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Saharareporters is a lowdown dirty tabloid!! Same as Elombah.

They've fallen so low. The Sowore guy might have some psychological or psychiatric issues that came out in the way he handled the Fashola interview he conducted in London.

I no longer take their news seriously!

If this story had any element of truth to it, Tunde Bakare would be the first to speak about it. The man is a known talker!

Hehehe! Funny Joke! Real Funny!

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=556817.msg7226361#msg7226361 date=1290847455]Jonathan wanted a university in his village,bayelsa state government provided the land.so what are bytching about ?All these still don not give credibility to citing a university in his village cuz it seems you are saying that having a university in jonathan's village will guarantee effective tertiary education in Nigeria ? Wtf[/quote]What an absurd thinking pattern!! What am I supposed to say now?

Omenani:
Bonny is the most important oil site in all of Nigeria. Bonny Light Crude is high in demand by the West and Asia.

I think Escravos is the most important and not Bonny. Bonny might have been in the past, but with the kind of investmenst going on in Escravos, I will give it the numero uno posizione!

@Topic

Truly, the economic impact derivable from siting an oil company office in the state of operation is actually minimal. I'd rather these states look for ways to use their little derivation to get off the hook on oil rather than expend mental energy bleating over oil company offices.

Donald Duke was already doing it with tourism in Cross River State. Other states have their own unique advantages.
Lagos state has the largest concentration of oil companies in Africa and yet it doesn't produce a drop of oil. You cannot locate a head office somehwere that lacks the infrastructure to handle your administrative operations.

Ok, that average shallow Nairaland mentality is raving on here. . . .

Where in the article was facebook mentioned. FYI, this article is a response to a vanguard publication with headline
Atiku: Obasanjo Laughs. He Should Be in Jail- Jonathan

After reading the body of the article, there was no reference to Jonathan making any comment. Rather, it is one of his campaign coordinators that said Atiku ought to be in jail for despoiling the Nigerian economy. That is what this response is about. It has nothing to do with his facebook comments!

Here is a link to the article:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/atiku-obasanjo-laughs/

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=556817.msg7226170#msg7226170 date=1290844091]What has this got to do with the president citing a university at the back of his house ?[/quote]Please Mr Brownteeth, what gives you the shallow impression that the President himself choose his village. And really, what is wrong with him bringing development to his village as long as it is not done to the detriment of others?? Hope you aren't a product of one of those rickety universities the Government is trying to help out. Jonathan probably doesn't want a new generation of Nigerians who can't think properly, as it is with many Nairalanders, hence his investments in these new universities.

There currently are just 29 federal universities in Nigeria. These were built over a period of 60 years. If in less than one year, a government decides to increase the number of universities by 20%, then I can only commend such an action.
Bayelsa state is the only state in the South South without a federal university. Oloibiri and Otueke were the first sites where oil was discovered in Nigeria. So, by any means there is no better place to sight a University than these locations.

Nobody reads Saharareporters any longer! They are old gist. Even our beloved Fashola doesn't read them.

From the way Sowore acted in the Fasholas interview, we all now think he might have a slight psychological problem.

Read this nonsense! Who writes these articles sef?? Very unintelligent piece!!

Ol boy,see Nigerians sha!! Previous leaders did nothing, they complained of inaction. Somebody is finally doing something, they say he is overspending!!Many Nigerians have developed a very negative complex. There are some ppl here on Nairaland that have never made any single positive comment in their lives about any issue whatsoever! How do you guys live with all that negativity!!

Just for your information, over a million applicants sit for JAMB yearly and only 16% of them get admitted. That is barely 160,000. Ask yourself what happens to the rest of the 840,000 applicants?? Every year hundreds of thousands of applicants hopelessly enter the market. Building 6 new universities should create between 30,000 -60,000 fresh spaces.

And to those complaining about fixing the current universities, isn't it obvious that the major factor responsible for the poor standard of education is overcrowded lecture theathers and very high student to lecturer ratio. Obviously building new universities is a step in the direction of depopulating the currently overcrowded campuses which in turn would help in improving the current universities.

But Nigerians sha! You do good, them go curse you. You do bad, them go curse you. No wonder the leaders are not motivated and sorely complacent towards the people!

While I believe that journalists should ask grilling questions, I think Isha Sesay's body language in this interview gave her away as someone that is disgusted at either Nigerians or the President himself. I am not sure which one.

She asked a question on what he stands for and he gave a pretty good political answer as would every other politician on the planet. But no, she was disgusted, so she kept repeating the question. She gave herself away as someone that carries her personal issues along with her on the job.

Jonathan's failure was in his inability to notice early enough that she was disdainful. If he did, he would have taken control of the interview by giving her very short, boring and non descript answers to whatever question she asks. There is no need trying to impress anybody. You are the President and the buck stops on your table.

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otokx:
Some states ought not to exist at all and Edo is clearly one of them.

You've got your facts wrong! Edo state is amongst the richest non-oil producing states in the country.

Just some facts for your digestion:

√ Benin Airport is the fourth busiest airport in the country after Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

√ Benin City has the highest number of Bank branches after Lagos and Port Harcourt.

√ Edo State produces one of the highest number of graduates in the country.

√ Edo State produces the highest number of doctors in the country.

√ Edo state has one of the highest per capita GDPs in the country.

√ There are 7 universities in Edo state.

√ Edo state has the second highest inflow of foreign remittances after Lagos state.

√ The best athletes, footballers and sportspersons in the country are from Edo and Delta state.

The list is endless. And I don't wanna bore you. If Edo state shouldn't exist, then Nigeria wouldn't have up to 5 states.


@Topic

There is no reason why Government should still be running inter city transport companies when the likes of Edegbe, Good is Good, Agofure et al, are doing a marvellous job. The company should be sold off on the cheap!!

debosky:
With no indigenous industrial/financial giants  (SA has SASOL, Standard Bank) , no exports of note outside of commodities (SA exports technology, cars, etc) and an unstable political system with no vision, there's no reason to admit Nigeria beyond it's population size.

Your above statement is the exact reason why Nigeria and not South Africa could actually be classified the next BRIC.

The fact that SA has an already advanced economy, exporting cars and other sophisticated goods, an advanced agricultural economy et al, and yet its GDP is barely larger than Nigeria whose has just one advanced industry. Imagine the prospects in Agriculture, Entertainment, Manufacturing, IT, Solid Minerals and the likes. In the day we start harnessing just a minute portion of these resources SA would be left in the trenches!

South Africa does not fit into the category of the BRICs. Turkey and maybe Vietnam would have been better options.
Using non-descript economic indicators, save for corruption and bad leadership, Nigeria is definitely a good candidate for what should be called the BRINCs.
Reason been that despite the numerous decadent problems in infrastructure and our political environment, the Nigerian economy is still pushing beyond its boundaries. Imagine for a moment that we fix our transport, power and leadership problems. The development that would take place thereafter would be enormous!!!We have the spirit and I believe we can easily be classified alongside one of the BRICs.

Sky Blue:
I understand the sentiment but let us be fair in our assesment. Watch the interview again if you need to, intelligent responses no doubt, but he did not even touch on the Tinubu issue.

I think he answered the Tinubu issue to the best of his ability. He said to the best of his knowledge Tinubu is not the owner of Alpha Mead. He also challenges anybody with evidence in that light to bring it out!!

Sometimes we forget that leaders are human and are not by any means exempt from acting like Humans. Humans are not known to bite off their own fingers.  It would be the most foolish thing for Fashola to come out with implicating prouncements against Tinubu just to satisfy Sowore's disposition towards tabloid styled journalism.
Sincerely, how else would you have expected him to respond to a Journalist who couldn't tell that the accident he referred to didn't happen in Lagos??

I think Lagosians are happy with Fashola and he answered Lagosians and Lovers of Lagos very intelligently.

Very Impressive job by Fashola!!

That Sahara Reporters dude, Sowore is not too different from a miscreant!!

% + & - x = @BCR

Nigerians sincerely, are genuinely ignorant!! I think the 200 million dollars sef is too small! Do you guys have any idea how much jobs are being created in the entertainment sector The Entertainment sector is actually one of Nigeria's brightest shinning lights and it is fitting to spend even as much as 1 billion dollars to enhance development in the sector.

Mind you, America's superiority on the globe is propagated by it's dominance of the entertainment sector. It uses Hollywood and Music to colonize the whole world. We crave American culture, we follow everything American and in so doing we purchase American goods just to make us feel ideal. Infact, we have even gone as far as importing the American accent. It all happened because of the entertainment sector!!

So my fellow Nigerians, learn and gain understanding before you run your mouths in confident ignorance!!

I have just watched Asa's new Video- "Be My Man"!!! World class I must say!! WorldClass! I am beyond impressed!! This new album looks like the killer app for 2011!! Lots of artists would have to raise their game or close shop!! World class!! I will buy this album even if it's selling for 5k!!!

Kobojunkie:
I believe Cape Town still holds the honor of being Africa's most Beautiful city. Eritrea comes somewhere close to that.

Never knew Eritrea [/b]was a city!! Maybe you mean [b]Asmara, which I think should be the capital of Eritrea which I've always known to be a country!!


Pictures are beaurrriful!! Wish we could make all our major cities loook somewhat like this. All it takes is following the simple tenets of urban planning and placemaking!!

Friday, Sep. 17, 1965
[size=14pt]Africa: The Nigerian Millionaires[/size]


Along with pride in status and problems of self-government, independence for the 31 nations of black Africa means the emergence of black businessmen. A few flourish on cottage industries, that early stage of every economy; some are the opportunistic agents of the colonial companies that formerly ruled them. Now, however, more of Africa's new businessmen are not only university-trained and experienced but surprisingly sophisticated in trade and finance. In Equatorial Africa, it is no longer unusual to see a $200,000 letter of credit emerging from the folds of a native robe. Nowhere is the new African businessman doing better than in Nigeria, black Africa's most populous and most prosperous nation. With a population of 55 million and an economy that grows 4% each year, the number of Nigerian millionaires is growing almost as fast as the country itself.

Peanuts & Petroleum. Even before Britain withdrew five years ago, Nigeria had a flourishing trade, exporting peanuts, cotton, palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is Alhaji Sanusi Dantata 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then decided to ship the fish inland himself instead of leaving the job to others. He also amassed the country's largest fleet of "mammy wagons," the trucks that carry Nigerians (including market women, which gives the trucks their name) from place to place.

In today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. Emmanuel Akwiwu, 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. Chief Shafi Lawal Edu, 54, who is president of Lagos' chamber of commerce, has built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He owns a silver-blue Rolls-Royce, but usually drives around in a Mercedes—thinks it is less ostentatious.

No Need to Clash. Many Nigerian businessmen have taken advantage of the novel opportunities that inevitably accompany broadening prosperity. Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola, 63, a onetime farmer, developed a business to produce bicycle tires for the growing army of bikes, has done so well that he is adding a $1,700,000 plant, plans eventually to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. A former office worker, Ade Tuyo, 63, cast around for a business that would have 'first priority in people's spending" opened a bakery that today has four shops and makes 115 products. The firm's unusual name—De Facto Works Ltd.—was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business

Bayo Braithwaite, 36, one of Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash."

So, it is, too, with Nigerian business. The Nigerians feel that they and their onetime white masters need never clash. "The time is coming," says Timothy Udutola, "when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets" Against that time, Nigeria is seeking joint ventures in Europe and the U.S., has also concluded negotiations for eventual associate membership in the European Common Market. Already it exports more to the Market than to its old master, Britain.

[url]http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842145,00.html[/url]

Big question! Where is MEND? Who is MEND? Anybody can send an email claiming to be MEND. Why can't someone tell us the IP address these emails are emanating from. If care us not taken me self I go soon send email to all these rubbish media houses claiming to be MEND. An email message is not Enough to conclude that MEND has spoken.It has to be verified b4 concluding it's MEND. Anytime OSama releases a tape,experts would be called in to be sure it has come from OSama before they go to press with it.

For some odd reason I don't think MEND did this. While it might appear like the email came from MEND,I would rather give some time before concluding that MEND is responsible. Anybody can send and email and claim to be Jomo Gbomo from MEND.I would rather wait b4 concluding.

I also expect more acts of terrorism in the weeks to come siimilar to those of Aba and Abuja. Some folks are power drunk and would do anything possible to prevent a complete shift of power from the old guard. I see the hands of someone who is so desperate to become president in 2011. That same hand(IMHO) is responsible for the mayhem in Aba and is probably planning some more mayhem.

Where is Gbawe now? The shameless Saharareporters have retracted their story. They are placing the blame of their fake article on one of their journalists. What a sorry piece of tabloid. This just goes to show that most of their other articles of recent have been majorly fabricated falsehoods!

Beaf:
Thanks a lot, all the kind words are much appreciated. We are still generating momentum and reaching out, it tough for now, but I'm sure it will begin to take off soon, especially after September 30 (Thursday / Friday), when we will be bold enough to begin stepping out and announcing our presence to the World. I pray that its well recieved and can usher in the sort of positive technological change we need.

I really love the phrase "Catalytic Renaissance," it is what we have to strive toward.

I hope I can pledge a little support in the form of facebook and google ads. I really would like to see this turn into a huge success.

Ibime:
Sahara give it to everyone without prejudice. You can't cite Sahara criticism of IBB then ignore Sahara criticism of Ibifaka Jonathan. Sahara goes as far as naming the peeps in the entourage, which indicates decent investigation. Nice to see that Ibifaka has employed a lot of my fellow Okinans though. At least make their families Okrika man enjoy small Presidential Keynesian stimulus. Hehehehe

BTW, no other President has more security concern than Goodluck so the size of his security detail is understandable. I understand that he wears bullet proof vest under his George. Make una check in bowler hat sef, e fit be bulletproof. Hehehehehe.

Ibime, critisism built on fabricated falsehoods be it against Ibb or Gej would only serve to destroy the reputation of saharareporters. The article is actually pathetic because they tried hard to imply that Michelle would have nothing to do with patience Jonathan based on some fabricated stories done by saharareporters in the past. It is the height of a false sense of importance to assume that the u.s would base any of it's decisions on articles from saharareporters.

Gbawe:
Save yourself the worthless effort.  Sue saharareporters for any false reportage.

ok gbawe. You were smart enough to have edited your previous write up. I was about to tell you just how wacky it was for your level of intelligence. Anyways, very soon you will be ashamed of posting this article because as I stated earlier, I just watched on TV this evening footage of Patience Jonathan and Michelle obama exchanging very extended pleasantries at a gathering with a few other first ladies.

Beaf:
Gbawe has no shame.

In the meantime, have you seen this? http://afrosciencecommunity.com
There's still lots of building going on, but we're rolling on with sure steps.

Wooow, Beaf!!! I have just checked it out!! Splendid is the word!!Beyond excellent! This stuff has got the capacity to be a game changer for Africa. A platform for what I would term "Catalytic Renaissance". The average mind might not grasp the potential impact of what this platform can ignite, but damn, the possibilities are limitless!!

Once more, wooooow!!!Just great.

Pathethic article by Saharareporters and Gbawe. This is so desperately pathetic because less tha 30 minutes ago, I just watched a video where Patience Jonathan was with Michele.I would have pasted pictures of the meeting, but I'm browsing with my Iphone &  I don't have the patience to search out pictures and paste them.

Gbawe, you and your pathethic saharareporters will be shamed with pictoral evidence once I get back to my lappy.

Saharareporters has become a useless tabloid.

PDP or AC, obj wins!!

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Wow!! So busted! What a cheap tabloid. How could SR be that desperate as to photoshop pictures to prove a false point!!

metalGo0g:
So you stopped being their fan because they have now beamed their eagle eye on Jonathan and his cabal.

Nope! I actually observed they stopped getting credible news articles ever since ribadu and el rufai returned to Nigeria. Most of the credible news reports they got in the past came mainly from the contacts these guys had in abuja. Since they don't feed saharareporters with any more news, the website has become a tabloid.

You see how useless saharareporters is? Very useless tabloid. One minute they say he is not attending, the next minute he is in New York. What kind of media outlet would be so shameless as to say something in themorning and say a totally differnt thing in the evening? You just wonder who feeds these guys with their useless stories!