One things this old politicians should realise are most ppl or are 18 yrs, don't even know the governance of Buhari and Babanjida. I think Goodluck would have more vote from that add up with the old folks. Already the old folks don't like Babanjida and Buhari so I think GEJ would be the winner. Before no be property oo, na now.

SAN'A, Yemen - Information that helped thwart the plot of U.S.-bound mail bombs wired to explode on cargo planes came from an al-Qaida insider who was secreted out of Yemen after surrendering to Saudi authorities, according to Yemeni security officials.

The tip reflects how Saudi Arabia has worked aggressively for years to infiltrate al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which is operating in the unruly, impoverished nation on its southern doorstep.

The tip came from Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi who was held for years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007. Soon after, he fled Saudi Arabia and joined the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen, until he turned himself in to Saudi authorities in late September.

Yemeni security officials said Monday they believe al-Fayfi may have been a double agent, planted by Saudi Arabia in Yemen among al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula militants to uncover their plots. The officials said that after his return to the kingdom, he told authorities that al-Qaida was planning to send bomb-laden packages.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Tribal leaders in Yemen aware of the situation, and similarly speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed al-Fayfi's role. Saudi officials did not respond to calls for comment.

Saudi Arabia has been recruiting informants in the terrorist network and also has been paying Yemeni tribal chiefs — and even gives cash to figures in the Yemeni military — to gain their loyalty.

President Barack Obama thanked Saudi King Abdullah, a top U.S. ally, in a Saturday telephone call for the "critical role" by Saudi counterterrorism authorities in uncovering the plot. After the Saudi alert, two bombs hidden in packages mailed from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago were discovered Friday on planes transiting through Dubai and Britain.

Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, considered a key figure in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is the chief suspect behind assembling the sophisticated mail bombs, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

German officials said Monday the mail bombs contained 10.58 ounces (300 grams) and 15.11 ounces (400 grams) of the explosive PETN — enough to cause "significant" damage to the planes. By contrast, the explosives that failed to work last Christmas on a Detroit-bound airliner used 80 grams of PETN secreted in the underwear of a Nigerian passenger. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for that.

The warning from Germany came as investigators tried to trace bomb parts and look for any more explosives possibly sent from Yemen.

The Yemeni National civil aviation committee decided late Sunday to tighten security in Yemeni airports, according to the state Saba news agency. The committee, headed by the minister of transport, said cargo leaving the airports will be thoroughly inspected and shipping agents will have to get licenses in line with international standards. The committee also approved a new airport security force.

While al-Fayfi may have provided broad outlines about the plot, it appears Saudi Arabia had other sources.

U.S. officials have said the tip was specific enough that it identified the tracking numbers of the packages. The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan on Monday cited Saudi security officials as saying the kingdom gave U.S. investigators the tracking numbers, which al-Fayfi likely would not have known since he surrendered well before the packages were mailed.

Al-Fayfi's surrender may have revealed other plots as well. In mid-October, a couple of weeks after his surrender, Saudi Arabia warned European authorities of a threat from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, saying the group's operatives were active on the continent, particularly France.

Al-Fayfi, who is in his mid-30s and is known by the nom de guerre of Abu Jaafar al-Ansari, was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan after the 2001 toppling of the Taliban there. According to documents from Guantanamo, he spent time at Osama bin Laden's hideaway at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan in November-December 2001, during a U.S. air assault on the al-Qaida mountain stronghold.

Al-Fayfi was held at Guantanamo until early 2007, when he was released to Saudi Arabia.

There, he was put through the kingdom's rehabilitation program for militants. But soon after leaving the program, he fled to Yemen and joined al-Qaida, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry. In September, he contacted Saudi authorities, saying he wanted to turn himself in. A private jet was sent to the capital of San'a to bring him to Riyadh, Saudi security officials told the Saudi-owned daily Al-Hayat.

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is made up of several hundred militants and appears to be aggressively seeking to recruit American and European radicals who could provide a way for the group to carry out attacks in their homelands. Yemen provides a potentially easy entry point for foreign radicals to link up with al-Qaida, with a number of popular Islamic religious and Arabic-language schools that attract students from around the world.

Most of the militants, however, are Yemenis and Saudis — including many Saudis who belonged to al-Qaida's branch in the kingdom until it was crushed by a heavy crackdown in the mid-2000s.

Since then, Saudi intelligence has aggressively been pursuing them, even as the militants have vowed both to kill Saudi officials and to topple the Yemeni government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Saudis deeply distrust the ability of Saleh's regime to crack down on militants, seeing Yemen's security forces as incompetent.

The frustration with the Yemenis climaxed last year when al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula came close to killing Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, a member of the royal family who runs the Saudi counterterrorism program.

Al-Asiri's brother, Abdullah, posing as a reformed jihadist, detonated a bomb hidden inside a body cavity, killing himself but only slightly wounding the prince.

Forensic analysis indicates that Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri built the bomb carried by his brother, as well as the explosives carried by the Nigerian on the Detroit-bound flight.

The attack on the prince "was the thing that infuriated the Saudis and made them step up their intelligence operations in Yemen and almost completely sidestep the Yemenis," said a Yemeni security official familiar with the kingdom's activity in his country.

"They recruited hundreds of informers and began to spend even more lavishly on their allies," said the official, who agreed to share the information in exchange for anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

For years, Saudi Arabia has also been known to be giving cash rewards to tribal chiefs, senior military officers and politicians.

In large areas of mountainous Yemen, where infrastructure is often poor to nonexistent, tribes hold far more power than the central government and are better aware of militants' comings and going. Some tribes, disenchanted with San'a, have provided shelter to al-Qaida fighters.

President Saleh, meanwhile, is hampered by trying to balance his policies toward the tribes, making it difficult for him to crack down on those harboring militants for fear of a backlash. With oil revenues declining, he does not have the cash to tempt them to surrender the militants in exchange for better services or jobs for their followers. His security forces lack discipline and are poorly armed, save for those reporting directly to him or close family members, and are mostly deployed in San'a.

The Saudis are fully aware of all this.

"It is a case of the Saudis distrusting the Yemenis on the war against terror," said Mohammed al-Sabry, a Yemeni analyst. "What was once a lack of coordination between the two nations is now a serious problem between them."

Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi expert on al-Qaida, said the Saudis "managed to do a superb job in Yemen. ,  You have to have someone inside in order to get the job done."

He said Saudi Arabia has been working to infiltrate al-Qaida elsewhere, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, "but we have done a better job in Yemen."

Hi 9ralanders,

I reside in Malaysia and I happened to misplaced my old passport. I applied for a new epassprt online and have went for reissuance at the Nigerian Consulate here in Malaysia. Toke pictures and other efizi for the epassport. They ask me to come on Thursday for collection of the new ePassport and I was billed to pay the following:

$50 for Admin fee and $250 for Penalty Charge for misplacing my old passport,

Is this legal, I feel like I want to be extorted and moreso I am broke and cash trapped if not I would ve paid for it but now, I need this passport to process my student visa but I am scared how long it would take me to get these fee and the delay it might cost me as I need a get my student visa on the passport.

Please peeps, advice, I dont knw what kind of fee that doesn't have invoice, am wondering if it is called for or just another way of 9ja extortion.

Was fun over here in Malaysia, went to Nigerian Consulate and behold, it was really a "50 Years Celebration". Dignitary from other embassies were invited and it was filled with Nigerian, locals n foreigners who came to mark the day with us. I guess GEJ had sent the embassy 50 Million Naira for the celebration. Lot to eat n take RSVP lol. Was a nice celebration and moreso 9ice, Derele and Nigga Raw where in Malaysia for independence show, so they also came to grace up the day.

Diego and Paloma,

Lets see who would kill who now as assassination would soon be the other of the day since it is near 2011. The Question should be?

Can Joe kill Babaginda? or Can Babaginda kill Joe??

Becos 1 person has to kill the other cos the money in the presidential villa and the pen they use in appending their signatory on trillion of naira project is to much money.

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON – Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America's virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.

China may soon put an end to that.

U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with what analysts say is a game-changing weapon being developed by China — an unprecedented carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D that could be launched from land with enough accuracy to penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced moving aircraft carrier at a distance of more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles).

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EDITOR'S NOTE — The USS George Washington supercarrier recently deployed off North Korea in a high-profile show of U.S. sea power. AP Tokyo News Editor Eric Talmadge was aboard the carrier, and filed this report.

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Analysts say final testing of the missile could come as soon as the end of this year, though questions remain about how fast China will be able to perfect its accuracy to the level needed to threaten a moving carrier at sea.

The weapon, a version of which was displayed last year in a Chinese military parade, could revolutionize China's role in the Pacific balance of power, seriously weakening Washington's ability to intervene in any potential conflict over Taiwan or North Korea. It could also deny U.S. ships safe access to international waters near China's 11,200-mile (18,000-kilometer) -long coastline.

While a nuclear bomb could theoretically sink a carrier, assuming its user was willing to raise the stakes to atomic levels, the conventionally-armed Dong Feng 21D's uniqueness is in its ability to hit a powerfully defended moving target with pin-point precision.

The Chinese Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to the AP's request for a comment.

Funded by annual double-digit increases in the defense budget for almost every year of the past two decades, the Chinese navy has become Asia's largest and has expanded beyond its traditional mission of retaking Taiwan to push its sphere of influence deeper into the Pacific and protect vital maritime trade routes.

"The Navy has long had to fear carrier-killing capabilities," said Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the nonpartisan, Washington-based Center for a New American Security. "The emerging Chinese antiship missile capability, and in particular the DF 21D, represents the first post-Cold War capability that is both potentially capable of stopping our naval power projection and deliberately designed for that purpose."

Setting the stage for a possible conflict, Beijing has grown increasingly vocal in its demands for the U.S. to stay away from the wide swaths of ocean — covering much of the Yellow, East and South China seas — where it claims exclusivity.

It strongly opposed plans to hold U.S.-South Korean war games in the Yellow Sea off the northeastern Chinese coast, saying the participation of the USS George Washington supercarrier, with its 1,092-foot (333-meter) flight deck and 6,250 personnel, would be a provocation because it put Beijing within striking range of U.S. F-18 warplanes.

The carrier instead took part in maneuvers held farther away in the Sea of Japan.

U.S. officials deny Chinese pressure kept it away, and say they will not be told by Beijing where they can operate.

"We reserve the right to exercise in international waters anywhere in the world," Rear Adm. Daniel Cloyd, who headed the U.S. side of the exercises, said aboard the carrier during the maneuvers, which ended last week.

But the new missile, if able to evade the defenses of a carrier and of the vessels sailing with it, could undermine that policy.

"China can reach out and hit the U.S. well before the U.S. can get close enough to the mainland to hit back," said Toshi Yoshihara, an associate professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He said U.S. ships have only twice been that vulnerable — against Japan in World War II and against Soviet bombers in the Cold War.

Carrier-killing missiles "could have an enduring psychological effect on U.S. policymakers," he e-mailed to The AP. "It underscores more broadly that the U.S. Navy no longer rules the waves as it has since the end of World War II. The stark reality is that sea control cannot be taken for granted anymore."

Yoshihara said the weapon is causing considerable consternation in Washington, though — with attention focused on land wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — its implications haven't been widely discussed in public.

Analysts note that while much has been made of China's efforts to ready a carrier fleet of its own, it would likely take decades to catch U.S. carrier crews' level of expertise, training and experience.

But Beijing does not need to match the U.S. carrier for carrier. The Dong Feng 21D, smarter, and vastly cheaper, could successfully attack a U.S. carrier, or at least deter it from getting too close.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned of the threat in a speech last September at the Air Force Association Convention.

"When considering the military-modernization programs of countries like China, we should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the U.S. symmetrically — fighter to fighter or ship to ship — and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options," he said.

Gates said China's investments in cyber and anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry, along with ballistic missiles, "could threaten America's primary way to project power" through its forward air bases and carrier strike groups.

The Pentagon has been worried for years about China getting an anti-ship ballistic missile. The Pentagon considers such a missile an "anti-access," weapon, meaning that it could deny others access to certain areas.

The Air Force's top surveillance and intelligence officer, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, told reporters this week that China's effort to increase anti-access capability is part of a worrisome trend.

He did not single out the DF 21D, but said: "While we might not fight the Chinese, we may end up in situations where we'll certainly be opposing the equipment that they build and sell around the world."

Questions remain over when — and if — China will perfect the technology; hitting a moving carrier is no mean feat, requiring state-of-the-art guidance systems, and some experts believe it will take China a decade or so to field a reliable threat. Others, however, say final tests of the missile could come in the next year or two.

Former Navy commander James Kraska, a professor of international law and sea power at the U.S. Naval War College, recently wrote a controversial article in the magazine Orbis outlining a hypothetical scenario set just five years from now in which a Deng Feng 21D missile with a penetrator warhead sinks the USS George Washington.

That would usher in a "new epoch of international order in which Beijing emerges to displace the United States."

While China's Defense Ministry never comments on new weapons before they become operational, the DF 21D — which would travel at 10 times the speed of sound and carry conventional payloads — has been much discussed by military buffs online.

A pseudonymous article posted on Xinhuanet, website of China's official news agency, imagines the U.S. dispatching the George Washington to aid Taiwan against a Chinese attack.

The Chinese would respond with three salvos of DF 21D, the first of which would pierce the hull, start fires and shut down flight operations, the article says. The second would knock out its engines and be accompanied by air attacks. The third wave, the article says, would "send the George Washington to the bottom of the ocean."

Comments on the article were mostly positive.


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The Lagos Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Wahab Oba, has said that N3m was seized from them by the gunmen who kidnapped him and three other journalists in Abia State on July 11.


Narrating their ordeal in the hands of their captors at the Abia State Police headquarters, Umuahia, Oba said they were dropped off by the gunmen at a bush path in Ukpakiri, Obingwa Local Government Area, at about 1.30am on Sunday.


He said they had to wait till 6am before walking to Ukpakiri market where an unnamed community leader took them to the state police command.


Although Oba maintained that they were not maltreated by the kidnappers, he explained that they were blindfolded and kept under trees at the mercy of “dangerous elements.”


He said, “The kidnappers never allowed us to stay at a particular place for long as they kept moving us from place to place due to the pressure from the police who were looking for us.


“We were blindfolded all the time and thus did not know where we were at any particular time. But the kidnappers robbed us of our possessions, and shared the booty among themselves.


“They collected everything we had; wristwatches, money and shared everything. I saw my shoes; I saw my laptop computer being shared. Somebody even put on my wristwatch there in the bush. We had to part with N3m before they agreed to release us.”


The kidnappers had initially demanded a N250m ransom but Oba said they later claimed they were not really interested in the ransom.


“They said they were driven to criminality to protest government neglect,” the Lagos NUJ boss said, insisting that no ransom was paid to the kidnappers.


Oba, the Zonal Secretary, NUJ, Zone G, Mr. Adolphus Okonkwo; the Secretary of the Lagos State NUJ council, Mr. Sylva Okereke; a council member, Mr. Sola Oyeyipo; and their driver, Mr. Azeez Yekini, were kidnapped on their way from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State where they had attended an NUJ National Executive Committee meeting.


Looking unkempt as they narrated their ordeal in the kidnappers’ den, they said they were happy regaining their freedom.


Oba also said they had already given up and sent oral wills to their families because the kidnappers “were always telling us to say our last prayers.”


He added that for the first time in his life, he “had a different impression about the Nigeria Police Force with the way they operated.”


He, however, did not explain what he meant by a different impression.


“Let us fight for our dear nation, ourselves and do things that will improve the police,” Oba said, adding that the police could not fight crime with their current condition.


“We are proud to be Nigerians and we will continue to fight for good causes,” Oba added.


The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, who presented the freed journalists to Governor Theordore Orji said that the police had just started a two-pronged war against kidnappers.


“The release and handing over of the journalists is the first stage and the second stage is to go after the kidnappers,’’ he said.


Noting that stage two would not be easy, Onovo pointed out that “while going after kidnappers, we will inconvenience some innocent people living within their areas.”


The IG appealed to the kidnappers to surrender but warned that “if they refuse, we will have no option than to confront them headlong.”


He explained that policing in a democratic state required a lot of care, but pointed out that “our care not to hurt innocent people should not be taken for weakness.”


Onovo said that after combing some areas in Obingwa LGA on July 11, the police re-strategised and were able to locate the hide-out of the kidnappers.


He said, “We strategised. I deployed a contingent to start combing the bush, house- to -house search and with a charge to rescue the journalists alive because if there is confrontation, we don’t know who will survive the assault.


“We also came in with tracking equipment and we were able to locate an axis in Obingwa LGA where the kidnappers were. We also deployed a police helicopter that came close to the hiding place of the kidnappers.


“Every second, every minute, you could feel the tension. Each minute was like a year. (But) today, I’m happy to announce that sitting before you are Oba, Okonkwo, Okereke, Oyeyipo, and Yekini.”


“I am happy to announce to you that the journalists are sitting in our midst live,” he told Orji.


Turning to Oba, Okereke, Okonkwo, Oyeyipo and Yekini, he said, “We welcome you back to civilisation after your experience in the jungle.”


Responding, Orji said he was “extremely happy” that the journalists and their driver came out alive.


He added that their abduction had posed a very big challenge not only to him but also to Onovo.


Orji who sympathised with the journalists for their ordeal in the hands of the gunmen, warned criminals in the state to change their ways.


“Let them remove their hands from this nonsense. If they are agitating, this is not the best way,” he said.


Orji noted that rather than attract development to their areas, the criminals were indeed under-developing their areas because no contractor can execute any project in the crime -prone places.


He also said the state government had not received any money from the Federal Government on the amnesty programme as alleged by the kidnappers.


The governor, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Ugochukwu Emezue, said the Federal Government had not released such money to the state government.


But the governor promised that if such money was received, it would be released.


He also denied allegation that his government was marginalising Ukwa Ngwa in terms of development.


An elated Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, and the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, who welcomed the release of the journalists, advised Nigerians to “Stand up against criminals.’’


Akunyili, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria, said that the payment of ransom had made kidnapping an industry.


“I just feel so happy that our brothers are safe and no one succumbed to the threat of the kidnappers who are criminals that go about torturing people emotionally,’’ she said.


Adefaye recommended that “a harsh example be made of deviants to put an end to kidnapping.”


Oba and his colleagues arrived in Lagos in company with the National President of NUJ, Mr. Mohammed Garba, who claimed that the only ransom paid the kidnappers was a N5,000 recharge card sent to them.


Oba said at the NUJ press centre that the Nigeria Police Force deserved commendation for displaying high “professional and scientific” conduct to secure their release.


He, however, added that there was a time he was told by one of the gunmen that they were going to use him “for a sacrifice to the gods.”


The Lagos NUJ chief said, “At that time, I told one of my colleagues to tell my wife not to bother about me anymore beacuse the boys had all sorts of sophisticated weapons. But when the bush became too tough for them too, they had to release us.


While thanking President Goodluck Jonathan for his concern for their safety, Oba noted that unemployment was the major reason for the high level of kidnapping in the country.


He later told one of our correspondents that the total value of the items they lost to the kidnappers was about N5m, including about N3m cash.


Asked how they came about the N3m, he said, “When we went for the NEC meeting, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Godswill Akpabio, gave us N1m as fulfilment of his promise to bankroll a national seminar which we had in the state three months ago.


“He also gave each NEC official N100,000 as transport fare. I also had some money on me because I had been travelling recently. Other people had some money on them too.


“The kidnappers collected all the money. If you value what they collected from us in terms of cash and other things, it is almost N5m. We had about N2.6m cash and the car which we bought not long ago valued at N2.4m was also stolen.”


He said that the police did a lot to frighten the kidnappers as they were seen pounding the whole area.


He said, “The police actually did the magic. They pounded the village every minute. They boys were frightened. They even heard in the news that the polcie were tracking them. They became careful in order to escape arrest.”


http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20100719359442

Master Plan


Due to the complexity of the project. Lekki Airport engaged the best international team to develop the Lekki Airport Master Plan. This study will be completed in four (4) separate stages; each stage requires approval from the Lagos State Government before proceeding to the next level. The Master Plan is currently at stage 3 and due to be completed by the end of the second quarter this year.

The Master Plan brief is based on the following key criteria:

Circa 5 million passengers per year
Modular Terminal for easy expansion
Modern architecture
Value for money
Fast track programme to commence operation in Q3 2012
Future use by the Airbus A380 aircraft



Stage 1
Client’s brief
Establish the project team
Site visit
Air traffic analysis and critique – passengers and cargo
Planning parameters and key facilities
Benchmarking and airport schematics
Developed airfield layout options
Evaluated options and assessment


Stage2
Passenger terminal sizing, concepts and assessment
Preferred airfield and terminal options
Architecture treatment options
Conclusions and recommendations
Development budget estimate
Strategic programme options
Procurement options

Stage 3
Develop selected options
Landside access – road & rail
Prepare phasing strategy
Day one build and cost reduction
Evaluate key opportunities
Assessment workshop – critique conclusions


Stage 4
3D model
Presentation material
Final master plan report
Final presentation to Lagos state government
Master plan study approval
Next steps for project execution


http://www.lagos-airport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:master-plan&catid=37:master-plan

The leadership of the Nigeria Police Force is gripped with the fear that it could be dissolved anytime from now, following the growing rate of insecurity in the country.


Sources close to the Presidency told Saturday Punch on Thursday night that President Goodluck Jonathan‘s security advisers were already fed up with police management team headed by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo.


Onovo, who succeeded Mr. Mike Okiro last year, had been contending with growing insecurity since he assumed office.


Many Nigerians, including police officers, have been killed by armed robbers, with Onovo and his team having no answer to the situation.


Just last Sunday, four journalists were kidnapped near Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, on their way from Akwa Ibom State where they had attended a conference. Since then, Onovo has relocated to the South-East, following a marching order from the Presidency to secure the release of the journalists and burst the kidnapping gangs in the region.


A source said, ”Anytime from now, the Presidency will act on the issue. The Presidency seems to be tired of the several excuses of the police concerning the security situation in the country. If by now we are experiencing this, one can imagine what the situation is likely to be during the general election next year. The thinking in the Presidential Villa is that the man (Onovo) should be allowed to conduct the general election. But as things are now, only God can make that happen.


”The kidnapping is happening in the part of the country he ought to be familiar with. If he cannot curb that, you can imagine how he would perform if such a situation obtains in other parts of the country. I think the only thing now is that the Presidency is yet to decide on who succeeds him.”


President Jonathan had on different occasions lamented the security situation in the country, which he said had worsened.


Speaking at the National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party on June 17, Jonathan revealed that Nigeria lost the chance to host the Commonwealth Games because of the spate of kidnapping in the country. He added that all the efforts he made to convince members of the international community that Abuja where the events were to hold was far from Niger-Delta region were rebuffed.


The President said the rate of kidnapping in the South-East, especially in Abia State, was not acceptable to his government.


He said, ”The security situation in the country, especially kidnapping, is worrisome. I remember when we were struggling to host the Commonwealth Games, what was used in blackmailing us was kidnapping. I told them, ‘you are talking of kidnapping, I am from the Niger Delta, where we are going to hold these games is Abuja,‘ but they ignored us.”


He said the country could no longer fold its arms and allow criminals to take charge, wondering why many Nigerians would have to hire armoured personnel carriers to go to the market.


The President also said in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, that the spate of kidnappings was “ a national embarrassment.”


He said, “We have allowed this kidnapping to degenerate to something very embarrassing to us as a nation. We are going to deal with it head on beacuse government will soon procure modern technology to fight the problem.”


Before then, the then Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Lame, had described the the Nigeria Police Force under Onovo as a failure.


Speaking at a meeting he had with the IGP and other members of the police management on March 4, 2010 in his office, Lame said it was high time the top hierarchy of the force woke up or government would have no option but to wield the big stick.


He said while government had fulfilled its own part and obligations to the police, members of the force were yet to reciprocate same. Lame listed areas in which the government had been good to the police to include salary increase, as well as increase in capital projects concerning the force.


Before now, a constable in the police received a minimum wage of N7,000. That has since been increased to N21,000. In 2009, the police had about N21bn as its capital budget. The sum was raised to N30bn in 2010.


He said the crime rate and killings were too much and that government could no longer fold its arms and watch its citizens killed as if there were no policemen in the country.


Lame said, “Regrettably, the Nigerian Police Force has not reciprocated government’s gesture by way of commitment to duty and responsibility to this calling.


“The current rate of crimes across the nation, rising cases of extra-judicial killings, human rights violations, armed robbery, high profile assassinations and deliberate failure to comply with government‘s directive are all testimonies to the sheer incapacity or willful defiance of the police high command to this recommendation and assignment at hand.


”The current security situation in the country is condemnable and unacceptable to the government and good citizens of our great nation. I therefore believe that the time has come for the Nigerian Police High Command to review its strategies in order to perform its duties.


”No responsible government would fold its arms and watch helplessly as its citizens are being maimed or cut down in their prime, when there is a police in place.”


Onovo has lately been doing a lot damage control in the South-East. On Thursday, he was in Awka, Anambra State, where he enlisted the support of traditional rulers to solve the growing incidence of kidnapping in the zone.


He also sought the support of his kinsmen in fighting crimes so that he would not be disgraced out of office. On the kidnapped journalists, he said his men had located the hideout of the kidnappers and were closing in on them.


“We are being careful because we want to free the journalists unharmed,” the IGP said, adding that his men might engage in a shootout with the hoodlums as a last resort to free the abducted journalists.


http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201007173171787

Nigeria’s flag carrier, Air Nigeria, on Wednesday in Lagos formally made public its first re-branded aircraft.

Unveiling the airplane on the tarmac of the new domestic terminal, Murtala Mohammed International 2 (MMA2), the management of the carrier told aviation correspondents that the new name will be on all its fleet in due course.

“We told you a week ago that the aircraft will arrive and to the glory of God, we have it here, this is the first aircraft that will be named Air Nigeria and this is to demonstrate how far we are progressing in the turn-around,” said Jimoh Ibrahim, group managing director for the airline.

Congratulating Nigerians on the feat, Mr. Ibrahim promised that the rebranded Nigerian Eagle Airline, formerly known as Virgin Nigeria, that is now Air Nigeria has come to stay, adding that more aeroplanes are going to be added to the airline’s fleet.

“I can assure that on this project, I am committed and I want to congratulate Nigerians for having an airline of their own that they can be proud of. Whether you like it or not, it has come to stay, I have no apology for anyone that doesn’t like it,” he said.

“More aircraft will start coming in from now, we expect the arrival of two aircraft in the livery of Air Nigeria in the next 15 days, thereafter another four will arrive and then we will have a dozen aircraft by the 1st of October; and by then we would have finished with the first phase of the turnaround, we will then move to Human resources.”

Early this month, Air Nigeria at a briefing held at its headquarters in Lagos, disclosed that the new name of its carrier became necessary in order to make the airline fully indigenous, adding that the change was effected sequel to the resolution of the board on May 14, and that the name has been approved by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and has been registered with a certificate number RC501975.

Indebtedness to banks

On the airline’s debt with Guarantee Trust Bank, the NICON group boss disclosed that Air Nigeria has cleared all that it owed the financial institution, and that the case in court has been closed.

“On GTB, I am sure that you know that the issue has been rested, but don’t ask how it was rested, that is the job of the turnaround. That has come to an end, all those unwanted criticism that GTB is a problem will not happen.

“The GTB case is dead and it has been discontinued, for what we did was to pay after having a meeting; we did not restructure the debt, we fully discharged the debt and we are not indebted to Guarantee Trust to one Kobo again,” said Mr. Ibrahim.

The airline’s boss promised that its indebtedness to another bank in the country will be cleared shortly, adding that loans are necessary for a company’s survival.

“We are dealing with two banks, we’ve paid one, the other one will get its pay in the next two weeks, for we are to pay them hundred per cent and they will give us a letter of non-indebtedness and their debt will become zero,” he said “It is not as if you should not take loans, you can take it and then pay back, we will still take more loans but we want to know the capacity of paying back what we have taken.”


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Imagine Nigeria Sport Commission is using a Yahoo email address for email and a registered domain for website. Dem get sense so. The hosting wen dem buy the website domain no give dem free customize email associated to the domain? Upon govt money and fifa money wen dem dey chop, to tell U how greedy and stingy this ppl r to even get a customize email address for such a big organisation. Shame to Nigeria, shame to NFF, shame to NSC, shame to Sani Lulu and super duck. I think we need 20 Yrs suspension sef so make my unborn child for come teach them how to play football. Make una go hide una yanch for toilet. I guess fifa would ban 9ja for 50 yrs cos the letter its self no carry respect. Imagine letterhead with Yahoo email address wen I fit use am impersonate the stupid commission. Shame.

Was early morning, need to go 2 cyber cafe 2 do some project with My Laptop, so I held the lappy like briefcase with cash .
I boarded this bike (never knew the guy borrow the bike just to get money to eat tat morning)
The road was so bad that some part of the road r lil high caused by erosion. On getting to a lil high road, instead of this stupid dude to drive slowly or take another way since the area is lil high, he just accelerate the bike and Lo and Behold
The bike raised it's mouth up like a Horse and I fell like some1 on a horse ride with my lappy getting off my grip into the gutter (thanks there was no dirt water in it).
Wen I landed, I stood up n stretch my back cos my spine was not in order not knowing My leg has been brutally injured by the iron where I placed my leg. It cut tru my leather drivers shoe into my skin to the extent that I saw a white tissue which I believe is bone,
That was wen I started to feel the pain, I blow the guys, slap him, hit him with object, He just stood like a kid saying sorry.
Then I was feeling dizzy cos I ve lost much blood, I just have to take the same bike to hospital where I got myself treated and wen it came to the bill part of it, the guy brought out N500 and pleaded tat it was all he got(when the bill was N5000). I got no choice than to forth my bills mysef. I still board bike till I got my own car.

2. Driving around Teddy road opp. Ojo cantmt. Saw coming trailer and pressed my brake, the next thing I heard was a huge "Gbam" on the back of my car. Came down from the car and saw this stupid aboki guy raining insult on me that I almost killed him wen I was suppose to be raining curse on him wen He saw my brake light (Guess he was speeding). the passenger was carrying n passerby just pleaded on his behalf and moreover nothing happen the bumper. I just let me go.

Guys beware with bike men and owez warn them not to speed as wen they go outta control, it might be deadly and fatal.

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Hi peeps. Am building a shipping company website and am having problems on how to track the info or data from my mysql. How can I view the tracking record I already create in mysql on my website. Which script should I run? I might not be asking the question precisely but for eg. I input my tracking number on fedex, track and it brings out my shipping history. How can I do that? I need help.

Thank God she was caught or else Chinese would sell her heart, kidney, liver and other essential human part for those tat need them. She should thank her God that she was caught or else, chinese ppl go just use her body do quick sales, lol

This is what Happen when there is hot, tight and so many competitors. Imagine the telco industry hw many companys r involve, lets counts:

1. MTN
2. glo
3. Starcomms
4. Etisalat
5. Visafone
6. Multilinks
7. Reltel
8. Celcom
9. Zoom, (saw there billboard wen I visited 9ja last).
10. Zain

I even wonder how they make profit cos the competition is very hot. Imagine some ppl r having 5 handphone hehehe. It is interesting u know? This is the surviver of the fittest.

Dagrin, feel is rap peeps


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85X9MZbOE0A

I always support the idea but what if they regroup and come and attack, am owez scared of that.

U know wat dude, send her number to DJ Mannie de mastro of coolfm on the programme "Kiss n Make UP", ask him to call her and ask her who is her bf, there you would know her bf, if is u or her new suitor.

I guess she is no more interest in the relationship anymore. The butterfly that was flying in her stomach wen the relationship btw u both were new as disappeared, !!!. She is just flirting around and such girls r not to be taken serious. Gather your mind together and come to a conclusion that you are done with the relationship and strange calls from us friendfinder male suitors. Take up ur career and job serious as woman would owez go after u wen u r successful and for the girl she is not worth an engagement ring nor marriage as you would end up being hypertensive.

2 me the 2 r da bomb but facebook got more fans than nairaland while nairaland is 9ja thing but both r information, keep me updated and more so, dont even know wat else to say. Abeg make una help me complete am, lol

And you say make dem no do Yahoo Abi? Na where dem wan see Job wen country hard? How long they have to walk around Lagos until dem shoe don chop finish? Most of them might end up with stroke, poverty, children ending up as prostitute or runs girls just to make end means.

Make dem carry am go synagogue whether T.B Joshua can ill him of his disease.

I just read on Malaysia Newspaper that 9 foreigner where detained under Malaysian Internal Security Act (I.S.A) for terrorism. Just now I heard it on News here in Malaysia that the Nine ppl are Nigerian. Malaysian Home Minister confirmed them to be Nigerian. What is Nigeria turning too.


http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/28/nation/5563782&sec=nation
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/17/nation/20100217170642&sec=nation

They r fond of this stupid act which is very bad. They collected my friend $900 with this intimidation. When I visited 9ja, I was 100% ready to fight with these dogs at the airport when am returning back to my base. Can you imagine peeps, on getting to the airport to queue for boarding, one stupid dude on civilian cloth came up to me and said "Can I know you sir" and I said sure you can. He asked if he can see my passport and I ask him to show me is ID Card to identify himself, the next thing this stupid guy did was to bring out handcuff, imagine in public and me on queue. I told him handcuff is what I can get myself to intimidate him as well that what I need was is ID Card to know who he is, he started making noise. I was almost ready to take up this dude to any level cos they think am a fresh traveler not until my mum pleaded to me to give him my passport which I did and He flipped thru and saw so many visas and then gave it back to me. After that ppl applaud me on how I took up the matter. When I finally got to the Customs, they cask for my passport which I gave them and they also saw all my visa and countries I ve been to. Then they gave me back the passport and opened there mouth to beg for mouth which I gave them N500. They are alot of them at the terminal. They intimidate new traveller cos they know you must be holding hard currencies.

I wanna qoute on Gadafi comment on UN meeting last year Sept 2009. He said:

"I ask my African brothers and sisters why are they travelling so far crossing Libya going to European Countries? They replied "Sir, we are going back to take what our Colonial master took from our land", so am asking all Colonial masters to pay back in Trillion Dollars what they have taken from the African or else, watever they do to get back what the thieves (colonial master) had taken from the Africa way, I think they are doing the Just thing"

I think my answer is answered, and mind U, "Maga is everly a Maga", no matter the Publicity, they are still maga.

At least they should introduce pay-phone on the streets where you can make calls with coins or clean water machine which you can refill your bottle with coins,