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Abagworo: This thread is about Akwa-Ibom but you can visit the Rivers vs Rwanda thread to catch a little glimpse. Amaechi has not taken pictures to display but I assure you that in the next few months pictures will start to emerge as road marking has commenced. We need not talk about schools, hospitals, enpowerment of indigenes, security and health. I know Akpabio mainly did roads, roundabouts and four flyovers, e-library and stadium still under construction. so you will therefore see Amaechi's own roads, bridges, roundabouts, stadium and flyovers.

Next few months ke Oct 3 is the day of judgement. Amaechi VS Omehia.

[quote author=~Bluetooth]The same south south where a police boss is more powerful than a state governor, where other governors are being stoned, where militancy, oil bunkering and kidnapping are the preferred jobs ? [/quote]Yes, the same one that pays 90% of your country's bills.

You cannot do that. Allow people have their say. One day, it will be their turn. One thing the president said over and over yesterday, was the need for this nation, to build institutions and not men. I support this president but I also support the presidency of Nigeria no matter the person in office. But above all, I support the right of all Nigerians to have their say, even when, it makes my skin crawl.

koolg: how did they create jobs?

Did you really ask that question

bloggernaija: So why are they spending the foriegn reserves to defend the naira.
This is a big lie.
The numbers says something entirely different .

Because of round tripping, if you know what I mean. Sanusi just closed 25 BDC. For buying millions of dollars weekly, without any proof of any financial transactions with the monies. Nigeria has become the world leader in importation of dollar bills, over taking the Russians.

theoctopus: OBJ privatized NEPA to PHCN?

That shows you, the kind of people we are dealing with in this country. Jonah talked about ignorance yesterday. That is the biggest problem in Nigeria. IGNORANCE, simple, pure, unadulterated ignorance.

0lumide: uhhh Our crude oil revenue is down 42% due to theft and these governors can't tell themselves the truth?

GEJ supporters are by default dumb.. Even the governors couldn't tell the truth? why expect people like InSincere_9gerian and Atouke to tell the truth?

No complains here, Nigeria does not need crude to survive

payless: Rubbish!

Why rubbish It was just a meeting.

KingMEXX: yu must be another GEJ puppet. and am sure yur not even patriotic and have never served this country yet yu have the guts to spill thrash coming from that empty loophole called yur brain. Anyway am done with yu and that Clueless nitwit called the President. Am off

TELL YOUR HERO TO GO AND COLLECT HIS PENSION. SPARE ME, HIS PATHETIC STORIES.

KingMEXX: You call someone that did something great for yur Country a leech?? designing the National flag means nothing to yu?? No wonder yur a retard just like the retardeen yu support. what has a fool like yu done for this nation, yu pathetic nitwit? Mtcheew ingrate

BIG TIME LEECH. GO AND COLLECT YOUR DAMN PENSION AND STOP CRYING IN PUBLIC. I HAVE PEOPLE WITH BLIND EYES FROM THE CIVIL WAR, YOU WILL NEVER HEAR THEIR NAMES ON TV. STOP YOUR RUBBISH.

Thank God for 2015, fresh till 2019.

KingMEXX: This slowpoke on Nta is a drunk. Look at him talk, he can't even articulate.

"Nigeria will get there" ------When??

"For this person alive(Akinkumi), thanks for reminding me. All Nigerians should contribute to help him".--- NO. plans for yur national hero!? May GEJ be treated the same way his treating our heroes

Your hero Go collect your pension. That's all the nation owns you. I'm tired of theses leeches thinking government owns them something.

As Nigeria celebrates her independence day next Tuesday, Hausa-Fulani leaders from emirs to top political bigwigs are reported to be making frantic efforts to rebuild the widening gulf with the Middle-Belt region targeting General Theophilus Danjuma as contact point.

Sunday Tribune was told that the leaders involved in the reconciliation project include top emirs from core North, influential clerics, elected governors and leading professionals, who are said to have concluded that rebuilding the old alliance between the Hausa-Fulani and the Middle-Belt elites is a condition for defeating President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

The Hausa-Fulani leaders were said to be alarmed at increasing integration and mobilisation of minority tribes across the three zones of the North in an anti-Hausa-Fulani agenda. The interpretation of new Middle-Belt region was discovered to be encompassing of all other tribes in the North, except the Hausa-Fulani.

Findings by Sunday Tribune showed that core Arewa leaders also noticed that Middle-Belt leaders involved in the new Middle-Belt project are heavily funded and enjoy support from influential Middle-Belt people like General Danjuma. The minorities in the North are said to harbour a political agenda which was to assert themselves and achieve what the late Joseph Tarka and others failed to do in the aborted Third Republic.

A top northern leader who was involved in the Project Danjuma lamented that the efforts to woo Danjuma had failed and that the Middle belt appears to have sealed a pact with the South-South.

Why Danjuma shuns Core North- The Yar’ Adua/Atiku Connection
Sunday Tribune investigation, however, revealed that the general who was a top operative within the Arewa elite in the late 60’s and due to his alleged nasty experience during first and second time of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as military and civilian leader of the country.

Findings revealed that the relationship between Danjuma and his old Hausa/Fulani friends started to crack soon after the assassination of General Muritala Muhammed and ascension to power of General Obasanjo in 1976. Danjuma could not be made the chief of defence staff because a Christian/ Christian ticket won’t work.

Obasanjo was said to have conceded that Danjuma should search for a chief of staff agrreable to him. According to a source very close to the situation then, Danjuma brought General Buhari but the Ota farmer reportedly told him Buhari would be too independent minded for the job at hand.

Danjuma was said to have later settled for late General Sheu Musa Yar’Adua, who relatively young was accepted by both Danjuma and Obasanjo as the right choice for the position. The occupant was, however, to hold the office symbolically while Danjuma,the Chief of Army Staff, was to be the de facto second in command.

The arrangement was said to have worked for some few months until the late Yar’Adua came under pressure from Arewa elite still smattering from the death of Muritala. Obasanjo later succumbed to pressure to treat all service chiefs the same way and enforce reporting by service chiefs through the Chief of Staff,adegence Headquarters.

Danjuma was thus reduced to the level of other service chiefs, despite the circumstance under which late Yar’Adua was brought into government. He was said to have left government a changed man who believed he was maltreated simply because he was a minority Christian in the Middle Belt. Reports indicated that Danjuma shifted his wealth and inflluence to funding Christians and ideals of Middle Belt as a distinct from that of Hausa Fulanis.

If the experience of 1976 to 1979 changed Danjuma fundamentally, it was learmt that the event of 1999 to 2003 under the Obasanjo presidency sealed any hope of the General realligning with the core north for ever.

The rift between Danjuma and former Vice President Atiku Abubskar when Danjuma was the defence minister was cited as the ladt straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back.

An Hausa Fulani traditional title holder disclosed on condition of anonymity that while Danjuma started funding Middle belt groups since 1980,he has since leaving government in 2003 become the largest single financier of Christian associations in the North.

“Because of that relationship with both YarAdua and Atiku Abubskar ,The General has foreclosed any thought of unity with the core north. We know he felt betrayed and wounded by events in those days”, the source said.

An official of the Middle Belt Forum from kaduna state confirmed to Sunday Tribune that the core north indeed tried to recruit Danjuma into thier anti- Jonathan agenda but he declined

“ The General rebuffs them. He told them nobody should drag him intranet fight. And we stand by him and we stand by the President” , the official. Who said he was not authorised to speak said.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php

Orlando Owoh: Nobody is saying he should resign but that he shouldn't contest again, blocked head. This is the second time I'm telling you. No wonder WAEC and NECO make millions from people like you that write English Language every year.

You don't have to say it wise guy. Your intent is clear.

druid06: He will be disgraced alright and I can't wait.

I like that spirit, as long as you are willing to live with his victory come 2015.

Orlando Owoh: Read before commenting; I've not said the President should resign but that he should go for re-election in 2015, when he would have used six years.

All about semantics, (don't run and resign because of 6yrs is all the same rubbish) your intent is clear. You are calling for resignation, pure and simple. Take your calls and battle to the ballot box. The Nigerian voter will make the determination for us.

Seconded, as much as I like Ede Dafeinone, I cannot vote for DPP. Just that simple. We have to United the Urhobo nation under PDP again.

kingoflag: No, you dont have to teach the "North" any of your fancy lessons. All yall gotta do is teach the corrupt and deceptive politicians whatever lessons your brain has thought up (regardless of their tribe and religion) by refusing to have them lead you in any capacity. Thats the lesson u ought to be teaching.

So there are saints among the politician that should be allowed to lead

By EBUN SESSOU
Fifty-eight-year-old Afusat, a widow is one of the street sweepers in Lagos State. Afusat was a petty trader who was struggling to make ends meet with her five children. Her youngest child is in JSS 2. Fifteen years ago after she lost her husband, she has been facing numerous challenges raising her children. Afusat told Saturday Vanguard that she was using the profit realised from her petty business to train her children.
Today, Afusat has secured a job as one of the street sweepers in Lagos metropolis. She is combining both the gains she realises from her petty trading and her salary to nurture her children. But, there seems to be no difference as the salary she earns as street sweeper is next to nothing.
Although, she was grateful to have gotten this job, she seems not to be satisfied as the challenges involved is more than the stipends she earns as salary. When she started the job, she was optimistic that it would meet her demands. But, right now, she is completely confused. Her words: “When my friend introduced me to it, she told me that, as a street sweeper, I will be able to feed my family and cater for my needs, that, I could attend to some pressing needs without necessarily going into debt but the story is different now”, she added.

She further said that, the only satisfaction she derives from the job is the opportunity it affords her to do other jobs. “The job is based on shift. We resume at 7am and close at 1pm while others resume at 1pm and close at 6pm everyday. The job is comfortable and our salaries come regularly. Some of us are traders, businessmen and women as well as students”, she disclosed.
Iyabo, a-200 level student in one of the tertiary institutions who sweeps around Ebute Metta area of Lagos also told Saturday Vanguard that she got involved in the job due to her financial constraints. “Since I started this job, I have been able to attend to some pressing needs but not all my needs. I am still struggling to pay my school fees”, she groaned.
She implored the state government to intervene and look into the possibility of increasing the salary in order to help improve their standard of living. “Our salary is N12,000 onl[/b]y but I know that it can be improved upon”, she noted.
On safety, she disclosed that, sweepers are trained from time to time on how to prevent accident. “We know that there are lots of danger on the job and that is why we are trained on safety precautions. We are also constantly enlightened on safety precautions, including how they should never work on the road with their backs to oncoming vehicles.
“Government also provides some safety kits, including nose covers, gloves, reflective jacket which prevent us from contracting health problems. Most commercial drivers are reckless such that they do not respect the job we do. There are cases where sweepers had been killed in Lagos”, she lamented.
An aged man (name withheld) who works on a road within Isolo area told Saturday Vanguard that when he started in 2009, he was paid [b]N8,500 per month, and only recently it was increased to N10,000.
Another man in Ejigbo area had been on his beat and the same route for three years. He earns N12,000 as well. Others who spoke around Lagos Island said there is need for an insurance policy covering sweepers.
“Up till now, sweepers are yet to be covered with insurance policy against accidents.
“This issue of insurance has dragged on for too long and we implore the governor to assist in resolving any impediment to the insurance policy.
“Street sweepers’ medical issues should be taken seriously because we know that this has not been heeded by healthcare centres.” One common word to them was that government should improve their welfare package. The man in Isolo for instance, complained that his salary is not enough to meet his demands. He also lamented that he had not been allowed to go on leave in three years, while the one in Ejigbo calls on government to extend to sweepers seasonal gifts as accorded to other civil servants especially during festive periods.
Speaking on the issue, a motorist Hakeem made a case for these sweepers.“The fact remains that it is very difficult to pull aside the efforts of the an average Lagos street sweeper in the megacity dream by the present administration as most of them defy the danger involve in the job but work to keep Lagos clean.
“They work so hard, often in difficult and high risk areas. The question is, do they earn ‘a fair wage’ commensurate to the risk they take?Even the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola appreciates their contribution to the interpretation of his dream for the state and calls them “critical champions of change.”
However, Saturday Vanguard gathered that the scheme was introduced by the former governor of the state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu; but it has been reinvigorated and expanded under the current administration.
Those who work under the Private Service Providers are paid by the state government through the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), the sum of N10,000 naira while those who were employed directly under LAWMA get N12,000 naira.
As of the middle of 2012, a total of 120 private companies had been engaged as service providers, which in turn collectively employed about 12,500 sweepers.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/lagos-street-sweepers-groan-poor-pay/#sthash.xPgHzKPM.dpuf

Another government businessman, the day their channel of free money is blocked, they fall like a house of cards.

Some of the most corrupt people are complaining about corruption. NASU should clean their house first.

The rule of law, something very foreign to nPDP

The court said the July 13 South West extra-ordinary congress was properly conducted.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to replace the former National Secretary of the ruling party, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, with Wale Oladipo.
The court also said that the congress that produced Mr. Oladipo was properly conducted.
The ruling followed a motion filed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Ogun State Chapter of PDP, Adebayo Dayo and Semiu Sodipo respectively.
The INEC, PDP, and Mr. Oyinlola were joined as defendants.
Mr. Oladipo, a professor from Osun State, was nominated as the national secretary on July 13, following the sack of Mr. Oyinlola on January 11 by the same court, which also ordered a fresh congress to pick another secretary for the party.
However, before his nomination at the extra-ordinary South West Congress of the PDP in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the party had on June 20, appointed Remi Akintoye, as acting national secretary.
Mr. Oyinlola is still in court appealing the judgement sacking him, though he was named and has been acting as the national secretary of the Kawu Baraje-led PDP faction since August 31.
Delivering Friday’s ruling, the judge, Abdul Kafarati, asked both the party and the national electoral body to delete Mr. Oyinlola’s name in their records and replace it with that of Mr. Oladipo.
He also extended to July 13 this year, the time limit he had granted in his January 11 judgment, for the conduct of the South West zonal congress.
Mr. Kafarati rejected arguments by Mr. Oyinlola and the ruling party that the court had functus officio, having delivered the January 11 judgement.
According to him, fresh application on the case did not mean reopening it or effecting changes on the earlier judgment, but merely to regularize the steps adopted in complying with the judgement.
On Mr. Oyinlola’s argument that the court could not consider the application because he was appealing the January 11 judgement, Mr. Kafarati held that it would not have any effect on the judgement and the appeal filed.
According to him, he did not have any evidence to indicate that the former governor was appealing the judgement, insisting that mere notice of appeal, would not serve enough ground to stay proceedings on the case before him.
Mr. Kafarati also declined to accept the attempt by the applicants’ lawyer, Babs Akinwunmi, to move an ex-parte motion seeking leave for substituted service of court documents relating to a contempt case on Messrs Oyinlola, Baraje and Sam Jaja, all of the Baraje-led PDP faction.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/145557-court-orders-pdp-inec-replace-oyinlola-oladipo-national-secretary.html

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