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OdenigboAroli:
Anambra state has awarded scholarships to eligible students and is still doing it; Peter Obi gave scholarships to tens of Anambrarians.

Dont get me wrong,scholarship is fantastic and I support it but its also expensive. I am a strong advocate for a homegrown talents and I believe if we put our house in order whatever we run to America/Europe to seek will be at our beck and call.
I cant say there are no Anambra kid out of school because I am not sure but Obi did alot of restructuring in the school system and any kid found on the road during school hours is picked up. We have incidents where parents/guardians neglet/abandon their children but it is very minimal in Anambra.

Asians and Arabs who send their children to school in Europe and America do normally for their barriers which language can create when they get to international stage, not because of quality of education.
My point is lets stop running to people to fix our problems,rather we should look within us and find the problem and fix it. Most of Nigerian leaders are people who schooled abroad but has it changed the corruption and criminal instincts in them.? Answer,NO!

Thanks for a beautiful detailed response with very interesting information about the laudable steps taken by the former governor to ensure ALL children in Anambra are in school. I hope his successor will keep up the push, because indeed it is a push.

I agree that it is quite expensive just as any worthwhile venture. It is up to the individual cum society to make education that creates VALUE and places the GROUP above other groups a PRIORITY expenditure worthy of temporary sacrifice.
This is what the whites, yellows, browns, reds do and claim that we BLACK people are not as INTELLIGENT as they are when the reality is that we are only mentally LAZY since there is no conclusive scientific evidence that we have INFERIOR intelligence.
None. No evidence!

I am not saying we should run to people to fix our problems.
I am saying we should have continuous exchange of ideas with others so we can continuously be jointly & severally inspired to greatness and spark fresh ideas.

Many of the ideas that make the Europeans and their American derivatives leaders of the world TODAY were initially copied from the Chinese, Arabs, Indians etc through travels & interactions with them apart from interactions and extensive travels among their own people also.

barcanista:
The amiable general is on a mission to rescue Nigeria! He's so on point

Safe journey
More importantly, happy landing
........since I assume he will be cruising in a private jet as usual while pretending to his daft followers to be a penniless old pensioner spending only the money he receives from the federal government dericed largely from Niger Delta oil revenue

Abi dem don tell you another LIE sey na groundnut & cotton proceeds na im dem dey pay im pension from

efonat:
We live in a country where things re done without checks and balances

Thanks for your very observant comment.

That is why when the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC scream on top of their lungs like their area boy & almajiri cheer leaders, we ask them what is the input of your SINators and representaTHIEVES to stop these issues that you complain about.

What does one get in response- DEAFNESS.
TOTAL deafness!

This PDP response is absolutely unnecessary.

#Nuff_Said.

semitunde:
You need to read that passage again, pay particular attention to verse 22; ask for understanding and change your paradigm.

May I humbly ask you to read my response to Braggante.
If you still have any issues to discuss further on this I will gladly indulge you.
Cheers!

Sincere9gerian:
So how is the one currently being built by Lagos state govt financed? With your testis?

Wow that hurts
It is what is called hitting below the belt in boxing, I believe.

segnys007:
<--- you called this development? in four years?? you doing him more disservice by posting C. R. A. ps like this in my opinion

I am waiting for the poster to reply on what else s/he specifically wants Jonathan to have done for the southwest region.

Are you able to respond on her behalf or what

barcanista:
This is why I love Muhammadu Buhari...#SayNoToCorruption

Unfortunately those fine LOOKING words do not tally with the pretending A-Looter old soldier's records in public office as

- military governor of North East state in the 70s.
- Head of State for two years
- PTF Chairman under "saint" Abacha


Neither do those sweet but EMPTY words align with the experience in the hands of his party, the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC in Lagos state for the past 16 WASTED years.

That is a very sad legacy indeed!!!

OdenigboAroli:
We dont need to give people scholarship before we can raise bright minds. Anambra currently has some of the best and well equipped government schools the the nation. Secondly,giving the dwindling state of federal allocation do you actually think scholarship is the best thing for now? How about we build our schools to international standard and kill two birds with one stone.

Thanks for your response, which I take as a willingness to discuss this very important matter of educating our people.

On the first aspect you raise, are you saying there are NO children resident in Anambra that are out of school and who need to be funded to ensure ALL Anambra children are educated properly

Your proposal to have TERTIARY schools of international standards in Anambra is very good and quite commendable. However while that is being worked on, don't you think it is worthwhile to NOW keep sending those who will build (not physically) those schools abroad to acquire the knowledge, skills and network for continuous transmission & exchange of ideas

You may wish to note that many European and American secondary schools and university are filled with Chinese, Arab, Indian etc students on similar initiatives.

kayzdekor:
I believe that was then ( military regime) where citizens have no say in govt. Must it always be PDP can't we have a taste of another party... Am not saying APC is d messiah but other party shld be chance, are we practicing one party sysem? We need a change of party and power

Let me re-write that slightly:

Must it always be the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC can't we have a taste of another party...
Am not saying PDP is d messiah but other party shld be chance, are we practicing one party one man sysem?

Is this not TRUE for Lagos state where Tinubu has held everyone hostage to his GREED for almost 16 years



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Eziachi:
Unfortunately that government was overthrown and how anyone will turn around and screwed up the truth is criminal.
Why old men like Akinjide of 25% of 19 fame will choose to lie when the fact were there is beyond nothing but pure wickedness.

Are you not the one screwing up the truth and hence a criminal by your own standards

The Akinjide in the OP is the daughter of the "old men like Akinjide".
So adjust yourself sharperly.

Ilekeh:
So what has GEJ done for the southwest region?

- Where is the Ore-Benin road?
- Where is the Ibadan-Lagoes express road?
- Where is Osogbo where "Engineer" Aregbesola has been offering "free" rides on revived trains?
- Where is Lagos where air conditioned trains were introduced to ease traffic congestion?
- Who wanted to make our daughter #4 person in Nigeria as Speaker HoR before Ogbeni Ojuyobo sold out to his slave masters
- Adesina (Agric) and Aganga (Industries) are two key performing Ministers of this federal administration, and they are from which region again?


Is there something else specifically that you want Jonathan to have "done for the southwest region"?
Kindly share with us.
Thanks

Someone should please wake me up when they are raising money to send ALL Anambra children to school and scholarship for the brightest ones to go for tertiary education preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics related fields.

Dr. Alex Ekwueme, an illustrious Anambra son from Oko went on scholarship to study in Kings College Lagos and subsequently also in the US.

Why can't we BLACK people replicate such ENRICHING gestures that lift us up as a group from our collective and enduring squalor

Braggante:
If you will observe, to them that are without law, the writer says he also was without law, etc, so he may indeed bring them to God.
In the context used, the pastor snapped a picture with a fellow human person. The flip side would have been that he refused to snap, stating that since he was a pastor, the bible forbids it. There is no such verse in the bible, and he extinguishes chances of winning over that soul to God.
What the bible explicitly says is that which u kindly quoted, that even though he snaps with the "sinner" that doesn't itself reduce his spirituality or standing with God, (himself "not as being without law to God"...verse 21).
In any event, reading the passage in line with previous comments made on this thread, the verse is not applied out of context but rather fits. Christ walked with sinners, didn't stop his being the Christ. This pastor snapped a photo with a human person, doesn't reduce his spirituality. Can you guess his intentions, perhaps for the sake of the gospel? The picture doesn't say. The same way people couldn't guess christs intentions when he lived with sinners.
In conclusion, there shouldn't be a controversy when none exists. Christianity is not a death sentence to ones social life.

Thank you for your enlightening post.

However the RISK remains that many who claim to be pastors use such potential distortion to stay and BENEFIT, in diverse forms & ways from such association rather than focus on the work of salvation they are supposed to have done on the basis of the contextual quote.

Spiritual VIGILANCE is key to a balanced well-being of man & spirit.

Salam!
Shalom!!
Peace!!!

While we wait for the TAX returns of General Muhammadu Buhari, it is worthwhile to note that Jonathan paid about 15% of his income as taxes.

Let us hope the pretending A-Looter will not tell us another story of military secretary

Meanwhile it will be good for our journalists to find out and publish the tax returns of ALL candidates in these elections:

- senate
- representative
- governor
- state assembly lawmaker.


Let us ADVANCE our democracy and reduce the number of daft pretending rogues in our high places!

ahaika23:
go to school

Since my e-friend has not responded, kindly allow me to help him out of his difficulty

Why go to school when my credentials will be detained by the military secretary when I am asked to publicly produce them

semitunde:
For context: 1Cor 9:19-23

What you have done is simply a DISTORTION of the Bible's words.
No more! No less!!

Below is the quote of the verses in two versions:

First is the King James Version (KJV)

19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

The next one is the Basic English Version.

19 For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.
20 And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.
21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.
22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.
23 And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

From: http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=1Cor+9%3A19-23&ver=kjv&ver=bbe


The "context" is to bring the various categories of people into salvation and NOT to endure and/or glorify in participating/partaking in whatever they are doing while PRETENDING to seek souls to be saved for Christ.
See the difference

It is this type of your distortion that leads many astray from spiritual well-being and more importantly ensures that we Africans do not identify and relate some of the key lessons from Christ to relevant elements of our own TRADITIONAL beliefs in order to emancipate ourselves from MENTAL slavery.
I wish you will DESIST!

cuteboy2:
Buhari & Osibanjo should just cut out all these show-boating with half-assed celebrities and tell us clearly what they are bringing to the country. Election is coming in Feb 2015. Time is short. We dont need all these razzmatazz.

Welcome to the real world.

He who has NOTHING cannot give anything!
Except crying and gnashing of teeth with murderous almajiris hunting down innocent people!!



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QED!!!

semitunde:
"Be all things, unto all men, that by all means, we might win some" - The Bible

Which passage be this one- book & verse please?
Thanks!

sherrylo:
Oshbanjo, the main and right guy!

The old man is definitely enjoying his 15 minutes of fame before it ENDS on the 14th of February 2015.

If na me nko, I go slenjoy too on the head of the pretending A-Looter old soldier and Perpetual Presidential Candidate (PPC)

PhockPhockMan:
My people, I'm on my way to Umuahia from Port Harcourt. For the first in my life, I'm traveling with train. I will do the NEEDFUL next month. Happy new year in advance.

First things first, have a safe trip. Enjoy your break with your folks.

Now, last things last, we go dey wait for the NEEDFUL oh- pictures or adonbeliveit



Edited, I see that you are already doing the needful

olajide8:
hahahahahaha- lost soul, imagine thanking his handlers for doing or carrying out their responsibility, should the students have protested before they provided borehole water? moreso, the school in question is not a federal school- it is a state owned school, its not the responsibility of the federal government - its the responsibility of the state government, which means they are trying to bribe innocent young students, with what should in the first place, be the role of the government and their responsibility, well breeze don blow fowl yansh don open- and we are not interested in the thanking them/him for the right of the students - they should have channeled the money through the state government instead of heating the polity

Dear Olajide,

May I kindly advise you to read your comment again and mine which you quoted whether you made ANY sense whatsoever before you can even imagine whether you even made sense to other readers.
Cheers!

P.S, Today I am in a rather extended Christmas mood of being very charismatic, kind and generous. Not sure how long it will last though!!!

Comments such as this from Lamido about Buhari's campaign (strategy- in the absence of any other more suitable word) speaks volumes about the mind of the BLACKula that is being packaged to us as sheep by those PAID handlers of the pretending A-Looter old soldier pensioner!

One then begins to understand better the built-up sentiments and circumstances LEADING to the death of youths on NATIONAL SERVICE in 2011 after another FAILED bid by the perennial loser

We are in really deep shiit when daft, uninformed youths shout sai buhari for such an acutely devilish person

olaoreawofele:
The OP has misinformed the forum. The sum collected by the President is N43.23M. NOT BILLION.

and duly paid his TAXES thereon.

Can we see General Muhammadu Buhari's tax returns please

Maybe goat don chop am too since credential na secretary chop those ones

manutdadex:
"u get brain" no b abuse! I was actually commendin d post i replied to

The two of you should just settle this una early momo quarell offline o jare
The thing dey do me like sey I dey read all those dem Mills & Boons story beginnings sef

MuhdG:
Really?

Apart from train what else??

There is also:

- increased agricultural production despite removal of fertiliser SUBSIDY scam & cabal. What a miracle. Ask your relations who are in agricultural producing areas if there INCOME has increased to understand what is going on!
- return and revival of automobile plants!
- regular, scheduled INTERNATIONAL flights to renovated & upgraded Kano & Enugu airports apart from increased local flights to other renovated airports!
- reform of the electricity sector that is beginning to deliver on its promise of BETTER provision of power!
- improved foreign direct investment in various sectors.

Just to give a little insight of what you may have missed in your destructive criticism.

biafranqueen:
Calm down no need for insults, show class ok. GEJ did not start these huge salaries, but he is the one letting us know what is going on, we the people must demand the law makers to amend it. Please let us discuss progress for real, not emotional outburst, thanks in advance and Happy New Year.

This is what many daft followers of the pretending A-Looter old soldier pensioner do not want to appreciate since they are unable to even understand what the issues are really.

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan along with his Vice, Arch. Namadi Sambo are steadily putting in place better systems for enhanced TRANSPARENCY that is reducing corruption in a SUSTAINABLE manner.

International bodies have noticed the good trend and are acknowledging with diligently gathered data over several years =>

Nigeria records best ranking in four years on Transparency International’s corruption index
December 03 2014


Nigeria has recorded its best ranking on Transparency International’s corruption perception index (CPI) under President Goodluck Jonathan. In the latest report by TI, Nigeria is ranked the 136th out of the 175 surveyed. Nigeria was ranked 144th in 2013, 139th in 2012 and 143rd in 2011 ─ with the 2014 position bettering that of 2013 by eight places.

Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng/nigeria-improves-ti-corruption-index | TheCable

This from another international institution recognising the IMPROVEMENT in our anti-corruption systems =>

Nigeria Lost $7.92bn To Corruption In One Year
Dec 17, 2014


A total of $7.92billion in illicit capital flowed of out Nigeria in 2012, according to the latest report released by the US-based non-profit research and advisory organisation, Global Financial Integrity (GFI).

For the year 2012, only Nigeria and South Africa are the two African countries ranked in the top 20 countries for illicit financial outflows. Nigeria was ranked 17th behind South Africa, which ranks 9th with cumulative illicit financial outflows of $29.13 in 2012.

According to the report, "Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2003-2012," emerging economies lost a whopping $991.2billion in facilitating crime, corruption and tax evasion.

However, in the 10-year period between 2003 and 2012, Nigeria was ranked 10th with a cumulative of $157.46billion.

More from: http://leadership.ng/news/395733/nigeria-lost-7-92bn-corruption-one-year

Before the usual suspects start jumping around excitedly like swinging monkeys in the jungle, they should read the highlighted detail.

It shows the average for the 10 year period (2002-2012) is $15.746bn. Thus the amount of $7.92bn for 2012 alone is a REMARKABLE improvement in the statistics as it cuts the average outflow by more than HALF

The scientific duo of Jonathan/Sambo steadily making our country better again.
Let us support the winning team!

egift:
It is also a fact that many who supported or sympathized with Jonathan in 2011 have seen the disappointment and are now indifferent or supporting Buhari, while GMB now have 14 State Governors backing his candidacy unlike 1 he had in 2011.

Buhari for President, time to stop Corruption and start the Rebuilding Nigeria.

You mean the CPC governor for Nasarawa state, Al-Makura, nor be so
The one whom Jonathan had to bail out when students of the state university rioted over water scarcity or someone else?

Jonathan approves borehole for Nasarawa University after students died in water protest
March 4, 2013

One week after at least two students of the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, were killed, President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the construction of boreholes in the university.

The students were killed last week Monday while protesting the absence of potable water and electricity in their institution. Soldiers, in a bid to disperse the protesters fired live bullets and killed at least two of them, witnesses said. Initial reports say four students were killed while the police say only two were killed.

However, on Monday, President Goodluck Jonathan apparently trying to resolve the reason for the protest, approved N20 million to the management of the university for the construction of bore holes.

The university is wholly owned by Nasarawa State.

Jude Imagwe, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Student Matters, presented the letter of approval for the boreholes to the Vice Chancellor of the University, Shamsudeen Amali, when he led other student union bodies to the university school.

He quoted Mr. Jonathan as saying that the gesture was aimed at enhancing availability of water as well as to reduce the plight of students, which led to last week students’ unrest.
“I am disturbed and worried about what happened in which some students lost their lives as a result of the protest,” the presidential aide quoted the president as saying.

“The sum of N20 million was approved to the institution to enable it sink more bore holes in order to reduce the problem of inadequate water supply in the institution.
“He who provides water provides life. Life will be unbearable to the students if there is scarcity of water in the campus. They (students) will not even concentrate on their academic activities at the same time,” he added.

The president also described the incident that led to the killing of the university students as unfortunate and uncalled-for.
He urged the student union bodies to always employ dialogue and peaceful means in fighting for their rights.
According to him, there is the need for students to re-orientate themselves on issues affecting their lives.

Responding, the vice chancellor thanked the president for the gesture, saying it would go a long way in addressing the water scarcity.

More from: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/123028-jonathan-approves-borehole-for-nasarawa-university.html

Don't you just love this president who acts as his role very well as the Father of the whole Nation

Unlike the daft pretending A-Looter old soldier who cancelled the Lagos metro rail over 30 years ago out of ethnocentric bigotry and jealousy!

The Association of Pretending Crooks, APC who did NOTHING to advance education in the North East state as governor some 40 years ago neither for the whole country as Head of State for two years. He obviously prefers to grow the numbers of almajiris to unleash on our youths on NATIONAL SERVICE when he predictably FAILS in his ill-prepared attempts to return as civilian president and match Obasanjo's record

Only blind bats like himself will flock behind him shouting sai buhari like demented, depraved non-entities

baybeeboi:
Now how does this mek senz?
So N14, 410, 290. 48 X 3 = N4.323 billion?

Thanks for raising reasonable questions on the sensational DISTORTED figures in the headline and story from Vanguard.

Never mind the many easily excitable, dafts on parole who keep shouting sai buhari like they are on cheap glue

frustratedman:
All this money spent and nothing to show as his achievements?

Vote Gmb for the desired change

buhari till 2019

Sai Buhari

Has frustratedman seen General Buhari's tax returns before shouting "sai buhari" like those almajiris who butchered our youths on NATIONAL SERVICE in 2011 after his THIRD electoral FAILURE

Perhaps the pretending A-Looter old soldier will tell us it is with the secretary of some military jagbajantis
Story for the gods!

egift:
What is Jonathan doing about it? Or 6 years is not enough to send an invitation? Instead he has sent 5 Governors to go and prostrate.

When it come to OBJ and GEJ, below is what happen in 2011. Now he is swimming and clinging on IBB.

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Yet in 2011 the General Bully Aminu that your Association of Pretending Crooks, APC is begging to be their navigator could not ensure his daughter was re-elected as senator
Tell you LIE lie stories to dimwit dafts like yourself!

Keep dreaming and spewing rubbish like the waste that APC has been appropriately called

Sharksblow:
The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered.

The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ written by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My Watch’.

Adesiyan said he had already directed the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba; and the Department of State Service to arrest anybody that made inflammatory statements ahead of the 2015 elections.

He said, “Many of those in the APC are disgruntled PDP members who are no longer relevant and because they could not have their way, they have started to heat up the polity. They have said they will form a parallel government if they lose.

“I have already told the IG and the DSS to arrest anybody making such mutinous and inflammatory statements.”

Adesiyan said his suspicion was fuelled by a threat by the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, that the APC would form a parallel government if the 2015 general elections were rigged.

He added, “Obasanjo is already planning to install an interim government with Buhari. But we will vote and we will work with whoever wins the election.”

Adesiyan, who was detained in 2003 for the murder of the Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, said the former President was vindictive and was fighting Jonathan because he (Jonathan) had refused to be used by him.

The minister, who was later freed over Ige’s murder, said Obasanjo picked Jonathan as the late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s running mate because he felt he could control him but his plans backfired.

The minister said, “He picked a President that was sick and while we were campaigning for the President, he (Yar’Adua) was always in Germany receiving treatment. While many were lobbying for the VP slot, Obasanjo picked a gentleman, Goodluck Jonathan, who had no strong political base so that he could control him.

“Unfortunately for Obasanjo, God had a better plan and Jonathan refused to be used. Obasanjo, being the man that he is, has now teamed up with Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar to snatch power but Tinubu will outsmart him because we Osun people are smart. Ask Tinubu, he is my brother, from my state. He is from Iragbiji while I am from Ode-Omu.”

The Director of Communications, Buhari Campaign Organisations, Dele Alake, said it was silly for anyone to say that Buhari was plotting the emergence of an interim government when Buhari was also participating in the presidential election.

He said, “It must have dawned on Nigerians that the PDP don’t have any answer to the multifarious problems plaguing Nigeria and that is why they have resorted to mudslinging and character assassination.

“If Buhari was planning an interim government, why would he be running for President in the first place? I think sanity has taken leave from them.

“Buhari remains the only viable solution to the quagmire that Nigeria has fallen into and it will take a disciplined person like Buhari to straighten things out.”

When contacted, a source close to Obasanjo, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was only the ex-president that could react to the allegation.

The source told our correspondent on the telephone, “It is only Baba that can react to the matter.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/obasanjo-buhari-planning-interim-govt-fg/

It is quite sad and unfortunate that we are saddled in this country with people like Jelili as a Minister and an Obasanjo as a former Head of State for 3 years and civilian President for 8 years

However it is the price WE pay for being lackadaisical about our own politics- preferring to hold on to our voter's cards (assuming we even have one in the first instance) then leave plenty of space for GODFATHERS who control touts, thugs, agberos, almajiris to DICTATE our lives, practically speaking.

It is those godfathers who can deliver votes through their well established voting (read rigging) machinery on election day that then nominate minsters for their states that will remain loyal to them.
No more!
No less!!!