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chukwudi44:
Jega’s predecessor, Prof Maurice Iwu. Iwu’s tenure was due to expire on June 13, 2010. However, on April 28, 2010, then acting President Jonathan, ordered Iwu to proceed on terminal leave.

iF Maurice Iwu went on terminal leave who is jega not to go.Jega is not bigger than our law,come March 1st he must proceed on terminal leave to enable the highly competent Prof Mimiko anchor the elections.

You still continue to live in your foolery and ignorance.

Are you not the daft chukwudi who removed Tambuwal as the speaker of the HORs.?

Stop exhibiting stupidity running from one thread to the other thinking Nigeria is just your wishful dream thoughts.

wakacome:
Because his analysis is against your clueless and wicked boss??

My brother leave them let them continue to live in denial believing they are not affected so they are less concerned.

There is nothing as temporal like power.

ayarandy10:
I am sorry to say that your narratives smacks of an uninformed "analyst"

Why not give a rather informed analysis Mr well informed.

If you read between the lines you will understand why it must be Chad that must do GEJ's dirty work.

Alimodu Sheriff has the ears of the Chadian President and they are personal and close friends as well as business associates.

If Nigeria is bordered by Cameroon, Niger and Chad in the North East, why didn't GEJ visit Niger and Cameroon too? Simple, Alimodu sheriff does not have personal relationship with the Cameroonian and Nigerien President.

Recollect Chad's President was the one who announced a sham cease fire with Boko Haram when GEJ was waiting on before picking up his presidential reelection form, he waited for the announcement by Deby before he picked up the form at the last minute.

Boko Haram has launched more attack on Cameroon than Chad but it is the chadians who are more concerned, is it not obvious the insurgency is funded and encouraged by the powers that be for a selfish and personal ambition of a certain group of people benefiting richly and powerfully from it.

Again, Jonathan meets Chadian President over insurgency

NOVEMBER 25, 2014 BY OLALEKAN ADETAYO


President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital reiterated the need for Nigeria and her neighbours to intensify joint actions and cooperation to win the war against terrorism and insurgency.

A statement by the his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, quoted the President as speaking to reporters at the Presidential Palace in N’Djamena after a closed-door meeting with his Chadian counterpart, President Idris Deby.

Abati further quoted the President as saying that their talks focused mainly on security and economic cooperation.

He reportedly told the journalists that the Boko Haram sect had a lot of external influence from outside Africa and it had become more imperative for all countries in the region to work together to overcome terrorism and other criminal activities across their borders.

“If you look at the economies of Nigeria and Chad both are linked. The Boko Haram people don’t take permission to move from Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria.

“If the countries do not cooperate, we will not find it easy to win the war, because when the heat is strong in one country, the criminals and terrorists will go to another one and hide.

“So, we must work together and we are discussing along that line,” Jonathan reportedly told reporters.

He also recalled that his visit to Chad was the second in the last one month, noted that it underscored the importance of building a “robust relationship” between both countries to improve trade, economic and security ties.

He said that discussions between both countries on cooperation in the ICT sector were ongoing and expressed optimism that more proficient use of modern technology would help greatly to address economic and security challenges in the region.

Jonathan, who was accompanied on the one-day official visit by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, and the Director-General the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayodele Oke had returned to Abuja.

It will be recalled that Jonathan had, on September 8, held a closed-door security meeting with Deby to discuss ways of ending the Boko Haram menace.

http://www.punchng.com/news/again-jonathan-meets-chadian-president-over-insurgency/

It was recorded and covered by the Press that GEJ was in Chad to meet with President Idris Deby of Chad twice last year.

The second visit was not well reported and the media team of the presidency have not told Nigerians why the President had to schedule another meeting in Chad witj Idris Deby after the one that had Alimodu Sheriff in attendance.

Recent events have now clarify the reason for the second visit to Chad by GEJ, he went to seek Deby's help to help scuttle the Election in February on the altar of renewed offensive on Boko Haram. Chad waited till 3weeks to our election to launch territorial invasion of Nigerian Territory to fight Boko Haram after watching for 6years as Boko Haram plumage and scorched the earth in the North East of Nigeria

Deby is close to Alimodu Sheriff and they are business allies, sheriff is the linksman for GEJ with Idris Deby hence his attendance at the first meeting.

The public outcry after the first visit necessitated GEJ visiting Deby alone to sign an agreement allowing Chad to enter Nigerian Territory in the name of fighting BH and our Military play the blind amd mute syndrome.

Territories captured by Chad from BH will be under Chadian control amd influence while GEJ will use the excuse of new counter-insurgency push to achieve his aim of avoiding election, the plan is to push the election for 6months in the first instance but tambuwal's defection to the APC ended that plot hence their resort to use the police to edge him out but that failed too.

GEJ is sacrificing the North East for his continuous stay in power, and Chad is achieving his goal of getting full control of the Chad Basin and its mineral content, a goal planned and hatched by former Chadian president Habre whose army launched incursions into same places they are controlling today but Buhari pursued them in 1982.

The bakassi episode is being played here when Gowon gave control of the peninsula to Cameroon to block the passage of arms to the Biafran Army now GEJ is toiling same path of giving territories of Nigeria to a foreign country so as to achieve his selfish, personal and crude interest.

Chad will not leave territories it lost its soldiers to capture without reasoning and a negotiated agreement in the first place.

GEJ signed out the Chad Basin to Deby to facilitate this but Nigerians are wiser and we are watching.

Stupid and daft PDP supporters are jubilating lost to the reality of the implication of this postponement and the precedent it will set.

GEJ is there today and I hope the daft stupld clueless people jubilating today won't cry fowl in 2019 when the APC try to be wiser by half too then.

No way, GEJ will win this election except he has no plan to conduct any election till 2019.

Nigerians are watching and wiser.

iiichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] APC has lost Osun State... [/color]

Guy, how far? Them don swear omisore in? Heard he has replaced obiano in Anambra.

Delusional human beings.

Since the court have banned the use of the military for election, the yeye PDP is trying to use scare mongering to prevent people from coming out to exercise their civil duty of voting out the useless GEJ.

Pity they can't use the Ekiti soldiers tactics again as it failed in Osun and the court have ban the deployment of soldiers for election duties so a plan B of suicide bombing is out. As if suicide bombers have not been bombing people since years ago.

Thanks but no thanks, suicide bombing rumor won't prevent you from being booted out.

You're in Canada and you type "BOSTED" I am certain that your Canada is upper iweka road in Onitsha.

Like someone said above, it is high time FG legalise Abortion so as to save the world foolish nonentity like you.

Lol, next na northerners gives birth to more children to have more voting population. Wetin we no go hear for 9ja.

pendy79:
Moderators seun lalasticlala maclatunji etc, I think this worldwide acclaim and recognition of the initiatives and innovation of the Aregbesola Administration in the State of Osun desserves a frontpage placement.

Moderators is this news not worthy of celebration by nigerians, seun lalasticlala maclatunji obinoscopy, hope it is not because it is aregbesola .

crownprince102:
Opon Imo exist no where in the world except osun....... An innovation by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. It consist of various educational apps, every subject, brain teasers, learning apps, all needed textbooks, "WAYEC" past question for the last ten years and no compatibility with internet in order not to divert student concentrations. Every SSS student has one in the state.

That's why UNESCO want to adopt it in all UN organised and sponsored schools in Gaza, Lebanon and other places to save them rhe cost of running those schools.

Moderators seun lalasticlala maclatunji etc, I think this worldwide acclaim and recognition of the initiatives and innovation of the Aregbesola Administration in the State of Osun desserves a frontpage placement.

jcflex:
the same opon imon that is been castigated as waste of resources.


Nigeria we never appreciate ourselve for anything.


if na oyinbo do am, by now, am sure every parent will have strive hard to get one for their wards.


this is not good enough.

we need to start appreciating our innovation.

the APC has added the opon imo innovation into its Educational re-organization Policy of 2015 - 2019

In the APC we represent innovation and futuristic development of Human Capacity.

Why not try us in the Central Government and let's turn around the tide the ship of the Nation Nigeria is sailing.

The United‎ Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has approached the government of the state of Osun seeking to adopt the e-learning device created by the Rauf Aregbesola administration, Opon Imo (Tablet of Knowledge).

UNESCO, in a letter dated 15 November 2014 to the Osun Commissioner for Education and signed by Prof. Hassana Alidou, Director and Representative UNESCO’s Regional Office in Abuja said the organisation was impressed by the components of the Osun e-learning project.

UNESCO also requested to reproduce and adapt the educational learning resource material and content of Opon-imo to promote it's educational programmes in Nigeria.

‎ The organisation added that it was fascinated by the three major content categories of the e-library, the integrated test zone, the virtual class room containing 63 books covering civic education, Ifa on ethics and morals among others in Opon-Imo.

The United Nation's organisation held that the concept and educational contents of Opon-Imo was in line with UNESCO’s objective to promote open access to quality education in the country.

According to UNESCO in the letter of request, "as you may be aware, UNESCO is a specialised Agency of the United Nations with a broad mandate in promoting education, science, culture, communication and information.

"The concept and education content of Opon-Imo is in line with UNESCO objective to promote open access to scientific information, open educational resources and open training platform as well as open distance learning.

"We acknowledge that the Opon-Imo was designed to enhance students’ access to knowledge, sexuality education and entrepreneurship, all of which are within the scope of UNESCO's educational programme activities in Nigeria."

Opon Imo [Tablet of Knowledge] the innovative education tool by Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration has bagged several international awards, a statement by Osun Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Semiu Okanlawon‎M

"Opon Imo was selected as the best in innovative category in the e-learning and science category of the awards of United Nations backed World Summit Awards (WSA) among many other awards," he added.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/unesco-seeks-osun%E2%80%99s-permission-adopt-reproduce-opon-imo

fresh15:
President Jonathan has once again proven his precision to do better if voted in for another tenure.He will prove you critics wrong because,he will win Buhari to transform Nigeria to her best state.GEJ for 2015.

What stopped him from proving those precision in the last 5years plus.

Why do you people continue to believe in lies and outright gullibility. What he could not in 6 years, he will do in 4years.

Thanks to God, people who reason like you are in the minority in the country's voting population.

Firefire:
Kudos Fashola,

The wind of CHANGE catching up small by small if you can give kudos to Fashola your nightmare.

Alphaoscar:
Bros, are you sure they have effect your transfer? I have been hearing many funny things about this transfer ooo

I checked online with my number and I received the response that change is successful. I then sent a brother to pick it up at the local government office of INEC in my new place.

Already collected and handy now for voting out the clueless useless one in FeBUHARI 14.

FeBUHARI 14th is sacrosanct and can never be tampered with. Who will pay for change in my flight plans if INEC or PDP decide to sheepishly change the dates for the election

Saint Valentine's day is FeBUHARI's DAY.

NO CHANJI,

berem:
I registered in november after I didn't find my PVC I registered for in 2011. I went to where I registered and we were told to come back today. Will be going tomorrow to collect it.

Okay, I registered in 2010 in Akwa Ibom whilst working In Eket, had to travel down to AKS to get the PVC and did the transfer to lagos in November too.

All set for CHANGE now,

berem:
Me go collect my own tomorrow. Its a must!

Even you never collect? I got mine before leaving Nigeria since November and I'm coming in with it next week to participate in the CHANGE I crave in my motherland.

Leadership from the Front, The APC is blessed with leaders like Fashola, Buhari, Amaechi, Rochas, El-rufai, Tambuwal and many other egg head in the party, I think there is hope for a new direction for Nigeria.

LAGOS State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN on Tuesday appealed to all residents of the State who have registered but who have not collected their Permanent Voters Card to proceed to their polling units from tomorrow Wednesday by 8.30am to start collecting their PVCs.

The Governor who gave an update to State House Correspondents at Lagos House, Ikeja on what transpired at his meeting earlier in the day with the Independent National Electoral Commissioner in Lagos, Mr Akin Orebiyi, who paid him a courtesy visit, stated that he has been briefed about the readiness of INEC to commence the distribution exercise from Wednesday 8.30a.m to 5.30p.m in the evening daily and lasting till Sunday.

He stated that what has changed is that from the former Wards Collation Offices of INEC, the collection has been moved closer to the people at the primary places where they usually vote and which they are familiar with and irrespective of where they registered.

When reminded by a journalist that he was yet to collect his PVC, the Governor maintained that he won’t give up and that INEC has acknowledged that it has received quite a number of more voters cards and his is presumably amongst them.

Affirming that he would not go forward to collect the PVC until the majority of Lagosians collect theirs, he declared: “A captain does not leave a ship when there is crisis and I must make sure all the passengers are safely evacuated so I want Lagosians to get theirs first. As a Governor, I enjoy certain privileges but I can’t go ahead of them so I want them to take the fullest benefit of this exercise before I collect mine”.


He also advised all those who have registered freshly to also proceed to the Polling Units where INEC has made arrangements to distribute the PVC to them, stressing that in case there are difficulties the state Government would continue to work with INEC towards providing solutions.

“I would keep an eye to see this new phase of the exercise. It allows the people the opportunity to vote and as I said, this exercise would start tomorrow. There is five days to do this, so that as many people as possible and hopefully everybody who is registered can get theirs at their poling units”, he stated.

The Governor also informed that he has been updated by the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner that the current registration exercise in Lagos has produced 5,905,000 people, adding that they are still doing some collation and that the final figure would be released when all is finally finished.

On what Lagosians should expect from the latest exercise, the Governor said It is for them to make out time and go out and make the sacrifice, adding that he would continue to insist that the umpire must get it right.

“I know people have tried. I have heard people say they have been to the places, the Ward Offices eight times and some four times and for me if you have made that kind of efforts, the real success must come in not giving up and I don’t give up and that is why I continue to address the issue”.

“I have made State broadcasts, I have granted interviews, I won’t give up on our people. They must get a chance to participates so the people themselves must be willing to persist and to persevere so that they will get an opportunity to have a say in how their affairs are ordered by being able to vote at the next elections”, he explained.

The Governor appealed to such people to see the hitherto unsuccessful efforts as adversity and hopefully when they succeed they would have the final joy on election days to say they finally voted and that would be the real success story in the difficult exercise of collecting Permanent Voters Cards.

Responding to a question on what his views are concerning the various court cases being instituted against the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate on his eligibility, the Governor said he has heard about some of the law suits but doesn’t really have the full details of what the claims are.

He added that to a large extent they tend to either seek to challenge certain things and that so long as they are valid challenges, they may be legitimate as no one can shut people away from the Courts.

“That is what I always say whether or not the claims they bring before the court has merit or not, but all of the judicial officers are Nigerians and they feel the impact of what is going on in their country and I always presume that they will act according to the law and do justice according to the law and not according to emotions and sentiments and in doing so also there is also a public policy consideration here that the nation must not go down because when all is said and done these is all about a contest to serve.”

Reminding all about the sacrifice made by those who fought for the restoration of democracy in the country, Governor Fashola said at the end of day, democracy and not personal interest should be allowed to triumph.

“It is a contest about ideas, one side believes that their ideas are better and another side believes that well this current idea can be improved upon. Ultimately let us all remember that it is about us and our people and our nation and people must remember that this democracy took some lives”.

“Some people lost lives so that we can exercise this liberty and freedom, people must remember yesterday and in so doing yesterday must become a compass for how to deal with today and how to proceed to the future and the liberties that we take for granted today were at one time things that we struggled to have and so for me it is democracy that must win in this contest of ideas”, Governor Fashola reiterated.

He emphasized the need for everybody to act responsibly and to see the forthcoming elections as a contest for service, adding that it is also important for people who are professionals to also understand that they are citizens first and they must contribute to nation building not nation dismembering.

He said for him no matter how persistent a client is, a lawyer’s training also tells him to honestly advise a client to say if the job is a dirty one and he should not do it, noting that in the course of his professional career, there are cases that he has rejected because he saw that the claims that the clients wanted to agitate were not meritorious and “I said look, no court is going to grant you this and I won’t argue it so you can look for another professional to do it for you”

“I also belief members of the legal profession will act responsibly and this is really a test of our love for our country. Whether we put our country’s interest above personal interest or vice versa? But ultimately democracy should win, the people should win. There are so many things that are defining about this election”.

“If the existing order is preserved by the will of the people then so be it. If also the advocates of change have the day, then so be it but it also must mean that in that situation if the advocates of change have the day it also means that Nigerians want to try something else, it is not that they dislike anybody and you know it means for the first time as a people and as a country we have completed the cycle. We would have changed a government that we think has not given us what we want not necessarily because they are bad people but because we just want to try the other side”, he explained.

While recalling some of the things he has heard about the biggest democracies and that it is very interesting that the British think they would do well with an American style Chief Executive because they feel those kind of powers are necessary to move Britain forward because in a Parliamentary system the powers of a Chief Executive are a little circumscribed and that the Americans are also thinking that the Chief executive is too powerful and it just tells you that people are dynamic in the things that they want from time to time and sometimes it is ultimately in the interest of the larger society to help them see.

On the possibility of declaring work free days to enable residents go out to collect their PVC, the Governor said the State Governor has not precluded any possibility but would be watching as the developments unfold in terms of how the people turn out to collect the cards.

The Governor was joined by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Lateef Ibirogba, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Lateef Raji and the Special Adviser on Media, Mr Hakeem Bello during the interview.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/28572-i-won-t-collect-my-pvc-until-lagosians-collect-theirs-fashola

bros forget they won't shift the date. it is not possible for now and you know "America must know" first.

the world is watching and lets see how Bishop Oyedepo will return him to Aso Rock

Sunday8650:
The fact you need is your minister of finance. Ngozi Iweala attest to the fact that their is excess crude account and claim 9.3billion dollars was in there. now your stupid president and his attorney claim their is no ECA account.

please you guys should package your lie well before it leaves your mouth.

So obvious its only fools that protect a thief and fraudster thinking he is not stealing from him. Everything you all have been eating soon you will cough it out or spend your life in kirikiri

Nigeria will and can only change the moment it's citizens believe that ethnic consideration and religious bigotry are mere human contraptions that hinder truth.

If the government is truthful and responsive to the yearning of its people, the people will derive maximum and better quality of life.

docadams:
I have gone through this thread but can't seem to find
Kenai
Collynzo9
Ngwake
Firefire
Pa Chukwudi
Anomini

For where? They are still in denial and think the government failure and corruotion is felt by only a set of people.

nkemdi89:
Anyway you are an average nigerian who see nothing good in the efforts our military are putting in place I won't blame you,go to defence headquarters and tell them that you want to keep log of the number of casualties nigeria has recorded.

When your defense of stupidity gets blown in your face you will come up with more stupid response.

Read what you wrote before and align it to the daft response you're giving now.

There is no secrecy in military information, it is an olden days and cold war tactics, propaganda has no place in modern military.

I live and work in a better organised society and that your stupid average nigerian gist relates to how gullible you and ilks like you reason. You like and enjoy being fed with lies and innuendos.

nkemdi89:
If you understand information management you will know that not all information are meant to be disseminated also the bigger countries in your comparison the citizens are more enlightened than an average man on the street in nigeria thereby enhancing proper information management. Most of the military information and modus operandi has been disseminated to the appropriate end users, its not a jamboree annoucing your casualty rate all the time.

Going by your analogy , chad is bigger and it citizens are more enlightened than Nigerians. If you don't have better things to say, why not keep quiet.

Why do you think soldiers carry dogtags? It is for ease of picking in the front if the fallen soldier can't be carried or evacuated.

Accountability in military is a Geneva convention, propaganda and denial of fallen men is counter productive.