Why is everyone calling for Sanusi's head? What did the guy do wrong?

Before he stormed on corrupt bank MD's we had a CBN governor who we trusted tell us that Nigeria will not go into a recession and that all our banks are healthy only for us to find out that billions of our deposits have been mismanaged and stolen. Banks giving out loans with no collateral, MD's lending money to themselves with no intention of paying back, Banks buying their own shares, cooked up financial reports e.t.c.

My friends let us be frank, there is a media campaign to make Sanusi look bad but man took hard decisions and our banking system will be better for it.

This is the fourth time Aliyu Gusau is NSA. They are bringing him back because he is good at his job.

[size=15pt]Anyone know where I can watch highlights of the game?[/size]

enomakos:

it is human nature but very common with blacks

My friend Oyinbo are more jealous and envious than us. Most of us are deeply religious and believe that God that provides for everyone, Oyinbo do not have that belief hence are more prone to jealousy and envy. Having said that, envy and jealousy  are not characteristic to any race or tribe. Fundamentally, we are all the same.

NFF keep Amodu

Posted: 2010-02-05 22:42

Shuaibu Amodu was on Friday demoted to the position of coach of the Super Eagles home-based team, after a stormy meeting of the NFF board.
Luis van Gaal, Guus Hiddink, Bruno Metsu, Peter Taylor and Ratomir Djukovic are the five shortlisted candidates to replace Amodu and take the Super Eagles to the World Cup.

The Federal Government, through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) and the Sports Ministry will foot the bills for the employment of the new Technical Adviser.

The NFF's Technical Committee have been directed to complete the process of screening the candidates by the end of February and turn in a shortlist of three.

Amodu, who qualified the Super Eagles for the World Cup,  will now lead his assistants to raise and train a team of local players to qualify and compete at the 2011 African Nations Championships, a competition open only to players playing in the domestic leagues of their countries.

It was a meeting that was scheduled to be a single agendum meeting, to decide on Amodu's position as Super Eagles coach.

But Amodu's future as Nigeria coach took a back seat as members of the NFF Executive Committee first focused on impeachment proceedings against NFF President Sani Lulu Abdullahi.

Exco members, aggrieved at the way they were shabbily treated by the leadership in Angola, initiated impeachment proceedings.

The in-fighting lasted until late on Friday night. As at 9pm, the issue of national coach had not even come up for deliberation.

Eventually, the situation is said to have been resolved after certain concessions were made by the leadership, and the Amodu issue finally came up for discussion.

It was originally suggested that the coach be sent to Europe on a six-month refresher course, but that idea was jettisoned and he was put in charge of raising a team of local players.
http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=13759

@blackweaver

You are right. There were a lot of questions raised about the ability of the team. My greatest concern was that we have not been able to defeat any of the top African teams in the last four years. It means the team folds under quality opposition. Egypt, Ghana and Cameroon have all defeated us recently. So what hope do we have in the world cup against much stronger teams? The NFF took a stand on Amodu and indigenous coaches a long time ago and now would be a wrong time to make a U turn. If they wanted a foreign coach they should have hired one a long time ago. Now, what the team needs a technical advisor, a person who will point out all the deficiencies in team and proffer viable solutions, not someone to take charge of the whole team and try to experiment with his own chosen players.
The only glimmer of hope is that we currently have one of the best defence in Africa. This is not only due to the defenders alone but also to the fact that we pack the midfield with defensive midfielders. It is only the attack that is lacking. We were unlucky not to beat Ghana because we were clearly the better team and deserve to be in the nations cup final.

I am one of the staunchest supporters of Amodu, but I have to admit his tactical depth is lacking.

I believe no one at this point in time is more knowledgeable about the eagles than Amodu so he should stay.

1) There is no time to bring in a new coach who will definitely experiment like Vogts
2) He has shown willingness to work with other coaches
3) He knows the players in and out

Having said that there a few things that need to be fixed in the team.

1) Get natural wide players aka wingers from home or abroad.
2) Drop Nwaneri for Adeleye
3) Drop one defensive midfielder for Rabiu Ibrahim
4) Bring in Eneramo
5) Play Nsofor in every game
6) Pick Adefemi
7) Drop Olofinjana and Etuhu
Work on set pieces especially corners
9) Play with two strikers against small teams
10) Push Mikel back

1st Choice/ 2nd Choice/ 3rd Choice


Enyeama/Aiyenugba/Ejide

Yusuf/Adefemi/Odiah Apam/Adeleye Shittu/Yobo Echiejile/Taiwo

Mikel/Ajilore/Ayila Kaita/Lukman

Rabiu/Promise/Obodo

Uche/Obasi Martins/Osaze Nsofor/Eneramo


Wildcards:
One natural Winger- Moses? Aluko? Okoro? Anyone,
One natural Attacking Midfielder- Home based or from somewhere please,

Odiah and Adefemi are both better than Yusuf when attacking but Yusuf seems to be a better defender and more rugged. Adefemi is my personal favorite.
Notice also the exclusion of Ayila, Olofinjana and Etuhu. Ayila has not played the way he did in the 2006 nations cup for a long time and Olofinjana is old and getting tired. Etuhu is just not convincing. None of them have good ball distribution.
Eneramo gets the nod over Yakubu, Kalu and Akpala because he has shown more hunger. Isaac Promise gets a place because he is the best natural supporting striker we have (another option is Ezekiel Bala).

Borno’s new law gives Sheriff, deputy, lifetime luxury after 2011 - … Free cars, drivers, medication to family, houses, staff, trips abroad, electricity, pension, gratuity

Written by Isa Umar Gusau, Maiduguri   
Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:11

A new law passed by the Borno State House of Assembly has awarded lifetime benefits to Governor Ali Modu Sheriff as well as his deputy, Adamu Shettima Dibal, along with members of their families after the completion of their second term tenure in 2011.

The law emanated from the state executive and is headed by Governor Ali Modu Sheriff. According to the law, Borno State Grant of Pension to governors and their deputies  Law 2005 Amendment Bill 2009; after Sheriff and Dibal complete their tenure in 2011, they would not only be entitled to consolidated pension and gratuity, the governor will leave office with two brand new vehicles and two drivers while the deputy will leave with a vehicle.

The governor is also to be provided with a principal administrative officer while his deputy will get a senior administrative officer, both at the cost of the state government. In addition, the governor will be provided with a personal assistant on Grade Level 10 while his deputy will get a similar officer on Level 08.

Also in the law as reported by NTA, Maiduguri on the 7pm news of Thursday, January 28, the governor, his deputy, their wives and biological children will be provided with free medication and would also be entitled to annual leave abroad or in Nigeria depending on their choices.

The governor will be entitled to 30 days vacation while his deputy will get 15 days annual vacation, both at government’s expense. Both men will also be entitled to free apartments: the governor will get a six-bedroom house while his deputy will get a four-bedroom one; the government is also to bear the cost of water or electricity supplied to the houses for both men.

The report also said that the chairman, House Committee on Budget, Hon. Ali Darni Abba Saleh, claimed that the lawmakers deliberated extensively on the law before arriving at the benefits. The lawmaker also said that the benefits were worked out for the leaders because they deserve to enjoy after working for so many years.

The law, however, did not specify the inclusion of past civilian governors and their deputies in the state, as according to Hon. Saleh, past leaders whose tenure was not interrupted by the military also enjoy pensions given to them by the Borno State government. The report showed lawmakers coming out of the chambers in apparent celebration with most of them holding one another.

It was not clear if they were celebrating the passage of the bill or not. Our correspondent observed that the amendment was apparently done secrecy, as it wasn’t clear if at all there was public hearing before it was passed since the matter was not in public glare.

http://www.weekly.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2342:bornos-new-law-gives-sheriff-deputy-lifetime-luxury-after-2011--free-cars-drivers-medication-to-family-houses-staff-trips-abroad-electricity-pension-gratuity&catid=41:news&Itemid=30

Sure we have problems. Plenty of them. And we know more than anybody what our problems are because we are the one suffering everyday. But to label us a terrorist country just because we have bad leadership and bad governance is entirely out of line.
Nigeria may not be the best country in Africa but we are far better than many other countries. She says illiteracy indices are down; that is just not true. Nigeria has had 68% literacy for over ten years now. This is better than Ghana and Cameroon. Coupled with the fact that we are 6 times the size of Ghana or Cameroon, the number of literate people in Nigeria is more than the population of Cameroon and Ghana combined.
Extremism has no color, religion, race or nationality. So they should come up with better ways to fight terrorism because this is just laziness.

Amidst reports linking Mali’s national team coach, former Super Eagles handler and ex-skipper, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi with a return home to assist Coach Shaibu Amodu at the World Cup in South Africa , The Big Boss says he is available for the task.

Keshi said in a chat with brilafm.net that it would be his pride to serve Nigeria alongside Amodu since they have a close relationship, and recalls that they worked together to qualify the team for the Korea/Japan Mundial in 2002.

“Amodu Shaibu and I, we are like brothers. We qualified Nigeria for Mali 2002 and we never had the opportunity to be in a training camp.

“We did one week training camp in Otta the, from Otta, we went to play a friendly game. We also quailed Nigeria for the World Cup in 2002.

“Myself, Shaibu and Coach Erico then. Yes, if it is the wish of Nigerians and good for the well being of Nigerian football. It is not a problem if we work together again.

“I will never turn my back on my country. We spent 20 years or more with the Nigerian team and I still feel part of the team,” he confessed.

[url]http://brila-fm.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2156%3Akeshi-welcomes-amodus-invitation&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=76[/url]

Amodu

Eagles and the Pharaohs' defeat

At the beginning of this competition, we started brilliantly against Egypt and scored early in the game. We were carried away by our ability to control the game easily. We would have killed off the game if we had scored more goals when the Egyptians respected us. But we allowed them to come back into the game and let victory slip from our hands.

It was our heaviest defeat in 13 matches and we were left with the task of raising the players‘ morale from the defeat and prepare them for the other matches. Thank God we won the other matches to reach the quarterfinals.

The Zambian test

After reaching the quarterfinals, there were conflicting reports on who our next opponents would be. We thought it was going to be Cameroun and the players were happy because they thought they were going to avenge past defeats. The mood in the camp however changed when Zambia was eventually announced by CAF as our opponents.

My players relaxed and it was obvious in their character. I sensed danger and called them to a meeting to remind them that Zambia could knock us out of the competition. I told them that the team was one of the best in the tournament and that they played beautiful football. Perhaps they thought I was only raising a fear that did not exist, but on the day of the match, we laboured to curtail the Zambians.

They made it difficult for us with their brand of football. I forewarned the Eagles but they did not listen and that was why we could not kill off the game early. Derby against Ghana

The semifinal match against Ghana will look like the quarterfinal match against Zambia. Black Stars and the Chipolopolo have young players who can move the ball well. They can run very well too. Unlike Nigeria, the pressure is not on them.

When the coach left Ghana, he told the people that he would like to experiment with the young boys since the big stars are out of the team due to injury.

That action alone was enough for the Ghanaians to assume that the team might not go far. They are now in the semifinals so what else do they have to prove?

They will come out to play their game, knowing well that they have already done well and have nothing to lose.

Yobo is back from England and could be ready to play if he is fit enough. Onyekachi Apam is out due to his red card but the bench is rich enough to produce a replacement.

When we left Nigeria, it was difficult for us to explain how we chose the players in the camp for the Nations Cup. We took our time to preview the tournament and that is why we have these players in camp. Obinna Nwaneri is good in Apam‘s position if Yobo is not going to be fit and Yusuf Ayila did well when he filled the position after Apam‘s red card. We also have Seyi olofinjana who is tall and strong and can play in any position.

On Aiyegbeni

So many people have questioned the inclusion of Yakubu Aiyegbeni in the team that played against Mozambique and Zambia. Some said he did little to support the team.

Yakubu is a goal scorer but he is just coming out of a major injury setback that wrecked his performance last season. People accused me that he is my player and that is why I always include him in the team. There is nothing wrong in a coach having a favourite player and I think Yakubu deserves to be forgiven for what he is going through now.

The plan to stop me

This is a matter I would have kept to myself but if I fail against Ghana, Nigerians may not be able to know why.

The plans by the Presidential Task Force to hire a foreign coach for the Super Eagles came to me as a rumour because I only read them in newspapers. Reports said some of them tagged the players as bad investments, too old, unfit, unpatriotic and that the team should be disbanded. But much as the reports were doing the rounds, no one refuted the stories. The Director-General on the National Sports Commission Patrick Ekeji was quoted to have said that the Nations Cup would decide my fate.

The disappointing aspect is that I was at a meeting where they told me point blank that Nigeria needed a foreign coach and that we should look for one to hire.

I was shocked because this was coming in the middle of a big competition. I should have been the one to ask for an assistant and if I needed one, why not a Nigerian. Stephen Keshi is doing well in Mali, Austin Eguavoen has been with the national team before as coach and Samson Siasia is a good coach, why not choose one of them to beef up the coaching crew. Is there anything wrong with a black coach?

After delivering on the mandate of a semifinal appearance, I would have walked out on the team and told them to look for a foreign coach to finish the job. Is there a coach that will continue working after hearing that no matter what he does that he will be replaced?

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201001271273292

(Dakar) - Nigeria's vice president should order an immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today.

The killings, allegedly by groups of men armed with knives, machetes, and guns, were in the town of Kuru Karama, 30 kilometers south of the city of Jos in Plateau State in central Nigeria.

"Something extremely serious has happened in the town," said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The authorities need to act now both to bring those behind these heinous crimes to justice and to protect both the survivors and those at risk of renewed violence."

Witnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that groups of armed men attacked the largely Muslim population of Kuru Karama around 10 a.m. on January 19, 2010. After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive. The witnesses said they believed members of the armed groups to be Christians.

Community leaders from Jos and journalists who visited the town under military escort later in the week told Human Rights Watch that they saw bodies, including several charred corpses of young children and babies, strewn around town, including dozens stuffed down wells or in sewage pits. According to a Muslim official who visited the town to arrange for burial of the bodies, 121 have been recovered so far, including the bodies of 22 young children. The official told Human Rights Watch that corpses are still lodged in 16 wells. Journalists and community leaders who visited the town said that nearly all of the homes and the three main mosques were burned and destroyed.

One of the town's Muslim imams wounded in the attack told Human Rights Watch that a Christian pastor tried to stop the attack but was beaten by the armed mob. There are conflicting reports of the police response. One witness reported that at least one police officer participated in the attack, while another said the police abandoned their post shortly before the violence began. Witnesses said the killings took place throughout the day, without police intervention to stop the violence, despite repeated calls to the police.

The Plateau State police commissioner, Greg Anyating, told Human Rights Watch that the reported death tolls in Plateau State were false, and the police would issue "correct figures" on the number of dead in a few days, following an inquiry.

In a televised address to the nation on January 21, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the acting president, pledged that the perpetrators of the violence in Plateau State and their sponsors would not evade justice. "The federal government is determined to secure convictions of the perpetrators of this crime, no matter how highly placed," he said.

"Vice President Jonathan's statement that the perpetrators will be prosecuted is a start," Dufka said. "But now he needs to make sure the police conduct an immediate and impartial investigation."

Nigeria is deeply divided along ethnic and religious lines. More than 13,500 people have died in religious or ethnic clashes since the end of military rule in 1999. In Plateau State, an unprecedented outbreak of violence in Jos claimed as many as 1,000 lives in September 2001; more than 700 people died in May 2004 in inter-communal clashes in the town of Yelwa in the southern part of the state; and at least 700 people were killed in the violence in Jos on November 28 and 29, 2008. Human Rights Watch documented 133 cases of unlawful killings by members of the security forces in responding to the 2008 violence.

The latest outbreak started in Jos on January 17 and quickly spread to neighboring communities, including Kuru Karama. There are conflicting reports of what triggered the Jos violence. Civil society leaders reported that it began with an argument over the rebuilding of a Muslim home destroyed in the November 2008 violence in a predominately Christian neighborhood. Police Commissioner Greg Anyating said the trigger was an attack by Muslim youth on Christian worshippers in the Nassarawa Gwom district of Jos, which Muslim leaders deny. There are also several credible reports that the military and police used excessive force against both Christians and Muslims in responding to the violence.

Muslim leaders in Plateau State reported today that at least 364 Muslims have been killed in Jos and surrounding communities, including 187 of the dead that have been taken to the Jos central mosque for burial. A Christian leader told Human Rights Watch today that the Christian Association of Nigeria is still compiling figures on the number of Christians killed.

In December 2008, President Umaru Yar'Adua set up a panel to investigate the 2008 Jos violence, but the panel only began hearings in December 2009. The Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, also formed a commission of inquiry, which held hearings but did not investigate alleged abuses by security forces. The commission's report, submitted to the state governor in October 2009, has not been made public.

Human Rights Watch said the government should also take concrete steps to end the discriminatory policies that treat certain groups as second-class citizens and lie at the root of much of the inter-communal violence in Nigeria. Government policies that discriminate against "non-indigenes" - people who cannot trace their ancestry to those said to be the original inhabitants of an area - underlie many of these conflicts. Non-indigenes are openly denied the right to compete for government jobs and academic scholarships. In Jos and in Kuru Karama, members of the largely Muslim Hausa ethnic group are classified as non-indigenes though many have lived there for several generations.

Human Rights Watch also called on the federal government to pass legislation prohibiting government discrimination against non-indigenes in all matters that are not purely cultural or related to traditional leadership institutions.

Selected Witness Accounts

A 32-year-old resident of Kuru Karama, described to Human Rights Watch what happened:
[b]    "Kuru is an old mining town. There are over 3,000 people who live in the community. When we heard that there was crisis in Jos [on Sunday], we went to the [local] Berom chief on Sunday and Monday, he said we should go back home, and go in peace. We went home and relaxed. On Tuesday [January 19] we sat down in the police station and [all] agreed that nothing would happen in the community. The three Muslim leaders were there; the three pastors were there; the chiefs of the Berom and Hausa were there. We then went home. After 15-20 minutes we saw people dropping [entering the town] from the mountains. They were Berom - the tribe of the governor. They were armed with cutlasses, guns, sticks, and bags of stones. It was not the Christians from our community but those from outside who came. Before they reached the area, we called the pastors who said it was none of their business.

    I saw one policeman kill more than three people. This is not what I heard from people; I saw it with my own eyes. We were running away, and we met the policeman. He shot a small boy who fell on the ground, and we hid. We had only stones in our hands. He also killed a woman with a baby.

    The children were running helter-skelter. The men were trying to protect the women. People who ran to the bush were killed. Some were burned in the mosque, and some went to the houses and were burned. We think 250-300 have been killed, including babies and children. My brother lost four of his children. I personally saw more than 20-30 bodies of children. Some were sliced into two from the head downward; others were burned; others were amputated. I saw a mother lying down and the baby lying next to her.

    I am married with two children and one wife. I was waiting for her [my wife], I could not see her. I left Kuru after 12 midnight [early Wednesday morning]. I ran to neighboring villages. The next evening I saw her. She was wounded badly. The 11-month-old girl, they [the mobs] used an axe and cut her. They are both at the hospital.

    I came back on Wednesday evening escorted by the military. I saw dead bodies everywhere. The corpses were there, but now you can just see the blood on the ground. None of the houses are standing. All the mosques were liquidated."[/b]
A community leader who was in Kuru Karama the day of the massacre described to Human Rights Watch what he saw:
[b]
    "Around 10 a.m. we started seeing people coming around and surrounding us. They said they will take our land, saying we are the non-indigenes. They started throwing stones, shooting bows and arrows, shooting guns; we tried to defend ourselves, but we had nothing.

    After they started beating us and we ran back to the village, we started to gather our wives and children and put them in the central mosque because anyone who knows religion knows the mosque and church are safe places. We left a few people in the mosque and then went back to defend ourselves, but we couldn't make it because we didn't have anything to protect ourselves with, and we couldn't run because they had surrounded us. So we had to just try to defend ourselves before they killed us. So along the way they were killing us. They were shooting us, hitting us with knives, burning us. They followed us; we went to another place, and they killed us. We were going round, and round, and round.

    I saw what happened in the central mosque. They pursued us. They burned the mosque. They killed people in our presence. They burned the mosque with the women and children in it. There were over 100 bodies in the mosque - women and children. We couldn't run away. All of us were wounded. They burned the whole village. There are 200-500 Muslim houses and they burned them all. The central mosque is a big mosque and was destroyed. They have killed almost 500 people. Some people ran to the bush and were killed. The dead bodies are in the wells, some in the soakaways. The fighting went on from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. They [the mobs] ran away and left at night.

    I have three wives and four children. I saw the dead body of one wife; they had burned half of her. The remaining wives and my four children, I have not seen them. There are those who are burned to ashes, and you don't know who is who." [/b]


Culled from http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/01/22/nigeria-protect-survivors-fully-investigate-massacre-reports

Naija  is definitely in the top three.
I  had a sudanese friend that was amazed when he saw Kano and speechless when he saw Abuja. He spent hours on the phone describing to his friends back home about the buildings, roads and people.
Many people have not been to other african countries yet are giving Nigeria a low score. On the world stage Nigeria may not be something, but in Africa we are numera uno in may things.

How Jos crisis began - By man on the spot

Written by Mahmud Lalo, Jos & Misbahu Bashir, Abuja   
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 06:20

The crisis that engulfed the Plateau State capital of Jos on Sunday started at Dutse Uku on the city outskirts when Christian youth tried to stop a Muslim man from renovating his house that was destroyed in the November 2008 riot, according to Alhaji Kabir Muhammad, the man at the center of the storm.

Speaking to our reporter in Jos yesterday, Alhaji Kabiru said, “During the 2008 crisis [in Jos], my house was burnt and I had to relocate elsewhere while I started renovating it gradually. By weekend, I had reached the level where I was going to put on the decking. The residents in my area had earlier volunteered to help me when I come to put on the decking. Therefore yesterday (Sunday, January 17th) people came to the site to help in putting on the decking. We did a significant level of the work when the sand finished, so I rushed to Yan’ Tifa [area] and ordered two trucks of sand.”
http://www.news.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12875:how-jos-crisis-began-by-man-on-the-spot&catid=46:lead-stories&Itemid=140

He continued, “When the driver went for the second round to supply the sand, I saw from afar that some people were stoning the people in the tipper truck, while the people in the truck too were stoning them. I went down there to see what was happening, and they told me that they were insulting them. Many people gathered there and consoled the tipper men and everybody dispersed. Then the person that was stoning the people in the truck went and told his people that he was beaten by some Hausa youths and before you know it, a mob gathered at the site where I was renovating my house and demanded that we should stop the work. I then realized that the situation might become uncontrollable, so I rushed with my car to call soldiers who were posted at Yan Trailer [garage].

“Even before I got there, someone had informed them because they were already in their van heading towards the area. So I turned back and followed them. When we arrived at my house with the soldiers, the people popularly known as Yan Kasa [i.e. natives] demanded that the renovation work should be stopped. One particular Bajari man was the one that insisted that I must halt the work. I explained to the soldiers that I had already started this work when they proposed that the work should be stopped so that the matter can be resolved. One of the soldiers even collected my number and said that about five of us will go and sit down to resolve the matter. Then all of a sudden, we saw one Achaba boy [commercial motorcyclist] heading towards us with blood all over him. Someone was pushing his motorcycle, then another old man followed suit with similar injuries. I told my people to station the two victims so that they can serve as witnesses to us. So I asked the workers to stop the work, but the workers insisted that we must continue with work since we had already mixed the cement, sand and stone.

“I told them that they should stop the work since I was the one that bought the cement, but they refused. So the soldiers said that they should continue the work with the cement that was mixed and when they finish it, they should then stop. But before you know it, we saw a group of youths from afar and they started stoning us. We later heard that they had set up a road block around Baptist area and they were beating people. So we all dispersed. That is as far as I can remember.”

Asked if the Yan Kasa youth had told him why he must stop his renovation work, Alhaji Kabir said, “Yes, they said that they don’t want any Muslim to come back to that area again. That is what they said, that no Muslim should return to that area.” He was also asked if any Muslims live in the area, and he said, “There are some Muslims, but my house happens to be at the boundary which separates our area from their area.  Down inside the area there were Muslims. There are even some that renovated their houses and returned during the [Ramadan] fasting period, but my house happens to be at the boundary and there are no Muslims there.”

Alhaji Kabiru Muhammad also denied claims that the trouble started because he encroached upon someone else’s land while renovating his house. He said, “I have heard many versions of this incident, but this is the first time I am hearing this. I have been living in that area for over twenty years. It is not even a new house. It is an old house that was burnt during the 2008 crisis. I am just trying to renovate it. There is no truth in this allegation and like I said, this is the first time I am hearing this.”

Meanwhile, Minister of Police Affairs Dr Ibrahim Yakubu Lame said in Abuja yesterday that the police have been directed to fish out and bring to book those behind Sunday’s latest mayhem in Jos. 

He said at the police force headquarters Abuja while commissioning new trucks and motorcycles that those behind the violent crisis in Jos and other upheavals in all parts of the country and their sponsors will no longer have any place to hide, as the police have been given orders to fish them out by all means and prosecute them.

Lame said the police will go after those responsible for the violence, no matter how highly placed in the society, in order to put a permanent stop to wanton destruction of lives and property. He blamed such incidents on some highly placed individuals in the society and vowed that government will not allow them to destroy the economic and social fabric of the nation.

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel
This very famous rant by Steve Yegge, a veteran Amazon programmer, in his blog compares the most common programming languages and gives their pluses and minuses. Enjoy.

Henceforth, Nigerians will start experiencing what they probably fear the most on the international arena: blacklisting. The country has been added to the infamous list of “countries of interest” and its citizens travelling to the United States would be thoroughly scrutinised, no thanks to Umaru Farouk AbdulMutallab, the would-be bomber who attempted to blow up a transatlantic jetliner on December 25, 2009. But the Minister of Information, Professor Dora Akunyili, has described the move as discriminatory against 150 million Nigerians. THISDAY learnt last night that the National Security Adviser, Gen. Sarki Muktar, has summoned an emergency security meeting for today to discuss the latest development.

Expected to attend the meeting are the heads of the security agencies, including the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA), State Security Service (SSS) and the Inspector General of Police. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that the US had stepped up measures to stop potential suicide bombers in their tracks. These measures include categorising countries into two – “states sponsors of terrorism” and “countries of interest” followed with enhanced screening. Starting from yesterday, air travellers flying into the US from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Yemen and other "countries of interest" would be subjected to enhanced screening techniques, such as body scans, pat-downs and a thorough search of carry-on luggage. The US State Department lists Cuba, Iran, Sudan, North Korea and Syria as state sponsors of terrorism.

The other “countries of interest” whose passengers will face enhanced screening are Afgha-nistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan and Somalia. Additionally, all passengers on US-bound international flights will be subjected to random screening, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced. Airports were also directed to increase "threat-based" screening of passengers who may be acting in a suspicious manner. Akunyili is defending Nigeria vigorously saying AbdulMutallab’s case is a “one off thing”. According to her, the 23-year-old suspect does not represent what Nigeria stands for. “He (AbdulMutallab) was not influenced in Nigeria and he was not recruited or trained in Nigeria.

He was not supported whatsoever in Nigeria and his behaviour is not reflective of Nigerians and should therefore not be used as a yardstick to judge all Nigerians,” declared the minister. “Nigerians are peace-loving and happy people. We were even voted as the happiest people on earth,” Akunyili stated further. The minister said AbdulMutallab was a well-behaved child from a responsible family who developed an ugly tendency because of his exposure outside the shores of Nigeria. In her reaction, the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said the US should not have grouped Nigeria with countries where terrorists already have cells. She added that uprisings or killings which Nigerian security agencies had been battling to curtail started even before Al-Qaeda came into existence.

“In fact, we do not in anyway deserve this categorization and I think this is part of failure of leadership because since this happened, we do not have a president speaking with the US President Barack Obama and this is one of the consequences of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua not handing over properly before he travelled for treatment abroad,” she stated. The new security measures came in response to the failed Christmas Day attempt by AbdulMutallab to bomb a Northwest/Delta jetliner as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam. AbdulMutallab is the son of wealthy retired banker, Umaru Mutallab. Reports say his father and mother Aisha will travel to the US for his trial which starts on January 8.

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Amodu only picked players he had tried and tested. Obasi has only played two games under Amodu and has not impressed in both. Eneramo on the other hand has played six games and already scored two goals. Amodu is clearly not looking at club form.
At first look it might be a surprise exclusion of Adeleye and Adefemi but if you recall these players were  forced on Amodu after the Olympics, with Nigerians clamouring for their inclusion which subsequently led to them being capped in the games against Ireland and France. Kaita was part of the Olympics team but was already playing for the national team before the tournament in Beijing. The performance of our defence dipped in the second round of the qualifiers compared to the first round (when we did not concede a single goal) with the low point being 2 goals conceded away to Kenya. I am sure Amodu attributed this dip in form to the injuries of key defenders Yobo, Shittu, Odiah and  Yusuf. That is why they all back in the team.
Additionally, defenders Yobo and Nwaneri contributed by scoring goals in qualifying whereas Adeleye and Adefemi are not known for their goal scoring.

@waleshakur
You are ignorant and not worthy to call yourself a muslim. You are the kind of people that fooled this stupid boy to do what he did while you go around making these ignorant and hateful statements in forums hiding cowardly behind a computer.
Let me tell you for every ignorant muslim like you there are a thousand more like me, and soon we will put our hands together and get rid of this cancer that is eating at our religion.

These things are as clear as day. In Islam

Killing yourself = straight to hell
Killing another human being = straight to hell
Killing yourself + Killing another = straight to double hell

how can this silly boy justify his actions using religion.
He is a disgrace to his family, to Katsina state, to Nigeria, to Africa , to Islam and to the black race.

It seems that you have three separate issues here:

[1] Deleting your recovery partition should not cause all the other problems you have. The recovery partition only contains backup data that is used to recover your PC when there is a major problem.
[2] The problem with the USB is most probably caused by the flash drive being corrupted. This often happens when a read/write operation is in progress and the flash is removed abruptly without being removed safely.Try a different USB flash drive.
[3] The problem with your CD drive is most likely a driver issue. Reinstalling the driver will most likely fix it. Otherwise it is a hardware problem.

Do a system recovery as suggested in the forum.

PROFILE OF A TERRORIST

Until about two months ago, the family of the alleged American airline bomber, Faruk Abdul Mutallib, said he was just a devoted Muslim youth who was concerned about his religious duties in addition to his regular studies.

Faruk was arrested on a Delta airliner on Friday when he allegedly attempted to detonate a substance suspected to be an explosive on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, United States.

He has been charged to a court in Detroit, accused of an attempt to destroy an aircraft and setting off destructive device on the plane.

The young man had earlier graduated with a degree in Engineering from the University College, London, and was due to complete his Master in Business Administration from a Dubai-based university this month.

Investigations by Sunday Trust revealed that his parents who had agreed for him to do a summer course in Arabic in Yemen from around August this year sensed trouble when he suddenly called to say that he was no longer interested in completing his MBA and instead is staying on in Yemen for the next seven years for an unclear field of study.

The signs became even more ominous when he later sent a text message seeking his parents’ forgiveness and suggesting that he was going to become unreachable from then on. Frantic efforts to communicate with him failed from then onwards.

EFFORTS TO LOCATE FAROUK IN YEMEN

Sources close to the family told Sunday Trust that, at that point, the parents who had been exploring means of going to Yemen to locate and bring him home, decided that they needed to take a more drastic action.

After some consultations with those knowledgeable in handling such matters, they then decided to alert both local and international security authorities about their fears for their son. This, they did, through the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, NIA, and the local representatives of its American equivalent via the United States embassy in Nigeria.

Indeed, a source close to the family told Sunday Trust that even up to a few days ago, there was communication between an American security official and Alhaji Umaru Mutallab relating to Faruk. Further investigation on the matter indicated that initially the Mutallab family had no qualms about their son’s interest in going to Yemen to deepen his knowledge of Arabic as he had been there earlier on a similar summer course lasting a few months.

Sunday Trust learnt last night that the family members were surprised that Faruk was alleged to have taken a flight from Lagos to Amsterdam at the weekend considering the fact that Faruk had claimed to have relocated to Yemen.

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PROFILE OF A TERRORIST

Until about two months ago, the family of the alleged American airline bomber, Faruk Abdul Mutallib, said he was just a devoted Muslim youth who was concerned about his religious duties in addition to his regular studies.

Faruk was arrested on a Delta airliner on Friday when he allegedly attempted to detonate a substance suspected to be an explosive on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, United States. 

He has been charged to a court in Detroit, accused of an attempt to destroy an aircraft and setting off destructive device on the plane.

The young man had earlier graduated with a degree in Engineering from the University College, London, and was due to complete his Master in Business Administration from a Dubai-based university this month.

Investigations by Sunday Trust revealed that his parents who had agreed  for him to do a summer course in Arabic in Yemen from around August this year sensed trouble when he suddenly called to say that he was  no longer interested in completing his MBA and instead is staying on in Yemen for the next seven years for an unclear field of study.

The signs became even more ominous when he later sent a text message seeking his parents’ forgiveness and suggesting that he was going to become unreachable from then on. Frantic efforts to communicate with him failed from then onwards.

EFFORTS TO LOCATE FAROUK IN YEMEN

Sources close to the family told Sunday Trust that, at that point, the parents who had been exploring means of going to Yemen to locate and bring him home, decided  that they needed to take a more drastic action.

After some consultations with those knowledgeable in handling such matters, they then decided to alert both local and international security authorities about their fears for their son. This, they did, through the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, NIA, and the local representatives of its American equivalent via the United States embassy in Nigeria.

Indeed, a source close to the family told Sunday Trust that even up to a few days ago, there was communication between an American security official and Alhaji Umaru Mutallab relating to Faruk. Further investigation on the matter indicated that initially the Mutallab family had no qualms about their son’s interest in going to Yemen to deepen his knowledge of Arabic as he had been there earlier on a similar summer course lasting a few months.

Sunday Trust learnt last night that the family members were surprised that Faruk was alleged to have taken a flight from Lagos to Amsterdam at the weekend considering the fact that Faruk had claimed to have relocated to Yemen.

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PROFILE OF A TERRORIST

Until about two months ago, the family of the alleged American airline bomber, Faruk Abdul Mutallib, said he was just a devoted Muslim youth who was concerned about his religious duties in addition to his regular studies.

Faruk was arrested on a Delta airliner on Friday when he allegedly attempted to detonate a substance suspected to be an explosive on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, United States.  

He has been charged to a court in Detroit, accused of an attempt to destroy an aircraft and setting off destructive device on the plane.

The young man had earlier graduated with a degree in Engineering from the University College, London, and was due to complete his Master in Business Administration from a Dubai-based university this month.

Investigations by Sunday Trust revealed that his parents who had agreed  for him to do a summer course in Arabic in Yemen from around August this year sensed trouble when he suddenly called to say that he was  no longer interested in completing his MBA and instead is staying on in Yemen for the next seven years for an unclear field of study.

The signs became even more ominous when he later sent a text message seeking his parents’ forgiveness and suggesting that he was going to become unreachable from then on. Frantic efforts to communicate with him failed from then onwards.

EFFORTS TO LOCATE FAROUK IN YEMEN

Sources close to the family told Sunday Trust that, at that point, the parents who had been exploring means of going to Yemen to locate and bring him home, decided  that they needed to take a more drastic action.

After some consultations with those knowledgeable in handling such matters, they then decided to alert both local and international security authorities about their fears for their son. This, they did, through the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, NIA, and the local representatives of its American equivalent via the United States embassy in Nigeria.

Indeed, a source close to the family told Sunday Trust that even up to a few days ago, there was communication between an American security official and Alhaji Umaru Mutallab relating to Faruk. Further investigation on the matter indicated that initially the Mutallab family had no qualms about their son’s interest in going to Yemen to deepen his knowledge of Arabic as he had been there earlier on a similar summer course lasting a few months.

Sunday Trust learnt last night that the family members were surprised that Faruk was alleged to have taken a flight from Lagos to Amsterdam at the weekend considering the fact that Faruk had claimed to have relocated to Yemen.

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Latest news
Written by Aliyu Machika, Katsina   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:21
Katsina State government has disclosed that hence forth it would spend over N600million annually on the 10 newly recruited foreign medical doctors.

The doctors recruited from Egypt are to collect N516, 800 every month as their monthly salary, even as their salary advance has already been approved.

Speaking to newsmen shortly after the familiarization visit to the state governor, General Manager of the Health Service Management Board Dr. Aliyu Mohammed El-Ladan said the state government had since improved the package of indigenous doctors to equally get pay similar to their foreign counterparts, adding that the expenditure became necessary for government be able to improve health delivery in the state.

“With this spending, I am sure the doctors will work assiduously for the state and this will no doubt improve the state of our health,” Dr. El-Ladan added.

The doctors have been shared to five general hospitals across the state, including two each for Mani, Funtua and Daura general hospitals while Kankia got one. A doctor was said to have left the country without notice to the state government.

Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema called on the doctors to write to the state government on anything that would help improve the health of the people of the state, urging them to prioritize the needs of their respective hospitals.

Shema pledged that his administration would do anything to ensure they stay and work for the state, assuring the doctors that their request for soft loans to buy cars would be granted.

Sentiments apart who do you think can do what everyone has failed to do: Move Naija to the next level. In other words who do you trust 150% to deliver?

Written by Shehu Abubakar
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 00:28

Defunct military government of late General Sani Abacha was the best and most determined administration Nigeria ever had, Chairman and Chief Executive of defunct Triax airline, Chief Arthur Eze said yesterday.

Speaking with aviation correspondents, Chief Eze said the late Abacha’s administration was able to execute so many projects in the country, adding that most of the good roads in the country today, the legislative quarters and the National Assembly building were all built by military regimes.

He said today’s politicians are only “busy sharing money” while the people are dying.

“For the past ten years the civilians have been in power, the Enugu/Onitsha expressway could not be rehabilitated. But I know God will ask them question one day. Abacha has never given me contract and I did not ask him. But all the Military Governors that gave me contract, no one asked me to give him anything. No politician will give you contract without asking for percentage,” he claimed.

Chief Eze said though democracy remains the most acceptable form of governance, it is regrettable that Nigerian politicians are not doing what is expected of them.

He said the late Abacha led military never used the award of contracts and execution of projects as a means of stealing public funds.

No, not really. Seeing as most Nairaland forumites are around the age of the new king, I thought some would relate to the story. We all have dreams and targets but ascension to a throne will definitely curtail those. The governor of CBN recently admitted he wants to be the king in Kano so there are people with this sort of aspiration. Becoming royalty comes with a lot of sacrifices , how many people are willing to forgo some privileges in order to be a king or queen?

A 26 year old Engineering undergraduate of the Middlesex University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Alhaji Abubakar Kokia Atare Buba, has been turbaned the second Emir of Tula Chiefdom in Kaltungo Local Government Area of Gombe State.

He succeeds his father who died Sunday after a protracted illness. The new traditional leader was chosen out of the three contenders to the throne. Presenting the certificate of office to the new emir, Gombe State Governor Danjuma Goje, who was represented by the acting Secretary to the State Government Dr Sani Jauro said for peace to reign among the three ruling clans of Tula, succession would be rotated among the three heirs to the throne.

He said the late emir was the first to be appointed a third class emir in the chiefdom, adding that the principle of rotation would begin from the newly turbaned emir.

In his acceptance speech, Alhaji Buba appealed to his subjects to embrace peace, saying without unity, no meaningful development could be achieved. While fielding questions from newsmen, the new emir said he would not abandon his educational career in Software Management System Engineering.