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This news piece just like many others do not make sense...

Is it not possible for GEJ as the C- in - C to revoke the licences before their expiration since the allocations didn't follow due process in the first place?

Instead of just insinuating that the licenses will expire in 2016, why not state when the licenses where first granted and what tenure it has.

I have noticed two fundamental flaws in the current leadership of our country, they so belief every decision they make is right and when something goes terribly wrong, they blame everybody else and never themselves...

I thought you guys have moved along since it has been proven that the issue of Islamizing Nigeria exists only in the minds of some people who are trying everything they can to remain in power.

Funny to also see that Pastor Tunde who most of you called several names 4years ago have suddenly become the beacon of integrity that everyone must now follow.

Lastly, it is good to know that your principal spent the last 4yrs achieving all the progress mentioned in your post.

Guys, I think a special thread like this should be encouraged for professionals to discuss without irrational interjections by political apologists.

I mentioned on a thread about a year ago that power generation just like other major infrastructure requires careful planning, time and well thought execution.

From my experience as an electrical engineer, the cost of constant electricity is not cheap, no company in Nigeria can break even providing stable power with the current tariffs but we cannot raise the cost without providing the commodity, we have to strike a balance, if Nigerians want power, they should be ready to pay for it.

Now to the prof's idea, there is a term in engineering called BVOA, best value option analysis. For every engineering challenge, there will be a couple of options, during conceptual and feasibility studies, numbers are assigned to each element in the all the options after which the option with the best value will be designed and installed.

There is technically no bad idea in engineering, it might just have a negative value in the terms of cost and delivery time. The best option for Ibadan might be the worst solution for Abuja or Sokoto.

Scaled down power plants might make some sense if you consider delivery time and less complexity in installation but might be crazy in terms of cost. For example, I have a solar generation plant that serves only my house, but it costs about the same amount to build it verus buying a transformer with accessories and installing for a community of about 300 houses. It might not be completely stupid not to wait for the community to take a year to contribute the needed funds if I want to enjoy uninterrupted power in few weeks.

We need our government to come up with blue prints of how exactly their goals will be met so we can constructively critic it like it has been done by the professionals above rather than a blanket promise of 10,000MW at the beginning of each year.

Can you swap with a neat dell 630 laptop?
I am also based in ibadan.

Your location please?

mymadam:
What King Abdullah II of Jordan can do, Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria can do better! Only he doesn't like to show off. He's very modest... honestly. God bless Nigeria.

Although this news piece cannot be readily confirmed but if true, most Nigerian leaders especially the president should not be mentioned in the same sentence with this king.

ghost1718:
buhari is very sick. Western wants to use him to collect power knowing that HE has short time to leave.......... Think of what OBJ Did for jonathan, he use him to compact naija daltas for what he did to them

The import of my response to you is that no one can predict the time of death of another being. We are all susceptible to the cold hands of death.

Leave all these wild allegations, vote for a candidate of your choice.

Christians or Muslims will not be allowed to vote in the next elections, only Nigerians will.

So the elections should not be about who Christians are voting or who Muslims are not voting.

We face deprivation and poverty in this country not as Christians or Muslims but as Nigerians.
Even though Buhari might not achieve a lot if elected I am trusting that he will at least stop the dangerous desend that we are shamelessly celebrating...

ghost1718:
i am not voting for religion, i am voting for somebody that will work for our country and buhari is not man enuf of for ME to vote for him.......... He can die anytime he is leaving life like our formal president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua who died in power.......... So i am not voting for sick man

You are absolutely correct! This election should never be about religion or tribe.

I also respect your opinion on what you think is the capability of Buhari.

I am however unable to process why you think Buhari will die if he becomes the president. It will be clearer to me if you can kindly mention just one person who will never die...

Nice attempt...

I will assume that the part where the Bishop prayed for the division of the country if God wanted it was part of the manipulated video.

Or better still the part where he said anybody that looks like a BH member should be killed and their blood spilled without recourse to appropriate autorities was also edited.

Several years ago, I kept several tapes of Bishop Oyedepo in my library, I listened to them over and over, it encouraged me and was partly responsible for my success back in school but I must admit that this rebuttal is weak and did not provide a solid response to the parts of the sermon that broke my heart.

I will agree with some other comments that I have read from many neutral people on this issue...pastors in Nigeria, be it father Mbaka, Bishop Oyedepo and others should refrain from these hate speeches.

I just wonder what would have happened if all these speeches have been credited to Imams or Islamic religious leaders.

Most Nigerians have made up their minds to vote for the candidates of their choice, those who are undecided will just follow the bandwagon on the election date, we do not need to heat up the country because of our personal views.

I do not know why some people are getting their heads worked up on the issue of this certificate.

There is already a case in the court which will finally nail the issue.

In the meantime, how will anyone expect Ghana 's WAEC to keep results of an exam written in Nigeria?

The minds of most people I have interacted with is quiet made up, no amount of smear campaign from either parties can change much...

maternal:
nigerians make me laugh. So you reserved a hotel and wrote a letter on which site you plan on seeing and you think they'll give you a visa ?

You guys should not turn visa applications to something extraordinary.

Hotel reservation and simple explanation of what you intend to do in the country would suffice for most countries with other general requirements.

How many folks abroad will send you letter of invitation that is not orginated from oluwole?

I can't belief Dr Okupe said the government does not control the media.

We might need to remind him that the FG controls at least a television station and one or two radio stations in each state, how much more control does the he and the FG want?

More like the stations are been managed in the same manner other sectors have been mismanaged.

austino677:
its exynos variant of note 3.....

Yes...you are right.

BackDatAssUp:
You don't need to physically scrutinize the documents. It is the contents that hold the secret of the forgery.


In 1961 only the western region offered a local language, Yoruba specifically.

Prior to the end of the civil war, all regions operated their own curriculum. It was Gowon's central govt that created and adopted a universal curriculum which then included other local languages into the National curriculum.

Scroll to page 9 of this academic write up on the history of the Nigerian Educational curriculum and see that from 1961 up till 1974 the only local subject entered was Yoruba.

Specifically, in 1961 there were 5,537 candidates with only 28% obviously from the western region who sat for Yoruba. No other local language was offered from 1961 till 1974

http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/journals/education/ije/sept1988/MAJOR%20TRENDS%20IN%20CURRICULUM%20DEVELOPMENT%20IN%20NIGERIA.pdf

Please share this.

Your post is making sense but can you come back to give the conclusion?

Omokoredeomoniy:
pls bros check the model well abeg cos no such model as SM-N900... we only have Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005 or Samsung GALAXY Note 3 Neo Dual SIM SM-N7502... ok. check well again. if not people will just put ur fone in an assuming china-list.

There is SM-N900 note 3. It is a variant without the LTE radio.

Jamanuka, that opening is at our Lagos office, I am not familiar with what the role is but I am guessing there might be more than one opening.

I will just advise you apply if you are qualified.

Best of luck...

Gliding:
You should also consider the voting capacity of each state. Some states have as much as thrice the voting strength of other states.

I was just intrested in how the states would vote not about the number of votes...

kglamour:
kwara state on swinging state! this is like day dreaming. APC is like unopposed party due to emergency of Ajibola as PDP governor flag bearer.
I am a kwaran and residing at kwara. maigida(incumbent gov) is from kwara south same as Ajibola, therefore kwara central(Ilorin) determine d winner. But mind u....... Sorry to say this! Ilorin won't vote for xtian! couple with powerful influence of leader(bukola saraki)

Thanks for your opinion...

co2:
@ OP I will differ a bit presidential elections differ a lot from local elections the only SW state I see APC winning is Osun. Ondo and Ekiti are for PDP. Oyo will most likely vote PDP likewise Lagos despite been ACT states Ogun is the only swig state in the region. SS and SE is clearly PDP all 11states despite having 3 APC controlled states. NC the battle ground of the 6 states I see PDP having 3 states Benue, Kogi and Plateau APC winning Kwara. Niger and Nassarawa swing states. NE Taraba is PDP Yobe is APC bornu is swing for now Adamawa is a strong hold of PDP but may also be said to be swing. Gombe and Bauchi are both PDP states but may vote APC.
NW strong hold of the APC despite having 4 PDP governors the funny thing is that PDP will still win the required 25% . APC may have popular votes but PDP has the Spread. APC needs to break the SS and SE to be able to win there are no two ways about it .

Good analysis but what do you think will swig the south west votes to PDP?

pdpfund101:
edo state for PDP? Dis is wrong and unfair. Dont compare 2011 and 12015. Big differences starting from d ability of Buhari to campaign in other regions, no structure unlike now with 14 governors. This is an easy victory for apc because they've won already in Edo, Ogun, Osun, Lagos, Kwara, Nassarawa, Adamawa, imo , kano, kaduna, bauchi,niger,yobe, borno, gombe, sokoto, katsina,zamfara,jigawa and kebbi. the swing states are Rivers, Bayelsa (dickson and sylver factors), Benue and taraba, ebonyi (elechi coded weapon except he's impeach b4 then) and FCT Even if jonathan win these swing states, it will not win with more than 60% votes in each states.

I will like to know the basis of your aguement.

tlops:
Basket mouth should never come here and open his loud mouth to insult the next president of this country. Because he had a choice... Was he not one of those singing with GEJ the other day..

Exactly my point too...Basketmouth is very free to do his business but as a person who is adored by many youths as a role model to abandon his country on a day such as this leaves less to be desired in my own opinion.

On a funny bit, the guy get sense, what a better time to earn in foreign currency when a british pound is 290 naira?

Thanks guys, I am impressed we got to the third page without getting to FP and without insults and name calling...Afterall we can have healthy discussions without calling for each others head on NL.

Jokay07:
the factors which you grounded your claims are off-putting and simply ineffective and it looks like you modified everything just to suit your the affections you have for a political party. Time has changed, we have experienced several inter party defections, re-elections have taken place with the likes of Ekiti and Osun with others even the number of Pvc collected is another important factor to consider. These and many more are factors to pull down the weight of the last general election's results. I'm not trying to be biased but even if pdp would win election, it won't be a land slide victory, the gap would be so little. Why? Beacause if the majority of S.S and S.E are going PDP, it doesn't mean that Apc won't get their own share. The Northerners are strongly behind APC and it doesn't mean that PDP won't get her own share. Now come to south west, it's mostly belongs to Apc. The advantage Apc has is that, the northern population is higher than the Eastern population so they are likely to get enough vote while the western population is a little bit higher than the Southern population[i may not be correct]. To me, the election is just like Hausa and yoruba against Igbos and Ijaws now judge it with the factors I stated above. Thats my own view

I think I just represented your thoughts with names of state and I counted them.

I also see a very close election and even though I have my biases, I tried my best to be neutra.

Adminisher:
This pro PDP thread is already against PDP. A 16:17 state ratio is a win for APC if Lagos, Kaduna and Kano are APC.

On the contrary, you can check my previous comments on NL. I am not pro PDP but slightly sympathetic to the change songs of the noisy opposition party. I have tried to be balanced in my opinion.

TippyTop:
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Elections are not won on the internet, good analysis by the OP but i think jonny boy would win with much wider margin compared to what you gave him.

Gej till Buhari becomes born again.

I am not speculating or supporting any party. I just laid my own opinions.

ganye1:
The person, Nyako, who wrote that result the last time is no longer around and it seems nobody is willing to do it for him again and even if there is anyone willing to do it for him people won't allow it this time around.

But same Nyako decamped to APC and his machinery couldn't safe him from impeachment.
Again, this is my opinion, I am far away from Adamawa state.

babadee1:
Truth is SW states have the tendency to vote en bloc more than any other region and Jonathan was the de facto consensus Yoruba candidate in the last elections. Behind the scenes ACN abandoned their own presidential candidate and threw their support to Jonathan. This time around it's Buhari and he has a running mate very popular in the SW at the moment, the local dynamics in that region has changed completely. I won't be surprised if GEJ loses in Ekiti state as well.

You are right...that is why I also think Ekiti is a swing state.

softwareman:
The kwara state house of assembly was 100 percent PDP in 2011, now it is 100 percent APC. local politics can swing by 100 percent.
I still insist that your projections are based on a completely wrong premise. Too much has changed in most states local politics and too many new factors will dominate this coming election.
YOU CANNOT USE 2011 FOR 2015!

I am not saying things are still like they are, but I think the changes are not enough to swing the gap that already exists.

All the political bigwits that you mentioned have not been tested at the polls.

This is just my opinion.

bappahman:
Keep counting, bayelsa is a state but with less than 400k voters. None of the core north states have less than a million voters with PVC, while bayelsa, enugu, abia all have less than one million.

You are right but I think the elections is too close to call.

raumdeuter:
So why didnt you extend that guide to Kwara and others?

APC won elections in Oyo, Ogun and Lagos states but Kwara decamped to APC.

politifact:
poor analysis

Thanks, but what are your points?