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I just hope the official result wouldn't be a shocker cos most of the results highlighted here are just partial results from local polling units.

Nicklee:
Please nobody should quote me yet on this Oo. I just got this from a friend who is a top journalist from Kaduna.


"The report I'm getting from kano says cpc has won two out of three senatorial seats, bauchi all cpc, adamawa, one labour,one cpc and one acn. Gombe all cpc. I'm yet to receive anything from yobe, niger and nasarrawa"

Now this is the kind of result spread we like to hear. A state where the three zones are won by 3 different parties (and nothing for PDP)

[size=18pt]DEATH TO PDP!!![/size]

The simple reason why things like this happen and will continue to happen is because political offices are tooooo lucrative.

Political office holders are not wealthy because they recieve fat salaries but rather because they can STEAL huge sums of money with a 100% assurance that nothing will happen to them.

The only way this can stop is if political offices aren't lucrative and if people are punished for their crimes.

A PDP govt cannot prosecute its own members and we all know that over 80% of the politicians (thieves) in Nigeria belong to PDP

The only way these thieves can be prosecuted is if PDP loses power. Nigerians are completely tired of PDP and are ready to remove them from limelite but this will be  extremely difficult because many myopic/uninformed Nigerians have already been decieved by the large carrot (GEJ) being dangled by PDP

I just wonder why GEJ supporters are not seeing beyond the PDP ruse.

Determined

Bintus2much:
Explosives intercepted in Delta

The police in Asaba, Delta State, yesterday nabbed two policemen and a driver of a Kia Rio car that was conveying guns, explosives and grenades to Bayelsa State from Delta.
The Commissioner of Police Alhaji Mamman Tsafe  said the ammunitions which included a Rocket Propelled Grenade, five dynamites, 25 cartridges, seven single barreled guns and two double barreled guns, were procured for Saturday’s elections and others to come. The commissioner’s submission was corroborated by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Charles Muka, who confirmed the incident yesterday in Asaba.

A source disclosed that two policemen escorted the car with an aide to a prominent candidate in one of the political parties that were apprehended by the police at a checkpoint in Patani axis in Delta State.   Patani council had been in the news lately.  In January, a top member of the PDP and former Transition Committee Chairman of the council, Mr Paul Atie was shot dead.   Muka refused to disclose the names of the culprits and their sponsors, saying “three young men were arrested” at Patani with arms and are presently being interrogated by the police in Asaba.

http://www.dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15780:explosives-intercepted-in-delta-&catid=1:news&Itemid=2

Three simple questions:

Why can't Mr. Charles Muka disclose the names of the culprits?

Who is this so called 'prominent candidate?

Why do they always protect these 'big men' involved in all these?

Since the history of our democracy, not a single name of one 'big man' has ever been mentioned in a case like this and the cases always fade away. Trust me, those weapons will eventually be escorted by even more policemen until they reach their intended destinations and are used for their intended purpose.

For how long will Nigerians continue to be fooled in the hands of our leaders? We really need to replace these crop of leaders who all belong to the same cabal and always protect themselves with the police.

gogo123:
BUHARI,BAKARE,BABANGIDA, KILLER BEES, FLEE FROM THEM NIGERIANS. I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR BUHARI UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, MY GOODNESS BUHARI IT IS UNBELIEVABLE THAT OUR SO CALLED CIVILIZED COMPATRIOTS BECAME LATTER DAY CONVERTS TO BUHARI JUST BECAUSE HE PICKED THEIR TRIBES MAN AS A RUNNING MATE, SUCH EDUCATION, SUCH CIVILIZED PEOPLE

U are wrong!!. . . Most Buhari converts are people who in the past 12months have discovered that the GEJ whom we all loved is sooo clueless and has not in any

single way proven that he is ready to move Nigeria forward. The only people happy with GEJ today are the politicians and elites who keep getting richer while the

nation crumbles.

Nigerians have completely lost patience with GEJ and his PDP. It's anything but PDP

kennykane1:
Guys, here's the link to the online poll on the presidential candidates.

http://www.nigeriansdecide.110mb.com/

Obviously our man is on top!! Go BB

Its too bad that over 80% of the people voting in these polls will not be voting in the real elections.

muami:
Also, although the PDP 'tied' OBJ's hands on the FOI Act, it was not able to tie Jonathan's hands.
By the way, are you aware that a new minimum wage bill has been signed into law by Jonathan even in the face of opposition from governors?

The FOI bill was frustrated by our lawmakers but after 12yrs, when it became clear to a great majority of them that they wouldn't be returning to the house, they decided to pass the bill just to look good in the eyes of Nigerians. They knew the bill wouldnt be affecting them much.

Passage of that bill had nothing to do with GEJ.

dazey:
I DON'T HATE BUHARI BUT HE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO OFFER.NORTHER NIGERIAN HAVE RULE THIS COUNTRY FOR GOOD 30 YEARS AND NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT WHICH BUHARI IS PART OF IT LET US GIVE SOUTH-SOUTH CHANCE TO TRY SINCE YORUBA,HAUSA,FULANI HAVE SPOIL THE IMAGE OF THIS COUNTRY AND NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OUT OF THEM ONLY WICKEDNESS,SELFISHNESS,GREEDINESS,CORRUPTION,

My broda its not about liking Buhari; rather it's all about voting out the PDP. If u check your political history very well, you will find out that even the few southerners that have also ruled us also behaved like the same northerners u talk about. The reason is simple, they all belong to the same cult/cabal/party presently called PDP.

The real problem has nothing to do with where the individual comes. Nigerians just need to strip these evil men of their excess powers and start afresh. Pat Utomi said it all, "we need to crash our democracy and start afresh"

muami:
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Actually, your “list” ended up pointing to the “few” achievement of OBJ and PDP and may in fact sway some people to vote for them. If Buhari was head of state and you could not point to one PLAN he had or ACTION that he took to solve the probems of poverty, power, Niger delta, GSm etc. but you are able to poiint to the PLANS of PDP or OBJ.Then even if everything has not gone exactly as planned, I think it is better than having NO GSM at all, NO NDDC at all, NO EFCC at all, NO POWER ROADMAP at all  because of NO PLAN!

You are right. Everything i can possibly think of as an example was an achievement of the heavily vilified Obj and not PDP. I couldn't think of any single achievement of Yaradua and GEJ. The PDP has a way of tying the hands of our leaders and it takes only a strong and stubborn man like Obj to still achieve something even with all the constraints. That explains why GEJ and Yaradua even with all their great plans couldnt achieve a thing. Why would I then vote for this same PDP?

muami:
A review of the pro Buhari supporters show that they support him for two reason: (1)They believe he is not (too) corrupt, and (2) They hate PDP.Considering the extent of corruption in Nigeria and the below average performance of PDP in the past 12 years, these are good reasons.       However, the question is: Are these reasons good enough? I think it is a mistake to vote for someone because of who he is or in protest of what the other person or party did not do. Examples abound that people live to regret it. For example in UK, they voted the Conservatives simply because they hated Labour. Today, everyone is protesting against thie policies.Similarly, in the US, Obama was voted largely because people hated George Bush and the way he handled the Iraq war. Today, they have realised that hate and oratory prowess is not enough, which is why they voted back the Republican in the mid term elections.
Yes, I hate corruption, and yes, PDP has under performed but I dont think that should be the main reason why we should vote for the candidates we want to vote for otherwise we may end up regreting.All I am trying to say is this: if Buhari and his online supporters here really want us to vote for him, he and they should focus on the plans and programmes and not on the mere fact that he hates corruption.There are so many countries, including Ireland and Portugal, where the leaders are not corrupt and yet they are clueless as to how to move the economy forward. What we need is a leader that has a coherent plan on how to accelerate economic growth in the country. As we prepare to vote, let that be the overaching criteria for selecting candidates.

Exactly!

Nigeria just needs something or someone that can uproot the evil grip PDP has on the nation. Just like Pat Utomi recommended, we need to crash our democracy and start afresh and the only way that can happen is by dismantling the monster called PDP.

I'm a southerner and I support BB because they are the only hope Nigeria has to unseat the PDP


You talking of corruption, even a madman on the streets knows that no matter how good the plans and ideologies of a president are, as long as there is corruption in the polity, good plans can never be actualized.

taking Obj as an example,

-Obj had passionate plans to change our power situation and he pumped in a whooping $16billion to that effect but because of corruption, we all know the story. -

-Yaradua came in with great enthusiasm and declared an emergency in the same power sector. He started off the process with a probe of the $16b but because of the same old corrupt people that were transferred from Obj govt to yaradua govt, Yaradua never lived to see the report of the probe he initiated

-Obj had good plans to bring in cheap telecommunication into Nigeria but at the end, he succeeded in establishing the most expensive gsm services globally in Nigeria

-Obj had good plans for infrastructure, he awarded several contracts for Roads (benin-ore, east-west road etc) and bridges (2nd Niger bridge) etc but corruption swallowed the initiatives

-Obj established efcc to flush corruption out of nigeria but because of the same corruption, in the words of our corrupt speaker Bankole "EFCC isn't worth a penny."

-Today we have Petroleum industry bill moving from one legislative tenure to the other and the bill might never be passed because oil companies keep bribing our leaders to kill the bill

-NDDC, Niger Delta ministry, etc etc were all good initiatives to develop the abused Nigerdelta region but because of corruption, the budget for these ministries only made rich corrupt men even richer


The list is endless.

Apart from PDP members that must have a share in the plunder _{like Beaf and Ezeuche}, why would any sane person still want to support PDP?

Two violent groups of people clash and the leader of one of the groups (who didnt even initiate the violence) is docked and charged for treason.

What about the other warring faction?? Our justice system is a joke

The obsession our girls (and some mumu boys) have for Blackberries these days is really getting out of hand. Most girls have completely lost their manners as they would fix their whole attention on their phones even when u talking to them.

I thank God for Nollywood, they've hurriedly produced a movie to showcase this madness and ridicule the BB craze.

I pity boys

[flash=250,250]http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/5lDJGHCX2wA?fs=1&hl=en[/flash]

So far, this is the worst attempt at glorifying a useless Governor. The poster really needs to get his head checked. On the other hand, i applaud the posters

honesty at showing the world how his principal has transformed Imo from grass to grass

Dolemite:
Tainting that pure white blood, I'm not a big fan of inter racial relationships. . .imagine if miss Nigeria dated a white man, yeuch.

Ndipe:
You are racist!

Come to think of it, I don't think i'm a racist and I hate racists but I just gave the above bolded statement a thought. If miss Nigeria begins to

date a white guy today, I don't think i'll be happy. Does that make me a racist?

If I'm a racist for that then u would be surprised at the number of racists that exist in Nigeria

Great prophets are never appreciated in their homeland

mithel:
too bad nigeria isnt goin to work on his idea,useless goverment, dats hw dey av let so many ideas go to waste

where are those guys that av showcased deir idea times without numba on NTA,we avnt heard anytin again,

guy,if u luv your idea,go to a country where it would be appreciated,  

Kudos should be given to him for a nice initiative but I'm afraid there's nothing else the govt can use this his work for. If Nigeria needs rocket technology, we

need scientist that can improve on what already exists globally and not the ones reproducing century old inventions.

All these journalists and their misuse of English language. Do these guys know the meaning of the word "inventor"

Nigeria, the land where people interpret literacy as an individual's ability to speak English  

Outstrip:
Your taxes are going up because people are misusing the system. Wait for more Nigerians to come here and enjoy awoof (whatever that means) and your taxes will keep going up. SMH

[quote author=*Cougar* link=topic=627308.msg7955576#msg7955576 date=1300717213]he is an ignoramus. try telling a blind man the difference between green and orange.[/quote]U guys honestly think that isolated cases like this (involving Nigerians) are the real cause of tax increase in the UK? . . I think u should clap for yourselves

[quote author=*Cougar* link=topic=627308.msg7954722#msg7954722 date=1300708893]it simply means she's enjoying the benefits of free health care system without paying any tax towards it. she is in nigeria where she gets paid without taxes and yet she will come down here to have her kids free of charge. in other words, she's living off the taxes of jaybee and ceasyc![/quote]@ceasyc and jay bee

[size=17pt]Cheiii!!!![/size] This is the height of Bad belle and jealosy. Wetin concern u if she dey enjoy free healthcare? . . Because u are being taxed heavily so u want everybody to suffer the same fate with u?  Which kain bad belle all these not-doing-well Nigerians in diaspora get sef?

With the way these useless british people are fleecing me with taxes here, i would be very very happy if more of my fellow Nigerians can come here and enjoy the awoof. . .Haterz!!

Most people here on this thread have just displayed the typical kind of mindset most Nigerians have for others, HATRED and JEALOUSY!! What is wrong if someone who has the means wishes to give birth abroad? It is this idle-mind-jealous attitude that make people (especially in the villages) try to poison or use juju on relatives and friends whom they think are progressing.

Most people here try to conceal their malice by accusing her of shouting about it. Did she come out plainly on tv and announce this to the world or didn't she mention it simply because she was specifically asked by the interviewer?

Who is doing the shouting? she or the journalist? Besides just like someone here confirmed, this is an old interview that was dug up from the archives and I wonder why it should be on the front page. Haters should hit their head on the wall if they don't like her. Rubbish!

REALITY101:
Yeah girl it is really nice to be an American Citizen or British. But  do you really need to shout to the world over it? So make all us begin dey shout because w have one?

Lame in kinda way.

She wasn't shouting it as u say; rather the mumu journalist was the one shouting out only that part of the whole conversation. u know how journalists behave

uplawal:
Abio,dnt mind her,she can even born in her village sef  and her kids will still be citizens if shes one.

ONIRANU OTIRO NIGERIA PIN.

Are u really sure?

By the way, is it Goodluck Jonathan (Executive) that appoints or promotes judges in the Federal high court (Judiciary)?? Why is GEJ's name all over this thread??

This man's face reminds me of the one and only Aondoakaa I.don.kia

@bk.babe97y
I think u got me wrong. B4 u start ur spree of insults, I need to clarify something; my statement was only explaining the reason why Ojukwu took the sarowiwa thing personal. I wasnt trying to justify his action.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=625475.msg7931109#msg7931109 date=1300369494]Oh, dont worry homes, most of us still recall how Ojukwu went all ova the world justifying why Saro-Wiwa had to be killed![/quote]Saro wiwa hated the ibos for no clear reason and from what i hear, he betrayed Ojukwu in some way. The hatred ojukwu had for sarowiwa was personal and the reasons were obvious. So what's the big deal if ojukwu wanted wiwa dead?

With the scary level of polarization we have degenerated to in this country, I doubt if this will ever work. There are certain things that can never be reversed hence we should try as hard as possible to prevent them starting.

Arguments here say it is easier abroad because the facilities and educational resources are at ones disposal but this is the way i see and liken the two scenarios

Nigeria: u are given a spoon and asked to dig a 5 feet deep trench

Overseas: u are equipped with a spoon, a shovel, hoes, spades etc and u are required to dig a 100 feet trench by hand.

While studying overseas, u are equiped with all the resources u might likely need but the task is hundred times more than what u are expected to accomplish if u study in Nigeria. I have being through both systems and I know exactly what I'm saying.

Finally, to an extent, it all depends on ur school and ur course.

[quote author=BABE! link=topic=621022.msg7893150#msg7893150 date=1299868592]Is it me or wat? I believe studying abroad is way way way easier than studying in 9ja, U have everything you need here, "Google" is your best friend, lol
The stress I went through in high school alone can't be compared with this child's play I've been doing since I got to college and I'm a medical student (well a wannabe, for now  ),  IF YOU KNOW YOU WHAT YOU ARE DOING SHAAA OO, i honestly think its super easy, ( plus, if you are NOT working, and all that), then your good![/quote]U might be right cos u are an undergrad. In my opinion, the undergrads have a more relaxed programme when compared to postgrads. Secondly, since u've not been through the Nigerian university system, u might not be in a good position to compare.