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Jokes Etc / Apt Response by Shine1177: 8:41am On Jun 22, 2015
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Travel / Re: A Town In Anambra State Were Snakes Visits People...(pictured) by Shine1177: 4:24pm On Jun 19, 2015
I remember during my NYSC service at Awkuzu, Oyi LGA of Anambra state 2006, despite the fact that our lodge is a duplex every time a visitor is around those python do come and say hello, we have to live with it for a year. When we hosted the next batch, 'batch B' we told them the stories. The following morning we saw a big python in our compound, that day a lady corper legged her PPA to Awka. I had some funny encounter with those snakes, you have to push them out with a long stick. I can't forget those experience, Anambra was like a home to me.

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Politics / Re: NASS N9bn Fallout: We’ll Reduce Our Salaries, Allowances – Saraki by Shine1177: 2:33pm On Jun 18, 2015
rexzqcom:


Excluding annual salary.

Yes.
Politics / Re: NASS N9bn Fallout: We’ll Reduce Our Salaries, Allowances – Saraki by Shine1177: 10:34am On Jun 18, 2015
rexzqcom:


So, these figures are only allowances for each person. Monthly, annual salaries not included.

Annual allowance.
Politics / Re: NASS N9bn Fallout: We’ll Reduce Our Salaries, Allowances – Saraki by Shine1177: 9:51am On Jun 18, 2015
Naija! See allowance.

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Politics / Like Jonathan, Buhari Has No Political Backbone — Odia Ofemium by Shine1177: 11:00am On Jun 16, 2015
on June 16, 2015 By Prisca Sam-Duru

•I‘ve worries about Buhari’s govt, not expectations

In this interview with Vanguard, renowned poet, novelist and social critic, Odia Ofeimun expresses his worries about the new administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, and suggests ways to move the country forward. Ofeimun also worked as private secretary to the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo before his death. Excerpts:


Expectations?

President Muhammadu Buhari wishes to fight corruption, uphold national security and run an efficient government.

Let me be straight out with it: How successful he can get depends on how willing he is to move away from the Greek gifts he is being promised by our so called foreign friends who know but won’t tell that we have all these problems of corruption insecurity and inefficiency in government because Nigeria has not restructured in favour of a common morality for all Nigerians.

Only a restructured Nigeria can stand up to foreign wheelers and dealers. Restructuring is not only about North and South struggles. Although it is part of it. It is about national strategy and grand policy making. Let Muhammadu Buhari join Goodluck Jonathan in rejecting the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA, and continue to reject foreign soldiers stamping on West African soil, and refuse the wayo Western solution to malaria scourge that Goodluck sidestepped to the annoyance of so called Western friends.

And then insist, as no Nigerian government has dared since SAP, on building proper factories to stop the influx of goods, essential commodities that glut our spaces. See who will offer to attend his next anniversary. And that will tell who Nigeria’s friends are.


Worries about Buhari’s administration

So, to make a clean breast of it, I have worries about, not expectations from, President Muhammadu Buhari. My worries stem from knowing what he must confront as other Nigerian Presidents before him and as he himself did in his first coming. Near certainty is that, one of these days, he will go to Davos as Mandela did and they will give him scientific reasons why he must stop being so passionate about a Freedom Charter or call it a development charter for his country. Davos wanted a Free South Africa without spine. Apartheid had given white children a special deal. But when Mandela had his time to do it for all South African children black and white, they showed him the beauty of market forces which can only now be justified by the trade imperialism over far and distant neighbours while fuelling xenophobia in those left behind.

I want to hope that President Buhari wont buy the hash which says that in an emergency, such as we are in, you must leave all control to market forces that are usually blind but controlled by identifiable levers.

The domestic component of such disavowal is to be gleaned from the body language of domestic allies who do not want to have anything to do with political restructuring or who are buying into a crude regionalism that is really another name for co-federalism.

The first thing to note, and quite a pity, is that like Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari has no serious political party. Just a rabble with ill – digested political slogans. So if he is determined he will have to learn to work truly outside the box.

Within the box, he will be fixed in the way that the pre – existing cabals fixed Goodluck Jonathan after mauling President Olusegun Obasanjo and leading him down the garden path until he thought he needed a third term to square up. Of course, there is no reason for the cabals to use the same old methods.

Remember that Goodluck tried to say that the cabals, not mentioning the market gurus from outside, were overpowering him. Well because his party had a short attention span and was all scatterdiagramatic in vision, he could not tackle the requisite levers. A heartily fractured ruling party collapsed into pressure as a matter of policy. As for Jonathan, he could not make his claims ring true in the face of an opposition within and outside his party determined to use every means possible to deny reality.

Now reality has just caught up with everybody. The demonstrators on the streets and the opinion leaders across the media who were suavely minding the turf for the cabals will need now to remove the wool from their eyes. Some of them without realizing it had turned fuel subsidy into an issue that it wasn’t.


So the point is how to have a genuine turnaround awareness capable of meeting real problems head on. I want to say that the problems can be met.

President Buhari has to be able to stand up and win respect for his sheer guts rather than let himself be overawed by undue pressure from so called friends abroad and allies at home who are merely thinking of clipping coupons. He needs to cultivate a grounding with ordinary Nigerians to withstand inevitable pressure. And by ordinary Nigerians, I mean the millions who need good health, genuine education, jobs, freedom of speech, movement and association. Already he has a Fulani problem which he can only solve if he forgets the cult of Arewa entitlements.

The question is, would he who belongs to everybody and nobody at the same time, find the skill and patience to do it right?
Of course he would also have a Yoruba and an Ndigbo problem which he can only deflate by realizing that all ethnic groups want virtually the same things that the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of state policy prescribe.

Yes each ethnic group may wish only its own in to be in bounty. But the national mood since Awolowo’s successful campaigns for free education and other social welfare measures favours a system that covers all Nigerians.

Those who will say that the fall in oil revenue nullifies such precepts are not of this world as both the Bible and the Koran can be invoked to defend them.

Putting all children under fifteen at school ought to be made condition for any African state becoming a member of the African Union. It is the sure way for ethnic nationalities in geographical formation to be counted upon to rise above narrow nationality and become producers and resource controllers who see neighbours as co-workers.

Common welfare lays the basis for entrenching commonalities. To extend such to herdsmen is to put real capital behind old River Basin authorities and building proper ranches to stop the rampages across country.

On corruption and stealing

The reality is that you can’t build a country right or fight corruption and maintain security until you remove the lopsided structure that creates the basis for multiple moralities and hence violence.

On this score, I agree with Goodluck Jonathan’s much derided quip that corruption is not just about stealing. Goodluck Jonathan got it right. His loud and learned assessors do not know what they are dealing with when they scoff at the distinction he made.

The shame of it is that the learned opinion leaders in our midst stand on straws once they get on a binge of partisan slogan mongering.

Now that elections are over, lets hope normalcy will intervene and allow all to try to define our terms properly. Otherwise it is self immolating to find oneself on the same side with so called progressives who, for instance, look for scientific reasons to disenfranchise a third of the registered voters and still talk about free and fair elections.

Absolutely retrogressive. Sad too to call them revolutionaries. Even with card readers and DNA technology, see the gory and fictitious election results that it yielded in Rivers, Kano, Delta, Katsina, Awka Ibom, Jigawa and Bauchi. It is a mess. Nigerians have had to accept the hogwash to avoid the Armageddon that some doomsday prophets had predicted. Come to think of it, the electoral officers who registered underage children in their large numbers! Shouldn’t they be taken to court to account? You see, this is why I say it is not about expectations but worries.

And, talking about reforming the electoral system, President Buhari needs to borrow a leaf from President Umaru Yar ‘Aadua whose sense of integrity required him to admit that the election that brought him to power was flawed. President Buhari should face it squarely.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/like-jonathan-buhari-has-no-political-backbone-odia-ofemium/#sthash.9dqudjWk.dpuf
Politics / Re: Twelve Days In Office And Buhari's "Achievement" Part 2 by Shine1177: 12:19pm On Jun 12, 2015
No be small thing o. Yes, i supported GEJ to the end and I still take as a hero but i have since start praying for Buhari not to be a disappointment to those who voted him and Nigerians in general. He needs our prayers more.

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Politics / Re: Saraki's Meeting With Oyegun And APC Leaders Cancelled Abruptly by Shine1177: 2:28pm On Jun 11, 2015
freedom96:
Hmm.The same pdp guys that were shouting Northerners have born to rule ideology are now happy that these same northerners occupy three out of four topmost governmental positions.And all of them muslims also.

If something goes wrong,dont come back to shout islamization,na una islamise the country,thinking that you'll get tinubu angry cheesy

As for me,I no send.

GMB all the way cool

Point of correction.

M. Buhari -- Northerner Muslim
Y. Osinbajo -- Southerner Christian
B. Saraki -- Northerner Muslim
Y. Dogara -- Northerner Christian

When you sell your brother because of envy, you won't be able to redeem him at your highest bid. It was Southerners that spearheaded the agitation against their own (ACN against Mulikat Adeola-Akande [2011] & majority of South-West against South-South [2015]) now their masters have outsmart them. Perhaps we've got to live with it till 2023 .
Politics / Re: Shocker: Aregbesola's Oponimo.com Website Has Finally Changed Hands! [photos] by Shine1177: 3:34pm On Jun 10, 2015
AreGbese has scammed Osun State. Change naa ni.
Politics / Re: Workers Protesting For Non Payment Of Salary In Osogbo (PICTURES) by Shine1177: 2:32pm On Jun 10, 2015
I learnt they call him "AreGbese" (King of debt) now.

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Politics / Re: Court Hears Suit Against Govs’ Pension Laws Today by Shine1177: 9:59am On Jun 10, 2015
Let there be change here too. Nigerians should support these NGOs.
Politics / Court Hears Suit Against Govs’ Pension Laws Today by Shine1177: 9:57am On Jun 10, 2015
JUNE 10, 2015 : ADE ADESOMOJU

A Federal High Court in Abuja will on Wednesday (today) hear a suit challenging the various laws enacted by some state Houses of Assembly prescribing pension for former governors and their deputies.

It was learnt on Tuesday that the defendants in the suit had filed notices of preliminary objection to the suit and the motions would come up for hearing before Justice Ahmed Mohammed on Wednesday.

Thirty-six non-governmental organisations in the country and two activists – Ayodeji Kolawole and Tunde Asaju – jointly filed the suit through their counsel, Mr. Chino Obiagwu, on July 15, 2014.

The NGOs sued 78 defendants, made up of the 36 states of the federation and their respective Houses of Assembly, as well as the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

The plaintiffs, in their statement of claim, argue that the state Houses of Assembly lacked the legislative competence to enact pension laws for public officials when the constitution has conferred the exclusive power of setting the remuneration of public officials on the RMAFC.

They add that state governors, their deputies and other public officials are not entitled to pension as their retirement benefits are already part of the remunerations being paid to them while in office.

Apart from seeking an order nullifying the various pension laws, the plaintiffs also want the court to order the 36 state governors to recover from former governors and their deputies what they have received in excess of the amounts stipulated by RMAFC as pension.

According to the plaintiffs, the pension laws have been enacted in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Benue, Gombe, Kwara, Kogi, Oyo and Lagos states, while the other 29 states are either yet to release theirs to the public or planning to enact similar law.

In his written submission, Obiagwu stated, “The plaintiffs are respectfully seeking the orders of your Lordship to nullify various state laws stipulating pension and other remuneration for governors and deputy governors.

“The basis of the submission is that the 1999 constitution has given the 74th defendant (RMAFC) the exclusive power to set the remuneration of such public officials. “Pension is part of the remuneration of a public officer. Therefore, any state law that stipulates pension of such public official already covered by the constitutional mandate of the 74th defendant is ultra vires, null and void.”

[b]The plaintiffs are seeking, among others, “a declaration that the pension of a governor and deputy governor of a state is a “remuneration of a public office holder” in terms of Section 32 (d) of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution and “condition and welfare of labour” in terms of Item 34 of Part 1 Second Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.

“An order nullifying the said Governors and Deputy Governors Pension Law 2014 of Akwa Ibom State, Lagos State Governor and Deputy Governor Pensions Law of 2007, Rivers State Pensions for Governor and Deputy Governor Law of 2012, Oyo State Pension (Governor and Deputy Governor) Law 2004, Governor and Deputy Governor (Payment of Pension) Law No 12 of Kwara State 2010, or any other such law enacted by any of the 37th to 72nd defendants stipulating the pension of any of the 1st to 36th defendants for being contrary to Sections 1(3) and 4(2) of the 1999 Constitution and therefore is ultra vires, null and void.

“An order directing the 1st to 36th (serving governors) defendants to recover forthwith from any former Governor or former Deputy Governor any pension payment or out of office benefit paid or delivered to such former public officer beyond the remuneration stipulated by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act.”[/b]

Some of the plaintiffs are the Human Development Initiatives, Media Rights Agenda, Enough is Enough Nigeria, Human Rights and Human Rights Law, Socio-Economic Rights Initiative, Social Watch Initiative, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, Legal Resources Consortium, and Legal Defence and Assistance Project.

http://www.punchng.com/news/court-hears-suit-against-govs-pension-laws-today/
Politics / Re: 10 Facts About New Senate President Bukola Saraki by Shine1177: 9:35pm On Jun 09, 2015
sarzwizard:


2. His father is Dr.
Abubakar Olusola
Saraki, a one time
Senate president Senate Leader
(1979 – 1983) in Nigeria.


www.naij.com/456207-10-facts-about-new-senate-president-bukola-saraki.html


cc:lalasticlala
Politics / Re: 7 Female Senators In Nigeria’s 8th National Assembly (photos) by Shine1177: 9:28pm On Jun 09, 2015
lalasticlala:



http://citypeople.com.ng/i/in-pictures-7-female-senators-in-nigerias-8th-national-assembly/

Where is Senator Olujimi of Ekiti State? Research well, she was a former Deputy Governor. Tanx.

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Politics / Re: Buhari Reacts To Emergence Of Speaker, Senate President by Shine1177: 6:53pm On Jun 09, 2015
God bless the President. Amen.
Politics / Re: Why APC Postponed NASS Inauguration - Vanguard by Shine1177: 10:43am On Jun 09, 2015
Shame on them. Power belong to the people. Senator Bukola Saraki elected Senate president unopposed. grin grin grin

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Politics / Re: Why APC Postponed NASS Inauguration - Vanguard by Shine1177: 10:33am On Jun 09, 2015
Dem never see o. When they were encouraging Aminu Tambuwal to play anti-Party back then didn't they remember that KARMA is a bitch? Imagine APC stopped NASS inauguration.

'Chanji' has come grin
Politics / Re: Inauguration of 8th National Assembly postponed - Vanguard by Shine1177: 10:04am On Jun 09, 2015
Dem never start. Everyone is blaming Bukola Saraki, what about Bola Tinubu who dictate the direction of the APC members?
#TrueDemocracyWeWant
#GodSaveNigeria
Politics / APC Senator-elect Have Now Reduced To 58 • How PDP Can Win by Shine1177: 2:34pm On Jun 07, 2015
How PDP can win •APC in make or break meeting with senators
Written by: Taiwo Adisa -Abuja

A meeting of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress(APC) with senators elect of the 8th National Assembly ended in a deadlock on Saturday following the failure of the contending forces to agree on modalities for voting.

Senators Bukola Daraki and Ahmad Lawan are locked in battle for the position of senate president, following the withdrawal of senator George Akume in favour of Lawan.

Sources close to the meeting told the Sunday Tribune that the two groups failed to agree on whether the voting exercise should be done by secret or open ballot.

While the Lawan group was said to favour Open ballot, the Saraki group was said to have insisted on Secret ballot,

It was gathered that the Saraki group insisted on secret ballot because the same measure was adopted in the primaries conducted among members of the House of Representatives earlier in the day.

As a result of the deadlock, the two contenders were mandated by the party to nominate five senators each to meet with the a national Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun.

The meeting was said to be underway at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel on Saturday.

It also emerged the notwithstanding the denial by the Peoples democratic Party(PDP) that it was not eyeing the post of senate president in the 8th National Assembly, a candidate of the opposition party can still emerge the President of the senate in the new dispensation.

Investigations by the Sunday Tribune on Saturday indicated that Senators of the All Progressives Congress(APC) have now reduced to 58, following the failure of a senator elect from Niger state to secure his certificate of return from the independent National Electoral Commission(INEC).

An elected senator can only gain access to the senate chamber on presentation of his certificate of return and the clearance of the Code of Conduct Bureau.

As a result of the reduction in the number of APC senators that would be eligible for voting on Tuesday, anyone nominated from the PDP can clinch the senate Presidency with just five votes from APC lawmakers.

Sources in the senate told the Sunday Tribune that unless the APC manages the issue of contention for the senate presidency carefully, any dissent among its members would automatically yield the seat to a candidate of the PDP.

It was believed that senator David Mark, who served as senate a President of the immediate past seventh senate could be waiting in the wings for a slip from the APC.

The development is coming on the heels of a statement from the Senate Unity Forum, the group loyal to Senator Lawan which indicated that it would nor uncover its members in the media contrary to the demand by the Like Mind senators loyal to Saraki.

The Like Mind Senators loyal to Saraki had in a statement signed by Senator Dino Melaye and Ahmed Yerima on Friday asked the Lawan group to publicize its list of supporters just as the Daraki group had done a week ago.

By the Unity Forum, in a statement on Saturday said it was not ready to unveil its members whom it said have already endorsed a letter to the APC national Chairman.

The statement asked the Like Mind Senators to approach the National Chairman of APC if they were desirous of knowing the names of the Unity Forum members.

The statement read in part: “While explaining that five senators out of the 40 members of the Unity Forum were unavoidably absent in Abuja to sign the letter last Wednesday, leaving the 35 quoted in media, the statement added that the party, “ remains the main body that should be in the know of details of senators-elect that had signed on to the Lawan/Akume ticket and the party has the full list.”

“Election into the principal offices of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should not be seen in the light certain types of election characterized by pettiness “ .”we are talking of the upper chamber of the National Assembly” the statement added.

“Unity Forum, according to the statement, expresses regrets that their counterparts in the “Like Minds” group are in the name of campaign for the exalted office of the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria taking steps that are unparliamentary and one of them is the call for display of names and signature on the pages of news papers.

“We are advocates of openness and transparency in the electoral process to produce the leaders of the senate as done in all parliaments in the world and the open voting system enshrined in the senate standing orders but that should be carried out in line with the parliamentary standards and not on the pages of Newspapers” the statement added.

“The forum said “After all , during the voting to elect the senate president ,each senator shall vote in the open so that electorate back home will know whom each senator- elect votes for, adding “we should not forget that the senate is the highest law making chamber in our political system and so anything to do with it should be matured and of high degree of decorum”

“The statement noted that thrice in the on-going campaign, the party and others had to issue rebuttal to outrageous claims of the “Like Minds” on zoning of the Senate Presidency to North-Central, conduct of shadow election at the retreat and endorsement by some states, adding that the “ the Lawan/Akume campaigns are issues based and not misinformation of Nigerians.”

http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/senate-presidency-apc-meeting-senators-deadlocked
Politics / Re: Scandal: Buhari’s Declared Asset Close To N900million by Shine1177: 2:01pm On Jun 07, 2015
The main reason he made a U-turn on his pledge of public declaration. Many will be dissapointed.
#GodSaveNigeria

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Politics / Terrorism: The International Conspiracy Against Nigeria Revealed by Shine1177: 1:58pm On Jun 07, 2015
International conspiracy to ensure that Nigeria perpetually at war with itself is behind the recent allegations made by Amnesty International (AI) against the military and some of its top officers involved in the prosecution of the war against the Boko Haram terror sect, Sunday Tribune can authoritatively reveal.

The AI, in its latest report released on Wednesday, 3 June, had accused top Nigerian military brass of gross human rights violation, pushing that they should be tried for crimes.

But sources in the military and those in international diplomacy had revealed to Sunday Tribune that the AI allegations had both political and economic undercurrents, especially coming n the heels of the promise of the G7 to President President Muhammadu Buhari after asking him for a wish list ahead of the G7 summit. The allegations, they revealed, were part of a serious international conspiracy against Nigeria which was carefully weighted by the human rights watch agency to cause serious damage to the Nigerian campaign on terrorism and its sovereignty.

According to some of the sources, who fingered the United States of America as the conspirator-in-chief in the grand plot, spirited efforts had been made to ensure that Nigeria did not survive the predictions by a United States’ agency that the country would break up in 2015.

“They had thought that the country would not survive the 2015 elections or be able to manage the likely crisis that would result there from,” explained a source. “But they were surprised at the way the general election was resolved without any crisis.”

Revealing what transpired further, he said that the United States, particularly, had been critical of Nigeria’s campaign against Boko Haram since the insurgents began their onslaught against the country.

“When the terrorists were killing innocent Nigerians, destroying communities, Amnesty International did not issue any threat or complaint against the terrorists, except when the Nigerian military decided to fight back,” the source with military command experience explained to buttress the conspiracy theory claim against Nigeria.

The source revealed that the AI allegations usually came whenever Nigerian military was making a headway against the terrorists.


“When Nigeria wanted to buy arms from the US to fight Boko Haram, it was at that same period that Amnesty released its so called damning report accusing the military of human rights abuse. The US had turned Nigeria’s request to buy arms from it down citing Amnesty’s allegations as reason for its refusal.”

This new report, sources claimed, was coming on the heels of the promise made by the countries to support President Muhammadu Buhari when he met with the UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US representatives in London shortly before his inauguration.

The Sunday Tribune had exclusively reported in its 31 May edition that President Buhari had met with the British Prime Minister and was promised assistance ahead of the G7 summit. President Buhari was asked to present his wish list. And top of the requests the Nigerian president made, according to sources, was weapons to fight the terrorists.

But just as the military was banking on the realisation of the G7 leaders’ promise, AI released its current report, raising fears that the military may not get the necessary weapon assistance. The sources accused Amnesty International of being deeply involved in the conspiracy.

“It would appear that they just don’t want Nigeria to win the fight against Boko Haram,” a military source lamented. “The implication of all this is that the morale of the soldiers would be low. The military will be demotivated in the war as it won’t know what is human rights abuse and what is not.


“With this kind of report, Amnesty seems to be justifying terrorism,” the source stated.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/terrorism-international-conspiracy-against-nigeria-revealed

President M. Buhari should shine his eyes as he deal with the West.

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Politics / Re: Nigerians React To Amnesty Int'l Call On Ihierjirika, Minima, Badeh & Others by Shine1177: 8:38am On Jun 04, 2015
gbl01:
They own us. I'll give up on the government if they regard the report at all. Wtf is with the west? Using Boko haram yo terrorize us and using Amnesty intl to or vent us from fighting back?/( that's my own theory anyway, might be wrong). I'm forced yo remember George Carlin. Below is a statement from him.


Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought—and paid for—the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want:
They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.
That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting bleeped by a system that threw them overboard 30 bleeping years ago. They don’t want that!
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street—and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later ‘cause they own this bleeping place! It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.
By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue—these are people of modest means—continue to elect these rich rooster suckers who don’t give a Bleep about you….they don’t give a Bleep about you… they don’t give a Bleep about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday
Incredible. The same way our politicians care less about the masses. God save this generation.
Politics / Re: Buhari Appoints Ogbonnaya Onu As The Secretary Of The Federation by Shine1177: 2:23pm On May 31, 2015
Good one.

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Politics / Re: Buhari-meter Activated by Shine1177: 8:26am On May 30, 2015
I just like this idea. I'm sure God will use this man to bring a definite change to Nigeria.

I love GEJ. I want to believe PMB.
Politics / Buhari-meter Activated by Shine1177: 8:25am On May 30, 2015
Following the inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari as the president of Nigeria, a website (http://www.buharimeter.ng/) has been launched to track every single promise and achievement of the Buhari administration. The website includes many features, like a timer and sections that compiled all his campaign promises for each sector.



http://www.buharimeter.ng/

Politics / Lawyers In Fierce Debate Over Who Owns The Moon by Shine1177: 4:22pm On May 29, 2015
LAWYERS on Thursday in Cologne, Germany, began debating the legal ownership of the moon and how to extend earthly laws into outer space.

The conference, hosted by the University of Cologne's Institute of Aerospace Law, with the theme, "Who owns the Moon,” was being attended by 100 legal experts.

The experts said legal tussles are inevitable as more and more space vehicles head for the moon.

Stephan Hobe, Director of the Institute, said among other topics to be discussed was whether anyone is legally entitled to mine minerals on the moon and planets.

He said active satellites were at growing threat of colliding with space junk, including dead satellites and loose debris.

"The junk orbits the earth at high speed and out of control. Yet the international community had shown little willingness to pay the enormous costs of bringing the junk out of orbit," he said.

Bernhard Schmidt-Tedd, of the German Aerospace Centre DLR, said a growing problem was a trend to low-cost microsatellites which meant more and more satellites going up, often in swarms.

"Traffic rules exist on land, in the air and at sea, but not in space.

It is time to make those rules," he said.

Experts said it might become possible in future to sue for damages if a valuable satellite was hit by junk and the originator of the junk can be traced.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/lawyers-fierce-debate-over-who-owns-moon

Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 5:21pm On May 16, 2015
yinksob002:
Na wa oh. They are really not smiling at all. Anyway, how is your end, trust u are doing great.
Yea. Tanx.
Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 10:14am On May 16, 2015
This guys are not smiling. I heard on eTV that Immigration raided churches in Durban and arrested few people. SMH.
Politics / Re: You Have No Excuse For Failure, Lamido, Aliyu Tell Buhari by Shine1177: 7:35am On May 15, 2015
According to Lamido, “you must fulfill your promises, because there was no condition given on how to do it when you were campaigning for election. Whether the economy is favourable or not, do not give us any excuses.

#SayNoToExcuses
#GodBlessNigeria

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Politics / You Have No Excuse For Failure, Lamido, Aliyu Tell Buhari by Shine1177: 7:35am On May 15, 2015
Written by: Adelowo Oladipo -Minna

GOVERNORS of Jigawa and Niger states, Alhaji Sule Lamido and Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, respectively, have told the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to stop making excuses, but to fulfill his electioneering promises to Nigerians.

The duo spoke on Thursday, at the commissioning of the ultra-modern and multi-billion naira Shiroro bridge, on Shiroro River, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

They said Nigerians would hold Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) accountable, whether the economy was okay or not.

According to Lamido, “you must fulfill your promises, because there was no condition given on how to do it when you were campaigning for election. Whether the economy is favourable or not, do not give us any excuses.

“We will not tolerate any excuses. Whatever the APC is, they owe it all to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because PDP, one way or the other, brought almost all of them into politics.

“It is about time for them to reflect, because Nigerians will definitely hold them accountable. They must fulfill all their promises.”

Governor Lamido stated further that throughout the electioneering period, APC never raised any developmental issues but was busy harping on the dysfunctionalities of the nation, which included Boko Haram, corruption and other sundry issues.

They also asked the Adamu Mu’azu-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP to throw in the towel and accept defeat for leading the party to a “disastrous defeat” in the recently held general election.


According to Aliyu “if it is the party’s belief that the leadership be retained, believe me, we will not fight it. Because the actual change will come in March 2016. That is when we will go to the convention and elect new leaders.”

Speaking in similar vein, Governor Lamido said ‘it is not time for blame game. It is time to think and reflect on how to reposition PDP.”

Speaking on the alleged plan to form a new party, Alhaji Lamido said “we have both agreed not to leave the PDP. We dey kampe for PDP, we dey shelele for PDP.”

According to him, “PDP has honoured and dignified me, and I am not leaving it for tenants. Aliyu and I are from home background, while others are from mere house background. We are well groomed right from our homes and we will not leave the party for anyone.”

Prominent traditional rulers, which included the Etsu Nupe and the chairman, Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar; the Emir of Minna, Alhaji Umar Bahago, among others, graced the occasion.
http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/you-have-no-excuse-failure-lamido-aliyu-tell-buhari

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Politics / We Have No Problem With Jonathan —buhari’s Committee by Shine1177: 8:44am On May 12, 2015
Leon Usigbe -Abuja

CONTRARY to the position earlier expressed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), chairman of the transition committee set up by the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to work with the Federal Government on the handover to his incoming administration, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, has said it has no problem with the government.

The spokesman of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had, in a reaction to the Federal Government’s complaint about the terms of reference forwarded to it by Buhari transition committee, accused the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration of hampering the smooth handover to the new government.

But, speaking with State House correspondents, after a meeting of the corresponding transition committees, on Monday, Joda denied that his committee was not getting the desired cooperation from government.

The meeting, which took place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was also attended by Vice President Namadi Sambo, who is the chairman of the Federal Government’s committee.

Joda said there was no disagreement between the committees on the handover assignment, denying that his committee had even suggested that there was a rift.

“Our committee has never said to anybody that there is no cooperation. We are waiting for the reports,” he said.

Also speaking with correspondents, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, said the meeting on Monday was “fruitful and cordial.”

He concurred with Joda that there was no disagreement between the two committees as had been projected in some quarters.

“The meeting was very, very fruitful; it was very cordial. There is certainly no issue. We are flowing and we have clearer understanding of the working of the two committees,” he said.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/content/we-have-no-problem-jonathan-%E2%80%94buhari%E2%80%99s-committee

APC Lagos caucus live on lies. Why will Alhaji Lai Mohammed tell Nigerians such lies when Alhaji Joda has not reported any issue to the Party? Those guys live on propaganda. Baba let the change begin in your Party.

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Politics / Re: Nigerians Are Expecting Too Much From Me. Im Nervous - Buhari by Shine1177: 7:26am On May 06, 2015
Buhari said, “The expectation is too high and I have started nervously to explain to people that Rome was not built in a day.

Baba is pledging that we give him "chance" to work. Ok. grin

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