₦airaland Forum

groundnutoil:
agrreh have been rubbish all day no dribble no pass completed

The Pep Guadiola of Africa is having it hot in this match o, 2 clear goals by tunisia disallowed, Oliseh go piss for body today

I wonder how this village man thinks he can become Nigeria's president... GEJ should be the last clueless President we produce

This covenant university is turning out a huge blessing to the Nigerian nation

Jonathan is a wicked man, he made sure the refineries never worked, aligned himself with the enemies of the Nigerian state and sabotaged of refineries and infrastructures ... he leaves office and with a month our refineries come back to life.. God will judge his wickedness

haba ...this our people over there have really been troubled, there lives aren't the same anymore

babasoji:
Utter rubbish. You put up a bunch of words together as intelligently as you possibly could and yet, it still reads as utter rubbish.

So because we are fighting Boko Haram, we should shut up about our African brothers being killed, injured, maimed and displaced?

And to your other point about MTN and Shoprite, if you haven't heard, Nigeria brings in about 40% of profits for both entities and while I would never advocate any form of violence but the power of economic boycott would have an impact on both entities. And for the record, the same crimes you accuse other Africans of, MTN and Shoprite are guilty of. They have poor staffing practices, cheat Nigerians of our hard earned money and don't build capacity of our people.

Finally, lol at Shoprite and MTN hiring millions of Nigerians...you might as well have said billions now...donkey

Because of 6000 Nigerian employees of MTN and less than 1000 workers for shoprite .... you can hold a country of over 170million people to ransom. .. Rubbish. Who told this man that South Africa is the richest economy in Africa? Even the little they have is successful because there is a market in Nigeria that welcomes them. We are not attacking South African businesses because we are better than that; but watch it - The gentility of a tiger is not a symbol of humility

fitzmayowa:
Mike ipoki is the current CEO of mtn nigeria, so mtn nigeria is under a nigerian...

He is a figure head, all the profit is sent back to South Africa.. The 2010 worldcup hosted in South Africa was majorly sponsored by MTN with Nigerian money

Goke7:
fashola for FCT minister will be limiting, I need fashola on a more National scale pls

Fashola would be more relevant to Nigerians as Minister of Interior

nerodenero:
In a sane society, her family and the other thieves would either be rendered politically incapacitated or in jail serving one offence or another.

its Just Like Idi Amins kids clamoring to rule Uganda

godson36:
I will tell my father to take note of that state "Delta". That state really need change in their life..

"Call Me GMB son"

Sai Baba.

Sai Son

Delta state is in bondage, no other party can win elections in Delta except PDP, all the INEC officials were recommended and employed by PDP chieftains. When I worked with INEC in 2007, I realized that even the security and pressmen are bribed to remain loyal.

I see Nigeria Naturally Knocking into shape... Buhari is a Man that desperately wants to put Nigeria in order, Godbless Nigerians for making the right decision.

buskie13:
Obama is a scallywag... any objections?

y can't he mind his business... attention seeking bas.tard

GEJ till 2019

Yeye dey smell.... the world is a global community now, GEJ's cluelessness is not only affecting Nigerians, its disturbing the whole world.

In 1999 the military regime handed over power to a civilian government in Nigeria. The political bottle changed, but the military wine in it remained the same.

Always elections are rigged at all levels, the ruling party rigs and the opposition party rigs; all in all the party with the highest rigging structure always wins the election in Nigeria. In the past in most areas in Nigeria, elections didn’t even hold, the ruling party just write results from the comfort of their homes and the electoral body (INEC) announces it.

This has been the foundation of corruption in Nigeria. Politicians get into office and instead of serving the Nigerian people, they now owe their allegiance to the godfathers that rig the system to get them into office.

In 1999, the military spared no effort in rigging the system to make sure one of their own emerged as president, The opposition party candidate Chief Olu Falaye of the APP/AD cried out helplessly in the face of the obvious manipulations that went on, but there were no institutions to listen to his plea, the judiciary was still under the control of the men with guns (The Military), and so general Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP was sworn in as president.

In 2003, General Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP contested against General Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP. I worked as an adhoc staff then for the electoral body during the elections and I saw firsthand how elections were conducted in the Niger-Delta. The governors and major chieftains to the ruling party are actually the employers of majority of the men and women in charge of election. Elections didn’t even hold over there, they just write results and the stooges of the ruling party working in INEC just announce false results; irrespective of what happens in the streets, the military will always be sent to brutalize the noisy Nigerians.

General Buhari went to court to challenge the result, the case dragged for 30 months, at the end, the Nigerian Judiciary that is yet to express independence succumbed to the ruling party PDP, and the circle of corruption, deprivation of the masses, unaccountability, and deceit and murdering of our institutions continued.

In 2007, the worst election ever held in Africa’s history by my own estimation was conducted under President Obasanjo where results were announced on television and radio stations by Professor Maurice Iwu the then INEC chairman, even though days after the election ballot papers were yet to arrive in some communities and wards for them to vote.

Again General Muhamadu Buhari went to court to challenge the absurdity organized by President Obasanjo which he called elections. After 18 months the case got to the supreme courts consisting of 7 judges. The all agreed the election was messy, but somehow the judges allowed the mess to go unaddressed, and the candidate of the ruling party Umaru Yaradua remained as president even though he himself acknowledged that the elections that brought him to power was rigged; and so the mess continued, corruption, deprivation, unaccountability, godfatherism etc.

In 2011, a popular candidate was running under the platform of the ruling party, President Goodluck Jonathan had the sympathy of Nigerians, he said he had no shoes and the millions of poor people in Nigeria identified with that situation and supported him. There was almost no need to rig the elections because Nigerians queued up for him and made sure he won, however the fraudulent electoral system remained unchanged and uncorrected.

This is 2015 – four years after, and President Jonathan has betrayed the love and trust of majority of Nigerians. He has presided over the massacre of Nigerians in the north east, having recorded the highest number of deaths of innocent Nigerians in his administration since the Nigeria/Biafra civil war of the 1960’s due to his naivety and refusal to defend innocent Nigerians living in the north east from a rag tag insurgent group called Bokoharam.

President Jonathan abused the mandate given to him freely by Nigerians with his obvious lack of appetite to fight corruption. The Nigerian President surrounds himself with so many dubious characters and charlatans that shade him from the truth about what is going on in the streets of Nigeria; the President even said that the fact that a lot of his cronies are buying private jets is a sign of Nigeria’s prosperity.

His six year reign has being plagued with series of corruption scandals from ‘trillions stolen in phony petroleum subsidy contracts to bribery everywhere’, Stella Oduah’s aviation scandal, stealing of pension fund of Nigerian workers and pension fund of even the police, and yet no big wig is in jail for these wrongs, in fact President Jonathan protects the corrupt elites.

President Jonathan was never prepared for leadership, it fell on him. That’s why he still doesn’t understand the value of leadership. He got into power and immediately outsourced the work of the economy to the former vice president of the World Bank Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Nigerians expected him to lead but instead he spent his six years playing internal politics within his party seeking a second term, with the hope that the fraudulent electoral system he inherited from General Obasanjo will always work for him, and the Nigerian Judiciary can never pass a judgement against an incumbent Nigerian president.

However there is a joker for the Nigerian people this time, the electoral body has gone for biometric voting to almost eliminate electoral fraud, snatching of ballot boxes, having cronies of the ruling party write results from their bedrooms etc. President Jonathan was busy playing internal politics and weakening his party (the ruling PDP) to further his ambition only to wake up one morning and realize its election time and there was nothing to show for six years but sorrow, tears and blood all over the north east. President Jonathan is now scavenging looking for projects to show to Nigerians, but leadership is not about projects only, even a fool can start a project.

Political Leadership is all about inspiring confidence, giving your people a direction, a focus, a goal and a reason to hope for a better society where they can dream higher with the evident possibility of achieving their dreams.

This coming election Nigeria is less about the contestants President Jonathan or General Buhari, it’s about the Nigerian people, and the eagerness to own the process and take control of their destiny, to break away from the claws of a ruling elite that has bleed the nation dry for 16 long years. The huge votes against President Jonathan would be protest votes against a demonic elite that would steal public funds to buy private jets, pay themselves obnoxious salaries and allowances in the midst of so much poverty in the land, destroy the public health sector because they can afford medical tourism, allow our public schools to dilapidate because they have enough to put their children in schools abroad, even when millions of Nigerians go to bed every night hungry with nothing to eat.

President Jonathan, discovering so late in the game that his time is almost up, he is now playing his last cards which might put Nigerian in jeopardy just like he has weakened and destroyed his party the PDP. Sensing imminent defeat, the President through his national security adviser asked for elections to be postponed by 6weeks by sabotaging the electoral body INEC through refusing to provide security with the excuse that the army is now ready to go on a belated offensive against Bokoharam, after 6years of trauma, loss of businesses, homes and properties in the north eastern part of Nigeria and an estimate 18,000 innocent deaths – President Jonathan now using 6 weeks to solve the problem of insurgency. Where was this idea all this long while before the last week to the elections?

If President Jonathan wins this war against insurgency within these six weeks, it means he always knew what to do and didn’t do it, thereby allowing the insurgency to spread and his people die in vain.

If President Jonathan loses the war, the shame of incompetence continues.

The loopholes have being blocked by INEC, the rigging advantage of the ruling party has being reduced by the introduction of biometric voting. President Jonathan is playing his card of mischief, first by sabotaging the electoral body to postpone the election. What next is on his mind?

The attempt by President Jonathan to sack the Chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body six weeks to elections and replace him with an unscrupulous character to turn the electoral commission upside down and Jonathan as President.
The attempt to frustrate and stop the use of the card readers for the elections, by hiring crowds to protest at the INEC office at every opportunity and sponsoring pliant characters to continue casting aspersions on the electoral body to bring down the institution.
The careless ravishment of public funds to induce and buy voters.
The pursuit of an Interim National Government in the place of election. etc.

If any of these happens, it means Nigerians have a leader who would prefer to win an election and loss a nation by destroying a democracy he never fought for.

Worse still, President Jonathan has unleashed his fixers to go sponsoring hate documentaries on television and blackmailing the opposition.

Every nation has its trying times, and Nigeria continues this long march to emancipation from the clutches of its political elites, I call on world leaders not to ignore the fraudulent chess game going in the Nigerian polity powered by greed and lust for power and not for the service of the Nigerian people, @BarackObama, The British Prime Minister David Cameron @Number10gov, The Chinese President #XiJinping, German Chancellor Angela #Merkel etc. not to allow the unclean politics played by some naive and lucky politicians to destroy Nigeria.

No country can exist and prosper alone, if not for the support from the international community, South Africa would most probably still be in apartheid, and keep destroying itself.

If not for the international community there would be no South Sudan, and the Sudan nation would still be destroying itself.

At such a time as this, the Nigerian nation needs same support to stop a desperate incumbent and it’s beneficiaries from bringing down the Nigerian roof with their personal ambitions and turning more and more poor Nigerians into refugees within their own country or refugees in neighbouring countries as we have now in Chad, Cameroun and Niger.



By Chinedu Enebeli

Calljonas@yahoo.com, Twitter@calljonas

Source: http://www.citizensepistle.com/2015/02/nigerias-long-march-to-freedom-a-clarion-call-to-world-leaders/

The fear of General Buhari is the beginning of wisdom for Goodluck Jonathan supporters. So GEJ prefers a kwankwanso that he may defeat to a Buhari that will crush him at the polls? No wonder they are focusing on mischief asking for a 53yrs old certificate.. I wonder why the PDP didn't ask for General Obasanjos certificate when he contested.... make Baba Iyabo slap them

The President Nigeria Needs: At Such a Time as This

http://www.citizensepistle.com/2014/11/the-president-nigeria-needs-at-such-a-time-as-this/

The President Nigeria Needs: At Such a Time as This
http://www.citizensepistle.com/2014/11/the-president-nigeria-needs-at-such-a-time-as-this/

The President Nigeria Needs: At Such a Time as This
http://www.citizensepistle.com/2014/11/the-president-nigeria-needs-at-such-a-time-as-this/

some abandoned projects in bayelsa

How to Defraud a Nation and Enslave the Next Generation: the Nigerian Example

For more elaborate photos on abandoned projects on yearly budgets view the source at

http://jonasenebeli..com/2013/03/how-to-defraud-nation-and-enslave-next.html


Nigeria: officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean.
Nigeria’s major source of earning is crude oil and the financial structure of the government is such that all national earnings are managed at the federal level and shared between the three tiers of government: The Federal, The State and the Local government. So every month our 36 state governors’ head to Abuja to get a cheque for monies accrued to the states and their local governments respectively.

The state governors are supposed to use the funds from the federal government as well as internally generated revenues to develop and run their respective states; the level of development in every state cannot go beyond the level of the management competence and integrity of managers in the state, so we have had a situation in Nigeria were money meant for development and creation of opportunities for the people of the state are mismanaged and in most cases out rightly stolen. You might see some work done at the state capitals but a step into other towns and villages outside the capital in all states you will be attacked by such a high level of poverty, lack of opportunities, failed or no infrastructures at all, a crumbled educational setup and a hopeless future for children born in such communities.

Since 1960, over $600 billion in oil revenues has flowed into Nigeria’s coffers; it represents an opportunity unavailable to much of the developing world. These petrodollars could have been spent pro­duc­tively, and could have transformed agriculture, laid the foundation for an effective public education system, provided much-needed infrastructure. Yet, according to the World Bank, of that $600 billion, $300 billion has simply disappeared into overseas bank accounts through theft and corruption. We paid a visit to some of the states in Nigeria and below are what we found out about there budgets on projects and how public funds are looted:


In Bayelsa State, the state of President Goodluck Jonathan, and former governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha who was convicted and pardoned by the President
The state government planned upgrading of 5 secondary schools to boarding schools, N2B ($12.5M) was budgeted in 2012 and N135M ($850k) in 2010. We paid a visit to Sagbama, Kaiama, Nembe and Ogbia. No Upgrade was done.


Fencing of schools – N200M ($1.3M) in 2012, N200M ($1.3M) in 2011 and N150M ($1M) in 2010. In all schools visited no fencing exists at most you see very old fences like this one.


At chief Melford Okilo Memorial Hospital – N1.4B ($8.8M) was budget in 2012, N6B ($37.5M) in 2011, N415M ($2.6M) in 2010, N3.5B ($22M) in 2009. The project has been completed but abandoned and non-functional.


Completion of on-going health facilities- N350M ($2.2M) was budgeted in 2012, N986M ($6.2M) in 2011 but no facility was completed in 2012 or 2011.

Construction and renovation of General Hospitals- N1.8B ($12M) was budgeted in 2012 on visit to the general hospital Sagbama, no renovation has taken place- here is a photo

At the General Hospital Ogbia, the facility has stopped being a hospital out of neglect, being rented out as apartment, even though its been budgeted for by the state government.


Fencing and Landscaping of “School-to-Land Authority” Premises – N45m ($280K) was budgeted and nothing was done. The facility is currently abandoned.

Bayelsa State Rice Training and Seed Multiplication center – N150M ($1M) was budgeted, site is abandoned and no work done.

Construction of veterinary clinic and provision of equipment at Edepie – N100M ($625K) was budget in 2012, N60m ($375K) in 2010, and N100M ($625k) in 2009. No construction done at all.


Construction and Development of storage facilities of aquaculture center at Edepie – N300M ($1.9M) was budgeted in 2012 at the project site no construction was done.
Home Economics Center at St. Jude Girls Secondary school Amarata – N11.7M ($73K) was budgeted in 2012, but the existing facility no longer exists as the dilapidated infrastructure has been taken over by the police: see photo below

Construction of 3 Senatorial Model Secondary Schools in Nembe, Sagbama & Yenagoa; N2billion ($12.5M) was budgeted in 2012; N1.4billion ($8.75M) in 2011; N2billion ($12.5M) in 2010

At Yenago site of project, 80% completion recorded, but was being used as a flood relief camp when we visited.


In Sagbama, the site was covered by flood, but community said no work had begun.

At Nembe site work was just 10 percent, but had since stopped. Nothing was done in 2012

Medical equipment for health centres: N300million ($1.9M) was budgeted. At Kaiama Comprehensive Health Center, last supply was 2010

Medical equipment for health centres: N300million ($1.9M) was budgeted. At Sagbama Comprehensive Health Center, last supply was 2010

Medical equipment for health centres: N300million ($1.9M) Comprehensive Heath Nembe. No supply was made.


Bayelsa has arguably the largest recurrent expenditure profile in Nigeria. In 2010 it was 64% and 2011 it was 58%.

Reports indicate that Bayelsa State has a debt liability of N167.1billion and is only second to Lagos State in Nigeria’s debt burden. As at 2012 ending, Bayelsa state owed external debt of $28billion (I don’t know how else to enslave a generation – so sad).

2012 Security Vote for the Bayelsa State Governor was N3billion ($18.8M) - Higher than funds to Social Development, Rural Development, Water Supply and Industry, combined! (The security vote is an amount allocated to all the state governors by the president for them to secure themselves and the governors are not required to account for it).

When some intelligent activists come on television accusing the federal government of not developing the oil producing communities, its laughable because the first question should first go to the state governors, but they can’t point fingers at the governors at that local level because they will take you out so easily and the police will do nothing about it.

To put more money into the hands of these governors under this current arrangement and government structure is like pouring water into a leaking basket.

Corruption in Nigeria is not by chance. It is a deliberate well thought out scheme by public officers, a machinery that is in motion against its people that is why the President recently advised all opposition politicians to join his party the PDP so that there will be no opposition to this strategy of ruins. Recently the governor of Bayelsa state constituted a committee against rumor mongers – This is what his priorities are, when governors like him all around the world have conquered space and building paradise on earth, his government is inaugurating committees on rumor mongering.



In Delta State, the state of the former James Ibori, the ex governor currently in jail in the UK who handed over to his relative Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan: this was our observation.

Going through a chronicle of the state budget and actual work done, we observed the following - Reactivation of Aviara Fish Farm. Was allocated N10m ($62.5k) in 2012; N90.9m ($568k) in 2011 No work was done. Project lies abandoned.

Renovation of Ika Grammar School Boji Boji, Owa. Got N3.7million ($21.9k) in 2012 as budget and N5million ($31k) in 2011. Nothing was done

Agbor Fish Hatching- N2.5m ($15.6K) in 2012 and N2.6m ($16.25k) in 2011. No work was done, not a single fish was seen.

Perimeter Fencing and Gate House, Girls Secondary School Onisha- Ugbo, allocated N1million ($6.25k) in 2012. Project does not exist
Renovation and Equipping of Owhelegbo Grammer Sch, Isoko North. N35m ($218k) in 2010 & N2m ($12.5k) 2011. Project was not implemented.



Fencing of Ndemili Cottage Hospital N5.4million ($34k) allocated in 2011. On visit we saw this old collapsing fence and gate.
Rehabilitation of Primary Health Centre Umuaja N10million ($62.5k) in 2011 & N28million ($175k) in 2010. No work done

Renovation and Fencing of Nshiagu College, Ugwashi-Ukwu. N22m in 2011 and N35million (138k) in 2010. No work done

Construction of Examination Hall, Akwukwu-Igbo Grammar School. N8m ($50k) in 2011 & N15m ($94K) in 2010. Building already collapsing

In 2012, Delta Governor presented a budget of N383.3b ($2.4B) to the Assembly; they added another N54b ($337.5M) for no reason saying budget was not enough.
In the 2012 Education budget of Delta state, 66.8% of projects allocated funds had already been allocated funds in previous budgets years.

In the 2012 Delta state budget for health out of 254 projects, only 13 are new. The rest have been receiving funds in previous years!
Internally generated fund in Delta State is negligible. Delta is the most secretive state in the Niger Delta. They never made budgets available on their website, and when we asked for it at the ministry, we got criminal treatment, first question they ask is "What do you want it for?" "Who sent you?" Very scary! After all these wastages and lootings, the Debt Management Office declared on its website that Delta State owes external debts to the tone of $18.9million

he minister for information in Nigeria recently carried our a good governance tour we they celebrated mediocrity all through: Citizens’ report is what we need in Nigeria not governance tour.





In Akwa-Ibom State, the richest oil producing state in Nigeria, and the state that prides itself with the slogan “uncommon transformation” – this was our discovery.
In 2012, Akwa-Ibom budgeted N2.4 billion ($15M) for an Ibom Science Park; in 2011 they budgeted N2billion ($12.5M); in 2010 - N2.5billion ($15.7M) - That science park lies long abandoned in a thick bush in Uyo. No money was expended in 4 Years

In 2012, Akwa Ibom state budgets N200m ($1.25M) to transport school kids. In 2011 - N200m ($1.25M); 2010 - N195m ($1.2M). Not a single bus was purchased.

The 2012 budget provides for school feeding - N40m ($250k) in 2011 and N300M ($1.9M) in 2010. Not one spoon of food has ever been given to the pupils or secondary school students of Akwa-Ibom State.
Akwa-Ibom Budgets for free exercise books for school. N1billion ($6.25M) in 2010 and N500m ($3.2M) in 2011. Not one was printed.

Building a Model Sec. School at Ekparakwa: N1b ($6.25M) was budgeted in 2011; N500m ($3.2M) in 2010. This Project was long accomplished by the previous administration of Victor Attah but abandoned in a forest. Nothing has been happening there in 4yrs.



This school for physically challenged was allocated N60million ($375k) in 2012. Nothing was done.

Akwa Ibom government says 3 of these solar panels cost N150million ($940k) in 2012

This skills acquisition centre Abak - the government said it was renovated with N300million ($1.9M). Nothing was done

80% of budgeted projects in Akwa Ibom are never executed, a legacy of wastage all round the country.
Akwa ibom is one of the states that don’t have its budget online, not even the governor's budget speech - Very secretive.

In 2012 Akwa Ibom state government passed perhaps the largest supplementary budget for a state. N125b, ($782B) bringing its 2012 budget to a total of N522b ($3.3B).Much higher than a lot of countries in Africa.

Poverty has so stricken the people that the basis of evaluating performances of leaders is not based on a well thought out vision for the state and a strategic plan of reaching those goals but leaders a praised based on some infrastructures here and some there while the bulk of the funds are looted.
This is the phenomenon all over the country, the debt management office of Nigeria released on its website the level of indebtedness by the country, all the 36 states, the federal capital Abuja and the federal government are all owing huge amounts that the next generation would have to cope with:


External debts alone, as at dec 2012 are as follows. Mind you, domestic debts are far higher, and more secret

Kano owes $61.7million
Katsina owes $74.6million
Akwa Ibom owes $61.6 million
Cross River owes $113million
Kebbi owes $47.8million
Kogi owes $33.8million
Imo owes $51.9million
Kwara owes $45.5million
Lagos owes $611.2 million
Nassarawa owes $36.9 million
Kaduna owes $215.6million
Niger owes $29.7million
Anambra owes $26.7million
Ogun state owes $102million
Ondo owes $51.8 million
Osun owes $62.7million
Oyo owes $76.6million
Plateau owes $21.9million
Rivers owes $36.6million
Jigawa owes $33.6million
Gombe owes $31.7million
Enugu owes $50million
Delta owes $18.9million
Ekiti owes $36.1million
Edo owes $42.7 million
Ebonyi owes $41.5million
Bayelsa owes $28million
Bornu owes $24.1million
Benue owes 28.4million
Bauchi owes $67.1million
Adamawa owes $30.2million
Abia state owes $35.9 million

At the subsidy protest of January 2012 one of our great musicians Femi Kuti made a comment that when he was a little boy, it was still these same problems of corruption and lack of accountability that his father the Legendary Fela Kuti fought and sang about, he is fifty years old and its still the same story. The British bequeathed to us a system that worked and was sustainable through hard work and production, the military came and destroyed it and today governance has been reduced to mere transactions.

sammyudoh: I see no harm in the general telling nigerians in the diaspora the truth about their father's land. Or what do you expect a man of proven integrity to do

Is that all he can see about Nigeria? why act like their are no more opportunities or hope in Nigeria. Your hatred for Obasanjo and the PDP translate into hatred for your country oga soldier

Wadeoye: How many people (northers and southers) voted for Shekarau? The man doesnt stand for the change we need in Nigeria. It is not about a northerner winning - it is about having a president that will turn the table in favour of the majority of Nigerians.

You are right sir, you opinion would stand in a country like the United states, but as for Nigeria we are still young and polarized, and in need of a lot of ethnic balancing at this time to sustain the nations existence.

Wadeoye: Tell me what Shekarau stands for apart from talking?

People dont just vote my man... They follow a candidate for a tangible reason - a reason that represents a departure from the past. What does Shekarua has that points to departure from the status quo? What did do in Kano as a governor? Any landmark achievement or initiative or approach to leadership?

Present Shekarau and you will be put the north in the waiting hands of PDP.

I still have a video of the last presidential debate and he think he is better than any northerner I know, lets be realistic - the next election would be won by a northerner going by political calculations.

APC- Managing the Ambitions, the Egos and presenting a credible candidate

Reference from : http://jonasenebeli..com

There is the saying that a nation deserves the leadership it gets, that has being an unfair judgment on the Nigerian people, because an election is like a beauty contest, you can only choose from amongst the contestants various cartels or political parties put up, thus we had always chosen the best of the devils presented to us.

I want to use this opportunity to welcome the newest and biggest opposition political party in Nigeria, it’s our desire that the APC matures and grows from strength to strength; only then can our politics be balanced and we would enjoy the dividends of competitive ideas geared towards progress and development.

For the APC to stand the test of time, they have got to have a high level of stakeholder management. A lot of politicians come into APC with the sole aim of becoming president by 2015. While APC offers an alternative vehicle it’s still a teething party. Even the PDP with over a decade of leadership in Nigeria, still engage a great deal in managing the ambitions of its members, that’s how they came up with the infamous zoning formula; they have also been able over the years to negotiate and agree on consensus candidates while settling other ambitious politicians into other political positions with the hope of being future candidates of the party. Stakeholder management is very essential for a teething party like the APC.

The primary goal of the APC should be to produce credible candidates that can inspire Nigerians, revive our spirit of patriotism, make us believe again that Nigeria can work; people that really care, respect and believe in the Nigerian peoples ‘desire to succeed; candidates that most importantly can win an election at the federal level. The political interest hierarchy should be - The Nation first, the Party second and individual ambitions follow.
It’s the hope of the Nigerian people that the APC would present candidates that can win but primarily candidates that reflect the decency of the Nigerian people.

It’s not my desire to be any politicians Rambo, because they could get into power and become worse than the predecessors; But I hope that the APC can present someone with the passion to address the real issues of how well public spending and policies will help transform the structure of the economy and rapidly create opportunities to absorb our teeming population in search of good jobs.

Nevertheless I wish the APC can come to support a Ibrahim Shekarau/Adams Oshiomole candidacy through negotiation and consensus amongst the leadership and elder states men, because trying to conduct an unmanaged primary at this teething stage would raise a lot of dust and unsettle the party like what happen in 2003 with the ANPP.

The success of the PDP over the years has been its ability to manage the egos of its ambitious politicians before its primaries. There has always been an all night meeting before the delegates of the PDP go to cast their votes for primaries in the convention. This may not be seen as a textbook approach of practicing internal democracy but it’s the best way to manage and settle the leadership that made the merger possible, manage our ethnic diversity, and the egos of ambitious politicians, and enable all party members work together.

I listened to the last presidential debate and was convinced that Shekarau has a more coordinated vision as president than his other contestants including the eventual winner of the election, especially concerning the police institution and security in general. Kano state has been known over the year as the hub of ethnic crisis in the north, but during his eight years as governor of Kano state he did a good job in taming or managing the hoodlums and was able to secure lives and property in the state. I think he is better qualified to bring the northern part of the country back to order, revive the economy of the region and cement that Nigerian identity which been shaky over the years.

Adams Oshiomole on the other hand has been an inspiration to the Nigerian youth, everybody wants to hear him talk because he inspires confidence and that is what the Nigerian people need at this stage in our national live, someone to let us know our relevance in the global stage today; someone that can communicate the truth to the Nigerian people that we are not just a great nation but one of the greatest nations on earth with an equal proportion of Christians and Muslims spread over the country, we can be an example to the world, if we can leave in harmony then the countries in the middle east have no reasons for acquiring nuclear weapons and threatening the whole earth. Nigeria is actually the hope of the earth.

They are other great personalities like Governor Fashola who would be fantastic as minister of works and Gen Buba Marwa and several square pegs that would fit in rebuilding the economy and our social lives.

Whatever the arrangements are, APC should have a meeting with all major stakeholders in the party and agree on a consensus candidate before primaries, if they don’t do this they will be giving the PDP the opportunity to infiltrate the party with mercenaries that would cause frictions within and affect the soul of the party.

Monday, 25 February 2013
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No country in the world truly develops without being known with something unique, as a matter of fact the extent of relevance of a nation in the world today is a function of the value that nation is adding to the world economy at large. As such countries like The United States are tagged as indispensible because of their immense influence in the world today: influence in Science and Technology, Medicine, Media and even weaponry.

The greatness of any nation is dependent on how far the people are willing to go, and how far the people go is a function of its leadership. Today’s world is not ruled my big governments but by big corporations and it takes visionary leadership in government to create the enabling environment and the right policies for small businesses to thrive and grow into big corporations.

The pride of the USA today is in companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, General Motors, Cisco, Exxon Mobil etc and other small businesses that invent spare parts and tools that the big corporations depend on. Without these large corporations and active small/medium enterprises the United State would not in anyway be different from African countries.

The Chinese realized these things early and their government started creating the right environment to grow world class corporations, at first they were copying technology, simulating what others have already produced but today they have carved out an identity for themselves with world class corporations sending space ships to the moon, installing satellites in orbit, building aircrafts and dominating the world of mobile technology with large corporations like Huawei and ZTE.



Over the decades in Nigeria and till today, we have leaderships that go about suppressing the talents of its people, blocking opportunities that would bring out the stars.

The growth of the music and movie industry in Nigeria today (Nollywood) has been phenomenal; by the mere dint of hard work of a few individuals, a world renowned industry has emanated, yet the federal government has not had the foresight and the political will to enforce copyright and piracy laws to protect the intellectual properties so that more people can explore creativity as a means of earning a living either as song writers, script writer, movie producers, record labels etc. ( Alaba market is still operated in the open).

California, a state in the USA would be the eight riches country in the world if it was a standalone nation, and the heart of its wealth is the entertainment industry “Hollywood” tagged number 1 in the world. The industry thrives because of strong laws by the government protecting intellectual properties.


It takes visionary leadership to realize that money is not just the piece of paper you have in your wallet or the huge credit in your bank account, but money is an idea. An idea well harnessed and packaged in Nigeria can be worth as much as Exxon Mobil or Microsoft Corporation in the USA, but only a leadership that respects its people can see it and achieve it.

Go to our universities and see records of thousands of projects that have been completed and submitted by graduates, research works that are enough to start up companies and create jobs for thousands of people are gathering dust in the faculty libraries; with no vision and direction to aid budding entrepreneurs into starting up something, instead we import everything including low grade generators that Nigerian engineering students built for their projects from china, textile materials and even tooth-pick.


Our refineries are not functioning to full capacity, their production is not enough to meet our internal requirements; but some young men in the Niger Delta area fabricated materials and indulge in local refining of crude. Of course they pollute the environment and their product fall some worth short of global standards, but taking into cognizance the fact that these young men have already done the hard job of fabricating tools for refining oil, a government that cares about its people would probably send these men to training, give them a license and help them in accessing loans or subsidies to enable them operate better and improve their technology and employ more people, but instead the Nigerian federal government would send the military Joint Task Force to butcher its own people with their obvious talents back into unemployment even though they trying to meet a societal need in the country.



In the northern part of the country, you see families and communities mining mineral resources locally to the detriment of their own health, instead of giving out small scale licenses to companies to absolve these people and standardize the working procedures, and produce more in a safer environment, all we keep hearing are manifestoes.
No country can grow above the quality of the generality of its people; if you do not carry everyone along those on the ground will be pulling the rest down. Every country’s GDP is a function of the peoples GMO (Gross Mental Output), growth and development will not happen by accident, if there is no strategic plan to plug Nigeria into the league of emerging economies no amount of chorused slogan will do the job, whether we call it “transformation agenda” or “vision 2020”, and if there is a strategic plan it will be seen and the people will be sensible enough to support what is good for their benefit.

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sage_: Imagine the dictators, bigots, propagandists and impostors of APC having the kind power of PDP, what do you think they will do with it? Fashola could not allow a legitimate protest against the fraudulent Lekki toll. Protesters were molested and two people lost their lives and yet these people still possessed the audacity to spew nonsense. PDP might have led us down but APC is definitely not a viable alternative at the center. They all belong the same category of Nigerians-looters.

The merger is the only way to compete with PDP, two competing parties is better than one fraudulent and demonic monopolic PDP

In search of a few good men and women with the love of God in their hearts to steer the affairs of this Great Nation Nigeria. As 2015 beckons, suggest names of people and reasons why.

I personally suggest Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Tony Elumelu, because I believe Nigeria is more in need of an economic revolution, as such successful business men with great minds are in the best position to attempt making Nigeria one of the greatest nations on earth as opposed to the current shallow minded politicians and ethnic bigots that are suffocating our political parties.

Even with our state of lack of vision for the past decades, becoming the greatest black nation on earth or the giant of Africa still looks within reach. To our leadership Africa means bad roads, poor education, poor health infrastructure etc; such lowered expectation has encouraged mediocrity in leadership. But a vision such as BECOMING THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH is tasking and challenging enough to inspire discipline, focus and hardwork amongst our leadership, our followership and children of the next generation.
And this vision now gives our political parties direction and the job of drawing a plan and intellectualizing Nigerians on how they intend to achieve this vision. How they intend to utilize the oil in the south-south, the food basins in the middlebelt, oil palm in the east, groundnut pyramids in the north, the gold, timber, ire ore and mineral resources scattered all over the country and most importantly the army of over 150 million hardworking Nigerians to become the Greatest Nation on earth.
A national Idea like this will affect how we choose our leaders and the quality of individuals that put themselves up for leadership, a national idea when imbibed will affect our educational system, courses would be prioritized and customized to produce citizens that can harness our available resources to meet set goals which are milestones to the big vision.
But the lack of a national vision or a national idea that we have come to believe in, is the reason our leaders are disconnected from their people. So we should stop lowering our expectations and ask questions our leaders questions with the mindset that we can be one of the greatest nations on earth. twitter.com/calljonas

Bottom line, she is mobile and not treking

the pix seems quite heavy

Just back from port harcourt and boy what did I see? the worst port airport ever, I begin to wonder some governors have no shame, that Peter Odili used this office for 8 years and allowed the place to dilapidate like this and now the new governor is following suit, I almost got lynched for taking shots from my phone,but this is hoping that by advertising the failures of some of our leaders to the whole of Nigerians, some of them would be motivated to become responsible. from the waiting lounge pay close attention to the roof without ceilings and florescent bulbs, don't even go to the washroom. here are some pictures, i will feed you guys with more later.

I just read a book online entitled 3 kinds of leaders, amazing analysis on nigeria leaders past and present, the reason for Boko haram and other militant groups, those behind it, and how now nigeria is been doctored to continually rigmarole and not come out of its mess, and also where to find help, and how 2015 might change the life of nigerians all around the world. its on sale all over the world through one of the most reputable online publishers in the U.S.A, you can see for yourselves on www.lulu.com

I just read a book online entitled 3 kinds of leaders, amazing analysis on nigeria leaders past and present, the reason for Boko haram and other militant groups, those behind it, and how now nigeria is been doctored to continually rigmarole and not come out of its mess, and also where to find help, and how 2015 might change the life of nigerians all around the world. its on sale all over the world through one of the most reputable online publishers in the U.S.A, you can see for yourselves on www.lulu.com