₦airaland Forum

seyluv:
Honestly I don't understand why dey r dragging dis case.. It's really unfortunate that d doctor died, i can imagine d pain his death must av brought to his family but at d same time, it wasn't intentional, it was an accident I mean it was an accident for God's sake in which she was also involved, her Car was even a write off as we heard, she didn't set out dat day with d intention of killing.. But because she's a celebrity, dey kept on dragging & dragging d case ..
If I may ask how many people av dey jailed since wen dangote trailers have been killing Innocent Nigerians?? I believe dis case can settled out of court..

That's why she was given just a 5 year sentence, a light one that is for crimes like theft and so on. And 11 years ago sounds like delayed justice.

LEXYCOM:
Don't worry, by God's grace the supreme court will rule in her favour

Supreme court? over just a 5 year term for manslaughter, 11 years ago. Haba.

Habakus:
Anambra state does not seem to be part of Nigeria where incompetence rules the day. It's an obvious pointer to the fact that if given the opportunity,Igbos can truly change the fortune of this country for better. It's like there's a self-awakening going on the SE; even Abia and Ebonyi states are buckling up reasonably.

So happy about that. But can you see that it is regions holding and have held the Presidency recently and in the chequered history of Nigeria that are most disquieted and dissatisfied. Truly the Presidency is overrated. I honestly cannot see what are the concrete benefits a peoples get when the President comes from their region. Next to nothing. Only a few bigwig pirates from that area, not the people. Frankly it is Nigeria that ultimately loses not having a South-East President, not the South-East.

Nothing much to say. When government does not deregulate in a contracting economy, it is bound to lose control. I continue to say it. Supporting a weak naira artificially for starters is taking away the powers of the CBN to control the economy. When 70% of your GDP passes through the black market, how can you be in control. But he said that Nigeria produces nothing so we cannot devalue. I asked, then what are you doing heading government. To change or maintain the status quo.

Folks, this is an admission that they cannot diversify the economy, short, medium and long term. No one in this government knows how to go about diversifying the economy so as a people we should just wait for the price of oil to rebound substantially. Perhaps by 2018/9 will we see oil prices heading anywhere near those of 2014/5, then the government will 'regain control'.

Folks, the price of oil is the official barometer of our economic well being. For the first time in history we have openly admitted that OPEC is our government and the middle east is where our presidential villa or government house is located......weird.

banmee:
You are funny. No one has the dexterity to lead Nigeria. It is just not possible. If it was, it would have happened by now. It is more than half a century and Nigerians are still searching for the special one. It can never happen. Not with the way the mentality of Nigerians is structured.

Now you guys are waking.

bonechamberlain:
. this was the same excuse the previous govt gave but APC were lambasting and lamenting, now they are in power giving the same excuse, if every govt gives this same excuse we would never have light.

Precisely. Excuses (by all governments past and present) are a sure sign that ideas are lacking and that your so called Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies is just a joke. The evidence is clear. We rely too much on oil and gas. The people blowing up pipelines know this. Just as terrorism thrives on publicity, pipeline vandalism thrives on dependency. Everyone from government officials, oil service contractors, oil companies and vandals potentially profit from sabotaging these assets. So what you do as a right thinking government is that as eagerly as you go after the vandals you also actively spread your risk. You begin to de-invest from the region, from the that source of energy so that in years to come the price of gas won't hit you, acts of sabotage won't cripple you. When the vandals know that you won't cry over their acts and won't bother to repair the pipes for months on occasion of dependency, they will fade away.

But we are so driven by this maddening thirst for oil and gas and so ensnared by this ethno-geocentricism that I would bet that the next power station built will be a gas fired one located a gazillion miles away in Timbuktu.

[quote author=shamecurls post=43637811][/quote]Some of you folks are just impossible. Can't you just stop for a second, reboot your thinking and consider the FACTS. If you ran a business will you depend on only one source of raw materials, one production process and one customer. Is there any nation in the world depending on only one source of energy or one location of its power plants. Is it strategically or economically prudent. Are we resilient or weak as a nation by this arrangement. It is pipeline vandals today. What if it is foreign invaders tomorrow. Are we that daft.

I gave an example a while ago. It was planned that Geregu power plant in Kogi taps gas from Escravos in Delta through some 700 kilometres of pipelines. Is that wise when you consider that Kogi state has un-exploited coal deposits and borders Enugu state with proven coal resources. That will be some 300 kilometres of rail-line to convey the coal. If not for politics and sentiments and the attitudes you guys continue to promote Geregu will be working by now. Is it an issue of coruption so widely touted by this government - no. It is an issue of sentiment, an issue of structure. Nigeria is the way it is because sentiments beclouds objectivity.

The person who took the decision for example to place a gas plant in Kogi cannot be charged for corruption but has damaged the country even worse than a corrupt man. That is why in Nigeria nothing works. From rail, to refineries, from schools to customs services. Every decision is structurally deficient.

Saheed9:
I could remember this same college was featured on channels tv some years back. So nothing has been done since then. Smh

Yeah and after all the hue and cry a lot of work was 'allegedly' done. May have been cosmetic but my gut feelings is that it was shoddy, substandard and could withstand the poor maintenance culture and mean attitude to public, 'government' property flowing in our veins.

Even Louis Edet house built by almighty Juilus Berger not a millenia ago is already showing her Nigerian complexion.

DEXTROVERT:
oga sir,

How
does
driver's
license
prevent
ACCIDENT

You must be nuts. I implore you to board an airplane flown by a pilot without a license and when you return to earth with half your life, go under the knife of a surgeon without a license. Then you will know how and why.

DEXTROVERT:
oga sir,
How does driver's license prevent ACCIDENT

You must be nuts.

DEXTROVERT:
oga sir,
How does driver's license prevent ACCIDENT

You must be nuts.

Kay17:
The NNPC Act creates NNPC and a Petroleum Inspectorate and grants powers to the corporation in respect to its functions.

The Act did not create subunits or administrative components of NNPC. That automatically gives the executive the discretion to design the corporation operations in a manner which it runs efficiently.

The key questions to ask whether the unbundling act is illegal or unconstitutional;
1. Does the NNPC still exist as a body corporate?
2. Are any of its powers curtailed?
3. Has the NNPC board membership changed?

My answer to all above is no! The NNPC still exists with all its powers and functions. What changed was its administrative units.

So if the NNPC can be restructured at the drop of a hat how enduring will these heavenly changes be and will it not be better to pin these changes down with the weight of the law with 170million Nigerians on top of it so that some scoundrel doesn't toss it into the bin tomorrow. At the end of the day it remains the same argument. What Nigeria needs most to develop are strong institutions. Democracy is not a one man show no matter what one's feelings are. The solution to dysfunctional arms is not to relegate them but to develop them because a nation's strength is the weakest link.

CFCman:
We all know that the NNPC, as we know it, is a cesspool of corruption. But the president cannot act illegally to reform/reorganize the institution. Due process must be followed.

Thank you. And the people saying bull here fail to realise that their representatives are tools of their own interests. If they want the NNPC unbundled their reps will not oppose it and to my knowledge they have not.

The reason why the PIB is not passed is not because of the reps but the people they represent - Nigerians.

Wallade:
You should know that will be herculean task; how long has the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) been in the house of representative and senate? They didn't pass it till date and you are asking PMB to toe that line too knowing that the perverts, selfish and corrupt reps and senators will trade on it till infinity to enrich their pockets and frustrate the move.

I stand with PMB on this one. Sometimes he may need to exercise fiat in a bid to achieve expected results. I choose to treat this as an executive decision. Senate and reps can go to hell!

You too don't understand. No law means no law. It will be illegal and in sane societies no one will do business with an illegal entity whether local or foreign, whether banks or customers. And like I said, a new government can easily nullify and reverse it. The President is not a law or an institution unto himself. Its like you want to register a business and the CAC says come to us first and you ignore them. There are consequences.

Peterwins:
The crux of the matter:

That is what the shallow brains criticising the Senate fail to see. If it is not legal another government will just consider it null and void. The bane of our democracy is the continued degradation of our institutions.

Having said that I personally want to see the end, not the split of the NNPC. We should completely privatise the oil industry if we want to diversify the economy.

BizBayo:
My Presido can never be part of.... I trust him

So why is he only 'angered' at the mismanagement aka theft of party funds and not take action as he is apt to do in other cases. Is it not because an investigation of the theft will lead to the sources of these monies and we may find out that security votes and other budgeted funds had been diverted by state chapters of Dasuki Incorp. And that he rode these financial waves to Aso Rock. Really Mr. President. Only angered?!?!?

mjbaba:
APC funds doesn't belong to the Federal govt or to Nigeria. If they like let them mismanage 20B. As long as APC does not ask Efcc to intervene, they won't. Don't compare it with Metuh who collected from Arms Purchase money

Hmmm....so it is only Federal funds the EFCC goes after. What about Yahoo boys. Do they steal government funds. What about the Ricky Tarfa case. Was it about government. Some APC fanatics have taken sabatical to work in the bakery, busy sugar coating stuff. Abeg just be quiet.

alt3r3g0:
Have you heard of Eni, statoil, Petrobas, Aramco, Sinopec?

We cannot keep giving up on assets because it was mismanaged by a few people...that will still be the ones to buy it if they turn around to sell it.

These companies i mentioned are all still run by human beings with blood in their veins and still one head. Why can we do the same?

Sinopec is in China...and they have the death penalty for corruption. Here, common invite for questioning everybody shouts witch hunt, if guity, they shout amnesty. When things continue to go wrong we shout innefective government. We have to have rules and punishment for things to work as we want them to.

Thats the difference between private and govt organisations. Goverment, everything is zoning...rather than qualification. Private, its either you are good enough or you get thrown out. Dangote that you mentioned does not pick his management team on quota system. Same for any organization that is on top.

Are you in China? Do they have fuel scarcity in Saudi Arabia. Venezuela is broke. Do they import petrol? Does Eni face militants blowing up lines in Italy. So what is the comparison about. Is it not stupidity to use global models that work contrary to local conditions. You have used a system for 40 years and it is not working and you entrench it further. Is that not madness. As I exemplified. I remember CLEARLY. Cement was on the list essential commodities the last time Buhari was in government. Today it is an export commodity. Pally, I have told so many. Petroleum, oil, gas are ordinary commodities. Donot elevate them beyond their status. Let us demystify them. It is government and its evil collaborators that make it an idol, a god to be worshipped. The process of making petrol from crude is no more complex than making cement from limestone. Think Nigerians. Think. Bush boys with no education are refining in the swamps. Why is government hanging on. What is in a refinery that an Adenuga cannot build and run. What abeg.

They unbundled the nonsense called the NNPC and the first and only thing you hear is not what they would do, how they will operate, what new levels of efficiencies will arise, what will change, but as usual in this joke of a country, who heads them and in typical failure mode the 'sharing' of positions (that's all they know how to do) is done by geography. Do we know who or where the CEO's of Dangote's subsidiaries come from. What about GLO, Innoson, Silverbird, etc. No one cares. We only care about products and performances. Why can't we do same for gas plants, refineries, oil blocks. Afterall when we drive to the station to tank up we don't ask where the owner or manager comes from. Government should just get the hell out of the oil industry. Rubbish people.

I don't make comments about the stupidity going on in the oil industry but these people really ought to stop this deception. For heavens sake. You say you want to diversify from oil yet you continue to entrench yourselves in it. Stopping dependency on oil to me means liquidating the NNPC and getting the hell out. Dangote says he is buiding a massive refinery. Why not throw in your lot with a company of proven track record, a home grown private entity who has done it for a host of other commodities. There was a time in history cement was like petrol today, here today scarce tomorrow, cheap today, expensive tomorrow. That era is gone because government gave up the cement business. Why can't it give up the oil and gas business....if not for corruptive, manipulative interests.

Well this is why I continue to emphasize that only restructuring can truly do more than the cosmetic changes we have on offer and that the current leadership will only maintain the status quo as they are proven 'establishment figures' i.e. operators of the Nigerian system that has led us fifty years to where we are. Some still emphasize that 'jail the corrupt and all other things will be added unto us'. Has it? Are we developing. Can't we see there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we exist in this communal entity. The economy is bad - no solution. Security is bad - no solution. Tribal and cultural chasms are widening - no solution, and on and on. This is a country clearly unable to make headway. Its disappointing.

Good idea. One too many problems of that market dating back and each one getting bloodier. It should be relocated to the outermost limits of the state.

Creamz:
Some of you saying my wife will be my next of kin. What if something happens to you and she gets married again and she is the type that makes the husband next of kin and something eventually happens to her. Will the children not lose everything? No matter how small the child is its of my own opinion to make the first child nxt of kin. If you have other properties your other children canbe nxt of kin there too

You are mixing 'next of kin' with a 'will'. They are not the aame thing. In my opinion the first is more about responsibilities towards you while the latter is more about benefits.

lamideee:
My child of cos,not wit the way men are promiscuous these days. Laye hubby,ko jo

Hmmmm......understand your sufferings as a result of your poor choices. That's why I will always advocate women especially to develop themselves before thinking about relationships with men. Elevate your thinking.

My wife of course. Is this a question.

Silly people.

lomprico:
there is nothing wrong with the headlines. you misunderstood it! they are importing grasses FOR the grazing reserve not for the cows to feed on.

Just getting your knickers in a twist. Instead of hiding somewhere so that this sad chapter blows over you're rather accentuating it. Turn it upside down, in to out, it looks and sounds bad, really bad.

Ogbeh has started. I expected him to be off the mark quickly in his usual thievery and true to form in classic manner it is imported Brazilian grass. A leopard can never ever change its spots. When they come up with these crazy, unverifiable, unquantifiable schemes just know that its leopard feeding time. The ultimate virus is one that mimicks the human cell or hides underneath it such as the HIV. The ultimate corruptor is one that can hide under a government acclaimed for its anti-corruption wars and successfully plunder it.

AfroKnight:
Okay. All outstanding subsidies have been paid. So what is causing the scarcity?

Uncertainty. In everything. Exchange rate, import regulation, pricing, etc. In business no one wants to be caught without a chair when the music ends. That is what we are saying. Let us practice free market. Government has no business regulating exchange rates, dollar supply and certainly petrol. Let the government leave us alone to buy, sell, make or not to make.

When we say that the most important decisions of your life should be God centred, people often take it lightly. Marraige is a 'life' decision and is on the exclusive list of God. God made woman and 'brought' her to man. It is God that selects wives for men so I seriously advice you end this misadventure and return to God for the needful.

Am sure each side wished they had a certain 'government' to make the outcome a bit more decisive in their favour. The Nigerian state has never be this fragmented and fragile. The merchants of the status quo must be running out of crack covering green and white wallpaper.

viviangist3:
God Please SAVE NIGERIA

From what or who.....