Candid advice, don't try it for the sake of your marriage and the dear children, lol!

Really it can be difficult and often times can end in serious disagreement with dire consequences. Delegate it to a thrid party preferably your mechanic, or a driving school (that will guarantee that your car returns in good condition)

Nigerian Values have degraded;
- Obj always took his yearly medical check-up at the National Hospital Abuja; meanwhile his deputy was flown to Germany because of a sprain while on the threadmill? Its a question of values. As the main indicator of progress or failure of the Nigerian system, if the President and VP and key govt officials do not trust the Education system and the Health system enuffto use it, then we might as well pack up the country and sell it off to the highest bidder (exactly what Atiku and his goons have in mind).
What GEJ has simply shown is that, he has enuff faith in his ability to restore the country's institutions to allow his children to remain here, you should ask yourself and those politicians you are rooting for if they share the same belief.

Kidnappers are on rampage kidnapping innocent people's family, because all those who claim to lead you have spirited theirs away to safer havens, THINK, People, THINK before it is too late!
The looters continiue looting, yet those who strive to reverse things are anatngonised by the very victims of the looting! Shame.

Are you not behaving like a Slave who has been denied food by his master, yet gladly attack those who attempt to release him at the command of the same master? Shame.
Ask yourself, since the politicians you are gladly defending have been in power under various guises, how has your lot improved in comparison to how their own lot has improved?

4.2.1 AND YOU

GENERAL INFO
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*iPhones: You should always keep in mind which iOS is Jailbreakable and which basebands are unlockable. Jailbreak, in short, means having Cydia on your iDevice and unlock means you can use your iPhone on any carrier.
*iPad: You only need to keep in mind which iOS is Jailbreakable as iPads are factory unlocked.
*Tethered: this means your device needs a PC or MAC to be turned on with so that everything works 100% If your device requires a tethered boot up and you don't use a PC or MAC, then you might hit home screen but Cydia wont work, or you might get stuck on the apple logo.
*SHSH: These are "backups" made and sent to Cydia servers to trick iTunes into letting you downgrade iOS. Download software called "Tiny Umbrella" and hook your device to the PC,  click SAVE SHSH blobs and you will see which versions Cydia has for your device (you can downgrade to any of those iOS versions if you want BUT THIS WILL NOT DOWNGRADE YOUR BASEBAND SO IF YOUR BASEBAND IS CURRENTLY UNLOCKABLE YOU WONT BE ABLE TO USE IT WITH ANOTHER CARRIER THAN THAT LINKED TO YOUR iPhone)
*ISPW: These are the files you download online that upgrades (or downgrades if allowed) your iDevices. You open iTunes and click SHIFT-RESTORE to browse for these ISPW files so update begins.
*DFU: This is a special "Recovery Mode" where your device is ready for a restore but the screen is off. Search google or YouTube for a tutorial/video. A good way of knowing you are on DFU mode is when you hear the USB connected sound while the screen on your iDevice is off.

iPhone 3GS
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*Unlock for baseband 05.14 will come Sunday ([color=#770077][size=15pt]05.14 is 3GS iOS 4.1 baseband, 4.2.1 has another baseband and no ETA for unlock on that exists so STAY ON 4.1[/size])
*If you DONT need an unlock, you can update to 4.2.1 and Jailbreak your device.
*4.2.1 Jailbreak is Tethered for newer models and untethered for older models. [/color]

iPhone 4
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*Unlock for baseband 02.10 is still in the works and WILL NOT COME SUNDAY (02.10 is iPhone 4 iOS 4.1 baseband, 4.2.1 has another baseband and no ETA for unlock on that exists so STAY ON 4.1)
*If you DONT need an unlock, you can update to 4.2.1 and Jailbreak your device.
*4.2.1 Jailbreak is Tethered for all iPhone 4's.

iPad
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*Your device is not a Phone so you dont have to worry about an "unlock"
*4.2.1 Jailbreak is Tethered for all iPads.

TO JAILBREAK YOUR 4.2.1 iDevice
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1) Save SHSH using Tiny Umbrella
2) Download and install iTunes latest version 10.1 and REBOOT your PC (very important).
3) Download and install 4.2.1 .ISPW using SHIFT-RESTORE on iTunes (You need the .ISPW to run Redsn0w later so download it)
4) Run Redsn0w, load the 4.2.1 ISPW, select Install Cydia, click NEXT and follow instructions, wait for iPad to reboot. Once you hit home screen again, you will see a Cydia grayed icon and if you try to hit it, it wont go in.
5) Run Redsn0w again, load the 4.2.1 ISPW, select "Just boot Tethered right now" follow Redsn0w instructions.

Thats it, once you hit HOME screen, you will see the Cydia logo and this time it will work.
NOTE: Steps 4 and 5 require you to put your device in DFU mode. Redsn0w will teach you how to do it, but it might save you trouble if you put your device in DFU mode before opening Redsn0w.
NOTE: Steps 4 and 5 require you to run Redsn0w, depending on your Computer, you might need to run it as Admin or as Compatibility mode for XP SP3 if running Redsn0w shows errors.

Anytime you turn off or reboot your device, you will have to run Redsn0w like in step 5 again. If you turn your iPad on without doing what I wrote on step 4, your iPad MIGHT boot (depending on the tweaks you've downloaded off Cydia), but Cydia wont work.

Enjoy your 4.2.1 Jailbroken iPad, happy Thanks Giving, and THANKS DEV TEAM!!!

NOTE: As it is every time a new Jailbreak for a new iOS is released, Cydia servers are hammered by everyone trying to download things. Please dont come here posting "I got an error on cydia when trying to install x" because chances are servers are slow and that is why you are having issues. Be patient.

courtesy: blog.iphone-dev.org

marcdunu:

Why is the Jonathan crowd not calling their principal to attend this debate?

I thought they said he was the only credible candidate in the country?

And is ATIKU your own credible candidate? as someone aptly put it, the Atiku decision by Chiroma and co can be likened to an Elephant in labour that delivered a rat!

A debate on the state of the economy between Atiku (a significant contributor to the current state of Nigeria's economy and infrastructural backwardness) and GEJ is an insult to all Nigerians world over, because GEJ's govt has been around for just 6 months and in that space of time, they have been virtually running over themselves to slavage whatever is left of this country as the likes of IBB and Atiku continue to fan the embers of discord and antagonisim.
Today, you can walk the streets of Aba, Bayelsa and Port Harcourt even Jos and Maiduguri are being calmed yet to close your eyes and claim GEJ has done nothing?
Be sincere and have the fear of God, and don't sell your future for a bowl of rice. If Atiku has anything to offer, he should av shown it during his romance with OBJ.

Great job and very impressive,
what we need to do now is create a process that can enable us roll out the use of this kind of technology to anyone who requires it at the lowest possible cost and at the snap of a finger

Atiku took on Jonathan, asking rhetorically, “Why are our budgets not being implemented? 

Mr Atiku, is it not surprising that you of all people are asking this kind of question? while you were VP for eight years, are you saying that you implemented all your budget? It is a known fact that the highest implementation achieved has never been more than 45%. So leave matter! , It is very sad to note that no state or federal administration in Nigeria have been able to achieve up to a mere 45% annual budget implementation level in the last twelve years (http://www.focusnigeria.com/budget-implementation.htm)

Why has the money in our Excess Crude Account disappeared at a time when oil prices have been way above the benchmark used for our budget estimates

Haba, If anybody should be talking of missing money, even you? What happened to PTDF money, how come before the scandal broke, PTDF only sent about 10 - 20 students a year, now with you out of govt, they send more than 100 students per year?

 Why is this government quickly dragging us back to indebtedness after we worked so hard and sacrificed so much in the past to pull ourselves out of debt slavery? Clearly we need a new leadership

The answer to that is simple, the money meant for infratrsucture and development project since 1999 has been looted by the likes of yourself. We have no choice but to apply extreme measures to pull ourslef out of the squalor you placed us in, by "PPP",  the same concept that you advocated in your attempt to buy up Nitel and other govt parastatals that was up for sale by your administartion.

aduboy:

Can you explain the issue of the Niger-Delta raised by your group? We are saying that under this present dispensation, the interest of the Niger- Delta has not been served. The Calabar- Ogoja Road can be traversed in less than three hours but that same road now can be done in 10 hours. The bridge has collapsed and our entire economy depends on that. Do we say simply because our man is there, we will keep quite?.

Our you serious at all? Did the Calabar - Ogoja road get spoilt within this past six months of GEJ's govt or has it been in this condition for the past 4 years? Or are you expecting the president to divert the funding already allocated to other roads all across the federation to Calabar-Ogoja road just because he is from the ND?

All the roads across Nigeria are bad, from east to west to south-south and the North. The govt has to develop a proactive approach to their repairs and rehabilitation, rather than a knee jerking method of fixing only because pple are clamouring for it.

Channel your agitations aright and don't tie it all to politics!

Concensus Candidate Nomination Results
Atiku - 9
IBB - 3
Saraki - 1
Gusau - 0

I guess this says it all, the North has no candidate, Saraki and Gusau are jokers, while IBB is a rotten egg.
Atiku, hmmm no comment, We'll check through the EFCC register for the appropriate comment

Inside Lagos traffic - Keep your feet on the brake and leave gear in drive (else you'll end up sleeping at that spot)
Anywhere else in 9Ja - Put gear on Neutral; Keep your feet on the brake or use your handbrake


In saner climes - when at a spot for a long time (e.g at a red light), Put gear in Park, release your feet from the brakes

Not too long ago, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu chose to 'retaliate' (apologies to Idi Amin) a visit I had paid him at his home in Rockville, Maryland. I had visited him soon after he had been honoured at Babcock university with an honorary Doctorate of Law degree and I was excited about his visit because of noises in the media about the possibility that he might run for President. So as soon as I picked him up from SFO Airport, I soon directed the conversation away from small talk to politics. I asked Mallam Ribadu if he was indeed interested in the Presidency to which he responded that he felt a responsibility to Nigerians and to his Maker to join the effort to restore Nigeria to her rightful pride of place as a beacon of hope to the black race. Already I could see that my friend Nuhu had already learnt how to answer a question by not answering it, a trait he would need in politics any where in the world. I then asked him if I could record our conversation on the advanced voice recorder of my phone and of course Nuhu agreed.

Now that he has finally told Nigerians that he would contest, I feel that I owe Nigerians a duty to make available the transcripts of these phone conversations so that Nigerians could know the inner workings of this man that is so well known but is also somewhat of an enigma to many. I have decided to call these conversations 'What Nuhu Told Me' and release them in series according to the topic of the discussion. So this maiden piece which is the longest will be entitled 'What Nuhu Told Me: On Security and The Economy'. Please note that they are not Mallam Ribadu's manifesto, and in fact these conversations were not scripted and he had no prior knowledge of my intent until he landed in San Francisco other than the fact that I told him that I would be recording him on my phone.

The reason why I decided to put these discussions in writing is because even though they were impromptu and mostly recorded while we where driving down the US101 Freeway from Stanford University to the Scenic community of Hilltop in Northern California, Mallam Ribadu showed depth and an understanding of the issues at stake that has so far eluded the usual suspects currently angling for a turn at the Presidency with no other justification than that it is their turn because of where they come from. I will now go into our conversations.

Me: Okay, let's pretend you are sure that you will contest and Nigerians want to know how you would tackle the issue of insecurity, how would you respond say on AIT's Kakaaki?



MNR: Well Reno, you know I am not prepared, but I will give it a shot. I have just returned from a tour of several states and I took the time to meet with community leaders and citizens like you Reno. A lot of the people I talked with on these visits, like you, wanted to know what can be done to stem the rampaging spate of insecurity in some parts of the nation which manifests itself in kidnappings, robberies and such like. I believe they asked me this because they know of my background in security even before I was made EFCC chairman. Some of these were people who knew me from my days on the beat in Lagos where I had engaged in actual gun duels with armed robbers.

Now I want to address this issue as best I can given that I have not made any notes. Over the years, there has been an uneven distribution of wealth in Nigeria caused by a variety of reasons chief of which has been instances, because of the stage of the development of our democracy, where god fathers, cabals and cartels with narrow and group interests have had more influence over the choosing of leaders than the people of the locality being governed. Not only is this antithetical to democracy, but it has led to a situation where such leaders even where they have good intentions are in hock to these group interest such that they have to divert the resources meant to serve the people to serving those to whom they owe their ascendancy to power. This has led to a culture of privilege which is not sustainable and to keep it going for any length of time these groups have had to take recourse to using unemployed and impressionable youths to sustain their hold on power. Now after arming and using these youths during elections, one cannot expect them to remain idle in the periods between elections and because they are usually uneducated or undereducated the easiest option for them is a life of crime which has already been made easier for them by the arms procured for them by their sponsors.

This being the case, a reasonable government has to approach this issue holistically. These youths are themselves victims and while it may be necessary to use force to rout them, I have to recognise that there is an underlying reason why they are vulnerable to those anti democratic groups who engage their services to maintain their hold on power and that reason is poverty.

So whether you are referring to Boko Haram, militants, kidnappers, cultists or robbers the fact remains that government will be mistaken if it relies on just force to resolve these crises. We must apply intelligent solutions to them.

I am not in government, but if I were to advise the government Reno, I would say that first and foremost, we must make sure that electoral reforms which we all know we need are carried out as desired such that it will lead to the expected end of having the people of Nigeria whether at local government, state or federal level being able to freely choose leaders of their choice without encumbering the voters choices by elite back room deals, imposition by god fathers or electoral malpractices such as wrongful use of security agencies to aid a candidate etc. Once people feel that they have freely chosen leaders of their choice in every election they will be easy to govern and those leaders will have the moral authority and respect of the people to lead them without resistance and because their emergence was solely through the people they will apply the lean resources at their disposal to winning the , (inaudible) hearts and minds of the people if for no other reason than the fact that they will want to be re-elected.

Now staying on the issue of electoral reforms, the truth remains that much as this administration and the PDP talk about electoral reforms, recent events at PDP headquarters indicates that this talk is just rhetoric. The actions of the PDP itself has shown that it will be more of the same if we allow this party to continue to control our destinies. Let me give you an example of what I mean.

If we go by the leadership maxim that you must begin with the end in mind, you can actually tell the end result of the PDP's preparation for the 2011 election from the beginning of its process. The PDP sold its Presidential and Gubernatorial Expression of Interest forms for such exorbitant sums. In a country where the Per Capita Income is nothing to write home about and where most of us struggle to live on maybe a hundred Naira a day our political parties cannot claim to be representing us when they sell an Expression of Interest form for a total of 11 million Naira. How many honest, decent and capable people can afford to pay this amount? It feeds the notion that we are actually democratising the idea of a cabal because if the vast majority of our people are shut out of contesting for monetary reasons how can we really claim to be a democracy? Take for instance our President, Goodluck Jonathan. In 2007 when he declared his assets, he was worth about 300 million Naira. Now imagine that he has to part with over 3% of his net worth just to buy a form to contest on the ticket of his party. Any surprise then that the PDP governors had to chip in and pay for his form? Now you will agree with me that the President is much better off than most Nigerians. The question is who will buy expression of interest forms for decent, honest and capable people who want to come in and sanitise our politics? Certainly not their state governors! So if decent, honest and capable people are shut out of the PDP how do they expect to win the 2011 elections? We must ask ourselves why is it that politicians get so desperate to win at all cost? The answer is clear to any student of economics. The more invested you are in a venture the more willing you are to do ANYTHING to make the venture succeed. The PDP's process is already fatally flawed even before the primary and general elections are conducted for the simple reason that persons who have invested such huge sums into purchasing forms are very likely to make elections a “do or die affair” and protect their investments by whatever means necessary. I respect the President and follow him on facebook and I am impressed by his stated commitment to avoid do or die elections, but how can you avoid them when people in the PDP have so commercialised the process? This is why we see politicians becoming so desperate to put together a machine that relies on these youths who I had earlier told you are victims because their poverty has made them vulnerable to monetary coercion. It is these same youths who are used as private armies during elections by godfathers that are behind the state of insecurity in Nigeria.

I have often said in the past that if we can get leadership right, we will get every other thing in Nigeria right in due course because as Chinua Achebe said, the trouble with Nigeria is that of leadership. This being the case, something has to give.

So if we want electoral reforms, we the people of Nigeria have to bring about those reforms. We cannot depend on the government and the National Assembly to do it for us. We must study what other countries did in order to free themselves from oligarchic cabals that make it a practise to subvert the electoral will of the people.

Studies from the electoral victories of opposition politicians such as Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe in the 2008 elections, of John Attah Mills in the 2008 Ghanaian elections and Abdoulaye Wade in the 2000 Senegalese elections have proven that were there is a high voter turn out it is virtually impossible to rig an election. I have been to these countries myself and talked to the people involved themselves and ironically they all point to the June 12, 1993 election in Nigeria as their inspiration for defeating the incumbent administration in their countries by getting out the voters! So my fellow country men, you can see that there is a precedent and that precedent which has brought about a democratic wind of change in Africa was actually perfected in Nigeria. Dear brothers and sisters, if we did it before we can do it again! To defeat the forces of retrogression in Nigeria we will need to get out the vote by registering en masse as soon as registration begins and voting in the 2011 elections. Everybody has a part to play. We must remember that bad or inept administrations are elected by people who don't vote. In other words, a people deserve the type of government they get!

And to members of the security and armed forces, Reno, people like you need to make them understand that people in power who would use them to subvert the electoral will of the people will also turn against them after they have used them. To prove this, let me illustrate with the case of the 27 soldiers who rioted when their superior officers misappropriated their salaries and allowances. While little was done to the offending superior officers, the 27 soldiers were sentenced to life imprisonment in April, 2009. You see that it even pays our military and paramilitary services to have a true democracy because no genuinely elected administration will tolerate the type of injustice meted out on these 27 soldiers. This is the same type of miscarriage of justice meted out on the few miscreants who are caught in electoral malpractices during election times and who are jailed while their sponsors are left untouched.

Now having established that the first thing to do in stemming the tide of insecurity in Nigeria is to get leadership right, I need to establish the fact that when we defeat these forces of retrogression (and believe me, we will defeat them!) we must expect that they will fight back. Reno, I know you recall my constant refrain when I was the chairman of EFCC to the effect that when you fight corruption corruption fights back. It is the same thing with godfathers, oligarchies and cabals. When you fight them, they fight back! So, when the people take their destinies in their hands and come out en masse to vote for leaders of their choice and protect that vote with their sheer number which will intimidate the forces of the oligarchs, the ensuing government that will result will have to apply the law and unleash law enforcement/Security agents without taking into effect the personalities involved. What this means is that while government is going after the kidnappers, the robbers and , (inaudible) those who wreak havoc on society, we also have to be seen to be going after those behind them. If we concentrate on the pawns and leave the master minds alone because they are persons of influence in the society, we will only be fighting a losing battle because these masterminds will find more willing pawns. Let me put this in perspective for you. Between 1999 and 2010, there have been religious and ethnic violence in Jos, Kaduna, Bauchi, Maiduguri and other towns. There has also been militancy and restiveness in the Niger Delta along with kidnappings in the Niger Delta and various other places. Now how many people have been arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned as a result of these disturbances? Few, very few. Now how many of their sponsors have been brought to book? Even fewer. And what has been the result? We have seen insecurity grow because what you tolerate will increase in occurrence. And I can prove this. Between 2003 and 2007, the EFCC team under my leadership went after every form of economic crime you can imagine, from foreigners and Nigerian citizens who engage in economic sabotage by evading taxes and import duties to high government officials who steal government funds to 419 king pins and their minions, and what was the result? We saw that economic crimes reduced in Nigeria during that period. It is a natural principle that you see even in a farm. When you neglect a farm weeds begin to grow on it. But the moment you start to tend to the farm the weeds will begin to reduce until they are gone. I was a police prosecutor for years Reno, and I have seen first hand that it is possible to use the law as it is to descend on criminal elements and their sponsors. What has just been lacking is the will Reno, the will!

And thirdly, government must ensure social justice by ensuring that the only people who have access to wealth are people who create wealth. Every Naira in circulation must be tied to work, production or services rendered. No more must people make money by peddling influence, selling contracts or getting oil blocks which they have no capacity to develop. Those who make money without working or creating value by offering a service or manufacturing and selling goods are a threat to society. Reno, they are the types of people who will want the status quo to remain and we know that the status quo is not sustainable. This is the reason why when I was chairman of the EFCC my team and I tried our best to plug observed loop holes in the financial markets, the banking industry and the manufacturing sector and not just the government. So when people see that the ONLY (emphasis mine. I used it because he increased his voice tone when he said only) way to have assess to wealth in Nigeria is by working, offering a service or manufacturing goods for sale rather than relying on patronage from those who control political office because those in power now owe their ascendancy solely to the people everybody will be forced to go to work in order to exist and this will have attendant and far reaching positive consequences for our economy and security of life and property.

In summary on this your question Reno, I will not advise a knee jerk approach to solving the issues of insecurity because that will only be postponing the evil day. I will advise that we work on our security forces by providing them with modern technologies that aid crime fighting so they can deliver results and not activity. But as we take these steps, we should also stimulate the economy in the ways I just suggested.

In addition Reno, we must make sure that public universities enjoy an uninterrupted academic session by ensuring proper funding of the education sector and finding creative ways to resolve ASUU/Government disputes so that our youth have positive ventures to occupy their minds which will make them less vulnerable to the lure of crime because as we know the devil finds work for idle hands.

It is my expectation that just as with other countries, the combination of these deliberate and far reaching policies will have the desired result of fighting the symptoms and most importantly the causes of insecurity in Nigeria.

Last Line: Happy 50th Birthday, Mallam Nuhu.

alj harem:

your father ojukwu was a devil and still is and would forever be and will as go to hell

liers

My sincere advice is to ignore such people, they are myopic and bigoted, joining issues with them will only further degrade you.
The march for the emancipation of Nigeria will continue and these tribalistic, uneducated, and uninformed mooncalf will not deter us

Boxing Match in Ghana - 1952
Speedy Twitch (NG) vs Attu Clottey (GH)
Referee - Nnamdi Azikiwe (NG)

The Ghanaian boxer had knocked out Speedy and Zik the referee had to start the count down, , Zik started dragging the countdown and interjecting in between counts of 1, 2, "speedy, dide" 3, "speedy o de dide now!" , 4 , 5, 6 , 10.

Unfortunately speedy was out cold and the Ghanaian won the match.

The morale of this story is that Nigerians of this generation don't know jack about tribalism, you don't even know the first thing about the next tribe to judge them on any platform.
Is it not ironic that Zik an Igbo man and Speedy an Ijaw man decided to communicate in a language not even close to theirs (Yoruba) and used it as tool to communicate in their present circumstance. The founding fathers of Nigeria were not tribal and it is evident in their relationship with the language and culture of the other tribes in Nigeria, Bola Ige for example could speak Hausa, and Igbo as fluently as any one from that area.

The concept of tribalism came in as a result of the ineffectiveness of government and the govt leadership, especially the military. Those who continue to champion the course of ethinicity today are not enlightened and definitely still living in the 18th century or worse

This generation of Nigerians need as a matter of urgency to learn about the other tribes in nigeria, and not just from hearsay and newspapers. They need to have a mutual respect for each other and relate as equals rather than master and benefactor

@ marutimon, you need to get a website to fully publish and patent this info, this is some great stuff you are doing here. Keep it up!
I wont be surprised if Siasia takes a peek here from time to time to update himself on correct nigerian talent instead of wasting time with those old and tired legs we are all used to.

The make-up artist and photographer have not done justice to her at all, Genevieve is way better looking than this!

Are you aware that there are more than 3 tribes and ethnic nationalities in Nigeria?
No ethnic nationality has the monopoly of sub human and barbaric tendencies?

Next time pls, address your comments to all Nigerians and champion the cause of Nationality rather than directing your insinuations at individual tribes in the country, this will only result in further tribal exchanges.
The nation needs to first respect each ethnic nationality's individuality and approach the next as equals rather than benefactor or master!

It is definitely Possible.

What the so called progressives should understand is that now is the time and more than ever to break the country from the clutches of anti-democratic forces that are fully embodied in the PDP.
Now that PDP is in tatters and they are clutching for the straws,

[size=20pt]My candid advice is that Ribadu and his team (if the original poster have any access to him, pass this across) should become more vocal in projecting the ISSUES and the progressive SOLUTION,  the days of "I am a better candidate" and "I am not as corrupt as him" campaign is gone and gone forever, because we realise that the only reason most politicians claim to be saints is simply because they haven't been close to the pot of meat[/size].

What we want to see and hear from RIBADU and co is how he proposes to solve the Power problem, the security issues, and how the educational system will be revived and not just songs of I am young and better. He needs to say it, he needs to shout it, he needs to be everywhere and speaking like never before. Obama did not win by just being young and cute, he spoke his heart out,  thats the way to win people's votes.

9icest:

Where's my Ginger God?
Terry G deserves something!

Deserves wetin?, na that kain performance dem dey look for for international stages? That kind of craze cannot take you beyond ajegunle.

anyway give him 2 wraps - that should console him.

demovriks:

there is sometin we Nigerians dont undastand dat IBB is d only strong and experience aspirant dat is witout Godfather.he has realized d mistakes he made in d past and wants to come back in orda to correct them.since Goodluck Jonathan took ova power,corruption continue to linger and nothing significant was done.oda aspirants are just quiet green snakes who hav oda corrupt leaders as their godfather who dictates 4 dem.d devil u no is beta dan d angel u dont know.IBB 4life

I laugh in Kalabari, Is it when IBB takes over that coruption will END? think again, If IBB was determined to rid the nation of corruption he should not have joined the most corrupt party in the World - PDP. He knows that it is only by corruption that he can win and rule, thats why he is in PDP else, why did he not float his own party with proper ideology like Buhari?

lestat:

BEFORE U ALL START ACCUSING ME HEAR ME OUT,

IBB IS HE THA CAUSE OF NIGERIA'S PORBLEMS?

You can see the effect of IBB misrule on your grammar, lol!!!

lestat:

PLEASE I RESPECT IBB AS A PERSON BECOS BTW HE AND OBJ HE EXHIBITED MUCH MORE DISCIPLINE IN OFFICE , WE ALL KNOW OBJS SEXCAPADES!
I AM JUST SAYING THAT I WOULD PREFER WE GAVE HIM A CHANCE AFTER ALL HE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE?
WHO HASN'T DONE WRONG? WHO IS SO GOOD THAT HE MAY PLAY JUDGE OVER HIS FELLOW MAN? PLS HE IS NOT AT ALL THE WORST PRESIDENT NIGERIA HAS PORDUCED, LET AS ALL GIVE FORGIVENESS AS WE NEED IT TOO.

If IBB had invested in a proper education for the likes of yourself instead of looting and killing, we will all have been spared this massive attack of disatrous potentials. All caps, no comma, no full stop, ibon all over, even the points you are attempting to make to buttress your grounds sound like that of a Primary 6 pickin trying to do debate!!!

Mr Dokpesi should have gone to court if indeed any of his claims have any truth to them. It is obvious that many individuals took advantage of the ill health of Yaradua to scam the country and make illegal claims on the government with their cohorts who were in positions then.
If indeed, the government is liable, then sue them, at least I trust our courts they will give a good judgment it may take a while though

In case you all Haters have not bothered to read the Intro for this forum, it says:
NAIRALAND - A HOME FOR NIGERIANS AND FRIENDS OF NIGERIA>>>> emphasis on Friends, so if you have nothing constructive to say about the nation, find somewhere else to spew your thrash.
If you have something against Nigeria, sue the FGN at the world court!

Nobody is blaming the international community for Nigeria's situation; we are blaming them for not measuring us with same yardstick used to measure other nations.
Since the Oct 1 bombing in Abuja, Nigeria, several other countries have had militant attack, suicide bombings and violent protests, [b]currently "France" is embroiled in a massive civil protest that is crippling the entire nation and students demonstrations are getting violent; Greece had a series of demonstrations during which many people died and many govt facilities were destroyed how come no airline/country laid an embargo on travel to Greece and France? That is my grouse.[/b]I do not deny that the Nigerian govt needs to do more to bring the unrest under control but seriously the international community have been known for extreme levels of hypocrisy.

The fight by militants/terrorists or freedom fighters as the case may be is oftentimes more psychological than physical. The militants world over want to give the impression that things are not safe, that they can strike at will (Instill FEAR into everyone) and that their cause is just and has the support of everyone.
The major strategy to counter this psychological warfare is to respond without Fear, and for the entire citizenry not to be intimidated. For this to be achieved we need everyone including foreign partners to not complicate the matter by taking hasty actions based on wrong information.
Nigeria has security challenges which is being addressed by the government at various levels, but the international community should not compound it by sabotaging the nigerian economy, because then, the militants will have won.

Is it not funny, that Israel of all countries will be afraid of bomb blasts
With Hezbollah and Palestinian militants throwing grenades and suicide bombs from the Gaza strip, are they telling me Israel is safer than Nigeria, pls tell me something else

oyb:

i disagree

the nigerian worker is a product of the nigerian system, where ogas reward loyalty and obeisance over everything else.

emphasis is on respecting and hanging onto ogas's every word, executing ogas's menial jobs with alacrity, etc.

a little extreme, but you get the idea

this is especially true of the older generation of nigerian workers

I agree with you there, That Ogaism syndrome definitely coontributes to the laid back attitude of most Nigerian workers, its not the only contributor but a major one: [b]since you know that washing your ogas car (in some cases literally) carries more weight in your final evaluation than excellent delivery of ground breaking innovations in your work.[/b]Infact, the number of people you greet every morning in some organisations show how fast you will grow.

shagaman:

Guy, if you don't have anything sensible to say, will you keep your mouth shut and get off the forum!
If he is bereft of ideas, are you full of any? which idea have you proffered to make anything out of yourself, not to even talk of contributing anything to Nigeria.

You must learn to stop castigating people who are doing "something" to make this impossible situation turn around, if Dele Momodu is not the one, then offer yourself, or make we go vote for IBB/Atiku?

@blink4real

You should learn how to talk,

Coming from someone who says Dele Momodu is bereft of ideas, Apply the admonition to yourself first

Great discussion here and also very intellectual,
I have been privileged to work in a number of High Profile companies with recognition world over, and my conclusion is that what distinguihses a foreign worker from the Nigerian worker is not competence, but attitude.
The Foreign staff will never be late, he will never do fb and yahoo in the office, he will deliver on time without excuse, he will get to d office at 8am on the dot and leave at 5pm on the dot no more no less. But his Nigerian colleague will come in to work late, browse and read newspapers till 9, gist about the Nigerian situation with his colleagues till 10 attend meetings and then go for lunch, he comes back from lunch at 2pm instead of 1pm and blames the traffic or his car or the PTA meeting at the kids school. he is now in a hurry to deliver the job, he delivers late and badly presented work because he is out of time.
That is the issue with Nigerian staff.
We can deliver when pushed, we are as competent or even more competent that our expatriate colleagues but attitude and discipline is the wahala

shagaman:

Dele Momodu is so bereft of ideas, sing for vote,he should come out and tell us how he has contributed to the development of the nation and why he deserves our votes, He thinks politics is all about Snapping of pictures up and down of armed robbers who have looted the country dry,

Guy, if you don't have anything sensible to say, will you keep your mouth shut and get off the forum!
If he is bereft of ideas, are you full of any? which idea have you proffered to make anything out of yourself, not to even talk of contributing anything to Nigeria.

You must learn to stop castigating people who are doing "something" to make this impossible situation turn around, if Dele Momodu is not the one, then offer yourself, or make we go vote for IBB/Atiku?

I hope all the GEJ bashers will now see what we've been saying all along

My brother was faking my voice' says Okah 234Next

October 15, 2010 01:02PM
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The trial of Henry Okah resumes this morning in a Johannesburg courtroom with a gripping reading of excerpts from his diaries that were seized by South African police during a raid on his home.


Mr Okah was in the courtroom with his wife.

The prosecution read these out before listing its reasons for opposing Mr Okah's bail bid.

Some of the reasons listed for opposing the bid include: ‘Okah and Jomo Gbomo are one and the same person;' ‘applicant can easily exit this country without a trace;' ‘the applicant will attempt to intimidate and eliminate witnesses;' and ‘the applicant faces some of the most shocking charges known to man. , If released on bail and murdered, or escapes justice, the international community will criticise the justice system of the Republic.'

But the diary contains more shocking entries. These include:

‘We met with Orubebe, jonathan's desire to run for President. They require me to co-operate with so-called militants,'
‘Nearly everyone is a bounty hunter for me'
‘My brother, Charles has faked my voice and has been collecting money all this while, he has been negotiating a ceasefire claiming to be me. What treachery is this?'

The trial started yesterday and the judge is expected to rule on the bail request this afternoon

LUDALOOLO:


not voting for ibb will it change nigeria. tink ppl. they are all evil ppl

So we shouldn't Vote? Abi?
Vote Right!
Don't Vote Rogues; Don't Vote IBB!!

Dokpesi and the Elastic Conscience

I just read Raymond Dokpesi’s interview with news men on his ordeal at the hands off the SSS and I am again appalled at the level of double speak our politicians are capable.

In adducing reasons why he is being allegedly persecuted, Mr. Dokpesi alleges that the Goodluck Jonathan team wanted him to head their campaign; however, there is some reason to doubt this claim. Raymond Dokpesi is from the South South, the same zone as Mr. President. The question then is how plausible would it be that the President would pick someone from the same zone as himself to head his campaign? Does it make sense when conventional wisdom compels Presidential aspirants to not only look outside their geo-politcal zone but beyond the Niger. Thus if a candidate is from the North, conventionally he would pick a campaign DG from the South and vice versa. So the question is would a politician of President Jonathan’s pedigree consider a fellow South Southerner as his campaign DG in an election as heavily fraught with zonal issues as 2011? In my humble opinion I think this very unlikely.

The other issue that beggars belief in Dokpesi’s interview is the reason he gave for rejecting the headship of the Jonathan campaign and supporting IBB instead. Said he ““It is not a matter of saying, ‘this is what is good for my people and that the other people can go to hell. We don’t care; we will bulldoze our way. I strongly believe that it is right and appropriate that what is due to John should be given to John and what is due to Benson should be given to Benson.” Dokpesi then challenged the PDP “to follow the path of honour by sticking to” zoning.

Now on the surface, the above argument does sound altruistic. However let us go down memory lane. In 2006 after Obasanjo’s two terms of four years, going by the zoning logic, power was to be zoned to the North. There were many contestants for the PDP ticket chief of which was a man called Peter Odili from the South South who according to Dokpesi would have emerged winner of the ticket had former President Obasanjo not intervened. Now the thing is that Mr Raymond Dokpesi was the campaign manager for Dr. Peter Odili’s 2006 presidential campaign organization!

So when did Mr. Dokpesi develop his scruples about sticking to the zoning agreement? Was it before or after he served as Odili’s campaign manager in 2011 when Odili was running against a Northerner and the party had zoned the ticket to the North? What happened to Mr Dokpesi’s logic that “what is due to John should be given to John and what is due to Benson should be given to Benson” in 2006? Did it take a holiday?

The truth is that Mr Dokpesi like many-oh too many- Nigerian politician has an elastic conscience that expands and contracts according to the needs of the owner.

Could it really be that Dr. Dokpesi would have wanted to serve Dr. Jonathan in the same capacity as he served Dr. Odili but was rejected in his overtures? Personally I think Mr Dokpesi revealed the real reasons why he is not on the Goodluck train when he said that ““AIT, for its efforts at the U-17 World Cup was initially owed N5.7 billion by the federal government, but the figure has risen to N19.7 billion” Mr. Dokpesi further informed journalist that “President Goodluck Jonathan earlier sent text messages as Vice-President, to him pleading with him to bear with the government over the debt as the President, late Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, was sick and that the debt was delegated to him to pay. But also when Jonathan became President, I was told that he was quoted that the AIT should bear the cost as part of national service”.

Well now, we are coming to the crux of the matter. It seems that we are now being told the real reason why Mr. Dokpesi has an ax to grind with the President and it has nothing to do with zoning at all. Mr. Dokpesi really just wants his bills paid (funny though how N5.7 billion could balloon to N19.5 billion without any change in the service rendered) and is willing to help make anybody who would pay the bill President of Nigeria.

Please Nigerians connect the dots. Here is a man who has serious financial challenges and almost lost his media empire but for the intervention of Peter Odili in 2005/6 and who is once again in deep waters financially to the extent that the staff of his media emoire are owed many months’ salary in arrears. Is it not trite knowledge that a drowning man would clutch at straws!

Moreover, Mr. Dokpesi and IBB make quite a pair! I was almost struck dumb to read the reasons given by IBB for not attending the 50th Independence anniversary celebration. IBB claimed that “I don’t believe in the whole concept. The expenditure was too much. There are more effective ways of celebrating at 50. The large expenditure should have gone into universities". Really! This from a man who wasted $12.2 billion and to quote Okigbo whose "disbursements were clandestinely undertaken while the country was openly reeling with crushing external debt overhead.". I mean if IBB was so in love with Nigerian universities how come he withdrew the subsidy on education which more than anything destroyed Nigerian universities and led directly to brain drain? I mean if Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Buhari who had a reputation as a prudent spender while he held sway as military Head of State could attend, then certainly General Babangida had no reasons not to attend if it was the cost of the ceremony that was the issue. I mean how much did the ceremony cost? I believe it was16 billion Naira. How much has IBB spent chasing his presidential ambition? Yes 16 billion is quite on the high side but if General Babangida could spend billions celebrating himself with his Presidential bid, then I certainly can understand spending billions celebrating 150 million long suffering Nigerians. Besides if Genral Babangida loves our universities so much, perhaps he should have donated the millions he paid to fly in Joe the American R ‘n’ B star to sing for his son’s bride to any Nigerian university!

It is really pathetic that a man who gave as one of the reasons for annulling the June 12 elections the excuse that the Federal Government owed Chief MKO Abiola millions of dollars would turn around to appoint as his campaign chief a man who also claims that the Federal Government owes him millions of dollars. Going by IBB’s logic the government would be justified in annulling his election if he won.

But logic is not what guides men like IBB and his new side kick Raymond Dokpesi. Such people are guided by only one motive-what’s in it for me. If you doubt me, then ask them why in the face of the multiple tragedies facing Northern Nigeria, both IBB and his motley crew of desperados have not thought it wise to publicly champion the cause of the millions of people in Northern Nigeria who are affected by the floods in Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Jigawa state or the Cholera epidemic in the North or even the lead poisoning in Zamfara. Why would they when there is nothing in it for them?

To Mr. Dokpesi, Nigerians have come very far and no longer have as short a memory as the likes of Mr. Dokpesi would want us to have. If Mr. Dokpesi has forgotten, perhaps it is time to remind him that power was shifted to the South West not because of any zoning logic, but as compensation to the people of the South West for the injustice done to them by the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections by General Babangida when Chief Abiola was set to be declared winner. When Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar wanted to transition to a civilian democratic administration, he toured the six geo-political zones of the country in 1998 to meet with leaders of thought and opinion moulders and he was told that he risked the South West seceding if something was not done to pacify the zone for the injustice meted out to chief Abiola. He then put heads together with retired and serving military mandarins who came up with the idea of anointing one of their own in the person of General Obasanjo as a way of pacifying the South West while having someone whose chains the North could yank as President. Thus was President Obasanjo anointed President and no sooner had the puppet being sworn in than he came alive and rather than have his chains yanked by the North proceeded to yank the chains of the North as no one before or after him had done. I could go on and on, but suffice to say that power shift to the South West was caused by General Babangida’s callous act of 1993 and for him to contemplate coming back in 2011 is not only an affront on Nigerians but amounts to a case of a criminal profiting from his own criminality.



Reno Omokri is the Vice President, Africa, at Joe Trippi and Associates, the DC based Political Consultancy firm.
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