The fate of APC with all the PDP decamped members

In the last seven months, more than 3,000 PDP members decamped to APC for various reasons ranging from been dissatisfied with the happenings in the party, to their rejection to have President Jonathan as their presidential candidate under the PDP platform.

They all have a legal right to decamp, but the big question is, what is the feature of the APC now that they have most of the big weights of the PDP in their own camp?

Remember that these are the same people that have been ruling Nigeria since 1999. 

What is APC doing to ensure that these new members understand and abide in the value system of their new party?

What are they doing to ensure that the culture of APC is not affected because of this mass exodus of PDP members into the APC camp.

If these question can not be answered, APC will not be any different from the PDP and they should also expect an even greater shift of APC members to the PDP soon?

The fate of APC with all the PDP decamped members

In the last seven months, more than 3,000 PDP members decamped to APC for various reasons ranging from been dissatisfied with the happenings in the party, to their rejection to have President Jonathan as their presidential candidate under the PDP platform.

They all have a legal right to decamp, but the big question is, what is the feature of the APC now that they have most of the big weights of the PDP in their own camp?

Remember that these are the same people that has been ruling Nigeria since 1999. 

What is APC doing to ensure that these new members understand and abide in the value system of their new party?

What are they doing to ensure that the culture of APC is not affected because of this mass exodus of PDP members into the APC camp.

If these question can not be answered, APC will not be any different from the PDP and they should also expect an even greater shift of APC members to the PDP soon.

Which way Nigeria

Which way NIgeria" this a phrase that I grew up knowing. The late Sunny Okosun even sang a song about it. We need to answer that question soon if not the saying "it is only a mad man that continues to do the same things over and over again and expect a different result". 

Today the political climate is tensed up, our economy is in a bad state, we are low on security and our international position has been pulled down by our leaders. Only God redeem this country.

In the last two weeks I have seen as the world stood still to celebrate one man, I even hear children  talk about him, I call him "Madiba the great" when can we have our own Madiba, Tata? This country need a leader that can show us the way.

In your own opinion, who

do you think can show us the way?

Dangote (Africans Biggest Boy) set to build a refinery

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is correctly on a drive to build an oil refinery in Nigeria worth $8bn with a capacity of 400,000 barrels a day by late 2016.

This will almost double Nigeria’s current refining capacity.

“This will really help not only Nigeria but sub-Saharan Africa. There has not been a new refinery for a long time in sub-Saharan Africa,” says Dangote 

The country currently has the capacity to produce some 445,000 barrels per day among four refineries, but they operate well below that owing to decades of mismanagement and corruption in Africa’s leading energy producer.

Nigeria, the continent’s second-biggest economy, relies on subsidised imports for 80 per cent of its fuel needs. Dangote says its not acceptable. 

A surge in domestic capacity would be welcomed by investors in Nigeria, but it would cut into profits made by European refiners and oil traders who would lose part of that lucrative market.

Dangote said the country’s ability to import fuel would soon be challenged.

“In five years, when our population is over 200 million, we won’t have the infrastructure to receive the amount of fuel we use. It has to be done,” he said.

Past efforts to build refineries have often been delayed or cancelled, but analysts have said Dangote should be able to build a profitable Nigerian refinery, owing to his past successes in industry and his strong government connections.

The Dangote Group’s cement manufacturing, basic food processing and other industries have helped lift his personal fortune to $16.1bn from $2.1bn in 2010, according to the latest Forbes estimate.

Nigeria has three refineries in its main Port Harcourt oil hub, one in the Niger Delta town of Warri, and one in Kaduna in the North that serve 170 million people. Not one of them functions at full capacity.

Analysts have said previous attempts to get the refineries going have been held back by vested interests such as fuel importers profiting from the status quo. Dangote said this concerned him.

“The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business,” he said. “Some … are going to try to … interfere.”

Nigeria’s government subsidises fuel imports to keep pump prices well below the market rate at a cost of billions of dollars a year. Fuel subsidies are the single biggest item on the country’s budget.

Dangote said making a new refinery run at a profit would work even if the government failed to scrap the subsidised fuel price that has deterred others from investing.

“We’ve done our numbers and the numbers are okay,” he said.

A dead man woke up from the dead in his own funeral

In Zimbabwe, a 34 years old man named is Brighton Dama Zanthe who was dead and surrounded by mourners at his funeral suddenly woke up. 

According to source, he works in a transport company. It was said that he died due to an illness.

Miracles do happen.

Can we measure up to any police system in the world?

What do you really think about The Nigerian police as compered to those in other countries? In my opinion, the problems with the Nigerian police is more than one can talk about but I'll like to make mention of just a few.

First of all corruption has eaten deep into the police force which is why it is common to see a policeman stop a car and ask "waiting you carry" (meaning what do you have for us). This is now a normal practice, no longer a hidden thing. But the question I ask is, how can one define the corruption today in this system? Well to answer my question the best way I can is, between the leaders of the police force and the foot guys hundreds of million of cash is been diverted by the few oga's at the top. This cash where meant to look after the welfare of the foot guys and provide the basic infrastructures and tools necessary for the job, yes I said necessary because without this tools, they will be a constant decay of the force, oops! That's what we are seeing now.  So because this cash is been embezzled they is no funds to take proper care of the common police officer, so he result in becoming a dirty police man to do what the oga at the top are meant to have being doing for them. Some of these policemen even buy cars from the cash they collect at the check points.

Secondly, because the bulk of the policemen have no form of welfare, they also don't have the right culture, that is why you will see a policeman pounce on a person for no reason and even take the law into his hands. He become the arresting officer, the prosecuting lawyer, the judge and the jury. (The best prayer point anyone can pray for his or herself is that you don't fall into the hands of the police, they have no mercy) the will force you to confess to any crime they want to try you with, remember I said the are the arresting officer,prosecuting lawyer, judge and jury.

With the absence of welfare, the policeman has become highly unkept, uneducated, and unqualified for the task assigned to them.

How can the police force become a great place to work in?

Nigerian women getting pregnant in our prisons

Nigeria is known as a unique country. There are some things that are strange to the ears and yet it happen and we all begin to believe it's ok, well I don't think this one is ok to hear and believe.

It is no longer a strange thing to see women in our prisons who go in without pregnancy getting pregnant and give birth their. So the question one will begin to ask is how do they get pregnant? Who are the fathers of these children, and why are these children still living in the prisons?

This is an ugly fact, but the controller general of the Nigerian prisons need to answer these questions.

I don't think I will be wrong if I say Nigeria is unique for the very wrong things.

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY: This is something we all hear every Friday, in our offices, on our blackberry's and our popular Facebook, even those who have work to do over the weekends still say it. So next time that u go TGIF, what are u ready to do?