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Nigeria - Agricultural Minister, Akinwumi Adeshina, following his endorsement for the African Development Bank presidency by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, has deleted his earlier tweets damaging the retired general's reputation during the 2015 general polls.

akinwumi tweet


He also acknowledge Buhari’s endorsement with another tweet via his Twitter handle.

Akinwumi A. Adesina ‏@akin_adesina

I am honored by @MBuhari endorsement of my candidacy for President of @AfDB_Group. Together, we can renew Africa. http://www.adesinaforafdb.com/general_buhari_endorses_dr_akinwumi_adesina_for_afdb_president …






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The incoming Muhammadu Buhari administration will replace the top management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Reuters news agency reported yesterday.

It will also review the accounts of the oil company to restore credibility, Reuters said, quoting sources within Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It said the new government will submit a bill to break the NNPC into four entities, as already prescribed in the latest PIB draft.

One APC source told Reuters that the Bill “will also, crucially, remove the oil minister from the NNPC’s board of directors to curb political interference.”
Others said more generally that the minister’s current powers would be heavily trimmed.

Oil and gas will have separate companies for upstream, with a third covering pipelines and refining, while a fourth will be an inspectorate.

The proposal could be submitted to parliament in the first quarter of next year, one parliamentary APC source said.

The NNPC Management is made up of Group Managing Director Dr. Joseph T. Dawha; Group Executive Director, Finance & Accounts Mr. Bernard O.N. Otti; Group Executive Director, Corporate Services Dr. Dan Efebo, and Member, Alhaji Abdullahi Bukar, who make up the Board.

The Board is chaired by petroleum minister Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and members are Mr. Danladi Wadzani, Prof. Olusegun Okunnu; Mr. Danladi Kifasi, Mr. Steven Oronsaye, and Mr. Ikechukwu Oguine, Coordinator, Legal Services/Secretary to the Corporation.

Reuters said oil firms keen to know how the new government plans to tax them could be waiting for a long time as the President-elect makes ending corruption and reforming the opaque national oil company his most urgent sector priority.

Four party sources in the APC told Reuters the issue of fiscal terms, seen as crucial by the industry, will have to wait on current thinking about oil and gas policies in Nigeria.

Crude output has stagnated close to 2 million barrels per day over the past few years, owing partly to underinvestment.
“We need to address the structural issues and leave the fiscal for now,” Senator Bukola Saraki, told Reuters.
“A more transparent NNPC) is needed with reasonable accounting,” he said.

Buhari owes his March 28 victory against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan partly to a perception that Jonathan allowed corruption to get out of control -- especially in the oil sector.

A string of multibillion dollar oil corruption scandals tainted the NNPC and other bodies that handle energy.
By contrast, Buhari was seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders to have cracked down on corruption during his military rule in 1983-1985. Many Nigerians hope he will again, Reuters said.

APC leader Bola Tinubu, whose support was instrumental in Buhari’s victory and wields huge influence, told Reuters a transitional committee would be set up.
“No way will we discuss that now,” he said.
PIB re-drafted
Jonathan’s administration re-drafted a Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in 2012 that had been in the works for a decade.
The PIB was meant to change everything from fiscal terms to overhauling the NNPC, environmental rules and revenue sharing, but its other details caused disputes amongst lawmakers.

Yet the main thing the oil companies were worried about was tax. The bill proposes 20 percent tax on offshore projects and 50 percent for onshore. Shell, Exxon and other majors had all complained publicly that the terms were unfair, given the risk associated with operating in Nigeria.

Uncertainty over the fiscal terms of the bill have been holding back billions of dollars of investment, especially into capital-intensive deepwater offshore, leading some to propose the bill be broken up into several pieces and debated separately.
“It doesn’t need to be an omnibus, you can take things piecemeal,” one APC source said.

The average Nigerian benefits little from the country’s huge energy resources while politicians wear gold watches and build monster homes in the capital Abuja, Reuters said.

World Bank support for NNPC probe
The World Bank reportedly supports Mr Mohammadu Buhari to probe the NNPC.
Speaking during a video conferencing from Washington to journalists from across Africa on the release of the bank’s analysis of issues shaping Africa titled ‘Africa’s Pulse’, top officials of the bank said looking into financial record of the country, especially into allegation of corruption at the NNPC, would check impunity and build public institutions in the future.

Answering questions from journalists, World Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa, Mr. Francisco Ferreira said, “One norm that has to change is the norm of impunity. I am from Brazil myself. So, I am also used to a country where people could be corrupt and escape justice. That keeps the people to keep doing it.
“So the current stand of the government-elect to look into what happened in the past hopefully will have consequences for the future.

Meanwhile, the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) yesterday called on the incoming government to redirect its subsidy towards the production of petroleum products and petrochemical complexes which would see local companies refining petroleum instead of a subsidy on the consumption of the   products.

Briefing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, Monday Osasah of the centre said “instead of continually importing fuel it should be used to build more refineries. Government should lay emphasis on how local refineries would work. The money used on turn around maintenance alone is enough to build local refineries.”
He said the removal of fuel subsidy is expected to save government about US$6 billion per annum.

Yar’adua’s plan for oil sector
President Umaru Yar’adua, on coming to power announced that the NNPC would be scrapped while the oil sector was to be completely overhauled.
The plan was for the restructuring and unbundling to be complete by February 2008.
But with Yar’adua’s death the plan to reform the oil sector never materialised. The NNPC remained unbundled while the PIB billed filibustered in the National Assembly.

Diezani takes charge
With time the Petroleum minister’s grip on the NNPC continued to grow phenomenally. Nothing typifies her enormous powers more than the rate at which NNPC bosses were appointed and removed unceremoniously. Unlike during the time of her predecessors, no state minister was appointed for the petroleum ministry since she came on board.
Within a span of four years, the corporation has had five Group Managing Directors.
Dr Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo was GMD when Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke took over in April 2010. He was sacked the same month.
Barkindo was replaced by Mallam Shehu Ladan who had earlier been retired in April 2009 from the NNPC. Ladan got his exit letter about seven weeks after resumption as GMD.
Austen Oniwon was appointed to replace Shehu Ladan in May 2010. Oniwon remained in office even after attaining his retirement age. Eventually, he was sacked two years later and replaced by Engineer Andrew Yakubu in June 2012.
Yakubu was also sacked in August 2014 and replaced by the current holder of the office Dr Joseph Thlama Dawha.

Source:http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/top-stories/52271-report-nnpc-top-mgt-to-go-accounts-to-be-probed

PDP to APC

retsonbiz:
3. The Commercial banks will never Buy or Sell USD for regulatory reasons, However, Most of us in the BDC Market are already getting a feeler that a massive price change is in the offering. Certain statement from Gen. Buhari will spike up the Value of the USD....

can you expansiate this please, Sir.

millionboi:
N

O p q r s t u v w x y z.

I bought mine for 5k in 2003.

I better sale my dollars now at the bank rate of 197, even though I will lose 30 naira per dollar. Chai! Speculation is a risky business. You gain or lose woefully whichever way.

CBN may revalue Naira next week.

obicentlis:
I will buy 170, can you sell?

If CBN will sell its own at 197, why on earth should an individual sell his own at 170. Tufiakwa

temitemi1:
Capture by friday n election will be won on saturday . GEJ till 2019!!!

bloody fool! You have not learnt your lessons.

Ahead of March 28, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has released fresh information to show the rate of PVC collection in all states of the federation.

Source: http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/inec-releases-statistics-of-pvc-collected-in-all-36-states-see-list.109263/#post-119545

THANK gOD I AM A NIGERIAN.

PDP

Kai GEJ if you like deploy troops even from Israel, that will not stop us from voting Buhari

National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu has assured that he would call "small boys" in his party who have engaged in hate campaigns with the opposition to order ahead of the Saturday's Presidential elections.
Mu'azu gave the assurance Monday at the PDP national secretariat, Abuja, when National Peace Committee for 2015 Elections led by retired Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe paid him a courtesy visit.
He said with the show of exemplary commitment of the committee, nothing would go wrong before, during and after elections, stressing that all political parties need the committee which he described as the "watch dog" to do what is absolutely required for a very credible, peaceful and transparent election.
"I want to assure you, the PDP will be running a very fair campaign led by me. If you watch my utterances personally, you find that there is nothing I do than to be a good resource man or what I should be for my party and for Mr. President; to make people love him and vote for him.
"Unfortunately, when the opposition go haywire, some of our small boys in our own party shout back and that is why you have this. But believe me, I give them very serious signal that we don't expect that. That is why it is even the way it is; it would have gone even much worse, because it is absolutely unnecessary to call somebody's product by-product, it is better for you to sell your product and show how better your own is than the other.
"We don't have any doubt that President Jonathan has all that we need to sell, therefore we do not need to speak ill about others. But I only want to assure you that we will continue to improve and increase in our caution in the use of our words and negative campaigns in the next few days untill the election day," Mu'azu said.
He added: "I assure you that we will sit down with all the gentlemen and ladies that we need to talk to, further, immediately so that there will be no further injuries from our own side" stressing that the PDP campaigns had been issue-based.
Earlier, Ebitu Ukiwe who led the committee members on the visit said the visit was to advise PDP to keep to the terms and conditions of the peace accord signed by all the presidential candidates of various political parties in January, adding that the committee members would visit the leadership of all political parties.
He advised all parties to ensure that their campaigns are issue-based, stressing that some of the utterances coming up during campaigns do not fit into the peace treaty.
Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar was absent, but Ukiwe explained that some committee members were absent due to various reasons including flight problems.

Source: www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/top-stories/50164-mu-azu-calls-pdp-campaigners-to-order-over-hate-speeches

ar Dr. GEJ,

Kindly respect the will of the electorates come March 28 2015 as you are voted out office by right thinking Nigerians.

Thank you and God bless Nigeria.

Your's sincerely.

ThisisBuhari
From Nairaland

Dear Dr. GEJ,

Kindly respect the will of the electorates come March 28 2015 as you are voted out office by right thinking Nigerians.

Thank you and God bless Nigeria.

Your's sincerely.

ThisisBuhari
From Nairaland

Lagos (AFP) - Africa's most populous country and top economy, Nigeria, holds general elections this Saturday -- the fifth since civilian rule was restored in 1999.


Here are five key figures whose actions could shape the outcome of the vote and its aftermath.

- Goodluck Jonathan -

Nigeria's 57-year-old leader is seeking a second term after a tumultuous five years plagued by the dramatic rise in strength of Boko Haram Islamists and a widely criticised job performance.

Critics say he has failed to tackle corruption or improve infrastructure, especially electricity supply, but Jonathan still has supporters, particularly in the mainly Christian south of the religiously divided nation.

Nigerians have never seen power change hands through the ballot since independence from Britain in 1960 but Jonathan has repeatedly vowed to respect the will of the voters.

If the election tilts in the opposition's favour, all eyes will be on the president to see if he keeps that promise.


- Muhammadu Buhari -

The former military ruler is taking his fourth shot at the presidency since democracy was restored in 1999, and has tried to position himself as Nigeria's top anti-corruption crusader.

Buhari, 72, insists he will win this time, refusing to even discuss the prospect of another defeat.

If Jonathan is declared the winner, Buhari's actions could prove crucial in avoiding widespread post-election unrest.


Experts say the predominantly Muslim north is a tinderbox that may explode if Buhari, the region's favourite son, is perceived as having been cheated out of an electoral win.

Buhari's moves as the results come in will therefore be closely watched.

- Abubakar Shekau -

Boko Haram's leader, a wanted criminal who is suspected of orchestrating crimes against humanity, has vowed to disrupt the polls, which the Islamist group views as "un-Islamic".

That sinister pledge may turn out to be empty bluster but given Boko Haram's proven ability to sow chaos across northern Nigeria, the possibility exists of widespread attacks, including bombings, on polling day.

- Attahiru Jega -

The head of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has faced fierce criticism from both the opposition and the ruling party during the campaign.

But impartial observers broadly see him as tough-minded, independent administrator committed to overseeing a fair and credible vote.

The career academic cut his political teeth opposing the brutal military dictatorship of Sani Abacha in the late 1990s.

Given his background, most experts believe Jega will seek to declare an accurate result as quickly as possible, regardless of any political interference he may face.

- Security chiefs -

The independence of Nigeria's military and police around election day will likely be crucial in ensuring the vote is respected nationwide.

The defence ministry has issued clear statements declaring itself to be a completely non-partisan actor in the polls but troubling events in recent months have raised concern.

Officers, believed to be from the police force, fired teargas on senior opposition lawmakers as they tried to enter parliament for a key vote in November.

The opposition has specifically identified the police chief in the capital Abuja, Joseph Mbu, as being an outspoken loyalist of the ruling party.

Observers say that avoiding confrontation between the security services and political demonstrators should be a top priority..

Source:http://news.yahoo.com/five-key-figures-watch-nigerias-election-004839249.html

Change is coming. Everywhere Sai Buhari.

kastonkastrol:
ok I see GMB winning in:

Adamawa by 70%
Bauchi by 90%
Borno by 90%
Lagos by 70%
Osun by 85%
Ogun by 60%
Oyo by 70%
Kwara 75%
Niger 90%
Nassarawa by 75%
Kano by 90%
Katsina by 95%
Kaduna by 70%
Gombe by 80%
Jigawa by 80%
Sokoto by 85%
Zamfara by 80%
Yobe by 90%
Kebbi by 85%

Jonathan will win in;

Anambra by 90%
Imo by 75%
Ebonyi by 80%
Enugu by 80%
Bayelsa by 90%
Delta by 80%
Cross river 80%
Rivers 65%
Abia 85%
Benue 60%
Plateau 60%
Akwa ibom 75%

These states may fall under GMB or GEJ, one can never say;

Ekiti
Ondo
Taraba
Kogi
Edo
Fct


P.S. Religion sentiments in the north, southeast and southwest will still play a very vital role in Saturday's election.

yes

Forget all the fuss about PVC collection, card reader, election postponement, Boko Haram leaflets, whether or not someone has a certificate, whether or not someone wrote a PhD thesis and whether or not someone is, in the estimation of the far-right Washington Times, an ISIS-type fundamentalist. The big question in Nigeria this week is, who is going to win Saturday’s presidential election?
This week, each of the two major parties PDP and APC will hang up on the wall a large map of Nigeria. Colour pencils will be lying nearby. Each party’s presidential candidate and his running mate must sit together with top party chieftains and campaign strategists, analyse each region and each state one by one and then paint each one in a certain colour. There are three colours: whether our party will win this state, or our opponents will win it, or whether we should mark it as a tossup state.

For no particular reason let us start with the APC map plotting exercise. Without thinking twice the APC map painter will paint in APC colours the 12 states in which General Buhari recorded an outright win in 2011. These are Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Gombe, Bauchi and Niger. APC will calculate, self servingly, that nothing has changed since 2011 to loosen Buhari’s grip on those states. Right now, seven of those 12 states have PDP governors but then, all of them had PDP and ANPP governors in 2011 when CPC’s Buhari won them. In fact, two of them namely Sokoto and Zamfara that had PDP governors in 2011 now have APC governors. Similarly, three of them namely Borno, Yobe and Kano that had ANPP governors in 2011 now have APC governors so APC leaders will see no need to repaint anyone of them.

Of the seven Northern states in which President Goodluck Jonathan won a plurality of votes in 2011 APC map plotters will repaint two, namely Kwara and Nasarawa in their own colours. This is partly because both states now have APC instead of PDP governors. From the look of things, Senator Bukola Saraki and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed have turned Kwara around politically and the state PDP’s bevy of millionaire businessmen looks unable to stop them. As for Nasarawa State, though Buhari lost the state 2011 it now has an APC governor. Besides, PDP has suffered a deep split in the state with the defection of former Information Minister Labaran Maku to APGA. In addition to Kwara and Nasarawa, PDP chapters in Plateau, Adamawa and Taraba states are riddled with internal conflict and APC strategists will hope to capture at least one of those.

From the North APC’s map plotters will move to the South West. With Asiwaju Bola Tinubu watching the mapping exercise through thick-rimmed Awo-style round eyeglasses the map plotter will nervously paint Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Edo in solid APC colours. That may not be very realistic. Some strategists may say that Ondo and Ekiti should at least be consigned to toss up status since they have PDP governors. Tinubu and the old ACN strenuously tried but failed to defeat Governor Olusegun Mimiko in 2013. In fact ACN finished third in that election after Labour Party and PDP. Those top two finishers have now merged. As for Ekiti, APC’s shock defeat in last year’s governorship election at least earns the state toss up status in APC map plotting. Edo State is another tough nut to crack. Its rambunctious APC governor Adams Oshiomhole is likely to snatch the colour pencil and paint Edo in APC colours but any careful strategist would at least consign Edo State to toss up status.

The map painting exercise now moves to the South East and South-South, which even the most ardent APC fan must concede, is President Jonathan and PDP’s home territory, though with very important qualifiers. With director general of the presidential campaign organisation Rotimi Amaechi looking on, the map plotter will quickly paint Rivers State in solid APC colours. Certainly Rotimi Amaechi’s defection has had an enormous impact on Rivers State politics. Looking from afar at its violence-wracked campaign season, it does look like APC is much stronger than PDP in Rivers State. Yet a careful strategist must still put it in the toss up category because it is entirely possible for Niger Delta regional sentiment to win out in the presidential election even if Amaechi’s candidate wins the governorship.
Other Niger Delta states namely Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta and Bayelsa should be painted in PDP colours but an optimistic APC map maker will paint Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa in toss up status, given recent events there. Governor Seriake Dickson might work underground to undermine Jonathan lest he suffers the Sylva treatment when he is up for re-election later this year.

The map plotting exercise then moves to the South East. Some realists would argue that all five Igbo states be painted in PDP colours at least for the presidential election but Owelle Rochas Okorocha will insist that Imo must be painted in APC colours. Therefore, everything considered, the most optimistic APC map will project the party as winning a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 26 states this weekend.
Let us now shift to become the fly on the wall during the PDP map making exercise. The PDP exercise will begin by projecting on the screen the 2011 electoral map in which Jonathan won 24 states and FCT to Buhari’s 12. The man called the “game changer” is likely to argue that all those 24 states and a few others be shaded in PDP colours. But which ones? Beginning with the 12 Northern states that Buhari won in 2011 PDP map plotters could optimistically change Kaduna to PDP colours in order to please Vice President Namadi Sambo. They would also project that at least two of the PDP governors of Katsina, Gombe, Jigawa, Niger and Kebbi could deliver their states. I can see one PDP chieftain, Ali Modu Sheriff, strenuously arguing that Borno should be repainted in PDP colours though Buhari got 82% of the votes there in 2011 under Sheriff’s nose as the state’s ANPP governor. The Boko Haram imbroglio could easily notch that margin up to 90%.

Next to be mapped are the seven Northern states that Jonathan won in 2011. All seven of them had PDP governors in 2011 but two of them, Kwara and Nasarawa now have APC governors. PDP map plotters will not concede that those changes will affect it. Nor will they concede that trouble in their Plateau, Adamawa and Taraba chapters could cost them any of those states. Next in the exercise are South East and South-South. Without even a pause PDP plotters will paint all eleven states in their colours, as indeed they must because the loss of any of these states will imperil Jonathan’s re-election chances. Especially Rivers, which is the largest of them all.

When it comes time to paint the South West states, expect to see Yoruba PDP chieftains such as Bode George and Buruji Kashamu throwing lace agbada around as they argue for wholesale repainting of the zone in PDP colours. Jonathan himself is not so sure, reason why he has been running from one oba’s palace to another in the last six weeks. At best he might agree to paint Ondo, Ekiti and Edo in PDP colours and paint others as toss ups. All in all, PDP would optimistically project itself to win 24 states: the seven Northern states that Jonathan won in 2011; three Northern states that they will price out of Buhari’s 12 states of 2011; all 5 Igbo states, all six Niger Delta states plus at least three Yoruba states.

All in all, APC will project itself to win 25 states and PDP will also project itself to win 25 states. Unfortunately there are 36 states in Nigeria, not 50. Someone is bound to be bitterly disappointed on Saturday evening when unofficial results start to trickle in through mobile phones, Facebook and Twitter.

Source:http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/columns/monday-columns/50140-two-rival-victory-maps

Nice one

Mods, FP pls

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Choi

klassicomega:
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Waiting pls

Who are you to summond Jega for meeting.

klassicomega:
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