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foolish cruel people!!! What concerns them with his personal life that some people went ahead to strip him and embarrass him in such a manner. The police should have being rounding up people by now for assault and insult on him. Small time you go see person dey form with high tech gadget that he is civilized. Nonsense!!!!

Are you kidding me? This guy got a pardon after all this. Then is high time Rev. King got one too!!!!

why all the insults! This people were killed an all we have to say is people deserve to die! Wonder what sort of people we have running around in this nation. They have a right to associate and do what pleases them is it a violation of the laws of the nation in anyway. They like rich men is that an offence they die for? They spend weekends to catch fun how does that justify there killing? They were murdered in cold blood and I don't see any justification for the killers. With certain comments here,we simply keep encouraging such killings and also make it look worthless to find the killers by the police who dump the files upon see it.
Shame you!!!!!!
RIP

Awesome technology ;

FORMER president, Chief Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, with the high level of graduate unemployment and poverty in the country.http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/7884-nigeria-sitting-on-keg-of-gunpowder-obj

Speaking as a guest lecturer at the 16th annual lecture of the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), in Ilorin, on Thursday, the former president said all tiers of government in the country should address the issue, in partnership with private sector.

“The number of Nigerian universities is growing to about 150 now, we have a problem. The graduates coming out of the universities do not have hope of getting employment. This means we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder.

“An idle hand is the devil’s workshop. But I also think that a hopeless idle hand is tinder box,” he said.

Obasanjo, who incidentally was the first guest lecturer of the institute, 30 years ago, said “agriculture is a key component of African economies,” lamenting that development of agriculture and its ability to become the lifeline of Nigeria economy were threatened by the low capacity of agribusiness owners to manage their enterprises on a sustainable basis.

He, therefore, said agribusiness operators should begin to develop interest in acquiring management skills for their businesses.

“When you consider that Nigeria has over 80 million hectares of arable land, accounting for about 23 per cent of arable land across all of West Africa, the opportunities for growth are limitless,” he said.

Also speakimg at the event, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said agriculture was no longer a way of life, but a business, adding that the present government in the country was determined to achieve greater success in agricultural business.

she also said certain people pay money for protection to terrorist and kidnappers. She is saying that one such suspect had 300 million in his account for a single payment to him for protection. That this monies fund the insecurity. She also made examples of how people in Azare Bauchi stood up against the BH and won with government collaborations.
She is asking all Nigerians to close ranks and help them as it is actually tasking for them to go it alone. With the staff numbers and the number of people they are expected to protect. She has also said they have tried to sensitize the populace (churches, mosque, NYSC, Unions etc) on security and how to manage affairs of security around them.
Meanwhile she has asked for better efforts and information from all of us out there to help curb the situation. About the Kano park incidence she stated that transport unions have always being told to encourage people park outside and ensure only known people get access to drive in to parks. Also she has said that parks collect fees from vehicles using the parks, as such they don't have to wait for government to build fence or secure the premises for them and that they could do it on there own.So secure the area and control movement of vehicles, people and goods in and out of the premises.
She also mentioned that they have acquired sophisticated technologies and also develop certain technologies that have helped them improve on there work. The SSS seem to be doing much and I could trust her atleast with her confidence and position on issues.
The SSS,NAFDAC and FRSC really make me proud of this nation. They are doing remarkably well. Ambulance system of the FRSC is commendable, even thought its suppose to be the work of our health system. I have seen this people respond to accidents with such efforts you wish they could get more vehicles. Well done!!!!!

Me likey long time!!!!!

[quote author=babe_online]Instead of him bashing the yorubas I think he should be talking to his stupid muslim/hausa brothers. They are the ones who are ungrateful because they are RUINING the beautiful country that belongs to EVERY Nigerian;Nigeria.[/quote]Maybe he is talking about obj and the yoruba affairs.you silly ape

personally i still maintain this army thing should not be politicize as rightly noted by COAS.The country get as e be! he noted also that the Army remains one of a few organizations in Nigeria that hold our unity together.That is not far from the truth.Abeg make una take am carefully. !!! Even thought i know he is also trying to justify or clear the air on his recent actions.I know there is no smoke without fire!!Despite that i still maintain we let them handle there thing in-house and people could quietly petition matters to the relevant authorities than go to the media.Its not doing us any good.

thelastPope: There is nothing that can tarnish the north's image more than almost 50 years of misrule, plunder and wanton destruction of Nigeria while chanting one Nigeriya! The north has done a good job of that. No one needs to do more.

Give it up. The only people that will believe such articles are the same traitors that betrayed us southerners in 1967, 1994 and 1998. They are trying to betray us again but we are far wiser now. Can't you see the SS and SE have made up their minds? Open your eyes. Now we have forged a strong alliance with the NC who have also been terribly marginalised and mess up both by the NE/NW and some of their own leaders. Nobody will buy your story anymore. You guys destroyed and plundered Nigeria and used divide and rule tactics to turn us against each other. It will never work again.

Why do you think nobody cared about the last subsidy protest in the SS and SE? Only your slaves will believe your crap again. We are fed up of it. We will get equity whether you like it or not.

^^^^ Okay o! what ever makes you sleep tonight.If you refer to my previous post,Its folks like you am talking about.The ever ready to act a fool just to prove a deceptive point.We dey look as things unfold.

THE NORTH DOES NOT CONTROL NIGERIA'S OIL BLOCKS, By Toyin Akinosho

Senator Ita Enang’s spirited claim at the National Assembly Wednesday to the effect that 83% of the country’s oil block is in the hands of northerners appears to be inspired from assertions contained in an old article by a newspaper commentator, Mr. Ross Alabo-George whose famous essay was titled Poverty And Deprivation: Why The North Is Poor.

In the excerpted refutation below, Toyin Akinosho, a petroleum geologist with over two decades of work at Chevron and now publisher of the well-regarded Africa Oil and Gas Report, argues angrily that such lines of thought canvassed by the likes of Senator Ita Solomon Enang and indeed Mr. Ross Alabo-George are merely hysterical, and tendentious, designed to mislead the public. Mr. Akinosho characterizes the arguments as crappy and crummy. It is excerpted from the African Oil+Gas Report for the value it brings to the current debate about Nigerians oil resources and the National Question.

Alabo-George’s article plays up so well the sentiments that a good number of Nigerians, especially middle class types excluded from the spoils of the petroleum subsidy, and allied deliverables, nurse about the kind of leadership we have suffered since independence.

But it has gone around so far and keeps being forwarded so rampantly, largely because it plays to the ethnic schism; the suspicions that each of us harbours, in our different silos, about “the other”.

It’s largely a response to the disingenuous claim by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Central Bank Governor, that the Boko Haram insurgency is a response to the 13% derivation allocated to the oil producing states from the federation account. “There is clearly a direct link between the very uneven nature of distribution of resources and the rising level of violence”, Sanusi told The Financial Times of London.

Alabo-George’s piece is compelling when he contrasts what non oil-producing Southern states have been able to do with their supposedly meager allowances with what their Northern counterparts have done with their own allocations.

“Ekiti State has about the same revenue as Yobe and Gombe”, he contends, “but only 17 students passed WAEC and NECO in Gombe state last year, while Ekiti State is known for its high literacy level”.

I find two beautiful quotable quotes in the article: (1) “Borno State has a bigger budget than that of Cross River, a Niger Delta State. While the leaders of Cross River over the last decade have transformed it into the nation’s leading tourist destination, those of Borno have transformed it into a Somalia”.

(2) “Gombe State has a bigger budget than Enugu and Anambra, why has MASSOB not bombed anyone”?

But once Alabo- George ventures beyond the political economic analysis and starts to list who owns what oil and gas assets, his article is a litany of inaccuracies and lies. He gets it totally wrong.

He writes about the estate of the late Mai Deribe, the Bornu State born businessman, supposedly owning a huge oil field; Rilwanu Lukman having controlling shares in Afren; Atiku Abubakar being the stupendously rich beneficiary of the profits of Intels, the logistics company; Aminu Dantata’s Express Petroleum. He ties Amni Petroleum to only Sani Bello.

So much conspiracy theory.

Oil acreage ownership in Nigeria does not have ethnic colouration. What’s more important, sustaining production from oil and gas assets, whether or not awarded by the state, is determined by how much of a businessman you are.

When Jibril Aminu handed out oil prospecting blocks, in the first comprehensive effort “to encourage indigenous participation” in 1991, he gave blocks to companies owned by Folawiyo, Abiola, Adenuga, Udoji, Ibru, Igbinedion,(all Southerners) as much as he gave to enterprises set up by people like Saleh Jumbo and Mai Deribe.

Between 1991 and 1993, we suddenly had over 25 companies, that were Nigerian E&P companies and they took themselves so seriously that they set up an association they christened “Nigerian Association of Indigenous Petroleum Exploration Companies”. But what did these people do with the acreages? They were mostly clueless about how to progress things.

Out of that class of awardees, only Mike Adenuga created what you could really call an E&P company. He is the only one producing oil today, from his own block.

It’s bad enough that Nigerian indigenous private acreage holders don’t produce, as a collective, up to 150,000 Barrels per day, or 7% of the national daily production, so why are we fighting ourselves?

And I am less keen on how much you’re getting as rent from the asset you are holding, than the capacity you are building as manager of a Nigerian oil company who is awarded the asset, in trust for the rest of us.

I am for an ongoing, earnest debate on the National Question. But false information misleads all of us into false conclusions, which reduce the complexity of the solutions we ought to be proffering.

The author cites a number of hydrocarbon acreages belonging to Northern elites, but ignores the fact that holding an acreage is one thing; getting value out of it is another.

That so many people believe the poorly researched article, and so instantly forward it that it becomes one of the most travelled essays on the National Question, is testimony to poor knowledge of how the oil industry works.

The first field the author mentions is Obe field, which, he rightly claims, is held by Cavendish Petroleum, a company set up by Alhaji Mai Deribe. Alabo- George lied by saying that the Obe field, the main hydrocarbon pool in OML 110, contains 500Million barrels of oil reserves.

The Obe field does not have a proven 20 Million barrels. I am not sure it has 10Million barrels. It is not producing as I write. The Obe field has not produced for five years, since 2007, when Tranfigura, the last technical partner engaged by Cavendish, walked out.

I don’t know what discipline Mr Alabo-George belongs to, but this point I am about to make is well known to every junior petroleum geologist with three year experience in the crummiest E&P company: If a field holds 500Million barrels of oil, proven, in shallow water Nigeria, it won’t lie fallow. Investors would rush it.

In countries where you don’t have the complications that the NNPC brings to the table here, fields that haven’t proven much more than 500Million barrels are “rushed” through to development.

Ghana’s Jubilee field didn’t prove a billion barrels before the country’s authorities approved a field development plan. Apart from Nigeria, Angola, Libya, Algeria, Ghana (now, since 2008) and perhaps Equatorial Guinea, no African country has a billion barrels in proven reserves. 500 Million barrels is half of that.

Mr Alabo-George says that Obe has the capacity to produce about 120,000 barrels of crude oil daily from its OBE 4 and OBE 5 wells. What sort of numeracy is this? Or is he dreaming these figures? How can a field with less than twenty million barrels “have the capacity” to produce 120,000 barrels per day?. What’s capacity?

Alabo George’s second example of a wealthy northerner swimming in oil money is Mohammed Indimi, “a Fulani and close friend of General Ibrahim Babangida”. He says “Oriental Energy Resources Limited runs three oil blocks: OML 115, the Okwok field and the Ebok field. OML 115 and Okwok are OML PSC, while Ebok is an OML JV. All of them good yielding offshore oil blocks”.

The author just doesn’t care to verify his claims. True, Indimi’s Oriental Resources holds the three assets. OML 115 is not producing as I write. No one has certified that there’s a producible field in the acreage. Ebok is being produced, on Oriental Resources’ behalf, by Afren, a UK listed company. Last year, the field delivered an average of 8,000Barrels of Oil per Day(BOPD), according to Afren’s website. You can google it. Okwok, as I write, is still in development. Translation: it has produced nary a drop of oil.

Aminu Dantata’s Express Petroleum holds the Oil Mining Lease 108, with technical partners Shebah Petroleum, which bought out Conoco, the original technical partners. Fine.

The Ukpokiti field, the main asset on the acreage, produced for quite a while; and should have made the Dantatas quite rich, over a period of more than seven years. The field died out at some point and is being revived as I write.

“NorthEast Petroleum is owned by another Fulani businessman from the North East, Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Jambo”, Alabo-George testifies. “The license was awarded to him by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida”.

Another truth: North East Petroleum has NEVER produced a single drop of oil since that award in the early 90s. There, simply, hasn’t been a discovery worth the while for operator TOTAL.

I agree that Theophilus Danjuma, also a Northerner, is entitled to contest for the award of the man who made the most fortune, at a sitting, on an oil acreage in Nigeria.

Alabo-George’s article, in his rush to conclusions, even understates the significance, by claiming that Danjuma’s company, South Atlantic Petroleum Limited(SAPETRO ), made $1Billion from the deal.

The truth is that China National Overseas Offshore Company(CNOOC ), signed a definitive agreement with SAPETRO to acquire a 45% working interest in OML 130 for $2.268 billion cash.

I don’t know how much the broker of the deal took, but I am yet to confirm if the Nigerian government earned any withholding tax from that transaction. In spite of what he has earned “upfront”, Danjuma’s SAPETRO gets 25,600Barrels of Oil per day for its 15% of OML 130 from the Akpo field, which is delivering 175,000BOPD.

But if you complain about Northerner Danjuma, what about the Alakijas, a Yoruba couple whose company, Famfa Oil, is “entitled”, every day, to 25,000BOPD from Chevron operated Agbami Field, located in deepwater OML 127?.

These two companies are two of the four largest producing Nigerian companies today. The other two are Adenuga’s Conoil(25,000BO PD) and Seplat Petroleum(37,00 0BOPD, operated, 16,000BOPD, equity).

Only one of those four companies is Northern owned. And it is outright falsehood that “ 80 per cent of crude oil and gas produced by indigenous companies is controlled by the North-East”.

But, as I said again: which technical and managerial capacity are we building on the back of the rent collected from these leases. It’s the real job.

The last example I’d touch, before the concluding commentary, for space purposes, is the case of Rilwan Lukman, who Alabo-Gorge cites as having controlling shares in Afren, the UK listed company. Lukman was there on the ground floor of the construction of Afren, around 2004, no doubt, but the key founders of Afren are Ethelbert Cooper, the Liberian businessman and Osman Shahenshah, who is the current Chief Executive.

What people like Lukman and Egbert Imomoh, the other Nigerian on the company’s board in the founding days, did, is the kind of thing I urge Nigerians in their positions to do.

Use your knowledge to access and create value, not to grab and destroy value. Cooper and Shanenshah knew that Lukman(then out of office both from OPEC and as Nigerian special adviser), and Imomoh(then recently retired as Deputy Managing Director Of Shell Nigeria) knew the Nigerian oil industry deeply and could access oil and gas fields that were lying fallow.

Shanenshah, coming from a financial services background, knew how to raise funds: the most important thing in oilfield exploration and development. Indeed the first piece of news by which most people knew of the existence of Afren was that the IMF had agreed to give a 5Million dollar loan to this company, which was only just about starting. It pays to have Lukman on your board.

Yet, in spite of Lukman’s influence in the Nigerian polity, Afren had never accessed Nigerian acreages via government awards. Afren, cash in hand, running a technically proficient company, approaches Nigerian indigenous owners of assets-like Ndimi’s Oriental Resources, Amni and several marginal field holders, and signs agreements with them to be technical partners.

After Afren has recovered its investment via cost oil, Afren and the company continue to share the proceeds from the field 50:50 for the life of the field. Afren uses Nigerian technical capacity to a large degree and it trains a lot of people. But it can do more.

Afren has never benefitted from bid round or government-sanc tioned discretionary awards, so why would anyone link Lukman’s involvement in Afren in a list that has a number of Northerners supposedly benefitting from government largesse? That is part of the trouble I have with Alabo-George’s essay.

I wouldn’t compare Lukman’s relationship with Afren to the benefits that Atiku Abubakar derives from being a part owner of Intels, the logistics company which takes advantage of the free trade zone in Onne, near Port Harcourt.

This particular example helps us to locate “the Nigerian tendency”, beyond “the Northern tendency”, in this discussion. Because, really, we are just all the same.

A foreign company comes to Nigeria to set up for business. Because of the difficulties we invent as barriers to entry, this company requires the services of some big Nigerian men, preferably those who have worked for government, for access.

What Atiku Abubakar has done with Intels has parallels in other sectors of the economy and is comparable with what Yoruba chieftains, Ijaw leaders, Igbo High Chiefs, Idoma overlords, etc, etc, have done with many other companies operating here.

That’s how people became key shareholders of companies like Julius Berger. As I write, the key sentiment underlining the complaints against the tolling on the Lekki Expressway is that “most of the money will go to Tinubu’s pocket”. That’s the word on the street.

Brokerage is not a bad thing on its own, but what we need to stress is a level playing field, rule of law, security of tenor and equity and fairness as much as possible, for all.

If I really want to be mischievous, I’d focus on the recent deal in which Shell and Agip have had to pay in excess of one billion dollars to Dan Etete, a south-south man, for stakes in Oil Prospecting Lease OPL 245. And I would ask “Is that necessarily right”? Should the president, a south-south Ijaw man, have waded in to ask Shell and Agip to move the deal forward? But that’s a story for another day.

In my book, people from everywhere have taken advantage of the unstructured way we have dispensed with oil and gas acreages. Naming names about which Northerner got what size of the pie is less useful than a focus on how government is insisting on open and transparent bidding, but more importantly, on Nigerian technical know how and management.

You can’t hand over an acreage and walk away. You have to monitor what the holder is doing. How he is ensuring employment. If we can’t, with all the treasure, build five private E&P companies that have the internal competencies that Shell has and can go out and buy and operate assets the way that UBA and GTB and Ecobank venture into Ghana and The Gambia, then we have wasted all of the 56 years we have spent since the hoorah at Oloibiri.

Akinosho, a petroleum geologist, former news reporter, and one-time community newspaper editor, is now publisher of the well-regarded African Oil+Gas Report

http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion123588-the-north-does-not-control-nigerias-oil-blocks-by-toyin-akinosho.html

Don't sweat it !!! Its always about hate for the North.Anything will fly if it makes the North look bad.The senator who made the allegations should be ashamed of himself.Extracting information without verifying its authenticity.
Atleast the haters would have had there fill and slept fine hoping another damning blow has made it's way to tarnish the northern image.

I think people always forget that certain people in the sect maybe seeking a way our but find themselves trapped in that one wrong judgement to associate. Which ever way they go its a life and death thing.Amnesty may allow people run out and even seek protection readily.Reducing there ranks is a step to isolating hardliners and reforming a people that could be useful.
Also i feel an amnesty is enough.it shouldnt be financial.just orientation would do.i can tell you that this would even get families to expose members.it could be hard to hand over a family member when you are sure he faces certain death.if a window exist to get a second chance .the lower less indoctrinated members could be broken.Also more families would join to help there children out of the trouble they find themselves.right now nothing of such exist.is kill or be killed. You have to know that this has worked in alot of places.from our simple cultism in schools and renouncing programs to African conflicts. Its not easy for victims but forgiveness and reformation is preferable to a prolonged and uncertain end to a crisis.As victims continue to swell.God help us.Amnesty is known for managing crisis even worst than insurgency.it will not be bad exploiting it.
Also i am against monetary options.i dont support why a law violator should be rewarded.Amnesty is good enough sacrifice.forgiving you certain crimes is enough. Go home do no evil and show us you can be a good Nigerian like any other law abiding citizen.

Islam forbids lying and spread of rumor or mischief.So it is only right that you stop the deceit and ensure your facts.

Welcome to Maiduguri!!!! Love you guys!!!! Thanks alot. Just wish i was there to hail them.

[quote author=sage_]Are Borno and Yobe PDP or APC states? Boko Haram has not been able to establish itself in any of the PDP states.[/quote]^^^ That is because is established fact that PDP is boko-haram and Boko haram is PDP.That said how can they bite the finger that feeds them.Where can they cause problem apart from the rival camps? Atleast is known that they(BH) killed the late Borno state Gubernatorial aspirant of the ANPP.How many PDP members have died from BH?Abi how many members of the opposition parties have being caught as associating or supporting BH? how many? Didnt hear you! NON!!!!!!

APC we in Borno appreciate the considerations and support!!! Thank you for being there.God bless you all.We love you and i can tell you that my Vote remains for you while am alife.

Fatdon: Former Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El-Rufai said
General Muhammadu Buhari is his preferred
candidate for the 2015 presidential polls.
El-Rufai who spoke to Radio France
International Hausa Service denied eyeing the presidency saying it was just a propaganda
by the Peoples Democratic Party.
“Those who are saying Buhari should step
aside for me are not members of our party.
May be they are PDP members who are afraid
of General Buhari. This is because the way they fear Buhari – I swear they do not fear
God the almighty,” he said.
Reacting to comments credited to Nuhu
Ribadu about his book - The Accidental Public
Servant - he said “it is not possible for me to
write a book and everybody becomes convinced about what I wrote. But nobody
came out to say Nasiru has lied in the book.
The only thing they say is that they are not
happy – like Nuhu Ribadu, he has said he never
read the book, so if you didn’t read the book
why talk? “The way I look at it, even Atiku Abukabar’s
people who wrote rejoinders have not read
the book. I hope that by now they have read
it, and may be that is why they kept quite.
There is no way everybody will agree with the
book and there is no way one would say he never committed any mistake,” he said.
El-Rufai also challenged his critics to write
their own books for “Nigerians to choose
which one they will read” because as far as he
is concerned, he wrote the truthPDP as he
knew it.
www.informationng.com/2013/02/pdp-fears-buhari-more-than-god-el-rufai.html

^^^^Mr man watch your mouth o! I like the opposition but El-rufai needs to get his head straight if this is coming from him again.What is wrong with you? Somebody needs to explain to him the importance and manner in which to discuss about religious figures.His comments are so irritating.

Visit of who dares!!!! funny but bold. Anyways we in Borno welcome una . Atleast we hardly have any serious government functions and visit.This is a good sign of things to come. From the ashes of the burning city to rebuilding and getting over her security challenges.This is a show of support and encouragement from fellow Nigerians that they still regard the peace loving indigents of Borno by honoring us with such a visit.Not throwing away the baby with bathing water which FGN and PDP is doing.You are welcome APC and we love you guys

Maple: If those 'traders' were Hausas, thesame ppl crying foul here would be the ones who would jubilate the most and even congratulate Fashola for a job well-done. Bloody Hypocrites!

^^^^you dey mind them.

FSU: You are making real sense. Yorubas bear grudge against Igbos over alleged events of the 1960s, even after they joined the North to try to kill off Igbos then. That grudge is the reason Fasola has been decimating Igbos in Lagos.

^^^ Have tried going east or Biafran??

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]Sensible IGBOs know that Fashola doesn't hate IGBOs.

The question is‎​: Aside being a proud IGBO, are you also a sensible IGBO??

[/quote]^Never thought of that! oya Over to proud-igboBiafran!!

FSU: You are making real sense. Yorubas bear grudge against Igbos over alleged events of the 1960s, even after they joined the North to try to kill off Igbos then. That grudge is the reason Fasola has been decimating Igbos in Lagos.

^^^Spoken like a true Biafran with propaganda training.

byrron: The gullible masses will be given bags of rice, t shirts, face cap and #1000 each and they will vote pdp again while apc will fight themselves over which party amongs them will produce the president and they will later ask their followers to vote pdp presidential candidate after billions of dollars must have exchanged hands while u and I will come back to rant on nl.
We are so predictable.
I'm supprise u all still sound like leaners- that's d precedent that has been in motion for a while nw so y are we all pretending as if something dfrnt is about to happen?

^^^^^ The very predictable scenario that am still trying to figure out how parties not in power could resolve.Since a huge chunk of our population is impoverished.How do you say "no eat, rather vote for Mr. right" to a hungry man?Also our elders,elites and so called leaders of groups are for sale to the highest bidder.Now you do the financial maths.Then blend that to the type information being funneled to the various sections and elements of the Nigerian populace.
It would be a joyful day, if it happens that a leader emerges today to deliver Nigeria from her mess and also the influence of the political elites,especially in PDP!!! Any i hope,i pray,i wish things change and things get better.That said the only thing i can certainly do and will do if God allows me is to vote fairly and ensure its counted.The rest i don't know

Dede1: I know you are inherently moronic and it shows. Please read this quotation from your boy, kingofool:

“The North and (South)Eastern Nigeria are the problem in Nigeria! Both of them are as intolerant as they come".

I know cattle can learn before you crack a slate.

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I get op point. Dont need a droling bufoon emphasis.No doubt the points are valid. Also your response vindicate him o! Great bigot with dementia

Why all this hating of the north ,damning of the north by this Igbo north hating goons? You no get work? Anyway thanks for showing us our enemy. Tomorrow you expect to be voted by the same north you derive joy condemning stupidly. Anyway the feeling is mutual.one can but draw a conclusion that the igbo are hell bent on seeing the destruction of the north. Get over it suckers, shit aint happening. What ever makes you sleep.
@kingoflag you dey try talk logical sense.As humans should.Dont sweat it this goons enjoy the unending hate mentality.

Mark, Aliyu clash over 2015

Written by Leon Usigbe- Abuja
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

SENATE President, David Mark and Niger State governor, Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu, were, on Monday, involved in exchange of words over the need for President Goodluck Jonathan and his team to provide dividends of democracy and quit the stage in 2015.

The governor, who is thought to be eyeing the presidency in 2015, was speaking at the opening of the Presidential Summit on Water, at the Banquet Hall of Presidential Villa, where he also suggested that the people should have the right to sue governments if they fail to provide necessary amenities.

But the Senate president, in his own message on the occasion, reminded the governor that the responsibility for the provision of water belonged to state and local governments and, therefore, suggested that the people of Niger State should sue the governor if, by 2015, he was unable to provide potable water to every household in the state.

The governor had specifically mentioned the names of President Jonathan, the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, Vice-President Namadi Sambo and the Senate President and told them that their combination should be able to deliver dividends of democracy and walk away at the end of their tenure in 2015 as happy people.

“And I do know that with the combination of Patience, Goodluck, Namadina (Namadi) and Dauda (David), who is the Senate President, I believe we will be able to deliver, so that by 2015, when you combine these, we will be able by 2015 to walk away happy and people happy with us,” he said.

He wondered whether it was not possible “that in terms of water and agriculture, we should be able to institutionalise by law that people who do not get them can take government to court.”

According to him, “if we do that, then we will be able to emphasise what is needed. Many of us who have gone to say give education priority, give health priority, give agriculture priority, people will say that you are not performing because the result is not immediate.

“They prefer to see a building even if nobody enters, a sky scrapper; that is their concept of development. No. Development is about the people and we must all join hands to help the people.”
Before reading his goodwill message at the event, Senator Mark took time to respond to Aliyu’s suggestion, noting that while he agreed that people should be able to sue non-performing governments, the people of Niger State should exercise the right if their governor was unable to provide them water in 2015.

“I agree entirely with Governor Aliyu because I still represent Niger State in so many other areas, that if a state fails to provide water to its citizens, the citizens should have the right to sue the government. I agree entirely with you.

“But let me also emphasise here that it is my conviction and I have said this time without number that the provision of water to houses and to people is the responsibility of state government and local government.

“Therefore, if a man in Niger State doesn’t get water in his tap, I believe that he has every right to sue Governor Aliyu. And I hope that before the end of his tenure and, indeed, everybody in Niger State, it is my wish, will get pipe-borne water in homes,” he said.

Me thinks on a serious note alot of nations dislike Nigerians and have little respect for us.This is obvious when you say Nigerian or display a green passport internationally.The screw ups some foolish Nigerians do outside the nation has destroyed everything called good name for us.Why do you think Dora Akunyili was working particularly on re-branding the nation?
The Nigerians that go outside the nation often get desperate and decide to do things that hardly helps.Also we sit in Nigeria and damn ourselves to stupor!!! Anything that happens we want to act is us against them and naked ourselves until the world hear us and mark us for that.Once you leave the land of Nigeria,That's when you will know you bear no name than Nigerian.So if you like abuse other members of the nation all you like.you will still share in there negative publicity.It still will be called Nigeria.We talk evil against ourselves often and publicly in our local media.We also act wrongly in our deals often when outside the country because of being rich any how even at the expense of the nations name and profile.
List our known negative images and you will be amazed is largely self inflicted.from scamming,fraud,violent crisis,smuggling,drugs,human trafficking,laundering,treats of chaos,robbery,disobedience to laws or rules we find ourselves govern by.The problem is not about Government alone its our attitude.People don't trust us resulting in why they don't like us,simple!Always resulting from information,impressions or experience gotten from Nigerians.

We are only good to the world as for contributing our men to peace keeping,making cheap wealth from the nations resources by fraudulent expatriates/foreigners of certain nationals,using our votes internationally and probably population influence.That we are respected or loved because they love our dealings,skills,attitude,environment generally etc i doubt!!!!.We are even introduced as the most populous nation full stop.Not democratic not industrious,not naturally endowed, nothing just population?Google Nigeria and see results.Negative news everywhere.Na only us get problem?

Who say PDP no dey panic over the merger? See sharply, patch work has commence.Curbing parallel influence in PDP is in top gear to consolidate and give two people absolute control,namely presidente(GEJ) and chairman(Tukur) of PDP.I tell you that PDP strongest base is the North regardless,especially now without the SW.If today the north is taken like the SW,you will see how PDP will speedily die.All the permutation and jaga-jaga of PDP is in the north.We must put hands on deck and reduce there influence and grounds up north.That will bring a difference.
I see alot of calculation going on in PDP to manage the wide difference and enforce order.I feel it may be late to heal all the differences before the elections.Some members are quietly bitter and yet to start complaining.My take is things may get worse as we draw closer to 2015,from gubernatorial to presidential aspirations and affiliations.Hope Nigeria doesn't burn over it sha!!!
Long live the progressives and long live Nigeria!!!!!!
E must Better!!!!
Love the SW for the butt kick it offers any party that fails to meet her needs!!!!

LOL!!!!
some how this PDP think far ahead.I hope the APC is watching.Also APC never mind the decamp e that would follow later.This will be another step to scuttle you and its inevitable as realignment would happen on both sides.Ensure that the top ranks are filled with die hard loyal groups to the party o!Then people you find unstable push them to a section of the alliance that is expendable.So that you don't become disorganized by the future realignments.I am sure amongst your ranks are traitors and gold diggers.So be ready to replace them efficiently when that happens.Another thing you people are still toying with is the large chunk of minorities.who are hard to group and manage.Also alot feel left out.use that now o!Because small small could sum up to a significant chunk o!
APC i know you have policies and ideas to run the nation.I urge you to have a focused team that will start working seriously towards how things could be changed in Nigeria for the better.From council to federal levels.It is also important you study the lapses in administration of the PDP and work the maths now so you land there running,If God permits than getting there and being less different.Feel the nations pulse and the desires of Nigerians.Do your maths now based on the issues that trouble the nation.So as to focus on implementations when you get there o!It will not be easy before and even after.
Its possible you may not get all but be ready to do differently in every stage you manage to hold.You have 2 years to focus on alliance,storming,consolidation,National developmental strategy,re-alignment and campaigns.24 months to focus!!!! Ignore the distractions and focus.

Vado: Tell that to those who died during jihadi wars of conquest and expansion across Europe all the way to north Africa preceding the crusades. There wouldn't have been a crusade in the first place if Muhammad and his goons weren't taking over other people's land unjustly, killing and imposing religion. It was a defensive war in response to Islamic aggression across Europe. Stop acting like you are the victim on here.

LMAO !!!! See propaganda.How about the Romans (during the era of constantine)that spread xtianity and persecution of Non-Christians including Jews.Abi them to expand and you need to reclaim?What was the religious demography of the world and what reclaiming are we talking about?Is it the Pagans or the Jews that were violently treated you called reclaim?Mr man read your history books.When they came to Africa was Islam in the SE states or certain states?Did it stop there religious influence and destruction of traditions.
Don't give us that hypocritical view Jare!!!! Many have died in the hands of christian-dom as well as Islam and i can bet lesser even in the hands of Islam.Haven't Christian-dom killed over heresy,Jewish believers or certain pagan followers ?etc!

[quote author=buJu-234]am waiting for the day that ISLAM followers will do same all in the name of peace[/quote]^^^^
Abuja: Muslim community visits bomb blast victims

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Thursday, 29 December 2011

MEMBERS of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Muslim community, on Wednesday, visited the victims of the Christmas Day bomb blast, which occurred at St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla in Suleja, Niger State.

The visit to the National Hospital in Abuja was led by Sheikh Abdulwaheed Abubakar, Head of the FCT Council of Imams and Ulamas.

Abubakar dissociated Islam from the carnage that occurred on Christmas Day, saying: “Islam is a religion of peace, and no one should link the bomb blast to Islam.”

Abubakar said that the delegation was on a mission of goodwill and to distance themselves from the perpetrators of the carnage.

He prayed for peaceful co-existence between the Muslim and Christian communities and condemned the act as callous and repressive.

The group presented beverages to the victims, saying it was a show of solidarity.

The chief medical director of the hospital, Professor Bello Sheu, thanked the Muslim community for the gesture.

He stated that the management of the hospital would be willing to accept more gifts from other concerned Nigerians.

“Let us show empathy and not ask for figures of casualties. The victims are stable now, some with head injuries, some with very bad burns. We are taking care of them; we have the facilities.’

Bello stated that the affected victims were responding to treatment and in stable condition and urged the public to stop speculating on the number of casualties.

He said in spite of the level of the burns and the injuries sustained by the victims, the hospital was capable of catering for their needs.

The group also visited the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada and St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Madalla.

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