FASHOLA SPEAKS ON 3000 MW MAMBILLA HYDRO POWER PLANT IN TARABA STATE.
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has identified various ways to provide steady power in the country out of which are the construction of Mambilla Hydro Power Plant in Taraba State.
He said this while delivering a lecture titled Nigeria’s Electricity Challenge: A roadmap for change, at a public lecture in Lagos on Thursday.
According to him, the roadmap to steady power must include the construction and delivery of the Mambilla Hydro power plant in Taraba state.
He said, “This Mambilla Hydro Power Plant project has been in conception since 1982. It has suffered from court delays. It will be the single largest power plant with over 3000 MW in one place and it potentially takes us close to steady power.
I recently read reports claiming that Mambilla hydropower plant is “stalled. Nothing can be further from the truth.To stall means to stop. Mambilla has not started so you cannot stop what has not started.”
The minister said that the government had opened discussions with the Governor of Taraba state, Governor Dickson Ishaku, who incidentally was once a Minister of State for Power.
“The first thing to do is to acquire the land and deal with compensation issues, which the Taraba State governor has promised to deal with.
The next step is to create an earth road to the site to enable more tests of soil and related issues to take place. The feasibility study has been done and so too the Environmental Impact Assessment.
We move one day at a time closer to starting Mambilla.
Monday, 11 July 2016
Friday, 8 July 2016
Who exactly is responsible for the birth of Nigeria? - Ayekooto Akindele
Let us check history dispassionately.
SW(including EDO & Delta) said they are ready.
SE said they are ready.
North said anyone that wants to go can go but they still prefer the British.
Ahmadu Bello preferred to remain in the North.
Zik wanted to rule Nigeria
Awo wanted to rule Nigeria.
The British also wanted the North to join.
Of the three Premiers, only that of the north did not want to rule Nigeria, at least directly. This shows that Regional government is no solution, there is something attractive at the center whether in the Regional or Presidential!
UNITY was the slogan of Awo when he ran for Premier in 1959. Zik joined forces with Bello to help Balewa and they won!
On the 1st of October, no tribe boycotted the independence day.
At what point did we change?
1963 elections. Thoroughly rigged by Akintola and Bello. So election process is an ISSUE.
This led to a bloody coup that killed not just Akintola and Bello but also Balewa. Seemed like those who 'won' in 1963 rigged poll were prime targets but Okotie eboh too was killed.
FREE AND FAIR ELECTION would have prevented that actually.
Then the Military? And their Unitary system. The truth is that Presidential system is good but ours was defined by military dictatorship. WE MUST REDEFINE OUR PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM
Ironsi tribalistically protected those who murdered the riggers of 1963 elections and that led to bloodier tribalism and later WAR.
TRIBALISM IS BAD. A leader must not be tribalistic.
Millions died but we still came back as one! THIS SHOWS THAT NO AMOUNT OF KILLINGS CAN KILL NIGERIA. Let us learn from history.
Even there is no love lost in the military too. Gowon was overthrown, Murtala was killed. In 1979, the two 'people' that caused the war united again at the center. LOL....CENTER IS A UNITER! Even Ojukwu was forgiven and Gowon returned from exile! Both had earlier ended up in exile. LOL.
In 1983, the worst election election in our history took place. Unlike in 1963 which was done by Balewa and Akintola, this was done by Shagari and Ekwueme! Equation balanced!
But like 1963, the rigged election did not stand as well. The Military again!!!!!! Blood flew more in the barracks. Vatsa, Orka etc.
To proof that free and fair election can solve our problems, in 1993, TRIBALISM and RELIGION bowed to a FREE and FAIR POLL. If not for the conglomerate of Opportunists led by IBB, Nigeria would have been freed but..........and here we are looking for a solution that is in our pocket.
Abacha convoke a Conference, he knew that was not the solution. In 1999, June 12 was ridiculed when some people said it is all about the Yorubas and they must be pacified. OBJ came in. Disaster unlimited! No problem solved.
Then OBJ rigged another election in 2007 and brought in an Ijaw man with Igbo name EBELE. It was worse. CORRUPTION was his second name. He too rigged himself in properly in 2011. CORRUPTION is no longer fashionable because EBELE abused it. And later played to the gallery by using a CONFAB to cover up.....LOL
In 2015, a relatively fair election was conducted. It was rigged fairly. BUHARI won through the help of Tinubu and others. Nigeria thought integrity will end their sorrow.
YES INTEGRITY will but Integrity must do justice too.
Like Conducting a credible CENSUS
Like Pushing for RESOURCE CONTROL
Like Equipping and ensuring independent INEC
Like being a father to all
Nigeria will not break easily but these conditions can be met easily if truly we are sincere!
Was Yoruba better off during OBJ?
Was the Igbo/Ijaw better off during OBJ?
Has poverty disappeared in the North even now?
So who is responsible?
Let us check history dispassionately.
SW(including EDO & Delta) said they are ready.
SE said they are ready.
North said anyone that wants to go can go but they still prefer the British.
Ahmadu Bello preferred to remain in the North.
Zik wanted to rule Nigeria
Awo wanted to rule Nigeria.
The British also wanted the North to join.
Of the three Premiers, only that of the north did not want to rule Nigeria, at least directly. This shows that Regional government is no solution, there is something attractive at the center whether in the Regional or Presidential!
UNITY was the slogan of Awo when he ran for Premier in 1959. Zik joined forces with Bello to help Balewa and they won!
On the 1st of October, no tribe boycotted the independence day.
At what point did we change?
1963 elections. Thoroughly rigged by Akintola and Bello. So election process is an ISSUE.
This led to a bloody coup that killed not just Akintola and Bello but also Balewa. Seemed like those who 'won' in 1963 rigged poll were prime targets but Okotie eboh too was killed.
FREE AND FAIR ELECTION would have prevented that actually.
Then the Military? And their Unitary system. The truth is that Presidential system is good but ours was defined by military dictatorship. WE MUST REDEFINE OUR PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM
Ironsi tribalistically protected those who murdered the riggers of 1963 elections and that led to bloodier tribalism and later WAR.
TRIBALISM IS BAD. A leader must not be tribalistic.
Millions died but we still came back as one! THIS SHOWS THAT NO AMOUNT OF KILLINGS CAN KILL NIGERIA. Let us learn from history.
Even there is no love lost in the military too. Gowon was overthrown, Murtala was killed. In 1979, the two 'people' that caused the war united again at the center. LOL....CENTER IS A UNITER! Even Ojukwu was forgiven and Gowon returned from exile! Both had earlier ended up in exile. LOL.
In 1983, the worst election election in our history took place. Unlike in 1963 which was done by Balewa and Akintola, this was done by Shagari and Ekwueme! Equation balanced!
But like 1963, the rigged election did not stand as well. The Military again!!!!!! Blood flew more in the barracks. Vatsa, Orka etc.
To proof that free and fair election can solve our problems, in 1993, TRIBALISM and RELIGION bowed to a FREE and FAIR POLL. If not for the conglomerate of Opportunists led by IBB, Nigeria would have been freed but..........and here we are looking for a solution that is in our pocket.
Abacha convoke a Conference, he knew that was not the solution. In 1999, June 12 was ridiculed when some people said it is all about the Yorubas and they must be pacified. OBJ came in. Disaster unlimited! No problem solved.
Then OBJ rigged another election in 2007 and brought in an Ijaw man with Igbo name EBELE. It was worse. CORRUPTION was his second name. He too rigged himself in properly in 2011. CORRUPTION is no longer fashionable because EBELE abused it. And later played to the gallery by using a CONFAB to cover up.....LOL
In 2015, a relatively fair election was conducted. It was rigged fairly. BUHARI won through the help of Tinubu and others. Nigeria thought integrity will end their sorrow.
YES INTEGRITY will but Integrity must do justice too.
Like Conducting a credible CENSUS
Like Pushing for RESOURCE CONTROL
Like Equipping and ensuring independent INEC
Like being a father to all
Nigeria will not break easily but these conditions can be met easily if truly we are sincere!
Was Yoruba better off during OBJ?
Was the Igbo/Ijaw better off during OBJ?
Has poverty disappeared in the North even now?
So who is responsible?
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
CORRUPTION + POLITICIANS = SERIAL KILLERS: Nigerian says
The Boko Haram menace has killed thousands of people, destroyed properties worth Billions and ravaged communities. The Ijaw Scavengers have caused massive damage to the Nigerian economy. The Destructive Violent Fulani Herdsmen have killed hundreds of people and destroyed communities. All these Killers, Saboteurs, Kidnappers etc in Nigeria have done nothing compared to what Corruption and Nigerian Politicians are doing to our people daily. In Pleading that every Nigerian adult to join this Struggle for Freedom from Corruption and Political Criminality, In Asking for full support for the President's battles against the status quo, In Standing for the Nigerian People and In Fighting for the future of our people and our Children I am sober but determine to present the physical wounds, Pains, Sufferings, Results and Influence of Corruption and Political Criminality in their destructive alliance against the Nigerian State and People.
1. POLITICIANS are Killing our people daily through CORRUPTION. The reason Boko Haram was very devastating was because Politicians stole the money for educating the people and they Looted the money to fight the Insurgency when it arose from the ashes of corruption. The Reason the Ijaw Avengers are blowing up Pipelines is because Politicians Looted the Money earmarked for developing the region, the young and the youth of the region were recruited to become cultist and political thugs. The Politicians have now decided to use this same miseducated youths to stop PMB's war against Corruption.
2. POLITICIANS are Impoverishing our people through the instrumentalities of CORRUPTION. Over the years, the Money meant for National Development, Infrastructural Construction and Economic Growth has been Looted, Embezzled and Stolen with reckless abandon. The people have been wallowing in Poverty, Hunger, Suffering and debilitating Pains. Corruption ably coordinated by Politicians has sustained the impoverishing of the people, has refreshed the processes of looting and has improved on the style of perpetually subjecting the people to continuing poverty.
3. POLITICIANS are CORRUPTLY Promoting Sickness and Diseases by Ignoring our Hospitals and Looting the funds required for Facilities, Equipments and Development. Primary Healthcare Centres across the country are in debilitating state and starved of funding. Community Healthcare Initiatives are dead and General Healthcare investments in Nigeria is at an all time low. They Loot the Budget of the Health Ministry perpetually, Import Expired and fake Drugs into the Country to kill the people and Allow our Medical Infrastructure to collapse completely. Our People who are dying daily with pains and suffering fulfils Majority of Nigeria Politician's goal of sucking our Commonwealth and our Blood simultaneously.
4. POLITICIANS Invest heavily in the Miseducation and the undereducation of the Nigerian People through the support of CORRUPTION. A people properly educated will fight for their rights and think out a path for the future. Over the years, Politicians have corruptly looted the Budgets dedicated to the education of our people, they have allowed our educational Infrastructure to decay badly. They have invested heavily in Politician Thugs; Sustaining the Almajiri Epidemic and the Misinformation of Nigerians on the need for separation rather than the promotion of our unity in diversity.
5. POLITICIANS collectively bought a stake in Power and Electricity to ensure that Perpetual darkness is permanently a Nigerian. Tens of Billions of Dollars Investment in Power and Electricity over the past decades has yielded zero improvements. Politicians Award and Approve Power Projects and Contracts to themselves and they Loot the proceeds leaving Nigerians with Darkness. Ethiopia is Building the Biggest Power Dam in Africa with about $5billion Dollars and a capacity of 6,000mw. It started in 2011 and will be Completed in 2017. Nigeria would have used the about $20billion Dollars looted so far in the Name of Power and Electricity to Build a 20,000mw Power infrastructure. Politically induced Corruption will never allow the Nigerian people enjoy the beauty of governance and to see the result of their commonwealth.
6. POLITICIANS have mortgaged the future of our country and states with criminally minded loans, debts and bonds. The Average Nigerian Politician detest saving for the future, the development of the Nigerian People and for National Infrastructure growth. Billions are corruptly looted from Federal, States and Local Government Treasuries. No attempt is made at accountability and no Politician is interested in being responsible for the mega suffering of the people. Salaries are drying up for the people and increasing for the Politicians. The People have no Security Votes but the Politicians cannot stop collecting money for the insecurity they impose on the people. The Nigerian State and People have become a Collateral for decades of Political Wastefulness of our Leadership. Thankfully, Fiscal Sanity is a bedrock of the PMB's Presidency.
7. POLITICIANS have turned our Roads to death-traps; Our Social Infrastructures to Killing Machines and our Transportation Systems to Pain and Anguish Promoting structures. Majority of Nigeria Highways are Abandoned; Our National Infrastructures are rotting away and our Transport system has completely collapsed. Decades of Abandoned Projects and Contracts awarded to Politicians and their Cronies has rendered a transportation revival a tall order. Decades of neglect has rendered our social revival a real struggle today.
8. POLITICIANS are promoting the Worst of Religion; They are separating the people along Ethnic divides and Tribal Compositions. Nigeria is not the most diverse nation on earth and therefore should not suffer from continuing societal conflicts that have become tools utilized by corrupt politicians to ensure the people are continually subjective to the dictates of their oppressors. We were humans first and all people are equal before God. Nigerian Politicians are mostly corrupt and to ensure that their tendency for stealing is not disrupted, they have created a system of societal disorganization through division in Religion, Ethnicity and Tribalism.
9. POLITICIANS are synonymous with Greed, Wickedness, destruction of the moral fabrics of the society, rugged individualism and selfishness. Majority of the Politicians in Nigeria only think of themselves and their personal interest to the detriment of the development and the upliftment of the Nigerian State and people. The Enemy of the people is corruption consistently promoted by our Political leaders. Nationalism is lost on the altar of greed; Compassionate Capitalism is ignored for demonic chronic Capitalism with all emphasis on the looting of the State and the Ravaging of the people’s Commonwealth.
10. POLITICIANS are the Enemies of the Nigerian People. They are the Enemies within, by and large, they are the partners of the enemies without. The Bad Samaritans; The External Economic Saboteurs and the Entrenched Neo-Colonialist with their Destructive Neo-Liberal partners can have no foothold without their internal collaborators. The Nigerian people are being battered from the inside and outside. The people have weathered this bastardizing for decades. It is time to react.
You can see that Corruption is a TOOL used by the Politicians to impoverish the people; to Destroy our livelihood, to deplete our resources and to loot our commonwealth. The moment of realization is upon us all. The process of Emancipating our minds from mental slavery began with the #OccupyNigeriaMovement, Continued with the Election of #PresidentMuhammaduBuhari; Sustained with the #OccupyNassProject and now will be reloaded with the #OccupyNassIIUnlimited.
Join us; Volunteer; Mobilize and let us take our country back. November 14th, 2016 is our date with Destiny. It is time to begin the process of cleansing the Corruption within our Political system and to hold our Politicians accountable. The Nigerian National Assembly exemplifies what is wrong with Nigeria politically, it is the centre of our occupation.
The Boko Haram menace has killed thousands of people, destroyed properties worth Billions and ravaged communities. The Ijaw Scavengers have caused massive damage to the Nigerian economy. The Destructive Violent Fulani Herdsmen have killed hundreds of people and destroyed communities. All these Killers, Saboteurs, Kidnappers etc in Nigeria have done nothing compared to what Corruption and Nigerian Politicians are doing to our people daily. In Pleading that every Nigerian adult to join this Struggle for Freedom from Corruption and Political Criminality, In Asking for full support for the President's battles against the status quo, In Standing for the Nigerian People and In Fighting for the future of our people and our Children I am sober but determine to present the physical wounds, Pains, Sufferings, Results and Influence of Corruption and Political Criminality in their destructive alliance against the Nigerian State and People.
1. POLITICIANS are Killing our people daily through CORRUPTION. The reason Boko Haram was very devastating was because Politicians stole the money for educating the people and they Looted the money to fight the Insurgency when it arose from the ashes of corruption. The Reason the Ijaw Avengers are blowing up Pipelines is because Politicians Looted the Money earmarked for developing the region, the young and the youth of the region were recruited to become cultist and political thugs. The Politicians have now decided to use this same miseducated youths to stop PMB's war against Corruption.
2. POLITICIANS are Impoverishing our people through the instrumentalities of CORRUPTION. Over the years, the Money meant for National Development, Infrastructural Construction and Economic Growth has been Looted, Embezzled and Stolen with reckless abandon. The people have been wallowing in Poverty, Hunger, Suffering and debilitating Pains. Corruption ably coordinated by Politicians has sustained the impoverishing of the people, has refreshed the processes of looting and has improved on the style of perpetually subjecting the people to continuing poverty.
3. POLITICIANS are CORRUPTLY Promoting Sickness and Diseases by Ignoring our Hospitals and Looting the funds required for Facilities, Equipments and Development. Primary Healthcare Centres across the country are in debilitating state and starved of funding. Community Healthcare Initiatives are dead and General Healthcare investments in Nigeria is at an all time low. They Loot the Budget of the Health Ministry perpetually, Import Expired and fake Drugs into the Country to kill the people and Allow our Medical Infrastructure to collapse completely. Our People who are dying daily with pains and suffering fulfils Majority of Nigeria Politician's goal of sucking our Commonwealth and our Blood simultaneously.
4. POLITICIANS Invest heavily in the Miseducation and the undereducation of the Nigerian People through the support of CORRUPTION. A people properly educated will fight for their rights and think out a path for the future. Over the years, Politicians have corruptly looted the Budgets dedicated to the education of our people, they have allowed our educational Infrastructure to decay badly. They have invested heavily in Politician Thugs; Sustaining the Almajiri Epidemic and the Misinformation of Nigerians on the need for separation rather than the promotion of our unity in diversity.
5. POLITICIANS collectively bought a stake in Power and Electricity to ensure that Perpetual darkness is permanently a Nigerian. Tens of Billions of Dollars Investment in Power and Electricity over the past decades has yielded zero improvements. Politicians Award and Approve Power Projects and Contracts to themselves and they Loot the proceeds leaving Nigerians with Darkness. Ethiopia is Building the Biggest Power Dam in Africa with about $5billion Dollars and a capacity of 6,000mw. It started in 2011 and will be Completed in 2017. Nigeria would have used the about $20billion Dollars looted so far in the Name of Power and Electricity to Build a 20,000mw Power infrastructure. Politically induced Corruption will never allow the Nigerian people enjoy the beauty of governance and to see the result of their commonwealth.
6. POLITICIANS have mortgaged the future of our country and states with criminally minded loans, debts and bonds. The Average Nigerian Politician detest saving for the future, the development of the Nigerian People and for National Infrastructure growth. Billions are corruptly looted from Federal, States and Local Government Treasuries. No attempt is made at accountability and no Politician is interested in being responsible for the mega suffering of the people. Salaries are drying up for the people and increasing for the Politicians. The People have no Security Votes but the Politicians cannot stop collecting money for the insecurity they impose on the people. The Nigerian State and People have become a Collateral for decades of Political Wastefulness of our Leadership. Thankfully, Fiscal Sanity is a bedrock of the PMB's Presidency.
7. POLITICIANS have turned our Roads to death-traps; Our Social Infrastructures to Killing Machines and our Transportation Systems to Pain and Anguish Promoting structures. Majority of Nigeria Highways are Abandoned; Our National Infrastructures are rotting away and our Transport system has completely collapsed. Decades of Abandoned Projects and Contracts awarded to Politicians and their Cronies has rendered a transportation revival a tall order. Decades of neglect has rendered our social revival a real struggle today.
8. POLITICIANS are promoting the Worst of Religion; They are separating the people along Ethnic divides and Tribal Compositions. Nigeria is not the most diverse nation on earth and therefore should not suffer from continuing societal conflicts that have become tools utilized by corrupt politicians to ensure the people are continually subjective to the dictates of their oppressors. We were humans first and all people are equal before God. Nigerian Politicians are mostly corrupt and to ensure that their tendency for stealing is not disrupted, they have created a system of societal disorganization through division in Religion, Ethnicity and Tribalism.
9. POLITICIANS are synonymous with Greed, Wickedness, destruction of the moral fabrics of the society, rugged individualism and selfishness. Majority of the Politicians in Nigeria only think of themselves and their personal interest to the detriment of the development and the upliftment of the Nigerian State and people. The Enemy of the people is corruption consistently promoted by our Political leaders. Nationalism is lost on the altar of greed; Compassionate Capitalism is ignored for demonic chronic Capitalism with all emphasis on the looting of the State and the Ravaging of the people’s Commonwealth.
10. POLITICIANS are the Enemies of the Nigerian People. They are the Enemies within, by and large, they are the partners of the enemies without. The Bad Samaritans; The External Economic Saboteurs and the Entrenched Neo-Colonialist with their Destructive Neo-Liberal partners can have no foothold without their internal collaborators. The Nigerian people are being battered from the inside and outside. The people have weathered this bastardizing for decades. It is time to react.
You can see that Corruption is a TOOL used by the Politicians to impoverish the people; to Destroy our livelihood, to deplete our resources and to loot our commonwealth. The moment of realization is upon us all. The process of Emancipating our minds from mental slavery began with the #OccupyNigeriaMovement, Continued with the Election of #PresidentMuhammaduBuhari; Sustained with the #OccupyNassProject and now will be reloaded with the #OccupyNassIIUnlimited.
Join us; Volunteer; Mobilize and let us take our country back. November 14th, 2016 is our date with Destiny. It is time to begin the process of cleansing the Corruption within our Political system and to hold our Politicians accountable. The Nigerian National Assembly exemplifies what is wrong with Nigeria politically, it is the centre of our occupation.
Monday, 4 July 2016
THE VIEW...
There is a pernicious, disingenuous meme floating around. It goes: "ISIS have killed Muslims in Istanbul, Dhaka, Baghdad and now the holy city of Madina. So leave us alone, ISIS has nothing to do with Islam!"
A) What exactly is the point here? ISIS are still from among us Muslims. They still adopt a version of Islam that happens to be found in our scripture (eg: stone women, kill apostates, chop off limbs) to justify their actions.
B) Think how insulting we sound. 'They can't be Muslims because they're killing other Muslims'. As if killing non-Muslims would somehow make us accept they have something to do with Islam??
C) Religious extremism throughout the ages has targeted its 'own' before others. That's the nature of trying to control people. And that's why extremists were always so concerned with 'heresy' and 'blasphemy'. The 'traitor' from within is always more dangerous, and thus always more strictly punished. The Prophet's own grand children were killed by Muslim extremists known as the khawarij who were reported to be better at reciting the Quran & more steadfast in prayer than anyone else.
D) The fact is, claiming that ISIS has *nothing* to do with Islam is as unhelpful and ignorant as saying ISIS *is* Islam per se. It's blindingly obvious they have *something* to do with Islam and everyone's laughing at us for trying to deny this.
Instead of whinging and making our first reaction about Muslim victimhood, again, why not try being part of the solution by working to challenge extremism?
Or are cartoons the only thing that make us come out in the streets with rage?
There is a pernicious, disingenuous meme floating around. It goes: "ISIS have killed Muslims in Istanbul, Dhaka, Baghdad and now the holy city of Madina. So leave us alone, ISIS has nothing to do with Islam!"
A) What exactly is the point here? ISIS are still from among us Muslims. They still adopt a version of Islam that happens to be found in our scripture (eg: stone women, kill apostates, chop off limbs) to justify their actions.
B) Think how insulting we sound. 'They can't be Muslims because they're killing other Muslims'. As if killing non-Muslims would somehow make us accept they have something to do with Islam??
C) Religious extremism throughout the ages has targeted its 'own' before others. That's the nature of trying to control people. And that's why extremists were always so concerned with 'heresy' and 'blasphemy'. The 'traitor' from within is always more dangerous, and thus always more strictly punished. The Prophet's own grand children were killed by Muslim extremists known as the khawarij who were reported to be better at reciting the Quran & more steadfast in prayer than anyone else.
D) The fact is, claiming that ISIS has *nothing* to do with Islam is as unhelpful and ignorant as saying ISIS *is* Islam per se. It's blindingly obvious they have *something* to do with Islam and everyone's laughing at us for trying to deny this.
Instead of whinging and making our first reaction about Muslim victimhood, again, why not try being part of the solution by working to challenge extremism?
Or are cartoons the only thing that make us come out in the streets with rage?
THE HAWKING BANNED LAW
Hundred of street traders were on Monday arrested in different parts of Lagos metropolis by men of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), for hawking on the streets.
The State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, had last week Friday announced the enforcement of law banning street trading and hawking.
Ambode, who was speaking on a live TV interview, warned that the law stipulate six months jail term or N90,000 fine for offenders.
The governor said that the renewed enforcement is in line with Section One of the Lagos State Street Trading and Illegal Market Prohibition Law 2003 which restricts street trading and hawking in the metropolis.
Hundred of street traders were on Monday arrested in different parts of Lagos metropolis by men of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), for hawking on the streets.
The State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, had last week Friday announced the enforcement of law banning street trading and hawking.
Ambode, who was speaking on a live TV interview, warned that the law stipulate six months jail term or N90,000 fine for offenders.
The governor said that the renewed enforcement is in line with Section One of the Lagos State Street Trading and Illegal Market Prohibition Law 2003 which restricts street trading and hawking in the metropolis.
THE PROBLEMS OF NIGERIA - ELITES - Atitebi Johnson
We need not search for the sources of our problems in Nigeria as all fingers are pointing to the so called Nouveaux rich and the politicians.
Mr. Tunde Ayeni the Chairman is owing the bank N102 billion plus another N135 billion to buy MainStreet bank.
Jason Fadeyi a director - N90 billion Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko - N70 billion
Oando Oil - N20 billion.
All these will later be dumped on the lapse of Nigeria citizens as they will be taken over by AMCON.
No doubt CBN is culpable in this. Why did CBN of Emefiele allow the sale of Mainstreet bank to an insolvent bank? These directors and this debtors are nothing but criminals. Omokore and Aluko are involved in another scheme in NNPC.
Should they just allow these people to just be treated as ordinary debtors is an insult on average Nigerian.
It is even been hinted that the second coming of Saraki family into banking is going to end in another disaster as Heritage Bank is loading.
May good Lord deliver us from the hands of these so called rich Nigeria rogues.
We need not search for the sources of our problems in Nigeria as all fingers are pointing to the so called Nouveaux rich and the politicians.
Mr. Tunde Ayeni the Chairman is owing the bank N102 billion plus another N135 billion to buy MainStreet bank.
Jason Fadeyi a director - N90 billion Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko - N70 billion
Oando Oil - N20 billion.
All these will later be dumped on the lapse of Nigeria citizens as they will be taken over by AMCON.
No doubt CBN is culpable in this. Why did CBN of Emefiele allow the sale of Mainstreet bank to an insolvent bank? These directors and this debtors are nothing but criminals. Omokore and Aluko are involved in another scheme in NNPC.
Should they just allow these people to just be treated as ordinary debtors is an insult on average Nigerian.
It is even been hinted that the second coming of Saraki family into banking is going to end in another disaster as Heritage Bank is loading.
May good Lord deliver us from the hands of these so called rich Nigeria rogues.
Stigmatising President Buhari – by Prof Sola Adeyeye
This rehash of the prominent positions held by Muslims in Nigeria is mischievous and quite unfortunate. It is the typical Nigerian game of chasing needless shadows rather than focusing on the arduous task of nation building.
Until recently, so-called Christians held commanding heights of the economic governance of our Republic. The Presidency, Headship of National Assembly, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of Service, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, the NNPC, the Stock Exchange etc were headed by so-called Christians.
Tragically, they reprobately superintended the profligate looting of our common patrimony. The lone voice of courageous warning belonged to a certified Muslim, Sanusi Lamido, who succeeded Soludo and was hounded for his courage to expose the cult of looters comprising so-called Christians.
Yes, the metastasis of economic ruins in Nigeria was gestated by these Christians. They reduced Pentecostalism to a reprobate pente-rascality whereby the Dukes and knights of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the Christian Association of Nigeria became errand boys in the corridor of accursed political power. Their private jets were the conveyors of stolen money!
Tunde Fashola is a Muslim. He now heads what used to be three big ministries. Was he chosen because of his religion? He was chosen because of his track record!
The dust will settle in Nigeria. Change will come despite predictable resistance from reactionary principalities and forces. Hackneyed references to issues that divide rather than unite us whether by Muslims or Christians, are age-long stumbling blocks to progress.
It really is a shame when well educated Nigerians, whether Muslim or Christian, wobble themselves in religious intolerance. Unfortunately, the intolerance is nursed by some imams and pastors mouthing poorly considered facts. Even if seemingly compelling, facts degenerate into half-truths when they are placed, as is often the case, outside of proper context.
The toxicity of half-truths rarely emanates from the profligacy of falsehood but rather from the subtle distortion of truth! Blatant falsehood is intuitively obvious and as such easy to reject. By contrast, when truth is softly bent, it takes great discernment to perceive its toxicity.
The Constitution of Nigeria enshrines that every state must be represented in the Cabinet of the Federal Government. Even those of us who feel that this, by itself, creates a cabinet that is too unwieldy, must tolerate such a provision until our pluralistic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious republic evolves into organic nationhood. As such, whoever is the President of Nigeria must have a minimum of 36 Ministers.
Of the six ministers representing the Southwestern states, two (Fashola from Lagos and Shittu from Oyo) are Muslims while four are Christians (Adeosun from Ogun, Adewole from Osun, Fayemi from Ekiti and Daramola from Ondo). All the five ministers from the Southeastern states are Christians as are all six ministers from the states of the south-south. In other words, of the 17 ministers from southern Nigeria, 15 are Christians while 2 are Muslims.
In the North-Central, Audu Ogbe from Benue, Solomon Dalong from Plateau, James Ocholi (now deceased) from Kogi are Christians. The remaining three ministers from that zone are Muslims. Even if all the ministers from Northeastern and Northwestern states are Muslims, we are left with a Federal cabinet comprising 18 Christians and 18 Muslims! We have a devout Muslim as President and a no less devout Christian as Vice President.
The current composition of the Federal Executive Council is one in which only liars will complain that Christians have been marginalized. When in the history of Nigeria has a traveling President transmitted power to the VICE PRESIDENT? That is what Buhari does each time he travels.
Now let us move to the legislature. Of the 10 Principal Officers of the Nigerian Senate, only three (Saraki, Ndume and Na’alla) are Muslims! The remainder (Ekeremadu, Adeyeye, Alimikhena, Akpabio, Aduda, Bwacha and Olujimi) are Christians! Adeyeye and Bwacha are lay preachers. The House of Representatives is headed by a Christian. With such a composition, the Nigerian Legislature is not a place where Christians can be said to be marginalized. In fact, few people realize that there are more Christians than Muslims in the Nigerian Senate.
Now let us go to the Judiciary. How many judges of the Supreme Court has Buhari appointed? The answer is Zero! Is it fair to blame him for appointments that predated his own election into office? The fear of God, the love of country and basic human decency dictate that we reject an amalgamation of intellectual sophistry with the dereliction of truth.
Unfortunately, it is quite easy for detractors to pick and choose their facts in a manner that allows malignant campaigns of calumny.
Professor Adeoye Adeniyi, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, was a deacon at Oritamefa Baptist Church Ibadan. He was the Chairman at my wedding. He was also our pediatrician. When he was leaving the University of Ibadan to head the College of Medicine at Ilorin in 1978/79, he handed Oluwatobi (our daughter) to a Moslem doctor in his Department. I asked him why he did not hand us to a Christian. Professor Adeniyi smiled and said, “you do not need a Baptist or for that matter a Christian doctor; you need a pediatrician who will respond even if you call after midnight!”
I enjoy air travels. Sometimes, the plane gets to very rough and bumpy weather. At such times, my concern is not whether the pilot can speak in tongue or prophesy! Rather, one hopes that the pilot knows what to do in a storm even if he were a Buddhist or Moslem. May God guide our Muslim President aright as we wade through the fierce storms of contemporary Nigeria.
By Prof. Olusola Adeyeye, a Nigerian biologist, politician and the Chief Whip 8th Senate of F R Nigeria
This rehash of the prominent positions held by Muslims in Nigeria is mischievous and quite unfortunate. It is the typical Nigerian game of chasing needless shadows rather than focusing on the arduous task of nation building.
Until recently, so-called Christians held commanding heights of the economic governance of our Republic. The Presidency, Headship of National Assembly, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of Service, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, the NNPC, the Stock Exchange etc were headed by so-called Christians.
Tragically, they reprobately superintended the profligate looting of our common patrimony. The lone voice of courageous warning belonged to a certified Muslim, Sanusi Lamido, who succeeded Soludo and was hounded for his courage to expose the cult of looters comprising so-called Christians.
Yes, the metastasis of economic ruins in Nigeria was gestated by these Christians. They reduced Pentecostalism to a reprobate pente-rascality whereby the Dukes and knights of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and the Christian Association of Nigeria became errand boys in the corridor of accursed political power. Their private jets were the conveyors of stolen money!
Tunde Fashola is a Muslim. He now heads what used to be three big ministries. Was he chosen because of his religion? He was chosen because of his track record!
The dust will settle in Nigeria. Change will come despite predictable resistance from reactionary principalities and forces. Hackneyed references to issues that divide rather than unite us whether by Muslims or Christians, are age-long stumbling blocks to progress.
It really is a shame when well educated Nigerians, whether Muslim or Christian, wobble themselves in religious intolerance. Unfortunately, the intolerance is nursed by some imams and pastors mouthing poorly considered facts. Even if seemingly compelling, facts degenerate into half-truths when they are placed, as is often the case, outside of proper context.
The toxicity of half-truths rarely emanates from the profligacy of falsehood but rather from the subtle distortion of truth! Blatant falsehood is intuitively obvious and as such easy to reject. By contrast, when truth is softly bent, it takes great discernment to perceive its toxicity.
The Constitution of Nigeria enshrines that every state must be represented in the Cabinet of the Federal Government. Even those of us who feel that this, by itself, creates a cabinet that is too unwieldy, must tolerate such a provision until our pluralistic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious republic evolves into organic nationhood. As such, whoever is the President of Nigeria must have a minimum of 36 Ministers.
Of the six ministers representing the Southwestern states, two (Fashola from Lagos and Shittu from Oyo) are Muslims while four are Christians (Adeosun from Ogun, Adewole from Osun, Fayemi from Ekiti and Daramola from Ondo). All the five ministers from the Southeastern states are Christians as are all six ministers from the states of the south-south. In other words, of the 17 ministers from southern Nigeria, 15 are Christians while 2 are Muslims.
In the North-Central, Audu Ogbe from Benue, Solomon Dalong from Plateau, James Ocholi (now deceased) from Kogi are Christians. The remaining three ministers from that zone are Muslims. Even if all the ministers from Northeastern and Northwestern states are Muslims, we are left with a Federal cabinet comprising 18 Christians and 18 Muslims! We have a devout Muslim as President and a no less devout Christian as Vice President.
The current composition of the Federal Executive Council is one in which only liars will complain that Christians have been marginalized. When in the history of Nigeria has a traveling President transmitted power to the VICE PRESIDENT? That is what Buhari does each time he travels.
Now let us move to the legislature. Of the 10 Principal Officers of the Nigerian Senate, only three (Saraki, Ndume and Na’alla) are Muslims! The remainder (Ekeremadu, Adeyeye, Alimikhena, Akpabio, Aduda, Bwacha and Olujimi) are Christians! Adeyeye and Bwacha are lay preachers. The House of Representatives is headed by a Christian. With such a composition, the Nigerian Legislature is not a place where Christians can be said to be marginalized. In fact, few people realize that there are more Christians than Muslims in the Nigerian Senate.
Now let us go to the Judiciary. How many judges of the Supreme Court has Buhari appointed? The answer is Zero! Is it fair to blame him for appointments that predated his own election into office? The fear of God, the love of country and basic human decency dictate that we reject an amalgamation of intellectual sophistry with the dereliction of truth.
Unfortunately, it is quite easy for detractors to pick and choose their facts in a manner that allows malignant campaigns of calumny.
Professor Adeoye Adeniyi, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, was a deacon at Oritamefa Baptist Church Ibadan. He was the Chairman at my wedding. He was also our pediatrician. When he was leaving the University of Ibadan to head the College of Medicine at Ilorin in 1978/79, he handed Oluwatobi (our daughter) to a Moslem doctor in his Department. I asked him why he did not hand us to a Christian. Professor Adeniyi smiled and said, “you do not need a Baptist or for that matter a Christian doctor; you need a pediatrician who will respond even if you call after midnight!”
I enjoy air travels. Sometimes, the plane gets to very rough and bumpy weather. At such times, my concern is not whether the pilot can speak in tongue or prophesy! Rather, one hopes that the pilot knows what to do in a storm even if he were a Buddhist or Moslem. May God guide our Muslim President aright as we wade through the fierce storms of contemporary Nigeria.
By Prof. Olusola Adeyeye, a Nigerian biologist, politician and the Chief Whip 8th Senate of F R Nigeria
ALERT! ALERT: VIOLENT RAPE OF A 12-YEAR OLD GIRL: DPA'S INTERVENTION REQUESTED:
I urge all members, particularly those in the affected area, to prepare to mobilize for intervention in this case reported below. We need more information and suggestions on how to act. This being rape, we shall be demanding immediate police intervention. We want the suspects arrested and prosecuted and we shall consider how to help the victim and her family in the mean time.
OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO INQUIRIES ON THE RAPE OF MISS D (name withheld)
MBADIWE COLONEL
DPA UMUAHIA
08133992424
This morning, I woke up to an alert from Mrs Chinyere Itesi to respond to an abhorrence that was on display here on DPA page. As I scrolled down, I saw that the story being depicted happened in my vicinity. It is the painful rape of Miss D, a 12 year old primary six (6) pupil who hails from Umuoso Nkwuegwu in Umuahia, Abia state.
I made and maintained correspondence with Mr. Henry Gantt Chibueze Odimuko who hails from the same locality and met up with him in the Police Hospital along Bende Road, Umuahia where he honorably kept vigil. There a met a beautiful girl bedridden, a teary eyed mother and a little confused brother who has no clue why his big sister writhes in pain.
Here are the Gory details
Miss D was raped by Ifeanyi Mbakwe and his Cousin Ikechukwu Mbakwe. Not only is this vulgarity despicable, they committed an abomination in their custom as Miss D is their sister who they cannot have neither carnal knowledge of nor marry.
No arrests have been made by the officers in Afugiri Police Station where the case was reported to despite information by the young men in the community that though the boys have gone into hiding, they are very much around.
The mother has received threatening calls by the father of one of the hoodlums that her options are to withdraw the case from the police so as to receive whatever cursed paltry sum of money for Miss D's treatment or watch him swallow her in a lawsuit of which he has lawyers at his disposal.
I saw first hand, the brutality of these boys as they had to break her leg to totally incapacitate her thus allowing them ample time without resistance to carry out this dastardly act.
What is most unfortunate is that no test has been carried out on this Innocent young girl to ascertain her status on infection if any (hopefully none) and also produce DNA evidence that can be used to prosecute her attackers.
Progress:
Through the effort of Mr. Henry and myself, the doctor now has been made to know that DPA and the world are now watching. Our little financial aid has made it possible for her mum to meet up with at least an x-ray for her legs to see the level of damage.
It is only in DPA that Justice without bias is followed doggedly with resilience and we will not relent.
Justice for Miss D who has been unfortunately scarred by her so called two " brothers" who are actually beasts.
I urge all members, particularly those in the affected area, to prepare to mobilize for intervention in this case reported below. We need more information and suggestions on how to act. This being rape, we shall be demanding immediate police intervention. We want the suspects arrested and prosecuted and we shall consider how to help the victim and her family in the mean time.
OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO INQUIRIES ON THE RAPE OF MISS D (name withheld)
MBADIWE COLONEL
DPA UMUAHIA
08133992424
This morning, I woke up to an alert from Mrs Chinyere Itesi to respond to an abhorrence that was on display here on DPA page. As I scrolled down, I saw that the story being depicted happened in my vicinity. It is the painful rape of Miss D, a 12 year old primary six (6) pupil who hails from Umuoso Nkwuegwu in Umuahia, Abia state.
I made and maintained correspondence with Mr. Henry Gantt Chibueze Odimuko who hails from the same locality and met up with him in the Police Hospital along Bende Road, Umuahia where he honorably kept vigil. There a met a beautiful girl bedridden, a teary eyed mother and a little confused brother who has no clue why his big sister writhes in pain.
Here are the Gory details
Miss D was raped by Ifeanyi Mbakwe and his Cousin Ikechukwu Mbakwe. Not only is this vulgarity despicable, they committed an abomination in their custom as Miss D is their sister who they cannot have neither carnal knowledge of nor marry.
No arrests have been made by the officers in Afugiri Police Station where the case was reported to despite information by the young men in the community that though the boys have gone into hiding, they are very much around.
The mother has received threatening calls by the father of one of the hoodlums that her options are to withdraw the case from the police so as to receive whatever cursed paltry sum of money for Miss D's treatment or watch him swallow her in a lawsuit of which he has lawyers at his disposal.
I saw first hand, the brutality of these boys as they had to break her leg to totally incapacitate her thus allowing them ample time without resistance to carry out this dastardly act.
What is most unfortunate is that no test has been carried out on this Innocent young girl to ascertain her status on infection if any (hopefully none) and also produce DNA evidence that can be used to prosecute her attackers.
Progress:
Through the effort of Mr. Henry and myself, the doctor now has been made to know that DPA and the world are now watching. Our little financial aid has made it possible for her mum to meet up with at least an x-ray for her legs to see the level of damage.
It is only in DPA that Justice without bias is followed doggedly with resilience and we will not relent.
Justice for Miss D who has been unfortunately scarred by her so called two " brothers" who are actually beasts.
Buhari sacks Kachikwu as NNPC boss, appoints new board for corporation.....
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as provided for under Section 1(2) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Act of 1997, as amended.
Mr. Buhari also removed Ibe Kachikwu as group managing director of the corporation, a statement by presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina showed.
He however allowed him to remain as minister of state for petroleum and will serve as chairman of the NNPC board.
The new NNPC GMD is Maikanti Kacalla Baru, according to the presidency.
The new board is composed of the following:
A. Chairman-Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum;
B. Group Managing Director- Dr Maikanti Kacalla Baru;
C. The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance; and
D. The following six persons:
1. Mallam Abba Kyari
2. Dr Thomas M.A John
3. Dr Pius O. Akinyelure
4. Dr Tajuddeen Umar
5. Mallam Mohammed Lawal, and
6. Mallam Yusuf Lawal.
President Buhari urges the new board to ensure the successful delivery of the mandate of the NNPC, ” and serve the nation by upholding the public trust placed on them in managing this critical national asset.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as provided for under Section 1(2) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Act of 1997, as amended.
Mr. Buhari also removed Ibe Kachikwu as group managing director of the corporation, a statement by presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina showed.
He however allowed him to remain as minister of state for petroleum and will serve as chairman of the NNPC board.
The new NNPC GMD is Maikanti Kacalla Baru, according to the presidency.
The new board is composed of the following:
A. Chairman-Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum;
B. Group Managing Director- Dr Maikanti Kacalla Baru;
C. The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance; and
D. The following six persons:
1. Mallam Abba Kyari
2. Dr Thomas M.A John
3. Dr Pius O. Akinyelure
4. Dr Tajuddeen Umar
5. Mallam Mohammed Lawal, and
6. Mallam Yusuf Lawal.
President Buhari urges the new board to ensure the successful delivery of the mandate of the NNPC, ” and serve the nation by upholding the public trust placed on them in managing this critical national asset.”
REFLECTION...
WHAT ATIKU AND SARAKI DON'T KNOW.
BALEWA never struggled to be Prime Minister. BELLO was qualified but gave it to BALEWA......
SHAGARI never wanted to be President.......but he ruled!
ABIOLA wanted it since 1983......he never got there even in 1993....We loved him but he did not get it.....
OBJ never lobbied for or desperate to be President. Falae wanted to since 1992 but he never got it.....OBJ did.
ODILI struggled and spent billions to get it....he never got it.....Yar'adua was not even physically strong enough yet he got it without spending his personal cash. ODILI got nothing!
JONATHAN has neither the cash nor the finesse to be President but he got it. He defeated desperate IBB and ATIKU in the primaries and BUHARI in the general!
BUHARI resigned to fate. He declared that he will not contest again. That is when GOD handpicked him and made him the President after HE had earlier watched him exhausting his personal energy and killing his desperation!
The time when JONATHAN had no strength, he defeated mighty BUHARI....But when he had all the strength and money...he lost to a BUHARI who had given up!
SARAKI...Your father used Yoruba name in the south and Fulani name in the North, yet he did not win....
This is for our reflection.
WHAT ATIKU AND SARAKI DON'T KNOW.
BALEWA never struggled to be Prime Minister. BELLO was qualified but gave it to BALEWA......
SHAGARI never wanted to be President.......but he ruled!
ABIOLA wanted it since 1983......he never got there even in 1993....We loved him but he did not get it.....
OBJ never lobbied for or desperate to be President. Falae wanted to since 1992 but he never got it.....OBJ did.
ODILI struggled and spent billions to get it....he never got it.....Yar'adua was not even physically strong enough yet he got it without spending his personal cash. ODILI got nothing!
JONATHAN has neither the cash nor the finesse to be President but he got it. He defeated desperate IBB and ATIKU in the primaries and BUHARI in the general!
BUHARI resigned to fate. He declared that he will not contest again. That is when GOD handpicked him and made him the President after HE had earlier watched him exhausting his personal energy and killing his desperation!
The time when JONATHAN had no strength, he defeated mighty BUHARI....But when he had all the strength and money...he lost to a BUHARI who had given up!
SARAKI...Your father used Yoruba name in the south and Fulani name in the North, yet he did not win....
This is for our reflection.
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