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Hate him or love him, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is saying the right things right now. I don't agree with him entirely though #fuelsubsidy

Once again SLS is falling into the same trap, is PMS the only derivative from crude oil? what happened to other derivatives

We have spent more money on paying for subsidy than we earn from oil income ~ SLS

Sanusi is the only one who can present a convincing argument without being over academic

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, You too gbasky, you toomuch. But i disagree with you on this

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=830500.msg9815409#msg9815409 date=1324549189]Abi !!!!!!

I go relocate there soon [/quote]na so, what is the essence of a big brother that make you suffer

[quote author=Okija_juju link=topic=787474.msg9815382#msg9815382 date=1324548986]Massachusett Institute of Technology (M.I.T) - Welder![/quote]you never fail to make laugh

Ivory coast and south africa are the only countries with refining capacity.

Niger will soon join the league

Olisa, you talk well, Aunty Ngozi, powerpoint no fit convince us

Bliss4Lyfe:
[size=14pt]A oil producing country like Nigeria should be ashamed of having subsidy for a resources abundantly avialable in the land. Oil subsidy must go.[/size]

Do you know what you are saying.

9ijaMan:
Because the dice rolled did not pick his name.

en ya, is a pity

Detongue:
Christianity is about peace, Islam is war, so ppl are careful 4 dir life

don't abuse the annoymity the cyber space confers.

gokuu:
what a big Joke! University of Lagos is the most effectively run University in the country, not that sharia uni.

that bolded will not allow me to make any further comments, your analysis is too bias and subjective.

University Of Ilorin is a model on how to run university in Nigeria, take it or leave.

16 years and some months

Tell government to cut their wasteful way of life. The billions they withdraw from the reserve, what did they do with it? The million budgeted for bullet proof jeep is not needed. If they do that we may be ready to listen to their arguement

@op can't you post without accussing the muslims, which muslim cleric have you seen that want to deliver a witch. Pls grow up

We all leave the disease and keep treating the sympton. No body has ask for the reason for that decision, i think we deserve to know the reasons in order to guide against that in our system

We all leave the disease and keep treating the sympton. No body has ask for the reason for that decision, i think we deserve to know the reasons in order to guide against that in our system

I know who to mind. Thanks ode

Will not mind working with Odunnu, interested.

the LINK:
An MBA from Harvard puts you ahead, go for it. Most people here are looking at the financial aspect that's why they are against it

Anybody that have the money to attend Havard is financially bouyant. that is the fact

cjfavour:
if he's intelligent why couldn't he read the constitution and know that nigeria is a secular state b4 he started campaigning for islamic banking? I used to be his fan but he lost me when he started campaigning for that religious system of banking with %igeria money. I'm nt against islamic banking but for a CBN govnor to be championing it,and at that period didn't sound right. So whether IMF said dt or nt,he's not intelligent as far as he can't understand the dictates of d constitution.

He has defend every step he took since he become the governor, google his reasons for Islamic banking too, stop h*ting

DrummaBoy:
Hey Jarus
Paste that paper here. I'm limited on what I can browse on my phone. And that is with a "please!"

I met his mind in Vancouver sometime in the summer of 1998 and have stalked him ever since. Online that is! I was then doing research on representations of Islam in Nigerian popular culture. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi popped up on Google. The essay of his I read at the time was powerful enough to make me pursue his name further in more scholarly and restricted search engines. More essays of his popped up and I was hooked. I was also embarrassed that I had previously never heard of what, for me, was turning out to be one of Nigeria’s most powerful minds in public intellection and critical analysis of society. I have ‘stalked’ his mind consistently now for more than a decade.



Every intellectual worthy of that name is a stalker. There are names you throw frequently into your search engine to find out if they have written something new because you are convinced that every sentence they write is a must-read. Even when you disagree vehemently with them as it frequently happens, the power of their minds, their intimidating erudition, the sincerity of their convictions, and the beauty of their prose keep you coming back. I have a long list of Nigerian minds I stalk online but I’ll mention just four. I am sufficiently close to the first two to call them brothers: Odia Ofeimun, famous poet and former private secretary of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and Professor Eghosa Osaghae, one of Nigeria’s most brilliant political scientists, currently Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University. Then there are Professor Adebayo Williams and Dr Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo. Every sentence these four intellectuals write stays written and must be read. This is the cerebral company to which I welcomed Sanusi Lamido Sanusi after discovering his work eleven years ago.

Gamji.com obliged my new and expansive appetite for Sanusi’s work by regularly archiving his prolific output from 2001-2007. Then the uploads stopped. I sent several emails to his publicly advertised address, telling him that some minds are a collective property of the people, given to certain individuals to hold in trust. Such minds have no right to stop writing or making themselves available for public enlightenment. His is one such mind – it belongs to the Nigerian people - and he had no right to stop writing. I never got a response. Sadly, his writings have come in very irregular trickles ever since.

I must confess to a certain southern Nigerian arrogance in my initial, startled encounters with Sanusi’s mind. I am a student of 19th and 20th century European public intellectuals. Lamido Sanusi is not a student of those intellectuals like me: he is a master of their works. His essays are a compelling cerebral exercise in the works of such famous public intellectuals/philosophers as Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Isaiah Berlin, Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Bertrand Russell, and a host of others. He blends the thought of these men effortlessly with some of the most cosmopolitan references in Islamic scholarship. Part of my initial reaction was: who the heck is this Northerner (read: feudal conservative Muslim who shouldn’t know more than the Koran!) with such a compelling mastery of European – mostly atheistic – humanist philosophy? And then to discover that this great cosmopolitan mind comes from the purest of northern oligarchy: the son of a former emir of Kano! The more reason he ought to have turned out a bearded sharianist!

My initial attitude betrays a certain Nigerian problem: the recourse to comforting ethno-religious stereotypes and the unwillingness to move beyond them because we risk encountering evidence to the contrary. This explains some of the hostile reactions to news of his possible appointment as the Central Bank Governor. People who have never even read him have dismissed him as a “Taliban” who may Islamize the Central Bank. We are lucky they have not called him Maitatsine. Sanusi is not Ahmed Deedat please! He is not Sheikh Abubakar Gumi! He is not cut from the tribalistic myopia of a Mohamed Haruna. Sanusi’s extensive resume in the financial sector and academe is now being opportunistically reduced to and subsumed within his Islamic scholarship. Let’s reassure those who are not comfortable with that aspect of his profile that Islamic scholarship and philosophy have produced some of the best minds in global public intellection. My own personal development involves extensive reading in Islamic philosophy, especially those philosophers of the cosmopolitan mould. One reads Tariq Ramadan, Europe’s most influential Muslim intellectual, and Dr Tariq Ali, one of the most compelling leftist thinkers in the world today. Without Tariq Ali, the influential New Left Review would not be what it is today. With Tariq Ali, the world has come to understand that pan-Third World Leftist/Marxist activism and Islamic scholarship are not incompatible.

Furthermore, those of us in literature know that our sense of poetic aesthetics was not singularly shaped by Wordsworth, Milton, Pope, Pound, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Ungaretti, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, and the African poets who emerged in European languages in the 20th century. No one can take Rumi, the great 13th century Persian poet and Islamic philosopher out of the equation when discussing the shaping of modern poetry. We read Rumi. The same argument applies to the novel. The fortune of the novel as a genre in the 20th century is not all about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Hemingway, and Kenzaburo Oe. It is also about the Egyptian Nobel laureate for literature, Naguib Mahfouz, and, most importantly, Abdelrahman Munif, the great Saudi novelist whose Cities of Salt quintet of novels is the most compelling account of the evolution of Saudi/Bedouin culture from tradition to the oil postmodernity of the West. Munif’s Cities of Salt is the Things Fall Apart of the Arab world and one of the most important novels of our times. In essence, wordsmiths from the Islamic world are not excluded from enriching and and extending the frontiers of modernist aesthetics.

We are so inclined to an instinctive dismissal of all things Islamic as retrogressive and murderously fundamentalist that folks prefer to remain in their blissful ignorance of Islam’s contributions to philosophy, knowledge, culture, and modernity and will not read in those directions to broaden their personal intellectual spheres. Admittedly, our brothers in the North have not helped matters, what with the enlightened ones among them doing zilch about the periodic mass murder of southerners in the North by crazy Islamic fanatics. For me, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s Islamic thought belongs in the illustrious cosmopolitan tradition I have summarized above. I locate him in the sensibilities of Abdelrahman Munif , Naguib Mahfouz and Tariq Ali. As far as I am concerned, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is a thoroughgoing pan-Nigerian humanist and patriot who has had his occasional lapses into national stereotyping. But which Nigerian thinker is immune to such occasional lapses: Wole Soyinka? Chinua Achebe? Mathew Hassan Kukah? Pat Utomi? Reuben Abati?

There is considerable merit to the argument that his proposed appointment would complete the Northernization of Nigeria’s finance sector and damage the Federal character principle. But I’d rather have other less cerebrally gifted come-and-eat appointees removed in the Ministry of Finance to make way for balance than touch Lamido Sanusi’s appointment. After the considerable intellectual panache that Professor Charles Soludo brought to that office, it would be tragic to appoint a less gifted cerebral mind as his successor. If Soludo’s tenure is not renewed, Lamido Sanusi Lamido fits the bill. I welcome this possible appointment enthusiastically

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afam4eva:
I've heard this joke before but it's still funny reading it again.

don't deny me the 'credit' of my labour, maybe you read it on my facebook page

Jonathan Presidency, one month-one trouble

ode remo:
Am tired of all these water down statements masqurading as jokes.
Xmass is coming so guys don dey tire for jokes.
Next pls.
Fresh air jare.

ode, you still dey vex for person wey God like, you go tay

jidewin:
I saw the budget,the expenses to be incured,WASTEFUL SPENDING of the nigerian govt,I bowed shook my head and shed tears.when an average family and woman are yet to be living on N18,000 a month.the fed govt spends hundreds of millions on kitchen utensils,EVERY YEAR aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh, O God!!! Pls save us, from our task masters.do something before the "righteous"becomes an "outlaw".everyone in govt from the president to local govt councillors are all crooks and demonised.
WILL IT BE A SIN IF WE DEMAND FOR IMPEACHMENT OF GEJ???
IT IS TRUE,THE ONLY LANGUAGE NIGERIAN GOVT UNDERSTANDS AND ABIDE WITH IS "VIOLENCE".Nigeria needs "INSURGENCY".

is that possible in the first instance?

bin gbagbo:
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should i be happy, Bin scoring me B

bunmioguns:
Joblessness is a disease

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seanet02:
Shameful