Enugu State Is Blessed With Governor Ugwuanyi (2)

When The Right-eous Is On The Throne, The People Will Always Rejoice. The Good People Of Enugu State Have Been On Endless Joy Since His Excellency Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Assumed Office On 29th Of May 2015. Rt. Hon (Dr) Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi Is A Capacity Leader, A Man Endowed With Wisdom And Vision, A Man Who Understands What Leadership Is All About And Decided To Take Development To Rural Area(s) To Effect Good Governance To The People.

Under The Watch Of Governor Ugwuanyi, We Have Witnessed Highest Youth Inclusion In Government In The History Of Enugu State Which Bridged The Gap Between Youths And Governance, Recently, The Government Procured 600 Computers, 600 Computer Desks, 600 UPS, 60 Power Generators And 60 Printers For Public Secondary Schools In The State. Infrastructure And Other Logistics Are Being Provided In The State-owned Tertiary Institutions For Accreditation Of New Courses And The Efforts To Upgrade The Institute Of Management And Technology (IMT) Into A Degree-awarding
Institution.
The Most Student and Youth-friendly Governor Award in Nigeria by the Enugu State chapter of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). The Governor Is Currently Equipping And  Modernizing Some Satellite Towns Such As  Nsukka, 9th Mile Corner, Emene, Awgu And Abakpa, Among Others.
Presently, All The Twenty Four (24) State Constituencies Are Witnessing The Presence Of The State Government With One Or Two Projects In Their Various Rural Communities. Installation Of Solar-powered Street Lights At Mgbowo- Aki Na Ukwa Junction, In Awgu Local Government Area. In Ogbaku, Awgu Local Government Area, Where The Governor Grabbed The Bull By The Horns In Breaking Down  The Undulating Hills In The Community To Provide  Access Road For The
People.
There Is Work On-going On The Inyaba River Bridge In Amagunze, Nkanu East Local Government Area, Which Will Connect  Over 10 Communities To Their Headquarters, Amagunze, And Save The People Of The Areas The Pains Of Having To Pass Through Four Local Government Areas To Access The Council Headquarters. Other Road Projects Completed And Inaugurated So Far By The
Ugwuanyi-led Administration Include The Airport Roundabout/Orie Emene Road; The Enugu Road (Nsukka) Junction-Nru  Junction-UNN Gate Road; The Orie Emene–Adoration Ministry Road; The Odenigbo Roundabout-Ogurugu Road, And The Obechara-Ikenga Hotels Junction Road Both In The University Town Of Nsukka, etc. The Opi-Nsukka Dual Carriage Way Installed With Street Lights And  The Udenu Ring Road Are Nearing Completion. The Administration Has Also Completed And Inaugurated The Two Bypass Roads At The Popular 9th  Mile Corner In Udi Local Government Area, Which Were Constructed To Decongest The Area Of  Traffic. The State Government Has Completed And Inaugurated The Intractable Nike Lake Road And Abakpa Nike Road In Enugu East
Local Government Area.
His Excellency Is A Vision-Filled Leader Who Saw The State Of The Country's Economy And Decided To Put The State In The Able Hands Of God, Knowing Fully Well That Anything Put In God's Hand Will Always Be Safe Because God Has The Super-Power Over All Things.
His Excellency Have Continually Distinguished Himself As An Oasis Of Excellence And Paragon Of Sincere And All-Inclusive Governance. Truly, Govenor Ugwuanyi Is A Gift And Blessing From God To The Good People Of Enugu State. He Has Continued To Push Enugu State To The Zenith Of
Development, Making Us Outstanding In The Midst Of Other state. His Excellency Has Always Championed Policies That Have Supported The Youths Towards Developing High Appetite For Productivity.
Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Is A Man Of Unbiased Integrity. The Most Youth-Friendly Governor In Nigeria Both In History And In Contemporary Time. An Epitome Of Humility And Love. A Governor Who Knows The Importance Of Having Women In The Polity. Today, What We Have In Enugu State Is Ministry For Gender Equality And Not Women Affairs. His Excellency, God Will Continue To Bless Your Reign, The Sky Is Your Starting Point. Thank You For Disposing Your Wealth Of Leadership To The Good People Of Enugu State. I Love The Style Of Your Leadership
Because You Have A Transperent Government, You Instituted A Leadership Style That Have Made The Oppositions In The State To Fall In With Your Charisma.
The Good People Of Enugu State Are Already Clamouring For 2019, To Vote-In His Excellency Back To Office For His Second Term Because You Have Shown That You Are A True Democrat, And Have Delivered Dividends Of Democracy To The People.
Greater Heights I Ask God For You, His Excellency, Rt. Hon (Dr) Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi.

God Bless Enugu State!
God Bless GburuGburu!!
God Bless Ndi Enugu!!!.


Truly, Enugu State Is In The Able Hands Of God.

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Enugu State Is Blessed With Governor Ugwuanyi (1).

The good people of Enugu state are withnessing the transformation they voted for during the 2015 general election.
It was un-ending jubilation when inec decleared Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as the winner of the 2015 Governorship election in Enugu state.
After His Excellency assumed office on may 29, he immediately wore-off his campain clothes and pup on his clothes for work. Governor Ugwuanyi flagged-off water projects in both urban and rural arears, other projects ongoing in the state includes the rural electrification projects in so many communities under the seventeen local government area in the state, construction of over twenty (20) roads in the state, at urban and rural arears, both federal and state roads.
Governor Ugwuanyi turned the state to home of peace where you can now sleep with your two eyes closed. The Governor who gave fifty percent (50% ) subsidiary on Elim Estate appartment to some state government workers, Enugu is now a state where the workers smile home with their salary before the end of the month.
His excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is indeed a God sent to his people of Enugu state.
Truly, Enugu State Is In The Able Hands Of God.

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CEASELESS THEFT OUR OIL

OIL theft dates back to the 1970’s when Nigeria had the first oil boom. With the return to democratic governance in 1999, many big time oil thieves became political leaders and many political leaders became oil thieves. They formed cult groups in the oil producing areas from which they linked their contacts in government and the security agencies. The younger ones became political thugs, who after elections turned to oil thievery to arm themselves for next election. Many of these armed youths embraced the militancy that shook the foundations of the nation’s economy. The armed confrontations between the security forces and the militants ended on 4 October 2009 when the regime of the late Umaru Yar’Adua offered the militants, estimated at 26,000, amnesty in exchange for their unconditional surrender of their arms and return to the confines of the law. Since that deal went through, the shooting in the Niger Delta has quietened down. The upsurge in oil thievery and the proliferation of illegal refineries in the creeks of the Niger Delta have been dramatic. Shell estimates that over 150,000 barrels of crude oil are lost to oil thieves daily. The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has a higher estimate of about one-fifth of the nation’s daily oil revenue being lost to oil thieves. It would translate to about 500,000 barrels, or $50 million or N8 billion daily and N2.92 trillion annually, more than half of the 2012 budget. The post-amnesty deal did not give adequate attention to crucial aspects of “cleaning up after the party”. What other agreements did Nigeria extract from the militants, beyond the cessation of hostilities? Since they depended on illegal bunkering to procure the arms and logistics while they fought the state, what steps were taken to remove them from this lucrative activity? Oil thieves and their illegal refineries are partly responsible for the rampant oil spills in the creeks, which worsen the environmental challenges, which many of the militants listed as one of their major reasons for embracing the armed struggle. Where is the crackdown on these economic saboteurs the President promised? What steps have been taken to arrest the problem posed by corrupt security officials who see their posting to the region as an opportunity to strike it rich? The oil companies are also accused of involvement in the stealing, which is a highly technical operation, executed with technologies that are not readily available to everyone. Beyond economic sabotage, Nigeria’s territorial integrity stands the risk of being unsettled with money and arms these thieves are accumulating. If oil theft is unchecked, Nigeria is setting itself up for more trouble in the Niger Delta!

THE ANARCHY AND DOOM IN NIGERIAN JUDICIARY.

The history of the Nigerian Judiciary
since independence had seen
characterised with corruption,
political interference, favouritism,
fearfulness and egoism. Nigerians
would not forget in a hurry when a
High Court judge, delivering a
judgment said, his hands were tied
or when the Supreme Court
delivered a judgment and indicated
that that judgment should not be
cited as legal authority in any other
cases in future.
That showed the level of
interference with our judicial system
by the politicians. The adventure of
the military into governance
between 1966 and 1998 was the last
straw that broke the judiciary’s
back, after it had succeeded in
mauling down politics, royalty and
our collective sensibility.
But recently, the judiciary stood on
its two feet to uphold justice. Some
of their landmark judgments
rekindled Nigeria’s hope that indeed,
the judiciary is the last hope of the
common man. However, the crack
in the judiciary in the last few weeks
has given it a devastating blow,
which serves as an invitation to
anarchy in Nigeria. Those behind the
crack are the same military men and
a few political cabals, who had
removed their uniforms and again
usurped the political authority of the
country.
Apart from the military incursion
into politics that is having
devastating consequences on the
judiciary, there are some
subterranean influences that do not
help matters, involving the judges
or magistrates either financially or
through relationship. The lawyers
also are not helping matters either.
And, finally, there is crack in the
judiciary and the cracking of its wall
is capable of spelling doom for the
country. It’s an invitation to anarchy
in Nigeria.
I praise the courage of the Chief
Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alloysius
Katsina-Alu, who confessed that he
contacted Justice Isa Ayo Salami of
the Court of Appeal for security
reasons on the election petition in
Sokoto State on the mater before
the judges who were deciding the
petition. That invariably confirmed
Justice Salami’s allegation that the
Chief Justice contacted him to
interfere in the Sokoto matter..
If Salami had agreed with the Chief
Justice, the matter would not have
come to the public domain in the
first place. However, as the situation
in the judiciary has degenerated into
a mess, wise counsel should prevail
because the nation cannot afford a
disorganised judiciary because
judiciary is the last hope of the
common man and it should not be
politicised as it’s being done now. A
word is enough for the wise.

Us predictiom on Nigerian breackage.

Back in 2005, The US National Intelligence Council predicted the outright collapse of Nigeria by the year 2015. However on its part, Nigeria launched an "ambitious" initiative (i.e. Vision 2020) designed to take the country into the list of the best 20 economies in the world by the same year. There is of course an unmistakable contradiction between America's prediction and Nigeria's vision, and it is pretty clear that, reconciling these two predictions is absolutely impossible. Though, America's prediction may not necessarily come to pass, the factors it had relied upon to arrive at this prediction (unless properly addressed) warn of upheavals in Nigeria, to say the least. And though the country has survived several rounds of serious turmoil as a result of chronic socio-political and economic crises, her so- called Vision 2020 is of course unrealistic, because it does not seem to be based on any credible scientific indices. Incidentally, the value of predictions and expectations in the modern age is measured by the extent of its compliance with scientific reasoning and intelligent analyses away from mere rhetoric. Therefore the relevant issue is actually, the very prospect of Nigeria's corporate survival by the year 2020. Contrary to the general notion, Nigeria is not likely to break up along the North and South geographical boundaries, neither is she likely to split into any viable political entities for that matter. Because there is no regional, ethnic or religious block organized enough to function as a corporate entity immediately in the wake of the country's break up. Moreover, neither the proponents let alone the opponents of the break up have any substantive fallback plan likely to fill in the political vacuum in their respective regions, should the country collapse spontaneously, as America predicted. Furthermore, throughout the country, there are hardly any political leaders charismatic enough to inspire their respective people, for they have long ago lost their credibility, primarily for their failure to live up to the expectations of their masses over the decades. Therefore, what is most likely to occur in the wake of the country's collapse under the current circumstances is total anarchy instead, whereby warlords, criminal gang leaders, terrorist and drug barons will run the show. The South for instance and despite its huge economic potentials is not likely to come together and form a viable country, because they are deeply polarized along ethnic lines. The two major ethnic groups in the region are often at loggerheads, and there is hardly any harmony between them and the minority ethnic groups amidst them either. The minorities on the other hand mistrust each other and are vulnerable to their respective elite's manipulation for the control of the vast oil wealth in the area, which will be the target of many interest groups within the region and beyond. The North on the other hand is even worse in many fundamental respects. For instance, the hitherto perfect cohesion between its various minority ethnic groups on one hand and the dominant ethnic group on the other has eroded, thanks to the successive governments' poor leadership policies over the past few decades. Enmity under the pretext of religious differences in particular has crept in to redefine their relationship. Hence their prospect of coming together to form a viable country is ruled out. Likewise, the minorities' prospect of forming a country of their own does not seem feasible either, due to territorial constrains, multilateral mistrust among themselves also, as well as lack of instantly exploitable resources to sustain a country. As for the so-called core North in particular, the circumstances are worst, because after all, it is the poorest region in the country, and the most backward even in Nigerian standard. Granted they are relatively cohesive thanks to their shared religiously oriented cultural affiliation, they nonetheless don't have necessary economic resources substantial enough to sustain a viable country immediately. In view of the aforementioned, and while I still believe and call for positive reform in Nigeria, I also urge the stakeholders in all parts of the country to consider fallback initiatives for their respective regions, lest the country crumbles spontaneously. After all, the country operates a federal system under which all states are supposed to take care of themselves to a large extent, instead of looking up to the federal government for basic sustenance. The imperative of such fallback initiative is more pressing as per as the so-called core North is concerned, because it is the region to which all country's woes are rightly or wrongly attributed. As a matter of fact, the proponents of the break up are primarily motivated by their wish to get rid of it, because after all, some failed coup plotters had already attempted to remove it from the rest of Nigeria more than two decades ago. Sidq Isa wrote from United Arab Emirates

Rich country, poor people

They should be told that the
electorate are aware that the subsidy
is an evidence inefficiency, poor
perception and a fallout of the
Federal Government’s inability to
harness the black gold under
Nigeria’s soil for the optimal benefit
of the people.
This is the 13th year of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) in power at
federal level, it is bereft of ideas to
make the nation’s four refineries
produce at full capacity not to talk of
building a new one.
Is it not a shame that Africa’s largest
oil producer is importing bleached
products to augment the shortfall of
home production for local
consumption. The governors want
to take back from workers the
increase in salary in form of hike in
fuel prices. They have forgotten that
those in the private sector and the
self-employed may have to wait for
sometime before the spiraling whirl
on the new minimum salary pool
reaches them.
As transport is central to the
economic activities of the nation,
any hike in the price of petroleum
products will undoubtedly kick-start
a fresh rise in inflation that may toe
the path of hyper-inflation that
would send the economy into tail
spin.
In a word, the Federal
Government’s incessant claim of
paying huge amount of subsidy on
bleached products consumed in the
country is a ruse and blackmail
against the people. If those in power
are proactive and proved
resourceful, Nigeria supposed to be
exporting bleached products and
not crude oil as it is the practice
now. Malaysia and Indonesia are
endowed with oil as Nigeria but their
people pay far less for fuel than
Nigerians.
From whichever perspective one
may look at it, the present system
of national cake sharing is not, to all
intent and purposes, fair. It is
lopsided. The executives at the
various tiers of government and the
legislators are taking the lion share,
leaving little or crumbs for capital
development and workers. Their
productivity is not commensurate
with what they take from the
nation’s pool.
The Central Bank Governor, Lamido
Sanusi’s declaration last year that
members of the National Assembly
– the Senate and House of
Representatives consumed more
than 50 per cent of the concurrent
expenditure of the federal annual
budget was an exposee. The
lawmakers’ only defence of
devouring the nation’s collective
wealth is that the ministers, aides
and advisers to the president are
also taking mind-boggling salaries
and allowances. In a word,
government in Nigeria is for profit.
Any other claim is nothing but
deceit.
In Britain, there are many
government workers earning more
than the prime minister not to talk of
other ministers tagged secretaries
and advisers.
Is it not regrettable that Nigeria is
rich but her people are poor.
Insensitive government you say.
•Concluded