₦airaland Forum

ypzilanti: Why are you bothering to answer people who will support anything that government does regardless of the folly? abi you do not know that he is a member of the 40 lap top squad? Anyway sha, i'm gulity of replying the obnoxious poster too.

On a serious note, though, anyone with half a brian knows that this is just another foolish scheme to steal the nations money. They do not even bother to think creatiely anymore. Let them by recharge cards for the farmers too, and have it run as part of the 70 percent recurrent expenditure. Fools.

Eziachi: And you are giving phone from the public purse to someone that doesn't pay tax anyway? That makes sense!

The government will provide a subsidy to the farmer through the voucher to buy the phone. The farmer takes the voucher to the local mobile phone operator and pays the balance which is the difference between the value of the voucher and the cost of the phone.

“Once a farmer buys a phone and a SIM card, his new phone number will be updated on the e-wallet database and he will be able to receive his e-wallet voucher which will entitle him to purchase fertilizer and seeds at subsidized rates.

“Phones will be sold directly to farmers by local mobile phone service providers. The government simply subsidizes the cost of the phone directly to the farmer.

“We intend to start by first targeting farmers who live in areas where there is network coverage already but who do not have phones. We will then encourage phone companies to increase their coverage and as they do we will target farmers in those areas.

Eziachi: Probably that eba you are enjoying now came from Ondo. if anything or the truth be told, apart from areas like Agbo and Sapele, I don't know any area in midwest that is known for food production on a mass scale. Why is tribalist invoked in anything Nigeria?

By the way, govt using public money to give not modern farming tools to farmers but phone is nuts and makes no atom of sense. Any farmer who hasn't got in the first place is not a real farmer to start with. What next? buying them the phone credit?
You can give farmers a certain percentage of tax rebate to take care of their expenses which will include phone, rent, stationery etc annually.
Thats how its done is countries where sane persons are in charge.

blink182: Really welcomed development but it is in no way affiliated to gej, years back when I was serving, my room mate was from kano and he brought dried tomatoes and complained about how harvest went bad and how they needed a processing plant.

hercules07: This is misplaced, there are other things the farmers need that the money can be channeled into.

Niseed: N60 Billion or $300 plus million dollars on phones is a ridiculous venture and smells of fraud. Surely using this money to provide modern farming machinery or better still provides loans to these farmers would go a long way. Having a phone is a choice, the Government has to business in trying to force them on people. what next, a special task force to train the farmers on how to use the phones?

Our tacit acceptance of mediocrity is a major part of the problem in Nigeria.

The positive runs by the security agencies on Boko Haram group and other terrorist groups seem to be yielding more fruits as more gains culminating in the arrest of plants of the groups in some paramilitary agencies have been arrested by the Joint Task force.


Among those arrested yesterday was an immigration officer, Ahmed Grema Mohammed whose confessions led to the arrest of others who have been carrying attacks on government officials across some States of the north.


According to the Spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Colonel Sagir Musa, those already apprehended are some security personnel who have been carrying out attacks in Borno and Yobe which he said was a major breakthrough in their efforts at flushing out insiders in the security forces collaborating with the deadly groups.


A Statement by Musa said that those arrested have confessed to being active members of the Boko Haram sect who joined the sect well before the 2009 crisis and received a lot of training in and outside the country.


He said that Grema also confessed to have been trained alongside 15 other members of the sect on weapon handling, assassinations and special operations in Niger Republic. Musa said Grema who was arrested over a month ago at a checkpoint on his way to Maiduguri while impersonating as a Nigeria Army lieutenant.


He further said during the trip Grema had planned killing a former special adviser to the immediate governor of Borno state. He also disclosed that Grema had equally confessed to the killings of some senior civil servants, security agencies and politicians in Damaturu and Damboa, Borno State who spoke against the activities of the sect including the slain former chairman of Damboa LGA, Alhaji Lawal Kawu.
Grema was also among those that led attacks on Yobe Police Command, Damaturu Prison, some primary schools, among others.

Siemens Energy, an engineering conglomerate in Germany, has won a contract from Nigeria for construction of the 434MW Geregu II gas turbine power plant in Ajaokuta.
Located approximately 200km south of the capital Abuja in Nigeria, Geregu II is a follow-up project to the Geregu I power plant, which Siemens built in 2006. The client is the Nigeria-based utility company Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC). The order is worth approximately EUR230 million ($300 million). The gas fired power plant is expected to become operational in late 2012.
The company will supply three SGT5-2000E gas turbines, the electrical equipment and an SPPA-T3000 instrumentation & control system for the plant, which it will build as a turnkey project. With the latest project the number of Siemens heavy-duty gas turbines in Nigeria will increase to eight. The centrally located power plant is of strategic importance for grid stability and is therefore a key project for power supply in Nigeria.

take dat: And bro please who controls the government. I think he was referring to the armed forces and if he knows what he is saying, isn't it foolishness if he is yet to act on it? No one need words when action can do all the talking!

Wadeoye: Why are Igbos the only one making noise? More people from other tribes were event caught in the violence than the Igbos - if what you posted here is anything to go by. You guys are mischievous - you are only latching on this to paint CPC and Buhari black just because of your usual hatred for the north and hausas in particular.

This is not the first time violence will follow an election in Nigeria with killing and destruction of properties in its trail. In 2007, we can still remember what happened in Osun state after PDP rigged election in favor of Oyinlola - many people were killed and properties destroyed. We can still remember the horror in Ekiti state during the same time. Of course, we can remember what happened when Jun 12 was annulled and also when MKO died. Operation "wetie" in the west will also not be forgotten. Dont come here whining and shouting as if we have not witnessed even worse election violence in Nigeria.

So, stop flogging a dead horse - election violence is not new and you can't blame a party or a person but rather the government that conducted the election - more so that the responsibility to provide security is that of the government.

realsammie: Nice move. Pls go and arrest Buhari

nagoma: You are really shallow and programmed. Buhari had nothing to do with those murders. PDP wanted the state by hook or by crook . They did take it by the crook and those murders were part of the sacrifices PDP made. And Jonathan paid blood money to relatives. Where were you?

Demdem: This thread once again have re-iterated my long stance about that miserable document called the PIB. That document needs to be torn apart and shredded to pieces. Its not in the interest of the Nigerian people.

This govt itself gives no damn about the people. Good comments u have here Jpphilips. am also within the industry and can collaborate many of the things u stated. Those within the industry knows that the govt is just fooling around and there is a limit to which they can speak out before they would be labelled as cabals by the retardeen and his cohorts. i also dont have the time and patience to attend to issues with known fools over here the way u are doing.

jp philips: people that voted bro. jo will enjoy steady power, lol. in which life?? this one the model that is about to be released already carries a subsidy tag?? lol lol lol

i made a wager with beaf before he passed on (may his ignorant soul rest in peace) that no refinery will stand in this country from Jan last year, he called it conspiracy theory, today, i ve won with my conspiracy and the presidency fired him with my money.

let me be clear, with the model bro. jo is pursuing, no ave. Nigerian, will enjoy steady electricity, i can make that wager with you today and hope you don't get fired. only the rich will enjoy it.

talking about standard flaring, i have 534 oil and gas operating manuals that support it, enshrining into the PIB to make it a law, is a "DEAL", myopic minds like you can never see it till it becomes a problem.

the "surge" or "chocking" or "suck back" can not wait for Abuja's approval, every operator must do the needful, why make it a law? it is a standard safety procedure that protects Madueke's facility, why the bureaucracy?

jp philips: now i had to give up completely on you, seriously you read those parts of the PIB and you think it addressed the problem i highlighted above??

let me ask you again? what did i say is the problem with the Nigerian gas model

how did the PIB fix it (give detailed approach and workable solution)

once again, you are the master of ignorance.

let me help you,

look at the business day link you supplied under the Caption, "PIB AND GAS" the first paragraph says that under the PIB the FG is pursuing a (DSO) for gas, do you know what that means?

DSO means domestic supply obligation, where the govt mandates the gas producers to bequeath some to them, was it not exactly what i referred to as "cap in hand", "begging" etc above? you seem not to even understand your own links.

what is wrong with your head? every link of yours always support my position, yet you don't want to give up, isn't that childish?? so going to gas producers to beg for gas is where the PIB solved the gas problem??

verily verily i say unto you; you have lost touch with common sense, tell me one country in the world who is a "major" oil and gas producer that operate the DSO model? just mention one, and you think your Govt is not insane?? guy, you and your PDP cohorts have a long way to go, in solving the least problem of this country.


furthermore;

the business day article you pasted that summarized the PIB on the fourth paragraph quoted the PIB that it will stop gas flaring,with a caveat that the minister for petroleum has the right to issue gas flaring permits , lol

you are so SSTTUUPPIIDD. Diezeni madueke just created choppings for herself while foooools like you think she did you a favor, tomorrow, she will go and collect billions of dollars from gas producers as flaring permit fee, flaring continues, gas is wasted, gas producers smile to the bank with high electricity tariff, the Ave. Nigerian become more suicidal and an olodo like you will nurse the temerity to argue that PIB solved your gas challenge. i laugh at your ignorance.

please i chose to discontinue this discussion because your ignorance is abysmal, i may chose to do it once more with someone sane but definitely not you,

pls do have a great ignorant day ahead of you.

take dat: Bro, why should a serious government underfund the rehabilitation of an important road like the Apapa express way? Why is the road not added to those of the so called SURE-P?

babapupa: A whole country and your useless uncle with huge oil money at his disposal patching reads in 2013? You clowns no get shame ni.?