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Hi all,
would a kind individual kindly supply the address of this bank in Ibadan!Information would be kindly appreciated.

Only in Nigeria ~can ships disappear,the Attorney General gets killed(nothing done still);our leaders tell us things are getting better when essential services are lacking;elections rigged and politicians imposed on us;people with no clue whatsoever are in government and much more

No one said anything when that demagogue in Zamfara;Yerima was busy pulling down churches and building mosques on them!
Worse still he introduced descriminatory fees against non-indigenes and
christians were made into second class citizens in their
own country.What of the woman that was mobbed to death because she refused to let them cheat in Gombe and much more?
T he north is a fecund avenue for religious extremism,intolerance,bigotry and hared!Pure and simple~because i dont believe in your way of life does not necessitate that i must be lynched at the next religious riot instigated by some demonic,syphilitic rabid shiek!
This news portends great danger ahead~their god is blood thirsty again

Well someone must be cooked by force,my bet Anenih again.Obj is the proverbial cat with how many lives again?

Na wah for Nigeria O! Do you guys remember that Harry Akande wanted to become president of Nigeria? With his billions of dollars, am sure if he'd been the one quitting office May 29th with a total asset in billions of Naira, Nigerians would have still shouted. You must enter a pauper and leave a pauper or enter a billionaire and leave a pauper. That is the way of the Nigerian Government official.

As per Harrys billions they exist only in the figment of his imagination~
Concerning Daniel ~hmmn he cannot say hes not enriched himself so far!Nigerians are not that altruistic as regards public service.
Let him go down memeory lane and list his material wealth and how they came about to be acquired if hes that emboldened!

Lets all cast a vote~who gets cooked?Tony?OBJ?
I vote for Tony~Obj so far has gotten rid of his detractors and Tony pales in comparison to many

Anenih remarked that the immediate past government must have totally ignored Section 14 (2) of the 1999 Constitution, which states that "the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government".

Its good Tony is all this~he should tell us what happened to our highways during his watch as Minister for Works,despite the huge budgetary allocation.
Also the thousands of innocent Nigerians who met their untimely death on those death traps called roads are on his head

Anenih disclaims travails, berates Igbinedion
From Mike Osunde, Benin
FORMER Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, yesterday spoke on his purported political travails, declaring that "there is no pot big enough in Nigeria to contain and cook" him.

He also spoke about the eight-year administration of former Edo State governor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, describing it as most tragic.

At a three-day retreat for the new men and women in Governor Oserhiemen Osunbor's team in his hometown, Uromi, Anenih alluded to a newspaper report alleging he was in soup.

He said: "At Okene in Kogi State this morning, I stopped to buy fuel on my way from Abuja. I bought some newspapers. One of them amused me. The headline was "Anenih in soup." I was wondering which pot can be big enough to cook me before I can become soup, at least not in Nigeria."

In his keynote address titled "Leadership, commitment and service," Anenih identified the bane of leadership in Nigeria as failure by those in power to remove themselves from the benefits of the offices they hold in trust for the people.

"Not only do we see ourselves as beneficiaries, we take more of the privileges and give less of the obligations," he said, noting that the consequence had been that the nation's leaders had been lacking in vision, focus, commitment, accountability and productive worth ethics," he said.

Anenih stated that at the federal level, reforms were being carried out to cope with the challenges of governance in the modern world in order to conform with the culture of transparency and accountability in matters relating to service delivery. He added that states needed to adjust to the new thrust in governance.

The PDP chieftain, often regarded as Mr. Fix It," descended heavily on the administration of Igbinedion, saying that the people had suffered most tragically from poor governance in the past eight years.

He bemoaned the effects of the past administration, which he said had affected all sectors, including security, adding "one is tempted to ask if, indeed there has been a government in Edo State these past eight years!"

Anenih remarked that the immediate past government must have totally ignored Section 14 (2) of the 1999 Constitution, which states that "the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government".

He, however, said that political leaders in the state shared in the blame of Igbinedion's mis-governance. "We, the political leaders must share from the blame for allowing the abysmal display of greed and avarice for eight years without hue and cry. But one thing I am sure of is that few of us leaders, did not share in the looting of the treasury," he asserted.

The PDP leader revealed that "some of the so-called factories built by the last administration were scraps, some of which were 15 years old before they were imported into the country as new".

He, therefore, warned the new political appointees that public service required selfless service, which demanded that they subjugated their personal or parochial interests to the overriding imperatives of broader goals and national interest.

Anenih said leadership must be seen as a trust, such that the leader, who is the trustee, has no privileges, no special rights and no benefits, but only the obligation to carry out the mandate of the people. He stressed that a good leader must possess an unusual vision of society, whilst displaying modesty at all times.

While emphasising the role of teamwork among the political appointees, Anenih harped on the need for government to obey court decisions, saying that the rule of law was the bedrock of democracy.

"It is important to emphasise that there can be no democracy without the rule of law - the habit is all too familiar in Nigeria that government and officials have high tendency of behaving as if they are above the laws of the land, thereby disregarding or disobeying court rulings. Such tendencies must be curbed in the interest of our society. There should not be dual application of the law," he said.

Anenih said Edo people deserve a better deal than they have had, and expressed confidence in the ability of the Osunbor administration to perform, saying that never again would the people of the state entertain excuses for failure.

Osunbor promised that the dividends of his administration would be people-oriented and visible so that the government could enjoy the confidence of the people. He pledged to establish a due process office to ensure competitive bidding for contracts.

The theme of the retreat is "Leading Excellence in Democratic Governance."
www.ngrguardiannews.com

Well lets see how it goes! More to go

Na which kind yeye list be this one? If them no put my favourite former minister for that list, I go vex o! Where is Chukwuemeka Chikelu's name, ehn?? Na who draw up this list, sef?

Fine boy Chikelu!Wey the guy sef?Charismatic pro~knew his stuff~foreign minister type

Omo jus got back from Naija~gotta enjoy this summer,last year was at home!Wetin dey?Wld be in Chi-town hopefuly month end,
operating out of ATL and Washington for now!How dem mamacitasLOL

Kidnapping a toddler in the name of fredom fighting beggars belief! Those guys are criminals with no iota of any nottion of ideaology!
We all know that and time and time again money has changed hands~were they principled we would know.But alas they and their
petty ignorant obtuse supporters on this forum know  it to be true.The days of armed struugle died in the 1990's;theres a paradigm shift now
-dialogue and adequate empowerment;not some unnecessary unwarranted criminal activity;that itself defeats the agenda and erodes international and local support.Common chivy,debased,low lying measly flea infested vermin

Ekene Dili Chukwu epitomised for people like me diligence,enterprise,fortitude!As a kid i marvalled as his business was run and expanded
exponentially.Was a true Igbo son firstly and a patriot foremost.
My thoughts are with his family at this trying moments and may God give him eternal rest,Ameen

Nigeria1,
whitewashing Umaru won't do!How on this earth can you compare him to Awolowo?No basis for comparison!
None at all!A product of a flawed process,his emergence and the party he represents spell doom for the corporate existence
of Nigeria!
Please!

The Government itself cannot create jobs,it can only lay the groundwork for the private secor to create jobs

Yea!HAS SHE DONE THAT?

Kongi is iconoclastic~a Nobel Laureate and an international figure.Where was OBJ and majority of the PDP a la Tony Anenih,Maduekwe,Ahmadu Alli et al when WS was running Radio Kudirat during the June 12 saga and campaigning abroad about the despotic and totalitarian regime of the dark googled imp?If the man had taken one kobo from FRSC;the FG would have shouted from thetop off the Aso Rock!
Civil liberties must be respected,rule of law must be adhered to,but alas in the present Nigeria its a shame!
Those rather uninformed or petty minded need to have info at their disposal before making rash,refutable fallacies!
OBJs government is a joke~right from 1999;the deaths of Ige,Harry Marshal,Dikibo~who at varying times being associates of the government leaves much a sour taste!For venal,rustic,gruff peasant OBJ to open his dirty mouth and desecrate Ige is shameful~and WS being a student of history only reminded him so~

That is a succinct and polite excuse of the failures of the OBJ anomie of a government in guaranteeing the future
of its youths

Why govt is unable to create new jobs, by minister
From Olayinka Collins, Abuja
BARELY six days to the hand-over date, the failure of the Federal Government to create seven million jobs in the last eight years as promised has been attributed to the on-going reform in the public service and slow progress in the power sector reform, among other factors.

Speaking with reporters at his valedictory press briefing yesterday in Abuja, Minister of Labour, Hassan Lawal, said the task of providing jobs was beyond the exclusive jurisdiction of government alone, extending to the private sector. He added that the ministry is currently partnering with private and social partners with a view to expanding job opportunities.

He said: "We have taken steps to annex new and emerging job opportunities within Nigeria's reforming environment. Although all these strategies have been put in place, the job generation target of NEEDS has not been feasible due to several sectoral problems.

"Among these are the on-going public sector reforms, slow progress in the power sector reforms, social and environmental factors, and growing political dis-equilibrium in certain parts of the country. We are collaborating with states and local governments to facilitate the creation of a sizeable number of jobs annually."

In order to make available jobs count, Lawal stated that steps had been taken to extend the frontiers of skills acquisition centres, improve trade testing units and building a more synergistic relationship with National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and other agencies set up to address poverty-related issues.

He added that the National Electronic Labour Exchange was not only designed to provide employment information but to checkmate unfair labour practices such as casualisation and contract employment.

Lawal has also called on Labour movement and civil society groups hell-bent on observing a sit-at-home on May 28 and 29 to shelve the idea and instead explore the judicial alternative.

The labour minister also tasked federal workers to be patient and accept the April take-off date for the 15 per cent salary increment.

Meanwhile, government and workers' representatives are due to meet today to try and reach a common position on the vexed issue of the upward pay adjustment.

But in a reaction, spokesman of the Joint Negotiation Council, Fidelis Edeh, who is also the National President of the Nigerian Civil Service Union (NCSU), told The Guardian yesterday that the workers would insist on January as take-off date for the 15 per cent pay rise.
www.ngrguardiannews.com

Not at all surprised!Stuff most women are made of now!Six months and already contemplating adultery?And her friend who happens to be her enabling factor ought to be ashamed!

Shameful waste of tax payers money~ASUU is on strike,Labor furious with unnecessary retrenchments,pensions and gratuities outstanding!
Power,roads,healthcare unavailable!Well lets all herald in Yar'adua with monumental over-inflated,grandiose celebration of dishonesty ,graft and banditry

Wow, what a post. But Oga Lewa, did you vote?

I did~my thoughts were with millions of patriots who trooped out en-masse!The results though did not reflect the
yearnings of the people

politics of dishonest cleverness!Varying contributors who support the illegality foisted by OBJ;are just nothing but joksters!
The overwhelming majority of my country people are appalled,dismayed and disgusted at the eventual results of the last elections.
This is not news;the so called reforms of this regime are just on the pages of newspapers;the general lot of people since 1999,has
taken a huge fall in all ramifications~PDP exercised brute force in making sure they return to power;obviously its a known fact!
Yar'adua by extension,a product of this warped,debased,corrupt arrangement has no iota of legality and has a concequence;i await the decision
of the electoral tribunals(assuming justice prevails),that the sham of the charade conducted by Iwu would be consigned to the waste bins of history.
History herself beckons,and prosperity her sibling awaits us,if only we could get our acts together

Is there anyone that can give an idea of the rate of returns p.a. for IBTC ethical,mutual funds and ARM's?
Thanks

Biggie,
i can see you that really a leopard cannot change its spots!Your delusional reference in mistaking me for another member on this forum,leaves much to be desired!Why would i masquerade as another?

Excellent point; you definitely have the right to express the level of your despisedness of this new administration, but you must also think broadly and understand what is currently going on in Nigeria

What administration?Yar'adua's?Is it May 29th yet?An election that international observers lamented was fraught with irregularities,voter disenfranchisement,murder,banditry?An election in which INEC and Maurice Iwu;showed to the world that their biased stance was a result of some interested person in seeing that his will was carried out by fiat!
To rally round someone who emerged as a result of fraud is not in my character~could be in yours?After all we all know the kleptomanic nature of your principal -IBB;gulf war windfall;June 12 ETC!
Umaru to see does not demonstrate the full measure of a man~integrity,equity,diligence~by foisting him on Nigeria,OBJ continues the tradition of mindless peasants who feed on the national chin-chin to the chagrin of the people they ought to serve~your very kind of people Biggie~your ilk

Laudate well said!Could not agree me!

Ngozi can never be World Bank President,or IMF Chair!The posts are for Americans and Europeans respectively!

I have said it before~the emergence of Yar'adua as the presidential candidate of PDP was a seriously flawed process!The so called elections which they say led to his emergence is another story,we need not rehash again.He reminds of Shagari~inspiring,dull,docile,rustic and it's a shameful again that we not only cannot conduct an accurate fair census,we have proven indeed to the whole world that we are a nation beset by fraud,in love with fraud!
PDP is synonymous with roguery and banditry and this was clearly manifest during the last elections~ballot papers were dumped in S/Africa and still Yar'adua constitutionally did not meet the provisions of winning the elections!
For myself hes not my leader~period!I would not be part of any whitewashing or illegality~the premise that he should be supported is very wrong~rather admonished and castigated for going along with this charade!

I don't know the reason for people to celebrate Tinubu's 8 locust years of agbero politics!
100 billion naira is a lot,what is on ground in Lagos?What are his achievements,apart from spending
tax payers money to front AC in S/W and stopping the tide of the PDP tsunami(would that put food on
the table for milions of lagosians)?

Razorr~nice analysis!Very much impressed!Nice