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This is one funny thread!
I have travelled all over Nigeria, and been to practically all the 36 states (barring Cross River, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara). In practically every state of the North, you can stand on a high place and very nearly see Chad and Niger.
When driving, you can travel pretty hefty distances between very tiny hamlets of ten or twenty huts.

Our population figures are wrong. Its my opinion that popultation densities have been rejigged to suit the North, because people no de deh!

One sad thing about Nigerians is that they prefer emotion to logic.
You guys might hate Obasanjo, but do you also hate his message? Our emotionalism is something we must get a hold of.
Please guys, lets simmer down and look dispassionately into the matter at hand.

Two distinct fulcrums arise around both the sincererity of the messengers of true federalism and the desperate need for its unadulterated practice in Nigeria.
On the issue of the messengers, some have been wholly unexpected, from previous dictators like Babangida and Obasanjo to the likes of Tunde Bakare vouching for Buhari (of the draconian Decree 4 fame):

``Nigeria needs a leader who will block the holes in the nation’s treasury, someone with programmes and policies that will restructure Nigeria along the path of true federalism,’’ Bakare said.

The cleric said that Buhari was not an Islamic fundamentalist as claimed by some Nigerians.

http://www.sharpedgenews.com/news/2010/10-12-10/t_bakare.shtml

The question is, do these people really grasp the concept of federalism or is it just the latest fad to pay it lip service, because the heavily burdened masses are weeping? We have to be alert that the argument and definitions are not snatched from us and bastardised. True federalism must never ever be twisted to mean the balkanisation of Nigeria into personal fiefdoms; that direction must be robustly resisted with the force of sincere logic and the purifying strength of spilt blood.

The question of true federalism in Nigeria rests on needs to install merit, equality, healthy competition and most importantly; contracts of belonging between citizen and state. Things are clearly not working in Nigeria, because we have it all upside down.
In a federation, the units work from the bottom up with local, provincial and regional units operating under municipal laws that are suited their identities and paying taxes from ground up until it gets to the centre. In the Nigerian case, there is a monthly match to Abuja for survival stipends for states and LG’s.

Experience says beggars do not work.

Experience says parasitism does not provide any sort of environment for healthy competition or merit to thrive as it is in normal countries. A parasite simply cannot develop, and all 36 states and their LG’s are parasites.
Parasitism does not come naturally to the upright, therefore Nigeria’s institutionalisation of parasitism, very unsurprisingly throws up the most despicable characters for government posts, while our most talented run abroad for succour and personal fulfillment. It is a dire cycle that breeds rottenness and corruption, and weeds out honesty, merit, patriotism and talent.

Allied to the above, is the sense of belonging of the average Nigerian. What makes one a Nigerian? What are the responsibilities of the Nigerian state to her citizens? In the converse, what is the responsibility of citizens to the Nigerian state? What bonds a Nigerian to Nigeria and how strong are those bonds? Is Nigeria just a piece of land on which we were born, with sharia in the North and oil in the South?
The only way the questions above can be answered positively, is to provide true representation for the Nigerian; and the only way to provide true representation, is the installation of true federalism.

[size=14pt]Obasanjo lists yardsticks function federalism[/size]
News Dec 19, 2010 By Innocent ANABA

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said that for the country’s federalism to function well, there must be political will, good governance, and leadership commitment.

Chief Obasanjo, who spoke at the just concluded  ‘5th International Conference on Federalism’ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said, “It is my belief that in a diverse and developing society like Nigeria, you need a strong, though not intrusive or oppressive central government that is democratic, transparent, accountable, effective, efficient, and adequately funded to manage the rough edges of federal politics and protect weaker or less_resource endowed constituent units.  Nigerians appreciate this fact.”

“Ultimately, it is democratic practice, political will, good governance, leadership commitment, and a dedication to the cause of the people that determine the functioning of any federal arrangement.  In essence, there must be popular participation at all tiers of government and facets of life with adequate accommodation for all for federalism to function appropriately.”

Speaking further, he said “following military rule in the country, the challenge of re_federalisation has not been as easy as many continue to carry the consciousness of the unitary and hierarchical command character of the military.  The powers of the sub_national units, joint delivery of services in education, energy, health, poverty eradication and so on, remain areas for discussions and negotiations.

“The issue of fiscal federalism, processes of constitutional amendments, devolution of powers, public security, and strengthening federal character are also on_going areas of public discourse.

“In some way therefore, federalism is natural to Nigeria as the basis for unity in diversity for development and progress was established centuries ago.

The desire to, or imperative for unity, stability, growth, development and progress precipitated a preference for a political arrangement that will not just bring peoples together but also harness the creative and productive energies to build a viable nation state in the interest of all.

“There was a declared need to rise beyond the various inter and intra ethnic and communal wars to build a nation_state that all would contribute to, be part of, but not lose their respective identities, cultures, values and traditional institutions.  This, in some way, has been the underlying strength of Nigeria’s federalism,” he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/12/obasanjo-lists-yardsticks-function-federalism/

[size=14pt]Court Orders EFCC To Release Akingbola’s Property[/size]
Written by Akeem Nafiu, Lagos
Saturday, 18 December 2010

A federal high court in Lagos has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to vacate the property of a former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola, located at 12, Ruxton Road, Ikoyi.

The order, according to Justice Charles Archibong, became imperative because the anti-graft agency took over the said property without the due process of law.

The court also ordered that the EFCC immediately allow Akingbola full access and occupation of the property.

Justice Archibong, while delivering his ruling on an originating summon filed by Akingbola, through his counsel, Felix Fagbohungbe (SAN), on Friday, agreed with the applicant that the said property was not in the schedule of the property attached by EFCC following the order of Justice Tijani Abubakar in December 2009.

Justice Archibong, therefore, ordered the anti-graft agency to release the property to the former bank chief.

However, the court refused to vary the bail condition granted him by Justice Mohammed Idris on August 30.

“I will not vary the condition of the bail which the accused is admitted to bail in this present charge,” the judge ruled.

The court adjourned till February 18, 2011 for Akingbola’s arraignment on fresh charges filed by the EFCC.

http://tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/2799-court-orders-efcc-to-release-akingbolas-property.html

[size=14pt]Nigeria: Northern Consensus, Biggest Fraud - Gov Shekarau[/size]
George Agba And Chizoba Ogbeche
17 December 2010

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Abuja — Governor of Kano State and presidential aspirant of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has described the process that led to the emergence of former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) consensus candidate of the North as the biggest fraud ever perpetrated in the country.

The governor said he was not bothered by the selection of Abubakar as the PDP north's candidate in the 2011 elections because it was a decision of nine men and not that of the entire North.

"I am not bothered by the issue of consensus candidate as that does not reflect the wishes of the entire north. The issue of the consensus candidate of the north is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated in this country as they do not have the support of the entire north," Shekarau said.

. . .

http://allafrica.com/stories/201012170582.html

[size=14pt]Goodluck/Sambo organisation replies Atiku on violent change[/size]
Dele Anofi, Abuja 18/12/2010 00:42:00
The Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation has assured the opposition that Nigerians would resist violence in whatever disguise.

The assurance came in the wake of the call by former Vice President Atiku Abubaka that a violence change should be expected if President Jonathan refuses to relinquish power peacefully.

In a statement by Sully Abu, Director, Media and Publicity, the organisation said the gathering where the stament was made was equally questionable.

It reads in part: “We are sure Nigerians across the country will resist the incitement of fat cats and other pampered elements who may seek to disturb the peace of the land.

“The security forces, we are sure, are alive to their responsibilities and would not countenance any breach of the peace and the antics of those who want to imperil our hard-won democracy.

“Nigerians are not deceived. The annullers of elections and the motley crowd who made up the latest gathering represent none but themselves and in their desperation may go about renting crowds and urchins to stir up unnecessary dust in sponsored demonstrations. But this would not take them anywhere”, it stated.

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/22007.html

Atiku is a dunce.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=570639.msg7361982#msg7361982 date=1292687795]Jonathan yayi amai ya lashe. . . Ai najima ban ga shugaban kasa irin wannan maras basirra kaman shi ba. To kardai ya jawo mana rikici a kasar mu.[/quote][Quote author=Gayigaskia]
[s]Translation: He said " Jonathan ate what he had vomited, i have not seen a bad leader like him for a while. god forbid he may bring instability in this our country." [/s][/quote]CORRECTION:

[Quote author=Gayigaskia]
Translation: He said " Jonathan ate what he had vomited, i have not seen a bad leader like him for a while. Thank God! He will bring instability to old bats and vultures in the North like Ciroma, Kaita, Yakasai etc!"[/quote]Free yourselves.

Gayigaskia:
Ask BEAF he might know

See how people de find my trouble!

@topic
. . .There are court cases in SA and Abuja. Those are the proper places to get info, not beer palour stuff from the pages of NL.
Anyways, you guys enjoy your pepper souping. Whats the next rumour?

bishop101:
Can anyone in da house teach me how to create software

Eba is very correct software. 
Here is a video on how to make it.

If you want to learn how to make hardware, then I will search for a video on guguru and epa. Guguru na correct hardware!

[flash=480,385]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z_pjByKKNY?fs=1&amp[/flash]

Please edit your title, it is billions, not millions.

I am in deep shock. What would he want to do with such an amount?

Atiku is a dunce.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/323693_AP_Nigeria_Election_Goodluck_Jonathan_10Jun2010_480_jpg93cb16b7beac78add6cbace58d2cb3ae

[size=21pt]IBB: [/size][size=14pt]"My political message is tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, tribalism, ZONING OR MAYHEM. . . IF I DONT WIN, FCK UP THE PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What will I do for Nigeria? . . .Tribalism, religious strife, Boko Haram!!

The North will secede and mayhem will be unleashed, if I don't become the PDP flagbearer!"

I hate GEJ (bobo to bright) and I now HATE Atiku![/size]

. . .Cry baby! 

Everybody, please feel free to plagiarise this document. . .

www.nairaland.com/attachments/324375_IBBYouthStupid_jpgbbe9db14c8fe5550aba9d91fd1c5a07d

Atiku is a dunce.

edicolove:
The Arewa support group for IBB has declared its support for the presidential ambitions of President Goodluck Jonathan.

http://spotlightnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232:ibb-group-joins-jonathan-campaign-group&catid=34:politics&Itemid=55

No surprises, everyone wants to breath. . .
[size=21pt]Fresh air 2011![/size]


www.nairaland.com/attachments/323693_AP_Nigeria_Election_Goodluck_Jonathan_10Jun2010_480_jpg93cb16b7beac78add6cbace58d2cb3ae

IBB Is Confused
- GEJ‎

http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71240:ibb-is-confused-says-jonathan&catid=43:news&Itemid=799

Atiku is a dunce.

vigasimple:
ATIKU and IBB are promising the IGBO's presidency in 2015, how are they going to deliver on that? are they going to force all Nigerians to give the Presidency to the IGBO's? If Jonathan thinks or doesn't even think about automatic ticket for the Governors, it doesn't matter, they will propably rigged themselves in as incumbent.

Everything ffor now is campaign tactics to counter your opponet, afterall ATiku and co thinks if he doesn't get PDP ticket or wi the Presidency, there will be violence? there goes a RULER not a leader.

Wisdom.
The difference is like Coke and 7Up. One mingles with the people and builds alliances, the other is sectional and issues regular threats of war.

Very nice.
I really love the leafy look. it seems so serene. I haven't been to Enugu for years now.

excanny:
It's unfortunate that some of our Igbo brothers seem to be falling in line with the way our mockers want us to exist.

PLEASE stop putting up that cheap shot at publicity of an international airport as a reason to support Jonathan. He did nothing extraordinary. The plans to expand that airport had been signed and sealed, as far back as 2003, only awaiting the release of funds to deliver it. Within the short spell that Jonathan has had so far, the SS, specifically bayelsa, has got 2 federal projects. Yet, we are having heavenly feelings over just one approval of an already existing project in the SE. This is really annoying!

For some of us who keep asking why Igbos want to lose sleep over the presidency, I'll ask you this question: Why is the North losing sleep, forming all sorts of consensus committtee and vehemently scheming various plans to get their own a person of northern extraction into Aso villa?

This is where the difference lies between those who call the shots and those who unconsciously consider themselves what their mockers want them to be(i.e second-class citizens).

For the sake of our dignity, let's stop underestimating ourselves.

Cos they wanna steal oil. Is that what you want? Think hard about it.

ode remo:
Beef,
i dey watch yor man for ohTv.
Well he is humble ohhhhhh,
That guy wey wan turn olopa no know nothing. Nigeria olokpa na yeye.
Left nija abt 6wks ago na soso fight i dey fight them.

I tuned to OHTV when you first posted and didn't see GEJ, it was just Adeboye talking about back pain and someones life being like a goat going round in circles! Damn! That freightened me away!

Anyways, this guy that wants to join the police has obviously recieved 7 slaps from the spirit of "roger." He needs 40 days fasting and prayer.

ode remo:
@beef,
i digress,am watching yor man gej life @'rccg'with'adeboye, holy ghost night on sky 199. Well that is humbly if u ask me.
He might get my vote now.

You de watch OHTV? Are you born again? Bros, pesin pikin here don lost for jand o! Please help us pray for him, abeg! His ambition is to leave McDonalds work and turn olokpa!
Holy Ghost Fire!! Holy Ghost Fire!!

buzugee:
more gibberish. speak english

See your mouth like gibberish! Ode! Olodo predator!

buzugee:
i shall join and i will post a picture of me in my uniform on nairaland  

No matter how hard you try, your picture will not be better than this!
This is an accurate depiction of "chopping" roger.

buzugee:
as soon as i decipher the gibberish you regurgitated up there i will get at you dawg. takes time to decipher gibberish you know

Nice! Don't worry, keeping imagining the dregs of the food chain to be "predators." Olo ofofo!
Nigerian police, predators! When you see just two or three red eyed kidnappers emanating from Okija, your mind will be fully reformed and your thoughts tightly focussed.
If you like don't return home to get grounded, ya pipul go soon declare you missing. Akpa don don catch ground!

[quote author=D-sense link=topic=570482.msg7358699#msg7358699 date=1292627057]^^^Pls accept my offer nau . . .Make both of us dey make money like say we do ritual [/quote]Unu go wound pesin o!

buzugee:
if you read the thread you will have understood the part where i dont need the publics 10 naira or 20 naira or even the police salary. geez some of yall are just downright lazy. you cant be bothered to read even if your life depended on it

Is it that you don't like the idea of buying spears, cutlasses, axes or bloody stones? You can always pay people to get them if money isn't the problem, or if you're broke, kuku make them yourself.
Wetin come de vex you inside dat one na!

. . .Small time olodo go announce say e wan buy calculator to calculate daily "roger!"

yinka85:
Got carried away.

Buena cumple Señor Buhari y feliz navidad y mucho amor.

You will be swept away next time.

buzugee:
i am not trying to repair it. i am simply putting myself in the position of 'PREDATOR'

These are 3 "predators" fighting over ten Naira.
. . .Olodo, don't bother getting an Uzi, what you really need is a spear, cutlass or axe. . . Maybe even stones.

luckyCO:
Thank God I hv found a solution to that.
I only make my website an application and that solved the problem

That wasn't necessary. All you need do is add a reference to the dll in the installation file in programme files. Ensure "copy local" is set to true (right click the reference and choose properties).

appletango:
the problem everyone has with you is that you have heralded gej as a superhero, when actually, and by all accounts, he is well bellow average; therefore you come across as either deluded or deceitful - neither of which are good character traits. you will never hear the supporters of IBB, tinubu and atiku making such ludicrous statements about how their candidate is this "country's savior", one which you have made on numerous occasions.

unfortunately there are no perfect politicians in this country; what you have are those that are better than others, but as long as you continue to force feed everyone with this nonsense that "gej is the best thing since sliced bread" then you are going to be met with fierce resistance - and rightly so.

my advice to you is that you stop with your witless attacking of anything anti-gej and actually participate in a debate.

IBB, Tinubu and Atiku are serious criminals, so their supporters are in thrall crime. No?

I am happy you agree your candidates are all irredeemably blemished sleaze bags. Dude, what you think of me is your cup of tea, it isn't my fault that you guys openly support known criminals. You can always make the right choice, so that you won't gripe.

[size=14pt]Fresh air 2011![/size]
Out with the wretches that have held the country back and in with the new.

10cirenoh:
You are yet to answer my questions, answer the rest i asked, as for someone saying he stole (the link you are posting), got nothing on me until i see what he did with the money, we all can see IBB, Atiku, OBJ and co's own, now show us his own.

Really? Please point them out "IBB, Atiku, OBJ and co's own" without resorting to rumours.
I have given you hard facts you can verify. It is in your court to check things out and come back with serious arguments (if any).

10cirenoh:
And you want me to believe this? does Buhari look like someone that stole $2.8 billion or something close to that? what are the assets he has that might have been bought with such money? please furnish us with his assets, various jets, huge houses in Nigeria and outside, companies, yacht, e.t.c

Yeah. Look it up. Info is very easy to come by. Look up Vera Ifudu's case as well, court documents are always rock solid.
There used to be a sneaky way of stealing govt money in those days, you took several billion, put it in a fixed deposit account and creamed off the interest.

Look it up.

10cirenoh:
Why is that a big lie? caught him with stolen money?

@topic

HBD old cargo.

No, I didn't, but the senate in Shagari's govt did. $2.8 billion that was missing from NNPC was traced to Buhari's Midland Bank account in London. . . Shortly after that Shagari was overthrown by, guess who?
As soon as Buhari had intimidated everyone involved and destroyed as much evidence as possible, he announced to the shock of the country that he was ready to resign. The rest is history. In the meantime, look up Vera Ifudu on google, she was the NTA reporter that read out the $2.8billa news on NTA; she got sacked as soon as Buhari siezed power, but won damages in a landmark case against her dismissal.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-gb%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7TSEA_en&q=Vera+Ifudu+buhari&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

9ijaMan:
My point exactly. How on earth do we now expect GEJ to perform when his own state is in complete rot. In the 9 months since his been in power, GEJ could have done some wonders in Bayelsa, considering the dwindling external reserves, drained excess crude account and numerous borrowings. I can't help to ask myself, where has all the money disappeared to? Bayelsa is amongst the states with the 5 highest revenues allocated from the FG purse.

In other words, they feed you.
And here you are like a typical parasite, abusing your host. Sad really.