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Opinion: Shocking Fact – Why Nigeria’s Power Sector Privatization is not Succeeding

26Dec

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News, Nigeria

Opinion: Shocking Fact – Why Nigeria’s Power Sector Privatization is not Succeeding

Despite the fact that privatisation was necessary, the wicked 1999 Constitution actually planned its failure by bringing up agencies, controls and over Lordship that must kill it. So the federal government Electricity Power Sector Reform Act in 2005 (EPSRA 2005) which led to the creation of PHCN, NERC, NBET, NESI, and the unbundling of NEPA into 6 generation and 11 distribution companies. By 2013, NEPA had been privatised. The government did not privatise the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN); they held on to it. For easy understanding, TCN is the platform through which the GENCOs and DISCOs relate. The NERC controls them all. Was the privatisation necessary? Yes! Government has no business in business. And no more salaries overhead. Was the privatisation successful? Hell, n...

Opinion: Northern Sentiment Southern Ointment by Mansur Isah Buhari

26Dec

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Economy, News, Nigeria, Religion, Security

Opinion: Northern Sentiment Southern Ointment by Mansur Isah Buhari

A northern or southern president cannot solve our problems, a Nigerian president can. You can't have excuses and results. Sentiments don't solve problems; they compound them. Every region in Nigeria has its peculiar sentiment issues. I chose to talk about northern sentiment because I can authoritatively do so without the fear of being sentimental. The north is most interested in having a northern President rather than a Nigerian president. The only experience and qualification one needs to have the total support of an average northerner to become a president is "Alhaji" or "Malam" contesting against a "mister". Now that the north is gradually burning, we want the rest of Nigeria to join us in speaking up because Nigeria now belongs to all of us. Most times when they do spea...

Opinion: Buhari, You Don’t Need More Time Sir! By Reuben Abati

20Dec

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Opinion: Buhari, You Don’t Need More Time Sir! By Reuben Abati

On the occasion of his 76th birthday, on Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari who is running for a second term in office, was quoted as having said that he needs more time in office. More time in office means: “vote for me for another term of four years.” “Allow me to serve you as your President for four more years.” I congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari on the occasion of his 76th birthday. I know him fairly well. I can write a long epistle about him. I can also write on what I know about him and how his path and mine have crossed, but that is one of the many stories in my head that will be told someday. The time for that will come. This piece is meant to congratulate him and advise him. At 76, President Buhari can definitely look back at his life with joy, a measure of contentmen...

Nigeria: Road Safety Officer Hits a G-Wagon While Drunk-Driving

17Dec

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Environment, Justice, News, Nigeria, Security, Videos

Nigeria: Road Safety Officer Hits a G-Wagon While Drunk-Driving

A road safety officer had the misfortune of hitting a Benz G-wagon while drunk-driving. Road safety officers are usually dreaded by road users because of their eagerness to pounce on real and perceived road safety related infractions. It was therefore a shock to see one of such officials driving on the express fully drunk. It is not clear how the FRSC will handle this matter as Nigerians have been complaining about the many excesses of this body. Many times, their vehicles are not road worthy, begging the question - who watches the watcher? Watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/ademola.adebayo.92/videos/pcb.2133729866666296/2133729746666308/?type=3&theater

Nigeria: Vice Presidential Aspirants’ Debate Holds Today 14th of December 2018

14Dec

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Vice Presidential Aspirants’ Debate Holds Today 14th of December 2018

Ahead of the 2019 general elections the Vice Presidential aspirants' debate will be holding today at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja by 7 pm. The debate is jointly organised by the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) and the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG). the debate will be televised on all member stations of BON (NTA, Channels TV, AIT, Silverbird TV, etc.). Only aspirants from five parties have however been cleared to participate in this debate. These include: 1) Yemi Osinbajo (APC) 2) Peter Obi (PDP) 3) Umma Getso (YPP) 4) Alhaji Abdulganiyu Galadima (ACPN) 5) Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya (ANN) As excluded parties continue to protest their exclusion, the organizers have not made their criteria for choosing the parties that will part...

Nigeria: Dogara Dissects Buhari’s Admin, Says It’s Repressive

13Dec

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Dogara Dissects Buhari’s Admin, Says It’s Repressive

Ahead of the 2019 elections, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has methodically cut up the re-election seeking President Muhammadu Buhari administration, disclosing that the Constitution and the laws of the country are often trampled upon with impunity by the administration. As the fourth highest ranking officer in the country and a lawyer, Dogara certainly knows what he is talking about. It is also a seeming indictment of the Legislative arm of the Federal Government for not patriotically standing up against such noticeable acts of impunity. ‘’There is a growing phenomenon of disobedience of rulings of courts of competent jurisdiction by many chief executives of government’’, he added. According to the speaker, ‘’this is an ominous development that can only ...

Nigeria: Buhari’s Re-election will not Help Nigeria’s Cause – Northern Elder’s Forum

10Dec

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Nigeria: Buhari’s Re-election will not Help Nigeria’s Cause – Northern Elder’s Forum

The northern elder's forum has declared that re-electing the incumbent president Muhammodu Buhari will not help Nigeria's cause. Making this announcement, the chairman of the forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi said that the forum has decided to back a different candidate in the forth coming presidential elections. He noted that the forum cannot be blamed for their decision as it was obvious to all that he, Buhari was not in control, a fact which was confirmed by his wife. Ango Abdullahi said “As things stand today, we in the Northern Elders Forum do not believe that Nigeria’s cause will be helped by Buhari’s re-election in 2019. That is why we have decided to pick one of the other presidential candidates from the North for next year’s contest. “It would be futile for anyone to blame any...

Nigeria: PDP Condemns Freezing of Peter Obi’s Accounts

9Dec

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Human Rights, News, Nigeria, Press Statement

Nigeria: PDP Condemns Freezing of Peter Obi’s Accounts

…Laments Harassment Of Family Members The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) decries the stoppage of transactions on all accounts belonging to PDP Vice presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, wife, his family members and their businesses by agencies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Since his nomination, Peter Obi, apart from facing series of failed attempts by the APC to destroy his reputation, has also continued to receive all manners of threats and blackmail, including threats to his life and those of his wife and children. Having realized that the majority of Nigerians are rallying behind the duo of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi as the our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates respectively, the Buhari Presidency and the All Progr...

Nigeria: Reject APC, Buhari, PDP Urges North-West As They Storm Sokoto For Atiku

3Dec

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News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Reject APC, Buhari, PDP Urges North-West As They Storm Sokoto For Atiku

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential campaign train is in Sokoto, an ancient city located in the extreme North-West Nigeria,near the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River this Monday to market their candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as part of their North West Presidential zonal rally Those who know better say the name Sokoto, a modern/anglicised version of the local name, Sakkwato, is of Arabic origin, representing suk, 'market'. It is also known as Sakkwato, Birnin Shaihu da Bello or Sokoto, capital of Shaihu and Bello. Being the seat of the former Sokoto Caliphate, the city is predominantly Muslim and an important seat of Islamic learning in Nigeria. The Sultan who heads the caliphate is effectively the spiritual leader of Nigerian Muslims. Against this...

Nigeria: Angry Youths Disrupt Oil Production As Akwa Ibom Crisis Takes Toll On American Oil Major

29Nov

By Akanimo SampsonNo Comments

Economy, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Angry Youths Disrupt Oil Production As Akwa Ibom Crisis Takes Toll On American Oil Major

The unfolding political crisis in Akwa Ibom State, one of the big oil states in Southern Nigeria that has been relatively very peaceful till the advent of a seeming czarist regime in 2007, could trigger off some dangerous economic consequences for Nigeria if not contained urgently. Though what is playing out in the state is being stoked by a few political demi-gods masking as the face of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari’s party, the crisis has no ideological basis other than incurable personal greed for accumulation of the common patrimony. From 1999 when the current democracy came into, political gangsterism was alien to the peoples of Akwa Ibom. But a club and dagger politics was foisted on the state when Obong Victor Attah left office in 2007. The po...