Romance › Re: Pic Below: Name Something Women Do Better Than Men by anigold(m): 6:36am On May 02, 2015 |
sinaj: de can ride on a cow better dan guyz...
cowgirl po...  All these port harcourt gals no be only Cow riding,Horse riding and crocodile riding. You must to fear PH gals small or big.. their eyes don tear...  |
Romance › Re: Pic Below: Name Something Women Do Better Than Men by anigold(m): 6:33am On May 02, 2015 |
Blackett: [color=#150000]Nag.
Having 51 boyfriends. [/color] Its possible ,cos I meet a gal who receives calls every 8 minutes And She is not a business person. |
Romance › Re: Pic Below: Name Something Women Do Better Than Men by anigold(m): 6:31am On May 02, 2015 |
Lala247:
 Women nag better than men.  Women love it better than men.  |
Family › Re: Man Orders Wife To Refund N1.4 Million He Spent In Marrying Her In Lagos by anigold(m): 6:12am On May 02, 2015 |
palma: Lol! Tales that touches! He berra wake up! Thats the fee for doing the koko with her na! The woman will also claim damages as he don enjoy something. The truth is the only thing the woman traditionally will be required to return is the dowry not the actual amount spent on the wedding. He was not forced to spend a fortune hence the woman might not even return the dowry as he can not return the woman to the previous state she was in before he married her. He's not getting a dime, a divorce yes but money? Nah! I dont think her koko will be that expensive when she has been using her koko as NON PROFITS ORGANIZATION to masses of hungry looking dicks. |
Family › Re: Man Orders Wife To Refund N1.4 Million He Spent In Marrying Her In Lagos by anigold(m): 6:09am On May 02, 2015 |
UnknownT: Sefinat? I thought it is only Igbo girls that a groom can spend millions to marry? When marriage is now a source of income to some parents now  A man with 8 daughters is sure of N10m in dowries.. |
Family › Re: Man Orders Wife To Refund N1.4 Million He Spent In Marrying Her In Lagos by anigold(m): 6:06am On May 02, 2015 |
CR77: The man go also return all the visa way he don sign for the woman body  She has been donating her visa freely to every dude with a dick so... |
Family › Re: Man Orders Wife To Refund N1.4 Million He Spent In Marrying Her In Lagos by anigold(m): 6:04am On May 02, 2015 |
prettythicksme: lmao!!who does that??some men are just so funny.mehn that's impossible  Some women are just irresponsibly stupid. How can a married woman have sexual affairs outside her matrimonial home. These are the same women that will jump from one prayer house to another looking for husbands. I DONT SUPPORT THE IDEAL OF GETTING BACK THE DOWRY,BUT I CANT COMPLETELY FAULT THE MAN. SOME WOMEN ACT AS IF THEY DONT HAVE BRAINS. Marriage was not meant for everyone,if you cant have self-control then you are not ripe for marriage Because you have womanly features does not mean you are matured for marriage. You cant just create problems for others and feel good about it.. Also to the Men just because she is beauty and educated does not mean she is wife,some women can never make good wives..... |
Sports › Re: Open Letter To Jose Mourinho by anigold(op): 7:55pm On May 01, 2015 |
kolomax: [s][/s] Sore looser...when MOURINHO was in porto his budget was so low but end up in winning both europa and champion's league his tenure in INTER MILAN too. The budget been given to him was so low but end up winning lot of trophies...now the 0zil you are talking about if not for mourinho will you know him Beside that 0zil 2years in EPL all his Assists not up to Fabregas 1 season in EPL so shut da Fvck up Before u start replying with insults ,make google your friend.. You say inter milan"s budget was so low, dude what are u smoking.... So the Fabregas u are now worshipping as your god who made him where he is today.. |
Sports › Open Letter To Jose Mourinho by anigold(op): 6:59pm On May 01, 2015 |
Hello Mr. Jose let me start by a congratulations, for frustrating us by denying us any penetration. For securing the mighty BPL by some sheer luck and tactical corruption. For ensuring Arsene’s run against you is nothing but continued frustration. And giving your darling “the media” pure happiness and absolute satisfaction. Singing your name with praise like a saviour of the Nation. I know you are still in the moon already starting celebrations. But lets pause a little bit, and listen to my confession.
Arsenal is a team of love and unity. We dont feed on trophies to ensure our continuity. We feed in pure football at the purest of it’s beauty. We know Trophies matter because thats the reality. But the main aim of football is entertainment and also financial stability. We all know you will argue, and we understand your stupidity. “Boring is 10 years without a trophy” is that the limit of your thinking capacity? Or rather your reasoning ability? How about Chelsea’s 50 year wait, doesn’t that sound like a boring eternity?
Okay lets talk facts because I am sure you have so much information. Boasting of your trophies records without any consideration. “Specialist of failure” how do you even come up with that leave alone mastering its pronunciation? You’ve won in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain, true but with what budget allocations? Why couldn’t you go for a team with financial limitations? Why cant you master five years with one team to underline a dictation? List down a name of a player you have moulded into to a world class as your football contribution? Even that Cesc you brag about, who gave him his real footballing education? The only people who love you are the media because of your mental and insultive expressions! You will hopefully grow up one day and get control of your communication. But before then dont dare try to mock the Arsenal nation.
Lastly say hi to our long lost brother. Remind him Arsene is still his second father. Unless he plans to a list of twenty people to call a father, I suggest you are the best candidate to be his second mother. His tenure as a Gunner is gone and now we have another, assist maker “Ozil” who was under you and never even thought you can be a father. And we have no ill feelings towards him, so he shouldn’t bother. So I rest my pen.
From a deeply concerned Gunner. |
Politics › Re: Buhari May Soon Wish He Did Not Win 2015 Presidential Polls – Ben Bruce. by anigold(m): 9:09am On May 01, 2015 |
Novaworld: Now that Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has been chosen by the Nigerian people, it is my duty as a patriotic Nigerian to help him succeed even though my candidate was President Goodluck Jonathan, a man to whom I will always be loyal and appreciative.
General Buhari is about to mount the saddle and I for one am in a very good position to tell him some home truths because as a senator-elect, I have a very fulfilling job awaiting me and I do not need a job or favours from Buhari so I do not have to play nice.
Looking at the personalities he has appointed to his transition council, I am wont to believe that General Buhari needs to expand his circle of friends and advisers.
As a military strategist, the president-elect must be familiar with the principle that the people you use in subduing an opponent are not necessarily the same persons you will need in rebuilding the territories you took. I may be using military terms, but I am sure General Buhari is aware that politics is war by other means and therefore many of the rules of war and peace apply to politics.
The General will be best served if he thinks of what is best for Nigeria rather than what is best for his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), and its chieftains.
He must remember that in Nigeria’s subjective politics, it was his person that the people voted for not his party and he should therefore serve the people the dish they are angling for.
And what are the expectations of Nigerians from General Buhari? Definitely not business as usual. The president-elect ran on a promise of change and while that change was not really defined by its chanters, Nigerians defined it as a change in their situation.
To borrow from the famously potent prayers of Mountain of Fire and Miracle members, the Nigerian masses defined change as a situation where wealth and power must change hands from the elite to the masses by fire by force and they see General Buhari as the enforcer angel that will bring about this change.
With this type of expectation, Buhari’s honeymoon period with Nigerians will not last very long if he does not take drastic steps to adjust Nigeria’s economy to the realities of falling oil prices and a dearth of buyers for the Bonny Light Sweet Crude.
To put things into perspective, when the United States started buying less and less of Nigeria’s oil, we looked to China as an alternative buyer of oil but it has since come to light that whereas America spent $101 billion on clean energy between 2012-13, China spent $125 billion within the same time frame.
The above data should alert Nigeria and other nations that look to China for oil markets to the fact that China is even ahead of the West in the search for alternative to fossil fuels as a source of energy.
Buhari may wish he did not win the 2015 elections when the reality of our economic situation sets in. In his December 2014 Channels Television interview, Buhari said he was going to “stabilise the oil market”. The General will learn soon enough that today’s oil market is a buyers’ market.
And the General’s choices are limited because he cannot (unless he is extraordinarily brave and politically callous) do the obvious and sack civil servants. Yes, he will eventually have to reduce the over bloated federal civil service, but before he can do that, he has to build up political capital by reducing the overhead of the Executive and persuade the Legislature to follow suit.
Austerity measures must start from Aso Rock. This means that luxurious multi car convoys must be reduced. The presidential air fleet has to go, by way of being auctioned off or sold to local airlines. Estacode allowances must be slashed and the president’s entourages should be lean while non-essential foreign travels should be banned.
The president-elect should not underestimate the big difference these small changes can make and their capacity to buy him enough credibility with the labour unions, the kind of credibility that will see them accepting cuts in the federal workforce and reduction in pay and entitlements.
A small change like flying commercial instead of by private jet saved Britain a whopping £200,000 when the thrifty British Prime Minister, David Cameron, flew to America to meet President Barack Obama on a regular BA flight.
Nigeria is in for very desperate times if we do not tighten our belts while our major foreign exchange earner is facing global challenges. Russia, a nation that many will say is more prepared than Nigeria for the shocks occasioned by the drop in the price of oil devalued its currency by 11 per cent in just one day.
While Russia is taking these steps, the world is watching to see if Nigeria will continue to spend hundreds of billions annually sponsoring its elite on pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem.
I mean, no economist will get why a nation with over 60 per cent of its people living in poverty at the best of times, will spend almost 1 per cent of its annual budget sponsoring pilgrimages for its elite who can afford to go to the Holy Land on their own dime.
I for one do not get it. A pilgrimage is meant to be a sacrifice of a believer. How is a pilgrimage still a sacrifice when someone pays for you to go? The Nigerian government is sending people on holidays not pilgrimages!
I daresay that the money being spent by the Nigerian government to airlift pilgrims to both Holy Lands is enough to educate all the almajiri in Northern Nigeria. Wouldn’t God and humanity be better served if we looked after the less privileged in our midst? General Buhari has his work cut out for him and he does not have time to be bitter about who said what, when and where. He must let go of any desire to pay any of his traducers back whether they be from the last 16 years or as far back as 1985.
Four years is only enough time to fix Nigeria. Any time spent on other ventures is time taken from this most important of assignments. And let me say that General Buhari should not allow himself to be pigeon holed by people who dangle ideologies instead of realities. Yes, the APC may have styled itself as a progressive party, which in itself is a contradiction because Buhari is a conservative, but Buhari should not bother about that.
Whether the philosophy is progressive or conservative or liberal or free market, he should go with what works because as Deng Xiaoping once noted: “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it is a good cat.” And it is fitting for me to end with a mention of Xiaoping. No other contemporary world leader, in my opinion, closely mirrors Buhari as does Xiaoping.
In 1966, Xiaoping was dethroned from his powerful party positions by loyalists of Chairman Mao as was Buhari in 1985 by loyalists of his Chief of Army staff. Xiaoping suffered house arrest, loss of earned privileges and was consigned to political limbo for almost a decade as was Buhari.
But then Xiaoping bounced back into favour and became China’s leader in 1976 and thereafter jettisoned his life long belief in Mao’s Cultural Revolution and introduced the “one country, two systems” policy that allowed communism and capitalism to coexist in China. This is similar to Buhari’s conversion from an anti-democrat who believed power flowed from the barrel of a gun to a democrat who accepted democracy as the best form of governance and capitalism as the natural economic policy of a democracy.
But this is where Buhari has to learn from Xiaoping. Xiaoping refused to demonise Chairman Mao, his predecessor who had purged him from power and placed him under house arrest after stripping him off his privileges. Instead of bitterness, Xiaoping believed that Mao’s “accomplishments must be considered before his mistakes”.
This is how Buhari must treat his predecessors. He must not demonise everything that was done by previous administrations and mark those who served in those government as persona non grata. He must take the bitter with the sweet and make use of the best brains Nigeria has to offer, for as he said on December 31st, 1983, “This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria”.
• Mr. Murray Bruce is a Senator-elect and CEO of Silverbird Entertainment Group
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/it-doesn-t-matter-if-the-cat-is-white-or-black/208021/ Very excellent advice. I really dont think buhari will take these advices with the colonies of vultures and sycophants around him, its just gonna be business as usual with: looting and over-looting,political victimization,control of the press,witch-hunting of supposed political enemies,selective persecution in the name of fighting corruption,intolerance to criticism,partial imposition of sharia and Economical starvation of some regions(especially the south and east) The one that will turn his administration upside-down will be witch-hunting of GEJ and his wife. |
Politics › Re: Jonathan's 5 Horrible Acts Since Losing The Presidential Election by anigold(m): 3:20am On May 01, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Jonathan's 5 Horrible Acts Since Losing The Presidential Election by anigold(m): 3:13am On May 01, 2015 |
Martins301: If Buhari is said to have made some mistakes since winning the election, then Jonathan blunders since he lost his re-election bid must also be brought to light. Now lets consider them briefly.
1. Releasing The PwC NNPC Audit Report Why didn't he release the report prior to March 28th? Yeah! You guessed right. He knew he would have even lost Bayelsa state if Nigerians saw the content of the report. By releasing the report afterwards, he has shown Nigerians that he abhors corruption even though he himself MAY be innocent. He has also shown that he was prepared to win the election even at the cost of surpressing the truth
2. Sacking Galore Choi! Baba GEJ has sacked over 4 persons since he lost his re-election bid (less than 1 month ago). From NPA boss to NHIS boss, FAAN and even the Inspector General of Police, non has been spared the wrath of a sour loser. 3. Accepting & Then Questioning His Defeat Why did he publicly accept in the first place? Is he now jealous of the attention Buhari is getting?
4. Hindering A Smooth Transition Moving the date already agreed for handing over notices to be submitted from April 20th to May 14th is a covert way of jeopardizing a smooth transition. He probably doesn't want the incoming government to do a thorough job of screening and scrutinizing the handover notes.
5. Covertly Removing Fuel Subsidy By doing this, he is openly setting a trap for the incoming government. But angry Nigerians should know where to direct their anger.
Feel free to add to the list. I will come and add more later. I wan go cook my funky okro soup. 
Source: Martins301
**********Similar post: "Buhari's First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President-Elect" - By Naija2dabone
https://www.nairaland.com/2286824/buhari-first-7-horrible-acts#33282237 mtcheew waste of data... |
Romance › Re: Abuja Runs Girl Slept With A Politician And Found Worms In Her Private Part by anigold(m): 3:07am On May 01, 2015 |
ritababe: Beginning of the end  U sabi the gal?  |
Romance › Re: Abuja Runs Girl Slept With A Politician And Found Worms In Her Private Part by anigold(m): 3:06am On May 01, 2015 |
kinibigdeal: A lady who confesses about how she slept with a Politician during the election period, now have worms in her private part.
She says:
” He took me for a night which he promise to give me 300k for a night stand without using condoms which I agreed because I needed money to buy my handout, as a student you will understand what am saying… I took the offer after when we were done I thought he will give my cheque but he pay with cash, 300k on my palm within a week I can’t remember what and what I buy with it, the cash just went off like a wind
“After the money shock, I start noticing something strange within me, I am not seeing my period but am always on pain with blood all over me, so the pain keep increasing day by day after a week of pain I decided to go to a doctor for proper check up, so I call on a friend she took me to this hospital and the moment I open up my legs worms was all over the floor and within me eating me up…..
http://www.talkofabuja.com/video-abuja-big-girl-who-slept-with-a-politician-per-night-for-just-300000-found-worms-in-her-private-part/ You needed N300k to buy handouts like seriously. When you are renting your we-we for money thats what happens.. all these girls that wants to run faster than their shadows.. una never chi chom ching.. |
Politics › Re: Buhari First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President Elect by anigold(m): 8:45pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
foxxynik: . . I'd really like to kiss ya ass! With no remorse!.... Hehehe are u sure...some asses get thorns and spikes..  |
Politics › Re: Buhari First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President Elect by anigold(m): 8:44pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
ECOTERRORS: NL makes you to loose yourself when you least expect Sometimes its does but u have to control yourself... |
Politics › Re: Buhari First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President Elect by anigold(m): 8:04pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
feldido: All m saying is Nigerians are too quick to judge... Very soon they'll praise GEJ even though they called him clueless. M not a supporter of any political party, but let's leave Him(GMB) to seat first before casting blames. Its only you that called him "CLUELESS" |
Politics › Re: Buhari First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President Elect by anigold(m): 8:03pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
ECOTERRORS: Who are you calling bros, Are you blind? Didn't you read the article? How can your dad forget to use condom that night? THIS TYPE OF ACIDIC comments scares potential suitors...  Remember that am joking with you,so reply with another joke  |
Politics › Re: Buhari First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President Elect by anigold(m): 8:00pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
maimota: Kiss my ass. HATERS. Where the ass ma flog am with koboko.  |
Politics › Re: Buhari First 7 Horrible Acts Since Becoming President Elect by anigold(m): 7:36pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
naija2dabone: 1. A legion of excuses and change of promises
Since winning election, Buhari has been singing a new tune totally different from what he told us prior to the elections. From "dont expect miracles", to "my agenda threaten by falling oil prices" Now we even hear that the APC's manifestos which Nigerians voted for 'is not the bible or Qur'an which can not be change' See gobe
2. Barring AIT Old habits die hard. 'repentant democrat' indeed. The fate of even nairaland is in the balance
3. Rewarding founder of BBOG group with political appointment That the activities of this group is suspect from the start is no news but with this all doubts about their mission and aims have been cleared. They may have many lofty aims as a group but now we know that rescuing the chibok girls is not one of their aims
4. Promises Selective probes (Case in point, Sanusi's £20 billions) One of the think Buhari was accused of during the campaigns was his tendacy for selective prosecutions. Now tell me, what about the Financial Reporting Council allegations of fraudulent financial recklessness leveled against Sanusi himself including the Sanusi’s claim that it paid N38.233 billion to the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Plc in 2011 for the “printing of bank notes” whereas the turnover of the entire printing and minting company group is N29.370 billion.
5.Promoting god fatherism in Nigeria political space From hanging out with OBJ to granting interview to Aljezera insinuating that OBJ is his political god father. We all know that political god fatherism is one of the bane of our national development as all political god fathers are rent seekers
6. Making Corrupt politicians the pillars of his team For some one who made all the right noises about fighting corruption to be nomination a committee filled with people with corruption cases with EFCC leave much to be desired. Even making Timipre Sylva, who is accused of stealing N19.2billion from the state treasury while he governed the state between 2007 and 2011 as the head of his team is a shame
7. Forming a parallel government. Through his actions and utterances, the incoming government was overheating the polity and carrying out actions which tend to undermine the powers of President Goodluck Jonathan. Do unto other as you wish other do to you This is just the beginning of more hardships to come. GEJ was ok,and the majority ganged up and removed him. The socalled CHANGE is taking another dimension.. very soon E-FREEDOM OF PRESS will be a luxury... This change may be bitter ooo... Very soon the same people who shouted "CHANGE" will be the same who will scream "BRING BACK GEJ" old habits die hard.. I know GMB cant handle criticism like GEJ did.. Its will be dramatic...  |
Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:56pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:54pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
raumdeuter: Buhari is ready for a meeting with all stakeholders. A general unlike the clueless one
It was GEJ govt who failed to make budget provision for subsidy Ok keep on blaming GEJ for all your failures... Am expecting your e-insult.. |
Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:51pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
dustydee: While you are at it, also include where he said he will stabilise oil price.
Thank you. Not even EU + Obama can stabilize oil price.. |
Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:49pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
ogawisdom: Y shld I bother replying u buhari defender. U r nt worth it followers of a clown r usually bigger clowns. U can go n die, u gullible n morbid fool bros I know se u don vex but we are not at civil war.. please post politely... |
Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:47pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
ki02020: The showdown should start with GEj since his administration and the present assembly remove provision for subsidy from the budget and not buhari....i just pity baba cus so many mess await him for clean up before work proper kai kai baba work dey for u ooo. you Allow to continue carrying this cross ooo. but u thought there was a honey bank at the end of the tunnel.. |
Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:45pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Subsidy Removal: Nigerians Gear Up For Showdown Against Buhari by anigold(m): 3:42pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
janus05: Barely one month to the end of the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, a stage appears set for a showdown between the President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari and the vast majority of Nigerians.
This followed the passage of the 2015 budget of N4.493tr, with allocation for subsidy on petrol conspicuously missing.
The development, which has already started generating tension across the country, is largely seen as a landmine on the way of the incoming administration.
The national budget, which was earlier passed by the House of Representatives last week, was N51bn higher than the N4.425tr submitted to both chambers of the National Assembly by the federal government.
This is also coming barely few days after Buhari’s ally and former petroleum minister, Professor Tam David-West gave Nigerians hope by declaring that the incoming president could reduce petrol pump price for as low as N40 per litre.
However, the senate approval of the budget on Tuesday, has confirmed the non inclusion of fuel subsidy provision in the document but contained N21bn for the funding of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.
The Chairman, Joint Senate Committee on Appropriation and Finance, Mohammed Maccido confirmed that the executive did not make provision for subsidy in the 2015 budget and that the National Assembly left it the way it was presented.
“There was no provision in the budget for subsidy but I believe there should be provision for it especially since there was already, a disagreement between the oil marketers and the federal government over subsidy payment”, he had stated.
DAILY POST recalls that the last time the federal government tried full removal of petrol subsidy, massive protest broke out simultaneously across the country, forcing government to reduce the price from N141 to N97 and later N87, few weeks to the March 28 presidential election.
The protest later led to the arrest of some activists as well as the killing of some protesters by overzealous security men.
One of the foremost critics of President Jonathan’s government, Balarabe Musa, had described the subsidy removal as “imperialist” and warned of “looming anarchy.”
Musa said, “The imperialist guided unilateral, vulgar and mindless removal of oil subsidy by the President of Nigeria, even if the subsidy existed before, has opened the floodgate of anarchy.
“It is also so unfortunate that the president did not have the executive and moral capacity to redirect the outcome associated with the decision.
“As it stands, the National Assembly, the civil society and labour should immediately take up the mandate of leading the people back from the anarchy that is looming. Any one of the above that takes up the mantle first should be supported by others. If not, what is going to happen in Nigeria will be a child’s place to the Arab Springs”.
Considering the above experience of January, 2012, the incoming Buhari’s administration may be heading for a collision course with ordinary Nigerians, who see petrol subsidy as the only major benefit the common man derives from the country as an oil producing nation.
Already, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have warned against any move by the government to remove subsidy from petroleum products.
Speaking on Wednesday, Deputy President of the NLC and chairman of the joint May Day celebration of the NLC and TUC, Peter Adeyemi, told journalists that organised Labour believed that government had never subsidised petroleum products.
The Labour leader lamented that the bane of the sector had been corruption, pointing out that past government tried without success to address the issue.
He said: “If you are asking whether we will back the removal of fuel subsidy, the answer is no. It is not as easy as that. You know that it has been a very contentious issue over the years. We have always said that there is nothing like subsidy. It is all about corruption.
“Let me take your mind back and say that this same issue has been something that numerous government have embarked upon without an end. During the Olusegun Obasanjo’s government, this exercise was embarked upon by the government about 11 times and both the NLC and the TUC engaged the government.
“So, it is like the more you look, the less you see. For us in Labour, we are not going to support that because it is outside our mandate as leaders. We hope that the incoming government, in a desperate bid to look for money, will not look for money in the wrong place”.
Meanwhile, further enquiries by DAILY POST showed that Nigerians are worried because they cannot see any infrastructures established with the funds the Federal Government derived from the partial removal of petrol subsidy in spite of all the juicy promises made by President Goodluck Jonathan, the governors and some of his ministers.
Before the partial removal of petrol subsidy, President Goodluck Jonathan explained that after consultations with segments of the society, “many have now been appreciative of the need to totally deregulate the economy so as to open it for investment as well as stimulate development from the proceeds”.
At the 2011 Christmas Carol held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa Abuja, President Jonathan said the removal of fuel subsidy would bring only temporary pains, which will fade as Nigerians begin to reap the benefits of the removal.
He said, “I promise that the pains will not be the way people are thinking. The pains will be temporary, and after few weeks or months, Nigerians will be better off, the economy will be repositioned”.
The governors under the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, while also advancing support for it, said subsidy removal “will create employments and begged Nigerians to “sacrifice” and “trust” them to properly utilize funds that would be saved through the policy.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and Governor of Rivers State said, “It is a sacrifice that we must make as a nation for the country to move forward”.
However, according to a public affairs analyst, Victor Anya, “it was later revealed that the governors only backed the removal of petrol subsidy so they could have more money to control since the Federal Government would no longer need to make deduction from their share of the Excess Crude proceeds to fund the subsidy scheme.
Anya recalled that, “On January 1st, 2012, when Nigerians were preparing to celebrate the new year, the Federal Government announced the removal of petrol subsidy which caused the price of the commodity to jump from N65:00 to N141:00.
“As the protests persisted across the country, President Goodluck Jonathan mobilized some of his ministers and aides to speak potently in support of the subsidy removal. Prominent among them were the Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezanni Alison Madueke, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngonzi Okonjo-Iweala, the then Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi etc.
“When Nigerians doubted President Goodluck Jonathan’s sincerity on the proper use of the funds from the removal of petrol subsidy as previous governments have in the past, increased the prices of petroleum products with the same promises to use the proceeds to provide infrastructures but failed to keep their promises after such increases, Dr. Iweala said, ‘We plead for patience. The impact of this will begin to show soon. We intend to start publishing the amount we are saving from this withdrawal of oil subsidy monthly and also where we are directing them. Nigerians will be participants in this process. In few months prices will begin to come down depending on market forces’.
“President Jonathan claimed subsidy had gulped N1.43 trillion by 2011 end. He said the government would realize N1.134 trillion from the removal of petrol subsidy. Thus, as petrol now sells at N97, (and lately N87), which is 50 percent increase from the previous price of N65, the Federal Government would have ranked in about N1 trillion in one year!
“Nevertheless, after making these promises, there is nothing on ground to show for the money which the Federal Government has realized from the removal of petrol subsidy! For instance, the Turn around Maintenance of the Port Harcourt Refinery scheduled for the First Quarter of 2012 has not yet began. The construction of eight major roads, two bridges, six railways, 19 irrigations, healthcare centers for three million pregnant women, etc are yet to commence.
“Can Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala speak passionately on the benefits from the withdrawal of oil subsidy on Nigerians the way she spoke in its favour when the withdrawal commenced? Where are the buses for the urban mass transit which the Federal Government promised? Where are the palliatives President Jonathan and the governors promised Nigerians?
“Immediately after the removal of petrol subsidy, the Federal Government promised Nigerians better life under the Subsidy Reinvestment Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). Under SURE-P, the government promised the construction of eight major roads and two bridges, provision of healthcare for three million pregnant women, six railway projects, 19 irrigation projects etc. Now, it is time to ask questions and the questions Nigerians are asking are: (a) Where are the eight constructed major roads located? (b) Where are the two constructed major bridges sited? (c) Where are the healthcare centers for the three million pregnant women located? (d) Which part of the country are the 19 irrigation projects situated? Nigerians want President Jonathan, the governors, Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and the then Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to answer these questions because they championed the cause to remove petrol subsidy!”
He added that, “When the Federal Government removed petrol subsidy and promised to use the proceeds to provide the above mentioned infrastructures, Nigerians made it known to the government that the absence of infrastructures in the country was not as a result of lack of money but due to corruption because every year budgets are made for them.
“Also, Nigerians doubted the sincerity of government to use the proceeds from the removal of petrol subsidy for the above mentioned infrastructures since previous governments have also removed subsidy from kerosene and diesel without anything to show for the money the government received. But Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala assured Nigerians of the judicious use of the funds. Now, let her come on air and tell Nigerians where those projects they promised in January 2012 are sited. But I do not blame the likes of Dr. Ngozi Iweala rather I blame the Nigerian masses, Nigerian Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, Save Nigeria Group, Civil Liberty Organization and other civil society groups who have refused to ask questions on how the subsidy funds are being used. Successive governments have failed to keep their promises because Nigerians don’t ask questions!
“With the elimination of petrol subsidy, the standard of living of ordinary citizens of this country has fallen drastically because the price of everything has gone up. A sachet of pure water now cost N10 as against the previous price of N5. Small and large scale businesses are folding up due to high cost of operation; leading to increase in unemployment rate.
“Thus, from all indications, the Federal Government has failed the masses once again because there is nothing to show for the money that was realized from the elimination of petrol subsidy in 2012. Since the Federal Government has failed in its promises, it should therefore revert the pump price of petrol to its former price of N65”.
Expectedly, as days go by, more angry reactions would trail the planned total removal of petrol subsidy. More so when a major petrol scarcity is looming in the country over government’s alleged failure to pay outstanding debt to oil importers.
With this development, it would take Buhari’s administration a supplementary budget to wriggle out of the looming labour action.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Ahmad Lawan, has hinted that despite passing the 2015 Appropriation Bill, the National Assembly was still expecting the President-elect to send a supplementary budget to the 8th Assembly, when he assumes power from May 29, 2015.
http://dailypost.ng/2015/04/30/subsidy-removal-nigerians-gear-up-for-showdown-against-buhari/ as a Nigerian I have already prepared myself for the best or the worst in this Buhari administration.. The good thing is that every Nigeria irrespective of your political affiliation will experience the same effect from the Governance. If the Socalled Change was to increase the sufferings of Nigerians then its a devilish Change. If Subsidy is removed then We should expect prices of PMS to hit N200 per litre. I dont care how much you have in your account that price will have an adverse effect of your Economy.. |
Jokes Etc › Re: Joke Of The Day:- Becareful Of The Kind Of Cloth You Put On, See What Happened by anigold(m): 3:05pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
annibro: Am not APC. Am just a Buhari fan. Moreso, evertin I say about GEJ is all Joke cos he's my broda frm Bayelsa.
BTW; am planning 2 trek frm Abj 2 Otuoke 2 honour his welcome home party.  No wahala carry go. A BUHARI fan = A BUHARIST.. |
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Jokes Etc › Re: Joke Of The Day:- Becareful Of The Kind Of Cloth You Put On, See What Happened by anigold(m): 12:51pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
annibro: Lols! but dat isn't d original story. According 2d original script, d 3rd guy was a TANOiD wearing a shirt wit GEJ till '2019' Why do u always like ridiculing GEJ in almost all your posts. wetin naw.. nawao.. An example of E-POLITICAL-FANATIC of the APC or A BUHARIST
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Jokes Etc › Re: Joke Of The Day:- Becareful Of The Kind Of Cloth You Put On, See What Happened by anigold(m): 12:48pm On Apr 30, 2015 |
Coldfeet: Plagiarism or not the fact remains whenever I come across it I still smile 
for some people it will be their first time of reading it so let it be dude.  The joke is funny, but I have seen it on different blogs and forums. But to the first timers its still a funny joke... |
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Deejavu1: Hmmmmm big boy things so now once u hold 1944 world war two gun be body guard. abeg . but SERIOUSLY MUST THIS MAKE FRONT PAGE... |