₦airaland Forum

ammend the constitution to be in aso rock for ever.

GEJ is making the nation ungovernable.
Tell me a credible person in that can lead the nation now.

if you can talk, good.
you need to understand politics and naija political history and structure.
you must be a book worm.

your 1,2,3 fears would be over.

Sincere 9gerian: That was then and the "king makers" from the north (lead by Abdusalam, the then head of state) plus rigging made that possible. In 2011, it was one-man-one-vote

its like you are from TOGO/
In nigeria its one man one naira and one vote , if its false ask GEJ

the hospital should be sued for negligence

she missed her drugs

he only needs to recycle all these

A more matured nigerian would think on this line

"The Buhari administration identified indiscipline as the bane of the nation's ills and therefore decided to fight it in all its ramifications. Hence the pre-occupation of the regime was the launching of the different phases of the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) which has become a household word in may Nigerian homes. There were five phases of WAI, namely :-

a. Queuing (March 20, 1984)

b. Work Ethics (May 1, 1984)

c. Nationalism and Patriotism (August 21, 1984)

d. Anti-Corruption and Economic Sabotage (May 14, 1985)

e. Environmental Sanitation (July 29, 1985).



Other highlights of the regime include :-

1. The suspension of the 1979 Constitution in January 1984.

2. The dissolution of political parties and ban on political activities in January 1984.

3. The freezing of accounts of political parties and corrupt ex-political office holders in the Second Republic in 1984.

4. The trimming down of the country's Civil service labour force in 1984.

5. The change of colour of the nation's currency notes (except the fifty kobo note) in April 1984 to stop currency trafficking. The exercise rendered almost half of the estimated N6 billion in circulation worthless at the expiration of the change.

6. The deportation of illegal aliens on the 14th of April, 1984 and 9th of August, 1985 respectively.

7. The clamp down on economic saboteurs with the legal backing of the Miscellaneous Offences Decree No. 20 of 1984.

8. The launching of the Expanded Immunization Programme (EPI) in May, 1984.

9. The initiation of counter trade in Petroleum products in May, 1984.

10. The wrestling of a major concession from OPEC in 1984 to increase Nigeria's oil production quota from 1.3 million barrels to 1.45 million barrels per day.

11. The adoption of stricter austerity measures in 1984 and 1985 to further revamp the economy which include:

i. The closure of the Nigerian borders in January 1984 to stem smuggling.

ii. The setting up of taskforce to check bunkering as a result of expert's estimation of a loss of one million Naira a day under the civilian government.

iii. The slashing of the basic travelling allowance (BTA) from N 500 to N 100 per annum in 1984.

iv. The introduction of N 100 airport special levy for travellers going outside Africa.

v. The reduction of the home remittance for foreigners to 25 per cent in 1984.

vi. The abolition of the Approved Users Scheme, the General Concessionary Rates of Duty and the Compulsory Advance Deposit Scheme.

vii. The introduction of a new Customs Tariff, which reduced the range of import duties from between zero and 500 per cent to between 5 per cent and 200 per cent.

viii. The granting of import duty exemption to only twenty items including agricultural implements, air craft, fuels, lubricants, educational films, technical assistance materials etc.

ix The introduction of the Advanced Import Duty Payment Scheme.

x. The imposition of a levy on dormant companies.

xi. The promulgation of the Finance Decrees to amend the Income Tax Act of 1969.

xii. The halving of civil servants' leave entitlement in January, 1985.

12. The trial and conviction of ex-politicians who illegally enriched themselves or their political parties.

13 In 1984, Nigeria's recognition of the Sahara Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) on November 11, 1984.

14. The encouragement of substitution of imported raw materials with local raw materials to boost the growth of industries.

15. The encouragement of self sufficiency in agricultural food production.

16. The promulgation of a series of decrees aimed at revamping the economy and inculcating discipline. The most controversial being the Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree No 4 and the Miscellaneous Offences Decree No. 20 of 1984.

17. The rescheduling of the nations's short term trade debts valued at over =N=5 billion and the subsequent issuance of promissory notes to the uninsured creditors.

18. The procurement of new Air Buses by Nigeria Airways in 1985 to boost air transportation.

19. The victory of Nigeria's Under-17 Team (the Golden Eagles) at the Kodak World Cup Soccer Competition in China in August, 1985."

donroxy: They Must shiver cuz when a Lion roar, all the Forest shiver!!!!

ThanGod for Baba's life!!!

Ile Oba to jona,Ewa lo bu si!!!

i disagree with that,
ile oba tojo gbese fun ara ilu.

GEJ go pay.

wetin be the meaning of naira. abeg

stand up for your rights.
idiots hiding behind democracy should be treated.
if those guys were educated you'll understand yorubas democratically

Dudu_Negro: kunle what baselines should the merit be measured against? we have no benchmark or track record of anyone president who truly met the measure of a good leader. i want to say gowon, except he became too possesive in the latter years of his regime. murtala was a sardauna in uniform. buhari is stainless! ...but not long enough tenure to get a broadview of his challenges.

if we can have the buhari of that time and age, with an equally no nonsense deputy like idiagbon, it will be a dynamic duo that can at least restore some glory.

in todays horizon, fashola is the best on merit but he is too liberal. if you put fashola there, pretty soon we will be having gay clubs and casinos and cougar joints all over nigeria. he will be trying to make nigeria an america.

again, lets splut this dayam country and forget about all these equal opportunity nonsense.

its better you have buhari and fashola.
Buhari can do the honorable things and protection so fasola has nothing to fear.

rotational system is shifting the problem and not democratic enough to create a democratic nation.
quota system would put nonentities in place of authority

they should maerge all states in the east and appoint fashola as administrator not governor

ebora owu
omo aji fegbe sere

you no fit

zuwo people.
just give them 100k each for biz, they'll be self reliant forever.

Eziachi: This is my point, what has your lecture to me as to when the war ended got to do with the resultant Nigeria of 2013? Nothing. You are busy educating me on an event I participated in, when your existence as a human being was nil. Even almost 50 years after, I don't think some like you had even left their villages and cross the River Niger bridge ever.

leaving my village has nothing to do with the facts at hand.
i've heard of history, i've heard of fiction. but, fictional history is a new igbotic vocab.

if there were 15 armed robbers in your house, i bet you'll demostrate your bravery to your family and attack.
ill attend your burial and take over your wife.

fool.

pick the president on merit and he picks his deputy from the minority (another group)

Eziachi: We can see how much of flexibility you showed after June 12 1993. How much flexibility did you showed after Abiola and his wife were murdered? You were threatened to scatter Nigeria, started Radio Kudirat, shipping arms to Benin republic, starting to train guerilla forces in Togo, just because of a man and his wife was killed and election won was denied?
But you turned around and ask flexibility from someone whose thousands of brothers and sisters had been murdered and still being hunted? It shows how insincere many of you are.

did you realise the war ended just after the 6th month, before biafra started the propangada campaign.
Ojukwu dragged aid supplies meeting for 6mths and waiting for the rest of the world for mercy favour and support.
he had sold the whole of the east to a french financial institution, he was ecpecting the aid agencies to pay so he could buy arms. his war propaganda were the biafran kids he starved to show the world.

i think he should be exhumed and charged

There are no signs of any corresponding flexibility on the Biafran
side. In his last major public statement on 28th October Colonel Ojukwu
declared that "the war aims of Biafra are very simples to delay the
enemy for as long as possible until world conscience is aroused and then
t o seek world support in what is essentially a human problem". He
claimed then that the Biafran situation had improved, that the fact that
international relief operations had been bringing in a great dea l of relief
items had tended to reassure the Biafran people and ha d pulled up their
morale. He added "peace, indeed everything pertaining to this war
depend s on one man and one man only ; that person is Harold Wilson . It
is he who decided for Nigeria whether to continue the war or to seek peace.
No matter how reasonable the others are eventualy Harod Wilson will
have to decide and Nigeria will accept" . In this speech however
Colonel Ojukwu did say that he would "go anywhere for peace" and added:
" a peace conference would always be possible provided Nigeria genuinely
wants peace , unfortunately, the indications are not so at the moment" .
Mr. Kogbara, the unofficial Biafran representative in London , told the
Canadians here on 5th December that the Biafra s have no intention of
negotiating at this stag e since they wish first to strengthen their position
and to regain some more territory . He asserted that Biafran secession
could not now be called in question and said that Biafran sovereign y was
not negotiable . Anything short of Biafran independence could not be
accepted . Concessions would have to come from the Federal Government
who he claimed were in a precarious position because of strains between
the Yorubas and the North . There must be an unconditional ceasefire.
Britain for her part must persuade Lagos to make concessions .

There are no signs of any corresponding flexibility on the Biafran
side. In his last major public statement on 28th October Colonel Ojukwu
declared that "the war aims of Biafra are very simples to delay the
enemy for as long as possible until world conscience is aroused and then
t o seek world support in what is essentially a human problem". He
claimed then that the Biafran situation had improved, that the fact that
international relief operations had been bringing in a great dea l of relief
items had tended to reassure the Biafran people and ha d pulled up their
morale. He added "peace, indeed everything pertaining to this war
depend s on one man and one man only ; that person is Harold Wilson . It
is he who decided for Nigeria whether to continue the war or to seek peace.
No matter how reasonable the others are eventualy Harod Wilson will
have to decide and Nigeria will accept" . In this speech however
Colonel Ojukwu did say that he would "go anywhere for peace" and added:
" a peace conference would always be possible provided Nigeria genuinely
wants peace , unfortunately, the indications are not so at the moment" .
Mr. Kogbara, the unofficial Biafran representative in London , told the
Canadians here on 5th December that the Biafra s have no intention of
negotiating at this stag e since they wish first to strengthen their position
and to regain some more territory . He asserted that Biafran secession
could not now be called in question and said that Biafran sovereign y was
not negotiable . Anything short of Biafran independence could not be
accepted . Concessions would have to come from the Federal Government
who he claimed were in a precarious position because of strains between
the Yorubas and the North . There must be an unconditional ceasefire.
Britain for her part must persuade Lagos to make concessions .

na demotion be that

in the future look before you leap.

"but it must be realized
that we in the West are in a very difficult position. All the
members of the bodyguard of the Military Governor of the Western
Region were Northerners; there were over 36,000 soldiers in
the whole of the West, most of whom were Northerners, and all of
them carry arms..... "

she made 100m for SEC and spent 75M on her self.
Very sincere 9gerian.

chucksbadt: so from the above comments i can see that both one or two legs during driving is advisable........i really dont agree that driving with two legs for automatic is risky

how did you get your license?

the ibos were before creation.

they can go take AWOquinne or fashzapine

"Dear Reader:

I have excerpted below an unpublished response (by one Mr. Lanre Banjo)
to an article titled "Igbo Leaders Vow Never to Fight for Yorubas, Fear
Another Betrayal" in a March issue of "The Nigerian Times" published
by Dr. Chika A. Onyeani of New York. The full article was recently
brought to my attention, and it is one of those revelatory articles which
I simply cannot but share with you, my beloved Netters ! My focus here
is not on the views of the author, (Banjo) but on the recorded conversation
between Awo and Ojukwu. This excerpt obviously can not be all of their
conversation, but the authenticity and information that this short
piece provides is there for us to judge.

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Enjoy it.

Bolaji Aluko


------------------------------- Begin Excerpt ------------------------
.........
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.........
... Here is the true account of what took place as taken from scripts
of the discussion between Papa and Chief Ojukwu (the Ikemba). The
discussion was taped by the Ikemba and the recorder was captured after
Enugu fell.

On Saturday, May 6, 1967, at 5.15 pm, a meeting began to take place,
at the State House, Enugu, between the then Excellency, Lt. Col.
Odumegwu Ojukwu (the Ikemba) and a delegation of the National
Conciliation Committee (Committee) led by the most Honorable Chief
Obafemi Awolowo. The Committee was represented by Professor Samuel
Aluko, Chief Mariere, Chief J.I. Onyia, while the Eastern Region was
represented by Lt. Col Imo, Lt. Col Effiong, Lt. Col. Kurubo, Mr. C.O
Mojekwu, Mr. N.U. Akpan, Professor Eni Njoku, Dr. Nwakanma Okoro,
Dr. P.N.C. Okigbo, Mr. C.A. Onyegbale and Mr. Ndem with the Ikemba
presiding over the meeting. The names are listed for the purpose
of verification of facts presented herein below with those of them who
may still be alive..............
.......
Papa: The main concern of these delegates is to ensure that Nigeria
does not disintegrate, and I would like to see Nigeria bound
together by any bond because it is better than breaking the
whole place up because each unit will be the loser for it.
The economy of the country is so integrated that it is too late
in the day to try and sever them without risking the death of
one or both of them. So we have come, therefore, to appeal
to you to let Eastern representatives attend the meeting of
the Committee (ON-GOING NATIONAL CONCILIATION MEETING)
I do not want to put myself in a position where I will be treated
as an advocate of the Eastern cause. Let the Eastern delegates
go there, make their case and then as a member of the Committee
I will get up and say I support this entirely. If at the meeting
the East and West present what they want for a new Nigeria
whether temporarily or permanently, and the North says "no,
we are not going to have it", I will go out and address a
World Press Conference and send our case to that body and say
this is what we have done and the North has turned it down.
I will then take any step that is necessary to bring into effect
what we want. The North needed to be in a position of being
presented with the United front of the South.

Ikemba: I started off this struggle in July with 120 rifles to defend
the entirety of the East. I took my stand knowing fully well
that by doing so, whilst carving my name in history, I was
signing also my death warrant. But I took it because I believe
that this stand is vital to the survival of the South. I
appealed for settlement quietly because I understood that
this was a naked struggle for power and that the only time
we can sit down and decide the future of Nigeria on basis
of equality will always be equality of arms. Quietly, I
built up. If you do not know it, I am proud, and my officers
are proud, that here in the East we possess the biggest
army in Black Africa. I am no longer speaking as an underdog,
I am speaking from a position of power. The only
way for the
South to present a united front is for the South to meet and
hammer out that united front. It is a point which must be
cleared first before proceeding to make a statement of whatever
it is. That is why to my mind, at the present stage of the
crisis the ideal thing is for the Southern people to meet
in any platform and discuss and hammer out any difference
they might have because I will have nothing to do with the North.
Then going further, it would then mean that to do this the South
to meet; because if we wait for their permission, we will
wait for ever. On the specific question of whether there is
a possibility of contract with the North, the answer is at the
battle field.

Papa: I do appreciate the points you have made, especially the suggestion
the South could take the bull by the horns, convene a meeting
of its leaders and work out its salvation. Well, I must say
that a number of factors have been overlooked in this regard.
I would be quite willing to attend any meeting convened by the
leaders of the South in the South, but it must be realized
that we in the West are in a very difficult position. All the
members of the bodyguard of the Military Governor of the Western
Region were Northerners; there were over 36,000 soldiers in
the whole of the West, most of whom were Northerners, and all of
them carry arms..... I led a delegation to Lt. Col. Gowon on the
7th and at that interview I made it clear on behalf of the West
that if the soldiers of Northern origin were not removed from
the West we would not attend any further meetings of the Ad Hoc
Committee. He said he would do something, of course he did not.
We passed our resolution (THAT THE NORTHERN SOLDIERS SHOULD BE
REMOVED FROM THE WEST) and Col. Adebayo did very well and give
us certain Yoruba officers with whom to go and deliver the
petition to Lt. Col. Gowon. I did give him an ultimatum up
to the 15th of May to remove these Northern soldiers from the
West. Of course, he agreed to remove them by the 31st of May
but the time we returned to Ibadan Northern soldiers had taken
up arms and wanted to kill me, to kill Adebayo and all others.
Just now Adebayo does not sleep in his house. Somebody told
me that he has not been sleeping in his house. I know why they
put two policemen with two rifles in front of my house the other
day. Of course, I rang up and said I wanted them removed. There
were policemen in front of Sardauna's house but they did not save
him. The populace, of course, turned against the Northern
soldiers. I don't know why Adebayo should issue the release
that soldiers should not be taunted. But this is the way we
have been doing our quiet fighting. You are remote from the
West; you have advantages which we do not possess. We cannot
rush without rushing to our death at the same time. We are not
cowards in the West but we have to move cautiously, because if
we do not do that you might not have us alive; you would only
have monuments all over the place.
And I may say in this connection of Southern solidarity -- I am
sorry to go into what has happened in the past -- in 1953 there
was an understanding between the banned NCNC and the banned
Action Group; we entered into an agreement, which I hope we will
use sometime, to the effect that if the North remained intransigent
we would declare a Southern Dominion. This was signed by myself
and Zik and I still stand by it; but we prefer that you should
send your delegates to this meeting, so that we should, known
to everyone, enter into negotiations among ourselves and present
a common front to the North. Then nobody can accuse us of
conspiracy or trying to divide the country into two parts. I
want you to look at it from our point of view. If there were
no Northern soldiers in the West the position would be different.
And even if by the time I return home the Northern soldiers have
gone I still do not want to be accused of perfidy. The issue
at hand is not enough for us to say that we do not like the North.
That is a negative approach. I think a positive approach will
be for us to meet. Unity will last only if it is based on common
understanding among us and the basis will start at this meeting.
As I said before, I want you to give me a chance of meeting
your people regularly. Let us reolve our differences and
get what we want and quickly too.

Ikemba: If the reason is to get a platform for a meeting between the
Southern leaders, I agree very much that we should try and find
a platform and here we seem to be presented with a fait accompli.
The Southern leaders are here now, so the main thing is to go
on and discuss.

Papa: It will be something near fraud for us to sit down here and
discuss in terms of the South especially as this delegation was
sent here by a body consisting of the Northern delegation....

Ikemba: Now coming to the wider question of the East attending, if it
is a Reconciliation COmmittee then it must be reconciling warring
parties. A Reconciliation Committee can not have the parties
within, somehow, it does not work, unless, of course, they have
already agreed on the major issues, because reconciliation
is to stay in the middle of the warring parties. And one thing
is so clear in the Nigerian situation: certainly the North
and the East are warring. For any Reconciliation Committee to
do justice to the East, it should not have Easterners and
Northerners
in it. That is one point. How does the Reconciliation Committee
expect us to go to Lagos ? Can you, Sir, imagine Sir Kashim
Ibrahim coming to the East to meet and discuss ? The critical
point of the Eastern stand is that the East cannot go to any place
where there are Northern troops. That tells his own story.
The North has made it abundantly clear that no association
if they are not controlling the central machinery, is acceptable
to them. Even in the face of the resolutions of the South,
the Emirs, feudalist Emirs, had the audacity to dictate to the
South; first that they will not allow the Northern troops to leave
the West until they are satisfied that the West has got sufficient
troops.

Papa: You have talked about Easterners and Northerners trying to go to
the same meeting and bringing about reconciliation because they
are the two warring parties. I do not think the fight is between
the East and the North alone. It affects all other parts of the
country save that there is no quarrel between the East and the
West and Mid-West. The fight involves all of us. The West
at this moment, has its own complaints against the North. The fact
that we went there particularly so soon after my withdrawal
from the Ad Hoc Constitutional Committee, which I observed was
set up by the Federal Government to wage war against the East
instead of trying to put things in check, must assure you that
we are resolved to find a solution to this.
You have also spoken about Lagos or anywhere in the West as
unsafe for the Easterners to hold a meeting. Nobody can
tell when life will be lost, but I think, speaking the minds of
entire people of Western Nigeria and Mid-Western Nigeria, that if
anybody can at this stage take the life of an Ibo man or an
Easterner, or if any outstanding Eastern loses his life by the
act of someone else, the whole of the Western Region and the
Mid-Western Region will take it as the end of Nigeria. I
can give that assurance on behalf of Western Nigeria and Lagos."

[End of all the Awo-Ojukwu quotations in the excerpt - Mr. Lanre
Banjo continues:]

This meeting was concluded on Sunday, 7th of May at about 2.15 pm with the
hope to reconvene and with the Ikemba maintaining that the South must
first meet. Before I go further, it would be noted that the Ikemba's view
was maintained due to hindsight (sic: LACK OF FORESIGHT). First, Papa
has just been released from prison for a charge of treasonable felony.
Secondly, he was in Enugu representing the Nigerian National Conciliation
Committee. How could Ikemba expect him to chage and focus on Southern
plan of pulling out of Nigeria ? Papa was more principled than that.
Even prior to his meeting with the Ikemba, he had been falsely accused
of having teamed up with the Ikemba in his campaign against the Federal
Military Government by being in regular touch with him by phone calls
and personal visits to Enugu, to perfect their joint plans. That he had
been sending Professor Aluko and others to Enugu for illegal guerrilla
training. Given this situation, a sudden change to discuss how the South
will unite against the North will definitely confirm the dreadful
and blatant accusations already levelled against him............."

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ogb5: everybody is giving interviews these days.

Some questions I would have loved him to answer.

Why did he allow so many people to get un-employed by banning the importation of almost all raw materials used by indutries. He commenced the killing of Nigeria's industralisation by that action. Almost 30yrs after, many of the affected industirs are still dead.

Why did he turn PTF into an arewa organisation. The oputa panel documented the abuse effectively. Our commonwealth as a nation was single handedly used by him to develop a few section of the north at the expense of the whole country.

and why the hell did he not campaign in the south all these time he has been running for president. Is it because as far as he is concern, the North is the lord amd master of the country? and as such the south does not count?


Why did he, a northerner take another notherner as his 2nd in command when he was head of state.
Why did he a muslim, take another moslem as his 2nd in command when he was head of state.

why was shagari a northern president put under house arrest while ekwueme, a southern vice president sent to kirikiri maximum prison?
All these issue point to one fact: Buhari does not believe in the equality of states in Nigeria. To him Northerners are more of a concern to him, the rest does not matter

A more matured nigerian would think on this line

"The Buhari administration identified indiscipline as the bane of the nation's ills and therefore decided to fight it in all its ramifications. Hence the pre-occupation of the regime was the launching of the different phases of the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) which has become a household word in may Nigerian homes. There were five phases of WAI, namely :-

a. Queuing (March 20, 1984)

b. Work Ethics (May 1, 1984)

c. Nationalism and Patriotism (August 21, 1984)

d. Anti-Corruption and Economic Sabotage (May 14, 1985)

e. Environmental Sanitation (July 29, 1985).



Other highlights of the regime include :-

1. The suspension of the 1979 Constitution in January 1984.

2. The dissolution of political parties and ban on political activities in January 1984.

3. The freezing of accounts of political parties and corrupt ex-political office holders in the Second Republic in 1984.

4. The trimming down of the country's Civil service labour force in 1984.

5. The change of colour of the nation's currency notes (except the fifty kobo note) in April 1984 to stop currency trafficking. The exercise rendered almost half of the estimated N6 billion in circulation worthless at the expiration of the change.

6. The deportation of illegal aliens on the 14th of April, 1984 and 9th of August, 1985 respectively.

7. The clamp down on economic saboteurs with the legal backing of the Miscellaneous Offences Decree No. 20 of 1984.

8. The launching of the Expanded Immunization Programme (EPI) in May, 1984.

9. The initiation of counter trade in Petroleum products in May, 1984.

10. The wrestling of a major concession from OPEC in 1984 to increase Nigeria's oil production quota from 1.3 million barrels to 1.45 million barrels per day.

11. The adoption of stricter austerity measures in 1984 and 1985 to further revamp the economy which include:

i. The closure of the Nigerian borders in January 1984 to stem smuggling.

ii. The setting up of taskforce to check bunkering as a result of expert's estimation of a loss of one million Naira a day under the civilian government.

iii. The slashing of the basic travelling allowance (BTA) from N 500 to N 100 per annum in 1984.

iv. The introduction of N 100 airport special levy for travellers going outside Africa.

v. The reduction of the home remittance for foreigners to 25 per cent in 1984.

vi. The abolition of the Approved Users Scheme, the General Concessionary Rates of Duty and the Compulsory Advance Deposit Scheme.

vii. The introduction of a new Customs Tariff, which reduced the range of import duties from between zero and 500 per cent to between 5 per cent and 200 per cent.

viii. The granting of import duty exemption to only twenty items including agricultural implements, air craft, fuels, lubricants, educational films, technical assistance materials etc.

ix The introduction of the Advanced Import Duty Payment Scheme.

x. The imposition of a levy on dormant companies.

xi. The promulgation of the Finance Decrees to amend the Income Tax Act of 1969.

xii. The halving of civil servants' leave entitlement in January, 1985.

12. The trial and conviction of ex-politicians who illegally enriched themselves or their political parties.

13 In 1984, Nigeria's recognition of the Sahara Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) on November 11, 1984.

14. The encouragement of substitution of imported raw materials with local raw materials to boost the growth of industries.

15. The encouragement of self sufficiency in agricultural food production.

16. The promulgation of a series of decrees aimed at revamping the economy and inculcating discipline. The most controversial being the Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree No 4 and the Miscellaneous Offences Decree No. 20 of 1984.

17. The rescheduling of the nations's short term trade debts valued at over =N=5 billion and the subsequent issuance of promissory notes to the uninsured creditors.

18. The procurement of new Air Buses by Nigeria Airways in 1985 to boost air transportation.

19. The victory of Nigeria's Under-17 Team (the Golden Eagles) at the Kodak World Cup Soccer Competition in China in August, 1985."

Sincere 9gerian: As for the issue of OBJ and GEJ disagreement, I completely disagree with Asari. OBJ is not God. OBJ lost his polling boot in the last elections, that alone is enough to make him want to deal with GEJ for failing to save him from electoral humiliation. Prior to 1999, OBJ was nobody. He was brought out from prison and made president. He later had disagreements with all those who made him president and became his own man. The enormous power he wielded up till day he left Aso Rock, came upon him naturally as the president then. However, GEJ is now in charge and being his own man, wants to do things differently. His approach to elections and many other things are clearly different from that of OBJ. I dont see anything wrong with GEJ being his own man and doing things differently. Moreover, OBJ has lost 90% of the influence he wielded before. He can only play minimal role in PDP primaries. As for the general elections, OBJ is COMPLETELY inconsequential

youare truely a sincere nigerian but sincerely wrong on this.
GEJ knew nothing about the top job,
OBJ was one of the senior generals so could look others in the face and talk,
GEJ is the president without power.

BOTH ARE INCOMPAREABLE

Blackteeth: I think the best way to solve this kidnapping wahala is to seriously declare NO MORE PAYMENT OF RANSOMS.
After one or two kidnappings and no ransoms paid, it would be a thing of the past.

also no more payment to militants who are billionaires now.
i think it triggered the kidnapping

PointB: And the public will do exactly what?

Anyway, how about this current 'sharing' that has gone public? Let me ready my popcorn and drink to watch what the 'almighty public' will do to stop this sharing engineered by the governors!

he goes for citizen initiative,
gather 200 technocrats and asked them to propose projects benefitial to citizens.
the action gradually exposes any opposing gov and aligns GEJ with the public.