₦airaland Forum

violent:
This is definitely coming out of your árse, cos something stinks!

Your blind sympathy for GEJ, peharps for tribal reasons has eroded every shroud sense of logical reasoning you might have had!. . . . Lagos was NOT developed by private firms, it's absolutely shameful to expect from private companies, what your government should provide.

Need I even join words with you? Apparently you are the only person in the world that think Oil companies should have no hand in developing their communities. You also miss the fact that all the structures I mentioned in Lagos and Abuja were by the Federal Govt not LGAs. Do your brain a favor and go to bed.

Remii:
^^^ May be you stop using 1, 2, 3, 4, they are from Arabs (Arabic numerals). you have to stop using Trigonometry and Algebra among other Muslim / Arab investions also. Since you don't like to use anything Islamic

Erm . . . Trigonometry Dude Why you sabe lie Please use google . . . its free.

Algebra also is arguable and the Arabic numerals themselves are based on Hindu numerals.

GenBuhari:
So why didn't he?

Boko Haram existed during OBJ's tenure.

Most intelligent post on this thread. Let the others that know nothing speak the loudest. Wasn't it at the closing stages of Obasanjo that Niger Delta Militancy went to a new high crippling our production?

texazzpete:
So no one sees nothing odd in the fact that villagers are demanding that a company provide them with light, water and roads when there's a local goverment that basically does nothing?

I've said it before and i'll say it again; the problem with the Niger Delta resides in their leaders. I am yet to see ANYTHING done by any local government chairman in any ND state. These people just exist to share and chop money.

Your hatred for GEJ is fast beclouding your reasoning.

Were Lagos and Abuja developed by LGA Chairmen or even Governors? The bridges in Lagos, the tall buildings, the ports, the airports and everything that makes it the Economic capital; were they developed by LGA Chairmen or Governors?

I think discussions about the Niger Delta is way over your head. Stick to issues you are comfortable with and collect your pay (which is also from the Niger Delta) at the end of the month

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AK 46 + 1:
Q: How did she get employment at Shell w/o the youth service?

A: When she returned to Nigeria, her husband was the Chief of Naval Staff Under Abacha regime so who get the mind to question am? She must have found her way in using the right connection.

Wrong. She was already in Shell before her marriage.

Now on to the NYSC issue, The law allows for an exemption certificate in such cases. When this issue came up before her first ministerial appointment (Transport) she showed her exemption certificate.

Can we move along to matters actually worth discussing now?

I can only applaud your hatred. I  can only smile at your hypocrisy.

Why the lack of interest in the cabinet being constituted at state level. Do any of you even know what plans lawmakers from your constituency or senators from your districts have? Did you guys even vote?

Continue displaying your ignorance, crying all day long - "GEJ this GEJ that, GEJ did not appoint who I wanted him to appoint as minister."

From the comforts of your homes out of the country you have all the solutions. I laugh in swahili.

Make I hear word jare.

Villas Boas has been confirmed. It's a step in the right direction.

A-40:
Andres Vilas Boas is trending Worldwide on Twitter

Just checked. You are right. I set mine on Nigeria by default. I feel he is a bit young and inexperienced on top level but lets see.

Villas Boas from Porto to be our next manager. I guess we couldn't get Hiddink off his contract.

blank:
Mrs Allison is never in d country. She is always travelling. Everything grinds 2 a halt when she is not around cos she wants 2 be d one approving everything. Ask people who work in her ministry n dey will tell u so. She is so inefficient.

When you go to the gas station to refill your tank, do you need her to approve the sales or do you need to ask the "people who work in her ministry"?

If she travels as much as you (or your imaginary friends) insinuate, how come product availability does not "grind to a halt" each all the time?

In her so called "inefficiencies" she has achieved with fuel within a year more than any other in her position has done in 18years.

adeban01:
Somze,do u assume all Nigerians are fools.Something tells me you are from d Niger delta and you feel its an act of patriotism to give kudos to the minister and  GEJ.You also forgot to acknowledge that it was Yaradua that reduced petroleum price fom 70 to 65 naira.Diesel and Kerosene prices are still high.stop spreading rumour about some rescucitated refineries.

A simple class in comprehension will help your plight. Where did I say someone else reduce petroleum price? Nigerians have to be more intelligent than this.

Diesel is deregulated.

Kerosene is N50 per litre. Just read on another thread about women in warri celebrating about it.

In what other regime did we have the same availability of fuel we enjoy now?

IBB should be locked up in a jail cell but hey thieves and monsters are allowed to roam freely in our streets. June 12 1993, $12bn oil windfall, May 31st 1999 (rigging Obj to power). Now he claims elections were rigged all in the name of wanting power zoned to the North. He should best be silent.

Pennywise:
A lot of people do not pay light bills in Nigeria.

It appears the yoke on bill paying citizens and businesses is about to get real heavier. If more pple paid light bills there

will be no need to increase tariff

Very true. Most of them while complain all day about epileptic power while they refuse to pay for the power they use. If everyone paid their bills there would be no need to increase it higher than the current N10 per unit kw (I believe).

PHCN should share most of the blame in this. Due to internal corruption and largely thanks for casual workers whose main responsibility is to disconnect/reconnect defaulters, the pre-paid meters were not made available to most of the public.

gist4real:
Let forget all these lies this is the fact:
Diesel now sells for N165 per liter. Kerosene is not even available. There is still looooooooooooooong queues in warri and parts of Abuja. OP might want to verify.

There are no queues in Abuja. That is highly inaccurate.

I see a lot of comments on kerosene and diesel. I think both products are deregulated ( kerosene I believe is partially deregulated). There are no known issues with cooking gas.

debosky:
The refineries have NOT been 'revitalised', as of December 2010, NONE of them were working due to multiple pipeline vandalisation, some even occurring on a weekly basis in Port Harcourt, so I see absolutely no achievement there.

Any responsive organisation/minister would have a specialised pipeline repair team on standby to repair vital pipelines to the refineries, not waiting 18-24 months to do repairs.

Any references?

debosky:
PIB was not Allison's idea at all, it was initiated by Rilwan Lukman, who devised the bill along with the reorganisation of the NNPC into a focused oil producing company to give it teeth to one day become like Petrobras and Statoil.

This same Allison Diezani has been implicated as being one of the Shell informants in government that are working to frustrate the PIB bill that Yar'adua initiated. The bill has subsequently been watered down to meet the desires of the IOCs, and yet has not been passed.

No where in the article does it say that she initiated the PIB bill. This is the exact quote "the push for the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill". Claims that she watered down the bill is preposterous. Normally companies that would be affected by the legislation are called to give their input. This was going on before Mrs Alision-Madueke. For crying out loud that bill had been in the committees of House of Reps and the Senate for 2 years now. Meanwhile, how many petroleum related bills were passed under 3 years of Yar'adua? Make I hear word jare.

debosky:
Simply engaging in massive importation of petroleum products is not much of an achievement in my view.

Before - Long fuel queues, night vigil held at filling stations, black marketing, hoarding, scarcity lasted for weeks, pump prices were higher than regulated price, adulteration of product and explosions etc
Now thanks to Mrs Alison-Madueke - No fuel queues, availability of product, product sold at regulated price in every station etc.

What were you saying again

debosky:
I am highly sceptical of the claims of improving gas supply - everyone knows that these projects take time to execute, and most of them were already in progress, so coming to commission existing projects, some of which were started when OBJ was in government (but delayed by unrest in the Delta) is misleading at best and outright dishonest at worst.

Oga she initiated the Gas revolution plan and these things take time. The fact she can initiate a long term plan for the benefit of Nigeria says a lot about her approach. Short term she has removed scarcity of fuel; introduced gas pricing as an incentive for investment. Long term she is creating a gas industry that would be larger than the oil industry and create jobs; more refineries are being built etc. Skepticism is expected because we have been failed so many times before but lets put things in context. We have seen her delivery.

debosky:
To hear another opinion beyond the blatant propaganda in the source article, read below

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110524383568

She has twice been indicted by the Senate for fraud. The first was in 2008 and the indictment was about ‘irresponsible and reckless’ spending concerning the illegal transfer of $263m, from the account of the ministry within just three days - December 26-31, 2007.

The second indictment came less than two years after the first probe. In October 2009, the Senate indicted her and recommended that she be tried for allegedly transferring N1.2bn of a toll company into her private account without due process and in breach of concession agreement.

The transfer at December 2007 was found after investigation to be payments made to contractors being owed by the govt. These monies had been long approved. The 2nd indictment is at best smear campaign and at worst false. She was not in the ministry of transport at the time but was the Minister of mines and steel so had nothing to do with toll gates. It will be logically impossible for her to have any control over the accounts of the ministry of transport when she was relieved of that position more than a year (June 2008) before the incident. Isn't it strange that she was indicted in October 2009 and then confirmed in April 2010 by the same senate?

Only Abuja had fuel queues weeks back. I traveled to Lagos and PH and everything was fine. I hear problem was due to the crisis after election among other issues.

In truth, we have had 2 or 3 incidences that led to queuing but these were all artificial. I believe they were caused by NLC or was it PHCN workers strike and then NARTO strike. Product was present (quantity that covered for 30 days in NNPC depots) but black marketers and retailers took advantage of the situation. Both cases were quickly dealt with by the govt and lasted for about 2 days. Compare that to scarcities we've had for weeks or months before GEJ because of unavailability of product or debts owed to product marketers.

I read an article on the developments in the Petroleum sector by GEJ and his minister. It was a long read by the way, so I summarized it below.

1. Before May 6, 2010, when GEJ became substantial President we experienced product scarcity and long queues in filling stations.

2. During the military regimes prior to democracy the following were widespread - pipeline vandalization by host communities, fire outbreak as a result of such vandalization leading to refinery shutdown.

3. During Obasanjo's regime Nigeria still witnessed  - long queuing for fuel, product hoarding, product adulteration and black market selling. Obasanjo increased the pump price of the product a number of times to stem the issue. 

4. Late President Yar'adua, during his era, initiated measures to revive the refineries but couldn't enforce sale of petrol at approved pump price. In North and East fuel sold btw N70 and N80 while Gas and Kerosene remained scarce.

5. When GEJ came along, he appointed an expert to lead the industry - Mrs Diezani Alision Madueke ( who was once the 1st female Executive Director of Shell Petroluem Development Company).

6. Her Actions - She revitalized the Warri, Kaduna and Port Harcourt refineries conducting turn-around maintenance among others. Major repairs of Product Evacuation Infrastructure was undertaken.

7. NNPC always has in its depots a quantity that is greater than demand (around 30 days). This has stabilized pump price across the country.

8. To sustain petrol supply and distribution, NNPC is working towards increasing refining capacity through the building of three Greenfield refineries as well as the massive expansion of its retail outfit (NNPC Filling stations) to check the incidence of artificially-induced fuel scarcity.

9. She supported the GEJ's drive to resolve Epileptic Power supply caused by Gas shortage. Gas prices were too low and gave producers no incentive to make huge investments required to increase supply of product. New pricing was proposed and implemented leading to increase in gas production and supply. Pan Ocean Gas project is now completed and ready to supply additional 60mmcf/d of gas as soon as power sector is ready.

10. She opened access to petroleum marketing and distribution. Before her period, 3 major companies were getting 90% of allocations of petroleum products from NNPC. The cartel was broken and the downstream sector was opened up and now more companies are participating in the sector. Of course this has angered members of the cartel who have resorted to sponsoring smear campaigns against the minister.

11. Massive transformation of NNPC, passage and implementation of Nigerian Content Act, the push for the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill, implementation of Gas master plan, improved relations with critical stakeholders across the oil and gas value chain.

12. Currently, gas supply has surpassed the requirement of the existing thermal power plants. The surplus is now being exported and with the coming on stream of Alaoji Power Plant and other thermal plants, all the gas produced would be adequately utilized to avoid waste

13. There is, however, little investment in the upstream sub-sector when compared to the gas sector due to its capital intensiveness and length of time for ROI. Investors want to first consider the laws governing the sector (PIB bill).

14. Thanks to Nigerian Content Act being passed into law, over 30,000 direct employments and training opportunities have been created for Nigerians.

15. Petrochemical and fertilizer projects is expected to attract more than $10bn foreign direct investment between 2012 and 2014. The Gas revolution launched recently is expected to provide over 500,000 jobs.


Source

phantom:
where in PH and for how long did you stay, and which roads did you use??

Came in from International Airport (not been in PH for a while so don't know the names of new routes), stopped at some police checkpoint that had this "garage roofing" found in homes. Finally came out of a road beside the Air Force Base (Garden city Airport). I notice along the route from the international airport to the city airport no completed roads. We had to share same lane with cars coming in the opposite direction, roads were filled with potholes and bad spots. Come on to Aba Expressway - Rumuola junction under the overhead and some other spots along the way towards old GRA you find bad spots.

Ikwerre Road - From UST to Rumokuta, Agip Rumueme Raod towards NAOC and the estate . . . etc.

I can't remember being on any major road that didn't have issues. Was totally disappointed. It seems to all be under construction, abandoned or just bad. Some roads have been in the same under construction state for 4 years now. Haba.

I have heard of his renovations of public schools but roads and development in the capital city are not one of his strong points.

maclatunji:
Those are the questions you should be asking not saying that the CBN Governor should be sacked. A bailout for Islamic banks would be highly unlikely because they wouldn't go about creating financial instruments that are noting more than pieces of worthless paper. Secondly, they have a profit and loss sharing outlook. Collecting a bailout from the CBN would involve some sort of interest (according to the sharia). Seriously speaking, I doubt if such would be welcome if we want to be sincere. The idea is that the Islamic bank is willing to enjoy the profits when they come and take the losses when they arrive (it is all within the divine will of God).

If you had asked those questions first, you would have been objective, but asking them after seeking for the sack of the CBN Governor shows that you are biased.

Of course I am biased. If that means I want to be able to get interest-free loans for my legal business without ambiguous or complicated stumbling blocks like Sharia-Compliant rules. Pork ko, alcohol ni.