₦airaland Forum

kechywillz:
worse than
Nigeria is now ^{^} afghanistan

Brimmie: MY TAKE:
In Human resources, when you want to attract talents you spend money, that money is an investment towards the talents you seek to acquire. When you ask people to pay 12k Naira for an Exam they are not sure to pass, a Job they are not sure to get then something is wrong.

What if the best talents cannot afford the money?

The idea or this recruitment drive is laudable if only there was no fee attached to it. I wish Mr Governor will use some of his security vote to offset this for at least 2000 candidates.

neuronin: ... but I was concerned about the following:
1. High price
2. Long waiting time
3. Uncertainty of product delivery after payment especially because they wanted money upfront. Well, this is naija ooo!
4. Possible mismatch between what I want and what they supply...

jmaine: I agree to an extent, but who are the culprits . . . .

chukwudi44: You are here bragging!! If it comes to playing dirty, Amechi's camp will be the looser.The full strenght of the presidential power deployed illegally against him could be devastating

thelastPope: What unresolved nonsense? Digging up old threads after you have been taken to the cleaners and exposed as hypocrites and unpatriotic folks over and over again? Nice try...Your bitterness stinks!

homesteady: But come oh!! I've heard many people saying -
My president is a very weak man!! He can't even control Boko Haram!! The worst is that he is not even the head of his house!! His wife is the head!!

SO HOW CAN THIS SAME PRESIDENT ORGANISE SUCH A WICKED ACT!!
HOW CAN THIS SAME MAN KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE JUST TO DEMONIZE HIS OPPONENTS??

NA WA OH!!

Obiagelli: Good they acknowledged their error, i hope others follow suit. To many lies against this man by the corrupt and their blinded poverty stricken followers

omo alaro: If Gen. Buhari choose to forgive them, God will not forgive them. This was the lies they recycled so much everywhere that has become the truth even among ethnically and religiously bias nairalanders. How many people will ever come to read their useless apology. Is it not on the basis of these lies that some idiots were calling for his arrest?. It is also based on these lies that Reuben Abati got his job. A reward for concocting lies against Gen. Buhari. I hardly feel any sympathy for Nigerians. We deserve what we are going through at the moment.

Lordlexy: The General need not to be prop. When d atmosphere is clear for proper politicking void of electoral fraud, malpractices that characterised our election, you will be surprise the land slide the General will emerge with. His popularity is growing on a daily basis, while the antics, skims, scam and desperation of the opposition, you inclusive is becoming more evident and appalling. I can assure you that, with such revelation, with more yet to come perhaps, i bet you, you are in for a shock.

obadiah777: WHILE THE WORLD STARVES. ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE IMPRESSED BY THESE TWO COVETOUS DEMONS ? SMDH

Wendyslim: . Ok I withdraw dat comment. Tnx for dat but make dem give dem self brain nah.

RedBenson: O boy that flyover looks real poor and when i say poor, i mean 'POOR' compare to Akwa Ibom own

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http://www.punchng.com/news/nigeria-cant-survive-another-civil-war-mark/

street-soldier:
Umar seems to be very loyal to his boss!....

ichommy: I guess he is

mr_man: 2015 is definitely going to be bloody. The old era of political assasinations is probably going to creep back into the polity.

BigPhil: Who is fooling who..
Can't wait till Thursday,to see how this script pans out.

enesy4u: Se NA only south south oil well dey 4 naija. Ondo state have producing crude oil since 1999 and for the records its d most peaceful oil producing state in Nigeria. So please stop hating on my DEAR STATE

mankand: Never blamed the goat. I only blame the impotent president that cannot roll out tanks and drones to level the community.

Memories of Obj and Odi on my mind

Intrepid!:
This matter should never have gotten to this point. What has the Directorate of Military Intelligence been doing? The NIA nko? All Intelligence gathering agencies should have coordinated long before now and a Special Forces Unit detailed to nip the terrorists in the bud long before now.

alnaijiri: The real tragedy here is that a man, a Northern man presumably from a Muslim family would not only abandon the faith of his fathers, but to promote and propogate idolatry in his homeland! Converting Muslims to Xtianity will, God forbid, destroy the moral bedrock of the North.

I take no pleasure in seeing a man killed, especially one who could have been a learned Muslim and a devoted husband and father, and a good citizen of his community. May God watch over all the children of the North, even the non-Muslim ones, so that they would return to the faith of their fathers and bring true peace and prosperity to the North, so that we will no longer lag behind and be humiliated and exploited by the infidel South.

alnaijiri: Our forefathers took advantage of contacts with the Arabs, and accepted Islam, thus bringing light to this part of the world. They renounced their formerly pagan ways and I am proud of my forefathers for their decision.

Only devotion to orthodox Islamic teachings can save the North.

Da chriz: Atleast we go rest small

daylae: Its long overdue.

oshyno: The

The BH boys relocated to areas not covered by the emergency rule punk. He shud go ahead and declear state of emergency in Borno and Yobe. Our people used to say that is one that knows u that can kill u, not a foreigner ( onye ma mmadu na egbu ya). These villagers, traditional rulers in these states cant claim ignorance of BH among them. The BH boyz take time to plan. They surge into d village, secure accommodation, study d terain b4 carrying out their nefarious plan yet the village head sedon 4 chair dey collect salary as d head chief. Governors instead of working with their traditional rulers to nip this guyz pay d bh boys so they wont harm them. It has tayyed wen I subscribed to state of emergency to these state.

byteem: lets be realistic here .. its only because the police are on the loosing side here that's why we can hear all the seeming sides to the story .. if they succeeded in wiping out these people as they planned with their overzealous and unplanned attack .. they would have come out to call all of them bokoharamites and claim accolodes that they had gotten victory..

THE POLICE SHOULD NOT WORK WITH INSTINCT BUT WORK BASED ON PROPERLY VERIFIED INTELLIGENCE.. that has and always will be the problem of the Nigerian security agencies .. they simple lack intelligence .. information is king.. when you work with low level intelligence .. you put your men in danger and a massacre like this is what you get..

the I.G and all who approved that mission should resign and accept their failure..rather than cry foul for sending their men to die based on lame instinct ..

this brings back the argument for community policing .. this remains the only way to have proper intelligence gathering network... until we have and solve this intelligence drain in our security agencies the only thing to do is fold our hands and watch them killed like chickens..

ocelot2006: Those guys are fcking liars. How the hell did CS/teargas kill 9 guys?

Scarpon: other people from North like IBB, , BUHARI and co should learn from this man not how to steal our money

Sunny_bobo: World Bank raises Nigeria’s economic rating
TUESDAY, 07 MAY 2013 20:07 FROM MATHIAS OKWE, ABUJA BUSINESS SERVICES - BUSINESS NEWS
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FOR reducing the level of endemic poverty in the country, the World Bank has promoted Nigeria from a low income country ranking to a medium  income position with the privilege of borrowing from the Breton Wood’s elite club, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).     The decision elevating the country’s rating , according to the World bank Country Director for Nigeria , Ms. Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, was taken at the last month’s Spring  meeting of the World Bank / International monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.

She said the decision was taken after a review of the Nigeria’s economic indication revealed that there was a reduction in poverty rate per capita  in the country which has now dipped to 62.6 per cent from 64.2 per cent as well as improvement in revenue accretion.

The World Bank boss, who spoke to journalists in Abuja on the post-Spring meetings, said the implication of the promotion was that Nigeria now would have more  access to resources from its creditors as it becomes eligible to borrow not only from the International Development Association (IDA) but also from the  International Bank for Reconstruction And Development (IBRD).

She said: “ This follows the Bank’s resolve to give the country a ‘blend’ status in its 2014-2017 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) document which would be release later this year. The  blend status, which is for a period of six to seven years applies to countries with  gross national income per capita of about $1,170."

Nigeria,  before now, has been eligible to borrow  only from IDA, which offered a 40-year payment plan with a 10-year grace period at no interest rate charge. Beneficiaries only pay a service charge of about 0.75 per cent.

The  decision also followed the growth in Nigeria’s  revenue as her gross national income per capita had reached about $1,200 in the past two years, prompting the Bank to undertake  an upgrade from its current IDA only status.

She  however explained that  the country would continue to benefit from both resources for seven years although the repayment conditions would now be reviewed.

While on the new status, the country would now adapt to new repayment plans as the IDA condition would change.

She gave further insight into the new plan : “Instead of having 40 year repayment it will be 25 year-repayment; the grace period moves down from 10 years to five years and you have an interest rate of about 1.3 to 1.5 per cent.”

During the six to seven-year period, allocations fom the IDA is expected to be reviewed and phased out gradually while  the IBRD allocation steps in as the only borrowing window.

She said: “So during these period, Nigeria will have more resources until it moves to the IBRD window.”

 http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121088:world-bank-raises-nigerias-economic-rating&catid=31:business&Itemid=562

Umar Sanda: Ok,i agree wit u, bt dnt u thnk d Igbos r n serious abt Biafra, if dey do, let dem put dia house in order first, let d Senators, Governors n oda Officials of Igbo extraction com 2gda afta rubbing mind wit d entire Igbo populace n write 2 d appropriate quaters dat dey want 2 b on dia own, i bet u it wil b easy, bt 2day, many Igbo wil tel u dey dnt wnt Biafra.

bayooooooo: [size=18pt]Nasir el-Rufai’s Book as Intellectual Fraud?[/size]

Although there is no single definition of fraud, the online definitions that come to mind as one reads Nasir el-Rufai’s book (The Accidental Public Servant) is “fraud as course of deception, an intentional concealment, omission, or perversion of truth”, or “an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual”. I know el-Rufai as a brilliant fellow and I certainly expected a definitive book. His stated objective was to “tell the story of my public service years…” but it turned out a very bad example of how to write a memoir. It is more of wild concoctions and commentaries on imagined events outside of his “public service years”. As I read parts of the book that relate to things that I should know about, I shook my head in disbelief. I could not believe that el-Rufai could descend so low. While I will surely correct many of his wrong narratives in my book, I thought I have a duty to make a preliminary response – for public records!

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Contrary to his narrative, most of us in government knew that el-Rufai desperately wanted to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo as president. He plotted and schemed, destroying anyone perceived to be potentially in his way. Obasanjo scorned him; the scheme through the PDP Reform Forum failed; and with the bid to replace Major General Muhammadu Buhari in Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) still a work in progress, it is understandable that the bitterness would find succor in a book to smear and destroy any known potential threat. The only good person in the whole book is el-Rufai, and perhaps also my dear sister, Oby Ezekwesili. For him, it is either that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was power hungry or that “Charles was not grateful”. We understand his motives, but for him to also fabricate stories about Obasanjo, Atiku Abubakar, and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu the way he did (the three persons that literally made him tick in government) speaks volumes. What a very grateful person! My people have a proverb that when a foolish and disrespectful child utters abomination before his elders, he beats his chest that he has exhibited uncommon courage.
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The book is grossly dishonest. It is amusing to read the purported conversations he had with President Obasanjo on the third term bid. One reads almost two or three pages as quotes from the conversation and most parts of the book are replete with similar long quotes of purported conversations (all in inverted commas). This tactic was deceptively employed to give the impression of authenticity to the claims of such conversations. Surely, it is impossible to report the proceedings of a meeting or conversation verbatim after the meeting. It would therefore mean either that he was tape-recording every private conversation he had with people or that he simply fabricated those long quotes. If he cannot produce the tape recordings of those conversations (which I believe he doesn’t have), he should be honest enough to admit that he made up those stories/quotes. It is too cheap of him to fabricate those quotes and seek to exploit the gullibility of the reading public to damage other people.


I was amused by el-Rufai’s disingenuous attempt to frame stories about the Economic Management Team, which he forced himself upon and probably destroyed. As pertains to me, he lied all the way in an attempt to concoct a mischievous narrative or plot. He calls Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala “Ngozi”. I call her “Madam”. He tells a fairy tale of how I was a student or protégé of Ngozi’s father. Sorry el-Rufai, the respected Prof. Okonjo had left University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) before I became a student, and our paths did not cross until the mid-1990s (while my Ph.D was in 1989). If you even called Ngozi on the phone, she would have confirmed to you that she never got any consulting contract for me at the World Bank or any multilateral institution as you claimed. If you cared for the facts, you would have known that I began to interact with Ngozi in late 1999, in the fourth month of my 18-month consulting assignment at the World Bank (an assignment to which I was nominated by three pan-African Institutions – ADB, UNECA, and AERC – for the project on “Can Africa Claim the 21st Century”). You don’t lie about matters that have records.


For your information el-Rufai, before I met anyone of you at the original Economic Management Team, I had (for a decade) lived in Ethiopia, United Kingdom, and United States of America (USA) and traveled to 45 other countries as an itinerant scholar and consultant; worked at the United Nations; been to Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick Universities; was a visiting professor at Swarthmore, USA; and consultant to 18 international organisations including the World Bank, IMF, OECD, EU, ADB, various UN agencies, etc. I have been consultant to different departments of the World Bank at different times, including being on the Chief Economist Advisory Council (CEAC) for the period 2005 - 2012 and no Nigerian had anything to do with any of them. I spent 19 months at the Brookings Institution, USA (January 1991 – July 1992; and three months in 1998) but according to el-Rufai, I went to Brookings after a consulting job at the World Bank (which would then mean ‘after 2000’?). According to el-Rufai, I became Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in “mid 2005” instead of May 2004. He manufactures both the facts as well as the comments.


By el-Rufai’s own account in the book, the approval to embark on the demolition of properties in Abuja was obtained on 30th August, 2003. I state (and challenge him to prove otherwise) that Ngozi was no longer staying at Bolingo Hotel by the time he started his demolition programme. How can you then fabricate a story that we met at her suite in Bolingo Hotel and also fabricate a purported quotation of what I told you, which among other things, referred to your demolition programme? I thought you were smart enough el-Rufai to at least lie consistently. Is this not fool proof that you made up all the quotations in the book?


As at the last count, no less than 15 persons claimed to have recommended me as Chief Economic Adviser or Central Bank Governor. My simple response to all is: thank you! Thank you also el-Rufai if indeed you played the role I have just read from your book that you played in my appointment as Chief Economic Adviser. Of course, President Obasanjo is still alive and several of the actors are also alive. In my own memoir, I will detail how I joined President Obasanjo’s government. I have also heard fantastic claims of some people that they literally appointed me governor of CBN. In a recent chat with President Obasanjo, he for the umpteenth time insisted that nobody can ever claim to have advised him to appoint me as governor of CBN. He reminded me that even I did not know—which is a fact!


El-Rufai also conveniently forgot that he first met me in late 2000 when I came from the US to help the federal government prepare for the IMF Article IV consultations and also train senior staff of CBN, Ministry of Finance and National Planning on the macroeconomic and technical computations involved (paid for by USAID). el-Rufai chose to forget that he pleaded for my technical assistance to Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as a consultant but I told him I was too busy with my international assignments. I rather offered to attend any of his privatisation committee meetings anytime I was in the country and to offer my services free of charge. He forgot that I wrote several technical notes to help him succeed, including being the sole author of the initial draft “Anti-trust and Competition Policy” – all free of charge!


El-Rufai seemed unhappy that I gave every credit of our achievement to President Obasanjo. Well, I am informed enough to know that in a presidential system of government, only the president is elected with the mandate to govern and every appointed person in the executive branch has a delegated responsibility to assist him. Only in Nigeria would you see a minister or appointed official write books to take credit for achievements in office. As governor of the central bank, I made it clear that I received every award or recognition on behalf of the president. I have no apologies for that.


Interestingly, el-Rufai tells the story of the great achievements of President Obasanjo in restoring the Abuja masterplan, using him as an assistant. I thank him for at least acknowledging that the idea to restore the masterplan was Obasanjo’s and that he drove it all the way. What he did not tell is the story of how el-Rufai’s vindictiveness almost ruined the exercise as well as the monumental fraud associated with it. This is for another day!


Of course, el-Rufai could not hide his opposition to the banking sector consolidation. Unfortunately as we say in my place, you cannot cover the moon with your palms. You may not like Soludo or Obasanjo, but in the last 27 years, there are two fundamental structural transformations of the Nigerian economy that have taken place – the telecommunications revolution, and the banking sector revolution (consolidation). Ours was not a mere reform, it was a revolution! Nigeria’s only transnational corporations were built in three years.

We put two Nigerian banks in the top 300 banks in the world and they remain there, and nine others in the top 1,000 (there was none before my tenure). The Nigerian private sector as we know it today (especially the new economy in oil and gas and emerging big businesses) largely owes its wealth to our revolution. The world acknowledges that without our foresight and courage, the Nigerian financial system and economy would have collapsed during the global financial crisis. We developed a robust, transparent and no-nonsense regulatory and supervisory regime before the global crisis, and left behind one of the strongest banking systems that was globally rated in the same league as those of Israel, India, China, and Russia. You chose to forget that we revoked the licenses of 14 banks in one day (unprecedented in our history), including banks owned by my friends. This is a story for another day!


The story of how we built the world’s fastest growing financial system and Nigeria’s largest transnational corporations in three years, rescued the entire system from collapse despite the unprecedented four shocks that buffeted the system during the global crisis, on course to fully restructure the few ailing banks before the end of 2009 with or without a penny from government; and designed the comprehensive roadmap for sustainability and growth (under FSS 2020) is told in my book. Our Financial System Strategy (FSS 2020) remains the roadmap till date. Sorry el-Rufai, there is little you can do about this record. Even with ten 234NEXT newspapers, and 20 other books, you cannot re-write history!


Since el-Rufai takes pleasure in reporting what ordinarily should be private conversations, let me also take the liberty to report that he admitted to me on April 28, 2013 that what he wrote about me were the “impressions” he was given. That for me summed it up. My advice el-Rufai, is that you don’t collect some hair dressing salon gossip, hearsay, ‘impressions’, and wild imaginations – all intentionally designed to damage others, and bind them into a book without crosschecking the facts. That is intellectual fraud!

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nasir-el-rufai-s-book-as-intellectual-fraud-/146818/

Rexxie: If not for the killing of innocent people and christians and southerners am in full support of BH. If the majority of northerners are in support of their agenda to implment sharia and other ideals in the north,then their rights shud be respected. The govt must start respecting the rights of people in this country. Those northern elites,hypocrites who are calling for amnesty and blackmailing the govt and southern nigeria,shud be the targets of boko haram and all right thinking nigerians. CHANGE IS WHAT WE NEED IN THIS FALSEHOOD MARKING ONE GHOSTLY CENTENARY NEXT YEAR.

joseph1832: I also voted for him, but please let me ask you, what does a seventy something year old man has to offer, Buhari just said that he will context the 2015 presidential election. I for one find this unacceptable, are they now telling us that Nigeria can not produce a youth leader who will pilot the affairs of this country?.

Our political terrain is dominated by people who have been in government for far too long, I believe its time we start seeing new faces...

AskProf: 1 man (Ziona Chana, Indian), 39 wives, 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law & 33 grandchildren.