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The BBC reporter said that a million people where on the streets of Tehren tonight, that he has never seen so many people gathering in one plcae b4. The goverment of that country got really scared, can you imagine only one person was killed. The goverment had to thread carefully in diffusing the already volitie sitiuation it could easily have boiled over and or hell will be let loose. If it works in Iran it can work in Naija too. |
Million Man March is the Answer With what Nigerians witness in Ekiti state a few weeks back it is high time the political oppositon wake up and smell the coffee, we are no more in a military dictatorship. Yaradua and the PDP are increasingly by every passing second, minute, hour becoming a bigger despot than Abacha. The approval by the senate of the new CBN boss is a case to look at, infact if this is the way the senate wants to conducts its business in future then we might as well disband it, since any decision made by the executive arm of goverment is going to be rubber stamped, I see no reason for duplication of duty. If one were to consider the amount the country is shelling out for the upkeep of this senators, then it will not only be prudence in making such a decision it will also be wise. This is inspite of the concerns of one of the senators over the composition of the president's economic team. I now thought to myself how come we as a nation find ourselves in this kind of sitiuation, the checks and balances clause enshrined in our constitution on the face of it as noble and commendable as it might appear in principle has fallen flat in practise. The answer to this taught lies with the calibare of oppositon we have in the country. The level of opposition is in complete shambles everyone wants to be the chief and no one wants to be the india. So what you get in goverment is PDP dictatorship. To the contrary I was quite impress by the opposition by one of the parties in lagos state this week. Fashola has done great things in lagos since moving into Alausa, but at the end of the day he is still a human being and we are all prone to mistake and complacency. The outburst by one Mr Agbaje of the opposition party is quality oppositon, the country needs to see more of this kind of opposition, not just see, hear it loud and clear, opposition parties should invite the media and call press confrences in a question and answer session it is within their remit and it is also enshrined in the constitution of Nigeria. What happened in lagos this week is what I call effective opposition Nigerians will like to see more of it. And that brings us to the last paragrah and the theme of this thread. The whole essence of this thread is to arm the oppostion with the main tool and infact the most important tool for election victory. The tool being the electorate. We are the tool every one of us are the tools to effcet change what the opposition should do is plan, strategise and implement a victory formula, and it does not start 2 months to 2011 it starts now. The Million man march - I love it when people mention the word million it raises and conjures in our minds something that is in excess of - What is in excess of what? I cant even tell nor answer that question myself, but if you look at it in currency terms just the mention of say $1 million dollars or a million £1 pounds will start making some people's heart beat run riot, even a million Naira N1 Million might look small to some of us but you give that to a gateman or a Market woman selling pepper in Nigeria and you will see the diffrence. A million Zimbabwe dollars do you know why this news hit the stands all over the world, that is because we as human we cannot fathom that some where in the world a million of its local currency will not be able to buy you a loaf of bread, if it were a case that $5 Zim dollars buy u a loaf of bread it would have been what I term a "a No news". Have you ever imagine a million people come to visit you, even in a fortified castle if a million people are determined to gate crash they will succede nothing will stop them. The oppostion should use our cities and towns to organise peaceful milion man marches just to remind the sitting state govenors or the president as the case might be that we the people are the real rulers and you are our servants. Million is symbolic and figurative, I know some people might be thinking in our town we are not more than 80,000, if 20,000 people come out march then the objective has been acheived Very Important: Now people have mobile phones, text message can be sent out to people in yourba, Igbo, Hausa, Edo, jukun,tiv,Efik, Ibibio, Ijaw, kanuri, nupe. The message will be the same. Spontanious Voting - Is a situation on the day of the election where a million ( million used here purely as a symbolic conotation) people comes out to vote at the same time at the same hour at the minute, the police, army, will be too scared to intimediate such a crowd . INEC will be damed to manipulate an election like that. Million man marches should be conducted regularly in our towns and cities from now to election day. A food for thought for our opposition parties, I sign out now as I pass you the baton, for you to start the race to Aso rock, the race starts now tommorow might be too late. |
That is what I call the flying coffin. That man has just bought what is his final resting place, I dont think his family will bother to look for his body when it happens. When someone has too much money than sense that is what you get. |
Have anyone noticed that Soludo is the most talked about man on NairaLand, after Yaradua. He just got removed and he's still being talked about. This guy might be a phenomenum, as a matter of fact, the messiah of our generation. And I mean not just for Anambra state. Maybe we've just lost a huge chance. Running a state is completly different from running a bunch of civil servants. it is about tact and give and take, I am not saying he cannot run a state, what I am saying is he has not run a state b4, and can only be judge after he has. |
The fact is to run for Governorship in Nigeria is like winning the lottery. I see a lot folks around here trying to win the National Lottery week in week out. The odds of wining the lottery is 14 million to 1. Meanwhile to Odds of winning Gubertorial elections is probably 3 to 1. Yourself against 2 other strong candidates. The financial rewards of a Governor in Nigeria is probably 20 times that of a lottery winner. No wonder people go to any lenght in order to win. Today we are praising fashola for his good works in lagos state, lest we forgot someone was assasinated during the campaings up till today nobody has been convicted for Funsho Williams death. The stakes are high. Governorship no be joke matter in naija it is life and death. |
The only geniue juju that works is in nollywood. Having siad the above, one must not discount ATR in its totality, there are dark forces and even the bible acknowledge it. The story of Moses comes to mind where the forces of evil were at play. We all know the story of the isrelites been in boudage in Egypt. It took the final feat that is the death of all first born for pharoah to allow the isrealites to go. But we must remember that as each cause befell Egypt the bible says Pharoah's magicians where also trying to proof to Pharoah that Moses was a magician like them so black magic is real and has been real since the days of the old testament. |
The only geniue juju that works is in nollywood. |
Million man march is the answer. Serious show of strenght and muscle flexing. |
I will vote for Fashola a million times before even considering that slowpoke currently in Aso Rock. Is not right to call your president slowpoke. I am sure you went to school, and I am sure you will not call an unreasonable uncle of yours an slowpoke. You dont like his style of governance, fair enough, but to call him an slowpoke is totally wrong, if he were an slowpoke as you rightly say he will not get to where he is. |
Really the president with all due respect or any other person is just wasting his precious time cos Tinubu got is game planned out and is one the smartest politicians in Nigeria today. Just the way our Godfather in Minna with all due respect to him cannot be touched, so Tinubu of Lagos cannot be touched. Obj with all his forces tried but couldn't cos no be small thing. His predecessor is doing fine and very loyal. If they find a smoking Gun and Tinubu's finger print is all over it, Omo he will go down, you have to understand that all 36 Governors of the federation have skeleton in their cupboard. |
What soludo does not know about Governorship race in Naija u must have your own area boys who will do your bidding and intimidation for you. I hope soludo will not go about wearing that his trademark bankers suit and Tie. Because if Bakassi boys grab that tie for im neck, na heaven he go meet himself oh. On a serious note Like Fashola, Soludo must look for a street wise politician like Tinunbu to do his bidding. I am sure Anambra has its own fair share of street wise politicians. Adedibu sanctioned Akala in Oyo state and nobody can do or say other wise. |
True Nigerians, crook or not, would know what I mean. Those who do the complaining should go kill themselves rather than live with the shame they so obviously say they feel about being Nigerian or else go away and don’t return or comment on Nigeria. The problem with people like you is because your political boss from time to time gives you a few dollars to go and change in the black market, you think you have arrive. I am sorry for you by the time that source of income dries u go hear wen!!! ![]() |
By the time 4 ex Govenors have about 10 police men each guarding them, that will mean 40 officers off the street. We start to wonder why crime is so high and what the police is doing about curbing it. Obviously all the police-men that are meant to be on the street are busy doing meh- Guard for his excellency. |
Can you imagine a sitiuation where lagos state has 4 ex Governors, all these ex Governors will now be on the same salary as the incumbent Governor. That is alter nonesense. |
DRC is the Garden of Eden, it has everything from Gold, Diamond, Copper, now Oil, all they need is just settle down and organise themselves, are they not tired of war after war, since 1960. |
The only good news that I can take from this is the fact that Joseph Kony is definitely a dead man because of this. Look at how fast Savimbi was taken out in Angola. Botswana is the only African country that deserves to hit it big when it comes to oil. Seriously if they hit it big when it comes to oil say hello to the first Black First Nation. War is already brewing between DRC and Uganda. The oil is lake Albert, the eastern part of the lake is in Uganda, while the western part of the lake is in the DRC. There is argument about where does the Ugandan side end and where does the DRC starts. |
Uganda's Discovered Oil Reserves Hit 1 Billion Barrels Oil reserves discovered so far on the Ugandan side of the Lake Albert rift basin are estimated at 1 billion barrels, the New Vision newspaper reports Thursday. The state-owned paper quoted Nadheem Hashmi, the well engineering manager of U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC as saying that with many more prospects to drill in the Butiaba region and across the base, the commercial threshold for development would be exceeded. "The region has about 1 billion reserves of crude oil, this makes the project commercially viable," he was quoted as saying. Tullow oil has assigned a team to make a commercial development plan for the whole basin, according to the newspaper. Since 2006, Tullow oil and Heritage Oil Corp. have been drilling a number of oil wells on the Ugandan side of the Albertine rift. Uganda is set to start on an early oil production scheme in the fourth quarter of 2009 with an initial production of around 5,000 barrels a day. Uganda expects to reach full-scale oil production in the next five to six years. |
Fresh Uganda oil find ‘Africa’s biggest’Robin Pagnamenta Heritage Oil announced details of a large oil discovery in Uganda yesterday, which the company claimed could be the largest onshore discovery in sub-Saharan Africa. Heritage said that its latest discovery – Giraffe1 – in the Lake Albert region, could total at least 400 million barrels of oil. However, Paul Atherton, chief financial officer, told The Times that the wider field it was developing, dubbed Buffalo-Giraffe, had several “billions of barrels of oil in place”, although it was unclear how much of this would be recoverable. He said that the field, which is 9,000 square kilometers in size – or six times the size of Greater London – was unquestionably the largest onshore discovery made in sub-Saharan Africa in at least 20 years, possibly ever. Related Links Oil traders demand ships to store crude Canadian oil-sand mines hit by price drop Mr Atherton said that of the 18 wells the company had drilled in the basin so far, all had produced oil. “Clearly the entire basin is full of oil,” he said. “It’s a world-class discovery, the most exciting new basin in Africa in decades.” Previously, the largest onshore fields discovered in sub-Saharan Africa were at Rabi-Kounga in Gabon, where 900 million barrels were found in 1985, and at Kome in Chad, where 485 million barrels were found in 1977. Mr Atherton said that it would take at least another three years to start commercial production. The crude could be exported by road or rail, he said, but analysts believe that the most practical solution would be to build an 806-mile pipeline to take it to Kampala, Uganda’s capital, and then the Kenyan coast. The pipeline would need to be heated and designed to traverse swampy and mountainous land. It would cost an estimated $1.5 billion (£1 billion) to complete. Heritage and its partner Tullow Oil, which also has a 50 per cent equity stake in the project, would need to demonstrate that the field could produce at least 400 million barrels of oil to justify the cost of building such a pipeline. Richard Griffith, an Evolution Securities analyst, said the latest discovery “thrashed” this commerciality threshold. Source http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article5512531.ece It is quite a big find. |
can you provide a link to the original source Knowall? I could not link it to my post hence why I cut and paste the content. If I find the link I will definately post it, I actually stumbled on this post whilst looking for something else. |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- so oil is now Nigeria's pitfall? Or the stupid people that is called her citizens? Would the Niger delta militant's be fighting if 1) they have no oil 2) listened to what El-Rufai advice FG that what the whole Niger delta needs a comprehensive development plan mirroed just like the Abuja plan. But our Mr president chose to establish a ministry of Niger delta. It is simple all these other African countries will go the same as Nigeria if they ignore the localilty where the oil is refined. |
It is good to post things like this so that those people sitting with their fat arse at aso rock can stop the rot and get to work. If care is not taken we might end up been the midget of Africa. If our leaders have no shame me I have shame oh, so does millions of Nigerians. |
KAMPALA, UGANDA - Uganda’s oil reserves could be as much as that of the Gulf countries, a senior official at the US Department of Energy has said. Based on the test flow results encountered at the wells so far drilled and other oil numbers, Ms. Sally Kornfeld, a senior analyst in the office of fossil energy went ahead to talk about Uganda’s oil reservoirs in the same sentence as Saudi Arabia.”You are blessed with amazing reservoirs. Your reservoirs are incredible. I am amazed by what I have seen, you might rival Saudi Arabia,” Kornfeld told a visiting delegation from Uganda in Washington DC. The group of Ugandans was in Washington on an international visitor programme and looked at the efficient use of natural energy resources. The group comprised Ministry of Energy officials, a Member of Parliament, members from the civil society and one journalist. At present, Uganda has four oil prospectors on the ground including Heritage Oil, Tullow Oil, Tower Oil and Dominion Oil. Of the four prospectors, Tullow and Heritage have registered success at wells in two blocks in the Albertine basin, which lies in the upper-most part of the western arm of the Great Rift Valley. According to data so far aggregated since the first discovery was made by Australian prospector Hardman Resources (now taken over by Tullow) in June 2006, Uganda has established reserves at 3.5 million barrels of oil per day. Experts in oil exploration say this could be just a tip of the iceberg. … In April last year, Tullow embarked on what it termed as a major drilling campaign in the Butiaba area around Lake Albert targeting an overall reserve potential in excess of a billion barrels. The Butiaba campaign was preceded by successes in two drilling campaigns in the Kaiso-Tonya area and the Kingfisher field and all these have been 100% successes so far. The Butiaba campaign has thrown up successes but the two biggest so far have been the Buffalo-Giraffe wells – described as “one of the largest recent onshore oil discoveries in Africa“. “Combined with our other finds in the region, we have now clearly exceeded the thresholds for basin development,” the chief executive of Tullow commented then. The Giraffe-1 exploration well, which is located in the Butiaba region, came up with over 38 metres of net oil pay within an 89-metre gross oil bearing interval. The data from the Giraffe discovery indicate a net reservoir thickness of 38 metres, the largest encountered in the area to date. The Buffalo-1 exploration well in Block 1 encountered 15 metres of net gas pay and over 28 metres of net oil pay. The gas and oil columns encountered are 48 metres and 75 metres respectively with the potential to be even larger. As Kornfeld marveled at Uganda’s oil finds, she was quick to add that for the country to benefit from the oil and gas resources but also avoid the pitfalls of oil producing countries like Nigeria, it is extremely important to set up strong governance structures. Kornfeld and the other United States officials said they are ready to help Uganda’s nascent oil and gas sector with anything including the key environmental issues that are crucial to the efficient management of oil and gas. “Anything you might want us to help you with we will and we have a lot of expertise in environmental issues relating to oil and gas,” Kornfeld said. And in a quote from the article written a year ago, with the oil blocks pictured above: “The Albert Basin now looks increasingly like it has the elements to make it a world-class petroleum basin. The flow rates, even constrained by available completion and test facilities, far exceeded our expectations,” Tony Buckingham says. It is certainly true the the US has a lot of experience, and one might say expertise, in environmental issues relating to oil and gas. Unfortunately much of that expertise and experience is involved in circumventing and evading environmental law and responsible environmental management. Then, as Ms. Kornfeld said, there is the issue of avoiding the pitfalls of other oil producing countries like Nigeria. In general, the US has supported the policies and governments in Nigeria that have engineered these pitfalls, into seemingly bottomless pits, working along with the US based oil corporations operating in Nigeria. So although they might know what to avoid in order to be socially and environmentally responsible, there is no indication that the US government or the oil corporations have any intention of acting in socially or environmentally responsible ways. Uganda does not have much history of environmentalism it can point to with pride either. So far the US response to African oil issues has been almost entirely military, hence AFRICOM, the US Africa Command. The Uganda government may be strong in the sense of using muscle to insure compliance. It employs muscle internally against dissent, and externally to assist in exploiting the resources of its neighbors, particularly in the DRC. However its democratic history is weak, and employment of any form of participatory democracy in decision making is sadly lacking. The US has been an enthusiastic supporter of Uganda’s “strength”. Mahmood Mamdani points out that Museveni has been a US proxy in Rwanda, and is still a US proxy in the DRC. AMISOM soldiers from Uganda are in Somalia acting as US proxies, and the underlying issue there too is oil. Museveni‘s name means son of a man of the seventh, meaning from the Seventh Battalion of the Kings Africa Rifles. That seems ironically appropriate, as Uganda is acting as a US proxy in the DRC, Somalia, and Ugandan mercenaries have played a prominent role in Iraq. US proxy warriors in Africa have been referred to as Bush’s Africa Rifles, now Obama’s Africa Rifles, not too different from the colonial proxy war tradition of the King’s Africa Rifles. Museveni has shown no interest in allowing any democratic opposition to his presidency. In May he declared: I see no successor in NRM. He may have ruled Uganda for the past twenty three years but President Yoweri Museveni is still hesitant to hand over power, not even to members of the National Resistance Movement, of which he is the leader. On Thursday the president told NRM Members of Parliament that while he would be “happy” to hand over power, he saw “nobody” ready to take on the daunting responsibility of leading Uganda. So the Uganda government will continue to run along lines that Museveni sees as in his/Uganda’s interest. I don’t know if this is the “strong governance structures” to which Kornfeld refers. It may well be. She and her cronies may see this as the most convenient way for the US to access Ugandan oil. But it cannot be described as democratic, or in any way resembling participatory democracy. Unless people who live where the resources are can benefit from those resources, and have some say in how they are disposed, there will be conflict. And problems are already brewing. In April 2009 Uganda Bunyoro Kingdom Threatens Lawsuit over Oil Exploration: Cultural leaders of Uganda’s Bunyoro kingdom, located on the Ugandan side of the oil-rich Albertine rift, have threatened legal action against the central government over oil exploration and production activities there, a kingdom official said Monday, but the government has promised talks to resolve the issue. Yolamu Nsamba, the principal private secretary of the king of Bunyoro, said the government has breached the pre-independence agreement of 1955, which provides that Bunyoro is entitled to substantial amounts of revenue from mineral exploration in its kingdom. “For years now, the central government has been dealing with oil exploration companies secretly yet the law has never been changed,” he said, adding that kingdom officials have already informed the central government of its intentions. A government official told Dow Jones Newswires separately Monday that the central government would soon start talks with kingdom officials to resolve the issue. Uganda is expected to embark on an early oil production scheme in the first quarter of 2010. The 1955 agreement was signed between the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom and the U.K. protectorate government and stipulates that in the event of mineral development taking place in Bunyoro, a substantial part of the mineral royalties and revenue from mining leases would be paid to the native government of Bunyoro Kitara. Bunyoro remains influential in Uganda although its cultural leaders are prohibited from engaging in national politics. It will be interesting to see how Bunyoro fares in maintaining some control over its riches. And there are troubles with the neighbors too. In May 2009 Uganda beefs up marine surveillance on its waters. Uganda has stepped up security on its waterways and is quietly revamping its marine police in anticipation of tensions with its neighbours over the country’s natural resources. … Apparently, the discovery of high-value natural resources such as oil and gas under and near Uganda’s lakes and the need to protect fisheries resources are the imperative behind moves to improve security on the country’s waters. … The Police Marine Unit has acquired four specialised boats at a cost of $8.6 million to be paid over a period of five years. The acquisitions and keen interest in marine security come in the wake of an incident in August 2007, when Congolese troops on the disputed Rukwanzi island in Lake Albert shot and killed oil prospectors who were carrying out surveys on the Ugandan side of the lake. Officials say terror threats have also underscored the need for improving security on the country’s lakes because Uganda’s main Entebbe airport — the kind of key infrastructure usually targeted by terrorists — is located on a peninsula in Lake Victoria. … Much as the boats are up and running and have recently been seen around Migingo island, over which Kenya and Uganda are squabbling, questions are being raised over the capacity of the police to take on and maintain such infrastructure both financially and technically. Uganda is landlocked, so issues of how and where the oil will be refined and transported are still up in the air. Tullow, Heritage Face Tough Choices on Uganda Oil Devt. After remarkable exploration success in Uganda, Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN) and Heritage Oil Ltd. (HOIL.LN) face tough choices over how to develop the oil they’ve discovered. Both companies face immense infrastructure challenges bringing the oil from its remote region to world markets. They have to walk a fine line between their commercial goals and the sometimes conflicting ambitions of the Ugandan government. Tullow and Heritage also have to handle overtures from much larger rivals that want in on the substantial quantities of oil they have discovered. … “Lake Albert is a multibillion-barrel basin,” with great potential to expand reserves even further once problems with licenses on the Congolese side of the lake are resolved and exploration begins there, said Paul Atherton, chief financial officer of Heritage. … Tullow and Heritage have long talked of exporting the Lake Albert oil to world markets via Kenya, initially by rail to the port of Mombassa and eventually through a large enough pipeline to carry the 150,000 barrels of oil per day the basin is thought to be capable of producing. The government has clashed recently with Tullow over the pipeline, said an official at the energy and minerals ministry. And Uganda’s energy minister recently said no unrefined oil should be exported from Uganda and instead the country should build a refinery to process all domestic crude and supply oil products to the whole region. … As talks on the development move slowly forward, one voice that has been heard little so far is that of the local communities, said Dickens Kamugisha, chief executive of the African Institute for Energy Governance, a non-governmental organization based in the Ugandan capital. Local people are worried about the problems caused in Nigeria, Angola and Chad by the exploitation of oil resources and unchecked flows of petrodollars to governments with a reputation for corruption, he said. “The process has been secretive,” with insufficient public discussion over the competing development plans and no publication of the production-sharing contracts between the Ugandan government and the companies, he said. Tullow and Heritage stressed that they have maintained good relationships with local communities. Tullow said it has shown local people around their drill sites to explain what they are doing and both companies are contributing to local development by funding schools, health clinics and even lifeboat training on the lake. Employment of local people “would be an integral part of any development plan,” along the lines of work the company has done in Ghana, said McDade. Kamugisha acknowledged the local work of the companies, but expressed concern about the lack of transparency from the government. He said he wants the Ugandan government to follow the principles of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and declare all oil revenues openly in order to prevent corruption. Both Tullow and Heritage said they are happy to disclose the terms of their contracts — which they described as containing good terms for Uganda — if the government allows it. Whether this is enough is unclear. A dispute is already brewing over who controls rights to minerals in the Lake Albert area and how revenues will be distributed between the government and leaders of the Bunyoro Kingdom — the ethnic grouping that occupies districts on the lake’s eastern shore . Local communities “say they have been completely left out of the process and are not satisfied,” said Kamugisha. |
The payment should be a one off payment and not monthly. If lagos state goverment is going to pay the current Governor and the past Governor the same amount, then suffice it to say that lagos state has 2 Governors. This is just sheer madness one would have thaught the younger generation should smarter. |
Coup plotters are like armed robbers, they steal your belongings and use those items to your face without any regret or remorse. Imagine an armed robber using your car to your face. Not only have they distorted the history of Nigeria, they have deprive and rob Nigerians born and un-born the natural principle of rational thinking. Or how else do you explain the crazy phenomenon whereby a Governor doing his job the way the job should be done, and people start showering such a person with praises and encomiums. Coup plotters should be seen as subversive and treacherous element of the state and should be treated as such. The country will not no peace until all coup plotters dead or alive are rounded up, tried and sentenced to life in prisonment, how dear Buhari wants to become a civilian president when it is a clear fact he renegade in his professional ethics and duty which stipulates that he obeys, abide and defend the Nigeria state. Would he be a happy man if he were to be over-thrown by the military assuming he becomes a civilian president. ( which I know will not happen in a million years ) The ramifications and the fall-out of the January 1966 coup which included the Biafra war, Creation of states in 1967, Overthrow of Gowon, Creation of more states in 1976, the assasination of Muritala finally ended in 1979 with OBJ handing over to Shagari. The current chain of events which includes, the Overthrow of Buhari/Idiagbon govt, the emergence of IBB, the killing of Dele Giwa, the creation of more states, Jue 12 saga, handing power to Ernest Shonekan, the emergence of Abacha, creation of more states by Abacha, death Abacha, emergence of Abdulsalam, started with Buhari /Idiagbon regime taking over from a legitmately elected goverment and it ended only recently when Adulsalam handing over to OBJ. The agony I have now is the same Buhari who has cause so much pain to Nigerians in the past decade deem it fit for him to stand for the presidency and yet nobody is saying anything. I think 145 million people have not only be hood-winked but it appears that 145 million people have yet to recover from the deep hypnosis. |
i think it will be unwise to speak evil of the dead, like someone else said up the post we will never know and that is the stance I also take. |
2 Weeks ago it was OGD’s Cook now this, look at small Ghana they are already using us as a case study, are our leaders daft or what ? ![]() |
What this Governor did is tantamount to a husband Gambling away the family fortune without any dis-regrad to whether his kids have eaten or not. The Governor of a state is the custodian of the people's money. Yet such a person in the months and years to come will out and say he wants to run for presidency. I could not sleep last 2 Nights when this news broke. Are we human at all in Nigeria, because it appears we have lost all human feelings. ![]() |
This is a nigerian thread, and not a british thread, this post should be transferred to the forign section. |
The situation in Ananbram state is alarming one is too embarrass to call one’s self a Nigerian, if there is any iota of truth in it. The man should be strapped into a mental Hospital and the key thrown a way for ever. How can one’s reason be that they wish to be the 1st Igbo dollar billionaire that forbes will recognised. He would have achieved his primary goal in life to be at par if not above Otedola and Dangote. Can someone inform this Ignoramus that both the aforementioned fellows have never been a Governor nor hold any political post in Nigeria before. |
J Edger Hoover’s FBI v Nuru Ribadu’s EFCC – The death of the Corruption crusade in Nigeria J.Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), generally known as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public, but posthumously he became an increasingly controversial figure. His many critics asserted that he exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI.[1] He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to use illegal methods to collect evidence.[3] It is because of Hoover's long and controversial reign that FBI directors are now limited to 10-year terms Nigeria's Nuru Ribadu Nuru Ribadu could have broken the corruption circle that has become the bane of our society today, corruption cases in all sector of the economy could have been brought from all high 98% corruption level in all sectors to a manageable 15% to 20% . If only he was allowed to get on with his job and make Nigeria a better place. At times it is better you just leave the guy to get on with the job he knows, he will not only learn from his mistakes he will be strengthen by his own failures and short-comings. Just like J Edger Hoover he will fine tune EFCC into Nigeria’s FBI it will not be an easy task but is doable if only he was giving time. Just the mention of Nuru Ribadu’s name at height of his reign in the EFCC was enough to put the fear of God on some of our corrupt public officers. Today the EFCC name does not create the same hysteria that it once did , it has been tainted with same brush as Nigeria Police Force if not a worse brush. Today a state Governor can send his lackey’s on a fun day out by sending his driver and orderly on a Sunday rendezvous every month from Akwa to lagos to change N255 million to dollar or pound. If it were the good old days not only the police officer’s in lagos will be apprehended, the orderly , the driver, and his majesty the Governor will all give account of what transpired. I once remember my first job in England as security personnel in a top law firm in central London. One Sunday morning I was sitting in the front office reading newspaper as there was nothing much to do on Sundays. A gentleman came into the lobby and I queried him asking him who he was, does he have any form of ID, he was very impressed at the way I queried him. On seeing his ID he was one of the partners that own the law firm. Having discovered who he was I was consumed with trepidation and fear thinking I have corked up and will surely be fired. But to my utmost surprise I was not only giving a raise on my hourly rate I was also recommended as a supervisor which at the time was fantastic. The problem with Yaradua, is because his name was amongst the 31 Governor that was pencilled down for investigation as been corrupt, he Yaradua became insecure in himself as he felt that Nuru knows too much of his internal dealings and should therefore be gotten rid off sooner rather later. If it happened in other climes, the Chief executive will not only reward him handsomely but will retain him as corruption czar for as long possible. OBJ basically turned a blind eye on Ribadu’s activities he allowed the young man to get on with his job. Although OBJ used Ribadu for other extra ordinary renditions which can be classified as collateral damages in a war of different ideals, opinions and thoughts there is nothing stopping Yaradua from doing the same. The Irony of Yardua’s action is Ribadu’s capability of intelligence gathering combined with yaradua’s thoughtful approach to issues of importance would have been an intelligence marriage made in heaven, a quality the country needs while the proxy war in the delta rages on. This marriage has been broken by the insecurity of the president, Nigeria has lost out on the early momentum gained in her fight against corruption. Nigeria as a nation should have allowed him to continue his crusade on corruption just like J. Edger Hoover. He was the pioneer boss of EFCC just like J. Edgar Hoover was the pioneer boss of the FBI. History as shown that Pioneer Bosses always stir the ship to unprecedented height and success the evidence is there for all to see with the current state of the FBI. I just hope this ship can stirred back on course before we hit an ice-berge but I have this very strong feeling that we have already hit one. I might however be wrong but time will tell. |
What happened to sapele, my father told me it was the boom town of the 40's 50's and early 60's why the sudden decline. It was like warri of today a mini nigeria with all the tribes represented and living in harmony. |
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