₦airaland Forum

Hence you wonder why they feel the need to start another move on the same subject.

Are we not all witnesses to how "good" and "clean" extreme Sharia has made the north - that we must start introducing it somewhere where there seems to be religious harmony

I wonder why they are not rising from their meeting to promise those living in fear all over the northern states that they will confront and put down Boko Haram for peace and progress of the nation.

Trouble-makers, that is what they are. As I have said before rear-soldiers like Boko Haram are heralded by forward-soldiers like this group to prepare the way. They will argue the constitution and their rights, raise the tension and then the rest would become "BOOM BOOM".

The SSS & police need to follow each one of these people as they go about carrying out potential actions that down the line create untold chaos.

Ufeolorun:
Sharia court has been part of SW court system for ages,I don't know what you guys are really on about.
The speaker isn't ignorant he's just a mischief maker cos he knows sharia courts are within the legal frame work in the Sw and have been for decades.
This is no news.

silverstud:
A group, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN) rose from their 5th annual general conference in Kaduna State, declaring that they will ensure that the introduction of Sharia legal system in the southern states as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

The group said this against the backdrop that it concerns the determination of Islamic personal laws as it relates to marriage, divorce and inheritance.

The lawyers also called for an end to the trial of the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, demanding that the judicial process be accelerated to end his long travail and persecution.

In a communiuque at the end of the conference in Kaduna, MULAN said it would collaborate with the National Assembly to abrogate all discriminatory provisions in the constitution of Nigeria that tends to strengthen the settler/indigene dichotomy that has precipitated many crises in various parts of the country.

The communiqué signed by the National President of the body, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladoja, the body also urged the Federal Government not to hesitate to invoke its power under the constitution by declaring a state of emergency in any state of the federation plagued by ethno-religious crisis.

The group decried the alleged constant breach of the fundamental rights of Muslims across the country with impunity under the pretence of National security.

The association said: "It has become a routine exercise for security agencies to arrest, detained and harangued, intimidate and torture Muslims, especially those who wear long beards in the name of curbing the Boko haram menace" and called on the security agencies not to be partisan when discharging their duties.

"They also called on security agents to respect the fundamental right of Nigerians and to desist from indiscriminate arrest and torture based on facial outlook and or dressing in the name of stemming the tide of ethno-religious crises in Nigeria."

The body also called on the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to license non-interest banking for interested Nigerians, irrespective of their religious persuasions and not to be discouraged by critics of the ideal.

They also accused state government in the country especially those in the north of paying lip service to the formalisation of the Almajiri educational system thereby increasing the level of illiteracy in Nigeria, particularly in the north.

They also accused states in the southern parts of the country of failing to recognize the rights of Muslims to have their disputes adjudicated on the principles of sharia as enshrined in the constitution of the country and congratulate the National Assembly for criminalizing same-sex marriage.

They asked the government not to add to the hardship already existing in the country by removing fuel subsidy, asking the government to forget about the idea in the interest of the ordinary Nigerians.

SOURCE:THISDAY NEWSPAPER

How do we manage to come up with this kind of things, even with the name university attached to the institution?

Don't get me wrong. There might be "some" basis for claiming his portion can do something for those with one or more of these diseases, but to transport that into the realm of high demand in Europe and America should cause anybody to doubt even that potential.

aloy/emeka:
[size=14pt]Don discovers cure for diabetes[/size]
on DECEMBER 15, 2011 · in HEALTH

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE

BENIN – NIGERIANS living with Diabetes, prostrate enlargement and bosom cancer can now heave a sign of relief as a Nigerian University lecturer and researcher, Prof. Ernest Izivbigie has discovered cure for the ailments.

Prof. Izevbigie who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Benson Idahosa University, Benin using local bitter leafs which is well grown in the country, has produced the drug which is now in high demand in Europe and America.

The drug “Edolite”, according to Prof. Izevbigie is very potent in the management of diabetes, prostrate enlargement in men and bosom cancer in women is currently produced in America and would be produced locally in Nigeria as from February 2012.

He told newsmen yesterday in Benin that the drug which is currently available in some Pharmaceutical stores in the country especially in Benin and Lagos has measured up the standard specifications as required in Europe and America.

For his feat in advancing the cure of the ailments, Prof. Izevbigie has been inducted into the United States Academy of Inventors.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/don-discovers-cure-for-diabetes/

Look who's talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does he know the implications of the policies GEJ is proposing? Or he is just following the outdated "no change" policy of the labor groups. Many times the NLC is right in opposing government policy, but more than often it is for the wrong reasons.

[size=14pt]What Nigeria needs is not just somebody opposing A,B & C, but also saying these are options D, E & F that are much better, and why.[/size]

I hope people stop deceiving themselves about Buhari making a better president - even with the obvious weaknesses of GEJ in confronting BH I make bold to say that Buhari would still be a worse president than both of them.

Ribadu would have combined both the military-like mind of Buhari, with the exposure of GEJ, plus youth and a "cleaner" hand to take on what hails this nation.

Nigerian youths would not forgive themselves if they let the likes of OBJ play them once again during the 2015 elections. Let the Buharis, IBBs, OBJs, Atikus, and the like go and sit in one corner.

lukkie:
The Nigerian Labour Congress on Thursday lambasted President Goodluck Jonathan, describing him as a "dull leader" who lacks the capacity to govern a complex country such as Nigeria.

Speaking in Abuja at the launch of a book ‘Time to reclaim Nigeria’ written by activisit Chido Onumah, the organisation's Assistant General Secretary, Denja Yaqub, said Mr. Jonathan was not deep enough to understand the implication of some policies he is trying to foist on Nigerians.

Mr. Yaqub, who represented the NLC's Acting General Secretary, Owei Lakemfa at the event, also said labour was ready to pay the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that government’s decision to remove subsidy on petroleum products does not see the light of the day.

“President Jonathan was voted into power by Nigerians, but we have lost him to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and such other bodies," he said. "The fight for fuel subsidy removal has been on since 1986 and many people have lost their lives in this struggle, we will never waver."

He also accused the president of lacking adequate knowledge on the subsidy matter based on his response on the issue at the National Assembly, wondering why he is determined to go ahead with the policy.

“President Jonathan has failed woefully and he does not even understand the subsidy issue as he cannot give an intelligent answer on it at the National Assembly. I am glad Nigerians have already started mobilizing themselves to hit the streets and protest without waiting for labour,” he said.

Speaking along the same line, national secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buba Galadima, argued that rather than talk about subsidy, what the president needs to bother about is the regime of incompetence and corruption pervading government at all levels.

“How will the removal of the so-called subsidy translate to transformation? Nigerians are angry over this decision and the only ones that are not angry are the ones benefiting from the system,” Mr. Galadima said

The CPC leader further accused the president of taking the issue of fuel subsidy removal too personal.

” If the president truly believes that sovereignty lies with the people, he should know that he is holding the office in trust for them."

The event, described by the compere as “the gathering of trouble makers” had as chief host Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, the presidential candidate of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 election while Hussaini Abdu, Actionaid's country director, was guest lecturer.

In his paper, Mr. Abdu also condemned the decision to remove subsidy while at the same time making life unbearable for citizens by raising electricity tariff, reinstating toll gates, and retrenching workers.

He noted that the title of the book could not have come at a better time than now because the country had been hijacked by five groups of people he listed to include, “corrupt and rapacious politicians, imperial technocrats, international financial institutions, multinational corporations and parasitic business class.”

On his part, Mr. Ribadu said he was he aligning himself with the position of his party, the ACN, which had issued a terse statement condemning the government for trying to cut the subsidy on fuel.

Some speakers at the event spoke on the widespread insecurity in the country. They were however of the view that allocating the lion’s share of the 2012 budget to security is not the solution but good governance.

"In a country in which people are struggling to get the next meal, and one person will steal over N500billion and go scot-free, no amount of money voted for security will guarantee peace other than social justice,” Mr. Galadima said.

Some of those who attended the event were Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, who was represented by Idiat Babalola; a fomer presidential aide, Uba Sani; S.Oronsanye, who represented the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities; a chieftain of the the Congress for Progressive Change Farouk Adamu Aliyu; and Abdullahi Ribadu, former vice chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Yola.


http://premiumtimesng.com/index.php/news/3139-nlc_says_jonathan_is_too_dull_for_nigeria.html

Well, we've always known this. It's just a reminder.

Looks = 0
Body Language = 0
Utterances = 0
Decisions = 0

Only you can tell a truth, and then nullify it with an incredible lie - all in one post.

What "reverse is the case" & "100 times" are you seeing in your visions?

Dock a 150 million capacity ship anywhere on the Nigerian space, and watch the entire place empty out.

Geeeeez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rossikk:
What I know is that during Abacha's time, guys were falling over each other to check out of Naija.

Today, the reverse is the case. Sorry, no comparison. Naija is 100 times better today than it was under Abacha.

Yes, the OPC protest would be a major concern in other circumstances - but not when the alternative is a good probability that BH's madness is coming southward.

Ileke-IdI:
I just dont want that kain wahala in Yorubaland. If this is a warning for boko harams, let it stop there.

Thank you. These people are not fit to lead a pack of chickens.

Did the South Korean's complain of Wester domination. No! Did the Chinese complain of Western domination. No! Instead, they welcomed them and did their homework. Today, both of those countries can stand on their own in comity of nations.

Not African leaders. When in position of authority they do zip, when they get out of power they start talking sh.t!!!

In any case, Zuma is only saying crap for a crappy audience - when he goes back to South Africa he knows fully well which economic policies work and which don't.

ode remo:
@Vespasian, may God bless you sir.
I wonder what african leaders tot they will achieve by reckless  sentinmental public dialogue, withthout internal discipline, unending inter/intra tribal warfare, endemic internal corruption.etc
I tot zuma shld have had  breakfast with his uncle mugabe before coming to abuja.

A revolution heralded by those responsible for the morass is NO REVOLUTION AT ALL.

Take my word for it, OBJ is actually trying to nip the real revolution in the bud.

It is absurd in the same way it would be if Ghaddafi went about anouncing to the world that 42 years is too long for a single ruler, but yet refused to quit!!!!!!!!!!

High_Chief:
^^^I see that coming soon, OBJ has been clamouring over revolution and arab-like-uprising lately, could it be the old man is not having rest of mind anymore. He played a mjor role in impoverishing Nigerians

First, the SSS has already prosecuted people for planning to procure BMBs for the 3rd mainland bridge.

Second, OPC probably has intelligence that BH was attempting to bring its trade to the SW - that is what they do.

Anybody that assumes that BH & its various franchises has the "honor" to keep their BMBS out of the SW, without somebody standing up to them, is deceiving him/herself.

OPC can't wait until they have planted roots and cannot be easily taking out - prevention is better than cure. OPC is not going to engage in any violence unless BH refuses to keep its "baby's" hands to its body.

kettykin:
The OPC Anti Bokoharam  protest was unnecessary primarily because the Bokohoaram operators originally didnt intend to bring it to the SW, if OPC had portested that the Bokoharam should not kill or cause to die through their bombing ny Yoruba person , that can be understandable but how will somebody protest that Ghadaffi or Sadam husein should not bring battle to your door step when   the battle originally was not intended to be brought to your door step

Ileke-IdI:
Exactly, IMHHHHO, the foools just attracted attention to the SW.
Or maybe it's because of the runors about BH targeting Lagos.

You mean the "Onlylies" of this world. Right??

Gbawe:
The guy is truly a pathetic 'local champion' who will forever remain stymied by a feudalistic, obdurate and self-limiting focus on besting others in an age of individualism, a performance-reliant global village and the triumph of ability over parochialism. We all saw Jesse Owen rubbish the supremacist views of Hitler at the 1936 Olympics. Even in recent history, the father of the Williams sisters deliberately set out to make his daughters tennis champions because he believed "black people can play tennis too" with the right exposure. We all saw Tidjane Thiam , from CIV, defeat entrenched old-boyism to become the CEO of Prudential PLC in the UK.

Yet we have ostensibly well educated individuals touting the redundant notion that greatness/superiority derives[b] alone[/b] from ethnic/racial origin. That in itself is highly unintelligent, unevolved and delusional. A perfect indication of the antediluvian mountain one is attempting to scale when engaging the Onlytruth's of the world.

The patient has been brought out of comma, the blood loss has stopped - but this patient is still anemic.

However, that chart is actually plateauing if someone is not reading it blindfolded. You should also note the trick on the chart of starting the left axis at the 26 million mark, thus exaggerating the most recent numbers.

The real behavior since 2009 is shown below, and the recent spikes were due to the multiple billion-dollar disasters in the US in recent years: "The spike in May 2011 was due to a surge in Alabama after an historic onslaught of giant tornadoes devastated the state. According to the USDA’s report, about 1 million disaster victims from several states were added to the rolls."

Of course the food-stamp rolls are increasing - again where is the duck to lay new eggs?

Nobody is trying to tell you the American economy is currently doing great, but you cannot behave as if starting from an economy that mirrored the "Great Depression" is the same as one growing at good clip plus government surpluses. It is the same attitude that pushed the economy to the brink.

Afro_Blue:
Over 46 Million Americans On Foodstamps For The First Time Ever

Source: Zero Hedge

While the capital markets may be cheering that in the past month 120,000 people supposedly found jobs, even if these were largely temporary or part-time just in time for the year end shopping sprees, we wonder how they will react when learning that according to the latest update from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), some 423,000 Americans found their way to minimum way subsistence, courtesy of Food Stamp handouts from Uncle Sam. Since the start of the Second Great Depression, food stamp participation has increased by 18.7 million, and is now at an all time higher 46.3 million. All Bush's fault, or something. At least the chart below appears to be plateauing,  Actually, sorry, no isn't.

Since you started a campaign grossly half-educated about what you are talking about, here is your education. Note from the below chart:

1. The robust economy Clinton handed Bush in 2000

2. Note the performance of Bush in his first 2 years - the economy actually went into negative territory, twice

3. The jobless growth under Bush began in 2003 after he gave tax cuts that went mostly to the rich, which eventually ended up in China's treasury ($1.3 trillion worth). Add to that two multi-trillion dollar wars, and you know why Bush drove the economy into a near-death comma.

4. Once China exhausted its capacity to hold US bonds without incurring incredible risks (and everyone around the world, not just Americans, maxed out their credit) the fake, non-production, growth crashed.

5. Note that the lowest point of the economy was right about when Bush handed over to Obama - the guy actually sat in the WH for 2 years as the economy tanked - taking action only when it became apparent that the worlds greatest economy was going to crash within hours if nothing was done.

6. Right away, Obama went about implementing emergency measures, while his opponents openly prayed that "he would not succeed" (think Rush Limbaugh the cocaine sniffing tout - I heard this with my own ears). Note how the trend of economic performance started its upward march the 2nd quarter after his inauguration - despite the prayers of the failure-warriors.

7. By January 2010, the economy had gone from almost -5% quarterly growth in late 2008/early 2009 to about +5% growth by January 2010. [size=14pt]If you don't know what that means that is a +10% growth rate turn-around within one-year of getting into office. He faced the greatest depression since the 1930s and not only prevented it from becoming "the Armageddon Depression", but lead it back into positive growth within a year.

8. And yes, the economy has had positive growth since then - and it will stay on a growing path if the "failure-warriors" agree to extend the current payroll tax cut without delay.[/size]

9. The US economy would have faired much better but for the arrogant attitude of Europe (particularly, Germany), who were supposed to be US allies. They were going piecemeal, country-by- country, until now - when it seemed their entire EU-27 was about to become 27 different countries.

10. I hope China understands that we all live in a single global village now. No amount of going around the world to hoard oil and other resources will save their economy when they have no markets to sell their exports.

I hope you learn a thing or two from this information and stop working against your own interests.

coolscott:
I wonder where you got the idea the U.S economy is growing.
Guess which is the greatest debtor nation on earth. Yes, that's right! The U.S

We are too fond of free-loading, which at the basic level is the source of all the corruption.

They want the road, but they don't care how it is paid for - typical.

Still, this suggests a change in how this kind of concessions are implemented - direct stakeholders must be brought in right at the begining to avoid this tendency to "wriggle" out of responsibilities.

ekt_bear:
Heh. As much as one day I'd like to serve my people, they seem to be a very ornery lot, difficult to govern.

I salute Fashola for dragging his people to the 21st century, even over the protests of many who would prefer to remain in the stone age.

Forward ever, backwards never.

Nobody cares who makes up Boko Haram - although we all know. What Northerners need to do is stamp out BH before they completely turn your region into Afghanistan. The training camp their leader set up way before the 2009 uprising was named "Afghanistan". That is what they are planning to turn the north and possibly Nigerian into.

The OPC's warning is for BH to keep its agenda in a region where the leaders seems to be fine and dandy with blowing up innocent people, attacking churches, killing policemen en masse, etc. [size=14pt]The SW WANTS AND NEEDS NONE OF IT.[/size]

Abagworo:
What I read on Nairaland makes me wonder when the Black man will eventually gain independence from external and internal colonialism. The OPC people are fools like most Nairalanders. How are we sure that some Yorubas are not in Boko Haram? Boko Haram in itself seems not more of Hausa but more of people from minority tribes in the Northeast zone of the country. So if Boko Haram bombs Lagos then OPC will start killing Hausas and other Northern minorities. Very poor thinking.

Good question what do you know about the American economy?

You know zip - that is what you know.

Perhaps you want to go rob China's Reserve bank where they are storing all the dollars you shipped up there between 2001 and 2008.

While you are there, remember to bring all the factories back. In the meanwhile, please unroll two multi-trillion dollar wars.

You are talking about deficits? Bush took surpluses from Clinton and turned it into the biggest deficit in history. When governments spend in deficit like that the economy is supposed to be recovering, but not Bush's economy  - Bush's economy actually crashed.

The deficit you are counting to Obama was already approved to be spent by Bush - the bail out that fools will like to attribute to Obama. Bush and his mis-advisers knew they needed to do something, but buried their heads under in the sand until it was actually too late - everybody was packing their cash out of the USA economy.

Armageddon was nigh that fall of 2008- and Mr. Bush the avowed "private capitalist" had to eat crow. I am sure Obama will set the records straight during the elections next year.

coolscott:
Please what exactly do you know about the Barack Hussein Obama Administration?

Two fools over here - pardon my language. If you don't get it let me "analogize" it for you.

Think of the economy as a duck that lays eggs. Well, presidents are supposed to make use of the eggs to make omelette for the nation - and raise new ducks to keep the economy going. Well, after using all the eggs the duck could muster - some legitimately, others wasted and given away unnecessarily Bush slaughtered the duck and fed the soup to the gods of greedy capitalism and war. The duck's head ended up in China, the legs and wings ended up in Iraq and Afghanistan - the body was greedily consumed by internal friends of Bush.

In place of the "duck", Bush left to Obama one egg. An egg that was unstoppably rolling down the chute where China's hand waited. What Obama has done is to save the egg from ultimate destruction - thanks to his cool headedness. He has also gone about taking out with surgical precision the hoodlums who crushed a few eggs under the foot (think Osama Bin Laden and all his dead lieutenants). He has stopped the roll of the egg, and is fighting China from laying its hand on the last "egg".

What he must do next is nurture the egg to produce the next generation of "ducks"?

[size=14pt]You two egg-heads (no pun intended) are here talking about Obama's record of not producing any omelette - well tell me where is the duck [/size]

Help Obama nurture the egg into a new generation of ducks during his second term, and you will be eating the usual omelette that Clinton was serving and enabled Bush to serve at the beginning of his term. Hand it over to those who would eat the last egg - and not only that have sworn never to spend money on buying any livestock feed - and you will live to regret it. Enough word for the wise.

In anticipation of your cooperation let me wet here is a recipe of duck egg omelette to encourage you:

Ingredients for 2 omelettes
•4 duck eggs
•2 tomatoes, seedless and peeled, roughly chopped
•1 large yellow onion, sliced
•2 tbs mixed herbs (basil, chives, parsley, etc, ), finely chopped
•3 tbs goat cheese, crumbled
•2 tbs olive oil
•salt and pepper

coolscott:
Obama's  records are bad

coolscott:
Most of us do not want to face the truth about Barack Hussein Obama because we don't want to come to terms with the fact that we were so terribly wrong - about him.
How can those people who shed emotional tears for him feel great acknowledging that that was the extent to which they were publicly wrong?

The following quotes say it all:
First, the president of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Shetiima Yerima was quick on "duty" on this one: “Since they staged the protest, I have been inundated with several calls from northern leaders expressing worries over the safety of Hausa communities in the South West. But because of our good relationship with OPC, I have spoken extensively with Dr. Fredrick Fasehun and he assured me that the intension was not to attack any tribe in the region.”

Look how long it took ACF to even make a statement on Boko Haram. When they finally held their jamborie their useless speeches consisted of: 1) There is no easy option to containing violence in the north (VP, Sambo); 2) Boko Haram are rebels who want change (former Presidential candidate Ribadu); and worst of all 3) A call to ban the Christian Association of Nigeria and a threat to create the Muslim Association of Nigeria (former Minister Jibril Aminu). Do these statements look like any of these people were concerned about the "tension" Boko Haram is raising in the land? May be they are afraid to speak against BH openly - if so, they should have simply refrain from calling a meeting that makes them appear insensitive to the damange BH is doing to the nation as a whole.

See how fast the ACF is sitting up even though the only demand by OPC is that Boko Haram keep off the SW - non-SW'ers were not threatened in any way. If ACF could organize its own vigilante to contain BH up north, like OPC is wanting to do, we will not be here at all. BH is in your midst - deal with them. The leaders of the north should have been inudated by calls over BH, and protests in one city after the other right from the start not when OPC is trying to prevent potential danger.

Speaking in the same vein, a former governor of old Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, said though the protest was not out of place, it could heighten tension in the land. The bolded portion of Ezeife's statement below provides the reason why OPC is making its warning loud and clear.
“Everybody is on the edge because of the attitude of Boko Haram . So, I don’t blame anybody for coming out loud to issue such a warning threat, especially when you have evidence of possibility of their coming to attack people in the South West. The only thing is that it could heighten fear among the people when you hear such warning. To that extent, it is dangerous. But I am sure; they are not reacting for nothing. When you see people who are not wishing you well, you have to warn them from a reasonable distance not to move near you.”

It seems you received a lobotomy and your entire white stuff was replaced by some evil maniac with anti-Yoruba rants.

Were nothing nothing. O ma se o 

Wily¬Wily:
Yorubas Chased Ghanaians away from Nigeria

Go on, praise Boko Haram and discount OPCs effort to stand up to them because in your twisted mind the most violent carries the day.

Ding bat.

dinggle:
@saxywale u said it all.

OPC is a completely toothless group, we are talking about suicide bombers, these OPC boys need to be educated on Boko haram.
Without a doubt Boko-Haram holds the record as #1 and most dangerous militia group in Nigerian. They have shown Nigerians how to defeat the Nigerian military and political elite. They have introduced a new warfare where everyone dies, where no one is declared untouchable. Boko Haram will exterminate OPC at a strike! The only joker card left for Boko-haram to do is to open up their militia group to all aggrieved Nigerians irrespective of their region if they r able to do this, consider it over for Nigeria.

Boko haram leads in the following order:
1. Boko-Haram
2 Mend
3. Massob
4. OPC

Do you persist in re-writing your own history because you are ashamed of it or you simply like to claim things for yourself, whether you deserve it or not? Your choice.

In any case, the below is a big lie. We were all here as Ojukwu endorsed IBB, and as many other Igbo groups threw their support behind him. Before you write please search through the archives so you can stop telling red-faced lies. Many of you Igbos even told the SW to forget about June 1993, while running after IBB like a dog after red meat.

Igbos got behind GEJ once it became clear that IBB, who lied about handing over to Igbo in 2015, was defeated - no less due to protests and campaign by the SW over the June 1993 election. In addition, knowing that he cannot possibly tell Igbo they have 2015, GEJ offered you guys the next best thing that excite your fancies i.e. let us stick it to the Yorubas, since ACN was in negotiations with Buhari and GEJ had done himself in by calling ACN Govs "rascals".

I am probably going to regret replying to this kind of silliness - but could not let these lies pass unchallenged.

PointB:
And when the issue of Jonathan presidency came up, it was Igbo that gave the most important and unconditional endorsement. Your folks were still busy asking for what is in it for them. As if breaking the hausa/fulani born to rule mentality was a bad thing for SW. If that is not standing up against tyranny and oppression, I wonder what is!
Professional lies, that what you just dished out.

This is clearly a useless pursuit, but I have to say that there is nothing farther from the truth in saying that "Zik was the Greatest African". Are you going to compare him to Mandela and others.

Not that I don't consider Zik a Great Man, I do, but this is clearly an incompetent assessment at best.

chino11:
Domkat Bali got it right, with the right words. Truth is so clear. Good one

Yeah. Apart from the increase in oil prices - which OBJ squandered, after commendably paying the national debt, the FG has really done zip to raise the Nigerian economy.

Once you subtract the oil price increases, most of the "real" growth in Nigeria's economy over the last decade or so was largely in Lagos, due to the activities of Tinubu & then Fashola - recall that OBJ did not give Tinubu the Lagos funds for most of their 8 years in power.

Yet, they go around aggregating everything into "our economy is growing at 7% per year" bs, while at the same time playing politics to pull Lagos down.

Kilode?!:
This part is largely due to the visionary leadership of Babatunde Fashola and the ACN.

Even the Canadian Company admitted that fact.http://www.cpcstrans.com/_files/Africa_Investor_Lagos_Blue_Line_George_Kaulbeck.pdf

Well done. I expect more.

Nigerian governments past & present can lie. . .  If you have being paying attention to the news you will know that true state of things is as follows:

1. Nigeria (aka GEJ & the useless National Assembly) has turned a robust, and continuing robust, oil prices into a [size=14pt]deficit[/size].
2. The FG has stopped being responsible for the oil subsidy because it simply doesn't have the money - remember the deficit in (1).
3. The FG has being "stealing" state funds to pay for the oil subsidy.
4. The action above i.e. (3) cannot continue for too long, hence GEJ must either find money to pay for the subsidy, keep violating the constitution by taking state funds or stop paying the subsidies. The FG would have to pay back what it has being taking from state funds.
5. When you take (1) to (4) together, removal of the subsidy is not going to produce any funds for infrastructure.

Removal of the subsidy is merely going to plug an existing gaping hole. It will not create a mountain of new cash, so if you are buying the bull about putting the funds into infrastructure - well you are SOL.

[size=14pt]GEJ is already spending the subsidy funds, and taking state funds to temporarily pay for the subsidies. Hence, he will "desperately" do anything to get rid of the subsidy for good.[/size]

The begining of failure is to always set out targets based on "toppling" someone - it is a failure minded approach.

You say this probably because you were not here during the "NL Biafran attacks" of a couple of years ago  

But frankly, please do a search from a couple of years ago and look at how rabid this was. To buttress my point, you mention Kobojunkie on your list. One, I would be suprised if she is Yoruba, and two her reputation is not that of a tribalist. I don't want to say it, but her reputation is that of a "hard-charging, Mrs. Efficiency, who will not allow you to have the last word on an argument EVEN AFTER YOU MIGHT HAVE AGREED WITH HER".  Many would not join in the madness until it became unbearable - that is the case with Ileke-Idi. Amid all those wars she was not in the mode of a "NL tribalist" until those aggressors brought out the Ekiti in her. Now they wish they hadn't - because when she feels like it she throws the entire arsenal at them.

All those others you mentioned engaged the "Biafran aggressors" with equal fire and more.

Sorry Kobojunkie - but I could not let them put you in the tribalist category   .

Sorry Ileke-Idi.  

Thank God everyone seems to be calmer these days, although you see it erupt every now and then but it was way worse. Oh wait, it might only be due to the fact that OAMJ4 has done a good job of consigning those kinds of discussions to the "Racism and Tribalism" sub-list.

I hope you guys can see how much fun I am having with this.

Lord Naya:
To be frank, it is de yoruba people that are always looking 4 trouble by jumping and derailing every Igbo thread spewing alot of insults without any provocation. Why wont awolowo be insulted when many yorubas like blue tooth, dayokanu, eko ile, kobojunkie, ngodigha, desola, illeke idi, aigbofa etc insult the great and mighty Eze Ndi Igbo Gburugburu C.O Ojukwu. How many yorubas in this forum have made tribute to this great man? None, if not very few. Why wont we call u guyz Yoruba when u call us Ibos instead of IGBOS. Igbos on this forum only  react when attacked. When many yorubas on ground were paying tribute 2 this great man, the dumb ones on NL were busy throwing tantrums. Wot will u guyz say now that awolowo's son and foundation are given honour to whom it is due? You guyz need 2 really change your mind sets. R.I.P IKEMBA NNEWI DIM C ODUMEGWU-OJUKWU

Did you read where it said that [size=14pt]Ojukwu was one of the trustees of the Awo Foundation[/size]?

And to think that many fools are on NL sowing discord instead working with a united front to move our developmental agenda forward.

chino11:
This is the least Yoruba condolence that Igbos need. Keep for your obj. mofos

Now I know u are really senseless and a tout.

We were not anti-Ijaw while trying to help GEJ escape the fox's jaws during the Yar'adua saga. I was not anti-Ijaw when even realizing that PDP was bad for Nigeria argued vehemently against the shoddy treatment PDP was goong to give him on zoning.

We are now anti-Ijaw becos we equally call out GEJ & his rabid dogs pettiness in the name of showing who run things. Swallow your own dung if u want but rest assured that any attack u put up here on NL will be met & dealt with like a vermin that u are.

Go ahead bring up the anti-Ijaw threads that I have put up in your dreams if u are not the senseless output of the behind.

Beaf:
He is expected to say so as a member of another political party. Why should what he said be erased? Not everybody is a hypocrite; it would be crazy for anyone to deny that there is corruption in any political party, including the PDP.
It is only hypocrites that point fingers solely at the PDP, when corruption is everywhere and not something limited by ethnicity, region, political party or religion; it is a Nigerian problem that we best being truthful about, because that is the only way we will develop the necessary groundswell to slay the beast.

Let us not be ethnically driven hypocrites like koruji, who can only see corruption in ethnic groups outside his. maybe he will create a new anti-Ijaw thread tomorrow, its his sad hobby.

Anti-Ijaw threads, telling lies and shamelessly supporting corruption. . .
Jump on each thread to hurl insults because you do not have any worthwhile social or moral capacities. . .

Caught telling incredible lies about things and places you don't know about. . .ya da ya da

Beaf is gradually recovering from his "tree-biting" ways - at least he knows what hails him.

Only problem is, he thinks he is describing someone else. . .

A la i ni'ronu ara Galatia.

How do you solve a lie called Beaf If anyone here knows please advise.

Beaf:
When you aren't posting your ethnically bigoted anti-Ijaw threads, you are telling lies and shamelessly supporting corruption. You jump on each thread to hurl insults, because you do not have any worthwhile social or moral capacities and you also lack the intellect and principle to engage in a civilised manner.

Yesterday, you did the very same thing and you were caught telling incredible lies about things and places you don't know about, all in your desperate bid to promote corrupt men; an adult shouldn't be caught lying. Here you are today, doing your usual unprincipled crap and praying that Tinubu should offer bribes to get out of any trouble.
Take a leaf from the principled stand of the Northern ACN and change your ways for the better.

You are a disgrace, just like your master.

He he he - you know how they do it, of course. Hyprocite.

If you are so "principled" go and tell GEJ to resign his fraudulently obtained "election" - we all know the highest bidder for the PDP ticket

Beaf:
^
Lol! Go and discuss how to give bribes in the dark and scream at "corruption" in daytime.
Hypocrite.

Look at you talking about principled. As Yorubas would say "that word makes your mouth, or is it your fingers in this case, smell".

You, the original Animal Farm squealer talking about principled - Hitler must be preparing to file an appeal from the deepest parts of hell claiming Moses as his father

Abeg, comot make I see front

Beaf:
I would suggest you become as principled as the Northern ACN members. What you posted is absolutely shambolic, two-faced and disgraceful.

You are really entertaining, though!
Is the best you can do to suggest that Tinubu bribes his way out of any trouble he might find himself in? Thats crazy!
Tomorrow, you will be the first to jump up at some far out rumour and begin screaming your lungs out about how corrupt Nigeria is.

Hypocrite.

They started this under OBJ, but Yar'adua/GEJ killed it along with everything else they met on ground - I think it was really Yar'adua & his lackies, but GEJ was part of the govt.

Beaf:
Very encouraging development. It is with such little steps that countries develop. I am proud.
GEJ has pronounced that a new govt policy to encourage the 40% cassava bread is coming out and Okonjo Iweala has been told to finetune it. Really nice.

Great promotion. GEJ actually looked more natural holding that bread 

Now they need to put action behind those words & showbiz.

Didn't they say they were going to split ACN last week? So what's new?

Beaf is posting this like his party and state governors are not daylight robbers.

Perhaps Tinubu was wrong to keep those accounts open - but even his worst enemies admit that those accounts remain unused throughout his tenure.

I can't imagine that even if Tinubu were to be found guilty of something here that he would spend a day in jail - and that would not be any form of settlement or pleading.

Yet, we have thieves who call themselves senators/reps pilfering money without remorse, we have governors going abroad to buy houses for themselves & girlfriends, we have government officials awarding multiple contracts on non-existent roads - but Mr. Transformation is not concerned. Instead, along with the Beafs of this world, the PDP a-holes are taking pettiness to a new height of idiocy.

Your house is burning, you are snoring in bed - wake up.