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Posted by: MAYOWAAK
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Since 2010 till date, the total number of deaths recorded in Maiduguri alone is well above 200. I wonder why such gesture wasn’t extended to, unarguably, the most terrorised city in Nigeria. Just a single attack in his home state and he quickly remembers corporate social responsibility. As a matter of fact, what the CBN is saying here is different from what they told ThisDay newspaper. ThisDay reported on Monday that CBN planned to visit Madalla but that the governor wasn’t available for the visit (not the priest as reported here), hence they had to defer the visit to this week so that the governor would be available to lead the delegation to the visit. All along while violence ravaged Jos, heavy rainfall & flood devastated Ibadan & Lagos last year, it never occurred to SLS  to think of social responsibility because those towns weren’t in his state. The Madalla agenda is just an after-thought in response to the avalanche of criticisms.

Nigerian public office holders drink their juice of honesty with their glasses half full.

Posted by: marvix
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Mayowaak do all those states not have an indigene in any govt or private establishment that could intervene with their own corporate social responsibility or ar u assumin dat its only d CBN dat has a vote 4 CSRs, y shld SLS use d CSR funds in his agency to assist other states when indigenes of those states who cld also do that are using their CSRs to throw parties and support their wives NGOs or businesses, CSRs hav been abused 4 a long time and so we don't hear abt it dats y its now almost sounding so strange to u guys that someone could help his own state with a 100m, if I was in SLS shoes I won't even make any donation to d Madalla church and instead stick to my guns and explain y I hav given Kano, if anyone feels specially 4 d people dat have died else where giv ur own contribution either as an individual or a corporate entity!!!!!

You are invariably campaigning for every State of this sick federation to produce the Head of at least one BIG Agency (like the CBN that is able to dole out N100m) so that they can parochially appropriate CSR funds to their own States, without consideration of the communities that host their headquarters. So when the offices don't quite go around equitably, we ought to create more big agencies so that every State has an equal number of Heads in big agencies.
Don't go too far, mayowaak has pointed out the bombings in Abuja where the CBN is headquartered, no word of a CSR gesture.

It doesn't add up. Sanusi got it wrong here by a long line. He is not a bad man, but we all act on impulse sometimes, and we shouldn't be too proud of it altogether not to admit it.
He should just plead that the love of his darling State appealed to him more than any other CSR commitment did. We understand the presence of that inexplicable human behaviour.

I hail from Imo. When I was a young boy, and observed the apprehension this Osu thing caused, I ventured to ask. I was told by my parents that they were the descendants of people used for sacrifice in the days past. I asked the following questions, but got no answers.

1. How did people come to be used as sacrifice to the so called gods? Did they volunteer or were they forced, or perhaps bought as slaves?
2. Having accepted christianity entirely, does partaking in Holy communion in the church not reunite us all. We drink from the same cup wiped with a thin film of tissue!
3. We all run to pastors today to unbind us from generational and grandparental curses. Do those curses include whatever our forbears were cursed with by being sacrificed to the gods?
4. Offsprings of a so-called Osu family may live all their lives righteously, worthy of emulation. Do we as sane human beings sincerely insist that there is no remedy, while believing that Jesus Christ wiped away all our sins with his blood?

Okay, let us just say all Ibos who discriminate against so-labeled Osu's are hypocrites.

I am married to a so-called Diala. Had she been osu, perhaps the damn-all-consequences side of me would have been unleashed by now.  

I have Osu friends, I eat in their houses and they eat in mine. They are christians just like any christian working hard at it and until people whispered in my ears, I found nothing, saw nothing and thought nothing of it. Good thing is, it never even remotely affected our relationship.

Discrimination against Osus is hypocritical. Let us all stop it now!

If a C of O is cancelled, does it also empower the State to demolish whatever structure was erected on it? Especially in a fortnight?

If Daniel acquired it illegally, has there been any moves to prosecute him? Just curious.

As for the lesson, Nigerian politicians never learn that power is transient.

NCC, whatever you do, just get Globacom to deliver internet services when one pays. I parted with 5k two weeks ago and I still can't connect. Today is a miracle. What sort of ombudsman are you?

I don vex o!

This report is very valuable. It puts the current chasm between the leaders of Nigeria and the people of Nigeria in perspective. How a Head of State could ride without escort as the order of the day, just one car short of how I see British Prime Minister on TV, in sharp contrast to today's masquerade-chasing-convoy of all executive office holders.

This is just one point to make out of so many.

A president is silent sipping hennessey while his country men are dying.

Okay, this man will read newspapers at his appointed time and wonder if its talking about him or his dream.

The President cannot summon a governor. Both of them are elected. He can urge/invite the governor for a quick chat, something I believe they can still do on the phone given the circumstances.

How will Fashola get to Abuja? The airports are sleeping, except a speedy presidential jet (there are 22 of them) is scrambled asap.

If he goes by road, this makes me uncomfortable.

GEJ has sworn to some deity to continue feeding the group that fed his campaign. The CBN (whose governor he cannot whimsically replace) has warned that this volume of subsidy cannot be sustained, otherwise government will go flat broke.

As GEJ is determined to keep to his oath, he must pass the cost to the Nigerian people. Hmmm.

Lets see how this might play out. How else can one explain GEJ's sudden hardline attitude? Something he is not known for.

Now I'm counting his Hennessey bottles,

Global Fleet petrol stations (ENERGY) do not sell petrol. They do something that I cannot quite explain. Look closely, some of them even have grasses growing out of their storage tanks.

Are they part of the cabal that sends products across the borders?

I think they should all be buried in the church compound with their names marked on their epitaphs as a memorial that they died together during worship and the entire congregation will always be near them in remembrance.

The sultan is right, it is a fight between good and evil. But surely, evil resides within an entity. All we should do is to make sure we do nothing to condone, shield or tacitly encourage such entities.

It strikes me like she is too opinionated that she believes she doesn't need a PR class. Could also be that she is surrounded by sycophants who will never tell her the truth, that is if she ever calls for video reviews.

I believe that as a nation, we ought to take care of those who served us. Now this includes catering for their widows perhaps in form of a stipend (assuming she didn't have a job from which she earns a pension).

That said, the widows should know that Nigeria has become a nation of aberrations and the fact that they receive belated/no care from the government of the day should serve as an indication to them and the current First Lady that and indeed to us all that our beds will remain the way we made them, and we will have to lie on them that way.

Does Jonathan have real friends who live outside Abuja that can tell him he is not getting it right?

We were indeed gullible. GEJ is just more of the same.

@emmatok,
I did not understand a line from that tonne of rubbish. Does the writer speak english at all. Why is he deliberately obfuscating his points.
If you understood anything, please explain to me.

If energy must be expended, let it be directed at the inept, insincere and incoherent Federal Government inside Aso Rock, not at similarly innocent muslims. There is no sane muslim that supports Boko Haram. I heard a muslim man from Borno today complaining about BH and the fact that they have killed fellow muslims too.

I do no support any form of reprisal attacks because it is ultimately misdirected.

Anyone who has spewed tribal remarks here is a fool. What! How can we even justify our criticism of our governments over these years. All of you tribal bigots are just like them. Why does NL even allow threads to always derail. Can't you block these IP addresses?

Why can't we just have an intelligent discussion? I wonder how you all will fare as senators.

At age 12, Our Lord Jesus knew the Torah inside out. No one knows how, and He never told us. He only showed his depth by teaching in the Synagogues and leaving people to marvel at his knowledge.
All I see is glory being directed at the man's personality, instead of to Our Lord like Paul did in his letters to the early churches.

Before seeing this video, I came across a leaflet that advertised this Fireman's profile. He was advertising for his own glory, not for Our Lord's.

This sultan hinted that people are committing crimes and naming boko haram for it. This is an endorsement of boko haram, because we all know that the Police HQ and the UN bombings were done by BH. Does the sultan then mean that those two bombings were okay?

Nashville:
Both men are part of the problem and I believe they are treating Boko Haram with "kid's glooves". The extremist Sultan has not condemned Boko Haram and stopped short of saying they are justified to carry out such bombings. Jonathan on the other hand has said they are a burden we all have to live with. So my question is what good can come out of a meeting of these two idiots.

I believe they both know the sponsors of Boko Haram and they are meeting on trying to find a way to "settle" the sponsors with money, political appointments or access to Oil blocks.

This I believe. GEJ is just patronizing him. Why do we have SSS? Shouldn't GEJ be summoning them and quizzing the daylights out of them? Is the sultan responsible for his many followers gone astray (albeit guided by unseen hands)?

Is Nigeria a country, or just a clearing of land? mscheeew.

I have said it before. BH are just issuing these statements to make us continue to think along the Nigerian faultline of religion. They and their sponsors have a more sinister agenda far from islamizing Nigeria.

If they truly want to islamize Nigeria, they would have been building mosques aggressively throughout Nigeria and doing massive adverts and campaigns to lure Nigerians to Islam. With all the money available to them for travelling to Somalia, buying expendable cars to blow up and paying suicide bomber families, they should be able to do this. To assassinate their members of the National Assembly who have not for once mentioned a bill to recognize sharia law in their respective states is an easy task. Why are they not doing those? WHy have they not murdered northern leaders who did not islamize Nigeria while they were in power (IBB, Abdulsalam, Shagari)?

In a sense, GEJ is right about us waiting on BH to get tired. (I don't support GEJ's inactions)

I don't know if Buhari would have done a better job. Saying anything for or against will be utter speculation, of the stuff of stock markets and currencies.

However, I do believe some things such as these:

1. Buhari appears to me to speak with conviction, GEJ doesn't evoke such in his talk, instead, he appears tired, not able to concentrate and removed.
2. Buhari was never known to act democratically. How would he have fared in a democratic setting of Nigeria today?
3. There seems to be a conscious effort to prevent Nigerians from knowing the financiers behind Boko Haram.
4. I voted GEJ, but it is now evident that he is incapable of intelligent solutions and lacks self-will.

How can Boko Haram boldly say that they went o Somalia to get training and you keep mum as a president. On what flight did they travel? Is it difficult to heavily landmine or fenceout our Northern borderlines? What is the security vote for, to buy property abroad?

While we were dating, yes I cheated.

Since we got married, nope. And I don't intend to. I believe there is some kind of reward in keeping the marriage undefiled. Besides, I am just curious to know how it will feel being 100 years old and on my dying bed, admonishing my great grand children and grand children with a clear conscience not to cheat in their marriages.

Think about it.

1. The Nigerian elites and their companies will win the major Defense contract hinted in the Security Vote in the budget.
2. Nigerians will discover that the noised N1 trillion will not be realized from subsidy savings. (Because that figure was arrived at from bogus fuel consumption figures. The real fuel consumption figure will materialize when subsidy is lifted and there will be so much disappointment)
3. Fashola & Tinubu will grow richer on the Lekki Toll.
4. Ajah Residents will not protest the 2nd toll that is being currently built, but will do a one-day 'Occupy Chevron Toll Plaza' a day before it starts raping their pockets.
5. Euro debt crisis will reveal the new power brokers in Europe, and it will not be governments.
6. UK will go broke from the Olympics, this will force a crisis upon them and they will go cap in hand begging to join the Eurozone.
7. Iran will attack the US with a drone.
8. Kim Jong Un (the new North Korea leader) will start reading 'Dreams From My Father: A Story of Nuclear Bombs and Inheritance'
9. Nigerian skies will continue to remain safe, In Jesus Name, Amen!
10. Boko Haram will attempt the obvious, out of frustration.

GEJ is frustrating my citizenship by keeping quiet every time we have a disaster. Why can't he step out of Aso Rock and talk? Even when he talks, I don't have light to listen.

BTW, how did Azazi know that the bombs were thrown from a moving car as opposed to the Church security man's account? Or perhaps he was right, the bomb was detonated from the Camry which at the time of detonation, was a moving vehicle. Now I know how the security outfit in Nigeria interprets events.

LWKMD.

[Quote[He said although Muslims were in the majority in Nigeria they could not speak with one voice because they were not united.[quote][/Quote]

Based on what statistics? Does speaking with one voice mean agreeing to Islamize Nigeria because you are in the majority? As some northern muslims have strongly criticized Boko Haram, is this the premise upon which he is hinting at disunity?

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Abubakar, however, said that there was hope as Muslim leaders had identified the problems and were finding solutions to them.[/Quote]
Such identified problems include bombing Sambo's house because he is running with a southerner.

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“When did Boko Haram become an octopus with so many tentacles?

“When people commit crimes these days they hide under the name of boko haram" the Sultan lamented. (NAN)

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Is this his condemnation of BH, or envy that BH has become more popular than him, or a statement of approval for BH's bombing of Police HQ & UN building?

I have never met the sultan. But I only need to hear him speak to know him.

Akiika:
Fellow nigerians, see beyond your religious and ethnic sentiment and comment on issues objectively. Our real enemies are these political cabals determined to perpetually suck on our collective wealth. Until Nigerians muster courage to challenge these bad eggs, I'm afraid the incessant loss of innocent lives will continue. And to those of you that has dubbed this a religious war, this is exactly the game plan of BH's sponsors - to turn us against ourselves while they continue stealing our collective wealth. These has nothing to do with religion, pls broaden your knowledge and seek to know about other religions before making unguarded statements. In the Islamic faith, killing an innocent soul is likened to killing the entire human race and saving a single soul is likened to saving the entire human race, how do you think the same religion encourages violence? How long have you been co-existing with Muslims in the southern Nigeria? have you ever been bombed? When did these pointless bombing start? Where was BH during the previous administrations? Has anything changed In the Islamic faith that has now incorporated killing innocent civilians? This is just a case of political gladiators hiding under the disguise of religion to perpetrate their selfish agenda. My candid opinion is that if the government have been responsible enough to understand that education is vital for her citizenry, perhaps these uneducated northern youths would have been prone to brainwashing that leads them to committing these heinous crimes. Our security agency are toothless, we only hear of billions of naira budgeted for them, but we all know it ends in the pockets of politicians. We can cow as long as we want but the revolution is imminent, until it happens this disappointed entity called Nigeria may continue to witness these dastard acts.

Very compelling. I have had to muster courage to re-toe this line. But many times, the swelling sentiments when bombings like these occur provoke me to want to do something drastic against all muslims. But my friend Luqman is a muslim and he is not like these BH.

My main grouse now is GEJ. Apparently, he does not realize the times we live in now. He is quite unlucky that the world has dangerously advanced in such a way that events evoke reactions in split seconds, thanks to the internet and all these crazy devices we have today.
We are no longer in the IBB era when news of Zango-Kataf disturbances took weeks to spread around Nigeria, or when the scale of Kaduna riots took days and weeks to be understood.
Even as an ordinary citizen, I knew as at last year that environs around Suleja was a hotspot. Given that christmas day was remarkable, the police did not bother to sweep churches and worship centers within 200km radius of Suleja and Abuja. Its a shame. The entire security vote cannot be justified. Are there no profilers in the SSS?
If Jonathan continues to display this unpresidential attitude of his (keeping quiet when gut-wrenching events break in Jos, Kaduna, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Suleja. Abuja) and instead sending brainless and detached government officials to parade in front of TV cameras, he will go down in our history as the worst mistake we ever made as a people.
Killings have now become acceptable commonplace events in Nigeria. These are the kinds of things national addresses are made for, not an unintelligent petrol subsidy argument.
Jonathan, the clock is still ticking.

CBN Governor said this afternoon that corruption thrives because we create opportunities for rent. Minister for Petroleum Resources also said in the same forum that the kerosene we import is of the type that can be used for airlines as well, because the countries that export them do not find it profitable to refine the type of kerosene that can be used only for household.

My deduction is that by importing the higher grade kerosene (which airlines can use too), we have created an opportunity for rent, exactly what CBN Governor is against.

Having our own refineries in Nigeria that will refine on demand to suit our household demands will eliminate this opportunity for rent.

@Princek12,

Rising from the Commonwealth summit, and the disposition of both the British and US (more recently) governments to associate aid with recognition of gay rights, I would say it became an emergent priority to immediately tell the whole world what our stand was regarding the anti-nature act.

True, there are other pressing issues. But those issues cannot be handled by mere legislation alone. We all know that we want electricity and good infrastructure and there can be no debate on that.

Human beings have no right to choose their sexual orientation. It is ingrained in our makeup by an intelligence far higher than ours that we cannot even attain.

If you had a right, you might as well have chosen your sex while you were a fetus. Doesn't it baffle and awe you the art of creation?

Tinubu and Fashola have not been sincere. Period!

Whatever Tinubu has sown, he will surely reap. Time will always tell.

I might have some problems with Bakare, but I will not fail to identify with genuine issues when raised.

Spending so much on (internal) security guarantees nothing, especially when we do not have intelligent Intelligence Agencies.

I do not agree with any hint of amnesty for Boko Haram. While they have sought to impose their religious will on Nigeria, the militants of the Niger Delta only sought to assert their economic rights to fair existence. Amnesty is not and should not be a policy of the FG to mitigate violence against its people.

Bakare is obviously not too well informed on Lekki tolls. The issue is not the presence of a toll gate, but the frequency. Let him check if there is any 20 kilometer stretch of road anywhere in the world that has THREE toll gates.