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Romance › Re: Am I Being Stuppid\played? by Beaf: 9:32pm On Dec 16, 2011
The dude has it all sorted; white puzzy in the house when he's away and black puzzy he doesn't have to pay a dime for when he's in 9ja.
Neat playing.
Politics › Funny Clash Of Cultures - Jonathan And Merkel by Beaf(op): 9:01pm On Dec 16, 2011
[size=14pt]Iron Angie Is Only Half the Story[/size]

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets up in the morning, she doesn't start her day by saving the euro. She doesn't behave like a woman who dominates Europe, dominates Germany and dominates the European Union, nor does she behave like a woman who supposedly shunted aside former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and Friedrich Merz, the former chairman of the parliamentary group of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). When Angela Merkel gets up in the morning, she makes breakfast for her husband Joachim Sauer. She wants to make sure that he has a decent meal in his stomach before he leaves the house.

This breakfast tale was part of a story she recounted on a flight from Nigeria to Berlin in July of this year. During a lunch with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, Merkel asked him whether he cooked at home. Jonathan laughed. He, the president, and a man to boot, cook? She likes to cook, Merkel replied, and said that she even makes breakfast for her husband. Jonathan stood up and made a toast, saying that Nigerian women should follow the example of the German chancellor and make breakfast for their husbands every morning.

Merkel was amused when she told this story on the flight to Berlin. Obviously her intentions had been different. She had addressed Jonathan as a human being, as a person who could conceivably cook at home, just as she likes to cook and make breakfast. Instead Jonathan turned it into a political message, namely that women should be obliging to their men.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,800715,00.html
Politics › Re: Why Fuel Subsidy Must Go Now, By Jonathan by Beaf(op): 8:40pm On Dec 16, 2011
efisher:
I can bet that half of the folks kicking against GEJs action will support it if Fashola or Buhari were to be the proponent. I am very sure a man like Fash will definitely take the same action if he were president. It only goes to show that many Nigerians are too blinded by tribalism. Someone said in one thread that we should be called "Triberia". I think he / she has a point.
Lol! Fashola led the committee that first demanded that the subsidy be removed. So there you go! grin
Politics › Re: Why Fuel Subsidy Must Go Now, By Jonathan by Beaf(op): 8:35pm On Dec 16, 2011
[quote author=lanre_front link=topic=826309.msg9780220#msg9780220 date=1324057058]@ BEAF

Firstly, like the expert dodger that you are, you've avoided the part which says, removal of oil-subsidy will not stop the CABAL from feeding fat off the country; that so far is the strongest consistent arguement being weilded by the goverment and their supporters like yourself. And it is a big lie. The "feeding fat" will merely be tranfered from the goverment directly to the masses.

Secondly, all your arguements (e.g smuggling) are not a new one. The PDP goverment has been dishing out this rhetorics for 12 years now. Let's assume smuggling is the main problem like u say; look here, smuggling of petroleum products in large quantities across our borders is not like rice or contraband clothes. It is highly visible. It cannot be successfully consistently done over years unless it has the blessing of the goverment in power.

It is lauhgable and indeed rediculous when goverment officials and people like u try to imply that Nigerian goverment is incapable of stopping our fuel supply being smuggled across our borders into neigbhouring countries.

Then are you also saying it's an impossible task to monitor the amount of Petrol that is imported into this country, and the actual consumption of Nigerians every month. At the ongoing Senate seatings, the goverment has been tasked to get the figurs for the amount of petrol the country needs in a month, in order to arrive at the actaul subsidy necessary.

Then there are several other pertinent quetions the goverment are not intersted in answering; they just want the go-ahead to remove subsidy and increase price of petrol.

For instance, no goverment official has been able to give any satisfactory answer to how the 250 billion allocated to subsidy from January to October jumped from that figur to the 1.3 trillion that has being spent.

Many people have alledged that the actual subsidy should not be more than 200 billion naira which is an amount very much affordable. Jonathan has shown absolutely no interest in exploring this angle.

So people are saying, sanitise the whole subsidy scheme; weed out the corruption-subsidy-part from the actual subsidy, and affodability of the subsidy will not be a problem.

They have shown no intererst to answer, addresss, ivestigate or take up this recommendtaion; rather Jonathan is always begging us that subsidy has to go; that the economy will collaspe in two years. It's a small wonder that Senate and especially the House of Reps. keep saying that Jonathan's arguements are unconvincing.

Then you say three of the refineries are WORKING at high percentage capacity is simply not true. Very untrue.

Then you say if the four refineries are working at 100%, that cannot stop fuel importation. What nonsense are you talking about. I dont have the figurd off-hand, but according to all the experts that have spoken on the issue, the joint daily total capacity of the four refiniries is well above what the country needs daily. Do you more than all those guys?

Let me just stop here. It suffuce to say I know what Im talking about. I'm not one of those you can confuse.

Stop trying to pull a wool over the eyes of the people.[/quote]Your arguments are contrived, wooden and very illogical. Firstly, I see no reason why you talk about PDP being in power for 12 years, as if the fuel subsidy racket started in 2009. It is hard to argue with people who are intent on twisting facts for partisan purposes; don't sell your kids because of todays temprary illicit gain.
Secondly, we are not interested in what people are "alleging" or what "people are saying," only cold hard fact will do, thank you.

Until you stop dancing with fancy steps around what the issue of smuggling really is, we will get nowhere. Sentiments are no replacement for logic. When you feel brave enough to discuss smuggling, then lets have a debate; I find what you've written above to be little more than rambling hysterics.

Let us deal with the smuggling which is the crux of the matter. Why should we subsidize a few hundred Nigerian pockets and the economies of Niger, Cameroon, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso etc just because you wish to buy fuel at N65.00? Does it make sense that the money for schools, roads, industries and hospitals is in effect, exported to neighbouring countries? Deal with that and stop running around.
Politics › Re: Why Fuel Subsidy Must Go Now, By Jonathan by Beaf(op): 8:25pm On Dec 16, 2011
texazzpete:
So in summary, what you're saying is that Goodluck Ebele jonathan is too weak to secure our borders? Or he is too weak to curtail or severely reduce smuggling across our borders?

Gotcha.
If thats what you got, then your mind is too weak to comprehend.
Politics › Re: Free Meal For Lagos Pupils by Beaf: 5:46pm On Dec 16, 2011
When I created a thread about GEJ promising to support any state that would feed its students, many braindead people criticised it.
Lets wait for the usual small-minded ethnic bigots to begin singing their over the top praises.
Politics › Re: Gunmen Storm Airforce School In Kano: Kill Many by Beaf: 4:48pm On Dec 16, 2011
amaham:
Dis our presido nawa ooo! U said it was carrot and stick, these miscreants have finished the carrot where the hell is the stick!
Lolzzzzz!

IMHO, the stick is in the almost one trillion budgetted for security. We should be seeing a deep fried boko haram when it is passed.
Politics › Re: Biometrics Exercise In The Police, Brought The Wage Bill From N1.5 Billion Per Month To N500 M. by Beaf: 2:39pm On Dec 16, 2011
PointB:
Well done Dr. Okonjo Iweala, next stop should be custom services, FIRS, Nigeria Army and hopeful a biometric census.

Accountability is necessary first step to riding the nation of corruption.
That is one thing we need done like yesterday, regardless of the cost. It will put many numbers to disgrace.
Politics › Re: Biometrics Exercise In The Police, Brought The Wage Bill From N1.5 Billion Per Month To N500 M. by Beaf: 2:37pm On Dec 16, 2011
I want Nairaland to use biometrics on becomerich! angry
Politics › Re: PDP Condemns Aregbesola For Releasing Odunayo Olagbaju's Killers by Beaf: 2:33pm On Dec 16, 2011
Rafelo01:
@i am presently in Lagos as a consultant in physical planning.so what is relationship with elephant farmland you mentioned.beaf grin grin grin grin you are one of PDP thugs.I dont have your time.You useless human being.
Dude, you can't blame me for thinking you are one of those whose brain cells have been rewired by one of Aregbesola's rampant slaps. You came on the thread, talking like the man had ko'd your brain through your left ear with one of his frequently distributed slaps. ToWAII!!! grin grin grin
Anyway sir, you sound like a maltreated farmer.

As for the elephant reserve story, don't pretend you don't know about it. The wunderkind of irresponsibility and high stories, gave "free farmland" to luckless farmers with a lot of fanfare and razzmatazz, only it was "free land" on an elephant reserve!!! shocked shocked shocked
Damn! Can you beat that?
As soon as the camera's left, AregbeRASCAL got shiploads of thugs to descend on the harpless farmers and straighten their thoughts with left hooks, straight jabs and the odd kick. Its the new style of govt. See?

If you are not a farmer, then you must be one of the unfortunate aluta's that was deported from Lokoja and promptly locked away after embarking on an ill adviced Tinubu arse fanning trip to Abuja, at a time Osun states workers were owed close to 3 months salaries. There is something weird about your behaviour.

What a useless clod Aregbe is. embarassed
Politics › Re: 7 People Trapped As Building Collapses Inside Lagos Secretariat by Beaf: 2:13pm On Dec 16, 2011
What an embarrassment!
Find out during whose tenure the building contract went out and you will discover a red hot trail of fraud attached to that governor.
Politics › Re: PDP Condemns Aregbesola For Releasing Odunayo Olagbaju's Killers by Beaf: 2:07pm On Dec 16, 2011
Rafelo01:
@beaf.I told you to go and perish.you have point.You are technically vacant.you
Maybe you are one of the beneficiaries of AregbeRASCALS "free farmland" in an elephant reservation who had their senses rearranged with a few hot Aregbe slaps once the camera's were gone! grin grin grin grin
That man provides high quality comedy, only that the consequences are so tragic.
Politics › Re: PDP Condemns Aregbesola For Releasing Odunayo Olagbaju's Killers by Beaf: 2:01pm On Dec 16, 2011
The armed robbers in Ogun state must be relishing opportunities in Osun, where the most useless governor in Nigeria will free them after they have confessed to murder. cry cry cry

All hail Aregbesola, number one RASCAL and high story teller.
Politics › Re: Disclose My ‘sins’, Sylva Dares Pdp by Beaf: 1:58pm On Dec 16, 2011
Poor thing! How can a man force himself on a political party that is uninterested?
Gaddem!
Politics › Re: No Honest Nigerian Like Buhari – Bakare by Beaf: 1:52pm On Dec 16, 2011
Fork-tongued scarabs like Tunde Bakare are to be pitied. This is the hypocritical false prophet in 1999:

[size=13pt]Bakare said, “Let me tell you the truth by the spirit of God, neither (President Olusegun Obasanjo), OBJ, Atiku (Abubakar), IBB and this tall one, (Muhammadu) Buhari are part of the new. They are part of the old that is decaying. That old one is passing away. The new is emerging and these ones are not part of that new.”

. . .

"Neither Buhari nor IBB nor Obasanjo nor Atiku will be part of the new Nigeria. They are part of the old that has decayed and is still decaying. The new is coming forth. It is the counsel of the Lord that shall stand in this nation. Until the sons of turmoil destroy themselves, this nation will not know peace." [/size]
Helloo oo!!
Secondly, Buhari is corrupt. I've posted the below repeatedly about Abacha, but can post direct stuff about Buhari's corruption.

You will also notice that those who scream loudest against the removal of the subsidy are reps of those companies.

Does the average Nigerian who refuses to read know that during Abacha's regime, with Buhari at the head of the PTF racket; the refineries were deliberately run down and monies for their turn around maintenance routinely vanished into thin air? But wait for the cracker! At the time this lot were running down our local refineries, Abacha actually used FG funds to build a personal refinery in Sierra Leone, so he and his cronies could milk the nation dry as a fuel importers!
That refinery was acquired through the vehicles, Integrated Investment Trust Limited and Nasimatume Investments Limited jointly owned by Abacha and his National Security Adviser, Ismaila Gwarzo.

Needless to say, the Abacha refinery in Sierra Leone is now cobwebbed. Many of our ex-generals are in similar rackets, they destroy the refineries at home, while having shares or ownership of refineries abroad to milk the nation dry. Behind those names listed, is an ex-general or two.
Politics › Re: Biometrics Exercise In The Police, Brought The Wage Bill From N1.5 Billion Per Month To N500 M. by Beaf: 1:48pm On Dec 16, 2011
Claus:
True talk jephiano!

The biometric exercise should be applauded. They should (and probably will) go a step further and prosecute those responsible for ghost workers, otherwise they'll keep looking for the next loop hole to exploit.

N1bn saved by the govt is N1bn lost by a group of people who won't give up in looking for other ways to replace that income unless they are dealt with.
I am all for that, but it will mean arresting a full 90% of Nigerians. The place is a nest of corruption. embarassed
Health › Re: One Good Achievement As A Nigerian Don Discovers Cure For Diabetes by Beaf: 1:41pm On Dec 16, 2011
aribisala0:
The US HAS NOT recognized any cure for diabetes. We are talking SPECIFICALLY about a cure for diabetes here

Save that yarn for the beer parlour
Really? I will keep on pitying Nigerians and their "pull them down" syndrome.
Perhaps, you do not appreciate the weight of the words, cancer and diabetes. The press will always exagerate, just as the West will always snatch our best minds, because we are too low-self-esteemed to recognise them.
Politics › Re: PDP Condemns Aregbesola For Releasing Odunayo Olagbaju's Killers by Beaf: 1:27pm On Dec 16, 2011
Next thing, when armed robbers paralyse the state like has happened close by, we will know who released convicts.
All hail AregbeRASCAL, the most useless governor in Nigeria.
Politics › Re: Nba Presi., Akeredolu, Olisa Refused To Sign Report On Salami’s Reinstatement by Beaf: 1:25pm On Dec 16, 2011
DESPITE their loud protestation when Justice Ayo Isa Salami was suspended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) as the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Joseph Daudu and two of his predecessors, Chiefs Rotimi Akeredolu and Olisa Agbakoba, all Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) refused to sign the final report of the 29-man judicial reform stakeholders’ committee, which recommended Salami’s reinstatement as the PCA.
I am really surprised that Olisa Agbakoba got himself involved in that scandal in the first place, with all his credentials as a social critic. But we are alive to be surprised.
Health › Re: One Good Achievement As A Nigerian Don Discovers Cure For Diabetes by Beaf: 1:11pm On Dec 16, 2011
The low-self-esteemed "pull them down" syndrome continues among Nigerians. While some are fooling themselves talking shiit here, the US has quickly recognised the man's work.

Is it surprising that we are not developed when so many mud munching fools jump up and insult their own? angry angry angry

(JACKSON, Miss.) – Five Jackson State University researchers were recognized as pioneers in their fields July 21 during an induction ceremony into the National Academy of Inventors.

The inductees include biology professors Ernest B. Izevbigie and Hari Parshad Cohly and chemistry professors Paresh Ray, Ming-Ju Huang and Kenneth S. Lee.  Also inducted was former JSU biology professor John E. Piletz, who worked with Huang and Lee on the patent they received.

JSU President Carolyn W. Meyers opened the ceremony by thanking the researchers for their commitment to science and to the university.

“Thank you for putting Jackson State on the map of innovation,” Meyers said. “Because of you, the university’s image soars even higher.”

Earlier this year, Jackson State became a charter member of the National Academy of Inventors, which was founded at the University of South Florida to recognize inventors who have a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The JSU researchers are the first inventors at Jackson State to be inducted into the academy.

[img]http://jacksonstate.files./2011/07/cancerpatent-portrait.jpg?w=300&h=200[/img]
Ernest B. Izevbigie

Izevbigie has earned two patents, including one for a formula he created from a Nigerian herbal shrub called Veronica amygdalina, or bitter leaf. Izevbigie’s research led to the formation of the JSU-initiated company EdoBotanics, which sells dietary supplements to boost the immune system and help with the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. The government of Nigeria recently gave the company its approval to manufacture and sell the dietary capsules in the country.
http://jacksonstate./2011/07/21/jsu-researchers-inducted-into-national-academy-of-inventors/
Politics › Re: Why Should SSS Arrests Boko Haram Leader’s Wife & Son? by Beaf: 12:57pm On Dec 16, 2011
Seun:
As long as they are not maltreated or tortured, it's not entirely a bad idea. However, the danger is that Boko Haram recruiters might use the outrage over the "injustice" of this arrest to convince more people to join Boko Haram.  I think you need to win the propaganda war to beat terrorism.
I agree with this 100%.

It is not unusual for the family members of terrorists to be arrested, interrogated or even killed, as in Bin Ladens case.

When the CIA targetted Bin Ladens family with fake vaccination campaigns to obtain DNA, women and kids were the target: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013668/CIA-plotted-trap-Osama-bin-Ladens-DNA-fake-vaccination-programme-Pakistan.html

This is what happened to the members of the Bin Laden family that were not shot dead (those shot dead included a child):

One survivor, possibly one of bin Laden’s sons, was captured by the Americans and taken away with the special forces in a helicopter.

Eight or nine other children who may also be bin Laden’s relatives were arrested by Pakistani forces.

According to the ISI official, all the survivors had their hands tied by the Americans before the elite US Navy Seals’ team left.

The relatives who survived the raid - one of bin Laden’s wives and the children - will be interrogated and then probably turned over to their countries of origin, and not the United States, in accordance with Pakistani law, ISI sources said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8491826/Osama-bin-Laden-captured-alive-before-being-shot-in-front-of-family.html

The moral of the story is; don't belong in the family of a terrorist, or even better, rat on them before the security services get you.
Politics › Re: Why Fuel Subsidy Must Go Now, By Jonathan by Beaf(op): 12:40pm On Dec 16, 2011
[quote author=lanre_front link=topic=826309.msg9775990#msg9775990 date=1324020458]Is it such a difficult thing, as he has been told by some elder statemen (eg Gowon) and noble citizens (eg Father Kukkah); he should embark on the strategy of ending subsidy by making the refinieris to start working. In 18 months our existing 4 refineries can be producing at 60% capacity which is enough for our local consumption.

Why so much insistence on the option that will more than double the price of fuel and create a serious hyper-inflation and make life unbearable; then start looking for ways to curb the inflation. Why create a problem then start looking for solution?

Like Gowon said, the multiplier-effect of runaway/galloping/hyper inflation through the economy will be so much, no palliative can solve it; it will be beyond the control of the goverment.

There is a better optiion. Why not take it.

There is always several paths leading to a stream; why insist on a particular one, full of sharp stones, broken bottles, undulating valleys that can break legs and backbones.

Why not take the one that is tared and smooth like the road in Aso-Rock, even if is is a little longer.

The important thing is to get to the stream. To get there in good time (the country cannot collaspe in 18 months), with the least dificulty; not with broken bones and cuts on legs gushing out with blood.

The goverment is the guradian of the people and it ought to behave like a good parent.

Nairalanders that are echoing what goverment officials are saying, that subsidy removal will stop the "few Nigerans" (aka Cabal) from feeding fat off the country, are I'm sorry to say, du.llards. And ofcourse, those officails are liars icluding Ngozi Iweals herself. Because we don't work in Worldbank does not mean we have no sense of economics at all.

The cabal will not stop feeding FAT; instead of collecting the money from goverment in form of subsidy, they will now be collecting it from the masses in form of fuel increase. If anything, they may even start making more money.

The option which will will deal with the Cabal is one that brings a stop to fuel importation. But PDP won't like that. Fuel-importation is the biggest business of someone like Otedola and so many others. It's the biggest instrument of political patronage used by PDP for rewarding itself and its benefacors.
[/quote]You are right that you are not an Iweala and do not understand economics, the bolded portions have given you out and made destroyed the rest of your argument.
Firstly, getting the refineries working at 100% will not stop fuel importation; in fact the refineries are all working at a high percentage of their installed capacities right now, except for Kaduna (a mistake that should never have been built). GEJ has also ordered that they all must be in full working order within 2 years, so your argument is simplistic, mute and of no use.

The elephant in the room is smuggling, and it is the one your argument has neatly left out. The fuel importers, knowing that they are guaranteed to be paid by the FG; import fuel, get it recorded at our ports, then move it all to our neighbouring countries where they get paid at close at market price. Most of these importers have fuel stations and refineries in those neighbouring countries. After nearly all of the fuel has been distributed in neighbouring countries and the importers paid there, the Nigerian govt is presented with the bill. It is an exponential swindle that see's Nigeria effectively subsidising the energy needs of Benin Republic, Niger, Cameroon, Burkina Faso etc. Basically, we are subsidising W. Africa.

Why should Nigeria feed other countries when the money can be used on Nigerians? It must end.

Also, in the past, the amount of fraud was hidden by the fact that there was always fuel scarcity, but GEJ's drive to end that disgraceful phenomenon has seen the importers awash with even more fuel to juggle the life of the common man and defraud the nation with.

To fix that loop, govt will have to fix the following in one swoop without bloodshed; port authorities, NNPC, customs, police, large swathes of elite. we already have boko haram and intense fires of ethnic bigotry. The only option is to toss the the entire fuel import ecosystem into the trash can and sanitise it without govt payments; then we can split the task of taking on those groups one by one.

The scandal must end today, there is no sane reason to call for govt to wait, while the whole country has been sold into the slavery of a few hundred with the poison fruit of N65.00 per litre. The man on the street has enough pride and self-worth to stand for that.
Politics › Re: Do You Agree With NLC That Jonathan Is Too Dull For Nigeria? by Beaf: 3:10am On Dec 16, 2011
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Nah, the coffin thing was only Uniben and Unilag.
Politics › Re: Subsidy To Wait For Now –okonjo-iweala by Beaf: 1:49am On Dec 16, 2011
All the clods hammering dmainboss for exposing the obvious need to be ashamed of yourselves.
Everybody knows that the insulting of GEJ is driven by ethnic bigotry. We see it and you know it, so why pretend?

Bloody ethnically bigotted hypocrites that are as weak as little girls. When is your "revolution" starting? The subsidy is now gone, just to remind you and you've been mouthing off for months now.
Politics › Why Fuel Subsidy Must Go Now, By Jonathan by Beaf(op): 1:37am On Dec 16, 2011
[size=14pt]Why fuel subsidy must go now, by Jonathan[/size]
By Vincent Ikuomola41 minutes ago

[img]http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/thumbnail.php?file=Goodluck_Jonathan_436239920.jpg&size=article_medium[/img]
Dr. Jonathan

No way, Reps insist

THE economy took the front burner yesterday as the President got into the Yuletide mood.

Dr Goodluck Jonathan insisted that fuel subsidy must go and that Nigeria cannot continue to borrow to fund its economy.

But he explained that the idea is not to inflict pains on Nigerians.

The administration’s plan to remove fuel subsidy has raised so much dust.

The President spoke – for the umpteenth time – on the subsidy during the 2011 Christmas Carol Service held at the banquet hall of the Presidential Villa, last night.

President Jonathan reminded his audience of the global economic challenges and warned that this country is not insulated.

He said: “I will plead with religious leaders – both Christians and Muslims - to join the government and see how we will improve the economy of this nation.

“We are witnessing a nation, at least those who are my age, 50 years and above, as the years are going, the challenges are becoming more. Most societies are becoming more enlightened. The demand for power has increased; the demand for water, the demand for everything. Probably at independence, how many cars did we have in this country? Even after the Civil War, how many vehicles did we have? How many roads? How many streets had light?

“I remember the day I was chatting with a group of elders and they said after the war there was electricity everywhere, they travelled out and so on. I came to live in Port Harcourt in 1955. Even then, it was only Port Harcourt that had electricity, even the big cities, Bonny. But now, government must make sure even the smallest village and settlements have electricity light.

“Without light, you cannot preserve farm produce. See how the demands for everything has expanded over the period, there are more challenges. And we believe with the present for the past several years, government has been borrowing money to run its affairs and the amount we borrow continues to increase. Who are we borrowing this money for? Who will come and offset the debts?

“I normally asked. And of course the professionals in the oil industry are making predictions that the oil reserve that we have, that in 35 to 40 years, it will dry up.

“By God’s grace we will discover more oil reserves but based on what we have now and assuming we are unable to discover more in 35 to 40 years it will dry up. I pray not to live up to that time anyway, but some of the people here will witness that situation.

“So, even now that we have oil we are borrowing and we are not expanding the economy. In the next in 35 to 40 years, assuming we don’t discover more oil reserves, what will happen to our children and grandchildren? Do we begin to plan a country where our children and grandchildren will become slaves? Even now, Nigerians are running out of this country. There was a time we were talking about check out, but now that slogan has died down.

“It will come to that point government must look for ways to expand the economy. We must look for other ways of earning money. We must go back to farming. And not just subsistent farming that we know, but really taking farming as a business. We must create wealth through farming; we must industralise; we must begin to produce things in this country and we need resources to do that.

“And, especially with the number of people graduating from the universities every year, how do we create jobs for them? And I believe we cannot continue with the number of people graduating from the universities every year. How do we create jobs for them? And I believe we cannot continue to borrow. In fact, last year, our capital budget was N1.146 trillion and we borrowed the whole capital budget and even a little more.

“This year, with the present budget, we are paying back the part of the money we borrowed, but what is in the budget is only N560 billion, just about half of the money we borrowed. Who will pay the balance and when, with interest? There is no way we can continue to run the economy this way.

“We find it difficult to do things that appear not to be popular and I know that one of the things that worry us is the fear of the unknown. If there is subsidy, what will life be? Yes we know there will be a little pain because we know ourselves; Nigerians sometimes exploit opportunities.

“Ordinarily, the pains would have been minimal in the sense that as we are talking now diesel is deregulated since Obasanjo’s time and nobody is going to touch diesel and most of the vehicles we use in carrying load use diesel.

Ordinarily, transport cost for any vehicle that uses diesel is not supposed to change, but Nigerians, being who they are, at the beginning will try to be funny and we must encourage use of gas and all that and use of vehicles that have fuel efficiency.

Most countries, even the bulbs they use now are the ones that consume very little power. Nigerians must adjust and I believe that apart from the fact that some people will want to exploit us at the beginning, just like when GSM just came in, when MTN started, they were even hoarding the sim cards.

To buy a sim card at a time, you had to do funny things because people were desperate, but now the companies give you sim card with credit on it just to hook up to their line. I tell Nigerians that we are very hopeful and so nobody should fear.

“There is no government, maybe in very few cases in history. Well, it is also recorded somewhere in the Bible where somebody wanted to take over from the father and promised to flog the people more, but of course we also know what happened, the whole empire scattered. There is nobody who will want to deliberately inflict suffering on his people. Goodluck Jonathan can never be one.”

The President went on as the audience listened attentively:

“I know the pains Nigerians are passing through, yes, I am here in the State House and being fed by government, but that does not keep me so far from the people. There is no day that I don’t interact with Nigerians both low and high and I appreciate the pains of the people.

We are facing challenges but we must take certain decisions to reposition our economy so that things will ease out. If we don’t have the courage to do so, then we will continue to be dying in pains, until God knows when. So, my belief is that at a particular time, people must be courageous to take the rightful decisions.”

“We may experience some minor pains for some months, but people will want to exploit. Ordinarily if people don’t want to exploit us, it is supposed not to be so when you look at the chart, even if you remove subsidy on fuel on the world average, the price of fuel in Nigeria still be among the last 30 percent, the charts are there because most countries add a lot of tax on fuel, but we are not adding any tax”.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/29952-why-fuel-subsidy-must-go-now-by-jonathan.html
Politics › Re: *~ Gbawe Voted The Politics Section Poster Of The Year *~ Congratulations by Beaf: 1:07am On Dec 16, 2011
I was rigged out by Jarus, so I urge everyone to vote for [size=14pt]OnlyTruth [/size] as da man! cool
Politics › Re: Do You Agree With NLC That Jonathan Is Too Dull For Nigeria? by Beaf: 12:57am On Dec 16, 2011
dayokanu:
^^ EGbon mi razists

Some things are beyond you.

So it was ONLY in UNILAG and UNIBEN where they carried coffin? You make me laff.

All cities and towns in the SW at least had mock funerals for IBB

if you were too young then ask those who knew
Thats a phucking lie. WE ORGANISED AND CARRIED OUT THE RIOTS.
NLC has always been a group of immoral bribe takers, except for the likes of Oshiomole.
Politics › Re: Do You Agree With NLC That Jonathan Is Too Dull For Nigeria? by Beaf: 12:53am On Dec 16, 2011
dayokanu:
^^ Actually the Pascal Bafyau led NLC did worse to IBB

Many even carried his coffin around proclaiming his death
That is a big lie. Pascal Bafyau sold out; it was Unilag and Uniben students that carried IBB's coffin. I WAS THERE.
frank Kokori was the only genuine guy in any union, the rest collected Ghana must go.
Politics › Re: Subsidy To Wait For Now –okonjo-iweala by Beaf: 12:43am On Dec 16, 2011
[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=825454.msg9774911#msg9774911 date=1323992463]You have not answered my question.[/quote]The answer to your question is at Yaba Left.
Never try to put words in the mouths of those that are smarter than you.
Politics › Re: Subsidy To Wait For Now –okonjo-iweala by Beaf: 12:38am On Dec 16, 2011
dmainboss:
Oga Beaf, no mind dem bo! Dem no know how far. If we catch dem for Enerhen junction, dem go know! lol
Lol! Warri must represent!
Politics › Re: Subsidy To Wait For Now –okonjo-iweala by Beaf: 12:35am On Dec 16, 2011
^
Abeg, pack the akanmu and beans from between your ears make we hear word jare!
Politics › Re: Subsidy To Wait For Now –okonjo-iweala by Beaf: 12:33am On Dec 16, 2011
dmainboss:
I come here trying to discuss with forward thinking Nigerians and all I see are idio.tic rascals posing as progressives (whatever that means these days). If you guys actually passed your exams in school and didn't use shukuli, then you would have tried to dissect the issues and discuss intelligently. But alas, you cannot, because you went to school with free education but no books and chairs to sit on. Lets break down the issues and lets see how much you know. Lets take away the insults and lets test your brains and see if you really passed your exams or you used expo!
Area!!!! grin

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