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GenBuhari:
@lovejo
Why would he need to go to those lengths in order to loot?
Does every government since Babangida devalued Naira by 2000%  not had an official rate and a black market rate?
You need to come up with something better.

OP, he is not the best, neither worst nor average.

That was just an example but we don't need to argue about the achievement of Abacha, he laid the foundation for all the calamities happening now, especially unemployment.

@ op. you said 1$ is 22 naira during abacha regime, but he sold it at black market for 80 naira, if you understand me he takes it out at 22 naira at cbn and sells it at 80 naira to loot money.
He has done some good according to you, but sincerely we are doing better now generally as citizen than then.

I used Toshiba Equium for good 4 yrs without a fault, i changed to MACBOOK PRO last year and I can never go back for Toshiba, STEVE JOBS R.I.P

Ekiti still leading and I'm a living proof.

The bank standard rule b4 deposit is for you to verify the account before you deposit, so far you have fail to follow proper procedure i can't hold bank liable for this. Assuming you verified it and you are clear to deposit it wrongly then you have a case, moreover think of cost benefit analysis if you take it up in court of law as you said.

bizgirl:
yes good ones are still very outside. those ones that will stay and stick to u even in thick and thin. but the problem is that they dont present themself flashy(just like our mothers in those days) and cos of this, you guys mistaken them for old school girls. since most of them are not outgoing type/dont paint themselves in rainbow colors. [color=#000099][/color]

Bizgirl which type are you? i have try this type that is not flashy but they are too nagging and fall victim to wrong hand, they doubt all your action and they feel insecure. Moreover, good guys always comes late because demand for them also high.

Confilass:
Pls, let's me use this opportunity to ask men.  Why is it dat 98% of men while in a relationship want to Be Intimate with the lady?  I mean even when I am not the type dat demands for their coins.

Heb. 13:4 says "Marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled". Though am not a virgin but it's a decision I had made 3yrs ago neva to sleep with any man any longer till am married.

only virgin can make this comment.

ak47mann:
Na waoooo can one still find women that got good manners like our mothers still does i wonderooo

that is my problem ooo, but elderly man once told me if i want to marry i need to close my eyes cos if i open it i can't see good ones, but i don't know when to pick randomly now.

cos 9ja girls sleep for money outside and sleep with you for free as a person to settle with free. general trend in 9ja now girls are not what you think they are, with their BB, they move from one place to another to sleep for money.
I'm disappointed in them so still looking for the one to proof me wrong.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities say four drunk officers with Nigeria's federal police force opened fire on a funeral service they were assigned to guard, killing at least three mourners.
The shooting took place this weekend in the village of Akoko in Nigeria's Delta state. Delta state police spokesman Charles Muka said Monday that the officers opened fire for no reason after drinking heavily.
Muka said the four officers were being held pending the filing of criminal charges over the shooting.
Nigeria's federal police remain incapable of stopping ethnic and religious violence sweeping the oil-rich nation. Critics say its officers instead shake down motorists for bribes and make sham arrests to demand bail money from families. Many officers serve as personal orderlies to the country's elite.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hBCcpyJQ7JkgCgH9R77IBLQAwUAQ?docId=8dd1d6f8eef94ce8b5c806c616497fb0

only ileke-idi

Some unemployed graduates from the Nigerian Army Military School, Zaria, have dragged President Goodluck Jonathan and the Nigerian Army Council (NAC) to court, challenging their plans to "demilitarize" the school.

An alumnus of the school, Ayuba Abdul, who filed a suit at the Federal High Court Abuja on behalf of others, alleged that the army council had concluded plans to remove military training from the school curricular on the ground that it offends the United Nations Convention on Child's Rights.



In a 25-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion, the plaintiff said, "This was evident as the last batch of boys who passed out from the institution on August 6, 2011 are yet to be posted to their units".

This, according to the plaintiff, negates the essence of establishing the institution which is to provide skilled manpower for the Nigerian Army, adding that the Federal Government's policy seeks to defeat section 220 of the 1999 constitution and aggravate youth unemployment in the country.

Those named as defendants include President Goodluck Jonathan, the Chief of Army Staff, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Nigerian Army Council and the Nigerian Army.

No date has been fixed for hearing.




http://allafrica.com/stories/201109091038.html

There is a rule for this, if you have problem with your husband the right place to go is your father-in-law till everything is settle and if your father-in-law is just like your husband you need to file for divorce and be independent.

So NATO has to come?

i was in Nigeria for 2 months between June and August, in my area we enjoyed at least 18hrs electricity per day, and i also went to my area before i relocated my house they said it was so weird that they use electricity for 3 days uninterrupted and they were not use to it and telling PHCN to take it off for some time. This may not be general but i think the power sector is improving than before.

Can anyone with ICAN certificate ( Chartered Accountant ) without normal degree share their experience here? Just want to know if it works out that way than 2.1
Thanks.

South can declare independence from the north if they are really serious with it.

A small town in central Italy has declared its independence and started to print its own banknotes.

The authorities in Filettino, 100km (70 miles) east of Rome, are protesting against austerity measures.

It has only 550 inhabitants and under new rules aimed at cutting local administration costs it will be forced to merge with neighbouring Trevi.

Town mayor Luca Sellari, who stands to lose his job because of the eurozone crisis, came up with the idea.

He created his own currency, called the Fiorito. Banknotes have his head on the back, and they are already being used in local shops and being bought as souvenirs by tourists who have started to throng the normally quiet streets.

The mayor says there is enormous enthusiasm about declaring the independence of the new principality.

There has been such an outcry by small towns across Italy at the government move to abolish local councils and merge them with larger towns that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition may be forced to backtrack.

In the meantime the new Principality of Filettino - complete with coat of arms and website - is suddenly enjoying international fame.

TV stations from as far afield as Russia have been running news features about Filettino.

After all, the mayor says, Italy was once made up of dozens of principalities and dukedoms. As he says, the landlocked republic of San Marino still manages to survive, so why not Filettino?



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14774526

kaita and yakubu
but sincerely AMUNIKE

Zoning is Dead, but federal character is still alive after the emergence of the president and this is stated in 1999 constitution of federal republic of Nigeria, this is not about pdp, it is about Nigeria as a whole.

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police raided a clinic in southeast Nigeria and rescued about 30 girls allegedly used in a "baby industry," where they would give birth and then their children would be sold, authorities said Thursday.
"There are about 30 pregnant young ladies -- the eldest was 20-years-old," said Geoffrey Ogbonna, a police spokesman. "Some belong in secondary, even in primary school."
Police stormed the Cross Foundation clinic in Abia state over the weekend after a tip-off, but no babies were found at the location, the spokesman said.
Authorities believe there were cases in which babies were sold for between 100,000 and 150,000 naira ($640 - $960), with the women receiving about $131, according to the police spokesman.
A doctor arrested at the location said the babies had been handed over to social welfare for adoption.
Police said the women seized were not cooperating.
Only one of the women has talked so far, and she said her friend took her to the clinic, according to the spokesman.
"They do not want to open up," he said.
Police said an investigation is under way. No more information was immediately available.


http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/06/02/nigeria.babies.sold/

I am one of the people who have understandingly given up on the Nigerian project. This mindset was developed many years ago out of the deliberate wickedness, recklessness and negligence of the so-called political leaders in Nigeria. I have always chosen to shut my eyes and ears towards what I see and hear about Nigeria. I feel better that way. You can call me a pessimist if you like.

I recently came into Nigeria after some years of academic and economic sojourn in the United Kingdom. Since my arrival, I have been to Abuja, Port Harcourt, and now back to my operational base-Lagos. I have observed so many inappropriate things about the attitude of our people and the political leadership in Nigeria. While I was away, I also read and heard a lot about the achievements of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State. Visiting home was an opportunity for me to match what I have been reading and hearing with what is actually on ground. In fairness, there has been a remarkable infrastructural improvement on the status quo in Lagos. However, there are still so many basic things that are not in order in Lagos. Many of these things border on simple enforcement of law and discipline, which may not necessarily require significant financial commitment on the part of the government. My initial plan was to sit down and develop a report on my observations in Lagos with some salient recommendations to the government on how to achieve those. That report was intended to be handed over to Governor Fashola or his Chief of Staff.

While I was still struggling to spare some time out of my busy schedule for this report, the worst happened in Lagos, Nigeria. I was on my way to church yesterday morning (29th May, 2011-“democracy” day) between Onipanu and Fadeyi along Ikorodu road when I started perceiving a salty and foul smell. When I looked through the window of the vehicle, I saw a raging bonfire with some unburnt tyres kept beside there, and some men were standing a few meters from the bonfire watching. When I looked down properly, I saw the two legs of a human being in the fire being consumed up. The head and the body had obviously been burnt up. That was a criminal caught in the act of probably pocket-picking. My first natural reaction was a surprise-packed scream: “Why is Gov. Fashola allowing this? This is crazy!” The taxi driver conveying me was surprised at my outburst. To him, that was normal. He snapped: “na so naa, you see Fashola there?”. That bonfire sight immediately eroded all respect and regard I have for Gov. Fashola. It will take me almost an eternity to restore that.

Before now, a few people had informed me of this jungle justice currently going on in Lagos. I dismissed that with a wave of hand, thinking in my heart that Gov. Fashola is too enlightened for that type of barbaric act.

How wrong I was! It all boils down to the attitude of our people-which results from mass ignorance in the land- and failure of leadership at all levels of government in Nigeria. A Nigerian who pulls a petrol canister on his/her fellow citizen in the name of justice administration is obviously ignorant, uneducated and ill informed. The Nigerian government that has the overall responsibility to fight crime is in deep slumber; and so the people resorted to self-help. Some people call it double tragedy. If government had made any effort to guide the youth and provide employment, crime would have reduced drastically. Nobody talks to the youth, they are left to wander. I do not want to infuriate myself further by talking about the Nigerian Police. I consider it an absolute waste of time talking about them. The Nigerian judiciary that has the sole mandate of appropriating punishment for such crime is currently ridden with corruption. A few days ago, there was a media report on the dismissal of a Judge for accepting a bribe of N200, 000.00. That was just a tip of the iceberg in the nation’s judiciary. By the way, what has happened to community sentencing? Do Nigerian Judges know about community sentencing at all? A community sentence is a situation where a Judge orders a person to do some kind of environmental sanitation for a certain number of hours as punishment for a minor crime such as pocket-picking, minor traffic offence, use of abusive language and aggressive behavior, etc. This could be picking up papers/litters along the street, which must be supervised. Community sentencing is very much in force in the UK and it’s quite admirable by residents over there. At times, a judge could give an option of fine or community sentence. Is there any meeting point between community sentencing and the jungle justice in Lagos state?


I doubt if the Nigerian media ever reports such jungle justice currently going in Lagos, yet they call themselves the watchdog and conscience of the society.

Time and space will not allow me to write extensively on this, but I have made my point. Moreover, I know that this report will not get the Lagos state government to put a stop on this barbarism. I am only writing this to place myself on the good sides of posterity. I want to be counted as one of those who spoke against evil while it persisted in the land. And I have done just exactly that. The only thing needed for evil to thrive is for good men to keep quiet and do nothing.




The Nigerian government has always been quick to dismiss reports of Transparency International and other watchdog organizations on corruption and extra judicial killings. I am not surprised at such hasty dismissals. It is true to type. Nobody recorded that killing yesterday. I feel pained that I was not able to get a photograph of that scene, but one thing I can assure Lagos and the Nigerian governments is that an excerpt of this report will be forwarded to Transparency International and the UN commission on Human Rights. As far as I am convinced, that bonfire incident was inexcusable, undemocratic, wicked, barbaric, unbelievable, atrocious, and unthinkable, ill-informed and above, depicts the height of ignorance and backwardness in contemporary Nigeria. I feel very sad and ashamed to be a Nigerian passport holder.

Since yesterday’s incident has forced me to write, let me use this opportunity to highlight one or two things about my observation in Lagos; no matter how peripheral it could be at this stage. Moving round Lagos, I have since noticed that commercial motor cycle operators commonly known as ‘Okada’ riders are mere highways to death; and the Lagos government is watching this unchecked. It is not enough to introduce the use of helmet on commercial motorcycles. The enforcement has not been total. One can still see many passengers not putting on the helmet. It appears it’s optional for passengers and compulsory for the riders. It should not be so. It should be compulsory for everybody on the motorcycle. Many passengers refuse the helmet on the excuse that it is for public use and may give them infection on the head. My take on this is that they should place hand towel on their head before placing the helmet; or better still, buy a small size helmet, keep it in their bags, offices or cars, and use it each time they want to board a bike. Some may consider this inconveniencing, but no price is too big to pay for health and safety. Again, I notice that many passengers and riders who put on the helmet do not properly buckle it round their chin. They merely hang it on their head. Incase of any accident, the helmet will simply fall off and the head will be left exposed. Many of the helmets given to the passengers have no buckle. That initiative has since turned to business as usual, just for camouflage to ride pass the law enforcement agents. The government has to look into this.

More disturbing is the alcoholism of commercial bus drivers and ‘Okada’ riders. This contributes largely to the reckless loss of lives in Lagos roads. It is very common to perceive strong alcohol smell oozing out from the body of bus drivers and ‘Okada’ riders. It surprises me that Nigerian passengers sit down comfortably in these buses and motorbikes without any query for the driver. They are always in hurry to get to their destination, so it does not matter if the driver is drunk or not. Can the Lagos state government please tell us what the legal alcohol limit is for ‘Okada’ riders, commercial bus drivers and even private car drivers and motorcycle riders? In the UK, there are alcohol legal limits for everybody on the road- car/bus drivers, motorbike and bicycle riders, horse riders, etc. The British Police is always on the road with breath analyzers. They randomly pull drivers or riders and breath-test them for the amount of alcohol in their blood. There are strict penalties for offenders. Would it cost heaven and earth for the Lagos state government to purchase breath analyzers for the Police in Lagos and other wardens on the road? The mere mention of the programme in Lagos will put fear into the drivers and riders and they will control themselves. I will not have the time to delve into the recklessness with which Okada drivers operate. Speed limits do not exist in their dictionary. They do not know use of side mirrors. I find it unbelievable that under the watch of Governor Fashola, ‘Okada’ riders do not obey traffic light in Lagos. Infact, it is an opportunity for them to move on whenever the red light stops the vehicles. In the UK, bicycle riders obey traffic light not to talk of motorbikes.

Why is it that Motorcycle riders in Lagos do not wear the yellow high visibility vest? Those vests make them highly visible to the vehicle drivers and so reduce the accidents significantly. Enforcement of the high visibility wears will not cost the government any resources. It is simply to announce it and get the road wardens and police to enforce it. It may not cost more than N500.00 to purchase a yellow visibility vest. Lagos state government with their house addresses and other personal details should register the ‘Okada’ riders. They should be made to attend seminars regularly where the state government will talk to them about road safety and related topics. They should be made responsible for any passenger that got injured on their bike. And they should start paying taxes to government. It is not enough for them to buy some daily tickets from touts. Once these are done, you will see a good level of responsibility from the Okada riders.

The road-sweeping programme of Lagos state is quite commendable. But, I must observe the lapses in the health and safety aspect of it. Sometime ago, I read reports of how many road sweepers that were killed on the road. I feel sad each time I see those road sweepers on the third mainland bridge. In developed countries, you don’t put human beings in such busy and dangerous roads. They use road-sweeping trucks. Those trucks start work around 2am and leave the road around 4am for people to use the road. You only put humans on less busy roads like the streets. Would it cost billions of dollars to purchase a few road-sweeping trucks for Lagos, at least for busy areas like the third mainland bridge and other such places? Many of those Lagos road sweepers use just bathroom slippers to work. Can’t they be given work boots? They are being overworked. Lagos residents are still being allowed to litter the streets at will while the street sweepers labour in vain. In the UK, litter-bins are scattered all over the country, so that people can put their litters while on the road. The environmental wardens give people who refuse to use the litter-bins and drop litters on the roads spot fines of about 60 pounds. I have not seen such litter bins in Lagos roads. It will not cost heaven and earth to purchase thousands of plastic litter-bins for Lagos roads. After that, a task force should be inaugurated to enforce spot fines for environmental offenders.
There are still issues of security cameras, speed cameras, speed limits, transportation in Lagos, but those will be for another day. During the electioneering period in Lagos, I noticed the indiscriminate pasting of campaign posters in the city, which never helped the aesthetics of the state. This discourse is for another day anyway.

Before I log off, let me drop a word for Jonathan who was inaugurated yesterday as the President of Nigeria. I believe the election that brought him was reasonably free and fair. That means power is now in the hands of the electorate. Jonathan will be making a grievous mistake if he thinks this is another opportunity to assemble vultures and criminals in the name of PDP members and continue with the destruction of the country, which PDP had been doing in the last 12 years. Let me warn Jonathan that if he ignores the tears and cries of helpless Nigerians this time around, he will surely die on the throne. A word is enough for the wise. God bless Nigeria.


http://www.saharareporters.com/article/world-must-hear-evil-lagos-governor-fashola-was-inaugurated

I had the honor of personally co-hosting a luncheon on May 16, 2011 for the newly re-elected governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) at the Army-Navy Club in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the Constituency for Africa -- one of the leading U.S. advocacy organization focused on Africa. As I introduced the governor, I underscored the extraordinary commitment, dedication and vision of this extraordinary leader. The luncheon event was attended by 50 key civil society, academic and private sector representatives interested in hearing the Governor's vision for one of Nigeria's most important states -- Lagos -- where the capital city of the same name (Lagos) heralds a population of 18 million.

Winning re-election with 82 percent of the vote, Fashola told the assembled crowd that his vision for the next four years for his state focused on infrastructure development, particularly in mass transport (rail, bus, ferries), the housing and agricultural sectors, as well as on educational and training programs for youth. I have seen personally the transformation of Lagos from 2007-2010 during the time that I lived in Nigeria as a result of Fashola's leadership and I have no doubt that during the next four years he will continue to move the country's commercial capital forward.

Noting to the crowd "the importance of coming and seeing Nigeria first-hand," he told the U.S. group that they could not understand and invest in Nigeria unless they actually came to the country to appreciate the array of investment opportunities there.

In response to a question on the recent Nigerian elections where 22 million of Nigeria's 74 million registered voters participated in the April 2011 voting, Fashola acknowledged the irregularities in some polling places which he said needed to be addressed. He also stressed his concern about the violence that occured, but he added that the outcome of the election was credible and gave high points to President-elect Jonathan for "working the hardest" during the campaign and trying to reach out to Nigerians all across the country.

In my view, the key now will be the next steps for the country, particularly efforts to address key social sector issues for Nigeria's nearly 64 million youth, and addressing the underlying causes of the violence (need for education, training, better health care, and job opportunities) in the country's north, where according to Human Rights Watch nearly 800 people reportedly lost their lives.

Most Africa watchers recognize the enormous and limitless potential of Nigeria to expand its global and economic leadership, but more needs to be done to address social sector issues. The extraordinary vision, dedication and commitment by extraordinary individuals such as the results-oriented Governor Fashola of Lagos gives us all hope!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-robin-renee-sanders/nigerias-lagos-governor-f_1_b_864550.html

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) will continue to have a hard time distancing itself from the recent violence that erupted across several northern states because many Nigerians, including northerners have serious suspicions about its leaders' involvement, a chieftain of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman has said.
Speaking with The Nation on telephone from Kaduna, Abdulrahman, who was the Secretary of ACF's strategic Political Committee criticized consistent description of the crises as a "post-election violence", adding that there were clear indications that rather than being a spontaneous reaction as Alhaji Buba Galadima, Buhari's close associate puts it, the crises was orchestrated.
"Let them not distort facts now; the crises was a premeditated action. It was frustration that resulted into unleashing mayhem on the society. There was no spontaneous reaction; it was not even a reaction against election results because the results were not yet out before they began," he said
Abdulrahman, who lost his committee position in ACF in July last year for allegedly granting pro-Jonathan newspaper interviews that were also critical of some northern leaders, emphasized that CPC's presidential candidate, Major-General Mohammadu Buhari (retd) and his associates committed a major political blunder by expecting that the large crowd at the party's campaign rallies in some northern states was enough to guarantee victory in the presidential polls.
He also stated that there was a reason to be suspicious of the violence perpetrated by followers of a party in states where it was leading on votes tally.
"The results of the presidential election had not been released before the crises erupted. Buhari won in Katsina, Kano and Kaduna, so I do not know the reason why they would riot in those places because they were the people who were winning in those states. Therefore, it (violence) was a planned act.
"Buhari cannot win elections in Kano, Kaduna and Katsina and expect to become president of Nigeria. So, it seems as if these people had already planned mayhem, because they thought that there was going to be a presidential run-off election.
"I do not see a pragmatic politician in a multicultural, multi-ethnic nation like Nigeria banking on winning just the northern states and then hope to call for a run-off election with whatever number of votes he gets there. Besides, nothing guaranteed that this man (Buhari) would win the nineteen northern states.
"The calculation went wrong because, for instance, Kano people chose to vote for individuals, not political parties. In Kano, they wanted Abacha's son to become governor; it would not have mattered if he was a destitute; they wanted him.
"Kano people came out en masse to welcome Buhari because they were expecting Abacha's son to become governor through CPC. However, Buhari cancelled the whole thing; he supported Jafaru Isa, a former governor. So the people just withdrew all the support from the CPC.
"Now, I cannot understand how Buhari's associate like Buba Galadima would be making a statement that the crises happened because people's action was spontaneous at the time election results were released. The fact is that there was no election result when the violence started in several places," Abdulrahman insisted.
According to the ACF chieftain, both the government and many Nigerians have been erroneously referring to the recent violence as post-election violence when much of it had occurred before and during the election before results were ready.
He said, "It is a misnomer to be referring to this problem as a post-election violence. Buhari had already made it clear that he was not going to court because he knew what would happen.
"It is likely that people like Buba already knew that there was no way Buhari could have made it. The only person that could have been very helpful to Buhari in the entire South East geo-political zone was someone like Chief Mike Ahamba, the lawyer who handled the big job of legally challenging elections that Buhari lost in the past.
"However, the Buhari people said they did not want him as their party leader and they even said that his exit was good riddance to bad rubbish. After insulting the only notable easterner in their camp, how do they expect to get votes from there," he asked.




http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/6255-acf-chieftain-carpets-cpc-buhari.html

the pastor is committing fornication with her, she can't re-marry except only her ex is deceased, what bible college pastor of nowadays attends.

No infrastructure to implement this, electricity, wifi , and good intention, why selected states in the south, it should be balance between the geo political zone.

i think uneducated business man will not release his goods to me except he can confirm his money, this will cause many crisis between literate and illiterate.

This will increase scamming the uneducated trader by their staff and trusted workers, some traders in Agbeni market, Yaba Market, Tinubu and Tejuosho Market will fall victims many times no matter the awareness, it might be too late before the fraud could be detected no matter the awareness, but with time they will get use to it.

In country like Russia, you can move from one state to another without legal permission cos some side are also fanatics, we can be in one country but we can introduce proper documentation of movement between south and north, so if anything goes wrong we know how to solve it or who to hold responsible.

let the government provide wifi at everywhere, i can't risk login to my account at any other place except from my system, secondly there must be electricity for at least business hours non-interrupted.

let him provide solution to deposit, i may be satisfy by making transfer instead of withdrawing cash, but i don't get how to deposit cash i have to bank.

I have check the link but i'm yet to see where she was called Nigerian, can some one verify this apart from trash MOBO wrote, though i condemned her action but if she was not called a Nigerian, why should MOBO conclude she is a Nigerian.