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I just wanna repeat it again for emphasis:
By the time the subsidy brouhaha is done, We will find that our daily consumption would have dropped rather sharply and mysteriously to about 15 or 16 million litres from the 35million today. You know why? Every figure in the petroleum market is heavily padded and our money does Houdini tricks into some fat basta'rds pockets.

The blood guzzling monkey should just drink otapiapia.

namfav:
obviously not, when you have 2 wrongs you can never get 1 right, but same goes for violence, that is why dialogue is important, innocent civilians have suffered, even a prisoner has rights, dialogue is important

What would you suggest the theme of the dialogue should be? Would it be about religion or adherence to the constitution?

OP, you nefa die?

icemann:
^^^ i was about to say the same thing. @ 35million Liters you will have approximately 1,606 trucks and 59 million liters will give you 1,788 trucks

My guy, are you sure?
Check ya maths again.

That dude is very smart and radical minded. Rivers has made a great choice.

He noted that in a bid to check such anomalies, his team had successfully conducted nationwide biometric verification of pensioners and in the process detected 71, 133 fake pensioners.

[size=14pt]Biometrics [/size] is the only way to get our hoards of unwashed scam artists.

blink182:
Shocking write up. This Jonathan man is a bigger fool than ℓ̊  thought. Τ̲̅ђε̲̣̣̣̥ annoying thing is that most of Τ̲̅ђε̲̣̣̣̥ money is going to service others.

And you think the ridiculous story is real?
No fall my hand abeg!
What sort of person would close down an avenue he is able to make stupendous amounts from? Not stopping there, but calling thunder and lightnening on the fraudsters?

By the way, you need to pray for your keyboard o! E be like say okija pipo do wound am.

^
Your post made me visit the website. its quite creative really, just as the OP says!

diluminati:
Abeg go die jare! Its fools like you that will be taken unawares with your pants down. At least try and research ,learn and discover for yourself.

My sista, abeg pass me di spliff o jare!
Nutin do you!

By the time the subsidy brouhaha is done, Nigerians will find that our daily consumption would have dropped rather sharply to about 15 or 16 million litres. Please prepare to start calling me, prophet.
Those who led the demonstrations against the subsidy removal will be the loudest voices crying for the tiniest residue of subsidy to be done away with. Anybody wanna bet?

Everything in the petroleum sector is based on theft backed by voodoo math.

miccodb:
hi all ive been considering recent happenings in the world viz a viz the dec 21, 2012 end of world as predicted by nostradamus. i have also read about mayan calendar and planet x and its backup explanation using the bible.i dont think the world will end but what i think will happen is that the world will become completely controlled by the illuminatis and fremasons(new world order).
this is the scenario: internet banking, mobile money, pocket money, swipe cards, atm cards, credit card, cashless society etc and very soon u will pay for somthing as mediocre as busfare with mobile money. remember all this things are linked to the internet. soon no one will accept cash and it becomes useless then u will be mandated to join them or else the internet and all ur spending power will be inaccessible. people will starve and to spend their monies they will have to join the sect and ultimately bear the 'mark' and this what i believe will pan out by the end of 2012. the arabs and chinese govt can see this conspiracy and are working against it while america is fighting tooth and nail to foil their efforts of being excluded from the new world order.

what do u think?

Guy, no de smoke kpoi for early morning na!
You stagger, sote ya brain sef begin stagger!

[img]http://mouthswiredshut.files./2008/12/psychedelic-mushroom.gif?w=420[/img]

What abysmal level of foolishness informed the establishment of a refinery in Kaduna anyway?

aguiyi:
Nigerians protested against the approach not the idea

Nah, they protested about their pockets and damned their kids.
In time, it will be the man on the street that would beg for the entire subsidy to be removed. Perhaps, it would be too late then.

[size=14pt]UN report says Nigeria militants strike fear across Africa[/size]
Boko Haram militants from Nigeria are bolstering links with Al-Qaeda and other hardline groups in West Africa, according to a UN report released Wednesday which highlighted the growing concerns of the region's governments.

[img]http://www.businesslive.co.za/africa/2012/01/26/boko-haram-emir-abubakar-shekau.jpg/RESIZED/Small/Boko+Haram+emir+Abubakar+Shekau.JPG[/img]
Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau makes his first major video appearance in a new video address entitled, "A Message to President Goodluck Jonathan", in this still image taken from video recorded in an unknown location, received by Reuters January 11, 2012. REUTERS/IntelCenter/Handout

Attacks, detentions of accused militants, seizures of explosives and arms - many smuggled out of Libya - have all added to the worries of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and their neighbors, according to a UN mission which went to the Sahel region to report on security fallout after the downfall of Moamer Kadhafi.

Fears of terrorism and poor security dominated concerns raised. The UN report said Niger had increased its defense budget by 65 percent and reduced health and education spending because of the threat.

Governments reaffirmed suspicions that weapons accumulated by Kadhafi had been smuggled into other countries by former Libyan soldiers and mercenaries.

The report said Niger authorities recently intercepted a convoy carrying 645 kilograms (1,420 pounds) of Semtex plastic explosive and 445 detonators. Niger authorities "alleged that the explosives were meant for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb camps in northern Mali.

"This seizure may indicate that terrorist groups have been acquiring arms, weapons and explosives from Libyan military stockpiles."

"Some of the weapons may be hidden in the desert and could be sold to terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram or other criminal organizations," said the group, which was led by the UN representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit.

The mission said Boko Haram, blamed for 185 deaths in the Nigerian city of Kano last weekend, a suicide bomb strike against the UN headquarters in Abuja last August and countless other attacks, was considered a growing threat outside Nigeria.

"Its presence was mentioned as a source of concern by most countries in the region." In Niger, "the radicalization of youth was a particular concern in the south, where interlocutors said that Boko Haram was already active in spreading its ideology and propaganda and, in some cases, had succeeded in closing down public schools," said the report.

"The mission representatives were also informed that Boko Haram had established links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and that some of its members from Nigeria and Chad had received training in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb camps in Mali during the summer of 2011."

Seven Boko Haram members were detained going through Niger to Mali carrying material on making explosives and contact details of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members they were to meet, said the UN mission.

Ministers from Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Algeria met in the Mauritania capital, Nouakchott, this week in a bid to strengthen cooperation.

The deteriorating security has already hit humanitarian efforts in Sahel countries. Aid agencies have suspended immunization and food programs for many "vulnerable communities," the UN report said.

In some areas "the humanitarian vacuum is being filled by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and/or criminal elements who are reportedly providing services and humanitarian assistance in remote areas where state presence is reduced or non-existent," said the report.

This helps Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to recruit followers and form networks to gather information and arms, said the UN.

http://www.businesslive.co.za/africa/2012/01/26/un-report-says-nigeria-militants-strike-fear-across-africa

hercules07:
@alh

You will go and make agreements with those who are no longer relevant in Yoruba politics, goodluck to you o, when GEJ needed the SW he went to Tinubu, but you will go to Ikenne?

Those who you think are relevant have behaved poorly and used unprintable words about the section of the country that vistited H.I.D. Awolowo.
What name is bigger than Awo's in the SW? A foul mouthed, drug pushing, certificate forger?

I believe there is a clash of cultures that makes the SW person not to understand the SS person. Where hurts might be spoken about loudly in the SW, they might only be quietly mentioned in the SS, yet borne deeply in mind. Any SS person going to cut deals with Tinubu will have no home to return to.

Crucial exhibits tendered before the tribunal by the ACN and its governorship candidate, Prof. Steve Ugbah, in the April 26, 2011 governorship election, had disappeared from the strong room of the tribunal in controversial circumstances as both the tribunal members and the registry staff had no knowledge of the movement of the documents.

Counsel to the ACN, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), who led Simon Orkuma, and Joe Abaagu, when the case came up Monday, announced to the disbelief of the tribunal that the ACN legal team were in possession of the exhibits.

Akeredolu, who tendered apology to the tribunal, explained that although the legal team was in possession of the documents, he could not say how they were retrieved from the tribunal secretary.

Oti o! ACN rascals aint smiling these days, imagine stealing court exhibits!

As we de talk am for wafi; see treting!

alj harem:
I am from borno but a lagosian by every standard

You know of the meeting of edwin clark and HID awolowo right (owner of tibune) and today this

what does that tell you ?

anyway good politics by South-south, they know were the power lies in Yorubaland and IT is certainly not with ACN or Tinubu but with afernfere

If I want to make a deal in yorubaland, those are the people I would go meet not Tinubu/ACN

I guess buhari made that mistake to go meet tinubu. too much propaganda by ACN to make themselves look very powerful in the SW. when like of OBJ still bows down to afernifere.

You are from Borno? Lol!
I thought you were Awori? At some point you were also Igbo and at another, Ijaw.

Dude, I seriously do not like conversing with liars.

Bye.

alj harem:
NO SIR THE PEOPLE DID NOT WELCOME THE SOLDIERS NOT NOW NOT EVER IN ANY PART OF LAGOS, THIS IS PURELY POLITICS AND YOU KNOW THE REASON

OR DO YOU WANT ME TO HAVE TO REMIND YOU ?

Will you fall ill if you don't shout?
Anyways, Alhaji Adisa couldn't care less about the story you are weaving and he is a Lagosian ("a landlord in Agbe Road, Abule-Egba", while you are from Borno state:

Alhaji Adisa expressed surprise at the noise generated by the presence of the military personnel. “I’m really surprised at the noise being made by the people about the presence of the military men. Our people can play politics with anything. The soldiers are just there without molesting anybody. You don’t have any problem with them, so far you are doing your legal job. Their presence in our area has brought respite. We have been experiencing serious security challenges in this area before now, but it has really gone down,” he said.

This library should help you lots:
http://dotspatial.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=DotSpatial.Positioning

homerac7:
^

So what's ur point? U used to b brilliant.

SMH

Crap. Go burn down Tribune if you hate the article.

@topic
There is one glaring fact that can be gleaned from the above, and its that the Lagos elite are dangerously out of touch with the people.
In places like Mushin, Fadeyi, Bariga, Onipkan etc where area boys and armed robbers have been a scourge, the people welcomed the soldiers, were happy with the relative peace they brought and the way they comported themselves.

CNN video:
http://www.voanews.com/templates/widgetDisplay.html?id=138049848&player=article

Good riddance, that phucker unnecessarily took a life and created a widow and orphans. . . For N100.00
I can't understand why he would have shot an innocent person for resisting his N100 extortion move.

[size=14pt]Ifako-Ijaye residents laud deployment of soldiers in Lagos [/size]
Written by Saka Gbeminiyi Thursday, 26 January 2012

The adage, one man’s food is another man’s poison is really playing out in Lagos, as some residents of the city have been commending the Federal Government for redeploying of solders in the state.

It will be recalled that an attempt to curb the protest over fuel subsidy removal necessitated the  deployment of miltary personnel in the state to maintain law and order.

Some members of the public, especially the elite, have been condemning the step as unconstitutional and that it was wrong for the Federal Government to deploy soldiers in the streets of Lagos.

[b]However, some residents of U-Turn, Abule-Egba in Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of the state are praising the Federal Government for the action, stating that the step has helped to reduce cases of hoodlums’ attacks on residents at bus stops in the area.

Some of the residents who spoke with Community News maintained that the presence of the military personnel was a major boom to the security of the area, as incidents of armed robbers attacking people in the area have reduced drastically.

“We are happy with the presence of the military men. They are peaceful. Their presence is a major security boost in this area. Before now, it was very dangerous to move in U-turn area of Abule-Egba because of the menace of area boys, miscreants, hoodlums and armed robbers. The area is a dark spot, but since these military men stationed their patrol van in the area, we have been having peace. It is a welcome development,” Alhaji Bayo Adisa, a landlord in Agbe Road, Abule-Egba told Community News.

Alhaji Adisa expressed surprise at the noise generated by the presence of the military personnel. “I’m really surprised at the noise being made by the people about the presence of the military men. Our people can play politics with anything. The soldiers are just there without molesting anybody. You don’t have any problem with them, so far you are doing your legal job. Their presence in our area has brought respite. We have been experiencing serious security challenges in this area before now, but it has really gone down,” he said.

Alhaji Adisa appealed to the government especially, the leadership of Ifako Ijaiye Local Government to provide street lights to curb the menace of men of the underworld. “What we have noticed is that men of the underworld often hide under the cover of darkness to forment trouble and we believe that the presence of street lights will put a stop to the danger posed by these evil men,” he said.[/b]

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/community-news/34934-ifako-ijaye-residents-laud-deployment-of-soldiers-in-lagos

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=854995.msg10046730#msg10046730 date=1327513145]Thesame kids beaf was advocating to be housed and fed? You, see why i said Beaf may have suffered from brain tumor as a kid.


@Topic
very sad. I'd never expected any one to like the Nigerian police but, not the extent of supporting the carnage.[/quote]So, these kids shouldn't be housed and fed?
I don't get some of the arguments people make on NL!

The reason those kids are the way they are is because they have been neglected and abused from birth. That fact does not make them feral beasts or subhumans to be rejected by society.

I will repeat that those kids need to be housed, fed, loved and educated. Perhaps, boko haram is not lesson enough for you.

youngmonie:
@ BEAF  if you remeber you comment on that wole soyinkas article on NL,  and my response was that EDUCATION   would have been a  key factor in curbing this mencace, but for toooo long the elite have denied their people right to fundamental education and it is equally evident in this pic, ( Rather they are sent to all this islamic schools that feed their mind  with all sort of non sense).

You are ban'g on the money! I have always believed that the almajiri is Nigeria's biggest security threat. If that system is not taken care off, we will continue to be mired in "boko haram" after "boko haram."

Casimir T. Akagbosu, AIG (rtd.); Mr. Bashir A. Albasu, AIG (rtd.); Major Gen. S.N. Chikwe, rtd.; Prof. S.D. Mukoro; Dr. Fabian Ajogwu, SAN; Aisha Larai Tukur; and the Solicitor General of the Federation. The Permanent Secretary, SSO, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation will serve as the Secretary to the Committee.

Prof. S.D. Mukoro is one of the most serious radicals in the country. I expect great things from the "Special Committee to oversee the urgent reorganization of the Police."
As Major Saliba Mukoro, he was one of the lynchpins of the Orkar coup against Babangida.

highland:
This is bad on the side of CBN, how can they be paying blindly without investigation on how benefit what and why.

The CBN can only query what it has the power to query. The entire petroleum marketing system is a black hole that even Lucifer would fear to peek into. That is why the President took one look and kicked the subsidy gravy train into the trash can. The whole system, not just the subsidy needs to go, including NNPC.

Arosa:
They are just ignorant kids.  

Because of the innocence of kids, you can find out what their parents think.
Those kids parents are saying exactly the same thing; kids always copy adults.
What do kids know about the "goodness" of killing policemen? Answer: what their parents taught them.

[size=14pt]Nigerian police station bombed in 'Boko Haram' attack[/size]
Gunmen believed to be members of Islamist sect fire on police station in city of Kano, where 185 people died in attacks last week

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A child stands on a burnt-out police truck outside the attacked police station. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP

Suspected members of the radical Boko Haram Islamist sect attacked a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday – the city in which its co-ordinated attacks killed at least 185 people last week.

According to witnesses, gunmen surrounded the police station, in the Sheka neighbourhood.

They ordered civilians at shops and homes surrounding the station to get off the streets and began chanting "God is great" as they threw homemade bombs into the station and fired guns into the building.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which followed the pattern of others carried out by Boko Haram, including the use of improvised explosives.

On Wednesday, the prison cells of the station stood open and blood could be seen on the floor of the local commander's private bathroom. Investigative files, apparently rifled through, covered the floors, and [size=13pt]youths outside waved an officer's uniform.

A crowd of cheering youths jumped up and down on top of a burned-out police truck. Others in the crowd, speaking in the local Hausa language, said they would kill any police officer who returned. Some asked journalists visiting the site whether they were Christians.
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Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sacrilege" in Hausa, wants to implement strict Sharia law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria, a multi-ethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north.

While the sect has begun targeting Christians in the north, [size=13pt]the majority of those killed on Friday appeared to be Muslim,[/size] officials said.

. . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/25/nigerian-police-station-bombed-boko-haram?newsfeed=true

success4:
Dude, just to do what? Beaf, I hope you are ok. Don't you understand simple analysis. Mind, you the bolded is even explain in my explanation.
Stochastic variable which you are part of it. I smile when someone tries to argue on a subject he/she has no understanding about.

Stochastic gini?
Is that why Nigerians are poor? Like I said, are you just arguing to make your voice heard? Dude, nobody is concerned about "stochastic" stuff that wouldn't put food on the table of the citizen because the entire national structure is wrong.
Sensible Nigerians would rather fix the system by making it more equitable to all Nigerians, so that when the CBN announces reserves have gone up, it will be reflected in the food on the table, not as a "stochastic variable." Seen?

success4:

It was $63 billion in September 2008.

GEJ was not President in 2008. What was it when he became President (hint, hint, its on the CBN website).

^
Sadly for you, that is not true.

success4:
Friend, I usually ignore people like that  guy. But you try to have explained to him.

Importation is one of the bane of Nigeria economy, it forms part of the leakages under under the national income analysis. What could have brought about the sudden rise? They must be joking. Let them give us the figure and fact NOT in theory. If Nigeria reserve is depleted as a result of ''demand gap in FX'' it shows clearly to us that Sanusi lack foresight and proper understanding of ''Market Gap Theory''

Elasticity of demand, explain how a rational consumer will react to a slight change in price of a certain commodity/service. Mind, you, substitution effect also have a role in what happens to consumer reaction to price changes.  Let me give this scenario:
Y=a+bx+e
where Y=independent variable
            a=constant variable
            b=slope
             x=dependent variable
            e=stochastic variable=other factors that affect demand
Let us also assume that Y=External Reserve
                                       x=Demand for Forex
                                       e=other factor outside the variable that affect demand of certain product.
PS: Note that, it is not only (P Px T Y) that determines demand of any product, covetousness, pride forms part of stochastic variable
P=Price, Px=Price other product, T=Taste and Y=Income.

A slight change in demand for FX, would either increase or decrease the reserve. And that depends on the condition, the consumer finds him/herself. For these cabal to just come up with fiction means they are only deceiving people like Beaf and others sycophants. Let them come out to explain what necessitate the increment.Also, the positive effect of these on common man. It is just like jubilation on increment in GDP without calculating the GNP. People will be affected by money illusion which is the case in Nigeria of today. I only shake my head for our leaders and those that support them blindly

Guy, what are you arguing about? Just to make your voice heard or what?

I will analyse the situation you are in for you:
A patient is severely ill with AIDS and is dying. Out pop a crop of Nigerian "experts" who begin to argue whether it is best to apply plasters to his wounds or to give him panadol for his headache. In their eagerness to display how "clever" they are, they are oblivious to the fact that the mans problems are much more serious than cuts and bruises or a headache (those are mere synptoms of a deeper malaise). What do you call such "experts?"

Nigeria's external reserve fluctuates due to a much deeper problem, which is that we are a monoeconomy running on chaos.

On a lighter note, I will end with a popular Urhobo song :
Foolish man plant mango for main road o!
E suffer for nutin o!
E suffer for nutin o!
When e ripe, anoda man pluck am!
Odi' o ta me ren o!

Lol!

The foolish man is the Nigerian "expert" who has thrown the countries only revenue source to a chaotic system that only wolves can take advantage of; yet they are hoping to reap benefit without TOTALLY RESTRUCTURING the system and spend days arguing about "variables."
Will the useless "variables" ensure a just society where increases in the nations wealth are felt by the poor and the everyday citizen?

True federalism and true representation of the citizen. Total restructuring and diversification of the economy, thats what we need, not "variables."