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[quote author= post=100148116]It will do our nation a lot of good to have another opposition party for real.

No one listens to this dead, buried and forgotten party of crooks, criminals and looters again for many years now.

Maybe APGA or FRESH party should take over as the main opposition party in this nation, not the evil part that ran this country down patapata, taking us 100 years back as a nation.

PDP in Nigeria again?![/quote]Ha, shey nna no dey read wetin nna dey write before pressing submit? PDP took us 100yrs back? Buhari must be PDP member niyeh oo cos it was under Buhari that we started negotiating with Bandits, under him money develop wings and fly, under him our economy has defiled the projection of Phillips curve, so tey phillips dey wonder in the grave why both inflation and unemployment rate dey rise together as against his predicted negative relationship. Guy abeg, na beg I dey beg you, you no suppose dey talk again till 2023.

GOFRONT:
Death that would have taken the lifeless one on the rock with a Nepa bill as his certificate......

But death opt to take away a vibrant fella with an Msc.

Death why?? Why why

your cry will be over one day bro with your prayer answered.

YourMajesty:
But the FG can afford to compensate bandits right.

It will never be well with anyone in support of this administration.

All of them patapata

It will cost EFCC nothing to get expert to analyze that video. But then, Buhari has concluded that the video is fake.. Say he doesn't know how much techn...... Wait, Buhari was even talking about technology End shall never wonder

Lol, I was seeing Adamu Garba instead of Dauda , na why I no open this thread since. More wins brother.

authority2006:
What is Buhari doing to you again? The citizens are embracing all sorts of crimes and you're making it Buhari issue.

During the time of Obasanjo, there were Fulani herders, during the time of Jonathan there were Fulani herders and they were not on kidnapping rampage as they are now under their kinsman. Is Buhari not the CnC again? He was quick to send soldiers to clamp down on ESN, was quick to send soldiers to clamp down on End Sars protesters but couldn't do same to his blood thirsty kinsmen. When you are ready to add 1 plus 1 then you will see the plain truth sir.

No horror movie is close to what I just read. And some people will say we hate Buhari and that is why we can't see anything good in him, how can I like somebody who seems to careless about human lives. No problem, since his supporters are saying he is doing a great job and he is the messiah. Whatever reward God has for him shall be their portion too...

Brethren, your loud amen is the LIKE below...

donbachi:
Dem no dey ever look healthy.

Lol

Na why dem no dey get heart, where heart wan stay for this Carcass called body?

Omoboricash:
Nine Reasons Why Refineries’ Rehabilitation Is Justified

By Adewole Kehinde
Mail Express Online
Saturday, 20 March 2021

It is no longer news that the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, 17th March, 2021 approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company Ltd.
Unfortunately, some personalities like Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Gov Nyesom Wike, Activist Aisha Yesufu, Senator Dino Melaye, and Former Gov Peter Obi among others are opposing the rehabilitation/contract award. 
Below are the nine reasons why refineries’ rehabilitation is justified

1. AFTER YEARS OF NEGLECT, THE PLANTS NEED TO BE BACK

Nigeria’s three refineries in Warri, Kaduna and Port Harcourt with a combined capacity of 445,000b/d capacity were established to ensure energy security for the country. Unfortunately, these refineries have suffered years of neglect due to delays in conducting mandatory Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) that has resulted in performance decline over the past two decades and they have all been shut down to allow proper diagnosis and rehabilitation.

Of these refineries, the most strategic is the Port-Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) with a capacity of 210,000 b/d and can produce 10.4 million liters of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) per day. This refinery had its last TAM in the year 2000 (21 years ago).

It is gladdening therefore to see that there is finally a move on the part of government to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery and restore all the numerous advantages that operating the refinery will bring to the Country. This rehabilitation, unlike TAM (which should normally be carried out every two years but was neglected for many years), will involve comprehensive repairs of the plant with significant replacement of critical equipment to ensure the plant integrity is maintained for a minimum of ten years.

2.  REHABILITATION VS BUILDING NEW REFINERIES: WHAT ECONOMICS?

Some critics have said that it is more economical to build a new refinery than “just waste US$1.5bn” to rehabilitate the PHRC, which holds 210,000bpd out of Nigeria’s 445,000bpd refining capacity. On the contrary, a cursory look at brand new refineries built across the world will reveal the following:

US$10bn was budgeted for building Aramco Oil Refinery (250,000-300,000 bpd) in Pakistan

US$12bn was budgeted for building Abrue Lima Project (230,000) in Brazil

US$27bn was budgeted for building Pengerang Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development, RAPID (300,000 b/d + 3 mtpa) naptha steam cracker) in Indonesia.

Closer home, US$19bn was budgeted for building Dangote Refinery (650,000bpd) in Nigeria.

3.  THE LENDER IS SMART, THE CONTRACTOR REPUTABLE

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is the reliable lender that has agreed to raise up to $1billion towards the rehabilitation project. In the same vein, Government will raise the sum of US$550m. A credible and capable lender like Afreximbank would never agree to put such huge amount of money where there will be no value.

Similarly, Tecnimont SpA, representative of the Original Refinery Builder (ORB) which is one of the top ten global Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) Contractor in refineries, is globally reputable and capable, with requisite experience of similar jobs across the globe.

4.  STRATEGIC ASSETS ARE NEVER FOR SALE

Despite the abundance of hydrocarbon resources, Nigeria is, sadly, the only oil gas producer in the world that does not refine petroleum products. Instead, the country relies heavily on importation for most of its PMS needs locally. This is not a good record to be proud of.

Armchair critics also come up with a shallow argument that it is better to sell off these refineries since they can no longer meet up the nation’s refining needs. Which country sells off its strategic national assets, such as the refineries, to the highest bidder? Who sells off their refinery when even countries who don’t produce a drop of hydrocarbon still go ahead and build refineries?

5.  THE END OF ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’

Armchair critics usually think a mere mention of rehabilitation means another round of “business as usual”, where resources are drained with nothing to show for it at the end of the day. While some of these arguments are justifiable, it is instructive to note that this rehabilitation is different because interested parties who benefit from the age-long importation largesse (and who fleece the nation dry) will potentially be out of business by the time the rehabilitation is completed.

This is the same for critics who see nothing good in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. These detractors probably forgot that this was an administration which, from its inception, made clear its intention to bring back the refineries to their optimal capacities. The Buhari Presidency also threw its full weight and support behind the NNPC and gave the Corporation a free hand to execute the project without any interference in the contracting processes.

6. THE BENEFITS ARE ENORMOUS…AND ENDLESS

There are quite a number of benefits in bringing the nation’s refineries back on stream. From satisfying local energy demand, growing the nation’s GDP, to strengthening the Naira by reducing the demand for Forex to creating thousands of jobs across the value chain (crude supply, operating and maintaining the refinery, product supply etc) including several third-party contractors that will supply outsourced services or goods, the advantages are huge.

The refined products also serve as feedstock for small scale local manufacturing. The most significant and visible benefit is energy security for the country. Imagine if COVID-19 lockdown became global and Nigeria couldn’t import, it would have been a disaster as there was no capacity to refine crude in-country and as such, there would have been no products at all. That will be a true definition of disaster!

7. IT’S OPERATE & MAINTAIN (O&M) MODEL

Having learnt from the experiences of previous models, NNPC is now adopting the Operate & Maintain (O&M) Model as a strategy in the execution of the rehabilitation project, which is also one of the key lender requirements. With the O&M Strategy, the Contractor is expected to:

• Be a single point of responsibility for managing operations, maintenance and technical services within the refinery’s battery limit

• Be a credible, proven refinery operator with preferably FCC experience

• Operate and maintain the refinery efficiently to generate sufficient margins to pay back the debt

• Be Able to manage local and specialized sub-contractors

• Retain current NNPC staff, and actively support employee development to prepare for the transfer of the refinery management back to NNPC (timeline to be defined)

• NNPC will retain 100% of refinery ownership (e.g. no JV structure etc.)

• NNPC does not expect significant capital projects (e.g. upgrades, de-bottlenecking etc) during the O&M contract phase.

• NNPC’s structure and mandates outside of the refinery’s battery limits will not be impacted by the O&M strategy (e.g. PPMC).

8. THE CURIOUS CASE OF SHELL’S MARTINEZ REFINERY ‘SALE’

It is strange to hear people come up with the curious case of Shell’s sale of its Martinez Refinery in California to PBF Holding for $1.2bn “while NNPC is only rehabilitating PHRC for $1.5bn.” Perhaps, what people failed to understand is that Martinez Refinery is 105years old (built in 1916). The refinery had a major fire incident in September 1989 and it is having regulatory challenge with the Californian authorities. The relatively high cost of doing business in California, coupled with challenges with adherence to the State’s environmental regulations were factors in Shell’s decision to sell (https://www.ktvu.com/news/after-105-years-martinez-refinery-no-longer-owned-by-shell).

Also, as part of the condition of the sale agreement, Shell and PBF previously entered into a market-based crude oil supply and product off-take agreements to continue supplying Shell-branded businesses and ensuring that Shell customers continue having access to Shell-branded fields (See https://www.ogj.com/refining-processing/article/14092900/shell-finalizes-sale-of-martinez-refinery).

In a nutshell therefore, what happened between Shell and PBF was just a Management agreement packaged as a sale to manage and protect Shell’s image, hence, it can never be a fair comparison with the cost of rehabilitating an NNPC refinery or even building a new one. Putting up such argument as a defence looks like a well-choreographed attempt by groups who feel that the refineries coming on stream will not only throw them out of business, but will also threaten their long-term interests.

9.  FINALLY, AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT APPROACH THIS TIME AROUND 

Unlike what is obtained in the past, the current refineries rehabilitation project is different for the following reasons:

a. It consists of a governance structure that includes key independent external stakeholders: Ministry of Finance, NEITI, ICRC, PENGASSAN and NUPENG. 

b.        Unlike the regular TAM, this rehabilitation will involve comprehensive repairs of the plant with significant replacement of critical equipment to ensure that the plant’s integrity is maintained for a minimum of ten years.

c.         It is funded through part-loan and part-government, with the financiers actively monitoring the execution of the project.

d.        KBR and NETCO are acting as NNPC Engineers who will be supervising the EPC contract to ensure that the project is delivered on schedule, within budget and at the right quality.

Useless writeup as usual. Promises kill you there. The useless administration promised us security and corruption free nation, but here we are without any improvement after over 5yrs in power. Who will trust a government with so much nepotism? This is the way you guys were analysing how PMB administration will be the best ever, fast forwarded to years later you are still analysing how their useless policies will work after recording failure for five consecutive year. Shey nna no dey tire?

Racoon:
https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2021/03/hijab-as-red-meat-of-bigotry.html?m=1#.YFV0ZBvJYUk.twitter

I read this in full thinking the OP was gonna make sense in the end, but he isn't one of the bright muslims I have come in contact with.

What will it cost kwara government to build schools and make their laws as they want since they are in support of islam and not in support of upholding education as way out of stack backwardness the state and Nigeria as a whole found itself. Bunch of hypocrite. The question is, can any christian girl attend muslim schools in the same state and be allowed to practise her belief without uproar from the school? They might even end up killing such girl in the name of dealing with infidel.

ILoveDemMANNA:
Sure people that have their heads working well definitely know the people behind these terrorists and bandits.



I thank God there are still many Nigerians like you,,
that still have their heads intact and 'very correct'.

I hereby present to you Gumi and his inner caucus

Pictures don't lie, now you know where all these violence, killings, kidnappings, chaos are all coming from.

Two questions- 1) who caused the unrest that was going on during the Jonathan era? 2) why has Buhari been lying to Nigerians as regard this Boko boys and treating them like VIPs?

yrex01:
MMM is not a scam. It's pure mathematics and u not sending money to the owner of the site. You distribute the money withing your self. It's media n impatient that killed it.

Lol, this is where you all missed it. No value was created through the distribution, definitely it crashed like other pyramid schemes. Also who said you were not sending money to the owner? Is it not easy for the owner to simply create account and get paid hugely anytime they wish to without putting anything into the system? Or have you not asked yourself who the first person that requested payment made payment to?

Simplyleo:
Obviously, Emmanuel Nworie knows the reality of life and was ready to take the bull by the horn, then succor came his way.

Imagine, a first class graduate in Mathematics ready to go into manual farming, such a humble, intelligent and truly educated dude.

This is in sharp contrast with some illiterates who manage to know the spellings of their names bleating Buhari and Tinubu from sunset to sunrise everyday.

A good number of them can't even independently apply for a position in a corporate organization, yet they are the noisiest about job availability. We see them everyday in banks, offices etc.

Bunch of useless miscreants constituting nuisance to the society.

I know lamidi cownu is strategising for the next cashout.

Well a first class graduate in any course should be able to create opportunity for himself one way or the other. Not by wasting away on a farm anyways.

Is it that he didn't make any friend back in the university that can link him up or vouch for his intelligence? Is it that hard that he could not beat all this dumbass people you refer to in bank and all? Why happened to the application of what he studied for years?

As important as the grade is, been educated is far more important.

Well, let's just say wherever our helper will meet us, make our leg carry us go there.

Feel like crying reading your comment cos it shows I was right all along. Guy you are intelligent your believe in this evil government is just want I can't comprehend.

Was in Abuja in December and a woman was lamenting how she has to pay about 1.2m just to move her goods... Something that used to be 50-100k, I can't believe that is actually true. Kilode[quote author= post=99576765]We are giving you 72 hours to do that Mr Governor.
Shame dem, make God shame dem too,
For all the pains they have caused citizens since almost 20 years ago.

Meanwhile,
Who are the sole beneficiaries of the current revenue drive being enforced by the Presidential Task Force on Ports Decongestion and Easing Apapa Gridlock?

The question has become pertinent because whoever is vested with the responsibility of supervising the task force, if he is not the sole beneficiary, ought to know by now that the task force has since outlived its usefulness and it is now operating beyond its brief extorting various sums ranging from N50,000 to N200,000 to grant access to port users. To maximum its profiteering, it has also resorted to illegally mounting all manner of obstacles and roadblocks which constitute the revenue collection points all over Apapa to make life utterly unbearable for port users and residents of Apapa.

Across all the security agencies, posting to the task force is a goldmine, place to be and there is a scramble for postings with people bribing those in charge of postings with as much as N150,000. A story is being told of how a police officer with the rank of sergeant serving in Kano suddenly made it big in Lagos.

Sergeant Aliyu Bala (not real name) has been in the force for over 20 years. With his nine children and two wives, life was treacherous. He could hardly feed his family and was perpetually borrowing before month ended to make ends meet. But then, he saw a junior colleague of his who was recently posted to Lagos and just within three months, he came back to Kano with a car and the family was doing well.

Determined to get to the root of this sudden opulence, Bala pressed his colleague for information but his junior colleague only told him Lagos was a jungle and survival was a way of life. Bala got his break when his sister, who resided in Lagos invited him to come and spend some few weeks of his leave with them in Lagos. It was an eye opener for him.

Once he returned to Kano, with the help of his sister, the money was raised, paid and he was transferred to Lagos and to the task force. Today, Bala’s story has changed completely for good. In just about six months since he arrived here, regardless of the initial obstacles of accomodation and resettlement, he has not only rented and furnished his house in Lagos, he has also bought two cars, one for himself and another for his wife. He is also planning to build a befitting house too.

This is just an aspect of the corruption and racketeering going on at the task force. The main revenue drive which is the real reason Apapa gridlock would never ease and rather than finding a solution, the situation is deteriorating, worsening the traffic snarls, making nonsense of the much vaunted ease-to-doing business and holding port users in a vice grip.

Firstly, all available spaces from the National Stadium all through to the ports including areas like Orile Iganmu, Bode Thomas, and Ijora Olopa axis all through to the ports are taken over by vehicles and each vehicle pays N5000 per night for the parking space. For vehicles going to drop off empty containers, the payments range from N50,000 to N100,000 depending on whether it 40 feet or more. Then it costs N200,000 for a transporter to access the port for his cargoes.

“From First Gate to Second Gate, we have about four roadblocks mounted by the security agents and the trucks must part with money before they can move. As we speak, we pay between N1.1 million and N1.2 million per truck as against N100,000 to move our containers out of the port. The cheapest truck you can get to hire is N1 million. We have never experienced it this way before.
Victory at last!
Hallelujah

Before and After below....


Thanks for the updates Chief Naptu.[/quote]

Useless country! You have the raw materials, but you choose to sell and purchase the final product rather than converting your raw materials to useful product. Since APC's promises in 2015 and their epileptic performances, I stopped believing in all politicians. Even "Mola" enter rep through PDP and later decamped to APC, now tell me who is to be trusted among all of them. O su mi.

oluwatosink:
Yes. there should be ways to moderate. Pastor Oyakilomehn, Pastor Adeboye look good with their hairstyle/ cut

Lol, Oyakhilome moderate? With relaxer? Abegii

Viknat:
I like your write up bro. Am from south, we south and east don't hate hausa /fulani . It is the person of buhari we don't want, and it's because he is vengeful and we know has soft spot for terrorists on their various forms. Remember we voted yaradua, I myself decided not to vote atiku, because of his first performance as vp

Asslicker association of Nigeria

Arewa1stSon:
Southern presidency is possible!!

But...

Dear south west... Forget anything presidency!!

Even if power is going to the south.... It will never be south west!!
You people have been canceled!!

Even if power is going to leave the north!!

It will be going to the south south!!


Just for the Records: Northerners in Oyo, Ogun etc were attacked, killed, properties destroyed and displaced in what was a planned ethnic attack.

No single Yoruba Leader either political or monarch came out to openly condemn this barbaric act.

we will never forget the killing of our innocent northern traders in the south west!!

Even most educated yorubas both online and offline justified the barbaric act!!

the NORTH remembers

Tell Tinubu that there's still time to form a political party that will bring the whole south together against the north!!

Atleast that will be a small challenge for the north... Than wasting his time and leter be kicked aside!

The north will never support a Yoruba into the corridor of power!!

Thank God that you people showed your hatred for the north on time....

I will even prefer an igbo man... My face to face enemy into power... Than a bloody back stabber!!

Lol, see mentality. To think someone sat to compose this garbage �️... Absolute trash! Mtcheew

XXXXTENTACION:
your memory is very poor.

He did not foist anybody on you.
afterall he was not the one that told you people to vote for Buhari

neither did he force anybody to vote for herdsmen.

Ogbeni say the truth jare and move on. Baba told all RCCG member to support APC since one of his pastor was going to be the VP and here you are saying otherwise. Do you know how many followers the church/the man has got. Obviously no one ever envisaged the wickedness of this administration, but don't come and and be defending what should not be defended. God didn't tell him that this administration is going to be hell so he can simply tell Prof to not run with Buhari and simply tell his member to keep their vote for someone else.. mtcheew

360degreess:
Those looters/destroyers at lekki toll gate deserve to be arrested before they create another calamity in Lagos like they did last year..
No sane government will allow such nonsense to repeat itself.. Well,I like the approach the police is using now, charge them to court, let them pay their hard earned 100k to bail themselves with a surety.whoever comes out again, the police should do the same thing again and again..No body go tell blind man say rain dey fall..

You see why we cannot have a sane country with people like you, you want them to pay for bail what happened to *bail is free*? I give up!

Fahdiga:
South west is a region known for their accommodating culture and Igboho is trying to deceive Yoruba youths to abandon their age long culture of accommodating strangers. Igboho's ass must surely end up in Hague for his crimes against humanity

It is oloriburuku like you that will make aliens think human are not intelligent. See reasoning.

Well, you are not a bastard so you are not expected to have sense beyond this.

ThatFairGuy1:
To Those with hidden agenda, who are hell bent destroying Lagos economy and Yorubaland in general to pave way for theirs, EXPECT VEHEMENT RESISTANCE.



GO TO YOUR RESPECTIVE STATES AND DESTROY IT.

WE'VE DONE THAT OF LAGOS, LET'S REPLICATE SAME KIND GESTURE IN OUR RESPECTIVE STATES.

Lagos State did not burn because people wanted it to burn, it burnt because government instigated it. Remember they released a statement saying they lost about 200m from the closure of the toll gate before they finally brought soldiers to send people away from there with firearms without thinking about the consequences. You wonder why a human being will just carry fire and put in a big bus as big as BRT, WHAT!!! But you know for every actions, there is always a reaction. Lagos State government and Nigerian government at large simply played a wrong game. I am not in support of the Saturday's protest neither am I in support of the toll gate reopening, it just shows that the government doesn't care about the citizens. If the government is not hardened on burning lagos, they should move to stop the protest by calling off the reopening of the plaza immediately. But, like I said earlier, the government doesn't care and the the youth need to show them we are not joking..

Go and burst those that are killing people on a daily basis, you are here bursting people that want to steal bottled water and sugar.. abi wetin be SWAN?



Wait ooo, Stingy .........

I really don't know what the C in C is doing about all this killings kidnapping. Wtf, even if na blind my dey lead us, e no suppose reach like this.

It's like our safety now depends solely on luck.

SilverNorGold:
Exactly... Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is absolutely right! Those Biafra and Oduduwa agitators are terrorists and the Federal Government should treat them as terrorists!

Like I said before, unless they first kill me, No man born of woman can divide Nigeria. I dare you all bloody terrorists! You see the way I respect and love President Muhammadu Buhari, right? If Buhari should attempt to divide or support anyone whose aim is to divide Nigeria, trust me, I will fight him to the last drop of my blood! Even my father and my mother dare not attack Nigeria in my front. The day they'll try it, I'll disown them.

No man born of woman can divide Nigeria, unless I am dead... So I am warning Biafra and Oduduwa agitators to be careful! I'll personally arrest any miscreant and deal with them in my own way if the government fails to deal with them.

Nigeria lives as long as I live...
Long live, Nigeria!
God bless Nigeria!

Bastardized element!

Yea, with faith nothing is impossible. But, hope this is not a kind of Nollywood parole [center][/center]

OfoIgbo:
Where is the attack?

Is he Kanu?

Is he like Kanu?

Am I like Kanu?

Kanu is far less likely to apologise to any Fulani-slave king in Igboland, so they are obviously different. That doesn't make Kanu or IGBOho bad. They have their own styles and they have to operate within the confines of what is acceptable culturally in their respective terrains.
Yorubas are extremely hierarchical, almost to the extent that A KING DOES NO WRONG. This perspective is slightly less rigid in Igboland, because every Igboman believes he's the king of his own castle. Of course Igbo kings get a level of respect, but it is limited, compared to Yoruba reverence for their kings.

We are all individually different.

Are you always this intelligent? I need to know you more.

MickzyDonald:
Abeg when will he pass my area

What will he come and do in Ajegunle?

And why is ICC wasting time in arresting the criminals too? Is it until oga Buhari cover them up with his wings?

BlackMamba69:
Nigerian christians are just deceiving themselves.

Choir members that are fuccking each other out of wedlock

Dancing zanku and legwork inside church. Worshipping their pastors instead of God. Lifting up 'holy' hands on Sunday after fuccking on Saturday night then spending Monday - Friday insulting people in traffic, maltreating house maids and oppressing those beneath them.

None of these choir members are virgins. All are repackaged oloshoos.

Oshey *judge of the jungle*

Saint of our time.. ride on

Magnoliaa:
[color=deeppink]Swrs, I love the love-hate relationship Nigerians display for their justice system. Today, go to the court of law, not public court of opinion, but our police dey catch goats and beat them till they admit guilt or they will just round up boys drinking on their own, put guns on their laps and call them criminals. The same police that'll implicate you when you try to help a dying victim are they same ones we should trust to handle a rape case. Chai. I don't even know what to say.[/color]

you see say I just weak! He is talking as if he is not a Nigerian