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The All Progressives Congress in Ondo State has urged banks and the Federal Government not to
grant any loan to the government of Governor
Olusegun Mimiko.

The party said this in a statement by its Publicity
Secretary, Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya, on Thursday.
It also asked Mimiko to give account of all allocations that had accrued to the state since the inception of his administration more than six years ago.

The APC also challenged the state government to
explain to the people of Ondo State why he should be granted a N7bn loan from Access Bank when he has yet to fully offset the over N70bn debt formally
incurred.

The party cautioned the Federal Government and the bank on the danger of approving such loan for
Mimiko. The APC further explained that projects
executed under Mimiko’s watch could not justify the
N44bn his administration inherited and the huge
allocations he had received since 2009 when he took over the reins of government.

The statement read, “The approval of this loan will
create pitfalls and drawbacks for the incoming
administration. This is similar to what President
Muhammadu Buhari inherited from his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. Mimiko was only planning to spread banana peels on the way to prevent his successor succeeding.

“The good people of Ondo State must ask Mimiko
why the state should borrow more money when he
could not properly manage previous loans, account
for inherited state treasury and offset outstanding
loans and indebtedness.”

The APC said Mimiko’s government when
inaugurated promised to turn Akure, the state
capital, to a “small London” and that the Oyemekun/
Oba-Adesida Road would be converted to a six-lane
dual carriage way.

It noted that houses and shops were demolished
while project were awarded for N3.2bn, but residents were shocked that the contractor ended up only “replacing street lights and road dividers.”

“We, therefore, urge the Federal Government and the bank involved not to grant the loan to this
government and we are also calling on the lawmakers, who are representatives of the masses,
to invite the governor for explanation on how he has been spending the state’s allocations for the past six years,” the statement added.

Sweetlemon:
True. I am not against their biafra. I'm only against them forcefully taking our SS lands through a hate campaign. Why not do so peacefully? Ask for it in the right way then ask whoever that wants to join them to come along? I can't vouch for the whole SS though but I can authoritatively tell you that most people in my Akwa-Ibom and also Cross river will rather form their own country than biafra. This has nothing to do with PDP and APC. My mum's brother was forced to join the biafran army which affected him badly. My uncle is pyschologically and emotionally and even a lil mentally unstable. Her family and a host of other efik families affected are yet to forgive the Igbos for that unnecessary war. Now they want to drag us down there again? Hell NO! This time I can assure you that the so-called biafra war will be btw SS and SE.

tucky200:
Get sense u no gree get...do you want to remain clueless for the rest of ur life ?!

unitysheart:
We hope those going to be appointed next are coming on Merits.

chuna1985:
Why are u people bent on crediting any good tin that happens in nigeria to d dull@rd

BurnaKing21:
BETTER appoint a BIAFRAN warrior or RESIGN.....*this is Nigeria not northgeria*

The name and shame campaign of delinquent debtors, which Deposit Money Banks in the country commenced on Monday continued on Wednesday with the United Bank of Africa Plc releasing the names of its customers with non-performing loans.

The list, which initially had 119 names, was recalled
at the last-minute for a review that later reduced the
names to 56. It was learnt that some major customers approached the bank to re-negotiate their loans when it dawned on them that the lender was going to make good its threat to publish the list.
A firm, Highland Marketing Limited, in which a
former Minister of Power and Steel, Mr. Bashir
Dalhatu, and two others were listed as directors,
owes UBA N459.28m.

Food Concepts Plc, owners of the Chicken Republic
brand, topped the UBA debtors’ list with N1.7bn .
The directors listed for Food Concepts are Chief Dele Fajemirokun, Mr. Deji Akinyanju, Mr. Idris
Mohammed, Mr. Mark Hilton, Bashorun Odunaya
Olagundoye, Alhaji Tunde Yusuf, Doyin Akinyanju and Mr. Paul Farrer.

Among the first six on the debtors’ list were Meno Oil and Gas Limited, European Soaps and Detergent
Limited, Rockbridge Energy Limited and Combase
Energy Limited respectively.

It was observed that UBA list had a significant
number of players from the oil and gas sector with
hundreds of millions of naira in non-performing
loans.

A few of the players in the oil and gas sector whose
names appeared on the list are Lloyds Energy
Limited, N401m; Enegas Power Limited, N400m;
Sigab Oil and Marine Services Limited, N330m; OBD
Petroleum Limited, N172m; and Vine Oil and Gas
Limited, N103m.

It was learnt that the directors of debtor companies,
whose banks had yet to publish their debtors’ lists,
had commenced last-ditch negotiations with the
lenders in order to avoid possible embarrassment.
It was gathered that Standard Chartered Bank,
Keystone Bank and Wema Bank Plc would publish
their lists of debtors next week.

Officials of the banks, who spoke under condition of
anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter,
told our correspondent the lenders would most likely publish their lists next week.

Those that have so far published their debtors’ lists
are Zenith Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Union
Bank Plc, Sterling Bank Plc, Skye Bank Plc, Fidelity
Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Heritage Bank Limited,
Enterprise Bank Limited, First Bank of Nigeria
Limited, Access Bank Plc, Diamond Bank Plc and
Unity Bank Plc.

The Central Bank of Nigeria had on April 22, 2015
directed the banks, discount houses and the Asset
Management Corporation of Nigeria to publish the
list of their delinquent debtors from August 1.

They are to publish the names in at least three
national newspapers on a quarterly basis.
In line with the directive, the banks gave the chronic
debtors a three-month grace period, which expired
on July 31.

Twenty-four hours after the Federal Government replaced the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, it announced the sacking of all the eight executive directors of the corporation.

This was confirmed by the Group General Manager,
Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, in a statement on Wednesday night in Abuja.

Alegbe said in the statement, “The Federal Government has approved the retirement of all eight group executive directors of the NNPC with
immediate effect. “The affected group executive directors are Mr. Bernard Otti, GED, Finance and Accounts; Dr. Timothy Okon, acting GED, Exploration and Production, who also doubled as the Coordinator, Corporate Planning & Strategy; Mr. Adebayo Ibirogba, Engineering and Technology; Dr. David Ige, Gas and Power; Ms. Aisha Abdurrahman,
Commercial and Investment; Dr. Dan Efebo,
Corporate Services; Mr. Ian Udoh, Refining &
Petrochemicals; and Dr. Attahiru Yusuf, Business
Development.”

The statement noted that the new Group Managing
Director of the NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, personally
conveyed the Federal Government’s decision to the
GEDs. He expressed gratitude to them for their services to the corporation and wished them success in their future endeavours.

No replacements were named, but our correspondent gathered that four new group
executive director positions had been created and
that some names were already being considered by
President Muhammadu Buhari to fill them.

Sources at the corporation gave the new directorates as of Refining and Engineering, Exploration and Production, Commercial and Investment, and Finance.

Buhari had a week ago, pledged to fix the oil sector,
rid the industry of rot and recover money stolen by
operators in the sector. On Tuesday, he relieved Dr. Joseph Dawha of his appointment as the GMD of the national oil firm, replacing him with Kachikwu, who until his appointment was the Executive Vice Chairman and General Counsel of Exxon-Mobil (Africa).

The President had in late June dissolved the NNPC
board. The Federal Government, through the NNPC,
regulates and participates in the country’s petroleum industry.

The NNPC was established on April 1, 1977 as a
merger of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation and the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel.
The law that created the firm permits it to manage
the joint ventures between the Federal Government
and some foreign multinational corporations,
including Shell, Agip, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total.

Through the collaboration with the companies, the
Federal Government conducts petroleum exploration and production. But industry observers had on several occasions complained that the corporation lacked supervision, stressing that it had degenerated to a rent-collector for the government with less attention to transparency and accountability.

On Tuesday, the New York-based Natural Resources
Governance Initiative canvassed the need to overhaul the management of the country’s oil sales process by the NNPC as top priority for the Buhari-led administration to stem waste and loss of billions of dollars in revenue.

The international watchdog said in one of its latest
reports that the NNPC’s approach to oil sales was
suffering from high corruption risks and had failed to maximise returns for the nation.

The authors of the NRGI report, led by Aaron Sayne,
said, “We find that management of the NNPC’s oil
sales has worsened in recent years, and particularly
since 2010. The largest problems stem from the
rising number of ad hoc, makeshift practices the
corporation has introduced to work around its
deeper structural problems.”

The NNPC receives about one million barrels of oil
per day, or almost half of the country’s total
production, part of which is sold to its subsidiary,
Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, for the
country’s refineries, while a larger volume is sold to
traders.

malvisguy212:
Good job bro, long time.

Jozzy4:
What exactly is your point bro ? Am suspecting u aint different from the pastor mentioned by Mizjanet .



What is a soul ?

What is body ?

Lets start from there ...

Question: "What is the difference between the soul and spirit of man?"

SPIRIT

SOUL

SOUL AND SPIRIT

Jozzy4:
Mr sanchez01 , Jesus said " Lazarus sleep" , you said its just Lazarus " BODY that sleep" .. Who should I bliv ?

MizJanet:
I actually met an indoctrinated folk like you who also Lack knowledge !

He told me there is something called resurection

I ASK: whats resurection

He Replied : coming back to live

I ASK : when will it happen

He Replied: Future

I Asked : but ur religion said you dont die , how will u now come back to life ?

He Replied : yes , actually we dont die , but our flesh died . So that flesh or body will be resurected back for us .

I asked : so u wont have flesh until resurection, do u belive in ghosts preach by your religion ?

He Replied : Yes .

I Asked : BUT your religion affirms that when ghosts appear they appear in human form , and people could see them ; where do they get their flesh since it hasnt been resurected yet ?


He Replied : to confess, actually have not seen one , I just belive. But have also heard something along that line of ghost coming in flesh , that question is something I need to research on . Thanks .

He activates his thinking . And ponder on the point raised . Thats exactly what you should do about the original post

John 15:19 - "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."

John 14:2. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

"These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

23 The same day came to him the
Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection,
and asked him,
24 Saying , Master, Moses said , If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife , deceased , and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman died also.
28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err , not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30[bold] For in the resurrection they neither marry , nor are given in marriage , but are as the angels of God in heaven.[/bold]

51. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep,
but we will all be changed,
52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. 55 “O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is
the law;
57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Rilwayne001:
Jesus can never be a sacrifice for sins…

The contractor handling the N9.2billion worth of clean cook stoves and wonder bags awarded by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan has dragged the Federal Government to court.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment,
Fatima Mede, disclosed this to State House
correspondents on Tuesday shortly after briefing
President Muhammadu Buhari of the ministry’s
activities inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mede said the contractor approached the court to
order the government not to terminate the contract
following the emergence of the present
administration.

The Jonathan-led Federal Executive Council had on
November 26, 2014 approved N9.2billion inclusive of Value Added Tax for the procurement of 750,000
units of clean cook stoves and 18,000 wonder bags.
The contract was awarded in favour of Messrs
Integra Renewable Energy Services Limited.
There have been calls on the present administration
to terminate the contract.

Confirming the legal action, Mede said the ministry
had briefed the Office of the Attorney General of the
Federation on the development. She said the government would appear before the court to argue its case.

She however did not say if there were plans to
terminate the contract. She said, “The matter is in court right now, so there is a limit to how I can talk about the issue of cooking stoves.
“The contractor took government to court asking the court to grant an injunction for government not to terminate the contract. “We will go there and argue our case, the government will go, we have briefed the Attorney General’s office.
“We will present our case on the issue that led to the contractor taking us to court, it will be explained and the court will decide.”

Mede said during her team’s meeting with Buhari,
the President raised concerns over environmental
degradation in the country. She said the President was aware that the sustainability of the country would depend on how well the environment was managed.

She added that the rate of desertification and
afforestation in the country was alarming.
She said over 43 per cent of Nigerians were affected
by the effect of desertification.

The Permanent Secretary also pointed to the conflict between the herdsmen and farmers because of forced migration. She said the President had directed that to reduce the rate at which wood was being cut down for cooking, the ministry should consider promoting the use of LPG especially in the cities.

onenaira3:
All we saw are you yoloba miscreants wailing and crying on the begalfbof SE Igbo. Even on NL, all we are still seeing are you yoloba miscreant. Your opinion box what SE thinks have no sway. Try again you miserable coons. The ppk we should be wearyibg about are you despicable miscreants.
I'm actually happy to see SE letting Una dance the show of Shane. It continues to show me and every anioma on this planet what a tribalistic, disgraceful savages yolobas are truly are.

fulanimafia:
All of a sudden biafrans are denying their brethren...

They can wail on, they will only continue to reveal to the SS what a scam Biafra is.

Let them wail.

owobokiri:
Every discerning mind knows it was all about personal greviances. Nothing else. Using Rivers state resources to fight against Rivers states interest. In every picture Amaechi has taken with buhari these days, it is noteworthy to see a humble amaechi bowing, groveling, caps in hand, shaking buhari with all the respect a corrupt soul can muster. But from the first day, it was total disrespect for Jonathan as if the office of the president doesn't matter, simply because the beneficiary happened to be a 'local guy'. . For one oil field, you quarreled with Jonathan to no end, today you have handed the whole Niger Delta oil wells to one Daurra tribalist who only needs you for ceremonial photo ups at washington and co. . Some change there. .

azzima:
Then why didn't emefiele do this when the Drunkard was in power??he had all the time to do so. My Brother,you better accept the NEW NIGERIA or else you will be left behind still angry because of your loss at the elections .

onisler:
make I book space incase didicated 2 all puzzy I hv zip

The World Bank has released the first tranche of payment, totalling N1.4bn, to 10 Nigerian universities listed among the African Centres of Excellence.

The fund is for the ACE project to shore up the
ranking of the universities in agriculture, health,
science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The Executive Secretary of National Universities
Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, who said this at the
ACE project post-effectiveness workshop on Monday in Abuja, warned the benefiting institutions against compromising the objectives of the scheme.
Nigerian universities had won 10 out of the 19 slots
for Africa.

The benefiting universities are the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta; Bayero University, Kano; Benue State University, and the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State.

Others are the University of Jos; Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria; University of Benin; University of
Port Harcourt, and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Okojie said, “The success of the ACE project holds the prospect of favourable global ranking for Nigerian universities and the nation cannot afford to toy with the opportunity.

“The feat of a Nigerian university, which assisted in
checking the spread and scourge of the Ebola Virus
Disease when it broke out in the country, would have ordinarily earned Nigeria a top place among world universities.”

The NUC secretary added that investigations had
commenced to identify universities offering online
degrees with a view to checking their illicit
operations.

The ACE project, inaugurated in 2014 by the
governments of Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Republic of
Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo and Senegal, is to
promote regional development challenges in the
participating countries.

Former Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers said on Monday in Abuja that the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in this year’s general elections was engineered by God.

Mr. Amaechi said this at a reception organised for him by the Committee of Friends at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

He said God engineered the victory by giving the APC a good and credible presidential candidate, which enabled the party to win the last election.
He thanked all members of the party for working hard during the campaign, saying the victory was for all party members.

“Gov. Amaechi did not contribute more than you did. We all worked together; in fact, it will be unfair for us to claim the glory.

“This is because I believe that the victory of APC was engineered by God.

“And I saw it coming and told my friends that we would win. People thought I was a political mathematician.

“The more I prayed, the more God gave me the confidence that we would win.

“One of my prayer points was `God, do not tell me You will protect me after we lose; protect me now by making sure that we win’; and we won.”

Mr. Amaechi, however, stressed that APC must deliver, as the citizens would hold it accountable in 2019.

“We will not disappoint Nigerians. We believe APC governors are progressives and therefore, they cannot afford not to deliver.”

The former governor said that the struggle had been quite challenging since he joined APC, adding that the state’s allocation from the Federation Account had reduced grossly.

“From 2013, we were receiving N6 billion; by the time I left office, our wage bill monthly was N9.2 billion.’’

Mr. Amaechi recalled that when the state was receiving about N20 billion monthly, he employed more teachers for the university, college of education, polytechnics as well as secondary and primary schools.

He said that the increased wage bill of N9.2 billion was because more people were employed in the state.

“The fuel subsidy was N300 billion under former President Olusegun Obasanjo and it remained the same under President Umaru Yar’Adua.

“Within six months under President Goodluck Jonathan, the fuel subsidy rose from N300 billion to N1.9 trillion.

“Yet, Jonathan wanted more money for fuel subsidy.

“This prompted the trouble between me and the Jonathan administration,” he said.

Mr. Amaechi thanked the organisers for the reception in his honour.

The National Chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, said Mr. Amaechi had the ability to struggle, fight and win power, describing him as “hyper-active”.

“Amaechi brought passion and energy into APC and he was aware of the risks of failure. The man we are celebrating today deserves honour,” Mr. Oyegun said.

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Chairman of the occasion, said Mr. Amaechi had transformed Rivers within the seven years he governed the state.
“I know this because I have visited Rivers many times and have seen the work he did.

“The primary schools in the state are better than some state universities.

“He also transformed the roads, health sector and created jobs, among other things.

“All these feats make him a transformative leader,” Mr. El-Rufai said.

The governor said that Mr. Amaechi was constantly strategising for the party, making him an arrowhead in the lead-up to the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states.

Mr. El-Rufai said the former Rivers governor particularly contributed to efforts to increase the collection of the Permanent Voter Cards from 50 per cent to 90 per cent nationally, shortly before the general elections.

He said that Mr. Amaechi was worthy of being celebrated because he displayed courage in everything he did and cared about humanity.
“He has no regard for ethnic affiliation; he has no regard for religious affiliation.

“He is a devout Catholic who believes that every human being is entitled to his or her religious beliefs.

“What matters most to Amaechi are fairness, equity and justice and I am happy to call him my friend,’’ Mr. El-Rufa’i said.
(NAN)

Bibidear:
Is he into fake drugs or he is not doing his job well