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Webman007:
Its obvious you're one of those that pocketed this 700Million.....


Are you aware that the same ministry budgeted over 700Million for Website update last financial year?......

And is this not the result of that budget, or you are also stuck in the mud?

greenek:
before you claim to get a job of n1m/month with just bsc(thats according to the storyline), please show us proof ehn....

Hahahahaha!

You are another one of them doubting Thomases.

A certain dude got a job with an oil major.

His pay package as a trainee to be further sent to France on training was over N30m/annum.

He is back in Nigeria working deep offshore with just HND, yet you are still doubting with B.Sc?

How much do you think NLNG pays its technicians who work with just HND?

Never limit yourself to your own habitat.

Ebuka2016:
you dey craze full time bro. Even Amazon dot com owner Jeff Bezos would be lieing to you if he told you he built his website for half a million dollars. I dont know whats wrong with some pple. How can you be defending a govt who has not even improved the major sectors of our economy for spending 700 million on a website alone, not even 700 thousand. No matter how complex the website is, that amount is very outrageous. No worry, we go soon see the website and i wouldnt be surprised if its just another mediocre website.

Nigerian authorities scamming pple like you since 400 BC and yet you've refused to wake up. Mtcheew.

If only you had sparred the 1minute to google hiw much some websites and web portals cost, you would not have embarrassed yourself so.

anonimi:
On average, how much do you spend monthly on charities in addition to your taxes?
Thanks.

Taxes are deducted from source.

Some months I spend close to N200k on tax.

Charity is largely who I know, as there are enough family and friends to prevent Charity from not beginning at home.

ojlifa:
Some stupid fool,who surely must be racists think he can slander this woman's image.Nairaland.com make sure this never get the publicity this evil people are looking for.if you know the politics of international organizations, you would understand that when ever a black person rises some white racist start publishing trash.what has been writen is trash and should be treated as such

They are trying to say she does not deserve the role in UN.

Anything liberals and activists hold dear, must be held dear by everyone else.

Nbote:
What is it with some of U always dodging questions and beating around d bush. D mining sector setting up a website is totally pointless and not a priority. Priorities are so for a reason and getting it right is what determines and shows clarity and a clear cut path.
Anyways here's a KPMG report u shld seesince u want to kip making excuses and baseless scenarios

https://home.kpmg.com/ng/en/home/insights/2017/08/key-challenges-facing-the-nigerian-mining-sector.html

Dude are you now saying the website will not solve those issues highlighted from the news report?

Or was that not you enquiry - to know what issues the portal will solve?

Or those issues are not significant enough?

To improve the service rendered to the investors in that industry and to improve means of income generation and accountability.

Those issues are irrelevant?

The biggest job scam in Nigeria is a promised job at Shell.

The oldest trick that still works so efficiently.

martinsfm:
lol.. she will get scammed again from someone claiming he can help her fish the dude out

Bros you wicked ooo.

That one for be clean up job for some boys.

Double Take!

Freddy Tiffany!

Hahahahaha!

He who walks the crooked path is certain to falter.

Nbote:
Now tell urself d truth, who's aimless now? I simply asked u about d issues u claimed d website would solve and U are comparing banks?

I afforded you something deeper, yet free, but a simple man just wants his wooden chair rather than a forest of mahogany.

So let me stoop to your level of comprehension and give you something simple that was already in the news report you refused to see.

The portal was designed for mining investors to perform business processes such as online mining licences and mineral titles applications, online payment of royalties and fees, database for revenue drive and to block revenue leakages.

Guess what?

I just received an email from Accenture, notifying me of some task for which my response has become due. I wonder how many millions of Dollars my firm pay them to manage just some aspects of our database and ICT resource?

I reckon we could have found a cheaper alternative from Bayo for just a couple of millions in Naira?

My firm must be very wasteful.

ivandragon:
lol...


just look at you... a moth thinking itself to be a falcon...


you are a political ranter for your preferred looters, that's all you are.

I repeat, you are stuck in the mud.

Nbote:
Oga can u please list 3 major issues bedeviling d sector and how d website is going to fix it... Only den will I respond to ur "aimless critic" jab

Dude, Fayemi and his ministry made a mistake.

They should have let things be as they met it. They shouldn't have bothered with a budget that went beyond just paying salaries of redundant ministry civil servants.

You want growth but castigate money expended to modernise an income generating ministry?

Nobody will beg Union bank to spend the money they refused to spend when the likes of Zenith and GTB were investing in ICT.

It is Union bank that will perish or wake up after the party has ended like they have now. As for the aimless board members who had no vision when the likes of GTB and Zenith were "wasting money on ICT", what is the value of their Union bank shares now?

And this is for Fayemi and his ministry.

Spend whatever is necessary and available to spend to make your ministry viable.

The same critics are the ones who will claim 4yrs later that you did not do anything to turn around the fortunes of the ministry.

Don't listen to irrelevant and distracting noise. You are the one in charge, as such you will be blamed for failure, and not those criticising you.

It is the duty of a layman to criticise like an illiterate that he is. It is the duty of the insider to make things work even when those required actions will be criticised by the mob that are never imbued with any objectivity.

The same people who go out to places where things work, will come back to castigate and lament that things are not working in Nigeria.

Yet they are never ready to pay the price required for things to work.

If government releases the budget to maintain the airports, they complain. But when they transit through the airport, they also complain about the failure of government in Nigeria and how airports are managed by other governments. They have no idea what was expended to provide that comfortable and wonderful airport where things are done so efficiently.

Attempt to sack inefficient staff and watch same Nigerians complain that the government is wicked.

Fayemi, do your best and disregard noise for what it is.

Nbote:
Oh lawd!! I give up. D purpose is to address some of d problems dat made d ministry moribund? Are u for real?

The portal is for fun. It is to stream you tube videos.

Are you happy now? Did you read the content of the news at all or you are another aimless critic on the prowl?

ivandragon:
some people prefer Nigeria to remain stagnated as long as their preferred thieves have the right of way...


to move forward, we must question irrational decisions of our leaders at all times, regardless of who is in power at any point in time... only then is objectivity achieved & we are able to really define what we want & the direction we need to go as a country...


but of course, there will always be nitwits who want to draw us back

An aimless critic like you would still have found fault if it was a N5m portal.

You would have claimed Bayo also builds website for N500K.

People like you are stuck in the mud till the high tide overcome you.

You belong to the Huawei and CCECC mentality. Some of us belong to the Ericsson and Cappa & D'Alberto mentality.

So when matters like these are discussed, it is no surprise what side of the divide we align with.

Nbote:
There is a whole lot wrong with it my broda.. 700million on a website for a ministry dat hasn't done Jack in improving its plight is a 100 steps in d wrong direction.. There are a whole lot bedeviling d ministry than what their website shld look like. Dat sector has been comatose for years now and U and I know dat. Let's call a spade a spade

The purpose of the website is to address some of the problems that has made that ministry moribund.

There was once a story about Philip Emeagwali approaching the Abacha government in the 1990's, for an investment of $5b to develop ICT as a viable sector of the Nigerian economy.
The funds were not granted because we were ignorant and also found the sum outrageous.

If such funds could have made Nigeria like India or Singapore or Malaysia or Hong Kong as regards ICT, do you think such funds would not have been money well spent at that time?

In retrospect, was it not a foolish decision not seeing the perspective of Emeagwali?

It seems a lot of Nigerians are frustrated beyond objectivity.

Trying to argue logically with them can only project one as elitist or lacking in empathy.

I leave you all to your cross.

BeeBeeOoh:
700 what




Please, how much does ticket to south Sudan cost??

You remind me of a dude who I schooled with and served NYSC with.

While discussing our career plans as engineers and what potential jobs were available for fresh graduates like us, I told him assertively that I couldn't settle for a job pay less than N500k/month. He looked at me with such disgust, wondering why a fresh graduate should feel so entitled to such pay he found outrageous. He contended that N100k/month was good enough.

Less than a year after service, he got his own N100k/month job while I got myself a N1m/month type of job. I still wasn't contented and aspired for something better, while my pal is still today aspiring towards a pay windfall of N500k/month.

This same category of people wonder why I would spend N45K on a Lacoste polo shirt or N60k on a Tommy Hilfiger jeans. When you can buy same at Balogun market in Isale Eko for less than N5k each.

The above true story is the mentality in display when people wonder why one website is N2m and another is N500m or more. Lack of exposure!

ivandragon:
are you really this dull or are you just hiding behind that to defend your preferred thieves?


Ibe cleared stated it that the contracts didn't pass through due process where paddings & other fraudulent acts could have been checked & filtered out.


the person that signed it, if true, doesn't know jack about technicalities involved. & if he truly did sign, where are the documents to back it up?

back to the topic jare...


have you even gone to check out the website?

do you know that some of the links lead nowhere?


you just keep talking out of your ass...

And for Ibe, due process was to be through him as Chairman of NNPC board?

And NNPC has come out with enough facts to show that the NNPC tenders board, Minister or Petroleum and FEC are all that was required to constitute Due Process as it is currently existing.

Ibe Kachikwu is not the minister of petroluem but junior minister, while Buhari is the minister. Ibe Kachikwu is not the head of the NNPC tenders board but head of NNPC board. Ibe Kachikwu was present in the FEC meetings as a junior minister when these contracts were presented.

So what else do you have to say?


Ibe Kachikwu has also come out to clarify matters for unrepentant and aimless critics like yourself, that he did not allege that money was missing or that the contracts did not truly exist.

Him and Baru have since moved on over their misunderstanding, with both sides of the debate agreeing to differ. While sane observers like us have urged Buhari to surrender the full minister portfolio to Ibe Kachikwu to prevent such re-occurence of allegations of breech in due processes and possible loopholes that Kachikwu has identified in the current process which still remains legal.


As for the website, even the reports already mentioned that experts are required to manage it. So you should already know it is yet to be operational. It is there already for you to understand without the need of your tasteless and aimless attempt to mockery.

clevadani:
That's bs. I am a fullstack developer and that amount is outrageous no matter the complexities involved in the development of the portal.

I am also a supporter of this current govt, but let's stop deceiving ourselves and say the truth at all times. Only then can we progress as a nation.

Maybe you should have tendered a bid for the project if it was in your capacity to offer a cheaper deliverable.

Nbote:
So U don't see nothing wrong in spending 700m of oyel money in developing d website of mines and steel and dey are even seeking for experts frim Ministry of Communications to help manage d same website

I do not see any problem with spending money to develop another revenue generating sector of our economy.

Must we always criticise every money spent, even when spent appropriately and to generate more income?

I have already highlighted the need for trained experts that the ministry has already alluded to.

ivandragon:
keep quite & stop being an ignoramus...

have you visited the website to see if it justifies that amount?


have you forgotten that there was an uproar when this amount was said to have been budgeted for website in 2016? so why won't it boldly come out to say so when it had been padded ab initio... same way the $25b NNPC will be defended by the likes of you when they tell Nigerians that they have executed $25b in thin air...


you just keep jumping up & down to defend rubbish simply because it is your preferred thieves doing the looting...

You are still not tired of this your imagined $25b that is missing at NNPC ?

Yet when asked to mention any stakeholder who claimed such funds are missing, or that ghost contracts were awarded, you suddenly go dumb? The case of contracts erroneously totalled to the sum of $25b, has already been addressed by NNPC over the charge of not following due process. A due process they have maintained did not require the approval of the stakeholder who made the charge, but who never alleged that money was missing or that the contracts were phantom and did not exist.

You do not always have to be a blind critic of government. Criticize as if you have a brain for Christ sake.

ivandragon:
supporters of corruption coming out in all their glory... lol...


they haven't even gone to see the website before defending it...

And you have come out in all your shame.

A switch already damaged in the default position of blind criticism.

Too many illiterates online.

ivandragon:
in order words, you have spent the money budgeted for website in 2016...


lol...


well, I trust the pmb's online support thugs to provide justification for this...

Illiterates should only speak on basic topics that can be argued at a beer parlour.

Spending $2m on a portal depending on what the complexities of it are and what level of integrated database is required, is not a child's play.

The ministry has itself revealed this information freely to the public, to prevent the likes of you from making a mockery of serious business initiatives as some scandal that has been exposed.

Another avenue for ICT illiterates to castigate what they do not know about.

So the equivalent of $2m was spent on an integrated portal? Should I head into the streets to protest that it should have been procured for N200k ?

Mohammed Abbas, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, sought the support of the Ministry of Communication to assist with experts that would manage the portal effectively.

Above is the only snag there. Are there enough competent people to manage such complex IT solutions or will extra funds be spent to procure the services of the likes of Accenture to manage it on their behalf?

sarrki:
Second name for Nigeria is corruption

Old and young

Did you read the news at all?

Is it global activists that will decide for Nigeria what to do with our natural resources or how we best exploit it with a view to maintaining income from international contracts already agreed to?

Mohammed said her action was part of a complicated, though legal, balancing act aimed at ensuring Nigeria's threatened forests were being harvested sustainably while also honoring contracts with Chinese rosewood importers and protecting the livelihoods of a growing number of Nigerians who depend on the timber trade.

Shior!

So this is what you call corruption?

Let the outraged activists jump off the empire state building to protest their disapproval.

His namesake, Femi.

His namesake, Femi

NwaAmaikpe:


Karma is a B.
Muritala Muhammed experienced the worst death. My disdain for him knows no bounds.
He is one of the many reasons I hate the N20 Naira bill.
Each time I walk into MMIA, I am repulsed knowing it is named after a genocidal villain.

If the people of the USA protested and pulled down Confederate Statues; then it wouldn't be out of place to strip the murderer of all honours.

It is an insult to people whose family tree was altered by the Asaba Massacre.

We will never forget.

The reference you made in bold is the same reason why Nigeria continues to deal with anyone with Biafran flags and currency and other paraphernalia. Just like the defeated confederates of the USA civil war, they are the artefacts of the defeated rebel forces or illegal government that should be erased.

As regards Murtala Mohammed, he was the first Nigerian ruler to show any active zeal to reform the country.

That you know him for any evil, is his own reaction to the hatred sowed in him as a reaction of the Igbo coup and Igbo gloating in the North, of the assassination of top Northerners, in the aftermath of that coup.

He took that hatred with him to the war, and unfortunately, the victors decide who the heroes are, not the vanquished. A truth you have equally referenced going by the actions of the Americans in the text in bold.

He's about to use his right hand to unzip her jeans trouser.

Lol!

Good response by the Kaduna State Government.