these girls are bunch of lesbos. lost souls

jibby jaba hogwash. PDP the people desimator party is at work to corrupt, kill, maim, lay to waste in diarray.
Thanks to Atiku we now know how deep the corruption run is ass rock empire of Olusegun Obasanjo

The job of IG should be opened to all interested and qualified law enforcement officers from all over the world. They should however be of Nigerian descent. Nigerian Police has a policy that only officers who attended police College in nigeria will be allowed to become officers. What Ibelieve is they are afraid of law enforcement officers in say the US or Britain could be better trained than they are, and therefore have a better chance of becoming an IG. It should also be left for the ploice commision to advertise, test and select the best qualified candidates for the office. this will make the head police officer independent of manipulations by the federal executives and politicians at large.

Yar'Adua has come out to say the EFCC and other federal agencies have been fair to all candiates. Even when the whole nation knows the EFCC list list was doctored, the Senate and even Ribadu said the original list contained 135 names including that of Alao Akala and Gbenga Daniel. Obasanjo on receiving the list, removed the names of favorite sons and only released the names of 121 perceived enemies.
Is this Yar' Adua who professed to being his own man, who cannot even be honest with what we all know is a blatan lie to exclude thee opposition from the elections.
I would have liked this man better if he had simply shut his mouth and not make a statement. To make such a ridicolous statement, shows he is a weakling who will simply do Obasanjo's bid. Obasanjo must be a ventriloquist, he has a puppet sitting on his lap in the called Yar' Adua.

I see this simply as another trait of the Islamic intolerance. Why don't we put some Latin inscription to satisfy the Catholics.
Nigeria is a secular country and we should not have to put any religious symbols on the currency or any other property of State.

It would be nice if we can just elect anyone from Nigeria, no matter his/her sectional background. The truth of the matter is Nigeria has not developed politically or democratically enough for any one man to carry the vote based on merit alone. Nigeria does need the rotational presidency for peace to reign supreme. I admit that it limits the quality of electable candidates, it is simply the fact of the land.
The American presidency have come from the South on the last two administrations without the North going to war, the fact they are more advanced, cohesive and more homogeneous than we are.
I have to concur with Afam that no Southerner can win the election in this dispensation. The North in the last elections, made sure that the two contending candidates of Falae and Obassanjo were both Yoruba men to atone for the sin of June 12.

The presidency needs to rotate to the North and I vote for Buhari, the most honest of the lot.

The man is beyond reproach. He is desciplined, honest and very patriotic. In the histroy of Nigerian kleptocratic leaders, Buhari is the only man to have come out unblemished. He doesn't have Bells schools or various farms spread across Nigeria. He doesn't have billions stached in foreign banks a la Babangida.
When he ran PTDF which Atiku and Obasanjo looted with abandon, he did it with style.
Please read on
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THERE are several attributes of the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, which should single him out as the candidate for whom to vote. In his own way, he is patriotic, at least, as head of state, he was courageous enough to tell the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank, those two agents of financial imperialism, to go and jump in the lagoon. For that, I will always be grateful to him because, if his successor had not been duplicitous in accepting the conditionalities while pretending that the ideas were home grown, we might not be in the mess we were in before Obasanjo came back.

Second, Buhari is honest. In fact, Buhari is so honest that he should be the one fighting the war against corruption not Obasanjo, after the revelations coming out of the Petroleum Develoment Trust Funds, PDTF, episode, the Presidential Library, the Schools at Ota and farms everywhere. All of these and other assets yet to be disclosed were acquired largely since 1999 by a president who was, to all intents and purposes, financially bankrupt. Buhari left offices as former minster of petroleum and head of state without an oil well to his name and without sprawling mansions everywhere; and no presidential library. He certainly did not give a contract worth several millions of dollars to one Andrew Young, a friend in the U.S, to help launder the Nigerian image; a task which would have been left to Nigerian advertising agencies who have a stake in the outcome.

As chairman of the Petroleum Special Trust Fund, PTF, under Abacha, he had another chance for criminal self-enrichment. Indeed, Abacha might have given him the portfolio in the hope that he would “help himself”. But, Buhari, to his everlasting credit, again demonstrated the degree of honesty that is rare in this country by discharging his responsibilities without blemish. Others within the PTF were, of course, not so honourable and there were so many contracts the chairman could not determine whether or not they all represented value for money.

Till today, nobody has ever, even in whisper, accused Buhari of stealing a kobo. Buhari, unfortunately, had come into government at a time when the price of crude oil was racing downwards. Indeed, his was the most unfortunate government in that aspect, due to no fault of his. Yet, if one government must be singled out for managing poverty very well, then the Buhari-Idiagbon regime would justifiably claim first prize. There was discipline in that government and they had embarked on the process of extending that sense of discipline to the entire country. For instance, on one occasion I was in the post office at Bida, Niger State, in line waiting to buy stamps when one rude fellow came in and jumped the queue. Immediately, as if on cue, everyone on the line exclaimed: “You jumping the queue, you will be sorry for yourself if Idiagbon gets hold of you”. And the fellow sheepishly went back to the end of the line. And his government made that sort of impact in less than nine months. One can only imagine the sort of social transformation that would have taken place if the government had eight years to work with.

The discipline the government introduced to NEPA, which, hitherto, had become a monster and totally uncontrollable (just as it is today) would be remembered by those old enough at the time to note the difference between now and then. To be quite candid, it would require more than three columns to write, in detail, all the positive attributes of the Buhari administration and the man himself. Time, however, does not allow that luxury. Perhaps, the opportunity will present itself in the future because the true story of the Buhari phenomenon has not been told yet. So, why then should anyone be apprehensive about a Buhari presidency in 2007? The short answer is; Look at what Obasanjo has done with the presidency, his disregard for the rule of law, for due process, his transformation to the emperor of Aso Rock."

Does that answer your question?

Buhari gets my vote no doubt.

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is OBJ standing for elections? THis is an emphatic yes. His name may not be on the ballot per say, but he is definitely running for the election of his life and this is why it is a 'do or die' event for him. Let us stop being so naive- Obasanjo knows full well his corrupt enrichment and ill-running of the country will be visited by the opposotion if people like Buhari should win the presidential elections, this is why he is running by proxy, stuffing the polls with his cronies and partners in crime.

dblock are you writing from jail. It seems you don't know Nigeria well enough that INEC,ICPC,EFCC, SSS,Police etc etc, even though created to work for an individual, have since there inceptions, been compromised by whoever calls the short at Aso Rock simply because they were not allowed to be independent of the man, being that he appoints all the top echelon personel.

Afam you and I go a long way back from the Punch forum. Now, let answer the seeming hypocrisy. Independence or freedom of or for anything is nnot always a good thing because of the respponsibility attached to it.
A child or teenager loves independence from the parents, but still wants to be financed or still tied to their purses.
US, USSR, China,India,Israel and all those nations who had nules a long time ago, have demonstrated a maturity which goes along with having such weapons of mass destruction.
A lot of the fanatical countries of the Middle East do not have such maturity and if they do, are not stable or sensible enough to demonstrate they can safely posses what could easily consume a section of the World, if not starting a World war out of alliances in existence.
Believe it or not, nukes in the hands of Iran pose more dangers to other Middle Eastern countries and Israel than it does to America.
I live in America, but do not support Bush policies, I believe it is more divisive and has been too intrussive.

Nucear weapons in the hands of a fanatical country and president like in Iran, is a bad thing not only for the Middle East but the entire world. I am even suprised Irael let them get this far. The whole entire nucear program in Iran should be unambiguously scrapped. I hope they can destroy it without using nukes.

Our people can be so phony. They laugh to your face and say horrible things once your back is turned. They can praise you to the grave and return home with your wife on their arm!
This is the case of our political jobbers and the unethical intellectuals. We have people who would write fantastic thesis on what is right or ailing the nation, but appoint them to a position of power where they have a chance to practise what they preach and have learnt, they forget and become myopic and selective, they then start to talk in double speak, to confuse and confound.
This is the case of our two Ojos in the Obasanjo administration. Ojo Madueke we know will work for any master and play the perfect servant. This was evident in his Abacha days and the 'five fingers of a lepros hand'. with Abacha out of the picture, he soon find another master in the mould of Obassanjo, whom Madueke believes should be a 'life president.
Our other Ojo, Bayo to be precise is a learned man. A man of the law, but who chose to become a tool for flouting laws, just because it was expedient for him.
To what extent will our people compromise themselves for the sake of money?
We talk ggod talk about patriotism, we are well travelled and educated. We see what obtains in other developed nations, we enjoy the best they have to offer, but we refuse to implement what is good for our poor nation poised on a precipise and on the verge of going into a coma.
How long my people, shall we wear blinders and pretend all is well. As long as we have our 'owambes' and fuji music, we can dance our troubles away.
Yoruba people will say, "Ti won ba n'tan e, ma tan ara e" When people decive you, do not decive yourself.

4play must be talking of the huge turbines, the type used in wind farms. There smaller turbines made for home use that only measure 2feet long and which are very good in powering homes. That rich nations are not investing in renewable energy is wrong. This seems to be the trend for many developed first world countries. Whether we like it or not, it is going to be a trend in Africa with our ample supply of renewable energy source. Fossil fuel has been responsible for the global warming which is slowly destroying our world. The weather partern in many countries is getting very bad.
In Colorado this year, we have had more snow in one month than we did the past three years put together. Some parts of New York now have accumulation of over 13 feet! the months of November to December were the warmest in history. In Europe, many cities were recording a warm trend were the trees were starting to bloom in the middle of winter.
With renewaqble energy in Nigeria, we can cure our bad pollution problem. Every time I travel to Nigeria, I get sick from the foul air especially in Lagos. For this reason, I prefer to stay in my village and only go to Lagos when I have to.
Renewable energy is the future of power generation and African Renewable Energy Solutions intends to help educate Nigerians. Like Afam said, you can recoup the cost in a matter of one to two years and even be able to sell your surplus power to neighbors or the utility company.

This is a good topic. There is no doubt that the future on power generation is renewable energy.
To this effect I have just established an enterprise in Denver CO. USA called African Renewable Energy Solutions
email bankog@netzero.com
Afam was right about hybrid systems where you can combine both solar and turbines or turbine/generator, solar/generator. Good deep cell bank of bateries will store enough DC current power a house for days.
Please email me directly for help in setting up these systems

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Another good article I think you need to read is as follows:

A f’ibi s’olore (an ingrate) By Kola Animasaum



LAST Sunday, I went home to Abeokuta to attend the Usman Adegbenro Family meeting. I had to pass by the Ita Eko residence of Olusegun Obasanjo, who the malevolent call the Ebora of Owu. I have not heard him call anybody to order that it is a wrong description of him. Ebora is a spirit, (Iwin as described in Fagunwa’s Ogboju Ode). Not a positive phenomenon if you ask me.I had bought the papers and I had read a story that reported Segun Obasanjo, President of the Republic, saying that the coming election was going to be a do or die affair. He wanted PDP to win or perpetuate himself in power. A couple of hundreds of metres on my journey, I received a call from a fan who asked if I read the story. I told the caller I had. He told me that by that, our president has served notice that he was likely to truncate the election and thereby the transition.

He told me in Yoruba: Kaka ki eku ma je sese, aa fi se awadami (If he would not milk the cow, he would rather spill the milk). At the Grammar School, we nicknamed Fatayi Oliyide Opel. It was in deference to his prowess as a sprinter. Opel car model was new at the time. It could run! Fatai can no longer run as he used to do. He had run the major race of life and has been successful as a businessman and an entrepreneur. He called me on Tuesday. He asked me what direction the country was heading. I told him I could not say. He insisted I should know as a journalist. I told him the trend in Nigeria defies form. It does not lend itself to forecast as in the pools. The forensic forecaster would say: “If Arsenal is at number two and at home the game will draw or a home or away win is expected”. He will take you back to the last 20 years or so to underline the basis of the forecast.
But Ebora Owu is unpredictable. In a situation like this, you are likely to appeal to his friends to appeal to him. Who are the friends? The impression is that the best way of keeping from harm’s way is to distance oneself from him. Those who are supposed to be his friends suffer most. Someone told me of an incident (I cannot vouch its truth). A delegation of royal fathers once visited him. In his usual ebullient manner, he executed some traditional dance steps to welcome them. Satisfied with himself, he smirked his lips, beat his chest and told them: Emi a fibi s’olore, ti oluwa o bi (I who reward good with bad who has not been carpeted by the Creator!) If that were true, God forbid, we all must be careful. Our president must have been enraged and God save all of us. Rimi last Tuesday confirmed OBJ as one who forgets good done to him in the past by repaying Atiku’s good turn with bad. The Holy Prophet (SAW) told us: "If trouble is asleep, may Allah’s wrath descend on whoever wakes it up." There is a like saying here too: Trouble de sleep, yanga go wake am. The truth of the matter is that the innocent and the guilty will suffer.

What we are saying is that we have a common project on our hands to ensure that this president does not become the death of all of us. He must not wake up trouble or yanga. And it is our fault: A r’oko l’oko ikun ki a to gbe’ pa si. (The specialty of ikun (a rodent) is groundnut eating and we knew its killing field and yet the farmer insisted in planting groundnut in the field. The present leadership is bad business for everybody (party or no party) and for the country.

Does anyone still think Obasanjo is a good president/Reformist?

Fellas I was just reading the Vanguard columns and I came across two good articles writen by Yoruba men about our emperor Obasanjo. Pls. read on
Unworthy to be called a father by Dele Sobowale

Leadership is the ability to define issues without aggravating the problems —Warren Bennis, 1980, in The Unconscious Conspiracy.
The worst thing for a leader is to look back and find nobody following — John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, the 35th President of the United States
THE story had been told of a ruler in Africa in the olden days who was told by a close personal friend that he has a bad reputation among the people he ruled. “What do they say I have done that is so bad?” the ruler asked. “Well," said his friend, “some say you are too abusive.” “Now who was the damned foolish idiot who said that?” asked the king. “Your majesty, I can't tell you that because most of the people also believe that you are very vindictive and I am afraid you will get the man arrested and tortured.” “Don't worry, I am not vindictive at all,” said the royal. “

As soon as I find out the son of a gun who said that, I shall set the State Security people, the FECC and the head of Police after him. They must be able to frame him for an offence.” “I don't know if I should continue,” said the friend; now trembling. “Go ahead, what are friends for?” said the owner of the country. “Some even say that you curse people too much,” the friend blurted out finally.“Me curse anybody! God punish who ever said that and may he roast in hell fire after roasting in mine,” replied the ruler. Delirium of power takes time to seize hold of a person, but like HIV/AIDS, once it infects a leader, it is so devastating and so virulent, it destroys everything and everybody it touches. And, for the most part, it is incurable. Take for instance Robert Mugabe.

I refuse to call him president because to me, he has lost the legitimacy to continue to be addressed as president of anything but hell. By midnight of May 29, 2007, I will stop calling Obasanjo president even if he refuses to leave office. He too would have lost, as far as I am concerned, the legitimacy to be called president. But, at over seventy years old, both Mugabe and Obasanjo, as long as they live, will continue to be called “Baba” or father. Let me now drop Mugabe, not because I am indifferent to the plight of Zimbabweans, but because we have an emergency on our hands in Nigeria.

And the name of that emergency is Olusegun Obasanjo. Even though I had predicted the direction of his activities after the set-back (notice I said set-back not defeat because the man has not given up yet) to his third term ambition, even I was unprepared for the virulent attack on the polity from the president that has resulted from that failure. When Josef Goebbels, 1897-1945, Hitler's chief of propaganda observed that: “There are no desperate situations, only desperate men”, he did not have one young Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, then about ten years old and growing up somewhere in Ogun State in mind. But, he should have.

Among the characteristics of desperate men, I have learnt from readings in psychology is the Samson Complex. If they can't have their way, they would rather pull the edifice (organization, political party, family, or even country) down with them. The Yorubas have a proverb for this. Koran k ‘eku maje sese; aft se awadanu.
(Translation: rather than be denied the opportunity to eat a meal, a rat would rather squander it.) Thus, this was on my mind when I wrote, last year, that there would be hell to pay for Obasanjo's failure to secure the third term. However, irrespective of the degree of desperation, our African tradition in general and the Yoruba custom in particular, demand one must conduct himself in a certain manner at a certain age. Failure to do so earns the individual the appellation: Agbaiya, a good for nothing old person. And that judgment o
n the person's conduct remains unchanged irrespective of whether the person is a king or a kola nut farmer.

One classic example relates to how an elder should intervene in any conflict situation between those younger than himself. Even, if one of the disputants is one's offspring and especially when it is so, the tradition is for the Baba to mediate if possible but to stay neutral if that is impossible. The easiest way for a father or mother to earn the pejorative sobriquet “agbaiya” is for him or her to join the fray in support of his own child. What President Obasanjo did in Ondo State, especially his utterances with regard to Dr Mimiko, is not only an abomination universally, it is a radical departure from the tradition of our fathers. In fact, the president unilaterally took off his babariga and got into the fight throwing blows below the belt and re- christening himself in the process.


I realize that he has a reputation for not taking advice, but if there is still anyone left to whom he will listen, I hope the person will remind Obasanjo of that age old observation: until May 29, 2007, Obasanjo is still our president. Though after the show of shame at Ondo, many of us wish the day will come sooner. Meanwhile, Dr. Mimiko can manage a smile because out of the president's faux pas, he has profited immensely. The EFCC chairman has now been handicapped by the president's open interference in its activities. Ribadu will find it hard henceforth to convince even his wife that he is not Obasanjo's “running dog” - to use a Chinese expletive.

Even if Mimiko is corrupt, his arrest will be perceived as victimization which would further tarnish the reputation of the crime commission which increasingly has become enmeshed in partisan politics. And, if Mimiko is not corrupt, he has demonstrated superior upbringing with his more measured reply despite the provocation than the president who discarded all rules of decorum. By refusing to get into the gutter on Obasanjo's invitation, Mimiko has left the president wallowing in the muck all alone. What the president did in Ondo is unworthy of a father of the people. I wish I could vote in Ondo State.

Poser! What manner of man is this? How could any sensible person who loves Nigeria still be supporting this clearly selfish and evil man? Will Nigeria still exist if Obasanjo by his "do or die" attitude does not get the mandate of the people come April? By my estimation, Obasanjo needs to be removed one way or another, for the good of all Nigerians