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Der is also Geraldine someting. Great acts of d nigeria screen. God bless deir departd souls

May his soul find peace ind great beyond

Series22: what about DON JAZZY sef?

Dey re nt related

na 2day? nothing de happen oga police!!!

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Anoda child ind forum.


Dis is a massive animal esp wen u consider the kinda bats we saw ind village wen growin up. I'm not sure if a bat can kill in real life but ma villa peeps used to refer to it as a witch in those fairy old days.lol

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Anoda child ind forum.


Dis is a massive animal esp wen u consider the kinda bats we saw ind village growin up. I'm not sure if a bat can kill in real life but ma villa peeps used to refer to it as a witch in those fairy old days.lol

Hahahaha, it wil turn to a self-service-urination fo any one usin dis kind

dsolo: Congrats Edmund

Why quote d entire newswrite-up to mke dis point?

dis story is false...RMD share 1m naira monthly?? C'mon dont tel me u believe dis poo

So sad... RIP

Tuface used to be Bigga but on 'current form' its dbanj by far. I think u shud compare dbanj & psquare as dese two av bn able to enmass mor fun base dan tubaba ova d yrs.

Tupac and Big

Happy bday Don toh Jazzy

Which the entertainment website claims was originally their idea for ‘Take Banana’ video by Ice Prince.


U mean D'prince

J.Martins fo me... dude is very popular in east africa as well as he killed 'e no easy' wit p.square. U nid to see white girls singing and dancing dat song

Its completely useless to create additional states wen d money we have is nt enough to tke care of d existin 37 states... Oh Nigeria! If only we can av beneficial priorities

[quote author=Black_Oyinbo]In as much as this is true, Nigerians will see this as another beautiful way to loot public funds.

There have been countless registration exercises (National ID, NCC registration,éven Drivers Licence registration), yet we cant be identified.

Hope this is the last major registration.[/quote]Im tired of different verifications in dis country...Wen re we eva goin to get tings right?We dont have an accurate population census since d sham dey carried out in 06, no genuine government data base for citizenry. I weep for nigeria!

MAKURDI—The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has said that over 100 million Nigerians cannot be properly identified as citizens due to non availability of identification database in the country.

This was disclosed, yesterday, by the Director of Information Technology at NIMC, Alhaji Aliya Aziz, at a one-day public forum, in Makurdi, the Benue State capital to sensitise the people of the state on the new national identification number project.

Aziz further said over 75 per cent of the identification cards in circulation in Nigeria were fake as there were no means of authenticating their genuineness.

He said: “Over 100 million of Nigerians have no identification either by phone or any other means; and of those we can be identified, we discovered that 75 per cent of the identification cards in circulation in the country are fake because there are no means of authenticating their genuineness.”

He, however, noted that with the new identification project, Nigerians would be properly identified and documented irrespective of age, sex, religion and social status.

In his remark, Director General of NIMC, Mr Chris Oyemenam, said when fully implimented, the newidentification project would co-exist with the old National Identification Card adding: ”But after a period of time, we will phase out the former, and even direct banks not to render services to people who do not have the national identification number.”

In his speech, the Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, who was represented by his deputy, Chief Steven Lawani, urged the commission to ensure the establishment of tamper proof database for the country.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/over-100m-nigerians-cant-be-properly-identified-nimc/

ABUJA — Following a directive by President Goodluck Jonathan that the $180 million Halliburton bribery scam be reopened and the principal suspects re-arrested for prosecution, Vanguard has uncovered a list of some of the foreign banks through which huge sums running into millions of dollars were wired to prominent Nigerians.

According to sources, such principal suspects like a former military head of state (names withheld), used the American Express Bank Annex at the Towers World Financial Centre, New York, the Seaway National Bank, Chicago, and the Bank of New York to wire over $37.5 million of the bribe money.

Accounts used by the former head of state between 2002 and 2003 include A/C No 187765 Chips VID 250517, Maizubi Holdings, Minna, A/C No 0074952045, Rooting No 071001216, Foundation Inc. A/C No 9800263826 Swift/Sort Code GHBAGRAA001 and A/C No 0039342923-21 Rooting No 052001533.

Another principal suspect through who the British/Israeli lawyer, Jeffrey Tesler wired huge sums to prominent Nigerians is Air Vice Marshal Abdul Dominic Bello and the banks/ account numbers through which over $68 million were wired are Lloyds Bank of London, A/C No 736827, Tri-Star, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, London, Tri-Star, American Express Bank, A/C No 2101653,Tri-Star, HSBC, A/C No 31505024, and Lloyds Bank, A/C No 0737041, Tri-Star.

It was gathered that these huge sums of bribe money were shared with the active knowledge and connivance of the Company Secretary of the NLNG then, Mrs. Sena Anthony, hence her arrest, detention and interrogation for days during the first investigation and subsequent conclusion that she is key to unraveling the complete list of the bribery beneficiaries.

Concerning another former head of state (names withheld), Vanguard learnt that a total of about $39 million was collected on his behalf by cronies over a period of time using a construction giant as go between and purporting that the huge sums of money were invested in a prominent political party whereas, only a minute fraction actually got to the party.

The source disclosed that Malabo Oil owned by a former minister of petroleum benefitted from the bribery scam to the tune of about $2 million; Umaru Shinkafi, through the American Express Bank in London and in a Joint account he operated with Ashiru Bisiji Aliyu, got wired  $1. 65 million.

For the brother of former head of state, Abdukadir Abacha, various sums amounting to about $13 million through account names—Headway Eng. Ltd. A/C No 68579222; Strategic Ind. Ltd-A/c No 76434366; and Action Invt. Intern Ltd.

Ibrahim Aliyu, a former federal permanent secretary, among many other transactions, used Union Bank Plc London office at Copt Avenue with account No 02101/01/010 312/Swift Address UBNIGB31A.

Mr. MG Bakari owner of SHERWOOD used various accounts acting for himself and a former head of state to wire huge sums and they include Bank HSBC, Euston Road, London, A/C No 39067293 Sort Code 40-04-07, Swift Code MIDOGB; A/C No 024002112100; Monument Trust, Channels Island, Sherwood A/C No 024002112001 through which the sum of Euro 664, 020. 83 were wired to Sherwood.

Recall that the decision of President Jonathan to order the re-opening of the case of Halliburton bribery scandal involving prominent Nigerians, for prosecution followed the insistence by the US authorities that the about $130 million presently in the US government coffers, will only be returned to Nigeria if the prime suspects are prosecuted.

Consequently, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, directed the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge Force Criminal Investigations Department to resuscitate the investigative report of the CP Ali Amodu-led panel that investigated the scandal and submitted its report in 2010.

Meanwhile, Vanguard gathered that the whereabouts of the $26. 5 million returned by construction giants, Julius Berger, in a plea bargain arrangement, to avoid prosecution, is yet to be located and handed over to the police, as nobody, including the police, knows where the money was paid or deposited.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/halliburton-how-millions-of-dollars-bribe-money-were-wired/

ABUJA — Hopes for the creation of new states at the end of the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly were dashed yesterday.

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu speaking at a press conference to flag off the forthcoming Senate zonal public hearing on the review of the constitution affirmed that the National Assembly on its own cannot create new states.


Senator Ekweremadu who is also chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, SCRC said that those desirous of creating new states would have to kick-start the process carrying along other stakeholders in the National Assembly, State House of Assembly and Local Government Areas in the affected areas.

“So, I don’t think that the South-East will expect either myself or any person to announce that they are going to get a state tomorrow or next tomorrow because that is not what the constitution says. They will naturally follow the provisions which the constitution has provided,” Ekweremadu said.

The Deputy Senate President further explained that the National Assembly could only advise on how many states can possibly be created based on what the system can sustain. He affirmed that the constitution specifically in Sections 8 and 9, ruled out any specific power for the National Assembly in the creation of new states.

56 requests received

Ekweremadu nevertheless disclosed that 56 requests had been received so far for the creation of new states, adding that 241 memoranda have also been received from Nigerians to update those carried over from the Sixth Senate.

He also assured that the work of the committee would be concluded by the third quarter of 2013 well ahead of politicking that could shape the 2015 general elections.

The Deputy Senate President who noted that having held the national public hearing, the Senate was now moving the process to the people with the public hearing simultaneously in the six geopolitical zones. He said that the North Central will hold in Makurdi; North East in Gombe; North West, Sokoto; South East, Enugu; South South, Calabar and South West, Lagos.

Senator Ekweremadu’s position that the Constitution review will not come up with new states, is coming on the heels of requests from Nigerians for state creation both at the National public Hearing organised by the Senate in Abuja last October and the one day public sessions organised last Saturday at the 360 Federal Constituencies by the House of Representatives.

Constitution review won’t result in state creation

Ekweremadu said: “on the issue of state creation, I want to take the two together. I was in Enugu on Sunday where I met with my constituents regarding the constitution amendment exercise and I made it clear to them that Nigerians are confusing things and that is why anyone cannot begin to expect that at the end of this exercise, somebody will come up to announce that states have been created.

“That is not going to happen because the constitution does not make such provisions. So, the issue of state creation is completely different from what we are doing because if you look at sections 8 and 9, they are two different issues.

“So, any group that wants a state can necessarily start the process without the committee. It is something that can run its own course without involving the committee.

“What is going on really is that Nigerians are making their requests for the creation of states based on the fact that they believe that these two committees can come up with criteria that will favour them. We are supposed to make laws for the good governance of this country and in doing so, as part of this exercise, what we can naturally do is that, we have 56 requests for state creation. As responsible citizens of Nigeria, we can advise our colleagues on how many states that can possibly be created and that the system can sustain.

“If, for instance, we say, well, in the circumstance, the Nigerian system can contain maybe four states, three or eight states, we can possibly advise on how these states would be allocated to the various parts of the country.

‘’Then, naturally, the people who are requesting for states will still go and generate their requests and submit to the National Assembly and then generate resolutions of the requisite authorities, the council, the House of Assembly and it will still come up to the National Assembly, the Senate and the House will vote. Then, it will still go for referendum after which it will go to the House of Assembly of all the states in Nigeria.

State agitatiors must follow procedures

“So, even if you are requesting for a state in Sokoto, the House of Assembly in Abia State will also vote for it. I hope this has afforded me the opportunity to explain this so that nobody will say I came back from Abuja without bringing a state. Anybody expecting a state must follow all the procedures and I think we need to do more enlightenment for Nigerians to understand this process clearly because if those accusing any person of hidden agenda understand all these, they will not be worrying themselves. They will go and do more home work because if you look at Section 8, it is like passing a big snake through the eye of a needle. It is a cumbersome process and it just has to pass through that process because that is what the constitution says.”

On Kwankwanso’s allegation

Responding to insinuations by Governor Rabiu Kwankwanso of Kano State that he had an agenda to impose an additional state of the South-East on his colleagues in the National Assembly, Ekweremadu said : “I have addressed this issue before and I don’t intend to join issues with my friend, the governor of Kano State. If I have differences with him in respect of the conduct of what we are doing, I would like to discuss that with him directly but for the purpose of your question, we should read Section 9 (1) on the process of constitution amendment let us see if it is something an individual can have his own agenda.

“It is obvious that the process of constitution amendment is so rigorous that 109 Senators are involved, 360 members of House of Representatives are involved and all the members of the State Assemblies in 36 states are involved. So, there is certainly no way an individual can come up with an agenda and expect to market that agenda or get it through. It is practically unthinkable.

“So, I don’t know where he got that idea from and if he is thinking of state creation, I want to refer you to Section 8 of the Constitution to see how states are created and see whether it is something any individual can wake up and say that states have been created.

“So, you can see how difficult it is to even create a state. For any person to say someone has an agenda, I don’t think that person is being fair because you will require the votes of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Assembly, Councillors and the ordinary people from where the state would be created. It is such a cumbersome process and I don’t think it is something any person can sit down at the National Assembly or anywhere and say he has created.

“So, we have to make this clear. Certainly, neither myself, the Deputy Speaker, the Senate President nor indeed the Speaker has any hidden agenda and I can say the same thing for all the 109 Senators and 360 members. There is no hidden agenda because it is practically impossible

“The Constitution is clear on how it would be done and it must be done transparently. You cannot do anything hiding under the table. You can see all the efforts we have made.”

“The House members have taken this to all the 360 federal constituencies and the Senate is taking it to 109 Senatorial Districts. In addition to this, we have done public hearing at the national level and we are doing public hearing at the six geo-political zones. If we have any hidden agenda, why do I have to go through all these troubles?

‘’I don’t think it is fair to me or to any person to accuse us of having hidden agenda but in summary, there is no hidden agenda. For the committees both at the Senate and the House of Representatives, every state is represented and all the female Senators are represented in addition to those who are representing their states. So, you can see the number.

‘’We made sure that every interest group is protected in the exercise. So, there is no issue of any state being short changed or any zone being short changed. The headship of the committee is vested on the position of Deputy Senate president or Deputy Speaker.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/n-assembly-cant-create-new-states-ekweremadu/

It is indeed better to try a procedure and see to its failure than not to try at all. It is my belief that late Yar Adua would have done a better work in handling BH than the incumbent.
Not err1 understand the language of peace but wen it comes to use of force pipo will fret and adbere to wateva rules they need to observe. I smell Obj is up to something diffa and his political calculation is changing, Senegal and now Warri...Sigh!.Gej put urself togeda.Intelligient OBJ...we miss u in power cos its obvious that you had good intentions during your tenure even tho u follow chop small of our kwuli kwuli

WARRI— Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, blamed the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan for allowing the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to grow into a monster that is now uncontrollable by his failure to act on a report submitted to the government.

The former president who spoke at a lecture delivered by Professor Bolaji Akinyemi to mark the 40th anniversary of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s call to ministry at the Word of Life Bible Church, Warri in Delta State, also tasked Nigerians to choose between a strong leader who might adopt unusual approach to tackle a problem or a weak leader who will leave the problem to fester.

Answering a question from a pastor from Borno State on how he could forge any form of unity with those who are perpetuating violence in the northern part of the country, Obasanjo went emotional, saying: “Boko Haram is an ill wind that blows nobody no good.”

He proceeded to narrate his experience when he went on a fact-finding mission to Borno State which was regarded as the base of Boko Haram.

He said: “They Boko Haram stated their grievances and I promised to relay them to the authorities in power, because that was the best I could do. I did report. But my fear at that time is still my fear till today. When you have a sore and fail to attend to it quickly, it festers and grows to become something else.

“Whichever way, you just have to attend to it. Don’t leave it unattended to. On two occasions I had to attend to the problem I faced at that time. I sent soldiers to a place and 19 of them were killed. If I had allowed that to continue, I will not have authority to send security whether police, soldier and any force any where again. So, I had to nip it in the bud and that was the end of that particular problem,” he said.

He was, however, careful to admit that all problems might not require that kind of treatment. According to him, “if you say you don’t want a strong leader who can have all characteristics of leaders including God fearing, then have a weak leader and the rest of the problem is yours.”

He argued that “the beauty of democracy is that power rests in the people, and every elected person would seek your votes to come back; if you don’t want him, he won’t come back. He noted that people had been saying that he brought President Goodluck Jonathan but what they have failed to admit is that he didn’t give all the votes that brought the man to power.

The erstwhile president therefore charged Nigerians to stand up and take their destinies in their own hands, reminding them of a Yoruba adage, “if you say it the way it is, you will die; if you don’t say anything at all, you will die, why don’t you say it and die?”

Akinyemi blasts former leaders

Earlier in his lecture, titled: “The Nigeria of my Dream: Towards the consolidation of national unity”, Professor Akinyemi had, among others, said emphatically that the way we can have a consensus in the country is to have a national conference.

The former External Affairs Minister was appalled by the hypocrisy shown by ex-presidents and ex-heads of state who had continued to preach what they did not practice while they were in office. “How does one explain revelations that from 1960, outflow of funds from Nigeria had got worse and yet the sanctimonious speeches about anti-corruption continue to rent the air,” Akinyemi asked, arguing that current attempts to amend the constitution would not solve the socio-political problems troubling the nation.

According to him, “we will continue to amend the constitution and further amend and there will be no solution until we all agree to sit down at a round table to write a constitution that Nigerians can truly identify with.”

The professor had argued that if, “at independence in 1960, the political elite had reached a broad consensus on the fundamental values that should be the overriding principles of governance in order to make life more abundant for all, to cater for the poor, to increase opportunities for all, to provide safety net for the widow and the orphan and to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, between the North and the South and between the haves and the have nots, they would have laid a solid foundation for stability in Nigeria.”

Obasnjo oppose SNC

But Chief Obasanjo disagreed with the argument people had often preferred to canvas for a sovereign national conference, saying there would be no room big enough to accommodate every Nigerian at a roundtable conference to find a national consensus, noting that he would rather want to see a Nigeria where justice, fairness and equity reign supreme.

“Only a mad man will fail to acknowledge that there is high level corruption in the country”, he said, stressing that the same World Bank that is always releasing figures about Nigeria’s poor state of economic condition, recommended a structural adjustment programme for the nation and nearly all the eggheads in the country bought it even when the political leaders at the time said it would be detrimental to the nation.

Obasanjo argued that the World Bank had been talking about corruption in the country and “I challenged them to tell me the names of the Nigerians who had stashed monies abroad but they were not forthcoming except for the case of the Abacha loot. We recovered a large chunk of that loot and they told us there was still over $1 billion from that family but my successors did not pursue any further.

SAP made us poorer — OBJ

“What I am saying is that it is the same World Bank that came to us with structural adjustment and some of us said it would make us poorer, you (Akinyemi) were in government at the time. We went for structural adjustment and we were poorer. And then they came up with an excuse that we didn’t do it the way they wanted us to do it. Many years later, they accepted that we were right and they were wrong,” Obasanjo stated.

Emphasising the need to tackle corruption in the country, the ex-head of state narrated an experience he had in Anambra State, saying the government signed a contract for turnkey project for carpets for $10 million, the money was paid but no job done and when I asked they referred me to the terms of the contract.

“I called World Bank, they said go and look at the agreement, and the agreement says they are not responsible for how the money is spent. The Word Bank then told me that is the agreement and there is nothing we can do.

“I don’t say that we are not corrupt, we are. But are we doing something about it? Once, people said, the fear of Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom. Then what happened to Ribadu? Then there was no longer any wisdom,” he stated.

Obasanjo also disagreed with Akinyemi on federal character. While the political science professor wants the nation to dump federal character as a means of choosing leaders, Obasanjo was of the opinion that every nation of the world has its own peculiar way of addressing its peculiar problems.

“I don’t see anything wrong with federal character if we want to wedge this country together because if you want to enter a place where there are 40 people and they require somebody and you are Urhobo and at the back you find somebody speaking Urhobo, the tendency is for you to go for that man. It’s natural. So there is some form of security in the application of federal character,” he said.

On the location of strategic and military assets which the lecturer argued are located on the Zaria-Kaduna axis out of mutual suspicion, and recommended that the nation must adopt the South African model of locating military formations across the nation, Obasanjo said: “If you look at the deployment of troops and formations in the country, it is fairly well spread.

“When I joined the army, there were five battalions, Enugu, Abeokuta, Ibadan and two were stationed in Kaduna. That was done by the colonial masters. Immediately after independence, our political leaders decided that there must be a battalion in Jos, Lagos, but as at today after the civil war there is a battalion in Warri and some other places.

“When we were doing that, we took into account the strategic interest of this country and don’t forget that there are certain types of trainings that you can get in certain parts of the country,” he pointed out.

Obasanjo, Akinyemi and the two other discussants including Elder Gamaliel Onosode, and Prof. Jim Omatseye extolled the virtues of Pastor Oritsejafor, praying that the 40 years he had spent in ministry would be like the 40 years of tutelage of Moses.“Your achievements in the last 40 years must be regarded as mostly time of preparations and now you are beginning again. Those of your flock who love you and believe in you will be with you all the way through,” they said .



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/boko-haram-obj-blames-jonathan/

[quote author=Itoroetti ]Thank u Dangote,tank u the richest african man,thank u 4d innovative ideas.am nt from Edo,but this man vision suprises me on a daily basic.now with this plant being built there,other biz like banks,radio n tv stations,telecom companies,etc,wil find their way to cluster around that environment,thereby creating more jobs.am hapi 4 him.i wish Adenuga cud venture in Digital satelite to distort Dstv monopoly cos he is d only person that can do that.if doubtng,ask mtn and econet.[/quote]Well said brof...im full of appreciatn to dis man cos dis will open up our tourism potentials in Agenebode. Pipo u need to visit my homeland to see the serenity and calmness of a lovely town with a flowing river niger that show a beautiful view

IYA NGBALI: Why not my village?good one anyway

so sorry my friend,I appn to be lucky dis time... Agenebode is my hometown

Ikengawo: Let's stop celebrating mediocricy.
The song was trash, has no point and is not memorable or noteworthy
the video is only shot with a standard 2012 HD camera, that doesn't make it quality, there are youtube videos with the same resolution so don't be wow'd by shininess. Look at the details. The woman 'smashes' the TV but they use a cheap CGI 'glass break' effect because they couldn't afford to smash an actual TV.
the woman 'smashes' the car window and it's the same thing. Mind you it's all completely pointless so you can't say the video was 'quality' there was nothing special about it.

The only reason I would say any of these things is because im worried at the level of 'america wanna-be' the nigerian music and movie industry is taking. We were able to be #1 in africa because for the first time we were showing the world africa. I don't think there has been a video shot in africa this year and the enthuasiasm for the music and movies are dying because instead of being africa we've become the cheap version of America. Sad thing is now we appeal neither to americans or nigerians. I hope this is just a foolish trend. These artists are getting arrogant and thinking anything they put out is gold. If you look at this years biggest hits

Kukere
Ile Ijo
Chop My Money
Pakuromo
Dami Duro
Nwa Baby

they still sounded very african, looked african, and used africans as the stars of the video.
This is a disappointment.

well sed brov...

manny4life: Em how will this work, will the airlines lease the plane or will the govt have a stake in the airlines, please how will this work? Besides, how and why is the govt planning to float "FOUR MORE AIRLINES"? What has gone wrong in this country? Govt was unable to manage Nigerian Air, now they want to increase the wahala by x5? Na wa o, Nigerian govt, you people are too much.

I think dey ar tryin to allow 4 other carriers to join d existing airlines

This is a welcome development and will be glad to hear of a new national carrier as well... It gives the citizenry pride to fly her own national airline