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Beaf: There is a foreign section for things like this. Indonesia is none of our business.

Daft !!!!!! is Indosia economy not at the same level or even better than Nigeria ? You sensitize tribalism in people during the protest, not others are showing how dumb Nigeria is you are here saying it is Not nigeria.LOL

While silly Nigerian Bigots are shouting "they are against GEJ" other countries are exercising their full rights as citizens of the country. Walihi, I hate Nigerians at times

Kudos to Abagworo, Mr Globe, 1025 and co who did not support injustice just because of tribalism, Allah would grant you all your wishes. As for those that support the removal of fuel subsidy blindly without looking at the implications and suggesting a better solution, God would judge you all but it was supported because of Bigotry and hate for other groups in Nigeria.

Beaf is in Aso rock enjoying while you ideeiots are still roaming the streets looking for Jobs, ideeiotassss

JAKARTA (AFP) – Thousands of Indonesians protested nationwide Tuesday to reject the government’s plan to hike the subsidised fuel price, with sporadic violence breaking out and injuring several people.

In Jakarta, a clash broke out between police and a group of students near the presidential palace, injuring five policemen and “fewer than 10″ protesters, Jakarta police spokesman Rikwanto told reporters.

Around 500 protesters had pelted rocks, petrol bombs and sticks at police, who then fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd, an AFP photographer saw.

“The group was heading to the presidential palace. We stopped them… but they damaged several public facilities”, said Rikwanto, who like many Indonesians only goes by one name.

He said 35 people were detained for questioning.

Around 3,500 protesters turned out in Jakarta, much fewer than the reportedly 15,000 people the organisers had promised.

Earlier, around 300 protesters gathered outside parliament house in the capital Jakarta, carrying banners reading: “Fuel hike will put people in misery”, and others asking the government to step down.

Around 100 police with batons and riot shields struggled to control protesters, mainly students and labour union members, as they pried open an iron gate to the building.

More than 20,000 police and soldiers were deployed in Jakarta, according to Rikwanto, amid fears of a repeat of violent protests caused in the past by similar plans to hike the fuel. In 1998, riots and unrest partly triggered by a government fuel price rise brought down the Suharto dictatorship.

Protesters also gathered in other major cities, including Medan on Sumatra island where around 6,000 people turned out, and Surabaya in eastern Java where around 3,000 protesters gathered, AFP correspondents saw.

“Fuel hikes will only give additional burden to poor people as it will cause staple food prices to rise,” Amir, a student protester, told AFP in the second largest city of Surabaya. About half of the Indonesian population live on less than two dollars a day.

Violence also broke out in South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar, where around 2,000 people protested in several places including the governor’s office.

Protesters there had thrown rocks at anti-riot police, who then fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, an AFP correspondent saw.

Meanwhile, Indonesian parliament members continued Tuesday debating the government’s proposal. They are expected to vote later in the week to raise the subsidised fuel price by a third, from Rp 4,500 (49 cents) a litre to Rp 6,000 for private vehicles.

The proposal has been met with widespread opposition both by members of parliament and the public, who fear accelerating inflation.

But the government said that without the fuel hike and due to rising global fuel prices, the country’s budget deficit will exceed a three percent cap of the GDP stipulated in law.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/angry-indonesians-protest-proposed-fuel-price-hike/

lagcity: Igbo and Yoruba, let's stop this nonsense and do something positive with our spare time.

trust me when i tell you that yorubas are not the problem here. see the way they keep insulting the yorubas with all sort of demeaning words. I am just reading now and watching if they would ever take the hand yorubas are extending to them both on Nairaland and real life.

Soskid: propaganda of the highest order..............

Which one is propaganda

Is that not what GEJ wife did ?

shymmex: Pipe dream!! I doubt Igbos in the army want Biafra. Biafra was different because there was a counter-coup, and Pogroms specifically targeting Igbos - and remember, some Igbos also fought on the Nigerian side - Ike Nwachukwu is one of them, and he doesn't regret it.

Really it is non of our business if Igbos want Baifra or not.

Theblessed: size=16pt][color=770077]Did I hear, Lagos taxpayers to fund Tinubu's birthday or am I hearing double??

Is that information correct or what and may I ask, Why?

The birthday is his, na him want partying til 'D' and the taxpayers picks up the bill afterwards, really??

What an abuse of taxpayers money in this country, what an abuse!!

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Is that not better than using the money to buy Gold for a wife in dubia ?

Nigeria is messed up I tell you

OP it would never end so long as their is the internet

Forget Nairaland and go read Naijapals, vangaurd etc

The South East Development Agenda (SEDA), I guess, must be in the works as I write this. It has to be. But if such a propellant is not already afoot, then the political and intellectual leaders of the Southeast with all due respect must make haste; as the bell tolls unceasingly for a re-ordered Nigeria. Indeed, if for any reason any of the six geo-political zones is yet to set in motion plans for regional economic integration and productivity, then such a region must be suffering from political delirium. For emphasis the rent racketeering economy, falsely represented over the years as a national economy has run its life span. The mask has since been removed, and the un-initiated are now in the secluded masking arena.
So unless the changes come fast, the recent prognosis for civil servants in Niger State to be trained to bear arms to defend themselves may become applicable to every government official and the so called middle class. Now as you drive by in a snarling traffic, young men bang at your side glass in broad daylight demanding that you hand the loot over to them. When they finish with one offender they leisure around for the next culprit, as they examine ‘their receipts’. From their disposition they have no doubt that these seemingly well to do ‘ruffians’ must have contributed to their quandary, and they have no qualms stealing and scaring the day light out of their lives. With the people coming to terms that what passes as governance is substantially bare faced stealing; mobbing the barricaders is now seen as legitimate.
The South West in my view is showing the way for the necessary economic interrelatedness within their zone. The recent forum involving their legislative, executive and technocratic leadership, whereat the legislative and political correctness and methodology for a regional economy was discussed is a necessary ground work for that inevitable road to Nigeria’s future. To hope and plan otherwise may result in the Southeast allowing their people to be taken unawares as in 1966/67. Then Ndigbo as presently had invested heavily across Nigeria, with their greatest gift to Nigeria, the great Zik of Africa eventually spread thin in his effort at propagating and living out his nationalism. Taking a cue from their leader, the people easily turned victims when at short notice the tribal fuse imploded.
Presently, the Southeast state Governor’s forum under the leadership of Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State appears to have a good relationship. If they have not succeeded as much as they should, the forum has at least been very energetic in their support for President Jonathan’s presidency. While such support may serve some political interests, what is of paramount importance is for them to create opportunities to build regional economic scenarios for the future. That can be done if they prod and support political and intellectual examination of quality plans, policies and schemes for economic corporation. Scenarios for common source of power and energy, inter state road, water and railway transportation, agriculture and agro allied industries, common legal process, inter state policing and security, commerce and industrialisation among others should be devoted serious energies.
The Southeast political and intellectual leadership I pray would appreciate this new surge in regionalism across Nigeria. This is the case from the Northeast, to Northwest, to North-Central, to Southeast, to Southsouth, and Southwest. What may be different is the approach to venting it. While the regional Risorgimento in Nigeria has created violence in some zones, there is a state of helplessness in others; while yet others are working round the clock to set the pace. Those clamoring and arguing otherwise are those who are temporarily benefitting from the status quo, and are foolishly living a lie that it would last forever. The unending violence across the land interestingly is, however, pushing for a clearer thinking.
Last week, I received an unverified and unverifiable mail (because of the opacity in the oil industry) on the ownership of the oil wells in Nigeria, worth billions of dollars. The mail, which claimed to have been a product of enormous research, showed that the top northern military and political leadership obviously has a disproportionate share of the oil wealth of the country. The trust of the article was that though the northern elites through military fiat owned much of the national oil and allied wealth, the region remains the poorer compared to the southern part of Nigeria. I have also subsequently seen articles arguing that President Jonathan must review the ownership structure of the oil wells, otherwise there would be a problem.
Of course the Southsouth’s stand-by enforcer called MEND has re-started their military insurgency to draw attention to their quest for more resources. One newspaper article even said that the 13 per cent derivation means 87 per cent deprivation, in answer to the clamour for a review of the revenue sharing formula by the Northern Governors and the House of Representatives caucus. In the core North, the Boko Haram is furthering their argument for regional authority with their AK 47 rifles and other incendiary materials. The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, a trained Islamic scholar is also advancing his regional interest, as he argues that the revenue formula is skewed against the North, and is a major cause of the militancy in the region.
As the struggle for the sharing of the legendry national cake hots up among the regions, there is the need to spare some thoughts on the expansion of regional wealth base. Notably the atomisation of Nigeria’s federating units started as a war strategy in 1967 has served its purpose; and it is time for functional federating units to enable a resurgent national economy.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/law/39520-southeast-and-regional-development.html

CuteTj: ''YOU HEARD OF IT FROM A FRIEND'' I can as well make something up here and everybody will believe it. We all hear stuffs everyday and majority of it is always false.

Well lets be watching as events unfold

Zenakoboko: Na wah ooo!

NGN 1bn for a birthday party? For a man that was just a former governor? Even if na former president? In a third world country? Where the central bank gover says that 70% (a whooping 105m out of a population of 150m) are poor? Where uniterrupted power is still a mirage? Schools and hospitals are in a state of quagmire?

"Absolute power must really intoxicate absolutely" if this news be true.

Thus said, I beg to waka pass fast fast.

Next!

Can you imagine from a former governor, you are absolutely right

juce: IF this is TRUE THEN I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS COUNTRY!

democracy in action. vote ACN (TINUBU) for 2015.............RUBBISH!

We are not voting for Tinubu but for Fashola and co

Lets not get it wrong here, Tinubu is the stain in ACN

goon: You are a very brilliant Dude.

Na wa oh

Photocopy ko easy

https://www.compassnewspaper.com/images/stories/Politics/awolowo_tinubu.jpg

LOL

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blacksta: if you believe this bread and butter story, you have yourself to blame.

Sahara reporters - it is not by force to write article. They are gradually losing credibilty

It is not bread and butter, I heard of it as well from a friend until sahara reporters brought it out. Lets stop deceiving ourselves.

[size=13pt]In any sane society, Tiunbu would have have been arrested and locked away but of course Nigeria is not sane[/size]

paparazy09: Seriously,I doubt the authenticity of this crap.If you read the story very well,you will discover it is very very unprofessional.

Not surprised though,Saharareporters are best known for such.Can you imagine that Patience Jonathan will tell a sitting Governor "contact me directly if you need anything from my husband" in public glare.I seriously doubt this report.

Abegi stop that !!!

What is wrong with saharareporters that gives you all headache ?

Is it because they speak the truth and it angers you all

It is a known fact that Tinubu is a thief a BIG thief for that matter. I find it amazing that you all can not accept the truth.

Rubbish

Tinubu the second biggest thief in the SW after OBJ

Ekt_bear and co, you see why I would even prefer LP to ACN at time because of this useless tinubu

You all see why SW should reject Tinubu and Aregbesola ??

Tinubu is a big thief and it hurts me everyday that SW is blinded by Tinubu mumu of a man.

ACN is a good party with a wrong leader, fact !!!!!!

ACN member need to shake off tinubu from the party and make Oshomole the party leader

Beaf: And whats wrong with being a 60 year old youth?

Can you imagine