The fact that he's sacrificed most of his wages to ensure that pensioners get paid is a win for me. If the payment is consistent and on time, that'll be better. Whether paying pensioners out of his pocket is story for another day but I am glad he's thinking of our old folks that worked and earned every penny of their pension. Selah!!!

Datingcomrade:
That his leg pose no be here

I think the moderator needs to address comments like this. Why make it personal and so abusive?

MrRichmond:



Shut your mouth you liar!

Almost everywhere people were snatching and burning election materials, thugs and soldiers shooting sporadically, scarring voters away, police making away with ballot boxes, the video evidence is all social media!

So stop talking like the partisan fool that you are!

This is election is a far cry from the 2015 election that brought your cow god to power!

Buhari and INEC had 3 years to prepare for this and they failed woefully like they do at every other thing!

What I still don't understand is this... In a country of over 150M, why is it hard to find folks who can govern apart from these same old guards.
Is the country's destiny tied to these same sets of people?
Nigeria... Jí má sùn.

I am of the opinion that Nigerians are the most gullible folks ever. Period. I believe if any of these old guards enter, then nothing will change.
I think we like the sound and concept of change but we are not ready for the change.

#gofigure #useyourvotewisely #dontsellyourvote

The question you'd need to ask is if the people EFCC are questioning are innocent.

I think some people are perverts. Do you really need to sexualise everything?

columbus007:
see this one,when you dey schl you dey enter class?na prick she dey collect upandan i know you wella back then,na dem truly rush you o.

. You dey dia? Unnecessary beef.

Dannyset:
Our democracy is confusing. The same Saraki that does not want to lose his seat after defection want to declare another defector's seat vacant. What rubbish?

The nation is soooo confused �.

Nigerians and blame game. And you wonder why things won't probably change. Unfortunately it's a vicious cycle. So it's EU that's the cause of our problems. Really, history tells that EU countries literally colonised the world at or point or another but I do not think the rest of world are playing the blame game.

I am sorry for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Simple answer... Flee

Talk of mis-placed priorities. The issue is not night but security.
(I believe one should be able to travel wheneven he/she pleases)
Fix the economy, get your acts right, ensure proper steps are taken to guard and protect citizens, man our borders (so there are no excuses that our neighbours are the evil ones), re-habilitate the police force, and do your job senator.

I do not understand Nigerians, If he says no, some people will say he is not patriotic and if he says yes, he is AGIP.

I don't get it.

It's a call to Serve the Nation, and if y'all have a problem with it, Go fly a Kite,

I've come to conclude that the best some people will be is just a statistic on Nairaland's counter.

I rest my case.

Last Saturday, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan addressed Nigerians for the second time in as many weeks. This time, he attempted a multi-pronged defense of his decision to remove fuel subsidy. It was a woeful failure.

Mr. Jonathan’s defense reeked of platitudes that rang false and rhetoric that came across as cheap and unfelt. Did the president expect Nigerians to buy his statement that he “feel[s] the pain that you all feel,” and that he “personally [felt] pained to see the sharp increase in transport fares and the prices of goods and services”? Did even his speechwriter believe that the president shares “the anguish of all persons who had traveled out of their stations, who had to pay more on the return leg of their journeys”?

Jonathan is far removed from the pain and anguish of the vast majority of Nigerians. In fact, he might as well inhabit a different planet from the rest of us. Even if the price of fuel rose to N10,000 a liter, the Nigerian president won’t feel a pinch of it. We, the people of Nigeria, buy all the fuel he uses – and his wife’s to booth.

Ensconced in the island of luxury that is Aso Rock, the man has no real access to the grim desperation that defines the lives of millions of Nigerians. It must be abstract for him. If his powers of empathy were engaged, Mr. Jonathan would not have been in such callous haste to remove fuel subsidies – without touching his own (and his coterie’s) perks and privileges.

Even if there were an excellent case for removing subsidy, what kind of statecraft justified raising fuel prices on the first day of the year? And, with the country still reeling from the Christmas Day bombings that killed and wounded many and shot the nerves of millions, how come Jonathan couldn’t wait for a week or two – even if the case for removing subsidy was unassailable?

The president and his economic team have never made a strong case for the removal of fuel subsidy. What they’ve done, however, is to brilliantly articulate the necessity to commence a fierce – as opposed to feigned – fight against the monster of corruption and the culture of official waste.

Jonathan’s current unpopularity owes to two reasons. One is his unwillingness to declare a war against those he and his team have identified as the enemies of Nigeria – a cabal that’s been sucking Nigerians’ blood for their self-aggrandizement. The other reason is that, in a bizarre twist, he chose to declare the equivalent of an economic war against hapless Nigerians.

Jonathan and his aides have called the small gang of fuel importers all the terrible names in the dictionary. The presidency has stated that most of these importers have criminally defrauded the rest of us. Nigerians, decimated by these vampires, have no doubt that the cabal steals from them, takes food from their mouths.

But then, curiosity of curiosities, Nigerians also know that many of these same leech-importers are friends, allies or associates of the president – and of his aides. Last Saturday, Mr. Jonathan told Nigerians “tough choices have to be made to safeguard the economy and our collective survival as a nation.”

A president bent on making tough choices might have started by arresting and prosecuting those who stole billions of naira of Nigeria’s resources. That’s a test of toughness. A tough president would have ordered the Inspector-General of Police and the director general of the State Security Service (SSS) to unmask rogue importers who engaged in “round-tripping” and other scams, and asked prosecutors to put them in the dock. A tough president would have had corrupt officials of the NNPC fired, arraigned and stripped of their loot. There are government officials who collude with fuel importers to falsify import records – thereby facilitating the exploitations of Nigerians. A tough-minded president would have seen to it that these unscrupulous officials were booked, shamed, and forced to disgorge their illicit hauls.

If a president who commands all the sectors of the armed forces, the police, and secret agency cannot figure out how to deal with a small band of profiteers, how does he expect Nigerians to trust him with husbanding the savings from subsidy removal?

In fact, to remove subsidy on fuel is actually evidence of presidential softness, of a leader unwilling or afraid to make tough choices. Nigerian leaders always find it attractive and easy to take it out on the so-called “ordinary” Nigerian.

In a sense, the Nigerians protesting Jonathan’s policy on fuel subsidy are asking him to give the poor a break – for once! They are demanding that the government go after the enemy – the profiteering parasites – rather than piling more misery on the heads of already pauperized Nigerians. They are pleading with Jonathan to, for once, focus on the subsidies that need cutting – those enjoyed by the likes of the president, governors, ministers, local government councilors, and commissioners.

Last week, Jonathan announced: “The interest of the ordinary people of this country will always remain topmost in my priorities as a leader. I remain passionately committed to achieving significant and enduring improvements in our economy that will lead to sustained improvement in the lives of our people.”

There’s a singsong quality to that promise, and Nigerians have heard that many, many times before. They have heard variations of that pledge from their various governments since 1960. Six times, former President Olusegun Obasanjo reduced fuel subsidies. Each time, the argument was that the savings would be invested in projects that would improve the lives of Nigerians. Where, Nigerians ask, are those projects? If the Nigerian president cannot point to evidence that Mr. Obasanjo kept his word, how does he expect us to have faith in him?

Mr. Jonathan’s answer was to slash the salaries of his ministers by 25 percent. But that’s a token gesture, at best. In last Saturday’s speech, Jonathan declared his determination “to leave behind a better Nigeria…” Then he contended that this would entail striving “to have the resources and the means to grow our economy to be resilient, and to sustain improved livelihood for our people.” Then this: “We must act in the public interest, no matter how tough, for the pains of today cannot be compared to the benefits of tomorrow.”

Determined to take him at his word, I hereby propose that he support the removal of more objectionable subsidies that are not only indefensible but also injurious to his goal of creating “a better Nigeria.”

First, he should immediately withdraw his budget proposal to feed his family and the vice president’s with close to one billion naira. A billion naira is – wait for it – more than six million dollars! The American president is paid $400,000 a year, and he must pay for his family’s meals from his pocket. The Nigerian president should not only offer to buy his own food, he should also nudge governors to do the same.

Mr. Jonathan should also champion the removal of obscenely corrupt subsidies called security vote (for himself and governors) and constituency allowance (for Nigerian legislators). On average, each Nigerian governor collects N300 million each month as security vote. That sum is enough to pay the minimum wage of N18,000 to more than 16,000 Nigerians! The so-called security vote should be used to train and equip the police, the military and other security agencies, not handed to public officials – who then route the cash to their bank accounts.

Even if Nigeria were awash with wealth, it would still be offensive to splash sums of $1.4 million (for members of the House) and $1.7 million (for senators) each quarter in the name of constituency allowance. If anything, given the size of the National and state legislatures, a cost-conscious Jonathan should advocate having lawmakers work part time. There’s no compelling reason to maintain thirty-seven full time legislatures in Nigeria.

I’d like to see President Jonathan push to sell off all the airplanes in the presidential fleet. If the British Prime Minister doesn’t own a jet, nor does a relatively rich Singapore, then there’s no excuse for the president (and other officials) of a country as economically wretched as Nigeria to have several planes.

Finally, Jonathan should demonstrate his tough-guy image – and his commitment to a better Nigeria – by empowering Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies to go after the country’s corrupt elements, including the profiteering cabal gorging on fuel subsidy. And he should show that he wouldn’t shield his corrupt friends or associates from prosecution.

Endnote: Nigerians should be disturbed by Jonathan’s recent public statement that Boko Haram has infiltrated every sector of Nigeria – among them, the legislature, judiciary and, even, the president’s circles. Is there any worse indication of a country that has collapsed unalterably? Even if Jonathan’s claim were true, should a president give his imprimatur to such damning, grim disclosure? Can one imagine the Pakistani or Afghani president telling the world that Al Qaeda had entrenched itself within official machineries of the state? Having confessed to Boko Haram’s deep entrenchment, Mr. Jonathan might as well have signed the instrument of surrender!

What happened to Freedom of Information ,
Thought the bill's been passed

Just got this.
1) One barrel of Crude oil = 42gallons or
159 litres

,  2) Our Refineries (i.e 4) Installed
(combined) capacity = 445,000
,  barrels per day

3) Actual refineries capacity due to
ageing equipment = 30% i.e. 133,500
barrels per day
.
4) . . 133,500 barrels = 21.2 million litres

5) Local required consumption (F.O.S) =
12millions litres

6) It means that even our MORIBOND
refineries can actually meet our local
consumption need of petroleum.

7) The cost structure of crude oil (i.e.
Qua Iboe Crude Oil) production;
- Findings / development - $3.5
- Production cost - $1.5
- Refining Cost - $12.6
- Pipeline/transportation - $1.5
- Distr/bridging fund Margin -$15.69

True cost of one litre of petroleum
anywhere in Nigeria;
- Total sum cost = $34.8
- 1ltr cost = $34.8/159 litres = $0.219
- Naira equiv. 0.219xN160= N35.02k
- Add Tax N5 + N35.02 = N40.02

9) Let FGN refute the above composition
and if not, they should tell us how
they came about N65/litre.

10) Locally refined products cannot be
sold at International price.

11) We really do not need FGN SUBSIDY
as there was NONE in the first place.

12) What is LACKING, is the WILL to
enforce LAW ON CORRUPTION.

Pls re-post until it gets to the right quarters for their response;

We still stand a chance as a COUNTRY.

Analysis done by Professor Tam David West, former Petroleum Minister.

Quick question then for everyone who wants to have Soyinka's head, if any member of your family member comes out as gay/ lesbian. Whachu gonna do? Kill 'em?

Before you answer that, just to clarify things, I am not gay. I love God, believes Him and his son Jesus. I also believe His word that says, Judge not, , ', ', he who is without sin ,

Do I condone it, not at all but can I tolerate them. definitely.

What is upsetting is the hypocrisy that is the order of the day. So you don't sleep with someone is of the same sex, does that make you any better than them? What gives us the right to Judge anybody?

At least we know Soyinka, unfortunately, the same cannot be said of most of us in this forum.

Truth be told, people should be able to say their mind without fear of being attacked by any means or form.

Soyinka and the Priest both spoke their mind, that's just about it.

There are somethings we can't change, this issue I'm afraid is one of them.

In the bible, I recall that it was recorded that falling angels did it. So why do you think it will change now when things are supposedly worse than the days of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Anyway, before y'all decides to remove the speck in someones eyes, you've got a frigging log in your eyes you need to take care of first.

I rest with this, there is no lesser hell, gays, liars, fornicators, bad mouthers, , will end up in the same pit. get me?


Peace out and have yourself a merry little Christmas.

I'm sure some folks will kick up a spiritual fuss again if it was said that Christmas was first celebrated by Pagans (That's a story of another day but The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god.

This was done long before the birth of Jesus),

What I don't understand is this,' it ok to fornicate, it's fine to be adulterous, it's permissive to be a bigamist but to be gay is sin. Who determines what?

Personally, I think if you'd class gay as an issue, then all others should as well.

We all have a right to be what we choose to be.

Some people mask peadophilia with different mask including religion, and it's perfectly ok to turn a blind eye?

I'm personally tired of this pick and choose kind of justice. I wish the nation all the best.

I normally do not to reply posts but on this occasion, I feel the need to do so.
Firstly, I'd say what kills most (not ALL) people that have been scammed in time past is pure greed.
Borrowing Majek Fashek's word,' You don't expect to sow cassava, and reap up cocoa yam, (his actual words). You haven't played lottery and you expect to win, you don't know Kabila, Abacha, Samuel Doe, even Gadaffi and you think its your account they'd use to launder funds.Come on.

The gentleman or lady that said something about free website is correct too, You should be weary of any company that cannot afford a domain of its own. That said, there are several things that can go wrong so be careful.

Bottomline, before you act on any email that reads so good to be true, think about it, read it again and if possible, ask for a second opinion.

Regards.

Chief. I quite understand where you're coming from. I believe we are both in the same situation. What i'd advise before you make your decision is to plan.
Research about Nigeria- jobs, schools for the kids, accomodation et al, make a few trips if need be.
To relocate anywhere from your base, i'd suggest you have at least 1-2 years relocation plan. You will need it especially since you've got family.

I wish you all the best.

Some people love attention small. Is she old? I think NOT. Karl Lagerfeld still designs and Viv Westwood too. You can argue that she's no designer-true but IMAN is still around and Cindy Crawford too.
If you can't encourage made-in-Nigeria goods; you can at least try not to hate on the lady.

Besides, Nike Oshinowo we know; who are YOU!!!.

Don't hate, Celebrate or shut the f.up!!!.

, PS: I do not know the lady and have never met her before

Here is my take on this issue. His he is a genius? Did he possess any PhD? Has he written loads of journals and patented several inventions? I do not know and frankly speaking I don’t want to know. But I do know if you can cough in a certain way and you are the first to do it…you just might be able to patent it.

Did he invent the internet… chances are that his theory helped in the discovery of the internet cos if not, I’m sure he wont have been awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ of the computing world. If he’s fake, I’m sure the breaking news won’t on Nairaland, Sahara… or any other blogs.

If you really want the truth, for whatever reason; a feel good factor, bigger ego or simply for knowing… ask questions but don’t just ask, ask the right people. Call his references, call the schools he’s attended, call the journalists who’s interviewed or written about him and his accomplishments. Find out if you must but don’t slander each other and don’t turn it into a tribal war. Have some respect for people and where they’re from even if you respect yourself (I’d prefer you respect yourself too though).

Funny how most arguments about this man’s accomplishments hardly make it past blogs (mostly run by Nigerians)

I don’t know him, I’m certainly not speaking for him but until he is stripped of his ‘Nobel Prize’ and his claims publicly and widely discredited; he will still be the father of internet. Simples…

… I rest my case and forgive me if'd shelled, no time to proof read.

This is an except from Time Magazine.
Hope it helps.
A word of advise,  Don't be quick to judge. Make the effort to find out the truth. nuff said.

  P H I L I P     E M E A G W A L I
A     C a l c u l a t i n g     M o v e   
It's hard to say who invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once.

Emeagwali was born to a poor family in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. Despite his brain for math, he had to drop out of school because his family, who had become war refugees, could no longer afford to send him. As a young man, he earned a general education certificate from the University of London and later degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan.

At Michigan, he participated in the scientific community's debate on how to simulate the detection of oil reservoirs using a supercomputer. Growing up in an oil-rich nation and understanding how oil is drilled, Emeagwali decided to use this problem as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Borrowing an idea from a science fiction story about predicting the weather, Emeagwali decided that rather than using 8 expensive supercomputers he would employ thousands of microprocessors to do the computation.

The only step left was to find 8 machines and connect them. (Remember, it was the 80s.) Through research, he found a machine called the Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which had sat unused after scientists had given up on figuring out how to make it simulate nuclear explosions. The machine was designed to run 65,536 interconnected microprocessors. In 1987, he applied for and was given permission to use the machine, and remotely from his Ann Arbor, Michigan, location he set the parameters and ran his program. In addition to correctly computing the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.

The crux of the discovery was that Emeagwali had programmed each of the microprocessors to talk to six neighboring microprocessors at the same time.

The success of this record-breaking experiment meant that there was now a practical and inexpensive way to use machines like this to speak to each other all over the world. Within a few years, the oil industry had seized upon this idea, then called the Hyperball International Network creating a virtual world wide web of ultrafast digital communication.

The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. Since then, he has won more than 100 prizes for his work and Apple computer has used his microprocessor technology in their Power Mac G4 model. Today he lives in Washington with his wife and son.

"The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present."

Leave the man alone.
For all y'all that feel you can talk, keep talking.
So he bought a jet
Is it a crime?
Is the jet in his name?
Just know that the Bible is true and the way some people entertained angels,
Some got what they deserve by not cautioning themselves.
Let God be his judge and not you.
, If you feel you can walk a mile in his shoes, then keep talking.

E ma lo wa'se se, Oro oloro ni ke ma so kakari. Bollocks

PS: I don't know the man and I am not even a member of his Church.

This topic is sensitive,

I will urge folks to exercise some patience
I will also will advise that we watch what we say,

1. The way a President cannot make some decisions without his board is the same way the G.O can't make decisions.
2. There are rules to abide to in the house of God or even in any organisation, They call them 'policies' and each policy will have its penalty attached to it.
3. If we say the Law of Moses is old and outdated, must we now continue in our old ways all in the name of Grace?
4. Note that the gifts and calling of God are without repentance: He is still a pastor no matter what, if that's his calling.


I am not a member of RCCG but we cannot attach sentiments to this issue.
We do not know the full story, so we cannot draw our conclusions.

Also note that G.O just overseess the affairs of the church and when his time is up will appoint another person.

Lastly, i'll advise folks to make their words soft, , cos they might have to eat again.

I'll leave you with this quote, ' I do the very best I know how. The very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.--Abraham Lincoln ,

Peace

I vote for good governance. In a Country where even to build a good road, you must be corrupt or how else would you get your proposal to leave a clerk's desk?
I think Ribadu did a good job. If he is a pawn, then he is a good one.
I do not know of anybody he convicted that does not deserve the conviction.
Is it fit for president, I don't know. The fact that you are Techinically sound does not make you qualify for the post of a CEO. A CTO may be the best place for your to operate.

I'm not here to attack anybody,  Just making audible my views.

PS: Guys, can we not have a constructive argument without biase and personal attacks?

There won't be much difference between us and those in power if we don't comport ourselves.

Peace

I have been observing the happenings of our Country for a while. Though I have been out of the system for a while, I still think about the place, what it used to be and what it has become.

Can I ask, is there a way to make things better?

What are those things that can be done?

How can we best achieve those things?

I have come to conclude that the problem is more of a black man's problem than a nations wahala,

If so, how can we best discover ourselves as black people. How can we best harness our strengths and channel it towards a good cause.


, feel free to express yourself.

This is absolutely irrelevant to the topic being discussed but can anybody tell me how to create a topic of discussion in this forum?

Apologies for any inconveniences caused.

Many thanks

Just a lot of other Techies have said, It can be anything , ranging from Virus attack, Registry issues, Fan related issues as well.

Observe and note what happens, Its always best to know what happens before the system restart or shutdown.

Chief, its best you roll back the installation.
In the event that you are unable to do so, you may need to reinstall the OS.
You can actually install Windows in another folder on you PC.