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Today for Abuja:

Mallam go buy dollar: N153
Mallam go sell you dollar: N154.5

hehehehehe, so ateke get small sense.  him now need to use de new political power wey yar'adua give am to go run for governor.  thuggery and criminal activities no get long life.

ateke know say, if him no surrender peacefully, by de time wey all de amphibian vehicles, big guns, and advisers from israel enter nigeria in a few weeks, na checkmate him go see.  even americans sef dey ready with intelligence and technology wey go fish dem out of de creeks - all of dem including chinese need de oil.

e be like say baba go slow, don take him time deal a death blow to mend. with soyinka negotiating on their behalf, if dem mess up, and de great nigerian army clear dem with heavy artilery, nobody fit complain.

if police go arrest de perpetrators of dis crime, I bet say some people go say "where is due process?", just de way wey dem dey shout "innocent until proven guilty", because dem arrest bank CEOs wey tief and get caught red-handed.

de moral of de story be say, traitors still plenty for dat part of naija. de person wey video dis ting na one of de perpetrators, but him don become traitor probably because instead of N50m contract, na N5m contract dem gi am. barawo banza.

@Beaf you dey try to be wayo man ko?

gadogado:
^^^
nonsense, i want yar'adua to go after his first term but in keeping faith with rotational presidency, major abubakar umar or even sanusi lamido should finish the 8 yr term which the north is entitled to just like how obasanjo had two terms equally as disastrous as yar'adua, after that, i support like many do the moving of the presidency to the south and i'll happily back fashola!!!

I gree 100% with every ting wey you write, but I need to point out one ting. people forget say rotation wey apply to the office of de president na between north and south. many of dem tink say de ting go rotate go east or south south.

to those people, I say, goodluck.  una go need to first convince Yoruba man like fashola make him no run.  as Yoruba dem dey talk am; east ko midwest  ni, south south ko, south south east ni.

illusion2:
We can't solve any of Nigerias probs ,if the hypocrisy continues. . . . . . .a thief is caught in Arab Muslim country ,he/she gets sent to jail,a thief in African Muslim state in Secular 'ONE NIGERIA' . . . . . . .hand gets cut off   !

Gov Shekarau(Kano) ^{who I previously admired for his eloquence} says nothing wrong with Almajiri as its perfectly 'Islamic'. You go to direct decendants of the Prophet(Arabs). . . nothing like Almajiri.

Our very religious northerners feel 'Arabic' education is more important than anything else. . .  .the arabs spend all they can to acquire 'western' education. . . . So until all these hypocrisy ends. . . sorry,sorry  o !

illusion2, one of de beauty of democracy be say, people get right to practice their religions as dem see fit, without people like you calling it hypocrisy.  if kano people choose to practice shariah, dat one no concern you.  if ya own people decide to go worship stone, na una business be dat. problem dey start when you begin tink say na ya own religion you want to impose on others.

me i no go enter debate about religion with you because na useless affair be dat.  but if you tink say you must erradicate de beliefs of Kano muslims before ya country go progress, I'm afraid e no go work.

try address how we fit deal with the issue of marginalization of our brothers and sisters for niger delta and almanjiris of de north. make I hear your proposal as to how we fit solve these serious problems. i dey wait.

illusion2:
What about 100,200,500 & 1000 ^{we take style get plenty currency sha} ? someone confirm no 'ajami' or 'arabic' before we can say Uhuru !

ajami dey for every currency except the new ones. una don dey spend de money like dat ever since de first naira currency was issued. methinks we get bigger issues wey we suppose to use our brain power to solve rather than dis one.

more important issues like de marginalization of our common people of de niger delta, and the almanjiris of de north. all these people be God's children too.

df2006:
get out!!!!!!! is it a must that we should be one?

go declare ya own independence na. see whether your own people no go fight you themselves.

Secretary to the Kaduna State Government Mr. Waje Yayok, who was freed by his captors yesterday after 10 days in captivity, was taken by them to the motor park in Warri early yesterday and was placed in a Delta Line bus to Benin, according to family sources in Kaduna. Daily Trust also learnt that the abductors paid the bus fare because the SSG had no money on him, and they even waved goodbye to him as the bus left the motor park.

According to accounts gathered by senior government officials from the freed SSG, he was held in a house in Warri with 30 other people who were also kidnapped from various parts of the country, including three who were abducted with him in Kaduna. Throughout the duration of Yayok’s stay with his captors, the kidnapped men were being freed one by one as ransom was paid by their families. While some families paid as much as N2million to get their fathers freed, some secured their freedom for as little as N250,000, sources said.

A family source also said Mr. Yayok, who is known in Kaduna as a very jovial and playful man, managed to charm his captors, persuaded them that he was a poor civil servant who had no money, and also got into arguments with them over North-South issues. The kidnappers had said Mr. Yayok should be able to pay a ransom in tens of millions of naira because “all the country’s money is in the North.” He however countered that Kaduna State receives only N1.7 billion in statutory allocations a month while Delta State, apparent home base of the kidnappers, receives more than N7 billion a month.

Daily Trust also learnt that when the SSG arrived in Benin, he contacted the State Security Service, whose agents had been hot on the trail of his kidnappers. The SSS men then took him to Benin Airport, flew him to Abuja, and then drove him to the Government House in Kaduna, where he received a very warm welcome from his Cabinet colleagues.

Mr Yayok, who looked healthy but nervous, arrived Government House at 1pm and was immediately taken to see Mr. Patrick Yakowa, the acting governor, at whose office he met with top government and party officials for about two hours. When the meeting ended, Yakowa, Information Commissioner Alhaji Saidu Adamu, PDP state chairman Alhaji Yau Usman and police commissioner Tambari Yabo Mohammed addressed reporters.

Mr Yakowa thanked government officials, security agencies and members of the public for facilitating the SSG’s release. In a short speech, Yayok also said that he has forgiven his kidnappers.

The Kaduna State Government also insisted that no ransom was paid to secure Mr Waje Yayok’s release. Alhaji Umar Sani, Special Adviser to Governor Namadi Sambo on Media and Public Affairs, said Yayok was released when the kidnappers realized that the ransom money was not forthcoming. In addition, he said “the combined efforts of the SSS and the police gave the abductors sleepless nights and they felt that the security agencies were closing in on them and that soon the noose will be tightened around their necks.” Their only option was to free the SSG without any ransom being paid, he said.

Dispelling rumours that Yayok was abducted at a Kaduna hotel, Sani said he was actually abducted ``at the junction of studio 40-40 along Barnawa-Narayi junction, very close to his residence.” According to him, Yayok was to proceed on an official assignment the next morning to the southern parts of the state, when about 10 men who were fully clad in army camouflage ``abducted himself and four other vehicles, including a Toyota Camry, a jeep , the vehicle of the SSG and a Mercedes Benz that were forced to join a convoy.” The convoy drove straight to Delta State that night, he said.

According to the director general, Yayok was not the abductors’’ target, because the kidnappers only got to know his identity when they saw his Identity Card as the convoy stopped to refuel. He dismissed rumours that the “special assignment” that Yayok was to undertake to Southern Kaduna State was to distribute monetary Sallah gifts from Governor Namadi Sambo. Sani said no such money or gifts were ever sent by the governor and that the SSG had no such money on him when he was abducted.

It will be recalled that there was confusion regarding Yayok’s whereabouts on September 22. While his family members said he had been kidnapped, Kaduna state government insisted that he was sent on an official assignment to southern Kaduna, where he hails from.

The next day, September 23, the state government admitted that Yayok was missing. The Commissioner of Police promised that the SSG will be freed by Thursday, September 24 but Yayok did not reappear until yesterday.

kuramo:
If Sanusi did not re-introduce Arabic text in the new Naira notes, this rational for the discussing this thread is now irrelevant.

The rationale for this thread was not based on sound logic, but on tribalism and religious bigotry.

some of de posters blame fulani people for all naija problems. these posters dey too stupid to realize say na bad leadership at federal and state levels wey dey kill nigeria. de governors of all de states for niger delta, for example, no be fulani. na de kind mindset wey dey wound us for nigeria wey de thread starter get.

illusion2:
Looking at the logo,it was originally written in Arabic (or 'Ajami' ) & the transliteration is definitely 'Allah' & not God !

Na wa o,this people don de screw us tey,tey ,thank God eye don de open !

I don get ya point now. the motto "Victory is from God alone" no be the ting wey dey objectionable to you, na de fact say dem inscribe the logo in ajami wey you no like. you for say dat initially, instead of wasting our time na.

make una stop these misinformation na. the motto of the great nigerian army na "Victory is from God alone" shikena! wettin wrong with dat? if una see de motto for any English language document.  if una get evidence otherwise make una provide am.  

de only homework wey I go give una na to find out de origin of de motto.


@Beaf = Albert PrimarySchool Einstein

@maxsiollun, which kind question be dis na?  my answer to ya question depend on what he was arrested for?  frankly i no tink say any nigerian alive get de guts to go arrest dat man.  de one wey arrrest IBB pikin dey exile now.

Today for Abuja:

Mallam go buy dollar: N152
Mallam go sell you dollar: N153.5

Ibime:
Simply that no matter how much any one sector is sanitised, as long as the country as a whole is held ransom to executive malfeasance, it is like pissing in the rain. As much as guys like Ribadu, Soludo, Sanusi and Okonjo-Iweala do their best in their respective sectors, their efforts are somewhat undermined by the pervasive corruption and incompetence which will inevitably seep into their respective sectors. A country where one man can simply walk away with your life savings and guys like Aondoaaka would do nothing to prosecute him. Look at the amount of people/journalists defending the executive crooks who stole their money in the first place. Not to mention political instability. Who wants to invest in a country full of MEND, MASSOBS, Bakassi Boys and Boko Harams? Can you invest in a sinking ship?

true talk - na dat executive malfeasance wey you mention coupled with endemic corruption wey dey slow us down. i gree say we get issues with MEND, MASSOBS, Bakassi Boys and Boko Harams etc, but e be like say, dat one did not completely stop foreign direct investment for naija.

you sabi say for 2004, foreign direct investment na $2.1 billion, and so far for 2009, de ting don reach $13.95billion sef. most of de investment na for oil and gas sector, banking, telecoms and beverages. to invest in other areas no dey easy, when uninterruptible power supply no dey sef.

if sanusi and cbn fit stabilize de banking industry, more foreign investment go come in. can you imagine de impact on our economy and lifestyle if de malfeasance wey you mention no exist.

may God help us for naija.

Ibime:
The amount of ethnically-tinged vitriol on this thread is simply nauseating.

Nigerians having lost their life savings in the last bubble burst can be forgiven for being too tentative to reinvest in the stock market.

Having recapitalised the banks, any developed economy would see re-investment from shareholders. Sanusi is correct in stating that this is the best time to buy.

However, what assurances do we have that corruption will not seep into the market and eat away our savings like last time?

The stockmarket does not stand alone in Nigeria. As long as the rest of the country is sick, and on the precipice of collapse, the political risk of investing in anything to do with ONE NIGERIA is just too great.

ibeme,

thank you for ya comments. de comments dey devoid of de typical tribal jingoism wey typify many posts here.

abeg make you educate me on dis ya statement: "the political risk of investing in anything to do with ONE NIGERIA is just too great". why you capitalize one nigeria.? i follow de good analysis wey you make, but dis your last statement threw me off. i go appreciate if you explain am to be please.

MrCrackles:
Common dude, i was only being sarcastic. . .

your sacarsm was obvious and my comment was not a criticism at all. no vex if you tink say I infer any ting wey dey inaccurate about ya post.

df2006:
shehu alias ndu chuck, una time don pass, just keep clinging to straws, your eye go soon clear. even your brother umaru say with im own mouth say im goverment na illegimate. i have rub it in, ha ha ha. it,s not only me that knows every body plus your almajiris are getting aware, the fraud you fulanis are perpetrating, it,s only a matter of time. shehu do you hear me. lol

na me you dey call shehu?   

i ask you the legitimacy question so dat i go fit engage you with an understanding of ya perspective. once again you don run, you no address de points wey I raise.

i go associate your actions with intellectual dishonesty/wuruwuru/inadequacy or simply inability to present counter opinions wey go invalidate de ones wey i don offer.  you prefer your singular argument say na fulani people cause all of una problem.

for ya information, i no be tribalist like you, if a detribalized nigerian find better ijaw gal sef, na loff e go loff am. i no tink say ya own tribalism go let you deal with a nice fulani yarinya, despite de fact say na dem pretty pass for naija.   

MrCrackles:
Wow smart move there Francis Atuche. . .
I also heard he wont survive this. . .
Fingers crossed!

if u call dat one smart move, den you be a very kind person o. dat kind move, if true, be financial crime and e dey illegal. at de end of de day, i suspect say dem go escape jail time but go pay restitution. my own fingers too dey crossed.

df2006:
i no fear you one bit. the fact is, you keep ignoring what i have been trying to tell you, the least you can do is to disprove it, rather than carrying on as if it is not an issue, for example a senatorial election takes place in a state, and the result is announced in abuja, my friend common, you call the winner my senator? rubbish!!!

dis na one of de reasons why I talk say una no like to follow rules.  all over nigeria, except una region; law abiding people don challenge election results and de courts remove Governors, senators, and others wey rig. 

how many of una carry the senator wey you dey complain about go court? if una dey there and do nothing, no court challenge or other protests, then you people deserve the senator.   

and you fail to still understand that in this crop of leaders, there is hierachy, there is a control point that sets all the agenda, oblivious of some these leaders. i don,t have any thing against a fulani man NO! but their leaders are at the controls over the hausas, the kanuris, and the numerous tribes found in the north and they have spread this control down south using the fraud called nigeria, they maintain this control using illiteracy, religion and corruption.

Ol boy, no insult our intelligence for here.  you write the above statement will so much confidence as if na proven facts. i beg give us concrete proof say na de ting wey de happen be dat. 

it is not enough and even irresponsible to come to a public forum and make a pronouncement based on your personal opinion; and try to pass dat as fact. it is like me saying that all de thieving governors wey dey rape una, are controlled by odumegwu ojukwu with fire power supplied by mend - wouldn't that be a rediculous statement? 

de onus is on you to prove your irresponsible statements. according to ya warped logic, na fulanis dey control PDP, AC and all other non pdp parties. for ya information, abacha no be fulani, IBB no be fulani, Gowon no be fulani, Abdulsalam no be fulani. ya homework na to go find out whether yar'Adua sef na fulani.

i understand wetin you mean, or was it IG about the ajami script, but of what use is it in this era, are we still in the 14 century? if a people cannot take the advantage in the past 50 years, of learning the most useful language in the world today, and are still sticking to some worthless ajami script, you can therefore see the controls i am talking about. even the arabs are striving to learn english.

if hausas tell you say most of their people fit read hausa written in Ajamis using arabic alphabets, why is it difficult for you to respect that fact and their culture?  why you no go tell yoruba people wey dey use adapted English alphabets make dem begin write youruba  with arabic alphabets? wouldn't that be insensitive and disrespectful?

I go ask you again, do you believe that we have a legitimate government in Nigeria?  No be trick question, so make you no begin dey paranoid. I just want to understand how una dey think.

Dis Guy:
df2006

what will you do if they don't put Arabic on the note?

expect the guy to continue his attacks on northerners and other tribes. i still dey try to understand the real problem wey de guy get. you sabi say de simplest ting wey person wey get problem dey do, na to blame everyone exept himself.

@Beaf ; df2006;

if you people no get de quality to fit handle tough questions, superior logic, or different point of view, how una go fit lead una people out of the conundrum wey dem dey?

make una avoid discussing with me, but anytime wey una try to spread misinformation here, I go come burst una bubble.

make una avoid all de points wey i raise about arabic inscription without any contrary point, because e no fit una preconceived and nonsensical notion of realities. other people don read am and that alone is good enough for me.

@df2006, if you tink say I call you ewu, no vex. but no use dat as an excuse to run away from superior argument or a point of view wey different from yours. that, my friend, is lazy to say the least.

df2006:
clearly what i have been trying to ring into their brains, the northern leadership, specifically the fulanis have completely taken them for a ride, so much that we now have what is known as hausa-fulani, which is totally  false. pathetic.

i tell una say na de crop of leaders wey we get for naija be de problem. dem come from just about every major tribe. that fact dey very obvious, but una prefer to focus on fulani leaders. Ibori na fulani? alami-wonder boy na fulani? was adedibu fulani? etc etc

make una stop dis tribalism filled reactionarist response to issues. we all get common enemy. wake up!

df2006:
@ndu_chucks

this guy you blind, did i vote for any of my leader? who is behind the two faced bastards that have been ruling us since time immemorial, a particular tribe using corruption and religion, taking instruction from one point. within the elites there is hierachy, don,t you get it? they use stooges. don,t you come here telling me my leader who is clearly a stooge is the cause of a problem, when he will be used and discarded. we know the origin of the problem.

de problem wey una get be say, una no like to play by the rules. make I remind you say, nobody or space alien go come una area to fix am, na una go do am una selves. if you call una governors stooges, sooner or later una go gather enough courage to take a stand. why una no carry mend go attack those stooges wey dey live with una? oops, I don forget, na for de comfort of una living room for diaspora una dey do una own fight.

i go suggest say make you stop this emotional outburst like woman wey get belle. if you fit do dat, maybe we fit learn from each other.

your last sentence for your post talk say: "we know the origin of the problem". pray tell, na wettin be de origin of the problem and wettin be ya suggested solution. no avoid my question with another angry outburst, if my tough love make you vex, ngwanu, I'm sorry. But biko, answer de question.

@Beaf; I told you that the following was reported in a publication recently:

Key features of the new notes include their small size, pictures of some past Nigerian heroes including the famous female porter Hajiya Ladi Kwali, bold numbering, map of Nigeria, the national colors and the denominations written in the three major languages of Ibo, Hausa and Yoruba

If de report dey correct then I'm sure you no go object to writing N20 naira in yoruba like this: ógun naira. Please note that the Yoruba alphabets are adapted from the English alphabet.  you sabi say, e go dey ridiculous to write N20 using arabic alphabets. writing the N20 in Yoruba  using arabic alphabets will be insensitive and a cultural insult.

by de same token,  as it has been explained to you, Hausa is written in Ajami, using Arabic characters. An Arab who  does not understand Hausa will not necessarily understand the Hausa writen in Ajami, just as an English man will not understand ógun naira simply because it contains primarily English alphabets!

So ol boy remove your tribalism and religious bigotry from ya analysis and you will be enriched by that action.

for now, e be like say you are consumed by intellectual dishonesty and bigotry.  as dem tell you before, if you want make only English dey for de currency, make you remove the Arab numerals (or Indian numerals)  from de currency!  I hope you don see how ridiculous your argument dey.

de almanjiris of de north and de niger delta commoners (no be the educated elites or the mend criminalsi dey talk), are de most marginalized nigerians. all of us should be ashamed of ourselves because we dey allowing dis kind injustice to continue.

IG:
I think we've been here before, there has been such a discussion on the so-called Arabic inscriptions on the Naira as far back as 2005 or 2006. I just couldn't dig up the thread. What you guys call arabic inscriptions are not arabic but Ajami scripts. Ajami is actually Hausa written with Arabic letters. That's how the original hausa writing is. And that is what many Northerners that do not have western education can read.

IG, people like Beaf, no get de intellectual capabiility to process some of de important points wey you raise there. secondly, dem dey ignorant of history and the portion of history wey dem sabi, na revise dem dey revise am.

if you read de rambliing of a reply wey Beaf write to you, you go see say the analysis wey him give dey incoherent. Theses people ignore de merit of de reasons wey cbn give us to justify the polymer notes. dem dey use every thread to fight a different battle.

I ask one of dem whether him tink say Nigerian govenrment dey legitimate, him respond by saying that government's legitimacy has nothing to do with arabic inscription. Imagine that! de question wey I ask to try to understand his perspective. Him dodge de question and would rather continue his tribalistic and bigoted rants.

charity begins at home. why these people no oppose their governors wey dey steal money in the billions? In the past 10 years, money wey don enter niger delta don pass $500billion - money from feds, oil companies. and international organizations.

de ting wey I dey try explain to Beaf and df2006 be say, de real enemy na the crop of leaders wey Nigeria get. These leaders know say, if educated people unite against dem, their power go useless, hence they use every means possible to create confusion inside the heads of people like Beaf. So instead make dem fight real enemies among them, na imaginary enemies for other tribes dem dey waste their energy on top. What a pity.

I go respond to df2006 and Beaf on Saturday. we get plenty issues to handle, soon enough I go expose una. Una problem pass arabic inscriptions, I go extract una views soon enough.

In de maintime make una answer dis simple question: Do you believe that the Nigerian government is legitimate?  na simple question, so una no fit say na pigin I take ask de question.  Together or separate, we go find solution for una.

una fit ignore me or bury una head for sand, dat no go change de truth say, the crop of leaders wey Nigeria get including una governors, love de fact say una dey confused.

beaf, nobody dodge you. ngwannu, I dey here left right and center, so na which issue i dodge? e be like say na you be de real maradonna. which issue I dodge? raise am and I go address am.

but if you dey fear, no yawa. just remember say, inasmuch as una no fit swim 100miles offshore, una no fit claim offshore oil wey dey there.

Beaf, you dey wear glasses? or you just dey avoid questions and which secret you dey refer to?. address de issues wey dey inside bullets in my previous post. no worry if de issues dey over ya head.