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 Romance / Re: Upcoming Wedding Palava by mojojojo(m): 2:28pm On May 18, 2021 |
It is not uncommon for issues to surface at the eve of weddings. Do not be so quick to judge your fiancee as the devil uses this opportunity to come between bride and groom. Your mum will always suggest alternatives that will align and favor you. Such is the love of a mother. Perhaps you already set expectations for the bride to do both weddings at different locations and decided to withdraw due to cost. As long as your fiancee's behaviour is a one off and not a pattern, find a solution to work it out amicably and resolve. 4 Likes |
| Politics / Buhari Breaks Silence On Ganduje Bribe-videos, Says Action Will Be Taken by mojojojo(m): 1:37pm On Nov 14, 2018 |
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday broke silence on the bribe-taking videos of Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, saying action would be taken on the matter. The president’s response on the Ganduje videos followed a remark by a Kano student in France, who lauded the achievements of the governor, especially on scholarship, and advised federal government to emulate the governor. But the president snapped, asking the student if he had watched the governor’s videos receiving bribe in dollars. “That aside, haven’t you watched the videos of the governor stuffing dollars under his gown?” one of the participants quoted the president as asking rhetorically while demonstrating how the governor was stuffing the bundles of dollars under his babbarriga. “We gave the videos to security agencies for vetting. And we will surely take action on the matter if he is found guilty.” But the president’s response did not go down well with a member representing Nassarawa Constituency, Nassir Ali-Ahmed and personal assistant to the president on Broadcast Media, Sha’aban Sharada, who pleaded with journalists to remove the portion where the president made remark on the governor. The Paris town hall meeting, held at Shangrilla Hotel, was attended by Nigerian Students studying in various institutions in France, Nigerian community in France, APC members in France, among others. The president was accompanied by Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano, Ambassador of Nigeria to France Modupe Irele, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami and National Security Adviser Babagana Monguno. https://dailynigerian.com/in-paris-buhari-breaks-silence-on-ganduje-bribe-videos-says-action-will-be-taken/ |
| Culture / Check Out This Beautiful Eid Photos From Kano by mojojojo(m): 10:37am On Jun 18, 2018 |
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| Agriculture / Re: Why Tomatoes Are Always Expensive From May Till July And The Glut In August by mojojojo(m): 9:23pm On Jun 08, 2017 |
Tomatoes don't grow well in wet conditions. So during the rainy season farmers stand to loose their investment. It is also the reason why tomatoes are grown mostly in the North which has much less rainfall than the South. 9 Likes |
| Celebrities / Re: Nigerians Bombard Pia Mia’s Instagram Page After She Stole Phyno’s Song by mojojojo(m): 7:08am On May 30, 2017 |
The story of ‘I’m a fan’ single began from Phyno, Jeremih and producer Remo. According to verified sources close to Phyno’s camp, the rapper was working on incorporating Island-ready production on his sophomore album to tap into the international market. He was in talks with Remo, who sent him the song to work with. “The guy sent the song to us, and we wanted to work together, but something happened and we couldn’t use it,” our source tells Pulse. Due to issues regarding remuneration, clearances and demands, Phyno and Remo did not work together. But Phyno liked the idea of the sound, so he sought the help of producer Benjamz, who reconstructed the single, and brought on Mr Eazi and Decarlo to collaborate and release the record. Remo, who had totally abandoned the Phyno project, still has his music, and so when Pia Mia tapped him and Jeremih for a new record, they had this one ready-made for her to record and release. http://pulse.ng/buzz/phyno-pia-mia-the-true-story-about-the-controversial-i-m-a-fan-song-id6750672.html 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Buhari Owes Igbos Nothing, Junaid Tells Ezeife by mojojojo(m): 8:45am On Aug 16, 2015 |
AS A NOTHERNER I have been a member of Nairaland for long time and it has been a while seen I have seen such vile bigoted views. I understand that it not made by a user but made by Dr Junaid and reported here. I felt the need to say something because Dr Junaid does not represent my views. I would like to apologise to the Igbo people on behalf of all Northerner's on the offensive statements made by Dr. Junaid. I can assure them that his views do not represent the North but are the views of single minority. Dr Junaid and his ilk are the northern version of Biafra and Odudua sympathisers, people whose ethnic bigotry clouds their thoughts and utterances. People who cannot see beyond the sound of your name and language your mother taught you. We will always have people like this in Nigeria but as we grow as a country we will learn to treat their divisive and biased views as comical and insignificant. The Igbo people are a proud and resourceful people whom over the course of Nigeria's history have contributed to nation building just as any other tribe. They have a right to seek fair representation in the current dispensation. 14 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: President Buhari's N2.1 Billion Asokoro Mansion, Abuja - Breaking Times by mojojojo(m): 12:56pm On Jun 04, 2015 |
Show us proof .... Let us see documents ... |
| Politics / Buhari And PTF Achievements by mojojojo(m): 12:08am On Feb 14, 2015 |
| Politics / BBC Predicts APC Win If Goodluck Fails To Fight Corruption A Year Ago by mojojojo(m): 10:35pm On Feb 05, 2015 |
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan wants the world to believe he and his government are serious about ending corruption. But two recent events have sent out the opposite message. As President Jonathan handed out awards to celebrate Nigeria's centenary, there was a collective leap of eyebrows when people learnt that former President Sani Abacha was on the list. Many wondered why a military dictator who had plundered the nation was being celebrated? As if people needed reminding, during that same week the United States announced that it was freezing $458m (£275m) that had been stashed away in foreign bank accounts - part of at least $3bn that Abacha is believed to have looted during the 1990s. Finance Minister A presidential spokesman tried to calm things down by stating that the centenary award was "not a test of sainthood" but was for Abacha's "contribution to keeping the country together". The renowned Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka was so incensed he rejected his own award, describing the former president as "a murderer and thief of no redeeming quality" and "a man who placed this nation under siege during an unrelenting reign of terror". Corruption on another level Jump media playerMedia player helpOut of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala talks to Will Ross about the controversy surrounding missing oil revenues The second event came after outspoken Central Bank governor Lamido Sanusi had accused the state oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of failing to account for $20bn in oil revenues. Some critics accused Mr Sanusi of playing politics but when he was then accused himself of financial recklessness and was suspended, it was widely seen as a move to silence a whistleblower who was causing the government embarrassment. As one Nigerian told me: "Excuse the crudeness but Mr Sanusi had become a mosquito on the president's testicles" - the dilemma being whether to ignore or to smash. Lamido Sanusi accused Nigeria's national oil company of failing to explain missing funds It was by no means the first time that corruption in the NNPC was being highlighted. But this is on another level. The allegation is that more than $1bn was disappearing every month over a 19-month period. Mr Sanusi said he was speaking out because of the potential impact on the entire economy. "Oil prices are over $110 [per barrel] and we have a relatively healthy current account surplus yet we are facing exchange rate pressures, which is the last thing we should face at this point in time," Mr Sanusi told the BBC on one of his last days in his Central Bank office. He said he hoped a parliamentary investigation would also find out why the country's Excess Crude Account had fallen from $11.5bn to under $2.5bn in a year - arguing that Nigeria's savings are a vital buffer against any drop in the global oil price and without this "rainy day" account, the economy is vulnerable and exposed. The kerosene scandal Part of the Central Bank report focuses on kerosene - the fuel Nigeria's low earners use to cook. A poster in Lagos attacking the government over the kerosene scandal A poster in Lagos attacking the government over the kerosene scandal You only have to ask one question to discover that millions of people are being ripped off: "How much do you pay for your kerosene?" "Sometimes 140 naira a litre or 160 naira ($0.85 to $0.97)," Alimatu tells me as she tops up her small stove in a cramped alleyway that serves as her kitchen in the lively Lagos suburb of Obalende. Preparing a fiery fish pepper soup, Alimatu adds that it is a major part of her expenditure. "If all the children are at home, I finish this five-litre can in just three days." She is unaware that due to a government subsidy on kerosene it is supposed to be available for around 40 naira a litre. The state oil company has been billing the treasury to recoup the money it spends subsidising the price of kerosene. But why are Nigerians not getting it at the cheaper price? The Central Bank report suggests that, by not passing on the benefit to the consumers, a consortium has been collecting $100m a month in a scam. At the parliamentary hearing, Oil Minister Diezani Alison Madueke and state oil company officials denied allegations of malpractice and said all the "missing" money would be accounted for. But when Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala stated that the kerosene subsidy was not provided for in the country's budget, the alarm bells went up a few decibels. In a BBC interview I asked Mrs Okonjo-Iweala how it could be that as much $100m a month in the kerosene subsidy had not been budgeted for. Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says "nobody but us Nigerians" can stop the corruption "It wasn't budgeted for and that's all I have to tell you. The subsidy was deducted at source by the NNPC. We didn't budget for it," she said, stating that a forensic audit was needed. "Let us look at the amounts and the reasons being advanced for how much is missing. Audit that process. Audit what the NNPC is saying it used the money for and establish legitimately what is the shortfall." 'I know why I'm here' Nigeria's finance minister has a formidable international reputation, having worked as a managing director at the World Bank. But analysts say she is now in a dilemma. "The finance minister is a reformer at heart but she is in direct conflict with very deep vested interests," says financial analyst Bismarck Rewane. "She has to confront those vested interests or else her credibility as a reformer goes." But Mrs Okonjo-Iweala said there is no dilemma. "I don't think my reputation is under threat and to imply otherwise is distinctly wrong. I know what I'm doing. I know why I'm here," she told me. "It would be very easy for me to sit at the World Bank and earn a nice salary and criticise. I gave up a comfortable career to come here and do my bit because I recognise that nobody but us Nigerians can clean it up." "We need to be here fighting it ourselves, so that is what we are doing and we have a track record," the finance minister said. She added that the pension system had been reformed following fraud there and a biometric system was being put in place to clean up the civil service and eliminate fraud via ghost workers. This latest oil corruption scandal has led to some Nigerians saying enough is enough. Social media has been abuzz with cries of: "Where is our 20 billion?" A few dozen men and women have been arranging to meet to strategise on how they can help push for answers and accountability. "OK, so I'm buying kerosene for 130 naira and [in reality] there is no subsidy - it's cool with me," says social commentator Babatunde Rosanwo. "But the fact that you get to find out that someone is actually taking money on your behalf for what you are not benefitting from - it is just like somebody collecting social benefits in the name of the citizens. "It's a foolery that somebody sits somewhere and is taking a chunk of the treasury in our names. That is the message the citizens need to get this time around." A glimmer of hope? Past reports of gross plunder in the oil sector have been buried with little action taken, leaving many Nigerians with the belief that those implicated are too powerful to touch. So why would it be different this time around? Lagos-based banker Akintunde Oyebode notes that the governing People's Democratic Party no longer dominates Nigeria politics and faces a credible challenger in next year's elections, while voters are becoming "more sophisticated". "I wouldn't like to be the party that promises oil sector reforms and doesn't deliver because in four years that party will be out of government." It is a glimmer of hope that the thieves' days may be numbered. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26535530 |
| Politics / Femi Fani-kayode:the Killings In The North by mojojojo(m): 3:58am On May 01, 2011 |
As regards the unfortunate and sad events that took place in the core north immediately after the just concluded presidential elections, during the course of my research and consultations with various groups and stakeholders in the last few days, I have established the following facts which I would humbly like to share with you. a) That General Muhammadu Buhari, the CPC flagbearer was deeply pained and actually wept as the massacres were going on and he tried his best to stop them. b) That even a convoy of his own vehicles was attacked during the riots. c) That even though the rioters, murderers and arsonists were championing his cause, carrying his posters and calling his name, once the barbarism and pogroms actually started he had absolutely no control over it or any way of stopping it. d) That by the time the spirit of genocide and mass murder had been invoked and the genie was let out of the bottle, it could not be appeased or put back in by anyone until much blood had been shed and many lives had been lost. e) That the end result was that, according to the BBC (and we all know that the actual figure was far higher than this) well over 500 people were hacked to pieces and slaughtered within 24 hours after the pogroms started. f) That this level and speed of carnage and barbarity is unprecedented in our history and that every right-thinking person, whether northerner or southerner or whether christian or muslim, should wholeheartedly condemn it. g) That President Ibrahim Babangida, former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku, General Aliyu Gusau and Alhaji Adamu Ciroma had absolutely nothing to do with the killings and neither did they at any time call for it or encourage it. h) That as a matter of fact they did everything in their power to stop the carnage once it started and that this was particularly so in the case of Babangida who worked extreemly hard behind the scenes to establish the peace, to calm frayed nerves and to call people to order. i) That these killings were spontaneous and uncoordinated and the primary target of the perpertrators were the core northen elites and traditional rulers who the masses and almajaris (rightly or wrongly) honestly believed had rigged the election and had ''sold out'' to the PDP. j) That the perception amongst most southerners (and I was as guilty of this as anyone else) that only christians, middle-belters and southerners were targetted for death during those riots is completely wrong. k) That many northern muslims who were accused of being collaborators, traitors and blacklegs for supporting President Goodluck Jonathan were also targetted by the mob, were also killed and also had their homes and palaces burnt. l) That many hausa-fulani muslims were also slaughtered in southern Zaria, Kafanchan, Kagoro and other parts of southern Kaduna by members of the northern christian minority groups that reside there who are mainly PDP supporters and that that same group of northern christians even targetted and killed many igbo traders and burnt down the market in Kafanchan simply because they believed that such traders were CPC sympathisers. m) That what is happening in the core muslim north is essentially a class war and most of those that support Buhari are working class muslim northerners who have lost faith in their own local northern leaders and elites. n) That sadly the southerners and northern christians that were killed, including the heroic youth corpers, were innocent victims of a rabid mob who had lost all sense of reason and who were prepared to inflict collateral damage against anything and anyone that appeared to be different to them or that did not share their faith, their ethnicity or their political views . Consequently every non-muslim and every southerner became a supposedly ''legitimate'' target for these deranged and satanised individuals. o) That no-one was in a position to halt the rioting and killing once it started because there was no co-ordinated chain of command. It was essentially mob action and the beginning and first pangs of a northern revolution. p) That there are forces and armed militia groups in the Niger-Delta area who are preparing to eliminate and destroy the leaders of any ethnic group that they perceive as being hostile or opposed to the Jonathan government and who have a deep-seated hatred for northern muslms. q) That the ethnic militias in the south-west are now more active and restive than ever, have cultivated an alliance of sorts with the Niger-Delta militias and are being stirred up and prepared for a possible war with the north. r) That the Nigerian people are more polarised along ethnic, regional and religious lines than ever before. s) That the core muslim north, for the first time in our history, is feeling isolated, alienated, cornered and absolutely terrified about it's future and role in the newly emerging Nigeria and that they are falling back on their islamic religion and faith as a rallying point for their own quest for self-preservation, national identity and self-defence. t) That any conflict that may emerge in this scenario will be seen by the working class core northern muslims as a war against islam and they will fight it to the end. u) That more and more working class core northern muslims are openly speaking of a break-up of Nigeria and that they cannot be expected to continue to stay in a country in which they appear to be hated by everyone else. v) That the wisest, best and smartest thing to do in this ugly and unfolding scenario is to pray very hard and to ensure that we reach out to one another and build bridges across religious lines and the ethnic divide. w) That we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder and the onus lies on the President to hold this country together, to be magnamonious in victory and to stamp out and crush those that openly advocate ethnic or religious cleansing on both sides of the divide. x) That it would be a great danger to our national cohesion if the people of the core north perceive and honestly believe that the Niger-Delta militants are being tolerated, encouraged or even sponsored by the Federal Government. y) That once that happens they will have no choice but to begin to organise to protect themselves and their own people and that will be the beginning of an ugly descent on a slippery slope to all out war and ethnic, religious and fratricidal butchery. z) That perhaps the greatest danger of all to our continued unity as a nation is if the ugly events that occured in the core north after the Presidential elections should, for any reason whatsover, ever happen again in this country. z1) That if such a thing were to ever happen again that the likelihood is that there would be terrible consequences because some parts of the south would unleash a terrible wave of reprisal mass killings on innocent northerners that reside there. This must be avoided at all costs. z2) That in the interest of justice and lasting peace there must be a formal and thorough investigation into the terrible events that took place in the north after the Presidential elections and that all those that are found culpable of having had a hand in the killings should be brought to justice. These are my findings. May God bless and protect Nigeria. |
| Politics / New Governors by mojojojo(m): 1:50pm On Apr 30, 2011 |
1. ABIA PDP ORJI THEODORE AHAMEFULE (INCUMBENT) 2. AKWA IBOM PDP GODSWILL OBOT AKPABIO (INCUMBENT) 3. BENUE PDP GABRIEL SUSWAM (INCUMBENT) 4. EBONYI PDP MARTIN NWANCHO ELECHI (INCUMBENT) 5. ENUGU PDP SULLIVAN IHEANACHO CHIME (INCUMBENT) 6. JIGAWA PDP SULE LAMIDO (INCUMBENT) 7. KANO PDP MOHAMMED RABIU MUSA KWANKWASO 8. KATSINA PDP IBRAHIM SHEHU SHEMA (INCUMBENT) 9. KEBBI PDP SAIDU USMAN NASAALU (INCUMBENT) 10. KWARA PDP ABDULLAHI AHMED 11. LAGOS ACN BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA, SAN (INCUMBENT) 12. NASARAWA CPC UMARU TANKO AL-MAKURA 13. NIGER PDP MUAZU BABANGIDA ALIYU (INCUMBENT) 14. OGUN ACN IBIKUNLE OYELAJA AMOSUN 15. OYO ACN ABIOLA ADEYEMI AJIMOBI 16. RIVERS PDP CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI (INCUMBENT) 17. YOBE ANPP IBRAHIM GAIDAM (INCUMBENT) 18. EBONYI PDP MARTIN NWANCHO ELECHI 19. KEBBI PDP SAIDU USMAN NASAALU 20. ZAMFARA ANPP ABDUL‐AZIZ YARI ABUBAKAR 21. NIGER PDP DR. MUAZU BABANGIDA ALIYU 22. DELTA PDP DR. EMMANUEL E. UDUAGHAN 23. PLATEAU PDP JONAH DAVID JANG 24. TARABA PDP DANBABA DANFULANI SUNTAI 25. KADUNA PDP PATRICK IBRAHIM YAKOWA |
| Politics / Re: A 16 Year Old's Solution To Nigeria's Electoral Problems by mojojojo(m): 5:19pm On Apr 29, 2011 |
I commend you for making this contribution and having the confidence ( at your age) to put it forward. As you grow older you will find that people have a culture of pointing out problems and have no idea what the solutions are. Your solution may not be the best but at least you are putting your mind to work. I have not read the replies to your post but I am sure a lot of people will pick holes at your idea and put you down. Do not be discouraged and keep on thinking. The solution to most of the problems in Nigeria lies in technology. We basically have a human problem, where perfectly designed systems do not work because of human ineptitude. Every human in a system is a potential point of failure for the entire system and cannot be trusted. The use of technology reduces significantly to the number of humans required to maintain a system and hence the risk of failure. |
| Politics / Re: Bauchi Gov Yuguda: Murdered Corp Members Were "Destined" To Die! Shikena! by mojojojo(m): 5:07pm On Apr 29, 2011 |
I think the meaning of what he is trying to say was lost in translation. Sunni muslims, majority of which muslims in Nigeria are, believe in preordained destiny. Sunni muslims believe that every action and every thing that happens whether good or bad has been preordained by God from the beginning of time till the end of time. No one can escape their destinies. It was quite insensitive for him to make such statements since most non-muslims might take the meaning out of context but I doubt if he had any malicious intentions. |
| Politics / Re: Who To Blame For Post Election Violence? by mojojojo(m): 10:39pm On Apr 25, 2011 |
dazdilijae: I sympathise with you on your ordeal. But what you effectively saying is that a bunch of teenage hoodlums were able to outwit our security forces. The scenario you depicted is only possible if our security forces were outnumbered or ill prepared which brings us back to the original post. Did you know that Buhari's convoy travelling through Kaduna was attacked by hoodlums on the same day just like you and some of his entourage were injured? The truth of the matter is there was a complete break in law and order and the security agencies were unable and unprepared to handle it. Whether or not Buhari is responsible is not the issue here. If he were responsible, does it still absolve the security agencies from blame? If we blame Buhari today who will be blame next time it happens? Or all those previous times these sort of things have happened? |
| Politics / Re: Who To Blame For Post Election Violence? by mojojojo(m): 10:18pm On Apr 25, 2011 |
mikeansy:It seems you are being self-defeatist. There is no problem Nigeria has that cannot be solved. There is nothing wrong with Nigerians as a people. The problems you see are a manifestation of Govt's neglect of its responsibilities. Whether or not intolerance is being promoted is inconsequential. The government has a duty to maintain law and order in any situation it finds itself no matter how difficult. Ruling Nigeria is not supposed to be easy. Difficulty is not an excuse since it is ever present. Like I said earlier I am not equipped to propose solutions to the security problem in Nigeria and neither are you. The persons most equipped to solve these problems are the ones whose incompetence has resulted in the loss of lives. All we can do is to demand a certain level of service and protection from our government. |
| Politics / Re: Who To Blame For Post Election Violence? by mojojojo(m): 8:10pm On Apr 25, 2011 |
mikeansy: I do not have a solution for the security agencies. I cannot tell or suggest to them what to do. I do not have the knowledge or training to do so. No doubt the challenges they face are enormous. All we want is for them to be efficient and prevent these problems. Other countries have greater threats and yet seem to nullify them. I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation. These hoodlums have been neglected by society and do not feel obliged to follow its rules. They do not listen to or respect anyone and everyone is afraid of them. They can turn their wrath and frustration in anyone's direction. It is an oversimplification to assume a person or group of persons are responsible. This must be treated simply as a criminal affair and security agencies have a duty to see their investigations to its logical conclusion. Anyone found to be responsible should pay. I am not blaming the President. But he has to take responsibility and make corrections on the security situation. The Nigerian people are generally good and peace loving and deserve a government that will do everything possible to protect their lives and property. |
| Politics / Re: Who To Blame For Post Election Violence? by mojojojo(m): 7:16pm On Apr 25, 2011 |
mikeansy: Nigerian citizens have only a moral responsibility to one another. The security agencies have a constitutional responsibility to protect our lives and they are paid to do so. Are you trained or equipped to ward off a hundred angry and frustrated youth? None of us is. We cannot continue to rely on the purity of the hearts of people. Everyone is different and some people are plain crazy. We cannot depend on other people's rationality. I did not want this thread to turn political or blame personalities. This is clearly an institutional problem. GEJ may not be directly responsible for this failure of our security agencies and may be a victim of some other person's incompetence (see Minister of Interior) but the truth is as President the buck stops with him. He has the right to take credit for everything good that his government achieves and he will also take blame for its every failure. This is what it means to be a leader. |
| Politics / Who To Blame For Post Election Violence? by mojojojo(m): 6:10pm On Apr 25, 2011 |
After all the lives lost and the constant blame game being played by politicians the people responsible for the post election violence are undeservedly avoiding blame. I am talking about security agencies and the people charged by our constitution to protect our lives and properties. Here we are having the most divisive elections in the history of our country at a time when militancy and religious intolerance/violence are at their peak and the security agencies did not see it fit to have measures in place to curtail the activities of miscreants after the results of the presidential elections were announced. Even the most uninterested observer could have foreseen that whichever candidate won this election there would have been some form of violence in protest from either side. These people are trained and equipped to handle these situations and yet they were no where to be seen when violence erupted. The perpetrators were not organised and had no sophisticated weapons. One would have expected that the streets would have been fully manned and protected by every available man in uniform for a few days after the election results were announced (together with telephone hotlines given to the public especially those at risk to report violence at first sight) . This way these teenage miscreants would have stood no chance against the force of an organised and prepared security operation. In any sensible country one would be asking "Why has our security apparatus failed us? Who is responsible for the failure? How can this be avoided in the future?". |
| Romance / Re: Avoiding Long Phone Conversations With Women? by mojojojo(m): 4:28pm On Apr 09, 2011 |
"hey babe, I love it when we talk. I love listening to you and sharing our thoughts . But sometimes I think we tend to over do it , talk too much any have nothing else to say after. I think I will love you the more if I got to have you in just the right doses." |
| Politics / Re: Buhari: Great Speech In Lagos. by mojojojo(m): 6:46am On Apr 07, 2011 |
@Kcjazz Kudos for reading it and for the rebuttal. This guy LSU has about 34 posts , must have joined recently for the sole purpose of making propanganda. |
| Politics / Re: Buhari: Great Speech In Lagos. by mojojojo(m): 6:25am On Apr 07, 2011 |
I am seriously beginning to suspect that some people are being PAID to scour every post on BB and try to discredit it before it gains momentum. |
| Politics / Re: Did Anybody Listen To Buhari On Radio Nigeria's Programme (eagle Square)! by mojojojo(m): 6:09am On Apr 07, 2011 |
No one is canvassing to vote for Buhari because of his eloquence. He is not a man of words rather he is a man of action. If you want a fancy president vote for Magnus Kpakol. |
| Politics / Buhari: Great Speech In Lagos. by mojojojo(m): 6:00am On Apr 07, 2011 |
It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity of standing before you this morning to say a few words about our party and what plans we have for you and the nation in our manifesto. Let me therefore begin by welcoming all of you to the event. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the CPC Election Manifesto which sets out our election promises and plan of action. Its central and urgent message is that as Nigerians, we must restructure the country and change our ways. And in this there is an invitation to each and every one of us to come forward and join the struggle, so that together we take the destiny of this nation in our hands—and change it into a united, prosperous, caring, truly democratic Federal republic. But before we will be able to do this, we must secure,manage and govern the country in a way that releases the energies and potentials of our people and direct these to wholesome ends. Giving this direction is what a CPC government is here to do in order to arrest the nation’s aimless drift. In its 12 years of misgovernance the government of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had bastardised the nation. In all this period, it has done very little that is right, even less that is proper, and nothing intrinsically useful or cost-effective. It was as if they only came to pauperise the nation; and it could be said that during their time, the only places that prospered were the cemeteries and the bank accounts of a thieving elite. People in their thousands died due to poverty, hunger, disease and violent crises and violent crimes, as custodians of the nation’s resources smiled their ways to the bank. The wealth, which would have alleviated the people’spoverty; the food, which would have satiated their hunger; and money for drugs, which would have restored them to health; and the resources for the maintenance of law and order, which would have ensured the security of the land, have all been siphoned by this insensitive leadership. As a result, today, we cannot sleep safely in our beds or drive in safety on our highways in safety. Without power, without water and without good roads, we lack all the things other normal societies take for granted. We all know the problems of this country, and we have known them for the past 12 years ago and before; but, apparently, it is only now that the PDP is becoming aware of them, saying that it will try to solve them. So, where was the so-called largest political party south of the Sahara during the last 12 years? What stopped people of the ruling party from giving the nation electric power, something they promised to do after six months of coming to power? What stopped them from securing the nation from communal, religious and political violence and from the new wave of terrorism? How many years do they need to do that? And after this glaring failure they even had the temerity to ask for your votes. How on earth can anyone consider giving his vote to the PDP? Who in his right mind will consider four more years of this open thievery? Who in his senses will elect four more years of betrayal of trusts? Or four moreyears of broken promises? Or four more years of a collapsed and collapsing system? Or four more years of economic mismanagement? Ladies and gentlemen, I am Muhammadu Buhari, and today I am 69 years old; and I am sure I don’t have to remind you that I have fought many battles in my life. I have fought drift and purposelessness in this nation. I have fought corruption and indiscipline. I have fought indolence and the betrayal of trusts. I have fought the Nigerian civil war and struggled for the unity of this country in many other ways. I have had the fortune and privilege of managing national resources in various capacities—as a military commander, as a state governor, as a minister, as head of the Petroleum Trust Fund, and as the head of state of this great country. And in all that I have been and done, I have never touched a kobo of public funds. I say this without pride and with all sense of responsibility and humility; but I challenge anyone in the race for the leadership of this country then or now to dare make the same claim. After being head of state, I am sure I could easily have retired into a life of comfort and ease as an elder statesman, as a contractor or as a beneficiary of any one of the nation’s many generous prebendal offerings. But that is not what I wish to do with my life. And so, if I don’t take any of these alternative courses of action, it should be clear that I am not in this for the love of office or for pursuit after personal glory or in order to achieve some personal goal. Far be it from me that this should be. I need nothing and I have nothing more to prove. I am in this solely for the love of my country and concern for its destiny and the fate of its people. And that is why, despite the many disappointments along the way, I am still in the struggle and will remain in it to the end. I have decided to dedicate the remainder of my life to fighting for the people of this country—until their right is restored to them. We call on you to join us and change the destiny of this nation. And change is what CPC is all about. I am sure you will all agree with me that the question is not whether there we should change, because change we must. The only questions remaining are determining the type of change and the speed with which that change will be implemented. To effect this, we have assembled a team of competent, experienced and patriotic Nigerians to become the vanguard of the change to get the country out the woods andaway from the malaise that has kept it down. We are on a rescue mission to recreate Nigeria and transform it into a powerful and prosperous nation. Our focus will be on improving the efficiency of national economic management; and the reintroduction of national economic development planning and the plan to successfully manage change. The area of emphasis of our government will be on the following five: ensuring security, in which a CPC government will seek the disarmament of all criminal gangs in the nation and securing the entire polity; raising the standard of education and providing quality services at all itslevels; the aggressive pursuit after youth development and youth employment generation; rehabilitating dilapidatedinfrastructure; and the total disarming of the Niger Delta, finding solutions to its social problems and laying down acomprehensive blueprint for the development of the area. Along the way, we also intend to make this nation accountable and corruption-free, and bring morality back to governance. We shall make this nation uncomfortable to those who do not wish to play by the rules. We shall challenge vested interests and erase unearned privileges. Propriety and legality will be our new watchwords; and, hopefully, in time this will become the new business as usual for the nation. It goes without saying that this nation must be set free—from the clutches of a corrupt culture that has stunted the growth and development of democracy. A CPC government will seek to entrench democratic values, uphold the rule of law, respect the independence of the judiciary, and enforce the political neutrality of public service. It is our undertaking that after just one term in office, a CPC government will entrench a new democratic culture that will be impossible to dismantle even by the most tough-minded anti-democrats. We have set our priorities and we shall pursue them relentlessly. I urge you to read our manifesto and see what we have planned for this nation. And when you do so, you will see why, in the circumstance, the only sensible thing to do—is to vote for my party, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. It is a young party but it has already set all the others to flight. It will change the way politics is practiced in this country. Our enterprise is truly an ambitious one. It is not just about winning an election: it is about restoring a sense of decency to our society. It is about taking pride in, and respecting,ourselves as human beings and consciously internalising democratic values. Unless we do this, development and true freedom will forever elude us and talents will never flower in the land. But if the answer is democracy, what exactly is the question? The question is: Why are we still not properly practicing it? And that is where CPC comes in—to providethe missing link. And with your support we shall begin to do just that in the next couple of weeks. Thank you very much for your patience and attention. |
| Sports / Current Best Nigerian Football Players [link] by mojojojo(m): 7:13am On Nov 15, 2010 |
According to Castrol ratings the best Nigerian players are, http://www.castrolfootball.com/rankings/rankings/?position=&nation=45&team=&comp=#label |
| Islam for Muslims / Re: Eid Mubarak! by mojojojo(m): 5:45pm On Sep 10, 2010 |
Eid Mubarak Please ignore anyone who tries to provoke you and destroy the spirit of this joyous day. May Allah reward your fasts and bless you on this day. |
| Celebrities / Rupert Everett Has Nigerian Relatives by mojojojo(m): 10:00pm On Sep 07, 2010 |
Rupert Everett is 'stunned' to discover his family's greatest secret in Africa A homosexual comic once noted that the great thing about being black is that you don't have to tell your parents. Rupert Everett, the actor, is, however, about to inform his mother, Sara, that he has Nigerian ancestry. The existence of Jacob Everett, the actor's 84-year-old uncle, who lives outside the Nigerian capital, Lagos, was uncovered by researchers on the television programme Who Do You Think You Are …? "Rupert is stunned," whispers my mole on the BBC show. "The plan is to get them together soon. Jacob is a prosperous family man who was the product of what I can only describe as an alternative family that Rupert's father's father established." Everett, who stars in the new comedy thriller Wild Target, is busy rehearsing as Henry Higgins for the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Pygmalion and his publicist said he did not want to talk about his new relation. When I got the 51-year-old actor on the telephone, he said, with exasperation: "Yes, it's true, I am gay, I am black and I am royal. The only box I haven't ticked is Jewish, but I am working on that one." Royal? "Wait and see," he said, teasingly, before putting the telephone down. Everett's father, Major Tony Everett, a veteran of the Burma Campaign, died last year, aged 87. Through the actor's maternal grandparents, Opre Vyvyan and Vice-Adml Sir Hector MacLean, he is a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German barons Freiherren von Schmiedern. He is also a great-nephew of Donald Maclean, the Soviet double agent, and a great-grandson of the Liberal politician Sir Donald Maclean, who was leader of the Opposition in 1918 to 1920. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7830858/Rupert-Everett-is-stunned-to-discover-his-familys-greatest-secret-in-Africa.html |
| Romance / Hiv Love by mojojojo(m): 6:03am On May 22, 2010 |
While a government programme in Bauchi is pairing HIV/AIDS-positive individuals, it is not exactly rosy for the couples. Even though they have embraced positive living, life is still biting them hard. Weekly Trust reports Usman Abubakar Ziko was diagnosed with HIV in 2001, but he lives a normal life, thanks to the use of ARV drugs which are given to him at the clinic of the then Specialist Hospital in Bauchi. But in the course of receiving his drugs at the ART clinic, he met and fell in love with the woman who would later become his wife. “I knew she was HIV positive as I was and wanted to marry her but I could not, because of financial constraints,” he said. Then Ziko added: “Until BACATMA (Bauchi State Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/Leprosy and Malaria) came up with a match-making programme in 2008 and the support they give those who agreed to marry. I was given N50, 000 and my wife was given N40, 000.We now have two kids who are free of HIV.” Ziko said they have been living very positively because they had been adequately counseled. “When we want to have children, we seek for medical advice,” he said. “They place us on a special diet for a particular period until our immunity, especially the mother’s, is high, when the virus load is low. That is the period when they advise the mother to conceive because her body will withstand the pregnancy.” Love story Ziko said none of their neighbors or relatives has discriminated against them because of their HIV status and their wedding was not conducted in secret. “We invited people to our wedding and people accepted. We don’t experience any stigma either from our family, relatives or neighbors. People know our status. We told even our eldest child of five years and he knows our status.” If they have any problem, he said, it is their weak economic power. “Our wives are advised not to breastfeed the children but give them Instant Formula. This food is expensive and way above our income.” But Malam Baba Umar, a lecturer at the Department of Psychology of the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, Bauchi, said: “These marriages are conducted in secret because of fear of victimization. The poor among them find it difficult to live a convenient married life. They are not receiving full support from relevant agencies. Maybe, one day, we would come to see HIV-positive people as people like us who just happen to be suffering from an ailment whose cure, like cancer and sickle cell, has not been found yet.” Then there is the story of Rabi Ibrahim, a mother of two and married to Hassan Mohammed, another HIV-positive person. Both got married through BACATMA’s match-making programme. Rabi’s former husband died of HIV and so did the child they had together. She met her current husband at the ART clinic of the Specialist Hospital. Rabi’s husband, Mohammed, said: “We started talking and she told me about her husband, that he died of HIV/AIDS and that she too was positive. I told her that my first wife died of the disease and so the child we had together. We really love each other and when we heard of this programme we indicated our interest and got married in 2008. Before then I used to visit her. Initially, some people tried to discourage me, pointing out her HIV status, without knowing I too have the virus.” Have virus, will work The biggest challenge facing these ‘HIV/AIDS couples’ and many others like them who choose to marry among themselves is their poor financial status. Most of them lack jobs or vocational skills as well as the capital to buy tools required to carry out the trades they learn. Hadiza Aliyu, a trainer with Care and Support for Positive Citizens, said: “I pity those whose husbands died of AIDS and are left with nothing. Even those we train cannot put what they learn into practice and earn money because the tools are not there. Donor agencies should also think of providing those who are trained with tools to work with as well as some working capital.” Miles of red tape? Dr. Rilwan Muhammad is the first Chairman/Executive Secretary of BACATMA who, few month after his appointment, initiated the matchmaking programme. The chairman told our correspondent on phone that the agency has so far ‘hooked-up’ the marriages of 142 of such couples and out of this number 48 had successful deliveries with their children delivered free of HIV. The BACATMA boss said those joined into marriage are couples who have responded to treatment. “We advise them to use condoms throughout their married life until they decide to conceive,” he said. “When the couples decide to conceive they are to drop the use of condoms from the first day the woman starts menstruating for 10-15 days. The moment the woman conceives they go back to using condoms.” Dr. Muhammad explained that BACATMA was initially giving all couples that agree to wed under the programme the sum of N50, 000, “but as their number increased we reduced it to N30, 000 and now N20, 000.” The Chief Medical Officer of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, Dr. Mohammed Alkali said match-making by BACATMA allows the couples to fulfill their other social needs and responsibilities in spite of having a life-long disease. He said: “If one realizes early that he has HIV and is on regular treatment his life span is as good as people with other chronic diseases. Unlike the previous position when it was a terminal illness now mainly because of anti-retroviral drugs and better understanding of the management of the disease the situation has changed and it is no longer a terminal disease.” http://www.weekly.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3225:inside-hard-lives-of-hivaids-couples&catid=40:cover-stories&Itemid=26 |
| Sports / Re: 7 Players To Be Dropped From Super Eagles Squad by mojojojo(m): 3:39am On May 19, 2010 |
Bassey Akpan Terna Suswan Yusuf Ayila Brown Ideye Haruna Lukman John Utaka Adeleye |
| Politics / Re: Sanusi In Tears; Says Reforms Are Not A Northern Agenda! by mojojojo(m): 9:32am On May 16, 2010 |
Whatever degree he earned, he was able to rise up to become MD at first bank and an expert in risk management. Education is just a stepping stone, experience and skills are what really matter. Soludo was an excellent CBN governor but he was an academic. Because of this he was only able to see the big picture and come up with reforms that were academically sound and effective. Capitalisation of the banks was very beneficial. However he was not a banker and neglected to scrutinise the details of everyday banking and the CEO's were able to take him for a ride.Soludo used the CBN as a policy making institution. Sanusi on the other hand is a banker through and through. His reforms are more specific and he has steered the CBN into a more regulatory and supervisory role. |
| Politics / Re: Sanusi In Tears; Says Reforms Are Not A Northern Agenda! by mojojojo(m): 4:33am On May 16, 2010 |
Sanusi is a national hero. Please be intelligent and do not allow a section of the media to control your views. Nigeria is not an island. The whole world is in economic recession why is Nigeria any different. Sanusi's reforms did not usher in the recession they only exposed it. So if you are angry that your friend got fired from a bank, or that banks are not lending, or auntie Cecelia is locked away blame the entire world economy. Here in the UK the banks are going through exactly the same thing as in Nigeria. They do not want to lend, they have fired many of their staff, most of them have merged and are mostly owned by government. And remember there is no Sanusi in the UK. |
| Sports / Re: Ahmed Musa, the NPL Top Scorer, Is Just 17 by mojojojo(m): 4:36am On May 02, 2010 |
Another Kanu nko. Kanu still claims early thirties when the guy don approach 45. |
| Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Pictures From Inec Aptitude Test Is Abuja by mojojojo(m): 4:34am On May 02, 2010 |
This is all INEC's fault. Organise. Do the tests in batches of 300 people at a time on different days. Use age or qualifications to reject unwanted applicants. Use consultants that will do further selection, Instead they have a thousand people at a go to write a test. |
> Tell me if Buhari was arrested during his campain with sticks chanting Changi changi, kodey gora wouldnt you say d PDP was intimidating its opponents 
Now its d security dat didnt do dia jobs 
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