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The bombs went off when president Jonathan was inspecting a guard of honour in the event-attended by over 15 heads of state of different nations, former Nigerian presidents and former military heads of state saved Gen. Ibrahim Babangida , who was absent. The blasts did not prevent the event from going on. Although Jonathan was unshaken when he heard the sound of the blasts, one of his closed aides said, "He is very angry about the embarrassment."

did anybody notice the bold part of the op
look no further the "evil genius" at work

@presido1
you can refer them to it or refer those who will refer them to it since none of them is an alien.
we know them or know those who know them.

@ lannre
that is beautifully written yet sad poem on our realities.
one just wonders why we are not yet outraged as a country to bring about the change we desire rather than seeking out messiahs, imams, pastors and priests for our liberation

does anyone know what's going on with the newspaper now? it has been unavailable online for some days.

The Babangida years

By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM

In his first New Year Days speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria. Babangidas bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted

By 1985, Nigerias foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months. That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for economic reconstruction.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to essential commodities, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings

IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigerias rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early 90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

A man whose words mean nothing

Mr. Babangidas contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as a man whose words mean nothing to him, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a government by consultation with the people, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world.
Mr. Babangida lamented the large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Funds most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the belt-tightening was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings

Mr. Babangidas greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangidas rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangidas intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwas death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey

A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a Political Bureau to kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released[b] a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned[/b] from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw
.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to step aside on August 27, 1993,My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history, Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

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The Holy Book says "my people perish for lack of knowledge".
Will you allow 150m of us (Nigerians) perish or[b] will you ALSO forward this article[/b] on the (mis) deeds of our self-proclaimed "evil genius" to all Nigerians that you know
Will you help confirm "maradona" IBB's claim (in Germany in the 90s during one of his radiculopathy treatment trips) that we, his fellow citizens are "docile" (MUGUs) by not sharing this mail
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Echidime:
@Bluetooth:

looting spree of the military is better and acceptable, than a fellow civilians looting our treasury and call it democracy,yet they are incapable to give the nations security,which with the military security is 100% Guarranteed if not for anything else

did u actually write the bold part above abeg make you try re-read the thing again, maybe you were in a hurry while typing.
go and learn how Ghanaians rejected rawlings vice president in 2000 when Rawlings came to the end of his second term as a soldier-turned-civilian president and their growth since then.
you might find some very useful lessons there.

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honeric01:
lastly, if you want a better Nigeria, don't sit on your butt, go out there, register, vote, compel people to go register, vote and make sure they defend their votes.

kudos for the above. let's spread the message far and wide to the extent that even the deaf will hear it and the blind will see it and ACT on it.

honeric01:
if we have just 10 fasholas as governors in Nigeria, trust me, this country won't remain this way, whether you like it or not, we need more physical work like the one he's doing, and i pray come 2011, we will at least get 5 of his likes as governors.

we also need legislators who can WORK their fat pays and receive our complaints as their CONSTITUENTS

Olumogun:
This is beautiful.
As for those asking for more, l[b]ets keep praying, one day Bbaba God go answer our prayers.[/b]
If Naija get honorable men to lead us, this country go still better.

actually the man i.e. "Baba God" told me confidentially that he is coming down to 9ja to start fixing our problems and putting those honourable men to lead you, even if you continue to seat on your bums and passively encourgae the leaders to scam you while you adore and praise them
abeg, wake up from your slumber!!!
dust your bums, plan to register to vote and start convincing others to also register then the politicians will start to realise that you matter and take you into account seriously when they are WORKING. You can decide to matter or not- your choice, your consequences.

[quote author=Godman_n link=topic=521265.msg6844538#msg6844538 date=1285775617]We should all bow our heads in shame.[/quote]we can do better- register and convince others to also register and vote these elections.

slackjack:
@ Anonimi
Bros take am easy, we know where you dey drive go.

i fit thank u small, if u mean like i do that you cannot, FOR EXAMPLE, give your employee or contractor (political office holder) N=2m make im come give u N=100K motor car. To come rub insult upon injury e come put im private company to maintain & manage the taxi cab while collecting a nice slice of the revenue from your transport biusiness.
Only 9ja mugus who delude themselves into thinking they are individually smart will applaud such a lousy arrangement.

Ayowumie:
They are not scared of GEJ, they are only scared that GEJ would use incumbency as a factor to beat all of them into submission. Or better still, all of them know that PDP has the machinery to rig any and every election. I pray this doesn't work this time around.
The fact that Nigerians are no longer queueing for fuel is not the only criteria thru which a candidate should be voted into power. It takes more than that. What abt day light corruption by govt officials? If he can tackle corruption from the high level alone, i could bet that millions of Nigerians would idolise him.

siddon there dey pray while SERIOUS people are going around politicking and allocating posts and your heritage to themselves.
If you don't want it to "work this time around" you need to register to vote and mobilise ALL your relations and friends to do the same thing.[/b]why should GEJ tackle corruption when he is beneffiting from it by spreading teh largesse and staying in power
pure wishful thinking.
when we are READY we will decide to count and pressure for change by exercising our democratic prerogative- [b]line up, queue up to register and vote.

batiatus:
God gave nigeria abundat resources. I doubt if there is any country wt d can of resources like nig. Every country in d world hv its problem some are natural disaster, war, poverty ours is[b] BAD leadership and this bad leadership is as a result of lust for power and money [/b]

like sey the leaders dropped from Mars
you better register to vote and convince others to also register otherwise be ready to continue whining forever about BAD leaders.
when we register enmasse and they know we will vote and determine their fate they will start taking our needs more seriously. until then let's keep dreaming.

honeric01:
why cant you people stop being so pessimistic about everything?

how am i being pessimistic
by asking for a more complete picture of the surrounding of the stadium
because i don't accept the maxim:

halfbread is better than none

because i know we can do better beyond what the white man is doing
because my aspiration level is higher and i am encouraging others to come up to the NEXT LEVEL
Obviously some citizens have content with the adage that in the land of blind men a one-eyed man is king- and i don't mean ojuyorbor
simple question- u for answer sey i no fit provide more pictures, instead u dey dia dey blow grammar  like sey na me send am go post pictures initially

i bin remember one saying that

short men get bad temper

maybe that's why- who wants a loose canon around all the time

honeric01:
I repeat, you can as well go ahead and take the pix of the surrounding areas, or are you paying the poster to do that for you?

did i pay him/her to post the initial photos? d man wan make we see how something fine reach, we ask make e show more, u come dey here dey vex. na which kin tory be dat

honeric01:
its been like this for more than 3 years now, this one is not like the way the old one was handled, the handler of this stadium is a private company.

i propose we privatise everything in 9ja so they can function e.g.

* police force, armed forces and security
* primary, secondary and tertiary education
* primary health centres and hospitals
* road construction and maintenance
* public gardens and libraries
* airports and seaports
* etc, etc, etc

then we forget paying taxes and custom duties, excise duties to the government since it has also privatised itself to those who stole from our taxes and have the effontery to put their cap logos on edifices built with our money

honeric01:
^^^^^^

why not go take the pix of the surroundings for us to see?

i don't have to, do I I did not oblige the poster to post the initial set of pictures or did I

if you want me and other discerning citizens to give FULL accolades for how our tax money has been spent then we MUST see the FULL picture of what is to be praised. QED.

soldee:
@anomini u should just 'F'-off you know, you ALWAYS have a problem with anything positively naija.

u just dey join NL abi u never fully wake up from your slumber?
na which one?

MEGA BHROS:
@ All,

Ask Ekwueme what himself and Shahgari did against the popular choice of Nigerians in 1983 before the military vexed and took over. They are all birds of a feather. I only see the populace rising to the occassion and rescueing themsemslves from these vultures called politicians one day. Pls leave them and have some thing better to talk about as some will still pay with their lives soon. Yes! God will pay some of them for their wrong doings through diasgreement among themselves which will later result in assasination, molestation etc. Nemesis is a greek god, it does not riun or fly. All it does is limping and no matter how fast you can run , it will catch up with you as evil doer.
Leave those at the receiving end now, some of them did same in the past. Those who are doing theirs now will on day wake up to have their rewards in full. Only God knows when this cycle will come to an end.

very great post except the last part I painted red.
we -150m of us- are the ones who know when it will come to an end. we can decide to mobilise ourselves and ALL our relations and friends to register for the elections as the first step towards our liberating ourselves from the yoke of these old and rotting politicians who have taken us for a ride all these 50 years

what of pictures of the stadium's external walls and surrounding.
let's have the TOTAL picture before we give FULL accolades.

The Babangida years

By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM

In his first New Year Days speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria. Babangidas bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted

By 1985, Nigerias foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months. That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for economic reconstruction.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to essential commodities, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings

IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigerias rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early 90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

A man whose words mean nothing

Mr. Babangidas contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as a man whose words mean nothing to him, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a government by consultation with the people, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world.
Mr. Babangida lamented the large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Funds most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the belt-tightening was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings

Mr. Babangidas greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangidas rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangidas intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwas death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey

A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a Political Bureau to kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw
.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to step aside on August 27, 1993,My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history, Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

Source: Next
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The Holy Book says "my people perish for lack of knowledge".
Will you allow 150m of us (Nigerians) perish or will you ALSO forward this article on the (mis) deeds of our self-proclaimed "evil genius" to all Nigerians that you know
Will you help confirm "maradona" IBB's claim (in Germany in the 90s during one of his radiculopathy treatment trips) that we, his fellow citizens are "docile" (MUGUs) by not sharing this mail???
Find a way to get involved at all levels- local, state and federal- this election period for a better Nigeria!!!

Onlytruth:
I have often accused Jonathan of not making open promises or commitments to Ndigbo in exchange for their votes. Isn't that what politics is all about? My support for other candidates has been based on their open commitment to Ndigbo on one issue or the other. I want Jonathan to make some open commitments (like state police or one more state) to Ndigbo NOW, not tomorrow, 'cos it might be too late. As of today, he would win the south east. But, if he continues with his style of politics, eg muzzling dissent and keeping mum, he will quickly lose the south east. This advise is in good faith.

shine your eyes well well make u see sey those old men who gathered were all their for their bellies. their politics is that of cash and carry, personal benefits devoid of communal considerations. as late Bob Marley sang:

dem belly full but we hungry

* how much infrastructural development have they done in igbo land in their years of (mis)respresenting igbo interest
* how many schools, hospitals or even school blocks or hospital wards have they built for all the money collected from their nothern paymasters
* how much have they paid out annually in schorlarships to indigent students to reduce the need for their relations to turn to armed robbery and kidnapping

sages and wise ones have said it:

a guilty concsience needs no accusation

na imsef by imsef go dey accuse imsef.
and so is the case of ex-supremo IBB

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these igbo politicians are mostly money-for-hand-back-for-ground belly wise people. they cannot be bothered about anyone in their tribe as long as their bellies are full. cash & carry na dem stock in trade.
2015 just looking for an excuse to give their gullible igbo followers some fake high while they sell out to their northern pay masters.