Good Analysis! for those who want to know where those figures came from please watch the debate


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLd8o8z-2CU

we need to let these so called leaders know that enough is enough at this point. The people screwing this nation are not up to 2000.  We know them .We have trillions of dollars  budget with nada to show for it. These are money that developed countries don't even have. God help us .

Well said. I guess the people that voted based on the name "goodluck" should suck it up and deal with it. Nigerians will never learn. The ridiculous excuses that i heard why they voted for goodluck

- He was poor before never had a shoe till he was ten years Old,
- He is a christian
- He is educated
- He will be able to relate to ordinary Nigerian etc

all these BS , see where the country is today. When are we going to demand from those who are seeking power to show us what plan they have to make the country better? 2012 no stable power , people die daily from fever, typhoid etc , no good roads , security is out of the question. All the GOODLUCK advocate make una enjoy the fresh air .

Sebi Na Fresh air wey pdp promise be this . YeYe ! By now if dem wan do something there should be talks going on. Sebi na una vote dem now, so enjoy!

adieu!!!  Amala /Ewedu politics! didnt expect less. A lot of people suffered under this man. No Salary for months! And children have to eat ! Enjoy your new status Akala ( Common citizen)

na wa o! this country sha na we dey do ourselves. we  dey advocate for leaders wey no get anything to offer us and we wan complain afterwards. PDP children are set for life leaving the rest of us to worry about our children. GOD will judge!!!! But please remember we have an opportunity to make this change if we miss the boat 2020 we still talking crap! true talk

We Nigerians are responsible for our destiny . We can vote for whatever party we like but . do not come here in next two years preaching rubbish that some politicians are not doing things right. If we continue to ignore facts am sorry we will just be on the same road for the next 20 years.
@ 2011
- We do not have stable power
-We cannot boast of any world standard airport
- We do not have good water supply
- High level of insecurity everywhere
-CORRUPTION Everywhere

Na wa o . GOD help us

which way Nigeria! I bow o .

Just pray that you do not have any episode with men in black. You might never be the same again.From experience

Pls Guys let us VOTE WISELY !! Thank you

I guess we suppose to be going around with bag of receipts now. what of if the laptop was a gift? bunch of lawless fools i am really not feeling Nigeria at all. only GOD will help us.

Nigeria is such a hell hole!! and these punks are suppose to be protecting people. Only GOD knows how many people are dead from this kind of mess. Lets vote the right candidate that will help our future or else we will be on here spitting out ON (organised nonsense) for the next 20 years. peace!

FRESH AIR how can we get fesh air from the same team. They probably think we are dumb . FYI we are not dumb. How can you go through the same process all the time and expect a different result. End of discussion.

I see no reason why people can not see through the PDP crap. Mark my word if we let this opportuinity to change things around bypass us . It might be too late. What really has PDP done for the country ? HONESTLY!!!!!

BB 2011 . Our best option!

And people still want to vote PDP? This is an opportuinity to send a strong message to corrupt leaders that we dont want them anymore . Lets change things come april 2011.

For better future vote BB 2011. any other choice is a waste. wake up my people!!!!!

very good ! if only more Nigerians can get with the program. I cannot believe people still have faith in PDP after all these years with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. If you keep doing the same crap you will get the same crappy result (confirmed). Lets join hands to get BB into the office. Any other choice , same old result . Peace!

can list 1000 reasons why a GEJ presidential position will be business as usual for the corrupt elite who have decimated Nigerian beyond recognition.

we have a saying " Show me your friends and i will reveal truths about your person"

I rest for now -

I have opened the floor with my abstract

GOOD POINT!!!

I just have one question. What has PDP done so far ? we need a change in this country. Unless we want the same set of people to be in power.(OBJ etc) If we refuse to nip it in the bud asap , we will still be talking about this in next 10 years. Let  us all think about our future. Peace!

Give the job to BIG B1.

I read this post and  i must say its all about Patrotism. It is evident that most poeple that will support Obama statement are not . It is okay for us to wash our own dirty linen and i agree we have problem with this issue. personally i am not proud of what some Nigerians are doing , but it is very uncalled for for some one else to just trash the country like that without having a good understanding of how things work in Nigeria. You need to live here and see what is going on. Big question to all nairaland folks how many people  care for Nigeria without any self interest? why is it that we allow evil to overtake all the other good things that is coming out of NIGERIA. We all need to wake up and remember if you live in USA, EUROPE etc you are still a dang Foreigner even after you get their citizenship. Believe that!!!Nigeria is our root let us all join forces and bring our glory back . If we all put our energy into it will happen. As for OBAMA presidency expect NOTHING GOOD to come out of it for Nigerians at home and abroad. I wish him well , and i want him to be the president but my brothers and sisters we all need to work together to take our country back . The way i see it we are working against eachother and this will not help anybody. We need to change our ATTITUDE about where we are from. If the so called western world didnt hold their stuff down we wont be running there, lets uphold our country , don't let any country intimidate us we are far better than that.

its about time we all wake up and smell the coffee. i agree with you BIG B1 , we need to wake up and not sell our children future . Bunch of technicians from foreign countries come to Nigeria to become respected engineers. we need to redirect our energy onto something that will prosper the country. Do you ever wonder why the united states have not reached an agreement regarding immigration? go figure, once you allow others to dictate the economic strenght you will have to dance to their tune for ever. The Nigerian government can actually utilize lots and lots of opportunities that we have , by inviting foreign workers to work ALONGSIDE Nigerian counterparts. Not just kissing up to anybody light skin.( Oyinbo mentality). We should empower ourselves to be independent and be able to mingle with anybody oyinbo or no oyinbo. There are many highly skilled Nigerians all over the world that are just wasting away. I am not a racist but we should not be a second class citizen in our own country. Nigeria is ours , we cannot claim UK , US even if you have their honorary citizenship. Lets keep it real you will always be a foreigner elsewhere

What did OBJ spend on PHCN?
Written by eon Usigbe, Luka Binniyat & Tordue Salem
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
*CBN tells Reps $4.8bn
*Accountant-General says $3.7bn
*PHCN says $3.8bn
*Reps ask PHCN to refund N355bn

THE House of Representatives Committee on Power which is probing Federal Government’s expenditure on the Power Sector in the eight years of the Obasanjo administration has directed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to refund N355 billion to government for non-existent power projects it claimed to have executed across the country during the period.

On the second day of the probe hearing yesterday, the Central Bank (CBN) and the Office of the


ObasanjoAccountant-General of the Federation presented conflicting figures of monies said to have been released to the PHCN for various projects.

PHCN to refund N355bn to Govt

The company, according to the Committee Chairman, Mr. Ndudi Elumelu, will refund N207.92 million for jobs not executed at the Egbin power station but for which payments were made. He also directed that a total sum of N5.50 billion be refunded in respect of the Delta Thermal station and another N347 billion in respect of non-existent projects at Egbin thermal stations for the same period. For Affam power station, the amount to be refunded is N4.24 billion.

Conflicting figures on money released to PHCN in 8 years

And while the CBN said it released $4.8 billion to the PHCN between 1999 and 2007, the AGF said its record showed $3.7 billion was released to the company and $3.067 billion for the National Integrated Power Projected (NIPP).

But, the Coordinator of PHCN, Alhaji Shuibu Maigida, startled the committee when he maintained that PHCN actually received a total sum of $3.8 billion during the period.

The Committee Chairman praised the AGF for keeping a clearer record on the disbursement of funds on the power sector, saying his account corroborated that of the Ministry of Power.

The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ibrahim Dankwabo, gave a breakdown of money ploughed to the PHCN from 1999 to 2008 in a table.

Year Amount Appropriated Amount released Amount cashed

1999 N12.25 N6.69 N6.69
2000 N59.06 N49.78 N49.78
2001 N78.30 N70.92 N70.92
2002 N63.94 N44.19 N44.19
2003 N55.99 N55,58 N5.25
2004 N54.62 N54.62 N54.62
2005 N78.72 N71.88 N71.31
2006 N74.71 N74.30 N72.39
2007 N100.7 N99.86 N61.10
Total N578.29 N534.66 N435.25


Figures in billion Naira)
•Source: AGF of the Federation

I just saw this
Probe N370m power deal now, AC taks govt
The Action Congress (AC) has called on the Yar'Adua administration to immediately order a probe of the country's power sector expenditure between 1999 and 2007, following the revelation that the Obasanjo administration awarded a N370-million contract to a blacklisted German firm. In a statement issued in Abuja, its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the revelation, during an ongoing hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel, provides a litmus test for the current administration's fight against corruption and its rule of law mantra. It also said there was no doubt that the revelation was just a tip of the iceberg in terms of the cloudy deals in the country's critical power sector under Obasanjo, considering the sorry state of the sector which is now in a worse shape than the former administration met it. The AC said it is important that the German firm, Lameyer, be investigated for failing to execute the contract for which it had already collected money; be made to immediately refund the money collected; and finally, be blacklisted, as the World Bank has reportedly done.

@Big B1
After this Ibadan Situation . I totally agree with your solution because there are so many Adedibus coming in the future if we do not do something drastic. I bet you as crazy as it sounds there will be some folks looking up to the man Adedibu.Well the bottom line is if you hang with the wrong crowd they are going to bring you to their level. The choice is yours

ICPC names Adedibu’s son in Mapo Hall contract scandal - To be quizzed in Abuja next week - They have nothing to hide, says Adedibu
From Lanre Adewole, Adeolu Adeyemo and Tope Abiola - 14.02.2008

A son of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, Jubril, has been fingered as the beneficiary of the controversial Mapo Hall renovation contract and the scam allegedly surrounding the award of the contract has led to his invitation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Jubril, according to a credible source, would be interrogated at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja next Tuesday alongside the Oyo State Director of Works.

The commission also interrogated the former Commissioner for Works, Chief Kolawole Balogun, over the alleged scandal at its headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. Balogun, who was sighted when released by the investigators, is listed to be back for more interrogation after Jubril and the Works Director might have taken their turn next week.

Balogun, now Commissioner for Commerce, was the Works’ Commissioner when the contract was awarded by the administration of Governor Bayo Alao-Akala during the 11 months he was governor when former governor Rashidi Ladoja was impeached. The commission’s investigators had last Wednesday in Ibadan quizzed the state’s commissioners for Works and Finance as well as the Accountant General over the Mapo contract scandal.

The Director of Works, who was also quizzed in Ibadan, reportedly fingered Jubril as the contractor that was awarded the controversial renovation contract, which the Nigerian Tribune source in the commission said had been established to be inflated. The source added that the commission had almost concluded investigation into the matter, with those having strong cases against them to be prosecuted.

The state commissioners for Commerce, Finance, and Local Government, Dr. Kola Balogun, Adebayo Bankole, Hosea Agboola respectively and the Accountant General, Mrs. Florence Okeniyi, had earlier been interrogated by the commission last week on the contract saga by the officials of the commission. “The case file of the commissioners were forwarded from Ibadan and they are to be reporting to Abuja for further enquiry on the contract. On the matter, the Commissioner for Local Government was in Abuja on Monday while the two others are to appear before the anti-graft agency over the alleged inflation of the contract,” the sources said.

The commissioners have been reporting at the ICPC office in Ibadan since last week over their alleged roles in the award of the renovation contract. When contacted on the matter, the Head of Public Enlightenment of the commission, Mr. Mike Sowe, said that the person in charge was not around to give an update on the matter. He refused to comment on it. Speaking on the development, the Special Adviser on Public Communication to the state governor, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, described the story as untrue, but explained that some commissioners went to Abuja to attend a micro-finance workshop organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria and not on any invitation by the ICPC.

Oyelade further said that “You will recall that some anti-graft operatives came to the state last week on a fact-finding mission based on the allegation made by some faceless individuals on the matter. Some commissioners fielded questions on it at that time and I am not aware that they are in Abuja for another round of interrogation on the matter.” The contract, valued at N179.2 million was awarded to HUA Engineering Limited, a construction company. The contract was awarded in 2006, with Ladoja accusing his former deputy of underhand dealings in the award of the contract.

Governor Akala, in defending the renovation, had claimed that financing it was a joint effort between the state government and the 11 local governments in Ibadanland. While reacting, Chief Adedibu said “the Mapo hall is there for everybody to see. The ICPC is free to visit the Mapo hall and see if the charges did not merit the renovation of the hall.

They have nothing to hide, they can come to Ibadan to see it.” Adedibu, who spoke through one of his aides, Alhaji Lukman Agboluaje, said that “it is true that some people wrote a petition against Jubril Adedibu on the contract he took from the state government at the sum of N170 million.” He explained that the petitioners alleged that Adedibu took the contract at the sum of N400 million, which he described as a lie.

He added that the total amount of money to be collected from the state government by Adedibu was N142 million after the deduction of VAT and tax.

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