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Frankly, I do not dislike SLS, or hate him. Simply put, he has the guts to be bold and pursue radical measures to achieve a goal.

However, some things ought to be toned down, and it is now becoming more obvious that SLS is a bit impatient.

He will not wait for Nigeria to be ripe in infrastructure before introducing cashless economy (which i support),

He will not wait for security to be improved before introducing islamic banking (which will be very well favorably received only in the muslim dominated north),
He will not wait to quietly gather incontrovertible evidence, build an impenetrable case before ousting corrupt bank CEOs (thereby causing a lot of unnecessary panic in the banking sector).

SLS should learn patience, it is still a virtue.

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Posted by: teeq
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Why are u guy this dumb, from head to toe sorry to say is it that u guys are told to bank in this bank by force or what is your problem non intrest banking or Islamic banking as it may be called is a bank where u bank at will not by force so if the Muslims says they want to go Islamic banking what is pastor AYO ORITSHEJAFOR'S problem with that.

Easterners wanted their own country, Northern Nigeria had a problem with that, insisting on ONE Nigeria. For your information, we MUST remain ONE country until,

SLS has created two guidelines, there MUST be only ONE guideline! PERIOD!

I forsee a situation where all muslims will have their deposits in Al Qaeda Bank with all their branches in the north, and then torch banks and churches at the slightest provocation.

ONE NIGERIA,

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From what i have been told, that the Islamic banking is just an arm of banking, well i do not have any personal problem with it, but i sincerely believe that as soon as the Islamic bank comes to existance, so many Muslems will withdraw their monies from these conventional banks and deposit them on this Islamic bank, as they are known as fanatics, they always like and give exceptional interest to their own things, thereby making Christians to be majority users of these conventional banks and immediately their is problem in the North such as relious killings, Suicide bombing, etc, their major target will be on these conventional banks, knowing fully well that the predominant users are christians and they will suffer the effect much.

So in a circular country like Nigeria, we do not need such system.

This is a major concern! If muslims worshipped in churches, churches won't be burnt in the north.

Does the ministry of education or communication have a different guidelines for each religion?

SLS has created two guidelines, Islamic banking on the one hand, and other non-interest banking on the other hand. Why/

He has not explained that yet.

I studied Geophysics in Nigeria, clocked 5 years in banking and got dumped by my last employer. Now I am 33, two kids and a wife.
During the 5 years that I shortchanged my body and soul (insufficient sleep, staff loans, car loans, loads of 'Yessirs' and 'Yesmas', incommensurate appraisals by superiors who do not appreciate my talent and skills), I longed to do something along my talent, but I never got the opportunity.

Its been 10 months now, and I have finally started enjoying my life by pursuing my talents and skills in software development and writing. If I have enough money, I will go to Silicon Valley, do some relevant courses and hook with a really techy company. I will come back to Naija and start up mine.

@gunpoint,
Please outline your dream and pursue it vigorously. Do NOT go to the UK. FInd somewhere else. If you are not married yet, the sky is your limit. If you must do one thing, sail brother, don't wait for the banks to lay you off before you set sail.

Thought the new cards were [i]un[/i]clonable?

To what God?

What goes around, comes around. Doesn't it/

Easterners were killed and maimed and tortured, their properties and belongings burnt during the birth pains of the Civil War. During the war itself, Nigerian soldiers were sent to the East to run it over with death and destruction. After the war proper, their assets were declared Abandoned Property.

Nigerians looked on and did nothing!

The Ogonis woke up from slumber and demanded equality, agitated and stopped oil flow. Nigerian soldiers were sent their to silence them. The perpetrator of Abandoned Property was hanged in the process.

Nigerians looked on and did nothing!

OBJ sent mindless Nigeiran soldiers to Odi to fish out the culprits that killed seven policemen. Hmmm, they ended up raping every female in sight, killing everyone who had innocence written in his smile, and having fair game at any animal in sight!

Nigerians did nothing!

Boko Haram has arisen. Innocent citizens are being displaced. The Nigerian soldier has again been sent. We haven't heard the end of it yet.

Nigerians are again looking on and doing nothing!


For everyone who looks and does nothing, it will come around to haunt them.
Who is this Nigerian soldier?

Reading the subject, I thought the company that sacked them eventually found out their excuse for a break was a lie.

Different people have different ways of mourning. Some won't eat, others do not want to receive any visitors, some others want to change the subject immediately (perhaps by going on a rare, exotic holiday).

At the couple, I would frown for uploading the pics on FB for everyone to see. It is pointless telling/showing everyone how you mourn. It is your private affair!

The boss is just what he is, a BOSS!

BTW, did this happen in Nigeria? It sounds unconventional.

El RUfai's article is a desperate attempt to inform Nigerians. The message has been received.

However, can I ask Mr. El Rufai:
1. how desperate was he while he was a minister to inform Nigerians?
2. were Nigerians not paying the FG then?
3. this alarmist town crying is not an honest venture, if it were, it ought to have started more than eight years ago.
4. SSS has every right to question Mr. El Rufai if they believe this is a misleading report. It is only when they do not charge him to court under the stipulated time frame that we as citizens can turn on them for answers.

This trend of ousted public officers turning around to discredit the current government is shameful, idiotic and childish!

On every busy road in Nigeria, with lots of traffic and traffic jams, there are school-aged boys and girls and family-aged men and women selling all sorts of merchandize. You have to literarily steer your car away from them in order not to knock them over.

Is the above the Minister/Commissioner of Transport's duty to clear those hawkers off the highways?

The picture is a reflection of a Nigeria drowning in its own woes.

The only reason none of you is sitting an inch away from those rail tracks right now is because you can afford internet, and there is no internet service on the rail tracks, so you go to your cosy homes to type away.

Nigeria's cancer was practically diagnosed in 1966, and we have two more years to live(I read that somewhere written by a small committee in the US Army).

We are yet to define what a government is.

We didn't quite understand it in the first place, wasn't that why we grabbed independence toooooo early in the first place?

Now, everytime someone wins an election, it is time to chop, and we must call everyone to come and join us so that it won't appear as if we are chop alone, Rubbish!!!

Jonathan is fast exhausting my patience, in 10 day's time it will be 1 month since GEJ was sworn in, no cabinet yet.

Is this a come chop thing or a come work thing?

The north does not want this country to split up. If they wanted it, they would have achieved it by any means. Now that would be a demonstration of strong will.

Where is the will of the south, buried in conscious, capitalist-minded economic desperation?

My blood is boiling,

GEJ, please be the president that once took Nigeria down the long, arduous and rewarding road to solutions, not ad hoc, nervous-wreck stopgaps like (random stop & search, obvious statements as speeches and inflated contracts to buy bomb sweepers to be used for 1 week and resold in the black market)

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October 1st 2010, You people made so much meaningless noise - December 31st - you people said so much empty things - now June 16th 2011, you people are still saying the same meaningless things!

LOL - I weep for Nigerians for they are so empty headed.

I disagree with you.
Nigerian leaders are empty-headed while Nigerian citizens are empty-willed.

Now, that's a better distribution of the emptiness.

I doubt this was a suicide attempt.

Look, he was after the IGP's convoy but was diverted to the car park after the ASP Traffic singled the car out as being ood behind the convoy. At the carpark, while the car was being searched, the bomb detonated.

Now, if he was truly a suicide bomber, he would have crashed into the gate or crashed into the IGP's convoy, instead of driving sanely behind them. Behind the IGP, he wouldn't have achieved any serious thing.

This is my take.

Nations split, but as Nigeria is not a nation, it cannot split.
We will become a nation when States keep their resources and pay tax to the federal government.

That way, there will be little to control at the centre. That way also, this bullshit of having a minister from every state, this crapshit of federal character and square pegs in round holes and multiplicity of empty government edifices will stop.

I am truly pissed at Nigeria. GEJ! get up and speak and act! Otherwise get out and go home!

Honestly, if GEJ has come out as a leader to galvanize this nation and reassure pseudo citizens of this pseudo nation that he will provide security and hope in a hopeless nation, i have not heard it yet.

Is, is, is he cold-footed?

Shame! Shame!! Shame!!!
To all those who still believe this is a country, shame to all of them.

PDP is about settling for another meal, instead of concentrating on governance, they are shopping for national unity government. If you have won the elections, go ahead and provide leadership, thats what it should be all about.

Nigeria is not a nation, we are just pretending to be one.
We heard that other human beings are forming countries and issuing visas and we thought we should do the same too.

The devil is crawling inside people's heads and they suddenly think they have a divine mandate. RUbbish!

From the onset of these CBN reforms, I saw the issues like this:
Sanusi was never fair-minded in the reforms. He didn't care about the economy and didn't even understand the impact of his actions on the nation.

Sanusi had vendetta against some Bank chiefs who had belittled him and called him names as peers. Their own abuse of their positions as bank chiefs only gave Sanusi justification to move against them. Ordinarily, he could have reined in the bank chiefs of Oceanic, Intercontinental and Bank PHB without so much ado. He had the facts, and as the marksman regulator, ought to have removed them and their boards without affecting the business of the banks. Now he has shot the helmsmen together with their precious cargo - the bank employees and the image of the bank.
Anybody can find justification for bringing down his enemy.

I support an independent, disinterested inquiry into the activities of the rescued bansk and their rescue teams. They all stink!

Can't even find the right words to say. I never met this man, but I met his works, I continue to meet them everyday. However, let me say that death is not a tragedy, its just a painfully long separation. To all those who loved him, you will meet again, surely, it will be a happier experience. Thank God for his life.

Jonathan did not empty reserves to stay in power.

The CBN is using the reserves to support the value of the Naira, otherwise it would have slumped against the dollar massively.
The international market reacts to certain national/regional events like elections, violence and industrial output.

Our elections have been on the horizon since last year and that has had a strain on the naira because of our culture of election violence.

Buhari set Nigeria, its democratic evolution and its peoples' development back by 16 (sixteen) years.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, the hitherto unseen, unquantifiable and unknown problems (both real and potential) with a democratic Nigeria started emerging.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, we have begun realizing how a democratic Nigeria can turn governors into emperors and make them more powerful than senators, even though senators are closer to the centre than they are.
Now our senators will consciously distinguish themselves from the OBJ-era stereotype so as to earn more respect through the laws they pass, not the salaries they earn and which governor they are sucking up to.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, we have begun realizing how our local governments will fare under these emperors.
Now we know the flaws and will consciously steer our constitution to protect local governments and return power to the grassroots.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, we have begun realizing third term could become the next agenda after the traditional two terms.
Now our constitution does not allow that because we consciously amended.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, we have seen that the minority can have a voice afterall and can confidently run for the highest office in our fatherland.
Now the politics of tribe is steadily giving way to the politics of conviction.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, we have begun realizing that we can ask questions of our government and participate a townhall/facebook meeting.
Now our President is on facebook and we can tell him anything we feel, whether he likes it or not, he will see it in black and white.
Now the FOI Bill is on the horizon.

Because we again resumed a democracy in 1999, we have begun appreciating the need to register, vote and make it count.
Now we have an unprecedented number of registered voters in the country. Perhaps the highest in our history. Now we have put the INEC Chairman on the spotlight, and he is aware of it.

Fellow youths, there are many more things that have emerged that need our attention. Any Nigerian citizen who wilfully delayed the emergence of these issues on the national agenda is an enemy of our progress.

I am talking about General Buhari. He did this in 1983 by usurping power and truncating a democracy. If he had stayed back in the barracks on that fateful December 31, 1983, all of these issues would have emerged between 1983 and now and would have been dealt with by the reactions and responses of the Nigerian masses during subsequent election cycles (as we are currently doing) as evidenced in the election results.

This talk of discipline and integrity about Buhari is cheap, he may have it, but he failed to demonstrate it when the nation needed it most. You don't achieve discipline by whipping people into line. It is a functino of nurture, not jackboots (besides, he doesn't have the jackboots anymore).

This news always elicits very deep perspectives on its impact.

Acquiring a jet is a one-off project, but maintaining it regularly (which you must do to keep it airworthy) is a huge financial burden.

For a ministry in Nigeria to acquire a private jet (which can only be in one airport at any given time), does it really advance true evangelism across Africa by the same margin that its cost astronomically dwarfs the common aspirations of churchgoers?

This call for Buhari is completely absurd!

If he truly has anything to offer, he ought to have raised young Nigerians who share his philosophy for leadership and solving the Nigerian problem and equipped them to run for office on the platform of the CPC.

It will only be a matter of two terms and IBB will emerge as a gracefully ageing statesman to woo the young nigerians of that time to vote for him. Next all manner of media contractors will start twisting and bending history to misinform young citizens of Nigeria on how IBB saved Nigeria from collapse and how he refused to handover power to June 12 winner because it would have wrecked Nigeria and blah blah blah.

After IBB in 2023, OBJ will remerge to resume the cycle of the axis of evil.

The heads of many Nigerians are collectively being spun in a persistent centrifuge that prevents them from making a clean break from history.

Buhari cannot offer much to our NIgeria of today. Neither will any of the others. Nigeria is in a dilemma and only the sort of action we took when Yar'adua went missing by marching in Lagos and Abuja can return true power to us.

Please do not be fooled into making calculations along party lines. Nigeria has no true political parties.

Wait a minute, Atiku would have been the presidential candidate of the ACN today and he would have been saying today '12 years of PDP brought us nothing. Let us all vote them out and make better things to happen in Nigeria, ' mscheeew.

Buhari was ANPP. Today he is CPC. What does CPC represent. If Buhari dies today, what will be left of CPC. All these parties represent nothing but the promise of vain glory for their members who eventually make it to government house.


Farewell, Nigeria.

When people say a certain candidate is leading in the common man polls, just what are they talking about. Everyman in Nigeria has his own polls. There are even people who would change their mind just because of a comment he hears on election day.

For all those born in the 70s, how on earth can you wish for any past Nigerian leader to be recycled? Didn't we all see, hear and learn?

Nigerians are the first ones that should believe in their future, not foreigners. Nigerians clamour for change and like to dream dreams of when Lagos would become New York and Aso Rock would be displayed like White House on NTA and a Nigerian policeman would help you find your way and when they would have an intelligible leader who can be reckoned among respected world leaders.

The irony is that every time the shadow of such an opportunity comes along, we all fail to recognize it. So this leads me to surmise that Nigerians are a people that know how to put what they want in words, but do not really know how to recognize the embodiment of those same words.

For all those calling for Buhari, I am disgusted. No slight on his personality, you might as well call for any other past Nigerian leader. If you are calling for Buhari, please answer this question. If you are so sure Buhari is the answer, why don't you ask him to find guns and truncate this democracy too. If he could do it in 1983, he might as well do it again. Imagine if this present democracy was again truncated by some jackboot in 2000 or 2001 (some years after 1999), would we have had the opportunity to identify the present issues in our democracy much so talk about them with the global flair and social media tools we have today? Wouldn't internet access and all manner of emergency laws be in place today to guarantee that your facebook and twitter and nairaland conferences only exist in your minds (remember Kudirat radio and retroactive laws of the 80s & 90s). A call for Buhari is a reflection of our innate vagueness of definition as Nigerians to chart a new course for our future.

The likes of Fashola, Fola Adeola, Pat Utomi, Dele Momodu are only an almost insignificant fraction of the class of leaders Nigerians should seek out. Unfortunately, our youth have shown an alarming affinity to the past. I urge you all to extricate yourselves from the past with respect to past leaders.

Patrick Utomi represents the kind of leader Nigerian youth should support, and this is because of his ability and capacity to discuss issues of Nigeria without any political inhibitions.

I supported Jonathan before now, but his antecedents links him with the current class of politicians who will eventually wreck this nation because they lack political will to see things through.

Nuhu Ribadu looked promising until it emerged that next time he tells us someone is 100% corrupt, we will have to wait 4 years to really find out. If he dines and wines with the person after 4-5 years, then he was only joking.

Patrick Utomi is the only candidate that Nigerian youths should listen to. Let us kick start this discussion of issues first, then we can build the high towers of accountability and begin cultivating intellectual depths in our leadership.

Ask yourselves, why are we always running after self-titled statesmen who:
>Have never and will never tell us the source of their incomes, and the source of their campaign monies? (Ribadu, Jonathan, Buhari are all guilty)
>Have a lot of political baggage and will be eventually burdened by their patronage that they won't achieve a lot in any office. (Jonathan, Ribadu are guilty. How would they handle their current political baggage. PDP is hangin around Jonathan's neck and Tinubu around Ribadu's. Who is funding Ribadu's campaign?)

Rethink Utomi, I have. All the other ones have political baggage and we cannot hold them by any of their words because they have not spoken on any issues.

Don't be deceived, corruption is not the problem! Corruption is a part of humanity and that is why we as humans are imperfect. The great nations of the world developed even in the midst of corruption. While it is not proper to do nothing about it, anyone riding on a horse written anti-corruption as his main manifesto is a joker.

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Interesting analysis except for the bolded

Quote from: POTUT on Today at 01:01:25 AM
GEJ continues to be seen as part of the status quo that has pillaged our future before it is born. On the brigter side, he runs with an air of destiny and has committed himself in his words. My power of discernment still tilts towards this commitment.

Where and when did GEJ commit himself to his words? If anything he strikes one as a completely undecided and wavering individual.

I didn't say he has met those commitments. I am only saying his words have drawn him deep into commitments he cannot afford to walk away from, unless, like you have said, he is a wavering, undecided individual.

Wow! wow!! wow!!!

I actually read everything in this thread like a book. My brain cells are rattling now like the loose bolts and nuts on my generator. I wonder what the history and anthropology curriculum in our secondary schools and universities are. This thread can gainfully replace them.

Nigerians are in a well crafted dilemma - who to vote for massively next month.

GEJ continues to be seen as part of the status quo that has pillaged our future before it is born. On the brigter side, he runs with an air of destiny and has committed himself in his words. My power of discernment still tilts towards this commitment.

Ribadu is confused and can't seem to reconcile his earlier career goals with his reality. He now has a godfather he was so sure was 100% corrupt 4 years ago.

Buhari is now officially controversial. He truncated a democracy with the gun, despised it by not having any return plans until he was ousted and went about supporting June 12 annulment and dining with a government synonymous with corruption and human rights abuses (Abacha)
Now he seeks power to fix Nigeria and it leaves me wondering, What in the worls does CPC represent. If Buhari drops off the planet today, who will carry on whatever philosophy he represents. Does he have a school of newbreed politicians who understand his philosophies? When did he develop these philosophies.
Let's concentrate on building Institutions, not frail personalities who should give up the stage for the proteges.

BTW, Nigeria's problem is NOT corruption. The US, UK, greater Europe and China are all corrupt in their governments.

Pat Utomi & Chris Okotie have got the one thing lacking in all of our past leaders, and that is that they are ashamed enough of our situation as a country to want to do something about it. Having enough financial muscle and getting their very academic messages across to millions of uneducated Nigerians who lack the capacity of sound perspective is their collective bane.

If only we could do a brain transplant, we could actually have the best president ever.

I have heard that 12 years of PDP must come to an end. It is amusing how few people understand what that actually means.

Who are PDP?
They were once Alliance of Democracy stalwarts who converted to Action Congressmen that once flew across the street to attend a PDP dispensation but suddenly realized they left their suitcases in the ANPP flight that brought and returned to pick it up passing through Labour Party's road in an APGAmobile driven by the Supreme Court and conducted by the many Hight Court judges that they blessed with the change from their last outing.

All of these politicians who are free agenting Political Parties like professional football players are the PDP. Until we identify people by their political philosophies and see it reflected in their Institutions, we cannot make the right choice.


Goodluck Nigerians!!! (This is in no way in favor of GEJ)

Indeed our Political Class is made up of daft SUG warriors who couldn't finish school and can;t speak good english, ending up having carryovers and changing school.

Do you ever find in any administration's cabinet smart intellectuals who drive the policies and implementation of government. IMF always comes to the countries they know are governed by idiots and men who don't have the patience to read a simple international article or journal.

Today China is the 2nd largest economy, beating Japan as at end of 2010 and nudging America for the top position. They have power supply and manufacture everything and copy technology in the process. Their rare earth metals have become their bargaining chip in the semi-conductor sector.

In Nigeria, our politicians would use it to bargain for large parcels of land in the south of france to build their family's holiday resort.

Give us power supply and see what happens,