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[size=14pt]Flood claims 48 lives, displaces 35,000 persons in Nigeria's Sokoto State [/size]
English.news.cn 2010-09-16 02:34:59

SOKOTO, Nigeria, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- At least 48 people have been confirmed dead and 35,000 others displaces as flood submerged 23 villages in Goronyo Local Government Area of northern Nigeria's Sokoto State.

Chairman of the local government Zubairu Yari made this known to reporters on Wednesday, adding that 15 of the 23 affected villages were submerged just as thousands of houses and farmlands were washed away.

"Some of the victims are missing; we just got information that 53 dead bodies were seen around Argungu in Kebbi State and majority of them are suspected to be from this area," he said.

"I have personally seen three dead bodies of women with their dead children strapped on their backs. It is very catastrophic," the local government chairman added.

The local government required the support of the state and Federal Governments to resettle the victims to safe havens, he told reporters.

Meanwhile, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday travelled to northern Sokoto and Kebbi State to commiserated with the flood victims.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-09/16/c_13513775.htm

Sack the lot.

sbeezy8:
Theres nothing wrong in what IBB said- But why didnt build the nation as ONE when he ruled over Nigeria for 8 yrs?

I mean really. I would respect him more if he didnt want to become PRESIDENT AGAIN, if he means what he says he should make sure the Niger delta gets a better deal in allocation, he should make sure igbos dont feel marginalized, and he should make sure that yoruba politicians arent killing eachother, in the middle belt he should be more active in Peace between religions, he should also Make sure illiteracy in the North is checked. He doesnt need to president to do that.

after all hes IBB so why didnt he do that all that for the last 17 yrs he wasnt president?

. . .He should make sure he sends himself to the firing squad. Period.

[size=14pt][color=#990033]The speech is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bloody unintelligent!
It hard to be maradona when you don't have a gun to everybody's head! Now we see the real IBB. . .Just another dull, brainless, murderer, person and junior Lucifer.

It is packed with so many denials that even stones have to sit up and ask why. Well, the spirits are already summoning the man, so let him continue his macabre dance.[/color][/size]

Solomon227:
@ Kobojunkie

What I find irritating about u is your wannabe status. Every bold one has been taking a stand and u have chosen to criticize evrything. [size=14pt]Sometimes u even criticize critizism. [/size]

For those of us that have lived through IBB's bruises we have taken stands against him. Who is Kobo supporting? Stop teaching everyone how to support or oppose a candidate.

Damn! What an apt description!

Unu go kill pesin wit laf o!

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I helped you embed the video.

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Dis Guy:
it was in the news some weeks back, he employed 10,000 or so 'special assistant' as a youth empowerment strategy

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5613816-146/nyako_to_appoint_15000_aides_.csp

N10,000 every month for doing fuckall!

What! Damn! I just had to quote the whole story you linked;

[size=14pt]Nyako to appoint 15,000 aides[/size]
September 1, 2010 01:55PM


Murtala Nyako, the governor of Adamawa State, has approved the recruitment of 15,000 ``Special Assistants'' from the 226 wards in the state.

Aminu Iyawa, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity told the News Agency of Nigeria Wednesday that the recruitment falls under the government's Grassroots Socio-Economic
Empowerment Programme, aimed at reducing poverty and unemployment in the state.Mr Iyawa said the new aides, mostly youths, would be nominated by their respective wards' elected councillors.``This is a programme that has been existing for the past three years. The beneficiaries are entitled to N10,000
monthly stipend and they are expected to learn trades or skills to be self- reliant or self-employed at the end of the yearly programme.

``Government has established a vocational technicaltraining centre in each of the three senatorial zones,located in Mubi, Mayo-Belwa and Yola towns,while Farming Skill Acquisition Centres were established in all the 21 local government areas.``The new SAs and rural farmers are expected to go and learn some trade and farming skills at the centres,'' he said. Mr Iyawa said the empowerment programmes introduced by the Nyako administration has made positive impact, particularly at the grassroots.


``Also, many youth are self-employed and even employees, while many households are now engaged in fish farming and animal husbandry.


``For the first time in ages, many people now realised that farming is a good business,'' he added. (NAN)

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5613816-146/nyako_to_appoint_15000_aides_.csp

But are these people really learning skills or is it all a mask?

Solomon227:
I am not going to stop until I am disgraced!

Found it really funny, so I fixed your PDF as a picture.

b200:
This state that has an extremely poor road and basic facilties and yet gives out N10-N200 every month to hundreds of people called S.A(SPECIAL ASSISTANTS - TO THE STATE GOVERNOR).

They have no offices and no portfolios. They include the normads, motor park touts, the employed, etc

Salaries are either not paid, or irregular with huge unexplained deductions, and The Governor wants to come back again, to do what exactly?

No, no! Someone, please tell me I am not seeing this!
If there is any truth in this, then people actually need to be shot in this country. Damn!

Having said the above, OP why should we believe you aren't simply smearing the governor? Give us some facts.

oyb:
for those misguided liars who would have us believe nnpc has never been audited before the messiah gej

beaf, over to you.

Dude, ignorance can never bear fruit! Is that what you call naming auditors and providing their audit reports?

I noticed you made no attempt to link to an audit report. You know why? Cos, there is nothing of repute, so you can only blag foolishly and point at newspaper articles which buttress my argument and contradict yours outright. But then, you were never very clever.

Read the article you posted again and do it thoroughly this time. When you are done with that, read this except from the same paper you quoted;

Despite this vote of confidence, the industry is still grappling with problems of how to get certain institutions like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to adhere to the basic EITI principles, which are founded on the ethics of prudent management and use of natural resources, not only for the benefit of the citizens but also for the promotion of sustainable national socio-economic growth and development as well as poverty reduction through a commitment to openness, transparency, and good governance.

Till date, the corporation is still unable to reconcile the discrepancies uncovered in the 2004 and 2005 audits, and owes the Federal Government N450 billion .

The National Coordinator, Publish What You Pay (PWUP) Nigeria, Faith Nwadishi, said recently that it is illegal practices by institutions like the NNPC that are undermining efforts by Nigeria to entrench transparency and accountability in its extractive industry. "Why are we still talking on the reconciliation of discrepancies in the 2005 audit report when we should be talking about the 2008 report," Ms. Nwadishi said, adding that it is issues like this that show how unserious the government is with the commitment to get EITI validation.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5611973-147/story.csp

Dude, you are what they call fcking ignorant. Oyibo people would say, "his brain is befuddled and addled by strong substance."

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

Every other witness and newspaper says it was a tiny crowd. Rented pressmen sef!

All the pictures of the event prove that it was a tiny crowd too. Take a good look at the pic below, then look at the one with IBB getting into his car sorrounded by a few almajiri's.

[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/320763_ibb-declares_jpg53f027ebed6cf1ed213b019d7f717101[/img]


IBB and a couple from the almajiri crowd (the one by the door looks particularly hungry).

oyb:
really, for the first time in its existence nnpc has been audited- you expect us to believe that bs? are you going to have us belive that nnpc has never retained the services of extenal auditors before now? and that doesn't even take into account the fact that the govt had to take a u turn on the audit results - so tell us is nnpc bankrupt or not? 

spoken like atrue out of touch internet warrior - petrol is n65 /litre and you are unaware of the inside joke in the industry - the only places in nigeria where fuel really goes for n65 is lare lagos and abj - go to the east there is full 'deregulation ' 

more from our resident paranoiac - everything is 'mafia' - i'm posting from work - and we've been on gen for the better part of today and yesterday - this improvement in power must be on your facebook

and this is how you indict yourself - is Johnathan not part of this government? was he asleep for the past three years? if we are to believe you claims which are not backed by any newspaper articles ., then Johnathan can only be relied on to address issues like this in an election year 

please do

now answer did you not claim that kidnapping had reduced under johnatahn 

or wee you smoking  something stronger than your usual meth at the time

Just as I thought, total conjecture. But its good I forced you to defend your assertions, otherwise nobody would witness your emptiness.
90% of what you said above is a hopeless ramble; so I have just one challenge for you, [size=14pt]give the name of NNPC's external auditor as well a their audit report.[/size] If you can't do that, you would have proven that you are engaging in street side, lies and rumour mongering talk as usual.

That's one fcking wicked challenge!

^
Dude, I'm still waiting for you to counter what I said earlier. Or is it that you can't.
Laf go kill pesin for NL, what has the crap you typed got to do with this topic?

[size=33pt]Counter what I said earlier or sharap jare![/size]

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-513742.32.html#msg6759622

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His panties and last pieces of d.i.c.k. 

The thought alone of people protesting against the EFCC is out of this World, talkless of actually getting paid and doing it.
Damn! Is corruption not the bane of Nigeria?

oyb:
^^^^^

as always, the dubious figures and the bizarre paranoid lies - everyone who sees through Johnathan is an ibb man

[size=21pt]. . .Then counter them.[/size]

IBB people = Foolish people.

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9ijaMan:
@ Kobojunkie,
I would not waste my precious time attempting to open the eyes of these guys. According to them GEJ has performed above average and I could not help myself from bursting into uncontrollable laughter. I wonder what the index of measurement is for someone to conclude that GEJ has performed above average. Perhaps his posts on FB is above average, to that I agree totally. Can any of GEJ's cronies come up with what he's done "above average"? Ironically, it seems 9ja now has light 24-7, the roads are now well tarred and hospitals have been supplied state of the art medical equipment within the last 8 months since he became the president of 9ja.

@ Beaf & the rest of GEJ's cronies
Without resorting to uncouth, rude and foul words, can you all please list 3 "above average" achievements of GEJ since he got into office as president?

Look at the bolded, then actually attempt some thinking and come again.
As for 3 of Jonathans achievements, you are obviously either wilfully blind or wilfully ignorant. It has not occured to you that for the first time in its existence, the NNPC has actually been audited; you might be too blind to notice that the petroleum mafia's have been decimated and fuel now costs 63 Naira per litre; you might still be living with your parents, so it has not occured to you that fuel scarcity is over; of course, to your kind, improvements in electricity supply are anathema, because you are creatures of darkness; the dismantling of the electricity mafia might be repulsive to you, because you make ill gains.

It might actually knock you senseless to realise that the 2000+ containers of NEPA spare parts that were marooned in the ports for 3+ years and being auctioned by your kind have been cleared out in less than two weeks and are being installed in various parts of the country as we speak. Those 2000+ containers had acrued demurrage of 14billion, because the type of govt you love wanted to auction items bought with federal money for their personal gain.

I could go on, but there's little one can cram into decripit minds that refuse to function.

okeymadu:
@Beaf, I use to like your posts they make lots of sense, but this one^^ you allowed your sense of love of Jonathan for becloud the writing,

Is fuel scarcity not as a result of maladministration, misrule and lack of clear cut vision? ehnn if he created fuel scarcity and then solves them do u credit him for solving a problem he created? NO, I beg to differ.

Why can't he solve the pressing problems like electricity, bad roads, How many of such problem did he frontally confront?

Beaf, Beaf, Beaf. How many times I call you? count your teeth with your tougue, assuming that you knew what I mean.

Abeg, no call my name like dat, you wan make I fear?
Ok, no vex.

The man has only been there for 4 months, so how can he solve problems like bad roads and electricity in such a short time? You will understand that with electricity, there has already been noticable improvement and a firm plan for the future has been kicked off; I have faith that roads will come later.

Back to fuel scarcity and your question, "How many of such problem did he frontally confront?"
The reason why we had fuel scarcity was because NNPC was serving private pockets alongside other massive instances of gangsterism, institutionalised incompetence and corruption. NNPC was also declared as unauditable because of the staggering level of corruption that existed there before Jonathan cleared out the ugly nest.

That Jonathan was able to break that mafia scenario and deliver constant fuel is a laudable fit in itself. We really need to recognise that.
NNPC has also been audited for the very first time in its history and our oil, for once is beginning to serve we, the masses to whom it belongs. Dude, these things are outstanding fits of leadership; Jonathans issue is that he is so quiet, but thats what we need, not talkers who walk away with the national purse.

Jonathan for 2011.

dappssee:
@Beaf: I see she has over 17,000 posts of crap. So much for wanting to be heard.

It is indeed a fearful barrage of outstanding emptiness.

Kobojunkie:
I am sorry but you are talking to one of the most analytical minds you will probably ever meet in a while and believe you me, there is no way to analyze bull. . . BULL is BULL!!

Signs of a crackpot megalomaniac. Really pitiable.

@dappssee
I would advice you to maintain sanity by avoiding NL's crackpot king and chief nuisance. Kobojunkie can argue with a wall or a heap of stones; discovering new angles and putting them forward with gusto!
The other crackpot is becomerich; what kobojunkie does with words, he does with maps.

okeymadu:
You know, we all know that the PDP will be winning, manifesto or seven point agenda, it does not matter. Who has delivered on manifestoes anyway?

my only concern is that, as usual, these politicians are not blowing those 'big big grammer' associated with campaign. At least to give us a laugh,

One wonders if ending fuel queue is an achievement,

Those who run businesses or are productive in some fully appreciate the ending of fuel scarcity as a major achievement. On the other hand, those who make funny money or still live with their parents might not.

^
Dude, go and rest. Your battery is too weak.
You guy's have been reciting the same old scratched record that is getting weaker and weaker with each passing day. Shame!
The usual foolish argument of "he is weak" has proven to be stup!d with the clearing away of the service cheifs that some were looking up to to forment distress, chaos and bloodletting in Northern states. . . There will be peace in the North in 2011.

Bloody gathering of losers and failures.

We should be asking what manifesto IBB delivered today. I have this vague memory that he declared today.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

OAM4J:
Can anyone watching the declaration confirm if the Niger State Governor - Babangida Aliyu is at the rally.

He is there. The only other governors in attendance are gov's of Zamfara (married to IBB's daughter) and Nasarawa.
Niger state PDP backed out.

[size=21pt]CBN Governor - Lawrence Anini![/size]

Babangida is the least qualified of all the aforementioned. In a civilised and highly democratised country, Babangida should by now be cooling off in a maximum prison facility for his multinational crimes against his fatherland. Babangida’s crimes are beyond pardon. He introduced the structural adjustment programme in the 1980s that destroyed the lives of millions of Nigerians. Babangida devalued the naira and officially introduced corruption and perfected the “settlement” culture at a time when Buhari and Idiagbon were trying to set standards and inculcate discipline and values in Nigerians.

But Babangida’s greatest undoing was the annulment of the June 12 1993 presidential election which was won convincingly by Chief MKO Abiola. The election was cancelled on the grounds that Abiola was a security risk and that some top military officers did not fancy Abiola becoming President in Nigeria.

Nigerians have not also forgotten the military crackdown in the wake of the protests against the annulment of the June 12, 1993 prseidential election during which hundreds of Nigerian protesters were mowed down in Lagos alone under the tyranny of our blood thirsty but sweet talking general.

What about the $12.4bn Gulf war oil windfall which was mismanaged without any government challenging him till date? And Babangida boasts that he is the most investigated Nigerian alive.

Brilliant article!
. . .But the author forgot to add that Babangida also says the youth are too stup!d to rule this country.
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5557169-146/civil_society_faults_babangidas_youth_cant.csp

Kobojunkie:
You do not have 1 or 2 months. According to INEC Timetable, each Party should present it's candidate by September 30th, only a couple of days from today. I Strongly advice people to take it on themselves to seek out the potentials and start now learning all you can of them so you can better make your decisions.

Again, it is NO ONE ELSES PLACE to tell you or anyone else who is BEST FOR YOUR VOTE. It is YOUR JOB AS A CITIZEN to decide what candidate is BEST FOR YOUR VOTE! Who else should it be? is a personal question , not one someone else is to answer for any voter.

Claiming it is a personal a personal question is a disingenious way of dodging the simplest of questions which this topic is asking.
There are many ways to admit defeat, but this has to be the most shocking.

If it is your belief that the right person to vote for is somehow a personal, Boko Haramic, religious type fcking question, how come you run around opening your empty mouth on every politics topic? Should your loud empty talk not be personal going by your (not surprising) deafeningly empty conclusion above?

IBB people = Foolish people.

[size=33pt]Goodluck Nigeria![/size]

[size=14pt]Baptism For Jonathan[/size]
Author: Date: Sep 15th, 2010.

The fear of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is the beginning of wisdom for the 2011 elections, especially for presidential aspirants. This phobia has forced some presidential aspirants to regroup and renegotiate to consolidate their base to clinch victory against Jonathan. This is the situation in the Babangida/Atiku camps.

The attack on the President from the North has been so venomous that only the brave-hearted can withstand the vitriolic onslaught. But Milton admonishes us to have the “courage never to submit or yield to fear and intimidation”. And President Goodluck Jonathan seems to have a pedigree of humble equanimity even when the environment is agitated and in turbulence. The Governor Alamieyeseigha and President Umaru Yar’Adua cases bear testimony to such antecedents.

The North has threatened fire and brimstone; they have thrown the kitchen sink and all they can muster at Jonathan but the President seems unruffled. The Arewa Consultative Forum, the Northern Union, the Northern Political Leaders’ Forum have all united to frustrate the ambition of the South-South to produce its first President in Nigeria, come 2011.

Banners like “its zoning or nothing”, “Northern President or noting”, “North will disgrace Jonathan”, “North moves against Jonathan”, “ACF may compel Northerners to quit Jonathan’s Govt”, “Northern leaders read riot act”, “North plans strategy to frustrate Jonathan”, evidently show that some elements in the North are against Jonathan.

The silent and unwritten clause of the foregoing war banners is that the North will voluntarily or otherwise quit the Nigerian Nation if Jonathan wins in 2011 in spite of all their plots and schemes to the contrary. In spite of all these babbling from the madding crowd some sane voices have been heard from the North.

Even within the North many believe that the North has been unfair to the South regarding the governance of this country. Some Northern elite believe that the North will be the first to groan if the North and South part ways especially with the demise of the groundnut pyramids in Kano in the 70s.

However, the North is desperately exploring for oil to call the bluff of the Niger-Delta region, but these efforts have not yielded dividends yet. Northern Nigeria has ruled Nigeria for 38 years while the South has ruled for a paltry 12 years. This unjustifiable and unfair travesty seems to have emboldened the North and further entrenched the born-to-rule mentality which has now become a cultural heritage of the North, even among Federal Civil Servants. If you have worked in a Federal Government establishment, you will understand the arrogance of the few Northern graduates who become Directors-General under 7 years while their Southern counterparts get to that exalted position after about 25 years of meritorious service. Northern dominance has largely become a cultural and conceptual creation of adherents of the bogus “North must rule” mentality.

The North must realise that all Federating units of a Federation are regarded as politically equal to one another and no unit of the Federation must be marginalised or impoverished as the people of the Niger-Delta who ironically lay the golden eggs that sustain Nigeria.

Even in the international system, the theoretical equality of Independent Sovereign states is non-negotiable. That is why Montenegro, one of the states from the old Yugoslavia with a population of less than 700,000 can be admitted to the United Nations on an equal footing with the United States of America with a population of about 307 million people or with China with a population of about 1.4 billion people.

The North by its overbearing attitude over Southern Nigeria is sowing the seeds of destruction which will implode with the emergence of two or more nations if caution is thrown to the wind.

Who are the Northern candidates? General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Mohammed Gusau, General Mohammadu Buhari, Gov. Bukola Saraki, Mrs. Sarah Jubril to mention those who have declared interest.

[b]Babangida is the least qualified of all the aforementioned. In a civilised and highly democratised country, Babangida should by now be cooling off in a maximum prison facility for his multinational crimes against his fatherland. Babangida’s crimes are beyond pardon. He introduced the structural adjustment programme in the 1980s that destroyed the lives of millions of Nigerians. Babangida devalued the naira and officially introduced corruption and perfected the “settlement” culture at a time when Buhari and Idiagbon were trying to set standards and inculcate discipline and values in Nigerians.

But Babangida’s greatest undoing was the annulment of the June 12 1993 presidential election which was won convincingly by Chief MKO Abiola. The election was cancelled on the grounds that Abiola was a security risk and that some top military officers did not fancy Abiola becoming President in Nigeria.

Nigerians have not also forgotten the military crackdown in the wake of the protests against the annulment of the June 12, 1993 prseidential election during which hundreds of Nigerian protesters were mowed down in Lagos alone under the tyranny of our blood thirsty but sweet talking general.

What about the $12.4bn Gulf war oil windfall which was mismanaged without any government challenging him till date? And Babangida boasts that he is the most investigated Nigerian alive.[/b]

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was Nigeria’s Vice President for 8 years and his greatest achievement was a Private American University in Yola which is also one of the most expensive in the country. Where is the morality of a vice president building a private university for himself while “serving” his fatherland.

Listen to Atiku Abubakar, “we have to work together to solve the problems facing us as a nation and making Nigeria a prosperous country for the benefit of our people”. For the 8 years Atiku was vice president, which Nigerian problem did he solve? Instead he made life more difficult for Nigerians by charging impossible fees for a university he built with funds belonging to the Nigerian people. And with all the probes Atiku Abubakar “wangled” through via the “Nigerian factor” it is unfortunate and an irony that the same Atiku Abubakar wants to ask for the people’s mandate again- may be to build more universities to exploit the people.

Mrs. Sarah Jubril has been eyeing the presidency since 1979. She does not bother not having secured a party’s ticket. For her it’s a quadrennial ritual.

Muhammadu Buhari is the only honest candidate among the pack. He means well for Nigeria. But his religious bigotry which cost him a lot in previous elections has to be addressed if he genuinely wants to lead a diversely cosmopolitan country like Nigeria.

Mohammed Gusau is the erstwhile National Security Adviser who attended a meeting with the Northern Political Leaders in Abuja to contest the 2011 Presidential ticket with his boss without resigning first. He is not a serious candidate.

[b]Governor Bukola Saraki is on his father’s errand and has no clout beyond his father’s kingdom – Kwara State.

For 8 years both IBB and Atiku Abubakar were president and vice-president respectively, of this great country Nigeria. What did they do to reduce the culture of begging in Nigeria especially in the North? Our youths are encouraged to waste their talents and God-endowed human resources because it is to their advantage for the beggars to remain poor and dependent on the wealthy class who daily provide fish for the beggars without teaching them how to fish for themselves. These poor beggars are always at the beck and call of these rich politicians to do their bidding. These beggars become very active during electoral or other forms of political violence protecting the interests of their sponsors.

There is massive unemployment in the North as a result of cultural inhibitions especially for some of the women who are not allowed to work in open government or private offices. Even for the men the motivating drive for entrepreneurship is lacking thereby reducing artisanship and encouraging begging and spontaneous violence. Man is creative everywhere but traditional and cultural drawbacks have to a large degree defined man’s entrepreneurial freedom and drive.

But by far the greatest negligence of the Northern leaders, nay all Nigerian leaders, is in the field of education. Nigerian presidents have strategically played down the critical importance of education for selfish and personal reasons. Many Nigerian leaders have reduced funding for secondary and tertiary education to “kill” education in Nigeria while building their own private universities for only the elite of society.[/b]

Education is the only tool that can free us from ignorance, poverty and self denigration. Education is the only lifeline you can throw at a drowning man. According to Henry Peter Broughman “Education makes people easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern but impossible to enslave”.

Nigerian leaders know that the moment they embark on a massive education for the people of this country that same moment they will lose the vicegrip they have on its hapless citizens.

Babangida’s desparation also forebodes danger for this country especially with his Machiavellian strategies and policies and also because of his friendship with the military top brass. Babangida and Atiku should forget about governing Nigeria and even thank God that they are not in jail but walking around as free men. Is it possible for President Barack Obama to build the most expensive private university in Chicago while in office and be indicted by every probe and yet expect Americans to vote him into the White House for a second time? He will not even be allowed to pick nomination forms for the Democratic Party primaries.

Babangida is a great war strategist and tested scholar of Sun Tzu and Karl Von Clausewitz. The 2011 electoral battle will be won on strategy. The candidate with the better strategy will carry the day.

While Babangida is spoiling for outright war as a General with propaganda, deceit and wild promises and winning a few journalists and the Igbo over, President Goodluck Jonathan is using dialogue to win strategic personalities over to his side. By now Babangida should have known that the greatest general is the one who wins the war without firing a shot. At the end of the day, whoever wins the election must ensure that Nigeria’s core strategic interest must remain without blemish.

—Ben Nanaghan writes from Lagos. E-mail: bennanaghan@yahoo.com

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/09/15/baptism-for-jonathan/

xterra2:
It is true
Large crowd on Eagles Square

For those that want pictures changed your channel to nta,ait or you can watch it online here http://www.watchnta.com/

I was even surprised by the large crowd that showed up ,
So IBB has many supporters

This is 100% [size=14pt]MetalDung[/size]!
There is no crowd, we've got folks on the scene. Not a single PDP top shot turned up.

They demonstrated their power by freeing 721 Boko Harams in Bauchi. GEJ showed his power by simply freeing them off their jobs. 1 - 1!

So why are they still making daft noises? Its because they have been threatening that all hell will break loose and they will provoke largescale almajiri riots. Well, well!! Their govt agents have been decapitated and their plans have failed, so they get in the news and talk crap. I wonder where their leaders Tanko Yakasai and Kanti Bello are these days?

My team and I made no promises on adequate fuel supply in Nigeria. We simply did what was expected of those who govern, we delivered it, and you are living witnesses to that. We made no promise to revamp the textile industry. We delivered a bailout package worth 150 billion naira that is being dispensed as I write. We made no promises of securing the highest U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aviation clearance, the Category 1 Certificate which enables Nigerian registered airlines to fly to ANY U.S city. We delivered. We made no promise to give Nigeria a brand new INEC under a proven God-fearing and incorruptible leader. We placed Nigeria first and delivered. We made no promises of protecting your loans, deposits and investments in the banking industry over and beyond what is covered under the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Scheme. We delivered it via AMCON. Rather than tell you what we could do to improve power, this administration demonstrated it by initiating a brand new national Super Grid as well as launching a concrete Road Map to the Power Sector with realistic goals tied to realistic dates. I understand from some of your mails that there has been some small improvements in electricity supply in some communities. We met an economy that was beginning to slow due to the global recession. Today, the economy has verifiably grown by 7% this half year ending in June.

What more can be added? A humble man and a silent achiever.
[size=33pt]Goodluck Nigeria![/size]

[color=#ff0000][size=33pt]Latest news![/size][/color]
[size=14pt]Very reliable sources right next to Eagle Square are reporting that, "Nutin de happen!," even the weakest PDP members failed to turn up! There are just mainly almajiri's whom the security agencies are keeping under a very watchful eye.[/size]

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