Applause for Mr Eazi

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Mr Eazi on Channel 4 UK

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Mr Eazi appeared on UK's Channel 4 Sunday Brunch programme last Sunday. Here are some pics

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The man lacks class. All that money stolen and this is what they built for him. They have gba l'oju (duped him) just like his ministers did. Good riddance. The worst President any country can ever have.

IGBOSON1:


^^^I don't get your point! Are you saying that if they endorsed GEJ as you claim, and your Buhari 'wins' that they should not go and pay him a visit? Your reasoning is on the same silly level with those arguing that Ndigbo should not make demands of Buhari because they didn't support him during the election!

Make up your mind if you want him to be President of APC/Yoruba/North or if you want him to be President of Nigeria!

Why is it only people from a particular area that are paying him visits as an ethnic group? Can't they just leave him alone? It is like a thief who first shouts: I didn't steal anything O, even before anyone is accused of stealing. Soon these same people will accuse him of marginalisation; unless he gives all choice positions to people from their area.

shaddi:
He is a Fool with the brain of a goat

That is an insult to goats!!

I wished we could say there was anytime when Jonathan was not corrupt during any of his times as a public officer. He was corrupt as a deputy governor, he was corrupt as governor and was super corrupt as President. Not only those, he allowed and pardoned corruption and was/is surrounded by people who wallowed in corruption. His government is a corruption cesspit.

Buhari only needs to curb Jonathan's corruption by a tenth to make a difference.

Is that not him in the picture? Hair uncombed, veiny neck, does not appear to moisturise etc. How old is he? Cause the 70-something old Buhari looks younger than him.

oneeast:
Obiano is a refined technocrat with an American accent. So its an insult to common sense comparing the two persons.

Lol at Obiano's Aba-made agbada.

Trying to perfect a gimmick, instead of carrying out the work he claims to have been elected to do. How many of the masses can afford to eat in Chicken Republic? Once a rogue always a rogue! He will be admired by never-do-good, shallow minded people like him.

My God. See Aba made agbada wey Obiano wear. Can make a dog chase you on the street. Na wah o.

How can you tell from a still picture. You mean people who beg don't laugh?

musing2:
Whatever it is, It definitely doesn't look like Obiano went to "beg," as some people would have his visit reported.

eCollynzo:
Are you sure Obiano wasn't laughing at Buhari's accent rather than the joke?

I will prefer Buhari's English accent to Obiano's. Just saying!

Oni gele yi, Skentele.

omenka:
Hehehe. So what we supposed to do with this

IMHO, nobody sabotaged Jonathan's re-election, he did so himself.

What the hell was he thinking when he retained Aba Moro against popular opinion??

What the hell was he thinking when he enlisted FFK as the spokesman of GJCO??

What was he thinking when he made Kashamu the Leader of the party in the SW??

What was he thinking when he made Ahmadu Ali the Chairman of the CO??

What was he thinking when he allowed his wife rain insults on the region with the largest voter population in the country??


Jonathan surrounded himself with the scum of Nigerian politicosphere and when it eventually rained, the umbrella simply couldn't withstand the torrent. He did himself in politically, period.

Jonathan doesn't think.

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Does anyone know how I can get the CD of Olamide's Baddest Guy Ever Liveth? It is not available on Amazon; they only have the MP3 download. Please note I don't buy or use/play bootleg or unauthorised material. Many thanks.

Even though basic education is the constitutional responsibility of States, my administration has, as part of its efforts to address ignorance and poor education which have been identified as two of the factors responsible for making some of our youth easily available for use as cannon fodder by insurgents and terrorists, committed huge funds to the provision of modern basic education schools for the Almajiri in several Northern States. The Federal Government under my leadership has also set up nine additional universities in the Northern States and three in the Southern States in keeping with my belief that proper education is the surest way of emancipating and empowering our people.

Basic education is not the sole responsibility of the states. The Federal Government should still control the main framework and dictate the curriculum. How many Almajiris have benefited from the huge funds expended by government? If huge funds have been committed, surely you should be able to give figures and show how things are better now than they used to be. You seem to be hiding behind words and rhetoric. Is it difficult to mention how many northern states have benefited from the Almajiri education 'programme', if indeed these things are being done properly and conscientiously and the success is being properly monitored?

Your suggestion that we are pursuing a “war against violence without understanding the root causes of the violence and applying solutions to deal with all the underlying factors” is definitely misplaced because from the onset of this administration, we have been implementing a multifaceted strategy against militancy, insurgency and terrorism that includes poverty alleviation, economic development, education and social reforms.

So what are the root causes of the violence and how have your solutions worked? As far as I know, your only claim is that the Boko Haram insurgency was caused by people who were sponsored to make your presidency difficult. Do you still hold that view? Does poverty alleviation include "awarding" multi-billion naira contracts to ex-militants? How has the lot of the ordinary person in the Niger Delta improved? Or have you just stuffed the pockets of the trouble makers?

In doing all this, we have kept our doors open for dialogue with the insurgents and their supporters through efforts such as the work of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and the Peaceful Resolution of the Security Challenges in the North-East. You also know that the Governor of Borno State provided the items you mentioned to me as carrots. Having done all this and more, it is interesting that you still accuse me of not acting on your hardly original recommendation that the carrot and stick option be deployed to solve the Boko Haram problem.


If you have kept your doors open why have you been unsuccessful in attracting the insurgents to come to dialogue? Why have you failed in that respect? And why have various relevant people who tried to broker peace complained that government did not take things seriously when the insurgents gave indication that they would be prepared to have a dialogue?

If OBJ's recommendations were hardly original why did you not do them before he recommended them? But you did them after he mentioned them, either because you believed in them or you did not have any better alternatives. Is that not self-indicting?

At a stage, almost the entire North-East of Nigeria was under siege by insurgents. Bombings of churches and public buildings in the North and the federal capital became an almost weekly occurrence. Our entire national security apparatus seemed nonplussed and unable to come to grips with the new threat posed by the berthing of terrorism on our shores.


Did all these not happen under your administration? Did these happen during the Yar Adua era?

But my administration has since brought that very unacceptable situation under significant control. We have overhauled our entire national security architecture, improved intelligence gathering, training, funding, logistical support to our armed forces and security agencies, and security collaboration with friendly countries with very visible and positive results.

What does significant control mean? Or are we just playing with words? There have been several attacks in the last two weeks. I join all well-meaning Nigerians in condemning all those who have been responsible for those attacks but, unfortunately, there is no indication that the menace of Boko Haram has been contained. They still seem to be able to choose their targets and attack with relative success.

Let me now comment on the issues you raised. In commenting I wish to crave your indulgence to compare what is happening now to what took place before. This, I believe, will enable Nigerians see things in better perspective because we must know where we are coming from so as to appreciate where we now are, and to allow us clearly map out where we are going.


And we thought you had mapped out where we were going. So we are currently just on a drifting ship. Many will say that is easy to see.

The ninth reason is that your letter conveys to me the feeling that landmines have been laid for me. Therefore, Nigerians need to have my response to the issues raised before the mines explode.

The tenth and final reason why my reply is inevitable is that you have written similar letters and made public comments in reference to all former Presidents and Heads of Government starting from Alhaji Shehu Shagari and these have instigated different actions and reactions. The purpose and direction of your letter is distinctly ominous, and before it is too late, my clarifications on the issues need to be placed on record.

Really? Exploding landmines? Could this be self-pity or schizophrenia? You do not seem to be saying your response will prevent the landmines from exploding but that you want to have your say before they explode. Maybe it is worth looking at things the other way round. Maybe your attention is being drawn to some things you should do to prevent you from destroying your presidency. Come on, be positive.

Did OBJ really write similar letters to all former presidents starting from Shagari [Buhari, Babangida, Abacha, Abubakar, Yar Adua)? I doubt it but I am not sure. I suspect though that he did not write to himself. In your defence, don't forget he also wrote an open letter to Margaret Thatcher (so I understand). Maybe he just likes writing letters. I am sure you believe he is just being mischievous, while he thinks he can not just stand by and see things go wrong without pointing it out. He thinks he is assisting you. Whichever way it is, he seems to have filled you with trepidation. All of your purposes for responding appear to be centred around one fear or the other. Fear of being misrepresented, fear of not having your say before you get blown up, fear of not having your clarifications placed on record. You seem to be on the back foot. That does not reflect someone who is confident and in control. That is an issue you need to address.

The seventh reason is that the timing of your letter coincided with other vicious releases. The Speaker of the House of Representatives spoke of my “body language” encouraging corruption. A letter written to me by the CBN Governor alleging that NNPC, within a period of 19 months did not remit the sum of USD49.8 billion to the federation account, was also deliberately leaked to the public.

The eighth reason is that it appears that your letter was designed to incite Nigerians from other geopolitical zones against me and also calculated to promote ethnic disharmony. Worse still, your letter was designed to instigate members of our Party, the PDP, against me.


An admission that you have several other problems from other quarters, which are not caused by the writer of the letter. So, what is the point you are making here? Are you accusing the wirter of orchestrating those other issues or are you accusing him of good timimg? Is it not a bad sign that several prominent people are giving you negative signals at the same time?

How can anyone instigate Nigerians against you if you are doing a good job and making people see your good works? You are the leader of PDP for God's sake (or so I think). You govern the party on a day-to-day basis. You know the main peolpe in the party and you can talk to them anytime you want. If you are a good leader, why will someone else have the confidence to try to instigate party members against you?

The fifth reason is that this letter may appear in biographies and other books which political commentators on Nigeria’s contemporary politics may write. It is only proper for such publications to include my comments on the issues raised in your letter.

This is an admission that you have not been communicating what you are doing to Nigerians and the world; perhaps because you have not been doing a lot worth talking about or you do not know how to communicate properly. Otherwise, with the whole national resources at your disposal and two years of your presidency remaining (having already served over two years), how can you be afraid (and how can it be) that your legacy will be so misrepresented by an 18 page letter from someone who is no longer in power. One indication of a good presidency is that the president has the ears of most of the people he serves.

You seem to have no plan of writing a biography yourself (it is hardwork), otherwise we will expect your own side of things to be contained in your autobiography.

The third reason why I must reply you in writing is that your letter is clearly a threat to national security as it may deliberately or inadvertently set the stage for subversion.

Absolute tosh. The unchecked corruption and lack of security within the country, coupled with the lack of clear directions in dealing with them (especially corruption), is more likely to cause subversion. Nobody wrote letters to the presidents of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before the people of those countries decided to take action.

You will recall that all the letters were brought to me by hand. Although both of us discussed some of the issues in those letters, I had not, before now, seen the need for any formal reply since, to me, they contained advice from a former President to a serving President. Obviously, you felt differently because in your last letter, you complained about my not acknowledging or replying your previous letters.


It is with the greatest possible reluctance that I now write this reply. I am most uneasy about embarking on this unprecedented and unconventional form of open communication between me and a former leader of our country because I know that there are more acceptable and dignified means of doing so.

Sounds like the type of excuse you get from a lazy, incompetent employee or a person who knows he did not do what he should have done. If he had replied to/acknowledged earlier missives there may not have been any need to write an open letter to him; thereby avoiding "this unprecedented and unconventional form of open communication" and less acceptable as well as less dignified means. The two paragraphs above should actually be replaced with one honest sentence:

"My hands have now been forced to respond......."

Maybe the committee members were concerned that any failure, on her part, to answer questions satisfactorily will later be blamed (by her) on ill-health. Although the man was talking about her possibly collapsing, they could have given her the benefits of the doubt and go on with the interview; since she said she was ready (and well enough) to answer the questions (especially if the session was being televised and the world would have seen and heard how she responded). If at any point during the session they felt she was not up to it (health-wise) they could advise her to go and take a rest and reply in writing to the rest of the questions or come back at a later date.

In any case, there was no need for the man to shout at her and treat her like a school girl, which I feel he did - he did not even allow her to speak. If the man felt he wanted to stick to his guns he could do it calmly and firmly. You can be courteous and firm at the same time.

I know many Nigerians can be passionate when they speak/argue about what they believe in (there is no crime in that) but you have to draw the line between being passionate and being rude.

That man was rude in this case. The woman deserves an apology.

4tunebest Thanks for the additional information.

Forbes has released its list of The 20 Young Power Women In Africa for 2013. I believe these are women for all our young ones to emulate. There are three Nigerians on the list. They are:

(1) Tara Fela-Durotoye (Founder, House Of Tara)

The Nigerian-born entrepreneur and lawyer is the founder of House Of Tara, Nigeria’s leading beauty and cosmetics company. House of Tara develops a wide range of African-themed beauty products and perfumes and also operates Nigeria’s foremost beauty academy. In 2013, Fela-Durotoye was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

(2) Ola Orekunrin (Medical Doctor & Founder, The Flying Doctors)

Orekunrin, 25, is founder and Managing Director of Flying Doctors Nigeria Ltd., an air ambulance service based in Lagos, Nigeria. Orekunrin’s company is the first air ambulance service in West Africa to provide urgent helicopter, airplane ambulance and evacuation services for critically injured people. She is a 2013 New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute and was named a Young Global Leader in 2013 by the World Economic Forum.

(3) Folake Folarin-Coker (Fashion Designer)

Coker is the founder of Tiffany Amber, one of Africa’s leading fashion labels. She is the first African-based designer to showcase for two consecutive seasons at New York Fashion Week. In 2009, she won Designer of the Year at African Fashion International in Johannesburg, South Africa followed by Fashion Brand of the Year in 2011 at the Arise Fashion Week in Lagos, Nigeria.

They should be role-models to our young men and women and a reminder that people you can still make a headway no matter the circumstances.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2013/12/04/the-20-young-power-women-in-africa-2013/

This deserves first page please, moderator.

Sincere 9gerian: What an irony! The same OBJ that wanted an UNCONSTITUTIONAL third term is now trying to prevent an incumbent president from seeking his CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED second term? Why should an OBJ do his second term and even tried to seek a third term BUT a Jonathan cannot seek second term? So what is the difference between an OBJ and a Jonathan? Is it in the colour of their skin or tribe? And OBJ is being cheered on by Tinubu slaves? What an irony! Smh for my country.

From what OBJ has said (and if you read the statement properly) the difference is that Jonathan appeared to have made a promise to some people that he will not be contesting a second term (presumably in order to get their support for contesting his 'first' term) and he now appears to be breaking that promise. Although OBJ may have sought a third term he was not doing so at the expense of a promise he made to anyone. Although you make it sound as if OBJ was trying to ignore the constitution we all know that was not the case. His people were actually trying to get the constitution amended.

What is comparable to OBJ's third term is Jonathan seeking 6 years in office during one term, and OBJ appears not to criticise that move.