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See corruption! who pays the piper dictates the tune. No wonder they kept quiet during the last L.G 'selection' in lagos

which oil money are you referring to? nigeria is a very poor country in every ramification. if you are still waiting for free infrastructures from the so called 'oil money' then, just know you are not yet ready for a developed country where every penny would be accounted for.
My take remains that this so called fuel subsidy which are being paid to a few powerful individuals should be removed totally and the money used judiciously to develop the country's ailling infrastructural facilities. No doubt, things are gonna be rough and very painful at the initial stage but on the long run, we will all be better for it

@al jarem
ol' boy, keep quiet before i shut that your gworo mouth for you. can't you just understand you've never made any sense on this forum. is it not what you sowed that you guys are reaping? you can't fool the populace especially the middle beltans anymore. just face it; there is nothing like one north

@ Beaf, you are right on point; just wish some people can think objectively even for a minute. no doubt, with subsidy removal there will be some pains but on the long run, nigerians will be better for it though still waiting for the disclosure of the palliative measure promised by the F

an article equally written with malice. pure hypocrite

really shed some tears of joy when i read this. kudos to mr peter obi and may God bless you

welldone sss and pls when is the serving senator gonna face charges of treason and terrorism?

omg! guy, you really made my day; couldn't stop laughing. pls, don't let nobody deter u

just wondering why the fg is being blamed and not the hypocrites known as labor leaders

Then, where are the ra-ped victims? Are they spirits too?

I wonder who's gonna take this write up serious; no facts, all based on hearsays. Still wondering why nobody heard from you when your favorite Boko Haram were busy killing and maiming 'infidels'.  Please park well and stop complaining after all, the JTF just started operation some weeks back. Don't forget the factual genocide, maiming, raping and starvation against the Igbos was carried out for 4 years (1966-70) and you people termed it 'justified'. Now, don't you think what is good for the goose is also good for the gander

So, Fashola cleaned Oshodi, he got rid of the of street trading on the highway and along the rail line, he also got rid of illegal parking and motor parks, but he made a U-TURN by charging the same people he got rid of trade and obstruct rail service along the rail lines?


I sense a while back that you got some misguided and misinformed rubbish to peddle, but the post above not only makes no sense, it's border line re-tarded.

You entered the thread hammering on Oshodi as if the places mentioned in the article doesn't bother you and the issues outlined is of no concern to you, it's the same Oshodi. You can't even show us rail line trading in Today's Oshodi.

The posted article said Aba, Umuahia and Enugu so why are you not breaking your neck over the places mentioned?

Saying the federal government is not responsible for your safety on federal government property is utterly insane, it's demented idioti.c. Do we not have the Nigeria police in every state, cities and local governments? Who do you think maintain law and order in every corner of Nigeria? Your local government chairman?


Some of you are nothing but a sad reflection of a very messed up Nigerian and the reason why it;s staying messed up.

Have you been to Oshodi of late and see what is happening there? FYI, the old Oshodi is gradually coming back. Secondly, according to your twisted mind the FG is in the best position to secure the lives of of a particular citizens of a state who choose to put their lives on the line by selling wares on a rail track and being encouraged by local authorities who sell tickets which also represents a form of tax. The fact remains that the local authorities are in the best position to put a stop to all these using agencies like Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI)

Guy, stop twisting facts. whether it is Aba, Enugu Agege or Kafanchan, the fact is that it is a general problem all over the country and don't try to exempt Lagos cos that is being hypocritical. Still wondering why you are blaming GEJ while the local authorities fully backed by Acn govt in Lagos are busy selling tickets to all these traders thereby encouraging them to continue to endanger their lives. The problem is not the Federal govt cos they don't have the exclusive right to safeguard the lives of the citizenry but the local authorities who are nearer to these people and can be in the best position to stop this menace.

But the place in question has nothing to do with Oshodi and according to the original article which the OP conveniently and intentionally bungled, areas in question are in Aba, Umuahia and Enugu.


This is a new story and it was published just a few days ago.

About responsibility, GEJ is of course responsible. He pick and appointed his own ministers including the transport minister who's job it is to oversee the rail system in Nigeria and any failure on his part is a reflection on GEJ. GEJ subjected the transportation minister on Nigerians, not the other way around. If the men you picked to serve Nigerians are not doing their job, it's up to the GEJ so do something about it, but such is a rarity in Nigeria, even as displayed in this thread, some will look the other way and blame everything on poor Nigerians, never the people we pay and tasked to serve and protect us.

The buck stops with the president.

I don't know why you like deceiving yourself. Probably you don't reside in Lagos with all these your lies about people not selling on railway tracks in Oshodi. Have you even heard about Ikeja Along railway market where traders are having a free day selling on the tracks both day and night. How about Agege and the rest

As you are a disgrace to your father's house

Is it all about the money? Can you really stand your sister going into prostitution? Frankly speaking I don't really know what is wrong with our ladies nowadays to the extent they are ready to even sleep with a dog just to get a BB.  What a shame! Most Nigerian girls especially our undergraduates are prostitutes and what this means is that most of our younger ones are gonna marry retired prostitutes in the future.

I've been following the trends here on nairaland and the only conclusion I've reached here is that majority of nairalanders are pure hypocrites and ethnic bigots. Please note that your beloved and holy Fashola equally declared his assets in private and nobody complained or raised an eye brow. Don't you guys think that what 'what is good for the goose is also good for the gander'. I rest my case

But Gej declared his assets before he was sworn in. Another stupid writer seeking for attention. Please, if you want to know the present worth of Gej, kindly apply to the relevant authorities

IN what appears to be a confirmation of media reports that the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Guardian Newspapers, Mr Reuben Abati,is to replace the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked his spokesman to prepare for a handover to another appointee yet to be named.

A highly placed Presidency source said the president invited Niboro, who was part of the presidential entourage to just concluded African Union, AU, Summit to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to inform him of the decision.

An online platform and some dailies had ,Thursday, reported that Abati has been informed that he will be a likely replacement for Niboro, a report that a Presidency source, who was not in Malabo with Mr President denied.

Niboro was appointed as Senior Special Assistant to then Vice President Jonathan, a position he held even when his principal was elevated to the office Acting President. And when the last cabinet was formed about a year ago, Niboro was also promoted to the office of Special Adviser, a position of a cabinet member.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/jonathan-asks-niboro-to-handover/


still watching the scenario unfold. SR MIGHT BE RIGHT AFTERALL

@OP,
please whatever you know, try and keep your mouth shut or just be more discreet cos at the end of the day it doesn't really favor you coming here to announce what everybody knows but have kept quite,

@OP

Please always supply the link/source of your story. Thanks.

Sorry; my bad.

Sahara reporters caught lying again

ABUJA – THE Presidency, Friday, has distanced itself from reports (not Vanguard) that President Goodluck Jonathan has settled for the appointment of Mr Reuben Abati as his new spokesman, saying that “Mr Niboro’s office is not vacant”.

One of the most senior aides in Aso Rock who didn’t accompanied the President to the African Union, AU, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, told Vanguard that the Presidency is not surprised by the report, “as many political applicants have recently resorted to the media to announce their dream appointments, without a formal letter from the C-in-C”.

The source which preferred anonymity dismissed the reports, saying that ” we expected you guys (media) to have speculated the list of the 20 presidential advisers like you did in the case of the ministers. But it’s obvious that you guys don’t have anything close to it, this time around; hence you shifted attention to your colleague, Niboro”.

“We are not surprised, at all. After all, the media have been in the business of appointing aides to the president lately.

Remember they appointed about three different persons at different times as new Chief of Staff to the President. But what I can tell you, is that, there is absolutely no sense in the reports; and they are outright personal imagination of the authors”, the source said.

I dont know what they use the trade fair complex for now. they can convert it to a university,   Some of the federal govt building not been used by the federal govt in lagos. can also been used for the art and management courses.

You can have a joint relationship with private sectors. where if the government own the building, the private can manage it with 50% with you.

Guy, is this your illness not curable?

what a nice discourse going on here

wondering the reason for all this brouhaha. How many people self dey pay for the NEPA light abi na wetin una dey call am?

Recently three Nigerian newspapers – Daily Trust in “Electricity workers warn against appointing Nnaji as power minister,” June 21, 2011, p. 7; The Guardian in “Electricity workers post agenda for emergent power minister,” June 22, 2011, p. 47; and Leadership in “Electricity workers kick against Nnaji as minister,” June 24, 2011, p. 20 – published the objection of certain members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) to the appointment of Prof. Bart Nnaji as Minister of Power.

In the first publication, Comrade Augustine Sule, the Zonal Organising Secretary of the North-east chapter of NUEE, hinges the objection on the claim that “Prof. Nnaji was responsible for the current poor power generation situation in the country.” He further alleges that “the Presidential task force on power, lacked in-depth technical knowledge of the power sector, leading to many problems in the sector such as shortage of gas supply.” He then declares that “the union would not co-operate with Prof. Nnaji if he is appointed by President Jonathan,” adding: “We are aware that there is shortage of gas supply to Geregu, Olorunsogo, Delta and Egbin thermal stations and the question remains who is responsible for the gas supply to these stations?, ”

In the second publication, the reason for the objection – as expressed in a document attributed to Mbang Etete Ekpo Ntukubes (the Vice-President, Lagos/Ogun chapter of NUEE) and Agyake Anthony (the Zonal Organising Secretary, Lagos Genco-Transysco) – is that “it will not be in the interest of Nigerians to hand over responsibility of supervising the power sector to individuals who have not made any mark at electricity for more than five years. , ” And for the way forward, the publication says the group, among other things, “urged whoever emerges the minister to explore alternative sources of power such as coal , ,” and “called for the completion of the Mambila power plant and the complete overhaul of existing power plants”.

The third publication is virtually a rehash of the sentiments in the preceding ones.

Though I do not mean to hold a brief for Prof. Nnaji, let me say that nothing proves the lack of ideas on the part of these critics of his as the fact that their recommendations regarding sourcing alterative power from coal, completing the Mambila project, etc, are just a few of the proposals contained in the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform which President Goodluck Jonathan launched on August 26, 2010, and which Prof. Nnaji has had to diligently oversee its implementation as the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP), leading to such positive outcomes as the commencement of generation at Olorunsogo and, more recently, the recovery of installed capacity from Egbin, leading to the increase of its output to 1000 megawatts.

That Nnaji’s critics would rather personalise the shortage of gas supply to the generating stations reveals their lack of knowledge of the related technical issues and their desperation to malign him in order to jeopardise his ministerial appointment. I have it on good authority, and stand to be contradicted, that the shortage was due to “leaks and damages on the gas pipelines that were not due to sabotage”. And since the problem was not attributed to sabotage by experts, the rhetorical question as to “who is responsible” posed by Nnaji’s critics to hint at his culpability becomes unnecessary.

There is also an indication that these critics are not well-informed about events in the same power sector whose destiny they apparently wish to control. For instance, on the same day of the publication of their insinuation that Nnaji is responsible for the gas shortage to stations including Egbin, the Chief Executive of Egbin Thermal Station, Mr Mike Uzoigwe, issued a statement published in The Nation, stating that “Egbin power generation has bounced back to about 1,000 megawatts from about 500 megawatts it was in the last two weeks due to poor gas supply and low water level.” How come these critics did not know that the Egbin component of the gas shortage for which they faulted Nnaji’s ministerial candidacy was already a thing of the past? Shouldn’t such ignorance resulting in their spreading inaccurate information to the public on such an important national issue cast doubt on their credibility and that of their mission of scuttling what could be the most proactive and transformative ministerial tenure in the history of the Nigerian power sector?

I spent 15 years as a technical staff in the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) which metamorphosed into the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). During those years, I was a member of the National Union of Electricity and Gas Workers (NUEGW) which metamorphosed into NUEE. And I know from experience that the survivalist politics of some trade union leaders in the power industry could leave much to be desired, like trying to jeopardise someone’s ministerial candidacy through blackmail, as evidenced by the threat of Nnaji’s critics that they would not cooperate with him if appointed Minister of Power. And what do we have to show for their having cooperated with previous ministers of power other than the legacy of endemic corruption and chronic under productivity in the power sector generally believed to be the greatest contributors to our nation’s economic underdevelopment?

Incidentally, Nnaji, who holds a Doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the United States and is also a tenured professor of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, also in the United States, built the first privately-owned Independent Power Plant (IPP) in the country, the 188-megawatt Geometric Power Plant at Osisioma, near Aba, proving that indigenous private entrepreneurs can embark on such ventures to the end of improving power supply in the country. The conception and implementation of that visionary and yet pragmatic project is a remarkable feat. And I think that, contrary to the suggestion of his critics, the consideration regarding one’s “mark at electricity” should be how impactful, even if potentially, and not how long, especially in respect of a sector whose decades-long inefficiency suggests that long experience does not usually translate into commendable impact.

The Aba plant, which will soon go into commercial operation, was preceded by a 22-megawatt Emergency Power Plant which Nnaji built in Abuja, which supplies uninterrupted electricity to The Villa, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) headquarters, the International Conference Centre, the Central Area, etc. Nnaji is also one of the three most respected engineers globally in his area of expertise.

That these electricity workers did not protest the appointment of any minister of power for the several decades that the electricity industry declined steadily in productivity until Nnaji began to head the power reform task force suggests that their opposition of his appointment is a sign that they would prefer the power sector to remain inefficient and are afraid that his tenure as minister of power would usher in a new era in which it will not be business as usual. In effect, the fear of Nnaji by these trade unionists is the fear of the positive change that should result from the power sector reform and his tenure as minister of power.

However, since such critics are not excluded from benefiting from the success of the reform or the appointment of a progressive as minister of power, it may be necessary to continue to reassure them that they “have nothing to fear but fear itself,” with apologies to the former United States President Theodore Roosevelt.

•Oke, a policy analyst and former staff member of the defunct NEPA and member of the then NUEGW, wrote from Abuja.

Mr Buhari, I hope you're not too stupid to understand that you can't fool Nigerians with your evil agenda. Please do us a favor by pushing for your part of Nigeria to be parted from the rest so that we can all have peace.

Now I know you are such a slowpoke that opens his mouth to make comments on what he doesn't even comprehend. Aturu hausa

President Goodluck Jonathan has said the Federal Government would take hard decisions in its bid to move the economy forward.

He, however, assured that government would protect local manufacturers from dumping and would also support them with incentives like waivers.

Speaking at the official commissioning of the May and Baker Pharma Cenre in Sango-Ota, Ogun State, the President said: “Government will take hard decision that will create some inconveniences, but bear with us.

“The private sector will play a key role. We will take hard decision that will appear painful to the ordinary people, but in the long run, it will be for the good of all.

“We cannot talk of achieving Vision 20: 20-20 if we continue to import most of our industrial needs. We will create an enabling environment by tackling, the power challenges.

“Nigeria will no longer be a dumping ground for all sort of products. That’s why we take time in selecting our economic theme for building a strong economy.”

The President said that Nigeria would no longer be a sleeping giant. He cited China and Uganda as examples of countries which, he said, shut their doors on importation.

He said: “Those hard decisions will affect importation of products.” He promised to use the next four years to work in ensuring that irritating investment environments were addressed.

The President commended the efforts of the management of May and Baker, adding that other companies should emulates them.
The chairman of the company, General Theophilus Danjuma, who described May & Baker as the country’s leading pharmaceutical company, told President Jonathan that the company currently has 800 staff on its payroll.

Danjuma also stated that the company was in the process of obtaining the World Health Organisation’s global regulation certificate and assured that it would continue to meet and promote global standard.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, in his address, assured local manufacturers in the state that his administration would do everything humanly possible to encourage them.

“We shall assist her to recoup part of the investment with viable and encouraging incentives. This also applies to other organizations that have invested or planning to invest in the state. We will do everything possible to support your business and investment aspiration.”

“Members of the Organized Private Sector (OPS) would soon be invited to a round table conference to agree on the various ways in which we can give this support.

“We must realize that government alone cannot should the responsibility of wholesome development. We must find ways of encouraging private partnership for the development of our dear state.”

He urged the people of the state especially host communities, to provide the necessary support and co-operation for the expansion of both public and private investments in their communities.



please, can someone tell me what is wrong in trying to encourage local manufacturers, create the right incentives through waivers and tax holidays just for the likes of the OP to have something doing?