₦airaland Forum

THE Action Congress has called on President Umaru Yar‘Adua to pay the accumulated N400 billion belonging to the Niger Delta Development Commission.

The AC said that the commission needed the funds to enable it to carry out projects that would help in the development of the Niger Delta.

Speaking in a telephone interview on Saturday with SUNDAY PUNCH, the party’s Publicity Secretary in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, expressed dissatisfaction over Federal Government‘s inability to pay the money.

Explaining that the accumulated sum was owed the commission by the immediate past administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Eze argued that the payment of the money would go a long way to show President Yar‘Adua‘s seriousness in tackling the Niger Delta problem.

He said, ”We in the Action Congress are watching the President. He has always given the impression that he wants the development of the Niger Delta, but in practical terms, not much has been done.

”It is unacceptable that the Federal Government is still withholding the sum of N400bn being an accumulated sum owed the commission. If such a huge amount of money is owed NDDC, how can it carry out its objective of assisting in the development of the Niger Delta?”

He expressed dissatisfaction at the amount appropriated to the NDDC in the proposed 2009 budget, adding that the commission needed adequate funds to execute its projects.

Eze, however, expressed satisfaction over the 25 per cent oil derivation as recommended by the Technical Committee on Niger Delta.

He noted that though, 50 per cent derivation was expected, the 25 per cent recommended would go a long way to providing the needed infrastructure development in the region.

Eze charged the Federal Government to find a way of monitoring how funds allocated to both the states and local government areas were spent.

On the appointment of Alhaji Rilwan Lukman as the new petroleum minister, Eze said though, the President might have chosen him as a result of his experience, the party did not subscribe to such an appointment.

“We in the AC do not subscribe to such action. Somebody from the Niger Delta should have been allowed to handle such ministry,” the AC stalwart said.

it has to be obama

i know pple will argue fashola, but i promise u development is happening elsewhere

i read an article about this bright medical student in the who's who of young enterprenurs in a foreign tabloid? cant seem to get any info from any site

the first blunder he made was on the IPP, it would cause us more than has been spent already to finish the project. if it were completed,stolen monies recovered ,corrupt officials prosecuted. we create a manufacturing base. the port congestion is because manufacturers are being killed daily with the poor infrastructure. we might need to import the next president to solve our problems.

hope for a better tommorrow, lets not give up. yaradua is a better person than most of our past leaders not a better leader , i pity him. he was ill prepared. he is ill adviced and he cant deliver in 2009, no be swear. the budget isnt taking us anywhere. over 1 trillion on recurrent exped is sacrilegious

yaradua is a product of nigeria.

akwa ibom is in the south eastern part of nigeria

dangote told his cousin dantata femis plan to acquire chevron shares, dantata quickly acquired chevron, femi dey vex , he imported cement in large bulk which is cheaper,donated 1 billion 4 political cover and he is competing with dangote on his turf, its time alhaji does something, see what obj has done again

sale of Chvron Corporation's interest in the downstream petroleum marketing firm, Texaco, may have pitched two of Nigeria's fast-growing entrepreneurs against each other in a titanic fight for business supremacy.
Businessman extra ordinaire, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has engaged his lawyers to sue some media houses for maligning his name and putting him in bad light before the public.



Dangote’s determination to hit at these media houses under the soft sell genre is because he believes that the tilt of the story over his recent face-off with his erstwhile friend – Femi Otedola may have been orchestrated by latter.


Prior to that, he had sent volume of unsolicited gift – sugar, pasta, which met with the journalists’ surprise as it is viewed as Greek gift.



Days after the story that may have prompted his action was revealed, as it was published “after we investigated, the undercurrents”, we gathered.



The battleline is drawn as Dangote is determined to go the whole hug, the media houses are confident in readiness for the challenge as they insist, “we are sure of our facts, we remain unbowed.”

http://fnc0486./2008/11/02/dangote-fights-back/

thanks for the post, its a very complex matter, so many lines to be drawn eg btw belief and insanity.one of my friend once said that if all the General Overseers were given tabs of Cpz, they wont hear any message? but i am a christian , i have faith, i see know reason not to believe as i will lose not.
i know someone v. close, young in mid-20's,an undergraduate in Lag, he gave his life to christ 2 yrs ago, prior to that he was a yahoo yahoo boy, he had money spent hundreds of thousand in clubs, so i tripped when i realised he had changed, he sold his, laptop, 406 and bullet , forfeited abt 1 mill, bought a public adress system started preaching, then he went in too deep in the spirit world, he hears voices that takes him to far west african countries became like equivalent of jihadists.
i worry psychosis has come into play.Why do we need to disturb the spirits and is there a line that seperates sanity from all these stuff, /

this ribadu matter has been overflogged, the psc has the right to dismiss him, he knows he was to be dismissed,wait for the verdict of the court. the bigger picture is to make sure cases he set up and new cases are followed

hey, i know its not easy to quit. do a chest xray, the result might put you off it , and remember the sweetest thing about life is not the highness, havent you noticed that you gas take jumbo or you know they high again, you might have pre cancerous genes so try stop abeg life is to sweet to die untop 10 mins highness

In as much as we can castigate yaradua, the blame i am sorry to say still lies with obj, cos he presented the man using the pdp machinery to foist an underserved leader on us, its a shame. 2009 is going to be tough,contractors are already crying, debt is rising. how come the budget has had 20% implementtion in the last two years. when we expect our leader to inspire us with a speech which could assure investors and the citizens alike he comes out with the an uninspiring list, of what good is dora as info minister, why do we need 37 ministries when we know we cant balance the budget, why why am i a nigerian? when would we get a leader in this country?

kobojunkie, i amazed at the level of your reasoning?

if you cant feel your heart beat with your palm on the left side of your chest, the you have COPD

C=copd (cmokers)
O=obesiy
P=pericardial and or pleural efflusion

hey?
some questions will prune down the diffrentials,
How old are you?
any assiociations? bld
pus discharge
Hx of std-------HAVE U done urinalysis test or mcs
the pain, where is it located?
does it go and come or is it only when urinating?

well done fash, if only you were in abuja the over 2 trillion budgeted in 2008 would have had some effect on the masses, education will secure their future, shape their character and build a better nation, those hawkers might be threat to the society in years to come when they are being exposed to the under and hardworld early in life, well they have to feed today to work tommorrow, so i support them working to support themselves until poverty is reduced in nigeria

new channel on hitv

ok 300 mil is unreasonable

well its not a prority, but at least jobs will be creatd, this year budget was 2 trillion have you noticd anything apart from recurrent expenditure which project have you noticed in your enviroment. the arewa click dont believe in privatisation cos its a veritable source of employement, goverment controls everything and all the money is used ion paying salaries and 4 greasng themselves with fertlizer schemes , govs and politcians are stealing the money. if crude oil prices continue to go down i really fear for our dear country

sorry, which kit did you say you used.the hiv antigen might be in its latent stage, endeavour to recheck, if you love her so much then marry her.

* take your drugs as at when due
*diff drugs have diff times at which they peak so say a drug has a half life of 9 hrs and your hifhest acivity would be say 3pm, in short read the half lfe and apply appropiately
3do ecg and echo every 6 months cos of complications
*carrot,banana and orange is rich in potassium

it might be pus

its true, i noticed it abt 6am this morning, is it a promo cos i am tired of reloading, nrtwork is congested and i want to call,

hitv defrauded me of 4000? i make i work in the teaching hospital in ife, why i should i go to yaba to activate my account, gtb bank activation is not working , wake up HITV, tayo aderinokun the owner of hitv should tranfer gtb uniqness to hitv,

i support the goverment action, look there is a real threat to topple his goverment, so reporters chould confirm sensitive stories b4 coming out

uti will be nominated on monday, nigeria is no 3 in subscription numbers

Mcain will win,its obvious he would make a better president

oreily was aggressive, watched part 1 and clips of part 2

if ur girlfriane is raped by armed robber wot will u do

Glodmann sachs recently conducted a an internship programme recruiting bright students 23 from africa 7 from nigeria, only 5 were from oau, great ife, went to lag and ife. google it