humblebee:

a new word added to the dictionary

Adjective Beaf (beafer, beafest)
1. Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
2. In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from bribe
3. Lacking intelligence
4. Devoid of good sense or judgment

Noun: Beaf
1. A person who is not very bright
2. A person who is daft
Synonyms:
daft
dolt
dullard
dumb
foolish
stupe
dazed
pudding head

consult 2012 oxford dictionary for more details

VoodooDoll:

A rep [from Kano?] in the House Of Assembly emergency debate today just said that "GEJ went to South Africa with two aeroplanes".

Sorry, but I still find it hard to believe as that would be extremely insensitive and I think GEJ's advisers are slightly smarter than that. 

I believe House of Assembly comments are covered by freedom of speech and House rules so the rep can speak things that may not  necessarily be correct.

Pukkah:

I think it's rather insensitive and rash for Jonathan to jet out when the country is showing signs of disintegration. Insecurity is at an all-time high and there's disquiet on what will happen this week. Is this an auspicious time for a good and empathic leader to be absent?

Furthermore, if he truly travelled, we need to find out how many aircrafts/persons he travelled with to South Africa.

Beaf:

I wonder why people think that govt business should grind to a halt because they are protesting? It makes no sense at any level.
As for the country disintegrating, it is my personal opinion that it should, then after the oil is gone, we will see who will come out to #Occupy their idiocy.

au.hanson:

Pls stop ds lies, d President never went to South Africa pls, let's not work on falsehood even tho things are like this

Beaf:

I wonder why people think that govt business should grind to a halt because they are protesting? It makes no sense at any level.
As for the country disintegrating, it is my personal opinion that it should, then after the oil is gone, we will see who will come out to #Occupy their idiocy.

@*dhtml
Na wa o. . .my country people

President Goodluck Jonathan last night accused
the House of Representatives of inciting
Nigerians against his government by passing a
resolution urging him to suspend the removal of
petrol subsidy.
He also described the resolution as a mere
expression of an opinion.
He denied jetting out to South Africa or
spending N1billion to feed in Aso Rock.
The President, who spoke through his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben
Abati, accused some of the lawmakers of
mischief.
He gave his reaction a few hours after the House
of Representatives passed its resolution.
The presidency had attempted to stop the
session but the House leadership defied its
pressure.
He said: “Well, I mean what the House of Reps
has said is merely an opinion and in a
Constitutional democracy, people have a right
to hold debates or to discuss.
“But I think it is most unfortunate that a House
of Representatives will hold a special meeting
on a Sunday. To the best of my knowledge, that
is the first time that will happen in
contemporary Nigerian history, that a special
meeting will be called on a Sunday just to
debate an issue of deregulation.
“Of course, I followed the debate for the most
part on television and the quality of the debate
as well. I think the less we say anything about
that, the better because I have cited the
example of a member of the House
misinforming Nigerians about the President’s
movement.
“And of course you saw how one lawmaker after
another had no basic facts. There was so much
interest in grandstanding and I think that the
entire exercise is more of a comment on some
of the individual contributors to the discussion.
“That extraordinary session coming a day on the
eve of an attempt by some people to disrupt
law and order could be interpreted in some
quarters as an attempt by the House of
Representatives to incite the Nigerian people
against the government and the last time I
checked the lawmakers are also a part of this
government.”
Asked whether the House decision will not be
binding on the President, the presidential
spokesman said the presidency will not go back
on the deregulation of the downstream sector.
He added: “The President has made his position
very clear in the national broadcast .”

pingu2k5:

Now I believe that there are some enemies of Nigeria that are after the failure of Jonathan. The President did not jet out to SA.

www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/32599-jonathan-accuses-house-of-inciting-nigerians.html

Written by Leon Usigbe, Abuja Monday, 09 January 2012

CONTRARY to speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan travelled out of the country to South Africa, the president’s spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, said the story was far from the truth.

Dr Abati said the rumour being spread about showed the extent enemies of the government could go to discredit the president, who was in Abuja to inaugurate the 1,600 mass transit buses.

Performing the ceremony at Eagle Square, Abuja, Jonathan used the opportunity to debunk claims that the Federal Government had engaged in the mass procurement of buses.

He also emphasised that the government was not inaugurating buses, but formally launching a mass transit programme for the country.

According to him, “the Federal Government is not buying any bus. There is a lot of mischief makers going around to misinform Nigerians, especially through social networks, the Twitter, bb, Facebook and others, to communicate very wrong things to Nigerians.

“Even as I am here with you, people are saying that I am in South Africa with about 100 Nigerians. But that is Nigeria for you. There is a lot of wrong information that is being pumped into the system.

“We are not buying a single bus as a Federal Government, but we are subsidising the mass transit sector. That is what other governments do. We have to come up with programmes and policies to bring the cost of buses for mass transit down."

He added that those involved in the mass transit initiative included the federal, state and local governments, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), several commercial banks, transport unions, manufacturers and importers of mass transit vehicles.

The president, who explained that governors could not be present on the occasion because they had to be present in their states in view of the planned labour strike, regretted that the nation had no mass transit culture.

According to him, “in this country, we don't have a mass transit culture. When you travel out, people who go to school, people who go to visit friends, who travel from one city to another, enter buses or go by train. They don't use taxis. Taxis is for urgent movement or for those who have more money than the stomach would need.

“But here, that mass transit culture is not available. It comes and goes."

He said deregulation or no deregulation, the Federal Government's intention was to develop a mass transit culture which was sustainable and, therefore, the government would subsidise the manufacture of buses to bring down their cost.