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ose_o: Like I said on another thread, this whole fiasco is politically motivated. Stella odia didn't sign any cheque, the spending got approved by someone above her pay grade how come no one has called them?

At least get her name right..that can't be too hard can it??

Mr McJay: You are still asking if the vehicles were inflated or not? Remember my prayer for you in January/March this year?

Sincere_9gerian, may God fight for you, your children, your grandchildren and future generations the same way GEJ is fighting corruption.

Abeg, click 'Like' to say Amen.

this prayer is as sincere as they can possibly be... mr mcjay has made my day already

as much as people want to go on berating ASUU ,its is important to take some time out and consider this FG and its antecedents ,its penchant for reneging on agreements etc.

then move a step forward and consider how much money is been pilfered left right and center.

hundreds of millions is spent to buy 2 cars for 1 Nigerian to drive around in,that is apart from how many more millions must have been spent that we know not about

some ex-militant just got paid in hundreds of millions of dollars for keeping our waters so safe that not a drop of crude oil is been stolen this days

welcome our dear senators who just rejected houses that billions had already been spent on.. these are just recent occurrences.. the ones we here about..now consider all the financial malfeasance that is going down every single day that we hear not about.. all these is happening and of course these lecturers know it..we all know a whole lot of money is been mis-applied everyday in this country .

yet FG will not honor an agreement ..people blaming ASUU are not been realistic..i am not in anyway holding brief for ASUU who on their own na another palaver.. but they must pay what they agreed to pay and let the onus lie on ASUU to misbehave only then can we now blame the hell out of ASUU.

there is money for senators, ministers cars, and all sortsa nansense wey no go benefit us collectively ...na d one wey concern the people na him go cripple the economy ..all the money wey dem dey steal since join the one wey dem go steal carry enter future ...

they should pay ASUU ...if things dont improve after ASUU recieves their money FG and indeed all nigerians will not take it lightly with ASUU.

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Castroii: madam, if u have nothing reasonable to say, why not stfu and go to the kitchen, @ Bigcycs, u need to work on your ability to go beyond the test stage, why not get yourself conversant with dragnet past questions, shl, gmats etc, also try register your cv with oilcareers, oilandgasjobs, even unsolicited applications. with all you ve got, you have a big edge over other inexperienced guys like you, jst don't give up my guy

Thanks brother.. I really appreciate this advice..I'll not quit trying

Larai Boluwaji: Abeg leave writing of book and go for deliverance jor

thanks bro..you are far too kind

well i can relate to this..i graduated from futo as well..studied petroleum engineering 2:1 class of degree too finished serving february 2012(and before any one mocks me i tried to earn that degree and i do not feel my conscience prick me as i say this). ive done at least 15 different job exams if i am not mistaken and never for once have i made it through to the next stage.
my conclusion has always been i did not perform well enough to make it through.as i understand only the best among the best make it through.
ive thought myself autocad2d/3d qualified and got my OSHA certificate and currently shopping for where i can do ECLIPSE certification(anyone with information can help me out). all i can say is that its been hellish coping with the depression and feeling of 'i am a failure" that comes every time..

i make a lot of effort to stay positive but sometimes it just doesn't work. its all gloomy down here many times.

i am planning to write a book about my life when things get better for me as i expect them to(i really hope it does) as i believe a lot of people will be inspired when they learn about what a brother had to pass through before making it.
now i may not have seen as much hell as many out there but i just know i'll have to share my travails someday as i have had some experiences worth sharing.
for now..i am still jobless,still applying for jobs and of cuz i get busy on some hustle and God is kind..i can at least earn basic living expenses.

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A very much needed intervention indeed.

I took my time to compare both old and new number plates and I could not find a single feature that makes the new one "unfakable" (since that's the dumbass reason those retards gave)

Apart from a bold "green" map of naija..and a reverse in the state initials etc..its pretty much the same number plate and the new one can be faked as much as the old one can.

So I go home wondering, of all the ways FRSC can discharge its constitutional duties its "new number plates/ licence" the idiots decided on.

They will kill us in this country o I swearrigaad.. There is no one to enforce minimum wage yet every single police man ,olokpa, ekelebe, "black n black etc will pour into the streetz like locust to enforce this clearly exploitative policy..

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Horus: Yen?; China do not use Yen, are you confusing Yen with Yuan?

That will be my error..thanks its yuan not yen..still doesn't erode the point I was trying to make.

Some1 said nigeria produces 800MT of palm oil and consumes 1.2MMT and therefore suggested "importation" to make up the short fall and I wonder wouldn't it have been better to simply implement policies that will aid rapid increase in production over time such that there will be enough to meet local consumption and much more to export for foreing exchange.

That way our devalued naira becomes a blessing for us . I am from a family where agriculture is the sole means of livelihood and we produce palm oil. I know how many times my dad tried to access government grants and he never succeeded as the whole thing was politicised and they issued grants to politician who never had so much as a seed of groundnut planted( I know of one man who received 3m meant for poultry and all he put up was a bar. And when extension officers visited to inspect his "farm" he took them to his "farm" gave dem beer pepper soup and a brown envelope and that was that.

Nigeria MUST learn to produce she simply must. As unwilling as I am to point fingers I have to make it clear that the blame must go to the FG.. They must demonstrate a resolve to diversify this economy with and there must be policies to aid this and a machinery in place to ensure this policies are implemented to the latter.

So far this government has only demonstrated a resolve to "maintain" the status quo.. Oil this oil that. There can be no two ways about it. We are supposed to use our oil wealth to revitalise other sectors and not buy buy n buy, import import and import.

I am a petroleum engineer by training and in as much as I know oil been a "natural resource" can not necessarily "finish" I really wish our current reservoirs dry up for at least 10years.. Pending when new deposits may be found,I believe this will force. Us as a people to do the right thing.

Nigeria does not have to make cars etc.. She can simply plant/produce exportable agricultural products and pinch her share of this forex.

My brother in ireland told me of how coconut water is "gold dust" in dublin and yet in nigeria..we just Dey drink the ting the troway sef.

Leadership must be purposeful..it must start there.

adahib: Best line of action? Buy up as much dollars as you can to store value.when they are done devaluing the naira, exchange your dollars bit by bit for the naira.

Except that the purchasing power of whatever naira you plan to gain by this scheme will be further reduced.

For an import dependent economy such as ours a devalued local currency only means we will spend more naira for the same item e.g... If i buy a shirt from ebay for $10 which translates to N1500 @ a N155 exchange rate I'll now have to buy the same shirt for N1600 with a new exchange rate of N160...


My point is there is nothing to be gained..yes u will earn more naira per each dollar u stash up..but you will loose it all anyway with a weakened purchasing power of your naira.

China is a manufacturing economy. And so she deliberately keeps her yen devalued and now they are creditors to even the US


But nigeria?.. Na die we Dey o!

*signed*

as they say 'a people deserve the leaders they get' and in this case 'nigerians', i have read and re-read the article and i cannot still see how the man, 'joe' 'insulted' the first lady.

if a privileged person decides to walk the street naked then such a person leaves his/her subjects with no option than to assume madness is at play.

honestly nigeria's case is hopeless. there will always be people who will blatantly ignore the truth in pursuit of falsehood. this can be inferred from the comments/counter comments on this thread. i am glad though that the number of NLnders who agreed with the op far out number the folks who seem to find nothing wrong in the first ladies latest misdemeanor.
as my dad says..'bury the truth a thousand feet deep and in the morning it will be right at the surface staring you in the face'

i really think someone should do a research on 'nigerians' for a doctorate presentation as there is really much to be learned about our psyche as a people.

now i am totally convinced that our problem is very much us 'followers' as it is ,our leaders'... when something is wrong ,nigerians cannot simply condemn same, folks will come out with all manner of twisted logic just to justify the unjustifiable.some will lay emphasis on past misdeeds as a justification for current misdeeds and any counter opinion is branded 'opposition' etc... so i guess me now with no party affiliation will be branded an 'acn goon' simply because my opinion is at variance with that of the 'supporters'.

let us all continue to endure the hardship of bad leadership till we all learn to hold our rulers accountable.

for the record;the op is right if PEJ should be respected ,she can at least act like someone deserving of respect.

it has come to the point when i have to ask all nairalanders to offer special prayers for us nigerians...we need serious deliverance in this country
pity real pity it is

let us for a second forget the "disclaimer" issued on behalf of GEJ. there is no Gej supporter here who can honestly claim that Gej does not have a hand in this fracas without having a battle with his/her conscience.

did you people honestly expect the president to admit culpability in all this nonsense? surely not!!
his apologists on here are in gross denial. one may not necessarily have to instruct or order a fracas like this but ones actions/inactions in situations like this tells the bigger albeit silent story and the professor has stated the obvious, even if Gej did not instigate this drama,,he had already set up the dangerous precedent we are experiencing today as rightly stated by gbawe and these touts(there is none honorable about these men) carried out these drama emboldened by the presidents penchant for conveniently playing aloof when his interest is served.

of course there is the 'patience jonathan factor' and if 'faka' is involved then by extension 'oga' is involved as well.

most of us here are young men/women in our early to late 20s early 30s ,late 30s etc bottom line is we are youth and are not wiser than our elders it will do us good if we listen when wise old men speak especially men that wrote literature we grew up studying

if something is bad it is bad,politicizing it with all sorts of twisted logic is just wrong,

ps:i have said it here in the past, nigeria will never be better until a larger majority of the populace come to the awareness that they can actually be much better governed than they are at present and then rise to do something about it,
the goings on here on nairaland is a "microscopic take" on the state of the country at large( i believe most ethnic groups are adequately represented here on nairaland)

Anyi.:
truth is we too don't care about them both!

If only there was an award for "best comment ever on a thread"....smdh

[quote author=Anyi.]truth is we too don't care about them both![/quote

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If only there was an award for "best comment ever".....smh

I'll best describe my case as "back and forth"..most times I "underate" myself, other times especially as relating to recruitment aptitude test, I assume.." I am smart".. and so I refuse to prepare adequately and I've never passed any And as some NLnder rightly said I began to fault the system. however I have come to the realisation that I am not really as smart as I think and well every new day is another opportunity to learn and improve.
I feel like I can relate to all the points in the article but am conscious about never overstating my own abilities,That way I keep a level head. I love reading tho..anything from simple cartoons to hard core journals..I love cnn too..and yeah movies bore my soul to death...nice op tho.

Ejanla forever..this is my kinda jam.

CFCfan: Hehe. Sanusi don hear am. This is truly the handwork of his enemies.

Anyway, the private lives of govt officials shouldn't be our business.

Not when such "private life" is funded with tax payers money .

JeSoul: Bigcycs, hi there. I added a quote from your link to give the story more details. Cheers.

and btw, some of those comments on the link are truly oozing with ignorance & racism.

thanks a lot ,i appreciate,i actually posted this about 3 days ago,i had given up hope of ever finding it on the front page and yet here it is

@post, its clear the war against racism is far from won,those natives are racist down to their DNA fragments,

She might as well have her new born cough up a mug full of phlegm and yuck it all down. May she live forever

A texan man gets stung to death by about 40000 "africanized bees" gist has it that the man suffered about 3000 stings from this bees .

Now the political angle to this story is the rascist comments that some of those texans folks made.
Reading some of the comments might cause one to wish such a person got the same treatment.

SOURCE:news.yahoo.com/killer-bee-attack-science-explains-mans-death-195739311.html

A Texas man died after being attacked by a swarm of Africanized honeybees, sometimes called "killer bees." Larry Goodwin, 62, was driving a tractor near his home south of Waco when he disturbed a pile of wood that contained a hive of the notoriously aggressive bees; eight people have been killed by the bees since 1990, the Waco Tribune reports. "You can't believe how bad they are. They make me want to get out of this business," Allen Miller, owner of Bees Be Gone, who later destroyed the hive, told the Tribune. "They can get up under your clothes where no other insect can go," Miller said. "In a hive of ordinary European bees, about 10 percent will attack if the hive is threatened, but with African bees, all of them attack you."

The introduction of Africanized honeybees into the Western Hemisphere was the result of a scientific experiment gone awry, according to a Texas A&M University report. In 1956, Warwick Kerr, a honeybee geneticist with the University of São Paulo, Brazil, imported African bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) to study. His intention was to selectively introduce traits such as disease resistance and faster reproductive rate into native honeybees. But a handful of the African bees escaped into the wild, where they interbred with native bees to produce bees with traits primarily derived from their dominant African forbearers (traits of the more docile native bees tended to be recessive and therefore lost), leading to the term "Africanized honey bees."
http://news.yahoo.com/killer-bee-attack-science-explains-mans-death-195739311.html

Just when we crave for a viable opposition to keep the PDP on their heels what do we get? O we get a buhari served on a platter. The kinda "breakfast" u find on the dinning table that makes you simply angry.

This man(buhari) will never ever ever be nigerias president. His best option is to make off with a couple of his kinsmen(cattle goats and all) to some part of the desert,settle there,name the place nigeria and then be its president. That's the best he can do.

I cannot even begin to comprehend his devious omission of the fact that boko haram was offered amnesty which they promptly rejected. The fact that he makes no comments on the innocent lives violently killed by boko haram sums It all up.

I think GEJ just had it easier.all he needs to get re-elected is to get his party nomination and then have a buhari opponent. Because as incompetent as GEJ might seem, majority of nigerians will vote GEJ over buhari anyday.I sure as hell won't vote a boko haram sympathiser ever .
ACN better cure itself of this "cancer" for the sake of sustaining a viable opposition in this our democracy.

you gotta love Nigerians ,,you simply gotta love em. some very interesting, albeit warped logic been propagated up in this forum and it even gets 'liked'
at least there are still good men who will not keep quiet and allow evil,tyranny and indeed illegalities to go unchallenged.
its still a known fact that a lie told and propagated long enough begins to sound like truth,best to challenge it and nip it in the bud if possible.

as an independent observer with no prejudice to either the PDP/GEJ or the APC/BRF i"ll say kudos to you govt fash,its gentlemen like you that will ensure our democraccy survives this turbulent times

Arguments for and against as is to be expected from any topic on sensitive issues.(Even some of the worlds worst leaders ever still had their army of apologists/loyalist)

One does not need to give a hoot about the US to appreciate the content of their report. Again the fact that the US is also bedevilled by the ills they criticise nigeria about is immaterial in this circumstance also the suspected interest(or lack of it) of the US which some commenters have attributed as the basis for this damning report should not take front seat in preference to the need to discuss pertinent ISSUES as raised therein
is the report stating the truth or did it lie blatantly?
To me it restated a long known fact.
People take pains to enlist a lytanny of achievements of the present FG. why they feel nigerians need to be told about govt interventions on a forum I don't know. the vast majority of nigerians without access to IT facilities will not read it hence their only attestation to govt progress will always be what they can see happen around them and not what some "patriot" posts on nairaland.
I,A nigerian, still haven't seen light in my house for days(still comes once in a while and goes as in the past)
I a petroleum engineering graduate cannot still get a job in spite of the many interviews I have attended and many certification skills as I have been able to afford.(I still need to be "connected" to fix that)

Hoodlums invaded my family business situated in our village and on complaining to the police we had to "mobilise" them to act and even then they didn't.

I won't bother with the issue of corruption..as everyone knows how endemic that is.
I do not hate GEJ(dont love him either) and I do not think he is clueless as adjudged.
I believe this govt is about maintaining a status quo, one which ensures a minority continue to control wealth at the expense of a majorly poor and struggling population.

If there was a sincere fight against corruption a sincere FG should have set up fast track courts with time frames for cases and major convictions should have happened simple!! Not arguments and counter arguments.

By 2015 i am sure many more nigerians will be totally convinced of the ineptitude and ineffectiveness of this present govt. yet again that still won't guarantee that they will vote wisely.
juxtapose the enormous resources that accrue to this nation with the heavily publicised "achievements" on ground and well its not hard to conclude that the FG has again fallen far far short.
(They even had to print a several paged document to show you what they have achieved and in it contained "purchase of 2 number toyota hiace buses" !!!)
Why must our development be "paper" or "internet" based. why must people sit in their offices and tell us that our economy is growing by 7% and yet you go out and reality slaps you in the face.
I realise it won't take "a day" to fix nigeria but if someone tells me FG has completed power projects,I had better see light in my house(There are a million more why's where those came from)
I wonder what it will take for nigerians to understand that they are still poorly governed and deserve better?

4bobo: ummmm, when he was being told to behave well during his time, he was busy displaying his arrogance and neglecting training and coaches, BUT prefares carrying 'chicks' ups and downs the beaches, now money don finish , na me go come borrow am? YOU CHOP ALONE , YOU DIE ALONE...
OSAZE SHOULD ALSO LEARN FROM THIS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SIMILAR CHARACTER.

Osaze will most likely wind up broke if he is not careful now.. He is racking up fines left right and center at his current club ,all for issues bothering on indiscipline and arrogance and he is 31 which means he hasn't got many more years.
he is even considering buying out the rest of his contract at west brom. Sombody needs 2 talk to osaze real quick.

djon78: My brother you are on point while studying abroad I had a first hand encounter with children of these northern elites, the way they spend money like water, one of my hausa friend spends more than $ 10 000 as monthly allowance without including accomodation expenses, they had this kind too important air and looked down on those of us from the south in the same school. getting job is not a problem for them msot of them came back and are working in all these oil companies, one that we shared the same apartment with in college was taken up by LNG immediately while me getting job was hard if not for the support of my family now running succesful internatonal bussiness.
The issue is that we are in the same country but not equal, they are the ones that run everything in this country, but those in the south are still blind to this.

Bro its a painful reality really. I can still remember when I did my NYSC BTW i am a petroleum Engineer by training and I got posted to obi-ayima secondary school ika south and some small northern theatre arts fulani girl got posted to NNPC. I just laughed.
You see I do not think the entire south is still ignorant. it took several decades of northern domination to establish this unacceptable situation and it will take some time and dedication to reverse this dangerous trend.

I have posted it in the past here on nairaland that president GEJ is not dumb or clueless as people claim. Instead he Is a devious schemer very sly..more like a snake. notice how he is silently grabbing the whole of the PDP yet he poses like an innocent mouse in public Just the right type of man to handle this egocentric northerners. I only wish GEJ would throw in some concrete recognisable achievements.

seguun: Yet your region is the most backward in nigeria with almagiri grabbing your food if you make any mistake of moving away from your food in the canteen. These people you are boasting about made their money during the more than 30years of northern military rule on nigeria. Its not something to be proud of, its rather shameful.

It would have done that lad "muktarr" more good if you had helped him reconstruct his tenses. that's the sort we have owning oil blocks and prancing about nigeria like kings. Lol