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Purveyor of Sewage ideas

Epitome of Clueless

Gallivanting Vagabond

Symbol of Mediocrity

and

Champion of Rascality

The one and only


Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola

A.K.A. AregbeRascal

A.K.A. AregbeSewer


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Governor of Osun State

GenBuhari:
SWOT analysis:


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There is a genuine need for a Nigerian spring:

The Nigerian masses are oppressed

Every election conducted has been rigged so our mandate is denied us.

80-90% of population are in extreme poverty

Most graduates are unemployed

We have large population of unemployed youths
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[b]Ayotolla Mohammadu Bin Buhari apologists, haters, and hausa/fulani and their southern collaborators are looking for a regime change for selfish political reason. Around 70% Nigerians live on less than $2 a day; but majority are in the north because their religious and political leaders kept them that way to have an easy supply of almajiri for trouble making.

This so-called strength is flawed, it is the same stupi.dity that projected a Buhari victory!


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Many Nigerians believe that only God would give us good governance.

Tribalism makes it unlikely that an entire cross-section of population would support the campaign.

Corrupt elites could sponsor some murderous thugs to turn protest violent and then get Nigerian media to dismiss entire protest as tribal /ethnic conflict
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Many Nigerians voted for GEJ, and they believe that with God on his side, he will guide us aright. We believe that his has genuine interest in dealing with hydra headed corruption, and we hope that removal of fuel subsidy is one of the best way to deal with this. They are laughing off this sectional campaign of calumny against the no 1 man. And we are seriously looking for weakness in the Nigerian state, to call it a day with Nigeria!

O[/b]pportunites[/size]
Unions are likely to protest Fuel price subsidies removal
Nairaland
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mass texting

[b]Unions will raise their voices to explain the need for fuel subsidy. Nairaland is a grossly over-estimate.
We are on facebook too, and we can mass text in support of our proposal! I see stalemate at the most!







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T[/b]hreats[/size]

News black-out of the protests by International and Nigerian media who are  generally supporting the corrupt eites and against the masses

What do you think?
Let us have your SWOT anaysis[b]

[size=18pt]You will walk alone. You and your Boko Haram puppeteer - Ayotolla Mohammadu Bin Buhari [/size]

Of Jonathan and castrated critics

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Written by Abiodun Awolaja Tuesday, 25 October 2011
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An Igbo proverb says that one does not learn to be left-handed in old age, but that is precisely the magic which some critics of Dr Goodluck Jonathan are prepared to perform. Taking off from President

Jonathan’s recent declaration that he did not amount to any of the great men in the Bible, these critics have engaged in literary flights of fancy which ignore the reality of existence, namely that the material essence of all life is far from literary. In this essay I intend to see farther than blind criticism, and if you think every journalist who lauds a public official must be on his payroll, well, please skip to the next page.

Otherwise, please sit back and let us reason together.

A lot of people would do anything to get to the presidency; they just cannot imagine Jonathan being so, as they say, “weak,’’ meaning “having so much power and not using it.’’ These are individuals with a past littered with blood, and a present crafted in deceit. They want the powers of the president, and when they provoke long debates on Goodluck, rest assured that they do not speak because they are grieved about the pains you and I go through. It is not easy to say this, but the frustrations which many pour into the media, the learned articles that they write detailing the president’s failings are actually disguised apologies for their weaknesses, lame excuses for the maladies of yesteryears, and their family demons. T.S Eliot called poetry an escape from emotion.

Some people write as if they are so wise and Jonathan is so foolish. It is a shame; a writer, who has just slept with a married woman and had another beer, goes into man-lover, Melville, Greene, Yeats or, occasionally, Marechera or Mahfouz to show how really politically foolish Jonathan is. He will get an award for his informed commentary, but his masquerade will never change the dirty clothing of yesteryears.

He will remain in his spiritual wretchedness because he is an utter . And a great number of professors are not really men of wisdom.

Jonathan got it right; he does not need to be a lion. He was not a lion when he gave us an election that will never perish from African history, an election that wrote his name in gold. Nor was he a lion when he gave us six new universities, and fuel at all times. I have looked at the road map launched on the oil and gas sector, NASRDA’s space programme, the new agricultural blueprint and others and I believe President Jonathan should just concentrate on them and allow the noisemakers to ply their trade. Anyone who expects a Messaiah will have their strong man in the coming antichrist, the man from Rome, though. I’m looking at Western Europe.

Obasanjo came and did extremely well in banking and telecommunications, and I would advise our Bible-honouring president---and the God of the Bible, which he has honoured, will honour him; He already did by giving him a position which the know-it-alls will never attain in their miserable existence, even as they grumble their way into the grave--- to leave well alone, and not think that no one appreciates him. Many do, most sincerely. I do.

The USA became great because they had leaders who trusted in God, although they later had idiots who said “As long as we have an army and a navy, we don’t need old Jehovah.’’ They were not afraid, in those days, to say “In God we trust,’’ but now that nation has been taken over by all kinds of God-hating spirits. You cannot even pray in public, but of course you can ravish strange flesh in public. Yes, Tupac’s Compromizing Video will sell for a hundred million dollars, and only the music in the background will be heard.

As soon as Jonathan got in, he dwelt on a single term of six years, but the critics called it tenure elongation. What was, in reality, tenure clipping was tagged tenure magnification, and these Pharisees could not even see that the idea came, ultimately, from the university system where Vice-Chancellors now spend five concentrated years. A journalist who said that a state governor did not need to have a cabinet now has the mouth to say that the president should apologise for an imaginary sin. Well, the Hausa say that it is not by tallness that one reaches the moon.

In all the mindless criticism, one thought pattern is discernible: Jonathan is not doing anything about Boko Haram. But just how can thinking be so shallow? Will terrorism be fought by newspaper fancies?

Terrorism is fought in the night; you go after the traditional rulers sponsoring the madness and waste their business without mercy. You go after their girlfriends, give them a thorough beating, then cut deals.

You put people’s fingers between staplers; you go after some criminals and put a bullet into their brains. Tell me, how did the US get Osama? By democracy? By the newspapers? The papers would never have given their approval. And if you are a journalist who thinks you do not need the army or their tactics, well, the day will come when you will poo in your trousers, when you come face to face with terrorists and will not be writing an editorial. Let us give honour to whom it is due.

Yet there are patriots who criticise the president, not out of malice, but out of genuine concern for the nation. These are honourable people, but let us all realise that we cannot force a man to be what he is not cut out to be, lest we return to the Sanni Abacha days when the president was a dedicated murderer and exceptional robber. In the final analysis, then, the president should just concentrate on two or three areas, and make a greater song out of them than the April 2011 elections.


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/opinion/30149--of-jonathan-and-castrated-critics

igbo2011:
What political system would we put if we overthrew this one? Would Buhari be the president?

This one will not involve a change of government. The way I see it, it involves pressure groups ensuring that the right policies are implemented at the right time.

Oya let one Yoruba or aboki self immolate, then we will know they are serious. All this one na story!

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No Keke or Okada in Accra Accra Ghana. They still get by!

True. This is a revolution worth supporting!

I hope El Rufia becomes the North's Consensus Candidate in 2015. It's make life very easy. Carry go El Rufia nothing do you.

[size=18pt]Rascals! See them! [/size]

^^^^

Will it lead to the dissolution of Nigeria? If yes, I will partake!

Fuel subsidy ’ll lead to economy collapse – Jonathan Featured
Written by  Olusola Fabiyi and Olalekan Adetayo

Fuel Subsidy ’ll Lead To Economy Collapse – Jonathan


A few hours to his departure for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia, on Sunday, President Goodluck Jonathan met with the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party to sell,

his fuel subsidy removal plan.

Jonathan, according to a source at the meeting which held in the Presidential Villa on Friday, told the PDP chieftains that removing the fuel subsidy was inevitable as failure to do so could lead to the collapse of the economy.

“The President told us that there was the need to remove the subsidy and that though he appreciated the pains Nigerians would pass through after the removal, he said it was necessary if we did not want the economy to collapse,” the source confided in one of our correspondents at the weekend.

At the meeting were also zonal chairmen of the ruling party.

It was learnt that the meeting was the first forum at which the President intimated his party about the controversial proposal to remove fuel subsidy beginning from January next year.

Jonathan, had in his administration’s Medium Term Expenditure Framework, submitted to the Senate on October 4, said fuel subsidy removal would begin in January, 2012.

He had said that N1.2trn saved from the subsidy removal would be spent on providing social projects for the poor.

It was gathered that the Friday meeting, which started around 10pm, dragged on for a long time as party leaders were giving the opportunity of asking questions, to which the President reportedly provided answers.

The source said, “Apart from that, he also said the planned removal would be followed by a lot of palliatives, which he said were still being worked out.

“We asked him about the plan to review the refineries, he said plans were on and that the removal would also allow entrepreneurs to come into the industry, which he said would help in generating reemployment for the youths.”

The source said the President told the PDP leaders that he considered the meeting strategic in order for them to know the workings of government.

He also said this would enable them to be able to defend the policies since the party produced him.

The source added that the President said he would meet with the leadership of the opposition political parties when he returned from Australia.

Oil subsidy removal is part of the programme and policy thrust of the PDP.

Under its Policy Thrust on Petroleum Resources, the party manifesto says “A PDP-led government’s objective for the sector is to optimise upstream and downstream oil sector for a better role in the economy by increasing the level of oil reserves, expand exploration activities in onshore/offshore frontiers and liberalise and deregulate the industry with increased local content.”

Meanwhile, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State on Friday said fuel subsidy was not beneficial to Nigerians and that state governors were working together with the Federal Government for the proposed removal.

“A lot of discussions have gone into it. As at today, state governors are working with the Federal Government on this,” he told State House correspondents in Abuja.

He said the state governors decided to back the position of the Federal Government on the planned removal of fuel subsidy because the subsidy was not beneficial to the masses.

He said that another indication that the subsidy was not good for the nation was when it was revealed in the National Assembly last week that the Federal Government had already overspent the sum earmarked for fuel subsidy in the 2011 budget.  This, the governor, said was against the law.

He said rather than giving subsidy that would be beneficial to a clique, the money saved from the withdrawal could be used to develop infrastructure across the country.


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House Begins Probe of NNPC, PPPRA Tomorrow

24 Oct 2011

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By Chuks Okocha

As governors of the 36 states of the federation meet today to discuss the withdrawal of N250 billion from the Federation Account by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulation Authority (PPPRA) in the September allocation, the House of Representatives will tomorrow commence investigations into the withdrawal of N450 billion by the NNPC and PPPRA in the August allocations.

Accordingly, the House’s Joint Investigation Committee (JIC) comprising of the House Committee on Finance and the Committees on Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream) and Gas will investigate the activities of the NNPC, PPPRA and all other agencies under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum.

The JIC is under the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Hon. Abduallmuni Jibrin.

An insider in the JIC told THISDAY that the investigation would seek to unearth why the NNPC and the PPPRA unilaterally withdrew funds from the Federation Accounts and Allocations Committee (FAAC) without due approval from the relevant quarters, especially the National Assembly.

Apart from the JIC’s investigation of the N450 billion withdrawals, the House will also cast its searchlight on the N1.2 trillion withdrawn earlier by the PPPRA from the Federation Account.

A member of the JIC told THISDAY that over 1,000 petitions and memoranda have “so far been received by the Committee” with regard to the withdrawals.

The source also said that a cursory look at the petitions received from members of the public show that there are a lot of financial irregularities in the accounts of both the NNPC and the PPPRA.

“We have received more than 1,000 petitions and these petitions are eye boggling and series of cans of worms ranging from diversion of funds and round-tripping and allegations of under valuation of signature bonuses by the NNPC”, the source said.

The NNPC and PPPRA had removed the money as subsidy recovery from the funds available for sharing among the three tiers of government.

This had generated some controversy as to the propriety of the actions of both agencies and some members of the public equally chided both the NNPC and the PPPRA over the withdrawals.

Piqued by the development, the organisations quickly beat a retreat and agreed to refund the deductions, but on a piecemeal basis.

The NNPC, however, went a step further last week when it said it had resolved to stay action on further recoveries of the backlog of subsidies from the Federation Account to prevent a face-off with states.

Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Lawan Ngama, who doubles as the chairman of FAAC, said in a statement that the NNPC agreed to stop the intended deduction after due consultations.

“After due consultations between the Minister of State for Finance and chairman of the Federation Account Allocation Committee, Dr. Yerima Lawan Ngama, the management of NNPC on Wednesday agreed to stay action on further recovery on the backlog of subsidies due it from the Federation Account,” the minister said.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/house-begins-probe-of-nnpc-pppra-tomorrow/101219/

Presidency bids to combat abandoned projects menace
Monday, 24 October 2011 00:00 From Emeka Anuforo, Bridget Chiedu Onochie, Terhemba Daka, Nkechi Onyedika, Abuja News - National


Okays contract continuity bill

Senate pushes for infrastructure funds

IT has been the dubious practice in Nigeria for a new government to discontinue projects initiated by its predecessors. But the Federal Government is now taking steps to bring the abandoned project popularly known as white elephant syndrome to an end.

Through a Project Continuity Bill, which it is set to present to the National Assembly soon, the Executive arm of government wants a legal framework that would make it mandatory for any new government to finish the projects initiated by its previous administration.

The Guardian learnt that the bill to be sent to the National Assembly by President Goodluck Jonathan soon, aims to commit governments at all levels to projects and policies embarked upon by their predecessors.

Among others, it is the plan of government to use the bill to ensure that its national economic transformation plan - Vision 20: 2020 - does not go the way of similar policies initiated by past governments in the country.

To facilitate the speedy passage of the bill at the National Assembly, Minister and Deputy Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman, has opened talks with the Legislature.

Shamsudeen, who was at the National Assembly at the weekend, called for policy continuity in planning as a means of ensuring that the nation’s economic aspirations were achieved.

The National Assembly is also stepping up efforts to make the nation’s deplorable roads motorable.

Apart for pushing for the declaration of a state of emergency on the road sector, the National Assembly is set to create an Infrastructural Fund to address the funding gap in the construction and repairs of roads, railways, airports, and waterways.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Ayogu Eze, told journalists in Abuja at the weekend that the National Assembly is worried about the poor state of transport infrastructure in the country.

At a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on National Planning and Economic Development, Shamsudeen urged the legislators to save the country from wastages by passing the Development Planning and Project Continuity Bill 2010.

The minister, who noted that lack of legal backing for long-term development plans was affecting continuity in planning and economic growth initiatives, recalled that the bill was part of the recommendations of the Vision 20: 2020 document.

He stressed the critical role of the National Assembly in achieving the goals of the plan, and sought their cooperation in the implementation of the initiative.

Shamsudeen said: “We have sought to address that with the draft of the bill that is coming to the National Assembly. Clearly, we need your support on this to get it approved and passed. During the process of documenting Nigeria’s Vision 20:2020, one of the recommendations was that we need to protect this Vision with a legislation so that it will not be set aside. We must enact a law that will institutionalise and legalise planning. That is the experience in countries such as India that had been consistent in implementing their development plans.”

He said the commission was working towards the review of the law establishing the Centre for Management Development (CMD) Act to strengthen its capacity to develop the country.

The committee chairman, Bethel Amadi pledged its support for the Executive and assured the minister that the members would work with the National Planning Commission in the formulation and implementation of economic development programmes.

While stressing the need to create a funding architecture that would address the problem of our roads, Eze said the National Assembly would put a legal framework in place to create a fund that would synergize with the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) to make Nigerian roads motorable.

He said: “There is no way we can attract foreign investors with roads ridden with potholes. We are thinking of being a great nation by 2020, we must begin to think and behave like a country that wants to be great. All over the world, everybody is talking about funding infrastructure.”

On the proposed 2nd Niger Bridge, Eze said the Senate was working to ensure that it is constructed, adding that the infrastructure arm of the World Bank would provide a facility for the project.

He said the Senate wants to have a bridge with a rail track in the middle to connect with the track joining Benin City in Edo State to Port Harcourt in Rivers State. “We will give the project the support it deserves by ensuring that funds are provided, we would also ensure that we get facility for the project from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).”

Meanwhile, the Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has vowed to investigate the award of contract for the rehabilitation and expansion of the outer Northern Expressway Lot 11 in Abuja.

The panel’s chairman, Smart Adeyemi, reacted to the alleged inflation of the contract to N16 billion by the CGC Engineering Limited, the Chinese company, which won the contract.

The contract is for the construction of the left and right service carriageway, an additional lane on the main carriage way and the rehabilitation of the existing Kubwa Expressway, totalling 20.3 kilometres. It was awarded to the company in June 2009 for N81.9 billion while the second part of the road project worth N19.5 billion was awarded to Dantata & Sawoe, a local firm, at N66.6 billion.

Reacting to the alleged additional cost of N16 billion for only 800 metres, Adeyemi said the contractor might be summoned over the issue and if found guilty, would be required to refund the difference.

“You cannot defend the N16 billion difference. We are going to summon you (contractor) with the FCT Ministry and if we discover that the contract was inflated, you will be made to refund the money to the government,” he said.

With about 70 per cent of the work completed, the company told the committee that due to lack of funding and other sundry challenges, it would not meet the November target and pleaded to be given March 2012 as the new deadline.

The firm’s Construction Manager, Jiang Kieng, said the decision to import materials was due to its discovering that even the acclaimed locally produced ones came from outside Nigeria.

Kieng said the government approved the firm’s request to import the materials.


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[size=18pt]Lagos is one man business. Why is that hard for many of you guys to understand. Tinubu is a tin god, worshiped blindly by so many Lagosians in the name of ACN.

To rid Nigeria of corruption, we must start in Lagos state. [/size]

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It is too early in the day to call for revolution! We voted this government in power just over 6 months ago. We are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Nigerians will not be fooled into revolution by Buhari apologists, and those with ethnic agenda into irrational behaviour.

The best revolution will be the one that split this country into constituents parts - North, East, West, Middle belt, ND, and what have you. Any other revolution is cosmetic surgery!

Bring it on when we are ready!

M.Sc. Nairalanding - University of Nairaland

grafikii:
how many times will i teach u that lagos is not the of government, heh point b

be focus friend, where did I mention seat of government, let alone in the same breath with Lagos, eh, fake teacher?

[size=18pt]We will start with an 'Occupy Lagos' protest to ensure that Bola Tinubu refunds all the money he stole from Lagos state treasury (with the active connivance of Governor Raji Fashola). After that we will organise 'Occupy Abuja' protest, to ensure that Mohammadu Buhari is sent to jail for inciting the murder of youth corpers and other innocent Nigerians post election.

Those are worthy revolution Nigeria needs.

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CyberG:
A lot of farsighted people warned Nigerians not to vote the slow cadaver Gooflock Jonzerthan but Nigerians loved his fresh air. Well now yall stuck with it. Forget what you will tell your kids cos even the kids will see how useless and mentally lazy Nigerians are! Well, am glad we vote real leaders here not bangers like your zombie president. I hope visas are canceled so you can't escape from your self-imposed punishment to another country. Fresh shaite! LOL

The same far sighted people who would rather vote for a murderer, bigoted old perpetual loser - Ayatollah Mohammadu Bin Buhari, who knows next to nothing about democracy and rule of law. No way! Buhari belongs to the gulag! And your 'far-sighted' people are grossly overrated - they are myopic at best, thank goodness we did not listen to them.

grafikii:
well said igbo, point b answer the susidy question or better still ask your superior beaf to answer me oo. i dey wait

my position on the subsidy issue is well articulated in many postd. I dont need to repeat myself again. You can check:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-778574.0.html

Any revolution that keep the likes of Ah Harem in the North, yes Tinubu and Buhari in jail or effectively divides this country, count me in. Any other thing is just attempt to change leadership and continue with business as usual. As for me I trust GEJ quiet revolution. I am willing to give him th benefit of the doubt.

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U didn't even vote! And u r here talking trash. Guy, u don't qualify to talk about revolution. So you best look for something else to talk about.

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Don't be bias, there are bigger thieves in ACN led by Tinubu. Your selective amnesia is the reason why no one is taking any call for revolution serious.

It's no one's fault that the man you voted for lost election. We (the majority) are proud of our performance in the last election. Wait for 2015 or hug a jump from olumo rock.

Beaf:
[size=14pt]Why Gbawe. why this level of wickedness to your own people?
Is this what "progressives" do?[/size]

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Fashola/ACN's Lagos state. A tale of:

[size=18pt]Suffering and Smiling!   [/size]

Warri is indeed a nice city!

Good people too.


Nice work Jason and Beaf. Keep it up!

grafikii:
revolution is not about individuals my friend, this poeple you mentioned are they i government? smh

Ok. Then wake me up, when it time for revolution against corrupt and evil individuals, my friend.

zzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzh

@Topic,
If it's about corruption, no prob. We can start with an 'Occupy Lagos' protest until Tinubu refunds all the money he stole from Lagos Treasury. Then we can move to Abuja and ask that Buhari be jailed for inciting the massacre of Youth Corpers and other innocent Nigerians post elections. Buoyed by the two important successes, we can then talk about others. Otherwise, you will walk alone!

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To violently remove GEJ and replace him with Ayatollah Mohammadu bin Buhari, a bigot and murderer. What a lofty ambition!

How can I blame them they were probably paid to visit.

Yoruba leadership these days has gone to the dogs.

Some say the frog-eyed certificate forger, drug baron and treasury looter - Tinubu is their leader, others say it is the leader-for-hire Afenifere that are their leaders. Clearly, this shows that these people are lost. I hope they find their way soon.

Fashi-Ola is indeed working! Well done Tinubu!

Tag team thieves!