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Typical.
Not the brightest bulb in the basket.
The subliminal signal this particular guy is giving out is the same "born to rule " mentality.

Not only am I voting to send all the morally bankrupt and paid e-rodents who hug social networkswith lies to hell, I am voting for buhari to build as many prisons as possible to house all the criminals in Abuja and those who have bastardise federal institutions for their criminal enterprise . The states can act whichever way they deem fit.
Election have always been rigged in Nigeria. This used to be done in rural area,swamps and isolated polling stations,away from prying eyes.
This particular case on the other hand,is a show of disrespect for the electorate, a complete disregard for rules and the exposure of how bankrupt the military has become.

An expatriate to a foreign journalist

"Nigeria is not a country, Nigeria is an opportunity to steal"

There are no bigger threat to the Oodua nation than Abuja as occupied by the person of Jonathan Goodluck.
He is even more feudal and clannish than the kaduna mafia of old.
If the aroma of the coffee has not got to you, Nigeria is on the brink.
Jonathan is struggling to contain a kanuri dominated boko haram. How is he going to contain an hausa /fulani revolt?
On the other front, do not delude yourself that the SW will follow buhari blindly.Any future support will be based on performance, fairness and social justice to all.
That in addition to the continuing fight for regional autonomy.

Pathetic

I spit on this thread.
Does not deserve a reply.

This is the chadian army unfortunately . The cash and carry Nigerian army officer Corp is MIA. Missing in action. Busy plotting how to rig election while their troops are slaughtered by the terrorists.
Good job Chad, Niger and Cameroon

These guys are going to end up in prison

Obe day, one day.

For me, I am tired of seeing his wife's face on TV.
I am also tired of reading dumb stuffs from his paid online trolls led by the equally clueless Reno omokri.

Their days are numbered

Those lies will only work with people who are Religious extremist both (Christians and Muslims)who lack the ability to think critically.
Amongst those who think their problems in life are caused by dead step mother.
They carry those 2 foreign books about and proclaim them the truth. That is in spite of good scientific evidence to the contrary.

So says a lazy and incompetent woman who presented a budget proposal ,containing train ticket allocations for nigerian diplomats , in an African country without a rail system.

The last gasp of a dying presidency.
Nigeria is bigger than anyone or group.
Bye and do not let the door hit you on your way out.

There is nothing called Yoruba leadership.

Bunch of Dummies.
Dummy generals and a clueless commander in chief.
Nothing stopping Chad from flooring the accelerator on their tanks and helicopter gunships and going all the way to abuja.
By the way, these clowns and asari are the ones who are supposed to lead jonathan's creek army into a civil war.
I laugh.

Msteeeew.
Get general yarkin bello back on their case.

Facist government.
Handing tax payers money to individuals.
Enough money to add 1000 mw to the grid

We all know where most of these leaks are coming from. The same thing soludo said yesterday.
People seem underedtimating how much these thieves are stealing.
Let me put it in perspective.
Most Americans,Brits , Germans , Australia etc will stop working and simply retire ,if they had just 1 million pound sterling .
£1,000,000 only.

Absolute power always destroys the wielder all the time. These people are so dumb and power drunk that they seem to be underestimating the level of anger in the street.
They will end up being consumed by all their scheming.

Do not get me started with the ugly human infrastructure in those airports.
Fat, pot bellied ,rude and unprofessional.

Comedians.

They will cough every penny.

Based on Unfavourable News coming out of the country.

Common petty thieves.
They have stolen the country dry.
They want to eat the corpse as well.
Just look at the charts below

Hmm

World bank clerk is more appropriate to describe Iweala.
However, it does not matter for the drunk in power.
The higher the level of cluelessness, the better.
Where Obasanjo got these folks, I do not know.
But after much studies , I have come to believe that there are 2 obasanjo.
There is one obasanjo who is normal for 15 hours per day and who gravitates towards intelligence and brilliance.
There is the crazy obasanjo who gravitates towards madness ,stupidity and crudity.

PDP trying to generate crisis to stop the elections.the same thing they did in osun.

It is always the shameless easy way out for these incompetent dolts. Nigeria has always had it bad but not this bad.
This is another level of "badness".
A total breakdown in authority and governance.
I remember this president retiring more senior and experienced generals(who cut their teeth in Liberia and Sierra leone) just to put member of his clan as chief of army staff. Just looking at how overweight they are ,say it all .
Why waste money training these dolts in the first place?

That is a lie.
They are equipped, organised and properly led.
If you say that Chad does not have the financial might of nigeria, you are right .
If you say that Chadian generals are not politicians/businessmen in uniform ,you are right.
The difference is discipline , concentration of offensive resources,the will ,clear plan and a commander in chief demanding result.
The picture of the nigerian army is the same as the picture of all governmental institutions under this government.
Destroyed ,looted, privatised to a member of the looting clan and not fit for purpose.

Collapsing oil prices are dealing a crippling blow to Africa's economic giant, Nigeria, which is simultaneously absorbing a second shock: U.S. refineries once purchased as much as 40% of its production; now they're no longer buying.

Is this financial crisis injecting some sobriety into Nigeria's notoriously corrupt elites? Hardly. In the latest reports of misspent national treasure, millions of laundered dollars are apparently lubricating President Goodluck Jonathan's reelection campaign. Voting is this month.

Nigeria's in-your-face corruption was never sustainable; with Boko Haram militants razing whole villages in the north, its dire consequences are only intensified. For security reasons as well as ethical ones, the United States should stand by its anticorruption rhetoric, applying sanctions and other leverage against members of what many have called Nigeria's most kleptocratic administration ever.
At a meeting with traditional leaders last month, the governor of the southern state of Edo vented his exasperation over fishy numbers provided by the Nigerian federal government. He and other officials were told that oil revenue owed to the states was being used to bring down the price of kerosene, a basic fuel for Nigerians. “But your highnesses,” he countered, “there is nowhere in your various domains where kerosene is being sold for [only] 50 naira. So in the name of subsidy, large sums of money are being stolen.”
Such findings (and others) prompted then-Central Bank of Nigeria Gov. Lamido Sanusi to submit a memorandum to the Nigerian Senate a year ago, pinpointing gaps and illegalities in the oil accounts that left the nation with a shortfall of about $20 billion over 18 months. Spending to subsidize kerosene — for which there was no allocation in the federal budget and whose effect was not reflected in retail prices — totaled about $6 billion. When Sanusi directed his examiners to trace the money, he was suspended.

In the last two years, Jonathan has curbed the once proud central bank, appointing to its board an in-law, a close family friend and a former subordinate of the petroleum minister[. A Western diplomat described that minister to me as “Jonathan's ATM.” The bank's governor, Godwin Emefiele, and a deputy governor, Adebayo Adelabu (also Jonathan appointees), previously managed banks reportedly under scrutiny by Sanusi for laundering the missing oil money.

From the police to the registrar of public deeds to the nursery school teacher, too many government officials encountered by Nigerians demand to be 'settled' with a payoff.
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In the meantime, a source “close to” a Nigerian bank told local news media that his establishment transferred more than $56 million to Jonathan loyalists “outside due process,” primarily to rent campaign supporters. “Some people who were hired to come to the rallies are complaining that they did not receive the money promised them. The politicians want to pocket all” of it, he said.

In another deal, the nation's equivalent of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing took out a $21-million loan at a staggering 22% interest rate to buy equipment supposedly to print ballots for next month's election. Emefiele is also chairman of the bureau, and the loan came from the bank he used to run. The bureau did not have the contract to print the ballots. An Emefiele spokesman has denied any hanky-panky.
According to numerous civil servants I've interviewed, public procurement invoices are often grossly inflated. “When it comes to a job that attracts money,” a defense ministry IT worker told me last year, “only the director and the deputy director have knowledge of the real terms of the deal.... If it's 10 million, the director says, ‘Make it 12 million.” Procurement will say, ‘Make it 15 million.' And the permanent secretary says, ‘Make it 25.'”

Given the nation's plunging revenue, such tales of corruption are shocking. Every Nigerian is hurt by the lack of investment in schools, healthcare, agriculture and basic infrastructure, not to mention bullets for the military — and by the corrosive culture fostered by high-level larceny. From the police to the registrar of public deeds to the nursery school teacher, too many government officials encountered by Nigerians demand to be “settled” with a payoff.
Many see in such practices the genesis of the biggest threat to Nigeria's security: Boko Haram. “Boko Haram initially had the principle of kicking back against the corruption of the state,” says Kemi Okenyodo, director of an organization that advocates for justice-sector reform. Indeed, at first, Boko Haram went after the police — notorious for abuse — and other government offices. Only recently have attacks on civilians been predominant.
For Muhammed Tabiu, former bar association chairman in the city of Kano, radicalization in the Muslim north is driven in part by “a search for a solution to corruption; you can't get a fair deal. You have to bribe.” First, Tabiu says, came a push for sharia law. But when that failed to deliver change, some sought more radical solutions.
U.S. officials have begun speaking out about the threat posed by corruption. But actions have lagged behind words. The intelligence community does not systematically analyze corruption. The Foreign Service Institute, which trains U.S. diplomats, has no mandatory course on it. And sanctions are typically imposed only on countries that are already pariahs, such as Russia or North Korea.
Regarding Nigeria, Washington continues to pledge counter-terrorism support, without a public word to Jonathan about the missing billions, even though the collapse of U.S. demand for oil puts American officials in a good position to exert leverage. Jonathan's finance minister gets a regular Washington platform to paint rosy pictures of her country's economy. The oil minister has not been sanctioned despite those gaps in the revenue she is supposed to be depositing in government coffers. And dodgy Nigerian banks retain correspondent relationships with U.S. counterparts.
It's up to Nigerians to decide this month what kind of leadership they want for their country. But if American officials truly mean to address the root causes of terrorism — as both President Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry have proclaimed — a good place to start would be with corruption.

Sarah Chayes, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment and a contributing writer to Opinion, is the author of "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security."



http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chayes-nigeria-corruption-election-20150201-story.html

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