Feel good pictures mixed in with virtual reality (unrealistic) pictures. O yea parts of Abuja are very pretty. Why not? They pour money into this white elephants at the expence of the people.

Please go to any of the numerous shanty mosquito and poverty infested towns and show them the reviews and pictures. It will make them giddy to be Nigerians (swimming in so much opulence)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xtycod:

The Yoruba have had a more than fair share of rulership in the last 8 years. Except they are greedy and power-drunk, they should go and start again from the lowest rung of the ladder. They should therefore be content with the post of deputy senate president. As of today, the East cannot have the senate presidency, but they should have the Speaker position, and from there position themselves to contend for the next presidency with the south south when the rotation swings south again.

When a man of high intelligence speaks, everyone knows it. Cod you should be very proud of yourself.

If you realy understand the selective politics Nigeria practises, you will know certain offices are zoned to a particular area. It has nothing to do with tribal issue, but I guess you are just stuck on that enh! genius

When PDP (s)elected members start to scramble for 'chop chop', they put vultures to shame

OMDBaby:


can you imagine NO HUGE CELEBRATIONS FROM YOUR PEOPLE APART FROM YOUR PARTY MEMBERS.IT TELLS SOMETHING

Tank u o baby, PDP apologists will start to det tell us say na free and fair election!

When your people are not celebrating your victory, it portends a grave omen for all

Bankole01:

Yes he has promised to do retroactively.

Please read his own words:  "my goal to make Nigeria one of the top 20 nations of the world by year 2002."!!!!!!!!!!!

gawment magic continues

Just in case any one misses the line, the man said he would change time and make Nigeria a top 20 nation five years ago. (year 2002) somebody please wake him up me tink de man is lost in la la land!!!!!!!

who say Naija gawment no dey do magic, una nefer see noting yet. Yar'Adua magic go beta pass Obasanjo own.
ha ha ha ho ho ho dem go kill us ooooo, somebodi call olopa oooo

@Nigeria1

I am still trying to get some one to explain to me what you are trying to tell us. Excuse me please.

Yes he has promised to do retoactively.

Pls read his own words:

The President-elect, Umar Musa Yar’Adua, has cautioned members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that the task of nation building is too important for them to get carried away with the celebrations of his victory in the presidential elections. He said that only the best material will be part of his cabinet in his task of ruling the country.

He said this while receiving the P.D.P Presidential Campaign Nationwide Coordinators who paid him a courtesy call at the Akintola Aguda House .

Speaking further, Yar’Adua declared,"only the best will be good enough to be part of my cabinet because of my goal to make Nigeria one of the top 20 nations of the world by year 2002."!!!!!!!!!!!

Now you all know it. Up Yar'adua up PDP gawment magic continues

McKren:

he chose Alhaji Modibo

That would be better if he chose Modobo, because people are saying it would be tribalism since they are both Northerners

McKren:

he chose Alhaji Modibo

Did he realy? because people are saying if he chooses Modibo, it will look like tribalism since they both come from the North

WesleyanA:



Our experts should instead find a way to make the parties that exist more legit. many of the lesser parties in Nigeria that share common ideologies should merge so they can compete with the big ones.

That is just the problem, our politicians are not matured enough nor have enough morals to coalesce into one single or maybe a couple of formidable opposition parties. As long as they think they can get easy money from the government by starting unviable visionless parties, every Sule, Bode, and Chuks will start his own useless party.

What this then comes to, is to legislate a plural or tripartite State which will also discourage party affiliations based on ethnicity.

Wonders will never end, Yar"adua has made a vow of zero tolerrance on corruption. Yet, one of the most corrupt men in Nigeria Bode George, is touted as the president-(s)elects Chief Of staff!

First he retains Obasanjo's cabinet, then one of Obasanjo's errand boy will have a permanent sit in Aso Rock!

Does this man Yar'adua have a mind of his own? can he shake the albatross (Obasanjo) loose? who is relay calling the shots for the next administration?

me wonda o!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonders will never end, Yar"adua has made a vow of zero tolerrance on corruption. Yet, one of the most corrupt men in Nigeria Bode George, is touted as the president-(s)elects Chief Of staff!

First he retains Obasanjo's cabinet, then one of Obasanjo's errand boy will have a permanent sit in Aso Rock!

Does this man Yar'adua have a mind of his own? can he shake the albatross (Obasanjo) loose? who is relay calling the shots for the next administration?

me wonda o!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is this same Awo who is so respected by many that Obasanjo ridiculed saying he wanted to be president so much it eluded him. Obasanjo and PDP even went as far as pulling down his statue in Ibadan.

20 years after the death of the great sage, people still have nothing but good things to say about him.
Obasanjo is still fighting with his ghost, trying to be relevant. what a shame on the evil one

McKren:

Can you elaborate on the statement in bold??

Sorry sir, I made a statement i believe in. This is not a contest.

chrisokw:

One of the coup plotters, Ademoyega was a Yoruba. So which sectional interest are you talking about? YoruIgbo?

good comeback, i have to think about that for a while, IjebuIgbo

lagosian:

Do you think the new president can change nigeria?

ha ha ha, when you tie a bell around a cat's neck, he can never shake it loose. Yar'adua will never be able to loose his white elephant (Obasanjo)

The man don't have the vision to select his own cabinet, opting instead to continue with Obasanjo's tired and corrupt cabinet. Does that portray a man who can shake Obasanjo loose.

Yoruba people will say "o ti di egungun eja si lorun" a lodged fish bone in the throat is had shake loose!
kadara ti e ni'yen, that is his lot

SEA:

Info has it that our President-elect and Kingmaker-OBJ are not having it smooth in their negotiation.People hoever are insinuting that OBJ may not hand over to him if they fail to reach an agreement that favor,Baba.You, he still want to nominate more than 2/3 of the ministers and ambassardos.My ? is what should we do if OBJ fails to hand -over in May 29?

pay me enough and i will take care of the problem!

atiku4lyfe:

CAN YOU IMAGINE? he has betrayed atiku, just as we suspect all along

first kufnor
then afikuyomi
then pedro

now tinubu finally betrays atiku. i hate him for this. he wants to use and dump like he chooses.



http://www.tribune.com.ng/05052007/news/news1.html

Your outburst is very misplaced. You hate a man for doing the right thing?
As much as I believe the PDP stole the (s)elections, I also believe Atiku helped the PDP by weakening the opposition because of his selfish agenda. No one would elect Atiku as president for he is damaged goods. As much as he fought to clear his name, he is guilty as charged and everyone knew that.

Tinubu made himself look bad by sticking with a tainted friend for so long, when most of us advocated that he jettison him like a heavy cocoon, but he stuck with him through the elections.
That is what i call real loyalty, but now that the elections are over, Tinubu surmised quite rightly that the tribunals will not help Atiku and for the sake of Lagos State, he is mending fences with a more reasonable Yar'Adua as opposed to the recalcitrant and vindictive Obasanjo.

It however remains to be seen if Obasanjo will leave well enough alone!

If they believed so much in Awo, why would they lock him up and issue decrees in his name, just because he refuses to go along with a wrong? I am pretty sure he would have turned them down at that, because he was a just man who believes in equity for all.
Still the question lingers, were these men not acting out a sectional agenda by only murdering politicians of Northern and Western extraction?

Go tell that Obasanjo and his cronies, the African jungle mafia!

A good buka beats any mr biggs or sweet sensation any day. I can't wait till my next visit ti naija so I can eat buka food. I have this woman whose rice and beans is simply heavenly, I miss it so much, sometimes I eat it for breakfast.
Girl enjoy the buka food and stop being uppity.

Just because one has an accent does not make him dumb. That is not corrupt is debatable, that has already been refuted in his declaration of assets where he claimed N500 million, an astronomical figure compared to his asset declaration of 2003.

That he won the (s)election, depends on whose side you are on, PDP or people who saw the glaring inconsistencies and shenanigans called April general (s)elections. What primaries did he win?

Lets face it the man is a non-performer, like it or not. He didn't do anything with Katsina and he is unable to fathom what to do with Nigeria. He doesn't even have the guts to pick his own cabinet, saying he will simply use the ho hum cabinet of Obasanjo.

Tell me what this portrays of the gentle humdrum man who is not even known nor like by his own people.
This past charade was just a continuation of Obasanjo government by proxy and the success of 'third term'.

MAMAJAMA:

Under BUHARI we had IDIAGBON with the war against indiscipline, not TAM DAVID west that was sending soldiers to school to FLOG LATE COMER'S,
DAMN I was FLOGGED TOO,

ha ha ha you should have learned a lesson then, i think they didn't flog you had enough.

at least we had some modicum of discipline Idiagbon/Buhari, what do we have today?

MAMAJAMA:

That is ludicrous, How do you know a president in Nigeria steal Billions? you you have evidence bedire all the paper speculations? either way a thief is a thief and this guy should get the SAMUEL DOE treatment.

No matter what color you apply to it, Nigerian presidents are master in the art looting the countries coffer. Paper speculations is aside the point. Even obasanjo accused IBB of stealing billions, then changed his tune. Ribadu came to accuse IBB also. With Obasanjo thievery, he has been clever by half, using other people like Jimoh Ibrahim to hide his loot, the library scandal, numerous farms, schools, transcorp, etc were just too glaring and open enough for all to see a man who was pratically broke before becoming president, miraculously becoming a billionaire overnight! Only In Nigeria. All Hail Baba Iyabo and father to all who need a corrupt and evil father!

MAMAJAMA:

ARE you serious? Professor West was jailed for one year by the Babangida junta for allegedly accepting a gold wrist watch as bribe, from a foreign business man, while he was petroleum minister
This are the kind of people you want us to listen to?

what did he accomplished as Commissioner for Education and member of the Executive Council of Rivers State, 1975-79 ?

what did he accomplished as the Federal Minister of Petroleum and Energy, from 1984 to 1985. under Buhari?

U might as well give us UMARU DIKKO.

A gold wrist watch! (whoa what a crook) morals have degenerated way lower than that, my friend.
Under Buhari, Nigerian schools were a lot better and more credible than the glorified gangsters and LovePeddler infested and AIDS breeding grounds we now call schools.

Under Buhari, as petroleum minister and he had stolen a kobo, he would be dead now. Remember how Buhari crated Umaru Dikko and tried to ship him back to Nigeria after the former stole billions under his godfather Shagari's government!
I guess Iwu can be excused because he was Baba's (Not my father) boy he was instrumental in making a laughing stock of nigeria by conducting the worst election in the history of the World!!!!!!!!

Too long to count. But most of all, he failed himself. he lost a goodwill given to him by the people of Nigeria, who need a messiah very badly!

@GNature
Thanks for the insight into the man's record as governor of KATSINA, a man not known nor liked in his own neighborhood will disappear when it come to a whole Federal government. (of course we have baba Iyabo lurking in the corner running the puppet governmet)

Just imagine how many indegenes will be confused not to talk of foreign nationals when he gives a speech like the following:

Sank you, sank you, my pellow Naijurians por ze goodwill messages.

I want to sank you por not boting por me as fresident of ze Pederal Refublic of Naijuria. But I received ze most imfortant botes prom Fresident Obasanjo and INEC. Zis is why I have now been declared ze winner of ze elections and ze fresident-elect of ze Pederal Refublic of Naijuria. Nagode to Obasanjo and nagode to INEC, for zia beri beri imfortant suffort.

Ze pirst task of my new gwament is to fray por feace and stability in Naijuria. I will now ask all ze depeated fresidential candidates to join me in a gwament of national unity. So I will bring back my priends like Atiku, General Babangida and Buhari into my new gwament.

I sink Atiku will be good as ze new head of ze EFCC. Fresident Obasanjo should not worry about my gwament frobing him, gaskiya, at least until apter May 29. Babangida will be ze new minister por pinance, and Buhari will be in charge of ze ministry of War Against Indiscifline.

My fipul, ze task bepore us is a great one, walahi talahi. I don't know where to start, but I want to ashuwa you zat I will act in consultation with all ze emirs and imams.

I am now going to Germany por treatment por exhaustion prom making zis sfeech. I shall be back por ze swearing in ceremony, insha Allahu.

One Nigeria, one Fee-Di-Fee, Fower to ze fipul.


Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Fresident ‘Select’, Pederal Gwament op Naijuria

$46 Million only, the man is a real small thief to steal such a measely sum of money. By Nigerian standard, Presidents steal billions, sart numerous schools, airlinr, transcorp, chicken farms etc. He should be sent to prison (err i mean safe haven a la Taylor) in Nigeria, to be school properly in the art of KLEPTOCRACY. (obasanjo style)
If he were to steal billions now, and allow his cronies to loot all parastals and ministries, he will get the title of BABA

Here is a new take by Professor David-west, about the charade called April general elections:


Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, has drawn flaks from former oil minister and fellow professor, Tam David-West, over his defiant attitude to criticisms of the April polls generally perceived to be flawed.

Iwu had at the presentation of the certificate of return to the declared winner of the presidential election, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, in Abuja Wednesday lampooned critics, scoring his commission 80 per cent success in the conduct of the election.

But reacting to Iwu’s tirade yesterday, Prof. David-West asked the INEC boss to shut up, as he had only awarded himself a dubious pass mark. “If as a professor, I understand he is one, he has scored the fraudulent election a pass mark, I wonder how many students who failed in his class he has sent into the job market.”

David West faulted Iwu’s claim with the irregularities noted in the elections in Anambra and his (David West) home state, Rivers, saying what Iwu’s INEC perpetrated in the two states was “a disgrace to his profession, the university system and the intellectual community.”

He wondered how the INEC boss could be proud of himself when in Anambra his commission was forced to adjust the votes of the declared winner from 1.9 million to one million after discovering that the total number of voters was 1.7 million.

He went further: “In my state, Rivers, by the 2006 census, the adult population is two million, using the international 45 per cent demographic standard, the total population being 5.1 million. Now, the 45 per cent include mad men and women on the streets, patients on hospital beds, prisoners and people that had died during the period of the last census.

“Iwu said the winner of the governorship election had 1.9 million votes! Almost two million! In other words, all the adult population voted for the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)! Is there any way they would all have registered and voted for the same party when there were other political parties?” David-West querried.

Besides this, the former minister noted that the fact that by- elections had to be conducted in 27 (75 per cent of the) states, a week later, showed that the elections were not only flawed but also fraudulent.
He declared Iwu as bankrupt in professional as well as political credibility.

His words: “He once lied professionally that he had found a cure for Ebola viral infection, when we had an outbreak of the epidemic. Now, I as a professor of virology, I’ve been since 1974, I know that viral infection cannot be cured. So, he thereafter ran away to America from where, I think they went to bring him for the job.
“Let him shut up. He asked us to go to hell. He is already in hell. We will not join him there.”

comment Iwu has a track record with stretching the truth to make himself look credible. Posterity will catch up with him, as it will all Obasanjo stooges. NO ONE LIVES FOREVER!

Backslider:

My govt won’t be different from Obasanjo’s–Yar’Adua
By Sun News Publishing
Friday, May 4, 2007

* More Stories on This Section

Only slight changes'' in personalities would happen after May 29, 2007 when the new administration of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'adua takes over, the president-elect has announced.


President Obasanjo, who was also at the meeting, briefed Yar'adua on the activities of the council, which, he said, was set up by his administration to attract investments to the country.

There will be no difference because thge elections were an Obasanjo victory and an extension of his tenure by proxy.
The truth is yar'Adua has no clue about governance judging from his experience and noo-performance at Katsina State. He was aptly selected for the post of puppet president, where he will dance to the tune played by Obasanjo, with a supporting cast of a rubber stamp NASS (equally chosen (s)elected to perform a duty for the democratic government of Obasanjo for Obasanjo by his stooges.

There will be a 'slight change in personalities', because Yar'Adua cabinet was hand picked to the 'jungle emperor' himself.

Who are we fooling? no serious investor will bring his money to a crime ridden country infested by riggers, thugs and kleptomaniacs.
The shenanigans and charade of the April elections, will further butress the fact that Nigeria is a mere third world country retrogressing and chaired by a pariah and desport.

The opposite of loss of investments will continue to hold sway, until we learn how to clean up our acts.
His ca

People are advocating for a two party system because (1) it makes voting easier, (2) brings out the best candidates from parties where every contender goes through a primary system. (3) Establishes a clear cut ideology of either party, which gives people a clear cut choise of party which closely follows their beliefs. (4) establishes clear cut opposition party, (5) cuts down on cross carpeting of unscrupulous politicans. (6) This will also cut down on sectional politicking and allow the country to wax stonger together, bring cohesion of language. Last and not the least, cuts down on expenses of funding parties and eliminates parties of convinience where unqualified people only convene parties for the money they get to steal, not to talk of the chaos involved in having so many numerous parties.

I will however suggest maybe three parties not the chaotic twenty something!

omon:

There is 'kata - kata' with UK elections right now, Even with their PERFECT system, thousands of votes cannot be counted, the electronic machines are not counting, yet, no body has come on air to demonise and call the other unprintable names.

Some times, our politicians are too hot blooded!

Noone ever said all elections are perfect, some like the on in UK are more ttransparent than in Nigeria. You don't see thugs waylay you at the polling places, slap your face and tell you who to vote for.
There are no Adedibus and Ubas take ballot boxes to their homes and thumb print votes. The election commisions don't declare winners before voting is even completed.
These and so many more irregularities to favour a particular annointed party, are what people are complaining about. Most of our politicians where breed in the era our militancy, and our polity have continued to be militant where the administration breaks law to suit its whims and caprices, criminals are selectively prosecuted, corruption continues to soar unabated.

Nigerian election just cannot be compared with any nations', maybe with the exception Zimbabwe's.
In the last general elections in Denver, the electronic machines in some polling places malfunctioned, but there were back-up systems that the elections still concluded successfully without anyone being disenfranchised our coarsed our beaten up.
You say, 'apple and oranges' quite so! Nigeria's elections just cannot be believed!

We do not hawever say "it all over now, so forget what happened and just move on". Move on to where? to more inconsistencies and anomalies?. If we do not talk and infact yell about what just transpired, we will just repeat the same old mistake which our nation is noted and very famous for.
'Ohun ti ko da, 'o da' What is bad, is just what it is, ROTTEN' We must always try to do the right thing.

Big B1, I thought you made a very point and the inference to the stolen car, hit straight home. its a pity that MAMAJAMA cannot argue and make his point without resorting to abuses.
Just ignore him

MAMAJAMA:

Not in this day of age, how many Elderly will try and make things right with Thugs, Guns and Bullet, lol

This time I have to agree with you.
Fela put aptly in his song
" a no wan die"