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k2039: I have a feeling the Oronasye and Oti scene were staged

Ribadu report: Oronsaye foul cry, an embarrassment —Groups

NOVEMBER 4, 2012 BY LEKE BAIYEWU 44 COMMENTS

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Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

Opposition parties and civil society groups have described the uproar over the report by the Nuhu Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Special Task force as an “international embarrassment.”

They said it was an indication that the probe was a populist move by the Federal Government.

Notwithstanding the presence of President Goodluck Jonathan at the presentation of the report on Friday, two members of the committee – Mr. Stephen Oronsaye and Mr. Ben Oti – had openly disagreed with Ribadu over the process that produced the report and its credibility.

Oronsaye, who is the deputy chairman of the committee, alleged that the process leading to the production of the report was flawed and did not contain the views of all the members.

The All Nigeria Peoples Party, the Congress for Progressive Change, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders and Campaign for Democracy took turns on Saturday to lambast Oronsaye.

The Executive Chairman, CACOL, Mr. Debo Adeniran, advised Jonathan not to take Oronsaye arguments seriously. He accused the antagonists of the report of having ulterior motives.

He said, “It is an indication that all is not well with Nigeria. A critical look at the situation shows that some forces did not want the report to see the light of the day. The embarrassment the massive corruption in the sector forced Presidency to use Ribadu’s name to launder its image.

“If Oronsaye claims he did not sit with the committee, his name should not be written on the report. The tragi-comedy is a manifestation of the lopsidedness of our polity. It is an international embarrassment.

“If Jonathan is considering a soft landing by asking Oronsaye to present his own report, that will not be acceptable.”

Similarly, the National Publicity Secretary, ANPP, Mr. Emma Eneukwu, said it was expected that those indicted by the report would kick and try to devise a cover-up. He expressed his pessimism about the political will to implement the report.

He said, “If Ribadu presents a credible report, friends of the system,” will query its credibility.

“Almost all of those indicted have skeletons in their cupboard. Antagonists are just rising up to rubbish the report. We have advanced in this country and we know what is happening. If the President wants to fight corruption – which I know he does not, going by the fate of similar reports – he should work with the report.”

The President, Campaign for Democracy, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, said Nigerians would not relent in their fight against corrupt officials until the reports from probes into the petroleum sector were fully implemented.

She said, “The scenario is not surprising, as people have motives for everything they do. The track record of Ribadu will convince anyone that the report is credible. It only shows the type of game we are playing, in terms of political will to implement probe reports.

“My advice is that once more, the government should restore the confidence of the people. We are only subsidising corruption by failing to nail it. The implementation of the report must be very fast in prosecuting those indicted.”

Where are the fertilizers?
Our Reporter November 4, 2012 2 Comments »



By Emma Okah,
emmaokah@yahoo.com,
08033211999

The whole talk about the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration will be blowing hot air if the nation cannot feed itself substantially from locally produced foods. This is particularly true because a large percentage of the food items of different classifications, which Nigerians consume at home, are imported from other countries, some of which are less endowed.

The direct foreign exchange loss is mind-blowing. Nations are respected in the international arena based on the potency of their economic strength and not their size or bogus claim to being a giant. And no nation can pride itself as viable when the majority of her people are hungry and unemployed. Many Nigerians are nearly eating from the waste bin, to put it mildly.

When patriots call on government to deliver good leadership and respect the rule of law, it is so that we can lay the foundation for a solid nation based on economic prosperity and political stability, and prepare for the rainy day. In Nigeria today, the cloud is just gathering before the rain and the signs are obvious that if the heavy rain comes, thousands will die of starvation. Agriculture, which once built and sustained the growth of the nation in the 1950s and 1960s has been so thoroughly neglected that it is now seen as a past time to keep a few retirees and peasant farmers busy. At a time when Nigeria should be building capacity in agriculture, our leaders are behaving like easy oil wealth will last forever.

The clock is ticking and many are wondering what would happen if the oil suddenly dries up today. Governments at all levels have intentionally refused to allocate resources towards supporting agriculture through massive provision of inputs, agricultural research and marketing outlets in Nigeria. The result is that agricultural policy direction by government has been ineffectual and watery. Unless Nigeria pursues a deliberate policy of agricultural revolution to back up and boost the efforts of peasant farmers, Nigerians will continue to live on borrowed food. Food crisis is real in Nigeria as indeed in many African countries. The ghosts of Operation Feed the Nation and Shehu Shagari’s Green Revolution have deserted the nation.

Lack of vision on the part of national policy makers has starved the agricultural sector of resources for decades. Like the power sector in Nigeria, the agricultural sector has continued to shrink, making African countries net importers of food, despite agriculture employing the majority of the population. According to Kofi Annan, the need to reinvest in agriculture to reverse this trend has become evident. This reinvestment holds a number of opportunities, not only for increased food security and the improvement of livelihoods, but also for economic growth and private sector development.

Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Ayo Adesina, has been talking righteously about the feats achieved by his ministry in the agricultural sector through efficient electronic distribution of fertilizers. [b]Listening to him leaves one with an impression that Nigeria will get it right in the agricultural sector, but unfortunately, Mr Minister is still in the dreamland. Nigeria is yet to meet 30% of her national fertilizer needs. The fertilizers are still in the hands of the cartel that know the terrain well. Still talking about fertilizer, Rivers State is still miles away. Enquiries at the Ministry of Agriculture/ADP office in Rumuodomaya in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area showed that the fertilizers imported by the state government have been sold at subsidised rates to a few businessmen who came from the northern part of the country.

Trailer loads of fertilizer left the state and rendered the farmers in Rivers State hopeless and helpless. A lot of farmers from the state now head to nearby Imo State to buy fertilizers at exorbitant costs from private importers. As a commercial farmer, I know that it will be totally impossible for the peasant farmers to afford the luxury of fertilizers in their farming programmes. I have further cross-checked and it is obvious that the Federal Government’s fertilizers are not available in Port Harcourt. I just pray this is not the same story down the Niger. The reason is simple.

The nation has scanty regard for the agricultural sector because free oil wealth has beclouded the vision of our national reality. Why would any contemporary Nigeria leadership bother about agriculture, tilling the soil, planting, weeding, harvesting and storing when there are smoother valves? Simply put, the money from oil is enough to play the game. After all, every Nigerian leader had always seen the oil sector as a private estate. With a weak National Assembly and beleaguered institutions to check fraud and executive excesses, neglect of the agricultural and other critical revenue sectors is a matter of course.

At the formal launch of a natural cocoa product called Frangada, produced by a private company, Multi-Trex Integrated Foods Plc, in Warewa, Ogun State, recently, Dr. Adesina decried lack of attention given to agriculture by Nigerians, especially the youths, stressing that Nigeria has no reason to import any agricultural produce considering the abundant mineral and human resources in the country. “There was a time Nigeria had the largest market in cocoa production, but today, other countries have taken over. Ghan, today produces one million metric tonnes of cocoa, Ivory Coast produces 1.2 million, Nigeria is at 250,000 metric tonnes in cocoa production.”

However, this should not be so, he said. Dr Adesina spoke with pains in his heart as he recalled the good old days when cocoa held sway. All these sound like fairy tales and mere rhetoric because the three tiers of government in Nigeria want agriculture relegated. There were the groundnut pyramids in the northern part of Nigeria, cocoa in the west and palm oil and allied products in the east.

The glorious days are gone and there is no saviour in sight. In an era tormented by corruption, maladministration, raging flood, declining productivity, weak currency engineered by a consuming rather than a productive economic habit, Nigeria and Nigerians can only be poorer. My experience in public life tells me that leadership does not need the permission of law to do right in some cases, and it cannot do wrong when it acts in the best interest of the people. If a fraction of all the funds abused and stolen by government officials at all levels are channeled into agriculture, Nigeria will easily reclaim her lost agricultural prowess. The opportunity is not lost, but lessons must be learnt from the mistakes of the past.



Nigeria and many other African countries are under an international obligation to allocate 10% of their annual budget to the agricultural sector, but this is observed more in breach. Over the past two decades, there was a gradual decrease in the amount of resources allocated to agriculture from government budgets. Between 2005 and 2009, only 10 African countries allocated over 10% of government budget to agriculture. In addition, 18 countries allocated less than 5% over the same period.

But the highest Nigeria has done is 3%. With an employment profile of 70%, the nation needs to save the agricultural sector through large scale direct participation, allocation of more funds and procurement of inputs for farmers as a national policy. [/b]

take dat: Don't be angry with GEJ. Orosanye acted in that manner in connivance with GEJ and Diezani. If Orosanye felt left out and that due process wasn't followed he would have voiced out his dissent to the President and in the media earlier before friday or would have waited till after the submission of the report. He practically chose to throw decorum to the dogs being aware that the press was present at the presentation.
What is so special about Orosanye that he will be appointed on the Board of NNPC while still on the Board of CBN? Who's interest is Orosanye serving? GEJ's.

lagerwhenindoubt: I am a bit confused here especially the reaction of the President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria. Jonathan Goodluck Ebele.
He has not attempted to address the concerns presented by both Steve and Ribadu regarding the readiness of the Committee to submit an incomplete report (as stated by Steve) nor has he appreciated the opportunity Ribadu has offered him to truly show what sort of President he is. If it were OBJ he would have thoroughly lambasted Oti and Steve for deeming their input fit for consideration having not participated in critical deliberations throughout the period the report was being compiled.

Omo na wa for this GEJ, is this what we will be voting for come 2015? . dear GOD send one sandy this way abeg.

take dat: You are right. According to Ribadu, the only time Orosanyi took part in the assignment was when he came to serve as front for a company.

Ribadu said: He (Oronsaye) was not at
the inauguration and he never
participated in the deliberations of the
committee. The only time he came was
when we wanted to start deliberations
on recovery and he came on behalf of
one company, Addax Petroleum, which
is owing $1.5 billion.
"That was the only time he came. In
fact, he scuttled the payment of the
$1.5 billion. The next thing, he was
appointed into the board of NNPC, in
addition to being a board member of
CBN."

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/discordant-tune-ribadu-oronsaye-scuttled-payment-of-1-5bn-to-govt/129524/

Sike: Somebody pls tell this yeye Ribadu to find somewhere sit jare!

Jarus: My brother, that is the tragedy of my generation. They didn't witness the war, they didn't read about it, yet they are the ones at the forefront of arguments here. Anybody who never knew General Shuwa before this news doesn't deserve to contribute to the talk, especially as it relates to civil war. I can see folks here asking 'who is Shuwa?' And after being answered, being the one to throw insults. The level of ignorance in display on Nairaland here is very worrisome. That is why some of us have retreated to our mere watchers in topics relating to Nigeria's political history.

mrrock: @Billyonaire.
I told you he chosed Ribadu as a mark of authenticity. He is under presure to convince Nigerians that he is serious. I' am not doubting the findings. The findings may be ok but must have to be discredited in order to protect the cabals (those that funded their election and put them in power in the first place).

mapet: @ Oga Wizeboy,

The question leads to other pertinent questions
1. Why are we so poor in researchin even on NL, that we regurgitate lots of questionable and dumb ascerssions and argue blindly and stu.pidly
2. Why have we been so lazy that we believe and perpertuate lies and falsehood before thinking thru it. A NLer on the earlier on that thread punctured the report with a simple analysis on the alleged travel frequency of Mrs. Ajimobi. That for the ascerssion to be true, Mrs. Ajimobi must have been travelling to London everyweekend at least- which is ridiculous, but many thoughtless NLers still went ahead with the jaundiced view of "there is an element of truth in every rumour"
3. Why do we get on unnecessary frenzy when with opportunity to pry into people's private lives and do damage.

mapet: So because she makes an 8-way official trip, ACN will loose southwest? Oga sir, I tried as much as possible to understand how you guys reason so senslessly?

Sleek05: Thank u Gbawe 4 making so much sense. Cuz my parents stay in ib, during d elections, I studied d Gov Ajimobi's background and was so impressed. Dis man has reached d peak of his career, he was the MD of a prestigious oil company, had a lot of money before he came into power, yet, every small thn, dey accuse him of choppin dia money! Now dat d 'no smoke without fires' and d 'I'm with pm news on dis one' have been shamed because even pm news has apologised to the governor's wife, I hope Nigerians get 2 think next tym before embracing any poo written by opposition parties. Dat report was so badly written, belongs in d trash, yet d 'no smoke without fire' idiots took it in hook, line and sinker. Smh

solomon111: I don't understand what you are getting at?
It seems you are a closet ghanaian.
The purpose of people schooling abroad is to get quality education,and once that purpose is defeated, everything becomes irrelevant.
Would you sacrifice quality education for quick graduation?

IykeD: Guilty conscience ma'm! Who do you plan to deceive? Why should your kid(s) be in a secondary school in the UK?

politician: Nigerians!! Kai!!!

After the newspaper tender an apology and dissociate itself from the news!!!

Atom ko! Neutron ni!!

The hatred for some political group has blinded any form of objectivity!!!

When you have made up your mind to hang a dog, any rope would do!!!

Awon onisokuso!!

mapet: @ Ndu_chucks

1. your simply twisting logic on it's head and also regurgitating some logic without putting it in proper perspective. You cannot not divorce government from business and investment. A responsible government takes initiative to drive/catalyze sectors that will positively impact on the people.
2. With all the lands in the country, how many private investors went into Agribusiness to sustain the present food gap.
3. Do you know that as far back in OBJ's day, the Chinese came here with a gaint ships for acelerated export of cassava, yet could hardly fill the ship on a single trip?(It is established that Nigeria is the largest producer of Cassava in the world, yet we are not producing up to 10% of the world demand)
4. Do you know that in the last few months, certain cummulative factors have driven average food prices up by 200%?
5. Who told you Lagos state was going it alone Lagos is noted to be the foremost driver of PPP even much more than the federal government.
6. Except we are lying to ourselves, you cannot divorce government from business. Even consulting firms like accenture had to rethink thier strategy few years back and started taking government contract.
7. The Minister of Agric, have been working with State governments that are serious in this area and these are some of the workings you're seeing.
8. For me, It is sheer intellectual laziness, to just jump into some warpped conclusions, without understanding the background and direction schemes like these are going. The Chinese, with there massive industrialization are one of the largest exporter of Apples, Fish, Buffalo milk for cheese etc. The Egyptians has 25% land, every other space is Nile and desert, yet they have much more food than us; not to talk of the Isreal, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc

In 1961 India was on the brink of mass famine.[3] Borlaug was invited to India by the adviser to the Indian minister of agriculture M. S. Swaminathan. Despite bureaucratic hurdles imposed by India's grain monopolies, the Ford Foundation and Indian government collaborated to import wheat seed from CIMMYT. Punjab was selected by the Indian government to be the first site to try the new crops because of its reliable water supply and a history of agricultural success. India began its own Green Revolution program of plant breeding, irrigation development, and financing of agrochemicals.[4]
India soon adopted IR8 – a semi-dwarf rice variety developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) that could produce more grains of rice per plant when grown with certain fertilizers and irrigation. In 1968, Indian agronomist S.K. De Datta published his findings that IR8 rice yielded about 5 tons per hectare with no fertilizer, and almost 10 tons per hectare under optimal conditions. This was 10 times the yield of traditional rice.[5] IR8 was a success throughout Asia, and dubbed the "Miracle Rice". IR8 was also developed into Semi-dwarf IR36.


Wheat yields in developing countries, 1950 to 2004, kg/HA baseline 500. The steep rise in crop yields in the U.S. began in the 1940s. The percentage of growth was fastest in the early rapid growth stage. In developing countries maize yields are still rapidly rising.[6]
In the 1960s, rice yields in India were about two tons per hectare; by the mid-1990s, they had risen to six tons per hectare. In the 1970s, rice cost about $550 a ton; in 2001, it cost under $200 a ton.[7] India became one of the world's most successful rice producers, and is now a major rice exporter, shipping nearly 4.5 million tons in 2006.

seedord247: Your daughter is schooling in london while millions of innocent kids are trecking to pako school everyday in oyo state....

God is watching us.

Professional career

He returned to Nigeria in 1977 and joined Management and Industrial Consulting firm as a Senior Consultant. He thereafter worked briefly with Modulor Group (an architectural firm) as the Finance and Admin Controller, before joining Nestle Foods PLC. as the Operations Controller and later as Marketing Controller. In 1979, he joined National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company as the Consumer Products Manager. He was the youngest Manager to occupy such a sensitive position. His performance quickly earned him promotion to the level of Divisional Manager within one and a half years. Thus becoming the youngest Divisional Manager to be thus appointed.
He was later promoted to head a newly created Corporate Credit division reporting directly to the Managing director. As a top flyer in the company and based on his problem solving ability he was deployed to Ibadan Business District as the Area Manager to ensure the repositioning of the company's entire activities in the area. The Company and the district experienced landmark achievements in its modern retail network resulting. In 1987 he built the company’s first 3 in 1 and the largest petrol station retail outlet in Nigeria. The district office built during his tenure still stands out today in Jericho, Ibadan.
In 1987, based on a worldwide international strategic positioning of the lubricants business desired by Shell International Oil Company, he was appointed the Lubricants Manager. He successfully built a new Lubricant division which became the most profitable business of the company and the largest contributor to the corporate profit. Having completed the strategic repositioning of the Lubricants department, he was moved to manage another troubled business arm- the aviation department. By 1993, he had acquired broad exposure in virtually all the marketing arms of the company. As part of the grooming programme he was posted on an international assignment to Shell International storage company of Togo, serving the whole of West Africa as Chief Executive. He also was the Operations Director of Shell Marketing Company in Togo covering some West African countries.
He returned to Nigeria in 1995 and was appointed in 1996 as Oil Sales Manager in 1998. He was appointed to the board of the company as Executive director- Marketing, a position he held before his appointment on February 2001, as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company. As Managing Director he substainally improved the profitability of the company and the shareholders fortune. In 2003, he voluntarily retired after 26 years of service in the Oil industry.
In his successful professional career spanning a period of over three decades, Abiola Ajimobi was quick witted and positively impacted on the businesses and people he interacted with.[4]

Political career

In 2003 he became a Senator of the Republic of Nigeria. He was a principal officer in the Senate, serving as the Deputy Minority leader of the Senate.
During his senate days, in 2005, he established the first and the largest FREE VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, in Oyo State, offering training in computer engineering, computer operations, telephone engineering, fashion designing, hair dressing, tie and dye. The Center has turned out over 16,000 students free of charge, these have gone on to gain employment in banks and many industries in Nigeria. The Center has been recognized and certified both as a partner and training center by the ITF of the Federal Government.
In 2007 he contested the gubernatorial election under the umbrella of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) but lost the election bid. He contested again in 2011 and was elected in a keenly contested election.[2]

felifeli: I am now sick up to here to be reading dozens of new threads everyday by some jobless igbo persons trumpeting the greatness,miseries and demands of igbo people.what is the matter with you people? Are you the only one in this world? Please moderators let us read something more edifying other than these depressingly persistent self-aggrandisement and self-pity. Thank you

ubandire: This Gbawe is one of the most foolish people i have ever come across on this forum and all my life,if u are trying to make a case over a verbal slip,which was immediately corrected,I now wonder why u obviously failed to contribute on more burning issues involving ur party ACN and it's leaders.

' As old as u are'implies that even if u are 3years old u are older than wearing pampers,you are too old for what you are doing,simple.,u musn't be 30 and above before you start behaving yourself.Get that into ur thick old skull.mtscheeeeeew

Postulations of our Philosopher- President
on OCTOBER 3, 2012 · in FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
12:53 am
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By Ogaga Ifowodo
His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, a man with great quest for knowledge holds a Bachelor of Science … Master of Science … and Doctor of Philosophy … from University of Port Harcourt ,” so begins a profile of our president available online (http://www.onlinenigeria.com/links/LinksReadPrint.asp?blurb=640).

Jonathan “bagged” these degrees in biology, fisheries and zoology. Although he began his working life in the civil service, there really was only one place for him because he “always knew that he had a bond with the academia that he cannot dispute” (sic).

And so in 1983, he left “mainstream” civil service to teach biology at Rivers State College of Education. But a college of education proved unequal to his scholarly ambition, his desire “to equip himself firmly ahead of the foresighted challenges” (sic), hence his pursuit of doctoral studies.

By citing this online profile, I do not imply that it emanated from the President or that it was posted with his consent. Indeed, it appears to have been written by a fawning admirer in the manner of the pompous and shameful praise-singing that our men and women in high office cherish and encourage, if not actively solicit.

The unguarded zeal of the writer is evident in the embarrassing errors of grammar that seem to mock the goal of presenting his subject as a man of exemplary learning and academic achievements. Yet, the unintended result proves to be a good allegory for understanding the efforts of our President as the interpreter-in-chief of our troubled national life.

I will return to this point presently, but if I began with his valorisation as a man of great learning, it is not only because he is a doctor of philosophy but also because until his predecessor, Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria seemed cursed to be governed only by men of middling education; to put it mildly.

That Yar’Adua had not just a Bachelor’s but a Master’s as well endeared him to many, made them willing to overlook the scandal of the 2007 presidential election and give him the benefit of the doubt. One can safely assume that not a few quieted their grave concerns regarding the capability of Jonathan to be president by the wish to elect only the second head of state to have passed through the portals of a university.

To be clear, I do not consider university education a qualification for the office of president: in my view, the late Mokwugo Okoye and Anthony Enahoro, to name just two great minds, would shame many a Ph.D or pretender to the presidency. So then what?

That a president who happens to be a doctor of philosophy should, at the very least, prove himself worthy of the status — in learning, if not in leadership. But in all that Jonathan has said in public office, I have yet to find a thought or idea so well expressed or a social problem so clearly analysed as would be befitting of a former university don.

The problem, I admit, may be with me: I may not have looked widely or carefully enough or I may have failed to recognise intellectual rigour in his speeches, and I have wondered aloud before who writes his speeches. But let me tender evidence in my defence from Jonathan’s recent claim that the January anti-fuel subsidy protests were sponsored and manipulated by some unnamed people. In short, by his enemies.

It is not only worrisome that Jonathan denounced the people as fools easily misled to risk life and limb for a cup of water and a song, but also that this is the best argument he could advance in support of such utter contempt for his electorate.

During the demonstration in Lagos, he said, “people were given bottled water that people in my village don’t have access to. People were given expensive food that the ordinary people in Lagos cannot eat. So even going to eat free alone attracts people.

They go and hire the best musicians to come and play and the best comedian to come and entertain. Is that demonstration? Are you telling me that that is a demonstration from ordinary masses in Nigeria who want to communicate something to government? I believe that that protest in Lagos was manipulated by a class in Lagos and was not from the ordinary people.”

I could neither laugh nor cry when I read this, and not merely for the awful grammar. I could only wonder: after nine months of reflection, this is the conclusion of our philosopher-president regarding a crisis that rocked the country he claims to govern, a crisis that caused death and grievous bodily harm to many?

After the revelations of the House of Representatives committee that probed the oil subsidy swindle, and KPMG’s forensic report on NNPC’s process and procedure, both of which confirmed the popular view that the so-called subsidy was one enjoyed by the oil cartel and its enablers in the corridors of power, the President could so brazenly insult the people?

As a species of argument, one wouldn’t expect it of a sophomore! Which makes me wonder what the President’s aforementioned profiler must have meant by describing him as a “humane administrator, amazingly simple minded.”

Doesn’t the President know that he pronounced judgement against himself as he said those words? The people, he confesses, are so impoverished, so famished, that they would riot, do the devil’s work, for food! Evidently, irony is not something that our philosopher-president might understand.

Jonathan’s puzzling vilification of the people, says Wole Soyinka, is the result of “bad conscience.” As he rightly points out, Jonathan did not see manipulators when the same people took to the streets to insist that he be named acting president against the entrenched interests of those who sought to profit from Yar’Adua’s effective abdication of office due to terminal illness.

But I don’t think it is bad conscience alone that afflicts the President. It seems clear that Jonathan, Ph.D notwithstanding, suffers from bad social science as well. And that his expert knowledge of fishes and animals needs urgently to be supplemented by a serviceable knowledge of society and human behaviour.

Prof Corruption: The yorubas do not hate Obasanjo for nothing. There is a reason for it. The North love him and adore him, there is a reason for that too.

Demdem: [s][/s]

Crap from a crappy brain and out of point as regards the topic of discussion here.
what has this got to do with the Retardeen's numerous goofs?

Demdem: Thats the key word. ROUTINELY.

bubadaniel13: Where is it written that Presidents dont make mistakes, i just want to know?

onatisi: why does everyone keep calling gbawe an old man?i still dont get it .

omiobo: OP,you disgust me. What is the point of this thread?

ysquare: Indeed. Many only expected a truthful and 'correctional' head count of Nigerians from OBJ. We did not want favouritism in the South. We just wanted sincere actions that begin to make Nigeria a more equitable nation. Instead, OBJ embraced injustice and parochial servitude as he has done many times when in a position to truly deliver inspired leadership that may put Nigeria on the path of greatness.

Tragic really.

I don't know what is wrong with us in this country that what ever we said is base on sentiment, those allocation being to your leaders what are they doing with it that you want more?

onatisi: gbawe,i think you should drop it and let the matter die.the statement and post u made earlier about gej was totally uncalled for and unbecoming,but if you insist you are right,well it is free world.carry on

duality: you shouldn't have said this. its too childish for an old man like you.