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[size=14pt]Consequently, focusing indignation on Western media and not at Aso Rock and those in Abuja who continually demean and degrade Nigerian lives is naïve and does great disservice to the victims of Baga. Because unless we collectively and continuously focus our just and righteous rage at Abuja and root our analysis and critique against the Nigerian government who have allowed the spread of this scourge, the killings and massacres will only continue with impunity."
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theV0ice:
Why do they hate this man so much??

Is it a crime for a man to be upright in this country??

So GMB DID NOT even leave the shores of Nigeria yet some people said he traveled for check up??

all thiz sickness reports you PDP are sharing......thereiz god uuuoooo...remember thereiz god in everything we are doing o

Weldone GMB. Those who wish you death will surely die before you. The same thing happened to the great Zik and the death screamers died before him.

Na so e go happen this time too

oloriIT:
Buhari has denied the report in today's papers that he is sick and travelling abroad. I think opposition needs another tactics as all these issues brought up to discredit this man is making him gain more popularity.

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-denies-health-concerns-foreign-trip/.

FOLYKAZE:
I couldnt believe what I saw after casting my vote. I believe even if the online result is not the reality, the real election which would come on feb14 is highly predictable from the online poll.

ilugunboy:
You know what will make 2015 a good year for me? If other Nigerians can damn you guys and let you go away from Nigeria with your oil.

This attempt at forcing the hands of Nigerians to keep voting mediocrity won't work really this time.

Dbboy:
Sentiment aside sir so you mean 75% of oil when awarded to northerner was legitimately done. What is good for them is also good for the rest of Nigeria.

Princewill1:
HE IS RIGHT!!

Anyother northerner may rule Nigeria in the future,but a TRIBAL AND A RELIGIOUS BIGOT LIKE BUHARI CAN NEVER RULE A UNITED NIGERIA.

You can take my words to the bank!

masterpower:
WHY ARE YORUBAS AFRAID OF NIGERIAS BREAK-UP?

DOES IT MEAN THAT THE YORUBAS CAN NOT SURVIVE ON THEIR OWN?

PLEASE LET NIGERIA BREAK UP AND LET ALL THESE ACCUSATION AND COUNTER ACCUSATION STOP.

olapluto:
Within the last 24 hours, PDP and GEJ apologists have said no less than TEN falsehoods in trying to promote GEJ. This is a big shame on the supposed ruling party.
1. Buhari's health
2. Shuttle bus as train
3. 2nd Niger bridge etc
it is becoming really sad for these people. Not one achievement of GEJ to be celebrated.

shizzle11:
awon omo ele kor...i know you have ejaculated in your pants already, i am not sexxx starved as you are

gbawe don't get me started this new year.

Good day

philips70:
You are working very hard for your peanuts. Your posts, your signature and all of your time including overtime. Remember to save and not waste them on those girls in Romance section. Joblessness looms May 29th 2015. There will be serious famine for most of you. Even to buy data to come on Nairaland will be very tough. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

Prophessor:
you people can campaign all you want

but remember that somewhere in northern Nigeria Northerners are challenging buhari over his certificate

PassingShot:
I can "hear" your pain dude. Sorry!

obowunmi:
There fighting for their pockets. Foolish Nigerians.


They use the peoples money to school abroad and here are fools trying to romanticize them.


Did they school in Oyo state? What exactly has their father done for the masses?

Abiola Ajimobi.


His university education was in the United States of America. He studied Business Administration and Finance at the State University New York, in Buffalo, New York graduating with a Bachelors of Science. His MBA was in Operations Research and Marketing with a concentration in Finance at the Governor’s State University, Park Forest, Illinois. As a result of his academic credentials and excellent performance at the New York Insurance examinations, he was engaged in Buffalo, New York as a state certified underwriter, by Equitable Life Assurance Corporation, which was then the 2nd largest Insurance Company in America.[4]

Professional career[edit]
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 substantially 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]

omenka:
Bro I'm not even in the mood. That guy called gbtyo or whatever makes me sick to my stomach.

I wonder how a man can live with himself when all he does is spread the gospel of hatred around. How could someone wake up and not think of any productive thing to do in life besides saying how yorubas did this, or Muslims did that, insult an entire tribe and religion knowing fully well how sensitive these things are??

Wish Seun could ban him for life including all his alter-monikers.

shizzle11:
dont be surprised. The same way they started with buharis daughter, telling us she is the most beautiful daughter of a perpetually unelectable, illiterate, loser and cow rearer, then when their picture posting backfires they begin to spew garbage like 'make una leave dis girl naa'.

useless people

wheredemdey:
I believe we are all here to learn regardless o0f our political affiliations...

I got the said pamphlet..i asked the domestic servants that stay in epe..sangotedo,ilaje etc if they also got in their area and they said they got none...my colleagues that stay in friends colony,bourdillion estate along chevron also an elitist estate along the lekki epe axis also got the pamphlet hence the reason i tagged it an elitist party..that osibanjo and ambode rode in BRT buses does not mean they have the masses at heart...its all election gimmicks...its my opinion and i am entitled to it..kindly respect it.

wheredemdey:
VGC Bro




Thats VGC not lagos...i know cos i got it too..APC is an elitist party..

let them go to epe..langbasa etc

GEJ till 2019

oduastates:
Pdp is dead. They have nothing to sell.

icebeatz:
lmao!!
So vgc is kogi state?? muhehehehhehehehe

The guy asked "which part of Nigeria is that" and i told him lagos.
If he asked which part of lagos i would say ajah.
If he asked which part of ajah, i would say vgc.

cjrane:
Story for the gods.

Why is it not on the other gate across the street?

The Yeye liar made up the cartoon stories and took picture of it in a gate.

patrickmuf:
Concise, precise and clear...Not the lamentations we hear from the soon to be opposition party...

seangy4konji:
We can only know if we give chance and change the government.

Buhari pledges to revive Ajaokuta Steel Company

JANUARY 17, 2015 BY NAN 18 COMMENTS


The presidential candidate of the APC, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, has promised to revive Ajaokuta Steel Company if elected president of Nigeria.

Buhari made the promise during his campaign in Lokoja on Friday.

He said he would resuscitate the company which had been out of production for the past five years.

He explained that this would enable it to generate employment for the nation’s teeming youths and create wealth for the country.

Buhari said government had spent almost $5billion on the company, promising that its fortunes will change for the better as soon as he assumed office.

Buhari also promised to stem the tide of corruption and plug all loopholes through which government money was being siphoned.

He added that money recovered from this effort would be used to develop agriculture and provide quality education for the people.



“We in the APC have resolved to govern the nation with humility, probity and transparency.’’

He said he was in a better position to end the orgy of insurgency in some parts of the country based on his military background.

The APC presidential candidate told the crowd to collect their permanent voter cards and vote for him to ensure the needed change in the affairs of the country.

His running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, urged Nigerians to vote for the APC in the coming elections.

Present were National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Sen. Bukola Saraki, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, former Gov. Abubakar Audu, Sen. Alex Kadiri, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Hon. Buba Jibrin among others.

What Soldier Said About Corruption In Nigerian Military – A MUST READ

A Nigerian soldier who has been on the frontlines of the fight against Boko Haram has identified corruption as the
major factor hindering the fight against insurgency.
In an unprecedented exclusive interview with senior international correspondent of Cable News Network (CNN) , Nick Robertson, the soldier who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, “Not just the generals, everybody in the country wants to get rich by any means necessary,”
The soldier said the troops never benefit from the billions allocated to the defence budget and that he even had to
buy his own uniform.
“The troop morale is actually very low, very low, because we are not issued uniform; we buy the uniforms ourselves,” he explained.
Another soldier, a veteran of African Union and United Nations peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Sudan, said that the army did not have the equipment needed to successfully fight Boko Haram.
“The major problem the soldiers have is they don’t have the equipment to fight,” a video posted on CNN’s website
revealed him as saying.
According to him, the insurgents have anti-aircraft guns, which he says are accurate up to three-quarters of a mile.
All the Nigerian military has are AK47 rifles and small machine guns, accurate up to a few hundred metres.
According to him, the Nigerian soldiers are often given only 60 bullets each, so they quickly run out, but Boko Haram,
he said, has large supplies of ammunition and more fighters.
Although the Nigerian soldiers do win some fights, he said they are regularly forced to turn tail and run for their lives
by the sheer volume of gunfire from Boko Haram fighters.
The soldier also revealed that the Army medics refused to pay the $200 for medicine to treat his injuries.

Nigeria must confront Boko Haram – step forward, Muhammadu Buhari
The elections are an opportunity to depose the ineffectual Goodluck Jonathan and install a strong leader with a reputation for incorruptibility

'Muhammadu Buhari has a reputation for strong leadership and incorruptibility.

Nigeria is at war. In the past week alone the Islamist militants Boko Haram have slain hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people across north-eastern Nigeria, some with the help of child suicide bombers, including a 10-year-old girl. In recent months they have sacked entire towns and villages, and are now masters over 20,000 square miles of territory.

About 1.7 million people now live in Boko Haram’s declared “caliphate”, while 1.5 million have been displaced from their homes as a result of the violence. With a month to go before presidential elections, Africa’s most populous country is losing the war against a fullblown Islamist insurgency. So what is the Nigerian government doing about it?

In 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan, who is up for re-election, declared war on Boko Haram and dispatched the Nigerian army to battle them. But Boko Haram not only fended off the army’s offensive, it ended up being emboldened by the obvious ineptitude of the Nigerian forces. Soldiers meant to be protecting cities and towns have sometimes taken to their heels when Boko Haram’s fighters arrived on the scene, leaving inhabitants at the mercy of the Islamists.

But the problem isn’t that Nigerian soldiers are cowardly, it is that they are woefully under-equipped, under-trained and far too demotivated to tackle the well-armed Boko Haram fighters. The governor of Borno, the state most affected by Boko Haram, has publicly stated that the Islamists are much better armed than the soldiers.

[size=14pt]The reason the Nigerian army is in such poor shape is simple: corruption. The military’s annual budget exceeds £4bn, but rather than equip and train frontline troops, there are complaints that much of the funds end up in senior officers’ pockets. Soldiers who complain have been known to be court-martialed and sentenced to death for “mutiny”.

As commander-in-chief, this is where Jonathan could have been expected to step in. But rather than confront the army top brass the Nigerian president has opted to bury his head in the sand and place the blame for Boko Haram’s success on everyone bar himself. When news emerged last year of the kidnap of the Chibok girls, instead of reacting swiftly Jonathan hesitated for two weeks, suggesting there was no kidnap, only a plot by his political opponents to discredit him.[/size]

At other times he has shrugged off Boko Haram’s deadly attacks as little more than the unavoidable localised version of global jihad, implying with his tone and body language that hundreds of citizens getting killed every week is something Nigerians will simply have to get used to. After a deadly bomb blast killed more than 100 people in the capital Abuja last year, Jonathan was pictured dancing away at a political rally the next day.

Travelling around the country over the past few weeks, my impression is that Nigerians are increasingly looking to the main opposition presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, a former general and one-time military ruler, as the country’s best hope of tackling Boko Haram. Under “normal” conditions Buhari, a conservative Muslim from the north who ruled Nigeria with an iron fist from 1983-85, would have little hope of support in the country’s southern, predominantly Christian region. Without outstanding charisma, eloquence or competence on policy detail, the 72-year-old Buhari has already made three unsuccessful bids for president.

But after a year in which Boko Haram and government corruption has dominated local headlines, the ex-general has two things going for him: a reputation for strong leadership and incorruptibility. He is probably the only prominent Nigerian politician today who isn’t hounded by allegations of embezzling public funds.

A president with military experience to take on corrupt army officers would surely serve as a morale booster to the Nigerian soldiers battling Boko Haram. Granted, the ex-general has no magic wand to make the militants simply vanish. But in this period of existential crisis, Nigeria may need a wartime leader who can project reassuring strength and provide a plausible strategy for overcoming the insecurity in the country. Time is running out.

Change2015:
After the election they will be the first to pounce on him. Getting them addicted to easy access to the treasury and then losing the office that holds the key. I pray for saner leadership, not this avaricious mob, where billionaire militants feel free to threaten and kill as they please and bh claims 20,000 square miles of Nigerian territory. Even a fool must recognise that pdp has better materials than Jonathan but our tradition of 'worshipping' people who attain a certain office, has caused them to muzzle the truth, while hoping for the best. I truly await the presidential debates, but I am not sure he would like that to happen, with his tendency of putting foot in mouth.

#change
#GMB
#APC

NRIPRIEST:
The Op is correct...This about how the west can make it back to the center because they feel left out. And they careless about how they get there or who gets hurt(the nation)....Even if millions have to die and the economy crippled for them to get there they dont care and thats why they are supporting an old and archaic old man to lead us in this age. This people are desperate and have no soul!!!!