sagytarius™:


Properly Fixed.

nairaman66: So you all consider this as an achievement in the 21^st??

kingoflag: Oko-Oba Abattoir, Lagos, Western Nigeria.




http://www.punchng.com/metro/filth-abattoir-operators-ignore-govts-order/

redsun: Is cowgirl another name for ileke?Abi,na ekoatlantic?

Good point,but smells of tribal cynicism.

phoneport: The Joint Task Force in Niger Delta on Thursday said it destroyed seven camps used
by militants and sea pirates in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The raid followed an attack by gunmen on a convoy of policemen while on escort duties
which left 12 policemen dead on April 6. A statement by Lt Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Media Coordinator of the task force, said the
camps had been identified as bases used by the militants and pirates for their nefarious
activities. He said the high wave of violent crime along the Delta/Bayelsa flank had caused untold
hardship to law abiding residents of the areas. Nwachukwu said the JTF on Tuesday began the raid on the hideouts to rid the water ways
and creeks of criminal hide outs and to restore normalcy. “Identified criminal hideouts used for keeping kidnap victims in Lobia 1, Lobia 2 and
Okugbe in the Southern Ijaw local government area were also scuttled during the operation. “Maritime platforms, comprising 3 Fibre boats and 2 sophisticated sea-going boats, used by
the criminals from their hideouts were scuttled. “Items, including 1 Ak 47 riffle, magazine loaded with 34 live rounds of 7.62mm, yards of
Army camouflage and sewn uniforms, radio intercom communication set and 109 Honduran
Lempira (foreign currency notes) were recovered from the hide outs.” The spokesman said plans were underway to deploy troops to Azuzuama to maintain
peace in the area. Nwachukwu assured the residents of safety and solicited for their cooperation to usher in a
peaceful atmosphere for economic activities to thrive. (NAN)

emmysenior: Y'all shouting and making fictitious comments, I think you should re-read or go through the post once again b4 commenting.

The youths didn't say the money was for them, all there are saying is that, the compensation is long over due.

Maybe those who desperately needed the money to stay alive are long gone.

Some who would have gone through minor surgeries may have finally ended up being physically challenged.

See! Guys, plenty things went wrong, and I won't blame then for venting their anger. To some, this move will rekindle the pains of lose of lives & properties.

you sounds bias, no matter how you try to hide it, is written all over your mind

...Pls GEJ, quit playing politics with peoples emotions.

SLIDE waxie: Well, they can wipe off the north for all i care!
These guys knw wo these BH are and they kept mute like they dnt knw.
These dudes are someone's husbands and relatives, they just decided not to point them out!

And wen d JTF shoots a town down, they will always cry 'civilian'.

Kill them all!!!!!!
I repeat: kill them all!!!!
Over and out to my peppersoup joint!

soma042: Posers over death of 8-yr-old girl in General Hospital Finally, Mourinho accepts to be Chelsea manager ..Advocates of amnesty for Boko Haram are enemies of Nigeria – Anglican Bishop
On April 17, 2013 · In News 9:00 am..Tweet
By Monsur Olowoopejo

Bishop of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Lagos West, Rt. Rev. Peter Adebiyi, yesterday, said anyone demanding that the Federal Government grant amnesty to the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, was an enemy of Nigeria.

Adebiyi, who made the remarks in an interview with Vanguard in Lagos, said the activities of the sect would have been reduced in the Northern part of the country if there was outright ban on activities of commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders.

link http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/advocates-of-amnesty-for-boko-haram-are-enemies-of-nigeria-anglican-bishop/


He said: “Okada is not meant to be a commercial means of transport. It is not meant to be used in any civilised country.

“It is only in Nigeria that you find this on the roads. I think those who are asking for amnesty for Boko Haram are enemy of our country.

“If we grant them amnesty, what will the government do for a man whose wife and five children were lost due to their illicit acts?”

“What about thousands of families that have been rendered homeless? And we are giving amnesty to such people?

“Their leaders know members of Boko Haram, that is why they are asking for amnesty for them.

“If you have a child that is causing unrest in the neighbourhood, the parents know what their child is doing and they are in the best position to talk to the child.

“They cannot expect another person to help them out on such issue. Unfortunately, the people we are seeking amnesty for have rejected it.”

On how to end the activities of Boko Haram, the Bishop said Northern leaders had the solution to end the activities of the sect, declaring that “I remember the Ife/Modakeke crisis.

“The leaders in Yorubaland never called on the Federal Government to settle the issue. The leaders did it themselves.

“Why can’t they (Northern leaders) do that in the North. I believe that they are trying to make Jonathan administration irrelevant. And the President is also afraid.”

soma042: Posers over death of 8-yr-old girl in General Hospital Finally, Mourinho accepts to be Chelsea manager ..Advocates of amnesty for Boko Haram are enemies of Nigeria – Anglican Bishop
On April 17, 2013 · In News 9:00 am..Tweet
By Monsur Olowoopejo

Bishop of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Lagos West, Rt. Rev. Peter Adebiyi, yesterday, said anyone demanding that the Federal Government grant amnesty to the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, was an enemy of Nigeria.

Adebiyi, who made the remarks in an interview with Vanguard in Lagos, said the activities of the sect would have been reduced in the Northern part of the country if there was outright ban on activities of commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders.

the likes of tinubu and co check yourself

He said: “Okada is not meant to be a commercial means of transport. It is not meant to be used in any civilised country.

“It is only in Nigeria that you find this on the roads. I think those who are asking for amnesty for Boko Haram are enemy of our country.

“If we grant them amnesty, what will the government do for a man whose wife and five children were lost due to their illicit acts?”

“What about thousands of families that have been rendered homeless? And we are giving amnesty to such people?

“Their leaders know members of Boko Haram, that is why they are asking for amnesty for them.

“If you have a child that is causing unrest in the neighbourhood, the parents know what their child is doing and they are in the best position to talk to the child.

“They cannot expect another person to help them out on such issue. Unfortunately, the people we are seeking amnesty for have rejected it.”

On how to end the activities of Boko Haram, the Bishop said Northern leaders had the solution to end the activities of the sect, declaring that “I remember the Ife/Modakeke crisis.

“The leaders in Yorubaland never called on the Federal Government to settle the issue. The leaders did it themselves.

“Why can’t they (Northern leaders) do that in the North. I believe that they are trying to make Jonathan administration irrelevant. And the President is also afraid.”

drnoel:
http://news.naij.com/14103.html

Pls someone should tell me what is wrong with this man they call Fashola

luli4life: Nigeria’s uphill battle to spread the country’s wealth

16



Posted at

Categories: Latest Episode, Nigeria

↓ Skip to comments





By Samuel Burke & Claire Calzonetti

Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, is full of promise. But fulfilling that promise is often a struggle.

Plagued by corruption and mismanagement, the resource-rich country has a poverty rate of over 50%.

Maternal mortality is shockingly high and more than half of Nigerians don’t have access to electricity, according to the World Bank.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the country’s finance minister and the former World Bank official has been lauded as the reformer Nigeria needs.

But she too isn’t immune from Nigeria’s problems – her own mother was kidnapped for a terrifying five days before being released.

President Goodluck Jonathan promised to address corruption in the country. Nevertheless, a former governor – an ally of Jonathan – has been convicted of embezzling million in public funds and has since been pardoned.

“Nigeria does have a problem with corruption and so do many other countries,” Okonjo-Iweala told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday. “I don’t like the fact that when people mention the name Nigeria the next thing they mention is corruption.” 

Technology could be the answer the problem, Okonjo-Iweala believes.

“We must build electronic platforms. We must distance people from the money. These things were recommended by the world bank and IMF,” she told Amanpour. “We are doing them.”

President Jonathan is calling for the judiciary, the legislative and the executive arm to meet together about this issue all together for the time first Okonjo-Iweala said.

“Because even if you catch somebody, if they go to courts and they are let off lightly the president can’t do anything about that. The judicial system also has to be strengthened,” she said.

“This is a country of 170 million people; 99.9 percent of them are honest, hard-working citizens who just want to get on with their lives,” Okonjo-Iweala said, proudly. “And they want a government that delivers for them.”

Oil should be Nigeria’s saving grace, but oil leakage causes a significant drain on the economy.

“We are still a poor country,” she admitted. “We can’t afford any leakage.”

On tap of that, there is immense oil theft, which Okonjo-Iweala puts at 150,000 barrels stolen a day. She compared the situation to Mexico, which sees tens of thousands of barrels stolen each day.

“We need them to treat this oil like stolen diamonds. The blood diamonds,” she said – calling on the international community for assistance. “Make it blood oil. Help us so those people don’t have a market to sell this stuff.”

Nigeria is also plagued by problems with its electrical grid.

When the country’s president last appeared on CNN, he told Amanpour, “That is one area that Nigerians are quite pleased with the government, that’s a commitment to improve power. It’s working. So if you are saying something different, I’m really surprised.”

That interview caused an uproar in Nigeria, with many of the county’s very active social media citizens taking to Twitter and Facebook to voice their frustrations with the power grid and President Jonathan’s comments.

Okonjo-Iweala said the power problems all come down to previous government’s lack of investment.

“If you’ve neglected a sector for that long, you’ve not invested, you’ve not even maintained your basic facilities, it’s not going to happen that fast. It takes time,” she said.

While Nigerians often complain of power outages – telling CNN they often have to use generators to watch the news channel –  Okonjo-Iweala maintained there has been improvement.

“That month, when you interviewed the president,” she said, referring to Amanpour’s previous interview of Jonathan, “the polls showed, independently, scientifically that they are in technical partnership with dialogue. That 54 percent of Nigerians felt there was some improvement,” she told Amanpour.

“Nigeria is not the only country. Almost every developing country has a problem with power, as you know. India has it. South Africa has it. South Africa is far better off because they’ve invested much more.
But many developing countries, even China, they are struggling with keeping up with infrastructure,” she said.

Okonjo-Iweala said that the administration has accepted that the government is not the best place to run the power sector.

“If we want this country and this economy to do better, we just have to get out. And Nigeria is pursuing one of the most sweeping privatization programs in any country in the world,” she said. “We are selling off everything.”

That said, the lights even went out on President Jonathan during a speech he gave a speech in front of cameras just this past Easter day.

Source : http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/16/nig…

Dracula27%:
Me again

Raymond4kc: Transcript of the interview.

AMANPOUR: Welcome back to the program. Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, is full of promise. But fulfilling that promise is sometimes a struggle. Plagued by corruption and mismanagement, the resource-rich country has a poverty rate of over 50 percent. Maternal mortality is shockingly high. And more than half of Nigerians don't have access to electricity.

Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, can't even escape the power problem himself. Here he is on Easter Sunday, delivering a speech to his people only to have it disrupted by a blackout. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says that she and her president want more for the country. She's Nigeria's finance minister and she's been lauded as just the kind of reformer that Nigeria needs. She was a runner-up to lead the World Bank and "Forbes" ranked her as one of the world's most powerful women.

omo this interview makes me cry, we really need intelligent people as our leaders .
i so much love wisdom
i so much love okonjo
i so much love NIGERIA.

But even she isn't immune from Nigeria's problems. Her own mother was kidnapped for a terrifying five days before being released.

I spoke to her and I asked her about her country's uphill struggle to transform Nigeria's resources into a better life for all the people. We talked when she was here in New York for the Women in the World Summit. And as you watch, we look forward to your tweets using #amanpour.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AMANPOUR: Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, welcome to the program.

NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, NIGERIAN FINANCE MINISTER: Thank you for having me.

AMANPOUR: Great to have you.

OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you.

AMANPOUR: Nigeria is a huge and important country. We have many, many viewers from Nigeria, always very active and very interested. So it's great to have you here.

OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you.

AMANPOUR: You have said and others have said, that 2013 is going to be a real game-changing year, a turning point year for Nigeria, particularly in your area of finance and economics.

How?

OKONJO-IWEALA: Well, it's going to be a game-changer and a turning point, because this is the year we are going to produce results. And we're already producing results within the administration.

First, on the economic side, I just want to say that macroeconomic stability has been restored. Now, nobody should minimize that. Remember, there were two lost decades in Africa, in the '80s and '90s, where there was so much macro instability that people could not even focus on sectors that could create jobs.

Now things have gone right. We've got growth that is at 6.5 percent last year and we're projecting for 2013, also, around the same number compared to average 5 percent on the African continent.

Now, I just want to say that when you mention GDP growth, people immediately say we can -- in my country, they say we can't eat growth; because we have unemployment challenges, we need to create more jobs. We have a challenge of inclusion. We have problems of inequality.

All those are challenges we face.

AMANPOUR: You are obviously a passionate defender of your country. You are a person who calls for transparency and honesty and best practices.

There is a huge problem with corruption in your country. The president promised to address this stuff. And the latest is that an ally of his, a former governor who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars, has been pardoned, embezzling $55 million in public funds.

Now, the U.S. calls that a setback for the fight against corruption.

I mean how do you answer that?

OKONJO-IWEALA: How do I answer that question?

OK, listen to what I have to say on corruption. And I think I have quite a bit to say. I wrote a book recently where I also had a whole chapter on that issue called, "Reforming the Unreformable."

Nigeria does have a problem with corruption. And so do many other countries, including developed countries. I don't like the fact that when people mention the name Nigeria, the next thing they say is corruption.

This is a country of 170 million people; 99.9 percent of them are honest, hard-working citizens who just want to get on with their lives and they want a government that delivers for them.

What we've said is that in order to help block any leakages and help to, you know, stop any attempts at corruption or taking monies, we must build electronic platforms. We must distance people from the money.

These things were recommended by the World Bank and the IMF. I used to work at the World Bank. We are doing them.

And I strongly believe that we lack institutions. We lack processes.

Now, what President Goodluck Jonathan has done now is to call the judiciary, the legislature and the executive arm for the first time to meet together on this issue and say, this is not just about government, this is about all of us coming together, because even if you catch somebody, they go to the courts and they are let off lightly.

The president can't do anything about that. The judicial system also has to be strengthened.

Legislators also have to crack down. They themselves have to work at also being transparent and helping the executive.

But for me, also, in addition to doing that, we need to stop talking and identify the specifics, like you mentioned oil leakages. Let me mention two things quickly.

The first one is the oil theft that is 150,000 barrels a day --

AMANPOUR: Which is huge.

OKONJO-IWEALA: -- a month -- which is huge. Yes. I admit that. And we can't afford -- I'll tell you; my thesis on corruption is we are still a poor country. We cannot afford any leakage.

We also need the international community to weigh in. We have -- Mexico and Nigeria are suffering from this problem, you can check. Mexico has (inaudible) losing 25,000 barrels a day. And they found (inaudible).

In our case, we have international people who also buy that stolen oil. We need them to treat this stolen oil like stolen diamonds, the blood diamonds. Make it blood oil. Help us so that those people don't have a market to sell this stuff.

That's one. And we ourselves should commit to fighting -- and we are fighting that.

AMANPOUR: Let me ask you about that, because you also have challenges with electricity. You mentioned you're very rich in oil and people just simply don't understand why there still seem to be so many problems with electricity.

And it might seem, you know, weird to pick on that one thing, but it is very prevalent. I asked your president about this during an interview I did by satellite when he was at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Let's just see what he had to say to me.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GOODLUCK JONATHAN, PREISDENT OF NIGERIA: That is one area that Nigerians are quite pleased with the government, that's a commitment to improve power. It's working. So if you are saying something different, I'm really surprised. That is one area, one area that we will -- civil society members agree that government has kept faith with its promise.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AMANPOUR: Now, that interview caused a bit of a hullabaloo, as I think you know, in Nigeria. And yet, the World Bank has said that half -- more than half the Nigerian population doesn't have any access to the power grid.

OKONJO-IWEALA: As you know, Nigeria became a democracy again when President Obasanjo came into power in 1999. Two decades prior to that, there was hardly any investment in electricity.

If you've neglected a sector for that long, you've not invested, you've not even maintained your basic facilities, it's not going to happen that fast. It takes time.

That month, when you interviewed the president, the polls showed, independently, scientifically (inaudible) that they are in technical partnership with dialogue. That 54 percent of Nigerians felt there was some improvement. They do it monthly.

Now this month, they've surveyed and they've showed this going down, because 800 megawatts has been taken off the grid, which is while they are maintaining the grid.

AMANPOUR: Well, let me ask you, because businesses apparently say that this problem with electricity is causing them to, you know, be reluctant to invest.

(CROSSTALK)

AMANPOUR: They need this investment...

OKONJO-IWEALA: Nigeria is not the only country. Almost every developing country has a problem with power, as you know. India has it. South Africa has it. South Africa is far better off because they've invested much more.

But many developing countries, even China, they are struggling with keeping up with infrastructure.

Now, what we are doing in Nigeria?

We have accepted that the government is not the best place to run the power sector, that if we want this country and this economy to do better, we just have to get out. And Nigeria is pursuing one of the most sweeping privatization programs in any country in the world.

We are selling off everything. The generation capacity, the distribution capacity in the country, government is only retaining one thing -- transmission.

AMANPOUR: Well, on that note, Madam Minister, thank you for joining me.

OKONJO-IWEALA: Thank you, Christiane, for having me.

Everfrank:
Just shut up if you don't have anything to contribute.

Inik: Wrong organization and poor publicity. There shouldn"t be a gate fee for trade fair