 Politics › Re: Ibb May Be The Right Guy After Thinking Deep by koruji(m): 2:41am On Nov 23, 2010 |
Which real solution has he proposed? Don't say it is because he told you he will spend only 4 years - U may not know, but he is lying! egift:
IBB is proposing real solution - while GEJ and support have nothing than abuse anyone who is not falling in line. |
| Politics › Re: Military Trucks, Hardware Impounded At Lagos Port by koruji(m): 2:30am On Nov 23, 2010 |
I won't be so sure about that. There could be a restriction on the category of trucks a person could import and/or the number of such trucks - what is he doing with six? How many "United States Marines" are importing 6 personal effects "military trucks"? Beaf:
Aside from the carton of bullets and pistol, the importers have no case to answer. |
| Politics › Re: I Am A Victim Of June 12 -IBB Says In Exclusive Interview by koruji(m): 1:23am On Nov 22, 2010 |
@Boboribo And my points are: 1. Being called to Fort Knox has nothing to do with IBB's intelligence. In fact, it is the other way round. If he was intelligent enough the CIA or whatever would know that they cannot use him against his country - especially someone who was in a position to do so much for his people. Instead, the guy wasted every opportunity. Soon, he will confess to us that he cancelled the June 12 elections because his masters showed him visions at Fort Knox. 2. Does somebody really have to spell it out to you that whatever IBB did between 1995 & 1993 led directly to where we are today? His monumental failure after an endless transition in 1993 led directly to Abacha - surely you know that, and the events that followed after. 3. Yes, 40 years from now, we will still complain about him as the greatest evil to befall Nigeria. A despot with no conscience. He would sacrifice anybody for his ambitions, including his closest friends, with animalistic unfeelingness, although he is guilty of even worse crimes. 4. There is really not much that IBB has done that proof his intelligence. I think you are confusing craftiness with intelligence. IBB surely is craft & charismatic. He is also convincing - if you don't really know him. He was good at coup-making because he turned the crucial roles assigned to him in our armed forces into personal property. And if IBB is intelligent, so was Hitler. The only thing IBB is trying to achieve as president is get rid of the remaining evidence of his dastardly acts including this one: [size=14pt] The Oputa Panel Report would conclude that "On General Ibrahim Babangida, we are of the view that there is evidence to suggest that he and the two security chiefs, Brigadier General Halilu Akilu and Col. A. K. Togun are accountable for the death of Dele Giwa by letter bomb. We recommend that this case be re-opened for further investigation in the public interest."[/size] Boboribo:
@ Kuruji - I only used Fort Knox (thanks for the correction) to create a scenario and the morals there is that when someone does anything no matter how silly, if he is intelligent, you simply give it to him without sentiments. Your like will still be complaining down the line 40 years from now about IBB. What has happened in the intervening period of 17 years, you can't tell us. You want us to believe that all has been well with Nigeria since the past 17 years and all will be probably well from 2011 when your GEJ will spin straw into gold. Is it because of IBB that you spend 12 hours commuting between Lagos and Benin? Find out from an elderly person the time it took to connect lagos and Benin by road in 1993 when he left. I suppose that is an insignificant point too. |
| Politics › Re: I Am A Victim Of June 12 -IBB Says In Exclusive Interview by koruji(m): 4:17pm On Nov 21, 2010 |
@Boboribo He he he ! You silence critics of IBB with these same questions? You are the fool for it, because their silence is a pity on your soul. It doesn't deserve any answers when someone tries to justify the glaring evil IBB has done to Nigeria. That is the case with you. Let me ask you a couple of questions? Americans called IBB to Fox Knox? Is that the new lie IBB is spreading now? If you are trying to tell us he is a CIA agent, we already know, and it is treasonable felony, not a badge of honor. Get it? Besides, Fox Knox is a children's book story in America - and here you are using the same to promote IBB. You probably mean Fort Knox. IBB is a stooge with no real intelligence - that is why everything was copied and imposed on the Nigerian people, [size=14pt] with disastrous results[/size]. So, the fact that he left 17 years ago should count in his favor. Great logic right there! Why don't we release all the thieves and murderers in the prisons into the populace because they have been away for a long time. IBB has refused to account for anything he did to Nigeria, frustrating all efforts. He sacrifices his friends on the altar of his ambitions. [size=14pt] A "genius" like you is suggesting then that we put Nigeria in the trust of someone that is not accountable, because Americans called him into Fox Knox [/size] - what great intelligence you possess. We don't even need to hold any elections in Nigeria. We only need to ask one question - which candidate has been called to "Fox Knox"? That is it, you are the president! Boboribo:
All the questions IBB asked Nigerians are the same questions I use in informal discussions to silence his critics. Simple question here again. After 17 years why have successive governments not been able to right the wrong allegedly committed by IBB. I am sure that if IBB is not contesting come 2011 and is SOLIDLY behind candidate GEJ all this barage of criticism against him wont be heard of. Funny enough those who did not bother to read the full interview are the ones shouting the most. Put this man on a debate with your GEJ and you will know that GEJ is incurably a mediocre.
Hear this. You know what Americans will call someone who is able to break into Fox Knox - [b]Intelligent [/b]before being called a thief. Yeah the fact that the person is a thief does not make him unintelligent. The fact that IBB is whatever you choose to call him does not make him unintelligent. The man is simply intelligent. Period. Why is it that it is only when IBB puts himself up for election that people cry blue mother?
The sentiment running here has blinded our judgment. The way we carry on, you'd think the man just left Aso Rock 2 years ago.
How many of us making comments here were even up to age 10 when he left in 1993? After the Holocaust, the Germans and the Jews are friends today.
Mind you I wont vote for him come 2011 but we've go to move on. Its a shame that the alleged rot committed 17 years ago has not and it seems cannot be corrected until the man is no more. Shame on us. |
| Politics › Re: I Am A Victim Of June 12 -IBB Says In Exclusive Interview by koruji(m): 2:45am On Nov 20, 2010 |
It is true, IBB brings out the worst in me - it was the realization that IBB is a complete fake. But he is not just fake, he went out of his way to convince those who might not have cared either way, that he was (is) the messiah. I just do not understand how someone could fail so woefully in almost all his promises, and yet insist he has the magic wand to fix anything, talkless Nigeria. He actually seems to get more confident with each successive failure. Only in a discombobulated country like Nigeria. Until we find a way to deal with vermins like IBB (and swiftly too) Nigeria is not going anywhere. What are his unique characteristics that make him a tin-god? He killed his very best friend without losing one night's sleep, without the option of appeal that was also written into that law - draconian as it may have been, in the middle of the night. He instigated another best friend's inglorious death. Then somebody asks him if the friend comes back to life what would he do - he cuts off the question, and say "he will embrace me"!Another best friend, he claimed he has letters from him in that interview as well, died in a mysterious blast that pointed in his direction. Tell me how this kind of person is supposed to end well - if there is any iota of justice left in the universe! Beaf:
@Koruji!
Bro, I never see you vex like dis before. |
| Politics › Re: I Am A Victim Of June 12 -IBB Says In Exclusive Interview by koruji(m): 1:22am On Nov 20, 2010 |
Did any of the eggheads praising IBB over this interview see the below. I didn't see any part of it that is worth praising - the man is a complete disaster as far as Nigeria is concerned, but the particular response below should send even his staunchest supporters running for the hills. Please note the cut in part - he knew where the question was going and cut it off. Imagine the evil in the answer he gave, then imagine what he would have said to the actual question. This was the Question: Speaking hypothetically, if Abiola were to come back to life, what would you [size=20pt](cuts in)
He would embrace me.[/size] I wonder what Vatsa would do if he came back to life today? Eniyan ti igbehin e o ni da ni IBB. |
| Politics › Re: I Am A Victim Of June 12 -IBB Says In Exclusive Interview by koruji(m): 1:15am On Nov 20, 2010 |
Yeah, I agree with you - under a military government IBB did so much - [size=20pt] so much damage that is[/size]. Now imagine how much damage he would do under democratic rule. If you can't see the incompetence, and I dare say evil, in IBB at this point you are even more deluded than he is. Your believe is yours to carry - it only means that you have no standards for where Nigeria should be at this point or be headed over the next decade. But it won't be a surprise - a small amount of money is enough to pay for the life of some people, and boy does IBB have plenty of our stolen money in his pocket. chizillar:
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[size=20pt][b]GBAM! and God bless you. Under a military government, he did so much. Imagine under a democratic government. I strongly believe this man holds the solution to the problem of this country especially this period in time.
[b]why is he coming again?
ANS: He want to correct things and show Nigerians he is a transformist. Most of what he said is sensible to me under a military regime. I WILL SURELY VOTE FOR HIM AND 90% OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES IN IGBO LAND TODAY WAS BY HIM. I LOVE YOU MAN. GOD BLESSES THE COURAGEOUS AND PARDONS YOUR MISTAKES BECAUSE WE ARE ALL HUMANS.[/b][/size] |
| Politics › Re: In-person Nigerian Scam Steals Money From Woman In Martinsville by koruji(m): 5:06am On Nov 19, 2010 |
Of course they assume they were Nigerians, even if they had nothing to do with Africa or Nigeria for that matter. Couldn't they have faked Africa or Nigeria? This actually sounds more like armed robbery than 419! With two guys beside her she was probably scared-stiff even before they opened their mouths! igbobuigbo:
How did the newspaper source know these guys were Nigerians? Did the dupes tell that to the woman? I doubt. |
| Politics › Re: Muslim Cleric Manhandled By Thugs At Praying Ground[holy Land] by koruji(m): 4:59am On Nov 19, 2010 |
I think President GEJ should consider a joint military-police team for this upcoming elections in all states and major towns. Otherwise, the ruiner of good intentions are going to make sure to complete their ruination. Aloy+Emeka:
Akala will shoot himself into a 2nd term. If you love your life, don't mess with his ambition and bleaching cream. |
| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 4:25am On Nov 19, 2010 |
Ileke-IdI:
This guy, how did you get past the ropes?  You ever hear of Houdini - that would be me! |
| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 4:14am On Nov 19, 2010 |
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| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 3:49am On Nov 19, 2010 |
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| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 3:17am On Nov 19, 2010 |
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| Politics › Re: Ribadu The Tribalist. by koruji(m): 3:07am On Nov 19, 2010 |
Beaf:
As you summarised, anybody who attempts to gain from the primitive ills of the country is a mere savage from the very same swamp those ills arose from.
This is certainly not the first time Ribadu has cast himself as a man of very low morals, witness this statement from the same interview:
Startling crudity! Really shocking, disgraceful and shameful; we are witnessing the demystifying of Ribadu. I'm beginning to wonder if the accusations of embezzling made against him have some truth. I agree with most of what you said here, except the demystification part. Nobody ever considered him a diplomat. For example, he once told someone that advised him to follow the law in prosecuting those accused of corruption that he would not worry about the law in these cases (and for good reason when you consider what politicians were doing to steal our money). What we are witnessing is his political tutoring - he will learn, then he will be ready to compete. He is way too crude for presidential politics at this point - although Obama was way more refined he still made gaffes that almost lost him his election. It is unfortunate that to play politics you need to "lose some honesty". President GEJ has certainly learned fast in this last month or so - he is very quiet these days, and when he does speak, it is much more refined. |
| Politics › Re: Ribadu The Tribalist. by koruji(m): 2:38am On Nov 19, 2010 |
I didn't. Ribadu is raw. From what you know about him do you think he believes somebody is unelectable because of their tribe? Of course not. His use of the word "Sadly" carries all the way to the rest of the related statements. I agree that this it is really a very bad way to say what is obvious, but Ribadu has never being tactful. It is also bad because he implied that this would give him an advantage in the elections - that is the part that makes him look like a tribalist. It is the benefiting by-stander argument i.e. Robinhood stole the money and distributed to the towns-people - but it makes you look like a savage in the political arena. Ribadu is unlikely to win this election, but if Nigeria doesn't collapse any time soon, he is certainly positioning himself for 4 or 8 years down the line. Meanwhile, he will get his training in political-speak. Bill Clinton once said Obama's win in one of the state primaries would be like that of Jesse Jackson - the latter won like Obama with the help of the black vote, but went on to be roundly defeated by the white vote. Is Bill Clinton a racist? Not quite, but he was stating some old truth that was about to be made false by Obama - although the white vote almost did him in, there were enough white vote in support. This would likely be the case with Jonathan as well - he will get enough Northern and Southern votes to be president. Beaf:
I think you missed out the closing words, "he is not electable." Ribadu has joined the ranks of bigots. |
| Politics › Re: Ribadu The Tribalist. by koruji(m): 2:03am On Nov 19, 2010 |
I think you guys are mixing the fact that Ribadu is raw with being tribalist. If you pay attention to the word "Sadly" in that statement you will see that he is stating an open truth that he doesn't agree with. Not very tactful, but he is not being tribalist! T9ksy:
Quote from: EzeUche0 on Today at 12:40:27 AM
I am yoruba and proud to be one. Nevertheless, i still found Ribadu's statement concerning minority group ( in the country), distasteful and imprudent. Especially when one take into account that this so-called "minority group" contributes more into the kitty than Ribadu's "majority group".
Oh well, am glad the man is finally showing his true colours for all to discern. He never had my vote right from day One, anyway. I would rather give my vote to JEG even tho' its obvious that he's not the messiah, we all have been waiting for. |
| Politics › Fg Jettisons 10% Equity For Oil Communities - To Pay Dividends Instead by koruji(op): 3:38am On Nov 18, 2010 |
Quote: “So, we have changed and worked it out today and we said, it is dividend now to the host communities. And that dividend turned out to be higher than the 10 per cent we were talking about before”. Political courage, backed by adequate planning, to implement this solution will end militancy in one fell swoop. In addition, there must be insistence on environmental responsibility. With biometrics it should not be difficult to document who lives in these regions so they can be paid directly - not through some middle-man. This has the potential for achieving many other objectives in these regions. Once we learn to take the road less travelled, we will discover it is the most satisfying and unifying approach to our ultimate destination. Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:00 Olusola Bello
The Federal Government, yesterday, said it has jettisoned the plan to transfer 10 percent equity of its oil and gas ventures to oil-producing communities in the Niger Delta, citing contentious legal tangles for the decision. In its place, host communities would now be given dividends based on the value of the assets in their areas. Emmanuel Egbogah, special adviser to the President on petroleum, who made this disclosure in Abuja at the on-going conference on ‘Deepwater Offshore West Africa (DOWA)’, organised by the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationist (NAPE), told the gathering, comprising stakeholders and operators drawn from the oil and gas sector, that: “What the government has done is that it originally started with giving 10 per cent equity participation and then because of legal and other issues, has done a modification of that, to make it more implementable, because the old design that we had would have taken a lot of years through a lot of constitutional reviews and all that…”
“So, we have changed and worked it out today and we said, it is dividend now to the host communities. And that dividend turned out to be higher than the 10 per cent we were talking about before”.
The 10 percent equity to oil bearing communities was part of the multi-billion-dollar package to end militancy in the Niger Delta which had hampered the country’s oil production for long. It will be recalled that the equity deal came against the backdrop of a sweeping attempt to overhaul the nation’s oil industry.
It was initiated by late President Umar Yar’Adua as part of the amnesty programme of the Federal Government to bring lasting peace to the Niger Delta. The bill to give teeth to its implementation was promptly sent to the National Assembly where it still remains.
The programme was welcome then by individuals and groups in the Niger Delta including the Ijaw Media Group; but some oil industry analysts had wondered how the plan would work, querying how the10 percent equity would be funded.
In a related development, the Federal Government has shifted its target date of achieving 40 billion barrels of oil reserve and four million barrels per day from the end of this year to 2012. Oil companies however appear to be less enthusiastic about the government’s position as some of the operators said they were yet to see any plan on ground to suggest that government can achieve the reserve target with the new dateline.
Egbogah, who also made government’s latest move known at the Abuja conference, said the decision to set the target dateline was the outcome of the result of the work of the Vision 2020 Committee on Oil and Gas.
“When you talk about the strategies, what we have done is when we worked on the Vision 2020 plan, we considered this situation of our ability to do four million barrels of oil per day and we have put what you described as strategies, what needs to be done, how it should be done and who should do it. And so, very soon, the companies that are saying they could not see it from where they are, would soon see it because every one of them is going to contribute to that being achieved. So, the assignment of who does what is going to go out to all the companies. So, we have the details about how to achieve it. It seems that the will to achieve the target cannot be seen among the operators”.
He observed that there is always a lot of skepticism about everything in Nigeria, adding that “to achieve the 40 billion barrels of oil reserves is not a big deal because we are currently sitting at 38.2 billion barrels and for what is going on in deepwater now, I don’t see how we cannot achieve 40 billion barrels even before 2012 that we said was our time to do so.
So, that is really not a problem, the same thing as the four million barrels of oil production per day is not a big thing that we cannot achieve because right now we are sitting at production capacity of 3.7 million barrels per day, which means that we can produce that today, there are just a few things that need to be done here and there …, therefore, four million barrels by 2012 is not going to be a big deal”.
According to Egbogah, the additional barrels will come from the deep sea and from onshore because in the Petroleum Industry Bill, we have given fiscal incentives to work on many of the onshore fields that had been abandoned by the people rushing to the offshore because of militant activities, but now you know the problem has stopped.
Also speaking on the same issue, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) group executive director, exploration and production, Philip Chukwu, has assured that the 40 billion barrels oil reserve is achievable if oil companies are determined to do so.
To facilitate work on the various projects, he disclosed that various financial arrangements have been put in place by the government and NPPC. However, in his comment, Andrew Obaje, the director of petroleum resources, Department of Petroleum Resources, urged the NNPC and its joint venture partners to find a lasting solution to the complaint of cash-call default by oil companies, so that the country’s production could be on the increase again.
According to him, if there is a resolution of the complaints by the oil companies, the country would be the better for it. http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16186:fg-jettisons-10-equity-for-oil-communities-&catid=76:hot-topic&Itemid=564 |
| Politics › Re: "Do Not Vote For A Muslim President" - Pastor Paul Adefarasin by koruji(m): 3:17am On Nov 18, 2010 |
Yes, we agree on the existence of religious intolerance in Northern Nigeria. Having the courage to confront it by insisting on our rights is the solution. Think about the fact that this bigotry got worse under OBJ because, though christian, he lacked the courage to enforce the constitution, since that would have gone against his "daily bread". What we need is courage with or without a christian president to take the religious intolerance up north to task. This call is like the call by some muslim/chauvinist bigots asking that no woman be nominated for elections. Same thing with the attempt to keep the christian deputy governor of Kaduna State from taking over after Sambo became VP. That this call came from a christian doesn't make it any different. Besides, it would fail woefully, even if a christian president were elected, if citizens don't demand reform. naijaking1:
I could have said the same thing before I went for my NYSC in Kano. There's religious bigotry on the ground already, electing a tolerant christian candidate is one way out.
Don't worry about people voting strictly along religious basis, if that happens, it will show that muslims are in the minority, no matter how much noise they make. |
| Politics › Re: "Do Not Vote For A Muslim President" - Pastor Paul Adefarasin by koruji(m): 2:48am On Nov 18, 2010 |
You support the preacher? He is not making sense. Can Christian votes alone win an election? What if the Mullahs start telling muslims not to vote for a christian president? So, he is suggesting that our rulers are bad because they are muslims, and not that they are bad rulers who happen to be muslims. And you agree with that? What about all the christians in the NASS and the governors, why are they just as incapable as their muslim counterparts? Religious bigotry is not the solution to Nigeria's problems, it is actually a source of more problems. Certainly, we need to insist on our religious rights. Pastor Adefarasin could have come up with a list of imperatives to address the obvious religious intolerance in the North, and advise everyone to demand it from the presidential candidates. Heck, he should start a campaign on this basis and take it to the North as part of his constitutional right - but a blanket don't vote for a muslim president achieves nothing in the first instance, but also makes things worse by encouraging hardline positions on all sides! Dawgpound:
I support the preacher. Nigerian muslims up north are cavemen not worth having around talkless having leadership position coz they will lead everyone to hell. |
| Politics › Re: Even As Military Head Of State, We Acted Under The Law -buhari by koruji(m): 4:59am On Nov 17, 2010 |
There is really little difference from one of these military guys to the other. They may be "stars" in their professional calling of soldiering, but they have no clue about nation-building - especially these despots that we keep breeding in Nigeria. Same goes for David Mark, and the half-military man Bankole, in the NASS. It is unbelievable that somebody, anybody, who overthrew a constitutional government would say that he acted under the law as a military head of state. The reason for this is exactly the same as why he saw nothing wrong with backdating laws to prosecute people - when they talk about "under the law" they mean the ones they make as they go. Nigeria should be careful about Buhari. I am not happy that the Save Nigeria Group already went partisan in queuing behind Buhari even before the campaigns started. If he is really a different man, he would acknowledge those errors and show us how it would be different as a democratic head of government - his case is not irredeemable, like IBB's, but this statement doesn't help him. Osama10:
These people are just so desperate now that they are just talking from both sides of their mouth. |
| Politics › Cancelled Friendly: Iran Demand Compensation From Nigeria by koruji(op): 2:51am On Nov 17, 2010 |
He he he LWKMD - this people must have seen some Baba Sala of memories! "Ai tete m'ole ole n m'oloko (or is it ole n'salo)" i.e. When the farmer fails to seize the thief in earnest, the thief will make the farmer look like the thief. These bloody idiots have mouth to talk nonsense - we should be playing friendly football with them when they are shipping us deadly arms under the cover of "darkness". Nigeria really needs to get its act together - maybe this will finally provide us with the impetus. By Festus Abu
Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010
Iran has demanded compensation from Nigeria for cancelling the much publicised friendly match between the Persian Stars and the Super Eagles scheduled for the Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Wednesday.
The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday said the Eagles would not be making the trip to the Asian country for the encounter because the star players decided to withdraw due to injuries.
But the Iran Football Federation Director of International Committee Abbas Torabian said on Tuesday that the IFF was disappointed by the NFF‘s decision.
”We sent a letter to the Nigeria Football Federation and claimed compensation after the match was cancelled unilaterally. They answered our letter swiftly,” the Iranian Students News Agency quoted Torabian as saying on Tuesday.
”The Nigerian side admitted that Iran was right and said the African country would pay compensation to us.”
Although the Iranians did not state the exact compensation demanded, our correspondent learnt that they had asked for the expenses incurred in the tickets sold, hotels and media rights.
The NFF acting General Secretary Musa Amadu said the football house had been discussing with the IFF, assuring the issue would be resolved amicably.
Nigeria have been in a serious diplomatic row with Iran over the importation of high-calibre weapons into the country from the Islamic nation last month.
Our correspondent learnt the festering rift between the two countries over the weapons might have informed the NFF‘s decision to withdraw from the friendly game.
The NFF did not name the key players that withdrew from the clash due to injury – and no top Eagles player is known to be down with injury at the moment – fuelling further speculation the diplomatic row played a role in the cancelled game. http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101117115014 |
| Politics › Re: ‘nass May Frustrate 2011 Polls’ by koruji(op): 2:40am On Nov 17, 2010 |
Looks like they are piping down on the power grap - hope it is not a head fake. Still, how long can a country continue with the negative achievements of its law-making bodies - they create a crisis, and waste our time and funds backing down! This is just tiring - when there is so much that could be done if these people are serious! ELECTORAL ACT: Senators, Reps surrender
Headlines Nov 17, 2010 By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
LAGOS — THE National Assembly is set to backtrack from the legislative proposal in the two chambers that all Senators and more than half of the members of the House of Representatives become members of the National Executive Committees of the political parties following strong objection from governors.
NASS ready to dialogue with Govs
While guarding its constitutional duty of lawmaking, the two Houses were yesterday proclaiming their readiness to yield to a constructive engagement with the governors who, like many Nigerians have, vehemently opposed the proposal. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/electoral-act-senators-reps-surrender/ |
| Politics › Re: Federal Government Condemns Use Of "Naija" In Place Of Nigeria by koruji(m): 7:03am On Nov 16, 2010 |
Where does our government find this misguided indignation? Is there a warm or cold spring of dumb ideas somewhere in Abuja?
Naija is the equivalent of UK or USA. They really need to find real jobs for all that money they receive! |
| Sports › Re: Were The Super Falcons Really Picked Up From The Airport In A Trailer? by koruji(m): 4:24am On Nov 16, 2010 |
Zero standards, that's why. This would be in Abuja. Correct? st-kris:
i understand the rationale behind picking them up in a large open vehicle, so they could enjoy the cheers of fans and all,
but what i dont get is how the eff they felt that old blue drum was the one. |
| Politics › Re: Arms Shipment: Nigeria, Iran Disagree by koruji(m): 4:15am On Nov 16, 2010 |
Does Nigeria really care who it is for? That it came through our shores illegally is just as bad as if it was meant for Boko Haram or MEND or anybody else. Who knows which other country is smuggling arms into Nigeria. At least one similar arm shipment came by plane into Nigeria under Yar'adua, with the final explanation being that it was headed for Gambia - forgetting that Gambia's entire GDP is less than $1billion. That same explanation has been attempted in this case. DapoBear:
What is the consensus on who the arms were for? |
| Politics › Re: ‘nass May Frustrate 2011 Polls’ by koruji(op): 4:04am On Nov 16, 2010 |
Not one bill designed to address the condition of the average Nigerian. Always fighting over money for themselves and grabbing power. Bankole was all over the placeat the begining talking about input and outputs in handling his House Speaker duties - like this is some kind of electrical circuit we are talking about. Nothing else was heard from him after a couple of months. That David Mark is even worse - he is now a DSc to boot. This NASS is a curse on democracy  Beaf:
You aren't alone in seeing things that way.
We have simply walked into hell with our eyes open by allowing soldiers to write an upside down consititution for us. Everything is scattered, there are no strict delineations of duty, instead the constitution is littered with daft gaps. The NASS has seen the gaps and are threatening to drive through and become the gods we must worship, even more powerful than the President. The do nothing lot are already the highest paid politicians in the World, but that is not enough; their insatiable greed is driving them down a macabre path. Their steps can only lead in one direction.
There is a saying; whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. . . |
| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 3:55am On Nov 16, 2010 |
Ileke-IdI:
Lol I don't know how iyalode derailed this thread either. Ibi ti won ba ti gbe ikebe won lo, bo se ma n da ni yen lol.
Sorry oga, we'll behave. Ok, mo ti gbo o. |
| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 3:34am On Nov 16, 2010 |
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| Politics › Re: ‘nass May Frustrate 2011 Polls’ by koruji(op): 3:00am On Nov 16, 2010 |
Yorubas will say: "Omo orile ni won, be ba gbe won so ri bedi won jabo" - to translate "they are ground sleepers, even if you put them on a mattress they will roll off". This NASS is begging for something - and they are going to get it soon. Governors, lawmakers set for showdown over Bill
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after the immediate past NGF meeting in Abuja
GOVERNORS are set for a showdown with lawmakers over moves to amend the Electoral Act 2010 “for selfish interests”.
The amendment is to pave the way for legislators to become automatic members of the National Executive Committees (NECs) of their parties.
The governors will hold a meeting after the Eid-el-Kabir holidays to strategise on how to push their opposition to the Bill, Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chair and Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki has said.
The Bill is set for a record time passage, having scaled through the second reading at both the Senate and the House of Representatives. If passed and signed by the President, it will put the legislators in charge of affairs in the political parties, given their numerical strength.
The Action Congress of Nigeria (AC N) and the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) have kicked against the move.
The AC N described the proposed legislation as “selfish”. The ANPP said it is “tyrannical”.
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, described the proposed amendment as “legislative rascality.”
Obahiagbon who represents Oredo Federal Constituency, Edo State on the platform of the ACN, called on like-minded National Assembly members, progressive forces, the media and civil society organisations and other Nigerians to reject the proposed amendment.
Dr Saraki said yesterday that governors would, after their meeting, lobby the legislators to drop the proposed amendment.
“It is not good for our democracy to have this kind of Electoral Act. I don’t believe that the National Assembly should take such a decision that will affect the running of political parties”, Saraki said.
He promised that the governors would meet with the leadership of the National Assembly after the holidays to advise them not to support the Act as it is not in the interest of Nigerians.
The governor said the Act would not strengthen democracy as it is being portrayed by the promoters of the new arrangement.
Saraki spoke in Minna, after visiting Niger State Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, as part his consultations on the matter.
The NGF Chairman said, “We intend to meet with the leaders of the National Assembly after the holidays to advise them that they should not support the motion. It is not in their interest, neither is it in the interest of Nigerians. We will call on them to have a rethink and disregard the Bill.”
He added: “The National Assembly played a commendable role in other amendments and acted in the interest of the country. We want them to play that same role in this amendment as they are the key stakeholders in sustaining our democracy.”
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja yesterday, Obahiagbon said senators and members of the House of Representatives were being mobilised to oppose the proposed amendment.
Section 87 (12) of the proposed amendment, entitled “An Act to amend the Electoral Act, 2010 and for related matters”, seeks to make Federal lawmakers members of the NEC of their parties.
Specifically, Section 87 (12) (b)(iv) of the bill (membership of NEC of a political party) states: “Members of the National Assembly who are members of the party and (v) former members of the National Assembly who are members of the party” shall be members of NEC of their respective parties.”
Obahiagbon said if the Electoral Act is passed, as proposed, it would be tantamount to political brinkmanship. “ There is no doubt at all that fine arguments, such as the need to deepen the internal democratic process of the political parties in its administration, has been called to bear in justifying why members of the National Assembly should become members of the NEC of their respective political parties.
“But as beautiful as these arguments are, would it not amount to an over regularisation of the political parties, if we legislate on matters like this? Are these not matters to be left strictly for the individual political parties?
“Should we legislate the quorum of a political party’s meeting into the law of the Federation? Is this not an atavistic throwback to the past when military dictators wrote the manifestoes for the political parties in the garrison days? Must we poison the process of the Electoral Act by parliamentary ego-trip?
“Can the National Assembly escape the harsh judgment of history that we desecrated our privileged status as parliamentarians by embarking on a vacuous trajectory of power mongering.”
The lawmaker enjoined other members of the House and Senators to “back down from the expressed intention of foisting a legislative incubus on the political parties by making it legislatively mandatory for all members of the National Assembly to be automatic members of NEC of their respective political parties”.
Obahiagbon said he was also worried that anti-democratic forces lurking in the wings planned to use the opportunity of the Electoral Act amendment to get members of the National Assembly to enjoy a right of first refusal, a euphemism for automatic ticket.
On the controversy over zoning – the controversial power sharing formula fashioned by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he urged the media and other democratic forces to refocus the presidential debate to real issues of political economy.
Nigerians, he said, deserve to know the clear-cut ideological direction of presidential aspirants.
Obahiagbon also called on Southeast governors to rise to break the gridlock of the protracted Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike in the geopolitical zone.
On the controversy trailing the amendment of the 1999 Constitution, he asked: “What does the National Assembly stand to lose, if in the overall interest, it allows for presidential assent just now whilst litigation on the matter continues up to the Supreme Court to enable the Supreme Court’s decision guide future processes of Constitutional amendment?” http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/19039.html |
| Politics › Re: ‘nass May Frustrate 2011 Polls’ by koruji(op): 2:52am On Nov 16, 2010 |
ACN Seeks Mass Action against National Assembly
•Kumo: This is legislative tyranny
From Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Davidson Iriekpen in Lagos, 11.14.2010
The move by the National Assembly to take over decision-making in political parties may be challenged in court as well as on the streets as more condemnations continue to trail the proposed amendment to the 2010 Electoral Act.
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has vowed to go to court to stop the law, describing it as “selfish”.It also asked the civil society to organise mass protest against the National Assembly, just as the former National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Senator Saidu Kumo, said the legislation is “tyrannical”.
Elder statesman and former secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, also condemned the proposed law.
The amendment bill, which has already passed second reading in both chambers within days of introduction, seeks to make federal lawmakers automatic members of parties’ National Executive Committee (NEC) – the highest decision-making organ.
While the House version of the bill wants to make all federal lawmakers NEC members, the Senate wants all committee chairmen and vice-chairman as members – but they are practically the same since almost all lawmakers are chairmen or vice-chairmen of committees.
The sheer number of National Assembly members is expected to overwhelm other members of NEC, effectively placing the control of parties under the legislature.
The ACN, in a statement issued yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, called on other political parties to also mount a legal challenge against the “obnoxious, self-serving, greedy and democracy-killing” proposed insertion into the Electoral Act 2010.
The party urged organised labour, civil society organizations and political parties to march on the National Assembly “to ensure such [an] anti-democratic law is not passed”.
ACN described the current National Assembly as the most expensive and anti-people ever in Nigeria's history, saying it is time to stop them from ruining the democracy that millions of Nigerians fought to entrench.
The party said: ''Our legislators are the highest paid in the world, with those of Kenya a distant second. Yet, they never consulted us before padding their pay to such high levels. The widespread story is that each of them earns a million naira per day, except on weekends and public holidays! This is not far from the truth, since each one smiles home with N45 million per quarter, in a country where most citizens live on less than US$1 a day, and the minimum wage being fought for comes to US$4 per day!
''Add this to the fact that while it took 3 per cent of the national budget to service the National Assembly in the Second Republic, the current National Assembly is gulping over 30 per cent of the national budget, and one will get an idea of how this legislators are draining the economy. If they dispute the figures quoted above, they should tell Nigerians what they earn and what percentage of the national budget is being used to service the National Assembly.”
The party said the proposed law offends the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, stifles the ability of the parties to make their own constitutions and decide who attends their NEC and shows how those elected to serve the people could not differentiate between the interest of one party, in this case the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with the majority in both chambers of the National Assembly, and the country.
It said: ''As far as the dominant PDP members of the National Assembly are concerned, the interest of their party is the same as the interest of the nation. That is why there has been a cacophony of (PDP lawmakers') voices defending the toxic law being planned, with barely a whimper from the probably overwhelmed or quietly acquiescing legislators from the other parties.
''In the process of defending this law, logic has been turned on its head, with the sponsors and their supporters claiming it will enrich internal-democracy in the parties and broaden their decision-making base. No one has talked about the fact that it will turn the NEC meetings of the parties into a jamboree/rally, with praise-singers in tow.
''It will also mean that the lawmakers would have succeeded in smuggling into the various parties a uniform constitution, akin to making them the five fingers of a leprous hand, as we had during the [former head of state Gen. Sani Abacha years. Needless to say that the surest way to kill democracy and turn Nigeria into a one-party state is to do exactly what the PDP-dominated National Assembly is proposing.
''The proposed law will also make the lawmakers - in the case of the PDP more than 300 National Assembly members gate crashing into the NEC - the single biggest bloc in the NECs of the parties. Then, the dictatorship of lawmakers would have been entrenched, with dangerous consequences for all.”
The party said the various opposition political parties as well as Nigerians were to blame for the turn of events, adding that if the persistent warnings of the ACN had been heeded - that the National Assembly members were representing themselves instead of those who voted them into power - they (lawmakers) would not have been emboldened to try their latest antics.
Commenting on the controversial bill, Kumo said: “There are procedures of choosing NEC members and the automatic membership of NEC as envisaged by the National Assembly will make NEC meetings quite unwieldy.
“We shall use every available means including going to the court to contest this legislation that the National Assembly wants to introduce which is based on selfish and not the national interest.
“Much as the National Assembly has the legislative rights to make laws for the country, that law must be for the good governance of the country, not one based on selfishness.”
Anyaoku warned members of the National Assembly not to insert a provision that would give them advantage in their political parties in the selection of candidates for elective positions, saying it would be a “serious assault” to the country’s fledgling democracy.
Speaking at a lecture to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the coronation of the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo III, Anyaoku said one of the ways to strengthen democracy and the country’s presidential system is when there is a limit to how far the constitution should go in regulating how political parties seek to conduct their internal procedures and workings.
He warned that to ascribe undue influence and self-serving influence to the parliamentary group of the party in the selection of candidates would undermine the democratic process.
A vibrant democracy, he said, must protect the right of political parties’ conventions and or conferences at national and other levels, to serve as platforms for enabling delegates of the rank and file members of the party to determine their party’s manifesto and candidates for elective political offices.
He also called for the inclusion of one traditional ruler from each of the six geo-political zones at the federal level into the National Council of State who should each be elected by a college of certificated rulers on rotational basis within his/her zone to serve for two years at a time.
At the state level, he recommended one traditional ruler from each of the three senatorial districts who should equally be elected by a college of certificated traditional rulers on rotational basis within each senatorial district to serve in the State Security Council for two years at a time.
Anyaoku said he was not oblivious of the importance of the constitution prohibiting traditional rulers from getting involved in partisan politics and the need to protect them from victimization by the government of the day who might be tempted to co-opt them in pursuit of partisan political activities.
He noted that the fact that many Nigerians still regard it as a desirable social status symbol to accept chieftaincy titles from traditional rulers, showed that the position and role of the traditional rulers were still recognized, respected and revered.
He argued that in some aspects of the life of the society, such as in land matters and even in intra-community civil conflicts, traditional rulers and their Councils of Chiefs still wield significant benevolent influence.
He said: “Since the traditional rulers have continued to guarantee the sustenance of the history, culture and identities of their various communities, being the vehicles for the transfer of their people’s customs from one generation to the other, they still play an important part in sustaining the cohesion of societies thereby contributing to the maintenance of law and order especially in the rural parts of every African country.
“Thus, the traditional rulers not only provide essential and appropriate platform for guaranteeing the people’s fundamental right to culture, they also, as the rallying point of their various peoples, serve for the galvanization of the people for purposes of national solidarity.
“The strategic importance of the institution of the Alake of Egbaland to the Egba people amply demonstrates the vital role that traditional rulers have played in every African society, not only before the advent of colonialism on the continent, but also in this post-colonial era.
“At all times, African traditional rulers have always been the custodians of their people’s culture and the embodiment of their collective conscience.
“With the coming of European colonial domination, the traditional rulers remained the undisputed interface between the colonial authorities and the African peoples.” http://www.thisdayonline.info/nview.php?id=187691 |
| Politics › Re: ‘what Nigeria Should Do To Seized Iranian Arms’ by koruji(op): 2:46am On Nov 16, 2010 |
@Ileke How did a thread on "Seized Iranian Arms" turn into a discussion about men & women (and what they can do or not do) and kids & milk. Hhmmm? Oya explain yourself   Ileke-IdI:
Death! I don die. Oya you can keep willy willy and ikeyman too. They can be real useless without even trying.
Abeg, remove Yoruba men from those group o, dem try small. Even with their oblong head and spagheeti arms e ti da tiredi yii ru completely. Lol |
| Politics › Re: Jonathan Renames Liberty Stadium After Awolowo by koruji(op): 2:30am On Nov 16, 2010 |
He was doing 50 years ago, what the thugs and thieves of today cannot do. Shame on unimaginative, pocket-stuffing dealers we call leaders today. This is what unitarism breeds - incompetence in the name of unity. veraponpo:
AWOLOWO THE PACE-SETTER.
FIRST TV IN AFRICA- WNTV NOW NTA,
FIRST INTERNATIONAL SIZE STADIUM - LIBERTY STADIUM ,
FIRST TO START FREE EDUCATION. AS AT 1955, ( WHEN ZIK AND AHMADU BELLO DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO),
FIRST TO CONSTRUCT A SKYSCRAPPER FOR COMMERCIAL DEVT,-COCOA HOUSE,
FIRST TO ESTABLISH A REGIONAL UNIVERSITY NOW FEDERAL-OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY( AFRICA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS),
THE LIST IS ENDLESS, REMEMBER ALL THESE HAPPENED BEFORE AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE INDEPENDENCE. WHO CAN TRY THIS TILL TOMORROW, UP AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! |
And you too next time stop derailing threads 