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Cruise Fm Online radio station launched in ilorin.

An online radio station, Cruise FM has been launched in ilorin, the kwara state capital.

The radio stations which is live on 24/7 basis was conceived to bring up-to-date news and home-made entertainment.

Cruise FM features music, plus news, live sport coverage, talk shows, dramas, etc.


Just visit the website and you are on the station listening to their several interesting programmes.

http://cruisefmng.net/

if we should go by your submission, how then did Atiku fail as Vp?

DID ATIKU ABUBAKAR FAIL AS A VICE PRESIDENT?

I have read many accusations against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar which i think is not fair or justified until proven. Let us do justice to this man by asking critical questions like, what is the duty of a Vice President and how did Atiku fail in that duty?

Present the duty expected from a vice president and state in specific terms how Atiku failed in that duty.

KILLING SALLAH RAM IS NOT FOR DEBTORS, AVOID IT

If you do not have the financial capacity of killing Sallah ram, it is against Islamic principle that you take it on debt.

Sallah ram is only meant for people who can afford it at ease, not for people taking debt to fulfill their societal ego. Killing ram is not for show off or ego, it is an Ibadda (worship) for only those, i mean only those who can afford it.

According to prophet Muhammed (S.A.W), God didn't inconvenient you, do not incontinent yourself. Allah didn't place any burden on you, do not place burden on yourself.

Taking debt to kill Sallah ram is an in-conveniency, avoid it. It is not a demand of your religion, forget it. it is a burden, stay away from it. It add to your problems, prevent it.

Enjoying Sallah can only come from being free from debt and being happy, spend time with your family freely, eat the little you have happily and enjoy your sallah peacefully.

Happy Sallah in advance.

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The Crisis Of Buharism; Part One



A typical Buharist line goes like this: "General Muhammadu Buhari is an embodiment of integrity and incorruptibility, a saviour of the nation; his program of war against indiscipline and corruption during the military era was a model of how to run a backward country like Nigeria, at least at that time. The political establishment or the conservative wing of the bourgeoisie fiercely fight this saint-like personality overthrowing him in a military coup in the past and now ganging up to rig elections and launch vicious propaganda against him so as to prevent him from ever ruling the country again."

This typical Buharist (as adherents of Buhari are fondly called) line sees Buharism as an unbreakable personal record of honesty and integrity coming against powerful and vested interests of the corrupt elite. This is the position Marxists call historical subjectivism whereby concrete historical conditions are abstracted and the role of personality is given a primary focus.

In this write up, I will establsih not only the dominance of objective conditions in determining the development of Buharism, but we will also show that Buharism, far from being a static and fixed personal attributes of integrity and honesty, the movement had undergone a remarkable and qualitative historical transformation; Buharism eventually turned to its very historical opposite.

Buharism has become known as a movement around the personality of General Muhammadu Buhari; it has not always been the same. At a point, it was a military dictatorship resting largely on the military bureaucracy, a movement terminated by General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. Recently, it is a liberal bourgeois movement resting on the mostly Northern and Muslim petty bourgeois masses. This article and the Part Two which will come later, trace the historical development of Buharism and what the future holds for the movement.

Let us start with the person of General Buhari. The primary concern of Marxists is not the purity of the man's heart nor what goes inside his head. Our primary concern is what is the class of the General? He is a bourgeois, a member of the ruling class. This fact, the bourgeois existence of Buhari, is the most important determinant of the man's consciounsess i.e. his politics; we must never lose sight of this fact.

Does this mean Marxists dismiss the role of personality and leadership in shaping history? Absolutely not. So what is the role of Buhari the person in the historical process? Historical forces create a range of abstract possibilities while historical personalities make one or more of these possibilities a concrete inevitability. In this article, we will explain how Buhari made/makes history within the limits set by historical laws.

Buharism as a Bonapartist Dictatorship

What were the objective conditions under which Buhari the dictator emerged? Due to both the decay of global and Nigerian capitalism and failure of Nigerian working class to capture power and build socialism, the country was forced to pass through the experience of bourgeois Bonapartist coup and counter-coup and the fascist Igbo pogroms and civil war. The oil boom of 1970 s enabled Gowon/Murtala/Obasanjo Bonaparto-fascist class to re-establish stability. Indigenization/nationalization of foreign companies, creation of a stable centralized bureaucracy, massive investment drive in infrastructure, industry and agriculture, Federal Character Principle and doling out economic largesse to states and tribes; these are all signs of a bourgeois new-found confidence in carrying out the tasks of bourgeois democratic national liberation/unification revolution. Yearly revenue from oil stood at US$22.4 billion by 1980. It accounted for 90% of the nation's source of foreign exchange and almost the same proportion of Government revenue. This financed the above-mentioned investments as as well as imports of raw materials, spare parts and food. Imports were especially cheap because of the pressure on Naira by petro-dollars inflows, a process augmented by deliberate Naira overvaluation by the Nigerian government.

But even with this confidence, the Gowon/Murtala/Obasanjo regime could not afford to ignore the Nigerian labour movement. Using the Adebiyi Tribunal of 1976, the Murtala Muhammad dictatorship dissolved Nigerian Labour Congress and created a new one with the same name under the leadership of Hassan Sunmonu, a senior member of the conservative civil service union. The military also banned from trade unionism prominent labour leaders like Michael Imoudu, S.U. Bassey and Wahab Goodluck for life. Additionally, the 1979 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chapter V1, Part III Section D Sub-section 201 states inter alia that “no association other than a political party shall canvass for votes for any candidate at any election Or contribute to the funds of any political party or to the election expenses of any candidate at an election”. This effectively blocked Nigerian working class and NLC from forming and funding their own party. (Okonkwo Eze)

Booming (oil) economy, unprecedented accumulation of wealth in the hands of few ruling elites for investment, import and patronage, widening gap between rich and poor, increased cost of living with sticky wages and a politically smashed Nigerian working class; these were the objective conditions at the end of 70s. It is not that there was no class struggle or splits among the ruling class. In fact, the dissolution of NLC, life ban on leading labour personalities and the 1978 struggle of Sunmonu-led NLC for minimum wage legislation were clear signs of intense class struggle in those years. But the 70s, compared to the preceding 60s and the coming 80s, were periods of bourgeois confidence. An ultimate sign of this confidence i.e. bourgeois parliamentary democracy followed with the birth of the Second Republic.

The Shagari civilian regime continued with the military's previous effort of smashing the political power of Nigerian working class. This time around by creating, funding and backing a reactionary NLC faction led by David Ojeli. The workers successfully defeated this divide and rule tactic in February 1981 NLC conference in Kano and Sunmonu emerged as NLC president.

A decisive event that will shape the subsequent historical events was the May 1981 2-day general strike led by NLC under the leadership of Hassan Sunmonu. The reason of the strike was a raise in minimum wage, to which Shagari eventually conceeded and unilaterally raised the minimum wage from N120 to N125. The political significance of the strike was the fact the Nigerian working class had recovered from the previous blows and was now a power to reckon with.

Then came the oil glut and worldwide recession of the 1980s. In 1980, the oil output of Nigeria was 2million barrels per day and the revenue accrued from oil stood at US$22.4 billion. From mid- 1981 , oil output started to decline and by 1983 it had dropped to less than 1million barrels per day and revenues dropped to US$9.6 billion. Of this, US$5.5 billion was supposed to go to debt servicing owed by Nigeria to private international banks (most are trade credits financing imports). The US$8 billion in foreign exchange was virtually wiped out by the end of 1983. Only US$2 billion were available for financing the imports of 1984, estimated to be US$7.6 billion. Food imports alone (mainly from United States) would engulf US$2.5 billion. Nigeria was heading for an economic collapse.

So under the first tenure of Shagari, the objective conditions of 1970s had turned to their very opposite: oil revenues had drastically reduced, pressure on Naira was off (only kept high by artificial overvaluation), investments, imports and patronages could not be paid, inflation had reached as high as 50% and the working class was proudly on its feet. Nigerian capitalism was once again facing the existential threat of proletarian-led revolution.

The crisis threw both the Nigerian bourgeoisie and their imperialist masters in London and New York into panic. Splits among the ruling classes intensified; international creditors were demanding interest and loan payments, foreign multinational oil companies asking for more profits to offset the effect of inflation, import traders complaining of dearth of letters of credit and trade loan, industrialists struggling from scarcity of imported raw materials and spare parts and opposition bourgeoisie crying of marginalization from the national cake. Working class in various sectors from teachers, doctors, nurses and power workers were fighting for better working conditions and strikes became more frequent. Petty bourgeois artisans and traders in cities were agitating too under the crushing weight of inflation. The conditions of socialist revolution had matured.

What was the response of imperialism and Shagari-led national bourgeoisie? Austerity, cuts in public spending and import restriction. Cuts in public spending meant wage freeze and massive retrenchment of public sector workers. Import restriction meant scarcity of imported raw materials and spare parts for industries therefore closure of the latter and hence massive retrenchment of private sector employees. The solution proposed by the Shagari-led bourgeois regime and the imperialist was thus massive attack on the Nigerian workers and poor. This meant an intensification of class struggle that threatened first the Nigerian capitalism. But the imperialists, as represented by IMF, wanted the Nigerian bourgeoisie to accelerate the rate and intensity of such attacks through devaluation of Naira and phasing out of subsidies. These two acts would lead to an even higher inflation and make food and spare parts imports more expensive. Such escalation of attacks was considered by the Shagari regime to be too risky. This created a rift between imperialism and national bourgeoisie; thus a subjective (leadership) crisis for the Nigerian bourgeoisie complicated the objective (economic) crisis. At that moment, there was no way out of the crisis.

Then Buhari-led Supreme Military Council struck. Buhari-led coup was not revolutionary or even progressive in any way. It was an attempt of the top army officers (a section of the bourgeoisie) to save Nigerian capitalism. As Buhari himself repeated in several interviews, it was not that Shagari did not know what to do (meaning attack on the masses) but he had no will to do it. In this sense, Buhari regime was a bourgeois Bonpartist solution to the economic and political crisis. Shagari's "democratic" tactics were replaced by Buhari's dictatorial tactics; the bourgeois strategy i.e. cuts in public spending, retrenchment of workers, closure of industries etc remained the same. Buhari-led Military junta came to take away the democratic fighting tools of workers such as free press, right unionize and strike and electoral accountability. Stripped of their democratic rights, workers and poor would be defenceless and bourgeois attacks would be easier. This was the historical task of Buhari then, a task he carried out with much diligence.

Dr Musa Bashir is a Marxist Activist. He writes in from Kano

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/opinion/articles/513-the-crisis-of-buharism-part-one

DOES EVERYONE ACTUALLY HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS?

A hungry man who stole vegetable and a goat in Nigeria was reportedly given a 3 years jail term, and another wealthy Nigerian who stolen over N23billion meant for retired civil servants was reportedly freed and asked to pay a fine of N750, 000.00.

This made me ask, does everyone actually have equal rights?

If everyone have equal rights as declared in the UDHR, how can the world explain the above absurd scenario which had taken place in Nigeria some months ago, yet the United Nations which is regarded as the custodian of the universal declaration of human rights has not altered any word regarding it, but instead, gave an award to the same country where such incident occurred through one of it's agency?

I Need Deliverance Too But I'm Too Ashamed ––Tonto Dikeh

Since blog4all-com..com broke the story of Jim Iyke's deliverance on the social media many celebrities have had one reason or the other to react to the issue. While some, who could be described as spiritually dead, are of the view that "it's not real", many have praised Jim Iyke for taking a bold step.
Actress Tonto Dikeh who recently attempted suicide is one person who has commended Jim Iyke as she also confessed that she badly need it too. See her exchange with Jim Iyke below:

I Need Deliverance Too But I'm Too Ashamed ––Tonto Dikeh
I Need Deliverance Too But I'm Too Ashamed ––Tonto Dikeh
She said she would give anything to have such deliverance too but that she is not as brave as Jim Iyke.

I hope she gets the courage to do it, very soon!
http://blog4all-com..com/2013/10/i-need-deliverance-too-but-im-too.html

WHY ASUU STRIKE MUST CONTINUE
Support ASUU's quest to produce employable graduates
AMB. Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

The Ongoing ASUU strike had surpasses its third month, and different opinions are emerging due to the continued strike.

Parents are lamenting, students are complaining, concerned citizens are advising, ASUU is insisting and federal Government is unwilling. What should be the way out?

To make an informed opinion, one requires critical assessments of the issues. We must understand the importance of ASUU demands and the implication on the Education sector. We must also consider the effect such demands could have on the lives of the students during and after graduation and the general effect on the economy of our dear country if it is implemented.

In addition, we must also consider the position of the Federal Government, its constrains and capability in meeting these demands.

Let us take a look at the issues together.

First, 70% of Nigerian graduates are unemployed, and if these unemployed graduates raise their voice in demand of a job, the Government and other actors in the labour market would react negatively, saying most graduates are half baked and unemployable.

The question is, who produced the half baked and unemployable graduates? The Nigerian Education Sector. And who are the key actors in this sector? The Lecturers who are associated under ASUU.

In a nutshell, if the graduates are condemned for being half baked and unemployable, the larger blame is directly or indirectly going to the system that produced them which ASUU is a major shareholder. In simple words, ASUU produced half baked and unemployable graduates.

In 2009, ASUU said enough is enough. We no longer want to produce half baked and unemployable graduates, we must produce graduates that would be highly respected and regarded for their education and certification. ASUU said it wanted to produce graduates that can never be accused of being half baked and unemployable, but qualified and highly resourceful graduates. It then stated the materials, resources and other demands that would ensure it meet up with the set target.

In the spirit of mutual understanding, the federal Government entered an agreement with ASUU in 2009 with a promise to implement the agreement as agreed. But many things overtook the agreement with the emergence of a new government under President Goodluck Jonathan.

After the emergence of a new Government, ASUU and Federal Government had to shift ground after coming together again in 2012 to restate the demands and they entered another agreement with the new president, but yet, the Government failed to honour it own part of the agreement which led to the Ongoing strike.

Now, ASUU is saying enough is enough, we must produce employable graduates that would be highly respected, but the FG is saying no, we cannot finance such worthwhile venture.

Though, the FG is financing several less important ventures with even more resources, but it said it is impossible to implement an agreement that would transform the Nigeria education sector for better.

Further more, In the desperation of the FG to force ASUU into bending its beautiful plan for Nigerian students, it is trying to paint ASUU black before the public through blackmail and intimidation; but the Academic union seem to be focus and dedicated to transform the education sector.

The FG had also tried using the Student Union, especially NANS to blackmail the academics, trying to make the students and the public lost confidence in the ongoing dedication of ASUU to correct the wrong in our education, but ASUU is dedicated to transform the lives of the students and ensure students graduate as full baked.

Although, some students are complaining, saying they are tired of sitting at home and urging ASUU to accept whatever the FG is willing to give and go back to the class and allow them graduate. Their parents are also lamenting, our children have to go back to school.

But I want to ask, where are the graduates of 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and so on? They are all at home and accused of being half baked and unemployable. So, why are student in hurry to graduate? Graduate to do what, when 70% of the former graduates are still at home without employment, neither do they have any hope of securing one soon? What is the essence of rushing to graduate when you will be accused of being half baked and unemployable in the labour market? Why not support ASUU who are ready to sacrifices with you to acquire a certificate that would respected, regarded and employable?

In My opinion, ASUU strike should be supported to continue until the FG is ready to meet the demands to transform the Education sector. Students should also support the strike and join ASUU is demanding the full implementation of the agreement that would transform their lives for better.

ASUU can’t resume to class now and still go on strike after few years, it must be done now once and for all.

Let the strike continue until the demands are meet once and for all and let the education sector be transformed.

Support ASUU to produce employable graduates, let them produce qualified graduates whose certification would be respected and highly regarded.

It must be now or never. ASUU strike must continue.

Join Nigeria Must Change on face book and let’s change Nigeria together.
https://www./224750847681686/

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WHY ASUU STRIKE MUST CONTINUE
Support ASUU to produce employable graduates
AMB. Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

The Ongoing ASUU strike had surpasses its third month, and different opinions are emerging due to the continued strike.

Parents are lamenting, students are complaining, concerned citizens are advising, ASUU is insisting and federal Government is unwilling. What should be the way out?

To make an informed opinion, one requires critical assessments of the issues. We must understand the importance of ASUU demands and the implication on the Education sector. We must also consider the effect such demands could have on the lives of the students during and after graduation and the general effect on the economy of our dear country if it is implemented.

In addition, we must also consider the position of the Federal Government, its constrains and capability in meeting these demands.

Let us take a look at the issues together.

First, 70% of Nigerian graduates are unemployed, and if these unemployed graduates raise their voice in demand of a job, the Government and other actors in the labour market would react negatively, saying most graduates are half baked and unemployable.

The question is, who produced the half baked and unemployable graduates? The Nigerian Education Sector. And who are the key actors in this sector? The Lecturers who are associated under ASUU.

In a nutshell, if the graduates are condemned for being half baked and unemployable, the larger blame is directly or indirectly going to the system that produced them which ASUU is a major shareholder. In simple words, ASUU produced half baked and unemployable graduates.

In 2009, ASUU said enough is enough. We no longer want to produce half baked and unemployable graduates, we must produce graduates that would be highly respected and regarded for their education and certification. ASUU said it wanted to produce graduates that can never be accused of being half baked and unemployable, but qualified and highly resourceful graduates. It then stated the materials, resources and other demands that would ensure it meet up with the set target.

In the spirit of mutual understanding, the federal Government entered an agreement with ASUU in 2009 with a promise to implement the agreement as agreed. But many things overtook the agreement with the emergence of a new government under President Goodluck Jonathan.

After the emergence of a new Government, ASUU and Federal Government had to shift ground after coming together again in 2012 to restate the demands and they entered another agreement with the new president, but yet, the Government failed to honour it own part of the agreement which led to the Ongoing strike.

Now, ASUU is saying enough is enough, we must produce employable graduates that would be highly respected, but the FG is saying no, we cannot finance such worthwhile venture.

Though, the FG is financing several less important ventures with even more resources, but it said it is impossible to implement an agreement that would transform the Nigeria education sector for better.

Further more, In the desperation of the FG to force ASUU into bending its beautiful plan for Nigerian students, it is trying to paint ASUU black before the public through blackmail and intimidation; but the Academic union seem to be focus and dedicated to transform the education sector.

The FG had also tried using the Student Union, especially NANS to blackmail the academics, trying to make the students and the public lost confidence in the ongoing dedication of ASUU to correct the wrong in our education, but ASUU is dedicated to transform the lives of the students and ensure students graduate as full baked.

Although, some students are complaining, saying they are tired of sitting at home and urging ASUU to accept whatever the FG is willing to give and go back to the class and allow them graduate. Their parents are also lamenting, our children have to go back to school.

But I want to ask, where are the graduates of 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 and so on? They are all at home and accused of being half baked and unemployable. So, why are student in hurry to graduate? Graduate to do what, when 70% of the former graduates are still at home without employment, neither do they have any hope of securing one soon? What is the essence of rushing to graduate when you will be accused of being half baked and unemployable in the labour market? Why not support ASUU who are ready to sacrifices with you to acquire a certificate that would respected, regarded and employable?

In My opinion, ASUU strike should be supported to continue until the FG is ready to meet the demands to transform the Education sector. Students should also support the strike and join ASUU is demanding the full implementation of the agreement that would transform their lives for better.

ASUU can’t resume to class now and still go on strike after few years, it must be done now once and for all.

Let the strike continue until the demands are meet once and for all and let the education sector be transformed.

Support ASUU to produce employable graduates, let them produce qualified graduates whose certification would be respected and highly regarded.

It must be now or never. ASUU strike must continue.

Join Nigeria Must Change on face book and let’s change Nigeria together.
https://www./224750847681686/

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I have heard people saying Nigeria shouldn't be celebrating it's independence, but why? Why should Nigeria not celebrate it's independence?

Hum

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JONATHAN AND THE LIES OF DISTRACTION

A friend just wrote this on fb:

It baffles me alot when GEJ was complaining of political distractions in yesterday media chat.

Our President was never distracted when Chief Edwin Clark visited him in Aso Rock with hungry elders beging him to contest in 2015 and even going ahead to threaten Nigerians.

Our President was never distracted when Over fed Militant leader Asari Dokubo threaten the existence of peace in Nigeria.

Our lovely President was never distracted when B.O.T Chief Tony Anenih was lobbying PDP for automatic ticket for him ahead of 2015.

Our President was never distracted when Women led by our first lady staged a rally in Abuja for GEJ 2015.

Now our President is distracted because Nigerians are calling him to make his stand clear on 2015 and ASUU turning to a political opposition.I'm still analyzing your 2 hours media chat.Incompetency should not make you use distraction to cover up.

HOW MUCH HAVE YOU PAID YOUR MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER? I use 3 mobile lines, glo, mtn and airtel. I acquired my glo line in 2006, mtn in 2009 and airtel in 2010. On an average since acquisition, i load atleast N100 daily on each line for calls. There are 365 days in a year, this mean that, each line consume atleast, N36,500 each year. My glo has been consuming this amount for 7years, N36,500 x 7 is equal N255,500. My mtn has been consuming it for 4years, N36,500 x 4 is equal to, N146,000 and my airtel for 3years, N36,500 x 3 is equal,N109,500. If we total this together, i have paid my mobile service provider the sum total of, N511,000. This is apart from browsing subsciption. Let's hear yours, it's good for business plan.

Lol. You are correct

Did you watch the presidential media chart with phcn light or with i pass my neighbour generator? Be sincere.

Hum

Lol

Me too

Watin the post do you?