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President Buhari who is the Minister of Petroleummet with Shell Global Upstream Director, Andrew Brown and Shell Nigeria's MD, Osagie Okunbor at the State House, Abuja today May 20th. More photos after the cut.





Source: TimeNaija

This is the TUC chairman, a card carrying APC member

Buhari is a joke

He is useless too

Epic Flashbacks

Read what Malam Nasir El-Rufai said in one of his Interviews with Vanguard newspaper on January, 08, 2012.

"If another government was in power, let us assume General Buhari was the President of Nigeria, he would not withdraw the subsidy. He will fix the problem. He will audit who is taking the money in the subsidy, who is paying what, how the money multiply three times in one year and fish out the thieves and deal with them".

The journalist asked Elrufai the following question and read what he said...

"So, why do you think Jonathan lacks the political will to deal with them?"

"Because they financed his election. But Buhari would have sorted that out. That is the first thing to do. Now, while you are paying the subsidy, even one quarter of what you are paying is a lot. General Buhari's administration would have ensured that within 12 months all the refineries are working at full capacity. His administration would have built the fourth refinery that will bring our domestic production to the point that we don't need to import a single drop of petrol. And once we can produce our petrol from our own crude oil, at our own cost, we can sell it at any price we like. That is what Buhari's government would have done. Nigerians made a very big mistake for not electing Buhari, and they are learning every day. Many people have told me that they voted for Jonathan and they are regretting it now."

He continued, "There is no question of Buhari withdrawing subsidy because he has been Petroleum Minister, Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and so on. He built three out of the four refineries we have in this country. And he built that out of patriotism to ensure that we can produce domestically. So, the question of withdrawing subsidy would not even be on the table".

Sponge:

Now you know who are re enemies of Nigeria. The ball is in your court.

- Copied

Fact check. Buhari did not build any refinery

PROOF?: Port Harcourt Refinering Company Located at Alesa Eleme, the company operates two oil refineries including an old plant commissioned in 1965 that can process 60,000 barrels of oil per stream day and the new plant commissioned in 1989, which has a capacity of 150, 000 bpsd. Both oil refineries possess a combined capacity of 210,000 barrels per stream day making PHRC the "biggest oil refining company in Nigeria.

In 1965, Buhari was not the Prime Minister of Nigeria, Neither was he the CEO of Shell Petroleum which built the old site... In 1989 IBB was head of state and Buhari was just one year out of Benin Prison. That knocks 2 refineries off.

Warri Refinery was begun by Yakubu Gowon and completed by Obasanjo in 1978

Kaduna Refinery The KRPC possesses a fuels plant commissioned in 1983 by SHAGARI and the 30,000 MT per year Petrochemical Plant in 1988.by IBB

SO WHICH 3 OUT OF 4 REFINERIES DID BUHARI BUILD?

Vanity upon vanity..

If he does nt ve jesus, his wealth is useless........

This is pure wickedness

The mother or father that allows this small boy to go become a house boy should be castrated

The woman that did this shud be send to jail


What a kife?

What is this called?

So is Nigeria not corrupt?
Is Buhari the corrupt not labeling others corrupt?

Notice me, freeze fir

Mega man

How did he join the police? I guess through connection


Naija i hail thee

Hell fire designate....

Repent and give ur life to Christ

Its conceptic.......

I like it

Who send am?

Notice me....

Lies upon lies by the Nigerian Army.

Boko haram are stronger than they were. Stop arresting people n label them boko haram this n that.....

Facts

Is he into masquarade dressing and undressing?

Buhari is a dullard and a confused fool

I never knew she is a graduate

Nice one Tiwa

Proudly EFIK....

(The Fulani side of the story, for fair reportage)

Only Buhari’s Govt. Has Given Us Protection-Fulani Herdsmen
Our Reporter May 1, 2016
Baba Othman Ngelzarma, the National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Cattle

Breeders Association of Nigeria, otherwise known as Fulani herdsmen has
said his association has only started enjoying protections under the
President Mohammadu Buhari’s Government.

Ngelzarma said previous Government had neglected the Fulanis and their
livestock business. Read the full interview first aired on Channels
Television:

Q: I want to believe that you have seen part of the Grazing Bills and the
question is, do you think that would solve the problem?

Ans: Firstly, before I say anything, let me use this opportunity to
condemn in totality what has taken place in Enugu, it is extremely
shocking and I want to sympathise with the government and people of Enugu
State irrespective of who has done it. People have lost their lives. It is
a sad happening and we hope the security will do all they could to fish
out the perpetrators. We, too, have suffered immensely in the hands of
these perpetrators because our cattle are lost in their thousands,
Fulanis are always kidnapped – hardly a day passes and you will not hear
that five or 10 Fulanis have been kidnapped for ransom. Only that it is a
silent happening and the media is not covering it.
Q:Fulani being kidnapped?

Ans: Yes. Every day. Find out from Kaduna State. It’s is really sad.
These are things that are perpetrated by criminals but, surprisingly,
everybody is blaming the Fulani herdsmen; so we are now victims and
culprits at the same time.

Q: Since some of them are victims, do you think these Bills will address
the issues on the table?

Ans: Yes, definitely. The law governing the establishment of grazing
reserves is not new, it started in 1965. Later in 1978, the Land Use Act
was extended to cover it. In 1988, National Agriculture Policy also
earmarked 10percent of the total national territory for grazing areas –
that is, 9.8million hectares of land were earmarked in 1988 for grazing
reserves. That figure was later increased to 20million hectares.

Q: So what happened to all the land?

Ans: What we have today is less than three million hectares – the so-called
gazetted grazing areas cover only about three million. We have about 415
grazing areas and grazing reserves and forest reserves because these are
different things. The grazing reserves are those that are gazetted. Out
of the 415, 141 were gazetted. And those 141 reserves gazetted cover
only about three million hectares of land. And even that one today has
been damaged by ecology, encroachment and the rest.

Q: If that is the case, you now have state governors who are saying they
will not give out any land. Do you think they should just hold on to see
how they could solve the clashes first, before the Bills?

Ans: You see, these clashes came as a result of the absence of developed
grazing reserves and the protection of those reserves. These are areas
that have suffered a lot of neglect because the pastoralists’ livelihood
has been frequently undermined by unfriendly policies and laws. The
policies of the past administrations have given more attention to agronomy
and not the livestock sub-sector. That is what has caused this problem.
This is a consequence of the neglect of this long-term sector of the
economy. As I told you, we have about three million hectares which have
been destroyed. They are mostly located in the northern and the
south-western parts of the country. These are all the states of the
North, as well as Oyo and Ogun states.

Q: How did the grazing reserves work for the herdsmen in the past?

Ans: A lot of legislations covered them because, if you go to the states,
you have the local government and forestry units working effectively to
protect the reserves but, today, I do not think they are there again.

Q: Some people think if there are grazing reserves, that is where the
herdsmen should be?

Ans: They were occupied to some extent but encroachment by small farmers
and big-time farmers, who acquired land to obtain loans from banks and not
for real agriculture and the environment, over-grazing and non-maintenance
of the reserves, have rendered them useless.

Q:Have groups like yours met northern governors to sensitise them to the
future dangers of not maintaining those reserves?

Ans: We have been meeting with them for quite some time now.

Q: So why are they not listening?

Ans: I don’t know. As I told you earlier, it is the neglect of this
sector that is causing this problem. If past administrations had done
their work like the immediate post-colonial administrations did, we
wouldn’t be in this situation that we have found ourselves today. May be
the reserves would have been developed to an extent that we won’t have
these issues. If you look at the Fulani man, the cattle business is his
livelihood, so you then wonder why he would be pushed to the southern
part of the country in search of grass and water because, if grass and
water were provided in the reserves in the North, I do not think the
herdsman would have the desire to go anywhere and expose himself to
danger because he always moves with his family. He provides security for
his family and security for his business, so how do you expect , no matter
how illiterate he is, to go and ignite trouble for himself to get killed.
I think some people somewhere are out to profile the Fulani herdsmen as
terrorists.

Q: Who do you think those people are?

Ans: We don’t know. That is the problem. We see the media as going
against the herdsmen because most of the challenges we face are not
reported.

Q: But if you don’t report the cases with the police, how do we report
them?

Ans: The police know very much what is happening. Go to the Police
Command in Kaduna State and find out what is happening to the Fulani
herdsmen. I’m sure you are aware of the thousands of cattle that are
lost daily. Who are the owners of the cattle? They are Fulani herdsmen.
We lose a lot of cattle as a result of cattle rustling but who is doing
something to protect us? It is only once the coming of this administration
that we have seen action being taken in that area.

Q: There must be a faint idea of those who are killing people in the name
of Fulani herdsmen?

Ans: They are criminals because we do not know them.

Q: But they say they dress like the average Fulani men? That cannot be
ruled out. There was a case in Taraba State two years ago. They came
in the Fulani attire but, when they were caught, it was discovered that
they were not Fulani. Some people are trying to spoil the name of the
Fulani herdsmen. That is what we have in the country today. They
stereotype and profile the Fulani herdsmen as criminals.

Q: What do you do if you were in the shoes of the victims or the media
that, while carrying out your duty, the narrative you get is that they
were kidnapped by Fulani people and this was the ransom they paid to them.
Are you saying people should not say it as it is because it involves
the Fulani?

Ans: Look, we must confess, we have criminals among the Fulani just like
any other communities in Nigeria where there are criminals. You are
talking about some 30million people in Nigeria. You are also talking
about 16million cattle-rearing families in the country. So, if you go to
the prison, you will see that the Fulani are more in number. You cannot
expect a tribe that occupies just one local government to be compared
to one with a spread across the whole country.

Q: So what is your group doing?

As a voluntary organisation, there is alimit to what we can do.

We have been reporting to the security agencies
and they have been cooperating with us. In fact, the IGP knows everything.
Take for instance the Olu Falae issue. When it happened, a lot of media
attacks were on but we didn’t respond; we just took the bull by the horn.
We went on tour of the South-West. We went to Lagos, Oyo, Osun, Ogun,
Ekiti and later we landed in Ondo. Finally, we visited Olu Falae himself
and we discussed extensively and that was what laid that matter to rest
because much of what happened then was propaganda. Definitely, Olu Falae
was kidnapped; he paid ransom and we discovered that some people were
involved. We admit that some people have criminal intent but profiling a
whole race because of the crimes of a few or some is something that is
not fair.

Q: Some solutions have been proffered but a lot of people are saying the
Bills cannot work. Some people insist that the Fulani herdsmen have a
business to run and they should finance their business on their own
without destroying other peoples’ properties?

A: They are entitled to their opinion but, today, because of the
profiling, whichever community that sees a Fulani man is apprehensive.
Sometimes, youths of the community would push the Fulani, shoot their
cows and that is what ignites problem. We visited Benue State during the
last administration and we succeeded in bringing down tension. What we
discovered was that when they go to graze in the forest, an area that
doesn’t belong to anybody, people would come and demand money from them
before they can graze. And even after settling, another group would come
and demand for money again and, if they refuse to pay, they shoot the
cows. When a Fulani man gets to an area, he reports to the Fulani head in
that area and then report to the traditional leadership in the community.
This is the culture wherever they go. Today, we have over 30million cows
in Nigeria, and over 150million sheep and goats. So, if you don’t plan
for these things, there is definitely going to be a problem. We want
government to settle these people in a place because we too are tired of
all these problems.

Q: There is this issue of AK-47?

Ans: That is one issue I would like to correct. If you see a Fulani man
handling AK-47, that is because cattle rustling has become so much that
one wonders if there is security in the country. With the coming of this
administration, we are seeing a lot of improvement. No peace-loving
Fulani man would be carrying AK-47 and moving about.

Q: What sort of improvements have you seen from this administration?

Ans: This administration has helped us recover a lot of cattle. I’m
sure you’re aware of the amnesty granted to some of them in Kano State.

Q: How do you know your cattle?

They have marks and there are traditional
ways of identifying the cows. If there are many cows here and a Fulani
man wants to identify his own cattle from the recovered cattle, some would
sing or make some sounds and you’ll see the Fulani man’s cow coming out in
his direction. All of them have marks for identification.

In Lagos, we have succeeded in catching about, four times, cattle rustlers.

Courtesy PointBlank

What is this called in your language?
Ours (Akwa Ibom State) is Nkarika...

How do you call it?

Buhari is a joke,

How many lies did he tell at the event?

This man condemed GEJ anytime a commitee was formed but here he is forming a commitee.....

Ifu inwang

Amaechi's handwork.....

This man is talking poo......


Notice me....

She resemble witch true true

A cheat

How would this stop boko haram frm killing?

He will soon die.........Suleiman

oduastates:
The matter at hand is that it is a rainy day fund. It is raining right now.
By the way, I am from the Bola Tinubu school of thought who opposed this account from the start.
Only fools save money underneath the mattress while their homes burn.
Obasanjo should have invested the money into Nigeria.
Uninterrupted Power, roads, trains, modern agriculture and aggressive trade policy would have been enough to move us away from a petrol state.
Lagos, ogun and oyo invested a lot and that is why they are providing the bulk of federal income today

if jonathan did nt safe, which one did obj talk about n which one r d governor demanding for?

Homosexual of a man....

The rat of Ubima

alertbest:
Lol...langbalangba is different from alangba o

who is above impeachment?

You mean he finished school in 1978? Me think its 1998 ooo