₦airaland Forum

ehmasjet: The problem is not to go to church,the issue is to find a real church that tells the truth.There are so many denominations today that are springing up not to prepare the children of God for salvation that assures you the kingdom of God,but they are rising up to tell people how to prosper and become wealthy so that their own purse will grow...........

GBAM!

Some are even there to milk the members.

Donate here and there even if it's 5 Naira just make sure you per take.

Prof Corruption: She should not only be sacked but also prosecuted and sent to jail for criminal abuse of office.

Onye!!!

Do you mean it

Chino72: After reading this piece I became more confused!

Lemme ask what is AMCOM doing in Capital Oil in the first place? Why can't the owner of the company sign check for two years? That means the company is no longer Uba's at least for now, probably until he pays his debt that is over 100billion. Where does the unlettered clown hopes to get the money, he decided to go and contest for public office.

We should not allow this day time arm robber to come near the Zik's Place (Anambra Govt House). From all indications he is looking for money to bail himself from AMCOM.

B4 nko.

Ndi Igbo are wise.

What happened to Ohakim will happen again.

sure way: leave them with thier biz
them self na human.
abi them no go chop?

Are you one of them

Forget!
The Governor knows his people and that was why He kept quite.

NO QUOTING

Booked.

tintingz: It is not a sin...if the person attack you first, try to avoid the person attack but if the person continue with the attack and you know it will lead you to your death, so fight back but if he surrender leave the person in peace but if you kill the person during the fight you have not sinned you only save your life from your enemy.

Hmm

Boko boys don't attack twice, just one touch and you're gone.
Therefore, stop that your statement if the person attack you first.

The confusion that followed the takeover of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has been laid to rest with the clarification on the issue by Mustafa Chike-Obi, the Managing Director/CEO of AMCON.

The AMCON MD “AMCON has not taken over Capital Oil but is managing it for a two-year period.” According to Chike-Obi, when Ifeanyi Ubah decided to run for the governorship position of Anambra State, “We gave him two choices; complete breakaway from the company for two years while he runs or he agrees not to leave for two years. He chose to run. So, we will appoint MD, CFO and another ED to run the company. He still owns it, but he cannot write any cheque or sign any money out of the company for two years.”
Chike-Obi stated further: “We told him not to run for governorship, but if he runs for governor, he cannot run his company because we do not want to be seen as sponsoring a governorship candidate. So he agreed. He is gone to run for governorship. We have taken over the management of his company. When he finishes running, he can come back to the company, but he can’t do it for less than two years.”

The clarifications made by Chike-Obi obviously became necessary based on various insinuations that Ubah opted for politics because the business of Capital Oil failed and was seized by AMCON. A legal luminary, Barr. Uchechi Oleka, pointed out that AMCON cannot seize Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd because it does not have the statutory powers to do so.

According to him, the AMCON Act in Section 6(1) (0), amongst other things, says: “The Corporation shall have powers to give security for any debt, obligation or liability of any company…”
Chike-Obi’s explanation is timely because it sets the record straight on the misinformation that Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd is a failed business and that the takeover of any business by AMCON is something extra-ordinary. While it is obvious that the problem of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd began with the non-implementation of a fully deregulated oil regime, the AMCON boss said that without the setting up of AMCON, most of the banks, most of the manufacturing companies, and all the airlines would have folded up.

He cited the case of an airline that is owing AMCON N70 billion but the aircrafts they have are worth about N75 billion. “We could take the aircrafts tomorrow; sell them in order to get our money back. But what will that do to Nigeria? The airline in question does about 65 percent of the domestic air travel,” Mr. Chike-Obi stated.

He added, “In the manufacturing sector, of the 15 biggest manufacturing companies, AMCON is involved in 10 of them. In the downstream petroleum industry, of the 10 biggest depots, we are involved in eight of them. Of the performing loans bought over by AMCON, the first one was Femi Otedola’s N191 billion owed 10 banks. If those loans ever went bad, assuming we ignored them and they went bad, everything we had done would have been wasted because we would have had another banking crisis.”

Reacting to the issue, the Deputy Director Media, Ifeanyi Ubah Campaign Organisation, Emmanuel Chijioke Ibeleme, said, “the furore over whether or not Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah is owing AMCON would not have arisen, in the first instance, If the downstream sector of the oil industry had been totally deregulated. Ifeanyi Ubah had built up the capacity of Capital Oil to a level where for it to effectively service its loans, it must import and distribute much more petroleum products in the country than the current partial deregulation policy would allow it. The insinuation, therefore, that Capital Oil business has failed, and has been seized by AMCON, is unfounded and baseless.”



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/seize-capital-oil-amcon/

The Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr Folunso Adebanjo, has been a busy man, no doubt, since he assumed office due to the relentless activities of kidnappers in the state. He has lost many men during operations against kidnappers in Edo and neighboring states. Only last Tuesday, Balogun paraded 55 suspected kidnappers and armed robbers among them two alleged kidnap kingpins, Emmanuel Otono and David Osamu, who have been on police wanted list for some time. After the parade, Adebanjo jokingly told Sunday Vanguard in pidgin English, “As dem (kidnappers) no want make I rest, dem no go rest too”. He also paraded one Oyigbe whose house in Sabongida Ora was allegedly used by kidnappers to keep victims until they regain their freedom. Among the 55 were also alleged child defilers, cultists and car snatchers. A cache of ammunition was also recovered from them.
In this interview, the police boss vows to ensure that kidnapping is less lucrative in Edo just as he declares that the police, in collaboration with other security agencies, will apprehend more kidnap kingpins. Excerpts:
We observe that you have a harvest of kidnappers. How were you able to apprehend them?

Well, it is our job to Nigerians and we will continue to do it. We have arrested some of the kidnap kingpins. These ones here are the people involved in the kidnapping of some persons in Benin City. I can tell you that the war against kidnappers is on-going. We are doing everything to make sure that the state is safe, we have a lot of them that have been arrested, some are being investigated.
If you recall, I told you that these evil people like Kelvin (suspected kidnap kingpin arrested in Delta State) who have terrorized our people for so long will only run but they can never hide. Look at some of them today and I can tell you that more will be arrested. The police, the SSS and the army all working together to ensure that our state is safe. We are not relenting, the job of protecting our people is a tough one, but we are doing our best to ensure we work day and night.

It has been very challenging but I give God the glory for the enablement to cope. There’s no doubt, there was an upsurge for about a month but it has started to come down because of so many measures that were taken. I just finish organising a town hall meeting with the stakeholders in Edo State. This is just an interactive session for us to know how we’re faring and what other measures we can take to improve on our crime prevention strategies. The people are our paymasters, so we must hear from them to know how we’re doing in the battle against crime and criminality.

When you came to Edo, did you anticipate the challenges you face on kidnappers and even cultists?
Edo State, like most other states in the South-south, has its own security challenges.
I always remember what the Inspector General of Police told me when my posting came out. He said, ‘Ade go and fight crime and criminality in Edo State’ I had served as a Deputy Commissioner of Police at the Zonal Headquarters before I was posted to Edo. So I was aware of the challenges and I was prepared for them.

Apart from kidnapping, other forms of crime are said to have reduced in the state.

What was the magic?

Let me first thank the Almighty God for crowning our efforts, for, without God, all we do is in vain. It involves a lot of hard work and dedication of officers and men under my leadership. We will continue to give our best to the good people of Edo State. Officers and men are working very hard to achieve a reduction in crime including kidnapping. Again, as you know, I am not an officer that sit in the office after giving orders. I move around to ensure that orders are implemented, I make sure that I take the lead because if, as CP, I am awake 24 hours, I don’t expect my DPOs to be sleeping. That is the secret.

You lost four officers who went to rescue Chief Mike Ozekhome when he was kidnapped. How do you feel each time you lose men in such operations?

As police officers, we are covered by insurance which takes care of the risks associated with policing. There are also entitlements for officers and men who die in the course of duty. But, to tell you the truth, I don’t eat each time I receive such news. It can be disgusting and devastating to lose a colleague because I go back to think that it could have been me.

That is why I feel sad each time people criticize the police ignorantly. We are doing our best for Nigerians and we will continue to do that to protect our people. But I can tell you I don’t like losing any of my officers on duty. That is a very terrible experience and feeling that you cannot imagine. Devastation should be the right description of how I feel. Unfortunately, that is the price we pay to keep Nigerians safe. One cannot get used to such untimely deaths.

How do you compare Edo and other states in terms of crime?

Like I said earlier, each state or the geographical area may share the same type of criminal tendencies. However, criminal tendencies may be different from one state to the other depending on so many variables. But you should also know that Edo is the gateway to the North, South and East; so criminals traverse here to commit crime.

That is why there is this meeting the Assistant Inspector General of Police usually calls to deliberate and share ideas and to exchange information. It may also interest you to note that I and my colleagues, especially CP Delta, share information and hold meetings on the kidnapping issue. They are just normal interaction between law enforcement/police agencies. Most criminals do operate from one state to the other, while some are transnational covering countries.

Have you ever regretted being a cop

I have no regrets being a cop. It is a very tasking profession. In fact, it is the most tasking profession in Nigeria. I had always wanted to be a cop as a young adult. I thought I could save the world from injustice. I was very idealistic then. It is a good job because one can actually make a difference by enforcing the law rightly. An average policeman works almost round the clock, not to talk of a commissioner of police.
What else would you have loved to be if you had not been a cop?

I would have been a businessman and I know that I would have been rich enough to set up an NGO. I still have a dream of setting up a place where I can feed hundreds of people every day and also set up a shelter for homeless people. My own essence of living is service to humanity.
Challenges
The challenge as it concerns the security of the state is usually logistics. Security costs a lot of money, including buying of sophisticated gadgets. The Federal Government, the Inspector General of Police and the state government are doing a lot to improve on logistics. We will soon see the effect of such intervention. If we can achieve this much with the resources now, then giving us more logistics will make us perform better.

We are aware that sometimes you lead your men to operations, don’t you get scared of being killed?
If one is committed, you really don’t think too much about your own safety. Of course, I do take precaution. This is what some of us have learnt from the Inspector General of Police MD Abubakar. It is leadership by example. I don’t get scared because we’re doing God’s work, which says, “Thou shall not kill”; ours is to secure lives and property, of all Nigerians and residents alike.
We are approaching the Yuletide season. How prepared are the police to fight crime?
Everything is being done to reduce the incidents of crime and criminality. Ember months are known for increase in the rate of crime because people want to reap where they did not sow. We have drawn up a plan to checkmate them. Like we are winning the war on kidnappers, we will win other wars too. We are ready, any one found wanting will be dealt with. It is either you repent as a criminal or kidnapper or you don’t come to Edo State because if you do, you will face the music.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/police-operations-harvest-kidnap-kingpins-arrests-edo/

Abdul Adam56: ode olodo nigeria music

LMAO

9jarians.

I don pass when they started it. Thank thee.

tobechi20: Just attempt...ibo man cant commit suicide...

GBAM!

Segeggs: so japan of africa can burn!

Very soon the victims will start running to lagos.

Pls stop this childish behavior.
Grow up bro.

If the damages is much then Berger should be held responsible.

They can't chop all the money and still yet too many damages will occur.

Hope the contract isn't waste of resources.

alotofgrace: self employment

LMAO

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Bensonn: i love your analysis on all the candidates, but i dont support your throwing caution to the winds to vote in Obiano, because its crystal clear what Peter Obi's intentions are, which from the look of things is not to the best of anambrarians but to his selfish interest. Bieng in the bad books of GEJ wouldnt stop development. Ofcourse the blueprint we lay today will stay long in our history lets not gamble it. We hold the ace and play our card our way and GEJ must dance to it. He needs our vote and so wont improvish us because of his personal agenda. Ngige is tested and trusted anybody that is a rational thinker shld know that we seek good governance not unimportant cultural and religious sentimental attachment which I am sorry to say our selfish leaders are shamelessly inculcating in our youth to cover up for their poor showings and also for their selfish gains

+99

The whole truth.

Obiano and Obi is a fraud we all should avoid.

Say NO to Obi's boy.

We Anambrarians need to know about the skeleton inside the wardrobe.

Yeske!:
I rather go for Ngige. Since Obi schemed Soludo out, i really don't see any credible candidate. Let's all forget the APC/PDP/APGA thingy and choose the right person.

GBAM!

ACM10: Peter Obi seems to run out of ideas on how to govern Anambra. His boy, Obiano is bereft of ideas too. We just can't stay the course. We must change direction. We can't continue to prop up Fidelity bank with money meant for Anambrarians. Ain't it suspicious the way Peter Obi engineered the rise of Obiano? Believe me, Peter Obi has done more harm to us in recent time than the Yorubas. Remember the shoot at sight order, remember Ezu river saga, remember that he is building a multi-billion naira mall in Abuja and so on. Also, Peter Obi introduced the concept of zoning in Anambra. We must reject division by not voting for his boy. On the other, we must reject politicians with criminal tendencies. The only option left for us is Ngige. Remember that his only crime is belonging to the wrong party. Shall we throw the water in the bathtub with the baby?

MBA!!!

Capital NO.

You have spoken well, son of the soil.

@OP
Can't you give us a source

I will like to confirm before I say anything in Ada Obi's case.

SLIDE waxie: this one has been sold and acquired.

Dnt mind them: obi is a saint

Saint ni.

COALITION of Civil Society Organizations, Market women and students have staged a protest with placards of different inscriptions at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, over the continuous strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, alleging that the strike has increased prostitution in the country.

The group which noted that the strike was entering the fourth month appealed to the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC and appealed to the union to call off the strike in the interest of Nigerians.
Some of the placards read, “ASUU please save our young girls from prostitution, NLC, TUC and NUPENG mediate now, Stop playing politics with our future, This ASUU strike has lost its tactics, ASUU please save our future.”
Though, the group in some of the placards had accused the striking university teachers of being selfish and too rigid in their demands, in what looked like a contradiction, the groups also said that the demands were germane and for the good of the education system.

Delivering a letter to the NLC President at the Labour House, the leader of the protest and Executive Director of Conscience Nigeria, Comrade Tosin Adeyanju said that they decided to embark on the protest to appeal to the labour leaders to mediate on the lingering face-off between ASUU and the Federal Government that had led to the continuous closure of public universities in the country.

Comrade Adeyanjul said, “We embarked on this protest today to further appeal to all major stakeholders in the Nigeria project and we deem it fit to come to the labour house because of the strategic importance that labour represents in this country.

“For almost 100 days, our students, our dependants, our children have been locked out of our ivory towers and nothing has changed. We are here to appeal to the labour leaders in this country to come and mediate on the lingering and prolonged ASUU strikes.

“We are not unaware on the germane and relevant issues raised by ASUU, there is need for our institutions to be revitalized, there is need for improved research, there is need for improved allowance, there is need for infrastructural development in ivory towers, but all over the world no country has been able to meet the demands of labour unions 100 per cent.”
“With the information available to us, we are aware that the federal government proposed and has given ASUU a 100 billion initial fund requested for different issues in the various universities.

We are aware that ASUU appealed for more money to be given on the earned allowance and 30 billion was given for earned allowance as at today about 130 billion has been given to ASUU.”
Receiving the protesters, President of NLC, Abduwaheed Omar, represented by the Chief Economist of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo’eson said that the labour leaders had initiated moves by writing to the Federal government about four times on how to mediate but government had not responded to their letters.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/ASUU-strike-increased-prostitution-group-alleges/

mac-delene:
uses: EXCESS DRINKAJE OF GARRI!
Prevention: STOP DRINKING GARRI EXCESSIVELY!
Treatment: IF U MUST DRINK GARRI, ADD LESS SUGAR,EXCESS MILK, CHOCOLATE, GROUNDNUT AND LESS PEPPER! [/b] . Wait ooo dem don dey use pepper drink garri. Naija una no go call person. Very soon I go hear so dem dey use pepper dey drink pap(akamu)

Don't be surprise.
One tribe in Naija uses pepper to drink G.

Don't ask me which ethnic group.

Nice move.