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Jonathan orders transfer of soldiers in Aso Rock
From AMOS DUNIA, Abuja
Monday, April 05, 2010

As part of efforts aimed at consolidating his hold on power, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the rotation of soldiers in the presidency within two weeks. Daily Sun authoritatively gathered that as a way of ensuring strict compliance, the National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau, had issued a signal to the Commander, Brigade of Guards through the military high command to effect the rotation of officers and men of the Nigerian Army in the presidency.

The development, according to sources close to the military is already sending fears as well as creating confusion amongst the likely-to be affected officers and men who are obviously not happy over the rotation. Information pieced together by Daily Sun indicated that the acting president was advised by some highly placed security officers to ensure that the officers and men protecting the presidency were taken out in form of rotation to check lapses.

Consequently, acting president Jonathan directed the national security adviser to effect the changes for smoother administration. The soldiers are believed not to be happy with the redeployment that was entitled: rotation, particularly as it affected their children, some of whom were billed to sit for the WAEC/NECO examinations in May/June this year.

It was gathered that the affected soldiers in the rotation exercise would be taken to different military formations in neighbouring states of Kaduna, Niger and Benue. A source close the Ministry of Defence told Daily Sun that matters pertaining to transfer, redeployment and now rotation in the military are usually carried out sparingly to give time for the affected officers and men to make adequate arrangements except during emergency situations.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2010/apr/05/newsbreak-05-04-2010-001.htm

otawa:
We are again at the threshold of opportunity to create NIGERIA that would be prosperous, free of corruption.

And what do we do?  we are screwing it up.

I dont care about Patience. I care that for once we should have round pegs in round holes.

It is clear that neither GoodLuck or Ribadu mean well for Nigeria.

If they do, they will finish this case with Mrs GoodLuck to show us: NO TO CORRUPTION.

You are sooo funny. Ain't you the same dude that was running around in ecstasy, plastering wooden headed posts all over every thread in NL when Yar Adua was smuggled into the country? Shame on you.
Power has changed hands and there is nothing you can do about it.

Turai worshipper.

How do you know that Nigerians are not innovating in IT? Why do you think that those who do have a duty to advertise it to you. You be God?

Why don't you wait and see what it is before sweating and starting rumours?

tensor777:
I think it is extremely daft for anyone here to assess Nigeria by Western standards. They are a load of rubbish.

Would you prefer Somali standards?
It is obvious to even the blind that Nigeria is failing, even by Nigerian standards or any other yardstick for that matter.

eina:
His record isn't as bad as that of IBB and obasanjo. Probably the best military leader Nigeria had. When he was PTF chairman I guess he handled the job neatly. The only problem I know he has is the fact he is a muslim fanatic and part of the old breed politicans. But should this be a reason why anytime his name is mention here, posters will begin to castigate him? Please if theres anything I don't know about this man you guys should educate me please.

To every Southerner, the bolded is not a problem, but their worst nightmare. When Dutch people draw ill advised cartoons or some other anti Islamic event occurs Worlds away, dudes like him are known to go on rampage, looting, razing, ra ping and murdering their "fellow Nigerians". It is a very scary prospect for him to be head of our armed forces.
Need I say more?

. . .Plus he has the charisma of a chair leg.

This is how we present ourselves to the World (Nigerian Police vs Chinese Police).
And you wonder why people say we are failing? Isn't it against the law to hang dangerously off tail gates and out of pickups (policemen at far left)?
Police, breaking the law in broad daylight.

umamo:
I really don't understand the respect given to these indices that come out of the West every so often.  All they do is confirm already ingrained prejudices.  They are far too subjective and as Rossike says, not worth the paper they're written on.

From the site: The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources.  We all know that there are many good things about the country but, for the most part, any international article about Nigeria is going to focus on the negative - give a dog a bad name etc.

Another index we always do badly on is the Transparancy International Corruption Index.  This is based on business people's perception of a country.  If you ask anyone in the West they'll tell you Nigeria is a horrible corrupt place.  I once attended a tourist event in London, one person I spoke to was adamant he'd never have anything to do with that terrible country Nigeria.  Had he ever been there?  No.

Nigeria has it's problems, of course and they are many.  But our image is far far worse than our reality, we (individuals, Government, [url=https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-421883.0.html']Nollywood[/url]) should focus on getting a balanced picture of Nigeria out to the rest of the world.

Talking about image and corruption, do you have an equivalent picture to this from anywhere in the World?

chidichris:
i don't see this as a sad news because we have been praying that God shld visit all those who have refused to let us into our inherited wealths.
my worry is on why they are dying one by one, it shld be 2 or 3 a day.
God pls kill all those who want us dead through suffering and hardship as organised by their silly governance.

Damn!

Katsumoto:
Beaf
I told you Vettel would win.

My boy no dey disappoint; you can not say the same for Mclaren with its incompentent race strategists.

In truth, he should have won all 3 races, but for bad luck.
. . .That dude is good, but his ride is a lottery.

Mclaren have always been dodgy with race strategy. It even seems worse after Ron Dennis depature; if not for their strange errors this season, Lewis would be leading the Drivers Championship, not Massa.
Mclaren are bad at race strategy, but they always hook the very best drivers as compensation. Enjoy this (Mika on Schumi);

[flash=480,385]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5h-HTv9d4c&hl=en_GB&fs=1&[/flash]

In my opinion, Mika was a far better driver than Schumi, but was let down by machinery and strategy to the extent that he retired early.

ROSSIKE:
Beaf, anyone can build a robot. Really, It's not rocket science.

I think you would make a better point by showing us the basic indicators of nations like Vietnam and Nepal and compare same to Nigeria, to see how the people are faring, as opposed to being impressed like some wild native, by a robot.

Instead of sticking to the sawdust you know, you want talk stupidly in public. Why haven't you built one? Fool.
You think AI is something they pluck from trees in your village? Fool.

[flash=480,385]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5g1IIAOZqs&hl=en_GB&fs=1&[/flash]

My drivers of the day were Lewis and Alguersuari.

Tables after Sepang.

Malaysian Grand Prix result (56 laps)

1 VETTEL Red Bull
2 WEBBER Red Bull +4.8s
3 ROSBERG Mercedes +13.5s
4 KUBICA Renault +18.5s
5 SUTIL Force India +21.0s
6 HAMILTON McLaren +23.4s
7 MASSA Ferrari +27.0s
8 BUTTON McLaren +37.9s
9 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +70.6s
10 HULKENBERG Williams +73.3s
11 BUEMI Toro Rosso +78.9s
12 BARRICHELLO Williams +1 lap
13 ALONSO Ferrari +2 laps
14 DI GRASSI Virgin +3 laps
15 CHANDHOK HRT +3 laps
16 SENNA HRT +4 laps
17 TRULLI Lotus +5 laps
R KOVALAINEN Lotus +10 laps
R PETROV Renault +24 laps
R LIUZZI Force India +44 laps
R SCHUMACHER Mercedes +47 laps
R KOBAYASHI Sauber +48 laps
R GLOCK Virgin +54 laps
DNS DE LA ROSA Sauber +56 laps

Fastest lap: WEBBER 1m37.054s (lap 53)

Vettel wins. I have never seen Webber looking so jealous and swallowing so much bile; I predict there will soon be fireworks at Red Bull.
Full results and WDC driver standings to follow.

@Katsumato
You got half your wish with Alonso's engine blowing up on the very last lap!

Jesus! My daugther must marry Hamilton!!!!! Damnnnnnn!
From 20th to 10th in 4 laps. Lord!

Just a few minutes left now, I'm gluing myself to the TV! With all the bad boys at the back, expect some really wicked overtaking!!

The dude got it wrong about Neco failures. That said, there is nothing more annoying than switching to AIT and BANG!!!. . . Those fools are there talking about Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal as if Nigeria is in the UK or somewhere else in Europe.

The FG should ban such daft TV programmes.

The weather in Sepang is forecast to be dull and cloudy with the possibility of thunderstorms toward the end.
I would have loved a 100% drenched race.
Hopefully (for the big boys), there'll be enough carnage at turn one with all those rookies up front.

Time zone, GMT +8

These people are afraid that their corrupt ashiri will open. Jonathan must not back down in the choice of Ogiewonyi. Lets have sanity in the petroleum sector, anybody making noise now will simmer down after the event.
Any oil companies that don't like the presidents choice can pull out. Its our country, damn it!

@chic2pimp
Another way of interpreting the positions of the McLarens and Ferraris is. . . high probabilty of carnage at turn one!

@MRbrownJAY
I think Schumi's era is over, anyway the mad Kobayashi is starting on the same row as him so. . .

ROSSIKE:
Actually, Beaf, in the 1950s, nations like Malaysia and Singapore were inundated with foreign direct investment (FDI), and granted western market access, and technology transfer under favourable terms by the USA and her allies in the aftermath of WW2, with the specific aim of forming a capitalist bulwark against encroaching communism in Asia, as seen by Soviet influence on China, North Korea etc.

The only way to curtail this spread of communism was to create prosperous capitalist outposts in the region. This the US and her allies set out to do right after the end of WW2.

That's really the ONLY reason places like Malaysia and South Korea are ''economic tigers'' today. Malaysia was not more developed than Nigeria or Ghana in the 50s when western foreign investment mysteriously began pouring into the country from all parts of the western world. Same as South Korea, Singapore and the others.

Their brother states in the region which lacked strategic importance to the Allies, have generally been left to rot and have been [size=14pt]exploited - places like Vietnam[/size], Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Laos.

Without that burst of western policy-driven investment and related measures in the post-war era, Malaysia, Singapore and co would have been no different from Burma or Laos - anonymous regional backwaters struggling to feed their people.

So it is important to study these things in depth so that you don't simply look at them from a national or racial perspective.

If only you would stop talking this crap!
Nigeria is failing, accept it, get up and do your bit; instead of making foolish arguments.

Last time I looked, the US and her allies (which I take to mean, the UK, France and most of Europe) were peopled mostly by White people. So where does that put your stone-headed racist theories? You are really mixed up!

. . .Anyway, this is TOPIO, a robot from your [size=14pt]"exploited" Vietnam[/size], the damn thing can even play table tennis! How did they achieve that without this God-like help you attribute to the US and her allies? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPIO

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/TOPIO_2.0.jpg/450px-TOPIO_2.0.jpg

ROSSIKE:
Beaf said:

Dude you need to calm down. Progress is incremental. Nigeria will not become Switzerland overnight. It will take a lot more decades to end poverty. Some of the countries you're comparing us with have been independent for several HUNDRED years, eventually fashioning out a system that works best for them.

We are only 50 yrs old as a nation that was left with nothing at independence. We started from scratch.  Be patient. Corruption, poverty etc etc are all sympoms of newly formed nations.

EVERY NATION STARTED LIKE THIS!

Our time will come.

Rubbish!

It is widely known that Malaysia got their first oil palm seedlings from Nigeria (then the Worlds top producer), today Malaysia has long since overtaken us as the Worlds top oil palm producer.
[size=14pt]Today Malaysia is a developed country. . . When did they attain independence? 31 August 1957![/size]
Enjoy some pics from a country thats about the same age as ours;

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Petronas_Panorama_II.jpg/364px-Petronas_Panorama_II.jpg
Petronas Towers - until 2004, the tallest in the World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Towers

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Lotus_Europa_S.JPG/800px-Lotus_Europa_S.JPG
Since 1994, the Malaysian car company, Proton, has owned Lotus, a previously British company that produces the Lotus Europa S (pictured here) and other models.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia#Economy

Please stop the foolishness.
The first thing we must do to escape failed status, is recognise where we are failing and tackle them. There is no sense in waxing racist, because you want to deny facts that are visible to everybody.

^
Why do you keep dodging here and there?
The question is, is Nigeria failing or not? Period!

I will repeat again;

Nigeria is failing and that is obvious to even donkeys, but you don't see it!   
The "unprecedented opportunities for self-development" you talk about are the unprecedented opportunities to rob, steal and ra pe the homeless

[size=14pt]Is this what you call unprecedented opportunities? We have 9 million kids wasting and being abused like this.[/size]

Abeg, becomrich come out na.

^
Does meandering with all that long winded crap above take from the fact that Nigeria is failing?
You are unbelievable! Are you just an almajiri with a pen or what?

Nigeria is failing and that is obvious to even donkeys, but you don't see it!
The "unprecedented opportunities for self-development" you talk about are the unprecedented opportunities to rob, steal and ra pe the homeless, the crippled and the weak; they are unprecedented opportunities to sell off your country's infrastructure to the highest bidder; the unprecedented opportunities sell our independence papers in the open market and like a dependable racist, blame that on White people.

Daft.

ROSSIKE:
Beaf said:

That claim is BOGUS.

This is another instance of Africans parrotting the same garbage that comes from western sources without question.

Quite how anyone can believe that 70% of Nigerians live on ''less than a dollar a day'' is something only the feverish imaginations of western racists and their local African bell-carriers can possibly muster.

The poorest people in my village eat meals that are worth at least ten dollars a head. And that's just breakfast!

They may not have ''1 dollar'' to their name, but to say they live on ''less than a dollar a day'' is absolutely ludicrous.

[size=14pt]You obviously live on Mars or are just crazy.[/size]
The very first step to solving our problems is acknowledging that they exist.

ROSSIKE:
Beaf said:

Dude, I'm not here to cure your inferiority complex. A European calls you a ''failed state'', but does not call his own nation a failed state even when millions are killed. THAT is the question. NOT whether whites killed anyone in Jos. Have you asked yourself why the white man you love so much practices such double standards? Are so daft you cannot see there's a game being played on YOU with words? OK, 300 people are killed in riots. A UK paper says this means Nigeria is about to descend into civil war. You support their conclusion. Does that not make you dumb?

If you know ANYTHING about Nigeria, you will know that 300 dead in a riot will NOT lead to any civil war, or to the state ''failing'', in a thousand years.

It is a WILD and IRREPONSIBLE conclusion to reach based on the events in Jos. This is sheer common sense of course, but whenever any garbage emanates from some WHITE FOOL'S pen, people here, like morons, gobble it up unquestioningly, and  parrot the rubbish as if God Himself spoke.

When you stop them in their tracks, they say you are ''blaming the white man''. No I'm blaming YOU for being dumb, gullible and parrotting garbage.



You will be surprised by the role foreign multinationals play in the despoilation of Africa. With AND without collusion from local officials. You simply cannot pretend they are not part of the equation if you hope to defeat that system.

How can you win a war when you don't even know who your enemies are? Or you limit them to only those who look like you - most of whom are puppets of wider international interests?

You MUST be able to situate the local leadership problems within its international operational context or you will NEVER know what's going on, much less how to tackle it.

Are you just a dunce or what? Why all this long, unnecessary talk?
. . .But of course, I'm talking to a fool who thinks the deaths of 500 women and babies is a normal occurence. So no biggie.

The keys to Nigerian vaults are in Nigeria, not Europe. Instead of tackling the thief in your house, you want to go after those he has sold to in far away Europe.
Daft.

Stop being a racist. Nigeria is failing because of Nigerians, the only people who don't believe that are goons and other members of the rented crowd.

frosbel:
The west, the good old west.

Common Olu, you can do better than this.

So the west is preventing your leaders from developing your country ?

And by the way what are you doing about it apart from talking  

. . .Or Nigerians from having common sense.
Frosbel, most of the clowns you are arguing with are ardent followers of conspiracy theories and other very questionable wild tales. Why bother?

@naijamini

If you put that $200.34 Billion in the hands of an average business man, he would have multiplied its value by up to a hundred by now. I think thats a better way of looking at it.

Kobojunkie:
Sigh!!!

@Poster, please think on the questions I posted and maybe understand where the problem really lies. It is high time the people start demanding more substance from our news houses, rather than swallowing hook-line-and sinker whatever sob story is thrown our way without asking serious  and deep questions.

You can write the newspaper if you are really concerned, instead of using dubious means to derail the article and turn into into a tribalistic exchange. Your tricks have been noted.

Kobojunkie:
Please before we jump to concluding this is factual information, can we at least inquire the same newspaper provide the following

a) Names of the so-called Aides.

b) Dates Aaondokaa approved the disbursements

c) Names of the so-called former key members of the Cabal


To date, no one has been manipulated as being a member of this so called Cabal, yet the nation has comfortably accepted they are to blame for it all, and it seems [size=14pt]southerners[/size] are all too willing to accept that the Cabal are a group of [size=14pt]Northerners[/size].

Funny guy, where did the original article mention North or South? Bloody tribalist.