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slap1: Not really. ASUU went on strike for the same reason of lack of infrastructure and all that in 2009/2010. Why was it called-off if the needs were not addressed? I think the cry about the dearth of infrastructure is a smokescreen for ASUU to get something through the backdoor. I tell you that this strike will be suspended once the FG release their EARNED ALLOWANCE, which is the main cause of the strike.

Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu last night took a swipe on the managers of the nation’s economy, saying Harvard training or World Bank experience alone would not solve the nation’s economic problems.
Delivering a lecture with the theme ‘The marriage of 1914: A curse or blessing?’, at this year’s Lagos Country Club annual lecture in Lagos, Aliyu berated the government’s economic policies which he said have not impacted directly on the people.
“It is our responsibility as leaders that whatever policies we want to carry out, we firsttest it on the people. Don’t say because you are a leader or because you have gone to World Bank, you have solutions to all problems,” he said.
“Whether you have Harvard training, you have Ife training or you have Bayero training, you must learn how to listen to people you want to serve. Don’t come with your Harvard trainings and impose IMF economic policies on the people.”
He said Ngeria’s journey from 1914 till date had been fruitful and that the only regret was that Nigeria should have gone beyond where she is today.
“A country without a visionary leader, a nation without integrity will continue to be having economic problems. And maybe that is our problem in Nigeria. Those who think they must dictate to the people must learn how to quit thescene because part of requirement of a leadership is ability to accept criticism,” he said.
“Not many of us in leadership positions in the country grew up from democratic families. When you don’t grow up in a democratic society, where your father and mother did not have democratic relationship, it may be quite difficult,” he added.
He said more than anything else, Nigerian leaders should avoid acting as dictators and be ready to serve the people as their servants.

A major crack has occurred in the camp of President Goodluck Jonathan as two of his main backers in the south-south region appear to have disagreed on the handling of the festering crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A pro-Jonathan group, Congress forEquality and Change led by former federal commissioner of information Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday chided the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, for admitting that some of the aggrieved governors had genuine grievances.
Clark’s attack on Anenih came as Anenih himself cautioned the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, against making inflammatory statements that could undermine the ongoing peace talks in the party.
In a communiqué signed by the chairman of the group, Senator Ameh Ebute, the group told Anenih to “distance himself from the demands of the so-called aggrieved governors and join Alhaji Bamanga Tukur to work for the party in truth and spirit”.
Anenih had on Tuesday admitted that some of the complaints of the governors who have been up in arms against both Tukur and Jonathan were genuine.
As the pro-Jonathan camp appears to be speaking in different tones, the Alhaji Kawu Baraje camp has threatened that Tukur could end upin jail.
The Clark group faulted some alleged grievances expressed by the governors: “For instance, the claim by the governors that President Jonathan should award the governors, their cronies and family perpetual injunction from EFCC and police prosecution against corruption, embezzlement of public funds and criminal enrichment is condemnable; we wonder how the President could stop EFCC from investigating people alleged to have engaged in corruption.
“Also, the demand that the President should renounce his 2015 presidential re-election bid inspite of his eligibility to contest is very condemnable. They insisted that the call for Tukur’s resignationcannot be a thing that someone should liken to a genuine grievance.”. Read more....

Shine It: The North ruled Nigeria for 35yrs with nothing to show for it.


[size=15pt]GEJ MUST CONTEST 2015 OR ELSE NO NIGERIA.[/size]

eGuerrilla: With 3,936 of our doctors in the UK and another 4,000 in the US, the probability that a health tourist, who leaves Nigeria is search of better medical care, would get treated by a Nigeria based abroad is fairly high. Question is; who is going to stop this outflow of capital and expensive talent?

kabba7: some time ago I request the governor of Ogun to please send one of his advisers to come advice the governor of Kogi on how to manage the state so many lambasted me , well here am again requesting Aregbe to quickly harken to my request before that state sinks finally if he refuses for his information i will sue him and all Osun people at the world court for cruelty and abuse of power

chukwudi44: Bros e bi like say u no understand wetin de guy de yarn.Your votes are not likely to count in 2015 like it happened in 2003 when Obasanjo mercilessly rigged the elections.

[b]The President of the defunct Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari- Dokubo, once again took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, stating that the Nigerian leader is a disappointment to the Ijaw ethnic nationality.
Asari-Dokubo said Jonathan is weak and unassertive as a leader.
The ex-militant commander, who was reacting to the latest crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which has led to the factionalisation of the ruling party, lamented that Jonathan could not take bold and courageous steps to tame the dissidents.
Asari-Dokubo, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent, regretted that Jonathan could not act like a typical Ijaw man, who is famous for boldness and exceptional courage.
He asked the President to be guided by an Ijawfamous saying, “Ama Doko Doko Biokpo,” which he interpreted to mean “small, small towns but they are very courageous and keep hope alive.”
Asari-Dokubo said he was unimpressed by “what he called poor response” to the crisis rocking the PDP by the Presidency and advised Jonathan to emulate former President OlusegunObasanjo, who confronted and dealt with the dissidents in the party during his tenure.
He recalled how Obasanjo allegedly wielded power to quench the insurgency led by a former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori,within the PDP, against his re-election in 2003.
To this end, he asked Jonathan to stop further peace talks and negotiation with the dissident governors and their collaborators, including Obasanjo and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
He said Jonathan only needed to sit up and demonstrate uncommon courage to subdue his political enemies, adding that the crisis was orchestrated to frustrate his second term ambition.
Asari-Dokubo decried the recent statement credited to Abubakar Gumi that the killings in the North would stop as soon as Jonathan renounced his second term bid, adding that the cleric and his co-travellers were cashing in on the weakness of the President.
He nonetheless expressed the conviction that the plot against Jonathan would fail.
He said: “Jonathan is disgracing the Ijaw people and people of the South-South by negotiating with these dissidents. I am terribly annoyed by the way he is handling this issue, he is a disgrace. If he cannot withstand them he should tell us because there is no basis for negotiation.
“This is the time for Jonathan to act like an Ijaw man and he should stop disgracing us.
“Jonathan should hit them and he should tell usif he cannot hit them so that we can help him to hit them mercilessly. I have the potential to hit them hard. It is on record that I once held Nigeria hostage and Nigeria could not produce oil for 48 hours and my activities forced the prices of crude oil globally to rise by $30 one day. It was unprecedented and I can repeat it.
“The plot against Jonathan will surely fail but the President should be decisive with these people once and for all. Jonathan should assert himself as President and put these people where they should be. Obasanjo, who is leading these people did two terms and he plotted a third term.
“There should be no negotiation with dissidents. It should be total war, no retreat, nosurrender and let us see who will run first. There is time for peace and there is time for war. This is the time to go into war.
“Jonathan should know that this is the time for war and if he cannot sustain the war, we will help him to sustain it. How many governors attempted to frustrate Obasanjo? Ibori and others were united behind Atiku Abubakar to frustrate Obasanjo and they failed because Obasanjo was strong, assertive, decisive and courageous.
“Jonathan should be strong to deal with them but whether he is strong or not, we are ready tosupport and stand by him. It is not a one-man battle but a total war and they must be totally vanquished.”
Besides, Asari-Dokubo asked Jonathan to hand over the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to the ex-fighters in the Niger Delta for a decisive action.
On Amaechi, he said, “Let the security men step aside and let us see how Amaechi can come to Rivers State. Amaechi should not be protected because he has betrayed the collective interest of the Niger Delta.
“Jonathan should be decisive and look at the other way and allow us to stand on the streets for 24 hours and we will see whether this madness by Amaechi will not end.” [/b]

The President believes that those who ignited the crisis should also look for ways to put it off.

enigmang: I know they say no permanent enemies ... Byt they also say OBJ never forgets...

I don't think he can ever work with Atiku.. In fact just because Atiku is there has spoilt the other factions chances

chukwudi44: Don't forget that, 23% of Nigerian electorates are in Lagos and Kano, both outside the reach of Mr. GEJ. lol.

Bros Lagos is a cosmopolitan city,the population of SS/SE/MB residents there are very high and will count for GEJ

A manufacturing company specialising in information and communications technology (ICT) products, which is capable of generating about 20,000 jobs for youths, has started operations in Osun state.
Speaking at the company’s corporate office in Osogbo, the national sales manager, Alex Oyebamiji, disclosed that the firm, which started about 12 years ago to help promote entrepreneurship development through applied ICT, got to Nigeria about two years ago.
He said the firm has decided to partner Osun state government with the aim of manufacturing ICT products like phones, laptops and computer tablets.
Oyebamiji also disclosed that the factory for the company, which is located in Ilesa, has reached 85 per cent completion, and this makes it to be the first ICT company to build a factory of its own in that part of Nigeria.
On the choice of Osun state, he said the state has a divine economic policy and “everyone is aware that ICT facilitates global business. Economically, the state has been very vibrant. There is high response to ICT appreciation. The people have been responding to the quest for scholarship after winning our proposed raffle draw.”
He added, “Our intention is to empower youth after training. We would start by engaging five hundred youths immediately after completing the factory. Later over one thousand youth would be employed to work in the factory.
“Other segment of workers will be determined by the product range as the products and pricesare segmented into low, middle and high class,in accordance with the distributorship or dealership and retailer-ship levels”.
He further stated that accessibility to the Lagos-Abuja Express road, electricity and manpower accounted for the decision of the company to site its company at Ilesa.
As part of the activities of the company in the past, Oyebamiji said by May this year, about 5,000 youths graduated from the company’s training session. He added that 100 out of themhave been picked and trained for technical work at their factory in Ghana. They were trained on how to assemble and repair phones, laptops, computer tablets and all other ICT facilities.
Also, as corporate citizen’s responsibility, the company has donated sixteen buses with its logo on them offering free ride to the people in Ilesa, Ila, Ede, while ten out of these buses are plying Osogbo metropolis

The statement said the summit was expected to underscore the importance of Internet as a modern day tool for excellence and a vehicle for exposing the vulnerability of youths.

Aigbofa: How come the Federal government didn't spend any money in your caves? Until you present the bill of sales that FG bought Lagos,you should be prepared to learn Yoruba, and left to me I will make you get Yoruba tribal marks too.
Which one do you prefer; keke olowu or abaja oluwu, so many styles to choose from.