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At d pace buhari is going, if a new party is floated and someone like Atiku or kwankwaso contest against buhari, he's a goner

agbangam:
My dear blame GEJ n not PMB, d delay in ur service and also our present suffering is a result of d great looting n misappropriation of funds dat happened under GEJ. Dis present govt is handicapped, money no dey man. Be grateful to God dat GEJ lossed d election if not na nxt year ur for go for service.
OBJ saved roughly 30b dollars b4 he left office and wen we xperienced poor oil sale in 2008/2009 Yaradua had wat to fall back on to rescue d economy. From 2010 to 2014. Nigeria made so much money from oil sale but did GEJ save Nope he didn't rather GEJ n his gang of looters wrecked dis nation and right now PMB has nothing to fall back on now dat oil sale is poor. So blame GEJ not PMB. Sorry about ur service delay

Obj left more than 30 b dollars agreed
GEJ left 30b dollars in foreign reserve to buhari, what has he done with it

No
Anybody but buhari

obailala:
Nigerias crude production has dropped from over 2.1 million barrels per day to less than 1.4million. There isnt even any crude to swap

There is crude to swap.
D govt gets 0.58 of every crude production
Even at 1.4 million barrels, govt has over 800,000 barrels of crude money to self
1 barrel of crude gives approx 160 litres of fuel
250,000 barrels of crude will give us our daily 40 million litres consumption
For a swap deal, 350,000 barrels of crude will pay for our daily fuel consumption, besides d govt. still makes profit from its sales since subsidy's been removed.

obailala:
Nigerias crude production has dropped from over 2.1 million barrels per day to less than 1.4million. There isnt even any crude to swap

There is crude to swap.

Hmmm, God bless Atiku
Hope other 'looters' would at least invest d money in d economy n create employment opprtunities

Anything is possible in Nigeria

DropShot:
With what the "dullard" has achieved by keeping Nigeria alive, the Ineffectual Buffoon would have put Nigeria up for sale were he to still be in charge.

Nigeria under the IB borrowed to pay salaries in February and March 2015, remember?

So, intelligent people can understand what we would have become if he was still in charge.

Keeping Nigeria alive?
Let me intimate u on buhari's economic maneuver to keep Nigeria alive:
-retrenchment of many federal civil servants thereby increasing unemployment.
-payment of half-salaries to many of d remaining federal civil servants
-reduction in allocation to states; such that many r unable to pay salaries.
-making profit from Nigerians in sell of fuel when crude oil was at its lowest n fuel price lowest in other countries.
-Withdrawal of subsidy
- stamp duty charges n many other obnoxious charges
-'devalueing' d naira which is now selling above N380 to a dollar
All this policies are anti-people n inflation is at its highest rate.
With d introduction of TSA n oil price of 47dollars, Nigeria doesn't deserve to be in this mess buhari has placed us.

O yea!
U met close to 6000MW of power generation
1 year in power its about 1,500 MW
Keep on d campaign promises

ComradeAbu:
Sometimes, I wonder the kind of education we receive in the Third World Countries that has made us not to radically see the realities we are faced with in our lands. I am no more impressed by the analysis of our so called educated people who continue to undermine the real challenges facing dependent people and countries like ours which have been fantastically structured through slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and now globalisation to remain perpetually enslaved and dependent on the Mother countries. The solution to our social and economic predicaments goes beyond personalities in leadership positions at any time and the type of political system we operate. I know that President Buhari has good intentions for the people of the country, especially the poor. But what can he do under the situation we found ourselves where the global economic system has conspired to make good intentioned leaders incapable of implementing policies that would favour the people?. What can President Buhar, for example do about the dwindling revenue from crude, poor foreign reserve base and other financial obligations over which no independent decisions can be taken by Nigeria? The issue to me is not about repeating the same social concepts that we know cannot be operational in our climes. It is about telling ourselves the truth that as dependent people, there is limit to the extent we can aspire to be free.

What can buhari do?
What could Obasanjo do with a battered economy by d military n only 1billion dollars foreign reserve with loafs of foreign debt?
What could GEJ do with economic sabotage by d born to rules, looting n bokoharam menace?
Every Government has challenges, n challenges are meant to be solved by d government but unfortunately buhari is compounding our problems.
Buhari is a MONUMENTAL failure, he met a vibrant economy n crashed it in less than 1 year in office.
What can he do?
He's crying fighting corruption but his cabinet members r d most corrupt in d land,corruption is still glaring in our MDA's. Let him keep on d vendetta n opposition crushing in d name of fighting corruption, soon it'll b obvious that he's d president that brought Nigeria to its knees.

This has always been what buhari is known for
no surprise

I thought d FG solved d problem by raising fuel price to N145?
Ok let's try N290/litre, sai baba

How u are?
Go skul, u no gree, okay na

How u are?
Go skul, u no gree, okay na
I wan b president

EYah, sorry
U ain't seen nothing yet

Two Nigerian soldiers have been confirmed dead and several others injured in a boat mishap in Delta State, a day after a soldier drowned in Bayelsa State.
The latest incident, which happened on Friday, involved a military patrol team around the creeks of Egwa 1, near an SPDC flow station in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta.
It came after another boat mishap at Agip’s oil field in Bayelsa on Thursday killed a soldier.
Some residents of the area told PREMIUM TIMES that the incident occurred around 10 am Friday.
The residents wondered why the military was deploying troops who could not swim to engage militants in their familiar terrain.
The incident, it was learnt, has thrown the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Pulo Shied and 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army Effurun, into mourning.
Community sources also confirmed the incident but could not give details.
A senior military officer, who later confirmed the incident, said the military boat was carrying about 10 soldiers when it capsized.


The officer said they were on a normal routine patrol of oil installations around the Egwa 1 community when the incident occurred.
It was further gathered that those who sustained various degrees of injuries had been conveyed to an undisclosed hospital for medical care in Warri.
“We lost two of our soldiers to a boat mishap early this morning around Egwa 1 in Warri South West of Delta State. They were patrolling the creeks when the incident happened. Report reaching us says scores were injured,” the officer, who spoke on a condition of anonymity said.
Isa Ado, JTF’s spokesman could not be reached for response. Calls and a text message sent to his telephone line were equally not answered or replied.


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Suspected Niger Delta militants in the early hours of Friday blew up another section of an NNPC gas trunkline behind salvation city near Ogbe-Ijoh in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State.
It was gathered that the incident happened at about 2 am on Friday.
Community sources told our correspondent that the suspected militants used dynamites and explosives to carry out the attack.
Although, details of the attack was still sketchy, an official of the Delta State government who asked not to be named described the attack as a major blow to gas production and by implication, power generation in the country.
The incident was confirmed by a monarch in one of the communities in the area who stated that houses in his area were shaken as a result of the blast.
Although, a military source around the area confirmed the incident, the spokesman of the Joint Task Force in the region, Isa Ado, could not be reached for comment.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/203791-suspected-militants-blow-crude-trunkline-delta.html

He did not answer calls to his mobile phone and did not reply a text message seeking comment.
However the new militants group, the Niger Delta Avengers, have gone underground since five of its suspected members were allegedly nabbed by the military joint force in the Niger Delta region last week.

Blame the different state governors that got the funds
But yes, many looted sure-p cash

Very very sad
Prices of things v quadrupled or at least hiked
Only fanatical supporters r still smiling though suffering too!

Yea, they must be behind d NLC strike too, sorry for you

Please people should stop playing politics with d life of this girls!
Whatever it takes to get them home should be done

What of if d govt. doesn't do its duties rather inflict hardship on d masses like our FG

Unfortunately this committee report may be dropped in d bin
The new sheriff in town is all about spilling blood; just like d Fulani herdsmen
Soldiers r already in d Niger delta

Seems d propaganda of calling d captor 'husband' n not treating him bad is working
Other husbands might bring out their wives
Anything to get this girls back alive is welcome

Good one

Tobi Soniyi and Paul Obi in Abuja

The ad hoc Committee on Crude Oil Theft Prevention and Control of the National Economic Council (NEC) has revealed that government does not have adequate operational vessels to patrol and secure the network of pipelines in the Niger Delta.



Briefing journalists at the end of the 67th meeting of NEC which held on Thursday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Admiral John Jonah Atuama (rtd), said the committee also discovered that massive unemployment among youths in the Niger Delta region had contributed in no small measure to the rising incidence of oil theft and vandalism of oil company facilities in the region.

Atuama said that he reported to the council that the committee, which was set up sometime in 2013, consulted widely with relevant stakeholders including the Armed Forces Joint Task Force (JTF), oil companies, oil producing states, and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), among others.

According to him, the scarcity of petroleum products in the Niger Delta area was also responsible for the recurrence of illegal bunkering.
He said the committee recommended that appropriate technology must be procured and deployed for surveillance of the oil and gas facilities.
The deputy governor said the committee also recommended that combat vehicles/boats be procured and deployed in difficult terrains to drastically reduce incidents of oil theft and illegal bunkering.
This, the committee said, would ensure full benefits of uninterrupted supply of oil and gas to the terminals and for domestic use.

Among others, the committee recommended that the federal government should set up special courts for the speedy prosecution of illegal oil bunkerers and oil theft suspects, and the engagement of traditional rulers to sensitise their communities on the criminal and environmental dangers of oil theft.
To address the problems in the oil sector on a long-term basis, NEC further agreed that there should be an increase in the refining capacity of the domestic refineries through the co-location of smaller cost-efficient refineries within the timeframe of 12 to 24 months.

It was also agreed that focus should be on restoring upstream production by positively engaging host communities to bring the current militancy to an end.
The Delta deputy governor added that council also agreed that attention should be focused on improving government funding in the upstream sector where funding had been less than 30 per cent and that government should be relieved of monthly cash-call funding and create a sustainable self-funding arrangement.

The council further agreed that government should continue to engage the general public and all stakeholders by providing relevant information and education.
Also yesterday, NEC approved a fiscal sustainability plan aimed at helping states navigate the current economic downturn.

NEC, which is composed of all the 36 state governors and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, meets monthly and is chaired by the vice-president.
A statement issued by the media aide to the vice-president, Mr. Laolu Akande, said the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, reported to the council that the balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) stood at $2,259,688,878.06 as at April 30, 2016.

She put the interest that accrued to the account at $429,903.55 for the month of April 2016.
The chairman of NEC, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, informed the council that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the reconstitution of the board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), adding that the board would be put in place soon.

The statement said that Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole on behalf of NEC’s ad hoc Committee on the Management of the Excess Crude Account and Payments into the Federation Account reported to the council that the sub-committee endorsed the forensic auditors’ firms as earlier proposed by the finance minister to audit the ECA.

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello also gave an update on states that have received bailout funds and those outstanding.
Bello said the CBN governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele reported to the council that 30 states had so far benefited from the salary bailout as at May 18, 2016 while 35 states had applied for Excess Crude Account-backed loans.

Bello said Kogi State’s application for the bailout funds was being processed and expressed the hope that the state would get it next week.
The governor also said the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, gave an update on fuel supply in the country.

He said Kachikwu briefed the council on the reasons the federal government removed the subsidy on petrol and gave oil marketers approval to source their foreign exchange requirements from autonomous sources to facilitate fuel imports and end scarcity of the product.
Also, the Minister of Budget and National Planning Udo Udoma told journalists at the end of the meeting that he made a presentation on the strategic plan for 2016 budget implementation.
The Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, in her briefing, said that in response to previous requests, the finance minister made a presentation to the council on the fiscal sustainability plan and fiscal framework for the states.

Ezeilo said that council approved the plan, which had five key strategic objectives: accountability and transparency; increase in public revenue; rationalisation of public expenditure; public financial management reforms; and sustainable debt management.
She said the minister recommended action points with a view to achieving the objectives that would align both the short-term and long-term sustainability objectives of the federal and state governments.
Ezeilo also said that the Minister of State for Solid Minerals presented a policy paper to the council. The policy paper was presented to NEC to apprise it of the reforms of the minerals sector and to particularly address the issuance of licences for solid minerals exploration by both federal and state governments.

Governors Endorse Subsidy Removal

Prior to the NEC meeting, the 36 governors had met and expressed support for the end of fuel subsidies, saying that the policy was in the interest of the masses.
The governors also said that they were making efforts to access $3.25 billion earmarked by the World Bank for social and infrastructure projects in the states.
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, who spoke after the governors met Wednesday night in Abuja, said they supported the removal of the subsidy on fuel because they believed that it was in the interest of all Nigerians.

He said: “These are sacrifices that must be made by all. The president means well, the government means well, all of us mean well and if truly we are caring for the masses, we believe that the subsidy only serves the rich, not the masses.
“We believe the monies saved from the subsidy removal would be used for infrastructure development particularly for social services for all of the downtrodden masses.

“We are putting our weight behind it, while urging the federal government and indeed the state governments to see how we can ameliorate all the problems the masses would probably go through in the short-run because in the long run they would be the better for it.”

States Seek Access to World Bank Grant

Also speaking, the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari said the Country Director of the World Bank, Rachid Benmessaoud, had educated the governors on how they could access $4.25 billion earmarked by the World Bank for projects in the state.
He said: “Because of the cumbersome procedures in accessing these funds, most of the governors did not even know they had such funds there.

“It was the initiative of the Governor of Kaduna State that the World Bank should come and make this presentation so that it can educate the governors on the funds and how we can access them so that the states can invest in infrastructure.”

He explained that after the presentation, the governors expressed concern over how they would raise their counterpart funding in order to access the funds.
“World Bank accepted to look into the issue of counterpart funding and its officials agreed that they will give us the details state by state, that it’s how much each state is entitled to and how we are going to access it.

“As of now, they are ready to facilitate a kind of workshop for the state governors and the commissioners of finance and others, so that we can know how best to access these funds for the betterment of our respective states,” Yari said.
He however acknowledged that many states would have difficulty raising the counterpart funds because of the situation they had found themselves in.
He said: “We are struggling to see how we can pay salaries, that is the most difficult aspect of it and they promised that they will look into it and immediately that is done, the states will move fast to ensure we access it.”

The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, gave further insights into the World Bank grant for the states, stating: “The World Bank portfolio for the states for this year is $4.25 billion and out of that $3.25 billion is lying there undisbursed, which means the states are not meeting their conditions or not moving fast enough to draw this $3.25billion.
“You know $3.25 billion can do a lot to improve the lives and livelihood of our citizens in the states and the World Bank has expressed its flexibility to look into the challenges we are facing, as well as the procedures or bottlenecks, in order to ease access to these monies because the World Bank wants us to withdraw the money as quickly as possible so that our citizens will get the benefits from healthcare to education and the rural access, agriculture and the revival of livestock and water supply.
“These are the areas that most of these funds are dedicated to and we all need the money because we are all broke, so we are going to work very hard to try to get these monies in trust.”

NLC: Protest Will Last for Weeks

However, as the governors endorsed the fuel subsidy removal, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday in Abuja warned that the ongoing protest would last for weeks until government heeds its demands.
The peaceful march by the labour union and its civil society allies in Abuja witnessed more turnout yesterday, as more unions joined the protest.
The protesters started from Berger roundabout at about 9 am and terminated at Garki Area 1 roundabout in the Abuja metropolis.

NLC President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, stated that the union would sustain the protest for weeks, adding however that labour was “open to dialogue anytime government deems it fit to negotiate with us”.
While addressing the protesters, Wabba explained that the protest was aimed at opposing obnoxious policies that are detrimental to the generality of Nigerians.
“This is about policy engagement, this is about resistance of a policy that has been imposed on us and therefore we have made the point clearly that
NLC must be seen to be consistent by standing by the truth and by the people, because these policies are not consistent with the ideas of ensuring social justice,” Wabba said.

He stressed that NLC would continue to resist the N145 price of petrol because it is exploitative.
“We will continue to resist the N145 fuel pump price, which is being imposed on us; this is a further exploitation despite the hardship in the country
. We were also told that the increase never had a bar.
“Therefore we thought that we should make this position known, so NLC should make the point known. We are not worried that we are fighting this battle alone, because historically NLC has always stood with the people,” he added.

On the court injunction obtained by the federal government stopping the protest, Wabba still maintained: “We have not been put on notice, but when we were meeting with government they tried to bring up that issue but as for today, I want to say clearly, we have not actually been served.”
Asked if labour will return to the negotiating table, the NLC president said: “We are open to dialogue anytime government invites us back to the table, but I am not sure that we have received any further invitation from government.

“The protest for now is going to be for at lest one or two weeks then we can now review our position and look at how best to look at a lot of other options.”

Supporting the NLC yesterday was the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), which cut short its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to join the protest.
The National President of the association, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, said: “We have been directed by NLC that we should proceed on an indefinite strike. We stood by the NLC led by Wabba during the election and he was declared winner of the election.

“My organisation cannot be different from the position of the NLC. We belong to NLC. Whatever they say, is what we are in line with. We cannot be different NLC, even if we have a different opinion, that will be subsumed by the general opinion of the NLC.

“We are against the increase of N145. From the look of things, it will cause hardship and the government have not engaged the labour leadership properly. If they had engaged them and let them know the nitty gritty, purpose and problem that may arise, labour may go along with them.
“You know that labour is asking for N56,000 minimum wage and what we have now is N18,000. N18,000 cannot be useful to a worker. What are you going to do with N18,000 per month?
“And now that they have increased the petrol price to N145, you can see the hardship on workers?”

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This is really touching
This is not good, just not good

Its getting clearer d type of government we v today.
The voice of d people can never be silenced by tyrants!

Killing of IPOB protesters
Killing of shites in Kaduna
Killing by his tribesmen in Agatu
Killing by his tribesmen in enugu
Plans to kill in ND, u can name it

The chain is real
So price of 'something' has reduced in buhari's time, hmmm, I expect to hear sai baba!

All those applauding a tyrant denying people their fundamental human rights, not to worry, d tyrrany will someday reach ur doorstep. Keep applauding