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female Executive Director of Shell Petroleum Nigeria.<br />
She is an exceptionally talented and highly astute<br />
woman with phenomenal interpersonal skills, whose<br />
gift of oratory has served the nation well as she represents<br />
us at conferences and strategic meetings all over<br />
the world.<br />
She has raised the Nigerian Oil and Gas sector to<br />
“giddy” heights and has shown the World that Nigeria<br />
isn’t just open for business, but that it is open for<br />
“ethical” business. As a nation, we have suffered from<br />
the pens of unpatriotic journalists within our borders,<br />
Men and Women who profess to be Nigerian with<br />
their lips but their works betray them. <strong>The</strong>y have sold<br />
a highly “toxic” image of Nigeria to the outside world<br />
and given our enemies ample ammunition with<br />
which to malign us as a people. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
are so many Nigerians in different<br />
parts of the globe who are<br />
not involved in any form of<br />
criminal activity, and yet<br />
their stories are never<br />
reported.<br />
However, within the<br />
Oil and Gas sector the<br />
story is very different.<br />
Investors from all over the<br />
globe are flocking to Nigeria<br />
to invest their hard earned<br />
money in this sector because of the<br />
competence and extraordinary integrity<br />
which Her Excellency the federal Minister of Petroleum<br />
resources is endowed with. Her word is her bond<br />
and she stands by them, contracts once ratified are<br />
irrevocable and investors are confident of the fact that<br />
their financial investments are safe and their promised<br />
ROI’s are delivered. Integrity, integrity and more integrity<br />
so help us God, this is what Mrs Deizani Alison-<br />
Madueke has brought to the table of the ministry of<br />
petroleum resources.<br />
She can simply be trusted, and under her leadership<br />
we have seen production levels rise from 1.8 million<br />
barrels of crude per day to 2.6 million. She oversaw<br />
the signing of the Nigerian content act, a bill that will<br />
allow every single Nigerian to benefit from the proverbial<br />
“national cake” in ways that were previously<br />
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unheard of. <strong>The</strong> natural Gas industry is also about to<br />
be propelled to centre state as the honourable minister<br />
and her team prepare to begin extracting the 187 trillion<br />
cubic feet of Gas reserves sitting below the surface.<br />
A move that will create well over a million jobs over<br />
the next decade and bring revenues in excess of a trillion<br />
dollars into the country, revenues that will develop<br />
our nation and transform it into the “Singapore” of<br />
Sub-Saharan Africa.<br />
As a nation, we must learn to encourage our leaders<br />
and not just seek for ways to bring them down. If an<br />
elected/appointed official is found guilty of misconduct<br />
then by all means criticize them and bring them<br />
to order, but make sure that your criticism is based on<br />
proven facts and not on idle speculation and predisposed<br />
prejudice, because words once<br />
Constructive criticism<br />
is highly effective other hand, when they’re found<br />
uttered cannot be retracted. . On the<br />
if it’s just that “constructive”, to be doing what is right and<br />
and the one’s being criticized under<br />
such conditions are more likely<br />
fulfilling their ministerial<br />
obligations, we should also<br />
trumpet that also.<br />
to listen and even implement the critique<br />
that you have given. But when petually on the negative and<br />
We cannot just dwell per-<br />
your words contain nothing but never report the positive<br />
abuse, insult, slander and character<br />
defamation then why in the because that only serves a<br />
things that are taking place<br />
destructive purpose and it hurts<br />
World would anybody take<br />
our brand/image at home and<br />
you and your words abroad.<br />
seriously?<br />
Constructive criticism is highly effective if it’s just<br />
that “constructive”, and the one’s being criticized under<br />
such conditions are more likely to listen and even<br />
implement the critique that you have given. But when<br />
your words contain nothing but abuse, insult, slander<br />
and character defamation then why in the World<br />
would anybody take you and your words seriously?<br />
Facebook used to be a forum that many of us used to<br />
enjoy logging unto and exchanging ideas, but in recent<br />
times it has become a gutter, a place where human rats<br />
congregate to spew out their poison against anybody<br />
who has any form of governmental position. Some of<br />
the comments on there are just ridiculous and I think<br />
that the Facebook management board needs to look<br />
into it urgently. I am an advocate of free speech but
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