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Nigeria has had four elected presidents since independence whose individual achievements no matter how controversial they are, are far better and cannot be compared to that of President Goodluck Jonathan. Starting from Chief Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (16th January 1966 – 1st October 1963), to Shehu shagari (1st October 1979 – 31st December 1983), then Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (29th May 1999 – 29th May 2007) and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua  (29th May – 5th May 2010).
President Goodluck Jonathan has been president for approximately five years. I would not say that for these years that he has done nothing. Saying that would mean exaggerating the scenario, but the truth is, his achievements do not in any way match up the weight of resources and strength within his disposal. Don’t be deceived by the recent fall in Brent crude oil price. His administration is the richest since independence yet the most under-achieved. Yes, assessments of the key sectors of national life under President Jonathan shows that the president has not in any way performed up to expectation.
.massive stealing of public. Funds
.massive killing of innocent. Nigerians
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We thank God that (PDP)have. Goneforever

I have always wished and prayed earnestly that the easy wealth that has kept Nigeria from attaining the greatness it is endowed with should be done away with. In recent years, as I came to realize the reasons for advancement and development of nations, I have always wished that something would happen to our petroleum resources to jolt the nation into practical thinking and awakening to the techniques and realities that make modern economies excel.

Sincerely, I believe that very soon, sustainable alternative to oil will be found, such that within months even water will have more usefulness than crude oil. So do not rejoice if the crumbling oil prices bounce back, otherwise your joy may be short-lived. Yes, visionless economies may collapse, but those are economies managed by clueless people who always fail to see the damaging nature of easy wealth. That mentality is the bondage that tied Nigeria into a mono economy, and blinded her to alternatives existent in science, technology, information, human capital resources, or even diversification into agriculture and mineral resources.

Cheap oil wealth has made Nigerian leaders to behave like overfed cat that will never think of hunting to survive. Any sincere observer will admit that oil wealth had done incalculable damage to our development potential, exposed the mediocrity of our mindset, lay bare foundations of injustice, and birthed the current crisis that has subsumed the nation. And the question is have we actually learnt any lessons? No! Look at the speed of development we experienced when we had no oil; and how despite the trillions of dollar sale in oil in nearly 60 years we are still at the bottom of development indices, ranked among the poorest nations. What a shame and irony of self-imposed limitations.

Nigeria is a nation of billionaires and multi-millionaires, not of men of industries nor of men of business and entrepreneurial acumen, neither is she of men with inventive dexterity, but of politicians, cronies, and hangers on in the corridors of power. Thanks to our devalued moral equations, most of our recognized leaders, in most cases over the years, are successful crocks and persons that had skillfully subverted the system to their advantage. We have elevated temporary position occupiers as leaders. Here, leadership means extolling thieves and self-seeking bigots with money.

It is a shock that few people are bothered why we ranked among the most fraudulent, worst developed, best crisis ridden, and morally bizarre nations. All because of the poor quality leadership the oil system has thrown up over the years. What progress do you expect if your leaders are selfish, directionless, and development bankrupt? What kind of development do you expect where those in leadership think little of education, think little of human capital development and think little of the unemployment that has crippled 60 million of its able-bodied youths? What kind of advancement do you expect in a situation where the psyche of the youths and their mental attitude have been corrupted as they too are looking for every opportunity to stealing, clapping and dying in defence of those whom they should put on the spot for desolating their future and destiny?

May the oil value become useless so that nobody will have cause to look at it as anything significant. I believe such a day is coming in the next few years. Let this be, for that is what will wake us up as a people and as a nation. This is what will give rise to informed attention to qualitative education. That is what will force development of credible policies that give prime attention to science, mathematics, inventive technology and mechanics. That is when we shall honestly wake up to study the fundamentals of modern first rate economies. That is when knowledge driven and purposeful individuals that understand the working of the new millennium will be given pride of place.

That is when it will become impossible for people to hold government positions for a few years and come out boasting they are billionaires. That is when it will become difficult to steal, and impossible for looters to get away from justice. That is when we shall begin to invest in building our heavy potential in human resources. That is when we will begin to pay attention to Nigerians who have so much to offer but are stifled by the visionless leadership that have no regard to new ideas, innovations, creativity, hard work, corporate or individual initiatives. That is when we shall know that technology is the new way out, and that real money can be made from tourism, not talks and intentions. That is when the true Nigerian spirit will show up to the maximum.

Let us wake up to the realization that the wealth of individuals and nations today are the product of their minds, not in oil and solid mineral wealth. Modern billionaires create products and services using the ingenuity of their mind’s resources. They don’t steal public funds. Emerging and developed economies invest to produce the quality of citizens that will drive its economic sectors and evolve development initiatives.

Ucheka, a business development strategist, wrote via ucheka1968@ gmail.com

culled from:
http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/may-crude-oil-become-worthless/

Change is good

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it was set to resume oil search in the Chad Basin following the remarkable improvement in the security situation in the North-Eastern Nigeria.

This is contained in a statement by Mr Ohi Alegbe, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, on Monday in Abuja.

The statement said the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Dr. Joseph Dawha, made the announcement at the 21st Annual General Meeting of Integrated Data Services Nigeria Limited (IDSL).

According to the statement, IDSL is a subsidiary of the NNPC that is carrying out the seismic data acquisition in the Chad Basin.

It quoted Dawha a saying, ‘‘preliminary indications from the previous exercise so far are encouraging and we are going to move back there’’.

The statement said the GMD described the security situation in the northeast that led to the corporation to suspend oil exploration activities in the basin as ``unfortunate''.

It said the NNPC boss commended the security forces on their recent success in the fight against the insurgents.

The statement said the performance of IDSL was encouraging in spite of the challenge of funding as a result of the fall in crude oil prices.

''The company’s performance is encouraging as it recorded a 32 per cent revenue growth,’’ it said.

The statement said that Mr Victor Briggs, Managing Director of IDSL, explained that the company was expanding its operations to neighbouring West African countries and other emerging oil producing countries in Africa.

``IDSL was incorporated in 1988. Its services include provision of seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation as well as petroleum and reservoir engineering data evaluation, computer and other ancillary services,’’ the statement said.

http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/nnpc-resumes-search-for-oil-in-chad-basin.111255/

...But of tribalism

Another Buhari walker, 43-year-old Abubakar Umar, arrived Gombe on Thursday with a strange bag. He however confided that the bag contained over seventy letters of requests for the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.
Umar started trekking from Yola, Adamawa on Saturday to celebrate Buhari’s victory in Abuja.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Umar was carrying more than 70 letters of requests which the people of North East region to Buhari gave to him on his way.
He said that most of the requests were urging the president-elect to address insecurity and rebuild the region.

He also stated that some women asked him to appeal to Buhari not to scrap the Office of the First Lady.

According to him, the women said the office provided them opportunity to benefit from empowerment opportunities, appointments and other benefits.

He said: “My bag is full of letters and requests from people who said I should give Buhari.

“Women also told me that I should appeal to the president-elect not to scrap the office of the First Lady, which affords women the opportunity to air their views as well as benefit from the government.”

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/05/mystery-parcel-buhari/

stebell:
March 28th, is not far again.
I also kno that Buhari has been winning opinion polls since 1999 but the one that matters most in his life to lead Nigerians is like a mirage to him.

We've rejecte him three times, let's make it the fourth tym Nigerians.

#Never Again.
GEJ tilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 2019.

Return dem money

Gabbysky:
I laugh at apc's cowardice.
that mallam will be disqualified tomorrow whether he brings his certificate or not. They have wasted their time.
Tomorrow is not for hearing but for rulling

And the ruling is..

lagdmark:
What a shame the malu maallam buhari is still battling court case over certitificate even 5 days to election

....And he won
.....send the fisherman packing

Teedoe25:
Yes He will become the president of cattle rearers in kaduna

And the reverse is the case

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A judgement pass on a person that crush the head of a Woman ..he was crushed with concret. by a woman just as he did..

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Just heard on. Aljazeera that. 200 girls resqued by Nigerian army........ Details coming.

But cant. Comfirm the chibok among them...

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to quadruple the supply of gas to Nigeria by building pipelines that may be backed by Carlyle Group LP and Blackstone Group LP, the world’s two biggest private-equity firms.

Dangote, who has a net worth of $15 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, will invest $2.2 billion to $2.5 billion in two sub-sea 550-kilometer (341-mile) pipelines running from Nigeria’s oil and gas-producing Niger River delta region to the commercial hub of Lagos, Dangote, 58, said in an interview on April 25. The pipes will increase the amount of gas available in Africa’s biggest economy to 4 billion standard cubic feet per day from 1 billion, he said.

While Nigeria has gas reserves of about 180 trillion cubic feet, more than any other African country, most of what’s produced is flared or exported because of a lack of infrastructure to transport it to local companies and households. Boosting domestic supply will help increase electricity generation in a country where power cuts are common and about 70 percent of electricity plants are fueled by gas, according to Dangote.

“Having an additional 3 billion scf will sort out all the gas issues we have today in Nigeria,” he said in the lounge of his house in the Victoria Island district of Lagos, overlooking a half moon-shaped swimming pool. “It’s badly needed.”

Dangote, who has interests ranging from cement to sugar and oil refineries, plans to start laying the pipelines before the end of the year, he said. The first one should be ready by mid-2017.

http://www.oilandgasinvestor.com/africas-richest-man-plans-pipelines-could-quadruple-nigerias-gas-793006

In view of its commitment to improving the ease of doing business, minimizing costs and stimulating private investments in real estate development, the Lagos State Government has approved the adoption of fair Market Value for all land and landed property transaction in the State.

Permanent Secretary, Lagos Lands Bureau, Mr. Muri Okunola, who disclosed this at the Ministerial Press Briefing to commemorate the Fourth Year, Second Term in office of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola’s administration at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, added that the government has further reduced the charges on same from 13% to 3%.

According to him, “The new rates will reduce the percentage chargeable to an internationally acceptable standard without any adverse effect on revenue as well as enhance transparency in all land transaction and assessment”.

“It will also eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and corruption while promoting cohesion and interoperability among government’s agencies”, he said.

On the issue of electronic Certificates of Occupancy, Okunola noted that the change in the State’s Certificate of Occupancy (C of O), as regards government schemes, to the Electronic Certificate of Occupancy (E-C of O) is a gradual process that will culminate in the phasing out of the yellow paper certificate of occupancy, which he maintained, is still a valid land title document for the time being.

Okunola reiterated that under the Electronic Certificate of Occupancy (E-C of O) project, which had commenced in January 2014, a total of 2,230 Electronic Certificates have so far being processed; 1,000 have been issued, while others are at various stages of completion.

The State Surveyor-General, Surv. Joseph Agbenla, while speaking at the event, said the robust Lagos State Geographic Information System (LAGIS) undertaken by the present administration has transformed survey issues in the state, stressing that this has consequently translated into a high level of efficient and effective customer service delivery.

He emphasised that with the LAGIS project, the State Government will have in its possession GIS Database of Imagery, digital Maps, Bathymetric Data, Ortho Photo Maps, Geodetic data, Transportation Data and Tourism Data amongst others for the entire State.

For up-to-date information on happenings on the Lagos Mainland and indeed in the Lagos metropolis follow us on twitter @insidemainland or call 0902 2222 226 for any breaking news.

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all this bokoharam guys have been killed.... 1-ali ghulam ,2-bulama ansaary 3-Dr. abu ayub alfulaty 4- abu musa al-camerouny according to arabic translation

SAI. DIEZANE

Sara Omar, grandma of US President Barack Obama, has emphasized the significance of the Prophet Muhammad exhibition in Makkah and said it reflects the moderate teachings of Islam that calls for tolerance and rejects violence.
Sara has come to Makkah with her son Saeed Obama, uncle of President Obama and her grandson Mousa Obama to perform Umrah.
She commended the Saudi government’s efforts to expand the two holy mosques.
Sara and her family members visited the Prophet’s show, which is located in the Naseem district of Makkah, for two hours. “I am very happy to visit this exhibition, which is a good example for the propagation of Islam in a modern way, supported by scientific and authentic documents.”
Obama’s grandma also expressed hope that the exhibition would visit other countries with the support of the Saudi government in order to remove the misunderstandings about the divine religion.


http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/736566

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

I've come across this few intresting fact....

1. He refused to allow Police to be used by PDP/GEJ to commit electoral frauds

2. He refused to comply and co-operate with Orubebe's led attempt to disrupt announcement of presidential results at International Conference Centre.

3.He went to receive the President elect,GMB at Abuja Airport.

4. He leaked the Presidential order directing him to immediate withdraw the police officers posted to Rivers to allow for rigging in favor of PDP.

5. He attended presentation of certificate of return to GMB by INEC.

6. He had a secret meeting with American/EU convoy yesterday. Oddities in this is, NPF, COAS,DG SSS are now all Jonathan's kinsmen. Secondly,the sack was first tweeted by Ruben Abatti before official announcement.

Interestingly, they will all give way in just barely 5weeks! God save Nigeria

Buhari has cancer, asthma, dementia, PDP spokesperson says.....Ffk

"You have heard the law that says the punishment must match the injury: 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'

The Malawian and Congolese government have reportedly stopped all South Africans from entering their country following the recent Xenophobic attacks where a few of their citizens were killed and their businesses destroyed.

The Malawian government has also allegedly thrown South African ambassador out of their country. There are also reports that Mozambican government has barred all trucks from South Africa from entering into their country.

President of the International Olympic Committee, IOC, Thomas Bach has congratulated President-elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari on his sweeping victory at the polls and also extended an invitation to him to visit the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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In a congratulatory message sent to General Buhari and copied to the President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, Engr Habu Gumel, the IOC President said that Gen. Buhari’s ‘’election demonstrates the great confidence the people of Nigeria have in you. For your team I wish you all the very best and a great success’’.
Gen. Buhari who is also the Grand Patron of the NOC was invited to the IOC headquarters by President Bach.
“During such a visit, we could look for ways to further strengthen the already excellent relations between Nigeria and the IOC. You may also consider visiting The Olympic Museum, in which the great contribution of your country to the Olympic Movement is reflected”, he wrote in the letter he personally signed.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/ioc-president-congratulates-buhari-invites-him-to-lausanne/

But this is the real. Senator bello maitama yusuf.
Correction pls.

LAGOS, Nigeria — A man indicted in America for allegedly smuggling heroin, in a court case that was the basis for the TV hit “Orange Is The New Black,” has been elected a senator in Nigeria.

Buruji Kashamu was little known before he returned home in 2003 from Britain despite a U.S. extradition order to become a major financier of President Goodluck Jonathan’s party.

Election results posted late Wednesday identify Kashamu as a senator-elect in southwest Ogun state. Opponents are challenging his victory in court, saying ballots were rigged.

Kashamu, 56, hung up the phone twice when the AP called for comment about the drug case on Thursday. Kashamu has said he is “a clean businessman” and that the 1998 indictment by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in the United States is a case of mistaken identity. He has said Chicago prosecutors really want the dead brother he closely resembles.

A British court refused a U.S. extradition request in 2003 over uncertainty about Kashamu’s identity. Chicago Judge Richard Posner thought otherwise when he refused a motion to dismiss Kashamu’s case last year.

A dozen people were long ago tried and jailed in the case, including American Piper Kerman, whose memoir about her jail time became the Netflix hit “Orange Is The New Black.” Kerman’s book never identified Kashamu by name, but there is a West African drug kingpin whom she calls “Alhaji,” meaning one who has completed the haj or pilgrimage to Mecca.

A Nigerian federal court last year ordered Kashamu’s extradition, an order upheld by an appeals court. But Nigeria’s government has not extradited him.

That failure caused Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, to warn that “drug barons … will buy candidates, parties and eventually buy power or be in power themselves.”

Jonathan’s perceived protection of Kashamu was a factor that led Obasanjo to defect from the ruling party before recent elections to the opposition that won most votes in Ogun, the home state of Kashamu and Obasanjo.

Kashamu is suing Obasanjo for libel for stating that Kashamu is a fugitive from U.S. justice. He had won a court order halting publication of Obasanjo’s autobiography but a judge this week rescinded it, saying Kashamu had misled the court. Obasanjo’s lawyer argued that the truth cannot be libel.

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, a former military dictator who had people jailed for littering in the 1980s, has promised to fight corruption. That has many politicians fearful in a country where corruption is endemic.


http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/524559/man-indicted-chicago-drug-dealing-elected-senator-nigeria

By Abiodun Alade

The governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that he will never accept the electoral victory of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, stressing that the election was a daylight robbery.

He was reacting to the call by the Minister of State II for Foreign Affairs, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, that Amaechi and All Progressives Congress in Rivers state should concede defeat and congratulate the winner in the interest of the state.

Amaechi took to Twitter to reply Obanikoro.

“Because of the larger interest of Rivers state, I and most Rivers people will not accept that daylight robbery they called elections. The election was a sham, a disgrace, an affront on democracy. Please read the reports of EU and other INEC accredited election observers before you open your mouth to spew rubbish. If your values are so debased and rotten that you saw nothing wrong with the elections in Rivers State, mine is not. Never will.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/amaechi-replies-obanikoro-i-will-not-congratulate-wike-its-daylight-robbery-2/

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.


change!!!