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Purely speculative crap. I personally don't believe Nigeria will be there in 2050 to be the so called 10th largest economy in the world. Think about it, if people are willing to blow up themselves to make a cheap political point,you imagine those people are concerned about GDP growth?
If a former military dictator will say he shall spill the blood of infidels if he lose an election,do you think such a fellow is concerned about Nigeria's potential as a nation? Those who sponsor violence and Boko Haram are not too concerned about Nigeria's future promise in 2050, if not people like Senator Ndume and others like him will not be giving Boko Haram terrorists vital national security info. to kill the security agents fighting to keep Nigeria united.

Komla Dumor was 100% correct when he said, all these projections are good.But will Nigeria be in existence to see that glory? Ghana perhaps is a prosperous African state which will perhaps live to see that glorious day. As it is better managed and more peaceful country.

If it is true that MASSOB is demanding Rev. King's release instead of fighting for compensation for those who lost their lives and properties at the recent Kano terror attack and the Ezu River multiple murders, then MASSOB has lost my respect and shall henceforth be regarded as a criminal organization in my opinion. For fighting the cause of a common criminal using the name of Christianity to rape,pillage and murder young girls instead of fighting for innocent people killed merely for being in a car park or just being southerners.

hehehe, laf wan kill me ooo! The guy already told us our immigration system is a joke.

kettykin: you claim to know the difference between FX and GDP, can you explain how a state like Osun with no definite economic base besides
a River Goddess and some hectares of indian hemp farms is rated higher than Anambra state that has seversl large and medium scale enterprises including automobile and auto parts manufacturing firms, large scale breweries and pharmaceutical firms , Medium scale petrochemical refinery and the largest distributive / retail business in the whole of Africa

, you don catch dem

kettykin: I cant help but laugh at some of the statistics people bandy about on the internet, some time ago it was about some states with no productive base except india hemp farms having higher GDPs than even states with large oil and gas companies .

One can not help but notice how some Universities that have no known historical achievements like University of Illorin being rated one of the best Universities in Nigeria while Universities that have churned out world class achievers like the University of Benin, University of port harcourt and Namdi Azikiwe University are lowly rated.

What is really responsible for the high rating of the National Open University that is less than 10 years old and is not even accredited with NUC.

At the bottom of the least is Lagos Business school .

YOU GET THEIR TIME? All these university of okitipupa people here?
University of Ibadan always higher rated than the OAU was there and couldn't even come second. Talk-less of the crap OAU.
Go to Wikipedia and see how yoruba people so basterdized their site fixing fictitious population and GDP for Nigeria every minute that they just stopped the editing on nigeria page
But they still left the figure at the last edit during the editing war. So don't mind monkey using fake data they wrote themselves to try and deceive people more intelligent them.

billante: Dats not true!
Most of Nigerian side is being dualized especially from enugu side and towards abakiliki side while d cameroun side is not.

Why do people say what they don't know with fake authority? The Nigerian side isn't dualized .Just before entry into Abakaliki,Ebonyi state govt. dualized the part going through their state capital. The cameroon side does have better road markings and concrete side drainage, but isn't dualized either. Learn to say what you are sure of, there are people here who ply that road frequently.

Ringim should stop making excuses with Boko haram.He knows Boko Haram will not target him in Abuja.He is only afraid of being prosecuted for corrupt enrichment while in office.

Once Britain will not support the north with unrestrained flow of weapons,while strangling the south with arms embargo as they did before, the north is finished and they know it.

If his Yoruba kith and Kin Obasanjo and Oladipo Diya were pardoned for plotting coup, does Awo deserve pardon for plotting coups against Nigeria?

…As residents recount horrifying moments with assailants
For allegedly refusing some herdsmen the usage of their farmlands to graze their herds, no fewer than 21 people of Ketuland in Yewa North local government area of Ogun State were slaughtered while women, young and old, including a bride, were allegedly raped. Among those allegedly killed were five members of a family.

Some Ketuland residents stated these while narrating their ordeal in the hands of the herdsmen who, according to them, always lurked at the border areas close to their community at the approach of the dry season. They feared the same thing might happen this year unless urgent steps were taken to stop the herdsmen. Their spokesmen accused the state government of ignoring their cries for help, saying, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, that government seemed to value the herds more than human lives.

The spokesman told the story of a bride who was raped about 24 hours after she wedded on her way to fetch water from a river in the community.

The spokesman, Lasisi Adewole, who represented the leadership of socio-cultural groups, which included Ketu Advancement Front, Ketu Alliance and Ketu People’s Assembly, claimed that no fewer than 21 people have been killed since 2000 when the herdsmen first invaded their farmlands.

Adewole and three farmers in the area: Phillip Akanan from Owode-Ketu, Amosu Olofinjin and Akinola Tunde from Agbon-Ojodu, said they were fed up with the annual killings of their people by the marauding herdsmen.

They insisted that unless Ogun State government and security agencies took urgent steps, more lives would be wasted this dry season.
Herdsmen... as death merchants

Herdsmen… as death merchants

“Many of our sons and daughters have been gruesomely murdered in a manner that appears as if we don’t have government. Our brilliant ones including our wives have been raped, assaulted. How would you feel if I mention your wife’s name as one of those that have been raped by the cattle rearers? Many of our wives and daughters who have been raped were taken to hospital in Abeokuta, the state capital,” they said.

“We are losing people as well as being prevented from doing what we know how to do best because of the grazing of our farms by the herdsmen’s cattle. With the terrible experience of the raping of our daughters and ones, including the bride, our communities are no longer safe.

“In a matter of days, they will enter the country through our communities and destroy our farmlands with the indiscriminate grazing of their cattle. We are helpless and that’s why we are appealing to the state government to urgently checkmate them.”

Displaying the gory pictures of some of the victims, Adewole alleged that Ogun State government and the police had been footdragging on the killings and rape and even took sides with the herdsmen whenever they attempted to protect themselves against their onslaught”. According to Adewole, recently, they received calls from some of the herdsmen who threatened to enter their communities from Republic of Benin.

“It is against this backdrop that we want to draw the attention of the world to the failure of our government to guarantee our security as demanded of her by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The herdsmen may make good their threat having been receiving protection from our government,” he added.

“The result of this will be a repeat of what we have been experiencing in the past eleven years: murder of innocent people, robbery at gun point, raping of both young and old, especially children of school age, attack on our villages in the dead of the night, arson, destruction of farm produce and forced closure of schools.

“We have taken time to once again chronicle our plight and anguish to further underscore the fact that it is the Ketu people who bear the brunt of the avoidable Ketu/ herdsmen crisis and not any other people.”

The people demanded the execution of a 2007 Ilaro High Court judgment which barred the herdsmen from grazing their cattle in the area and the payment of compensation to the victims of past attacks by Ogun State government and the Yewa North Local Government.

They also called for investigation of the alleged extra-judicial killing of a Junior Secondary School 3 student of Area Community High School, Ibeku by the police. Reacting to the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said the Ketu people were only crying wolf.

He said: “The police could only ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order rather than stopping the herdsmen from coming into the area. They should not drag the police into the matter. “The state government and the House of Assembly have set up a committee on the matter. We are only waiting for the outcome of the exercise”. Also, the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, said the problem between the Ketu people and the herdsmen had been a recurrent one since the past 15 years.

Adeoluwa said the state government had set up a committee comprising the Ketu people, the herdsmen and government officials to tackle the problem. “These are unfair allegations. Recently, I held a meeting with them. The 30 villages in Ketu and the herdsmen too were represented. We’ve told the herdsmen to hold on, that we have set minimum standards for them.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/how-herdsmen-raped-bride-killed-21/

You be Boko Haram agent? Why you need the President's personal number?

ignis: Bros, you are not alone.
I will be leaving k town too very soon.

Wetin una still dey wait for? Abi na until una bomb mutilated dead body dey inside mortuary with many others dumped there wey una go leave? Oya remain and wait for Boko boys to change their mind.

OLUSEGUN MATHEW AREMU OBASANJO


The undisputed grandfather of corruption with hypocrisy.

Wow! I didn't know our Government had such sense!
At least this will encourage Toyota, Nissan, Honda and others to build assembly plants in Nigeria.
I'm surprised that our government still thinks pro- made in Nigeria.

IBB started economic reforms,created states to balance out the federation, did all in his power to unite the country.
OBJ leveled Odi and provoked militancy in Niger Delta,Pa Rewane and Bola Ige died mysteriously after the sounded discordant tunes,started ethnic politics again by resurrecting the memories of the civil war,Institutionalized corruption and failed to implement the 2005 constitutional conference which could have settled many problems we still have in Nigeria now. You Judge for yourself who hurt this nation more.

Shine1177: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/police-make-n-1m-from-kano-jigawa-road-checkpoints-daily/

Dutse—Each police check point along Kano-Jigawa highway make an average of N100,000 daily from the compulsory N20 ‘toll’ they collect from motorists travelling on the road, which leads to other north eastern states. No fewer than 5,000 vehicles ply the road daily.

Vanguard findings revealed that motorists pay the bribe to avoid being delayed by those manning the checkpoints. Those who fail to pay are delayed until they comply.

The checkpoints, which were re-introduced because of terrorists’ activities, have been turned into fast money-making avenues by the Police officers.

A commercial vehicle driver, Malam Abdullahi, lamented that most drivers were compelled to pay the fee as any attempt to resist the payment could infuriate the policemen into keeping the ‘’culprit’’ for a longer time. He added that commercial drivers spend between N120 and N140 at the various checkpoints on each trip between Jigawa and Kano states.

He said their union leaders once took a decision that drivers should stop paying money at the checkpoint. He said the action could not last more than 48 hours as they had to pay or park by the road side, wasting valuable time.

Vanguard also gathered that the police officers, who perpetrate the act, were posted from other states and were neither under Jigawa nor Kano states police commands.

They make N300 million naira daily on Onitsha-Owerri road daily.
More than 500 checkpoints for a 120 km road.

Baby mama: I can see someone is hungry and running low on sugar
Oya sister Desola here get yours Nne

The fish look exactly like Desola.

So why haven't they closed this thread? If na me start am about the demi-god, Pa Awo they will not only close it,but they will ban me for life and in the next life too