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shymmex: @Beaf

I need the type of job you do, how much do you think I can earn monthly? I can work 16hrs a day, since all I need to do is post propaganda, and half-truths.

I'm serious, beaf - please PM me.

Cheers, mate.

Dude, you need brains to be me. And I am talking about 10 tonne brains. Dig?

ochukoccna: Talking about 40% alcohol is no aspersion. Anyone conversant with the Niger Delta knows because of the seashore weather, alcohol is second nature there. It just like calling a Northerner goro chewing or teasing an Ibadan man/Ijebu man for his love of amala/ifokore.

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And please stay in the deepest parts of the creeks which lack internet signals so the the tribal rants you spew on NL will cease.

It is primitive stuff like the above that is responsible for the fractures in Nigeria. I see though that the irony escapes you.
Anyways, GEJ for 2015.

[size=14pt]Jonathan endorses action against BA, Virgin Atlantic, others[/size]
On March 28, 2012 · In News
12:23 am

By Rotimi Ajayi
ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed plan by the Ministry of Aviation to compel the British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and other international airlines operating in the country to correct the disparity in the fare charged Nigerians against that charged other West African passengers.

A top source in the ministry told Vanguard that before the announcement of the 30-day ultimatum issued the two British carriers and other international airlines by the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, President Jonathan and some key members of the National Assembly were fully briefed on the development.

It was learnt that the decision to issue the ultimatum had been delayed this far on the advice of the President that the affected carriers be given time to respond and adjust the fares accordingly.

The source said the Federal Government had not been communicated by the British Government on the reported plan to retaliate any action that would be taken by Nigerian government against the carriers should the latter go ahead with sanctioning the carriers at the expiration of the ultimatum.

He said: “We are not aware of the plan by the British Government to carry out any retaliation. We are not at war with Britain. We are fully engaged in diplomacy where some parameters of justice and equity are being demanded.

“What we are saying is that Nigerians should not be exploited by these carriers. As government, we have done our own studies on the fare regime being charged and we found out that it is clearly unfair, it is unacceptable and unjustifiable for Nigerians to be charged higher than those from other West African countries.

“This process has been on the table since last year and these two airlines have been given ample time and opportunities to respond and they chose not to do that and we cannot continue to look at the situation. We must deal with this situation once and for all.”

Air of arrogance

The source said so far, the two airlines had carried on with some air of arrogance each time the Nigerian government tried to get them to discuss the issue, adding: “There are some arrogance about it. Each time you talk to them, they say Nigerians are ready to pay these fare disparity and that why should we be complaining as government?

“But the question is that: why would they have that huge disparity between the fares charged in the economy class which is about the same as those charged other West African passengers and the fares charged in the business and first class?

“It is the same plane that carries both the economy and these other classes. If you charge the same for Nigerians travelling in economy class as those of his or her counterparts in other West African countries, why charging a huge disparity for the business and first class different from those charged other West Africans in the same class as well?

“I must tell you that they have no option than to come to the table. The repercussions are so clear and the government is quite ready. We are not just talking as Aviation ministry, we are talking the minds of government and Nigerian people. It would be of greater economic benefit for Britain to have more cordial economic atmosphere and relationship with Nigeria. So, the doors are open for British Airways, Virgin and the British government to come to the table on this matter.”

The source disclosed that a committee had been set up to carry out all necessary negotiations on this matter and that so far, there were indications that they were ready to come to the table.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/jonathan-endorses-action-against-ba-virgin-atlantic-others/

He still looks the same. I wonder where the others in the pic are?

ochukoccna: Spirit of wetin?
Reelection is based on performance in saner climes but on rigging in 9ja especially if you were elected on PDP
Ebele should go back to the creeks for he's a COLOSSAL failure thus far
What meaningful project can he point to since Jan 2010 when he's been in power ?
Where is the vision he has cast before Nigerians?
No charisma, no leadership , no statesmanship, No NOTHING!
He has never grown into the office of the president of Nigeria
He acts and behaves like he's the Niger Delta president
Thanks to him, the fractures [/b]in the Nigerian state have never been this bad
As Sam Omatseye rightfully asserts, he's 'His Excellency the snake' and boy is he sly
You cannot hold him to his word nor can you trust him
[b]Is this not the Ebele who promised running for 1 term now the one scheming for the 2nd term just 10 months into his elected mandate?
I saw him congratulating the new poster boy of democracy in Africa i.e. Senegal and couldn't help but pity only he and a tiny clique of people in government fail to see that Nigeria is just another basket case banana republic waiting to explode
Is it the man on the streets who have lost hope in him who will vote him back in 2015?
Or the protesters he harnessed with soldiers and militants who will give him another landslide victory?
If he believes that he needs to chill off those 40% alcoholic drinks many a Niger Deltan enjoys
Or is it Bamanga Tukur and Oyinlola who will bring him back to power?
Forget it Ebele, leave Nigeria with the peace of the graveyard that prevails now O!
Chop all you want seeing you lack vision on what to do with been President and forget 2015
A word is enough for the wise

Practically everything you have written is bullshiit. Of particular note is the way you blame GEJ for the fractures in the country, yet in the same breath, say he should "go back to the creeks." I don't think you are smart enough to spot the irony.
Blame people like yourself and other ethnic chauvinists who cast aspersion on others as belonging to "the creeks." Blame the fractures on the hidden ugliness in you that looks down on a minority group and those from it as unfit to rule the country.

Abeg, me too, ayam going back to the creeks o jare!

1025: this boko haram of a group are so useless. they kill irrelevant ppl. we were calling them to attend the pdp convention where they will help nigerians reduce the number of federal govt recognised criminals but they refused to show up
now na old man wey village them go kill. it is a very big shame to the useless group.

Why don't you build a shrine to worship boko haram?
Blood-sucking fool.

Demdem: For the first time in ur miserable life, u seem to believe Sahara reporters story.
If na story critical of the retardeen, we know the pictures u will be throwing by now.

So an exclamation signifies belief? Wonders!
Anyway's, remember to pour libation to your ancestor called "retardeen."

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My apologies, I misread you.

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The woman is a thief, but little good can be expected from our police.

[quote author=Mr. Globe].... says the director of SSS.

Well, i think killing the man can harden and intimidate qaqa against making any useful information. Its a signal that should have been prevented. Catch a terrorist, protect and place a survellaince on the family cos the org is coming after them. When will Nigerian security learn?[/quote]Do you know how many thousand boko haram members the SSS, prisons, army have under arrest? That would mean possibly tens or hundreds thousands for the intelligence services to watch. Your suggestion is utopian.

Even if the man had been kept under survellaince, it wouldn't have stopped anyone killing him - eyes looking at a person will not stop bullets aimed at the person.

Quite clearly, the famine will occur in the areas most affected by boko harams activities. The most unfortunate aspect is that, boko haram is a terrorist group, so aid agencies and govt might not be able to get food to the people, because the evil boko haram will see any gatherings as bomb targets.

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You are obsessed with Beaf, aint you? Everywhere you go its "Beaf! Beaf! Beaf!" Lol!
You wanna be me, but find yourself too daft, init?
Akpabio is the best governor, no matter your usual foolish comments.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]The attempt to continue to impose the unconstitutional, unfair, unjust, and criminal revenue formula, was thwarted by Nigerians who will not stand idly by and allow the theft to continue. This is the first phase, the final phase will be the supreme court.

The gravy train don get accident. [/quote]Abeg, train the 10million almajiri's to be productive members of society and stop dreaming about oil. Those things are the real problems damn lazy people like you have foisted on your own folk.

The al qaeda connection seems to be getting clearer with each passing day. The reasons Nigeria has become fertile ground for al qaeda are; the lack of education, religious extremism and poverty in the core-North. It is the same reasons that attracted them to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
It has taken several decades of wickedness and misrule by the core-Northern elite to get things to such a horrid level. There are no opportunities for the people, children are abused and turned to beasts as almajiri's, girls as young as 10 are "married" of to senile old men etc.

Two things are needed in the core-North:
1. The ouster of the current "leaders" who have only taken them down the path to destruction and sold the people for a nickel and a dime.
2. A revolution in education (including adult litteracy).

[quote author=Mr. Globe]The fck Stupid Nigeria security team. Dont they know that if they arrest qaqa or whatever they are meant to place a surveillance on his family. Protect them and all. Anywhere goodluck to them with fighting terrorism like they are fighting pepper theft.[/quote]Really? There is nothing to show that his family are boko haram members, therefore there is no need to spy on them and infringe upon their rights.

Please, move this thread to the foreign section, we are not Indonesians:
https://www.nairaland.com/901183/angry-indonesians-protest-proposed-fuel

youngmonie: No be talk sai na only 1term he's goin 4?

Strangely, I only recall people saying he said that. Do you have links with quotes, bruv?

There is a foreign section for things like this. Indonesia is none of our business.

[size=14pt]SSS detains 5 with ‘Al Qaeda-links’ over German kidnap[/size]
On March 27, 2012 · In News
5:42 pm

KANO (AFP) -The Nigerian security operatives have detained five men, including a Mauritanian, believed linked to Al-Qaeda’s north African branch over the January kidnapping of a German, two security sources said Tuesday.

Four of the suspects were arrested in a raid on a supermarket in the northern city of Kano owned by the Mauritanian on Thursday, while the fifth was held in a separate raid, the sources said.

“Guns and a laptop were recovered in the store and the documents found in the computer, including an AQIM operation manual, showed that the suspects are linked to AQIM and were involved in the kidnap of the German engineer in January,” one of the sources said in describing the supermarket raid.

AQIM is the abbreviation for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the extremist group’s north African arm.

It has not been known to operate directly in Nigeria, though some have suggested links between AQIM and Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.

German engineer Edgar Raupach was kidnapped on the outskirts of Kano in January. AQIM said last week it was holding the German and that it wanted to swap him for a jailed Muslim woman, a private news agency in Mauritania said.

A video obtained by the ANI agency and seen by AFP showed Raupach, his hands tied behind his back, surrounded by masked gunmen.

Germany has confirmed one of its nationals was kidnapped in northern Nigeria, and the German construction company Bilfinger Berger has said he is one of their employees.

“The arrests are an important lead that could help in resolving the kidnapping of the German,” one of the security sources said.

The initial raid on the store was carried out on suspicion that the suspects were tied to Boko Haram, but investigations after the arrests led authorities to suspect they were linked to AQIM and the kidnap, the sources said.

The second source, speaking of the Mauritanian, said “he turned the upper floor of his store into a hideout where he housed his three Nigerian accomplices.”

Nigerian authorities have come under intense pressure over the kidnapping as well as violence blamed on Boko Haram. They also faced criticism after a failed bid to rescue an Italian and a British hostage earlier this month.

The British and Italian hostages were killed by their captors before they could be rescued in a joint operation with British security forces, authorities said.

Nigerian authorities blamed the kidnap of the British and the Italian on a faction of Boko Haram, which had not been previously known to carry out abductions. A purported Boko Haram spokesman denied any involvement.

A security source however had offered an explanation that implicated the group by association, alleging that the mastermind was a man named Abu Muhammad who was affiliated with AQIM and Boko Haram.

The source said the kidnappings were aimed at collecting ransoms which could be used to finance Boko Haram activities, and that in return Abu Muhammad would be given security cover by the group to carry out further abductions.

Abu Muhammad died in custody after being wounded in a raid which led to his arrest, Nigerian authorities have said.

There has been speculation that criminal groups may be seeking to profit from the security situation in northern Nigeria, where authorities have been unable to stop scores of bombings and shootings blamed on Boko Haram.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation with 160 million people, is roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/sss-detains-5-with-al-qaeda-links-over-german-kidnap/

[size=14pt]Boko Haram kills Qaga’s father[/size]
By Agency Reporter

Gunmen suspected to be members of the radical Islamic sect on Monday evening killed the father of its detained spokesman, Abu Qaqa, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Qaga’s father, who is a retired prison warder and a former colleague were murdered as they preparing for prayers in Maiduguri, the sect traditional home.

The Boko Haram's spokesman was arrested by the State Security Service in February.

A security officer told The Associated Press one of the men was the father of a Boko Haram suspect arrested earlier this year on suspicion of being a spokesman for the sect.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/41192-boko-haram-kills-qaga%E2%80%99s-father.html

[size=14pt]Boko Haram sect reportedly kill father of arrested spokesman[/size]

Father of alleged Boko Haram spokesman, Abu Qaqa, was reportedly killed in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, by suspected sect members.

The purported sect’s spokesman, who was arrested in February by the State Security Service in Kaduna, has remained in SSS custody.

The Boko Haram sect has repeatedly denied that the man in custody is the sect’s spokesman; however, security officials insist they have the right man in custody.

Qaqa’s father, said to be a retired prison warder, was murdered alongside a former colleague on Monday evening as they prepared for prayers in Maiduguri, heartland of the sect.

A security official, speaking on the basis of anonymity as he was not authorised to release information, confirmed to the Associated Press that one of the murdered victims was infact the father of the suspected Boko Haram spokesman.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/03/27/boko-haram-sect-reportedly-kill-father-of-arrested-spokesman/

[quote author=ndu_chucks]You are making a fool of yourself. 142 (2) states The provisions of this Part of this Chapter relating to qualification for election, tenure of office, disqualification, declaration of assets and liabilities and oaths of President shall apply in relation to the office of Vice-President as if references to President were references to Vice-President.

So in your books, tenure of office is about nomination and party membership. I laugh in Isoko [/quote]Just in case you need to shine your eyes wella before making another meat sellers interpretation of the chapter, here it is in full again:

142. (1) In any election to which the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Chapter relate, a candidate for an election to the office of President shall not be deemed to be validly nominated unless he nominates another candidate as his associate from the same political party for his running for the office of President, who is to occupy the office of Vice-President and that candidate shall be deemed to have been duly elected to the office of Vice-President if the candidate for an election to the office of President who nominated him as such associate is duly elected as President in accordance with the provisions aforesaid.

(2) The provisions of this Part of [b]this Chapter [/b]relating to qualification for election, tenure of office, disqualification, declaration of assets and liabilities and oaths of President shall apply in relation to the office of Vice-President as if references to President were references to Vice-President.

Chapter 142 has just two paragraphs (which are both quoted above). Surely, it can't be that hard na.
My brother, as you can see, it only refers to nomination and party membership. I am looking forward to your getting a lawyer from Jankara market who hitherto, only sold onions ands pepper by the roadside.

Comedy!

iluvnaija: Every time Jonathan speaks, he always reminds Nigerians that he doesn't have what it takes to be a local government chairman let alone being a president of Nigeria and also shows the level of education here is very poor.

I remember back in the day when you listen to radio Nigeria, during break there's this song "...Education for all by the year 2000..." when year 2000 came it was shifted to "vision 2010" now 2010 has come and gone, it is now "vision 2020 20" Jonathan is the dullest president to ever rule Nigeria. I am not surprised he refused a debate. Will any American aspirant reject a debate? That of course will be the end to his candidacy.

I never voted for Jonathan and I am not surprised the way he governs. A goat is a goat even if you take the goat to London still a goat.

This is what they call serious rambling.

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How anybody can make ambigous interpretations of the sections you quoted above is beyond me.
GEJ has only contested for the post of President once, talkless of sitting a full 4 year term.

Comical.

This is the entire chapter 142. Olodo:

142. (1) In any election to which the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Chapter relate, a candidate for an election to the office of President shall not be deemed to be validly nominated unless he nominates another candidate as his associate from the same political party for his running for the office of President, who is to occupy the office of Vice-President and that candidate shall be deemed to have been duly elected to the office of Vice-President if the candidate for an election to the office of President who nominated him as such associate is duly elected as President in accordance with the provisions aforesaid.

(2) The provisions of this Part of this Chapter relating to qualification for election, tenure of office, disqualification, declaration of assets and liabilities and oaths of President shall apply in relation to the office of Vice-President as if references to President were references to Vice-President.

As you can see, 142 (2) refers to 142 (1). They are the only things in the chapter and they are about nominations and party membership. Ok?

doctuw: Right from 1999, no PDP project is people oriented. It is usually for the elites and in most cases a monumental waste. We need visionary leaders, sadly, they are not in PDP. They are in the weaker and few oppositions.

You got jokes, bruv!
Akpabio is the only governor whose budget gives 83% to capital projects. Other governors are satisfied with forty something percent, most of which they steal anyway.

Please give it to Akpabio. What a guy!

[quote author=ndu_chucks]@Beaf, to be honest with you, I am not against GEJ. If he performs and he is successful in his first term, I will use my own resources to help him return to power. I am willing to wait and see how the power situation is improved in 2-3years. The world already knows that our economy is poised to be in the top 20 by the end of the decade at the rate its growing.

My worry is the security issue, I just don't think GEJ has done enough. He has not been as agressive as one would have hoped. Why is he still shielding the sponsors of terrorism within his administration? He had told us that he knows them. Why??[/quote]What do you want him to do with security? Practically the entire army is already stationed in the restive core-Northern areas and their elite openly take the side of boko haram and stoke all sorts of flames through bigotry.
Do you want him to incinerate the entire core-Northern population to suit you?

The sponsors of terrorism in the core-North make up maybe 90% of their elite (from journalists to politicians); therefore Nigeria is really in a state of civil war to suit the political ambitions of your people. Your dream is for GEJ to order in the army to commit a genocide that can be hyped to suit your political aims and legitimise boko haram as freedom fighters; fighting against poverty and persecution (a crocodile tear comes to my bone-dry eye).

Who be fool?

Dude, go home and preach to your Imams to drop their incendiary sermons instead.

Aladinn: Egbon razist, how busy is that port you talking about? Are there no routes to the ports presently that it would require a futuristic longest bridge?

Do you know what swampland is? It is better to build a bridge on solid foundations to carry port traffic than to sand-fill a road and watch it sink and disintegrate like all the ill-conceived roads past govts built to link ports in Lagos.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]The timing is not right for a challenge. Do you have any information to support that GEJ will be a candidate in 2015? GEJ is not quite bold enough to make such an announcement at this point. As for your "dolt" remark, countless of folks had that point of view only to end up hugging transformers after losing in court.[/quote]I stand by my dolt remark. By the way, the usual clown that the Atiku's, and IBB's of the core-North use in such matters has already gone to court; but he is used to losing all his cases, so its no event. I repeat that no sensible person would take the matter any further than beer palour punditry, jokes and inane banter.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]This is a constitutional grey area. There is nothing rumorous about it and you better hope that it is not challeged in court and that the supreme court does not rule against GEJ's second term bid.[/quote]Sir, it is a grey area only to dolts; that is why with all the huffing and puffing, nobody has seen fit to challenge it in court. No serious person wants to appear as a jester to be publicly laughed out of court by a judge.

Just to put minds at ease...

The Etebi-Enwang Bridge will not be the longest in Nigeria. It will be completed in 2013, with a length of 11.15km; this is just short of the length of 3rd Mainland Bridge which is 11.82km long.

The original design of the bridge was for 650m (under a kilometer), the Akpabio govt felt that it did not meet their high standards for road construction (due to swamplands) and extended it massively to 11.15km.

What Akpabio is doing is building the equivalent of 3rd Mainland Bridge in under 3 years.
Who says Akpabio is not the best governor by a bloody long shot?

Gbawe: This is exactly how many Northerners spoke when they sought to deprive GEJ of power while Yar Adua was gravely ill. You are just demonstrating that Nigerians are not very different. Yesterday's "marginalised" ethnic group is today's sabre-rattling undemocratic loudmouth determined to hold on to power at all cost rather than recognise that, sooner or later, and as is benefitting other African nations, Nigeria must move towards the concept of choosing the best man for the job wherever he is from.

Poor clump of bigotted weeds, always calculating by ethnicity.