₦airaland Forum

bidemi12:
I am sorry for you. you are starting an arguement you will never win with kobojunkie. she will tire you out with sheer staying power and stamina. strong as hell.

1025:
this is just the beginning. why we no go drop when our president is busy buying yacht and 3 aircraft. pdp was busy spending 100s of millions on daily basis in the name of campaign. we never start. we are heading to the last spot. unfortunately, many of us here supported pdp and some other imbeciles will never say a word on this kind of issues.

Donlittle:
i told beaf, and co, we will drop economically, our naira, will be greatly devalued, do you know what he told me? he said sanusi and co will handle with, dont worry.

hahaha, it not een up to 3 weeks or 4 weeks after election it is happening already, smh, i wish they had just listened

Donlittle:
seun and co, that was supporting pdp self, went their and post this thing on the front page ehn?
why make we dey pity una say una vote pdp ni?
hahaha una neva see anything o, oh well i have my green card, oya i dey laugh

zstranger:
Found it!

http://secret-of-life.org/the-World-Bank-and-IMF

Kobojunkie:
um . . , but isn't that how a bank works . . . I mean from the very conception of the idea??

GenBuhari:
Abeg,
I was with you until you used the bad example of Osama Bin Laden.

That one is a nutcase.

Osama blew up 300 innocent kenyans just to kill a few Americans , and he was not fighting America because of its imperialism, but due to a jihad or holy war.

So very bad example iam afraid

The World Bank and IMF
"We are made up of two unique development institutions owned by 185 member countries. We provide low-interest loans, interest-free credits and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management."
-- World Bank Website

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 185 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world."
-- IMF Website

"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. Th[b]e other is by debt[/b]."
-- John Adams, Second President of the United States

"The fact of the matter is our job was to convince other countries to take very large loans [given by the World Bank],  Let's say a billion dollars to Ecuador to build big infrastructure projects: power plants, ports, highways, industrial parks. Things that didn't benefit anybody except the very wealthy people in those countries who were quite corrupt, and we corrupted them,  90% of that billion dollars would come back to the United States to pay for Halliburton, Bechtel, these types of companies to build the infrastructure.
Then the country would be stuck with this huge debt, which over time would continue to be refinanced and get larger and larger and larger. So that in fact today Ecuador owes more than 50% of its national budget just to pay down its debt service which means there's very little money left to pay for education and health services for the poor people who are the ones who suffer from these projects. It was their rivers that were destroyed when we built these hydro-electric plants, it was their land that was destroyed, 
Now they're saddled with this incredible debt that they can't possibly pay. And so we go in and demand our pound of flesh, very much like the mafia,  We need Ecuador's oil,  We tell Ecuador, 'Since you can't pay off your loans, what you need to do is to turn over your Amazon to our oil companies,  What it is all about is building empire. We've done this in every country around the world that has resources that we covet, often this is oil in places like Indonesia, Nigeria, Ecuador, Venezuela, and. Colombia. But sometimes its other resources, for example in Panama it was the Panama Canal. "
-- John Perkins

Nigeria squad:
[b]Oparanozie, Marbel Egwuenu, Helen Ukaonu, Josephine Chukwunonye, Ebere Orji, Soo Adekwagh, Mercy Amanze, Rebecca Kalu, Alaba Jonathan, Ngozi Ebere, Esther Michael, Joy Jegede, Amarachi Okoronkwo, Charity Adule, Blessing Edoho, Uchechi Sunday, Onyinyechi Ohadugba, Gloria Ofoegbu and Gloria Iroka.

babaearly:
for how many years now?

otokx:
ABA has always been a dirty flooded city.

Jonathan may name PDP executives into cabinet
By Festus Owete
May 11, 2011 10:39AM

There are indications that some members of the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are being considered for appointment into the federal cabinet to be constituted in June or July by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Although it is not yet clear who may benefit from the president’s gesture, it was learnt that this was one of the issues Mr Jonathan and some members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) led by the acting national chairman, Bello Haliru Mohammed, discussed when they met in Obudu Mountain Resort, Cross River State, last week.

The members of the NWC are Mr Mohammed (acting national chairman), Kawu Baraje (national secretary), Olusola Oke (national legal adviser), Inna Ciroma (national woman leader), Uche Secondus (national organising secretary), Ahmed Alkali (national publicity secretary), Tukur Mani (national financial secretary), Samuel Ortom (national auditor) and William Makinde (national treasurer). There are also vice chairpersons in all the six geopolitical zones who are not members of the NWC. They are, however, members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the national caucus of the party.

A source in the party said that the move to make at least two of them ministers is not only meant to compensate the PDP leadership for their support for Mr Jonathan since the demise of former President Umaru Yar’Adua but also because of the role they played during the nationwide campaign.

Besides, this will be in keeping with the unwritten tradition set by former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Yar’Adua in appointing some members of the PDP national leadership into their cabinets.

Unwritten tradition

While in office, Mr Obasanjo named some of the then members of the NWC as special advisers. These include Josephine Anenih, who was the national woman leader and Ventius Ikem, the national publicity secretary.

On his part, Mr Yar’Adua appointed two members of the immediate past NWC as members of his cabinet. They are Ojo Maduekwe, who was then the national secretary and John Odey, who was the national publicity secretary.

Mr Maduekwe served as foreign affairs minister until he was booted out of office by Mr Jonathan. Mr Odey, who earlier served as information and communication minister, was reassigned to the environment ministry by the incumbent president. Other zonal leaders of the PDP were also compensated with posts of chairpersons and members of boards of federal parastatals.

It was gathered that one of those Mr Jonathan may be appoint into the cabinet is the incumbent spokesperson of the party, Ahmed Alkali. He is said to be on the consideration list partly to compensate him for losing the gubernatorial primaries in Gombe State.
It was, however, gathered that the national leadership of the party may meet a stumbling block in the state chapters, which Mr Jonathan has already written requesting them to send in 10 nominees for consideration as ministers and other public office positions.
The president’s letter is based on the advice reportedly given him by the Presidential Action Council (PAC) chaired by the former defence minister, Theophilus Danjuma.

It was further gathered that some of those who contested the primary elections on the platform of the ruling party for various offices but lost are also jostling to make their way into the federal executive council (FEC).
There are presently 43 ministers drawn from the 36 states. Mr Alkali could not be reached by phone yesterday for comments. Also, efforts to reach the spokesperson to the acting national chairman, Emeka Nwankpa, were unsuccessful.

[size=14pt]Oyo: Ajimobi accuses Akala of indifference to doctors’ strike[/size]

On February 4, 2011 · In News
BY OLA AJAYI
IBADAN — FOLLOWING the strike embarked upon by doctors in Oyo State, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship candidate, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has condemned alleged indifference of the State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala to the complaints of the health workers.

He said leaders who put up “I don’t care attitude to health care delivery system of his people should not have ventured into governance at all.

He called on eligible voters in the state to pay Akala back in his own coin by voting him out in the April election.
All hospitals in the state have been shut for the past two weeks over what the doctors considers as “poor working conditions including poor remuneration, heavy tax and heavy work load arising from insufficient personnel”.

According to Ajimobi: “Every good leader works with the understanding that a healthy person is a wealthy person. The governor’s attitude is an indirect way of sending people to early grave for no just cause”.

According to him, “Government has collapsed in Oyo State. This is the height of lack of interest and care for the masses.

That is how the governor destroyed the education sector. He refused to pay teachers in both primary and secondary schools, sacked lecturers at the polytechnic and college of education for demanding a reduction of the heavy tax. LAUTECH students have been protesting the hike of their fees.

Now doctors and other medical workers have closed down the hospitals in a state where most citizens can not afford the bils of private hospitals. There is nowhere in the world, even in Nigeria where all government hospitals have been closed down up to local communities. As far as we are concerned, government has broken down; all sectors are affected. That is why Akala must resign now”.

Meanwhile, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, has appealed to well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the striking doctors to go back to work.

The appeal was contained in the electronic mail sent by the Special Adviser on Public Communication to the Governor, Prince Dotun Oyelade.

He said the Governor had led a delegation to persuade the association two days ago to accept 70 percent of what Federal approved for its staff even when many states found it difficult to pay.

According to the governor, “Federal takes 52 percent of total revenue accruing to the country while the 36 States and 774 Councils share the rest so Federal can afford to pay that which is not binding on any State. Even Lagos State with its huge revenue base can only pay 75 percent”.

He explained further that his administration had stretched its purse to the limit by conceding to pay 70 percent.
“ We in turn appeal to the patriotic sense of our doctors to see reason and we also appeal to well_meaning people to persuade them to call off strike”, he stated.

Eko Ile:
I don't think folks in sane and civilized countries will agree with you, abeg let's keep our madness in Nigeria, other people are trying to move forward and not backward like Nigeria.