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madamoringo:
Ibos don't need government! What has presidency and power benefitted the north, south-west or south-south?

Again, Ibos don't need government or being in government so far as they can do their buying and selling business.

This is what you need to hear from them and I have told you now.

Igbos need to seriously learn to co-exist with others and Respect their Hosts. You hate Hausas and Yorubas and yet Igbos have the largest of his members in diaspora. Can a Yoruba MAn aspire to be HoR member from Aba Constituency or Can an HAusa man contest election in Onitsha??
The 2015 elections has further pitched the Igbo people against the Yorubas and only time will tell what the outcome will be. Yorbaas in Lagos must begin to think inwards before you start hearing Logos-Ibo just as they have Delta-Ibo etc.

Niger Delta and the Igbo NAtion has shot themselves in the Leg. anyways, APC will compensate them with executive posts to compeemt what they should haev gotten in the legislative arm.
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SS and SE must start doing away with Ethnic politics. It is over 40yrs we finished Civil Wr. HAte does not take you anywhere.

While i urge GMB to embrace reconciliation with all cadre of the polictical class, it must not be done at the expense of the Nation state. Among other things, He should:
[1]. Certain portions of the 2015 Budget should be expunged...New Presidential aircraft, All oversea training of civil servants be suspended. What have they done wih all their trips abroad??They only use it to clean up the treasury.
[1]. All political office holders in the Executive and Legislative arm of Government should take a minimum of 25% pay-cut in line with the realities of current financial state of the Nation.
[2] Steve Oronsaye report on harmonization of Federal government MDAs should be re-examined and implemented. This will not necessarily lead to mass retrenchment, but reduced number of Chief Executive, DGs, Executive Directors and hence reduction in recurrent expenditure. Our government is too bloated to sustain meaningful economic growth. Why cant EFCC& ICPC be merged? So many parastatals have so many overlapping functions already.
[3]. The Original copies of the PwC forensic audit of NNPC should be re-obtained from the audit firm and re-visited. The recommendations implemented and all indicted officers prosecuted.
[4]. Develop a modern system of procurement and management of contracts and government assets in such a way as to monitor fund release, pricing and prevent inflation of contract, inducement-for-award etc.
[5]. Federal government should focus more on Power generation and Transmission, in line with the Power sector road map through NIPP projects while state governments should be encouraged to link up with the private in their domain to manage distribution and metering
[6].EFCC & ICPC should be merged and an incoruptible person be appointed to take charge.
[7] Report of the judicial reforms panel be quickly implemented. This will allow speedy trial of whoever has stolen or will be stealing money from the pot of soup as soon as we enter MAy 29. Corruption must be fought head-on.
[8] Develop an educational policy that seeks to make RATING of all academic staff in Nigerian university a compulsory thing. A benchmark will therefore be needed for professors to remain in their professorial status. This will gear up improvement in teaching, learning and quality of our Universities.
[9] Quick attention should be given to revamp our ailing refineries and bring them to full capacity. The refineries should thereafter be set for privatization. A target date should be set to end the current Fuel subsidy regimes. This will require purposeful leadership and very excellent public awareness. We need subsidy in Education and Health sector more than we need subsidy in Petrol.
[10]. More focus should be paid to developing middle levels and lower level skills capable of driving industrial development. Formal training institutions fro training artisans, technicians etc. need to be established and graduates from such given greater opportunities. Nigeria today has more big degree certificates than the economy requires. The law of demand and supply has made even Medical doctors resort to part time employment.
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Feel free to add your quick fix steps you want the new government to take.....

Stop been a slow poke. Jonathan cannot beat the odds to win this election. TAke a look at this permutation and analyse yourself.

Total PVC collected in NIgeria=56,431,255.
Total for SS&SE=15,040,015.
Lets assume 90% voters came to vote in SS&SE =13,536013.5.
Assuming GEJ won by 98% in SS&SE =13,265293.23.

SW,NC,NE&NW total voter= 41391240.

Assuming average 60% turn out in NW,NE,NC, SW =24,834,744.
Assuming GMB wins average of 60% in NC, NE, NW, SW=14,900,846.4.

GMB will still win by a margin of 1,635,553.17.

Will the son of Ebele be able to pull through these odds
Reduce GMB win to average of 55%, HE will still win Mr Goodluck whoose PhD thesis we still cannot see.

Ire ooooooooooooooooo

Prof Faroumbi of the Biochemistry Department, University of Ibadan has been ranked the number scientist in Nigeria according to the webometric ranking of academic citation.

http://www.icampusng.com/2015/03/ui-professor-olatunde-farombi-emerges-nigerias-number-one-scientist/

I represent the Premier University

Their belly is their god.

Mr President,
The bible says Deep calleth unto Deep.
The English proverb narrates it this way: Birds of a feather, flock together.
The yorubas have it in their record: Eni bi ahun, ni ri ahun he (Only somebody like tortoise picks a tortoise)

Summary: Show me your advisers and i will tell whom you are. YOu are clueless and you ahve attracted your likes.
We will endure you till MAy 29.

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Mr President,
The bible says Deep calleth unto Deep.
The English proverb narrates it this way: Birds of a feather, flock together.
The yorubas have it in their record: Eni bi ahun, ni ri ahun he (Only somebody like tortoise picks a tortoise)

Summary: Show me your advisers and i will tell whom you are. YOu are clueless and you ahve attracted your likes.
We will endure you till MAy 29.

CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!![/size][size=8pt][/size][size=8pt][size=8pt][/size]

Pls lets continue to encourage our girls/ladies, sisters and brethren that abortion breaks the heart of God Ina similar way murder does. Abstinence is key and if not, free condoms can be picked in some government hospitals naaaa

First, let us not simplify the challenge. There are no blacks and whites. It is not a contest between saints and demons, not one between salvation and damnation. If anything, it is closer to a fork in the road where uncertainty lurks - whichever choice is made. Someone in the media has called it a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea, another between Apocalypse and Salvation. The reasons are not far-fetched. They are firmly lodged in the trauma of memory and the rawness of current realities. Well, at least one can dialogue with the devil, even dine with that creature with the proverbial long spoon. With the deep blue sea however, deceptively placid, even the best swimmers drown. The problem for some is deciding which is the devil, which the deep blue sea. For most, instructively, the difference is clear. There are no ambiguities, no qualifications, no pause for reflection - they are simply raring to go! I envy them.

​Let all partisans of progress however constantly exercise self-restraint in assessment and expectations. Facts remain facts and should never be tampered with. Verification is nearly always available from records and – the testimonies of witnesses. Yet memory may prove faulty, so even those who were alive during any political regimen should exercise even greater caution and not get carried away by partisanship in any cause, however laudable or apparently popular. In the interest of truth, embarrassing though it is, we are obliged to correct all such tendencies openly, since revisionism is a travesty of history, and never more treacherously so than in a time of critical democratic choices. I apologize in advance to the authors of the instance that I must now use as an example, apologize because it does not come close to the most atrocious revisionist stances propagated in the past few weeks. However, it is one of the most recent, is born of noble intent, but serves to remind us of the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. From that same origination however also came a corrective, and that very adjustment offers us optional routes in the way we deal with historical facts, especially when we find ourselves on the same side of commitment to the positive in a political cause.

​In recalling, or commenting on any event that involves victim and violator, there is a difference between “It never happened” or “it was the accepted norm for the time” etc. etc. on the one hand, and, on the other, “we have forgiven what did happen”. Both positions converge at the point of “moving on”. One, the first, however disparages and trivializes the suffering of – in this instance – victims of the abuse of power, dead or alive. In so doing, it also desecrates the memory of these and other victims. The second approach insists on its entitlement to justice, waives that right by drawing on a store of magnanimity and even – places the violator on notice! Its example also challenges the adamantly unforgiving, challenges them to join in an exercise of their own capacity for obliterating the past, acting in the collective interest, and perhaps attaining closure.

​When I read the statement attributed to a scion of a political family that his father was “not jailed” but was merely “invited for interrogation as required by military tradition and policies then”, I felt deeply offended, but mostly saddened. For this adjustment of reality provided evidence of yet another lesson unlearnt. Exoneration through denial, and without evidence of remorse or restitution by a violator is a serious lapse in public accountability, and an invitation to a repeat by the offender – or other aspiring emulators. In any crisis, it is not unusual to find oneself in bed with ideologically embarrassing partners. Let it be understood that this does not require that we actually begin to dress them in saintly robes.

​What makes our situation especially galling is the fervid intrusion of some opportunistic sanitizers who bear direct, sometimes even originating responsibility for the plight in which a people have been placed. These are individuals who should be doing penance, walking from one corner of the nation to the other covered in the equivalent of ‘sackcloth and ashes’ for their role in bringing the nation to its lamentable condition. Yet they insist on remaining obsessively in the public face, preening themselves up for recognition as the primary forces behind a nation’s renewed efforts to redeem and re-determine itself. They are the promoters – actively or by default – of the current national trauma of a Boko Haram malignancy, the anti-corruption rhetoricians who however believe that they have literally got away with murder. Rather than make reparations in any number of unobtrusive ways, they impudently exploit a permissive, and despairing atmosphere for regaining relevance. The nation should watch out for their antics, even while exploiting them to the hilt for the overall remedial purpose. They owe the nation. We must ensure however that they are incapacitated from making more mischief. I am consoled that not all the Nigerian electorate is as simple-minded and gullible as they believe.

​The nation finds herself at a critical turn, where the wrong choice places it beyond all hope of remaining intact – and by ‘intact’ I do not refer to breast-beating mantras such as the “non-negotiability of Nigerian sovereignty”. I am speaking here of the viability of whatever calls itself the Nigerian nation, its functional proof, the ability to generate its very existence and cater for the future. Since I still have some time invested in that commodity, the future – with apologies to impatient Internet Obituarists – it becomes impossible to refrain from direct participation in the process of, or the encouragement of others, in the process of making a choice. In any case, I am compromised by the wiles of unprincipled campaigners whose pastime is to propagate a choice I have never declared. It is meagre consolation that I am not alone in being subjected to such fraudulence. Even the dead, who cannot answer back, have not been spared. In and out of context, the ongoing campaign appears to have appropriated any public figure as free-for-all material, to be quoted out of turn, his or her utterances mangled and distorted, forced into incongruous contexts, and sometimes, even in a counter-productive manner, although such desperate campaigners appear blissfully unaware of this. What is being overlooked however is that, while facts remain constant, the environment evolves, and may play a tempering role in the very evocation of a record of the condemable acts of governance. I am not speaking of time now – as a dulling agent of painful memory - but of the very actualities of the present as an advocate of – at the very least – remission.

​ The era of this election offers an incontrovertible proof of that reminder. Let us leave aside for a moment the parlous condition of the Nigerian landscape and look outwards for some inspiration. We live in an era that we, on this continent, may be forgiven for inscribing as the era of The Mandelan example. Mandela’s life trajectory remains a lighthouse in any voyage into uncharted waters – anywhere and any time that a people’s history is cited. Confessedly, we can only adopt bits and pieces of this Monumental Examplar. The bit that is called upon in this instance is a virtue that is aptly designated civic courage, an aspect of courage that enables one to make a leap of faith when confronted with a near intractable choice.

​Let me state, right on the heels of that exhortation that the acceptance of this imposition by society demands in its turn a massive reciprocity, a condition of individual moral courage that manifests itself in the ability to express contrition for the past, with its implicit commitment to an avoidance of such acts as violated the loftiest entitlements of human existence such as – freedom. We have no apology for declaring that our civic Muse is, summatively - Freedom. The right of choice. Volition. The Right of participation in the modalities of collective existence including its rituals, the sum of which is routinely known as – Democracy. Its antithesis is enslavement, and we who have undergone centuries of enslavement and disdain from the imperious will of outsiders, have no intention of changing slave masters, irrespective of race, colour, religion, social pedigree, profession or political ideology. This is why, apart from a few deranged species that have removed themselves from the definition of humanity, we are united against the tyranny of Boko Haram and other proponents of chains – visible and invisible - as the rightful portion of their fellow beings.

​Through participation, direct or vicarious, we find ourselves landed within a system that has thrown up two choices – realistically speaking, that is. Formally, we dare not ignore the claims of other contestants. Of the two however, one is representative of the immediate past, still present with us, and with an accumulation of negative baggage. The other is a remote past, justly resented, centrally implicated in grievous assaults against Nigerian humanity, with a landscape of broken lives that continues to lacerate collective memory. However – and this is the preponderant ‘however’ – is there such a phenomenon as a genuine “born-again”?

​It is largely around this question that a choice will probably be made. It is pointlessly, and dangerously provocative to present General Buhari as something that he provably was not. It is however just as purblind to insist that he has not demonstrably striven to become what he most glaringly was not, to insist that he has not been chastened by intervening experience and – most critically - by a vastly transformed environment – both the localized and the global. Of course we have been deceived before. A former ruler whom, one presumed, had been purged and transformed by a close encounter with death, and imprisonment, has turned out to be an embodiment of incorrigibility on several fronts, including a contempt for law and constitution. Would it be different this time round? Has subjection to police tear-gas and other forms of violence, like the rest of us mortals, and a spell in close detention, truly ‘civilianized’ this contender? I have studied him from a distance, questioned those who have closely interacted with him, including his former running-mate, Pastor Bakare, and dissected his key utterances past and current. And my findings? A plausible transformation that comes close to that of another ex-military dictator, Mathew Kerekou of the Benin Republic. Despite such encouraging precedents however, I continue to insist that the bridge into any future expectation remains a sheer leap of faith. Such a leap I find impossible to concede to his close rival, since we are living in President Jonathan’s present, in an environment that his six years in office have created and now seek to consolidate. That is the frightening prospect. It requires more than a superhuman effort to concede to the present incumbent a springboard for a people’s critical leap.​

​I address only those who require no further persuasion that the present is untenable and intolerable – and from virtually every aspect of national life. All men and women of discerning can separate actualities from their exaggerated rendition, can peel off the distracting gloss that is smeared all over our social condition by those who seek to blind us to an unjust and avoidable social predicament. We have tasted the condiments of an incipient police state. We recognize acts of outright fascism in a dispensation that is supposedly democratic. We have endured a season of stagnation in development and a drastic deterioration in the quality of existence. We are force-fed the burgeoning culture of impunity, blatantly manifested in massive corruption. We feel insulted by the courtship and indulgence of common criminals by the machinery of power. The list is endless but above it all, we understand when there is a failure of leadership, resulting in a near total collapse of society. We are now brought to a confrontation with choice, when we must make a leap of faith, to open up avenues of restoration.

​Leadership is, I acknowledge, an often imprecise expression, conveniently absolving those who invoke its absence of the burden of proof. When I make that accusation, it is based on hard instances for which proof is not only demonstrable in all spheres of governance – and superabundantly so - but can be provided if challenged by anyone, including the obscene convocation of the cretinous, who even believe that they have earned the right to poke their messy fingers into strictly family travails of a political contestant, that the medical challenges within a family are matters of public relevance or offer the slightest evidence of that individual’s ability to discharge public responsibility. Some tactics deployed in the process of this political campaign remain some of the most vulgar and sickening that the nation has experienced on its democratic journey. Perhaps it is just as well. The exercise on its own offers warning of fascism in the offing if the wrong choice is made, if the crucial leap of faith is rejected by the faint-hearted! Of course, it has not all been one-sided, but let us leave the exercise of assessment to every individual capable of applying the most stringent objective yardsticks.

​Has the campaign in itself thrown up any portents for the future? Let all beware. The predator walks stealthily on padded feet, but we all know now with what lightning speed the claws flash into action. We have learnt to expect, deplore and confront certain acts in military dictatorship, but to find them manifested under a supposedly democratic governance? Of course the tendency did not begin with this regime, but how eagerly the seeming meek have aspired to surpass their mentors!

​We must not be sanguine, or complacent. Eternal, minute-to-minute vigilance remains the watchword. Whatever demons got into a contestant to declare the spread of Sharia throughout the nation his life mission must be exorcised – indeed, are presumed to be already exorcised. Never again must any leader ban the discussion of democratic restoration in the public arena. Nor must we ever again witness the execution – even imprisonment! - of a citizen under retroactive laws. This persistent candidate seeks return, but let him understand that it can only be as a debtor to the past, and that the future cannot wait to collect. If this collective leap of faith is derided, repudiated or betrayed under a renewed immersion in the ambiance of power or retrogressive championing, of a resumption of clearly repudiated social directions, we have no choice but to revoke an unspoken pact and resume our march to that yet elusive space of freedom, however often interrupted, and by whatever means we can humanly muster. And if in the process, the consequence is national hara-kiri, no one can say that there had been no deluge of warnings.

​The art of leadership is complex and unenviable. Among its most basic, simple demands however, is the capacity for empathy, since a leader does not preside over stones but palpable humanity. Thus, in asserting a failure in leadership in a rivaling candidate, I pose only one question, a question of basic humanism that is directed at a leader who equally demands that a nation make a leap of faith for him also, that a people presume his capability for self-transformation. That question is this:

​“If you had received news of your daughter’s kidnapping, how long would it take you to spring to action? Instantly? One day? Two? Three? A week? Or maybe TEN days?”

​While we await the answer, the clock of Change cannot tick sufficiently fast!

Wole SOYINKA

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/06/challenge-change-%E2%80%93-burden-choice-prof-wole-soyinka

Send this guy to Sambissa forest and let him stop forming JAmes BOnd in Aso Rock.

If you are C in C and them born you well, Go face Shekau one-on-one.


Remebner to go with you PhD Thesis if you get. Mj. Gen. Olukola will follow you!!!!!!!!!!!

Many nigerian youths are as clueless as their Leader President Jonathan. We talk so much about structures without any cursory interest in the facilities, Lecturers and what the output quality of these universities are. I have not been to any of the 11 new Universities, but i am an insider at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti and i can confirm that Faculties of Agriculture and Engineering located in IKole Ekiti do not have a single functional laboratory and yet the students are currently in 400level.

What then are we celebrating?

Hummm....lots of marriage issues as the world becomes more sophisticated.

We must add: Arrogance and Pride: Lots of women have the entitlement mentality in relating with their husband, in laws etc. They demand expressly when they want something and make you believe its their prerogative when you ask from them

No need to even jail them. What sent Peter Odilli out of the street of PortHarcourt were he ruled for 8years will send them away into shame and oblivion. During Rivers reconciliation panel of 2007, he opted to appear in Abuja. We will use facts and credible detail audit to send them home and die in silence. Ask IBB

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Shame on the PDP-infiltrated Nigerian army for raising a false alarm that an officer within its ranks who rose to become a full genral and Head of state did not have the certificates with them only for them to turn around and admitt later.

It is very obvious that they and the co-travellsrs in Vanguard newspaper and all these PDP e-warriors are shading shadows. How was he able to attend overseas course where those certificates are pre-requisite has been my question.

We remain resolute CHANGE is the only solution to these ignobilities !!!!!

All these theories are trash. The only reason why unemployment is high in Nigeria is because the market is saturated. Produce a 50 thousand medical doctors today using Harvard standard and put them in Bayelsa state with population of less than 2million
I can assure you more than 40 thousand of them will be jobless.
I am a Nigerian graduate and hold an MSsc, currently doing my PhD outside Nigeria. I have not met any outstanding student outside Nigeria that I have not seen more gifted obese within Nigeria. Infact, I have seen lots of people with abilities but limited because of over competition in Nigeria. The only lasting solution is to drastically expand our economy, reduce population growth, reduce graduate turn out and increase lower level skill acquisition cadres. Without that, all these theories will not work. There are PhD holder who are jobless in UK, USA etc.there are lots and lots of jobless engineering graduate in USA. The average time to complete a PhD in USA is about 5.5years. All thse are verifiable facts. We can't how've increase our economic sector when d stimulants if growth are lacking...power, infrastructure and some level of ciruption-free society

It will take 25years to build based on projections. With dwindling revenue from government to pay back loans and other mortgages, we should expect the project to be completed in say 30-35years. By then we would have produced at least two generations of adult Nigerians...18yrs multiply by two=36.


And you think the technology theys tart wth now would not have become obsolete by then??

Signs of the end of age....Men shall not endure sound doctrine.

Beware lets thou embrace watered down Christianity !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The foundation of God standeth sure, having this SEAL, The Lord knows those who are HIS, let him that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.

Heralds are getting set for the translation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about his picture?? That would even help us see the product you are marketing

LOcal Vigilantes resisted Boko HAram and reppelled them and now THe Nigerian army wants to take the glory. Its a shame on the commander in Chief of the Armed forces of the Federal Republic of NIgeria whoever that person is.



Anyway, the blame game can continue....Okupe and Abati can continue to spew thrash on who to blame continually...Its was APC, Northern Leaders, Buhari, Media, Now it is America, South Africa...very soon they will blame Tafawa Balewa or Awolowo...or they may result to blaming my unorn child for insurgency in Nigeria.


Nigerians, if we dont loose sight of the shore, we will not discover new oceans. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While discussing Politics with a friend today, He challenged me to the possibility of surprises in the 2015 elections. Knowing fully well that performances of state governors usually influence most voters in voting for the Presidential candidate, and national assembly members from that state. Do you think the performances of the Governors of OYO, OGUN, ONDO and LAGOS state is capable of retaining their party as the ruling party in 2015

This further confirms that our common enemy knows no religion. Boko Haram detest moderate muslims as much as they detest Christians, Western education and the entity called Nigeria. How well Mr President and his government recognize this will determine their effort at crushing Boko Haram once and for all.
I hear the weaponry taken from Mubi is enough for Boko Haram to pursue this war for at least 1 year.

Pls, let Mr Jona sit up or get out!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it is no more in vogue for a woman to ask for permission before travelling from his matrimonial home, then the individuality will become more obvious than the previous generations. We therefore may expect a less compact family. Where does all these lead us? Have we taken time to ask why divorce rate is higher in places like Finland the origin of feminism? Why divorce ratee is lower in places like India where no courtship is usually practiced before marriage and yet their women are always dignified?
My sisters, as you lay your bed, so you will lie on it. The laws of the land may guarantee he does not misbehave, but that law does not compel him to bring you flowers from work.
What then is marriage?

Bros, If its for real. send me a mail on shallomtoyou@yahoo.com

kandiikane:
Lol.....infact, I am still in my village.
Let him secure that high paying job first before he starts uprooting his entire family anyhow. You think to get a good job in a foreign country is that easy? I am sure he is in a country in Europe, you must think they just dash working permits or an indefinite leave to remain just like that. If he is studying in countries like Ukraine or Poland then he must be high on acid to be thinking his family's lifestyle will be better than what they have in naija. If it is UK or an Asian country, for sure, I know na Konji mek op nor dey think fine.
Stop quoting me joor! Why the hell did he move if he knew he couldn't live apart. Not everyone should live apart but the op made that decision so what's your bloody problem? You are sounding like a kid right now. What you will have to do right now is stop quoting me and typing rubbish.
Santos247, where exactly are you?

Guy, you funny no be small. Anyway, i am on the southern hemisphere within this continent. Financing their living with me isnt a problem and i already got them 3 years visa. Well, it may sound stupid that i didnt figure it out. one may not have all things figured out in many stages of life. but with guidance, progress can still be made.