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EreluY:
WHAT DID HE DO TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, UNIVERSITY, HOSPITALS, ROADS, EVEN PRISONS WITHIN THE STATE?

My brother, he did wonders with them . serious wonders. Public schools in Imo state now have better facilities than privates schools anywhere in Nigeria. Quote me on that . I've been living in Imo state since the previous two governors and I tell you this man is just a gift. And I'm from Abia.

Gbawe:
GEJ fans will not kill me with laughter . OP, I nominate you as Nairaland comedian of the year. The fuel subsidy scam alone, the biggest corruption scandal in Nigeria's history, makes a distinct mockery of you and your messiah i.e GEJ. Let us not even start delving into NNPC missing billions and the 18 billion dollars disbursed to fight Boko haram that was looted by GEJ and his cronies. You guys are jokers. Nauseatingly dishonest jokers as well.

http://nigeriapolitico.com/fuelsubsidyscam.html

[size=16pt]Fuel subsidy $6.8 billion scam: Nigeria’s biggest corruption scandal ever[/size]

You must be very daft. Did this subsidy scam happen during GEJ or he is the one that uncovered the huge scam going on all these years? Mugu

Okay okay okay. Nice improvement Waje. But I'm still waiting for your reply to our last convo o!

Flavour unwraps a must watch lovely the music video for his duet with Chidinma titled "Ololufe".

"Ololufe" is housed on Flavour acclaimed fourth studio album "Thankful".

Shot in Cape Town, South Africa and directed by Godfather Productions; watch, share and enjoy

DOWNLOAD THE GOOD QUALITY VIDEO FOR YOUR DEVICE HERE: http://www.naijareplay.com/2015/02/video-flavour-ololufe-ft-chidinma.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhek9R3c6TY

True to speculations that there has been immense pressure on the chairman if INEC Prof Attahiru Mega in recent weeks, the INEC head has finally tendered his resignation letter giving certain reasons for his action. See the letter below.....

pussyeater:
Ol" Boy Use ur brain nah! Haba... BTW RIP English! "they say"

He is 100% correct. Olodo.

itetemi:
please let it be known that jonathan cannot try this otherwise there will be no election in the north or southwest.
if this fake story is to gauge possible responses.pls advise your oga jonny walker not to move from clueless to super clueless.

Guy, are you a robot? Programmed to say the same thing to different people over and over again? Are you brainless?

OLADD:
You're trying tooth and nail to crave a picture of an intellectual but you are brazenly empty. Does Canada have heterogenous configuration of more than 250 ethnic nationalities? Do the Fed govt have to declare public holidays for INEC to execute its timetable that was concieved four years ago? If your brain is not half dead, how credible would an election that has 30% voters turnout in Nigeria with more than 60% of that figure coming from the north be? Why not keep quite instead of displaying gross naivity? I won't stoop so low to either read or reply your incongrous post again. Blockhead!

Chair! See finishing . that guy should go and hide.

Ok

chucktoon:
Point of correction, when Buhari comes in, not if. Get that right and make no mistake on that!

He's gonna sell them off and use the proceeds to build standard well-equipped hospitals all over the country.

Keep living in delusion. He will sell what?

Vibesking:
Buhari and Obasanjo

Chai, which kind old men APC wan unleash on Nigeria so?

UrennaNkoli:
Everyday, Buhari this, Buhari that all coming from PDP and their swine they call supporters. As they say, the road to success is not always easy. He who laughs last laughs best.....at the end, we shall see.
Sai Buhari.

Taaaa! Gbafuo!

You know, I will be the happiest man on earth if exchange rate becomes $1= N1000 naira today. As an online entrepreneur/blogger/marketer, if I don't buy a private jet in the next 1 month then call me a bas.tard.

This man want to undo everything Goodluck has been doing. Make this man no go near power transformation o. As it is, I can't remember the last time I used my generator, even across three locations I spend most of my time. Let Buhari not go and scatter this light that I'm enjoying now. I do buy bags of rice regularly and I can say I was surprised last time I went to market and was told the new price for the same bag of rice I do buy. I was thinking they were doing promo because I saved like 5k. Went to markrt with 13k, but later bought N8,300. Abeg, Jona we need more of that!

In short I don tire. I just dey see big big amounts of money everywhere. I no see am physically

I no just trust these Sahara Reporters.

PM me now for all your types of websites at cheap costs.

The ink of Charles Soludo’s pen apparently has not run dry as the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor has written another long note, one which is directed at the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose reply to Soludo’s first article elicited a response from the former national economic adviser. He said the minister needs help, noting that she’s out of touch with modern economics.

Soludo appreciated those who commented on his first article and agreed that they raised points that open up further debate. He was however not impressed by the response of the People’s Democratic Party’s Director of Publicity for the Presidential campaign, who he said made him laugh as usual.

However, the focus of the new article is on Okonjo-Iweala, who had denigrated the former central bank chief in her response to the first article.

“I was really embarrassed for you to read that one of the reasons for declining forex reserves is ‘oil theft’,” Soludo wrote in the article titled Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Missing Trillions (1). “Under you as Minister of Finance and coordinator of the economy, the basket of our national treasury is leaking profusely from all sides.”

He added: “You are brilliant, Madam, but you need serious help. Having spent all your life in the World Bank bureaucracy largely in administration/operations, no one will blame you if your economics has become a bit rusty.”



I read some of the responses to my article, “Buhari vs Jonathan: Beyond the Election”, and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the debate. I am glad that the debate has finally taken off. I have decided, for the record, to re-enter the debate if only to set some records straight and hopefully elevate the debate further. Whom do I respond to? First, let me thank Gov Kayode Fayemi for his very mature and professional response on behalf of the APC. It forms a great basis for deepening the conversation.

Pat Utomi, Oby Ezekwesili, Iyabo Obasanjo, and thousands of other patriotic Nigerians have raised the content of the debate. Femi Fani-Kayode made me laugh, as usual. The Gov. Jang faction of the Governors’ Forum played the usual politics, although I know what most of them think privately. Who else? Oh, Peter Obi. Well, since he can’t write and designated Valentine as usual to write for him (who never disputed the NBS statistics that Obi broke world record in the pauperization of Anambra people but instead focused on lies and abuses) I won’t dignify him with a response here. His third class performance in Anambra will be the subject of a comprehensive article later.

Here, I will focus on Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s response (as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy—CME and hence on behalf of the Federal Government). Since I have known her, out of deep respect, I have never called her by her name: I call her Madam. I must state that I have great pains seeing myself on the opposite side of the table with Madam, in this way. I respect you, Madam, and will always do. If you read my article of September 2010 (before you became Minister), the tone and elucidation were as strong as the current one. It is my honest effort to ensure that our choice of leaders is based on rigorous scrutiny of what is on offer. Part of my frustration is that five years after, everything I warned about has come to happen and we are conducting our campaigns as if we are not in crisis. As a concerned Nigerian, I have a duty to speak out again. Regrettably, you have taken it very personal.

I am not bothered about the personal abuses: I actually expected worse. What name has the government not called President Obasanjo or any person who has dared to disagree with it of late? Anyone who disagrees with the government must either be ‘insane’ or have a ‘character’ deficiency or must be ‘looking for a job’ or ‘without honour’, or a ‘charlatan’. Yesterday, Sanusi alleged that $20 billion was missing and he was accused of gross financial mismanagement, recklessness and poor governance to the point of being the first governor of central bank to be suspended from office. Today, he is the good one; and for daring to award an “F” grade for our economic performance, Soludo has become the ‘worst’ and ‘without character’ or perhaps ‘looking for position’ (Lol!). Some days ago, a former president was called ‘a motor park tout’ and ‘un-statesmanly’ just for disagreeing. This “how dare you criticise us” mind-set of the government is dangerous for our democracy.

In this Part One of my planned three part series, I will restrict it to the main issues you raised. I will not bother about the malicious attacks on my person. For me, it is nothing personal. In early 2011, I had a similar heated exchange with then Finance Minister Segun Aganga. But when the Nigerian economy was at stake and he invited me to a stakeholders meeting in his office (as Minister of Trade and Investment) to discuss Nigeria’s response to the ruinous EU- Economic Partnership for Africa (EPA), I flew into Nigeria for that (at my expense)— the first and only time I have been to any government office to discuss policy since I left office. It is about Nigeria. I will, as expected, remind people like you of the salient aspects of my record of public service in response to your charge; challenge your claim to debt relief, and your reason for not saving; highlight your forgery of economic statistics and the lies in your response; but most importantly re-focus our attention to the historic mismanagement of our economy which you carefully avoided. I will show that while you are introducing austerity measures and soon to immiserate the citizens, our public finance is haemorrhaging to the point that estimated over N30 trillion is missing or stolen or unaccounted for, or simply mismanaged— under your watch! We can’t go on like this, and I am convinced that an alternative future is possible. Can we have a public debate on this alternative future? The issues at stake are too grave to be trivialized through name calling. As I write, the naira exchange rate to the dollar is at N215 (from N158 a few months ago) and unless oil price recovers, this is just the beginning.
For the sake of Nigeria, I won’t keep quiet anymore!

Let me start with Madam’s rather comical, wild judgment on my tenure of office which I believe to be totally false and baseless. I apologise upfront that in the process of making a ‘personal defence’, it is difficult to avoid a rather uncomfortable emphasis on “I”. I did not want that but since Madam has dragged us this low, I have little choice but to do so in the next few paragraphs—just to keep the record straight!

In my view, there are three criteria for evaluating a public officer’s stewardship: the evaluation by his employer; the satisfaction of the public he served; and the hard facts of performance. As I will show on these three counts, I am convinced that I left a world record of public service, and a thousand Okonjo-Iwealas cannot re-write that history. I served Nigeria under two presidents (Obasanjo and Yar’Adua) and as my immediate bosses, below are their written testimonials of my record.
Said President Obasanjo (December 2004):



Read the complete article here: http://www.trendtopix.com/okonjo-iweala-is-out-of-touchshe-needs-help-charles-soludo/

jennyomalicha12:
Thanks dear

Wow! Sweet! Goodness me!!!!!!

Aareeasy:
Learn to see things objectively

Teach me, dear teacher. |I'm a blogger since '08 and trust me I know the antecedents of virtually every media establishment in Nigeria. I'm not supporting or opposing anybody here, but trust me, there has never been anytime in the last 7 years that Sahara reporters have had any positive report to make about Nigeria.

Go figure

Is it only me or who else suspect that these Sahara Reporters have ulterior motives?

StunnazJay:
You read my mind, his name was the first name I looked for. It appears the list is somewhat 'genuine' because some of the governors quoted carried out a lot of transformation in their states.

I can swear for the governors of Akwa-Ibom and Rivers state respectively.

Sincerely speaking. Abia governor is the worst thing to happen to government at all levels in Nigeria

The Nigerian Army has effected the arrest of the Commander of its Multi-national Task Force, Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti for abandoning his duty post, military sources told trendtopix.com.

Enitan is son of late human rights and pro-democracy activist, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, and nephew to late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Also under arrest is the Commander’s Chief of Staff, a Lieutenant Colonel whose identity could not be readily ascertained.

Both officers are reportedly being held in the headquarters of 7th Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri.

General Ransome-Kuti, who was among several top army officers posted in December, 2013, was reportedly partying weeks ago when Boko Haram terrorists overran Baga.

Baga is headquarters of the Multinational Task Force, and is in Kukawa local government area, about 200 kilometres from Maiduguri, capital of Borno State.

We gathered that General Ransome-Kuti and his Chief of Staff are likely to be court-marshalled.

“Abandoning military hardware to enemies is a very serious offence. In the military, it is better to stay and be killed. If found guilty the punishment ranges from 20 years imprisonment to death penalty,” the source offered.

Source: http://www.trendtopix.com/army-arrests-felas-nephew-general-kuti-for-abandoning-duty-post/

Dbanj is not broke. He is selling garri.

At my backyard in Aba. our own train over here is very real. 2 times in a day it vibrates the ground.

I never marry o

He didn't say he will select. He said he will support only a younger person. Naija youth na opportunity be this o. Not to be casting aspersions, why not work to become that next person?

He cleverly talks of Gen. Buhari's dictatorial tendencies, other ills including the 'stomach infrastructures' etc.

Listen to 'Erectionn (Election)' by Tha Suspect. Dude is one cray artiste.

http://www.naijareplay.com/2015/01/tha-suspect-erectionelection-ft-fela-anikulapo-kuti.html

But as you don use style advertise your singleness to NL girls, hope say you go pay sha.

Nice move. Up Jona!

peteruuu:
Hello my fellow nairalanders,please help me win!My brother n I made a bet just now.He said if i can meet up with him on the number of LIKES he's having on this forum,he would dash me his BB Z10 phone!!! Lol..as i no wan miss it..he's giving me a maximum of just a month!!! HE'S HAVING ABOUT 832 total likes,while i'm just having about 85 total likes. Please help me LIKE this comment.Thanks

lol! na so you wan take win? Nobody go like this comment. Make reasonable comments and see the likes flowing in. Got it?

Tu baba, the real African man