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babapupa:
See how people think? The crap don't even make any freeking sense, it's really a painful read. This is indeed a sad byproduct of the lousiest form of education. I hope your state of village is not counting on you as their future leader of tomorrow.

It wouldn't come as shock to you the day you finally realise, that while I have already contributed several advancements to World knowledge (yeah, read that again, clown), you have remained no better than a Lastma officer, barking at people like a rabid dog.

Its more likely Aganga will be given more power, especially after the gaff by one of his junior ministers.

Jencejyde:
Are we better than them right now?

Yes, we are.

[quote author=Baba_O]@beaf et al

Have you suddenly forgotten what happened at The house of Assembly recently?, i wonder why we argue blindly in this country. Other well to do countries of the world travel out of their countries to learn one thing or the other. You can never be an island. It is a confidence and international experience/exposure building as well.[/quote]Rather than throw accusations that others are arguing blindly, it would help if you instead, learn to think critically.
If you have a son you wish to take over the running of your family and business after you have done your part; do you send him to your neighbours house for leadership training making him believe you aren't up to the task, or do you keep him under your wing at home?
Leadership training is something that must be done at home. . . No two ways!

If "what happened at The house of Assembly recently" is your main concern, then you should be extremly troubled about sending them to SA which has the highest incidence of violence in the World, where hundreds of fellow African foreigners were burnt alive in the recent past, where the Western World was aghast at the antics of Julius Malema (ANC youth leader). . . You know little about South Africa, their politics has nothing to offer us.

@topic
It is quite noticable that a lot of people have not been able to differentiate between "Leadership" training and everyday education. Well, they are two very different things. Having exchange students or students on work experience is very different from sending students on leadership training. The word "leadership" packs a very powerful meaning, I don't think it needs to be explained further.

[size=14pt]Jonathan to reshuffle cabinet next week [/size]
Elizabeth Archibong and Emmanuel Ogala
August 5, 2010 03:37AM

The plot of the nation's political drama thickens as President Goodluck Jonathan plans to reshuffle his cabinet next week, said sources privy to the decision.

As politicians in the last few weeks focused on zoning and its attendant problems or benefits, Mr. Jonathan, who political watchers say never ceases to surprise, was doggedly entrenching his hold on the nation's polity.

A few days back, he forwarded the names of three nominees to the Senate for approval as new ministers. It was not immediately clear, however, who the new people will replace. The Senate has acknowledged the receipt of the nominees and decided to reconvene Tuesday next week to screen, and possibly confirm them.

Although the Senate would not reveal the identities of the nominees, it was confirmed that the candidates, two men, and a woman, are from Yobe, Delta, and Borno states. A source further confirmed that one of them is a member of an opposition party, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).

Curiously, Mr. Jonathan's action is coming nine months to the end of his administration and he still refuses to confirm if he will be contesting in next year's presidential election or not. Former president Olusegun Obasanjo also effected such a cabinet reshuffle towards the end of his second term in 2006 when he re-assigned Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from ministry of finance to foreign affairs.

The usual suspects

Sources confirmed that the proposed changes will most likely affect the finance minister, Olusegun Aganga and the minister of state for finance, Remi Babalola. It was unclear if Mr Babalola's statement last month that the state oil company, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was broke led to his been considered for possible removal. Mr. Babalola had told a group of journalists during a workshop on "Understanding the operations of the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria" organised by the NNPC for members of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), that the only reason the corporation has not paid the ₦450 billion debt owed to the federal government was "its cash flow problem." He reportedly lost favour with Mr. Jonathan after that statement.

At the federal executive council meeting that took place after Mr. Babalola's comment, the council denied, through Dora Akunyili, the Information minister, that NNPC was insolvent.

"NNPC, from the auditor's account, is a going concern, and does not have solvency issue as a corporation. Therefore, categorically, NNPC is not insolvent," Mrs. Akunyili said.

She added that there will always be an outstanding balance between the federal government and the oil giant because of the regular transactions between them.

One of the nominees is supposed to fill the vacancy in the power ministry which had no substantive minister, apart from the junior minister. The others are expected to fill the junior minister positions in the petroleum and foreign affairs ministries.

Although the cabinet reshuffle was not mentioned during the briefing that followed the federal executive council meeting yesterday, the Presidency is said to be awaiting the senate's endorsement of the nominees whose names are currently en route to the national assembly.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5602996-146/jonathan_to_reshuffle_cabinet_next_week.csp

Are farm settlements still in existence? I didn't realise that. Nice one.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=490857.msg6514452#msg6514452 date=1280973470][size=13pt]@beaf
I kinda got bored with babapupa's sly way of avoiding some valuable questions, but can you plz tell me if he has finally answered the question about the expenses of these trips?[/size][/quote]No.

He has only injected one or two thuggish abuses and bravely stuck to [size=14pt]avoiding all questions[/size], because he has sussed that he is NL's "holy" Lagosian and is manfully putting up with persecution.
God bless his Lastma soul.

[size=14pt]50 years of farm settlements: South-West farmers praise Awo [/size]
•Say agric sector needs healing from sickness
Written by Dare Adekanmbi
Thursday, 05 August 2010

THE South-Western Nigeria Conference of Farm Settlers Association, apex body of farmers in the region, on Wednesday, showered encomiums on Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for envisioning the farm settlement scheme 50 years ago to achieve food sufficiency at the regional and national levels.

The association gave the adulation during a courtesy visit to Chief (Mrs.) HID Awolowo, at the Awolowo’s residence in Ikenne Remo, Ogun State, to herald the 50th anniversary of the programme in October this year.

Spokesperson for the group and its president, Evangelist Samson Makinde, said the scheme was conceptualised by Chief Awolowo out of concern for the welfare of the masses and the need to turn the beneficiaries into employers of labour.

He pointed out that the scheme, as one of the many legacies of the sage, had remained imperishable because it was founded on selflessness.

The farm settlers, whose representatives came from Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos States, lamented the neglect of agriculture in the region, recalling with nostalgia how the old Western Region used to be the bedrock of food production in the country.

They noted that the agric sector was sick and needed urgent healing, saying that the salvation of the nation from its economic woes rested on adequate attention to agriculture.

Makinde urged Chief Awolowo’s Jewel of Inestimable Value to appeal to the South-West governments to emulate the sage by investing heavily in the refurbishment and upgrading of the settlements for food security.

While welcoming the farmers, Chief HID Awolowo expressed joy that she was alive to see the fruit of her husband’s labour after 50 years of the programme.

She said it was to the glory of God that the settlements were still functional long after establishment.

Mrs. HID Awolowo added that she was surprised to see on her visit to one of the settlements, that the farmers still kept faith in one of Awo’s legacies.

She equally expressed delight when told that many of the children of the settlers born in the farms had grown to become qualified professionals like medical doctors, lecturers and so on.

She pledged the active participation of the Awolowo clan in the golden jubilee celebration, praying God for continuous blessings on the farmers and their families.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/9233-1

[size=14pt]2011: Police deploy anti-bomb squad to sea ports[/size]
Aug 5, 2010 Share | By Evelyn Usman

LAGOS—In an apparent preparedness towards the 2011 general election, the Inspector General of Police has deployed Police anti-bomb squad to join its anti-terrorism counterpart at all sea ports across the country to checkmate importation of explosives into the country.

Highlighting the functions of the personnel during a sensitization workshop in Lagos, Commissioner of Police in-charge of PPA, Mr Hilary Okpara, said it would include checkmating all goods coming into the country through sea ports and land boarders .

This he said, would ensure cargoes did not contain bombs, explosives or their components that could be used to destabilize the country.

Said he, “ the recent drafting of personnel of anti-terrorism and anti-bomb squads by the Federal Government through the Inspector-general of Police is an eloquent testimony that the security of cargo and all stakeholders that operate in the ports is not being handled with kids gloves.”

The personnel he informed, had been given special training within and outside the country and could therefore, boast of modern equipment and gadgets that could be used to detect explosives and their components within five minutes of examination of cargo.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/08/05/2011-police-deploy-anti-bomb-squad-to-sea-ports/

[size=14pt]Ajumogobia parleys with Clinton over proposed Obama’s visit to Nigeria [/size]
Thursday, 05 August 2010

Nigeria’s foreign Minister Henry Odein Ajumogobia resumed talks on Wednesday- with top US government officials on a possible US presidential visit to Nigeria soon, Empowered Newswire reports from Washington DC.

Informed Washington DC sources confirmed on Wednesday, that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ajumogobia will talk most importantly among other issues about a possible visit to Nigeria soon by President Barack Obama.

For some time the issue of a possible Obama visit to Nigeria has been a silent but constant underlay in the diplomatic exchanges between Nigeria and the US especially after then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan honored Obama’s invitation to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington in April this year.

After Jonathan’s meeting with Obama, several top US government officials had visited Nigeria and the US-Nigerian Bi-National Commission had also hosted meetings both in Nigeria and the US, further fuelling an improving US-Nigeria diplomatic relationships.

An authoritative source confirmed that the current meeting between Ajumogobia and different US government officials including Clinton and Ambassador Johnnie Carson, the US top diplomat in charge of Africa at the State Department, will review the issue of a potential Obama visit to Nigeria.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/9235-3

Obama thought Her Execllency, Mrs Fatima Yerima, was the garland girl and bent down to have her hang a garland on his neck. Her Excellency on the other hand thought differently in the innocence of her childlike heart, and thought he was bending down to admire her dress. She giggled and said, "Isn't this a very wonderful dress? It is the same color with my undies."

Michele laughed heartily and picked up Her Excellency in her hands, stroking her head. I nearly fainted! She turned to President Yerima and said, "This should be your beautiful daughter, where is her mother -your wife?" To which President Yerima looked at her stunned, not knowing what to say. The American ambassador to Nigeria stepped in and saved the situation, "Mrs. Obama, that is the President's wife that you are carrying in your hands. You may wish to put her down beside her husband so that the reception will continue."
The Nigerian First Lady who had been struggling to get out of Michele's hands, looked up indignantly at the American First Lady, said, "I will not be your friend again. Only my husband carries me up and you dared to carry me up."
. . .
the two First Ladies had to while away time while the Presidents discussed matters of state. Mrs Yerima insisted on showing Mrs Obama her toys and her grades in school. The other women stood idly by as one baby doll after the other was shown to Mrs Obama. "My husband bought this toy for me from China, she can even sing, let me play it for you." Mrs Obama nodded.
Her Excellency Fatima hit the button and the doll began to sing, "God damn America the great Satan, down with the infidels and down with the west." Mrs. Obama cringed but the child paid her no heed.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

Una go kill pesin pikin wit laf o!

babapupa:
The fact is, this is nothing new, this is an annual event and the kids are in SA for good reasons, they are public school kids and the state investing in public school kids in this manner is a beautiful thing. The kids are in SA and this time next year, another grounp will be in another country or maybe even SA.

I'm happy for the kids

I'm happy for their parents

I'm happy for the great state of Lagos

The kids are in SA and if any of you sadists and backward villagers don't like it, jump off the nearest cliff.

This babapupa is a very amusing fellow. I can just imagine him hanging from one of those buses screaming, musin - olosaaaaaaaa!!

The legislators are paid all that money to shut up and keep corruption breeding laws flowing. Any jara is for boxing lessons.

Good!
I was beginning to thing Dangote had become an untouchable god.
Look at what has happened to the NSE after his lawsuits and other crap to remain in charge.

Katsumoto:
I have a question for those criticising this move; do you know what has been budgeted for this initiative? We don't know whether it is part of an agreement with a body in SA or whether it is sponsored by a corporate. Honestly, how much would it cost to send to send 42 school kids to SA for one week? Without knowing the cost to the tax-payer, it is futile criticising the move.

If it was advertised that the children had received a grounding in Nigerian culture, there would have been little (if anything) to criticise.

I don't know the fine detail, but to me, the paramount issues in our leadership deficit are;
1. Tribalism
2. Tribalism
3. Tribalism

I would imagine that the solution to our tribal leanings lies with mixing with one another and learning about each others cultures. A trip to South Africa will not stop a Jukun kid sneering at his Tiv schoolmate (something that will develop into full blown tribalism in later years). The answer is to site the training either in Lagos and bring in lots of outside cultural influences or actually send the kids on excursions to various parts of the country. Let them see the beauty of kunu and fura in the North, let them marvel at the sight of plantain sized banana's at Obolo-Afor; Nigeria is a wonderful place, if only we would give it a chance.

All that will happen to these kids, is they will jet off to South Africa to marvel at SA successes and lose sight of little chinks of their identity.

Katsumoto:
You are right; I let my annoyance get the better of me.
I apologise

I recall someone calling you a gentleman on another thread. I'll repeat it here, you are a gentleman.

This is my calculation of Nigeria's population. It works backwards from the accepted 150 million;

If in South West, multiply accepted cencus figures by 1.2.
If in South East, multiply accepted cencus figures by 3.
If in far North, divide accepted cencus figures by 10.

^
You're probably right. But I'll add Buhari and IBB to the list of leaders with tortured English.

Katsumoto:
Since lagosians have started singing the praises of Fashola, many other non-Lagosians have started beefing the guy. There has been a concerted effort to turn public opinion against the man. Fashola is the governor of Lagos state, and ONLY and I repeat ONLY lagosians, have the right to criticise him and they should do it in a civil and open manner and not in a cowardly manner through the pages of newspapers and through the Internet. Anyone that wants to criticise Fashola, should go and criticise their own governors first and request the accounts and notes to the accounts of expenditure.

Kilode? Is Fashola the only governor in Nigeria or is Lagos the only state in Nigeria? Fashola has sent these kids on a learning curve, anyone who doesn't like it should go and jump in the lagoon. Let the citizens of the other states who are complaining here, go and query and criticise their own governors first.

This is not a rant at you Debosky.

Is it different rules for different states? Seriously, that argument is very weak and unhelpful.
How come the whole country was at Ibori's throat, whereas he was governor of ONLY Delta state and stole ONLY Delta states money? Come on, I'm sure you must have critisised Ibori at some point.
Lagos is not an independent country, everybody is allowed to criticise their fellow citizens.

agabaI23:
You dey emit bullet here and yet you are casting aspersion on someone. Time to shut it.

Don't mind chosen04.

I actually put the post you quoted in the grammar checker here http://ed.grammarly.com/
It came up with 14 problems. . . In about 50 words!!!
Thats a whopping 28% error rate!

Katsumoto:
Are the Chinese telling the Americans and British that America and Britain are better than China by sending their kids to American and British business schools on state funds?

That is completely different, because a lot of those Chinese students will be farmed out to work in Western branches of Chinese companies and there is a vast cultural gap to bridge. Its a totally different kettle of fish; the Chinese aren't sending their kids to the US and the UK for leadership training, lest poor Chairman Mao rolls, moans and groans in his grave!

becomrich3:
Nigeria is a funny place. This man have given jobs to millions of nigerian.

There would be more area boys on the street. Tell me, how can the PDP think they would win Yorubaland. Jonathan would loss all Yoruba state. The PDP is finished, And bankole want people to support him , I think this people are jokers in the PDP. [size=14pt]That why[/size] they are banking on rigging. Which is very bad.

Jonathan malo don make him mugu, they have plan.

The bolded never fails to get me. Masterstroke of batu!

babapupa:
The point here is the fact that it doesn't matter where, people will complain. I'm not sure if this a reading and compression problem, they didn't send them  to SA to learn about SA. Have you asked yourself why other countries send their military folks to Nigeria for military training? Is it your opinion that they send them to Nigeria to learn about Nigeria and not about military training?

I don't get some of you I swear,

Is alausa now a military camp?
Anyway, the reason other countries send their soldiers here to train is because our army is simply better than theirs. If you send your kids to SA to learn leadership, you are telling them that SA is better than Nigeria. I wouldn't be surprised if these kids grow up only to call for South Africa to please come colonise their state or country.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=490857.msg6513341#msg6513341 date=1280959066]Th source you provided does not show anybody complaining about this program. . . . and who is complaining on THIS current thread?

It's a GREAT idea. . . . but why waste money to learn about what you can in your own country? What "Positivity" does S.A or any other African country Govt have that can be taught to these children?

Honestly question to YOU: What govt policy does S.A have that can help Nigeria's Govt?
The purpose of this program is for the Nigerian Youths to learn about politics, to learn FROM current politicians so that they can be better educated about the policies of Governance.


ANYWAZ. . . . You've yet to answer KoboJ's question. I'll like the answer to this myself.[/quote]E no go hansa! He is busy seeing nonexistent ghosts and gremlins attacking his righteous position.

Dis Guy:
what do you mean? the case is in court already, Sanusi na judge

Maybe I didn't put it quite right. With the amount of gra gra in the press and area boy thunder from Sanusi, you would expect that the cases against the bank chiefs would have been concluded long since, along with the Bar Beach firing squad to carry out Sanusi's wishes. However, with the ongoing Akingbola matter, little has been heard from the CBN chief.

babapupa:
They get exposed to the same different cultures every time they walk trough their school gates and obviously, the 42 kids represent every corner of Nigeria. Find a better argument,

If you have ever travelled the country, you would know the above is a lie.
Even more than that, seeing a man from Kano does not mean you have been to the Kano Museum. Have you ever seen the building or been in it? It is a marvel.
How many of them have seen the stone monolithes in Calabar? How do they experience these things just by saying hello to one another?
--scratches head--

Katsumoto:
Jamboree to you, education to others. Have you seen the HSBC adverts running in Europe? There are always different points of view. Some kids are going to be exposed to a new and different culture.

There are hundreds of new and different cultures for them to be exposed to in Nigeria.

marcdunu:
where is your defence for the u-turn on vaswani brothers?

The whole article is rumour mongering. When one part has been proven to be false, it is easy to conclude that the rest is absolutely false as well.
I am not defending anybody, but the article is absolute rubbish. Resounding codswallop.

babapupa:
No need to drag this thread down to your usual useless level of absurdities, I'm not going down that road with you,

You really have an inflated opinion of yourself. But, you're just here to lick arse like a Lastma official ain't you?

babapupa:
And you think they don't know themselves because they are  being  exposed to the outside world? Do you even read the crazy stuff you type before hitting reply?

And the rest of your post is nothing bit apples and oranges with crude and backward reasoning so I'll gladly ignore,

What makes you think I posted for your benefit? Bloody Lastma official.
You don't even know the ethnicities in your own state, talkless of knowing if the kids know themselves. You're just here to lick arse.

tpiah:
arent you spamming the forum?

Aren't you spam?

babapupa:
They already have kids touring Alausa, they have One Day Governors and One Day commissioners, they have tons of programs designed to expose kids to leadership and administration. This is obviously an extension of the state's efforts and drive to expose and invest public school kids and if I might add, these are public school kids, not private.

The benefits and experience for the kids and the state goes beyond classroom training. How do you survive as a nation with unexposed kids with limited knowledge of the outside world?

The need to criticize anything and everything makes you sound irrationally silly and shortsighted.

Are you people not tired of the unexposed and global illiterate mallams and local isi ewu people rulling you?

Outside World? It is wisdom to know yourself first.

How many of those kids know about leather tanning in Naraguta? How many have been to the highest point in Nigeria (Shere hills)? How many know where the Oba of Lagos palace is, talkless of visiting? How many know about the brass works in Bida? How many have seen the walls around Kano or the moat around Benin City? How many of those kids have visited the area where the amazing Igbo-Ukwu artworks were dug up?

You don't produce leaders by creating empty heads with no sense of self worth. It is pretty basic that any leadership training of Nigerian kids MUST be done in Nigeria.