₦airaland Forum

Feminism of recent has evolved into an aggressive movement with a simple message: Equality of genders. I equally agree that no gender is superior to the other in the literal sense of it. We are all meant to complement each other. Humanity itself cannot survive without the presence of both genders in it. Women has their special roles while men have theirs'. So there is no such thing as a superior gender or role here.

However, where most feminists get it wrong is in their advocacy itself: EQUALITY. Equality implies Sameness. Being allowed to do the same thing a man does. Its a misguided advocacy that neglects the fact that nature isn't stupid. A man is a man, a woman is a woman. We are designed in ways that makes some roles gender specific. A man cannot be pregnant or solve problems that requires a feminine ability. Likewise a woman cannot be allowed to engage in roles that require physical exertions or manly traits. Imagine the disaster to live in a community where its vigilantes are women while men snore in their rooms. Or a case where men are made to be strapping babies behind their backs,breastfeeding and doing roles known for mothers. We are simply different and that's what makes it awesome. We should appreciate the differences and not attach unnecessary hierarchy to it. Its in this same world men will be tagged irresponsible for allowing women stand in a BRT bus while men are sitting down. But if predicaments are switched, a woman won't necessarily stand up for a man with serious sores in his feet because 'afterall he is a man'. A situation that exposes the hypocrisy of the equality message of feminists. Don't get the intents of my analogies wrong, the idea is to buttress the fact that humanity will not survive if we are the same. Because it will then mean no man will care for that woman standing since 'we are the same afterall'. And no one will also make much noise about a husband beating his wife since it is expected for her to pound him also since 'afterall they are the same'.

If something isn't broke, don't fix it. Advocate equity not equality. The fair treatment of everyone based on the uniqueness of the gender. That makes more sense.

Chukzyfcb:
Okay my apologies for saying skyebank isn't a top bank. Although if we are to go by statistics, FCMB and diamond bank are no match for skyebank......In the top 1000 global bank ranking, skybe bank isn't in the list but FCMB & diamond is, so don't talk to me about stats. I just don't want to argue banks coz it doesn't benefit me.
However, I still maintain that for a 6months fixed deposit, the highest op can get will not be more than 41,000naira after tax. But someone countered me in the comments above and said its impossible to GET AS MUCH AS 41,000, until I dished out available rates.....for now no bank will offer you above 6.5% for just 1.4m @ 30days # Quote me anywhere....I rather invest in t.bills for a better rate

Ok bye.

Chukzyfcb:
Okay mr, I said she shouldn't expect more 41,000 because of recent (last 10-12days) I did a search for the best rates among the top banks and diamond bank offered me 6.5%. Both FCMB and Ecobank offered between 5-6%. Firstbank & uba rates are very poor bout 3.5-4.5%, Skyebank isn't that much of a top bank, so I believe they'll be needing much liquidity from individuals. If skyebank offers her 6.5% per annum same rate as diamond

1400000 * 6.5% = 91000(per annum)
In 6months = 91000/2 = 45,500
10% withholding tax = 4550
Her profit would be =45,500 - 4550
= 40,950naira for the 6mnths
I hope I'v cleared your doubt Mr

You don't make statements void of facts. It will only make you appear uninformed. Saying 'Sky bank isn't that much of a top bank' while tacitly mentioning the likes of FCMB and Diamond on a different ilk is a ridiculous postulation.

I presume you have a phone that browses so you can google 'systemically important banks in Nigeria' or 'banks too big to fail in Nigeria' and read CBN's report on that. Ignorant of how wrong your premise is, you went on to assume an interest rate for the bank based on that premise. That's lame stuff. Interest rates on FD are negotiable everywhere and not reliant on just one factor. Interest rates on FD even differs across branches of the same bank with portfolios of the same FD principal.

Besides, your calculation of the op FD structure is not totally accurate. It's number of days not months that is used in calculating FD. So the op earned amount on a FD principal of 1.4m and 6% interest rate with a 6months tenor will be 41,424.66 before Withholding tax. And for your wrongly assumed figure of 6.5% interest rate for the bank, the earned interest will still be 44,876.71(not 45500) before WT.

Thank you.

chuksp09:
Is there any Computing program or Ict course I should undertake? Pls share

I understand your enthusiasm. Been there. However, Banking isn't the way it was before. Not all departments in a bank are created equal in terms of the challenges involved. If eventually you enter the system you will either be a contract staff or a full staff. The contract staffs ordeal have already been stressed sufficiently on the internet so am not going to superfluously add to it. Most contract staffs are mainly either tellers or marketers. As a full staff however, you can be in head office departments like Risk management, Audit, Corporate Planning, I.T Domestic and International Operations, Human Resources etc IF YOU ARE LUCKY OR CONNECTED. However the regular case is to be deployed to branch functions to either serve as an operation staff or marketer.

The least desirable department is Marketing and is ironically the one with the most vacancy, regardless of your qualifications. Most banks are looking for 'super marketers' more than any other banking role. But as a young man with promising career prospects and ambitions, such job functions can stunt your dreams (except you naturally love the role and believe its in sync with your dreams). If you are dabbling into it mainly cos of desperation, i can relate. But outside that, wishing to work in a bank is a delicate ambition that requires you being more specific about which aspect of it will be beneficial to your career path. The sad reality however is its almost impossible for you to choose which department you will be thrown to as an entry level staff. So even if you get the most sophisticated knowledge in any professional course, few banks really care. What most needs now is machines that can mobilize deposits endlessly for them.

Not all that glitters are gold. When you take the survey most bankers are just taking every day as it comes. The love for the job isn't there, especially for those in these dreaded departments. My advise for you is not to pour all your eggs in a basket. Don't make your dreams your master and learn to be more flexible in your approach to life. Regardless of the route we all take, the most important dream should be to end up being successful in life. Don't let an overrated dream be an obstacle to that.

Be careful what you wish for.........

HaykayIsOkay:
I have what it takes to market for any back which include the fact that marketing is my inbuilt ability and one of my interest. I also have the qualifications but I'm 30 years old. Any one that can help?

PM me

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makavel7:
If the goat is a CFA then ill understand where his problem really reside. Tune to CNBC every morning and watch these CFA's run there mouths. they pretend to know how the financial markets work but are a bunch of contrary indicators. There's a joke in financial circles that, if you want to make a ton of money, do the exact opposite of what a CFA prescribes

I mean this guy is just overbearing. Every of his threads tortures his readers of stale gists of his first class and all that crap. I left school with the best result then, yet i have never for one day thought am more intelligent than my colleagues. I still learn everyday. But then, will i blame him? i blame the lopsided educational sector that gives charlatans like this large mouths to flaunt their mediocrity on social media.

Marxxx:
Lol...Complaints have done no one any good? There is no test that seems fair as long as you didn't scale through. Talking about personal evaluation; I don't think there is anyone (Nigerian) that have risen so fast as I did except few Asian guys... I will advise you to strive to be better in your endeavours....

That's one enormous load of bullsh*t!. Like seriously? I resisted the urge to reply you but this ego of yours can power a turbine. You deal in complex financial theories bla bla bla. what's that? so in this era and time is that phony calculation you use to confirm prospective financial analyst? Do you even have a CFA? You didn't even test their knowledge on financial modeling through sophisticated softwares. Its primary school math you are using to form badoo. You need to check your ego at the door dude, you don't know anything!.

Shymm3x:
And you think three pages of discussing the obvious on a thread we've pushed to over 200 pages will kill the thread, no?

How many posts have you contributed to the thread? We don't need you lot.

I did my best not to quote you cos i know you have a penchant for things like this. Am just one person trying to inject a fresh perspective. No one is contesting the glory of the thread with you so relax dude. Besides you use the word "we" rather too loosely cos the last time i checked this thread didn't have your name pasted on it as the primary theme of discussion. Ego is an insidious thing you need to check. We all have it but yours is an eye saw.

If this is what this thread is created for, then i can assure you that it will die a natural death. What's the point talking about the obvious. Tinubu is a fool, Fashola is overrated bla bla bla..... Pages keep rolling with unnecessary vitriolics on men that are not less fallible than we are. I think we need to relax for starters and act like progressives that we are. Deliberate more on issues and less on individuals.

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quimicababes:
It matters not what non-agriculture people think.I am thinking if you pursued some kind of agriculture training ..no it be because you have a passion for it? Agriculture is a field...all can't be in the office nor does all want to be in the office.A lot of agriculture graduates I know want their own farms but the cost of land is a huge barrier.Why not empower those who are interested in farming but because of land issues they can't afford it o.Not all farmers own the land but farmland on lease.If land is the issue...perhaps diasporas who have access to land or can buy land can set up co-operatives where the land is leased to those graduates at a reasonable price.

If it be fertilizers...why not educate them on organic farming etc especially as that's where the world is heading.Even in terms of mechanization...Asia uses low tech for their farming and they are able to feed themselves and export.No everything have to be about mechanization. Aren't there different levels of agriculture training in terms of certificate,diploma etc...may times some of those graduates feed into field workers.

I know the oyo governor was complaining the youths aren't willing to farm...but are they paying the youths a living wage? Tony emumelu released the list of their teep 2015 entrepreneurs and quite a bit of them were yorubas and many were agriculture/agribusiness start-ups.My thing is if the government is not giving those folks much support can't diasporas act as investors in those folks start-ups etc.Naija case also is the youths who are trying get very little to no support.

Eh...my philosophy is focus on those trying especially to ensure they don't lose it.

You made some good points. But in this 21st century, everything is about mechanization. France has just 2.8% of its population involved in Agriculture yet they are one of the highest Agricultural producing countries.

You see the point is, its all about Technical processes and Economies of scale. If we invest massively in building research centers that finds better technical process to enable our capital output ratio to be high enough, that's when Agriculture will bring substantial returns to us. Most of our Agricultural products are not competitive in the global market because there is lack of Value Added Advantage. We need to find ways to make that cocoa a beverage that can compete in the world market; Find ways to make that palm oil to be branded in ways most countries don't package it. But all these things need heavy research and development in terms of better technological process.

This myth of youths getting employed if everyone starts picking up a hoe and cutlass can fly if we were in the 19th century. Cos those youths will end up getting low wages and getting sacked as the commodities are getting low sales in the international market. Its the mechanization that matters not the 'Manualization.'

Devaluation of the naira isn't necessarily an unpleasant thing if the demand elasticity of our imports and exports are not inelastic. Nigerians depend heavily on imports to the point that even if foreign prices of such commodities rises, quantity demanded will fall, but not to a significant level to affect exchange rate. The major reason for this is lack of import substituting companies in the country.

The Marshall Lerner Condition states that a real devaluation (or a real depreciation) of the currency will improve the trade balance if the sum of the elasticities (in absolute values) of the demand for imports and exports with respect to the real exchange rate is greater than one. In other words the level of dependency of Nigerians on Import, and other countries dependency on our own exportable commodities is the factor that will determine whether devaluation or depreciation will restore B.O.P imbalances. If the level of both dependency is highly sensitive to price changes, then devaluation can make a difference. However, this is not the case since our dependency of imports is tremendous and even our exportable commodities do not compete internationally with other commodities.

Nevertheless, i believe the idea behind the devaluation isn't necessarily to restore exchange rates to previous levels in the short run. The idea is to enable CBN make monetary plans and targets that can keep those rates at a stable level. Depreciation as caused by market forces is erratic and can't allow CBN fight the fluctuations (with the little forex reserve we have) while making necessary monetary plans and forecasts. Though the quality of such plans will what will make the difference in the long run.

dexpendable:
Is it that the money we spend now have always been there? Or the CBN prints money regularly? What's more money? What's the money printed normally? Where did the bailout fund come from? There's already inflation in Nigeria, I think?

Please shed light.

No sir. CBN Issues currency no doubt but not without a demand for it from the private sector. The supply of money from the CBN has to match the demand for such money from the private sector. For instance, when CBN buys securities from the private sector, it does so with the aim of increasing money supply. How is it done you might want to ask. When there is high demand for a particular security, its price will rise and the interest rate of that security will fall. The fall in interest rate will endogenously create demand for money, and Money supply will then increase from the CBN to match the demand.

Note that there is a negative relationship between the price of a security and its interest rate such that if the price of that security rises, its interest rate will fall. And the factor that raises the price of a security is when the demand for it increases. And when interest rate falls, price of securities rises and people will be more interested in the market to take advantage of price fluctuations, the real sector too will thrive and the demand for money will rise. When this happens, the CBN will then increase money supply to match that demand but it does so by buying the securities the private sector sells to it. This security will now be the thing of value backing the money issuance.

So in essence, Central Bank can only influence the increase in money supply through either the direct reduction of Monetary policy rate which is the central interest rate that other interest rates responds to OR it Increases money supply through the Open market Operations which includes buying securities to back the money its pumping into the economy. But there is no such thing as printing money without something of value exchanging hands.

stevecantrell:
Its called quantitative easing.

That's not quantitative easing. Quantitative easing is when the Central Bank decides to increase money supply by buying long term securities from commercial banks and the private sector in a bid to reduce long term interest rates. Normally when they want to pursue an expansionary monetary policy, they target buying short term securities in a bid to positively influence money supply. But at times when interest rate becomes too low in recessionary periods, They can't increase money supply through that method. They then target the buying of long term securities such as bonds and all so that long term interest rate can fall in the long run. When it does, other interest rates follows suits and money supply increases.

No Central Bank in the world prints more money to battle recession because money itself have no value if its not backed by something of value. I hope have tried to shed more light.

When you are wrestling with a pig, you get yourself stained heavily in mud only to realize that the pig actually enjoyed the fight cos of the mud. I understand everyone's urge to silent The pig.....but then its a pig. Don't dignify him with a response anymore. Its derailing the thread.

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barcanista:
Let me be frank most of us are not innocent from all these tantrums at prominent oppositions personalities. I just want to appeal to APC FANS to endure whatever name is given Buhari or their party chiefs till 2019. Better still they should ask Buhari to resign if they can't endure the names given him.

Dude, I don't think politics and football has anything in common. No one is a Buhari or APC 'Fan' in the context you loosely use the term. Nigeria got to a crossroad with all the major welfare and economic indicators in the doldrums and most Nigerians agitated to have someone different at least. Grouping those that yearned for a better leadership as Buhari's Fan boys makes you paint yourself a scary picture of mental poverty.

MrMash:
Bravo! Check your mail.

Yours is ibadan too right?

Nigeria Politics is a Time Bomb and Saraki is the Judas Iscariot by Wunmi Akintide- Sahara Reporters

President Buhari‘s insistence that he was not
going to interfere on the affairs of the Parliament
is a major gaffe any way you slice it. The
Parliament, as stipulated in the Nigerian
Constitution, would determine whether or not his
change agenda would fail or succeed in Nigeria.

As a Political Science major with a deep passion
for politics, I can tell you that.
The PDP began to irredeemably fall apart the day
their own Speaker of the House,
Tambuwal began to show more loyalty and
favoritism for the opposition party, and there was
nothing the PDP could do to bring him to order
before the situation got out of control.

Only in
Nigeria is that kind of disloyalty tolerated in a
party official. It is true that the Speaker of the
House must be neutral in his dealings with
members as much as humanly possible, but the
‘river that forgets its source or origin’ as
reminded us by Elemure Ogunyemi, the Ekiti
country music idol, is bound to dry up sooner
than later.

Tambuwal got away with his disloyalty because
he figured out that he could only be removed as
Speaker by a majority of members in his
Chamber, and nobody else, as stipulated by the
obnoxious Nigerian Constitution. Unwritten ‘laws
of decency’ should have required the Speaker to
do the right thing without being told, but
because politics in Nigeria is all about self rather
than the ultimate interest of the Nation and the
institution, Tambuwal got away with his perfidy.
Not only that, he went on to be called a hero and
a consummate politician in a country where
corruption has become a virtue and a way of life.

Everybody in the PDP knew he was to all intent
and purposes an APC member, but the PDP and
President Jonathan were in total
denial. Tambuwal kept that advantage until the
very last moment when he publicly admitted he
was going to be the APC Governorship candidate
in Sokoto since he could not run for President. He
won the governorship election by a landslide.
That could only mean he had been rooting for
the APC long before he made it official.
Even though Goodluck Jonathan tried to shake
Tambuwal up by using the Inspector General of
Police, Abubakar Abba by withdrawing his
security details and the official cars and drivers
assigned to him as Speaker. Tambuwal went to
Court to challenge the move and won on legal
technicalities. The PDP went into the last
elections totally embarrassed and humiliated by
their own Speaker, legislators like Bukola Saraki
and Governors like Kwankwanso and Amaechi
who openly decamped into the opposition APC.

In his own case, Tambuwal only stopped short of
openly crossing carpet into the APC. He was
widely known to have been holding nocturnal
meetings with the APC Caucus while still claiming
allegiance to the PDP.

The House of Assembly in Abuja under the PDP
was a House of Commotion, Intrigues, Horse-
trading and Bribery if you get my point. Even
though Nigerians massively voted for change on
March 28 and April 11, I can assure you that
nothing has changed and nothing is going to
change in Nigeria for two important reasons.

First, neither of the two major political parties in
Nigeria today have any verifiable ideology that
explains their value system and political leanings.
Neither of them operates the kind of party
supremacy that is so critical in every Democracy.
Once the Party takes a decision, no member,
however powerful or rich can change it, whether
on the floor of the Parliament or anywhere else in
Nigeria

The Action Group under Obafemi Awolowo
became the powerhouse that made the Western
Region the pace setter in Nigeria among its peers
like the NPC and the NCNC. Rich individuals like
Pa Alfred Rewani, late Pa Ajao and Pa Shonibare
of Lagos were moneybags in the same Action
Group, but they all had to abide by what the
Party says.

Even Awolowo, arguably the most
conscientious politician and strategist among our
leaders, knew he could not achieve anything as
party leader without party discipline and
supremacy.
Awolowo initially wanted to make free education
in the Old Western region both ‘universal’ and
‘compulsory’ but the party settled for universal
only. Awolowo had no other choice because the
party was supreme. If Awolowo, the party leader,
could do that, no other member could challenge
the party and remain in the Action Group.
Awolowo was that strict. It was not like the
“animal farm” of today where a deserter from the
PDP like Bukola Saraki would not take no for an
answer because he is hell bent on becoming
Senate President to gain immunity from public
prosecution for atrocities he committed with
“Societe-Generale Bank“ a public institution he
plundered.

I don’t blame the APC for accepting “leprous”
Saraki into their fold. The APC was like a
drowning man that would cling to a snake at the
time it accepted Saraki, and the gamble paid off
big time in Kwara State, if not the whole of
Nigeria. They must now deal with and tame the
monster or suffer the same fate as the PDP
suffered in Kwara. Saraki is a true son of his
father. He is in politics not to help humanity but
to laugh all the way to the Bank for his own
benefit. As Saraki has become Senate President,
forget it. That is the end of Buhari’s anti-
corruption agenda.

I have cited the above examples to show that
neither the PDP, nor the APC that dethroned the
PDP for the first time in more than 55 years in
Nigeria has anything other than selfish interest at
heart. It is a complete outrage that Bukola
Saraki, who destroyed the PDP for his own selfish
gain is attempting the same thing in the APC.

Saraki is just like his twin brother in crime, Ayo
Fayose, the current Governor of Ekiti. He is the
Judas Iscariot of Nigerian Politics.
Ayo Fayose, the outlaw Governor has got away
with murder in Nigeria, so to speak, because
Goodluck Jonathan’s policy was to join the rotten
eggs of Nigerian Politics rather than beat
them. Fayose openly encouraged the PDP
members in the new Senate and the House of
Representatives to muddy the waters for the APC
and cause confusion by voting en masse for Sola
Saraki as Senate President.

He has the effrontery to do that because, under
the Jonathan government, he completely
outmaneuvered the 19 APC legislators he drove
out of Ekiti so that the 7 PDP legislators could
continue to do as they liked with him as the
overall boss. One would have expected the new
APC Government to have paid more attention to
Fayose and what he was doing in Ekiti prior to
the APC’s victory in the last election. The APC
dropped the ball on Fayose, who took advantage
of the APC’s silence and ineptitude to wait out
the 19 legislators till June 6th when his new set
of PDP legislators took over the Ekiti House of
Assembly.

I have completely lost confidence in the APC and
President Buhari for being so sluggish and slow
at doing what was expected of them. I could not
understand the strategy of the APC to put Ayo
Fayose on notice that his antics in Ekiti would no
longer be tolerated by Buhari. They were
supposed to hit the ground running, but grew so
careless that Ayo Fayose treated them like
amateurs in Politics. The man beat the APC arms
down in Ekiti, if the truth must be told. He
definitely put “Okaraba Baba Edi“ on the APC and
juggernauts like Ahmed Tinubu. The wizardry of
Ahmed Tinubu has been rubbished by Ayo
Fayose.
I agree that it is true that there are more urgent
problems to tackle than facing Ayo Fayose, but I condemn the APC, President Buhari and Vice-
President Osinbajo for completely taking their eye
off the ball in reference to Ayo Fayose and the
ugly developments in Ekiti.

I am also amazed, if not totally shocked, that one
week after Buhari’s inauguration he still has not
found the time to issue a statement on the 60
Nigerian officers and soldiers awaiting execution
for not fighting Boko Haram with their “bare
hands”. Boko Haram was fighting Nigeria with
tanks, armored vehicles, AK-47 rifles and other
deadly improvised bombs like what Biafrans call
“Ugbunigwe” during the 1967 to 1970 civil war.
These soldiers were expected to face this people
with prayer and fasting. That is just wicked.

It is unconscionable that Buhari, a retired 4-star
General has not seen the need to issue a
statement on the fate of those brave soldiers
within a week of his inauguration. The cowardly
Chief of Defense Staff and the other heads of the
Army, the Navy, and the Air Force who worked
with Goodluck Jonathan are still there, enjoying
their loot from Jonathan. Buhari looks insane to
me right now to keep quiet and not say a word.
Many, if not all, of those officers should have
been let go immediately.

It also beats my imagination that the same
Buhari, up till now, has not said a word on the
fate of Captain Sagir Koli, who blew the whistle
on the covert operations that helped Fayose rig
the election in Ekiti on June 21. Brigadier-General
Aliyu Momoh, the commanding officer of the
operation is still in the Military, while Sagir Koli
has had to runaway from Nigeria to avoid
assassination or victimization by his commanding
officer. Yet, Buhari still wants Nigeria to believe
he is the Messiah, coming to save Nigeria. If you
believe that crap, I have an island to sell to you
in the Pacific. Time is of the essence. Buhari is
damaging himself irredeemably in the court of
public opinion for all of the above.

I was one of the strongest supporters of General
Buhari during the election and I still support him,
but disillusionment has set in for many of his
supporters across Nigeria and for me. I am not so
sure any more from what he has done in his first
two weeks in office. I am more worried today
about his silence than anything else. I know
there is a limit to how much he could have done
in 2 weeks but he should at least have issued
some statements to assure Nigerians that he is
not totally lost or overwhelmed by the sheer
enormity of the problems he has to confront.

I suggested to him more than a year ago, that he
needed to set up a Rapid Response Team to draw
attention to many of these lapses, since he was
not avid reader of briefs sent to him. He should
have had somebody looking into social media to
compile information and advice he needs. The
Sahara Reporters of New York is a major resource
that he cannot afford to ignore. If he is in any
doubt, he should talk to his friend, Pastor Tunde
Bakare, who visits the website every day before
breakfast. Buhari is losing momentum and I deeply regret that.
Buhari has told us enough about Nigerian
problems. What Nigerians want to hear now are
his solutions to these problems. I am not talking
of solutions that would require the involvement
of the Senate or the House of Representative or
the Judiciary. I am talking of solutions that he is
able to do with executive orders. He should make
himself and his Vice President a shining example
of the change he wants to see in Nigeria just like
El Rufai and his Deputy Governor have done in
Kaduna State. They both declared in their
inaugural address that they would both accept a
50 percent salary cut until further notice.

That Buhari is yet to name a single member of
his cabinet and principal officers close to 2 weeks
after inauguration is proof that the man is not
ready for prime time. I am saying it out loud
because I want the man to succeed. I can tell
you right now that what Buhari has promised to
do in Nigeria cannot be achieved with the level of
sloppiness and lethargy he has shown in his first
two weeks in office.
He offered Nigerians a sartorial list of the
problems he wants to tackle but he has not
articulated the ends, the ways and the means for
solving those problems with any comprehensive
strategy. What he is trying to do cannot be done
with his current level of commitment and drive.
It is sad to say but it is the truth.

I fully understand that Buhari is trying to
convince his critics he is no longer the maximum
dictator he used to be as a military ruler but he is
doing it the wrong way by looking weak and
incompetent. By openly telling Nigerian he would
not interfere in what is going on in the
Parliament, he became spineless.

I would not be complaining this much if I saw
some convincing evidence he really wants to
strengthen the supremacy of the APC. I see no
evidence of a guiding ideology that should
influence all of Buhari’s decisions. I see none of
that and I think the observation should be of
concern to all Nigerians like me who voted for
change on March 28 and April 11.
The APC won 59 seats in the Senate and the PDP
won 49 in the new Parliament. The APC won 213
out of the 360 seats in the House of
Representatives leaving the remaining 147 to the
PDP, the APGA and the other parties in Nigeria. If
you compare that margin of victory with what
normally obtains in stable Democracies like the
United States, Britain and the State of Israel, you
will all see that the APC has a majority that is
comfortable enough to be able to effectively and
successfully govern Nigeria. What if the margin
of victory for the APC was much smaller? The APC
has no excuse to give right now. If it fails it will
have nobody but itself to blame.

I don’t care about the horse-trading currently
going on in the Parliament. The bottom line is
that the legislators sponsored by the majority
party must be seen to have won. That it did not
happen is a bad omen for Nigeria’s nascent
Democracy under the APC.

I don’t care how the APC and Buhari do it, the
duo of Saraki and Ekweremadu as Senate
President and Deputy President is as a major
humiliation and defeat for the APC, and more so
for Buhari and Osinbajo, and a bad omen for the
interest and future of Nigeria.
I rest my case.

passionate88:
Me think the tag 'Daura President' aptly define the old man

Its a man without honour that doesn't stand by his word.

A source at the Presidency has told SaharaReporters that Senator Bukola Saraki misled President Muhammad Buhari into believing that he was welcome to help broker a solution to a crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the choice of the party’s candidates for top legislative posts in the National Assembly, including President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives. The APC had chosen Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as their candidates for the Senate Presidency and Speaker slots respectively.


But in a stunning development, Mr. Saraki was this morning elected as President of the Senate after garnering the block support of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some APC senators who broke rank with their party. In a similar vein, PDP members of the House of Representatives threw their block votes behind Yakubu Dogara, selecting him as Speaker over the APC-endorsed Gbajabiamila.

Our Presidency source accused Mr. Saraki, who had earlier shunned a meeting with Vice Present Yemi Osibanjo, of inviting President Buhari to intervene in the widening internal schism within the APC. In refusing to attend an earlier peace meeting with the vice president, Mr. Saraki had reportedly fumed that he could not be summoned to a meeting by a mere commissioner, a comment he later denied making.

Soon after Mr. Buhari arrived in Abuja early on Tuesday, he invited all APC legislators to a meeting with him at the International Conference Center at 9 a.m. “Senator Saraki assured the president that he would attend the meeting,” said our source.

According to the source, Mr. Saraki instead “held a marathon meeting with members of the People Democratic Party to cement their support for him.”

The Ahmed Lawan faction of the APC awoke to news of the PDP’s endorsement of Mr. Saraki. Even so, they still headed for the 9 a.m. meeting called by President Buhari. They were waiting for the presidential parley when Senator Saraki and some other “rebel” senators of the APC moved into the National Assembly complex, where the police had thrown a cordon to prevent workers and reporters from entering, for the “election” of principal officers.

While lawmakers loyal to Mr. Lawan and Mr. Gbajabiamila waited for President Buhari to arrive, word reached the president that Mr. Saraki had been elected as Senate President.

“Mr. President felt deceived by Dr. Bukola Saraki. That’s why he did not bother to attend the [APC legislative] meeting he called.

Mr. Saraki and his cohorts also ignored the protocol for the president’s formal proclamation for the inauguration of the National Assembly, a source close to Saraki said they relied on a letter written by Buhari asking them to be inaugurated. Instead, 57 senators loyal to Mr. Saraki, most of them PDP members, unanimously “elected” Mr. Saraki after he was nominated by Senators Dino Melaye and Sanni Yerima. The rebelling APC Senators worked overnight to produced new rules for the elections with the help of outgoing Senate President, David Mark. Mr. Mark was later elected as “Senate Majority Leader”.

Mr. Saraki was quickly sworn-in as the new Senate President even as his APC colleagues were at the ICC waiting for Mr. Buhari to address them.

Two APC lawmakers loyal to Senator Lawan and Mr. Gbajabiamila told SaharaReporters that they had hoped to move to the National Assembly for a real election after the “peace meeting” with President Buhari. The two lawmakers said they were dismayed to receive text messages reporting that Mr. Saraki had been elected.

PDP governors from Rivers, Ondo and several other leaders of the party witnessed the election and swearing in of Saraki today.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/09/how-saraki-deceived-buhari-outwitted-apc-become-%E2%80%9Csenate-president%E2%80%9D

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Osesax:
I think I passed. Was told to contact them when I'm done with NYSC.

Ok.

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mbizzy:
In as much as i agree with your opening paragraph, your conclusion is not in conformity with my views. Its the responsibility of law makers to pass laws that will allow mutual coexistence.

So how does I.n.cest rob humanity of mutual coexistence

The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria just passed some bills to become Law. I personally laud them for achieving such milestone because they were long awaited bills Nigerians have been yearning to be passed.

However, my critical attention was drawn to the rape and anti-inc.e.s.t bill that was passed. Let me clarify as a preamble that rape is one crime I immensely detest and even agree that rapists deserve grave punishments such as life imprisonment. Its an abhorrent crime that equals a man to a beast. Be that as it may, it becomes a slippery slope when we start passing bills that its content is ambiguous and the evidence of its existence is subject to manipulations.

Rape is a crime that is difficult to affirm if it really happened just by hearing the complaint of the acclaimed victim. What sophisticated method is in our disposal to detect that a woman was raped or sexually abused?. Checking her private parts for bruises isn't enough proof to affirm the crime happened since anyone can bruise herself and lay the blame on a man with whom unsettled scores exists. Besides, any woman can get bruised through a consensual rough sex and later turn around to declare she was raped. The fundamental flaw is that the conduct at issue is undefined: It is rape because the respondent says it is. Terms like “unwanted sex” focused the respondents on how they felt about the conduct rather than whether they communicated to the male involved that it was unwanted. And the burden on the judiciary is how to establish that there was no consent, whether active or passive. How do that law gets interpreted in a definitive context?. How then do we expect a person to recognize a certain conduct is wrong if that conduct is not properly defined in a context where tangible proofs can be acquired?.

Ince.st on the other hand is a moral affront in a sane community. But where do we begin to draw the lines between passing a law and denying citizens their fundamental human right as to their freedom of sexual choice. If two adult relations consensually agrees to engage in sexual activity, in what way is this the business of the National Assembly?. A conduct being morally wrong doesn't always mean is a crime if there is no element of harm and/or lack of consent involved. It is an abnormal conduct yet doesn't trample on anyone's inalienable right. Same goes for masturbation, homosexuality, etc. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with any and all consenting adults without being subjected to prosecution, bullying, or discrimination by the state. What a people decides to do with their private parts shouldn't be the business of a National Assembly. When we start passing laws based on religious tenets, we inevitably enter a slippery slope. Even the constitution states it clearly that Nigeria is a secular state that is indifferent to all religions. So why make moral arguments steeped in religious convictions the reason we pass our laws?. This indeed is a new low. I can only advise the National Assembly to not throw caution to the wind when trying to flaunt their moral superiority in the corridors of law.

freeman05:
Were you called?

Did you write with us?