₦airaland Forum

PointB: @Op,
I'll take that dilapidated structure as a 'massive' improvement over the 'hut and shack' school in the second picture. ACN's government public standard is truly amazing!

Kobojunkie: If you see nothing wrong with the original statement, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with the statement below. . . .

[size=14pt]" Continued struggle is necessary so that the Hausa man will always be at the top and dictate to the all of Nigeria"...[/size]

Abuja -The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked the Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to step down immediately following his son’s indictment in the fuel subsidy scam.

The party made the call in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, a copy of which was made in Abuja.

Signed by its its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the statement said that Tukur’s resignation was important to “relieve him of the huge moral burden” placed on him by his continued stay in office.

According to the statement, the fuel subsidy scam trial will be held in two courts — the court of law and the court of public opinion.

“While Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is not facing any charges in the court of law over the scam, he is definitely a star suspect in the court of public opinion.

The party noted that many Nigerians were already insinuating that nothing would come out of the trial, especially as far as Tukur’s son was concerned, it said.

The statement said that Tukur’s son’s indictment was an allusion to the influence bestowed upon him by his high office.

”While we have nothing but absolute confidence in the ability of the judicial process to ensure justice, we believe that anything than can reinforce the impression of thwarted justice in the fuel subsidy scam trial should be removed.

“Alhaji Bamangar Tukur’s continued stay in office is one of such.”

It said that Tukur’s continued stay in office was inimical to efforts to clean up the tainted sector.

The party recalled its consistent warning, while the controversy over fuel subsidy removal raged, that the government should not punish ordinary Nigerians by increasing fuel prices.

“The ordinary Nigerian is today paying N97 per litre of fuel because of the corruption in which he or she is not involved.” it said. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/step-down-now-acn-tells-bamanga-tukur/

dedeike: Let's press rewind.

In Finance,

finance ministry is carrying out bio metric evaluation of federal civil servants  to reduce waste. The checks revealed the pension scam of over 120 billion. There is the new integrated online payment system which helps the minister monitor transfer of public funds. Our foreign reserves have risen again to 37 billion dollars. There's the proposed Soveriegn Wealth Fund to cater for excess oil sale proceeds.

In Energy, a lot of reforms. The president is keen on transparency and thus has set up probes into the sector viz KPMG AUDIT and AIG IMOUKHEDE. The president sought to close the window of corruption by removing subsidy but the cabal misled Labour into a protest. That notwithstanding, the reforms are still ongoing and the full deregulation of the downstream sector being vigorously pursued. Last week, the FG had concluded the PIB which remains a landmark legislation that will revolutionarize the petroleum  industry. Refineries are undergoing repairs and an American company, VULCAN is to build six more new refineries.

In roads, Zaria-Funtua-Gusau roads, Oshodi-Apapa with expansion and drainage works,  dedicated bridge frm liverpool roundabout to Tin can ports, trailer park, Dualisation  of Ibadan -Ilorin, ENUGU-Onitsha, completion of OWERRI -Onitsha,    9th mile, ongoing reconstruction of Benin-Ore-Sagamu highway measuring over 265 km, Kano-Maidugri Dualisation. Keffi -Akwanga-Lafia, award of Afikpo-Okigwe, Auchi-Okene being handled by Setraco. Loko-Eweta-Karishi bridge, Kolo-Nembe -Brass  to mention but a few.

In Transport, massive reforms at the ports. Sanitisation and reduction of operating agencies to 7. Introduction of 24 hrs ports operation. Ongoing Construction of light gauge train railways across t4 cardinal point of the federation

In  Aviation, massive reconstruction of major airports in the land, Enugu airport is undergoing total rehabilitation. The domestic wing of Abuja airport is also being reconstructed with expansion of roads and car parks. Same fr the international wing and the kano airports

In Education, establishment of 9 new federal universities in less than 1 year. Constructed 2 new campuses of the Nigerian law schools in Yenagoa and Yola respectively. Launched the Almajiri schools for education of itenerant Islamic pupils in the north wFhich Buhari and other northern leaders abandoned. Increased funding to almost 400 billion to education thereby setting an all time highest record. Reinvigorated the inspectorate oversight of schools leading to the revocation of some licenses from universities. Executed the landmark upgrade of university lecturers retirement age from 65 to 70. 

 In agriculture, for the first time in our history, we have a clearly defined agricultural policy which is targeted towards maximum utilisation of cassava for growth thru the launch of the cassava bread campaign. The policy is intended to reduce our reliance on imported wheat so as to encourage local production of cassava and it's conversion to flour for bakery. The FG has in less than one year eliminated the middlemen cartel that fed fat on fertiliser distribution at the expense of local farmers. Now through deregulation reforms, fertiliser is now accessible in the open market. he has also embarked on massive construction of silos and has increased import duties on the importation of rice in order to encourage local farmers. The efforts of the minister has been so appreciable that the world bank assisted with over 50 billion Naira for fertiliser redistribution scheme/ silos. The CBN has also set up a 500 billion loan scheme which is to assist farmers.

In power, the NIPP has been revived with the subsequent refurbishment of Afam, Alaoji, Calabar, GEREGU, Omotosho, papalanto power plants. This has led to the addition last December of 4,000 megawatts from barely 1700 to the national grid. To address the problem of distribution,  the 18 successor companies have been slated for privatization.  The media is already awash with news of the proposed privatization next week. The reforms include the review of tariffs in order to ensure a cost reflective tariff that will encourage private sector participation in the building of gas plants. Already, this has started yielding dividends as SPDC has commenced processes towards building a gas plant in IMO state.

Beaf: How bro? Does ACN own Bicourtney Limited? Any paranoia is misplaced.

The Minister is simply saying that Bicourtney has underperformed and is being shoved into the long grass, while the FG takes over directly. I believe the Bicourtney nonsense came about only because the Late President Yar Adua was ill.

Kobojunkie: I have a question . . . since everyone in here are supposed to be adults. Why are you, or anyone, trying to tell em how they can criticize CORRECTLY? I believe in freedom of expression. If all you know is to cricitize out of hate, go for it, and accept the consequences. If you believe in arse-licking, go for it but don't complain when someone tags you an imbe-cile for that.

I don't sit on any side or with any politician, yet I get attacked by people on both sides of this fight - -- the anti and the pro Goodluck Jonathans. When I applaud Government, on either side, no one sees that, however, when I criticize bad work, I get lambasted for that and labeled a hater for it. You don't see me creating threads to whine about it neither do you see me telling people how THEY CAN ONLY criticize constructively ACCORDING TO MY RULES. No, I simply ignore the dingbats and focus on making my point or my opinion known.

LIVE AND LET LIVE!! That is what I say. I think it is meaningless to tell people how they can criticize or not criticize their own government. They elected them and so they have every right to criticize as they choose. No need wasting bandwidth and space trying to ignore their rights so you can have your way.

jmaine: How can we define criticising constructively (sic) , without applauding constructively ? . . . .

Cos that is where the invalidity in your assumption of a constructive "hate" criticism lies . . .

chucky234: Never knew this guy will become this big,he was once of those normal guys in my neighbourhood in Festac back then and I used to form bigger boy before them with one of my aunt's sweet car given to her by Julius Berger.
Such is life and so much love him for his examplary attitude,we love you 2baba.
Edumare don bless you

berem: me sef confuse walahi! But all the same,thumbs up to the taxi driver.at least we still have innocent nigerians.but if na me eh....

Gbawe: Will some of you stop acting as if you don't have a brain? It is not being pro or anti GEJ that is the crux of the matter. Issues are about the multitudes of NL ID's that joined in June/July (a 'trying' phase for the Presidency)with Robotic contribution limited entirely to swallowing GEJ's vomit while automatically attacking those perceived his enemies. You can fool yourself if you want. How many GEJ critics joined NL in June/July for us to see literally hundreds of Pro-GEJ ID's joining at the same time, all devoted to the same talk and scope of interest?