₦airaland Forum

obiZEAL:
Am I in Nigeria....?
Or is Nigeria 2

You are in Nigeria. And there is only one.

This is the truth APC has tried so hard to hide...

GEJ Till 2019!

Let the Transformation continue!

bokohalal:
Only the New York Times and Observer of London have this news, abi?
Would be glad if Buhari wins and executes corrupt public officials.

You might just be one of those executed; as you might have been helped by one without you knowing he/she was corrupt.

Nigerians will all be dead including Buhari...

GEJ till 2019.

PTF SAGA AND BUHARI’S INVOLVEMENT
"The PTF as you may be aware was the agency created by the late dictator Gen Sanni Abacha in March 1995 when he unilaterally increased pump price of petroleum products from N3. 25k to N11 per liter in October 1994; it had a startup sum of N61 billion, which increased progressively to over N182 billion over a period of four years and Buhari was appointed by the late General Abacha to manage this fund as an intervention fund for critical infrastructure in all geo-political zones of the country.

"However, by May 1999 when Nigeria was restored to democratic rule, the management of the PTF had been dogged by multiple controversies most of which bothered on total lack of accountability in the award of contracts, lopsidedness in the location of projects as well as absence of control mechanism to ensure quality assurance on programmes and projects executed by the PTF.

"This was mainly why the then government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo inaugurated the seven-man committee headed by Dr. Haroun Adamu to look into the programmes and expenditure of the PTF under Buhari."

By Apostle Fadaka

sarutobie:
Buhari alone is not to be blamed, the entire oil tycoons in the north, their governors and spiritual leaders all share the blame...

But Buhari was the one in power who had the opportunity to change the educational fortune of his people and he did not!

The buck stops at the table of the boss...

GEJ till donkeys fly!

If there's a 3rd term, I'll clamour for GEJ's re-election again! So that transformation can continue and take root and bear fruits...

Thank you.

DonXavi:
HOW MUSLIM CHILDREN WENT TO SCHOOL IN BUHARI'S (TIME AS GOVERNOR OF BORNO, MINISTER OF PETROLEUM, HEAD OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT, PTF BOSS AND YEARS OF INFLUENCE IN-BETWEEN) Vs HOW THEY GO TO SCHOOL UNDER GEJ'S ALMAJIRI EDUCATION PROGRAM.

It is not just improved classes. Buhari and co gave them only Qoran to recite, beginning to end. GEJ has added integrated science, social studies, math and English to the Arabic studies and the Qoran.

Let us just say, the Northern elites are angry because education means a poor man's child can rise above their children that they send to London and America, as the elites ALWAYS do. I am sure everyone remembers how Sanusi Sanusi called Abacha a shoe-maker's child and that such people should not be allowed to rule. That is the thinking of these elites, which is why Buhari never tried to put a University in Katsina, his home state. The army must remain the only escape for the poor man's child.

However, whether they like it or not, GEJ and his award winning ministerial team will, VIA ALMAJIRI EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, shrink the pool of talakewas and serfs from which they make child-soldiers for Boko haram. The Northern child, Kanuri or Nupe, will have all it takes to become somebody in life. The next Buhari that will be created in 20, 30 years will have to really work hard to earn the hailing "SAI" or RANKADEDEH, as education makes it harder to deceive and subjugate people.

So for now, let us all bear the last dregs of the talakewas and almajiris as they scream "SAI BUHARI" and go around with rubber bowls begging in the streets later that day. Buhari and co worked really hard to create them. They deserve to enjoy them. "SAI BUHARI", let them scream it. Is it easy for leaders to impoverish their own people knowingly? For them to ignore human capital development, that Benin City has more athletes and quality people than all the state in the North combined? Let us allow Buhari and co enjoy the hailings for now.

Soon however, as these kids grow, they shall ask their leaders questions. They shall ask how a people that led Nigeria for so long and owned all the oil wells in the south, how still they remain the most archaic cattle rearers in the world....still trekking with cows, when in Holland and England and America, farmers and Cattle rearers move around like kings in air-conditioned trucks. They will ask if Buhari and co does not know that an animal being reared for food, it must be in one place so as to grow really big, instead of losing weight "hustling" for its daily bread. They will ask Buhari, alive or dead by then, how come he never felt his people deserved good schools and a university. They will ask how come Allah used a Christian southerner to bring them what liberated their minds....education.
These kids will, like Yorubas, Ibos and Niger Deltans, learn that there is human osmosis and hypertonic movement wherein instead of relying on government and civil service and army, you can actually get a visa and go abroad and thrive. They will know all you need is the base education and then the hustling spirit takes over, and not pretend that you are blind so you can beg BAMBI-ALLAH. They will know how much Mikel Obi earned playing football and use their natural God-giving stamina to try and be like him.
These are the type of people the almajiri schools of GEJ will produce. They shall know the teachings of Prophet Muhammad, as well as that of Einstein and Darwin and Adam Smith. THE NORTHERN CHILD SHALL BE LIBERATED.

SAI NO BAGGER

Thank you so much for this write up. I am indeed very grateful.

GEJ till donkeys fly!

bettercreature:
Well i dont think he will loose this one,no amount of rigging can make him loose its more than certain
But in case he loose,i'd surely call him a serial looser and i'd never want to hear anything about him again

Dear fellow,

Your initial statement makes it seem as if it is a do or die affair. Both parties will rig. Jonathan has indeed tried to make INEC autonomous however, there are strongholds that both parties will want to capture by all means for instance Lagos for APC, Rivers for PDP.

Thus, there is the probability as the op has stated. We need to be open minded and consider those odds so that we can mitigate against the occurrence of violence.

The northern illiterates who are fanatical about Buhari are ready to die and willingly so. Hence, what we should be thinking about is how to manage the situation if he loses. I'm sure no Southerner is interested in dying. As we all know Yorubas as described by the Encyclopedia are the merry making tribe on the west coast of Africa.

Thank you.

fijiano202:
not suprise though....even when u cloth a dog it will always remain a dog

You must be one to know one!

Fieryfly:
The South-South and South-East have struggled for decades to get a taste of power. Now providence has given it to the Ijaws.

But some Eastern and S/S people want to give it back to the North. They say GEJ is clueless. A few say they don't care where the president comes from, only merit and performance are important.

These high minded people pride themselves on being fair and positive. But the truth is that they are ignorant people who refuse to deal with the Nigerian reality. They hope that if the are fair to a mad man, he will become reasonable.

The other reason, which most won't admit is that they are terrified. They say 'if power is so important to them that they will kill for it, give it to them.' They fear what the BH will do if GMB loses. They are too soft and comfortable to fight to stand for anything that does not touch their stomachs.

Someone says GEJ is not performing. I say ' if he isn't, then give it to another who is or will.' No they want to give it to a general who was so weak, he could not muster the respect of his men and routinely blames subordinates for misdeeds that happen under him, ala PTF. If that is not irresponsibility, I must be a penguin.

It gets worse, the general is suffering from dimentia and can't articulate himself -no, not hearsay, I listened to him. It gets even worse, the general is under the thumb of the biggest thief in the history of Nigeria. If Tinubu can steal as much as he has as an opposition leader, what will he do when he is the ruling party?

These people are only making noise because they think the president can be intimidated. It is a testimony to our damaged psyche that we call tyrants strong and accommodating leaders weak. We are so used to being brutalized, that we disrespect those who respect us.

Not surprising though. It is the way of those who have been victims and slaves for a long time. They stop believing that they are worthy humans capable of power. But begin to settle for basic animal needs; food, shelter and sex. That was the problem of the Israelites with Moses; he treated them as free men not slaves, so they thought they could harass him. The mice of Egypt become lions in the wilderness.

I have even heard some say, 'when so and so was there we had plenty food, it was "chop, I chop".' Just like some people in the Bible told Moses, 'when we were in Egypt, we we eating to satisfaction.' So, naturally, they seek a leader to take them back to Egypt. What a shame! If only they had the decency to admit why they want GMB over GEJ, I would respect them more.

So, all of you, come February, feel free to cast your votes to return your Northern masters to power. And afterwards blame everybody but yourselves for whatever whatever happens to you and your children. I like the Northerners; they are both honest and realistic. They want power, land and oil. So all you miseducated Christians and indolent southerners from Igbo land, help them get what they want.
Na una way!!!!


Share, if you agree!

Thanks for this piece.

We will not allow them to have the power, land and oil. Cattle rearing is still trendy and they could do well too if they made an industry of it.

It is in the heat of campaigning that he knows to go and address who? People who will not be voting? Yea Right!!! As they say 'Story for the gods' or should I say 'Story for the ghosts'...

Ozin:
These APCshiit with their clownish and Buharianboko attitude will not change. Here in Australia, we have less than 24 Million people and Australia produces enough crude oil too, the Australian dollar that was high in value is now trading for 72 U.S cents to 1AUD because of the fall in resources price like oil and iron. Also I still buy fuel at the same price here in Western Australia even though people here are clamouring for a reduction in price due to a fall in the international price of crude oil. Note: Australia produces crude oil as well and the price of fuel remain the same. So a government in Nigeria has taken a good initiative to reduce the price and the do no good, hear no good and see no good are out with their melancholic drum to play their self emotional music for their imbecilic fans to dance to.
Group of shameless people whose party has not told the masses how they plan to stabilize international price of crude oil and where to get the money to dole out N5,000 per persons for Millions of Nigerians instead of creating employment, increasing our resources base and food production capability

GEJ still remain the best president in comparison with what we have had since the 80s in spite of clannish and tribal sentiments against his person. Why is APC not campaigning to build better infrastructures? Reason is because they have nothing to say about it, the roads are coming up, the railway is coming up, the power is coming up, the Airports water transports are coming up. Why cant they mention Agriculture? because there is nothing new they can add to the transformation in this sector...their only campaign point is to mention the vague word corruption when everyone movers in their party is corrupt including the self-styled honest general who enrolled in the Army and became a general without any certificates. May the good Lord open the minds of those who have not taken a position in the presidential election to be able to see through the LIES of these DO NO GOOD, SEE NO GOOD and HEAR NO GOOD of a Party

Well said.

Thanks a lot.

I had dropped a report on how the VP candidate of APC was sharing money using Alpha Beta consulting and was told to get evidence. Well, I dont follow them for the sharing meetings so I might not have been able to bring photo ops. lol!

However, due to the request for evidence the last time, I ensured I got some photos for this one. Here are photos of people sharing APC presidential posters in RCCG!

DaBullIT:
[size=18pt]There's nothing great about this news, first because it's long over due

secondly , 10 fourking naira ? ? ? WTF ... BARREL of OIL is less than half the price it used to be , I expected the pump price to be reduced by at least 40 naira


Finally, last minute reduction in fuel price just as the election draws closer ? ?

Heck No GEJ , I ain't voting for ya , sorry dude [/size]

There is no direct correlation. The price is also dictated by global economic growth and the forces of demand and supply of crude. Bear in mind that the price of importation of PMS has to be factored in with other costs such as storage, etc..

Currently, there is a downward trend in global economic growth and there is excess supply of crude oil.

Thank you.

barcanista:
OP I have few questions 4 you:

Did he also sÀy "non muslims should be enlightened that they have nothing to fear"(or somethingy)?
Did the Bible say Christians should be Christ-like at all times and wherever we find ourselves? Does it mean that a Christian President that is Christlike is Christianizing the country?
Was Joseph an Hebrew when he was appointed PM in Egypt? Did he Hebrewnise the whole Egypt and Pharaoh Palace?
Did Buhari introduce Sharia in Nigeria as HoS or PTF Chairman or Petroleum Minister?

Please answer these questions honestly!

We need more understanding of the deep things you are asking about. Looking at your itemised list with mere eyes will take away the truth inherent in the stories.

But I do tell you, I'd rather we do not give the opportunity for the thought of what the op has written about... Going by what those who commit religious atrocities have done in the name of islam, I wouldn't want to learn from experience.

As they say prevention is better than cure. Also it is said that experience has taught us never to learn from it directly. It would be wise to take a cue from what has happened to others.

Thanks.

Petrol price has been reduced to N10.

GEJ till 2019!!!

More on Buhari's antecedents:

Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the ‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror.
Wole Soyinka

http://saharareporters.com/2007/01/14/crimes-buhari-wole-soyinka

So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma!
Wole Soyinka

Buhari – need one remind anyone - was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry.
Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths - Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear.
Wole Soyinka

The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media – those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed – military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition.
Wole Soyinka

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order.
Wole Soyinka

Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.?
Wole Soyinka

The Buhari regime was plagued by shortages and hoarding of essential consumer products.
This was as a result of daft economic policies of price control initiated by the Buhari junta to stall runaway inflation. Scarcity was the order as many goods were hoarded by wholesale distributors. I remember back then I would haven been about 7 and our landlord used one of his flats to hoard cartons of elephant detergent.

This was because of Buhari's daft economic policies which lead to most multinational corporations and foreign investors pulling out and avoiding Nigeria, our economy was slipping. The Naira was set to collapse but instead of initiating reforms Buhari refused to devalue our currency but continued to play the ostrich with our economy. But no matter how hard he tried to lie to himself, the economy was steadily falling with inflation rates as high as 40% the worst recorded spike ever in the history of Nigeria. Buhari's only solution was to initiate price control mechanism by setting up military tasks force that raided markets, confiscating goods and harassing traders if the prices of Goods on display were not in line with the government fixed price.

With virtually no direct foreign investments and with big multinational companies pulling out, most essential commodities needed to be imported. This further put a huge strain on the Naira but Buhari's govt refused to devalue the Naira but rather initiated more draconian policies and hurdles for any company seeking forex. The truth be told the CBN could not meet Nigeria's forex demand before long the black market sprang up.

Buhari then initiated more draconian laws making forex possession by individuals illegal. Nigerians were avoiding the banks and Naira by investing in dollars and saving it under their pillows. Fela was jailed for currency possession but what is most striking about Buhari's hypocrisy was that his fellow northern brothers who still dominate that illegal black market trade were never arrested.
Buhari will also be selective on who is allowed to hold forex as a controversy raged on the illegal smuggling of forex into the country by a northern royal.

The forex black market is one of many legacies of a failed Buhari junta.

This is very authentic!

Information reaching us is very clear that Osinbajo who is on the Board of Alpha Beta, the company that collects tax from the residents and masses on behalf of the Lagos State Government is going about bribing regional pastors of RCCG with money from Alpha Beta to convince their congregation to vote for APC Presidential candidates in the forthcoming election.

Alpha Beta Consulting owned by Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the sole tax consulting firm for Lagos State and other APC states. The money being used to finance this bribery/corruption is from Alpha Beta consulting firm. The company collects over N20Billion worth of tax from Lagosians on a monthly basis.

They say they are the change we need and that they are bringing change to the populace... How can this be the change

I always knew that these corrupt and depraved people who pose as men of God and saviour of Nigeria don't mean well!!!

One wants to go there to continue his Sharia because he believes that's the solution to all of Nigeria's problems, while the other (VP) wants to get there to take over from Buhari when he dies of the prostate cancer he has. That way, Osinbajo becomes President and will be controlled by Tinubu in Bourdillon Ikoyi who will be defacto President!!!

How can a 'pastor' that is meant to look after the sheep be teaching the sheep how to be corrupt

God cannot be mocked! God has built His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it!!!

Let us emulate this. In the spirit of good sportsmanship. As these elections come and go let peace reign in our hearts, lives, neighbourhoods and country.

God bless us all.

Amen!

simpleseyi:
LIE. She has not slept with me and I am apart of the government afterall politicians say that we masses are the government. STOP PEDDLING RUMOURS.

My fellow NLer,

If you were that important to promoting her interest she would gladly lure you. (Believe me). How and why do you think she met and got married to her last husband (Ogiemwonyi) that she left in a hurry to grab her ministerial appointment.

My dear, why would she leave a man she was married to and had children for for a political office? We can find out how they met and why they split. You no there are no secrets as such in Nigeria.

Stealer as one of ours has called her has no moral values. She is not normal like you and I. If she needed to sleep with you for her ambition and interest to be fulfilled, she would do it without hesitation.

I know no one is perfect and we have all sinned...

Thanks

queencalipso:
wht the op said is true o no single campaign poster of president. GEJ here in the north apart from kd even there too is just in some areas dominated by southern kaduna christains and other tribes I the hausa dominated areas u won't find it there some even threatened to burn down the house of any one who rent it to pdp. Here in katsina where am currently serving not even one of his posters can be found.

The truth is beginning to come out.

Read a bit of the opposition party's manifesto and immediately I see the actions being implemented by the current government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Buhari has talked about strengthening INEC; what Jonathan has done and is perfecting.
Buhari has talked about boosting the armed forces; what Jonathan is presently doing.
Buhari has talked about moving power to the states; what Jonathan is pushing based on the report from the National Conference
Buhari has talked about redrafting the constitution; what Jonathan is already pushing through the national assembly.

He says he will amend the constitution. How Using his dictatorial qualities? or doesn't he know that he would have to go through the National Assembly to achieve any of these lofty promises of his.

These APC guys are just photocopying President Jonathan's TRANSFORMATION AGENDA Document!

People with such advertising prowess can only sit down and photocopy another man's work. What do we call that? PLAGIARISM

What a shame!

saaedlee:
Intresting, prolly his Last!

Meanwhile, Vote General Muhammadu Buhari for Presidente

Not at all! He's doing 4 more of this... Please vote without violence.

firstEVA:
Febuhai

I hope Jonathan has packed his bags in preparation for his journey to otuoke? He should start sharpening his cutlass for canoe carving

It would be Buhari renovating his house to look like Aso villa not Jonathan packing out... Please let us vote without violence.

misterh:
Twitter is prompt; you can't deny not seeing the information. The 'other' one can be denied by the military. I believe the military usually asks citizens to come forward with information. I didn't get the memo where they specified the means of passing that information though.

True. You are very correct. However, looking at the sort of information she was passing on, a less general and public medium would have been more suitable.

Thanks.

brownlord:
Over 1 month now, this yeye woman is yet to tweet anything concerning the 13 year old girl that confessed her parents took ( Forced ) her to the forest to join boko haram, one would expect someone of her caliber would have tweeted to women in the north to deceased from such act and support the federal troops, instead she run round the street with her fake BBOG programme clearly sponsored by politicians to discredit whoever they want to.

Has she said anything concerning the on going certificate abrakadabra facing the peoples general? falana use to be quick in airing his view on issues like this, since it's about the party he indirectly support he has since gone into hibernation.

Advise to Falana and Oby, they should please speak up on the issue, even if they taking side and asking their candidate not to present certificate we prefer this to their silence

Thanks for your comments in the first paragraph.

As for Oby I just had to stop following her on twitter cause she has nothing positive to promote. Its all talk of doom, doom, doom.

I think I prefer their silence. They should all just shut up! Especially when they don't have encouraging words.

Thanks.

President Jonathan delivered today at the PDP Presidential Campaign flag-off Rally what we at The Whistle consider to be the best speech we have ever seen him deliver in all aspects from articulation to oratory. Hence we deem it necessary for us to share with our readers some memorable quotes from the lengthy address that dwelled on three major issues and which Mr. Jonathan suggested was targeted exclusively at Nigeria’s youth. And in his words, “Yours is to listen and compare with everything that has been done before in this country and take a decision”. Enjoy:

They want to take us to the old days when nobody saw voter’s cards but results were announced. They want to take us to the old days when ballot papers would be in South Africa and results would be announced. Are you going back to the old days? (Crowd shouts NO…!)

See more at: http://www.thewhistleng.com/his-best-speech-ever-memorable-quotes-by-president-jonathan-at-the-pdp-presidential-flag-off-rally-in-lagos/#sthash.whdOFYZS.dpuf

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom has accused the opposition (APC) of extreme desperation in its bid to wrest control of Central Government from the Peoples Democratic Party.

See more at: http://www.thewhistleng.com/apc-initiated-insecurity-against-nigeria-to-discredit-jonathan-gov-godswill-akpabio/#sthash.sXndk6A4.dpuf

Alcatraz001:
@ Mhizenegu, please am waiting for your address and name so that I can teach a lesson.I won't kill you myself,I will only send yoruba Nationalists to waste you.

You think Laagos is Nnewi? We have been watching you people for 4 years now under Jonathan's rudderless leadership and we have had enough of your insults.

We will kill you and burn down your properties.We won't bomb you but kill you individually and nothing will happen.

Please dare me and drop your address and name.Thank God this Is election period.I don't need to pay money to get you killed in Lagos.

I reiterate,just try any nonsense nxt month and you will see the rage with which you will all be mowed down.Ingrates!!!

I think you need to calm down. It isn't that deep. This is the violence we are trying to eradicate from Nigerians.

Please desist from using these sorts of language online at least on a public platform.

Thank you.

Jimi Agbaje answering questions. Continues online on channelstv.com.

To say I am not impressed with how APC has packaged a military dictator, religious fanatic, an extra-judicial executor who should be wanted for crimes committed during his military dictatorship and one who incites violence as if he is like our Saviour Jesus Christ or Prophet Muhammed would be lying to myself.

The party has done a great job in packaging an incessant and outright outlaw whose autocratic tendencies cannot be controlled or managed by anyone.

I remember even when his own brother from the north (Yar'Adua) won the elections, it took the intervention of the Sultan of Sokoto to quell his thirst to incite his fanatical followers on committing grievous and outrageous violence against their fellow northerners and other residents.

This is a man who stated categorically that if President Goodluck Jonathan ever fought Boko Haram, he would be fighting the north. (I wonder how that works!). And today he stands to say that he would fight Boko Haram... selah!

I still haven't heard him say what he would do if he gets there and how he would achieve his goals that would make the lives of we the masses better...

However, APC has been able to package this same man.

Food for thought for me then is, if the party has been able to do this effortlessly, then if they get to power they could:

Package shit and sell it to Nigerians as the next best food
Package corruption and sell it to Nigerians as the best state for the nation (their state governors have been doing that already)
Package low electricity and sell it to Nigerians as what the future is to look like for other nations
Package poor education and sell it to Nigerians as the wisest thing to do
Package infrastructure deficiency and sell it to Nigerians as preserving vegetation and afforestation
Package insecurity and insurgency as using pressure groups to keep radicals who hate the nation and the government in check...
The list is endless... (Please add to the list)

They would also be able to package future elections such that we the populace can never vote them out of power no matter how hard we try!

I sincerely apologise to the unemployed graduates in our dear nation. I can understand the anguish you go through cause placing myself in your shoes, it could also have been me; with great ambitions and aspirations, with a family and dependents to feed, with bills to pay and need for self actualization.

I am very sorry and sincerely apologise.

In the current situation of things worldwide, there is a slow down in the employment rate. Businesses have streamlined their operations and cut down on budgets seriously owing to the global economic situation. Others have actually closed shop cause of varying reasons and demands. Nigerian companies and industries can not be left out. This has even affected the income of nations such as Greece and Spain that there are fears that they might not be able to meet up with their national obligations.

The situation is not peculiar to Nigeria alone in the continent. Even in other African nations there is this spate of unemployed persons and other wanton circumstances.

As I had previously said, it is very painful and I sincerely apologise.

In the midst of all the unemployment, some have indeed gotten employment. Though the rate is not that high. It is an eventuality that not all graduates will always get employed even in a buoyant economy. Most will fit the requirements of their desired employers while others will fall by the way side though the proportion might be negligible.

Others still will take to self employment in order to be able to meet up with existing life demands which do not go away.

I have met a graduate who fries and makes akara at Obalende area of Lagos. He speaks impeccable English and I pondered to myself how such a man could do this. In a conversation with a friend of mine, I saw the pride and confidence with which he executed his job. He wore dignity as an invisible cloak and there and then I realized it is not what you do that defines you, it is what you think about what you do. A lot of people stop there on a daily basis to buy from him.

I was extremely encouraged by his posture and mental state and thought to venture out to do my own small business and stop having cold feet and grave fears of the unknown. My vision is to bake bread. Every time I think of it I am afraid of what could possibly go wrong. I never see the positives and how maybe my bread could be the most preferred and out-sell all other famous loaves.

I had always known that getting into a business that people cannot do without like food, drinks (water), essentials for living and staying alive will always do well but I still had the fears. I thought to do a bit of findings on my deep desire despite the existing fears and I found that it was achievable and it depended on the level at which I wanted to play (get involved) in the market.

At the lower levels I didn't need much; all that was required was the flour, butter, eggs, baking soda and sugar which quantities could be determined by me. I could start with baking for my neighbours and friends and beg them to tell others about me for their orders if they liked my product. If I am serious about growing the business, I would place myself on a salary and put back the profits in the business in order to be able to launch out better. My salary might not be much at first as the business would be considered a micro one but I would have enough in the profit from the small sales to put back in the business; to buy more flour, and other ingredients and expand my customers.

I have began to see how I can chase my dream and feed some people someday with my own special baked bread.

there is another case in point of a guys who washes car around my area. He is a landlord; living in his own house. Although the house is in the suburbs, the fact is that he has been able to build his own house from washing cars.

I am not saying you have to get involved in these sorts of ventures. I am merely trying to encourage you.

Furthermore, as the economic situation improves in various climes, it would also pick up in our nation as well and the forces responsible for demand for labour will begin to rise again. As we are well aware that it is the private sector that controls and dictates our economic state, thus when the going gets good, there will be more businesses asking for staff and existing businesses who had streamlined their operations because of the current economic crunch will begin to expand their interest and would require more personnel.

I know I might not have been able to help you in finding a job or employing you but I hope I have been able to drop a nugget or two on how we can fight against the odds that so look us in the face and dare to take away our dignity. I hope I have been able to help you search within you to think of what you could possibly achieve inspite of the current global economic situation which ripples we also feel in our dear beloved nation.

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to your comment.

May God bless you and May God bless Nigeria.

America is trying hard to have a say in Nigerian politics and would sell any news that would push their agenda. The US had predicted the break up of Nigeria; hoping that it would lead to certain happenings that would bring out their predictions.

But America is not God; they are just a country grappling with the current economic challenges, homosexuality and gay demands, fighting of wars and creating wars in different countries just to establish their dominance. They are just like every other country on the surface of the earth.

I wonder when they became a prophet that their 'word' should come to pass; a nation seeking to take out the term 'In God we trust' from their currency notes dares to talk about another nation.

A country in derision and utter state of confusion dares to predict the fate of another nation or comments in its internal occurrences despite the intelligence reports they have on the true situation of things.

I would like to suggest that America go to pray and turn back to God and ask for His mercy before their country disintegrates (and nothing shall be impossible to them that believe).

A word is enough for the wise.

Thirty years ago, he faced the cruel and ignominious fate of being tied to the stake and a hail of bullets from marksmen ended his precious life. That person was Bartholomew Owoh (26) who alongside others, Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Lawal Ojuolape (30), were executed by firing squad after being arrested and tried for drug trafficking. The case of Bartholomew Owoh, the youngest of them all, was particularly tragic. At the time of his arrest, the crime did not carry capital forfeiture -the punishment was six months imprisonment. But Decree No. 20 was hurriedly promulgated and back-dated by one whole year to take effect from when he and others committed the crime and on the basis of that they were all tried, found guilty and executed by firing squad. Someone recently asked me if this actually happened and I said, “read the records of history against Buhari’s name”.

The man responsible for that “judicial murder and crime against humanity” is today the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, who has shown no remorse, no regret and has tendered no apology for his actions. Furthermore, he has sought no remission or restitution for that act of pure evil. He is the same man being daily burnished in the media by revisionists as the new face of “change.”

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