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atlwireles:
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Provide a source for your lies, so you can be disgraced as usual. Your APC lies don't work here anymore.

This is the problem with our current crop of youths - super lazy and slow bunch. I will tell you my source:

1. The average monthly production of crude oil from Nigeria is public data (you can source that from countless places including CBN's website, EIA's website, etc).
2. The average daily cost of crude oil from 1940 till date is equally public data.

Now, go to excel, and run some numbers. Do something useful, source out data and run some numbers - use your brain!!!

Collynzo9:
How Buhari Skewed PTF Projects in Favor of His Northern Zone- By Afenifere

The Abacha regime created a parallel government through the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Major General Muhammed Buhari. Nothing else typifies the marginalization of the Yoruba than the lopsidedness of the projects carried out by the PTF. Figures from PTF Situation Reports (Vol. 2 Dec. 98) show that the PTF carried on as if there was no South West.

Of all the roads rehabilitated by the PTF, only 1984.5 kilometres of roads representing 10.84 per cent were carried out in the South West; from where the bulk of the PTF revenue came since the zone consumes over 60 per cent of refined petroleum products. All the Southern States had 4,440.43 kms or 24 per cent of road rehabilitation as against 13,870.47 kms or 76 per cent in the Northern States zone three comprising the North-West States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara had a lion share of 5020 kms or 27.42 per cent because the Fund’s Chairman, Buhari and the military dictator Sani Abacha were from there; zone four comprising the North-East States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe picked 23.48 per cent. This is the zone where Salihijo Ahmed, the late Chief Executive of Afri-Project Consortium APC, the sole consultants that supervised all PTF projects came from.

Figures in other sectors were more scandalous. For instance, under the National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP), the South West had zero allocation in the tertiary programme, while the North picked 100 per cent. In the vocational programme, the South West had zero while the North had 97 per cent. In the primary area, the South-West had zero against 88 per cent for the North and in the secondary area, it was zero for the South-West and 86 per cent for the North.

The health sector is similar. For the Teaching Hospitals, the South-West had zero while the North had 62 per cent. For the Specialist Hospitals, it was zero for the South-West and 71 per cent for the North; in General/State Hospitals the Yoruba had nothing while the North had 56 per cent for health clinics, it was zero for the South-West against the North’s 100 per cent.

Under the food supply summary, the Southwest had 7.26 per cent compared with 83 per cent for the North, Buhari’s zone having 60.54 per cent to itself.

This is why I think that OP and his crew are devilish. Maybe TAN means saTAN after all.

Let me help you make this list of PTF interventions, all according to your writeup:

1. Road Rehabilitation Program - 18,310 Kms of road covered
2. National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Program - Universities, Unity Schools and FMCs covered
3. Vocational Program
4. The Healthcare Program (Teaching Hospitals, Specialist Hospitals and General Hospitals)
5. Food supply Program

Now, tell me how many kilometers of road have been rehabilitated in GEJ's tenure of massive oil windfall. By the way, you were wrong that SE/SW got zero in the NHERP, Vocational Program etc. Either you've never lived in the SE/SW or you're out-rightly being deceptive. I lived in the SE and SW during the PTF era. While you're at it, tell me about GEJ's programs in rehabilitating our universities or hospitals for that matter.

Mind you, oil sold for about $22/bbl adjusted for inflation in PTF's time and has traded around $100/bbl during GEJ's time. Talk about completing squandering and destroying the future of a nation of 170m.

During Buhari's time as head-of-state (Dec. 1983 - Aug. 1985), total accrual from sales of crude was $69.95B adjusted to 2014 dollars. During Abacha + Abdusalami's times, the country recorded a total of $88.6B in crude sales in 2014 dollars. PTF under Abacha + Abdusalami got on average the equivalent of 15% of the national budget. In GEJ's time, the country has recorded $484.2B so far in crude sales in 2014 dollars.

$69.95B + 15%*$88.6B = $83,240,000,000. This is all the country has earned directly under Buhari ($69.95B as president, $13.29B as PTF chair)
$484,200,000,000 - This is what the country has earned under Jonathan.

I think OP and all Jonathanians are wicked and devilish. This man has squandered so much resources and taken corruption to another height. We have never seen oil price this high in a stretch of time, yet we have never been this confused about the state of our Excess Crude Account (ECA), Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and Foreign Reserves. I challenge OP to list what Jonathan has done for the SE and SW, and let's compare that to how much the country earned in Jonathan's time.

I lived in SE and SW Nigeria during the PTF time and I can attest to the improvement in the quality of healthcare and education that was as a direct intervention of PTF even though OIL was at a RECORD LOW throughout the PTF era. During PTF days, oil averaged $22/bbl (in 2014 dollars). In Jonathan's time, we have averaged nearly $100/bbl (in 2014 Dollars).

Jonathan is a failure and a big scam. OP and his crew know that Nigerians are too lazy to dig deep, run some numbers and unravel the truth behind Jonathan and the rot in his time. God, Nigeria and posterity have given Jonathan so much, in terms of opportunities, record oil price, record production volumes etc. Yet, the clueless one had squandered all of these in a combined chain of outright 'ordinary stealing' and mismanagement.

PTF under Buhari did way better for Nigeria than GEJ has done - period.

The US is projected to have its fastest economic growth in more than a decade in 2015 on the back of low oil price and strong job growth. The drop in oil price is adding nearly $12B monthly to the US economy. Talk about one man's meat being another man's poison.

Nigeria's new budget benchmark is $65/bbl of oil and Brent is already at $67. How about just moving the benchmark to $50 and cutting the massive spending in the national assembly and the presidency? Cut spending!!!

Lastly, as if I had a premonition, just before this current oil price rout, I dug in and discovered that Nigeria has made as much money from sales of crude oil in President Jonathan's administration as Yaradua + Obasanjo+Abdusalami+Abacha combined on the back of extremely high oil prices. I'm still waiting to hear why we don't have at least a $150B sovereign wealth fund.

nationwide1:
One question that requires a simple answer is did he commit the said crime? Stop being evasive by using the ploy of insult.

It's the police's Jon to take him to court and the courts to determine. You're already assuming he did it based on Okiro's statement - even more shameful

nationwide1:
Posts I have read so far have further confirmed my conclusion that both APC and PDP are the same - greedy and hypocrite. How can people in their normal senses begin to heap abuse on Okiro because he says Osowore committed rape and jumped bail? Yes, Osowore is doing a great job. But does that erase all his past crimes such as jumping bail (if at all he did)? Is he not supposed to go to the table of criticism with clean hands? Those of you who want to crucify Okiro, what if the victim was your sister or wife? Would you have looked for justice? If our youths can be so hypocritical, then where is our future?

I think you're the one being senseless here. Sowore has visited Nigeria countless times since then and he hasn't been arrested and prosecuted even with Okiro's clout as former IG. Okiro is the shameless fool here for going this low. This is disgusting and stinks to high heavens. If he is seeking relevance with GEJ, there are certainly more honorable ways of doing this.

My point in the post is this - OPEC's action is coming a bit too late. Less than a decade ago, the technology for shale extraction was simply too new for exhaustive testing/fiddling and the oil price didn't support this sort of fiddling with technology. The high oil price between 2008 and now had allowed the US to push the limits of the technologies in shale extraction. In this period, we drilled nearly 8,000 horizontal wells in the Bakken (North Dakota) alone and most of the wells are about 10,000 ft deep and another 10,000 ft in the horizontal direction. Over the years, the cost of drilling these wells has shrunk from $15m per well to $7m and some producers are reporting less. The technology is there, the resource is there and the innovators have tested the oil. The part of driving production costs down to improve margins is certainly an easier part. That's what OPEC is missing.

Now, the key is this - how many OPEC nations will survive with oil at <$50? Maybe a handful but the rest, and Nigeria leads this pack will feel the brunt - big time. And if the US finally innovates its way to profitability at $50 or less crude, $50 will become the new norm. Mind you, cheap oil is extremely beneficial to the US economy. Already, economists are projecting that the current drop in oil price has injected an equivalent $75B to the US economy already.

The losers in this OPEC battle will be Nigeria, Russia (everybody wants to screw Russia at this time) and possibly countries like Venezuela, Brazil (with Petrobras' debt burden), etc. Unfortunately for Nigeria, it doesn't look like we saved enough for the rainy days.

OPEC is testing the resilience of the people of the United States. One thing I've learnt over the years is this: When you push the US to the wall, they fight back by innovating. Yes, production from shale is costly but the cost has significantly dropped over the years and is continuing to drop. It won't be long and we would be able to economically produce oil&gas from shale at less than $40. Push them further and see this number drop even more. The resource is there - don't expect Americans to fold their hands and retire to their rooms because of dwindling price - there is still a lot of room to innovate and bring cost of production down. This is what is going to happen eventually and when this happens, I feel sorry for countries like Nigeria that already depend on oil for nearly 80% of their budget.

I hope OPEC knows what it is doing...

OPEC decided to keep the production target intact, a decision that has now dragged down crude oil price to a 4-year low of $69.05 for WTI and $72.58 for Brent. Nigeria's Bonny Light crude oil sells close to Brent price. Brent has slumped from a high of $115.00 in June 2014, shedding nearly 38% in the process.

At $72.91, Brent is selling below the Nigeria's 2015 budget benchmark of $73.00 - creating the possibility of a further reduction in the benchmark and downward drag in the national budget. Continued downward slide of oil prices could put additional pressures on the Naira-Dollar exchange rate, dragging it to N200/USD before year end.

These are not good times, and coupled with the reckless financial spending of politicians during election periods, we could be heading for a big economic calamity!

Just my thoughts.

Throwing out numbers again - this administration will never cease to amaze me.

Couple of questions for Aganga: When he says 36%, is he referring to ROI computed in naira or ROI in US$? Last I checked, you could get up to 15% from simply investing in Nigerian govt's bonds - that's 15% ROI straight off the bat. This 15% alone would put Nigeria in the top 10 countries for ROI even though this is a negative thing for the country. What is the foreign currency fluctuation and how does that eat into the 36%? It is nonsensical to simply throw out these numbers and hope (rightly so) that Nigerians are too lazy to run numbers themselves and figure these things out.

My take is that Aganga has a very low opinion about Nigerians and most likely thinks Nigerians are morons who could be fed anything and they would swallow hook, line and sinker. Otherwise, why would he continue to throw out warped and misleading numbers? These numbers need to be properly qualified to make any sense.

Nigeria's electorate by numbers. Isn't it interesting how charts help accentuate trends, correlations and cluster behaviors? Interesting pop-ups:

1. Combined South East + South South registered voters make up 24% of total voters which is less than the 26% for North West alone.

2. Combined North West + South West voters make up 45% of total registered voters, greater than combined South South + South East + North Central voters which add up to 40% of voters.

I'm still trying to figure where the key battleground states are.

IGBOSON1:
^^^@Bolded: Did you factor in the outrageous annual recurrent expenditure in each years national budget? I think the GEJ admin met it at about 75%, and they've been reducing it year-on-year to the current level of about 68%.....it's not something you can cut drastically just like that!

I only asked a question - haven't come to any conclusions yet.

atlwireles:
Your graphic chart says too little. You need to provide your monthly production averages and prices, let's do our own comparison.

Doing that defeats the whole purpose of putting all these in charts. Do you really want me to a table of monthly production data and crude prices from 1993?

To arrive at these numbers, I took average monthly production (pretty fine data resolution) and calculated how much dollars volumes we sold each year. For adjustment for inflation, I used 2.5% annual $ inflation rate. To put inflation adjustment in perspective, $1.00 in 1999 is equivalent to $1.44 in 2014. When adjusted for inflation, the numbers are $488.8B vs. $594B for Jonathan vs. Yaradua+Obj+Abdusalami+Abacha combined. The numbers are what they are because oil price has risen almost 7-8 folds during this period, nearly an order of magnitude increase. In addition to price increase, Nigeria's crude oil output has also increased. I am hoping we can start asking tough questions, we'd continue to be hoodwinked. My question again is simple: even with 2.5% annual inflation adjustment, the numbers are $488.8b vs $594b. Does the investment in Nigeria in the past 5 years add up to ~$500B?

As Nigerians going into the 2015 elections, are we asking the right QUESTIONS? Are we demanding appropriate accountability from past and current leaders commensurate with the quantum of resources at their disposal? I dug out some numbers recently to do a more representative (apple-to-apple) analysis of the performance of past and present Nigerian administrations. My data sources are (1) The Nigerian Central Bank, (2) the US EAI, (3) OPEC and (4) Other online data sources. Take a close at the charts I generated from the data (there are 5 charts) and let's start demanding real answers!

In just 5 years, Jonathan's administration has generated as much crude oil sales as all 16 years of Yaradua, Obasanjo, Abdusalami and Abacha's administrations combined (16 years combined) in unadjusted numbers. This comes to $470B vs $489B in unadjusted numbers or $488.8B vs $594B after adjustment for inflation.

This is so sickening - that we are fighting over rights and recognition like this. The solution to this problem is simple:

1. Set up hospitals to be run like corporate organizations (a la US style). Appoint an overall Chief Executive (or executive director). This person will be responsible for running the organization, and managing its people (doctors, nurses, pharmas, patients, etc) and resources (funds, budgets, donations, etc). To qualify for this position, you only need to demonstrate ability/capability to manage people and resources, and this can come by a combination of management experience, and a degree in business (MBA) or health administration (MBA-HA). Such qualified persons could be doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or persons with business degree. Infact, someone with an engineering degree, an MBA, and experience working strategy for the health sector could as well qualify.

2. Set up a second career ladder - the technical ladder, and define the summit for each career path. Doctors can start as residents and rise all the way to a 'Principal medical consultant' status, and there does not have to be one PMC in an organization. Similarly, nurses could have their career ladder that could go all the way to a 'Principal nursing officer' etc. At the summit of each profession, the recognition should be similar.

3. The issues of consulting is plain stupid. Anyone can be a consultant, the only difference is in the actual work played. A consulting doctor treats patients. I have seen consulting pharmacists as wells. Nurse practitioners (after getting a professional graduate degree (M.S. and/or Ph.D. in nurse practitioning)) can also become professional consultants providing expert services in nursing and advanced health care.

Finally, frankly I have a lot of respect for doctors (I have tons of doctor friends, my younger brother is almost done with med school, and I almost became one but thanks to God, I stood up against my parents and insisted I was going to study engineering and not medicine which they wanted). But I think they are constantly dealing with some measure of complex. No one is planning to take away the 6 years you spent in Uni, and maybe 3 additional years in residency. Pharmas also spend considerable time in Uni+residency. Stay focused on building yourselves: expand your horizon, learn as much as you can, improve, go to conferences, do some research, write and present scientific papers - do everything you can to be world renowned. Then you'd have all the respect you deserve. Getting a piece of degree from the derelict Universities in Nigeria means you still have a lot more work to prove yourself - go out there and do it, and stop battling for paper-degree-based recognition.

It would help quite a bit if you could add some pricing to the designs. Something like pricing for a base model. That'd help give some context to the designs and make them more exciting/persuasive.

How much would it cost to clear a 2006 Nissan Armada shipped from Houston on Hoegh lines? The ship is already on its way to Lagos.

Hey Femmy, how much would it cost to clear a 2006 Nissan Armada? It will be shipped from Houston via Hoegh Shipping. Thanks.

Just re-sent the email. Maybe you should also check your spam box.

I sent an email to your box - no response. Can you confirm your email address? I may be interested in this.

Dialogue 1: Bringing corruption to its Knees...

Corruption is endemic and has eaten deep into the fabric of our society, spreading from the public space into our private lives. Kick-backs, contract inflation, bribery, exam malpractice, etc - let's discuss how Nigeria can bring corruption to its knees.

Happy dialogue.

First, I will like us, as concerned Nigerians, to use this forum to start a series of public policy debates that could ultimately form a set of frameworks for policy formulation and implementation.

We would discuss (1) Corruption (2) The Constitution (3) Tax Policies (4) National Security (5) National Infrastructural Development (7) Education and Technology (8.) Ethics and morality (9) Healthcare and (10) Engines of Economic Growth (SME, etc). And each would be a stand-alone topic.

Over the period of this dialogue, I will collect the most interesting suggestions and put them together into a (or set of) policy document that will be put out there for Nigerian political leaders.

Sometimes, it is easier for us (on the outside) to see things better than those right in the middle of it.

Since this is expected to be serious, I will ask for sound and sensible contributions, devoid of tribal, religious, sectional or any other form of biased sentiments.

Thanks!

I used to think corruption was Nigeria’s biggest problem, but I’m starting to doubt that. Every time I probe into one of the many issues this country is encountering, at the core I find the same phenomenon: the widespread celebration of mediocrity. Unrebuked underachievement seems to be the rule in all facets of society. A governor building a single road during his entire tenure is revered like the next Messiah; an averagely talented author who writes a colourless book gets sponsored to represent Nigerian literature overseas; and a young woman with no secretarial skills to speak of gets promoted to the oga’s office faster than any of her properly trained colleagues.
Needless to say the politician is probably hailed by those awaiting part of the loot he is stealing; the writer might have got his sponsorship from buddies he has been sucking up to in hagiographies paid for by the subjects; and the young woman’s promotion is likely to be an exchange for sex or the expectancy of it. So some form of corruption plays a role in all of these examples.
But corruption per se does not necessarily stand in the way of development. Otherwise a country like Indonesia—number 118 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, not that far removed from Nigeria’s 139—would never have made it to the G-20 group of major economies. An even more serious obstacle to development is the lack of repercussions for underachievement. Who in Nigeria is ever held accountable for substandard performance?
Since I came here, I have been on a futile search for a stable internet connection that does what it promises. I started with an MTN FastLink modem (I consider the name a cruel joke), and then I moved on to an Etisalat MiFi connection (I regularly had to keep myself from throwing the bloody thing against the wall), and now I am trying out Cobranet’s U-Go. I shouldn’t have bothered: equally crap. And everyone knows this. They groan and mutter and tweet about it. But still, to my surprise, no one calls for a class-action suit against those deceitful providers.
A one-day conference I attended last year left me equally puzzled. Organisation, attendance and outcome left a lot to be desired, if you ask me. But over cocktails, after the closing ceremony, everyone congratulated each other over the wonderful conference—that started two hours late, of which the most animated part was undeniably lunch, and in which not a single tangible decision had been made. This left me wondering whether we had attended the same event.
I thought these issues to be unrelated at first, but gradually I came to see the connection. Nigeria is the opposite of a meritocracy: you do not earn by achieving. You get to be who and where you are by knowing the right people. Whether you work in an office, for an enterprise or an NGO, at a construction site or in government, your abilities hardly ever are the reason you got there. Performing well, let alone with excellence, is not a requirement, in fact, it is discouraged. It would be too threatening: showing you’re more intelligent, capable or competent than the ‘oga at the top’ (who, as a rule, is not an overachiever either) is career suicide.
It is an attitude that trickles down from the very top, its symptoms eventually showing up in all of society, from bad governance to bad service to bad craftsmanship.
Where excellence meets no gratification, what remains to be celebrated is underachievement. That is why it is not uncommon to find Nigerians congratulating each other with substandard results. It is safer to cuddle up comfortably in shared mediocrity than to question it, since the latter might also expose your own less than exceptional performance. Add to this the taboo of criticising anyone senior or higher up and it explains why so many join in the admiration of the emperor’s new clothes.
I have been writing this column for the last year, and after ten months I realised my angles were getting more predictable and my pieces less edgy. I figured newcomers do not remain newcomers forever and therefore decided to round up the ‘Femke Becomes Funke’ series this month, a year after it started. Ever since I announced the ending, tweeps have been asking me to change my mind and in comments on the columns and through my website I get songs of praise that make me feel my analyses of Nigerian society are indispensable. If I had no sense of self-criticism, I might be tempted to reconsider my decision to discontinue the series and start producing second-rate articles. Who would point this out to me if I did?
The hardest thing to do in Nigeria is to continue to realise there is honour in achievement and pride in perfection. I imagine the frustration of the many Nigerians who do care for their work, who take pride in their outcomes and who feel the award is in a job well done. When you know beforehand that excellence will not be rewarded, you are bound to do the economically sane thing and limit your investments to accomplishing the bare minimum. This makes Nigeria a pretty cumbersome place for anyone striving for perfection.

Talk to Femke on Twitter: @femkevanzeijl

This question has been bothering me and I'll like everyone to chip in their thoughts:

We've heard Nigerians quickly rise in defense of their pastors whenever there is a perceived attack on them. The common line of defense is the ever fresh words - 'Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm'. Unfortunately, these defenders forget that when David wrote the hymn, in the book of Chronicles, the anointed mentioned here were the Children of Israel and not a select few priest (or men of God). God's anointed in this sense are all of us, called to the heavenly kinship that Christ bought for us when he died on the cross. We are all citizens of the new Israel and by extension are all equally anointed of the Lord.

However, for the sake of argument, I've always wondered: In the eyes of God, who between President Jonathan and the Pastors of the different churches is higher up in the hierarchy of the anointing. In my opinion, the seat of the Presidency of Nigeria carries the highest anointing on the land. There is no one, in the eyes of God, who should be more anointed than whoever occupies the seat of the presidency. Even in biblical times, the kings were the ones who actually got anointed and who sat in authority over the children of Israel. That hasn't changed and in every nation, the king/president still maintains this superior position in the eyes of God.

If this is the case, why is it acceptable to abuse the person of the President and rain curses on him everyday for his acts of omission and commission in governance, but it is an abomination to point out the ills/morally wrong doings of our so called men-of-God?

I'm just wondering out loud and before y'all start to pour curses and abuses on me (oh, and your curses won't touch me cos I'm also God's anointed -" Touch not my anointed", I am a Christian who simply believes that God's anointing is not set aside for a select few - we are all equally anointed and richly blessed by our Lord Jesus and have been commissioned to go out there and preach his gospel to the ends of the world. As such, no one person receives more measure of the anointing than the other. The only person with potentially more anointing is whoever sits on the presidency of Nigeria and at this time, it's President Jonathan.

blink182: Poorly written essay with haphazard idea presentation within paragraphs.

Seriously? You need to go back to school. This piece will get published anywhere. Nigerians will always find a way to just say thrash.

God bless you, Sowore! There are people who still believe in a better Nigeria and we'll continue to fight for the cause with you.

I got this from a friend today and I thought it is really informative:

I have been doing a lot of thinking
and I have come up with some Nigerian Christianese terms used by
tongue talking, bible bashing Christians and I am ashamed I have used
some of them too. Everyday I am learning and unlearning some things
about the basics of the gospel. So here are some of them and feel free
to add some more:

1) " Touch not my annointed": meaning church leaders can't be held
accountable for their misdeeds. ( Try speaking against Daddy GO,
Bishop and their members would rain fire on you).

This is one of the most abused scriptures in Naija, it is taken from
Psalm 105:15. However this Psalm is talking about David praising God
and recounting how God led them out of Egypt and protected them during
their 40 year Journey into the promised land.


2) " I have a discerning spirit": ability to judge people without
really getting to know them for yourself.

3) "I feel led to pray for you": I think you are about to make the
biggest mistake of your life or biggest mess up.

I wonder what happened to the scripture where Apostle Paul encourages
us to pray for each other, and encourage each other with spiritual
songs, psalms and hymns. The next time I hear a friend tell me this,
that friendship is questionable. It means that friend does not care
about me and only prays for me when he/she "feels led".
However I do believe there are particular times God presses it upon
our heart to pray for people, but I do go around telling them. I just
pray for them simple.

4) "Sow into my life" : Hmmm I am flat broke and I need money."


5) "God will provide": Even though I have the means to help you, I am
not willing to part with my money.

6) " I am on the mountain" : another term for fasting and indicating
that your spiritual life is no way as great as mine".

7) "I am believing God": Ok another term some people use to cover up
their doubts. Hoping that if they tell enough people, it would
convince God that they have enough faith for the miracle they are
trusting Him for.

What do y'all think?

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'To Build', 'Set to', 'Poised to', MOU this and MOU that. Shut up and work. We want to read - 'FG commissions...', 'ABC refinery with ijk bbl/d comes on stream...', 'XYZ power station feeds ABC MW to national grid...', ' ABC university develops XYZ electronic device that will compete with similar product in China', etc. That is what we want to hear! We've been hearing MOUs and their likes since the days of Sani Abacha! Please, spare us the rhetoric and get down to work. Then come back and announce your successes so we can congratulate you and celebrate as a nation! And please stop wasting government resources on paid nairaland propagandists - they have infiltrated this community with their government-resources backed power to drum the rhetorics into our ears. We are tired! Let us celebrate substance for once! Please give us something substantial to celebrate! haba, is this too much to ask?