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PoliticsRe: Niger Bridge May Collapse Before Christmas. by Echidime(m): 4:42pm On Sep 26, 2008
IGBOS take up ARMS and help the Niger Delta's only then will the Federal Government know say WATER DON PASS GARRI and develop both south south and south east
Foreign AffairsRe: Sa's Mbeki Says He Will Step Down by Echidime(op): 12:42pm On Sep 23, 2008
Is like a dream,sometimes I think that south africa is not in african continent grin grin grin lets see what happens in naija ASO ROCK
Foreign AffairsRe: Sa's Mbeki Says He Will Step Down by Echidime(op): 3:39pm On Sep 20, 2008
I want to ask if any Nigerian head of state can accept to resign, voluntarily without using power to intimidate people,South Africa is where there is real Democracy or democrazyyyyyyyyyyy grin grin
Foreign AffairsSa's Mbeki Says He Will Step Down by Echidime(op): 3:36pm On Sep 20, 2008
SA's Mbeki says he will step down

Mr Mbeki has denied interfering in the case against Jacob Zuma
South African President Thabo Mbeki will accept a call to resign by the governing African National Congress (ANC), his spokesman has said.

Mukoni Ratshitanga said Mr Mbeki would leave his post once "all constitutional requirements have been met".

It comes days after a High Court judge suggested that Mr Mbeki may have interfered in a corruption case against his rival, ANC leader Jacob Zuma.

Mr Zuma was expected to succeed Mr Mbeki in scheduled elections next year.

Mr Mbeki has called for his cabinet to meet on Sunday.

Parliament is expected to meet in the coming days to formalise the resignation, and is likely to appoint the parliamentary speaker as interim leader.

The decision to call for Mr Mbeki's early resignation was taken at a meeting of the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC). [Mr Mbeki] agreed that he is going to participate in the process and the formalities

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe


Rise and fall of Thabo Mbeki

The ANC's Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said the move had followed "a long and difficult discussion".

He said Mr Mbeki, who has ruled for more than a decade, "did not display shock" at the decision and had agreed to participate "in the process and the formalities".

The decision had been taken for "stability and for a peaceful and prosperous South Africa", Mr Mantashe told a news conference.

The ANC secretary general said this was not punishment for Thabo Mbeki, adding that the president would be given the chance to continue his role as mediator in Zimbabwe.

At the same time, ANC cabinet members are being urged to remain in government to ensure continued stability.

Political interference

The BBC's Peter Biles in Pretoria says this dramatic decision will fundamentally change South Africa's political landscape.




Jacob Zuma: Comeback kid

Mr Mbeki fired Jacob Zuma as deputy president in 2005 after his financial adviser was found guilty of soliciting a bribe on his behalf.

But Mr Zuma returned to the political stage to topple his rival as ANC leader in bitterly contested elections last year.

Earlier this month a High Court judge dismissed corruption and other charges against Mr Zuma, saying there was evidence of political interference in the investigation.

In his ruling the judge said it appeared that Mr Mbeki had colluded with prosecutors against Jacob Zuma as part of the "titanic power struggle" within the ANC.

The accusation was strongly denied by Mr Mbeki.

Weakened position

Mr Mbeki, who has devoted his life to the ANC, succeeded Nelson Mandela as the party's president in 1997.

He became leader of South Africa in 1999 and won a second term in 2004.

Perhaps his biggest policy success has been South Africa's rapid economic growth since the end of apartheid and the rise of a black middle class - but to the anger of many, wealth is more unevenly distributed than ever before.

He has failed to convince the trade unions and the poorest South Africans that the government has acted in their interest - providing space for Mr Zuma to mobilise a powerful constituency.

Domestically, his government's handling of the HIV/Aids crisis and failure to stem violent crime in the country has weakened his hand.

PoliticsRe: Is President Yar'adua Dead? by Echidime(m): 1:28pm On Sep 05, 2008
@sly-k : You must be very stupid to say that,someone who knows that he is not fit to run a powerful and complicated nation like Nigeria, why did he accept such offer from OBJhuh now he is away and can't run,he want to bring more confusion to our dear nationhuh?

I don't blame you,is people like you that spoil our nation.Since you have been minding your own businesses what have you achievedhuh Poor soul like you.
PoliticsRe: Is President Yar'adua Dead? by Echidime(m): 10:19am On Sep 05, 2008
Treatment: Yar’Adua’s wife insists on German hospital — Agency

By Semiu Okanlawon, John Alechenu, Waheed Bakare, Adelani Adepegba and Kayode Ketefe


The refusal of the First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar‘Adua, to allow a Saudia Arabian hospital make use of her kidney may have been responsible for the delay in the return of ailing President Umaru Yar‘Adua.



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Wife of President Umaru Yar’Adua



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The indication was given by the online news agency, saharareporters, which reported on Tuesday that rather than subject herself to the use of her kidney in a crucial transplant to save her husband, the First Lady was said to have demanded that she and Yar’Adua be flown to Germany where her husband had hitherto received medical attention.

The development came just as Lagos lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, urged Nigerians to pray for quick recovery of the President.

According to the online news agency, the President was, on arrival in Saudi Arabia, said to have been implored to seek the advice of top nephrologists working in a Jeddah-based Saudi government-owned hospital.

The agency reported, ”After running a battery of tests, the team of doctors concluded that the kidney meant for the replacement was likely to suffer tissue rejection from him.

“They advised that tests be conducted on his close relatives to find alternative donors. His wife and daughter were tested, and his wife proved compatible, according to our sources. She was, however, unwilling to donate an organ in Saudi Arabia. She instead opted for it to be done in Germany. Her condition would mean that Yar’Adua would spend a prolonged period of time in Germany to recuperate.”

This, according to the news agency, informed the intervention of the President‘s brother, identified as Major Audu Yar’Adua, who was allegedly flown to Jeddah to undergo organ compatibility test.

The younger Yar‘Adua was said to have been flown to Saudi Arabia with a Gulfstream G-V aircraft to undergo the test on Monday.

A Consultant Nephrologist at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Dr. Charles Alebiosu, who spoke with one of our correspondents on the phone, said it was possible for a woman to donate a kidney to a man.

Alebiosu, who maintained that kidney had nothing to do with gender, however, stressed the importance of meeting all the necessary medical criteria before the donor‘s kidney could be used for the recipient.

He said, ”Why not? A woman can donate to a man. It has nothing to do with gender. In the first and only kidney transplant done at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, this year, a young lady donated her kidney to her brother.

“Once the donor is above 18 years and all medical criteria in terms of donor selection are fulfilled, there is no problem. The donor must be medically fit and the two kidneys must be working perfectly well. Both the donor and recipient will be well and alive and able to live their normal life after the transplant.”

Meanwhile, the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that Nigerians deserved to know the President’s true medical condition.

It said that correct information about the president‘s health would dispel the rumours about his condition.

The President-General of the organisation, Dr. Dozie Ikedife, who said this while addressing journalists in Enugu, observed that it was normal for human beings to fall ill and be treated.

The Igbo leader discountenanced arguments that Yar‘Adua should resign because he was sick.

He said, ”Life and death is not a thing to be played with and the government and Presidency owe us the fact, so that the speculations will be less. If you don‘t fill the gap with facts, then speculations will run riot. I don‘t know other nations that seem to enjoy half-truths more than perhaps we Nigerians”

Urging Nigerians to pray for the president, Fawehinmi, who is receiving medical treatment in a London hospital for lung cancer, lamented that Yar‘Adua‘s state of health had made it impossible for him to discharge his official functions.

He added that despite the official secrecy about the state of his health, it was obvious that all was not well with him.

Fawehinmi stated, ”For close to two weeks, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Yar‘Adua, has not been governing the country, as it is now clear that he has been receiving medical treatment including surgery in Saudi Arabia for an undisclosed ailment.

”This is contrary to the official announcement that he went on lesser pilgrimage.

”The fact is Alhaji Umaru Yar‘Adua is sick and he is unable to govern the country because of his illness.

”Nevertheless, he deserves the prayers of all Nigerians because he is our president and, therefore, I appeal to all Nigerians of all religious persuasion to pray for his survival and recovery.”
PoliticsRe: Is President Yar'adua Dead? by Echidime(m): 10:07am On Sep 05, 2008
Yar'adua admits to "Kidney Challenge".

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“President” Umaru Yar'adua, who has spent two weeks battling a serious illness, may have made a radical decision about dealing with his perennial health problems, according to our sources.

Just as speculations run riot in Abuja and the local press about Yar’adua’s medical fate, Saharareporters was told by sources in Saudi Arabia that Yar'adua has concluded plans to end his "kidney challenge" by seeking and receiving kidney transplant before returning to Nigeria. But his handlers are insisting that he return to Nigeria first, latest by Saturday, speak to the Nigerian people about his condition, and then take off abroad—most likely to Germany—to seek a more permanent solution to his kidney crisis.

In the last three days, members of Yar’adua’s kitchen cabinet had farmed out misleading leads to several Nigerian newspapers to the effect that the ailing president would return as early as Tuesday and that he would chair this week’s meeting of the federal executive council.

But news that he would not be coming back filtered into Abuja at 12 noon when his plane failed to file an arrival notice to the presidential villa as expected. A source close to him had told Saharareporters that he was arriving midweek to Nigeria for a few days as soon as final tests were concluded to determine the compatibility of persons to donate a kidney to him.

He was expected to make a brief return to Abuja, address the nation, and then leave for Germany to explore the possibility of undergoing kidney transplant.

The plan felt apart, however, when his doctors in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia scheduled further tests to determine whether to attempt renal transplant before he departs for Nigeria. If the decision is made to go ahead with the procedure, then Yar’adua’s stay abroad could be prolonged for another eight weeks, according to a source close to his medical team.

Back in Nigeria, Yar’adua’s ministers put up a show in Abuja by attending the weekly federal executive council meeting, the second since Yar'adua departed Abuja, announcing that he was off to the "lesser hajj" or Ummra in Saudi Arabia. Information Minister John Odey, accompanied by three other ministers, maintained that Yar'adua was still on the lesser hajj in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They also announced the award of contracts of various sums.

Despite the ministerial exhibition, a source in the presidency told Saharareporters that governance has finally come to a virtual stop in Abuja since Yar’adua’s unceremonious exit to the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, two weeks ago.

Among the casualties of Yar’adua’s absence are plans to declare a state of emergency in the power sector, and the planned announcement of a committee on “land reforms” to be headed by Professor Akin Mabogunje. Also in jeopardy are arrangements for the annual pilgrimage to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly.

A source close to “Vice President” Goodluck Jonathan told Saharareporters that Jonathan has been quietly chafing at the fact that he has been kept in the dark, along with the rest of Nigerians. “I can tell you that the president continues to give limited information through his wife to his aides and government officials. Vice President Jonathan has not been getting the kind of frequent briefing about the president’s status that he feels entitled to,” said the source.

Two ministers in the government told Saharareporters that most members of the cabinet were jittery about the repercussions of Yar’adua’s absence and the continued decision to lie to Nigerians that the man is on lesser hajj.

“There is palpable apprehension among some of us that President Yar'adua is showing little regard for governance and for the Nigerian people,” said one of the ministers. The two ministers told Saharareporters that they are all completely in the dark about Yar'adua's whereabouts, even though snippets of information have come in from Saudi Arabia to the effect that the man just had a slight sickness.

They said the danger is that Nigerians no longer believe anything from Yar'adua and his handlers. The ministers said some of them were putting subtle pressure to ask that Yar’adua return to Nigeria first to tell the people what is wrong with him and then depart to engage in corrective medical intervention, including the transplant option.

While Nigerians grew more worried about Yar'adua's absense member of his kitchen cabinet led by James Ibori have shifted their base to Dubai where they maintained a strong hold on Yar'adua telling him not to worry about Nigerians, a source told SaharaReporters that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar may have joined the group. The group will be sending the governor of Kwara State, Bukola Saraki (currently in Europe) to visit Yar'adua and tell him what to do next.
PoliticsRe: Is President Yar'adua Dead? by Echidime(m): 11:18am On Sep 04, 2008
He will make history and will be highly respected if he can willingly resign as President because of his ill health,his vice will take over from him,at least that will save Nigeria from another war of fighting for the next president.

Because if he dies there in office, no one knows what will happen in this country,as I don't see the Hausas accepting Goodluck to replace him, but is yara dua can do it while still alive that will save the country from  the looming Danger ahead.
PoliticsRe: To Hell With Your Oil, North Tells South by Echidime(m): 11:06am On Aug 09, 2008
@Ibime: What is holding you from declearing a full time WAR with the federal Government as the Biafran did? We hold the nation to Standstill for 3 solid good years, we lost the war because people like you supported the Far away Northern people and western people during the war instead of supporting Biafra who are your brothers, I wonder why now you guys are crying and fighting the same Northen and western people that you prefer and love so much during the war.

You just lost Bakasi to Cameroun,another result of your betrayal during the war,Calabar people close the sea port so that foods coming from Cameroun could not reach the Biafran warriors,this was Awolowo's advice and they did it, today their same Land has been tranfered to cameroun,not the Northern Land or Western Land.

When Ojukwu visited Ken-saro wiwa in prison before his execusion,he beg and apologies to Ojukwu for his not supporting him during the war, ken saro wiwa cried like a baby full of regrets,same thing you will do very soon,they VISION BIAFRANS saw 40 years ago is what the N-D are just seeing today.

Anywhere as no Mother can reject her own son,we will still come in and help you out sooner than you guys expected.

The Revenge mission is about to start so be joyful,for your helper is on the way
PoliticsMilitants Destroying S-south, Says Amaechi by Echidime(op): 11:23am On Aug 08, 2008
[size=8pt]Militants destroying S-South, says Amaechi [color=#770077][/color]
Written by Emma Amaize
Friday, 08 August 2008
GOVERNOR Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State says the Niger Delta struggle, as it is presently being prosecuted, is not ideological and the militants are breaking the laws of the country by carrying arms.
Governor Amaechi who delivered the keynote addresss at the two-day South-South Legislative Retreat on Constitution Review, 2008, organised by Vanguard Newspapers suggested that the way forward was for the Federal Government to use force to disarm the militants since they are criminals, after which they would be socially rehabilitated.

Pointing out that he does not care whose ox is gored as long as he has spoken the truth, the governor stated that he had over N100 billion of Rivers State funds resting in the bank which he could not use to provide water, roads, electricity and other amenities for the people because of the activities of militants, who have scared investors and contractors away from the state.

His address: “The first aspect of my speech is what most of us are here gathered for: 'Is this country fair to the Niger Delta people? Have we been fairly treated? As we look at the laws, I have some of the laws that I have indicated, which also, you can find in the programme. I won't dwell much on it because that is why we are here. If you look at the National Inland Waterways Act, it has completely marginalised our people.

The Act even makes it possible for the Federal Government to even control the creeks and I am told, by the military officers in Rivers State, that we have about 3,000 creeks in Rivers State. It means that the 3,000 creeks in Rivers State all belong to the Federal Government. The implication, therefore, is that even if the Rivers man wants to collect sand, he has to go and get licence from the Federal Government.

There is the Territorial Water Act, that one again implies, , before, our people can go up to the ocean to fish, now you cannot, it is again created for the rich, for those who own trawlers from Rivers State, Bayelsa State to go to the high sea, fish and export and our people who used to go that way to fish can no longer fish. We are marginalised in that regard.

"There is another law that is called the Exclusive Economic Zone Act. It is structured in the same way for which you have to get licence to be able to exploit natural resources, including oil. The Petroleum Act, all of us know what it is. In the 1963 Constitution, we used to have 50 per cent derivation, now we are struggling with 13 per cent even though the constitution says not less than 13 per cent. We don’t need constitution amendment to do that.

The constitution simply says not less than, it means you can get up to 70 per cent. Now, that is skewed against us. The Land Use Act is the worse even though I am a beneficiary as a trustee as a governor, but, it should not be so, our people should be allowed to own their land and they sell it as much as they want, land is capital.

The same thing you see in the Oil Minerals Act, the Oil Pipeline Act, and the Oil Terminal Dues Act. In fact, the Oil Terminal Dues Act relocated the people of Finima from where they were to where they are now with disregard to our shrine. Our grandfathers that were buried on that soil and all that, and how much was paid?

It is by virtue of one of these Acts that the Federal Government will pay you N2,000 maximum for coconut tree and you know that if you harvest that coconut tree for one year, you will get more than N50,000 but for the Federal Government to uproot that coconut tree, they will pay you N2, 000 and they have denied you your source of livelihood for the whole year. I will not bore you with all these; all of you know all that, which is why we are here.

“Let me take you to the most important aspect to me. The most important aspect is, we are gathered here, Federal Government is visiting us with injustice. Should we also visit ourselves with injustice? Should we? We are, we do and we are visiting ourselves with injustice. And I can tell you how we are doing that.

“The first thing to say is that in Baghdad, you know what the war is about. Don’t you? It is a religious war between the Shiites and the Sunnis. In Rivers State, in Bayelsa and other parts of the Niger Delta, who is fighting whom, what is the war about?

What is the shooting about? The kidnap cases that are taking place are against whom? When you came into Port Harcourt, you saw it as a graveyard. This is not the old Port Harcourt that we used to have. There are three principal economic centres in Nigeria: Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

We are by ourselves killing our own economic centre. In the comity of nations, we cannot compete as we should because the nerve centre of our economic activities is beginning to disappear. At the same time, Lagos is beginning to become the hub of oil activities in Nigeria because we are on our own asking Lagos to assume the position of being the oil capital of Nigeria and we call it militancy and I call it criminality.

"The way to define criminality is that anybody who breaks the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a criminal. The law says we shall not bear arms and so, anybody who bears arms has committed a crime and so, they are all criminals.

You may have been hearing gunshots, as you entered, who are the people being killed — the Niger Delta people. Julius Berger is moving out. They are leaving behind 4,500 Niger Delta people who work with them.

Those people will be thrown into the unemployment market. Michelin has left. All their staff from the Niger Delta are all unemployed and the economy is grinding to a halt and we are saying that is the struggle….

Militants' struggle not ideological

"The struggle for now, because it does not exist, because a struggle is ideological and there is no ideological bent to the struggle we are seeing.

Those who speak for us are no longer people like Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte (rtd.), Vice President Goodluck Jonathan. It is people like Ateke Tom that are our spokesmen. Does that mean that we have no graduate? Ateke Tom does not know how to speak English. So, if our leaders are Ateke and the rest and they speak on our behalf, imagine the quality of the people that we have produced. That is the indication.

"The first principle is self survival, if Nigeria has rejected me, should I reject myself? I will therefore fight not only for my right but for my existence and I ask, When they say our boys, whose boys? I ask, in whose interest? I have said before that while the oil economy is blowing away to Lagos, we are growing an economy based on criminality.

This economy based on criminality is evolving itself in so many spheres of life. Politicians are benefiting from it because they go to Abuja and say give us appointments and contracts, our boys will stop shooting, have they stopped shooting?

There are those who are forming NGOs, saying they want to organise one peace conference on the Niger Delta, oil movement from the Niger Delta, prayer conference on the Niger Delta. They go round looking for funds for these conferences and empty some of them into their pockets.

That is the economy we are growing. It will not affect those of us who are governors, we are allowed to take our allowances but no matter whom you are and what you do, as a governor, before you are the people. We weep for you, we talk among ourselves.

Ateke Tom, Soboma George, Asari-Dokubo not our leaders

"We ask ourselves one basic question: what are we voted here to do, what is our responsibility? Our responsibility is to ensure that the people who voted to put us here benefit from the resources we get from the Federal Government and ensure that we drive our economy to compete with other parts of the country but they are not allowing us to do that, they are not.

And when we hear people like Ateke Tom speak, the newspapers publish it. 50 per cent of the newspapers in this country belong to the Niger Delta and they present Ateke, Soboma George, Dokubo-Asari as our leaders, our spokesmen, no, the issues are beyond that.

The issue is that our leaders must move from here to Abuja for dialogue while we maintain this economy to be able to employ our people. I give you a typical example: I went to America, there is a company that wants to come to Rivers State to establish a plant and they said guarantee me security, which is what they are asking for.

They won’t come because I cannot guarantee security. Go to our sea ports, they are dead. What makes economic activities to move, they are seaports, airport and infrastructure, they are dying. Okay, how many of you could go out when you came to have party, Port Harcourt used to be a bubbling city but it is dying, if not dead. Our people will very soon begin to eat themselves. We will soon be turn into cannibals.

"But the truth is that when it (militancy) started, nobody thought it will get to this point. It started at traditional rulers trying to struggle among themselves. Politicians wanted to win positions and they started to accumulate weapons, they began to groom these boys as protective measures to put themselves in office.

Today, they are now like the Frankenstein monsters, may be, those politicians are afraid to come home, the new homes are now Abuja and Lagos, even our people are moving to Abuja and Lagos. And those who are moving are not the poor, the poor cannot afford houses in Abuja and Lagos, I hope you know that, it is the rich. Probably, when I finish, I move to Abuja .

"We must demand from our leaders — accountability, they must account not for the funds alone, they must account for what they have turned our children into, they must tell us why the next man’s life is not as important as their own life, they must, when they started it, it was just simple local government area matter, chairman of council that they were struggling for and to publicly say that we have won an election, today, those local governments are not even in their hands anymore, today, they cannot go home, today, governors are demanding for more security in their convoys, today, legislators are demanding for more security from their governors, today, commissioners are demanding for security.

Don’t forget, I was the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, I used to drive myself, it was common knowledge, I used to go to parties, I used to visit people in their houses, now, I am not afraid to visit people in their houses because I come with enough security but my fear is that if I leave your house, you will be kidnapped.

And people now accuse me of not being as accessible as I used to be when I was a Speaker but they don’t know I am saving them because I could come if I want to come no matter how tough it is with enough security to escort me to your house and I will sit and drink, when I go, I go with the same armed men, you are left alone to the mercy of God and if you are not a good Christian, you are not praying well, then too bad.

Force needed to deal with militancy

"That is where I differ; I say my mind, anywhere I go to, worse can happen. And I will tell you the truth, these boys require force. You know why they require force, they are not ideological. If the process today is ideological, count me in.

I will bring out the resources of the Rivers State government to back an ideological struggle because you cannot continue to cheat us, remove our resources away and take it outside there and we are suffering.

"But I cannot back a criminal entity where people sit down and kidnap and do oil bunkering to the detriment of our economy and you say we will negotiate, I am not part of the negotiation. I have said to the world, until we enforce the law, to make it difficult for these criminals to know that they cannot kidnap anybody and get away with it, the kidnapping will continue.

I have said to everybody that want to listen that what we are dealing with is poverty and unemployment, these boys are poor, these boys are poor and unemployed and no matter how much employment you bring today, they are not willing to participate in any employment.

You know why, because kidnapping will bring 500 times the value of the money you will pay them as salary. As governor, I am paid N250,000. Let us assume that you even pay Ateke N250,000 per month, will he come out?

Because if he kidnaps one white man, he will make N10 million. If he kidnaps 10, ten multiplied by ten, he is a multi-millionaire, so the major crisis we have is that we need value re-orientation in the Niger Delta for the people to value one naira. N250,000 is no longer money.

"When I was a Speaker, before I became Governor, I used to see some of them, they tell me these are the people who are into this shooting and when they come, they carry young girls, they wear these jeans with half of their buttocks showing and they come with Jeeps and imagine if N250,000 can buy them Jeeps.

It cannot, we must enforce the law, we must get the police and the security agencies to visit them where they are, after that, we must do value orientation. Sam Amuka, Uncle Sam, must come back home and organise more of these conferences, not for us, but for the boys so that they will know the value of money.

"Then, we the governors, at that point, we have a responsibility. The responsibility we have is social rehabilitation.

We must provide an opportunity for them to be reintegrated into the society and after the reintegration, we must provide opportunity for them to begin to use their hands to employ themselves, we have such opportunities, we have micro-finance credits all over, we have funds to back it, this is the moment that Niger Delta is given more money, more money, when I say more money, not because of Niger-Delta alone but because there more money accruing to the Federal Government and if you ask us, what are we utilizsing it for?

How militants stall S-South progress

"As a governor, I have plans of what I want to do, but, as I am talking to you, I cannot execute those things because I have security threats. I have over a N100 billion resting in the bank, resting.

It is not good economy that it is resting when there is unavailability of infrastructure, I should use that money to provide water for my people, provide roads, provide hospital but nobody wants to build. I give you a quick example, I asked a company to go and build a secondary school for N4.3 billion in Buguma, they refused to go.

There is another community in Rivers State, almost gone, I awarded a contract of over N2 billion to a company to go and reclaim the place but the contractor say to pass Bonny to get to Andoni, he needs to pay some boys in their camps and he has been negotiating with them for the past two months to get to the place in Andoni. But we cannot move anywhere even though contractors have been paid to do the jobs.

Okay, somebody wrote to me that we are owing him and I told the person that we will pay him what we are not owing them, but, we cannot move because the boys are all over there with their guns, not waiting for the Federal Government, not waiting for other people from other parts of the world, but, waiting for us and waiting for our development."
PoliticsRe: To Hell With Your Oil, North Tells South by Echidime(m): 4:13pm On Aug 07, 2008
[/color][color=#006600]Nobody is against you people. But the way you people talk about other group. You will pull them to block the 13% and I would see what your MEND will do. And Just a note. Why is it that there is No EFOSA or NOSA or Akpan or Etim in  MEND, are they not also your people

@Nigeria1: Akpan or Etim are from Akwa ibom and Cross Rivers State respectively,and are NATURALLY BIAFRAN BORN,they can never join South South if the case arises for the country to devide,this is what the N-D don't know.

Instead of ND to beg BIAFRA for assistance,they are claiming BIG HEART,we go see.

Federal Government trying to us the name N-D thinking it will seperate Cross river and Akwa Ibom states from BIAFRA,is the GREATEST JOKE OF the Century,even Rivers State is BIAFRA,we can only Dash Bayelsa and part of Delta state to the so called N-D,because ASABA as a whole in BIAFRA.

The day we want, We will accomplish our mission and stop all these NONSENCE going on in Nigeria
PoliticsRe: Ex Imo Deputy Governors’s Daughter Arranged Own Kidnap by Echidime(m): 8:53am On Aug 06, 2008
Is the girl beautiful? Show her picture lets see, So I can arrange for her real KIDNAP for life,before she comes out of my KIDNAPING she must have bear 7 kids grin grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: No More First Ladies In Nigeria by Echidime(m): 8:46am On Aug 06, 2008
Good decision,they should do their first Ladies in their husband's BEDS at night
PoliticsRe: To Hell With Your Oil, North Tells South by Echidime(m): 8:41am On Aug 06, 2008
Why not split the country once and for allhuh So everyone will stop insulting the other,after all the birds of the Air do not work yet GOD Almighty feeds them,no one will die of Hunger if the country is split
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 2:54pm On Jul 23, 2008
@all: Tell the Government to reopen Ibori's case, why are they keeping us in Darkness? or have they too taken Bribe? This Animal mess up my state, I will personally shot him if I get to meet him anywhere.
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 4:05pm On Jul 22, 2008
@candy: I guess your shocked just like every one else, but go read today british dailies,you will be more shoked
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 3:51pm On Jul 22, 2008
@spikedcylinder : So tell your friends to talk to militant to face Ibori and not the federal Government
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 3:45pm On Jul 22, 2008
My Fellow Africans,
For the non-Deltans, Thief  James Ibori. The Former Governor of Delta - State. (From a Supermarket Cashier in London to a Governor) Turned the treasury of Delta State to his Own. He now Banks for Delta State in his House.  Apparently he has a branch of the Central Bank in his house.
 
Long Live Delta, Long Live Nigeria ,  Long Live Africa


So can someone tell me the reason why the militant should not focus their Anger on Ibori and co? They should stop making our country a Terrorist country or zone, Yes the federal Government is lacking but just see the amount of CASH one Animal  has amased from the state funds and yet they say no development in the area, if you douth this ask any of your friends in London what is happening in london today about Ibori. and the most painful part of it is that the british Government are taking this money as theirs not Nigerias or Delta state money any more.
PoliticsRe: James Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 3:40pm On Jul 22, 2008
and this is the door

PoliticsRe: James Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 3:40pm On Jul 22, 2008
Sorry i have to send it differently

PoliticsJames Ibori's Romance With Delta Money by Echidime(op): 3:39pm On Jul 22, 2008
shocking but true

PoliticsShocking To Beleive But True, Must Read by Echidime(op): 2:53pm On Jul 22, 2008
My Fellow Africans,
For the non-Deltans, Thief James Ibori. The Former Governor of Delta - State. (From a Supermarket Cashier in London to a Governor) Turned the treasury of Delta State to his Own. He now Banks for Delta State in his House. Apparently he has a branch of the Central Bank in his house.

Long Live Delta, Long Live Nigeria , Long Live Africa

TravelRe: Third Mainland Bridge To Be Shut For Two Months by Echidime(m): 2:55pm On Jul 17, 2008
Better to suffer while the Bridge is been repeard than to lose life, so people should stop complaining,if the Government refuse to repear the Bridge you people will condemn them, now wey their heart is full of compassion for the suffering masses why are some people complaining againhuh?
Christianity EtcRe: Ogboni Frat by Echidime(m): 4:18pm On Jun 25, 2008
@babs787: Where did you get all the informations you postedhuh What gain does it give you talking bad or painting an Organisation REDhuh I advice you watch whatever you say with your mouth,any wise man who want to live long should guard his or her mouth knowing  that life and death lies in the mouth.
PoliticsRe: Man Jumps Into Well, Demands N100,000 From Yar’adua by Echidime(m): 3:37pm On Jun 25, 2008
Consequences of POVERTY.
PoliticsRe: Yar’adua Declares War On Militants by Echidime(m): 3:30pm On Jun 25, 2008
IS NO NEWS,all Nigerians Head of state has declear war on the Niger Delta,not just yara dua,OBJ,ABACHA,IBB all did it,go backto history and you will know that is an old news
RomanceRe: Silly Things We Have Done For Love! Confession Time by Echidime(m): 3:26pm On Jun 25, 2008
@NubianQ:Nice confessions you have there, please keep it up,think deeply you will still remember more of them.

As for me, I never TRUST any human being not just women,talkless of doing stupid things for her.

I love my GOD and can't share my Love for my GOD with any changeable human.
RomanceRe: Nigerian Guys Cannot French Kiss! by Echidime(m): 4:11pm On Jun 23, 2008
@amaechijay: Please where are you? if you don't mind send me a mail and have a second round of your former kiss.
Honestysmith@yahoo.co.uk
RomanceRe: Nigerian Guys Cannot French Kiss! by Echidime(m): 4:07pm On Jun 23, 2008
Only men in french countries can give Naija ladies the practical french kiss, so I am available,after i kiss you, you won't need to go to church again to attain paradise. grin grin grin

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