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The All Progressives Congress (APC)
Friday urged Nigerians to show President
Goodluck Jonathan a red card in the
coming presidential elections on the
grounds of his inability to fight the two
main challenges of insecurity and
corruption facing the country despite
having six years to do so.
”The President has finally admitted that
the two main challenges facing the
country are corruption and insecurity,
and seems to be telling Nigerians to give
him more time to tackle the problems.
But the truth is that he lacks the capacity
to fight and defeat these challenges,
whether in six or 10 years,” the party said
in a statement issued in Lagos in
response to President Jonathan’s claim
that he has recognised the two main
issues Nigerians say worry them.
The statement issued by the party’s
national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed said:
”A President who has spent the last six
years trying to diagnose the main
problems facing the country will
apparently need another four years to
plan how to tackle the challenges. By then,
all of us would have been buried under
the rubble of corruption and our country
would have been decimated by insecurity.
It is therefore time for Nigerians to vote in
a President who will hit the ground
running, a President who will tackle the
problems of corruption and insecurity
headlong, without giving excuses for
failure,” it said.
APC said a corrupt government can never
fight corruption, hence it will be futile to
expect the Jonathan Administration to
take on and defeat corruption, having
been populated by profiteering
personalities.
”Mr. President said he wants to put in
place the institutions to tackle corruption
before taking on the canker worm that
has almost destroyed the fabric of our
society. Pray, whatever happened to the
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) and the Independent
Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC)? Were they
not institutions specifically created for the
purpose of tackling corruption, but which
the Jonathan Administration chose to
castrate?
”There is no better way to say this:
President Jonathan lacks the political will
to tackle corruption, and he will not tackle
it if he spends 60 years in office,” the
party said.

The presidential candidate of the Alliance for
Democracy, Dr Rafiu Salau, on Saturday pledged to
create two million jobs if elected into office in next
month’s election.
Salau made the pledge while unfolding his manifesto
in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in
Abuja.
To attain such a feat, Salau said his administration
would ensure more local content involvement in the
exploration and sale of crude oil as well as shipment
by local maritime companies.
He said, “First, a minimum of 70 per cent of the
exploration of the crude oil in the nation must be
done by local companies.
“Whatever the profit made by local companies will be
invested in the economy of the nation. This will go a
long way in increasing the revenue that will be
generated in the industry.
“Secondly, at least 70 per cent of the shipment of the
crude oil shall be assigned to local maritime
companies.
“Thirdly, 100 per cent of the oil products used locally
shall be refined by local refineries, meaning 50 per
cent of refined products will be enough for local
consumption while 50 per cent will be for exportation
to countries without oil or refineries.”
According to him, this strategy will create two million
jobs and increase oil revenue.
Salau said the national revenue being spent on the
importation of oil products and subsidy would no
longer be spent on consumption, but invested on
capital goods.
“This will generate more national revenue for
decades while the increase in national revenue from
the investment of the crude oil income will take the
nation to the path of G20.
“Nigeria will have 200 billion dollars in foreign
reserve before the end of my term in office,” he said.

The Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan
on New Media, Reno Omokri has faulted the
popularity of former dictator and presidential
candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari on the social media.
He argued that the popularity of Buhari on social
media was bought through sponsored posts, stressing
that it is a cheap way of getting followership. He also
shared a post on his twitter handle to corroborate his
argument.
RenoBuhari RenoBuharii“It shows the level of
hypocrisy and deceit. Anybody can grow followership
with adverts but a true proof of popularity on social
media should be organic. The almost two million
followers of President Goodluck Jonathan are organic,
a show of the love of Nigerians for him and his
administration,” he said.
Omokri noted that it is wrong to compare the
popularity of President Jonathan on social media with
that of Buhari. “There is no basis to compare the two
because they are miles apart. President Jonathan
enjoys the support of Nigerians as evident by the
millions of Nigerians that follow his official Facebook
account, Goodluck Jonathan. The number of likes,
comments and shares of his posts is commendable. I
am not sure that Buhari has up to 60,000 likes on
Facebook with the money spent so far by his camp to
boost his popularity on social media.

Hon. Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma, a
chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Edo State, has advised Christian
communities across Nigeria, to avoid
being carried away by General
Muhammadu Buhari’s recent romance
with the faith.
According to him, Buhari’s desperation to
get elected as president is behind his
“overture to the church”, which he says, is
contrary to his previous leanings and
“public positions”.
In a statement issued in Abuja on
Saturday, December 27, Agbonayinma
accused the presidential candidate of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), of having
an unholy and questionable romance with
the church with the aim of securing the
support of the majority in the 2015
presidential election.
He added that Buhari should be informed
that Nigeria does not have a place for a
religious bigot and a divisive character in
its presidency.
Agbonayinma said: “It is indeed
worrisome that General Buhari has
become very desperate to win the
presidency, hence his overture to the
church, where I gathered he is now being
taught how to sing Christian songs which
he will sing during campaign.”
“This is patently unacceptable as this
dubious romance runs contrary to
Buhari’s antecedents and the records of
his public positions and declarations on
the issue of religion.”
“This is a man who had, in the past, cared
less about hurting the sensibilities of
Christians with his fanatical disposition
about Muslim religion.”
“He said in August 27, 2001 that he would
‘continue to show openly and inside me
the total commitment to the Sharia
movement that is sweeping all over
Nigeria,’ and was quoted to have further
declared, ‘God willing, we will not stop the
agitation for the total implementation of
the Sharia in the country,” the PDP
chieftain added.

The prospects of the Nigerian agriculture sector
should ordinarily give hope to the majority of
Nigerians who are poor in their numbers. The
Agriculture sector with all its potentials waiting to be
harnessed, has longed been abandoned due to the
discovery and exploration of oil a few years after the
country’s independence. Virtually, every government
since independent had come with one policy or
program on how to resolve the puzzle but had failed.
Tractor
The indictors for a striving/growing agriculture sector
cannot be hidden and cannot be seen only on pages
of newspapers and the web pages. That is where I
fault the approached used by the current
administration of President Jonathan.
Dr Akinwumi Ayo Adesina the current Agriculture-
minister and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are bright minds
and nobody can take that from them. However, if the
President of Nigeria Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
wishes, he can go ahead and fill his cabinet with 80%
of these brains; we won’t make progress in
developing our country. Why? The current
government’s posture towards corruption should
raise concerns for any sane Nigeria. The institutions
that should be the enablers or drivers for positive
development are totally corrupt. That Corruption has
weakened our institutions in Nigeria is one of the
biggest reasons the agriculture sector will not strive.
From the Farmers associations to the policy makers,
regulators, and the whole agriculture supply chain
the bug of corruption had weakened them. It is
alarming but Nigerians are not yet alarmed.
The Agric-minister had constantly in various fora
released hard statistics and figures on the agriculture
sector of Nigeria. These statistics and figures all used
around the country for campaigns in a bid to make
Nigerians believe in the Transformation Agenda. I
consider them bogus and a hoax. It is what a recent
publication by Malam Adamu Bello who was Dr
Adesina’s predecessor in the ministry of agriculture
referred to as “The Many Lies of Adesina”. The
publication went hard on the Minister and the
government on their claims of stemming out
corruption in the distribution of fertilizer, and I quote
“On the issue of fertilizer, it is only God the Almighty
that will judge the unfair way past administrations
are being portrayed. To claim that there was subsidy
of N870 billion spent on fertilizers since the use of
fertilizers was initially encouraged by the
Government about 40 years ago is most unfair, as I
doubt if the entire agricultural budgets for the whole
period was up to that sum”.
The sad part of these mendacities is that Nigerians
and even our media do not have the time or will to
verify them. The public, a majority of them gullible,
run with this information given by the minister. Dr.
Adesina once said that no fewer than 2.2million jobs
have been created in the last two year in the
agricultural sector of the Nigerian economy. Also,
that food importation has fallen by N850 billion ($5.2
billion) and food production was up by 8 million
tonnes. He went further to say "The world’s second-
largest importer of rice, Nigeria aims to become self-
sufficient by 2015 after introducing a 100 percent tax
on polished rice imports this year, likely to mostly
affect countries like India, Thailand and Brazil"
Anyone with an analytical or logical mind should ask
the following questions. How many months are we
away from 2015, if in the last two years our country
added 2.2 million jobs in the agriculture sector alone
would we had had the stampede that took lives of
young Nigerians this year during the Immigration
recruitment exercise? Does anyone think about the
impact and multiplier effect of 1 million jobs not to
talk about 2 million? My little knowledge of
economics suggests to me that N850 billion in our
country is a lot. The minister is used to overblowing
the achievements of his ministry and the danger is
that Nigerians could wait forever to feel the impact of
this so-called REVOLUTION in Agriculture-sector.
Furthermore, the said much talked of Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) in the agriculture sector the
minister had said had come into Nigeria, the impact
has not been felt. These are issues that should cause
worry for any reasonable Nigerian. We have seen
various and well scripted agriculture-policies in
Nigeria, but none had changed the sector for good. A
proper and sincere revolution in the sector will in
itself end the epidemic called unemployment in
Nigeria and the end of unemployment could curb
Boko Haram, armed robbery, prostitution,
kidnapping and other social vices.
Research has said that South-East Asia and Sub-
Sarahan Africa will find it difficult to end hunger and
poverty if nations in these regions do not develop
agriculture properly. Also, Forbes in 2012 stated in an
online article that world’s next billionaires will come
from the agricultural sector and farmers could be the
owners of Lamborghinis in the future. “The next sets
of billionaires are those who will produce what is
needed to meet world's urgent needs (Food)” says
Forbes. Jim Rogers a multi-millionaire and Chairman
of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests was quoted
in the TIME Magazine saying “if you want to be rich
become a farmer”. Our country has men and women
who are rich; some worked for their wealth but most
stole theirs from the state. Most of them are known
for investing this wealth abroad on properties. If a
third of our country's wealth both stolen and worked
for is reinvested into agriculture, our nation will in
the next few years stand heads and shoulders with
the BRIC nations. We will feed Africa and still be self-
sufficient in food production.
Nevertheless, we must not miss the point, for Nigeria
to fight the Dutch Disease that have ravaged our
country as a result of continuous exploration and
exportation of oil and gas while the Agriculture and
other sectors had suffered; Nigeria must go back to
the days were 80% of our country’s foreign earnings
came from agriculture and allow for other sectors to
strive. We must build those less corrupt institutions,
reliable and sustainable infrastructure; have policy
and laws that are friendly to agriculture
development.
Only responsive and responsible government can do
these, however, 2015 elections gives us another
opportunity to put our great country back on track
and take her place in the comity of nation as the one
and only giant of Africa and also give the opportunity
to our friends, brothers/sisters uncles and aunties in
the village to own and drive Lamborghinis in the
future.

Hmmmm.....Naija politics like house of cards

resolve of his Liverpool side
after their hard-fought 1-0
victory at Burnley on Friday.
The Reds headed into the clash
at Turf Moor without a win in
three Premier League outings,
and the home side dominated the opening half, striking
the post through Danny Ings.
Rodgers' men survived until half-time, and found the
winner shortly after the hour mark when Raheem
Sterling rounded goalkeeper Tom Heaton and slotted
home.
And the Northern Irishman hailed Liverpool's battling
display as they moved up to ninth in the table.
"I thought in terms of our character and resilience in
the game we showed outstanding qualities when
needed," he said.
"They pressed really hard and made it difficult in the
first half but I felt we were better second half.
"I was really pleased because we had to show a
different side to us. It's a great three points and I'm
delighted with that."
Rodgers also reserved praise for Simon Mignolet who,
after being dropped "indefinitely" two weeks ago, came
on as an early replacement for the injured Brad Jones,
and successfully kept the home side at bay.
"He's done well. He came for a couple of crosses really
well," Rodgers said.
"He's worked hard since he's come out of the team, he's
kept the clean sheet and that was important for us."
Match-winner Sterling was also lavished with praise,
after the England forward had come in for criticism
following a wasteful performance in the 3-0 defeat to
Manchester United earlier this month.

Manchester United manager
Louis van Gaal got into the
Christmas spirit after he was
spotted handing out presents
to Red Devils fans ahead of his
side's victory over Newcastle
United on Boxing Day.
The former Netherlands coach has been critical of the
Premier League's busy festive period in recent weeks,
but appeared to be in a more cheerful mood as he gave
wrapped gifts to supporters seated around the dugout
area on Friday.
The notoriously no-nonsense Van Gaal was also in a
generous mood when he handed wine out to
journalists during his pre-match press conference
earlier this week.
His good mood will no doubt have been improved as
his team maintained their fine unbeaten run against the
Magpies at Old Trafford.
A vintage showing from Wayne Rooney inspired the 20-
time English chamipions to a 3-1 victory, with the
England captain netting twice before Robin van Persie
made the points safe.

Before you learn a language, start with 'drag and
drop' programming.
"Drag and drop" programming is a basic technique that allows
you to build code by dragging and dropping blocks or some
other visual cue rather than manually writing text-based code.
It makes it easy to understand the basics of programming
without getting caught up in meticulous character placement,
according to Hadi Partovi, co-founder of a website that offers
online coding courses called Code.org.
"Once you've learned the basic concepts using drag and drop,
you'll immediately want to learn [how to] do the real thing,"
Partovi said to Business Insider.
There are plenty of programs out there that can help you get
started with drag and drop programming, including MIT
Scratch and Code.org's Code Studio, and Google Blocky.
Python is one of the easiest languages to start with.
Python is an easy language for beginners, according to
Partovi, because there's less of an emphasis on syntax. So, if
you forget your parentheses or misplace a few semicolons, it
shouldn't trip you up as much as it might if you were coding
in a different language.
But Javascript is one of the most useful languages
to know as a developer.
Javascript isn't as easy as Python, but it runs on every single
platform out there — Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android
among others. Every single Web browser, and even new types
of devices like smartwatches use Javascript at some capacity,
Partovi said.
"Once you reach that level of critical mass, it's not going
away," Partovi said.
Once you have the hang of Javascript, try playing
with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
Ruby on Rails is a great tool that can help you with the
backend aspect of your programming. Although Ruby and
Ruby on Rails have similar names, there's actually an
important difference. Ruby is a scripting language, just like
Python, but Ruby on Rails is a Web app framework built on
Ruby. In other words, Ruby is the language, while Ruby on
Rails is a tool that makes it easy to use the Ruby language to
build websites.
What makes Ruby and Ruby on Rails so attractive, according
to Partovi, is that there's very little prototyping involved. This
means that once you have the code written, it's pretty easy to
get the final product up and running.
BONUS: Get familiar with HTML...you're going to
need it if you want to build a website.
While HTML isn't a programming language in the sense that
Python, Ruby, and Javascript are, you still need it to build a
website. HTML is used to describe how your website looks,
while other languages like Javascript power the interactive
components, such as what happens when you clock a button
on the site.

A programming language is a formal constructed
language designed to communicate instructions to a
machine, particularly a computer. Programming
languages can be used to create programs to
control the behavior of a machine or to express
algorithms.
The earliest programming languages preceded the
invention of the digital computer and were used to
direct the behavior of machines such as Jacquard
looms and player pianos.[1] Thousands of different
programming languages have been created, mainly
in the computer field, and many more still are being
created every year. Many programming languages
require computation to be specified in an imperative
form (i.e., as a sequence of operations to perform),
while other languages utilize other forms of
program specification such as the declarative form
(i.e. the desired result is specified, not how to
achieve it).
The description of a programming language is
usually split into the two components of syntax
(form) and semantics (meaning). Some languages
are defined by a specification document (for
example, the C programming language is specified
by an ISO Standard), while other languages (such as
Perl) have a dominant implementation that is
treated as a reference.
Definitions
A programming language is a notation for writing
programs, which are specifications of a computation
or algorithm.[2] Some, but not all, authors restrict
the term "programming language" to those
languages that can express all possible algorithms.
[2][3] Traits often considered important for what
constitutes a programming language include:
Function and target
A computer programming language is a language
used to write computer programs, which involve a
computer performing some kind of computation
[4] or algorithm and possibly control external
devices such as printers, disk drives, robots,[5]
and so on. For example, PostScript programs are
frequently created by another program to control
a computer printer or display. More generally, a
programming language may describe
computation on some, possibly abstract,
machine. It is generally accepted that a complete
specification for a programming language
includes a description, possibly idealized, of a
machine or processor for that language.[6] In
most practical contexts, a programming language
involves a computer; consequently, programming
languages are usually defined and studied this
way.[7] Programming languages differ from
natural languages in that natural languages are
only used for interaction between people, while
programming languages also allow humans to
communicate instructions to machines.
Abstractions
Programming languages usually contain
abstractions for defining and manipulating data
structures or controlling the flow of execution.
The practical necessity that a programming
language support adequate abstractions is
expressed by the abstraction principle;[8] this
principle is sometimes formulated as
recommendation to the programmer to make
proper use of such abstractions.[9]
Expressive power
The theory of computation classifies languages by
the computations they are capable of expressing.
All Turing complete languages can implement the
same set of algorithms. ANSI/ISO SQL-92 and
Charity are examples of languages that are not
Turing complete, yet often called programming
languages.[10][11]
Markup languages like XML, HTML or troff, which
define structured data, are not usually considered
programming languages.[12][13][14] Programming
languages may, however, share the syntax with
markup languages if a computational semantics is
defined. XSLT, for example, is a Turing complete
XML dialect.[15][16][17] Moreover, LaTeX, which is
mostly used for structuring documents, also
contains a Turing complete subset.[18][19]
The term computer language is sometimes used
interchangeably with programming language.[20]
However, the usage of both terms varies among
authors, including the exact scope of each. One
usage describes programming languages as a
subset of computer languages.[21] In this vein,
languages used in computing that have a different
goal than expressing computer programs are
generically designated computer languages. For
instance, markup languages are sometimes referred
to as computer languages to emphasize that they
are not meant to be used for programming.[22]
Another usage regards programming languages as
theoretical constructs for programming abstract
machines, and computer languages as the subset
thereof that runs on physical computers, which have
finite hardware resources.[23] John C. Reynolds
emphasizes that formal specification languages are
just as much programming languages as are the
languages intended for execution. He also argues
that textual and even graphical input formats that
affect the behavior of a computer are programming
languages, despite the fact they are commonly not
Turing-complete, and remarks that ignorance of
programming language concepts is the reason for
many flaws in input formats.

Yeah....I expected it.

Our mutual sincerity encourages me to utter the
following pleas and words of advice. Certainly you
are aware that many Nigerians are concerned and
even fearful about the persistent claims by some of
the Hausa-Fulani political leadership that their Hausa-
Fulani nation must dominate Nigeria as a sort of
colonial overlord. You know as much as anybody that
that thorny fact has been one of the factors in the
making of our country’s disunity, conflicts, and
instability. Usually, people do not accuse you
personally of sharing in that mentality; but since you
are Hausa-Fulani, and since some of your people
perpetually noise that claim and make efforts to
achieve it, it is a large though mostly unspoken factor
in the coming presidential election. It would be a pity
if this should cause serious problems for such a
good candidate as you at this time.
Therefore, I urge you: use your best capabilities to
put an end to this terrible tradition – in the interest of
our country. Realistically, no single one of our
nationalities can dominate all the rest of us. It is
impossible. How can one nationality, even if it is
larger than all the rest of us put together, dominate
all the rest of us in any full or lasting sense? And we
do not have any numerically dominant nation like
that. Our three largest nationalities (Hausa-Fulani,
Yoruba and Igbo) are very close in population size,
and each of them is a minority in Nigeria. How can
the Hausa-Fulani succeed in subduing and
dominating the large and capable Yoruba or Igbo –
not to talk of all the nationalities of Nigeria? Talking
about domination and trying to achieve it has only
bred hostility, crookedness, and instability in our
country. It is time we remove that obstacle from the
path to our country’s stability, progress and
prosperity – and you can lead us to do it. Please
sincerely strive to do so. Let it be one of your
immortal gifts to our country. Nigeria is a country in
which we all can prosper – and together build a
world power.
That leads me to another but related subject. The
reason most of the Hausa-Fulani elite are forever
angling for a bigger, more powerful, and more
resource-controlling Federal Government, is that they
believe that, by having that kind of FG and ensuring
their own control of it, they will be able to subdue
and dominate all of Nigeria. But it is a nebulous and
disruptive venture. Yes, they have contributed much
in pulling power and resources into the hands of the
FG, but has their homeland or anybody else gained
anything from that? The most important result of
massing power in the FG is that the FG has become a
podgy, ponderous, incompetent and repulsively
corrupt monstrosity, a constant manipulator of
elections and other vital processes across our land, a
destroyer of development and progress in our
country, and a disgrace to our country in the wide
world. You acknowledge almost as much as this in
your manifesto. As matters have developed under
Jonathan (and even under Obasanjo before him),
whoever controls the FG tends to use it as a personal
estate, to be used for his own aggrandizement and
the disproportionate benefit of his own nationality
(or his favoured nationality). Recently, the elder
statesman, Alhaji Maitama Sule, lamented that the
people of the Arewa North are suffering serious
discrimination today in Nigeria, and leaders of the
Arewa Youth went out protesting about the same
thing – and Yoruba people are crying out about the
same too. Is it not absurd that we have created a
system that makes it possible for such major
segments of Nigeria as Arewa North and the Yoruba
Southwest to be marginalized and discriminated
against by anybody controlling the FG? How can our
self-respecting nationalities love to continue to
belong to a country that is disrespectful and
mismanaged like that?
The FG’s obstruction to development is hurting all
parts of our country. For instance, our Northern
Region saw a great deal of development and
progress under the Regional leadership of the late Sir
Ahmadu Belo. Since all the power and resources for
development have been gradually pulled together at
the federal center, has the North not steadily
declined in economic progress? Is the same not true
of the East and the West? Obviously, the answer is to
take away much of the ponderous powers of the FG,
reenergize the different parts of our country, and
thus bring development close to our people again.
Empower the elite of our various parts to handle the
development of their people, and our country will
pick up again. Moreover, leave each part to elect the
local men and women who will handle their affairs,
and stop the destructive assumption that those who
control the FG have the prerogative to choose rulers
for all parts of Nigeria. Flush corruption out of our
elections. These are things you are capable of leading
us to accomplish. If you sincerely promote them,
most of us will ardently support you.
Then, because I am sure and happy that you will fight
and kill corruption, I wish to offer some counsel
concerning your fighting corruption. Our country’s
experiences show that prosecuting and punishing
those who have been corrupt is a problematic
approach, potentially capable of generating division
and even conflict. This is because, in a country in
which ALL public servants (politicians, civil servants,
judges, and all) have descended into the culture of
corruption, punishing some people tends to
degenerate into a process of selective justice. Groups
that feel that their own leaders are being punished
selectively cannot be blamed if they feel bitter. For
instance, even though I hate public corruption as a
destructive evil and fought it passionately throughout
my time of service to Nigeria, it displeases me to
remember that, among today’s generally corrupt
Nigerian leadership, prominent kinsmen of mine (like
Bode George who was sent to prison, and Bola
Tinubu against whom the FG started a vindictive case
some time ago) were selected for punishment. If
punishment is one of the weapons you decide to
employ against corruption, please make sure that the
process is transparent and even-handed. In trying to
kill the worms in the baby’s tommy, let’s take care not
to harm or kill the baby himself.
In addition to whatever weapons you are thinking of
using, let me suggest one that I have seen some
countries use to good effect. Let us make a federal
law demanding that all former and current Nigerian
public officials who have money in any form or shape
in foreign countries should bring it back to Nigeria
within a specified time and invest it in Nigeria. They
can do it without any questions asked, and the
consequent investment will be theirs. The big gain for
our country will be that the money becomes active in
building our economy (generating businesses and
economic activities and providing employment)
instead of building the economies of the countries
where it was formerly hidden. Those who do not
comply within the specified time will be subject to
criminal prosecution and punishment. (Tracing and
following money stolen and hidden abroad by public
officials of any country is now quite easy.
Sophisticated international agencies do it, actively
supported by the governments of many powerful
countries). Some young friends of mine tell me that
one practice among our corrupt leaders these days is
to bury large tomes of their stolen public money in
the ground! I don’t know how you will force such
people to exhume and declare such money, but you
must come up with a way.
Finally, my brother, remember what I said in my first
letter about restructuring our federation properly.
Fortunately, your manifesto says much the same.
Also, remember what I said about investing heavily in
our people – to create skilled and reliable workers,
entrepreneurs, small modern businesses and
inventors, attraction of foreign investors and
businesses, high quality exports, and modern
farmers. Your candidacy is generating much hope
among our people. Again, I wish you luck; and I wish
Nigeria luck.

A former junior defence minister, Musiliu Obanikoro,
will be heading back to Abuja as a top cabinet
member as part of a deal personally brokered by
President Goodluck Jonathan, for Mr. Obanikoro to
discontinue his legal challenge of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary result
for Lagos State, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm. Mr.
Obanikoro was one of the biggest casualties of the
PDP gubernatorial primaries, after resigning his
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64 mins - Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left
footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the
left. Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic with a cross.
63 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Carl Jenkinson.
61 mins - Goal! Chelsea 2, West Ham United 0. Diego
Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the
box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eden
Hazard.
59 mins - Offside, West Ham United. Aaron Cresswell
tries a through ball, but Winston Reid is caught offside.
59 mins - Foul by Oscar (Chelsea).
59 mins - Alexandre Song (West Ham United) wins a
free kick in the defensive half.
58 mins - Substitution, West Ham United. Alexandre
Song replaces Mark Noble.
58 mins - Substitution, West Ham United. Diafra Sakho
replaces Andy Carroll.
57 mins - Winston Reid (West Ham United) is shown
the yellow card for a bad foul.
57 mins - Foul by Winston Reid (West Ham United).
57 mins - Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the
left wing.
56 mins - Hand ball by Enner Valencia (West Ham
United).
54 mins - Attempt missed. Willian (Chelsea) right
footed shot from outside the box is too high from a
direct free kick.
53 mins - Foul by Winston Reid (West Ham United).
53 mins - Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the
attacking half.
51 mins - Attempt missed. Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea)
right footed shot from the right side of the box misses
to the left.
51 mins - Attempt saved. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) right
footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the
top centre of the goal. Assisted by Willian.
47 mins - Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Cesc
Fàbregas.
47 mins - Foul by Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea).
47 mins - Enner Valencia (West Ham United) wins a
free kick in the defensive half.
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45 mins - First Half ends, Chelsea 1, West Ham United
0.
44 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Enner
Valencia.
44 mins - Attempt blocked. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed
shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cesc
Fàbregas.
41 mins - Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right
footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Assisted by Branislav Ivanovic.
38 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by James Collins.
37 mins - Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right
footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted
by Oscar.

38 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by James Collins.
37 mins - Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right
footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted
by Oscar.
36 mins - Offside, West Ham United. Kevin Nolan tries
a through ball, but Enner Valencia is caught offside.
35 mins - Winston Reid (West Ham United) wins a free
kick in the defensive half.
35 mins - Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
33 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Adrián.
33 mins - Attempt saved. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left
footed shot from outside the box is saved in the
bottom right corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
32 mins - Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) is shown
the yellow card for a bad foul.
32 mins - Oscar (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the
defensive half.

30 mins - Goal! Chelsea 1, West Ham United 0. John
Terry (Chelsea) left footed shot from very close range
to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Diego Costa
following a corner.
30 mins - Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea)
header from the centre of the box is close, but misses
to the left. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross
following a corner.
30 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by James Collins.
29 mins - Foul by Nemanja Matic (Chelsea).
29 mins - Andy Carroll (West Ham United) wins a free
kick in the attacking half.
28 mins - Attempt saved. Willian (Chelsea) right footed
shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left
corner. Assisted by Diego Costa.
28 mins - Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) right
footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre
of the goal.
27 mins - James Collins (West Ham United) is shown
the yellow card for a bad foul.
27 mins - Foul by James Collins (West Ham United).
27 mins - Diego Costa (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the
attacking half.
26 mins - Attempt missed. Oscar (Chelsea) right footed
shot from outside the box misses to the left from a
direct free kick.

20 mins - Attempt saved. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) right
footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the
top left corner. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas.
20 mins - Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Winston Reid.

Decent start to the match from Chelsea here as
they assert their dominance over the ball in the early
stages. Perhaps predictably, Hazard is the brightest
player out there at the moment as he continually looks
to break into spaces in and around the box.
11' - Carroll receives a ticking off from referee,
Michael Oliver, for going in with his studs up on
Ivanovic. It actually looked like a pretty good challenge
from the West Ham striker, but the ref deems it as a
little too overly aggressive and blows for the foul.
9' - Some lovely stuff by the home side at the
moment. Willian once again bursts down the right-hand
side but then leaves the defender for dead by shifting
back on to his left. Matic collects possession at the edge
of the box and clips a cross to the back post, which
Cahill meets with a commanding header, but Adrian
sees it over.
7' - Hazard drops deep and fizzes a pass in behind the
West Ham defence for Diego Costa. The Spain
international does brilliantly to make up the ground to
collect the ball near the corner flag, and receives an
appreciative clap from the home crowd.

Whaaaaaat a miss from Oscar! Willian skips down
the right channel and then reverses what looks like a
nothing cross into the box. Jenkinson decides to leave it
and Chelsea's No.8 collects before driving towards goal,
but his subsequent shot is blazed over! The Hammers
let off the hook massively there!

Some worrying scenes for Chelsea at the moment
as Hazard is currently down injured after a collision
with Kouyate. The Belgian was originally a doubt today
with an ankle injury, only to eventually be passed fit.
This looks like a hip problem, although he'll probably be
okay to continue.

West Ham (4-3-1-2): Adrian; Jenkinson, Collins, Reid,
Cresswell; Noble, Kouyate, Nolan; Downing; Carroll,
Valencia.

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry,
Azpilicueta; Fabregas, Matic; Willian, Oscar, Hazard;
Diego Costa.

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the action!

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efore you jump in and start learning the Visual
Basic programming language, it may help you to
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How Programming Works
On its own, a computer isn't very smart.
A computer is essentially just a big bunch of small
electronic switches that are either on or off. By
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People express themselves using a language that has
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A programming language acts as a translator
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A specialized program known as a compiler takes the
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The language you write and speak has structure: for
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When you speak or write, you use different
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In many ways, Visual Basic is much like the language
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Written and spoken language also has rules, or
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Visual Basic also has syntax—at first it may look
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would write:
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