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To all Oteh lovers, I am sorry to disappoint you. She is not innocent at all. Her answers are not convincing. She reeks of arrogance, nepotism and cuts the image of a despot. Even if she is being hounded for trying to change the ways of working at the Stock Exchange Commission, how is she carrying it out? By bringing change agents who were not properly recruited?
What was her explanation as regards the 50th anniversary?

Let's see how it unfolds...

Quo Vadis? Again, where do we go from here? I can understand Wole Soyinka's frustration and sense of hopelessness. He has been standing for Nigeria since he was a youth. Yet, Nigeria has not fared better. Even the people are still as clueless as ever in spite of various expositions by people like Soyinka that ought to have created positive response from them.
And the youths, oh we youths have been the most disappointing. Most of us have sold our birthrights for morsels, while others cannot just see beyond their primordial prisms. Our generation does not even know the mission to fulfil not talking of betraying it.


Btw, did anyone notice the allusion to Dame Patience?

guonno: A cousin attends BUK. He said the church is made mostly of yoruba people. No wonder the dead prof is yoruba, the olympic high fence medalist is yoruba, the pastor is also yoruba. Yorubas should know that the reason why the igbos are silent is bc d war is for all ethnic groups. NdIGBO are not cowards, ask ur father and gowon.

Power Uti, who is asking you to champion a cause? Please ask your father what Gowon did to him.

freshmoney: How much were you paid? Say the truth The truth shall set you free

So everyone has to be paid to see things differently from your perspective? And what is the truth?
So it is not true that Omisore and co started AD but left after being short_changed. The crisis that later took Bola Ige's life was actually orchestrated by the power play between Omisore and Akande. The first victim of the Osun debacle of the early 2000s was Odunayo Olagbaju (an Ife indigene and staunch supporter of Omisore). He was killed in the town around 9pm by armed bandits believed to be loyal to Akande. Prior to that, the Osun House of Assembly had been under siege as both factions were bringing arms into the complex.

Do you know Ararume's antecedents? So, Akume, Tom Ikimi etc. are progressives because they belong to Action Congress? Do you know the same Action Congress has its own nest of killers in Lagos? I'm sure you will ask for prove but you can gleefully call PDP all sorts of names. Have you ever heard of Jaypron? Abu Sagoe? Toba, and countless others Those are NURTW boys and Tinubu's henchmen. Were you aware these people were recruited alongside policemen to disperse the lekki toll protesters?

I am not defending any party but if you claim to be saying the truth, please say it ALL that posterity may be fair to you.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]That title should have read "Russian Find Silver, Traces of Gold and Oil".


We've always know that minerals such as Silver and Gold were present in Taraba state. Aerospace Instrumentation technology is not the ideal way of oil exploration. I wouldn't get excited over this "oil" find just yet - its anoother potential environmental disaster in the making.[/quote]I served in Taraba and I have always known the state has abundant Mineral Resources including Gold and Silver. So I was also surprised that the Russians just discovered them!

Kim for president

Apr 16th 2012, 19:22 by J.P. | LONDON

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IN THE event, the controversial and closely fought contest to become president of the World Bank ended in exactly the same way as all the earlier stitch-ups: the American candidate won. Jim Yong Kim, currently head of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, will take over from Robert Zoellick in July. But the contest has raised awkward questions both about the bank and Mr Kim himself which will not be laid to rest so smoothly.

The contest was unprecedented from the start, not least in that it was a contest. For the first time, America’s favourite was challenged by two serious contenders, both from emerging markets. They were Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister of Nigeria, and José Antonia Ocampo of Colombia, who pulled out late in the day. A group of American professors and development experts, led by William Easterly of New York University and Lant Pritchett of Harvard’s Kennedy School, criticised Mr Kim for having too narrow a field of expertise to run the world’s premier development institution. (The Economist also supported Mrs Okonjo-Iweala.) Members of the administration and Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University who was himself nominated for the World Bank job, supported Mr Kim vigorously.

Unfortunately, while the nominations were refreshingly open, the competition itself reverted to type, which means the job was decided behind closed doors. Dr Kim held no public discussions of his views and when a Washington think-tank, the Centre for Global Development, tried to hold televised question-and-answer sessions for all the candidates, he did not attend, citing scheduling conflicts.

The secretiveness drew the ire of some World Bank members. South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, told the Financial Times “there are serious concerns about the levels of transparency.” Leaders of international NGOs, such as Oxfam and Save the Children, joined in the criticism. And Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born businessman, pointed out that “no one can lecture developing countries on how to manage their processes if [global public institutions] so brazenly do not conform to the same standards.”

But, as Dan Drezner of the Fletcher School at Tufts University pointed out, Barack Obama was never, in an election year, going to give his opponents any unnecessary ammunition by failing to get his choice for the World Bank accepted.

No one can know in advance how Dr Kim will fare. Forecasts in this area have a way of going spectacularly awry. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was widely expected to be a disaster before he took over the bank’s twin sister organisation, the IMF. But until his public humiliation at the very end of his term, the Frenchman proved to be a successful IMF chief.

Michael Woolcock, a World Bank staffer, suggests that two rather different models of development have been pitted against one another in the contest for president. On the one hand is what he calls Big Development, whose aim is the transformation of entire countries through investments in national education, justice and public health. Governments are essential to Big Development because they are responsible for the overall policy. And the World Bank is pre-eminently a Big Development institution. On the other hand is Small Development. “Inspired less by transformational visions of entire countries,” Mr Woolcock argues, “and more by the immediate plight of particular demographic groups (AIDS orphans, child soldiers, 'the poor') living in particular geographic places (disaster zones, refugee camps, urban slums), Small Development advocates focus not on building systems in the medium run but on compensating for the failure of systems in the short run. ‘Development’ thus becomes an exercise in advocacy, in accurate targeting, in identifying particular ‘tools’ that ‘work’”.

In this scheme of things Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister, represented Big Development; Dr Kim, a public-health advocate, Small. Dr Kim was almost certainly picked because of his passport. But if his background is any guide, his tenure as chief is likely to shift the bank more towards Small Development. Whether that is a good thing on balance remains to be seen.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2012/04/world-bank?page=1&fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fkimforpresident

Lawalkay: To all madrid fans, enjoy your la-liga 4 2012. We are waiting for part 3 of d el-classico in munich. Pray to be there. As 4 chelsea tuesday night at nou camp. It's our last chance of a turbulent season of injuries i.e villa, sanches,iniesta, abidal,pedro and xavi. My joy is that it produce from our B team opportunities for kids like thiago, quenca,tello,sergio. Real deserve this year la-liga, but can JM use any of this kid players if he found himself in Guardiola situation of his key first eleven being depleted? A poser 4 all madrid fans. Just higuan got injured last season JM brought in adebayo. I believe in my team. 4 la-liga in a row. JM should stay and do that for RM. If he leaves RM should expect d fate of porto, chelsea, inter after his departue. Let d rivalry continue next la-liga season it's good 4 d game. Barca 4 life. Barca ! Barca !! Barca !!!

Why do you keep writing 4 La-liga in a row? Madrid won 2007-2008 season. You only won 3 in a row.
As for fielding kids, that is your business not mine. How you manage your squad is entirely up to you.
You Barca fans, just like Arsenal's are fond of that excuse. You lie as if Barca has not been buying players. Granero, Moratta, Jesse are also our youth products so what gives? If Mou brought in Adebayo because Higuain was injured, that shows that he knows his onions and would not resort to stu.pid excuses for failure.

No one stole\steals as much as Tinubu

Abeg, forget all this politicians and let's stop fooling ourselves! What did Akande do between 1999-2003? I was at OAU till 2002.
@Dayokanu: I know Omoworare and a close acquaintance is one of his aides. What meaningful thing has he contributed in the last one year?

@ Gbawe: if your brother were not a senator elected under Action Congress would you be defending them with this fervour

The truth is coming out.

@Gbawe
Even though I do not like Aregbesola nor Action Congress, but I am Yoruba and will never allow some beasts of no nation to denigrate us. People like Beef, Halftruth and Dende will never see anything good in a yoruba man. They always get their kicks from bashing the SW.
Another f00l who has no sense of history posted here that if not "for bad press" who'll reckon with us. Just allow them to continue wallowing in their foolhardiness.

Dede1: When I wrote in one of previous posts that most western region towns were one-street-antique, people twisted out of human form. These pictures could represent major parts of Osogbo which is the Osun State’s capital.

At least, it is nice to notice that people are still making use of mud to build houses in Nigeria as depicted by the first picture on the right side.

Bloody slowpoke. You don't have mud houses in your Biafraland abi?

@Gbawe
I quite agree with you.

DayoKanu all the way! I know him very well and our association pre-dates NL. His intellectual capability and political sagacity is not in doubt. The fact that some other ethnic bigots are already getting jittery over his nomination is another pointer to the fact that he understands this terrain more than many others.

Jarus is another good option but he is a bit liberal. I know he doesn't like to be seen as a bigot. But we need a warrior-king not a philosopher-king. That he is from Kwara is not a minus for him, we have had people like Ayo Opadokun, Cornelius Adebayo etc. as leaders at one time or another.

Negro_tns comes next. He is intelligent and witty. He has all the time in this world to champion the Yoruba nay black race.

Katsumoto once admitted he is not Yoruba. I would not want people of dubious ancestry in charge of our destiny.

Alj_harem is also not sure of who he is. One minute, he is Awori, next he is Hausa. We don't want Amulumala people as Yoruba leaders.

Ekt_bear has everything to lead the Yoruba people. Would it not be interesting to have someone from our intellectual power base as our leader? But this man from Ekiti has decided not to participate. A great loss, no doubt!

Where are the Jakumos, Gbawes, Bluetooths, Demdems etc

ifyalways: Chief Negro!

Dayo don do ojoro . . . Or he got his concubines and gaay partners vote for him. Lolz

If only you knew Dayo very well, you'd be lucky to be counted as one of his concubines. I can guarantee that you'll abandon all your Okoro joysticks for his pleasurable possession. And don't mistake me for one of his gaay partners, It's an observation from very close quarters!

emmykk: this was the obama we organise a donation for and hold in high esteem when he was vying as US president,he visited ghana he didnt come here now see how he neglected a better candidate for a less qualify candidate.plus or minus ngozi has proof her worth.now let come home if ngozi is to contest nigeria presidency how many of us will support her with all these qualifications,will we not say she is a woman or easterner?

Don't you get tired of playing this 'me against the world card'? Let the Igbos bring out a formidable candidate and see if the whole nation would not vote for him\her.

Brixtonyute: That's the King of Lagos, there was none before him and there will never be one after him.

Made man, even forbes will never know his worth.

Chief Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez!!!

Were you not the one asking who the Igbos and Yorubas are on another thread? How come you now know so much about Chief Deinde Fernandez? I pity those who had time to respond to you

Trust me on this one, there is never a way to please women. No matter how hard you try, they will always believe that someone out there can do better.
Bottomline, marry for children, not for love, there is no TRUE LOVE anymore. It is now denominated in Naira and Kobo!

[quote author=okada_man]When will they put OAU up for sale?

I want to buy

subsidy "reduction" don butter my bread[/quote]Even Igbinedion cannot afford it except they under value and sell it cheap to their sycophants like they always do.

http: The earlier we get the message, the better for all of us still waiting on the Nigerian government for anything. Nothing is coming from the govt. thery are just perfecting ways of having more to loot. Removed subsidy if there was any, devesting on education, concessioning our road to private investors, devesting in health-care, devesting on power, promoting private-own power companies, i can go on and on.

The federal govt. led by GEJ have nothing to offer Nigerian except their own greed, you better find alternatives to save your self and family. They only want more to loot from, they are not even practicing capitalism, what they are doing is Extinctionism using Natural Selection (survival of the Fittest)remember the Govt. is headed by a Zoologist, go figure.

Maybe GEJ's cyberspokesman alias Beaf would find reasons in this. Just maybe, he will understand that his benefactor is totally cluelesss.

Boyloaf: if U̶̲̥̅̊ like write I̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̥̅̊ swahili french or dutch, una nor go smell power till 2030

You no go kill person for here

Sycophancy at its best. I wonder why the same people will turn round and accuse Beaf of what they are guilty of. Bloody hypocrites! St.upid bigots!

Until he acquires the Lagos lagoon and Atlantic Ocean, you will not realise that you have been enslaved.
Lagos shall be free one day!

alj harem: mu yi hankali Lawal

I thought you are the guy claiming to be Awori? Walahi ba hankali Lawal

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abokine: Apart from Russia if I'm not getting it wrong none among the 4counties that formed the Brics nations have oil and today they are the new emerging world economies.so my brother oil in Nigeria only make some few extremly rich and also sponsor terrorist and militants with the oil revenue.as regards to states sustainability,apart from the oil region, Lagos and Kano are the only states that can survive without FG revenue allocation.

Of course you are wrong! Brazil has oil too. Ever heard of Petrobras? Do some research Mallam!

It is in the latest issue of the Economist Magazine.

NIGERIA, to many of its citizens' dismay, is know for its scams. Since moving to Abuja, Baobab has received over 100 obviously dodgy e-mails a day with offers of millions of dollars accompanied by assurances that "pls this is not a joke and i would not like you to jeopardise it". Some e-mails are marginally more convincing with senders claiming to be bankers or bureaucrats. They are well written and free of typos. Some play on greed, others on charity and many on sheer stupidity. The scammers, who mostly use internet cafes, are hard to trace.

Now a different type scam has been uncovered. In 2010 an ex-employee of AT&T, an American telecoms giant, filed a lawsuit against the company accusing it of knowingly allowing their service for hearing-impaired callers to be abused by Nigerian fraudsters, costing the American government $16m. IP Relay allows deaf people to type messages over the internet which operators from companies such as AT&T then read out to recipients. Each call costs around $1.30 a minute, which is reimbursed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The Department of Justice, which is now suing AT&T, estimates that as much as 95% of AT&T’s IP Relay revenue since December 2009 has come from fraudulent abuse of the system by foreign criminals. Thousands of calls came from Nigeria. The American government says that criminals working out of Nigeria used the service to order goods with stolen credit cards and counterfeit checks, defrauding a host of American companies. AT&T provides a trustworthy American voice and total anonymity. 

Though the details are only now coming to light, the fraud appears to have been going on for years. An internal study at AT&T found that on January 14th and 15th 2004, 10 out of 12 users of the service were from Lagos. One IP address racked up 100 hours of calls in those two days alone. The lawsuit says AT&T did little to stop it and retained loopholes in their verification systems to facilitate the fraud. Avoiding stricter registration policies allowed international callers ineligible for the service to sign-up, said the Ministry of Justice, which earned the telecoms giant millions of dollars in payments from the FCC.

Foreign investors say corruption—which conservative estimates say costs Nigeria between $4 billion and $8 billion dollars a year—is the main reason to avoid the country. Operations like this will do little to assuage their fears.

http://econ.st/HnzWVx

mayoroflag: Let's say it as it is.

Suddenly the Northerners want to follow a democratic process in PDP because they will be able to sway the winning machinery to their control.

PDP is not a party of ideology, it is an organized winning machinery, where factions want to take turns to run government for selfish reasons other than progress for the generality. Fair enough.

The problem is, Jonathan knows that if he allows that process he could be disgraced in his bid for a second term. This shows that there is no unity in the party. It also shows that this democracy is a farce.

As a citizen of this country, I know that people like Kaita do not mean well for the country because they are pursuing what is in it for them rather than what the whole country might gain. The democratic process is so warped that you cannot help but shut your eyes when something unfair as the selection of Tukur occurs because it is more likely that a worse glutton would have emerged under a fair process.

Kaita, you can rant all you want. Until Nigerians are able to make informed decisions for their benefit and the benefit of the nation, it would be convenient to overlook wuruwuru selections such as this. I have spent more than 3 decades on this soil and I wonder if we would ever be able to replicate the prosperity the colonial masters made in in Nigeria without access to oil, in my lifetime. I am tired of process and prospect of prosperity.

It is obvious they only want power for the sake of it and further perpetuate their thieving hold on power!

It is surprising that supposedly elderly and knowledgeable people like Lawan Kaita who have at one time or the other been entrusted with the affairs of this nation would be making such asinine statement.

Where are those Northern 'defenders' intellectuals berating Prof. Wole Soyinka for insisting that Northern leaders are fuelling the Boko Haram insurgency? Even some Nairalanders blinded by ethnicity also posted some condescending stuffs here. I hope they will all apologise to Kongi for having the courage to say what most of us have known now that it has been confirmed by none other but a prominent Northerner.

@alj harem: it is improper to draw a parallel between Dokubo and Lawan Kaita. Kaita was once a governor of a state- Kaduna state. Dokubo is just a lousy militant who without doubt fought a good cause in a criminal way. To be a governor means he can become a president. Are these the kind of thoughtless leaders we are cursed with?

I have criticized GEJ for his policies and manners of handling national issues, but for a section to threaten the sovereignty of the nation in this manner, then Jonah should continue beyond 2015.

^^^ Lwkmd!

Hello house, thanks so much for all the wonderful posts. Like someone commented earlier, these pictures are more helpful than what we would find in government archives.

Does anyone have the replica of the Nigerian passport used between 1966-1968? It is urgently needed for a project.

Thanks once again