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BLAME ELECTRICITY BLACKOUT TO NIGER DELTA MILITANTS!

BLAME ELECTRICITY BLACKOUT TO NIGER DELTA MILITANTS!                                By:               Nurudeen Dauda              June 13, 2016 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com Gas to Power down 50% over attacks: “ Recent upsurge in vandalism has not only negatively impacted on oil production but reduced Nigeria’s domestic Gas production by 50% which in turn constrained Gas supply to Power Plants in the country…Nigeria has lost over 1,500 megawatts of power supply to the damage of the farcados 48-inch export pipeline which is the country’s major artery that accounts for 40-50% of Gas production…the 48-inch export line operated by Shell, NNPC and other JV partners was vandalized in February 2016 crippling export of crude oil from the terminal…”-(Daily Trust: June 9,2016). There are current...
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LOW CRUDE OIL PRICES FORCED SAUDI ARABIA TO CUT SUBSIDIES ON WATER, DIESEL, KEROSENE AND PETROL

LOW CRUDE OIL PRICES FORCED SAUDI ARABIA TO CUT SUBSIDIES ON WATER, DIESEL, KEROSENE AND PETROL                               By:                   Nurudeen Dauda                    June 10, 2016 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda24@yahoo.cm nurudeendauda.blogspot.com Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of crude oil among the OPEC producing countries with 9.475million barrels daily production; petrol and Gas price were hiked . Also subsidies were cut, the decision shook the government. Petrol prices has been increased by up to 40% and Gas by 50% after the country suffered a record $98billion budget deficit this year. The nation is the world's biggest exporter of crude oil and has been suffering cuts to fuel and utility subsidies. The 2016 budget projects revenues at $137 billion, the lowest in six years, and ...
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WHAT DO NIGER DELTA MILITANTS WANT?

WHAT DO NIGER DELTA MILITANTS WANT?                            By:                  Nurudeen Dauda                   June 8, 2016. nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com On the 24th of June 2009, late President Umar Musa Yar’adua granted Amnesty to Niger Delta Militants for a period of five (5) years. Under the Amnesty programme unconditional pardon was granted to all persons that embrace it within 90 days. A total of 30,000 militants were captured. Each of the 30,000 ex-militants receives N1,500 as daily feeding allowances and N20, 000 monthly stipends amounting to N65, 000 monthly which is more than the salary of a University graduate in the federal Civil Service. Contrarily to what some people say, President Buhari did not stop the Amnesty grogramme, in fact he has extended the prog...
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BETWEEN LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE

BETWEEN LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE                                                               By:                  Nurudeen Dauda                 June 4, 2016. nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudeendauda.blogspot.com Permit me to add my voice on the failure of PMB to name and shame the “allege looters” of our commonwealth. By the laws of our land all accuse persons are assumed to be innocent until proved by the law court.  Only the law court has the mandate to pronounce one’s “guilt”. If passing a “media judgment will amount to “usurpation” of judicial powers, it is only logical and commonsensical not to. If PMB as a trained soldier had promised to name and shame the “allege looters”, but suddenly his Attorney General a...
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DEMOCRACY@26 : POLITICAL IDEOLOGY STILL A MISSING LINK

DEMOCRACY@26 : POLITICAL IDEOLOGY STILL A MISSING LINK                                By:                    Nurudeen Dauda                      May 29, 2025 nurudeendauda24@gmail. com nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com In Nigeria, May 29 of every year used to be marked as Democracy Day from the year 2000 until last year 2019. Our new Democracy Day is now June 12 of every from last on. It is sad to note that, majority of both our politicians and political parties do not political Ideology, after 26 years of existence.  It is equally a fact that, our political parties do not also have a clear cut dichotomy among them in terms of Socio-economic outlooks or policies or Internal party democracy or funding mechanism . Their funding mechanism is still largely from "State Resources" instea...
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GOVERNOR NASIR EL-RUFA’I PLANS TO ENGAGE 27,000 WOMEN FOR PLANTING OF ECONOMIC TREES IN KADUNA STATE

GOVERNOR NASIR EL-RUFA’I PLANS TO ENGAGE 27,000 WOMEN FOR PLANTING OF ECONOMIC TREES IN KADUNA STATE                                By:  Nurudeen Dauda May 27, 2016.                                nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com A simple but a well thought out policy or programme will create millions of jobs just as an ill-conceived policy or programme will throw millions of people out of their jobs. Leadership especially in this modern time requires a lot of thinking and initiatives .Leaders must think “outside  the box” in order to create “jobs” to their people. The responsibilities of modern governments from America to China have since shifted from “provision” of employment to “Creation” of employment. “Provision” of employment is a situation whereby the government “employs” and “pays” people directly from the “public coff...
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NIGERIA AIR: THE RETURN OF NATIONAL CARRIER

NIGERIA AIR: THE RETURN OF NATIONAL CARRIER                                               By:                              Nurudeen Dauda                             May 26, 2023 nurudeendauda24@gmail. com nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com To start with, I wrote a piece on the 20th of July, 2018 where I expressed my thought on the then proposed return of the national carrier which I will re-echo now. President Buhari has had a vision of having a national carrier for "national image" and "pride" just as it is obtainable in most countries of the world including some African countries which are by far less endowed when compare to Nigeria. The "key" point of my "argument" then was about the "management" of the "...
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