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donjazzy didnt make dbanj,dbanj didnt make don baba,they whr both huslers here .made small money from some buz and invested it music cus thats all they know how to do,and its all been worth it for them.

donjazzy didnt make dbanj,dbanj didnt make don baba,they whr both huslers here .made small money from some buz and invested it music cus thats all they know how to do,and its all been worth it for them.

What a load of Rubbish.....

Michael later known as Don Jazzy was a keyboard player behind Soji (Solek) all of a sudden we heard that he has left the Solek Crew and joined the 419 Squad.... He left and went into production and helped Dbanj produce his first album..

Under Soji, Michael learnt how to create beats and sounds which paid out in the long run because he became a very good producer but no matter how you see the music industry is a dog e dog world, at the end of the day Mohit belongs to D'banj and Don Jazzy helped it grow but some times in life to go up another level, somethings have to be sacrificed



you are so much right here,we all know them here in london,don worked for solek,and meet Dbanj wen he left for 419 crew as with the pic ild be postin below.

Shut Up And Move On: Arm Chair Revolutionaries And The Nigerian Problem By Malcolm Fabiyi
Posted: February 20, 2012 - 14:54


By Malcolm Fabiyi



Nigeria is plagued with chronically inept leadership and burdened by a loud, vociferous and critical, but largely ineffective followership. Nigeria’s leadership is inept, not because it lacks credentials. There are proportionally, more PhDs and Professors in the Nigerian cabinet than you will find in a University Department, yet we remain trapped in the mire of underdevelopment. Nigeria’s leadership is inept because of its inability to attract effective talent, motivate its people, and translate the innate potential of the nation towards true greatness. Few things in Nigeria are done with deliberation.

Our national strategy is to “wait and see”. We await the next crisis, and when it inevitably occurs, we scrap together a committee peopled with the usual parade of traditional rulers, Bishops and Imams, Professors and retired military officers, Labor leaders and pseudo-activists – and charge them with producing a white paper on the crisis. More can be said about the dearth of leadership in Nigeria, but that is not the focus of this article.

Nigeria’s followership is loud and ineffective because all that it does is talk. Loud, boisterous, garrulous and banal talk – that is all we do. In Newspaper editorials, internet chat rooms, on twitter, facebook, in beer parlors, market squares and bus stop libraries, our voices loudly bemoan the state of the country. We blame everything under the sun for our problems - from a colonial experience that ended over 50 years ago, to the poverty of leadership & ideas that currently afflicts us and our ethnic & religious differences.

We are blessed with a marvelous ability to convince ourselves that we are the victims of circumstances that we conjured into existence. We talk as if these leaders that we denounce at every turn were dropped on us from outer space, forced on us by malevolent beings intent on seeing our national tragedy extended. We conveniently forget that we voted them in ourselves, with our very own hands. We seem to forget also that national growth has roles not just for those who lead, but for those who follow as well.

As a people, we spend too much time debating whether we should stay together as a nation. No household can move forward unless there is agreement that the marriage that bind that house will last. A couple who are convinced they will soon divorce will not sit together to make long term plans. Nigeria is a marriage, consummated between the ethnic nationalities that make up the nation and as long as we entertain all this errant talk about separation, national progress is held at bay.

Our standards for the minimum conditions necessary for nationhood are skewed and irrational. Some argue that Nigeria should split because there are still lingering tensions between Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities. Such folks either do not understand the history of nations that they hold up as examples of perfect unity, or they choose to forget their history lessons. About 85 years after America became independent, 16% of its population, an entire race of men and women were slaves. The American Civil War (1861-1865) ultimately settled the question of slavery, but it did not settle the question of equality. It took the Civil Rights Movement and the sacrifice of people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, for discrimination to be outlawed with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was about 200 years after America became an independent nation, and 100 years after a Civil War fought largely over the same issue!

An entire region in Canada – Quebec, which is predominantly French – has agitated to be a separate nation for ages. The Basques in Spain have had their own dalliance with separatism. In Belgium, the Walloons (French Speaking) and Flemish (Dutch) have lingering issues. In Turkey, Kurdish elements have waged a perennial struggle for independence. In Britain, it was only in 1997 that power was devolved to Scotland and Wales allowing for limited self-governance by these nations. In 2014, an independence referendum is scheduled in Scotland to determine if their 300 year union with England should continue. Inter-ethnic tensions are not unique to Nigeria. And besides, who is to say that the breakup of Nigeria into ethnic nationalities will resolve all the current conflicts that afflict us? Form a Niger Delta republic and the Itshekiri and Urhobo might still continue with their rivalries, and surely the conditions that led to Andoni-Ogoni tensions will not suddenly dissipate. Create an O’odua republic and the Ifes and Modakekes will still have their problems. Establish a Biafra republic and you might still have crisis like the Aguleri-Umuleri conflict. We need to accept the fact that a nation without conflict is an unrealizable utopia. Most nations are in a continuous quest to create a more perfect union. But not Nigerians - we want unity on a platter of gold. We want the benefits of nationhood, without engaging in the hard task of nation building. Nations are not perfect. Even families have their feuds. It is the duty of a nation’s citizens to find a path to progress in spite of the differences that exist between them.

There is also a very sad and false narrative that has emerged in the discourse about what Nigeria’s fate should be. The entire Northern region is depicted as comprising of nothing but freeloaders and hangers-on, a parasitic appendage that is bleeding Nigeria dry. The purveyors of national dismemberment are united in saying the excision of the North is the first step that should be taken if Nigeria is to be split. This same North that produced the Shehu, Othman Dan Fodio, his daughter Asmau and his brother Abdullahi – who between them penned over 200 books, and 600 works in poetry, law, administration and religion. This same North that produced the first literate Nigerians (first using Arabic as the medium of learning, and later Fulfulde as well). This same North that had established the Almajirai public school system as early as the 12th Century AD in the Borno Province and more extensively in the early 1800s following the Dan Fodio Jihad. This same North that birthed an empire – the Sokoto Caliphate – that spans 10 present day African countries. This same North whose agricultural produce was the stuff of legend (the groundnut pyramids of Kano, the cotton fields of Northern Nigeria, etc) is now considered to be a drain on the Nigerian nation, and the cause of all that is wrong with it. If a tiny group of Northern leaders have failed Nigeria in the past, should the entire region be blamed for their failures? No region in Nigeria suffers the privations that our Northern brothers are forced to endure. Poverty, illiteracy and disease are more prevalent in the North than anywhere else in Nigeria. The Northern masses are therefore victims too. All those who believe that the Northern masses have done nothing to rid themselves of the oppressive feudalistic leadership that has held them captive, should avail themselves of some lessons in history.

They should learn about the Northern Talakawa movement. They should review the story of NEPU (Northern Elements Progressive Union) and Aminu Kano’s People’s Redemption Party (PRP) and the heroic battles that these organizations led against the feudal oligarchs that have held the North in a stranglehold. That history lesson will be incomplete if the complicity of the colonial British government in the ascendancy of the feudal Northern People’s Congress (NPC) over NEPU in Northern politics is not considered.

There are also those who call for a sovereign national conference where all of Nigeria’s issues should be discussed. A sovereign national conference would be wonderful. But, will it happen without organization? The answer is no. Like it or not, we have an elected parliament. Do we really expect that a group of elected officials will repudiate their own mandate and turn the power of representation over to a sovereign national conference? How will the delegates to such a sovereign conference be selected or elected? These fundamental issues have not been addressed. We have called for a sovereign national conference for over a decade. What concrete steps have been taken in all that time to advance the cause, if we are really serious about it? What national association, movement or party has been put together to coordinate actions that will lead to a successful conference of Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities? Has something as simple as a national signature collection effort ever been initiated to drive the cause into the national consciousness? Has a bill calling for the rights of the people to advance causes that might have not have the backing of the political elite through the referendum process ever been proposed to the National Assembly by any of us who claim to speak and act for the Nigerian masses? Such a bill on the right for referendum (if passed) could enable us to develop a legal pathway that can allow a simple majority of the Nigerian people to legally force a sovereign national conference on an unwilling parliament? All we do is talk. Like our fire-brigade approach to governance, Nigeria’s followership stays quiet until some misstep by Government suddenly galvanizes us to seasonal action. Would the “Occupy Nigeria” protests have happened without the self-inflicted subsidy removal debacle of the Jonathan government? We are titillated by the Arab Spring revolts and desirous of replicating its far reaching socio-political results. But we forget that those revolts were not the result of some spontaneous, uncoordinated, random protest.

Again, some lessons from other nations will suffice. The American people are as frustrated with their leaders, as we are in Nigeria. Congressional approval hovers at about 12%, an abysmally low value. Like Nigeria, the political process is too expensive and many openly call their congress the millionaire’s congress, and argue that the congress is demographically, culturally and politically out of step with the American populace. Well-oiled politicians tend to win elections in America. Occasionally, access to money and ideals might coincide – as was the case with Barack Obama, who was fueled to the Presidency in 2008 with a war chest of $750 million provided by an army of about 3 million donors (this was the most that any person had ever spent on a presidential campaign). Unlike Nigeria, the average US Citizen does not carry out activism solely via social media. How then do concerned citizens in America and other nations manage to ensure that their ideas and views are heard even when they are not happy with their government? In America, there are hundreds of Civil Society groups focused on nothing other than the channeling of ideas to the political process. it is to these groups that they turn to give life to ideas and ideals that they hold dear.

Ask a Nigerian where the worst Nigerians are and they will tell you they are in Politics. Ask them where the best Nigerians are, and they will tell you they are in the Private Sector. Yet, the so called best of us in the private sector sit on our hands, tweeting and texting about our disillusionment with government, while miraculously expecting the “worst of us” to come up with cutting edge policy positions, and solid ideas for socio-economic growth. Such an expectation is plain lunacy. A government that has run out of ideas will not suddenly be jarred into creativity and genius because we are writing newspaper or web articles that are critical of their actions. No one can give what they do not have. We criticize, hopefully because we believe we have better ideas. And if we do, those ideas should not lie only in our minds. They should be packaged into bills and legislative proposals. We should find ways of ensuring that those ideas are considered and hopefully, even passed into law. Over 60% of the Nigerian National Assembly is replaced in each election cycle. The major argument used by their opponents is the fact that in four years of being in the National Assembly, the incumbents pushed no bills and proposed no legislation. Believe it or not, Nigeria’s do nothing legislators are looking for bills to pass, albeit for selfish political reasons & self-preservation.

We must wake up to our responsibilities as a people. We all have roles to play in moving Nigeria forward. We have talked enough. It is now time for action. Nigerians will find allies in the National Assembly that will push bills put together by concerned groups of Nigerians, who come together informally or formally to advocate for positions they believe in. and were we do not find ready allies, we should engage in advocacy, protests, lobbying, occupation, and rapprochement & do whatever is necessary to ensure that our voices are heard. That is what happens in all nations that are making progress. That is what needs to begin to happen in Nigeria.

Saw it on NTA news 2,but tuned in too  late and didnt  get all wot they whr saying,d guy was mentioning some names,whr those der sponsors? or d guys they want 2 mediate 4 dem?

You can attack his person,yes.But to attack his tribe,culture/religion,you are less of a Man/woman.Like they say real men discuss issues and less men discus , ?

[color=Black]U mean his father is from Osun and he is from Edo? . . . . . . . . . .Thank God we all are not products of free education . . .[/color]


But it is a big waste of money and resources wasted  on ur career and schools  if you call some from osun state an ekiti/ondo.

Dat the point i wanted to put across,no tribe is a saint in dis ur dear country.We blame the hausas and call dem boko haram,the yorubas and hausas will say the igbos can do antytin 4 money,the igbos will say the yorubas are traitors.NOBODY ,no tribe, is a saint wen it comes to the breakdown called nigeria,we all contributed ur own good or bad.

hes father is from osun state.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200702120313.html

So where in the post dis it say hes from ondo/ekiti?.
Yoruba father can be lagos,ondo,osun,kogi,kwara.

Are yorubas snake in the grass?YES,same as igbos ,hausaa,ijaws and most tribalist groups,look @ urself b4 critisising oders.

He is from Edo state,get your facts right before posting mate.

Good one fanny power,


http://www.naijapundit.com/news/femi-fani-kayode-s-expose-on-boko-haram-a-must-watch

Vanguard

How Oba of Benin goofed, by Ooni of Ife



Sunday, May 09, 2004

"Records in the archives made it clear that since 1191AD, the Ooni of Ife had to be informed, and clearance must be given by him on the new Oba of Benin to be installed up to 1916" We have to thank God Almighty for the life of our great mother whose memoirs we are launching today. Before I continue my speech, I would want all of us to rise for a two minute-silence while we pray for the repose of the soul of our late revered father and leader of our people - Papa Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory. Our mother has laid good examples for the women in this country to follow, and in her excellent ways of doing things she can be described as the mother of the blue whales which are the biggest creatures on earth. It is worthy of note that even at this age mama could still write her memoirs for both this generation and the generation unborn to read.

For several decades, mama has gradually metamorphosed from a simple woman to a housewife, the jewel of inestimable value, and holder of the all-significant title of Yeye-Oba of Ife and now the ultimate: Yeye-Oodua. Our prayer for our very dear mama- Yeye Oodua is to physically live forever if it is possible.

At this juncture, it is just right to allow the entire world to know that the name Oduduwa, the founder of our dynasty and from where we derive the present title of Mama can never be corrupted or bastardized by any living being in an attempt to create for himself an unnecessary distortion of historical fact.

Oduduwa the legend, the father of the bigger Yoruba dynasty has no connection whatsoever with Ogiso dynasty in Benin history as portrayed by the Oba of Benin, because Oduduwa descended directly from heaven through a chain to where is now known as Ife today in company of four hundred deities

Last Thursday 29th April 2004 Omonoba the Oba of Benin goofed during the launching of his book titled “I remain, Sir, your obedient servant’ in this same building where he described Oduduwa on page 205 as one Ekalederhan, a Benin Prince who had once escaped the community’s axe-man, later reappeared in weeeks after wandering in the bush from Benin for a very long time.

According to him, the same Ekalederhan, having become the ruler in weeks refused to go back to Benin on request, but instead sent Oranmiyan his son basically on a” home-coming mission” to start the present dynasty in Benin. It will interest the public to know the facts about the Ife-Benin relationship which are as follows: 1. The Oba of Benin whose dynasty commenced in 1191 AD was an Ife Prince borrowed to the people of Benin on their request after the rule of the Ogiso have ended in Benin history.

2. It was a request that Ife must help to provide them with a ruler, then Oduduwa the legend, decided to send Prince Oranmiyan who established that dynasty and whose first son in Benin from a Benin woman was Owomika (Eweka) the progenitor of all Benin Obas including Omonoba since l191 AD.

Since Oranmiyan dynasty started in Benin, all the heads of the Obas of Benin on demise were buried in Ife in a sacred place called “Orun-Oba-Ado” up to the year 1900. 4. Records in the archives made it clear that since 1191AD, the Ooni of Ife had to be informed, and clearance must be given by him on the new Oba of Benin to be installed up to 1916.

5. The official language in the palace of Oba of Benin till 1934 was Yoruba. 6. The father of the present Oba of Benin was a member of the House of Chiefs in the old Western Nigeria under our late revered father Sir Adesoji Aderemi, my predecessor and the First African governor in the whole African continent.

The Oba of Benin should go and read what his fore fathers told the Portuguese explorers during their visit to Benin on 2nd July 1550AD about the relationship between Ife and Benin. So, it is too late for Omonoba to rewrite our history. The word Oba, which is part of any of Benin oba’s title, shows clearly that they are from the bigger Yoruba dynasty. It is rather too late in the day to rewrite our history, which cannot be backed with any documentary evidence.

I have to thank the Benin first historian Jacob U. Egharevba for his publications, which contained the correct account of the relationship between Ife and Benin which the Oba of Benin is now condemning. At this stage, Mama, you are Mama Oodua. Covering the entire Yoruba nation both here and in diaspora including the Benin Kingdom where Omonoba Erediauwa by the grace of God is the Oba.

•Excerpts from the address of Ooni Ife at the launch of H.I.D Awolowo's biography.

lifted from todays tribune,
Written by Kunle Oderemi
Thursday, 02 February 2012
nice read anyway,






DEFINITELY, a bad time has its advantages. That is when things appear to be at their dead end, and all roads seem blocked. It is the period when necessity becomes the mother of invention and when we get fired by our inner recesses. Options for overcoming a seemingly overwhelming situation appear limited, so we begin struggle with ourselves for the best survivalist tactic and technique.

I cannot immediately recollect when genuine Igbo leaders came together with a single and unified spirit as was unequivocally demonstrated last Saturday. Not even during major elections such as the last presidential poll had the real leaders of one of the hardworking and ingenious tribes in the country converge to truly address the fact that the destiny of their people was in their own hand. I recall that in the past, when the apex-Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo deliberately tried to railroad the people into one partisan position, the people had asserted themselves and tried to exhibit some discernible degree of independent-mindedness. So, the meeting of those leaders in Enugu last Saturday was indicative that the Igbo had realised the dilemma the country had found itself as a result of complacency by all stakeholders in the Nigerian project.

Be that as it may, I know the death of mercurial Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, had been exploited by many who seek relevance in the politics of Igboland, with reactions to his sudden demise, ranging from the sublime to the humdrum. A few individuals holding public offices, either at governmental or party levels had been dropping the name of the former Biafran leader to gain political advantages. A couple of less fancied groups have equally been desperate in rising on the crest of Ojukwu, even after his death, to gain visibility. However, it was cheering that the genuine leaders of Igboland came out last Saturday to assert themselves in the face of what they see as ethnic persecution, or if you like decimation.

The communique issued at the end of the South-East leaders’ meeting said little, peradventure, for strategic reasons. Nonetheless, their message was poignant, clear and direct as to where they were heading for. That the time had come to rescue their kinsmen from the jaws of the Boko Haram, which has become more dreaded than the infamous devil all creeds seek to save mankind from.

Since most of the discussions were held behind closed doors, other Nigerians are waiting to see what other pragmatic steps the leaders that would follow, either now or after another meeting they have scheduled for this week. However, the sustenance of the current tempo of the emerging unity will be dependent on the ability of the genuine leaders to checkmate the few hawks in their midst. Such self-styled categories of leaders had done more harm than good to the Igbo race. They have proved, for decades, to be moles, just as you have other establishment of individuals in the political zones, placing their individual interests above the collective wishes and aspirations of the Nigerian people. It is the activities of this category of people among the political, economic and ruling class that have brought the country to a parlous condition.

Most of them are principally responsible for the precarious state of the Igbos, because of their tendency to place their interest above that of the race in national politics. Since the meeting was held behind closed-doors, details of their discussions will only take some time before getting to the public domain.

Happily, there are many progressive-minded statesmen like the former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Dr. Emeka Anyaoku, a former Chief General of Staff [CGS], Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, revered Professor Joe Irukwu, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Major General Ike Nwachukwu and the first civilian governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Senator Ben Obi and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, and new breeds like the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Emeka Ihediora in the new derive for consensus in Igboland. Their experience and capacity to manage and deal with very difficult situations are not in doubt, but they must be ready to contend with those forces that have continued to try to create the impression that the Igbo political class is unreliable, compromising and merchantable and go by the words of Duke Ellington, that a problem is a chance for you to do your best?

The challenge confronting the country now is about the corporate existence of the country. The flame of disunity rages in the nooks and crannies of the land. All sections of the country are losing in monumental ways to the crises triggered by the general insecurity, hence the search for an enduring solution demands utmost undisguised seriousness from consummate, intelligent and suave and forthright leaders.

That was why some of us were miffed that the seriousness epitomised by the display of tact and diplomacy demonstrated by the genuine Igbo leaders was almost obfuscated by the parallel event put together by Mr Ralph Uwazurike, apparently to further orchestrate his rabid quest to arrogate to himself the Igbo leadership.

Nonetheless, one of the challenges the Igbo face is usually the inability of the majority to see the close-knit relationship between commerce and politics. They have always played the Ostrich during major battles to give politics a human face so that commerce and other forms of businesses can thrive in the land. I hope the Enugu parley will be the beginning of the necessary orientation of the people in that regard, as the meeting came on the heels of a warning by the South-East caucus in the National Assembly that it could seek protection from the United Nations [UN] if the Nigerian government proved incapable of curtailing the killings of Ndigbo resident in the North. The implication of this warning is that the caucus was beginning to lose faith in the Nigerian federation, because the Igbos were becoming endangered species in the country.

I do not think any right-thinking Nigerian would be happy that the country has found itself in a threatening, turbulent time, the second time in less than two decades. The annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election had triggered a gyration towards national disintegration. Except for a few, many Igbo leaders, who naturally should have stood on the side of justice, rule of law and democracy, had elected to become unabashed establishment persons and deployed propaganda to feed their people with utter falsehoods and blatant lies.

Of course, a few hired writers provided back-up in the media. All of them ended up heightening tension and fear in the country. Ironically, a few of them are direct beneficiaries of the existing democratic experiment. Sadly too, many Igbos lost their lives while trying to run to the East, following the tension created by their kinsmen in the propagandist machinery of the military government, since lies are always easier to believe.

The Yorubas have something to learn from the new initiative by the Ndigbo to forge unity and clairvoyance, by shoving aside political division. Nothing stops the Yorubas from borrowing a leaf from the Igbos, who have leaned on Albert Einstein’s saying that, “in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” But can it be said that the Igbo leaders have seen the wisdom in Taylor Benson’s statement that, it is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see light?

Fuel subsidy probe Farouk Lawan: what is Nigeria’s daily fuel consumption?
Diezieni: 52million Liters
NNPC: 35m liters
DPR: 43m liters
PPPRA: 24M liters
Okonjo: 40M liters
Farouk Lawan: What was the subsidy for 2011?
Diezieni: 1.4Trillion
Okonjo: 1.3Trillion
CBN: 1.7Trillion
Farouk Lawan: Can we have the KPMG REPORT?
Okonjo: I have to go through the report first
Diezieni: I have not seen the report
Farouk Lawan: What is the production capacity of our local refineries?’
NNPC: 30%
PPPRA: 20%
DPR: 13%
Diezieni: 15%
Farouk Lawan: Does Nigeria pay subsidy on locally refined Products?
Diezaini: it depends
NNPC: The lay man cannot understand how it’s done
PPPRA: yes
DPR: No
Farouk Lawan: Why is Kerosene still scarce?
Diezieni: Because its use by the aviation industry as aviation fuel
NNPC: Because there is no subsidy so NNPC overstretched its resources
PPPRA: it’s not properly deregulated
Farouk Lawan: what is the balance in the subsidy accounts?
Diezieni: it’s a virtual account
NNPC: There is no account in existence as the lay man will look at it
PPPRA: The account is a technical one
CBN: There is no account with us for subsidy
Okonjo: The account exists but not with a bank
Its pure magic! The more you hear the less u understand.

dis is a step in the wrong direction.
http://tribune.com.ng/sun/news/6195-controversy-trails-govts-plan-to-eject-yoruba-hausa-traders-from-onitsha






The plot to sack Yoruba and Hausa traders from the bridgehead market in the commercial city of Onitsha by Anambra State government, has been greeted by controversy and apprehension by traders and other concerned stakeholders who exepressed fear that the decision could spark off reprisal measures in other parts of the country.

The traders who described the state government’s directive as bias and ethnic-motivated, argued that they were legitimate tenants to the Federal Ministry of Housing and have valid receipt of payment that will expire by 2014, stressed that the plot to forcefully eject them was undemocratic.

Addressing newsmen during a peaceful protest, spokesmen of the group, Chief Lateef Balogun and Tanimu Ibrahim, alleged that the state government had concluded plans to lease the plot of land to a major transporter in Onitsha, adding that they were not given an alternative site to relocate to.

The duo stated that the move to eject them from the place they have occupied over 40 years without compensation or relocation was a subtle way of sacking the Yoruba and Hausa communities in the state, noting that the last attempt to forceful eject them with the use of soldiers left over eleven of the traders dead.

jamo no dey carry last,



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBuCGyMhS3Q&feature=youtu.be

i hope dis is true,

http://pointblanknews.com/new/exclusive/3500-xmas-day-bomb-suspect-rearrested-at-the-border.html#.TxiaRFAY4UQ.facebook

unite 9jas,





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKgRYDuO4sA&sns=fb

To all tribal bigots, listen to dis,



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKgRYDuO4sA&sns=fb

thanks for the update.

Dats how its done,now we need more heads to roll and a probe of the fraud in NNPC.










http://ihuanedo.ning.com/profiles/blogs/group-general-manager-corporate-affairs-of-nnpc-resign?xg_source=activit

Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai has been criticizing President Jonathan Government on twitter in the past few hours. Read below and you can follow him on twitter @elrufai for more .
Nasir El-Rufai - Those giving economic arguments for or against fuel subsidy withdrawal miss the point totally. It is not about economics. It is about TRUST!
Nasir El-Rufai - No Nigerian trusts GEJ’s administration to use any money for the benefit of the people. Funds are for pocketing by govt officials & friends!
Nasir El-Rufai - The spending pattern & priorities of GEJ since 2010 is evidence of who he cares for and what. Let us look at his budget record from 2010….
Nasir El-Rufai - Between 2010-2011, GEJ has spent N9.557 trillion. N4,427bn in 2010 budget, N645bn supplementary in 2010, N4,485bn in 2011. The results? ZERO
Nasir El-Rufai - Under his watch, we increased our debt stock by about $20bn, ran down excess crude from $6bn to zero, FX reserves from $45bn to $ 30bn…
Nasir El-Rufai - Under GEJ, Dollar exchange rate moved from >N140 to N160 today. Debt stock has doubled to higher than 2005 levels. Interest rates over 20%!
Nasir El-Rufai - And all this is while nearly 10 trillion Naira has been spent on government officials, trips abroad & perquisites/subsidies to politicians!
Nasir El-Rufai - Power supply improvement? Minimal. Jobs created? Zero. Transport Infrastructure? Zero. Agricultural output? Minimal. Private jets? Yes, lots
Nasir El-Rufai - Let us look at the 2012 Budget proposals in some details to see whether GEJ is willing to reduce the high lifestyle of those in power…,
Nasir El-Rufai - We will look at the budgets proposed for three Presidency MDAs – the State House where P & VP work, the Offices of the SGF & Head of Service
Nasir El-Rufai – The three MDAs intend to spend a total of N27bn as “overheads” for 2012. Nearly N2 bn will be spent traveling with N1.675bn in GEJ’s office!
Nasir El-Rufai - Stationery, refreshment & snacks in the Presidency will consume about N2bn, with N1.6bn spent by GEJ & his VP in 2012. Does that make sense?
Nasir El-Rufai - The President & VP intend to spent about N2.8bn to “maintain” their existing furniture, generators, etc, & N238m for fuel! Is this prudent?
Nasir El-Rufai - Miscellaneous spending by the Villa alone totals N1.7bn for food, honorarium & something called “welfare packages” – another security vote!
Nasir El-Rufai - The SGF & Head of Service have over N2.5bn for these “miscellaneous expenses” including nearly N300m for “welfare” & N270m “security vote”!
Nasir El-Rufai - Why can’t some of these areas of waste be cut to fund capital projects & others that benefit the populace like the fuel subsidy?
Nasir El-Rufai - In the 2012 budget, NASS intends to spend N150bn on itself, the same amount as in 2011 to pay those huge allowances. It has NOT been reduced
Nasir El-Rufai - So we will spend about N320m for every NASS member in 2012, as we did in 2011. Where is the shared sacrifice? Where is accountability?
Nasir El-Rufai - In 2012, FG will spend an average of N2.47m on every federal employee. It spent about N3.2 m on every ex-militant in 2011. What about us?
Nasir El-Rufai - We must resist the N8,000 tax being imposed on every man, woman & child to fund the fuel subsidy & insist that FG cuts its own wastefulness!
Nasir El-Rufai - I will tweet further details of the budget in due course….we must sensitize our NASS members to rise to the occasion & rewrite this budget
Nasir El-Rufai - The issue with GEJ is simply that of trust. He has wasted huge financial resources & put us in debt in the last 20 months. We must be wary!
Nasir El-Rufai - We cannot trust with more money as he will only waste more of it. That is the issue & he can only earn that trust through small steps.

May the good lord we are celebrating today be with the bereaved.

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pls enjoy,


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source-http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/politics-today/5973-my-views-on-awo-zik-and-obasanjo-ojukwu.html

My Views On Awo, Zik And Obasanjo —Ojukwu


ZIK
HOW does a son begin to assess, for posterity, the virtues or otherwise of his own father? In asking me my opinion about Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onitsha, you have, as it were, put me in a very tight spot – nothing I say can pass the test of objectivity. Here is a man, I have known all my life; a man I was brought up to give even more respect than my father; a man who looks a giant in every respect within my childhood memory. He was the indefatigable fighter for freedom and equality. To all intents and purposes, Zik inserted the word ‘politics’ into my life’s dictionary. I respected, I worshipped, I considered him a hero, and saw him as a living legend.

At independence, he cut a rather tragic figure. He was to me the symbol of a Nigeria that might have been, but was not. He became the one Nigerian, alongside whom every other Nigerian achievement, every other success, paled in comparison. He became Governor-General, the Queen’s official representative. He later became President — a ceremonial executive. Throughout the First Republic, it slowly permeated the perception of the masses that his position in terms of power was empty. He could not dissociate himself from the inequities of the First Republic. He could not intervene to halt the inequities, and from time to time we saw him justifying and rationalising actions we were sure conflicted with his better judgment. With bitterness, we began to learn that Zik, whom the British colonial administration could never incarcerate, he willingly constituted himself a prisoner of what appeared to us as northern interests. With many others, I began to feel let down. During the war, which to a certain extent was a war to free him, he rallied to the Biafran side but later switched his support when it appeared the Biafran resistance would fail.

Deriving from this act, many have questioned his commitment to the Igbo. Many have recalled that he is of Onitsha extraction and that Onitsha has with great pride claimed and continued to claim a non-Igbo lineage. The foregoing, coupled with the fact that the Igbo appear today to be marginalised and lacking in any appreciable influence within the power structure of Nigeria invariably has made the leadership of the Igbo by Zik a subject of a vast amount of discussion. In my own candid opinion, Zik did not set out to lead the Igbo and has not in fact led the Igbo. He has been first and foremost a Nigerian who aspired to a Nigerian leadership. When the British withdrew in 1960, Nigeria was left in the hands of three great men. Of the three, Zik could be said to have been the dreamer whilst the others were hard-headed realists. Zik believed, worked for and made sacrifices for a Nigeria that had not yet come into existence – the ideal Nigeria. Those who followed him worked for this ideal, and perforce had to make sacrifices for this ideal. It is only natural that finding this ideal increasingly unattainable, they found themselves deflated and deprived vis a vis the realists, who from the beginning, ensured for their groups a share of whatever was going.

I have no quarrel with Zik, I cannot quarrel with Zik. I am rather too small for that. In Igbo culture and tradition, a son cannot quarrel with his father. Zik is my father. I grew up on his lap. My father considered him his friend and testified to this fact at the Foster-Sutton tribunal. It is true that he and I have not agreed on many issues. This is more due to the generation gap than to anything else. Our ambitions are different — where he would appear to wish to lead the Igbo, I would be content to serve them. In Igbo language, we say that one does not choose one’s relatives, but friends. As a father, I love and respect him. As a politician, I disagree with his policies which I believe, to a large extent, have left the Igbo naked.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo
In political terms, he would be considered an adversary of the Igbo given the intense rivalry between him and Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. As a leader of the modern cast, he has left Nigeria standards which are indelible, standards beside which future aspirations to public leadership can be eternally measured. He was, for a long time, the only Nigerian leader that enunciated principles and played down personalities. He was a brilliant political administrator and a most erudite teacher. He not only identified himself wholly with the aspirations of the Yoruba people of Nigeria but also he was able to convince the Yoruba people of Nigeria that he, only he epitomised the highest point of their political aspirations and consciousness. He was loved, he was feared but above all he belonged to the people he professed to lead. At his death I had the singular honour of proposing for him this epitaph that has endured — ‘he was the best President that Nigeria never had.’

Many have wondered what I meant by this, but I believe the statement was clear. Nigeria would have benefitted from his presidency because of his innate presidential qualities. Nigeria must continually regret that he never, for many reasons, had the opportunity to serve at the presidential level. Awo was a leader of great stature. He was a leader who was eminently successful. That he did not fulfil a presidential ambition cannot detract from his leadership, and us, poor us, who were not his people, must continue to regret that our own leaders had not led us as he did his people or achieved for us as he did for his people.

He perceived his job as leading his people and God bless his soul. He did a lot for them. Whenever he saw an opportunity for his people, he went for it. He had a dream for the Yorubas and was steadfast in the pursuit of that dream. He knew where he was going and he took his people with him without deceit. That is why he will remain immortal in the area of his influence.

Sir Ahmadu Bello
Whenever children, the heirs of our today, read the history of Nigeria the one name that must command admiration and one which will, without doubt, attract the largest fan club would be that of Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto. Here was a man every inch a prince who bestrode the Nigeria of his days and won, if not admiration, then the respect of friends and foes alike. Here was a man who roused the sleeping giant of the North from its centuries old slumber and within the short span of six years placed it in a dominant position in Nigeria. He laid he foundations of a northern pre-eminence in Nigeria that has lasted until today and which threatens to last into a future without limit. In all his actions the Sardauna was regal. When arrogant, his arrogance was perceived and accommodated as the normal prerogative of royalty – sort of droit de seigneur.
His perception of Nigeria was perhaps different from mine. He was more of a continuation of the Sheikh Uthman Dan Fodio’s grand design, than the creation of a modern Nigeria which favours accommodation as opposted to absorption. Everything Sir Ahmadu believed, he believed sincerely. He was both haughty and down to earth, he was loved by those he led, of both high and low estate. He understood his people and inspired them to heights which they never appeared to think possible. As a leader, he was superb and very successful. As a Nigerian leader we all wished he led us all, directed us all and inspired us all. His legacy was, however, a legacy of competition, a legacy of a dialogue into which the North entered from a position of strength.

Sir Ahmadu Bello was in every sense a giant. He perceived Northern Nigeria as his domain and proceeded by sheer force of character to pull up that section of Nigeria from its bootstraps. He took over the leadership of the North when the North was weak and disadvantaged. When he left the scene after a short spell of time, the North had become the bully which everyone feared. He was a great leader of his people.

Yakubu Gowon
People make me laugh when they talk about an enmity between Yakubu Gowon and Ojukwu. That Gowon and I did not see eye to eye on certain issue was as a result of our different perceptions of the situation at the time. These were perceptions built into our being in Nigeria. If I were from the North my perception of the situation would have been entirely different, just as if Gowon had been from the East. In leading the war we both postured. For anyone, therefore, to try and extend this posturing and make it permanent on the national stage, to my mind, is sterile. I will most certainly invite Gowon to my house for lunch any day.

Segun Obasanjo
Then came Obasanjo. I would have felt some relief at Obasanjo’s ascendancy. Afterall, I had known him earlier as a young officer who joined the 1st Brigade on exercise in Kano. I remembered him well and remembered his rather portly presence that never ceased to amuse. I remembered his rather unpropitious return from the United Kingdom into the Nigerian infantry. I remembered that we had been friends, that I had discussed his service prospect with Brigadier Ademulegun who later advised Obasanjo to transfer to the Corps of Engineers. We had been sufficiently intimate and since I could not call him Oba, I had opted with tongue in check to call him Omo-Oba. I remembered him during the Ifeajuna coup. He had just returned from a course and was used as an intermediary between General Ironsi and Major Nzeogwu in Kaduna.

My initial enthusiasm on his becoming the Nigerian Head of State was rather dampened by the thought of certain unfortunate statement he was alleged to have made after the war, about the war, about the vanquished areas to a people he was directed to reconcile and reintegrate. I was confused by the novelty of his concept of dual sovereignty — ‘The Murtala-Obasanjo Regime.’ I was enthused by his peaceful hand-over to civilian rule, dismayed by his reference to juju in the search for a South African solution, excited by his forthright commentary on contemporary Nigerian matters and absolutely elated by his leadership forum: its concept, articulation and execution. If I were to give a confidential report on this great son of Nigeria, my verdict would be that ‘Here was a man who without being a great statesman in his time grew to become the greatest statesman of his time.’

Bianca Onoh
What can I say about this very beautiful young girl that won the 1989 Miss Inter-Continental pageant? I must confess that having only met her once (as of the time of writing the book), I cannot claim to know her and neither was I present in the audience when she won her very-much coveted crown. The year, 1988, must have been for her a year of triumph and naturally as a Nigerian I pray that she continues for ever to triumph.

I won’t comment more on her phenomenon than on her person for I feel more to ease with this for if after looking at her photographs in the newspaper or viewing the repeat broadcasts of her Inter-Continental triumph, if after seeing this, I exclaim with all men that she is beautiful, it would be like standing in front of the Empire State Building in New York and exclaiming that the building is high. I would be stating the obvious and it would be trite.

I must state categorically that I do not see anything wrong in beauty pageants and beauty contests. What I regret is that very often the beautiful ones are not, for one reason or the other, on view. There can be no doubt that beauty, like all gifts, is an asset. An acclaimed international beauty is a national asset - like a champion in any sphere of activity. This year, Nigeria must be proud that for once we have brought forward a beauty that can compete favourably with the best in the world. We have a queen we can proudly proclaim, not as a matter of jingoism or with tongue in cheek, but rather with the full confidence that we have a world-beater.

Like all endeavours, winning beauty contests is not an easy matter. It is an effort that demands absolute self-discipline. It is an effort that begins even before birth, carries through home training and years of self-denial comparable to the commitment of a world class athlete. Because beauty is all pervasive, not just a matter of physical proportions, positioning and production, but rather compromises equally of internal and latent moral and intellectual attributes, more is demanded of the beauty queen than the athlete. The athlete is permitted emotional tantrums whilst his private peccadillos are accommodated provided he wins. The queen is granted no such indulgence. Like Caesar’s wife, she must, at all times, be beyond reproach. In Nigeria today, we have at least one girl that can meet with all these standards — Miss Bianca Onoh. We should all be proud of her. When she returns home with the Miss Universe crown, Nigeria would have produced another world champion, would have won another gold in an international competition, another platinum disc award, an Oscar, a Nobel Prize. When this happens, the vehicle for such international acclaim and honour shall be none other than Miss Bianca Onoh.

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Here is one Nigerian who has never appeared to want to be anyone else, anything else but Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Fela has indisputable genius. He has been and still remains one of the finest musicians on the African continent and it is most gratifying for me as a Nigerian to note the very wide acceptability which his music commands worldwide. When Fela is criticised, it is usually because of his life style. No individual is perfect. Fela is Fela and can never be Emeka just as Emeka is Emeka and can never be Fela. He is a political gadfly, a social critic and an indefatigable fighter against all forms of pomposity and hypocrisy. When he acts, his aim is to reduce the target of his action from the sublime to the ridiculous.

His lesson is to teach us not to take ourselves too seriously, to get into the habit of laughing at ourselves. Fela is an eccentric. When a society is not sufficiently elastic to accommodate essentricism that society, and not the eccentric, is sick. Our society needs Fela as a therapy; Fela reduces tension within our society. Whenever he forces authority to descend from its pedestal to join issues with the pedestrian, it is the authority that loses, it is the authority that appears ridiculous and it is the authority that we end up laughing at.

Gani Fawehinmi
Whenever a final history of this country of ours is written, I am sure that the name of Gani Fawehinmi would merit a prominent passage. Gani symbolises, perhaps, the very best of professionalism in an epoch where everything including the intellectualism is up for sale to the highest bidder. Gani is, without doubt, one of the nation’s best lawyers and perhaps also the hardest working. Where others lawyers are content to win cases, Gani’s aim remains to employ his very extensive knowledge of law to ensure justice. To him fees are of a minor consideration. What he always considers important is that the poor obtain from him the best legal protection against the rich and powerful. When he goes to court, it is very often to pose a pillar that will become part of the perimeter fence of social justice.

He is fearless and would not hesitate to take the initiative in pointing out and challenging the excesses of authority. Gani is a firm believer in the supremacy of Law. He is a crusader for the establishment in Nigeria of that supremacy. He believes the lawyer is an officer of the court and not the agent of a client. Naturally, his uncompromising posture in his relentless pursuit of social justice irritates governments. Indeed, the more autocratic and fascist the government authority, the more irritation Gani causes. Yet, there can be no doubt that Nigeria is better off with the courageous crusade of this lone-ranger.

isnt it an irony that obafemi awolowo, emeka ojukwu and phillip effiong all died @ d ripe age of 78?