₦airaland Forum

Many of these money laundering outfits called banks will close shop by the end of the year,they are not as robust as they always make us think.

Op tell us smthin we dont know or hav never heard

Op wat are u saying,where u not there when we tried Etteh and she faild with distinction,
we are not goin to try a woman anytime soon.

They shall all pay,in this life or the hereafter.

lol fummi u cant trick us,we can smell and identify u no matter which name u use.

banom:
THE RICHEST MAN IN NIGERIA IS OBASANJO,

thats wat i wanted to say

fummi is also Xavier,

she is also Xavier ,
i proved that long time ago

2011 Elections: Senators demand automatic tickets

Taiwo Adisa, Group Political Editor - 17.02.2009

THE proposal by the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, which seeks to issue automatic second-term tickets to governors, appears to be causing ripples within the ranks of the party as senators and members of the House of Representatives are equally demanding automatic tickets for their second term.
The PDP Governors’ Forum had submitted a proposal seeking automatic tickets to serving governors and the president, if a member of the party. They claim that the governors should not be made to face party primaries as a mark of respect for their positions and offices.
But investigations in Abuja on Monday revealed that a number of senators had mandated the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, to meet with the party hierarchy and demand the same treatment for senators
It was learnt that before the senators would agree to the proposal by the governors, they too have to be assured that they will benefit from the proposal.
A senator told the Nigerian Tribune: “We are not opposed to what is being proposed, what we are saying is that the governors cannot have it all alone. If the governors would have automatic tickets, then they should extend it to the senators and members of the House of Representatives. Maybe, after two terms, they can then be made to face primaries as a check on their popularity.”
It was gathered that Mark was being inundated with requests and calls to take up the matter with the leadership of the party.
The proposed amendment to Article 9.2(iv) of the PDP Constitution reads: “The party shall issue automatic tickets to any first-term serving president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and all first-term serving governors who have expressed interest to re-contest for a second term without going through party primaries.”
The grouse of the legislators is that the proposal only mentioned the governors.
“All of us are members of the national convention and will partake in the ratification of the constitution. I don’t see why senators cannot be part of the amendment,” another legislator said.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/17022009/news/news1.html

Only in a jungle called Africa can such a thing happen.

Nigeria must go in the offing

No wonders theres a high number of cyber touts,they take advantage of the free internet to come here and post rubbish.

why is it only Igbo,these Americans are trying to instigate smthin

That must hav cost him zillions of Zimbabwe dollars

nuzo:
The first time you made a reasonable comment.

So u hav finally removed that software that censors reasonable comments.
Hope u wont install it again.

Kobojunkie:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/12/AR2009021203502.html


The compromise stimulus bill adopted by House and Senate negotiators this week is not free of spending that benefits specific communities, industries or groups, despite vows by President Obama that the legislation would be kept clear of pet projects, according to lawmakers, legislative aides and anti-tax groups.
The deal provides $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, for example, including money that could benefit a controversial proposal for a magnetic-levitation rail line between Disneyland, in California, and Las Vegas, a project favored by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). The 311-mph train could make the trip from Sin City to Tomorrowland in less than two hours, according to backers.

A new alliance of battery companies won $2 billion in grants and loans in the stimulus package to jump-start the domestic lithium ion industry. Filipino veterans, most of whom do not live in the United States, will get $200 million in long-awaited compensation for service in World War II.

The nation's small shipyards also made out well, with $100 million in grant money -- a tenfold increase in funding from last year, when the federal Maritime Administration launched the program to benefit yards in places such as Ketchikan, Alaska, and Bayou La Batre, Ala.

None of the items in the sprawling $789 billion package are traditional earmarks -- funding for a project inserted by a lawmaker bypassing the normal budgeting process -- according to the White House and Democratic leaders. Republicans also killed or reduced a number of projects they considered objectionable, such as $200 million to re-sod the Mall in Washington and money for a new Coast Guard polar icebreaker.

But many Republicans, anti-tax advocates and other critics argue that the final version of the bill is still larded with wasteful spending and dubious initiatives that will do little to create jobs or spur financial markets. The legislation's sheer size and complexity set off a lobbying spectacle over the past few weeks, as diverse interests including pharmaceutical companies, cement firms and manufacturers of energy-saving light bulbs converged on Washington to elbow for their share.

"You have a moving vehicle, and people are trying to pile on and influence it in any way they can," said David Merritt, a health policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who is now a project director with Newt Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation.

Stimulus advocates say the GOP complaints are overheated and generally focus on projects that Republicans dislike for ideological reasons. Chad Stone, chief economist at the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, defended the bill. "The overwhelming bulk of what is in the package is effective and well-designed stimulus," he said.

Money for high-speed rail ballooned during the stimulus debate, from nothing in the House bill to $2 billion in the Senate version and finally $8 billion in the conference report, which was put together by Reid and other Democratic leaders.

Reid spokesman Jon Summers said in a statement that the transportation secretary "will have complete flexibility as to which program he uses to allocate the funds," but he acknowledged that "the proposed Los Angeles-Las Vegas rail project would be eligible." Summers said the rail funding "was a major priority for President Obama, and Sen. Reid as a conferee supported it."

One of the biggest targets of GOP complaints was a measure in the Senate version of the bill that did not name a recipient but would have provided $2 billion for "one or more near zero emissions power plant(s)." Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and other Republicans say the provision was clearly directed at reviving the FutureGen Alliance project, a proposed "clean coal" plant in Illinois.

Coburn called the item the "largest earmark in American history," but in the end he was able to claim only a partial victory, as the conference bill still contains $1 billion that could be spent on FutureGen.

Another $800 million is set aside for other carbon-capture projects, and a clause allows the money to go to projects that use petroleum coke instead of coal. That would probably benefit a company called Hydrogen Energy, which is jointly owned by British Petroleum and the multinational mining company Rio Tinto and has plans to build a power plant in California.

A provision introduced by freshman Rep. Larry Kissell (D-N.C.), a former textile industry employee, will require the Transportation Security Administration to purchase uniforms manufactured in the United States; most TSA clothing is currently assembled in Mexico and Honduras from U.S.-made fabric. The cost of the requirement is unclear -- the agency spends about $3 million on 12,000 new uniforms each year -- but labor and trade groups argue that it will create 21,000 U.S. jobs.

"We view this as a very inexpensive way to create jobs and also stabilize jobs in place," said Lloyd Wood of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition.

All these ar pork

Maybe when the military are draftin a new constitu,they will inculde debate inside,
cos thats they only way there can be debate.

If Abati doesnt come out to own up or explain to us that it is not as bad as it seem,
We will hav no choice but to make assumptions which will def not be is his favour,then he will lose any moral respect we hav 4 him

I grew up in Kaduna,and i also heard of the phantom match where India flogged Nigeria 99 and said if Nigeria can score 1 goal they hav won.
During the play,the Nigerian players see the ball as diff wild animals.Lukily Nigeria got a penalty,then the player that played the penalty untied one of his shoes and when the keeper went for the shoe thinking it was the ball,he scored.Then it was 99-1.Then i heard it was because of that match that India was banned from football.And i forogt to tell u that the Indian keeper was blind.

This story is a popular story among pri sch kids.When it is told by the children pay rapt attention and ask questions.

Boy, 3, filmed smoking, mother convicted

(CNN) -- A British mother has been given a suspended sentence after her toddler was filmed smoking a cigarette in front of her.

Kelly Marie Pocock, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of cruelty to a child under 16 at a hearing last month, the British Press Association (PA) reported.

Details of the case emerged when she appeared in the Merthyr Crown Court on Thursday for sentencing and were reported by PA.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees told the court: "The video demonstrates the boy placing a cigarette into his mouth, lighting it with a lighter and sucking, drawing smoke clearly into the lungs and he seems to do it with some accomplishment.

"It doesn't cause him any discomfort. He is sat on a chair close to the mother, who is talking on the phone.

"It is clear that the boy, at the age of three, knows what to do with a lighter and cigarette," Rees said.

PA reported the court was told the three year old was filmed on a mobile phone by Natasha Dudley, a friend of the boy's mother.

The prosecutor said Miss Dudley had gone looking for the boy while visiting Pocock's home just after Christmas 2007.

"She found him underneath the bed with some cigarettes," Mr Rees told the court, according to PA. "He was actually smoking one at the time and Miss Dudley said it looked like he had been smoking for many years."

After the boy was taken downstairs, the court was told he went into the living room, picked up a cigarette butt from an ashtray and smoked it. His mother was nearby talking on the phone.

It was at that point that Miss Dudley filmed the boy on the phone and later forwarded it to social services.

Pocock is reported to have pleaded guilty on the basis that she hadn't seen her son smoking on that occasion, or ever before, PA reported.

In an interview with police, she is said to have told officers that she was "shocked" when the matter was drawn to her attention.

Judge John Curran told the court the case was one of the most "extraordinary" he had ever come across, PA reported.

He said the boy would not have been able to smoke without discomfort "unless he had acquired a habit."

"This is an appalling situation and I don't see how, despite your basis of plea, you could have been unaware of the fact."

Judge Curran sentenced Pocock to 40 weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years. He also imposed a 12 month supervision requirement as part of the sentence, PA reported.

Judge Curran added that while the offence would normally attract a jail sentence, he didn't want to cause her children any further emotional harm by separating them from their mother.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/23/boy.three.smoking.britain/

me

Wats so naughty about sharing a profile?

op = poster

From his comments and conduct,the former ambassador has left us no iota of doubt that he was on drugs while in the US.

Boy, 3, filmed smoking, mother convicted

(CNN) -- A British mother has been given a suspended sentence after her toddler was filmed smoking a cigarette in front of her.

Kelly Marie Pocock, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of cruelty to a child under 16 at a hearing last month, the British Press Association (PA) reported.

Details of the case emerged when she appeared in the Merthyr Crown Court on Thursday for sentencing and were reported by PA.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees told the court: "The video demonstrates the boy placing a cigarette into his mouth, lighting it with a lighter and sucking, drawing smoke clearly into the lungs and he seems to do it with some accomplishment.

"It doesn't cause him any discomfort. He is sat on a chair close to the mother, who is talking on the phone.

"It is clear that the boy, at the age of three, knows what to do with a lighter and cigarette," Rees said.

PA reported the court was told the three year old was filmed on a mobile phone by Natasha Dudley, a friend of the boy's mother.

The prosecutor said Miss Dudley had gone looking for the boy while visiting Pocock's home just after Christmas 2007.

"She found him underneath the bed with some cigarettes," Mr Rees told the court, according to PA. "He was actually smoking one at the time and Miss Dudley said it looked like he had been smoking for many years."

After the boy was taken downstairs, the court was told he went into the living room, picked up a cigarette butt from an ashtray and smoked it. His mother was nearby talking on the phone.

It was at that point that Miss Dudley filmed the boy on the phone and later forwarded it to social services.

Pocock is reported to have pleaded guilty on the basis that she hadn't seen her son smoking on that occasion, or ever before, PA reported.

In an interview with police, she is said to have told officers that she was "shocked" when the matter was drawn to her attention.

Judge John Curran told the court the case was one of the most "extraordinary" he had ever come across, PA reported.

He said the boy would not have been able to smoke without discomfort "unless he had acquired a habit."

"This is an appalling situation and I don't see how, despite your basis of plea, you could have been unaware of the fact."

Judge Curran sentenced Pocock to 40 weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years. He also imposed a 12 month supervision requirement as part of the sentence, PA reported.

Judge Curran added that while the offence would normally attract a jail sentence, he didn't want to cause her children any further emotional harm by separating them from their mother.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/23/boy.three.smoking.britain/

davidylan:
i'm not sure even the OP read the article. It said nothing about pork.

Its like u read the article in a hurry,read it again,u will see the pork.

Ekiti AC, PDP hopeful on appeal judgement 15/2/2009

By Eni Akinsola and Odunayo Ogunmola, Ado-Ekiti

It is with expectations that Ekiti awaits every tick of the clock as the day of judgement nears in the appeal filed by Action Congress candidate in the disputed election of April 2007, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

While prayers are being intensified by followers and sympathizers alike of the two contesting parties, the AC and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, there is palpable tension in the air.

When contacted for his views on what his party expects from the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Chief Olajide Awe, the Chairman of the AC said: "We are expecting the best of judgment from the Appeal Court and this is not a mere saying; It is as a result of our conviction that we were not treated fairly at the lower tribunal and that was why we appealed.

"From the plethora of evidence and advocacy we presented through our counsels, we are of the opinion that the appellate court will consider our case. We discovered 28 lapses in the judgment delivered by the Justice Usman Bwala-led panel and it is our belief that the Appeal Court will straighten the rough edges. At the end of the day, we are sure of victory," he stated.

Asked to comment on what the AC would do if her prayers were granted at the appellate court he said: "We will move straight into policies that will douse the prevailing tension in the economy; education, provision of basic social facilities that will make life easier and better for Ekiti people who for the past two years have been groaning under the yoke of a directionless PDP government.

"Those are the areas we will focus our attention upon without allowing the euphoria of office to get the better part of us."

On the possible reaction if the table turns board and the struggle will definitely continue," he further stressed.

The PDP through the Senior Special Assistant to the governor, Mr. Moses Jolayemi said the party expects no less than victory from the Court of Appeal. HE said: "we are not optimistic for nothing. A simple analogy given by the governor sometimes ago is useful here. If a student attempts 3 out of ten compulsory questions, no matter how kind the marker is, no matter how benevolent the examiner, the student can not have a pass mark. Even if he does well in the three questions, he would still be short of making a pass mark, because 3 out of 10, everywhere, is less than the pass mark." He added that his party knows that if all the areas contested by the opposition were to be granted, that will still not give victory to the opposition.

On what the reaction of the government will be, he said: We’ll be glad that the judiciary has not been tampered with. And knowing the kind of person the governor is, I am sure he will throw his hands open o the opposition." The governor he said has always said that Ekiti belongs to all and so he would accommodate as many as are ready to plug in to his dreams for the state.

For one responder at weekend, the man on the street of Ekiti towns and villages will be as eager if not more eager to see the end of the protracted dispute one way or the other.

The anxiety over the impending judgment it was learnt might have forced the dramatic postponement of the meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in the South-West geo-political zone.

The meeting was put off till a later date over what a source described as "prevailing circumstances".

Tension is mounting in the "Fountain of Knowledge" as the people of the state await the Tuesday’s verdict.

Governor Olusegun Oni, who flew the flag of the PDP at the election was dragged to the Court of Appeal, Ilorin , the Kwara State capital by the Action Congress (AC) standard bearer, Dr Fayemi who is challenging the affirmation of Oni’s election by the State Election Petitions Tribunal led by Justice Usman Bukar Bwala.

It was gathered yesterday that the uncertainty over where the pendulum of justice will swing at the Tuesday’s judgment forced a last-minute postponement of the meeting billed to hold on Thursday at the Government House, Ado-Ekiti.

Expected at the meeting were Governors Olusegun Agagu (Ondo), Adebayo Alao-Akala (Oyo), Gbenga Daniel (Ogun), Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun) and Oni, the host governor.

The week also witnessed a flurry of movements to Abuja by top government officials in the state who were believed to have conferred with officials of The Presidency over the impending judgment and its security implications for the state.

A very reliable Government House source revealed that the uncertainty over the verdict took its toll on the top Ekiti government officials who held several strategy meetings within and outside the state and made contacts with powerful and influential Nigerians "seeking to be assured of a favourable judgment" on Tuesday.

"As you can see my brother, there is tension everywhere in the state over the coming Appeal Court ruling and the anxiety is one of the reasons why the PDP governors’ meeting scheduled for the Ado-Ekiti Government House was postponed.

"You know that all eyes are on Ekiti at the moment over the prevailing circumstances and the need to make one contact or the other did not allow these government officials to settle down and plan effectively for the meeting.

"The news of the security situation in the state is reaching every part of the world and the government did not expect that the date of the Court of Appeal verdict would come so soon hence the decision to postpone the meeting to a later date after the judgment might have been delivered and if it favours the government, it will afford it an opportunity to plan an elaborate meeting for the PDP South West governors", our source said.

The tension in the land had also affected nightlife as residents now go home as early as possible following the alleged plan by politicians to kidnap unsuspecting victims to be used for rituals in connection with the impending judgment.

Our investigations also reveal that some parents have resolved to keep their children indoors throughout Tuesday over the tensed situation in the state amidst fears of a possible violence by the party the judgment goes against.

When contacted for his reaction over the unexpected postponement of the South West PDP governors’ meeting, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications, Mr Moses Jolayemi denied knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the postponement

"I don’t know, I don’t have any information to that effect", the governor’s spokesman told The Nation on enquiry.

The PDP faithful concluded their three-day prayer and fasting on Friday at the state secretariat of the party along Ajilosun Street in Ado-Ekiti where they "sought the face of God over the Tuesday’s judgment".

The programme which was attended by chieftains and few members of the party saw the faithful praying to God "not to allow the party to lose the governorship crown to the opposition in the state".

Similar prayers are also being held at the Government House.

The state government has also appealed to the people of the state to remain calm and be law-abiding over the Appeal Court judgment.

The Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Odunayo Ategbero, said in a statement on Saturday that the state government was aware of an alleged plot by disgruntled elements to plunge the state into chaos.

He urged parents not to allow their children to be used by those he referred to as unscrupulous politicians before, during and after the judgment promising that government would not shirk its responsibility to protect lives and property in the state.

The commissioner said the state government and security agencies are on top of the situation would not condone any attempt from any quarter to breach the peace of the state for partisan reasons.

http://www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=77219

i hav noticed that rice is the most common food in Nigeria

[quote author=Xavier. link=topic=232614.msg3466846#msg3466846 date=1234552298]Education minister - a rising force. U must be kidding me.[/quote]xavier this is the first thing that i agree with u on, rising force my foot.

lmfao at title of thread

Yeah its the looting circle