₦airaland Forum

Ihatepork:
If not for that salary issue, Aregbe would have been the best thing since fried plantain

NgeneUkwenu:
What I like most about his projects, is the quality of works.....only Fashola and Sullivan Chime former governors of Lagos and Enugu States came close, when it comes quality projects..

Jesse01:
even Rivers state is better Dan dis cabbage ur showing us here

Keneking:
Nnewi is better than the entire Osun State

crazydude1:
I don't see anything breathtaking here...Just some road that is properly lighted.

NgeneUkwenu:
What I like most about his projects, is the quality of works.....only Fashola and Sullivan Chime former governors of Lagos and Enugu States came close, when it comes quality projects..

adeolakemi:
as a Yoruba this is nowhere beautiful you need to be in Oshogbo to see how dirty and filthy it is I'm ashamed of my fellow Yoruba's there osun =burial ground

You should be more concerned about Aba and Onitsha that are unarguably the dirtiest villages in Africa. shameless ipob miscreant Even the fake name you're using is so generic. Osun State is far developed than all your potorpotor villages

NgeneUkwenu:
The ones done by Amaechi?

Mogidi:
He delivered good governance hence his protégé was unsuccessful in his bid to become governor.
Amaechi is high on grade 1 Buhari urine.


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ijekul:
As the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Rivers State Government to probe the sale of valued assets of the state and other matters continued its sitting on Friday, the technical consultant to the state on the monorail project, Arcus Gibbs revealed that  he advised former Governor Chibuike Amaechi against continuing with the project.

Managing Director of Arcus Gibbs Nig Ltd, Wiero Viguezang, however said his company gave the advice only after collecting N22.9bn from the Rivers State Government since its services were enlisted in March 1, 2010.

Viguezang spoke when he appeared before the commission to explain the role played by his company in the monorail project being probed by the commission.

While being cross-examined by counsel to the commission, Dr. Zaccheus Adangor, Viguezang, stated that the monorail project was no longer tenable considering the shortfall in the state’s revenue and the inability of its original technical and equity partners, TSI Nig Ltd, headed by the former military administrator of Rivers State, Brig-Gen Anthony Ukpo (Rtd.), to fulfil its obligations to contribute 80 per cent of its equity holdings.

He disclosed that the state owes his company N1.1bn for its services.
He also said the company had in a letter to the Rivers State through the ministry of transport, in April, made a six-point recommendation to the Rivers State on how to unbundle the monorail project in such a way that the state government can salvage some financial benefits out of the N33.9bn so far invested in the project. The monorail project was originally estimated to cost about Euros2250m.

The technical partner had in its sixth point of recommendation suggested to the Rivers State Government to unbundle the monorail project and approach the manufacturers of the mechanical components and rail tracks in Germany and exploit the possibility of reselling components at a lower price to the manufacturers.

He said the company also advised the state government to consider the option of using the monorail facilities for other commercially viable purposes, mentioning the spaces between pillars and surrounding areas of the monorail project, stressing that the area between Azikiwe Road and the UTC axis could be put into very fruitful commercial purpose.
Viguezang also told the commission that his company and the state government had planned to unveil the monorail project last April specifically to mislead the people of Rivers State into thinking that the project, which has gulped N33.9bn, was still on course.

He admitted that his company wrote a memo to the commissioner for transport to arrange the unveiling of the project essentially for media coverage since the project was “technically uncompleted”. 

According to Viguezang, “We actually wrote to the ministry of transport in January, to arrange for the governor to unveil the monorail project in April for the attention and coverage of the media based on the expectation of the people of the state.”

When asked to clarify if the unveiling was to deceive the people of Rivers State into believing that the controversial monorail project was ready, Viguezang admitted; “It was to deceive the people into believing that the monorail project was at last ready”.

The managing director, however, stressed that “apart from the media coverage and public attention that it is expected to generate, the monorail was not technically and commercially ready. Only phase 1a within phase 1 of the project was ready. So, there was no way the public would have been able to use the monorail as at April when we asked the ministry of transport to unveil the project to the media”.

Viguezang admitted that the Rivers State government enlisted services of Arcus Gibbs at the cost of N600 million from March 1, 2010 to December 1, 2010, after the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TSI collapsed because TSI could not raise revenue to fulfil the payment of its 80 per cent equity share capital.

He stated that part of its role as the technical service provider to the Rivers State government concerning the monorail project was to evaluate and assess the activities of TSI and give an independent opinion to the Rivers State government.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-technical-consultants-advised-amaechi-against-monorail-project-after-collecting-n22bn/218811/

Ihatepork:
If not for that salary issue, Aregbe would have been the best thing since fried plantain

Ihatepork:
Yes, his projects are usually of top quality as evident in the schools he built. And I think that has to do with the fact that he's an accomplished engineer. Recently, I was telling someone that no Nigerian governor since 99 bar Fashola has delivered more infrastructural projects than Aregbesola.

Nne5:
Abia State recorded the best result in the recently concluded 2017 May/June WASSCE.

WAEC confirmed that 1,243,772 (one million two hundred and forty three thousand seven hundred and seventy two) candidates, representing 79.77% obtained credits and above in five (5) subjects.

According to the ranking, Abia State, which presented 51,839 candidates recorded 81.54% of students who obtained five credits with English Language and Mathematics.


Statistics also showed that the South-South and South-East dominated the top 10 ranking, while Taraba State recorded a major improvement in their students’ performance, rising from 21st to 8th position.

Rivers, Edo, Bayelsa and Delta finished second, third, fifth and 10th, respectively behind Abia.

South-East had four states in the top 10 ranking with Abia as first, Imo fourth, Anambra sixth and Enugu ninth.

Top 10 WAEC results by state
1. Abia
2. Rivers
3. Edo
4. Imo
5. Bayelsa
6. Anambra
7. Lagos
8. Taraba
9. Enugu
10. Delta

http://dailypost.ng/2017/07/24/waec-abia-rivers-lead-nationwide-2017-mayjune-wassce-results-see-top-10/

Tolexander:
"Opon Imo" state don suffer from the hands of that he-goat Arigbesesola!

Where are the South West APC States apart from Lagos?
I won't be surprised if they are lead by Ekiti state, which many do call a stomach infrastructure state.

Bunch of propaganda dishing governors.

princefunmmy:
Is this what is called beauty? I wonder what sort of clueless and unenlighten people we have in government and also deluded followers they've got... Things are gonna change someday

NgeneUkwenu:
What I like most about his projects, is the quality of works.....only Fashola and Sullivan Chime former governors of Lagos and Enugu States came close, when it comes quality projects..

Firefire:
As a rejoinder to this publication: https://www.nairaland.com/2872621/aregbesola-inflated-airport-contract-n11.5bn#42080710

Femi Makinde, Osogbo

The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said he deserves commendation for building the Moshood Abiola International Airport at Ido-Osun, Osun State, for N11.5bn.

A consultant to the state government on information, Mr. Sunday Akere, who spoke on behalf of the governor, said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday.

He said the contract was not inflated to siphon the state’s resources as alleged by the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said the increase in the contract sum was necessitated by the inflation caused by the fall of the naira.

Akere said, “The PDP in Osun should be ignored, they are just seeking relevance. They should find out how much PDP states like Akwa Ibom, Gombe and others built their airports.

“When former President Goodluck Jonathan was in power, he said he added an additional airstrip to the Nnamdi Azikiwi International Airport, Abuja with N36bn. We should be commended for building an airport with N11.5bn.

“If we are building a complete airport with a hanger and other facilities for N11.5bn, then we should be commended. The governor deserves commendation.”

Akere also said the initial cost of the airport was underestimated.

But the PDP accused the governor of increasing unilaterally the contract sum of the airport from N4.5bn to N15.5bn.

The Director of Media and Strategy of the Osun PDP, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, said this in a statement on Sunday.

The statement read, “We are aware that Governor Rauf Aregbesola, on January 8, 2016 through a letter with reference number SP/S96/1/vi/348 re-awarded the airport contract to the same contractor and a payment of N472m was paid as take-off sum.

“The same company had earlier been paid N2.7bn for the same project without any serious work done on the project.

The PDP also accused the governor of inflating the contract sum in order to embezzle the bailout funds it got from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The opposition party lamented that workers in the employ of the state were languishing in hunger as a result of unpaid salaries.

The party had said, “We are calling on the President and anti-graft agencies to send a secret team to the site of the so-called Moshood Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun, to confirm what the government and the airport company had done with the N2.7bn taken from the purse of the state on December 14, 2012.


“Out of the amount, N2.5bn was sourced as a loan from a bank to be repaid monthly at N100m from the SURE-P funds. That loan is now part of the N88bn restructured for the state by the Central Bank for repayment till the year 2034 .”

http://www.punchng.com/aregbesola-admits-increasing-airport-contract-by-n7bn/




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crazydude1:
I don't see anything breathtaking here...Just some road that is properly lighted.

anonimi:
How are things gonna change someday IF, as I suspect, you and other youths are not members of a political party saving your money to donate for their activities and campaigning vigorously for credible candidates who can be accountable to you instead of being held hostage by the godfathers who invested money and mobilised voters


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Ihatepork:
Yes, his projects are usually of top quality as evident in the schools he built. And I think that has to do with the fact that he's an accomplished engineer. Recently, I was telling someone that no Nigerian governor since 99 bar Fashola has delivered more infrastructural projects than Aregbesola.

Vivere:
Aregbesola? Accomplished engineer? He has only school certificate, now. When and where did he study engineering?