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[size=14pt]Nigeria’s sovereignty threatened as Yar’Adua is feared ‘kidnapped’ [/size]
Monday, 22 February 2010 01:26 Max Amuchie
•FEC delegation cannot see Yar’Adua without Saudi king’s approval

With the expected arrival of the six-man delegation from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Jeddah today to see President Umaru Yar’Adua at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, there is growing concern in government circles that the situation of the president amounts to ‘kidnapping’ of Nigeria’s leader. In a divided FEC, Ahmed Yayale, secretary to the government and Dora Akunyili, information minister, are among those who believe that the true state of the president’s health should be made public in the interest of the country. Yayale is in the government delegation to see Yar’Adua.

The team was scheduled to leave Abuja last night aboard a presidential jet armed with a letter from Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. In the letter, the acting president thanked the Saudi monarch for playing host to Yar’Adua and told him about the intention of the FEC team to see the president in the hospital.

The aspect of Jonathan’s letter that is raising concern among Nigerians is that Nigeria has to seek the permission of the Saudi king before any meeting with Yar’Adua can take place in the hospital.

The FEC team is the fourth team from Nigeria that has gone to see Yar’Adua. The three previous teams left Jeddah at various times without seeing Yar’Adua. The first was the governors’ team led by Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki. The second was the team of the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) led by its national chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor. The third team was the delegation of the House of Representatives, which met with the First Lady, Turai Yar’Adua. She reportedly told the lawmakers that only the Saudi monarch could okay any meeting with Yar’Adua. So far, the only people who have access to Yar’Adua are Turai; his chief security officer, Yusuf Tilde; his aide-de-camp, Mustapha Onoviveta and Nigeria’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Garba Aminci.

Abike Dabiri, a federal lawmaker, told BusinessDay that the saddest aspect of Yar’Adua’s illness is that it is only the Saudi monarch that could give permission before anyone sees the president because he (Yar’Adua) is in the royal suite reserved only for the king’s guests. She said the implication is that Nigeria’s sovereignty now lies with the king of Saudi Arabia.

Her view is echoed by Kayode Ajulo, an Abuja-based lawyer, who told BusinessDay that Yar’Adua symbolises Nigeria’s sovereignty, adding that in the hospital where he is admitted, Nigeria’s flag should be flying as a matter of convention. Ajulo said the question that should agitate Nigerians is whether Yar’Adua has been kidnapped by the Saudi authorities. He said Saudi Arabia might use Yar’Adua’s condition as a point of bargain considering that both countries are rivals in oil production. “When their (Saudi) prince was ill, he went to the US for medical attention. He has just returned. While he was in the US, there was daily briefing on his condition up to the time he returned to Saudi Arabia”, Ajulo said, noting that it meant the Saudis know that their medical system is not the best available.

A government source told BusinessDay that Jonathan wants to be sure that Yar’Adua is getting the best medical attention that is possible.

The source said if any group would see Yar’Adua it is the present FEC team because of the letter from Jonathan, adding that it would cause diplomatic row between the two countries if the Saudi monarch does not honour the letter from Nigeria’s acting president.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8639:nigerias-sovereignty-threatened-as-yaradua-is-feared-kidnapped&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18

[size=14pt]We Must Achieve 6,000 Megawatts – Jonathan [/size]
Written by Golu Timothy, Abuja
Sunday, 21 February 2010 19:27

Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that government’s dream to actualise 6,000 megawatts of electricity had not gone down the drain. He challenged relevant institutions to wake up and ensure the dream was met.

To this end, Dr. Jonathan said government had set a daily target of one billion cubic feet of gas supply for the ministry of petroleum resources, so that complaints of gas shortage should not keep cropping up.

A reliable top presidency source, who confided in reporters said, the acting president had tasked the ministry to ensure that the management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), Shell, Chevron and other major gas producers in the country are compelled to provide the required quantity of dry gas.

This, the source said, is to meet the target of 6,000 megawatts of electricity for the country.

According to the source, "The Acting President is very unhappy with the ministry for its failure to generate gas to power the government’s 6,000 megawatts of electricity. He has directed that all the gas producers in the country must provide the one billion daily gas target to the power plants," the source said.

Jonathan was visibly angry during last week’s meeting of the Presidential Steering Council on National Integrated Power Project (NIPP), when he directed the minister of petroleum resources, Dr. Rilwan Lukman, to summon all the gas producers in the country to a meeting to iron out the grey areas in the one billion gas daily supply arrangement.

His approval of the appointment of an executive director to co-ordinate the operations of the Nigeria Independent Power Project, NIPP, is also, according to the source, another indication that he was dissatisfied with the progress so far made in the power sector.

"I think the time has come for the government to do what is right. Any gas producer who tells Nigerians that it is shutting its plant because it wants to evacuate condensates or maintain pipelines without recourse to due process, should be sanctioned. There should be penalties for this kind of sabotage. We must stop this nonsense perpetrated by these companies. It is either they do business here or they don’t," the source added.

Our correspondent gathered that due to the nonchalant attitude of the ministry and other stakeholders, the country only gets about 250 million gas supply, leaving a shortfall of 750 million.

http://leadershipnigeria.com/index.php/news/headlines/12214-we-must-achieve-6000-megawatts--jonathan

George Bush?
===Crosses self and begs Oyedepo for some anointing oil. But realises Bill Clinton is currently ill.===

I suspect the former South-South governor Niboro mentioned has set a huge war chest in billions of naira is Ibori.

[size=14pt]You have world support, Bush tells Jonathan [/size]
By Elizabeth Archibong

Nigeria’s Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday evening in Abuja secured the support of the former President of the United States, George Bush who assured him of the world’s support in making his job a success. Mr. Bush and his entourage were in Nigeria for the ThisDay Nigeria at 50 awards.

Mr Bush who visited Mr Jonathan at his Aguda House official residence in the presidential villa, congratulated his host, noting that though the circumstances that brought Mr Jonathan to office were unexpected, there is every chance that the Acting president will succeed. “Sometimes in life, the unexpected happens,” he said.

The visit followed Saturday’s visit to Mr Jonathan by former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair who had praised Mr. Jonathan for ‘wisely steering the ship of state amidst turbulence.’ At a closed door meeting later, Mr Blair had also promised the Acting President of UK support in resolving the Niger Delta crisis and the Power problems in the country.

In his message, Mr Bush said, “We wish you all the best, even though we know it is not an easy job. With God’s grace and the support of your team, you will succeed.”

The Acting President assured his guests about the commitment of the Federal Government to conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria in 2011. He said his government will work towards ensuring that the electoral process is transparent and reflects the wishes of the Nigerian people.

“I can assure you that come 2011, Nigeria’s elections will be credible. We will do everything possible to overhaul the electoral process and leave a lasting legacy in our political history,” he said.


We are not terrorists

Mr Jonathan also used the occasion to call on the American government to consider de-listing Nigeria from countries of interest in the global war against terrorism.

Incidentally, Mr Bush launched the global war on terror during his time as president of the United States of America.

“Terrorism is alien to Nigeria,” Mr Jonathan said. “Nigeria and US are strategic partners for global peace and development.” He also thanked the US government for its concern over the health of President Umaru Yar’Adua who is currently undergoing treatment in a Saudi hospital.

Mr Bush was accompanied on the trip by former US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and US Ambassador to Nigeria, Robin Sanders. On the Nigerian side were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe and his solid minerals counterpart, Diezeani Allison Maduekwe.

Southern opposition

The presidency at the weekend, went on the offensive by accusing a former south-south governor as the arrowhead of those opposed to Mr Jonathan’s ascension to the office of Acting President.

The Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Acting President, Ima Niboro said the former governor, whom he did not name, was unhappy with the transfer of power to Mr Jonathan and has therefore joined other anti-Jonathan forces to rubbish the image of the Acting President.

“The Presidency is aware that they have set aside a huge war chest in billions of naira to bring the Jonathan Acting Presidency to disrepute by any means possible,” he said, adding that those behind the planned attack had stored up sensitive documents collated from financial transactions of the Acting President from his days as the governor of Bayelsa State till date, and would be releasing the documents to the media on weekly basis.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5530270-147/you_have_world_support_bush_tells.csp

becomricch:
Yorubas write the name nuru, you did not go to school, it is hard for anyone to tell you. you do not need any prophet to tell you that. You just need nigeria history to tell you that. Election are never won on vote. To carry reform out , would mean the igbos loss at least 3 state. I mean reduce igbos state from 5 to 2, is that what you igbos want. to merge abia to imo and ebonyi and enugu to anambra. and merge akwa ibom and cross river state.This is what they call reform. now tell me what do you think would happen. Do you need a prophet to tell you the story.

Damn!
Fish brain, you must be very very tired. Oma se o!
Nuhu Ribadu is not Yoruba! Chai! Unu go kill pesin wit laf one day o!

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[size=14pt]Becomerich - a self portrait. . . (all graphics courtesy, GraphikDon)[/size]

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[size=14pt]Most have a poor opinion of him.[/size]

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[size=14pt]Others suspect becomerich is a kokolet. . .[/size]

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[size=14pt]Some suspect becomerich is a gangsta! See map! [/size]

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becomricch:
beaf, you are an iliterate, everybody knows that. how smart are you. you are an iliterate, and most people are who doubt the satellite pictures. you are all iliterate. Do you hear me again iliterate. [size=14pt]Nuru ribadu[/size] is an iliterate for talking about electoral reform , when he knows it would lead to civil war. what type of a person do that to is own people . expect a person who is selfish and want to be president by all means even if it means his people are going to be minority and people get killed,

You can not have electoral reform in nigeria without a civil war. the only solution is to remove the yorubas, edo, delta and bayelsa into benin republic. I dont care who marry igbo, hausa or bachama, death people are not married. 15,000,000 dead people do not have ethnics tribal. They are not member of the senate or house of rep. they do not own Thisday newspaper or work for sun newspapers, they are dead.

Mr electricity graduate, you say "Nuru ribadu" all the time. Do you realise it is Nuhu Ribadu?
Did God or TB Joshua tell you that 15,000,000 would die in Nigeria?

[size=14pt]Ode.[/size]

becomricch:
,Jarus, your problem  and others is because you are all illiterate. You hate me, because I show satellite pictures of the fraud , you call census. 

And because some of your ethnics group now would be minority and that some of the local govt would be gone.  Do you think the north would ever agree to be minority. Look you see  the north secretly have said NO. they do not want to be minority. We have no choice, go and ask IBB and others if they want to be minority.  As long as the keep them minority, they would attempt to overthrow the govt and kill all civilian member of govt which would lead to civil war, 15,000,000 gone. You see what happened in Niger republic. Jonathan is risking his lifes with all this talk of electoral reform. You can not force the north  to have electoral reform.

So the only solution is to remove the yorubas, edo, delta and bayelsa state to benin republic to  safe the life of 15,000,000 from a bloodly civil war.  Look the way it would be done, it would have no border. Trust me, you would not know, it is two countries. it would not affect anybody lifes. If you are a woman married to hausa, it would not affect you. It would not affect adenuga or dangote business. 

see video.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivPjWTSP4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIn_o7JN8kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c350ZxrpRMs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXthxTvlmtI 


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Smart people declared iliterate by non other than a miss-road electricity graduate!
Will the true alumni of unilorin rise up and disown this dude? His laboured brain is really wounding you guys.

It totally depends on what you want.

Generally, if you are targetting home users, Windows is the only OS worth considering. For example, if you are building a game for money, in order to reach the widest audience, you wouldn't be doing a unix game.
On the serverside (or enterprise) you can equally consider Windows, Linux and Unix; again, it would depend on what you want and the resources available to you.

Pharoh:
This is getting serious and dangerous but at least don't we have the ability to trace the source of that message?

That technology has only just been introduced in Nigeria. Currently sims aren't registered.

[size=14pt]Alison-Madueke gets death threat [/size]
By Toyosi Ogunseye, Published: Sunday, 21 Feb 2010

Further proofs that the emergence of Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President and the prolonged absence of ailing President Umaru Yar‘Adua may have created sharp divisions among ministers heightened on Saturday as the life of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been threatened, SUNDAY PUNCH gathered.

The threat to her life, our correspondent gathered, followed her objection to claims by the minster of the Federal Capital Territory, Adamu Aliero, that Yar‘Adua had started a daily exercise during last Wednesday‘s Federal Executive Council meeting.

The meeting reportedly began with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe, pleading with his colleagues that the crisis over Yar‘Adua‘s absence was getting out of hand and that the body should at least find out for itself how the ailing president was faring in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

But no sooner had Madueke ended his plea than the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ahmed Yayale, said that the FEC should invoke the relevant section of the constitution and declare Yar‘Adua incapacitated so that Nigeria could move forward.

He stressed that there was no need to keep deceiving Nigerians any further.

Aliero, it was then gathered, reportedly raised a point of order and upon recognition, the FCT minister said he had been informed that, ”The president, had started climbing the stairs up and down; that is, exercising.”

This statement, our correspondent learnt, elicited a heated argument among members of the council with that of Aliero and Madueke taking a different dimension. The minister of mines and steel reportedly told her FCT counterpart that she did not believe what he said.

Soon after Madueke stepped out of the meeting, she received a text message on her phone that read, ”You are giving support to the enemies of democracy led by Yayale Ahmed, a sodomist, who has donated his daughter and will soon be rewarded. I swear by the spirit of my ancestors that your days on earth are few. Make your will and wait for judgement day.”

When our correspondent called Madueke on Saturday evening, she insisted that the matter was a “private issue.”

One of her aides who pleaded anonymity however said that the case had been reported to the police.

He said, “We have reported the matter to the police because we are not ready to underestimate anybody.”

The Force Acting Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Yemi Ajayi, told our correspondent that he won‘t be able to confirm if Madueke made a report to the police until Monday.

He said, ”If she made a complaint, then she must have written a petition to the Inspector General of Police. I shall confirm this for you on Monday.”

The FCT minister could not be reached for comments as his special assistant, Abdullahi Zure, stopped communicating with our correspondent immediately he learnt the call was from SUNDAY PUNCH.

Several calls and text messages sent to his mobile phone were not answered.

It will be recalled that the Information and Communications Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, and the erstwhile Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, recently had an altercation following the presentation of a memo by Akunyili requesting that Jonathan be made the acting president.

This did not go down well with Aondoakaa who reportedly made an uncomplimentary remark about her tenure as the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control.


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2010022113495310

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You can test things by removing university of Ilorin first. See map!

It is a display of colonial mentality. Why should Africans say Aye and Nae?
Its just so pitiful.

@topic
I have always imagined they have buttons they push as well.

becomricch:
Then you dont understand nigeria politics. Look, I need 18 state to be president. satellite picture shows, anyone the north runs against me would not win. [size=14pt]I am the king of satellite pictures[/size]. If you claim you won , I would show you satellite picture. I ask you, have you ever heard of the royal canadian police?

Look I am the candidate to beat , if i run.

King of satellite pictures. . .

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Are you wanted by the Royal Canadian Police too? Damn!

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Did your lecturers teach you in English or Enggrrrrriissh?
Am jealous, you can sprreeeak Enggrrrrriissh very well.

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Enh?
The kokolet in the video sprreaaaks your kind of Engrriish.

@Tpia
You are right. Any bad winsh or wizad who has no husband at 45 should return to the evil forest.

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becomricch:
look at you, the university of ilorin has the largest campus in the whole of africa at that time and i think till day, When a university have more than one church building is that a small place. they have elementary schools inside the university and high school. There is no need for the children of staff who all use to live on campus to ever step out of the campus till thier die.

You can have a child inside the university and till the child get marry and die and never step out of the university. They produce thier food on campus. And some food use to be sold to the general public.

It has a sport stadium which at that time some state in nigeria never had. state like delta state just had a stadium bigger then the university. even as i speak some state in nigeria do not have a stadium bigger than the university of ilorin stadium. All staff live on the campus with their family. Some people are born on the campus and never get to know anywhere till they get thier PHD. They have no reason to leave the campus. nearly everything is inside the university. printing press, poultry, shopping etc

The reason why they are the best may be because they do not have social life. The system is design just to study. You remain on campus and hardly ever go out. It is far from the city of ilorin. So the only thing you can do is study.

Akeem Olajuwon cousin NBA star and I lived on the same unit, he was some room away from me. he lives in the USA now.

Fuc'king lier, this is your schoolmate;

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becomricch:
who is informing you? are you ok, what drug are you on.

We know you smoke google.
Oya, give us satellite map of Ilorin and compare the population with North majority.

[quote author=aloy-emeka link=topic=401311.msg5554136#msg5554136 date=1266712190]Guys, take it easy. I think Becomerich is making the claim because the recent university ranking placed Unilorin as number 1 in Nigeria presently.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-399420.0.html[/quote]No, its because he calculated the distance from the forest where he is squatting to the front gate of unilorin on google maps (4hrs walking and rock climbing).

Oya becomrich, show map!

@OPCman

Remove the ewa from your ears. Ekpa!
For your information, OBJ is from Anambra state. . . No minority will follow you anywhere. Dunce.

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Fu'cking hungry ex-hunter like you. Lastma.

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becomricch:
it has the best science and engineering program in nigeria. The university is bigger than most town. it is bigger than the city of milton in ontario. it takes about 4 hours to walk to the entrance of the university.

Jesu!

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Pk001:
I dont really like threading words on this platform, all I try to do is to air my views. First of all the way you sounded by saying "so called men of God" shows that [size=14pt]you don't really believe there are men of God in this country[/size]. If that is your view, i guess you are wrong. Have you ever imagine how this country would have been if men of God weren't interceding for this country. A lot of things have been averted because of prayers , which you and I may not know.
When issues like this comes up, the next thing is comparison with Martin Luther King and Desmond Tutu. People forget the fact that upon all the vocal campaigns of this two great men, things didn't just change like that. Believe it or not, back behind the scene there were people praying for things to change. I agree with you, It is natural if you are push to the world you turn back and face the challenge because no where to run. It has been in record that freedom fighters are usually not good leaders, because people expects much from them when they come into power and they are trapped by the very thing they preached against.
There is really nothing much they can achieve, because the character of the leaders are the reflection of the people they govern. If there is something to be changed, I think it is the ideology. People need to be influenced by the right people and that's what I am talking about.
Instead of denting your image by coming out to contest for a position which for sure you will not win( ask others that tried), concentrate on fulfilling your calling by preaching the right words that will build the entire nation and give a national ideology. I still say it, to contest for President as a Pastor is a demotion. Some may argue this, but you should know that[b] some were "sent" while others just "went"[/b] and either way God is still happy with both, but their results are certainly different.

You got that right! 99% of them are demons who milk the poor and vulnerable to finance extravagant lifstyles. We don't want one of these dishonest, heartless leaches as our president.
True men and women of God cater for the poor like Fela, Gani, Aminu Kano, our very own Aisha2 etc.

Bribery and extortion, plus it is a crime to crumple the Naira. . .

Jail the bastar'ds.