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This is a lie . See the Thailand Rice Exporters Association Website for the true Figures



According to the Thailand Rice Exporters Association website, Rice export to Nigeria fell from 9,907,868 Mt of 2016 to 11628,303 Mt in 2017 alone.
2017
QUANTIY (MT) VALUE
(MILLION BAHT)
23,192 324

http://www.thairiceexporters.or.th/export%20by%20country%202017.html

Story for the gods of Kwara. He is only trying to woo delegates from the state to come to vote for him at the pdp primaries
If he is really saying the truth, then he should support Ayade to contest for presidency.

Medical staff of the Lagos State University College of Medicine have down tools to protest against the adverse working conditions prevailing in the institution.

The strike has been on going for the past few days due to the failure of the state government to heed their demand for better pay.
The governor was said to have responded to them that the only condition upon which he will increase their pay is if they agree that some of their colleagues should be sacked or placed on half salary.

Consultants who were not pat of the industrial actions have also decided to join to press home their demand

Let's wait for the cross-examination by the EFCC lawyer before commenting.
I do not expect the man to testify against himself, when he did not plead guilty

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That is not the point I am making!

For this country to thrive, there should be a level playing ground for everyone!

This favouritism has to stop!!!

Let it be on merit![/quote]

Somebody is coming with HIS OWN MONEY to invest in a state largely populated and controlled by another tribe, and you are complaining of lack of "level playing ground" and favouritism.

What is not on merit in this situation. He has the money, he is investing in another tribe's state. Tell the many millionaires and billionaires from the state step forward and do the needful or shut up
Please enlighten us on how the investor has been favoured to the detriment of the indigenes here.

Dear Good people, kindly assist me on this issue.
How can somebody contest for the Presidency of a country, when that same person has not visited his own state of origin in the past Two years.
Where is he going to cast his vote ?
Kwankwaso claims to care so much for Nigeria and Nigerians but he does not deem it proper to visit his Kano constituency that he represents as a senator in the National Assembly.
Where are the constuency projects that were budgeted for his constituency ?[b][/b]

If Tinubu is supporting Buhari cos Tinubu wants to be president in 2023, at least he is not deceiving himself or defecting to another party now, unlike you. He, Tinubu has been able to manage his ambition unlike your group of defectors.

“There is nothing wrong with ambition. Without a degree of ambition, we would never strive to improve and develop ourselves. But ambition, restrained by nothing but itself, is a dangerous commodity. Unwedded to social conscience, it leads to ruthlessness; it is the father of the deception that leaders are meant to lord over instead of to serve the populace.” - Bola Tinubu

Holyman3:
What are the names of the six communities so we can monitor it

The communities are Umanna- Udi Agu- Ebenebe- Amansi- Awka- and spurring to Umumba Road, Section 2 in Enugu State

ANOTHER BLOW TO BUHARI HATERS

The Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday reviewed upward the contract for road project in Enugu State.

The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola briefed State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

According to him, the project which was initially awarded at the cost of N10.3 billion in 2012 was to serve six different communities.
The project was initiated by the previous administration, but was not funded, neither was provisions made for erosion control.

Giving reasons for the increase, he said, that there is also need to provide for erosion control, "the project suffered failed implementation due to lack of funding."
http://thenationonlineng.net/fec-approves-n15-73-billion-road-project-in-enugu/

The Federal Government has appointed Mr. Femi Adewole as the Managing Director of Family Homes Fund.

A statement from the federal ministry of finance said “Adewole’s appointment followed a competitive and rigorous recruitment process conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a renowned multinational professional services organization.”

[b]
The FG described Femi Adewole as “a real estate and housing professional with over 25 years’ experience leading housing initiatives across Sub Sahara Africa and the United Kingdom.”
Until his appointment, Adewole was Managing Director of Shelter Afrique, the Nairobi based pan-African housing finance company.

[/b]Family Homes Fund, an initiative of the Federal Government, is aimed at facilitating affordable housing delivery by entering into specific partnerships with supportive State Governments, developers and International partners/agencies that can provide technical support and financing for project implementation.
http://thenationonlineng.net/fg-appoints-md-for-family-homes-fund/

The present traffic logjam in the Apapa port area of Lagos state should not be blamed only on poor state of the road network within the axis, but also can be traced to the concession of the port by the Federal government.
The concession of the Lagos Ports complex (Apapa & Tin Can Island) that commenced in 2003, not only granted private port operators between 20-25 years lease to operate the terminals but also opened the gates for industrialists to build their manufacturing plants in the port complex.
The Federal Governments rationale for embarking on the concession of the ports then, was to solve some problems of mismanagement, inefficiency, corruption and a huge debt burden of over $34 million hanging on the neck of the NPA, coupled with high staff redundancy.
By granting Lease hold to manufacturers to site their factories in the port complex, the government inadvertently allocated the expanse of land meant for stacking containers and as Truck Park to the industrialists. These factories could have been built anywhere else in the many industrial estates in the country.
Laudable as this objective may be, the side effect that the move has produced has shown that the move was not well thought out. Though the Olusegun Obasanjo led Federal Government made billions from the 20 concessionaires that were fortunate enough to cross the final hurdle out of the 94 that were pre-qualified, but nothing was reinvested to create alternative space as container terminal
Container laden trucks, due to lack of adequate space in the ports now litter the major roads in the state causing serious traffic congestion and environmental pollution. One must also not forget the loss in man hour spent holed up in the traffic and the health issues that may develop.

Enjoyed reading this piece.

The federal government has approved a contract for the construction of link roads to the new second Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta states at a cost of N206 billion.

The approval was given Wednesday by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.

This was announced by Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on behalf of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola.

Mr Mohammed said: “Today FEC has approved the award of the link road; the bridge itself is just 1.95 kilometres, but the link road is 11.9km and this contract was awarded to Julius Berger for the sum of N206billion”.

He said the contract will include not just the link road but also associated infrastructure, adding “and you know this bridge is linking Anambra and Delta states”.

The Information Minister said the project was conceived by the Goodluck Jonathan administration under a Public, Private Partnership (PPP), arrangement which, he said, failed and that is why the federal government had to take over the contract.

“So far about N14bn had been paid to contractors handling the bridge and the contract today that was awarded is for the link and associated infrastructure that will link the bridge,” he said.

Mr Mohammad also announced that FEC approved another memo from Mr Fashola regarding a contract for the rearward of the the rehabilitation of Oji- Achi- Mmaku- Awgu- Ndeabor Road in Enugu State.

“The contract was approved today at the sum of N11.558,6976(11bn), it was awarded to Messrs Setraco Nigeria limited,” he said. He also said the completion period for the contract is 24 months.

He said the contract was awarded earlier to a company that failed and Setraco that was given other sections of the road performed well and had now been awarded the contract while that of the other contractor has been rescinded.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-east/274995-second-niger-bridge-link-roads-get-n206-billion.html

While serious minded governors are driving people and developmental oriented policies and projects, this one is complaining about renaming of a street in another state, for crying out loud.
Can somebody kindly assist to explain to this governor that he should focus his state's meager resources on projects that are capable of attracting investors and tourists to Abakaliki instead of this thing that a local government should be ashamed of.

evy4ch:
Northnernazation contiunes.

Just for your information
Musiliu Smith is from LAGOS
and OKiro's tenure has expired going by the constitution that gave him Fives years in office

It was a case of running from frying pan to jump into the fire for a Nigerian fugitive, Walter Wagbatsoma when a Crown Court in Licester, United Kingdom, Thursday 17th January convicted him of Money Laundering. He was sentenced to Three and a half years in prison.
The convict was convicted in absentia last year by a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja alongside his company of fuel subsidy fraud.

He was also barred from being a company director for six years.
According to the Lincolnshire Police website, Wagbatsoma’s conviction in the UK, was based on investigation by Lincolnshire Police Economic Crime Unit under Operation Tarlac.

The investigation was said to have revealed that over £12m was stolen from public agencies, including hospital trusts, housing associations and councils in the United Kingdom.

The funds were then transferred to Wagbatsoma’s account in the United Kingdom.
The 47-year-old Nigerian was named as the 13th defendant convicted in the trial.

He was initially detained on a European arrest warrant in June 2016 while travelling through Germany, after he ran away from Nigeria while he was on bail while his Fuel subsidy fraud case was being tried

Shortly afterwards, he was extradited and charged with conspiring with others to launder the proceeds of fraud through his businesses in the United Kingdom

Ambode don dey get sense small small

ureportsAbuja:
The first recorded incident of carpet-crossing was in 1951 in the defunct Western Region House of Assembly when several members of the now defunct NCNC, National Counsel of Nigeria and Cameroon led by the Great Zik of Africa, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe overnight decamped to the old AG, Action Group led by Great Sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo SAN, to deny the former majority in the Western Region House of Assembly, which led to the AG forming the Government in the defunct region and Dr. Azikiwe beating a tactical relevant to his native Eastern Region to form the ruling Government, It is instructive to note that this singular political event was to lead to permanent mistrust not only between the two great and illustrious nationalists Awolowo and Azikiwe, but even to their kinsmen which mutual feeling still persists.
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http://247ureports.com/law-moving-one-party-another-nnamani-ogbonna/

Please get your History right, the Western House of Assembly member that voted with Action Group were not members of NCNC but of a different party, Ibadan Peoples Party and Out Edo.
At the end of the 1951poll, the standing of the parties was as follows: Action Group 38; NCNC/Independents 25; IPP 6 and Ondo Improvement League 2. Otu Edo candidates 3
One out of the Three Edo and Five of the Six IPP law makers sided with AG, while Two Out Edo and One IPP lawmaker voted with NCNC.
Thereby AG had control of 44 lawmakers and NCNC had 28 plus the Two from Ondo Improvement League.
So my friend, there was no carpet crossing then. QED. Forget about the propaganda. If you have any fact to contradict my position please publish the same.
The records of the poll conducted in the West and all over Nigeria by the colonial administration are available at the National Archives and can be accessed by any honest researcher.

Ratello:
Your failed attempt to buy sympathy for your god, Buhari had long been exposed when you try try to bring baby and Lilliputians in form of Ministers from the South. Tell us how many of these "Ministers" have a say when solid and concrete matters that affect Nigeria's security, well being and monetary policies come up for discussion with the lanky General. We are no fools just park one side abeg with your skewed and badly constructed analyses.

You need to be realistic. If these individuals refuse to speak up and be persuasive when issues pertaining to them are at stake, why blame others for defending the interest of their people. For instance, when budgetary allocations to complete the reconstruction of the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway was diverted by the National Assembly to other things, why did SW law makers not shout and defend the project. The same goes for the provisions for the 2nd Niger Bridge, that SE law makers also conspired against.
In a democratic dispensation, decisions are arrived at by building bridges and trade-offs. Your representatives should know this fact

Magu may, ignorantly be afraid that this man is after his job. The man has a rich CV of working in Law Enforcement. He was a pioneer staff of NDLEA before moving to Consumer Protection Council and lastly EFCC.

Civil servants in Ekiti State are presently in quandary over alleged demand by the state government for the voter cards of workers before they could benefit from its empowerment scheme.

Some of the workers expressed fear that the submission of the cards and recording of their serial numbers could result in the cloning of the cards ahead of the July14 local government election.

But the state government has denied allegation that it was using the workers’ loan scheme as bait to collect their voter cards with the intent of cloning them to gain advantage at the governorship poll.

The Enlightened Workers’ Forum (EWF), an interest group within the Ekiti workforce, described the voter cards-for-empowerment exercise as a “desperate move to achieve success in the forthcoming governorship poll.”
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The question tat Fayose and his cohorts are refusing to answer is why give the people loans when you are still owing them many months’ salary ? Why not just use these funds to of set some of the salary arrears owed the workers ?

Director and Former Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Academy, Mr. Ayo Peter Olowonihi, has dragged the commission before the National Industrial Court in Abuja for wrongful suspension and demotion.
In the suit filed by Professor JO Amupitan, pursuant to Order 3 Rule 16 of the NIC Rules, 2016, Olowonihi wants the court to determine whether the commission’s staff regulation handbook titled: ‘EFCC Staff Regulation Handbook’ 2007 under which he was allegedly suspended and reinstated conditionally was valid same having not been approved by the commission as required by section 8(2) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004?
In the affidavit in support of his origination summons, the plaintiff who had worked in various capacities and under all the chairmen of the commission without blemish narrated his ordeal in the hands of the incumbent Acting Chairman of Commission, Ibrahim Magu.
The plaintiff stated that as soon as Magu was appointed in November 2015 he was summoned and accused of being behind some online publications in respect of the activities of the commission and Magu.
He added that on the directive of Magu, he was taken to the Statement Room where he was made to write a 10-page statement under caution like a suspect and in the absence of his lawyer despite being a management staff on Grade Level 17 in the commission.
The plaintiff alleged that in the course of taking his statement, the lead investigator, Mr. Yahaya Bello, told him that he was being questioned because those online publications were in furtherance of his ambition to be appointed as the chairman of the commission and that the publications were to run down the acting executive chairman.
He further averred that on the order of Magu, his official table top computer was taken away, his two phones MTN (08033485511) and GLO (08055066583) were seized and his office was thoroughly searched by a team of detectives and policemen and sealed up, adding that the search conducted showed that there was nothing linking him with the publications.
He added that his official car was also withdrawn on the directive of the acting chairman who also ordered a forensic investigation on all his electronic devises including his bank account and email addresses and nothing incriminating was found against him.
The plaintiff said while interrogation was going on, Magu demoted him as commandant and ordered for his redeployment from EFCC Academy to his office.
“On November 20, 2015, I also received a letter dated November 20, 2015 from the defendant signed by one Aliyu Nadada intimating me of my redeployment as commandant of the defendant’s Training Institute to the office of the acting Executive Chairman with immediate effect with a directive that I should handover to the next most senior officer.
“That although the letter of deployment was purported to have been issued by the management of the defendant, I am not aware of such management meeting as a management staff as the redeployment was based purely on the directive of the acting Executive Chairman.
“On December 22, 2015, I also received a query titled ‘Offence Against Discipline’ for contravening certain sections of the Defendant’s Staff Regulation Handbook. On December 23, 2015, I promptly responded to the query wherein I denied the allegations of any ‘Offence Against Discipline’ and even stated that when I saw some of the online publications, I reported it at one of the management meetings of the defendant and the matter was dismissed as inconsequential.
“On December 29, 2015 when my response was submitted, I got a letter of indefinite suspension from work without pay with immediate effect. I was allegedly queried under the EFCC Staff Regulation Handbook, my suspension was made in furtherance of Article 030406 of the Public Service Rules. The suspension was made pending the outcome of the matter.
“It is over two years now that I was suspended without salary and I have found it difficult to meet up my responsibilities including payment of school fees of my children, my house mortgage and other responsibilities. Since I was placed on suspension, I was not invited to appear before any panel nor was there any communication to me until November 16, 2017 when I was served with a Letter of Reinstatement dated November 15, 2017 demoting me and forfeiting my salaries and emoluments.
“In the said Letter of Reinstatement, I was alleged to have been found guilty of a case of “Breach of Confidence” by the Senior Staff, Promotions and Disciplinary Committee of the defendant on September 28, 2017. I was not at any time confronted by the defendant of any allegation of ‘Breach of Confidence’. I was not invited by the Senior Staff, Promotions and Disciplinary Committee of the defendant to defend myself against any allegation of ‘Breach of Confidence’ or of any other misconduct for that matter.

“Even the Senior Staff, Promotions and Disciplinary Committee only has power to try officer below Level 13 and below and not my cadre Level 17 which is the bar and the prerogative of the commission. The power to discipline me is vested on the Commission which has not been constituted and not the acting Executive Chairman of the defendant or the Senior Staff, Promotions and Disciplinary Committee.
“The acting Executive Chairman of the defendant in this case is the accuser, investigator and judge because even in the course of investigation, he had ordered my removal as the commandant of the defendant’s Training Academy and posted to his office without any designation and schedule of duty.
“I know as a fact that under the Public Service Rules, a staff who is suspended and even indicted is placed on half salary and if reinstated is paid the other half of the salary withheld. There is no provision under the Public Service Rule or under any other Rule that governs my condition of service where a staff’s salary is withheld in full during a period of suspension.
“My suspension without pay was meant to punish me and an act of vendetta. Since 2005 when I was employed by the Defendant as the Head of Training, I had worked with four different Chairmen: Mr Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer Chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde and the current Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu. I have not had any problem with any of the chairman except the present chairman who has greatly humiliated me and my family.”
Among other consideration, the plaintiff wants the court to determine whether the whole process of exercising disciplinary procedure over him by the EFCC acting executive chairman beginning with the letter of query dated December 22, 2015, the notification of suspension dated December 29, 2015 and the letter of reinstatement dated November 15, 2017 were not a gross violation of his right to fair hearing under section 36 of the Constitution of Nigeria, 1999 as amended?
The plaintiff therefore wants the court to set aside the letter of reinstatement dated November 15, 2017 conditionally reinstating him to his job on the ground that it is invalid, null and void.
He equally wants the court to set aside the letter of query dated December 22, 2015 and the notification of suspension dated December 29, 2015; and unconditionally restoring him to his position and office as the commandant of the EFCC Academy or his Grade Level 17 and to all rights and privileges attaching thereto.
Finally the plaintiff wants the court to order the payment of all his salaries and entitlements from December 29, 2015 until the case is determined.
In response, the Commission through its lawyer, Yusuf Musa requested for time to file it’s response