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rhymz:bi.tch did my sucker punch hurt? have you lost the will to live? thats what the truth does it stings like hell. let me correct a few misconceptions - i am far from frustrated - i run my own business, live in a lovely apartment and drive a really nice car, in a million years you will never be within breathing distance of me. as a matter of fact you will be lucky to live beyond the age of 48 years as that is the life expectancy for men in nigeria and by the time your beloved okonjo iweala has finished "reforming your economy" you will be lucky if you can afford to eat one meal a day, pay your rent and put fuel in your car (thats if you have one) therefore between two of us who is more likely to be frustrated? second correction - i was actually born here in the UK - therefore i have every right as a full fledged citizen of this country to criticise its appalling foreign policy and the effect it has had on the rest of the world, again your inability to appreciate my arguments says more about your standard of education and life exposure than anything else because nothing i say here is new, in fact if you were an enlightened person you would not refer to them as conspiracy theories but simply facts - because that is what they are!! You keep displaying your pathetic low intellect every time you post on this forum and it is really pitiful, i feel for you bro. i dont need a crystal ball to know that you are filled with a lot of pent up frustration, bitterness and anger at how poverty is destroying your life, you wish you could swap places with me, infact you would do anything including selling your family members to be able to be in my position but like a typical delusional nigerian you keep lying to yourself that you are better off than those of us over here. keep hustling, keep suffering and smiling and maybe one day god will come down from heaven and deliver you out of the hands of your criminal govt, oh by the way how are you preparing for the fuel subsidy removal by your hearthrob okonjo iweala? please keep me posted as i hear the cost of living in nigeria is about to skyrocket, try not to have a seizure after reading this ![]() |
excuses excuses, but what else would she have used to defend her position which is looking increasingly untenable. here is a woman that is about to deal nigerians a very big blow with the fuel subsidy removal but first she is trying to soften you up so that you dont notice the intense pain you are about to pass through, nigerians the most delusional people on the planet. |
By Darlington Ojy Onwukwe President Jonathan and his World Bank trained and packaged Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the way “forward“for Nigeria have agreed on their “expert opinion” that in order to liberate Nigeria out of its economic hellfire, the country has been undergoing for over 22 years, the total removal of fuel subsidy, the government pays on each liter of fuel is inevitable. Their argument according to the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency is that the landing cost of a liter of petrol is N129.21, the margin for transporters and marketers is N15.49; the expected pump price is N144.70; while the official pump price is N65. Iweala claimed that the federal government pays N79.70 as subsidy on each liter of petrol for local consumption and went further to say that local fuel consumption is about 32 million liters daily and N2.6bn is daily paid as subsidy. Trying to gather justification and support for her claims, she told reporters thus: “There has been a lot of debate on fuel subsidies and we have all resolved that (removing it) is a good direction to go on. You have to leave it to us to decide when it is prudent to do so”. This call by the honorable minister for the removal of fuel subsidy to me has a striking resemblance with the callous and anti-intellectual IMF and World Bank packaged economic programs that are always a mark of bad luck to the Third World especially Africa. I do not know if there is a spiritual or criminal connotation or conspiracy behind the activities of World Bank and IMF but all I know is that these cartels lack the capacity to direct our economic programs. The World Bank and the IMF do not work or implement their programs strictly based on the sociology and practical economic assessment of the people the claim they want to assist. The problematic economic situation Nigeria is facing today originated when one soldier who calls himself Babangida in the mid 80s took the suggestion of World Bank and her sister IMF and introduced the infamous Structural Adjustment program SAP in Nigeria. As if that was not enough, he went further and obtained a loan from the suicidal doors of the infamous International Monetary Fund IMF. The effects of these suicidal moves by IBB and his World Bank and IMF conspirators are still largely visible in Nigeria today. Just recently, the IMF in its dubious and anti-Nigerian attitude, called for more devaluation of the naira so that things would get "better" for us. The controversial CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido could not hide his hot feelings as he described the call as a policy that "is not based on sound economic logic." It is on this note concerning programs not based on "sound economic logic" our "experts," made up of the World Bank Group, IMF and their Nigerian agents and technocrats without any iota of patriotism impose on us after undergoing trainings from foreign institutions I am going to discuss here. With about 32 million liters of petrol consumed daily across the country, it means that the government is paying about N2.6bn as subsidy every day. We do not need an economic expert from the moon, sun, Washington or Paris to visit us and inform us that the Nigerian economy is land-transport based. Most of the economic policies that work outside Nigeria in some developed countries will never work here because of some certain reasons political and economic. So too are some economic setbacks outside the shores of this country. For example, when the world was undergoing global economic meltdown, prices of goods and services especially the cost of buildings overseas, fell drastically while in Nigeria, everything remained high. I am deeply shocked that Okonjo-Iweala with all her exposure, sound education and position has come home with her World Bank-like policies that will totally dehumanize Nigerians the more and make them appear like slaves in their own land. If by the grace of the devil this subsidy is removed, it means that the pump price of petrol will be sold at N150 or thereabout and this will totally open all sizes of Pandora’s boxes against the masses of this great nation. The immediate effect is that the controversial minimum wage state governments are struggling to pay their workers will become totally useless and workers will embark on an industrial action making fresh demands for at least N50, 000 minimum wages. Nigeria, according to Dr Reuben Abati, the presidential spokesman, is Africa's largest oil exporter. Personally, I never knew this but all I know is that Nigeria is Africa’s highest oil importer to the extent that on 10 August 2011, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic told state house reporters in Abuja that his country would be exporting fuel to Nigeria by the end of 2011. Do we need to shout Holy Ghost fire in order to note that Niger Republic is one of the poorest countries in the world and Nigeria is the 6th largest OPEC member? The estimate is that over 80% of Nigeria's refined petroleum consumption needs of over 40 million liters (totaling 10.57 million gallons) a day, are imported. Why? The refineries are not working for over 10 years now and the problem is not that there is no money to rebuild them over the issue of corruption and mismanagement. Dele Giwa, one of the brightest and greatest journalists Nigeria had ever had, shortly before his parcel-bomb assassination on Sunday October 19, 1986, took a critical look on the high rate of shocks and surprises Nigerians undergo daily and wrote: “Nigerians have been shocked to the state of un- shockability.” The journalist was right. Nigerians are able to absorb all these shocks and surprises because our shock absorbers are very strong and reliable. Be that as it may, no matter how strong these shocks may be, it is going to lose its strength and reliability someday. Something within me tells me that this period, if the threat by the honorable minister is carried out, the shock absorbers will completely become useless. The only good thing Nigerians enjoy from the government since 1960 is oil subsidy. Besides this, the discovery of oil in Nigeria has brought and deposited untold hardship, massacres, laziness by government officials and political contractors, fraud, corruption and genocide against the destiny of our collective existence and patriotism. There is no Nigerian either living or dead that had not in one way or the other paid a very tragic price for the curse and discovery of oil in Nigeria. It is not so in other OPEC nations where citizens enjoy social securities. We are the only OPEC member nation that increases fuel prices often and the only OPEC member nation as well that usually suffers from domestic petroleum scarcity. We lack security of lives and jobs, our hospitals, schools, housing and other forms of social developments cannot compete with international standards. Yet, a government official, a Nigerian for that matter and beyond all, a mother is threatening to remove the only source of happiness her children enjoy in order to “move” the country forward. This is just like telling someone with a stomach upset that you will treat her by giving her a cup of acid to drink and after some burning sensation inside her stomach, everything will stabilize and she will be normal again. Successive governments in Nigeria have always developed the trick of giving us good reasons any time they wanted to commit one evil or another against our collective destiny. At last what happened? They would shamelessly come to give explanations while their theories failed. Some would tell you that their hands were tied and others would say they were under pressure, they should be ignored. Right from the days of IBB, General Abacha, Obasanjo and till date, we, the innocent masses have always been fed with several inferior and unintelligent arguments “not based on sound economic logic." and explanations on why we should embrace hardship as a way of life while they would be busy fixing the country. They brutal truth is that they are not fixing any country; they are in Abuja enjoying everything absolutely free of charge. The argument of Okonjo-Iweala is that we are spending a huge sum of money to subsidize fuel. Can a parent tell his children, “I am spending a lot of money in training and feeding you, I think the best option now is to allow you feed yourselves and pay your school fees so that things will normalize for the family?” Madam Minister, you are aware that America predicted that Nigeria would totally disintegrate by 2015, (I pray the prediction will never come to pass) please do not act a lead or minor role that may in any way lead to the disintegration of our beloved Nigeria through your World Bank and IMF-coated reforms that are “not based on sound economic logic.”. To assist you to deliver a good service to Nigeria let me offer you some solutions on the way forward. Precisely in November 2009, the Venezuelan Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. E. F. Arrundell, granted an interview to a Nigerian newspaper where he really exemplified the sympathy OPEC countries have for Nigeria. Please hear him out; "In Venezuela, since 1999, we’ve never had a raise in fuel price. We only pay $1.02 to fill the tank. What I pay for with N12, 000 here (Nigeria); in Venezuela I’ll pay N400. What is happening is simple. Our President (Hugo Chavez) decided one day to control the industry, because it belongs to the Venezuelans. If you don’t control the industry, your development will be in the hands of the foreigners." Venezuelans have no business talking of fuel subsidy because they know what the mathematics and politics of petroleum business demand. For over 10 years, no increment in fuel price! Can you imagine that? Venezuela is an oil-producing country like Nigeria. My younger brother has been living in Ivory Coast since 2001, he said from the day he moved into the poor country to settle, till date, the country had never had a need to increase fuel price and yet Ivory Coast is an oil poor importing nation. My view here is that there is an urgent need for you to judiciously use your good office especially now that President Jonathan had conferred on you the Senior Prefect of ministers and look into corruption and mismanagement and give us a new Nigeria. You cannot do this by inflicting more pains on Nigerians by the removal of fuel subsidy, citing reasons that Nigeria spends a lot of money to give her citizens fuel to move around. According to the Sunday Punch of August 28 2011, Nigeria has refining capacity of 45,000 barrels daily and a total of N 72.8b is spent monthly to subsidize fuel. Big amount of money right? Now hear this: Nuhu Ribadu, the former boss of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, while delivering Professor Wole Soyinka’s 76th Birthday Lecture, not only said that Nigerian leaders were lazy but he also told his audience that politicians alone loot $10 billion monthly from Nigeria. He did not tell his audience the stupendous amount of money civil servants loot as well. During his tenure as the EFCC boss, Ribadu told us that he recovered billions of US dollars from looters including the Abacha loot. Till date, no one knows where the recovered funds have been put into. Also just recently, 22.5 million pounds sterling from the Isle of Jersey in the United Kingdom were recovered and sent back to Nigeria by President Jonathan according to Reuben Abati. Where are these monies? From these pictures, every Obinna, Segun and Musa will agree with me that the problem we have today is not and will never be the removal of fuel subsidy. The problem is corruption and laziness. Too bad that all these funds are released from the ministry of finance and that is where the Senior Prefect is manning. The number one solution is that you and GEJ should use your experiences (if you want Nigerians and the world) to take you seriously and fight both official and unofficial corruption. The issue of the removal of fuel subsidy or calling for one single term of six years should not take a front page at this time. Another problem you have to face is the total waste of government resources on trivialities by government officials. A friend of mine who went close to a state governor in the South East confided in me that commissioners usually forget their girl friends and mistresses in hotel rooms always, on the bill of public funds before or after taking them out for shopping. This is applicable to federal officials and some “home-boy” governors and senators who have a long list of personal assistants and official drivers who feed on the economy daily. If President Jonathan who has just spent a 100 days in office can afford to recover such a huge amount of money, what do you think will happen in the next one year in view of the recovery of public funds if actions and programs are sincerely implemented? Finally, madam Minister, you should team up with the Ministry of Petroleum and set up a committee that will oversee the revamping of our broken refineries. This committee will work and conclude its works within three months and from now till the next one year, our refineries will come back to life. The option of removing the subsidy on fuel is suicidal and will seriously dent the image of the presidency, your own personal image and the entire nation. The consequence is that, the masses will revolt against the operation or civilian dictatorship because by then, the shock absorbers have completely lost reliability and strength. Finally, I have some few questions to ask: if the fuel subsidy is removed, which will surely make life more difficult for Nigerians, is there any guarantee that the economy will bounce back and prices of goods and services will drastically drop? If the fuel subsidy is removed, will that ensure that there will never be fuel scarcity in Nigeria again? If the fuel subsidy is removed, where is the assurance that there will be no increment in the pump price of fuel again in Nigeria? If the fuel subsidy is removed, can Nigerians have the opportunity to enjoy for the first time, what other citizens from other OPEC countries enjoy? And finally, if the fuel subsidy is removed, will it create employment and address other social ills such as armed robbery we are witnessing today as a nation? These questions are begging for answers. Robert Greene, the dreaded American writer, strategist and a master in the art of social engineering and political mathematics in his book, The 48 Laws of Power indirectly spoke to Nigerian government officials: Never underestimate the hidden conservationism of those around you. It is powerful and entrenched. Never let the seductive charm of an idea cloud your reason. Just as you cannot make people see the world your way, you cannot wrench them into the future with painful changes. They will rebel. If reform is necessary, anticipate the reaction against it and find ways to disguise the change and sweeten the poison.” Finally and under similar circumstance, Jimmy Cliff, a Jamaican human rights activist who used music to fight social ills, looked at the world as far back as 1976 and wrote a song titled, Re-make the World. In the song Jimmy Cliff sang: So many people are suffering, so many people are sad. So little people got everything while so many people got nothing: remake the world with love and happiness” I have a great sympathy for Jimmy Cliff and Dele Giwa, Jimmy did his song when the world was just a social virgin and crime-free while Dele Giwa wrote his article when Nigerians had had no shocks at all. I really wonder how Jimmy will be feeling now that the world is Going Mad. No doubt Delel Giwa will be angry in his grave. There is a need to remake Nigeria with love and happiness and not with pain and tears. Darlington Ojy Onwukwe is the founder , Crusade for Positive Change CPC and he can be reached on onwukwed68@yahoo.com http://saharareporters.com/article/will-okonjo-iweala-develop-or-under-develop-nigeria |
Gutless, directionless, hopeless - those are the adjectives that describe Goodluck Jonathan, nigeria will now go down in history along with other shameless african nations as a black nation that recognised a racist regime which kills nigerian citizens. |
bull.sh.it - gadaffi's men are no where near nigeria |
Amnesty International Ignores Atrocities Against Black People in Libya Posted: 2011/09/07 From: Mathaba A war must be waged against Amnesty International by human rights activists world wide HeyU Quality Ads by Karen Marlow 06/09/2011 The "triumphant" rebels have been targeting supposed loyalists in the territories they control. There have been reports of the mass abuse of black people, who are suspected of being mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa on Gaddafi’s payroll. Among the victims are nationals from Chad, Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria, many of whom came to Libya as guest workers and had no chance to flee when the violence erupted in the country. “Anyone with dark skin, they say he's a mercenary,” the Emirate newspaper The National cites a local resident as saying. Some reports claim hundreds of black people have been rounded up, arrested or even summarily executed in the first days after Tripoli was captured. Another unlikely group suspected of being Gaddafi stooges is 23 Ukrainians, who were arrested for allegedly being mercenary snipers. Ukraine had been a major source for professionals such as doctors and engineers under Gaddafi’s rule, with Libyan companies offering wages several times higher than what they could earn back home. The group, which includes a woman and several old men, was working for an oil firm. They arrived in Libya in during the conflict, which is the main point of suspicion for the new authorities, since no other evidence was found. All the Ukrainians deny being combatants and say they served as engineers, cooks and other civilian specialists at an oil field. They said the rebels who arrested them took all their possessions and some have been beaten and tortured. “For some reason they think that Slavic people are snipers. We have nothing to do that. We came here to earn money peacefully,” Vladimir Doglov told RT's correspondent in Tripoli. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said it has managed to set one of the detainees free and is in negotiations with the NTC over the rest of Ukraine’s citizens in custody. None of them were charged with any crimes. Meanwhile Lizzie Phelan reports that any area known to have supported or supports Gaddafi has reportedly been bombed or been subjected to homes and apartments being burned and looted. And even the mainstream media has been unable to ignore the systematic targeting and lynching of anyone with black skin. It is widely known that Gaddafi’s opponents deeply loathed his rhetoric and policies in support of Black Africa. With Sirte, Sabha and Beni Walid being amongst the last areas still flying the green flag high, the rebels claim to be giving these a deadline before they resort to a “military response”, implying that in the meantime, a non-military avenue will be pursued. Yet again, the media fail to highlight the hypocrisy that the rebels’ ally, NATO, has been openly bombing these areas. As in Zlitan, Zawiya and elsewhere, the same atrocities as those committed in Tripoli, are being carried out in Beni Walid and Sirte with the complete silent complicity of journalists and “independent” observers on the ground. This is “free Libya”, so long as the thousands of dead and in hiding upon which it is based goes unmentioned. The BBC has yet to apologise for using blatantly fake footage from a demonstration in India claiming it was in Tripoli’s Green Square, as part of their evidence that the city had fallen. So the ethnic cleansing of Blacks in Libya continues. NATO-Backed Libya "Rebels" are clearly terrorists and racist, the mainstream media is already engaging in widespread damage control in an attempt to mitigate the fallout of the reality of the situation in Libya and the withering NATO-sponsored narrative of post-Gaddafi Libya.They are called "Africans and Black Libyans", "Sub-Saharan mercenaries". One prisoner, Ahmed Ali, had burns across his face, neck, and arm. He said he had come from Chad two years ago to work. ”When the rebels entered Tripoli, some guys came and burned down my house,” he said. ”They brought me here,” he said, adding that he’d received no medical care in the six days since his arrest. Reports say the victims include black Libyans, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans, and other citizens of sub-Saharan African, no fewer than 20 black men were found dead outside Col Gaddafi’s compound after Libyan rebels entered Tripoli. Their hands were tied behind their backs and some of them had been shot in the head. On the road south out of Tripoli, about 200 black people were also said to be hiding in a small encampment made of two small outbuildings shielded by a small wall and a metal door. Amnesty International said "it was told" that between one third and half of those detained were from sub-Saharan Africa. The Green Charter Movement has however called upon people world wide to leave Amnesty International because it has itself committed crimes against humanity by ignoring what is happening in Libya. Its publication "Human Rights Defender" issued in Australia and covering the 3 months of June-August 2011, Volume 30 Number 2, in all its 24 pages does not even mention the word Libya ONCE. Instead Amnesty International, which styles itself as a "human rights defender", praises itself throughout the pages, clearly designed to attract more membership and money, and also praises Australia in regard to Black Original Australian (so-called Aborigines) without even mentioning ONCE that Northern Territory, where most Original Australians live, does not even have a democratic government but is still ruled directly by the white colonial outpost in Canberra. Africans in Australia are not even allowed to go and visit the Original Australians, who reside on "reservations" which require permits for visitors to be issued by the white authorities who attempt to keep these communities isolated from Black people around the world. The most major human rights violations are taking place in the current new theater of war in Libya, raging since March and uninterrupted until now, and yet Amnesty International's "Human Rights Defender" magazine does not even MENTION Libya even a single word in the entire publication covering the months June, July and August where massacres and horrific torture and abuses have taken place as witnessed across the Internet and by news networks, yet Amnesty International chooses to ignore all this. If you know anyone who is a member of Amnesty International, please tell them they are a fool. Amnesty International is clearly a demonic "gate-keeper" organization designed to attract white liberals with a conscience and take their money while doing nothing to help Black people, whereas the one society on earth, the Libyan Jamahiriya, where Black people had full rights, is being destroyed in front of our eyes, Amnesty International looks the other way. Support us so that we can wage a full information war against this evil organization of pretenders, donate today, and support the new grass-roots www.worldcrimes.org initiative, where Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other fake human rights organizations will be held to account, along with fake news media Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, BBC, and fake social media networks such as Twitter which knowingly allow false rumors to spread from fake accounts, as well as NATO and other terrorist organizations. http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628567 |
rhymz:the reason they sound like crappy theories to you is because you are not properly educated, you have merely passed through a conveyor belt educational system which churns out semi illiterates who can just about use words with more than one syllable. Your "knowledge", world view and overall exposure is limited to the hum drum existence of "survival" in that jungle you call a country, you have no time to undertake independent research or broaden your horizons because your entire time is spent on "hustling" in order to eke out a living on the starvation wages that you are forced to exist on. Your blind faith and loyalty to a world bank stooge is tragic to behold, my assignment for you is to research the role of the world bank in africa and the catastrophic damage that this institution has created all over the african continent, perhaps a sliver of light might penetrate its way into your dense skull when you realise exactly what Okonjo Iweala's real role is in nigeria. |
The Nigerian African Renaissance Party (ARP) on Tuesday urged the Federal Government (FG) to withdraw its recognition for the Libyan rebels’ National Transitional Council (NTC). ARP National Chairman, Alhaji Yahaya Ndu, told the News Agency of Nigeria that it was improper to recognize a group whose aim is to murder Nigerian citizens. “The FG should take stock of all Nigerians, including other blacks, who have been murdered in Libya and a census of other black Africans, especially Nigerians who are still in Libya. The FG must also sound a note of warning to Libya that it would not take it lightly if anything happened to its citizens again,” Ndu said. The ARP leader expressed sadness at the reckless killings of Nigerians in the North African country. “Nigeria must intervene and stop the killing of its citizens by the rebels,” he said. “The government should do everything possible to rescue its citizens and other Africans in Libya.” Ndu’s remarks came after Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru on Sunday received distress calls from Nigerians who live in Libya, including from their coordinator Mr Daramola Siji, who reported about outright killings, rape and extortion of money from Africans who have taken refuge in camps. In a reaction on those calls, said: “The government wishes to note with concern reports of incessant abuse of helpless civilians in Libya by some unscrupulous elements who continue to take undue advantage of the ongoing crisis in that country, particularly to carry out attacks on black migrant workers and other black Africans.” He added that “these extra-judicial killings certainly run contrary to Nigeria’s call for good governance by the National Transitional Council.” The killing of Nigerians in Libya was also condemned on Sunday by a member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Mrs Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa. She called on the government to mount pressure on the Libyan rebels’ National Transitional Council to stop the ongoing genocide against blacks in the country. Earlier former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo already denounced NATO’s attack on Libya and Libyan leader Gaddafi. http://eccleza./2011/09/07/nigerian-politicians-urge-government-to-derecognize-libyan-rebels/ |
manny4life:western nations will always have their feet on the neck of african nations because dullards like you continue to make it possible, i gave you an example of one of the richest economies in the world - america owing over $3 trillion, why hasnt america paid china back this huge sum of money? another example is iceland that are owing britain and holland a paltry $3billion - why havent they paid this back? in the case of iceland they even had a referendum and the people of iceland voted AGAINST paying it off and called for the entire sum to be written off - the citizens of both of these countries enjoy a much higher standard of living than the average nigerian and yet they were unwilling to suffer the burden of higher taxes and cuts in govt spending in order to pay off a their creditors. contrast this with nigeria where the vast majority of the population lives in poverty and yet obasanjo and okonjo iwealla felt obliged to divert money which could be better spent on education and health care into paying off a debt which had already been paid off 10 fold years ago. only in nigeria do you have poor people arguing to have their already grim standard of living reduced to an even lower level in order to pay off debt - and make no mistake about it the money which was used to service this debt is money which should have been used to provide jobs, health care and education for the nigerian people. this is indeed proof that the vast number of nigerians are actually mentally re.tarded. |
rhymz:Im not going to waste a minuite of my time debating this issue with you because the last time i laid out all the facts all i got back from you was a deafening silence, therefore i would be embarking on nothing more than a fool's errand if i decided to respond to the rubbish you put up there, good luck and continue to genuflect at the altar of okonjo iwealla and her fellow criminals, perhaps the scales will fall from your eyes after she has removed the fuel subsidy and your standard of living takes yet another nose dive. |
edicolove:illiteracy is a major problem in nigeria as can be seen from your response, i have no hope in nigeria because as long as illiterates like yourself outnumber the educated and well informed, nigeria will continue to spiral downwards. the international financical banks cheat african nations by using debt as a trap, they loan you money and then they hike up the interest rate in order to make it virtually impossible for you to get out of debt - this is known a as a debt trap - almost every well read person understands that this is the way western banks keep african nations dependant and poor, but i dont expet you to understand this because you are way too dim to grasp this concept, i will say it again - nigeria paid off the principal on the money it borrowed years ago - instea\d of okonjo iweala and obasanjo to ask for a complete cancellation of this illegal debt they gave in like the cowards that they are to the criminal banking cabal known as the paris club. As a result nigeria handed over $30 billion in foreign reserves without even consulting the nigerian people - these are the type of fools you support - this says a lot about your level of reasoning, no country in the world has ever parted with such a huge sum of money in the name of debt servicing - america currently owes china $3 trillion but would never in a million years consider paying that off in one lump sum, instead it issues china with bonds which continue to depreciate in value year on year. learn to understand issues before you open your trap. |
^^^^^ thats why the rest of the world laughs in our faces, do you not understand that the so called debt that the paris club claimed we owed was paid back 100 fold a long time ago? this is the reason that buhari demanded a moratorium on it because we were being asked to pay back accumulated interest, the capital was paid off ages ago, this is how these criminal banks make their money -its a scam this woman is an agent of these scammers that is why she got the job in the first place |
for the fools defending this thief all i can say is - i pity you, this woman doesnt give a damn about any of you and would step over you in the street if you were destitute and starving. Nigerians have not got the moral fibre, courage or even intelligence to fight for what is right, that is why a revolution will never happen in this country, keep worshipping this woman, while she steadily reduces you to starvation and poverty by way of "economic reforms" she amasses a fortune by way of dodgy deals and kickbacks she sends her children abroad to study, enriches her immediate family and even extended family and you stand on the side lines praising and hailing her while you and your own children are condemned to a life of endless poverty, no wonder the white man looks at us with amusement and dismisses us as backward fools. |
Is there a chance that nigerians will grow brains over night and put tribalism to one side?i doubt it - the woman is a theif, has always been a thief and will remain a thief, she is laughing in your faces at how easily she has been able to fool all of you. I am igbo but i do not condone corruption, i couldnt give a shi.t where a person comes from - its the content of the person's character that i am more concerned with not their ethnic background. clearly this woman is lacking in that department (as well as many others) for obasanjo of all people to sack her for corruption makes it even worse. but i say to all of her followers and apologists - this is just the beginning - she hasnt shown you her real face yet, when she removes the fuel subsidy and starts really cranking up the austerity measures thats when you will really realise how big a mistake you have made by backing her - good luck! |
xcolanto:the CIA are behind this - i am willing to bet money on it - nigerians will not realise this until NATO starts dropping missiles over the country only then will it dawn on them. The CIA are fomenting chaos in nigeria - the aim is to completely destabilise the entire nation, why is it that GEJ can not get a hold on these boko haram people? why did the governor of kano state apologise to boko haram? why are senior nigerian govt officials terrified of boko haram? could it be because they know who they are and who is behind them? the al qaeda gangs that were used to overthrow gadaffi have been in receipt of US and british funding since the mid nineties, a senior TNC member has been living as a guest of the US govt in langley virginia for the past 20 years - nigerians have no idea how far these people will go in order to secure what they beleive is rightfully theirs. Gadaffi knew all of this and as you correctly said wanted a united africa in order to prevent what is about to happen to the african continent. I read an article written by a former clinton adviser by the name of anthony lake, in the article lake describes how africa will be controlled and recolonised by the US - he said africa will be divided into 4 zones each zone will have an anchor state or puppet who will carry out america's orders and bring any stubborn african nations into line - Egypt was said to be the anchor state for north africa, Ethiopia the anchor for EAst africa, Nigeria the anchor for west africa and South africa the anchor for the south african region. Egypt was under a US approved dictator until very recently, Ethiopia invaded Somalia on behalf of the US govt in order to gain control over oil and gas rich somalia at america's behest, Nigeria has undertaken "peace keeping" operations in liberia and sierra leone to "secure" the diamond mines in that region on behalf of the US and britain. south africa is still under the economic control of white europeans, zuma voted in favour of the no fly zone over libya along with nigeria and gabon however i think zuma might be backpedalling and might no longer want to play the role of a western puppet state, but i dont know how long he can keep that up. |
[quote author=Afro_Blue link=topic=756179.msg9120274#msg9120274 date=1315676276][b]@cap28 Criminal Cartel Moves Forward With Printing $500 Billion In Funny Money Michael Suede Activist Post Thursday, a gang of violent thieves and drug lords decided to counterfeit an additional 500 billion US Dollars in order to prop up their criminal empire. The move undermines the savings and production of the American economy, while at the same time allowing the gang to retain its stranglehold on the banking sector and drug trade. The move by the criminal organization to counterfeit the massive amount of money arises as an outgrowth of their various drug and racketeering schemes. The gang had previously invaded and replaced the government of Afghanistan with their own drug kingpins after the Taliban had shut down opium production in the country. Prior to the Taliban shutting down opium production, Afghanistan had been the cartel’s primary location for the cultivation of opium products. The money generated from the sale of Afghan opium products is laundered through the US banking cartel, and serves to prop up the banking cartel with a large influx of reserve capital. Had the Taliban been allowed to remain in power, it is quite possible that the entire shadow US banking sector could have collapsed. Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), noted, “In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system’s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor…It appears that interbank credits have been financed by money which comes from the drug trade and other illegal activities. It is naturally hard to prove this, but there are indications that a number of banks were rescued by this means.” The gang concluded that printing the 500 billion was necessary in order to keep their war and racketeering machine, and with it their drug and banking syndicates, operational through the remainder of the year. Normally the gang acquires the money to operate its criminal empire through direct looting of businesses and consumers, but recently it determined that direct looting simply could not provide the kind of money it needs in order to keep its various criminal enterprises operational. In conjunction with using violence to impose its fiat money system on a hapless public, which ultimately allows to them to get away with their present counterfeiting operation, the gang has also waged a very violent global campaign to force the entire global economy to buy their fiat money in order to purchase oil products. By forcing all major oil producing nations to price their oil in US Dollars, the gang has successfully been able to loot the rest of the world for their products and services. Because oil is priced in US Dollars, other nations must buy US dollars (debt) in order to purchase oil products on the open market. This allows the US to crank out an obscene amount of funny money in exchange for the sweat and labor of foreign nations without the US having to give them any real goods or services in return. Syndicate whipping boy Ron Paul has authored an article that explains the cartel’s operations in more detail here. Recently the Libyan government had attempted to implement a gold backed Dinar standard, which would have undermined the US government’s ability to keep African oil priced in US Dollars. The move by Gaddafi to implement a gold standard necessitated swift and violent action on the part of the criminal syndicate to eliminate Gaddafi from power. If Gaddafi had been successful in his endeavors to price oil in terms of gold, while simultaneously implementing a gold backed currency system, the Libyan Dinar would have almost certainly become the de facto currency of the entire African continent. Unfortunately for the American public, the criminal syndicate’s measures are ultimately self-defeating. As the crime syndicate massively expands its counterfeiting operations, it cannibalizes the economy that keeps it in power. Because the printing of money drives the production of goods and services overseas, it erodes the industrial base of the nation, ultimately leading to an impoverished welfare state that lacks the ability to feed, fuel, and sustain itself. The crime syndicate really is caught between a rock and a hard place. The crime syndicate could dismantle itself voluntarily, which would lead to the collapse of its criminal empire, or it could choose to continue its money printing operations in order to sustain itself, but ultimately destroy itself anyway by causing a failure of the monetary system through hyperinflation. Markets forces ultimately cannot be ignored or avoided through the use of violence. The market always manages to dismantle violently imposed currency systems and governance structures. The crime syndicate is finding out the hard way that looting destroys the incentive of private citizens to produce goods and services that improve the condition of humanity. As the public is cannibalized by criminal parasites, the parasites will eventually kill the host that keeps them alive. This leads us to the obvious conclusion that the only sustainable form of government is one that isfunded voluntarily.[/b][/quote]brilliant post afroblue. I've always known that the US govt is involved in drug trafficking. did you know that the US and british govts were behind the downing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie ? did you know that there were CIA officers on that plane who were going to testify before a grand jury because they had found out that the US govt was using rogue CIA officers to traffic drugs from the middle east to america? lockerbie was blamed on Gadaffi as a punishment for his unwillingness to hand over his country to US and british multinational oil companies to exploit. the final straw came when gadaffi decided to launch an african single currency - this would have sounded the death knell for the us dollar - now nigeria is talking about selling its oil in exchange for yuan instead of dollars - saddam tried selling his own oil in euros and it earned him a US invasion and execution, can nigeria succeed where saddam failed? i cant imagine the gutless nigerian govt risking an american invasion let alone a NATO attack, so im waiting to see whether the nigerian govt have the guts to follow up their "threat." |
what these dumb nigerian looter leaders dont understand is that the american and british intelligence services have had them under surveillance for years, every conversation that nigerian politicians have is documented , every dodgy deal is recorded, nigeria is crawling with CIA, MI6 and Mossad people, this kind of information comes in handy when the respective govts of those services wish to blackmail the nigerian govt. I suspect that this information is coming out now because of nigeria's dealings with china, this is america's way of threatening these fools, if nigeria continues to move forward with these their chinese deals they can expect a "humanitarian intervention" from NATO just like the one that is happening in libya. |
nigeria is a haven for criminals because 90% of its people are ignorant, semi- literate and docile, a senior govt official is involved in a $50 million scandal and instead of being up in arms about this, delusional i.diots start making excuses for these scumbags, in the UK MP's go to jail for fiddling their expenses for £10,000 - in nigeria where the average person does not have access to jobs, decent accommodation, electricity and food shameless leaders loot the nigerian treasury with impunity and the semi literate nigerian populace runs to defend them. It must be heaven being a nigerian looter leader - you can loot to your heart's content because no punishment awaits you at the end of it - there is absolutely no hope for nigeria as long as these criminals are allowed to continue on their looting jamboree. |
naijaking1:who is talking about executing anyone here? a serious allegation has been made against a senior govt official who is in charge of the nation's finances - why should she be allowed to carry on with her job as if nothing has happened? if she couldnt get away with this at the world bank, why should she be allowed to get away with this in nigeria? |
naijaking1:asking for the suspension of a senior govt official who has been linked to an allegation of corruption is not punishment in my book, do you think she would be allowed to return to her job at the world bank if an allegation of corruption had been made against her there? dont you think she would have been suspended pending an investigation? if your answer is yes, then she should equally be suspended by GEJ, unless you want to argue that two sets of rules should apply depending on who your employer is. I am sick and tired of these corrupt bas.tards who continue to treat the nigerian treasury like their personal bank accounts, these people need to be made an example of, but unfortunately nigeria is filled with psychophants and apologists of corruption like you who continue to make excuses even when the truth is staring you in the face. |
was anyone expecting el rufai to own up ? so we are now at a point where we pick and choose what we beleive is the truth from wikileaks? the reason that this story has been reported in sahara reporters and not any of those pathetic, praise singing grovelling rags that you call newspapers in nigeria is because any nigerian journalist resident in nigeria who touches this story will never live to see the next day. no nigerian publication would dare touch this story with a ten foot barge pole and instead of some dullards to be grateful to sahara reporters for uncovering this scandal they re bleating on about rubbish. this woman must either resign or be placed on suspension pending the outcome of a thorough investigation into these allegations, the nigerian people should not settle for anything less. how can anyone in their right mind defend the award of a $50 million consultancy contract to a family member when the average nigerian lives on less than a dollar a day - if this woman is allowed to carry on with this job i will know that nigeria is well and truly finished. |
Onlytruth:bros this is why we will never progress as a nation - why are you making excuses for something that we all know equates to corruption - you can continue to dress up what she has done using fancy words but the bottom line is she awarded what sounds like an over inflated multi million dollar contract to a family member, i mean $50 million dollars for "consultancy work" what kind of consultancy services cost $50 million i have always had a bad feeling about this woman -right from when she served under obasanjo - she fraudulently transferred billions of nigeria's foreign reserves into the hands of western banks under the guise of paying off our supposed debt, and now we know that she has also been stealing from the till, its time for Okonjo Iweala to do the honorable thing and resign - enough is enough. |
tribalism is the cancer that is destroying nigeria - this is the reason why dumb nigerians would vote in a party full of known criminals and expect them to have a change of heart after 12 years of plunder. southern nigerians had the opportunity to vote in someone who had nigeria's interest genuinely at heart but because he was a northerner they opted instead for a southern criminal and his crew of fellow thiefs, im so glad that Okonjo Iweala has been outed for what she is - a thief, a US stooge and a fraudster - nigerians you deserve the scum that rule over you. |
i pity nigerians - the most delusional set of human beings on the face of this planet, when some clueless sheep were singing this woman's praises a few months ago i pointed out that this woman was a complete write off during obasanjo's tenure and will be a complete write off during GEJ's tenure, these sheep were up in arms, bleating pathetically about how great this woman was simply because she happens to be a world bank trained economist, now these fools who were bowing and scraping before this woman like slaves can now see for themselves how fantastic she is , bunch of i.diots - this is just the beginning - keep enjoying your fresh air |
Sun of god how does the US benefit from nigeria converting 10% of its foreign reserves into yuan? buzz and sun of god - i agree with you about america going beserk if nigeria converts half of its foreign reserves from USD to yuan -but i think that might be where nigeria is headed because the USD is depreciating steadily, other countries are also beginning to dump the dollar as well -do you guys think there might be a link between the boko haram bombings and nigeria's movement towards china? here is an interesting analysis on nigeria's decision (from 3.00): [flash=300,300] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6G90-_Ov0&feature=channel_video_title[/flash] |
Nigeria deals the dollar another blow Sep 6, 2011 17:57 EDT inShare central banks | China | nigeria By John Foley The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Imagine you get an email from someone claiming to be a Nigerian central banker. Yes, just imagine that. Your correspondent has heard that you are of sound character and good judgment, and is in search of a safe haven to store $3 billion in oil riches. In return you are offered untold goodies –- numerous investment opportunities and access to a huge potential market of middle-class consumers. China is the lucky recipient of just such a communication. Nigeria’s central bank will transfer a tenth of its $33 billion foreign exchange holding into yuan assets, it said on Sept. 6. That fits with China’s ambition to turn its money into globally accepted tender that matches its status as the world’s second-biggest economy. It also deals another blow to the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. Nigeria isn’t the first to dip a toe into China’s yuan pool. The Philippines and Hong Kong too have discussed expanding yuan reserves, presumably to chase political favour and capture long-term currency appreciation. Investible assets aren’t easy to find, since China has barely any external debt. But central banks can invest in China’s interbank market, as Malaysia did in 2010, on a case by case basis. Despite Nigeria’s bold move, China’s currency still has few of the qualities of a credible reserve currency. Low inflation is usually a pre-requisite, yet China’s runs at above 6 percent. Stable monetary policy is another typical condition, yet China lacks an independent central bank. Most importantly, China’s capital controls make it hard to see how holder of yuan reserve assets can liquidate them in a crisis. Nigeria probably has other priorities, such as continued Chinese investment. The Middle Kingdom has been a keen partner for the oil-rich nation. Among other things it has signed a $23 billion agreement to build three oil refineries -– though little of that has yet been spent. Nigeria’s foreign investment fell to a five-year low in 2010, helped by a hostile business climate, endemic corruption and uncertainty around mired oil sector reforms. Nigeria’s yuan purchase looks more like a gesture of goodwill than a shrewd economic decision. It would be a mistake to read too much significance into the move. But growing support for yuan reserves does represent another cut of confidence in the dollar. For the dollar to lose its status, it may need a thousand more such cuts. A trend, however, is emerging. http://blogs.reuters.com/columns/2011/09/06/nigeria-deals-the-dollar-another-blow/ More signs that all is not well with the USD, even nigeria, its most trusted business partner is getting jittery about its weak state. Could this be the reason for the sudden surge in terrorist attacks by boko haram? Saddam wanted to switch from trading in USD to the euro - look what happened to iraq after that, Gadaffi wanted to create a single african currency which he wanted europe to use to purchase his oil - look what has happened to libya - is nigeria about to toe the same line as these two major oil producers? |
psalmizt:I just came across this on youtube: On the 6 September 2011, nigeria transfered 10% of its $33 billion in foreign reserves into the chinese yuan!!!!! this is an unbeleivably bold step for nigeria, a step which might explain why nigeria is now experiencing an increase in bombings from this so called boko haram group (CIA). Im beginning to warm towards that Sanusi guy - because he does seem to have a mind of his own after all [flash=300,300] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6G90-_Ov0&feature/channel_video_title[/flash] |
bliss4lyfe , the nigeria that you praise is run by a murderous criminal cabal who have already sold nigeria to the nation who poses the greatest threat to nigeria's stability - the US, you better understand that nigerian leaders are cowards, they are only interested in saving their own skins, do you seriously think any nigerian leader would go against the west? this whole thing about al qaeda and boko haram is a smoke screen - al qaeda is an american creation - the american CIA created al qaeda in the 1980s in order to keep the russians out of afghanistan, this situation is complicated and you will not be able to understand it unless you do the research, boko haram is also a creation of the CIA - in time you will find out the truth - the people you are dealing with are capable of the kind of evil that you can not even begin to imagine in your mind. they are after your natural resources and they will stop at nothing in order to control it. so stop blaming muslims -they are victims in this game . Your nigerian govt do not care about you - they have offered you on a plate to the west, thats why everything in nigeria is getting worse day by day, they have betrayed you so that they can hold on to their swiss accounts, private jets, multi million dollar homes, mistresses and expensive designer clothes, they dont give a sh.it about you or anyone else in nigeria - its time to wake up and stop being naive and sentimental about a bunch of criminals who sold you out a long time ago. |
nigeria plans to overtake egypt and rsa and yet the average nigerian lives in substandard accommodation, does not have access to good healthcare or education and life expectancy for the average nigerian is 48 years - so who is really fooling who? if you restructure your economy so that it suits the requirements of foreign investors and their mulinationals overlords how is that a plus for nigeria and nigerians? there is no point telling me that our so called economy is doing well because its complying with master's demands if the workers on the plantation dont have constant electricity, clean running water, sanitary living accommodation, jobs, affordable food and a decent standard of education. nigeria - land of the sheeple - it doesnt matter how far into the gutter you kick our people, they will still look on the bright side of things! |
the mistake many people make about obama is that they actually think he represents the grassroots ie blacks, the poor and other disenfranchised groups - LET ME SAY IT LOUD AND CLEAR - OBAMA IS A WALL STREET PUPPET - EVERYTHING HE IS DOING NOW ie the so called capitulation to the republicans is part of a script which was agreed long ago by the real people who run america, obama is virtually powerless - he is like the chief executive of a corporation - he takes his instructions from his shareholders ie the real govt, forget about all this bipartisanship nonsense - its a game - the politicians need to come up with a game to convince the masses that they actually live in a democracy when nothing could be further from the truth. its an act !!! everyone has his script and has to act according to what the script says, that is what obama is doing and that is what the republicans are doing, however i will say this - the republicans are inherently racist and do not approve of obama being where he is, but not because of his poliitical persuasions (as he is doing everything to please them) its more to do with the fact that they hate the idea of a black man being in the highest office of the land (even if that black man is an uncle tom) |
davidylan:hahahhahaha - america - a democracy - bro thanx for giving me jokes ![]() why has the right to habeus corpus been suspended? why does the US govt now have extended powers to carry out surveillance on its populace? why is it that only the richest 1% of america's population make up the bulk of congress and the senate? It actually did if you would pull your head out of the sand for 2 mins. The economy started tanking after Dec last year when repubs took control of the house. Check your facts . . . even Rick Perry needed stimulus dollars to balance his budget.EPIC FAIL - america's economy has been in decline ever since it decided to outsource its manufacturing industry to the far east in order to benefit from cheap labour, but the real decline bega\n in earnest after the banking collapse of 2008. |
buzugee as we speak NATO is arming and funding a group of racist murderers in libya and they are killing your brothers and rap.ing your sisters in libya - these genocidal scum kill people - open the chest of the victim and take a bite out of the victim's heart!! dont beleive it? check youtube - its all on there!! - these monsters make the nazi SS look like choir boys and yet you are posting this kind of trash on here,how you can make this comparison between black americans and an entire system of genocidal maniacs is beyond me - have black americans dropped an atomic bomb on any nation, have they used depleted uranium, napalm, white phosphorous and fire bombs on any people? have they used biological weapons on an entire continent of people (africa) in order to wipe out populations, have they used contaminated vaccines to sterilise an entire race of people? (africa) bro please stop this - its just wrong. by the way have you ever read accounts of how the KKK used to lynch blacks in america - if you have the stomach try and read about how a 16 year old mental deficient black boy was lynched in missipi in the 1920s - they tied him to a post and cut off his hands and then burnt him alive - a 16 year old mental deficient!!!! do you know of any black american who has committed such an atrocity on a white person? |
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