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All parties are corrupt. APGA and ANPP have been turn apart by financially induced battles. ACN is led by a man who is much worse than Ibori, and there is documentary proof.

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[size=14pt]Tinubu ran heroin ring in US, says Drug Agency .[/size]
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Dotun Oladipo

Contrary to denials, the Nigerian Compass yesterday learnt that the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confirmed that a former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Bola,

Ahmed Tinubu, ran a heroin ring in the country; was convicted, though with an option of fine; and was actually quizzed last month while entering into the country.

More here http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10593%3Atinubu-ran-heroin-ring-in-us-says-drug-agency&Itemid=7966

The man is extremly lucky to be alive, in any previous regime, he would have died on the spot. Thanks to GEJ, there is a new civilisation hitting Nigeria, led by the Presidents example and the man is being duly tried for attempted murder (similar to Ibinabor Fiberisima).

[size=21pt]Simple question for Gbawe; what if GEJ had died in that accident?[/size]

Vote Jonathan, the gentleman in 2011.

There can be no greater signal that elections would be free and fair than firstly, the installation of an upright man, Jega and secondly, the introduction of door to door campaigning by the Nigerian President.

. . .And the populace is eager for a blast of Fresh Air! . . .1 million volonteers turned up in two short days! Wow!

[size=14pt]Goodluck Nigeria![/size]

[size=14pt]Door-to-door campaign: Jonathan rakes 1m volunteers in 2 days[/size]
News Sep 25, 2010 By Ikechukwu NNOCHIRI

ABUJA—Ahead of the 2011 general elections, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Chibudom Nwuche, yesterday, disclosed that over one million volunteers turned up for a two-day screening exercise organized for persons interested in partaking in a door-to-door campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan.

The former deputy speaker who made this disclosure while commissioning about 500 computers that he said would be used to campaign on facebook, twitter, U-tube and other social networking sites on the internet, maintained that the aim was to secure about 40 million votes for President Jonathan come 2011.

According to him, “our role and duty to our fatherland is to make sure that every Nigerian understands very clearly the manifesto of candidate Jonathan via a ‘Jehovah witness/Obama style’ door to door campaign.

“The campaign e-center that we are commissioning today will provide a platform for those that has volunteered to partake in this crusade to effectively interface with prospective electorates who make use of the internet, with a view to sensitize them on the need to allow Jonathan to complete the good works he has started.

“This is a novelty in the Nigerian campaign history and it is going to help in curbing the rent-a-crowd syndrome in the Nigerian politics,” he added.

Meantime, the coordinator of the project and son of a First Republic Senator, Chief Richard Lamai, has expressed his surprise at what he described as an “overwhelming turn out of volunteers”, for the online campaign, insisting that it was a pointer to the acceptability of the Goodluck\ Sambo mandate.

“We initially targeted about 42, 000 volunteers for the project. It was surprising that within two days more than one million persons returned the interest declaration forms they filled and printed out from the internet.

“Our target in 40 million votes for President Jonathan using about 500, 000 volunteers who will be manning the different e-centers designated for the campaign”, he said

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/door-to-door-campaign-jonathan-rakes-1m-volunteers-in-2-days/

Arysexy:
Am supprised this thread is still one page, if igbo states were to be on the lead, all yoruba tribalists will invade this thread like bees, mschweeeeeeeee!

The thread simply wasn't considered to be of any importance, it is quite obvious that the figures are funny.
The great thing for those new to NL, is they can see for themselves how threads like this one never became huge tribalistic battle grounds that turned everybody off.
Jona (the OP) and mekuslogan (a few posts on this page), used to be considered serious tribalists in those days, I guess they'll be hailed as saints now with calibre of heavyweight tribal lords shamelessly roaming NL this days.

Please people, lets get back to how it used to be.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=519780.msg6822417#msg6822417 date=1285452761]so you are blind to see the question mark at the end of the sentence,na wa o.anyways that is not the point here.the point is that palm oil

was a worthless commodity and nigeria has survived basically from proceeds from COCOA and GROUNDNUT before crude oil was discovered.[/quote]I think your emotional outbursts are due to the quarrel we had the other time. Forget it. ---hugs Bluetooth---
But your links and arguments are still wrong and not from reputable sources.

mbulela:
and GEJ is which version?

GEJ is a good man, untouched by scandal and thrown up by providence. Thank you.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=519780.msg6822381#msg6822381 date=1285452170] [size=14pt]Five incorrect sources[/size] that same the same thing but doesn't make any meaning to you ? are you ok ?[/quote]You got that right. "Five incorrect sources."
Get something reputable and we can talk.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=519780.msg6822357#msg6822357 date=1285451695]Bibliography

1. Economy of Nigeria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria

2. Nigeria – Economy. www.iss.co.za/af/profiles/Nigeria/Economy.html

3. The Economy of Nigeria. www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/nigeria/econ.html

4. Nigeria: Economy. www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0860003.html

5. Nigeria – Economy. www.classbrain.com/art_cr/publish/nigeria_economy.shtml[/quote]Dude, none of those sources (with the possible exception of Wikipedia) is even remotely reputable.
In fact, some of your links don't even work,  eg http://www.iss.co.za/af/profiles/Nigeria/Economy.html
This one reports that the domain is no longer in use, http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/nigeria/econ.html

Try harder.

Maybe Ribadu should pitch his tent with labour of Soyinka's DFPF.

As for Buhari, he has a lot of corruption to his name and will be a good bedmate for Bola Tinubu who is the Lagos version of Ibori (only he is much worse).

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=519780.msg6822289#msg6822289 date=1285450814] What do you mean by essay ?

You asked for a source and here I provided one that showed everyone that palm oil was worthless product,you are a big hypocrite.[/quote]Dude, I hope you're enjoying your Saturday!
I am sure you really meant to provide a genuine source, but ended up referencing a shambolic sample student essay. Abeg pass me the sepe jare!

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=519780.msg6822004#msg6822004 date=1285446956]http://www.essay-911.com/samples/economy-nigeria.htm

•Economic history

The modern economy of Nigeria started with palm oil trade that forced out slave trade at the beginning of the 19-th century and initiated the export of Nigerian

raw materials in exchange for the import of British industrial goods. After the year 1853 the export of cacao and peanuts brought a

greater income than the export of palm oil.  In the 20-th century pat, tin, wood and skins became the most important items of Nigerian export. In

1901 the oil was found in Nigeria, but the export of crude oil began only in 1958 and in 10 years it became the main source of currency income in Nigeria.

I hope beaf can now see that oil palm was  useless and worthless and only cocoa and groundnut actually brought greater wealth to nigeria as far back the

year 1853  [/quote]The bit in red makes your post utterly funny. Please quote reputable sources, not sample essays.

ferari90:
sharrap my friend

Umar Yaradua was a good man too
But it takes more than a good man to "lead "

IBB is the leader we need, call him evil or whatever you want.
His leadership will be far better than JEGs

Remember, an expert is one who has made more mistakes.

DEAL WITH IT !!!

. . .A good man surrounded and hijacked by IBB's cabal. Poor IBB, he's getting disgraced by the good man in GEJ. . . GEJ is too strong to be hijacked.

oyb:
we all know gej is part of the pdp, and they will do what they have always done - rig elections, embezzle (they are already doing it, are they not)

but what we will not stand for is any disingenuous attempts to pretend that gej is different

save that for the villagers in the rural areas.

How about you convince your fellow oil bunkerers?

^
You're so funny. Even if GEJ were to post his asset declaration on this woe begone page, you would claim it was false.
I'm sure there is a time for everything and only kids cry when they don't get their wish.

Why make so much noise when the elections are around the corner and every contestants assets would be made public? Do you have issues with due process (again, you have the option of Sarakidom, if law and order is anathema to you).

oyb:
we dont have any mad dogs running around on nl telling us sambo is the messiah, do we?

we don't have any mentally challenged, dishonest, duplicitous, incoherent, rabid  spokesmen for sambo on NL, do we?


do you think being a spokesman or a campaigner is simply the act of incoherent and badly written posts where you credit your candidate with inventing sliced bread? sit too hard for you o answer hard questions about the so called greatest leader?

all you can do is spam nl like a retarded child. when queries arise  about issues like 10billion celebration, 150 million plane, or 1 billion naira dustbins, you either say that was before his time - or you go MIA.


we don't have anyone trying to spamming nl everyday with lies about gejs achievements on the one hand, and character assassination of his opponents on the other hand

start a thread on sambo's achievements or how sambo is the messiah and how sambo hs this no of children , etc  - the fact that you have been only about gej reinforces the fact that you are a dyed in the wool tribalist.

we would also appreciate it if you stopped pretending to be more silly than you are - we expect your sleazeless leader to declare his assets publicly , not to to a closed  committee pdp family affair style.

if he is the saint you keep trying to claim he is , he should have no problem doing that

are you so blind and silly that you failed to quote the fact that it was after intense pressure that he declared his assets publicly in 2007?

is that the mark of a person with nothing to hide?

are you so daft that you don't realize that talk without action cannot get you credibility?


netotse, keep questioning this mindless thug, and he will start on you. don't say i didn't warn you  

So to summarise, your problem is that you simply dislike GEJ, cos head or tail cannot be made from the rambling rubbish above. . . Sometimes I think you post under the influence.

Your own post says GEJ has fulfilled the constitutional requirement, so why don't you either quarrel with the constitutional requirement or declare the independent republic of Saraki that wouldn't have a Code of Conduct Bureau?

Anyways you have cap28 for company.

xterra2:
I wish i could be called to moderate the Debate, The questions i would ask hmmn infact the aspirants would hate me

Nobody would believe you will make an impartial moderator. I personally wouldn't put myself forward for the same reason.

There isn't anything wrong in a group of actors getting paid to take part in a political advert. Things like this are done all over the World.
Onlytruth has a point though, that the youth need to take a much deeper look at politics than is evident with most.

@netotse
The problem is that, rather than complain about the methods of the Code of Conduct Bureau, oyb is slandering a man who has acted lawfully. I have simply employed his own methods against him, which he hasn't found funny.

Isn't it strange that he didn't ask for Sambo's assets, whereas both he and Jonathan complied with the law as stated be oyb in the OP?

oyb: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5573493-146/story.csp

Jonathan, Sambo declare assets

By Sebastine Ebhuomhan

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President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday complied with the constitutional provision which required them to declare their assets on assumption of office.

I have not done any damage to either myself or my cause in treating a twister of the truth exactly as he should be treated (like an !diot).

ferari90:
Ribadu is a good man all the same

Enh? So you can actually realise good things? Does that mean you've finally abandoned IBB's evil wagon?

Dede1:
I really do not know what has come over you lately. If Nigeria constitution empowers every qualified Nigerian to contest for electable offices, may I ask you why the electoral field has not been clogged by morons? Why is it imperative that your own GEJ has to join PDP to become a deputy governor, governor, VP and President? Why did GEJ not run as an independent candidate?

Presently, GEJ is the so-called president of Nigeria and if I should go by your ridiculous intuition, he should not have deposited 11million naira to obtain party candidature forms as stipulated by PDP because there was no such provision on the Nigerian constitution. It is a display of intellectual dishonesty to invoke Nigerian constitution in matter where it only provides minimal passage in polity.

I am seeing a path forward, but maybe we can discuss that sometime on another thread.

grafo:
I pray this works. And may God continue to strenghten those behind this game plan.

It will work, because people are tired of the way Nigeria has been going. Each and every youth must pitch in with all their energy in every way they can. There are only two good men standing.

9ijaMan:
OYB & others u r wasting your time with this Beaf guy. He's not grown up yet and cannot understand your line of thought.
Meanwhile, I'll not be surprised if GEJ too descends very low just like his brother (Beaf) when engaged in intellectual debates. We are all waiting!

Whats the "line of thought?" That Presidential aspirants will come to this thread to declare their assets, or something similarly stup!d?
Dem go take laf kill pesin for NL one day!
www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

oyb:
the only thing beaf is good for

i can't wait for the debates - lets see if gej will resort to the thuggish loutish methods of his chief campaigner when he is boxed into a corner

Why not open a thread about that?
In the meantime, free yourself and family first.

1luvkipsus:
This is good news. Its either Jonathan or Ribadu.

It is the natural order, we can't afford to continue wasting as a nation.

^
And you think your wishes and wild imagination by some miracle, carries more authority than Sir George Goldie (who by co-authored with J.E. Flinch)?

Wonders shall never cease!

oyb:
so we can safely assume that beaf cannot answer any of the hard questions posited on this thread?

better go peddle your lis among illiterate villagers

everyone here sees through your deceit and hypocrisy

your only answer to any queries is to throw up pictures of ibb or saraki

what are those supposed to do?

are they supposed to pain me? do you see me campaigning for saraki? i have frequently challenged bisola oni and co over their slanted topics - though they have never sunk as lo as you have in OUTRIGHT FALSEHOODS .

we have also noted your conspicuous absence in the billion naira bin thread

if this had been under umya - you would have been everywhere bleating about how nigeria is worse than nazi germany and they are sharing our money

you are a reinforcement of one of my observations about revolutionariess/activists - their real grouse is their place in society, and not society itself

keep peddling your lies and desperate attempts to pass off sheet and chocolate

So in one short word, you don't know Saraki's current asset worth? What a shocker! Yet, he owns you and your family.

As usual, you come out emptying your arse through your mouth. Keep waiting like a fool until old age, for Presidential candidates to come declare their assets on NL. I'll be watching your idiocy with amusement as always.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=519780.msg6821051#msg6821051 date=1285433256]Beaf, you are beginning to sound like a broken record and your write-up above is filled with elements of gross intellectual dishonesty. Those who are not lazy and would do the appropriate research will confirm that prior to the discovery of oil, Nigeria enjoyed the luxury of God blessing it with vast agricultural and solid mineral resources. Infact by 1960, Nigerian economy was driven largely by the non-oil sector, especially agriculture:

[list]
[li]Agriculture contributed 70 per cent of non oil GDP.[/li]
[li] Employed about 65 per cent of the total labour force [/li]
[li] The country enjoyed moderate standard of living; food self-sufficiency and was a net exporterof agricultural commodities. [/li]
[/list]

Let me add that most of the said Agric based economic activities took place in Northern Nigeria. Olodo.[/quote]You will find that I provided actual documentary evidence, while you have provided mere wishes and dreams. Ode buruku!
Your folk have been foolishly threatening to secede, so I guess you are here to parley and find out if anybody will be willing to hear one last sob story for some drops of oil before you head into the desert. Make una secede na, and live on groundnuts!

. . .Unfortunately for una, all the agriculture you talk about takes place in the Middle Belt, only sand de grow for una area. So secede, let us see.

Rakumin dajij.

Dede1:
Sometimes I wonder if GEJ is not the most shameless and idiotic president Nigeria ever had in years. It bemused me that GEJ’s team shall invoke spirit federal character in redeploying and retiring Service Chiefs and GOCs when he has flouted section of 7-2C of PDP’s constitution that was enshrined to encourage federal character. If GEJ is checked, Nigeria shall witness worst despot ever walked the surface of the earth.

There is a massive difference between the constution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a gentle mans agreement  by a group of ex-generals willing to construct a system where they would always be in control of the country.

If anybody thinks the PDP constitution or its agreements are superior to the Nigerian one, then they must either head for the law courts or take up arms to declare PDP a republic that is independent of Nigeria.

This is what section 1 of the constitution says;

1. (1) This Constitution is supreme and its provisions shall have binding force on the authorities and persons throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

(2) The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any persons or group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

(3) If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.

This section deals with who is qualified to become President (there is nothing in it that talks about PDP zoning.

131. A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if -
(a) he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth;
(b) he has attained the age of forty years;
(c) he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and
(d) he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.

132. (1) An election to the office of President shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

(2) An election to the said office shall be held on a date not earlier than sixty days and not later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder of that office.

(3) Where in an election to the office of President one of the two or more candidates nominated for the election is the only candidate after the close of nomination, by reason of the disqualification, withdrawal, incapacitation, disappearance or death of the other candidates, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall extend the time for nomination.

(4) For the purpose of an election to the office of President, the whole of the Federation shall be regarded as one constituency.

(5) Every person who is registered to vote at an election of a member of a legislative house shall be entitled to vote at an election to the office of President.

From the OP's link;

So rampant is corruption in Nigeria that the list of those recently accused of engaging in bribery there includes a U.S. Congressman (indicted after $90,000 of marked money was found in tinfoil-wrapped bundles in his freezer) and a Fortune 500 energy company (then run by soon-to-be Vice President Dick Cheney). Indeed, the Berlin-based group Transparency International has consistently ranked Nigeria among the world's most corrupt countries.

Much of the shady business takes place in or is related to the Delta -- a part of Nigeria that has earned an unfortunate superlative of its own: one of the five most-polluted spots on Earth, according to a recent assessment by a team of international experts. Up to 50 times as much oil as that of the Exxon Valdez disaster has been spilled there over the past 50 years -- one Valdez a year. And flaring -- how oil companies get rid of unwanted gas, a byproduct of drilling -- is blamed for making rain so acidic that corrugated iron roofs quickly turn to rust.

Even so, pollution is not the top concern for the average Delta inhabitant. Hunger is. Nigeria supplies one-tenth of the United States' oil, more than Iraq and Kuwait combined, yielding billions of dollars in oil revenue every year. Yet in the Delta most people survive on less than a dollar a day, well below the World Bank's threshold for extreme poverty.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bribe/2009/04/nigeria-the-hidden-cost-of-corruption.html

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Hope you would say this if it were in Yar'dua and Obj's terms? SR doesnt have to be in JEG's pocket. SR was hard on OBJ. Stella, Andy Uba,Turai, Yardua. So it's a figment of your imagination to think that GEJ should be given a free pass simply becuase it's a contention between JEG and evil (IBB). Chilax and go drink some kool-aid to kool your temper

Maybe you have a defence for this from Sahara Reporters? If you do, tell us and stop pretending to be a spiritualist that knows what I'm thinking (too many on NL these days).
Sahara Reporters is best known for fake news these days, including photoshoping pictures and posting same as news.
http://saharareporters.com/photo/photonews-jonathans-declaration-when-jonathan-women-met-goodluck-men

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US$2.8 billa! Damn!
Only IBB surpasses this.

[size=14pt]Shagari's regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari's wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC)[/size], during General Obasanjo's era as military head of state that preceded Shagari's. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. [size=14pt]The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari[/size], Obasanjo's appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee's report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari's regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.

The attempt at civilian-to-civilian transition provided the fillip for mayhem at the time. The elections were marred by massive rigging because incumbent political office holders were refusing to slacken their stranglehold on Nigeria Plc., mortgaged as the leaders private property. On the 31st December, 1983, [b]Buhari struck under the cover of the political commotion that trailed the presidential election results. Buhari generally had no agenda for leadership but vendetta against those he called critics and rabble-rousers. Buhari did not see any moral wrong in his conversion of our oil money into his personal use. Rather he railed at the press and what he described as the self-righteous sections of the country for making a big deal out of the issue. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Satire saved my neck at the time. [size=14pt]Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari's account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.[/size][/b]

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/34773/1/is-the-north-incapable-of-giving-us-quality-leader.html