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Kobojunkie:
[size=13pt]@Poster, when do you plan to get over this serious hard-on for this dude that you have had since you joined Nairaland?[/size] Every freaking thread you go on and on about him as if you could not do without him joining you on there. You try so so hard to engage him on every single thread you get on. Really, all I want to know is when this crush of yours will be handled, so those of us who are sick and tired of these your 'rendezvous' and bickerings will be able to open threads without being needed to scroll through what has become the usual?

You and so many others have been obsessed with it for so long now, and complain as if it is being forced on you.
[size=13pt]it's 2012, ain't it time for you to give up on stalking it? I mean if this is some gay thing going on here, let us know so we at least understand this need of yours, and so many others on here to constantly seek out it's attention, no matter what. [/size] https://images-3.findicons.com/files/icons/1039/manto/128/despise.png

Beaf:
Phuck off back to the zoo you rushed out off.
Imagine talking about discrediting GEJ to you. Wonders!
Does any sane person think GEJ can be discredited to a hate filled madman like you?

BlackPikiN:
Do you guys realise what that you all are the most selfish people on the surface of the earth?
NA your house e dey come. You suppose tell than one to your two-faced Governor.

babsjnr:
I dey fear to come naija now everywhere violence

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/nigeria-s-jonathan-faces-his-defining-battle-amid-general-strike.html
Nigerian Strike May Force Jonathan to Seek a Compromise on Fuel Subsidies

By Chris Kay - Jan 10, 2012 6:16 AM ET .

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is coming under increasing pressure from a general strike and the legislature to back down on his decision to abolish fuel subsidies and to discuss phasing them out instead.

The House of Representatives has called on Jonathan to reverse the decision and the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, which called the strike that started yesterday, said they’re ready to discuss subsidies if he does. While the action hasn’t hurt exports from Africa’s top oil producer, trade in the naira currency was limited for a second day and most businesses and shops were closed.

“It would be tough for them to back down, but what they might do is try to think of some way of phasing it in, not having quite as sharp a shock,” Rachel Ziemba, a senior analyst at Roubini Global Economics in London, said in a phone interview. “It’s become a defining test for Jonathan’s administration.”

At least two people were killed by police during protests yesterday, while the the government imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the northern city of Kano. Nigerian army troops guarded oil company offices and facilities in Port Harcourt, while military helicopters and boats patrolled the creeks in the Niger River delta.

Labor unions called the strike to force the government to reverse a decision to scrap fuel subsidies. It started a day after Jonathan, 54, said the Boko Haram Islamic group responsible for attacks in the north had infiltrated his administration and threatened Nigeria with a situation worse than the 1967-70 civil war.

Gasoline Prices Soar

Gasoline prices in Nigeria, where two-thirds of the population of about 164 million live on less than $1.25 a day, more than doubled after Jonathan abolished 1.2 trillion naira ($7.4 billion) of subsidies on Jan. 1. The price had been capped at 65 naira a liter, undermining investment in refineries that forced the nation to import about 70 percent of its fuel.

Jonathan may decide to try to start negotiations to remove the subsidy gradually when the government meets tomorrow, Babatunde Obaniyi, head of market risk at Lagos-based Greenwich Trust Group Ltd., said in a phone interview today.

Jonathan has pledged to use the savings from the subsidy to invest in power plants and roads in Africa’s most populous nation.

“Given President Jonathan’s insistence that the subsidy removal would not be reversed as it forms part of his transformation agenda, there may be a long drawn out battle ahead,” Gregory Kronsten, the London-based head of macroeconomic research at FBN Capital Ltd., wrote in a report today. “The government’s resolve appears very strong.”

Oil Unions

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, one of the country’s two main oil workers’ unions, urged Jonathan to compromise.

“Oil production is being shut down gradually in the anticipation that the government will so something, but if government doesn’t do something about the strike, then it will be shut by the weekend,” Babatunte Oke, a spokesman for the union, said today by phone from Lagos.

Nigel Cookey-Gam, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), which has the second-largest oil operations in Nigeria, said today by phone that “production and exports have not been affected by the strike.”

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s venture, which has the biggest operations in Nigeria, said its offices in Lagos and Port Hartcourt, the hub of the oil industry, are closed. Company spokesman Precious Okolobo wouldn’t comment on the strike’s impact on production.

Military Patrols

“We’re closely monitoring the situation and the safety of our employees and contractors is our key concern right now,” he said by phone from Lagos.

Nigeria produced an average 2.2 million barrels of crude a day in December, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and is the fifth-largest provider of oil imports to the U.S. At least 90 percent is pumped by Shell, based in The Hague, Exxon Mobil, San Ramon, California-based Chevron Corp. (CVX), Total SA (FP) and Eni SpA (ENI) in joint ventures with state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.

The strike forced Nigeria, the world’s fourth-biggest cocoa producer, to stop moving beans from farms for processing and gradings, said Robo Adhuze, spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria.

Cocoa Processing Halted

“Without grading, the beans cannot be certified and bagged for export,” he said by phone from Akure in western Nigeria.

Nigerian airspace is not closed and all international flights are operating normally, Supo Atobatele, a spokesman for the National Airspace Management Agency, said by phone from Lagos today.

The strike, violence by Boko Haram militants in the north and signs of a resumption of unrest in the oil-rich Niger delta are increasing tensions in Nigeria, John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, said yesterday in a telephone interview.

“Nigeria strikes me as being rather overstressed at the moment, with Boko Haram, the delta and now a general strike,” he said. “That’s a bit much for any country to deal with at the same time.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Kay in Abuja at
ckay5@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net

Dvampire:
Pls tell me, is that the way to handle the boiling situation? Someone is definitely being ill-advised here.

Beaf:
Go push drugs for your arse that looks like an unfortune frog.
What does your state produce that you are so bothered about free money from Abuja? Is that not what should be your main concern?
Lazy, air-headed phuck.

Beaf:
Maybe Tinubu pays you to chat id!ocy on NL, or you run drugs for him (and sniff some too) that is why you think others must be paid like you.
Tell me, what do you do for Tinubu, are you his heroine runner? Do you sell his drugs or help him forge "Toronto" certificates?

Your state produces fuckall, yet you wish to cry more than the bereaved.

Impaired baboon.

Beaf:
Don't mind that hypocrite and uncultured buffoon.
When Odi was levelled, where were they? They have been calling themselves "owners of Nigeria" for the past few days. Owners of who?
They are just mentally and physically lazy ethnic bigots.

Beaf:
@Koruji

I pity fools.
If the so-called "civil society" (read smugglers, marketers and importers) had won the battle by some far fetched miracle, what do you think would have happened to Nigeria?

Insular fools like you can never measure the temperature outside their villages and regions. Keep vomitting and swallowing bile, it will only affect your health.
You put people on the streets to die fighting the battle of their enemies. Dude, if you like. cry blood, its your phucking problem.

Nigeria MUST develop, regardless what you are or what you think.

BlackPikiN:
Una dey craze.
When Obasanjo ordered soldiers to kill everybody in Odi Village. I mean everybody in ODI. WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU IDIOTS? None of you f00ls said nothing about ICC!
So tey Timaya use una sing self.
You guys are so selfish, irresponsible and pen thieves!

efisher:
Yet some greedy ones among us want us to keep paying for fuel consumed by our neighbors. Since when did we become father Xmas?

Nchara:
ACN,  a bunch of double-faced Homo sapiens. Please send this article to the garbage bin.

http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151921:subsidy-protests-day-9-death-of-protesters-labour-takes-jonathan-ringim-to-icc&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8
Subsidy protests Day 9: Death of protesters: Labour takes Jonathan, Ringim to ICC
Written by Lawan Danjuma, Gusau; Mohammed Shosanya, Lagos; Ronald Mutum, Abuja; Mustafa Abubakar, Ilorin: Romoke Ahmad; Ismaila Mudashir, Kaduna; Hisham Habib & Sadeeq Aliyu, Kano; Kehinde Akinyemi, Abeokuta; Ahmed Mohammed, Bauchi; Lawal Ibrahim, Gombe; Andrew Agbe Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:07

Day 9
Death of protesters: Labour takes Jonathan, Ringim to ICC
Mohammed Shosanya,Lagos

Organised Labour says it has lodged a formal complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Jonathan and Inspector General, HafizRingim for the murders of protesters in the country.

The country, it said tragically has witnessed the murder of at least eight unarmed civilians in the course of the protests against fuel price hikes.

A joint statement from the Acting General Secretary of the Nigerian Labour Congress and General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria(TUC), Comrades Owei Lakemfa and John Kolawole also accused President Goodluck Jonathan of importing thugs into Abuja to attack protesters.

According to labour, the Presidency had intended to use the police and army to carry out a planned attacks on peaceful protesters but due to the outcry over previous murders, it has  opted to use armed thugs.

"Labour warns the Presidency that it will be held responsible for whatever atrocities these thugs commit. If  the thugs attack the anti fuel price hike protesters, the Labour Movement will be compelled to ask all citizens to march on Abuja and take the city.

"The Jonathan Presidency must wake up to the reality that Nigerians in their tens of millions have spoken out across the country against the fuel price hike and it will do well to listen to the voice of the people.

"The nation will recall that the Presidency using a former militant as front, had on Friday January 6, 2012 employed thugs to invade the NLC headquarters.

"With the turmoil in the country created by the Presidency’s insensitive hike in fuel prices, the Jonathan administration has become the greatest danger to democracy in Nigeria and the country’s well being’’. 

Thanking civil society organizations, lawyers, House of Representatives members for their support for the mass action, the labour movement called on Nigerians to continue the strikes, rallies and protests tomorrow Wednesday January 11, 2012 and subsequent days until the Jonathan government listens to the voice of the Nigerian People.

http://www.punchng.com/news/acn-urges-jonathan-to-listen-to-nigerians/

January 11, 2012Leave a Comment

The Action Congress of Nigeria has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revert to the old petrol pump price of N65 per litre and save the people from more sufferings.

In a statement in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the President should have realised that he had been deceived by self-seeking advisers into removing the fuel subsidy, leading to the nationwide protests.

According to the ACN, in spite of the tactics employed by the government to divide Labour, using some officials to misinform the public, Nigerians came out in large numbers to protest against the fuel subsidy removal because they refused to be deceived.

The party said, “If the government needed a referendum on this ill-thought-out policy, it got one in the massive protests by Nigerians against the subsidy removal. This happened, despite the massive frittering away of scarce resources to sponsor a myriad of shady groups to force Nigerians to swallow the bitter pill of subsidy removal.

“It it clearer than ever, now, that no good advert can sell a bad product. The tactics being employed by the government has never worked and will not work in this case. In fact, it has backfired!’’

The party commended the House of Representatives for rejecting the withdrawal.

The ACN urged the Senate to take its own cue from the House.

It also hailed organised labour, civil society organisations, professional groups as well as the masses for engaging in peaceful protests across the country.

“Nigerians have shown that they can indeed make their case on whatever issue without resorting to violence. We believe this is an indication of our growing democratic culture and we hail the citizenry for this.

“We must however warn the authorities to reciprocate this by bringing to justice the trigger-happy cops who shot innocent Nigerians on Monday.

“We advise organised labour and their civil society partners not to allow themselves to be railroaded into making a compromise that will not be in the interest of the people. Perhaps the labour unions did not know it, but their successful management of the ongoing protests, so far, has redeemed their image. Many had expressed doubt at their (labour’s) ability to lead the people against the subsidy removal.”

emiye:
Guy, Chill now .

My statement was clearly tongue in cheek !

emiye:
Waoh ! A whooping N878,000 in a year. What a great sacrifice

psalmizt:
That's so harsh,  Do not wish a broda so much evil. The truth is this is a democracy (or so they all want us to blv) and everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

efisher: Ghanians have displayed far more maturity than Nigerians. We are acting like a bunch of spoilt kids.

TRUTHTELA:
@ kuroji, don't go & say this outside, cos, people will attack you. How can you tell anyone that Obasanjo adviced against subsidy removal?? How many times did he increase fuel & even TAG some of it " ROAD TAX". He went ahead to create another avenue for wasting the public funds thru his FERMA. Obasanjo increased fuel @ the twilight of his administration, SIMPLY COS, HIS CRIMINAL THIRD TERM AGENDA WAS THROWN OUT, fortunately, Yardua revised that his malicious fuel increase. He has buried his head in shame & have not said anything to prove that he is not in support of subsidy. How can he not be in support of it? When he said that fuel is cheaper than a bottle of coke.

If not for a ROGUE like Obasanjo & his fuel increase policies, people like Oshinmole will not be made popular thru NLC, activisim & he used that popularity to turn against Nigerians by SUPPORTING SUBSIDY. History will judge them all.

Kay-Dee:
She probably recommended outright removal based on the assumption that the corruption associated with subsidy payment couldnt be tackled leaving them with the only option of removal. The major problem seems to be the cost which is higher than normal because of inflated and bogus figures for imported products. Uncle Johna can get to the root of this corruption problem if he chooses to, but he doesnt seem to have the balls for that, instead he decides to heap the burden on the masses. - unacceptable

I had faith in a financial sector that had Okonjo and Sanusi @ the helm of affairs but now im inclined to think that their decisions are based on strict conditions without much options which leads them to make one-way decisions.

It's a crazy mess.  

TRUTHTELA:
Where is Obasanjo? Why is he SILENT? Soyinka, Achebe, Buhari & other GREAT MINDS, with CLEAN HANDS and MORAL JUSTIFICATION to SPEAK their minds, have all SPOKEN about the SUBSIDY.

Is Obasanjo's silence a subtly way of endorsing the subsidy?

Or he knows how much his name STINKS & chose to respect himself??

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/34018-jonathan-in-nigeria-commissions-mass-transit-scheme
Written by Leon Usigbe, Abuja Monday, 09 January 2012

CONTRARY to speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan travelled out of the country to South Africa, the president’s spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, said the story was far from the truth.

Dr Abati said the rumour being spread about showed the extent enemies of the government could go to discredit the president, who was in Abuja to inaugurate the 1,600 mass transit buses.

Performing the ceremony at Eagle Square, Abuja, Jonathan used the opportunity to debunk claims that the Federal Government had engaged in the mass procurement of buses.

He also emphasised that the government was not inaugurating buses, but  formally launching a mass transit programme for the country.

According to him, “the Federal Government is not buying any bus. There is a lot of mischief makers going around to misinform Nigerians, especially through social networks, the Twitter, bb, Facebook and others, to communicate very wrong things to Nigerians.

“Even as I am here with you, people are saying that I am in South Africa with about 100 Nigerians. But that is Nigeria for you. There is a lot of wrong information that is being pumped into the system.

“We are not buying a single bus as a Federal Government, but we are subsidising the mass transit sector. That is what other governments do. We have to come up with programmes and policies to bring the cost of buses for mass transit down."

He added that those involved in the mass transit initiative included the federal, state and local governments, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), several commercial banks, transport unions, manufacturers and importers of mass transit vehicles.

The president, who explained that governors could not be present on the occasion because they had to be present in their states in view of the planned labour strike, regretted that the nation had no mass transit culture.

According to him, “in this country, we don't have a mass transit culture. When you travel out, people who go to school, people who go to visit friends, who travel from one city to another, enter buses or go by train. They don't use taxis. Taxis is for urgent movement or for those who have more money than the stomach would need.

“But here, that mass transit culture is not available. It comes and goes."

He said deregulation or no deregulation, the Federal Government's intention was to develop a mass transit culture which was sustainable and, therefore, the government would subsidise the manufacture of buses to bring down their cost.