₦airaland Forum

Eneze1:
If the President's son was among those that were bombed yesterday, will he still declare for second term today? I just wish this man can be sensitive to the plight of Nigerians

HoldenCaulfield:
Jonathan should tell us why he has to declare is intention to continue ruling publicly while he gives
no damn about his asset declaration.
gej must go back to zoo. hit like.

egin:
Source http://pointblanknews.com/

Vice President Jonathan Bows To Pressure, Declares N.2Billion In Assets



VP Goodluck Jonathan 
The Vice president Goodluck Jonathan yesterday capitulated to public pressure over the public declaration of his assets as done by his boss, President Umaru Yaradua as he made public his assets declaration to the Code of Conduct Bureau.

The assets which were made public by the senior Special Assistant to the Vice president on Media and Public Affairs, Ima Niboro indicates that the value of the Vice president total assets and cash in banks stands at N295,304,420.

This is about N561, 148,472 less than the assets declare by President Umaru Yar’Adua who declared his total assets to be at the value of N856,452,892.

Mr. Iniboro said the vice president’s decision to make public his assets declaration was to show that ‘there is nothing to hide’.

He added that the vice president is ‘a firm believer in the rule of law and this has guided his conduct in office through the years.

“It is this belief that also guided his position that having declared his assets for a total of seven times, there was no point in going further to publish the declaration” he noted

The vice president’s aide regretted that the position of the vice president not to make public his assets declaration had ‘generated an unfortunate storm, which is not only distractive but also quite unnecessary. We are worried that some newspapers and citizens we hold in high esteem have joined the fray.

“This merely shows that in the affairs of man, there comes a time when even the law must take a second place and the public mood must define our actions. To The Vice president, this is such a time, hence the choice to send you a copy of his declaration for publication” he said.

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In the assets declaration made public yesterday, it indicated that the vice president submitted his assets declaration before Justice Muktar Dodo of the Abuja high court on 30th May 2007, a day after the oath of office and oath of allegiance was administered on him.

A break down of the assets of the vice president indicates that he has four buildings located in Yenegoa, Abuja and his home town in Ogbia, Bayelsa state.

The Vice president said he owns a five bedroom Duplex in Gwarimpa 11, Abuja which was acquired in 2003 through loan and is valued at N24,990,000 while another Seven Bedroom Duplex, which he described as Village personal Home is located at Otuoke in Ogbia Local government area of Bayelsa state. It is valued at the cost of N18,000, 000 and was acquired through ‘savings and gifts in Kind.

The last of the Vice president’s residential buildings are the Four bedroom Duplex acquired in 2003 through ‘savings and gift in Kind’ in the Kpansia area of Yenegoa. The value of the building, he said is N15,000,000. The last Building is the extended Family house in Yenegoa which he said is a four flat storey Building acquired between 2003 and 2007 through savings. The value of the property is put at N10,000,000.

Under vacant and undeveloped plots, the vice president stated as follows: 1032.50 square meter of land located at Onopa Yenegoa and valued at N3,098.00. Plot 2C, 374 Low density Area Yenegoa allocated by the bayelsa state government and valued at N150,000. 2760.00 square meter plot at cadastral Zone BO2, Durumi, Abuja allocated by the federal Capital Development Authority and valued at N5,578,540. One Parcel of farm Land at Otuoke Ogbia acquired through inheritance and estimated at the value of N50,000,000.

Plot Medium Density in Yenegoa allocated by the Federal Ministry of Works and housing the value of which he said is N1550.00

Plot 29, Low density Area Plot in Yenegoa allocated by the Bayelsa state government the value of which is put at N4,908. While the last undeveloped plot owned by the vice president is plot 2246 Cadastral Zone A06, Abuja the value of which he put at N4, 800,000. It was allocated by the Federal Capital development Authority, FCDA

The Vice president’s investment in stocks which is being managed by City Code Investment Company is as follows.

S/No Name of Stock Number Of Shares Value As At 5/25/07
1 CADBURY PLC 8,666 N264,313
2 FLOUR MILLS PLC 8,466 N635,119.32
3 GUINESS NIG. PLC 6,395 N796,177.50
4 UNILEVER 18,750 N337,500
5 UNION BANK OF NIG. PLC 23,466 N727,446
6 FIDELITY BANK PLC 33,333 N296,663.70
7 UBA PLC 180,000 N6,838,200
8 ACCESS BANK PLC 84,656 N1,635,553.92
9 CADBURY PLC 2,500 N76,250
10 UNION BANK PLC 716,109 N22,199,379
11 FIRST BANK PLC 20,000 N808,000
12 FLOUR MILLS PLC 13,333 N1,000,241.66
13 NIGERIAN BREWERIES PLC 10,000 N363,000
14 BANK PHB PLC 866,666 N24,959,980.80
15 OANDO 15,125 N1,134,375
TOTAL 2,007,465 N62,072,200
Other investments include 4nos passenger boats for hiring which is valued at N5, 260,000. While the total cash in Nigerian banks being personal saving of salaries/allowances and income from his investments stands at N58, 984,123.

The vice president house holds utensils including generators, a BMW car valued at N15, 800,000, which he said was a gift; air conditioners, furniture, electronics and kitchen utensils is valued at N41,800,000.

soe:
Guy ... We live in times when EFCC now merely receives "offerings" only.

If you know how much has been stolen since GeJ's administration.... Compared to what EFCC has recovered...you will know that EFCC is simply doing NoThInG

blaise26abj:
If only the government could be serious and united about insecurity like they were against Ebola, things would be better.

US and UK have had their own attacks but they stood up against it in one voice and they enjoy relative peace in that aspect.

datolee:
The OP stated that the reason for the take over was because of subsidy fraud, and you wrote a comment that I think was affirmative of the suggestion, If you hold a different view, then I withdraw my statement... In that case, you need to advice the OP that the take over has nothing to do with subsidy fraud

unlimitedbosco:
stop calling it a regime it a democratical elected government
note pls regime is buhari abacha and his people

datolee:
These people surely cannot comprehend, They just keep shouting suit FHC/ABJ/CS/714/2012 , What really happened?

AMCON took Capital oil and gas to court, Here is what Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja had to say in the said suit



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/amcon-insists-on-retention-of-capital-oil-s-assets/133993/

Following the advice of the judge, they reached a settlement of which one of the conditions was for AMCON to take over the management, not ownership!!! of the company.

Ifeanyi Uba has just met other terms of the settlement and his business is handed back to him, I wonder the uproar?

The 2 years thing was one of the condition for an out of court settlement... otherwise, please tell us when court judgement become "adopted as term of settlement?"

nationwide1:
RIP to the departed souls.

Btw, I blame Jonathan for not effecting total emergency rule. This man would have been talking from his house today. Is it not because he couldn't do well enough as the chief security officer of his state that warranted emergency rule?

APC Warns against Extension of Emergency Rule, Says it's Counterproductive
28 Apr 2014

All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend warned those it described as trying to stampede President Goodluck Jonathan into sacking three North-east governors by appointing military administrators after the expiration of the state of emergency to have a rethink because of the grave consequences the action may have on the polity.

The party said such a move would not be in the interest of either the people they intend to protect or the country.

The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, who gave the warning in Ilorin, Kwara State at the weekend while speaking with journalists on the state of the nation, however said, "the extension of the emergency rule in those three states will be between the President and the National Assembly."

According to him,"the President can not declare the emergency without securing two third majority of members of the National Assembly."

He said, "There are certain issues to be considered by the National Assembly before they would grant the extension. What is [size=14pt]more worrisome is the call by some people to the effect that the democratic structures in those states should be dismantled.

"That the governor should be sacked. On the contrary, one can not fight insurgency when the political structure is not in place.[/size] So I hope those who are trying to stampede the President into sacking those governors will have a rethink because if they do not, the consequences will not be in the interest of either the people you want to protect or the country."

The APC chieftain also said the battle against insurgency bedevilling the country cannot be fought by the federal government alone, saying that the fight needs active cooperation and participation of all stakeholders in the country.

He advised the federal government to reach out to the affected governors as the number one stakeholders in the states.

More from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/apc-warns-against-extension-of-emergency-rule-says-its-counterproductive/177242/

Total emergency: Don’t provoke us, Geidam, Nyako warn Clark
April 29, 2014

Governor Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State and his Adamawa State counterpart, Murtala Nyako have warned the Ijaw national leader and former Federal Commissioner of Information, Chief Edwin Clark against provoking Nigerians and the North East states with his comments on insecurity in the area.

The governors said Clark’s call for declaration of “total state of emergency” in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe following heightened insecurity and his suggestion for the replacement of democratic structure with sole-administrators, was aimed at provoking them and putting the nation’s constitution as well as her nascent democracy in jeopardy.

More from: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=61487

berem:
It would do you good if you desist from quoting me on this thread. I am not in the mood to exchange words with saTANists. Now get thee behind me!!!

berem:
. Why don't you channel your research on Boko Haram and suggest possible ways of ending the insurgency as a saTANist and tell us what JonaTAN has to offer in 2015.

Yeye dey smell!

Firefire:
My friend,... how far ee don don?

LouisVanGaal:
..we're not clueless! Besides your comparison between the citizen's of naija and our foreign counterpart is lob-sided and seriously out of place! In overseas, democratic institutions have autonomy and are well funded coupled little or no govt interference, hence they function effectively!

Firefire:
Let us wait for GMB defender’s response...

Beaf:
[size=14pt]Beasts Of No Nation[/size]

Beasts of No Nation: Beast of No Nation is the first song Fela wrote in 1986, after he was liberated from prison—serving two years from a five year prison sentence for trumped-up foreign currency violation charges. Everywhere he went after his release, people were asking him what he was going to sing about: ‘Fela wetin you go sing about? Them go worry me!”. People wanted to hear him sing about his prison experience, like he had done with the songs like: Alagbon Close, Kalakuta Show, and Expensive poo. Finally, he decided to sing about the world we live in—with particular reference to Nigeria. He said when he was in prison he called it ‘Inside World’, out of prison he called it ‘Outside World’. But for him it is actually ‘Craze World’.

[size=14pt]Otherwise, what name can one give a world with: police brutality, army oppression, courts without justice, magistrates who are supposed to uphold the law, obviously seen bending the law to please some special interest. As further proof of the craze world, he sings about the judge who sent him to jail for five years on a trumped up charge, only for the same judge to visit Fela in a prison hospital two years after. The judge apologized, claiming he was under pressure from the government to convict. This could only happen in a Craze World, Fela reasons.[/size]

It can only be in a craze world that people sit and watch governments shoot down protesting students with impunity, like in Soweto(South Africa), Zaria and Ife(Nigeria). Bearing in mind that Nigeria like all craze world countries, condemn the apartheid regime in South Africa, yet committing crimes against humanity in their respective countries. Turning to another aspect of craze world policy of the Nigerian government. In 1983, the Buhari/Idigabon military regime launched a public campaign dubbed ‘War Against Indiscipline’. This was the regime’s solution to corruption inherent in the Nigerian society. To justify this campaign, [size=14pt]the Nigerian head of state, General Buhari and his deputy General Idiagbon publicly used words like: ‘…my people are useless! My people are senseless! My people are indisciplined!’[/size] to describe Nigerian People.

For Fela, only in a craze world can such remarks be made. Moreover, such statements could only have come from an ‘animal in human skin’. How could these two animals use such words to qualify a people who feed them? This being so, other leaders from other countries must either be animals themselves to associate with, or accept to co-habit under such an umbrella as the United Nations with a head of state that considers his people useless.

Turning to the United Nations, Fela saw it as a majorly unhealthy organization that suffers major inadequacy in its organizational principles. It is absurd to organize the UN principle bodies; the Security Council and the General Assembly, in such an undemocratic manner as one member’s cote can veto the decision of the majority. Is this Democracy? “What is United about the UN?” Fela asked. Thatcher went to war with Argentina over Falkland—yet both counties are members of the world body. Reagan and Libya were at war. Israel versus Lebanon. Iran versus Iraq. East-West cold war. It looks more like a group of disunited nations, so how can such a body work to promote and encourage respect for human rights? For Fela, that is another kind of animal talk. How can people talk about ‘individual’ rights? No one has the right to deprive someone else of what belongs to the individual—only an animal would try to take away another person’s legitimate rights. People who hear Fela say things like this reminded him that he was sent to prison for having such opinions of government. He, in his defense, said it was not him who called members of the UN animals. It was Pik Botha, the former South Africa President at the peak of the anti-apartheid struggle, in reaction to the persistent riots against the racist regime. He came out with a statement that his regime would act more brutally if the riots did not stop: “…this uprising will bring out the beast in us”. Fela’s reminded us that President Reagan advocated: “, constructive engagement with the apartheid regime” among member nations of the UN. The same policy as Mrs. Thatcher – an indication that they were sharing the same friendship and animal characteristics as Botha. If this is so the UN can only be an assembly of Beasts of No Nation.

- Mabinuori Kayode Idowu

http://www.fela.net/discography/beasts-of-no-nation

[img]http://1.bp..com/_MgRHpnroYGU/TRsHcU6PPHI/AAAAAAAABQs/ZVqYGJ9q7Qk/s1600/BeastsOfNoNation.jpg[/img]

LouisVanGaal:
How about thinking of a Developed country where things are done in order and laws are respected?? Or should I help u reason the answer?? . Soon u ud ask me the criteria for preparing HOT WATER

LouisVanGaal:
and the ones he replaced them with, how competent are they Hw functional is the COAS and CDS When you replacing someone on a job, u bring in another who would out smart the previous in ability. You don't sack, for its sake..GEJ has been appointing based on political interests and not on skills and competence. In a saner climes, the minister of interiors, the one that handled the immigration exercise should have been sacked by GEJ or he honourably resigns, but what's the case Nothing..the president did nothing! Simply because Abba Moro is an IBB's boy! How about the clueless CDS (Alex Badeh), he was given a presidential award...Guy u have no case abeg!

Firefire:
Welcome on board Stanley

ajahexcel:
E-warriors all over Nairaland.......
How MUCH are you guyz being paid so i can as well quit my job and join in this e-fight

LouisVanGaal:
God bless you...indeed some persons have eyes, but it's either they are myopic or they intentionally choose not to see. The main problem of GEJ is that he intentionally refuses to hold anyone responsible/accountable for abuse of office in his govt. A competent president would have sacked all the service chiefs as regards to these BH insurgence...can't you see that he has given them enough 'Job security'..

Jonathan sacks service chiefs, appoints new ones
JANUARY 16, 2014

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-sacks-service-chiefs-appoints-new-ones/

cramjones:
It is with heart felt sympathy that I heard about the bomb blast today in Potiskum that killed 48 innocent students trying to get educated. May their souls rest in peace and may God grant the family comfort and bring the perpetrators to justice. Amen

Meanwhile, it is unfortunate that we have a wicked and insensitive leadership, concerned only to come back to power come 2015. This leader has more meetings on 2015 than on security. This leader does not give a damn. This leader is Corrupt. Incompetent. Deceptive. Divisive. Dishonest. Lazy. Negligent. Unpatriotic. Insensitive. Wicked. Clueless. Confused. And Dangerous.

The blood that has soaked our land will not do so in vain, the day of reckoning for this wickedness and negligence by the presidency will surely come!

-CramJones

Onegai:
He's done nothing. Take it from someone who worked in his government. Everything this man wrote is true. Do you know how much my allowances were, and I know how low my grade was. I know how much those higher than me took home from LASG as "allowances". Even my mum who's seen Corruption upclose was horrified. Imagine giving Meeting allowance because Lagos state govt parastatals were going for a day's meeting to another LASG parastatal. Every meeting, they would demand to be fed, only for us to not achieve anything. Every launching, they would select pretty women from LASG and share free ankara and call them "hostesses" for the ceremony (Lord knows the ladies did nothing). How they would insist on govt car (and be parking their own private cars down the street, pretending not to have any) and got them. How they jump queue at GH and refuse to pay for drugs (then the hospital staff will start telling poor parents that the so-called "free" malaria meds for kids provided for by LASG has finished, they should buy it). The number of foreign trips for "training" abroad and led to nothing. The sheer wastefulness...

Do you know how many excellent Business proposals and companies have been killed, just so they (LASG) can award it to their people, who proceeded to do a shoddy job? The number of jobs lost is astronomical. I know of at least 2, which would have made Nigeria PROUD and hired Engineers, Scientists and Technicians and trained them for 25 years. I didn't know the people behind them but I almost cried when I saw what they were going through at the hands of my bosses (LASG).

Lagosians are clapping after eating sand because they are used to eating mud as Nigerians.

omenka:
Rubbish!! The man and 99% of Nigerian politicians are crooks without honour and should be the ones advised to show some decorum.

pentagonal:
rubbish postulation by an accursed dingbat, whose buccal orifice is far gone in the an..us of the most useless president on the milky way. may your life, existence and business be managed the way gej is managing Nigeria.

TheSonOfMark:
. I wonder if it's just me or has anyone else noticed that wherever GEJ and/PEJ is mentioned on NairaLand, be it the politics, jobs, romance or even JOKES section, OMENKA, BARCANISTA, BEREM, NGENEUKWU and IBNSULTAN would certainly be there to take a swipe at and hurl insults at the first family.

I'm beginning to think they have secret sensors to monitor the words 'President' , 'first lady' , 'GEJ', 'PEJ', 'TAN' and 'PDP'.

I'm yet to come across comments from the aforementioned monikers about LOVE, LIFE, RELATIONSHIPS and issues that are nonpartisan.

The above reasons are why a lot of NairaLanders opine that you are PAID E-WARRIORS. They might be wrong but your selective line of comments keeps fueling such speculations.

What do you think guys?

atlwireles:
Aganga stated this at the 4th Annual Seminar for Industry, Trade and Investment Correspondents and Editors in Abuja.

According to him in 2011, the installed capacity in the cement sector is 16.5 million metric tons per annum.

“Today it is 39.5 million metric tons. When we came in, there were about $9 billion investment in the cement sector, but today it is more than $15 billion.

“In 2011, the direct and indirect jobs from the cement sector was less than 600,000 today the sector provides about 2.2 million direct and indirect jobs,’’ he said.

He said the federal government spent at least $5.2 million in the importation of cement, but since 2013 the present administration has not issued any import license.

“Our main focus for the cement sector, going forward, is to improve the standard of cement and to bring the price down. Cement manufacturers must do it because we do not do price regulation.

barcanista:
You guys keep coming with this. How did he sell it?
I will like to know because I still can't fathom how a right thinking man will hold such lines.

Mikky jaga
Apr 17, 2011

Some here may not understand the import of these results. It shows that after the collapse of ACN/CPC talks, Jonathan was able to secure a guarantee from Tinubu and the other ACN leaders to soft pedal in the South West for him to have a foothold in the region, hence the bright showing of PDP in the West. On the other hand, Ribadu and Shekarau agreed to support one of their own - Buhari, hence the resurgence of CPC all over the Northern States.

These things could not be announced openly due to the closeness of the agreement to the election date, but the messages were relayed to party leaders at ward levels and also to party agents, hence the incident of ACN agents voting for PDP.

The fact that this election throws up is that South - South coalition can defeat the Northern oligarchy in free and fair elections - that is, if Jonathan wins. The great sage, Awo foresaw this possibility in his lifetime which explains his oft recourse to selecting Igbo Vice Presidential candidates, but the propaganda machines of the oligarchy prevented a south-south coalition to see the light of the day. Today, Awo is being vindicated, the south can actually win the presidency of Nigeria without bowing to the shenanigans of the oligarchy.

From: http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/62115-presidential-polls-d-day-jonathan-buhari-ribadu-shekarau-4.html#post537875

barcanista:
The man in Bourdillion was a performer when he held sway.
He has always been a symbol of opposition and democracy since his early days in politics in 1992. He has refused to join the PDP when all odds are/were against him-including the seized funds belonging to d State's LGAs.
He remained as a symbol even when hs political senior Atiku left him. He supports performers.
Nigeria may be a one-party state save for him, Buhari and others.
I may have some issues with him, but if the pdp were endorsing credible people like this, Nigeria would av improved significantly and not retrogressed.