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Praise the Lord for Ms Binta's testimony.

My take on this: You will reap what you sow - in your marriage, in life and in every facet of human endeavor. Because we all are humans and we all have feelings, whatever decision anyone takes in marriage he/she must be ready to bear the consequences. Reasonable and responsible people make/take decisions and stand by it - no matter the consequences.

Now, in the light of God's words and as most people know, God hates divorce. His desire for marriages is for couples to live together till death do them part. When he commanded us to do our marriages that way, He knew that there will be friction in the home. He also knew that some husbands will lose their jobs and there will be problems at home. But He commanded, all thesame, for couples to live together through it all.

Now, that said, we then need to understand why a woman will leave her husband in critical moments of their life as couples (mind you I have heard about men who leave their wives for reasons that are equally as serious as this job loss story). This is very important. There could be several reasons for her leaving and we must not jump to conclusion that what she did was wrong. Hear from both side of the divide (if it has gotten to that stage) and you will hear a lot.

Now, no matter what wrong the man may have committed against you as woman/wife, I will advise that you still stick with your man. For you to have decided to marry that man - no matter how many years ago that decision was made, it must have cost you something. And you must really like that man dearly. Stay with your man for better for worse until death do you part.

This whole thing looks like some script. Something isn't right about the whole ''show''. That said, Fayose should learn to keep his mouth shut next time. Keeping quiet sometimes save you a lot of embarrassment and headache.

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Money, Power and Oil. Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails

By Ellen Brown
Global Research, March 14, 2016
The Web of Debt Blog 13 March 2016
Region: Middle East & North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, USA
Theme: Global Economy, Intelligence, US NATO War Agenda
print 1710 117 20 1994
Hillary Clinton Emails
Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty.

The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a “victory lap.” “We came, we saw, he died!” she crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.

But the victory lap, write Scott Shane and Jo Becker in the New York Times, was premature. Libya was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, “as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilize the region, fueling the refugee crisis in Europe and allowing the Islamic State to establish a Libyan haven that the United States is now desperately trying to contain.”

US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations questioned the claims after finding alack of evidence. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring. As Dan Kovalik wrote in the Huffington Post, “the human rights situation in Libya is a disaster, as ‘thousands of detainees [including children] languish in prisons without proper judicial review,’ and ‘kidnappings and targeted killings are rampant’.”

Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world’s largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and Qaddafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout Africa.

But that was before US-NATO forces bombed the irrigation system and wreaked havoc on the country. Today the situation is so dire that President Obama has asked his advisors to draw up options including a new military front in Libya, and the Defense Department is reportedly standing ready with “the full spectrum of military operations required.”

The Secretary of State’s victory lap was indeed premature, if what we’re talking about is the officially stated goal of humanitarian intervention. But her newly-released emails reveal another agenda behind the Libyan war; and this one, it seems, was achieved.

Mission Accomplished?

Of the 3,000 emails released from Hillary Clinton’s private email server in late December 2015, about a third were from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal, the attorney who defended her husband in the Monica Lewinsky case. One of these emails,dated April 2, 2011, reads in part:

Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver . . . . This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).

In a “source comment,” the original declassified email adds:

According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues:

A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,
Increase French influence in North Africa,
Improve his internal political situation in France,
Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world,
Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa
Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns. The objectives are money, power and oil.

Other explosive confirmations in the newly-published emails are detailed byinvestigative journalist Robert Parry. They include admissions of rebel war crimes, of special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, and of Al Qaeda embedded in the US-backed opposition. Key propaganda themes for violent intervention are acknowledged to be mere rumors. Parry suggests they may have originated with Blumenthal himself. They include the bizarre claim that Qaddafi had a “rape policy” involving passing Viagra out to his troops, a charge later raised by UN Ambassador Susan Rice in a UN presentation. Parry asks rhetorically:

So do you think it would it be easier for the Obama administration to rally American support behind this “regime change” by explaining how the French wanted to steal Libya’s wealth and maintain French neocolonial influence over Africa – or would Americans respond better to propaganda themes about Gaddafi passing out Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women while his snipers targeted innocent children? Bingo!

Toppling the Global Financial Scheme

Qaddafi’s threatened attempt to establish an independent African currency was not taken lightly by Western interests. In 2011, Sarkozy reportedly called the Libyan leader a threat to the financial security of the world. How could this tiny country of six million people pose such a threat? First some background.

It is banks, not governments, that create most of the money in Western economies, as the Bank of England recently acknowledged. This has been going on for centuries, through the process called “fractional reserve” lending. Originally, the reserves were in gold. In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt replaced gold domestically with central bank-created reserves, but gold remained the reserve currency internationally.

In 1944, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to unify this bank-created money system globally. An IMF ruling said that no paper money could have gold backing. A money supply created privately as debt at interest requires a continual supply of debtors; and over the next half century, most developing countries wound up in debt to the IMF. The loans came with strings attached, including “structural adjustment” policies involving austerity measures and privatization of public assets.

After 1944, the US dollar traded interchangeably with gold as global reserve currency. When the US was no longer able to maintain the dollar’s gold backing, in the 1970s it made a deal with OPEC to “back” the dollar with oil, creating the “petro-dollar.” Oil would be sold only in US dollars, which would be deposited in Wall Street and other international banks.

In 2001, dissatisfied with the shrinking value of the dollars that OPEC was getting for its oil, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein broke the pact and sold oil in euros. Regime change swiftly followed, accompanied by widespread destruction of the country.

In Libya, Qaddafi also broke the pact; but he did more than just sell his oil in another currency.

As these developments are detailed by blogger Denise Rhyne:

For decades, Libya and other African countries had been attempting to create a pan-African gold standard. Libya’s al-Qadhafi and other heads of African States had wanted an independent, pan-African, “hard currency.”

Under al-Qadhafi’s leadership, African nations had convened at least twice for monetary unification. The countries discussed the possibility of using the Libyan dinar and the silver dirham as the only possible money to buy African oil.

Until the recent US/NATO invasion, the gold dinar was issued by the Central Bank of Libya (CBL). The Libyan bank was 100% state owned and independent. Foreigners had to go through the CBL to do business with Libya. The Central Bank of Libya issued the dinar, using the country’s 143.8 tons of gold.

Libya’s Qadhafi (African Union 2009 Chair) conceived and financed a plan to unify the sovereign States of Africa with one gold currency (United States of Africa). In 2004, a pan-African Parliament (53 nations) laid plans for the African Economic Community – with a single gold currency by 2023.

African oil-producing nations were planning to abandon the petro-dollar, and demand gold payment for oil/gas.

Showing What Is Possible

Qaddafi had done more than organize an African monetary coup. He had demonstrated that financial independence could be achieved. His greatest infrastructure project, the Great Man-made River, was turning arid regions into a breadbasket for Libya; and the $33 billion project was being funded interest-free without foreign debt, through Libya’s own state-owned bank.



That could explain why this critical piece of infrastructure was destroyed in 2011. NATO not only bombed the pipeline but finished off the project by bombing the factory producing the pipes necessary to repair it. Crippling a civilian irrigation system serving up to 70% of the population hardly looks like humanitarian intervention. Rather, as Canadian Professor Maximilian Forte put it in his heavily researched book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa:

[T]he goal of US military intervention was to disrupt an emerging pattern of independence and a network of collaboration within Africa that would facilitate increased African self-reliance. This is at odds with the geostrategic and political economic ambitions of extra-continental European powers, namely the US.

Mystery Solved

Hilary Clinton’s emails shed light on another enigma remarked on by early commentators. Why, within weeks of initiating fighting, did the rebels set up their own central bank? Robert Wenzel wrote in The Economic Policy Journal in 2011:

This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising.

It was all highly suspicious, but as Alex Newman concluded in a November 2011 article:

Whether salvaging central banking and the corrupt global monetary system were truly among the reasons for Gadhafi’s overthrow . . . may never be known for certain – at least not publicly.

There the matter would have remained – suspicious but unverified like so many stories of fraud and corruption – but for the publication of Hillary Clinton’s emails after an FBI probe. They add substantial weight to Newman’s suspicions: violent intervention was not chiefly about the security of the people. It was about the security of global banking, money and oil.

Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank Solution, explores successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 300+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com. Listen to “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on PRN.FM.

The original source of this article is The Web of Debt Blog

Copyright © Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog, 2016

bakynes:
He wasn't born there, so his Citizenship can be revoked.

Operative word here is ''can''. Meaning you too don't have all the facts.

My own experience is the direct opposite.

I was in a bus some years back, and this woman with big breasts kept pressing them against my back and shoulders at any slightest opportunity the bus goes through a pothole or swerve. It was weird. It's not like there wasn't enough space between us. But you can see her deliberately trying to squeeze those breasts on my back and shoulder.

It's both ways if you ask me. But my case is rare sha.

I'm going to do a very rough estimate of what Nigeria may have generated during the tenure of GEJ based on the content of this report.

So, we have $67billion dollars in 1.5 years - January 2012 to July 2013. This translates to some $45 billion dollars per year from crude oil sales. And then for GEJ's 6 years in office, one can comfortably assume that we generated $268 billion dollars for that period. If that's changed to Naira, at some N150 to the dollar (varies and could be high), that's some:

[size=18pt]N40.2 TRILLION[/size].

So, what did we spend that humoungous amount on in Nigeria that we still have epileptic power, dilapidated road networks, all manner of societal ills and evil. . . . . . .

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I abstained from premarital sex - for some 27 years, by the grace of God. I am married - for more than 9 years now. And I have also, by God's grace, stayed away from adultery (call it post marital sex). It takes discipline, God's grace and determination to stay clean.

I will not deny that keeping oneself pure for a future wife/husband is challenging these days (as it was in the past anyway). Please mark the key word here - ''challenging'', not ''impossible''. Self control, discipline and Godly doctrines, which was fed to myself in large doses during my adolescence days is lacking and missing among the youths as always. The absence of these key elements in the upbringing of adolescent youths these days have set the stage for what we're witnessing en masse today.

Also, people are not willing to forgive others of their past misdeeds - especially those who genuinely have confessed and repented of their past evil deeds and are willing to start on a clean slate. Others want to eat their cake and have it, as someone rightly pointed out somewhere here. And yet still, some accuse others of thesame sins they enjoy committing .

In the case under discussion here, I will still suggest that you tell your ''fiance/fiancee'' your past if he/she asks for it. It breeds confidence, trust and peace of mind for the two of you. There is this burden (or is it strong desire) on someone who genuinely confessed his/her sins of the past to not do it again, compared to someone who's hiding his/her sins.

Please note, this is for people who are genuinely about to settle down, not some immoral boyfriend/girlfriend relationship stuff. All these ''my ex boyfriend/girlfriend'' talks is evil, It's what's even contributing to the moral decadence we're winessing around us everywhere. Am I asking for the impossible? I think not.

liljboy:
*clears throat* how you carry ask am abeg?

Na talk dey bring talk. Dem no dey open mouth finish dey talk some kind things. You use your head.

I will use myself as example.

I was a virgin man - at 27 years when I met my wife (nowadays, I read about something called konji gripping men who don't engage in pre marital sex. Sorry, nothing like that happened to me). Truth is, all those years I stayed away from ''evil'', I did see several good looking beautiful women and girls and I was attracted to them. But it ends when I get back home or to my work.

So, when my wife asked how many girls I have been with and I told her none, she said I'm from outer space - Mars perhaps!

I did not directly ask how many men she's been with. I did that in a ''subtle'' way - so she provided the answer without knowing it. She's been with more than one. But you know what? I still went ahead and married this lady - but we made sure we're both medically okay as required.

All is well after more than 9 years of marriage and 3 beautiful kids.


My advice, you can ask her (if you plan on settling down with her) - but not in a very direct, childish way.

And for ladies saying it's best you leave the past behind, know that truth will always find a way to the surface. Better let him know now - if he asked for it (whether he can handle it or not, it doesn't matter. Tell him).

boolet:
If price per barrel was N119 and PMS was N97, now that barrel price is N49 PMS should be N27. Nigerians should know the truth.

Is that your 119 naira or dollars - for the barrel of oil? Check am wella o!

There was one baba Ibadan man that was the Generallisimo of Ibadanland in those days. I've forgotten his name - he's late now. That man was evil incarnate, and was a very big 'tool' in OBJ government, a kingmaker of sort. Can anyone remind me what his name is again?

All Nigerians must think deeply before casting their vote in this coming election o! I have done my bit to make you all see the light.

nickxtra:
I must say that in as much as I do not intend to exonerate OBJ of the above mentioned lapses in his administration, even though the article lacks objectivity and balance reportage, we must not ignore the fact that no Ruler or president in the whole world without some issues that could not be rightly done under him, yet some of these rulers are rally points in their respective political terrain. From America to Asian, Europe to our Africa, the story is the same. To my mind, if OBJ was bad then and he is now a 'born again' person whose concern is about Nigeria, I prefer him to other past leaders, who looted the treasury of the country with reckless abandon, yet they are afraid to speak or intervene on matters of national importance, because perhaps they are afraid of the Government of the moment. I think, to me, if Obj was a bad leader and he is now repented and sees the need for a better Nigeria under a leadership that is different from his own supposed bad leadership and that of his successors who are not actually better, so be it. The article would have passed a quality assurance editing, if it had not deliberately ignored and left out the positives of Obasanjo and his administration.

Ok. So, OBJ have some positives - after all the negatives chronicled above, right?

Now tell us why GEJ is all about negatives and no positives, why he's attracting so much negative publicity. I know that his 'sins' are numerous like that of OBJ, but why is it that in his (GEJ) case, he must be portrayed in bad light? Please leave out the born again thing o!

So, can write ups like this help sway the minds of of diehard GMB fans - for them to vote for GEJ? On my part, and to be frank, I don't like GEJ and I'm not sure he's capable of leading this country with the needed gusto she deserves.

But Buhari is NOT the solution either - I'm not sure if he's elected, he'll perform any better than what we're witnesssing now.

So, what do we do?

I read the below thought provoking article by Simon Kolawole of This Day. I cannot help but wonder (just like the writer) how easily Nigerians can forget the past- just like that!

Please read and think a little bit about the future of this country. Thank you. By the way, if you're the type who doesn't like reading long post, please back off!

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For the life of me, I will never understand how former President Olusegun Obasanjo does it. When you think he is done, he has just begun. I have watched in utter amusement how he has, yet again, wangled his way into the front page of newspapers on a daily basis. I don’t know of any other former head of state elsewhere who has turned himself into the subject and object of national attention long after he has left power. Obasanjo is always there, always scheming, always screaming. It is his luck, I must say, but, as a mere mortal, I often wonder why some guys have all the luck.

Obasanjo, amazingly, has become a god or a saint to many Nigerians. Many politicians, commentators, journalists, activists and youths who used to criticise him are now celebrating him as our moral compass. The people he has brutalised before — such as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi — go to Abeokuta to genuflect to him. Even Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, of all people, goes to Obasanjo's house to pay homage. And President Goodluck Jonathan goes to Abeokuta to kowtow to him, with two respected pastors in tow.

How does Obasanjo do it? Can anyone help me out? He has a word on every issue. He expresses his opinion so forcefully, so eloquently and so mischievously that you just cannot ignore him. He loves to criticise what he is patently guilty of. He loves to vilify anyone who does not worship at his temple. There is no accusation Obasanjo throws at anyone that he himself is not double guilty of. He has launched ferocious media attacks against most of his successors — President Shehu Shagari, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Jonathan. Only Gen. Sani Abacha pre-empted him by throwing him into jail before he could open his mouth.

Obasanjo complains about corruption and Nigerians hail him. What's his moral high ground? Can someone tell me? Has anybody never heard about the Halliburton and Siemens scandals? The damning reports are there in the attorney-general's office. Does the name Dr. Julius Makanjuola ring a bell? Under Obasanjo, he was the permanent secretary of the ministry of defence implicated in a N421 million scandal. Mysteriously, the case was abruptly closed with Nolle Prosequi (no further prosecution) — the first in Nigeria's history.

Well, Obasanjo went on to set up the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), headed by Malam Nuhu Ribadu, which — in fairness — did kick the backsides of many politicians. But EFCC could not tackle Obasanjo's own corruption: from the obscene fundraiser for his private library to his shareholding in Transcorp — a company that was getting juicy stuff from a government superintended by Obasanjo. Have we all forgotten the scandalous waivers granted to all kinds of human beings, officially defrauding our treasury billions of dollars?

Does anybody remember that Obasanjo was in power for eight years and we kept importing fuel, with PDP financiers getting the contracts through local and foreign fronts? Forgotten so easily? Does anybody remember how much we spent on repairing refineries that kept "knocking" for the eight years that Obasanjo was in power? Does anybody still remember Obasanjo saying on national TV that he did not know the price of kerosene and it was "unacceptable" that it was more expensive than petrol? How does Obasanjo get away with hoodwinking Nigerians?

Do we still remember that Obasanjo did not resolve the electricity problem for eight years? Do we still remember the "$16 billion spent on power without results" for which Obasanjo arrogantly refused to appear before the House probe panel? Is it that we have forgotten that the damning report was killed? Do we still remember that Obasanjo did not add one coach to the railways throughout his tenure despite spending billions of dollars? Does anybody still remember how many federal highways were in terrible state for the eight years that Obasanjo spent in power? Have we forgotten the Benin-Shagamu road saga? Just like that?

When Obasanjo discusses insecurity, I cringe. From every available evidence, Boko Haram started right under his nose. If he had aborted the foetus, maybe we wouldn't be engaged in fire-fighting today. I have heard many Nigerians say, perhaps innocently, that if Obasanjo had been in power he would have crushed Boko Haram by now. Really? How well did he crush the less complex militancy in the Niger Delta? Was it not under Obasanjo that the militancy started in 2004 and flourished?

To the best of my knowledge, militants were bombing oil installations and kidnapping oil workers with ease under Obasanjo. At a stage, daily crude oil production fell to about 900,000 barrels — from the height of 2.5m. In fact, we were later told that why Obasanjo picked Jonathan as the running mate to Yar'Adua was to appease the Niger Delta. Of course, nobody was appeased. The attacks continued until Yar'Adau offered an amnesty deal. How these facts conveniently escape us is beyond my understanding.

Insecurity? Abacha's regime aside, more Nigerians were assassinated under Obasanjo's watch than at any time in our history. The abridged roll-call: Chief Bola Ige, a serving minister; Chief Marshall Harry, co-ordinator of the Buhari presidential campaign in 2003; Chief AK Dikibo, PDP chieftain and ally of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Chief Uche Ogbonnaya (OGB), an ANPP senatorial candidate in Imo State in 2003; and Mr. Barnabas Igwe and his wife, Amaka, in Onitsha. The assassins were never unmasked. What is insecurity?

How did Obasanjo become our moral compass? How did he become such a highly sought-after role model? Has anybody ever managed to read the affidavit Obasanjo's own son, Gbenga, filed while seeking a divorce from his wife on the ground of incest and adultery? It doesn't matter? Has anybody ever taken time to read the letter Iyabo wrote to her father, giving graphic details of his megalomania and duplicity? It doesn't matter? Has anybody ever done a recap of the blatant rigging of elections under the "saint"? It doesn't matter?

Obasanjo pontificates on impunity and we hail him. What happened to us? Dr. Chris Ngige, as governor of Anambra State, was abducted by Obasanjo's associates. Have we forgotten the illegal impeachment of Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja as governor of Oyo State? What about the impeachment of Chief Joshua Dariye as governor of Plateau by eight out of 24 lawmakers? For three years, Obasanjo unconstitutionally withheld Lagos council allocations because of political differences. It took Yar'Adua only a few days in power to undo the impunity.

They say, "Oh, Obasanjo is a patriot. He has the best interest of Nigeria at heart." Really? Can Obasanjo look up to heavens and say, solemnly, that he had the best interest of Nigeria at heart when he was picking his successor? Such a character cannot be my own moral compass. With a moral compass like Obasanjo, though, Nigeria is doomed and damned.

Ref. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/obasanjo-as-nigerias-moral-compass/199481/#.VLuaDLsLm3s.facebook

Can we please leave anything ''United States'' out of this situation? As far as they have predicted that Nigeria will break up in 2015, I believe that they will do everything in their power to make this happen. Let us all be careful in thinking we have someone who ranks high along with other major US military figures. For me, that doesn't count as anything worthy of emulation or as something we should sing to the high heavens about.

What a tragic year 2014 has been. Missing plane, plane shot down by rebels, many famous actors/actress died, and now thisone....death everywhere. May the good Lord keep us for the rest of the year.

debosky:
If we had a transparent government, they would be able to tell us how much subsidy payments have reduced since the oil price started dropping, and how this additional funds were going to be used elsewhere.

Fair enough.

What I will like to see:

1. What Nigerians SHOULD have paid at the time when oil was going for >$100/barrel out there - and why Nigerians should pay that amount going by the fact that we have the stuff on our soil.

2. ''Official details'' of how much have acrued to government and other people involved in this shady business since the time oil price rose and fell to its present value. The thinking here is just as you put it up there - what have they done to reduce the plight of the average Nigerian with the lot they got when oil price was high?


It feels bad that we have witnessed several hikes in prices of fuel over the years, with governments of the day giving all manner of excuses for increasing fuel costs and harming the average citizenry's ability to live well.

debosky:
Y'all can't have things both ways - as long as you insist on the FG subsidising petroleum products for our consumption then the price will not move freely with the oil price.
This is the time to call for deregulation - if y'all didn't decide to 'Occupy Nigeria' when some of us wanted deregulation to happen then we'd have seen a drop and less money coming out of our pockets by now.
By the way - cost price is nowhere near N50/litre so what exactly do you want? Low price? Fixed price? Cost price?

The problem is that I don't trust all the abracadabra arithmetic that is the Nigerian government and their officials' way of calculating stuff - in any case, I don't trust anyone in government in Nigeria. Sorry, this deregulation excuse will not cut it for a sound explanation, debosky. It's fraught with corruption and shady deals. I don't want to start digging up things to buttress my points on deregulation. No time.

All I know is that if the price of fuel is falling everywhere, why is Naija's fuel price still so high - more than N100 naira? We're producing oil in Nigeria. When the price was high, we didn't benefit anything as average Nigerians. Why can't we even feel anything at this time too?

The US no longer buy our oil. So, why not just bring it back and refine it at home and sell to our teeming populace? Endless questions.

In the US and UK, gas (what we call fuel here) prices falls/rises almost with the price per barrel of crude. We are an oil producing country for heavens sake! When the prices were high, we, the citizens of this country did not enjoy a dime of all the wealth realised from the sales of crude oil. And now, are we not going to still benefit from the drop in the price per barrel of oil??

Please, how much is petrol selling for in your area?

One would expect that the price per litre of petrol should have fallen to some N50/Litre or less by now, with the falling price of the barrel of crude oil all over the world. I read that gas/fuel prices are falling dramatically in the developed world.

What is stopping the FG from bringing the prices down, considering that this will have some soothing effect on already economically traumatised citizens of Nigeria?

The petroleum resources minister and president should please intervene.

With OBJ's pedigree with women, I will be worried about Oby, if she were my wife. No one expects her to say something is going on/or happened in the past between her and OBJ, but it's what many have seen that agitates the mind - and we don't need her to explain anything further.

adoyi81:
Baba has an history with women ,so not surprise with what I m seeing

I will not object to this type of "hugging" if it's from the likes of Donald Duke or even Raji Fashola.

Baba OBJ has a scandalous history with women. Here is a man who had an affair with his son's wife - when no one thought nothing of sort was going on. His son divorced the wife because of that affair. OBJ married several women. Mama Iyabo is no longer with him today. This is what the woman said about OBJ.

"Mr. Obasanjo is portrayed as a serial manipulator and wife abuser who loves charming all manners of women into his perverse space."
http://xokigbo.com/2012/02/18/mrs-oluremi-obasanjo-life-with-an-animal/

"On December 28, 2005 Gbenga petitioned the Ikeja High Court for a divorce on grounds of incompatibility, Mojisola's poor cooking skills, untidiness and her father's frequent meddling in the couple's affairs."
http://www.modernghana.com/news/158969/1/obasanjo-in-sexual-escapade-with-sons-wife.html

"Obasanjo lived his last months in Aso Rock like a bachelor, but his current closest companion comes from among his circle of women who have given him children while living separately."

"When Obasanjo accused him of human-rights abuse, Abacha had him arrested, beaten and sentenced to life in prison. Tunde’s mother, Obasanjo’s wife, was grief stricken. “Not just her, but the others as well,” he says. “There must have been 10 wives at least, maybe more.”
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/women-competed-for-obasanjo-stepson-reveals/


I am sure madam Oby is aware of all these stories about OBJ. I don't think she resisted that ''hug'' in any way - and her twitter handle did show that she doesn't care anyway - people with twisted minds can think what they like. I think the startling encounter definitely will, and should put a dent on Ms Ezekwesili's reputation as a "caring" mother who wants 200 chibok girls back in Abuja.

rhames:
You don read this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081

- just in case you want to buy.

''Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations.''