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Nwanne idi ok, kulu gaba

OmoEziokwu: No offence, but there is something intrinsically backward about the Arab world. It must be a hell of a place for womenfolk.

They have reduced women to mere instrument of pleasure

This man de chop d family round

Alxmyr: When you join APC you are saint. Even Annie Okonkwo is portrayed as seasoned politician.

Yes o , I learnt that as soon you join APC your sins are washed away and automatically bestowed a saint . I await the likes of Anenih, Bankole, Chris Uba, to go through this transformation

kettykings: The Title should have read Muslim Brotherhood meets tomorrow to Determine how they will share Niger Delta Oil Wealth

Another gang up to steal power

lacasa: So police too na aboki get am


#.. Sound Education is truly lacking in Nigeria

#.. Sorry u hia, na condition cos µя plight

Senior almajiri I de salute o

Not surprised, aboki's and their ways

Given the dynamics of Nigeria politics, its too early to rely on these permutations. There's is still room for alignment and re-alignment.

When APC starts sharing positions both at state and National levels without being factionalised, that's when I will take them serious.

Otherwise I see splinter groups within APC re aligning with PDP. Fingers crossed

Dancing alingo as another tonto dike palaver hits front page

The Nigerian Army yesterday defended its recent promotionsand deployments, saying they were based on merit. It warnedcritics not to politicise the institution, even as a panel indicted Gen. Mohammed Isa, the immediate past commander, Nigerian Army Corps of Infantry, Jaji, over lastyear's bombing.
A section of the media had been publishing stories of alleged ethnic and religious cleansing in the army. But the chief of army staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday faulted the critics by presenting figures that contradicted the stories and rumours flying around.
He said: "The Nigerian Army does not discriminate against any person or group of persons notwithstanding their ethnic callings. We focus on merit and that is the guiding principle. Make no mistake about it, there are very fine officers from each geopolitical zone of the federation. For the record, in the last Nigerian Army promotions and postings,there is no zone that was not represented by well-qualified senior officers.
"The Nigerian Army as a professional force has laid down procedures for recruitment, promotion and retirement. Amongst the important factors that are always considered in carrying out these annual exercises are the promotion regulations, federal character, harmonized armed forces terms and condition of service, promotionboards and Army Council. Eachpromotion is conducted by a board which has members reflecting geopolitical /ethnic divides. All the proceedings of the board have to go through the Army Council for ratification.
"The army does not promote orretire any officer without express approval of the Army Council which comprises the president, commander-in-chief represented by the honourableminister of defence, permanent secretary, ministry of defence, chief of defence staff and the chief of army staff. It behoves on any right-thinking individual to know that such procedures would require the final nod of the Army Council for important decisions to be carried out."
Gen. Ihejirika then went philosophical over the grievances over promotion, reminding the masterminds of the agitation that it was only those who are alive that could appreciate promotion and not those who have lost their lives in military operations.
"Military service is a selfless service. If an officer missed promotion and believes that Nigeria should burn, would such an officer give his life for the nation? If any soldier complains to a civilian that he was not promoted, such a person is not supposed to be asoldier. How many soldiers have we lost since the fight on counter-terrorism started? Postings in the military would be likened to selecting your first 11 in football. I will not take a disloyal and non-performing officer in my team. But for the first time in the army under me, general officers commanding (GOCs) were selected across the country.
"The new GOC 3 Division is Major General Ebiobowei Awala, while Major General Ahmed Jibrin becomes the newGOC 2 Division. The former commander, Nigerian Army Engineers, Major General Ashimiyu Olaniyi, is now the new GOC 82 Division.
"I want to assure you that the Nigerian Army of today is not the type that dragged the nation into war in the '60s. Youmight wish to note that in the recent postings I have Major Gen. Wahab in 1 Division, Major Gen. Ibrahim in 1 Brigade, Gen. Adam in 2 Brigade, and I sit here, and I am very comfortable with that posting. On Gen. Oshinowo, who happened to have been mentioned in the faceless story as one of those short-changed. It might interest you to know that Oshinowo had missed his promotion before I became the chief of army staff and he was promoted to the rank of major-general under my watch. I made reference to Gen. Oshinowo who was promoted and he later becameGOC, 82 Division."
He then named all the five brigade commanders all of whom come from the north and are all Moslems. He said,"This is the division covering the south-east including my village." He further disclosed that, in 2011, of the 25 brigadier-generals promoted tomajor general, three of them came from Kano State. "It was a promotion based on merit. I could not drop any of them because they clearly deserved it."
Ihejirika used the opportunity to indict Major Gen. Mohammed Isa as one of thosesponsoring the campaign of calumny against his leadershipand narrated how the panel of enquiry that investigated the Jaji bombing indicted him for negligence of duty. He recalledhow his retirement was postponed because the Army Council could not sit to ratify his retirement.
He said: "In the case of those that were not facing any promotion board like Major Gen. Isa that was in Jaji, he ought to have been retired but, that very month he was due, the Army Council did not sit. The Army Council does not sit every month and it does notsit on people's birthday; the Army Council sits quarterly, and, within that period that theArmy Council sits, all those who are due for retirement would be notified. And we havenot had serious problems with this.
"Unfortunately, Maj. Gen. Isah himself was the military secretary of the Nigerian Army. He gave notices of retirement to officers; he prepared memorandums that sought their retirements at theArmy Council; he signed retirement letters -- those onesare in the records and he cannot deny. All he did was to apply for extension, in which he said that he had so much tocontribute towards counter-terrorism if his service was extended. But it is the COAS orthe service chiefs that have the prerogative to recommend an officer for extension. It is not for an officer to ask for such. I believe that has answered the issues on retirement."
Speaking on the indictment of Gen. Isa by the panel set up to probe Jaji bombing, the COAS said: "Incidentally, all these campaigns which he spearheaded started with his redeployment initially, based on the board of inquiry set up to investigate the Jaji bombing.We asked the military police toinvestigate further. And I can tell you that the report available to me showed he did not take an action expected of an officer in his position. The report that got to him about the impending attack also got to the GOC 1 Division a day before the attack. The GOC 1 Division had to cancel his engagements which included coming to Asaba for our annualconference. Isah did not give instruction to subordinates, he simply travelled for the conference and when I asked him, 'What are you doing here when your house is on fire?' hecould not give a reasonable response. Investigation is still on to determine whether his attitude was just borne out of carelessness or whether there was much more issues to it."


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Aboki I de salute o

Good

Where's our Goldie

MI ft Waje - One Naira

Soty - Malaria

Adaz - Sarokome

Good morning musiwa

Haters everywhere

fxskye: Now, I understood that u'r insane.

4kin virgin hunter

Super Eagles are super again

lacasa: Anϑ yet, our history, people & nature surparses yr entire miserable bloodline

Which history ?

free13: Where is maclatunji, lacasa, nagoma, Wadeoye(buhari ass licker), Mu2sa2 and the other Bokoharam children. They should come and defend the evil religion lslam.
lslam and muslims are evil.

They must be very busy preparing press release for boko haram.

Soweto, South Africa, (AFP) –Nigeria’s star winger Victor Moses reportedly starts Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations final after overcoming an ankle injury, but leading scorer Emmanuel Emenike is on the bench.
According to mtnfootball.com, Moses has overcome the injury he picked up in Wednesday’s semi-final win over Mali.
But in-form Spartak Moscow striker Emenike, who suffered a more serious hamstring problem in the same match, has failed to make Stephen Keshi’s starting XI, with Ikechukwu Uche reportedly taking his place.
Emenike is joint top scorer in South Africa on four goalswith Mubarak Wakaso of Ghana.
Villarreal striker Uche shoneduring the qualifying stages to the 2013 Nations Cup before ceding his place to Emenike.
Veteran defender and captain Joseph Yobo once again misses out through injury with goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama retaining the skipper’s armband.
The final at Soweto’s Soccer City is scheduled to kick off at 2030 local time (1830 GMT).


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/afcon-moses-starts-for-nigeria-emenike-out-report/

By Dele Sobowale
“A truth that’s told with bad intent; beats all the lies you caninvent”. William Blake, 1757-1827. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 254).
The two chorus teams, those singing the hymn called by ex-Minister, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, and those rendering,off-key, the tune in support of President Jonathan, would like unwary Nigerians to believe that their verbal media slugfest is a contest between “good” and “evil”. It is nothing of the sort.
This is not a case of “saints” and “devils”; it is a contest between those who took us to the cleaners between 1999 and 2007, and those who are screwing us now. The latter started in 2007 and have not stopped. Nobody who was, or, is, a member of any of the governments should attempt to fool us by issuing half-truths and plain falsehood to the media. Dr Ezekwesili will not enhance her personal reputation by admitting she wasa member of the gang that ruled for eight years between 1999 and 2007.
Dr Ezekwesili started the altercations, and, she had askedfor a debate between herself and the incumbent Minister of Information – in my view, a professional dissembler, graduate of University of Jos. Any media house accepting to host such a debate should engage me as the moderator because this one calls for an unbiased umpire. So far, all those who have contributed to this controversy had taken sides.
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili
The opposition political parties, civil society groups etc had swallowed Dr Ezekwesili’s words hook, line and sinker. That is expected from My FellowCitizens; whereas at Unijankara,we always “wonder how many fools it takes to make the term My Fellow Citizens” (Horace Balzac, 1799-1850). Meanwhile government supporters and the PDP had left the substance and are, characteristically, chasing shadows.
The sum total of their defence comes to “we met only$40-something billion in the kitty not $67 billion”. That sounds like the kid accused, in a“face-me-I-face-you” house, of stealing six chunks of meat from the neighbour’s pot of stew who replied, “I am not a thief, there were only four chunks of meat when I opened the pot and emptied it”. The Minister of Information has not told us what they did with what they met in the reserves.
Collectively and individually, most commentators have failed to take the first step required ofany objective public analyst andcommentator—they didn’t ask Dr Ezekwesili to prove that the government of Obasanjo, which she served, actually left $67 billion in foreign reserves, whichPresidents Yar’Adua and Jonathan preceded to “squander”.
Allegation has never been considered sufficient reason to condemn anybody until there is proof to substantiate it. Until the former Minister substantiates her claim; it remains a rumour; and a wickedone at that. Let me hereby warnher supporters, nobody should send me a text message or call unless they have proof to offer in support of the claim of $67 billion thrown away. Only fools do that sort of thing. I don’t suffer fools gladly on important matters.
Let me start by drawing the attention of the former Minister to the book, PDP: CORRUPTION INCORPORATED, part one of which is now in print. If she dares to read that book, published by me, she would be ashamed to have been associated with the governmentof Olusegun Obasanjo which developed the template for (mis)management of public funds since independence. Three examples will be sufficient, out of the thousands available on record, and, which unlike Dr Ezekwesili’s allegations against Yar’Adua and Jonathan, are based on rocksolid facts.
Perhaps the best place to start is with the Abacha Loot, locally and abroad. The last decree signed by General Abubakar Abdusalami, was Decree 53 on May 26, 1999. In it the Federal government announced the forfeiture of money, houses andbusinesses corruptly acquired by Abacha, his National SecurityAdviser, his Chief Security Adviser as well as his son. After that the Federal government mounted pressure on the Swiss government which returned about $5 billion from the Abacha loot illegally held in thatcountry. Till today, there has been no account rendered to the nation by Obasanjo about the recovered loot.
Labaran Maku
Even if Dr Ezekwesili wants to argue that she was not in government until 2004, she cannot make the same claim about the next two examples. The first was the Petroleum Development Trust Fund, PDTF, scandal which broke out when Obasanjo and Atiku were at loggerheads. OBJ as everybody,but his servants in government knew, wanted a Third Term.
Atiku also wanted to exercise his rights under the 1999 constitution to contest for the Presidency after Baba Iyabo might have completed his two terms. One of the most dramatic arenas of conflict was the PDTF. After trying everything else to get rid of Atiku, the former Vice President was accused of looting the PDTF– based on spurious and biased report submitted by Malam Nuhu Ribadu, ex-Chairman of the EFCC.
Thereafter an Administrative Inquiry was ordered by the former President, headed by theformer Attorney General and Minister of Justice, but, including Dr Ezekwesili among other cabinet members to look into the PDTF account. Predictably, the kangaroo court of Obasanjo’s Ministers heaped all the blame for mismanagement and looting of the PDTF account on Atiku and amotion was moved at the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting to expel Atiku from the weekly FEC meeting.
First, the former VP contested the legality of the Administrative Inquiry in court and won; then the Senate proceeded to probe the PDTF account after Malam Shehu Garba, a small Napoleon, took on the Federal government withhis factual exposures. In the end, the Senate established at least N269 billion of PDTF money mismanaged by OBJ plusbillions more for which there was no proper account. All these are partly documented in the book, PDP: CORRUPTION INCORPORATED.
From the Senate probe, which was only partly reported in the book, it was clear that for every finger Atiku was alleged to havedipped into the national soup pot, Obasanjo scooped with twohands.
So, on PDTF, Dr Ezekwesili, as a Federal Minister and one of those who voted to oust Atiku from the weekly FEC meeting, while ignoring Obasanjo’s greater involvement in the scandal, was at the time an accessory to the atrocities committed by her boss.
Finally, the most annoying part of Dr Ezekwesili’s assumption ofrighteousness, on behalf of the government she served, had to do with her expectation that Nigerians will be awed by her declaration of $67 billion left by Obasanjo and wasted or embezzled by Yar’Adua and Jonathan. Virtually all who have blindly supported her, without asking questions, are guilty of not putting on their thinking caps before rushing to the media. The truth is Obasanjo’s government, instead of $67 billion, that administration should probably have left nothing less than $100 billion inthe kitty. Where is the rest?


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/fg-vs-ezekwesili-two-sides-of-the-same-phoney-currency-1/

fxskye: Religion bigot...so which religion is blood tasking?

This one

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[quote author=Ejiné]After crippling the North's economy and destroying their schools, they're now facing the healthcare.
First was the polio incident in Kano, now the new attack on foreign medical expats.

Yet na Igbo domination in Army these illiterates are preoccupied with.[/quote]Their media agents on NL will soon start defending them or derailing this thread. They know themselves

Arewastan I de salute una. Well done. Sheik Gunmi I still de great you. Northern senators I no forget una, I de see una hand work.

Moderators and admin please send this breaking news to front page

https://www.nairaland.com/1191588/7-suicide-bombers-headingto-nasarawa

Soldiers today apprehended seven suicide bombers in Kaura local government area of Kaduna State.
A competent source told our Correspondent that the bombers were from Kano Stateand were heading to Nassarawa State.
According to the source, six of the bombers are male while the seventh is a female.
More details shortly.



http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/47105/2013/02/10/breaking_news_7_suicide_bombers_heading_nasarawa_state_arrested_kaduna.html

Arewastan I d greet o

Arewastan I de salute una