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Edwin Clarke will definitely say something soonest... But for real, is there anything wrong in all that Baba said? 'GEJ till 2019' clamorers should endeavor to search their souls, there lies the truth which their sentiments can never veil. You (GEJ people) all know the truth, but act to cover it for whatever reason. We need a change of status quo. Things are fallen apart, thus, before the center might not hold, we should make a change. You (GEJ people) shouldn't be afraid of change?

It is easy to know how some of our Celebs think and how they see life in general. MTN handle on Twitter just twitted some of its brand ambassadors' new year resolution. I read and I LOL. Dr Sid will be spending the whole of 2015 at the gym, LOL.

In this article http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21633901-continents-armies-are-going-spending-spree-arms-and-african?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/armsandtheafrican on The Economist, it is asserted that the Nigerian soldiers are poorly trained and that our military arsenal is worn out; whatever that means. Quoted from the article " The Nigerian army, one of the biggest in Africa, should have little difficulty scattering the amateur jihadists. But its arsenal is decrepit and its troops poorly trained." If this assertion is true, what had happened to all monies budgeted from when the Boko Haram insurgence started 2009 till date? Whose function is it to oversee the proper spending of fund budgeted for the Military? Is the Presidency aware of how monies are spent by the Military? What has the NASS done and has it done a proper oversight of the armed forces? So many questions, some are rhetorical becasue they will never be answered. God help us.

Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill back then when the journey started. Read this article from New York Times http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/lens/2014/11/18/an-insiders-look-before-they-were-hip-hop-stars/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog+Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&smid=tw-nytimes&referrer=

bobbylegend:
The president just flexed a little part of his muscle and here they are calling him cruel. na person dey make person wicked.

Bro, this is not cruelty. This is foolishness. He is decimating an arm of govt and you are jesting sheepishly about it. You future is at stake bro....

This is MADNESS! I hope the President knows what this could do to our democracy. Incase he wants to still remain in AsoRock, he should do the needful and stop acting like ODE....This Madness, a very wrong move at that, could lay a veritable excuse for the Khaki boys to halt our democracy of 16 years. Who is advising this President? This is absolutely a wrong move no matter hw one looks at it.

yemibayo:
Op there's definitely a loose bolt in your head cus he was the one that withdrew the case himself. so try get a spanner
www.osundefender.org/?p=195275&cpage=1

That dude (OP) is so dull....the guy just wanted to be sensational, but he was only able to show that he is dull and so partisan....

I bet majority of commenters on this thread didn't even read the report. SMH

The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2014
report has put the percentage of Nigerians living in poverty at 43.3
per cent.
According to the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) 2014 Nigeria
Country Briefing, released on its website, 19.3 per cent of the
population remained vulnerable to poverty while 25.3 per cent of
Nigerians live in severe poverty.
The OPHI is an economic research centre within the Oxford
Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.
Established in 2007, the centre is led by Sabina Alkire. OPHI aims to
build and advance a more systematic methodological and economic
framework for reducing multi-dimensional poverty, grounded in
people’s experiences and values
The report added that 26.6 per cent of the population are destitute
while inequality remained high at 0.287 among the MPI poor. It said
68.0 per cent and 84.5 per cent of the Nigerian population lived
below $1.25 per day and $2 per day respectively in 2010.
The report further stated that the rural areas had the largest number
of poor people at 57.5 per cent while 16.1 per cent resided in urban
areas.
Kebbi State was adjudged as having the largest number of poor
people accounting for 89.3 per cent, followed by Zamfara, which
accounted for 88 per cent of the poverty numbers, as well as Sokoto
and Yobe States, which accounted for 86 per cent and 85.1 per cent
respectively.
However, Lagos State accounted for only 2.6 per cent of Nigerians
living in poverty
Meanwhile, former Minister of National Planning Commission (NPC),
Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, while making reference to the new Oxford
poverty index, noted that several poverty alleviation initiatives of
government had failed partly because they were mere palliative
measures which do not equip the supposed beneficiaries with relevant
training and tools to get them out of poverty
Delivering a keynote address in Abuja at the 25th anniversary lecture/
book presentation of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation
(NDIC), Usman said financial exclusion represented a major cause of
poverty in the country.

FULL STORY ON THISDAY http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/new-oxford-report-puts-nigeria-s-poverty-rate-at------/194168

Some times


A wash in the great tide of politics, we must not forget why politics
can be a noble endeavour. It leads to governance. When done
correctly, governance can reform a nation and improve the lot of the
people. In the hands of the ignorant and the mean, governance cast
abundant misfortune upon a nation and upon the welfare of its
citizens.
This commentary concerns governance and policy more than it does
politics. I offer it to generate debate on an important economic issue.
No matter who is in power, we must do whatever is in our capacity to
steer the nation away from economic woe. The people have suffered
too much hardship already. Neither side of the political divide should
seek to purchase transient advantage at the high price of dousing the
people in greater economic calamity. Thus, I suggest this
progressive’s position on how best to shape economic policy during
this period of falling oil prices. I state this hoping those in charge will
take pertinent advice from any quarter. My prayer is that they are not
so stubborn as to adhere to a strategy that will deepen the economic
misery of our people even when better policy measures are proffered.
I confess to writing this also for a reason essentially political but
non-confrontational. It accentuates the distinction between the
conservative Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the progressive All
Progressives Congress (APC). The nation faces momentous elections
when next year turns to its second month. The choice is a stark one;
but many people do not believe as such. The differences are vast
especially regarding economic policy. On the one side, the PDP
champions a conservative, elitist economic model based on the theory
that wealth money must first go to the already rich and well-heeled
who shall determine how small a fraction of it will trickle down to the
rest of society.
On the progressive side, we believe government can fillip economic
growth and development in such a way that brings the fairness of
prosperity to all of society. We don’t seek to penalise those who
already have but we will do our utmost to remove from the clutch of
poverty the bulk of our people. We seek to turn the hungry suffering of
our poor and working classes into a dignified livelihood that provides
a dignified existence for all.
Global oil prices have fallen from over $100 a barrel to approximately
$80 per barrel. This slide has caused a corresponding drop in
government’s dollar revenues. With this, the federal government
claims it has less money at its disposal and the paucity of dollars
necessitates austerity measures. Most people accept this position as
gospel; debate about its correctness has been nil. Yet, the stakes are
much too high to assume this subjective position as an economic
certitude or uncritically accept its propriety. What they proclaim as
policy is not based on any unassailable economic principle. It is
statement of economic bias that beckons to the wealthy while
auguring unnecessary hardship for most Nigerians.
Look at jobless and poverty levels as well as the diminished status of
our middle class. After viewing these statistics, most objective
economists would conclude Nigeria is mired in a long-term, secular
depression. Forget the rosy GDP numbers. They signify a great
economic and financial segregation between those who have and
others who have not. If we continue with the policy preferences of the
current administration, the haves shall become the “have–mores” and
the “have-nots” shall become the “have even less.”
The vast majority of the claimed GDP growth has fallen into the laps
of those already enjoying obvious luxury. The rest of the people are
left to gaze at the enormity of the income and wealth chasm
separating them from the cabal orchestrating the discordant political
economy. While a small group flourishes, the rest of the nation
subsidises their economic bounty. A tight confederacy rides an
economic skyrocket while the bulk of the people languish in the
swamp. For one group, the economy is effervescent. For the other, it
is catatonic. Nigeria is one nation with two economies.
For this government to speak of austerity is to further enrich the
affluent while casting the average Nigerian into greater hardship and
deeper socio-economic depression. As with the Euro zone the past
five years since the global financial crisis, austerity has not solved the
dire economic weakness of the nations that employed this sickening
remedy. All austerity has done is tighten the grip of the wealthy on
the economy while weakening the position of the middle class and the
poor.
Austerity weakens aggregate demand, deflating an economy already
fatigued and against the ropes. Those with hefty portfolios, profit as
the value of their holdings appreciates by the very dynamics of
deflation. Those who don’t have, find money even dearer to come by.
Jobs and commerce disappear. Debt climbs. Deflation turns a noble
but poor household into a committee of beggars and street urchins.
The austerity that the current administration offers is an insensitive,
myopic policy that lends primacy of favour to meaningless accounting
figures instead of the material wellbeing of the people. Austerity
undermines our economic pillars and breaks the spirit of the people.
Austerity is the merchant of pessimism and hopeless futility. If you
desire a nation of thralls, by all means continue this bleak path. If we
want a nation of prosperity and economic justice, a different course is
our due.
Listen carefully to the position of the Goodluck Jonathan
administration as articulated by the finance minister and you shall
collide into the barricades of illogic and its weighty consequences.
The claim is that government is low on funds because the lower price
of oil means fewer dollars are being collected from oil sales. This
sounds logical but for one fundamental point. The dollar intake is
basically irrelevant to determining the amount of naira the
government commands and places into the political economy. This
fundamental point reveals the government’s position to be the
antiquated relic of a past era. It is the way of the gold standard which
ceased to exist over 40 years ago. As such, government’s stance is
based more on superstition than on the actual functioning of modern
economy with a sovereign fiat currency of its own.
The last I looked, Nigeria operates a naira-based economy not a
dollar-based one. There is no legal or moral restriction strictly
limiting the amount of naira in the system to match the amount of
dollars collected via oil sales. More importantly, there is no economic
justification for the close linkage implied by the government. If we
take its position at face value, the Jonathan administration is
advocating that we effectively place the naira and thus our fiscal
policy on a “dollar standard”. The world jettisoned the gold standard
in 1971 because it proved unworkable, reducing the policy space in
which governments could pursue fiscal programmes promoting full
employment and social welfare. We should likewise reject this
government’s imposition of a dollar standard on our nation’s fiscal
operations.
Under the gold standard, a national government took pains not to
incur budgetary deficits that exceeded the dimensions of its gold
reserves. This was because the currency had no value by itself. Its
value was based on the convention that the currency was backed by
the nation’s gold holdings. Those governments that ran deficits had
to pay those debts in gold. Given that gold supplies were always and
everywhere finite and exhaustible; a nation had to keep its deficits
within the confines of its ability to pay debts in gold. Because of this
straitjacketing effect, nations would abandon the gold standard during
harsh economic times in order to give them the fiscal freedom to
rejuvenate their economies. This was the case during the Great
Depression with the major economic powers. This should be the case
with Nigeria today since the bulk of our people live in conditions
redolent of the Great Depression or any other depression for that
matter.
Our government persists that it must limit fiscal outlays to the
amount of dollars the nation holds. Similar to the operation of the
discarded gold standard, following this path is to strap ourselves to
austerity and the chronic deflation of austerity produces.
Worse, it serves to enthral the fiscal policy of our sovereign nation to
the monetary policy of another country. That nation plies monetary
policy to serve its interests and not the economic interests of Nigeria.
I am baffled why this government would give such power over the fate
of our economic wellbeing to another nation that does not
incorporate our interests into its decisional processes. This
government makes our nation the economic servant of another so
that government may turn about to make the Nigerian people its
economic servant. While there is a certain logic to this dynamic, it is
a perverse and debilitating one.
Because we operate a sovereign fiat currency the federal government
issues at its sole discretion, the federal government can never be
rendered insolvent in naira. This means it can run naira fiscal deficits
indefinitely. The only outer bound is to ensure the fiscal expansion
does not incur damaging inflation rates. There is no logical reason to
peg the flow of naira into the economy to the flow of dollars received.
The correct perspective is not to mechanistically restrict naira
expenditure to dollar intake. This would be tantamount to those
crippled with economic blinders forcefully leading those who can see
we are heading for disaster. It points to deflation, recession and
worse. The better methodology is to ascertain, then achieve, the level
of naira expenditure needed to expand the economy and create jobs
without causing inflation to rise to dangerous levels. This is how
broadly-shared prosperity is generated in a sustainable manner.
In this way, the nation’s economic engineers should focus primarily
on allocating value and opportunity to our underutilised labour force
and our idle, yet potentially productive capital in a way that promotes
wealth creation and expansion of aggregate demand. It is this
sustainment of aggregate demand that empowers the nation to rescue
itself from the whirlpool of economic contraction. This avenue is more
benign than the one the federal administration now advocates. Their
way calls for us to forget growth and for government to preoccupy
itself with allocating economic misery among those segments of the
population too poor and weak to contest the immiserating actions of
government against them.
In the face of recessionary headwinds, government should run
countercyclical fiscal policy by using its naira sovereignty to fund
fiscal deficits. The deficit is not simply for the sake of running a
deficit; the funds cannot be spent on non-productive matters. It must
be used to fuel infrastructural and other projects that not only employ
great numbers of people but enhance the overall productivity of the
economy. The funds must be used to backstop state governments in
a nonpartisan manner so that each state government may continue to
pay salaries and pursue projects essential to that state’s economic
critical path.
To accomplish this, the federal government needs to reverse the
inimical “dollarization” of the national economy in two ways. First
and most importantly, it must abandon the out-dated peg of fiscal
policy and expenditures to the dollar intake. The one actually has no
correspondent nexus to the other. Any commanding connection we
give it is an artifice not an economic necessity. Related to this, we
must reverse a trend that has gained momentum under this
government. Among government-aligned elite, the fad has been to
conduct domestic business transactions in dollars. Policy must
“nairasize” the economy by requiring all domestic transactions occur
in our legal tender. As this is done, the government’s infinite ability
to issue naira will come to outweigh the limitations inherent in the
overuse of the finite supply of another nation’s currency for
transactions wholly internal to our domestic economy.
Inflation is the major risk of running budget deficits to spur growth.
We can contain inflation to acceptable levels by ensuring additional
government expenditures are for items that can be supplied
domestically, particularly labour. Naira paid to poor and working
class people mostly circulates in the domestic economy, spurring
additional local commerce and production. This is because their
consumption patterns do not approach the level of import
expenditures associated with their wealthier compatriots. Related to
this, we must decrease our level of superfluous imports.
These measures will place downward pressure on the naira.
Devaluation will not be destructive but it will be noticeable. For most
nations, such devaluation would be welcomed as it would make
export industries more competitive, thus creating jobs and export
earnings in the process. However, this will not be the case initially for
us because of the moribund state of our industrial sector. Here,
government would need to initiate crash programmes aimed at
enhancing those domestic industries perched on the borderline of
international competitiveness.
In the end, the policy I propose is not without risks, inflation being
the chief concern. Yet, if wisely prosecuted, the rewards of job
creation and economic growth allocated among the bulk of the
populace outweigh the inflationary risk. More to the point, the policy
now pursued bears no risks at all. It is certain to toss the average
man’s economy into a stagnation that will resemble the onset of a
major recession. Saving the people from this unnecessary plight is
sufficient imperative to eschew the policies of old and embrace the
progressive course.
I offer this advice, this warning, because the people have suffered
enough hardship. I offer this advice in the slim hope those in power
will ignore the messenger and objectively weigh the quality and
humane nature of the message. If so, they will spare the people the
grief visited upon a vulnerable people when their government blindly
imposes last century’s policies in a modern setting inappropriate to
the old strictures.
Regardless of our partisan affiliations, let us consecrate this land by
dedicating ourselves to the betterment of the poor, weak, and needy
members of our national family. Let this moment not pass like so
many others where we have demanded that the most vulnerable
among us bear the greatest weight of the national burden. Let us give
them the hope, change and dignity they deserve and human decency
demands. This is how we make the nation great. When I speak of a
common sense revolution, this is what I mean.
• Tinubu is a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

Fault headline, it wasn't the Nigerian Army that recaptured Mubi but The local vigilantes. read the full story from this thread

https://www.nairaland.com/1995873/local-hunters-civilians-liberate-mubi

Local hunters and civilian vigilante on Thursday liberated Mubi in
Adamawa state from the clutches of Boko Haram as several of the
fanatics, including their leader, Abubakar Shekau, were killed and
others chased out by the local hunters.
Subsequently, there was jubilation in Mubi town as residents marched
from street to street in the town chanting songs of victory to God over
the recapture of their ancestral homes which had been under the
control of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents.
Feelers from Mubi revealed that the residents trooped out to express
gratitude to God and also show solidarity with the local hunters and
the vigilante known as Civilian JTF who rescued them from the
control of the Islamist extremists.
Residents said they were excited that their homes had been liberated
from the hands of the Boko Haram insurgents who have been chased
out.
One of the residents from Mubi, Mallam Musa Bello, who spoke to
ThisDay through the phone revealed that most of the local hunters
and Civilian JTF were mobilized from Gombe, Kano, Bauchi and
Borno states by some top politicians in Adamawa state after
perceiving that the state might be taken over by the insurgents if
nothing was done.
Bello further added that over 30,000 local hunters and Civilian JTF
were mobilized for the fight against unwanted elements, adding that
the Emir of Mubi was the one that initiated the idea, seeing that he
had lost his kingdom to the insurgents.
Other reports from Mubi said that the hunters have recaptured the
234 Army Battalion as well as other strategic security formations in
the area which fell into the hands of the insurgents when they took
over the town.
Residents reported that about five military Armoured Personnel
Carriers (APC) and other war equipment were also recovered from the
hands of insurgents.
Residents also disclosed that all the flags hoisted by the insurgents
have been uprooted and replaced by Nigerian flags adding that even
the Palace of the Emir of Mubi which has been converted to the
spiritual headquarters of the insurgents have been liberated from the
hands of the insurgents.
The residents stated the development had forced the insurgents to
retreat into the bush as the hunters gave them a hot chase toward
Sambisa forest.
Confirming the incident on Thursday in Yola, governor of Adamawa
Sate, Bala James Ngilari said: "The insurgents have been flushed out
of Mubi and are on the run,"
He noted that the success recorded in the fight against the Boko
Haram insurgents is the handwork of God as he said: "God is in this
business of security in Adamawa state. You know in the last one week
or so, the government has decided to be working with the vigilante
group "Yan Baka", local hunters and Civilian JTF. They have been
working hand in hand with them.”
Checks revealed that the local hunters and Civilian JTF will proceed
to other parts of the north east region still under the control of the
insurgents. It was also revealed that the local hunters operate with
magical powers and could easily identify where the insurgents were
hiding.
Reports also revealed that every attempt made by Boko Haram
insurgents during the battle to fire their guns on the local hunters
was abortive as their mystic powers wouldn’t allow the insurgents to
do so.
According to the report , the insurgents have no option than to beat a
retreat into the bush. It added that that was how the hunters were
chasing and slaughtering the insurgents in Mahia and Mubi to Vintim
village, the hometown of the Chief Defence Staff ,CDS, Air Marshal,
Alex Badeh .
The report also added the hometown of the CDS was also liberated
from the hands of the insurgents by the local hunters and Civilian
JTF.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/-local-hunters--civilians-liberate-mubi-from-boko-haram-/193968

All the history books I have read tell me
that when a nation is in crisis a great
leader must emerge to reposition and
restructure the system for the better. I
recall the great depression in the 1930s
in the United States and how Mr
Franklin D. Roosevelt had a turning
point in his political career when he was
elected the President of the United
States in 1932. The 1929/30 great
depression provided an opportunity for
him to emerge. America was in deep
economic crisis. Millions lost their jobs
as factories closed down. The banking
system collapsed. There was total loss
of faith in America. They needed a great
and strong President. They voted in
Roosevelt. He gave Americans the NEW
DEAL.
All things considered, Nigeria is today at
a crossroads and something needs to
give way. From all indications, from all
angles and from all calculations it is
obvious now that if we continue with
PDP and President Jonathan, the Titanic
called Nigeria may hit an iceberg.
President Jonathan’s ambition to
continue to seek re-election after
completing the late President Yar’Adua
eight years portends grave danger for
Nigeria. That ambition, if it becomes a
reality, means that southern Nigeria
would have ruled Nigeria for 18 years by
2019. This is not what we struggled for
from 1984 to 1999. This is a threat to
national stability and national cohesion,
and a distortion of Nigeria’s political
equation and equilibrium. It will at once
bring to the fore the north and south
divide and political dichotomy. The
explosive north/south religious tensions
will rise. Consequently, this inordinate
ambition will put a knife on things that
have held us together as one political
entity.
Nigerians who are worried by the level
of corruption and open stealing in
Nigeria may not want President
Jonathan to continue for another four
years. Corruption is threatening our
political, economic and social life.
Investment funds are in private pockets,
the system is not working and people
who deserve nothing are pocketing
billions and are asking us to go to hell.
They abuse us on a daily basis,
threatening our lives and dare us to
challenge them. Great countries all over
the world have been built through
discipline and hard work but corruption
has torn great nations down.
Another great reason why President GEJ
cannot continue in 2015 is the inability
of his government to stop impunity, and
political brigandage. Public servants
and ordinary citizens have caused
colossal damage to Project Nigeria and
asked us to do our worst. Wanted
criminals and drug barons use our law
enforcement agents to oppress, repress
and suppress the poor and steal our
votes, and challenge us to dare them.
As I write this, insecurity has become
the greatest problem facing Nigeria.
Boko Haram has killed nearly 12,000
Nigerians, young and old, in the past six
years, and yet the end is not in sight.
The insurgents have made our security
agencies, including our once highly
rated standing army, look like a rag-
tagged army. Our soldiers now run away
from these insurgents. Today we hear of
mutinies, we hear of our soldiers being
captured and disarmed and we hear of
recruits disobeying generals in the
army. This nonsense must stop. This
national drift must stop now or Nigeria
goes under.
In 1999, the PDP-led federal
government met more than 3, 000
megawatts of electricity and, after
almost 16 years, Nigeria has gone under
3, 000mw despite the obvious and
painful truth that we have invested
billions of dollars in the power sector.
Compare this with Governor Fashola’s
Lagos which has built its five power
stations — Akute IPP, Alausa IPP,
Mainland IPP, Island IPP, and Lekki IPP
— in a very short time, with a minimum
amount of money to power critical
sectors like courts, hospitals, schools,
government offices etc. We need new
competent and strong hands to run
Nigeria now before it is too late.
Again, never in the history of this
country has a sitting head of state
played up ethnic and religious politics
the way President Jonathan has done.
He has completely divided Nigeria along
religious and ethnic lines, pitting
Christianity against Islam, leaders
against leaders, youths against youths,
fathers against fathers and mothers
against mothers. He hardly visits the
northern part of Nigeria as commander-
in-chief. He goes about with corrupt
bishops and ethnic chauvinists and
display hate to other religions. His body
language suggests that he is telling the
world that Nigeria is no longer a secular
state. This dangerous drift must stop.
Crude oil theft under President Jonathan
has assumed a frightening dimension.
Reports have it that never in the history
of this country have we had it so bad.
This year alone, this country lost huge
crude oil to oil thieves, more than what
we have lost in five previous years. We
heard it from reliable sources that the
President seems to pretend to be
looking the other way while people
mainly from his ethnic stock steal the
country dry with reckless abandon. He
seems to be telling them that “this is
your time, go and take as much as you
can before I go. If I go you may not
have this opportunity again in your
lifetime”.
Abuse of power and privileges is another
tangible reason why Nigerians must
reject Jonathan as President beyond
2015. We saw this in Ekiti State, we saw
it in Ondo State. We saw it in Anambra
State, Adamawa, Osun, Nasarawa, Niger
states etc. These are states where PDP
has interest and they are ready to sink
the boat to get what they want. The
Speaker, House of Reps, just moved
from PDP to APC and IGP has ordered
the withdrawal of his security details.
Now, did IGP withdraw security details
from Mimiko, Peter Obi and the national
legislators from Anambra State who
moved to PDP? This is double standard!
This is executive lawlessness and, at
best, executive desperation.
We have seen Asari Dokubo and Chief
Edwin Clark abusing and threatening
and cursing other Nigerians because
they criticized their President, and yet
President Jonathan looks the other way.
Now the President must know that he is
the President of 170 million Nigerians
and not President of Ijaw people alone.
I can just continue but time and space
will not permit me. I suggest that elder
statesmen, the Council of State and
stakeholders must look for a strong
President in 2015 if they still believe in
the Project Nigeria. President Jonathan
cannot just continue. We want a strong,
disciplined and committed leadership in
2015.

The Illuminati just gave the world expo; it is likely Obama will be assasinated... (parodic)

mickyarams:
May God destroy all those theiving bastards that call themselves leaders.

A big AMEN to that.... But the Niger Deltans have one of their sons as the president and another as the Petroleum Minister; what have they done to alleviate the suffering of the people of that area? Please don't mention amnesty programme o; that's a huge joke and senseless waste of money which sets bad precedences to agitators. KEN SARO WIWA's struggle for the right of the Ogbonni people and the Niger Deltans had been made to seem like "who send you message?"...I feel the pain with which KEN SARO WIWA wrote the message. If GEJ would only retrace his steps from believing that Niger Delta is only made of the Ijaws, the Ogbonnis plight would have been addressed by now.

KEN SARO WIWA and other great fighters would have died in vain if after 6 years of Mr Jonathan, the Ogbonnis are still agitating that their land should be cleaned, shame!

mickyarams:
May God destroy all those theiving bastards that call themselves leaders.

A big AMEN to that.... But the Niger Deltans have one of their sons as the president and another as the Petroleum Minister; what have they done to alleviate the suffering of the people of that area? Please don't mention amnesty programme o; that's a huge joke and senseless waste of money which sets bad precedences to agitators. KEN SARO WIWA's struggle for the right of the Ogbonni people and the Niger Deltans had been make to seem like "we send"...

President Goodluck Jonathan along with members of the National
Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on
Friday succumbed to pressure from PDP senators protesting their
losses at the November 1 ward congresses of the party by agreeing to
give automatic tickets to two incumbent senators from each state at
the 2015 polls.
The decision was a swift reaction to a week boycott of plenary
sessions by the Senate and simultaneous declaration of solidarity for
the defection of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu
Tambuwal, from PDP to APC on October 28 with a threat to team up
with the House to impeach the president if that became an option to
explore.
However, in a swift response to the Senate's action and their level of
bitterness over alleged moves by governors to unseat them next year,
Jonathan along with NWC members of PDP met with the aggrieved
senators at the First Lady's House in the Presidential Villa, Abuja on
Thursday night where it was agreed that at least two senators would
be given return tickets to the Senate.
Although the meeting was initially scheduled for Wednesday at 10 pm
in the Presidential Villa, it was re-scheduled to Thursday following
the president's trip to Ouagadougou, the Burkinafaso's capital.
The meeting which held between 9 pm and 12am ended with the
senators beaming with smiles and dropping their grievances at the
Villa.
One of the senators who did not want to be named, disclosed to
THISDAY that the resolve to return at least two senators from each
state was read by National Chairman of PDP, Adamu Mu'azu, at the
end of the meeting.
According to him, the matter was treated as a family affair adding
that the governors in that family affair's spirit had equally agreed to
respect the resolution.
“We have just come back from the Villa. The party has capitulated to
governors. It was agreed that two senators per state at a minimum
would return. The party chairman announced it at the end of the
meeting. The party said the governors had agreed to it. It was a
family affair resolution,” the senator said in a text message to
THISDAY.
Having been placated, the senators who came under fire for the better
part of last week from Nigerians who were angry with their decision to
shut down a national institution because of their alleged selfish
objectives are expected to resume full legislation which they had
crippled for one week.
The senators had last week alleged betrayal by the president whom
they said they had maximally supported prior to his emergence as
Acting President on February 9, 2009 up to this last weekend.
The height of their bitterness towards the President was the decision
to shut down the Senate throughout the week, throwing out all items
on the Order Paper and vowing to sustain the trend indefinitely until
the President addressed their grievances.
While Tuesday's plenary was put off till Wednesday, the situation
grew worse the following day as the Senate did not only shut down
the chamber but also adjourned plenary to November 11.
While claiming that Jonathan had lost the Senate's strong support
like the case in the House of Representatives, the aggrieved senators
also threatened to frustrate the consideration and prompt passage of
the 2015 budget, insisting that they would also shut down the entire
government in pursuit of their personal goals.

soe:
But this isn't an issue, they can simply refer to him as the Acting-Chairman and carry go...the court only says he is not the Substantive Chairman...besides...its not difficult to get him elected in a party convention.

All I know is that Buhari For President 2015

He can only be in acting capacity for a period of time.

I don't think it is fair to compare the laudable efforts of Gov Fashola in transforming the centre of excellence to the abode of the sanes; you should understand what I mean if you had lived in Lagos before 2007. If the peculiarity of Lagos is to be put into consideration, it will ammount to stupidity to compare the epoch tranformation Lagos had experienced to the normal developmental progress in Akwa Ibom. I will want us to imagine switching the governor and see if Gov Akpabio could do what was done in Lagos by Gov Fashola; try imagine that people;while, I believe anybody can achieve what Gov Akpabio achieved in Akwa Ibom with the ammount Oil money at his disposal.

Amisec:
How do you mean? Was the cost of the war against bokoharam budgeted?

Well if I may comment, I believe your question is rhetotical; but for the purpose of some discerning folks I will want to answer it. Yes, the cost of the war against Boko Haram has always been part of the budget since 2011. Whichever way one looks at it, this Govt of GEJ has spent more on security and yet we are still at war. why? ( I wish this question is rhetorical too; but it's not)...we are bunch of sentimental being who are not ready for truth. 2015, will come and go, but our misery will live on because truth has eluded us and will continue to elude.

Every development and progress in the tech world is definitely coming from the East. The West is losing out; America is losing out. They are losing out in internet speed and afordability too. New York Times article below compares the speed and affordability in some cities in the US and some cities in Asia;
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/upshot/why-the-us-has-fallen-behind-in-internet-speed-and-affordability.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0&referrer=

America’s slow and expensive Internet is more than
just an annoyance for people trying to watch “Happy
Gilmore” on Netflix. Largely a consequence of
monopoly providers, the sluggish service could have
long-term economic consequences for American
competitiveness.
Downloading a high-definition movie takes about
seven seconds in Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Zurich,
Bucharest and Paris, and people pay as little as $30 a
month for that connection. In Los Angeles, New York
and Washington, downloading the same movie takes
1.4 minutes for people with the fastest Internet
available, and they pay $300 a month for the
privilege, according to The Cost of Connectivity, a
report published Thursday by the New America
Foundation’s Open Technology Institute.
The report compares Internet access in big American
cities with access in Europe and Asia. Some
surprising smaller American cities — Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Kansas City (in both Kansas and Missouri);
Lafayette, La.; and Bristol, Va. — tied for speed with
the biggest cities abroad. In each, the high-speed
Internet provider is not one of the big cable or phone
companies that provide Internet to most of the
United States, but a city-run network or start-up
service.
The reason the United States lags many countries in
both speed and affordability, according to people who
study the issue, has nothing to do with technology.
Instead, it is an economic policy problem — the lack
of competition in the broadband industry.
“It’s just very simple economics,” said Tim Wu , a
professor at Columbia Law School who studies
antitrust and communications and was an adviser to
the Federal Trade Commission. “The average market
has one or two serious Internet providers, and they
set their prices at monopoly or duopoly pricing.”
For relatively high-speed Internet at 25 megabits per
second, 75 percent of homes have one option at
most, according to the Federal Communications
Commission — usually Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T
or Verizon. It’s an issue anyone who has shopped for
Internet knows well, and it is even worse for people
who live in rural areas. It matters not just for
entertainment; an Internet connection is necessary
for people to find and perform jobs, and to do new
things in areas like medicine and education.
“Stop and let that sink in: Three-quarters of
American homes have no competitive choice for the
essential infrastructure for 21st-century economics
and democracy,” Tom Wheeler, chairman of the
F.C.C., said in a speech last month .
The situation arose from this conundrum: Left alone,
will companies compete, or is regulation necessary?
In many parts of Europe, the government tries to
foster competition by requiring that the companies
that own the pipes carrying broadband to people’s
homes lease space in their pipes to rival companies.
(That policy is based on the work of Jean Tirole, who
won the Nobel Prize in economics this month in part
for his work on regulation and communications
networks .)
In the United States, the Federal Communications
Commission in 2002 reclassified high-speed Internet
access as an information service, which is
unregulated, rather than as telecommunications,
which is regulated. Its hope was that Internet
providers would compete with one another to
provide the best networks. That didn’t happen. The
result has been that they have mostly stayed out of
one another’s markets.
When New America ranked cities by the average
speed of broadband plans priced between $35 and
$50 a month, the top three cities, Seoul, Hong Kong
and Paris, offered speeds 10 times faster than the
United States cities. (In some places, like Seoul, the
government subsidizes Internet access to keep prices
low.)
The divide is not just with the fastest plans. At
nearly every speed, Internet access costs more in the
United States than in Europe, according to the report.
American Internet users are also much more likely
than those in other countries to pay an additional
fee, about $100 a year in many cities, to rent a
modem that costs less than $100 in a store.
“More competition, better technologies and increased
quality of service on wireline networks help to drive
down prices,” said Nick Russo , a policy program
associate studying broadband pricing at the Open
Technology Institute and co-author of the report.
There is some disagreement about that conclusion,
including from Richard Bennett , a visiting fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute and a critic of
those who say Internet service providers need more
regulation. He argued that much of the slowness is
caused not by broadband networks but by browsers,
websites and high usage.
Yet it is telling that in the cities with the fastest
Internet in the United States, according to New
America, the incumbent companies are not providing
the service. In Kansas City , it comes from Google. In
Chattanooga, Lafayette and Bristol, it comes through
publicly owned networks.
In each case, the networks are fiber-optic , which
transfer data exponentially faster than cable
networks. The problem is that installing fiber
networks requires a huge investment of money and
work, digging up streets and sidewalks, building a
new network and competing with the incumbents.
(That explains why super-rich Google has been one of
the few private companies to do it.)
The big Internet providers have little reason to
upgrade their entire networks to fiber because there
has so far been little pressure from competitors or
regulators to do so, said Susan Crawford , a visiting
professor at Harvard Law School and author of
“Captive Audience: Telecom Monopolies in the New
Gilded Age.”
There are signs of a growing movement for cities to
build their own fiber networks and lease the fiber to
retail Internet providers. Some, like San Antonio,
already have fiber in place, but there are policies
restricting them from using it to offer Internet
services to consumers. Other cities, like Santa
Monica, Calif., have been laying fiber during other
construction projects.
In certain cities, the threat of new Internet providers
has spurred the big, existing companies to do
something novel: increase the speeds they offer and
build up their own fiber networks.

chukwudi44:
APC DOES NO HAVE A MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE OF REPS

And PDP does not have 2/3 of the house...so what?

LMAyedun:
Tambuwal, a PDP man at daytime and APC at night...A political coward.
PDP reps will never sacrifice their return tickets for you because thats what the PDP Leadership will threaten them with
Man up Coward!!

Political activities can be liking to a trench warfare. Thus, in politics you are a soldier who must choose wisely strategies to adopt so as win wars. Tambuwa's strategy is not a show of cowardice if you understand trench warfare; he is a soldier who has chosen to manipulation the war zone to his advantage. It is possible he is also negotiating for a better stand in case he defect to APC.

PENDULUM BY DELE MOMODU, Email: dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com
“If you asked me years ago about Buhari being President,
I would have said ‘NO’ but it is 2014 and I think he’s our best
option…”
-@oluwadtest on Instagram
Fellow Nigerians, time changes everything indeed. In 2011, I would
have said worse things about General Muhammadu Buhari. In truth, I
actually wrote Buhari off completely, not without cogent reasons that
I considered valid and relevant at that time. The first was that Buhari
was too old to lead us. I was biased by the Obama Presidency and
the emergence of David Cameron in Britain. I felt Buhari as a former
dictator should be totally expunged from the race. I was also
brainwashed by the relentless propaganda that he was a religious
fundamentalist of the worst kind. If I was good in Fine Arts, I would
have painted him in the lurid and monstrous image of Lucifer. That
was how bad it was.
Trust me, I’m supposed to be one of the most liberal and tolerant
human beings but it was just difficult for me to accept Buhari as a
Presidential candidate at this time and age. I nearly clashed with my
dear friend and brother, Simon Kolawole, after reading an article he
had penned on Buhari and practically endorsing him at that time. I
was so livid that I did not wait for Simon to get out of church before I
started bombarding his lines with frenetic calls. When he eventually
got back to me, and in his usual humble manner said “Egbon, I
missed your calls, hope all is well?” I responded that all was not well
as he had spoilt my appetite and breakfast that morning with his
effusive praise of someone I considered a red-faced tyrant.
Simon was as cool as cucumber. He was incredibly blunt as he
instantly confessed his unrepentant love, admiration and support for
Buhari. He gave plenty reasons and regurgitated some of the offensive
sentiments already expressed in his emotional article but I wasn’t
impressed. I eventually dropped the matter as neither of us was
prepared to yield any ground. Rather than abate, my anger got
exacerbated. But that encounter challenged me to look more critically
at Buhari and probe deeper into how he acquired such stupendous
cult-following.
Without doubt, Buhari is a modern-day wonder. The story of his life is
a stuff of thriller novels. In a country where money fixes most things
and people, how did he manage to control the bodies and souls of his
fanatical supporters? What is it that makes him such a dual
personality that draws so many people to him while others withdraw
as if to run away from a victim of Ebola? What can Buhari do or
achieve at his age in this modern world where life itself has become
computerised? I suffered from this interior monologue for a long time.
Some of my fears started evaporating one night in Abuja when I was
invited over to meet him at the instance of Prince Lanrewaju Tejuoso,
one of his godsons. I was dazed at the ease Prince Lanrewaju was
able to get him to meet with me at such short notice. I was impressed
that there were no intruders during our heart-to-heart talk. Perhaps,
because he had no money to share, the usual parasites crawling all
over the corridors of power were not in sight. He spoke calmly but
firmly. He had this childlike innocence around him. It was difficult to
imagine this man sitting across me could hurt a fly even as a soldier.
There were no airs around him or chips on his shoulders. What you
saw was what you got; take it or leave it. Many had confessed to
similar reaction upon meeting him.
We took pictures together without much ado. And I actually found him
more charismatic than my jaundiced eyes could have permitted. What
I saw was that raw Fulani beauty and handsomeness. I and my aides
left the place liking him a bit.
Of course the election came as usual and Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
trounced Buhari mercilessly. But most of us got so carried away that
we failed to appreciate how well the man had performed against all
odds. Here was a man without loads of cash. He didn’t have a
preponderance of powerful Governors behind him. He could not
mobilise so many billionaires to fund him. He lacked the power of
incumbency. He could not secure the much needed coalition with ACN
at the time. Many Christians saw him as Satan on earth. Many youths
considered him too old. The super-rich saw him as the sword of
Damocles dangling over them. All the odds were stacked up against
him. Yet this poor man, as I like to describe him, recorded a whopping
12,214,853 votes while President Jonathan scored 22,495,187 votes.
Let’s break it down into simple Maths. Jonathan had a good spread
scoring 25% or more in 31 States. Buhari managed to score 25% or
more in 16 States and yet got a cumulative result of over 12 million
votes. A good Mathematician should be able to help us here because
I wish to show our President’s handlers that they will pay heavily for
complacency if they assume and take it for granted that they can beat
Buhari easily like PDP had always done in the past. Let me explain it
further. A man who won the mandatory 25% in about half of the
States secured by the President still went ahead to poll over half of
what the President got. Now this is the trickery part.
Let me begin with the most obvious. Buhari had only 37.96% in
Adamawa while Jonathan had 56%. The registered voters were
1,816,094 but the voter-turnout was a miserable 49.98%. With the
way the country is right now, PDP would require a miracle to win
Adamawa with a landslide. If Buhari secures the APC ticket, it is
almost certain that he would clean up that State. And in case the
voters turn out much bigger, it means that State can wipe off some of
the deficits Buhari suffered in 2011. The two leading parties can still
jerk up about one million extras which won’t be a bad idea even if
PDP still gets 25% or more.
Let’s walk across to another interesting State, Bauchi where Buhari
recorded 1,315,209 against Jonathan’s 258,404 despite the avuncular
presence of PDP Governor, Yisa Yuguda. The registered voters here
were 2,523,614 but only 1,610,094 voters chose to vote with nearly
1,000,000 voters hibernating somewhere. I hope you’re patient
enough to follow this Maths lesson.
Benue would certainly be a major battle ground this time for the
candidates because the State has over 1.3 million voters (out of a
total registration of 2,390,884) buried somewhere for the strongest
candidate to resurrect. Here ethnicity and religion would play critical
roles more than ever before. It is presently a virtual PDP State with
Jonathan polling 694,776 against Buhari’s 109,680 and ACN (Nuhu
Ribadu) 223,007. Benue had always been a State of enlightened
voters and it may swing in favour of a serious candidate.
Let’s keep moving and find somewhere to land in the troubled spot of
Borno State. This is a treasure ground with 2,380,957 out of which
more than half of the voters have absconded and vanished into thin
air. In 2011, Buhari 909,763 against the President’s humble 207,075
votes. Now this State is under fire but is NOW largely controlled by
the new alliance known as APC.
Let’s saunter across to Gombe where Buhari scored 459,898 against
Jonathan’s 290,347 votes out of a total registration of 1,318,377. All
the parties combined recorded 770,019 voters. The implication of this
is that if this State decides to be generous, it may dash out about
548,358 votes. We are still moving and scavenging for the votes
wherever they are hiding.
Let’s say some quick Hello to our Brother, Governor of Jigawa State,
Sule Lamido, who couldn’t hold Buhari down despite his equally tall
physique. Here Buhari polled 663,994 against Jonathan’s 419,252.
Total votes cast came to 1,140,766 out of 2,013,974 total
registrations. Do not say I told you, this State has some 873,208
unseen registered voters probably perambulating as we write. This
journey is still long and arduous.
Kaduna is a major war zone for the candidates because of its peculiar
characteristics. Buhari’s supremacy was hotly challenged as
Jonathan polled 1,190,179 against Buhari’s 1,334,244 votes . Total
votes cast were 2,569,963 out of 3,905,387 total registered voters.
Now wait for the good news of the kingdom; this beautiful State has
1,335,424 voters that it can conjure whenever needed or ready.
If you think Kaduna was super, please, wait for the almighty Kano
where no serious candidate can play silly pranks with the energetic
and fearless Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso. In 2011, Buhari massacred
Jonathan with 1,624,543 against 440,666. The then Governor and
Presidential candidate, Ibrahim Shekarau even scored more than the
President with his 526,310 votes. The total votes cast came to
2,673,228 out of 5,027,297. In case your Maths is poor like mine, let’s
find a calculator before the brains explode. Kano alone can
conveniently and benevolently donate 2,354,069 potential voters out
of the skies.
We finally arrive in Buhari’s homestead of Katsina where he
expectedly polled 1,163,919 against Jonathan’s 428,392. It is either
many Katsina people didn’t dig their own son, since prophets hardly
get honoured at home, or Buhari just didn’t employ artful dodgers to
manipulate the votes in his favour. In all, 1,639,532 voters performed
their civic duty out of 3,126,898 registered voters. By fire, by force,
Katsina on a good day can still conjure some 1,487,366 votes.
Please, permit me to fast forward to the State of the Sokoto Caliphate
where a floodgate can still be opened. Strangely, Buhari pulled merely
540,769 shots against Jonathan’s 309,057. A total of 909,808 voters
came out of 2,267,509 registered voters. No one is able to explain this
anomalous situation to us properly but some 1,357,701 unseen voters
may decide to show up in 2015. Please, bear with me, you must be
getting tired but we need to do this together because of my over-
confident friends in Abuja who must have had F9 in Mathematics like
me.
Let me now give you the shock treatment and take you straight to the
biggest theatres of war. I must warn that this not for the faint-
hearted. Welcome to the heartbeat of Nigeria known as Lagos State
where Jonathan polled 1,281,688 against Buhari’s 189,983 and Nuhu
Ribadu’s 427,203. Wait for this, only 1,945,044 voters turned up out
of 6,108,069 voters. In effect, Lagos can, in its true majesty, produce
additional 4,163,025 out of its bag of magic.
I wish there was space to display all the figures but it won’t be
possible. But let me continue with the random sampling. Many of the
States won by Jonathan or PDP or both, depending on why you voted
in 2011, are not so easily available at this time. Take Oyo for example
under the control of APC beyond the next Presidential election may
prove too tough to handle. Only 863,544 out of 2,572,140 voters
appeared in public but we don’t know the whereabouts of 1,708,596
potential voters.
Ogun State is another interesting territory where 543,715 people voted
out of 1,941,170 who registered to vote. Meanwhile, the largest
turnout of voters was recorded in areas controlled by Jonathan but
let’s examine the figures. Abia has used up 1,188,333 out of
1,524,484; Akwa Ibom 1,232,395 out of 1,616,873; Anambra
1,157,239 out of 2,011,746; BAYELSA 506,693 out of 591,870; Cross
River 726,341 out of 1,148,486; Delta 1,398,579 out of 2,032,191; Edo
621 out of 1,655,776; Ebonyi 502,890 out of 1,050,534; Ekiti 261,858
out of 764,726; Enugu 814,009 out of 1,303155; Imo 1,409,850 out of
1,687,293; Kwara 414,754 out of 1,152,361; Ondo 486,837 out of
1,616,091; Osun (lost by Jonathan) 512,714 out of 1,293,967; Rivers
(the largest State in South South) 1,854,116 out of 2,429,231 and so
and so on.
This should give you a fair representation of what is at stake in the
2015 election. Politics is not exactly Maths but it is still a game of
numbers. Those who think an incumbent President cannot be defeated
should wake up from their self-induced coma. The mood of the
Nigerian nation is very similar to that which swept Obama into
power. Lagos and Kano combined account for 11,135,366 registered
voters out of a grand total of 73,528,040. Only 38,199,219 people
voted in all the States. There are 35,328,821 floating somewhere.
Most of them are comfortably resident in APC States.
My free advice to the Jonathan campaigner is simple; stop projecting
our President as a sectional leader whose only qualification is where
he comes from. Stop raining insults on Northerners and avoid
maligning innocent Muslims. The religious card you wish and hope to
play will never play out in favour of President Jonathan. You should
concentrate on projecting the positive work and his Transformation
Agenda. A President is the father of the nation. A lot of damage has
been done by portraying him as a victim who’s derided by everyone
except his own.
The President’s handlers should worry more about how the goodwill
of 2011 got frittered away in such a jiffy. Above all, they should
urgently search for competent Maths teachers.
Believe me, the figures are no longer adding up.

Death of Alamieyeseigha’s Son: Keyamo Accuses FG of Double
Standards
Mr. Festus Keyamo
By Tobi Soniyi in Abuja

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has accused the federal
government of applying a double standards in commiserating with
families who suffer tragic losses of their loved ones.
The accusation w contained in a statement he (Keyamo) issued
yesterday in Lagos where he questioned why the federal government
was indifferent when the news of the murder of Toba Falode in Dubai
was announced, eight months after, whereas, it (federal government)
swiftly issued a statement not only commiserating with former
Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha over the tragic
murder of his son, Oyamuyefa, in the same Dubai, last weekend, but
also calling on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to fish out
the killers of the younger Alamieyeseigha.
Although Keyamo commiserated with the former Bayelsa governor, he
noted that Toba Falode was murdered in Dubai in February this year,
lamenting that eight months after, the federal government has neither
commiserated with Toba’s mother, Aisha Falode, nor shown any
concern on the tragic murder to warrant urging the UAE authorities to
investigate the murder, even when Aisha’s personal investigation had
unravelled the killers of her son. Yet, it swiftly issues a statement
barely a day after the news of the murder of Alamieyeseigha’s son
broke.
Keyamo then asked if the President had different value scale for the
lives of the nation’s citizens.
President Jonathan was the deputy governor to Alamieyeseigha while
the duo served in Bayelsa between 1999 and 2005, when the latter
was impeached.
Part of Keyamo’s letter read: “It is with a heavy heart and sadness
that we received the news of the untimely death of a citizen of Nigeria
in Dubai, Mr. Oyamuyefa Alamieyeseigha. It is particularly painful to
note that he died in his prime and under questionable circumstances.
However, we note the swiftness with which the federal government
responded to this sad and painful news with a call on the UAE
authorities to fish out the killers of Mr. Oyamuyefa Alamieyeseigha.
However, whilst this action of the federal government is
commendable, it smacks of double standards. Recall that on 15th of
February, 2014, Toba (Tyler) Falode was also murdered in hazy
circumstances in Dubai. Recall also that the mother, Aisha Falode
took it upon herself to carry out some discreet investigation into
those circumstances and has since been crying out for justice for her
son. Up till this minute, the federal government has not issued a
single statement calling on the UAE authorities to fish out the killers
of Toba Falode. The federal government has played the ostrich in the
case of Toba, leaving the mother and family grieving alone. The
question is, with the swift response in the case of Oyamuyefa
Alamieyeseigha, does the federal government value the lives of some
of its citizens more than others?”
Keyamo argued that the lackadaisical attitude of the government
when its nationals are murdered land emboldens foreigners to keep
attacking and killing Nigerians abroad.
“it must be said that it is the lukewarm attitude of the federal
government towards the earlier cases of Nigerians murdered abroad
like the case of Toba that has emboldened foreigners in foreign lands
to snuff the lives out of Nigerians without any qualms. If the federal
government has shown more interest in the case of Toba, perhaps the
precious life of Mr. Oyamuyefa Alamieyeseigha would have been
saved.”
According to him, “It is important to note that we have written
statements of witnesses who confirmed that the killer of Toba Falode
confessed to the crime, and these statements have since been
forwarded to the UAE Government, but it is such a shame that
nothing has been heard or done eight months after”.
The circumstances surrounding the murder of Alamieyeseigha’s son
remains foggy, as some accounts claim the man committed suicide
while another account says the body of Oyamuyefa was found in the
elevator of his hotel in Dubai.

fortunes0215:
I am still not convinced that naija private uni grads are better off compared to their public uni counterpart. Hence the vacancy is open to all graduates who meet the criteria irrespective of their institutions.

Well, I never said a private uni grads are better than d public ones...I only insinuated that with the requirements for the jobs, 2.1 and 25yrs, it is rearly possible that a public grad could fit in; with d strikes here and there.

dulaman:
2.1? less than 25yrs? engineering? 5 Bs for waec? in NIgeria strike stricken university? haba! chai! der ris Goduooo....

na private university graduates dem want....and na dem go apply. the advert na just to fulfill procedure.

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