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Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has strongly denounced one of the groups campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan’s reelection for attributing a fabricated report to him. The offensive report, published online by the Jonathan group, was titled, “The North Must Stop Bombing Nigeria & Blaming Jonathan – Prof.

The report quoted the Nobel laureate as stating, “If the United States citizens decide to be bombing the USA everyday and ready to die, there is nothing Obama can do about it. The only thing he can do is to urge citizens to report bad people. If citizens refuse to report evil people then there is nothing anyone can do. The only thing he can do is to urge citizens to report bad people. If citizens refuse to report evil people then there is nothing anyone can do.”

The fabricated report, which is full of grammatical errors, continued: “Here in the USA in Chicago to be precise more than 10 people are killed everyday and that’s the same thing. I am only worried that this is Abuja.

President Jonathan’s support group further credited the professor with stating, “There are people in power in certain parts of the country, leaders, who quite genuinely and authoritatively hate and cannot tolerate any religion outside their own. When you combine that with the ambitions of a number of people who believe they are divinely endowed to rule the country and who believe that their religion is above whatever else binds the entire nation together, and somehow the power appears to slip from their hands, then they resort to the most extreme measures. Youths who have been indoctrinated right from infancy can be used, and who have been used, again and again to create mayhem in the country. Those who have created this faceless army have lost control.”

In a reaction obtained by SaharaReporters, an obviously outraged Professor Soyinka described the attempt by the “Goodluck Support Network” to link him to the spurious report as “unscrupulous, disgusting and cowardly.”

He also stated that the group must be truly desperate to resort to despicable tactics of fabrication.

“This is an unscrupulous, disgusting and cowardly fabrication,” said Professor Soyinka, adding, ‘“The Goodluck Support Network’ must be truly desperate to resort to such despicable tactics.”

Campaign groups close to President Jonathan have notoriously cloned websites, including SaharaReporters.com, and attributed a series of false statements to various people in a bid to whip up sentiments against the president’s political opponents or to portray the president as the victim of a vast conspiracy by northern political groups.

source:http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/04/soyinka-denounces-jonathan-support-group-over-fabricated-report

you need some education.

richeso:
hhhm... if this is how APC FOOLS behave towards terrorism, i pity una..

Why not just wait for president when ebola was around?

is terrorism a one man deal?

what have your foolish buhari and co did positively towards this?

i wonder person wey no fit even save their own state want save a WHOLE NIGERIA.

mmmcchhewww!!!.

left to me i wish Jonathan is killed and not even exist.. let me see who this foolish kids will cast blames on..
i wonder your level of reasoning.. na James bond una don turn our president na.

Rubbish!!!.

selling your souls for other peoples goals.. Buhari has nothign to regret for because his children has all to take care of their own grandchildren, but you kids here.. will suffer all this rubbish when the times come..i wish nairaland is 1 acc to 1 person.. so when you start suffering.. i will come back and quote you.

Obinoscopy:
Before i answer you, i want to ask you an innocent question. Do you really want the Chibok girls to be released before 2015? Say the truth and shame that devil

yes I want them released with immediate effect.

skyeboy98:
There is nothing like agreement between nig gov and their patner boko haram,they are just playing pranks with the heart of those girls family,and if there is any agreement at all let them tell chad president to come out and say something about it.

really pathetic.

Arch1:
Your joke is not funny

please let him know.

sorry to say, but this is not q matter to joke with.

MrBigPrick:
Banga and Bungu, (pictured below),Our two crack Reporters from BigPrick News Network(BPNN) revealed that the Girls are stil C-um,ming Under the Vigorous weight of Shekau's Men inside Sambisa Forest.

More reports when a Climax is reached on the ongoing activities in the very Pregnant story.

Arch1:
JonaTAN is a liar

not just a liar but a liar personified. why raise the hope of the people when you know you have nothing to offer other than failure. why

we waited eagerly yesterday for the purported return of our dear children yesterday as the government promised. we had waited all this while and we are still waiting. Jonathan stop lying to us and act for once. like the saying goes...better to act like a lion once in a lifetime than to act like a sheep all your life...
where are our daughters

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please where is your village am a traveller and I grew and still live in a city. so where are the developments, can you share some from your village

masterpower: Are you lame or an slowpoke? that you havent travelled out of your village to see what GEJ HAVE BEEN DOING IN TERMS OF DEVELOPEMENT.

nna, the thing surprise me ooo

Babymama1: What is going on?
Is it just me or you folks are seeing the same thing?
2 posts now make a page and some threads have thousands of pages
O gini mega?

Yes. the 9billion dollars was borrowed within just one year. meanwhile OBJ brought this nation to almost zero debt when he left office. so what has Jonathan done with all the money borrowed

Idrismusty97: I thought we owe more than $50bn debt. Just over 12% of our GDP?

please can someone educate us on what exactly the federal government did with the over 9billion dollar debt.

September 5, 2014 by Everest Amaefule

The Lagos State Government owes 33.86 per cent of the country’s total sub-national external debts (debts owed by state governments), investigation has shown.

Statistics obtained from the website of the Debt Management Office in Abuja on Wednesday showed that out of the total external debt of $3.01bn, Lagos State owed $1.02bn, leaving the remaining 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory with $1.99bn as of June 30, 2014.

Further analysis shows that out of Lagos’s $1.02bn external loan commitments, $937.91m was from multilateral bodies, while $82.5m represented loans contracted from bilateral sources.

With a series of loan deals, the World Bank in particular has been involved in the urban renewal programme of Lagos State as well as efforts to reform the policy environment.

Some of the latest approvals by the World Bank for the state include $42m loan deal approved by its Board of Executive Directors in March to support secondary education programme in the state.

The new International Development Association credit of $42m to the Lagos EKO Secondary School Project was an addition to the original credit of $95m; which was said to have systematically benefited over 620,000 students a year in 667 public secondary schools in the state between 2009 and 2013.

The school loan was shortly followed by an approval of $200m to the state to support reforms pertaining to fiscal sustainability, budget planning, budget execution and the investment climate.

According to the World Bank, the loan is the first in two development policy operations and it builds upon the policy reforms initiated under a previous bank supported programme.

It added that the goal of the programme was to assist Lagos State in sustaining the strong momentum it had achieved in improving public services, facilitating inclusive growth and reducing poverty.

This includes measures to monitor and manage financial risks more effectively, ensure adequate growth in revenues, get better value for money in public expenditures, and improve institutions and processes for land registration and development permits.

Attempts to speak to the Lagos State Government officials on the status of its external loans failed as repeated calls to the Commissioner of Finance, Mr. Ayo Gbeleyi, were not picked, neither did he respond to text messages sent to his mobile telephone number.

Similarly, a text message to the state’s Commissioner of Information, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, was not responded to. Calls to his mobile number could not go through.

Other major holders of the country’s external sub-national debts include Kaduna State, which owes $245.51m, and Cross Rivers State, $120.21m. Others are Ogun, $116.69m; Bauchi, $111.61m; and Oyo, $80.11m.

The states least exposed to foreign debts are Borno, $16.07m; Plateau, $22.99m; Taraba, $24.06m; Delta, $24.7m and Benue, $28.79m.

However, in comparison to the nation’s total external indebtedness, the states owe only 32.13 per cent; leaving the Federal Government with 67.87 per cent of the total $9.38bn.

Loans from the China Export Import Bank and money raised from the Eurobond accounted for $2.54bn of the Federal Government’s $6.36bn external debt, while multilateral sources accounted for $3.82bn.

As of June 2013, the nation’s total external loan stood at $6.92bn. This means that over a period of one year, it rose by $2.46bn, indicating a 35.51 per cent increase.

http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-owes-1bn-of-states-3bn-external-debts/

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omenka: Odefolio. I'm sure you aren't even aware he's under the payroll of the government. In essence, you just insulted the government.

@post: the lie wey Abati and Okupe, and Metuh dey cook still dey ontop fire. E go soon done.

very pathetic.

Orunto: Stephen Davis is a no person, a marcenery sabotuer and a fraud parading as amnesty witch. No serious Government should waste time answerimg any British deportee.

this means the Jonathan led government is not a serious one. they employed him if we agree.

its quite disturbing how the federal government led by Jonathan had remained silent since the outburst of a negotiator employed by the same government to negotiate on its behalf. even the ever eloquent okupe and abati with other government spoke persons had maintained absolute silence. is there something fish? imagine if the said negotiator had mentioned the names of opposition elements, am pretty sure the reverse would have been the case. Nigerians need to stand up to this government and ensure that serious investigation is carried out as well as ensure that the matter is not swept under the carpet.

me complain! am bigger quite famous to that kid...you opened a tread of complain and then turn back to ask who's complaining. you start a tribal war and when the heat turns on you, you begin to whine like a cry baby

customized13: you don't have to complain, its normal for a slave to be submissive to the master.

my question to you is, how many south westerners are complaining? we see beyond our nose here. when the south westerners are ready for the presidency, you will not need a fortune teller to know that no power that be can stop us.

customized13: its not all about how many years, the fact remains that southwest is out of it as far as contemporary politics is concerned in nigeria.

unfortunately, the south west is not complaining or whining like cry babies from a certain region. where were you when the south west was leading this country for eight solid years? less I forget, how many years has your region lead this country? you were giving a paltry deputy speaker and deputy senate and you are here making noise...