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edicolove: This teenager or sycophant who has chosen this GenBuhari user name really thinks we are all teenagers here on NL. In 1983, Nigeria was not in any economic mess. Nigeria was doing very very very very fine. There was nothing that Buhari was supposed to salvage. It was 1 naira to 1 dollar. A ticket to London was N500. A brand new Volkswagen beatle car was N4000. You think we are teenagers here abi?

At that time, i was enjoying free education in school in Bendel state. We were given free books. All the schools were doing fine. Nepa was given us at least 20 hrs of light daily. The only issues where that salaries were delayed sometimes. Back then, we had a timetable for food at home. Eba was considered a poor mans food. There was no wide spread corruption in Nigeria back then. Corruption was mainly with high ranking politicians then. And most of the corrupt high ranking politicians were northerners because they completely dominated the country. Umaro Dikko was the chief of them. My father used to return the balance of money given to him by the government for projects. He didnt even see why he should take it. The governor of Bendel state then was Prof Ambrose Alli. He established the then Bendel state university, now Ambrose Alli University. He was a very honest man and till date, he has not been found to be corrupt in any way. But when the id1ot Buhari took over, this guy was arrested and thrown in prison just like that. After a long time in prison, he fell seriously ill. The government didnt release him until it was really bad. He later died after being released. This man was one of the foremost brain surgeons in Nigeria. A real gem. He left everything he had achieved in the USA to come and serve his country but was cut short by a stup1d sharia infested Buhari.

Buhari was a weak leader who hid behind General Tunde Idaigbon. Buhari had no serious following in the army. That was why as soon as Idiagbon went on Hajj, he was kicked out so easily. The coup detat that ousted him was the easiest in Nigerian history. There was no resistance. The rank and file did not even stand up for him.

When Buhari took over, he showed his northern Islamic agenda when he put Shagari under house arrest and Ekueme in kirikiri prison. He was a true bigot. The worst kind. The same thing he showed in the last 2011 election when he disdainly and disrespectfully refused to campaign in the south east, south south and south west. He only visited Lagos and rode with some okada riders. He arrogantly expected to win the election without reaching to the south of Nigeria. That is the born to rule mentality of the hausa-fulani of Nigeria.

He was the first to support and defend Yerima of Zamfara when Yerima started his campaign of sharia across northern Nigeria. The same campaign boko aram is now running. coincidence? He came out to tell muslims not to vote for non muslims. A true bigot he is. Of course we all remember the dogs and baboons plan for 2015.

Buhari was PTF chairman during the Abacha regime. He was given hundreds of billions to spend. Till today, There is no tangible project from the north to the south that you can point to, where he spent the huge sums of money, yet his sycophants here will tell us he is not corrupt. I am from the Niger Delta and have consistently challenged these sycophants to show me one tangible project in the Niger Delta where PTF spent even 1 billion naira out of the hundreds of billions and no one can show me. When I insist, they go into an outburst and start ranting or insulting me. At the end of the day, they have no evidence of his so called performance. He finally put the icing on the cake when he declared to the whole world that Abacha was not a corrupt man. I cannot even begin to elaborate the corruption of Abacha. Even the inglorious 10 million man march were he squandered money is still fresh in our memory.

Buhari is a typical northern hausa-fulani bigot. They believe that they are born to rule. That is why he cannot even raise prodigies till date to carry on his so called legacy. He wants to rule himself even when he so close to his grave. His mindset is to rule and distribute food to his talakawas. His almajiri army. Thats how the northern leaders think. They will never empower their people. The will never educate them. Ask yourself this sincere question, Buhari was PTF chairman with enormous resources. Did Buhari build a school? Did he build any industry? Did he build any world class hospital? Did he build traning centers? What actually did he do with the PTF money? Do you know how much he could have transformed the almajiris with such enormous resources if he wanted to? The northern farmers have been sponsored thru the years by ADB loans. 80% of ADB loans are channeled to the north. What was Buhari's own contribution to agriculture? Bill gates spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting polio in the north. What did Buhari in PTF do? Only teenagers will come here on NL to post crap and think we are gullible fools.

I know they have started the Buhari 2015 campaign, but it will fail again. Why? Because of the same reason murtala mohammed failed. Buhari, just like nurtala are Islamic fundamentalists. Their primary goal is to Islamize Nigeria. Nothing more. And Nigeria is way bigger than that now. This is 2012 and the next 3 years is going to be make or mar years for this nation. Mark the spot!

This teenager or sycophant who has chosen this GenBuhari user name really thinks we are all teenagers here on NL. In 1983, Nigeria was not in any economic mess. Nigeria was doing very very very very fine. There was nothing that Buhari was supposed to salvage. It was 1 naira to 1 dollar. A ticket to London was N500. A brand new Volkswagen beatle car was N4000. You think we are teenagers here abi?

At that time, i was enjoying free education in school in Bendel state. We were given free books. All the schools were doing fine. Nepa was given us at least 20 hrs of light daily. The only issues where that salaries were delayed sometimes. Back then, we had a timetable for food at home. Eba was considered a poor mans food. There was no wide spread corruption in Nigeria back then. Corruption was mainly with high ranking politicians then. And most of the corrupt high ranking politicians were northerners because they completely dominated the country. Umaro Dikko was the chief of them. My father used to return the balance of money given to him by the government for projects. He didnt even see why he should take it. The governor of Bendel state then was Prof Ambrose Alli. He established the then Bendel state university, now Ambrose Alli University. He was a very honest man and till date, he has not been found to be corrupt in any way. But when the id1ot Buhari took over, this guy was arrested and thrown in prison just like that. After a long time in prison, he fell seriously ill. The government didnt release him until it was really bad. He later died after being released. This man was one of the foremost brain surgeons in Nigeria. A real gem. He left everything he had achieved in the USA to come and serve his country but was cut short by a stup1d sharia infested Buhari.

Buhari was a weak leader who hid behind General Tunde Idaigbon. Buhari had no serious following in the army. That was why as soon as Idiagbon went on Hajj, he was kicked out so easily. The coup detat that ousted him was the easiest in Nigerian history. There was no resistance. The rank and file did not even stand up for him.

When Buhari took over, he showed his northern Islamic agenda when he put Shagari under house arrest and Ekueme in kirikiri prison. He was a true bigot. The worst kind. The same thing he showed in the last 2011 election when he disdainly and disrespectfully refused to campaign in the south east, south south and south west. He only visited Lagos and rode with some okada riders. He arrogantly expected to win the election without reaching to the south of Nigeria. That is the born to rule mentality of the hausa-fulani of Nigeria.

He was the first to support and defend Yerima of Zamfara when Yerima started his campaign of sharia across northern Nigeria. The same campaign boko aram is now running. coincidence? He came out to tell muslims not to vote for non muslims. A true bigot he is. Of course we all remember the dogs and baboons plan for 2015.

Buhari was PTF chairman during the Abacha regime. He was given hundreds of billions to spend. Till today, There is no tangible project from the north to the south that you can point to, where he spent the huge sums of money, yet his sycophants here will tell us he is not corrupt. I am from the Niger Delta and have consistently challenged these sycophants to show me one tangible project in the Niger Delta where PTF spent even 1 billion naira out of the hundreds of billions and no one can show me. When I insist, they go into an outburst and start ranting or insulting me. At the end of the day, they have no evidence of his so called performance. He finally put the icing on the cake when he declared to the whole world that Abacha was not a corrupt man. I cannot even begin to elaborate the corruption of Abacha. Even the inglorious 10 million man march were he squandered money is still fresh in our memory.

Buhari is a typical northern hausa-fulani bigot. They believe that they are born to rule. That is why he cannot even raise prodigies till date to carry on his so called legacy. He wants to rule himself even when he so close to his grave. His mindset is to rule and distribute food to his talakawas. His almajiri army. Thats how the northern leaders think. They will never empower their people. The will never educate them. Ask yourself this sincere question, Buhari was PTF chairman with enormous resources. Did Buhari build a school? Did he build any industry? Did he build any world class hospital? Did he build traning centers? What actually did he do with the PTF money? Do you know how much he could have transformed the almajiris with such enormous resources if he wanted to? The northern farmers have been sponsored thru the years by ADB loans. 80% of ADB loans are channeled to the north. What was Buhari's own contribution to agriculture? Bill gates spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting polio in the north. What did Buhari in PTF do? Only teenagers will come here on NL to post crap and think we are gullible fools.

I know they have started the Buhari 2015 campaign, but it will fail again. Why? Because of the same reason murtala mohammed failed. Buhari, just like nurtala are Islamic fundamentalists. Their primary goal is to Islamize Nigeria. Nothing more. And Nigeria is way bigger than that now. This is 2012 and the next 3 years is going to be make or mar years for this nation. Mark the spot!

What annoys me about black Africa is that they are trying to liberate themselves through "reverse propaganda" instead of through their achievements. You have to earn your respect, not have it handed over to you on a platter. We cant even produce yam pounding machine (for our own food) or tooth pick and we are crying about racism. If i were oyibos, i might only use you guys as house boys until you start using your heads!

Alhaji Pastor :
both Farouk and Otedola should be charged to court, the giver of the bribe and the taker are both offenders. lets stop blaming me Farouk alone because he's from the north, you southerners should stop being sentimental. yoruba and hausa are the one destroying Nigeria.

Did you really type this bull poo? You mean you spent your expensive bandwidth to type this?

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This teenager or sycophant who has chosen this GenBuhari user name really thinks we are all teenagers here on NL. In 1983, Nigeria was not in any economic mess. Nigeria was doing very very very very fine. There was nothing that Buhari was supposed to salvage. It was 1 naira to 1 dollar. A ticket to London was N500. A brand new Volkswagen beatle car was N4000. You think we are teenagers here abi?

At that time, i was enjoying free education in school in Bendel state. We were given free books. All the schools were doing fine. Nepa was given us at least 20 hrs of light daily. The only issues where that salaries were delayed sometimes. Back then, we had a timetable for food at home. Eba was considered a poor mans food. There was no wide spread corruption in Nigeria back then. Corruption was mainly with high ranking politicians then. And most of the corrupt high ranking politicians were northerners because they completely dominated the country. Umaro Dikko was the chief of them. My father used to return the balance of money given to him by the government for projects. He didnt even see why he should take it. The governor of Bendel state then was Prof Ambrose Alli. He established the then Bendel state university, now Ambrose Alli University. He was a very honest man and till date, he has not been found to be corrupt in any way. But when the id1ot Buhari took over, this guy was arrested and thrown in prison just like that. After a long time in prison, he fell seriously ill. The government didnt release him until it was really bad. He later died after being released. This man was one of the foremost brain surgeons in Nigeria. A real gem. He left everything he had achieved in the USA to come and serve his country but was cut short by a stup1d sharia infested Buhari.

Buhari was a weak leader who hid behind General Tunde Idaigbon. Buhari had no serious following in the army. That was why as soon as Idiagbon went on Hajj, he was kicked out so easily. The coup detat that ousted him was the easiest in Nigerian history. There was no resistance. The rank and file did not even stand up for him.

When Buhari took over, he showed his northern Islamic agenda when he put Shagari under house arrest and Ekueme in kirikiri prison. He was a true bigot. The worst kind. The same thing he showed in the last 2011 election when he disdainly and disrespectfully refused to campaign in the south east, south south and south west. He only visited Lagos and rode with some okada riders. He arrogantly expected to win the election without reaching to the south of Nigeria. That is the born to rule mentality of the hausa-fulani of Nigeria.

He was the first to support and defend Yerima of Zamfara when Yerima started his campaign of sharia across northern Nigeria. The same campaign boko aram is now running. coincidence? He came out to tell muslims not to vote for non muslims. A true bigot he is. Of course we all remember the dogs and baboons plan for 2015.

Buhari was PTF chairman during the Abacha regime. He was given hundreds of billions to spend. Till today, There is no tangible project from the north to the south that you can point to, where he spent the huge sums of money, yet his sycophants here will tell us he is not corrupt. I am from the Niger Delta and have consistently challenged these sycophants to show me one tangible project in the Niger Delta where PTF spent even 1 billion naira out of the hundreds of billions and no one can show me. When I insist, they go into an outburst and start ranting or insulting me. At the end of the day, they have no evidence of his so called performance. He finally put the icing on the cake when he declared to the whole world that Abacha was not a corrupt man. I cannot even begin to elaborate the corruption of Abacha. Even the inglorious 10 million man march were he squandered money is still fresh in our memory.

Buhari is a typical northern hausa-fulani bigot. They believe that they are born to rule. That is why he cannot even raise prodigies till date to carry on his so called legacy. He wants to rule himself even when he so close to his grave. His mindset is to rule and distribute food to his talakawas. His almajiri army. Thats how the northern leaders think. They will never empower their people. The will never educate them. Ask yourself this sincere question, Buhari was PTF chairman with enormous resources. Did Buhari build a school? Did he build any industry? Did he build any world class hospital? Did he build traning centers? What actually did he do with the PTF money? Do you know how much he could have transformed the almajiris with such enormous resources if he wanted to? The northern farmers have been sponsored thru the years by ADB loans. 80% of ADB loans are channeled to the north. What was Buhari's own contribution to agriculture? Bill gates spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting polio in the north. What did Buhari in PTF do? Only teenagers will come here on NL to post crap and think we are gullible fools.

I know they have started the Buhari 2015 campaign, but it will fail again. Why? Because of the same reason murtala mohammed failed. Buhari, just like nurtala are Islamic fundamentalists. Their primary goal is to Islamize Nigeria. Nothing more. And Nigeria is way bigger than that now. This is 2012 and the next 3 years is going to be make or mar years for this nation. Mark the spot!

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Drugs/Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Mr. Adams Jagaba, on Thursday threatened to sue Mr. Farouk Lawan for “blackmail” over the raging $620,000 bribery allegation.

The lawmaker from Kaduna State addressed journalists shortly after the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges quizzed him over the bribery allegation.

He said, “I cannot and shall never be involved in an individualistic act that runs antithetical to national interest.

“Lawan should stop this blackmail forthwith or else, I will have no option but to take the appropriate legal action against him and to seek compensation befitting my status.

“Enough is enough.”

Lawan had admitted receiving the bribe money from oil businessman, Mr. Femi Otedola.

He claimed that he planned to expose Otedola, who wanted his firm, Zenon Oil and Gas Limited, de-listed from the list of firms indicted by the fuel subsidy probe report.

Lawan chaired the Ad hoc Committee on Monitoring of the Subsidy Regime, which investigated the fuel subsidy scheme in April.

According to Lawan, after receiving the money, he reported the issue to Jagaba in writing and attached $500,000 to the letter he handed over to him.

However, Jagaba has consistently denied receiving any letter or money from Lawan.

He said because Lawan had been “rattled” and “confused” by the scandal, he wrote a letter at 3.47am but “forgot to deliver the letter to the intended recipient (Jagaba)”.

Jagaba said Lawan “chose to give it to a newspaper reporter and the Police Special Task Force” instead.

On Thursday, he stated that the first time he saw the letter was in a publication by the Leadership of June 14.

Jagaba confirmed that he was a guest of the police for two hours on the said date and gave his “own side of the story on the bribery scandal investigation”.

He also said on July 11 the STF arranged a meeting between him and Lawan between 3pm and 4pm.

He said, “In his opening remarks, (Lawan) stated that he reported the matter to me because of my position as the Chairman, House Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes and not because I was involved in the bribery saga.

“He also told the police that he involved me in the matter because he thinks that that would enhance his case in court.

“We faced each other before the STF. I then put the question: ‘Hon. Farouk, did you give me $500,000 or any money for that matter?’

“This was a question the outspoken Farouk could not answer. He kept mum till I left.”

Jagaba, who praised the STF for treating him “professionally”, also confirmed that he appeared before the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges on Thursday.

As already reported exclusively by The PUNCH, the panel, which is headed by Mr. Gambo Lawan, quizzed Jagaba on the matter.

He admitted telling the panel that “I have no knowledge of such transactions and I am not in custody of any money or any other exhibit given to me by Farouk or any other person.”

Source

http://www.punchng.com/news/jagaba-threatens-to-sue-lawan-for-blackmail/

Oshiomole is the cause of his own problems. It is easy for him to blame PDP. But he caused his own fights. All his key people in his cabinet and his campaign train are former PDP people who worked with Lucky Igbinedion. He practically pushed out all those who fought the battle with for him to become governor. In his quest to consolidate power, he has compromised his following. The only reason he will win this election is because the PDP candidate is not a good one. If PDP had presented someone like Osunbor, Oshiomole would have lost. Imagine asking workers to pay as much as 30% tax from their salaries. Oshiomole is just a dictator like other ACN candidates. But he will win the re-election because there is no strong candidate to challenge him.

Kobojunkie: a) This has absolutely nothing to do with Federal Character. I have spoken against Federal Character myself, but I don't think that constitutes as much of a problem as Corruption does in Nigeria that I know of.

b) This issue is not to be compared with the appointment of qualified personnel on merit and on basis of where they come from. This particular issue here has to do with appointing an unqualified woman, who has been essentially a house wife for the past 12 years, to a position meant for senior officials, who have maintained an active record both in the state and their communities in all that time.

c) Militancy is still not cool in the Creeks. On Tuesday, I listened to Mr. Anslem John-Miller tell congress that the Militants do not represent the people of the land.



That the federal Government chose to treat violent criminals with kids gloves, does not then mean that the people sanction these moves. We didn't get to vote on whether we wanted this amnesty to thieves or not. No, we never have a say in that, and I am certain now, more than ever, that those in Ogoni land would vote against it even today.

d) please try not to make this a south vs north issues. It is not that. And I can see from your various posts that you seem to have a thing against the North.

You are sure right on one thing. I have a BIG THING against the north because they put us where we are today. If you dont want to hear the truth, thats your choice. And it is still ongoing. Anslem John-Miller was speaking for himself. He wasnt speaking for Niger Delta. In the Niger delta, militants are seen as representatives of the people. They are not seen as criminals. They do not attack the innocent population. They can fight amongst themselves but they do not fight their host communities. I will trust a militant more than a politician anyday. Their goals and demands are very clear. They do not hide in the dark like BH. How many northerners in government are qualified for the jobs they occupy? Sanusi is not even qualified to the CBN governor job. So yes, it is about what is good for the goose is good for the gander. I will repeat what I said before, if you must criticize anything, you must criticize it across board, else you will be a wrong.

Kobojunkie: The highlighted is not the problem. The problem is this is wrong. It is wrong because the woman in question is not just under qualified but unqualified, like the many before her that have been appointed in similar manner. Whether the north has been doing it or has not is besides the point here. These appointments are wrong whether in 1980 or 2012 and should condemned.

You miss my point, I am looking at the bigger picture. I think the bigger picture is to address the Federal character mentality. I have always said Nigeria's problem is not corruption but the federal structure. After years of military rule, certain mindsets has been instilled into the average Nigerian. One of those mindset is that you have to give preference to your own no matter what. Now the problem with that is that we allow this freely in the North but attack it in the south. If we want to eradicate it completely, we have to eradicate it across board. I will give you a fact to corroborate what am saying.

Do you know what excalated the militancy in the creeks? Back in the 90s, militancy was not that cool. They were more like cults operating around port harcourt and going to the creeks to do Bunkering from time to time. The Dey Bam, Highlanders, etc. But something interesting happened. After the Saro wiwa crisis, Abacha decided to do a PR stunt. He invited many of these youths to Abuja to show that government was interested in helping the people of Niger Delta. When they got there, they were amazed at what they saw. They saw what oil money was doing in Abuja. Instead of feeling happy at the president's gesture, they became really really angry and when they returned back, they vowed they were going to fight to the end for resource control. From then on, it didnt matter whether any body was embezzling money as far as he is from Niger Delta, they will say, its our own. That is the beginning of sophisticated militancy as you know it today. If we must talk justice, then we must also talk equity. I will continue to take side with justice and fairness as long as it applies to all. Telling us we cant do what we see others doing is just wrong. I have never seen south west critics come on the street to protest against BH. Never! I have never seen them come out to protest against the north's unfair federal character leverage. I dare say that if GEJ was a northener. He wont get a tenth of the criticism he is getting from you guys. When Turai held the country to ransom, she didnt get this much attack. It is a case of many of you, south west peeps especially, being afraid of the north. That is my position.

VolvoS60: Aah. . . edicolove. . . still speaking from both sides of your mouth, sir?

Intelligent people have been putting reasons forward and we are all learning. But f00ls like you just blab because it is so easy to make comments on a public forum, hiding behind anonymity. People like you cant even address a gathering of five people. lol

texazzpete: Appointing someone who is not anywhere remotely qualified is what makes this a WRONG move. Even the Governor's aide admits that she was not nearly on the level in the civil service to qualify for this post. Someone who has been on 'leave' from the civil service since 1999 on a low grade is being made a permanent secretary and you're asking m0r0nic questions?

Like I said above, i dont support the move and I have my reasons. I partially agree with you. I say partially because according to the books, you have a strong point, but the problem is this kind of appointments have been going on in the north since independence. It is even worse there because unqualified people are appointed to specialised jobs and positions. A fresh graduate was appointed recently to head a department in a government tertiary institution in a northern state. This is not right and I am in now way suggesting we should do the same down south. But my belief is that we should stop this across board. It is a political problem which you cannot just sweep aside. I think we all have gotten infected with it. It prevails in every sector now. Even in the private sector now, people are not appointed on merit but on Nepotism. That is why I agree with you partially.

sharp man: Ode!!!

I don't have time to waste on computer programs........they DO NOT think. Apparently you are also one of them.....can u tell me your number?

My number is 666. There, are you happy now? Did that give you 0rgasm? Now back to topic. Why is the move wrong? Am giving you the benefit of a doubt that you can respond intelligently and that you aint just an investor in "Critisize GEJ Nig Ltd"

sharp man: Clearly...........you are one of the 40 laptops in Abuja........wetin be your number? Laptop 21?

This is not an intelligent way to discuss in a forum. This your cooked up forty laptop story is too lame. Get a more intelligent line. You lot will support Tinubu appointing his family members but say its wrong when Dame patience in appointed. Why the double standards then? Please give me a serious argument, not your lame conspiracy theory

I don't support the move and I have my reasons but I have been reading many posts here and don't see anyone advancing any good reason why the move is bad. All I see are reactions coming from people's perception of Dame and of course, many conspiracy theories. Can someone really tell us why the move is wrong. Abdusalami's wife was a chief judge and didn't resign when her husband became president. There is nothing unconstitutional about the move. Secondly, saying the move is to chop more money is funny. She can definitely chop more money as a first lady than a perm sec. Also saying she can't speak english is also funny. 80% of government officials in north east and north west can't speak as good as Dame. So please give us a good reason why the move is wrong. Not some flimsy one. Thank you

bakila: @beaf and ediclove those who know the Petroluem industry bill know it and what it portends. The lie about increasing earnings seven fold is so obvious, coming from you sha is normal. We go pless owur hand for umblera, no worry.

What have you actually said? My problem with some of you is that you have become so blinded by hate that you cant even have a good discuss. You have to paint everything negative to stay alive! It aint cool at all i must say.

Beaf: Send more money to the states that do nothing? I don't support that in the least.
Each state should be an economically viable and autonomous entity that should be funding the FG. It is an abberation for the FG to fund states, in fact, Nigeria is the only country in the World I know that has parasitic states.

In the rest of the World, it is the states that generate jobs and development. For example, the US govt did not create Silicon Valley, home of Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc; the state of Carlifornia created the enabling environment. The US govt did not create Holywood, Miamey Beach, Las Vegas etc; private enterprise coupled with local/state govts did.

Every Nigerian should fight tooth and nail to end the awuf culture, because it is the reason we remain backward. Free money for zero work creates an unhealthy environment.

The problem with what you are saying is that it is the exact opposite of the north's mindset. The north actually believe that the government should take care of them and even share monies to them monthly. That is the mentality they bring back when they travel to the middle east. It is a social-cultural psyche. That is what they practice. If you ask anyone who served in the north, they will tell you that. Their governors and LG chairmen live in Abuja and only come home at the end of the month to share allocation. There is absolutely no work done and no one cares. As much as there is corruption in the south, you still find the governors doing some projects and building some infrastructure. Even Uduaghan whom we all agree is very poor has built an airport and many other infrastructure. Ibori as corrupt as he is, transformed Oghara into a fully developed town. But the northern governors do nada. Like a friend of mine, a political scientist, said, the reason Nigeria will find it hard to work is because the business of the north is government. Government is their only business.

Joe Batters: I hope this bill does not contain excess loopholes, clauses and potholes, because anything that has to do with oil, those overfed CABAL members will get their over paid lawyers(SAN) to doctor a hollow bill n send it to NASS.
God help Nigeria, a country full of smokes n mirrors.

There is hardly any bill in the world where you dont have loopholes. American laws are full of em

PhysicsQED: What's the source of this article, where are the references/justifications for every single statement in it, what's the name of the author and what are his or her affiliations?

PhysicsQED: There are numerous errors in this article. If this was meant to be "educational" it's a woeful failure, because it also involves some heavy misinformation.

Mind you, I have no particular reason to defend Islam or Arabs, but the attempt of this article to distort certain things is annoying.

What are the errors in the article? Or you dont want to hear truth. You have wikipedia and google. Use it man. Dont be lazy.

onoja12: infact on behalf of all black people,i demand an apology to all blacks plus an immediate withdrawal of that write up or else

You are a real id1ot, I should apologise on behalf of the arab slave masters or what? Instead of you to open your carrot brain and learn. adammu! lol

onoja12: `if I understand you,you are trying to justify what the whites did to the blacks by saying after all Arabs did worse for longer time.let GOD punish your father and your mother your brothers and your sisters plus your children,let slavery be there portion infact you are lucky.dog like you

Of course you can't understand me because you got a brain the size of a peanut! Lol

Ileke-IdI:
ROTFLMAO @ The bolded part. Insults upon insults.

So you're saying that it's impossible to consistently claim the same lie? Is that the measuring yard stick for Oliedola? hmm lol

Now this is something; it seems like you're trying to level down the weight of the only evidence this case has (apart Lawan removing Otedola's company from the subsidy list) hmm. Not saying the whole saga is about the video/audio, but it IS a huge part of the case.

In any civilized society, both court plays hands-in-hands.

If you have been following several legal experts on this case(including judges), you would have noticed they have all been saying the same thing. The biggest evidence is not the audio or video. It is not even the marked notes. It is

1. Farouks confessional statement that he collected the money.
2. Farouk defending Otedola's company on the floor of the house

With those 2 pieces of evidence alone, Farouk can be prosecuted. It is obvious there is a lot of political game going on. That is expected when you understand that an indictment of Farouk is automatically an indictment on the house whether they deny it or not. But I think the table will turn when the EFCC takes over the case from the police. And that's what I see coming. The statement from the AGF yesterday, if we are to rely on it, confirms that. They said the EFCC will be ready with the case by next week or so. Let's see how that pans out. I believe then, the video will surely surface. Except the house agrees to listen to Otedola in public. Then the whole thing will take a new dimension because I am sure Otedola will want to embarrass them in the court of public opinion. That is something the house committee members would not dare do, except they are really really stup1d!!!

Ileke-IdI:
Thanks for the burger, but I prefer a 5* course meal. Unfortunately, you cant afford that, can you.

Back to what you were saying, trying to get a handle on this back and forth investigation with no heads or tail. So according to you and Otedola, Otedola has the video/audio (which was not even authentic). Even though the release of the video can validate some allegations, he thinks that keeping it in his possession is the ideal?



So who else could have released the audio? Which I repeat, was inauthentic?
Why release the audio and not the video?

The burger was supposed to be a test. I would have withdrawn the offer and bought you a ring, lol

Back to topic. Maybe you need to take off your I love farouk glasses. The whole saga is not some home video. It has social, political, legal and business implications. So when you lot keep harping about Otedola just releasing the video and satisfying your nolywood taste, it sounds really funny. This could end up really bad for either party so you don't just go out there throwing all your cards. There are 2 courts at play here. They are the law court and the courtt of public opinion. You can't just go playing to the court of public opinion without considering the implications in a court of law. Only a fool will do that and I must say that Otedola has shown he isn't one.
The audio has obviously being heard by several people from the story so far. It could have been released from anywhere. It could also probably have been released by Otedola thru a proxy. That's part of the whole game. He is up against the house of reps of Nigeria and that's not a small feat. He has to play his cards well both in the court of public opinion and in the law court when the time is right!

One thing you have to give to Otedola is that he has been consistent and has never changed his position or statements from day 1. Farouk has been changing like the wind and that's why public opinion is going for Otedola. Inconsistency is a brother to lying. And who told you the audio is "inauthentic", whatever that means. Lol. Did you pass it thru a forensic test? Or you are one of those who say because it didn't start with eka ro and yaya de and end with odaro or na gode, then it is not authentic?

Ileke-IdI:
Apologies jare. This is the correct link
: https://www.nairaland.com/985681/reps-claim-otedola-no-video-clip

No video tape, no audiotape, now the same Jagada who was not initially cooperative with the investigation wants to open up?

Some of us are not buying it.

My dear, I have to really assume you haven't eating today, that's why you are mixing things up. If you had looked closely, you would have noticed your last link was on the 9th of July while the first link you posted which corroborated my post is on the 10th of July. The last link happened first and it was the stup1d house of reps guy who came out to claim Otedola said he didn't have any video tape. Otedola's lawyers came out to debunk that statement and added that this is the reason they have insisted on a public hearing so noone will lie about what they said or didn't say.

Otedola told them he wasn't the one that gave it to the media. He never said he had no audio and video. Please read the 2 links again.

There is no ambiguity there. It is as simple as ABC! Please have a burger on me. Thank you!

Ileke-IdI:
Here goes the link again, before you start rambling about nothing.

Are you ok? Even the link you posted corroborates my post. So what is your problem? He confirmed his earlier claim he has audio and video evidence. What's your story about?

The topic is misleading. @op, Where did the FG say power will be stable in one month. Why not say it as it is. The FG has giving a deadline for completion of transmission project. Then we'll see where we go from there! That will definitely translate to improved power supply but there are still many factors to overcome. I have been in Edo and Delta states and power has really improved. Especially in Edo.

Ileke-IdI:
Can you guys just open and read the contents of site provided for once?

I took time digging up a link and you didn't even use any effort to open and read.

You took time to dig up trash? You need to get a life. Have you been living on the moon? Did you not hear Otedola's lawyers yesterday quashing the lies by the house of reps member who lied that Otedola said he had no audio? What are you digging again. Is there anything hidden that needs digging? This is the very reason Otedola insists on public hearing. Because if he does it in camera, people like you will suddenly run to the market and buy hoe and digger and shovel to start digging what is not there!

These diaspora people are really a big problem for us. Shioor!

The Arab slave trade predated the transatlantic slave trade by at least 800 years and has outlived it for 150 years and counting. Whereas Muhammad owned both male and female black slaves, European explorers didn’t even begin dipping their beaks into the African human-cattle trade in large numbers until the 1500s.
Roughly three centuries later, Europeans and their American descendants took it upon themselves to put the kibosh on slavery. In contrast with Christendom, there was never a concerted Arabic abolition movement, and slavery was only formally outlawed in the Islamic world due to intense outside pressure. But slavery still openly thrives in places such as Mauritania and, on the downlow, throughout much of Africa and the Middle East.
Historical estimates for the Arab slave trade range from a low of eight million to a high of 25 million. In contrast, the general consensus is that around 11 million Africans were transported to the New World—yet only a mere 5% of those wound up in what is now the USA, although the USA gets 100% of the guilt-tripping.
Despite what you may think, Europeans bought their slaves from established African slave markets and did not make extended forays into the bush to raid villages for slaves, booty, and slave-girl booty. In contrast, Arab slave traders penetrated deep into Africa to kidnap their prey.
If “sexism” bums you out, consider that two-thirds of transatlantic slaves were male, whereas two-thirds of those transported in the Arab slave trade were female.
Though some have mislabeled the African experience in America as “genocide,” that’s an uphill climb considering that an original slave population of about a half-million has blossomed into nearly 40 million black Americans, nearly all of whom enjoy greater longevity and higher living standards than their Western African brethren.
The term “genocide” is more apt for what happened to Africans transported into the Middle East. Males who weren’t murdered in their African villages were routinely castrated—penis often included—whereas females were primarily used as sex slaves. When African concubines were impregnated, it was common practice to kill their infants at birth. This is why, despite the fact that far more African blacks were forcibly transported to the Middle East than to North America, you’ll see far more black faces here than over there.
Though the infamously brutal transatlantic “Middle Passage” yielded estimated fatalities ranging from 10 percent to a third, it seems downright cushy compared to being force-walked in slave caravans across the mercilessly gland-drying Sahara Desert, where four out of every five black Africans perished in transit.
Islamo-apologists may insist that they were far kinder to their slaves, yet reports exist to this day of insane torture methods including female and male genital mutilation, branding, hobbling, live insects shoved into victims’ ears before their earholes are waxed shut, and the “camel treatment,” where victims’ legs are tied beneath a dehydrated camel, who is then plied with ample food and water until its belly expands and dislocates the slave’s legs.
Just like the pathetic death rattle of neo-Marxists when confronted with soul-blotting communist atrocities and stratospheric death tolls, the Religion of Peace’s defenders will cough up a halfhearted, “Well, at least we’re not racist!” Hahaha!!
This is false in the sense that Arabic/sub-Saharan tribal animosity has underpinned Islamic predations in Africa from the start. The Arabic word Abd is often used to mean either “slave” or “black.” Medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun wrote, “The Negro nations are as a rule submissive to slavery, because they have attributes that are quite similar to dumb animals.”
The idea that Islamic slavery is anti-racist is true in the sense that it doesn’t discriminate between blacks and whites, so long as they’re infidels. In varying degrees of intensity, white Christendom and the Islamic world have been clashing for over 1300 years, with untold numbers of Christian POWs bound into slavery. Books such as White Gold and Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters detail the Islamic slave raids that were concentrated in the Mediterranean but reached as far north as Norway and Iceland and as far east as the Caucasus. Few Americans seem aware that only 25 years after 1776, we went to war against Muslim pirates.

angiemartinez: i stil blive boko haram is more of a political fight, to religious fight. My praya is dat d govt shud do sumtin fast b4 dey kill all xtians in d north

You just want to console yourself abi? Is it the politicians that are also fighting in Mali, Sudan, Afghan, India, etc? BH is Islamic fundamentalism. Yes, some politicians might have taking advantage of the situation to perpetuate their agendas, but thats secondary.

If they kill all the xtians in the north, i might not really feel bad because I think they are fools to just sit tight and allow these dogs and baboons to just run them over. I am really getting pissed with the plateau state guys. This iw why I love Niger Delta. You cant try this nonsense with us.

This is what our heroes thought!

Ileke-IdI:
Have you seen the video tape?

Which audio tape? The one Otedola denie having in his possession? https://www.nairaland.com/986054/video-evidence-lawan-collecting-bribe

Where or when did Otedola deny having an audio recording? Na wa for you o. Are you a member of the house of reps?

onatisi: my friend nigeria problem is not hidden the whole world knows it but we nigerians are at times stubbounly stupid.pls dont misunderstand me i am not insulting u.but when we see the reality of an issue and yet pretend as if it is okay then we are what i called us.since the time this country has been created there has been ethnic wars and strife the bottom line is this country is not one and is not supposed to be what we have is strange bedfellows.even on nl if u read some topics u will wonder whether we are united.the igbo is always picking a fight with hausa and vice versa.i am sorry to say more bloodshed will follow if this country forcefully still remain one

Please read this!

whooplat: zionists invading ur country soon. nollywood beware.

Far better than Boko Aram