Walahi d song is good!

EJA NLA...Suddenly everything turned positive and impressive.

I could see hope and confidence restored in the mind of Nigerians due to fairy tale run of the super eagles. For those of us who witnessed the live telecast of the last African Cup of Nation held in Ghana will not forget so soon the amazing prediction of magician invited to perform at the glorious event. His prediction goes thus; Nigeria vs Ghana in the final, 3-1 in favor of Ghana, Asamoah Gyan to score the last goal and the match to be played in the stadium of 45 thousand capacity.......His prediction is gradually getting to reality.

Haters keep saying if not for Donjazzy, there wouldn't av been D'banj...My question is: Is D'banj d only artist Donjazzy produces' for? Wat happened to othrs?... Time is telling already....Haters,repent b4 it's too late... GBA FUN OGA E!

Haters keep hating,D'banj keeps making... Get ur head examined if u still hating dis guy by now, accept ur fate and repent b4 it's too late for u. Those u support are no wre to be found. Dis guy makes history and cash almost every week and u make mouth everyday. Ur mate dey build house and u dey thief nails...GBA FUN OGA E!

Lands are for sale @ the following area Mowe/Ibafo, Ofada, Arepo,Agbara, Behind Redeem, Behind Compass Newspaper for N650,000. All documentation complete. Notes: it's an estate land and not individual or Omo onile....A house located @ Oworonsoki area with two 3 bedroom flats and a detached 2 bedroom flat on it for sale for N15m. Pls contact if interested. 08022393311,3157CE7D. Thank u.

Football team I must say...soooo pleeeeenty,mannnnny infact! Muuuuch sef.

d song is not abysmal @ all...good one I must say

Boko Haram will be making a mistake by attacking Igbo parts of South South.  Ndigbo will fight them if that is done.
Gbam! Can we leave Ilorin and Lagos alone now?
It's clearly stated that south south and not igbo, so let  word.

Those saying that lagos belongs to AWORIS that they will chase yorubas way sooner, fine,are they not also yorubas?, u bunch of OLODOS.

I read Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s article about of my friend Mallam Nasir El-Rufai with amusement (”Sanusi Lamido On El Rufai” on this same site @ Omojuwa.com) and I have to say that I was pleased with the fact that he wrote it. I am glad that he has reiterated his love for Nasir and expressed his tremendous respect for him. He has also spoken very well about Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who is also a good friend of mine and he has said that anyone that is their enemy is his enemy too. I am happy for him and when it comes to both Nasir and Nuhu most people know that these are precisely my sentiments as well. As I have always said these are the two people that gave me hope that we could have a united Nigeria again where northerners and southerners could live and work together.

I cannot say the same about Sanusi Lamido Sanusi whom I have always found a little bit more complicated ever since I have known him in the days of the Progressive Acion Movement in 2001. We were both members of that vibrant political association and we often clashed in terms of our world viiew and our vision of what Nigeria should be. I remember those days with fondness and we have both come a long way since then. At that time,as he quite rightly said in his essay, I was a a regionalist and Yoruba nationalist who did not believe in a united Nigeria anymore simply due to what the Abacha administration had put our people through and due to the June 12th annulment.

I was also a hardline foot soldier of NADECO and I reflected the thinking of every self-respecting yoruba man at that time. I believed then, and I still belive today, that if we cannot have a Nigeria where all people are treated as equals regardless of tribe or faith then we should not have a Nigeria at all. People like Sanusi opposed that view and they believed, and possibly still do, that some Nigerians were born to rule and that some faiths are greater than others. And yes, at that time, my views about President Olusegun Obasanjo were precisely what Sanusi said. I, together with virtually every other self-respecting yoruba man at the time, regarded him as a tool of the north and that he was brought in to serve their interests in 1999 and as a pawn to stop the yorubas from breaking away. That is what we all believed and that is why Obasanjo was overwhelmingly rejected by his people in the 1999 Presidential election.

It was after my brother Chief Akin Osuntokun took me for a series of meetings with Obasanjo and after Uncle Bola Ige, his Attorney General and my mentor and leader, encouraged me to get closer to him that I knew that Obasanjo had changed and that his intention was to serve all Nigerians and not just the north. This was precisely why I joined his government and after serving him for three years as his spokesman he, thankfully, promoted me to the position of a Federal Minister in two separate Ministries which is a position that Sanusi is yet to achieve.

Now to the point of this contribution. What I find curious about Sanusi’s article is the following. He expresses so much love for El-Rufai and Ribadu yet he so gladly served a government that tried to kill and discredit them both and that drove them into exile and yet he said nothing in their defence publicly at that time. I see that as a contradiction but then that may just be his way.



People have different ways of manifesting their loyalty to their friends so let me give Sanusi the benefit of the doubt here and assume that he was not playing a double game of deceit and subterfuge. My own style and approach to friendship is very different. When I give my friendship or enmity I give it totally but I am always uncomfortable with those that swim with the tide. And I am loyal to a fault to my friends, followers and leaders unless and until they give me a cause not to be, continue OMOJUWA.com >> blog

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It is sad when some people think sentiments in thiS time we should all join hands and fight against corruption and mis management of public fund. So sad and don't see this country together in few,I mean very few years to come, pity

Popular Galala/pop singer, John Asiemo a.k.a Daddy Showkey has admitted he regrets campaigning for Goodluck Jonathan during the April 2011 polls.

The ‘Ghetto soldier’ today, Thursday, January 12, 2011 made a surprise appearance at the Occupy Nigeria mass protest at the Gani Fawehinmi park, Ojota, Lagos where he told the mammoth crowd, ‘Na shame no make me come. I shame say I open my mouth campaign for dat man‘. www.thenetng.com

Nduka Chiejina (Assistant Editor)

11/01/2012 01:15:00 

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has said “untouchables who financed Goodluck Jonathan’s election are the beneficiaries of fule subsidy”.  

The former minister spoke on a televised programme, Matters Arising. 

He said governors were in support “of the withdrawal of subsidy so that they will have money and less deductions from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC)”. 

He said: “They (governors) are the driving force behind Goodluck Jonathan and half of the blame should go to governors.”

Petroleum subsidy, he noted, “is a charge on the Federation Account; so, it is deducted first before money is shared”.

Last year, el-Rufai said “the average deduction from the Federation Account was about N22 billion per month; after the elections, it rose to over N100 billion a month”. 

He argued that because of the deductions, the Federal Government is broke, adding: “If you remove this N1.3 trillion subsidy fund that the government is expecting from the budget, there is no fund because capital expenditure for 2012 is N1.3 trillion.”  

Evidence that the government is broke, he said, could be seen from the fact that the economy is growing but it is illiquid. 

el-Rufai said: “We are broke, but not bankrupt. We have assets, but we don’t have cash. We sold crude at $100 per barrel, yet we do not have cash.” 

The former minister said the Jonathan administration “has been borrowing $1 billion a month since he became President almost two years ago. What are they doing with the money borrowed? They are borrowing to fuel consumption instead of borrowing to do real projects”. 

By withdrawing subsidy, el-Rufai said the Jonathan administration is taxing every Nigerian - man, woman and child - N8,000 while N1.4 trillion has gone into some people’s pockets. 

The former minister said the cost of producing one litre of petroleum in Nigeria is N40; so, the N25 difference in the pump price of N65 is an undeclared tax. 

He said: “The government has not done enough to cut down its own wastes. The Federal Government has to cut its budget drastically: 25 per cent of Jonathan’s salary is N800,000 in 2012. What he should cut should be his allowances.”  

El-Rufai noted that the Federal Government has increased in size with its expenses because the number of ministries and ministers has increased. He said they have no limits or boundaries, adding that all of them are on the government’s payroll. 

The former minister lamented that the monetisation programme of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration has been abandoned as ministers now stay in government houses and have cars fuelled by the government. 

Highlighting government’s wasteful expenses el-Rufai said he learnt that the Minister of Agriculture recently “bought 150 Toyota Hilux vans for monitoring projects.

He asked: “What are they for? A few years ago, the Minister of Agriculture bought the same type of cars for monitoring. They should stop all these useless spending it will not add value. The federal government has no land, agriculture is basically a state government and private sector affairs these are expenses that don’t make sense.” 

To deregulate the petroleum sector, El-Rufai maintains that there should be a review of the existing policy, new legislation, independent regulators and competitive industry all of which are needed before the deregulation of petroleum industry. He described the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) as “not a regulator but a price facilitator.” 

The former FCT minister criticised the government of Goodluck Jonathan of not making efforts to repair refineries and having failed to bring those who ripped the country off to book. 

With regards to the proposed Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE) El-Rufai maintained that there was “no money anywhere to execute SURE programme because all accruals to the Federal Government has already been captured in 2012 budget which assumes there is no subsidy.” 

 He described the Kolade committee which would monitor the execution of the SURE programme as an indictment on government’s ability to monitor projects insisting that there is no fiscal surplus anywhere.  

The Yar Ardua /Jonathan administration he revealed has earned more than N200 billion so far and he wondered where the money has all gone to.  

He noted that the SURE projects being peddled by the government was approved during the Obasanjo administration. 

 

END

I sincerely believe Senator Ggenga Ashafa is capable of becoming the governor of the state.I have worked with in his ministry,when he was still the permanent secretary of Lands bureu.And I can tell you everybody in the ministry including the IT students, gatemen,they all liked and respected him so much.He may not have vast experience as Mamora and the rest,so as Fashola during his nomination by Tinubu back in 2007.I can bet it with anybody that Gbenga Ashafa will be a better successor for Fashola.

January 9th, 2012 by admin

By Osagie Alonge



After much criticism and attacks, D’banj has finally commented on the Federal government’s recent removal of Fuel Subsidy.

The Mo’Hits pized act and G.O.O.D Music signee took to his Twitter account hours ago to air his thoughts on the hike in fuel price.

D’banj says his reason for being silent all this while is because he is ‘just as surprised’ as every other Nigerian. He also clearly states that he was never appointed ‘Special Adviser’ to the President on Youths.

‘Ok so I haven’t said anything about the subsidy (removal) cos just like every Nigerian citizen I am as surprised as we all are and yes I supported GEJ openly and fully but I haven’t been made the special adviser to the president on youths. All I can say about the Subsidy (removal) is the obvious truth that my fans, friends, family and we the masses are the ones feeling the pain now’, @iamdbanj tweeted.

Critics had shot at the pop star since last week, accusing him of being silent on the Subsidy removal and even attempting to boycott any event he would perform at.

D’banj had endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan during the April 2011 polls with campaign ads and was featured as an interviewer on a pre-recorded chat session with him. The pop act had also performed at several ‘Pro Goodluck’ campaigns held in different parts of the country. To add to that, D’banj released a remix version of his ‘Scapegoat’ single with lyrics urging Nigerians to vote for Goodluck.

Just six days ago, label partner Don Jazzy stated via Twitter that he ‘regrets voting for the current government’.

There are unconfirmed reports D’Banj and his partner Don Jazzy were generously paid for supporting Goodluck Jonathan’s election bid. But Jazzy insists ‘God knows that Govt has not given mohits a penny like i have always told you guys. and i am boldly putting out there for anybody to contest’.www.thenetng.com

Think d president deserved to be given a chance at least to prove himself, He needs us more, I can see sabotage in the security issue.

With the threat of the deadly group called 'boko haram' giving people ultimatum and killing the innocents people have made my journey to my place of service (NYSC) a scary area. Though I serve in Zamfara,where no major violence has not been recorded so far. I will be finishing my service next month, I came in from lagos and now waiting patiently for what a group will turn this country into, Now i believe this sayings 'To serve nigeria is not by force'.

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Nigeria:What the founding fathers said

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Nigerians’ happpiness indivisible - By Chief Obafemi Awolowo
The welfare and happpiness of the peoples of Nigeria are indivisible. So are their misfortunes and adversities, We must seek to arrest the process of Nigeria’s disintegration and reunite the country (August, 1966).

Without peace and unity, we cannot record significant progress. With peace and unity, there is no limit to the amount of progress that we can achieve. In order to have peace and unity, all of us must forget the animosities of the past. I am sincerely and respectfully calling on the leaders of all the parties to look forward to a bright future, and eschew bitterness. Win or lose, let us all resolve to keep a good sense of humour and preserve the peace of this great nation. (October, 1978).

Out of our 80 million population, about 70 million live in abject poverty whilst about 60 million are actually starving, and have for houses, shelters unsuitable for modern poultry or piggery. As against this soul-dedepressing picture, we have in our midst about one thousand rich Nigerians who in the past cleverly rigged the sources of the wealth of our nation, and are now tactically poised to oligopolise all the munificent avenues of riches that may supervene now and in the future. The rich, and the highly-placed in business, public life and government are running a dreadful risk in their callous neglect of the poor and the downtrodden, (January, 1980).

Essentials for Nigerian survival - By Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, April 1965
After four years of independence, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is experiencing teething troubles. As Africa's most populous country, its role in contemporary history is significant. There are only nine nations in the world larger than Nigeria in population, and it is worthy of note that of these six are federal in structure. Ironically, our population gives us an advantage and places us under a handicap. Though it earns us prestige, it also causes us to be visited by a multiplicity of problems.

The election to our Parliament, which took place last December 30, brought some of these problems into sharp focus and precipitated a crisis. Whether the containment of the crisis will be permanent or temporary depends upon how those in authority take cognizance of the forces that are working to undermine the security of the state and the stability of the government.

The immediate causes of the crisis were the incompetent manner in which the electoral machinery was operated, the undemocratic nature of the electioneering campaigns which were featured by violence and lawlessness, the boycotting of elections in one-fourth of the 312 constituencies and the threat of secession by one of the four regions forming the Federation.

But there were remote political causes which accentuated the problems of federalism in the Republic and ultimately precipitated the December crisis. These were related to the exercise of executive, legislative and judicial power, the enjoyment of fundamental human rights, the creation of more states and the status of the Head of State.

Before the advent of British rule in Nigeria, most of our people were essentially democratic in their political institutions. There were exceptions in communities where strong men emerged and assumed power or usurped it, but such autocratic tendencies were generally resisted. This heritage of democracy has been preserved through the elders of the community, who became an instrument for the maintenance of law and order in their society. To ensure that the canons of ethics and law were not discarded, responsibility was granted to the elders, who were presumed to know and cherish the customs and traditions of the group.

Nigeria looks ahead - By Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, October 1962
The Federation of Nigeria became a sovereign independent state and ninety- ninth member of the United Nations less than two years ago. Our entrance into the arena of international politics marked an epoch in our history, made even more memorable by the good will and affection with which we were received from all sides. Everyone hailed the appearance of Africa's largest state.

To the leaders and people of Nigeria, however, this event was also a grim reminder of the fact that, for the first time in our history as a single unified state, we now have to fend for ourselves, and to sustain and consolidate our unity and freedom. We have to give real meaning to this freedom by making it an instrument for a better and more prosperous life for our people.

But determined as we were to shoulder our internal responsibilities, it was our added task to demonstrate that democracy could work not only in our own country, but in the other parts of the continent, if there were a will and determination to do so. We have not shrunk from the belief that our greatest contribution to Africa and the world at large would be in the example we show of good sense and reasonableness in our approach to problems, and the projection of those qualities into our conduct of external relations.

National unity is, naturally, uppermost in our minds, as it is self-evident that planning and prosperity can thrive only in conditions of peace and orderliness. It is less than 50 years since Lord Lugard amalgamated into one country what were then the northern and southern protectorates of Nigeria, and it was not until 15 years ago that a constitution was introduced which for the first time brought Nigerians from every part of the country into a common legislature.

National unity has made remarkable progress since then; a feeling of common citizenship has developed and has been increasingly sustained by the challenge of independence. However, we have not trusted merely to chance and have ensured that there is an instrument-that is, a written constitution-by which this unity can be supported.

A federal system of government is always full of problems and difficulties, but so is democracy, because the art of persuasion is much more difficult than a dictatorship though in the long run more rewarding and satisfying. 

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It seems that the recent protests against the government’s removal of the fuel subsidy were what it took for Mo’Hits boss Don Jazzy to speak his mind about his decision to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.

Just yesterday, Tuesday, January 4, 2012, Don Jazzy tweeted that he regretted voting for the ‘current government’.

‘I hardly regret decisions i make. That my 1 vote added to put the current Govt in power is one decision i regret with all my heart’. He continued; ‘What i dont get is if D man we all voted 4 deceived us knowing he would turn out like this or he is not the one leading us. May God help us’.

The hit producer, who is also signed to Kanye West‘s G.O.O.D Music, took to Twitter to clarify the rumours suggesting that he, D’banj or any other person in the Mo’Hits camp sold their votes to the incumbent government at the 2011 polls.

On Thursday March 17, 2011, a pre-recorded video clip of D’banj interviewing President Goodluck aired on Silverbird TV. The interview sparked negative reactions amongst Nigerians.

‘God knows that Govt has not given mohits a penny like i have always told you guys. and i am boldly putting out there for anybody to contest. We all voted for the guy cos at the time we thought and believed he would be the one to move the country forward. my conscience is clear’, he tweeted.

Don Jazzy also let his followers know that it is up to everybody who voted for the incumbent to work together and stop pointing fingers at each other.

‘Na all of us dem wash. only my vote could not ve put him in. so stop laying blames guys and lets solve the problem together as we all voted’, he tweeted.

The Mo’Hits crew recently wrapped up their yearly Koko Concert on Tuesday, December 27, 2011.
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It seems that the recent protests against the government’s removal of the fuel subsidy were what it took for Mo’Hits boss Don Jazzy to speak his mind about his decision to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.

Just yesterday, Tuesday, January 4, 2012, Don Jazzy tweeted that he regretted voting for the ‘current government’.

‘I hardly regret decisions i make. That my 1 vote added to put the current Govt in power is one decision i regret with all my heart’. He continued; ‘What i dont get is if D man we all voted 4 deceived us knowing he would turn out like this or he is not the one leading us. May God help us’.

The hit producer, who is also signed to Kanye West‘s G.O.O.D Music, took to Twitter to clarify the rumours suggesting that he, D’banj or any other person in the Mo’Hits camp sold their votes to the incumbent government at the 2011 polls.

On Thursday March 17, 2011, a pre-recorded video clip of D’banj interviewing President Goodluck aired on Silverbird TV. The interview sparked negative reactions amongst Nigerians.

‘God knows that Govt has not given mohits a penny like i have always told you guys. and i am boldly putting out there for anybody to contest. We all voted for the guy cos at the time we thought and believed he would be the one to move the country forward. my conscience is clear’, he tweeted.

Don Jazzy also let his followers know that it is up to everybody who voted for the incumbent to work together and stop pointing fingers at each other.

‘Na all of us dem wash. only my vote could not ve put him in. so stop laying blames guys and lets solve the problem together as we all voted’, he tweeted.

The Mo’Hits crew recently wrapped up their yearly Koko Concert on Tuesday, December 27, 2011.www.thenetng.com

"Awolowo, best president Nigeria never had"-ojukwu

"If you don't believe in what i have said,you will believe in what i have done", FASHOLA

Anti fashola's are at it again.should he start demolishing houses now,u will be the first to castigate him.na wa o 4 some people o!

Tracing his antecedent back to wen he ws d permanent secretary of ministry of lands for several years.i did my industrial training (IT) at d ministry and no one works with him regrets. Ashafa is a right man 4 d job.lagos wil neva regret voting him in 2015.

U D'banj haters shuld think of how u can be successful and not mocking an already successful young man.Dream big and let talk abt u too shamless.

Face, Gear one.

Just read from my facebook page that the much searched for kid SHARON OMOLAYO 5,who was reportely got missing was found at somewhere around ifo,ogun state Nig. I do not realy know the authenticity of this infomation.Pls if true,get your information posted so we all know if the poor kid is found.Thanks.

i need to know who and how one can write to and get the feed back as soon as possible in Ghana.thanksa

i need to know who and how one can write to and get the feed back as soon as possible in Ghana.thanks