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Presidency not north’s birthright, says forum

7 hours ago
DISCORDANT tunes may have began to echo in the North over the desirability or otherwise of  President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 Presidency, as members of the Arewa Patriotic Front (APPFRONT), Thursday said that the nation’s leadership was not the birthright of the region.

  According to the group, the North had  its chances of ushering  growth and development in Nigeria when their leaders occupied the helms of affairs in the country for almost 40 years, but said they filtered away the opportunity to write their names in gold.

  At a press conference in Kaduna, addressed by the forum’s National Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Mordecai, he said that the Presidency should be opened to capable Nigerians from all the geopolitical zones, regardless of ethnic or religious inclination.

  He lamented the poor leadership exhibited by Northern leaders when they were in authority in the country, but however, praised the contribution and visionary leadership of the late Sarduna Ahmadu Bello to national development.

  He stressed: “They (leaders) have refused to learn and practice the transparent character of the late Sardauna. Instead, they became insensitive to the plight of the masses of the North, self-centred, egocentric, tribal champions who have finally graduated to religious bigots, thereby making adherents of Christianity and Islam enemies of one another. We never had the Maitatsines, Yan Kallaris and Boko Haram to mention few in the days of the late Premier.”

  On Prof. Ango Abdullahi led group’s demand that power must return to the North in 2015, Mordecai queried: “But we want to know which of the North he is referring to. Not long ago, he was in this country when we were told of two Norths - the north and the core north. We have seen and are still seeing the effect of that balkanisation of the North. We also want to know whether there is any constitutional provision that prohibits Jonathan from having a second term in office.”

  He added: “To our mind, President Jonathan and his Vice, Alhaji Namadi Sambo are doing their very best to move the nation forward given the circumstances they find themselves while serving as leaders of this country. It will be uncharitable of anyone therefore to say that they are not or have not done anything good to better the lives of Nigerians and so they should vacate office in 2015.

  “There is no individual, no matter the geopolitical zone the person may hail from, that can claim to have the magic wand to solve the problems of our nation, which were created over a period of years. Unfortunately, this decay and wanton destruction in the fabrics of our nation was wrought by our past leaders, including some of those presently calling for the return of power to the North in 2015.”

Source: Guardian.

D guy is simply nauseating.
D man takls more than woman.
I wonder how people around him stand him.

5 nothern governors will not visit Ogun state to ask why?
8 opposition governors will not visit Ogun state to pay solidarity visit to the people that are being manipulated?
Oshiomole will not feel like organising a protest?
Ameachi will not leave government house to come and save ogun people?
Lier Mohammed has not noticed this injustice?
Joe Ibokwe biro has ran out of ink?
Mhhhhhhhhh!!!

Were is fobes magazine when u need them? This guy is the youngest fetish millionere in d world, pls come and make him populer.

BTW I checked is face book page, d guy has almost 20 accounts all na dollar, em name sef na Odi Doalla.

The man Ameachi is confused, incoherent and he has no destination.
Who d gods wants to distroy they first make mad.

Davido post only ten thousand naira cheque una want basham die.
Now see small boy de show raw talent.

Thumps up P squre,
D very first time in my life to love a Niger song d moment I first heard the song.
I gym with d song every evening and by december I shall personally dance it with my bride infront of friends and family.

Booked

Here is a list of types of men that women should avoid at any cost. Read on...

Are you looking out for a new relationship or want to just date men? You might come across somebody and hit it off nicely for a year or so, and then you begin to notice things that could make you part ways. To avoid the pain you undergo when things go wrong, here's a list of ten types of men you should run miles away from.

The rebound shot
A man, who is fresh out of a relationship, is still lurking in the transition. At this point of time, he can be quite weak and might lean on the nearest support he can find. But that doesn't mean that he's really fallen for you. Although for some people it has worked, but mostly in the long run, there can be no assurance of this one coming to term.

No money, honey
Understood you are not a materialistic girl, you are independent and are alright with going dutch on a date. Women don't necessarily want a rich millionaire, but a little something can be a good thing. Even the guy would feel his dignity is safe if he can contribute some. And a man who still cannot understand this - girl, dump the slowpoke now!

'Ex' factor
'You are good, but she was better!' Are you still with a guy who says that? Bang your head on the nearest wall and tell him you might as well go back. He's not yet over the ex-relationship, and somewhere he's sulking about it. Good or bad, the experience could be anything, but the fact that he still talks about her doesn't help in getting the current relation any better. And even if you don't dump him, but make him realise, talk it out; and if it still doesn't work, it's unbelievable you are still putting up with it!

'Ex' out the friendly factor
Men do have a tendency to still retain a certain amount of care for the woman they once loved. So, it doesn't make any sense for them to remain friends once it's over. What was there once can be reignited in some weak moments. So, dearest men, dump the 'ex' as 'friend' and concentrate on your current love. A bird in hand is always better than two in the bush.

Love at first sight
Well, it happens only in books or films. Most often, it's just a liking or lust. But love, dearies, takes time to blossom. So, lady, if the gentleman has told you 'I Love You' a bit too soon, hold your horses and don't jump into taking yet another big step.

'The world is hard on me'
No darling, you are just a selfish man who has taken certain wrong decisions perhaps, but doesn't want to admit it. I know you just said 'no', but deep down you know it's a 'yes'! Unaccountable, selfish or plain immature, grow up or stop pulling the other person down with you by blaming the world or her for your problems, lest she decides to move the 'problem' away from your life.

Can't take 'no' for an answer
Even if it's just gaining control over the remote. Read the key words 'gaining control' and get the hint. If you are ready to be a doormat, and are happy with it, man your relation is going to last a historical era! But if you are a person who commands respect, there are better people out there who give you that.

Mr. Richie Rich
The poor little rich guy, if he shows off a lot of moolah, either he's going to run out of it or, well, just keep believing that 'love can be bought'! And if you're the guy who's lying about it, you're hurting your chances of having a real relationship as the facade will eventually come back to bite you.

Momma's boy
Better stay in momma's lap! If your guy can't move a nerve without 'mom's consent', you better move yourself away from him.

Dad's the financier
If the guy is still living with his parents despite being all but 25 years of age, are you still going to to live with him? The first thing he should do is get a job! If he cannot do that, he'll be dependant on dad, or you! And if you cannot pay his bills, 'you are a no-good girlfriend' is all you'll hear from him!

SOURCE: NAIJA.

ASUU ASSU ASSU ASSU ASSU ASSU ASSU ASSU.


U will never know a Nigerian until u give him a political appointment and immediately his paradign will change and the government will become a saint.

Shebi NEBO na ASUU official before?
Em don chop belle fool, no criticism for government again na praise.
We are all d same in this country.
To yo pocket oh Nigerians!!!

If u ask NEBO about strike now em go tell u say ASSU no deserve 90 billion, make dem go back class,

Country of Hipocrits.

ASUU strike worsens as FG insists on ‘re-negotiating’ 2009 agreement
Festus Owete - 7 hours agoNATIONAL, NEWS

The government also put the unemployment figure at 23.9%.
Any hope of an early resolution of the crisis between university lecturers and the federal government dimmed on Tuesday as the government hinted that it could not implement the agreement it had with the lecturers in 2009.
The Federal Government said it is re-negotiating the 2009 agreement it reached with the lecturers- members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU- with a view to successfully implementing it.
The Minister of Labour, Emeka Wogu, who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday after briefing the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on his stewardship in the last two years, defended the government’s position.
Mr. Wogu said the agreement predated the current administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. Mr. Jonathan was the vice president in 2009 when the government, then headed by President Umaru Yar’Adua, negotiated the agreement with the lecturers.
Mr. Wogu said there were some areas of the agreement that needed to be renegotiated if it was to be satisfactorily implemented.
When asked categorically if his statements meant the government would not implement the agreement as it is, the minister claimed the contrary.
He refused to categorically state that the agreement was impracticable, saying its Terms of Reference “created problems.” He added that it was the reason why government requested that the parties that signed the document looked at it again. He also refused to disclose the part of the agreement the government would not implement.
The minister disclosed that already there was a government team headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, which had series of discussion with the union, insisting that “the right thing to do is to come back to the table.”
He also said that the National Assembly had joined in the discussion with ASUU, adding that government could only make headway on the issue if it had the full picture of all that was involved before the Agreement was drafted and signed.
“We have made offer to ASUU. It is as complex as presented. Negotiation is ongoing. National Assembly is equally involved. We believe they will soon call off the strike. I personally and passionately appeal to them to call off the strike.
“It will not affect the negotiation if they call off the strike. It is better for them to be inside than outside. Students have equally appealed to them.”
Mr. Wogu’s declaration on Tuesday confirmed the fear of hundreds of thousands of university students, who are made to stay away from learning, that the strike may be prolonged.
ASUU in the past has gone on some strikes that lasted several months. The ongoing strike has been on for three weeks.
The lecturers, through their leadership have repeatedly insisted that they would accept nothing but 100 per cent implementation of the agreement. The lecturers restated this at their last meeting last week with federal lawmakers and the relevant government officials.
The lecturers, who said they would not call off their strike until their demands are met, have however said they would continue to talk with the government. ASUU’s national president, Nasir Fagge, said on Tuesday that his union was waiting for the government to call for another meeting.
“We shall continue to wait for them until they are ready to put in place a lasting solution to the current issue, so that our children and the lecturers alike can go back to school,” he said.
Mr. Fagge added that “… until government starts looking at agreement as a product of collective bargaining, we shall keep having problems.”
Official unemployment figure now 23.9%
Mr. Wogu also put the unemployment figure in Nigeria at 23.9 per cent.
He, however, noted that the figure could be wrong because of the unfolding events every day.
He also said that only the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, could give the accurate figure of the rate of employment and unemployment in the country.
Mr. Wogu praised the Goodluck Jonathan’s government for creating employment since its inception, noting that SURE-P, SMEDAN, ITF, Maritime, Railway and Tourism sectors had done well in this regard.

Nigeria is a complex society, once government give ASSU 90 billion naira, it is going to be a reference point to every sector to ask for a raise, infact Non teaching staff in the university will start their strike immediately.
At the moment nigeria recurrent expenditure is not looking good couple with the level of unemployment. We shd be talking about new jobs not too much increment in pay.

Sad but that is the bitter truth.
The government never sat in One table with ASUU as partners to draft the said agreement.
During the presidency of YARADUA ASSU single handedly drafted that agreement and forced the government with series of strikes to assent it, which they did due to public out cry to stop the strike then.
But come to think of it ASUU wanting the addition of another 90 billion naira to their recurrent expenditure is crazy, once the fed govt agree to do it the state universities will ask for the same amount and trust me state governments will never be able to pay the money.
If they eventually have their way which i doubt then we should be ready for the worse because the price of school fees will sky rocket and an average Nigerian will not be able to acquire university education.
Workers from other sectors will also come out and tell the government; you raise ASSU budget by 90 billion, we need a raise too which is not healthy for the economy at the moment especially with the oil theft.
So ASSU just need to find a way to lower their expectation.

Agreement with ASUU can’t be implemented, says govt

3 hours ago
A DECLARATION that is likely to infuriate the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and further aggravate the on-going industrial action by the union has come from the Federal Government Tuesday in Abuja when it said that the agreement reached with ASUU is impossible to implement by its nature. 

  However, it was quick to express his optimism of finding a way out of the quagmire soon. 

  The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chukwuemeka Wogu, made this known when he appeared before the People Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) Tuesday  to render his achievements as a minister, appointed under the platform of the ruling party. 

  Wogu, who was briefing the Bamanga Tukur-led committee at the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the PDP made the relative industrial peace and harmony being enjoyed over a long time in the country, employment and job creation, social security and improvement in the national minimum wage and its implementation as vital highlights of his performance. 

  He told the PDP national chairman and his members of committee that he met on ground an agreement signed by the previous government with ASUU when he resumed as the Minister of Labour, but stated that the agreement is impossible to implement. 

  But the minister declared that the present administration, led by President Goodluck Jonathan is finding a way out and doing everything possible to resolve the issue to the satisfaction of everybody.

  His words: “I inherited an agreement signed by the Federal Government with ASUU and that agreement is practically impossible for any administration to implement. We are still discussing with them, if I leave here, I am going to the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) where we are meeting with them. I hope that very soon, we will resolve it.”

  On the job creation efforts of the government, he stated that presently the Community Service Scheme Women and Youth Empowerment Programme of the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) of the Federal Government has already engaged 120,000 persons out of the 185,000 targeted for the year 2013.

  He pointed out that as social security is an evolving structure, Nigeria is still basically trying to grow the concept to an acceptable international standard.

  “We are at the stage of putting in place a social security policy that would reflect the nation’s needs and level of economic development, taking into consideration the traditional as well as the modern socio-cultural values and norms,” he said.

  Wogu also stressed that the passage of the Employee Compensation Act in 2010 has resuscitated the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund and it is now spearheading the Employees Compensation Scheme for workers that sustain injury in the workplace.

  He also disclosed that the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) is the leading agency in job creation efforts, specialising in skills acquisition and empowerment of the unemployed.

 

SOURCE: Guardian.

This guys are plain idiots even APC can't make the above treat. Bunch of idiots.
By this time tomorrow another branch of NANS would have rubbished this report by calling a press conference to deny that the above claim is not in consonant with the values of their organisation.

Odeh NLC, instead of going to national assembly to canvas for autonomy for local government you are here ranting about ASUU.
And why is that silly PENGAN guy that says he will go on strike to defend Ameachi not saying anything about child marriage and LGA autonomy? Political IDIOTAS!!!

@ Moderator, so shame no allow u publish my comment?
U hid d comment right?
I still maintain that you guys move only lies and anti GEJ thread to d front page, and when subsequently a rejoinder comes that counter d lies, that post will die early in political section. Eg the thread on PEJ observing or not observing protocol when aligning the air plain.
SEUN is a political hypocrite, and this behaviour is bad for his business.

And SULE LAMIDO the governor of nigeria's most educationally backward state wants to become president? To spread further illiteracy?

Time to divide Nigeria,
By 2015 we all will go our separate ways.

Remove me from naira land if this make front page.
Only lies in Seun FP
Speat.

See kettle calling pot black.
Ameachi just keep quiet and work, u are worse than GEJ in crushing your opponents.

You see were nigeria problem lies?
But you Idiota's in naira land wunt let GEJ be.

BABOON SOYINKA

Cute baby born to a hihgly admirable mother.

Miss Bayelsa has just been crowned the most beautiful girl in nigeria.
Second runner up is miss Imo.

@ BLUETOOTH,
Someone just wrote an intelligent master piece, if you must counter him put up an intelligent work or forever hold your peace.

AND WHY IS NO AFRICAN GOVT. CONDEMNING THE US. FOR ACQUITTING GEORGE ZIMMAMAN FOR SHOOTING AND KILLING TREYVO MARTINS CITING THE USELESS "STAND YOUR GROUND LAW"?

Brilliant argument from mr. F. Kayode, absolutely intelligent especially when he argued that there was a time were cannibalism and human sacrifice was acceptable in society but now it has revolutionised into a taboo, and that even genuine religious beliefs must be subjected to change with the level of civilisation.

BUT WHY CAN'T HE TRANSLATE THIS BRILLIANCE INTO GOOD GOVERNANCE AS A MINISTER?

@ politician, SHCIZOPHRENIA is when you exhibit delusion of drandeur in naira land, typing trash and claiming you know it all when indeed you know noting.

Noble noise maker, mad professor Wole Soyinker.

Silly mods the post justifying PEJ coming out of the air plain first before GEJ is still in political section.
So were is your balance in reporting? You have till the end of today to bring that post to the front page.
Hypocrites.

SEUN, MACKLATUNJI and all other mods are silly. Shame on u and shame on APC naira land chapter.
Thank u opps for shaming the enermy.

SEUN is silly and all his mods are focktards, first u hide d post were noble noise maker Soyinker blast Yerima and now this post can't see FP.
If it is a post abusing PEJ I for readam tro front page.
To hell with Seon partial APC NL!!!!!
Speat!!!!!!!!!!