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Politics › Re: Mass Defection To Hit PDP Again by jpphilips(m): 4:26pm On Dec 22, 2013

obamartins: I have come to realize in Nigeria's politics, the most vociferous group/arguments don't translate into electoral victory, Anambra is a recent example, i still remember all the arguments of Ngige winning on a landslide on social media. I keeping telling whoever cares to listen, that any politician preparing for elections in Nigeria and does not include rigging in his inventory, is not ready. Don't come and start telling us how u were outrigged. It only shows u were unprepared, it shows ur opponent was smarter than u. All Political parties in Nigeria rig in one way or the other, the master rigger wins the poll (Edo state LG election is another clear example). Yes APC has the media and Propaganda machinery to their advantage, to make an ordinary man feel GEJ is finished politically. But i'm not in anyway deluded by the so much noise they make on social media, newpapers and on TV. Nobody should cry foul after 2015 elections of been outrigged because it should be part of the preparation. I am afraid of an enemy that talks less, than those who starts singing victory songs after winning a battle, when the war is far from been decided. 2015 will determine the survival of APC as a party or its extinction. For all those calling Jonathan clueless, daft, slowpoke etc " it is better that your enemies overestimate your stupidity than your shrewdness" - V (Mafia Manager).

when a man sounds primitive two things are to blame

1 his level of intelligence
2 his level of exposure

the duo is beyond common sense so you may not be blamed if the duo doesn't come to you naturally however, wishing an electoral victory on rigging shows you lack the ABC of democratic values.

Politics › Re: Mass Defection To Hit PDP Again by jpphilips(m): 4:14pm On Dec 22, 2013

Gbawe: You talk of bigotry yet your post shows that you are a class A bigot and nauseatingly prejudiced person openly assaulting the senses of others with your disgusting bias. "Lowly Birch Freeman"? The secondary school Fashola attended now renders him inferior to his Kings College peers? It is people like you, god forbid you ever get there, who create segregated, elitist and class-based societies when in positions of power. You will shun merit and ability to propose that only some are fit to control society via background, upbringing, affiliations et al. Worst post of the year exposing a really primitive, elitist and highly prejudiced mind.

oh! the guy was actually talking about college? I was lost at some point? what has it got to do with governance?

Politics › Re: Mass Defection To Hit PDP Again by jpphilips(m): 4:10pm On Dec 22, 2013

ilebaami: I am so very disappointed with the bigotry being exhibited by young Lagos residents in the main. Most are Yoruba who have very little exposure to the rest of Nigeria. Fashola, their hero is ordinarily not quality material like Agbaje. Even Jakande attended King's College and you could see originality in his radical approach. Fash is a product of lowly Birch Freeman which was not top 20 in the Lagos of his time. Fash is wobbling by showcasing ' Eko for show projects ' that the Lagos economy cannot sustain. Bigots beware. Your heroes are paper tigers. Your empire is collapsing!

and your point is?

Politics › Re: Mass Defection To Hit PDP Again by jpphilips(m): 1:02pm On Dec 22, 2013

StoneColdBiceps: Nigeria my beloveth country., why are we so quick to forget divine events that happened just like yesterday...I'm not a party person but I always base my convictions on common sense and simple truth! Whether politicians decamp or not is their problem. We all know how Jonathan became president, don't we? The man is not on d seat at his own will he was placed there in a devine way...jonathan is like Isreal...the bible says, a thousand shall fall at thy right hand and ten thousand at thy side but it will not come near thee only with thy eyes will thou see the reward of the wicked. psalm 91. Nigerian politics is the same. Same people and all. I will witness another devine favor.

just let Gej know that his pdp ministry is lacking members that will take it to 2015 permanent site.

Politics › Re: FG Inaugurates Panel To Recover Unremitted Revenues by jpphilips(m): 11:25am On Dec 22, 2013

Jonathan's administration mentioned on the same page with accountability, I dey laugh! !

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Celebrities › Re: Afrocandy Banned On Facebook For Posting Unclad Pictures , Resurrects by jpphilips(m): 11:17am On Dec 22, 2013

rasojie: i dont think this woman deserves a space on NL front page

y not? meanwhile Atiku is celebrating on the front page with your children's future.
I can see you are having a hard time identifying who the real enemy is.

Celebrities › Re: Atiku Abubakar Celebrated 67th Birthday In Grand Style (Pictures) by jpphilips(m): 11:08am On Dec 22, 2013

ajasa4link: He was a customs officer before becoming the vp

lolzzzzzzz to remind Nigerians how many vehicles he seized during his reign or to remind us to brace for the new import tariff?

Celebrities › Re: Atiku Abubakar Celebrated 67th Birthday In Grand Style (Pictures) by jpphilips(m): 11:05am On Dec 22, 2013

like Amaechi advised, if Nigerians dont start throwing stones, you guys wont stop flaunting illicit wealth.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Nigeria- South Africa F A Q s by jpphilips(m): 2:19am On Dec 22, 2013*

justplainpaul: Shut up! you talk too much.

people like you want people like him to be grateful for living over 40yrs under the umbrage of corruption, because people like him of course are cowards who chose to run away leaving behind people like you who suffer and smile. lolzzzzzzz

you see why my signature is right.
in your onion brain you want people like him to talk down on descendants of the PAN African movement? people whose fathers put Africa on the map while your father was busy playing kalo kalo?

are you not ashamed defending a failed state? if am not mistaken, you may even be a victim of ASUU another failure and you are here talking down on people who have stood up for something.
What have you stood up for?

you are sad they didn't recognize Nigeria in Mandela's funeral, was Mandela the only pan African? ghana honored nkrumah, Ditto Tanzania and Kenya what did your failed government do with yours or you don't even know them? well, I know your Govt denied you education but I will help you for free,

Pan African movement was formed to coerce the British to give independence and equality to African countries as a matter of fact, they were the first voice Africa had, in Nigeria their members were

chief obafemi Awolowo, Nwankwo, Mrs Kuti, Azikiwe and Belewa joined later.
now, how did your irresponsible govt show appreciation or honor them? Zik managed to get a state burial while his onitsha residence remained an eye sore till date.

Mrs Kuti was actually thrown through a Window of a two storeyed building by the then military govt with no apologies till date, now what moral right do you have to demand for recognition from a sane govt who chose to honor theirs?

corruption is worse than Apartheid if you don't know but the zuma people fought it and won, with your help ofcourse, now they are asking you when you will wake your IQ to fight corruption?

Nigeria has no problem but the significant number of people like you (m0r0ns) is the reason that country has failed.

You said they have aids yet their mortality rate remains lower than Nigeria meaning their govt has ensured they don't die in the face of Aids what does your government do?
lemme guess, Abscond with Usaid donations and stash in foreign accounts while your family dies like rats, in the face of these you had the temerity to talk down on people who stood up for something.

People who said no to discrimination, people who said no to oppression, people you spilled their blood for equal rights.

same leaders who denied you quality education send their wards to the best schools in Europe when they are done, they come home and take the good jobs and leave you with slavery yet you have mouth to talk,
is it that you don't even know you have a problem?

do you know why you cant string it together? its because you are a certified m0r0n.

people like you make me hate democracy, I cannot believe that I have an equal right with a bingo in choosing leaders.

bury your face in shame.

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Politics › Re: Hilarious Photo Of PDP To APC Exodus by jpphilips(m): 4:38pm On Dec 21, 2013

ISpiksDaTroof: You want APC to deny them membership, why didnt you ask the same when they were busy looting with GEJ in the same party?

You sound like youre scared. Reality is hitting you gradually I see.

ask your wife to explain my post to you if you can afford one.

Politics › Re: Hilarious Photo Of PDP To APC Exodus by jpphilips(m): 3:28pm On Dec 21, 2013

Jenkizo: Most of the pro-PDP analyst here are from the IGBO extract which shows how retrogressive and biggotry they are. Come to think of it, who is happy to see Nigeria becoming a one party state? It's quite unfortunate GEJ is caught up in the web when Nigerians need a change in political party and government. Though GEJ's wife and his aids gave him out sooner than expected. If you guys can leave out a corrupt government and call the defected members all sorts of names because they refused to be enslave by PEJ and GEJ then I think you Igbos are day dreaming. If I may ask, do you guys want PDP to rule Nigeria till 2019 making 20years at a stretch in ASO rock because Jonathan is the president? Anybody who want Nigeria to be a PDP country does not wish well for the country and that's why the Igbos can never be the president of this country because of it support for evil. Come to think of it, is that what you Igbos wish to practise if you cede from Nigeria and form Biafra? No wonder in the history of this country the Igbos never had a National Leader because of the politics of comfort. We want Nigeria to join the comity of Nations with history of different political parties winning the presidency. We are Giant of Africa and need to live up to expectations. A two party state stabilises the polity, economy and security of a country. S/E and South-South cannot save Jonathan without rigging. Though am from North-central but hate to say the truth that elections are won and lost in the Southwest and Northwest of Nigeria. Ghana and Kenya are taking the lead in terms of fair democratic values and practice in Africa.

point of correction, Nigerians want a corrupt free society which enshrines rule of law and civil rights.
no doubt the present pdp government has failed pitiably in that regards however, there is no guarantee that APC will bring the desired change for the following reasons:

1 Apc like we have seen lately is an assortment of pdp refugees, an unscrupulous pdp Amaechi cannot parade himself as an Apc messiah simply because he dumped the symbolic umbrella for the broom, it insults my intelligence.

2 Apc leadership in their controlled states have been numb on corruption just like Jonathan at the federal level, so where is the change? Oshiomole suspended a councilor on grounds of misconduct which is applaudable, has such feat been replicated in oyo, ogun and lagos?
I have high regards for Buhari and Oshiomole not because of Apc but for what they represent, matter of fact I have never voted any pdp candidate unless buhari is not contesting.

3 Present APC controlled states are doing terribly economically, lagos with a high internally generated revenue viz increased taxes has one of the biggest debt profile, is that the economic policy we should dump pdp for?
it is only APC states that are saddled with as little as road taxes in the whole federation yet they need to be indebted to embark on infrastructure development, who is fooling who?

I am still keeping my fingers crossed on how things turn out come 2015, should Apc churn out these present pdp refugees as flag bearers then I can as well assume APC lacks what it takes to bring about change.

Politics › Re: Hilarious Photo Of PDP To APC Exodus by jpphilips(m): 9:32pm On Dec 20, 2013*

cumpaddre: The people de-camping to APC are the same thieves nd criminals. I thought APC was gona be different.

pls don't mind them tinubu and his cohorts are clowns, Pdp destroyed Nigeria for 14yrs, Nigerians yearned for change,
Tinubu invites all Pdp refugees, rebrands them APC and calls them "progressive" et "change".

does he think we are stup!! d?

if Tinubu wants to be taken seriously, first, all pdp refugees in APC should be denied all tickets, except they want to form working comittes.

A hooligan pdp/Obasanjo's elrufai branded a "progressive" because he jumped ship insults my intelligence.

Tinubu should do himself a favor by looking up the word "change" in the dictionary.

Nigerians don't want a change of political parties, they want a change of persons and polity, in case tinubu doesn't have a dictionary.

Oshiomole, A radical labor leader turned Governor is change, An Amaechi pdp governor turned APC senator is no change but continuation of the wrath PDP has established.

Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:49pm On Dec 20, 2013

what baffles me most is the rate failed politicians run to the masses once they fall out of favor,

El rufai was terrorizing Abuja with OBJ till he was thrown out, today, he is the Best friend of Nigerians on twitter
Ruben Abati used to be the voice of the masses, today he has become the flute of the oppressor.
Amaechi is now the masses Gov because he fell out with Jonathan.
Obasanjo who was worse than Jonathan during his days have suddenly turned the messiah of the masses.

Do you people think all Nigerians are m0r0ns!!

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Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2013

OBJ Believes He Is God’s Greatest Gift To Nigeria

Akin Oyebode, former vice chancellor, University of Ado-Ekiti and Professor of Law at the University of Lagos speaks with SYLVESTER ASOYA on President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure

In a few days, President Olusegun Obasanjo will cease to be Nigeria’s president. What are the prospects of life outside office for him?
He is not yet out of office. He is still in office and also in power. I agree with you that he has a few more days yet to vacate the position of President
and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. But the way he has been posturing in the last couple of days, for me suggests some withdrawal symptoms in the sense that it has now dawned on him that power will soon pass him by. And somebody who has been used to dominating his environment, calling the shots and being celebrated and saluted as Baba suddenly becomes impotent. It is not a situation he loves to be in if you know the persona of General Obasanjo. In his interaction with human beings, you will notice that most of his friends have abandoned him or he has abandoned them. So he is not too happy with the prospect of a lonely retirement because he is used to being in the news.
Now, he is just a former head of state. He had it before in 1979 when he handed over, but he believes that he is the greatest gift of God to Nigeria. Remember he once asked: “How many presidents do you want to make of me?” And he has this Myasthenic complex, he believes that God gave him only one instruction, which is, to rule Nigeria.
I won’t say to govern. He came like a ruler, an emperor. So, this sudden loss of power is affecting him. Once you’re no longer in power, you will miss the courtesies, the foolery of hangers on, and jesters. Now he is banished to the anonymity of Ota Farm. Although he still wants to be relevant and he has rejoined the association of former leaders. I think I understand his predicament, but he should be rest assured that there is life after retirement and that it could have been worse. So he should look at it with a sense of deja vu. He has nothing to worry about.
Afterall he said that if given another chance he will do everything the same way he did it which is completely unrepentant. Again, that for me, smacks more of bravado.
Definitely he is in discomfiture and he is trying to paper over the cracks by giving us the picture of a wholly-together person who has damned the consequences.
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s tenure will remain an issue for debate in the years ahead but as an academic, how would you rate him?
It is a mixed bag. He tried to do something about a few things like corruption. I’m saying that in terms of impressing the world that we are doing something about corruption, Obasanjo has moved us a few notches. And we used to be one of the least developed countries despite all our oil fortunes. We have now moved up.
But when you look at the index of the UNDP, we still have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world and one of the highest maternal morbidity rate. Now, when you look at infrastructure, the roads have collapsed, Nigeria can’t guarantee power supply for 24 hours in any part of the country, common water is not available.
We still have Mai ruwa, people who sell water in gallons, in this country. Look at the urban squalor and the rural poverty. Really, Nigeria is a basket case. Of course you can be smiling that we have over 43 billion dollars in foreign reserve but have you ever seen a man who has so much money in the bank and he is starving himself? There is a problem. Look at fuel, Obasanjo increased fuel prices more than 11 times. I can’t believe it.
He just wanted to punish the people. I don’t understand. He is either a sadist or we ourselves are masochists, there are no two ways about it.
The living conditions of Nigerians have been battered when you sum it up in the Nigerian economy. There is no hiding the fact that our lives have really gone under. Is it the exchange rate? How much was it when he came it? How did lecturers run away from Nigeria? The foreign lecturers could no longer stay here because the home remittances could not keep them in business. So they went elsewhere.
So, I am saying that anybody who wanted to resume, rediscover or re-invent Nigeria, should approach the matter differently. I will concede that General Obasanjo succeeded in identifying some whizkids to prosecute his programmes because leadership is the ability to determine goals and identify those who would actualise those goals. No leader can progress more than the men and women around him.
But I say that the blueprint was faulty. And he also had an over bearing persona, he was breathing down the neck of those whizkids.
Obasanjo’s personality, this domineering figure of Baba who knows best did not enable this guys to thrive. Look at the Foreign Affairs ministry, he had no foreign minister; he was minister of petroleum. He even told his advisers that he was not bound to take their advice. If you know it all, then why have advisers? When he talks, he leans on the podium. He likes tutoring other people. You can see the way and manner he has been talking down on academics, trying to humiliate them. He must know that academics are international commodities.
But he is a proprietor of universities. His interest is not in running the public universities because he does not have interest there. When I joined this university three decades ago, we had an international faculty. We had students from Ghana, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Gambia, East Africa. All sorts of students came to read Law here.
But in last eight eight years, perhaps the only foreign students we have are refugees.

Andrew Young, Obasanjo’s Friend

As an international wheeler dealer, here is what makes Andrew Young tick

For years, Andrew Young, the civil rights leader, has been deeply involved in this country (Nigeria) through the lobbying and consulting firm he heads, GoodWorks International. Its motto is: “We do well by doing good.”
But the question of what exactly GoodWorks is or is not doing here has turned Mr. Young and his firm into something of a lightning rod, as Nigerians prepare to elect a successor Saturday to this country’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, whom Mr. Young has known for 30 years.
“We believe that the relationship between GoodWorks International and Nigeria is foisted on juicy financial benefits to the former,” said an editorial earlier this year in a newspaper here, This Day.
For his part, Mr. Young, the former congressman, United Nations ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, dismissed such comments as sniping by opponents of Mr. Obasanjo’s party, which is expected to win the weekend election.
But there is also little question that Nigeria has been very good for GoodWorks; thanks in part to Mr. Young’s long ties to Mr. Obasanjo, his firm in Atlanta has earned millions of dollars here over the years through a network of business dealings that extend far beyond lobbying.
As business has gone increasingly global, many consulting firms based in the United States, like GoodWorks, have increased their operations abroad, taking on assignments in developing nations like Nigeria where power and wealth are frequently concentrated in a few hands. And consulting experts say it is common for United States firms that lobby for foreign governments in Washington to also have business interests in those countries.
A look at GoodWorks’ activities in Nigeria, based on interviews and documents, provides a window into how embedded such lobbyists can become in developing economies.
Along with lobbying for Nigeria, for example, GoodWorks is paid to represent many major companies like Chevron, General Electric and Motorola that seek big contracts from the Nigerian government.
In addition, executives of GoodWorks have stakes in Nigeria’s oil industry, the country’s main source of wealth. And several years ago, the firm’s chief executive, Carlton A. Masters, started an American company with close relatives of President Obasanjo that bought an expensive Miami property with Mr. Masters’s money, Florida records show.
It is not illegal for lobbyists simultaneously to represent foreign countries and companies seeking business from them. And they are not barred from having business interests in countries they represent in Washington.
Mr. Young and Mr. Masters also said in recent interviews that they had been scrupulous in avoiding conflicts between their governmental and corporate clients. They added that their clients who have won contracts in Nigeria have done so fairly, by outbidding competitors.
“We don’t pay anyone under the table, and we don’t accept any kind of questionable payments or relationships,” Mr. Young said. “We don’t work with people where there are questions of integrity involved.”
For Mr. Young, the involvement of GoodWorks in Nigeria is also one of the lesser-known chapters in a long, celebrated and at times controversial career.
Last year, for example, Mr. Young, who first became known as a top aide to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., resigned as a consultant to Wal-Mart after he said that Jewish, Arab and Korean store owners had “ripped off” black communities by “selling us stale bread and bad meat.” He subsequently apologized for the remarks.
GoodWorks has also generated controversy here. Two years ago, for instance, one local activist filed a complaint that, among other things, criticized Mr. Masters for his role in fund-raising for a $50 million, American-style presidential library named after Mr. Obasanjo that is being built in his hometown north of this chaotic and desperately poor city.
Also in 2005, the Nigerian leader was the host for Mr. Masters’s wedding at the official presidential banquet hall, an event that drew outcries from Mr. Obasanjo’s critics.
Several activists in Nigeria said in recent interviews that they believed that Mr. Young had decided simply to profit here from his legacy rather than use it to help a country that remains beset by problems of political corruption, crumbling infrastructure and failed school systems.
“Andrew Young has never been interested in these issues,” said Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer who is also president of the West African Bar Association. “He is just here making money.”
Mr. Young said that while some people still viewed him as an “activist trapped in the ’60s,” he had decided long ago that he could effect more change by attracting private investment to places like Nigeria that needed it.
He also said that the Obasanjo library, which is being underwritten by donations from local politicians and companies, would benefit all Nigerians by serving as a conference center.
“For 40 years of my life, I was on the outside seeking change,” he said. “I realized that I could be more effective being on the inside implementing it.”
GoodWorks, which Mr. Young and Mr. Masters helped found in 1996, has also lobbied in the United States for Rwanda and Turks and Caicos Islands. Mr. Young declined to disclose the firm’s revenue but said that the vast bulk of it came from its operations here.
A spokesman for Mr. Obasanjo, Uba Sani, said that the Nigerian government was pleased with GoodWorks’ performance, describing the firm as “good friends of Nigeria.” And Mr. Masters said much of the recent criticism of GoodWorks was coming from those who did not want to see the firm’s lobbying contract, which expired in April, renewed by Nigeria’s next president. After eight consecutive years as president, Mr. Obasanjo is barred from running again.
GoodWorks’ dealings in Nigeria reflect Mr. Young’s relationship over three decades with Mr. Obasanjo. And like much else in Mr. Young’s life, it is a relationship filled with a mix of drama, ideals and opportunism.
The two men met in the late 1970s, when Mr. Obasanjo, then a general, first served as this country’s president, one in a long line of military figures who ruled Nigeria.
“Obasanjo and I kind of hit it off immediately,” said Mr. Young, who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations at the time. “We were mainly concerned with democracy.”
Two decades later, the names of Mr. Young and Mr. Obasanjo, who was no longer in public office, appeared together in a United States Senate report about the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the rogue financial institution.
The report criticized Mr. Young for, among other things, trying to obtain a bank loan to help Mr. Obasanjo start a farm equipment company for which he would have worked as a consultant.
That deal never went forward. But in the mid-1990s, Mr. Young found himself urging Gen. Sani Abacha, then Nigeria’s president, to release a number of political opponents he had jailed, including Mr. Obasanjo. In 1999, the year after his release, Mr. Obasanjo was voted president in democratic elections.
Mr. Young said he believed that his old ally had since reshaped the country for the better by eliminating entrenched corruption and raising the quality of life.
“There isn’t anything that’s happened in Africa worthwhile, almost since 1960, that he hasn’t been involved in,” Mr. Young said.
Some activists credit Mr. Obasanjo for certain improvements, like taking some steps to increase the transparency of how this country’s oil wealth is distributed. But they added that he has allowed Nigeria’s infrastructure to disintegrate further while a small group of insiders has grown richer; electrical blackouts are routine and highways are so bad that short journeys can take hours.
Mr. Masters said that GoodWorks, which became Nigeria’s lobbyist in 2001, had worked with officials there to reduce the country’s international debts. But unlike some lobbyists for foreign governments, the firm appears to have done little to influence American policy toward its client. For instance, GoodWorks said that it had “no recollection” of a single instance in which it represented Nigeria in talks with any federal overseas development agencies.
Instead, the firm, apparently in keeping with Mr. Young’s philosophy, has focused its energies on business development in Nigeria and representing companies before Mr. Obasanjo’s government.
Mr. Masters said that GoodWorks typically received a “success fee” equal to 1 ½ percent of a contract’s value, a fee that can lead to big payouts. In 2005, for example, G.E. Energy, a GoodWorks client, won a $400 million contract to supply generating turbines in Nigeria.
The company, a subsidiary of General Electric, said in a statement that it had a “standard sales representative agreement” with GoodWorks, but declined to elaborate.
Mr. Young said that GoodWorks has started small companies here that employ Nigerians. But the company also has other local business interests. For example, the head of the company’s Nigerian office is the major shareholder in a local energy company, Suntrust Oil, which won a lease during a 2002 government auction of offshore fields that did not interest major energy companies.
While Mr. Young, 75, still serves as the firm’s public face, it is Mr. Masters, in his late 50s, who spends much of his time traveling through Africa and the Caribbean. Along the way he has made his own connections.
In 2001, for instance, Mr. Masters formed a Florida company, Sunscope Investments, with Mr. Obasanjo’s brother-in-law and his wife, that purchased a Miami condominium for about $750,000, Florida public records indicate.
Asked about the issue, Mr. Masters said in a written statement that he had put up the money that Sunscope used to buy the property. He added, however, that Mr. Obasanjo’s relatives had quickly lost interest in the venture and had not profited from it in any way.
Florida records indicate that Mr. Obasanjo’s sister-in-law, Yamisi Abebe, remained an officer of Sunscope until last year, when the company was dissolved and transferred its interest in the condominium to Mr. Masters for a nominal sum.
One lobbying expert, Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan group in Washington that monitors lobbying, said that given Mr. Masters’s multiple lobbying roles in Nigeria, his decision to involve President Obasanjo’s relatives in his business dealings was troubling.
“It looks like hell,” Mr. Lewis said.
Mr. Masters stated he had done nothing wrong.
This weekend’s election will decide whether Umaru Yar’Adua, the candidate of Mr. Obasanjo’s party, will succeed him. If he does, it is far more likely that GoodWorks will remain Nigeria’s lobbyist than if one of the opposing parties is elected.
“We’ve never gotten involved in politics,” Mr. Young said earlier this year. “We’ve tried to stay friendly with everyone.”

– Courtesy, New York Times. Published: April 18, 2007 .[/color]

Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:44pm On Dec 20, 2013

OBJ Is A Failure

Ebun Adegboruwa, a Lagos-based lawyer, in an interview with OLUSOLA OLAOSEBIKAN brands President Olusegun Obasanjo a failure

Could you briefly assess President Olusegun Obasanjo vis-à-vis his administration?
Normally, we would have started from 1976. But from 1999 till date, it is an administration that came to fritter the resources of Nigeria, an administration that came to squander the confidence of Nigerians, an administration that came to impose a culture of violence and lawlessness, a culture of official corruption. But I think on the other hand too, economically, it was a regime that came to empower its own friends, captains of industry whom he promoted to appropriate the collective wealth of the people in the name of commercialisation, privatisation and all the rest. So, economically, yes, he has assisted and upgraded the welfare of his supporters who have taken over.
In some other areas like the GSM, yes, he introduced the GSM. But unfortunately, he was unable to monitor the success of the GSM to the extent that it has become a liability on Nigerians, such that the phone is no longer affordable. So, if you want to assess General Olusegun Obasanjo, you’ll look at all the facets of Nigerian life. Talking about education, the universities are dead now. And there are close to 50 private universities in Nigeria now. Two of them owned by General Obasanjo and one by his Vice President, ABTI University in Yola. So that, in education, what the government has done is to kill public interest, so as to make it lucrative for private institutions which are milking individuals. What has happened is that the children of the rich are either attending London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard University, London University, Cambridge, or they are attending Covenant University or Bells University or Igbinedion University or ABTI. So, the ones that the masses can afford, the Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Ibadan, the University of Maiduguri, are dilapidated. It is no longer productive for you to think of taking your children there because a programme that is meant to take four years, by the time you calculate all manner of frustrating programmes that the government has installed in these institutions, it becomes difficult to graduate. Even at the secondary level, the system has been destroyed such that it becomes no longer advisable to patronise these schools, except you opt for the British-American International School, Lekki International School and others. So with this structure, poverty will certainly be on the rise. Because if your child cannot go to school, it automatically means that the best he can get is technical employment, whether as a manual labourer or an apprentice. He becomes like a slave to the children of the rich who are able to afford education and the rich will continue to dominate those who cannot afford education. In the area of aviation, just go to any airport in the country, you’ll experience what I am saying. I took an aircraft from Abuja or Lagos sometime ago and we almost died. We were hovering around in the air for close to 30 minutes, we could not land in Lagos until the pilot was almost crashing into a helicopter. And that is the story of aviation in Nigeria. You remember how many crashes we have suffered. There’s no airport, currently in this country that you can go to and say your flight will leave at the appropriate time. Flights are cancelled and delayed indiscriminately, the planes are terrible. This is just the airport.
Go through the roads and it’s another disaster. Just take a trip from Lagos to Benin, you’ll see what Nigerians are going through in terms of transportation. So you see that there’s no facet of Nigerian life that the government has improved. I mean, the military regime of General Sani Abacha was generating 4,000 mega watts in his wicked days in this country. Under Obasanjo we got to a stage where we could not produce 500 mega watts.
So, this government has taken us backward. Generally, we have not seen any significant improvement in the life of the ordinary man. The President was certainly running a government of crisis. Either they kill Bola Ige today and it will be in the papers for the next one or two months. And as Nigerians are trying to get used to that, you hear it is the Niger Delta. Before you go and settle that one, another crisis has come up.
So, we were just in that kind of situation from 1999 till date. The President was actually running a government of distractions. Scandal was the hallmark of the government. Even in the National Assembly, the man succeeded in planting crisis. Up till now, you know he has refused to sign the Freedom of Information Bill simply because he wants them to call it Right to Information Bill. This is somebody whom we placed in a position of trust, but he wasted the opportunity. He sees himself as somebody wiser than Solomon, braver than David and more knowledgeable than Jesus Christ. As far as Nigeria is concerned, he believes there’s nobody who can compare with him in wisdom. But we must come to the irresistible conclusion that Nigeria went backwards in the time of President Obasanjo.
But the external debt settlement is said to be a plus for the administration...
When you talk about debt recovery, who is not owing? Even America is owing. So why the rush to pay debt when your people have not eaten? And, in any case, why did Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala leave the government? Was it not because of the various scandals that trailed the so-called debt recovery? I didn’t think it was necessary to rush to pay that money. Then, number two, if you use such resources to empower and develop your people, it would have been acceptable.
Is it not now that the President is leaving office that he is awarding contracts of N500billion and mobilising immediately? We underestimated him. He will continue to wear Bushmen dresses and continue to behave like a farmer and a jester, whereas he was scheming frantically to acquire wealth. Fani-Kayode said that he realises N30 million every month from Ota farm. A place that was almost moribund by the time he came back from prison!

Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:42pm On Dec 20, 2013

I am appalled, because if not for the feud between him and Atiku we may never have known that Atiku was messing up with the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF. Obasanjo cannot say that he did not know that Atiku was stealing the PTDF, established in 1973, meant for the welfare of our country by training our brilliant students in the universities with the fund. A fund meant for the improvement of our petroleum technology, a fund meant to ensure that the sons and daughters of poor parents who have the intellect can engage in research work. But alas! this fund was used, not only to pay lawyers, but to establish just one company alone. Now, Atiku dipped his hand into it, Fasawe dipped his hand into it and Mr. President dipped his hand into it for personal reasons. We want to have the full story of PTDF and other agencies of government.
And above all, we want to know more about the NNPC; how such a company can make so much wealth and people are just dipping their hands into that wealth at the expense of the progress, welfare and security of the Nigerian people. So these are the challenges for the EFCC and my friend, Ribadu. The man I respect so much. I believe he could be the President of this country. The man I know that is passionate about his job, the man I know that is not corrupt. These are the challenges for him.
Therefore, on May 29, Obasanjo has to be investigated along with other people so that we can have the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We want to know all the assets, we want to know the whole farms that are scattered all over the country. Is it Mambilla? Is it Cross River? All sorts of places. We want to know how these assets came into the pockets of our leaders.
We want to know how our finances were used. We want to know what happened in the states. So much money was poured into electricity. Olusegun Agagu was former Minister of Power. And others after him. Why are we still in darkness? Why is it that the government inherited 3,525 mega watts of electricity in 1999 and now we are operating with less than 1,225 mega watts after spending billions of tax payers’ money. The jamboree in Abuja, COJA. We want the facts on COJA. There is a lot of work for Ribadu now that Obasanjo is gone. The best of Ribadu is yet to come. He is a man I trust that would do this job and I have no doubt in my mind that many governors and others in Aso Rock, including the President and his deputy, will be brought to justice.
Is anybody still in doubt about Obasanjo’s legacies? Look around us? Look at our universities; it is a tale of poverty. Shelves are empty, no books. Laboratories, empty, no equipment for experiment.
Twenty years ago, UNESCO decreed that not less than 25 per cent of the budget of every country, including Nigeria, should be given to education. But the highest Obasanjo went was 11 per cent. Obasanjo does not care about the education of Nigerian

Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:41pm On Dec 20, 2013

Obasanjo Is The Most Corrupt Nigerian-Gani Fawehinmi

Posted: May, 31 2007, 7:05PM

Finally, Olusegun Obasanjo is on his way out after eight years as Nigeria’s president. Could you assess his tenure?

Eight years of self-centred disposition, eight years of wayo, eight years of deception, eight years of creating a few rich people, eight years of anti-masses programmes, eight years of deliberate junketing all over the world, eight years of make-believe, eight years of dictatorship, eight years of lack of coherent policies, eight years of so much wealth coming to the hands of government out of which Nigerians received aggravated poverty and economic pain.

When Obasanjo first came to power in 1999, many Nigerians had high hopes that they would get rid of dictatorial tendencies which characterised military rule, but unfortunately, we had a tyrant in democratic toga. We expected that the provisions of the constitution vis-à-vis the welfare of the people and their security would be the focus of the government because Section 14, sub-section 2b of the Constitution says that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary focus of government. Alas! it was not to be under the government of Obasanjo. Take security for instance. He opened up the insecurity of this country in November 1999 when he gave orders to shoot on sight in Odi. And more than 2500 Nigerians were slaughtered because, unfortunately, 13 policemen were missing as a result of the protestation of the Odi people in Bayelsa State.
You saw the killing in Zaki Biam in Benue State. We saw him give an order in Lagos State to shoot the OPC on sight and we protested. And since he gave the signal that human life counted for nothing, police followed the queue, extra-judicial killings became the agenda of the government. Every respectable human rights organisation abroad rated Nigeria very low in terms of extra-judicial killing. Thousands of Nigerians were slaughtered without a recourse to the judicial process by the police and other security agencies, to the extent that it became the culture of Nigerians to ritualise human lives. Legs, hands and other parts of human bodies became a common commodity in markets and dead bodies were being picked here and there, headless. That was Obasanjo’s regime and what human dignity meant for that regime for eight years.
For welfare, Nigerians have never had it so bad in their millions. Instead of government to give employment, it became the stock in trade of this regime to send workers to the unemployment market by all sorts of epithet with ignoble description such as down-sizing, reducing the labour force and so on. Unemployment became unbelievably rampant to the extent that workers approached the doors of government offices with trepidation, thinking they would be sacked any moment. Security of employment became nil in government services. In the private sector, profit motive was taken to a most ungodly level. Sack became a culture of the private sector. Whenever the private sector wanted more profit, they resorted to showing workers out without adequate recompense and this was aggravated by the so-called economic reforms of General Obasanjo where the heritage of Nigeria was sold, not even to the highest bidders but to the favoured bidders, contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria.
The major sectors of our economy were placed on the building blocks of rapacious entrepreneurs, many of whom are in government, using proxies to purchase government properties, courtesy of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, and contrary in Section 16, sub-section 4 of the constitution which says that the major sectors of the economy shall be managed, operated and run by the Federal Government of Nigeria, solely and exclusively.
But today, the major sectors are being sold. The latest example is the refinery in Port Harcourt, one of the four refineries in Nigeria. For eight years, Obasanjo did not build a single refinery to ensure a total reduction in the costs of petroleum products. Instead, Obasanjo, contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria, sold and he is still in the process of selling even in the dying days of the regime, the major sectors of our economy at give-away prices. Look at NITEL, another government investment that is relevant to the welfare of Nigerian people, it is still in the same mess. Our constitution says that economy of the country should not be operated in such a way that wealth would be concentrated in a few hands, but we are now having the very opposite of what the constitution says should be done. A company emerged, called Transcorp. There was no Transcorp before Obasanjo but Transcorp emerged from the bowel of Aso Rock, founded with the collaboration, connivance and conceptualisation of General Obasanjo to the extent that he owns 200 million shares. According to him, it will be the pillar of the private sector emerging in Nigeria. There is little difference between Transcorp and General Olusegun Obasanjo, except that a few favoured friends were brought into Transcorp. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, the Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange who is supposed to be a public officer runs the Transcorp with General Obasanjo. Both public officers contravened the code of conduct in the 5th and 3rd Schedules of the Constitution. Behold! General Obasanjo was never taken before the Code of Conduct Bureau for this. I protested to the Code of Conduct, I protested to the National Assembly, nothing came out of it. Here is a man who abused his office, set up a company to acquire the heritage of Nigerians. Today, Transcorp has acquired Nicon Hilton, and it has acquired NITEL. If this is not corruption, then I don’t know what corruption means.
To me, Obasanjo is the most corrupt Nigerian and I will never agree with anyone who says Obasanjo is not corrupt. We see it everywhere. This man was in prison for three years and his Ota farm which was in bankruptcy then was almost sold. They were thinking of how to sell most of his properties. Today, Obasanjo’s farm is rated as one of the richest in the world, all in a space of eight years that he governed Nigeria. If that is not corruption, then I don’t know what corruption means. If that is not abuse of office, then I do not know what abuse of office means. I protested to the National Assembly, I protested to various organisations, that look, under the Code of Conduct, Nigerians are entitled to go there and ask for all the declaration of assets of any public officer, on conditions that may be prescribed by the National Assembly. We asked the National Assembly to give us the conditions so that we can exercise our rights to know what had been declared by Obasanjo and others, including members of the National Assembly. But till today, they never gave us those conditions. So, Nigerians don’t even have access to the assets declared by the public officers. No public officer’s assets can be examined.
This regime will go down in history as the most corrupt regime in the history of this country in the sense that no regime ever made so much money as was made under Obasanjo’s regime. It got to a point that the price of one barrel of crude oil was fetching $70 and Nigeria at that time was producing 3,150,000 (three million, one hundred and fifty thousand) barrels per day. As we talk, the Federal Government is making more than N200,000,000 (two hundred million dollars) everyday, including Sunday. The more money the Obasanjo regime made the poorer the Nigerian people became. And the more money the Obasanjo regime made, the richer a few people became, including Mr. President himself.
Yes, there was a battle against corruption. A young man emerged like an oasis in the desert, called Nuhu Ribadu, under the auspices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which I have often described as a positive accident in this regime. Positive accident because Obasanjo did not plan to fight against corruption because he is corrupt himself. But because he was under pressure from international organisations, like Transparency International that wanted some sort of actions against corruption, he was forced to bring about EFCC. He brought a young man named Ribadu, he never expected that Ribadu would perform that good. So, Ribadu’s performance is an oasis in the desert of corruption. What we are now hoping is that Ribadu, after May 29 will look at the records again, will look at the complaints of Nigerians, including mine, against Obasanjo. For example, his library took me to court. His library which he launched on May 14, 2005 at Abeokuta garnered N8.5 billion. [Femi] Otedola gave N250 million; [Otunba Mike] Adenuga N350 million; [Aliko] Dangote, N220 million; consortium of banks N1.9 billion; consortium of oil companies N2.4 billion and so on. These oil companies we talk about, for eight years Obasanjo was the Minister of Petroleum Resources apart from being the head of state. No oil block was ever given to anybody without the connivance and approval of General Olusegun Obasanjo. He was more active as an oil minister than Mr. President. So there must be more than meets the eye. I will therefore want Ribadu to dust all files, to look at all records and do a thorough investigation into the administration of General Obasanjo, into the personal fortunes of Obasanjo, into the family fortunes of Obasanjo and into Obasanjo’s fortunes all over the world. And let us come with the correct analysis and truth about Olusegun Obasanjo. So that when the facts are all gathered and known, Ribadu will then take the matter to court and charge Obasanjo for corruption and abuse of office. So that the truth will be told about this man who pretended so much.

Politics › Full Text Of Gani Fawehinmi's Letter To Defunct/expired President Obasanjo by jpphilips(op): 3:20pm On Dec 20, 2013

FULL TEXT OF GANI FAWEHINMI'S LETTER TO DEFUNCT/EXPIRED PRESIDENT OBASANJO

We have heard mountains of hyperbolic rhetoric in the last one week and tons of sentiments and emotions had been shed. The time to take an analytical and sober look at the two events has come.

Sentiment must not be allowed to replace reality and emotion must not be a substitute for the truth. Otherwise, we will go back to groping in the dark and repeating the same act of commission or omission in both tragic events.

I do not know what the post-mortem report reads, but as the husband, you told the whole world in a broadcast on Tuesday, 25th October, 2005 that your wife went to Spain on a holiday without a visible sign of illness. However, reports nationally and internationally have revealed the following:

That your wife was admitted into Molding Clinic, Banus Port near Malaga, Spain for cosmetic surgery for purpose of beautification.
That either during or after the cosmetic surgery, she developed complications which finally resulted in her death in Spain .

If these were the circumstances of her death, Nigerians are entitled to answers of the following questions, queries and apprehensive observations:

Why did our Head of State allow his wife to leave Nigeria for cosmetic surgery so that she could look more beautiful? By the way, I personally attest to her beauty as a woman...Whether it is called cosmetic or plastic surgery, I do not see how that could not be dealt with or handled in Nigeria if your government had lifted the health care facilities of this country from the doldrums since you assumed power.

Mr. President, you are not the only one to suffer from this tragedy of the incompetence of your government to provide the Nigerian people with modern medical facilities and care, when you swore on 29th May, 1999 to advance the welfare of the Nigerian people. I too am a victim. My son, Barrister Mohammed Fawehinmi, a graduate of Business Administration of the University of Lagos , and of Law of the Buckingham University, England and of the Nigerian Law School , who qualified in 1998, had a motor accident on 23rd September 2003 and broke his spinal cord. He was taken to National Orthopedic Hospital Igbobi, Lagos .

Mr. President, in that hospital (National Orthopedic Hospital Igbobi, Lagos) they had no Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MRI ), to detect the location and extent of the spinal cord injury. No C.T. Scan. They had only an ancient X-Ray machine. When his condition was growing worse, I was advised to take him abroad at a heavy financial cost, which was more than a fortune. He was in various hospitals in England for seven (7) months. The hospital where he was operated upon had more than ten (10) Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MRI ) to detect the state and extent of the spinal cord injury.

Mr. President, as at 23rd September, 2003 , there was no MRI in the whole of Lagos State . The one under your nose at the National Hospital , Abuja was as dead as dodo. There was none in University College Hospital , Ibadan . There was none in University of Benin Teaching Hospital . There was none in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, etc. Four years after you came into the saddle as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, our health care delivery remains primitive and totally unbecoming of an oil-rich nation-state.

In a period of six (6) years, you have virtually traversed the entire world visiting most of the countries of the world. One would have expected that not less than sixty (60) Heads of State and their wives would either have graced the occasion of the burial of your wife or sent their wives to represent them at such burial. From my reading of the newspapers in Nigeria and I buy all the newspapers published daily in this country, neither myself nor the Director of my Library (Barrister Adindu Ugwuzor) and his librarians could find any reports or news item of the presence of any Head of State or Head of Government (and/or their wives) from any of the European, American and Asian countries at the lying in state or burial of your wife Stella despite several times (more than one and a half years in total) that you slept out of Nigeria visiting foreign countries in Europe, Asia and America.

Mr. President, is that not a hard lesson? Even for a Chairman of the Commonwealth and Chairman of African Union (AU), is the lesson not obvious? You must now realize that it is what you do at home to promote the welfare of your people that sells your image abroad.

In spite of all I have written above, I sincerely sympathise with you on the death of a woman who became a human rights activist of note, fighting tooth and nail for your release from incarceration. A woman who initiated a program for the children who are physically disadvantaged. Such a woman will be remembered from my own stand point not for being the wife of a president who is anti-masses but who was herself fighting the cause of the physically challenged.

You should not be deceived by the presence of men and women of Nigeria 's timber and caliber (apologies to Late K.O. Mbadiwe). They dominated and populated the crowd at the lying in state and at the burial of Stella. Do not be deceived by their presence. Yes, they shed tears for different reasons. There were genuine tears.

There were also Ministerial tears, Contract tears, Rotten-head tears, 2007 tears, Teasing tear, Oil block tears, GMG tears (Ghana- Must -Go - Bag tears), Immunity tears, Pardon me tears, Face-showing tears, Business tears, Brixton Prison tears, amongst others.

The first twelve (12) hours after the crash, your government at the highest level and also through your aviation agencies did not know the site of the crash. The world was told by your government
that it was at Kishi in Oyo State that the Bellview plane crash-landed.

Your Minister of Information, Mr. Frank Nweke Jnr told the world on Sunday, 23rd October 2005 that the nation's President was directing b rescue operation in Kishi. The Minister of Aviation, Professor Babalola Borishade confirmed that the crash site was Kishi. Even your Minister of Health said that he had made all arrangements in a government hospital in Ilorin where possible survivors of the crash at Kishi will be admitted and treated.

The world's attention was misdirected to Kishi by the incompetent compass of your regime. On television, it was Kishi. On radio, it was Kishi. Even the almighty CNN echoed government's misdirection -it was Kishi.

When finally the African Independent Television ( AIT ) located the site at your backyard in Ogun State at Lisa in Ifo and broadcast the new site, instead of an accolade to AIT , your government shut it down for telling the truth, only to be reopened the second day without an apology.

The rescue operation at Lisa in Ifo was disastrously shabby, as it was impudently shoddy. The site was not secured by the security agencies of your government. All sorts of people and all manners of men and women were allowed to roam about picking anything as souvenir without regards to the security importance of such materials.

There was nothing to show that the officials of government at the site had any prior inkling of rescue training.

Seven days after the crash, a substantial part of the aircraft remained buried inside the ground, spewing out fire from time to time. To add insult to injury, memorial prayer session was held on Thursday, the 27th October, 2005 , and the President laid wreaths when no conscious effort has been made by your government to excavate the substantial part of the plane buried in the ground.

In essence, there was no appreciable rescue operation. And the inability of your government so to do exposed the rescue incapacity of your administration in such a situation. Your no-holds-barred
privatization policy came to naught at Lisa when no private company could singularly undertake the excavation of the entombed aircraft.

The government policy on the type of planes we use in our aviation industry, the age of the planes and their airworthiness should be revisited immediately;
Our runways and the need to ensure that the runways light never go off; and
Our control towers should be manned by trained and retrained personnel using modern equipment.
We are happy that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the country because a United States army major died in the crash.

With American involvement, I believe the lackadaisical attitude of your government in such matters will be checked if not prevented from tainting such inquiry.

The events of Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd October, 2005 which have thrown the country into mourning should never be allowed to repeat themselves. We do not want another plane crash and if you bring in another wife before you constitutionally quit office on 29th May 2007 , please do not allow her to go for a cosmetic surgery for beautification again.

We cannot afford another death of the President's wife in Aso Rock.

_{There is no difference between what you did to Nigerians and what Jonathan is doing to us, it is a vicious cycle that will consume all our leaders on the day of reckoning including OBJ, letter or no letter,

#in oshiomole's voice, OBJ,"GO AND DIE"#}

Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:15pm On Dec 20, 2013

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Politics › Re: Okonjo-Iweala To Present 2014 Budget To National Assembly by jpphilips(m): 4:30pm On Dec 19, 2013

AK 48: true talk

excess crude account is the biggest fraud in the history of mankind.
the total budget of nigeria is 4.3 trillion naira,the questions people are not asking are:

1.the firs boasted last 2 year that they currently collected 4.62trn naira and hope to increase it to 5trn naira in the comming years..www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/fg-made-n4-62tn-from-taxes-in-2011-firs/

2.the nigerian dont produce much,the implecation in the we are ''importation dependent nation'',the positive information there is that the custom makes a huge amount of money which is also put back in the government purse...about 900bn naira..http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/customs-2012-revenue-boosted-by-n90bn-underpayments-abdullahi/

3.oil;this is undoubtably the bigest source of our income,it account for more than 80 percent of our total revenue http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/protecting-nigeria-s-revenue-through-crude-oil-hedging/120055/

doing the maths,if 20% is 6trn naira,80 =24.meaning that the actual ammount nigeria makes from crude annually is close to 24trn naira.now 24+6=30trn naira.

common sense should tell us that our budget is about 30trn naira and not 4.sumtin trn.

how can only firs revenue be equated to our entire budget?

Define a budget

Politics › Re: Okonjo-Iweala To Present 2014 Budget To National Assembly by jpphilips(m): 4:15pm On Dec 19, 2013

Symphony007: it is highly disrespectfull of the presidency to send a minister not even the vice president, but a minister to do this when there is no crisis in the presidency whatsoever stopping the president or his vice from carrying this out.

Before our eyes, he set the precedence at Addis ababa, why are we complaining now?

Romance › Re: The Best Gift A Woman Can Give To Her Husband/fiance. by jpphilips(m): 2:01pm On Dec 19, 2013

yomifowe: In my opinion, the best gift a man or especially woman can give to her husband is...

Her Virginity.

If you do this, he would forever love you for this and the likelihood of breaking up with you would be very slim.

Secondly, this would help build a strong foundation of trust in the marriage.

This is my N5.

Ok! you will understand better when you grow up

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Please Help With Guidelines In Writing A Resignation Letter. by jpphilips(m): 9:56am On Dec 19, 2013

Gelco: Please I need guidelines in writing a resignation letter. I have an idea buh I need more opinions/tips. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

#please don't just read and leave#

Don't write a resignation letter if you are not looking forward to getting benefits, in some organizations, AWOL pays better than resignation.

Sports › Re: List Uncapped in-form Players Keshi Should Call-up by jpphilips(m): 12:48am On Dec 19, 2013

phreakabit: 1, BTW we need young and FAST fullbacks on the left and right. Yhis should be our priority. That Kwambe guys is one hot mess !
2, Any of these players yes they have been capped in the past but we can do with them: Ike Uche,Raheem Lawal, Haruna Lukman,Osaze,Aluko.

For the full backs maybe we can use the U17 captain as a back up for Ambrose, if stage fright doesn't kill him.

Efe ambrose is just terrible now, watching his performance in their last champion's league game gave me chills,
I fear his performance in this world cup.

Business › Re: Mile1 Market In Port Harcourt On Fire by jpphilips(m): 5:34pm On Dec 18, 2013

Jaynec: Clattering sounds n gun shot sounds woke me up around 3 a.m. I heard my neighbours wispering in agony, then i saw dis huge light thru my room window. It was like hell fire. Am still shocked ,its so tragic. My neighbour's brother was affected. See grown up men weeping like kids , its so painful. He lost everything. He stocked his shop with new goods for xmas season,most of the goods was on credit hoping to make extra sales. His wife just gave birth. O o i believe God have greater plans for those affected. Its nt d end of d world. Whatever caused d fire disaster,God knows it all.

Smugglers hide fire arms in the market, it is common knowledge, once the market is on fire, you will definitely hear gun shots and explosives,
Ask yourself, where in Nigeria is immune to police invasion? ans; Market.
Smart smugglers, thieves, cultists etc store fire arms in the market.

Romance › Re: My Girlfriend Tested Me With Cheating & 'Pregnancy' by jpphilips(m): 3:57pm On Dec 18, 2013*

mikyke: I was. for d sake of the child dat I so love her mother. The child is so innocent to bear d risk and bliv U me I cnt live comfortable knowing I cud help. Hypothetical d story wat true

what really makes you an adult is not the long shirt and long jeans but your ability to make circumspect decisions against all odds,

if you think it is the right decision to inherit another man's child borne from the infidelity of your supposed fiance then there is a point where your IQ fell below normal,

it is equally not surprising why you attracted the kinda woman you did, presumably, the theory of simile- simile- similibus played a part.

I have a lot to learn from your likes cos I know its pretty though living the way you do.

hiding behind love to exalt stup!d!ty is the hallmark of a very low IQ

Car Talk › Re: Why Do Nigerians Prefer To Buy Used Car Rather Than Buying A New Car? by jpphilips(m): 3:38pm On Dec 18, 2013

faakay: OK well said.

Everybody with individual taste

as for me if have got 2.5 - 3.5 million.

I would rather settle for a brand new toyota camry or peagueot instead of buying one mussle or jeep

Forgive my post above, this comment is enough to ignore you for life, like i said, when you grow up, you will understand, seeing your father buy cars is not enough to make car decisions.

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Car Talk › Re: Why Do Nigerians Prefer To Buy Used Car Rather Than Buying A New Car? by jpphilips(m): 3:31pm On Dec 18, 2013

faakay: Why would someone use 3.5 million naira to buy a used car, it varies some 2 million naira and higher just because you want to use EOD or baby boy/jeep. I'm not really into car but if have got the kind of fund let's say 2.5 million.

I would rather go to a car company and settle for the one that suits the cost. Let's say picanto, kia, toyota, bmw at the range. There should be brand new cars that are sold within those ranges.

As long as its a car and it serves my purpose. I think its a good deal.

They would also be warranty from the company and 1 year service at no cost.

I believe on the long term, you will enjoy driving a new car, would save you cost and maintenance unlike the used ones.

I think most people just want to feel superior using a big car in the name of posing as a big guy/madam.

So folks can you tell us why you prefer a used car alias tokunbo than a brand new car?

Or people are not informed?

When you grow up, you will understand, that ish is way beyond your pay grade

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Politics › Re: Nigerian Military: Unveiling Ceremony Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Live On NTA by jpphilips(m): 6:13pm On Dec 17, 2013

Sincere 9gerian: I dont think so. I saw the UAV on TV and it doesn't look like what can carry missiles (it looks small). But maybe they can expand it in future for this purpose. For now it can identify Boko Haram camps and help the military plan major airstrikes, ground attacks or any other operations.

Identify APC targets you mean?

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Politics › Re: Rochas Has Done It Again by jpphilips(m): 3:59pm On Dec 17, 2013

Ikengawo: Orji is only considered a bad governor on the internet. Don't be fooled by this communication device. It's a communication and thus governors that put efforts into communication the most such as the APC ones and Rochas, look like heros while one's that have no time for twitter and facebook like many in the the middle belt, the governor of ebonyi, and imoke are either forgotten or look like they're 'not doing anything'.

I can tell you that pound for pound Orji is doing and has done a LOT more for his state than Rochas. It has nothing to do with joining any party. People are tired of Rochas being an eccentric noisemaker because our state is becoming a joke and nothing is truly happening. It's looking like quite effective governance is what the SE prefers, trying to strum up a cult of personality and deify yourself because you're governor is alien to us and right now i feel like my state is falling behind while Anambra, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi are moving forward. If you don't believe me, tell and show me what Rochas has done in Imo.

Rochas has been stealing land in Owerri, he came to Houston Texas not to long ago and was giving out Imo State's money like it was water. He's using our resources to fund failed APC campaigns like Ngige. He hired a nude model as our youth ambassador, indebted our state, and allowed Osun to house it's indigines in our state for the sake of destroying law and order in Anambra.

Now he's giving out bags of rice to hungry bastards, why? Because it will make noise on the internet. This guy is not governing like a modern igbo man, his mentality is foreign and his mannerisms are abominable.

Are you related to basket mouth?

Politics › Re: APC, Others Attacking Me Because Of 2015 – Jonathan by jpphilips(m): 3:51pm On Dec 17, 2013

Ngwakwe: There are social maladies in most Nigerian families, churches, mosques, schools and working/market places hence every d.ic.k and Harry take pleasure in throwing insults and at the same time can never absorb insult on their own person.

What a shame, in Nairaland adults congratulate abusers of themselves who possess superior insulting verbose and use them as a tool in socio--political or regional economy debates.

who told you Nairalanders are adults?

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