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female Executive Director of Shell Petroleum Nigeria. She is an exceptionally talented and highly astute woman with phenomenal interpersonal skills, whose gift of oratory has served the nation well as she represents us at conferences and strategic meetings all over the world. She has raised the Nigerian Oil and Gas sector to unheard of. The natural Gas industry is also about to be propelled to centre state as the honourable minister and her team prepare to begin extracting the 187 trillion cubic feet of Gas reserves sitting below the surface. A move that will create well over a million jobs over the next decade and bring revenues in excess of a trillion dollars into the country, revenues that will develop our nation and transform it into the “Singapore” of Sub-Saharan Africa. “giddy” heights and has shown the World that Nigeria isn’t just open for business, but that it is open for “ethical” business. As a nation, we have suffered from As a nation, we must learn to encourage our leaders the pens of unpatriotic journalists within our borders, and not just seek for ways to bring them down. If an Men and Women who profess to be Nigerian with elected/appointed official is found guilty of miscontheir lips but their works betray them. They have sold duct then by all means criticize them and bring them a highly “toxic” image of Nigeria to the outside world to order, but make sure that your criticism is based on and given our enemies ample ammunition with proven facts and not on idle speculation and prewhich to malign us as a people. There disposed prejudice, because words once Constructive critare so many Nigerians in differuttered cannot be retracted. . On the icism is highly effective other hand, when they’re found ent parts of the globe who are not involved in any form of if it’s just that “constructive”, to be doing what is right and criminal activity, and yet and the one’s being criticized un- fulfilling their ministerial their stories are never der such conditions are more likely obligations, we should ????)???????)?????????????)????????????????????????????????]???????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????)!???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)????????)=???????????????)???????????????????????????????????????????????????)???????????????)????????????????????)%??????????????????????????????????????????)???????????????????????????)]?????????????????)????????????????????9???????????????????????????)???????????????????????)????????????????????)??????????????????????????)???????)???????????????????????????????)?????!????????????????????5?????????A??? ????????????????????????????????????e?????)???????????????????????!???????????????????q??????????t?????????????e??????????????????)??????????????????????????????????????????)??????????????????????????????????????????)??????????????????????????????????????????????)?????????????????????????????????? ?????)????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????I='?e?????????????%?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????]???)?????????????????????????5??????????????????????????????????????????????)5???????????????????????????????????????)??????????????)????????????????????????????????????????)?????????????????????????????????????????????)M???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)????????????????????????????????????????)????????????????????????????????????????)??????????????????????????????????M????????)?????????????????????????????????M??????)????????????????9??????????????????????????????)?????????????????????????????????????$?????)????????????????9?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)???????q?????????????t????????????????????)????????????$???????????????????????????????((??((0