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These men don't grow tired at all. They want all Govts to dance to their tone, where they don't, they fight them. What is wrong with PDP that Obj wants to dump it? A party he superintended untill recently. I smell shit

We are not surprise, Elrufai is only being himself. He is known for that.

It will be unfair for GEJ'S admin to apologise. The man is trying. Nigerians are beginning to see results and he has promised that the full devidens of democracy will be delivered next year. I think he is on the right tract, and needs our patience

Hmmmmmmm. So Buhari truly has skeleton in his cupboard? These clowns want to deceive us again. if they like they should go to Mecca.

History was made on Thursday when the Federal Government announced that Anambra State had joined the list of oil bearing states in the country.
The announcement was made by President Goodluck Jonathan while inaugurating Orient Petroleum’s Anambra River Production Facility in Aguleri-Otu.
By this development, Anambra has joined the group of oil producing states like Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers, Abia, Bayelsa, Ondo, Delta and Edo.
Speaking at the ceremony,  Jonathan said it was high time Nigeria stopped exporting crude oil and unprocessed agricultural produce.

He said the country must begin to refine its crude oil before exporting it so that it could be more valuable.

He wondered why the country would continue to export crude oil and then import refined petrol, kerosene and aviation fuel.

The President said, “History is not just being made in Anambra State, but in the whole country. Orient has made a mark by partnering the government to come out with this revolution. This will give investors, both within and outside our country, the confidence to invest in our sedimentary basins.

“As a nation, we should not continue to think that we will be exporting crude materials. Our farm produce, we want to send them abroad in crude form; our crude oil, we send abroad. The people who add value to these products make more money than we do.”

“Those in the oil industry should not be thinking only about how to export crude oil; they should add value to the crude oil. Why can’t we export petroleum products to every part of the world? Why should we import petrol, kerosene, diesel and aviation kerosene or jet fuel when we are supposed to add value to our crude oil and export the refined products to make more money?” the President asked.
He said the Federal Government had decided to give more attention to all sedimentary basins across the country, noting that the steps taken by the indigenous oil firm would go a long way in giving confidence to both local and foreign investors to invest in the country’s oil and gas sector.
Jonathan said in the history of the world, there was always a turning point and that in Nigeria; now was the era of transformation.
He said his administration had resolved to continue to partner the private sector to develop the country, saying that was why private sector players were represented in his Economic Management Team.
The President reiterated his administration’s commitment to creating jobs for the teeming young school leavers in the country.
Earlier, the Chairman, Board of Directors, Orient Petroleum, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, said it was no longer acceptable for Nigeria, which is one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world, to remain one of the biggest importers of refined products.
Anyaoku, a former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, said the paradox was what the oil firm had set out to correct.
According to him, fund poses a serious challenge to the firm’s desire to build its refinery, but noted that with the inauguration of the project, it would raise enough money to complete the refinery by the end of next year.

He said the firm’s steps were in conformity with the present administration’s transformation agenda.

JTF spokesperson for the NortheastLt. Col Musa Sagir
By SaharaReporters, New York
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri has called on the public to disregard the leaflets and posters being distributed by Boko Haram terrorists urging people not to pass information to the JTF on the locations and activities of the sect.
In a statement issued today by its spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, JTF stressed that the publications are simply part of the propaganda of the terrorists to keep the civil populace in captivity and perpetual fear with a view to unleashing more terror on innocent citizens.
In a separate statement, JTF drew attention to two recent incidents in the area in which, following search operations in which JTF recovered some arms and ammunition, members of Boko Haram arrived at the same market and coerced people to pay compensation for the seizure—without the incident being reported to JTF.  
“JTF wishes to alert and warn individuals or group to desist from such unpatriotic acts as both the giver and receiver of such monies would be treated as terrorists and be seriously dealt with,” the statement said, reiterating its commitment to the maintenance of law, order and the protection of lives and properties of law abiding citizens.
 
It reminded the public that security is a collective responsibility rooted in information sharing and collaboration, and that members of the public can reach JTF on phone numbers 080-64174066, 080-85464012 and 080-54429346.

Biafran flag: Police can’t stop us –MASSOB

The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has condemned the Commissioner, Abia State Police Command, Ambrose Aisabor, over his recent comment about the group, saying he has no powers to stop them from operating.

Aisabor, had while addressing officers and men of Ndiegoro police division, during his maiden visit to the area, stated that no Nigerian law supported the existence of groups such as MASSOB and directed his men not to allow any member in any part of the state hoist Biafran flags or operate, as such was illegal.

However, the MASSOB Director of Information for Aba region, Sunny Okereafor, said the police commissioner had no powers to stop the activities of the organization in the state, including the hoisting of the flag.

While describing MASSOB as a non-violent group, which shouldn’t have been the major problem of the commissioner, Okereafor said that the flag is the symbol of the Igbo race, which the organization would continue to hoist not only in Abia State but in all Igbo territories.

He challenged Aisabor to channel his energy to fighting crimes such as kidnapping, child theft and trafficking, which he said are now assuming a higher proportion in Aba, the commercial hub of the state, and its environs.
Okereafor said it was unfortunate that it is only in Igboland where such directives were given, asking: “Have the police in the West stopped OPC from operating? Have they stopped Egbesu and other groups in the South-South from operating? Why MASSOB? “What’s this man up to?

“Aisabor is not the only police commissioner to have been posted to Abia State nor the only one in states where MASSOB exists, why is he giving directives that will not be in anybody’s interest?”

The MASSOB spokesman urged his members to remain calm in the face of the threat, advising them not to be intimidated into abandoning the cause for which many of them had paid the supreme price and which he said was the last hope of the Igbo man.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/hoisting-of-biafran-flag-police-cant-stop-us-massob/

ABUJA – NIGERIA Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, said Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lacked the moral fibre to question it over its decision to embark on strike over the non-payment of subsidy and other issues, noting the party was Nigeria’s biggest problem.

The planned strike was, however, suspended last week after an agreement between labour and government.

NUPENG, in a statement by its Acting General Secretary, Mr. Isaac Aberare in Abuja, said the PDP had drawn Nigeria years back in her national development and could not be taken seriously in its recent outburst on the union.

It challenged  the party to respond and face the barrage of daily criticisms of its activities by the opposition party— Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

NUPENG said: “The PDP spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh, exhibited ignorance on the demands of the union, and only responded on impulse and faulty base.

“The union has never sabotaged the efforts of the Federal Government, especially when it bothers on transparency and accountability in the oil and gas sector.

“We have always been in the forefront in the fight against many obnoxious polices of government.”

Faroukgate issue again? I thought NPF has collected their own share and closed the case. They should better take action, or stop disturbing Nigerians.

I feel Govt should criminalize dishonoring our national ideals. Where and when u don't recite the national anthem and pledge, as well as respect the flag, people should be imprisoned.

Baba Shege scoring himself 100%. Na aw o! Okayyyyyy, him bring GSM. Lol

One love, keep us together. Nigeria must remain one o! No declaration of independence pls

The management of Orient Petroleum Resources Plc (OPR) said on Monday that its refinery, which would be sited at Nsugbe-Umuleri in Anambra, would to be completed in the next 12 months.
This is contained in a statement by the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Nnaemaka Nwakwa.
It stated that the company will further strengthen the Nigerian oil sector and contribute positively to the nation’s economic activities.
The company said: “The 3Dimension Seismic contractor is still working and following the interpretation of the data, OPR plans to drill some high capacity wells to guarantee the crude oil feed stock for Orient Refinery.
“The phase will facilitate the fast-tracking and early completion of the refinery expected in the next 12 months. OPR’s refining activities will contribute significantly to the supply of petroleum products for consumption in Nigeria, as well as export abroad, thereby conserving foreign reserves and boosting Gross Domestic Product.
“The company’s supply of natural gas from its OPL to the nearby factories will trigger industrial growth and provide economic empowerment for the people and create job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the country.”
The refinery, which got its Environmental Impact Certificate (EIC) in 2005, would be fed from the two oil blocks, OPLs 915 and 916.
The oil field covers an approximate area of 2,158 square kilometres, lying predominantly in Anambra but extending into Kogi, Edo and Delta and Enugu states.
According to the statement, the company has been in constant contact with the state governments and community leaders in its area of operation, to ensure a harmonious relationship and eliminate negative social and environmental impacts
It said the exploration activities went beyond states and in cases where hydrocarbon deposit was between state boundaries, it was the function of the federal government to determine ownership and benefit among the states.
It said: “Petroleum is on the exclusive list of the federal government which grants licences for exploration, production, sales etc to suitably qualified companies like OPR.”  (NAN)

usmanyaro17: maybe your suggestions can work,what do u think GEJ should do to get it right?since criticism is not working?

Dont bother yourself asking them to make suggestions. They are good at peddling falsehood. What do you expect from deranged politicians and their foot and media soldiers. Their best is to criticize, give them appointment they will shut up.

Gen. Babangida, who spoke through Prince Kassim Afegbua, his media adviser, said it is against his philosophy to criticize a sitting president.
He also advised Dr. Jonathan to look elsewhere, not him, if he is blaming past leaders that are criticising him.
Kassim said: “On President Jonathan, there is nothing wrong in criticism if it is constructive and in the interest of the country. Gen. Babangida is one unique former President who does not criticise a sitting President as a matter of courtesy.
“If President Jonathan is blaming past leaders, he should look elsewhere, certainly not IBB.
“On Gen. Buhari, it is not in IBB’s tradition to take up issues with his colleague former President. But for the purpose of record, we are conversant with Gen. Buhari’s so-called holier-than-thou attitude.
Is IBB obeying the Biblical injunction that says remove first the log in your eye so that you can see others clearly? Or let him that is holier cast the first stone as in the the woman that committed adultery? Whatever be the case, like he said those who live in glass houses don't throw stones.
http://www.naijapundit.com/news/ibb-to-buhari-i-will-expose-your-dirty-laundry-as-elrufai-lists-his-corrupt-past

If Buhari brought in the suitecases when the country was exchanging old currency for new ones, then he was obviously a criminal. He stole Nigerian naira, kept it abroad and returned it to collect new notes. Why did he order that the suitcases should not be searched? What was inside? What was he hiding? He is simply a thief

In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases allegedly belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new.  Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal and not regular courts of law. Buhari was so high handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance. These are facts of recent history".

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/ibb-to-buhari-i-will-expose-your-dirty-laundry-as-elrufai-lists-his-corrupt-past

It would also be recalled that Buhari's present protege, the controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, had in October of 2010 accused Buhari of a litany of improper acts. To quote Elrufai, he had said of Buhari that " That same prejudice accounts for the baseless claims of corruption Buhari levels against El Rufai. The fact is that Mallam El-Rufai served Nigeria with integrity and has never been convicted of any corrupt act. He is boldly contesting the false charges which the Yar’Adua government filed against him in court. It is strange that a Buhari who protests when unproven claims of N2.5 billion (about US $3billion in those days!) missing oil funds are levelled against him can gleefully elevate similar claims into facts when it concerns another. How would Buhari feel if the corruption allegations made against him by Group Captain Usman Jibrin, then a board member of PTF, are today reported as if they were proven facts? So much for “corrupt background” and “shoddy performance”.

 Mallam El-Rufai wishes to remind General Buhari that he has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state, and afterwards, is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded. His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known. In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new.  Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal and not regular courts of law. Buhari was so high handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempt to cow the media as a whole. That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance. These are facts of recent history".
http://www.naijapundit.com/news/ibb-to-buhari-i-will-expose-your-dirty-laundry-as-elrufai-lists-his-corrupt-past

THis will be best for our democracy. Non performing officers Must be shown the way out. Politics is about wwelfare, thank God GEJ has sign the performance pact with them.

IBB has threatened to exposed him, when that is done, we will know who is sincere. Kettle calling pot black

It is getting more interesting. Will Buhari run to Minna and beg IBB? What dooes IBB have in mind? What dies he know? Hmmmm, I hope Buhari is not the sponsor of these boys? IBB we dare U, expose him

I believe Gej is trying, within 1yr, he has studied and addressed some key issues like improved power supply, electoral reform, aand so on. I feel if he enjoys our goodwill, he will be poised to do more. Let's be patient. We Women are gradually having our pride of place in governance too. It will be Wellwith nigeria

As the President was parrying the criticism of his administration at the Federal Capital Territory, former head of State Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was railing at him in Kaduna, the North’s political headquarters.
The former presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) accused Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-military President Ibrahim Babangida of being behind the destruction of the oil industry, with its attendant effects on the welfare of the ordinary Nigerian.
Gen. Buhari spoke while receiving members of the CPC from Katsina, who paid him a Sallah homage.According to Gen. Buhari, the high level of corruption and the destruction of the petroleum industry began in the administration of Gen. Babangida. For the country to move forward, Nigerians must entrust its affairs to trusted leaders, he counselled.
The former Head of State noted that there was no country where impunity thrives like Nigeria, adding that corruption in the petroleum sector began during the era of Gen. Babangida, continued during that of ex-President Obasanjo and the administration of President Jonathan because, in his view,  they had the mindset to cheat the Nigerian masses.
He said: “The biggest challenge of Nigeria is for adequate security to be in place and ways in which we can protect the riches of this country and provide job opportunities for the youths in the country, so that we can build more industries as it was before.
“Inability of these industries to work has brought mistrust and corruption to Nigeria. Therefore, our leaders have to be sincere and lead with the fear of God and carry all along for Nigeria to be a better place.
“All leaders should stand and keep promises of the people. We cannot move forward, if things that are supposed to be put in place are not done. Like the money which was siphoned in the recent pension scam and the petroleum industry scam must all be brought back into the government’s coffer for good leadership.
“Therefore, all those that want the masses to vote and be voted for should go to the masses and get their mandate. The era of using money to bribe the masses or force to get political office is gone.
“A leader that wants to be a good leader must look at the needs of the people, the suffering and the humiliation and proffer solution to those problems and together we shall achieve greatness.”
Abdulkadir told Gen. Buhari that their mission was to wish him happy Eid-el-Fitr celebration and seek his blessing ahead of the local government election in Katsina State.

IT was meant to be a presentation of the book jointly written by Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and United States former Consul-General in Niageria Brian Borwne in Chicago, the United States (US), but it became a forum where suggestions were offered on how to get Nigeria’s economy out of the woods.
Literary icon Prof Wole Soyinka, who wrote the foreward to “Financialism - Water from an Empty Well”,  and co-author Tinubu, warned of the consequences of leaving the dwindling economy in the hands of half-baked and inexperienced managers to fix.
 At the Rainbow Push Headquarters in Chicago, venue of the presentation on Saturday were civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson Jnr, Borwne, many Nigerian professionals resident in Chicago and other parts of the US,  former American diplomats, and civil rights leaders. 
In the audience also were: Governors Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) and Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Nigerian lawmakers, council chairmen and youths. 
Soyinka warned that it was dangerous to allow leaders who lack the wherewithal to lead the country on the path of economic perdition. 
According to him, one of such leaders ruled Nigeria for about eight years recently and only succeeded in multiplying Nigeria’s economic woes. 
His words: “I have no qualms declaring that I am not fully economic literate. That is why I leave it to the experts to figure out. First, let it be clearly stated that I am not in the least embarrassed or ashamed to acknowledge myself as an economic illiterate. 
“This is quite unlike a former head of state, who was thus dubbed and never forgave his perceptive analyst, even after his death. That economist was my late friend, Prof Ojetunde Aboyade, the only ‘specialist’ from whom I received any insightful…”
 While presenting the book, Soyinka acknowledged Tinubu and Browne as key figures in the unfolding world where the book they have both written opens a new window of how the world’s financial system was designed to the disadvantage of many people.  
Soyinka said: “The skewed world of economics needs to be challenged. A world where the umbilical cord between produce and tally-card was slashed when no one was looking, and the latter has come to be a thing-in-itself, empowering a parasitic class of finance controllers who place the mere tally over and above the material goods – yet succeed in making the rest of the world fall in line! 
“The collapse of the dominating economies of Europe and America is a call for re-thinking, away from orthodox assumptions and givens, under which satellite economies in a distant continent like ours have taken a severe beating, whether or not their governments choose to admit it”. 
Rev. Jackson Jnr, who moderated the book presentation and signing, said the time has come for both Africa and African –American perspective to fuse into one because both are challenged by similar issues. 
He welcomed the fact that the exposition in the book raises fundamental issues.
He provided answers to why Africa and African –Americans live under a discriminatory economic system. 
Tinubu stated the rationale behind the book publication, saying he was provoked by the injustices of the economic system and how the contradictions eventually caught up with the players, who left the low level income earner and small businesses with the short end of the stick.
Tinubu said: “Productive capitalism relies on the discipline of the market place. What now occurs is that powerful actors exploit the licence the market place affords them. In doing so, they endanger the very economies from which they unduly profit. 
“In other words, they have emptied the well yet continue to seek to take water from it. These people practice a speculative brand of economics. My co-author and I, have given this mutation of capitalism the name of ‘financialism’. Financialism is capitalism so shorn of all restraint that it cannibalizses itself” 
The former Lagos State governor decried the wiping away of the earnings of the struggling segment of the society and demanded a new thinking and approach on how to deal with the problem. 
“Recurrent crises show that something is profoundly wrong with the global financial system. Unless we want to suffer these damaging jolts for the foreseeable future, we need to make systemic corrections. 
“Both developed and emergent nations have committed the similar sin of turning what should be productive economies into factories of financial speculation that generate more financial paper than they do material products that real people can use to improve their living conditions”. 
Giving Nigerian leaders food for thought, Tinubu said: “Nigeria needs to be put to work. We have a lot of catching up to do. Asian governments support the industrialisation of their economies. Wise European nations are starting to retool their industrial base. “Nigeria cannot hope to achieve prosperity simply by exporting exhaustible natural resources. We must follow the historic route that all large nations have followed in reaching national prosperity. We must make, create and export what we make and create”.
 Browne argued that recession has put black America into a structural recession. 
He said: “The financial system has become over inflated and incestuous to the point of killing the productive sector.”
Brian maintained that Africans cannot be orphans on their own land and the 21st Century story of Africa must be written by Africans. 
Ambassador Howard Jeter, who reviewed the book, stated that the two perspectives from Africa and the United States offer an invaluable insight into the global financial structure and offers practical solutions and challenges what we know as impositions.