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Tolexander: Had Dino Melaye tried something like this when he was in the house, i would give kudos to him and respect his courage against corruption!

dont mind him. he even drives a Bentley of 65 Million Naira

Land_of_M&H:
The President declared a State of Emergency some months ago to protect some border states and he moved forces in to kill the terrorism.

The President also commited Nigerian troops to fight terrorism in Mali.

How many of you can confidently and factually give us a report on the progress or outcome of these two commitments?

We will talk about the declaration made yesterday and this Tinubu response but first let us hold the Presidency accountable and obtain a progress report on the previous deployments of army to fight terrorism.

Anyone from the pro Gej camp would like to take the challenge?

and the lesson to be learnt from your epistle is?

Eko Ile: Very well said.


Good to know we still have sensible adults in Nigeria..

Tinubu's Chief Lapdog

badmrkt: you will always find faults in whatever he does.

Berem is earning her pay!

berem: I wonder why the governors and their legislatures were not removed. This is not an absolute state of emergency .

He is acting within the ambits of the Law. That Obasanjo did it doesn't make it Legal!

This is the President I voted for. KILL THEM ALL!!!

doctormalik: @ afam4eva et al,pls don't deny this piece front page.

Lol. I hope he sees it

awodman: Brillant analysis!!!!!!... you just hit the nail on the head..the situation is a very knotty one..we pray God to give him wisdom to navigate tru dis murky waters...

@Mods..pls put this write-up in the frontpage

Thanks bro. I hope the Mods kindly do the necessary

Mustay: Since you're not done with your NYSC, simply inform them - it's better to include your expected POP date for appropriate planning. Check the service year calendar to know this date if you're not done.

Your transcript will be needed when/if you're called for an interview. Till then, a substitute could do e.g. your profile etc. Moreover, whilst pursuing the transcript -ish, inform them. Normally, the transcript would/should be sent by the school to them just like standard requires.

You can download the form and fill it - read the contents carefully before filling it I know why am recommending this, it's part of the 'test'.

Remember you're attaching all of the documents as ONE pdf file hence you may need the services of a scanner, PDF creator or otherwise as may be required.

Goodluck

bros, sorry o. what do you mean by 'profile'?

chidike: I also got a mail from them asking for additional info:

Thank you very much for your interest in a career opportunity with McKinsey & Company, Lagos.

We have received your CV but also require copies of the following documents:

· Matric or equivalent (final high school results)
· University transcripts showing each subject during each year of study and the relevant result (Please ask your University to send the transcripts via email to lgs-recruiting@mckinsey.com as we do not receive hard copies) You can send unofficial transcripts for now, but you will be required to send the official documents before your interviews
· NYSC Certificate(For Nigerians only)
· Completed application form attached below
i got the same message. the problem now is that i aint done with nysc. i would get back to them sha

(See attached file: Application form.pdf)

Tip: Scan your high school results, NYSC certificate, university transcripts, and leadership form as one attachment only (pdf file)

Kindly e-mail these to lgs-recruiting@mckinsey.com by 31-May. Please note that if we do not receive the outstanding information by this date, we will assume you are no longer interested in pursuing your application and it will be withdrawn. As soon as we have received the requested information, you will hear from us within 2 weeks.

Kind regards,
The Recruiting Team

i got the same mail from them. the problem now is i am yet to be done with my NYSC. i told them sha

dayokanu: Is Retardeen Jonathan even sensible enough to piece up his thoughts in a coherent sentence. Snippets that have come out of his mouth have been complete disspotments that even a Primary School Student would be ashamed of.

Gems like "Pray for criminals to confess", "Terrorism happens everywhere in the world", "I am not declaring my asset and I dont give a damn"

They are mentioning intellectuals and this one wan smuggle Retardeen Jonathan inside.

Bros if dem leave you, You go push plane start o

this guy is intellectually deficient

guilebret: We should know dokunbo can't be touched cos he is one of the annoited spokesman of oga at the top But very soon God would wipe all the people that has been troubling Nigeria.

DO YOU KNOW THAT DOKUBO WAS A CARD CARRYING ACN MEMBER?

asha 80: so the op is yoruba after all...so he was not claiming in after all as insinuated in another thread yesterday.

the OP is of a Yoruba Father and Hausa/Fulani mother

AK 48: Nice write up

Thank you very much sir

As an eleven year old boy reading the Legendary Chinua Achebe’s all time classic Things Fall Apart, a particular phrase got me thinking till I felt I was going to go bananas. He said: “Nza, the wiry bird, after a heavy meal, forgot himself and threw a wrestling match challenge to his chi (personal god). The latter laughed in a guttural voice while Nza danced around in the arena, with his shiny belly in tow. In one swift movement, Nza was seized by the tail and smashed on the stony earth by his chi. The fight ended before it began and the animals ,who looked forward to an entertaining evening, blamed Nza for being unwise and daring too far!”

As a kid, I could not understand why a man would want to wrestle with his personal god or in this context, someone placed high and above him.

Now as a man of some years, albeit little, I have seen men who because of little powers vested in them go berserk like a dog that has tasted blood to feel that they can fight anybody no matter how highly placed.

Reminds me of a boy called Morufu who stayed in my neighbourhood when I was a kid. Morufu wanted to become a boxer and he thus went under the tutelage of one Coach Luku. After taking a careful look at Morufu’s very slender body, Coach Luku placed him in the Lightweight boxing category, as the coach felt he would be murdered by those in the Heavyweight category. After beating some other boxers in his category and getting some praise from people, he all of a sudden imagined himself on top of the stars. He convinced himself that he’s the best boxer ever.

One day in training, he challenged the Champion among the Heavyweight category to a bout. Coach Luku warned him that he was pushing his luck too far. “Morufu, wait for your time”, he said. To cut the long story short, he fought Mukaila the best of the Heavyweight boxers. Morufu was not only beaten, he lost an eye to the incident meaning he had become useless as a boxer for life.

The recent ‘face-off’ between Rotimi Amaechi and President Goodluck Jonathan GCFR has got me laughing real hard. I have held several tete-a-tetes with several people, read many pieces of information and ‘misinformation’ from so many newspapers and blogs. One thing is clear: some people do not get the point. Many have been supporting Amaechi because of their love for the ‘underdog’ while others have been opposing Jonathan because it is the natural thing to do, every of Jonathan’s actions have to be opposed (errr I haven’t mentioned ‘Lie’ Mohammed and the ACN).

This whole brouhaha stems or let me say was inflamed by the grounding of Amaechi’s jet not so long ago and like a child whose bread has been seized, Amaechi has been crying and throwing tantrums. People have been taking sides as well. Some people even derided NCAA (Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority) for doing their job; to them, since Amaechi is fighting the President, he has become a saint and should never be touched.

Perhaps, it is important to give the ‘Grundnorm’ of the problem between the two. For all I know, Amaechi isn’t fighting Jonathan because of the common man neither is he fighting his Boss because he wants a better Nigeria. Their fight stems from ambition, power and greed.

Amaechi is an ambitious man and it is not a sin to be ambitious. I however feel he is going about his ambition the improper way. It is an open secret that he wants to be Nigerian’s Vice President in 2015 by being on the same ticket with Governor Sule Lamido. And ever since their posters hit some strategic parts of the country, Amaechi has become ‘unruly’, taking swipes at the President via different fora. Not only that, he has been using his position as Chairman of the Governors’s forum, a PEER group to further his own ambitions. He has been accused of using that platform to turn State Governors against the President, who is the leader of his party, the PDP.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying Amaechi should be subservient or should be the President’s mumu. Far from it. My point is that there are certain ways things should be done. You cannot start a fight with some certain people and then cry home to mummy when those people have started dealing with you. Before entering into any fight, you should carefully weigh the consequences.

Fighting the President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria is suicidal! NOBODY has ever fought any President of Nigeria and gotten off likely. I would examine TWO people who have engaged the Presidency in skirmishes.

BOLA AHMED TINUBU

Tinubu had a long running battle with President Olusegun Obasanjo over the creation of additional LCDAs in Lagos. While Obasanjo saw the creation as illegal, Tinubu saw nothing wrong in it. Obasanjo being his very undiplomatic self seized Lagos State’s Federal Allocations. Tinubu trounced Obasanjo in all the courts-Supreme Court inclusive. The Supreme Court ordered Obasanjo to release the Lagos Allocations. Did he? NO! What could Tinubu do to the President? NOTHING! Tinubu huffed and puffed and huffed and puffed again. The President had his way. Tinubu had to do a lot of IGR to get money for Lagos State. The President had already made his point known and that is: The President has almost absolute powers in this country.

Let me state that Tinubu was only able to stand up to the president because they belonged to different parties. Had he been a PDP Governor, he would have been dealt with!

ATIKU ABUBAKAR

He had a long and running battle with his boss, former President Obasanjo. Atiku wanted to be President, Obasanjo wanted a 3rd term in office. Obasanjo in his normally dictatorial style declared Atiku’s office ‘vacant’. Meanwhile, Atiku had started romancing with the opposition, making a lot of snide remarks about his boss, the President. He trounced Obasanjo in ALL the court cases but who won at last?

Fine, Obasanjo lost his 3rd term bid but he damaged Atiku’s political career. Atiku has been a political orphan since then, even losing control of his State PDP. The possibility that Atiku would ever become President is the same as me becoming a lady.

Now back to Amaechi’s case, I am surprised that he is getting so much sympathy from people. Taking a cursory look at the few incidents that have occurred in the past few weeks, I am shocked people are blaming the President.

As regards the matter of his jet, I am of the opinion that the NCAA have not acted ultra vires their powers. All what they have done is what they are empowered by law to do. The following questions remain unanswered by Amaechi’s camp

Who really owns the disputed Jet?
If it is owned by the Government and People of Rivers state, why was the private jet registered to the Trustees of the Bank of Utah? Was the private jet purchased through foreign loans obtained from the bank? If it is or it isn’t, what happened to the millions of dollars appropriated by the Rivers State House of Assembly for the purchase of the private jet?
Was the flight manifest actually submitted to the appropriate authorities hence the refusal of NCAA to clear the plane to fly?

If Nigerians are going to be objective, I feel they should give kudos to the NCAA and should pose posers to Governor Amaechi’s camp. That he is opposing the President doesn’t mean everything that happens to him is a witch-hunt.

Now that Amaechi has thrown caution to the winds and wants total war with the President, I am not convinced if this is the best move for him.Firstly, he comes from the same region as the President. No political calculation in 2015 would favour him. I doubt if people from the South/South would vote Amaechi to play second fiddle to a Northerner than to vote for Jonathan to be the country’s number one man.

Furthermore, Amaechi’s romance to the North does not make much sense to me. Does he not know that he would be used and dumped as soon as his relevance wanes? Those giving him ‘liver’ from the North would dump him as soon as they reach a concession with Mr President.

So, should he join the APC or stick with the PDP?

Well, this is a very hard decision. He has already made himself irrelevant within the PDP. He is fighting the President, Peter Odili, Abiye Sekibo, Nyesom Wike, Austin Opara and a host of big-wigs from his state, he is not even in control of his state’s PDP, and you know the implication? He cannot call for a State PDP meeting. He cant even control delegates that will vote during the PDP Primaries. So would joining the APC do well for him?

NO! let us not forget that Nigerians vote across ethnic lines. Even if he liases with the North, does he think an average South-South man would vote for an Hausa man? NO! His fight with the President notwithstanding, I expect the President to still clear the South-South votes by 99.9% in 2015. Where then does that leave Amaechi?

Since he has refused to deliver his state to the APC, he would be dumped and then become a political orphan. He would wander in political wilderness and then fade into obscurity.
He would be termed ‘enemy’ of the Niger-Delta people who would see him as someone who tried to sell them out to the Hausa/Fulani.
EFCC would welcome him with a wide grin, open arms and a warm hug. His ‘files’ would be dusted and he would face the music.
EVERYONE would flee from him. He would have become a political liability… one to be avoided like a plague.

Do I think he can outwit the Presidency in this cold war? I don’t think so. I even have a feeling that the Presidency have no hands in his recent misfortunes. Should the Presidency actually face him, he is a goner. Nobody can withstand the Presidency in power and influence. He controls the EFCC, armed forced, Police etc. The President is also the leader of his party, the PDP and can render him persona non grata in the party.

Don’t you people understand? The President is like the all in all. He has unlimited powers and can decide to be autocratic if he chooses to be. He doesn’t even have to be directly involved in this fight, all he has to do is to let his ‘caporegimes’ handle Amaechi, he has also been made irrelevant within his state’s PDP and ALL the Law makers supporting him have been suspended from the PDP. If the PDP chases Amaechi from the party today, he has become persona non grata. It means he wont even be able to seek re-election as Chairman of the Governors’s forum.

If truly the Presidency is behind his recent travails, I believe they are still serving him with the appetizer. This is a 3 course meal and they are still giving him Pepper soup and Nkwobi. By the time they start giving him the main course, he would be brought to his knees.

While I don’t support Autocracy, I am not for disrespect for constituted authority. If Amaechi wants war, the Presidency should give him war. If he wants politics, he should be given a plate full of politics. He would beg and should never be forgiven. Let him be reminded that the GCFR added in front of the President’s name isn’t just a title or there for decoration!

And Nigerians are a very funny people. They call Jonathan ‘Jonadunce’ ‘weak’ ‘clueless’ and so on. When Amaechi was talking tough, they said “see o, Ordinary Amaechi, Jonathan cannot handle”. Now that Jonathan wants to show Amaechi small pepper, they are calling him a despot!

I heard that the ACN are saying the President is being ‘despotic’ (I wonder if they know the meaning of the word). I feel they have no moral grounds here. Bola Tinubu when he was Lagos State Governor removed 2 deputy governors: Akerele Bucknor and Femi Pedro for standing up to him and questioning his authority.

He that is of no sin should cast the first stone!

N.B- I read Charles Soludo’s ‘slaughter’ of Hell Rufai but that isn’t my concern. Soludo’s C.V is rich and he is an academic monster. I hereby add him to my list of Role Models

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SEETA AUR GEETA

funnyx: I cannot but laugh when I see a lot of deluded lost souls on NL claiming to be Yoruba, today its their mum that is Yoruba, tomorrow its their father yet all they go about on NL is to attack anything Yoruba who is fooling who?.
A Yoruba adage says Omo ale nii fi owo osi juwe ile baba re another one says ti a ba ta ara ile eni lopo a o lee ri ra lowon
Please we have heard enough of how much Yoruba you are, could you just make your contribution and waka pass.

Are you scared? You should have mentioned my name, only kids do subliminals

funnyx: May be your lineage is the most arrogant set of people in Nigeria, that na your own problem. And if GEJ doesn't win in 2015 no need to close your virtual law firm you may as well get a rope and hang yourself like a real man.

Aunty, dont cry. i am a Yoruba boy, i have a Fulani mother and i have lived with the IGBOS whom i must confess are very wonderful people.
Yorubas feel that because of their education, they know everything. this is an open secret sister.
And yes! Jonathan would be back in 2015.

We Yorubas have to be the most arrogant and ethnocentric people created by God. We have this 'I-TOO-KNOW' wahala. See dem Gbawe and Berem analysing politics like it is mathematics. Who told them that most of us Yorubas would vote for the APC? Who told them we are following Tinubu?
If GEJ doesn't win in 2015, I would shut down my Law Practice and return my practising certificate

Ola Johnson: He wasn't. A prolific writer is one that writes in the three genres of literature - drama, prose and poetry - like Wole Soyinka.

They have come again o. Soyinka is a Master of Drama but FLOPPED in prose and poetry. Achebe WAS a grandmaster of Prose. Soyinka was more like a jack of all trades

kulyie: which mumu curse.did paul rape her( the only time the curse can be effective was if she was raped and from the look of things,it was consensual) .i am sure paul sweet tongued her into opening her legs for him now she wants to blackmail paul with her virginity.abi did paul force her to loose her virginity to him.the last time i checked whoever a lady chooses to loose her virginity to is her choice EXCLUDING RAPE VICTIMS.she will say she has been fvcking him since she was 17,now she is 19.paul has been having sex with her on a platter of gold for 2 years probably without condom and now she has a baby and she is now spewing thrash.in this issue i will support paul because she has no substance.na talk be that.mshewww

so, if a girl is 12 years old and she consents to the sex, it is lawful and proper abi? you are an educated illiterate

I am dumbfounded by the reasoning of these ACN lapdogs. The PDP is the major opposition party in Lagos State and it is their duty to place the Governor under checks and Balances. What Mr Shelle has said isn't different from what LIE Mohammed does to GEJ Incessantly.
With the posts I have seen on this thread, I would curse anybody who demands for the probe of Akpabio or any other PDP governor since according to their analogy 'Whoever is performing should be never be probed for corruption'.
On a last note, had these been a call by the ACN for the probe of a PDP governor, these ACN trolls and paid agents on Nairaland would be singing difference tunes like canary birds,
Hypocrites!

Emylexray: This thread is borne by the unending outcry and lamentations from candidates who sat for the just concluded UTME. Ceasless outcry has trailed the aftermath of the release of the 2013 UTME results by JAMB. It is no longer news that the results have been released and Going by the scores i have seen so far on Nairaland and Facebook, a large number of candidates failed woefully. Majority of the scores i've seen ranged from 100-198. This is a bad omen for the future of supposed "future leaders of tomorrow" . What could be the cause of this mass failure? Did JAMB purposely fail candidates to remedy the sale of about 1.7 million JAMB forms for 500,000 available spaces for admission? Was it the sole fault of the candidates? Can this mass failure be attributed to the dwindling educational sector? All these are questions begging for answers. What exactly do you think is rationale behind these shameful results? Over to you!

Let us blame GEJ/PDP as usual

FRONT PAGE O

SOURCE: http://www.thescoopng.com/theres-been-some-incorrect-reporting-us-dept-of-state-briefing-on-baga-raid-read/

n May 2, the US state department held its daily briefing, and Nigeria was brought up during the question and answer session coordinated by a spokesman, Patrick Ventrell.

Below is an excerpt of that briefing as it concerns Nigeria. However before we reproduce that, there is a term in the briefing which might be unfamiliar to non-US readers. It’s the ‘Leahy vetting.’

In 1997, a law was passed by the US congress called - The Leahy Law. It is named after the main sponsor, Sen. Patrick Leahy.

The law basically prohibits U.S. military assistance to any foreign nation’s military unit which violates human rights with impunity.

So in essence, the Leahy vetting process is a process carried out by each U.S. embassy whereby it reviews the backgrounds of military units for which assistance has been proposed.

Now that you know, you can read the excerpts of that press briefing below.

State Department Daily Press Briefing, May 2, 2013

QUESTION: On Nigeria, you took a question yesterday on violence in the village of Baga.

MR. VENTRELL: Yeah.

QUESTION: The Nigerian military says several dozen houses were burned during that operation. Human Rights Watch says that satellite imagery shows that more than 2,000 homes were burned in that violence. Does the U.S. Government have any reason to doubt the Nigerian military’s assessment of what happened there?

MR. VENTRELL: Well, we have seen the Human Rights report, and as I said before, the U.S. strongly condemns the loss of life and mass destruction of dwellings in Baga, Borno State over the weekend of April 15th, which is evidenced in that Human Rights Watch report. So we extend our condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims.

And we understand that President Jonathan has called for an investigation, including ascertaining that security forces, namely the Joint Border Control Forces in the area, had adhered to the rules of engagement. So we urge a full investigation into these attacks, and that those responsible, both military and others, be held to account.

QUESTION: So which of those accounts do you believe to be correct?

MR. VENTRELL: Again, we have the Human Rights Watch study – the Human Rights Watch report. We’re studying it. We’re looking at it very closely.

QUESTION: There were reports earlier today that your Ambassador to Nigeria met with human rights people in – there, I presume, in Abuja or Lagos, and told them that the U.S. would be suspending at least some military assistance in Nigeria –

MR. VENTRELL: Right.

QUESTION: – because of this. Is that correct? Did this meeting take place? And two, is it correct that you are suspending at least some?

MR. VENTRELL: There’s – no, it’s not correct. There’s been some incorrect reporting out there. The United States works with the Nigerian military and law enforcement to improve communications, mobility, and emergency response through assistance and training. And we take our Leahy vetting obligations very seriously, and so we’ve taken strong measures to ensure compliance. But Nigeria remains an ACOTA partner that contributes significant numbers of troops to several UN peacekeeping missions in Africa, including in Mali. And so we vet all units from African countries that receive U.S. bilateral assistance.

QUESTION: Okay.

MR. VENTRELL: One more thing to say here, Matt, before you follow up. We will have a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor who’s going to travel to Abuja to discuss the incident in Baga and broader human rights issues with senior Nigerian officials next week. So we’re going to continue our dialogue with the Nigerian authorities on this.

QUESTION: All right. So let me make sure. You have decided that the Leahy Amendment does not apply in this case, or you are waiting for their investigation, or –

MR. VENTRELL: No, I’m saying we continue with our assistance –

QUESTION: So –

MR. VENTRELL: – but we do so in a way that is very careful to make sure we’re doing our Leahy vetting requirements.

QUESTION: But that predates this.

MR. VENTRELL: Right. This is not a specific –

QUESTION: Okay. So the reports that the ambassador said that there was going to be a suspension of at least some aid are flat wrong?

MR. VENTRELL: My understanding is a misreporting.

QUESTION: Is that being considered?

MR. VENTRELL: I mean, again, we have a Deputy Assistant Secretary for DRL who’s going to go out there, continue to have this dialogue with the Nigerian Government. But –

QUESTION: In light of this incident, is it – are you considering or are you reviewing whether or not this assistance is in compliance with the Leahy Amendment?

MR. VENTRELL: Well, the assistance, in terms of Leahy is – in terms of specific vetting of individual units. That’s the main requirement. And so we continue to do that vetting to make sure that our assistance doesn’t go to units or officers that are involved in human rights abuses.

QUESTION: And right now, there are no units that are – that have done anything that would require you to cut off assistance to it?

MR. VENTRELL: That’s correct.

QUESTION: Okay. And then, is it correct that there was a meeting, this meeting happened?

MR. VENTRELL: I’m not aware one way or another if the ambassador had this specific meeting. I am aware and was told very clearly that – from our folks on the ground that the reporting of this was mischaracterized.

FRONT PAGE O. this issue has to be well debated

Omo_Tier1: Is this how far they want to go.... certificated e-diots...

asking you to be reasonable is like asking for the impossible

so should be blame GEJ/PDP as usual?

Akshow: pray tell us who the real musicians are. Tell me one artist among our present reignin musicians aside dare art, asa, nneka that sing sense and not just beat.

9ice, Praiz, 2face