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Minister Aborts Chanchagi Plane

By Samuel Olatunji, Reporter, Lagos
19th May


The Minister of state for Air Transportation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, on Friday evening aborted a Chanchangi flight scheduled for Abuja due to the excessive heat passengers on board were subjected to after the aircraft’s air-conditioning system broke down .

According to witness account, the heat was so unbearable that two passengers fainted as a result of suffocation. The fainted passengers on board the plane were part of journalists that were going to Abuja for the Nigerian Music Awards that will be holding today at the International Conference Centre.

Majority of the passengers our correspondent gathered were going to Abuja to cover the event and it included personalities like Chief Mrs Keji Okunowo, Laolu Akins, and other musicians.

The commotion raised by the plight of the fainted journalists we gathered was brought to the notice of the minister who instantly ordered that the plane should not take off.

@okei


When you tend to AFRICANISE or RACIALISE a problem this is what gets me sad. We tend to think that white people are HOLY SAINTS.

If it is not TRIBE it is Dialect
if it is not WHITE it is Black


Why are we doing this to ourselves we easily generalize and kill the GOOD OBJECTIVITY that our Kids should have of them selves.

Tell you what is wrong with what you wrote here if a child reads this it registers in his subconscious and there he will look everybody black around him as inferior and a Problem.

he the child will repeat this immediately he sees any small problem. In xtian principle when Joshua and caleb spoke positively we saw that only 2 of them entered into the promise land. we have to be careful of what we say about our people.

If we have a problem with ONE PERSON LET US CORRECT IT AND LET IT END WITH ONE PERSON.

No wonder my brother was thinking of moving to the banking area.

want to read the whole story?

Go ahead be my Guest!

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200705192123493

A lot of people ask whether it is because of reconsolidation that banks are now looking at the opportunities in the industry. To that I would say yes and no. Yes because you have a limited number of banks competing among themselves. Naturally, innovation is getting better. Before now, how many ATMs did we have? Now First Bank has more ATMs than all the ATMs all the banks had before consolidation. This happened because shareholders funds have gone up and every bank tried to ensure that the funds are judiciously used.

Talking about money outside the banking sector, the reason is because of infrastructural deficiencies. But all these are improving. When you talk about having access to your money when you need it, this has improved, because banks are expanding fast and deploying various channels. At First Bank, for instance, all our branches are on-line. This was not the case before. First Bank has deviced ways to bring part of the N450bn into the system. We appreciate the fact that what we call banking penetration is very low in Nigeria. But there are tremendous opportunities through which more people will be brought into the formal sector.



Talking about e-payment, what is First Bank doing to ensure better services for its customers?

Our first major thrust is to decongest our banking halls. Because of our legacy and the fact that First Bank has been built over 100 years, we have the largest customer base in the industry. We also have branches in many locations where other banks don’t have. Therefore, First Bank has come to be recognised as a national icon in the country. It is the bank for Nigerians. That is why when you get to our banking halls, you see many customers, which we are very pleased about. But if you go to some other banks, you see scanty queue, and that tends to make people believe that such banks have superior services. That is not the case. We are converting that opportunity of large customer base to wealth by putting ATMs in every single branch of First Bank. In some branches, we even have two ATMs. All those customers you see in the banking halls, we are encouraging them to have a card. And it is free. And when they use the cards on our ATMs, it is also free. We are not charging them anything and the cards could be used at anytime of the day, because our ATMs operate 24 hours a day and seven days a week. This is just within our bank. We are having other arrangements and there are so many things we are coming up with plans that will jolt the industry. First Bank will bring an ATM for foreign exchange transactions. It is going to be first of its kind in the whole of West and Middle Africa. The ATM will operate in a way that a customer can just walk to it, put in his foreign currency, whether dollar, pound sterling or Euro, and it will dispense naira. We plan to put that ATM at the airports and major hotels.

But do we have the infrastructure to support these innovative products?

The infrastructural challenges we have in this country can also be good opportunities for us. All our services are supported by robust technology; that is why they are 24/7. Whether there is electricity supply or not, our ATMs will run. As I am talking to you, I have my mobile phone and note book, so that if my ATM in Akure, Ondo State is short of cash, I get to know immediately. The same thing goes for all our ATMs all over the country, because there is a monitoring software. This has made us to record over 99 per cent efficiency for our ATMs. As at today, in the entire country, First Bank is still the number one bank in terms of transactions volume and value. And the reason is that out of the total transaction of 13 million in a month, First Bank does about 2.5 million. Also, in terms of card issued out, we control over 50 per cent. And, of course, in terms of ATMs, First Bank is number one.


If this is not good news I wonder what then is. Or may this is not Naija

Ribadu is a brave and patriotic Nigerian.

This is a guy that announced in a press conference that he never took a single bribe during his career as a cop. He dared anyone to come forward to prove the contrary. None of his critics have accused him of going after innocent people. The only criticism is that he goes after OBJ's enemies.

OBJ went to campaign in Ondo state and stated that the ANPP candidate (his former Housing Minister) was dropped for being corrupt and that the EFCC would soon come after him. A few days later, Ribadu told the press that the person in question, Chief Mimiko has no case to answer/is not being investigated by the EFCC as no petitions have been received about him. This singular action takes guts in a country like Nigeria.

The EFCC were very keen to pick up Fayose before he went into hiding. The courts ruled that Fayose has only been suspended and therefore still enjoys immunity/can't be arrested. Remember, before the brown stuff hit the fan, OBJ appointed Fayose to head the team that would pick or recommend the PDP presidential candidate from among the PDP governors. Can you describe Fayose as a political foe of OBJ?

Have you ever wondered why OBJ has visited Rivers state over 18 times, whilst he has only visited Benue state once? OBJ thinks Peter Odili is the real deal. According to a few newspaper reports, Ribadu stood up to OBJ and effectively dashed Odili's presidential ambition. The EFCC have the fattest dossier on Odili and will pick him up, anytime after May 29. Infact, as far back as 2004, Ribadu had stated that Odili is a very smart crook. When Odili came to London in Dec 2006, I watched an interview on BEN TV in which he was praising OBJ to the high heavens. Is Odili a political foe of OBJ?

If anybody is being investigated by the EFCC the real issue or question for that person is: ARE YOU A THIEF?

I'm not saying Ribadu is perfect, because he isn't. The Andy Uba scandal seems to indicate some level of manipulation from above. However, even in western democracies you can't rule out some amount of manipulation of government agencies and staff by the political leadership. In the 70s, it was really difficult for the FBI to get to the bottom of the Watergate scandal, simply because the president, Richard Nixon was the person being investigated/neck deep in the mud. In the 80s Reagan had some influence over Oliver North in the Iran-Contra arms scandal.

Ribadu might do himself a favour by shying away from controversial statements and quietly getting on with his job. He seems to be losing the propaganda war in a country where 60% of the print media is owned by corrupt politicians!!

Overall, I will give Ribadu a 85% pass mark. Don't forget that corruption has been the norm in our political life since independence in 1960. Ribadu is doing a very dangerous job in a country where life is cheap.

You have said my mind on Ribadu

he must however be very strong and Stronger

he must work more independently

If Naija owes 3 billion dollars in 8 years please lets us check how one state can owe 800 million dollars

Imagine people where Importing Empty containers !!!!!!!!!! na wa oh

@Saint


Nope you dont know the pressure that this guys will bring on you as president. We sometimes are underestimating the power of this foreigners using there local agent.

I am in a foreign land and i can see this easily especially one that is African.

@Mariory

You dont know something and i will tell you. A soldier has a paricular type of training and my brother please dont commend OBJ for keeping the Venom in the military boys.

If we leave out Democracy and let us say let us close our eyes it will only take 21 days for the military to clean out this militants.

The guns I see this Militants brandishing I can tell you have seen them since the 80's. The military boys have the fire power and mind. I know about some of the weapons we have and if the government releases just 5 Apache Hcopters there will be blood shed.

We cannot kill our own people in anger We must let them see their faults let the people residing with them tell them that enough is enough.

As for military Might we have it but if you use the Militants will attract pity.

Who do you pity Now The Government or The Militant?

@youngies


Nadeco never and will never force IBB to step down get your facts right.

my dad said that it was the military boys that put pressure on him, he did not want to go. Nadeco for where ? This army guys will use your heads for Shooting practice.

@Mamajama

It was good they paid if Not we can nout investigate. Now we can investigate.

you may know that Obj had a great problem with the debt because no one knew where they came from.

We have Saboteurs in Nigerian working for the Paris Club this people are on the pay list of their masters. if Obj had argued with them for long they will have a case.

Now they have no case We have a case ( At least we the citizens can know fight them) We have lawyers that can take this people.

Have you heard of what they did to Namibia?

The Owed a debt of $5million and some company came to buy the loan for 3 million and now they the company are demanding $33 million.

Ah some people will call this Business abi ? i say this is 419 of the greatest order.

MONEY DOUBLERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go and check the amount of power they have and what they have used it for.

I think there should be Education for the Citizen that is all. The Governors have a lot of power Infact they have so much money they can cause alot of havoc now

The Soludo magic revamps banks, raises investors' hopes in economy
By Enitar Ugwu

IN the Nigerian banking industry, the out-going Obasanjo administration will be remembered for the banking consolidation programme as well as the management of the external reserves.

This includes the whittling down of the external debt overhaul. As regards the banking consolidation which was kick-started by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the leadership of Professor Chukwuma Soludo, on July 6, 2004, it led to the pruning down of the number of banks in the country from 89 to 25 in 18 months.

In the words of Euromoney Investor Guides of April, 2006, "when the CBN Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo announced in July 2004 that the minimum capital requirement would rise to N25 billion from the then minimum of N2 billion by the end of 2005, many observers thought he was over ambitious, if not foolhardy.

"Yet just 20 months later, his action - and the chain of recapitalisations and mergers it heralded - has transformed Nigeria's banking sector for the better and strengthened the country's overall economic stability."

It recalled that prior to the banking reform agenda in 2004, the Nigerian banking system was in poor state, stressing that, although the country has the largest population of any black nation, and in the thirteenth largest oil producing country in the world, its banking infrastructure was weak and had failed to become more sophisticated.

Specifically, the banking sector was highly fragmented and had concentrated its efforts on the easy pickings of import business related activity.

One of the chief reason for this, it said, was the small size of most banks, explaining that when the reform programme was announced, Nigeria had 89 banks, most of which were tiny, which restricted their lending ability as one single borrower limit for bank lending is 35 per cent of the shareholders' funds for commercial banks.

Before the reform, it would be recalled that, the earned minimum of shareholders' funds was just N2 billion. And while banks had shareholders' funds of N10 billion, the implication being that maximum loans could be just N3.5 billion, which is far too small to finance a typical project either in the oil and gas industry or in other industries vital to Nigeria's development such as telecommunications, construction and power, the magazine pointed out.

Meanwhile, it stressed that many of the banks were dependent on cheap public sector funds for their own financing with an average of 20 per cent of funds, and in some cases 50 per cent, coming from various government-related deposits.

Interestingly, bearing his mind on the lessons learnt from the consolidation experience, one of the actors, the Group Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola spoke to The Guardian on the issue recently.

According to him, the greatest lesson in the exercise was not the fact that the 25 Nigerian banks achieved the seemingly impossible by raising their capitalisation to N25 billion and above but rather, it demonstrated a level of resilience, tenacity and 'never say die' spirit that typifies Nigerians, adding that, that was not even the most salient point.

The greatest revelation, he said, was the demonstration of a level of change management capacity that was hitherto imaginable in Nigeria.

"From the monetary authorities led by the CBN, to each of the 25 banks that emerged, the successful conclusion of the first phase of the 13 point agenda of the CBN offered a priceless lesson on change management that is worth telling to every person interested in successful corporate transformation, particularly on an industry-wide scale.

He also noted that the concluded reform brought to fore some other critical points, explaining that these include the need for strategic management.

Based on this, he pointed out that, the fact that the recapitalisation announcement came as a rude shock to most Nigerian banks revealed a void in strategic management deserves critical attention.

The recapitalisation, he pointed out, was something operators in the industry should have probably envisaged earlier, and prepared for, if only they had been benchmarking banks outside Africa.

The reforms, he said, exposed the need for Nigerian banks to pay closer attention to strategic management as a critical tool for long term success.

Akingbola pointed out that there is also the issue of inevitability of change, noting that to appreciate the magnitude of change brought about by the reforms in the banking sector, we should recall that before July 2004, mergers appeared anathema in the Nigeria corporate world.

A range of factors, most of which are cultural, he said, made mergers and acquisition a very unattractive option in Nigeria.

However, he pointed out that the zeal and commitment, with which this was pursued and achieved brought to the fore the inevitability of change and threw overboard a lot of established thinking about what was possible and what was not.

He stressed that, the message here is simple, if we do not prepare ourselves for this change, and embrace them, soon, globalisation would still tear down the artificial barriers we have erected to block change and leave us dangerously exposed or consigned to oblivion.

He equally stressed that the consolidation programme has also achieved another significant feat by reining in a sizeable proportion of funds hitherto circulating in the informal sector and bringing to fore the amazing depth of this sector in Nigeria.

It would be recalled that, the reforms began with the phased withdrawal of public funds from the bank system in July 2004 with the intention of forcing banks to find alternative deposit bases from which to find funds, an estimated 83.9 per cent of money in circulation in Nigeria before the banking reforms was outside the banking system and the reforms aimed at encouraging banks to chase these funds so that they could be used for lending.

On the external reserve, it can be said that its importance to any country can never be over-emphasised. It can be said to be the official public sector foreign assets, which is controlled by the central bank of a country.

The manual of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Balance of Payments defines external reserves as "those eternal assets that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for direct financing of payments imbalances, for directly regulating the magnitude of such imbalances through intervention in exchange markets, to affect the currency exchange rate and/or for other purposes."

High accumulation of external reserves could be the most appealing scheme in developing an economy. This is because it serves as a formal backing for the domestic currency.

Building up of external reserves can also limit external vulnerabilities and can give a country a bill of credit worthiness. Nigeria's level of external reserves has allowed it a place in the global market where it can issue bonds.

Also, while a high level of reserves indicate a robust economy, it is also a strong macro-economic mechanisms for working at long-term growth rates.

Nigeria's reserves increased from $5.4 billion in 1999 to $43.2 billion in April 2006 and sources of this are: Sale of Nigeria's crude oil equity, royalties, petroleum profits tax and penalty for gas flaring, rentals and signature bonuses.

Other sources of foreign reserves inflows include: Withholding tax, Value Added Tax (VAT) and rent or interest received from investment abroad and personal home remittances.

Yet, other sources are: Export proceeds from non-oil sources-agricultural produce, processed and semi processed products, grant and other miscellaneous receipts as well as oil sector, which accounts for over 85 per cent of the foreign exchange reserves.

However, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has some core mandates, which are derived from the CBN Act of 1991 and this includes among others, the maintenance and promotion of monetary stability and a sound and efficient financial system in Nigeria.

It is in the light of this that the CBN also print and issue currency notes, purchases and sell foreign currencies, discount and rediscount bills exchange and treasury bills which may lead to monetisation.

The CBN carries out monetisation of foreign currencies and while this falls within powers conferred on it, it entails the creation of money by the CBN into the financial system.

Monetisation is the process of converting or establishing something into legal tender. Usually referred to the printing of bank notes by central banks, monetisation could also refer to exchange securities for currency and selling a possession.

The extent of the importance of external reserves and the general comment on the fact that external reserves should have been used for the country's infrastructure instead of being kept and seen this as a misconception because the figure has already been monetised became the central discussion at the 10th seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors organised by the CBN, which took place at Ilorin with the theme "Building and Managing External Reserve for Economic Development".

The Deputy Director in the Department of Foreign Exchange, CBN, Mr. Joseph Aluko, broke down Nigeria's external reserves into three distinct components depending on the ownership, namely, CBN reserves, Federation reserves and the Federal Government reserves.

According to him, the CBN reserves comprise all foreign exchange inflows that have been monetised by the CBN and released to the beneficiaries for their use. Hence, once the foreign exchange inflow has been monetised and the naira equivalent released to the customers by the CBN, the foreign exchange no longer belongs to the customers but to the CBN.

In that respect, he explained a greater portion of Nigeria's external reserves having been monetised belongs to the CBN and is called "CBN reserves, and this component of external reserves can only be available to an applicant (customer) where its equivalent amount in the local currency is provided by the customer.

On these two fronts, i.e. banking sector consolidation and the external reserves, it can be rightly said that the out-going administration proved its mettle.

The Federal Executive Council in its meeting on Wednesday barred the implementation of unfavourable Overseas Development Assistance grants for the country.
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke Jnr

The council also banned unauthorised salaries in some government agencies.

The Minister of Information and Communication, Mr. Frank Nweke (Jnr), said this after the meeting of the council.

Nweke explained that most of the grants awarded to the country by global institutions and foreign nations were of no benefit.

He noted that most times, about 95 per cent of the funds in the grants were spent on expatriates from the donor organisations and countries.

The minister said the council resolved that the country had endured enough exploitation from the arrangement.

The council subsequently approved a Policy on Official Development Assistance for Nigeria.

The policy stipulates that the FEC will henceforth be briefed on how funds involved in the ODAs are being implemented.

The council will also clear the consultants employed under the concerned projects before they can be implemented.

Explaining the council‘s position on the issue, Nweke said, ”The council is concerned about the proliferation of grants in the country, especially the way and manner the ODAs are managed.

“You find out that most times when the money from the grant is made available, about 95 per cent is used to pay experts from these countries.

”Government is saying, ‘Enough of these grants‘. We are not saying that we don‘t want development assistance, but we are not taking development assistance that will be used to pay foreigners.

“Somebody tells you that he is an expert and he gets the job, but somebody else does it and he gets paid in dollars. They are not even smarter than those of us here.”

The council also stopped the implementation of what it termed ”payment of unauthorised salaries” in some establishments.

Nweke listed the agencies to include the Nigerian Communications Commission, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The council frowned at the prevailing situation whereby the boards of these establishments approved and implemented salary schemes for staff without following the guidelines of the National Salaries and Wages Commission.

The council rejected the huge gap the development had created in salaries within the public service.



THIS IS GOOD NEWS THIS IS WHAT I CALL THE LITTLE FOXES THIS 419 HAS CRIPPLED SOME NATIONS OF THE WORLD NWEKE MAKES ME HAPPY

@Sleekdot

You dont Kill a Soldier or a Police for No Reason at all Your area will be treated as a different nation or a Secessionist nation.

This was done in other places also not only in Odi. NEVER KILL A SOLDIER OR POLICE NEVER DO IT YOU PUT THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA AT RISK. GO AND ASK THE PEOPLE IN BENUE. A FRIEND OF MINE WAS VERY ANGRY THAT ASOLDIER COULD BE KILLED THAT WAY AND THEIR BODIES DRAGGED.

I have friends in the Military in Naija and they are very angry to die at the hands of a Civilian.

personally if you kill a soldier in a given locaton and i live there I will move away from that place immediately because i know true Soldier always protect their own irrespective of the tribe they come from.

Ok

@Gnature

The License will Authorise you to Operate Taxi and Buses

You can divide the buses into 2 Aircondition buses and Non Aircondition

You will put a TAX ON Car user this will reduce cars on the road.

Mass transit reduces CAR USAGE

100 people in an air condition bus or hundred people driving hundred cars using the same roads.

People will use The transport because it will be Neat and clean we wil not have people waiting for hours at the bus stop because the buses will be alot.

As Ijogbon Observed

The Millionaires will be made from this people because the transport company will make alot of money and look for other cities.


I have written about this issue and i think it is in the travel section.

@questioner

What you need to do is to draw out a Plan

The trucks are not the problem the People that will drive it are the problem

What you should

say you have a ten or hundred trucks.

You will have Truck Drivers

Law enforcers

The Truck drivers may not know The Law enforcers so that you can have Your law enforcers as Students armed with cameras.

You must also pay the truck driver very high and provide Retraining.

If you look at must people in the transport business many invest and go to sleep and expect to be made rich.

Because we dont have work to do they try to sensationalise news if not you will not read.

If Naija is not blowing up or we are not dying in the Dozen very few are interested.

we need to know that BBC is a Military Weapon.

@ the lightrail issue and power.

One of the Idea is to open the door for the rail industry to take. Let us put criticism aside and be constructive.

If you had One billion dollars will invest in Rail business?

The Solution was to have set up Private transport companies.

Say 4 for Lagos state.

You sell licenses and give them tax holiday for x number of years.

Collapse the NURTW Into one of the companies that will operate under the TRANSPORT AUTHORITY IN THE STATE.

The NURTW will be public Listed company where all the Agbero Area boys will have Shares in. ( Some ask where will all the molue go? Ok I will ask when we have Power soon where will all the GENERATOR GO?)

The remaining 3 companies will pay for licenses say $100million


The companies that operate the licenses will have sole Authority

Move people
Move Goods ( I think you can use the Molue to move the Goods because that is what I think they are good for)

In future The companies will be given the RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL TO OPERATE UNDER GROUND SUBWAY AND TRAM OR WIRE CAR.


Spending money directly on rail is very dangerous as the middle guys will Rip you off Big time.

What you are to buy for 1million those guys will quote 50million


I wish I could talk to the governor of Lagos state directly because you will have to have a strong mind and the picture must be clear in your mind. If you sold the License for $100million you will have a cool $400 million

The banks are hungry to do business the business men are also eager but you must have the guts to fight the Area boys and their chairman.

RIBADU AND DORA have done a good Job

My believe if we are to have a Peaceful society we have to have

1) A good Police force

a. Pay them $3000 minimum
b. Provide Mortgage
c. You have a to admit only Degree holders into the police force
d. Have communication Gadget in Car and Shoulder ( this reduce risk and the sense that the work in isolation)

2)

@Dayokanu

I am 100% Nigerian and That is a Very Big Lie Naija has never Given GHANA ELECTRICITY.

From the cafe here we dont have light we are using Generator.

Yes he failed and he admitted it but he does not need to say he succeeded. The other guys that will come will praise his works.

Because we dont have Power The whole country will not shut down life will go on.

Another Cheap Tribalist

Welcome to LORD LUGARDISM

@Mckren

I think we have to open a thread where we have to call it "positive Nigerian Thinking Loud" this will help us talk about how to move the country forward.

to much Negativeness is what this guys have swallowed they will not want to let go unless they see people talking and arguing on positive points.

@ The generator Guys

They have been selling Generators for 20 years they have ground intelligence they have their own army in The power Industry this guys have feed on this for years and they are happy you and I have to buy Generators they are not ready to back down the fight is on.

You have Parasitic Elites in the Government ( you can never Know their hearts so you have to make do with DUE PROCESS and there you have DUE DILLIGENCE) You have to know that OBJ tried but failed and he admitted but he has set the ball rolling.

His "failure" is a success compared to others. He thought by granting Licenses he will solve the problem but now he knows he has to invest massively so that others may follow suit.

To generate Electricity is not the problem it is to sell it and make money that matters to those that will want to Generate.

We need 104000Mw to be good to compete.

Please you guys belleful yourself with Yankee or London. No one will tell you. It is better you stay where you feel you are Ok.

@ Jen no need to Insult. They will come around They are Disillusioned and You can not command it out of them. Let them see and they will be converted NEW NIGERIANS.

When a Nigerian comes home and gets a Job and house and there is light and security there will be no need to beg people to come home.

@ Gnature

Good My brother Works in a company he finished school and he is working he is far better off. No connection before he got the Job oh!

He wanted to travel but he Changed his mind. Very soon This Embassy will beg us to travel out.

I am happy that Obj is cleared Atiku will be revealed soon.

I know Obj to a certain level. I can say he is very difficult to corrupt. All men are fallible and I know that he may be no exception.

Obj is the greatest leader that Nigeria has ever had. He is a fearless man and the truth about him will be revealed by many that have dealt with him.

I am not all that surprised because he was made by a lot learning. The Presidency is regaining respect.

babyosisi

It depends which christ you are talking about

@Ricadelide

Please read the life kenneth Hagin and not his book when you finish then read about JESUS Then you will know that there are from different Zones.

If you are a women Cover Your head simple (only when prayiing and prophesying)

@MamaJama

Absolutely Wrong ! You must withdraw that statement who put it in your head. Hausas are good people. You must know that in the north there is HAUSA AND FULANI. I am from the Yoruba Classification( so they say I am ) But it is not my language that excludes me or you from stealing government money.

If we look well you see that The thieving came from civilians.

We had an Aide camp he was an hausa guy He was a very Honest man he was a man of impeccable loyalty to my father. Dont Go there brother I know hausa guys and I know Southerners that stole money the fact is that one knows how to hide the other does not.

There so many stereotypes Civilians tend to put out there but for instance I was always told that YORUBAS are Cowards and it is ONLY MOUTH they Have.

Let us look at where that came from.


Awolowo is civilian and has no military training.

Ojukwu Is a Soldier not just that he Trained in soviet Union and he did Jungle training in Ghana.


This 2 planned to divide Nigeria with the Civilian to face the heavily armed soldier in Lagos

Awo was a politicians
Emeka is a Soldier ( a specially trained one like Sergent Roger)

Ojukwu had the chance to look for other "yoruba" Soldier to do the business with not some Civilian. If you are given japanese torture by the Nigerian army you will know that power belongs to God.

The truth is before us in lagos untill recently the Soldier population and Equipment will scare the daylight out you.


THE TRUTH IS THAT WE HAVE HAD VERY FEW HAUSA PRESIDENT AND THE REAL THIEVES ARE THE SOUTHERNERS BECAUSE MAJORITY OF THE NORTHERN GUYS ARE MORELESS CONTENT WITH THEIR LIVES .

HOW MANY NORTHERN GUY DO YOU SEE OUTSIDE NAIJA ?

GIVE A NORTHERNER LUXURY THEY WILL PREFER TO SIT ON THE GROUND ( COULD BE WRONG STEREOTYPING)


so many of our people died for nigeria hausa or not criminality is not in language if not I DARE YOU TO ARREST ALL THE NORTHERNER AND TRY THEM IN A COURT OF LAW.


I say Mamajama Apologise to HAS Or Atiku4life

@Adconline

To Get this guys to be accountable we have to have A strong police force

I will tell you what a strong police service is

A police man that cost the state $50,000 a year to train house and supply with equipment.

Tell a police man that when he works for ten years he gets a house of his choice anywhere in Nigeria. If he is sacked he will immediately loose everything. You will be suprised that no one will seek 20Naira or Kala bribes on the road.

I look at the Police force of Italy of greece of USA and i tell you those guys will scare the hell out of you by their motivation.

You must have a strong Comunication for Law enforcement i.e have Radio link for all police men On shoulder and In car.

@redsun


This issue should be looked metamorphically. The roots is not money as such We blacks have over centuries grown to be materialistic. Our Crave for Material things so much so that we sold our people to slavery.

We needed to have Simple minded leaders that will take the attention from Material things. Nigeria should save the blacks race from this IDENTITY CRISIS. The Evil in the USA where Rappers are used to sell Clothes Jewelry and EVEN GUNS should stop.

We must Produce more Soludos more Iweala's more Ezekwesilis more Bola Ige. We have to honour the human beings not the materials things.

We should have science fairs that will last for months where the President is the Host. We need to move away from Materialism completely and move to Humanism. Humanism and materialism should be stepping stones and we should not worship any.

If we worship what we create with our hands it is more dangerous and we are not supposed to worship what God made.

My view of Dancing is very different. I believe and know that Dancing is Erotic. Dance is used for prelude to sex. In Some civilisations a girl cant dance infront of her father because it is an abomination. Dance is used for seduction in women while for men it is used to show their strong macho sexism.

Becuase we have very little heroes both religious or Secular we tend to be materialistic.

There are new Heroes that are emerging and we need to look and work better than them.

Tell me of any black great leader that we can export his name from Nigeria and please Show me his monument or anything named after him. There are some but because we dont project the good works we dont have a good leader figure.

All our heroes are in THE TV BECAUSE THE CHILDREN OF THE ELITE ARE TRAINED BY THE TV. THEY LISTEN TO OPRAH 50 CENT TUPAC.

I RESPECT THOSE GUYS THAT CROSS THE DESERT TO LIBYA ( SOME CALL THEM CRIMINAL) BUT YOU HAVE PEOPLE WATCHING DISCOVERY TV


I RESPECT THOSE GUYS THAT ARE STOLE AWAY ON SHIPS THESE ARE GREAT MEN (SOME HAVE TRIED IT SEVERAL TIMES)

CHECK DORA AKUNYILI THAT IS READY TO DIE FOR HER CONVICTION


LOOK AT THE GREAT FARMERS THAT WE HAVE THAT FEED THE NATION WITH HOES AND CUTLASS( They are at war cheap subsidized products from Oversea)


The list goes on and on .

@all

Very Funny The 16 foreign accounts that Bola has will be dealt with by Efcc. They will do their Job that is a Fact No amount political agreements should hold Efcc.

I tell you the fact that it is public will mean that the Guys at the top are playing this Game well. Tinubu should have know who OBJ before he started puting his hand in the treasury.

All the money should be recovered and he should be Jailed to serve as a deterrant for up coming Governors Our kids should have that A thief will be punished no matter how long it will take, It is the younger generation that we must sacrifice this governors to jail for.