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President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that the vision of his administration to revamp the capability of Nigeria’s automobile sector to export locally manufactured cars is near realisation.

Jonathan stated this at the 2014 Democracy Day celebration held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Jonathan, who inspected locally assembled Nissan Saloon cars, Pick-Up Van and SUV at the venue of the programme, said the administration had proved doubting Thomas wrong.

The president explained that when he made the disclosure in 2013 that made-in-Nigeria cars would be rolled out in the country in April and that Nigeria would soon be exporting cars, he was lampooned on the pages of newspapers.

He commended Nissan Group for keying into the new automotive policy of the federal government and urged other multinational auto companies to take a cue from Nissan.

The President also used the occasion to present his administration’s third anniversary report of the transformation agenda.

The report gave the accounts of the administration’s stewardship in every sector of the economy in the last one year.

The event was attended by Vice President Namadi Sambo, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Maryam Aloma Mukhtar, Ministers and members of Diomatic Corps.

The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme and former Chief of General Staff, Gen. Oladipo Diya also attended the event. (NAN)

lmm4real:
when is Inosu Motors doing the need full

Pavore9:
Somali government is using same for the Al-Shaabab.

kokoA:
APC never wanted him. He used force to get the ticket.

BeazyBee:
France bombed the The shit out of Syria yesterday which I
totally understand, but look at the innocent lives that were
lost..
My hearts breaking looking at these graphic images, is
everyone happy Now!! This makes me sick to my stomach!
Innocent little children paying the price for Isis.. everyone's
so quick to say let's bomb those motherfuckers, but does
anyone even sit back for a second and think of the
aftermath

madridguy:
THEY ARE FREEDOM FIGHTER ACCORDING TO OBAMA.

ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State — with every new media report, it seems that the vocabulary of terrorism changes.
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds wounded, a number of world leaders have begun referring to the Islamic State as "Daesh".

"It is an act of war that was waged by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, by Daesh, against France," French President François Hollande said shortly after the attacks. Secretary of State John Kerry also used the term during a meeting in Vienna. "The United States, I want to emphasize, welcomes support in the fight against Daesh," he said. During a speech at the G20 summit in Turkey, U.S. President Barack Obama said it too. "Turkey has been a strong partner with the United States and other members of the coalition in going after the activities of ISIL, or Daesh, both in Syria and Iraq."

The terms ISIS, (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), ISIL (The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and the Islamic State all have roots in the same origin. Daesh, however, seems opaque and out of place. The reason more and more world leaders are climbing on the Daesh wagon, however, may simply be because the Islamic State doesn't like it.

Daesh is technically an acronym for the Islamic State's proper Arabic name, al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, and was used by ISIS members for a period of time. The word Daesh is now forbidden within the territory controlled by the Islamic State: If you say it, you run the risk of having your tongue cut. The term fell out of favor among the militants after a rebranding by the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in July. Part of the reason is because in Arabic the word "Daesh" can be taken as a play on words to mean something along the lines of "a bigot who imposes his view on others" or "to trample down and crush," the Boston Globe reported.

With propaganda being essential to the ISIS strategy of recruiting foreign fighters, it comes as no surprise that the group has moved to expunge all the negative associations inherent in Daesh.

Propaganda also plays into another reason why leaders are beginning to forswear terms like ISIS and Islamic State. By talking about the group using its own terms, those fighting it convey a de facto sense of legitimacy on the Islamic State's aims. The Islamic State, of course, is not actually a state, but rather of collection of terrorists operating from seized territory in Mesopotamia. No "Islamic State" in that territory has ever been recognized by any government as representing any actual country. World leaders repeatedly calling it a "state" potentially play into ISIS's hands.

Daesh. Use it — annoy a terrorist.

jmoore:
I doubt the figures.

costandi:
*See The grin on the dullards face in amazement at the sophisticated gadget he beholds*

Players: Hello Sir
Daura Dullard: Hello my boys, make sure u defeat maradona, pele and west Germany in this tournament.
Players: Sir, its Mali we are up against
Daura dullard: Nansens u fifo should av told me u were playing africa championship, and I was thinking it was world cup.

*Hangs Up*

lawrenceunaa:
India

Smooyis:
It is just a few hours now for the expiration of deadline for the BVN registration. I have registered for mine, but my sister who resides overseas is yet to register and will be coming home in a month's time. Having saved some money towards her visit in her FirstBank account and yet to be registered, I feel so much worried as the deadline closes by.

The question on my mind has been, what will happen to millions of accounts that are yet to be registered before the deadline, and what hope do such account holders have thereafter. Let's share our knowledge on this.

PStylish:
There was no Nigeria Police Force in the 1930s/40s.
All we had was community/colonial police.

moderation2020:
Obasanjo is acting like a wounded lion or a dangerous reptile who has determined to strip his supporters naked in the public. Ironically in his home front he is not in good terms with some elders.
Obasanjo was fond of calling people, 'Omo Ale, (bastard), 'Oloriburuku', Idiot, Stupid, 'Agba'ya' , it's been rumored that Obasanjo's father was an Igbo. His number one nemesis, the former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, stated that
"nobody should use the ex-president's failings as a yardstick to appraise the competence of Yoruba leaders, because Obasanjo is not a Yoruba man in the first place."
One of the Nigerian Dailies, The Nation, Sunday, June 10, 2008 on its front page titled "Spot the Difference", and stated: "The personality in picture A is not former President Olusegun Obasanjo who is in picture B. But what do both personalities have in common?"

The Nation further explained the man in picture A, was an Igbo who lived in the Abeokuta area in the 1930s, about the time Obasanjo was born. According to The Nation, the police officer later became a monarch on a prominent South-Eastern throne. Before then, however, he had interacted fruitfully with the local community and had a brief affair with an Owu lady, before his final exit from the South-West. The Nation left the whole world to its readers' imaginations.

On June 11, 2008, on the Abuja-based Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah anchored a column title, Olusegun Igbochukwu Obasanjo, referencing the pictures from The Nation stated

"The editors of The Nation didn't want to say much, and they have left us to our imagination, but it won't be from me that you will hear that Obasanjo's father was Igwe Onyejekwe, a top ranking police officer who became the Igwe of Onitsha in his lifetime. …during his controversial reign, the throne was in contention between him and Igwe Okosi II, just as it is today between Igwe Achebe and Igwe Odukwe. Igwe Onyejekwe, Obasanjo's daddy, died after the civil war and, like his son, was said to be very cantankerous and quarrelsome."

Mogidi:
Am offering a monkey to any one able to correctly predict the country also.

Five Deputy Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service allegedly tendered a "voluntary" jointly signed resignation letter to the Chairman, Nigeria Custom Service on Thursday October 29. The officers includes; DCG A.J. Atte, DCG T.A. Musa, DCG I.M. Mera, DCG A.C. Nwosu, and DCG A.A. Adewuyi.

In the one-page letter, the officers thanked President Buhari for the opportunity to serve the country having risen to the enviable position.

It can be recalled that President Buhari recently named Colonel Hameed Ali (Rtd) as the new Comptroller General of the Customs.