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but not sure if it still work or not, check my overload bal two days ago, and discover all don disappear, when I knw n very sure of having 2000, which av not even use at all.

but I dey flex the data overload like kilode.

you need to speak with insider from both company to know other package attach to your salary before making your final decision,

I personally think that of 75k will have other advantage attach to it, as ur tax will be less, while other benefit will come interm of reimbursement and bonus, which are nt to be tax.

the higher ur salary, the more tax you pay.

my 10kobo advise to you, is get an insider from both company and let them tell you what is obtainable, again high pay without good working condition, and low pay with rest of mind, dis are part of tinz you really need to look into, befor you pass your judgment.

all the best bro.

why are this gov pple so full of lies, SA that generate over 40000MW with population less that nigeria will now downgrade itself for a nation of 170millions that manage to produce less that 4000MW to show them way, infact inless than 2yrs, that country will find itself to blame following our obodo naija footstep.

barcanista:
Sorry bro, but that isn't what happened in 1983. This article is the fakest since the start of the year.

you are aware of plan to shift the election, indirectly for jega to giv way by june/july that his tenure will elapse. and they install their loyalist as new chairman.

which GEJ has consistently deny, due to public out cry and internation community observers that the election must hold.

They are looking at all possible means not to transfer power to the opposition, so that is another way to it, belive it or not.


in this kind of mess, I belive the like of IBB, OBJ. TY Danjuma can come to rescue for the militry to stay clear of the election.

just like they did to obanikoro and his cohorts during Osun election, if not what play out in ekiti state will have repeat itself in osun and subsequent election to come

ellechrystal:
Exactly. They make it look as if buhari will really win imagine, maybe because they c d amount of hungry ppl who step out for campaign.
They forget these ppl r there for wat they are sharing , tshirts, rice biscuits n all. N some r paid.
N then they come here deceiving ppl.
Who told them buhari will win?
Mtchewe

I have only one word for you and your PDP follower

in stereoman voice, e dey pain you "gangan"

my broda, you are right o, life then in the 70ties to early 80ties was very very ok, my mother marry my dad, when she was 20, real wedding.

now ladies of 25 even 30 still under their parents, the ones that are not able to stay, venture into runs,

the same tinz for guy, miscreants everywhere, impregnate and denial, not their wish anyway, by the time they think of baby food, pampas and the like. they jst conclude to deny d pregnancy than take up the responsibility.

how I wish time change back to thise days. and we have a source of livelihood, peace everywhere

Credible sources have informed us that top level PDP and army meetings are being held to prepare for a Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minimah-led interim military government if General Buhari wins the elections in two weeks. By most accounts, Buhari/Osinbajo are favored to win in a landslide.

Kenneth Minimah, the Chief of Army staff hails from Bayelsa state.


The current plan by the Goodluck Jonathan presidency is for Minimah to lead an interim government for 6 months and then conduct new elections that will transfer power to PDP.

The Nigerian government officials and some army chiefs are reportedly terribly afraid of the consequences for their actions of corruption and against the Nigerian state that are expected to be investigated and sternly dealt with by a Buhari/Osinbajo administration.

The PDP has been witnessed to be hitting below the belt and applying all types of slanderous and libelous campaigns because for the party it is a do-or-die affair.

NewsRescue exclusively broke the news of an aide to Doyin Okupe, Deji Adeyanju who earlier on hinted of this arrangement.
The presidential elections are to be held on the 14th of February.

Sources say the Jonathan government plans to instigate riots and is planning utilizing its Niger Delta militant terrorists (Boyloaf, Tompolo, Dokubo and co) to stage attacks that will enable the scuttling of the elections at any stage, before,during and after as all projections show a Buhari/Osinbajo victorious sweep.

In this event, the army will appear to suddenly decide to stabilize the country, but this is the ultimate plan being made now, ahead of the incidents.

It is discussed that Kenneth Minimah may not transfer power back to civilians if an interim government is formed in the 6 months as he will be demonstrably busy containing Boko Haram terror and other militant action, but this is a risk the Jonathan government is prepared to take.


www.abusidiqu.com/revealed-chief-of-army-staff-kenneth-minimah-to-declare-pdp-backed-interim-military-govt-if-buhari-wins/

FORMER CPC vice presidential candidate and founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has declared that he earnestly yearns for a better Nigeria where good governace, equal distribution of the nation’s resources amongst others for all citizens.

The former running mate of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) made this remarks while ministering during the inauguration and commissioning of Grace and Glory Chapel in Ikeja, Lagos, while giving reasons why he rejected a car gift forhis 60th birthday.

Pastor Bakare said he was not interested in becoming a local champion in a city of the blind, recalling that, some persons brought him a 2015 model of Rolls Royce during his 60th birthday which, he said, he out rightly rejected, adding that he was not in need of such exotic car while majority of Nigerians are wallowing in poverty.

“I want to see good governance. I want to see discipline. I want to see equitable distribution of resources. I want to see the poor being educated. I want to see a nation that works,” Bakare said.
Continuing, he said: “I don’t want to be a local champion in a city ofthe blind. I am not in need ofa 2015 model ofRolls-Royce which was presented to me as a gift.

“I was sitting at home one day and they brought in a brand new 2015 Rolls-Royce into my house. My 60th birthday was coming. I looked at it, kai! This is awkward. When you open your car, your door goes this way, its own door goes that way. It clears the way so that there is nothing blocking your way.

“I saw a button. They said: it is an umbrella sir. It is on every door in case it is raining, you just push it and the umbrella comes out. I said: Na wa o. Then I said: Oya, leave this place.

“Where is the road that I will ride it upon? My heart is not in things like this. I asked my son to take a photograph of the brand new car as a proof,” the controversial pastor noted.

Bakare also averred that poverty has made most Nigerians to believe that anybody without a jet has not arrived, adding that majority ofthose who bought jets can no longer maintain such jets and are busy leasing them out.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/rejected-rolls-royce-gift-pastor-bakare/

so on point

na so, na so

this is terrible. may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

in 2010, we lost one of our sug member as well. accident within the school, in btw wema bank and the new library.

SaharaReporters can report authoritatively that John Kennedy Okpara, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), has been delivering millions of Naira in bribes to some Christian pastors on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The money is meant to buy their support of the candidature of President Jonathan in the February 14 presidential elections.

The NCPC boss, our investigation revealed is a member of Jonathan’s kitchen-cabinet specifically saddled with the responsibility of mobilizing Christian leaders.

Okpara is described as being close to prominent Pentecostal pastors in the country, and as serving as a middle man between Jonathan and Christian communities over vital issues.

A credible source said that in that capacity, he visited some key Northern states including Kano, Kaduna and Sokoto.

Meeting with the Christian leaders, he first explained the ‘dare need’ for Jonathan to be re-elected, before delivering the largesse to them.

The pastors who met with him in the hundreds, were offered N50,000 each, while some senior Pentecostal leaders were paid in hard currency.

Okpara is said to have so far facilitated the disbursement of public funds running into millions in the name of Jonathan’s campaign.


www.saharareporters.com/2015/01/29/kennedy-okpara-distributing-jonathan’s-bribes-pastors

LOLZ,

Na today,

they dont want to lose out totally, and one tinz for sure is that 60-80% of PDP govs in the north are going to work for GMB.
Because they wnt power to return to north, and they know as at this time, GEJ is a goner.

if you cant fall, then stand in love my brother

Ennyhorlar:
hope ure still with her?

definitely yes sir, and hopefully my better half to be.
any problem with that

khia:
That's good to know.

Thank you

Yesterday, I was sitting in the church, and it was time for offering so the offering basket was passed around.

Despite d Pastor's charge for gud offering, I still hurriedly and secretly pulled out N50 from my pocket and dropped it.

Just then, the person behind me tapped me on the shoulder and handed me a N1,000 note. I smiled, then put d N1,000 majestically in the basket and passed it on, then I turned and thank d man seriously for being so generous.

He replied "don't mention my dear, afterall it fell off ur pocket"


WhaaaatAm still crying till now

khia:
Yes it is true sometimes a woman will pamper her man to make it easier to make a request of him, but the difference is when she only pampers him because she wants something from him, you said you have turn some of her invitations down because you are wise to her and that is sad, because now you know whenever she wants to treat you out it is only because she wants something from you.
She should want in her heart to do something loving for her man. Hey we live and we learn, life is a teacher.
PS.....I never said anything about you dumping her but you and her definitely need to communicate more and get some truths out in the open.

madam, I get u quite alright
but I said most tym nt everytyn,

she taking me out is once in a while, which am ok wit it, at all, at all na him bad pass, so many tinz she do for me with her money, without asking me for any refund. so dat of chilling out shld nt be a issue at all.

Ennyhorlar:
dats why I do fear when a gal give me free things

lolz, whenever they giv, enjoy it while it lst, that does not mean, she will have her way, it all depent on your own mood, if you wnt her to have her way, and if not, mind you dnt always let her to have her way, to me 60 to 75% is ok. anytin above dat, na trouble she dey find b dat.

khia:
Why would you want to marry a girl who can't take her man out for a good time and pay the bill without wanting something in return? That is manipulation and will only get worse after marriage. She should be honest and tell you what's on her mind.

why shld I because of that dump her, generally woman will make to make their man happy before they make request of anything they wnt fr him, as at that time, they will want to satisfy the man with what they knw he likes or enjoy most, or what they think makes him happy.

it can only be film. lolz.

but my fiancee do take me out smtime and take care of the bills.

but smtym I discover she need smtin from me, she nw use the avenue to make me happy and use that to make her request. which wirk for her, most of the tym, but not always

later I might pay x3 to x5 of that bill ooooo. inwhich smtym wen she come up with the idea of babe let chill out, dnt worry I will take care of the bill, I turn it down stylishly, na dat tym I go remember say sometinz dey wey need immediate attention.

thot it alway good hanging out with ur babe. it strengthens the relationship

nzeadachie:
apc PROPAGANDA, GUY GO AND LOOK FOR WORK

I will appreciate it, if you can get me one, you know, out of the Vacant position allotted to you by GEJ

Report that All Progressive Congress (APC) supporters were responsible for the stoning of President Goodluck Jonathan convoy in Katsina during his campaign visit to the state may not be true after all, as we have unearthed the people behind the act.

A very reliable source within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) revealed that it was the PDP who actually hired indigenes and armed them with APC symbols and brooms with instructions to pelt stones at the presidential train, all in a bid to cause serious chaos. This deliberate plot by the PDP was meant to cause the Southern states to retaliate in the event that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari goes there to campaign.

And this action we gathered went with lots of money paid to the youths to carry out the action. As expected, the notorious militant, Asari Dokubo has danced to the tune of the PDP by threatening fire and brimstones on Buhari and APC if they come into their land to campaign.

This retaliatory action is being fueled by the PDP in the hope that the general election will be postponed, stated our sources within the PDP top hierarchy. According to the source, the PDP had thought they would have a smooth sail to the presidential villa, until things began to change which has seen the rival party having upper hands in every aspect of the campaign.

Despite the peace being enjoyed in the Southern parts of the country, sources in the know of the PDP says that there will be chaos to be caused by the PDP thugs soon in the area to enable the government of the day have reasons to postpone the elections, and thereby re-strategise for a yet to be agreed date by them.

The statement by the National Security Adviser, Dasaki, that the election should be postponed is actually the voice of Jacob speaking through him, said a source.

The PDP according to insiders are currently in quagmire over Olusegun Obasanjo criticism of the party lately, and his obvious anti party activities. This reporter was reliable informed that the PDP inner caucus had earlier agreed to ignore Obasanjo statements as ranting, but are beginning to regret that it was not managed.

“The man is hell bent on ensuring that GEJ loses and from the way things are, if the elections are held in February, we will definitely lose. If we lose honestly heads will roll”, confessed the PDP top shot.

According to him, OBJ has already teamed up with Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida to make sure that Buhari emerges as the next President for only just four years after which he will hand over power to a man that can continue the change train.

“We need to support GMB, let him rule for 4years; let him sanitize the mess. All those who have stolen money would be made to return some of the stolen money and that would help in the building of the country”, OBJ was stated to have told IBB during one of their meetings, revealed our source.



www.newsrescue.com/revealed-jonathan-plotted-stoning-katsina-part-plot-postpone-elections-ibb-obj-agree-buhari/#ixzz3Pbs61aWa


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I think the Presidency and PDP are running out of propaganda, thus they result to retirement age as another form of propaganda just to make sure they confuse the masses. somedays back, Ekiti state Gov published one advert on the front page of some newspapers wishing the general dead, the presidency and PDP dissociate themselves from it, and now coming out with retirement age propaganda, my people please where are they heading to, if not same with what Gov Fayose publish.

This was post on president GEJ re-election group account on facebook.

NIGERIA'S OFFICIAL RETIREMENTAGE IS 65.
FOR POLYTECHNIC LECTURERS 65
FOR UNIVERSITYLECTURERS AND PROFESSORS 70.

ARE THERE NO SPECIFICATION FOR AGE LIMITS TO BECOME A PRESIDENT?
DOES THIS MEAN MY 85 YEAR OLD GRANDMA CAN ALSO STAND UP TO CONTEST FOR PRESIDENT?

THEY RETIRE BECAUSE THEIR BODY AND BRAIN HAS EXPIRED THEIR ACTIVE USE,
IF THESE INDIVIDUALS WHO CATER TO THE NEED OF LESS THAN 100 PEOPLE DAILY SHOULD RETIRE BETWEEN 65-70.

WHAT IS THE RATIONAL BEHIND CHOOSING A 78 YEAR OLD TO PRESIDE OVER THE AFFAIRS OF ALMOST 200 MILLION PEOPLE DAILY?

MY QUESTION BECOMES:
IS ASO ROCK/VILLA, A RETIREMENT CENTER WHERE 78 YEAR OLDS GO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR TIRED DAYS?

WHAT EXACTLY WOULD BUHARI BE DOING FOR THE NATION THAT PRESIDENT JONATHAN IS NOT SUPERSEDING.
WHAT DOES BUHARI KNOW TO DO AS A HEAD OF STATE THAT HE HASN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE LAST 30 YEARS.
MY TAKE:

NIGERIA'S WHITE HOUSE OR ASO VILLA SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECTED TO A RETIREMENTHOME FOR A 78 YEAR OLD.
THERE'S TOO MUCH TASK THAT THE NATION NIGERIA NEEDS ACCOMPLISHED, THEREFOREWE NEED A LABOR AGE PRESIDENT THAT CAN STAND UP AND RUN TO BE IN ASO ROCK.


https://m.facebook.com/PresidentGEJonathan2015/photos/a.245248252310066.1073741827.244792472355644/437037009797855/?type=1&refid=7&_ft_=qid.6107312830316040769%3Amf_story_key.-7454151583592741595&__tn__=%2As

faqman:
all i need is the time table...

People like you just rush to comment, without reading.
i just dont knw what you people gain from first to comment, without actually reading the content of what you are commenting on

from the post it clearly stated that

DG of all the presidential candidate - Jan 28

V.President - Jan 29

President - Feb 5

The 2015 presidential debates will take place between January 28 and February 5, the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) has disclosed. Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Sola Omole, chairman, board of trustees of the group, stated that the campaign directors of the 14 presidential candidates would kick off the debate on January 28. Omole, who is also director-general of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), explained that the debate involving vice-presidential candidates was scheduled for January 29, while the grand finale, which is the debate for presidential candidates, was slated for February 5. All the political parties had agreed to the schedule of the debates, which Omole described as “important for the democratic process”. “We believe that debates are very important components of the democratic process aimed at giving the candidates the opportunity to speak directly to Nigerians,” he said. “We want the Nigerian community to get used to the business of debating issues and we feel that this is a very strong part of building that culture. “We have met with all the political parties, those we couldn’t meet directly, we contacted their senior officials and they are very supportive of the initiative.” NEDG is a coalition of broadcast, civil society and professional organisations, committed to deepening the country’s democracy.

Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng/gej-buhari-face-off-presidential-debate-feb-5 | TheCable[b][/b]

Fellow Nigerians, please note that the title of my column today is written in the past tense. I must confess that I did it deliberately for reasons I will explain shortly. You probably remember an earlier article titled WHO’S MISLEADING OUR PRESIDENT? I had written too many unsolicited epistles in the past advising our dear President free of charge.
Those accusing me of hating the President don't know me. I lack the capacity to hate anyone, not even my enemy. It is sinful to hate your fellow human being. My Christian faith teaches me to love my neighbours and forgive those who trespass against me. I intend to abide by those injunctions to the very end.

What is there to hate in President Goodluck Jonathan? For me, he is a man richly blessed by God almighty. He has achieved what no man would in many lifetimes. His story is a stuff of fiction and fairytale. It is a classic case of grass to grace or from a valley to the mountain top. Every man should use Jonathan as HIS prayer point/contact with God and seek his type of uncommon favour. The depiction of his life's trajectory had resonated with many Nigerians. We hoped and expected that he would know and appreciate the meaning of poverty. Nigeria badly needed a compassionate leader who would work for the general people and not for a few privileged fat cats.

We prayed and anticipated a relatively young and educated gentleman to come in and fix our comatose education. Dr Goodluck Jonathan fitted that bill almost in surreal terms with his PhD. Who could have been better suitable for such an onerous task if not Jonathan? We believed that here finally was a man to connect perfectly with the university eggheads and put an end to the incessant closure of our institutions of higher learning. But we were dead wrong. Our universities went on indefinite strike and at the height of this mutual madness, university lecturers who refused to go back to work were pronounced sacked with automatic alacrity.

Not even a military junta would have conjectured such ribaldry but a democratically elected government led by a former University Don not only envisioned it but made it reality. Beyond that, the substantive Minister of Education, a Professor in the person of Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i was replaced by the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, a full-blown politician, whose understanding of his remit was undoubtedly suspect. It was a clear indication of how much disdain the Federal Government has for Education.

The President who was projected as a man who grew up without the basic necessities of life soon became a high-flying, jet-setting impresario. In fact, his government became so elitist that many started wondering why a man from a pedigree of frugality would become more flamboyant than any leader before him. Our President travelled at the flimsiest excuse. His unwieldy entourage, comprising of a multitude of acolytes, became a subject of international opprobrium. Yet the same government insisted that Nigerians must forgo the nebulous subsidy they had always enjoyed in varied forms in the past. The subsidy itself was a grand scam with the bill skyrocketing and quadrupling within the twinkle of an eye. Yet the citizens were told to pay more for the only semblance of privilege they should be enjoying.

The many mistakes of Jonathan are seemingly endless. The President behaved not like a national but a clannish Chieftain. It was as if he did not expect the year of reckoning to arrive sooner rather than later. I repeatedly warned against fighting on too many fronts which no reasonable General would indulge in. I’m yet to understand the logic behind alienating the rest of the nation as if their votes would never be needed. This is the most unfortunate attitude that led to what has become the President’s albatross today.

Nothing has redefined this government than the seeming nonchalance of President Jonathan to the spate of Killings in Northern Nigeria. Thousands of our brothers and sisters have been massacred like locusts and the response from government has become too predictable and totally insensitive. The standard practice is for the Presidential spokesman to come out with a cut and paste template of regurgitated message of alleged sadness and sympathy filled with empty promises that won’t be kept. And then, life continues as normal with no sign of the monumental tragedy being addressed. No matter the number of the dead, our government goes ahead with whatever jamboree it has already planned.

The latest PR disaster comes with the President offering condolences to the French Government following the Charlie Hebdo tragedy which led to the death of 17 French citizens whilst almost 2000 people were killed in Baga at about the same time without attracting even the slightest whimper from our dear President. Even the “Super” Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla succumbed to this fawning tribute of the ‘whiteman’ forgetting the massacre at home. The Government was ‪#‎JesuisCharlie‬, when it should have been. ‪#‎AllforBaga‬! I urge Nigerians to let this Government know that Nigerians are also important even if we empathise with others.

Our President has never been able to mobilize and galvanize the people into coming together to fight a common enemy. The fact that every occurrence is suspected as an act of political opponents has made it difficult and almost impossible to rise up to some of the debilitating challenges we face today.

There are not many people in the world who don’t feel terribly sad about our condition. The Western media has virtually written us off as a nation of violent vandals and vampires. So many reporters visiting Nigeria openly wonder if we actually have blood flowing through our veins. Many have concluded that we are just incapable of caring for those in need. The abduction of over 200 Chibok girls is what has exposed the type of leadership we are forced to live with. Our next door neighbour, Cameroon, has shown a greater capacity to fight terrorism than us. Their military has been motivated in a way that they’ve carried out kamikaze raids on dangerous hideouts. They have been able to rescue their people from captivity while we have suffered too many setbacks and casualties.

Since the disappearance of the Chibok girls all we’ve been told is the Government is working very hard. Worse still, more people have since disappeared or been murdered yet the news about them at home is usually scanty. We rely on foreign organisations for any useful information. Even the foreign media is endlessly frustrated by the trouble of getting government sources to open up and give clear answers to questions.
But politics appears to be more important to our leaders. Our civilians and military are being slaughtered like Salah rams and we don’t seemed bothered. Nothing is likely to beat the type of disgrace we’ve suffered in the past one week. It is no longer news that the map of Nigeria has been boldly redesigned by daredevil terrorists; the dastardly attack on Baga and Doron Baga last week was the height of it. There are vivid reports indicating that about 2,000 or more died from the indiscriminate shooting by assailants believed to be Boko Haram. Satellite images revealed that over 3,700 structures were damaged.

As usual, our government said the story was exaggerated and that the number of those killed could not have been more than 150. Even if true, how a country remains so calm and unperturbed by such degree of wanton destruction of lives and properties remains a mystery to me. Again, we all carried on as normal until BBC, Sky and CNN opened fire on our country. I could not bring myself to watch some of the reports to the very end out of a sense of collective guilt and shame. Once again, we were in the news for the wrong reasons.
Suddenly things began to happen in Abuja. Our President’s handlers must have sensed danger with elections a month away. Nobody could afford this type of scandal at this auspicious time. The President who could not find time or the courage to visit the war ravaged parts in the recent past, especially Chibok, now found the time to go to Maiduguri but not Baga. It is a however too little and too late. It confirmed the people’s impression that the President would do almost anything to remain in power. It is such a poor image of who we are. A little effort from our leaders would probably have reduced this tension.

There is nothing more disheartening than watching our soldiers, reduced to emotional wrecks while speaking to foreign journalists. Some are claiming how miserable life has become for those expected to safeguard us. They are ill-equipped, ill-motivated, and ill-protected. One of them said he had to pay to obtain his uniform. I’m sorry, I just can’t get it. It all sounds like tales by moonlight. What happened to all the fat allocations in our defence budgets? I remember the President asking and getting the Senate to approve N1billion loan to buy ammunition to fight Boko Haram.

I’m tempted to suspect that there are people who are deliberately deceiving and misleading our President. The confession that he gets conflicting and contradictory advice should demonstrate clearly why we are in this mess. I can see how this has now put so much pressure on the President. The tempo of his campaign has become racy because of the realisation that this election will not be a walkover.
But I doubt if those mistakes can be corrected in just one month leading to the election. The President has been sold too many lies because he chose to be a psychedelic leader than a man of the people politician who would personally supervise some of the work his aides claimed they have done. He would have been shocked to see the quality of what he’s promoting as uncommon Transformation Agenda. Most of those achievements would have been seen as fake, poor, and abandoned projects.

The Murtala Muhammed International Airport remains one of the worst in the world despite the cosmetic renovation that took place at God knows how much. If in doubt, I can give a quick rundown: very terrible air-conditioning, archaic elevators, leaking roofs, lack of car parks next to the airport, cumbersome immigration process (the only country with double screening, Immigration and DSS), too many uniformed agents dipping hands into your luggage at this time and age, poor roads welcoming visitors going out of the airport, the list is endless.

So much has been said about roads. Nigeria still has some of the most useless roads in Africa. Most of those under rehabilitation have nowhere near completion. The Benin-Shagamu road is a veritable example. What is the purpose of rehabilitating only a part of it? That road remains a nightmare as does the Lagos-Ibadan which remains not only a nuisance to everyone but a death trap. It is strange how a government can make so much fuss over many uncompleted projects nationwide. Much has been said about the East-West road but like others, it has remained a work in progress. The second Niger Bridge has become a butt of jokes. I love the idea of trains but the government should have invested in modern coaches and certainly more than a single gauge line even if it has to find private investors. This would have complemented the good job done so far.

I have read so much about Agriculture and would love to applaud the dream of the Minister but I reserve that for another day as I don’t know where and how he assembled his 10-14 million farmers and how it has impacted on our food production and distribution. This government has not justified the huge resources made available to it. Those days are gone when people would have glossed over some of the excesses. The social media has changed the world for good or for bad. Nigerians are not asking for too much. They are not even looking for saints as their leaders but they want men and women who are less greedy and more caring. Unfortunately, they’ve searched in vain for too long and it seems there is no end to this misery.

This is why in frustration they have turned to a man who left power 30 years ago, General Muhammadu Buhari. No one should blame us. It is in the character of human beings to run to the elders of the house in the days of tribulations. Everywhere you turn today what you hear is the cry of change. A wife rejected has suddenly become the beautiful bride in retrospect. Let no one envy Buhari because it is not his fault if those handed power on a platter of gold trampled on it.

From what I see and feel, Buhari’s time has come and he looks unstoppable. People are simply tired of being lied to and they want to use someone as scape-goat. Sadly, President Jonathan is the one they see in front of them and it is a cross he has to carry like a man. Those who misled him are just waiting for their flights to a safe haven leaving him alone and forlorn. Such is life.


Pendulum By DELE MOMODU
17.01.15 Thisday newspaper.

It was a shocking spectacle last evening as Governor Ayodele Fayose allegedly caused a stir in Ado-Ekiti when he personally drove a white Hilux van into the Oja Oba Market through Okesa chasing off market women selling by roadsides and carting away their wares.

The most shocking of the drama was in front of Ewi Palace where Fayose jumped out of the vehicle and starting personally impounding the wares displayed by the traders.

One of the vehicles involved in the raid developed a fault and Fayose supervised other men who fastened the vehicle to another that drove the faulty vehicle out of the place.
It was wailing and curses as the governor said he had no regret clearing the women out ofthe streets.

It was gathered that the governor was in possession of information that market women have been rooting forBuhari and had on some occasions expressed worry to the market women leaders not to abandon him. Instead ofthe women backing down, it is more support everyday for Buhari and Fayose vowed to deal with them.

The okada riders had had their own bitter tale to tell on the day President Jonathan campaigned in Ado-Ekiti. Fayose had banked on the okada riders’ support to chalk up the crowd at the rally.
But okada riders refused to show up over Fayose’s unfavorable policy on okada operations in the state. Of late, okada riders have been very hostile to the governor as they no longer follow him any where he goes. And so as Jonathan departed the stadium enroute Akure to Abuja, okada riders in their hundreds started chanting “Sai Buhari” to the long convoy of the President.

In the evening, Fayose sent thugs against okada riders at Okeyinmi roundabout where they shouted Sai Buhari and sent them packing. Several of them were wounded while trying to escape.

But okada riders’ behaviour has put Fayose in trouble in the presidency as Jonathan had discovered that the governor kept N100m provided for the rally mobilization to himself. It was learnt that some leaders told the party headquarters in Abuja that Fayose did not give anybody any money sent from Abuja, instead the governor mandated PDP members to contribute money forthe rally.

Some members refused to contribute money formobilisation, leaving the governor with a choice of forcing civil servants and teachers to compulsorily attend the rally. The permanent secretary that stood in Fayose’s way was summarily dismissed through radio announcement.

The governor only yesterday commissioned some thugs to be removing Buhari’s posters in Ado-Ekiti. But this evening, APC responded by repasting Buhari’s posters across the state.
The presidential election fever is here and so both PDP and Fayose are every minute catching cold.