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Why should Abuja be building primary and secondary schools in states.

Swizdoe:
You are very wrong dude..
First of all, Daniel is not from Yewaland but Ijebuland.. Secondly, pdp has followings in ijebu and yewa because they felt cheated by SIA for focusing his projects more on Abeokuta but the bottomline is that they don't like Jonathan either.
Using such permutations to judge the presidential elections might be wrong. Even me myself is strongly opposed to SIA 2nd term ambition but I won't be voting for gej either.
[b]Osoba maybe anti-amosun in ogun state but he can never support gej at the national level.
[/b]Take my word

Can you explain why Osoba might not support Jonathan?

Oyo and Ogun have small parties with lots of power. SDP in Ogun and LP&AP Oyo. They are not pro APC. That's what matters. The only state in the Southwest, where the PDP machine is lacking is Osun. I expect, a 55-45 Buhari victory. All other states are leaning PDP.

Unless APC is changing their campaign plans, this was your Lagos rally. Go back and check your own campaign calendar.


Here is the campaign timetable for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari from January 6th to 29th

6th January – Rivers and Akwa Ibom,

7th January – Cross Rivers and Delta,

8th January – Edo and Bayelsa,

9th January – Imo and Abia

10th January – Enugu and Anambra (Awka/Onitsha)

11th January – ONE DAY REST
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12th January – Ebonyi (Abakaliki) and Ondo (Akure)

13th January – Lagos and Ogun

14th January – Osun (Osogbo) and Ekiti (Ado-Ekiti)

15th January – Oyo (Ibadan) and Kwara (Ilorin)

16th January – Benue (Makurdi) and Kogi (Lokoja)

17th January – Plateau (Jos) and Niger (Minna)

19th January – Nasarawa (Lafia) and Kaduna (Kaduna)

20th January – Kano and Jigawa (Dutse)

21st January – Katsina and Zamfara (Gusau)

22nd January – Sokoto and Kebbi

23rd January – Bauchi and Gombe

24th January – Borno and Yobe

25th to 27th January – International Engagements

28th January – Adamawa and Taraba

29th January – Grand Finale (Abuja)

What difference will Yobe and Borno make in the election, none. APC will win any election no matter what century it's held. Nobody in PDP is contesting Borno or Yobe. We dash you both states.

NEW YORK (AP) — As oil's long slide continued, the Energy Department forecast Tuesday that production from U.S. shale operators will begin to tail off in the second half of the year.


The decline would mark the first such drop in what has been a 6-year boom in U.S. onshore crude production.

The price of oil fell Tuesday, dipping briefly under $45, before ending down 18 cents to $45.89 a barrel. That's the lowest since the spring of 2009, and a drop of 58 percent over the past six months.

Oil fell after the energy minister for the United Arab Emirates, a member of OPEC, suggested that the cartel will not lower production to reduce global supplies in an effort to reverse falling prices.

Brent crude, an international benchmark used to price oil used by many U.S. refineries, fell 84 cents to close at $46.59 a barrel in London.

Low crude prices are leading to significant savings for buyers of diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil.

Typical U.S. households will spend $750 less on gasoline this year than in 2014, because the average gasoline price will fall to $2.33 per gallon, from $3.36 last year, the Energy Department also forecast Tuesday.

The national average stood at $2.12 a gallon Tuesday, according to AAA, the lowest in nearly 6 years.

The forecast was part of a monthly outlook released by the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration. It was EIA's first outlook to include forecasts for 2016.

Onshore fields in North Dakota, Texas and elsewhere have driven the enormous increase in U.S. crude oil production over the past 6 years. That rise, combined with more supplies from Iraq, Canada and elsewhere, is the main factor pulling down global oil prices.

But those lower prices have already begun to force drillers to delay or cancel plans for new exploration, and the EIA expects a slip in onshore production in the second half of this year. Production from those fields is expected to peak at 7.4 million barrels per day in May, and fall to 7.2 million barrels per day by December.

"Many oil companies have cut back on their exploration drilling in response to falling crude prices," EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski in a statement.

For the year, average U.S. production, including output from Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, is still expected to rise, but by the slowest rate in four years. If oil prices rise as expected in 2016, onshore oil production should climb again, and reach 9.5 million barrels per day, the second highest ever, after 1970's record 9.6 million barrels.

But the EIA says it is a particularly tough time to predict future prices, especially in distant months. The market signals that the agency uses to forecast prices are all over the place, and that uncertainty limits its ability to predict production levels.

EIA forecasts that the average global price of crude will be $58 in 2015, and rise to $75 next year as demand for oil increases and global supply growth slows. But to illustrate the uncertainty in the market, it said December oil prices could range between $28 and $112 per barrel.

"Perhaps issuing projections is a fool's game," said Howard Gruenspecht, EIA's deputy administrator, in a conference call with reporters.

Traders expect oil prices to rise again, but are struggling to guess when, and by how much. Many expect oil to fall further before turning around.

U.S. crude could go as low as $40.25 a barrel, says energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates. Jim Ritterbusch, the firm's president, wrote in a note to investors Tuesday that he sees "little support" for oil this week.

"Each successive trading session seems to bring a new bearish impetus," he wrote.

In other futures trading on the NYMEX:

— Wholesale gasoline fell 0.6 cent to close at $1.269 a gallon.

— Heating oil fell 2.1 cents to close at $1.633 a gallon.

— Natural gas rose 14.8 cents to close at $2.943 per 1,000 cubic feet.

http://news.yahoo.com/government-predicts-shale-slowdown-oil-

that's too close.

OP great job, I don't agree with some calls here, nevertheless, you did a great job.

Bayswater:
Honestly, our useless governors should be the ones leading the fight against terrorism in their different states. They do get security votes, don't they?

The are as culpable as the president but what do you get in Nigeria, these same set of governors would go on TV to lampoon the president. We need to start taking them to task - PDP, APC or APGA.

All politics is local.

Democracy through violence. At least the Americans have come to their senses.


Nigeria election causing more Boko Haram attacks, says US State dept

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2015/0113/Nigeria-election-causing-more-Boko-Haram-attacks-says-US-State-de

Bayswater:
GEJ has to effing do everything. It seems we've forgotten we have governors in Nigeria. Have we ever taken these governors to task at all?

We might as well do away with governors if the buck will always stop at the president's office.

My brother, na so I see for this country. GEJ is responding for everything.

The Americans are finally coming to their senses.

Nigeria election causing more Boko Haram attacks, says US State dept

WASHINGTON — Nigeria's election next month is a factor behind the sharp increase in attacks by Boko Haram Islamist militants in the north of the country, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

Spokeswoman Marie Harf said, however, that the Feb. 14 presidential election should go forward despite the violence, which the United Nations and human rights groups say has forced about 20,000 Nigerians to flee to neighboring countries in recent weeks.

"There has been a sharp escalation in the number of reported casualties," Harf told a daily briefing. "We do believe the election is a factor."

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Harf said Boko Haram previously used events such as elections to stir up tensions. The election is expected to be a close contest between President Goodluck Jonathan and his leading challenger Muhammadu Buhari.





"Boko Haram has tended to, particularly around something like an election, use political issues or sensitivities to try to enflame tensions," she said. "We have seen that as one of their tactics and that is why it is so important to move forward with the election, because we believe it's important."

Boko Haram's insurgency began in 2009, but the number and scale of the attacks has risen sharply since last year after the government imposed emergency rule in three worst-hit states in northern Nigeria.

Amnesty International has said Boko Haram may have killed some 2,000 people around Jan. 3 in Baga innorthern Nigeria. Harf said it was hard to independently verify that figure. (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Will Dunham and Andre Grenon)


http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2015/0113/Nigeria-election-causing-more-Boko-Haram-attacks-says-US-State-dep

Washington – The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said Nigeria’s election in February could be a factor behind the sharp increase in attacks by Boko Haram Islamist militants in the north of the country.
Spokeswoman Marie Harf said, however, that the Feb. 14 presidential election should go ahead in spite of the violence which has forced about 20,000 Nigerians to flee to neighbouring countries in recent weeks.
“There has been a sharp escalation in the number of reported casualties.
“We do believe the election is a factor,’’ Harf told a daily briefing.
Harf said Boko Haram previously used events such as elections to stir up tensions.
However, the election is expected to be a close contest between President Goodluck Jonathan and his leading challenger, Muhammadu Buhari.
“Boko Haram has tended to, particularly around something like an election, use political issues or sensitivities to try to en flame tensions.
“We have seen that as one of their tactics and that is why it is so important to move forward with the election, because we believe it is important,’’ she noted.
Boko Haram’s insurgency began in 2009, but the number and scale of the attacks has risen sharply since 2015 after the government imposed emergency rule in three worst-hit states in northern Nigeria.
Amnesty International has said Boko Haram may have killed some 2,000 people around Jan. 3 in Baga in northern Nigeria.
However, Harf said it was hard to independently verify that figure. (Reuters/NAN)

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/boko-haram-election-likely-cause-increased-attacks-us/#sthash.5sZTt49X.dpuf

hopeforcharles:
Don't we have a government that will call these people to order? Is this the way they display the image of Nigeria to the world this is unfair,
sometimes I wish we have an action president who will know his role and be up and doing. Don't we have a government that will call these people to order? Is this the way they display the image of Nigeria to the world this is unfair,
sometimes I wish we have an action president who will know his role and be up and doing.

So the Nigerian President should call CNN to order

What a party of progressives. Backward never.

When you see a performer encourage them instead of pouring insults on them.

ElFenomeno1:
There is nothing to be bitter about.

You and the plethora of daft, dumb and dimwitted people who dont want change and progress for this country will be put to shame next month.

Insha Allah.

We will now proceed to escort you bastar...ds out of the country or send you all to the prisons for the various roles you have played in fu...cking this great nation up!

You won't escape....... Keep wasting your time campaigning for that daft cun.....t online, your time is almost up!

Twerp

Who stole your lunch

ElFenomeno1:
Isn't it obvious?

It beats me how foolish pea brained fu...cktards still try to defend the indefensible....

What more do you need to show you that GEJ and his dunderhead campaign team have been bloody immature and defensive?!

Dude you baffle me...I have been monitoring you and your ilks here for a long time and i think it is high time we put you all in check

You fu..cking donuts!

This are the APC supporters,. so bitter over nothing. The ones and zero behind this Ids cannot even vote on FEB 14

maestroferddi:
If I were you, I would face realities than trying to colour facts to suit a purpose.

There is no way PDP would lose Kogi, Taraba, Ondo, Adamawa states.

Kogi has a sitting PDP governor while the campaign director of Jonathan is no other person than an Igala old soldier, Ahmadu Alli. Sen Smart Adeyemi, Jonathan's man is returning to the senate and would shake Dino Melaye's feeble challenge.

Darius Isiaku is solidly on ground in Taraba. He would deliver the state handily.

Believe The Nations defeatist propaganda on Ondo State and you would believe anything. The Iroko is a tested gladiator on the political turf. Mimiko is a political slayer of national repute. His victim count includes incumbent Agagu, Akeredolu/Tinubu and others.

Adamawa is traditionally a PDP state. Ribadu is a governor in waiting. APC cause is hardly helped by a scorned Atiku yearning to get back Tinubu/Obasanjo humiliation at the APC primaries. He has maintained an indifferent attitude to Buhari's campaign: yet to join the campaign train.

Lagos would go either way but Jonathan will marginally nick it. Jimi Agbaje is trending in Lagos; add that to the Igbo voters who naturally vote PDP and you would know the score.

Forget the noisemaking.

A comment from a real Nigerian on ground.

demelza:
Using your analogy, its safe to say the PDP is slowly accepting their new role as the opposition.

We see it as giving you a portion of your own medicine.

tbaba1234:
In this campaign, Osinbajo and Buhari have been more mature in their speeches.

That's your own preconception.

tbaba1234:
The strategy is wrong from the PDP, this time. They are focused more on maligning the general.

Maligning the general? I thought maligning was the political strategy of the opposition since 2011.

demelza:
Your brand of weed must be very good.

tbaba1234:
Whether PDP wins Sokoto is not the issue, tjey still need as many votes as possible. PDP needs those votes. If 300,000 becomes 150,000.. that is a huge chunk lost.

Buhari got 11 million votes alone, Now he has governors all over the country.

If PDP underate this election, they might be sent packing.

PDP has never underrated any election. We have our electoral map.

ElFenomeno1:
Jobless dolt!

You need to be banned, your ISP permanently disabled and your computer taken away from you.....

Dimwit!

That's what I'm talking about, NO PVC noise makers.

ElFenomeno1:
You are out of touch and depth with reality

You are a brainless oxyfuc....ktard!

You are going down like your paymasters, PDP and GEJ!

#TeamChange #TeamAPC #TeamBuhari #TeamOsinbajo

I know, another of none PVC crowd, with their 10000 social media Ids. Spare me your crap.

tbaba1234:
If election hold in Adamawa, I can't see GEJ winning.

I expect a drastic fall the number of votes in the north. Can't see how GEj gets up to 300,000 votes in Sokoto or 400,000 in Jigawa and Katsina.

There is also good chance GEJ loses Lagos, Ogun and Oyo.

What you see happening and what happens are two different things. Sokoto, Jigawa and Kastina were never in PDP's electoral map. PDP will win all states in the Southwest besides Osun. Adamawa is a local play, close race but advantage PDP.

After all the noise and spin, the only state in play in Nigeria is kwara. Buhari will win all the states he won in 2011 and Jonathan will do the same. The only place where conditions have changed is Kwara. This is still Nigeria.

temitemi1:
CLAPTRAP!!!

On the issue of scam, OP, tell your fraudulent major general Buhari, to drop his primary six certificate.

najoke:
pls what is this thread about again.....Enugu or lekki airport......can all posters pls stick to the topic.

Thank you

is there a Lekki airport . The thread is about scam.