Didn't they know what they were getting us into before they committed our money to it in the first place? I tire for my Country oo.

Can the mods please help put this topic on front page.
https://www.nairaland.com/1329202/cbn-reiterates-plans-phase-out

Lagos – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday reiterated its decision to change some naira notes from polymer to paper.

Mr Ugochukwu Okoroafor, Head of Corporate Communications Department of CBN, however, in Lagos said that the change would be gradual.

The Deputy Governor of CBN, Mr Tunde Lemo, on April 2013, in Washington, said there were plans to withdraw the polymer notes.

Okoroafor said that there was no fixed date for the change, but the apex bank would complete the phase-out before December 2013.

“We will print all the paper notes here in Nigeria as usual, but it is only when we have cash in hand that we will print the naira notes abroad.

“It depends on the volume the CBN intends to produce. Our hope is to print everything here in Nigeria, “ he said.

Okoroafor said that the change became necessary because of the challenges associated with the use of polymer notes.

He said that one of the challenges was the fading of the polymer notes and the high cost of printing.

Okoroafor said that in spite of the CBN’s plan to print paper notes, the bank would not relent in its effort to ensure that the cashless policy was effective.

He said that the apex bank was working with the service providers to reduce challenges that could arise from banks’network connectivity.

“We want less of cash in the system. We are encouraging people to use their payment devices such as Point of Sale (PoS) machines, phone lines and ATM cards, “ he said. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/cbn-reiterates-plan-to-phase-out-polymer-notes/

I fart more than 14 times a day, especially when I eat beans. Trust me you don't want to be in the same room with me, cos you might just faint or go into a coma.

Nah. #irep-teampu55y e sweet pass honey.
Most searches are probably just out of curiosity.

People calling for a Amaechi's head are enemies of progress. I don't know why anyone in his right mind will see something like this and not like it. Shame on all of them.

Is this a satirical piece or it's for real.

Laalamed: Yes because he is from perceived minority group.

Here we go again with the ethnicity bullsheet.

The Presidency has described President Goodluck Jonathan as the most "unjustifiably maligned leader" in the country's history.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, stated this in a statement on Thursday.

Okupe was responding to a lecture delivered by the Action Congress of Nigeria's leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in London.

He said, "It is trite to observe that President Jonathan is perhaps the most unjustifiably maligned leader in the history of Nigeria with critics using their overriding influence on print and electronic media freely and in many cases unfairly to take potshots at him.

"It is common knowledge that no administration has been abused, lied against and harangued like the present administration under Jonathan."

According to him, in spite of the abuse, the Jonathan administration has not carried out any reprisal against its critics.

Okupe stated, "It is on record that despite the avalanche of criticisms and attacks in the media, journalists and their organisations have not been hounded or closed down as we witnessed in recent past."

He noted that rather than muzzle free speech, the administration had always explored the legal option in seeking redress.

According to him, the signing into law of the Freedom of Information Bill, after previous administrations attempted to stall it, was a pointer to the democratic character of the present administration.

He said unlike the various ACN governments, Jonathan administration had bowed to the wishes of Nigerians when they disagreed with certain Federal Government policies.

Okupe cited the reversal of the removal of subsidy on petroleum products; amnesty offer to terrorists and the decision to shelve the introduction of the N5,000 note as some examples of the President's magnanimity.

On the electoral system, he said Nigerians and the international community had attested to a return of sanity in the process.

This, he said, was because of reforms implemented by the Jonathan administration.

He added that no administration, since independence, had done more to address the social security problems in the country than the Jonathan leadership.

Criticising the ACN, Okupe said the party was not only undemocratic but autocratic.

He said, "For followers, local and international of Nigeria's democratic journey since 1999, there is unanimity of opinion that no administration has equalled the Jonathan administration in the observance of and respect for the hallowed principles of maintenance of rule of law, free press, sanctity of the electoral process, separation of powers and respect for public opinion.

"President Goodluck Jonathan's opening up of the democratic space through institutional reforms clearly marks him out as a comitted democrat.
http://www.mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-most-maligned-nigerian-leader-says-presidency/

The crises in the Peoples Democratic Party are getting messier as its leadership and the suspended Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko, have gone for each other's jugulars.

Wamakko first threw the salvo at PDP National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday night by accusing him (Tukur) of incompetence and running the party as his personal business.

"He (Tukur) has been running the PDP as a personal business from his private home," he told his supporters on his arrival from a foreign trip in Sokoto. The governor, who had earlier called on President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve Tukur of his job, also wants the same treatment meted out to the President's Special Adviser on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak.

Wamakko said, "As far as I am concerned, Tukur and Gulak should be sacked because they are not competent to hold their positions."

But Tukur, who did not take the governor's vituperation lightly, fired back on Thursday, saying he (Wamakko) lacked the "moral fibre to remain in office."

His Special Assistant on Media, Oliver Okpala, who spoke for him, said "When he insults an elderly man like Tukur because he is a governor, then we don't think he has the moral fibre to remain in office because as a governor he should live by example."

Okpala claimed that the PDP leadership was aware of the alleged romance between Wamakko and leaders of the yet-to-registered All Progressives Congress.

He said, "If he has any agenda to leave the PDP, it is within his constitutional right and he is free, but as long as he remains within the PDP, he must align himself with discipline.

"He should not stay in the party and be encouraging insubordination and indiscipline. The leadership of the party under Tukur has regards for party discipline and will never waver."

On the claim that Wamakko described the PDP chairman as a political prostitute, Okpala said it was wrong for him to have done so.

The chairman's Special Assistant called on Wamakko to learn from another suspended governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, who he said had not abused anyone.

Okpala said, "For him to say Tukur is a political prostitute does not portray him as a true son. He should express a true sense of respect and discipline because of his position as a governor.

"The example he is showing now does not portray him as someone who has respect for seniority and properly constituted authority like the position of chairman of the PDP and the NWC."

On the call for Tukur's removal, Okpala said that as a father to every member of the PDP , Tukur had taken the call with calm.

He said no one should see Tukur's and PDP leadership's determination to bring discipline to the party as a personal vendetta.

"When there is no discipline, there will be anarchy and when anarchy sets in, there will be retrogression," he added.

Okpala also took on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mallam Aminu Tambuwal, who described Wamakko's suspension as illegal.

Arguing that Tambuwal was free to support his state governor, Okpala said, "The speaker, as a party man, should toe the line of political discipline and comportment.

"Tukur, as a father, will always look after his children who are party members and be able to caution them and bring them to order whenever they engage in acts that are subversive to the corporate existence and image of the PDP as a political entity and the largest political movement in Africa."

In his own reaction, Gulak said the call by Wamakko for his removal showed that he (governor) was ignorant of the party's workings.

Gulak told one of our correspondents, that if Wammako had belonged to the PDP from inception, he would have known that its members were bound by rules and regulations.

He said if the governor called for his removal because he was suspended from the PDP, he ought to know that as a presidential aide, his responsibilities did not include the running of the party.

Gulak said, "If Wammako made that statement because he was suspended from the party, he should know that the PDP has hierarchy as well as rules and regulations that all members, no matter their positions, are expected to obey failing which they will be sanctioned.

"Rather than saying that the PDP chairman is not competent, the governor should search himself and identify his shortcomings and accept them.

"For me, I have nothing to do with his suspension. I am not a member of the party's NWC. I am a presidential aide, he does not seem to understand that the Presidency has nothing to do with the running of the party.

"Wammako's utterances are misplaced and based on ignorance. May be because he did not belong to the PDP from inception because he came from the ANPP and so he does not understand the workings of the party."

Speaking with one of our correspondents earlier, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the party was not against the rally held by Wamakko's supporters to welcome him.
http://www.mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/tukur-wamakko-in-a-war-of-words/

The greatest achievment of the devil is convincing mankind that he doesn't exist.

Nah. Beaf is waaaaay smarter.

The girl no even fine.

Who is that dada Americana wanna be?
That boy will go very far in life for sure.

This is nice

Fresh facts have emerged that the presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are marshalling out plans to “deal” with some governors elected on the party’s platform from the north for failing to recognise the Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang who is leading a faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

Specifically, it was gathered that the first target among the northern PDP governors to be dealt with might be the Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu. Others include the governors of Jigawa, Kano, Sokoto and Kebbi States.

According to a source, “There are efforts to remove Aliyu as the chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum if he fails to recognise Governor Jang as the chairman of the forum.”

He said three governors from the north who remain loyal to the president are the arrowheads of the plot, adding that a meeting of the northern governors has been scheduled to hold on Thursday, June 6, where they may move against Aliyu. It was also gathered that “Abuja hawks” have commenced intense lobbying of members of the Niger State House of Assembly to impeach the governor.

A source said the legislators are being lobbied to move against the governor and to effect his ouster in a campaign bankrolled by people based in Abuja. Each member, according to the source, is being promised huge sums of money to sign on to the plot. The source also said a plan to precipitate a crisis of epic proportions, with the aim of destabilising the state and seizing control of the party’s structures from Aliyu is being engineered. He said top members of the PDP from Niger State are the linchpins behind the plot. The PDP members are alleged to be working in collusion with top politicians from the Nupe tribe, who constitute the majority in the state.

In order to incentivize them, politicians of Nupe origin have been promised that the governorship of the state would return to their zone. Niger State has a zoning arrangement which took the governorship slot to Zone C (Kontagora Zone) in 1999, after which Aliyu, who is from Zone B (Minna Zone), took over and will serve out his two terms by 2015. The calculation is that Zone A (Nupe Zone) should produce the next governor of the state.

This has to do with the fact that some of the governors who will be finishing their tenures in 2015, nurse political ambitions to contest for either the presidency or the senate.

According to the governor from the North-west zone, “Immediately Chief Anenih made that comment, we commenced consultations, but the more we speak among ourselves, the more we are thrown into confusion over what to do.” He said further: “Most PDP governors who are not on the side of the president still hold the strong view that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not an option.” APC is the proposed coalition of major opposition parties in the country comprising the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). He added: “By the time we leave PDP to join APC, the party structures would have been formed; already the sharing formula would have been agreed on, and any party you join and you don’t have your people in the party structure, then you are not a senior member.” The governor said his colleagues who might want to leave the party were sceptical of the national leader of the ACN, Senator Bola Asiwaju, his antics and domineering style, especially what he described as “Tinubu’s use and dump” tactics. Citing the example of the former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, and Nuhu Ribadu, whom the former Lagos State governor dumped at the last minute in 2011 to support Jonathan, he said these actions were consistent and were of major concern for the PDP governors.

The governor said that the PDP governors in question are also worried of the autocratic nature of the leader of the CPC, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, his military background and hardline posture. It was for this reason that the governor said: “The option in this regard for the aggrieved PDP governors, senators and members of the House of the Representatives is to move to another party or form a new one. According to him, “If our fears are not addressed both in the PDP and the merging APC, we are going to leave to a new party where we will present a credible candidate that both PDP and APC would lack. “By this action, there won’t be a party with a majority in the National Assembly and the governors will be shared among three major parties. “This is the game plan for some of us considered to be against President Jonathan’s re-election bid. Our plan is to ensure that three major parties contest the 2015 presidential election.” He said even if a presidential primary were to hold for the 2015 election, it is certain that most of the delegates from the North-central, North-west and North-east zones will vote for Jonathan. “In view of this,” the governor said, “It is sure that the PDP ticket is not up for grabs, so it will be better for governors who are not on the president’s side to look elsewhere as a platform.”

Meanwhile, PDP Democrats, a group which has been championing the right of first refusal for the president during the 2015 PDP presidential primary, has commended Anenih for supporting its position that there should be no presidential primary, rather an affirmation of the presidential primary convention. In a statement signed by Elvis Agukwe Max Gbanite, Coordinator of the PDP Democrats, the group said: “We thank our great BoT chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, for recognising, and supporting our earlier position that our great party must be united as one before the general election; that our party must be devoid of rancour, enmity, in-fighting before a general election; and that our party must galvanise its strength, and mobilise support for a rancour-free affirmative presidential primary. “Therefore we identify with Chief Anenih’s statement that our party should evolve a new system of producing our flag bearers, that will preserve the unity. Therefore, the president and governors seeking second term should be given automatic ticket.” Also, the ruling PDP yesterday expressed confidence in its capacity to win the presidential election and more governorship elections in 2015.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the party also dispelled fears that divergence of views and opinions among its members were capable of weakening it ahead of 2015. Instead, it said these divergent views were a reflection of its democratic stance where all members have the opportunity to air their views and to freely canvass their opinions unlike what obtains in the opposition parties where opinions and views of members are muzzled by political godfathers. PDP also dismissed and described as “shadow chasing and day dreaming”, boasts by the leaders of the yet-to-be-registered opposition APC, that it would take over government in 2015.

The party said power lies only with the people and not in the hands of - few desperate individuals. It said the opposition alliance would soon be in disarray, adding that most of those in the ranks would be betrayed and victimised by the godfathers who see the coalition as their personal estate. Metuh said the PDP welcomes the opposition to the electoral contest in 2015 but noted that they were already doomed to fail as Nigerians have since realised that they are merely “strange bed fellows” who have nothing to offer but are united by bitterness, frustration, religious and tribal sentiments. “We welcome the opposition to the contest. However, they are already doomed for failure because Nigerians have since realised their undemocratic tendencies and desperation for power for selfish reasons. “Nigerians know that they are merely strange bed fellows who are united by bitterness, frustration and religious and tribal sentiments and not for the national interest. “They have continued to betray their lust and inner disposition by their utterances in seeking to ‘seize power’ which has remained their only agenda. “They fail to understand that in a democracy, power is not to be seized. It is conferred by the people and this is the reason the people have continued to identify with the PDP. “The PDP believes in the people. No individual, group or tribe owns the PDP. It belongs to all Nigerians.

The PDP is a big family, united in freedom. “In a family there are bound to be divergence of opinions and views and this occurs where people are free. What outsiders see as internal disagreements is actually a reflection of the democratic stance of the PDP. “The PDP is the only party where people are absolutely free to express their views and freely canvass their opinions unlike in the opposition parties where the views and opinions of members are muzzled by their godfathers,” he said. Stating that the merger of the opposition parties was a positive factor for it, the PDP said it had also shown that the parties are essentially weak and would not be able to grapple with the huge responsibility of managing a big party. “We challenge the opposition also to be bold enough to hold primaries when the time comes. Many of those singing praises of the alliance will be betrayed and victimised by the godfathers and it will dawn on them that they have been deceived,” the statement said.
http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/2013/06/03/pdp-to-sanction-govs-for-not-recognising-jang-as-ngf-chairman/

It's a lie equitorial guinea is there and Nigeria is not? Hmmmn

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Modrators, can you please help move this thread to the general section?

Good, fight everybody. Akpabio's own will be the worse. That fight will be bloody.

These people obviously have no shame whatsoever. Imagine the nonsense talk.

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