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It is no gainsaying that Nigeria is currently on standstill and at crossroads.25 days without a President. That seat needs to be occupied by someone OOOOH

metal-gong:
All of you clamouring for any kind of revolution should limit it to your back yards and spare the South East or else . . . . .
After tribalizing the Nzeogwu revolution and supporting the genocide against Ndi Igbos . . . Some hypocritical elements are now crying foul in the same Nigeria they defended . The unfolding events in Nigeria are just the beginning, by the time we get to Malachi, all of you that fought against Biafra would be asking for your own nation;unfortunately, such call would be futile at this stage.

Good Morning One Nigeria!!!

Revolution. I laugh.Let the other tribes sparehead it.My brother has said it all above;I am waiting for that divine hand which has always saved us. Who killied Abacha? The rest of Nigeria should wait and see what Ndi Igbo will transform Nigeria to come 2015. Imagine that the Hausas because of sectarian agenda has refused to yield to sound reason by refusing to advice a sick man to resign.

Seun,How much does Nairaland generate and how many people do you employ?

I hope they heard Yar'Adua well as he is dishing orders from coma.

alliance for female conspiracy eeh? una well done! but you can't get away from us! You can't be complete without that handsome guy. you need to be freaked out many atimes so theres nothn you can do other than to be a good girl.

honey247:
pls help me out, i don:t really know what come over me

It makes me laf when I see pple come to Nairaland to share their problems with Nairalanders. You will never get useful advice. Many are here to amuse themselves.

As for you that is in love with your Dad,come to think of the impending doom that you will bring to yourself. You are about to drive yourself crazy. Someone posted a thread that his cousin is pregnant for him. If you get pregnant for your dad,that is what Ndi Igbo refers to as 'aru' abomination and sacrilege.

You are in the range of people that the bible calls perverts. Loving your dad means that you can sleep with him.Sleeping with him is worse than sleeping with an animal.

If you dont know what to do,look for an agile boy to love you and Bleep this love out of your mind.

How will the world look at you. Tell this to your close friends and see the damage it will cause. Relate it to your family and you become an outcast. Your mother will swear upon the day that she gave birth to you because her own offspring is going to take away her husband from her.

You are a mad man. When you were yelling and jerking like a man that is being strangled,you though that you were enjoying life.You see what you have done to yourself.

By Leke Adeseri, News Editor Henry Umoru & Daniel Idonor
ABUJA—TWENTY- FOUR days after he was taken to Saudi Arabia for medical attention, the hide-and- seek game over the state of health of President Umaru Yar’Adua continued yesterday with top Federal Government officials preferring that Nigerians be silent over the all-important issue for which virtually no information has been released.
Very worrisome, however, is the fact that since Yar’Adua left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia, none of his cabinet members had spoken with him.

Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State and the President’s in-law and Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Isa Yuguda, who went to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Governors’ Forum, came back without a clear picture of the situation with the nation’s number one citizen.

However, the Federal Government, yesterday, declared that God was answering the prayers of Nigerians for the quick recovery of their President, who has been receiving treatment at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; saying that “he is responding to treatment and that is true.”

FG cautions media

Fielding questions from State House Correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, cautioned the media over their too-much emphasis on the health of the President.

The minister’s comment on the President’s state of health coincided with the Federal Government’s earlier plan to “clarify the media on the alleged pressure on Yar’Adua’s close aides to appeal to the President to address cabinet members and the nation via video conference from the Middle-East,’’ a plan that was, however, aborted without explanation.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, had told reporters before the meeting of his intention to clarify issues relating to the proposed video conference, as soon as the meeting ended.

But, he was nowhere to be found after the FEC meeting as he refused to show up at the briefing room during the post-FEC meeting which was attended by Akunyili, her Agriculture and Aviation counterparts, Alhaji Abba Ruma and Mr Babatunde Omotoba respectively. He was said to have told his colleagues that he was rushing to Jos, for official engagement.

FEC meeting briefing not for Yar’Adua — Akunyili

A visibly worried Akunyili disclosed that the reason behind the post-FEC briefing every week was to announce to Nigerians current efforts by the government to grow the nation’s economy through vital policies and infrastructural development and not emphasis on the President’s health.
from the left, the head of Service, Mr. Steve Oronsanye; SGF, Mallam Yayale Ahmed and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan in a solemn mood during the special prayers

from the left, the head of Service, Mr. Steve Oronsanye; SGF, Mallam Yayale Ahmed and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan in a solemn mood during the special prayers

“The essence of the Council meeting and this briefing is service delivery and I want us to focus more on what we are doing, as for Mr. President’s health, our position has not changed.

Last week, I was asked the same question and I told you that he is still in a Saudi Hospital, he is responding to treatment, thank God, and it is the doctors that will actually determine the date that he will return to Nigeria,” she noted

She, therefore, appealed to the media and indeed, Nigerians to exercise restrain
in commenting on the President’s health; decrying that the matter of his ill-health had gained too much attention among Nigerians.

“So, I will appeal to all of us not to over-emphasise whether the President is sick or not, the emphasis is getting too much, let us emphasise on the projects that we have presented to you. You can ask questions on them, and we clarify grey areas; that is why we are here.

“I don’t think it is necessary for us to continue saying one thing over and over, because nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is that he is responding to treatment, well, it is the same, last week. I told you he is responding to treatment and that is true.

“Today, it is the same comment, it hasn’t changed, and I honestly want to thank you for your prayers because most Nigerians are actually praying for Mr. President. Yes, our prayers are being answered, he is responding to treatment,” she stated.

Also commenting, Ruma, generally believed to be a close confidant of the President, expressed deep concern over the way and manner the issue of Yar’Adua’s ill-health had generated controversy; warning that Nigerians should note that Yar’Adua was not Nigeria’s first President to be hospitalised.

“This is not the first time the President of Nigeria is sick, at a time there was a president that left this country for three months to attend to his health and nobody contemplated about his removal or resignation.

”The law is also very clear about this, except perhaps due to our sentiments, whims, caprices and emotions.

“I believe you have the capacity; I believe you have the knowledge-based disposition to have another look at this on the basis of facts, on the basis of what should be placed on the table for Nigerians to come to terms with on this issue.

Nobody is saying you don’t have the right to know, we do appreciate the anxiety,” he remarked.

“The truth about this matter is that, in all other democracies, not only in the Nigerian democracy, what has been the reality when such had happened before?

How was it resolved in other places? I believe that should be the issue,” he said.
The Council had during its deliberations approved contracts for the revised estimated consultancy services and the framework design to complete the Zobe water supply project in Katsina State from a total cost of N79.8 million plus Euro 343,666 to N205.6 million plus Euro 623,932.

By Funmi Komolafe, Asst. Editor, Victor Ahiuma-Young, Abdulwahab Abdulah & Daniel Alfred
ABUJA—After a decade of the Nigeria Labour Congress’s opposition against the deregulation of the downstream sector of the economy, it may have bowed to the policy due to a strategy of alienation of the group from its social partners by the Federal Government even as it maintained that its resistance of the policy was in the best interest of the working people and citizens in general.

However, at time of this report, Vanguard was still waiting for the details of NLC’s conditions to government before embarking on the planned full deregulation.

This is coming even as there were fears that the fuel scarcity which resurfaced across the country on Monday, may not ease soon as the number of few filling stations dispensing keep diminishing with long queues of motorists and other users causing gridlock on major roads and streets with petrol stations, leaving many commuters stranded.

Why NLC soft-pedalled

NLC began the battle against “removal of oil subsidy’ in 1986 when the General Ibrahim Babangida government announced it would remove subsidy on fuel but the struggle became intense and was sustained with rallies and protest which has resulted in loss of lives when NLC and its allies in the student movement, civil society organisations took up the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo on the issue in 1999.

According to NLC’s President, Mr Abdulwaheed Omar: “It is a strategy that is meant to isolate the Nigeria Labour Congress, the working people and the labour movement entirely because if you are waging a war, the best thing for you is to have only one battle field but if you open so many battle fields, then you a heading for failure.

‘’ Even then, your strategies will have to multiply in accordance with the number of battlefields you have.”

The NLC president said the organisation could not have refused to dialogue with the government on the issue when it called for consultation.

He described the government’s consultation strategy as “substitution by elimination.” Whatever group, they conquer, they conquer and move forward.”

He said ‘NLC’s decision to dialogue with government on the issue did not in any way mean that it supported deregulation because “we already have our position as Congress and we have been standing by it, but we put our heads together and members of NEC felt it would be foolhardy to say we can’t even dialogue with government.”

Omar said: “Very unfortunately, government is bent on doing what it set out to do_removal of subsidy on fuel”. He said it was clear that the intention of government is to make more money available for its coffers and not to make the petrol available at a regular and cheaper rate.

He insisted, “We have made our opposition clear but government does not seem to relent in trying to make sure the subsidy on petrol is removed. We are not saying no from ideological view point

By 6p.m yesterday, the NEC was barely 30 minutes into a full meeting after the report of the NLC 10-member committee which consulted with the government was presented to the full house by committee chairman, Mr. Peters Adeyemi.

At the opening session of the NLC’s National Executive Council meeting in Abuja yesterday, Omar said despite NLC’s sustained opposition to the policy, government seemed determined to go ahead with the policy.

Omar said he government had embarked on a series of consultations with various groups. He added: “What we have witnessed is institutional support for deregulation.”.

According to him, monarchs had met and given their support for deregulation. He said “the latest is that three days ago, the students movement also gave their support for deregulation”.

The NLC President added that the decision of the 10-man committee was taken in the best interest of all Nigerians and the working people.

No end in sight to fuel scarcity

Meanwhile, there were fears that the fuel scarcity which resurfaced across country on Monday, may not ease soon as the number of few filling stations dispensing keep diminishing with long queues of motorists and other users causing gridlock on major roads and streets with petrol stations, leaving many commuters stranded.

Similarly, while black marketers are having a field day feeding fat on desperate motorists, commercial vehicle operators and motorcycle operators have jacked up transport fares by over 100 per cent.

On the ever-busy Oworoshoki Expressway,in Lagos, only Conoil was selling the product yesterday while queues impeded traffic up to the old Toll Gate by the 7UP Bottling Company. On the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway only AP Filling Station sold the product to motorists, while on the Oshodi-Agege Road, only Conoil sold the product.

The traffic caused by the queue at the filling station stretched to Under the bridge on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway and Ashade Market on Agege Motor Road.
Piqued by the difficulties Nigerians are going through because of the scarcity, a concerned Nigerian and Lagos lawyer, Mr Bamidele Aturu, yesterday called on Nigerians to rise up and challenge the decision of the government for deregulation.
According to him, the time was now for Nigerians, especially the civil society groups to resist all attempts to add money to the price of fuel.

Aturu, in a statement in Lagos, said : “The civil society, in the face of apparent weakness or indecision of the labour movement, ought to rise up now and fight the cabal to a standstill. We must resist them steadfastly. It is immoral and illegal for a group of people to intimidate a whole country for their rapacious ends.

‘’True, we may have no government or have one that is in cahoots with the shylocks, but the people own the land and the resources. If we say No to their disreputable and ignoble methods then NO it must be. We need to embark on a campaign of civil disobedience.

We must refuse to cooperate with government and the cabal in our humiliation. Let us close the country. If the government won’t do its duty, let us shut it out by all lawful and necessary means. This is our country; it is not their’s alone. Our timidity has not helped.”

He noted that it is awful for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to tell Nigerians that it have enough stocks that could take care of their demands “without fishing out the people foisting scarcity on us all. We have been docile for so long. It is time to call for a general strike in the truest sense of those words. We cannot continue like this and claim that we have a country.

NO. I hereby register my willingness to participate in and initiate any march that will prove to the shylocks that this country belongs to us . It is time to wake up from our slumber.”

At the time of this report, there has not been any official statement on the cause of the scarcity.

You want to know why?

This why I hate Nigeria. What is the essence of this election? When your nation is at a standstill.Mediums such as Nairaland should fill in the gap of becoming an avenue for igniting change in the polity.It can act as a medium to rally Nigerian youths against the madness of the political class. Until Nigerians realise that from history,only political revolutions gave birth to prosperous nations,we will remain the way we are atleast till 2015.

On the 9th of November 2009,I candidly advised him to resign in a 10 point discourse titled 10 critical reasons why President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua must resign now.His health issue topped the list of 10.Didn't I try.I looked into the future after analysis of the past two and half years of his administration and realized that it was in his best interest to resign. Read the blog and see for yourself nigeriarevolutuion..com

Don't mind the monger park who ordinary mosquitoes killed.2015 is for Ndi Igbo if Nigeria don't split by then.

No don't resign Mr. President.You were ordained by God.You shall die on the throne.Until all the cowards in Nigeria realize that they have to take their future in their hands.

I published this article on the 9th of November 2009 in a 10 point discourse titled 10 Critical Reasons Why President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Should Resign Now. Every day this article becomes more relevant.

Sourcehttp://nigeriarevolution..com/2009/11/10-critical-reasons-why-president-umaru_5947.html

10.Ostracising the International Community

I want to conclude this critical reasons why President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua must as a matter of urgency resign from a broader perspective of our non-existent foreign diplomacy policy. I read an interview President Barack Obama granted ALLAFRICA.COM's Charles Cobb,Jr.,Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa. I was reading the second answer before the last question and it was clear that neither Obama nor the journalists had mentioned Nigeria. I noticed that they systematically avoided it. I was infuriated. I said to myself that if only Obama knew that he had more supporters from Nigeria towards his campaign than his fatherland Kenya which he made mention of in his second answer. If only he knew that Nigerians who are wont to crying more than bereaved in the delirium of his campaign raised millions to send across the pacific towards the success of his election only for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to dismiss the fund raising as fraud and returned the monies back to the contributors. Is he not aware of many pre- and post-election Obama conferences which were organised by many sympathetic groups in Nigeria?.

I almost flung the paper away but late continued just hear all he had to say on why he chose Ghana instead of other sub-Sahara African countries. Being the charismatic gentleman he is,he mentioned Lagos in the last answer of that Interview. (I imagined him in the their Americana style musing “ don't get angry dude I even know Eko! not just Nigeria. Blame your leaders for the US ignoring you guys,I still recognised that you ain't gonna talk about my papa's continent without talking about Nigeria”). Then I smiled at his wisdom. He tried to let us know that he knew us well and that the story of Africa cannot be complete without the mention of Nigeria.

Forget the Muammer Gadhafis who are only interested in condoning impunity and wishing to become the President of a United States of Africa in his dreams. He has refused to relinquish power in Libya with a track record of aligning with countries former President Bush will refer to as the 'Axis of Evil'. Nigeria is the most populous countries in Africa and one of the most important country in Africa with a potential of assuming full leadership of Africa just like the US. Right now our only significance lies in the fact that we are the highest contributor of peace keepers for United Nations.

We are ranked among 42nd among 133 countries in market size according to Geneva-based World Economic Forum with potential to consume more if the economy improves. So even if politicians ignore us, investors seeking to make quick profits will not only on daily basis sort to come here,they earnestly pray for our stability and good governance to take over. We have the best crude oil in the world with little percentage of sulphur. Need I remind anyone that we among the top 10 in worldwide crude oil export and production.

Although late Chief Gani had to caution former President Obasanjo for his incessant foreign trips to canvass foreign investments while the country was in shambles. He did that to remind Baba that we needed to consolidate more on the home front before selling Nigeria to the world. Nigeria will never be a hard sell if the indexes are right. This is what many like this writer have been trying to let the Minister of Information,the 'Re-branding apostle' to recognize. All the energy and resources put in rebranding will be better channelled if she concentrated on educating Nigerians about governance and participation in same so that we could evolve a better society. The world needs us and Africa needs us more. Late Chief Gani did not mean that international diplomacy is not important neither did he underscore the importance of Nigeria in African and World politics. The Minister of Information in a press release stated that the election of Nigeria to the non-permanent seat of the United Nations is an endorsement by the international community that the 7-point Agenda is working. Then I ask,are we the only one chosen to seat along with US,Britain,China,France and Russia,the permanent members, as non-permanent members of the security council? There are about eight countries selected alongside Nigeria and our vote cannot even stop a key decision such as the veto power of the five permanent member. Moreover we have been seeking election to that seat long before now and the tenure is only for two (2) years.

Africa deserves a permanent seat at the United Nation if we must belong to this world to take charge of the destiny of the black man just as the blacks in America now feel equal to the white with emergence of Obama as president in the US. The world is waiting for Nigeria to come and occupy that exalted position because Africa deserves to belong to the Comity of nations as a key player. Asia and the Americas have one representative each,Europe dominates with France,UK and Eastern Europe represented by Russia,then where is Africa? Do we not make up a continent or probably the population and contribution of Africa does not warrant her a permanent seat among other continents? The centuries of colonialism is long over. Nigeria is in the best position to jostle and secure that seat for Africa. What will wake us from our "sleep walking" is the offer of this exalted permanent seat to Ghana because according to Obama they have become a model in Africa and also for the West to enjoy that delicious “crude oil soup” or to South Africa because of the country's stability and prosperity.

Sani Abacha was ostracised by the comity of nations,Yar'Adua has reversed the trend by ostracising the comity of nation. It was widely speculated the the President will not attend the UN Assembly held this year and he confirmed the fears of speculators by actually jetting out to Saudi Arabia instead of attending a meeting of about 150 world leaders. He went to attend to unfinished business such as the commissioning of a $7bn university while his country's universities were shut down due to lecturers strike. Yar'Adua chose to visit Saudi Arabia while world leaders gathered in New York to discuss world affairs ranging from Middle East Peace to Terrorism and Global Poverty. African leaders met with the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to discuss issues of concern to Africa and the US. In this era when the government blames its failure on recession,there was an opportunity for trade discussion with the US. Just as the present government is a monumental failure at the home front,it has scored below average on a scale of hundred when it comes to international politics and diplomacy.

24 views only 2 votes.cast your votes cowardice nigerians.Iwu nor inec is going to count the vote!

let hidie in power! Nigerians are cowards.

No Yar'adua should not resign!

Look at the insanity of Nigerians in pubic! What has car insurance got to do with Yar'Adua's illness?

Is this the first time he is traveling for treatment?

why no advice Yar'adua to resign.You want to lose him to kidney and heart related problems.The guy is in coma in saudi.

Obj will interprete the words of a man in coma

Yar'Adua is a die hard!

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