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Has anyone heard about the SFU, Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police Force established in 1993
That was some 10 years before the EFCC was established by OBJoke to do the same thing with a focus on his political enemies.
The current Head of EFCC, Lamorde was one of the pioneer police officers in the SFU.

Meanwhile, anyone who is aggrieved by REPORTS of inadequate funding for EFCC should petition his Senator and/or Representative to find out if/why there was not enough budget provision for the agency.
That is what civilised people do, innit

Does anyone know how many bills Tambuwal has championed into law?
Was he not one of the Chief collaborators of BankOle
Typical APC politics - bring in the PDP crooks and promote them such as George Akume, now SINate Minority Leader after eight years of stealing as Benue governor
You can only get away with that if your fellow compatriots are MUMUciously clueless people who think themselves ultra smart.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]At this point, most Nigerians will welcome any form of regime change. The looting and abuse could not be worse.[/quote]Fortunately, you do not represent "most Nigerians".
Smart people don't simply seek change for the sake of change. Maybe u assume "most" of our fellow compatriots are clueless. Thankfully that is not the case.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]That's why I wrote: It is my view, however, that this coup is not forthcoming and our best bet for now is a democratic regime change. APC may be our very last hope.[/quote]Which APC are u talking about
The one that is filled with PDP's reject and calls OBJoke its "navigator"
Do u have something else better to propose?

lakefist: if tecno can ping b4 nokia theres nothing IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD to do

Make u dey shout god for there.
China-man sabi your god
You better take very good note of the Tecno lesson on analytical perseverance and sacrificial long suffering.

Afam4eva: He kept saying that he was Otukpo.

Nor vex then Oga Afam.

Fhemmmy: When you look into the mirror, you are the only one that could chose what you wanna see . . . There is nothing wrong in people representing the town doing something for the town, i am so sure that some of the mentioned names probably graduated from that school in the pix . . .

Those were my thoughts exactly and their CVs will not be complete without mentioning the school.
We need to learn to give back to our society MORE MEANINGFULLY than we are doing currently.

Afam4eva: Is Otukpo really Idoma though. I've always thought so but yesterday when i went to buy drinking garri, the guy that sold to me told me he was from Otukpo but said he's not idoma and i was surprised. Any otukpo person in the house?

And you nor fit ask am wetin im be if nor be idoma
Na here you wan come stress us with question

darkid1: You say gadget and limit it to phones? The average mentality of average Nigerians

Na im make am dey ask

WHAT Z DZ ONE SAYING

Any possibility of expanding/upgrading the RAM processing capacity of the brain as well with all these gadgets dem

Afam4eva: As much as i believe that those prominent men from that area are bonafide thieves. I don't see what they could have done really. It's not like they occupy(ied) an executive position that would aid them to salvage the situation of Otukpo. let's not forget that otukpo is not the capital of Benue state and in Nigeria, our governors have a culture of always developing the major city and leaving other cities to rut away. I don't see how Otukpo is worse than other mini-cities throughout Nigeria.

In short they are ALL the same- the yeye politicians branding themselves as progreTHIEF saints.
Thus the scammers & fraudsters in the Arewa People's Congress, APC should stop their HYPOCRISY.
QED!!!

dayokanu: Which party has ruled Benue since 1999, 14yrs straight?

ACN has never ruled Benue for one day In case you need to refresh your memory

And George Akume's eight years were so PROGRESSIVE in Benue state hence he was rewarded by ACN with the Minority Leader position in the SINate.
Nor be so


https://newsdiaryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GeorgeAkume2.jpg



HYPOCRITES on the prowl

dayokanu: 14 straight uninterrupted years of PDP rule in benue State.
Fresh air things

You seem to need a memory refresh so I will help you out:

George Akume (born 27 December 1953) is the Minority Leader of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and served as the Governor of Benue State from 1999 t0 2007. He is the first Executive Governor of Benue State to have completed two terms in office. He was elected governor of Benue State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and was then elected to the Senate.[1] Akume was reelected Senator for Benue North West in the April 2011 elections, running on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform.[2]

More from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Akume

I guess since ACN/APC is full of the rejected excreta and faeces of PDP, this should not be a surprise. Or should it

adconline: Is this different from typical Naija village?

Is Otukpo a VILLAGE

[quote author=F.K.O]Between 2009 – 2010, the smartphone trend, which was also exclusive to a certain class of the country’s over 170 million population, surfaced. However, when Chinese phone maker Tecno ventured into the Nigerian market it presented a opportunity for Nigeria’s fast-rising middle class to access services available on smartphones. Other phone makers, i.e. Solo Phone, soon followed suit, providing cheap, yet standard services on affordable smartphones to all who move with the trend of new gadgets in the country’s increasingly demanding and tech-savvy population.

In 2013, the “gadget boom” continued with the launch of a series of eye-catching phones, tablets, and gadgets and stiff competition for market share between major phone makers, i.e. Samsung, Apple, Tecno and Blackberry (Yes, Blackberry still accounts for a significant percentage of the market share in Nigeria), while mobile penetration experienced a surge across the Africa. Thus, consumers have benefited from innovative competition between phone makers, with citizens now afforded the luxury to select from a wider range of products.

During this festive season, our team scanned through the retail markets to spot a few of the top selling devices. In no particular order, here are the top five:

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4) Tecno Phantom A+ – The fast emerging phone maker is gradually siphoning the industries consumer base, largely due to an efficient blend of quality and price, coercing cost-oriented customers to turn their attention towards a cheaper and similarly effective device. The newly released Phantom Pad N9 offer almost the same features as the Galaxy S4, yet cost 50 percent less than the Samsung device.[/quote]How long have the Chinese being making Tecno or any phone for that matter
Yet when Jonathan makes the good policy that we should REVIVE our auto industry so we can START our road to industrialisation some short-sighted fellow compatriots want to keep sending ALL our money abroad to import USED cars:

https://www.nairaland.com/1569525/reps-urge-fg-suspend-new

Meanwhile China, in line with its PROTECTIONIST policies just allowed IPhone to be sold in China after so many years:

Apple lands elusive iPhone deal with China Mobile

SAN FRANCISCO — A long-sought deal to sell the iPhone through China Mobile should enable Apple to boost its profits and build customer loyalty in an important, growing market.

China Mobile, the world's largest wireless carrier, boasts more than 750 million mobile accounts, an audience that had been mostly walled off from the iPhone until Apple and China Mobile hammered out a multi-year sales agreement after years of thorny negotiations. The companies announced the deal Sunday (Monday in China).

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/23/4709935/apple-strikes-deal-to-bring-iphone.html#storylink=cpy

Any chance that the black man will finally get a sense of the need to sacrifice today for greater common future

pistol: Maybe she went for abortion to abort rotimi Amechi illegimate baby...
Anyway RIP.

Did you miss the part of the news about her age

naijacutee: I pray that applicants are applying with the intention of creating opportunities to make things better for our future children, and not just to chop the national cake and leave us in a mess like the previous generations have done. In Jesus name. Inshallah. Amen.

Thanks a lot for your response. I was going to seriously yab the guy otherwise.

KDULAR: The british ( small b is intensional) royal is one family whose net expenditure borne by the government was 33.3 million pounds sterling (8.658 Billion Naira ) for 2012.

How much does the British royal family contribute to their economy, mostly through tourism

superstar1: A capitalist have the right to downsize. It is inhumane and socially irresponsible of a corporate body to sack 200 staff and a week later use 200mm to bring mariah Carey and fergie for a nonsense concert or seminar or whatever they call it.

You can simply imagine what both Mariah Carey & Ferguson will be discussing with their oyinbo crew and folks back home about Nigerians with their MISPLACED priorities
Did Kim Kardashian not tweet some trash about Nigeria after collecting Fashola's cool $500k for a 24-hour presence in Nigeria

This is a smart good move that I wholeheartedly endorse.
Hopefully we will display the same level of consciousness and activism to our do-nothing LGA public servants and other elected LAWMAKERS.

callmenow: Are these your six top officials Nigerians? The vice president, senate president and the speaker is from the north. The others are from the south. The NASS were required to vote their officers. So what are you saying? The CJN is northern. The south south has bagged the presidency. The north has bagged the NASS. The Hausas also bagged the Judiciary, completing the tripod of the persisting democracy in Nigeria. There is no such as a deputy in Nigeria. It is all ceremonial. To be seen and not heard. The eboes and yorubas have lost out again. However the above are performing, so that is a joy. Ease off. Criticism is easy but it does not create

You smart gan ni oh. In fact you too much.
So deputy na ceremonial abi
Please can you remind us how Jonathan became governor of Bayelsa and then president of the FRN

SegzyJoe: Of all the strategic mistake made by the president, the most gravious one was to treat SW as inconsequential. SW is the pressure point of Nigerian federation. Without SW there will be no Nigeria, SE & North would ve parted ways long time ago.

I thought it was Tinubu, in order not to have any opposition to his strangle-hold on the yorubas, who gave away our slot as Speaker House of Reps to Tambuwal.
Is that not correct
Now we do not have any yoruba in the first six ranking positions in Abuja:

- President & Vice President
- Senate President & Deputy
- Speaker HoR & Deputy

So if you have any grievance about treating yorubas as inconsequential you should face the JagaBandit on Bourdillon Road and not GEJ in Aso Rock.
In giving the above advice I am assuming you are capable of RATIONAL thoughts devoid of useless emotional sentiments. I hope I am not mistaken.

rhymz: You all think China is able to compete with America and Europe because of its superb quality? China competes by first running a monopoly of production and sales of any item in China before going out to export and competing, the government there have protectionist laws that are extreme without minding how it hurts foreign businesses, that is why in china today, of you want to compete you will have to move your plant and production facilities to China.... you can't produce in America or Europe and take it you China to sell as we foolishly do here.

Just to confirm what you wrote above:

Free Trade With Protectionist China Cheats America

We no longer worry about a nuclear attack from Russia, but we should start worrying about China, North Korea and Iran. It's time Americans wake up to the fact that China is not merely a friendly trading partner who manufactures cheap goods we can buy at Walmart.

China is spending the billions of dollars it gets from its tremendous sales to Americans to build the most formidable military force in the world. China is building strategic nuclear weapons with delivery capabilities, submarines and ships, fighter planes and bombers, and a new anti-ship ballistic missile to sink U.S. aircraft carriers.

Communist China recently conducted a space test involving two satellites that rendezvoused several hundred miles above Earth in a maneuver that boosts Beijing's anti-satellite weapons program. That's a key capability for space warfare, intelligence gathering and destroying enemy satellites.

Some people foolishly call our relationship with China "free trade." But there is nothing free or fair about it — we are in a trade war between a militantly protectionist communist government and a U.S. shackled by obsolete illusions about trade.

The whole notion of free trade with China is dishonest. China is pumping public funds into its government-run companies, such as the airlines and steel mills, and the proportion of industrial production controlled and subsidized by the government is increasing rapidly.

With the Communist Party in the driver's seat, China violates international law and trade agreements, slaps taxes and regulations on U.S. plants in China, and forces U.S. corporations to give away their trade secrets and manufacturing know-how to Chinese competitors. Chinese regulators have unlimited discretion to reward China's friends and punish enemies.

Communist China is the world's top producer of illegal copies of music, movies, software, designer apparel, medicines, and other U.S. products. Chinese agents stole or illegally bought high-tech, electronic, military, and communications systems.
China's strategy for economic development specifically includes stealing foreign innovations in order to develop domestic technology and manufacturing. China's goal is to be the world's biggest exporter based on stealing U.S. know-how and subsidizing Chinese manufacturers.

That's only part of China's strategy to cheat Americans. When U.S. companies build plants in China, Beijing forces them to disclose their technology in order to gain contracts, and the result is that major U.S. corporations, including our biggest technology companies, have given away their most valuable industrial secrets.

It gets worse. China has adopted an official policy called "indigenous innovation."

That's China's label for anti-American trade rules that prohibit imports and U.S. manufacturing in China unless based on intellectual property developed and owned in China, with its trademarks registered in China. This new rule targets our most innovative manufacturing and service industries, including computers, software and telecommunications.

The Chinese government's list of products subject to this obnoxious rule is constantly expanding. China's "indigenous innovation" policy forbids U.S. products from being sold in China unless the U.S. companies give China their current patents and technology plus information about their research and development of new products.

China has no plan to be a market for U.S. products. China's principal imports are and will continue to be U.S. jobs.

More from: http://www.creators.com/conservative/phyllis-schlafly/free-trade-with-protectionist-china-cheats-america.html

ykmotors: So much happy about dis good ever move by Rep... Thank you oh rep make FG look for another way out.

I can understand where you are coming from seeing you have many threads on Tokunbo cars for sale.
Is there any chance you can see beyond your nose
You may want to start looking at other viable businesses related to your tokunbo car sales as this policy will be implemented for the GREATER good of our dear country, Incha Allah, God Willing, DV.
We will make the necessary short term sacrifice and discomfort so our tomorrow can be much better.

israel007: What I really expected is for them to graatually introduce the said cars into the market and allow consumers make their own choices.

Maybe you can show us from the examples of the new Asian Tiger economies- China, India, South Korea etc how "they allow consumers their own choices" by gradually introducing locally manufactured cars into the market.
I hope that is not too much to expect from you, or is it

My response to the OP's question- YES!
They should emulate how the early Apostles followed the example of Christ's works and words as recorded in the Acts of Apostles and other subsequent books in the Bible.

Anyway na dem sabi, as Christ clearly said not everyone who calls me Lord, Lord will be saved even if they claim to have performed many great miracles in His name.

krafty iyk: like the telecom industries,

What has been our trajectory with telecoms liberalisation since 2001?
Would we have done better carrying on with NITEL and its annual subsidies without any improvement in services because we did not have the PERFECT conditions for private involvement

unmask: you forgot to mention what infrastructures they had on ground

Since I forgot, can you kindly mention the infrastructures South Korea had on ground in 1960?
Thanks in advance for your detailed response.

krafty iyk: in my opinion, nothing is wrong with industrializing Nigeria, but let's start from the scratch, fix the power supply system 1st, tidy good roads, e.t.c, we wont like a case where these car plants will have to generate there own electricity, and as such, multiply the prizes of their goods, like the telecom industries, eventually , the tax will indirectly fall on the common man as the end consumers/consumers,.
and when these cars are produced, bad roads will send them to early scrap markets...
in summary, let the president and his acolytes forget about this policy, and face some other important issues, it cant just work for now, we are tired of abandoned projects.

How many people (%) wait to get married after they have 1st secured a mansion, exotic luxury car, fat bank account etc etc
How many people (%) who get, married based on their POTENTIALS without having the comforts listed above SUBSEQUENTLY acquire those things listed above?
As I stated earlier Nigeria ALREADY had auto industry, including Volkswagen of Nigeria (VON) on Badagry Express Road that were laid waste due to our clueless military DICTATORS' focus on short-term goals that look sweet but are very deadly in the long run. It is like an alcoholic drowning his problems in beer or liquor only to recover from his self-inflicted hangover and find out the problems are BIGGER and WORSE.
The same is true for drug addicts.
Won't he have been better off devoting his energy to fixing his problem ab initio

GEJ has made a bold, courageous move to revamp our industries and should be praised for doing so by any rational, patriotic Nigerian.

SaharaReporters has learnt that Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, will be forced to leave his post in March, 2014, two months before the formal expiration of his tenure. Two sources at the Presidency and a source at the Central Bank told SaharaReporters that Mr. Sanusi has been ordered to proceed on a post-retirement leave in March.

I don't know who I can award the greatest gaffe between the OP and his quoted source- SaharaReporters.

- The OP changed two months to three months.
- SR distorts what clearly is a PRE-retirement leave to post-retirement. You cannot be granted leave AFTER your employment contract is over.

Moreover, pre-retirement is a usual arrangement for high level executives in the public and private sector.
If SR had used patriotic rather than PAROCHIAL lens to view the reports from its two presidency sources and the additional source in CBN it would have realised its folly, which will further dent its waning credibility in the ever-growing news sector in Nigeria.

koboko69: They have a serious government in those countries. Not the public thieves we here. We are still lanquishing in pain with what the telecoms industry and what dstv is doing to us. Just because we dont have a competent govt. By the way innoson cars is just the only functioning plant in Nigeriam they surely can not meet the demand of Nigerians

While you are free to indulge yourself in your own delusion it will be a great injustice for me to allow you confuse our fellow compatriots into the same trap.
These are excerpts from the South Korean experience with mega-conglomerates otherwise known as Chaebols of which Samsung, LG and Hyundai are world renowned brands TODAY:

South Korea's economy was small and predominantly agricultural well into the mid-20th century. However, the policies of President Park Chung Hee spurred rapid industrialization by promoting large businesses, following his seizure of power in 1961. This was called the First Five Year Economic Plan. Government industrial policy set the direction of new investment, and the chaebol were to be guaranteed loans from the banking sector. In this way, the chaebol played a key role in developing new industries, markets, and export production, helping place South Korea as one of the Four Asian Tigers.
Although South Korea's major industrial programs did not begin until the early 1960s (i.e. some 50 years ago), the origins of the country's entrepreneurial elite were found in the political economy of the 1950s. Very few Koreans had owned or managed larger corporations during the Japanese colonial period. After the departure of the Japanese in 1945, (i.e. about 70 years ago and 15 years before Nigeria's independence) some Korean businessmen obtained the assets of some of the Japanese firms, a number of which grew into the chaebol of the 1990s. These companies, as well as certain other firms that were formed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, had close links with Syngman Rhee's First Republic, which lasted from 1948 to 1960. It was alleged that many of these companies received special favors from the government in return for kickbacks and other payments.

When the military took over the government in 1961, military leaders announced that they would eradicate the corruption that had plagued the Rhee administration and eliminate injustice from society. Some leading industrialists were arrested and charged with corruption, but the new government realized that it would need the help of the entrepreneurs if the government's ambitious plans to modernize the economy were to be fulfilled. A compromise was reached, under which many of the accused corporate leaders paid fines to the government. Subsequently, there was increased cooperation between corporate and government leaders in modernizing the economy.[4]

Government-chaebol cooperation was essential to the subsequent economic growth and astounding successes that began in the early 1960s. Driven by the urgent need to turn the economy away from consumer goods and light industries toward heavy, chemical, and import-substitution industries, political leaders and government planners relied on the ideas and cooperation of the chaebol leaders. The government provided the blueprints for industrial expansion; the chaebol realized the plans. However, the chaebol-led industrialization accelerated the monopolistic and oligopolistic concentration of capital and economically profitable activities in the hands of a limited number of conglomerates.
Park used the chaebol as a means towards economic growth. Exports were encouraged, reversing Rhee's policy of reliance on imports. Performance quotas were established.

More from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

Is this not somewhat similar to the laudable initiatives being put in place and vigorously pursued by the democratic administration of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, President of the FRN
Hopefully his team will learn from the shortcomings of the Korean experience and make necessary amends.

4 Play: Nigeria has not reached the economic level where its car plants can compete with foreign car plants on price or efficiency. These sort of polices work where there is a genuine prospect that the cossetted Nigerian car manufacturers can make significant inroads in the automobile market abroad via exports from Nigeria. If you simply put up prices where you have no chance of becoming export competitive, you get a captive domestic market that simply pays higher prices whilst the country gets nothing in return by way of higher exports.

You may have missed this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/1568337/inside-innoson-motor-manufacturing-plant

Let us not forget that we also had Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria (PAN) assembling cars in Kaduna, Steyr and Leyland in Bauchi & Ibadan respectively doing trucks and tractors before our clueless military DICTATORS and COUPists derailed everything leading to the high unemployment legacy and low industrialisation base that the current administration has to grapple with.
China & India have been growing their local manufacturing base for many decades and are slowly moving into exports using our dear continent Africa as a testing ground, seeing as we are very useless ourselves, before they move on to Latin America and Europe/North America.
Meanwhile we continue giving ourselves EXCUSES to remain perpetually poor while seeking to be voluntary slaves of those societies that made the sacrifices necessary for development and progress.

How many people remember how the 1st PCs looked so big and very slow compared to the tiny notebooks and laptops wehave today even smartphones sef
If the oyinbos waited by saying that it was not standard before producing what would we have today?
The Chinese are going ahead with their copy & improve system on Techno phones and in the next few years they will be exporting to hapless Africans who are not ready to forego the comforts of today so we can be proud developers, MANUFACTURERS and constantly improving OUR products.
BTW, when we fast are we not foregoing a major NECESSITY- food now in order to have a better future through answered prayers
Why do we think it should be different in the other mundane aspects of our lives as individuals and community?
Do we not sacrifice immediate income by going to university or technical college instead of starting work with our O levels or becoming a bus conductor etc
Why should we continue to accept being looked down upon as a race that is inferior and being the "Missing Link" in Charles Darwin's evolution theory because we contribute NOTHING to our own daily comforts,
I repeat NOTHING!!!
As the Giant of Africa should we not be leading the way in this type of local manufacturing initiative?