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just negedu

True reason here..

crime rate on the increase by the day

They're both fueling hate and anger among their good people of Rivers States.
I think it's worst off by Amaechi, as an older, more experience former gov. and minister, he should be able to put an end to this. It has hindered the growth of our dear state for too long

DieBuhari:
This man sees Wike in his dreams. Even on his birthday! Wow

you mean in the dream he had while sleeping in same occasion ?

NwaAmaikpe:
Now I can't tell if it's a cheap Formica or the carpenter just didn't spray this coffin?



Quacks everywhere.

why are you so stewpeed..

so she finally died.. what a sad way to die..
RIP

Ajewealth123:
i am tempted to open that link but I wont

me too

Ajewealth123:
i am tempted to open that link but I wont

me too

this is nothing jhoor...

when ever am around, I carry my cousins out like this.. even my neighbor's kids..

dey play with Saudi Arabia..

those guys harsh like their weather..
if you're caught saying anything good about Qatar.. your going to jail..

na so last year them go arrest my colleague for not stepping out with his passport, thanks mine was handy.. I had to report the incident..

mu2sa2:
Believe or not Port Harcourt is more dangerous than Maiduguri. For the hypocrites who will deny the obvious, let them ask their people why they prefer the safety of Maiduguri and indeed the relative peace of the north to the chaos of other regions where cultists, killer ritualists, robbers, and kidnappers are swarming everywhere.

Bigots everywhere,
leave my pH abeg.. all this your news I never use eye see any one yet I dey PHC..

hate her or love her,
PHC is the safest place in Nigeria

RIP
Capt. mahama.

mostsimpliest:
am 23 yrs old in my final year civil engineering

It's obvious, Na childishness..

Caustics:
koko master!!!
i wont mind getting that blazer, wrist watch and vehicle from him

tiff

very good.. welcome development..
The extortion rate is on a high side
everybody wey hear say u want travel want collect money from you.

NtoAkwaIbom:
Juve Bleepup majorly.
How u take 3 defenders go to go play Madrid and wey get the best attackers, with 4, 3, 3 formation ?

how do you you keep running backward, when Rinaldo, Marcelo, Benzema etc are attacking you, you create spaces and crevices to be exploited.

At the beginning you guys had some coordination, but after goal 2, everyone wanted to score, and the 3 defenders were just left to sufa and die..

and the worst was that all through 2nd half the with 8 attackers you guys didn't even have one single shot at target.
while ur defence was as porous as a basket.
football is not just about, dribbling and scoring, football is like Chess, you analyse not just ur strength and weakness but you also take into consideration the strength and weakness of the other team.

Juventus has shamed not just their fans but the fun of the UEFA champions league final... The Old Lady should have allowed the best to compete against the best...

Congrats Madrid, After the first half, You ur technical team really did point out the flaws in the Juve team, while the Juve team prolly went to relish on the equaliser.

coach .. you know better than alegri..

After it was learnt that Barr. Alabh George Turnah was arrested by the EFCC, youths gathered themselves and stormed the EFCC office to protest, describing Turnah's arrest as an act of injustice, saying he is a good man with a good heart. They stayed there singing demanding his unconditional release.

The EFCC South-South ZONAL head, Ishaq SALIHU, instead of pushing away the protesters, called them together and began to educate them.
These were his words:

" If I tell you all how this young man has contributed to the under development of your region, you youths you will be ashamed to be here. I believe George has so much to tell why EFCC is after him, now let me ask you,

1. Did George tell you that EFCC is after him because they found billions of naira in one Eluantaziba George ACCOUNT?, this is the account of his five years old daughter.

2. Did he also reveal to you all that huge sums of money amounting to billions were discovered in the accounts of the following companies owned by him without any traceable office except one or two?
A. KOLO CREEK PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
B GEOHAM TELECOMS NIGERIA LIMITED
C. ADAKA BORO MARINE SERVICES NIGERIA LIMITED
D. TURNOIL NIGERIA LIMITED
E. TURNAH GLOBAL SERVICE LIMITED
F. EL-GODAMS GLOBAL SERVICE LIMITED
G. YENAGOA MALL LIMITED
H. SUGARLAND INTEGRATED FARMS LIMITED
I. CELTIC PRIDE ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
J. CELTIC PRIDE INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL STUDIES
K. BUILDING ASSOCIATE LIMITED.

3. Did he Tell you that the NDDC have furnished EFCC with details of his salaries and allowances while he served as SA to two MD's which was not even upto #30M?

4. Did he reveal to you that he collected a contract for the building of Ogbia Brotherhood village, which was awarded to one of his companies and money was paid in full, which he converted to mere renovation of the hall?

5. Did he reveal to you that in 2014, huge money running to billions was awarded to him for the organisation of a programme tagged 'Niger Delta peace carnival' a programme meant for the whole of Niger Delta was then converted into 'Goodluck Jonathan Cup for Ogbia Youths only' and then embezzled the funds?

6. Did he reveal that the EFCC have showed him various incriminating document from NDDC, detailing programs which he had collected funds for in the name of Niger Delta Youths running into billions, for programs which never held?

6. Did he tell you that he collected many funds to bring light to most of your communities in Ogbia? Do you have light? Did he revealed that the Kolo to Ogbia Electrification project awarded to one of his company was abandoned even when full payment has been made?

7. DID HE TELL YOU THAT THE NIGER DELTA VOLUNTEER PROGRAM DESIGNED TO EMPOWER 2000 YOUTHS OF THE REGION FOR 4 YEARS WITH A STIPEND OF 150K PER BENEFICIARY, THAT HE PAID 70K EACH, please multiply 80 by 2000, it will amount to #160,000,000 every month, which he was receiving for four years, amounting to about #7.6BN ? Now, we are still investigating if at all he employed the said 2,000 youths
These and many more facts we have in our possession, as time progresses, more will be revealed. Now i ask you, do you still think he was really a good man with a good heart?
Do you still think his intentions for ogbia people were good?
Do you think he is worth protesting for?
Because he gives you crumb from the billions he has stolen, is that enough to call him a good man?
Have you all pondered and ask yourself if Ogbia or the Youths would have been the same way it is now, if only he spent half of the money?
I ask you again, you think he is good for giving out crumbs? You think he is good for depriving you of what is yours? Don't your mother's and father's in the village deserve better life?
Next time before you join this kind of protest, ask yourself what his sources of income is as compared to his flamboyant life.
I will leave your conscience to communicate with you".
Immediately the EFCC south-south head ended his speech, the protesters were all cold, they could not utter a word again, one by one, they started dropping their placards, and before you know it, even his close associates who were all there, were shocked at the revelations, they too threw away their placards, everybody went back home.

vargasvictory:
OP correct your topic, should be "Flaunts"


Ahem, BTW Afonja$ looking at this thread likeee

see mosquito wey dey correct English language... abeg go boil beans

ekems2017:
So anyone that worked under Jonathan can no longer own anything again?

billions of naira that was given to him for youth empowerment. he squandered it, has some estates in bayelsa state, pH and abj..

he was caught with 3bn at hand and some millions in his 7years old daughter's account

still wondering who eats yam in Europe apart from fellow Nigerians and a few African neighbor in the Diaspora...

please provide enough for the masses

the sit at home no affect them?

when you realised lying is contagious...
ask lie Mohammad what happened

the rate at which this guy has stepped up his game, making federal appointments and signing bills singlehandedly... its quite suspicious.

wish buhari speedy recovery.

RIVERS@50 Chief Barr. Dumo Lulu Briggs calls for an all inclusive governance

Borrowing immensely from the teachings of Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, I state that constituting one of the largest voting blocks in, and contributing about 20% of the earnings of Nigeria, Rivers State has both a special claim on Nigeria and a particular responsibility to it. Consequently, it must be strong economically, cohesive socially, robust politically and engaged nationally. To that end, governments in Rivers State must follow an approach of "participation of all, development for all". Such democratic outlook must be the creed that animates successive administrations and the elite in our dear Rivers State.

Administrations in Rivers State must launch initiatives to generate faster and more inclusive growth, aimed at realising tangibly better lives for every Rivers man, woman and child. This entails eliminating poverty within a democratic polity on a scale unparalleled in human history. We must do so even amid a sputtering national economy and very serious security challenges locally.
While working to improve the local economy and income per head, we must embark on major increases in capital expenditure on infrastructure that have large multiplier effects on private investment.

Rivers State has tremendous social strengths, including pluralism, enduring family values, a good work ethic and others mindedness which we must consciously tend. We should work seriously on several aspects of our civic culture. We should remember that policy and lifestyle choices are key to sustainable development. In that respect we should rebirth our great tradition of inclusiveness, hospitality, conservation and respect for our environment.

There is a worry about allowing events that constitute a strong threat to our sense of a common future as a people bound together by God. This has in turn created an immense sense of urgency and expectations from governments and the elite. Inevitably, some of these expectations run ahead of us. As we celebrate Rivers State@50, we the elite and government must remain conscious of the trust that has been placed on us by the forsaken "We the people" and we resolutely work to redeem it.

We must, as we celebrate, remember that today is indeed Children's Day. Our children are keen observers and have an almost unerring ability to discern dissonance between our words and our actions. We must know we have no greater responsibility than to educate and prepare our young people as an essential to the development of our great State's character, vitality and dynamism.

No less than the succces of all Rivers people and a better future for Nigeria is at stake.

Good morning Rivers State @50 and Happy Children's Day
~ Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs

Paperwhite:
So all this long epistle is for what intent? See the "orphan" that lost out woefully to Wike that Amaechi compensate with the NIMASA chair preaching a gospel.

although I'm neither a fan of either of the and there's some level of political biasness, but it's succinctly couched..

Dakuku pointed out salient points which wike has actually ignored..

It may not be necessary.. But DAP thinks it is and I agree with him..

Someone should put an end to this political charade in Rivers state..
enough of the hate.

in another news:

AMAECHI'S REJECTION OF STATE AWARD: A MORAL RELIEF... wike's commissioner for information

The Rivers State government has learnt with much relief news of the rejection of a proposed State award, by a former governor of the State, and current Minister for Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi.

Given Mr Amaechi's sanctimonious statement of rejection, it is important to clarify that the Rivers State Government never set out to honour Mr Amaechi for any meritorious service to the State during his time as governor.

As part of the events of the State's Golden Jubilee celebration, the State government accepted the recommendation of
the organizing committee that a variety of awards be given to different categories of individuals who have earned a place in the history of the State.

There is a category of the awards designated for former governors of the State. And as a former governor, Mr Amaechi fell automatically in that category.

We wish to emphasize that the award was never meant as a validation of Mr Amaechi's horrendous administration.

Mr Amaechi was personally indicted for stealing billions of public funds during his time in office, by a court-approved panel of inquiry set up by the state government.

The government will soon initiate a prosecutorial process against him in multiple jurisdictions, in Nigeria and abroad. And no award would have stopped that process.

We must confess that as a government, we wrestled with the moral horror of giving any kind of award to a man whose government was no better than a criminal syndicate.

Mr Amaechi may be a scoundrel of history, but he was once a governor of the state. The proposed award was to serve as a sad acknowledgement of the especially dark place he occupies in our State's otherwise illustrious history.

His rejection of the award is therefore a huge moral relief for the administration, and the people of the state.

Signed:

Dr Austin Tam-George
Commissioner for Information and Communication,
Rivers State.
26th May 2017

22nd May, 2017.

THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR
RIVERS STATE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
PORT HARCOURT.




RIVERS@50; LEST WE CELEBRATE OUR DECLINE:

Congratulations on your second year in office and the Golden Jubilee celebrations marking the creation of the old Rivers State. I join all Rivers people to salute the vision, courage and doggedness of our founding fathers. I pay special tribute to all past leaders of our dear state and all others who have contributed in one way or another to bring us to our current state of development.

Mr. Governor, I know a few praise singers, the same ones who praise every person in power, will misrepresent my intentions by this letter and will advise you accordingly. However, for the sake of Rivers people, Rivers State and posterity I am guided to place my thoughts about the state of Rivers State on record. That way, if you do not succeed as Governor, it will not be for lack of honest counsel or helpful ideas.

Let there be no doubt. At the last general elections, I put myself forward to serve our dear state. I believed and still believe that Rivers has enormous potentials which can only be realized if we could sustain a track record of good governance. I believe that our people do not deserve any less than quality living guaranteed by selfless and visionary leadership. I also used to think that was your motivation when you ran for the office of Governor since we both served and learnt under one ‘master’. But, after two years of your being in the saddle, I am sure several other Rivers people are in doubt if that was your real motivation or it was simply the quest for power for its own sake. There have been suggestions, going by your actions in the office of governor, of poor judgment and crass ignorance but I have always defended you that you needed time to understand the aspirations of the average rivers man and woman.

MONEY SHARING AS PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT

Recall that we chatted severally on the kind of future Rivers State deserves when we were both privileged to serve in the Rt. Hon. Amaechi’s government. We both agreed then that Rt. Hon. Amaechi’s passion for development of Rivers State was unassailable. I recall a particular day in between our usual weekly Executive Council meetings in October, 2010 when you told me that development projects do not endear a government to the people or win elections, that ‘money sharing’ does. At that time I did not give deep meaning to it beyond the ordinary. You repeated this to me and others at College of Arts and Science field on 5th March, 2011 during the second term campaign of Governor Amaechi. With benefit of hindsight I am worried about your real intentions for running for the office of Governor. My concern and that of other Rivers people are exacerbated by the fact that two years going, few policies, if any have been articulated by your government beyond erratic, cunning, and contradictory pronouncements which suggest you were not just prepared for governance. It appears the past two years have been expended fighting your predecessor and trying to bring down everything and whatever he represents. I do not see how that will contribute to uplifting the lives of Rivers people. Rivers people simply want a conducive environment to go about their business and live quality lives. Our people want to move forward, not look back endlessly.

FEAR, DEATH & INSECURITY EVERYWHERE

Let me draw your attention to few issues you may not consider important but which truly matter to our people. Rivers State and Rivers people are known for peace. It is unfortunate that some mindless politicians who are now your key advisers introduced politics of violence in our state many years ago, you however elevated it to an art while running for office. The truth is too clear for all to see. Today in Rivers State, no week passes without tens of cases of kidnap, tens of our people killed in cult related, criminal activity-associated or politically motivated circumstances. Heads of human beings are routinely chopped off, displayed on major roads in a manner worse than what we see with ISIS and Boko Haram. Nationally our State has occupied for almost 18 months consistently, the unenviable position of the state with the highest number of kidnapping and cult related killings. You can check the records with Nigerian Police. By virtue of Freedom of Information Act you can access this record. Only a mindless government can fold its arms and watch this level of needless waste of human lives. It is utterly disheartening. People in our state live daily in fear. Governor, you should not allow this. It has gone on for too long. If it is our 50th birthday gift then it is a Greek gift that our people do not deserve. Peace, security and order in Rivers State should be your number one priority. Every other development agenda should rest on this. It is patronizing, sickening and offensive when few persons around you who have sold their conscience for money try to deceive you by saying Rivers State is the most peaceful and secure State in Nigeria. Please do not believe them. Do what is right. If you are not patronizing these criminals, then fight and eradicate violent crime in our State. Our economy is gone because people do not feel safe living and doing business in what was once a haven of peace.

ABANDONMENT OF NOBLE EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEGACY

Mr. Governor, if security is too intricate for you to understand and handle, I do not understand your challenge with education. As you know, no modern society can survive, thrive or maintain a reasonable level of development without investing in the future of the youths which is anchored in quality education. Under your watch, Mr. Governor, our educational standing is a sham. You withdrew hundreds of students who were mostly in their final year abroad on Rivers State scholarship back home for no just cause. Mr. Governor, between 2011 and 2015, by UNESCO rating relying on statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, we remained among top five States by youth literacy. However by 2016 statistics, given by the same UNESCO, we have gone down drastically. This should worry you. We have also dropped in both public primary school and secondary school enrolment respectively. You chose to abandon the over 500 modern primary schools your predecessor built and equipped. The same goes for world class secondary schools he initiated, five of which he completed. I hear you say the model secondary school is too expensive to run; you may have to compare the cost of ignorance and illiterate society to the opportunity cost of running these quality schools. Our tertiary institutions in just two years are now shadows of themselves. This aversion for education will be our greatest undoing if we keep quiet.

NEGLECT OF HEALTHCARE

My dear Governor, I am sure you are conversant with the adage that health is wealth. Even the “pleasure park”, which is your new fantasy that you take every visitor to and the roads built by your predecessors you are overlaying will serve no one if we do not have health. Some of your associates who do not like the face of former Governor Amaechi admit that he did a bold transformation in the health sector. You may not like your predecessors face but you owe Rivers people a responsibility to care for their health and wellbeing. The abandonment of over 105 world class functional primary health care centres, the maxilo-facial burns centre at Garrison, Aba Road; Kelsey Harrison Ultra-Modern Hospital at Mile 1 axis, amongst several other health facilities built by your predecessor and the free medical care for the aged, under five year olds and pensioners policy he put in place cannot be a legacy you will be proud of. The innovative policy on subsidized medical bill for residents and civil servants on the contributory health scheme you abolished without providing an alternative leaves a sour taste. Those who advised you to destroy these legacy health projects and policies do not mean well for you and do not have the interests of Rivers people at heart. No amount of photo celebration can substitute for the health and wellbeing of the ordinary people of Rivers State. The man on the street who hitherto benefitted from these health facility and policies know better than any lie he will be told.

My Dear Governor, have you bothered to call for the infant and maternal mortality statistics of Rivers State in the past 12 months? The numbers are embarrassing. My sincere advice is that you pay attention to the health status of Rivers people. To be a statesman requires living above petty sentiments for the greater interest of the greatest number of people in Rivers State.

NEGLECT OF THE RURAL AREAS

Dear Governor, if there is one area you have gone against your oath of office it is the neglect of the rural communities, or in your own language ‘the rural Local Government Areas’. Many Rivers people are not disappointed because ab initio you had no plans to develop the rural areas so we did not have expectations in this area. A revered monarch in our state captured it succinctly when he said rivers rural economy is dead. “Young people now flee. There is no integrated farming to employ them. Cottage industries are all dead”. Mr. Governor, you are on oath to govern all of Rivers State and not two urban Local Government Areas.

I am sure you know as all Rivers people do, why the rural economy collapsed. Dear Governor, you neglected agriculture which has the potential to create jobs, reduce poverty and spur growth. This neglect of agriculture combined with insecurity has robbed Rivers State of growth in the rural areas. The Songhai farm in Tai Local Government Area started by your predecessor which was a model farm settlement employing hundreds of Rivers people is now a shadow of itself. The same applies to the Banana project in Khana/Tai Local Government Area conceptualized and started by your predecessor, fish farm projects in Asaritoru, Andoni, Opobo-Nkoro and Ikwerre Local Government Areas have all been abandoned. The same fate affected the rice farm and cocoa farm projects. No new estates have been added to Risonpalm and the resuscitation of Delta Rubber Company has been abandoned. To say the agricultural sector is comatose is an understatement.

The development of rural infrastructure, which is an enabler to boost economic activities, is not in your radar. My dear Governor, it is easy to see the nexus between the collapse of the “rural economy of Rivers State” and heightened criminality. Economic transformation of Rivers State leveraging on the productive sector of agriculture and cottage industries is critical. Please Mr. Governor let the revival of Rivers State economy through infrastructural development, agriculture and well guided diversification be the real Golden Jubilee Celebration in honour of the spirit of our founding fathers. We were once competing neck and neck with Lagos State in terms of infrastructure development, size of GDP, household income and attraction of investment but today Lagos has become a model state we can only wish and hope to be like.

PENSIONERS ARE STARVING TO DEATH

More worrisome My Dear Governor is the way you have treated our pensioners and state civil servants. I have often asked myself if you do not intend to get old someday. You owe pensioners and civil servants endlessly with impunity and often deceitfully create the excuse of biometrics. One lesson which those with a sense of history will tell you is that no amount of stealing from the commonwealth will guarantee a secure and happy old age. It is only an honest life anchored on faith in the Almighty God can secure our happiness and fulfilment at old age.

DISRESPECT FOR TRADITIONAL RULERS AND APPROPRIATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS

The same treatment you mete out to any traditional ruler whom you perceive disagrees with your governance style. You dethrone traditional rulers at the slightest provocation. I hear you are threatening just any and every traditional ruler to acquiesce to you. It will definitely hurt you on the long run. Please treat our Pensioners and traditional rulers with respect and honour. Let them have their wages whenever it is due for there is dignity in LABOUR. The degree of disdain to which you hold elder statesmen and former leaders of Rivers State shows you do not have any sense of history. Without a sense of history it is hypocritical to celebrate the sweat and sacrifice of our founding fathers.

Dear Governor, another area of concern is how you openly expropriate local government fund for political and selfish reasons. Civil servants at the LGA level now scornfully make fun of this. The minimum expectation of our people is that you put in place a framework for LGAs to deliver effective and efficient service and infrastructural development based on prudent management of resources.

GOVERNANCE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY & TRANSPARENCY

Another area of critical concern is the total lack of openness and accountability in the government led by your good self. Till the time of writing this letter. No rivers man or woman has seen copies of 2016 and 2017 approved budget of Rivers state. No Rivers man knows how much the state gets from federally allocated revenue nor internally generated revenue. Our debt profile is embarrassing, never seen before in our state. Nobody can put a cost to the projects you claim you are executing or the projects of your predecessor which were at different stages of completion which you are now commissioning and claiming credit for. The most basic thing our people are used to which they demand from your government is transparency, honesty and accountability. Open the books, Mr. Governor, because the resources belong to the people of Rivers State.

One last point, people are arguing openly whether there is anything worth celebrating in Rivers State under your watch. Others insist that what we should be celebrating now is the original Rivers State created 50 years ago, not the one leftover after the excision of Bayelsa State. Whichever it is, I believe that our people have our 50 years of statehood to celebrate. I sincerely believe it affords us the opportunity to reflect on why it has been most challenging achieving the dreams of our founding fathers. And to do self introspection on why we are crawling as a state when our contemporaries are literally running. But let this celebration not be a diversion jamboree from the serial failures of the last two years. Mr. Governor if you continue along your present wrong path, you may end up betraying the labours of the illustrious fathers of Rives State and posterity will not be kind to you. I hope and pray not. I wish you well.



Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside