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KnowAll:
[size=14pt]There is no way JEG would beat the combine votes of the quartet, Saraki, IBB,Gusau,Atiku. If they quartet decide to adopt one candidate and pool resources together I cannot see JEG beating them, OR is it not going to be a secret ballot.

Would JEG know who the Daniel’s and Akala's of this world who they are casting their votes for, I am waiting for the Government magic JEG would perform during the primaries.

If they run independently then JEG would carry the day, but as a combined force, I am sorry to burst die-hard JEG fans it is going to be a walk-over for the Nordic forces.

That actually opens a new dimension to the race, JEG should make enough money as a Sitting President knowing he would not be there come May 2011. If JEG really loves Nigeria he should walk a way from the loss in the primaries with dignity knowing his defeated army would pool resources together and join the ever growing Ribadu tsunami which blow every other forces away come January 2011.

If Goodluck can do this for the nation he would have written his name in stone for generations to come. Don’t forget a defeated Incumbent can make things happen in a general election. Most of the back stabbing Governors who aligned themselves with the Nordic forces would be given a taste of their own medicine come January 2011 elections.[/size]

All the DEMONS CONTESTING ARE ARROGANT AND ARE VERY GREEDY, THEY SO MUCH NEEDED THE POWER THE WAY THEY NEED THEIR LIVES
SO NONE WOULD WANT TO STEP DOWN FOR THE OTHER

egift:
When I saw the headline, I was expecting official response from President JEGA's Campaign manager - but behold its the usual Dokubo/Mr Clak/Beaf category that come to the rescue.

Uncle GEJ needs to take hold of his official response to issues - or journalists should be keeping in touch with his FB correspondent to the latest wall posts.

OPPOSITIONS WILL ALWAYS LOOK FOR FLIMSY EXCUSES TO BRING YOU DOWN, GEJ YOU ARE FAR MORE ACCEPTED THAN SARAKI AND THE EVIL ONES

egift:
When you are the referrer and participant do you need to fear these gangs gang-ups? Na him carry yam and cutlass.

YaM AND cutlass indeed

Did  saraki think everybody is a crook like him and his old criminals, if you ARE accepted you are accepted but if not rent crowd till
tomorrow na lie noting go happen  

[b][size=14pt]Thursday, September 23, 2010


•Jonathan
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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Plans by four presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to gang up against the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan will fail, said the Director of Media and Publicity of the Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr. Sully Abu, in a statement released yesterday.

According to Mr. Abu, “the verdict of Nigerians from all walks of life on posturing of these candidates is clear: a strong, united and forward-looking Nigeria under the joint ticket of Jonathan and Sambo is preferable to an opportunistic gang-up of strange bedfellows who seem ready to sacrifice the unity of the country if their individual ambitions cannot be met”.

He said the recent declaration by Jonathan at the Eagle Square, Abuja which drew a record crowd “quite clearly appears to have frightened his political opponents”. That rally, he added, was a testimony to the fact that “Nigerians have decided to take their destiny in their hands and write a new story for the country by going for the credible, progressive and forward-looking team of Jonathan and Sambo.”

Mr. Abu said that “the subterranean moves by this group would come to naught as Nigerians would not be deceived by men of yesterday into mortgaging their future.” Abu expressed confidence that Jonathan would confirm his wide acceptance by the generality of Nigerians by winning the PDP presidential primaries and emerge victorious in all the six zones of the country in the 2011 presidential elections[/size].[/b]



http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/sept/23/national-23-09-2010-001.htm

Those making noise about zoning are merely using it as a basis to contest, since they have no issues to base their capaign on. Look at them: Ibro, Atiku and co, These men have no credibility and nothing to convince Nigerians on why they should be vote for, except for the fact that they are from the north.

[b]By Ochereomen Nnanna

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan’s intimidating outing last Saturday, when he declared his presidential ambition, must have sent shivers down the spines of the pro-zoning, pro-North-for-president-in-2011 Nigerians.

In comparison with other countries of our stature, the Eagle Square must be the tiniest national square. Luckily, there is an empty space adjacent to the Square, which currently serves as car park.

As Abuja grows and the Eagle Square is expanded into this space, the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) may have to approve the erection of multi-storey parking lots for the workers and visitors to the Federal Secretariat, which surrounds the Square.

The Jonathan declaration was easily the largest crowd ever pulled to the nation’s foremost political arena. By most newspaper accounts, 23 governors attended. The entire National Working Committee (NWC), most members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were fully mobilised.

I did not notice a single member of the party’s major ruling organs at the flag-off of the General Ibrahim Babangida flag-off three days earlier.

Curious, I made enquiries from a friend of mine at the PDP to know why Babangida was not only “boycotted” but nearly had his campaign marred by fixing the NEC meeting on the same day and at about the same time that his rally was to take place.

My friend informed me that the PDP did not attend Babangida’s event because it regards such rallies as the personal affairs of the aspirants.

He assured me that they would not attend Jonathan’s flag-off or those of the other aspirants, adding that it was only when any of them had emerged as the candidate of the party that the party would shoulder the candidate into the presidential campaigns. Well, the rest is already history.

The National Chairman of the party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, and the rest of the officials of Wadata House were at the Square for Jonathan, but not for Babangida.

There is Nwodo’s “level playing field” for you. The former National Secretary of the PDP seems keen to return the kind gesture by President Jonathan who sponsored him to that prestigious post.

How times have changed! What a deep, round world we live in! Once upon a time, who would have convinced General Babangida that time would come when he would become a victim of the use of state power?

The man who once boasted: “Tell those human rights activists in Lagos that we are still in office and in power”, after he annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election and triggered a series of civil disobedience, especially in Western Nigeria, is now receiving the butt of state power.

His campaign organisation, when ranged against that of the President, is the underdog. Babangida and the military political class had created an institutional monster in the presidency of Nigeria.

Wasn’t it amazing that Jonathan, a man who never had any political structures, never sowed any political seed (by empowering people as Babangida did during his eight years in power), a man who became an unelected president of Nigeria only seven months ago, a man from one of the nation’s medium-sized ethnic minorities, and a man who has never on his own contested and won any previous elections, could pull the crowd that Jonathan did last Saturday, without so much as lifting a finger?
And now, we come down to the question I posed above. It seems that Jonathan is set to win the nomination of the PDP.

If he does, his chances of winning the presidential election will be very good. The only thing that will stop Jonathan from achieving both aims is if the North will beat the odds, produce a single, credible and acceptable candidate and throw their full weight behind him, pending whatever votes such a lucky candidate might scrounge up here and there from other parts of the country.

The South appears well disposed to giving Jonathan block support. Governors of more than half of the six states of the Middle Belt (Benue, Kogi, Nassarawa and Plateau) have pledged their open support for the President.

Are governors of the rest of the North willing to brave the odds and stand up for a Northern candidate, and with their superior number of delegates, attempt to retake the presidency?
The only way that Jonathan can be stopped is if the North is able to put their acts together and work in concert. If they succeed, their supporters in the South will be heartened and emboldened. But it is not an easy task.

Those who do not hold power always find it difficult to unite, especially in Nigeria where the lure to be found in the same bed with the winner is all-consuming. From the moment the zoning argument broke out and Jonathan’s presidential ambition became apparent, Northern leaders, such as Babangida, Atiku Abubakar, Adamu Ciroma, Tanko Yakassai and others, have been unceasing with their demand that the presidency must return to the North in 2011.

Over the weekend, a group of Arewa youth coalitions met and issued a threat that they would assert their claim to the presidency “with the last drop of their blood”.
It requires cast-iron resolve for the North to snatch the presidency from the hands of Jonathan. Given the personal interests of the governors and other top Northern politicos, I doubt the North’s ability to hold up.

It is a pity, though, that the race for the next president of Nigeria is turning into this zero-sum game. Whoever wins the election has a lot of work to do in re-uniting the sectional and ethnic fissures that have developed.

The aspirants must find ways of reducing this ethnic sabre-rattling because they cannot rule if there is no Nigeria.[/b]


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/can-the-north-hold-up/

It is only in Nigeria that Government never matched their words with action, the promise will never be fudilled not until industrial action
enbacked upon, God help Nigeria

[b]Written by Yekini Jimoh, Ilorin
Thursday, 23 September 2010

FEDERAL Government workers in the country may embark on an indefinite strike from October 1, if government fails to start paying the new minimum wage.

The president of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU), Comrade Ladi Iliya, stated this in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday, during the opening ceremony of the executive council meeting of the union.

The president, who said that she was aware that the tripartite committee submitted its report to the Federal Government several months ago on the National Minimum Wage and the alleged outrageous allowances that members of the legislators and other political office holders were collecting, added that it had become imperative that workers should embark on an indefinite strike if government failed to pay.

She said that unstable power supply had further pauperised the poorly paid workers, who spent huge sums on fuel to power their generators.

She also called on the Nigeria Labour Congress president to get the government to intervene to avert a possible unpleasant reaction by the exploited workers.

According to her, all sorts of illegal, outrageous taxations were in vogue in the states of the federation.

The president of NASU said the excuse that fund from the Federal Allocation had dwindled was not tenable and that the exploitation of workers should stop.

She asked President Goodluck Jonathan not to allow his presidential campaign to affect the efficient functioning of government apparatus.[/b]


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/11457-new-minimum-wage-workers-threaten-to-go-on-strike-oct-1

The way those scanners are being operated in other countries of the world without any intentions to abuse the privacy
of the customers, I doubt it in Nigeria some of the operators in Nigeria will surely be targetting beautiful ladied and handsome men to stripe naked in
the name of SCANNING them

[b]Written by Shola Adekola, Lagos
Thursday, 23 September 2010

The management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), on Wednesday, said the impression  that the 3-D scanning machines installed across the country’s major airports  could be used to violate the privacy of passengers or persons going through them was a blantant lie.

The development came even as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) described the report as false, saying the installation of the full body scanner at the airports was with utmost consideration for religious, human rights, cultural and health situations.

Reacting to a report that the security officials manning the machine had abused the objective by gazing at unclothed images of passengers, FAAN, in a statement issued by its General Manager, Public Affairs, Akin Olukunle, explained that the machine was configured in such a way that only the blurred image of the person being screened would show on the screen, without revealing his face.

FAAN, in the statement, states: ”It is also designed to wipe off such image in a few seconds if nothing incriminating is found on him. The image of the person being scanned can also not be saved on the system. We also wish to correct the impression being held in some quarters that the 3-D scanning machines could be used to violate the privacy of passengers or persons going through them.”[/b]


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/11459-lagos-airport-scanners-dont-capture-unclothed-images-ncaa-faan

I think solution to their failure is what I think the Government should profer instead of blaming it on lack of text books,
Those who got the text books have not got the time to read them, thanks to ps3 games, live premiership, Africa magic plus and co.

[b]Written by
Thursday, 23 September 2010

Mr Segun Onilude, scribe of the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) in Badagry, on Wednesday, identified lack of basic textbooks as being among reasons for mass failure in the last NECO examination.

Reacting to the mass failure in English Language and Mathematics in the results of the senior secondary schools examination released by NECO on Monday, Onilude said poor reading culture was also responsible for the result.

According to the UBEB official, most teachers and students are too lazy to give or complete homeworks.

“Prelude to the intervention of Governor Babatunde Fashola in Lagos State, for example, only teachers had textbooks in two subjects and these subjects can not be taught without textbooks.

“Students need textbooks, so that they could do homework and practice whatever they have been taught in school on getting home,” Onilude told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that teachers in public schools no longer give class work to students, adding that parents, teachers as well as the students, have roles to play to reverse the downward trend.

“In most homes, children who are supposed to be ready for school the next day now spend hours at night watching home videos and crime movies,” he said.

Onilude urged parents to monitor their children’s school work closely, while the government must provide more facilities and training programmes for teachers.[/b]


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/11460-lack-of-textbooks-causes-mass-failure-in-neco-exams-ubeb-official

NA SO WE SEE AM OOO, GET RICH DIE TRYIN

Frank-C:
Funny how this government treat issues. Any body bringing up 'results' contrary to their projections get some kind of treatment. Why summon NECO boss? He is only an examiner. What policy was the fg implementing prior to this repetition and atn what point did it fail? Who is in the steering wheel of that policy? These are valid questions and not bullying NECO boss. This government is very insecure in my opinion. From Babalola to Soludo to Dokpesi and now to even an examiner. Is this any different from a parent that went to school to fight a teacher because his/her ward was not promoted to the next class?

WHEN GOVERNMENT FAILED IN DISCHARGING ITS RESPONBILITY, THEN THEY LOOK FOR A SCAPEGOAT TO BRAG AT

Bese:
ALTHOUGH AM NOT A DOCTOR BUT IF SOMEONE IS REALLY FRUSTRATED YOU ARE LIKELY TO =
1, FORGET YOUR NAME
2, LOST YOUR MEMORY
3, LOST YOUR VISION
4, TALK IRRATIONAL
MORESO, PEOPLE SEE YOU AS HALF LUNATIC

Gbam!!!!!
VERY CORRECT. Even the low class man know that those are the likelihood of someone who's half Lunatic or frustrated in life like A, T, I, K, U!!!!!!
If he were a good leader, he would have simply put " I am aware but I couldn't just go there as I wasn't invited" (Pls I'm not his spokes man)

DID YOU PEOPLE EVER THINK OF THE MEANING OF ATIKU? THE LITERAL MEANING IS:  ENITI O TI KU, ATIKU { THE DEAD ONE}
THAT IS WHY ALL HIS UTTERANCES AND BEHAVIOURS ARE DEAD  

kobikwelu:
ROTFLMAO

one of my colleague at work just said it was frustration that was "catching" the man


seriously, this is political

he is just trying to downplay the significance of the declaration, by not recognising it


my brothers, its all politics

ALTHOUGH AM NOT A DOCTOR BUT IF SOMEONE IS REALLY FUSTRATED YOU ARE LIKELY TO =
1, FORGET YOUR NAME
2, LOST YOUR MEMORY
3, LOST YOUR VISION
4, TALK IRRATIONAL
MORESO, PEOPLE SEE YOU AS HALF LUNATIC  

youngmonie:
STUPIDY AINT FAR 4RM SOME NIGERIANS LIKE U

YOU ARE NOTING BUT A LUNATIC AM ENTITLED TO MY OPINION

1Naira:
@Big B1, IBB was never competent enough at doing anything right. If he truly wants to or wanted to clear his name, his had ample opportunities to do that and nothing stops him from doing that from the comfort of his 50 bedroom mansion at the hill top.

Coming to Aso Rock would be coming to clear the truth and more of the same of the past. Nigeria does not need that not again.

YES WE DONT NEED LUCIFER NOT AGAIN

~Bluetooth:
Atiku ti ku when jonathan declared.

wetin kill am ooooooo

metalGo0g:
Must everybody watch the GEJ's declaration . . . . Nigerian press sef!!

But not for somebody like Atiku to tell us he wasnt aware of GEJ declaration

Osama10:
Only if they can agree to pass a bill like this.

Am not sure the reps can pass the bill because some of them use the so called kidnappers to silence their political
opponent

jamace:
Why summon NECO boss instead of Minister Of Education? Are they trying to bully the NECO boss for failing to cook the results for the olodo students?

NECO boss has no case. The students put in gabbage and NECO brought out the gabbage. Period.

Funny

At least we still trust you to some extent compare to the Evil ONE

[size=14pt]From JULIANA TAIWO, Abuja
Wednesday, September 22, 2010


President Goodluck Jonathan
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President Goodluck Jonathan has stressed that the promises he made during his declaration last Saturday were not just campaign jargons, but he will fulfill if elected.
The President stated this in a message he issued, thanking Nigerians for their massive support given to him when he formally declared his interest to contest the 2011 election “We wish to reassure Nigerians that commitment to the transformation of our country is unwavering. There is work to be done, and in the last few months we have rolled up our sleeves to tackle those issues that still hold us in the back waters of development”

The President who assured Nigerians that he will tackle the problems of power, security, infrastructure and the economy, also declared that the war on corruption is in top gear with the ongoing high profile trials.
“Last Saturday, I formally declared my intention to run for the office of President of our great nation in the 2011 general elections with Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo as my running mate.

Because of you, the great and untiring Nigerian people, the event was a huge success, and will continue to echo down our annals as a day that we all spoke with one voice, in unity, solidarity and faith in our ability to transform Nigeria. I thank you all”
He also reiterated his determination to build a new nation, and set the country irrevocably on a path to catch up with and indeed overtake Nigeria’s peers of yesteryears.

“With the support of you all, we will deliver on this promise. We shall burn our candles at both ends to deliver on electricity; we shall reverse the decades of decay that have beset our infrastructure; we are determined to put our economy back to work for the sake of our people. We are determined to continue to deliver on the promise of a good life for all Nigerians,” he said.
He commended the record response by Nigerians from all walks of life and the joy and gaiety of the occasion, which he said stood as an eloquent testimony that the  message of hope and commitment delivered that day is resonating exceedingly across the land.

“Vice-President Sambo and I wish to join our Campaign Organization to express our heartfelt appreciation to our elder statesmen, the leadership of the National Assembly, State Governors, Distinguished Senators and Honourable members of the House of Representatives, Captains of industry and titans of commerce, women’s groups, youth and students, who besieged Abuja and particularly Eagle Square to join in the occasion”
He also thank the various entertainers, musicians and stand-up artistes, actors and actresses, who spiced up the audience, galvanized and inspired the youth whose future we are committed to serving by ensuring a greater tomorrow for the country.

This is just as he also thanked millions of Nigerians who witnessed the event at home and abroad via the electronic media and the internet and for their messages of hope and encouragement.?“Once again, we thank you for your overwhelming support. The time for transformation is now, and of this, there must be no doubt.”[/size]


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/sept/22/national-22-09-2010-003.htm

MaziUche0:
Death penalty for all those who break the law.

Time to move our criminal system like Singapore.

Death penalty for looters, kidnappers, terrorist despoiler and murderers. Jungle justice is acceptable as well.

If death penalty is put in place for criminals in this country then we are about to see a new Nigeria

DEATH PENALTY FIRST FOR THOSE WHO LOOT OUR TREASURY AND DEATH PENALTY FOR CORRUPT LEADERS AND LATER FOR KIDNAPPERS,THEY THE HOUSE OF REPS WILL BE FAST TO ENACT A LAW WHEN IT IS TO THEIR OWN PROTECTION BUT WHEN THE LAW IS TO CHECK MATE THEM THEY WILL BE DRAGGING THEIR FOOT.HYPOCRITES,LIERS AND DECIEVERS.

[b][size=16pt]TO curb kidnapping, some members of the House of Representatives, Para-military agncies and rights’ groups have endorsed death penalty for the offence.

Speaking at the public hearing jointly held by the House committees on Judiciary, Justice, Human Rights and Police Affairs at the National Assembly Tuesday, the lawmakers and others agreed that there is a need for stiffer penalties than those recommended in the bill in its current form.

The Bill, entitled: "An Act to prohibit hostage taking, prescribe punishment for its contravention and other matters relating thereto," stipulates life imprisonment for anyone who kidnaps and 10 years jail term without an option of fine for anyone who attempts to kidnap any person.

It was sponsored by Friday Itulah, Samson Osagie and Dickson Henry Seriake.

Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Rose Chinyere Uzoma, assured the lawmakers that the agency supports the passage of the Bill into law. She said there was a drastic reduction in the quality of expatriates coming into the country for commercial purposes because of the incessant cases of kidnapping.

She said: "Statistics have it now that we have less than 20 expatriates working and living in Aba (Abia State) as the NIS has noticed that the quality of expatriates coming to Nigeria today is low."

A fallout of the trend, she said, was the exportation of kidnapping to foreign lands, with the masterminds being Nigerians.

A lawyer and first Vice Chairman of the National Arbitration Council, Mike Ozekhome(SAN) insisted on the death penalty for kidnappers who apply violence against their victim, and a minimum of life imprisonment for other offenders.

He said: "I, therefore, recommend that the minimum of life jail term prescribed by the bill, though in order, if it involves the use of weapons of violence, there should be capital punishment".

According to him, the nation is continually being embarrassed by the spate of kidnapping which, he said, has done a lot of damage to the nation’s image.

He said there was need to adopt stiffer measures to curb the menace, particularly as those now being targeted and who go through harrowing ordeals in the hands of kidnappers are the elderly who have contributed to the country’s development.

Head, Legal and Prosecution Directorate of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Ibrahim Joshua backed the adoption of stiffer penalties.

Others who supported the proposed legislation were the Legal Aids Council and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Speaker Bankole, in his opening speech read by Seriake Dickson noted that the 1999 Constitution guarantees the aspirations of Nigerians amongst which were to "enhance welfare of the citizens, peace and good governance and security of lives and properties," and that their realisation" is imperative for the economic growth and survival of every nation."

The Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, who co-ordinated the event, stated that if Nigerians insisted that stiffer penalties be meted out to kidnappers and hostage takers[/size].[/b]


http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/13996.html

Mr Atiku where were you during the declaration  even a one year old baby was awared that GEJ declared his presidential intension,
Not to talk of you, stop decieving yourself