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Top 10 Questions for President Buhari before 2019 Presidential Election

The equation is balanced.

By Abdulkabir Olatunji

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, Nigeria's former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election is a man that has been around politically for about 3 decades.

Many people believe that the presidential election in 2019 is his last realistic chance of achieving his long-term ambition of becoming president of Nigeria.

As a political analyst and observer, I have a few questions for him just like the ones I asked President Muhammadu Buhari last month.

I have streamlined the questions and have compiled my list of:

Top 10 Questions for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to Answer Before the 2019 Presidential Election

1. Many Nigerians see you as desperate to become president even when you were Vice President to General (Rtd.) Olusegun Obasanjo, why are you so eager and determined to be president?


2. Your supporters say you are a successful businessman and that you have the capacity to make Nigeria a prosperous country. Yet, there is no clear explanation on how you became wealthy. Your salary and pay up until your retirement from the Nigerian Customs Service as Deputy Director, is not commensurate with your wealth, can you identify a particular breakthrough business deal you had that made you wealthy?


3. Your ex-boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had some very harsh words and descriptions of you in his book, 'My Watch'. You have not sued him for libel or vigorously countered his allegations in the book, does this mean they are true?


4. There are also documents and publications that are in the public domain that seem to indicate that you might have criminal cases to answer in the United States of America. In fact, at least one of your known associates, former US congressman, William Jefferson has been convicted there for corruption. How do you react to these events and allegations that appear tarnish your image?


5. Your opponents in the All Progressives Congress (APC) say you cannot visit the United States for fear of arrest over the criminal case already mentioned above. Will you make an attempt to visit the United States before the 2019 election?


6. What is your biggest achievement so far that you think Nigerians should know about and consider to decide to vote for you?


7. Why do you think you are potentially better president than the incumbent and your main opponent, Muhammadu Buhari?


8. Can you give us the key areas an Atiku administration would focus on if you are elected president?


9. Many Nigerians seem to agree that corruption is Nigeria's biggest problem. Not much has been heard from you on how you would fight it. Can you tell us how you would fight corruption?


10. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your chances of winning the presidential election in February 2019?

There you have it folks, I hope Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will take time out to answer these questions as part of the effort to deepen our democracy and enlighten the electorate.

Source: Top 10 Questions for Atiku to Answer Before the 2019 Presidential Election

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Shame.

Dope any way

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Can the law of attraction be used to heal cancer or is this delusion?

Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s famous quote about the “inner doctor” gives validity to the power of the mind over the body:

“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within a chance to go to work.” Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Prize Winner

The Placebo Effect

You have heard the term Placebo Effect. This is where test subjects are divided into two groups. One group gets the new medication that is being tested. While the other group is administered what amounts to sugar pills. Miraculously, up to 80% of the subjects in the placebo group experience healing. In one famous study bald men actually grew hair!

But these results pale when compared to the Spontaneous Remission Study conducted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1993.

In this work, the authors, Caryle Hirshberg, and the late Brendan O’Regan defined spontaneous remission as “the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor.”

Because there was no standard reference for the field of spontaneous remission before that time, the Remission Project cataloged the world’s medical literature on the subject and the resulting book was the largest database of medically reported cases of spontaneous remission in the world, with more than 3,500 references from more than 800 journals in 20 different languages.

That’s right, more than 3,500 patients experienced healing; the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment…”

So what is going on here?

A leading researcher, Dr. Lissa Rankin, traditionally trained medical doctor, discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. She explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years. Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing

The Law of Attraction, once thought of as “woo-woo” nonsense, is undergoing a major renaissance and people are beginning to “believe”!

Source: Law Of Attraction Healing Diseases – Even Cancer?

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JeromeBlack:
This is very ignorant. So suicide is caused by TV? Only Americans and white people have suicide in their culture abi?

The hardship, the stress, the depression and the ignorance in Nigeria cannot push one to suicide?


And a mod pushed this nonsense to front page

Write your own, let us see.

dexterinc2003:
OP,
Please stop writing about things you do not understand.

In your mind, there would be no suicide if people do not watch American films. Just when i thought i have heard it all!

One would think you would even try to research a little, but no, just pure sentiments and superstitions.

Let me tell you a little more about Major depression.

There is basically a chemical imbalance in the brain, which other people do not have, most times can be corrected with anti depressants.

It is severe enough to disrupt the person's daily activities and they have no control over it. (The depression).

Sometimes , it could occur with other mental illness, where they begin to see things , hear things and feel things that do not exist.

So please be guided when you speak.

Suicidality is not acquired by watching TV.

PS: HIV existed but was misdiagnosed in the 80's , depression existed since the time of your ancestors but was not recognised.

The same people you are quoting believe you descended from single-cell organisms.

Not surprise cos this is Nigeria, i no more is to come

but i can't get my mind off this question Is Atiku Heading for Another Failed Run at the Presidency in 2019?



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Let me act as if i didn't see the second pic

Sometimes it is cool to be a career woman, study how one can be Applying Time Management to Money Management

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Emery should let this guy play ahead of iwobi

By Abdulkabir Olatunji

If everything goes to plan, children will grow into adults but what is not readily recognized and accepted in our society is that adults carry the information they downloaded at childhood with them. The character most people develop by 20 is very difficult to change unless there is some radical change in their circumstance or environment — yet, the basic persona is there.

In the last decade we have seen an alarming increase in suicides, attempted suicides and murder as well. Many have quickly opined that these incidences are just a reflection of what has always happened in our society. I disagree.

The introduction of cable television in the early 90s in Nigeria has changed our society meaning part of a generation has been born with access to Western lifestyle which includes a tendency to glamourize violence and you guessed it — suicide as well. Let’s leave the promotion of sex and drugs for another time.

Some might argue that even till now, many Nigerians don’t have access to cable television and I agree. However, what many cannot get via cable, they can get with a set of DVDs costing as little as N100 each. Look around you, the average Nigerian youth is hooked on some American or foreign series — they call them ‘season films’. This content is rapidly dumping the mindset of the West in Nigerian youths without the support structure present in those countries (no matter how flawed they are).

Let me explain in a way that people might understand. So, a 16-year-old girl starts acting like a rebellious American kid, this will not make her parents, typical Americans, neither will it change Lagos to Los Angeles. In essence, the girl is exhibiting traits the Nigerian society doesn’t readily accept. Then, frustration begins to set in, her Western dogma tells her frustrated people usually commit suicide. To kill yourself is not easy but she reads on social media how certain people died taking certain things and it begins to look attractive.

Yes, we all get sad and depressed at some points in our lives. At this point, it is so easy for the young person to commit suicide and even write letters seeking validation and justification.

Our “yuppie” analysts give it — “Depression is real” “You don’t understand what people are going through”. Biko, be quiet for a while, some of our ancestors went through 100 years of war, others slavery, they didn’t start committing suicide for “I don’t like my life reasons”. I condemn all forms of suicide but the ones that existed in our culture in the past had certain complexities attached which I still find unjustifiable. For example, a King should not have to commit suicide, better face your enemies and die in battle.

I stop here before I digress too much.

Source: Increasing Suicide — Be Careful What Your Children Consume

YES

This does not guarantee a happy marriage.

CodeTemplar:
But how many people are even qualified to use those words?
Most Nigerian graduates don't think about what they can do with what they have but are only looking for their easy office job that will pay them insanely.
How can a graduate of 6 - 7 years say he/she hasn't been doing anything for those years and just looking for jobs. It doesn't speak well.

To use these simple but heavy words one must be engaged and doing something even if just on a personal level.

True but they can still help with packaging.


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Why does society encourage this kind of behaviour and then complain about high incidence of molestation?

At least this girl has sense

Sad news.

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Wow!

You can use this technology to confuse them.

Read the rest here http://www.opinions.ng/full-speech-buhari-presentation-2019-budget

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2019 BUDGET SPEECH
(BUDGET OF CONTINUITY)

Delivered by:

His Excellency,
President Muhammadu Buhari
President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja, wednesday, 19TH December 2018

PROTOCOLS –

1. It is my pleasure to present the 2019 Budget Proposals to this Joint Session of the National Assembly.

2. This being my last budget speech to the 8th National Assembly, I will review economic developments over the past three and a half years with particular emphasis on 2018. I will then highlight the budget proposals for 2019. The full details of which will be given by the Honourable Minister of Budget and National Planning.

OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

3. The last three and a half years have been challenging both at home and abroad. Commodity prices, both oil and non-oil, have been volatile. Global trends, be it security, trade or politics have also been unpredictable. Here in Nigeria, we have had to cope with disruptions in oil production and exports, security challenges and devastating floods.

4. Through hard work, and by the special grace of God, we have weathered these storms and made progress on many fronts which is why we have cause to be optimistic about the future.

5. The economy has recovered from recession and we have had six quarters of growth since then.

6. We have done more work with less resources in agriculture, infrastructure and social investments. We have built better understanding between the Federal Government and the States on non-partisan lines, in particular, intervening several times to support States to meet their obligations including the payment of salaries and pensions.

7. Sustained development is difficult, if not impossible, in an atmosphere of insecurity and poor governance. We have therefore made strenuous and successful efforts to overcome the insurgency in the North-East and to resolve inter-communal misunderstandings elsewhere.

8. The Federal government and the National Economic Council have been working in a unified and patriotic manner to tackle the underlying causes of tension between pastoralists and sedentary farmers. These conflicts have a long-standing history caused mainly by competition for increasingly scarce resources occasioned by rising population and erratic weather conditions – a product of climate change.

9. I take this opportunity to salute the men and women in our Armed Forces and Security Services for their courage, sacrifice and patriotism in protecting our collective safety and security.

10. The Federal Government has also sustained its efforts to fight grand corruption and improve public financial management, and its efforts to improve public financial management through the comprehensive implementation of the Treasury Single Account, the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System and the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

11. You will also recall that as part of our commitment to improved governance, we joined the Open Government Partnership in 2016 with the aim of enhancing public service delivery, promoting business opportunity, enhancing government efficiencies, preventing corruption and building trust in government. We remain committed to these, and other institutional reforms that will enhance transparency and accountability in public service delivery.

12. We also recorded several successes in economic management. Real Gross Domestic Product growth stood at 1.81 percent in the third quarter of 2018 compared to 1.17 percent in the third quarter of 2017. We have had a sustained accretion to foreign exchange reserves from a low of $28.57 billion in May 2015 to $42.92 billion by mid-December 2018. This has contributed to exchange rate stability and will provide a buffer against any unanticipated external shocks. Inflation has also declined from a peak of 18.72 percent in January 2017 to 11.28 percent in November this year.

13. In the area of trade, Nigeria has moved from a deficit to surplus in our trade balance. As at the third quarter of 2018, the trade balance was a surplus of N681.27 billion representing a significant improvement from the deficit of N290.1 billion in 2016. This reflects the rebound in crude oil exports, increased non-oil exports and a reduction in the importation of food and items that can be produced locally. Foreign capital inflows including direct and portfolio investments also responded to improved economic management. Capital importation to Nigeria in the third quarter of 2018 stood at $2.86 billion, which is a 56.7 percent increase compared to the corresponding period in 2016.

14. Trading is a significant contributor to our economic development but we must continue to focus on strengthening actual production. From farmers to miners to processors to digital entrepreneurs to players in the entertainment industry, all hands must be on deck to ensure the country succeeds.

15. With regard to the oil and gas sector, crude oil production continues to increase steadily towards budgetary targets and will receive a further boost when the 200,000 barrels per day Egina oil field starts operations.

16. In agriculture, we are seeing increased investment across the entire value chain from agricultural inputs to farming and ultimately, food processing. Barely three years ago, Nigeria was spending $5 million dollars a day on rice importation. Today rice imports have virtually stopped. Indeed, we are on course to achieve food security in major staple foods in the not too distant future

Distinguished Senate President, Right Honourable Speaker

17. Infrastructure development is also another area in which we have made a lot of progress. Our approach was a logical one. We simply prioritised the completion of critical on-going projects over the introduction of new ones.

18. For example, in the Ministry of Water Resources, we identified 116 abandoned or uncompleted projects relating to irrigation, dams, drainage and water supply. To date, we have completed and/or commissioned a number of these projects including;

a. Central Ogbia Regional Water Project, Bayelsa State

b. Northern Ishan Regional Water Supply Project, Edo State

c. Sabke Water Supply Project, Katsina State

d. Takum Water Supply Project, Taraba State

e. Ogwashi – Uku Dam, Delta State

f. Shagari Irrigation Project, Sokoto State

g. Galma Dam, Kaduna State.

h. Mangu Water Supply Project, Plateau State

i. Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi Water Supply Project, Benue State

19. In the railway sector, we completed and commissioned the Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line and the Abuja Metro-Rail Project. Similarly, the previously abandoned Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line is undergoing test runs and will soon be commissioned. We are also on track for the Lagos – Kano rail line as significant progress has been made on the Lagos to Ibadan segment of the project.

20. We remain committed to rebuilding and expanding our road network. In 2018, an additional 1,531 kilometers of roads have been constructed and 1,008 kilometers rehabilitated across the country. Priority projects such as the Abuja - Kaduna – Kano highway as well as the Second Niger Bridge are well underway through the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund.

21. In every State of Nigeria today there is a major Federal road project going on. For instance:

a. In the North Central, long neglected roads like the Ilorin-Jebba Road, a stretch of 93 km that took a number of days to travel has been completed to provide a critical link between the North and South of Nigeria over a few hours. We have awarded the dualization of this road to expand it all the way to Mokwa, as we have done to the Abuja – Keffi-Lafia -Makurdi roads where work recently commenced. Similarly, work has resumed on the Suleja - Minna road after years of inactivity.

b. In the South-South, we have recently completed the 60 km section of Alesi to Ugep in Cross River State, and awarded the 72km section from Odukpani Junction to Ugep which will reduce a journey that used to take 3 days a few years back, to 3 hours. Work has also commenced on the Calabar - Itu - Odukpani Road that links Akwa-Ibom to Cross River State, as we have started work on the long-neglected Bodo - Bonny Bridge to connect these long separated communities.

c. In the South East, a critical section of Umunya linking Awka to Onitsha, a stretch of 18 kilometers, is being constructed now and one side of it should be ready for use before June 2019. Roads like Arochukwu – Ohafia – Bende are also receiving our attention.

d. In the South–West, long neglected and abandoned roads like the Badagry Expressway have been awarded for construction along with the Apapa – Tin Can Island, Mile 2 – Oworonshoki, road to ease the congestion currently being experienced in Lagos, while interstate roads linking Ogun through Ikorodu to Sagamu, and Ipaja to Otta and Abeokuta are being repaired with payment to contractors.

e. In the North-West, we have completed the Sokoto to Tambuwal – Jega Road comprising 135 Km out of the entire Sokoto to Yauri stretch and sections of Kaduna Eastern bypass and Kano Western bypass are also progressing.

f. In the North-East, we have started work on the long-neglected Mayo – Belwa – Jada Road, and the Gombe – Numan – Jalingo Road and recently awarded the reconstruction of bridges damaged by insurgency.

In addition, thanks to the N100 billion Sukuk Bond raised in Nigeria, work is on-going in 25 road projects. Among which are:

a. Construction of the Oju/Loko-Oweto bridge over River Benue

b. Dualisation of section of Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja Road

c. Dualisation of section of Suleja-Minna Road

d. Dualisation of section of Lokoja-Benin Road (Obajana - Okene)

e. Dualisation of section of Kano - Maiduguri Road linking Kano-Jigawa-Bauchi-Yobe

f. Dualisation of section of Kano-Katsina Road

g. Dualisation of section of Kano Western By-Pass

h. Construction of Kaduna Eastern By-Pass

i. Rehabilitation of outstanding section of Onitsha-Enugu Expressway

j. Rehabilitation of Enugu-Port Harcourt Road

k. Dualisation of section of Yenegoa Road Junction

22. In power, we are working on over 90 transmission projects across the country. Major power transmission stations like Mayo Belwa in Adamawa, Ejigbo and Odogunyan in Lagos, Apo in Abuja, Ikot – Ekpene Switching Station Akwa Ibom, Maiduguri in Borno, Damaturu in Yobe have been completed to support electricity transmission.

23. For effective delivery to critical areas, we decided that we had to decentralize power supply leveraging off-grid solutions especially solar based systems. We are pushing more “willing- buyer willing –seller” arrangements. Already, this has brought more reliable off-grid power to markets and economic clusters around the country.

24. The projects being implemented right now include the Ariaria Market in Aba, the Sabon Gari Market in Kano, the Sura Shopping Complex in Lagos to mention a few. Our hope is to roll out such programs to 300 such economic clusters across the country.

25. In addition to economic clusters, we are also looking at rolling out similar off grid solutions to Universities and medical centers across the country.

26. As we develop our infrastructure and power sector, we have not lost sight of the adverse impact climate change has to our economy, food and national security agenda. The recent floods, farmer-herdsmen conflict and aggressive desertification are all effects of climate change. We have seen our forests, lakes, arable land and grazing areas gradually disappear over the decades.

27. As a Government, we took a long term view on tackling the effects of climate change which must be contained and ultimately reversed. We have stepped up our afforestation efforts. In the past two years, we have planted over 2.3 million seedlings in 21 States. We also successfully launched the Green Bond which will focus on developing environmentally friendly projects and other green programs across the country. Nigeria is also actively participating in international efforts to tackle climate change.

28. Furthermore, working with key stakeholders including the National Assembly, State Governments and the private sector, we intensified our drive to remove obstacles, reduce processes and lower costs of doing business. The fact that over the past three years, Nigeria has gained 24 places in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business rankings is a clear indication that we are moving in the right direction.

29. We are confident that improvements arising from on-going work will result in another quantum leap in the 2019 rankings. The States have also keyed into efforts to improve the business environment, and the sub-national Doing Business Report for Nigeria showed that 32 out of 36 states recorded overall improvement.

30. In line with our commitment to creating a fairer and more inclusive society, I am pleased to update you on our efforts in this regard. Specifically,

a. Through the N-Power scheme, 500,000 graduates have been employed to date;

b. The National Home-Grown School Feeding program is feeding 9,300,892 pupils in 49, 837 schools in 24 states across Nigeria, and empowering 96,972 cooks;

c. The Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program has seen to the disbursement of 1,378,804 loans to small businesses and farmers in all states including the FCT. These are interest free loans that will be paid back;

d. 297,973 households in 26 states across the country are benefitting from the Conditional Cash Transfer program.

Distinguished Senate President, Right Honourable Speaker

31. Whilst we are most encouraged by the improved performance of the economy since we started implementing our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, there is an area that continues to be a cause of concern. That has to do with our unsatisfactory revenue performance.

32. Although we have sustained efforts at boosting tax revenues, our progress has been constrained by the relatively low level of growth, having just emerged from recession. This has restrained our tax revenue drive.

33. Furthermore, the volatility in oil prices, and disruptions in oil production, delayed our plans to recover past due oil license and royalty charges as well as restructuring of the Joint Venture Oil Assets.

34. As we have returned to the path of growth, I have directed that action on all our revenue initiatives be expedited. I have already issued a number of Presidential directives on the disposal of recovered assets, deployment of the National Trade Window as well as the immediate recovery of past-due oil royalties including by crude seizures, if necessary.

35. On asset recovery, in order to put to use for the benefit of all Nigerians monies and assets stolen from the public treasury, we have since the 2016 Budget created a revenue line in the budget for stolen and recovered funds.

36. Thus every government project today benefits in one way or the other from recovered looted funds. I have also directed all the relevant authorities to liquidate all recovered, unencumbered assets, such as landed properties, buildings and vehicles, so that these funds can be available to help in the funding of the Budget, particularly the important infrastructure projects.

It is however reported that members of the public in Taiwan are already making plans to make donations towards the repair of the expensive cars.

good people still exit

Happening 35sec after the village people came to conclusion



Safety Tips for Driving at Night

Connecting the Dots Between Education and Entrepreneurship

Sad story.

Apart from nepotism and corruption. This is also a major threat to Nigerian banks.

More might pack-up in 2019.

Thank God for AMCON.

Manchester United announced today that former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjær has been appointed as caretaker manager until the end of the 2018/19 season.

Solskjær scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United between 1996 and 2007. In 2008 he became the club’s reserve-team manager, before taking the managerial role at FC Molde in Norway.
Solskjær will take charge of the first team with immediate effect and will remain in place while the club conducts a thorough recruitment process for a new full-time manager. He will be joined by Mike Phelan as first-team coach, working alongside Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna.

“Manchester United is in my heart and it’s brilliant to be coming back in this role. I’m really looking forward to working with the very talented squad we have, the staff and everyone at the club,” said Solskjær.

Ed Woodward, Executive Vice Chairman, comments:

“Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles. His history at Manchester United means he lives and breathes the culture here and everyone at the club is delighted to have him and Mike Phelan back. We are confident they will unite the players and the fans as we head into the second half of the season.”


Source: See What Manchester United Are Saying About Their New Caretaker Manager

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mrjaydee:
Eyelashes for farm? Something ain't right

Was gon say the same thing.