₦airaland Forum

thelastPope: You are angry with GEJ for not building the bridge? 2 years into his 4 year first term? I dont understand please. Elaborate.

GEJ won majority 90% of votes in the old eastern region .He has to put the project on the fast tract . excuses wont work

what a bizarre logic

we should condemn this in strongest possible terms .

GEJ will sweep the elections

Go GEJ .If you can fix the power sector then ur the hero of the mass

confusion247: No vacancy in aso rock till 2019.

yes sir if he fix power sector its jonathan all the way

Rossikk: My friend will you stop talking rubbish. Power generation is undergoing all sorts of improvement and restructuring. Just sharrap and wait for the process to complete itself. Even in India and Brazil they have power issues. Don't make out like it's only a Nigerian problem.

I hate jonathan but if he restore power then i love him.

Ikengawo: 27 Dead, Including 14 Children, In Elementary School Shooting


http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/12/14/school-shooting-leaves-multiple-injured/

so sad children aged 6 to 10 years died its so pathetic.
killer is dressed as nun according to reports

sambos994: These numbers don't make sense. How can Somalia have a higher life expectancy than South Africa, if SA is the most developed nation in Africa.

South africa has HIV epidemic . google is ur friend

I hate gays .But there more pressing issue to discuss in naija

chosen04:
10. UMBLERRA ( Vote for umblerra).

9. We should have love for our fellow Nigerians irrespective of their NATIONALITY.

8. My Heart feels sorry for these Children who have become Widows by losing their Parents for one reason or another.

7. The Bombers who born them?wasn't it not a woman? They were once a Children now a adult now they are bombing women and children making some children a widow.

6. Yes we are all happy for the effort, it is not easy to carry second in an international competition like this one - Addressing Press men after Female Under 19 Fifa World Cup.

5. The people sitting before you here were once a Children.

4. A Good Mother takes care of his Children.

3. My Fellow Widows (When addressing some widows, a beg Mrs Ist lady at least our dear GEJ is still living).

2. The President was once a Child and the Senators were once a Children.

1. My Husband and Sambo is a good people.

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ha ha ha

keep children away from her.she seems to be mesmerised by children

Wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday told Nigerian women to see her husband Dr Goodluck Jonathan as their husband as well and vote for him.

She said Jonathan has promised affirmative action in which women would occupy 35 percent of available political positions, which she said he would certainly fulfill.

She urged women to reciprocate by voting en-masse for Jonathan because one good turn deserves another.

Mrs. Jonathan spoke at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women rally at the packed Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos.

[b]She said: “My dear women, if we love our husbands, let us come out and vote for Jonathan and Namadi Sambo. They are intellectuals and they are the best for Nigeria.”

The venue was a mixed beehive of activities. Various women groups within the PDP, dressed in uniformed attires, danced to music provided by local musicians that accompanied them.

They sang songs of victory for President Jonathan.

There were also heated arguments and small fights among them over the sharing of campaign materials.

The main gates of the square were manned by soldiers and the police, with an anti-bomb squad placed on standby.

Trumpets blared amidst a cacophony of sounds and Mrs. Jonathan’s voice resonated on the loud speakers.

She said her husband had done enough to deserve continuing in office.

Queues, she pointed out, have disappeared from petrol stations, electricity supply has significantly improved and federal roads are receiving the required attention.

Besides, she said additional federal universities have been established under President Jonathan.

But it was mixed fortunes for some of the women as hoodlums (known as area boys) had a field day.

The hoodlums went about the streets surrounding the square in groups, snatching bags and mobile phones from mostly women, who screamed in helplessness.[/b]
A gorgeously dressed woman who stood just by the Catholic Mission Street waiting for her driver got a shock.

The area boys snatched her blackberry phone and ran away.

She stood shell-shocked, crying. When her driver came, she slammed her handbag on the window and screamed at the driver for not arriving earlier.

Mrs. Jonathan had last Friday met with women professional bodies and associations at an interactive dinner. Though billed to start at 7pm , the programme did not start until 9pm. The women’s patience was stretched even as the dinner came even much later. The long speeches and dancing did not help matters.

She said: “I urge you to vote for credible candidates in the forthcoming election. The Goodluck/Sambo ticket offers you this opportunity. A vote for them is a vote for unity.

“Be rest assured that every vote will count. When you vote, please do not go home. Stay and make sure every vote counts.”

The PDP National Women Leader, Hajiya Inna Ciroma, said it was time for women to invest their time and resources in politics like the men, and not be on-lookers.

She added: “We need to support one another. You need to support us by casting your votes so that when we want to make a case for women, we can confidently say that women have contributed. You need to trust us because we’ll be there for you.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/politics/30596.html

BRILLIANTLY CAPTURED .

[quote author=na2day! link=topic=616372.msg7844226#msg7844226 date=1299234916]Very good work bkbabe!
I think MOSES THE RAVEN represent our countless General Overseers who had brainwashed the masses to be docile and not get involved in politics quoting the Bible that Christians should not be involved in d affairs of this world! submitting to authorities cos they are ordained by God etc
Making the people incapable of rebelling against the corrupt system.[/quote]True words .

EKONGKING:
Another Nigerian, Mr. Solomon Okoduwa, who is the senior elder of Nigeria community in Libya, said "so far the Tripoli airport as at the time of call has recorded seven thousand Nigerians awaiting evacuation, aside those trapped in Benghazi and other states outside Tripoli. Most of them have been at the airport for several weeks; watching other countries coming with cargo planes and ships to evacuate their citizens almost every two hours, while Nigerians starve at the airport as there are no provision for food, water or place to sleep, even pregnant and nursing mothers are not excluded from the pains and suffering".

http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/libya-nigeria:-envoy-flees-201103043568.html

we are in a presidential elections campaign season . Wait until the elections are over so that the do or die polticians will then think about you, until then you are on your own

Nigerian Ambassador to Libya, Ambassador Isah Mohammed Aliyu, has reportedly fled the country to Malta with his family, abandoned more than 7,000 stranded Nigerians at the Tripoli airport. This came as the embittered Nigerians accuse the government of abandoning them and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of completely showing no interest in what was happening in Libya. They said that in a bid to prevent the world from knowing actual situation of things in the country, the Libya security agencies did not permit entry with memory cards, camera and laptops into the airport, adding that the Nigerian government should emulate other countries that value their citizens, and initiate a massive evacuation of Nigerians in Libya now.

Rights activists

Meanwhile, rights activists, under the umbrella of the Campaign for the Rights of Nigerians in Diaspora, CRND, have raised alarm that over 7,000 Nigerians were still trapped in Tripoli Airport in Libya, while many more were yet to find their way to either the airport or other exit ports.

The group faulted the Federal Government and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its attitude towards Nigerians in Diaspora, especially when other countries were working day and night to evacuate their citizens from Libya.

CRND said Nigerians or relatives of Nigerians still stranded in the North African country, should reach one Mr. Solomon Okoduwa in Libya on +218923369805 or +218917266997 for assistance.

In a statement by CRND's Secretary, Mr. Frank Malcom, the group claimed the stranded Nigerians planned to protest yesterday to draw the attention of government to their plight.

A Nigerian woman with two kids at the Tripoli airport was quoted in the statement as crying for help from Nigerians, human rights groups to appeal to the Nigerian government to evacuate them from Libya.

She said: "I have two kids with me here, and I have been in this airport for three weeks, no food to eat, we sleep on the floor everyday waiting for plane to come and evacuate us. Please beg Nigerian government to come with bigger planes to evacuate us."

Another Nigerian, Mr. Solomon Okoduwa, who is the senior elder of Nigeria community in Libya, said "so far the Tripoli airport as at the time of call has recorded seven thousand Nigerians awaiting evacuation, aside those trapped in Benghazi and other states outside Tripoli. Most of them have been at the airport for several weeks; watching other countries coming with cargo planes and ships to evacuate their citizens almost every two hours, while Nigerians starve at the airport as there are no provision for food, water or place to sleep, even pregnant and nursing mothers are not excluded from the pains and suffering".

http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/libya-nigeria:-envoy-flees-201103043568.html

Now we will see DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN dressed like a CINDERALLA consoling people who died for democracy

againstGEJ:
This title is very mis leading.

KAI - the man said they are thinking about concessioning the road to a PPP to build and maintain and they can now charge toll fees to regain their investment.

Poster. what are you out to achieve by twisting the intent of a story?

read the last line of last paragragh

EKONGKING:
“Government alone cannot do it, which is why we are looking at Public Private Partnership in the reconstruction of the road.” Mr. Ogiemwonyi said the prospective private sectors that partner with the Federal government on the road reconstruction would be allowed to operate toll gates to enable them recover cost expended on the road.

elections postponed to april from jan . But still we have to depend on foreign countries for manufacture of ballot paper with inflated contracts

No ballot papers for elections

By Terfa Tilley-Gyado and Ini Ekott


March 1, 2011 04:26AM
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The path toward delivering a credible election come April by the Independent National Electoral Commission appears to be strewn with more difficulties than the commission envisaged. Just as it failed yesterday to launch an expected legal challenge against the recent Federal High Court verdict which barred governorship elections in five states, it was gathered that ballot papers were in short supply ahead of next month’s general elections, according to a senior official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who did not want to be identified, deepening the uncertainty around nationwide polls, barely a month away.

In an interview, the INEC official disclosed that the electoral body was frantically considering foreign printers with barely a month until the elections are scheduled to start. The INEC source revealed that the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc, is having major capacity constraints to meet the April deadline The source said that alarm bells began to ring last week after a courtesy call by INEC officials to the Mint revealed how behind schedule they were.

“The Mint had been commissioned to design, print and deliver over 100 million ballot papers for the elections,” the INEC official said. “So far, I can tell you that they are nowhere near that yet.”

He added that the commission would now “almost certainly” have to enlist the help of foreign printers to meet the April targets. Such a decision would have considerable financial ramifications, the source disclosed.

There are three firms which are being considered and they are all in Europe,” the INEC official said. “They are based in Italy, Germany and France and almost certainly one of them will get the contract.”

The official said that the United Kingdom, United States and Canada had been ruled out of the running due to cost and distance respectively.

“UK’s estimate was almost double that of others,” he said. “The US option was cheap but just too far to guarantee timely delivery.”

The source said that four inspection committees had been set up last year and had made trips to the different countries in December to assess the merits of each printer. Each team had made recommendations and the commission would now revisit them, the source added.

History repeating itself

The possible delay in printing raises further fears that not everyone will have a fair chance of voting when the elections begin next month. In 2007, a last-minute scramble resulted in millions of ballot papers being hastily reprinted in South Africa. The confusion led to ballot papers arriving late and, in some cases, without unique serial numbers. Several observers noted that the lack of ballot papers was the main reason voting did not take place in several parts of the country. The press secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, denied the allegations and said everything remained on track to ensure a free and fair election.

“All of that is false; there are no problems with the ballot papers. The process is on course,” Mr. Idowu said.

Asked whether there were apprehensions as to the timely delivery of the papers, he said: “You know these are sensitive materials and they have to be treated with care. There are no apprehensions; the process is ongoing.”

INEC delays appeal on governorship case

The commission had confirmed over the weekend that it would file an appeal at the Supreme Court against the lower court directive on governorship elections in Kogi, Cross River, Adamawa, Sokoto and Bayelsa states, whose governors, the court had ruled, should not be part of April elections. But with about 30 days to elections and a legal apparatus overstretched by more than 150 ongoing court cases, the appeal could not commence Monday although officials could not give explanations. Those who spoke struggled to reaffirm the commission’s earlier position that an appeal would be instituted.

“INEC will appeal,” spokesperson, Mr. Idowu, insisted late Monday afternoon. He said it could not be certain at the time whether legal representatives of the electoral body had filed its response at the Supreme court as expected.

Earlier on Monday, one of the commission’s lawyers sighted at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Hassan Liman, evaded inquiries from journalists on the position of the case, referring them to INEC headquarters. When reached later on phone, Mr. Liman, refused to respond further when he realised the caller was a journalist.

But Mr. Idowu said that the commencement of the case would be a public process, a confirmation that the case had not begun amid concerns from opposition candidates whether or not gubernatorial polls would be conducted in the affected states. On account of their 2007 elections having been nullified by the courts, the Federal High Court in Abuja last week ruled that the tenure of the five governors counted anew from when they took oath of office after an ordered rerun, implying that elections there would stretch into 2012.

INEC anchored its position on the newly-amended Constitution and Electoral Act which prescribes that in cases of rerun, the tenure will be calculated from the first time the governors affected took the oath. Yet, with the court position, Mr. Idowu said the Commission was unaware of any withdrawal from the April contest by the five governors: Liyel Imoke, Aliyu Wammako, Timipriye Silva, Murtala Nyako and Ibrahim Idris.

As the deadline for replacement and withdrawal of candidates passed yesterday, dozens of party officials filled the commission’s headquarters, meeting with INEC staff and passing documents. Mr. Idowu said that the replacements could not be confirmed until the list was published on Wednesday. Currently, attention is focused more on the People’s Democratic Party which has the bulk of controversial cases notably in Ogun, Abia and Oyo states, and the Congress for Progressive Change which is still contending with a governorship dispute in Kano State.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5680652-146/story.csp

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IF the road is of high standard everybody will happy to pay toll .Finish the reconstruction of the road and collect toll thats how it happen allover the world however in nigerian case expect the unexpected.

dont let it go in the way ofT he Lagos-Ibadan road earlier concessioned which have not seen the light of the day.

Travellers on the Benin-Ore-Lagos highway may soon start paying for use of the road, Minister of States for Works, Chris Ogiemwonyi has said, just as he revealed that the federal government may consider involving the Public Private Partnership (PPP), for the full reconstruction of the road.

It will be recalled that Mr. Ogiemwonyi was severely criticised by the Benin monarch last Friday over the minister’s many unfulfilled promises on the completion of rehabilitation work on the road.

Mr. Ogiemwonyi who spoke with journalists in Benin City on Sunday night, said the Federal government decided to embark on the project in phases because of the high cost. He also added that the on-going rehabilitation work on the road would terminate at Ofosu, the boundary town between Edo and Ondo states and would be completed by November, 2012.

According to him, “What we are doing is a palliative measure. The remedy for the Benin-Ofosu-Shagamu road is a full reconstruction because of the age of the road. It is an expensive project. “Government alone cannot do it, which is why we are looking at Public Private Partnership in the reconstruction of the road.” Mr. Ogiemwonyi said the prospective private sectors that partner with the Federal government on the road reconstruction would be allowed to operate toll gates to enable them recover cost expended on the road.


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5680631-146/story.csp

Well iam now truly annoyed that we have not been  given a day off so that poor masses like us would have celebrated our hero Bode george with all the rigour and enthusiasm . We had to just watch the homecoming of our hero on AIT .

I strongly appeal to GEJ and PDP to declare a national holiday and grand welcome party for James ibori when he is released from  UAE on false corruption cases which we known was a conspiracy by evil colonial power (britain) to humiliate our  dear nation .

  we want

  Bode george as  justice minister

  james ibori    as  finance minister


 FRESH AIR
2011  
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NEW DELHI: The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested a Nigerian national for his alleged involvement in smuggling and peddling cocaine in Delhi. Police claimed to have recovered 3gm of cocaine worth Rs 1.25 lakh from his possession. The accused, identified as Ekene Okeke (26), hails from Lagos. He was apprehended at Shalimar Bagh on the night of February 23, said police.

The arrest came following investigation into an input that a few Nigerians were involved in supplying cocaine to clients, especially in hotels and discotheques. Okeke told police that he had come to deliver cocaine to a person
on the directions of his boss,
who is also a Nigerian national and is known as Prince, said a police officer.

"Prince is very cautious while communicating with his associates and clients, and does business with clients only after proper verification or with those referred by known persons from the circle of drug users," the police officer said.

Okeke is a well-known football player in Nigeria, and has played for a reputed football club in Lagos, police said. On his first visit to India in 2008 Okeke met Prince, who lured the former to work for him. Okeke had gone back to Nigeria in that year, but the lure of making a quick buck by supplying drugs prompted him to come to India again this year.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Nigerian-footballer-held-with-cocaine/articleshow/7577844.cms

pleep:
We need an aircraft carrier so that we may destroy the armies of ghana when the need will arise.

Aircraft carriers are damn costly and are priced in region of 2 to 3 billion dollars depending upon size plus you have to pay extra 1 billion dollars for aircrafts and you need skilled manpower .
The operating cost of aircraft carrier is huge compared to other naval ship .
Plus you need destroyers,frigates and submarines to acompany the carriers otherwise they will be sitting ducks for enemy submarines.
All this cost 5 billion dollars which is waste for nigeria which donot have serious external threats

oyb:
fulanis and their obsessions with cows.

one sometimes wonders if they aren't closet hindus

Their obsession with cows is bordering on edge of paranoia which i think even hindus dont have

EKONGKING:
Increasing population growth and the southward drive of the Sahara desert have pushed Muslim farming and herding communities up against non-Muslims, sparking heightened competition for land and resources. That has fueled conflict along religious lines, said Peter Egom, an analyst at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos, the commercial capital.

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I see more jos like clashes happening all over middle belt

A mounting campaign of violence in northern Nigeria by Islamic militants inspired by Afghanistan’s Taliban movement is deepening religious tensions in Africa’s top oil producer before elections in April.

A group known as Boko Haram, or “Western education is a sin,” has carried out a series of attacks, including multiple bomb blasts on Christmas Eve in the Plateau state capital, Jos, that killed 80 people, in its bid to establish Islamic rule in northern Nigeria. Since then, more than 200 people have died in sectarian violence in Plateau state alone, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch.

The violence in the north, coupled with a festering insurgency in the oil-rich Niger River delta, threatens to erode stability in Africa’s third-biggest economy as President Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, seeks to extend his term in office. Nigeria’s first international bonds fell to a record low yesterday.

“Boko Haram’s strategic focus is to attack institutions of the state to discredit it,” Jude Uzonwanne, Nigeria strategist for Monitor Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based investment advisory company, said in a telephone interview on Feb. 10. “They’re likely to intensify the attacks as the elections come closer and it becomes a guessing game how it will end.”

Gunmen on motorbikes on Jan. 28 assassinated Modu Gubio, a candidate for governor in northeastern Borno state, and five others, including a brother of the sitting governor in the capital, Maiduguri. The attack was claimed by Boko Haram in posters put up around the city.

Population Pressure

Security forces repelled an attack by gunmen on a church in Maiduguri yesterday, Police Commissioner Mohammed Abubakar said by phone today. In the central city of Jos, 12 people, including a policeman, were killed in clashes yesterday between Christian and Muslim groups, police authorities said.

Increasing population growth and the southward drive of the Sahara desert have pushed Muslim farming and herding communities up against non-Muslims, sparking heightened competition for land and resources. That has fueled conflict along religious lines, said Peter Egom, an analyst at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos, the commercial capital.

“These people are now using violence on a religious platform to address their social and economic exclusion,” he said.

Petroleum Industry
While the religious unrest doesn’t pose an immediate threat to the petroleum industry, the main provider of government revenue and the fifth-largest source of U.S. oil imports, “it adds to the risks investors have to take into account,” said Uzonwanne.

The yield on Nigeria’s 10-year Eurobonds climbed 2 basis points, rising to a record high of 7.104 percent on a closing day basis, as of 6:04 p.m. yesterday in Lagos, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg. The $500 million of debt sold Jan. 21 is the nation’s first international issue and rated B+ by Standard and Poor’s, four levels below investment grade.

Hague-based Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. of San Ramon, California, Total SA and Eni SpA run joint ventures with the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. that pump about 90 percent of the West African nation’s oil.

Consumer Market
Nigeria, with a population of more than 140 million, 72 percent of which is under 30 years, is potentially the biggest consumer market in Africa, with growing demand for electricity, housing and retail goods providing new opportunities for investment, according to the Monitor Group.

Companies including Diageo Plc, Nestle SA, Procter & Gamble Co., and MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest mobile-phone company, have increased their operations in Nigeria in recent years. Major upheavals may also hinder the country’s cocoa industry, the world’s fourth-largest, and investments in the electricity and mining industries now being pushed by Jonathan’s government.

The main oil-producing region in the southeastern Niger River delta was engulfed by violence sparked by national politics once before, in the 1967-70 Biafra civil war, when the ethnic Igbos tried to secede and form an independent nation. The conflict claimed as many as three million lives.

“Nigerians are very good at dancing on the brink without falling over,” John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, said in a telephone interview on Feb. 10. “But if you dance on the brink, accidents could happen .”

Civil War
There is no “guarantee” that civil war won’t erupt again, said Campbell, whose book “Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink,” was published in November.

Attacks by armed groups in the Niger delta cut 28 percent of oil output between 2006 and 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The region has been hit by a surge of violence in recent months after a period of relative calm that followed a government amnesty in 2009 and the disarming of thousands of militant fighters.

In the north, Boko Haram is capitalizing on an upsurge in religious tension since Jonathan, a native of the Niger River delta who took office in May after the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua, a northern Muslim, won the nomination of the ruling People’s Democratic Party. That violated a party rule to rotate the presidency between the north and the south.

Jonathan faces two northerners, Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler, and Nuhu Ribadu, an ex-chief of the West African nation’s anti-corruption agency, in the national election.

Middle Belt
The wave of religious attacks has centered on Nigeria’s so- called middle belt region, where local communities resisted the encroachment of Islam in the 19th century before the advent of British colonial rule. After the British arrival, many villagers adopted Christianity as a defense against Islam.

At least 14,000 people died in religious and communal clashes in Nigeria between 1999 and 2009, according to Brussels- based International Crisis Group.

Boko Haram has shown a more targeted approach since it emerged in December 2004, attacking police stations in the northeastern towns of Kanamma and Geidam, where militants hoisted Taliban flags.

Armed clashes between security forces and the group in four northern states in July 2009 killed more than 700 people, including the sect’s leader, Mohammed Yusuf, according to the Nigerian military.

High profile attacks by the group since then include an assault on the prison in the city of Bauchi on Sept. 7, when it freed 721 prisoners, including more than 100 members awaiting trial.

A large population of unemployed people in northern Nigeria, where poverty levels at 70-80 percent are more than double those in the south, is likely to be influenced by religious rhetoric and will keep Boko Haram supplied with fighters, according to Uzonwanne of Monitor Group.

“The challenge for the government is to show them that there’s an alternative,” he said. “The key question is how to keep the jobs coming and then keep the streets safe.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-15/nigeria-s-taliban-inspired-uprising-worsens-religious-divide.html

Nsiman:
Ekongking, china builds pp of 500mw weekly, u are fooling urself.

U R THE ONE WHO IS FOOLING YOURSELF

IN FACT CHINA BUILDS TWO POWER PLANTS A WEEK


China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said.
He said there was no point blaming China for rising global CO2 emissions.

Rich nations had to set an example of low-carbon development for China to follow, Mr Ashton told the BBC.

His statement came as a new report suggested that China may have already become the world's biggest polluter - much earlier than expected.
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said China's CO2 emissions had risen by 9% last year, compared with 1.4% in the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6769743.stm

At 8.29% GDP . Nigeria is the third fastest growing  large economy in the world after china and india.(iam not talking about minor economies like angola or guinea where gdp growth is more due to small base)

Since oil accounts for only 17 %of gdp in nigeria. The non oil gdp (like manufacturing,agriculture,services)  account for 83% of economy.

This is plain silly  how can a country which generate 4000MW claim to be the  3 rd fastest growing economy.


For comparision sake
China builds a coal power power plant   EVERY WEEK worth 500mw                                 
India builds a power plant in 3 weeks worth 500mw 
   NIGERIA  builds a power plant coal or gas based  once in 3 years worth 180 mw

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=594168.msg7617707#msg7617707 date=1296175683] SMH


Seriously though, it seems anything can trigger ethnic and religious conflicts in Nigeria except the actions of our elite lootocrats.

I can't wait for the day my folks will drop the weapons, quit fighting themselves for a while, and join hands together to fight their looter-leaders, The real enemies.[/quote]The day the people start fighting against corrupt elite that will be second independence for nigeria

Paul Ohia
Abuja, Jan 27 At least 12 people have been killed by Fulani herdsmen who attacked three villages near Jos in the restive Nigerian state of Plateau.

The attackers were said to have gone to Dorowa, Jong, Sunkut and Lohana villages ostensibly in search of their lost cattle in the night frightening the villagers who raised alarm on sighting the strangers.

The herdsmen killed 12 persons, injured three and then set several houses on fire.

The spokesman of Special Task Force in the troubled state, Cap Charles Ekeocha, confirmed the attack and said 29 people have been arrested, including a policeman, in this connection.

"The task force got a report of an attack in a Village of Dorowa in Barkin Ladi local government area at about 1 pm.
The soldiers quickly swung into action, but on getting to the village the attackers were already fleeing. The youths and the women of the village quickly rallied round the soldiers and showed them the direction of the fleeing attackers." he said.

Ekeocha said one of the soldiers was shot and wounded during the operation while two AK-47 riffles, two locally made revolver pistols, and several quantities of live ammunition of different calibre were also recovered from the detainees.

"One of the arrested Fulani attackers is a member of Police Mobile force serving in Abuja. He gave his particulars as S Number 220015, and his name as Corporal Mohammed Uba, of 44 Police Mobile Force, Abuja. He was arrested with a sickle, four life cartridges in his pocket, a box of matches and a catapult," he said.

State Police Commissioner AbdulRahman Akano said, "the Joint Task Force and the Council Chairman had agreed to go the area and meet with the parties whose cattle were missing so as to make them identify their the cattle, but unfortunately we had not when this attack occurred again."
In a similar incident in the state early last year, Fulani Muslim herdsmen had attacked and killed hundreds of Christians in a land related dispute prompting President Goodluck Jonathan to send federal forces to contain any attempts to continue with killings


http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4853603