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ogo2k2: Pls send more pics and price to ogo2k2@yahoo.com

You've got mail.

The system that has been adopted since 1999, is to give the higher categories of awards to politicians, ex military rulers and businessmen (who are allegedly corrupt) and give the lesser awards to more deserving individuals (teachers/principals who have served for decades and founded many schools, soldiers who have shown bravery in battle, health workers, etc).

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You could try contacting Alhaji Saleh Bayeri. He's the secretary general of the Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association.

You could also try contacting Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde (he's on facebook, twitter and other online forums). He represented the Fulani nomads in negotiations with the military (see link below)
https://www.nairaland.com/992133/fulani-agree-leave-villages-after

However, your best bet, as mikolo80 said, is to contact the Federal or state ministries of agriculture.


Make sure you double check the credibility and background of anybody you deal with.

Do you think Boko Haram cares about that? Go and find out what the Taliban did in Afghanistan. In fact, Boko Haram leaders will be very happy to read this article.

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valendave: Pls internal pics and price to raymondikhaz@yahoo.co.uk

You've got mail.

HQ: Wahhhhht?, you kiddding me? Can't believe I missed that. What was the URL?

Obviously I can't post that here, but all you need to do is google nairaland and you'll eventually find it. Enough of this. We are derailing the thread (don't want to be banned).

Why don't the garri people go and force Facebook to stop implementing "Timeline" and return to the former profile, or demand that Mark Zuckerburg address them? Why don't they tell Punch Newspapers what to put on it's front page?

Why don't they post their garri questions on the premiership threads and derail them (afterall, what does the premiership have to do with Nigeria, politics or economics)?

Can you make your case? Why is it ok for some people to go around disturbing other people's threads by posting garri questions all over, yet Musiwa's maps are banned?

Why is it ok for some people to believe that they can infringe on the rights of others and dictate which threads should make front page (& bully and intimidate the people that create these threads)?

I'm waiting.

Lyth: Yep u got it ryt old man, comprehension is most def a big prob ....pls do add hypocrisy 2 ur list of problems.

Aha! No points, just insults. Typical. If you had a case you'd put it forward, but because you have none you resort to insults.

ay0201: And a new crew would soon be born if the garri crew is not given amnesty.Remember, banning is not containment.

It's been done many times. In fact, years ago, someone even went and created another nairaland, yet nairaland is still standing (how many people even know of the other nairaland?).

Sigh! Comprehension is a problem. The title of the thread is "what do you think of nairaland's garri peeps" and I'm saying exactly what I think of them.

Again, it's about comprehension. The rules do not say you cannot mention garri (God knows it's been mentioned many times on this thread), they say you shouldn't derail threads (eg by turning a thread that has nothing to do with garri into a garri thread). See article 4.

Chegunn: @naptu2 Do you work at the presidency?

Hm! This is like the fourth time I'm being asked that question (I was also asked that question on the Aso Rock thread). It's made me very curious. . . .why are you asking me that question?

I think the problem is consistency. Previously the entire stretch of 3rd Mainland Bridge was unlit. When Fashola became governor in 2007 the street lights from the Adekunle to Oworonshoki were activated (sometimes running on diesel generators when PHCN fails to supply electricity. I'm still trying to understand why the mainland end was lit, while the island end remained in the dark) even though the bridge is owned by the feds.

I haven't gone over the bridge at night in the last 2 months, but I've noticed that some places that had functioning street lights no longer have them, while some places that have never had functioning street lights now have them. The problem is consistency and maintenance.

tyson55: What's with all the hidden post ?

Many people violating article 4 of the Nairaland constitution.

Here's the Nairaland constitution https://www.nairaland.com/1026/nairaland-forum-rules-regulations

I believe that, for a section of the Garri gang, their actions are just an expression of youthful exuberance. They suddenly feel that they have power, it's getting to their heads and they are acting irresponsibly.

What do I think of the Nairaland garri crew? I think they represent what's wrong with Nigeria today. People believe that they can flout laws and rules anytime it suits them. They have a sense of entitlement (everybody must do what I want because I'm entitled to that). They have no respect for the rights of others. I think that the Nairaland garri crew are in violation of article 4 of the Nairaland constitution.

[size=14pt]Nairaland Forum Rules and Regulations[/size]
by Seun(m): 11:35am On Jul 30, 2005

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You know, it's scary to hear that people still think that Boko Haram was created or is funded by northern elders or ACF or Buhari, Atiku and Babangida. Some even believe that the goal of Boko Haram is to break away from Nigeria or get a northern president (there are even some northerners who believe the south is behind Boko Haram!)

That means we are still administering malaria medicine to a typhoid patient!

I hope it doesn't take us too long recognise the nature of the beast so that we can confront and kill it.

[size=14pt]The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs[/size]


The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDIIA or NDI) is an organization created by the United States government by way of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to channel grants for furthering democracy in developing nations. It was founded in 1983, shortly after the U.S. Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy.[1] Taxpayer funding is provided by the Federal Government, both directly from the United States Agency for International Development and the Department of State and indirectly through the National Endowment for Democracy. Additional funds are raised through voluntary donations from foreign governments, multilateral institutions, and private foundations.[2] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Under its mission, "NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI works with democrats in every region of the world to build political and civic organizations, safeguard elections, and to promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in government." NDI has worked in 125 different countries and territories since it was created and its six main areas of work are citizen participation, election processes, political parties, women in politics, democracy and technology, and democratic governance.[3]

NDI is loosely associated with the Democratic Party of the United States[4] and maintains ties with the Liberal International, Socialist International, and the Centrist Democrat International (formerly Christian Democrats). However, NDI's programs are nonpartisan, and it works with various democratic and non-violent political parties and civic groups. As stated on its website, "NDI does not presume to impose solutions nor does it believe that one democratic system can be replicated elsewhere. Rather, NDI shares experiences and offers a range of options so that leaders can adapt those practices and institutions that may work best in their own political environment."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Institute_for_International_Affairs

I know it's long, but it's worth the read (please read to the end before forming an opinion).


[size=14pt]International Republican Institute[/size]

Founded in 1983, the International Republican Institute (IRI) is an ideologically right-wing organisation, funded by the United States government, that conducts international political programs, sometimes called 'democratization programs'.[2]

Initially known as the National Republican Institute for International Affairs, the IRI's stated mission is to expand freedom throughout the world. Its activities include teaching and assisting with right-wing political party and candidate development in their values, "good governance" practices, civil society development, civic education, women’s and youth leadership development, electoral reform and election monitoring, and political expression in closed societies. It has been chaired by former presidential candidate John Mm
McCain since January 1993.[1][3]

IRI was involved in Haiti prior to the 2004 Haitian coup d'état,[4] in Honduras following the 2009 Coup d'état,[5], attempting to normalize and legitimize it, organized conservative political parties in Poland,[6] and has been involved in political activities in Egypt during the Arab Spring.[7]



Background

The IRI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1983 after U.S. President Ronald Reagan's 1982 speech before the British Parliament in Westminster in which he proposed a broad objective of helping countries build the infrastructure of democracy. Quoting the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he stated: "we must be staunch in our conviction that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings."[8]

The Westminster speech led to the establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy by Congress in 1983. The endowment is a mechanism to channel congressional funds to the IRI and three other institutes: the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, and the Center for International Private Enterprise. These organizations provide technical assistance to political bodies worldwide.

The majority of the IRI's funding comes from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

At first, IRI focused on democratic institutions and processes in Latin America but has expanded its focus worldwide since the end of the Cold War. IRI has conducted programs in more than 100 countries and is currently active in 70 countries.

The IRI operates as a political organization abroad, providing training and assistance to favoured political parties. As a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, it plays no part in domestic U.S. politics. However, the majority of its board, staff and consultants are drawn from the Republican Party.[2] Its sister organization, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, draws mainly from the Democratic Party.

IRI works with the following organizations:

United States State Department

United States Agency for International Development

National Endowment for Democracy

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

International Foundation for Election Systems

In Europe, IRI has established a partnership with the European People's Party (EPP).








International Republican Institute



Abbreviation

IRI

Motto

Advancing Democracy Worldwide

Formation

1983

Headquarters

Washington, DC,
United States

President

Lorne W. Craner

Budget

$78m (2008)[1]

Staff

400 (2008)[1]

Website

iri.org⁠

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Activities


Latin America and Caribbean

It has pursued a nominally neutral agenda, which, however, seeks to question the legitimacy of the region's current administrations, which nowadays are largely social-democratic or socialist, trying to purport them as non-democratic and resting importance to their electoral results.

2004 Haitian coup

[b]The IRI is accused of training some of the leaders of the 2004 Haitian coup d'état, as well as funding opposition groups in the country in a destabilization campaign in the months leading up the removal of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by a coalition of Canada, the US and France. Aristide was replaced with an unelected government.

The IRI received funding for the Haiti project from USAID for two years (late 2002-2004).[9][10] IRI ended all programming in Haiti in summer 2007.[11]

The now defunct web site http://www.haitigetinvolved.com/ was displaying the IRI logo together with the title "Haiti Get Involved!"[12] from about 2003 until mid 2005, and to be offering news, analysis, reports, documents and training manuals as well as information on the upcoming election and a list of political parties.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television premiered a documentary film about the IRI's role in the coup, Haiti: Democracy Undone, on 29 January 2006.[4]

Freedom of Information Act documents show that the IRI was involved in training and supporting pro-coup opposition parties[13]

IRI was accused by former US Ambassador Brian Dean Curran of undermining his efforts to hold peaceful negotiations between Aristide and his opposition after contested senatorial elections in 2000. According to Curran, Stanley Lucas, then IRI's representative in Haiti, advised opposition leaders not to compromise with Aristide, who would soon be driven from power. Curran also alleged that Lucas represented himself to the opposition as the true envoy of Washington, and his advice—which was contrary to that of the State Department—as advice from the American government.[14] IRI responded to Ambassador Curran's allegations in a letter to the New York Times, stating:

"'Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos' (front page, Jan. 29) found support for some of former Ambassador Brian Dean Curran's charges among only a few Haitians, most of them former associates of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. All have obvious motivation to impugn the International Republican Institute's work, and none presented any evidence to back their accusations." [15]

Otto Reich, who was the State Department's top official on Latin America under Colin Powell, described a change in US policy toward Haiti with the arrival of the Bush administration. According to Reich, Aristide fell somewhat out of favor with the change of US executive, though Powell continued to publicly profess U.S. support for the democratically elected leader. Curran's allegations were corroborated by Luigi R. Einaudi of the Organization of American States.[14][/b]

Cuba

The Cuban government accuses former Congressional staffer Caleb McCarry of orchestrating the 2004 Haitian coup and attempting to provoke a coup d'état in Cuba.[16] An anonymous State Department source told a Salon.com journalist that the funds McCarry allegedly used in Haiti came from the IRI.[17]

2009 Honduran coup d'état

IRI refuses to term the event as such and rather euphemistically calls it a "constitutional crisis" The IRI received $550,000 from the National Endowment for Democracy in 2009 in order to "promote and enhance the participation of think tanks in Mexico and Honduras as 'pressure groups' to impel political parties to develop concrete positions on key issues", and to "support initiatives to implement political positions during the campaigns in 2009" following the coup.[5]

Europe

Poland

The IRI claims credit for having united and organised a diverse range of "center and center right-wing" political parties together to create the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS), which was in government in Poland, together with its coalition partner the Freedom Union (UW) party, from 1997 to 2001.[6] It claims having provided training in political campaigning, communications training and research which helped organise and create the AWS. It also claims that once the AWS was in government, it organised an advertising campaign for the Polish government in order to stop the AWS splitting up over internal tensions:[6]

“

IRI initiated a post-election program that emphasized media and communications training for Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek's chancellory and cabinet.

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Middle East

According to an April 2011 New York Times article, the IRI, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and other groups were credited for training activists in the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Tunisia, who were advocating for reform in authoritarian regimes.

"The money spent on these programs was minute compared with efforts led by the Pentagon. But as American officials and others look back at the uprisings of the Arab Spring, they are seeing that the United States’ democracy-building campaigns played a bigger role in fomenting protests than was previously known, with key leaders of the movements having been trained by the Americans in campaigning, organizing through new media tools and monitoring elections.

"A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington, according to interviews in recent weeks and American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.” [18]

A ministry of justice's report on foreign funding of NGOs in Egypt has revealed that IRI in Egypt has received funding of about 7 million dollars by USAID for the upcoming Egyptian 2011-12 elections. The military rulers who gained control of the country following the January 2011 revolution consider this foreign funding interference in internal affairs

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute

Pyguru don't ban me, pyguru don't ban me, pyguru don't ban me (I'm told I have to recite it 3 times before posting links, etc).

Partnership between the Democratic Party and CAN is quite possible and this won't be the first time you'll have this kind of collaboration between a Nigerian political party and a US political party.

Like most laws governing political activities in the US (eg campaign funding) there's always a way to go around things without breaking the law. In this case, they are called the IRI and the IDI.

Reasoning with emotion+bigotry+hatred+absence of critical thinking = this thread. Smh

You would need to post full length photos to enable people judge.