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I wish Madiba 'soonest recover'. LOL

This is a case of child abuse cos this lad is too youngm to  make such decision.

Upright750:
@akinnux how would you get steady light without the pipeline for the gas . ode , you think the model light supply base on old model dam . The new generation light go along with the pipeline for the gas supply

Funkymallam:
Bros, i am sorry but u r d daft person here. Hw do u generate power without pipelines to supply gas to power d turbines?
Sorry bro, but nxt time u dnt undstnd a topic dnt comment cus u r already 'fed up'

Sure, fuel subsidy brouhahaha

@Topic.
Thats quite alot off cash, hope it will b invested properly n d pipelines secured frm further vandalism.

I can the President Jonathan has a lot of attack dogs here who are ready defend his decisions, no matter how daft. I am not opposed to building pipelines for gas but why can't we raise this fund internally. I certainly do not accept putting Nigeria into eternal debt because the debt burden would further impoverished the long suffering Nigerians.

I believe the new police boss should be more focused and stop majoring on the minors.
What the Nigerian Police needs is change of heart and reorientation.
Making the police to work professionally with state-of-the-art facilities should be his priority.

I doff my hat for Governor Okorocha. If Nigeria has just ten of his type, Nigeria will never be the same.
I wish God will give my beleaguered Kogi State this type of Governor.
I certainly own him a vote in any national election in the future.

Is this President daft or something?
Is the laying of pipeline our national priority at this point in time. Pipeline for what?
No light, no road, no water, no affordable housing, security zero, healthcare zero, unemployment soaring.
Why plunge the country into further debt? I thought OBJ claimed Nigeria is free from debt.
Please this man should just resign and allow capable hands to take over the administration of this country.
I am fed up.

I hope he appreciate responsibilities placed on this shoulder by this confirmation. He should hit the ground running and save this nation from internal bleeding occasioned by corruption.

This is immorality at its peak. Proposing to a baby mama while expecting a third child from another baby mama. Haba. Tuface has finally lost his conscience. He is bad role model. I can only blame his parents who failed to train him to be a responsible man. But then what about those ladies with cockroach brain who kept opening their useless thigh for him.

Mr. IGP, you ideas are good on paper. What you need to do is to reorient and retrain your men and also be ready to make scape goat of erring officers. The image of Nigeria police is so battered that it require drastic and decisive action to salvage. It is so bad that bribes are being demanded and collected even at the Police station. The good Lord will see you through.

harakiri:
What's with all this "holier than thou" nonsense? Didn't Jesus enter into another man's field to steal corn on a Sabbath day due to his hunger? What are you people talking about?

How dare you accuse Jesus of stealing corn? It shows you are very ignorant of the word of God. All you do is just to pick a line of the scriptures to satisfy you blasphemous and base mind. But the Lord in his mercy will touch your heart and open your eyes to the truth. For your education, Jesus did not steal a corn. What Jesus and his disciple did in Matt. 12:1 was acceptable within the cultural setting of the Jews.

The fact is that language usage changes with time because language is dynamic. In the Elizabethan era, the word 'Ghost' is generally understood as 'spirit'. Indeed there are many other words in the King James Bible which meaning are no longer  'meaningful' today that is the reason we have the New King James Bible. So really, it just a matter of changing times and language: the two words 'spirit' and 'ghost' have the same meaning.

Nigerians get ready.
This is time to OCCUPY every available transformer and PHCN offices nationwide.
This government has made fool of us too many times.
Sovereignty belong to the people.
But we have already lost our sovereignty as Nigerian to the Cabals and rulers that continues to impoverish and suppress us.
Arise O compatriots.
Let us salvage Nigeria.

Ojo Maduekwe again! When are we going to be free from politics of patronage and recycling? When will my generation take charge of affairs in Nigeria, I mean the 1970s generation? We really need to clamour for change of power to younger and visionary generation.

Serves them right. Such act of indiscipline should not be tolerated in our sporting life and it will also serve as a strong warning to other sport participants to desist from such act.

This is welcome development. As a former staff of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), we've always known that Tai Solarin University, the Ibogun, Ikenne and Ayetoro campuses of OOU were created because of the 2nd term politics of OGD, even though that was the original idea of the founding fathers. Infact he was even promising to upgrade the Ibogun and Ayetoro campus to University. Now the whole project has collapse because they are not sustainable. The main campus of OOU was grossly underfunded while the other campuses of the University were glorified secondary school. I just hope the Amosun would do a proper reorganisation to bring back the lost glory of OOU.

Great Ife has come of age. Great salute to the founding founders, staff, students and all the alumni that have pass through this great school. Congratulations on this golden jubilee anniversary.

Well done Dele, you really hit him below the belt. But if I may ask what is Abati doing with two wives.

Dele Momodu criticized GEJ in an article he wrote last Saturday titled - In Search of a Radical President'. Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati obviously didn't like what was written and replied Bob Dee in today's Thisday Newspaper. Dele Momodu has also issued a response to Reuben's article. Read it all below,

Jonathan: A Radical President By Reuben Abati
I have always regarded Dele Momodu as a man of very passionate convictions, but lately, I have begun to wonder about the motives that drive his recent contributions to the public discussion of the state of our nation.
I started to worry when he suddenly decided he wanted to be President of Nigeria. A day after D-Day, the joke on Twitter, Facebook and online (the essential scourge of our time) was that Dele Momodu got only one vote at the polling booth in his ward, and that even his wife who followed him to the polling booth voted for someone else - Goodluck Jonathan, most probably. But he has trudged on since then like a man of faith, proclaiming his undying faith in Nigeria.

Dele Momodu has made it clear since then that he is very disenchanted with President Goodluck Jonathan. I have also noticed a strange and inexplicable streak of extreme radicalism in his ThisDay column in recent times, and I have had cause to call him to express my amazement. He is ordinarily right of centre, but he is gradually shifting to far left of centre. I confess to not being very certain about what could have caused this sudden shift to extremism by Bob Dee, but frustration, anger, mischief, misinformation, partisanship, and expediency have been suggested.

He fully advertised his “apostasy” in his piece titled “In Search of A Radical President” (Saturday, January 28). What was missing in that fallacy-laden analysis, as in most criticisms of President Jonathan, is a proper contextualization and deconstruction of the current Presidency. Momodu says the “fad in government today in Nigerian government circles is to label every critic as an enemy of government”. But there are truths and there are fallacies. What needs be noted is that President Jonathan does not consider any critic of his administration, an enemy.

President Jonathan, it must be remembered, signed the Freedom of Information Bill into law, whereas at least two Presidents before him demurred on the same issue. During the “removal of fuel subsidy” protests, the President repeatedly acknowledged the average Nigerian’s right to protest. He publicly declared that he is prepared to take unpopular decisions in the long term interest of Nigerians, at the risk of being abused in the short-term. The President’s conviction is that every Nigerian should enjoy the right to know, and the right to differ, and that Nigeria is a collective enterprise. He is a man who truly believes in the rule of law and the sovereignty of Nigeria.

However, when people talk about the disintegration of Nigeria, or regime change, it certainly bothers President Jonathan who rightly insists that he will not preside over a Nigeria that will disintegrate. The problematic in Momodu’s analysis is thus to be thrown back at its source. The true enemies of our country are the anarchists who insist that Nigerian must disintegrate. The real enemies of the Nigerian project are those who for opportunistic reasons seem to have resolved that they will not allow the present administration to have a moment of peace. Democracy yes; but anarchism, no. Where exactly does Momodu stand?

I go to the second level of Momodu’s very apparent discontent. This goes back to the circumstances of President Jonathan’s emergence as President: how he was the underdog without shoes that nobody gave a chance, the man that everyone including Professor Wole Soyinka, Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Save Nigeria Group and our very own Dele Momodu helped all the way to the throne, and now that he is there, he no longer remembers those who made him king! As Momodu puts it: “…we expected to see a President full of gratitude to man and God. We had hoped to have a radical President who would use his exalted position to correct the ills of our nation and heal our wounds…”

The sub-text of Momodu’s assertion is that too many people think Dr. Jonathan is President because of their own personal sacrifices, and Momodu makes that clear. And he is not alone. The attendant verbiage is like this: we fought for him to be President, when the Yar’Adua cabal did not want him; and he doesn’t seem to be showing us enough gratitude. Or the other face of it: he is using our term; if Yar’Adua had not died, he would not be President now. Or as the royalists put it: where is he coming from? How did we allow a minority to emerge as President?

Of course, the truth is that the essential Jonathan persona has not changed in any negative way since he assumed the mantle of national leadership. The President remains a perfect embodiment of humility who fully appreciates that it is a great privilege to be entrusted with the leadership of our great nation. He has certainly not forgotten the millions of ordinary Nigerians who voted to elect him and he constantly proclaims that God has been very kind to him. Nobody in Nigerian history has been so significantly historic, given the awakening of his emergence and its illustrative dimensions.

But he asks for one favour: the “shoe-givers” should allow him to walk with the shoes and effectively implement his agenda for national transformation. President Jonathan sincerely wants to transform Nigeria. They should allow him to do so. The most ardent critics have spoken about declining goodwill and declining legitimacy. The latter is fictitious because the legitimacy is real and incontrovertible; the former is contrived, and can only be redressed by the learning of appropriate lessons on both sides. President Jonathan has a four-year tenure; those who want his position should wait till the next election to stake their claims, and not seek to sabotage Nigeria for selfish reasons. Those are the enemies Dele Momodu should worry about.

He says “a true radical”, according to Abiola, is “a man who was ready to put his personal comfort at risk.” That is precisely what President Jonathan is doing. The Presidency of Nigeria is a difficult assignment: it is not easy to lead such elite “shoe-givers” mentioned by Dele Momodu. He has however, offered “a few tips free of charge” to make the task easier, albeit he is mostly preaching to the already converted. He says President Jonathan must cut budget and slash all salaries and allowances of public officers by at least 50 per cent. But that advice is belated and not very original. The President is already doing that and more to redirect national resources away from wasteful and unproductive expenditure to critical areas of national need such as power supply, infrastructure, education, healthcare, agricultural development and employment generation.

I give a personal testimony: before my arrival at this post, the Nigerian President used to travel abroad with a retinue of independent journalists. That has been slashed to just three under Jonathan and two weeks ago, I was asked to go and reduce that figure by 25%. I still can’t figure out the calculation: 25% of 3, translated into individual representation!

Dele Momodu adds that the President: “must stop all frivolous contracts and concentrate on revamping our disgraceful infrastructure”. Sir, President Jonathan is already doing so too. It may have escaped your notice, but he set up a high-powered committee months ago to review all contracts and on-going projects, and he is diligently implementing the recommendations of that committee. I was there when that committee first presented its report. It was a comment on Nigeria. President Jonathan has inherited projects that were awarded over 50 years ago, and that are still in progress! I have never seen him so incensed. Momodu should ask: Is this President being fought by “enemies” because he resolved publicly to change the order of things?
Momodu also wrote that “…Our ragtag police are begging for serious attention.” President Jonathan has said that much and has set up a Special Committee to do just that. Momodu says: “The Presidential Villa need not be a Saudi palace.” As anyone who has been to Saudi Arabia knows, it certainly is not. Momodu also says “All foreign travels must be kept to the most essential ones as determined by the Foreign Ministry.” Mr. President already said so, two weeks ago in a national broadcast and has since acted accordingly. “The biggest task before our President is how to cut waste and increase revenue at all levels,” Momodu adds. That is precisely what Mr. President is doing. In addition, he is fighting corruption, tackling Boko Haram, encouraging investment and the diversification of the economy.

Dele Momodu complains that “we are spending trillions of Naira every year without any visible progress.” Progress is being made, and President Jonathan is as much in a hurry as every Nigerian. President Jonathan understands the great historical opportunity that he has to make a difference, and he is not relying on luck but hard-work, diligence and dedication as well as the continued support of all truly patriotic Nigerians.


Dele Momodu's response below,
Remember Reuben - By Dele Momodu
“Not every journalist begins his career with an entrée in the nature of a bang. Journalistic careers tend to take a long, and windy route of much obscurity and misfortune, rejection and despair, and then, slowly, and accidentally, the career takes an upswing and the journalist is made and born…Exceptions to this rule are rare…Dele Momodu whose book you are holding…qualify as one of such exceptions.

“Momodu has proven to be one of those over-subscribed men who appear to be in all places at all times and capable of doing anything to the best of their abilities…”
That was my friend and brother, Dr Reuben Abati, Ph.D, writing an introduction to my unpublished book, DELE MOMODU, PENDULUM: essays, letters and columns, in 1997, while I was in exile in London, one clear year before Dr Goodluck Jonathan joined politics. As I remember the Reuben of those days, I weep for Nigeria. I weep because I never imagined in my wildest dream that a day would come when Reuben, our own Reuben, would be used as an attack dog, by people who are totally disconnected from reality.

Reuben remains for me one of the finest products of journalism, a man I foolishly thought would add some finesse to the lacklustre occupiers of Aso Rock Presidential Villa. But the Reuben I see today is a shadow, a pitiable sight, of the old Reuben, who has confirmed the adage that a goat that keeps the company of dogs would eventually become a dog. How else can I describe Reuben’s crass crudity in his response to my last article, In Search of A Radical President? While I grant him the right of reply, it was cruel to have brought my dear and innocent wife, Mobolaji, into the whitewash of his boss.

I was aware he was under fire from everyone. His friends are grumbling aloud that this is not the Reuben they used to know. There are also rumblings from his employers that he was not pulling his weight and I have been one of his sympathisers. His employers are suspecting that he’s worried for his battered reputation, and thinking he might dump them if the heat gets too hot. They need not worry because our friend has crossed the Rubicon. He’s at a point of no return.

But why would Reuben ever drag my wife (a woman who had fed us all in our poverty-stricken days) in the mud? This is the only reason I’m responding to his diatribe. He knows in his heart that Nigerians are too smart to accept his assessment of Goodluck Jonathan. I expected a journalist and lawyer of his standing to check his facts but he was in a hurry to cast aspersions on my wife by subscribing to the rumour that she did not vote for me on election-day. Channels Television and BISCON Tv accompanied us to the voting centres and can bear witness to what happened that day.

My wife and I voted in different Wards within the same school. Why won’t a wife I married properly vote for me?

Beyond that, INEC recorded over 26,000 votes for me nationwide despite not having unrestricted access to public funds like Dr Abati’s boss. I would want Reuben to tell the world if indeed he and his two wives voted for President Jonathan. I doubt it, unless he was a fake critic. I can’t think of Obama’s spokesman bringing the wife of a journalist into an argument. Is this what power does to otherwise sensible men? How would posterity remember Reuben? I guess: A man who voluntarily set fire to everything he ever wrote. Shame!

Source: http://lindaikeji..com/2012/02/reuben-abati-vs-dele-momodu.html#more

I totally agree with you. Infact I support your proposal for the creation of Okun State because our identity has lost between the north and south west. Some of our greedy 'leaders' have sold us for a peanut. Infact it is almost certain that an Okun man may never become a governor in Kogi State going by the way the Ebira and Igala have dominated and suppressed the political landspace to our detriment.

Obasanjo has done his bit. Let's try new hand. I believe that many other able Nigerian, my humble self inclusive, who will even outperform Obasanjo if giving the chance to lead Nigeria.

The case is not as straight forward as people are viewing it. The court needs to pronounce whether the election of Capt. Wada as Governor-elect is still valid or not considering that the election was conducted in a period that has now been declared void. Even if the PDP settles it as 'family affairs', I am sure the opposition would definitely challenge this in court.

buy4me:
Following the early morning ruling of the Supreme Court, Kogi State Chief Judge has sworn in governor- and deputy governor- elect

You cant be serious. I thought the Speaker of the House is supposed to be sworn in in Acting capacity during which another election would be conducted. The oppositions definitely need to challenge this to Supreme Court.

Nigeria is a huge joke. Why award these governors bonus term in the first place? I believe the only way to make this judgement reasonable is to make those governors fully account for their stewardship during the illegal period they occupied the office and to also refund the illegal salaries and allowances they collected.

What is all this I am hearing about appointing an indicted officer as the new IGP. If it is true then the President has goofed again.

Nigerian politicians are funny.

I totally agree with the CNN assessment of the President. I have always had the premonition that Jonathan is not saviour that Nigeria needs that is why I did not vote for him.

I think we should just hand over the entire security system to the US for a period of 1 or 2 years because all the security personnel in Nigeria are thoroughly compromised. What improvement have we noticed in Nigerian Police with the successive change of the IGP. We should stop deceiving ourselves everyman (security) man is for himself in Nigeria.

I will indeed be disappointed with OBJ if he is indeed involved in such deal. For God sake, at his age he be rounding up his mission on earth. As for Mark and Uba, I know they surely meet their waterloo very soon because they've committed so much political atrocities in this country.

This is pathetic. It is high tide we overhaul our security system in Nigeria. Mr. President please take charge to address terrorism in Nigeria. This bloodletting is unacceptable. Only God knows who is next.

Even though military government is an aberration, the fact remains that Nigeria was better off under the military regime. What can we really point to since the commencement of the civilian regime other than gargantuan corruption and gross underdevelopment. I vote for a benevolent military regime if there is anything so called.

Prelate Ola Makinde got it wrong. The fact is that Nigeria is in emergency and requires the efforts of everybody (Pastors, Bishops, Imams, Professionals, thugs, etc) to salvage it. Even in the bible, we have many cases of people combining the offices of Prophet, King and Priest simultaneously e.g., Samuel, Moses, Melchisedek, etc. Prophets like Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezra, John the Baptist and even Jesus Christ challenged the rulers of their time.

I second the motion but we also need to get foreigner to handle our PHCN and other public infrastructure.