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Herald47:
so you mean that countries with smaller populations should be better than those with bigger populations?,ok,the following is a list of countries with high population yet better than nigeria;
1.china
2.india
3.U.s.a
4.brazil
5.indonesia
6.japan
7.Russia
8.Egypt
9.mexico
10.south africa

if its a corrupt govt there maybe no or slow development in any country

Senators largely of the All Progressives Congress stayed away from Wednesday’s sitting as Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu presides over plenary.
Ekweremadu is presiding over today’s sitting as the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has traveled to Ikenne in Ogun State to attend the burial ceremony of Mama H.I. D Awolowo which was scheduled to take place today.
DAILY POST observed that today’s sitting is, however, quite stable compared to the first time Ekweremadu presided over the Senate.
Senators of the Unity Forum who have been neck deep in leadership tussle including their arrowhead, Senator Kabiru Marafa are participating fully in today’s plenary.
Today’s plenary is dominated by “Alteration Bill” sponsored by Senator T.A. Orji (Abia Central), Babajide Omoworare (Osun East), Nathan Achonu (Imo North).
The proposal for Alteration of various section of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria came as first reading.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/25/poor-attendance-as-ekweremadu-presides-over-wednesdays-plenary/

It all lies down to the govt of a country it does not matter how big or small a country is

The Ndigbo United Assembly, NUA, yesterday spoke on the renewed agitation for the realization of Biafra.
Speaking to newsmen during a demonstration embarked upon by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, President-General of NUA, Comrade Peter Okala said: “The Biafran agitation is positive in the sense that our colonial masters knew our differences before making a contract of amalgamation to try if we could understand ourselves.
“But the fact remains that till date, the centre could not hold and the South East is still hated with passion by our Northern and South West brothers.
“Could you imagine Wole Soyinka using Igbo people to popularize his seminar topic in far away United States of America, where he was quoted as saying that Igbo people can only vote at the direction of their stomach? What kind of a hopeless statement from a so-called prominent citizen is that?
“In Nigeria today, if one is asked to name 100 most corrupt people in Nigeria who have emptied our treasury, hardly will an Igbo man be among them.
“We are abused in every part of Nigeria as people, who could do anything to get money simply because the West is in control of the media and the North has partnered with them to marginalize the South-East.”
Okala also observed that the inability of political office holders in the South -East to join the pro-Biafra movement was not a crime because it may be a treason in Nigerian laws, but “it’s the right of every person to choose an association or a country he or she should belong to and there is no law that will empower anyone or institution to stop.”
However, a coalition of civil society organizations based in the South-East geo-political zone has advised the Federal Government to stop trying to compromise some individuals and groups, in an attempt to suppress the on-going agitations.
According to the group, such will end up escalating the issue, which may threaten national security.
In a press statement, yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State, the groups stated that the Federal Government must be told in a clear terms that those being compromised and influenced to recant are not in control of the movement and millions of its supporters and sympathizers.
The statement was jointly signed on their behalf by Comrade Aloysius Attah, for CLO; Comrade Peter Onyegiri for Centre for Human Rights & Peace Advocacy; Comrade Samuel Njoku for Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC); Comrade Justus Uche Ijeoma for Forum for Justice, Equity & Defence of Human Rights.
Others are Comrade Chike Umeh for Society Advocacy Watch Project; Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq. for Anambra Human Rights Forum; Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi for Intersociety; Comrade Alex Olisa for South-East Good Governance Forum and Eze Eluchie for: PADDI Foundation.
They said the the first step was to withdraw all trumped up charges leveled against IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu and release him unconditionally with immediate effect.
Continuing, the groups said
“This is why in a bid to justify crumbs federally received, they end up on the pages of newspapers with their faceless and mushroom groups.
“A Nigeria of pluralism and democratic constitutionalism, equality and fairness with no distinction in theory and practice as to ethnicity, place of birth, education, sex, class, oligarchic or aristocratic background and religion is always a preferred option and can be safely described as a united Nigeria.
“But a Nigeria of the opposite remains the worst option, while assertion of right to independent statehood is its best alternative. This is because it is better to live free in a land flowing with poverty than to live buoyantly in a land shackled and manacled by chains of slavery and enslavement.
“To assuage the earth-shaking agitations and placate the people of the Southeast zone, all the age-long structural imbalances must be redressed especially the country’s geopolitical imbalances including lopsidedness in the number of States, LGAs, Senatorial Districts, Federal Constituencies, Federal Roads, Fiscal Allocations and geopolitical compositions of the field formations and headships of the Army, Police, Air Force, Navy, DSS, NIA, FRSC, Prisons and Customs.
“In the area of federal public office holders in Nigeria drawn from the six geopolitical zones, the Southeast zone is abysmally represented. For instance, no senior police officer from the zone is among the current heads of the country’s 12 Police Zonal Commands and the few serving AIGs from the zone have since gone on statutory retirement leaving the zone no known serving AIGs out of the country’s current Police AIGs of at least 22.
“All these are owing to age-long deliberate policy designed to stunt their promotions and posting till in the twilight of their statutory retirements when they are given retirement promotions. The composition of CPs and AIGs’ cadres of the Nigeria Police"http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/25/agitation-for-biafra-gains-momentum-as-10-groups-declare-support/

Pdp wana win by all cost

free the guy he has made his comment he wont change it

Straight to the point...nice one bro

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kicked against an advice by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami, to the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party can substitute its late candidate in the Kogi State governorship election.
The opposition party also asked Mr Malami to “immediately vacate his office for harrying and misleading the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into arriving at the decision”.
In a statement by the opposition party’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, the party said it was shocked that “INEC, a supposedly independent electoral umpire, could allow itself to succumb to the antics of the APC by following the unlawful directive of an obviously partisan AGF to substitute a candidate in the middle of the ballot process”.
The electoral body had earlier said it would allow the APC to look for a candidate to feel the vacancycreated by the death of Mr Abubakar Audu before supplementary elections that would hold on December 5 in 91 polling units where elections were cancelled.
Also making comments about the situation on Monday, Mr Malami said that the APC could substitute its candidatein the Kogi State governorship election, who died a day after the November 21 election.
But the PDP is kicking against the statements, saying they were attacks on Nigeria’s democracy.
Alien To The Constitution
The party in a statement said: “We are all aware that the two legal documents guiding INEC in the conduct of elections; the Constitution and the Electoral Act, have provisions for electoral exigencies as well as empower the electoral body to fully take responsibility for any of its actions or inaction without undue interference from any quarters whatsoever.
“We are therefore at a loss as to which sections of these two relevant laws, INEC and the AGF relied on in arriving at their bizarre decision to substitute a dead candidate in an on-going election even after the timelines for such has elapsed under all the rules.
“INEC as a statutory body has the full complements of technical hands in its legal department to advice it appropriately and we wonder why it had to wait for directives from the AGF, an external party, if not for partisan and subjective interest”.
The PDP further rejected what it said was “a brazen move by the APC and INEC to circumvent the laws and ambush the yet-to-be concluded election by introducing a practice that is completely alien to the constitution and the Electoral Act”.
The party claimed that the clear implication of this action of the AGF and INEC was that the APC would be fielding two different governorship candidates in the on-going Kogi election, a situation it said meant that INEC would be transferring votes cast for late Prince Abubakar Auduto another candidate.
According to the opposition party, the scenarios had no place in the Nigerian Constitution.
The opposition party further said: “Whereas the PDP, in honour of the sanctity of human life and respect for the dead, had since Sunday refrained from making comments on the conduct of the election, we can no longer maintain such in the face of the barefaced attack on our democracy.
“This INEC, under the leadership of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has shown itself as partisan, morally bankrupt and obviously incapable of conducting a credible election within our laws”.
It also demanded for the resignation of the INEC Chairman, as claimed that the nation’s democracy could not afford to be left in the hands of an electoral umpire that could not exert its independence and the sanctity of the electoral process.
On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the K ogi State governorship election inconclusive.
After election results from the 21 local government areas were collated on Sunday, the All Progressives Congress’ candidate, late Mr Audu, was leading while the incumbent Governor, Captain Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) trailed by a margin less than the number of cancelled votes.
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress had 240,867 votes while that of the PDP got 199,514 votes.http://www.channelstv.com/2015/11/24/kogi-election-pdp-rejects-call-for-apcs-candidate-substitution/

kingsman66:
In my own examination politicans manufacture corruption while lecturers practice it thanks

nice one bro

The Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Dr Theresa Akande, has said tertiary institutions are central to the change agenda in Nigeria because lecturers are more corrupt than politicians.
According to her, Intellectuals in higher institutions must be ready to play prominent roles if anticipated changes in certain areas of our societal life must be attained.
Speaking on Tuesdayat the 10th National Conference of School of Business Studies with the theme: “Anticipated Change(s) in Nigeria: the Roles of Tertiary Institutions,” Akande lamented that youth no longer believed in hard work.
She said, “Shocking as this will sound, many of the Ad-hoc staff of INEC during elections are usually staff of tertiary institutions. Where is the change coming from? Who are the people to bring the change? Who would implement the change?
“For corruption and all other frauds to be eradicated, we must look beyond those who stole in billion and trillion, it should be tackled holistically. Lecturers who inflate marks, mess around with female students, demand sex for marks or make demands for money are corrupt, in fact, more corrupt because they are destroying lives.
“Students who engage in examination malpractices are corrupt. Staff who report late or absent themselves willfully from work are corrupt.
“So, all forms of corruption must be battled to a standstill because if this is not done, we will only be scratching the surface of our problems instead of uprooting the very tap root.”
Akande canvassed strong synergy between the anti-graft agencies and the tertiary institutions to rid them of corruption.
The Rector challenged the school of Business Studies and participants to justify the conference by “demonstrating towards the system strong loyalty, accountability, transparency and discipline that will bring about the anticipated changes in our country”.
The Dean of School of Business Studies, Mr Olabisi Olasehinde, said the conference was a channel for researchers to present their research works, share ideas with colleagues who have similar scholarly interests, network and cross-fertilize to improve the overall quality of teaching and learning.
In his lecture, the Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Prof Patrick Oladele, in his lecture, said our orientation must change for the country to move forward.
“We must embrace culture of integrity and shun impunity. There is need for institutions to create enabling environment for learning. It is not enough that students pass through the walls they must also learn values and knowledge that will make them useful to the society.
“Training must go beyond certification. Institutions must provide leadership by example. They must be run on the basis of integrity, uprightness, genuinely of purpose, accountability.
“Tertiary institutions must carry out research regularly to provide solutions to the problems of the nation. They must provide accurate figures and date that government would use in effecting policies. There is need synergy between institutions and industries so that research work would enhance output.”http://punchng.com/9924-2/[color=#000099][/color] make una help me judge

Yhu guys shld give the man a chance yhu never can tell ;DYhu guys shld give the man a chance yhu never can tell

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria was taking appropriate steps to turn its abundant gas resources into veritable catalyst for development as the nation’s gas potential might be in excess of 600 trillion cubic feet.
The President said this at the 3rd summit of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran, Iran, on Monday.
He said the country was taking the steps because natural gas was fast evolving as the fuel of choice for sustainable development in view of its impressive suitability for environmental protection and lower cost of supply in comparison with fossil fuels.
He, therefore, charged the leadership of the GECF to take appropriate steps towards sustaining the pricing of gas at the international market for the benefit of member countries.
He said that the stability of the energy and financial market was critical to ensuring investments in current and future natural gas projects.
“It is therefore imperative that the GECF plays a significant role towards energy security by driving the formulation of a sustainable pricing mechanism that will guarantee fair and reasonable for both producers and consumers,’’ he added.
President Buhari noted that for decades Nigeria focused on the development of crude oil like other oil producing countries.
“Our current National Proven Gas Reserve Base is 188 Trillion Cubic Feet.
“But our actual gas potential may be in excess of 600 Trillion Cubic Feet.
“With this great potential, Nigeria is taking appropriate steps to turn its abundant gas resources into veritable catalyst for development,’’ he said.
President Buhari also called on the forum to foster technical and economic cooperation among member states.
According to him, Nigeria remains the hub for natural gas supply in West African sub region with the construction of 681-kilometre West African Gas Pipeline which currently transmits gas from the country to neighbouring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghana.
“Nigeria is among the world’s top five exporters of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and we recently celebrated the 3000th export cargo milestone.
“Similarly, we have asserted regional prominence by becoming the hub for natural gas supply in the West African sub-region through our leadership role in the development of the 681km West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) which currently transmits gas from Nigeria to neighbouring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghana.’’
Buhari also charged the forum on the need to deploy research and development initiatives towards technology innovations in exploration and development processing, logistics and marketing for the benefit of member countries.
He also charged the member countries to ensure that the exploration of gas resources was done in a sustainable manner so as not to jeopardise the security of the future generation of member states.
Buhari called on them to ensure optimum gas reserves replacement and work towards ending routine gas flaring in the shortest possible time.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the forum and the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, had called for cooperation of member states to get maximum benefits from the natural resources.
The Secretary of the Forum, Seyed Hossein Adeli, informed the meeting that Azerbijah had indicated to join the body as an observer.
He noted that the body had begun to command international recognition and credibility.
Adeli, however, stressed the need for member countries to build mutual understanding and address the common challenges facing gas producing nations.http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/24/nigeria-to-explore-its-600trn-gas-potential-for-sustainable-development-buhari/[color=#000099][/color]

The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday said that it would act within the confines of the rule of law regarding the Kogi State governorship election.
In a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Mai Mala Buni, the party said its response on the matter would, however, be based on the constitution.
“On INEC’s position that the November 21, 2015 governorship poll in Kogi State was inconclusive, APC is studying the declaration of the Returning Officer, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, based on Section M, Paragraph 4 (Page 22) of INEC Approved Guidelines and Regulations for the Conduct of the 2015 General Elections.
“APC believes in the rule of law, strict adherence to 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).
“Our government was a product of the rule of law. We have absolute faith in the nation’s law and we will not in any manner undermine the law. Our observations and position will be within the laws of the land.
“The situation in Kogi State is a test case for the rule of law and our growing democracy. APC is committed to its pledge to ensure a sustainable democracy in the country”, it said.
While commiserating with the deceased family, the party stated that it would not abandon its candidate even in death.
APC also appealed to the people of the state and indeed its supporters to remain calm in the face of the ill development.
“His Excellency, Prince Abubakar Audu was certainly one of our stars, a democrat par excellence, a development-oriented leader and a beacon for the liberation of Kogi State from its apparent decay. He was a Prince of hope, a symbol of peace and an apostle of unity and reintegration of Kogi State.
“We commiserate with his family and the great people of Kogi State for having a strong belief in Abubakar Audu’s capacity to redeem the state.
“The demise of Prince Abubakar Audu has no doubt created a big vacuum in Kogi State and APC but we take solace in the fact that God gives, God takes. He might have physically transited but he will forever be spiritually and politically relevant not only in Kogi State but in Nigeria.
“We appeal to the people of the state to see Audu’s death as an act of God. There should be no recourse to lawlessness or vindictiveness in whatever form. The only honour we can do Prince Abubakar Audu is to remain peaceful and resolve to be undaunted in preserving the adorable ideals he lived for. It was evident to all that he ran a good race, he played his part well and he earned a rare rating as an exemplary leader.
“We will not abandon Prince Abubakar Audu even in death because his legacies are timeless, his virtues can withstand all seasons and his vision remains immortal.
“APC urges its members and supporters in Kogi Stare and nationwide not to allow their spirit to be dampened by the sudden passage of the great Prince Abubakar Audu. Rather, the party should be united in mourning and be encouraged to effect the desired change in Kogi State through the ballot anytime, any day”, the statement said.
In a similar development, the party’s deputy national publicity secretary, Mr. Timi Frank in a statement on Monday stated that the party shall explore all choices and act within the law to find alternatives to Audu.
“We are exploring all known choices and alternatives to us in line with our party’s dictates and respect of the rule of law as is in conformity with laid down laws and rules of our country.
“The past 24 hours has been one that gloom, pain, shock and grief best describe following the death of strongman of Kogi Politics, a dependable party man and our governorship candidate in last Saturday’s election, Prince Abubakar Audu, who was clearly headed for victory having lead with the most votes.
“To say that we are shocked and dumbfounded at Audu’s death is to scratch our pains on the surface as the Kogi Prince typified what a real democrat radiates. A politician who chose to remain in opposition after losing his governorship in 2003 despite the intimidations on him but rather chose to see the nation get its deserved change in leadership”, Frank said http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/23/kogi-election-we-will-be-guided-by-law-in-replacing-audu-apc/[color=#006600][/color]

God wot is this