What troubles me is this, why must it be Julius Berger to renovate Aso rock. is it the only construction company in Nigeria capable of carrying out renovation work and was the so called renovation work put out to tender.

The incoming President Buhari needs to have the whole place de-bugged before moving in. I suspect Julius Berger will use the opportunity to install new sophisticated bugging and listening devices within the walls and the entire electrical/ communication systems in Aso rock. And that is assuming they haven't planted such devices in the past in the same premises.

The German company will do this at the request of the German intelligence services and the CIA.

The True Biography of the Uneducated Fugitive Senatorial Candidate Esho Jinadu Aka Prince Buruji Kashamu...Blog Reader Shares His Experience

I saw this and found it interesting...Esho Jinadu Aka Prince Buruji Kashamu originally born in the late 50s to Alhaja Jinadu is a MAN who now claims his deceased older brother's identity, Buruji . According to reports, he originated from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He has several baby mothers one of which is the popular Rosula and children. He is now fond of denying his old identity by ignoring people who know his roots.Meanwhile, he claims to be a Muslim but eextremely diabolical..
Esho started as a vehicle licensing Tout at the Lagos Mainland Local Government during the years 1978-1983 with the likes of Babs, Sir K, Kunle Enilolobo, Late Mohammed Oladapo, e.t.c.. The first proceeds earned him enough to be introduced to Illicit substances and Money Counterfeit, in which he used Jinsod Motors on Allen Avenue Ikeja to front for his illegitimate drug dealings. This went for a while until he was nabbed by the Nigerian Customs alongside his brother the Real ''Buruji''. His brother Buruji was locked up at the popular Alagbon while he was held at the Customs ware house Ilupeju.

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He made a daring escape with the help of Dupe, The daughter of the Owner of Naira Pools (one of the pioneer betting companies in Nigeria) and fled to Republic of Benin. While on exile in Benin, he was able to expand his Illicit network with the help of Cali Cartel Drug Lords of Columbia where he amassed so much funds from the export of drugs to America mainly Chicago from which he was able to fund a Presidential aspirant who eventually won. With his access to the Presidency, he successfully defrauded the country where he is still wanted for his atrocities. At that time, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Corruption in West Africa and DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency USA) had linked and declared him wanted for enormous drug trafficking charges, Money Laundering and Murder. He was detained at the famous Wormwood scrubs prisons in UK for several years where he fought extradition to the USA extensively and lost. He eventually absconded to Nigeria while on bail and has since been unable to step out of the shores of Nigeria....
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It will be a great injustice and embarrassment to the good people of Ogun State if this criminal is allowed in the Nigeria Senate to represent them.

The True Biography of the Uneducated Fugitive Senatorial Candidate Esho Jinadu Aka Prince Buruji Kashamu...Blog Reader Shares His Experience

I saw this and found it interesting...Esho Jinadu Aka Prince Buruji Kashamu originally born in the late 50s to Alhaja Jinadu is a MAN who now claims his deceased older brother's identity, Buruji . According to reports, he originated from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He has several baby mothers one of which is the popular Rosula and children. He is now fond of denying his old identity by ignoring people who know his roots.Meanwhile, he claims to be a Muslim but eextremely diabolical..
Esho started as a vehicle licensing Tout at the Lagos Mainland Local Government during the years 1978-1983 with the likes of Babs, Sir K, Kunle Enilolobo, Late Mohammed Oladapo, e.t.c.. The first proceeds earned him enough to be introduced to Illicit substances and Money Counterfeit, in which he used Jinsod Motors on Allen Avenue Ikeja to front for his illegitimate drug dealings. This went for a while until he was nabbed by the Nigerian Customs alongside his brother the Real ''Buruji''. His brother Buruji was locked up at the popular Alagbon while he was held at the Customs ware house Ilupeju.

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He made a daring escape with the help of Dupe, The daughter of the Owner of Naira Pools (one of the pioneer betting companies in Nigeria) and fled to Republic of Benin. While on exile in Benin, he was able to expand his Illicit network with the help of Cali Cartel Drug Lords of Columbia where he amassed so much funds from the export of drugs to America mainly Chicago from which he was able to fund a Presidential aspirant who eventually won. With his access to the Presidency, he successfully defrauded the country where he is still wanted for his atrocities. At that time, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Corruption in West Africa and DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency USA) had linked and declared him wanted for enormous drug trafficking charges, Money Laundering and Murder. He was detained at the famous Wormwood scrubs prisons in UK for several years where he fought extradition to the USA extensively and lost. He eventually absconded to Nigeria while on bail and has since been unable to step out of the shores of Nigeria....
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Better a former incorruptible dictator than a dim wit with a questionable Phd.

This is serious.

This should alarm everyone as to how far Jonathan is willing to go in order to win his election.

The is the real smoking gun required by APC to prove that PDP using the army and the other state security agencies helped to rig the Ekiti gubernatorial election in favour of Fayose.

This should get as far as the Supreme Court.

Fellow Nairalanders, your help is needed.

Who is this fella called Doyin Okugbe ?

Could he be the same chap who asked to be called a bastard if APC survived as a party longer than 6 months.

One of the problems Nigeria has today is lack of good education as reflected by this daft post apparently written by a dim juvenile.

If the poster had taken time to check his or her facts it would have been clear that Prof Yemi Osinbajo who was born 8th of March 1957 at Creek Hospital ( Now called Military Hospital on Awolowo Rd Ikoyi ) and attended Igbobi College from 1969 to 1975 would have left school aged 18.

He also studied Law at Unilag and graduated in 1978 at the age of 21.

I don't know what planet the poster is on but is it so strange to leave secondary school at 18 and graduate at 21 ?

This must the result of the poster's lack of basic mathematics and common sense.

I am not a political strategist so its only an opinion . What's yours.

In it interesting to figure out which party stands to benefit from having the Presidential election first.

In my opinion, i think the incumbent ( GEJ )has shot itself in the foot by pressurising INEC to hold the presidential election first because the Presidency and PDP will spread themselves very thin on the ground and will be unable to use the security forces to their advantage as they have done in previous gubernatorial elections eg Ekiti State.

Once GEJ losses the presidency due to political mathematics not in his favour, the remaining elections will be a disaster for PDP as they will crumble like dominoes.

The issue of balanced representation on the UN Security Council is again under discussion.

Our own President Goodluck Jonathan has recently put forward Nigeria's case so i feel my previous proposal deserves to be examined to say the least.

This is an opportunity for President Goodluck Jonathan to raise the issue of reform within the UN Security council.

Nigeria deserves a short at being considered for a permanent seat on the UN Security council.

Apparently the 1st Lady is at the Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden, Germany. The same hospital arranged by Julius Berger for the Late President Yar' Adua to receive treatment for his terminal Chaug Strauss Syndrome.

It has to be something serious for her to be Medivac(ed) there. It is very possible (and i'm speculating here)that she had something done in Dubai which developed complications when she got back to Abuja. Hence the rush to Germany.

I sincerely hope she recovers from whatever it is they are keeping from us.

My hunch is that the First Lady is in Germany for a gastric band operation, you catch my drift ? .

It wasn't long ago that OBJ's wife Stella went incognito to Costa del Sol in Spain for liposuction and remember what happened.

The truth will come out in the end.

Here is the link .

http://www.abns.org/images/misc/schedule_exams.jpg

The American Board of Neurological Surgery consists of 14 Directors selected from practicing neurosurgeons throughout North America. Directors are elected after nominations are received from the following societies: American Association of Neurological Surgeons (4), Society of Neurological Surgeons (4), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (4), American Academy of Neurological Surgery (1), Neurosurgical Society of America (1). Each director serves for a single six-year term. Appointments are staggered, and 2-3 new directors come on the Board each year.

Officers

Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD
Atlanta, Georgia
Chairman

Mitchel S. Berger, MD
Salt Lake City, Utah
Vice-Chairman

Craig A. Van Der Veer, MD
Charlotte, North Carolina
Vice-Chairman

Fredric B. Meyer, MD
Rochester, Minnesota
Secretary

Matthew A. Howard, III, MD
Iowa City, Iowa
Treasurer

Directors

Anthony L. Asher, MD
Charlotte, North Carolina

Jeffrey N. Bruce MD
New York, New York

Alan R. Cohen, MD
Cleveland, Ohio

Mark N. Hadley, MD
Birmingham, Alabama

Robert E. Harbaugh, MD
Hershey, Pennsylvania

Karin Muraszko, MD
Ann Arbor, Michigan

David W. Roberts, MD
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD
Charlottesville, Virginia

B. Gregory Thompson, MD
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Vincent C. Traynelis, MD
Chicago, Illinois

The offices of the American Board of Neurological Surgery are located in Houston Texas, and full-time administrative staff are available during regular business hours to answer any questions regarding the organization.

Executive Director
Mary Louise Spencer
Woodbridge CT
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Here is the link .

http://www.abns.org/images/misc/schedule_exams.jpg

The American Board of Neurological Surgery consists of 14 Directors selected from practicing neurosurgeons throughout North America. Directors are elected after nominations are received from the following societies: American Association of Neurological Surgeons (4), Society of Neurological Surgeons (4), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (4), American Academy of Neurological Surgery (1), Neurosurgical Society of America (1). Each director serves for a single six-year term. Appointments are staggered, and 2-3 new directors come on the Board each year.

Officers

Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD
Atlanta, Georgia
Chairman

Mitchel S. Berger, MD
Salt Lake City, Utah
Vice-Chairman

Craig A. Van Der Veer, MD
Charlotte, North Carolina
Vice-Chairman

Fredric B. Meyer, MD
Rochester, Minnesota
Secretary

Matthew A. Howard, III, MD
Iowa City, Iowa
Treasurer

Directors

Anthony L. Asher, MD
Charlotte, North Carolina

Jeffrey N. Bruce MD
New York, New York

Alan R. Cohen, MD
Cleveland, Ohio

Mark N. Hadley, MD
Birmingham, Alabama

Robert E. Harbaugh, MD
Hershey, Pennsylvania

Karin Muraszko, MD
Ann Arbor, Michigan

David W. Roberts, MD
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD
Charlottesville, Virginia

B. Gregory Thompson, MD
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Vincent C. Traynelis, MD
Chicago, Illinois

The offices of the American Board of Neurological Surgery are located in Houston Texas, and full-time administrative staff are available during regular business hours to answer any questions regarding the organization.

Executive Director
Mary Louise Spencer
Woodbridge CT

Here is my comments re an Indian company( National Power Grid Company of India ) bidding to take over and run our national Grid TCN- Transmission Company of Nigeria ) back in Aug 2010. It was very clear to me then that the Indians should not be trusted to turn around our National Grid when they cannot seem to cope with their ageing national grid infrastructure.

I also noted my preference for Manitoba Hydroelectric, a Canadian company with the requisite experience in such field and i'm happy the Federal Government/Bart Nnaji has seen sense to award the management contract to manage our National Grid to the Canadians.

The massive power outage in India has been managed by the same Indian company mentioned above.




Re: Canadian, Indian, Irish Firms Bid To Run Power Grid : Bart Nnaji by kuramo: 5:18pm On Aug 27, 2010


This appears to be a positive move by the Presidency, but I'm not so sure about giving an Indian company the very important responsibility of running our national grid or the successor national power transmission company.

We must not forget the shambles the Indians made of our already sick Nigerian Railway Corporation. The Indians may be an Asian economic powerhouse on the ascent, but we cannot trust their expertise and reliability on such a critical part of our infrastructure at this point in time.

I personally will favour the Canadian group for the simple reason that they are less likely to be corrupt as the Indians are.
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Please can you respond to my question.

@ Adexfem

Please can you confirm if a CTN Cargo Tracking Note number is still required for custom clearance at Tin Can Island Port of a car shipped from abroad.

Anyone with info regarding ACTRIS in Abuja should please give an idea of what this new scheme is all about.

Does anyone know what is happening to the new ACTRIS C of O certification in Abuja ?

Nigeria's security agencies should watch out for this bearded Islamic fundamentalist whose group could turn out to be more violent than boko haram. His name is Sheikh Zakzaky, a potential islamic terorrist who receives funding from Iran.

Sheikh Zakzaky is a man who espouses hatred for the West especially the US.

Sheikh Zakzaky says he has hundreds of thousands of followers

While the Sunni Islamist group Boko Haram makes headlines in Nigeria, a Shia group is also causing anxiety in some quarters, the BBC's Mark Lobel reports from the city of Kaduna.

Saharan sand swirls around us as horses gallop through the film set we are visiting.

Brightly painted walls and wooden and straw weaponry line old forts, recreated to mirror the scene of the brazen Islamic revolution that arrived here in the 19th Century.

I am seeing for myself how media-savvy the mainly-Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria has become.

Inside the compound, a dubbing operation is under way.

Flattering documentaries of religious leaders are being translated into the local Hausa language, with hundreds of DVDs sold to eager locals every month.

The movement has had a thriving daily newspaper for more than two decades and says it will soon broadcast its internet-based Hausa radio station on the country's main air waves, and start up a new TV channel.

In recent years, the once tiny movement's membership has sky-rocketed in size and scope while all attention has shifted to Boko Haram, the Sunni Islamist group fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria.

Iranian inspiration
Some are worried that this movement may be growing unchecked by the current ruling powers it condemns as discredited.

Its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, became a proponent of Shia Islam around the time of the Iranian revolution in 1979.

Events in Iran encouraged him to believe that an Islamic revival was also possible in Nigeria.

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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has a youth vanguard, which goes through military drills, which mimics the state's security services”

Muhammad Kabir Isa
Ahmadu Bello University
Ever since, he has grown increasingly confident he can build a permanent Islamic state within the country.

Although he denies his movement gets any funding from Iran, he is also vehemently anti-American.

When I met the white-bearded, traditionally dressed religious leader, who looked older than his 57 years, he resembled a peaceful, friendly, elder statesman and smiled as he told me that he now has hundreds of thousands of followers.

We sat together on his bright, fluffy pink, red and white rug and an orange-flowered garland framed a hanging portrait of the revolutionary Islamic leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, who watched over us.

But followers here, including Sheikh Zakzaky, are closely watching present-day events in Iran.

The US and Israel threaten to attack the country if fears of a nuclear weapons building programme there are realised, despite Iran's insistence its nuclear ambitions are purely civilian.

I asked the sheikh if Iran were attacked, would it have an impact in Nigeria?

"Not only in Nigeria, in the entire world," he said.

Sheikh Zakzaky did not explain what would happen, but added: "How much the impact would be, would depend on which areas were attacked."

Influential supporters
Throughout our encounter, the vagueness of some of Sheikh Zakzaky's answers - perhaps driven by his apparent mistrust of the media, he separately recorded our conversation in order not to be misquoted - not only leaves many of his statements open to interpretation but also creates the perception he may have something to hide.


Sheikh Zakzaky was a political prisoner for nine years during the 1980s and 1990s, accused by successive military regimes of civil disobedience.

His supporters have been involved in many violent clashes with the state over the decades - 120 of his followers are currently in prison - and political analyst Muhammad Kabir Isa says they do constitute a genuine threat.

Mr Isa, a senior researcher at Ahmadu Bello University, describes the sheikh's movement as "a state within a state".

"I know for one that his outfit embarks on drills, military drills," Mr Isa said.

"But when you embark on military drills, you are drilling with some sort of anticipation. Some form of expectations."

Sheikh Zakzaky later told me his movement did train hundreds of guards to police events, but compared it to teaching karate to the boy scouts.

Mr Isa also alleged the movement's supporters have now become a lot more influential in society.

"I know for example he is making sure his members are recruited into the army, his members are recruited in the police force, he has people working for him in the state security service," he said.

Kaduna state spokesman Saidu Adamu said he could not confirm if the movement's followers were in the police, army or state security services but said he hoped it would not affect their loyalty to the state if they were.

Political party?
The state's relationship with the movement may also determine how peaceful it remains, according to prominent human rights activist Shehu Sani.


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Islamic Movement in Nigeria
He campaigned for Sheikh Zakzaky's release while the cleric was a political prisoner and says the government has to take its share of the blame for the recent violence by Boko Haram, which says it is trying to avenge the 2009 death in police custody of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf.

"If the Nigerian state applied the same measure of cruelty and extrajudicial killings to the members of the Islamic movement as it did to Boko Haram, we would be faced with a violence that's a million times more than that because the Islamic movement's well organised and educated," according to Mr Sani.

The Nigerian government says it is prepared to talk to Boko Haram though it describes it as a faceless organisation with unrealistic demands.

In Sheikh Zakzaky's home town of Kaduna, Boko Haram has directed attacks at both the security forces and locals.

When I met Kaduna's Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, to discuss the current security crisis, he told me he wanted to make use of all religious leaders to find a solution urgently.

I asked the governor if he had reached out to Sheikh Zakzaky.

"We are trying to reach out to everybody and I am sure, sooner than later, I will get across to him," he said, underlining a conciliatory approach that has so far not borne results.

In contrast, it looks unlikely that Sheikh Zakzaky would be prepared to engage with the governor.

During our interview, he did say he would consider entering the political process and could, for example, have his own political party, if the system worked.


Analysts warn the sheikh's group could become more violent than Boko Haram
But he said the current system did not work.

He rather surprisingly blamed that system for causing the current insecurity in the country by insisting Boko Haram was a creation of the "oil-hungry West", whom he accused of using the Nigerian security forces to carry out heinous crimes here.

"Security forces are behind it," he said animatedly.

"There's nothing like Boko Haram. I have never seen a single man calling himself Boko Haram. Our enemies are from outside. And they are the ones behind those bombings."

That theory goes against much of the evidence about the group that does exist, as the government has arrested senior members of the militant outfit and police stations and army barracks are often the targets of attacks.

Quiet for now
Oil analysts insist that the last thing the West would want is instability in the country, which, they say, would in fact jeopardise their operations here.

Yet Sheikh Zakzaky's followers, young and old, confidently told me they agreed with his view of who was behind the unrest and were in full support of the sheikh's brand of Islam spreading across the whole of Africa, not just Nigeria.

As I watched thousands gather for a weekly Koran class led by Sheikh Zakzaky, women covered in black clothes seated on one side, men in lighter clothes on another, they all appeared peaceful and studious.

The movement does not seem to be an imminent threat to either the government or Nigerian people.

But with a greater allegiance to external powers, and a clear hatred of parts of the West closely tied to the current government, the situation remains precarious.

The Islamic terrorists Boko Haram responsible for the murder of innocent Christians in Kano were strongly condemned on Fox news hit program The Five.
It is now clear that Christians all over the world are appalled by cowardly of the bastards called Boko Haram.
The northern Nigeria Islamic terrorist murderers should be placed on the US list of terrorist groups with the attendant sanctions.

Is it not time for all southern state governors to come together under the aegis of Southern Governors Forum.

The 19 northerns states have a forum to push forward their agenda so effectively while the southern governors have been asleep by not seeing the need to come together to counter the influence the northern governors have been exercising on policy making in the country.

It is never too late for them to wake up.

The government must not negotiate with the terrorist bunch called Boko Haram.

It is very upsetting hearing some people calling for dialogue with them, the only way forward is to exterminate the threat to its logical conclusion.

Stupid comments attributed to House Speaker Tambuwal in which he asked the Presidency to forgive Boko Haram and dialogue with them suggest the man is either a complete fool or worse one of the northern Hausa Fulani elite sponsoring Nigeria's existential threat called Boko Haram.

For those who believe in having a credible alternative to give PDP a run for its money, it is time to start giving serious thought to this idea.

Has any of you political pundits considered what would happen if ACN, and APGA (With or Without ANPP ) all unite to form a formidable bloc prior to the 2015 presidential elections to oppose PDP.

It is very possible that this is the only way PDP can be defeated at least at the presidential level

However it requires the united opposition to present a very credible Igbo candidate ( South-east christian) for President and for Vice-President a Middle-belt Hausa ( North-central muslim ) or Yoruba ( South-west muslim ).

This option seems a viable democratic alternative to the status quo.

Your thoughts ?

Quickest way to financial ruin, paying workers for work not done. That's how Greece got itself into its present economic predicament.

Interesting debate with widely contrasting points of view.

Fact of the matter is that the Bretton Woods institution is still an important and essential organisation for global monetary stability and trade whether we like it or not.