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Killing kidnappers is the easy way, but it doesn't remove the reason why so many from North to South have become kidnappers.
Take away injustice and kidnapping will stop. Introduce order in society and there will be no room for such crimes.

[quote author=metal-gong link=topic=479906.msg6393745#msg6393745 date=1279251803]So hypocritic!! When you write that IBB, Atiku and their camp members do not represent the North, then how do you want us to believe that the decision of the ABOVE criminals represent that of the entire North.[/quote]I don't remember stating any opinion on these guys (except for Aondokaa).
. . .And I reiterate, "IBB, Atiku and their camp members do not represent the North", they represent themselves only.

“Remember that, I Babangida ruled this country as a military man. There was no way what happened in military regime will take place in a government of the people for the people and by the people.

“We are in a democratic setting where action to be taken must be guided by the country’s constitution. It is mandatory that we must adhere to the laid down rules and regulations as enshrined in the nation’s constitution,” he stated.

Really? So there is no law for military men?
His actions led directly to the death of the winner of that election and several innocent citizens; the June 12 annulment is still reverbrating through todays political landscape as "zoning".

His action of banning June 12 alone should be enough to expunge him permanently from Nigerias political scene; coup plotters are meant to be tried for treason anyway.

The end of zoning is in sight, but the thing I find most worrying about the gathering is the presence of Aondoakaa.

That poor girl! She needs a handbag to put those things in.
Please remove her from the politics section.

[size=14pt]No one dare annul 2011 election if I win -IBB [/size]
Written by Kola Oyelere, Kano
Friday, 16 July 2010

Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda, has said no one dare attempt to annul the 2011 presidential election if he contests the election and wins.

General Babangida told newsmen in Kano, on Thursday, after visiting the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, to sympathise with him over the recent attempt to assassinate him, that with or without zoning he would not withdraw from the 2011 presidential race.

“Remember that, I Babangida ruled this country as a military man. There was no way what happened in military regime will take place in a government of the people for the people and by the people.

“We are in a democratic setting where  action to be taken must be guided by the country’s constitution. It is mandatory that we must adhere to the laid down rules and regulations as enshrined in the nation’s constitution,” he stated.

He said that whether the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) continued with the zoning arrangement or not, he would contest the 2011 presidential election.

He said those who were not happy with the views of the North  on the issue of the PDP’s zoning arrangement were free to feel so because the country was in democracy where everybody freely expressed his views on national issues.

The former president, however, said critics of the zoning arrangement should be fair to the North, because, according to him, the region was not the initiator of such a gentleman’s agreement.

He explained that Southerners genuinely started the zoning/power shift agitation because they argued that the North had dominated the country’s political power since independence.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/8335-no-one-dare-annul-2011-election-if-i-win-ibb

[size=14pt]2011: Northern leaders give Jonathan go ahead[/size]
Headlines Jul 16, 2010
By Dayo Benson, Political Editor & Emeka Mamah

KADUNA—NORTHERN leaders, yesterday, gave President Goodluck Jonathan the green light to contest the 2011 elections saying that he became the President under a joint ticket with late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
They said that Yar’Adua’s death should not deprive Jonathan the rights and privileges of the joint ticket.
. . .
Rising from a one-day summit at the Kaduna International Trade Fair Complex, Kaduna, under the auspices of “Northern Political Summit,” the leaders said that what the North needed now, was good governance irrespective of where the person came from.

Giving a summary of the communiqué towards the end of the summit, one of the conveners, Prof. Jerry Gana said the North desired a free, fair and credible election in 2011 and urged the Independent National Electoral Commission under Professor Attahiru Jega to ensure free and fair polls next year.

Gana said: “The summit expressed the strong desire for free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria and called on the Chairman and commissioners of INEC to do everything within their power to ensure preparation for credible elections in Nigeria come 2011.

“The summit also called on governments of the federation to make adequate resources available to the electoral commission to ensure that free, fair and credible elections are conducted in Nigeria.

“There was a strong desire by the summit for every effort to be made to use good governance to bring development to every sector of the economy in the northern part of Nigeria in terms of infrastructure, education, industries, employment and uplifting the lives of our people.

The summit resolved to hold a northern economic summit next year in order to focus attention on the economic and social conditions of communities in the northern part of Nigeria.

Power sharing and rotation

“The summit considered the various positions, viewpoints and options together with the related implication to the peace and stability of the country. It resolved that the zoning produced the presidency of Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan was an inseparable ticket, therefore, the demise of one did not invalidate the privileges of the remaining beneficiary of that zoning.

“The summit called on the leadership of the PDP to allow superior provision of the Nigerian constitution to guide the party in producing guidelines and regulations in the conduct of primaries to elect presidential candidate.

In the circumstances, the most viable option is what has been expressed. First, to ensure that indeed, the conduct of the primaries are such that the best candidates are given the opportunity to run for the office of the president.”

Yakowa declares open the summit

Speaking while declaring the summit open, the Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa urged delegates not to look at only one parameter “with regards to power sharing and power rotation” in the country.

Yakowa said: “Whatever we would do should be in the context of the Nigerian constitution which is supreme over all other arrangements that would be made or might have been made at some point.

“Many countries of the world are fast reviewing their positions with a view to being first class players in the globalization arrangements where justice, unity, and national integration of our country serve as our roadmap to 2011.”

Former Governor of Plateau State and pioneer National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Solomon Lar said: “As one of the founding fathers of the PDP, I remember clearly the basic considerations of the principle of zoning, and the interim nature of its application.

“Zoning was never meant to be a permanent feature of our democracy. Surely, the day is coming when both our nation and our democracy would become so mature as to make zoning most unnecessary.

“Having tasted the power of civil discussion and dialogue in the resolution of problems, I am a great believer in the wisdom of talking things over, hence my solid support for this summit. This is the beauty of democracy- the freedom of expression.”

Prof. Jerry Gana, apparently referring to the insistence by some northerners that it was the turn of the zone to produce the president in 2011, said, that democracy was about “the primacy of the rule of law, the culture of honour, transparency, and accountability of governments to the people” adding that “coercion is not only costly but rapidly erodes effectiveness.”

He said: “The policy of zoning was adopted by the founding fathers of PDP to resolve the huge crises that followed the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election and it was through leadership gatherings of this nature that the questions of power shift and power rotation were peacefully resolved in 1998/1999.”

Ambassador Shehu Malami said there was nothing like good governance in the North as most of the elected leaders were not developing the area physically. He said: “We need to use our finances judiciously. We need not talk about politics most of the time and not talk of the economic and industrial development of the north and the country at large.”

ATTENDANCE LIST

*Gov Patrick  Yakowa
Sen. Abubakar Sodangi
Hon. Usman Nafada
Chief Solomon Lar
Chief Barnabas Gemade
Amb Shehu Malami
Amb. Hassan Adamu
Lt. Gen. Saliu Ibrahim
Lt Gen Ishaya Bamaiyi
Gen Lawrence Onoja
Prof.  Iya Abubakar
Prof Jerry Gana
Sen. Jonathan Zwingina,
Sen. Walid Jubril
Sen. Bala Mohammed
Mr. Mark Jacob
Sen. John Wash-Pam
Sen.  Ibrahim Mantu
Col. Dungs
Sen. Isaiah Balat.
Abubakar Audu,
Amb. Onu Isaac
Garba Mohammed
Joshua Dariye
Abubakar Audi
Labaran Maku
Sn. Usman Wowo
Chief Mike Aondoakaa
Mrs. Sarah Jubril
Bala Kaoje
Alhaji Tukur Jigamchi
Alhaji Ali Abacha
Sen. George Akume
Gen. A.B. Mamman
Dr. Muktar Mansur
Dr. Idi Hong
Humphrey Abba
Babanginda Nguroje
Salisu Buhari
Ambassador Isa Maina
Sen. Abba Aji
Sani  Ndanusa
Mr. Damishi Sango
Muktar Yero
Alhaji Yusuf Ayitogo
Alhaji Kaulaha Aliyu
Hon. Clarence Olufemi
Obadayan Audu

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/07/16/2011-northern-leaders-give-jonathan-go-ahead/

Poor Barack Obama!

Will all conspiracy theorists please stand up and congregate here? http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
Oh yes! Its called the Flat Earth Society. Those dudes run around convincing we "unclever" sods that the Earth is flat as a table top!
It will be one more feather to the amoury, give it a whirl and come convince us.

precap2:
Has anyone taken time to look at Zimbabwe's official inflation for the past 10 years? You will never come close to guessing Zim inflation even if you had to do it 1 million times.
While the rest of the world struggle to keep inflation below 5%, with Naija struggling to maintain a single digit, Zimbabwe official inflation for the pas 10 years has been within the neighborhood of 8000% (I mean eight thousand percent). Yes, that's what you read 8,000 percent. What do you call that under Mogabe? Progress? Well, well, well it could actually be called progress cos the numbers are increasing - progress has to do with increase.

Holla!

Its 5.3% in Zimbabwe.

http://www.xe.com/news/2010-07-15%2010:07:00.0/1276193.htm?c=1&t=
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-15/zimbabwe-s-annual-inflation-rate-fell-to-5-3-in-june-state-agency-says.html

Forget those two, we should really be scouting in all villages etc for new strikers. 150 million people and we have only two dudes who can't score?

THE AMAKA:
[color=#cc00cc]
which babies? there will be no babies until you pay my bride price. [/color]

You mean the bride price didn't get to you? Three mansions, 54 fattened cows, a helicopter and 7 maidens to tend to your wish.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase come back, the babies are crying o!

Gbawe:
[size=14pt]I won't bother to view the link you have provided[/size] because , by now , it is obvious you are a liar and a shamelessly decietful distortionist to boot .  WHy should anyone grant any credibility to what you write when you deliberately and decietfully  tried to insinuate your own intentionally wrongful interpretation of utterances that are clear in what is stated/meant? Lets hope you never become a politician because you will make Aondoakaa appear a Saint !!! 

You won't bother to get educated, but you can bother to make guesses and foolish arguments?

Wonders!

. . .Second chance to see whats involved . . . take it son! http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=69

Donpuzo:
@PC GURU, Yes na, na just small argument. PC GURU. If you see the issues Java can give hen, it can take a programmer off coding indefinitely.

Server go spoil, you must reinstall it, as in on your local end ohh, Also before you switch to TOMCAT from GlassFish, that one self go find him way!

Sometimes, NetBean go dey act up self.

Java technology is simply too tedious to use for Small scale and Medium Scale applications.

But seriously, no language is perfect, when i started Core PHP, i experienced the same thing. My Server crashed six times, had to go to bed! When i came the next day, i sorted the problem!

The fear of your tools is the first sign of the "Cut and nail coder".
When you learn properly from the start, you avoid having such "issues Java can give" that "can take a programmer off coding indefinitely".

All I'm advising the OP (as pc guru has noted), is to learn from the ground up, so as to avoid the bitter experiences you explained above, exhibited here (like your example of PHP for socket programming); the effects of which, were no doubt transferred to very unfortunate customers. It is really easy to become a dangerous accident running around with a computer.

I am all about the Nigerian developer being as good as those elsewhere.

PHP can do socket programming? JavaScript can do ADO! I remember some crazy dude at the office wrote up some software that worked just fine, except it was all database code in client side JavaScript. . . all you had to do was "View Source" and voilla! The dude was about to gift the World server and database inards. Even though it worked, needless to say, the fool was sacked.

You wan kidnap 'im pikin?
I very much doubt he is childless, because he has two kids.

^
You make a lot of noise, about things you don't know. You are here, shamelessly guessing , but thats the signature of an idiot.
You simply cannot appreciate what goes into creating such an image, the software and hardware costs etc.

Read this article and come back; http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=69

The picture is real, die!

THE AMAKA:
[color=#cc00cc]Where is Beaf? [/color]

. . .And where have you been? Our babies have been crying for mummy non-stop!

^
I haven't been to the culture section in a long while. Lets hope it wasn't a "nice" entry like the one you left above.

THE AMAKA:
[color=#cc00cc]you're a fool.
are you serious, or just trying to be funny to get people to argue with you?
maybe you need glasses [/color]

Welcome back, you will impress Gbawe.

^
You are so funny! Your veins will soon pop out at this rate.
Is all of the above just because you can't prove that the picture is fake?
Na wa! Its the thing with street types, they love their rumours and will die for their rumours.

Seriously, You would have noticed that, while you are in full fledged quarrel and die mode, I hardly have the time. Why?
Its simple; the picture is real. Simple eh?

^
Do I need to have met to know that you have know clue about what you are talking about? One of my accomplishments is a degree that makes me a bonafide artist. Yeah, as real as they come dude!

Next thing, you'll tell me is your four year old daughter created the picture in question. People sef!

Please run along with your unending stream of bile. You should be ashamed of yourself.

^
Abeg go and sleep jare! Where did I insult you?

All you are doing is waxing sentimental, because you simply cannot prove that you aren't rumour mongering and stretching facts; things for which sadly, you have past form (and which I believe this overzealous go at me is all about).

Lets not get hung on this stuff if you can't address any of the simple questions I asked, I'd love to move on and not argue about made up stuff. Thank you.

I don't see why the dust over Omo-Agege. The Igbo's are simply bargaining with the Urhobo, which is natural.
There are quite a few ethnic groups in Delta state, with the Ijaw, Igbo (aside from Asaba) and Isoko areas being a bit more deprived than the Warri - Sapele - Ughelli axis.
We have had an Urhobo governor and and Itsekiri governor, it should go to the Igbo or Ijaw in 2015; I hail Delta state as the most egalitarian in the country.

kobikwelu:
the point is you can never know their intentions,

suppose they promise you free-est and fair-est election and then extend the date by 6months, you would be playing into their hands,

after the so called extension, the usual continues and then they rigg themselves into power,

it means you have been f uck@d in the a55 ,


SO ARE U READY TO TAKE THE PLUNGE _{cos it raises other questions}

I believe the price is worth the risk, but we must be ready to loot, burn and assassinate if the status quo is maintained after any extension.

I agree that more time should be given if it is needed. Credible elections is a fundamental for any democracy.
It is worth the wait. In a country as anarchic as Nigeria, where the "federal" system is designed to be unaccountable and rigging is the only means of acheiving political office; the simple introduction of credible election will be a revolution in itself. For the first time, we would be able to choose credible and accountable representatives of the people to lead us out of the ever deepening abbys we are sinking into.

The issue is so serious, that we must demand guarantees and necessary checks and balances to ensure that the only reason for pushing the election date backward is the blessing of credible elections. If after the extension period, we still do not have credible elections, then heads must roll. . . Literarily.

We will soon have more states that are totally unviable and rely 100% on other states for sustainance.
Nigerias problem is not states, it is the lack of standards, organisation and institutions.

This rubbish will only take us back several decades. Our fake federal system only makes these things worse; lets have true federalism or break up.

Gbawe:
You dis Beaf sef. Na wa for you OOO !!!! If the guy is making "unproven allegations" then so are you !!!! I know you are dogmatically stubborn but must  it cloud your reasoning , logic and utterances this badly? Go back and look at the picture . Look at the whole arm of the guy going through the window. Does the hand look normal to your at all or does it appear more like a caricature even a child can denote easily?

In any case , you lost objectivity when , instead of looking carefully at the picture, you repeated many time , in obvious support of the thread starter, that folks have a problem "accepting reality" . What "reality"? The "reality" concocted in the imagination of you and the thread starter? This is not Lagos today and I certainly dont see scenes like these getting about. If at all what the picture depicts is happening , then it must be extremely rare . Nobody , except someone totally ignorant or up to mischief, can claim that this picture is an accurate depiction of life in Lagos today.

Stop twisting matters. Its simple, can you answer any of the questions I asked? If you can't, you are simply spreading rumours. People have come on to say the picture is various things, from a photoshop fabrication to a clay model. Obviously, these people (including yourself) have never created a computer graphic nor have they ever sculpted anything; but, hey! The average street person, is noisy even in ignorance.

The second dishonest thing you do, is go on about "Lagos of today". Is the story of the picture really about Lagos or has the OP not made it clear it is a Nigerian issue? To me, it is a description of a lot that is wrong in the Nigerian approach. Have such scenes occured? Many here have claimed to have witnessed such or been victims of such scrambles (including myself).

If you cannot tell me who moulded your realility denial into an "artwork" or where that "artwork" currently is or why just a single picture of it exists, then you've simply got to run along.

They deserve it.

[size=14pt]Delta North PDP Stakeholders Oppose Uduaghan’s 2nd Term Bid [/size]
Written by Kola Niyi-Eke, Asaba
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:10

The Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders in Delta North have opposed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s second tenure.


This decision was taken after an enlarged meeting of Anioma people after taking what was described as a ‘critical look’ at events in the last few years in the state.

A communiqué made available to LEADERSHIP in Asaba, declared that "the people of Anioma ethnic nationality under the auspices of the PDP Delta North stakeholders forum, firmly support the appointment of Professor Attahiru Mohammed Jega as INEC chairman, in line with his strong desire to conduct credible free and fair elections in 2011.

“The forum remains committed to the Anioma ethnic nationality producing the governor in 2015.

“Anioma people shall no longer tolerate the abject poverty and neglect suffered in the hands of the current regime,” it added.

It stated that there were lack of basic infrastructure in the state capital, Asaba, and in other major towns, such as Ogwashi-Uku, Isele-Uku, Agbor, Kwale and Obiarukwu.

The communiqué signed by the leaders of the 10 districts in the area, further stated that Uduaghan's government had nothing to show for the N650 billion it received from the federation account since May 29,2007.

"Anioma people, in this regard, pass a vote of no confidence on the governor and disassociate ourselves from his illusionary and greedy second term bid.”

They resolved that Barrister Ovie Omo-Agege was their choice for the governorship election in 2011. They added that Anioma people would support President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2011 presidential election.

They also commended Chief Edwin Clark for his resilience and fight for an egalitarian society.

http://leadershipnigeria.com/news/headlines/17516-delta-north-pdp-stakeholders-oppose-uduaghans-2nd-term-bid