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Change is always strange to the ignorant or do-no-gooders. Which one are you?
Gov. Aregbesola is not attempting to create a dependent army of people that leave on peanuts.
The real objective was to help the OYES participants acquire better life skills and spirit of community service.
So, of course do-no-gooders without ideas will always describe the outcome of such a widely acknowledged scheme in disdainful terms - no surprise there.
That the first 20000 were moved on to different jobs was not hidden - those that were not qualified for better jobs were given additional training on different vocational activities.

Here is an article I am almost sure you know about already: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/20000-oyes-cadets-graduate/

D sage: @Gbawe, though I'm not living in Osun-State, but please stop spreading a misleading information. I like ACN as a polical party but hate it when people trying to play politic in order make them look like a better side.

I learnt he(aregbesola) offloaded the 20,000 people he claimed he employed before the commencement of this current OYEs program. How are we sure he actually employed the said 20,000 youths? So, where on earth did you get your statistic from?

Good. You should question GEJ's incompetence sometimes

wesley80: ^ That mentality is exactly why Nigeria is stagnating in terms of real development - our collective willingness to accept the status quo without questions. There's an economic concept called "Creative Destruction" where new and better ideas are allowed to evolve by questioning and improving the present why doing away with the old way of thought and behaviors. It is how serious societies evolved. Must keep questioning and challenging till we get the best possible and even so, keep questioning. Mediocrity is never an acceptable option.

Instead of spending your time coming up with ideas on how to rescue your region and Nigeria from the cancer of Boko Haram that is gradually, but surely, consuming the north you are wasting time thinking about the travails of a known killer. The same kind of person that would perhaps lend hands to BH-type attacks were he free at this time.

Wonders shall never end - you people had better get your acts together.
Even if you get power in 2015, do you think BH will follow suit and calm down?
Boko Haram rose from the lack of sense by among the northern elite.
They lived in oblivion to the travails of kids begging on the street, no education, no skills. The northern elite was contended to receive "Sai Baba" from the almajiri as they dropp pitiance into bowls while they wine and dine in their fortresses and send their own kids to fabulous schools all around the world. If you do not understand it yet, those boys of yesterday are the ones after you today. Give your time to coming up with workable solutions - time is running out.

hinal: Even at the risk of banging our heads against a brick wall, we should not abandon the efforts to seek mercy for any fellow Nigerian, especially a man many considered to have been punished with vengeance. Francis Bacon, the famous English lawyer and statesman, said, “Revenge is a form of wild justice, which the law should seek to weed out.”
The seeming indifference by the so-called northern leaders to the fate of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the late General Sani Abacha’s Chief Security Officer, is incredible and disappointing. While the Niger Delta politicians were united in seeking the freedom of former militants, northern leaders are yet to demonstrate the same common concern to the fate of Major Al-Mustapha, who was sentenced to death after already spending 14 years while on trial. In fact, the Yoruba political and community leaders were also united for the freedom of former OPC activists – Dr Frederick Fashehun and Mr Ganiyu Adams. So were the Igbo leaders united behind the freedom of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.
Why is such unity absent among northern leaders? Is it true, as alleged by the deposed Emir of Gwandu, Al-Mustapha Haruna Jokolo that some northern leaders are behind the continuing travails of Al-Mustapha? According to Jokolo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was initially determined to find a political solution to Major Al-Mustapha’s plight but some northern Generals and politicians frustrated the efforts. One cannot imagine any Niger Delta politician working against the freedom of former militants for whatever reason. To do so would have brought instant resentment and ostracism against him.
Unfortunately the reverse is the case in northern Nigeria where our leaders are more interested in what goes into their pockets rather than the interest of fellow northerners facing difficulties. It was never on record that our so-called Northern Governors’ Forum, senators and representatives even considered it necessary to make Al-Mustapha’s issue their priority. From day one, the Major’s trial was laden with politics and prejudice as there are political forces determined to see him dead.
Did Al-Mustapha commit a worse crime than the mass murders and kidnappings carried out in the name of militancy in the Niger Delta? Yet, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had the magnanimity to find a political solution to an issue that bordered on treason. Former President Obasanjo didn’t have hesitation releasing the OPC leaders despite their involvement in genocide or ethnic cleansing. Therefore, why would President Jonathan have any difficulty finding a lasting solution to the travails of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha? Why must he succumb to the blackmail of subversive forces?
Former President Obasanjo himself was a beneficiary of state pardon by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar administration in 1998. Without that amnesty, Obasanjo would have not qualified to contest the presidential election of 1999.
Should President Jonathan succumb to this kind of blackmail? Despite the contradictions, discrepancies and recantations of prosecution witnesses, Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court went ahead to sentence Major Al-Mustapha to death on January 30 this year. There is even the theory that she had no choice but to hand down this harsh verdict to save her neck from the anger of the former NADECO forces who have been relentlessly thirsting for Al-Mustapha’s blood.
Let us pause for a moment and ask whether vengeance is a matter of life and death for the advancement of any nation. For a man who has spent 14 years facing detention and trial within a trial, including allegation of plotting a coup d’état against the former Obasanjo administration, Al-Mustapha’s travails couldn’t have been worse. Fourteen years behind bars is enough punishment and should qualify the Major for state pardon. If other former detainees who committed graver crimes were considered fit for amnesty, there is no reason Al-Mustapha should not be accorded the same privilege.
The utter indifference of northern leaders is, however, largely to blame for the current travails of Major Al-Mustapha. Leaving this young army officer to his fate by our so-called northern leaders is a big shame. Without the active intervention of northern leaders, it is unlikely if President Jonathan would be concerned either about his situation. If you throw our own son to the wolves, the world will laugh at you. How do you expect President Jonathan to take decisive decision on this issue when northern leaders are indifferent to Al-Mustapha’s plight? Major Al-Mustapha’s pardon may go a long way to reduce political tension in the country. Whatever may be the benefits of vengeance, the virtue of mercy is by far greater.
—Abdulkadir sent in this piece from 61, Katsina Road, Kaduna

Jonathan himself said Boko Haram were in his government.
And we know for a fact that the man had no ACN people in his government.

Tolexander: Interesting!

Owoye Andrew Azazi(PDP) said the sponsorers of boko harams are in PDP!

Doyin Okupe(PDP) said Buhari(CPC) is the sponsorer of boko haram!

Olisa Metuh(PDP) now saying the sponsorers of boko haram is ACN!

Who next will wake up tomorrow to indict ANPP? Jonathan himself? Only God knows!

PDP(papa deceiving pikin) i hail o!

You have already bitten more than you can chew.
Better not complicate your messed up government.

onatisi:
the game has begun it is time to cut acn to size ,tinubu better run for cover

What you people have up here I don't understand, but it is not the same white matter God intended.
When a party has lost control of the country and shown itself incapable of even simple decisions the opposition party [b]SHOULD [/b]take over. That is what you people call exploitation?

Since you are babies let me illustrate it for you.
You have a baby suffering from serious pains that require SEVERAL major surgeries to correct.
Here comes Dr. GEJ who claims to have the transformation powers to cure your baby and perform those surgeries without problems. But every time Dr. GEJ claims to be working on the baby the pain increases, the child cries even more and is beginning to lose function of even previously working parts of his/her body. Another Dr. comes along advising you of the quackery of Dr. GEJ and promises to solve your babies problem because he knows what it takes. Moreover, this same doctor has experience performing such surgeries and attempted to get Dr. GEJ to follow proper procedures way before he started cutting and dicing your baby. Rather than heed wise advice Dr. GEJ decides that the best thing to do at this late stage is to cut your baby even more with the same incompetent hands that has almost led this baby to death. The experienced doctor cries foul and warns of the consequences of continued knee-jerk reaction to the health of the baby. YOU AS THE MOTHER THEN ACCUSED THIS WELL-MEANING DOCTOR OF TRYING TO EXPLOIT THE CONDITION OF YOUR CHILD TO PERFORM SURGERY. You forget what Dr. GEJ has being doing to your baby, that he is actually about to kill it - and in fact if Dr. GEJ continues along these lines it won't be long before death becomes this baby!!! What a FOOLISH MOTHER YOU WOULD BE, INDEED !!!

babyosisi:
Thank you!
ACN is pure evil and their recent utterances exposed them further
They are heartless souls only interested in their turn at Aso rock with no shred of empathy for the ordinary man
Anyone still in doubt needs a doctor
May they contest a thousand times and fail a 1001 times
Amen!

Oh no, stop talking such nonsense.
As long as GEJ can build new banquet halls in Aso Rock, Patience can spend N4 billion on an edifice to avarice, and our senators can maintain their highlife in the high city of Abuja, Nigeria can never be a failed state.

citizenisb: This is proof of the massive decay and rot in the Nigerian system and proves that this country is a FAILED STATE!!!

The kind of flippant talk that we expect from those who only care about their pockets.
Were we not here when PDP politicians themselves admitted that PDP is Boko Haram and Boko Haram is PDP?
Were we not here when GEJ himself said that Boko Haram has infiltrated his government?
The point is that but for 2015 GEJ would not have moved to do what should have been done aeons ago.

PapaBrowne: ACN has shown everybody its true colours.
It is either they are the sponsors of Boko Haram or they are just plain silly!

Making excuses for incompetent leadership will be death of us all. GEJ will never move unless his political fortune is under threat. The same president that said not embarking on a foreign trip right after a terrorist attack emboldens terrorists is the same one pointing to having to cut his foreign trip short as evidence of the seriousness of the situation - 1000s of lives needlessly lost later !!!

PapaBrowne:

Let me start by asking you how often and when last did you hear about bomb blasts these days.
If anything, there has been an effective decline in the capacity of the terrorists to execute collateral damage.
That is an important first step and a very big step at that.
Ten years after, bombs are still blowing up in Iraq and Afghanistan despite the fact that the worlds strongest army has been responsible for the security in both countries. Terrorism, when the populace is complacent is a very difficult battle to win.
Progress extra ordinary has been made. The purpose of the State of Emergency is a complete lock down of the cities, towns, villages and hamlets with the purpose of searching and combing the entire vicinity to rid it of weapons and terrorists. Hopefully after this, there would be considerable decline in terrorist activities. The likes of Tinubu and lots of the Northern elders is the reason Jonathan has not taken this action since.

This foolish reaction to wisdom is what has led us from a BH playing with match sticks to one throwing bombs. Everything GEJ does is about 2015. The first act of this man on being elected was to try extending presidential tenure. He has suddenly realized, contrary to earlier beliefs, that being president is not the same as being god. He will move heaven and earth to try to restore order to the north but it is too late in the day.

Elueme: Shame on you Tinubu.so you enjoy seeing the blood of innocent citizens spilled so you can campaign with it in 2015! You goofed this time and gradually Nigerians are seeing beyond their nose.

U finally got a president? After 3 years in the saddle. This speaks volumes about the thinking-habits of those behind the GEJ project.

Slonge2: F**k tinubu, we've finally gotten a president...

Yeah, that Lagos-Kano train that travels at the speed of light or the one that takes 30 hours . GEJ's transformation is a system with twice the speed of horseback riding !!! I wonder why GEJ fails to do Lagos-Ibadan road and is instead selling us bunkum !!!

KnowAll: A devil u know is better than an wolf in sheep skin u don't know?

After all, as bad as he his, he is still the best President since Muritala, all others have been bench warmers and waste of space. what did OBJ do, look at the comatose Lagos to Kano train is now working after IBB and his gang killed it off in the mid 80's.

What have Tininbu / Fashola done in Lagos, let us call a spade a spade the same network of roads that connects the mainland to the island in 1992 are still the same roads existing 16 years of Tinubu/ Fashola regime. Don't u Lagosians know that Lagos is a gridlocked city where everyone is stucked when it is rush hour time. Abeg make we support Jonathan for second term, he has been the best President we have had from my livable collection and i am not a young man.

This is so funny. GEJ can't find BH but can dig up the poster printer in a city of millions.

The only reason he would know is becos he is party to the process.

utumunta:
GEJ, by now, already has the name of the person that printed the posters, where it was printed and the intendment.

God doesn't make anyone governor or president.
Stop confusing what God ALLOWS to happen to him making it happen.
God will allow you to eat epa or guguru or both, but he will not decide for which or whether to eat any at all.
God would allow HAMZAT or any other candidate to be governor if they win the election.
It is the election that makes you the governor.

rusep: If God decide to make him a Governor, can you stop him?

And you think that is the behavior of a leader that is not sitting tight.
The attitude you expect from a true Mr. Transformation in the face of this kind of challenges is to say:
1) Everyone is free to aspire to any democratic office in the land - as long as they meet constitutional requirements.
2) My efforts and performance will carry the day for me at the polls in 2015

We all know that GEJ is afraid of and almost incapable, like most Nigerian politicians, of the above utterances.

But, actually I digress....

My real thought about this Shema/Akpabio poster is that this one of GEJ's kites towards 2015 - this is his plan B being thrown into the mix. If GEJ can't get it in 2015, he wants this team. They are releasing this poster in Lagos to make it look like some "unknown" foot soldier is responsible.

Tolexander: Yawa don gas for akpabio be dat!
He should be expecting his state's jet grounded!

You need a critical lobotomy.

EMMA BC: Why is it that south westerners enjoy slavery. They know it and everybody knows, but they have refused to come of their cocoon and challenge their slave masters. The question I wud like to ask: is slavery their nature or their nurture? I need a critical.

He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
Seek peace but prepare for war.
Stop showing that you are worse than the ones you accuse of hate.

kpogede77: 2015: No Jonathan Presidency, No Nigeria – Briggs
May 11, 2013
By Newsnow correspondent

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A Niger Delta rights activist, Miss Annkio Briggs, has said that Nigeria as a nation will come to an end if President Goodluck Jonathan failed to return as president in 2015.

Briggs told Weekly Trust in Port Harcourt yesterday that those calling for the head of President Jonathan over his interest to contest for 2015 presidential election should know that Niger Delta holds the key to the nation’s economy, saying “we hold the key for the economy of Nigeria and this country will not know peace if Jonathan is not returned as president in 2015.”
She said “if a group of cabals can boast that they will make Nigeria ungovernable if they are denied the opportunity to produce the President of Nigeria, we in the Niger Delta will make the economy of this country ungovernable.
“We will make sure no single oil drop from our pipes. We will destroy everything and make sure nobody accesses our oil.”
She faulted those calling for the arrest of Asari Dokubo and Kingsley Kuku over their comments concerning 2015, threatening that Niger Delta people will resist their arrest.
According to her, “it is on record that some prominent Nigerians had made comments in the past capable of truncating the corporate existence of Nigeria and nobody arrested them. Any attempt to arrest Asari and Kuku will be resisted.”



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OK, Amebo.
U na well done - we don hear.

The "slogan" itself has no constitutional connotation.
Gov. Aregbesola has preferences for statements that emphasize Yoruba history.
This is why he prefered the "State of the Virtuous" which in Yoruba will be "Ipinle Omoluabi".
Now, the "State of the Living Spring" is a version of the translation of the name of the state - "Osun" in Yoruba to "Spring" in English and "Living" was simply added as a qualifier.
Hence, anyone can still use "State of the Spring" or "State of the Living Spring" if that is their preference.

Just as with Gov. Aregbesola's preference for "State of Osun" over "Osun State" these are statements that serve only a qualitative purpose. If the Gov. is performing his duties well then give him latitude if he enjoys some of this small preferences - they probably represent for him the motivation for greater heights in public service. He calls himself "Oranmiyan" because he sees in this ancient hero of the Yorubas his aspirations, not just for himself, but for the greatness of the Yoruba nation.

That is your problem if you decided not to see the list provided.
All anyone has to do is search for Aregbesola on this forum.
I have personally posted two recent examples of his projects in the last few weeks.

As for your CCTV camera, I am the least interested - because what I said before is consistent.
The fact that the FG is installing cameras does not mean CCTV cameras in Lagos were the FG's "idea" - that was the claim of your brother Mr. Insincere9gerian which brought the blistering response on that thread.

taharqa: hey, @korotji, you don resume today? The thread on d CCTV cameras in lagos installd by d FG that you shamelessly continually denied on another thread, is still on the Frontpage. Many people don ask afta you for dat thread. Abegi, oblige.....@topic, am not in d least interestd in this thread; my previous post was just an advice, asking those who disagrees with d Senator's comment to Shut he down by listing at least one project that Aregbe has COMPLETED in 3 yrs. Very, very SIMPLE tin actuali. YET, the thread is in the 2nd page BUT not a single person hv done so; people are just telling Stories.. I am beginning to think that d Senator may be correct afta all

Better not buy into his BS. Read carefully and you will understand his agenda. He credits GEJ for making ACN govs. work to perform and puts down Fas
hola - who is the actual star among ACN govs. Why would he do such a thing? It is called the "devil's trick" - give u material things but take your soul. It is 2015 politics - Fashola's pace-setting accomplishments are seen as a threat to GEJ in 2015. When it is covenient for him he will claim even Aregbesola's projects for GEJ.

automaticcarzz: You dey yarn truth for the first time in your life. I guess you haven't been paid your April salary by PDP, so you decided to turn against them.

You obviously can't read - it seems becos there is a list up there in one of the posts. But of course you can read and have probably read the list - you just cannot help yourself !!!

taharqa: No person defending Aregbe against this accusation from the senator have done what shld be d EASIEST thing to do in a case such as this: JUST LIST AT LEAST ONE, OR MORE, OF THE PROJECTS AREGBE HAS COMPLETED IN 3 YEARS... Simplicita

Old or not old, these are the kind of statements that paint us as less than human.
If a person with this kind of thought process could rise that high in the echelons of power, imagine what the rest of the populace looks like.

Kill 20 million people, so you can enjoy the oil under their feet in peace?

Me_Aboki:

You beat me to it, old stale news way back from 2009, obviously dug up and brought up now to incite hatred between north and southerners to help Oga at the top towards his political ambition for 2015, cheap dirty tricks.

These are the people we put in power and expect development.
Ok o.

So does Boko Haram.

What does that mean then?
It means "having guts" when you care nothing about the life of the innocent or peace or you are backed by instruments of violence and don't actually get on the battlefield means very little. Such a person is likely operating outside the bands of "humanity" - a return to primitivity.

RICHIE BOI: This guy is got Guts.

What can I say? You hit the nail on the head. His blinder/pocket has dulled his power of reasoning.

Kairoseki77:
If GEJ drowned a child, you would be the first person on the thread screaming that it was the child's fault.

Read the full story. Fashola hit on a theme with respect to the police that needs to be pursued. Yes, the Nigeria police is brutal but part of the fault lies with our uncaring attitude - parricularly the incompetent FG that cannot take care of this huge responsibility it arrogantly arrogates to itself.

israel007: Please ask him why he's telling us and who asked him?

Oga can't read, that is why I divided by 2 at the end to get 13 mil of petrol. The othet 13 or so would be diesel, kerosene and other products. Get it now!

lacidi:
Oga mathematician, did you conviniently forget Diesel and Kerosine? The same crude oil is used to refine diesel and kero, so why did you restrict your mathematical analysis to only Petrol?

What word did I use? And what will you do to me? I encourage you to visit whatever you have in mind on the thieving politicians you see everyday.

You missed your road completely on this topic!

madone: People shiuld stop playing politics with serious financial crime my sh*t. I wish I can see you one on one and you repeat this same word and you would be surprised wat I ll do to you.how many political have stole billions and trillion and how many years did they go. Nigerians problem is not that Kelvin went to jail the issue is poor man can be so easily brought to justice in this country. All the million your governor made when he was a commissioner in lagos how many years has he gone for .nonsense the law is blind to the rich fools

I knew it was hogwash news immediately I saw the article that purported the US government will do such a rash thing.

This is not Nigeria where laws & statutes change at convenience according to the caprices of the current "maximum" ruler. We are talking about a country where every action is based on a strategy to promote the welfare of her citizens, peace and stability of the country and being a force to be reckon with in the world. Even if Obama were to plan to issue such an order he would not wake up and pronounce it, like some emperor of a fiefdom.

You are really into this thing too much.
Take a breather - if GEJ doesn't contest in 2015, loses if he contests or gets booted out 3 months later your life will still go on. But all this ventilating will take a toll on your psyche - since you know that at least 51% of what you say here is BS !!!

Sincere 9gerian:
Now that the president, minister and managing director of the NRC are working round the clock to ensure that rail line is delivered, HATERS are busy tweeting. When the project is finally completed and put to use, HATERS will come with the silly propaganda of how Pa Awo signed the contract for the project in 1900. They'll tell us to go and worship Awo before putting the project to use. Lol. Yeye dey worry some people.

Some of these bad belle people that come here to spew hate may even the ones stealing the rail line components.

That is Nigeria for you. A very complex country. Even while battling to fix infrastructures, you'll also have to contend with sabotuers and enemies of progress. You fix transformer today, they'll vandalise it tomorrow and then come to NL to claim they'v not had light since 1800.

Better don't waste your time - just a simple advice.

emmatok:

Why bring AWO into your nonsense,even GEJ won't go that lane.

Just stick to you PDP/APC/ACN war and leave AWO out of it.