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The dividends of the ex President I'd say was impressive. I will forever remain grateful for Benin-Ore road to Calabar. I know many will disagree but I know that the ex President effort made it possible.


GEJ I will forever remain grateful!!!

Coming to PH with armed tight military men shows that the ex governor is certainly culpable

This amount is unbelievably too small. Let us assume all monies from this amount is returned it means that the N5000.00 to 25 million poor undergraduate is certainly a mirage and a poor media propaganda since that amount cannot last for up to 6months because a yearly budget of the scheme will gulp more than N2 trillion.


My opinion.!

ORACLE1975:
I must say I like the bold move of the Jonathan Ministers because from my humble but candid observation, I think the APC has no
agenda and they represents a crop of old and failed politicians who are bereft
of leadership ideas and experiences. Each time I read news from Nigeria, I am
appalled by the arrogant insinuations of the APC and its bad mouthing the
Jonathan administration, even though it is no longer in power. This APC
strategy is one clear characteristic of poor and inexperienced leadership.
While I am not a politician and would never want to be, I would very much love
to contribute my quota to develop Nigeria when I come home. I want APC to learn
from great leaders like the pragmatic and resilient Barack Obama. When Obama
came to power in 2008, the US economy was so bad that it was in deep recession.
The magnitude of such economic disaster impacted the whole global economy that
it plunged into a level as bad as the great depression. Obama did not rule by
making Bush a reference point at every instances or wasting his time conducting
any probe of the Bush administration. Instead, he tackled the problems he met
head long. It is to Obama's credit that the world was steered out of recession
and the global economy became flamboyant once again. Unemployment rate in the
US is now 5.2% down from 9.1% when Obama took power. Even at this present time
when global oil prices have fallen, and big economies like Russia and China are
seeing their surpluses turn to deficit, the US can boast of having one of the
strong economy in the world. The lesson is simple: good leaders do not look for
scapegoats for their own failures. They do not continue pointing accusing
fingers each time reality stare them on the face. They instead put plugs to contain
the problems and stop them from getting worse. The present Nigerian leadership
seems not to know the problem facing the nation. They dont seem to have ideas. The
only ideas they seem to have is how to demonize PDP and cast aspersions on the
people who served the country in the last administration. Noise making, we all
know, cannot solve problems. Noises about stolen funds and waiting until the
funds are recovered before one can start ruling is cheap blackmail. When Buhari
came to power years back, among the problems he said he is fighting was
nepotism. But nepotism of sort is what Nigeria is seeing from his current appointments.
The President should roll out his agenda and his plans to make Nigeria great
even with the limited resources he met on ground. His ability to start working
and not talking about money that has already been spent, will engrave his name
in the annals of history. We Nigerians both home and in diaspora are ready to
work with him. Throwing muds and casting aspersions all the time is getting too
boring and stale, and is a sign of rascality, ineptitude, and an area boy
approach to politicking. It is only in Nigeria and Africa that such leadership
trait is lauded as an achievement. Dear President Buhari, history beckons on
you. Do not let people who have malice and hatred in their heart or axes to
grind drag you into their tirade. If you should be angry over anything, your
anger should be directed at audit Departments in all the Ministries and
parastatals where lootings took place. They earn fat salaries for doing no job,
and they drive shinny cars and live in luxurious homes, and now want you to abandon
your enormous job of governance and do their jobs of checking ledgers.
BUHARI PLEASE SETTLE DOWN.

Good thinking! Good product!!! You have said it all. I think many things will happen between now and 2019 but none of them resemble GEJ and his ex ministers ever going to jail. The reason is simple! Media propaganda.

Credible people are found mostly in the North. We are indeed happy for this.

At the fullness of time he will make the appointments go round the geopolitical zone

The new government in power will take a long time in stabilizing democracy. I think the former government may have been a better one.

Snr special assistant to former president Jonathan (public affairs), Doyin Okupe has described both the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its counterpart All Progressives Congress, APC as two sides of the same coin saying that APC may fail but PDP will not be an acceptable alternative to majority of Nigerians now or in future.
Okupe made the remarks in a statement he published on his Facebook account on Thursday on the necessity for PDP to reform itself as political party.
Read his full statement
Okupe: Mind my roar
It was a great news to hear the formation of a body to drive the mobilisation of members of the pdp under the distinguished leadership of High Chief Dokpesi.
I personally felt good that at last some people were thinking of the future of the party.
However I sincerely do not think mobilisation is the immediate thing the Pdp needs now.
The party has suffered very serious bashing if not bastadisation from the sustained avalanche of assaults from the gigantic propaganda machinery of the now ruling party the APC.
The credibility of the party as a veritable political alternative to the APC has been nearly irreparably damaged.
Some of the recent disclosures and more that may come up from the impending probes will further damage the national acceptability of the party.
At the end of the day the APC may not meet up the expectations of Nigerians or may in fact fail out rightly over time but the pdp as it is presently constituted will not be an acceptable alternative to majority of Nigerians now or in future.
The APC and the pdp has become two sides of the same coin. No clear philosophy. No ideology or central motivating theme. No clear policy objectives. No true leadership. No defining party character or style. Only contestants, aspirants and office seekers No party discipline, pedigree or ethics..
The truth is that some people put together a strong coalition to wrestle power from the military. That coalition gave birth to pdp which held the power for 16years until some other people put up another coalition for the sole purpose of wrestling power from pdp. This they successfully did in march 2015.
The time has come for the PDP, if it must remain politically relevant, to total overhaul and REFORM itself, engage Nigerians in a new coalition for the sole purpose of putting our dear country on the true path to the true, real and the enduring change that will once and for all establish us as a major global player. Not pretenders that we presently are.
The PDP must reform lest it dies, God forbids, a painful and insidious death.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/apc-may-fail-pdp-not-an-alternative-okupe/

APC really loves 20biliion. Check this: $20B NNPC fund missing-Sanusi Lamido Stella Oduah stole Ñ20B Diezani Madueke unremitted funds now $20B Nigeria Minting Cooperation N20B missing.


Could it be that some people have something with 20billion that we don't know,?
Just asking.

Here comes another Northerner again. SW has been scammed indeed

macof:
1. accepting foreign religions, thereby creating a mentality in servitude to foreigners and their beliefs. ..while demonizing our ways
2. fighting ourselves thereby enriching foreigners
3. envy, misplaced priorities
4. Big ethnicities didn't come together to build one powerful Nation...they preferred to be scattered into smaller independent kingdoms

I think I can't agree with you less.

tpiander:
dunno.
maybe the black colour.

I think is more of our habit rather than colour

enkay2go:
I got the msg 2fridays ago. I was at their office last week Monday.if u see crowd,omo!only to be told no service.I went the next day,I was given a number, No 75.i just left cos I had other important things to do.i went very early on the third day. I got the shocker of my life. I was no 91. People no sleep for their house?I left there by 4pm. If no be say my number don tay and e don go far eh,I for throwey the SIM.

If not say I link the line with my new National ID Card that I am yet to get I will throw away the sim card if I go to their office and find out a long queue. Because I don't want wahala again.

cc:Ishilove moved this to where it belongs you will be helping someone.

Rich4god:
I received the message too... but I seem not to understand it... is this a directive from ncc or what. how abt the sim registration that we did some years back...

I got similar message too but I have done my sim registration for a long time. I bought the line in 2004. I really don't know what they are saying about new sim validation

Every thing in Nigeria now centre on oil.The day oil will finish that will be the end of this entity called Nigeria

The truth is that government have no business being in business. Nigeria Airways, NITEL,MTEL NEPA etc shows how government have been poor business managers. So VP, you are not correct on the issue of privatization.

These people too like use the word massive, monumental, mind bugling, epitome etc

Abuja – The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said on Monday that official corruption and privatization of public enterprises led to massive losses in public revenue.
He said this while delivering a key speech at the 55th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja.
He said the penchant for graft was high and Nigerian spent a lot of time meant for creativity to pursue wealth.
“Official corruption and privatization of public resources have caused massive losses in public revenue.
“Indeed the truth is stranger than fiction in this matter of corruption in the public service.
“Dysfunctional government bureaucracies, waste and misallocation of resources.
“A great deal of talent and enterprise that should focus on creativity and innovation is concentrated in wealth seeking activities.’’
The vice president urged lawyers to find means of shedding the public garb that justice could be bought to remove the legal profession from all sorts of compromise.
Osinbajo said that enforcing contracts and the general area of dispute resolution in the country were bugged down by ”judicial process that is slow, burdensome and notoriously open to dilatory tactics.
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`Perhaps even more damaging to attracting investments is the largely and compelling narrative that Justice can be purchased.
“This is a major problem of perception in our justice system and of cause a major problem of bringing business in the country.
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`Even local investment suffers when there is a sense that the Justice system can be compromised.’’
Osinbajo said that it was absolutely important that we deal with the issue of integrity in our judicial system even as we deal with the overall question of corruption.
According to him, there is no question at all that if we don’t handle corruption squarely our justice system will be so degraded that it will be practically impossible to get very much done or to encourage anyone to come into our economy.
He advised the NBA members to find ways of ensuring that authentic dispute resolution were not caught up in the slow moving justice system.
“Applications of all types in the civil courts to stop or delay arbitrary processes run their slow course in many business disputes.
“An economy that must provide jobs for 80 per cent of graduates from our universities and a youth unemployment population of 40 per cent cannot afford destructive delays in creating these wealth opportunities.’’
The vice president said it was the plan of the administration to initiate consultations at the highest levels of government to re-write the story of the nation’s business environment.
Osinbajo mentioned the challenges in the power, infrastucture, employment, and monetary policies and said the administration was committed to finding lasting solutions to them.
In an interview with correspondents, a former President of the NBA, Mr Olisa Agbakoba, (SAN), said that the citizenry needed more action from the government to demonstrate the need for change in the country.
He said the NBA was glad that government was talking tough on corruption and that the association was ready to key into the programme.
“One of the challenges we are posing to government is that we have had so much of talking on different issues.
“What we would now like to see is action.
“So, if for instance you say you want to fight corruption, in what way?
“How will you be able to recover all the loot because access to that is easy?
“I think the essence of the conference is that when we leave here government can begin to take action that we can measure.
“If you want to turn around poverty we can see so. If you want to see new jobs, NBA is demanding action from our government.’’
Agbakoba said it was not true that counsel were deliberately slowing down legal processes and said it was the responsibility of judges to speed up all legal matters.(NAN)


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/corruption-privatisation-cause-massive-losses-in-public-revenue-says-osinbajo/

Falana image was cloned !

To me the black man has been enslaved in time immemorial by his consciousness and not by European slave traders.The Black man has a poor attitudes to many things which grows to form his consciousness and with time it became an established way of life.

[quote author=INTROVERT post=37282226][/quote]Are you seeing a vision of a possible FP?

Sometime last year I watched the Hollywood blockbuster titled ‘’12 Years A Slave’’ starring Brad Pitt and the Nigerian-born actor, Chiwetel Ejiofor. After watching the film, I was at a loss for words. It was a masterpiece. It was a powerful rendition of a true and heroic story. After watching the film I could not help asking myself the following question: what did the black man ever do to deserve such wickedness and suffering? What did our forefathers do to deserve such barbarity and mindless torture in the hands of those that held them captive in a distant land?
May God forgive those that brutalised and enslaved us. I cannot hate them. I can only love and forgive them because only love and forgiveness can drive out hate and heal the wounds that they inflicted on the souls of our people. What they did to us was far greater, far more damaging and far more devastating than the Germans ever did to the Jews. Though we are compelled to forgive by scripture, we must never forget.
And never must such a thing be allowed to happen again. No minority, whether he or she be black, brown, yellow, red, white or in any other way ‘’different’’ should be allowed to suffer like that or to feel the pain of humiliation, indignity, servitude, persecution and the denial of the most basic and fundamental rights because we are all God’s children.
It is incumbent on us all to stand up for the weak, the vulnerable, the deprived, the despised, the enslaved, the voiceless, the ‘’different’’ and the persecuted wherever and whoever they are because to love others as we love ourselves is God’s primary law.
They must never be allowed to walk alone because it was that spirit of standing up for others and fighting for the weak and helpless and the display of such love and selflessness that eventually freed the so-called ‘’slave’’ from his hideous captivity in the film titled ‘’12 Years A Slave’’. It was the goodness, love, kindness courage and inherent power of those who refused to remain silent and who were ready to take a risk and stand up for truth and justice that caused the man to regain his freedom and to be returned to his family in Washington after being enslaved for twelve long years. What a man. What a film. What a great and powerful rendition of truth and what a testimony of man’s inhumanity to man.
What compelling evidence and confirmation of the eternal truth that tells us that no matter how dark the night may be, ‘’joy comes in the morning’’. What an affirmation of the undeniable fact that ultimately good always triumphs over evil. What a magnificent example of God’s power, grace, manifold blessings and great mercy. I urge as many as possible to find the time to watch ‘’12 Years A Slave’’. You will never be the same again. Having watched this film I believe that the case for reparations for the slave trade must continue to be made. If the world can give the State of Israel back to the Jews as compensation for persecuting them for thousands of years and killing 6 million of them during the Second World war alone why can’t that same world pay reparations to the African for enslaving him for thousands of years and for killing at least 30 million of our people over the ages.
Why can’t the western powers be made to pay reparations to Africa for what they subjected our people to even after the institution of slavery and the slave trade was formally abolished and particularly during the colonial era? As a glaring example of the sheer cruelty of the Europeans during that period, King Leopold 11, who ruled Belgium from 1865 to 1909, actually owned the Congo and all that was in it as part of his personal estate. By virtue of his supposedly blue blood, one man owned millions of Africans and all their land and chattels even though he resided thousands of miles away in a distant Europe.
Such was this man’s innate brutality and monstrous power that he orchestrated and directed the slaughter of no less than 15 million Congolese Africans whilst he ruled from Brussels. This was so even though he never set his foot in Africa throughout his long reign. Yet the world sat by silently and did nothing. As a matter of fact, many of his fellow Europeans actually applauded his actions and described him as a good example and indeed the epitome of all that was noble and all that ought to be expected from the very best of European royalty. I ask again, what did the black man do to deserve this?
What about Cecil Rhodes, the Englishman man who, according to European historians, ‘’literally and lawfully bought’’ a large part of southern Africa and all that was in it and who named that new frontier after himself by calling it ‘’Rhodesia’’? He also sent millions of Africans to their early graves. This is the same Cecil Rhodes who established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for Oxford University and whose money has helped, and still helps, to educate some of the western world’s most distinguished and celebrated leaders by paying for their fees at Oxford. One of those leaders was a young man by the name of Bill Clinton who took immense pride in being a Rhodes Scholar and who later became the President of the United States of America.
Little did Clinton and all those other ‘’great’’ future leaders of the western world know that the money that was used to pay for their ‘’Rhodes scholarship’’ at Oxford was in fact blood money which had its origins and roots in the suffering of the tormented souls, wasted lives and barbaric slaughter of millions of dispossessed and enslaved southern Africans that were bought, sold, maimed, enslaved and butchered in the diamond mines of Cecil Rhodes’ De Beers company. It was this pernicious state of affairs that provoked Mr. Ronald King to post the following words on his Facebook page on august 3rd 2015:
‘’Every black child in grade school is taught that Adolf Hitler killed 6 million Jews and is the worse human being that ever lived. On the other hand our children are taught that the ‘’Right Honorable’’ Cecil Rhodes, the founder of the De Beers diamond company in South Africa, who killed ten times that number of Africans is a hero and a statesman and if they study hard and do well in school they may win the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world. They don’t mention that those scholarships are paid for by the blood of their ancestors’’.
Such was the power of Rhodes’ sinister, evil, pervasive and malevolent legacy that it took over 100 years and a bitter and prolonged 15 year civil war (from 1964 to 1979) for the black Africans of that country to secure their rights, to be recognised and acknowledged as being human beings, to win the right to vote and to install democracy and majority rule.
It was only after all this was achieved in 1979 that the name ‘’Rhodesia’’ was dropped like a hot potato and was changed to ‘’Zimbabwe’’. I ask again, what did the black man do to deserve this? We need not go into the sufferings of our black brothers and sisters in apartheid South Africa at the hands of the white Boers from the day that the Dutchman, Van Riebek, arrived on the southern African coast in 1604 and saw what he graphically described as ‘’stinking black dogs’’. We need not talk about the humiliation and enslavement of our fellow black Africans at the hands of the Arabs of the Sudan, whether it be in Darfur or Southern Sudan for over 500 years.
We need not go into the sheer barbarity and inhuman suffering that our brothers and sisters were subjected to in the sugar cane fields and the coffee and bannana plantations of the West Indies and South America for many centuries. Everywhere we look throughout world history the story is the same: Africa and Africans have been pillaged, raped, tortured, humiliated, enslaved, butchered, wrenched from their families, scattered, bought and sold, considered as chattel and treated with the most explicit and extreme forms of brutality and violence by those who have a different skin color to us and those from outside our shores.
Yet still there have been no reparations and no formal apology. Instead what they have given us today is the ‘’second slavery’’ of foreign debt and humiliating servitude by every single African country to the western monetary agencies such as the IMF, the Paris Club, the Bretton Woods Institutions and the World Bank. Those evil and opaque bodies and their paymasters and agents are today’s slave masters and they have turned successive African governments into little more than desperate pimps, shameless prostitutes and indebted and pliant little beggars.
They have squeezed the very life out of our people, destroyed the future of our respective nations and blighted our collective destinies. This is neo-colonialism in its most primitive and raw form. I ask again, what did the black man do to deserve this?
Yet, thankfully there is still hope and God’s power still remains sure and ever present. He is ever faithful and His promises are ever sure.
Nothing drives that point home more than the fact that despite all we have suffered over the centuries in the hands of those that enslaved us and that viewed us as nothing more than worthless chattel, today it is a black man of free African descent, whose forefathers were never slaves and whose proud ancestry can be traced to modern-day Kenya on the east African coast, that is the most powerful man in the world.
That man’s name is Barack Obama, President of the United States of America. The fact that such a man with such a heritage can be President of a nation that once prided itself on slavery and that once regarded the black man as nothing more than a glorified chimpanzee is a testimony to the power of God. Yet the African is not alone in this respect.
Apart from the Jews, the Red Indians of North America, the Armenians of Asia and the Aborigines of Australia there is only one other group of people that have suffered almost as much as the African in the hands of other races in human history. Those people are those that were once known as the ‘’serfs’’- the slave under-class of slavic Russia. Like the African, the serfs and peasants of Russia were also treated with disdain, regarded as chattel and viewed as being sub-human by the Tsars and ruling class of the Russian Empire.
They also suffered immeasurably in their millions for thousands of years under successive Russian governments and rulers. Like the African, they were also ‘’owned’’ by their rulers and they lived or died at the pleasure of the nobility. It is yet another irony of fate and another testimony to the awesome power of God that today the second most powerful man on the planet is a proud, confident and strong-willed Russian whose ancestry can be traced directly to the serfs of mother Russia and who comes from equally humble origins. His name is Vladimer Putin, the President of the Russian Federation.
The world has indeed been handed over by God to the seed and lineage of those that were once oppressed and that were once treated as sub-human by others. The meek and the once despised have indeed inherited the earth. Yet that is not good enough. We have far more to do. The case for reparations can and must still be made for Africa and Africans in particular and we must begin to make that case without fear or favor right from today. We must pick up the gauntlet and take over the baton from where others left off. We must acknowledge the fact that if we, as men and women of color, do not do it ourselves no-one will do it for us.
May the souls of all those that suffered and perished as slaves continue to rest in peace. God bless Africa.



www.thisdaylive.com/articles/what-did-the-black-man-do-to-deserve-this-suffering-/218103/

dammiecool:
87 Naira in ph

Same here in one filling station in ABULOMA. In fact the attendant was angry that they are selling fuel at that price if I didn't check he would have cheated me. Ever since DPR Members came to PH they've been selling fuel at the approved price. I have been buying at the rate of N120 for a long time.

mikolo80:
no rank xerox. I that's against the rules
what was your original plan
don't lie

When I read through the write up from punch I know I am about to go through hypocrisy by Nigerians and certainly I was never disappointed. You see, the many people who have looted this nation from the clerk in the office to the President of this nation are within us. They are our brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, Church member etc. We never raised an eye brow on their source of wealth. So why will it be now. The issues I believed is that of consciousness or mentality. That is why I said maybe I will just act as you did.

nortcentrallord:
Where are all the inbred pompous swine who have been calling this innocent woman, an epitome of intelligence, a Nigerian icon all sorts of name because of tribal politics, jealousy and share hate? The measure you give is the measure you will receive. Some of you will never achieve one third of her children's achievements before you kiss your caskets. Instead of praising this woman for a job well done, we want to sacrifice her on the alter of tribalism. Agree or not, she is a world icon. A one and only kind in the whole of Africa.

My dear I know that she must be better than most of our politicians To me this woman, indeed is a good woman. For her to maintain an integrity to the extent that the International Community find her worthy of holding very sensitive post in World Bank means that at least she must be better than most of our politicians that we all know have not worked in any other establishment other than in politics and yet amassed so much wealth. Let us take for instance. Where has the ex governor of Rivers state Amaechi worked to have so much money? What about those other politicians? I mentioned my state governor here. I don't know of others. You can add yours.

To me this woman, indeed is a good woman. For her to maintain an integrity to the extent that the International Community find her worthy of holding very sensitive post in World Bank means that at least she must be better than most of our politicians that we all know have not worked in any other establishment other than in politics and yet amassed so much wealth. Let us take for instance. Where has Amaechi worked to have so much money? What about those other politicians? I mentioned my state governor here. I don't know of others. You can add yours.

mikolo80:
what would you do, that was the question?

would you return it so another person will steal it
or divorce your wife or husband so (s)he can buy a new better husband or wife

personally i would do same, gET loan from bank,and build a city with it, or buy lots of tractors for rent or buy lots of high capacity buses.

then share proceeds in scholarship
anala
hospitals
roads
transformers
etc in my community

Maybe I will act same way as you.

[quote author=bigiparara post=37228942][/quote]Front page. Good one dedicated to my golden twins Omuani and Osuani

cc: Lalasticlala. Your opinion

macpetrus:
outside abi...? 100million is not a joke... I might even go deaf for a day.,....

lol

Dedicate this FP to my golden twins Omuani and Osuani, and diamond wife. Much love and blessing





www.punchng.com/feature/adam-eve/if-your-spouse-confides-in-you-that-heshe-stole-n100m-from-government-what-will-you-do/