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Signs of a badly ruled nation: If you say that Nigeria is dirty, someone will say come to Lagos , when you come to Lagos and complain that it's such a chaotic place, someone will say, come Lekki and when get to there and see that there is no power, someone will say come to my house where there is everything or you go Abuja and visit Aso Rock.

cyberfreak
I don't even believe that Bin Laden is the one talking on the tape. Multitudes know by now that he was not responsible for 9/11 and yet here is recording of 'him' claiming to be responsible for it.

Maybe you are reading  tons of documents related to 9/11 written by Northern radical clerics only if they knew how to write. Or maybe you read materials from Ikebe Super Magazine. If u dont agree with the US, dont come here to share ignorance cos we already ve had enough.You are not an expert on terrorism, that "I dont believe " clause  doesn't change anything and it makes you sound insular, and devoid of any current affairs.


And as for your saying that Nigeria condones terrorism, that may well be so but the people who named Nigeria 'a country of interest, did not do so because we have ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria (which other countries also have by the way but are nowhere on that list) rather we were called so because of Farouk Muttalab. A boy who was not trained to be a terrorist in Nigeria and was radicalised in Britain. We are 'a country of interest' simply because he is a Nigerian.
That is it.
So it is not justified.
Since this is the case, why isnt Britain also a country of interest? And by the way, who made the U.S. a world government with the right to place tags on countries.

Maybe they should have called Nigeria a country of interest when all these Jihadists and Boko Harams have taken over Abuja and Lagos.U keep trivialising the magnitude of these problems. Osama Bin Laden, even though U believe is a character in Tales By Moonlight, had mentioned Nigeria in some of his speeches and your so called friends in Aso Rock and northern elite kept  and are still keeping mum because they benefit from the status quo.in your warped thinking, a country harbouring Jihadists who kill and maim in the name of their God is not terrorism. Maybe you should go and live in Jos and try to tell these guys not to kill and see if you can make it alive to write your stories.  When a section of the country sympathises with  Taliban and Muslims over a cartoon in Denmark and feels the blood of their  country men/women should be used to appease fellow Muslims- then this should be treated as terrorism. Or it's OK  for Nigerians to be killed in the name of Islam since "other" countries are having the same problems.I wonder if UK is also among  since it's not listed as a country of interest by the US.UK has laws in the books dealing with terrorism and has  prosecuted all the terrorists, while your country is still in denial.

you can see this kind of thing in usa too Maybe in your figment of imagination. It wasnt OK for white settlers to oppress black Zimbabweans, but it's for a black man- Mugabe to turn his fellow country men/women into slaves. I know for sure that Zims would rather like to live in happy times than these hard times.

who says Nigeria doesnt have terrorists. Where are the skeptics who allege that Farouk is a novice to be a bomber?

Nigerian Tribune

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Senators plan 7-day ultimatum for Yar’Adua - 75 senators sign motion to empower Jonathan

Written by From Taiwo Adisa, Ayodele Adesanmi, Idowu Samuel, Bola Badmus and Tunde Oyesina

THE bid to empower Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as acting president took a different turn on Wednesday, as more senators signed the motion

seeking to empower the vice-president as acting president.

It was gathered on Wednesday that no fewer than 75 senators had signed the motion, which could be presented to the Senate plenary today.

The motion could be presented after the briefing of the senators by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Yayale Ahmed.

Sources, however, confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that the senators have now resolved to pass the motion that would compel ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to transmit a letter to the National Assembly in line with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution and back it up with a seven-day ultimatum.



Sources said the senators took the latest decision on the ultimatum when news filtered to them that the SGF did not have any new information of the state of health of President Yar’Adua.

Sources said the decision to summon Alhaji Ahmed by the Senate came as a surprise to the former head of service of the federation, who was said to have confided in his close allies that he suspected that the Senate was out to ridicule him.

The SGF was said to have told his close allies that the senators knew that he had not travelled outside the country for about six months now and he did not have any new information on the health of the president.

The moves were coming on the heels of a visit by some Nigerians, including the former Senate President, Senator Pius Anyim; former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ibrahim Mantu and 38 others led by Senator Anyim to the Senate and the House of Representatives to seek an end to the political impasse caused by the president’s absence.

The group, in a paper presented to the Senate President, David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, ‘Dimeji Ban-kole, said the presentation of a letter to the National Assembly in Yar’Adua’s signature would resolve the ongoing impasse.

Anyim, who read the presentation by the group at the meeting with Senator Mark, said “Mr Senate President/Honourabl e Speaker, we want to emphasise that the present state of affairs in Nigeria has exposed the weakness of our constitution in this regard and the most cogent step to take is to prepare its amendment with a view to preventing future occurrences.”

Mark told the group that the Senate would look for the resolution of the political logjam within the 1999 Constitution, while Bankole justified the decisions taken so far by the House on the matter.

The moves in the Senate sent jitters to the presidency as the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Mike Aondoakaa, met with lawyer senators.

The meeting, which started at 4.00 p.m., lasted till 6.00 p.m and was held inside Room 313 of the Senate new building.

The chairman of the meeting, Senator Umaru Dahiru, did not brief journalists at the end of the meeting, but when told that Nigerians were waiting, he only said “let them wait.”

The meeting, according to sources, was aimed at ensuring that the lawyers in the Senate prevail on their colleagues to drop the threat of impeachment through the signature collection.

Also, on Wednesday, it was confirmed that 75 senators had signed the motion seeking to empower Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to act as president.

A group of 60 senators had, earlier in the week, reportedly signed up to present a motion to revisit the issue of the health condition of President Yar’Adua, based on the provisions of Section 143 of the 1999 Constitution.

The Deputy Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma Egba, argued that the move was insensitive and against the spirit of the constitution, adding that the Senate was constrained by the constitution to take such an action against Yar’Adua under the present circumstances.

The senators, on Tuesday, refrained from the debate on the fresh motion to empower Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan as acting president because of the need to listen to the submissions of Alhaji Ahmed, who was due to appear before the Senate today.

It was gathered that the lawmakers who were behind the fresh motion were of the view that everything must be done to stabilise Nigeria.

They insisted that even if the impeachment option was the only one open to the lawmakers, they had to explore it

Who says Nigeria does not habour terrorists?

na wa for naija

they dont  have term limits. It's up to the shareholders to fire MD/CEO. Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was once fired from the company he founded. Folks like Ibru and Akingbola could still wreck havoc on the system  with their set term limits. It's for CBN to put in place an effective monitoring system through auditing and transparent accounting practices. I dont want a good CEO or money manager to be relieved of his/her duties because of term limits. You dont change a winning team. Does NB PLC have term limts? I want a CEO that has got a proven track record

the man looks old. who is this lady minus nude pics?

I think that a lot of people on NL are uninformed sentimental and purely anti-govt.
@adconline the CBN is not appointing MDs 4d banks nd the banking sector can't be compared wit d broadcasting sector, if AIT should fail hw many of us wil lose moneies? So u won't expect the regulations to be the same.
Setting term limits stipulates who's qualified to be an MD or a CEO. It's should be the job of shareholders to do that. Did u remember how Mr Odimegwu, former MD of NB PLC was made to leave? Security and Exchange Commission did not set the rules.

The problem is that Dems are a bunch of bookish liberals who might have read about politics, but dont really know how to play it. They forgot that the election was held last year. Bush and Karl Rove got anything they wanted with 51 votes while Dems with 60 votes were negotiating against each other. They alienated their base by trying to appeal to everyone. If Dems were energized they would have won the election MA since the ratio of DEMs to GOP is 3:1. They had all the time to pass some of these major legislations if they had taken into that someone was sitting on Kennedy's borrowed seat. Why did you spend all the energy on bipartisanship when you couldn't get any1 to endorse your stimulus bill? Dems helped Bush to pass TARP while they refused to vote for Obama's stimulus bill. It's either they were naive or delusional to think that they would have a bipartisan support. They hoped for a country that never was and never will be. Thanks to GOP and Independents for punishing these egghead liberalswho feel that politics is a choir practice where every1 is required to sing in consonant tunes.

These banks obtained their licences from where? Anyone say cbn, ?So doesn't it make sense for the cbn to regulate and oversee their activities? Last time i looked,the banks were PLCs,not anyone's asusu. The interest of the shareholder is paramount.
So AIT, Channels, Silverbird CEOs should be appointed by NBC since they all got their operating licenses from it. Or maybe Cadbury and NB PLC should be told who should be their CEOs.

Who says Nigeria is not a terrorist state?

these banks are not owned by Sanusi and company. Shouldn't it be up to shareholders to remove CEOs and MDs?

Rev Mary Slessor did not pray to stop killing of infants, she worked, Rev Martin Luther protested and worked.Bishop Desmond Tutu worked and protested. Faith without good work is in vain. The truth you speak will set you free not the truth you know.

this woman wey dey use her bottom to get anything she wants. from her time as a manager in Standard Trust bank in Awka, her relationship with Mbadinuju, she's always used her sexuality as a tool. maybe it will not work this time.

But granting visas is a prerogative of the USA, just like Naija has the right to refuse visas to US public officials

Groups raise doubts about Wyclef Jean's charity
Jan. 15, 2010, 8:41 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, questioning its accounting practices and ability to function in earthquake-hit Haiti.

Even as more than $2 million poured into The Wyclef Jean Foundation Inc. via text message after just two days, experts questioned how much of the money would help those in need.

"It's questionable. There's no way to get around that," said Art Taylor, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.

Related: Wyclef to co-host Clooney's Hope For Haiti telethon

Taylor reviewed Internal Revenue Service tax returns for the organization also known as Yele Haiti Foundation from 2005 through 2007. He said the first red flag of poor accounting practices was that three years of returns were filed on the same day — Aug. 10 of last year.

In 2007, the foundation's spending exceeded its revenues by $411,000. It brought in just $79,000 that year.

"Here's the bottom line: for an earthquake of catastrophic proportions, do people really believe that this organization is in a position to do anything right now?" he said.

Jean, a 37-year-old Grammy-winning artist, has been imploring followers to text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to his foundation in support of Haitian earthquake victims.

The foundation, founded in January 2005, intends to airlift supplies using a FedEx plane into Haiti early next week carrying medical supplies, water and Clif Bars, according to foundation president Hugh Locke.

An Associated Press review of tax returns and independent audits provided by Jean's foundation showed that it was closely intertwined with Jean's businesses.

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Three of the five foundation board members — Jean, Jerry Duplessis and Seth Kanegis — are involved in his personal music and business endeavors.

According to an IRS tax return from 2006 reviewed earlier by the Web site The Smoking Gun, the foundation paid $250,000 to buy airtime from Telemax S.A., a for-profit TV station in Haiti that is majority owned by Jean and Duplessis.

Part of that money went to pay for a concert in Haiti put on by Jean himself, Locke said.

Another $160,000 that year was spent on a concert in Monte Carlo that Jean participated in, of which $75,000 paid for backup singers and $25,000 went to Jean through a company he owns with Duplessis, Platinum Sound Recording Studios Inc., Locke said.

"I'm not saying he didn't benefit from it," said Locke, who says his own salary is $8,100 a month after taxes. "We were paying that to Platinum Sound because that covered the cost of him participating in the event."

Locke argued that the foundation took in "several hundred thousand" dollars in exchange for Jean's work through the proceeds of an auction.

The foundation also rents office space from Platinum Sound, paying about $2,600 a month in New York. Locke said the foundation also plans to partner with Jean's Sak Pase Records to build a music studio to provide vocational training to Haitian children.

Haiti Quake: How you can help

Sandra Miniutti, vice president of marketing for Charity Navigator, an organization that evaluates charities, said the foundation was too small to have been examined recently, although the current flood of goodwill may change that. Its revenue in 2008 was $1.9 million.

"My concern is it goes against our first tip, and that is to give only to groups with experience with disaster relief," Miniutti said. "I think it's very hard for a new organization even with the best intentions to handle something on this magnitude."

Locke said the foundation has been directly involved in delivering food and providing clean-up services in many disasters, including the hurricanes that devastated Haiti in late 2008. Jean's standing among Haitians can help the foundation gain access to gang-controlled or other troubled regions, he said.

"We have a niche which no one else occupies," Locke said.

He said the foundation is now seeking bridge financing to allow it to use money that has been pledged in unprecedented volumes by text message.

It could take at least a month for donors' money to flow in because it is not released until they pay their phone bills.

That delay presents a challenge and an opportunity, the Better Business Bureau's Taylor said.

"The challenge is they can't do anything until they get the money," Taylor said. "The opportunity is that some people may change their minds and decide that $10 or whatever they text to him might be better used somewhere else."
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=452067&GT1=28102

Another witch doctor or fortune teller? Can you tell us where is Mr Umaru Yar'dua?

huffington is soo left. Ariana was once a right winger, but she's now a lib. get your facts straight

Just as your name suggests - It takes a monkey to reason like you are doing right now.

Anyways; Ignorance is bliss
u are the ignoramus here. In a country/town where everyone walks about naked, even if you ve got  an Armani suit on, you are still the ignorant one.  U  are also not credible. Folks like Soyinka and Falana are more credible than a nameless person like you.

I'd rather give $10 to relief efforts in Haiti than giving it to a friend who's bound to spend it on some bottles of shine shine bobo or gulder.

Maybe most Nigerians in diaspora who have been made economic dissidents by some Nigerians in Naija are now to be blamed. In 2009 Nigerians in diaspora sent home $10 billion representing over 50% of Nigerian budget in 2009. If these folks didnt care as you have claimed, they would not have thrown this lump sum into a toilet called Naija.

The guy didn't want the burden of 100% paying 4 an elaborate with a Naija gal

'Hate-cleric' returned to Kenya
A Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred has been sent back to Nairobi by Nigeria, days after he was expelled from Kenya.

A Kenyan minister had said Abdullah al-Faisal was being deported to The Gambia after attempts to send him overland to Tanzania had failed.

Reports say that airlines refused to take him from Nigeria to The Gambia and his Nigerian transit visa expired.

Kenya said Faisal was being deported because of his "terrorist history".

The cleric served four years in a UK prison after being convicted of soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.

His lawyer arranged for him to speak to reporters from his prison cell in Kenya.


“ We don't understand why he is there [prison] because he has never been charged in court ”
Al-Amin Kimathi Muslim Human Rights Group
"I was deported to The Gambia but when I reached Nigeria, an airline there declined to fly me to Gambia," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

Faisal's lawyers say they will go to court for an order that he should either be charged or freed.

He was arrested on 31 December after attending prayers in the coastal city of Mombasa.

Kenya's Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said Faisal was on an international terrorist watch-list, but the cleric denied that when speaking from prison.

Mr Kajwang said on Thursday he understood that Faisal had already landed in The Gambia.

A Muslim human rights group has condemned his treatment.

"We don't understand why he is there [prison] because he has never been charged in court," said Muslim Human Rights Group head Al-Amin Kimathi.

Racial hatred

Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica - though he left the island 26 years ago, initially living in the UK.

His parents were Salvation Army officers and he was raised as a Christian.


But at the age of 16 he went to Saudi Arabia - where he is believed to have spent eight years - and became a Muslim.

He took a degree in Islamic Studies in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, before coming back to the UK.

Faisal spent years travelling the UK preaching racial hatred urging his audience to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners.

A year after being deported from the UK in 2007, he was preaching in South Africa.

The Kenyan authorities said Faisal had arrived in Kenya on 24 December after travelling through Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Malawi and Tanzania.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/8451515.stm

Published: 2010/01/11 11:20:24 GMT

lagosboy
Where were these suicide bombers when Saddam invaded a muslim nation of Kuwait?
What does this have to do with Nigeria? Why do folks like you care that a Palestenian is killed while thousands are dying in the north because of health problems and corruption. Why is your affinity to a stranger in Iraq while your neighbour's blood in Naija is a worth sacrifice for your beliefs?

Why is it OK for muslims to also kill fellow muslims? Mutallab didnt give a bleep if there were Muslims on the airplane.

This lady had dated Mark Shutleworth, one of  the founders of Ubuntu Linux project He's an IT millionaire who made money from selling his IT security firm Thawte to VeriSign . he made over $500 million when he sold the company. He's the first and only African to have  shuttled to space.

So this lady is a  high-flier. I wonder y he didnt marry her.

This is like  Halle Berry picking a younger guy from Canada to turn her swagger on, but they started on a clean slate though. no babies from previous relationships.

They took from Kimora Lee Simons and Djimon Hounsou's play book. So he's going to be a husband and "my other dad" MOD to her kids. good luck. Ladies, I told you that the lady paid  for this wedding.  Think about it if you could a young Harvard educated sexy guy who is 6 years your junior with no kids and good prospects/job  to propose to you, would you not pay for the wedding if you are rich and famous?


They should make it work this time around. Dont be like Star Jones pls

Why are they beefing the girls who want this kind of wedding? You lot seem to have forgotten its 50/50 these days.
Talk is cheap. Tell any Naija girl that she will pay for the traditional wedding and  you will pay for the white wedding or vice versa and see if she will not slap the hell out of your head. Or her parents will say that you  are still considering being a Rev priest or a husband. 50% is fallacy that does not happen in real life.

can someone tell me where this was held and the planner.
South Africa.

best wedding money could buy. "If money smell this bad ,then this N,  Biggie is stinking". BIGGIE SMALLS.

Ladies, this kind of wedding happens only when the bride is willing to pay for it. The bride is a Mega Star in South Africa. So this is not your average wedding. Stop dreaming.

is the time 17GMT or 5PM Naija time. Any online like where I can stream this game live?