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Funny guy. Keep pretending. . . And googling.
Home and truth are just a ticket away. lol!!!

Look up the poverty map for relative poverty levels in Nigeria next, and faint.

edoyad:
Beaf that was totally uncalled for, the dude is anxious to learn about local stuff so why discourage him ?

You should get to know how many ignorant sweeping statements ekt_bear makes with authority and how shamelessly bigoted he is.

My apologies for digressing. . .
"Penkelemesi," I learnt that it means "perculiar mess." Is that true?

likeme:
i was about to post this. Is this guy exonerating them or what?

It only shows who is getting jittery and needing legal services.

a) That General Muhammadu Buhari, the CPC flagbearer was deeply pained and actually wept as the massacres were going on and he tried his best to stop them.
. . .
g) That President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku, General Aliyu Gusau and Alhaji Adamu Ciroma had absolutely nothing to do with the killings and neither did they at any time call for it or encourage it.

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It is never too late to develop a coherent foreign policy, indeed the current govt has shown determination to put Nigeria firmly on the Worlds political map.

kodewrita:
Dont seek greatness. Deserve it.


The security council is not our number one issue now. Lets focus on and solve our problems instead of useless grandstanding around the world.

Without luck, you are only as great as where you set your sights. The countries in the security council don't consider themselves to be grandstanding, so why should we limit our ambitions as grandstanding?
The quality of Nigeria's elections has drawn tremendous international interest, we should be wise to tap it for our benefit.

This news is a bit old, but I've heard some funny arguments on NL. lol!

https://www.cfnews13.com/images/apimages/Nigeria_Election_.sff-66695249-ab46-46a1-a63e-65532e018b99.jpg

https://www.digitaljournal.com/img/6/8/9/7/8/9/i/8/6/4/o/Abuja-underage.jpg

[size=14pt]Nabbed![/size]

[size=14pt]Election: PDP compiles evidence against Buhari [/size]
Written by Taiwo Adisa Monday, 25 April 2011

THE leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a special committee which is saddled with the collation of hard evidence meant to neutralise the allegations raised by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).

The committee, which is made up of lawyers and other technocrats, has, according to sources, started work with the collation of some reports said to be about 5,000 pages.

It was gathered that the intention of the party and the presidency is not just to defend the results of the election but to show evidence of election malpractices against the CPC.

[size=144pt]A source said that the PDP had deliberately kept quiet about allegations of vote rigging, voter intimidation and underage voting, which were allegedly rampant in states where Buhari was credited with massive votes and that the party had resolved to collate all such evidence to knock out Buhari's CPC or any of the parties which would decide to go to the election tribunal.[/size]

Sources said that the documentary evidence being collated include the postings on the social network sites of the youth corps members, who were victims of carnage in Bauchi.

One of the youth corps members had written in his Facebook account days before he was murdered that some CPC agents approached him and asked him to surrender leftovers of ballot papers for illegal thumbprinting.

It was further learnt that the PDP was planning to ensure that the tribunal effects substantial reductions if not nullify the results posted by the CPC in Kano, Bauchi, Gombe, Katsina and Borno.

Sources further confirmed that the PDP had prepared fully for the aftermath of the election, especially in view of the penchant of the opposition parties to approach election tribunals and obtain questionable judgments.

“Don't forget that we have seen the opposition at work and we have been the victims of their deft moves at the election tribunals on some occasions. This time, we are not taking chances. We are out to get Buhari's votes nullified in a number of states where irregularities were established.

“There were cases of religious and ethnic intimidation in parts of the states considered as CPC stronghold and we have evidence of underage voting well documented. The position of the law is that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

. . ,

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/20895-election-pdp-compiles-evidence-against-buhari

An "eyes open" relationship with the US will be of immense benefit to Nigeria' World standing and development. We must welcome Obama with open arms, he is one of ours and must be made to feel at home. We must also have minutely detailed plans, policies and guidelines for any relationship with the US.

The US can help us in quite a few technological areas if the flow of oil is guaranteed.
Of massively greater importance though, is the diplomatic clout the US brings to the table as a member of the security council. For years now, there has been a clamour for a widening of the security council, with the two contenders for Africa being Nigeria and SA.
Nigeria needs that security council seat, because by making us the undisputed African top dog, it will open all sorts of doors. Nothing will move on the continent without our input.

It goes without saying that SA has always looked the favourite for the spot whenever it becomes available, however in recent times, SA has made several foolish moves on the international scene, they have willingly went against the grain of international opinion in the buildup to the Libyan war, only to double back on themselves; something similar happened in Ivory Coast as well, they challenged Nigeria on our turf, scuttled all talks and sent in a warship, but they lost out badly yet again and ended up fully endorsing the Nigerian position.
SA's constant bumbling in this period makes it an opportune time to woo the US with oil. We can also woo the UK with our market (David Cameron has already strongly expressed optimism).

We can achieve a lot with the right friendships, so long as our eyes remain wide open.

[quote author=EzeUche__ link=topic=657478.msg8235470#msg8235470 date=1304185981]The SE has always extended our hands to help others. Beaf, you should know that my brother. The Ndigbo have always been a friend of the SS. Heck, an Igbo man even created the SS.

We all know the weakest link in the South and they shall not be named. Thankfully, many are seeing the light for the first time.[/quote]Nah dude, I don't wish to point fingers, don't let fools like Rhino 5dm force your hand.
There is much too much bad blood between the SE and SW, that singular fact is really holding the country down. That is what the core-North used to wrap the vastly more educated parts of the country around their fingers.

My heart really weeps each time I see the sort of senseless quip from seanet that kicked off the current bash fest.

GEJ has created an easy rapport between the SS, Middle Belt and SE (especially the SE), being from a neutral ethnic group he must strive to build the same rapport with the SW and work to stop this self-destructive madness; otherwise, as soon as he's gone, we will be back under the boots of the core-Northern hegemonist cabal.

seanet02:
Minus Yoruba, Itshekiri and Edo People. Plus Ibo People.

This is weak mindedness and the reason Nigeria from Southern Kaduna downwards have been held hostage by the minority core-North (and that includes two major ethnic groups).

It is difficult to quantify the foolishness that ethnic bigotry creates in individuals and whole regions. The singular reason the core-North is more backward than the rest of the country is a double whammy of religious and ethnic bigotry, Lagos and other ethnic melting pots like Warri and PH, are the direct opposite and it shows.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=300410.msg8235240#msg8235240 date=1304182685]+ 2nd largest # of livestock in the country, from the government site.

Hrm, well done indeed. I underestimated them.[/quote]That is all you spend time doing. If you want to learn about Nigeria, get on a plane, fly home, learn where your village is and start from there.
Learn first hand, cos google cannot help you. You will also be much more useful on the ground to raise your states IGR from 4.2 (which is about the worst in the South and one of the worst in the country) to a higher level; it would also help remove your head from the clouds and stop you you badmouthing areas/regions that are more developed than yours.

Kobojunkie:
That is because I don't subscribe to the pack mentality, that many of those you are used to ,do. I try to see things as they really are . . . not create fantastical views of reality like you do.  

People come here every other month to cry and wail on the very same things quarter after quarter. When the rest of the world has moved on to other problems we are still stuck tangling with the same old that we could easily fix if only we would use our heads.

You are always on the wrong side because you are always shallow witted, and always bloody loud about it. Where you not one of Buhari's most vociferous supporters?

“They stopped the car and started destroying it. There were two girls sitting in the back of the car. I saw it with my own eyes when they brought out the two girls and killed them with machetes. They were shouting “Sai Buhari”, “Sai CPC”, “Allahu Akbar.” They held the two girls and killed them. They stopped our bus and they were asking us to come down. As I was coming out, I shouted Sai Buhari, Sai CPC, Allahu Akbar. They said this is our own and they let me pass. But the girl behind me was scared. She could not say anything. She did not understand Hausa and they killed her.”[

Dude, read the above and go wash your hands before talking rubbish here.

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Some of us screamed our lungs out about the bakwardness, evil and primitivity that Buhari stands for. The wanton killings have backed up our arguments.
May the souls of the fallen rest in peaces and God soothe the hearts of the bereaved.

SU2011:
Its like some people's brain is made of ice cream. How can they accuse GEJ of aiding Ohakim to cling onto power. The annoyance or frustration should be directed to INEC and not to GEJ. GEJ is doing nothing to influence the outcome of the election. He is presently in Obudu for a retreat. He supported Ohakim just like every politician would do. Fashola supports every ACN candidate anywhere in Nigeria even though some may be rogues. Also note that GEJ cannot direct INEC to declare anyone winner as some of you are demanding. INEC is doing its best considering the situation it finds itself. They cancelled elections in some areas where ohakim rigged massively. That is what created the stalemate. If they declare Rochas winner with the already collated result, Ohakim will easily upturn the election even in a magistrate court. People should make sure they go out and vote and protect their votes on May 6th. Hopefully there will be more security forces to check Ohakim and his group from rigging. The elections are usually better when its focused on a small area as INEC is able to concentrate its resources in that small area. Please GO AND VOTE ON MAY 6TH.

Don't mind people like Gbawe, they stretch things until their logic sounds artificial and their words sound incredible, petty, contrived and dishonest.

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Your efforts will be very much appreciated, but definitely don't post stuff that will give away your identity.
You could simply copy and paste interesting titbits, then those who are interested enough can follow your links and pay for the articles themselves.

ola olabiy:
Beaf, PIB will never be passed in its undiluted form. Never, IMO.

I have about 10 reports/articles from Mckinsey, The Economist, D & B, Mintel, FT, etc about this issue.

Most posters on this forum don't understand politics, a la Nigeria. And, the interest of the so-called West.
And that of Nigerian overlords. There exists a certain circle in our society that many don't know.
Let them continue to wish for a just and egalitarian society just like my dad used to.

Make dem siddon there.

Dude, can you share some of the contents of your reports here? There's already some pretty ugly stuff about govt/oil company relations in our local press, eg in the extract below:

In a recent related publication through the noisy Wikileaks, it was revealed that the foreign adversaries of the PIB described the content of the Oil & Gas Bill as "too nationalistic."

It was gathered that trouble actually began for the local and international enemies of the Bill in August 2009 when the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), under the then Director-General, Dr. Christopher Anyanwu, wrote a petition to the then Vice President, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck, on how the Petroleum Ministry had unilaterally reversed the government policy on this Bill.

It was learnt that the president had revisited the Anyanwu's petition, which had then revealed the negative role the NNPC and the Petroleum Resources Ministry played in attempting to pollute the Bill through a subversive memo they jointly submitted to the National Assembly Public Hearings on PIB, which took place between the July 27 and 31, 2009.

Titled, The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) Unilateral Reversal Of FGN Policy Decisions On Private Sector Participation In The Oil And Gas Sector By The Petroleum Ministry, the BPE instructive petition, copied to the then President Umaru Yar'Adua) and the Attorney-General of the Federation, disclosed to the presidency the parallel memo that the Petroleum Ministry called, Inter-Agency Memo (IM), submitted to the Public Hearings at the bi-cameral legislature.

The petition noted that the toxic memo sought "fundamental changes to the PIB that were not contained in the Policy documents approved by the FEC before it was sent to the National Assembly, "

The BPE D-G then reported in the petition that specifically, it was strange that the 'subversive' memo, which contained proposed fundamental amendments to the PIB contrary to the details approved by the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) or the Federal Executive Council (FEC), was submitted by the then Petroleum Resources Minister, (Dr. Rilwanu Lukman).

It reported that the collaborative memo was "tantamount to a unilateral reversal of FGN policy as approved by FEC."

Also fundamental to the amendment sought by the unilateral IM, according to the BPE report, was the way the participation of the Private Sector in the Industry by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources would be affected, contrary to the original draft by the FEC approved for the Executive Bill submitted to the National Assembly.

It was learnt that in recent weeks, the President has been thoroughly briefed, to deepen understanding of the import of the BPE alert dated August 24, 2009, which had formed the basis for the reverses that the PIB has suffered and, of course, why the masterminds of this delay strategy had artfully pushed the recently signed "Local Content Bill" as a palliative to be seen as a credible alternative to the PIB.

The Guardian confirmed that the President, who is already concerned by lack of clear-cut legacy his administration would want to seek to leave even after winning the April election, "is now quite persuaded that unless the Bill that seeks to change the way the NNPC has been doing unprofitable business, is passed, no president, no matter how powerful, can reform the NNPC to be fruitful in public interest," said a president's confidant.

Besides, the president is said to be concerned that the Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, who was an executive director in Shell and at the moment has about five Shell staff as her Special and Technical Assistants, may not be able to guide him (the president) to get the PIB passed.

Wikileaks also revealed this unhealthy relationship. Same for the president's Adviser on Petroleum, Dr. E Egboga, whose two Technical Assistants are from Shell and Mobil, respectively.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40655:forces-against-petroleum-industry-bill&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

The one positive, is that the President seems pretty determined to get the bill through:

Consequently, the president, who has realised how critical the Bill is to the prosperity of the country he is bidding to continue to lead till 2015, is reportedly “ready to pull down all the strongholds, all the principalities and powers in the oil sector that have strategically sabotaged the Bill,” as a presidential aide confided.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40655:forces-against-petroleum-industry-bill&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Crude Oil:
Majority of Nigerians don't know or care about what happens in the oil sector, so protesting over the issue would be strange. The corruption in the oil sector is disgusting. Nigeria loses billions of dollars annually due to the corruption and inefficiency in the oil sector.
The PIB is not perfect, but it would definitely correct most of the problems in the sector.

Its sad isn't it? You hear so many people screaming themselves to death about corruption in Nigeria without knowing its genesis. Nigeria runs on a system of patronage that is anchored around oil.
We all know how the lines of funds run between Abuja and the states, unknown to most though, is the sheer scale of ineptitude, corruption and stvpidity practised by past govts on the production side. It is frightening! The oil companies simply drill for any quantity of oil they like, they declare what they want to the FG (who have no means of verifying), export the rest for private pockets and get an almajiri in Abuja to sign. Yes, with the current system, Nigeria does not know how much oil she makes daily; the likes of Shell and Chevron simply tell us whatever quantity they like. Shocking, but true!

It reallly is in everyones interest to learn about the PIB. Those from places like Lagos, Kogi etc that have been promised refineries and fertilizer plants need to know that these things are based on the PIB. Its a fight for all of us and one we must win.

GEJ managed to push it through the House of Rep earlier this year, but the ba'stards in the senate held it up. These people need to be "persuaded."

Crude Oil:
I dont think the PIB would be passed this year. There are lots of issues hindering the passage. Firstly, the oil majors are there to ensure that its passage is frustrated.
PENGASSAN wants issues facing oil workers to be addressed first before the bill is passed- and this would take a long time.
Nigerian legislators are too corrupt and selfish.
Alot of elements (mostly nigerians) are against the passage of the bill because it would push them out of business. I know how hard senator Lee fought to ensure that the Local content bill was passed.

These fears make me believe that Nigerians need to take their destiny in their hands, especially as the FG is on song. We need to take to the streets force the NASS to bend to the will of the people, or we burn the fvcking place down.

Gbawe:
Abeg go and sit down. Who has time for you any longer?

Those who live by the jaundiced word of Sahara Reporters and who pretend that FG and state level politics are the same wouldn't have my time of course.
I'll repeat that its only cabal lackeys that think there is currency in foolishly making up stories to bash GEJ. The vast majority Nigerians have been liberated, they feel reinvigorated and look forward to a great tomorrow; the country is also moving forward at a rate of knots. . . But we expect the usual lackeys to pick up their stones and spew gutter crap and rumour, cos they do not see that their Northern cabal masters, Ciroma etc, have been deservedly clobbered, diced and traunced.

Shame on you for your belief in Sahara Reporters.

Read the article below and decide where you stand. Also what actions to take and how far to push such actions.
Its about throwing off our slavery to the likes of Shell for our future, for prosperity and development. The passing of the PIB has the potential to shoot Nigeria's income from $102billion to a whopping $680billion per annum, thats an incredible expansion of the economy by any measure.

Now that our votes finally count, our voices MUST count also.

[size=14pt]Nigeria's oil bill faces major obstacles[/size]

Published: April 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria, April 29 (UPI) -- Nigeria's newly elected president faces a plethora of problems plaguing Africa's most populous nation but the toughest is likely to be enacting sweeping reforms of the troubled oil industry, the nation's economic lifeline.

The Petroleum Industry Bill remains blocked in the Nigerian National Assembly, where it was first presented in January 2009.

This blueprint to overhaul the energy industry in sub-Saharan Africa's second largest economy and boost state revenues is bitterly opposed by the international companies, which produce up to 98 percent of the country's oil, and entrenched Nigerian interests that have gotten fat on poorly monitored oil revenues for decades.

President Goodluck Jonathan, elected in an April 16 vote, has vowed the contentious PIB will be approved by the end of the current administration May 29.

But, with the increasingly complex bill shelved by the Senate in March despite intense lobbying by the executive, that seems a remote prospect.

The uncertainty surrounding the PIB, says Anthony Goldman, chief executive of London's PM Consulting, "has already forced the government to abandon a lucrative oil licensing round."

"Investment in new projects in the sector more generally has also been constrained; ambitious plans for an $80 billion integrated gas gathering and processing system remain exactly that: ambitious plans."

All told, industry officials say up to $120 billion in oil and gas industry investment, largely by Royal Dutch Shell, Total of France and Chevron of the United States, has been stalled because of the PIB impasse.

The Lagos Independent newspaper says if the projects were implemented, they "have the capacity to ramp up Nigeria's crude oil production capacity to more than 4 million barrels per day and liquefied natural gas to about 70 million metric standard cubic feet per year."

The country's oil output under the Nigerian National Petroleum Co., the state oil company, is around 2.3 million bpd of light crude. It's in demand since Libya's exports of that grade of oil have been cut off.

Nigeria has proven oil reserves of 3.72 billion barrels, plus undeveloped gas reserves of 173.6 trillion cubic feet.

The NNPC, according to the U.S. strategic consultancy Stratfor, "is widely regarded as a corrupt and ineffective organization that enables a broad patronage network" that's closely linked to the country's volatile politics "with decisive power vested in the president.

"Competition for ever-greater allocations of oil revenue has created an artificial reliance on the central government, with the NNPC serving as the chief enabler.

"Hence, any attempt to restructure the NNPC will affect the country to its core, impacting entrenched political power bases as well as average Nigerians."

The PIB, considered the most ambitious attempt yet to reform Nigeria's oil industry, is intended to create a comprehensive legal framework for the oil and gas industry. Through it, the government seeks to attain several important objectives, primarily increasing state revenues by increasing taxes on international companies, freeing the NNPC from dependence on federal funding, deregulating the downstream sector and developing gas production.

"At the core of the rot in the oil industry is the NNPC, the state oil company, which has become a byword for corruption and inertia," Goldman observed in January analysis in the Financial Times.

"Oil production has been stagnant … for a decade; vast reserves of natural gas are for the most part either wasted or unexploited."

Goldman said Nigeria's "toxic political culture dominated by vested interests" was snarling the PIB.

But he said there were grounds for hope that parliament will approve a compromise version of the bill in the months ahead, and put Nigeria's all-important energy industry back on its feet and into a new era.

Stratfor said the PIB could garner fresh impetus in the new Parliament.

"Despite widespread opposition, Abuja is hoping that a current combination of high oil prices and increased international competition will allow the PIB to be passed and enacted during the upcoming parliamentary session."

This would have geopolitical implications. The United States is increasing its imports of African oil as it seeks to break its dependence on the volatile Middle East.

Nigeria is the United States' fourth largest supplier of oil, nearly 1 million bpd, after Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. West Africa is expected to produce one-fifth of U.S. oil imports by 2015.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2011/04/29/Nigerias-oil-bill-faces-major-obstacles/UPI-30601304091103/#ixzz1KwBVGUkW

Its really dim to keep bringing up Jonathans name in all sorts of silly ways. But little more can be expected of core-Northern cabal lackeys, the likes of Ciroma, IBB and Atiku say jump and the fools ask, "how high?" Its always been the way the South and Middle Belt were kept in bondage.
In the recent past, it was all the rage for the enslaved to shoot themselves in the foot by claiming that being thoughtful and following procedure was somehow a display of weakness, while throwing stones and other uncivilised brainless displays of brawn in the street were the peak of courageous "leadership."

The cabal has been defeated and the country is sailing forward, the last few lackeys are going to begin looking as dimwitted as they really are.
Only a fool thinks he can campaign by impugning GEJ's name.

Shame on you Gbawe.

jason54321:
STFU you this Igbo man or woman pretending to be Yoruba. I have noticed your post reeks of hypocrisy and deceit!!! If its your aim for me to join Igbos, I WILL NOT!!!! Bloody Igbo pretender.
@ other usernames, if you do not believe my accusations, please read all his/her post and you will noticed he/she is IGBO!!! What a dumb A55!!! You sha want everyone to join you, abi?? Why can you be on your own Thats how that other Igbo man, fromed a thread about the progress of the SE and SS because the SW formed a similar one. Now, the question is, WHY ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO GROUP US TOGETHER!!! Must we secede together?? Even if we secede together, I know you guys just want to expand your territory. I hope my SS brothers can see through you guys like glass!!!
Thats how the "Ogoni" man too was telling me "he wants MEND to be Biafra's militant group or the Igbo militant group" can you imagine the insult Now tell me, why can't the SE form their own militant group?? Does the SS or SW not have theirs?? A "SS" man now wants to use MEND, as the Igbo militant group. . . . .
Well, my true SS brothers, all I will say, is be careful, be very careful and vigilant!!!!

As for you. You are an Immature Idi.ot who the CRIMINAL tinubu pays to do his internet work. All I will tell you is, "Pride comes before a MIGHTY fall". Keep boasting, keep showing off, so shall destruction come. I hope it will not be too late for the Yoruba race to kick some of you stu.pid people out!!! ODE!!!

Olabukola is Yoruba.

[quote author=onye_ngbu* link=topic=656350.msg8228806#msg8228806 date=1304088149]Orikinla u sound pathetic these days.
It is likely these threat will not be carried out but; what made u think wars are won by number of soldiers?

By the way, the biafra u mentioned comprises mainly barefooted, starved, stick wielding teenagers but they were able to take more equipped, multitude of federal forces for 30 MONTHS![/quote]Dude is a chicken.
Was it not the same militants that meted defeat after defeat to JTF that was specially set up and armed with $3.3billion? As they say, cowards die many times.
Left to cowards, the ND would still be enslaved to the core-North. Its pathetic the way some jump at their own shadows.

@Orikinla
By the way, the army is 75% Christian, and thats from a man who should know; Gen. Buhari. Please stick to writing poems or whatever.

[quote author=Beaf! link=topic=656718.msg8228380#msg8228380 date=1304083690]Are you saying we've had beaf in this forum before me?

What do you want Seun to investigate? Open a panel of enquiry?[/quote]Calm down, son. Your brain fvck is due to the cramping blows I've been obliged to deliver to loud dunces of your kind in mind boggling style.

What we see in you are the after-effects of your total mental discombobulation. It makes you wanna be me. LOL!
How does it feel to be so astonishingly pathetic?

https://perlbal.hi-pi.com/blog-images/82472/gd/1283266482/Brain-Explosion-Zone.jpg

igbo boy:
Although i agree with you about not bringing in tribal sentiment but biko what is good for the goose is good for the gander finito, Uduaghan aint no saint but if ibori can misbehave for 8yrs and yet everyone kept quiet then it is when it is a non urhobo man that everybody remembers good governance?

Samething on the national level when yoruba and hausa where ruling back then their people no know wetin dem dey call good governance but all of a sudden an Ijaw man is in Aso rock then they know PDP is evil, they know what is good and bad all of a sudden okwa ya?

As a deltan my self I wont rate uduaghan above or below Ibori he is just there, but he has right to chop oil money to0!!

Now when we as deltans or nigerians want REAL CHANGE then we would grow beyond ethnic sentiment, Truth be told uduaghan haters are mostly urhobos and GEJ's hater mostly yoruba and hausa, when ACN can rise above regional/ethnic policy they will have my vote (unless they present FASHOLA for presidencynow now now, cos whether i like yoruba or not the man dey perform and that is an objective statement, finito)

I used to be an Uduaghan supporter until these elections. The way things played out in Delta state was an absolute disgrace with ballot snatching, intimidation, killings etc. We are not bush people, so why would Uduaghans politics be so deadly and agricultural. Why rig so blatantly?

I believe Great Ogboru will win at the tribunal. The Delta state governorship election was an absolute disgrace.

Katsumoto:
But that is an implausible plan; you are likely to run into more almajiri's on the streets in the North. Are they more useful than people who are gainfully employed down south? Those that need targeting can not be attacked using 'militants in a bus' strategy because they are NOT going to be on the streets. The action of targeting prominent Northerners will lead to a war of attrition. MEND will never go up North to take action that can be traced to them.

Besides, you are unlikely to gain anything from the murder of a doctor or shoe-shiner. You don't feel more fulfilled by killing a graduate than you would, if you had killed a suya seller. Life is life.

The distinct impression I get from the communique is that they are thinking about high level assassinations. That can be carried out anywhere.

@egift
Please quit referring to me. No offense, but we have little to talk about.

Failing which, the millitants shall mobilize for "vengance and anger on all Hausa and Fulani people we can find inside and outside our region."

Basically, they are seeking excuses to launch country wide actions. ND people generally feel very cheated, brutalised and violated by the core-North, so its like a tinder box, especially with the highly id!otic noises Buhari has made about SE/SS elections, the Ciroma zoning rubbish, and the recent killings in the core-North.

IMHO, the threat will come to nothing in the end, not because the boys lack the spirit, but because the FG is alpha and omega, it will make it known to them that it can take care of its own shyte, and they will be hunted down for any crimes they commit as Nigerian citizens.
The only real way the militants can go after Hausa's, is if they declare independence and go back to war, that ain't happening soon. However, the call by the militants is very eyecatching, it adds extra pressure and diversity to calls for Buhari's arrest from the likes of Oritsejafo and Wole Soyinka. There have also been weighty calls to caution Buhari from the likes of Gani's son. The calls are coming in thick and fast, they will very likely prove impossible to overlook.

dayokanu: MEND should get a bis and go to Kano to attack the Hausas and not attack helpless Hausas in the Delta

What makes you think they will be attacking helpless people in the ND? They haven't told you who, where and what they are threatening to attack.

@topic
These guys are the real deal, not the aboki MEND that has been setting off bombs indiscrimibately all over the place (in so many cases, stvpidly blowing themselves up as well). This is the real deal, so there is real weight to their words.

[size=14pt]RPT-ANALYSIS-Nigerian elections seal major power shift[/size]
Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:57am GMT

* Northern leaders extract promises for backing Jonathan

* North traditionally controls power, the south the economy

* Tackling Nigeria Delta, blackouts, graft must be priority

By James Jukwey

ABUJA, April 27 (Reuters) - A decisive election victory by President Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria has shifted power firmly to the largely Christian south from the Muslim north and could reopen political fissures in Africa's top energy supplier.

Violence swept northern cities, leaving hundreds of people dead and many homeless after Jonathan's crushing victory over his northern opponent Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler.

"Jonathan's landslide, though on the surface it appears like a resounding pan-Nigeria mandate, has brought back with a vengeance all the religious and sectional cleavage, not to mention ethnic bitterness," Olakunle Abimbola of The Nation newspaper wrote in a column.

Many people see the riots as a reaction by the north to being cut adrift from power and say Jonathan will have to tread gingerly to avoid fuelling resentment in the vast impoverished area. So far the president has said his victory is for all Nigerians and his aides have refrained from being triumphalist.

Although Buhari won in almost all Nigeria's northern states, Jonathan also picked up millions of votes and his northern backers -- particularly in the elite -- have high expectations.

"His inauguration as president on May 29 will be payback time," a senior member of the Arewa Consultative Council, a northerner leaders forum, told Reuters.

"To win the presidency on the first ballot, as he did, he met many times with northern leaders and made many promises. One of the concessions is that he will serve one term which we will hold him to," said the member, who asked not to be named.

The council, some of whose top members were targeted in the post election violence for backing Jonathan against Buhari, was counting on the north getting key posts and projects, the member added.

"It will be quite difficult for him to govern because there are so many interest groups to satisfy," the member said.

After independence from Britain in 1960, the understanding among Nigerians for many years was that the less advanced north held political power, while the south, where Christianity and Western-style ideas have long held sway, controlled the economy.

But that implicit north-south deal was always on shaky ground.

Southern soldiers staged Nigeria's first coup in January 1966, killing mainly northern political and military leaders.

That sparked a 30-month civil war, killing more than a million from fighting and starvation, ending with the north firmly in control when the breakaway Biafra republic surrendered.


BALANCING ACT

The north-south balancing act faced another challenge when self-made billionaire Moshood Abiola, a Yoruba from the southwest, won a presidential vote on June 12, 1993.

Alarmed, the generals in power at the time annulled the vote and within a few months the diminutive dictator General Sani Abacha seized power and clamped Abiola in jail, waving aside local and international appeals to free the election winner.

Both men died mysteriously in 1998 within a month of each other, in Abiola's case in prison, triggering riots in his Yoruba stronghold in and around Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city and commercial capital.

Their demise, however, cleared the deck for the restoration of democracy in 1999, with a tacit understanding by the dominant PDP party that power would switch between north and south, each serving two four-year terms.

Olusegun Obasanjo, a southerner, duly served two terms as president and was succeeded by an ailing northerner, Umaru Yar'Adua, on whose death, Jonathan, then vice president, took over last year as stipulated by the constitution.

Some northern politicians demanded he serve out Yar'Adua's term and stand down to let the north back in. Instead the former university lecturer stood and won the PDP nomination and then the presidency.

"In the south, we are feeling liberated from many years of northern rule," retired businessman Joshua Ajayi told Reuters.

ECONOMIC DISPARITY

Now the north appears to have lost political power and has no economic levers to compensate for it.

The vast region is in tatters, with most of its agriculture shrivelling due to neglect and dry conditions especially in areas close to the Sahel region.

Children, encouraged by an Islamic culture of alms giving, roam northern cities begging for handouts, an uncommon sight in the south where people tend to fend for themselves.

Years of hydrocarbon exploration in the Lake Chad region in the north, where oil is being exploited on the other side of the border, has not yielded anything that can be commercially mined.

In contrast, large, bustling industrial cities like Lagos, Port Harcourt and Onitsha continue to thrive in the south and attract migrant workers and business activity.

"The president had better summon the political will to set into motion radical processes to restructure Nigeria along productive federal lines, instead of being lulled by a false dawn of a 'pan Nigeria' mandate," The Nation's Abimbola said.

And managing the north-south split is far from his only challenge.

Jonathan is the architect of an amnesty for insurgents that has halted militant attacks on oil installations in the Niger delta, his home turf, where nearly all of Nigeria's economic lifeblood oil and gas is produced.

Many people will be looking to him to use his mandate to end once and for all hostilities that nearly paralysed Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.

Also crying out for his attention is a lack of public power supply, which Jonathan has long promised to remedy, as well as corruption, which many say are Nigeria's two main drawbacks.

"He has to fight corruption," said Rilwan Musa, a political analyst from the north. (Editing by Nick Tattersall and Andrew Heavens)

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So far, CPC the hollow party has won only Nasarawa (watch how that gov defects  before the next election. lol). I wonder how Buhari dreamt he would govern the country without any senators, reps or governors? He's been used again, because he is a bit simple minded.

CPC will collapse before the next elections, perhaps in only a few short weeks from now. Nigerians can safely wave bye-bye to the party whose only means of campaigning and communicating was by throwing rocks in primitive style.

@monkeyleg

E be like say you owe me!
The way things are going, those luvly's and odeku's you promised can't escape me now! LOLZ!

Shell connecting gas to peoples houses? lol, dude where are you?

I have come to the realisation that ekt_bear has never set foot in Nigeria. His whole knowledge of the country is from the internet.
I feel sorry for him for that. But why would he argue so much when it is evident that he is really ignorant?