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Not many think Jonathan is sincere, honest, able and willing to change anything. He is part of the problem and his petroleum minister, Alison-Madueke is also part of the problem. Alison-madueke saw just a "draft" report where the rest of the world saw monumental corruption, complicity, criminal negligence, collusion with intent to steal from the Nigerian people, falsification of documents, solicitation and obtaining funds by crooked means, racketeering, aiding and abetting corrupt practices, and cooking the books with the intent to commit multiple frauds. The report has been with Alison-Madueke for at least a month and she did not bother and was not anxious to do anything with it. She may be gloating that Next newspaper that did a good job of monitoring her ministry and activities is temporarily out of circulation, but she can be assured that she has nowhere to hide and the recurring corruption taking place in her ministry will not go unexposed. She has failed repeatedly to give account and provide a true picture of her ministry. She has harassed journalists and been uncooperative with the National Assembly.

The above is the meat of this article for me
It shows madam goggle eyes is just a puppet in the puppet master's hand
Nigeria has long gone to the dogs
The question we should be asking is,
[size=14pt]Do we still want to fix her or do we want to split her?[/size]
Ever other posturing ,without answering the above question, is just wishful thinking.

truth4meal: The business of Biafra declaration is booming -

Na you talk am O!

kay dibs: You shouldn't compare. America is wayyyy older than Nigeria. Its an un fair comparison. Still doesn't mean Ngr isn't trash tho

Yeah right
Go over the border to Ghana and see losing candidates conceding defeat
I recall listening to a lawyer on TV once saying he entered a law bookshop in the UK and was told they had no texts/books on election tribunals
Yet such tribunals is always a big pay day for Nigerian lawyers seeing they are the ones who goad on the politicians even before the results are announced
Mtscheew

If this is true, then how are the mighty fallen

https://www.nairaland.com/1095786/gunmen-rampage-kill-baby-members whcih should be in the crime sub-section.

Despite all the bitter bickering of the past 14 months, it all over in under 24 hours
No petitions, No violence, No threats

The above says it all
Are Seun and his mods asleep?
The Politics thread is always filled with irrelevant threads e.g.

https://www.nairaland.com/1095719/how-phd-holder-lived-died#12865400 which I believe should be in the family section

https://www.nairaland.com/1094422/why-does-southeast-most-tall which should be in the properties section

https://www.nairaland.com/1095269/photo-how-phcn-should-function and https://www.nairaland.com/1095442/german-experts-visit-osun-boost which should be in the business section

https://www.nairaland.com/1095529/better-pass-neighbour-gen-cosumes would fare better under a technology/technical sub-section or Nairaland's General section

While the politics thread does drive a lot of traffic, it and other sections need to be cleaned regularly by moving threads to appropriate sections
My 2 kobo for a better Nairaland
So Seun and the other mods, over to you chaps

Callousness is skin deep in too many Nigerians regardless of the crocodile hue and cry over the ALUU 4
Isn't this the same country where people shun family and friends when they are in hospitals but are first on the queue for aso-ebi aka uniform once the person passes on?

You left out some,
ALUU 4
Boko Haram
Fuel Scarcity
Retardeen
Subsidy scam etc are some which readily come to mind.

I purchased a phone [Samsung Chat 322] as a gift sometimes in January & haven't heard any issues regarding it from the user.
Never the less, I've heard from the grapevine that ,SLOT sells off refurbished phones as new& is involved is several underhand deals on high end phones

We are burrowing to pay back with high interest rates,yet we are creating a sovereign wealth fund to save money
Sounds like penny wise ,pound foolish to me.

“This will be supported through the ADB (Africa Development Bank) through a concessionary loan with a 40-year maturity, 10-year moratorium and at 0.7 per cent interest rate.

Also I doubt the effectiveness of the above quote credited to her
Are interest rates that low for such a maturity date?
Nigeria currently pays between 13-17% on burrowed money used to service her bonds while Spain ,Italy and Portugal are shying away from 6-7%burrowing costs, yet ADB is offering 0.7% interest rates and we still burrow at 13-17%
Yet there are no visible changes in infrastructural development
Is this not the same Ngozi who spoke of SURE-P once upon a time?
Nigerian politics and Economics are so similar, the more you see the less you understand it

I write this under the pretense that both the report and the so-called 'source' are reliable.

No need been sarcastic, seeing other outlets have carried this story too

lolz

This people [9ja government] just don't get it
Nigeria is so seriously flawed in her setup
You can't buy the peace
The FG can just buy herself more time before the next and deadlier militant agitation

The Federal Government may have commenced considering the criteria for compensating members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, particularly those who had suffered one form of injustice or the other.

Also there were indications on Sunday that the government might be willing to pay compensation to the sect’s members “who were seen to have been killed unjustly.”

A very dependable source in the Presidency told The PUNCH on Sunday that the Federal Government was not willing to miss the opportunity for dialogue as offered by a man believed to be the sect’s second-in-command, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulaziz.

For this reason, he said, the government was willing to pay compensation, otherwise known as Diyya, to halt attacks by the sect.

He said, “I can confirm to you that it is true that the group is currently dialoguing with the government. The good news is that they are talking and they have promised to cease fire once some of their demands are met.

“For conditions that are not difficult to meet such as the demand for Diyya for their 24 identified members that were killed, the government may meet such demands.

“Government can also give critical thought to those found to be innocent, but are being detained or prosecuted, particularly women and children as demanded by the group since they do not have any objection to the trial of those genuinely involved in crime.”

It was, however, learnt that the government might not reach out to former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to head the team that would dialogue with Boko Haram, as requested by the sect.

The sect had on Thursday expressed its desire to ceasefire and enter into dialogue with the government but demanded that Buhari should lead the discussion that must be held in Saudi Arabia.

But the Congress for Progressive Change had already said that Buhari, who is the national leader of the party, had nothing to do with members of the sect.

Our source said, “He (Buhari) is a former Head of State and he has people who speak for him. It has been widely reported that he would not take the offer, so why will government reach out to him?”

The same source had in August told one of our correspondents that government might accede to the sect’s demand for the payment of compensation or Diyya to Boko Haram members considered “killed unjustly” by security forces.

This formed an August 19, 2012 exclusive report published by SUNDAY PUNCH.

In the report, the sect was said to have identified about 24 of such members whom it claimed were killed unjustly.

One of them was the leader of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, who was killed in 2010 in Maiduguri, after he had been reportedly captured alive by soldiers.

Yusuf was then handed over to the police, under whose custody, he died mysteriously.

The PUNCH learnt that the sect had put the compensation to the family of the 24 deceased members at N2m each.

Consequently, for the 24 families, the Diyya to be paid is N48m.

Apart from compensation, the sect is also pressing for the release of those unjustly detained.

Shortly after the sect rolled out its conditions for ceasefire on Thursday, the Presidency described it as a welcome development, “if it was intended to achieve the objectives of peace and security.”

Meanwhile, one of the people named by Boko Haram as mediators, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, said on Sunday that neither the Federal Government nor the sect had reached out to him over the proposed peace talks between the two parties.

The senator, however, refused to answer the question on whether he would be willing to play a mediatory role if invited by any of the parties or not.

The former governor said, “I have not been contacted by anybody, either from the Federal Government side or Boko Haram.

“What you have been hearing on radio or on televisions is false, thank you.”

Ibrahim is among the six mediators named by the sect on Thursday that would represent it in the proposed negotiation with the Federal Government

Others are a former Yobe State Governor, Shettima Ali Monguno; Ambassador Gaji Galtimari , Hajia Aisha Wakili and her husband, Alkali Wakili.

The group also gave a condition that the discussion with the government must take place in Saudi Arabia .

Ibrahim, who represents Yobe Central in the Senate, had been outspoken on issues of marginalisation of the North-East, saying that the situation had resulted in the heightened insecurity problem in the region.

Only last week, he denied predicting a situation “bigger than Boko Haram” after newspapers quoted him as justifying the sect’s insurgency as a result of long period of neglect of the North-East.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram on Sunday denied allegations that it was behind the killing of Maj-Gen. Mamman Shuwa and other politicians in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Shuwa was gunned down on Friday in his house at Gwange in Maiduguri along with his guests shortly before the Juma’at prayer, and the Joint Task Force in a statement said the killers were members of the sect.

Forty other people were reportedly killed in a bloodbath in another part of Maiduguri on Thursday night.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-sets-criteria-for-compensation-to-boko-haram/

While Ribadu does have his flaws, he's right on this assertion

KINI BIG DEAL, buy bespoke shirts if you want uniqueness
If he can afford it, let him wear it
Shirt wey go soon fade after continual washing and wearing
no wonder the Earth is littered with material donkeys
Thought patterns that started this thread is the bane of the ever widening gap between the haves and have-nots
The quote below actually murders this thread and should have closed it IMHO

Okija_juju: Who exactly is LOW CLASS?!!
What a condesending thread for Niggas with an 'over-bloated superiority complex..'

Amen,a big one at that, to your prayers maam.

shollynoob: Behold the time cometh, so said KJV. Its around the corner again, precisely on Tuesday. The so called World Power will determine the fate of the World. There has been so many hearsay about Obama's link with the Anti-Christ n illumminati. Looking at the situation of things, Obama has passed many things into the Law which is logically against the Faith ( both the Islamic and Christian Faith in particular). The question is now can we still Trust him for the nest four years?

Another religious nut on the loose
If Obama is the anti Christ/linked to him, is it not for the quick fulfillment of scriptures?
If you understand the bible, you'd know that God can use any situation ,event, circumstance or person[s] to bring his word to pass
Is Romney who is a Mormon any better or know ye not that Mormons are a pseudo occult gathering?
Or are you not tired of this 'sinful' world and want to 'fly away to glory'?
If Obama is affiliated with who you claim ,best of luck to him
God can do with or without him, stop having cerebral masturbation[s].

Below is Sam Omatseye's take on Achebe's book.While Achebe threw away the opportunity to give a balanced view of the Nigerian civil war, one thing that the book brings out is the Igbos are still embittered and Nigeria needs to speak with each other if we are stay as one.
Enjoy Sam's take on Achebe

A few years back when I ran a column on 40 years of Biafra, my cell phone crashed from invectives of malicious fury. The overwhelming line from the rage was that I exercised the temerity to address a matter that I should have left in the grove of silence. I had tackled the Nigerian civil war and the opportunities missed for peace instead of the headlong rush to hostilities and I fingered Odumegwu Ojukwu and the genocidal bigots of the North for blame.

Ironically, when Chinua Achebe published his now tempestuous work, There Was A Country, the Yoruba intelligentsia and political elite were up in arms, clobbering him for not keeping silent on issues like his charge of genocide on Obafemi Awolowo.

I welcome this debate. Achebe brought his grand image as role model and Africa’s preeminent novelist to bear in his book. After reading, I discovered a wasted opportunity. His haunting style and limpid prose fell prey to a tendentious logic. Mostly, the book is marked by what he did not say than what he said. For a book that generated storm for its boldness, its lack of virtue derives from well-calibrated silences. For instance, he condemned the absence of the civil war from school curriculums. But he did confront some fundamental issues of the Nigerian crisis of the 1960s.

The first was the pogrom. Igbo died in droves but the circumstances of that dark cloud of our history still loom over us. Nothing even Aburi, where Yakubu Gowon and Ojukwu parleyed like adversaries, tackled them. If important numbers of an ethnic group dissolved in the genocidal savagery from another ethnic group, how did anyone expect the nation to go on without justice being visited on those involved? It was a mercurial moment as Igbo ran away from what they thought was home. Tears, blood with carion flesh was Igbo in their own country. Relatives saw relatives expire just before they too vanished under the prejudice of knives, daggers and guns.

Ojukwu was urged to ask Igbo to return to their various towns and businesses outside Igboland when no one had prosecuted the murderers. They wanted a nation built on a lie. The Igbo decision to go to war was difficult to fault. When the civil war came, there were stories of insensate killings. Federal generals lined up men, women and children and executed them in cold blood. All of these were well-documented. Rape, beatings, arson and other manifestations of abuse became routine parts of the story in eastern Nigeria.

When the war ended, Gowon did not address these issues. He was only interested in bringing Ojukwu to trial, which reinforced the suspicions by historians that the egos of Ojukwu and Gowon overwhelmed any sense of propriety on the eve of the war. Gowon denied ever knowing of the barbarous cruelties of his generals who even defended their actions openly. Why were they never brought to trial? If Ojukwu and his men on the Biafrain side committed offences against the Geneva Convention, why was he also not brought to book on his own show of ruthless hubris?

The militancy in the Niger Delta, the ethno-sectarian blisters in Jos as well as the eruptions of Boko Haram come from a nation that failed to address the fundamental issues that ruptured the nation in the 1960s.

Up till today, all those who committed war crimes or genocide in the Second World War are being tracked around the world and tried. The Balkan crisis of over a decade ago still makes headlines today with the trials of generals like Karadzic. After the Rwandan earth clotted with brotherly blood, the nation could not be reborn without cleansing the past with trials and prosecutions. South Africa had its truth and reconciliation moments.

If Ojukwu’s goal was secession, why did he occupy the neutral Midwest with all the tales of rape, harassment, curfew? Achebe wrote as though he had no evidence. It seemed Ojukwu wanted the Midwest oil? Why was he heading for Lagos?

Achebe’s book has presented us with an opportunity. Too much malice festers in the Nigerian blood for us to look across ethnic aisles as a fraternal brood. We still evince what novelist Sembene Ousmane calls the “perfidy of lies and hypocrisy of rivals.”

It is out of that tainted blood that Achebe churns out what should have been another masterpiece from the storied author. We cannot also address the pogrom without addressing some of the issues that triggered it. Did the Hausa-Fulani fear the ascendancy of the Igbo, and was that the reason for the thirst for Igbo blood? Was the Nzeogwu-led coup an Igbo agenda or the coincidence of more Igbo officers at the prime? Achebe failed to address the issue comprehensively. He did not drop an ink on why it failed in the east.

Read the rest here
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/sam-omatseye/the-fog-of-war/

Believe that, you'd believe the ALUU 4 are now resurrected.

Singing Fela's hit song: when trouble sleep, yanga go wake am, wetin e dey find, palava e dey find, palava ge go get e O.....

sheriffden: Bro can I get d tokunbo of this laptop and how much. 10ks.

Those are very high end specs for a laptop, ideally you should go for new ones
If you are keen on used ones though, try the different manufacturers Outlet options
Goggle will help you out in this regard

Just passing

It reiterated its earlier statement that the Federal Government was not interested in any genuine effort to clean up the corruption and mess in the oil sector, and that is merely engaging in window dressing by setting up committees upon committees, whose outcomes would eventually add to the growing list of reports that are now gathering dust at the presidency.

ACN got it right regarding the intent of the PDP,Ebele and their probes this time[like many other times]
Expect the 40 man lappy squad cavalry to come charging into this thread any time soon to defend their bosses
Always defending the indefensible
Also expect the 40lap squad to attack personalities and not address issues

Dedicated to the charley called Smooth Crin or is it smooth life

COOLDUN: Don’t mind the West African Ape, go to Ghana you will see that 75% of Ghanaians are languishing in forced labor jungles of cocoa plantation,
Ghanaians always like to rock shoulders with the Nigerians for no reason. Anyone that doubts my comments about Ghanaians should travel to Accra their capital, then talk to 50 Ghanaians you would be surprised that 45 of them won’t be able to respond to you in English. The remaining 5 will manage to respond with their fake English accents.Their 100 is hendered, instead of hundred. Ghanaians should know one thing,getting an independence before Nigeria does never give them any age over Nigeria , after all USA got independence from the Great Britain, but both of them can never match in anything today, talk less of the people who were colonized like any other West African countries.

smooth crin or is it smooth life, you charleys don't die easy do you?
phucking ghanaian spam bot
anyways the quoted poster has described you chaps as educated dunces
deal with that first

yarodin: LOL, so called hero of the Biafran war killed like a chicken? I laugh in tuwo catchi nama.

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^I heard on the afternoon news that he's a 'hero' of the Biafran war.

There is no Biafran war
There was a Nigeria Civil War
Deal with it

take dat: International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday disclosed that 80 per cent of petroleum products consumed in Benin Republic are smuggled from Nigeria
So government should remove subsidy abi? All Bretton Woods institutions dictating how we should run our economy

otokx: They want to increase petrol price

Dem dey dey come again
Does anyone recall Lagarde Christine [IMF boss] visiting Nigeria in the last quarter of 2012 only to hear our officials parroting the removal of subsidy and its benefits which are yet to manifest as of today?
Is another increase billed for next year seeing the budget is said to lack provision for subsidy
With technology, the government can seriously reduce oil theft
Let 'em stop feeding us bull stories
IMF wants us to save in a season of global financial famine when even developed countries in recession are spending their way out of it
China is refusing to shoulder the burden of the EU especially so they are now eyeing African cash
If we give their banks our 'savings', their government get to spend it
If we don't our government gets to loot it [no be laffing matter O!]
Why not use it for infrastructural development here, stimulate the local economy and create new jobs

kundul: MY suggestion 2 dt wenger of a coach. Pls come satday use theo walcott as ur top striker since its 1 of his initial request grant him dt chance in dis wkend game, than using dt ur yeye waste olivier Giroud of a so called striker dt lyks firing blanks.

Giroud's introduction actually changed the game for Arsenal
Jis movement on&off the ball was very intelligent
Walcott has pace but lacks physical presence in the box though he's a good finisher
Work on your grammar though

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Yeah get back the money,just like Clattenburg nailed Torres here for Ferguson
or are you setting up another committee to do that?