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Romance / How To Know If You Are Dating A Prostitute In Disguise by simtosul: 1:26pm On Mar 28, 2016
If you met this girl online and you are not sure about her “runs girl” status, read the article below!
Here are the main signs to look out for:


1. She shows you her assets.
Her pictures focus on her physical assets. Yeah, you like this. But all that glitters is not gold.


2. She boasts and prides herself in her sexual skills.
She says all this to upgrade her low self esteem and to make you feel regret in case of losing her while she milks you dry.


3. She is openly jealous of beautiful women.
If you are observant enough, you will also notice her envy against younger and more beautiful women whom she tries to demean.


4. She is a miracle worker.
This girl does not have a job, is not from a rich family, but she is always balling. She demonstrates pictures of designer clothes – Gucci, Chanel, etc.


5. She is a permanent tourist.
She goes on several vacations a month and always alone. Today is South Africa, Dubai is tomorrow, Mauritius is the next.


6. She goes straight to the point – money.
She only gives you attention when you tell her that you work with famous people and drive an expensive brand of car.

Good luck, boys, and get into dating a prostitute in disguise.


https://www.naij.com/740816-sign-dating-a-prostitute.html
Family / Re: Any Married Lady Who Never Had This Is As Good As unmarried. by simtosul: 7:28am On Mar 28, 2016
cutestA:
Am so shaking my head rite now...i'm wondering how u can sound like an undergraduate in law school,looking for clients to rip from. My dear, in case u don't know, the most recognised wedding or joining btwn man and wife is traditional. Take it or leave it. The court like u said can protect women's rights in marriage, buh, on the oda hand, have you ever thought of women who use it as a tool? I'l stop here.
u r point bro I concur
Family / Re: Any Married Lady Who Never Had This Is As Good As unmarried. by simtosul: 7:09am On Mar 28, 2016
Toks2008:
It is no longer news that tradition is the opium of the people and no one is contending that.

But when it comes to marriage,while some believe that without paying of bride price,the man can not be said to be married to a lady and some believe that without the white wedding,a marriage can not be said to have received GOD's blessings.

Well i'm not here to discus on that aspect of marriage and i had to drop this quick one as a result of the mentioned i got on a thread relating to this.

[size=13pt]I am not sorry to write this...

Any married lady who never had a legal wedding otherwise called Court or registry wedding is as good as single.Quote me anywhere in the world.
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And this is very true for some reasons but i will mention a few.

1. He can not just wake up one day and say he does not like your face again and send you out of your matrimonial home.
2. He dares not marry another wife except he divorces you
3. He must have a valid reason for divorcing you and must be able to convince the court.
4. You have protection under the law for yourself and your child(ren) in case he dies

I can continue to list several other reasons but let me just stop here.If you like, say you trust your husband,he loves you,he can never treat you bad..O.Y.O lo wa.

If you like let the man spend 1billion on your traditional wedding and do a white,blue,green,indigo wedding with a trillion naira. The fact is that these two ceremonies combined with all the money spent is not as binding and constitutional as a simple court wedding with just 4 people in attendance.

Unfortunately we have seen many people getting away with bad acts despite the fact that they had a legal wedding but the reason is because the affected individual usually lets go without putting up a fight due to high cost of legal battle and no thanks to parents and family members who always preach to them that "what is yours will always stay with you" and that they should let go which i see as stories for the gods.

Ladies be wise..as an endangered specie in the cruel world of men,legal wedding was specifically created to protect more of the lady's marital right so take advantage of it or ignore at your own risk.

I will stop here.
Op ask yourself first why on earth will u get married to a person you feel emotional insecure with? Ask yourself don't can you trust yourself let alone of trusting another person? Ask yourself on what did you both established the relationship in the first place? Wen u have answers to all this den u can rewrite ur post. Let's try not to mislead people nd make marriage look so hard that one has to consult the whole world opinion before you can make decision.
Family / Re: Any Married Lady Who Never Had This Is As Good As unmarried. by simtosul: 5:33am On Mar 28, 2016
kaziblake:
You are very correct,i concur.
1-Introduction ceremony

2-traditional marriage.

3-court marriage
Cos those set of people in Nigerian are jobless and probably don't have any reasonable things to do with their time that's why they do such ceremonies. They are less concerned about making the marriage work and last till eternity rather they are using those three ceremonies to waste their resources all in the name of wedding. A very reasonable person will pick highest two of those ceremonies Introduction and traditional or introduction and court marriage or introduction nd white marriage. Must we Nigerian lived a complete borrowed life? Even the foreign people that introduced the court marriage was because they see it as an means of contract which give them opportunity to divorce and remarried as many times as possible cos they know they will have financial and other benefits from their broken marriage. Can you count the successful percentage rate of foreign marriages so far? No answer abi? Their marriage through to court procedure is totally a contract deal. Both Nigerian man and woman if you want your marriage to work don't invite someone that God created to come and intervene but God who established the institution of marriage in the first place. Can't believe many people are yet to know what marriage is all about, you people have forgotten it's a sacred institution between husband, wife (which is one after marriage) and God where third party is not allowed. Plan your marriage on long time journey not wedding of hours journey.

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Politics / Full Deregulation Of Petroleum Downstream Will End Fuel Scarcity - Mobil CEO by simtosul: 4:16am On Mar 28, 2016
AS Nigerians groan over the persisting fuel scarcity,
the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of
Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc, Mr Tunji Oyebanji, says the
solution was for the Federal Government to
deregulate the downstream petroleum industry.
Oyebanji explained that the ongoing crisis was
being aggravated by panic buying, even as he noted
that tackling and eliminating fuel scarcity means
having constant supply of the product all-year-
round to match consumers’ demand.
“People usually ask me what is the immediate
solution to the fuel scarcity we have in Nigeria and
the only way you can reverse the situation is for you
to be able to put into the market products that are
more than the demand of the consumers,” said
Oyebanji.
The Mobil boss explained that the current crisis has
proved that the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) alone cannot meet the
increasing demand for petroleum products in the
country.
“It then becomes imperative to deregulate so that
banks can grant credits to private sector firms to
invest in all facets of the downstream sector,
especially in ownership and management of
refineries as going concern”, he says.
In this interview, Oyebanji also speaks on the
challenges posed to the operators in the
downstream sector by the scarcity of forex.
EXCERPTS:
Scarcity
In recent months, Nigerians have had to battle the
challenges associated with fuel scarcity. And I tell
people that there is only one immediate solution to
the problem, and that is putting more fuel at the
filling stations for them to sell to motorists and
other users. That is the immediate solution. The
problem is basically a supply deficiency and the
only way you solve a supply problem is making the
product available in the market for consumers. And
that appears to be the challenge that we are
currently facing. And you know that whatever comes
into the market is quickly taken up because there is
panic buying. People don’t know when next the fuel
will be available at a filling station that they see
selling fuel. So they quickly have to buy as soon as
they see fuel. Those who would ordinarily buy like
10 or 20 litres and drive off will now want to fill up
their tanks and also fill up the jerry cans in their
houses.
So maybe a filling station that was selling 20,000
litres a day is now selling 30,000 litres a day
because of this type of panic buying. And the only
way you can reverse the situation is for you to be
able to put products that are more than the demand
into the market. Supply must surpass demand for a
period if normalcy is to be achieved in the system.
And when people begin to get the confidence that
there is product in the system, then they will no
longer have to want to fill up their tanks and all the
storage items or drums in their homes. That is the
only solution. Pour more products into the system
and boost the confidence of the people and the
whole queues will disappear. But honestly, that will
take a bit of time.
There are lots of challenges in the system, from
importation to discharging at the depots. You have
logistics problems because it can take up to four
days moving products from say Lagos to Abuja.
And further north, it can even take longer days than
that. As a country, the best thing we can always do
is to ensure that the situation where supply is not
matching demand is not created at all. Because
once you create that situation, it is usually a bit
challenging for the situation to be eliminated
completely. But I am hopeful that with the plans
that have been put on ground where marketers are
working with the NNPC and the petroleum ministry,
this will be realized and the occurrences of it will
reduce in the future if not completely eliminated.
Forex
I am afraid that getting over the challenges of forex
by business owners, including oil marketers and
importers of fuel, will almost be impossible for now
because the major source of foreign exchange is
the sale of crude oil and that is channeled through
the CBN. So there is limited area for maneuver.
There are few institutions that, may be through their
affiliate companies abroad, that are able to get
some support in terms of forex, but that is not the
case for all the players in the industry. So people
who do not have that ability, it is really going to be
tough for them because we all have to depend on
what the government or CBN considers as priorities.
And priorities will continue to be given to fuel im­
ports because if you don’t do that, then there will
be queues at filling stations. But hopefully with
time, the queues will begin to ease up. But to a
large extent, we have to continue to depend on
forex based on what we can get from the CBN.
Deregulation
Look at all other industries that have been
deregulated and see how they are being managed.
Deregulation allows you to plan and also to stay
competitive. Look at the aviation industry. You can
even look at your own newspaper industry. It is a
simple thing. In other industries, someone is
responsible for the imports of their raw materials
and he plans ahead on what is the requirement of
the market and how he can achieve his profit. It is
the same thing in our industry. We also know what
is required to make the downstream industry more
efficient. But we are in a situation today where we
cannot do that because it is the government that is
in charge of everything. It is the government that
regulates. It is the government that has the power
to say, look Mr. A, you have 100 litres and may be
what I actually need is 50 litres, and the
government tells another person you have 200litres,
and may be what that person needs is 250 litres.
The problem is that everyone is nervous because of
what happened in 2011 with the subsidy scheme.
The government too is nervous because they don’t
want people to come and claim subsidies for what
they didn’t do. And for me, the only way is to put
up a structure that eliminates all this state of
nervousness. And that can only be achieved in a
system that frees up the market and that allows the
private sector just as it does in all other industries
to compete. Whenever I say this, people will tell
me petrol is different. For me, it is not. Petrol
remains a product. It is manufactured like many
other things we import and sell. I feel that if the
private sector is given the freedom, and I am not
talking about the freedom to do what they like, but
the freedom to take the business decisions that
allows them to compete under a deregulated
environment, then things will change automatically
for the better. Deregulation will allow marketers to
import and sell wherever they want. If , for instance,
I want to import for the next quarter of the year, I
can go ahead to take the business decision to do it.
And if I want to move my products from one place
to another place, I can also do that as a business
decision. But today you find a situation where a
marketer can decide to send 20 trucks to Abuja and
if he wants to take another truck to his station in
Kano, someone will not allow him to do so because
of some other interests like even the need to clear
queues in a particular area. For me, I am looking at
my own micro level. So when you free up the
market people can take better business decisions,
those who want to import will do so, and those who
even want to build private refineries will be able to
do so as well.
Refineries
It will be very difficult under the present regulated
environment for private firms to invest in refineries
in Nigeria. People invest to make money. Let’s use
the example of those who invested in tank farms.
Assuming that that was the refineries, a lot of
people would have lost money. Today, the template
has been changed and what people use to make on
tank farms has been slashed. There is government
summersault on policies in the industry. And this
creates uncertainty, which is not good for investors.
Assuming I had gone to the bank to borrow a loan
to build a tank farm and they came up and cut
down the profit margins, tell me how will I pay
back the loan. Who will help me out? These things
are economic things and not emotional. If we don’t
face it, we will keep postponing it, and the
problems will continue. And because we are not
able to adjust, we cannot invest. People have often
cited the case of Alhaji Dangote who is building a
refinery in Nigeria. I stand to be corrected; Dangote
may have put some of his money into that invest­
ment. It may not all be about the money gotten as
loans from banks. I stand to be corrected on this.
Because I said earlier, banks will not give you
money if they are not sure of how they will get their
money back. Bank money is shareholders’ money.
But unlike Mobil Oil, which is owned by
shareholders, Dangote is a Nigerian businessman.
And he has been here in Nigeria for a long time and
may be more bullish and may also be more
aggressive. And everyone has a chance of making a
decision about what he wants to do when he owns
a private company.
Sometimes, such person may be more risk averse.
But for me as the managing director of Mobil Oil, it
is about the shareholders’ money. If, therefore, I am
going to invest in a private refinery, it is not about
my money, but, like I said, it will be the
shareholders’ money. And I must be sure of
adequate returns on any investment I make with
such money. And, therefore, the risk that I take with
my own money will certainly not be the same with
what I will want to take with shareholders’ money.
So that is just the difference. So when people say
or ask why the oil companies that have been in
existence in Nigeria for many years, and yet have
not invested in a refinery, it is because there is
need to be very conservative as it would not make
business sense to do so under a regulated regime.
It is like being asked to manage a pension fund,
you cannot use it to speculate and invest in
businesses that you are not very sure of, but you
can put it in fixed deposits or treasury bills. So you
are less aggressive and more conservative in your
investment of such funds. It is not an emotional de­
cision but a purely business decision.
PIB
I think it is important also to get the Petroleum
Industry Bill (PIB) out and it will help because it will
clarify the plans for the future in the industry.
People will be able to make investment decisions.
If you want to stop flaring gas, for instance, you
know you will need to process it and you will also
need to build big gas gathering plants. And it takes
a lot of money to build this. And it is a business
decision that is better taken given the laws in the
country or the enabling environment. We need to
know the laws that back up some investments and
the penalties as well. And only the PIB will do that.
If the industry is deregulated and there are laws
backing it up, you will begin to see companies
setting up refineries. Even now, we will argue that
there is a wider acceptance of the concept of
deregulation in Nigeria.
The Nigerian businessman has demonstrated the
capacity to invest in any business as long as he is
able to get adequate returns. Capital usually goes to
where there is an assurance of good returns. But
the banks wont give you credit where there is no
returns.And that is why some companies are not
investing in refineries under a regulated
environment. The margins that marketers have to
sell fuel and make profit is so low at present and
thus making it hard for investments. Already, there
is a lot of competition in the industry and under
deregulation, there will be increased competition
and what will happen is that it is only those who are
able to stay on the top that will survive. Those who
are able to be efficient and to run their business
well will be able to survive the competition.
Therefore the bigger your refinery is under a
deregulated industry, the more efficient you will be
profitable. So for those who want to build these
small refineries, it is not a bad idea. But by the
time the big tigers come on stream, there is a
tendency that you will have to pack up and go.


www.sunnewsonline.com/full-deregulation-of-petroleum-downstreamll-end-fuel-scarcity-oyebanji-mobil-ceo/

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Politics / Recovered Loot: Why Buhari Won’t Disclose Amount – Garba Shehu by simtosul: 4:07am On Mar 28, 2016
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said Federal Government will not be able to dis­close the exact amount retrieved so far from certain persons that looted the treasury, saying it would be used as evidence in the court trials of the indicted persons. But he assured that the recovered funds were safe in a dedicated account in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Special Assistant to the President on Media, Shehu Garba, who made the disclo­sure in a chat with journalists in Abuja at the weekend, said possibility of using the recovered funds as exhibit in the trial of the culprits posed a challenge.
Critics have tackled Buhari over what they considered his lack of transparency and openness regarding the much-touted recovered funds allegedly looted from government treasury.

While defending the president, Garba said: “The issue of disclosing how much has been recovered from his (Buhari) anti-graft war would be difficult because the money retrieved will be used as evidence and exhibit against the culprits in court. Since the President promised to recover and prosecute (looters), it will be difficult to disclose the figure of the millions returned.
“I am aware that there is an account in the CBN where some of these funds are being kept but they are evidences for a judge to see, it is not for public display. I think that is the challenge we have at the moment.”

President Buhari had last November dur­ing a question-and-answer with members of the Nigerian community in Tehran, Iran confirmed that some former government officials have started voluntarily returning to the Federal Government’s coffers, part of the public funds they acquired illegally.

At a different forum, the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis­sion, EFCC, has so far recovered over $2 trillion (about N400 trillion) looted from the national treasury.

Speaking further, Garba revealed that President Buhari has ordered the disman­tling of military road blocks in the North-east zone as a confirmation of weakening Boko Haram, insisting that no part of the country is under the control of the Islamic insurgency group.

“I want to also congratulate Nigerians on the achievements Mr. President has recorded fighting insurgency, Boko Haram terrorists. The military have said it’s techni­cal victory. I think that as citizens of this country we must be able to say and defend that. This is well beyond technical victory, no city in the country is under curfew as we speak now, and all military roadblocks have been removed except when they are necessitated by a crime situation. People are freely moving and normal life is restored to the North-east.

“People are going back to their villages, of course, the challenge is that they are going back to find out that their hospitals, churches, mosques have been destroyed and demolished, bridges, schools are not there.

“This perhaps would be the next phase the president would face to rebuild the damage facilities and infrastructure and it is hope that with the budget now approved and we heard Mr. President said that the Central Bank had more than N3 trillion saved from the use of the TSA.

“So in effect, money available will be spent from the moment the budget is passed. I believed that those who have fasted can now begin to enjoy, I mean money would be unleashed into the country and there would be lots of activities that would go forth the moment the budget is sign,” Buhari promised.


www.sunnewsonline.com/recovered-loot-why-we-wont-disclose-amount-buhari/

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Politics / 2016 Budget Still Open For Scrutiny by simtosul: 3:43am On Mar 28, 2016
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Land
Transportation, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has said
that Nigerians can still scrutinise the content of the
2016 budget, which was passed into law last week
by both chambers of the National Assembly.


Ashafa, who stated this in an interview with our
correspondent, explained that any individual or
group that believed that the budget was not properly
worked on by the lawmakers should wait till the
document was published to make their
observations.


He explained that the National Assembly would
make the 2016 budget open to the public once it
was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The senator, however, assured Nigerians that his
colleagues in the upper chamber and those in the
House of Representatives worked hard to resolve
the issue of budget padding and other fraudulent
practices discovered in the document.


He said, “We have promised the world that we will
throw the budget open to members of the public
when it is passed. Anybody who believes that the
figures are still controversial is free to point it out.
“I can however assure you that a lot of work had
been put into this budget. Experts had been called.
Government officials, politicians and civil society
groups all made inputs before its eventual passage.


“I see the interest shown by Nigerians in the budget
as a positive phenomenon because without the
enthusiasm, we might not be able to put in as
much effort as we put in.”


www.punchng.com/2016-budget-still-open-for-scrutiny/

Celebrities / Re: Photos: P-square Finally Perform Together by simtosul: 2:05pm On Mar 27, 2016
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Celebrities / Photos: P-square Finally Perform Together by simtosul: 2:05pm On Mar 27, 2016
Peter Okoye finally performed together as Psquare at the Palmundo world festival in the Netherlands
last night ..Peter still refers to himself as Mr
P.Glad to see them back on!

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Romance / Re: Question: What Part Of The Human Organ Never Rest? by simtosul: 9:35am On Mar 12, 2016
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Romance / Photo: What Is The Right Answer? by simtosul: 5:50am On Mar 11, 2016
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Politics / Saraki’s False Asset Declaration Trial Begins Today by simtosul: 5:38am On Mar 11, 2016
All is set for the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on 13 counts of alleged false assets declaration to begin today (Friday).

Saturday PUNCH had reported that the prosecution, led by Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), had proposed 13 prosecution witnesses to testify in the case.

The Supreme Court, through its judgment delivered on February 5, 2016, had paved the way for the trial to begin after dismissing the Senate President’s objection to the validity of the charges and the jurisdiction of the CCT to hear the case.

The Danladi Umar-led tribunal subsequently fixed March 10 for the commencement of the trial, but it later shifted the date to March 11, following a request by Saraki’s new lead counsel, Mr. Kanu Agabi (SAN).

According to a statement issued on March 1 by the Head, Press and Public Relations of the CCT, Mr. Ibraheem Al-hassan, Agabi pleaded with the tribunal for a shift in the trial date to enable him to attend to other urgent matters.

The CCT spokesperson said Agabi conveyed his request to the CCT in a letter dated February 26, 2016.

Saraki was arraigned on 13 counts of false assets declaration on September 22, 2015.

In the charges instituted by the Federal Government, Saraki was accused of making false assets declaration in his forms submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau as a two-term Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.

The Senate President, who was said to have submitted four assets declaration forms investigated by the CCB, was allegedly found to have “corruptly acquired many properties while in office as the Governor of Kwara State but failed to declare some of them in the said forms earlier filled and submitted.”

He also allegedly made an anticipatory declaration of assets upon his assumption of office as governor, which he later acquired.

He was also accused of sending money abroad for the purchase of property in London and that he maintained an account outside Nigeria while serving as a governor.

Saraki initially refused to appear before the tribunal, prompting the CCT to issue a bench warrant against him.

He voluntarily submitted himself to the tribunal before the arrest warrant could be executed.

The tribunal rejected his request for the quashing of the 13 counts shortly after he was arraigned on September 22, 2015.

He appealed to the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, against the decision of the CCT to continue the trial.

But by a two-to-one split decision of its three-man bench, led by Justice Moore Admein, the Court of Appeal dismissed the Senate President’s appeal.

Saraki, in his further appeal to the Supreme Court, asked the apex court to quash the charges filed against him, citing among his seven grounds of appeal, that the CCT lacked jurisdiction to try him as it was constituted by two instead of three members.

But a seven-man panel of the apex court presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, unanimously ruled in its judgment on February 5 that Saraki’s appeal against the jurisdiction of the CCT and the competence of the charges lacked merit.

Justice Walter Onnoghen, who delivered the lead judgment, dismissed all of Saraki’s seven grounds of appeal, affirming that the charges instituted against him were valid and that the tribunal was validly constituted with requisite jurisdiction to try him.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, and other members of the full panel of the apex court, comprising Justices Tanko Muhammad, Sylvester Ngwuta, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, Chima Nweze and Amiru Sanusi, also consented to the judgment.

Meanwhile, Justice Abdukadir Abdu-Kafarati of a Federal High Court in Abuja, had on March 1, fixed March 22 for his judgment in a fundamental human rights enforcement suit, through which the Senate President is asking for an order to stop his trial before the CCT.

But at the hearing of the case on March 1, Jacobs, who represented the Federal Government’s agents sued as respondents to the suit, urged the court not to grant Saraki’s prayer, as that, according to him, will amount to overruling the judgment of the Supreme Court.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, represented by Mr. Suleiman Abdukareem, also adopted Jacobs’ contention in opposing the Senate President’s suit.

But Saraki’s lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, urged the court to stop the CCT trial on the grounds that the Senate President’s right to fair hearing was breached during the investigation of the allegations leading to the charges preferred against him.

Oluyede argued that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission usurped the powers of the Code of Conduct Bureau to investigate the details of assets declared by the Senate President and filed charges relating to the infraction discovered.


http://www.punchng.com/sarakis-false-asset-declaration-trial-begins-today/

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Politics / NNPC Restructuring: Workers Stop Fuel Supply, Shut NNPC Headquarters by simtosul: 5:30am On Mar 10, 2016
The nationwide scarcity of petrol worsened on Wednesday as oil workers embarked on a full-scale industrial action, which led to the shutdown of the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Abuja as well product depots, mega filling stations and other critical facilities.

The workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, who gathered at the corporation’s headquarters early in the morning, shut the NNPC in protest against the restructuring of the national oil firm by the Federal Government and immediately embarked on a nationwide industrial action.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had on Tuesday evening announced that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the restructuring of the NNPC into seven new divisions, comprising 20 subsidiaries.

But the oil workers said they were aggrieved because they were not carried along in the entire process.

One of our correspondents gathered from some marketers in Lagos that the poor fuel supply situation was exacerbated by the directive of the unions to their operations personnel at the depots in the metropolis not to issue tickets for loading of products to the marketers.

A marketer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The petrol supply situation in Lagos and its environs became worse on Wednesday because of the directive by PENGASSAN and NUPENG to their operations men not to process tickets for the marketers to load the product.

“The supply problem before now has not been addressed. Over 80 per cent of the petrol in the country is being supplied by the NNPC. Out of the seven depots doing throughput, only about three had the product on Wednesday and marketers could not load from them because of the directive by the unions.”

It was gathered that officials of the NNPC who ought to supervise the discharge petrol from vessels into the storage facilities of Aeito, Capital Oil, Ascon, Nipco, Eden Petroleum, MRS and Folawiyo in Lagos did not report for duty in compliance with the directive of the unions.

In Abuja, the main entrance to the corporation’s headquarters was blocked early in the morning. Employees of the corporation and its subsidiaries, whose offices are located in the NNPC Towers, were turned back by the protesting union members.

According to them, the shutdown of the NNPC is nationwide.

The Group Chairman, NUPENG, NNPC Branch, Mr. Odudu Udofia, told journalists in Abuja that the protest by the workers was against the unilateral decision of the minister to reorganise the corporation without carrying along any of the stakeholders, especially the two trade unions in the oil and gas industry.

He stated that workers were suspicious of the reorganisation as nobody could explain its direction, adding that “this even became clearer with the consolidation of operational units that have heavy financial transactions under the office of the GMD.”

Similarly, the Group Chairman, PENGASSAN, NNPC Branch, Mr. Salah Abdulahi, said the unions had earlier expressed their opposition to the reorganisation when it was first raised by the minister during the annual Oloibiri Lecture on March 3, 2016.

Asked if the unions were not concerned about the effect of the strike on the already bad state of fuel supply across the country, Abdulahi said, “The fuel scarcity problem has been there before we embarked on this strike, we did not cause it.

“However, we know this strike will increase it; that’s the only way to let the government know that we are not comfortable with the unbundling or restructuring that it has done at the NNPC.”

Meanwhile, the Senate on Wednesday directed Kachikwu to appear before it over the restructuring of the NNPC.

The minister, who also doubles as the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, was asked to appear before the Senate Joint committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream, Downstream and Gas) to explain the Federal Government’s action.

A letter signed by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Tayo Alasoadura, and sighted by our correspondent, stated that the upper legislative chamber was shocked by the news of the unbundling exercise.

The letter read in part, “Shocked by the announcement, three committees overseeing the industry wish to invite the minister to appear before them to brief them on this critical decision in a meeting scheduled for Thursday.”

Alasoadura said the the action was taken “without recourse to the Act establishing the NNPC and approval by the Senate of Nigeria.”

The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, also told journalists that the announcement of the unbundling of the corporation had generated issues that the Senate was looking into.


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