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What are you scared of? Most of your posts sounds like you are scared of something? what is it Big B1? Those governors arrested by Ribadu are they innocent?

These wont be 'dash-dash' charities. Although I would like to own an orphanage. But I wan't to provide scholarships, I want to redevelop areas that are not as they should be, I wan't to start up a venture capitalist agency where I will invest in local businesses (depending obviously on the market i.e. could aghriculture thrive or is an internet cafe better) and help other men and women to come up too but not after educating them on how to run a good business (that will be the charity part of it), i wan't to open a clinic/hospital where perhaps emergency care is free to those who earn below a certain amount and you are treated first before being asked to pay (if deemed able to pay at all - ok this one na dash).

The article you posted devoted 1 tenth to the actual people who died because of this and the remaing 9 tenths were donated to british holiday visits -

According to the EU, in at least two constituencies - Molo and Kieni - the results that were announced did not reflect the number of votes cast.

EU observers say they heard the voting figures being announced in Molo itself, but when the same results were announced again in Nairobi, the number of votes for Mr Kibaki was significantly higher - by 25,000.

Four of the 22 Kenyan election commissioners have also expressed doubts about the veracity of the figures giving President Kibaki victory by 200,000 votes.

But Finance Minister Amos Kimunya denied his party, the ruling PNU, or the government had been involved in rigging the poll.

He told the BBC: "I have no evidence that they were rigged. Anyone who has any information that they were rigged in one constituency or the other, or overall, let them subject it through the legal process."

Somewhere in Europe some months back, a group of businessmen, commodity importers, weapon dealers and natural resource exploiters with some politicians deliberated this matter behind closed doors.

Yeah I agree, I have no problem with Chinese people coming to Nigeria but it is just that soon Nigerians will be second class citizens in their own country also (like South Africa). But the problem is Nigerians will be to blame for that not any other race! [b]I am going to do my bit soon![/[/b]quote]

uumm, what is the bit you planned to do?

With present composition of Nigeria; you need to be 'high-up' to really have some impact.

Nigeria is land of 'BIG-MAN'/'BIG-WOMAN'

We are giving visas and permits to the Chinese nationals who wish to come and do business here. They should reciprocate by making it much easier for our businessmen to procure Chinese visas.

The man was trying to take care of issues that may stand as future barriers to his people

the Marshall plan

Chief Awolowo's Speech to Western leaders of thought
IN IBADAN , MAY 1 1967



The aim of a leader should be the welfare of the people whom he leads. I
have used 'welfare' to denote the physical, mental and spiritual
well-being of the people. With this aim fixed unflinchingly and
unchangeably before my eyes I consider it my duty to Yoruba people in
particular and to Nigerians in general, to place four imperatives before
you this morning. Two of them are categorical and two are conditional.
Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening
stalemate and restore normalcy. The Eastern Region must be encouraged to
remain part of the Federation. If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts
of omission or commission to secede from or opt out of Nigeria, then the
Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation. The people
of Western Nigeria and Lagos should participate in the ad hoc committee or
any similar body only on the basis of absolute equality with the other
regions of the Federation.
I would like to comment briefly on these four imperatives. There
has, of late, been a good deal of sabre rattling in some parts of the
country. [b]Those who advocate the use force for the settlement of our
present problems should stop a little and reflect. I can see no vital and
abiding principle involved in any war between the North and the East. If
the East attacked the North, it would be for purpose of revenge pure and
simple. Any claim to the contrary would be untenable. If it is claimed
that such a war is being waged for the purpose of recovering the real and
personal properties left behind in the North by Easterners two insuperable
points are obvious. Firstly, the personal effects left behind by
Easterners have been wholly looted or destroyed, and can no longer be
physically recovered. Secondly, since the real properties are immovable in
case of recovery of them can only be by means of forcible military
occupation of those parts of the North in which these properties are
situated. On the other hand, if the North attacked the East, it could only
be for the purpose of further strengthening and entrenching its position
of dominance in the country.[/b]
If it is claimed that an attack on the East is going to be
launched by the Federal Government and not by the North as such and that
it is designed to ensure the unity and integrity of the Federation, two
other insuperable points also become obvious. First, if a war against the
East becomes a necessity it must be agreed to unanimously by the remaining
units of the Federation. In this connection, the West, Mid- West and Lagos
have declared their implacable opposition to the use of force in solving
the present problem. In the face of such declarations by three out of
remaining four territories of Nigeria, a war against the East could only
be a war favoured by the North alone. Second, if the true purpose of such
a war is to preserve the unity and integrity of the Federation, then these
ends can be achieved by the very simple devices of implementing the
recommendation of the committee which met on August 9 1966, as reaffirmed
by a decision of the military leaders at Aburi on January 5 1967 as well
as by accepting such of the demands of the East, West, Mid-West and Lagos
as are manifestly reasonable, and essential for assuring harmonious
relationships and peaceful co-existence between them and their brothers
and sisters in the North.
Some knowledgeable persons have likened an attack on the East to
Lincoln's war against the southern states in America. Two vital factors
distinguish Lincoln's campaign from the one now being contemplated in
Nigeria. The first is that the American civil war was aimed at the
abolition of slavery - that is the liberation of millions of Negroes who
were then still being used as chattels and worse than domestic animals.
The second factor is that Lincoln and others in the northern states were
English-speaking people waging a war of good conscience and humanity
against their fellow nationals who were also English speaking. A war
against the East in which Northern soldiers are predominant, will only
unite the Easterners or the Ibos against their attackers, strengthen them
in their belief that they are not wanted by the majority of their
fellow-Nigerians, and finally push them out of the Federation.
We have been told that an act of secession on the part of the East
would be a signal, in the first instance, for the creation of the COR
state by decree, which would be backed, if need be, by the use of force.
With great respect, I have some dissenting observations to make on this
declaration. There are 11 national or linguistic groups in the COR areas
with a total population of 5.3 millions. These national groups are as
distinct from one another as the Ibos are distinct from them or from the
Yorubas or Hausas. Of the 11, the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group are
3.2 million strong as against the Ijaws who are only about 700,000 strong.
Ostensibly, the remaining nine national group number 1.4 millions. But
when you have subtracted the Ibo inhabitants from among them, what is left
ranges from the Ngennis who number only 8,000 to the Ogonis who are
220,000 strong. A decree creating a COR state without a plebiscite to
ascertain the wishes of the peoples in the area, would only amount to
subordinating the minority national groups in the state to the dominance
of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. It would be perfectly in order
to create a Calabar state or a Rivers state by decree, and without a
plebiscite. Each is a homogeneous national unit. But before you lump
distinct and diverse national units together in one state, the consent of
each of them is indispensable. Otherwise, the seed of social disquilibrium
in the new state would have been sown.
On the other hand, if the COR State is created by decree after the
Eastern Region shall have made its severance from Nigeria effective, we
should then be waging an unjust war against a foreign state. It would be
an unjust war, because the purpose of it would be to remove 10 minorities
in the East from the dominance of the Ibos only to subordinate them to the
dominance of the Efik/Ibibio/Annang national group. I think I have said
enough to demonstrate that any war against the East, or vice versa, on any
count whatsoever, would be an unholy crusade, for which it would be most
unjustifiable to shed a drop of Nigerian blood. Therefore, only a peaceful
solution must be found, and quickly too to arrest the present rapidly
deteriorating stalemate and restore normalcy.
With regard to the second categorical imperative, it is my
considered view that whilst some of the demands of the East are excessive
within the context of a Nigerian union, most of such demands are not only
wellfounded, but are designed for smooth and steady association amongst
the various national units of Nigeria.
The dependence of the Federal Government on financial
contributions from the regions? These and other such like demands I do not
support. Demands such as these, if accepted, will lead surely to the
complete disintegration of the Federation which is not in the interest of
our people. But I wholeheartedly support the following demands among
others, which we consider reasonable and most of which are already
embodied in our memoranda to the Ad Hoc Committee,

That revenue should be allocated strictly on the basis of
derivation; that is to say after the Federal Government has deducted its
own share for its own services the rest should be allocated to the regions
to which they are attributable.

That the existing public debt of the Federation should become the
responsibility of the regions on the basis of the location of the projects
in respect of each debt whether internal or external.

That each region should have and control its own
militia and police force.
That, with immediate effect, all military personnel should be
posted to their regions of origin,

If we are to live in harmony one with another as Nigerians it is
imperative that these demands and others which are not related, should be
met without further delay by those who have hitherto resisted them. To
those who may argue that the acceptance of these demands will amount to
transforming Nigeria into a federation with a weak central government, my
comment is that any link however tenuous, which keeps the East in the
Nigerian union, is better in my view than no link at all.
Before the Western delegates went to Lagos to attend the meetings
of the ad hoc committee, they were given a clear mandate that if any
region should opt out of the Federation of Nigeria, then the Federation
should be considered to be at an end, and that the Western Region and
Lagos should also opt out of it. It would then be up to Western Nigeria
and Lagos as an independent sovereign state to enter into association with
any of the Nigerian units of its own choosing, and on terms mutually
acceptable to them. I see no reason for departing from this mandate. If
any region in Nigeria considers itself strong enough to compel us to enter
into association with it on its own terms, I would only wish such a region
luck. But such luck, I must warn, will, in the long run be no better than
that which has attended the doings of all colonial powers down the ages.
This much I must say in addition, on this point. We have neither military
might nor the overwhelming advantage of numbers here in Western Nigeria
and Lagos. But we have justice of a noble and imperishable cause on our
side, namely: the right of a people to unfettered self-determination. If
this is so, then God is on our side, and if God is with us then we have
nothing whatsoever in this world to fear.

The fourth imperative, and the second conditional one has been
fully dealt with in my recent letter to the Military Governor of Western
Nigeria, Col. Robert Adebayo, and in the representation which your
deputation made last year to the head of the Federal Military Government,
Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon. As a matter of fact, as far back as November last
year a smaller meeting of leaders of thought in this Region decided that
unless certain things were done, we would no longer participate in the
meeting of the ad hoc committee. But since then, not even one of our
legitimate requests has been granted. I will, therefore, take no more of
your time in making further comments on a point with which you are well
familiar. As soon as our humble and earnest requests are met, I shall be
ready to take my place on the ad hoc committee. But certainly, not before.

In closing, I have this piece of advice to give. In order to resolve
amiably and in the best interests of all Nigerians certain attributes are
required on the part of Nigerian leaders, military as well as non-military
leaders alike, namely: vision, realism and unselfishness. But above all ,
what will keep Nigerian leaders in the North and East unwaveringly in the
path of wisdom, realism and moderation is courage and steadfastness on the
part of Yoruba people in the course of what they sincerely believe to be
right, equitable and just. In the past five years we in the West and Lagos
have shown that we possess these qualities in a large measure. If we
demonstrate them again as we did in the past, calmly and heroically, we
will save Nigeria from further bloodshed and imminent wreck and, at the
same time, preserve our freedom and self-respect into the bargain.

May God rule and guide our deliberations here, and endow all the
Nigerian leaders with the vision, realism, and unselfishness as well as
courage and steadfastness in the course of truth, which the present
circumstances demand. "


(Culled from Daily Times, 2 May 1967) and quoted in "Crisis and Conflict in Nigeria (Volume 1), January 1966-July 1971" by A.H. M. Kirk-Greene)

That Germany is the biggest economy today in Europe has nothing to do with Adolf Hitler.

ell77:
Do people who are not black get deported from Nigeria at all?

Anyway I know the greatest villain can be found in Nigeria and every man, woman and child will know him/her globally.

But the greatest heroes can also be found in Nigeria and no one will acknowledge him/her. I know there are good people in Nigeria afterall am I not Nigerian! lol. Unfortunately they often are not the ones Nigerians from abroad find themselves dealing with, I don't know why. It is usually oyibo who find these good guys when it comes to doing business, perhaps the good guys in Nigeria don't trust Nigerians abroad - thats what I think anyway, they believe oyibo won't do 419 and is more organised and more efficient etc.

Truthman:
@babasin
erratic means it is unpredictable. With your situation, I guess you will have to charge the batteries with a generator. Also maybe u need something bigger than 1.4kva. I live in a three bedroom apartment with 3 tvs, 5 fans 2 decoders and up 12 energy saving bulbs. I do not use ACs, heaters,washing machine etc when the inverter is on.
Moreover, the less load you put on the inverter, the longer it lasts (My wife and I decided to put about 20% load on the inverter and it lasted for like 15hrs before recharging).
You will need about 8 hrs for it to be fully charged.

Same reason they tried to assassinate Fidel Castro. Same reason they participated in the murder of Patrice Lumumba. The list is long.

it will cost you about 120 thousand naira in lekki area without the water treatment.and extra 190 thousand naira with treatment.

Has the man been castrated yet? Will the woman be stoned to death?
Zamfara!

my opinion is that nigeria has never had any national hero.

NEPA is very erratic in my area

I spend 30k buying diesel on a monthly basis and with thr inverter, it has reduced to about 10k a month.

My thought is that they were all murderous imbeciles

All the other names above brought glory to their countries. Hitler, however, ultimately brought doom and tragedy to his country.

IF EFCC was answerable to the IGP, there is no way in hell RIBADU would have been able to bring down his boss TAFA BALOGUN.

EFCC is not answerable to the IGP, they report to the president.

Daily Trust (Abuja)

29 December 2007
Posted to the web 31 December 2007

Shehu Abubakar
Gusau

A police constable got entangled with a married woman and the currently unfolding drama is turning into a whirlwind of scandal. Weekly Trust reports

A police constable (PC) serving with the Zamfara State Command has been dismissed from service for allegedly dating the wife of a director-general in the state. PC Adamu Garba, 19, was alleged to have accomodated Sa'adatu, 17, in his friend's house in Gusau for three days.


Sa'adatu, who is said to be the second wife of her 50-year-old husband, a Director-General in the state (names withheld) was said to have met Adamu Garba when he was posted to their neighbourhood on guard duty.

PC Garba, who is now being detained at the central police station in Gusau, the Zamfara state capital, told Weekly Trust from his cell room that Sa'adatu was the one who showed interest in him.

"She used to come out of their house and beckon to me. I was on guard duty at the residence of our AC Ops (Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations) which is directly opposite their house at the federal low-cost houses, Gusau. I told the AC Ops, who warned her, but she did not stop.

"One day she sent rice and cold water to me and requested for my GSM number and I gave her. Since then we have been very close. Any time I am posted there on guard duty, she always comes out peeping at me," he said.

PC Garba said since Sa'adatu does not have a mobile phone, they used to communicate through one Zinatu, Haruna a commercial telephone operator.

He said anytime he wants to talk to her, he will do so through Zinatu and she also calls him with Zinatu's phone and they speak for a very long time.

"One day I invited her and we went to my friend's house where we stayed for almost one hour. There was also a day during the last fasting, precisely on September 14, we met in my friend's house where we stayed for three days.

"She was with me in the house through the three days. When I insisted that she should go back home, she said she would not go back to her husband's house. Rather, she returned to her parent's house," he said.

PC Garba said Sa'adatu has been complaining to him that her husband is too old for her and that she does not like him.

He said she told him that she was married to her husband by her parents against her own will, alleging that she hardly gets his attention since he has another wife.

All efforts to reach Sa'adatu proved abortive. When this reporter visited her family house in Gusau, she was said to have returned to her husband's house.

A source close to the police team that investigated the case at Tudun Wada police division in Gusau told Weekly Trust that Sa'adatu admitted befriending PC Garba in her statement to the police.

"She wrote in her statement that she met PC Garba near their house at Tudun Wada Federal Low Cost and that he was the one who said he wanted to befriend her. She admitted giving him food and water and that she once bought and gave him two sweets.

"She said PC Garba sent his phone number to her through a boy who lives in the housing estate. She admitted in her statement that she has been communicating with him on phone through the aforementioned Zinatu.

"She also alleged in her statement that PC Garba threatened to expose her before she agreed to sleep with him the first time. She also said he took her to his friend's house behind Sambo Secondary School, Gusau where she stayed with him for three days before returning to her parent's house," the source said.

Miss Zinatu Haruna on her part admitted that PC Garba used to call her line and request to speak with Sa'adatu and that Sa'adatu used to buy recharge cards of different denominations, load in the phone and call PC Garba.

She alleged that Sa'adatu told her that Garba was her brother and that she has all along been linking them on phone believing he was her brother.

"One day he called my line and requested to speak with her. I rushed into their house and told her that her brother wants to talk to her. Her senior mate (the first wife of the Director-General) called me aside and warned that the man was not her brother, but rather a boyfriend.

"Since then I have not allowed her to use my phone to communicate with him and if he call me to speak with her, I always tell him that I am not around the house," Zinatu said.

Efforts to reach the senior wife of the director-general for comment also proved abortive as she was said to be in purdah and could not be reached.

onatisi, u seem to know much bout malaysia, hit me with some more info,,,,can't i export agro products from naija to malaysia easily or is there any other business of that sort u have in mind.

The type is capable of providing 8 hrs of uninterrupted power supply if it is fully charged

"We believe that, the ECK, has not succeeded in establishing the credibility of the tallying process to the satisfaction of all parties and candidates," chief EU observer Alexander Lambsdorff said in a statement.

The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said London had "real concerns at the irregularities reported by the EU observers and others".

But the United States congratulated Mr Kibaki on his re-election and called on all sides to respect the result despite the allegations of fraud

Experts estimate that power generation would plunge to 1000MW by February 2008 from the present level of about 3000MW
and the nation would be thrown into darkness. 
Specifically, about 1500MW is being generated from Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro hydro power plants with only 400MW and 700MW coming from Afam and Egbin power plants respectively.
Only about 2000MW is however being transmitted from these plants due to constraints of transmission and distribution . It is therefore expected that the 2000MW may be cut down by half to 1000MW by February given the current scheme of things.
The highly placed source, who would not like to be quoted, said: “By February, the water level would have gone down in Kainji and Shiroro. So they would not be able to run all the turbines there. Gas that is 24 hours and 365 days a year that would have put new power plants working, two or three of them would have come mainstream between now and March. Now Yar’Adua’s government has got them stranded. They cannot come on between now and June.
“We are going to have a national catastrophe in February, March, April because the water level would be so low that time that the output from those hydro plants would be so small. Egbin is the major one we rely on. Egbin doesn’t always have enough dry gas from Warri. And Egbin produces 1400 MW supply. By February, the total output in this country may not be more than 1000MW. I can conveniently predict it. If care is not taken, this country may not get more than 1000MW,” a source told THISDAY.

panafrican:
Where are you less likely to be the victim of an arm robbery, Pretoria or Lagos ?

The Tanzanian high commissioner to South Africa was beaten unconscious by armed robbers at his own farewell dinner in Pretoria, police say.

The South African government official said the envoy told the robbers at one point: "Gentlemen, God bless you."
They are said to have replied: "We don't care for God. Let's stab these dogs."

Afenifere's publicity secretary, Yinka Odumakin, in an interview with The Guardian, yesterday said the on-going impersonation scandal involving the former President's daughter and her involvement in the N17 billion hospital refurbishing contract had made it more than pertinent to investigate Obasanjo's eight years rule in the country.

Afenifere stated that the Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello scam and the hospital contract which happened during her father's presidency would be a tip of the iceberg if her father's eight years administration was investigated.

According to the group's spokesman "the man who is involved in this impersonation contract-deal, Awofisayo, was the same man who had taken undue advantage of the system to take a contract of N17 billion to up-grade some teaching hospitals, in which Iyabo was also involved. So, it confirms that under Obasanjo, himself and his daughter could not distinguish between his Ota farm and Nigeria, the way they could deal with the chickens in Ota farm was the way they were dealing with Nigeria and her resources."

"Also, $800m was voted for the repair of the refineries, and none of them was repaired. Under Obasanjo, we learnt that several millions of Naira were spent to bribe legislators to support the third term agenda, while under him about N300 billion was voted for road construction, none was delivered."

for your info, it cost N500k for basic licencing in nigeria for 5 years Internet services. check http://www.ncc.gov.ng/index2_e.htm

Last View on Sun 30th December, 2007
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Author: Posted by Admin Letters

From: Akingbola Erastus
Sent: Thu 12/27/2007 9:34 AM
To: All Intercontinental Bank Employees
Cc: Executive Management
Subject: AMENDMENT TO POLICY ON DEPOSIT MOBILIZATION


TO: ALL STAFF



FROM: GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE



SUBJECT: AMMENDMENT TO POLICY ON DEPOSIT MOBILIZATION



DATE: 24RD DECEMBER, 2007



A review of the total deposit position of the Bank month on month reveals that the Bank is running short of its planned monthly deposit target.



The negative variance in our deposit position is attributed to the fact that staff are not marketing our various deposit liability products and thus not meeting their targets. In addition, some account officers do not exert proper relationship management skills with their customers. As such, most accounts under their management do not witness any activity for months and some become dormant after six (6) months.



To engender a consistent and sustainable growth in our bank wide deposit position, the following will now apply effective January 2, 2007:



v For every month that staff (service or marketing ) does not achieve up to 60% of monthly deposit target, staff will be debited as follows:

1st Month: N5, 000.00 (marketer); N2, 500.00(service staff)

2nd Month N10, 000.00 ,, ; N5, 000.00 ,,

3rd Month N15, 000.00 ,, ; N7, 500.00 ,,



Thereafter, staff will be sent on suspension.



v Any non-borrowing current account that records no activity in a month, the account officer(marketing officer) will be debited N1, 000.00 (One Thousand naira only) per a/c

v If the a/c is not tagged to an a/c officer, the Branch head / GE will be debited as appropriate

v For Dormant accounts the following will apply: Marketing officer that allows an a/c being managed by him/her to go dormant will be debited N10, 000.00 (Ten Thousand naira only) monthly until the account is re-activated.

v If the a/c is not tagged to an a/c officer, the Branch head / GE will be debited as appropriate, except in cases where it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the customer cannot be remarketed.e.g Death, relocation etc.

v For regions where more than 50% of staff are sanctioned on deposit related matters, the RBEs will each be debited N10, 000.00 (Ten Thousand naira only) monthly.

v After the 3 rd month, the RCEs will be debited N20, 000.00 (Twenty Thousand naira only).

Please be guided


ERASTUS B. O. AKINGBOLA