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Algebra12:
Most of the comments I read above signify the shallowness, laziness and myopic mindedness of many Nigerians and nairalanders.

If you discredit what the op wrote up there, then I am sorry to say you need to check your mental wellbeing.

The missing dog does not listen to the voice of its’ master
I pity some Nigerians

Obiagelli:
Bladdy lies, can we compare food prices 3yrs ago to today? Talk less of cash crops.

Yes, we can!

3 years ago, a bag of rice cost b/w 11,000 to 13,500 naira.

Just last week I bought a bag of good rice at 8,500 naira here in Abuja.

For ones, we should speak the truth and stop lying.

And I hope all those asking for GMB will not have reasons to bite their fingers.

lookingforjob:
THIS IS WHY I WILL NEVER FORGIVE MY PARENTS. I WAS A GOOD YOUNG FOOTBALLER BACK THEN BUT INSTEAD OF ENROLLING ME IN PEPSI ACADEMY, THEY INSIST I GO TO SCHOOL. NOW I FINISH SCHOOL AFTER 4YEARS NO JOB. GOD KNOWS I WOULD HAVE BEEN IN A GOOD FOOTBALL CLUB NOW EARNING MY LIVING.

E NO GO BETTER FOR THEM

[size=14pt]Proverbs 20 vs 20[/size]

Voting Buhari may end our free and unhindered access to YouTube and others social media websites.
We do a lot of things only, call it researching, getting tutorials of how tos, making good money and other stuff online.
Shouting the doors of Youtube and other social media websites like facebook, twitter and others in the name of Islam will be a big blow that will catapult you and I to dark era…
I get a lot of tech stuff from Youtube and without Youtube, you have back dated many Naijas and I to 1914.
If you love the above websites, vote GEJ, please.
I love freedom and I and my family will vote for Jonathan, period!
A stitch in time saves nine
Do not added us to Countries That Block Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube etc.
[size=14pt]Naija youths, to avoid this, vote GEJ for the good of all.[/size]
Pause, think before you criticize me
I care and everyone who care must do the right come Feb 14

[size=14pt]Why does our General like blood so much?
Kill this, kill that
Southerners in Northerner Nigeria forward match to HOME now
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Those who are thinking that GMB will carry the day in SW will be totally disappointed.

I see GEJ getting the go ahead ticket come Feb. 14.

For social media websites and freedom of information, rail projects and stable prices, GBJ have my vote.
[size=14pt]Russia economy is down Big time, as of today, prices of goods and service in Russia has triple.
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Feb 14 is GEJ's day.

ANY talk about President Goodluck Jonathan embarking on a revolution in Nigeria would raise consternation in many quarters. The question – you mean that President Jonathan is on a revolutionary course would be asked? The word revolution seems farfetched, except if one is viewing from a different perspective. That, certainly, is the case here. I am viewing what President Jonathan has been doing from a different prism. It is wrong to dismiss Jonathan as having done nothing. It is hatred to say so, and so it is with all the governors. Each of the leaders has done something that should be appreciated.

In my view, I see Jonathan genuinely embarking on a revolutionary course to transform Nigeria. Since he came into office, his administration has flaunted the transformation agenda. Whereas, revolution and transformation are synonymous, the word revolution seems to connote a more dramatic change while transformation is perceived as less dramatic – a slow process. In all, people want to see visible change.

Ordinarily, a revolution is not something that is hidden, kept in silent mode or swept under the carpet. All the revolutions we knew from history that took place in different parts of the world – be it the industrial revolution, agrarian revolution, or even the French and Bolshevik revolutions, to name a few, were not secret events hidden in documents or known by a few people. All the revolutions came as change agents at one time or the other. The French revolution that overthrew theocracies and absolute monarchies and introduced republics and democracies around the world lasted for thirteen years from 1789 – 1802. I am looking at the Jonathan revolution as something that needs time to manifest. People need to be patient.

It is from this angle that I am shocked, that while President Jonathan’s administration has been busy initiating policies and programme that could revolutionise the country if given the chance, a few people have insight or knowledge about what is happening. This is telling on the President’s bid for re-election. Whereas, the administration has focused on a “transformation agenda,” which is another name for revolution, much of the public perception about the administration is in the negative, due to lack of strategic publicity. This is astonishing, as it seems to affect the fortunes of the President in the forth-coming election.

I have been on leave in my village in Imo State since last Christmas. As a media man, information is our raw material; the tool of our job. Wherever a media man finds himself, he has his eyes and ears open for news. While engaged in any activity, he has, at the back of his mind, what news story could be made out of the activity or event. The media is the first port of call when selling any piece of information or idea.

If a scientist makes a discovery in his research lab and keeps it to himself, without making it public through the media or the academic community, no one would know about the discovery. The scientist may go ahead to tell his close friends about his wonderful discovery, and his friends may in turn keep discussing it in their closets; still that won’t sell the discovery to the public. The discovery can only be brought to the public domain through appropriate channels.

Over the weekend, I was amazed to come across, at a gathering, what I may call a new national order, or new beginning, packaged by President Goodluck Jonathan for the country. The imprints are already documented in very attractive publications that few people have ever come across. The question is, after publishing these landmark materials that captured what the Jonathan administration has done, is doing and intends to do, why were they not released to the public through the media and academic community? Why the publications were kept secret to the extent that not even those of us in the media houses knew about them? Why were they not distributed to the hundreds of universities and other tertiary institutions for students and their lecturers to read? It is not surprising, therefore, that many people are asking what the Jonathan administration has done. The information is hidden in books that were not made public.

The masses of the people want to see physical development landmarks. Other than that, they need to know by way of information dissemination what the President plans to do. The revolutionary programmes cannot be accomplished overnight, hence, the need to carry the people along. The President’s information handlers did well by documenting his landmark achievements and programmes but failed to disseminate these to the people. It is not strategic enough to rely on Internet-based channels alone – twitter, facebook, U-tube, Instagram, etc, for information sharing since only a very small proportion of Nigerians have access to these channels.

In the rural areas, for instance, a negligible number of people read newspapers. But majority of the people have radio and television sets. Therefore, it is through the traditional communications channels that the masses of the people could be reached and not the Internet-based channels. The Jonathan re-election bid is facing an up-hill task because people were not well informed about his policies and programmes. People want something to hold on as the basis for casting their votes.

Without countenancing whatever criticisms that may be leveled against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flag bearer, people are holding on the fact that Buhari is an honest man who is averse to corruption. It is difficult to erase this perception about the man. Whatever Buhari did as a military Head of State doesn’t mean much to the ordinary people. President Jonathan needs such lasting impression in the psyche of Nigerians.

It is unfortunate that for the most part, Nigerians witnessed draconian military regimes that presided over the country’s affairs. The use of force is the norm. That has conditioned the psyche of an average Nigerian, such that quick action and quick result are the watchword. People are impatient. If you are the governor or president, people want you to effect change from day one, even if it means pulling down existing structures all over the place. That shows that a new man is on the seat. No wonder that most state governors embark on demolition of “illegal” structures as soon as they assume office. And the people like it. Those are called action governors.

But for a leader like President Jonathan, who is coming from the civil background, totally different from the accustomed military culture, many Nigerians don’t understand why he is not forceful and effecting dramatic changes overnight but chooses to follow due process in doing things. People don’t understand that there is difference between a military and civilian democratic government. President Jonathan is a leader who could transform Nigeria if given the time. But his gentle mien seems to work against him. No animal is gentle in the jungle. Since Nigeria has been conditioned into a sort of jungle, the leaders are not expected to be gentle. Instead, they are expected to be harsh and apply force. The Constitution has given the president and governors overwhelming powers to do and undo.

For those wanting to know what President Jonathan has done to warrant their voting for him, here are some key highlights, especially, those that affect the masses of the people. I decided to travel home by road last Christmas and discovered that right from Ore to Owerri, the road is now perfect and motorable unlike before. The work is continuing from Ore to the Shagamu Interchange, to join the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway now under reconstruction. Those who use the railways can testify that new locomotive coaches are operating the rehabilitated rail lines that were moribund for years prior to Jonathan’s administration. The airports remodeling project embarked upon by the Jonathan administration is historic. That has put the major airports in the country to global acceptability if the project is not stalled.

On the agricultural front, farmers in the northern states – Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Kano Jigawa, Gombe, Niger, Kogi and Bauchi states have benefitted from Jonathan’s dry season irrigation farming, leading to increased output. Records show that some seven million metric tonnes of paddy rice have been added to the national production output since 2011. What about the mass unemployment in the country? Several self-employment programmes are currently being executed. You-Win is one example. All the training and empowerment programmes of the Jonathan administration would make impact once there is power supply. The privatization of power supply under the Power Sector Road Map is historic; it has the capacity to revitalize the comatose industrial sector if well implemented. Besides, two private sector solar power plant initiatives backed by the Jonathan administration to produce 1000 megawatts each are under construction in Yobe and Kano states. There are other on-going initiatives in all sectors of the economy. Only the Jonathan administration will see these programmes through.
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http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/editorial-opinion/columnist/195439-onyekakeyah-jonathan-s-silent-revolution

Former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi has dismissed Soludo as a man hunted by his past for stating that he (Obi) built no signature project in Anambra State during his tenure.

Speaking through his Media Assistant, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, Obi described the article by Professor Charles Soludo as full of evidence of one who is still nursing deep hatred against those he wrongly assumed were responsible for not renewing his appointment as the Governor of the Central Bank and those that thwarted his move towards becoming the Governor of Anambra State last year.

Obienyem in his response agreed with some vital points raised by Soludo but regretted that the aim of the write-up was not to instruct or contribute to positive national discourse, but to hit back at those he is nursing secret grudges against.

Obienyem recalled how Soludo in 2013, said he was the foundation upon which the new Anambra State was built, and went on to commend him on how he changed the fortunes of the state.

He wondered why Soludo would just turn around so soon to declare that the tragedy of Obi’s tenure was that he built no signature project by which his regime would be remembered but saved money in the midst of hunger thereby impoverishing the people of the State.

Obienyem said it was surprising that a renowned economist as Soludo, who in the same write up, prided himself of saving $45billion in the nation’s external reserves when he was the Central Bank Governor in the same article should condemn Obi for saving money for Anambra State, questioning the wisdom of savings where there were things that needed to be done.

“When he said he saved $45bn, does it mean that at that time Nigeria’s problems were over? Now oil price is falling and state’s allocation are bound to fall, Soludo should be told that the money Obi saved will be used to cushion the effect, among others reasons for states to save at all times. He also talked about clearing Nigerian debts without acknowledging that the architect of it is Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is still part of Jonathan’s Government”.

On Obi leaving no signature project, Obienyem said that Soludo merely displayed his ignorance of what true development is, insisting that development is nothing if it does not involve the totality of man.

“Talking about signature project, Obi has them in abundance. He built over 30 bridges, built the State Secretariat, built the teaching hospital, built the permanent site of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University, rebuilt Iyienu, Borromeo hospitals, Holy Rosary and St Joseph hospitals; and Our Lady of Lourdes among many hospitals with signature structures dotting them.

“Beyond the foregoing”, Obienyem continued, “Soludo should be told that Obi did much more in areas that are far more important than mere structures. He returned schools to the Church and committed billions that could build any form of signature project of Soludo’s imagination. Because of this, Anambra State is today the number one in external examinations in the country.

Moreover, he changed the psyche of the people of the State and removed Anambra State from her pariah status to one of the exemplary States in the country.”

Regretting how unstable Soludo has become in his opinions, Obienyem said that the same Soludo, on the Tuesday, the 23rd of July, 2013 described Mr. Peter Obi, during the memorial thanksgiving mass at St Theresa’s Catholic Church, Isuofia, in honour of Soludo’s mother-in-law , as a man of destiny whose disciplined and God-fearing life has insured his success in life.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/peter-obi-tackles-soludo/

A legal practitioner, Mr. Chukwunweike Okafor, on Monday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja with an application seeking a declaration that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), lacked the educational qualification to stand for the February 14 presidential election.

The originating summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/01/2015 has Buhari, APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission as the first, second and third defendants respectively.

The suit was filed pursuant to Section 131 of the Constitution, which prescribes a minimum qualification for nomination to participate in the presidential election and Section 31 of the Electoral Act that requires all presidential candidates to depose to an affidavit that they have satisfied and complied with the constitutional requirements to be President of Nigeria.

Okafor, in the suit filed through his counsel, Chief Ugo Ugunnadi, is contending that Buhari’s form CF001 with the INEC, wherein he stated that he obtained the minimum educational qualification of West African Senior School Certificate could not be valid as the said certificate was allegedly false or not genuine.

The plaintiff, among other things, is asking the court to declare that “the information contained in Buhari’s affidavit dated November 24, 2014, stating that the Secretary of the Military Board was in custody of his WASSC was false and thereby disqualified him from contesting the 2015 general elections.”

The lawyer is therefore seeking an order of the court “compelling INEC to withdraw, remove and/or delete the names of the 1st and 2nd defendants from the list of persons or political parties eligible to contest for the Office of the President of Nigeria in the 2015 general elections.”

The courts reopened today after being shut down for three weeks by the striking judicial workers in the country.

No date has yet been fixed to hear Okafor’s originating summons.

http://www.punchng.com/news/lawyer-sues-over-buharis-certificate/

bastien:
So u open dis thread because say u wan make we follow u vote Buhari abi Chai

GEJ till Buhari start sharing 7GB every month

I am not a fan of Buhari but the way some naija biz service providers treat us is bad.

Glo gave me 4.5G but opening pages with it is a big wahala, it takes ages to open a webpage.

I used glo service in the past and my main phone number for years now is glo but this 4.5g is zero.

And if is working fine in your area, congrats, but in my own zone, is bad, period!

Is obama effective?

sucess001:
[size=24pt]Jonathan's Government innefective- Obama

https://www.nairaland.com/2112872/international-indictment-jonathans-govt-innefective [/size]

Is Obama effective?

[size=14pt]Just last week I subscribe to Glo’s 4.5G and to this moment, I have not enjoyed the service even for a second.
Do you know while I said is a complete scam
Formerly I was using Glo service in my house in Abuja and the service was sweet.
I later switch to MTN as a result of price differential.
Not knowing that Glo set trap for us.
And the annoying thing is that I cannot drag glo to NCC, because NCC has never protected consumer's interest.
That is the cross we Nigerians are subjected to by some 419 businesses like glo.
If my former subscription works fine, why is the present useless?
Glo is a sacm.
I may vote for Buhari, I have a feeling that he will protect my interest even if I am a Christian
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[size=14pt]Anyone can get statement of result, even from a business center.
But 4 certificate, no go area if you don't have it...
Buhari Show us your certificate and put all these controversies to rest for good
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[quote author= post=30016636]Hmm[/quote]So Buhari was old when he left secondary school in 1961

Tell me how can, Boko Haram move from place to place without anybody reporting these movements in North East
Where do they camp before attacking?
Don’t these satanic agents live with the people of North East?
These devils properties moves in groups to attack villages and nobody made any attempt to stop then, why? North’s wonder!
Only for peole to blame Jonathan
[size=20pt]Boko Haram will stop when the North East and the entire Northern region wants it to stop[/size]
See this
[size=14pt]My parents volunteered me, says 14-year-old Kano suicide bomber[/size]
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/parents-volunteered-says-14-year-old-kano-suicide-bomber/
that is North for you
[size=20pt]GEJ is working[/size]
https://www.nairaland.com/2060236/port-harcourt-enugu-train-back/1
[size=14pt]Vote against him and stop development.[/size]
[size=14pt]The world is voting out core Islamic candidates out (Egypt, Tunisia etc.) and Nigeria is gradually dancing to hell by dreaming of Islamic fanatics like GMB[/size]
[size=25pt]GMB is not an alternative my friend[/size].
Think before commenting
The worst GEJ is better than GMB period.

[size=14pt]I am not 100% in support of GJB, do you know why?
I have not been paid in the last 2 months, there is money to pay us, BUT Iweala, Accountant General, Ministry of Works and others will prefer to hold on to our salaries for interest purpose, yet GEJ did nothing to intervene.
Ministries get training allowance for their staff yearly, yet Ministries will refused to train their workers, yet GEJ and National Assembly will do nothing about it.
Our refinearies are not working 100% yet no concrete action is taken
We beg Abuja Electricity Distribution Company to give US light, inspite of the exorbitant bills will pay every month, nobody cautions then, even the phone numbers in their bill paper is clear 419 numbers because those numbers are not working.
Inspite of these...
GEJ is still far better that fanatic GMB[/size]

sufido123:
Vote GEJ because Buhari has endorsed him.

This is looking REAL GOOD

didadavid:
[img]http://4.bp..com/-Js3U1GRRjmw/VJZh1n_rYsI/AAAAAAAAAws/lPEHzmJlyZ4/s1600/GMB%2B1.jpg[/img]
Some Nigerians in the UK gathered at the Nigerian High Commission office in London to show solidarity support for Gen Muhammadu Buhari's presidency. They made chants, raised placards and posters of Buhari. See another pic after the cut.. -

[img]http://2.bp..com/-NOvVTRmUZ5M/VJZa-ll440I/AAAAAAABE90/GdOEAqcgx9M/s640/Gmb%2B2.jpg[/img]

See more at: http://www.lailasblog.com/2014/12/photos-nigerians-in-london-show-support.html#sthash.3dQOJzDB.dpuf

All in black, I hope is not RIP pic

Who is Onigbinde?
Is it not the expired coach that got zero when he took Nigeria to world cup?
[size=18pt]Is only in Nigeria that someone who failed exam woefully teaches another how to pass the same exam.[/size]

informat101:
hey!!!we speak ika, agbor is not the only ika land.

Thank you for educating him

CFCfan:
Another GEJ minister has lost!

This is not APC zone

[size=30pt]seize fire friends
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Easy all

OdenigboAroli:
I would have loved an Oshimili or Aniocha man to emerge. I dont trust Ika people.

The Ika's are friendly, hardworking and dependable
So, you have on option but like us

Is it not Senator Umaru Dahiru Tambuwal, the slap giver that is collecting signatures to impeach GEJ?
What a character

nigerianvenom:
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba has been petitioned by the Lagos state APC Integrity Group calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of a governorship aspirant of the party, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode for committing perjury in his INEC form and his JAMB form.

The group in its petition, an electronic copy of which was mailed to iReports-ng.com, stated that “We have just discovered that one of the 13 governorship aspirants of our great party, the APC, in Lagos, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode recently submitted Expression of Interest form wherein he lied under oath that he is an indigene of Lagos state. We wish to draw your attention sir to the fact that the same person had in his JAMB admission form in 1981 also filled his state of origin to be Ondo state. You may also wish to know sir that Mr Ambode had in his application form number JAMB/DE.03 and registration number 646789 filled in his own handwriting that he is an indigene of Ondo state in the portion of the form which asks his state of origin.
“Attempts in recent times by Mr Ambode to claim Epe as his town have been severally rebuffed by leaders of the town. Hence our request to you to use your good office to investigate this obvious case of perjury. Attached herewith are copies of the two forms where the suspect committed the crime for your records, perusal and immediate action.”

It will be recalled that the Edu family of Epe in Lagos east had in May this year come out to disown him, stating that the aspirant is not a member of the family as he has claimed. The Baale Buraimo Edu family he claims to belong to in Epe had issued the statement to disown him. The family, in a release signed by both Alhaji M. Oladeinde Edu and Alhaji T. A. Edu, also insisted that Ambode hailed from Ilaje in Ese Odo area of Ondo State and not from Epe as he claimed.

According to the release, the family stated that the Baale Edu while alive had 22 wives and 38 children and challenged Ambode and his supporters to trace his side of the Edu family tree and name his mother among the 22 wives. According to them “We hereby bring it to the notice of all Lagosians that we have tried but could not trace where the said Akinwumi Ambode belongs in the family tree of Baale Buraimo Edu of Epe.
“At this juncture, we can categorically state here that in actual fact, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode was a son of Festus Akinwale Ambode, one of the teachers posted to Epe in the old Western Region; a native of Ilaje Ese Odo in the present day Ondo State.

“As a school teacher, the elder Ambode was very familiar and friendly with several Epe indigenes. The older Ambode came to Epe through the waterways. He came with his wife, Christianah Oluleye Ambode (nee Oresanya), who though initially did not stay with him which made the older Ambode marry a second wife, an Epe daughter, popularly called ‘Iya Vice from Poka, Epe.

“She was a food seller in Epe Grammar School. This development led to Akinwunmi Ambode’s mother who also hails from Ilaje Ese Odo in Ondo State to eventually relocate to Epe to stay with her husband,” the family said.

According to Edu family, at death, Ambode’s father’s corpse was taken back to Ilaje, Ondo State for burial in line with the dictates of tradition and royalty as he was a prince, adding that, “The royalty from the kingdom came with the full royal insignia and ferried his remains back to Ilaje land for interment.

According to iReports-ng.com, the group stated that: “With these facts stated above, it is a rude shock to the entire clan of the Edus in Epe that the said Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode is laying claims to being a clan of the Edus. We reject this linkage, both paternal and maternal, or even marital,” the family said.

It will be recalled that Paparazzi Magazine carried a cover story on the state of origin on Ambode's Jamb form and why he may not be fit to. Contest fot governorship as a Lagosian. We also told you that the issue of state of origin, forgery and perjury is not unique to Ambode
as his godfather the Asiwaju was also bedevilled by same and till this day remains uncleared.

Source:[url]ireports-ng.com/2014/12/02/lagos-apc-integrity-group-petitions-igp-seeks-ambodes-arrest-prosecution-for-perjury/[/url]

How long has he lived in Lagos?

So, Sanusi knew about it and prefer to do nothing, so that he can blame GEJ and the security agencies.

Thank God I am from North, my leaders and people from my region will not allow
this to happen.

I trust they will stop it.

Your silence has changed the equation of many families for life.

What a wicked silence, sir.

May souls of departed rest in peace and may God give their families the fortitude to bear the loss.

As the city of Kano began stocktaking of Friday’s deadly bomb blasts, Emir Muhammed Sanusi II said yesterday that the attack was planned for two months.

The Emir, who was out of the country during the attack, returned home yesterday apparently after cutting short his trip to visit the Central Mosque at his palace, and sympathise with the bereaved and the injured.

Up to 120 people were feared dead after two suicide bombers and several gunmen launched the attack during the Juma’at prayers.

The Police insisted yesterday that 34 people died and 125 injured even when an attendant in one of the mortuaries in the metropolis claimed to have counted 102 dead bodies.

A top official at the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital who does not want his name in print said the mortuaries at Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital, Sir Muhammad Sunusi Specialist Hospital, Sheikh Muhammad Jiddah General Hospital, Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital and Aminu Kano Reaching Hospital were all filled to the brim with bodies brought in from the scene.

“This is the deadliest attack ever carried out in Kano,” the official said.

Emir Sanusi II who drove straight to the scene from the airport directed that the mosque be washed and cleaned.

“From all indications, they (attackers) have been planning this for at least two months,” Associated Press (AP) quoted Sanusi as saying, but gave no details .

“I have directed that the mosque be washed and cleaned and prayers should continue here,” he said and vowed: “We will never be intimidated into abandoning our religion, which is the intention of the attackers.”

The Sultan of Sokoto and leader of Muslims in Nigeria, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Sa’ad III, speaking on the attack, at a different forum in Abuja yesterday, said: “those behind all the attacks are not Muslims.

“I do not believe those perpetrating these are Muslims because if they are Muslims they are not professing what Islam teaches,” the Sultan said during the Post-2014 Hajj Conference organised by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria at the National Mosque, Abuja.

He added: “In the world over it is the duty and responsibility of government to provide security for the citizenry. This is the time for all the various sects in Islam in this country to rally round one another and bring to an end insurgency in this country.”

Tension remained high in the metropolis yesterday as residents went from one hospital to the other searching for their missing relations from among the dead and the injured.

Many of them broke down in tears once they sighted the d bodies.

Some of the bodies were collected and taken for burial immediately.

Sympathisers also besieged the various hospitals with a view to donating blood to save the lives of those receiving treatment.

Insufficient blood bags however constituted a problem.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the attack ‘horrific’.

He pledged U.N. support for Nigeria’s fight against terrorism, and called for the perpetrators to be swiftly brought to justice, according to his spokesman.

Some survivors of the deadly attack relived their experiences in separate interviews.

Auwalu Sule, 48, who said he has been worshipping at the mosque for 16 years said: “we were about to start praying at about 2.15 pm, when we heard a deafening sound of bomb explosions.

“Simultaneously, some people started shooting sporadically followed by another bomb blast. Before we knew it another explosive strapped to the body of a suicide bomber went off inside the mosque. We all went down on our tummy.

“Almost everyone to my left lay dead; it was only Allah who saved me because one of the gunmen was standing beside me thinking that I was dead.

“Then I heard people saying worshippers should stop running. I wanted to get up, but I was afraid. But once the shooting stopped, people summoned the courage and went for the two gunmen left behind, disarmed them and set them ablaze.”

Another survivor, Aminu Yahaya, 32, said soldiers arrived the scene 15 minutes after the attack only to start beating up those rescuing the injured and helping to evacuate the dead bodies.

Hamisu Dakaura, 35, who runs a shop close to the mosque claimed to have counted “over four hundred people that lost their lives.”

“We worked for over four hours evacuating the bodies. As we were evacuating the bodies, soldiers descended heavily on us and they were trying to stop us, shooting sporadically to scare us from the scene.

“They vandalised vehicles. Even tricycles numbering over 30 that were being used to evacuate the dead bodies the soldiers shot. It was only Allah that saved me or else I would have been a dead man for trying to assist in the evacuation of the dead.”

Nasiru Ahmed, 19, and Baffa Tijjani, 38, who went to the Abdullahi Wase specialist Hospital to donate blood to the victims were dismayed that there were insufficient blood bags.

The State Deputy Police Commissioner, Mr. Sanusi Lemu, told reporters that 34 people died.

He said investigation into the blasts has commenced.
Source
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/attack-planned-for-two-months-says-sanusi/

aresa:
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If you have any new school akpabio built to show me, please go ahead and show me or STFU.

Btw. propaganda is littering with useless rubbish without showing us precisely the new schools akpabio built

You need help fast

Nigerians, Nigerians, Nigerians, and how many times did I call her, 3 good times.
Today, I see people routing for GMB, they say Atiku and others are not a factor to consider when thinking of changing the nation’s leadership.
Yes, GEJ has not score 100% and we as Nigerians have every right to complain and even send him packing to his state come 2015, this is a good move that we can embark on.

But at what price?

Just last week, members of lower chamber of our national assembly were tear gas, some tick against the police and the presidency, while some supported the action but no Nigeria was put in jail.
Even in nairaland here, the president was called fool, wicked, clueless, and many unprintable names and nobody was arrested.
It is no longer news that the President is curse very minute here in nairaland and nobody is arrested for doing that.
Governors, other political office holders, especially the opposition abuse the President openly, yet no Governor or these office holders where put inside car boot like Senator Chris Ngige's experience under Obansajo.

The office of the Nigeria President is more powerful than the office of the American President and if the President decides to use 40% of his powers, most niralanders will be in jail today, so, don't trade your freedom for anything.

Your freedom to say whatever you like will be curtailed, most niralanders lacks proper upbringing, a leopard cannot change its spots easily, you have learnt how to blame government for your own failure’s, when you fail exam, you blame government, when you have no food to eat, you blame government, when you beat your dear wife you blame government for ALL THINGS.

Dreaming of GMB is a bad dream that must be stopped today.

GEJ has performed below expectations, though insecurity has its fair share, but he could have done better.

We can help in stopping terrorism in Nigeria, how?
By watching our neigbour and reporting any usual movement to the security agencies for prompt action, a stitch in time saves nine

GMB will deny you your freedom, governors that criticize him openly will go to jail straight, nairaland may seize to exist, we may be ban from social media sites, our cherish freedom of today may go forever and there is nothing anyone can do.

National assembly will be a mere supporting organ and any member that goes against GMB will disappear without trace.
Is that we want?
GEJ has not done well but GMB is not the change we seek, look else where.

[size=20pt]Degree 2 will return[/size].

We should retrace our steps today, look for better alternatives.
When we think of corruption, we just point finger at the President.
Is there anybody that is in any position in Nigeria, both past and present that is not corrupt?
GMB is clean, on yes, if he is, how does he fuel his jeeps only, I know what it cost me to fuel my car weekly and not to talk of convoys of many jeeps
[size=14pt]Use your tongue to count your teeth before commenting please.[/size]
[size=14pt]I love my freedom and if you don’t know what freedom is, just tell the police to detail you for 24 hours only…[/size]
Help me keep my freedom, our FREEDOM by voting for some else and not GMB.
[size=14pt]You can vote out GEJ but don’t vote in GMB[/size]

A word is enough for the wise