₦airaland Forum

sawdust:
na d same Buhari d say Goodluck Government corrupt oooo
how many times im don carry am go court,abi how many time court declare am corrupt?

Some of Una even clueless pass goats

if your father wasn't a baboon who gave birth to a chimpanzee, you would have known Goodfu.ck jona.daft has immunity from prosecution while in office.

Wait till 2015 and watch how we will retrieve our $20billion he and his frogged eye inlaw stole.

I am sure this is a testimony, testimony won't want to hear when he grow up to imagine the desperation of his mom and how he could have ended up beneath the Mediterrenean Sea

A baby born at sea on Christmas Day after his Nigerian mother was plucked from a floundering migrant boat by the Italian navy has been baptised Testimony Salvatore in honour of the medics who delivered him.




The two-day old infant, who weighed in at 2.7 kilogrammes (just under six pounds), and his 28-year-old mother were both recovering in hospital on Saturday after what was a smooth delivery in testing circumstances, according to the gynaecologist who oversaw it.

The cheering Christmas tale came as it was reported that Italian authorities have identified a 32-year-old Egyptian man as a lynchpin in the large-scale people smuggling that has been instrumental in sending asylum seekers and economic migrants across the Mediterranean in unprecedented
numbers this year.

Described as a trafficking "superboss" and named as Ahmed Mohamed Farrag Hanafi, the alleged trafficking overlord is now being pursued by the Egyptian authorities at Italy's request, Corriere della Sera reported.

The broadsheet daily said he was based in the Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate in northern Egypt and had been identified as a result of intercepted mobile calls to traffickers working for him on boats leaving Libya.

Little Testimony entered the world at 20 minutes before midnight on December 25, aboard the Italian navy vessel Etna as it headed to the Sicilian port of Messina.

The ship had just helped to rescue hundreds of would-be immigrants from boats destined for, but ill-equipped to reach, Europe's southern shores.

"The lady was brilliant," said gynaecologist Maita Sartori. "She did everything herself, all we had to was to be there and monitor the labour, talking to her in English."

The mother, whose first name is Kate according to Italian media, was travelling with Testimony's 15-month-old sister and was quoted as saying: "I'm really happy with the birth of my son. I was really scared but everything went well in the end."

She told reporters the family had left Nigeria two months ago and that she and her youngest child had boarded a boat in Libya on December 23, having left her husband and two older sons, aged 6 and 10, in neighbouring Algeria.

Italian naval vessels picked up a total of 2,300 people from troubled boats over the Christmas period, lifting to almost 170,000 the number of migrants from north Africa registered as having landed on Italian soil this year.

More than 80 percent of the migrants leave from Libya, where traffickers are able to operate with impunity because of the chaos engulfing a country that has disintegrated into warring fiefdoms.

The conflict in Syria/Iraq and repression in Eritrea have been the two biggest factors behind the migrant surge this year with Syrian and Eritrean nationals accounting for over half the people landed in Italy this year.

Typically, refugees boarding boats in Libya have paid traffickers several thousand dollars each for what is sold as a ticket to Europe.

Increasingly however it appears that the people smugglers simply aim to get the boats into open water and rely on the human cargo being picked up by either the Italian navy or by passing merchant ships which are obliged, under the law of the sea, to respond to distress calls.

Responsibility for patrolling Europe's southern shores in theory lies with Triton, a multinational operation run by the European borders agency Frontex.

But in practice the Italian navy has continued to carry out most of the rescues despite officially scaling back its own Mare Nostrum operation at the end of October after failing to persuade other EU governments to help fund it.

Hopes the advent of winter would stem the flow of boat people have been dashed although there have been signs that the traffickers are switching to bigger cargo boats, having previously relied largely on converted fishing vessels or inflatable dinghies.

The cargo boats may be less vulnerable to inclement weather but are frequently in a poor condition, making them potential death traps, according to aid organisations.

http://www.thelocal.it/20141227/christmas-baby-cheer-for-rescued-migrant-mother

PDP a house exploding more than a volcano,

Maku knows the promise of settling him with a ministerial appointment wont do. Minister for 6months while he can hustle for governorship on his own steam.

foolishness is when GEJ thinks koro is more important than maku.

koro wont even win his ward in ikoyi for PDP

A former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has declared that he will not give up on his quest to become the next governor of Nasarawa State despite losing his bid to run as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Addressing members of different ethnic groups that paid him Christmas visit in Wakama, in Akun Development Area of the state, Mr. Maku said his political ambition to become the governor come 2015 is still on course.

He said no amount of intimidation from any group would stop him from becoming the governor of the state in 2015.

“It is the people of the state that called me to contest for governorship seat in order to rescue them and bring peace to the state, and I have answered their calls,” the former minister said. “But what went on in the primaries of our party the PDP, was uncalled for and everybody is aware of that.”

He added: “I want to tell you that there is no going back on my gubernatorial ambition come 2015.

“Those who are thinking that my political ambition is stunted should start having a rethink, my 2015 governorship ambition is still on course.”

Mr. Maku did not say how he intends to actualise his dream, having failed to win the PDP governorship ticket.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported how the former minister is making moves to switch to Labour Party, LP, where he will replace the party’s candidate for the poll, Innocent Lagi.

Mr. Lagi has vowed not to let that happen even though Mr. Maku appears to have won the support of some of the party’s leaders.

Speaking to his supporters in Nasarawa State, Mr. Maku said he is not considering giving up. He canvassed wider support, saying he is confident of victory.

“I want to call on you to continue to support me and vote for me during the 2015 general election,” he said. “When the victory comes, we will all celebrate together and I want to advise you not to give up on my 2015 gubernatorial ambition but to preach my gospel for governorship.”

He called on Christians to use the Christmas season to pray for peaceful co-existence among the diverse ethnic, religious and political groups in the state and the country at large.

The former minister said that no nation progresses in an atmosphere of rancour and crisis, noting that the security challenges facing the state and the country, has negatively affected human lives and the socio-economic development of the country.

Mr. Maku urged the people, especially the youth, to be law-abiding, respect constituted authority and engage in meaningful ventures in order to be self-reliant.

He said this would enable the country to experience speedy development.

Earlier, Mr. Francis Namo, who spoke on behalf of the different groups, said they were in Mr. Maku’s house to felicitate and celebrate with him on the occasion of Christmas.

He assured the former minister of their continued support in his bid to become the next governor of the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the different ethnic groups that visited him include Eggon, Alago, Mada, Hausa-Fulani, among others.



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173857-despite-losing-pdp-ticket-maku-vows-win-nasarawa-governorship-election-2015.html

It seems ridiculous people will be attacking someone for expressing his opinion. If he state a position I think he reserves the right to it.

I don't know whether is so much lack of accommodation of diverse opinion and expression here without the usual TABULA RASAS going on the offensive to shout down the person.

What's the fear of the TABULA RASAS?

Bmark:
baba please i need your insight on an issue concerning education and northern.as one of your followers who is privy of your mental nuance and versatility,i plead for the disclosure of your knowledge of this topic <b>rivalry for survival between almajiris and ordinary beggars on the street of northern nigeria</b>

i await a speedy reply sir.

The ideology of almajiri isn't about begging but about basic survival by young children who became destitute by the inadequacy of their Islamic scholar who maybe due to the large number of students he needs to cater for release them to the society to fend for themselves .

Begging and beggars as youre aware are people at the lowest ebb of the society who lack all vital essence of human survival and hence end up looking up to well to do members of the society to assist them to meet their basic needs of food and shelter.

The issue of rivalry between both group based on your probe can be likened to the state of the society. There is little to go round as the middle cadre has systematically been eroded and we have have 2 class of people in the society now, the rich and the poor.

Since the pool through which this 2 group of people look up to for their survival have been reduced drastically due to the economic reality in the country, which subsequently will lead to a situation where the philanthropical hands that gives out in alms and free feeding are now trying to meet up their own needs.

So one can deduce or reasonably say there is no much difference between an almajiri or an ordinary beggar but really the concept between both differs.
An almajiri is a young child undergoing tutelage in Islamic scholarship with a Mallam who because of the huge number of students he tutors seeks the help.of the society in feeding them while he provides free tuition and free accomodation . A beggar is what we know he is. But funny enough most almajiris are children of beggars and poor members of The society.

That's the basic I can think of, you can form.a broad view with the little I put up.

Bmark:
baba please i need your insight on an issue concerning education and northern.as one of your followers who is privy of your mental nuance and versatility,i plead for the disclosure of your knowledge of this topic <b>rivalry for survival between almajiris and ordinary beggars on the street of northern nigeria</b>

i await a speedy reply sir.

Is this a course work or a dissertation? The concept of what you need it for will determine the scope of response I could offer

omenka:
The handwriting is on the wall and the signs are unmistakeable. Little wonder they've been stockpiling arms. The Tompolo contract was just a facade to conceal a safe conduit for the transport of arms into the Niger Delta.

Before 2015, everyone must have abandoned Jonathan except of course his tribesmen (except of course Barcanista). Let us see how he wins with just Ijaw votes.

The truth is that the entire ijaw race are not benefiting from the government, the list of trainees and those to benefit from government is scrutinized and forwarded by some selected few. They select those to benefit and definitely choose only their families N boys.

Saying the entire ijaw race is benefiting from this government is being unfair to the Ijaws. Only his godfathers like Edwin Clark and some kings and popular ijaws are clients of government and his BOYS like Tompolo, boyloaf, Asari Dokubo who he has provided means and cover to stupendous wealth to arms and ammunitions to forment trouble when he loses next year.

It is known within military circles that arms and ammunition are being stockpiled in the Niger Delta to declare war on the Nigeria State if he loses next year's election. The oritshejafor plane saga was for arms purchase for yhe boys and not the nation, pity pastor ayo was caught in a web for which he knew nothing about just for his greed and money worshipping.

Let them keep stockpiling, they will learn the nigerian military can be and will be effective and heroic with a true commander in chief next year.

The tumbling oil prices that have slashed Nigeria’s revenue and roiled currency and stock markets in Africa’s biggest economy may have a silver lining: an excuse for the government to scrap fuel subsidies that cost as much as $7 billion a year.

It’s an opportunity President Goodluck Jonathan, concerned that such a move would provoke protests before his bid for re-election in February, may not seize, analysts say.

“Politics often trumps prudence and there’s an entrenched social expectation for fuel to be subsidized,” Gareth Brickman an analyst at Johannesburg-based ETM Analytic said in a Nov. 28 e-mailed response to questions. “The last time subsidies were reduced there were widespread protests, and given how contentious the political environment is in Nigeria with the elections and on-going ethnic divisions, it is likely this will be the case again.”

Nigeria relies on refined fuel imports to meet more than 70 percent of domestic needs and refunded importers as much as a third of the cost of supply in the past year ending in October, according to the Abuja-based Petroleum Ministry. This ensured the price of gasoline was capped at 97 naira ($0.54) per liter. Jonathan’s attempt to end the subsidies in January 2012 sparked a week of strikes and protests, paralyzing the economy and forcing the government to partially restore them.

A 2012 parliamentary probe recommended that 70 gasoline importers, including the state oil company Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., refund 1.1 trillion naira ($6 billion) in illegal fuel-subsidy payments, alleging “endemic corruption.”

State Refineries

While Nigeria is Africa’s biggest crude oil producer, which pumped 2.1 million barrels per day in November, its four ill-maintained state-owned refineries refine only 16 percent of their capacity for 445,000 barrels per day.

The subsidies discouraged private investors who obtained refining licenses from building plants because of concern that costs may not be recovered without market-determined fuel prices, according to Oni of Ecobank Research.

With the 45 percent decline in oil prices this year, Nigeria’s oil unions, which ended a four-day strike on Dec. 19 to press for industry reforms, are asking for lower fuel prices to reflect the decline in crude prices, adding to public expectation of cheaper gasoline. They also want state-owned refineries fixed and an end to corruption associated with fuel imports.

“The unions want lower fuel prices because past increases were based on the rise in oil prices,” Emmanuel Ojugbana, a spokesman for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff of Nigeria, said in a Dec. 17 phone interview. “So now that the price has fallen, we expect the government to also reciprocate.”

Break-Even Price

The “fuel subsidy is completely wiped out if prices fall below $70 a barrel,” Dolapo Oni, energy analyst at Lagos-based Ecobank Research. “We’re there now.”

In the spending proposals sent to lawmakers on Dec. 17, Jonathan plans to increase fuel subsidies 9 percent next year to 1.2 trillion naira.


Government estimates indicate “that the break-even crude oil price” that equals Nigeria’s pump price without a “subsidy hovers around $60 per barrel,” Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said while announcing 2015 budget proposals on Dec. 17. “It’s only when our crude oil price for Bonny Light falls below this level that we can now talk about the issue of bringing down any pump price.”

While ending the subsidies now may be painless because of the low oil prices, there are risks for the government if they rebound and the costs are passed on to the consumer, according to analysts including Philippe de Pontet, Africa director at New York-based Eurasia Group.

‘Partial Subsidy’

“The timing is ripe for a partial subsidy cut, but probably not an all-out removal, which could trigger a backlash and give the opposition rhetorical ammunition” ahead of the election, de Pontet said in a Nov. 26 e-mailed response to questions. Extended oil-price declines provide an opportunity for a “phased reduction less jarring than the full cancellation” attempted in 2012, he said.

With oil as the source of about 70 percent of government revenue and 95 percent of foreign-currency income, pressure has mounted on the naira, forcing the central bank to devalue the currency last month. Fuel imports are one of the key sources of foreign-currency demand pressure. The currency has declined 13 percent this year against the dollar, making it the worst-performer after Ghana’s cedi out of 24 countries tracked by Bloomberg in Africa


http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-23/oil-s-slump-gives-nigeria-chance-to-end-7-billion-fuel-subsidy

EdCure:
For those struggling to understand, Tabula Rasa refers to Blank Slate. A term most appropriate in describing brainless individuals.

Most TANkid PDP behave and talk like Tabula Rasas

let rechristened them with their new NAME TABULA RASAS

oziegbe2015:
You mean the same CABAL he said were responsible for the fuel subsidy scam, the same CABAL that he claimed infiltereted his cabinet. The same CABAL that turned out to be his friends who he was boasting to have made billionaires under his tenure. That same CABAL friends e.g mr ayeni etc pledged billions to his campaign. But broom for change is here

Let them continue to be delusional that Nigerians are still in the dark and will be easily bought over by the gift of rice and vegetable oil.
I remember He just gave Approval for purchase of STOVE to cook the rice, let him include maggi and condiments not also forgetting Beef and Ponmo

donphilopus:
It's no longer a news that GEJ hobnobs with thieves and terrorists. FFK was in APC spewing balderdash, but when he was cautioned by the Presidency, he had to shut his bleep up. If you make noise, you would end up in jail; don't forget there are corruption charges against you > Presidency to FFK. GEJ also assured him that being a member of the PDP means immunity against criminal charges, including money laundering and corruption. So, since there were corruption charges against him then, he should either join them and stop the criticism/insults (so as to withdraw the corruption charges against him) or risk being jailed (if he decides to continue the criticisms). Fortunately or unfortunately, he decided to join them. Anyway, good riddance to bad rubbish!

just the way a certain SULE LAMIDO was made to sing a new song when the blind and toothless EFCC suddenly found their teeth with his sons to make him cower to drop his presidential ambition for jona.

I want to see the MAGIC jonaTAN wants to pull to return himself to POWER next year. cos it is as clear and open to the blind that he will so lose that the waters of OTUEKE will reject his homecoming.

barcanista:
The governors that I can rate ahead of Fashola between 2011 and now are Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Ogbeni Aregbesola (Osun). All others come behind Fashola. Between 2007-2011, Fashola beats his contemporaries hands down.


btw: Of what value is a stadium when the Akwa Ibom populace are mostly Househelps and PA to the PA to the PA to the PA to the PA to a councillor?

Only delusional and misinformed morons will rate an Akpabio over Fashola. On what grounds will the uninformed man rate AKpabio over fashola,

No Mass Housing Project anywhere in AKS, No standard or worth the Name Hospital anywhere in the state that belong to the state his 25th Anniversary Hospital is still ongoing 7 years after, The Ibom Tropicana ongoing.

All these with no meaningful benefit to the people of the state than the Elites. A state with about 5million people with about N30bn monthly allocation aside NDDC and Ministry of Niger Delta Projects still struggling to make economic sense to its people.

Building a football Pitch with grand architectural seating without a swimming pool, no indoor sports arena, no basketball court, no lawn tennis court, no hockey pitch, nothing just a [b]bare football pitch and it goes for N64bn with additional N16bn for maintenance for 10yrs with Julius Berger[/b] and it is celebrated like a wonder on earth. The Teslim Balogun stadium with its cost of N15bn could host a NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL IN 2012 within its premises yet our wonderful nest of champions can only host SUPER EAGLES MATCHES AND MUSIC CONCERTS.

We are a Nation of dullheads and praise singers who lack any sense of reasoning and foresights.

No single Industry in the whole state aside CHAMPION BREWERIES, not sure if it is still working till date, Go to Ikot Ekpene road and see the daily Exodus of the citizens of this rich but poorly governed state running away to lagos and elsewhere for survival.

No work, no factories, no SMEs aside petrol stations and Boutiques owned by politicians and their wives, YET this same Akpabio is celebrated online as an achiever.

I spent 12years in Akwa-Ibom under Victor Attah and Akpabio and I Know the state riches was plundered and stolen by this rogueish and cultist of a governor.

I pity for the state and the kind of leadership they produced since 1999, Attah was no saint but atleast he didn't earn the Billions Akpabio is wasting and stealing

Awojobi Olakunle

Well written God bless you Kayode Fakuyi.Femi Fani kayode is a noise maker like his father who made so much noise but when the soldiers came calling on 15th Jan.1966 the man in him melted and he started begging to the embarrassment of the soldiers who mistook him for a brave man .The promise and dropping of money laundering cases against him (this can only happen in corrupt government) has shown clearly the quality called FEMI FANI KAYODE. Jonathan, PDP and co are all sinking and will continue to sink until they are voted out in Feb.2015 God bless Buhari/Osinbajo






sammyctu ode

Why are people surprised about the behaviors of femi fani kayoed? His father was a thug in the old western region who smokes indian hemp publicly and directs his fellow thugs to burn people's houses. This is what I saw myself in the 60s', so why do we think femi will grow up and be a decent responsible man. The day femi exposed the relationship he had with Bianca Ojukwu it showed the whole world how deranged he is. We men date women, break off but we don't go about as adults telling the world about our sexual exploits with them. Does femi fani kayoed have a settled home? NO because he uses women and dump them. By the time his own children grows up, they will follow his deranged life because there is a generational curse on all of them right from the years of femi fani kayode great great great great families.

Konya

Femi Fani Kayode and Mr. Akin Osuntokun are seriously targeting Doyin Okupe job. However, they do not know that Jonathan is already packing up his lugagge from Aso Rock.

various commentaries from the page.

Nigerians are indeed wiser today

I have read several of the many sponsored yet cryptic articles of Mr Femi Fani-Kayode; a former minister turned President Jonathan apologist. If I am cultured to be an abusive dude, I would borrow the Yoruba slut name of "elenunjawaya" to describe him for the rest of this article. But to lend him courtesy, one would simply refer to him as FFK.
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Making responses to individuals who have already been disgraced out of public service before now, in itself, is metaphorical to visiting a toilet.

But the lessons from the words of Joseph Goebbels, the popular propagandist of Adolf Hitler cannot but force one's fingers on these tiny tabs of the keyboard. "If a lie is repeated often," the very terrific image maker of the world's most notorious mass massacre initiator (just as much as other world power brokers though) believes, "would become truth!"

FFK is shouting everywhere now that it is only President Jonathan that can rule this country. That any other person contesting must go the blazes. He shamelessly forgets, as one reader reminded us that "a president who does not understand the meaning of "class" or "honesty" and who breaks his own word consistently" cannot continue to stir the ship of our noble country. The same FFK also said "a president who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own country...abandoned his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith...and break his solemn oath to protect and defend the Nigerian people" should be removed.

All of a sudden, FFK was summoned to Abuja and won over. Recall that he has a money laundering case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which has been on prosecution for long now. His recent homophobic shouts and lies may not be unconnected to his recent case with EFCC on November 17th, 2014 where the trial judge proclaimed he has a case to answer: "The prosecution has made a prima facie case on count 25 and 26 and as a result, the accused should appear before the court and open his defence on the mentioned counts," -(Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia)

Despite being discharged and acquitted on other count charges which were initially 40, FFK needs to blow the piper loud again so that the axe will be taken away from him. One would then not be surprised when few days after the judgement, FFK is already throwing banters and attacks all around.

A political commentator, Mr Segun Fadipe recently made this remark on the ongoing campaign of calumny by FFK against GMB: "Femi Fani-Kayode is from the lineage of the "Yoruba political cabal" of the First Republic! His father, who was deputy to the late Samuel Ladoke Akintola, belonged to the tiny Yoruba clique, which the late Ahmadu Bello’s Northern Peoples Congress used to destabilise Yoruba land and destroy Yoruba unity in the First Republic. The damage this "cabal" did to Yoruba psyche – imprisonment of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo – is still reverberating till
date and many have yet to forgive Chief Remi Fani-Kayode (aka "Fani Power",
father to Femi Fani-Kayode. "Nipa eso won la o ti mo won" (By their fruits, we shall know them!).

"Today, (FFK) is behaving in the same manner! Generations of ostriches don't change. Can't discerning minds diagnose FFK in the last 3 years? Maybe you are not aware of how he was going cap in hands from one Fayemi to Fashola begging for money and others when he claimed to have decamped to the APC. The APC leaders knew he was a mole being planted in their midst by PDP! When he was not given audience, he went back, like a dog, to his vomit! If he is a politician, he should go and contest for just State House of Assembly membership in Ile-Ife. This is a politician that has no grassroots contacts at all". The above remark should be a concern to FFK.

In a recent rant, FFK enthused: "If the truth must be told, the only thing that is worse than Boko Haram are those in the Nigeria political class that secretly support and covertly assist them. A Buhari presidency would be a danger to the christian community and clear evidence of the final victory and triumph of Boko Haram and the Jihadists over the Nigeria state. It would also represent the end of Nigeria as one nation"

The intellectual fever in FFK's words are not circumstantial, it is the consciously adopted disease of the retrogressive cabinet of FFK's sponsor. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo as well noted recently that the reason Boko Haram escalated to this point is that President Jonathan did not understand the scourge by labelling it religious. This is not untrue. But Obasanjo failed to add that it is a deliberate act by the presidency. Two reasons are suggested for this. GEJ won the last election largely on ethnic and religious sentiments. While ruling on, he is comfortable to ride on the chauvinism. And this leads to the second reason: there are media reports that GEJ gains in the arms economy involved in the Boko Haram war. This possibly accounts for why FG trade illegally as shown in the FG/Oritsejafo armsgate uncovered in South Africa.

Another annoying rant of FFK is that Buhari has soft spot for Boko Haram. This is so ridiculous. GMB himself has described Boko Haram members as "Godless Murderers" and "Kidnappers" who should be made to face the full wrath of law.

This is a man who was also a victim of bomb attack of the same sect this year, sustaining casualties in his entourage. Buhari himself escaped in whiskers!

"Elenunjawayas" like FFK could afford to mess around with their buccal cavity without caution. And global investigators have revealed politicians sponsoring Boko Haram this year. Buhari's name was obviously missing. It is a PDP leader in the Northeast that was mentioned. And the media report that GEJ has delegated a legion of soldiers to escort the same man all around the country is yet undenied.FFK is obviously blind to all this. Wetin man go chop, no allow am talk sense again!

FFK's reference to Thisday Newspaper’s story headlined: ‘’The military offensive against Boko Haram is anti-North – General Muhammadu Buhari’ on the 3rd of June, 2013 is related to the issues raised by GMB on the State of Emergency President Jonathan declared in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in north-eastern Nigeria on the 14th of May, 2013.

Though, the headline is apparently misleading, the issue GMB raised bothers on the desirability of SOE when there were other available and better options to arrest the rising insurgency in Nigeria.
Lo and Behold, SOE has been effective in those states for 19 months, can FFK and his sponsors tell Nigerians that SOE has actually met target in those troubled states? The answer is NO and Nigerians are aware.

For FFK to insinuate that GMB has soft spot for terrorists by bringing to the fore the newspaper article is being clever by half.

In fact, GMB as head of state rooted out the Maitatsine sect which started during the President Shehu Shagari era. Maitatsine is a transfiguration of Boko Haram. He used his powers to end the insurgency. He didn't blame the insurgency on the comments or words of some leaders. GMB displayed exemplary leadership.

FFK wrote, "An individual once said, only last year, that ‘’an attack on Boko Haram
is an attack on the North’’; in 2001, that he wanted to ‘’spread Sharia throughout the federation’’; that “Muslims should only vote for Muslims’’; that ‘’why
should Christians be concerned when Muslims cut off their limbs under Sharia”; and that ‘’after all the limbs that are being cut off are Muslim ones and not
Christians; so why should the Christians other about it?’’

These quotes linked to GMB by FFK are still the regular circulated lies of FFK & co. They are obvious lies. The actual version of these misquoted statements are available in the public domain if FFK is not such a lazy and mischievous soul. GMB himself have had opportunities to put the record straight as regards those misquoted statements. All in all, it is clear FFK wants Nigerians to vote against GMB because of those misquoted statements himself and his sponsors originated and sponsored while very comfortable with a President whose actions and inactions have caused the nation the estimated killings of over 100,000 Nigerians (a conservative figure, though) since the onset of the Boko Haram crises without an end in sight. FFK, Haba!

GMB is not the Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces should take responsibility. The continued campaign of calumny against GMB by FFK & co can only further expose the weaknesses of President Jonathan. Is GMB responsible for the paltry portion of appropriated and approved budget that the Nigerian Army and Force Headquarters receive yearly?
Why should a FFK direct the obvious incompetence of his sponsor(s) to GMB? Is FFK too confuse to know that the buck stops on the table of Mr President?

The credibility of GMB to govern Nigeria is unquestionable, his competence is not doubtful and his integrity is untainted. FFK lacks the credibility to direct questions to GMB. Those questions are obviously ridiculous. Those questions should be thrown into the bin of infamy by Nigerians.

GMB has issued more press statements to condemn insurgency in Nigeria than all former presidents (civilian and military) combined. And his stand on insurgency is clear as shown by the way he dealt with the Maitatsine sect during his headship of Nigeria.

Mr President should do his jobs or be "removed" as FFK once advised. The intervention of statesmen like GMB is restricted to condemning insurgency and giving moral support to Armed Forces which was exactly what he did at the Eagle Square, Abuja on 15th of October, 2014 when he said, "I would like us to place on record our appreciation for the efforts of our Armed Forces under the new leadership and police in confronting these challenges. This is an occasion to celebrate and appreciate their efforts”.

One has to conclude this article by telling Nigerians to ignore men who hate truth, honesty, honour and clarity of purpose like FFK. The survival of the piper rest on how much tunes he can dole out to the delight of his sponsor.

The whole country has learnt much that Boko Haram is not religious nor tribal. It is a political question of terrorism largely gingered by the extent of the backwardness of a society. The rate of poverty and unemployment. There are both short and long answers to insurgency like Boko Haram.

The short is to halt state of emergency and collaborate with the civilians to resist them. The current Civilian JTF has shown that, with the collaboration of the Governor Kassim Shetimma-led state government. State of Emergency only bring in genocides like the Baga massacre and many more which divide and add more to people's agony. Then real dialogue and negotiation should be considered.

The long approach is to develop the country and eradicate poverty, unemployment, and some other ailments that now bedevil our country.

The case that our economy is growing (as we were told) and austerity is announced about two months later is that of failed governance. Our people are gnashing their teeth. If that is the same conditions that tabula rasas like Femi Fani-Kayode wants us to continue to dance, Nigerians please tell him the people yet differ. FFK should dance along with his payers to the market of dishonour and infamy all alone!

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/17/femi-fani-kayode-rantings-tabula-rasa-kayode-fakuyi

In Nigeria,we have a gullible shepherd(president) surrounded by wolf caressing him so that they suck his sheep(people) dry.May GOD give us an active and GOD-fearing president.

Major-General Olasehinde Ishola-Williams, renowned anti-corruption crusader who was at a time the Presi­dent, Transparency International, TI Nigerian chapter, talked at length on Jonathan’s administration and its place in corruption battle. He also discussed the raging insurgency in parts of the country. In all, he was his essential self –straight-talking with conviction and candor. He spoke to ‘TUNDE THOM­AS. Excerpts:


How would you react to the latest ranking of Nige­ria as the 39th most corrupt nation in the world by the Transparency International (TI), considering the fact that you were once the Nigeria chapter chairman of TI?

As far as I’m concerned, nothing has changed about Nigeria regarding corrup­tion. It is sad that the situation is getting worse. The latest ranking by TI is an indict­ment on the leadership. Our leaders need to do more to fight corruption.

As it is today in Nigeria, war against corruption is dead. The situation is getting worse, and the leadership has not shown enough will to tackle corruption. Nothing has changed.

But the Presidency has come out to say that Jona­than’s administration is in­deed winning war against corruption, how do you see this development against your own position?

You make me laugh – that is what you expect government to say. If you look at some of the cases against corruption where people have been crying out that Jonathan should act decisively, especially the alleged missing 20 billion dollars in NNPC account, which was raised by the then Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano, the Federal Gov­ernment accepted that some money was missing, and promised to carry out forensic auditing of NNPC accounts, and make the report available by November, but up till now and the year is coming to an end, but that report is yet to be released. I’m sure the report has not been released because Federal Government might have been indicted, and with 2015 general elections fast approach­ing, Federal Government might be afraid of releasing such report especially if it had been indicted.

The other important thing to notice is, if the report is out and it is carried out through forensic auditing, it will pin-point exactly those that are responsible for the missing fund. You know some people will con­tribute money for the president’s election campaign and if those people are among those indicted by the forensic auditing, do you think government will have the cour­age to release the report. Therefore one can see some of the reasons why Jonathan is handicapped in fighting corruption. The key issue is this: corruption has become a hydra-headed monster in Nigeria, and every sector, including civil service, has become polluted. Nigeria has never had it so bad. In fact, if Jonathan is not careful, corruption will consume his government.

It is sad that in Nigeria today, we are gradually developing a culture of you chop and I chop, which is being embedded as part of our normal national life. This is a dan­gerous trend for our nation. Today, we have some members of the National Assembly that have been indicted for corruption but has any action been taken against them?

Today, both ICPC and EFCC, the anti-corruption agencies set up to fight corrup­tion are dead. EFCC can’t fight corruption again, Ibrahim Lamorde, the man in charge, knows this, except if he doesn’t have con­science. Even within EFCC there is corrup­tion.

Are you saying that the President has not been mak­ing serious efforts to tackle corruption?

Yes. He has not made any serious efforts to fight corruption. Jonathan rarely speaks about corruption. What I see about Jonathan is that he wants to be seen as a good Chris­tian, and therefore he finds it difficult to talk about corruption. It is sad that those who surround Jonathan are corrupt. What can Jonathan do about corruption? He can’t do anything. Jonathan is in a trap, and is being held hostage by those benefitting from the corrupt system.

What is the way out for the president?

I doubt if he can get out of the trap. Jona­than lacks the courage to tackle corruption. In Ghana, within six months, any case in­volving corruption is decided, and punish­ment meted out to those indicted, but what do you see here? Both EFCC and ICPC have been prosecuting some corruption-re­lated cases for several years without conclu­sion. Does this show any seriousness on our part as a nation?

Some people have noted that the government alone can’t fight corruption, and that members of the civil so­ciety that are supposed to serve as watchdogs are no longer vibrant again, what is your view on this sir?

You must remember that these people are Nigerians too. People tend to forget that for most people who run civil societies, it is also their livelihood. It is from these organi­sations they run that they pick their bills, except some of them that are lucky to be working for international NGOs, this is why some of them often compromise. It is not easy to run these NGOs, especially when you want to live above board.

What is your opinion on the assertion that our brand of democracy is too expen­sive, for example, the sala­ries and sundry takes of our legislators are just out of the ordinary?

In most countries of the world, lawmak­ing is a part-time business. Parliamentarians are only paid sitting allowances. Parliamen­tarians are paid sitting allowances, accom­modation and seating allowances when the house or parliament is in session. If we can do that in Nigeria, we will save billions of naira. If we can do this, we will be able to know those who are genuinely interested in serving the people. Why do we have so many people showing interest in politics? It is because of the huge money involved. Too much money is involved in Nigerian poli­tics, and our politicians are engaged in or practise do-or-die politics.

Now back to the issue of how to tackle corruption, I believe that he should adopt a system I will call Impunity Index. This means that periodically you publish cases of corruption, the level of how it is being investigated, what is affecting prosecution of the cases, etc. When people know that all the details and facts relating to corruption cases are being published or put in public domain, there will be gradual sanity, and impunity will reduce.

We are not hearing any­thing about Transparency In­ternational, Nigeria chapter again, what is happening?

What happened is that it is difficult to work with other Nigerians fighting corrup­tion. It is very, very difficult, and if you want to break up any organisation in Ni­geria, just push money into it, either from Nigeria or abroad, you will see how people will scramble for money and forget princi­ples, and integrity.

Was TI Nigeria infiltrated?

It is not a matter of infiltration, but our members lacked discipline over money.

Where was the money coming from?

Money was coming from abroad to ex­ecute projects by the organisation. When I saw this dangerous signal that members were more interested in money than work­ing on these projects, I told them the organi­sation was going to collapse. The Secretary General then was not happy with me – that I was sort of checking everything they were doing. At a point, I left the organisation and travelled abroad for other engagements.

There is one thing many people believe that is right in Nigeria but which is sad, that is they have never bothered to find out why most of the big companies in Nigeria, their chief financial officers are not Nigeri­ans, they are foreigners. Most of them, their MD’s are also foreigners. So, something is wrong with us. What is so bad about Nige­rian workers is that they don’t think about how to help you make the money, but only think on how to loot or spend it.

How do we then fight cor­ruption successfully, do we adopt death penalty like in China as some people have canvassed?

No. Death penalty will not solve corrup­tion problem. We need to put men and wom­en who have integrity in positions of author­ity. We also need to change our attitude and orientation about public office. Public office should rather be seen as an avenue to serve and not to loot public treasury.

As a retired Army General, what is your advice on how to end the Boko Haram insur­gency?

We first have to get them out of those ter­ritories they are occupying and then contain them. Unfortunately, it has been impossible for the army to do it alone.

Why ?

If you look at examples of other coun­tries where you have cases of insurgencies, terrorism problems are limited to a part of the country, either at the state or local gov­ernment level, so your first line of defence is at the state and local government levels. Therefore, the community where terrorism is taking place must have a sort of defence and resilience system to be able to contain insurgency at the rudimentary stage.

Before, you have a situation in Nigeria where insurgents enter a village and people run away, but today with the setting up of JTF local vigilante force, people are able to detect on time the advance of these terrorists and that makes things to improve. It is good that the JTF local vigilance force is working with the army to contain these terrorists.

How do you react to the criticism of the army by some people, especially at a point when soldiers were reported to be running away from bat­tlefront?

To a certain extent, those criticizing the army have been fair because the army was not prepared for the war they are fighting. Our army was not a thinking army. A think­ing army is the one that look not at the war that had been fought in the past, but that which look at the future war, and the lessons learnt from the past war that can be used in preventing future war. We had Maitatsine riots in the past, and series of other civil disturbances, but what lessons did we learn from all these past unrests?

The mobile police is set up as paramili­tary force, and it is set up to contain acts of insurgency. Mobile police are supposed to be the first line of defence against insur­gencies, not the army. When I read reports about Nigerian soldiers running away from the battlefront while I was in New York, I was ashamed of myself. It was disgraceful. I had to come back to Nigeria and offer ad­vise on how to get a solution to the problem. To solve Boko Haram problem, we must adopt the right approach.

The army should not have been involved in Boko Haram issue at all. Army should not have interfered. It is not the business of the army. Police and mobile police should have been given adequate training on how to deal with insurgency. The army should have been the last resort. Now that we have made the army to get involved without exhausting mobile police and conventional police abil­ity to deal with the crisis, it is the reason the army has found itself in this situation.

What is important in winning the war against Boko Haram is for our troops to continue to collaborate with the local JTF. Groups like that exist in countries like Af­ghanistan and Pakistan and the government soldiers are collaborating with them.

Even though insurgency is a global prob­lem, we must find a local solution. Although if we had a culture of people at the top ac­cepting blames for failures, the service chiefs would have thrown in the towel, but then this is Nigeria, a country where any­thing goes. The service chiefs believed that they have tried their best so they won’t re­sign unless the political authorities that ap­pointed them ask them to go.

To find a lasting solution to Boko Haram problem, some have suggested ne­gotiating with the terrorists, while others said the army should crush them. What do you think?

Do you know how very difficult it is to kill mosquitoes? You hear their hum, you strike and you think you have killed the mosquitoes, but the next moment, they are back and swoop on you. That is how insur­gency is like. Insurgents are like mosqui­toes; you kill some now, others come back in large numbers and become more fero­cious. Insurgents are difficult to defeat.

You can’t crush insurgency. It is a stupid talk to say you want to crush them. Vari­ous forms of approaches must be embraced leading to negotiation, but when you are negotiating, you negotiate with the right group.


http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/22/those-benefitting-corrupt-system-holding-jonathan-hostage-%E2%80%93ishola-williams

If PDP didn't print more than.one form.for it's presidential ticket, I know APC did and they.were asking for more entrant into the race.

Many political parties were looking for candidate to run on their platform, why didn't Mr adesanmi amd other idiots who reason like him offer themself to Nigerians before the deadline for submission ended by INEC.

Idiots who talk and reason like the fools they are.

mikeansy:
Its easy to speak to thisday and have your spin doctor perfect your speech afterwards to what the public will like to hear

Its the digital age, why is this 2015 Presidential candidate running away from the camera. Speak to Nigerians on TV please.

Running away from the Camera? Are you sure you didn't just arrive from the moon? Shekarau, Buhari and Ribadu appeared for a debate in 2011 the only absentee was your Jesus of otueke.

Is the truth that difficult to find out for you.

GenBuhari:
yet he cannot afford a house in Abuja?
Rarely travels abroad?
His daughter died in Nigerian hospital instead of being flown abroad for treatment?
Unable to fund his election campaigns?
Why has he not started spending this $2.8Bn even after 40yrs?

Lets not forget that Thief O(basanjo) was military ruler in 1975. Thief O's huge Ota farm sprang up as soon as he handed power to Shagari 1979.

The allegations of missing $2.8Bn were made by Thief O's loyalists in 1980 to deflect attention from Thief O

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Who are the O's ? Lolz Baba represent PDP, it is a gathering of thieves and economic saboteurs

OrlandoOwoh:
That amount is more than the total budget of the country for each year. In Chief Adelakun's voice, "o (Jonathan) ti pa mi o."

You're so right. The budget for 2015 is N4.3trillion.

Hahahaha, that moment when you check your CV with your competitor and you have to use larger fonts and quadruple spacing to make sure your pages reaches his own despite no spacing in his own.

Why quadruple spacing in JonaTAN own na?

That look on your face when someone tell you Lagos needs liberation but JonaTAN needs to be returned to Aso Rock.

We will recover and rebuild our nation

anonimi:
Please provide the SOURCE for these your stories.
Thanks.

Take the pain to use the search bar on NL, it is not charged.

lacasa:
Wow!

This is a case of 70-80% waec mass failure.


Smh

Learn to ignore people whose brainal matter have been replaced with fura de nunu.

It belittle commonsense for anybody who is not in lack of it to pray and wish we continue with these set of thieves and economic rogues till 2019.

Oil prices for 5 years were hitting record high breaking records but they were stealing amd grabbing not making plans for the raining days amd emir sanusi kept shouting N warning bit they felt the oil price miracle won't be reversed.

Just 3 months of oil price crash and our nation is brought to its knees. What happened to the huge marginal oil price profit that was ways above our benchmark for years under JonaTAN? I'm sure the answer is in the report above.

This guy killed the nigerian dream and will be the height of stupidity to return him as president next year.

Over N5tn in government funds have been stolen through fraud, embezzlement and theft since President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office on May 6, 2010, a SUNDAY PUNCH investigation has found.

Our correspondents arrived at the stolen sum after poring over the reports of the various committees set up by the President to probe some sectors of the economy, particularly oil and gas. SUNDAY PUNCH also relied on disclosures by some senior government officials.

Five trillion naira is the summation of government funds said to have been stolen, according to the Mallam Nuhu Ribadu-led Petroleum Task Force report; the Minister of Trade and Investment’s report on stolen crude; the House of Representatives fuel subsidy report and investigations into the ecological fund, SIM card registration and frequency band spectrum sale.

The Ribadu report on the oil and gas sector put daily crude oil theft at a high 250,000 barrels daily at a cost of $6.3bn (N1.2trn) a year. This puts the total amount lost through oil theft in the two years of Jonathan’s government at over $12.6bn (N2trn).

Oil theft is common in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. In June, a special naval team impounded a French ship, MT Vannessa, at Brass Loading Terminal, Bayelsa State, for allegedly stealing 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the country.

Our sister publication, SATURDAY PUNCH, had reported that the suspects, in their confessional statements, indicted some political office holders, many fuel marketers and some officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Department of Petroleum Resources.

In October, Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, in a letter to the President, said 24 million barrels of oil worth $1.6bn (N252bn) was stolen between July and September.

According to Aganga, his signature was forged on the Export Clearance Permit that was used to export the crude oil from Nigeria.

Confirming that oil theft was depleting Nigeria’s resources, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in May, said the government lost a fifth of its oil revenues to theft in April.

Apart from income lost through oil theft, the Ribadu report also said ministers of Petroleum Resources between 2008 and 2011 handed out seven discretionary oil licences and that government lost $183m (N29bn) in signature bonuses via these deals.

The Ribadu panel discovered that three of the oil licences were awarded under the current petroleum minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, who took up her position in 2010. Alison-Madueke, however, denied knowledge of the discretionary awards.

Shortly before the Ribadu report, the House of Representatives had raised the alarm that the N2.6trn the Federal Government paid for oil subsidy in 2011 could not be properly accounted for.

The House said, “Fuel subsidy payments amounted to N261.1bn in 2006, N278.8bn in 2007 and N346.7bn in 2008, but, even after the subsidy on diesel had been removed, the ‘subsidy’ payments jumped to N2.58trn in 2011 — more than 900 per cent of the sum appropriated for the year (N245bn).”

A subsequent report by the Presidential Committee on Verification and Reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payments, led by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, revealed that in 2011, 197 subsidy transactions worth N232bn were illegitimate.

These frauds are not limited to the oil industry, as similar probes have shown that almost all sectors are involved.

In July, the House of Representatives Committee on Environment discovered a tree seedling fraud worth N2bn awarded by the Ecological Fund office.

Chairman of the committee on environment, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, said this during an investigative hearing on the mismanagement of ecological funds for the development of tree nurseries and seedlings in the 36 states.

According to her, out of the N3bn approved by the Presidency in 2010, N2bn was released to the contractors and consultants without government getting value.

Minister of Environment Hadiza Mailafia, however, said the contract was awarded by her predecessor.

In the telecommunications sector, the House instituted a probe into the sale of the frequency brand spectrum, which was reportedly sold for less than its value.

The 450MHz frequency, which was valued at over $50m, was allegedly sold for less than $6m (a difference of $44m or N6.9bn) by the Nigeria Communications Commission.

In the same sector, the reps, earlier this year, commenced investigations into the N6.1bn SIM card registration project embarked upon by the NCC in 2011.

The investigation followed the delay in completing the exercise and the request by NCC for additional N1bn for the project in its 2012 budget.

The lawmakers insisted that the NCC had no business embarking on the project since various service providers were already registering their subscribers.

Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Communications, Mr. Usman Bawa, had said, “The NCC has no business with SIM card registration. Apart from that, the service providers have done about 80 per cent of the registration because they started before the NCC. To me, for the regulatory body to be involved in the registration is a duplication of effort, a waste of resources and time.

“Even, the manner with which the bill for the N6.1bn was passed during the Sixth Assembly showed that there was more to it than meets the eyes. From our investigations, from which our report was compiled, our interactions with the NCC contractors for the SIM card registration and the service providers, a lot has been exposed and this was part of the reason why we removed the N1bn that was budgeted for the same SIM card registration in the last budget.”

It would be recalled that the then Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, had, in August, 2010, agreed that the amount budgeted for SIM card registration was exorbitant.

Reacting to the massive frauds that have greeted Jonathan’s tenure, Transparency International, told one of our correspondents that Nigeria would continue to slack in development as long as it keeps paying lip service to the fight against corruption.

It said via electronic mail, “President Jonathan should insist that those accused of corruption are properly investigated and punished if found guilty, irrespective of their positions and connections. The judiciary must be seen as impartial and fair.

“To signal a break with the past, the government should set up an independent investigatory panel to review charges of corruption within government and the private sector. President Jonathan should endorse the panel and commit to ensure it has both the scope and the power to investigate and prosecute.

“This is not just a matter of justice; fighting corruption can affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. The current culture of corruption hurts the majority of Nigerians while the inequality gap widens.”

Also speaking to SUNDAY PUNCH, the Director, Centre for Applied Economics, Lagos Business School, Prof. Pat Utomi, said the spate of corruption in the country was unprecedented.

The political economist argued that prosecution and jail terms for corrupt individuals would not be as effective as building a societal institution that would prevent corruption.

A former Vice Chancellor, Crescent University, Prof. Sheriffdeen Tella, also warned that corruption would spell doom for the country if the trend continued.

He said, “It is unfortunate that the country will not be able to meet the Millennium Development Goals. There is a need for the masses to hold a three-day protest against corruption to force government to prosecute those indicted for corruption.”

Similarly, Executive Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, said, “For Jonathan to fight corruption, he must start with his cabinet. The way Jonathan is going about his campaign against corruption is not the best way to go about it.”

A global audit and financial advisory firm, KPMG, had on Thursday stated that Nigeria accounted for the highest number of fraud cases in Africa in the first half of 2012.

The cost of fraud in the country during the period was put at $1.5bn (N225bn).

http://www.punchng.com/news/n5tn-stolen-under-jonathan-investigation/

He should try MECCA .

It will be the height of stupidity for any state governor in the Core northern state to go preach reelection for a prez who has shown complete uselessness and cluelessness in the handling of national.affairs.

How can Dankwambo go preach JonaTAN to a people.still grieving from the loss of sons who died in their school and the President didn't.deem it fit to even make an appearance in the state to show compassion and solidarity with their loss?

Will the same prez visit those states for campaign rally ?