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HNosegbe: But why MUST it be in Abuja? Shouldn't the Federal Government be thinking about how to spread development across the country? Why not construct SIX of these across the geo-political zones?

The effect of this will only be to make Abuja more and more attractive, whereas true development can only be driven from the grassroots.

This move might well prove counter-intuitive.

you will agree with me that if it becomes a geo-political issue at the point, it will become bogus and amount to a white elephant project as has been the case with past administrations. The wise thing to do is to start the project at the centre and when it succeeds, take it down to the geopolitical zones. Mind you, the teaching hospitals round the federation are been upgraded as the national good governance tour has showcased in he zones visited, and the federal medical centres are no left out in this upward trend in upgrading our health facilities. This government has direction, GEJ and Onyebuchi Chukwu rocks.

A positive step in a positive direction. This GEJ administration is not getting enough credit for all it is trying to give to Nigerians. A country that has been regressive and almost at the precipice of dark abyss is gradually being brought back to a constructive and focused existence. I keep saying it that the culmination of all the Federal govt. projects between now and first quarter of 2015 will make Nigerians realise that those who kept us in this position of backwardness are feeding their emotions with lies and deceit in order to come back and assume the same nonchalant positions and postures on the affairs of this great nation. Kudos to GEJ and Onyebuchi Chukwu. We are all waiting.

If we compare all the indices on ground with the level of sabotage this GEJ government is facing, he is still the best Naija has got through past and present leaders and he is quietly delivering on his promises.

njokusboy: Nawaoh, our budget is in deficit nd dis fool is being sentimental wit d yar adua family.

Either u are Ngwa or Mbaise guy, stop falling my hand. Where is ur evidence? Do ou just take every thing you hear hook line and sinker? Wake up, enemies are too much. Have you not heard of praying for ur leaders? It's scriptural. Learn to point out good.

GEJ this GEJ that, no positive contribution, no constructive criticism. Let me ask, who confirmed this payments? What were they for? Was such payments actually made? Does the family of a President and Commander-in-chief deserve any kinda monetary compensation upon death in active Service? Nigerians and Nairalanders should stop jumping into argues they cannot substantiate.

emmatok: Sure you are paid agent.

Frank NWoke Jr is the best ever. The men knows how to talk, not like your MAKU.

And got get find yourself a good job. Quit boot licking

emmatok: Sure you are paid agent.

Frank NWoke Jr is the best ever. The men knows how to talk, not like your MAKU.

Sure you re a paid hater. It is your habit to dodge the issue and raise hypothesis about the identity of other commentators.
What assessment did you make that placed Nweke ahead of Maku? Or is it because Nweke talks like a white man?
What major projects can you recall of Nweke in information disemination?

Maku has gone beyond mere rhetorics and sloganeering "Good People, Great Nation" to initiating innovative policies and programmes aimed at expanding the frontiers of information disemination.
In just 2 years, Maku has succeeded in ensuring the passage and signing into law of the long awaited revolutionary Freedom of Information Bill. FOI Act.
He has initiated the Ministerial platform, first of its kind, for ministers to give an account of their stewardship to Nigrtians.
He is presently undertaking a good governance tour across the 36 states of the federation in order to showcase govt activities and also collate feed backs from the people directly through the citizens forum initiative.
What did Nweke do?

And someone should please tell Sahara Reporters that their lies are becoming very unbearable to people as so many comments reflect on this thread.

Excellence has a way of drawing heavy admirers and haters alike. I think that is the lot of Maku today.
We have in Maku, the best Minister of Infirmation ever in the history of our country. So I'm not surprised that a guerilla Internet magazine sponsored by the sworn opponents of Jonathan's administration will continue to attack the shinning lights of the administration even if it means clinging unto lies and cheap gossip.

Tell me. if Saharareporters were not on a mission to find any strand to hold on against Maku, how would the story of how he survived an air crash be an issue that will deserve this editorial attention and publicity? Are there no more serious gist to write about that borders on good governance?

It is Maku's business whether he survived an air crash or not. It is not our business whether he lied about his personal experience or not. It's left for him.
What should concern us is his stewardship in office. It will be understandable if all these hairsplitting was that Maku' told a lie on Budget 2013 or any other salient issue of governance, not his survival of a crash. It's personal.

Demdem: [b]Foool, i can now see that u are so shameless and deceitful like ur master maku. he told us about the all powerful cabal that are gradually killing us. he painted a picture of a set of untouchable. he said these ones dont have the interest of the general populace at heart bla bla bla.
Little did we know that as he as saying this, one of these untouchables was right beside him. Does that show sincerity in ur dumb state?
Govt told us CABALS are killing us and yet same cabals like both the aviation and labour ministers sit to discuss how to defeat them? does this sound sane to u at all?
Its obvious to the sane that the govt as never sincere. this surely will be difficult for u to decode because u are simply not sane.

Again fool, have u ever wondered why the retardeen had to wait till after the subsidy protest, NASS probe before constituting his own probe? one would have expected that that ought to be the first step even before subsidy removal so that the govt could get the real picture of what is going on within the industry but alas it wasnt done. The retardeen waited till all hell broke loose and even with that the person mandated to bring out a white paper on some of these issue is a cabal member (labour minister). doesnt that suggest to u that the retardeen is running mad and yet u come here telling me that bold steps are being carried out.
Once again, i re-affirm that u are a foool.[/b]

Mr Rabble Rouser! What have you been ranting? There's no limit to the foolishness you can exhibit on this forum. I thought you took a break to get yourself some little sense but it's obvious you came back empty with nothing.
You keep shifting the bar and dodging issues. You said Maku lied about the existence of cabals. Don't the cabal exist? Months after, the AIG IMOUKEHEDE committee came out with a report that established the true identity of the cabal. How did Maku lie?

Prior to AIG committee report, there was no established evidence as to the identity of the cabal so there was no need proceeding on hearsay to label anybody a member of the cabal.
It just sufficed that the oil marketers/trader companies who are involved in mismanagement of subsidy funds were labelled oil cabal.

Secondly, you turned truth on its head when you sought to create the impression that the ongoing sanitisation of the oil sector was an after thought. It may interest your block head to know that GEJ had in 2011 asked the then Minister of Finance to invite KPMG to audit NNPC and subsidy regime. It was even based on the stunning revelations of massive corruption that the idea of removal of subsidy was nursed. Then came the AIG Committee that has provided the first ever evidence for the historic and first ever trial of oil subsidy suspects.

Jonathan is surely winning the war against corruption in the oil sector and there is no amount of blackmail and propaganda from disgruntled agents like you that will make him dtop

Demdem: Fool, I can see u now have a mental problem. Wasn't it maku and his gangs that kept us informing us about some powerful cabals who seems to be in charge of the industry?
Hasn't recent events revealed to us that the so called cabals and friends and associates of this govt that includes the labour minister who also follows waku wherever he goes?
Dumb, I ain't against removal of subsidy. I am sure u got that idea from ur cursed imagination.

It's funny how you unintelligently shoot yourself in the foot with your unguarded utterances. Hear him: "hasn't recent events revealed to us that the so called cabals and friends and associates ...bla bla"

The recent events you allude to truly confirms Maku's earlier assertions, so what makes him a liar?
Maku told you in January that there exist a powerful cabal. In June, the identity of the cabal was unveiled. So how does that Make Maku a liar? Do you talk with your senses at all? Or have they gone on vacation to Jamaica in search of Indian hemp?

Secondly, you said" recent events" in a failed bid to cover up the efforts of Jonathan in probing and prosecuting the untouchable cabal who have held Nigeria's Petroluem industry prostrate since independence.
You are such a sore looser and you lack the balls to acknowledge the courageous and bold steps of this administration in exposing the oil cabal.

Demdem: I still remember vividly the lies peddled by this useless man during the subsidy debacle early this year. Going from one tv station to the other, talking rubbish. Yet some fools still regard him in high regards. Who does that except his fellow cohorts.

Old resident fool. What lies did he peddle? You saw a minister that was trying very hard to save you from ignorance and you call that lies?
Maku was telling you the obvious truth which posterity will vindicate him in due course.
It takes a paid opposition boot licker like you not to notice that the removal of subsidy is long overdue in order for our Petroluem sector to move forward.

I know that you are a dullard so no amount of education on the benefits of deregulation of downstream sector (which subsidy removal seeks to herald will convince you). So I will allow you to wallow in the bliss of your ignorance. Perhaps, one day you will grow up to know the truth.ODE!

mu2sa2: Labaran Maku has been a good talker right from his days as students union leader at unijos in the 1980s. so no surprise about his performance as information minister. But the man has undergone personal transformation since his days as deputy governor in Nassarawa state. In his university days he wore only one or two shirts for year (ask anyone who was in unijos 1986-88), but he now wears expensive guinea brocade 3-piece agbada complete with 30k Borno cap. Surely, Labaran Maku is not a comrade anymore- How times change?

bros, you must be a comedian. So in your mind, you expect Maku to be wearing the same pair of shirts he wore in 1986 before you affirm him a comrade. Are you for real? Or you are just joking?

please tell me it's a joke

Demdem: Crap. Its a waste. deal with it.

what a clueless response to indisputable facts. Carry on. Keep showing the world the stuff you are made of-A paid cyber clown.

Demdem: Fool, u are basically saying that there is no cost attached to it right. What a "daftty" u are. Even if its 1kobo, its still a waste considering the fact that many are being paid to do exactly what the tour is all about
besides why should they go for a miserable tour when dedicated govt agencies, individual ministries, special advisers etc are being paid to make sure govt projects are done as at when due. if these ones arent doing their work, why are they still within govt employ.

Jobless mugu. Go to school and learn about portfolios of Ministers. What is the job of an information minister other than spreading information about the activities of government?

The primary duty of an information minister is to bridge the communication gap between the people and government. A good minister of information will have to evolve policies and programmes that will be suited for this purpose.
A minister of Information is not to create jobs as you have misled some of your ignoramuses to think on this thread. A minister of information is to propagate information through viable and verifiable means.

The National Good governance tour is surely a legitimate means for this end. The tour was budgeted for in 2012 budget and approved by both Houses of the National Assembly.
Go and meet your legislator to tutor you on why he or she passed the budget for the tour. He will talk sense into your dull wet brains.

In addition, the tour was approved by the Governors forum to run through thier respective states. It has both the backing of all governors as the tour will get to all states including Lagos.
Rather than make noise on Nairaland about what you don't know, I suggest you tell your paymasters to get ready to showcase what they have done.
The era of cheap talk is over. Maku is coming to expose all incompetent governors and paymasters. F.ool!

Demdem: crap. u kept on talking of "introduce the bill" and who did introduced the bill? how does it negate what i stated earlier? was it the retardeen that introduced the bill? i know the history of the bill in question and dont need ur distored facts. O yes, the retardeen signed it like he has promised but he never initiated it neither did he mandate maku to make sure the bill was passed in the NASS like some goats seems to be saying here.

if u arent interested in the topic then shut ur trap and move on instead of u coming here taking about non-existent lies.

You have gradually reduced yourself to an object of ridicule. Gallivanting from one post to the other in defence of unbridled ignorance.
All these your s.tupidity is just in order to strip Maku of credit due to him for facilitating the passage of FOI which was frustrated for years. It won't fly. Try another trick.

you guys are just jobless.

LocalChamp: Labaran Maku’s Funeral By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
Posted: December 5, 2012 - 16:21

If you want to kill a politician, make him or her the minister of information.

At this year’s Nigerian Independence Parade in New York City, I listened to Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, as he addressed Nigerians. The drama of his experience at the podium reminded me of that line in William Butler Yeats’ famous poem, The Second Coming.

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.”

Maku was full of passionate intensity that day. But it did not rub off on his audience. At times he was booed for making outrageous claims. It happened when he claimed that electricity supply in Nigeria had improved so much that some places enjoyed 24-hour power. It happened again when he claimed that great trains were running again in Nigeria.

He was talking to a special audience. Gathered there were patriotic and optimistic Nigerians. They were not whiners. They were not Nigerians who hated their country. Many of them were very young, boiling with enthusiasm. In their protected innocence about the Nigerian project, this group was itching to forge ahead and do great things in spite of the challenges. They could take bad news as long as they could sense a genuine focus on the dream.

But Maku was more interested in fooling them. He was ignorant of his audience’s sophistication. He was unaware of his audience’s deep network inside Nigeria and their clear understanding of the ‘situation on the ground.’ He deployed old-fashioned propaganda in an ipod age.

You don’t tell people who stepped out of the New York subway that the second hand trains Nigeria has been picking up from junkyards of the world would amount to the best train system in Africa. You do not tell people who had not experienced power outage once in ten years that some parts of Nigeria now enjoy 24-hour power supply and expect them to clap for you. Certainly not when many of them spent their summer holidays in Nigeria and did not experience such anywhere.

Maku had the best audience he could find anywhere in the world -boys and girls who wore green and white attires, painted their faces the color of the Nigerian flag. And he blew it. And right there, I lost hope in his ability to make it anywhere.

I was, therefore, not surprised that, while hanging out in London with the former British Minister for Africa, Lynda Chalker, Mr. Labaran Maku declared, "The Nigeria media is so negative about the country. They are not interested in believing the progress being made in the country. They are running the country down".

Mr. Maku is a child of the media. He surely knows something about how the press works. He knows that “the only countries where newspapers are full of good news are those countries where the prisons are full of good people.” Maku is just not letting it out. Or maybe not. Maybe he was living a lie all these years that he was a Student Union activist and reporter. Maku, a former editor, knows that editors worship the devil. And politicians do everything in their power to keep the devil around the political arena. It is a symbiotic relationship.

Mr. Maku, in case you have forgotten, this is how the press works -the press reports the news. In a developing country like ours, the bulk of the news comes from the government- in this case, your government. The rest comes from what members of the press see around them.

Here are your typical news story headlines of each week:

Boko Haram bombs this church killing this number of people.
This international organization ranks Nigeria last in this or that development index.
Kidnappers pick up this prominent Nigerian and are demanding tens of millions
An investigative committee unearths billions of naira stolen from this government agency
Nigeria borrows this millions of dollars from China for development
Police officer kills bus driver for refusing to give N20 naira bribe
A pregnant woman dies at the hospital because she couldn’t pay N20,000 deposit
“90% of rape cases is self-inflicted,” says this state Attorney-general
Former government official buys billions of naira home in Abuja
Youth unemployment rises to 75%
Government official flown to Europe for medical treatment

Maku, these are the typical news story of every week in your Nigeria. Which of them makes the media negative? Which of them do you want the media to underreport? Wait, wait, wait, don’t tell me. I know what your answer will be. None. All you want is for the media to balance it up. Publish the good news as well as the bad news.

Ok, lets go through your typical good news of each week.

The eight wonder of the world, the Eko Atlantic Project, is in progress.
JTF has killed another Boko Haram commander
Nigeria’s GDP grows by 7.8%
Bank ABC has declared a profit of hundreds of billions
Another pastor buys a private jet.
Nigeria’s foreign reserve grows

Maku’s job of selling good news is made difficult not by the cynicism of the Nigerian people but by the epic river of corruption swelling around the government he defends. In Nigeria, bad news does not interrupt good news, instead it is good news that interrupts a stream of bad news. People feel the pulse of the nation based on what they see in their family and their corner of the country. It is not based on GDP figure.

To compound Maku’s problems, the mainstream media has lost its control over what people read, view or hear. While Maku’s predecessors could buy up the media, it is hard to bribe millions of citizen reporters who are busy on their cell phones snapping pictures and twitting away. Poor rankings of Nigerian in healthcare, education, life expectancy and infant mortality are not just statistics. There are people behind the figures. And these people now have a means to have their say about what they feel. In a connected world the expectations of these people are increasing. Just the same way President Jonathan was entertained in Ethiopia with beautiful cutleries and he came back and added hundreds of millions to Aso Rock budget for kitchen wares, Nigerians are becoming aware of the standard of life in other parts of the world and they want a piece of it.

In a government full of tragic individuals, Maku is the most tragic of them all. He spent years fighting the establishment. But once he became part of the establishment he finds himself screaming at the top of his voice that there is no establishment anymore.

Maku has the right to use his life-long mastery of the language of compliant to feign ignorance and self-righteousness. He does so while he tortures the truth, sacrifices the wretched and flatters the corrupt. It is falsehood that demands spin. Truth ascends to the surface no matter how many heavyweights fighters are holding it down. Haunted by a dark desire to keep the irony of his existence private, Maku is left to marvel at his unflinching failure to convince.

Maku is already guilty of intellectual dishonesty. He is capable of much more. But not to worry, it is his own funeral.

You guys are so shameless. We are talking about Maku's achievement and you went to excavate a piece that has been judiciously death with and laid to rest. SMH.
Why don't you focus on the issue at hand and convince right thinking members of this forum on why we should disbelieve the op?
Does this your excavated post offer any logical response to any of the issues raised by the op? NO!
Initially, I didn't want to dignify this your distraction with a response but I need to put you in check before you derail this intellectual debate.

I recall that this your tendatious overkill written by one Rudolf has been seriously death with another thread on Nairaland. You can have recourse to the following link in order to see how it was thoroughly dealth with.
https://www.nairaland.com/1123807/rest-peace-labaran-maku-1988

citizenisb: Second, this nation is littered with 3rd worlders and those people are VERY comfortable, accustomed, ok with having oligarchs (who are white) rule over them and commit massive corruption every single day.  In fact, in black-run cities, they virtually INSIST on having a corrupt leader.  Bonus points if he's black too.

Ordinary whites seem to believe blacks have the same innate notions of right and wrong and even same basic concept of how government works.  They don't. Most asians get this, but they have corruption issues as well.  Blacks don't conceptualize governance as representation, they conceptualize it as ownership, chiefdom.  It is not corruption to them, it is what the chief do with he property, as he see fit because it beez his.

There's no innate African concept of construction, building for the future, things are here and now, very non future time oriented.  We got 13% of them

I refer this case to YABA left.

pheesayor: you read my mind, the first over 7 comments to this thread are members of "THE TEAM" check out their profiles
















This one even registered on my birthday

CHeck out the date they registered, the section where they are active and their posts.

If the government is working, the masses will be the ones to acknowledge

It is always in the nature of these retarded paid clowns on Nairaland to develop an escape strategy to hard facts that they can't disprove.
Tell me. What on earth has people's profile and registration dates got to do with the topic at hand?
Interestingly too, none of the dates and profiles tallied so I don't even understand the message he was trying to pass through.
I thought that the exit of Kobojunkie on Nairaland marked the end to all these childish acts but I have been proved wrong.
There are still resident mugu's around who can't sustain a healthy debate on the merit of the issues. Pathetic!

Demdem: Fool, give me an example of any tour by government agencies/officials that wont gulp millions of naira.

Resident I.mbecile. You said expensive. What makes the tour expensive? And you came up with the lame and laughable argument that it ought to be expensive because it's a govt project.
This is the most I.mbecilic attack I hve seen on NL. You see why I told you that your I.mbecility is grossly underestimated.

You have no record whatsoever on the cost of the tour.. You have no idea of how it is funded. You just jumped into the conclusion that it is expensive because you must do the job for which you are paid for- Blackmail.

Please learn to be more tactful in pursuing this dirty assingment by your paymasters so that it can have a semblance of truth.
If you had common sense, you would have intelligently conjured up a figure to make it more believable. OLODO!

We are not gullible in this forum. You can't just label a project expensive without any cost or figure attached to it?

What has the date of registration have to do the with the fact that has been tabled before this forum, if you have no reasonable contributions to make on this topic please you are advised to keep shut,as not to distract others with your ignorance. Anyone can register at any time he or she deems fit, why bring up the issue of registration here?

Demdem: exactly. an expensive good governance tour isnt needed. Nigerians arent blind.

You are such a retard. Now I know why you spend most of ur retarded life spinning falsehood on Nairaland.
What is the figure for the tour? You don't even know and you call it expensive. Pls grow up.
The days of false blackmail and baseless criticisms are over. Talk with facts. Nigerians are not as gullible as you reckon them to be.

Demdem: [b]Fool, is ur kind that will see and regard maku as ur alpha and Omega in info dissemination. A man who strongly believes and publicly declared that the retardeen bought facebook to Nigeria. Whats so special about all what he has been able to "acheived" when he is not noted to be truthful. Was the fool not among the iidiots that were going from one TV station to the other spreading lies early this year during the subsidy debacle. talking about one cabal or the other which recent incidents have revealed to be false. infact i prefer prof Dora to this shameless liar of a being.

Again what has maku got to do with the FOI? he didnt initiate it (the retardeen himself didnt), didnt facilitate it also. Instead kudos should be give to Abike dabiri and her fellow supporters for their steadfastness in making sure the bill was passed in the NASS. it was never an executive initiative. Even now that the bill is law, how has it faired?

Continue with ur suckings, ur life obviously depend on it. [/b]

Olodo! This is how you fail exams. Simple questions you cannot offer logical answers. Your ignorance on this forum is grossly underestimated.
Under whoose administration was FOI passed and signed into law?
Since Maku did not facilitate the passage and signing by Mr president, why was the same bill thrown out twice before Maku came in?
You cannot be deceiving people here on Nairaland all the time because of the peanuts that Tinubu and co hand in to you.
Stop beefing. Face reality.

The reality is that so many strides have been recorded in ministry of information under Labaran Maku much to your disdain.
You shamelessly dodged to talk about the Ministerial Platform or the good governance tour. I want you to deny it. Paid F.ool.

ballabriggs: [size=16pt]JONA FIRE MAKU NOW!!![/size]

you will grow old on this I asssure you. Nairaland is not enough for this. Can't you find your way to Aso Rock?

HACKERS!!!

Demdem: Fool, will be back for u and ur kind soon.

Go and come. I'm waiting for you. I.mbecilic boot licker!

tatosh: Is this not the same minister who said he thanks GEJ for bringing facebook to Nigeria, this already shows he has nothing upstairs and all I can see on this post are some praise singers and nonentities praising his ass .Is this not sad? I would easily believe this post was sponsored by Maku for some dick heads to sing praises of him. I just can't believe what I'm reading about this noise making sycophant Maku

Keep quiet My friend! If you don't have anything to disprove about the claims as stated by the Op, go and lick Tom Tom .
What has sycophancy got to do with the fact that Maku facilitated the passage of FOI ACT? Is it true or not? Simple!
Is there anything like Ministerial platform initiated by Maku? Is it true or false?
Is there anything like National Good Governance tour embarked upon by Maku? That is the issue not sycophancy or opposition.

Demdem: Damn it. This thread is heavily infected with laptop crooks. All what these fools do is to suckk dickks.Will be back when an no longer mobile.

what's with you and sucking of dickks all the time? You must be a sworn pervert. Prove the Op wrong and stop confusing issues or better still continue your exit strategy.

ballabriggs: Frank Nweke? MUHEHEHEHE A confirmed druggy. Tells you how low Maku is when people think a junkie like Maku is better than him.

Jona fire Maku now!!!

Resident Mumu! I hail you. You are duly noticed.

Zutchy: if you had the FMI pin on your contactlist then you would understand the fact that it is a huge medium in the dissemination of information,they endeavour to give a minute by minute update of all news across all boards,if I must tell you the truth,they are trying indeed,they try to enlighten the general public to all ongoing government projects and newly formulated policies.

Don't mind the swalat. His mates are more interested in adding the pin but he would have none of that. He prefers to remain ignorant and naive.

take dat: So having a "strong" presence on social media and a BB pin has translated to achievement? Sorry I don't celebrate mediocrity, yeye dey smell!

Perhaps you did not bother to read the op thoroughly. I did. D BB pin is not the main thing. How come you didn't see the paragraph on FOI ACT?
The Good Governance tour is remarkable too. What about the Ministerial platform that the Op raised? You didn't see that too? Try to purge yourself of bias and embrace objectivity.
Nobody is dancing Azonto either but just acknowledging the new strides recorded by an information Minister.