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The Patriots, a group of eminent Nigerians, on Thursday met with President Goodluck Jonathan on the state of the nation.

It was gathered that at the meeting which was held behind closed doors in the President’s office in Abuja, the group, led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, renewed its call for the convocation of a national conference.

A 13-page memorandum covering issues such as the need for a people’s constitution, the expansion of the agenda for national transformation to include economic emancipation as well as good governance, was presented by The Patriots to the President.

Nwabueze, who took over the leadership of the group from the first Nigerian SAN, the late Chief Rotimi Williams, told State House correspondents after the meeting that Jonathan must shun the urge to seek reelection in 2015 and concentrate on his transformation agenda.

The legal icon insisted that it was practically impossible for the President to combine efforts aimed at national transformation with contesting election.

He said although the President was eligible to contest in 2015, he could become an instant national hero if he summoned enough courage not to do so.

Nwabueze said, “That is not the purpose of our meeting today(Thursday),but that is my view and I still maintain that view. I still believe that the problem of this country is national transformation;that you cannot combine national transformation with contesting election.

“The two are so different because once you get involved in electioneering, you undermine your authority to lead the nation for national transformation and I said if I were the President, I would restrict myself to serving the nation, transforming this country and creating a new Nigeria. These would be my concern and I would go down in history as a hero.

“So, if Mr. President does that, he would become an instant hero in this country; but it is for him to choose. If I were him, I would choose to become a hero to lead the country into transformation and abandon the ambition of a second term. That is what I said and I still stand by it and that is what I would do if I were the President of this country, but unfortunately, I’m not.”

On Jonathan’s eligibility to participate in the election, he said, “That is not an issue. Mr. President is eligible, nobody is questioning his eligibility, the President is eligible. What makes him ineligible? Nothing, he is eligible, that is a personal decision for him to take.”

On the purpose of the meeting, Nwabueze said he and members of the group told the President that the nation was in dire need of transformation.

He said The Patriots position was that the desired transformation could only be achieved through a national conference of the about 389 ethnic nationalities in the country.

Nwabueze said the conference which should be used to discuss how Nigerians could live together in peace and unity must hold before the 2015 general elections.

While arguing that the 1999 Constitution is a schedule to Decree 24, the legal luminary said the constitution would disappear once the decree is repealed.

He said, “If you read Section 1(1) of the decree, they are all preambles to that Decree and the 1999 Constitution that you are talking about is a schedule to Decree 24.

“Repeal the decree and the constitution will disappear and you enact a brand new constitution which would derive its authorities from the people, that was what was done in 1963, when we adopted the Republican Constitution to replace the Independent Constitution.

“That 1960 Constitution was also a schedule to British Order-In -Council just as the 1999 Constitution isa schedule to the Decree 24. In 1963, we abolished the schedule under Section 2 of the Order-in-Council and made a new Constitution called the Republican constitution. That is what we should do now, abolish the schedule and relieve yourself entirely free to make the people’s constitution.”

Reacting to The Patriots’ call for a national conference, the President said his administration had no objection to Nigerians coming together to discuss how they would continue to live together in peace and unity.

Jonathan, in a statement by his spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, said although he believed that the issue of Nigerians coming together to discuss their future was not out of place, he was constrained by the fact that the constitution had given that responsibility to the National Assembly.

The President told the group that there had been constant discussions within government on how to create an acceptable and workable platform for a national dialogue that would reinforce the ties that bind the country’s many ethnic nationalities and ensure that their diversity continued to be a source of strength and greatness.

“The limitation we have is that the constitution appears to have given that responsibility to the National Assembly. I have also been discussing the matter with the leadership of the National Assembly. We want a situation where everyone will key into the process and agree on the way forward,” he said.

He thanked The Patriots for acknowledging the Federal Government’s efforts to implement his administration’s agenda for national transformation.

“As a government, we are totally committed to transforming this country. Positive things are being done and by the grace of God, we will get to where we ought to be as a nation,” Jonathan added.

The Patriots delegation included Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Solomon Asemota, Chief Chris Okoye, Chief Bola Kuforiji-Olubi, Air Commodore Dan Suleiman (retd.), Prof. Kimse Okoko and Mr. Michael Orobator

http://www.punchng.com/news/drop-2015-ambition-nwabueze-urges-jonathan/

STORY STORY STORY STORYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! WIKE IS HEADING FOR THE SENATE.If the currently PDP structure remains in place in Rivers. Two Ikwerre men will never become govs of rivers back to back.

A federal high court in Abuja, has granted the request of the federal government seeking to extradite one Lawal Babafemi also known as Abdullahi Ayatollah Mustapha.

Mr Lawal was indicted of conspiracy to provide support to a foreign terrorist organization in violation of title 18 of the United States code and the United States has requested that he be extradited out of Nigeria to answer charges of terrorism proffered against him.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the order after he confirmed from the suspect that he was not going to contest his extradition to the United States of America.

In his ruling, Justice Ahmed Mohammed said since the application was not contested by the suspect, the court is satisfied with the request and application of the attorney general of the federation as such, it orders that he be extradited to the United States of America to face the indictment against him by the U.S..

He also ordered that Mr Babafemi be surrendered to officials of the United States of America not later than fifteen days from when the order was made in line with the extradition act 2004.

Justice Ahmed also ruled that Mr Babafemi should remain in the custody of the department of state services until his extradition.

The United States of America had on the 26 of July 2013 made a formal request to Nigeria seeking the extradition of Mr Lawal Babafemi also known as Abdullahi Ayatollah Mustapha to answer charges of providing support to terrorist organizations against the United States of America.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/28/court-grants-order-to-extradite-al-qeada-suspect

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[quote author=Glorified_Tunde]WAKE UP OGBENI! Where are the jobs? So because the grads u meet can't spell their names means all grads are poor? Which Uni u go sef?

And again, EXPATRIATE? Have u worked with some before? Well I have, and most are just ordinary, we have made their skin "up there". Most of them even enter naija illegally. I used to work for a v-sat company, and I know what I'm saying.

And FYI, no one is asking for spoon feeding![/quote]This is another empty banter. The only reason, I replied your comment was because your "They really don't know ASUU is filled with intelligent folks". The opposite is the case. Have nice day and God bless.

[quote author=Glorified_Tunde]And your lecturers will be the one to provide u with jobs? Does your government even give opportunities for the best students to apply their intelligence?

Dunno about you but I learnt a lot in school, there's just no job out there. Even the economy doesn't support/encourage entrepreneurship.

Kindly sit down and do analytic thinking before spewing sh*t!

I'm sure u are one of them (FG)[/quote]Yes, I deal with them daily, parading all kinds of degrees, yet spelling their names backward is mission impossible. There are jobs, just not for your ASUU end products. Just look at the overwhelming in flocks of expatriate workers in all sectors. Ask yourself why. Keep waiting for government to spoon feed you.

http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/

A new research has rated full professors in Nigeria’s public universities as one of the best paid academics in top 28 nations of the world.

Never mind the ivy league; professors in the maple-draped ivory towers of Canada are on average the best-paid in the world, new research shows.

This means the University of Toronto with the loftiest campus pay-cheques in the country, could have the highest paid teachers of all — save for the most famous private Ivy-schools such as Harvard and Princeton.

In a new study of public university salaries in 28 countries — from the knowledge hubs of Asia to the powerhouses of Great Britain and the United States of America. — it is Canadian professors who outstrip all others in their pay’s purchasing power.

Other countries in which salaries of professors are compared include Italy, which came second; South Africa, (third); India, (fourth); US, (fifth); Saudi Arabia, (sixth); Australia, (seventh); Netherlands, (eighth); Germany, (ninth); and Netherlands.

A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations.

While some blame soaring salaries for driving up the cost of higher learning — Ontario economic guru Don Drummond has called for smaller post-secondary raises — others argue they give us an edge in courting the best and brightest.

“In an increasingly international labour market, it’s good to offer strong compensation,” noted education professor Glen Jones of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at U of T and who is part of the Canadian team of researchers on the study.

The research, released Thursday, was led by the Boston College Center for International Higher Education and the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

The study adjusted the dollar-value of full-time salaries to the cost of living in each country to allow a true comparison of the value of the pay. In adjusted dollars, Canada’s average full-time professor earns $7,196 per month, compared to $6,054 in the US and $5,943 in the UK.

And while the study excluded private institutions, including ivy league names such as Harvard and Princeton, these are relatively small schools that likely would not have changed the US average by much, noted Jones.

“Canadian professors work hard, they’re productive and they’re one of the reasons our universities are relatively well ranked,” said Jones, “and unlike other jurisdictions, their full-time tenure stream is still strong.”

Some of the Nigerian professors who reacted to the report said that it did not reflect the general wages of a professor. They however admitted that with the new consolidated salaries in federal universities, the estimated earning might not be far from the truth as some of the most senior professors earn about N600,000 per month.

Asked whether a Nigerian professor earns the equivalent of $4, 629 per month, Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju, who is also the Vice-Chancellor, Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, said, “I will say yes and no. Yes, because before I left the University of Lagos, a federal university over a year ago, a consolidated salary was introduced where most of our allowances were monetised and imputed into our salaries. And then if you were a senior professor, your salary would be over N500,000. I don’t know what the situation is now but the report may not be far from it.”

But is the wage the same thing in private universities? Some of the vice-chancellors of the private universities including Olukoju said yes. They said some private universities, including the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, were even paying a little more than the federal universities.

“If you don’t lure lecturers with good pay, they won’t come. That is why most of us (private universities) are paying even a little higher than the federal universities,” one of them who pleaded anonymity said.

A professor at the Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, Ojo, Ademola Onifade, who confirmed the report, however, explained that it was not all professors that earn as much. According to him, professors are in categories as seniority counts in deciding what a professor earns.

“The report is very close to it. But you should understand that a professor of one year experience will not earn the same thing with another one that has five or 10 years experience,” he said.

Asked whether there was disparity between the wage of professors in a federal university and that of a state university where he works, Onifade said no. “We earn the same wage. There is no difference,” he said.

But there’s a cost to those heady salaries. Canadian universities are increasingly turning to part-time, contract, lower-paid instructors who can be excellent, but who often say they are underpaid, overworked and unconnected to campus life.

And there are too many of these part-timers these days to ignore in any study of salary, warned Constance Adamson, president of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

“This study focussed on full-time tenured faculty but as we know, almost half of teaching is being done by non-tenured, contract academics staff,” she said. Still, high salaries are not out of line for a profession so highly educated that “most of them don’t get to start their careers until their early 30s.”

What else drives up these Canadian pay cheques? Almost all Canadian campuses are unionized, said Jones, and far more of our professors are full-time, tenured staff than other countries such as the United States.

Canada’s university professors saw their salaries climb by 46 per cent between 2001 and 2009 — nearly three times the rate of inflation, which was 16 per cent, according to Statistics Canada.

“A lot of it has to do with the way that pay levels were set when new money came into the sector at the turn of the century (2000) and we were trying to compete with American institutions,” said education analyst Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy Associates. “And then the dollar rose by 65 per cent. And an extraordinary number of our institutions are trying to compete with the top tier of American universities.”

Physics professor George Luste is president of the University of Toronto’s faculty association, and he admits there are some blue-ribbon names on the U of T payroll.

“But they’re not typical,” he said. “It’s like having Bill Gates walk into a poor village and immediately raise the average income. There may be some professors who are making $300,000 — but they also work in an area where houses can cost more than $1m.”

Though, some professors in Nigerian university system though commended the federal and state governments for increasing their wages, they called on to inject more funds into the provision of physical and academic facilities in the nation’s universities.

[quote author=Glorified_Tunde]Kai! I feel so enraged. Well its not FG's fault, they take the masses for fools and know we'll take every sh*t they throw @ us even propaganda.

FG is now looking for CHEAP support from the masses and trying to paint ASUU black using old skool tactics (infiltration by opposition). That was how they claimed fuel subsidy removal protest had been hijacked by opposition.

They really don't know ASUU is filled with intelligent folks.

Provide LOANS? A ma se nkan o! This GEJ administration is the WORST of all. Its a synergy of Clueless + Corruption!

I suggest everyone comes out boldly to support ASUU, its now FG vs. Nigerians in every matter.

FG is filled with Terrible, Careless, Greedy and Useless Thieves! [/quote]The end product of these intelligent folks are 85% unemployable graduates.

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU
Barely 24 hours after seven Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors were linked with moves to float a new party to be known as Voice of the People, VOP, many of the governors have denied knowledge of such a move.
Most of the governors, who were contacted by Vanguard, yesterday, expressed shock over the linkage of their names with the new association, insisting that it was the handiwork of detractors, aimed at distracting them.
While Amaechi, who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Mr Tony Okocha, described the reported formation of VOP as mere speculation, four of his colleagues, said the purported formation of VOP was the figment of their detractors’ imagination.
Contacted on the development, the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, said the reported formation of VOP was news to him, as he read about it on the pages of newspapers.

“The so-called formation of a new party by seven PDP governors, including Nyako, is news to us,” Nyako’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Ahmed Sajoh, told Vanguard.
He said Nyako was not even aware of the floating of VOP, as he would have spoken about it at a stakeholders’ forum he had with a cross section of the people of the state on Sunday in Yola.
“Those who are linking Governor Nyako with the VOP are doing that deliberately to cause confusion and distraction from the real issues that should help the PDP out of self-inflicted problems.
Reacting to the development, Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, said he was not going to leave the PDP for any other party, having laboured over the years to make it a strong party.
Wamakko, who reacted through his Special Adviser on Media, Abubakar Dangusa, said it was uncharitable for his enemies to continue to cook up stories in the media just to blackmail him and cause unnecessary distraction in the polity.
The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Aliyu Babangida, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Dandali Ndayebo, described the purported quitting of PDP for another party as baseless and a calculated attempt by his traducers to further heat up the polity.
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfata Ahmed, denied knowledge of the formation of VOP, saying that as a loyal and committed member of the PDP he could not have veered off the radar to float another party.
Also denying leaving the PDP for any other party, the governor of Kano State, Alhaji Musa Kwankwaso, said that it was unthinkable for him to leave the party he had worked tirelessly for many years, for an association.
In the same vein, his Jigawa counterpart, who is being rumoured of nursing a presidential ambition, said he was still in the PDP and that he was not involved in the formation of any new party.
Lamido made his position known through his Director of Press, Mr. Kyari Umar.
Meantime, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied knowledge of any application by the governors for the registration of VOP.
VOP hasn’t approached INEC for registration —Jega
The Commission said, yesterday, that it was not aware of any new party called Voice of the People, VOP, being floated by seven governors. The commission said the parties concerned were yet to contact INEC.
Speaking to Vanguard in Abuja, Mr. Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, said there was no information whatsoever on VOP in INEC records at the moment.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/vop-amaechi-northern-govs-unaware-of-party/#sthash.vf9lJF9P.dpuf

cKaiser: Abeg vote for APGA and Fidelity so they can pay their taxes in Lagos State

Eko and Anambra o ni baje ooo

When did working for a bank become a crime in Nigeria

software man: contary to your conclusion, the north we present only one candidate regardless of party afiliation.

the problem with most of us southerners is that we always underestimate the political sophistication of the northern political elite.

Is it the same sophistication, we have seen in the last 14yrs Please define, what you call THE NORTH.

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
LAGOS—The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, took a turn for the worse, weekend, with the decision of seven of the party’s 23 governors to float a new party, the Voice of the People, VOP.
The application for registration by the new party, it was learnt at the weekend, has been filed with the Independent National Electoral Commission, which is processing it. A source in INEC contacted on the development, yesterday, said he was unable to confirm the veracity or the stage of the application.
The party, it was learnt, is receiving the patronage of several chieftains of the PDP.

The seven governors alleged to be behind the new party include all five Northern governors that have engaged in a series of consultation with eminent statesmen, including former heads of state. The five governors are Murtala Nyako of Adamawa ; Rabiu Kwankwanso of Kano; Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto; Sule Lamido of Jigawa and Babangida Aliyu of Niger State. The five governors are being joined in the rebellion against the PDP by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.
Another governor is also sympathetic to the proposed VOP, but his identity could not be confirmed as at weekend. The inclinations of Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal towards the new party have also not been confirmed though it was learnt that he has been approached.
The decision of the governors to move out of the PDP came ahead of the special national convention of the PDP this weekend. Governor Amaechi who has been suspended has not been invited to the convention but the decision of the other six to pull out of the PDP could come as a blow to the PDP given the electoral weight of the states involved.
With Sokoto, Kano and Jigawa states out of control of the PDP and the Southwest totally out of control of the ruling party, the PDP would be reduced to playing second fiddle in the Northwest and Southwest regions whose total voters’ population is more than 40% of the national voting population.
There were indications that last Friday’s private meeting between Governor Kwankwaso and President Goodluck Jonathan was a last minute bid to stop the governor and his colleagues from the rebellion.
Though associates of Speaker Tambuwal in the House of Representatives claimed ignorance of his involvement or knowledge of the new party, there were nevertheless suspicions that the involvement of Governor Wamakko could inevitably lead the speaker into the emerging party.
Speaker Tambuwal has been severally flayed by some PDP associates for his close ties with opposition political parties.
The decision of the governors to float a party instead of teaming up with the All Progressives Congress, APC, it was gathered, flowed from deep suspicions between the governors and some of the promoters of the APC.
One of the governors involved in the new party had told Vanguard that General Muhammadu Buhari and Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who are among the champions of the APC were missing when activists fought for democracy during military rule.
Alhaji Abdulfattah Ahmed (KWARA)
Governor Ahmed has been a silent crusader in the PDP. Even though he has not been visible in the campaign against the alleged injustice in the PDP, his voice, has however, not been totally quiet.

Gov Abdulfattah Ahmed
His political benefactor, Senator Abubakar Saraki, it is believed, may have greatly influenced his decision. Though he, Saraki has silently offered advice to the Jonathan administration at the highest level, Senator Saraki who was the immediate past governor of Kwara State is known to be a strong political ally of Amaechi. The administration’s on-again-off-again probes of the Saraki regime has also been taken with offence in Kwara.
With Governor Ahmed decamping to the VOP, it would inevitably crumble the PDP in Kwara State. The PDP would now have to play third fiddle after VOP and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi (RIVERS)
Amaechi has been consistently labelled as the enemy of the people of the South-South on account of an alleged ambition. He has been accused of aspiring to the post of vice-president with the intent of substituting the office of the president now occupied by a Niger Delta man for the office of vice-president.

Rotimi Amaechi
Governor Amaechi who is generally believed to have performed well in office, especially in the areas of education, health and agriculture, provoked controversy with his ascendancy to the chairmanship of the NGF. As the NGF chairman he had the responsibility of speaking the minds of the governors. Amaechi remarkably had enjoyed some level of personal rapport with the president, and had the closest relationship with the president of all South-South governors until about two years ago.
His refusal to heed the alleged directive of the PDP hierarchy not to re-contest the chairmanship of the NGF brought him into direct conflict with presidential minders and it was a testimony of his political tenacity that he braved the odds to win the contest against the PDP’s favoured candidate for the position, Governor Jonah Jang.
The PDP had left Amaechi’s few options in the last few months. The party structure was taken from him in controversial circumstances and handed over to his one time chief of staff, Mr. Nyesom Wike.
Not long after, the governor was suspended from the party. Only last week, the new leadership of the party under Mr. Felix Obuah commenced an appraisal of public officials elected on the platform of the PDP. The move it was claimed by associates of Governor Amaechi was aimed to effect the expulsion of the governor’s associates from the party on the fact that Amaechi’s associates would not appear before the panel.
Amaechi’s move to the VOP would create a challenge to the PDP in the sense that the party would be denied that leverage of harvesting its traditional two million votes in presidential elections.
Despite Governor Amaechi’s near excellent performance in office, his capacity to swing the whole state in the direction of the VOP would be undermined by the forces of Mrs. Patience Jonathan and Mr. Wike.
Rabiu Kwankwaso (KANO)

Rabiu Kwankwaso
Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso’s exit from the PDP came despite last minute apparent pleas from President Jonathan last Friday when the two men held a one on one session. Kwankwaso has had a running battle with the PDP since 2010 when he formally launched his campaign to reclaim the governorship he lost in 2003.
Party bureaucrats working in cahoot with some officials in the presidency allegedly sympathetic to Vice-President Namadi Sambo had tried to deny Kwankwaso the PDP gubernatorial ticket on the fear that Kwankwaso would at the end of the second term pose a serious challenge to the hushed ambitions of the vice-president.
It took strong security reports of a possible riot in Kano for the PDP to belatedly restore Kwankwaso’s ticket. Perhaps buoyed by that victory or the messianic spirit that now effuses through his Kwankwasiya movement in Kano, Kwankwaso has turned into a stronghold that no one can stop. He has been consistent in championing regional interests.
Many disaffected PDP stalwarts in Kano would be glad to see him leave as it would give them room to operate. His exit would also gladden many in the APC as it would soften the state for the opposition party.
Sule Lamido (Jigawa)

Gov Sule Lamido
Arguably one of the best performing governors in the country today, Governor Sule Lamido’s politics is following the path of rebellion against feudal oppression he learnt from his late political master, Mallam Aminu Kano.
He has not had any direct political problems with Abuja except the notable suspicion that his sterling performance could galvanise a momentum from stakeholders for him to contest the 2015 presidential election as a way of replicating the Jigawa experience on a national level.
It is not surprising that posters of Governors Lamido and Amaechi are regularly advertised as an item for the 2015 presidential contest.
Given the revolution he has put in terms of infrastructure and the welfare programme, Governor Lamido’s exit from the PDP would be a major loss for the party and he would almost certainly deliver the state across board to the VOP.
Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto)

Gov Wamakko
Governor Aliyu Wamakko is the political phenomenon whose tentacles attracted President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 to the extent that the former president caused his protégée, Alhaji Mukthar Shagari to surrender the PDP’s ticket to the then ANPP gubernatorial candidate.
It was one act of political engineering by Obasanjo without which the PDP could not have dreamt flying its flag in the Sokto Government House.
Governor Wamakko’s problems with the national party are in part an extension of his domestic challenges. Many of his foes who found habitation at the PDP national secretariat helped to stoke the crisis between Wamakko and the national party. It is, however, reflective of his prominence that when the national party announced his suspension on the fact that he did not answer the national chairman’s telephone call, zonal and state officials of the party and also, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal publicly came out to denounce the national party.
One of the greatest dangers in Wamakko’s exit from the PDP is the effect it could have on Speaker Tambuwal. If Tambuwal as it is most likely joins him, the speaker could through his network in the House cause a free fall of the PDP in the House of Representatives.
Though Sokoto State has not been very lucrative for the PDP in presidential contests, the fact that the votes mobilized by Wamakko could go to another party of influence could put the ruling party in more jeopardy.
Murtala Nyako (Adamawa)

Gov. Nyako
The challenges in Adamawa arguably were the main factors that exacerbated the crisis in the PDP. When Alhaji Bamanga Tukur sought to displace the PDP structure under the control of Governor Murtala Nyako, PDP governors led by Governor Amaechi quickly came to his support and at one time forced the National Working Committee, NWC to disown Tukur.
But with steadfastness and the presidency backing him, Tukur has held his own against Nyako
But Nyako’ exit from the PDP would be too much of a good news to his traducers. His capacity to rally support for the VOP in the state against the determination of Tukur and the PDP is, however, open to debate.
Babangida Aliyu (Niger)

Gov. Aliyu
For Governor Babangida Aliyu his path of rebellion was like a call to duty. As chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, NSGF it was his obligation to defend what was alleged as the understanding that President Jonathan would serve only one term in office. Governor Aliyu though without proof went on to say that the president signed an agreement on the issue.
Though some had in the past alleged that the governor could do a deal with Jonathan under the correct understanding, so far no deal has been marshalled.
His exit from the PDP would leave Niger State an open play for all three major parties, the VOP, PDP and APC.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/amaechi-six-other-govs-float-new-party/

lastpage: Has it occurred to the SS (even with the support of the S.East) that they still cannot win an election in terms of numbers?

Just like it took Jonathan, the full support of the Western region to win the last election, he will still need either the Western Region or the Northern region!

Keep abusing Yorubas, .... you will realize that the Igbos (who coincidentally cannot produce a President themsleves! ) are playing a "spoiler" for you!
IGBOS CANT give the SS the Presidency.

And as it stands, l dont see the North backing Jonathan for another term!

So if he (or any of our noisy-neighbors here) gat sense, you better start courting and prostrating for the ONLY OPTION you have: YORUBAS!

2015 is almost here, fingers crossed.

Lastpage!

Come 2015 Jonah will be reelected. With the southsouth voting alone or all zones voting together. You don't have to like it or even want it. But when those votes are counted, the name will be Goodluck has been reelected for another four years. Your leaders like Nigeria to much to say otherwise. No boasting or threats, just the simple Nigeria reality.

agbameta: GEJ completed it in what what way?



OBJ came up with the idea to reactivate the rail system, Yaradua restructured it and the contractors did what they got paid to by finishing the project so how did GEJ his hands muddy? GEJ Carry brick and iron rod for the contractor?

LMAO.

Trying to attache GEJ to what he has nothig to do with reeks desperation and ignorance.

My brother you too much no need arguing with you. The Sun rises in the North and sets in the West, in your geography class.

kingoflag: What is this SS solidarity u speak of? I don't know too many Edos that distance themselves from the political leaning of the Old Western Region. When will people get it that it's obvious that in the so called "South South" the Edos are one group that want nothing to do with the new found SS/SE "alliance"?

Notwithstanding the Edos the SE/SS alliance is here to stay. The political reality for most people from the south south is very clear. The distant from the old western region was resolved in 1963. You cannot roll back time.

Alxmyr: Exactly the point. You should have join the APC Manifesto drafting committee. Maybe you would have been able to help them, rather than the junk they churn out to public; a copy and paste PDP manifesto we are all tired of.
We want to know how APC will perform these wonders of increasing revenue by 1000% as you said they are doing in Lagos and Ekiti without putting the people under heavy tax as is currently ssen in Lagos and Ekiti. Because people in Zamfara, Niger, Bauchi or Yobe will not pay additional tax even if those in Lagos, Ekiti can do that.
We want to know how APC will make our agriculture attractive. So that people like me can from being a farmer ride 2012 SUV or even have an income of a bank manager as a farmer.
We want to know how APC will transform our mining sector so that we can mine these resource and earn riches. In my village, we have bitumen that are lying fallow.
We want to know how APC will tackle oil theft. Because what you call oil theft is what others whose backyard the oil is found, called harvest from their farmland.
The APC should give us innovative way of solving the problems they always tell us PDP don't have solution to.
Not to tell us that when they advertise the position of INEC chairman in the newspaper, the electoral fraud will disappear.
Not to tell us that they will tackle corruption by making EFCC, ICPC independent.

Great reply

Obiagelli: becos the pdp says and doesn't act isn't a yardstick to measure others, we have seen governments in Nigeria that have implemented their policies to the letter, we all know what our problems are and alll we need is someone to fix them, are you expecting the APC to come up with new problems or what? Are you telling me their are no funds to build refineries or power stations

Why are APC states not building refineries and Power stations, with your so called funds How many PDP states have Power Plants

Just had a conversation with a wholesale rice dealer today in PH. Most of us are eating locally grown rice repackaged as imports without knowing it. Nigeria we hail thee. I will do my own comparison, to verify this fact.

plaindealer: All they have is their hate, their ignorance, their insults and their inbred crudity and vulgarity.

- Fani Kayode


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I was expecting you jokers to come up with something to counter my point, but you came up short because you know deep down in your hearts that your incompetent GEJ has nothing to do with this thread and you can not defend it..

Instead, you insult and spew the usual garbage.

smh....

You have not made any point, your post are the ones spewing the usual garbage.

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cityhood: and plz note
If you want to order for items from me...plz try and let me know aday before you send there payment to me.so that i can make my arrangment ontime from my sources...to book them at the farms....to avoid disapointment..

Sorry for the delay, I had to take care of some issues. I will be travelling to see my sister in port tomorrow. I need to discuss with her. Then I will confirm some items to be ordered from you. Do you have a price on all this items you listed

agbameta: Not that I'm with your argument, but you are entitled to your opinion.

Fact remains that Ondo is an oil producing state and Chevron is in Ondo state and they get their oil from the same Ondo state so it's only natural for them to secure their oil from the same location they operate in which is Ondo state on top of the fact that the same area is a major FTZ with other energy comps including our own DANGOTE investing bilions of dollars in the same location.

So why are they concentrating their energy activities in this very location if tthere is no oil there? Do you think they don't have business sense or how and where to invest their money or do you think they are all political including DANGOTE?

I just don't see any sense in your argument...sorry to say.

Have you been to the kaduna petrol chemical plant How many barrels of crude does Northwest Nigeria produce. Omotosho and Olorunsogo were two power plants inaugurated by OBJ. Why did they not produce one single watt of power Till the gas pipelines were installed Where is the gas for those power plants coming from The sad reality in this country, is the ability of some to create make believe scenarios. Those days are gone.

If Ondo state will produce the needed 400,00 barrels of crude oil for Dangote , the man can build as many refineries as he wants in Ondo. But, if he intends to pipeline oil from another place to his refinery other than importing the crude oil from the international market. His plant will go the same way as Olokola LNG. The days of wealth transfer from the SS to other zones are gone for good.You don't have to agree with me, but after the Lagos saga, every man should build his backyard with their own resources.

Also, the injustice of 2003 by OBJ is still in court. The oil wells in Ondo today, will be returned to the rightful owners. That is my State of delta.

[quote author=edo.girl]Nigeria is the second largest producer of liquefied petroleum gas in Africa, and the sixth largest producer in the world with over 3million metric tones annually. However, current per capita consumption of the gas in Nigeria is about 0.8kg/annum. This is the lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa; lower than those of Nigeria’s West Africa neighbours who do not produce the product. Annual LPG consumption is in Nigeria for 2010, was put at 120,000MT, whereas, in Lagos alone, there is a potential market for 1,000,000MT annually. Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/natural-gas-importance-and-uses-2/

There you go about our per capita gas consumption. You see the problems we face in this country. You are an insider in the industry, yet you do not appear to be aware of the situation. For all we know, you could be a policy maker in the industry. No wonder the country keeps going around in endless circles.

I don't think I said anywhere that there is no potential for increased pas consumption. My argument is that real demand has been low, given the amount the country produces and was billed to produce. That's why I said, the multinationals are not going to sink in more of their money, hence why Brass (Bonny?) has not moved beyond train 2, and why they are pulling out of Olokola.

Perhaps you have different reasons as to why these projects have stalled.

Burying one's head in the sand and saying that all is well and rosy isn't going to get us anywhere. When other countries can see problems several decades ahead, we insist 'all is well and good.' Should we continue to produce gas, absolutely. Should we increase production when economics demand it, yes. Should we be looking to diversify our economy away from near-total dependence on oil. A bigger yes.[/quote]As much as I agree with some of your points. The fact remains, that natural gas demand globally will rise. Shale gas or not. LNG Plants will play a major role in this market. Even the American shale gas will be exported somewhere in Asia. The cost of building new pipelines,shipping terminals and very strict environmental rules will not only equalize, whatever advantage they have, it will actually make our gas cheaper .The Indians, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans are in desperate need of Natural gas. China is spending hundred of billions to pipeline gas from Russia. The America market is gone, but Asia is just opening up. Nigeria is well position due to cost and availability of this product to remain a player for another 100ys. Unless we turn water in some kind of cost effective energy source.

plaindealer: OK we don hear, there is no oil in ondo and every drop of oil in Nigeria is from ND if makes you snore well at night, but please don't derail or let it degenerate into your usual tribal mud slinging.

Curb your tribal agro for the sake of the thread abeg.

Sorry, if it came out tribal, but the comment of Ondo producing oil before 2003 has to be dealt with. Also this plant was suppose to be in Ondo/Ogun but the gas is pipe lined from where. This kind of political projects will fail in Nigeria. Those days should be gone forever.

bloggernaija: What the heck are you talking about?
Chevron's main oil and gas field is located in ondo state.
Lagos state is about to start producing oil.
There are gas fields off badagry and republic of Benin .
Olokola is located in ondo state.
So dangote was stupid to site his refinery in olokola too,abi?
Which international corporate entity too you think is stupid enough to site a capital intensive project of that nature again in the niger delta?with the insecurity in the place, do you think it is a strategically smart thing to do?
Why do people just open their mouth without thinking?
MARK MY WORD , IT IS GOING TO GET BUILT AND THERE IS NOTHING AGENTS OF RETROGRESSION CAN DO ABOUT IT.

You are a liar from the kingdom of satan. Chevron is in Ondo state, tell that to any itskeri My God, when did Ondo become an oil producing state, was it not 2003. After OBJ gave oil wells in delta to Ondo

cityhood: check the front page of this my tread......page zero or page one.
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Dnt worrry abut pakaging uwud riciv dem intats.

I will get back to you in the morning. I need to clear some issues with my sister, this is a business for her. If you don't mind, provide me a list of all the food stuff you can supply from the north.I would also like a price breakdown. Is there a minimum order? Also what is you lead time after payment.

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cityhood: it would ok.from the baskets i hv away of aarranging it insid the luzirous bus.
So knw cuz frr alarm
My friend.

Do you a picture of how it looks, and how much is one basket.

cityhood: tfc

How good is it to send tomatoes to PH from your location will there lots of damage

http://www.punchng.com/education/nigerian-professors-among-best-paid-in-the-world/

A new research has rated full professors in Nigeria’s public universities as one of the best paid academics in top 28 nations of the world.

Never mind the ivy league; professors in the maple-draped ivory towers of Canada are on average the best-paid in the world, new research shows.

This means the University of Toronto with the loftiest campus pay-cheques in the country, could have the highest paid teachers of all — save for the most famous private Ivy-schools such as Harvard and Princeton.

In a new study of public university salaries in 28 countries — from the knowledge hubs of Asia to the powerhouses of Great Britain and the United States of America. — it is Canadian professors who outstrip all others in their pay’s purchasing power.

Other countries in which salaries of professors are compared include Italy, which came second; South Africa, (third); India, (fourth); US, (fifth); Saudi Arabia, (sixth); Australia, (seventh); Netherlands, (eighth); Germany, (ninth); and Netherlands.

A Nigerian full professor, which according to the report, earns an equivalent of $4, 629 per month in public institutions, is rated the 13th best paid don among the 28 nations.

While some blame soaring salaries for driving up the cost of higher learning — Ontario economic guru Don Drummond has called for smaller post-secondary raises — others argue they give us an edge in courting the best and brightest.

“In an increasingly international labour market, it’s good to offer strong compensation,” noted education professor Glen Jones of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at U of T and who is part of the Canadian team of researchers on the study.

The research, released Thursday, was led by the Boston College Center for International Higher Education and the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

The study adjusted the dollar-value of full-time salaries to the cost of living in each country to allow a true comparison of the value of the pay. In adjusted dollars, Canada’s average full-time professor earns $7,196 per month, compared to $6,054 in the US and $5,943 in the UK.

And while the study excluded private institutions, including ivy league names such as Harvard and Princeton, these are relatively small schools that likely would not have changed the US average by much, noted Jones.

“Canadian professors work hard, they’re productive and they’re one of the reasons our universities are relatively well ranked,” said Jones, “and unlike other jurisdictions, their full-time tenure stream is still strong.”

Some of the Nigerian professors who reacted to the report said that it did not reflect the general wages of a professor. They however admitted that with the new consolidated salaries in federal universities, the estimated earning might not be far from the truth as some of the most senior professors earn about N600,000 per month.

Asked whether a Nigerian professor earns the equivalent of $4, 629 per month, Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju, who is also the Vice-Chancellor, Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, said, “I will say yes and no. Yes, because before I left the University of Lagos, a federal university over a year ago, a consolidated salary was introduced where most of our allowances were monetised and imputed into our salaries. And then if you were a senior professor, your salary would be over N500,000. I don’t know what the situation is now but the report may not be far from it.”

But is the wage the same thing in private universities? Some of the vice-chancellors of the private universities including Olukoju said yes. They said some private universities, including the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, were even paying a little more than the federal universities.

“If you don’t lure lecturers with good pay, they won’t come. That is why most of us (private universities) are paying even a little higher than the federal universities,” one of them who pleaded anonymity said.

A professor at the Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, Ojo, Ademola Onifade, who confirmed the report, however, explained that it was not all professors that earn as much. According to him, professors are in categories as seniority counts in deciding what a professor earns.

“The report is very close to it. But you should understand that a professor of one year experience will not earn the same thing with another one that has five or 10 years experience,” he said.

Asked whether there was disparity between the wage of professors in a federal university and that of a state university where he works, Onifade said no. “We earn the same wage. There is no difference,” he said.

But there’s a cost to those heady salaries. Canadian universities are increasingly turning to part-time, contract, lower-paid instructors who can be excellent, but who often say they are underpaid, overworked and unconnected to campus life.

And there are too many of these part-timers these days to ignore in any study of salary, warned Constance Adamson, president of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

“This study focussed on full-time tenured faculty but as we know, almost half of teaching is being done by non-tenured, contract academics staff,” she said. Still, high salaries are not out of line for a profession so highly educated that “most of them don’t get to start their careers until their early 30s.”

What else drives up these Canadian pay cheques? Almost all Canadian campuses are unionized, said Jones, and far more of our professors are full-time, tenured staff than other countries such as the United States.

Canada’s university professors saw their salaries climb by 46 per cent between 2001 and 2009 — nearly three times the rate of inflation, which was 16 per cent, according to Statistics Canada.

“A lot of it has to do with the way that pay levels were set when new money came into the sector at the turn of the century (2000) and we were trying to compete with American institutions,” said education analyst Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy Associates. “And then the dollar rose by 65 per cent. And an extraordinary number of our institutions are trying to compete with the top tier of American universities.”

Physics professor George Luste is president of the University of Toronto’s faculty association, and he admits there are some blue-ribbon names on the U of T payroll.

“But they’re not typical,” he said. “It’s like having Bill Gates walk into a poor village and immediately raise the average income. There may be some professors who are making $300,000 — but they also work in an area where houses can cost more than $1m.”

Though, some professors in Nigerian university system though commended the federal and state governments for increasing their wages, they called on to inject more funds into the provision of physical and academic facilities in the nation’s universities.