie: That link with the UNNAMED official is NOT an official rejection from the president. Be careful to wait to hear for one.Madam, laws are enforced. A law is useless if it cannot be enforced. This particular summons cannot be enforced effectively, i.e. nobody in Nigeria can compel(force/arrest)the president to obey the summons. As a citizen, I will not support frivolities, or any exercise in futility or mere emotional outburst. You and I know it has nothing to do with any law. You know more than I do that no laws will give anybody being summoned the chance to fix the most convenient date by himself. As per the UNNAMED official, we may wait till eternity to get an official response from a NAMED source. |
Kobojunkie: Points? All you have up there are your suppositions/your made-up theory of what could or might HAPPEN . . . Nothing factual in any wise, and nothing that changes the laws in any shape or form.May be you should take a look at this... http://www.punchng.com/news/northern-crisis-jonathan-to-ignore-reps-summons/ I like clever people like you madam. Btw, have you ever heard or seen any summons without a date? |
Kobojunkie: You are not smart at all. The consequences of the breaking the law is NOT HIDDEN from anyone. If you need to know what the consequence of subverting the constitution is, you need to read the document. It is clear what the consequences are should a president do such. GO READ THE DOCUMENT ALREADY TO LEARN LESSONS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY SAVE YOUR LIFE!!No, I am not claiming to be smart. I am only learning from you and you are proving to be a difficult teacher. There would not have been any need for all this if you ponder with me that the consequence of issuing the summons is graver than what it intended to address. 1) Jonathan will not obey the summons. He won't because no president has been issued such summons. He won't because obeying will put future presidents at jeopardy, setting a precedence for any useless summons. He won't because his attendance will jeopardize security and intelligence efforts, even when they say it's a close-door session, anything he says there will find it way to the social media and the MSM the next minute. 2) Tambuwal's house might try to compel him through impeachment threats, since a Nigerian president cannot be arrested. 3) Impeachment threats will aggravate the security challenges that Tambuwal is "trying" to address, because Niger Delta militants will read ulterior motives into it. 4) If he refuses and there was no consequence(s), Tambuwal's House of Representatives would simply look funny in the eye of the public. Those were my points ab initio but it seems you wanted us to go round and round. |
Kobojunkie: If all you are interested in is the extreme cases of when a President subverts the law, then you are probably on the wrong thread since this is not the thread for it. No well-meaning President should subvert the laws of the land, not even in Nigeria, especially since he swore an oath to uphold the laws within(he was sworn in under that constitution).I agree with you, we all need to study that document. I can see you are trying to be clever. If the framers of the constitution (or any laws for that matter) are so simple minded, then there won't be need for punishments. In other words, they have in mind those extreme cases before they inserted the punishments. If no punishments are inserted in laws, even the simple stuffs would be ignored by human beings, the president of Nigeria or any nation being human. So who compels the attendance of Nigeria's president in NASS summons according to the constitution you have studied so much? As it appears that President Jonathan might not obey the summons. |
Kobojunkie: Again, a summons is NOT an arrest. But simply a summons. It is like saying calling you for Jury Duty is an arrest.Please refer to my 1st question. I'd ask what happens if one refuses to honor the summons, I didn't ask if a summons is same as arrest. And your answer was an excerpt from the constitution which clearly says the person shall be compelled to attend the summons. Now, who compels the President of Nigeria to attend the NASS summons is the question. |
Kobojunkie: I already did. You should learn to read. Go to the last post of mine in the previous page and re-read the included excerpts from the constitution which details exactly what should happen.89. (1) For the purposes of any investigation under section 88 of this Constitutional and subject to the provisions thereof, the Senate or the House of Representatives or a committee appointed in accordance with section 62 of this Constitution shall have power to - (a) procure all such evidence, written or oral, direct or circumstantial, as it may think necessary or desirable, and examine all persons as witnesses whose evidence may be material or relevant to the subject matter; (b) require such evidence to be given on oath; (c) summon any person in Nigeria to give evidence at any place or produce any document or other thing in his possession or under his control, and examine him as a witness and require him to produce any document or other thing in his possession or under his control, subject to all just exceptions; and (d) issue a warrant to compel the attendance of any person who, after having been summoned to attend, fails, refuses or neglects to do so and does not excuse such failure, refusal or neglect to the satisfaction of the House or the committee in question, and order him to pay all costs which may have been occasioned in compelling his attendance or by reason of his failure, refusal or neglect to obey the summons, and also to impose such fine as may be prescribed for any such failure, refused or neglect; and any fine so imposed shall be recoverable in the same manner as a fine imposed by a court of law. (2) A summons or warrant issued under this section may be served or executed by any member of the Nigeria Police Force or by any person authorised in that behalf by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may require. If this is your answer, then we'll proceed to the next question; How do you compel a person, since you are trying to separate that from arrest? How will Speaker Tambuwal compel President Jonathan to obey his summons? |
Kobojunkie: Did you even bother reading the response I posted which includes all that? See what I mean? Many of you are just here to post responses, and UNSUBSTANTIATED claims, without necessarily taking time to read the contents presented you.Why not answer a simple question? |
Kobojunkie: [size=14pt]Learn Your Constitution!!![/size] cause that is the only way you learn your right as a citizens and an individual in this union.Ok. I am ready to learn from you. Shall we go now? If the constitution says anyone can be summoned by the NASS for any reason, what happens if s/he refuses? Say me or you for instance. |
Kobojunkie: Since it seems a lot of you are simply here to argue blindly. Let me help youWhat's your point exactly? |
Kobojunkie: Please learn about your Government and the various powers it really has. NASS does not have power to solve Security issues. That power belongs to the Executive, which is your President and all those under him.Hello Madam, I can see that you are trying very hard to justify this nonsense summons. While the constitution gives the power of summons to the NASS, it also gives the president immunity against arrest (prosecution) which is the only recourse the NASS has in case the person summon refused the summons. So if you cannot effect the arrest of the president when he refuses (he will not go because no president has thus been summon and Jonathan will not lay a precedence), why issue the summons. What exactly will they do if he refused to appear before them? Call for impeachment? Then they are going to cause one of the gravest security challenges this country has ever faced, i.e. the resurgence of ND militancy. And then the security challenge will just escalate. Now tell me, how has that solve their problems? |
Pukkah: The response from Mark is political. Is the creation of additional states the priority now? How many of the present 36 are viable?David Mark is a politician. "You don't kill a dog because it's barking." |
Sorrrrrrry Mr Fashola, that's life. Just bear with the situation okay. Ikorodu and Epe are both going to the proposed Ijebu State, while the Lagoon State is a reality. If you had done something in these two locations, there won't have been much to attract them to their kinsmen in Ogun State. There would still be Lagos sha... Eko o ni baje o |
[quote author=tj-dj]all the people seeing the UNILAG name change as good are the ones the school denied admission because ur dead brains werent good enuf...sorry we couldnt take u then,but that doesnt mean you should call a party because one dumb ass wanna take cheap popularity or pull a diversionary tactics, dont worry their is still Msc or other programmes u could do with unilag, like if u av B.sc from other universities we will give u admission into ISL( OAU,UI & Nsuka EXCEPTED),In case your dumb ass doesnt know that a secondary school....lol[/quote]So much for a living brain. |
purefella: All these oyinbos are they created in a very special way that every good things must come from them na wa oo , I sorry for africa oo , na fufu and eba we sabi invent!They are simply using their brains. Mind you, they are almost insulated from negative news everyday. It will take a miracle for Africans to get to using their brains in productive ways with all these negative, sensational and emotional stories fed to them by the media on daily basis. |
dedeike: @ Philip 0906, After I had taken some time yesterday to chronicle the landmark reforms in progress under Gej, you still swore an affidavit of hatred and rather chose to migrate to other threads advertising your ignorance further. You have a right to hate Gej and all that he represents, but what i will not do is to allow you distort facts and confuse issues all in a desperate but failed bid to demonize this govt. it is on record that this govt, more than any other, has enforced the provisions of the the power reforms Act 2005', they have worked on Alaoji, Afam, olorunshogo, omotosho, papal anti etc. The Mambilla and Zungeru power plants have been completed and awaiting commissioning. I challenged you yesterday to say that you have been to Aba and you didn't see any Alaoji or you went to Rivers and saw no Afam . At the completion of Utorogu plant, 4000 megawatts was added to the national grid. But you sit in your house and keep banding figures emanating from the figment of ur imagination. It has never been in doubt that this govt attained 4000 megawatts as far back as December. But what is in doubt is that govt is yet to resolve the problems associated with gas distribution to the thermal stations. To this end, the Fg has been able to review tariffs in order to be cost reflective and this has attracted the globally reputable companies like Siemens and General electric co to sign bulk trader purchase agreements for the distribution of power. It is expected that this will encourage the IOC's to invest more gas for purchase by the distribution companies. The privatization of PHCN has commenced and it's expected to peak when the bids are rolled out by july. For transmission, 22, 000 kva capacity lines covering 809 km have been completed. 41 EPC contracts have been concluded with respect to 101 projects expected to provide transmission infrastructure . For you, I know this will be sounding like long story because you believe the power crisis is as simple as ABC hence all the president needs do is to press a button from Aso rock and the whole nation will be lited. But those who appreciate the rot in the sector will acknowledge these efforts and pray that God will help Gej succeed eventuallyThe bold refers. Could you upload pictures of these completed plants please? Thank you. |
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