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Oga just get on with your rickshaw, we don't need the updates. Thanks.

Fashola must step up to the plate and prove his worth on thiis matter otherwse he would surely lose my respect!

Op I'm sure when you said "waiting for so many bashing" a lot of ethnic zealots must have rushed in here thinking it is a Yoruba Vs Igbo thing, only to be disappointed!!

If your thread runs up to page 1, then you are lucky.

Funny, but sadly that is the mentality of most christians in Nigeria!!

I wonder if our counterparts in other countries practice it the way we do. Smh.

For me, I say; Hang the mofo!! He guilty!!

donphilopus: My President-In-Waiting has said it all.

It's high time we said NO to a so-called PhD Holder who does not know the value of Education.

It's high time we said NO to the man who ruined our Health Sector claiming that his government has successfully contained ebola.

It's high time we said NO to the man who couldn't visit Bama, Gwoza, Damboa, Nyanya, yet he could go and celebrate with an Oba.

It's high time we said NO to the man who mocked the #BringBackOurGirls campaign for his own selfish reasons.

It's high time we voted out cluelessness.

Why did you have to quote exactly where I was about to without my permission!!!

barcanista: What has he done for his people? Can you be specific pls?

If you had been to Plateau under Joshua Dariye and you go there now, you would see the change staring you in the face especially in Jos. Afraid I can't be more specific.

That's my president in waiting!!!

urhoboman: Nigerians will have to endure with all this loot and corruption till 2019. I see no way APC can defeat GEJ in 2015. Left to me, he won't come back to that office.

Just play your part and forget the rest. Cast your vote against him. The millions of votes one gets in an election is an aggregation of individual votes.

Jang has done incredibly well in Plateau state and without all that media hype. All one needs to do is travel to the state and see how he has transformed it especially the road network of the city of Jos. He is greatly respected amongst the indigenous people of the state and shouldn't ruin thaat good name in the twilight of his admin.

CFCfan: @ omenka or Omenka: Do u recall my post some months ago saying the BH menace will be 'conveniently' ended by September/October?

Conveniently you say. We live in very interesting times indeed.

The ultimate truth about this whole episode would one day be revealed. Truth can only be hidden or suppressed for so long.

The big question is: where are their sponsors
Just the other day it was reported that some members were seen in a guest house of a presidential adviser. That news suppressed and eventually killed.

I haven't the slightest doubt in my mind the top most hierarchy of PDP are the brains behind this.

AdimGreat: Since this news is from SR, I'll take it with a pinch of salt till another credible source confirms it.

Before then I'll comment my reserve on Pst. Ayo

It would be better for you if you took it with a bag of salt. I think a pinch wouldn't be sufficient.


@ post: was anyone actually thinking that the Ja Rule wannabe wasn't involved

What kind of childish post is this??

vicmela: This man wants to kill us in this country. So immigration money is gone just like that!!!Nawa oh it's well

It is not well and will never be until we get such crooks like Moro, Mark, Jo, Madueke, Lawal, and the rest of the horde of the Abuja gang out of the corridors of power.

50calibre: Shut up!!! Save your silly lectures on respect for you kids. Jonada*ft is not my father, I owe him no respect.

Stup*d Nigerians, I can't comprehend the way some of you think at times.

What has age got to do with a president's performance?

It boggles the mind....

Jonathan and Deizani, David Mark and Abba Moro.

Anyone surprised??

It is all part of a grand scheme to stall proceedings until the legal 180days limit for adjudication of cases bordering elections elapses, then the case would be thrown out on technical grounds!!

Indeed, there was a country!

Controversial Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has devised a fresh scheme to fleece Nigerians.

Using the increase in the new fees charged for the Nigerian passport, he has formulated a new policy that would effectively extort billions from unsuspecting Nigerians every month.

Beginning in August, the minster illegally contracted a freight forwarding and courier company, Greater Washington Limited, to deliver passports to applicants at the cost of N2,000. The fee has been built into the new fee of N19,550 charged for the Nigerian passport and every applicant is forced to pay the money whether she/he wants the service or not.

The new payment regime for the Nigerian passport commenced on August 1, when the federal government also rolled out the new 64-page passport for frequent travellers.

Where the 32-page passport used to cost N8,750 for all Nigerians under the old regime, with the new rate, applicants aged 1 to 18 and 60 and above would now be the only ones allowed to pay the old rate of N8,750. All other applicants (aged 18 to 60) would pay N15,000.

This was announced by the Minister of Interior at the launch of the 64- page passport by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on July 29. The minister said further that the 64-page passport would cost N20,000 while change of data for reasons other than marriage or divorce would attract a N30,000 processing fee.

What Moro failed to tell his audience, including President Jonathan, is that Nigerians would now be forced to pay N2,000 to have their passports delivered to their homes.
Our investigations indicate that the total amount paid for the passport is N15,600, including bank charges.

An applicant is expected to indicate if he prefers to pick up his/her passport personally or would like it delivered. However, whatever option is chosen, the N2,000 for delivery has to be paid. Many applicants who say they would pick up their passports because they do not want any delay are
still being made to pay the N2,000.

By the new system, after filling the application forms and making necessary payments, applicants are expected to go to the Greater Washington office at the passport office where the application is made to submit contact address for the delivery of their passports.

However, there are many things wrong with the entire arrangement of having a private company deliver passports to citizens. First, from icirnigeria.org investigations, the minister did not go through due process in awarding the contract to deliver passports to applicants to Greater Washington as there was no advertisement or bidding process. The company was exclusively the minister’s choice.

Also, what is now being made to look like a government policy did not arise as a result of a need because Nigerians did not demand that their passports be delivered to them in their homes. Sources in NIS passport offices said that there were never any complaints from applicants about personally picking up their passports.

Besides, if the new policy were to be given any consideration at all, then the Immigration Service would have been best placed to perform that task.
First, all Immigration passport offices across the country have both issuance and collection centres. More important, the NIS also has an office in all the local governments of the country and is already equipped to render the service. What would be required would be to strengthen its capacity to enable it to deliver.

This is even truer as investigations revealed that Greater Washington only has three members of staff and two motorcycles attached to each passport office in the state.
This is inadequate to service even the state capital. For instance, Kano State, with its huge land mass and population and Lagos, which has a vast population, will stretch the inadequate arrangements to the limits.

There is also the issue of applicants who apply for passports in places where they are not resident. For example, in the case of an applicant who lives in Kano but applies for a passport while on holiday in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, would the delivery company deliver his passport to him in
Kano?

Another problem with the new system is that although it looks like Nigerians are given an option of choosing whether they would collect their passports personally or have them delivered, the reality is that whatever option applicant choses, he/she still pays the N2,000.

Our investigation reveals that at least in Abuja and Lagos where our reporters monitored the passport collection process, most people still go to physically collect their passports, meaning that they had paid Greater Washington for services not rendered.

An equally important point is that just in order to ensure that a private company benefits from passport issuance, the minister, and the federal government by implication, has sacrificed all the gains of the last 10 years to deliver a passport within 24 to 48 hours after application.

With the new system, the time an applicant gets his/her passport depends on how long it takes the delivery company to locate his/her address. However, for some officials of the Immigration Service who spoke to the
iicirnigeria.org on the condition of anonymity, the most worrying aspect of the whole scheme is that a security document which contains the bio data of Nigerians is being handed over to a private company. That could have grave security implications, they observed.



More at:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/168647-investigation-minister-abba-moro-in-fresh-scandal-defrauding-nigerians-of-billions.html

Yet again, jonathan looks the other way. Pity.

AustineE1: ... you and Omenka,thinks that always insulting the president will make both of you sound smart but do you know what any civilized mind in this forum thinks of you,that you both are both uncivilized,uncultured,crude,unrefined and products of distorted upbringing.I understand you may be jobless,riddled by poverty but you shld find a decent way of venting your frustrations and spend less time online,you may some day get a breakthrough in life by using your time well.
I can authoritatively say this to you,If you ever were from a decent home where a dad plays his role to his children and you understand what it takes to attain great heights in life,you will never insult a president of a nation or any elder in that manner!By always insulting,it shows you are weak and your challenges are obvious.

Are you done?? Keep prattling on, perhaps you'd eventually make sense at some point.

dekronik: What's funny and suspicious about ma threads? I ALWAYS give out sources of ma news. I want an end to these senseless killings so truth must be told. This is how Ahmed Salkida was arrested and locked up simply because he alerted the govt way back in 2008 that boko haram were planning on forming an independent state. If his statements were taken seriosly we would not have been in this situation.

Ignore the fool. Time and again, Boko Haram members have been found hobnobbing with friends and associates of Jonathan, but rather than admit their Oga is culpable, they'd rather point fingers at the opposition. Imagine what this forum would look like if just ONE of such new was being reported with an opposition figure involved!!

Good one and commendable. But just like Oliver, we desire more; we need their sponsors!!! They deserve thesame treatment, perhaps even worse!

This is impressive!

assfreak: Na Shekau teach you Biology? Pubic hair na the same as underarm hair for Shekau Memorial College?

Na real freak you be bros!!! Rotflmao!! @ Shekau Memorial College. Lol.

Kio67: its a headline news on both punch and vinegaurd news....just as i hv refered to nairaland after visiting 9javibes...i went to google n boom..its in other news organizations in nigeria...click it on google n see what am saying

So when we click on google we will see the news!! Rotflmao!!!

nduchucks: Behold, the most credible news organization in Nigeria 9javibes.com

www.nairaland.com/attachments/229503_ROFLMAODog_gif3fa44b12f55ba64fc785c3a5794ba92e

wey your own source??

size38: Nawa ooo! Which refuse bin this one come out from again?

As in ehn!! Cele of all people!!! Lmao!!

Don't you just love this country!!!!

jerseyboy: Catholic Bishops now clearly have an agenda

Of course they do!! If you don't have one then you must be the most jobless and idle nigga on planet earth!!

Nigeria's economy is as open for "penetration" like a hoe's legs in a brothel!! All you gotta to is "pay" and you get a fix. You don't need to "look for how to" do that.

OKDnigeria: Why do you people always look for something to criticize dis president with. If it's 5 months, is it not over 3 months? Or u don't understand d meaning of 'over 3 months'?

Are you sure you are okay?? If it were approximation they want to make, since it is almost six months since the girls were taken, whatever happened to saying "they were abducted over five months ago"?? Or are they deliberately trying to lie to the world

barcanista: According to Jonathan

Whoever is writing Jonathan's Speech need to be tried for treason and subjecting the Image of the Country to Public ridicule. ALL his Media Aides should be fired for conspiracy. That was a public embarrassment. He ought to have got his fact right and be very specific. Jonathan's cluelessness has gone global

The people Jonathan surrounds himself with are the ones that would ultimately undo him. I don't pity him though.

Xfactoria: Which cover up? So you think a man like Shekau or maybe his impersonator is one that would sing once captured? You think he is such a coward to start spilling the beans or beg for mercy? Please, think again!!!

The guy is aware that negotiations are on-going between the sect and the FG. I am sure he is wise enough to try to buy time and expect his negotiators to include his release as a condition for the release of the girls.

I don't think, I know he's a coward, otherwise he would have been caught wearing the camouflage he's usually seen wearing in his videos. Why was he trying to feign a civilian?? Dude is a damn sissy no doubt!!

shizzle11: lol@hurt...not at all, you should look to help yourself rather cos you are darn frustrated for some reasons, you need help more than me

Honestly my frustration is that I can't help you bro. What I think I could do is advice that you get yourself a hot pocket (if you know what I mean)and choke off your anger. . Got more pressing businesses to attend to.

If you need more solace, you could find it in my signature!!

Toodles.

shizzle11: look rather for what to ease your frustration, you'll be more useful to yourself

You sound really hurt. . Sorry, can't help you.