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Celebrities / Re: Davido In Tears For Flying Economy Class From Ohio To Los Angeles by Obamaa: 12:45pm On May 09, 2016
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Politics / Re: The President Lied! By Yinka Odumakin by Obamaa: 10:22am On Jun 26, 2012
dedeike: Once Again, the opposition has gone full circle in a failed bid to doctor the interesting media chat the President had with Nigeians. I have much respect for Yinka Odumakin as an activit. But it remains to be seen how this analyses can ever be said to be flowing from that media chat. I watched the media chat. First, Yinka proceeded on a faulty assumption that the President was talking about the Ribadu committe set up to monitor our oil revenue. No. What the president clearly said is that while he was an acting president, he had already directed Aganga to invite any globally reputable audit firm to investigate NNPC. The president said this in a bid to clear the air on his alleged plans to kill Lawan's report. He said that even far before the House Probe, he had already taken his own independent step to investigate the oil sector. Logically too, one of the major reasons for the removal of subsidy was to eliminate the cabal from feeding fat from oil subsidy. So does it make sense when people now reprobate to accuse the president from shielding the same cabal from Farouk.'s hammer? Somehow both the President and the masses have a common enemy in the cabal. The president sought to punish the cabal thru subsidy removal while the masses sought to punish the cabal thru the probes but unfortunately both efforts turned awry. Secondly, it is not also true that the president could not face live questions. He did face all the questions thrown at him confidently. He responded to the Brasil trip perfectly. He told about ongoing power reforms in summary. He talked about YOUWIN in response to a question by the caller. He explained the reason behind the sack of Azazi. Please let's try to be objective. We must not kill this man because our preferred presidential candidates lost to him.


Nonentity.......which preferred candidates,maybe yu dont realise that the people calling for GEJ head are those who actually voted for him 1. cos of lack of better candidate and 2. cos they thought , he will deliver.

@ Bukkyade: a fool and sycophant, if only that is your problem..Why dont yu guys give us plausible analyses of all we heard.

@ Nlders: When i heard about this media chat, i knew that everyone will come to vent here without actually taking their destiny into their hands like the Northern African countries. The only people with the courage and bravery to do that are unfortunately boko-haraming.
Politics / Re: A Must Read ! Before You Go Out For Any Protest: by Obamaa: 6:23pm On Jan 06, 2012
samstels:

Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS) responds
to some Internet Inquiries on fuel subsidy and wrote: If you will
patiently read this mail to the end you will understand my position. I
won't be able to repeat everything I have said over the past few years
on fuel subsidy, but in summary; Fraud like theft thrives not only
because of the existence of greed and benefit but of opportunity.
Place yourself in
the shoes of the average nigerian "businessman" or
"entrepreneur"-polite euphemisms for rent seeking parasites.

[b]You establish an elcee for importing 20,000MT of PMS and the PPPRA
says this is at a landed cost of N145 for example per litre. So u know
that for every litre in that vessel you will get at least N85 as
subsidy. Now you have a number of "possiblities":
1. You can off load 5,000 MT and bribe customs and other officials to
sign papers confirming u offloaded 20k MT. Then do the same across the
chain with a paper trail showing you delivered 20k MT to a tank farm,
and maybe even that u transported it to Maiduguri entitling you to a
share of the price equalization fund. Maybe for N20-N30 per litre u
bribe all those who sign the papers. The 15k MT you take to Benin or
Ghana or Cameroun and sell at market price thus makin an additional
"profit" of N55/ltr on 15,000MT!

2 you can just forge documents and have them stamped without bringing
in anything and collect the subsidy-PPPRA pays based on DOCUMENTS.

3 you can bring in the fuel, load on tankers, sell some at N65N some
at 80 some at 100 some across the land borders.

You can do all this and no one can catch it or prove it because
somebody was paid to sign off on docs. And with a high enough margin
there is too much temptation to be resisted and firepower for bribing
officials.

When I spoke to the house of reps I told them why I was suspecting
fraud. It starts from PPPRA "allocations" based on "capacity". You
will find a company like Mobil with capacity for say 60,000 MT and a
relatively unknown name with a capacity of say 90k MT. Red alert
number 1.[/b]

Although PPPRA is supposed to give license only to marketers with a
national distribution network you see names of companies where you
have never seen a filling station in their name.
I was a chief risk officer in UBA and in FBN for many years approving
loans so I know the name of every big player in every industry that
nigerian banks lend to as these are among the biggest banks in the
country. I see names on the list I don't recognise either from
portfolios. I looked at or industry studies over the years. Red alert
number 2.

I studied the papers presented to PPPRA in a short period in 2010 (I
won't tell you how I got them!). And I was surprised that on some days
over 10 vessels are said to have discharged cargo in lagos on the same
day-clearly the same officers stamping and "verifying" that the
vessels were SEEN. Is it really realistic that on the same day 13-15
vessels can discharge in Lagos? Red alert number 3.

Why was I interested in fuel marketing. Because the two sectors that
led to the near collapse of the banking industry were capital markets
and oil marketing. I am not giving any confidential info out as AMCON
MD has already disclosed publicly that two companies alone-zenon and
AP-owned by the same businessman owed the nigerian banking industry
N220b. And we all saw the amount of subsidy paid to those companies
published by BusinessDay.
So money had been taken, subsidy had been collected but loans were not
repaid, and we couldn't see the money either as product in tank farms
or in fuel stations or credit sales. So I became obsessed with trying
to understand how that industry operated and the more I saw the more I
hated it and I started the war against subsidies.
It is actually better to do a direct cash payout or add a line item to
salaries called petroleum support or transport allowance capped at say
N300b p/a than to keep paying it. It goes to pay middle men,
rent-seekers and corrupt officers and there is no amount of preaching
that will stop this fraud so long as the policy is so badly defined.
Everytime oil price goes up and everytime the naira is devalued and
everytime the quantity of imports increases the "subsidy" and thus the
"rent" increases and there is more gravy to go round. So every year we
"import" more and more and deplete our reserves, and the government
borrows more and more to pay for subsidy and the beneficiaries are a
smal group of marketers, govt officials and neighbouring countries
which get fuel without losing forex! And while a person who applies
intelligence can see what is happening you can't prove it in a court
of law. If the man says he sighted the vessel and it was 20kMT you
have to accept it. It was a year ago!

So for two years I have been convinced that this thing is a scam and
that it cannot be stopped because the entire controls have been
compromised. NNPC sells domestic crude, Pays whatever subsidy PPPRA
says and then gives the balance after JVC to the federation account.
And while fani kayode is right to speak up, the truth is that it was
obasanjo who first subverted the process by allowing NNPC to make the
deductions before paying into federation account. Because once money
goes into that account it is to be shared among 3 tiers of government
so strictly speaking the deductions have always been unconstitutional
as the FG was paying subsidy on behalf of itself and state and LGs
without their approval.

So yes, I am willing to take all the criticism and labels and be
unpopular but this has to stop and govt can find other ways of
alleviating pain. Iran removed subsidies and started cash transfers
directly to the poor. It is up to fiscal authorities to figure out
safety nets but from where I sit and what I know this decision is not
only correct but necessary and overdue. I also confirm that I have
revealed nothing here I haven't spoken about before in public and it
is just that Nigerians never listen!

I am not complaining about insults I am used to that. I just believe
that an insult is not an argument and when people resort to personal
abuse they have run out of logic.

But to then go beyond me and extend it to my dead grandfather and his
"descendants" ie my late father his siblings etc I think goes beyond
the pale. As a Nigerian-and as an economist- I can take a position on
economic matters and this position is one I have had for years even
before coming in to the central bank.

I have also explained the position on several occasions and criticised
government for not doing this before. In 2010 at a public hearing in
the House of Reps on the 25% saga I alerted the nation of what I
considered a potential big scam around subsidies and urged for its
removal. No one paid attention. The economics is very clear to me.
That it is unpopular is also understandable.

The British public is unhappy with Tory budget cuts. The Greeks went
on riot over austerity. Italian parliamentarians came to blows before
Berlusconi was thrown out of office. The US congress is yet to approve
Obamas tax increases.

Economic decisions-by definition-ALWAYS must involve a cost or an
opportunity cost since for them to qualify as economic they must
involve a choice in resource allocation among competing uses. An
enlightened debate is one that weighs the pros and cons of removing
subsidy and continuing with it.

Removing it has costs in terms of nigerians paying more for PMS-which
by the way is not the fuel for genrators, power plants, production
facilities, heavy duty goods transportation trucks and even luxury
buses.
It is fuel used by the middle class and car owners to drove around
town and from city to city not to employ workers and produce goods and
services. Diesel which is critical to manufacturing and employment
creation is not subsidized as the subsidy was removed years ago by
obasanjo. Nigerians said nothing then because it was blue collar
workers that got retrenched by factories.

Those speaking now on the internet and facebook and twitter and
newspapers are not workers but middle class elite who use PMS in their
smart cars so let's stop all the ideological pretence. This is not
about elite and masses but an intra-elite discourse.

I will summarise the issues and I write as a Nigerrian economist and
public intellectual not as a public servant:

1. I am a strong advocate for subsidies if they are for production and
not consumption, and if they benefit the poor and not middle men and
rent seekers. The US government subsidizes cotton and wheat farmers
and nigeria spends its reserves importing wheat from america and
keeping american farmers employed. The OECD countried pay subsidies to
cattle farmers. Today Promasidor imports powdered milk from New
Zealand and packages in nigeria using our foreign exchange while we
have cattle. WAMCO imports milk from the UK and adds water and tins it
and calls it "production" of Peak milk. We use our forex to import
petroleum products and keep refineries and jobs open in europe.
Meanwhile precisely because of market distortions there can be no
private sector investment in refineries since no one can make profit
seling at the regulated price unless we are going to provide private
refineries with crude for next to nothing. Certainly no one can
purchase crude at market price, refine it and sell at N65 without huge
losses so this explains why there are no private refineries.

2. what I mention above is at the heart of the problem with government
economic policy which needs to be changed. The economy since SAP is
one that supports imported consumption and not local production,
perpetuating dependency, non inclusive growth and insecurity. Why is
it that the economy is growing at 7pct annually but the people are
getting poorer. Because growth gains are not evenly distributed.
Personal income is skewed towards people in the oil industry,
telecomms, high finance, stock market, real estate and yes civil
servants and politicians who feed on corruption. We produce crude oil
but import petroleum products (today the UKs highest exports to
nigeria are petroleum products). We have a large cotton belt but
import textiles from china (thus keeping their subsidized factories
open and jobs in china). We are the world's number 1 producer of
cassava but import cassava starch from europe. We have a huge tomato
belt in kadawa, jigawa and chad basin but are the world's largest
importer of tomato paste-from China and Italy. We can produce rice but
we import rice from Thailand and India-most of it from grain reserves
that have been in stock for over 5

3. If above is clear then it is evident that this trajectory can only
lead to disaster. We will continue to spend our resources promoting
growth and employment in our trading partners. Terms of trade shift
against us, we can only have foreign reserves because by the good
grace of God we have Oil which will be exhausted soon and with new
discoveries may become so cheap it loses value. We don't create any
value added jobs as the only real production is peasant farming. Oill,
telecomms, finance and real estate are not employment intensive. So
everyone becomes a civil servant as the economy cannot create jobs.
Result? In 2012 budget out of a total N1.8tr recurrent expenditure for
the executive arm N1.6tr is on personnel costs not overheads. To
reduce this you have to cut salaries or pensions or retrench civil
servants. This is the classic trajectory of underdevelopment,
de-development and de-industrialisation.

4. For the above reasons I am a strong proponent of structural reform
and this begins from the fiscal framework. The limited resources of
government should be allocated to supporting production-especially if
we are running a budget deficit. We cannot keep borrowing to support
conspicuous consumption. To support a job creating economy we need to
fund power, transportation infrastructure, market infrastructure and
access, technical and vocational education etc. We need to build rice
processing plants, produce starch and cassava flour and ethanol,
process our tomato and milk locally, regenerate our textiles firms
(which used to employ 600,000 workers but now employ 30,000!), refine
our own crude etc. We cannot even begin to do this if 30pct of govt
expenditure is on fuel subsidy, if out of the balance 70pct is
recurrent spending, 10pct is debt service, 10pct goes to the niger
delta and only 10pct is capital expenditure. So it is about a
choice-what do we spend money on and how do we allocate resources?
5. We often compare ourselves to other oil producing countries like
saudi arabia. What are the facts? With a population of over 160m we
produce 2mbpd ie 1 barrel for every 80+ citizens daily. Govt share of
revenues if like 50pct of every barrel so it is effectively a barrel
for 160 citizens. Saudi Arabia with a 24m population produces over
8mbpd or one barrel for every 3 citizens. In fact in 2010 the nearest
OPEC country to nigeria in production per capita was Algeria with a
barrel for 30 and algeria is more gas than oil.

With one barrel for 3 citizens dailt saudi arabia is able to provide
infrastructure, education, healthcare and social safety nets and have
huge savings. It can provide subsidised fuel at a total cost that is a
fraction of its savings and even export refined products. It is paying
for subsidies ouy od its fiscal savings and not borrowing to pay. We
are like a poor man with a rich neighbour. The neighbour buids a good
house, buys several cars, eat expensive food, travel abroad every year
and still have huge balances in sevral current accounts. Then you
choose to live that lifestyle and mortgage your house, take an
overdraft from the bank to finance it. Next year it is time to repay
the bank, u don't have the money so u go to another bank, borrow
enough to pay the first bank principal plus interest and also fund the
continuation of the lifestyle. It continues till u can't borrow
anymore and the bank throws u and your family out of your house and
you everything.

A responsible father would have long since faced reality and told his
family he doesn't earn as much as his neighbour and expectations need
to be moderated if they to keep their roof. Of course the children
won't be happy at not going to Hawaii for summer and having to take
public transport rather than own cars like their neighbour's children.
Maybe they will even abuse the father behind his back and call him a
miser. That is the cost of leadership.

Finally: removing subsidy is not a silver bullet that solves our
economic problems. And there is a huge trust deficit that government
has to address. Government needs to investigate subsidy payments and
punish any violations of extant guidelines. It needs to cut on
unnecessary and waste ful expenditure. It needs to fight corruption
and show seriousness in that. It needs to deliver on capital projects,
power and infrastructure including irrigation, farm-level storage and
agri-processing. These are all valid issues that are to be taken IN
ADDITION to and not in place of subsidy removal.

Since someone has decided to make insinuations about my grandfather I
owe it to him to defend his record. it was my grandfather as emir that
repealed an obnoxious rule started from the days of Emir Usman that
disenfranchised women from inheriting property. It was sanusi that
built the groundnut pyramids to the point where Kano NA was
contributing 40pct of the revenues of the northern region. It was emir
sanusi who built the Bompai Industrial Estate, and turned kano into
the industrial nerve centre of the north. He was acting governor of
the northern region, minister for pilgrim affairs, chief Imam of
friday mosque, judge and leader of the Tijjaniya order. As for his
"descendants" my father was one of the very first batch of 12
Nigerians recruited by the British to set up the foreign service in
1957 and he remained in public service and rose to be permanent
secretary before retirement. He set up in the 60s the research dept of
the ministry- the present NIA so he was the first external
intelligence officer in Nigeria. As permanent secretary he was the
architect of Murtala Mohammed's policy on decolonisation of Africa and
oversaw the independence of Mozambique and Angola and the final push
to liberate Zimbabwe and South Africa.

So yes Sanusi was not perfect. He was a feudal aristocrat. And my
father was not perfect. He was also a prince and priviledged to go to
Oxford and LSE. But please if you want to abuse my grandfather and
father kindly tell us what contributions your own grandfather and
father made to the people.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is the governor of Nigeria's Central Bank







Didnt finish this essay but,is it not a shame that some few crop of people will be able to deceive the government.Why dont Sanusi and the Government get the crooks behind the forgery and deceptions at the port.Should dubious dealings by a handful of cabals be a reason for subsidy removal.Its a big shame to our corrupt government and some of their toothless employees like Sanusi,that just complains about a cabal and will not do something about it.

Does it mean,that we cant fight corruption in this kwountrii eehhh?
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Health / Re: Women After Abortion. by Obamaa: 12:13pm On Aug 15, 2011
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Health / Re: Doctor In The House:Obstetrics And Gynecology by Obamaa: 12:05pm On Aug 15, 2011
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Health / Re: Mifepristone by Obamaa: 11:58am On Aug 15, 2011
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Health / Mifepristone by Obamaa: 8:04am On Aug 15, 2011
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Business / Chief Imam Of The Central Bank Of Nigeria. by Obamaa: 2:32pm On Jul 04, 2011
Chief Imam of the Central Bank of Nigeria By Ayo Turton

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Nigeria is a country in dire need of heroes, we are people that have been battered, abused and continuously raped by our so called leaders. In desperation we have cried out many times, ‘from whence will our help come from?…’ In our desperation for a hero, we have many times mistook, empty braggadocio, savior-cowboy attitude with underbelly of personal and sectional agenda, wanton violations of our human rights, personal liberty and economic interests for genuine love and sincerity of purpose. We always end up disappointed.

With the oil boom occasioning the early seventies, all seems to be rosy for us, our Naira stands at par with the British Pound and a step above the United States dollars, but we were tired of a military rule with no end in sight and no clear agenda for a transition to civilian rule, we desperately yearned for a hero. Then emerged the late Gen. Murtala Mohammed he came riding on a chariot of fire, he got rid of Gen. Yakubu Gowon, he embarked on civil service and institutional reforms, gave a transition to civil rule timeline, he goes about catching late comers in ministries like newly appointed high school prefects, we hailed and cheered him to no end, we quickly forgot the atrocities that were attributed to him during the civil war that ended just few years before.

Six months into his government he was cut down by another group of ambitious and trigger happy military boys.

Saved by the death, the number one gateway to the nation was named after him, the highest denomination of our currency at the time carries his picture, many roads and government building are christened in his name, by the time we know what befell us, the emergency “hero” within those months had single-handedly destroyed our civil service by sacking all the experienced hands in one fell swoop and killed our railway corporation. In his fire brigade exploits threw away the baby with the bath water. Things have never been the same since then. We will give a arm and a leg now to have back the kind of civil service destroyed by Murtala Mohammed where people were very professional, they never had the opportunity to pass it down.

Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo completed Murtala transition plans and handed over to an elected government in 1979. A government that turned out to be a government of prodigal sons. They went a-partying, despite the fact that a barrel of petroleum once sold for between $41- $43 way back in 1980-81 which may translate to about $140.00 per barrel today, we had nothing to show for it but hunger and austerity measures, while the people in power were giving away brand new cars to praise singers during one of their conventions. We began to yearn for a change and a hero again. That was not to be through the ballot system as elections were wantonly rigged, but through the barrel of the gun. Peaceful change gave way to violent change, enter the duo of Gen. Buhari and Gen. Idiagbon.

Shouts of Happy New Year, Happy New Government rented the air when they sacked the inept government of Alhaji Shagari on December 31, 1983.

They started by waging a war against indiscipline which was truly chronic with Nigerians, they were hailed and celebrated, new “heroes” were in town. Shortly after, we began to see a different people. They created decrees that makes truth reporting a crime, people were actually jailed for saying the truth, they created another one that empowers them to lock up people unchallenged, they committed executive murder by primitively back dating laws, they broke into people warehouses with impunity and remove their goods without due process. Common household items like detergent, milk, soaps etc became scarce, they were tagged “essential commodities” People now had to queue up in the street to get these items, you have to know or be a friend to a soldier to have a regular supply of a staple food like rice and our elder statesmen were jailed arbitrarily. Our hearts became broken yet again, and we yearned for yet another hero.

Then enter Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, he thought the forceful approach of Murtala Mohammed and Buhari was no longer in vogue. He came with ever present gap-toothed smile of a evil genius as we later got to know. The War Against Indiscipline program that they used to enforce with military brutality of horse-whips and corporeal punishment he made voluntary, he consulted before taken any action, he drew up a transition program. Our joy knows no bound, here comes our hero we yelled, we affectionately coined the name IBB for him. No sooner as the new emergency “hero” found his feet that his real agenda became unfolded. There were rumors that he took over government because he was about to be retired for criminal dealings. We later got to know that when we were busying debating the issues he has thrown to the public, he was busy perfecting the opposite.

He liberalized access to public treasury, where corruption became buffet-served, all you can steal. When our men of the fourth estate of the realm began to poke their noses into his affairs, a leading one among them got dispatched to the great beyond with a parcel bomb. His transition plan became endless, several billions were sunk into it with no result. Then we began to get uncomfortable with this “hero” as well. The final stroke that broke the camel’s back was when he annulled the elections that was the freest and fairest to that point in his bid to perpetuate himself in power. He was another villain in hero’s clothing. We got heart broken again.

For some of us who are students of history and for those of us who have followed carefully the history of emergency “heroes” in Nigeria- they tend to enter the scene firing from all cylinders like Clint Eastwood, get deadly and romantic at the same time like James Bond and sometimes have the irresistible charm of John Wayne. This time around we clearly saw through the emergence of another emergency “hero” in Lamido Sanusi on his appointment as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.

The tell tales sign were already there when he started his circus show of banking industry reforms, his penchant for playing to the gallery, and arrogation of power of life and death over the industry to himself. Of course we embraced him wholeheartedly because of our usual desperation for a hero and the general hatred for the players in the industry among the people.

First of all I have my reservations about the appointment of a seriously controversial and strongly opinionated person like Lamido Sanusi to head a conservative institution like the Central Bank. Those who are appointed to such position are hardly heard except on strictly professional matters. Their textual works and lectures that you read are more in the areas of their professional callings. This was not the case with Lamido Sanusi who has written more articles on Sharia and socio-political issues fifty times more than you will ever find on his works on economics or monetary policy.

Even his rise in the banking industry sounds incredible, he first joined banking industry according to his resume in 1985, he was only there till 1991 before he went for graduate studies in Sharia and Islamic Studies in a Sudanese University. When he came back in May 1997, he joined UBA, between that time and December 1998, he has moved from Principal Manager II to Principal Manager I to Assistant General Manager, all in less than two years. Well, by 2005 he has rose past Deputy General Manager to General Manager, hellooo.

He crossed over to First Bank that year as Executive Director and by January 2009 he had a brief stint as the Managing Director of First Bank before finally been appointed the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria six months after. Meaning within a relatively short years of completing his postgraduate studies in Sharia and Islamic Studies he has become the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

We may say that the time frame does not matter but intellectual materials that can be attributed to him, but then what do we find, articles like “Shariacracy in Nigeria: The Intellectual Roots of Islamist Discourses, Shariah and the Woman Question,” Institutional Framework of Zakat: Dimension and Implications,” On the Islamisation of Politics & the Politicisation of Islam” Between the Shariah and ‘Barbarism ” The Shariah Debate: A Muslim Intervention” And several others of that genre.

Other materials you will find that are a little bit in variation to his Islamic works will be found in the paper he delivered in 1999 at the Arewa House titled “Issues in Restructuring Corporate Nigeria” where he identified Yoruba people as the problem of Nigeria with their “Area Boys” politics, where he also alluded that the Igbo were merely paying for their foolishness in their role against the unity of Nigeria but they have paid enough price.

Why are we surprised when this man started acting like he is a Chief Imam of the Central Bank of Nigeria as he champions the impunitive introduction of Islamic Banking in a constitutionally secular state like Nigeria?

Isn’t it funny how we yelled to have Etteh removed for over-inflated contracts of N680 million only to get Bankole who took N10 billion for allowances?

Like one of the regular commentators on NigeriaVillageSquare.com known as Soul Sista once wrote “ May our desperation for a hero not make us eat shit”

Ayo Turton is a USA based legal practitioner.

http://pointblanknews.com/Articles/artopn3861.html
NYSC / Re: INEC-NYSC Partnership: Is It Really Working? by Obamaa: 2:47pm On Jan 12, 2011
In Nasarawa state,instead of giving corpers their transport and feeding allowances,the INEC officials bought minerals and cabin biscuits.Corpers chased them(INEC officials) away on the 1st day-friday,7th jan and they returned with the same mineral and cabin the next day to offer again.

Some corpers have attended the training for 4days and they have not received shishi for all their sacrifices.

INEC said they would use corpers,but in the state capital Lafia,INEC said they wanted 500 corpers out of the almost 1200 corpers,after the 2days training,they brought out list that was not up to 200 meanwhile they brought in so many undergraduates who are indigenes.Who are they kidding.If the 1200 corpers were much,what are they now doing with undergraduates and other adhoc staff when it was explicitly stated that they will use mainly corpers.

I dont know who is deceiving who.Either INEC themselves or Jega's lieutenants who dont want to see him succeed.
Celebrities / Re: Welcome Back From Jail Lill Wayne with picture by Obamaa: 11:23am On Nov 04, 2010
Wetin concern agbero with overload.
Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: Lafia Nasarawa State Residents, Lets Meet Here. by Obamaa: 1:06pm On Sep 06, 2010
dats gud,me lafia.
Politics / Re: Ifo Residents Protest Against Obasanjo by Obamaa: 12:51pm On Sep 03, 2010
Leave Baba Iyabo alone,wat has he done nw in this write-up.
Dating And Meet-up Zone / Lafia Nasarawa State Residents, Lets Meet Here. by Obamaa: 3:49pm On Aug 31, 2010
State which part of Lafia or Nasarawa state that u reside in,so dat fun will be ours to conquer.
Health / Pls Help:yellowish Urine Discharge by Obamaa: 3:01pm On Aug 31, 2010
I always discharge yellow urine anytime i take a lick.Is it lack of too much water intake or wat?Please i need suggestions.
Religion / Re: The Man Who Saw Adam,abel,lot And Jonah (the Call) Must Read. by Obamaa: 6:16am On Jul 01, 2010
mrmayor:

[size=14pt]What is the point of all these Back From Heaven and Hell stories?[/size]
u didnt end ua story on iya sikira welL, so i decided 2 investigate ua whereabt since 2008,lo n behold i found u stil postin in 2010.Ma questn is,WAT HAPPND?
Health / Re: Shaving For Men by Obamaa: 10:27pm On Feb 17, 2010
how do u get a smooth shave for one dat shaves wit clipper.
Health / Re: Re-occuring Typhoid Infection by Obamaa: 12:38am On Feb 01, 2010
Songbird5:

Hi housedoc,
Allow me to make my humble observation.
Im not medical but i think your medical degree(if you have one) would be put to better use if you made some positive contributions and offered advice/solutions to our problems. Rather than trying to discredit the medics, doctors and 'quacks' in this section. We dont even have enough of these ppl here. We are no babies , i think the minimum age here is at least age of consent. So we can make our own choice. So i hope u can get on board whatever category you fit into and make a positive impact.


Ma guy Songbird,we are on dis thread 2 discover dat we dnt knw and d Housedoc u are antagonizin has bein sayin useful thins while odas are tryin 2 collect commission 4rm some1 who sincerely came to NL seekin 4 advice.Must one kal anybody 2 get d name of any drug,y nt put d names on dis forum.Puuleeze,if u rily wanna bicker,i suggest u go 2 Romance section(no hard feelin).
Celebrities / Re: P-Square Finally Opens Up About Landlord by Obamaa: 11:38pm On Oct 10, 2009
moderatorr:

GLO gave PSQare hundred million Naira a few months ago!

Honestly i cant belive those 2 gooks aint gat no maney to build there own house!
Cant believe they still break walls to join rooms!


We're richer than them-my brothers.
No mind them.


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Amebo,u were dere durin d signin of d endorsement deal 2 knw d exact amt given to dem,u r richer dan dem,who do u fink is mindin u,

sammytb:

Omo see me see wahaaala dey. Ooo oh, Wahala dey, 4rm tenant 2 landlord. Eh p-square dey see danger, *Lol*

Wat is d danger in goin 4rm tenant 2 landlord,get a hold on uasef,

raphy:

wazup!
p-square or wht they claim to be dont have home yet they just claim som one house.
it seems like they are spending there milions on LovePeddler b beer grin boys r always boys u knw
nothing for them the r tenant @ omole cosi wahala. cool

Pot callin kettle black,
Romance / Re: Help Me Wit Dis: by Obamaa: 4:12pm On Sep 29, 2009
i have received amazin answers so far n i fink i hv 2 plan on visitin soon, 10x y'all.
Romance / Help Me Wit Dis: by Obamaa: 2:19pm On Sep 29, 2009
Deres dis gurl i met thru a friend(actually he introduced us on fone) and since we stay far apart we couldnt see immediately bt we kept in constant touch thru fone.4 d last 3mths we have bin tlkin daily on fone.She stays in d north n i go dere often bt nw i hv not gone as am busy in ma base.But d thin is dat we r doing gr8 2geda on fone and she is alwaiz hapi 2 hear ma voice and kallin or flashin wen i dnt kal.Bt receently she has bin actin up like she is nt hapi 2 hear ma voice or as if am disturbin,wen i tld her abt it she said dat she is sori 4 d lack of excitement in her voice.Wat do people think is happenin and wat do i do 2 make dis relationship work.

I nid objective views.
Nairaland / General / Re: Who Is Phraoh by Obamaa: 4:15pm On Sep 25, 2009
yeah,i mean u phraoh,
Nairaland / General / Who Is Phraoh by Obamaa: 4:00pm On Sep 25, 2009
Pls,

will want to knw who phraoh is and the mysteries with the treasure dat lies beneath him,
Romance / Re: Shape Of A Man by Obamaa: 9:36am On Sep 23, 2009
ThoniaSlim:

You don't need to see him naked to have an idea. wink

except cos am no gal,bt aw will u kw a guy wit good toned structure underneath his clothin,


Gabry:


hahahaha! I just need someone to squeeze at night grin tongue

any kindda guy is good 4 u,is dat,

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