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I was wondering what the syllabus of that school will look like . . .
Intro to riffles
intro to shortguns
Intro to handheld explosives
Intro to pipeline survey
Advance explosive and digital timing modules
Advance . . . .
[READING MATERIAL : The Art of War By chin chin poo wee]
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Folks, Check dis out
How Govs, Ministers, Misled Jonathan

But for the misleading counsel and false assurances given to President Goodluck Jonathan by some of his ministers and a few state governors, the president may have done more to avert the commencement of the strike action called by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade UnionCongress, TUC, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.

The suggestion that Jonathan may have done more to ensure that the strike did not get off the ground, it was learnt, was sequel to security reports provided at a meeting, held, penultimate Monday, January 2, 2012, inside Aso Rock Presidential Villa.

The meeting, which had a few ministers , security chiefs and a former president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, in attendance, was called to review the implications of the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, about 24 hours earlier.

Sunday Vanguard was informed by a source privy to the meeting that the prognosis, according to the security chiefs, was very terrible. Jonathan was said to be have been made to understand that everything that ought to be done to avert the strike should be done. The briefing made it very clear that should the strike go ahead and last beyond a week, “there would be serious implications for this administration”.

Although the source said the language at the meeting was very weighted, “there was no mistaken the fact that the prognosis was very bad”.

Specifically, it was understood that one of those in attendance at the meeting pointedly stated that allowing the strike to go on for “up to 11 days would mean total disaster and eclipse” for the Jonathan administration.

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At the end of the meeting, the president’s body language reportedly suggested that something would be done earnestly to avoid the mass action.

However, information reportedly suggests that one of Jonathan’s cabinet members from the North Central Zone, Information Minister, Labaran Maku, along with another minister from the South South geo-political zone, Elder Orubebe, prevailed on the president not to shift or accede to labour’s demand.

The Information Minister was said to have impressed it on Jonathan that reverting to N65 would be seen as a sign of weakness and unseriousness. He may have been right!

Secondly, according to SundayVanguard’s source, the president was made “to believe that the strike action would normally kick off on the first day as threatened by labour but would quickly lose steam by the second day.

It was gathered that the impression conveyed to Jonathan was that the strike action would not go beyond “just two days before it loses steam”.

The president, the source further revealed, was misled into believing that, like past strike actions, the involvement of security agencies would contain its spread.

Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, were the main focus of attention.

“It was this advice that President Jonathan took hook, line and sinker”, the source said.

Finance Minister and Head of Jonathan’s Economic Management Team, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, were also of the opinion that the president did not need to back down.

And whereas Jonathan was said to have made private moves, one of which was to prevail on some state governors to assist in persuading members of the House of Representatives not to sit last Sunday and the telephone calls he made to some state governors to assisting in ensuring that the strike action was not allowed to go ahead “and if it did, must be drawn back,” the president could not achieve his heart’s desire: To pile what was thought to be maximum pressure on the NLC. It did not amount to anything because the leadership of NLC still went ahead.

A few governors reportedly misled the president.

Jonathan, believing what he heard during private conversations “with some state governors, went away with the impression that state governments could tame the monster of the strike.

[b]The governors reportedly assured the president that “they were in talks with the leadership of labour in their states and that moves to break their ranks were almost completed”, a source close to The President disclosed.

“Some of these governors, just as they did during the crisis over zoning and the contest for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, deliberately set President Jonathan up so that he would stick to the N65 and be made to look like an unpopular president on the one hand and on the other hand the fact that he had bargained with them late last year to ensure the removal of the subsidy so that they can have more money,”the source said.

“If some of them had told him the truth, he would have known better that what he was going to confront from last Monday would be so massive that the international community would focus more on other issues of corruption in government, a matter that is at the root of the subsidy issue”.

Some of the governors gave assurance to the president on the basis of the need not to allow “hoodlums to hijack the protest in some states of the federation and go ahead to engage in reprisal attacks as a consequence of the Christmas Day church bombing in Madalla, Suleja and some kept their words”.

That was why, for instance, the Enugu State governor, Sullivan Chime, acted fast by ensuring that there were no rallies or street marches in his state.[/b]

It was for the same reason that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State also swung into action to prevent Muslims from being attacked in his state.

Plateau State, where the strike is also being observed, saw a situation whereby workers merely stayed at home without marching on the streets.

Sunday Vanguard was further told that when the strike commenced on Monday, it was a stunned Jonathan who saw first-hand how Nigerians reacted.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/fg-vs-labour-civil-society-how-govs-ministers-misled-jonathan/

We all know this man is a Ijaw President. Whose fault is it if OtuOke fishermen can't drink from their own river? Na me Shyte inside the river them?. . . Money to provide water and water itself is practically flowing in Bayelsa but his skewed reasoning pattern won't let him realize he ruled Bayelsa for a substantial amount of time.
Also to note: The Musicians he accused his persecutors of hiring performed for PDP during his presidential campaign at one point or another but they were never hired then, it is only when he feels threatened that they become hired.
Jonathan GoodLuck Wake up !!!

What did he say about Kano state ambition?

See how GEJ is repeating what our Resident No1 Hypocrite tried to shove down the mind of NL during the subsidy struggle. . . this man is a real Ijaw president. . . not Urhobo, Not Isoko but a Ijaw one. It is clear who paid who to be doing what.

AjanleKoko!
Nuttin but a nuisance parading as a mod. Made me open a new account when he banned me unjustly. . .

By the way i need to cook some beans . . I guess i will be needing Masshob's Fire . . . Lolllllz

O' fought over Nigeria's Oily region and now his people are fighting over his property. Could this be "Law of Karma"?
. . . Muheheheheheheheha!!!!!

FSU: Hey dude!! Labor is an Igbo party. Igbo party is in charge in Ondo. That is why ACN wants them out.

Well, good to know, but ACN is no regional party. . . They only happen to have dominated the South-Western region and are about to dominate further.

Folks from far East now take panadol for the West' headache . . . Whether ACN or Labour . . The SW is progressing. . . It is all about competition on a diff level as long a SW is concerned.

Abu qaqa . . . . ? Make we here word jor!

afam4eva: I want to join the school of thought who believe that this project is not viable and a total waste of fund. is there a rule that says that this railway cannot extend to Abuja? Lagos is no doubt the economic and commercial capital of Nigeria but why Ibadan? What happens there? What population of Nigerians live there? I even heard someone saying that Ibadan is the largest city in west Africa. Is that now a criteria for citing a project? I will favour a Lagos-Ibadan-Abuja rail project or a Lagos-Benin-Asaba-Onitsha-Enugu than this one. The amount also sounds astronomical to me. smh.

It can always extended to Abuja another day. You choose, if you were to initiate such project and you have the fund that can construct just the first 100 miles, will you start from Abuja and take it to say Lokoja or start from Lagos and link Ibadan up first? When you factor in the fact that Lagos residential areas has been exhausted and is rapidly expanding into Ogun state . . .then it becomes even clearer why lagos-Ibadan coming first isn't such a bad idea.

jmaine: Am paid to counter paid posters like you . .so it's fair game . . . .

Really? . . . Lol

jmaine: kindly tell me what is wrong in our utilising cassava as a supplement to the normal flour we import to stimulate local cassava production. Which will in turn benefit the farmers and save us a few importation dollars.

Haven't you heard of states seeking to harness the potential of cassava farming native to us . . . . .



it will be shameful to still come and air this view of yours if the generation capacity is further increased by the end of the year . .what will your excuse be then. .

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Advice, start cooking them up now . . .

Oga Jamaine, everything is wrong with cassava bread policy the way your president is going about it. Gej is tryin to forcefully substitute an imported item with a with a locally available, abundant and accepted one (for a diff. purpose) when he knows Nigerians aren't buy the idea of cassava flour. Why not encourage the local cultivation and production of normal flour or if it cannot be cultivate locally, we should be able to produce more cassava starch and eventually export it to cancel out what we loose in forex for normal flour.
But instead he would rather have it forced on us. Let him confront the mismanagement cycle in our agric sector and system at large instead. . . Don't forget he adopted this same approach in tackling subsidy mismanagement fraud when he choose to shift the subsidy payment to Nigerians.

As for the power generation capacity, i will be happy if GEJ,s govt can dissapoint me by generating enuf power to significantly improve electricity stability by then.

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As for the ICU, Why isn't Patience using one? . . . It is only good enuf for Achievements Photoshoot Nigerian should admire and not Patience. . . Atleast Patience should have excercised some patience and tested am for her fellow . . .

Come on guys, have you ever imagined cassava flour going into various baked foods. Sausage will be mainly cassava and beef, eggroll will be cassava and egg. . . And we call it an achievement!
As for power supply, when the Dry season comes let GEJ get back to us on our total generating capacity.

Rubbish . . . Blood thirsty islamist looking for excuse to unleash their develish potentials . . . How does the idea conveyed by one person whow we aren't sure of his religion equals the views of Christians worldwide? Illiteracy wan kill una finish . . .

As far as NL is concerned, Beaf is gone forever fellas, his predictions are failing before our very eyes. . . The Guy is simply too embarrased to try something funny.

Homerac7, pls can u seperate your comment from qoute properly.

@Onlythruth, i still strongly feel u should be able to go against majority opinion harmed with good and convincing reasons, i will give 1 example, now this isn't to derail the thread.
The lagos state govt is currently embarking on a project to construct multiple lanes of roads along Badagry- Seme expressway and the position of majority of Lagosian is that they are in support of it, but i tell you that i don't support that particular project because:
1). It will multiply(by a factor of 4 or 5) the Traffic flowing into mile 2 and festac area(the Lagos end of the road) simulteneously and thus cause more hardship to the people supporting it in the first place.
2). It will be a elegant but wasteful endevour to go ahead and construct multiple lanes in a situation where the single lane it currently has can handle all of its traffic when in good condition. In fact imagine the effort and resource going into a one additional lane spanning over 50 km (100km in total) going into other Lagos roads in far worse condition.
3) why construct such road on debt that spans into the future when Fashola won't always be in power or always be in powerful position to maintain his current ideologies.
Or will ACN and Fashola rule Lagos forever?
I strongly think you should be will to go against the positions of majority on issues, Majority may carry the vote but Majority isn't always right and are open to change of mind on issues like these. You can bring about that positive change of mind.

Onlytruth: You should at least be honest enough to show us where I personally supported the damn thing in the past. All I really wanted to know is why NDIGBO support this thing.
I know that your nama brain won't recall, but I supported your position on it in the past (onshore 100%, offshore to be shared according to population of states), so your "good morning" is misplaced and shows you an a.s.s.

I could not do more than I had done before because I did not want to go contrary to the position of Ndigbo. Gerrit?
Ewu.

The bold part of your comment really cracked me up. So you don't want to go against the position of the Igbos . . . Being what you are to Ndigbo on NL, i thought you were suppose to rise above ethnic bigotry, atleast.

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A very interesting thread indeed . . . The Igbos on NL or 'Igbo IDs' on NL have their eyes set on the a do or die alliance with the Ijaws for the sole sake of sharing the oil in and around ijaw land with them. It is a fact that Ijaws go with water bodies and most of Nigerias oil are found around our waters. What the igbos don't realise the Ijaws know is the fact that they treasure and admire the linkage btw Ijaw land and oil rich coastline.
At last, every body don appear to bear their papa name . . . And the loser is . . .

See how a thread for Beaf don turn emotional sometin else . . . I wonder what so interesting about Beaf that makes NL fight over him.

Awolowo was in no position to secede yet they blame him for not being a rebel with no just reason . . .

. . . What?

The YouWIN scheme is a plus to the You who win in the final round. Forget all those sweet talk . . .