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Which ICAN centre would you recommend as the best?

It took you over 50yrs to realize this. You must be a learner. Abeg go piss go sleep!

berem: So what's the way forward? fight another war to correct the mistakes of the SouthSouth?

Gbam!

... When trouble sleeps yanga go wake am, na wetin ide find...

0lumide: Yes yes yes boss!!!!!!

Buhari must not step dowmn.. He is the only leader who has proven to be honest, patriotic and pick the best minds to work with him..


Buhari to me is not really the one that is important if he wins presidency but we need the people he will bring to the table. Buhari has never worked with lame civil servants.

He has always picked the best of the best to work with. Coupled with his zero tolerance for corruption, those under him should know jail awaits them should they try to mess up.

EFCC will have a free hand under Buhari! 2015!!

Buahri/Fashola/Oshiomole!! My take is that, it will be Buhari/Oshiomole or Okorocha(Still in doubt) while Fashola will be senate president given his law background which is excellent.

Buhari neva fot corruption. He was only a pupet under idiagbon, he knows nothing about governance, that is y he was removed easily by ibb!

Is high time all nothern leaders change the orientation of their wards toward love or else the north will disintegrate by 2015 most especially the north east. How on earth can civilised people who are sane be killing one another in this modern era? Are these people carnibals? God help them. They say what you sow is what you reap.

goduzu: y is it hard for nigerians to understand simple english language?GEJ said if senate agrees of 6yrs unrenewable single term tenure he will not contest...isn't diz a gud thing dat office holders can only stay for 6yrs instead of 8years??wether nigerians like it or not if GEJ contest for 2015 he will win..

Thank you guduzu I was just waiting for the right reasonable person to hit on that, and there you have made the point very clear. Let all those noise makers continue they will be surprise what befalls them!

Sincere 9gerian: Most of the people who insult, abuse and call the President derogatory names are always quick to point to alleged "sins" of President Jonathan. What are these "sins"? Are these "sins" commensurate with the degree of abuses and insults?

First lets explore some of the common alleged "sins" of the president.

1 Fuel price hike: I understand the emotions and sentiments associated with fuel price hike but the REALITY is that fuel is a COMMODITY and like any other commodity, the price of fuel must change from time to time. Unfortunately because of increasing crude oil price, that change is upwards most times. In addition, since Independence almost every govt had to adjust the price of petrol upwards.
https://www.nairaland.com/1275528/history-fuel-price-increase-nigeria

The only two govts that didn't hike the price of petrol were that Buhari and Yar Adua, and the reasons were OBVIOUS. Buhari truncated a democratically elected govt and it was only sensible not to tamper with price of petrol to avoid the additional headache of civil unrest. In the case of Yar Adua, the election that brought him to power was the most fraudulent in the history of Nigeria. Therefore, the govt had to use slight reduction in price of fuel to buy some credibility. This fact was well captured in the recently released book of Olusegun Adeniyi, the then spokesperson of the Yar Adua govt. He wrote:

"it was the reduction of d pump price of fuel from #65 to #60 dat triggered the increase in subsidy payments. Yar'adua used dat reduction to gain some level of legitimacy,following wide condemnations that trailed hs election.
The FIFA under 17 world cup in Nigeria in 2009 prevented Yar Adua from total removal of subsidy cos he didnt want Nigerians to protest while we had foreigners in our midst. He travelled to Saudi 2days before d policy could be effected & never came back. (Olusegun Adeniyi - Politics,Power And Death)

Also the recently elected govt of Ghana increased fuel price just few days after elections. Ghaninians have not started calling their president names because of that

In the light of the above, the question then is why should GEJ be crucified for doing what was inevitable? Why the insults and name calling for fuel price hike?

2 The president is not fighting corruption: GEJ has been accused of not fighting corruption. Instances such as pardon of Alams and failure of the president to declare his assets are the common instances. I admit GEJ has not be RADICAL in terms of fighting corruption. GEJ has not gone all out flogging and bundling governors, ministers and former presidents/head of states into prisons. But are those expectations REALISTIC? Can those such happen in a democracy? Even if it can happen in a democracy, does GEJ have the political base to do all of those? How many governors (even the over hyped ones) have fought corruption in that manner in their states? Is there any law prohibiting governors from fighting corruption?

GEJ may not have taken RADICAL measures to curb corruption but we cannot deny the TRANSPARENCY in govt business in the last few years. We must not forget the ongoing prosecution of fuel subsidy thieves (including the son of PDP chairman), pension thieves, bank chief executives, political exposed persons, legislators enmeshed in bribery scandal, etc.

We must not forget that the job of the president ends with investigation and prosecution. It is the job of the judiciary to convict or acquit suspects as the case maybe. The new Chief Justice of the federation is trying to cleanse the judiciary of corrupt judges. We hope she succeeds as that'll help fast track prosecution of corruption cases.

In addition, we must not forget that corruption has existed since independence. In fact, corruption was one of reasons for the first military coup.

On the issue of declaration of asset, the position of the LAW is that the president and other public office holders should declare their assets to the code of conduct bureau, NOT to the public. While it may not be wrong if the president goes EXTRA mile to declare his assets public, I consider it as PLAYING TO THE GALLERY. Public declaration of the assets of the president CANNOT and can NEVER curb corruption. For instance, Yar Adua declared his assets publicly but it did not stop the govt from sacking Ribadu and shielding Ibori from prosecution. It was under the same Yar Adua govt that Hilary Clinton said "the EFCC has fallen"

Personally, I hate playing to the gallery. If we want to curb corruption through public declaration of assets, we have to amend the laws for ALL public officials to declare their assets publicly. Of what use is will it be if GEJ declares his assets publicly, while the senate president, speaker, governors do not? The RIGHT thing to do is for ALL to declare their assets publicly. That is what all Nigerians should ask the NASS to do. It is their responsibility to amend the law. Why is no one interested in that?

Is it not obvious, of all the election ever conducted and won except for the annulled one only the GEJ election has been proven to be free and fair with no military taken over. The simple point is the president receives insult because he was voted in by majority of the people and sworn in with no military disturbance and as such evil people hate him and don't want him to concenterate in his objective.

Prof Corruption: Abati and his numerous unending lies! Set up an independent panel, not a report from the military high command! They alleged of military brutality yet the clueless president is singing praises of the same military report. Like seriously, is he this daft? Does he expect the military to indict or incriminate itself?

Is it today that JTF or MNJTF just started operations? Why has this type of allegation never made against them in the past? There is something definitely wrong this time around. Set up a full independent panel and quit this annoying propaganda code named preliminary reports.

can you please be silent if you don't have any reasonable contribution to make. Another empty vessel!

They have come again empty vessels all they know is to cry foul, they have done or contributed nothing to the development of the country but to make false noise bunch of lunatic.

easy way to end what is currently befalLing my Country, A Country filled with intellectuals capable of becoming the best in whatever he likes to do and get the right support. God Bless Nigeria. [/quote]Yes the easiest way is for each region should focus on its own development.

Michaeljones36: For a long time it looked like GEJ was really going to turn things around...

Two years later and he's just like the rest of them.

How long must black people suffer before we reach the promised land?

Abeg make we hear word. What has gej got to do with the headline abi you no fit read and understand. Mchew!

Is that personal or general? If it's d latter u better watch it cos nigeria is not damned! Is that clear. Tanx

gboss4sure: What happened to our borders? Nigeria is Damned

Ouch_Daddy: ONLY IN NIGERIA.....*sighs...this is crazy!! So re u guys telling me, the boko-haram leader was Live on set via the Voice Of America programme on radio, & some other person was interviewing him & people was listening to it too, & d Government can't arrest the producer of dat programme & d so called-leader himself ??... This is Crazy & unheard of!!! Any Youth dat supports PDP come 2015 will neva Progress in LIFE.... IDIOTS!!!!

no u don't do that except u want to cause more bombing, the best way is to strategise that is playing to their gallery

This sounds to me like setup jus to set a trap and a big one at that.

Is this an hausa service or wat!

haba!

[quote
author=JudismphD]Since u have taken your own part of the national cake
unda Gej and relocate to Niger to lavish tax payers money with your
concubine and 18 cows, you can now speak like a saint in the wilderness
mumu.[/quote]haba!