Debosky

we no hear your opinnion all through this Yar'adua debate. Just wondering, which new name u been carry dey support Yar'adua to remain in power?

yes oh!!! Tanimu Yakubu, Ibori and co are very dangerous!!!!!

Akunyili fights on, tables memo afresh
• Pro-Yar’Adua hawks mount pressure on her to resign
• Defiant Minister vows to fight on from within FEC
From NOSIKE OGBUENYI, Abuja
Friday, February 5, 2010



•Prof. Dora Akunyili
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Courageous Information and Communications Minister, Professor Dora Akunyili, whose memo was shot down at Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) by her colleagues has duly re-submitted the memo to the council through the Cabinet Secretariat in the Presidency.

Akunyili had on Wednesday taken a bold plunge when she broke ranks with her colleagues to demand that ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua comply with section 145 of the Constitution by handing over to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as requested by the Senate and many well meaning Nigerians.
A Presidency source confirmed to Daily Sun that the Federal Government’s mouthpiece noted for her courage of conviction has defiantly stuck to her stand by re-presenting her memo to FEC through the Cabinet Secretariat Office in the Presidency.

Although when she first tabled the memo on Wednesday, reactionary hawks urging Yar’Adua to hang on while the country squeals in pains, shouted her down on alleged procedural premise, some of the members of FEC who either spoke with forked tongues or kept mute during the meeting are said to be silently supporting her. Some of them are very highly placed within the FEC are said to be sharing similar position with the Information Minister.

In the meantime, some hawks (the powerful members of President Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet) have begun piling pressure on Professor Akunyili to resign but the minister is said to be unyielding insisting that the position she took is in the best interest of the country. A source said she believes that it would be better to continue the struggle from within rather than quit the stage.

“Although, the Honourable Minister has come under intense pressure from powerful bootlickers to throw in the towel on account of her principled position, but she is resisting all the moves to intimidate or cajole her because she has her mind set on the wider interest of the country and her 150 million citizen rather than the interest of a few privileged elite. It is her firm belief that the country belongs to all Nigerians and that the future of the country and the younger generation is at risk because of the continuing uncertainty regarding the presidency. So, she is fighting on despite all the intrigues, blackmail and threats believing that posterity will vindicate her,” a source, who was present at the Cabinet Secretariat where Akunyili retabled her memo told Daily Sun yesterday. He quoted Akunyili as being sickened by the charade and hypocrisy by many of her colleagues in FEC.

Tempers had reached fever peak at last Wednesday’s FEC meeting in Abuja as the united front which the cabinet hitherto presented on the non-compliance with Section 145 of the constitution by Yar’Adua suffered a crack. Akunyili, a key member of FEC had stood aside from the rest to clear her conscience not minding the dire consequences.
Penultimate Wednesday, January 27, the controversial Attorney General and Justice Minister, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, had at a one-man briefing after the FEC meeting announced that the council had unanimously agreed that Yar’Adua was capable to continue in office and that he (Yar’Adua) could state that he is no longer fit.

However, Akunyili differed markedly from that viewpoint on Wednesday ostensibly to the surprise of many other FEC members. In her memo which was shouted down without acceptance or debate, she counseled that Yar’Adua should comply with Section 145 by notifying the National Assembly of her medical vacation and that FEC should take extra steps to ascertain the president’s medical capability or otherwise to continue in office as president and commander-in-chief as the constitution demands.
She further enjoined the members of the council to listen to the majority of Nigerians and respect constitutional provisions.
Even though the Minister pledged her loyalty to President Yar’Adua (who appointed her) and his government, she nevertheless insisted that it is morally wrong for him to refuse to facilitate the ceding of power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan about two and half months after he was flown abroad for medical treatment.

The Minister, who recently returned from an overseas trip thanked Yar’Adua for giving her and her colleagues the opportunity to serve the country. According to her, “Yar’Adua is very dear to me and indeed to all of us.”
She disagreed with those who contend that the Vice President does not need to be sworn in to act as President. Some of the hitches which the country has facing as a result of the President’s long absence which she outlined include the fact that several re-deployed and newly appointed Permanent Secretaries were yet to be sworn in and the unfinished amnesty issue for Niger Delta militants.

Meanwhile, the National Secretary of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) has allied himself with the call on President Yar’Adua to comply with section 145 of the constitution. He said in an interview with Daily Sun in Abuja that that was the right thing to do.
He said: “If the President could sign the supplementary budget then I believe he can also sign that letter to the National Assembly that the vice president should act for him until he recovers fully. It beats my imagination that people who say they love this country cannot stand up to be counted on the side of the people when it matters most.

“For instance you will agree with me that if I were the vice president like I told you I will take charge because he was duly elected as the vice president of Nigeria whatever decision he is supposed to take in the interest of this nation let him take it and let us see those who will disobey him that is when Nigerian people will now rise to the occasion. The constitution is very clear, it is just that people are playing to the gallery. As far as I am concerned, we have a vice president and nobody can deny that in the absence of the president, the vice president acts, Abdullahi added.

http://nigeriamasterweb.com/paperfrmes.html

Nigeria plans to sell 2 bln barrels of oil reserves: report
Tue Feb 2, 2010 5:45am GMT
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1 of 1Full SizeSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nigeria plans to sell oilfield assets this year containing as much as 2 billion barrels of reserves either relinquished by Western firms or unsold in three previous bidding rounds, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.
A bidding round for the assets, which could also include oil blocks not previously offered, may attract Asian groups and local companies, the newspaper said quoting Emmanuel Egbogah, special adviser to the president on petroleum matters.

"There will be a bid round this year that will include small fields," Egbogah was quoted as saying. "But there will be big ones as well, I would predict a couple of billion (barrels of reserves)."

Attacks by militants and disgruntled community members on the oil sector of Nigeria -- the fifth-largest crude supplier to the United States -- in the past few years have prevented the OPEC member from producing much above two-thirds of its capacity, costing it about $1 billion a month in lost revenues.

The last attack at the weekend came hours after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) ended a three-month old ceasefire and threatened to unleash "an all-out assault."

While MEND said the attack was the work of a militant group it backed, one security source, who declined to be identified, said the sabotage on Shell's pipeline, in Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta, might have been carried out by oil thieves trying to tap into it.

Political uncertainty has also hampered oil industry development. President Umaru Yar'Adua has been in the hospital in Saudi Arabia for more than two months but has failed to formally transfer powers to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, bringing the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.

http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE61100Y20100202

How is this not an attempt to loot the Nation before the Yar'adua debacle is resolved.

This must be resisted by all. Some are stealing this Nation blind.

Power Vacuum Leaves Nigeria on Life Support
Lauren Gelfand | Bio | 04 Feb 2010
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When Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua left the country in November 2009 to seek treatment for a heart ailment, few anticipated that both he and Africa's most populous country would end up on life support.

The leadership crisis resulting from Yar'Adua's failure to constitutionally hand over power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan -- either at the time of his departure or since -- has had more than just political implications for Nigeria. It has rocked the oil sector and threatened to undo substantial security gains made in the oil-producing Niger Delta, following a mostly successful amnesty and demobilization program for the region's largest rebel group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

The power vacuum has also reinforced international and domestic fears about the insidious level of corruption -- considered the largest obstacle to foreign investment -- at all levels of government, exacerbated by the absence of a head of state to impose some level of transparency on public spending. Complicating matters even further, the timing could not be worse, with Nigeria caught in the uncomfortable glare of the international spotlight over the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on an American airliner by one of its nationals.

One bright spot, however, has been the army's very public reluctance to implicate itself in the political crisis. For a country that has only recently made the transition to civilian government after years of coups and military rule, the decision by the armed forces not only to stand aside during the political turmoil but also to warn against any attempts at coup-plotting speaks volumes about the professionalization of the force.

Just how long the armed forces will remain outside the fray remains to be seen, however. Already, soldiers have been called in to break up sectarian violence in the city of Jos, where a land dispute flared into three days of clashes between Muslims and Christians in January, leaving more than 400 people dead by the time order was restored.

Analysts are carefully watching the rivalry between the predominantly Christian south and mostly Muslim north, fearing that it could spill over in the time it takes to resolve the leadership crisis. That, in turn, would muddy the waters ahead of the electoral campaign to choose a successor for Yar'Adua in polls set for 2011.

The president left Nigeria for Saudi Arabia on Nov. 23, seeking treatment for a heart ailment that has only added to previous health problems, which include a chronic kidney condition. Since then, the government has provided little information about his condition. It was only when the U.K.-based Daily Telegraph published a story on Jan. 11 citing sources in both the U.K. and Nigeria that he was "mostly brain-dead" that Yar'Adua broke his silence and appeared in public.

Rather than assuaging the growing discontent with the power vacuum atop a government that is fractious and unstable in the best of times, however, Yar'Adua's assurances rang hollow. In the weeks since, there has been a mounting campaign within the legislature and the ranks of the political elite -- not to mention Nigeria's wide-ranging political opposition -- for the president to formally notify parliament of his absence from office. This would effectively hand power, albeit temporarily, to Jonathan.

Stacked with members of his ruling People's Democratic Party, the cabinet has instead passed two consecutive resolutions insisting Yar'Adua remains fit to govern.

Although the international financial and currency markets have yet to respond in one way or another to the continuing crisis, signs of a complete meltdown are mounting. If one occurs, the implications could extend well beyond Nigeria into West Africa, a region in which it exercises a leadership role in most things political, economic and security-related.

MEND announced on Feb. 1 that it would suspend a ceasefire imposed since last October, urging a resumption of hostilities against oil producers. Almost immediately, three oil installations were attacked, although MEND officially denied responsibility.

Writing in the Feb. 1 Financial Times, Louise Arbour, director of the think tank International Crisis Group, gave voice to the increasingly persistent and worried thoughts expressed by Nigeria's allies and partners.

"The next days and weeks will determine whether Nigeria's politicians are able to restore constitutional order. For the sake of the country -- and the whole of West Africa -- Nigeria's friends must insist that all parties, including the military, respect the constitution and its provisions for managing this kind of crisis," she wrote.

"If Abuja does not resolve the impasse over its leadership and return governance to a clear constitutional track very soon, it will spell disaster."

According to the vice president, Yar'Adua is expected to return to Nigeria before the end of February. It remains to be seen, however, whether his convalescence will coincide with the badly needed healing of a country that is, if not adrift, rudderless. Whoever ends up stepping into Nigeria's power vacuum, the country will need a firm hand to manage financial and sectarian interests that threaten to compromise one of the continent's crucial economic engines.

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=5071

Nigeria's northern elite fights to keep power
By Tom Burgis in Kaduna

Published: February 5 2010 02:00 | Last updated: February 5 2010 02:00

Down a parched road, behind a rusting metal door, lies the tomb of northern Nigeria's most celebrated leader.

Legend holds that when the structure collapsed a few years ago the exposed body of Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto and standard bearer of the northern elite, had been miraculously preserved as it was on the day he was shot in January 1966.

Today, that same elite, once regarded as the nation's arbiter of power, stands divided and the region is in turmoil. President Umaru Yar'Adua, the latest northern-born leader, lies apparently incapacitated in his third month in a Saudi Arabian hospital.

A young northerner, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , allegedly tried to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day in the name of al-Qaeda . The region is reeling from the latest ethnic and religious violence that saw hundreds killed in and around the city of Jos last month.

With a succession struggle looming, the name of the Sardauna , a traditional military title, is invoked as a symbol of lost unity. The political tussle between the north's old establishment and a new breed of younger leaders could be decisive in charting the course of Africa's most populous nation.

"The big problem today is that the north is not the north we used to know," says a former presidential adviser. "In the old days, five or six of them would choose the candidate [for president]. Now it is fractured. The northern leadership is too old. The young Turks are no longer willing to listen."

With its predominantly Muslim population bound together by a common language, Hausa, the north is home to more of Nigeria's 150m people than the largely Christian south. The nation's wealth in the form of prodigious oil reserves lies under southern soils, but the north has traditionally held the political power, producing a string of military and civilian rulers.

Yet when the generals handed power to civilians in 1999, northern elders backed Olusegun Obasanjo, a southerner, for president. Their shock when he purged northern officers and nurtured a fresh generation of northern politicians still reverberates.

As the power of an old guard who cut their teeth in the decades after independence from Britain in 1960 wanes, a new batch of leaders has emerged. To their critics, many of these young Turks are products of a political system that diverts revenues from Africa's biggest energy sector into a vast patronage network.

The old guard's detractors counter that it was under them that institutions were corrupted. Far from being a golden age, their era was fraught with coups, civil war and the beginning of the economy's decline.

The north's once-thriving industries have collapsed under the weight of smuggling, corruption and a failing electricity grid. Only lizards occupy boarded-up textile factories ; a buoyant agricultural sector is a fading memory; young beggars gather among traffic. Official data show that in three northern states, more than half of all children under five are underweight, far more than in the south.

Today's leadership crisis has laid bare the elders' waning authority. Some northern statesmen have upbraided the cabinet for failing to insist that Mr Yar'Adua hand over interim powers to his vice-president, Goodluck Jonat-han , a southerner who has been forging alliances in the north. But the ruling People's Democratic party - not the north's ageing intellectuals and religious leaders - calls the shots.

Half a dozen state governors and ministers from the new breed are possible contenders for the presidency in elections scheduled for next year, vying with former intelligence chiefs and retired officers favoured by the old guard.

"[The old guard] do not have the power to stop the young Turks," says Shehu Sani, a democracy activist in Kaduna, the Sardauna's resting place.

"But they have a capacity to make things uncomfortable for them."

That many in the north appear to have turned their backs on Mr Yar'Adua betrays the internal divisions. The president hails from Katsina, in the far north, and is resented by many who feel he has failed to share the benefits of office and revive the region's economy.

For Yusuf Maitama Sule, an elder statesman from the ancient northern city of Kano, the fusion of political and commercial power lies at the root not only of the north's disintegration but also Nigeria's ills. "Sardauna used to tell us . . . 'you can't be running and scratching your buttocks at the same time'. You can't be in government and do business at the same time," he says.

Now 80 and blind, he adds: "Today . . the politician, he's not thinking of the national interests but his own personal interest, making money. That is why there is chaos."
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Yar'Adua camp blocks the way out of impasse
By William Wallis

Published: February 5 2010 02:00 | Last updated: February 5 2010 02:00

The most creative of writers might struggle to conjure up a scenario to match the drama playing out in Nigeria today.

The involuntary absence of Umaru Yar'Adua, the 58-year-old president, on health grounds is into its third month and Nigeria's institutions are at loggerheads over how to respond.

The Senate called on the president last week to hand over formally to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, an act that might ease tensions and forestall a constitutional crisis. The federal courts have been ambivalent, offering divergent rulings in a string of cases designed to force the government's hand.

Mr Yar'Adua's cabinet and inner circle however, are bent on postponing the day of reckoning.

"When the cat's away, the mice come out to play," says a government insider, alluding to the corrupt dealmaking going on and the opportunism bred by the leadership vacuum.

In the 10 years since the military relinquished power, Nigeria, with its population of 150m, vast energy resources and pool of talent, has shown tantalising glimpses of potential as a motor for regional economic and political revival. In its current rudderless form, however, those with a stake in Africa's future are more preoccupied with the dangers it represents. Apart from a clutch of doctors, close aides and the redoubtable first lady, Turai, no one is sure how unwell Mr Yar'Adua is. He might be dying. He could be poised to return to office, as some cabinet members insist. Or, as seems likely, he may be chronically weakened by the heart condition and underlying kidney ailment that led to his emergency admission to hospital in Saudi Arabia in November.

Regardless, a growing number of Nigerians, including former heads of state, are convinced that it is not in the national interest for him to cling to office from his sick bed.

In the absence of a functioning head of state, reforms governing the electoral system, oil industry and banking sector are stalling. Political uncertainty has forced hundreds of millions of dollars of investment on to the back-burner, according to business people.

Regional and ethnic tensions, never far from the surface, are bubbling up, putting the uneasy federation that joins rival regions, religions and ethnic groups under strain.

Hundreds of lives were lost in an outbreak of communal violence in the central city of Jos last month. Now the truce in the Niger delta that has allowed oil production to recover since an amnesty for militants kicked in last year is unravelling. With oil at $75 a barrel, there might be money enough to grease the wheels of the patronage system. But for Nigerians who eke a living outside it, the leadership crisis has brought the cynical abuse of power by politicians purporting to represent them back into stark relief.

On cue, there have been rumblings in the army ranks, serious enough to encourage the defence chiefs to restrict troop movements and caution soldiers against compromising the army's neutral role. The chance of a successful coup is remote but talk of it should sound a warning in a country with an history of army misrule.

It is baffling, therefore, that Mr Yar'Adua is so reluctant to let Mr Jonathan take over, at least in the interim.

Is the president too sick to take the decision himself? Or has it been made for him by aides with personal interests in keeping his presidency going at all costs?

Because of a glitch in the constitution - bequeathed to Nigeria by the military in 1999 - the ministers with most to lose if power changes hands are those with the final word on whether the president is fit enough to rule.

The president and vice-president represent different regional interest groups and rival factions within the ruling People's Democratic party. So those who owe Mr Yar'Adua their jobs would lose out should Mr Jonathan take over.

There is a clear enough route out of Nigeria's political impasse. Yet Mr Yar'Adua's lieutenants are gambling with the country's future by blocking the way.
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FOLKS TAKE A STEP BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IS YAR'ADUA STILL ALIVE?

WHAT DID THE KUWAITI AMBASSADOR TO NIGERIA COME TO DO AT THE STATE HOUSE IN A MEETING WITH YAR'ADUA.

SURE YARDUA IS NOT DEAD? ANYBODY WHO UNDERSTAND HOW THE ARAB LEAGUE OPERATE WILL UNDERSTAND THE THIS MEETING COULD AS WELL BE AT THE INSTANCE OF SAUDI ARABIA.

REMEMEBER KIND ABDALLAH IS CLOSE TO US GOVERNMENT AND VALUES HIS RELATION WITH THE US. US COULD LOBBY HIM TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH IN SAUDI AND INFLUENCE HIM TO ACT.

The BBC has largely been the Mouthpiece of UK Government arround the world and most times the choice and language of news by the BBC is in tandem with whatever is the UK Foreign policy. Even though this news has been put together by someone with Nigerian decent I smell a British Foreign Policy change towards Nigeria in the light of International Security Threats of this day and age.

I also found the collussion of David Milliban with Hillary Clinton and French Foreign Minister strange. Because the British Historically prefers to conceal all the ills in Nigeria in the hope to continue to sustain the hegemony.

Also Obama has been critical of Nigerian leadership recently.

So is the WEST tired of sustaining the Nigerian Hegemony and considering a disintegrated Nigeria so as to prevent the oil in the Gulf of Guinea to be controlled by Al-Qaeda appologists of the North and potential Arab league allies?

This peach by Shola Odunfa captures this fact.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8493711.stm

See also excerpts from the write up which presents some of the thought process of Hillary Rodham Clinton. is she considering a disintegrated Nigeria along majority Religious lines?
Keep in mind that under this arrangement Plateau and Benue have the choice of joining the Christain South if they so wish.

About 10 years ago an American research institute predicted the collapse of the Nigerian state in 15 years.

Last week, Mrs Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, issued her own critique which was not less cheering.

I often ask myself: Should Nigeria break up, how many countries will it produce?

I am not aware that any three of its more than 200 ethnic groups sincerely agree so much as to come together in a peaceful independent state.

There is so much distrust that any major national crisis can only lead to civil wars here and there but at the end of the day the leaders will contrive a common interest and settle for a truce.

With time the party will resume.

U sure Turai and Zainab Yar'adua go find this one funny?

Sanusi just they invite wahala sha!!!!

[size=18pt]CBN honours Yuguda’s wife [/size]

BAUCHI State Governor’s wife, Hajia Hauwa Abiodun Isa Yuguda, who is the founder of Challenge Your Disability Initiative (CYDI) has won the Best Governor’s Wife Award 2009.


The award in recognition of her contribution for human development programme she initiated was bestowed on her the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The recipient, who is Yuguda’s second wife, was honoured under the apex bank’s Agricultural Trust Fund Model Award during its fourth Annual Micro-finance Conference/ Entrepreneurship Awards along with some other prominent Nigerians.

Speaking during the award ceremony, the CBN Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi Lamido,  disclosed that the Entrepreneurship Awards is organised annually to reward micro, small and medium enterprises who have made impact through their investments on the lives of the citizenry.

Sanusi said the theme of this year’s conference: “Sustainable Micro-finance Delivery in Nigeria,” was aimed at addressing issues such as support for micro-finance, among others.

He, therefore, called on micro-finance entrepreneurs to embrace the policy to promote better micro-finance practices.
According to CBN representative, Mrs Yuguda’s project was selected out of 55 stakeholders nationwide that have patronised the Trust Fund Model for CYDI’s focus on changing the lives of the physically-challenged to look beyond their physical conditions and become resourceful people.

The governor’s wife was specifically commended by the apex bank for her role in pioneering the provision of funds under the Trust Fund Model in the North-East state.

Mrs Yuguda’s efforts, the bank submitted, subsequently led to her nomination for the Best Governor’s Wife in Promoting Agricultural Finance.
In a memorandum signed between CYDI and CBN in November 2009, graduates trained by CYDI in farming skills were provided with hectares of farmlands to establish and subsequently establish their own farms.

As a result of this, CYDI contributed N10 million to the Trust as its own counterpart fund where the beneficiaries are to pay back the loan in 18 months.

The CNB therefore charged other Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) in the country to emulate the initiative of the Bauchi State governor’s wife by participating in the micro-finance scheme to improve the welfare of the less privileged in the society.

The CBN also awarded one of the students of the Skills Acquisition Training Centre of CYDI for the physically-challenged, Miss Rhoda Simon who is the second runner up in the Micro-finance entrepreneurship section.

Miss Simon, who is trained at CYDI’s bead making section, though physically-challenged, smiled home with a cash of N100,000.

Rossike

You can go in circles all you like

Osama Bin Laden, Mutallab, Bokoharram, Hisbah, The london Bombers of 77 and 9-11 hijackers all have something in common. They are all Muslim Jihadist who kill others in the name of God in the 21st century.

Can I also advice you that I am not a Muslim does not make me a Christain either.

This warped view is why you people go about bombing others indiscrimantely in the name of God. You people should own your failures for once for a change and reject violence. Islam is a religion of pieces. In my adult life most of those who kill others in the name of God are muslims and you folks should do something about it. If I belong to any religion (which I don't belong to one right now) kills anyone in the name of god I will reject it.

REJECT ISLAM IT IS A RELIGION OF PIECES AND A TERRORIST RELIGION.

If this was in other parts some will attribute it to the perculiar nature of the people of that region.

It is amazing how all have agreed that this is a Nigerian problem rather than the muslim north problem.

recently we heard of bokoharram, now it is the 23 year old son of a billionaire linked to al-qaeda.

If a fellow Nigerian kills a fellow Nigerian in Kaduna, instead of taking a look at themselves and question their religion which justifies violence they say its alamajiri and poverty.

Well Mutallab is neither an Alamajiri nor a poor man, now their new spin is we should all join to claim that terrorism is an un-Nigerian phenomenon when this group of people have been terrorising their compatriots back home for ages.

Mate this is not about the Nigeria, this is about the North who for some reasons can't seem to shun violence and ignore the violent teachings of prohphet mohammed.

Guess what? I book KLM and due to fly into Port Harcourt next week through Amsterdam. I know that I will be dehumanised but I will not be worried because the kind of terrorism we have seen from our fellow compatriots is worst than any humiliation I will experience at the airport.
As we speak the vice President is being terrorised against the provisions of our constitution and yet some are talking about Nigeria. If Jonathan was of the Muslim North, I doubt we will have a power vacuum for 30 days.

All hail the doom and gloom Governor

Countries in the west did not get to where they are by talking down the economy and criminalising the banking sector.

Aloy.Emeka:

She no see many Naija guys wey full for America?

naija boys no sabi use their tongue

[size=18pt]JONATHAN NOT NIGERIAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM THE KATSINA MAFIA[/size]

silence is a sign of cluelessness and running out of ideas

[size=18pt]JONATHAN NOT NIGERIAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM THE KATSINA MAFIA[/size]

appologies as it is pretty much clear we are operating at different wavelengths

Omolulu:

then quote dailies instead of just typing as if you heardf it from yaradua himself

dude you are in a public forum, I owe you no duty to prove the authenticity of my claims. You can make of it what you like and allow others to make of it what they like.

30days without a President, no letter written to the National Assembly, National Assembly will not act to even avert a constitutional crisis and a power vacuum.

If OBJ was incapacitated, will it be possible to have no Preisdent for 30days without Atiku taking over somehow?

unfortunately Nairaland is no substitute for Nigerian dailies

If you have no clue what is happening in the country then please go do some reading.

well ask the katsina mafia that? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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[size=18pt]JONATHAN NOT NIGERIAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM THE KATSINA MAFIA[/size]

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[size=18pt]JONATHAN NOT NIGERIAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM THE KATSINA MAFIA[/size]

[size=18pt]JONATHAN NOT NIGERIAN ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT, THAT IS THE MESSAGE FROM THE KATSINA MAFIA[/size]

no reactions to my post?

REAL TRUTH:

Though unfortuante but its far far better than all the banks in Nigeria to collapse,,almost all the banks in Nigeria is sick at the moment long before now,,,Soludo remains the major culprit to these developments because he failed to do his job as the Governor of CBN,,,he was nothing more than a common criminal,
Job loss is far better than total closure of the banks,,,,in the US,,,for 2009 alone,,,over 140 banks have closed shop,,,,if that happens in Naija would U people have preferred that
Sanusi is doing a very good job as the CBN Governor,,,its a painful pill but in life,,,if U must have to move on ,,,U must take painful and decisive actions,,,,

This is what you call a rigged standard of measure. With this kind of standard of measure Sanusi can as well go to sleep and wake up in 4years and still be a success. Your assumptions is that the banks would have collapsed? How did you know that?

When Northern Rock got in trouble in UK. The UK Government announced to the whole country that all depositors guarantee were safe and yet it did not stem the tide. It took careful and consistent actions by the Government to  save Northern Rock. So if you think Sanusi saved our banks with his noise making then you are the biggest fool around.

The economy is crashing, Sanusi is talking down the banks, they are all scared of now doing business and are as such having to sack staff and you are congratulating Sanyusi the messiah. It is very easy to be a messiah in Nigeria.

The impact of the 'Doom and Gloom' reform begins

we go manage risk until we go destroy the whole economy, sack all workers in the name of risk management.