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CrazyScientist:
OP!!! say the truth and shame the devil

what do you mean?

What should one do when you find yourself in this situation? Abort, deny or keep it

10. A loss by Buhari would most likely lead to much anger in the north

Due to Nigeria’s vastly diverse ethnic groups, an unwritten agreement has ensured that power rotates between the Muslim-majority north and Christian south every two terms – an agreement that was undercut with President Jonathan’s primary victory in December 2014, leading to dozens of ruling party legislators defecting and losing the People’s Democratic Party’s majority in the lower house of Parliament. Should Jonathan win again in February 2015, it will exacerbate the perception that power in the country has become concentrated in the oil-rich south.

11. Buhari has accused Jonathan of failing to contain the Islamic uprising that has killed thousands

Buhari has accused Jonathan and his administration of incompetence, and of being too weak to control the Islamic uprising in northern Nigeria and the ongoing violence carried out by the Boko Haram. He has perpetuated his reputation as a disciplinarian and ruthless military leader that would be able to contain the Boko Haram’s activities.

12. He was one of two private African individuals to be invited to Barack Obama’s inauguration

Demonstrating the respect that Buhari commands on the international level, he was one of two private individuals invited by the White House to Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony.

1. Buhari undertook military training in three countries

Having received the bulk of his education in Katsina, a town in northern Nigeria near the Niger border, before beginning military training. In addition to attending the military training school and military college in Kaduna in northwestern Nigeria, he also received training in Great Britain (Officer’s Cadet School, Army Mechanical Transport School), India (Defence Services’ Staff College), and the United States (United States Army War College).

2. He continues to defend his military coup

In October 2005, he defended the military coup he led in on December 31, 1983, when he deposed the elected civilian government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, “The military came in when it was absolutely necessary and the elected people had failed the country.” He further said, “It is up to the people. If you choose correct leadership, there won’t be any need for the military regime.”

3. Over 500 officials were jailed during Buhari’s 20-month stint as leader

As a part of his campaign against waste and corruption, Buhari sent 500 politicians, officials, and businessmen to prison. While some praised his attempts to make Nigeria’s government more accountable, others saw it as the tactics of a repressive military ruler.

4. Buhari’s “War Against Indiscipline” )WAI( stretched beyond anti-corruption measures

The campaign that became the cornerstone of Buhari’s tenure as leader in the 1980s, Nigerians were forced to form orderly queues at bus stops )under the watchful eyes of soldiers wielding whips, with orders to use them on anybody who became unruly. Civil servants who were late for work were forced to perform frog jumps as a form of humiliation, and journalists were jailed under restrictive decrees on press freedom.

5. He was imprisoned for 40 months following his leadership

Buhari was deposed in a palace coup led by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 27, 1985. He was imprisoned for 40 months following the coup, as the new leaders felt he had not made the restoration of civilian rule a priority. He had also lost much popular support, as people protested the austerity measures, declining health care services, and worsening economic conditions.

6. Buhari’s economic principles and political ideology continue to be referred to as Buharism

In his efforts to get Nigeria’s public finances back in line, Buhari’s government curbed imports into the country, refused to devalue the Naira, curtailed oil theft, bartered illegally bunkered crude oil for needful goods, and more. While many praised the government’s successfulness in reducing inflation, many of the changes also resulted in widespread job losses and business closures, lowering living standards for many.

7. He has run unsuccessfully for President of Nigeria on three occasions

Buhari ran in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 presidential elections in Nigeria, but was unsuccessful in his campaign on each count. In 2003, he lost to the People’s Democratic Party nominee, President Olusegun Obasanjo, by a margin of over 11 million votes – while there were some allegations of fraud, courts found that the level of proven electoral fraud was not sufficient to have affected the outcome of the election. He lost to Umaru Yar’Adua in 2007, winning only 18% of the vote, and again in 2011 to current President Goodluck Jonathan, earning just over 12 million votes, to Jonathan’s nearly 22.5 million.

8. He has been accused of having a hand in post-election violence in 2011

The Nigerian human rights group, the Northern Coalition for Democracy and Justice )NCDJ(, have asked the International Criminal Court )ICC( to bring charges against Buhari for his alleged role in the violence that followed the 2011 presidential election. 800 people were killed, and churches and schools destroyed, during the course of the three days of riots following President Jonathan’s victory. The NCDJ has accused Buhari’s party of systematically targeting non-Buhari supporters in instances of murder, torture, and rape, though the All Progressives Congress party has denied all claims.

9. Buhari is running on an anti-corruption platform

Continuing his commitment to stamping out corruption, Buhari has focused his 2014 campaign on corruption measures, also pledging to tackle growing insecurity in northern Nigeria with the Islamic insurgency. But while many agree with his position on corruption and see his military expertise as the answer to ongoing violence by the Boko Haram, many question his ability to direct policy and the day-to-day of political life.

This same man?

Thats why i like Dangote he didn't say oh because my company dangote cement is now worth $25bn i will change the headquaters and list the shares somewhere else... South african stock exchange is worth $1tr, Nigerian stock exchange worth $80bn because Nigerians prefer listing their companies abroad

The government may, however, be dropping the ball on using tax incentives to encourage listings. The shares of Heritage Oil plc, an independent oil and gas company with major Nigerian operations (OML 30) but listed in London, climbed 14 percent last week, after saying its Nigerian venture “successfully concluded” tax rebate negotiations with Nigerian tax authorities.
The announcement may reduce Heritage’s 2013 tax liability “that would have eroded year-end cash of about $190 million”, Al Stanton, an Edinburgh-based analyst at RBC Capital Markets, wrote in a note.
The authorities could have used the tax negotiations to get a commitment from Heritage to list in Nigeria, noted the economist, who spoke to BusinessDay.
Andrew Elueni, executive vice chairman, Quantum Securities Limited, says that for oil companies operating in Nigeria, legislation may be the only way to get them listed on the NSE.
“Imagine if 20 percent of the assets of the likes of Shell, Chevron are listed, the capitalisation of Nigeria’s capital market will shoot up. Legislation should be applied,”

Last Monday, officials of South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation (PIC), the government-owned fund manager, were in a celebratory mood in Johannesburg after their $270 million investment in CAMAC Energy Inc became profitable. The excitement followed CAMAC’s (an explorer with mostly Nigerian operations) debut of trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).
“We are in the money already,” Dan Matjila, chief investment officer (CIO) for the PIC, which has $137 billion in assets under management, told reporters.
A lack of strategic thinking by Nigerian officials – from regulators to legislators to the finance ministry – has led to foreigners becoming the major beneficiaries of Nigeria’s wealth, as oil companies with major operations in the country mostly list their shares offshore, depriving Nigerians of the ability to participate in wealth creation through capital gains.
The PIC which invests on behalf of South African citizens bought a 30 percent stake in CAMAC, which issued 376.8 million shares to the PIC at R7.77 per share. The first trade in the stock was made at R10.95, equivalent to a 41 percent gain for shareholders.
BusinessDay’s analysis of available public data shows that 96 companies are currently active in Nigeria’s upstream oil and gas sector in the form of exploration and production. Twenty-three of them (24 percent) are listed on foreign stock exchanges. Oando plc, through its stake in Toronto-listed Oando Energy Resources (OER), is the only company trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), while the rest remain unlisted.
The 23 foreign-listed companies include London Stock Exchange (LSE)-listed Afren plc, Centrica, Eland Oil and Gas, Essar Energy, Heritage Oil, Lekoil and Royal Dutch Shell; JSE-listed CAMAC Energy and Sasol; and TSK-Toronto-listed Mart Resources Inc, Mira Resources and OER.
Others are New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)-listed Chevron and Exxon Mobil; Euronext-Paris-listed Maurel & Prom Nigeria and Total; Hong Kong (HKE)-listed CNOOC and Sinopec; NSE-India-listed Indian Oil and ONGC; Borsa Italiana-listed ENI-Saipem; Oslo-listed Statoil; and Bovespa Brazil-listed Petrobras.
The 23 companies collectively own Nigerian oil assets (OMLs) with average asset value of $89.4 billion, according to data compiled from a November 2013 report by investment and research firm CBO Capital Partners and Rystad Energy.
This compares with the NSE, whose total equity market capitalisation was equivalent to $77 billion last Friday.
As the indigenous and independent oil companies in Nigeria increasingly list on foreign bourses, analysts say companies are acting like mercenaries and getting away with anything in Nigeria, because none of the legislators or economic planners is fighting for or thinking about Nigeria’s economic interest.
“Contrasting Nigeria and South Africa (Transformation Agenda versus National Development Plan), it is obvious SA has a plan and a cluster of brains thinking of the country’s economic strategy,” said an economist who spoke with BusinessDay on condition of anonymity.
Africa accounted for 12 percent of dividend inflows into South Africa in 2012, up from 2 percent in 2002.
In his February 26, 2014 budget speech, South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said unlisted South African technology, media, telecommunications and other research and development companies would be allowed to list offshore, provided they remained incorporated, managed and controlled from South Africa. The companies would be required to have a secondary listing in South Africa within two years of listing offshore, Gordhan said.
“Getting oil independents and majors to list on the NSE will clearly help deepen and diversify the local market, avail local investors to gain exposure to the sector and help reduce the quantum of funds being repatriated outside of Nigeria, in form of dividends,” said Abiodun Keripe, head of research at Investment-One Financial Services Limited, with N8 billion in assets under management.
One way to get them listed may include the use of tax incentives, says Tairat Tijani, head of debt capital markets at FBN Capital.
Nigeria don't own anything even a single toilet will be foreign owned. If a Nigerian builds a company from scratch with Nigerian money and then the company later become very big he would quickly change the headquaters to the UK or any foreign country and list the company shares on another country's exchange i really don't know what is wrong with Nigerians most South african companies where started as far back as 1741 made their money in SA and up till now you won't see them change their headquaters or do shit, Everything in Nigeria is foreign owned from MTN to all oil companies (yes ALL), Naspers (owner of Dstv), Tiger brands, those companies didn't change their headquaters because the are now worth billions but if a Nigerian company just make little $1bn they change everything. MTN makes billions in Nigeria yet its not Nigerian owned.

rodeo0070:
Guys! this is just a Chinese customised phone. You can have them to write whatever name you want on it as long as you can pay for it. Except if you want to show me the factory where this phone is manufactured or assembled in Nigeria...
This is what I could get online about Ojiji:


Ojiji Mobile Devices launches smart phones in Nigeria-26 November 2013

Ojiji Mobile, a brand of android devices, launches its first indigenous smart phones in Nigeria.

Manufactured by a Nigerian owned company based in South Korea, the Ojiji Fiery range, is being introduced into the Nigerian market because of the increased demand in the use of android and smartphones.

The Fiery Range includes three different devices: Fiery 4, Fiery 5, and the Fiery Note 5, with sources saying that the new devices are both durable, with long battery life, and that they come with a large number of applications.

Amongst others, moves such as these, highlight the desire from entrepreneurs from the country to reduce the Nigerian economy’s reliance on some of its staple sectors such as Oil & Gas, thereby creating more of a footprint in other major sectors.

Ojiji is an Igbo word meaning handy or handheld.

SOURCE: http://westafricancareers.com/ojiji-mobile-devices-launches-smart-phones-nigeria/

lol iphone is made in America but assembled in china that doesn't mean that america doesn't have the needed technology to assemble it but it is cheaper in china (cheap labour)

AKMoney1:
Like seriously? Naija no dey carry last, I wonder who the brain behind that brand is.




Made in Nigeria Assembled in China.

lol iphone is made in America but assembled in china that doesn't mean that america doesn't have the needed technology to assemble it but it is cheaper in china (cheap labour)

Thank God for this.

Nairaland = instagram

tartar9:
stop exposing your ignorance,the northafricans including the middleast and other regions whom were mostly christains before accepted Islam out of their own convinction.

did you read the link i posted? Or don't you know how to read? It was clearly stated that muhammed and other prophets led the war into many regions you muslims always like to paint things well am done with this topic bye bye...

tartar9:
what do you want explained about those times of glorious Jihad.

when christians go out for evangelism they preach, pray for people if you wanna convert it's your choice but on that islamic conquest muhammed went to regions kill people and their leaders then convert and rule them with islam thats how islam spread across north africa

tartar9:
what do you want explained about those times of glorious Jihad.

glorious jihad by killing people and capturing territory, regions, countries forcefuly?? Cus thats what it is right there

Saheed9:
how I wish u know more abt d prophet(saw) u are d one who is brainwashed here cuz u neva researched abt him

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests
what research do we need again ha

Abduletudaye:
I can't explain it..

ok o i hear

Really this topic is on FP? Oh lord nairaland is gone

Abduletudaye:
Bro, you're mistaken.. Do your findings critically. Don't also make this religion look bad.

how can you explain the islamic conquest? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests

Let's take a look at the Profile of
few Islamic
terrorist Leaders and understand
who they
actually are and what are their aims.
(1) The leader of ISLAMIC STATES
(ISIS): Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi is an Iraqi who
obtained a BA, MA and
PhD in Islamic studies from the Islamic University
of Baghdad. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
was formerly known as Abu
Du'a, he claimed to descent from
the Islamic
prophet Muhammad, as he is called Abu Bakr Al-
Baghdadi Al-Husseini Al-Qurashi. (2) The leader of Boko Haram:
Abubakar Shekau
was born in the Republic of Niger,
although it
has also been claimed that he was
born in Shekau village in Yobe State of Nigeria. He
is described to
be an Intellectual and Theologian
who studied
Islam "under a traditional Cleric."
he speaks Hausa and Arabic. His nickname is
“Darul Tawheed”,
which translates as a specialist in
Tawheed, the
Islamic concept of oneness of
Allah. (3) The current leader of Al-Qaeda:
Ayman al-
Zawahiri was born in 1951 in the
neighborhood of
Maadi, Cairo Egypt, he obtained MA
and PhD in Islamic studies from the Al-Azhar
University Cairo
Egypt, the Number 1 Islamic
University in the
world, The university's mission
includes the propagation of Islamic religion and
culture. (4) The Taliban leader: Mullah
Mohammed Omar
Mujahid's father was a local
religious leader. Omar's
father died when Omar was
young, According to Omar's own words he was three
years old when his
father died, and thereafter he was
raised by his
uncles.One of his uncles married
Omar's mother, and the family moved to a village
in the poor Deh
Rawod District, where the uncle
was a religious
teacher. It is reported that they
lived in the village of Dehwanawark, close to the
town of Deh Rahwod.
Omar studied and taught in a
madrasah ( Islamic
seminary). He was reportedly a
mullah at a village madrasah near the Afghan
city of Kandahar. Omar
speaks Arabic.he was devoted to
the lectures of
Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, And he
took a job teaching in a madrassa in Quetta, Pakistan.
He later moved
to a Mosque in Karachi, Pakistan,
where he led
prayers, and later met with
Osama bin Laden for the first time. (5) Muslim Brotherhood motto:
"Allah is our objective. The
Prophet is our leader.
The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our
way. Dying in
the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu
akbar!” The Brotherhood’s goal is to turn
the world into
an Islamist empire. The Muslim
Brotherhood, founded
in Egypt in 1928, is a
revolutionary fundamentalist movement to restore the caliphate
and strict
shariah (Islamist) law in Muslim
lands and,
ultimately, the world. Today, it
has chapters in 80 countries. “It is in the nature of Islam to
dominate, not to be
dominated, to impose its law on all
nations and to
extend its power to the entire
planet.” —Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-
Banna. The Brotherhood calls for jihad
against “the
Muslim’s real enemies, not only
Israel but also
the United States. Waging jihad
against both of these infidels is a commandment
of Allah that cannot
be disregarded.” —Muslim
Brotherhood Supreme
Guide Muhammed Badi.
------------------------------If all this Islamic terrorist leaders
has
misunderstood Islam, It simply
means that the
Prophet of Islam(Muhammad)
and the past 8 Islamic Caliphates has
misunderstood Islam too.

Why do they turn violet are they not suppose to be peaceful since islam is a "peaceful" religion as they claim

Ok o

FTC!

More sad news from the music industry, Davido was found alive in his apartment earlier today.

teniyi:
And Christians supporting Israel do not understand that Israel does not like them. The only difference is that, while Israel cowed the Christian world, the Muslims did not and will not be suppressed by them. Read the Jewish Conspiracy.

you read the islamic conquest

Ok

nekaa:
WTH

picture or

address: 18, Odolowu St., Ijesha, Lagos State, snap the pic then post am here

akpanikpe:
cought in the act

caught?

Mr David Kimaiyo quit as Inspector General of the Kenya Police Service Tuesday afternoon, about half a day after a fresh Al Shabaab attack in Mandera that left 36 people dead.
President Uhuru Kenyatta accepted the 54-year-old IG’s “offer to retire” during a national television address shortly after.
The Head of State also announced that he has nominated Major General (Rtd) Joseph Nkaissery for Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. The position has been held by Mr Joseph Ole Lenku, 44, since May last year.
Maj-Gen (Rtd) Nkaiserry, 65, currently the Member of Parliament representing Kajiado Central, served as Assistant Minister for Defence under President Mwai Kibaki between 2008 and March 2013.
Tuesday’s massacre in Mandera’s Koromei area raises the death toll from terror attacks since October 2011 to more than 300. http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Kenya-s-police-boss-resigns-over-terror-failures/-/539546/2542298/-/f4mknn/-/index.html

And in Nigeria 200+ girls kidnapped no one resigned, more that 2000 people dead now cus of insecurity and no one is resigning lol

Dannidom:
Na so so sigh sigh na im don fil my mouth

oyinbo peeps decieving themselves since time immemorial

how?

GodMode:
Pidgin-english.

very good, what did you write your Waec, Jamb in?

4C2215131:
Aint as easy as you think, aint as easy as you simply think.

no i am just angry af davido's Aye has over a million views on youtube but lost out to casper with 400k video views, davido won mtv's MAMA awards, davido performed all over africa almost every country, casper has not performed outside south africa but won everything, what Criteria did channel o (o for ojoro) use?