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Ezedon:
And so on and so forth, in my case, ''THE LORD IS MY STRENGHT'' had been following me

umm r you sure. I don't be believe name having influence on owns like automatically. good luck was coincident. I have seen my lucky with baddest luck. many rich name in povalty.

chronique:
It's very clear to everybody reading this,that you're the fool here. You took the first shot by calling me crazy and foolish for explaining to you the difference between excess crude account and sovereign wealth fund. Instead of learning,you resorted to insults. Between the two of us,it's obvious you're the one with a thugish attitude and the maximum propensity to become a world class fool. Even after correcting you,you keep quoting Oby as your source of information;it shows how daft you are as a person. Now I know you're an irredeemable fool. I shouldn't even waste my time arguing with you cos your pap and sand filled brain will never be able to comprehend it. It's obvious you do not know the difference between facts and mere allegations. Your case is like Tai Solarin who accused Awo(I think) of an allegation and when He was sued and taken to court and asked to prove his allegation by providing his source of information,he claimed to have heard the story inside a molue bus. Keep fooling yourself around. I don't even know why I'm replying you;I should have known I was talking to a slowpoke from your written English. People like you with poor command of English language hardly make sense in public. Have a nice day.

I can see you are pained.


your master did not make your job so easy with his reckless ruling. busy stealing the nation wealth. the ground commander. stealing is not corruption.

you are a shi.t and probably your Brain is made up of shit. opening your smelling shi.t hole you called a mouth yo spew trash.

what happen to subsidy report? under that Capet . you morroon.

I am not surprise you are one of those thugs shouting buhari certificate when court have the final say. idio.t

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So what do you get in Nigeria when you
take Sunday, God's Gift, Whoknows, Noisy
Place and, of course, Goodluck? Could be a
family gathering.

This Sunday's inauguration of President
Goodluck Jonathan will do more than
officially bring an end to a landmark
election period in Nigeria.

It will also highlight what is perhaps a
little known feature of the country's
culture: names with a story behind them.
Whether in local dialect or in English,
many Nigerian names hold meaning as
subtle as a whack on the head.

TOP STORY

General Election 2015: Grace Dent's
guide to your ballot box options on
7 May Children in many parts of Nigeria are
given names at elaborately arranged
ceremonies, replete with food, drink and
celebration. They range from the religious
- Godswill, Godspower or God's Gift - to
the downright curious, such as Brown
Question.

"People don't just give names - names tell a
lot," said Austin Nwagbara, a lecturer at
the University of Lagos.

He points out that many African cultures
believe that "your name follows you, like
Goodluck."

Easy to dismiss such nonsense, right? Well,
not so fast.

Consider the president, whose name many
say has matched the trajectory of his life.
"I called him Goodluck because althoughy
life was hard for me when he was born, I
had this feeling that this boy would bring
me good luck," his late father Lawrence
Jonathan was quoted as saying in a recent
biography of the president.

His mother Eunice said although she had a
history of lengthy labour in childbirth
stretching for several days, Goodluck was
born in record time - the very day she
went into labour.

But the plot thickens.
Some argue that Jonathan, a zoologist from
a family of canoe makers, owes his entire
political leader to ... yep, you got it. The
53-year-old leader has benefited from a
series of events that have advanced his
career by default.

He became governor of his native Bayelsa
state in 2005. He had been deputy
governor and took over the office after his
predecessor was impeached on money
laundering charges.

A couple years later, he was selected to
run as vice president under Umaru
Yar'Adua, a northerner who needed to
balance his ticket.

Jonathan himself, in one of the US
diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks,
purportedly acknowledged he was not the
most experienced candidate for the vice
presidential job and was selected to
represent the oil-producing Niger Delta.

Flash forward to 2010. Yar'Adua dies in
office after months of illness, and Jonathan
is sworn in to replace him.

And then April 2011: The power of
incumbency behind him, Jonathan easily
wins the presidential election.

One of his friends, Amalate Johnny Turner,
told AFP that Jonathan "never dreamt
becoming what he is today."

But enough about Goodluck and his
fortune. The phenomenon goes far beyond
the president in Africa's most populous
nation.

A child's name can be influenced by
circumstances of birth, cultural or
religious beliefs, expectations and
philosophy.

Some of the other interesting birth
certificates include native names that
translate roughly to phrases like "noisy
place" for a child born in a noisy
environment and "along the road" if a
baby comes out before the mother makes it
to a hospital. A child born of parents
embroiled in a feud with another family,
can go by a name meaning "cannot buy
your family's love".

English versions of names with a story are
also abundant.

One government worker answers to the
name Brown Question. His grandfather,
then a traditional adjudicator settling land
disputes, named his son Question simply
because his work involved asking lots of
them.

Believe it or not, he says he was made fun
of because of it once or twice growing up.
Naming a child is an elaborate, ritualistic
affair in Nigeria.

On a recent working day, guests filed into
a white marquee pitched in the middle of a
street in Lagos' ghetto of Mushin for a
child-naming party. Smoke wafted from a
cooking fire where food for the guests was
being prepared.

According to the tradition of Yorubas, the
ethnic group dominant in Nigeria's
southwest, naming rites have to be
conducted exactly eight days after birth.
In the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria,
most names are culled from the Koran, but
some carry surnames denoting their home
towns, such as ex-president Shehu Shagari,
from the town of Shagari.

Some names among the Igbo ethnic group,
predominate in the southeast, indicate
days of the week a child was born. The
same is sometimes true for Yorubas.
So you could find yourself on a Saturday
night hanging out with Sunday and
Monday, planning to visit Mr. Gusau from
Gusau and hoping to find Goodluck and
Godswill.


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/call-me-goodluck-nigerian-names-and-the-stories-they-tell-2290313.html

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chronique:
I pity you and those who listen to you. For you to believe that Jonathan emptied the foreign reserves,shows how daft and stupid you are as a person. I hope you don't pass this kind of stupid traits in you down to your kids cos it wouldn't help the development of Nigeria as a nation. It's even pathetic to know that Oby has become your source of getting verified information and you're confidently saying it in a public forum. You did not even quote the cbn(the only authentic source from where info on our foreign reserves can be gotten from);you had to quote Oby. Let's assume the FG and GEJ sues you to court today for libel,and the judge askes you to substantiate your allegations with proof,you'd tell the judge to call Oby cos she's the one you got the info from;can you see how stupid and daft you sound? And in your mind,you still feel you're making sense? I wonder how Nigeria will ever progress when the nation is still producing morons like you in large proportions. You should be ashamed of yourself.

its clear that you are a fool and idiot who can't give expressions without insult.

sanusi former CBN accursed Jonathan of missing 20 billion. oby is former mister of finance and she has records of funds in federal confers.

go kill yourself you internet thugs. your master will soon sack you cause he just lost and you didn't do a good job.

chronique:
People like you should never be allowed to talk about politics in public os you're so ignorant about the issues you're debating on and that alone,makes you look kind of silly. Before you talk about GEJ leaving nothing in the excess crude account,try to do your research about how the account was created,the controversies that surrounded its operations and how the sovereign wealth fund account was created. Just to enlighten you a bit,the excess crude account is the new sovereign wealth fund account and the difference between both is that,while OBj set up the excess crude account without a proper regulatory framework and constitutional backing which made it look like an illegal account,GEJ set up the sovereign wealth fund account which had to go through the national assembly and was passed into law,thereby,giving it the constitutional backing it needed to be operated legally. The difference between both account s is that one was created by someone with considerable educational knowledge and the other was created by someone with more of a military mind. Other than that,they are the same thing and they serve both purposes. Stop misleading people;the excess crude oil account has been scrapped and doesn't exist again. I'm even ashame to read your post;you mean Jonathan emptied the federal reserves? How clueless can you be? Like seriously,how old are you that you're typing this rubbish? Pls,stick to the romance section henceforth.

you must be crazy and a joker. you need to post this crap on joke section probably where you belong.

why are you running away from the fact or issue base.

??
what happened to 40 billion in that account??

yaradua left. read oby report and obj how Jonathan mismanage 40 billion dollars.

Jonathan is An Opportunist, From Nigeria President To World Citizen & Africa Hero.

has anyone observe the luck behind this man. he got through with things and promotion easily without meriting them.

after destroying Nigeria. leaving nothing in federal reserve for buhari. this is the man that empty out execs crude account with billions of dollars obj and yaradua left. and during his time. Nigeria experience oil boom. the highest of it kind ever recorded.

and now with failure from desperation of his to remain in power has brought him to world citizen.

I am sad....


Africa richest and most populous nation people are suffering and dying. president Jonathan concede to defeat and became hero when our military personnel are dying in Sambisa.

now he will be invited all over the world to give speech and use as example to other democratic Africa nation.

Africa hero. what a record.

wink.

Norada:
Una still dey vex fir that one. He's blessed man. God is with him

that guy kill this country. and should be locked in prison.

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only available for

Benin city resident only. come with 6 bottles of beer.

drop your WhatsApp instead.

umm. another not eating meat day.

just wen we have clamored for change and we have gotten the change. don't you think there is room for change?


NEW WORDS IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
ORUBEBE /oˈrubebe/ (VerB-): abnormal
behaviour or an attempt to disrupt peaceful
gathering or well organised event.
[from Latin oˈrube : to disrupt]
Examples:
1. He tried to orubebe the sacred ocassion but
the police do not give in.
2. The football match was orubebe by the
defeating team yesterday Derivatives:
ORU-BE-BE-ISM (Noun)
ORU-BE-BE-TIC (Adjective) e.g: ~ attitude
JEGA /Jəˈga/ (VerB-): [a] Using godly wisdom
to calm the unneeded agitation or ruckus
caused by a
dopey fool in a peaceful gathering.
[b] To indirectly show to the public a person
who lack manner and attempt causing
agitation
[from Latin Jeˈga : Calm distubance wisely]
Examples:
1. If you Orubebe me I will Jega you.
2. When he was making unnecessary argument
to the public, I jega him.
Derivatives:
JE-GA-ISM (Noun)
JE-GA-TIC (Adjective) e.g: ~ approach First
Edition. Copyright © 2015 by Davog
Publishing
Company.

SirShymexx:
Interesting write-up.

The smoke is going to clear soon, but still good riddance to inept and utterly corrupt GEJ. Personally, I'm not expecting anything from the old man cos it's still going to be the same recycled, mixed with new breeds, of intellectual frauds who would be occupying different positions - within the same structurally deformed space.

After looking at the names touted as ministers yesterday - I had a good laugh. Just the same vacuous noisemakers, who have no blueprint on how to solve the unique problems of that country - apart from unfitting experiments they'll most likely copy and paste from other climes, to further complicate things.

Anyway, the man can write his name in gold if he can do following:

- Modernise the naija military, and provide security.
- Reduce corruption and probe GEJ's government.
- Restructure the country by using APC's majority in the house/senate.
- Get someone decent to manage the country's economy.
- And maybe refineries and power sector.

Good one.

NEW WORDS IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
ORUBEBE /oˈrubebe/ (VerB-): abnormal
behaviour or an attempt to disrupt peaceful
gathering or well organised event.
[from Latin oˈrube : to disrupt]
Examples:
1. He tried to orubebe the sacred ocassion but
the police do not give in.
2. The football match was orubebe by the
defeating team yesterday Derivatives:
ORU-BE-BE-ISM (Noun)
ORU-BE-BE-TIC (Adjective) e.g: ~ attitude
JEGA /Jəˈga/ (VerB-): [a] Using godly wisdom
to calm the unneeded agitation or ruckus
caused by a
dopey fool in a peaceful gathering.
[b] To indirectly show to the public a person
who lack manner and attempt causing
agitation
[from Latin Jeˈga : Calm distubance wisely]
Examples:
1. If you Orubebe me I will Jega you.
2. When he was making unnecessary argument
to the public, I jega him.
Derivatives:
JE-GA-ISM (Noun)
JE-GA-TIC (Adjective) e.g: ~ approach First
Edition. Copyright © 2015 by Davog
Publishing
Company.

(CNN)— The victory of a 72-year-old former
general, Muhammadu Buhari, in the Nigerian
elections represents a moment of maturity in
West African politics. Buhari, who some 30
years ago was Nigeria's harsh military leader,
could of course prove to be a disaster; so
many self-described reformers have been.
swath


But the peaceful transition of power from
President Goodluck Jonathan to President
Buhari is the first of its kind in history. And
the fact that the winner ran on an anti-
corruption platform suggests that ordinary
Nigerians have finally had enough of the
venality of their elites. For too long, Nigeria's
poor have been victims of their country's
enormous wealth. The cancer of corruption
has to be cut out.


I visited Nigeria in January and found a
country under siege. Abuja, the capital city, is
where the rich have always imagined
themselves making their last stand. Soldiers
guard the treacherous motorways; houses are
compounds covered in barbed wire. It's a
place where poor children rise at dawn to sift
through the trash cans for food and black
magic is practiced by the side of the road at
dusk.


Yet thanks to Nigeria's oil, there is also
tremendous wealth in Abuja. And when you
don't really make money but simply take it
from the soil and sell it, a crude kind of crony
capitalism develops in which who you know is
far more important than what you know.
Graft trickles down through the system;
through family, through patronage and
through shady deals done with foreign
businessmen at the 24-hour party palace at
the Abuja Hilton Hotel. The richest buy off
the anger of the poorest, and vast swaths of
society become complicit in the crime.
For a while, that system brought some
stability to the government of Jonathan. But
stability was contingent upon oil remaining
at $110 a barrel, and in recent months the
price has collapsed to below $50 a barrel.
Lacking funds, the government could no
longer promise jobs to voters and had to
start thinking creatively about serious
economic development.


One was the massive privatization of the
power system, a sensible idea that promised
to take energy provision out of the hands of
a broken state and give it to businessmen to
run. The problem is that costly investment
and redevelopment didn't come soon enough:
Millions were left without power and the
government's few bold attempts at reform
smacked of betrayal.


The problem of corruption went hand-in-glove
with the rise of terrorism. Nigeria is not a
natural, comfortable nation state; it's
composed of many ethnicities and two major
competing religions. The south is dominated
by Christians like Jonathan, the north by
Muslims like Buhari. And the north has
witnessed a brutal, bloody terrorist
insurgency led by Boko Haram, which
translates as "Western education is
forbidden."


Westerners might assume that Boko Haram's
major target is the Christian south but, in
fact, its war is as much against
nonfundamentalist Muslims as it is non-
Muslims, and its attacks have generally been
focused on Islamic population centers.
Failure to deal with this has not entirely been
due to Boko Haram's strategic ingenuity.
Previous administrations have simply been
too dysfunctional to fight a war on terror. In
2010, for instance, the government awarded
a $470 million contract to provide security in
Abuja. Few of the promised cameras were
installed, yet the money was still paid in full.
And soldiers sent to the front report being
poorly equipped.


The government is thought to have resorted
to trying to purchase arms on the
international black market, according to news
reports -- although this is the kind of story
that is hard to verify due to bans on granting
visas to foreign journalists (I was in Nigeria
as a consultant on a business visa). What is
directly observable is that while the
government proved capable of providing
security in some areas, in others it utterly
failed. And the Jonathan government might
have benefited from the Boko Haram terrorist
emergency continuing in Muslim centers, for
the Muslims were far more likely to vote for
Buhari.


For Buhari to win, he had to draw large
numbers of votes in Christian areas -- and
there, again, a Western prejudice is
challenged. The victory of a Muslim
candidate in Nigeria does not represent the
victory of Islamism, as we have so often been
told by those skeptical of the ability of the
Muslim world to govern itself.


On the contrary, Buhari is associated with an
earlier period in Nigerian history when the
army was relatively well paid and respected.
He ran the country in the early 1980s along
dictatorial lines, for sure. But he also ran a
War Against Indiscipline when in power in
which civil servants who were late to work
were ordered to do frog jumps, drug dealers
were publicly executed, and some 474
politicians and business were arrested on
charges of corruption. Buhari was removed in
a coup, and he left office with the rare
distinction of not having made very much
money from it.


Now he has won the presidency promising to
tackle those intertwined problems of Boko
Haram and corruption. Get the army
functioning properly again, Nigerians hope,
and it will be able to drive back the
fundamentalists.


Buhari has his critics, many of whom charge
him with misrepresenting his CV and being a
closet authoritarian. But they cannot deny
that he has won this historic victory because
he has touched a chord with a people
exhausted by years of misrule. You can only
bribe the voters for so long before the
squalor becomes too much to bear.


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has anyone observe the luck behind this man. he got through with things and promotion easily without meriting them.


now with failure from desperation of his to remain in power has brought him to would citizen. Africa richest and most populous nation president concede to defeat.

now he will be invited all over the world to give speech and use as example to other democratic Africa nation.

Africa hero. what a record.

wink.

20bc:
But this is about death sentence by government and it suppose to be official.

yes. go to you jurisdiction you will see statics of person sentence for 2014

jeremiah505:
Thank God for Good luck...

I will never forget you...

Nigerians will never forget you...

umm never say never

I feel like crying after the speech.

source www.dailypost.ng/2015/03/31/nigeria-decides-full-text-of-president-jonathans-concession-speech/

I thank you all for turning out en-masse for the March 28 General Elections.


I promised the country free and fair elections.
I have kept my word. I have also expanded the
space for Nigerians to participate in the
democratic process. That is one legacy I will
like to see endure.

Although some people have expressed mixed
feelings about the results announced by the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), I urge those who may feel aggrieved to
follow due process based on our constitution
and our electoral laws, in seeking redress.

As I have always affirmed, nobody’s ambition
is worth the blood of any Nigerian. The unity,
stability and progress of our dear country is
more important than anything else.

I congratulate all Nigerians for successfully
going through the process of the March 28th
General Elections with the commendable
enthusiasm and commitment that was
demonstrated nationwide.

I also commend the Security Services for their
role in ensuring that the elections were mostly
peaceful and violence-free.

To my colleagues in the PDP, I thank you for
your support. Today, the PDP should be
celebrating rather than mourning. We have
established a legacy of democratic freedom,
transparency, economic growth and free and
fair elections.

For the past 16 years, we have steered the
country away from ethnic and regional
politics. We created a Pan-Nigerian political
party and brought home to our people the
realities of economic development and social
transformation.

Through patriotism and diligence, we have
built the biggest and most patriotic party in
Nigerian history. We must stand together as a
party and look to the future with renewed
optimism.

I thank all Nigerians once again for the great
opportunity I was given to lead this country
and assure you that I will continue to do my
best at the helm of national affairs until the
end of my tenure.

I have conveyed my personal best wishes to
General Muhammadu Buhari.
May God Almighty continue to bless the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

what is there to doubt.

is it because we don't broadcasts it.

people are been killed daily by the police in Nigeria. without the media reporting it. go to police station nation wide and see for yourself.

wait a minute.


what you are trying to saw is that buhari is boko haram?


cos I think he is to do that.

getting interesting.

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now congrats all over the world can come in.

the now windows has been open. foreign investors can now be assured.


buhari should not forget we the internet warrior that help to promote him.

what we ask for now is cheap internet Data.

Jonathan had killed us all with incompetent ncc. allowing and partner with telecom company to milk the good people of Nigeria.

now we ask for 1gb for 500N 30 days validity nation wide.

we are not greedy
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my history tells me that ghana must go eaevin the 90s not 80s.

I was around then and experience it. they where a lot of Ghana who remain behind and some came back after they had left.

its 90s

that's not possible a big fat lie

Baawaa:
Okupe,FFK,Reuben, were finished for south/west because they cannot win councillor seat in south/west

tell me something.

transformation agenda. was a mistake.

transformation is not an agenda. two point agenda would have been better and did the magic. no need for too much things.

1. power. electricity constant in every part of the nation

2. low pump price, probably refining of all our oil consumption. and utilising the 250,000 free barrel of crude for Nigerians daily which is part of OPEC recommendation just like other oil nation.
example Venezuela. 3 naira for fuel.


with this Nigeria Will want to keep on with Jonathan for the next decades.

you got me. the least news I expected.

because it has not got to this.