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9s development. let d riffraffs die cuz we shall celebrate their obituary

blame gej

though i love ribadu, i jst must say i am disappointed at him. why didnt he say it when daddy iyabo was around? he is jst a silly coward. speaking 51mon ths aft obj had left office, ,

Buh i thought a certain farmer @ ota backed gej, against d pdp 'constitution'
why is he now complainin?

Flashaldrin:
I have this feeling that you are riled up and always shouting in your posts. Dont know why.

laff wan kil mi die

ajirebi20:
So DOn Jazzy was another Ibo 419er, no wonder.


Ibo people, walking straight is not part of their DNA. From fake cars to fake degrees to fake/scam money. Death to all Ibos

i actually concur wyt d guy that said he wished nairaland had bouncers

poweredcom:
this ajirebi guy need some medical attention Don jazzy will feed your generation , i am not ibo , or yoruba oo, but you need to get this tribalism thing off your mentality fool, you are calling don jazzy thief , your money papa money dey miss

r u tryin 2 belittle jazzy? Jazzy wil buy his 'generational destinies' and it wil luk as if he jst bought two 60leaves notebooks.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Critically Ill.flown-out Of The Country For Treatment


http://talkofnaija.com/News/newsdetailsone.aspx?NewsId=D60F283C-CBBA-4AAA-827F-73CA5DD1C32A


Former Governor of Lagos,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is said to be battling ill health at present.

The nature of the ailment is being kept heavily guarded- his very close confidants are attributing it to stress induced to those curious enough to enquire.

Investigations revealed that the situation is being quietly and efficiently managed.

Futher findings revealed that the former governor has been battling this phenomenon on and off for a while.

His strong supporters tagged the development a conspiracy between the fasting he undertook and the stress of overseeing his political and business Empires.

Asiwaju is said to be out of the country as at Wednesday, August 31 2011.

He is believed to have gone for quick medication in the midst of visits to Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

jason2010:
Mods help me move this to where it belongs, I no get the time to figure it out.

So, yesterday @ about 10;30pm,  I decided to go kick it with my homie at a club called Heavens in Festac. We parked, got down from my car and started walking towards the club entrance. As we walked, we noticed a 2011 BMW X6 SUV that was being tailgated by an Xterra SUV at high speed immediately screeching to a halt. As the cars stopped, the BMW driver bursts out of the car and dashes into the club. There were three occupants of the Xterra. One of them, chased after the BMW driver with what appeared to be an AK 47, and another occupant also with an AK 47 just stood outside, while there was a driver that just sat in the SUV. In less than 5 minute after all that, the gun man that went inside the club came back out, and all hell broke loose. Gunshots, I heard over 30 gunshot (yes in Festac,), and I and every body else (including some of the bouncers) were hiding behind parked cars on that street (less than 100 feet away from the gun men). After all the gunshot, that lasted for like about 5 minutes, they just droved off at high speed.

Once we figured that it was now safe to come out, as usual, folks started asking what all that was all about. We got to learn that the driver of the BMW X6 actually owns the club, and the dudes were out to kidnap him. He was actually smooth, because he immediately disappeared and blended into the crowd once he ran into the club. That made it impossible for the gunman to catch him. We guessed that that infuriated that gunmen and they just became trigger happy and started shooting. NLs, my question is, why would somebody drive such a car (X6 2011 BMW) in Festac?

The funny part of the story is that 20 minutes after, about 8 members of the NPF shows up and just stated going crazing, and yelling “lock the gate, lock the gate, nobody moves, those gun men are still inside that club”. Meanwhile the gun men broke out 20 minutes ago. It was just waaaay to hysterical, I am still laughing as I type. Anyway, we still took our chances and went inside the club. Lol, business as usual like ain’t noting happened. If that was in the USA, the club would be shut down and all kinds of police squad cars would be there. Nobody shoots 30 rounds sporadically in the USA anyway. Moving forward, one of the bounces tells me that the gun man grabbed him and yelled at him to point out the owner, but he pleaded with the gun man that the club is too damn dark and crowded for him to do that.

Anyway, folks, I dey beg una,  I know that we 9grians would always like to show off, and let the whole world know that we have arrived. If that club owner was driving a lower level SUV, like the 4runner that I drive, and kept a low profile, maybe his life wouldn’t be at stake.  My people all that flossing ain’t worth it oh. Meanwhile my homie from Chicago, has vowed not to come back to 9ja once he goes back on Monday.

na wah oh. @poster, make im no drive wetin im like?

ajirebi20:
try solving some arithmetics. it, sure, will keep u bizzy
@OP, why cant you just mind your business.


Anyway, we know how to get to people like you. Be afraid 'cos we are now after you, Mr. Jason.

ajirebi20:
They cant get collabo like Dbanj, now they are hating


Typical Ibo mentality; when you cant beat them, Cry, cry, and cry some more.


Dbanj go on with your collabo, let them cry themselves dry, And BTW, P'square or whatever you call yourselves, please return your Yoruba wives to their right owners, it is about time

confirmed! Ur d guy dat escaped frm yaba left

ajirebi20:
It is written, so shall it be.

Irrespective, you will die after your NYSC OP.


Forgettoaboutit, we've seen it and nothing can change the verdict.


Awon iya mi osoronga have made up their mind.

afta derailing d 'oliver twist' thread, ur now here 2 display ur elevated and unrivalled buffonery. C'mon gerrout and go help ur mama wyt ha plantain roasting.

Ricky_Ross:
ajirebi20, it is you and your entire yoyoba nation that God will punish. I think we can see the manifestation of Gods punishment in yoyobas bc you guys are the fattest, ugliest, dirtiest and dumbest tribe in Nigeria. This is a FACT even though I may sound tribalistic to some morons. B4 anyone will start making empty noises here pls tell these yoyobas to stop trash talking Igbos. I dont look for trouble, but any dirty fool that messes with my people will be rewarded abundantly.

Dbanj is NOBODY without Don Jazzy if you think otherwise tell me why he didnt join other yoyoba label like d Keke and D one click that usually rob peter to pay Paul,

ur nt even far from ajirebi. U'ld hv been much more wiser if u hd kept ur fingers idle

ajirebi20:
Ifyalways, you are talking to your baba-oko like this ? Pekele pekele? anyway, you are now a persona-non-grata in the family.

Yeah right. Who will starve first if Dbanj stops singing? Me thinks Ndigbo would starve. Was it Don Jazzy and his ugly Igbo voice that collaborated with Snoop? Was it Don Jazzy and his ugly Ndigbo face and shapeless Ndigbo body that appeared on the same stage with Kanye in London? Was it DOn Jazzy and his ugly igbotic hand and illiterate igbo brain that signed a contract with G.O.O.D music label? I can go on and on, but I will stop here.

Sai Yoruba brain

Yorubas lead, Ibos follow like malu.

monkey at work. D complete, full fledged meanin of d 7-lettered word : L.U.N.A.T.I.C.

Afta d whole thing, she noticed that i had started withdrawing from her. She kips bugging mi wyt calls, telling mi dat she loves mi dat she stil wana continue wyt d relationships and dat she's been prayin fervently 4 mi. I myt bliv cuz i dont know if al ma family members takes delight in dreaming of ma death in few years 2 come that they also kip prayin 4 mi. My mum hd helped mi escape death on some ocassions so i'm jst clueless and speechless. @M M M, i'm nt rily suprised at ur response. At least, it is gona b bera than 190's response

^^^ it's a painful decision i've gat to choose

High_Chief:
[size=13pt]Media Pitched Me Against Obj –ibb[/size]

Former Military president General  Ibrahim Babangida is singing a different tune on his recent stand-off with former President  Olusegun Obasanjo. He blamed  the press for pitching the two of them against each other.

Babangida, in firing the first salvo  against Obasanjo, had dismissed as a  waste, the $16 billion earmarked for power projects between 1999 and 2007 by  the administration  of Obasanjo.

Obasanjo  immediately replied and called Babangida a fool while Babangida in a counter reaction described Obasanjo as a bigger fool.

The verbal war took   place last month during Babangida’s 70th birthday.

The stand-off incensed many Nigerians who called them names.

However, Babangida on Wednesday night  said what the press reported was not “what l meant”.

“That was not what l meant.  This (report) has made me to lose some of my friends. No thanks to you journalists”, he said after paying a Sallah visit, in the company of another Military Head of  State General  Abdulasalmi Abubakar to Acting Governor Ahmed Musa Ibeto of Niger  State in Minna.

He said Obasanjo was his boss and remained so even now.

He said the press  and not politicians, is overheating the polity,

Contributing to the interview, Abubakar advised the media to be mindful of their stories, urging them to avoid reports that can overheat the  polity. But when told that  politicians should be blamed for overheating  the polity, Babangida interjected, and said: “No, no you (journalists) are the ones overheating the polity; even recently you (Journalists) overheated me.”

Babangida said the way the press handled the stand-off was unimaginative and wasteful.

On his alleged plan  to remarry, Babangida said: “At 70, you are talking of wedding bells? Forget it”.

The former military leader told their host that their visit was in accordance with tradition as he and Abdulsalami always pay homage to the  governor during  Sallah celebration to wish him well and to offer advice to the government.

He said: “We are here to pay homage to the governor, as a tradition we have adopted and we hope to continue to do it as long as Allah spares our lives we will continue to come, to nudge and to encourage you to continue the good work you have been doing for the state.”

Responding the acting governor appreciated the two leaders for their visit and promised that the government will continue to rely on the wealth of experience of these leaders, saying, “ we are proud to have the two of you in this state and we will continue to depend on your goodwill and experience.”




http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/27627-media-pitched-me-against-obj-ibb

wonders will never end

EagleNest:
Jonathan, has been up there (High Place) for roughly three years as VP and partially 1-year as Presido before being elected formally as President this year. I think he has learned enough to start making things happen. Nigeria as a nation is suffering from many diseases and we are looking for one miracle drug that can cure all diseases in one dose or even in many doses. Where is the drug? Jonathan

the drug = IBB

hi ners, i've been having this problem for a long time now. i am dating a girl and we love each other to a level that we have promised to get married, that is other things being equal. 2 weeks ago, she called me and told mi that she went to her church and a prophesy was revealed to her that she should not date me again. that if we continue, i will die immediately after my NYSC. since then, i haven't been co-ordinating well. my male friends told me to leave her so as not to die young while my female friends said i should go on that it might be a love test. right now, i'm at a crossroad. what should i do? please, beg Mr cork, 190, MMM and Mynd 44 to be serious here. i remain grateful in advance.

i

ajirebi20:
Yoruba men, always ahead of the moafuker Ibos.


Good job my Yoruba man.

E no go better for all you Ibos.

dah! i swear. ur d undisputed champion in d league of 'retardedness'

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201109031181476


There are more developmental programmes to be initiated in Delta State than rolling out the drums

If the government-sponsored celebrations that heralded Delta State’s 20th anniversary were a measure of the progress made by the state, then developmental economists will for a long time make the state a point of reference.

However, Delta is far from being addressed as a flowery and blossoming damsel, unsullied by life’s vicissitudes and protected from predators that derive joy from routinely violating her.

In its 20 years of existence, the state has seen the worst of times, but hoping against hope itself, it glimmers for a moment and then recedes, dashing the expectations of many who believe in it.

In this period, the state has witnessed one of the deadliest inter-ethnic wars, the relics of which still reverberate at regular intervals. It has been led by one of Nigeria’s most wanted fugitives and devastated by some of the world’s most threatening environmental pollutions.

Comprising mainly Urhobo, Isoko, Igbo (Anioma people), Ijaw and Itsekiri, all the ethnic-groups that make up the state are administratively grouped into three senatorial districts namely Delta North, Delta South and Delta Central.

The state had been enmeshed in various controversies. Even the list of honourees of the state at 20 was as contentious as the creation of the state.

The names of companies that were being investigated by the anti-corruption agencies and those of individuals of questionable character filled the list of those to be revered, leaving out others who had helped to build the state.

At 20 and with a population of 4,098,291 as at 2007, the location of the capital city in Asaba had also stirred its own storm, had a life of its own.

Delta State was carved out of the former Bendel State on August 27, 1991 by the then military president, Ibrahim Babangida. The state was created following agitation for the creation of distinct states reportedly by the Urhobo and Anioma regions.

While some people opine that Babangida took advantage of the division created by the Itsekiri people to move the capital to Asaba, which was not part of the agitation, as they were reportedly agitating for Anioma State, others believe that his decision to situate the capital in Asaba, a small community, was influenced by his late wife, who was from the state.

In the past 20 years, Delta has experienced various forms of crises and ethnic clashes among its ethnic communities (Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko, Itsekeri). The state remains a theatre of mutual distrust, ethnic jingoism and champions of clannish interests.

An issue that would ordinarily go without any notice could generate so much furore, name calling, a regurgitation of the imperfect past and uncurbed bickering. This, however, is understandable given that the state remains one of the most heterogeneous in the country.

Literally speaking, Delta probably has the highest number of political, community, intellectual and religious leaders in the country. Everybody seems to be a leader, albeit fighting for selfish gains. Nobody is ever wrong, all opinions are right.

Widespread poverty and unemployment; depletion of resources; pollution, political corruption and environmental degradation remain some of the major causes of ethnic conflicts in the oil-rich state.

The height of it was when violence broke out in Warri in March 1997 over the alleged relocation of a local government headquarters from Ogbe-Ijaw town to Ogidigben, an Itsekeri area. From March to May, widespread clashes continued, in which hundreds of people reportedly died on either side.

The military regime of the late Sani Abacha then set up a task force to handle the crisis. In October 1998, a curfew was declared in Warri after clashes between Ijaw and Itsekeri and a large number of houses set on fire; violence nevertheless continued, with attacks on leaders of each community.

Twenty years after, Delta has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Nigeria, millions of them unskilled. Millions of them have lost hope of outliving their continuing frustration with the leadership of the state at all levels.

Though the amnesty granted by the Federal Government had in no small measure helped in reducing the crime rate, it is not yet Uhuru in terms of the security of lives and property as all forms of criminality still take place on a daily basis.

Infrastructure wise, the state seems to be in an inseparable marriage with decaying amenities. Impassable roads, degenerating health facilities, unmaintained drainages, dilapidating educational infrastructure and an economy largely driven by commercial motorcycle riders.

Today, the very popular Warri is a shadow of itself: dirty, unorganised, slum-like, with a full complement of failing link roads and unmaintained drainages. Warri has become a metaphor for anti-social activities, with all kinds of vices emerging by the day.

Many projects embarked upon by the state and local governments are started and completed on the pages of newspapers in which their plans were drawn while local government administration is almost non-existent.

Refuse still litter major roads, the chaos on the streets, especially when there is a downpour, is only comparable to a state of temporal madness. Order and conscious planning and execution of plans seem to be alien to the state, especially the much mouthed oil-rich city of Warri.

This also appears to be the thinking of the coordinator of a prominent human rights group in the Niger Delta, the Forum for Justice and Human Rights Defence, Mr. Oghenejabor Ikimi, who saw no reason the state should roll out the drums.

Ikimi, who addressed newsmen in the state on the anniversary, said, “The attention of the FJHD has been drawn to the 20th anniversary of the creation of Delta State and we make bold to say that there is nothing to celebrate.

“Successive governments since the creation of the state have failed woefully to give purposeful and sincere leadership to its citizens.

“This is exemplified by the deplorable road network in the state, massive unemployment of the youth, hunger, public infrastructural decay, official corruption etc.

“We call on the Delta State Government to use the occasion to reflect on how to deliver to the people of Delta a purposeful and selfless leadership for the next four years instead of wasting public funds celebrating the failure of governance to the detriment of the suffering and traumatised masses.”

But Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan feels that the vision of the founding fathers of the state is still on course and that the lofty dreams of those who fought for the creation of the state are still realisable.

The third elected governor of the state says he is laying more blocks on the foundation left by his predecessors, though he admits that the state has passed through several challenges, which he opines, have made it “stronger and wiser.”

At the award giving ceremony to honour those the state thinks have contributed to its growth, Uduaghan said, “We are resolved to continue the steady march to sustainable development. We will improve infrastructure, rehabilitate some of the ailing industries, improve road, air and sea transport to create jobs and improve local and foreign investment drives.

“We are committed to bringing sustained peace, security and development to our state. Our efforts to resuscitate the Warri Ports are yielding tremendous results. It is expected that the Delta Ports will be boosted with the completion of work on the Asaba-Ughelli road project.

“The Asaba airport has commenced operations to alleviate the difficulties of our people transiting from Abuja and Lagos to Delta State.”

The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chike Ogeah, shares the governor’s optimism. He says, “In the different areas of development, we can see how far we have come. Now, we thank God that the first and the basic agenda, which is peace and security that everything rests upon, have been achieved.

“On roads, the idea is to have a ring road in Delta and I know that to a very large extent, we want to be able to go round Delta in a circle (the Asaba-Ughelli region). You can see what is going on now. It is not totally complete but I know that will soon be done.

“The greatest challenge we have in Delta today is youth unemployment. We are churning out youths that are unemployable because even those that have had some resemblance of education can’t even write a simple application letter.

“So, the governor has developed tailored governance in this his final legacy years to suit and cure this defect. The ministry of youth affairs will work in tandem with the ministry of poverty alleviation to this effect.”

But even as the state marked its 20th anniversary last Saturday, opinions are rife that Delta is still grappling with many forms of difficulties and unless fundamental actions are taken and petty politics divorced from developmental issues, the state would remain crawling for a long time to come.

[size=13pt]Any Cheery News To Mark Jonathan’s 100 Days In Office?[/size]


By EMEKA MADUNAGU   
Saturday, 3 Sep 2011

EMEKA MADUNAGU chronicles the events marking President Goodluck Jonathan’s first 100 days in office next Tuesday and concludes that it is the end that will justify the means

On September 6, 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan and most of the state governors will clock 100 days in office for a term of four years.

Although it may seem so short a period to judge an elected public official running a four-year term, it has become an accepted tradition in Nigeria. The assessment of the performance of Jonathan and the governors is varied. While some believe that Jonathan has made some remarkable progress, there are those who argue that it has been a wasted period and a dismal outlook of a failed tenure.

The tradition was popularised by the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was able to accomplish much within his first 100 days in office. During his first 100 days in office, FDR, as he was fondly called, pushed 15 bills through Congress. Time magazine claims that the tradition dates as far back as Napoleon Bonaparte, because that was how long it took him to return from exile, reinstate himself as ruler of France and wage war against the English and Prussian armies before his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. It adds a note that it actually took him 111 days.

Time says, “Roosevelt had been in office barely 24 hours when he declared a four-day bank holiday and drafted the Emergency Banking Act, which helped to calm a financial panic that was quickly spiralling out of control. By the time he hit the 100-day mark, Roosevelt had instituted the ‘fireside chat’ tradition, called Congress into a three-month-long special session and passed 15 pieces of major legislation — the beginning of what would come to be known as the New Deal — which created everything from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

“With farm credits, federal works projects and new financial regulations in place, the US of June 1933 was a substantially different place from that of 100 days earlier.”

Interestingly, Time adds, “One hundred days is a long time, and although the presidential progress report serves as a general gauge for the direction of the country, most administrations don’t achieve (or suffer) their greatest milestones until later.”

As Nigeria’s democracy is fashioned after the US model, the first 100 days in office have been used to predict how each administration, since President Olusegun Obsanjo was elected in 1999, has fared.

There is the general opinion that there is really nothing to write home in terms of the performance of either the governors in their second term or those first-term governors. It is the same rhetoric about promising the people an improved quality of life but short on delivery.

It has also been a theatre of the absurd in some states like Imo, where the governor appointed 100 aides, including a Chief Comedian of the State!

One common denominator between Jonathan and the governors is that they have yet to identify with the people’s yearnings for a reduction in the cost of governance.

Following the hospitalisation of President Umaru Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia, Jonathan became the Acting President on February 10, 2010. Yar’Adua eventually died on May 5, 2010 and Jonathan was sworn in the next day as President.

He grappled with severe fuel shortages, insecurity, a fragile economy and fissures in his political platform, the Peoples Democratic Party. He struggled through the period and managed to obtain the party’s ticket to contest the presidential election on January 14, 2011 after defeating Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Dr. Sarah Jibril.

His emergence as the party’s candidate ran against the zoning arrangement of the party and the North felt strongly that Jonathan, from the South-South, was ‘snatching’ its turn.

During his campaigns, Jonathan tried very hard to woo different segments of the Nigerian populace, by promising reforms.

A significant aspect of his campaign was the promise to spend only one term of four years. This was seen as a subtle way of appeasing the North.

The period of the elections was quite tenuous for Nigerians, with the callous murder of corps members in Bauchi State by rampaging mobs. There was also widespread violence in parts of the North, as murderous youths kicked against Jonathan’s victory.

In his 2,299-word speech after he was sworn in on May 29, Jonathan promised to transform the economy and fight for an improved quality of life for all Nigerians.

No sooner had Jonathan begun his tenure than he had to contend with security threats.

Interestingly, he made no direct mention of his determination to confront security challenges in his entire inauguration speech.

The best he came to talking about security was vague pledges that under his administration, Nigeria would play its role as a responsible member of the international community. Although he referred to the killing of corps members, there was no mention of how his administration would deal with the situation. At best, Jonathan merely condemned the murder of the corps members.

It appears the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, carefully studied Jonathan’s speech and decided to intensify its bloody campaign. Sadly enough, Jonathan became a visitor to scenes of bomb attacks and bloody violence.

At each turn, his Inauguration Day promise to fight for the future of ordinary Nigerians is being questioned by the same people who voted him with much enthusiasm.

Infrastructure is depreciating by the day while security agencies appear to have no idea how to carry out their mandate.

There is hardly any road network in Nigeria that is free of potholes. Across the length and breadth of the nation, the death toll from road accidents is alarmingly high.

It took Jonathan over one month to constitute his cabinet, due to pressure from disparate interests in his party and various groups. He eventually constituted his cabinet in batches, attracting international figures like the Managing Director of the World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Prof. Barth Nnaji and Mrs. Omobola Johnson to his team.

Jonathan has been able to engage the international community constructively, building on interactions gained as Acting President and President, before the 2011 elections.

As ECOWAS chairman, he was able to rally the sub-regional bloc in December 2010 to force the exit of recalcitrant Ivorian leader, Laurent Gbagbo four months later.

Building on this momentum, Jonathan was one of the few African leaders that came out boldly on August 23, 2011 to ask Libyan despot, Muammar Gaddafi, to quit. He followed it up by recognising the National Transitional Council of the Libyan rebels as the legitimate leaders of the people. This was against the general feeling among African leaders, especially South Africa, as it was only Nigeria and Egypt that recognised the rebels.

Within his first 100 days, Jonathan has also been able to attract high-profile visits from world leaders.

These include British Prime Minister, David Cameron and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

He also organised $2m assistance in food aid for famine-ravaged Ethiopia on behalf of Nigeria.

But there is the belief that by attending the inauguration of despots like Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Jonathan is not sending a strong message about his administration’s avowed commitment to democracy.

Although Jonathan signed the Minimum Wage Act 2011 in March, his administration did not take its implementation seriously.

It was not until organised labour moved to actualise its threat of a three-day warning strike that his administration took serious steps to implement the law. Some governors are yet to implement the law.

On the economy, his promise to create jobs through robust industrial development and reforms is yet to be actualised. Flowery speeches by his ministers such as Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Finance) and Mr. Olusegun Aganga (Trade and Investment) have yet to translate to real growth in the economy, job creation, infrastructural development, etc. Instead, Nigerians have had to contend with rising prices of goods and foodstuff, with the spectre of the government’s planned withdrawal of fuel subsidy hanging in the air.

It was during Jonathan’s first 100 days that governors turned to public retailers of kerosene, hoping to use it to gain political capital.

The price of cement has risen sharply, in spite of Jonathan’s intervention and industries are increasingly finding it hard to cope with issues such as multiple taxation, insecurity, high operating cost, decrepit infrastructure and government insincerity.

His controversial endorsement of the suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Salami, and proposal for a single tenure for the president and governors are two areas that have hit his approval ratings badly.

Today, insecurity and public confidence are Jonathan’s biggest challenges. A few hours after he was sworn in on May 29, Boko Haram bombed a drinking spot at Zuba, killing about 10 people.

The bomb attacks on the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force and the United Nations’ building, both in Abuja, significantly reduced Jonathan’s global rating. Going by public comments and reactions to his posts on Facebook, Nigerians are beginning to wonder if they were not misled into voting Jonathan.

His refusal to replace the top echelon of the security agencies has left many wondering if Jonathan is actually in charge.

All in all, impressions about his first 100 days are varied.

The National Coordinator, Human Rights Writers Association, Mr. Emmanuel Onwubiko, believes Jonathan is not focused.

He says, “The current administration started on a very wrong footing when it introduced a diversionary political agenda of proposing constitutional reforms to change the two terms allowed for the governors and the President to a six-year single term.

“The government, by this singular action, has demonstrated a clear misplacement of priority and lack of responsiveness to the yearnings of the populace, who are largely unemployed, poor, buffeted and overwhelmed by unprecedented state of insecurity and high crime rate and abysmal performance of the operatives of the Nigerian security community, especially the police. The first 100 days of the current administration headed by President Goodluck Jonathan have brought anything but good luck to Nigerians because for the very first time in the political annals of Nigeria, suicide bombers struck on two occasions in the federal capital city and precisely in the Force Headquarters of the Nigeria Police and unfortunately heads did not roll as if it is permissible for heads of security agencies to fail spectacularly to perform their constitutional duties and nothing by way of reprimand or punitive measures are meted out to such failures in sensitive public offices.

“Corruption and economic crimes have assumed larger than life dimension since May 29 and the statutory institutions created to fight these hydra-headed monsters of economic crimes (EFCC and ICPC) have since gone to sleep, while political office-holders like governors and ministers are feasting on the public funds kept in their care.

“The result of this unrestrained looting spree is that basic infrastructure such as roads and electricity have become comatose, leading to further unemployment because factories and operators in the real manufacturing sector are closing shops and moving to the neighbouring countries of Ghana and even Liberia, where electricity is evidently regular and the bad state of the entire federal roads in the South.”

Seasoned public relations expert, Osita Ike, agrees with Onwubiko.

“One hundred days down the road and I find myself asking, Quo Vadis? Which way Nigeria? Why does the elegant ship, SS Nigeria, seem adrift, even when we hear the engines running at full throttle and believe Capt. Goodluck is at the helm, in full control? Do we need more than random good luck?

“Why do I suddenly feel much more insecure, more helpless, less certain of tomorrow? Even when we proclaim God is a Nigerian? There have been lots of promises, plenty talk, but we desperately want action and leaders who will work the talk.

“Bomb blasts will soon be as regular as NEPA isn’t. Youth restiveness threatens a re-enaction of the bloody Arab Spring. The farcical comedy of errors at the head of the judiciary nauseates. Expired presidents ridicule our commonsense with general verbal combat in print, hunger and disease are gaining ground and unemployment gloats in the face of untapped potential in agriculture.”

However, the National Coordinator, Raymond Dokpesi Annual Lecture, Mr. Chris Ebuetse, disagrees.

His words, “The Nigerian project requires time, given the many years of misrule. Hundred days are relatively small to carpet the leadership of Dr. (Goodluck Ebele) Jonathan. He, however, must not allow the Nigerian project to overwhelm him. He must understand the tasks before him are daunting

“The people have suffered years of neglect and misrule; so, they are becoming impatient and want an immediate and automatic solution to the barrage of problems which confront the Nigerian state. There is the yearning by the people for him to fix the economy, I mean give electricity to the people, create employment for the teaming Nigerians who are not employed, face industrial development, provide good roads, improve the education and health sectors, provide food by investing in massive agriculture.

“The people will wish that the naira will gain value to improve our international trade and the banks also have a role to play in the policy thrust of any administration and the economy of a country.

“Governors like Babatunde Fashola, Chubuike Amaechi, Adams Oshiomhole have done well. In the South-East, the governors are becoming competitive in what they will leave as a legacy for their people. Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime has a high commendation and my visit to Abia State, Theodore Orji gives a paradigm shift and his policy thrust today appears a lot better and more focused. We hear Rochas Okorocha often; his moves and by his pedigree, he must show the way to success and deliver his people.

“For the northern part of Nigeria, the security challenge has become so high. No state or country can do well when the security position is at its ebb. In the past 100 days, some states in the North are in shred. It is a fact that the country has to grapple with.

“Boko Haram has overrun Borno and Bauchi states; Plateau State has continued to witness violence and crisis; so, how do we rate that any meaningful development has taken place when peace is not ensured? In all, while some governors are working hard to move their states forward, other states are overwhelmed by security challenges, and my view is that the country needs stability to move ahead.

“This has become the biggest challenge of the Jonathan administration. They are the problems which he did not create, but seem to have held his administration by the jugular. They are corruption, insecurity and lack of electricity. If he succeeds with this, history will be fair to him as the 14th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

It may be almost 100 days, but it may be early days yet to assess how Jonathan and the governors will turn out at the end of the four years.


http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201109032511285

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201109033404248


By Friday Olokor, Abuja
Saturday, 3 Sep 2011




A Nigerian civil rights activist based in the United States, Mr. Smart Ajaja, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to negotiate with members of Boko Haram, which claimed responsibility for last Friday’s bomb attack on the United Nations House in Abuja.

In a statement, which was issued in Abuja on Thursday and obtained by SATURDAY PUNCH, Ajaja said that a destabilised Nigeria would constitute a serious problem to global security.

He said that those who had carried out terrorist attacks in the North were not citizens of Nigeria, adding that real Nigerians would only engage in intellectual militancy instead of attacking soft targets in order to score cheap political points.

Ajaja noted that the attack on the UN building in Abuja had further exposed the tragic failure of leadership and the weak foundation on which Nigeria’s independence from the erstwhile British colonial masters had rested.

He said, “It is disturbing to see Nigeria become a battle ground for alien political and economic ideologies hidden in extremist religious fundamentalism.

“I love Nigeria and its map, but I have serious questions and doubts with the way it is constituted and run. Warning: a destabilised Nigeria is a serious threat to global security.

“The ‘One Nigeria’ slogan, which is often questionable, has again been ridiculed as an expansive delusion by this tragic, despicable and barbaric attack, by a faceless Islamic sect against the UN.”

The civil rights activist said it was shameful that since independence, sectarian and terrorist activities in Nigeria had taken place mostly in the North.

He called on the youths and the people of the North to stand up and take their destinies in their hands by demanding accountability from the northern leadership, rather than attacking other Nigerians in the pursuit of religious or other ideologies that they knew little or nothing about.

Describing the recent attack on the UN house as barbaric, Ajaja said, “I hope this will serve as a wake up call to the Presidency to wake up to its responsibility and stop negotiating with terrorists in the name of promoting national peace.

“Let those corrupt security operatives who aid people of shady character to beat the system consider the implications of their actions to national security.”

He called on Jonathan to convoke a Sovereign National Conference so that Nigerians would be afforded the opportunity to negotiate the terms for mutual co-existence.

Kizilala:
[size=13pt]We now know bombers, sponsors –FG [/size]

• They’ll be arrested soon
From UBONG UKPONG, Abuja
Saturday, September 03, 2011


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The Federal Government has sensationally disclosed that it now has strong evidence on the identity of those involved in the recurrent bomb attacks across the country.  Following this, President Goodluck Jonathan has given an express order to security agencies to go after these terrorists and their sponsors, staing that they were testing his resolve to deal decisively with them.

Speaking, in Abuja, yesterday, while launching the new national driver’s license and number plates, facilitated by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Jonathan expressed regrets that since October 1, 2010, terrorists group have consistently detonated bombs in parts of the country and inflicted the nation and its citizens with undeserved and untold sufferings, pains and sorrows.

He said he was provoked by the last week Friday’s bombing of the United Nations House in Abuja, and has, therefore, resolved to place the terrorists and their sponsors where they belong.

Consequent upon this, Jonathan said he had already mapped out strategies and was turning the edge of his sword to crush all those who have sworn to destabilise and divide the nation under his leadership.

Said Jonathan: “Today’s launch has acquired greatest significance, following last Friday’s unprovoked attack, which led to the loss of lives and has left, in history, gory images for the threat terrorism now poses to the peace and security of our nation and the safety of our citizens. Since the last bombing and the October1, 2010, I had directed the hastening of efforts to build a credible database of drivers and vehicles in order to improve public safety. The importance of this project is reaffirmed by the consistence use of vehicles in the conduct of the recent bombing episodes.


“Let me use this occasion to reassure Nigerians and members of the international communities that we now have strong links as to those involved in this terror war on Nigeria and Nigerians. I have directed security operatives to go after them, no matter where they may be hiding. Also, I am using this opportunity to warn that those who choose to hide under our new freedom to perpetrate evil against our people shall have no hiding place. This administration is fully determined and able to deal with all threats and agents of instability, who continue to test the resolve of our nation and its democratic institutions and leadership.

“As president and chief security officer of the nation, I will employ every means and instrument at my disposal to secure this nation against forces of evil, which seeks to divide and sabotage our country. There shall be no sacred cows in our efforts to expose, contain and defeat this network of terror and its sponsors. I’ve directed a review of our national security architecture to lay its emphasise on intelligence and citizens’ participation in security surveillance.

“It is in this regard that government is pleased that the Federal Road Safety Corps has delivered on its promise to introduce a credible driver’s license that meets international standard. This is a positive development, which demonstrates Federal Road Safety Corps’ commitment to the government’s transformation agenda.”


With the provision made for diplomatic driver’s licence and number plates in the new plan, President Jonathan said this would help to keep the vehicles and driver’s identity in check to ensure that they are not used to terrorise the country.
Said he: “The international dimension of driver’s licence and number plates imposes on us, as a country, the need to ensure that they are not used as instruments of terrorism.”

Reassuring everyone that terror groups would be defeated in the country, the president said his administration would spare no effort or resource in containing this latest threat to the unity and stability of the nation.
Jonathan urged that everyone must stand together against terror in its destructive manifestations.
“We are in touch with all international agencies involved in the global war against terror. We will work in tandem with all organisations and partners towards a timely and eventual contending and defeat of terror and their sponsors in our land,” the President stated.

Expressing joy at the new and standard driver’s licence and number plates, he said these marked the beginning of a new era, as these would not only restore the integrity of the driver’s licence but also provide the nation with a credible database of drivers and vehicles.
The president directed the immediate implementation of the driving school standardisation programme, where only accredited driving schools must sponsor all fresh applicants for driver’s license, ordering also for a new regulatory regime of mandatory test and continuous driver’s training for commercial drivers.

He assured the FRSC of total support in ensuring that enforcement of road traffic rules, “does not exempt or accord any undue respect to positions, ranks and status of any selected group of road users. I will, therefore, like to see greater enforcement on indiscriminate use of siren by unauthourised persons on our roads and removal of tankers and trailers that are indiscriminately parked, to obstruct the roads. The corps marshal and chief executive should come out with action plans in conjunction with other stakeholders by ensuring that adequate parks are provided for trailers and tankers on our highways nationwide.”

President Jonathan promised that government would continue to support the FRSC in its quest to sustain the decline in road crashes and injuries in order to achieve the objective of the Accra declaration of reducing road crash fatalities by 50 per cent by 2015 and also, the UN decade of action on road safety 2011 to 2020, which hopes to make Nigeria’s roads to rank among the world’s 20 safest roads by the year 2020.

While launching the new drivers licence and number plates to the glory of God for the safety of all road users and promotion of national security the president appealed to all to be resolute in their support for the FRSC in their quest to reform motor vehicles administration in the country for our collective good.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/sept/03/national-03-09-2011-002.html

@bolded means he knew their sponsors long b4 now bub hd decided 2 play naive

methodman:
All hail the yahoo boiz,

rotflmfao

Enugu state, EBA ENO

I love obj jooh. D united states gingered d libyans 2 take up arms cuz dey(d US) nided a libyan leader dat they cn control(lyk odechukwu) so dat dey cn b stealing free oil

So dis pple want mi 2 cooperate wyt cluelessness. Pdp = papa deceive pikin

Sun of god:
Okonjo-iweala adds EFCC to Portfolio - Plans To Pursue 3 Big Corruption Cases


Anti-corruption agencies in the country have said they are not aware of the three big corruption cases the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi-Okonjo-Iweala, wanted them to prosecute.


Okonjo-Iweala last Wednesday said there were three big cases of corruption and graft the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission were going to prosecute.

The minister spoke in Abuja while unfolding her economic blueprint for the country.

While talking about strategies for good governance and corruption, Okonjo-Iweala said the EFCC and the ICPC had to recover all stolen assets of the country.

SUNDAY PUNCH's investigations at the EFCC and the ICPC, however, showed that the anti-graft agencies were not aware of the three big corruption cases the minister was referring to.

EFCC's Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said he didn't know the big cases the minister was talking about.

"If she mentions them I will know, but now I have no idea," he said.

The response was the same from the ICPC.

The commission said since the minister had not identified the specific cases, it could not make a comment.

ICPC spokesman, Mr. Folu Olamiti, said, "Maybe if they forward the cases to us, but right now I don't know about them."

The Human Rights Watch had in a report released last Thursday said the efforts in the war against corruption had fallen short.

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/aug/28/842.html

efcc & icpc, d anti-corruption (sleeping dogs) sowie 'watchdogs'

Mikel shld knw by now dat dey kidnapped his dad cuz he h8 scoring 4 chelsea. D kidnappers r chelsea fans.

Jst hope he wont 'yakubu' dia chance @ d top flight d way he yakubued our chance of qualifying 4 d 'round of 16' lst yr

Dis Guy:
Dont really know where this fits in , culture or religion


As the title say really, I have always wonder why some people are buried so late, I know in some cases, the cause of death needs to be investigated especially in the west

two recent examples in, Christy Essien-Igbokwe (may her soul rest in peace) she died June 30 and will be buried September 9th

Sam Loco Efe- Died 7 August and will be buried October 21

Sorry I'm just using these as they are well known.

Is it the preparation for the casket or getting family and friends together to fit in to the family plans?

Why the delay


_{and what is the condolence book for?}

blame gej

They nid moni 2 organize a "befitting" party(sowie burial)

Jst lyk ajagun tryin 2 teach sneijder hw 2 score freekicks, sanni kaita teachin messi hw 2 dribble accurately, chamach teachin berbatov bal control, diaby coaching c.ronaldo on hw 2 improve on his speed or man.city boss giving arsene wenger lecture on hw 2 manage(mise) money. Laffin in korean