The country called Nigeria is under serious strain and if it is to survive it needs a leader that has the integrity, trust, patriotism, and a positive experience to lead. That servant must be selfless; firm but decent; talented not an
intellectual; a person that has seen us through a life of despair and yet hope; an achiever and a team player; a person with the vision to take the country out of the deep seas of trouble brought about by an greed
leadership in this Nation. It makes one wonder the very people that should have been locked away for good not only for violating our constitution, considering illegalities they committed to remain in power. This is because all the indices of governance show that Nigerian government is pursuing the wrong economic, social and political polices, and that there may be a dysfunctional basic assumption that reinforces the thinking of the greater majority Nigerians. Moreover, the leadership does not appear to be alive to its responsibilities to Nigeria and her future generations, as exemplified by its failure to address corruption and impunity. The continued reliance and dependence on oil without any active plan to diversify the economy, is a serious worry, especially since the west has stepped up its attempt to develop alternative sources of energy. More than half of Nigeria’s government officials, be it governors or ministers fail to demonstrate trust, show respect for their teams or even produce results. It’s sad that we have or are blessed with a diligent leader that’s God sent but we all neglected him due to our sentimentall. A leader that can makes us feel proud of being Nigerian, but unfortunately some people as usual don’t see this as I do. I’m not campaign for any aspirant, all I’m doing is telling it as it is. Officials are light years away from the top level leaders. I believe leaders build enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. And as for what you do
with a surfeit of ego once you’ve reached the top, the answer is simple, great leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great government, state, nation and or continent. We have many examples of tested and trusted leaders of our time like Gen Muhamme Buhari, Aminu Tambuwal, Raji Fashola, Rotimi
amaechi, Jimi Agbaje, Hon Femi Gbaja and Sule lamido. Overt display of personal success do little to motivate the people who are key to the long term health of any government, institution or organisation. Power and money are of course important, but only insofar as they apply to the state as a whole not the individuals running the affairs of it.
As 2015 Elections is around the corner who did u think that, is fit for the job in your State and the Federal ?

Vice President -North.
Speaker House of Reps - North.
PDP National Chairman - North.
Head of Service - North.
INEC Chairman - North.
Inspector General of Police -North.
CBN Governor - North.
Chief Justice of federation -North.
President Court of Appeal -North.
EFCC Chairman - North.
President Federal high court -North.
National Security Adviser -North.
Chief of Defense Staff -North.
Controller, Customs Service -North.
Controller Prison Services -North.
Richest man in Africa - North.
85% of Petroleum Marketers in Nigeria - Northerners.
80% of Oil Block Owners in Nigeria - Northerners.
99% of beggars in Nigeria -Northerners
Boko Haram - North.
Yet, the Poorest states in Nigeria and Educationally backward areas in Nigeria are in the North. Northerners let identify Our Common Problem and Move to
solve it.

Nigerians! We're confusable. I'm
sorry 2 say.
When President Jonathan was
silence on Boko Haram issue, we
all critized his Govt. GEJ is slow, he
is an mediocre president. He
should rather quit if he can't
handle the affaire of this Nation
any more. Then President
Jonathan came out with amnesty
programme which i thought is
the best solution to the Boko
Haram problems. Same Nigerians
denounced the used of amnesty
to a criminals! He should declare
the State of Emergency instead
of amnesty programme. Now
that Boko Haram has rejected
amnesty and President Jonathan
declared the State of Emergency,
pls what did u want him to do?
And if it's you what will you do?
He should keep watching you
pple continue to die a miserable
death? Although am President
Jonathan detractor but not on
this brainwave pattern. Mr.
President i support your idea jare
as much as OBJ declared State of
Emergency during his tenure. JTF
should go there and extirpate
Boko Haram who hide under
Islamic religion to killed innocent
soul. It's only enemy of islam and
progress will denounce ur gr8
decision.

Nigeria is under serious strain
and if it is to survive it needs a
leader that has the integrity,
trust, patriotism, and a
positive experience to lead. That
servant must be selfless; firm but
decent; talented not an
intellectual; a person that has
seen us through a life of despair
and yet hope; an achiever and a
team player; a person with the
vision to take the country out of
the deep seas of trouble brought
about by an greed leadership in
this Nation. It makes one wonder
the very
people that should have been
locked away for good not only
for violating our constitution,
considering illegalities they
committed to remain in power.
This is because all the indices of
governance show that Nigerian
government is pursuing the
wrong economic, social and
political polices, and that there
may be a dysfunctional basic
assumption that reinforces the
thinking of the greater majority
Nigerians. Moreover, the
leadership does not appear to be
alive to its responsibilitie s to
Nigeria and her future
generations, as exemplified by its
failure to address corruption and
impunity. The continued reliance
and dependence on oil without
any active plan to diversify the
economy, is a serious worry,
especially since the west has
stepped up its attempt to
develop alternative sources of
energy. More than half of
Nigeria’s government officials, be
it governors or ministers fail to
demonstrate trust, show respect
for their teams or even produce
results. It’s sad that we have or
are blessed with a president
that’s God sent but we all
neglected him due to
sentimentall. A president that can
makes us feel proud of being
Nigerian, but unfortunately some
people as usual don’t see this as I
do. I’m not campaign for any
aspirant, all I’m doing is telling it
as it is. Since independence in
1960, President Jonathan appears
to have been the only President
who was elected by popular
acclaim. His election in April 2011
cut across religion, partisan
interest, ethnic nationality and
geo-political zone. This was
evident in the overwhelming
support he garnered during the
April 2011 General elections. His
popularity is attributable to two
main factors. I believe leaders
build enduring greatness through
a paradoxical blend of personal
humility and professional will.
And as for what you do with a
surfeit of ego once you’ve
reached the top, the answer is
simple, great leaders channel
their ego needs away from
themselves and into the larger
goal of building a great
government, state, nation and or
continent. We have many
examples of tested and trusted
leaders of our time like Gen
Muhamme Buhari, Aminu
Tambuwal, Raji Fashola, Rotimi
amaechi, Jimi Agbaje and Sule
lamido. Over display of personal
success do little to motivate the
people who are key to the long
term health of any government,
institution or organisation.
Power and money are of course
important, but only insofar as
they apply to the state as a
whole not the individuals
running the affairs of it.
As 2015 Elections is around the
corner who did u think that is fit
for the job in your State and @
the Federal ?

Politics in Nigeria.
Jonathan’s bloody legacy: The Baga genocide.

This genocide has provided the
defining moment to the lacklustre and bloody legacy of
Jonathan’s tenure. Judging by the
long lists of bloody obituaries and sea of
tears that are being shed in Baga village and all over Nigeria, we are now saddled
with a leader whose
bemused emergence is consistently marked by plane crashes, auto accidents, communal clashes and ongoing
bloody Boko Haram
culling of innocent blood. Fierce debates and accusations
are flying across Abuja’s skyline
as I write on what really triggered such a sensational and brutal genocide against the
people of Baga, a sleepy village in Borno State. A complicated and
dense web of blame game between Jonathan’s government and the decent people of Nigeria is gathering
rapid pace. Even Doyin Okupe’s incoherent ranting on the
television as to the real figure of the dead provided no perceptive elucidations. In a rapid fire rebuttal, the Red Cross has accused Okupe and bluntly called him a shameless liar.
The Red Cross said that 187 innocent and defenceless villagers which comprised
elderly men and women and children were murdered in cold blood. I saw burnt bodies of
babies across the killing fields of
Baga through the pages of Nigerian newspapers and the
Internet. The Red Cross has said
that the military prevented their
personnel from gaining access
to Baga to provide relief to victims most of whom were badly burnt beyond recognition.
The spokesman for Red Cross Nwakpa O. Nwakpa said: Our
volunteers were on standby but we were not given clearance.
Commenting on the genocide, the
Commander of the JTF,
Brigadier General Austin Edokpaye, put the blame for the
mindless killings on the doorstep of Boko Haram jihadists. He
accused Boko Haram Islamic separatists – faceless ghosts
according to the Aso Rock dotard of using civilians as shield.
Meanwhile, the ACN in
reaction through its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, said: No matter what defence the military may
put forward, the mass deaths and destruction in Baga during the JTF-insurgents’ clash portray the Nigerian military as having
little or no respect for human rights and the sanctity of lives.
This is not a flattering portrayal for a military that has made its mark in global peacekeeping.
It also criticized the Federal Government’s handling of the
killings, calling it slow and disrespectful to the sanctity of
human lives. It added: In the first instance, it took the government
almost 48 hours to
comment on the killings, as the
presidency only issued a statement on Monday evening
over the clash and the deaths which reports said started on
Friday. Secondly, even the tone of the statement amounted to further victimizing the victims of the clash. Saying that the
death toll was grossly
exaggerated, as the presidency statement claimed, is simply
wrong, because the killing of even one innocent person is one killing too many.
This genocide has provided the
defining moment to the lacklustre and bloody legacy of
Jonathan’s tenure. Judging by the long lists of bloody obituaries and sea of tears that are being shed in Baga village
and all over Nigeria, we are now saddled with a leader whose
bemused emergence is consistently marked by plane crashes, auto accidents, communal clashes and ongoing
bloody Boko Haram culling of innocent blood. When Jonathan entered office, it was with a
joyous sound of hosannas from
party members to plain ordinary Nigerians. Today those hosannas
have given way to cries of pain and even horror of his bloody
tenure. The harsh realities of his
government are reasserting
themselves and suddenly our
mood is changing to crucify him. Yes, we have to crucify this
dotard (oridota) whose government has continued to
flounder bloodily on the rock of inaction. The cold, miserable
truth is that Goodluck has brought Badluck to the Nigerian
space. Millions of Nigerians gave him the rare chance to work out a new salvation for a nation
that had become a horrible edifice, but no, he hitched our
destiny on the cross roads of bloody killings, impunity and
tears. Not to be outdone, Reuben
Otapiapia Abati gave absolute poppywash in his official
reaction to the Baga genocide. This turncoat is fast becoming a restless junkyard dog in the villa. He has learned all the tricks on
how to bark new tunes. He said
that Jonathan was interested in
knowing about Baga genocide!

The incumbent Governor Fashola, who during Mr Tinubu’s tenure as Governor worked for many years as his Chief of Staff, is seen as having been one of the prime beneficiaries of Oga head master of Lagos political largesse as Fashola was hand-picked by the erstwhile Governor himself as his successor. However, following in the tradition of countless other hand-picked political successors across Africa, once he was installed as Governor, Fashola began to show the tell-tale signs of a man who actually wanted to make some of his own decisions – often without any reference to the Lagos head master at top whose personal invitation he was occupying the Governor’s mansion.. Meanwhile, it has now become a talk of the town in Lagos state on who the next governor will be come 2015 after the exit of the incumbent governor Babatunde Fashola. As it is, political pundits believe that the Oga head master of Lagos, will prefer to use one of his boys who is now a permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, i will not mention his name. And i believe that, Between Muiz Banire and this young man, oga head master of Lagos may find it very hard to pick one of the two because this stripling father used to be a family friend to the Tinubus and Muiz Banire is also a fraternal friend to Oga Head Master. Observers of the whole development however pointed at the direction of Akin Ambode, the state’s Accountant General who resigned his appointment last year. it was Akin who defended all the Tinubu’s administration expenses at the anti graft agency and that he hails from Epe confirms all speculations that he is in the race as the last joker of the political class who insist in having an indigene as next Lagos governor. Oga head master of Lagos has been accused of stealing Lagos State money to create an empire (political and economic)


@ Billyonaire:
Who Owns Hitech ? Tinubu
Who Owns AlphaBeta ? Tinubu
Who Owns Oriental Hotel ? Tinubu
Who owns LCC ? Tinubu
Who owns Nations News Paper ? Tinubu
Who owns Nations Airline ? Tinubu
Who controls all LGAs in Lagos ? Tinubu
Who controls Lagos state House of Assembly ? Tinubu
Who is Fashola's Godfather ? Tinubu
Who 'owns' ACN ? Oga head master of Lagos.

I can say that, it is even good that he used his ill begotten wealth for all the above. because, what other politicians who stole like him did with theirs? I can even say the Lagos Head Master is the governor of Lagos state while Fashola is the deputy. You can't imagine the amount of money the ACN spent in Ondo state election. And i believe that, these money are tax payers money in Lagos state. Tinubu is slowing down the development of Lagos state with his proboscis inside Lagos treasury. If u take a critical look at Fasholas administration, his performance during his fist term is better than what we have now. Let us wake up before Tinubu turns the whole Lagos state to amala politics like a season film in Ibadan. When you look @ the LASTMA, they hide in strategic places just to make sure that you fall in2 there trap. Is there nothing like first offender in there dictionary? Why must you pay for every offense even if you are committing the offense for the first time. It is because they are all out to indirectly enrich the purse of the Oga head master of Lagos? Fashola is handicap, I'm very sure he signed an undertaken with oga head master of Lagos, that is why we didn't observe any rancor btw them during this tenure. Please reason with me, I may not have more fact but what I'm saying is not far from the truth.
As it is now, no one can say who will be the next governor of Lagos state, just as the opposition party PDP are pulling all the strings to upstage the ACN come 2015. It is indeed going to be a very good scenario because ACN as a party is well-rooted in Lagos state and the PDP is not leaving anything to chance.
But, i dey hear say no mugun for Lagos! What shall we call this?
Lagosian wake up.

Comrade Aremuforyouth wrote: NORTHERN NIGERIA THE LAND OF SUDDEN DEAD.

Sometime it took me three days fasting when ever i want to visit Northern Nigeria. because, i always thought that, this may be my last journey. Northern Nigeria the most peaceful region which suddenly turn to the land of sudden death. You've to pray hard b4 u sleep in d 9ite, bcus dat may be ur last night. You must be a prayer warrior b4 u board a car or bus because it may b d last trip. You've to contact ur cleric for prayers b4 u leave to office or shop, bcus u may not return home alive. Is this a life? Northern governors should pls ignore jonathan and call BH for dialoque. They should have mercy for the poor masses who are dying everyday.

I experienced a moment of grief this morning when I heard the news that Chinua Achebe had died.

Famed writer and educator Chinua Achebe was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, in the Igbo town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. After becoming educated in English at the University of Ibadan and a subsequent teaching stint, in 1961, Achebe joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation as director of external broadcasting. He would serve in that position until 1966. Prior to joining NBC, in 1958, Achebe published his first novel: Things Fall Apart. The groundbreaking novel centers on the cultural clash between native African culture and the traditional white culture of missionaries and the colonial government in place in Nigeria. In a related endeavor, in 1967, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, a renowned poet, co-founded a publishing company, the Citadel Press, which they intended to run as an outlet for a new kind of African-oriented children's books. Chinua Achebe sudden death is a national disaster which is being greeted everywhere with sadness, disbelief, astonishment, incredulity and great expression about the impact of his loss and socio-political significance of this great man. No doubt, he was the greatest and dogged fighter of our time whose accomplishments in the struggle for the emancipation of the working and toiling people of Nigeria cannot be easily equaled. He was also crucial to those who abhor corruption and could easily be described as the Nigerian pillar of mankind’s oldest struggle just and egalitarian society. But at least, he has left behind, an enviable and great legacy of honesty, hard work, patriotism, equal rights and justice which were the cause of his life. He was a valorous man who singularly, in his own confident manner and singular dedication added value to the concept and methodology of making the world a better place in his own time. When I confirmed the news today, March Friday 22, learning of the sad demise of our late father, brother, lion of the human rights and the icon of the dispossessed and defender of the rights of the ordinary Nigerian, that our country had lost its conscience, it was not an accidental statement. It was precisely because there was no adequate epithet that I felt could accurately capture the true essence and the entire gamut of Achebe dedication to our country and its people.
Achebe taught us the virtues of speaking truth to power of demystifying the arrogant and powerful and the values of character, principle, compassion and integrity, with which he lived his private and public life. Of course, in all of this, he also shows us that he was human after all, with frailties and foibles like the rest of us. For me and my political family, the greatest tribute we can make to Chinua Achebe is to continue in the struggle for the liberation and freedom of our people, along the lines that Achebe fought for a new constitutional order, for the votes of our people to count and for governments that are truly accountable to the citizens of this country. Adieu, Chinua Achebe Please reassure our comrade brothers, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Bala Usman, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Senator Abraham Adesanya, Emeka Ojukwu, Ken Saron wiwa and other martyrdom and the unknown defenders of our freedom when you meet them. We shall carry the torch forward and continue to light the candle for the true freedom and liberation of our people.

Comrade Aremuforyouths
The Egalitarian

I experienced a moment of grief this morning when I heard the news that Chinua Achebe had died.

Famed writer and educator Chinua Achebe was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, in the Igbo town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. After becoming educated in English at the University of Ibadan and a subsequent teaching stint, in 1961, Achebe joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation as director of external broadcasting. He would serve in that position until 1966. Prior to joining NBC, in 1958, Achebe published his first novel: Things Fall Apart. The groundbreaking novel centers on the cultural clash between native African culture and the traditional white culture of missionaries and the colonial government in place in Nigeria.
In a related endeavor, in 1967, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, a renowned poet, co-founded a publishing company, the Citadel Press, which they intended to run as an outlet for a new kind of African-oriented children's books. Chinua Achebe sudden death is a national disaster which is being greeted everywhere with sadness, disbelief, astonishment, incredulity and great expression about the impact of his loss and socio-political significance of this great man. No doubt, he was the greatest and dogged fighter of our time whose accomplishments in the struggle for the emancipation of the working and toiling people of Nigeria cannot be easily equaled. He was also crucial to those who abhor corruption and could easily be described as the Nigerian pillar of mankind’s oldest struggle just and egalitarian society. But at least, he has left behind, an enviable and great legacy of honesty, hard work, patriotism, equal rights and justice which were the cause of his life. He was a valorous man who singularly, in his own confident manner and singular dedication added value to the concept and methodology of making the world a better place in his own time. When I confirmed the news today, March Friday 22, learning of the sad demise of our late father, brother, lion of the human rights and the icon of the dispossessed and defender of the rights of the ordinary Nigerian, that our country had lost its conscience, it was not an accidental statement. It was precisely because there was no adequate epithet that I felt could accurately capture the true essence and the entire gamut of Achebe dedication to our country and its people.
Achebe taught us the virtues of speaking truth to power of demystifying the arrogant and powerful and the values of character, principle, compassion and integrity, with which he lived his private and public life. Of course, in all of this, he also shows us that he was human after all, with frailties and foibles like the rest of us. For me and my political family, the greatest tribute we can make to Chinua Achebe is to continue in the struggle for the liberation and freedom of our people, along the lines that Achebe fought for a new constitutional order, for the votes of our people to count and for governments that are truly accountable to the citizens of this country. Adieu, Chinua Achebe Please reassure our comrade brothers, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Bala Usman, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Senator Abraham Adesanya, Emeka Ojukwu, Ken Saron wiwa and other martyrdom and the unknown defenders of our freedom when you meet them. We shall carry the torch forward and continue to light the candle for the true freedom and liberation of our people.

MY OPPEN LETTER TO THE NEWLY MERGER PARTY APC.

With the new assets available to the opposition following the merger of the main political parties in Nigeria. If I were the average Nigerian, (without being immodest) I would not be writing today in stout defence of General Muhammadu Buhari, former head of state, who is under seemingly well-co-ordinated criticisms for no other reason than exercising his constitutional and political right of seeking elective public office. The major charge against General Buhari is that during his tenure, he violated human rights and most of our political elite will live the rest of their lifes in prison. It is not my fault cos i wnt the best 4my pple. Remember i was among of GEJ youth campaign orgnisation in 2010/11 b4 i quit the group? because i did not joined them to make more money! I joined them because of my future, my children and the next generation. I hope with GEJ as a stripling candidate then, my fellow youths will have a good job, will live a comfortable life and many more. I've to quit that selfish group! because, jonathan administration is noting but failure. Now, that youth president has failed us, who can we trust again? I believe that b4 this Nation can be ok! We need to proscuted those corrupt political elite, and who will do that among all this stripling? This is what make me u turn to GMB. Hence, close examination of the charges against General Buhari will show that the man simply took a cue from his military commanders-in-chief and civilian prime minister. One of such commanders-in-chief was General Obasanjo and if despite such charges, the same Obasanjo exercised his right under the Constitution to contest presidential elections in 1999, why should General Buhari not exercise the same constitutional right to aspire to the Presidency? We are therefore discussing Nigerian military generals who preceded General Buhari as Nigerian leaders.
General Buhari’s strength (some would call it weakness) is his bluntness which of all people, South West politicians should even appreciate compared to the trap, if not betrayal, which earned them (South West politicians) the political massacre of 2003. Buhari said he would tamper with the press.
The (journalists) therefore knew the risk they were taking. But did Buhari or the army introduce retroactive legislation into governance in Nigeria or was Buhari the first head of state to tamper with the press? If all these happened under General Buhari’s former commanders-in-chief and did not count against General Obasanjo’s return to public office, why should Buhari be singled out for unfair demolition exercise? What is more, the situation was not different under Buhari’s military and (supposedly) civilian successors.
It was of course wrong of the Buhari administration to have detained ex-President Shehu Shagari in a house while Vice President Alex Ekwueme was detained at Kirikiri prison both in Lagos. For the critics, the insinuation of ethnic favour is there. We must therefore cite a similar situation. Four Nigerians were standing trial purportedly for treason. Since then, two – Dr Fasehun and Gani Adams – from President Obasanjo’s south west have regained their freedom or at least, been released on bail? Why have the remaining two – Alhaji Asari Dokubo and MASSOB leader Uwazuruike – from eastern part of the country not regained their freedom or been released on bail? If there is any evidence implicating these two, what is holding up their trial? Nobody should be deceived that in Nigeria, bail for such high profile cases could ever be granted without the knowledge and indeed the approval of the presidency. Some Nigerians have nothing good to say about your good character and leadership. Some of them tend to have a lot to say about your military tactics to antagonise and demonise corruption. What makes them think that your scheming and old style of leadership will not gain support from half of Nigerians? It is unfortunate that some pple will still critized this honest man called Buhari. Some Nigerians even name him as a God father for Boko Haram! Have u pple forgotten that ever since investigation about bokoharam PDP loyalist had be d major culprit? Have u forgotten the senator the PDP Senator? have u forgotten the house of rep member who one suspect arrested in his house? Have u forgotten that even the president once said in public that bokoharam is in his cabinet? In which way has buhari responsible to boko haram? Is it because he stood firm as the major opposition to the corrupt being of the current administration? Buhari is too patrotic to be responsible to bokoharam. But, the main issue here now is how to bring down this clueless ruling party.
All i want is change! Change for my fellow youths, cahnge for the next generation! As much as my colleaques still have aplomb in some of our youths leaders! I will now advice the new merger party including my honest man. Gen. Buhari should plan to be Chairman of the party B.O.T. Following are my reasons why that move is strategic and good for Nigeria and for the opposition to abolish this autocratic Government. The new merger party should emerge El-Nasir Rufai or Nuhu Ribadu and B.R.Fashola as the runing mate. If that what Nigeria need to sweep away this corrupt ruling party in next coming general election. First, the Yoruba can’t be relied upon to vote for even the universally acknowledged best candidate from the North. Second, although in some democracies nation people like Gen. Buhari are statesmen appointed as the party national chairman or b.o.t because he has the strength of character and experience to advise the elected president. Besides, South-South is not likely to abandon its son, President Jonathan, and the East does not have a direction they don’t know what they want or they have many conflicting desires they want Biafra yet they want Nigeria to create additional states for them; they want an Ibo president, most of them will rather support Jonathan 2nd term in 2015 instead of Buhari or else if APC can produce some one else i think that will be good. because, they believe that GMB know something about Boko haram so a strategy based on these regions is a waste of time. But, our youth leaders nowadays are almost corrupt. None of them can't be trust! Can they come out and swear that, they have never stole from the public fund or have a foreign account? The merger parties doesn’t mean ACN or Tinubu’s people in the South-West would support a Buhari and Tinubu ticket.
God please lead us to the right way! You said this year will be the year of judgement on our corrupt politician.
Please who is the messiah?
Long live Nigeria and Nigerians

By: Comrade Aremuforyouths
The Egalitarian

MY QUESTION FOR TODAY.

I ASK U AGAIN WHAT IS WRONG IN HAVING BUHARI AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT ? Why did u scare of the man?

(1) Is it because is a Muslim.
(2) Is it because is an hausa man 4rm the North.
(3) Is it because u are a racketeer or drug pusher.
(4) Is it because most of our political elites will live the rest of their lifes in prison and ur father is among of them.
(5) Is it because u or ur brother/fathers is among of those subsidy cabals who pocketed over 400billion without supplying a cup of oil.
(6) Or did u hv any hidden agenda.
(7) Or you gained something from this corrupt govt which infflict the masses.
( Is it because you are members of boko haram, mend and opc.
(9) Is it because you are also corrupt.

Finaly, or you are born to suffer?

If you hv any other excuses, pls let me hear you.

By: Comrade Aremu4youths. The Egalitarian

ALHAJI SHEIK MUHAMMAD BUHARI IS THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB

APC THE RESCUE TEAM ?

I have thought about GMB for quite sometimes now, despite having held some important positions that some people die to get namely, GOC, Governor, Minister of Petroleum, President, co-ordinating Economy Minister under Abacha (PTF Chairman) , there is no opulence within or around this altruism man, if majority of the masses decide they want buhari and not the southern sentiments the ruling party capitalised on in the last elections, then it will be difficult for the ruling party to manipulate, because the world will see that nigerians are ready for change. I respect Buhari because he is not like some nigerians that think if PDP created boko haram,he will play the game with them by trying stop it, buhari is brainbox than most nigerians who dont know boko-haram is a trap set by the opposition party to loot and implicate the him. Kaita and ciroma said they will make nigeria ungovernable,atiku said those who wont make peaceful change possible, are they not a ruling party members? Buhari only said vote and protect your vote,its on record,adams oshiomohle said if they rig,KILL THEM,BURN THEM,its on record, why will you want to play the ignorant one? What happened to General Aziza confension? Jonathan swore that the report will see the light of the day,and heavens will not fall,some people will just start acting ignorant or sentimental without facts, they are the problem of this country, we the masses are ready to protect our votes come 2015. politicaly,ribadu and el-rufai have no value in the north,so count them out,they cannot win their State not to talk of the north,fashola at this stage will not appeal to the north,because of the zoning principle jonathan messed up, it has to be a buhari to hold the north and gain more support from the south! The perspicacious statement credited to Gen. Muhammed Buhari (rtd.) warning the ruling party (PDP) for a more transparent election in Nigeria come 2015 need not warrant the spate of vitriolic attacks and criticisms on him in spite of his being the leader of one of the main opposition parties under the present political dispensation in Nigeria.
If the long overdue warning statement of the CPC presidential candidate in the last April 2011 poll who eventually came second in the presidential race is being viewed and painted as an oddity, what of the persistent, devastating, frustrating and nauseating claims and assurances by bigwigs in the ruling party to the consternation of pundits of decent politicking to the effect that Nigerians should brace up for lording of governance on them by PDP for the next 100 years. It is unfortunate that it is only in our country that such a statement can be made, without condemnation and resistance, at a time when election rigging, cultism and pervasive corruption are evils which the country is still battling with to conquer. Governments change in developed countries such as the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Ghana and S. Africa just to mention a few, for good and improved governance but it is rather unfortunate that it is only in Nigeria, aptly still being referred to as the dark Nation, that winners are being declared in elections that are yet to take be conducted in the next 100 years. Since the language understood in politics in developing and underdeveloped countries of the world is rigging and not performance and good governance, Buhari’s kind of warning statement will continue to enjoy applause rather than condemnation and be seen as the much needed fillip to transparent election in our country, Africa and in developing nations of the world as a whole. It shows how hollow and shallow the ranting assurances and reassurances by the government is on its intention to conduct credible election in 2015. I have read some arrogant columnists twisting and turning facts on its head like an improbable creature, a human giraffe, sniffing down his nostril at mortals beneath his gaze. For a second, put yourself in the position of General Muhammadu Buhari as someone whose property has been stolen by identified election robber. This mysterious thief stole your valuable property in 2003 and 2007. Because you are afraid that the same people may rob you again in 2015, you now decide to issue a stark warning that whoever is intending to steal your property in 2015 should desist, otherwise something will happen. What is wrong in issuing warnings? Is there no room for freedom of opinion in democracy?
President Jonathan had earlier publicly stated that there is Boko Haram in his government. The National Security Adviser, Andrew Owoye Azazi, R.I.P who knows more than anyone else about security situation in the country, admitted that Boko Haram is a grandson of PDP. Nigerians should begin to address the message rather than focusing undue attention on the messenger. The hypocrisy of Nigerians constitutes the fundamental challenge to peace and development in our quest to build a viable nation. We allowed our mind to deceive us without listening to the conscious and sub-conscious mind. How can peace and development evolve in an atmosphere of religious and ethnic induced hatred? We condemned corruption and agreed that all the evils that bedeviled the country today are as a result of corruption, yet we eagerly queue behind corrupt leaders to hang the incorruptible ones. In Nigeria today, identify a single living public office holder that can equal General Buhari in terms of transparency and honesty? He remains the ONLY former Head of State, one time oil Minister, former Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund that has not been dragged before the witch-hunting barking dogs of ICPC and EFCC. Who is actually BOKO Haram? Is John Akpabu a Muslim? Is Effiong a Northerner?
Let all be sententious.

From Comrade Aremuforyouths.
The Egalitarian.

IS THEIR ANY HOPE IN THIS MERGER PARTY ? IF YES THEN NIGERIANS NEED AN EXPLANATION ABOUT THIS ALLEGATION---Comrade Aremuforyouths The Egalitarian.

I woke up this morning with only 100 Naira, while am thinking of what to eat or what to buy with this 100 Naira including my family. And i came across this sad news or what ever is it. Nigerians have been suffering and smiling, hoping and praying that one day these leaders will show some responsibility and not just get Nigeria out of its woes, but even steer it toward the path of advancement. But these dealers we called leaders are only interested in usurping Nigeria’s wealth, sharing oil wells among themselves and living in fortified mansions with 24 hour generation of power, apart from the reality of the common masses.
This lame, crippled leaders suffocate the people and force them into a mendicant existence. That's why some of my colleaques
always to told me that, Governor Fashola has been back-pedal just because of God-father issue. I'm still confused is this truth?
Just eight years in Office? So, is true that Nigeria is a richest country and our leader used to tell us that Nigeria is poor country. Is their any hope in this merger party at all? We need an explanation.


Corruption: Tinubu Is Worse Than Ibori-PDP…Urge Tinubu To Disclose Source Of Wealth

The alleged ownership of choice properties and businesses by former Lagos State Governor, Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, valued at over N1 trillion ranks him the most corrupt Politician in Nigeria, worst than self-confessed thief, Mr James Ibori, ex governor of Delta State, the People Democratic Party, PDP, has said.
Such properties and businesses include the Ikeja Shopping Mall, Oriental Hotel, Renaissance Hotel, First Nation Airline, Vintage Publications (publishers of The Nation newspapers), TV Continental, Radio Continental, and so many others.
The PDP challenged the ACN to “tell Nigerians how a man who was governor for eight years with fixed salary and allowances could have acquired so much money to buy almost everything in Lagos and stop insulting our sensibilities with nonsensical talks which are only aimed at covering up their non-performance and looting of treasuries in the States under their control.
In a latest war of words between the PDP and its rival Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), PDP’s National Vice Chairman for South-West, Mr Segun Oni accused Tinubu who doubles as ACN national chairman, of illegally acquiring the Ikeja Shopping Mall for the sum of N14 billion. The PDP which brought to the fore the controversy surrounding the ownership of the emerging greatest business empire own by a South Westerner also claimed that Tinubu stole enough money for his investments while Governor of Lagos and used the loot to acquire choice properties in Lagos.
Instead of attacking President Jonathan, shouldn’t the ACN be explaining to the public, who owns the N14 Billion naira Ikeja Shopping Mall that was built on Lagos Secretariat land. Who owns Oriental Hotel, Renaissance Hotel, Agidingbi, First Nation Airline, Vintage Publications (publishers of The Nation newspapers), TV Continental, Radio Continental, and so many other illegal and corrupt acquisitions?” queried the PDP in a statement signed by Mr Oni. In the ongoing verbal war which many see as a case of pot calling kettle black, the PDP also questioned the ownership of a land at Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos, former campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic; but the embattled ex governor and his party have dismissed these serious allegations as baseless and entirely without merit. The PDP maintained that Tinubu also owns the expansive plot of land within Alausa, few meters away from the Governor’s office, earlier allocated as a residential area before the residents of the state living in the place were evacuated and the buildings in the area demolished, which is also located a stone-throw from the multi-million naira Renaissance Hotel, also allegedly owned by the ex Lagos governor. What Nigerians demand from them are explanations as to the reckless and obscene appropriation of properties belonging to Lagosians by Bola Tinubu and his stupendous wealth which is at the expense of tax payers in Lagos, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo and Ogun States. Oni, claims the ACN are made up of political hypocrites: “it is the height of hypocrisy for a party, whose leader; Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has converted all properties belonging to Lagos State to his personal use to attack the president, just because a contractor chose to invest in the propagation of the work of God by renovating a church in the president’s village instead of him (President Jonathan) collecting gratis from the contractors.”
Oni qualified the call by the ACN for the impeachment of Mr Jonathan over the church gift saga as satanic. “Would the ACN hypocrites have preferred that the said contractor handed the money used for the church renovation to President Jonathan as they would have done if they were the president? Or that the contractor should have doled out the money to Tinubu as part of his birthday largesse as done by ACN governors in the Southwest? I think the problem with these ACN people is that they think they are above everyone, including God. That is why they could come up with such satanic position just because a company performed its social responsibility by helping to promote the work of God,” the statement read adding that, “one then begins to wonder why the ACN people hate God and members of the Anglican Communion this much. Tinubu is engaged in a political battle of his life over allegations that he forced some ACN state governors, the 57 chairmen of Local Government Councils and the Local Council Development Areas of Lagos state to cough out N2 billion for the celebration of his 60th birthday recently.

A QUESTION ALL PATRIOTSIM NIGERIANS TO ANSWER.

Which among of this four leaders you will advice new merger party APC to emerge as the party Presidential aspirant in 2015 presidential election?
I. Unquestionable Gov. Babatunde Raji Fashola.

2. Unexceptionable Mallam El-Nasir Rufai.

3. Diligent and unfailing Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

4. Untterable General Muhammad Buhari.

Choose your prefferable candidate with the reason! Your answer will be an advice for the new merger party.

Thank you all

MY CANDID ADVICE TO OUR LEGISLATORS.

Nigeria need to amend their constitution on our electoral system. It's a duty of our legislator to appoint the INEC Chairman not by Mr. President. As a president of the federal republic! How will i appoint you as an INEC Chairman and work against me or my party? After giving you a back hander of #80BN Naira to import electoral marchine and materials. Their must be a compromise btween the Inec Chairman and Mr. President b4 giving him the job. Their will be know credible election in a country were constitution allow Mr. President to appoint the INEC Chairman, not a country like Nigeria where corruption is deterioration. We all saw what happened in 2007 general election. If Nigerians want to experience an a free and fair election in future. We should amend the constitution on our electoral system.

By: egalitarian Aremuforyouths

Penultimate Monday, i.e. December 17, General Muhammadu Buhari, former military head of state and perennial presidential contender since 2003, turned 70. An austere person, his birthday celebration was to have been low key to begin with. However, in apparent deference to the national mourning over the tragic death through an helicopter crash the weekend before of the Sir Patrick Yakowa, governor of Kaduna State where he is resident, along with former National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi, and four others, the general virtually cancelled the celebration.
That virtual cancellation of his birthday bash on account of the previous weekend’s national tragedy spoke volumes about the man’s essential humanity, something Nigeria’s dominant southern media, his nemesis, had done, and continues to do, almost everything it can to tear into shreds.
This media has done virtually all it can to portray the general as a stone-hearted, tyrannical, parochial and religious bigot, unfit for election as a civilian leader. In truth he is anything but. Instead he has been a victim – along with each and every Northerner, with the possible exception of General Murtala Mohammed, who has held power in the country, from the Northern premier, Sir Ahmadu Bello, and the country’s first and only prime minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, through President Shehu Shagari to Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar – of a sustained media propaganda which has succeeded in creating the popular impression that the Northern elites believe Nigeria is exclusively theirs to rule and ruin.
As with all successful propaganda, this negative portrayal by the dominant Nigerian media of the Northern political elite, in mufti or khaki, is not entirely without basis; Northerners have ruled this country much longer than those from the other regions and their record in government, generally speaking is, to put it mildly, difficult, if not impossible, to defend. However, again as with all successful propaganda, the kernel of substance has been mixed and padded again and again with lots of half-truths and even barefaced lies. Take the case of General Buhari as an example. As I said, the man, like all Northern leaders of the country, has suffered more than his fair share of malicious propaganda. There is, however, a major difference between his case and the rest; he never really enjoyed any honeymoon with the media from the time he emerged onto the national arena as minister of petroleum in 1976 up to the time he became head of state in 1983 – and even well beyond.
Dr. Aliyu Tilde, one time Friday columnist with the Weekly Trust and now a co-publisher of the online newspaper, The Premium Times, accurately captured the general’s hate-hate relationship with the Nigerian media in his rested column in the Trust of July 6, 2001, which he entitled “The Seven Sins of Buhari.”
Tilde’s piece was in apparent response to my earlier article in the Daily Trust which was critical of the general’s controversial remarks in Sokoto ahead of the elections in 2003 about how Muslims should vote.
For that article, Tilde lumped me along with others who he said disliked Buhari for no worse crime than committing “seven unforgivable sins” in their eyes. These sins, he said, were that the general was a northerner, a Muslim, honest and transparent to a fault, popular with the masses, apparently disliked General Babangida (his army chief who overthrew him in a palace coup in 1985), enacted Decree No 4 which criminalized embarrassing any government official, and served under the much condemned General Abacha. Briefly,” Tilde said, “these are some of the sins that Buhari committed and for which he is too arrogant to repent. If he could change his habits and become deceitful and corrupt, he cannot change his birth, his history and his faith. After all he is not a politician and does not need our votes.”
Obviously Tilde was speaking tongue-in-cheek. Buhari, as he said, could hardly change his birth and history and, like most adults, was unlikely to change his faith. And with the exception of the general’s well-known grouse against his former army chief and his enactment of Decree 4, his other “sins” were really universal virtues. Again even his worst enemies could not but acknowledge that he served as executive chairman of the Petroleum Task Force under the much-condemned Abacha with distinction and transparency. Even then his virtues never endeared him to the rump of the Nigerian media and by extension much of the Nigerian public. The source of this bad blood between the two dates back to his job as minister of petroleum. Under his charge the media circulated a story that 2.8 billion Naira of our oil revenue had gone missing. A judicial panel that looked into the case concluded that it was all rumour. In the end otherwise respectable Nigerians like the late Tai Solarin and Chief Gani Fawehinmi that had claimed Buhari was culpable could not prove their claims. Instead Solarin, for one, had to admit that it was a piece of gossip he picked up on a bus!
That, apparently, did not stop the media from continuing to peddle the falsehood as fact right up to the moment. Predictably when the man became head of state in December 1983, following the overthrow of the Second Republic under Shagari, he enacted Decree 4 under which two reporters of The Guardian, Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor, were jailed for a leaked story on the appointment of a new high commissioner to the UK which the government found embarrassing.
As if the 2.8 billion Naira false story was not bad enough, the media went to town with another one about the Emir of Gwandu and father of his aide camp as head of state, Major Mustapha Jokolo, going to Murtala Muhammed international airport to clear 53 suitcases for the emir at a time the general had closed our borders with other countries to stem the smuggling of currencies and other contrabands.
That, like the so-called missing oil money, also turned out to have been blatant falsehood. The general’s ADC was at the airport alright to receive his dad who was returning from a trip abroad, but the suitcases belonged to the large family of a former ambassador who was coming home to serve as the general’s chief of protocol.
Obviously this fact was poor copy for a story so the media decided to spruce it up a bit in order obviously to sell well. To date the lie, like so many distortions that have caught the imagination of the public, has simply refused to go away.
At the time Tilde wrote about the general’s “seven sins,” the man had repeatedly said he hated politics and politicians with a passion. As head of state he had certainly left no one in doubt as to what he thought of them from the way his regime tried and jailed virtually all of them, many of them many life times over.
The general must have therefore surprised even himself when in 2002, he announced to an astounded public that he was joining politics. Since then he has become a perennial presidential candidate; three times in 2003, 2007 and 2011 he ran for the job and three times he lost in elections that got progressively worse.
The last one triggered one of the worst political violence in the North – except for the 1966/67 riots – especially in Kaduna his state of residence, a violence which the authorities naturally blamed on the general’s pre-election warnings that any attempt to rig the election will be resisted by the masses. As with the elections themselves he also lost his cases against the ruling party in the courts. After losing his case last year an apparently frustrated Buhari told the world that it would be the last time he will stand for election. It was all reminiscent of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the other perennial loser of elections for the leadership of this country, when he told The Guardian in one of his most exhaustive interviews shortly after losing the massively rigged 1983 elections to President Shehu Shagari, that he was done with politics in Nigeria because he was convinced the country would never experience genuine democracy in generations to come. Unlike the late venerated chief, however, the general seems to have changed his mind about not ever offering himself to serve as leader; in an interview in the Saturday Sun (December 22), he said in effect that he would if given the chance. His party, he said, has been in serious talks with the two leading opposition parties for merger. At the same time he has, he said, been under tremendous pressure from his huge following to rethink his stand. “If,” he said, “they give me the ticket or recommend me, I will consider it.”
The general at 70 is obviously now a different man from the one who, until barely ten years ago, was absolutely sure he will never want to be a politician. It will be a miracle if, as a politician, he ever gets a fair shake from a media that has harboured deep prejudice against him essentially because, like Awolowo whose mirror image he is, he is given to speaking bluntly. It is a measure of his dislike by the rump of the Nigerian media that the same quality they had seen as virtue in the late chief they have treated as a vice in the general.

RELIGION IN NIGERIA: MORE HARM THAN GOOD.

During my days at the college, my preferred companionship then was mostly Hausa/Fulani Muslims course mates, maybe because I am from the South-West and used to associating with them or I was particularly more at home speaking vernacular (Hausa language) amongst my predominantly Hausa/Fulani Muslim friends. Insha’Allah; Alhamdulillah etc are so glued to my
tongue, not to mention a few verses of the holy Quran I can recite and even explain to a lay, likewise my bosom friend professes Islam. Now, whose fault is it that we both are good friends but yet of different religious calling? Is it God? Or our parents?
A glance at religious crisis in Nigeria and its immediate effects on both adherents of the two major religions in the country leaves one praying it never started in the first place, as the consequences in the near future are simply unimaginable. Let’s take a look at Kano and Kaduna alone, between 1976, 1977, 1980-1981 and 1990 were religion was used in the destruction of hundreds of live and property and places of worship torched. Enter the 21st to 25th February, 2000 Kaduna religious riot as a result of the introduction of the sharia Islamic code, were it was reported from many quarters that over 2000 people lost their lives, thousands of houses burnt to ashes and hundreds of vehicles torched and some vandalized. While a peaceful Jos city, Plateau state was still wandering what went wrong with their kindred in other parts of the north, from 2001 till date, no one has known peace in Jos; Muslims, Christians, traditionalist or pagans alike. One mass grave after the other and the end is not yet in sight. Unfortunately, the Southern part of Kaduna is now the target of these merchants of war, destruction and needless violence and the government seems to be looking the other way as if to say-carry-on. Nigeria is highly religious to a fault, how? You may ask, Now how can you explain the use of stolen public funds for the building of a mosque or a church? Will God bless any zakat or tithes given from such filth? What with the hypocrisy in killings in the name of God, while still proclaiming the supremacy of God. Here in Nigeria, you could be denied due promotion, refused a scholarship, delisted from a university admission exercise, rigged in or out of an elective office, blackmailed or simply get killed in the vain name of religious bigotry. I know for a fact that, as a devoted Christian or Muslim, one already posses a sure ticket to peace and prosperity on earth and in the hereafter as long as one is not being more Christian or more Muslim than either Christ himself or the prophet Mohammed correspondingly. We all progress just a step at a time as a country through our religious devotion, only to retrogress very many steps backward in the name of religious intolerance. You will agree with me that, our political leaders, elites and in particular the crème-de-la-crème of our society, be they Muslims, Christians or whatsoever they profess actually blend well amongst themselves and never remember their religious affiliations when they go about their billions of naira importation businesses and looting of our common treasury with so much impunity. While the downtrodden are up against each other in the name of religion; killing, miming, burning and destroying our hunger stricken selves for what? Poverty, you may say, but I think sheer ignorance, ignorance of the true teachings of the holy books, may God have mercy on all of us.
As religious discrimination hold sway here in my dear country, the divide will continue to widen everyday to our detriment if we do not as a civilized people living in the 21st century accept that God (The God we all claim to serve and even fight for) has decreed that we all shall be Nigerians and Nigerians of different faith we shall be, live and die. Hence, the earlier we forget about either Islamizing or Christianizing Nigeria and adopt a neo-nigerian religion ‘christlam’ for the sake of peace, harmony, development and for the future of our children the better for all of us or we self-destruct to our own peril. But our religiosity can actually help us grow as a nation when we religiously go about our daily activities as good citizens having the fear of God in our hearts as leaders and the led. Eschewing corruption and being accountable, while we are at that at all levels, we can be able to sincerely fish out the bad eggs amongst us no matter their ethnicity or religion and forge ahead as one indivisible Nigeria where government can lessen the burden of hunger on the citizenry and the citizenry in turn prays fervently for their leaders for divine wisdom. Then I see God healing our country and reassuring us that peace and unity, those last word of the national anthem we as primary school pupils usually sing at the close of our daily general assembly (and of course after the usual Christian/Muslim opening prayers). God bless Nigeria, amen. We can make it.

Created on Friday, 12 October 2012 09:32
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My attention has been drawn to a very bizarre story of a 13 innocent Nigerian that went to Saudi Arabia to school and to have more knowledge in alquran, who has being held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against their will. Their plight defies all logic and their ordeal is without a parallel in its cruelty, impunity and discrimination. It
behoves the Nigerian President. His Excellency President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and all people of goodwill in Nigeria and everywhere in the world to act quickly to secure the immediate release of these innocent Nigerians.
I was so surprised that Nigeria representative in Saudi Arabia; i mean Nigeria Ambassador in Saudi dereliction of his duty.
These boys were arrested alongside other Africa like: Sudan, Ghana; Kenya; Senegal. But, they gained their freedom immediately that their Ambassador show up; while our own embassy did not show up till today.
A source told me on phone that the Nigeria consulate are dumb and useless here in Saudi Arabia, we don't have true representatives
The Federal government should look into this matter urgently. There are more than 1000 Nigeria incarcerated by Saudi authorities without proper conviction.
I personally complained to the Ambassador Hon.Abubakar Shehu Bunu that a lot of Nigerians are imprisoned without proper conviction but nothing has been done.
My people says if you see a mad man working on the street he has a mother. If those boys are criminals whatever happens, they are Nigerians, and must receive a fair trial.
They are innocent but they are in the prison more than 10yrs now under the watch of Nigeria embassy.
Even one of them was sentenced to death at teh age of 24yrs and is now age of 34yrs in detention and he will be execute very soon.
I'm calling on our President Goodluck Jonathan and our leaders to please to save the life of this innocent Nigerian in Saudi prison as you rescued Nigerians living in Libya during their civil war before one of them get kill.
I reminisce how I used to view Nigerians as the same people. I was never raised to believe my tribe was superior to my brethren’s tribe.
We were all raised as Nigerians first before anything – and we all used to verbally defend Nigeria against other country.
Tribalism is now rife among Nigerians in diaspora, and on the virtual World Wide Web. It seems we were all young back then, and we were living in denial – and probably tribalists on the inside, but Nigerian on outside.

This is the letter i received from this boys from Saudi Arabia prison.

Jeddah and the area called Alruwais prison

This letter from one of the victim brother in Saudi prison.

Afoson Afoson

Oct 10 (1 day ago)

Good-day sir,

I write you this letter with honour and full respect,on the 29th of september 2002 my brothers was arrested in our various house in the middle of the night.the incident happen where different nationality of africa were watching car in the area called babsherif in jeddah saudi arabia.they arrested we nigerians and the other africa.about 34 of them are arrested.they called on nigeria embassy.they refuse in d first place but later they came and started discriminating.that we' are yorubas and not hausa.infact they complicate the issues.going to extends of telling them that they are christian and not muslims.they went through pains.torture, humiliation,why Saudi police acused them of killing person due to the serious inflliction they have to confess under duress that they killed a policemen. 21 of them were giving sentenced rining from 6 month to 2year accordingly.
They are release after 2years. remaning 13 of them.their 1st court was 26th of march 2004.after 14 attempt.on the 17th of may 2005 the sheik sentenced 12 of them to 5year in jail and 500 lashes and sentence 1 to death and they may behead him very soon..On the 30th of november 2005.they recall them to court and the sheik increase their sentence to 7year and 700 lashes.on the 3th of may 2008 they recalled them to court and increased their sentenced to 10year and 1000 lashes.on the 13th of july 2008 they called them back to increase their sentence to 15year in jail. lashes remain 1000.their names are 1) suliman olufemi.in death roll, 2)nurudeen sanni died in prisom 26th of sepetenber 2008 due to lack of hospitality .3)Abass mojeed Akanni 4)muritala amao 5)Abass Azizi oladunni.6)Abul Amin gbenga shobayo.7)nofiu obadina,Amod Abass. 9)muhamed Abdallah yusuf.10)Amod suberu.11)nurudeen owoalada.12)waheed elebute.
There was amnesty declear by d late crown prince to release every prisoners in 2009 they are excluded even the king also declear amnesty to all prisoner in 2010.they are also excluded in the amnesty.
They are now 10 years 5 month in Arabic month in prison. please they need your help to gain freedom. I don't know there intentions. Nigeria embassy does not help matters. They even fear to come to the prison to know the situations of things.
my fellow Nigerians most especially our leaders i need your assistance to set my innocent brothers free.

God bless federal republic of Nigeria

To reach the guys in Saudi Arabia. You can call this number. 009665436440118

This boys are not begging you for money; all they need is freedom.

Pls help this our innocent brothers out of this prison

From Comrade Aremuforyouths

THE MAIN REASON WHY I SUPPORT BUHARI 4 2015

My fellow Nigerians, let stop deceiving ourselves. None of this youth leaders here in this nation today can take us to the promise land xcept this old and experince politician GMB. Although i hv
never met or spoke with GMB in my life or expect anything from him neither campaign for him. But, i have think and think again and i see that nobody in this Nation today who can lead us to the promise land. Even if GMB nominate any youth leader! It can't. The reason why any youth leaders can't succed in ruling this Nation is their political God father. Nigeria politic is a dirty game, a politics of go there and bring my return. I think most of us hv heard alot about Political fathers and their sons. Like:Ibadan Amala politics btween Adedibu and Ladoja all just because of were is my return. Nigeria leaders are dealers, they are all corrupt. All they care is about their own and their family. They dont give a damn about we masses, either we eat or no. Take a look @ GEJ for example! GEJ promised Nigerians during his presidential campaigned that, he will do everything to fight corruption. He even appointed the minister of Corruption then, tell me what is the outcome? The outcome is fuel subsidy. Folks tell me, who suffered 4 the fuel subsidy? Is't you and me or Otedola and others. And the main problem of this nation today is our past leaders. Starting from IBB regim till today. Tell me if one of this pple i mentioned become our President come 2015, can they arrest IBB,OBJ,Atiku and co? Who born them? President jonathan who can't fight ordnary Otedola and Hon. Faruk for corruption, is this GEJ that will arrest OBJ ? Tell me, who dare you that will be the political God father for Buhari xcept God almighty? My brothers/Sisters let think well, let think about the future of our children including the next Generation. Dont be selfish, dont ruin your future and your children. Let think twice b4 we vote in 2015. Believe me without Buhari contesting in the next election! I will not vote xcept the Gubernatorial election. I can't suffer myself anymore. Waiting in the hot weather just because i want to vote for impostor politician ? I will only vote my Honest leader in the Gubernatorial election wich is Hon.Femi Gbaja shikena.

By: Comrade Aremu4youths

I really laughed!

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE WITH PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN

Posted in Crazy Thoughts,

Frank Edoho: Good evening Mr. President. We are delighted to bring you on the show. Previously we brought President Ghaddafi before he was captured….

GEJ: Thank you Frank. Can we go straight to business please? In the next two hours, I'll be chairing the meeting of a Committee later today. It is the Committee for integration of all Committees. We discovered that most of our existing committees work against each other. We need to harmonize, coordinate and synchronize our positions to make things work.

Frank Edoh: Let's begin the game right away sir. Let me remind you about the rule sir. You have 3 life-lines: 50/50, phone a friend or ask the audience. Now let's play…

Mr. President, what is the solution to our national problems? (A) Setting up of Committees (B) Going back to the drawing board (C) killing of corrupt leaders (D) Consulting with past Presidents in the Country

GEJ: This one is a very difficult question Frank. It appears there are more than two answers. Yes, we all know that when there is a problem, we must go back to the drawing board.

Talking about Committees, we all know they have been working wonderfully well. Like the dismal performance of our athletes in London, I have set up a high-level 7-man Committee to find out what went wrong and prepare us for Rio 2016 Olympics. The Committee is to be chaired by the only man who can fix things in Nigeria. Our elder statesman; Chief Anthony Anini has been given the task to fix the problems troubling our Sports sector.

Frank Edoho: But Mr. President, Mr. Fix-it couldn't fix things for PDP at the last elections in Edo State.

GEJ: I'll rather not talk about that Frank. We have a Committee in the PDP working on the report of a Committee set up to investigate why our great Party lost that election.

Back to your question, it can't be C. What can we achieve by killing our leaders who are said to be corrupt? The word "corrupt" is even relative. All those children on Twitter who abuse their leaders also cheat in their exams.
Can you imagine what could have happened if we killed Chief Olabode George. Who shall we approach for advice when we need it? The good thing is we can't fall into the same trap again.

I will go for B – Committees. They work in all kind of situations.

Frank Edoho: Is that your final answer Mr. President?

GEJ: Yes final answer is B. Committees. We even set up a committee to prepare me for this programme.

Frank Edoho: Mr. President, if you had picked (A) – Going back to the Drawing board, you would have been wrong. The answer is B!

(The audience claps)

Frank Edoho: You just won yourself the sum of N5,000 sir. To the next question that will earn you the sum of N7,500.

GEJ: Thank you. What's your next question? (Smiling)
Frank Edoho:Who brought Twitter to Nigeria?
(A) MallamNasir El-Rufai (B) Femi Fani-Fakayode (C) Eggheader (D) None of the above

GEJ: That's a very tricky question o. If you mentioned Facebook, I brought that one to Nigeria but Twitter… (he trails off)

Frank Edoho: Do you want to use any of the lifelines?
GEJ: Let me phone a friend. Let me call Baba, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Or should I call Reno Omokri since he's my person on Twitter. Let me call Baba…

(Frank places a call to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.)

Electronic voice from MTN: The number you are calling is not available at the moment, please try again later. The number you are calling is not available at the moment, please try again later.

(Frank ends the call)

GEJ: I think MTN is the sponsor of this show. Why is it that they can't even maintain a good network when they need it on their own show?

(He points at Reuben Abati in the audience)

Reuben, please start working on a Press release suspending MTN from operating in this country. They keep taking our money without giving any value. How will their network fail on national TV? This is embarrassing. I'm sure Chief Obasanjo is glued to his TV waiting for Frank's call.

To make matters worse, I informed nothing less than 40 Presidents of other nations to watch this show. What a show of shame?!

(Abati stands in the audience to take GEJ's instruction)

Frank Edoho: We apologize for that sir. You may have to use the audience now Mr. President. The question again: Who brought Twitter to Nigeria?

GEJ: Let me try my luck. I will go with El-Rufai. I have a strong feeling he must have brought it to discredit my government. You see all funny characters that have no job but to curse me from morning till evening on that platform. I have instructed the SSS to keep close tabs on them anyway. If the trends continue this way, I may have to nationalize Twitter in Nigeria just like Obasanjo did to British Petroleum in the late 70's.

I am in touch with the Senate President, David Mark and we shall soon introduce a programme whereby the Federal Government shall register all Twitter users and a Committee shall be put in place to ensure that every statement to be posted on Twitter is certified as ok before it is posted.

But taking El-Rufai as my final answer will only give an honour to that ingrate. I brought Facebook to Nigeria, it is difficult for me to agree that El-Rufai brought Twitter. As for Femi Fani-Kayode, Marylyn Ogar of SSS informed me the minute he created his twitter account, so it can't be him.

Let me take D – None of the above.

Frank Edoho: Mr. President, I am sorry … to inform you … that El-Rufail would have been a wrong answer. The correct answer is D. Congrats, you have just won yourself the sum of N10,000!

(The audience claps as a man runs across with a big umblella, sorry, an umbrella with a PDP logo.)

Frank Edoho: To the next question sir.
Which Nigerian artiste best captured Nigeria's performance at the London Olympics 2012
(A) Kollington Ayinla– Ko ma sieni to sonuninuwa, koseni to sonuninuwa o – meaning Nobody got lost among us. (B) General Pype – I am a born Champion (C) Olamide – Ilefo Illuminati (D) D'Banj – Oyato

G.E.J: That's a very clever question Frank. It can't be "Oyato" by D'banj. What is "oyato" in the whole performance? At times I just feel some Nigerians are determined to embarrass this government.

We spent so much on those athletes, how come they were not able to pick any medal? So shameful. When during the time of Abacha, we won trophies. Like I said earlier, we have already set up a committee to look into that.
The answer cannot be "Ilefo-Illuminati" by Olamide. I don't even believe in the Illuminati shit that people talk about, pardon my language please.
General Pype's "I'm a born champion can't be the answer". Those athletes are nothing but a bunch of losers!
That leaves General Kollington Ayinla's song. I remember that song used to be a hit. Most of the young people may not know the song. It's a thanksgiving song.

(GEJ starts singing)

Koseni to sonuni nu wa, ko ma seni to sonuninuwa o…

It means nobody got missing among our contingent. Even if they didn't win any medal, we thank God they didn't embarrass us by running away in London. See the case of Cameroon and Congo, which is just so disgusting.

Kollington Ayinla is therefore my answer. We are considering doing a welcome party for the athletes. Events planners have already submitted bids; we may consider Kollington to entertain us at the event.
So my final answer is A – Kollington.

Frank Edoho: You are correct sir! Congrats, you have just won yourself the sum of N20,000!
Next question sir. What is the most appropriate gift anyone can give the First Lady, Her Excellency, The President Committee of all First Ladies in Africa, Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa state, Chief Dr. Patience Jonathan
(A) A landed property in Paris (B) A Range Rover Sport (C) Brighter Grammar and an Oxford Dictionary (D) Free Spa treatment at Hotel Healdsburg in Califonia

(The look on GEJ's face appears to be that of anger)

GEJ: C is the answer, Brighter Grammar and an Oxford Dictionary. Next question please.

FRANK EDOHO: That is very correct sir. To the next question for N30,000, who is your Government's Spokes person?
(A) Dr. Reuben Abati (B) Chief Edwin Clark (C) Chief Doyin Okupe (D) Alhaji Asari Dokubo

GEJ: Frank, where did you get these your questions from? This is a very difficult one o. They all present the Government's position to Nigerians.
Actually, Abati was forming too gentle and in politics as you know, we are in a very tense terrain. Other aggressive members of the government may have to step in from time to time.

You can always trust my attack dog to give it to my opponents like it's hot. Can't you see that Action Congress is very scared now? They have been calling for his sack. Where is ACN's Lai Mohammed? They now have more problems to contend with since Doyin Okupe has even turned to an Attack Lion. Thanks to his visit to Jamaica where he met Snoop Lion.

Doyin Okupe is my answer.

Frank Edoho: That is correct, Mr. President. The next question is for N45,000.
How do we tackle the problem of Boko Haram?
(A) Create more Lions like Doyin Okupe to unleash on Boko Haram (B) Negotiate with the terrorists (C) Aerial bombardment of the affected towns (D) President Jonathan should convert to a Muslim

G.E.J: This is another clever question Frank.
(Electricity goes off and the studio turns dark. Security officers immediately take position as Frank Edoho puts on the light on his Nokia 1100)
What is happening here? You guys don't have a Gen?

Frank Edoho: No sir. We thought Electricity supply was assured since you were coming on the show.

(A loud noise is heard from outside the Studios, Gbam!)

G.E.J: Boko Haram is here o!!!

(SSS guys and Soldiers rush towards the President to shield him, Frank Edoho runs towards the exit and the members of audience all take off)

till next Saturday

Buhari has threw this challenge to them all to come out and say where he touched a kobo of public funds. They haven't or better still they couldn't. And now because Buhari says they caused Nigeria's problem, institutionalized corruption and made NNPC their personal fiefdoms and birthed the cabals, cartels and mafia.
The officiating minister or priest at weddings always had this to say:
If there is anyone who has a reason why this two should not be joined together in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace! IBB please forever hold your evil mouth! But then he shall never know peace in this life and in the afterlife for he has taken away the peace of millions of Nigerians. When he is taken away from his 50 bedroom mansion and wrapped in plain white; and all the gold firaments, arabian settee and oil windfall money shall not accompany him, then he shall know the true meaning of : Surah At-Takathur.
Let us put the two Generals to a test of popularity even on the streets of Minna and see what the masses will do to them. Just a walk through the streets of Minna. Not too much to ask.

There is three young men sleeping in a mosque in one small town in Northern Nigeria for the next two days, I observed two of them praying in congregation five times a day, yet the mosque remained the accommodation for the three of them. On the third day, I casually engaged them in a conversation asking about the other one. They just laughed and told me that he was not a Muslim. Surprised, I pried further. They told me that the two (Yoruba Muslims) and the one (Igbo Christian) met at a connecting station on their way (from their respective Southern states) to that town, and they became friends. Their missions were to obtain application forms for entrance into the Institution. Given that none of them knew anyone in the town, they resolved to live in the mosque and even offered their friend accommodation. They were afraid I was going to rebuke them when I told them that the Prophet had accommodated guest Christians in his Holy mosque too. But that was not the issue. The remarkable thing was that these children stayed in that mosque for nearly six months within which, they obtained the forms, secured the admission, registered and started the programs. For a fact, at the time they came, the three of them only had enough to obtain the forms. They had just a few clothes and no money for food. They told me they'd gotten jobs as labourers on one building site. A few months later they'd saved enough to rent a shop and open a barbing saloon, which the Igbo guy ran as the other two continued their menial job. I was so impressed that I felt compelled to assist with the admissions. Well, to cut the story short, at the moment the three young men are gainfully employed and prospering. One of them is even a lecturer in the same Institution. Now reverse back to that month when I met them. A few days after meeting them, it pricked me that I'd these two Hausa cousins who were back home in Kano living with our grandparents. I obtained two forms and rushed to Kano to give them to fill in. I gave them on Friday when I arrived and told them I'd be leaving on Sunday. By Monday, they had not filled in the forms. I was shocked and wanted to know why, after all I'd promised to assist with accommodation (which would naturally come with feeding), registration, and a few other things. This was despite being a starter myself, less than a year into my first job. All they could finally say was, 'Nasarawa is far. Too far.' I was deflated, I'd to tuck my tail between my legs and trudge back to my destination. Ten years later, my cousins are still at home, waiting for us to ASSIST them whenever we come home. They are also there to probably abuse us if we don't. And no doubt, this personal story must resonate with many people all over the North. The question is, what can we do to change this destructive attitude that pervades our people and our climes? What can we do to make even the ordinary man on the streets see and appreciate the big picture? What can we say to make them honour, believe and chase 'long term' fruits? How can we save them and ourselves from the mockery of living in a Nigeria where our region is economically deteriorating and socially fragmenting? It is time we begin looking for answers from within. Let us begin doing something please.

In the early 1960s (before the civil war), Nigeria was a highly respected and happy society. During that period, people were either in honest businesses or working in government. It was honesty and hard work that identified and distinguished people from one another. The nationalists who fought for Nigeria’s independence were persons of integrity, ideals, vision
, and focus, as the brought their individual acumen into administration. There was transparency and accountability in the public sector, as the dogged and pragmatic leaders were working for the welfare of the masses. The youths were serious with education and there was discipline in schools. There was employment for graduates and national spirit was upbeat, Nigerians were highly respected overseas, and everyone was pleased to be identified as a Nigerian.
Unfortunately, things changed with the advent of military rule, which implanted corruption and scandalous exhibition of leadership ineptitude. With the reprise of civil rule the politicians could not change the corruption-culture, as many of them are today known for being very corrupt, and robbing the society with impunity. The candle lit by the founding heroes has been extinguished, and today the image of Nigeria has been battered. And, Nigerians (in and outside the shores) are being looked at with suspicion. Recently, U.S Magazine ran documentary on criminal activities of some Nigerians in Diaspora, as it denigrated and disparaged the image of Nigeria. This writer (who is not by any means a less patriotic Nigerian) does not believe the report was a plot against Nigeria, and wondered why they are angry with the foreign news for saying the truth. The profiles of the criminals were well documented and they are not denying that they committed the crimes. More important, the report did not say that all Nigerians are criminals. Also the patriots argued that Nigerians are not the only corrupt group in the Diaspora, and, therefore, should not be singled out for such jaundiced and disparaging report. The fact is that other nationals have had their dose of similar reports. Let’s us not forget that there are many good things about Nigeria the world appreciates every day. For instance, books written by Nigerians are in use in schools in the United States and elsewhere around the globe, and there have been reports on the good work on some Nigerian professionals at home and abroad.
We must understand the genesis of Nigeria’s image problem. The patriots can yell and scream as much as they want, but the fact is that corrupt Nigerians who parade themselves as leaders of Nigeria contribute immensely to the insults on Nigerians abroad. Any sincere and honest Nigerian will agree that the activities of the present government to fight corruption are not helping the image of Nigeria.
Nevertheless, in as much as we must not allow the natural prejudices of other people to tarnish the image of Nigeria, we must as well not rush to its defense when it is certain that some Nigerians (both leaders and followers) are not projecting a good image of Nigeria. Those who are defending the little, but dangerous’ rogues amongst us, are in a campaign of deceit to make the bad ones look good. How can they change if they are not exposed and given commensurate consequences for their bad behavior? This is just jungle patriotism! As Americans would yell, what the hell is going on! The ‘loudmouthed patriots’ should understand that the rogues are tainting the image of the many honest and hardworking Nigerians in the Diaspora. They are treacherous enemies of Nigeria, and their acts should be condemned!
Let’s put the blame where it belongs! The leaders of Nigeria can only raise everyone’s spirits by doing the right thing, as they have been drifting for a long time. Things will begin to turn around for Nigeria only when Nigerians stop tolerating corrupt and incompetent individuals as leaders. Granted, that there is corruption (or terrible human beings in the US and England, etc), but, they are not declared heroes when their hands are caught in a cookie jar, as the case in Nigeria.
Is it a plot against Nigeria to say the truth? As Pearl Buck notes Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. [Because] Life is boring without it.
The Government should truly declare war on corruption and give everyone the right consequences for any criminal (and bad) behavior. This is because they are ruining the reputations of Nigeria by breaking the laws of the land without getting the necessary consequences. And, this is compromising the integrity of Nigeria.
Because Nigerians worship illicit wealth,’ which has distorted our value system, some people tend to get involved in corrupt activities to become rich. Nigeria’s democracy has been bastardized because of leadership lawlessness. As Karl Popper has noted democracy is a system of government which permits public control of rulers by the ruled, and which makes it possible for the ruled to obtain reforms against the will of the rulers. But the reverse is the case in Nigeria. This leaders has done greater damage to the image of Nigeria than the reports by the foreign news. Everyone knows that some (if not many) of the leader’s activities are unconstitutional.
This writer, who is not less patriotic, will in any day and time, defend and protect Nigeria (with all his might- fist fighting and wrestling, if necessary -but not by going to war to spill any blood) when any person unjustifiably bruises its image, or act to destroy it. And, he respectfully disagrees with the patriots that it was a plot against Nigeria to report the illegal activities of the bad apples. The foreign papers will not speak ill of individuals who foster desirable behaviors. It will protect the interests and rights of law-abiding individuals. Nigerians are not stigmatized because of their citizenship, but because Nigeria has bad image, caused mostly by bad leadership. Nigerians are stopped and thoroughly searched at international airport terminals because of the sordid image a few bad ones has given Nigeria.
Nigeria should not blame the West for her problems. If we put our house in order nobody will ridicule us anymore. As it were No one can argue on his knees
Let the Nigeria youths Congress create a great Nigeria (a viable society where everyone can enrich their Nigerianess now and for future generations) with good legislation. The society needs humane, humble, visionary, and dedicated leaders to bring sanity back to the society. Nigeria should establish a culture truth, hard work, tolerance, sacrifice, service, and discipline, and erase its current beggar image.
We cannot create a new and better image for Nigeria by defending known criminals, like the case of Hon.Faruk lawan. Repackaging the image of Nigeria will involve complete mentality transformation, re-evaluate its skewed values system, give the people basic necessities of life, and create structures that will give the society good identity and respectable image at home and abroad.
Nigeria is tethering to a very uncertain future, and since it is at its most crucial economic juncture in decades,’ the leaders must work harder to protect the honest citizens. Sadly, instead of engaging in a serious debate about Nigeria's future, some people are defending the indefensible criminals.
As noted earlier, bad leadership contributes greatly to Nigeria’s problems.
What is the society doing to change the continued lack of effective leadership? Is it talking and making thundering speeches without addressing the people’s quandary? We can pretend all we want that things are better than they used to be, but that will not make them so. Nigeria has some very hard choices to make: to secure the insecure nation for its citizens or continue the usual divisive politics. If we are tired of being insulted we must do something to change our image! Nigeria’s problems are self-inflicted. They are no plots against Nigeria by the West. The solutions to our problems are in our palm, but we are groping about looking for them afar. Corruption remains the greatest evil plaguing Nigeria as a nation, leading to a weak economy. Employment is no longer based on merit but on connection for the sons and daughters of those in corridors of power. Those who are frustrated have taken to violent crimes (and other anti-social activities) and those who cannot stay in Nigeria have taken their frustrations abroad, where life is also harsh. And, those who want to get rich quick run afoul of the law, and the result is the sordid and deteriorating image of Nigeria.
By: Comrade Aremu4youths

NIGERIANS,

Please, Peruse this below; then THINK, THINK, & THINK AGAIN!! After this Excercise let us hear your Honest Comment in this regard!!

HERE I GO:
How can a government worker for 20 t0 30 years of service claim to be millionaire or billionaire, yet no evidence to show tax paid or shown that it is from his or her parent or grandparent money?
What a deep shame and Embarrassment to T.J Danjuma, IBB, Atiku etc. It's high time to fight corruption in Nigeria. Where or how did they get there money former government workers millionaire and billionaire.

The president’s clear message was that winning glory for the nation through sports is not always about finance and money alone. It is also about higher values, commitment, patriotism and the determination to excel by all persons and at all levels.

It is no longer enough to participate in the Olympics. Nations go to the Olympics to win medals, because an Olympic victory is an effective vehicle of national rebranding and assertion. The Jamaicans have Usain Bolt. They beat the Americans in the 4×100 men’s relay. They won 4 gold medals, broke two world records, and grabbed a total of 12 medals. All that raised the level of Jamaican patriotism a few more notches. It was a case of a country re-affirming its confidence in its ability to impress the world. The Americans, forever sure of their own supremacy, were again excited by their dominance at the London 2012 Olympics.

They came first with the largest collection of individual heroes: Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, Gabrielle Douglas, Serena Williams and more. China again wrote its name in gold. Britain, good old Britain, almost a second or third fiddle or a non-starter in many of the games that it gave to the world, this time around, showed up on the final medals table in the third position, with many of its athletes including Andy Murray, and Jessica Ennis, posting historic feats. Andy Murray who lost to Roger Federer only a few weeks earlier at the Wimbledon Finals, took the shine off the world’s greatest tennis player convincingly. The London Olympiad brought Britain clear intimations, and affirmations of glory, not just on the field, but also in the overwhelming applause that its organization of the events attracted worldwide. The games are over, now. Jamaicans are walking tall. Grenada, (pop., 105,000) is celebrating its single 400m gold medal. The nations that won nothing are ashamed. In 1996, Nigerians remained awake as the country’s football team won gold, and Chioma Ajunwa took a long jump gold at the Atlanta Olympics. It was an unforgettably fine moment.

In 2008, Nigerians again found cause for cheer with four medals in Beijing. In 2012, we have returned empty-handed, and with jeremiads by the Sports Minister, the National Sports Commission, athletes, and an angry commentariat.

President Jonathan was angry too, I can report. On Wednesday, August 15, council meeting had just ended, and it was time for AOB. Something about setting up a committee to prepare the White Paper ASAP, on the report of the Presidential Committee on Police Reform and the volunteered, additional report on police reform by the Retired Inspectors General of Police Forum. Everyone was in a relaxed mood, until the President said he was surprised that the Minister of Sports had not briefed Council about the outcome of the London Olympics.

“You are taking your time eh, he said jokingly. Okay, don’t worry, we understand.”Peals of laughter. Then, the President’s tone changed. How can we possibly go to the Olympics and come back with nothing?,” he asked rhetorically. “Four years ago, we did better. It is something that we have to address. Nigeria is a country of talented people. We must identify those talents, all over Nigeria, and begin to train them for the next major sporting tournament. This idea of starting preparations at the last minute and achieving nothing must stop. We must get the private sector to invest in sports and governments at all levels must also do their bit. We are a country of gifted people. We must identify those areas in which this country can excel and work hard at them. We must win medals and bring glory to our nation.

“And I don’t mean going to the bus stop to recruit athletes. I mean serious business. We must get our acts together.

“I remember one man who won an Olympic gold medal in the past. A Nigerian!. When the medal was announced, they said it belonged to Canada, because the fellow was representing Canada. We have to address that too, he said.

The Minister of Sports raised his hand. The President acknowledged him. Minister, I have provoked you to say something at last. Okay, go ahead. The Sports Minister thanked Mr. President for his concern, and the interest that Team Nigeria’s performance had provoked with a pledge that his Ministry was prepared to do everything possible to address observed lapses. The President’s clear message was that winning glory for the nation through sports is not always about finance and money alone. It is also about higher values, commitment, patriotism and the determination to excel by all persons and at all levels. I watch these things on television. I listen to the commentaries. We have to take the matter seriously,” said Mr. President. A keen sportsman, himself, he understands the transformative power of sports: its psychological impact, its physical value, and its economic potential, its political strength and its ultimate relevance as a tool of international relations and diplomacy. At least twice a week, President Jonathan plays squash. I have watched him play at the State House Squash court, and in Government House, Yenagoa. He also plays table tennis. Each time he picks up the racket or the tennis bat, he tells his opponents. “You play your game. Don’t say because I am President I must win. Just play a normal game.” And he goes into the match, a completely different man, sweating for victory. And the aides who take up the challenge, actually play hard and ferociously as if they had been sent by the ACN or CPC. But it never matters. The President is a sportsman. Gracious in victory, magnanimous in defeat.

A compulsive reviewer of situations, after every event, every trip, he wants a post-mortem. He wants serious criticism and honest ideas. And he keeps warning:“don’t tell me what you think I want to hear. That is not the purpose of this meeting. I want us to move this country forward.”

If there is any lesson arising from Nigeria’s performance in the 2012 Olympics, it is that certain issues must be addressed. In Nigeria, excellent performance in sports is perhaps the strongest symbol of unity. Nigerians love sports. They enjoy victory. They crave it. When their country fails, the people mourn. The situation calls for leadership.

Faced with our performance in London, President Jonathan believes that it is time to have a comprehensive rethink of sports administration in Nigeria with a view to working out a clear and implementable strategy for returning Nigerian sportsmen and women to winning ways.

As one who sees him up close and personal each day, I know the President will insist on a thorough review of our entire sports architecture. He will get all critical stakeholders and actors to sit together to identify what went wrong and the best way forward. If it means revisiting the past and reviving the culture of the private sector sponsoring yearly athletic meets like the Mobil Open and such like, then we must revive that. If it takes a reinvigoration of the Inter-House sports tradition in our secondary schools then it will be done. If it means developing sports academies in every state, then that must be undertaken. But certainly, what Nigeria must do is to properly utilize her sporting assets. Many sportsmen and women of Nigerian origin won medals for various nations including the U.S, U.K and Canada to mention a few. What makes them choose to fly another nation’s colours? Is it remuneration? Is it alienation from Nigeria? Whatever it is must be identified and addressed. These and other steps I see the President taking.

President Jonathan is determined to transform the country’s sports sector. That is one silver lining to the clouds of Nigeria’s Olympic 2012 defeat. What he requires, however, is not the cynicism of the commentariat, not the brittleness of the nay-saying absolutists, not the one track-mindedness of the opposition, not the hypocrisy of sports bureaucrats, rather a national team spirit –that same spirit that propelled Nigeria to its Olympic glory in 1996 and the Flying Eagles to the miracle of Damman in 1989. What this moment requires is not rhetoric, but action.

Fittingly, when the Minister of Information went ahead to brief the press about Council’s deliberations, the Sports Minister was not with him as convention requires. He had gone ahead as directed to begin the process of change in the sports sector.

As humans we are all formed in our youth. In 1976/77, I worked as a court clerk in the court of Justice Ọlájọńpọ̀ Akíǹkúgbé who was then the first president of the newly created Federal Court of Appeal in Ibadan. Justice Akíǹkúgbé’s other brothers Justices in the Ibadan temple of justice were Justices Akanbi and Uche Omoh.

As a court clerk, I had good and positive memories of all the Justices I was fortunate to work for at this court together with other young Nigerian kids who had just finished high school.

Unknown to these honourable Justices, and especially Justice Akíǹkúgbé, there is an anecdote about them. The anecdote is that they cultivated and maintained a deliberate intellectual distance from the public that allowed them to interpret the law and dispense justice with equity, fairness, fearlessness and truth. They hardly socialized. They seemed to correctly believe that the career of the process of law making and its interpretation is a covenant of truth, fairness and objectivity with the Nigerian people. Through their acts, they seemed to believe that the making and interpretation of law proceed from a deliberate objectivity and a disinterested state of mind, hence their tendency to cultivate a disinterested mind in their avoidance of the public.

My mother, who is Justice Ọlájọńpọ̀ Akíǹkúgbé’s niece, and who she worked for as his secretary in the city of Ondo where Justice Akíǹkúgbé practised law in the first half of the 20th century, confirmed this much about this honourable Justice. She said as a lawyer and Judge he hardly socialized, he rarely went to parties. She said her uncle, Justice Akíǹkúgbé, avoided parties as a way of avoiding potential litigants whose cases he might have to interpret and judge. Then as a high school kid, I never knew what that meant. I only heard and believed what a mother said.

Later as a student in the university, I discovered the meaning of what she said. The intellectual distancing of these Justices – Akinkugbe, Akanbi and Omoh – from the public was a deliberate and careful cultivation of the mind, a cultivation of objectivity that would allow them interprete the law with equity, fairness and truth. Justice Ọlájọńpọ̀ Akíǹkúgbé has left us eternally, Justice Akanbi later became the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, ICPC. I lost contact with the trajectory of Justice Uche Omoh.

May God bless the souls of these vessels in the temple of justice through whom I saw the practical meaning of disinterestedness and objectivity in law making and interpretation, which is that the integrity of the law as law rests on the ethics of perceivable objectivity, and its defence proceeds from a deliberate cultivation and nurturing of a healthy and disinterested mind.

Unfortunately, Mr. Farouk Lawan, my subject this week and a current member of the Nigerian House of Representative stands for a completely frightening negation of all these virtues in the making of laws. Given this background, I believe that either of three things should happen with respect to Representative Farouk Lawan. Mr. Lawan should either resign and leave of his own volition, or the House speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, should weigh in and persuade him to leave, or Nigerians, especially the principled and discerning ones in Mr. Lawan’s constituency – the Shanono/Bagwai constituency in Kano – state should commence his recall from the House of Representatives.

I maintain this position because Mr. Lawan, through his act, is at war with the very nature of law-making – its objectivity, and by extension Mr. Lawan is engaging in a subtle violent war against truth and against the Nigerian people, the owners of his legislative watch. If Mr. Lawan does not leave the house immediately, we would have damaged beyond repairs the future of the country and especially the psychology of our youths. Here in America where I live, my children had constantly asked me what Mr. Lawan is still doing in the Nigerian House of Representatives. In other words, through their joint actions, Mr. Lawan and his soul mate, Mr. Otedola, have come to personify a moral wreckage of our youths’ imagination. A brief re-call will suffice. Mr. Lawan was the chair of the committee set up to investigate the oil subsidy fraud. Mr. Otedola is one of the accused in the fraud. During his investigation, Mr. Farouk Lawan allegedly collected between $600,000 and $620,000 dollars from Mr. Otedola. These two men have advanced two claims with respect to the status of the money. Mr. Lawan claimed that he was right in collecting the money because he did so to show that Mr. Otedola was trying to bribe him. Mr. Otedola disagreed. He claimed that he was right in giving the money because he did so to show that Mr. Lawan was demanding the money from him as a bribe.

The two claims show there is a stalemate. However it is beyond stalemate that Mr. Lawan, one of the makers of Nigerian laws, met with Mr. Otedola an accused who is under investigation under the laws Mr. Lawan watches over. Mr. Lawan had this meeting WITHOUT the knowledge of Nigerian law enforcement agencies. To this extent, Mr. Lawan has sacrificed the essential nature of the law – its objectivity. On the basis of this violation it is reasonable to say that Mr. Lawan has breached a public trust and hence can no longer be trusted with making laws that govern our lives – the owners of a legislative watch he holds temporarily. He needs to leave. It is strange why this is difficult for him and his fellow representatives to see.

Those who defend Mr. Lawan claim he was set up. But this defence contradicts Mr. Lawan’s own assertion that he went to Mr. Otedola of his own volition to collect the money in order to expose Mr. Otedola. A volitional act allegedly done to expose an alleged fraud as Mr. Lawan claimed cannot at the same time be said to be a set up. To hold the two to be true is a contradiction.

But suppose it was a set up, Mr. Lawan still remains unassailably culpable based on the African fragment that one does not bring what one does not eat close to one’s nose to smell the aroma. This implies that if one does, then one wants to eat it.

Thus, there is an unethical intentional act that is sufficient to legitimately de-robe Mr. Lawan from further law making duties. In this regard, it means that even if Mr. Lawan was set up, this was possible because he has an original unethical intent to collect the money. And he would have done so anyway without a set up. No legal permutation can absolve him from this culpability.

In this write up, I have deliberately ignored Mr. Otedola. This is because an oil seller who strangely donated 200 million naira to a sitting president’s library project has defined where he belongs in ethics and in the moral scheme of things.

We need to know where that money came from. Really, Mr. Otedola and his case do not deserve our time and energy. And more importantly, like other oil sellers like him, they all belong to slime and the dodgy world of business defined by perfidy, treachery, fraud, brute and scorched earth survival tactics. It is unworthy to engage such slime, stealth, and oily and brute state of nature of the world of these so-called oil sellers who strangely call themselves businessmen.

Thus, Mr. Lawan’s case reminds one of Mr. Anthony Weiner, the American Congressman who resigned from the Congress (the American Congress is the equivalent of our House of Representative) over an Internet sex scandal. Mr. Lawan ought to follow the example of Mr. Weiner’s resignation.

Mr. Weiner did not collect money from anyone. He resigned because he was caught with his pants down while he exposed his lewd pictures with females over the Internet. Unlike Mr. Weiner, Mr. Lawan has allegedly committed a crime, he is refusing to resign. But Mr. Weiner committed an act of indiscretion yet he resigned. This says something about the honor of these two men in these two houses of representatives in these two countries-America and Nigeria. Based on this, Mr. Lawan has violated his oath of office. He has conducted a direct aggression against objectivity – the very nature of law making – by melting with and allowing himself to be co-opted by those whose cases have come before him. No self respecting Nigerian ought to again believe whatever Mr. Lawan says or whatever law he participates in making. Given that any law Mr. Lawan participates in making is inherently dispossessed of moral integrity, the honourable speaker of the house ought to protect the integrity of law making process by persuading Mr. Lawan to leave.

In a situation where Mr. Tambuwal, the speaker refuses to do this, in view of constitutional provisions, members of Mr. Lawan’s constituency – the Shanono/Bagwai constituency in Kano state – must help Nigeria by commencing a constitutional recall of Mr. Farouk Lawan.

I maintain this position because Mr. Lawan is morally unfit to be a member of the Nigerian House of Representative. Given his lies, he has inflicted a major injury against the Nigerian people. We should not allow this man to continue to inflict more injury on the moral imagination of Nigerian youths and children through his continuous stay in the house and participation in making laws that will govern our moral, political, social, economic and cultural lives.





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ROHINGYA MUSLIMS OF BURMA HELPED BY TURKISH GOVERNMENT
An example of muslims living in brotherhood –

TURKISH PEOPLE HAVE COME FORWARD TO HELP INNOCENT MUSLIMS OF BURMA WHO ARE FACING WORST CONDITIONS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE. WIFE OF TURK PRIME MINISTER STARTS WEEPING AFTER SEEING THE WORST CONDITION OF BURMESE MUSLIMS


They brought aid to the Banduba refugee camp in the Myanmar coastal state of Rakhine. The only Muslim Country who came forward for the Muslim's in Burma..

The Messenger of Allah (sa) said:
A Muslim is a brother of (another) Muslim, he neither wrongs him nor does hand him over to one who does him wrong. If anyone fulfils his brother’s needs, Allah will fulfil his needs; if one relieves a Muslim of his troubles, Allah will relieve his troubles on the Day of Resurrection” [Bukhari and Muslim].

Subhanallah! — look at the reward for helping out your fellow Muslim, to simply help them and to assist them in their needs, you will get the help and assistance of Allah Almighty.

May Allah Give reward for Turkish!!! Aameen

NIGERIA SECURITY HAS IMPROVED.
Nigeria police yesterday arrested a suicide bomber in Abuja.

Nigeria is a country full of uncommon opportunities. With a little or no capital, you can make it big and grow to become a very rich big person buzzing sirens around town with your own unique entourage! How should we start? Okay, let’s start this way. Sometimes, people erect kiosks and begin doing small businesses without receiving approval from anybody. It is illegal. They know. But when queried by the appropriate authorities, they say something like, “I am have five childrens to be raising at home and you coming here to questions me on why I opens a shop in fronts of my father’s house. I hope you’re not have skoin skoin.” In some cities, thuggish young men from virtually nowhere often appear at bus-stops to demand transit levies from commercial bus drivers in return for some cheaply-printed ticket or roughly-scribbled numbers. They always claim to report or deliver the funds to “the chairman”. Yet, the levied roads hardly get better. Of recent, it is becoming obvious that people do not have to go school to become very rich –well, so it appears. The rapidly-growing short-cut is to become a politician, the businessman friend of a politician or a notorious gang leader. If in doubt, ask any of Senator Orimoogunje Ajanlekoko, Chief Igi-aruwe Ewejoko or Baba Kontrola Olomometa and they will let you know “how it is going”.
It is a country of great economic divide where the very rich and the very poor constitute the majority of the population. The minority or middle class are those who have a mix of the two extremes. If you want to become one of the two extremes, come around and your life will not remain the same again. If you so choose, you too will manifest the traits of either or a mix of the two majorities. Here’s the gist, in Nigeria, people, and I mean human beings like you, buy small plots of lands in their hundreds of millions in locations that are within or very close to the Atlantic Ocean. They build houses and hotels in choice locations downstream and upstream as if there is nothing the waters can do. Without blinking an eye, they buy cars whose overall costs can feed five average households in one year. When they are going on vacation, they don’t just go to UK or South Africa. They travel to places like Trinidad & Tobago, Luxembourg or Adelaide thrice a year to holiday. After making phone calls at length, they do not check their account balance again and again. Yet, they are human beings like you. They breathe in nothing more sophisticated than air, fart once in a while and also go to the toilet. And they are living in this same Nigeria, not the one abroad. But there are also a lot of people outside that sect. They are those who do not have the things that make life easy. You may not understand what I mean because you are probably not among them. But if you claim to member in that group, let me disappoint you. The underprivileged people being observed here do not even have what you have. You probably have a BB or smartphone or some other kind of portable internet device and are able to read this piece solely because you know how to use the required technology. You learnt how to understand its use in some school or had friends who could teach you. Dear reader, be informed that many others cannot access what you are reading. They cannot afford the shirt you are wearing right now or even pay to eat half-a-plate of one of the simple meals you manage everyday. If you were privileged to sum up all their possessions or net worth, you may have nothing more than a four-digit number. But these people too are Nigerians. They are Nigerians who have fewer or no options. While you’re thinking of your aspirations, they’re thinking of survival. While you’re complaining about the size of your small apartment, they cannot tell if the children of their children’s children will ever live in such. While you’re upset at the government, most of them are upset at both you and that government because they think “you are one of them”. And while it is unfortunate that you’re sometimes impatient to be paid your salary, some of them are wondering if they could somehow burgle you, scare your family or just do something to hijack a portion of the fruits of your own sweat.

9GERIA POLITICS

OBJ: What is it Jona?
GEJ: It’s this short man that removed Ete oh, he’s disturbing me.
OBJ: I know this people at the hollow chamber. They are thieves and robbers. They steal the little money we give them and turn around to disturb us for more. You know what you will do?
GEJ: No sir.
OBJ: Call Femi, to arrange small change and tempt the guy.
GEJ: Like how much sir?
OBJ: $3m
GEJ: That’s too much oh.
OBJ: You are no longer a palm-wine tapper oh; you are the president of the most corrupt country on earth, the earlier you get that the better.
GEJ: Supposing he rejects it?
OBJ: Jona, He’s first a member of PDP and a Nigerian. Look who is not a thief here? Myself? Yourself?, Sambo? David? Even among this other political parties who is not?
GEJ: You are right sir.
OBJ: Once Lawan collects the money that is the end of the probe report and beginning of another case. Get any of this home video people to produce the film.
GEJ: Baba, you are the original Evil Genius
OBJ: O ti o

A Nigerian senator earns more in Salary than Barack Obama of the US and David Cameron of the UK. I’ll leave you to tell how much Nigerian president goes home with at the end of each month.
An Indian lawmaker must work for at least 49 years to earn the annual salary of a Nigerian senator.

In the United States, while the minimum wage is $1,257 (N191, 667), a US lawmaker earns $15,080 (N2.3m) per month. In the United Kingdom, a lawmaker earns $8,686(N1.3m) monthly while the gross national minimum wage is $1,883 (N283, 333) per month. Also, Nigerian lawmakers earn higher than their counterparts in Sweden. With a monthly pay of $7,707 (N1.2m), a lawmaker in Sweden will need to work for over 12 years to equal what a Nigerian senator earn per annum.

The president of the United States takes home an anual salary of $400,000 (N64.156,0m), including a $50,000 expense allowance making the president the highest paid public servant in the US. The $400,000 includes everything and $350,000 out of it is taxable.

Selected States (salary per annum)
The prime minister of the United Kingdom……USD 226,627.00
French president………………………………….. USD 318,072.00
South African president…………………………..USD 296,112.00
German chancelor………………………………….USD 296,112.00
The Prime Minister of Belgium…………………..USD 174,804.00
President of the Republic of Korea……………..USD 136,669.00
President of Russia…………………………………USD 122,652.00
Prime Minister Portugal……………………………USD 129,730.00
Prime Minister Namibia……………………………USD 115,155.00
President of Angola………………………………..USD 60,000.00
President Argentina………………………………..USD 55,139.00
Prime Minister Ukraine…………………………….USD 61,254.00
President Zimbabwe……………………………….USD 18,000.00
President of People’s republic of China………..USD 10,633.00
President Liberia……………………………………USD 90,000.00
Prime Minister Spain ……………………………..USD 102,960.00
Prime Minister Namibia…………………………..USD 115,155.00
President Namibia…………………………………USD 164,506.00
President of Colombia …………………………..USD 120,685.00
Prime Minister of the Netherlands……………..USD 190,740.00
Prime Minister Ireland……………………………USD 264,000.00
Prime Minister Denmark…………………………USD 264,533.00
President Mexico………………………………….USD 328,839.00
USD 328,839.00 ………………………………….USD 427,886.00
President Austria………………………………….USD 422,231.00
President of the European Council…………….USD 508,916.00

NIGERIAN SENATORS
Basic Salary (BS) = N2,484,245.50

Hardship Allowanc: 50% of Basic Salary = N1,242,122.75

Constituency allowance: 200% of BS = N4,968,509.00

Furniture Allowance: 300% of BS = N7,452,736.50

Newspaper allowance: 50% = N1,242,122.70

Wardrobe allowance: 25% = N621,061.37

Recess Allowance: 10% = N248,424.55

Accommodation: 200% = N4,968,509.00

Utilities: 30% = N828,081.83

Domestic Staff: 35% = N863,184.12

Entertainment: 30% = N828,081.83

Personal Assistance: 25% = N621,061.37

Vehicle Maintenance Allowance: 75% = N1,863,184.12

Leave Allowance : 10% = N248,424.55

One off payments (Severance gratuity): 300% = N7,452,736.50

Motor Vehicle Allowance: 400% of BS = N9,936,982.00

Total per month = N29, 479, 749.00

A senator’s anual salary = over N182 million
multiply by 109 senators (don’t forget the House of rep, ministers, ambassadors, …)
In addition to the regular and legitimate salaries and allowances of over N17 million ($113,333) and N14.99 million ($99,933) which senators and reps were collecting yearly and the irregular allowance of estacodes, duty tours etc, they were also collecting over N192m ($1.28m) and N140m ($0.93m) respectively in illicit quarterly allocation which is not provided for by RMAFC.
Effectively, a Nigerian senator was taking home at least $1.40m ($1.28m quarterly allocations + $0.113m regular salaries and allowances) as against the $0.174m an American senator takes home hence a Nigeria senator earns at least 8 times as much as an American senator and more than 3 times the American president.
Whereas a Senator in the U.S earns N21, 146,000, the same as a member of the House of Representatives; a UK Member of Parliament earn £64,766 (N14, 896,180)
In other words, a Federal Legislator in Nigeria is paid more than double what a Member of British Parliament earns per annum.
Senate President David Mark alone takes N250 million quarterly or N83.33 million per month. Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu gets N150 million per quarter or N50 million a month.
Mark and Ekweremadu earns in 4 months, six times what the UK Prime Minister earns in a year. David Cameron goes home with £190,000 per anum (N43, 700,000)
In a newspaper news article entitled ‘An Assembly for looting’ written by Musikilu Mojeed with Elor Nkereuwem, the authors rightly claimed that each of the 360 members of the House of Representatives were getting N35 million in cash money in quarterly allocation while each of the 109 Senators pockets N48 million each. These allocations have however been slashed by 20% to N27 million ($180,000) and N38 million ($253,333) respectively due to the 20% reduction requested by the late president.

Presently on the verge of breaking the internet loose is the angry noise of the Multi Billion naira Shopping Mall built by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State right in the heart of Abuja. It is way beyond comprehension as most reactions claim, why the Governor had to install such a massive edifice that is way more exotic in aesthetic than most of the structures in his own state.