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Super1759: Please!!! Please!! This man is not a pastor. The qualities of a pastor are just absent.
A pastor should be committed to the well-being of his member spiritually. Preach and win souls for God. He is a shephard and not a political analyst. How can I dress up to church to hear word of God and it turns to political studies.

You are obviously naïve when it comes to these issues. Have you read your bible at all? What was John the baptist preaching? Did you read where Jesus called the president of his Herod a fox? Jesus spoke very well about the politics of his time. It is a pity that the pastors in nigeria are keeping quiet and watching atrocities. But you can only speak when you've got no skeleton in your cupboard. Pastor Bakare is a pastor and he is doing it very well.

Kolade9: The most annoying thing bout him is the ''do u knw who i am?''/''do u knw d son of who i am?'' question he always ask...

Is it his father that rented whitehouse to the united states or na him papa own camp david?
If not he's a son of a mere statistics.

No offence meant, are you just from the koma hills?

What is this TUNNA fish trying to prove. Is this how you pay back your village for the money they contributed to send u to obodo oyibo?
I just spoke with your bro and he complained you no longer send money to your aged parent. Have you stopped that degrading work I told you to? The story is everywhere in your village about the work you do o. Please your bro said that your papa said you should come back home if you do not a better job.
He now has 2 bikes and 1 keke napep
Hey TUNNA, that's the message from your peeps yet you come here and sound as if you were the one who discovered canada.

Now guys, THIS IS HOW TO PROPERLY INSULT Tunna.

Hmmmm... SAGirl

Guys, I went through this write up about the life and times of John Attah Mill, and I was perplexed. Ghana really had a president.
Please read through and ask yourself if you can say that of President Goodluck Jonathan. Keep in mind that they both had no shoes, they are both married, they are all phd holders and lecturers and they all became presidents who relied on sponsors.
Happy reading.

EPITAPH ON GHANA's LATE PRESIDENT, JOHN ATTAH MILLS by DELE MOMODU

Fellow Africans, please permit me to pay this special tribute to our departed hero, a great son of Africa, world scholar, seasoned administrator, experienced politician, humble and transparently honest leader, eloquent and articulate speaker, decent manager of men and resources, respectable and respected statesman, father of the nation and above all a God-fearing soul, Professor John Evans Fifi Atta Mills who died on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.

At a time it seems Africa is overwhelmingly polluted by reckless and careless, insensate and insane, corrupt and corruptible, incompetent and unproductive, disgraceful and shameless leaders, it was re-assuring and definitely rewarding that President Atta-Mills stood out and sparkled like a million stars amid the gloom that had enveloped our notorious continent for so long. His was a veritable example that it was still possible to have African leaders with the pre-requisite intellectual grounding and clear-headed vision needed to propel our countries forward. Prof, as we loved to call him, was a simple administrator who did not see power as an end in itself but as a means to a positive end.

He was a man who saw himself as a mere servant of the people given the privilege to steer the wheel of state and not the authority to grind the nation to a halt. He was a careful driver who appeared too cautious to take foolish risks.His critics could call him Mr Slow but could never call him a pen robber like most of his infamous colleagues that litter many countries of Africa. He lived a simple life that was difficult to imagine for one of the most influential countries in West Africa and the new gateway to Africa. Prof was very conscious of the fact that Man brought nothing to this world and that he shall take nothing with him when the appointed time comes to re-join his creator.

He was a philosopher king who knew the treasures imbedded in a good name and a worthy legacy. He did not suffer the inferiority complex of many leaders who saw power as only the means to making up for deprived youths. His country was kind to him, gave him so much and he knew much was expected of him. He did not misappropriate the nation’s wealth for personal aggrandizement. Even if there were disciples who messed up under his nose and did not share his vision of humility and selflessness in power, he did not condone them and everyone attested to his visible integrity.

Had he not been a scholar and administrator, perhaps, President Atta-Mills would have been a priest or preacher or both. He was never tired about preaching the virtues of honest leadership. He was ready to open up his private life and accomplishments to public scrutiny. His booming voice resonated with the common man every time he spoke with a passion and deep conviction about the responsibilities of a good leader. He would always be fondly remembered as one serious-minded leader who refused to waste public funds on frivolous projects. He would be loved eternally as a man who was ready to sacrifice personal comfort for the common good of all.

Prof did not carry himself with the arrogance of a monarchical President. He did not intimidate nor harass his fellow citizens with the appurtenances of power. No member of his family was unnecessarily loud or irritating. They kept an enviable low-profile and allowed the man to concentrate on the job he alone was employed to do. We did not read of his wife thundering down the streets like a raging caterpillar. Prof did not disturb the peace of his neighbours in the housing estate where he lived in his private home even as the President of the Republic of Ghana. There was nothing extra-ordinary about the cars he drove. His convoy did not shut down the city. He did not buy up properties all over the place to flaunt his awesome powers and freshly-acquired wealth. 

His mien and composure often reminded one of the late Tanzanian leader, Nwalimu Julius Nyerere. His intellectual capacity brought back memories of those days when Africa was governed by true intellectuals and not academic pretenders who could never articulate their vision in life. 

A cursory peep at Professor Atta Mills resume would reveal a man of impeccable pedigree, well-educated and well-exposed to international standards. Here was a man who was born on July 21, 1944 and attended the famous Achimota School where he completed his A-level in 1963. He studied Law at the University of Ghana and graduated in 1967. He proceeded to the prestigious London School of Economics & Political Science for his post-graduate studies. He bagged his PhD in Law at the School of Oriental & African Studies at the    University of London. He wrote his doctoral thesis in taxation and economic development. He later returned home to take up teaching appointment at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, and other institutions, where he spent about 25 years cumulatively.

Professor Atta Mills was so brilliant that in 1971 he became a Fulbright scholar at the Stanford University Law School in the United States of America. He was also a visiting Professor at Temple Law School, in Philadelphia, USA, between 1978 and 1979 and again at Leiden University in Holland from 1985 to 1986. He authored many publications and he was a respected authority on taxation. For several years, he was Acting Commissioner of Ghana’s Internal Revenue Service and became the substantive Commissioner from 1993-96 when he became Vice President to President Jerry John Rawlings.

He was the presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress at the December 7, 2000 elections but lost to the candidate of NPP, Mr John Agyekum Kufuor. Professor Atta Mills contested and lost again in 2004 to the then President Kufuor who ran away with victory a second time. His third and final battle came in 2008 when he faced and defeated the NPP candidate, the effervescent Nana Akufo-Addo who was widely tipped to win after a hell of a fight. 

I had little but powerful contact with Professor Atta Mills before his last election which saw him become President. He was clearly a man of destiny. I really don’t know how else I can describe him. Months before that controversial election, not many people gave him a chance to win. First his party had been out of power for eight years. Two he was not a rich man by any standards and he did not seem to know how to cultivate the friendship of Africa’s rich and famous.

Guys, I went through this write up about the life and times of John Attah Mill, and I was perplexed. Ghana really had a president.
Please read through and ask yourself if you can say that of President Goodluck Jonathan. Keep in mind that they both had no shoes, they are both married, they are all phd holders and lecturers and they all became presidents who relied on sponsors.
Happy reading.

EPITAPH ON GHANA's LATE PRESIDENT, JOHN ATTAH MILLS by DELE MOMODU

Fellow Africans, please permit me to pay this special tribute to our departed hero, a great son of Africa, world scholar, seasoned administrator, experienced politician, humble and transparently honest leader, eloquent and articulate speaker, decent manager of men and resources, respectable and respected statesman, father of the nation and above all a God-fearing soul, Professor John Evans Fifi Atta Mills who died on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.

At a time it seems Africa is overwhelmingly polluted by reckless and careless, insensate and insane, corrupt and corruptible, incompetent and unproductive, disgraceful and shameless leaders, it was re-assuring and definitely rewarding that President Atta-Mills stood out and sparkled like a million stars amid the gloom that had enveloped our notorious continent for so long. His was a veritable example that it was still possible to have African leaders with the pre-requisite intellectual grounding and clear-headed vision needed to propel our countries forward. Prof, as we loved to call him, was a simple administrator who did not see power as an end in itself but as a means to a positive end.

He was a man who saw himself as a mere servant of the people given the privilege to steer the wheel of state and not the authority to grind the nation to a halt. He was a careful driver who appeared too cautious to take foolish risks.His critics could call him Mr Slow but could never call him a pen robber like most of his infamous colleagues that litter many countries of Africa. He lived a simple life that was difficult to imagine for one of the most influential countries in West Africa and the new gateway to Africa. Prof was very conscious of the fact that Man brought nothing to this world and that he shall take nothing with him when the appointed time comes to re-join his creator.

He was a philosopher king who knew the treasures imbedded in a good name and a worthy legacy. He did not suffer the inferiority complex of many leaders who saw power as only the means to making up for deprived youths. His country was kind to him, gave him so much and he knew much was expected of him. He did not misappropriate the nation’s wealth for personal aggrandizement. Even if there were disciples who messed up under his nose and did not share his vision of humility and selflessness in power, he did not condone them and everyone attested to his visible integrity.

Had he not been a scholar and administrator, perhaps, President Atta-Mills would have been a priest or preacher or both. He was never tired about preaching the virtues of honest leadership. He was ready to open up his private life and accomplishments to public scrutiny. His booming voice resonated with the common man every time he spoke with a passion and deep conviction about the responsibilities of a good leader. He would always be fondly remembered as one serious-minded leader who refused to waste public funds on frivolous projects. He would be loved eternally as a man who was ready to sacrifice personal comfort for the common good of all.

Prof did not carry himself with the arrogance of a monarchical President. He did not intimidate nor harass his fellow citizens with the appurtenances of power. No member of his family was unnecessarily loud or irritating. They kept an enviable low-profile and allowed the man to concentrate on the job he alone was employed to do. We did not read of his wife thundering down the streets like a raging caterpillar. Prof did not disturb the peace of his neighbours in the housing estate where he lived in his private home even as the President of the Republic of Ghana. There was nothing extra-ordinary about the cars he drove. His convoy did not shut down the city. He did not buy up properties all over the place to flaunt his awesome powers and freshly-acquired wealth. 

His mien and composure often reminded one of the late Tanzanian leader, Nwalimu Julius Nyerere. His intellectual capacity brought back memories of those days when Africa was governed by true intellectuals and not academic pretenders who could never articulate their vision in life. 

A cursory peep at Professor Atta Mills resume would reveal a man of impeccable pedigree, well-educated and well-exposed to international standards. Here was a man who was born on July 21, 1944 and attended the famous Achimota School where he completed his A-level in 1963. He studied Law at the University of Ghana and graduated in 1967. He proceeded to the prestigious London School of Economics & Political Science for his post-graduate studies. He bagged his PhD in Law at the School of Oriental & African Studies at the    University of London. He wrote his doctoral thesis in taxation and economic development. He later returned home to take up teaching appointment at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, and other institutions, where he spent about 25 years cumulatively.

Professor Atta Mills was so brilliant that in 1971 he became a Fulbright scholar at the Stanford University Law School in the United States of America. He was also a visiting Professor at Temple Law School, in Philadelphia, USA, between 1978 and 1979 and again at Leiden University in Holland from 1985 to 1986. He authored many publications and he was a respected authority on taxation. For several years, he was Acting Commissioner of Ghana’s Internal Revenue Service and became the substantive Commissioner from 1993-96 when he became Vice President to President Jerry John Rawlings.

He was the presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress at the December 7, 2000 elections but lost to the candidate of NPP, Mr John Agyekum Kufuor. Professor Atta Mills contested and lost again in 2004 to the then President Kufuor who ran away with victory a second time. His third and final battle came in 2008 when he faced and defeated the NPP candidate, the effervescent Nana Akufo-Addo who was widely tipped to win after a hell of a fight. 

I had little but powerful contact with Professor Atta Mills before his last election which saw him become President. He was clearly a man of destiny. I really don’t know how else I can describe him. Months before that controversial election, not many people gave him a chance to win. First his party had been out of power for eight years. Two he was not a rich man by any standards and he did not seem to know how to cultivate the friendship of Africa’s rich and famous.

femi4: 77CAMJ

Wow!!! Thanks guy. May you find help when you need one.

All these GEJ goons should go and hug [/s] GEJ [/s] transformer. If support for GEJ is not purely out ethnic or regional bias but out of fulfilling electoral promises then it is okay. But I assure you that all support for GEJ is out of ethnic sentiments. He has not delivered any electoral promise. All these GEJ goons should go and hug GEJ transformer. If support for GEJ is not purely out ethnic or regional bias but out of fulfilling electoral promises then it is okay. But I assure you that all support for GEJ is out of ethnic sentiments. He has not delivered any electoral promise.All these GEJ goons should go and hug GEJ transformer. If support for GEJ is not purely out ethnic or regional bias but out of fulfilling electoral promises then it is okay. But I assure you that all support for GEJ is out of ethnic sentiments. He has not delivered any electoral promise.

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Assuming above isinuations are true, what happens to those without fb account? And what makes you think people will not register fake fb account and link them to their nairaland account?
If Seun implements this then atleat he will be giving upcoming social media gurus opportunity to flourish. Expect names like nairalands, nairalan, nairalannd, nairasland.

Vows to end oil theft?
What serious thing has GEJ vowed to end that ended?

Why am I not surprised that its a muslim making the statement on behalf of 0f FG. A motive can be seen.
Nigeria has never had a no- nonsense, vocal and action-packed CAN president. They even said Oritsejafor does not behave like a pastor. I guess they never heard of Martin Luther King.
To also answer this Alhajis question on why the US did not consult the FG rather CAN. Do you think the US is into games or politics when it comes to security. They know FG is not serious about tackling serious issues. What do you expect the FG to say at the conference? That they have met the deadline of stopping the killings in june or that they are on top of the situation?

Mr president sir, your statement should have read
"it is only in nigeria that stealing of crude oil is allowed by the govt. It Is a shameful thing that the govt allows such stealing and do nothin about it. The govt should her head under the pillow for being so irresponsible"

Guys, I just discovered that JMAINE is only 16yrs old. Now I am not surprised. Does everyone now understand why he goes around making incoherent statements and insulting people over issues he knows nothing about. with even some very stup!d pictures. It is advisable to ignore him always. He's not worth it. He should go meet his high school counterparts, worry about passing high school exams and leave serious issues to adult.
Imagine, just three years into teenage and you want to get noticed by force.

Which business activity was paralysed?
Dailytrust with all their lies. How many businesses is run by the hausas in jos?
is it the fruit sellers, plantain hawkers or wrapper sellers?
The only tribe that grounds jos business are the Ibos.
Last time they closed shop during the burial of Ojukwu, Jos was grounded.

jmaine: When next you seek to quote me . . .make sure you have something tangible and meaningful to say . . .

Now go to the queue of the ignorant and wait for your turn of showcasing your daft mentality

yawns . . .
Hold that thought lets get you fixed.
What size of pampers do you wear again?
And . . . YOU ARE HEREBY BANNED FROM QUOTING ME.

jmaine: Fool, that was 100% Cassa bread as far back as the early 90's . . .in this case, Cassa flour is meant to augment the percentage composition of the normal imported flour utilized for bread composition

You are simply a fool cos adequate research would have been carried out to ascertain the viability,sustainability, and profitability of this initiative before being doggedly pursued by the Agric ministry.

Now go back to the queue and wait for your turn to exhibit your usual bout of ignorance . . .

Yawns . . .
what did you say again.

Beaf: Firstly, I am just much more intelligent than you (which is no crime). Jealousy and mental inferiority are the real reasons you reach for lies like "wasting money on people like Beaf."
Is it you family paying me to be smarter than you? Maybe you are bloody hungry and frustrated, that would be an obvious reason for fools like you to keep mentioning money. Next time, just do yourself a favour and contribute to the topic instead.

Secondly, you say GEJ is throwing his weight at unimportant issues. When did the creation of jobs become unimportant? When did diversifying the economy become unimportant? When did programmes to lift millions of subsistence farmers out of poverty become unimportant?

Thirdly, I'll ask again: do you have to be stup!d just because you oppose GEJ?



Mystery!

When did housing 40 guys with 40 laptops to spread propaganda become important?

TrueNaijaguy: You can't be serious. You mean the president should do nothing else because of the security challenges we are facing in the country? Try as much as possible to be objective in your views cos unnecessary antagonism will lead you to no where.

We all know that the recent security challenges are facing in the country has religious and ethnic inclinations which makes it more difficult for us, our leaders and the security agencies to tackle. Terrorism is new to us and considering the fact that we are a developing nation its a herculean task to meet the demands of the people and at the same tackle the menace. Even at that the President and his team have been doing all that is humanly possible to bring the terrorist activities to a halt and at the same time achieve his transformation agenda which includes food security.

The president should be commended for not allowing the perpetrators of violence bring government activities to a halt cos it would have meant total surrender if reverse was the case. Lets be patient cos good things don't come easy. We should remember that there have been almost total neglect in most of the sectors of our economy for decades and to fix them will definitely take some time. Rather than castigate him, use same energy to contribute to the development of the country. #Godblessnaija

Your child falls sick and all you do is buying him toys. Are you alright? it it toy he needs now?
How does making noise about cassava bread make you look busy?
keep buying your child toys and not the treatment he needs and very soon, you may have to play with the toys yourself.

jmaine: We were given 100% Cassava made bread in my secondary school days in one of the Federal Govt Colleges. Ol boy, Cassa bread chewing almost turn men to ruminants cos you go need dey chew one bite for minutes . . .To rip a portion off na mini civil war between your hands and the unrelenting binding molecules of the Cassa Bread . . .


To overcome our dilemma, we had to appease the Cassa bread by persistently soaking it in Hot tea cos 100% Cassa bread was found to be unyielding to cold water . .Chewing 100% cassa bread was serious business that required one to psych his/herself up for the big business of chewing Cassa bread.

Fast Forward to the present . . .Hopefully good research has established the fact that, deploying a certain percentage of Cassa flour into bread production won't change the general feel or taste of it

Now we know where your quagmire of dullness came from. Is this what you want subject Nigerians to.
Go put on some pampers on your mind my guy.

Mandelaguy: They keep committing one blunde after another,desperately clawing for lifeline with GEJ as their focal point and showing how foolish they really are.

Now thats a blunder!

Beaf: Dude, seriously. Does opposing GEJ grant you a license to be so seriously stup!d? Just count the number of stup!d posts you have made on this thread alone.
Bro, ayam shaming for you o!

GEJ's thug high on cassava bread on the loose!

Beaf: Guy, why do you people like to expose stup!dity so freely? Does opposing GEJ mean you should be stup!d?
God, I beg o! Shuuuuuuu!

In fact medical studies promote cassava as part of the diet for diabetics, because of its low glycemic index.

At least everyone can see where your posts originate from. Does opposing GEJ's always untimely policies mean opposing him?
Cant you for once in your life think straight? Are you high on cassava bread?

Meanwhile as far as nairaland is concerned, [size=15pt]your words have no economic value .[/size]

werepeLeri: LOL -

People don begin equate promoting cassava farming to Boko Haram - i laugh.

Why you no go laugh. Shey na your uncle dey for Aso rock.
Presidents are advancing their nations and securing the life and property of their citizens.
Ours is busy forcing cyanide (from cassava) down our throats or increasing our proximity to poisons (from energy saving bulbs).
Do dead people eat or do people without energy save energy?

Yet, anytime GEJ is mentioned you see his goons on nairaland either just insulting without facing issues or busy pasting pictures.

jmaine: https://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff390/ShaneDawg021/th_westbrookfishshirt.png What you placed up there is useless . . .Next time before you call the next man clueless . . .look inwards to be sure your not addressing yourself . . https://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff390/ShaneDawg021/th_jayznerdlaugh.png

yawns . . .
What did you say again

jmaine: Am sure your one of those who love to call others Clueless . . .How should we define your ignorance, laced with a robust measure of foolishness

I know your mind is very narrow coupled with the fact that your myopic nature takes the most of your reasoning.
I am not here to waste my time trying to upgrade your set lame and overly dull mentality. You are ignorance personified. Go and give your diabetic peeps cassava bread.

werepeLeri: i dont beleive someone in a stable state of mind will utter the above statement - politics and opposition apart.

Stable mind?
Do you know the percentage of poor Nigerians that survive on wheat due to their diabetic state?
I bet you GEJ will not eat cassava bread

Stable mind?
Hoe can you leave under this administration and claim stable mind.

GEJ is set to augment the the killing of Nigerians by boko haram with diabetes!

Government slams 65% levy on wheat, flour imports and creates new Cassava Flour Development Fund to strengthen technological and manpower capacities for the cassava value chain.

In spite of stiff opposition from the House of Representatives and a cross section of Nigerians, the Federal Government is pushing ahead with its policy on cassava bread.

On Thursday, it rolled out additional taxes aimed at discouraging continued importation of wheat and flour into the country. It believes the policy would force bakers to turn to cassava in making breads for local consumption.

The House of Representatives had passed a resolution rejecting the policy which aims at making Nigerians take to cassava bread. Some lawmakers argued that the policy could have serious health implication on some citizens.

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said henceforth wheat and flour imports would attract 65 per cent levy, in addition to the 35 per cent duty on the commodity imposed in line with the approved 2012 budgetary provision, which becomes effective this month.

The minister also announced the establishment of a Cassava Bread Development Fund, amongst other fiscal measures by government to ensure that the policy on cassava bread succeeds and impact positively on other cassava value programme of the government.

The minister, who was interacting with flour millers and master bakers in Abuja, also announced the removal of the 10 per cent tariffs on cassava enhancing enzymes effective from Sunday, 15th July this year.

She reaffirmed government’s commitment to ensure the success of the cassava flour bread agenda in view of its far-reaching benefits to the economy, saying a new Cassava Flour Development Fund (CFDF) is be created immediately, in order to strengthen the technological and manpower capacities for the development of the entire cassava value chain.

According to the minister, the money to operate the Fund would be sourced from the newly imposed 65 levy on wheat imports and would be managed at first instance by the Ministers of Finance, Agriculture, Trade and Investment and Science Technology and the Director General of the Budget Office.

Mrs. Okonjo Iweala explained further that a substantial part of the Fund would go into training of the over 400,000 master bakers across the country, encourage the decentralisation of the baking industry as well as support them in understanding the operations of the new modular technologies that would be acquired to boost cassava flour processing as the implementation of the cassava bread is sustained.

“The wheat flour, which used to attract a duty rate of 35 per cent with no levy, will effective 1st of July, and in order to encourage the substitution of cassava flour for wheat flour, attracts not just the duty rate of 35 per cent, but also a 65 per cent levy”, the minister said. “That has now kicked into effect. So, that is where we were. This is to encourage the flour milling industry to kick in and begin to aid the substitution of cassava flour for wheat flour.

“But in addition to that incentive to the cassava value chain and to the cassava processing industry, we want to announce a couple more additional incentives that will help the industry. The first is with regard to cassava enhancing enzymes which the Minister of Agriculture just referred to.

“At present, they attract a duty rate of 10 per cent. We will reduce that to zero per cent effective from now. So, as from 15th July, we are reducing the duty on cassava enhancing enzymes from 10 per cent to zero per cent to encourage the bakers and the millers in the industry.

“The second thing that we would do is that we are going to use part of the 65 per cent levy on wheat flour to create a Cassava Bread Development Fund and this Fund would be used to support the cassava value chain.”

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural development, Akinwumi Adesina, appealed to flour millers against any act that would undermine the efforts of the government to use the cassava flour bread to transform the economy.

The minister said as had been pointed out, the success of the policy would not only save the country of up to N635 billion yearly on wheat import cost but also help in creating jobs and improving the wellbeing of Nigerian farmers amongst other benefits for the economy.

http://premiumtimesng.com/business/6018-Jonathan-pushes-ahead-with-policy-cassava-bread.html

There are strong indications that Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Lamido Sanusi, may be a mole in the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

Even though Jonathan sees him as a strong ally in fight against corruption and setting firm agenda for strong fiscal and monetary policies, some close to the President are not comfortable with some of Sanusi’s subterranean activities.

The conviction of some members of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet is that while Sanusi hobnobs with Jonathan he had and is still, surreptitiously working for the Congress For Progressive Change, CPC, Presidential candidate, General Muhamadu Buhari whom he feeds with insider story of the Government.

“He is a mole. He takes information to Buhari and El-Rufai and portrays the Government in bad light and yet he is still serving under the same Government and brags nobody can sack him.”

A source that was in Kano for his turbaning ceremony said “he was at a meeting with some of his close allies shortly after the ceremony and expressed his dislike for the administration. He started talking after one of his friends asked him his view about the Jonathan’s administration.

According to the source who does not want to be named “he clearly said the administration was finished and that he would back Buhari again if he decides to run. Sanusi said he was just ‘marking time’ with Jonathan. He has been telling people that Jonathan is weak and Buhari is better, he has been bragging that Jonathan cannot remove him unilaterally.”

Pointblanknews.com sources hinted that Sanusi, who championed the need for Islamic banking, had tried at some fora to justify the mayhem by Boko Haram, minimizing the sect’s underline objective, which is Islamization of some sections of Nigeria.

His utterances on the activities on Boko Haram appear to be in tandem with some high profile northern elders like Adamu Ciroma, Shetima Ali-Munguno, and Lawal Keita.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had maintained that the interest free Islamic banking would help tackle the problems of tobacco smoking, alcoholism, gambling and prostitution and others in Nigeria.

Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in an interview with the Financial Times blamed the emergence of the Boko Haram terrorist sect on the 13% derivation allocated to the oil producing states from the federation account. He had told FT “There is clearly a direct link between the very uneven nature of distribution of resources and the rising level of violence.”

In 2010 Sanusi said “If Buhari gets a nomination he will have my vote. I will vote for him not, like some have averred, because he is a northerner and a Muslim or because I think his candidacy is good for the north and Islam; I will vote for him not because I think he will make a good democrat or that he was not a dictator. I will vote for Buhari as a Nigerian for a leader who restored my pride and dignity and my belief in the motherland. I will vote for the man who made it undesirable for the “Andrews” to “check out” instead of staying to change Nigeria.”

Pointblanknews.com sources hinted that Sanusi maintained this position recently during a private meeting with some close friends shortly after his turbaning in Kano.

According to our source, Sanusi donated about N50 million to the Buhari campaign organization before the last presidential election.

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua nominated Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria on 1 June 2009 and the Senate confirmed his appointment on
3 June 2009, in the middle of a global financial crisis.

In parallel to his banking career, Sanusi contributed to the debate over Sharia law. In 1997, Sanusi obtained a degree in Sharia and Islamic Studies from the African International University in Khartoum, Sudan

Sanusi was born on July 31, 1961. His father was a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1960s and his grandfather was Emir of Kano and Islamic Scholar, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi. Sanusi graduated from King’s College Lagos in 1977 and studied at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria earning a BSc in Economics in 1981. He then taught economics at ABU from 1983 to 1985.

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