mazimee:


It must of have pained you to the balls and marrows. Kiss the truth

Dont mind him, they think that Biafra can Die//

TrueSenator:
fake news

No get Heart Attack//

It is true

make a phone call to Osha

because of their claim over WESTERN SAHARA they want it appear as if their NORTH African region is now WEST Africa.

vankaid:
IPOB are liars.
Carry your no election to Abia. We must do election in our state if you dont like it relocate.

YOUR oyo STATE ABI??

The reaturn of Ipob

Up Biafra

post=62219554:
2019 use your state as case study by boycotting governorship election, not Anambra, Anambrians will vote on 18th we will also protects our votes

Anambra first son from Ogbomosho

name of your village, and kindred

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Senate summons Fashola over alleged $35m spendings
Published November 9, 2017
Babatunde Fashola

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja

The Senate on Wednesday began an investigation into the alleged plan by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to secure the release of $350m domiciled in the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority to finance electricity projects.

The lawmakers specifically criticised the ministry for allegedly spending $35m out of the money on power projects without approval by the National Assembly.

The decision followed the adoption of a motion moved by Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi-West), at the plenary on Wednesday, which was entitled, ‘Monumental Fraud in the Power Sector.’

Granting a prayer of the motion, the Senate mandated its Senate committees on Power; and Public Accounts to invite the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), “to render a detailed account in terms of public funds spent on the Fast Power Projects (Afam Fast Power Project in particular); evidence of feasibility study indicating the viability of the projects; requisite appropriation by the National Assembly as required by the constitution; and the controversial presidential approval for the projects.”

Another prayer was also granted to mandate same committees “to investigate and consider summoning the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, the Nigeria Electricity Bulk Trading Company, etc., to generally establish the status of the funds ($350m) and to report back to the Senate within two weeks.”

The Senate also unanimously granted the prayer to “direct the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to stop or suspend all attempts or efforts to pressurise the NSIA to release $350m meant for NBET to the ministry for use on the controversial fast power projects.”

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in his remarks, noted that the issues had previously been raised concerning the power sector in the chamber. He also noted that the law establishing the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority was due for a review.

Saraki’s suggestion on the review of the NSIA Establishment Act was presented as an additional prayer and it was unanimously granted.

In the motion, Melaye recalled that the Federal Government raised $1bn through a Eurobond issue in July 2013, while the government released $350m out of the sum to the Nigeria Electricity Bulk Trading Company Plc as shareholder contribution to shore up its capitalisation.

Melaye said, “The Senate observes that this fund has been with the NSlA since 2014 and has helped build market confidence especially among new investors in the electricity market who see NBET’s positive balance sheet as a form of security that their investments are safe and that NBET has the wherewithal to meet its payment obligations.

“The Senate is alarmed that there is now a desperate attempt by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to retrieve this fund ($350m) and divert same to fund the so-called Fast Power Projects, which the ministry has already spent $35m of public funds not appropriated by the National Assembly.”

“The Senate is further alarmed that since the introduction of the Fast Power Project by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, a total sum of $35m has been spent by the ministry on Afam Power Project alone to pay $29m to General Electric as cost for turbines and $6m in consultancy fees to other entities respectively, all without requisite feasibility study of the projects and appropriation by the National Assembly as required by the constitution.”

The senator said “a lot of questions are begging for answers” as regards the $29m paid to General Electric and the $6m paid to other consultants.

He asked who the consultants were and how were they procured. He also asked if there was observance of due process in the award of the contracts. He further asked why the transaction was cloaked in secrecy and what was the true value of Afam Fast Power?

Melaye added, “Why is the ministry engaging in constructing new power plant while the government has several idle plants that is seeking buyers for? Why is the ministry that is supposed to be making policies, dabbling into constructing new power plants that we have all agreed is better handled by the private sector?”

He added, “The Senate is concerned that the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing is determined to persist in this brazen violation of the Constitution and extant laws on due process by insisting that the NSIA should release the $350m meant for NBET on the pretext of acting under a purported presidential approval.

“The Senate is convinced that there is an urgent need to bring the .ministry to order regarding its planned diversion of the sum of $350m meant for NBET and further demand a detailed account of unappropriated public funds spent on the controversial fast power projects.”

Seconding the motion, Senator Mohammed Hassan (Yobe-South) noted that apart from the $350m released to NBET, the Transmission Company of Nigeria also got $150m and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation got $500m for some gas projects.

He said, “These monies will be maturing and they will be due for return by next year. Our concern is on these contracts that were awarded; I think that is the area that the Senate should look at. I will want to recommend that the Senate Committee on Power should look at that, not only ascertaining the credit balance of the $350m, we need to find out what is the status of the $500m with NNPC and $150m with TCN. I think that is the way to go.”

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what was the Nigeria position before you came into power??/

Xisnin:
Four things are bound to happen
1.Election will hold
2.People will vote
3.A winner will be declared
4.Ipob will cry again

help who tell who, na you papa, uncle or relative them go declare winner if so go and try your luck and vote

wildchild02:
Don't vote, you're doing yourselves cos someone must emerge winner.

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help who tell who, na you papa, uncle or relative them go declare winner if so go and try your luck and vote//

icequeeTM:

Help me tell them oh

help who tell who, na you papa, uncle or relative them go declare winner if so go and try your luck and vote

FreeTraining:

No country in the world is safe

no country in the world has no.
1,2,4&5

Yyeske:
Exactly my brother, let them use their various states as guinea pigs but should count our state election out of their madness

which LGA are you from??

Yyeske:
See grammar, I stay in Nkpor, the hotbed of IPOB and I can confidently tell you that IPOB has lost it here as we speak. Continue deceiving yourself and others

where in nkpor??

oneeast:
This is rubbish, IPOB should keep their nuisance in their home base of Abia and Imo states.

We shall vote and Obiano shall emerge.

from Ondo?/

FreeTraining:

Many jobless IPOB members like u have attached thier failure in life to biafra' they really want an excuse to give their relatives when they finally retire to their village' for that reason they want war to break out so they can find an excuse to give' then they will say something like this' u see I abandoned my five cars in Lagos and ran away to save my head' I abandoned all the cash I kept in my wardrobe' u have failed in life and ther is nothing u can do about it' if you are looking for war to cover up" war u shall not see and biafra u will never get.

and you may also attach you success in nigeria to these;

1.lack of power
2. herdsmen killing
3. unemployment
4. very poor health sector
5. extremely horrible roads
6. looting etc

Almaiga:
Either you Vote or not, a winner must be announced.
Quote me anywhere

so why are you disturbing yourself
so you know dat and you want them to come in the sun to make same mistake time and time over

palm tree is not made of wood but fibre

banki:


I don't like buhari but when the avengers bomb do they affect buhari
You seemed to be misinformed because the picture shows you are lying

it affect the future of a country that refuses to work?

who told you?

Ask about GEOMETRIC providing power fro ABA residents and industries

why not send back the crocodiles smile on them

Be patient with us, FG begs Avengers On November 7, 20178:14 amIn NewsComments ……Says all grievances being addressed …Clark, Ayemi-Botu, others in war of words By Emma Amaize, Festus Ahon, Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Emem Idio THE Federal Government, yesterday, pleaded with militant groups in the Niger Delta region, especially the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to be patient with government as efforts were being made to address all their grievances. Militant The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, who made the appeal shortly after having a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said already some of the requests of the people had been attended to. The appeal came as the rivalry between militants in the zone got messier as one of the groups offered to take security agents to ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo’s hideout with Tompolo saying he has nothing to do with pipeline destruction. Meantime, leaders of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and Pan Niger Delta Peoples’ Congress, PNDPC, were locked in verbal warfare, yesterday as Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State also begged the aggrieved youths not resume hostilities in the region. It’s a matter of patience —FG According to Pastor Usani, the issue calls for patience, “knowing that some of these things have a procedure, and everything has a phase of planning and a phase of execution.” The minister, who said he was at the Villa to brief the President on the activities in his ministry while he was away, said though the issue of threat by NDA was not part of the discussions, government had started implementing the agreement it entered into with the people of the region. “For a while, he (President) has not been around and there are things he needed to know from me and so I had to brief him on issues pertaining to the ministry, the projects that are going on and other anthropogenic issues that have to do with general matters concerning the Niger Delta region especially, the concerns bordering on who is right or not right to speak for the zone and the issues of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. All these occupied our discussions with the President today,” he said. On whether the fresh threats by the Avengers was part of the discussions, he said: “We haven’t discussed the Avengers per se but it is of essence as the President has always shown indication that whatever we need to and can do to sustain peace in the region, we would continue to do it…You are aware that the Vice President (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo) has been chairing the committee that handles the issues they are raising. “And so, while that goes on operationally, headed by the Vice President, the President just needs to be briefed on our efforts though we know that the Vice President briefs him from time to time but as per the Avengers issue, it was not discussed. On a general note, it is understood that we have to be engaged to be able to sustain the peace that prevailed for a while.” On his message to the Avengers, he said: “My message is not just verbal but it has been demonstrated by the fact at all times. The government of which I am part, my role as minister in charge of the region, we have been appealing to them to just be patient with us, because, most of the time, the issues that are brought up are those that tend to portray the quest for development of the region. “And that is all we have been doing, to say, be patient with us, these issues raised genuinely for the benefit of people of the region are being attended to. For instance, the university at Okerekoko, you are aware that the Vice President has directed that that university must take off. And he also directed that a minimum of N5 billion be budgeted for the take off of the university.’’ On the situation in the region now, he said: “We are glad, so far, that all parties have listened to one another. Government, Avengers, Elders and so on. We would wish that this continues. So, we would advise all of us to remain calm and see the things that we agitated for coming little by little.” He disagreed with claims of the Avengers that the government has failed in its promises to them, saying the university at Okerenkoko and the communities being part of surveillance of the petroleum infrastructure in the region were promises being kept. “And of course you know that by the modular refineries which they had also talked about as sub-set of how they can be engaged instead of what is called illegal refineries, are also on, because the process of building a refinery or even getting the necessary procedures to establish such is not just a one day business. Advertisements have been made, people have indicated interest and of course, to get it sustainable, the government is having the state governments involved but privately driven so that all concerned will be on a common page to ensure that when ever it takes off, there is no frustration or sabotage,’’ he added. He continued: “Then your second question of meeting with the Avengers, for us as a government, there hasn’t been any group from the region that intended to meet with any arm of government that has been rebuffed. So, if any people make such overtures, we will be happy to receive them. We have been receiving different groups. We are not limiting our dialogue or discussions to any particular group. So anybody that says he is relevant in the process and comes forth, we are ready to engage.” East West road He however described as unfortunate the circumstances surrounding the reconstruction of the East-West. “For the benefit of hindsight, the East-West road was conceived and started from the Ministry of Works then transferred to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. But we all have to appreciate one thing. Such physical infrastructure don’t decay over night and so the neglect has continually put continuous liability on us. Yes, it is true that I met with the contractors and I appealed to them to go back to site, we have also been very conscientious in releasing funds as they are cash-backed for them to continue work. Nonetheless, we are thinking of alternatives for completing that project amid the many issues that tend to be the undercurrents that are drawing back the execution. And such issues are technical and we are tackling them. In due course, you will know the outcome,” he said. Don’t reopen attack on oil facilities, Okowa begs N/Delta Avengers Speaking in like manner, Governor Okowa appealed to the NDA not to reopen attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. Okowa in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Charles Aniagwu, noted that “Deltans will lose more if the group make good its latest threat to withdraw from further cooperation with the federal government and begin massive attacks on oil facilities. “We passionately appeal to the Niger Delta Avengers not to resume hostilities, because Deltans will be the greatest losers. We are barely recovering from the effect of previous attacks and it is our honest appeal that they still give peace a chance by allowing for peaceful engagements with the Federal Government and other stakeholders,’’ he said. RNDA offers to lead security agents to Tompolo’s hideout Meanwhile, the bad blood between two top Niger Delta militant groups, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, and Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, worsened, yesterday, as the latter offered to lead security operatives to the creeks of Niger Delta region to smoke out fleeing Tompolo from his hideout. Leader of RNDA and a coalition of nine other militant groups, self-styled “Major General” Johnmark Ezonebi, alias Obama, who called Vanguard on phone, yesterday morning, alleged that Tompolo has his hands full in NDA activities. NDA, which repudiated its 14-month ceasefire, last Friday, and threatened to resume fresh hostilities in the region, is sympathetic to the PANDEF, while RNDA is behind the PNDPC. Ezonebi, who said that members of his group were former foot soldiers of Tompolo in Camp 5 and NDA until it declared cessation of hostilities, last year, disclosed that some top security agents, federal and Delta state government officials also know the whereabouts of Tompolo, but kept the vital information away from the authorities. His words: “We know exactly where he (Tompolo) is, even some top federal government officials and the government of Delta state know his whereabouts with top security agents. In a short while we shall give the names of all those influential supporters to Tompolo and his Niger Delta Avengers with some government officials from the presidency still getting in touch with a man that is under government wanted list.” I will not destroy oil pipelines – Tompolo Tompolo’s media consultant, Paul Bebenimibo, in a statement, yesterday, said the attention of the ex-militant leader has been drawn to media statements by the NDA and the RNDA, accusing him of working with the Federal Government to malign the Niger Delta region, working against the Federal Government, and being the brain behind the planned attack on oil facilities in the region. “Ordinarily, we would have ignored these media statements by these so-called avengers and reformed avengers because it is not a new tactic by these groups in bringing Tompolo’s name into whatever thing that happens in the Niger Delta region because of his legal battle with the government. Let it be stated at this point that Tompolo is not the only person having legal issues with the present government. Let us also state here that these accusations do not take away the fact that our dear country is at a crossroad. “Restructuring/true federalism, participation of Niger Deltans in the oil industry, the Ogoni clean-up campaign, relocation of the headquarters of the International Oil Companies, establishment of modular refineries, resumption of academic activities in the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko and so on, are very germane issues the government needs to address now to shame mischievous elements in the polity. We wish to reiterate our earlier stand that nothing will make Tompolo to resort to destruction of oil facilities he once protected in a contractual arrangement,” he said. RNDA disagrees with Tompolo Ezonebi dismissed the refutation, saying, “RNDA wishes to state categorically that the so-called high command of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, is no other person than Tompolo, who is presently under a wanted list and is hiding in the creek for sins against the region by using the struggle to empower himself and his immediate family and few cronies. “The self-acclaimed spokesperson of NDA, ‘Major General’ Murdock Agbinibo, is no other than the three apostles of Tompolo, who have deserted their Warri homes.” They are on the run with their master, who uses the name of Niger Delta struggle to empower himself and his family alone to the detriment of the long neglected people of the Niger Delta region. “RNDA wants to state that if there is any form of attack or destruction of oil pipelines and facilities in the creek of Delta state due to this shameless threat by the so- called Niger Delta Avengers…the people of Gbaramatu should hold Tompolo responsible for any harm or damage that they face in the wake of this,” he said. Publish if you have facts – Sara-Igbe PANDEF top shot, HRH Anabs Sara-Igbe, who Vanguard contacted on phone, said he was only aware of a dialogue group meeting on Thursday. Speaking on the allegation by RNDA that PANDEF collected N200 million from NDDC and other monies, he said, “If they have their facts, let them publish them. PANDEF is not about money and what people can collect, if that is what they want, they can go about and be collecting money if it is that easy. PANDEF is for peace and not violence, we are not at war with anybody. Clark, Ayemi-Botu in verbal tango National leader of PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark and his PNDPC counterpart, HM Charles Ayemi-Botu, have fallen out with each other over the recent developments in the region with Clark calling Ayemi-Botu a shameless person. The former national chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, responded from New York, United States, where he went for medical vacation that the elder statesman “is a pot calling the kettle black.” Chief Clark, who was unhappy that HM Ayemi-Botu allegedly allowed himself and others to be used by detractors of the region to disrupt the activities of PANDEF, said: “The people who gave us mandate have come out, Ayemi-Botu should be ashamed of himself. However, all I am saying is that Niger Delta royal fathers, personalities and stakeholders should work together and do not allow themselves to be used by detractors, who do not want the progress of the region.” HM Ayemi-Botu countered: “He is a kettle calling the pot black; indeed, he is the most shameless and conscienceless human being on the surface of the earth. He lacks advice, hence a man of over 90 years does not know when to retire home to rest due to lust and inordinate ambition.” PANDEF to meet in Warri In a related development, members of PANDEF will regroup, Friday, in Warri, Delta State, for an emergency meeting after the October 26 disruption of its gathering in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, to discuss recent developments in the region. It was at Effurun, near Warri, August, last year, that monarchs, elders, leaders and stakeholders of the region, met and resolved to mediate between the Federal Government and militants,who were bombing oil installations. They appealed to the youths to cease hostilities and 24 hours after the meeting, NDA accepted ceasefire in deference to Clark and other leaders of the region. Lead dialogue with PANDEF to avert looming crisis, Evah tells Buhari Coordinator of the Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, Mr. Joseph Evah, yesterday, urged President Buhari to avert the looming trouble in the region by leading further discussions between the Federal Government and PANDEF. Evah, who spoke on phone, last night, to Vanguard, said: “If the Federal Government jokes with the Avengers’ threat, we may see the repeat of the 2009 militants/Nigeria military war in which the late President Umaru Yar’Adua begged militants with amnesty to end the war in the creeks.” He said that the nation’s oil production was almost crippled then, warning, “If Ijaw gods of war like Egbesu, Osuopele and Benikrukru join Avengers, this matter will be beyond what our elder statesman and national leader of PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, can handle.” “The respect that the umbrella body of militants, Avengers, have for Chief Clark made them to listen to him and others in PANDEF to ceasefire in the first place and now, some enemies of progress in Buhari government are now sponsoring divide and rule game with politics to delay the 16-point agenda. The International Community should hold the Nigerian government responsible if there is crisis in the Niger Delta.’’ We need implementation of promises, not endless dialogue – IYC In like manner, factional President of the Ijaw Youth Council, worldwide, IYC, Eric Omare, has called on the Federal Government to begin the implementation of its promises to the region, stating that what the people of the Niger Delta need was not endless dialogues on how to resolve the Niger Delta question but implementation of the promises made to the region by the federal government. Omare, in a statement in Yenagoa, yesterday, emphasized that the demands of the Niger Delta people are well documented, and described dialogue with Niger Delta people as “tactics by the federal government to divert attention from the issues that need to be addressed,” and advised Niger Delta leaders not to be deceived by the antics of the federal government to dialogue without implementation of promises He said: “The federal government does not need dialogue to release fund for the Maritime University, Okerenkoko to take-off, clean-up Ogoni and other parts of the Niger Delta region that have been massively polluted, relocate headquarters of multinational oil companies to the Niger Delta region as promised, complete the East -West road and other key developmental projects, give stake to Niger Deltans in the oil and gas industry and above all restructure Nigeria along the line of federalism to guarantee resource control. “We vehemently oppose endless dialogue with Niger Delta people which are tactics by the federal government to divert attention from the issues that needs to be addressed. What the Niger Delta people want is implementation of previous promises made by government and not further dialogue to divert attention and deceive Niger Deltans.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/patient-us-fg-begs-avengers/

where are the thousands

Obiana and his kindred people only

pryme:


yeah Enugu did it by declaring PDP the winner

dont you know that the election was done by a pdp led govt.. so who is likely to win even if the election was not boycotted?/

boycott is for foreign observers to see

darkenkach:
Biafrans should boycott the Nigeria Army.

yes

Space Admin indeed

person wey never develop power, build fuel plant or refinery,build car or wheel barrow talk less of space development

jumping from nursery school degree to Phd Degree

obailala:
The paranoia is real.... Reason why people should stay off drugs.

ALWAYS SEEK WISDOM

madridguy:
Ipork yuut are nothing but laminated brains. 1 Billion Kanu cannot stop Anambra election.

BOYCOTT NOT STOPING

arsenal33:


Why are you so dumb? Its probably the contents, not the printing of the pamphlet.

inaction is not terror

boycott is inaction

the herdsmen guerilla warfare nko