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[quote author=Lagos_Boi]forget the money he looted, you will also loot when you get there, he is better than those that codedly loot nowadays. The fact is that they know this country well enough to admit that we will split come 2015, i have noticed GEJ arrangements and i notice he is preparing for 2015 split not elections considering the military arrangements. The merging of political parties to battle Pdp. I smell doom for the name called Nigeria and i smell success for the Oduduwa and Hausas, I don't know for the Igbos because they were never united and i doubt if they will ever be. Pls don't say am tribalistic, it's my sincere opinion.[/quote]We have heard you, go ahead with your unity and new country. We have asked for this separation many years ago when you guys were sleeping, the unity of Igbo is beyond your knowledge, let us separate first before we should know what to do, i bet you will be very surprised and disappointed of your empty bragging.You are not only tribalistic but a BIGOT. Keep on hating the Igbo because the hatred of people like you to Igbo tribe is a big blessing to us. Let us all go to our different countries. We are not one, and will never be one in this kind of dead and rotten entity called Nigeria.Britain in their greed and wickedness just wasted a whole century for the Igbo, but we shall surely meet up with them in this life, hence there is life there is hope, but not in Nigeria , but in the Biafra Republic.

[quote author=Lagos_Boi]forget the money he looted, you will also loot when you get there, he is better than those that codedly loot nowadays. The fact is that they know this country well enough to admit that we will split come 2015, i have noticed GEJ arrangements and i notice he is preparing for 2015 split not elections considering the military arrangements. The merging of political parties to battle Pdp. I smell doom for the name called Nigeria and i smell success for the Oduduwa and Hausas, I don't know for the Igbos because they were never united and i doubt if they will ever be. Pls don't say am tribalistic, it's my sincere opinion.[/quote]We have heard you, go ahead with your unity and new country. We have asked for this separation many years ago when you guys were sleeping, the unity of Igbo is beyond your knowledge, let us separate first before we should know what to do, i bet you will be very surprised and disappointed of your empty bragging.You are not only tribalistic but a BIGOT. Keep on hating the Igbo because the hatred of people like you to Igbo tribe is a big blessing to us. Let us all go to our different countries. We are not one, and will never be one in this kind of dead and rotten entity called Nigeria.Britain in their greed and wickedness just wasted a whole century for the Igbo, but we shall surely meet up with them in this life, hence there is life there is hope, but not in Nigeria , but in the Biafra Republic.

Yes naa she need the mission house so that she can go there and have her taste of other young men’s bulala naa as her husband has decided to change soup, Dezani Allison Madueke’s Bayelsa mixed with Igbo onugbu soup now has captured her husband’s appetite, you want her to continue eating Obojo fish while her husband is busy eating an IMF/World Bank and Oily Ministers Congos? Man must wakk jare my people. Instead of her to continue to eat food poison in Aso Crock let her run for her dear life, after all our Oil money will never finish naa. Na God with Thunder from heaven will strike/kill anyone who ever thought of building that house. Edoooooooooooots.

Nigerians and their politicians are turning to different things nowadays in religion. This is another diversionary tricks by the corrupt senator, instead of facing the important issues in Nigeria he is busy calling for fasting and prayers. I980 Shagari was the president, Joseph Wayas was the senate president Nigeria won her first Nation Cup, there was no fasting and praying, 1985 Nigeria won the first U-17 World in China, Gen Buhari was there , no fasting and praying, 1993 second U-17, 1994 Nigeria won her second Nation Cup then was Sani Abacha no fasting and praying, 1996 football Gold in Olympics same Abacha no fasting and praying, 2007 U-17 Umaru Yaradua, no fasting and praying, all these victories were achieved through hard work, commitment, good programming, but today with the much rotten and decayed system, high rate of criminality excesses looting and senseless destruction of lives and properties , with hypocritical religious bigotries , Sadducee and Pharisees prayers to God that is very tired of Nigerian’s wickedness and deceits we want to win the trophies we did not prepare and work hard for.

How many times has Brazil held praying crusades and national fasting and praying for their world cup victories? Germany? Italy? England? Argentina? Uruguay? France? Spain? These same cultists that kept this country in her bleeding to comma, that are calling for fasting and praying to the fellow demons to pray to which God? Is football the only problem we have in this country presently? Where are the ex players who sacrificed their youthful ages to bring glories to the country? How are their lives? You are praying to God for victory because our next opponents are pagans, or praying to devil. Instead of putting things at their right orders you are relying on hypocritical prayers that never exceed your houses roofs. You appointed a man who studied an Arabic language to head the football Association while the ex footballers who know what it takes to run football administration are languishing in abject poverty, you appoint a man who studied banking and finance to be the NFF Chairman and expecting God to send down his angels to come and play the football matches for you.

In what happiness will God answer the Nigeria politicians’ prayers? Is it your good leadership, or the ritual killings of virgin boys and girls you destroy for your own selfish interests? Or the common wealth of the nation you loot and sending of the poor Nigerians to their untimely deaths? This is the same David Mark who boldly told Nigerians that telephone is not for poor men, when he was communication minister during IBB military regime. Today he has turned to an evangelist yes in Nigeria it is very possible to do anything under religion. We do not need too much prayers in Nigeria but positive actions. Put things at their right places, and see how rapid and pleasant things will change in this country. Repetitions of a prayer points shows lack of faith. God is tired of one prayer point from Nigeria in the football fields. A prayer of a sinner is like a piece of dirtiest rag in the presence of God. David Mark, channel that your prayer point on how the federal government should come out and debate with Ms Ezekwesili, spare us these holiness in public attitudes. Nigeria national teams do not need victory prayers but good management, arrangement, program, and sound sports administration, prayers supposed to be for their protection and safety in pitch. You can never win a match with only lips prayers.

God is neutral in sports. That is why we have god of soccer, not God of soccer. Let ex footballers take the leadership of football and other sportsmen/women take over other sports offices, then things can change. Michele Platini and Sep Blater were ex footballers to the France and Switzerland respectively.If you like,go and invite Pope and call all the prayers warriors to fast and pray for Nigeria, they will never win any other match in this AFCON 2013 if they repeat what I watched last time with Ethiopia. Ethiopia lacked good finishers that was why they lost that match, but check how many attackers and schemers in the Cote dI’voire’s squad. Add and minus. Prayer is good but work must follow it to work efficiently.

onatisi: this is the result nigerians get when they go online to criticize and lambast their national team , why wont eboue call us super chickens after we nigerians are the ones that named our super eagles so, what ppl dont know is that ppl all over the world read all those and these negative comments nigerians make aout their country and this gives them a sort of view and picture about nigeria and nigerians

Well noted, now tell us the best name to give a non nonperforming team? the first name of the team was the Red Devils, later the Green Eagles, after Maroc 1988 super performance the then Chief of General Staff renamed them the Super Eagles. But today what si super in this present Eagles.Criticism is a part of teaching and learning. My father used to give us funny nick names when did bad in our school examinations then, so in order to avoid all those names, we worked harder to pass well in our exams.

If you like call them the Supper Angels it will not make them to play like a team. We should stop pretending as if it is good why it is worst than worst in this country. Many years ago Ivory Coast and Ghana suffered the same thing we are witnessing in our football today, they insulted their team, even punished them after Nations Cup 2000 shameful performance, since then the players became disciplined while government invested much on football they are now reaping the dividends, Nigeria we fail to plan and that is why we panned to fail today.

Super Chicken is better name to me for now, until they wake up and act like an Eagle.A man who does not own a house is not supposed to answer RUFUS as a name.

Abdul Adam56: Hmm naija are stil using this charges?We have 2 hang many our leaders.

What charge did you expect him to get alhaji,Imam/sheik,mallam, Western fool? just wait when a member of your family or daughter even your mother if you get, is murdered in that way , then we shall abolish the law. Motor Park Human Right activist.

sylve11: What's he there for?

What did you take before asking this useless question? being a goal keeper does not make one more perfect to stop every ball in at the goal post, but his courage,and hard work makes him a great player. After Peter Rufai no goal keeper in Nigeria can match Vincent Enyeama take it or leave it. If it is a duty to save all the goals, then what was the impact of the attackers that were hiding under the opponents defenders? what of the midfielders that didn't know whom to give their passes to? or the defenders that were marking themselves instead of their opponents? imagine a team that could not score a goal against a 10-1-men with a player turned goal keeper? Niaraland forum is filled with premature delivered babies with a half incubator damaged brains.Thank God that Vincent Enyeama was not dropped like others. Nigeria would have been sanctioned by the CAF and FIFA because of their woeful performance in this AFCON 2013.You are asking why he was in the team.

VINCENT ENYAMA saved more than 7 goals while Victor Moses scored 2 goals, so add and subtract you will know who is better among the two. This is the worst Supper Eagles Nigeria have assembled. Only Vincent Enyama merits being in the team. The rest supposed to be ball boys when Nigeria was a country. I am very sorry for them in their next match with Ivory Coast , if they will repeat what i saw today.

VINCENT ENYAMA is the best. No other player, that i can't play does not mean that i can't watch and know the best player after a football match.

Donmams: Why not use his full name john yakubu yusuf so that some religious, ethnic bigots do not make the mistake of thinking he's hausa fulani? So Mischievous.

Very good, and we should add Joseph Umaru Dikko too to make people know that he is from Adamawa state,and not housa Fulani-mals, nwananshogi like you. Keep on looting. There will be time you will not know what to do with money.

Islam is not a religion first of all, before we could determine if it is peaceful or not, religion is not the problem here, the issue is that this man converted from islam to Christianity, left his country to his new residential and naturalized country the USA, now is termed as a traitor and seen as a security risk to the country as his new nation is the number one enemy of his former country Iran. He has been followed and monitored any time he comes to his former country, but recently he was arrested detained but there was no evidence to prosecute him, in an act of shame and pride he was accused of luring and converting the Iranian muslims to Christianity. Now let us assume that he lured the muslims into becoming Christians, what do we call the American Christians that married/converted to Islam eg: Janet Jackson? His humanitarian work in his native country has been turned to a luring and exploitations just to find a case to punish him.

There is no point wasting time with the few muslims on nairaland who are very ready to agree that their grand fathers were women, as long as it will make them to defend any news from their islam. Someone said that the Americans are buying the Iranians converts with money and gifts to become Christians, for which benefit? What will the Americans/Christians gain from converting the Iranians/other musilms to Christianity? No matter how they over exaggerate the population of the muslims, it can never meet up the population of the Christians. God almighty do not care about the population of any religion but the righteous. Many are called but few are chosen. My bible made me to know that God is capable of raising the stones and leaves in the forest to be people to serve and worship him, if we human beings cannot serve/worship him. So crowding the church or any worshiping places does never move God, but the sincere hearts that worship him thorough heart, faith and love.

There is always great joy in heaven, whenever a soul is won by repentance and not when a soul is converted to any religion or cult.

Islam is never a tolerant institution; I have many reasons to argue islam as not a religion, following what is happening by its members in the whole world nowadays.

Iran authority has not yet said the truth of why they are prosecuting this young man. He is being hated and prosecuted because of his new religion and country.

Lament no more the BabyloNigerians, this is a sign of the end of the country, you guys are busy forming one Nigeria lovers, but the people at the helm of affairs are busy looting their final funds and anything they can lay their hands on. Keep on lamenting, some people are busy defending the head of the government who claimed that Nigeria is second to the USA in terms crime fighting. There will be no Nigeria by 2015, whether you take it or leave it. If you cannot see the hand writing on the wall then I am very sorry for you.

Who are they going to render account to? Before 2015 he will be out, even if he was convicted. From now onwards mark my words no convicted government corrupt official will receive a jail term that will exceed 2yrs, the minor looters will be given a presidential pardon. The looted fund is to prepare themselves for the politics of their new countries by 2015. If you think that Nigeria will still exist after 2015 then you are dreaming. Watch out new Achebe memo, the crisis in the north, the preparation of the MEND, South West call for Confederation. The level of corruption in Nigeria now shows everything wise ones ought to know the end of the country. No one cares.

The only option to keep Nigeria together 2015 is a BLOODY REVOLUTION. But who will revolt against who? The citizenry is divided into many groups, Religion, Party, Ethnic, Benefactors, Cabals, Brainwashed, and Blind Patriots. Revolution only works where people are united in one faith and purpose. Nigerians are opposite of this. So separation remains the only workable option.

nagoma: This is contradictory . But in a dream anything can happen - it doesn't have to make sense.

But you believed when Martin Luther King Jr had his own dream that the blacks in America shall be free? Though I don’t know your religious faith but if you are a Christian, you would know that Joseph dreamt of being a king, he was humiliated and sold to where his dreams came into a reality. Do not doubt other people’s dreams if yours doesn’t come real. Many others’ dreams do. In Nigeria you do not rule out any threat because every threat in Nigeria comes out a reality.

I have heard so many hypocrites condemning these deportees, immigration started from the beginning, the first immigrants on earth are Adam and eve, from there Noah and others, but from the Bible Abram who later became Abraham was blessed by God for obeying his instruction to leave his family in Ur in Chaldea in this modern day Iraq to the land of Canaan, before leaving his people and land Abram’s father Tera was a very wealthy and famous man, but still he left. Forgive me for quoting from the bible , I believe that it is the most read book on earth, that is why I took my examples from there.

Why are you condemning a traveler? Because he/she is unfortunate to be deported, my Igbo proverb says that a wide traveled fellow is wiser than a grey haired old fellow in the village. While English people say that traveling is a part of education. Traveling is never only when you leave the shore of the continent, any trip you make outside your village and town is traveling. Most of you guys who claim to love Nigeria more than the President are not even in your villages, some are in another states. If traveling is a crime why didn’t you stay in your villages? We learn a lot through traveling, good, bad and ugly things through traveling.

What I would have loved to hear from you guy are these, how many of these corrupt officials in Nigeria’s children have been deported from their countries of residences? How many of them are being refused visas by these embassies/high commissions like the way they refuse visas to other Nigerians? Why are the families of the indicted, prosecuted and jailed corrupt officials still living in their western residential countries till now without being disturbed or harassed? Why do the western countries accept the Nigeria illegal laundered funds but reject the Nigeria illegal immigrants? Why do they only deport the illegal immigrants but save guard the illegal funds?

Western people migrated to Africa, killed, maimed, robbed, raped, enslaved and exploited Africa, but went back to their countries and introduced harsh immigration policies to prevent us from entering their countries. Who gave them visas to enter Africa continent then? Why immigration is so much restricted to the Africans mostly Nigerians now?

These are the few things I expected to hear from you guys, but instead you are here condemning and criticizing the deportees, as if, if you guys have the opportunity to travel out you will decline. Immigration is a personal choice; it has a lot of causes depending the situation one finds him/herself. Anyone who is well placed or comfortable should not condemn others who made their choices, because all of us will not do the same job, be at the same place and have the same aims and ambitions. Nigerians have been ruled beyond keeping quiet to something that doesn’t matter or deserve to be worried about. It is better to try and fail that never tried. They have gained more knowledge and experiences; it is left to them now to decide on what next in their respective lives.

My brothers and sisters you are all welcomed to your country, take heart, sit down think very well for your next actions, I wish you all very good luck in your future endeavors. God bless you all. Nnoo nu umunnem.

mimifonwon: I suggest we make each state independent of the federal government, basically that each region become a confederation. Its that or nigeria just splits. These officials are stealing us blind and tribalism keeps blinding us from seeing a good leader. I think for the sake of our future and that of our children that we should separate. Sometimes a marriage that hurts the children is not worth staying together, and perhaps a separation (like enacting confederacy) can help before we ultimately divorce each other. If only the youths had integrity and didn't take bribe, perchance we can change our own futures and throw these fools out of office. But again because of our tribalistic sentiments,as displayed here on NL everyday, Nigeria will never progress, so a split is necessary.

You have a good point my dear; Nigeria is in the deadly claws of the evil men who found the independence for their personal benefits. Nigeria’s independence was not found as a nation but as personal empire. The interests of the independence founding fathers were purely personal, but they deceived people to believe that they were fighting for them. The northerners were not ready for the independence then, while the Western and Eastern regions leaders were busy dragging for supremacy, they had click which their descendants and allies are the same people ruling the country today. They destroyed the country through military, we complained and they held a meeting and decided to pull off the military uniforms and come on the civilian attires but still maintain their military characteristics. They know that with Tribe, Religion, Party, the citizens will never reason at the same directions.

They have bought over the churches through tights and offerings and financial gifts/donations. That is why we have so many political clergy men in the country today which make their preaching to be only prosperity, self righteousness and diversionary, the mosques and their leaders/teachers are only preaching, Terror, War, Intolerance and violence. The traditional and towns leaders are nowadays their grass root spokesmen deceiving people to be selling their votes which are their fundamental rights as the citizens of the country. They brought in the social network sites and planted their supporters all over the forums to preach and spread their false and over exaggerated achievements, and attack whosoever that comment or criticizes their failures and incompetence online. These are the only people who are pretending to love the unity of this country, because it is their money making and personal empires.

If you ask any of them a simple one reason why Nigeria should remain as one country he/she will never give you a reasonable and factual answer. Because no one will be happy to lose where he/she is eating from. Many fools here are supporting the unity just because they are brainwashed, until we reason as people with different nationalities we will never go anywhere because we can never reason as people from one country. Many tiny countries are doing greatly economically and otherwise while Nigeria is still one place talking of the same problems after a whole 52 years of independence, if we are one country, then why are we always talking of one Nigeria? if really we are one. You only complain and look for a solution of what you don’t have, One Nigeria is what Nigeria has been looking for since 30th December 1914 till date, when will Nigeria get this lacking object ONE Nigeria? My answer is that we can never get it because it is not in our market stock.

I believe that the best answer is to peacefully separate so that every country forced together in this fake marriage should take their destines into their own hands. Nigeria is not ONE, and will never be.

Gboliwe: Jesus Christ of Nazareth! All my life I have never seen such hypocritical lie!
Which Aba has 24hrs power supply? You can really lie!

I am in Aba, world bank housing estate- MCC road and the was no light since about 9pm yesterday.
Aba gets just about 5hrs of light daily and not at a stretch.
Very miserly.

From the last paragraph of his/her comment you would clearly see who he/she is, and what he/she represents. They are many here on nairaland forum, even in Abuja the federal capital you will never boast of 24hrs steady light talk less of Aba the least attended state of the federation.Lie will kill this writer.

free2ryhme: referee usd whistle 2 control d game in favour of zambia

I have a word of advice for you, according by Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, he said that the best way to silence a biased referee in the boxing ring is to win your opponent by a Technical Knockout, remember that before Idi Amin became a soldier he was the Ugandan and Common Wealth Heavy weight boxing champion. This his wise rule goes to every sports and entire life struggles. Nigeria supposed to beat their opponents beyond referee’s control by scoring as many goals they can, I personally see Nigeria national team as a bad workman who always quarrels with his tools. The decay in the Nigeria systems/sectors is a true reflection of what we are witnessing today.

I am very happy that sports is a success we witness physically and not documentarily. Our economy is only growing faster in the pages of newspapers, and the eyes of our Western economical colonial masters but the impacts are never seen or felt by the people. You can never market a well and best polished bad commodity, no matter how smart you might think you are. Nigerians were celebrating and living on the past glories while other countries in Africa were busy building and preparing for their futures. We have to adopt tailors system in Nigeria, by cutting the material before sewing. Many things have to be crushed before we can reconstruct them. You can never build a new house on top of an old building. Till then expect more HBP and disgrace from every tournament.

Olympic has come and gone, our woeful performance has been forgotten, every focus is on the football till next two weeks to the next Olympic then we shall start our fire brigade preparation again, our female football is dead too, the recent performances of all our female football teams has been put aside, while waiting for another disgrace and disasters in their next outings, then we shall lament again and wait for another lamentation because it is our national trade mark nowadays. Crying and weeping over a situation we can collectively handle and make a change.

As we have not done anything to change our situation, we have to accept our present predicaments with good faith. Referees are not our problems but we the Nigerians .

kingoflag: When will Nigerian kids be like these two? Good, lemme ask you a couple questions:

Who'd you vote for last elections?

Do you plan to give your vote to GEJ next election?

Ok, now you got your answer.

It is only stupid people that are ruled by the fools, if Nigerians are not happy with the present government and the President's performance,it is left for them to make a change. To me I have decided to vote for another candidate if what I am witnessing in Nigeria now persists till 2015. Mistake is never the end of everything but correction is the end of every mistake.

VillageBoi: Seriously!! What does your post even mean? Are you saying Nigerian babies are dumb because they are not the ones in the fideo? Maybe your own sproglets shaa! And how has this got anything to do with technology? They same technology wey we get for fillage.

If your children are like those kids you wouldn't have written the video as fideo. Your comment have really shown who/what you are.I said all the children in Nigeria not few Nigerian children, You dunce should read comments carefully before you begin to expose your Idiosyncrasies on nairaland. By the way which light are your children using to be current? i pass my neighbor status is not what i meant.

This is the magic of technology at work, when will the children of every Nigerian be like these kids? till then if there will ever be . I love this video. Children enjoying the work of technology with well programed economy and constant power supply. I do pray for all the Nigeria children to be exposd and happy like this.

ifihearam: Since the present administration under President Goodluck Jonathan took charge of the affairs of this country, it has worked assiduously not only to transform the lives of Nigerians but also enhance the image and prestige of the country abroad.

A lot has been achieved in the intervening period with the transformation agenda of the administration. Despite these achievements, there is unbridled cynicism on the part of some individuals who have taken it upon themselves to mislead Nigerians by making unfounded and baseless allegations against this administration.

The purpose of this campaign of misinformation and disinformation is to blind Nigerians to the sure and steady progress President Jonathan’s administration has made in the eighteen months that it has been in power, to improve the quality of governance and deliver on the promises it made to the people.

In the main, the strategy of these cynics, ‘latter-day saints’ and emergency activists has involved peddling falsehood on the true state of the government’s war on corruption, among other issues of national importance. They have posited that contrary to what government would have Nigerians believe, that the present administration is not pulling its weight in the war against corruption. They have even gone as far as suggesting that President Jonathan lacks the political will to engage corruption head on.

We seem to be living in a socio-political atmosphere of cynicism where theatrical actions, showmanship and other grandstanding are misinterpreted to mean political will in addressing a situation. This government does not believe in just arresting people for the sake of drama or playing to the gallery nor does it harbor the idea of deploying the anti-corruption agencies as tools to witch hunt political opponents, which were undisputable familiar practices in the past.

In this briefing we will show clearly the efforts the Jonathan administration is making to stamp corruption out of national life.

All over the world, governments seriously desirous of tackling the menace of corruption usually adopt a holistic strategy which encompass some or all of the under listed benchmark:

• Enacting enabling laws, which clearly define what corruption is and spell out punitive measures

• Establishing an executive agency, which is transparent in its operations and is subject to the rule of law

• Creating by law, the enabling environment for whistle blowing (FOI).

• Enhancing the judicial process such that existing laws, processes and procedures do not hamper the dispensation of justice

• Plugging all socio-economic loopholes within the system by eliminating bottlenecks and increasing access to social goods and services

• Gradually reducing incentives for corruption prevailing in society through institutional reforms, combating poverty, developing manpower and empowering citizens.

• Putting up efficient and effective well co – ordinate policies and programmes to combat poverty, create wealth, develop manpower and empower the youth through job creation.

Going through the benchmarks enumerated above, it is clear to all that the first two measures were already in place by the time the Jonathan administration came into being and the steps being taken by President Jonathan confirm that he is systematically addressing the remaining five, while under his tenure he did strengthen the EFCC, ICPC operational framework.

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

The signing of the Freedom of Information Act into law by President Jonathan in May 2011 represents a watershed in the anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria.  This piece of legislation, which had been virtually stalled by successive administrations since 1999, was signed into law by Mr. President to usher Nigeria into the league of countries where transparency in governance is entrenched and citizens are granted unfettered access to information about government activities.

This is the fulcrum upon which good governance rests in all known democracies and it is noteworthy that the present administration took the bull by the horns to lay this very important foundation for the war against corruption in Nigeria in the early months of its inception and 24 hours after the bill was presented to him by the National Assembly.

You will agree with me that without a legal framework for whistle – blowing, the fight against corruption would be meaningless.

 

PENSION REFORMS

Before the Jonathan administration came on board, the pension funds administration regime was one the major channels through which public funds running into hundreds of billions of Naira were misappropriated by corrupt officials.

Problems associated with the pension management system include embezzlement, falsification of records, Ghost pensioners, obsolete administrative structure and denial of pensioners their due entitlements. This was what necessitated the setting up of the presidential pension Reform Task Team.  Since June 2010, the activities of this important task force resulted in the following:

v Detection and deletion of over 73,000 Ghost/Fake pensioners from the Head of Service/police pension office.

v Recovery and saving of over N225 billion from two pension offices.

v Capturing biometric details of over 170,000 pensioners.

v Stoppage of a monthly theft of over N4 billion from the National treasury.

v Reducing fraud by saving a monthly sum of over N500 million Naira through the police monthly pension releases, which represents 50 percent of the erstwhile N1billion monthly disbursements.

v Discovery of over 50,000 unpaid pensioners and immediate payment of their entitlement.

v Discovery of over N2.7billion fraud by the Nigeria Union of Pensioners.

v Seizure of about 200 properties including choice hotels and cash worth billions of Naira from corrupt public officials.

v Arrest and on-going prosecution of pension fraud suspects by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

v Introduction of a more efficient tamper-proof pension funds management system.

You will agree with me that the looting of our common patrimony through the pension payment scheme had been in existence for decades without any major step taken to expose this ill and combat it.  It is therefore noteworthy that President Jonathan courageously tackled this problem, which is in keeping with his promise of tackling corruption in the public sector.  I must add that the Pension Reform resulted in a reduction of recurrent expenditure as a sum of N74billion was factored into the 2012 budget from funds recovered by the Task Team.

 

 

 

FERTILIZER MANAGEMENT REFORMS

In view of the largely agrarian character of our local economy, procurement and distribution of fertilizer under a government subsidy regime was a major channel of corruption before the Jonathan administration came on board.  You will all recall the various fertilizer scams witnessed in the country especially in the last two decades.  This ugly trend has however been arrested by a well thought-out policy of the Federal Government as part of Mr. President’s Transformation Agenda.

Before now, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development procured and distributed fertilizers to farmers. The government system was corrupt, undermined the private sector, and did not deliver fertilizers to genuine farmers, but to political farmers and the fertilizers were exported. Only 11 percent of farmers got the government-distributed fertilizers due to corruption and rent seeking. This created a bad image for Nigeria. With the intervention of Mr. President, the corrupt system, which has been endemic for over 40 years, was totally dismantled by September 2011. Fertilizers and seeds are now sold by the companies directly to farmers, not to government. This has eliminated the middle men and rent seekers from the system.

It has removed racketeering and enhanced farmers’ access to the commodity.  What government did in this area was to leverage on the expanding public access to mobile telecommunication devices to facilitate quicker access to fertilizers.  This has increased fertilizer access to 94% from the previous 11%.  Our fertilizers no longer find their way to neighboring countries while the term ‘fertilizer scam’ is gradually being removed from our National lexicon.

This radical reform as well as other measures will ultimately boost the Agricultural Sector, lead to more job creation and attract foreign investment.

 

POWER SECTOR REFORMS

This is another area where Nigerians ought to appreciate the efforts of the Goodluck Jonathan administration in reducing incentives for corruption and ensuring better service delivery.

Having in mind that this is one sector where input hardly justified output and in view of the fact that the power sector has been variously mentioned in the various corruption index reports by international agencies, President Goodluck Jonathan gave a great push to reforming this sector in a radical manner.  The unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria into 18 successor companies and the open processes of privatizing them are the hallmark of all modern government transactions, which Nigeria had bought into being. With the involvement of the private sector in this very important industry, the Nigerian power sector is being made internationally competitive and less open to corruption. The sanitization of this important sector encouraged the Exim bank of the United States of America to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government which will provide an investment window of 1. 5 billion dollars to the industry.This is the first time such a quantum of funds is being committed to any single project in Africa by the US Exim bank.

 

OIL AND GAS SECTOR REFORMS

The fight against corruption in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian economy is perhaps the most fundamental of the current administration’s effort at combating crimes against the Nigerian economy.

You will all recall that in line with global best practices and the principal aim of the Nigerian Extractive industry and Transparency Initiative (NEITI), President Jonathan recently forwarded the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to the National Assembly for passage into law. Furthermore, the fuel subsidy regime, which had been a conduit pipe through which huge funds were siphoned from the National treasury, has been subjected to forensic scrutiny by various agencies and committees set up by Mr. President in the last twelve months.

It is of utmost importance to note that the report of the Aig- Imoukhuede Presidential committee on verification and reconciliation of subsidy claims and payments led to the arrest and arraignment of a number of individuals and firms by the EFCC. What further proof of political will is greater than the fact that sons of the present and former chairmen of the president’s political party are among those currently being prosecuted before competent courts of law over oil subsidy related corruption charges?

It is also on record that the president, upon receipt of the House of Representatives subsidy probe panel report, forwarded same to relevant security agencies with a firm instruction that there must be no sacred cows in the prosecution of culpable individuals and corporate entities.

The on-going implementation of this and the determination to do the same for the reports of other committees like the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force, the Dotun Suleiman committee charged with fashioning a corporate governance code for transparency, good governance and global best practices in the NNPC and oil companies, and the Kalu Idika Kalu committee on how to improve commercial viability and efficiency of our refineries, will undoubtedly result in the saving of huge sums of money hitherto stolen by corrupt public officials.

These are initiatives, which had not been taken by any previous government and for which President Jonathan ought to be commended by every patriotic Nigerian.

By the time the Petroleum Industry Bill is passed into law, Nigeria would have successfully broken the jinx of being a nation where global business rules and practices are flouted with impunity. Estimated annual earnings of 680 billion dollars would be added to our Gross Domestic product. Crude oil theft and other sharp practices are also being combated with much vigour by various security and regulatory agencies on the president’s instructions.

 

ELECTORAL REFORMS

The electoral system in any nation is a mirror of what values are held sacrosanct by the government and people.

We are all living witnesses to the monumental fraud, bribery, violence and other forms of corrupt practices, which pervaded the Nigerian electoral process before the last general elections.

It is to the credit of President Goodluck Jonathan that this important process has been sanitized in a manner unprecedented in our political history.

The reform carried out in this sector is responsible for the conduct of elections assessed by local and international observers as credible, free and fair.  The President, as you are all aware has upheld the sanctity of the electoral process by refusing to compromise global standards in any manner.  He has come out to congratulate winners of elections and promised to work with them even when his political party had lost in such elections.

For instance, under the old electoral dispensation, Governors like Adams Oshiomhole and Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, who belong to opposition parties, would simply have found it impossible to be re-elected. But thanks to the reforms instituted by this administration, which apart from increasing the funding of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has also through its other agencies, enlightened the Nigerian electorate on their rights and obligations, the wishes of voters are now supreme.

He has given the national electoral body a free hand to carry out its statutory duties without any form of direct or indirect manipulation. It takes a man who is committed to eradicating political corruption to do this in view of the apparent desperation of some politicians to capture power at all cost.

 

PORTS REFORMS

I also want to address your mind to a similar courageous anti-corruption initiative of the Jonathan administration in the on-going reform of the Nigerian ports.

Opportunities for bribery, documents forgery and other sharp-practices in the Nigerian ports have been substantially removed through a number of measures introduced by both the Ministries of Finance and that of Transport.

A Presidential committee on ports reform and monitoring has worked assiduously to reduce congestion in our ports. As of today, these efforts have resulted in the shortening of the time required to clear goods at the Nations ports from 4-6 weeks to less than 7 days with the ultimate goal of a 24-hour goods clearing policy.  The reform in this sector is, among other things, aimed at:

v Improving efficiency and transparency in ports operations and management in line with international best practices.

v Reduce charges and promote competition.

v Facilitate the development of the transport sector.

v Eliminate ports congestion.

v Reduce government’s financial burden.

 

JOB CREATION

The various initiatives of this administration to combat fraud and corruption may not eventually yield much result if jobs are not created and opportunities given to people to make a living in legitimate ways. This is why monies saved from the partial removal of petroleum subsidy in January 2012 is being injected into infrastructural development and job creation  under the Subsidy Re – investing Programme (SURE – P). The programme, which is being chaired by a distinguished Nigerian with impeccable record of integrity in public service will result in the creation of 50,000 jobs under the Graduate Internship Scheme in the next one year.

Let me seize this opportunity to clear a misconception about the nature and activity of this committee. The SURE-P committee is not like the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund of the Abacha regime. The committee was put together carefully, being made up of Nigerians of impeccable character and proven integrity. Their role is to ensure the judicious deployment of the funds accruing from the partial removal of subsidy on petroleum products so that Nigerians can track where the money goes. They do not originate projects, rather they fund projects already identified by various Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government. Therefore, the question of probable project duplication does not arise.

The Youth enterprise with innovation in Nigeria, YOUWIN programme, is creating wealth making opportunities for young Nigerians by helping them to develop and execute business plans. The second phase of this scheme which was launched by Mr. President in September is providing opportunities for six thousand young graduates selected in a very transparent and value driven manner.

In the Agricultural sector, there is an aggressive job creation drive which is targeted at creating about 3.5 million jobs by 2014.Specially targeted in this programme are youths between age 18 and 35. This will also increase local production of food and raw materials, guaranteeing food security and resuscitating agro based local industries. The soundness and transparency of this initiative has attracted global partnership of international agencies like the World Bank, USAID, DFID, African Development Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

With increased power out-put resulting from ongoing reforms in the power sector and increased interest of investors in the sector,small and Medium scale industry will thrive and prosper thereby creating more jobs for our teeming youths. This will create an economically stable polity and enhance the attainment of the 7th benchmark in effectively tackling corruption.

 

LEGAL AND JUDICIAL REFORMS

One major area which has been focused by critics of the present anti-corruption process is in the area of securing convictions of suspects accused of economic crimes within a reasonable time frame.  This has also been a major concern to the president.

You will recall that on the occasion of the swearing in of Justice Aloma Mukhtar as Chief Judge of the Federation in July this year, President Jonathan admonished the new CJ to consider the creation of special courts and designation of special judges to adjudicate on corruption cases.  In addition, the President as the head of the Executive Arm of government has also initiated a reform of the criminal justice system as a means of plugging loop holes often exploited by counsels to delay trial of persons accused of corruption.

A major step in this direction is putting together of the Administration of Criminal Justice (ACJ) Bill 2012 by the office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

The bill, which is currently before the National Assembly, seeks to ensure that the system of administration of criminal justice in Nigeria promotes speedy dispensation of justice, protection of the society from crime, and protection of the rights and interests of the defendant and the victim.

When passed into law, it will therefore eliminate incidents of frivolous injunctions, interlocutory motions, adjournments and other abuse of court processes by counsel employed by suspects in corruption cases.

I want to add that the set of laws and procedures involved in this reform have not been reviewed in almost fifty years.

Most of these reforms will require either constitutional amendments or a review of existing laws, which may take a little time in view of the intricacies of our democratic process. The President is nevertheless committed to ensuring that necessary reforms are carried out in our judicial system to add fillip to the fight against corruption.

Permit me to state that from the foregoing that in the annals of this country no government has shown greater courage or commitment to tackle corruption that the administration of Goodluck Jonathan.

Arising from his efforts, which has exposed corruption in both the public and private sector, the cynics and mischief makers in our midst are accusing Mr. President of presiding over corruption when in actual fact he should be commended for exposing it like no leader before him.

The recent KPMG report, which these cynics have gleefully quoted as having said that Nigeria is the most corrupt country in Africa, actually had something positive to say about the Jonathan administration’s war on corruption, which unfortunately, they have deliberately kept from Nigerians. That report notes that in the last once year the number of fraud cases in the country for the period under review fell from 520 to 503.

For those who consider the difference insignificant they would do well to consider the difference in terms of amount saved this country. KMPG says the value of fraud in naira terms decreased from N495 billion to N300 billion, a whopping N195 billion difference.

The audit body also corroborated the statement made last week by Ibrahim Lamorde, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that legal bottlenecks were frustrating the war on corruption when Olumide Olayinka, Head of Risk Consulting of KPMG Nigeria said:

“The general belief in Nigeria is that the legal system is not effective enough. There have been a lot of cases involving the banking and the Oil & Gas sectors or government that lead to prosecution. The current noticeable trend is that many cases either end with a plea bargain or are simply closed without any conviction”. This is the major area which President Jonathans reform in the judicial sector is meant to address.

 

CONCLUSION

Clearly, the war on corruption is being engaged head-on and systematically with the requisite political will and vigour and it will take the commitment of all and not just President Jonathan and his team, to see it to fruition. I therefore enjoin all stakeholders in the Nigerian project to support these initiatives and reforms as a sure route to a successful war on corruption in public offices .This was the same route, which nations that have successfully reduced corruption to its barest minimum took.

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You really tried by pasting all the pages of the Nigeria Daily Times newspaper on the nairaland forum, with no single understanding point in them. Moderator you really don't have much work to do as you allowed this hungry author to misuse this page.

Symphony007: what happened to all previous allocations channeled to this school, full accountability of allocation recieved and spent on the school, official responsible for the state of the school and appopraite punishment. Are'nt these findings that needs to be put together and executed before more money is poured in which might disappear? In civilied societies this os how things are done, when four american died in bengazi, libya last year. An accountability review commitee was set up to look into it and their findings is the manual the u.s government is using to piece together the situation. So this critisim is shallow minded and frankly petty!!

To your own intelligence is it advisable to probe the suspects with the head suspects? thank you for using US in your example. How long did it take the US officials to get the result of the panel and actions on them? How many committees has the president formed since he came into power? How many of their findings has he acted upon? Do you know how much fund that is wasted on these irrelevant committees? The Police and other rotten institutions need an urgent attention and not copied western approaches that never work in Nigeria. Before GEJ leaves office he will succeed in appointing all his friends and cronies as committee chairmen. This panel you are in support of now will never yield any positive fruit. Stop teaching your headmasters on nairaland forum. Your argument is never logical at all.

maclatunji: See how they are forming- "we where monitoring him all the time" and how does a wounded man escape when his car was already seized? This leak is just an evidence of incompetence within our security forces.

Imagine that, maybe he was shot in the market place where there were many people, which made him to escape with bullet wounds/blood, Nigeria SAMANJA military personnel, one day they will come out and tell us that our grand mothers were men and not women. And will be made to believe them.I laugh in Hausa language, kwai kwai kwai kwai kwai kwai !!!!

No wonder the Nigeria Police are so brutal, how do you expect a prisoner to treat the citizens well? These pictures really show that what we have in Nigeria are ex prisoners in the Police uniforms. All the ex and present Police affairs ministers supposed to tired and executed with immediate effect. The government symmetrically incites the Police with the citizenry so that they will continue to be looting the common wealth. Tell me how Police personnel who passed out from this slum will behave well? Nigeria is rotten.

berem: So i should believe every trash World Bank says? wonderful! It is now world bank that tells us who is employed and who is jobless or maybe world bank came to my house and asked me if i work. mtscheeew!

Don’t mind them; believing a poor Senegalese man who was served chep in the Aso Rock, and given a fresh prostitute that was robbing his dick and sucking his nipples, then he started vomiting rubbish from his wide mouth. Economy is growing and improving while many workers are losing their jobs every day, begging is becoming a big industry in Nigeria due to poverty. I know he is in Nigeria to see how their wicked and drilling economical policies are eating deep into the bodies of Nigerians. Tomorrow you will hear different stories from this same man and his gang of evil agents. Folks this is a 2015 campaign for the Phee Dee Phee, party in advance.

CFCfan: Mikel will score a hatrick against Burkina Faso. You heard it here first!

Against Burkina Faso or For Burkina Faso? just a question, because football is round o, EPL defender scored 2 against his club last time and gave away one penalty making it 3. You can ask the Stoke City fans.

pro01: This guy has been swimming in filthy money long before he forcefully ascended the Olugbo throne. His name was even listed among the oil subsidy thieves last year

Imagine that, no wonder he was able to spend this kind of money on a car that can never ply the Nigeria roads. His title Olugbo in Igbo language means CAT, mostly in my own dialect. Does it mean that he behave like one?

coogar: he did well considering the circumstance.....
like your story revealed - he tried to settle with the sister, he told her not to enter the house but she insisted on making trouble. i think the sister deserved what she got. a man must protect his wife from any threat(foreign or local)!!!

If he resorted to beating his senior sister, then what is difference from her sister beating his wife? Mr. Evil supporter, as a peace maker he would have continued with the pleadings till he gets his sister’s heart calmed. Beating his sister meant that he had already taken side with his wife. I love my wife but never in the level of losing my family because of her, because she herself has a family which she will not like to lose too. His wife is a member of his family no matter what is going wrong in the family; all hands should be on deck to settle the matter and move the family forward. The question is this, now he has turned back to his family because of his wife, will his wife do the same to her family because of him?

Marriage is 90% family affairs and 10% personal. Your family, your wife’s family are all directly involved in your marriage, for you to make things match, you have to share your love between your both families. The wicked wife always jam the heads of her husband’s family together, separate her husband from his family, before she will embark on her wicked mission, when she knows that her husband will not be rescued by any one.

I love my wife and my family because all are important to me. One can marry many wives, but you cannot have other family members. I have come a very long, good, bad and ugly ways with my family. No one will ever separate us.

My love to my wife is agape, while my love to my family is unconditional. He has no right to beat up his senior sister, who might be another man’s wife because of his wife.

kaze4blues: Mumu....


U know nothing...


I really pity you

Terrorist number 2, denounce terrorism now and save your life and that of your miserable family, if you think that it is still the old game of hide and seek in Nigeria, then you have yourself to blame, do not say that i did not warn you. I wouldn't have replied you as a child of ZOMBIE you are but i find it worthy to warn you to desist from evil. There are no houses of the Government officials and Legislooters to hide, when the drones start raining bombs on your mud house homes soon. only the living can shout Jihaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, Alaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkkkkkbbbbbbbbbaaaaaarrrr.Hell fire waits for you and your cohorts. You can run but you can never hide. A word is enough for a wise.

Freiburger: And you can just assume the French never heard of Boko haram, They will not intervene because the oil belongs to whom it already belongs, to compared to a virgin land like Mali.

They might have heard of them or not, i am talking about the US involvement in the operation, they have volunteered their drones and said that they might include the Northern Nigeria in their drone operations.Many of these mouth anti western rats on nairaland forum do not have any fact to back up their hatred to the west. If you have been to the French colonies in Africa you would see that they are in great alliance with their colonial master French.They are being protected by the French militarily, any attack on them means an attack to France. Leaving these Animals to have base in Mali is a big lay down to French authority.

Unlike the dubious British people who reluctantly left Nigeria , with the biggest man made problem, that is destroying the country today. Where some people believe that they were born to rule, because they were compensated with the ruler ship of the country, while others and their territories are their subjects and spoils.How do you think that butterflies will stand on the ways of the hungry eagles and boast of fighting for their gods? If we hold our homes well, we do not need the west for any reason. As long as we keep on misbehaving they will continue to come in.

[quote author=pretty_boi]I see you're one of those naive Africans who always believes the west is the "supreme saviour" & can never do any wrong in your eyes right? You better wake up from your long nightmare of deceit & nativity.[/quote]What have you done to prevent the western invasions in Africa Mr Wise Foo..ooool? if you can't protect yourself why can'nt you sillyngly shut up your dirty stinking gutters and allow people who can do that for you to do it. All of you that oppose this liberation force are all sympathizers and supporters of terrorism in Africa/Nigeria, you are indirectly showing your discomfort/anger towards the destruction that will befall you guys soon.

If you have been following the atrocities of your Jihadists partners in terror in Mali since April last year, you wouldn't have been claiming these your village champions on nairaland forum.

You made Northern Mali your base so that you can spread your religious virus to other Peaceful African countries as you have successfully done in Nigeria. Your games are over. you are not naive, but you are killing for an arabic gods/masters. I am in 100000000000000000000000000000% in support of any force that can deal mercilessly with these ANIMALS in Africa/Nigeria that hide under foreign/local cults to destroy the innocent lives of the peace and law abiding citizens of Africa/Nigeria.

You can call me any name you like. If your terrorist brothers/sisters didn't invade and occupy the Northern Mali, what would have been the reason of France and other Western countries to move in their forces into Mali territories? ZOMBIES in the nairaland forum.

Umunede: That miss in 2010 world cup contributed

You meant when he turned to central defender to the South Korea instead of a striker to Nigeria? this writer forgot that so many players with much better records than his are far forgotten after a season out of the EPL. Yakubu tried but nothing too special about him.

Very sad indeed, this is wickedness at its highest order, why is he running ? Shino Rambos in the SW, if it is from the hated tribe now, the comment would have reached to 20 or more. Crime, Evil, Wickedness is in every tribe and nation. Only useless bigots make nasty comments on other tribes when sad news like this arises on this forum. RIP the dead. and Death to the killer soon.