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 also
reported.
trumpet that also.
to listen and even implement the cri- We cannot just dwell pertique that you have given. But when petually on
However, within the your words contain nothing but never reportthe negative and
the positive
Oil and Gas sector the
abuse, insult, slander and charac- things that are taking place
story is very different.
because that only serves a
Investors from all over the ter defamation then why in the
destructive purpose and it hurts
World would anybody take
globe are flocking to Nigeour brand/image at home and
ria to invest their hard earned
you and your words abroad.
money in this sector because of the
seriously?
competence and extraordinary integrity
which Her Excellency the federal Minister of PetroConstructive criticism is highly effective if it’s just
leum resources is endowed with. Her word is her bond that “constructive”, and the one’s being criticized under
and she stands by them, contracts once ratified are
such conditions are more likely to listen and even
irrevocable and investors are confident of the fact that
implement the critique that you have given. But when
their financial investments are safe and their promised your words contain nothing but abuse, insult, slanROI’s are delivered. Integrity, integrity and more integ- der and character defamation then why in the World
rity so help us God, this is what Mrs Deizani Alisonwould anybody take you and your words seriously?
Madueke has brought to the table of the ministry of
petroleum resources.
Facebook used to be a forum that many of us used to
enjoy logging unto and exchanging ideas, but in recent
She can simply be trusted, and under her leadership times it has become a gutter, a place where human rats
we have seen production levels rise from 1.8 million
congregate to spew out their poison against anybody
barrels of crude per day to 2.6 million. She oversaw
who has any form of governmental position. Some of
the signing of the Nigerian content act, a bill that will
the comments on there are just ridiculous and I think
allow every single Nigerian to benefit from the prothat the Facebook management board needs to look
verbial “national cake” in ways that were previously
into it urgently. I am an advocate of free speech but
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