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kossyablaze:
Chai dvllard Don finish us.... Watch how zombies would avoid this thread. Thank God for delivering me from zombieism

huh? you! when!! Kai thank God oooh this is a very big testimony!! hope others get delivered too but I doubt if ODEnka will be ever delivered! his zombieism is deep!

Zombies be like Nigerian Bureau of Statistics are full of ipod yoots!!

WOW UK university workers supports NLC , as they set to go on strike too!!! they are not happy with BUHARI!!!!
https://www.nairaland.com/3115386/uk-university-lecturers-set-go#45774262

Una don see say even for UK dem dey go strike !!! cos they dont tolerate RUBBISH!!!

University lecturers are to take part in a two-day national walkout later this month in an ongoing row over pay.
"Industrial action which impacts on students is never taken lightly, but staff feel that they have been left with no alternative."

The University and College Union (UCU) said members will stage strikes at UK universities on May 25 and 26.

Further industrial action will see staff working to contract from this point, which includes refusing to work overtime, set additional work or undertake voluntary tasks such as covering for colleagues.

The move is likely to cause disruption on campuses around the country.

The dispute has arisen following a pay offer of 1.1 per cent from the employer body, the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA), which the union has described as ‘an insult’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/05/09/university-lecturers-set-to-strike-over-paying-conditions/

The union said institutions “could afford to pay more” and that the latest offer does little to address the real terms pay cut of 14.5 per cent suffered by higher education staff since 2009.

Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU, said: “Members in higher education have sent a clear message to employers that, after six years of real-terms pay cuts amounting to 14.5 per cent, they will not tolerate a continued squeeze on their income.

"Industrial action which impacts on students is never taken lightly, but staff feel that they have been left with no alternative.

“A 1.1 per cent offer is an insult to the hard work and dedication of higher education staff, particularly in light of the 3 per cent average pay rise enjoyed by vice-chancellors this year.

“The ball is now in UCEA’s court, but the employers need to come back to the table with a much improved offer if they wish to avoid significant disruption to students in the coming months.”
pay, strike, pay, university, lecturers
University lecturers demand better paying conditions

The last time lecturers went on strike it was over paying conditions two years ago.

Around 60,000 staff in higher education have been balloted this time around so it could be anything up to that.

The walkouts are still pending negotiations so they could be cancelled if they reach an agreement.

A UCEA spokesman said: “Planning for any form of industrial action is disappointing for Higher Education (HE) institutions with one trade union on a path to try and cause disruption. The vast majority of staff in HE institutions understand the reality of the current environment and do not support action that could harm both their institutions and their students.

“A strike, following a properly conducted ballot, is entirely lawful but withdrawing labour is a breach of contract leaving HE institutions with no choice but to deduct full pay from any member of staff taking strike action. UCEA and the HE institutions are dismayed that the UCU has targeted students from the very outset of pay discussions.”

thunder fire you idiot!! but if na to travel to China economy no go shink abi!!

Appland:
your thought is one sided
Pls ask your self how many people are employed
Why will the Government increase electricity tariff and still remove subsidy?
Even if they increase the minimum wage do you think your 50,000 will have the same value with 18,000 in 3 years to come?
Common garri we bought 250 a paint is now selling 600 while rice is now selling 1500 a paint.
Mr man think

sorry Zombies don't think!! he is a zombie!!

where is our budget!!

20 mins to go!!! ON STRIKE WE STAND!! OR 80K MINIMUM WAGE SIMPLE!!! NO GOING BACK!! SOLIDARITY FOR FOREVER!!!(ZOMBIES QUOTE ME AND DIE )

Name checkers oya wetin be their names? they look like Northerners to me!!fulanis infact!!

Buhari and Apc show us our budget ooooh lalasticlala and mynd44!! this is serious!!

@budgit Zombies and Wailers!! Nigerians this is the questions we should be asking!!!

rubbish song! don't waste your MB! I guess it was not produced by Phyno's label

seunny4lif:
Yes and No
He can use his position to draw the chief of Staff and the president to what is going on there...

so you mean the chief of staff and the president don't even know what is going on in the country, that he is supposed to be in charge of? I guess you don't understand the implications and meanings of the statement that you made? do you?

seunny4lif:
Na wahala be this ooooh
Where are all the TIV warrors and where is David Mark
This is serious

David mark get army? abi which force is he in charge of? Is David mark the commander in chief of Nigerian armed forces?

idupaul:
Where are the Tiv warriors of old

some of them have gotten zombie jobs and are rice eaters, they prefer zombie job and rice like ODEnka the Zombie General of Nairaland so no hope!!

kudos to Buhari! Libyans invading omenka 's state !! smh. ARE THE PEOPLE OF BENUE NOT NIGERIANS?? omenka wake up and defend your people!! lalasticlala and mynd44 wetin dey happen? why are Nigerians dying in large numbers everyday yet our president is doing nothing!!

PLEASE someone should tell oby that wailers form has finished!! or firefire you still get some?

Beremx:
For the first time, i agree with Reno.

omenka you see, Beremx's sense don dey return small small,

Hmmmmm "Many Nigerians are presently jubilating not knowing that they are celebrating their oppressors. Many do not know that even Chinese companies don’t want yuan. They transact their businesses in dollar. The funniest part of this scenario is that Chinese foreign reserve is in dollars, not yuan, yet China want us to move part part of our foreign reserve to Yuan. What a contradiction! For the records, China, as at today, remain the largest holder of US bond in the international financial market. I stand to be corrected. "

In the words of Tomi Adetomiwa (2016), development is a culture and not a product. We can’t buy development no matter how much money we have or borrow. Today, some section of the country are jubilating that freedom has cometh. They are happy that God, through the republic of China, is about to deliver them from the formidable hegemony of United States of America (US). They are happy and they want everybody to be happy.
However, Iet me as a citizen of Nigeria say that I have an objection. I don’t just jubilate because people are jubilating. I censor why people jubilate before I choose to jubilate or walk away. Therefore, on the China-Nigeria forex deal, I am of the opinion that the media handlers of President Buhari are just taking the ignorance of the large population of Nigerians for granted and some who are well lettered to know the truth are not talking; apparently, they don’t want to offend some certain interests.
Let me say equivocally that nothing goes to the developing nations from developed nations free of charge. Any President taking foreign loan is not helping his people. That is the rule in international political economy. The more we borrow, the more pauperized we become; the more we subject our citizens to slavery and economic bondage; the more we subject the independent and sovereignty of our country to foreign encroachment.
Simply put, according to the empirically analyzed and well-critiqued Marxist Perspective to the study of international political economy, a foreign loan or foreign aide is defined as an instrument which the developed nations have consistently been using institutionally, to colonize or neo-colonize the developing nations. That means foreign loan is a tool being used by developed nations to colonize developing sovereign nations economically.
Consequently, I am saying without any fear or favour that I refused to be carried away by the current media conspiracy from the Nigerian presidency. China, like other western hegemonies, is not a Father Christmas. China want to borrow Nigerian government two billion dollars, but they want to give us in yuan and not the dollar itself. How sensible is that?
More also, let it be on record that China is not handing cash to Nigeria. What they want to do is what is called “service exchange” in international market; meaning that if we want to buy stove, we buy it from a Chinese company to be recommended by Chinese government and they pay the company on our behalf.
If we want to construct railway, they will construct it for us. All the equipments to be used are to be made in China. The contract must be executed by a Chinese firm. Chinese government is to pay the contractors. We are bound to award contracts to them. Non-Chinese firms can’t bid or compete to reduce the cost.
Also, as equally posited by a social commentator, Tomi Adetomiwa, Chinese government values the contract and determine the price. The implication of this is that they can sell something worth N300 for N300 and we don’t have a choice than to accept. The fact is that the $2billion loan is still in China. A dime will not leave their economy. The money remain with China. N1 will not enter Nigeria market from it.
Furthermore, the worst of it is that China want us to pay back the loan in dollars and not yuan. And we are to move part of our foreign reserve to Yuan, a currency that is manipulated openly by the Chinese government. Sometime ago, during the reign of Lamido Sanusi as CBN Governor, China sold us Yuan at 4 to a dollar, only to devalue their currency few weeks latter to 9 Yuan per $1.
Many Nigerians are presently jubilating not knowing that they are celebrating their oppressors. Many do not know that even Chinese companies don’t want yuan. They transact their businesses in dollar. The funniest part of this scenario is that Chinese foreign reserve is in dollars, not yuan, yet China want us to move part part of our foreign reserve to Yuan. What a contradiction! For the records, China, as at today, remain the largest holder of US bond in the international financial market. I stand to be corrected.
I also found out that the republic of China have more lobbyists in Washington DC, the capital of United States, than any other nation on the surface of earth, begging and pleading with Washington political gladiators to always make policies in their favour. Now, country people, how can such a country save us from the hegemony of American dollar? Why do we like to be pushed without questioning the oppressors that are masquerading as saviours?
The reality is that China cannot do anything against the interest of America in Nigeria. America weighs too much political power over China. China will continue to inflate the contract price, refuse to complete the project and deceive us further. Isn’t funny that the country (China) whose foreign reserve is domicile in dollar want us to change part of our reserve to yuan?
Lastly, I don’t blame Chinese leaders for trying to encroach Nigeria, I blame our leaders for not being smart enough. I blame those interested in media propaganda than facing the reality. On this note, I posit that only Nigeria can help Nigerians. The solution to the economic quagmires militating against Nigeria is not foreign loans. The more foreign loans we take the more poorer we become.
Nigerian government should implement true federalism system and make our market economy open and free in all ramifications. You cannot regulate and deregulate. I so submit.
Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye wrote in from Magodo, Lagos.
You can reach him via email: maxwell_adeleye@yahoo.com
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/04/14/nigeriachina-forex-deal-an-aide-or-a-bondage/

wetin Una have to say to this man
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AbuMaryam1:
Who is listening to Jonathanians?

lol so baraje is now a jonathanian?? Chai Zombies sef hahahaha

yawa don gas, Oya ZOMBIES over to you, I guess he is an ipod yoot!!!

One of the founding leaders of the All Progressives Congress and a former acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, recently spoke with journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on a wide range of state and national issues. Hammed Shittu was there and provides the excerpts:

Why have you remained silent on issues affecting the APC?
My silence was because I am an elder in the party and elders don’t just talk, particularly the ones that know what they are doing and I don’t believe in flippancy. You don’t get me talking because I want to remain focused. Secondly, and also because I have been busy doing too many things. You are all aware that APC is a new party and the party is a coalition of various political groups, which I happen to belong to one of them.

Therefore, as a senior citizen and elder of the party, I have been busy building the party together with the remaining of us, who are desirous of building a very formidable party. I have been busy, ensuring that we build bridges among the members, particularly between the elders and leaders.



It is not easy to come from various ideas to form a political party because our ideologies and focus about the country must be blended together as one to take Nigeria forward. While we are busy building, we must ensure that the structures are firm and we have gotten to a reasonably level. Now, I think we have gotten to a point, where we and Nigerians can assess and make comments.

The APC has also been silent on the travails of the senate president. Why is that?
Many of us have been surprised or taken aback that the party has not been living to expectations about the trial of the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria – living to expectation in terms of making the Senate President feel belonged and as part of the party, which is very important for any member let alone the calibre of the Senate President, who has sacrificed lot for the party. I have been trying to make the party realise that not only the senate president but everybody that contributed to the success of the party matters from the highest to the lowest hierarchy.

We have gotten to a level, where we have to be realistic and ensure that the right thing is done at the right time and in the right manner, more so from the fact that we belong to a group that is not very satisfied with the performance of the party, not only because the Senate President is currently going through a very pronounced political persecution, but because there are other cases and instances where we are not happy about the performance of our party.

A case in point is the recent rerun elections in Rivers State. You will agree with me that before and during the elections, the APC did not have the expected and desired presence of our party in Rivers State. With the volatile nature of the rerun election, some of us with our humble experiences expected the national presence of our party much more there. It is regrettable.

Today, we have counted about one 150 rerun elections both at the state and national levels across the country and our party, the APC has lost majority of the elections. Not because the party has lost popularity, but because of the lack of enough presence of the party in the various places where the elections were held. Politics is not technical but practical. If the APC decided to abandon its members at the middle of the election, you don’t expect magic from such action.

Politically, the party should be proud that the Senate President is from the APC. Even though if he was not wanted by some certain interests, he went into an election and won. The PDP episode with Tambuwal (former House of Representatives speaker) is still fresh in history. The PDP then didn’t throw the baby away with the bath water, knowing full well that such a move will be counterproductive.

It was well managed and he remained the speaker of the then PDP. Our party may loath the ways of PDP, but out of every bad situation and experiences, there are atoms of goodness and every visionary leader will separate the chaff from the grain and take what is good out of it. So it is not as if the Senate President has gone against his party. I was a witness of how our Senate President got the seat and I can tell as at the time we went for the election, the party had no candidate for the election. At the beginning, the party first made a statement that it had zoned the seat to the north central before all the intrigues that went into it.

Can you then assess the performance of your government at the centre?
I want to say there have been distractions. The Buhari-led administration is well intentioned. Lots of things went wrong before Buhari came in and to build is difficult. When there are lots of distractions, you will lose focus and the APC has lots of distraction created by the party itself. In line with the constitution of the country, we have three arms of government. These are the pillars that should hold the country’s fabrics together and if one of the pillars get jeopardised, what do you expect?
The senate president is the chairman of the legislative arm in Nigeria and he is not getting the support that he should get simply because some very few individuals thought they are more powerful than the party itself. As disorganised as PDP was, everybody was a member. It was because of the tradition of impunity that was creeping into the PDP that made us raise the alarm and that was why we left and you can see the consequences.

Now, the same scenario is creeping into the APC. We must sound a note of warning to President Buhari to shine his eyes. There are people in the party in the guise of reconciling people and say they are working for the success of the party while actually doing that for their own selfish interest. But it will lead them to nowhere. We would never romance impunity. President Buhari should be wary of them and play more politics now, he has gone into the house and has seen how bad it is; he has reorganised the house and what is left now is to consolidate on the reorganisation to build on the foundation.

Is your wing playing any role in the reported plan to form a new party in the country?
We also heard it just like you. But I have not entered into any alliance or gone into any meeting with anybody. So far, so good, APC is still on the ground but we want the president to shine his eyes as Nigerians would say but that cannot be done successfully except he plays politics.

Would you consider leaving the party if this alleged impunity continues?
Every politician or group has aspirations in any part of the world and not only in Nigeria. The time we were going into merger to become the APC, our aspiration was that the then government of PDP was not giving us that desired governance and Nigerians were suffering. We want to be part of the solution to the problem to make life easy for our people. But how far have we then achieved those aspirations because there is nothing to show on ground now? Some will say our group has the senate president but he has not been in peace. Since the coming of Obasanjo in 1999, no senate president has had dry, blatant, politically tyrannical and open persecution as Saraki.

What’s your reaction to the trial of Saraki at the CCT?
The case of Saraki has not followed due process and the rule of law. It was the due process that was missing in the case of Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and he was discharged but not acquitted. So why is the Saraki case different? So as regards whether we are comfortable with where we are and whether we are joining other groups, every politician has aspirations about the development of his people and if you cannot achieve it in one place, you go to another place.
It doesn’t mean that I am a political prostitute but that I am a principled person and will not stop until I get what I want, which in this case is good governance, equality, democratic dividends for my people. Impunity, lawlessness, lack of due process are not what formed APC. With the intervention of some leaders like us, that party will continue to thrive, but for it not to go the way of PDP, the president must play politics.

Is it true that Saraki was still receiving salary after leaving office as Kwara governor?
Immediately Saraki left office like any other civil servant, who worked for it, he begins to enjoy his pension and the vouchers that pay those benefits began immediately and the banks still referred to it as salaries. One of the major goals of this trial was to create sensation and media hype. We had barely gone out of the court that day when the media started calling for his resignation. Like you read in the papers, this morning (Sunday), there have been plans for those people to organise protest against Saraki in Abuja, Lagos and Ilorin.

But I want to assure that if that happens, we will see mother of counter protests to demonstrate that the Senate President has followers. Hitherto, APC had only three states in the north central and with dint of hard work, Saraki delivered the zone one 100 per cent. So if some people hide under the trial of Saraki to want to destabilise this government, then we won’t sit down and look and that is not a threat.

Nobody has called for his resignation and the senators have reaffirmed their support for him. But if they are still hell bent on removing him, the worst will now happen because we may have the PDP taking over the Senate Presidency and that of its deputy. Maybe we should practice it for the first time and see how it would be.
We have heard there are plans to destabilise the political root of the senate president here at home by some APC leaders at the national level, but we are ready for it, not by violence, but we want to show them that this is an area that can’t be penetrated. We are one and will remain one. If they do, you we shall see the consequences.

Is this coalition of strange bedfellows responsible for APC’s problems?
In politics, there are no strange bedfellows. There is only a thin line between the Democrat and the Republican in the US. The only thing is that when the situation comes to play, they demonstrate more experience and more maturity. The problem has not been that of coalition of strange bedfellows. What we do was to come together and salvage Nigeria and if we have other motives, it has started playing out especially to some of us that can read between the lines because the scenes and scenarios we have seen is not for President Buhari and that is why he should play more politics. The fact is what we have agreed to do, and we are still planting the ideologies of the APC but people, based on their selfish ideas are smuggling the ideas of 2019 through the back door. That is rubbish!

The National Assembly has been involved in some kind of altercation with the executive as regards details of the 2016 budget. Is this healthy?
For the very first time, the National Assembly returned the budget with about 30 per cent less. They also expunged certain areas and reduced the amount for certain areas. The area I would talk on is that of some railway project that was also expunged. When I was the chairman of the Nigerian railway corporation, I discovered that some structures of the corporation needed to be revitalised completely. Construction of new rails is not now. Until we get the existing structures performing again and that will cost a lot of money running into billions of naira.
So the expunged new railway line from Calabar to Lagos is not a priority but boosting food, agriculture, fighting insurgency and so on. So if the senate can do that, I expect the president to call the National Assembly together in a round table and discussed with them. Not as some are saying that he should call their bluff. He should take time to study the budget properly and iron out whatever place he is not clear about because the budget is that of the people.

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Today, we have counted about one 150 rerun elections both at the state and national levels across the country and our party, the APC has lost majority of the elections. Not because the party has lost popularity, but because of the lack of enough presence of the party in the various places, where the elections were held. Politics is not technical but practical. If the APC decided to abandon its members at the middle of the election, you don’t expect magic from such action
source - http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/14/baraje-apc-has-failed-to-provide-leadership/

hahahaha the year is almost half and we are still on this?? Chai Nawaa ooooh!! e get as e b ooh, common budget bubu no fit prepare?? incompetence of the highest order!!

ffggHundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead being used to fund a witch-hunt against opposition politicians, it is being claimed.

Britain has committed to spending £860 million in foreign aid to Nigeria, which now boasts Africa’s largest economy, to help support the country’s efforts to crush Boko Haram terror group, which has been responsible for a spate of outrages, including the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.

But Western officials are now raising concerns that the government of the country’s recently elected leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, is misusing the funds to persecute political opponents.

Since Mr Buhari came to power last July, a number of prominent members of the former ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have been arrested and imprisoned without charge. Among those detained was the party’s official spokesperson.

•  Nigeria: a nation in fear of becoming the next Rwanda


Most of the arrests have been sanctioned by the government-controlled Economic and Financial Crime Commission, which was set up to tackle corruption and receives funding from the Department for International Development.

But while Mr Buhari’s government continues to use British aid money to target his political opponents, it is proving less effective at tackling the Islamist-run Boko Haram terrorist group.

Much of the aid Britain provides to Nigeria is aimed at helping the country’s security forces to become more effective at tackling Boko Haram, which boasts of its links with Islamic State (Isil) and achieved international notoriety two years ago after kidnapping 276 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria two years ago.

•  Boko Haram demands '$50m ransom' for release of kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls 

Scores of British military personnel – including members of the Special Forces – are based in Nigeria helping to train the military to tackle Boko Haram. But despite Mr Buhari’s pledge during last year’s general election campaign that he would make tackling Boko Haram one of his top priorities, there is growing concern among Western officials that the Nigerian military is failing to take effective action against the terrorists.

This has resulted in Boko Haram now being regarded as the world’s deadliest terrorist organisation, responsible for more deaths than Isil. There are now reports that the group is trying to train kidnapped children to act as suicide bombers.


President Muhammadu Buhari is currently on a visit to China   CREDIT: WANG ZHAO/AFP
“This is a scandal in the making," explained a senior U.S. official. "There is no doubt the growing strength of Boko Haram is because President Buhari is far more interested in settling scores with his political opponents that concentrating his energy on defeating terrorists,”  “The result is that Nigeria is starting to look more and more like a police state while Boko Haram just goes from strength to strength.”

•  The Boko Haram suicide bomber who survived her deadly mission

Another Western diplomat added: “If Buhari was serious about fighting corruption he would be focusing all of his efforts on targeting corruption that is impeding Nigeria’s ability to focus its efforts on tackling Boko Haram.”

Accusations that Nigeria is abusing British aid will add to the growing controversy over Downing Street’s commitment to spend 0.7 percent of GDP on the foreign aid budget. Last week the Telegraph reported that DFID was under pressure to cancel £200 million of foreign aid to Tanzania following concerns over a widely condemned election.

This resulted in Dr Liam Fox, the former Defence Secretary, accusing the government of “spraying money around” simply to achieve the 0.7 per cent target.

Western officials have expressed concern about Mr Buhari’s increasingly autocratic style of government since he came to power last year. A retired major-general, Mr Buhari, 73, previously headed a brutal military dictatorship following a coup in December 1983, which lasted until he was overthrown by another coup in 1985.

Now political opponents claim he is returning to his old dictatorial ways, abusing British aid meant to improve Nigeria’s ability to tackle Boko Haram to consolidate his hold on power.

Apart from the concerns over British aid, American officials are also angry that  $2.1 billion of aid given to the Nigerian military to tackle Boko Haram has not been properly accounted for.  

Mr Buhari’s claim that he is winning the war against Boko Haram - recently claimed the group no longer poses a serious threat - has been undermined by recent revelations the Nigerian authorities have tried to cover up the fact that hundreds more schoolchildren have been abducted by Boko Haram.

Human rights activists have no confirmed that around 400 women and children were abducted last year by militants from the Nigerian town of Damasak.

It is now believed that some of these children may have been trained as suicide bombers. U.S. counter-terrorism experts say at least 105 women and girls trained by Boko Haram have taken part in suicide attacks since June 2014.
Source - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/nigeria-using-uk-aid-to-persecute-presidents-political-foes-rath/?%20

AntiWailer:
Tot PDP said it was because of 2 Billion only.


bunch of eediots

are you sure you read it well??