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kuuljay:
who does? 99% of MI6 are military retired or still active

Well the people that some of these intelligence agencies recruit fresh from some of the top universities within their respective countries what do you think they all do ,write reports?

eph12:
Intelligence arm? I give up o.

You should have since ,i figured him out when he made that allusion to "strike back" and whatever .He has got no clue.

OrlandoOwoh:
Go watch or read Strike Back, you'll realize that it's the military that gathers intelligence for the MI6. They have their monitoring rooms in or close to the enemy territory they carry out their operations.

Now you are defending your argument using works of fiction? The result of some intoxicated screen writer who may never have seen a gun fired in his/her life as a tool to support your intellectual(its anything but that) assertions?

It is a waste of time engaging with you further and i dare say any other person who responds to contend with anything you say on this subject ,is probably under the influence of the khat that you inhaled.

lexy2014:
then d organisations should b purged and those responsible 4d failure of DSS should b punished. That's how problems of this nature are solved not by sidelining. [size=15pt]Its this attitude that made d police ineffective. Instead of treating their f..k up, they were sidelined[/size]

A trend that [size=15pt]snail buhari[/size] pioneered in 1983 and ibb escalated. We are watching them.

It would help some times if we could just do a little reading before we advertise of sophisticated IGNORANCE:

[size=14pt]The State Security Service is obligated by law to perform the following[/size]:

a. Prevention, detection and Investigation of:

i. Threat of espionage
ii. Threat of subversion
iii. Ehreat of sabotage
iv. Economic crimes of national security dimension
v. Terrorist activities
vi. Separatist agitations and inter-group conflicts
vii. Threats to law and order

b. Provision of protective security for designated principal government functionaries, sensitive installations and visiting foreign dignitaries;

c. vetting of:

i. prospective appointees to public offices:

ii. vital and sensitive corporate organizations before their incorporation in Nigeria, and continuous covert monitoring of their activities to ensure that they ate in line with national security interest: and

iii. Applicants for Nigerian International passports and Naturalization/Nigerian citizenship.

iv. provision of timely advice to Government on all •matters of national security interest; and

v. such other functions as may from time to time be • assigned by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

The operations of the State Security Service may arise out of tasking directed personally by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces; the National Defense and Security. Council; the National Security Adviser; the Intelligence Community Committee (ICC) or the Joint Intelligence Board (JIB) subject to ratification by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces where considered necessary or desirable.

For the-purpose of facilitating the discharge of its functions under this Instrument, personnel of the State Security Service are hereby conferred with the powers of a Superior Police Officer in respect of searches and arrests.

The State Security Service is empowered to:

a) Maintain a watchlist action and travel control at the nation's land borders, sea ports and airports for the purpose of monitoring the movements of persons considered as risks to the security of the nation;

b) Impound and keep in its custody. the passports or any other property of persons or organizations under investigation if considered appropriate by the Director-General. Returns of all such Seizures shall be rendered to the National Security Adviser, while such passports shall be returned to the Owners as soon as the investigation is concluded.



RESPONSIBILITY

The State Security Service shall be charged with responsibility for:

a) The prevention and detection within Nigeria of any crime against the internal security of Nigeria:

b) The protection and preservation of all non-military classified matters concerning the internal security of Nigeria: and

c) Such other responsibilities affecting internal security within Nigeria as the National Assembly or the President: as the case may be: may deem necessary.

Sauce and crayfish:https://dss.gov.ng/index.php/component/k2/item/49

I said this in earlier threads and will not stop repeating it until it sinks into peoples heads this president is being whimsical and ILLEGALLY USURPING THE STATUTORY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE.
I have made this point in an earlier thread discussing the same issue:

Most people have no idea that protection of government officials is an intelligence affair and not a military function other wise in the US for instance the protection of the president ,his vice and other high ranking officials would fall to the Special Forces in the various branches of the military.
The state security service function :protection of the Commander in chief and Head of state as well as other ranking officials down the line, as guaranteed by law it would be a violation of the law for the president to usurp the function of the Service on his whimsical reasoning.
Watching to see how this goes but this tells the story of how his presidency will be shaped.
If this speculation proves to be founded, it simply proves that this president has imperial ambitions/pretensions and is not the least bit interested concerned about building institutions that will serve the country regardless of who is the C I C .Former President Jonathan held on to that principle all through his tenure.

Not to mention the equipment and hardware:electronics and communications infrastructure and information technology setup that is required for the task of protecting the president.
Protecting the president is far more than just about having bodyguards,around the president.It's more about sourcing,analyzing,processing and visualizing threat data.Deducing intelligence on threats, some persistent,others random or deep seated that the president faces everyday.
Their other unadvertised major function is to ENSURE THE CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT.This in the event that the president (whomever he is) , is disabled by an attack, the protocol keeping the governing of the country continuously operating is successfully implemented
Most of that work/process happen far from Aso Rock and involve serious computing power/capability and expertise.
I know that the DSS has some sort of data center and a DSS acquaintance of mine is specializing in Geo-spacial analysis and intelligence.Not to mention the other expertise they are culturing into the fabric of the institution.
I don't imagine the DSS will just hand over everything:expertise, infrastructure , data with a smile on their faces .

https://www.nairaland.com/2376369/buhari-plans-military-shake-up-angry/3#34721115

https://www.nairaland.com/2376369/buhari-plans-military-shake-up-angry/7#34749269

https://www.nairaland.com/2403335/dss-driven-out-presidential-villa#35138888

Truckpusher:
I don't think so.


You already heard people like Omenka ,demdem,donphilopus and the one with gender identity crisis(Ngeneukwenu A.KA. Cleverly) sounding like broken records.

Music to my ears.

niggereyez:
DSS... bad market for una!

natas22:
Buhari trusts the army more than the DSS he still has some loyal men in the army. Sorry DSS this regime ain't for you guys kai lmao they asked them to Go and man the gate relegated to gatemen lol.
www.

tucky200:
DSS right from the start was never a security agency president muhammadu buhari should trust.....

FOOLISH TALK FROM PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING AND CAN NOT SEE BEYOND THEIR NOSES

jerusalem101:
OH God please help this Country with plethora Ignorance that has eaten so deep into its citizenry
Imminent security crisis of National dimension await us all.

I have made this point in an earlier thread discussing the same issue:

Most people have no idea that protection of government officials is an intelligence affair and not a military function other wise in the US for instance the protection of the president ,his vice and other high ranking officials would fall to the Special Forces in the various branches of the military.
[size=18pt]The state security service function :protection of the Commander in chief and Head of state as well as other ranking officials down the line, as guaranteed by law it would be a violation of the law for the president to usurp the function of the Service on his whimsical reasoning.[/size]
Watching to see how this goes but this tells the story of how his presidency will be shaped.
If this speculation proves to be founded, it simply proves that this president has imperial ambitions/pretensions and is not the least bit interested concerned about building institutions that will serve the country regardless of who is the C I C .Former President Jonathan held on to that principle all through his tenure.

Not to mention the equipment and hardware:electronics and communications infrastructure and information technology setup that is required for the task of protecting the president.
Protecting the president is far more than just about having bodyguards,around the president.It's more about sourcing,analyzing,processing and visualizing threat data.Deducing intelligence on threats, some persistent,others random or deep seated that the president faces everyday.
Their other unadvertised major function is to ENSURE THE CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT.This in the event that the president (whomever he is) , is disabled by an attack, the protocol keeping the governing of the country continuously operating is successfully implemented
Most of that work/process happen far from Aso Rock and involve serious computing power/capability and expertise.
I know that the DSS has some sort of data center and a DSS acquaintance of mine is specializing in Geo-spacial analysis and intelligence.Not to mention the other expertise they are culturing into the fabric of the institution.
I don't imagine the DSS will just hand over everything:expertise, infrastructure , data with a smile on their faces .

https://www.nairaland.com/2376369/buhari-plans-military-shake-up-angry/3#34721115

https://www.nairaland.com/2376369/buhari-plans-military-shake-up-angry/7#34749269

House plenary adjourned to Tuesday next week. At least he did not adjourn it to 21st July like Saraki did in the senate.Thank GOD for small mercies.
This "change" will be fun to watch.....hehehehehehehehehehehe.........

whizpet:
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has showered
encomiums on president Muhammadu Buhari for his
achievements in the last three weeks.
In a statement issued by the party’s national publicity
secretary, Alhaji Lai Lie/Liar Mohammed, the party reiterated ............
...................................................................................
...... “Within three weeks of President
Buhari’s inauguration, he had done what the PDP
government could not do in six years: Invigorate the fight
against Boko Haram by rallying a regional and global front
against the terror group.
“Today, the US has pledged to give $5 million for the fight
against Boko Haram, in addition to other material support.
This is apart from the support that has been pledged by the
G-7 for Nigeria’s efforts to quell the insurgency.
“Thanks to President Buhari’s shuttle diplomacy, the Multi-
National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) that the PDP government
could not bring together for all of six years is ready to
deploy next month, while the President has ordered the
release of $21 million to facilitate the establishment of the
headquarters of the force in N’Djamena, Chad..................
.......“Since assuming office about three weeks ago, President
Buhari has visited Chad, Niger, Germany and South Africa,
winning support and friends for Nigeria all over again and
returning the country to the comity of respected nations......
.............“On the domestic front, President Buhari has been handling
pressing issues far away from the klieg light, and his efforts
to assembly a first class team to implement his change
mantra, which he is personally driving, are continuing
apace.

www.naij.com/466813-buhari-has-done-in-3-weeks-what-pdp-couldnt-in-6-years.html

This guys think we all have developed amnesia abi?
Do they think that because they own/control a large portion of the media that they can rewrite history?
I expect at this rate that by December the narrative will be that the federal government did not ,could not fight boko haram until lord ans savior buhari became president.
I expect by the end of the year that the story will be that our neighbors joined the fight against boko haram only after miracle worker buhari assumed office.
I expect that at the end of this year no one will remember that the un around September last year (2014) held a submit on combating terrorism of which GEJ/Nigeria a prominent actor if not the co-convener.
The certainly already have forgotten the six week renewed offensive by the Nigerian military in joint co-ordination with Chadian,Nigerien and Cameroonian forces between February and march this year an offensive entirely funded by Nigeria.
I clearly don't expect them to admit even under the pain of death that they are working/riding on the back of the regional coalition that GEJ built

noblezone:
Published by APC's Propaganda Newspaper on February 7, 2015


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/disgrace-neighbours-must-take-boko-haram-buhari-2/

Presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is appalled that neighbouring Chad and Cameroun are turning out to be more successful at the battle front against Boko Haram than Nigeria.
Nigeria’s poor performance,he says,is a disgrace.
“It’s a big disgrace for Nigeria. It is now Cameroon and Chad fighting the insurgency more than Nigeria. We will build the capacity and Nigeria should be able to secure its territorial integrity,” Buhari told Reuters.
Troops from neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon, all much smaller and poorer than Nigeria, have been battling the terrorists who have seized territory in Borno State.
Niger Republic said yesterday its troops killed 109 Boko Haram fighters in an attempted attack on Bosso close to the border with Nigeria.
The attack was repelled.
Buhari said that he was committed to using the courts if there are irregularities in the voting, and would not call his followers into the streets.
“I’m optimistic that I won’t lose. But we signed an undertaking that it will be violence free,” Buhari said. “We are attempting to stabilise a multi party democratic system.”
Buhari’s party,APC, insists that this month’s elections should proceed as scheduled ,saying the only reason the pro-Jonathan camp is pushing for a delay is that it knows he will lose if voting goes ahead now.
“There will be no delay. But if INEC is compromised then it will be too bad,” said Buhari.
Buhari said his administration also intends to tackle corruption within the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) and plans to reopen an investigation into missing crude revenues of around $20 billion.
He would also tackle the theft of crude tapped from pipelines in the Niger River delta.
“Our main objective is to secure the country. We will not tolerate insurgency, sabotage of the economy by the blowing up of installations, by stealing crude and so on…. All these things will be things of the past.”



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This is just to reminder to Buhari.

We will not forget!!!

PappyMason:
You have made a career out of spreading bullsh1t.

I believe in Karma and how she can be so much a b1tch.

Your threats are nothing.

We will blow up every single pipeline and oil platform and let's see how your muhadunce Buhari will fund his Jihad.

Not every pipeline not every platform, we have to be smart about this.Those pipelines ,platforms and the products running through them are in our homelands.WE WILL FIGHT SMART.
SMART ATTACKS on the most critical non redundant nodes will cripple everything and shut the system down for long periods at a stretch and at ruinous cost to the operators [size=15pt]WITHOUT THE USUAL SPILLAGE OR AT WORST VERY MINIMIZED SPILLAGE[/size]
As i speak a target listing based on this criteria has been processed and the executioners are awaiting further developments.
That's just one part of fighting smart , the other is focused on taking the airborne fighting platforms the feds are using "out of play" . A previous post of mine sometime back deals with this strategy, suffice it to say that the Niger Delta confers[b] A NATURAL ADVANTAGE[/b] to the people on the ground if they know what they have to do and are disciplined. In the contest between ground opposition and airborne assets specifically helicopters, history has always favored the (SMART)people on the ground where the ground has the dense vegetative cover such as is dominant in the Niger Delta.

https://www.nairaland.com/2123552/war-threats-niger-delta-ex-militants/3#30314662

https://www.nairaland.com/2134648/apc-manifesto-well-grow-oil/1#30507375

https://www.nairaland.com/2317051//8#33842109

Sammiejo:
LOL! Occupy Port Harcourt, Asaba, Uyo and the creeks coming.
Unfortunately for this government, the bread and and butter of the Nigerian economy is with the opposition.

This is a good time to be a political negotiator.

Season two of the APC PDP drama coming soon.

We are still in season one , we are just watching filler episodes,the Senate and house drama being part of the pilot episodes.
I imagine there will be at-least 4 seasons.Its going to be a long engaging watch.

animalz:
MIND YOU. THE VERY FIRST NUCLEAR PROGRAM WAS IN ZARIA. BUT GOD KNOW WHY THEM ABANDON IT.

NOW THOSE TWO STATE IS NOT FAVORABLE BECAUSE OF THERE ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHIC IMPORTANT.



AS FOR ME, SOKOTO WILL BE THE BEST PLACE BECAUSE OF IT ISOLATION FROM POLLUTION

This decision just announced ,is coming on the back of almost ten years of investigations guided by very strict geological, topographical and logistical criteria among others but of course you want all that thrown away and either Zaria or Sokoto chosen the same way the Kaduna refinery was chosen with the only justification being the massaging of the over bloated sense of importance of the north.

fratermathy:
Akwa-Ibom State is in the South-South and not South-East. Please take note Op. It was before the 1990s that it was regarded as part of the Eastern Region but the state is currently in the South South together with Cross-River State.

Back to the topic, this is a good development for Nigeria! The key to unlock stable power supply in Nigeria is in Nuclear power.

As far as anyone observing Nigeria from outside is concerned , Cross-Rivers ,Akwa - Ibom and even Rivers state will be naturally taken as the South - East of Nigeria.
Your belly acheing about it will change nothing.

Sanchez01:
Hopefully

Can you imagine the huge lie?

cc
Lalasticlala

Its no lie , if anything ,its inaccurate on the low side.Nigeria currently has an installed power capacity of around 10,000 - 11,000 MWts of which 3500 - 4500 MWts are online at any given day.

Wildrage:
In their quest to wrest power from Jonathan, APC and their allies corrupted many sacred institutions, including the media. Otherwise responsible media houses were turned into ragsheets churning out concocted stories daily and in the process smiling to the banks at the expense of gullible readers. Lies and propaganda are now very profitable hobbies that , unfortunately, can't be turned off at the whims of those who financed and encouraged it.

It gladdens the heart to see APC squirm at the bite of the same monster they created, if you buy a whirlwind, it's only fitting that you must enjoy/endure the occasional dizzy spells

Please please let me use this here quote.It explains everything we will be seeing/hearing for the next four years.

Kenai:
Troubled Governors And The Peter Principle

As most governors in Nigeria run from pillar to post in search of funds to meet such basic obligation as salaries and pension arrears, this column wagers that all the petro-dollars in Arabia will not help a poor governor. Even as they collectively resolved to recover expenditure allegedly made on behalf of the Federal Government, a better option may well be to tell each other the harsh truth. Unless most of our governors purge themselves of spiritual and mental poverty, they will always be plagued by this manner fiscal poverty.

The newly-elected governors in particular must carry out a deep introspection over the activities of their immediate predecessors and determine to choose a fresh path because the road ahead is destined to be tough. It will be interesting to note the amount spent by some of the governors at the Abuja meeting last Wednesday in search of bailout. It will be even more interesting to note that some of the governors travelled to and from Abuja in chartered jets at highly wasteful rates.

Just last month, even as workers suffer the pangs of hunger, a governor from the Southeast was on a junket with a chartered jet. As he touched down in his state, he kept the jet on standby for so long and at such huge cost that even the owners of the craft were worried at such wastefulness by a state’s chief executive.

Early in this month, four vessels berthed at the Apapa Ports bearing 34,450 tons of imported crude palm oil worth over N3 billion. In the last five years, Nigeria has imported about 2.4 million metric tons of this commodity valued at about N314 billion (about $1.6 billion).

We must point it out for the umpteenth time that between Adapalm in Imo State and Risonpalm in Rivers State all the palm products needs of Nigeria’s manufacturing industries can be met with extra to export to Europe. In other words, these states could have easily earned a chunk of this multi-billion dollars palm oil trade. But a visit to any of these sprawling palm estates would only make you weep. It would also afford you an idea of the kind of people managing our affairs.

Apart from funds from the federation account, which has virtually vanished with the crude oil debacle, most governors never mustered the initiative to build alternative economic bases in their states. As we said here last week, has cocoa stopped growing in the Southwest of Nigeria or has it stopped being a major world commodity? Any thinking governor can make any state in the Southwest the hub of cocoa production and processing in Africa.

Regardless that most states lacked any economic base and do not earn enough revenue, yet they all live large and embark on vanity programmes and projects that are not only way above their means, but have little economic value. Imo for instance was handing cash to pupils and also claimed to be building two universities at the same time. It was also building a fancy skyscraper and three massive hotels in the three senatorial zones. There are 27 general hospitals going on simultaneously in the 27 LGAs. There is no iota of financial planning in all of these.

In Osun State, an unsustainable N3.6 billion free school meal programme is on, as well as free uniforms; free tablets and free tuition. What then are parents for? In the thick of all these is an airport project.



Where on earth is this impoverished State supposed to get the fund for all these? Where is financial planning and projections in all this? Another state in the southwest is building so many posh public schools in towns while many students still learn under trees in the rural areas. There is also a plan to build a sky-scrapper like the Cocoa House in Ibadan, an ego-induced edifice, not minding that the Ibadan monolith is barely occupied and of little economic value apart from gracing the horizon.

Why would a governor dare to purchase jets, helicopters and fly in chartered jets yet expect that cash is inexhaustible? Why are local government council workers also owed for months in many states? The federal allocation to LGAs ought to be enough to pay that level of staff five times over since hardly anything else happen in the LGAs.

The point being made essentially here is that money or the lack thereof, is not the problem with these states that cannot pay their workers. This may be hard to comprehend but the point is that no state is in reality richer than the other. A state is only as good as its manager. This is buttressed by the fact that while some oil-rich state are in trouble, some that are deemed to be poor states have managed their finances so well that they have enough to bailout rich states.

This is where the Peter Principle above comes in. This principle, espoused by a certain Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull states that people are usually promoted to positions quite above their competence. Are most governors in Nigeria truly competent. Are they willing to learn?

This leads to the other Peter Principle: the Peter Obi Principle. This column will recommend him especially to the new governors. They must quietly seek out the erstwhile governor of Anambra State, Governor Peter Obi and tap his mind on the art of running a state in an emerging economy like Nigeria’s. It is not only that Anambra is not owing workers, it has enough in its kitty to lend money to some overly trouble states.

Obi did not only leave about N80 billion in cash for his successor Chief Willie Obiano, he put millions of dollars of the state’s funds in bonds that will mature in a few years time at some profit. As if he saw tomorrow, he executed a policy of putting aside at least N100million monthly for his eight years in office. Apart from a glaring fiscal discipline, he never embarked on any vanity projects of policies but enacted numerous decisions that would continue to redound on the economic well being of the state for a very long time.

There are investments in modern shopping malls in Awka, Nnewi, Onitsha; Onitsha Business Parks one and two and a N500 million investment with the Bank of Industry to support SMEs in Anambra State. Perhaps most remarkable is the SAB Miller’s breweries in Onitsha, which recently expanded to Nnewi. SAB Miller, one of the biggest brewers in the world has invested about $170 million in its Nigeria subsidiary based in Anambra and will provide about 50,000 jobs at full capacity. This is the way to build a state’s economy.

Peter Obi exemplified prudent leadership while delivering value to the people. At the time he left in March 2014, he had restored the people’s trust in public schools and Anambra candidates topped in all national exams for many years. While some states are so indebted that they are no longer credit worthy, Peter Obi did not borrow a dime in eight years. His time in Anambra (2006- 2014) ought to be a case study on how to run a state. He left the state far better than he met it and proved that it is not the quantum of funds available to a state but the quality of mind managing it.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/troubled-governors-and-peter-principle/

cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Obinoscopy, Ikengawo, Superstar1, Raumdeter, Abagworo, Schematics, Sunnybobo3, Eagleeye2, Eaglechild, AgabaI23.

Somebody is getting fired in the nation, for dearing to critisize the big ogas allies talking about the roach keeping a jet on stand by wastfully.....ok naa.

Ezenwammadu:
This government is for photos by the photos for the photos



Thank you since may 29 we have been praticing DemoPhotos

I am sooo saving this:please let me adapt it on other media.
Demophotos.... wow........

xcolanto:
Only shallow Nigerians would wait for foreign medias to tell them what is wrong with Nigeria! It's a well known fact that since the dura born was sworn in, little or no strides has been made in winning the war against boko, instead we have gone steps backward!
What's more shocking is the rate at which these same foreign medias who were quick to report boko attacks and military laxity as well as war crimes seem to have gone numb after their puppet attained the mantle of leadership in Nigeria!
This goes to show how well planned and deep the plot to present GEJ as "clueless" and incapable to rule the Nigerian people was.
Due to the fact that GEJ refused to play a puppet and dance to the unfavorable tunes of these westerners they wanted him out of power by all means even throwing the weight of the best media team that won Obama's presidency behind a former dictator.

[b] [size=18pt] However, history always repeats itself and the instigators never seem to learn! The monster they created always grows beyond their control and springs into something bigger than imagined! [/size] [/b]The Nigerian people shall therefore continue to watch keenly as events unfold in this scripted play of a dullard, boko and the west.

That is all there is to be said.

madridguy:
I don't need any international media to tell me what is wrong with our government in the years you stated. We don't need to deceive our-self, as a person, I so much believe in GEJ led government no until he started making so many blunders, from Subsidy palava, Moro Scam, Pension Scam, NNPC scam and so many to mention few, the day that i vowed not to vote for GEJ again was the day those chibok girls were kidnapped.

As a leader, you are expected to take immediate action before coming out to denounce the report. The whole media were talking about Chibok incident only for our leader to go to his political rally and pictured dancing with someone else ikebe...The same time someone resign is Asia " cant remember the country per say " for not been able to provide rescue team to a capsize boat/ship carrying some students.

Jonathan ruined his government himself.

I like the fact that you were able to pin your decision not to vote GEJ on one event/period:The chibok girls kidnap.
Question: if it does come out eventually that there was no specific event wherein the said chibok girls were kidnapped how would you feel?
I ask this question as i note that in the last days of GEG's administration, thousands of girls and women were liberated from the grip of boko haram, a few hundred more were found dead in shallow graves executed by boko haram solders a good number are still found every day since then, [size=18pt]BUT NOT ONE EVEN ONE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE MISSING CHIBOK GIRLS [/size].
As a mathematician that is statistically impossible, its defies every law of possibilities that govern life and nature.
Having grown up in the north, i was 50% disbeliving of the whole saga but i tempered that by saying that the prominent actors in this case : the governor, the chibok school principal, and other scholl administrative folks ,the chibok "parents" couldn't all be lying but now i don't know what to think.

dayo23:
Meaning Goodluck was very bad

Isn't it supposed to be the opposite?

ki02020:
Good for them.....




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Impressive.

abagoro:
LMFAO! Only a non-Rivers resident will take these lies serious. And please we are living in the filthiest city in Nigeria. Something needs to be done ASAP.

And the filth gathered well after May 29th i suppose......?

Maxymilliano:
Getting $5M pledge from the US is now an achievement ?


This is what you get when you have akamu filled-brain .

That 5 mill is going to be shared between Nigeria ,Niger, Chad ,Cameroon and possibly Benin Republic.So in the actual sence ,we are getting a million dollars.That is a serrioooooooooos achievement.

Agwoden:
History is about to repeat itself. Do we learn from history? No.

atlwireles:
The facebook generation need to relive the past. They can enjoy their change.

The tragedy of our present time is that the "facebook" and tweeter generation as you so aptly named them, have no idea about the past and would not trouble themselves in the least to know.To them history is a non-existent concept.
The only reason they still interact with the news of the day is because the traditional news media has taken great pains to meet them in their faceworld and tweeterverse.
It explains why someone will put ridiculous lies as news on their "verse" and it becomes the gospel to swear by.

fairheven:
An who cares if he the richest man. .u think he wants to be the richest? I don't think so
The problem with Dangote's wealth is thus..he is like one-eye man in the midst of blind pple,going by the level of poverty in the North. But is a different scenario in the Eeast,wat we have there are huge middle-class (probably the highest in Nigeria) whose combined wealth is more than that of Dangote an that's why we have less prevalence rate of poverty in south-east

.

Absolutely agree with you.I would rather have a million+ individuals from the SE + SS valued at a hundred million dollars than two or three five or even ten individuals getting so big to join the continents richest or world richest list.That would never benefit us.
I was just making a point about the potential of the track it appears the Professor is set on.

superstar1:
Have you forgotten OBJ and CBN made a policy to force bank HQs to Abuja. What happened?

They opened "fanciful" corporate offices and were doing everything from Lagos, before they realised that it can't work. Same will happen again. No state has the pull of Lagos and no country or city in West Africa has the same pull.

Absolutely agree with you.Please do not view me as an opponent, i'm only playing the red team here or the devils advocate if you will.
My point is that when all that is said and done, the VAT will be remitted to the FEDS and counted to the FCT. Like i said , there wouldn't have to be massive relocations only have a group of people move to those fanciful buildings, rewrite the rules(they only need the CBN for this) pronto.

Wildrage:
There was nothing wrong with the refineries yet we imported fuel all through Abacha's regime, they even imported adultered fuel (smelling so bad) towards the tail end of his reign

There was nothing wrong with the refineries yet we imported fuel all through OBJ's tenure. Companies like Cakassa, Chrome oil battled with TAM all through the period. The moribund state of the refineries necessitated OBJ selling them off to Dangote and Otedola shortly before he left

There is nothing wrong with the refineries yet kaduna refinery has not functioned for more than 20yrs, reason for payment of bridging

[size=18pt]Sometimes we forget that until GEJ came on board, you hardly get fuel to buy in the north except from those dispensing from surface tanks.[/size] As cheering as this latest news is , [size=18pt]I see it as a ruse , a ploy by some cabal in NNPC to ingratiate themselves into the new govt's favour and retain their plum position by hook or crook[/size]. We heard the same cheering news when Yaradua came on board, he was deceived into reversing the sale of the refineries, a decision that has cost the tax payers billions of dollars needlessly spent in the never ending turn Around maintenance

I was telling some folks the same thing, that this image of jobless men carrying gallons of fuel standing on the road sides of lagos of recent was prevalent all over the north for years until the Jonathan presidency.
For four years and nine months of his presidency, THERE WAS NO FUEL SCARCITY,that demon was caged until someone decided to unleash it for political purposes.The thing about demons, when you release them from bondage to something for you, they never wan to go back.

For the second bolded i suspect that as well.Its evident in the "source" statements.

PassingShot:
As usual, NNPC and the thieving lots will go to any length to prove something was wrong.

I didn't mean NOTHING was wrong but that not to the extent that no refineries could refine any crude.

I have punctured your argument already.

You should know when your market(lies) stop selling, you would not have to be online screaming yourself hose backtracking and front tracking, generally embarrassing your e-self.

ITbomb:
If anybody kills you now, they would not be committing a crime but doing our planet a laudable favour - one less castrated banshee to worry about

I TRY VERY HARD BUT I CAN NOT FAULT THAT LOGIC.

obailala:
Another not-too-smart Jonathanian opening another dumb thread to spew bullcrap

Of course Bh members are our brothers, but Jonathan called them 'Our Siblings'

Pray tell who is more accurate between the one calling boko haram "siblings" and the one who says they are "brothers" misguided though knowing that men ,women and young teens have caused the violent death of thousands of Nigerians.
THIS SEASON (NEXT FOUR YEARS), ALL YOUR WISDOM WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOWN FOR FOOLISHNESS.

superstar1:
When paid to FG, it will be counted for Lagos state and that is why Lagos always have the highest VAT allocation.

Really ? I guess we would just have to wait and see. Although i wery much suspect that what will happen is that the financial institutions will devolve their structure to better take advantage of the new realities / opportunities when the relocation begins.
I also suspect that the north will seek a way to compel the banks to relocate to the FCT using the CBN in some funny new policy.They wouldn't have to move everything , just the top management and decision making capacity to Abuja,require a few changes to the incorporation structure where does that put the VAT you are holding on to ?
It's a wonderful country we live in, anything can and does happen which is why i laugh when you cite examples of financial centers in the US,UK or wherever.