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MINNA (AFP) – Gunmen have killed three policemen and critically injured another in two separate attacks in Niger state, where Islamists killed dozens of people on Christmas day, police said Friday.

“When we arrived… we met the lifeless bodies of the inspector and the sergeant on the floor where they were killed, while a public-spirited man helped the injured corporal to the hospital,” state police spokesman Richard Oguche told AFP of the Thursday attack in Minna, the state capital.

“This is coming after yesterday’s (Wednesday) attack at Maje (in Suleija town) where a corporal was also shot dead in a similar manner,” he said.

Oguche could not say which group was behind the attacks, but the Islamist Boko Haram sect has been blamed for scores of attacks that have shaken Nigeria, including the Christmas Day bombing of a church in the same state that killed at least 44 people.

victorazy:

In a 30-minute operation, Boko Haram yesterday raided the Koton-Karfi Prison in Kogi State, killing a security man and set members free.
The detained top shot of the sect, Abul Qaqa, is an Igala man from Kogi State.

It was the first time the dreaded Islamist sect would attack the[b] North West state[/b], even as the group and the Joint Task Force (JTF) were engaged in an hour gun battle in Maiduguri, Borno State.

manchy7531:

Welcome to the National Conference. My name is Ibrahim Yaya. I am the 20th spokesman of the Jamu’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad otherwise known as the Boko Haram.


After a careful study, we’ve decided to embrace the call for a National Conference. We’ve concluded that we only have two options. It is either we call for a National Conference by ourselves, while we can still talk to each other, or we wait until we cannot talk to each other and have the United Nations call a National Conference for us.

We, the Boko Haram sect, have chosen not to wait.

Pk001:

Where did you get the statistics from? The  truth is that the muslims in Adamawa state are not more than the Xtians  going by the facts and figures.

Introduction of religion an state like Adamawa will always lead to the party loosing. This is because is not evrybody that is ready to go along the religion divide. And since the state is a kind of 50-50 ratio, the party introducing it always suffers. Is just like the case of Adamu moddibo and Boni Haruna in 2003. Adamu moddibbo lost mainly because he started introducing religion to his campaign. He wanted muslims to vote for him

Likewise from the look of things, the current ACN candidate will loose simply because he was introducing religion to the politics in the state.  Though i heard that ACN is giving PDP tough time in some places.  Marwa CPC is surely the last among three, because no matter how good Marwa may look, people in the state still do not trust CPC because of the post election violence that happened in April.

Now it is PDP vs ACN.  [/b]But I think PDP will win with a narrow margin.
ACN actaully lost it by introducing religion.
All fingers crossed.

Harassment of voters and under-supplying of ballot boxes, especially in the opposition strongholds, characterised yesterday’s gubernatorial election in Adamawa State.

[b]The two main candidates in the election are Alhaji Murtala Nyako of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Brig Gen Buba Marwa. Anxiety ruled the state as the result of the poll was being awaited last night.

A former House of Representatives member was said to have been arrested by the police after being caught with six ballot boxes at Ganye 2 ward in Ganye LGA. The erstwhile lawmaker was a sympathiser of the PDP candidate in the election. Results from two units in Dubwangun ward of Larmude LGA, at press time, showed that Marwa won.

Nyako was, until recently when he was sacked by the Supreme Court alongside four others, the governor of Adamawa State.

At Mayo/Farang ward 1 and Sebore Ahmadu ward 1 in Mayo Belwa LGA, observers alleged that some persons, said to be PDP agents, called out returning officers from the polling units into a house under police protection where they were allegedly given money to influence the outcome of the votes cast.

At Michika, the home town of the CPC candidate, it was reported that in Thukudou/Sukufu/Zar wards, comprising 14 polling units, only 200 ballot boxes were distributed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, instead of 1, 000 earmarked for the polling units.

At Foru ward, also in Michika, comprising four polling units, INEC was alleged to have earmarked eight ballot boxes for the election whereas only one ballot box was reportedly brought to one of the pollings unit.

At Yola South LGA, Kofar Baba ward-unit 009, security agencies, allegedly working in tandem with PDP agents, harassed and beat up election observers whom they believed were dishing out reports not favourable to PDP.

At Guyuk LGA, Dangir/Chikala ward, CPC agents rejected the plan to conduct a secret ballot instead of open secret ballot approved by INEC. In Madagali ward, in Madagali LGA, suspected PDP supporters snatched a ballot box with CPC voters casting most votes. At Zumo, in Hong LGA, with about 2,500 votes, CPC agents were being singled out and arrested by security agents.

The polling units which results showed Marwa as leading, according to reports, are Bakwo and Kofar Jauro in Dubwangun Ward, Larmude LGA.

In Bakwo, Marwa allegedly scored 42 votes to Nyako’s 35 and ACNcandidate’s 30 while the Kofar Jauro results are: Marwa, 60; Nyako, 44; ACNC, 28.

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Hello guys, the guy in those photos is my childhood friend, we both attended the same secondary school in sapele back then, I tell you all guys, when my friend saw those photos and the attached story, he immediately called on me compline. There is no way on earth that lady will be that aclaimed age. That lady there is 33years old while my friend is about a year older than her, the only reason why she looks like that it's because she is pregnant. Now I see why we are all into what we have found ourselves. If anyone in this forum understand sapele very well, and know Ireto Road then that person will understand what I am talking.

http://theoccupynigeria.com/articles/65-arithmetic-of-fuel-subsidy


That is where the analysis came from,

Your first ommission is not remembering the 60:40 in our crude oil money. or is the government telling lies that they operate 60:40 jv production?
And you have misled 32people who clicked like and another 14 who posted comments.

Your second blunder is that you do not realize that this policy is NOT ABOUT INCREASING FUEL PRICE but about deregulating(stopping government interference with price)
This is the summary of our mathematics for next year. I expect you to do some background checks before replying me and labelling me a disgrace as most progovernment people are labelled. unfortunately i am not a politician. i am a controls system sonfiguration guy who has never made a dime off government.January
1999, crude oil was $17/barrel, 31 Jauary 2011 was the first time brent hit
$100/barrel since 2008 becos of the political unrest in Egypt. As of today, oil
price is $113/barrel and I will use 113 to show you why we need to borrow every year and deplete our reserves. 1. Crude oil
production per day is 2million barrels.

2. Current price= $113/barrel

3. Daily sales= 2.M x 113= $226million

4. Yearly sales= $226million x 365= $80billion

5. Naira equivalent =101.7billion x #160=13trillion naira
per year.

70% efficiency = 8 trillion (Because the system is not solid state and platforms shut in every once in a while)

60:40 JV sharing leaves Nigeria with a paltry 4.8Trillion of
which 4Trillion is budgeted for next year.

If the oil price drops to $100, that figure drops and If oil
stabilizes at oil futures optimal target of $70-80 at some point, we are in a
mess and we start borrowing again and that explains why our reserves are
depleting. Also remember that the 400k barrels for local consumption is imbedded in the 2million barrels.

Brothers/Sisters, my position is that we should not allow this subsidy
to even continue for one day. Or are you saying that
this leakages should continue until we fix all the NASS corruption?

Let us educate our people to look up data on
their own before taking anti or pro government stands.

Even if SURE implementation fails, I don't care. The PRIVATE
SECTOR opportunities will lead to creation of jobs. Eg NITEL has failed after
all the money pumped in but MTN, Airtel, Etisalat,Visafone is employing lots of
people. Try to calculate all the people engaged by these telecoms companies and
you will understand my position.

Do we know when next we will have a president
who is not thinking of 2nd term who will be ready to go against the
people? Another 10yrs will pass us by and I need people like you to educate
those who are not aware of the opportunities.

Currently, If everyday I
use 30litres of petrol(Car/Generator), at N65/Litre, I am benefitting N85/Litre
daily. This means that the government is spending N2550/day on me. This accrues
to N930,750.00 annually spent on me from subsidy.
Meanwhile the 60%
unemployed guys in yobe state who do not own cars, do not own generators all
are cheated in this subsidy.
However myself and
these unemployed buy food at the same costs(including conveyance/transportation
costs), so you can see that I am getting 930k extra which I don’t need from the
government which they will never get as long as they are unemployed dont own
cars and dont own generators.
Please think about
it, who needs the 900k more between me and the unemployed?
Is it a fair way of
sharing the country’s wealth?

Let us be fair to
our brothers who have no jobs!!!!!!!!!
Also for those poor
60% unemployed in Yobe state, they would prefer a health center with their
money equivalent or a graded village road. Remember they have already been
surviving on expensive kerosene for their fire woods and the food increases
barely get to them cos they live quietly in their farms but either way the
increment is across board but the excess money spent on people like me and more
excess on the wealthy who spend more petrol on their numerous cars, is thrown
into the society for the benefit of the less privileged.
It is beta to subsidize
mass transportation since the poorer people use mass transit than keep giving
money to those who don't need it.
Some people will
never enter Lagos are BRT buses or PH mass transit buses no matter the cost,
but there are people who will genuinely not be able to accomodate a fare
difference of N10.

This policy is for
the poor and we should really consider its benefits in addition to the job
opportunities.
NNPC will neva
work. All over the world, companies 100%owned and 100%run by the government neva
works.
When celebrated
personalities like Femi Falana, NLC, Okonjo iweala, TUC, Lamido Sanusi, Pat
Utomi and Tunde Bakare speak, people should check their comments on google
atleast.
There is no global
corporation in the size of NNPC and I will give some stats;

Petrobras: Brazil
government owns 64%
China Mobile:
chinese Government owns 74.22%
Indian Oil – Indian
Government (78.92%)
Neste Oil – Finland
Government ( 50.1%)
ONGC (Oil and
Natural Gas Corporation Limited) – India Government (74.14%)
Eni – Italian
government (30%)
France Telecom –
French Government (27%)
Saudi Aramco –
Saudi Government operated BOT system and their intial stake was 24% before
increasing it to 60% etc.
Venezuelas PDVSA –
Venezuela’s gov started withbuying 50% of Citgo before completing a takeover
and renaming it to PDVSA.
Kuwait oil - BP and
Gulf had been running the project since December 1934 before government took
over in 1975.
QP – (Superior oil
Qatar, and Shell company Qatar) and even then government started with a 24%
stake before increasing to 60% etc.
Even British
Airways was privatized in 1987 even though it still answers British airways.

The Government has
realized that NNPC downstream will never serve us, so the best thing is to
deregulate the sector allowing for the emergence of private refineries knowing
that NNPC refineries will die a natural death like NITEL died but then we have
MTN, Airtel, Glo, Etisalat etc.

From a humanist
perspective, a single 100,000barrel working refinery can create 3-5000
sustainable jobs. Here I am referring to averagely 30k jobs($30,000 annual
salary). How many of our banks and etc companies generate these types of jobs?
Out here we are
also looking at 1000regular employee jobs of averagely 50k for each refinery.
Imagine how many
refineries we will need to serve the entire 150million Nigerians and another
3.2million barrels daily serving an African population of 500million which will
grow to 2billion by 2050 because of Africa's highest birth rate in the world.
Opportunities like
this is the reason why countries like Iran are coming to west Africa to survey
the possibilities of buildng refineries while we are protesting subsidy.

Also, refineries
will produce byproducts which are capable of supporting other industries;
Alkenes (olefins) -
plastics industry
Lubricants
Wax - Used in the
packaging of frozen foods, etc
Sulfur or Sulfuric
acid.
Bulk tar.
Asphalt
Petroleum coke,
Paraffin wax
Aromatic
petrochemicals
Also, we need to
consider shipping companies who will be distributing our products to other
African countries. Rail shipping, road shipping, sea shipping companies will be
necessary.

This policy is the
fastest route to Six(6) million SUSTAINABLE jobs in ten(10) years, and it will
not be government created companies. These will be PRIVATE SECTOR OPPORTUNIST
powered.
This oil subsidy is
the single most potent policy that can transform our nation within the shortest
possible time frame and that explains why every president tries to remove the
subsidy.

And also when
people use the word “Cabal”. Its fallacy. These guys are doing nothing wrong.
Atleast nothing provably wrong. If the inspectors at the port say they saw the
supply of 15 or 20MT of petrol, you cannot say they didn’t see it. And its not
like its stored as it is supplied, Nigerians are consuming it daily as it is
supplied.
Eg. XYZ is given a
contract to import 1000MT, instead he supplies 200MT and tips the officials to
sign off 100MT. the books are balanced becos everybody at PPMC is tipped. And
the profits are so much that the tipping is too significant to turn down.
Now, when the 200MT
enters Nigeria, the guy who own a a filling station around the border states
recognize that if the fuel sell across the border for N180, then why sell at
N65. the margin of extra N115 means that If he uses a 10k petrol tanker, that
N1.2million instead of his paltry 100 or 200k profit If he sells at his local
filling station.
Nigeria has 14
border states and If you have been to some of these states, you walk on a
street and you are asking where the border lies. Some borders are in farmland.
So when you decide to invest on tighter border control, it means chasing every
motor cyclist who has tied six(6) jerryry cans and every guy who is carry
20litres of petrol in rubber across the farm border.

Also people say the
figures went up fron 400billion to 1.13Thrillion.
Part of the answer
is that the cost of subsidy depend on oil price and we should start be checking
oil price for each of those years during the period of increase. Also, we
should acknowledge that we have been paying subsidy for all the neighboring
countries too and reverting to N65 means we continue subsidizing for them.
And even if the
refineries were producing, we will still be producing and subsidizing for these
countries.

Also remember that
when the marketers are selling direct to the people, they have to convince us
to by the petrol and then our true consumption will be clear because we are in
No way consuming N1.13Trillion annually. Its like government deciding to put
the money in people's hands and saying pay for the fuel as you buy except that
the only way government can give out the money is infrastructure hence the
infrastructure listing on the SURE document and the sharing of the funds to the
LGAs.
Some Nigerians have
argued that they don't trust their states and LGAs but my perspective is that
we also dont trust the federal government, but people are closer to their
states and LGAs and it is easier to harrass your LGAs for accountability than
to harrass the federal government since we live closer to the people running
the LGAs.
Those in remote
areas don't need to start travelling to Abuja for answers to their immediate
complains If the LGAs are collecting money monthly.

As regards timing,
If this was done 10yrs ago, by now most of us won’t be working where we work at
the moment. Maybe we would have been the ones running one of the new companies
If we understood the opportunities in time.
Also regarding time,
we seem to be telling the gvernment that transformation should start after
one(1) yr or that we should grow slowly.
So when we say
Government should negotiate, we are saying we are not ready for massive
progress right now.

I admire the likes
of Occupy Nigeria, Campaign for Democracy, NLC but I tell people to ask every
NGO for their policies on education, economy, politics etc before joining them
in any campaign rally be it pro or anti.

There are three (3)
things you guys should ask for;

1. Tell the senate to cut down their salaries by 75%
immediately

2. Ask for Tax recovery commission.

ServeNigeria wrote
a legislation in 2008 about setting up a tax recovery commission which will go
round Nigeria and check If the estates(properties, businesses etc) owned by
every Nigerian is commensurate with the amount of Tax he/she has paid over the
years.
We estimated a
recovery of 13Thrillion naira because every politician who looted money would
be forced to pay back 20% of what he looted and it will be a win/win situation
for government and the “corrupt politicians”.

3. Ask for a legislation to be passed that every
year our recurrent expenditure must not be more that 25% of previous year Tax
revenue and that revenue from natural resources ahould be for only infrastructure
development.

These are more specific
things that will change everything overnight and things government can do in
3days.


I expect some
bashing but please I am writing as Uduak Asuquo and not on behalf of
ServeNigeria. You can as well send me mre curses on uduakeasuquo@yahoo.com

And meanwhile I have not
seen you economic policy online, where is occupy nigeria’s education policy,
where is your national integration policy? You guys should send me a link



Thanks and please
have a great year.

Apologies If my message
includes any offensive tone

I learnt that some sites reject the Gtb naira mastercard and thats why I have applied for the UBA Africard ( Naira Visa Card) and I will get it tomorrow, even though I have the Gtb card, I can't pay 3k just to activate a card. UBA charges only 1k and you don't have to be an account holder with them.

Maku also announced the approval of a N5.61 billion contract for the supply and installation of new communications solutions for the eastern section of Nigerian Railway Corporation, in line with ongoing rehabilitation efforts and to conform with the latest technology and best practices in railway signalling and communications.

It is a search and rescue / air ambulance for the army. In other words, it will come fully equipped with infrared and various types of radar and computer systems; that is aside from the emergency medical equipment it will also carry. It is quite reasonably priced.

but to leave his office to arrest people driving against traffic, then, that can only happen in Nigeria.

Fashola and his team made the arrests while going to commission a 60-flat housing estate built by the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) at Apapa

The Federal Government on Thursday described the reported killings of Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans in Libya as worrisome, asking the country’s Transitional National Council to put an end to it. The government said this in a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


The statement issued by the ministry’s spokesperson, Mr. Damian Agu, reiterated the Federal Government’s support for the Libyan people but urged the rebels’ leaders to check the excesses of their men.


The statement says, “Reports revealed outright killings, violation and extortion of money from these helpless Africans who have taken refuge in camps, as well as those in detention and incarceration.


“This development is a deviation from the overall expressed desire of the Transition National Council, the African Union and indeed the United Nations for the restoration of democracy and good governance in Libya.”


The Federal Government said the extra-judicial killings ran contrary to Nigeria’s call for the leadership of the TNC to be magnanimous in victory.