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This fool called ABATI is now the spokesman of the MuMu called Jonathan.... Awon wèyray eniyón!

hightech-IT:
Flexing mode activated for this wwekend. #church things#

Do you have office in Lagos?

I have been wanting to inquire too..where is their office/hotel/company sef?

kokoA: Ekweme should be eighty years now I guess and the present chairman, Bamanga Tukur is in his late seventies to.. Na wah o! Party of old men with archaic ideas..

'Tis call Gerontocracy. Old men who keep fooling themselves holding on to power for silly sake of trying to be relevant. Papa Ekweme should have left politics long ago to position himself a mentor and an advicer.
However, I think Papa Ekweme and his Igbo constituents should channel all their energies to a successful bidding for the presidency which I believe they deserve come 2015 or else it might take a long, long time before they have a taste of the centre.

I think if comments here are to be used to feel the pulses of young #Nigerians on the performance of President Jonathan and his team of 'technolooters', he would have failed woefully; this kind of forum, in saner climes, is used as a form of feedback by the government to gauge performance and possibly know where the people are lacking, but not in Nigeria. How did we even vote for this man? I get irritated each day when I hear him deliver speeches or talks at events. If Mr President keeps imploring Nigerians never to loose hope in the country, what has he done to promote what might encourage us not to. This shouldn't be by the word of mouth, how about actions? May God deliver us from this plague...Amen! Jonathan is the cross we have to carry, but till when? 2015? or before then?

Ikengawo: Am I asking anyone to defend government policies?
I'm simply asking why infrustructural development from Akwa Ibom
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which has the best infrustructure in Nigeria argueably next to Abuja, goes unmentioned.
I want people to realize that it's all politics as well. I'm not saying PDP is good or thing government is the best but the opposition is a part of the government as well.

I do not think Akwa Ibom's giant infrastructural achievements ever go unmentioned, except if you tell me you resident else where. Watch AIT and TVC-Lagos TV stations- or see adverts mostly in the dailies, the Akwa Ibom story is always televised. And also if PDP fails to adequately show or brandish quality achievements they've achieved, could that be blamed on the opposition? I guess they have nothing to show. Sane and rational Nigerians are now the major opposition, not even the political parties.

Ikengawo: Am I asking anyone to defend government policies?
I'm simply asking why infrustructural development from Akwa Ibom
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which has the best infrustructure in Nigeria argueably next to Abuja, goes unmentioned.
I want people to realize that it's all politics as well. I'm not saying PDP is good or thing government is the best but the opposition is a part of the government as well.

I do not think Akwa Ibom's giant infrastructural achievements ever go unmentioned, except if you tell me you resident else where. Watch AIT and TVC-Lagos TV stations- or see adverts mostly in the dailies, the Akwa Ibom story is always televised. And also if PDP fails to adequately show or brandish quality achievements they've achieved, could that be blamed on the opposition? I guess they have nothing to show. Sane and rational Nigerians are now the major opposition, not even the political parties.

kokoA: Mtcheeeewww.. As if he has control over his aides sef

If I can like this Precise, apt, on-point and revealing comment a hundred times, I will..... "As if he has control over his aides..." lol. I think we're stuck with this JanaDaft for the next 3yrs o...God help us

Hall of Fame: Pastor Tunde Bakare...For his doggedness and forthrightness towards
liberating Nigeria and Nigerians from the claw of the evil and insensitive leadership we're plagued with.

Hall of Shame: (Dis)honourable Farooq Lawan... For the heart-ache disappointment he dropped on us (Nigerians). He flung his fad of intergrity for a pot of porridge.

chosen04: HALL OF FAME:: Chinua Achebe :: For letting the whole know that the Charade Sage is actually a MASS MURDERER of members of the future generations.


HALL OF SHAME:: All blind supporters of the Sage :: Shame must be another word for that "that man must be right because he is my tribal sage".

You sound so bitter about the great Sage, AWOLOWO, and it is so easy to know where you're from. According to the nomination rules you can not nominate Awo into the Hall of Shame, this is 2012 bro; please don't let your hate for this great Nigerian becloud your sense of sight to read and reason. Let go of the past so as to move on, Prof Achebe's account of the Civil war, I guess, is not mention to create monsters who hate.

Any update people?

Guys forward your CVs to cdoho@diamondbank.com.....BSc 2.2 any discipline.... best of luck. Diamond do not accept gatecrashing, but who knows, if God is with you gatecrashing might favour you.

Cunt_Destroyer: Which part of Islam is good? I truly want to know. I have a translated Quran which I have read and I have researched extensively the life of the main progenitor of Islam and I find it difficult to reconcile a peaceful, pious group to what history, the Quran itself and contemporary Muslim antics present.

I do not know the answer you want me to give you, but I do know that the authors of the research articles/theses you have are definitely people of your lot- those who are out to distort facts. But the most unfortunate thing is allowing partisanship becloud your sense of rational judgmemt. While it is good to read extensively, it is only reasonable to think for yourself. Researches are someone else's opinions corroborated by self-crafted data especially when it comes to religion and philosophy. Bro, "It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. -Proverbs 20:3" I seek to eschew any more unintellectual discussion with you on this topic. Phew! Fanatical

Cunt_Destroyer: The muslims will always play the cowardly role of victims even when it is clear they are the aggressors.

It is time honoured tradition to paly the blame game as handed down by their fraudulent founder.

I have yet to see reason that this religion and her brain dead followers is truly a religion of peace.

Their advocates and apologists, mind you, are 99% fanatics and have grand delusions of an islamic paradise in the hereafter as long as they follow their hadith and barbaric sharia.

Islam, Arabs and the whole damn middle east desert are the problem and not the Jews.

You sound so bitter and virulent about Islam; well that is understandable, probably because of the madness of a few, who decided on their own to senselessly 'fight' for 'God', among the many peaceful religious muslims around. Islam is indeed a peaceful religion bro. And please erase that insinuation that there is a founder of Islam; nay, Islam is never an organization or establishment.

I think all religions have one or more of these fews who hold extreme views of religious treatises or doctrines. Lets be sensitive about issues of this nature and stop hating a thing because part of it is defective, what about the part that is not defective?

true2god: Dats y pple like u find it had to make ur SSCE in one sitting cos u guys no longer read. Tank God for NECO sha.

Lol...Pathetic! Kindly read your post again dude. Or do I point out your errors for you? Okay let me help you. Pick from this statement: I wonder how HARD ( Yours-HAD) you manage to make your SSCE AT (Yours-IN) a sitting; evidently you sat for it more than two times. Be respectful to people both in conduct and conversation even if they're strangers because respect begets respect. Greenness dey worry you!

I feel like slapping somebody in here. gosh! Inspite of all the info on the internet some silly dudes still are allowing partisanship becloud their sense of rational judgement. Isreal actions are documented as dastard and oppressive, even the US is aware of this. Please guys read...

true2god: No thankx for showin a hypocritic solidarity for ur arab friends. If u knw the history of the arabs maybe u might change ur opinion. If u knw the arabian expansion into sub-sahara africa maybe ur opinion might change. If u knw the migration of malian tuareg/fulani/sub arabian migration/expansion into west african countries maybe ur opinion might change. If u knw hw wat the arabs are presently doin to the blacks in sudan maybe ur opinion will change. I hav countless reasons to say u r wrong wit ur post above.

Lets come to the local scene, go and read the history of the Nigeria/Biafran war and the pple pilottin the Nigeria fighters jets/russian MIG, they are all arabs, bombed and destoyed the entire Biafran territory.
The issue here is dat many of u r showin solidarity to the palestinains cos the israelis are protectin demselve by attackin dem with greater force. Thats ok and understandable cos we r all human and understand wat sufferin means in a situation like dis, but the arabs are no better just that they find demslves militarily at a disadvantaged point against the isrealis. An average arabian man is naturally heartless and wicked.

If the palestinian/arabs want peace they should stop firing rockets into israel. The iranians must not hav it as a state policy to wipe off israel from the face of the earth and should stop their cladestine uranuim enrichment for nuclear weapon development cos they will surely use it against israel, which is wat israel is seriosly afraid of cos an average arab is not afraid of mutual destruction.

This is so wordy but ever so SHALLOW... There is more to writing bro.

victorD3: Go Israel!

While your post is short and precise, it had allowed one deduce that you are somewhat evil and extremely a fanatic. It is sad!
What Isreal is doing presently in Gaza is evil, oppressive, dastard and unacceptable by any standard. The repercussion of this will be mommoth that a 2 years old now will feel the effects when he turns 30. Isreal (Jews) is the problem of the world.

Day in day out it's becoming clearer to assert that we (Nigerians) are fearful people; and that says a lot about our religiosity. What is it we want? We clamour for change, yet we wouldn't do what will bring change; how then would that change come? These present set of leaders we have at the centre ( Federal, States or Local councils) are not sincere, and by that I mean they really do not think of us (Nigerians), not at any time. The sour era of applying sentiments and being too emotive on national issues should have taught us that that wasn't the way to go. We (mind you, I did NOT vote for him) voted GEJ base on sentiments and emotions which engendered the high level of gullibility we exhibited during the election. But wait, why shouldn't there be a revolution? Why shouldn't there be a change? Do you like the state or situation you're in right now where there is a feasible better alternative. We're our own problem.*sigh*. Please guys for once let us all unanimously support a change that would be everlasting, probably though. Are you not tired of the madness going on the nation? Unbating increase in rate of corruption, high rate of Joblessness among the youth, epileptic power supply, insecurity, high poverty rate, increase maternal mortality rate, poor health facility, continual increase in price of staple foods and the list is endless. Must we continue to tolerate all these?

cheddarking: I hate it when misguided and stup1d 'activists' make such Inciting comments.

If there is any Revolution in Nigeria, we would be utterly destroyed.

Somalia, Congo and Rwanda would be child's play compared to us.

This guy is such a retard.

What we need is good governance, not a bunch of cowboys running their mouths inciting people to destroy themselves.

Dude, your reference; Somalia, Congo,Rwanda all had a non-similar situation/senario as ours. Somali situation was not citizens or people fighting Govt. It was a section (Tribe) of the country fighting another in power. The same for both Congo and Rwanda. Please endeavour to cross check your facts adequately before (mis)informing people. What Omojuwa said or insinuated is a popular opinion. If the state we're in in the country is OK for you, then you're in the minority. Revolution is imminent but the kind or type is what is not clear yet. Mahatma Ghandi's revolution saved India; though his was different frm revolution of Che Enesto, Fidel Castro and all other classical revolutionaries. Revolution can be bloodless if the right and intellectuals helm it. God bless Nigeria as we await that change...

Please, has anyone heard from the Civil Service Commission of Lagos State as per their advert for vacancy sometime in September? Why is it taking them this long to start calling people?

Re-post from Politics forum.
Some time ago when the issue of the =N=5,000 note was still on the burner, I did a write-up on it on my MobileBlog ( www.economicate.pun.bz ); though, I did not actually state on which side I lean- for or against the introduction- , I brought up a case of ineptitude on the part of our academicians on important national issues.

Several times when they ( the academicians) ought to come to our rescue as per publicly debating on the technicalities of policies of government, thereby providing assistance to the citizenry to clearly understand these policies,they engaged the services of silence and waiting for failure of such. Throughout the campaign against or for the introduction of the new note, I did not see a single Prof. come out to either argue for or against that policy. Yet they want us to respect them when we do not even know where they stand on issues. Also on the issue of Bakasi, of all constitutional law Profs in the nation, only Prof. Akin Oyebode of UniLag came out to clearly made known his argument. It is sad.


Nigeria Academicians and their dispositiion to national issues

Now that it is certain that CBN will be introducing a new note of higher denomination ( =N=5,000) , Nigerians , the learned and the unlettered, have started the usual ratiocinations which is always expected when policy of this nature surfaces. Whether the introduction is good economically or not, or whether it will help in any positive way, I think Nigerians deserve to know, and also the long term implication need to also be expounded. While I believe the CBN would come out to tell us the reason(s) why they had to introduce the new note, the other reason(s) either against the policy or for the policy will come from people who have the privilege to air their opinions or those who think their educational status could atleast make their views count. I could remember when the issue of going for the EuroBond came up sometime last year, the finance minister, 'Dame' Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, asserted that the nation needed to secure the debt even if we do not have a reason to; those who suppose to enlighten us never did. Again when the issue of Oil subsidy removal came up in January, the minister again told us that it's imperative that we remove it if we're to heal our seedy economy; what did they do, mute. Just of recent the minister again in her usual manner told us we need to secure another loan; this time she and team headed for China.I do not have 'wahala' with whatever strategy she deemed reasonable to ensure that the economy is stabilized, even if she likes she can advise us to go on our knees to beg the British to come back and re-colonise us; believe me I might not utter a word. Where I think I have 'wahala' (and seriously irritated) as a Nigerian, that did pass through a higher institution in the country, is a situation where those that ought to either support or criticize (or atleast say something) all these policies pretend or behave as if all they could do is to stay in the 4 walls of the lecture hall and dish out their obsolete knowledge they claim to have acquired (or except if only what they could indeed offer is a lecture note plagiarized from a foreign author). I am not always happy when government and it agencies try to foist policies on us, mostly economic policies, and all we (Nigerians) could do is to argue from perspective of an ordinary welfarist, when all we need is experts advice or voices to either corroborate the government position or constructively criticise it, which I believe our professors could do. If we are to count the number of universities offering economics and allied courses one might want to say Nigeria is repleted with policy makers but alas it will be fallacious to make such conclusion. We have professors who never will endeavour to atleast lend their voice to issues vis-a-vis their area of work. The huge disconnect between our academicians ( and researchers) and the agencies of government (and private firms) involve in policy making is so obvious. While we wait to be floored with articles, write-ups, columns, and editorials in the coming days, let us pray that those who should talk and write do so. They shouldn't just only theorized the knowledge they acquired. We need their opinions and views on issues just like how the likes of Paul Krugman, Mark Thoma, Greg Mankiw, and the others do whenever President Obama's economic team come up with economic policies; Americans sample the opinions of these people first before reacting. On the new note... I am yet to read the reason(s) why the CBN decided to introduce this new note, but in my candid opinion I do think Sanusi Lamido and his team are progressing in error. I shall endeavour to give my reasons subsequently on saturday after I must have read the reasons for their actions.

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acidtalk: Wonder no more.
If you had a boss like the person of tinubu, you will do same.


He probably had scuffles with the governor but because he isn't power drunk he had to let go.

He didn't want to be disgraced out of office like Femi Pedro and Koforuola Buknor. Tinubu was the only governor that had 3 deputies in 8years. That's to prove how use*less and wicked the man is.

Traces of hatred in your words is evident; what had Tinubu got to do with this? *sigh* I wonder how some people just find it easy to vilify someone else name. Whatever it is you mislike Tinubu for should not becloud your sense of rational judgement or comment on issue. Do away with this senseless hatred bro ACIDTALK; hatred breeds misery to the world.

solbil: @cogito ergo. Our profs do discus national issues on tv. I dont know if you live in the country. Anyways, peace profound frater!

On TV? *sigh*

Some time ago when the issue of the =N=5,000 note was still on the burner, I did a write-up on it on my MobileBlog ( www.economicate.pun.bz ); though, I did not actually state on which side I lean- for or against the introduction- , I brought up a case of ineptitude on the part of our academicians on important national issues.

Several times when they ( the academicians) ought to come to our rescue as per publicly debating on the technicalities of policies of government, thereby providing assistance to the citizenry to clearly understand these policies,they engaged the services of silence and waiting for failure of such. Throughout the campaign against or for the introduction of the new note, I did not see a single Prof. come out to either argue for or against that policy. Yet they want us to respect them when we do not even know where they stand on issues. Also on the issue of Bakasi, of all constitutional law Profs in the nation, only Prof. Akin Oyebode of UniLag came out to clearly made known his argument. It is sad.


Nigeria Academicians and their dispositiion to national issues

Now that it is certain that CBN will be introducing a new note of higher denomination ( =N=5,000) , Nigerians , the learned and the unlettered, have started the usual ratiocinations which is always expected when policy of this nature surfaces. Whether the introduction is good economically or not, or whether it will help in any positive way, I think Nigerians deserve to know, and also the long term implication need to also be expounded. While I believe the CBN would come out to tell us the reason(s) why they had to introduce the new note, the other reason(s) either against the policy or for the policy will come from people who have the privilege to air their opinions or those who think their educational status could atleast make their views count. I could remember when the issue of going for the EuroBond came up sometime last year, the finance minister, 'Dame' Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, asserted that the nation needed to secure the debt even if we do not have a reason to; those who suppose to enlighten us never did. Again when the issue of Oil subsidy removal came up in January, the minister again told us that it's imperative that we remove it if we're to heal our seedy economy; what did they do, mute. Just of recent the minister again in her usual manner told us we need to secure another loan; this time she and team headed for China.I do not have 'wahala' with whatever strategy she deemed reasonable to ensure that the economy is stabilized, even if she likes she can advise us to go on our knees to beg the British to come back and re-colonise us; believe me I might not utter a word. Where I think I have 'wahala' (and seriously irritated) as a Nigerian, that did pass through a higher institution in the country, is a situation where those that ought to either support or criticize (or atleast say something) all these policies pretend or behave as if all they could do is to stay in the 4 walls of the lecture hall and dish out their obsolete knowledge they claim to have acquired (or except if only what they could indeed offer is a lecture note plagiarized from a foreign author). I am not always happy when government and it agencies try to foist policies on us, mostly economic policies, and all we (Nigerians) could do is to argue from perspective of an ordinary welfarist, when all we need is experts advice or voices to either corroborate the government position or constructively criticise it, which I believe our professors could do. If we are to count the number of universities offering economics and allied courses one might want to say Nigeria is repleted with policy makers but alas it will be fallacious to make such conclusion. We have professors who never will endeavour to atleast lend their voice to issues vis-a-vis their area of work. The huge disconnect between our academicians ( and researchers) and the agencies of government (and private firms) involve in policy making is so obvious. While we wait to be floored with articles, write-ups, columns, and editorials in the coming days, let us pray that those who should talk and write do so. They shouldn't just only theorized the knowledge they acquired. We need their opinions and views on issues just like how the likes of Paul Krugman, Mark Thoma, Greg Mankiw, and the others do whenever President Obama's economic team come up with economic policies; Americans sample the opinions of these people first before reacting. On the new note... I am yet to read the reason(s) why the CBN decided to introduce this new note, but in my candid opinion I do think Sanusi Lamido and his team are progressing in error. I shall endeavour to give my reasons subsequently on saturday after I must have read the reasons for their actions.

isaco: We need experts to help us out. But they will not allow them

Experts? Thought we have them in this government; Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sanusi Lamido, Shamsudeen Usman, Atedo Peterside etc.

I still do not know why the Nigeria government would readily wants to borrow every fund available in the economy or elsewhere at whatever rate; if the fund is available to be borrowed you surely see it ready to discuss terms, or are we broke? I came across this news that the Federal Government of Nigeria had borrowed 60% of the pension fund assets available as at May of this year, amounting to =N=1.009 trillion, through issuance of long term bond, but this to me is unbecoming of a serious government.

It’s not for long, after reading the news, my little economic mind started the usual questioning as to what would be the economic implication(s) of this government fad. Yes, as an investor with people’s money with me, I would have invested it in sovereign bond of a stable government like the pension fund administrators did; but as a government, would I’ve raised money from this fund when I am aware that such would crowd out the key players of the economy?

Just a thought; can the government make effective use of this borrowed fund, as in, can the ‘Federal Government of Nigeria’ or the state governments use this fund to ignite activities in the economy more than the private borrowers? Really, a sensible government knows that it couldn’t. Thus, instead of borrowing from the fund, a sensible government would’ve provided well structured platforms and customarily acceptable regulations for private usage of this fund, and in so doing it stimulates growth and at the same time profit through tax; except if the drivers of this economy do not believe in the principles that capitalism preaches.

Though, I cannot claim to be an expert in this field, what I know is private borrowers that had been crowded out by this government actions would’ve probably sprouted the much needed factories or expansion of existing ones that would probably had provided employment for the teeming unemployed youths.

However, I think the government needs to review or probably re-evaluate some of its economic policies. It should know the reasons for embarking on some projects or policies, and see through analysis if such projects or policies are truly producing the expected results. If you ask me I see no rational reason why we have to continue running the kind of large deficit budget we run year in year out when what the previous years’ deficits were being used for were not being seen and felt vis-à-vis the economic and infrastructural development, improve standard of living? Must we just prepare budget because it is the normal thing to do?

My basic principles of economics taught me that Government is not a good businessman, thus it shouldn’t participate in business activities if it wants real growth; rather it should be a fair regulator, but not a meddler, of business activities. I guess it is time the government stopped further borrowing that might hurt the economy in a long-run. While I do not discourage running a deficit, I believe we should evaluate our performance in term of usage of the fund borrowed to finance such deficits.

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