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And the failure rates at JAMB and NECO are the highest in a generation, so what exactly is your point?

Your intent is to promote disaffection at a section of Nigeria. We are not fooled. Did this topic interest you in July, August ... 2013, 2012. Peddlers of ethnic strife, too late, sorry. The bum in aso rock has to go.

#change

Jonathan and pdp

The cbn governor should remember how his predecessor was chased out of office (to higher glory) for speaking truth to power. I just want to see how they will blame this on Buhari, tinubu, etc. Clueless til February 14th.

#change

Jonathan has been irresponsible in office, now we must be responsible with our votes and punish him. And if the next government does not learn it's lesson from that, they too will be punished at the polls.

#change

stebell:
OP, picture of GEJs second wife with him and their 2 children or I don't believe it.

Buharist/terrorist try harder next tym.

GEJ rocks.

Please ask the dame which child she has borne for Jonathan. Even oritsejafor could not help, abi. Useless fellow

masterpower:
NOT ONLY LOT BOTH BALOT BOX.
HE (JONATHAN) HAS THE RIGHT TO MARRY HOW MANY WIVES HE WISHES AS LONG AS HE CAN TAKE CARE OF THEM.
BUHARI HAS 5 WIVES AND OSINBANJA SLEEPS WITH MARRIED WOMAN IN HIS CHURCH.

You are a liar and a fool. Buhari has one wife and why does our Christian president have to hide his second wife if not out of shame. At least one went to school more than the illiterate woman he parades around as Nigerias first lady.

EU Condemns Katsina Governor Over Call For Opposition To Be Killed like Cockroaches

The European Union High Commission has condemned the recent pronouncement by Katsina State governor, Ibrahim Shema, urging his supporters to attack his political opponents and kill them the way they should kill “cockroaches”.

The Head of EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Michael Arrion, told journalists at Abuja that Mr. Shema’s call to his supporters to “kill” and “crush” political opponents was “extremely dangerous and unacceptable”.

“If it is confirmed, that kind of statements are, I’m sorry to say, extremely dangerous and unacceptable,” Mr. Arrion said.

the APC governor, Mr. Shema was caught in a video urging his supporters to crush opposition like “cockroaches”.

while instigating his supporters to begin to kill his opponents, Shema had asked them, “what to do if they found the nocturnal insect in their apartments?”.
They chorused “Kill them!” “Crush them!” the governor responded, agreeing with them.

Referring to Rwanda’s 1994 pre-genocide statements made by Hutus against the Tutsis, Mr. Arrion said politicians must desist from using such hateful words and comments.

http://www.freedomnews.net/index.php/insider/editorial/462-eu-condemns-katsina-governor-over-call-for-opposition-to-be-killed-like-cockroaches

gurunlocker:
I hate doing this.... you call bokoharam ordinary? you are a fool.... I just pray you don't become their victim...

You are being silly. No president should say he has saboteurs in his government unless his next action is to unmask and prosecute them. Boko Haram should not be a problem for a well trained and equipped army. They are ordinary bigots, just like you.

naijaspeak:
Jonathan should impose the death penalty for corrupt public office holder and that will bring an end to stealing of public money. Now that we are finding it difficult to sell our crude oil our main revenue source we can not afford to tolerate looting of our treasury.

India and some of this asia countries managing to buy our crude oil may stop and we will have nothing.

You want him to become a widow? He permits stealing to make friends and exploit us politically. Fuel subsidy is the biggest scam with over 2 trillion looted but he is not moved. He and his wife have been sucking bayelsa, and many areas of government dry for years. Rumors are out there that even to see her, they charge 2m. Can you get police contract without note from madam. Why is diezani so untouchable? The cancer of corruption in this government is deep and wide, from head to toes. Buhari/apc is the answer. We need a new direction.

video depicting the Katsina Governor, Ibrahim Shema, prodding his party members to physically assault and possibly “kill” opposition politicians in the state, has gone viral on the internet.

The amateur video was first posted on the internet on November 12.

It shows the governor, dressed in white agbada and brown sandals, standing on a red carpet, and addressing a crowd in what seemed like a political rally. He spoke in Hausa.

Mr. Shema likened opposition politicians to “cockroaches” before asking the crowd what to do if they found the nocturnal insect in their apartments.

The crowd chorused “Kill them!”

“Crush them!” the governor responded, agreeing with the crowd.

Similar calls have triggered violence in other countries including the East African country, Rwanda, where the majority Hutus’ description of the minority Tutsis as “cockroaches”, helped fired a 100-day murderous campaign that saw over 800,000 Tutsis killed.

Mr. Shema is a second term governor and a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/171411-katsina-governor-shema-caught-video-urging-supporters-crush-kill-political-opponents.html

The EU and USA protested at this but what was the pdp governments response? Nothing as usual

I pity pdp. Now that even Jonathan is contemplating life out of power the desperadoes around him can only produce doctored translations of a video. Don't we have public prosecutors again, have the police been sleeping like the drunk in aso rock? If they believe this is evidence why has there been no action taken until this hour even? Liars. Ordinary Boko Haram that Jonathan saw under his bed they cannot find to prosecute while they give Sheriff full protection as a pdp man.
TeamGMB will hold steady and crush the sons of perfidy and their disgusting allies. Nigeria deserves better than the useless leadership we have currently, and all these lies are the death throes of pdp desperation.

#change

egift:
People are on holidays. Factories are shut. And TANiods are celebrating. Not even a single megawatt was added.

Thank you for pointing out their foolishness. Let work resume and we'll go back to 6 hrs daily on average

Suddenly improved where? Mtcheeeew


#change

So GEJ is an oluwole document forger?

Kai, I cannot stand obasanjo at all, but this pdp just wants to destroy itself! I'm sure obj will be preparing another bombshell for Jonathan, because we all know his reputation as a mean vindictive b-stard. Pdp implosion imminent. I just siddon dey look dem.

#change

rozayx5:
what did fashola do with all the loans GEJ has approved for him
madam i respect you but you can do better than searching fashola's unverifiable speeches

GEJ approved? Do you understand how government works at all? Have you kept up with the budget statements of Lagos State? Laziness and ignorance is a poor combo.

san316:
I tire for op ooi.I just wonder what motivates him in this vain quest of ignorance.

And we keep saying we need the youth to take charge.

pity

His quest is not in vain. Apparently he has achieved the heights of ignorance with ease.

TreQuartista:
Nobody can be another Jonathan. Nobody can be as clueless. GEJ is exclusively useless.

https://i.imgur.com/UoiXzBI.jpg

Truly, you have said it all.

Let us rejoice that they are so afraid and desperate. If they had a good candidate in GEJ why can't they sell his positive works? Aren't there any?
GMB, God will deliver you from the hands of your enemies and lift you up as a light to renew and restore the pride of Nigeria. Change is coming.

#GMB
#APC

januzaj:
Try again bro

Lolz. Don't mind them. The devil's messengers. All in vain.

#change
#GMB
#APC

Fayose that has already given the state owned hotels to his blood brother to manage, with N200m for 'renovation'. Fayose, illiterate crook. At least the myth of ekiti as the land of professors and knowledge has been dispelled. As you make your bed, so shall you lie in it. Ekiti people, sorry o

pendy79:
Lesson for SAMBOBORIBOBO, you don't wanna say rubbish about Lagos, The best governed and administered state in the whole Federation.

If the clueless government Sambo is part of had performed up to a tenth of what FASHOLA did in Lagos then Nigeria should be closer to the dreams of its heroes passed by now.

When a Dundee blinded by jealousy of the marvelous work done in Lagos and rather than come learn, open his mouth and spew rubbish, then he is deserving of whatever comes his way.

GEJ administration is such a joke and those that symbolizes it are mere clowns and jokers of the highest order.

Nice response from the Adviser.

Imagine an Ordinary Special Adviser replying a whole Vice President. That should tell you the level of uselessness the people in the Presidency are seen across the country, You got what you deserved samboribobo

They should not imagine that lagos suffers the same intellectual deficit that is apparent in Aso rock.

Gang of pdp thieves, can they not see how the masses have been impoverished? Even Christmas has been a shadow of its usual self. Federal workers owed 3 months salary, state allocations delayed and adjusted at will. History will mark him as a useless leech, a brigand, and an example of the specie idjiotica simplicitus. We must vote them out.

This is the theme of Jonathans government, they will accept no responsibility for any action they take, unless it can be used for TAN poster. Irresponsible men in power. Change comes and very soon.

#GMB
#APC

How Workers Celebrated Yuletide Amidst Unpaid Salaries

By Michael Oche, By Taiwo Ogunmola Omilani
— Dec 30, 2014

For most workers across the country who are contending with backlog of unpaid salaries, coupled with rising cost of living and the austerity measures, the yuletide season has been rough and tough, Michael oche and Taiwo Ogunmola-Omilani, report

While few state government workers have had their salaries paid up to date, a majority have not been so lucky. Checks by LEADERSHIP reveal that some federal and state workers have had to endure hard time this yuletide as they have not been paid in the last three months.

In a statement he issued in Kaduna State, Vice President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Issa Aremu, expressed concern over the non-payment of workers’ salaries in 22 states of the country, which he described as unacceptable.

Aremu said that the same governors who have failed to pay workers their salaries for more than three months were able to raise funds to pay delegates during the just concluded party primary elections across the states.

He stated that, “We see the delay in payment of salaries as wage theft, wage robbery. It is actually an economic crime because Nigerian Labour law says thou shall pay the worker as and when due. In fact, by the 22nd of every month you must have paid the workers fully.

“We never heard of any delegate being owed a single penny during the primary elections, but they cannot get money to pay workers. In fact, some of the delegates even bought new cars and properties after the primaries because the money they got in just a few days was much more than what workers earn in many months”.

Also, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) lamented the inability of federal government to pay civil servants their December salaries as well as outstanding emoluments since July 2013.

The union said about 30 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) will not pay December 2014 salaries to their employees.

The Union General Secretary, Comrade Bashir Lawal disclosed that thousands of federal civil servants were yet to be paid their December 2014 salaries, adding that the affected workers and their families spent Christmas in pain and bore the pangs of hunger.

Even in the private sector, most workers lamented that their employers failed to pay their December salaries, leaving them to celebrate the Christmas in pain.

Some workers who spoke to leadership stated that they were unable to enjoy the thrills of the festivity due to the lack of ‘spending power.’

Meanwhile, the ASCSN maintained that the inability of the Federal Government to pay salaries had lent credence to the belief in some quarters that the managers of the public sector economy were “grossly incompetent and rabidly corrupt”.

The union called on the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to explain to Nigerians why the Federal Government could no longer pay salaries to its employees as and when due.

It added that it had become necessary for the minister to address the nation on the embarrassing situation since she has continued to maintain that the country is not broke.

The union said it was disheartening that the civil servants, who are the least paid in Africa, South of the Sahara, could no longer get their meagre salaries on due date, stressing that the delay was pushing the workers and their unions to the wall.

The union also said if government make attempt to retrench workers in 2015, they will not hesitate to embark on industrial action.

“They are not talking of retrenchment because of the 2015 general elections but we overheard it that government will retrench workers but if they do, we will embark on industrial action”, he said.

It also appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to step in and order the finance minister to pay civil servants their salaries without further delay, adding that the necessary machinery should be put in place to ensure that such an embarrassing situation does not repeat itself.

The statement further called on the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), civil society groups and prominent individuals to prevail on government to pay members their salaries to avert disruption of services in the public service.

It expressed sadness that the Federal Government has not been able to pay thousands of Civil Servants their October and November 2014 salary.

“As we write, information reaching the Union from informed quarters indicate that about 30 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) will not pay December 2014 salaries to their employees.

“It is very unfortunate that since October 2014, the Federal Ministries of Agriculture, Education, Works, Labour and Productivity as well as a host of other MDAs have not paid salary to their workers,” the Union regretted.

The union lamented that the reality on ground was that thousands of Civil Servants and their dependents would celebrate this year’s Christmas and New Year in sorrow.

http://leadership.ng/news/398511/workers-celebrated-yuletide-amidst-unpaid-salaries

Rivers Elders Give PDP 1 Week To Withdraw Wike

Anayo Onukwugha
— Dec 30, 2014 | 0 Comments

Barely few weeks to the 2015 governorship election, elders of Rivers State have given the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a week ultimatum to substitute its governorship candidate in the state, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike with a candidate from the riverine axis of the state.

The elders, under the auspices of Rivers Elders and Leaders Council (RELC) also appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the national leadership of the PDP to ensure the withdrawal of Wike in the interest of equity, justice and fairness to various ethnic nationalities that make up the state.

Chairman of RELC, Chief Albert Horsfall, who disclosed this yesterday while speaking to newsmen at Omagwa, near Port Harcourt, shortly after the meeting of the elders, said if by January 5, 2015, the PDP fails to substitute Wike, the people of the state would be mobilised to vote for the riverine candidate of any other political party that can win the 2015 governorship election in the state.

Horsfall said, “What we are saying here is that if the Peoples Democratic Party fails to substitute Nyesom Wike by January 5, 2015, all true Rivers people will vote en masse for the riverine candidate of any other party that can win election in Rivers State.

“Mr President is our son; we are appealing to him to prevail on the PDP to substitute Wike, but if they fail, we will encourage other aspirants to close ranks and produce a riverine candidate who has the potential to win the governorship of this state.”

He said, as elders, they were not opposed to the reconciliation initiated by the PDP governorship candidate, adding that true reconciliation within the party would commence once Wike withdraws as the party’s standard bearer.

http://leadership.ng/news/398509/rivers-elders-give-pdp-1-week-withdraw-wike

I'm warning pdp candidates to stop campaigning for APC directly or indirectly. Ah ah! Very crude man.

masterpower:
FROM THE USSUAL PEOPLE, Southwest HUNGRY JOURNALIST.
THERE IS NO VESSEL NAMED MT PATIENCE.
APC IS THE MOST USELESS PARTY IN THE WORLD.

Dem hungry pass you?

This deal will crash. Secret trading of nigerias assets? Of course it is not stealing abi, corruption nko? Even obasanjo had due process to give the appearance of probity. The cup of this government is full to overflowing.

#change2015

I was paid 19 billion to support Buhari. Lolz. PDP's desperate lies again. First they say he has no money, now he has bought supporters (on credit?). Jonathan please chain your lying and thieving prophets. They have not even successfully seen your future unemployment. Suegbe

Abeg pay for proper advert.