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Kobojunkie:
The evidence is all too clear which one of us is the fool here . . . you just wasted half a day rambling, only to, in the end, admit, you need those whom you seem to HATE SO MUCH for your onion etc supplies  . . lol

ah ah  . . . even primary one pupil from abia for don answer simple come  shut up tey . . . lol . I was waiting there for you to reveal to use that the supply actually comes from one of the eastern states, only for you to admit the initial claim was right after all.

Was there ever any dispute about where onions come from? Did I ever "admit" a need for anybody or region? What a fool!
Dude, go argue with your toilet seat, where you can make up any opposing "arguments" that catch your fancy. You are known for that.

Dunce.

If you can't understand this extremely simple sentence, do not propagate your DNA:

Grow the onions, we will buy them from you. If you don't sell, they will rot, or will you start eating onions like bread?

^
It looks like its raining fools these days.

Abagworo:
@beaf.Your belief in oil is part of our problem.Get your mind off it for we neither planted it nor can we harvest it.I seem to always disagree with your comments and they sometimes are unnecessarily aggressive.You tend to believe that only your village has oil.

Imo State has a vast oil reserve and the oil producing communities are still the major food producers.Why not remind us that Delta produces one of the best garri in Nigeria as well as rubber.

You must be a dumb cretin. The thread is not long, anybody can find that the person who introduced oil was Ndu Chucks, right here:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590888.0.html#msg7583833

. . .But you are naturally blind and dishonest like an Ndu Chucks replica, so no biggies.

Throw that code away, because it wouldn't take a toddler to download your whole database.

Start from scratch, properly validate all user input and encapsulate you code in a class. You can then call the class through an include file on any page its functionality is needed.

[quote author=master-e link=topic=580226.msg7587650#msg7587650 date=1295802273]@beaf

If i shud deduce from your words, you are indirectly telling me using .NET is more thank ok in the Nigeria community.

Thanks[/quote]Yes it is, and there is much more targetted help available. Also, few people realise that the Visual C++ compiler is much better than gcc and the likes; the coding environment makes the likes of Eclipse, Code::Blocks, Boorland etc look quite plebian.
On the .NET side, there is simply no competition and practically all Windows computers have it installed; there is no RAD environment that can compete with .NET. The only issue I see is a small one with ASP.NET; it is the cost of hosting websites, it is slightly more costly than with Linux.

Kobojunkie:
Finally, a confession . . . . We need you to grow Onions etc for us . . . ROFLMAO!!!!! phew!!!

. . .Any other fools in the house?

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7590287#msg7590287 date=1295831697]Once again, story story. You are incapable of making a objective comment on the topic at hand because of your obsession with Northerners and the North. To be honest with you, you are disgracing yourself here and have become the emperor without clothes in the forum - a laughing stock. Northerners have absolutely nothing to do with your inability to produce ordinary onions in enough quantity to satisfy your needs.

Please have your customary last word on the issue, mumu.[/quote]I have heard this laughing stock talk from other thick heads when they have run aground. Go and train your people instead of jerking off to news of oil in other peoples lands and the paranoia that they might secede with it. Develop your people, train your almajiri's, they are a bigger resource than oil by several orders of magnitude.

The era of free money is over. Parasite.

Grow the onions, we will buy them from you. If you don't sell, they will rot, or will you start eating onions like bread?

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7589982#msg7589982 date=1295826796]Dude, you have my condolences, I didn’t realize that your obsession with Northerners or “North” has eaten you up this deeply.

You should be honest and objective enough to admit that it is the colossal failure of your leaders both in government and business, that lead to the disgrace of Onions being more expensive than a liter of oil. Instead of admitting this obvious failure, you are here attacking Northerners and the “North”.

No matter how hard you try, everyone who can read has seen that breeze don blow, fowl yansh don open, in this particular case. Keep burying your head in sand, in denial. Rakumin dajij.

P.S. You last post was hilarious. olodo [/quote]Maybe one day you people will stop obsessing about oil that exists in far off lands that aren’t yours and actually start doing a decent days job. It will serve you better than sour grapes. If only you cast your eyes closer to home, you will find that the North you come from is worth much more than the onions and tomatoes you are flaunting like they are diamonds.

Forget about oil and onions and educate the 10 million almajiri's that have become an economic and security burden. They are a vast human resource that has been reduced a private army of readymade Neanderthal rioters who live a dog’s life.

I have frequently posted on NL that there are many cities the World over that have a greater GDP than the whole of Nigeria put together. London’s budget is quite a few times the size of the Nigerian budget, yet there are several cities like Tokyo that make London’s economic output look like child’s play. And it doesn’t stop with the developed World, cities like Sao-Paulo and Buenos-Aires also outstrip Nigeria in economic output, yet they are mere cities.
Do you want to know the secret? It isn't from oil, but from investments in and nurturing of their human resources. Progressive Northerners are strategising about how to educate and harness the catastrophically wasted resource that almajiri's present, while you are here regressively obsessed with other peoples oil. I repeat, my state doesn't need the oil, except that in God's wisdom, we hold churn out 35% of the nation’s output.

You need to think human resource and stop the small minded strategising around oil and onions.

[size=14pt]Northern leaders shocked over IBB’s support for Jonathan[/size]
Written by Taiwo Adisa, Abuja
Monday, 24 January 2011

FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, was said to have shocked top political leaders of the North, especially those in the vanguard of consensus presidential candidate

from the area, over his decision to congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan, on his victory at the January 12 presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Sources informed the Nigerian Tribune that Babangida’s decision to congratulate Jonathan was seen as an endorsement of the president and an indication that the former military leader had abandoned the zoning agenda. It was gathered that the decision came as a rude shock to leaders of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).

At separate meetings held after the PDP convention, sources confirmed that the pro-zoning leaders expressed surprise about Babangida’s action.

A source at one of the meetings hosted by NPLF’s leader, Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, said that Ciroma and others were in shock when they were told that Babangida might have jettisoned zoning to back Jonathan.

General Babangida had promptly congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan upon his victory at the PDP national convention on January 12, in a move seen by many as statesmanly.

But some supporters of the former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar saw the move as a sell-out and that it might have underscored the series of betrayals suffered by Abubakar’s presidential bid.

Those who defended Babangida, however, said that he influenced Abubakar’s victory in Niger and Zamfara states, even while Abubakar could not deliver his home state, Adamawa.

Ciroma, was, however, said to have risen in defence of Babangida at one of the meetings, saying that Babangida would not betray the North.

Meanwhile, crisis seems to have broken out at the campaign headquarters of former Vice-President Abubakar over the control of campaign vehicles and equipment shortly after the conclusion of the presidential primary.

Sources confirmed that some chief campaigners of former Vice-President Abubakar were engaged in a bitter feud over the control of campaign vehicles immediately after the presidential primary.

It was gathered that days before Abubakar announced he was winding down activities of his campaign, some youth leaders in the campaign organisation had started withdrawing vehicles allocated to top campaign chiefs.

Six members of the campaign organisation were said to be involved in the forceful seizure before Atiku announced a stop to the exercise.

It could not be confirmed whether Atiku gave the orders, but sources said that the vehicles and other campaign equipment were forcefully withdrawn in many circumstances.

Complaints were, however, said to have reached the former number two man just before he wound down his campaign last week.

Atiku, at a meeting called to quell the growing battle among his chief strategists, was said to have asked that cars already forcefully withdrawn should be returned and that he was hopeful of working with the campaign chiefs in the future.

“The former vice- president said in a meeting that he had heard of the forceful seizure of some vehicles from top campaign officials. He also told the gathering he had heard complaints of stoppage of allowances due to those from amalgamated campaign body and that issues should be resolved amicably.

He asked the six officials involved in the unauthorised seizure of vehicles and other equipment to put a stop to the act immediately,” a source said.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/16518-northern-leaders-shocked-over-ibbs-support-for-jonathan

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7586378#msg7586378 date=1295784338]Are you this slow? The joke is on you pal! You claim that 35% of Nigeria's oil comes from your region and that you don't need oii. You further claimed that you have several sectors fully developed including airlines, boat buliding and marine services, timber and plywood, textiles.  You forgot to mention that the majority owners of several of those companies are not from the region - they are primarily Igbos, Hausas, and Yorubas.

You are yet to produce a single item for export with any meaningful impact to our economy - lazy people! I lived in the area and used to plant tomatoes in my backyard. I ask you again, name a single product that you have exported out of the region at a significant level.  Think of the answer and understand that the joke is on you. Do you produce tomatoes for local consumption? Even oinions can grow in your region, have you planted any?  

You people are just as lazy and unproductive as most other regions. All you depend on is bunkering, terrorism, and allocation from oil proceeds. You are parasites as well. olodo[/quote]Like I said earlier, Delta State has several large scale fishing industries and supply rubber, oil pam produce and shrimps for export. Our industries are owned by Deltans, not by almajiri's.

Dude, better buy a hyena and stick to clowning. You are the slow one and one of the slowest that exist indeed. It is your people that are known for laziness, illiteracy, backwardness, wickedness and a born to rule mentality that is greatly affecting your judgement and making you irrational.

Your first challenge to me was to give you a list of industries from my state. In words:

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Please name a single item that has been produced by your industries (if they exist) or your entrepreneurs. I’m sure you cannot name any.  Wadooo[/quote]To your embarrassment, I went on to name several areas where my state produces significant exports and an aggressive entrepreneurial spirit. Your reply is that others (like your leaders  who only produce dust, almajiri’s and obnoxious fools like Ciroma) own our industries. Of course, Olorogun Michael Ibru who started aero contractors, the provision of trawlers through Osadjere Fishing Company etc, while you were still in your diapers is a Hausa man. Same goes for the Ogboru’s, Sunny Odogwu’s, Nduka Obaigbena’s. Perhaps, the Gamaliel Onosode’s, Pat Utomi’s,  Okonjo-Iweala’s, Bruce Onobrakpeya’s, Ben Okri’s are all Hausa as well. Needless to say, 4 out of the top 10 richest Nigerians are from my state.

I would be quiet if I were you. Dude, the only thing your people are famous for in Delta State is begging and armed robbery along the roads to the East. Ask your useless elite why this is. Your people do not own any significant businesses in Delta State, in fact they are a drain on our economy.

Please help yourself and list any significant industries (or even schools) from your state. Also, dig deep into your soul to find out why it has taken someone from the South to begin the mass education of almajiri’s that your useless elite have preferred to churn out on an industrial scale. Instead of parading as Ndu Chucks, please revert to Ibn Muthalib or some username that does not decieve people about who you are.

[size=14pt]Rebranding the PDP (2)[/size]
Azuka Onwuka  azuka.brand@augustconsulting.biz  0809-URBRAND

Beginning of Transformation
The assumption of office by Dr Goodluck Jonathan on February 10, 2010 as the Acting President of Nigeria marked the beginning of the transformation of the Peoples Democratic Party. In place of arrogance came humility; in place of invincibility emerged the realization that it could be beaten; in place of unguarded comments appeared maturity.

Many reasons accounted for this new attitude. When Dr Jonathan took over as Acting President, one of the things he promised was that going forward, the votes of the people would count. He followed up this with action. In February 2010, a gubernatorial election was held in Anambra State. The incumbent Mr Peter Obi, a candidate of the All Progressives’ Grand Alliance (APGA), contested against Prof Chukwuma Soludo of the PDP, who had just completed his first term as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. There was also Dr Chris Ngige of the Action Congress of Nigeria, whose tenure as a PDP governor of Anambra State had been declared illegal by the court four years before. There was a feeling that the PDP would use its financial and coercive might to bulldoze its way to victory. There were rumours that key PDP personalities who had planned to be in Anambra State during the election to ensure victory for the PDP candidate were told by the Dr Jonathan to leave the state. Despite its many shortcomings, that election was judged as being relatively well organized going by the comments of voters, journalists and observers. PDP lost to APGA.

During the last days of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a group of PDP top shots led by the former President of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani, were expelled from the party for asking for the restoration of internal democracy within the party. After the swearing in of Jonathan, these men were readmitted into the party. It was a big sign that PDP was transforming. Not long after that, the Chairman of PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, came under pressure, reportedly from the presidency, to resign his office. The majority of Nigerians were not sad to see Ogbulafor go - he was the PDP chairman that had arrogantly said that the PDP would rule Nigeria for another 60 years. Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo took over the PDP chairmanship.



A Sober PDP
The loss of Ekiti and Osun States to ACN through court judgments helped to sober the PDP. The judgments of the court in those two cases helped to vindicate the people that the PDP had massively rigged the 2007 elections. In addition, President Jonathan sacked the Chairman of INEC, Prof Maurice Iwu, who had been accused of masterminding the rigging of the 2007 elections. He replaced him with Prof Attahiru Jega, a man known for leading the Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU) and challenging the dictatorship of General Ibrahim Babangida in the 1990s.

There arose a feeling among Nigerians that the 2011 general elections will be determined more by the votes of the people than the manipulations of the strongest and most influential. This gave the people a feeling of strength. That feeling made the PDP to change the tone of its language and its haughty attitude towards the opposition and the masses. The recent annulment of the election of the 2007 gubernatorial election of Delta State, which has been a PDP stronghold, was another blow to the party. For the first time, one could see a humble PDP campaigning and making all efforts to win the people’s votes. The stakes were so high during the re-run campaign that a day before the elections this January, the President and the Vice President as well as other PDP heavy weights were physically present in Delta State for a campaign rally meant to boost support for the PDP candidate, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan. It was unprecedented for both the President and the Vice President to abandon the seat of government to be at a campaign rally of a gubernatorial candidate at the same time. Fortunately for the party, its candidate won that election. It was reassuring that PDP had not totally been rejected by the people.

It was also interesting to see PDP run adverts in the papers and the electronic media urging Nigeria to shun thuggery, violence and vandalism during the general elections. Even though some viewers sneer whenever the advert is shown on screen, it is another sign that a new PDP has emerged.



Final Proof
The January 13, 2011 presidential primary was seen as a test case to gauge if any true change had taken place in the PDP. Given the rancour generated by the issue of which part of the country should produce the PDP candidate, there were fears that the outcome of the primary would cause an implosion in the party. The opposition was praying for the internal bitter politics within the PDP to cause a disintegration of the party. But the primary was so well conducted that even the enemies of the party gave it credit. Although there were allegations of behind-the-scene illicit practices by the key contestants, what Nigerians saw on the screen was so transparent and seamless that PDP received nothing but encomiums. Contrary to the praises received by the PDP, the opposition parties (especially the ACN, which had seemed to be the pace-setter in Nigerian politics) have received negative comments because of their not-too-exciting primaries.

The PDP presidential primary helped in no small way in remoulding the image of the PDP in the eyes of Nigeria. Gradually, the PDP is transforming and shedding the scales of the past. That transformation also came at an opportune time, because Nigerians had been pushed to the wall by the brand of politics and leadership the PDP-led government had been providing since 1999. There is no doubt that this transformation was solely the handiwork of President Goodluck Jonathan. It is another testimony (as was exemplified in Ghana by Jerry Rawlings) that it takes just a leader (rather than all the followers) to change the image and fortunes of an organization or a country. However, the final proof of PDP’s rebranding can only be determined after the conduct of the April elections. Nigerians are waiting to know if this change will be permanent.

http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=27593

Nsiman:
Tinibu's ACN consensus in his family is gej's pdp victory in Lagos and others. Gej carry go beyond may 29 jooor!

Precisely, Tinubu is just so involved with his corrupt pocket that he cannot see that Fashola's only hope might be to join PDP. Instead of combating that, he was busy doing the absolutely ridiculous, organising area boys to protest against the President for inciting the Ijaws and Itsekiri's against ACN in Lagos!
. . .Just daft. ACN is becoming the new joke.

If not for Fashola, there would be nothing at all worth looking at in ACN. It is a real trash heap led by a drug baron.

Despite the fact that after Atiku, the phrase, "consensus candidates" has become a new swear word, Tinubu's family friends and his girlfriends have inherited juicy party positions as "consensus candidates."

The part no one seems to get is why the criminal, Tinubu keeps doing his best to flush Fashola out. Its just damn incredible!
I see ACN crumbling in the very near future.

passyjango:
God bless you my brother, you are hitting the point. Our problem is our inability to use our brains. I have asked a question which no one seems to have answered. How do you fight corruption in a country where people are largely ignorant? It is due to ignorance that party delegates collect money to anoint a candidate. It is due to ignorance that voters collect incentive to vote for the wrong candidates. If they had spared some thought for the consequences of their action maybe they will not have collected bribes. Nigeria does not have enough prisons to lockup every Nigerian who engages in corrupt activities. Most of them even see nothing wrong with it. It is now a way of life. So enlightenment should be the first weapon in the fight against corruption not empty threats.

As for those proposing another 'White Elephant Project' of learning in local languages, you better kill that idea before it gets serious. We speak 250 languages, if all of us are studying in local languages how will we all communicate. After studying in a particular region will a student easily fit into another region's education system? And please, which of these 250 languages will be the official language? We need to know that English gives us competitive advantage; we should exploit them rather than set ourselves back another 100 years just for pride and grandstanding. The problem with our education is our teaching method not the language used.

You are really stretching the definition of ignorance, we need to stick closely to the dictionary meaning. After reading your arguments, I feel you really mean a mixture of illiteracy, mental laziness and carelessness, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Truth be told, ignorance has no part to play in the reasons for our lack of development, it is too vague a term.

As for learning in our traditional languages, I'm with you on that one. Despite the fact that it would tremendously improve depth of understanding, we have 250 different ethnic groups to cope with. The only way we can follow that path would be to adopt pidgin English as our official language, standardise it, and damn English forever. Pidgin English is the closest we can get to speaking our various mother tongues and being understood in every part of the country; the bonus, is that it is in most cases, a direct reordering of English into our local language pattern. I would very much prefer to learn physics in pidgin English.
In time, it will evolve into a completely new language. We'll have to rename it though, maybe call it Nigerian English or just plain Nigerian.
Wouldn't that be cool? Imagine asking someone, "how do you say this in Nigerian?"

Look On google, I discovered some nigerian, not knew to the nigeria govt or anyone.  I am the one who discovered them for the first time on google earth, they are like koma people.  [size=14pt]they live inside the kainji dam. A small island is inside the kainji dam[/size]. They dont know they are nigerian. they dont know Jonathan. And INEC have no booth inside . I look at them from the picture. They dont know the rest of us exist.

Damn!
Pesin go wound o!

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

Some of the placards read: “Mr President! Please Lagosians are peace-loving people; Mr President welcome to Lagos; Lagos is peaceful; Do not incite Itsekiri, and Ijaw against other ethnic groups; Let your votes count in the next general elections come April 2011”, among others.

Maybe Tinubu is finally running mad. First it was "dashing" of positions to family members and girlfriends, now it has graduated to absolutely ridiculous statements.

[size=14pt]North considers who to back against Jonathan[/size]
Yusuf Alli 23/01/2011 00:00:00

Ahead of general elections in April, northern political leaders have the task of backing   a strong presidential candidate from the region to run against President Goodluck Jonathan. This was part of decisions reached at a strategic meeting last week in Abuja, following Jonathan’s victory over former vice president Atiku Abubakar, a northerner, in the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primary held recently.   The northern front runners are  Mallam Nuhu Ribadu (Action Congress of Nigeria), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (Congress for Progressive Change) and Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau (All Nigeria Peoples Party).

The Nation learnt that the president is not taking the challenge lying low, and his loyalists have stepped up efforts to foil the alleged northern gang-up.

At the northern strategic meeting, it was learnt that the leaders analysed the strengths and weaknesses of Jonathan.

A reliable source confirmed that the leaders also considered the possibility of a run-off in case a winner did not emerge after the first ballot.

The source said: “At the meeting, the leaders isolated Ribadu, Buhari, and Shekarau but they have not reached any conclusion on who to back.

“In the next few weeks, the leaders will embark on mass consultations in the region on why the North must secure the presidency in 2011.

“I am sure that by February ending, the northern leaders would have defined their direction.

“What they agreed on is that a regional mobilisation should begin on the need for power to shift to the North in April especially in the light of the outcome of the presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party which favoured the President.

“If you observe, there is an intense campaign of blackmail, even in mosques and through text messages, against most of the Northern governors that supported Jonathan during the primaries.

”Although the Chairman of the Northern Political leaders Forum, Mallam Adamu Ciroma and a former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji M.D. Yusuf had cautioned against blackmail of pro-Jonathan governors and others, the situation has become tense in some northern states.

“Apart from mobilisation, the leaders also resolved at the meeting that the pro-zoning suit should be pursued to the Supreme Court.

“The North is really prepared for battle to the finish against Jonathan although the contest might not be easy.”   

Sources close to Jonathan’s camp said the northern gang-up must be neutralised to unite the country and ensure that the president wins the contest. 

One of them said: “I can tell you that there is a counter-move against the gang-up. Jonathan’s camp will not pretend that it has no challenge in the North.

‘‘We are aware of the gang-up but they cannot go far. The outcome of the PDP presidential primary has shown that there is a new thinking in the North and all parts of the country.

“But we are not relaxing because the forces coalescing are different from those we fought against during the primary.

“While we may not get most of the votes from the North, Jonathan is banking on about eight to 10 states in the North. Some of the states are Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Taraba, Kaduna, Adamawa, and Katsina.

“Everything is also being done to address politics of hate, religion and ethnicity against the President, who has shown that he is a national leader in all his comments and actions”.

The Nation learnt that the Northern leaders also conceded that there might be last-minute negotiations with some power blocs in the South-West and South-East.

Another source said: “The appraisal indicated that neither Jonathan nor any of the northern presidential candidates can earn a comfortable lead in 24 out of the 36 states.

“So, they are also planning ahead for a run-off where it is difficult to concretise realignment pact with any power bloc in the South-West or South-East.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/25598.html

[size=14pt]Oyo ACN members protest alleged imposition of Ajimobi[/size]
News Jan 23, 2011 By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN

HUNDREDS of aggrieved members and aspirants of the Action Congress of Nigeria yesterday staged peaceful protest round major streets in Ibadan metropolis over alleged imposition of Senator Abiola Ajimobi and other candidates of the party.

The protest brings to three that the group would organise in the last one week, adding that they would not leave the party for anybody because it belongs to all of them.

Ajimobi was last week announced the party’s flagbearer for the April poll which other aspirants said they would not take lightly.
Though, Ajimobi had earlier appealed to them to support the party for the realisation of their goal, they went to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, State Broadcasting Station and their party’s state secretariat at Yemetu.

According to them, since the choice of the candidates was not a popular decision, the party had not got its candidates for the election.
The protest which attracted more members of the party has been hinged on reversal of the decision of the leadership.

They stated that though, they still respect the leaders of the party headed by Chief Bisi Akande, they insisted that there must be review of the decision which they said was antithetical to democratic principles.

The governorship aspirants who gathered at the residence of Professor Wale Oyemakinde are Chief Olufemi Lanlehin, Dr. Adebayo Adewusi, Professor Wole Akinboade and other aspirants to the Senate, House of Representatives and House of Assembly.

While reading the stance of the angry aspirants to the visibly enraged supporters, they said the way it was carried out was highly insulting.

All the four aspirants spoke one after the other with each saying the decision must be re-visited.

While Lanlehin alluded to the Electoral Act 2010, saying since all of them(aspirants) did not agree to the choice of Ajimobi and that it negated the principles of consensus, Adewusi called on all the supporters not to desert them because they were fighting for them.
Akinboade and Oyemakinde said, up till now, none of the leaders sent any message to them to feel their pulses on the action.
They gave the conditions through which the stalemate could be amicably resolved.

The chieftains of the party maintained that the party should organise direct primaries or conduct a special primary that would be widely acceptable.

Rather than the party leadership to ask about the opinion of each of them, the representatives of the party led by Mr. Kolawole James only, “gave us the name of Ajimobi which eroded the result of the screening exercise. We are still waiting for the results of the screening. We have the responsibility to  strengthen the party for this election and beyond by fielding the best general for the battle for the Executive Governor of the state”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/oyo-acn-members-protest-alleged-imposition-of-ajimobi/

dplordx:
[b]@PhysicsMHD


I am business man. I have 2 registered companies I built from scratch. I have lived in Bayelsa for 6 good years and I know the big difference between the ND people and other people of Nigeria. ND people play the victim cards every single minute, and even if GEJ spends the next 50 years in power, they would keep blaming the North and Obasanjo for their problems and militancy. These are people who dont even know they represent a great portion of their own problems.
Even my own people the ibo suffered heavily in the civil war long left this mental lassitude and we've successfully conquered the commercial soul of the country while the yoruba maintain education.
Abeg take your argument to your students. Your logic is totally limited to classrooms and your students who would soon see how limited your postulations are.

@cold

why on earth would you argue with PhysicsMHD?
The guy lives in the textbooks he's always wallowed in while hunting for his Phd.
Go through his posts and you will see that this is a guy who likes to argue just for the sake of arguing, all his opinions are based on blatant non-contextual theories that doesnt even point to any concrete solutions.
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You come across as someone with a very deep inferiority complex.
By the way, what is "ibo?"

Saidsalla:
Some ppl r posting non meditative post just to make good-willed ppl to vote for the person that almost every one (within and outside the country) knws his honesty,bold in telling the truth and good record sustainer. The person that ruled for few months,but his good governance transformed every citizen civil servants and traders. Buhari is totally uncomparable with Obj that ruled for 8yrs. As every reasonable knows, trillion of Naira got lost in d name of power sector transformation but instead,he fleeced and squandered the sector. Buhari held PTF but there never been anything like that. I bliv some ppl r black-painting Buhari bcoz of his perseverence towards justice for all. Let's forget anything that hinders our unity and vote for Buhari not bcoz of tribe or somthing else. Bcoz of our to see our blovd country is ruled by say and act leaders,not those that make thousand promises and fail to fulfil any.

This is one of the funniest posts ever in support of Buhari. Do you know Buhari's cousin committed suicide in the PTF office, because of the disgrace of at the level of corruption in the books? Buhari even gave a completly built up PTF estate away for FREE (or whatever backhand deal)!

Please challenge me for proof. I am begggggging!

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7584337#msg7584337 date=1295733453]The vast majority of our oil is off-shore and less than 10% of exported crude oil in the past 15 years came from onshore activities. Stop the lies.

You don't need oil, ko? You have several fishing industries - sebi the ocean is close-by. Ngwanu, tell us - how many fish have you all exported as a result of your massive industrial actions in the fishing area? 1 fish, abi na 2 or three. Please don't make me laugh.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6[/quote]Again, you are so concerned about oil. Why?
Please continue laughing. In time, you will find that you have been laughing at yourself.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590472.msg7583887#msg7583887 date=1295727172]And we can always "subjugate" the smaller ethnicities, the Oyinbos did it to us now. . . [/quote]It is this sort of lazy thinking that has got us where we are. We have a unitary system that has attempted to subjugate minorities, but failed woefully; the result of those attempts are what we feel today as rampant ethnic bigotry and corruption. in more recent times, we have seen the addition of religion and amongst the wired elite, a brand new division called "diasporans."

These are all symptoms of a deeper malaise. Simply put, the Nigerian does not feel a sense of belonging. We are amazed at how far certain other countries would go to defend their citizens for the smallest crimes in foreign lands, we are equally amazed at how patriotic foreigners from these can be.

Why is this. To me the answers are simple and obvious. Unlike what obtains in modern countries, our government is more like a feudal lord than a representative, carer and arbiter for the people.
We live (not belong) in a country whose structure does not define the following:

[list]
[li]the relationship between citizen and state. Such a definition would answer the following questions: What are the states responsibilities toward me and what are my reciprocal responsibilities? Why should I care?[/li]
[li]ethnic part in the Nigerian structure, etnic input and relations to national wellbeing and building. Like the individual, all ethnicities must be equal[/li]
[li]how accountability can be measured or maintained[/li]
[li]indegenious rights, land ownership and natural resources[/li]
[li]revenue generation and fiscal structure[/li]
[li]intellectual rights, business rights and bureaucracratic structure[/li]
[li]NATIONAL IDEOLOGY[/li]
[/list]

Defining the above is the only way to escape the chaos and feudalism that breed corruption, lack of love and caring, hopelessness, and the lack of self belief and determination that continue to plague Nigeria and drag us deeper into the cesspit.
Corruption is not Nigeria's problem, structure is. The way to fix things is to opt for true federalism, with that will come a definition for every single point in the list above.

The bond is extremely successful:

[size=14pt]UPDATE 5-Nigeria's debut Eurobond heavily oversubscribed[/size]
Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:16pm GMT  
(Adds comment from finance minister)

By Nick Tattersall and Chijioke Ohuocha

LAGOS, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Nigeria issued a $500 million debut Eurobond on Friday with a 7.0 percent yield in a deal that was heavily oversubscribed, as appetite for high-yielding assets outweighed concern about its depleted oil savings.

Investors from 18 countries spanning Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa took up the offer, which was 2.5 times oversubscribed, Finance Minister Olusegun Aganga said.

"This transaction clearly puts Nigeria on the global map. We now have a transparent and internationally observable benchmark against which international investors can accurately price risk," Aganga said, forecasting a rise in foreign investment into sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest economy.

The successful issue by Africa's top oil exporter, months ahead of elections, could reassure others on the continent of the strength of demand for African debt, convincing them to press ahead with similar but delayed plans.
The 10-year bond was priced in line with Nigeria's 7.0 percent guidance and will pay a 6.75 percent coupon, with settlement on Jan. 28, Thomson Reuters news service IFR said.

The pricing means investors demanded a premium to West African peer Ghana, whose 8.5 percent Eurobond due 2017 is currently yielding around 6.2 percent.

While demand for high-yielding assets, the paucity of West African credit and the relatively low volume of the issue had been expected to fuel appetite, some potential investors were put off by the rapid depletion in Nigeria's oil savings.

Fitch assigned the issue a 'BB-' rating on Friday, saying low debt ratios and robust growth played in Nigeria's favour, but also noting concern about a decline in reserves last year despite a rise in oil prices and production.

"Reserves have risen around $1 billion since the end of 2010, but in the absence of fundamental institutional reforms on the usage of oil revenues and savings, this gradual build-up is unlikely to be sustained," Fitch said.

Standard & Poors has assigned a 'B+' long-term senior unsecured debt rating to the issue.

One leading fund manager who participated in Eurobond issues by Ghana and fellow African oil producer Gabon at the end of 2006 said he was steering clear of Nigeria's offering given concerns over the huge outflows from oil savings.


VANISHING SAVINGS
Nigeria's excess crude account (ECA), into which it saves oil revenues above a benchmark price, has dwindled to less than $1 billion from $20 billion at the start of the current presidential term four years ago.

Foreign reserves, of which the ECA is a part, inched up month-by-month to $33.5 billion by mid-January but are still down more than a quarter on year-ago levels.

Nigeria has shrugged off the concerns, saying the spending was needed to defend the naira currency against increased dollar demand, fund projects in the power sector, and provide seed funding for a planned sovereign wealth fund, which should form a firmer legal basis than the ECA for safeguarding oil savings.

Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi told Reuters late on Wednesday he believed the fall in reserves would end as the country's banking sector gets back on its feet after a 2009 bailout and as oil production and prices rise.

"We had to draw on forex (reserves) to meet elevated (dollar) demand levels as we couldn't risk an accelerated exit from quantitative easing while banking reforms were still at initial stages," Sanusi said.

"Now with monetary tightening, higher yields, a recovering equity market ,  and progress on banking resolution, a higher oil price and stable output, my sense is that the reserve attrition will stop," he said.

The point of the Eurobond issue is to set a benchmark yield curve for Nigeria in the global market, rather than to raise funds, meaning the country has ample room to repay investors.

Standard Bank analyst Samir Gadio pointed out Nigeria's foreign reserves were 67 times the Eurobond size and that its external debt-to-GDP ratio was just 2.3 percent.

"Overall, the risk of default on the Eurobond is marginal," he said in a research note. (For more Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: af.reuters.com/ ) (Additional reporting by Sujata Rao-Coverley in London, John Weavers of IFR; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by )

http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFLDE70K12220110121?sp=true

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7584036#msg7584036 date=1295729256]bla bla bla, story, story.

You sound as if every square centimeter of your land area is oil producing and has been destroyed by pollution. You cannot deceive anyone here. You have more than 70% of arable land in the region, why have you not developed the land? Please name a single item that has been produced by your industries (if they exist) or your entrepreneurs. I’m sure you cannot name any. Wadooo[/quote]Charlie, ignorance is the big problem here. There are vast industries from glass to fisheries to steel in my state; we are easily among the most industrialised. Please take some time out to travel by road, from Sapele through Warri to Ughelli.
You will also find that vast tracts of the Nigerian press, banking industry, airlines, boat buliding and marine services, timber and plywood, textiles, Nollywood etc are owned by people from my area. We are developed well above the Nigerian average, a place like Warri is dotted with several heavy engineering businesses (small, medium and large).

I could go on and on. . .

We do not need oil; but in Gods wisdom, 35% of Nigeria's crude just happens to be under us; so please stop living your life for it, lest you give yourself a heart attack. Why not carry this strange love of oil to places like Niger or Chad that are nearer to where you come from?

As for agriculture, we have several fishing industries and supply rubber, oil pam produce and shrimps for export.

I haven't had enough time to go through the most recent posts thoroughly, but I have this one thing to state very strongly. . .
Zimbabwe is better than Nigeria in almost every sphere of life and development.

I can back up my statement with hard facts and figures (from road networks to power supply, from services to manufacturing, from quality of education to potable water supply)).
Most of us get lost in Western propaganda and fail to see left from right.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7583833#msg7583833 date=1295726484]Why have you people not turned yet your region to the agricultural zone that will feed all of West Africa, I mean what da heck are you waiting for?  Your governors have received upwards of $20billion in the past few years and have done nothing to improve your agric situation, to say the least. What about your entrepreneurss, are there any in that area at all?

I suppose its better to lazily rely on oil provided by nature while accusing others of bein parasites, than to get off ya b.utts and produce something! Err, forgot to mention, terrorism and bunkering serves you better. olodo[/quote]I recall mentioning Obudu, Mambilla, Benue and Plateau; none of which are oil producing, my reply was about transport links, manufactured goods etc, and it covered vast areas of Nigeria, so how come your reply is only about oil?

Since oil, seems to be a subject that has you by the jugular, lets deal with it. How do you turn land polluted by parasites into agricultural zones overnight?

Nigerians are happy to have commenced the ejection of oil parasites. That project will hit completion in a couple of years and Nigerians will begin to see the the rich possibilities in a life after parasites. Oil is a resource that should have enriched the nation, instead it became a source of embarassment as we began relying on fuel imports to power our cars and industries, because the parasites could make deals that sweetened their pockets.
In the most tragic of ironies, oil also became a source of poverty for the communities with oil bearing lands. Again, it suited the uncaring parasites to simply sign documents and turn a blind eye to the suffering of fellow citizens in the hands of foreigners. The Niger Delta quickly became (and remains) the most polluted wetlands in the whole World, it also bears the accompanying distinction of being the most polluted oil producing area in the whole World.

Nigerians can only cry halleluja with the joy of seeing the parasites lose power. We now know it is in our hands to move forward, to stop being mere spectators in our oil industry and actually begin to take part in the drilling and prospecting as is done elsewhere in the World; the average person on the streets will be hit by the job opportunities and continued fall in the price of fuel, due to our vastly increased refining capacity (3 new refineries are already on the cards) that will see us importing less and less as an oil producing nation.

Nigeria has changed forever. You best join the train in a positive way and stop happing on seccession and ethnic division. Let those things be a last resort, and since we are no longer held by the throat by parasites, seccession should not even be mentioned at this time. Or are your people planning to leave?

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=590888.msg7583678#msg7583678 date=1295724234]Seccessionists should take note of this development which is indicative of things to come, if they have their way. Feeding may become quite challenging. [/quote]In the event of seccession, Cameroon and Benin Republic will feel any gaps. The concerned parts of Nigeria will only need to build better connecting roads, sea ports and rail lines to those countries; they will recieve fruit and veg from Cameroon and Benin Republic, while Cameroon and Benin Republic get exported manufactured products in return. QED.

In the long term, areas like Obudu, Mambilla, Benue and Plateau will be made into highly productive agricultural zones that will feed all of West Africa. . . What was the food problem again?

hubreality:
No religious dogmas and it's associated antics will ever be the best bet to curb corruption in any country. The antics of Religion are as worst as corruption is, because these religious laws are meant to catch peasants and shoe shiners and not the BIG religious title holders.[/b]Then what will anyone call that?
[b]
Religion is not Divinity nor God but MAN MADE(hypocrisy). Look at the damage and destruction of precious Innocent lives and properties in the name of Religion in Nigeria every year. What a great evil against humanity and Divinity! You can't claim to know or love Divinity, God(Spirit) without loving your nearest neighbor irrespective of any religion.

I wish the extremist punks giving gay love to the maniacally bigoted Buhari would give ear to your words.
For all his crimes, Bujari's future will be better spent manually breaking stones for the rest of his life at Kirikiri or Ita Oko.

Vigilante:
Atiku is being sought after left right and centre like a hot cake by your man to learn the art of looting. You must be already sick of boy Jonah. Your enthusiasm is apparently miserably low pele o

Atiku is simply getting another dose of "quiet man" slaps, but he doesn't know it yet, cos he's too dim. But he'll learn soon enough.
Quiet politics has a way of confounding thugs until they begin speaking in tongues and seeing John the Baptist in their tortured dreams.

People have come up with every sort of answer, but are olivious to the one question (whats the cause) their answers throw up. I'll illustrate:

Nigerian leaders come from the people, so how can they be different? - Sorry, thats an effect, what is the cause?
People are corrupt because they don't care - Sorry, thats an effect, what is the cause?
Corruption thrives because there is no punishment - Sorry, thats an effect, what is the cause?
The average Nigerian cannot bring themselves to walk the Tunisian path - Sorry, thats an effect, what is the cause?
There is rampant corruption because we have bad leaders - Sorry, thats an effect, what is the cause?

The answer to the recurring "Sorry, thats an effect, what is the cause?" gives the true reason we have corruption as well as the true reason we have failed to develop so far. Lets look for root causes rather than symtoms; the oyibo man was 100% correct in his assessment that corruption isn't the reason Nigeria is not developing.

Atiku's camp is really becoming the joke of the political landscape. Thank God Nigerians can begin to see how uncultured and ill-mannered Atiku really is, after all this time he is still looking for ways to win primaries that he lost so soundly. Someone should tell him the game is over and he is too old to make a fool of himself this way.