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THE contrast was clear. On Tuesday, while Americans were voting for a president, their 10th president since 1961, three of who did two terms, Cameroonians were celebrating the 30th anniversary of President Paul Biya in power.

Biya is Cameroon’s second president since the country’s independence from France 52 years ago.

His predecessor Ahmadou Ahidjo ran Cameroon for 22 years, got tired (some say sick) and voluntarily handed power to Biya in 1982. Biya, 79, has ruled since them. His supporters are prodding him to stand for another election in 2018, when he would be only 85 years old.

Biya was absent, he practically lives in France, where he meets medical requirements. Cameroon’s 20 million people wallow in the scourge of Biya who is relatively young among sit-tight African leaders.

Their ambition appears to be to beat the 42-year record of Gabon’s Albert Omar Bongo, who only death, at 71, could separate from power.

Ahead of Biya in the dictatorship game are Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola, 70, Equatorial Guinea’s Theodoro Mbasogo, 70, and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, 88: in power for 32 years each.

Younger members of the club are Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 68, and in his 25th year in power, Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, Cape Verde (78) became President 21 years ago, but had been Prime Minister for 16 years. Others are Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir (68) 23 years, and Idriss Deby Itno (60) of the Republic of Chad, 22 years.

The continued presence of these rulers bears grave consequences for their people and the continent. The opposition is decimated and within their parties, there are no successors in sight, it is considered treason to discuss succession of the leader.

With Biya’s Cameroon still as example, 96.6 per cent of its 21 million population, over 20.28 million, is under 64 years old.

A minor part of that group would have been 12 years old when Ahidjo became president. More than three-quarters of the country, 14 million know only Biya as president.

The tragedies are more. Biya tried democratising the country, but his sweeping powers and decision to hold unto to power has left the country fragmented along ethnic and religious lines.

The opposition wants to know if his successor, from another ethnic group and another religion would be allowed to rule as long as Biya. The question indicates the dangers ahead.

Cameroonians like Zimbabweans, Angolans and Ugandans would be under worse pressure to find leaders when the dictator expires.

Cote d’Ivoire is still in turmoil, 19 years after the death of Felix Houphouët-Boigny, its first president who ruled for 33 years.

African dictators should democratise instead of celebrating destruction of their countries.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/biya-forever/

You didn't add a vib.rator

Money is indeed the root of all evil * SMH *

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Na wa oooooooooo na now she be your girlfriend

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I no they there when you talk am ooooooo

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If i may ask what gives you the impression that isreal can't deal iran all alone

1. To check the Price of Garri in the Market
2. Surf the net all day
3. Make calls and text
4. Listen to Music
5. Watch Movies

My 5yr old neice would always ask me the current price of Garri in the market

Oya donald Obama don win go railway track go drink Garri nonsense man...

Guys are just scared of life after marriage...

LWKMD everybody in my office thinks am insane, can't just stop laughing out loud

Thank God for his life, i don't why he traveled that late.
May God save us in this country.

Na wa o, you can't seperate them from their tradition, the next thing they result to is violence. Another ALUU in the making

UmuahiaA – A 35-year-old bricklayer, Mr Ugochukwu Ekwuribe, from Amuzu-Olokoro, near Umuahia, was allegedly stabbed to death over a N200 debt reportedly owed to his suspected killer.

Ekwuribe’s father, Mr Andrew Ogazi, a security man, told newsmen in Umuahia on Thursday that the incident happened around 7.30 p.m. last Friday.

Ogazi said that he learnt from several witnesses that his son bled to death after he was stabbed with a bottle at a beer parlour located at Itaja-Olokoro.
Narrating the incident, he explained that he was in his house at Amuzu, when news came to him that ”Ugochukwu is dead”.

He said that he immediately rushed to the scene of the incident where it was confirmed that the deceased was stabbed during a fight with the suspect.

The suspect, identified as Tochukwu Azuonye, popularly called Tobinto, is said to be at large.

Ogazi said that he was informed that Azuonye allegedly accosted his son at the bar and asked him to buy him a bottle of beer.

“’My son was reported to have promised that he would oblige him his request the following day being Saturday,” he said.

He said that the suspect, not satisfied with the promise, demanded that the deceased pay him the outstanding N200 he owed him for the towel he sold to him.

“I learnt that from there, a fight ensued and the suspect grabbed a bottle at the bar, broke it and stabbed him on the left arm.

“He reportedly bled profusely from the deep cut until he slumped and was rushed to a nearby maternity at Ahia-Ukwu Olokoro for first aid,” he said.

He explained that the deceased was rejected at the maternity and referred to the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, where he reportedly gave up the ghost, shortly after doctors commenced treatment on him.

Ogazi, who explained that the police had waded into the case and called for justice in the handling of the matter.

A senior police officer at the state Criminal Investigation Department confirmed the incident , saying that it was transferred from Ubakala Police Station.

The officer said on condition of anonymity that “full investigation into the case has commenced,’’ promising that the suspect “will certainly be apprehended’’. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/man-stabbed-to-death-over-n200-debt/

nyere84: Oh my own Terry G, so u now ve a baby & a fiance?? Wat happened to ur promises to me??

remember, those tyms we spent 2geda in the bush, un-complete buildings and motor parks. Chie.!! Terry G, u don shatter my hrt into pieces. ** looking for knife to kill myself**

When you have me why kill yourself, i sabi do pass Terry G

Nice post

Na wa o SMH

Those blood sucking BH will rot in hell.
Wish the priest a quick recovery, may God save us in this country.

ABEOKUTA—THREE unions at the Ogun State government-owned D. S. Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Itori, have commenced another industrial action to protest alleged lack of teaching aids and failure to pay salaries of the workers.

The Unions — the Academic Staff of Polytechnic, ASUP; Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnic, SSANIP, and the Non-Academic Staff union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, said the strike would not be suspended like the previous ones until their demands were met by the management.

The unions said the resumption of the strike became imperative “because facilities that will ordinarily aid teaching and learning, particularly in an ICT-based institution like ours are non-existent.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/3-poly-unions-begin-strike/

Is that not a police man with a gun joining them in the act na wa o, naija i hail ooooo

joeydozzy: Thank God finally.... I hope say she never reach menopause

Na wa o people wicked o

berem: Who gives a fucck?

If you tell them how this affect the price of that white thing now they will get angry and start banning

* Hisses and walks away *

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In u s and become a president of u s so we all know that u are koking because befor u make attempt to closer to president there we brush u down and if ur father come closer too there we put him for jail so keep of ur plan because is hard for ur father talkless of u to do it ok
Because u would have be am Example to others[color=#000099][/color]

Na wa o why did the mods allow this post, this post must be hidden

* Running away to take cover somewhere before gramatical bomb/bombs kills some1 *

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday nominated a former senior commander in Afghanistan as the new head of the military’s Africa Command, which oversees US security efforts on the continent.

The change in leadership comes amid growing concerns over Al-Qaeda’s affiliates in the region, particularly in Mali, and a deadly attack on a US consulate in Libya linked to Islamist extremists.

Panetta said General David Rodriguez, who served as the deputy American commander in Afghanistan and helped plan the “surge” of additional troops in the war, was well-suited to the post.

As chief of the NATO-led force’s joint command, Rodriguez “oversaw the coalition and Afghan forces during the surge, and was a key architect of the successful campaign plan that we are now implementing,” Panetta told a news conference.

Rodriguez, known by troops as “General Rod” and who currently serves as head of US Army Forces command, was touted as a possible chief commander for Afghanistan last year. The job however went to a Marine, General John Allen, who after a year in Kabul is due to hand over soon to another Marine, General Joseph Dunford.

If his nomination is confirmed by the Senate as expected, Rodriguez will succeed General Carter Ham, who played a key role in the NATO air war in Libya.

As head of Africa Command, Rodriguez would help oversee counter-terrorism missions in Somalia, Yemen, Mali, Nigeria and elsewhere, as well as training and other efforts designed to bolster US military ties across the region.

The command’s headquarters is based in Stuttgart, Germany.

Panetta also named General John Paxton as the new number two of the US Marine Corps, as the outgoing assistant to the commandant, Dunford, will soon be taking over as the top US and NATO military chief in Afghanistan.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/us-army-general-nominated-to-counter-terrorism-in-nigeria-others/

May his soul rest in peace

Na wa o well martin luther had a dream and 50 years after the dream came through, i guess our own martin luther king is talking. SMH

But wait o does getting a tatoo takes someones ability to think This babe must be deluded

* Hisses and runs away from thread before something like this happens *

Na wa o, wetin concern us small time now them go share picture of Tinubu taking garri. SMH

Oga charles small small now Tonto na person pikin ooooooo

Nice write up