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Politics / Re: Who Is This Governor Doing Juju? by nfmovement: 5:31am On Jan 27, 2012
These are the retards who decide what happens to millions of people!
This video really was not recorded at a shrine most people will make it look like, but a priest from a shrine performed the sacrifice and also was recorded by one of the aids of his Godfather with his cell phone to show to the Godfather that the oat was actually taken. grin grin grin shocked shocked shocked shocked grin grin grin
Politics / Re: Abians Protest Peacefully Against The Killings Of Igbos In The North by nfmovement: 7:57am On Jan 17, 2012
[b]The same ABIANS that sent their brothers out of their state because they do not want to be their brothers' keeper , ?.
They also sent their sisters away from their various places of work, just because they are married to NON INDIGENE

Look at the pictures closely and you will understand that these are the same politicians who supported the Government to throw out from their workforce all NON INDIGENE who have worked and served the state diligently for several years without benefits.

Now you people are calling on all other Igbos you Disengage from work, you took away their dally bread to join you to protest, now you know that you all are one.

Non of you took to the street to protest the inhumane treatment given to your fellow igbos then because of your selfish interest of receiving and earning more from the Government, SHAME ON YOU PEOPLE.

Who is fooling who ?. Now the Abians realized the benefit of protest and they want to tap into it. grin grin grin grin grin who is fooling who?
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Politics / Pls Listen 2 This Man Carefully, Know Those Secretly Behind Pms Subsidy Issues by nfmovement: 8:51pm On Jan 16, 2012
‎90 per cent of bank deposits are owned by 6 per cent of depositors in Nigeria, '' If you really want to understand what is going on in our country today over the fuel subsidy issue, who is secretly behind it and what the real objectives are please listen to this young man very carefully. He has hit the nail on the head.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtzh206ymA
Politics / ‎90 Per Cent Of Bank Deposits Are Owned By 6 Per Cent Of Depositors In Nigeria by nfmovement: 8:48pm On Jan 16, 2012
‎90 per cent of bank deposits are owned by 6 per cent of depositors in Nigeria, '' If you really want to understand what is going on in our country today over the fuel subsidy issue, who is secretly behind it and what the real objectives are please listen to this young man very carefully. He has hit the nail on the head.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtzh206ymA
Politics / Re: Abians Protest Peacefully Against The Killings Of Igbos In The North by nfmovement: 8:15pm On Jan 16, 2012
Why calling all Igbo to join the protest now. Are you saying the Boko Haram use to ask were u'r from before carry out their killing. Why are Igbos always personalizing their problems as if they are the only Christian Southerners that are been killed in the north.

You folded your hands when all other Nigerians were protesting, the best thing you people would have done then is to come out massively and protest for whatever you feel is hurting you the most, I believe your voices would have been heard instead of coming to post this rented crowd pictures on Nairaland as if we all care. I believe you all are smiling now that the price of PMS is reduced. May God help you Abians. The next you will here is that they are been marginalized.
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Politics / Re: Hoodlums Kill 400 Cows During Protest In Edo by nfmovement: 2:44pm On Jan 15, 2012
Post pictures please
Politics / @ All Pro Subsidy Removal by nfmovement: 12:52am On Jan 15, 2012
Politics / @ All Pro Subsidy Removal by nfmovement: 12:49am On Jan 15, 2012
@ ALL PRO SUBSIDY REMOVAL: For me, Subsidy removal in Nigeria transcends the superficial perception; it's actually more than meet the eyes. All Bretton Woods Institution's (World Bank, IMF, etc) prescriptions come with ulterior motives. Please Google the American Hit Man & listen to his Confession, and then we can chat further at some frequencies. But the better if you have a prior knowledge. Meanwhile, don't get me all wrong; there is absolutely nothing wrong with fuel subsidy removal, but everything is wrong about the timing & the deceptive manner in which it was done without recourse to the feelings of ordinary Nigerians. The Nigerian government
merely showed its weakness by evading the democratic task of educating and persuading the electorates to fall in line with its policy. I have said severally on this medium that Leopards never change their SPOTS & all the so called Cabals that are highly dreaded by the FG need to do is to outsmart the government again by flying without perching, to further deepen the suffering of the masses at which point a rollback in the PMS price would be practically impossible. Why should innocent citizens bear the brunt of Government’s inept in tackling corruption? We are always quick to compare ourselves with other countries like Ghana, without considering our comparative global corruption index and infrastructural support base. My goodness! Believe me at this juncture, I write in tears! You all need to wear poverty shoes to appreciate exactly where it pinches. The poor people living below one dollar a day constitute a chunk of Nigerians population, and at best, their preoccupations are artisanship & skilled labourers that depend largely on PMS to power their generators to operate salons, repair electronics & phones, tailoring, welding, vulcanization, milling, e.t.c. these group of people at the end of the day are faced with high cost of transportation and increased inflationary gap to contend with amidst exorbitant medical bills. Crosscheck these overwhelming challenges with other countries that removed fuel subsidy even though done humanly in phases on a comparative note. Our problem is not just limited funds per se but ultimately, mismanagement & misappropriations of public & task payer’s funds. President GEJ, has not shown firm and serious commitment to the fight against corruption on a Zero tolerant scale, thus, all desperate policy implementations will collapse as witness with previous governments who removed fuel subsidy at certain degrees while promising Nigerians ‘ELDERADO’. All these are just old wines in new kegs! We need to first build strong democratic institutions, enduring infrastructures and stamp out corruption to the bearable minimal before we can contemplate fuel subsidy removal.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0JCJ4pIFEw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CofEbxtIxI

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man
Politics / Assu Strike Dec 4, Fuel Subsidy Removal Jan 1, Nlc Strike Jan 9 = 419. by nfmovement: 10:50pm On Jan 14, 2012
ASSU strike Dec 4, fuel subsidy removal Jan 1, NLC strike Jan 9 = 419. Dem don sell dis country for our head. grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Politics / Re: Breaking News by nfmovement: 10:10pm On Jan 14, 2012
Hi Toba, I like the way u answered him, such post is only going to create more confusion. Whats up with u?
Politics / Facts And Nagging Questions On Fuel-subsidy Removal by nfmovement: 9:58am On Jan 13, 2012
The recent abrupt subsidy removal, now increasingly dubbed deregulation in the downstream petroleum industry, is posing new challenges both to the Nigerian citizenry (in terms of direct increase in fuel price and of other essentials due to the impact of the petrol "macroproduct"wink and to the Federal Government (in terms of protests from various sectors of civil society).


The coming days will be crucial in determining where the pendulum will swing over the issue. The coming months and years will also see whether private investors will come rushing into the downstream sector, because without a national consensus, private money tends to bide its time, fearing future policy reversals.

Visit link to read the background information http://economicconfidential.net/new/features/885-facts-and-nagging-questions-on-fuel-subsidy-removal
Politics / Fuel Subsidy And Aids (acquired Integrity Deficiency Syndrome) by nfmovement: 9:41am On Jan 13, 2012
If you don't take the dead rat out of the room no amount of fresh air can give you a fresh breath.

Year after year we seem to be squatting at the same spot; sometimes the greatest effort we make will be a leap from the ground unto the top of an anthill which always attracts maddening cum thunderous applause that we have achieved a lot without realizing or remembering the legendary adage that, “A bird that leaps from the ground and perched on an anthill is still basically on the ground”.
Again we are being treated to the usual noise, the subsidy carpet has been laid, in various forums; the President has stated categorically no going back. In far away Australia, the Petroleum minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke was engaged in double speak on the matter.
Within last week, CAN the umbrella body of Christians through its leadership have lent its support to the removal of subsidy, and before them were some select group of 'government-business' people. As all these noise increases, the governors are speaking from both sides of their mouth. NLC is given terms for its support and the National Assembly is summoning everyone and everything.

Labour and Productivity, Minister Chief Emeka Wogu took the lobby of the federal government on the proposed removal to the National Assembly, with a plea with the Senate to support the move.

According to Wogu, government’s plans to deregulate the downstream oil sector are part of policies that are designed to improve the well-being of the masses.
He said “, that what will accrue to the Federal Government from the removal, will be judiciously used as well as monitored and managed by eminent Nigerians who are well respected in the society.
Wogu who expressed concern that the current quantum on subsidy has weighed so much on the economy of the Nation, however called on Nigerians not to throw the baby out with the bathing water, but to critically look into the fuel subsidy removal policy as it will be of immense benefit to them.

“The Federal Government will provide safety nets and will invest the accrued revenue from the removal of subsidy in infrastructural development which will generate employment, fund education and health among other programmes that will have direct impact on the well being of the masses,” he said.

On the strength of such fine talk, support from who is who; economics according to Ngozi, Sanusi and World Bank, how can one doubt this government?

The reasons for doubts are not far-fetched and in these few lines I challenge those in authority from Mr. President to his last lieutenants to prove me and millions of Nigerians wrong.

The first major increase of petrol pump price was by Obasanjo in 1978, from 8.4/5kobo to 15.30 kobo, an increase of 73.86%, Reasons, a good majority of users were using the commodity more for pleasure and there was need to bring discipline into the society.

Another reason was that the price had been maintained at a low level for 12 years despite galloping inflation and wait till you hear this, that government had been subsidising the price of petroleum with more than N95million every year.

After that, Shagari increased from 15.30kobo to 20kobo in 1982, reasons; austerity measures to ensure that everybody sacrificed something in aid of the country's ailing economy, secondly to stop subsidizing petrol consumed locally.
IBB between 1985-1993 increased fuel pump price five times starting from 20kobo to finally 70kobo, amongst his reasons included that government subsidies were generating controversies, savings from same would be used for education, to check smuggling, to help checkmate the suffering brought about by SAP, there was no official reason for the last increase.

In his ‘sit-down-small’ government Shonekan equally increased from 70kobo-N5.00 and told us it was necessary to ensure the survival of the oil sector, and that those in the sector were operating at a loss.
Abacha briefly reduced the 614% increase of Shonekan but soon moved it again from his subsidized N3.25k to N15.00 in October 1993, reason; production cost had risen, there was need to decrease the level of subsidy, and smuggling, he was later to reduce it to N11 as a result of strikes, and protests.
Abdulsalam played same symphony. First from N11.00 to N25.00 and back to N20.00 in some three weeks, and the argument continued that there was need for deregulation, government had no business fixing prices.
Obj came in civilian toga, hiked it to N30, and brought it back to N25.00, then N22.00, reasons to reduce smuggling, reduce government's subsidy, contain fuel scarcity, it was done to strengthen the economy.

I will spare my readers the agony of the rest but really what has changed, same old story of subsidy, no good roads, glorified chemists' shops as hospitals, dying public school system, ponzhi employment schemes called ‘YouWin’ when indeed the nation keeps loosing.
Fuel is still being smuggled, economy still ailing, no massive revamping of refineries ‘cept on paper, not much happening in terms of manufacturing, we are only served hardship as a meal to pamper the spoilt wants of a ruling class.
We are blessed with a leadership and citizenry that have long lost any form of integrity, So this may a difficult ask, we learn slowly, we forget quickly and no matter the best of intentions it’s always a case of “A bird that leaps from the ground and perched on an anthill, ”

Very little will change if we do not put a face and name to ask government to be responsible, the continued lack of integrity by those in power will continue! Time will tell.
Prince Charles Dickson
Editor, burningpot.com

Politics / Re: My Oil Firm Got No Kobo Of Subsidy From Fg -jimoh Ibrahim by nfmovement: 11:53pm On Jan 12, 2012
Write something, FINALLY THE CABALS ARE BEING EXPOSED!!!

Oando Oil, CONOIL, African Petroleum and MRS Oil are among the powerful players in the petroleum sector that have shared over N3.655 trillion between 2006 and September2011 in pursuit of importation of refined petroleum products.
This was revealed today in Abuja by the Nigerian Senate joint Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Appropriation and Finance.
Sen, ator Magnus Ibe, the chairman of the committee, also disclosed that some 100 companies in the downstream sector and in construction, shared over N1.426 trillion between January and August 2011 alone.
Oando Oil is owned by Wale Tinubu, Mike Adenuga owns CONOIL, Femi Otedola owns AP, while MRS Oil is run by Aliko Dangote's brother, Sayyu Dantata. Other key players named today include Pinaccle Construction Ltd, as well as Integrated Oil and Gas, which is owned by a former Minister of the Interior,Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho.
The full list as read out by Senator Abe, is as follows:
1. Oando Nigerian Plc. – N228.506 billion
2. MRS –N224.818 billion
3. Pinnacle Construction-N300 billion
4. Enak Oil & Gas –N19.684 billion
5. CONOIl – N37.960 billion
6. Bovas & Co. Nig. Ltd. – N5.685 billion,
7. Obat N85 billion and AP; N104.5billion.
8. Folawiyo Oil - N113.3 billion
9. IPMAN Investment Limited- N10.9billion
10. ACON - N24.1billion
11. Atio Oil-N64.4billion
12. AMP- N11.4billion
13. Honeywell-N12.2billion
14. Emac Oil- N19.2billion
15. D.Jones Oil-N14.8billion;
16. Capital Oil - N22.4 billion
17. AZ Oil- N18.613billion
18. Eterna oil- N5.57 billion
19. Dozil oil- N3.375 billion
20. Fort oil-N8.582 billion.
21. Integrated Oil and Gas- N30.777 billion!
THESE ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE CABAL,
*THEY ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE PRESIDENT.
*THEY ARE GIVING NATIONAL AWARD
*THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMIC TEAM.
(((((WHO IS FOOLING WHO))))) kindly repost and call Nigerians to action.
LETS START OCCUPYING THE CABALS TOO.
Politics / Breaking News! Inside Aso Rock Villa: Fg Agrees To Revert To N65 But by nfmovement: 11:40pm On Jan 12, 2012
BREAKING NEWS!!! Inside
Aso Rock Villa, FG agrees
to revert to N65 but
Removal of fuel subsidy
takes effect March 1st,2012
@ N120 per litre. NLC/TUC negotiate for N90 and
should commence by April
1st,2012.

They were on RECESS as at 2 and half hours ago and will resume in 20 mins, meaning they must have reached an agreement now.
Whats your take if it eventually turns out like this,

This is an insider information from a staff of the government house. We hope the president wont renege on this.
Politics / Finally The Cabals Are Being Exposed! by nfmovement: 11:35pm On Jan 12, 2012
Write something, FINALLY THE CABALS ARE BEING EXPOSED!!!

Oando Oil, CONOIL, African Petroleum and MRS Oil are among the powerful players in the petroleum sector that have shared over N3.655 trillion between 2006 and September2011 in pursuit of importation of refined petroleum products.
This was revealed today in Abuja by the Nigerian Senate joint Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Appropriation and Finance.
Sen, ator Magnus Ibe, the chairman of the committee, also disclosed that some 100 companies in the downstream sector and in construction, shared over N1.426 trillion between January and August 2011 alone.
Oando Oil is owned by Wale Tinubu, Mike Adenuga owns CONOIL, Femi Otedola owns AP, while MRS Oil is run by Aliko Dangote's brother, Sayyu Dantata. Other key players named today include Pinaccle Construction Ltd, as well as Integrated Oil and Gas, which is owned by a former Minister of the Interior,Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho.
The full list as read out by Senator Abe, is as follows:
1. Oando Nigerian Plc. – N228.506 billion
2. MRS –N224.818 billion
3. Pinnacle Construction-N300 billion
4. Enak Oil & Gas –N19.684 billion
5. CONOIl – N37.960 billion
6. Bovas & Co. Nig. Ltd. – N5.685 billion,
7. Obat N85 billion and AP; N104.5billion.
8. Folawiyo Oil - N113.3 billion
9. IPMAN Investment Limited- N10.9billion
10. ACON - N24.1billion
11. Atio Oil-N64.4billion
12. AMP- N11.4billion
13. Honeywell-N12.2billion
14. Emac Oil- N19.2billion
15. D.Jones Oil-N14.8billion;
16. Capital Oil - N22.4 billion
17. AZ Oil- N18.613billion
18. Eterna oil- N5.57 billion
19. Dozil oil- N3.375 billion
20. Fort oil-N8.582 billion.
21. Integrated Oil and Gas- N30.777 billion!
THESE ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE CABAL,
*THEY ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE PRESIDENT.
*THEY ARE GIVING NATIONAL AWARD
*THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMIC TEAM.
(((((WHO IS FOOLING WHO))))) kindly repost and call Nigerians to action.
LETS START OCCUPYING THE CABALS TOO.
Politics / The Cabal Scandal Brewing Over Nigerian Fuel Imports by nfmovement: 9:04am On Jan 11, 2012
Reproduced below is a secret cable of the United States Government on the fraud in the oil sector in Nigeria as published by Wikileaks.

C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 LAGOS 000767

SIPDIS

NOFORN

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2014

TAGS: EPET EINV EFIN PGOV NI

SUBJECT: SCANDAL BREWING OVER NIGERIAN FUEL IMPORTS

Classified By: J. GREGOIRE FOR REASONS 1.5 (B), (D), AND (E).

¶1. (C) SUMMARY. A scandal is brewing in Nigeria over prices paid by the government for imported fuel. International fuel traders have been falsifying the dates of bills of lading to reflect particularly high market prices, overcharging the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by $300 million or more. END SUMMARY.

¶2. (C N/F) On April 2, Chris Finlayson, Chairman and Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Corporation of Nigeria (SPDC), told Consul General and Econoff that a scandal is brewing within the NNPC over payments made to international fuel marketers. Finlayson said some marketers have been changing the dates when fuel shipments bound for Nigeria were loaded in order to take advantage of particularly high market prices. He said the total overpayment by NNPC may be as high as $330 million. Finlayson noted that Shell is not one of the marketers in question, but is becoming a leading fuel supplier for NNPC.

¶3. (C N/F) On April 6, Femi Otedola, President and CEO of Zenon Petroleum and Gas, the largest supplier of diesel fuel in Nigeria, essentially corroborated Finlayson's report. Otedola said over $300 million has been overpaid by NNPC for fuel imports, and that many leading international traders are involved. According to Otedola, NNPC contracts to pay its suppliers the market price on the day a ship is loaded with fuel. He said NNPC recently discovered, however, that bills of lading were altered to reflect loading on days of high market prices. Discrepancies were found when comparing dates on the bills of lading with dates of landing in Lagos.

¶4. (C N/F) Pointing to examples, Otedola said that while a tanker loading fuel at a refinery in Bahrain usually takes four weeks to arrive in Lagos, comparisons between the bills of lading and dates of arrival of some shipments reflected only a four-day difference, and in other cases, if taken at face value, indicated the journey took nine months. Otedola said 73 shipments from refineries in the Persian Gulf, England, and Venezuela listed delivery times of only one day. NNPC is attempting to get compensation for the over-charge. Otedola went on that most of the fuel traders supplying Nigeria are implicated in over-charging NNPC, and showed a list of 17 companies that supplied fuel in the first quarter of 2004, several of which, he said, are significant players in international markets, such as Trafigura and Vitol. Otedola added that three companies clearly not involved in the scandal are British Petroleum, ChevronTexaco and Shell.

¶5. (C N/F) Otedola recommended that NNPC stop contracting with international fuel traders and negotiate purchases directly from refineries worldwide. According to him, such a move would have two positive effects. Otedola calculates that NNPC would save some four billion dollars a year in expenditures on imported fuel. (Note: Prior to deregulation in October 2003, NNPC, then the sole importer of fuel, lost two billion dollars per year because it sold stock to retailers below purchase price. After October 2003, NNPC initially stopped subsidizing fuel sales, letting marketers import fuel to be sold at market prices. However, sources agree that NNPC is back in the business of subsidizing gasoline sales while it maintains a facade of deregulation by encouraging private marketers to import fuel that NNPC purchases at market price. NNPC then sells the fuel to marketers and retailers at a reduced price to ensure that those companies maintain a profit margin while holding consumer prices to informal caps set by the Department of Petroleum Resources. End Note.)

¶6. (C N/F) Otedola added that by cutting out the international traders, NNPC would also enhance the environment in which Nigeria's refineries could be restored and operated. Otedola said he believes international fuel trade "mafias" are behind the failure to bring Nigeria's refineries back on-line and to capacity. Otedola is convinced these traders arrange for the vandalization of crude oil feeder pipelines, which keep the refineries at Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna closed or under-capacity. He said the international traders generally receive at least one million dollars per shipload of fuel to Nigeria and have grown accustomed to the easy money Nigeria offers as long its refineries remain down.

¶7. (C N/F) As an example, Otedola described an arrangement the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) had with Sahara Energy for the provision of diesel to an emergency power generation plant in Abuja. He said that while a pipeline was under construction to deliver fuel to the main power plant,

NEPA paid some five billion dollars to Sahara over four years for diesel to the back-up plant. It was later discovered that NEPA had received only about one billion dollars worth of fuel, according to Otedola. Otedola said that he, too, was contracted to deliver diesel fuel to the plant on occasion; however, he petitioned the president to investigate the matter after becoming suspicious of NEPA's ongoing contract with Sahara and the fact that the pipeline for the power plant was never finished. He said his intervention led to an investigation that ultimately resulted in the cancellation of NEPA's contract with Sahara.

¶8. (C N/F) COMMENT: The allegation that international traders bilked NNPC of hundreds of millions of dollars is yet another example of the poor management of Nigeria's energy sector, and highlights the complex links between crude sales, fuel importation, refinery maintenance, and energy production here. Otedola is probably right in suggesting that long-standing sweetheart deals between the NNPC and a variety of fuel traders is keeping the system inefficient. That may also explain why the GON just can't seem to get its refineries running even after spending a billion dollars or more on maintenance contracts over the last four years. Otedola said he initially bid to purchase the Port Harcourt refinery offered for privatization, but he recently told President Obasanjo he will not invest in the refinery so long as NNPC purchases fuel from traders instead of negotiating directly with refineries in other countries and leasing ships itself to deliver fuel to Nigeria. It is not clear if Otedola's assumption that the international traders' stake in Nigeria's current fuel market is the main driver behind the country's refinery woes. But it is clear that the fundamentals of infrastructure security, interim supply stability, and transactional transparency must still be addressed if the GON is to be taken seriously about its efforts to deregulate and largely privatize Nigeria's downstream petroleum sector. END COMMENT. HINSON-JONES
Politics / Re: Nlc & Occupy Nigerian Plz Put Ur Advert. On The Air by nfmovement: 8:12am On Jan 11, 2012
thanks for your contribution because ur right
Politics / Occupy Nigeria Streets Chinua Achebe, Other Writers Declare Solidarity by nfmovement: 6:45am On Jan 09, 2012
#Occupy Nigeria Streets:
Foremost Nigerian Novelist Chinua Achebe, Other Writers Declare Solidarity

Foremost Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe and a group of Nigerian writers at home and abroad have signed a statement asking President Goodluck Jonathan and other political leaders to act immediately in order to avert the deterioration of the crisis in Nigeria.

The statement decried the escalation of sectarian violence, deplored "the state of lawlessness in certain parts of the nation" and described the removal of fuel subsidy by the Jonathan administration as ill-advised.

The writers asked President Jonathan to release his plans to address the scourge of terror and also to appoint competent officials to head the various security agencies.

Below is a full text of the statement:


Statement of Solidarity with the Nigerian People


We are troubled by the turn of events in Nigeria, and hereby call on President Goodluck Jonathan and the rest of the country’s political leadership to take immediate steps to tackle the state of lawlessness in certain parts of the nation and address the sense trepidation and rage that has reached dangerous levels within the Nigerian populace.

Nigeria is witnessing a new escalation of sectarian violence, culminating in explosions that have killed or seriously wounded scores of people at churches and other centers of worship and local businesses.

As a people who lost two million citizens in a civil war, Nigerians must bring an urgent sense of history to the gloomy events. The country’s leadership should not view the incessant attacks as mere temporary misfortune with which the citizenry must learn to live; they are precursors to events that could destabilize the entire country.

We applaud President Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in certain local government areas in four states. However, we have seen little indication that the country’s security and law enforcement agents are up to the task of protecting the lives and property of citizens in all parts of Nigeria.

Clearly, the sophistication and deadly impact of the terrorist attacks suggest an agenda to create widespread fear and, possibly, to foment anarchy or war. Mr. Jonathan has no greater duty than to ensure that Nigerians are safe wherever they live or visit within the country. He should demonstrate his recognition of that solemn duty, in our view, by doing the following:

(a) Outline both short and long term plans to comprehensively address the scourge of terror,
(b) Appoint competent and committed officials to head the various security agencies, and
(c) Serve as an agent to heal the many divisions plaguing Nigeria, and persuade all well-meaning people to enlist in the fight against festering violence.

Mr. Jonathan’s decision to remove fuel subsidies in the country at this time was ill-advised. Coming at the advent of the New Year, and barely a week after the gruesome Christmas Day attacks on worshippers, the policy has forced many Nigerian citizens to perceive his leadership as one that is both insensitive and possibly contemptuous of the mood of its people.

We stand with the Nigerian people who are protesting the removal of oil subsidy which has placed an unbearable economic weight on their lives. This action has clearly imposed an untenable and unfair burden on those segments of Nigerians who are already impoverished - subsisting on less than $2 a day. We call on Mr. Jonathan to immediately change course. By reverting to the old prices of petroleum products, Mr. Jonathan can work to diffuse tension in the country and exemplify the true servant leader who not only serves but also listens to his people. To insist on having his way, and to deploy state security and legal apparati to crush growing popular uprisings is to stamp on a highly valued tenet of democracy – the right to peaceful assembly – and to inadvertently promote greater violence in the country.

Mr. Jonathan’s administration has made a persuasive case that a few highly connected Nigerians have corruptly profited from fuel subsidy. The government should swiftly bring to justice those corrupt profiteers as well as the bureaucrats who aid and abet their unconscionable parasitic activities and economic sabotage.

We acknowledge President Jonathan’s recent announcement of 25% cut in the basic salaries of political office holders. But we believe that the move merely scratches the indefensible bloated salaries and allowances paid to Nigerian political officials. The president should also champion significant cuts in the huge cost of running the various tiers of government and the luxuries that have become the signature of those who ought to protect the commonwealth, serve the people, and not exploit them. Besides, the culture of corruption and impunity in official quarters constitutes a grave threat to national security and to the country’s effort to establish a democratic culture and meaningful economic development.

Nigeria needs a return to relative calm to enable its people, and the Jonathan administration in particular, to focus on the task of combating the incubus of corruption, poverty and home-grown terrorism.



Signed by



Chinua Achebe

Okey Ndibe

Nduka Otiono

Helon Habila

Akin Adesokan

Pius Adesanmi

Tess Onwueme

Obiora Udechukwu

Yinka Tella

Richard Ali

Chiji Akoma

Paul Ugor

Tolu Ogunlesi

Samantha Iwowo

Idowu Ohioze

Offiong Bassey


Chido Onumah

Bunmi Aborisade

Omolade Adunbi

Mahmud Obeamata

Mahmud Aminu

Nasr Kura

Gimba Kakanda

Obioma Nnaemeka

Sonala Olumhense

Ikhide Ikheloa

Isidore Okpewho

E.C. Osondu

Ogaga Ifowodo

Mike Nwosu

Ifeoma Okoye

Chimalum Nwankwo

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Ebenezer Obadare

Ahmed Maiwada

Madina Shehu

Hussein Abdu

Auwal Musa Rafsanjani

Politics / Re: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Al-Jazeera Interview On Fuel Subsidy Removal by nfmovement: 5:45am On Jan 09, 2012
Clueless woman.
Lets standup now and occupy all Nigerian Spaces Inch by Inch

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