Pupita: My own is tha I am waiting to see if this thread hat admonishes them will make the front page.

That is what I am waiting for too o!

My brother, no be small thing o! What is Jarus and co turning to? People cannot take this lying down, we need to know wah is happening in this country, and everyone is free to show us from their own angle. We cannot be fed with only what some group want us to fee from. They should nan those threads and the people posting things on them, we are all watching

Mandelaguy: Running with his tails in between his legs....cowar.d,clown.

That is the trademark of cowar.ds! Abeg MANDELAGUY,save your brains and energy for more important tasks!

Ooooooooom! Why are we suffering foo.ls to live amongst us?

Pupita: You guys should leave DEMDEM ,you are hurting his ego. Focus on the budget and the ways we ordinary Nigerians can ensure effective implementation this time. It is our money we are talking about here o!

You ae right. We should focus more on driving this country forward,that should be a common agreement ground,not all this ego massage.

I hereby declare the FOO.L DEMDEM persona non grata on nairaland.

omenka: As usual these folks think like they have no brains at all. How can we be talking about having gas pipelines leading into homes when our fire service is department is at best redundant? Fix the fire service before thinkin about runnin gas pipelines through populated areas retards!

Good suggestion,we should engage in positive contributions,well dne bros.

Most of those clowns in the house were actually clapping because they must have done mental calculations of how muc they may be able to grab from the whole lump sum. This time. All of us owe it as a duty to monitor this budget from passage to full implementation and use social media to expose and prosecute anyone who we find stealing from us.

This should be the best positively constructed budget in recent times. Naija will rise from the ashes like a Phoenix.

Demdem:



I cant believe this is Demdem. I would have sent u to ur ancestors and descendants. All thanks to Oam4j and jarus.

I will not waste my time searching through the my rich archives just for a confused man like you, I will still address this issue, let me finish with the presidents budget,at least,that is more important for now.

I am impressed, I followed it from start to finish, we are waiting for passage and full implementation,and I believe that the early presentation and passage will lead to full and positive implementation. I know we can get it right....nice one GEJ. Keep up he good fight.

Pupita: Now, the liars are exposing themselves. Must you spread lies to get Internet hits? Shame on all who has thrown Sahara reporters at our faces each time here is an arguement or national issue of discuss. This has rubbished the remaining reputations of the few idiots that kept hammering us with Sahara Liars said this,Sahara liars said that.....they attacked us with impunity and even tried intimidating us. I have been on self imposed leave,now,I am back and it is fire for fire for all them liars. And in the parlance of Rastafarians, "chase dam rabbers outta town,fire burn dem Babylonians" Sahara reporters- a bunch of clueless clowns.

Pupita, you will not kill me today. Yeah,someone like Dedeike and MANDELAGUY kept warning us about these bunch of liars,they demystified them for those of us capable of discerning the truth,it's a shame that when beaf was shouting,he was almost the lone voice in the wilderness, now we know those that are credible. Like I said sometime ago, I can sit in my house and concort lies and spread it on the Internet,these days that threads go viral without established evidence. All the lies the printed against GEJ and his govt has come crashing down on them, this time,they bit more Han they could chew. I for one,will not rest till I see them brought to disrepute and tender unreserved apologies to Nigerians for all the lies they have fed us with. Sahara ko,Sahara ni !

For scuttling my presidential ambition in 2007,I will ever remain on the opposing side.....that has always been his mind set. Anyway,for once,he is sounding sensible. The situation could have been avoided if Barth had been careful in sticking to ethics guiding his office. GEJ will not have people thinking he has a shady personal interest in the consortium or any of the power project bid or in any other sector that needs urgent Govt attention. All said,the way Barth was found and his knowledge tapped from,so shall we find another. I believe in the project Nigeria.

People just jumped on the talk that GEJ took over power sector,but that is not true. In the leadership newspaper today, it has been established that 40.2bn Naira has been released for the Gurara and Ile-Isha dams completion in record time. Everything is pointing towards the fact that GEJ is seriously tackling this power disease in Nigeria. I am seriously wondering how Barth is protecting GEJ by resigning when his company is involved in he power consortium. Personal interest should be kept far from government.

Bakare is living in a fools paradise.

torkaka:

okoro, i am not the one who asked ur mother to insert wraps of heroin in her wrinkled honey pie enroute singapore where she was caught! so please scram! am sure you have some one to go and scam!

Anu ohia nwuru anwu,my mom remains more distintiguished and polished to whatever you can dream up as a mother. Onye iberibe!

norabenok :
@torkaka, states were not created with tribes in consideration. Not even zones, not even based on viability. States must have been created by soldiers bearing in mind the need to ensure a semblance of even distribution of Nigeria's resources to all areas of Nigeria. That must explain why once one Northern region got 19 states while once three southern regions got only 17 states. School enrolment is a pointer to population concentration: today, students population in one southeast state alone outstrips the total figure from six states elsewhere in Nigeria. More people from the southeast had since abandoned troubled areas in the north for mostly the southeast. All people of southeast in any part of Nigeria and abroad must resort to the only five Southeast states for political representation in Nigeria. What is the justice in having just five states in the southeast? In short, if truly we are to go for equitable sharing of federal revenues to all in Nigeria, southeast needed to have three more states without any new states created elsewhere. Remember much of the southeast contributes oil and gas revenues to federal coffers. During OBJ's tenure, enlightened Nigerians led by Senator Ibrahim Mantu-led constitution amendment committee justified the need for a new state in the southeast. In the last Senate, Senator Smart Adeyemi, Chair of senate Committee on Federal character argued for a new state in the southeast. It's only ethnic bigots whose acts and thought processes drag Nigeria to crisis that reason your way. Again, states were not created for tribes.

Please tell the ethnic bigot name torkaka to park well.

jumobi1: We needs only 6-8 states however Senators and Reps won't approve because it would mean a fewer number of them in government.

States should create their own wealth so state creation won't be an issue. We need self sustainable states not leaches.

Representation in the federal level should be based on population though and I think it is.

We have developed more than ha level of 6-8 states,but,looking at he level of greed and hunger for power no one will agree in state reduction,rather,we should balance the equation with south east favoured more.

Another weak attempt at verbal attack and character assassination.

Go ahead and finish yourself,then you will just find out how stupid you have been. Hope is one thing any human should not lose.

torkaka:

for starters i am not tiv(am not even fully nigerian) and i prefer a tiv monkey to an igbo pig. thank you

Fools words,made from a maggot infested mouth.

HNosegbe: The fact has been clearly stated here that the underlying reason for the clamour for state creation is the an aspiration for a greater share of oil revenues. The Igbos are better served by demanding a return to regionalism where resources and appointments are shared by zones rather than states within a zone (Not that I subscribe to this money-sharing thingy anyway).

The main point is that we need to take our minds off what we can get from the centre, and think instead of what we can contribute. If all state governors could carry out regional integration by identifying areas of comparative advantage and focusing on exploiting them, we wouldn't have this issue of state creation.

Stop consuming, start producing.

The fact in issue remains that the Igbo travails started immediately after the civil war,and every govt that has come has systematically and strategically avoided repositioning the Igbo's. It is only this govt that has shown they have nothing to fea b the appointment of Ihejirika and Pius Anyim. But the fundamental issue that needs to be addressed must be addressed.

Captainajama: I know that greed will not allow them agree to revert to the old region style,so I will be stupid to advocate for that,but the important issues that spell marginalization, a creation of the military era and past govts must be addressed for us to stop shouting marginalization in the South East and South South.
1. Development: when other regions are getting allocations and developing their regions from our joint resources,the south eastern region lags
2. Appointments: the current trend is for every state to have representation at the federal level,and with 5 states instead of 6 like other regions,we the Igbo's are been marginalised.
3. Political positions: the south east presents fewer house members(senators and rep members) than other regions and that weakens our hands in political manoeuvres.
4. Positions and employment: quota system has become the other of the day,and in essence,we are been cheated when it comes to positions and employment. Gradually,our region produces the least number of people each time recruitments and positions are advertised,and that does not bode well for us.
5. Promotions.: those in the civil service can tell you how that goes. For instance,if there are 40 vacant positions at the management level,it gets shared according to geo political regions,now imagine what becomes of the south east.

I am not rallying to take the tribal line,I am simply asking for the fairness to be implemented because the op asked what is fair and it still surprises me that when the issue of state creation came up,all the other regions still came up asking for this state and that state. Anyway,let us keep watching our brothers from these other regions to see how fair they can be.

See who the talk,anu ohia,ewu awusa. You have the mouth to say we are not marginalised,make I catch you there....isi avuvu.

Matter of fact,Igbos are marginalised,whether you like it or not.

It is only blind people and liars that will deny the reasons for the creation of state before and after the war. Let us not open old wounds o! Truth must be spoken,because it is that truth that made the emergence of Ijaw man as a president a bitter pill for some to swallow.

Captainajama: I have taken time to examine the states up north with their LGA's and monthly allocations,and it baffles me on what criteria the states were created,landmass? They definitely do not have more population than their counterparts down the south,so why would Kano and Katsina have combined 74 LGA's while the entire south east has 95 LGA's?(Abia-17,Ebonyi 13,Imo -27,Enugu-17,Anambra-21) and we cannot get at least one or two more states? Most of those local govts In the far north have a population less than a thousand and they only appear the days they want to pay salaries or share money(yet they are states). We spend our money servicing something that should not be.....or tell me why a state has been carved out of Old Kano with the same number of local govt as Lagos state while Kano still has 40 LG's to still boast with,......baba Mallam! It's unfair and change must be effected. I urge the senate, house of reps and Nigerians home and abroad to judge this matter

The people I am calling on would wish for their own states where it would be easy for hem to become gov'ors or assume the status of godfathers,selfishness seriously comes into play in this matter.

I have taken time to examine the states up north with their LGA's and monthly allocations,and it baffles me on what criteria the states were created,landmass? They definitely do not have more population than their counterparts down the south,so why would Kano and Katsina have combined 74 LGA's while the entire south east has 95 LGA's?(Abia-17,Ebonyi 13,Imo -27,Enugu-17,Anambra-21) and we cannot get at least one or two more states? Most of those local govts In the far north have a population less than a thousand and they only appear the days they want to pay salaries or share money(yet they are states). We spend our money servicing something that should not be.....or tell me why a state has been carved out of Old Kano with the same number of local govt as Lagos state while Kano still has 40 LG's to still boast with,......baba Mallam! It's unfair and change must be effected. I urge the senate, house of reps and Nigerians home and abroad to judge this matter

This will show you how corrupt public servants can get,the bulk of corrupt practices in this was either engineered or manipulated by them. Their activities at SEC was exposed after all heir lies against Oteh,now they are shouting in vain,but I know for sure that the are been gingered by those of them who know that their time is up,others should be wiser and flee from temptation because "heaven knows no fury like a woman scorned".

I have been watching this your thread,the political critics will not rush this one because it does not have GEJ in it....anyway,state creation is a necessity,not by over blowing the whole thing,but by restoring parity and equality where it is supposed to be. The Igbo's need an additional state to balance with other regions....most people may not understand why it is very necessary, I will give you some reasons.
1. Development: when other regions are getting allocations and developing their regions from our joint resources,the south eastern region lags
2. Appointments: the current trend is for every state to have representation at the federal level,and with 5 states instead of 6 like other regions,we the Igbo's are been marginalised.
3. Political positions: the south east presents fewer house members(senators and rep members) than other regions and that weakens our hands in political manoeuvres.
4. Positions and employment: quota system has become the other of the day,and in essence,we are been cheated when it comes to positions and employment. Gradually,our region produces the least number of people each time recruitments and positions are advertised,and that does not bode well for us.
5. Promotions.: those in the civil service can tell you how that goes. For instance,if there are 40 vacant positions at the management level,it gets shared according to geo political regions,now imagine wha spbecomes of the south east.

I am not raying to take the tribal line,I am simply asking for the fairness to be implemented because the op asked what is fair and it still surprises me that when the issue of state creation Mae up,all the other regions still came up asking for this state and that state. Anyway,let us keep watching our brothers from these other regions to see how fair he can be.

Don't mind them...I am compiling a list of their lies....even the one that played out in Edo last weekend.

These guys have a way of derailing topics and coming up with this their monotonous 40 laptop mantra. Na wah for pointless criticism.

An amendment is required o....
FAROUKING........omitting names after diligent investigation.