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Niamey – The President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, has called for a new international military intervention in Libya, under UN supervision, to neutralise the rampaging militias.
The Nigerien head of state made the call in an interview on Tuesday in Niamey.
He said “[/b]there is a need to have French, U.S. and British troops in there to repair the damage they caused.
“It is high time they provided after sales services[b],’’ Issoufou said.
According to Issoufou, neighbouring countries should be on hand to help, and Niger will play its part.
“There is also the need to reconcile all Libyan parties, including supporters of the late Mouammar Gaddafi, with a view to forming a national unity government.
“Libya is the source of evil, if we do nothing, we will encourage disaster,’’ he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/nigerien-leader-calls-new-military-intervention-libya/

manny4life:
[/b]He ALWAYS stalks me on NL[b], and I mean it's been going on for like 5 years or more and I have done nothing to the man. Even my inactivity for several months did not deter him. Often when he quotes me, I ignore him and keep it moving. He is my nemesis; he made me break my silence of several months... And I am on here, and will yet again, treat his fvck up.

Maybe he loves you

hayzed2:
Co-ordinating Minister of Economy
and Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday said
Nigeria needs about $5 billion to
stabilise the economy.
She made the assertion at a closed door
meeting with Senate Joint Committee
on Finance and National Planning.
The Minister who was in company of
the Central Bank Governor, Godwin
Emefele; [/b]you know we went down
to $2 billion last year and then we built
it up to $9 billion and there was
insistence we must share[b], it came down
to $2 and then we had at least built it
back to $5. Right now we are at $4.1
billion,” she noted
The Minister further added: “If we had
built it to a stable cushion then
anything above that we could now use
to augment and that is the reason why
we have not seen that, we have to
balance out everything and I think
Nigerians care so much about exchange
rate. If you have abrupt changes, that
will also affect the psychology of
Nigerians, inflation and all that.”
She said every country faces a certain
amount of risks and uncertainty at
different times, so it is how one
manages it that is a problem.
“Are we prepared with a list of
measures that can help us manage any
of these outcomes, have we thought
through the various scenarios to say if
anything happens, here are the things
to recommend? If we have those
scenarios and manage those things,
then we will be able to manage the
economy,” stated.
She, however, admitted that though the
economic situation is hard, Nigeria can
still manage the situation.
“Yes, at the present time, we are
reasonably stable compared with other
countries but if those risks materialise,
we need to have action in order to keep
the economy stable,” she reiterated.
On the insinuations in some quarters
that Nigeria is broke, the Coordinating
Minister described them as false,
saying they were absolutely not correct
since the country has sufficient assets
to cushion the effect of the harsh
economic realities.
“However, that does not mean that we
cannot have some cash flow
fluctuations, we just have to manage it
because we have an economy that is
reasonably self-sufficient. We are able
to manage ourselves well and if
everybody is willing to do a few things,
we should be able to get there,” she
noted.
On the adoption of $78 pb benchmark
for 2015 budget, she simply asked, “Is
the present budget likely going to be
tenable or a workable budget?
“[/b]My belief is, no matter what is settled
on at this point in time, what is
pleasing and brings us all together is
the realisation that what we were trying
to say a few years ago has happened
and it is happening in front of us and
all of us need to come together to find
a solution[b].
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1st letters in bold, we can see how our political elites from both the PDP and APC put us in this economic mess.


In the 2nd sentence in bold letters, NOI politely said "I told you so"

I pray we learn a thing or two from this crash in oil prices

Few months ago there was a maintenance work on that bridge and we saw the pictures here courtesy of a nairalander who works for the construction company that did the maintenance work.

The bridge won't fall at least for now.

How about those suffering from ulcer? Is it advisable to take lime for weight loss purpose

Quite sad indeed.

honeric01:
In any God's name you serve, i pray oil falls to $10 per barrel.


Say Amen with me!



AMEN!

Why

Thinkr:
I don't blame him. A regular fella don't know what's affecting his money or cost of living. [/b]These govts peeps will not cut down their salaries of allowances[b]. They'll rather increase tax and cost of living to sustain. The last resort is to increase fuel and then BOOM!!! Domestic made goods increase price along side foreign. Double edge sword on the masses. Now that's scary. I just pray it doesn't happen. We got the worse govt in the world trust me.

They'll be forced to cut it down and sack most of their drivers, Special advisers and Personal Assistants.

If the price continues to go down, the FG will be forced to encourage investors to build local refineries (say bye to fuel subsidy)and NASS will be forced to pass PIB.

His will make us all (politicians/masses) to sit up and work for this nation or we perish

ChimaAdeoye:
So it wasn't even about taxes! The marketers had gone on strike to protest their right to cheat the people? What effrontery !

Nigeria needs a [/b]consumer protection agency[b]. Nigerians are just cheated left, right & center and nobody protects the people!

Don't be surprised that we may actually have one but as usual they're not doing their job

2map:
I'm beginning to love this man. GEJ should better run, remember what he did to shagari... he has my vote come 2015.

What did he do to Shagari

Shagari was under house arrest while Ekwueme was locked up in Kirikiri even though it was confirmed Ekwueme didn't steal a penny.

Thank you SA

Let's tell ourselves the gospel truth, fuel prices ain't going down anytime soon. We're even likely going to see subsidy removal instead of increase in subsidy money.





What about the PIB

Something lilike another local content bill. That's good.





Big problem is enforcement.

Xetima:
" ... The motley assembly of political opportunists and frustrated office seekers in over a year of its registration [/b]has issued 117 press statements[b] which ALL have been devoted to abusing President Goodluck Jonathan and PDP officials and promoting division among Nigerians. There has not been ONE press statement in which the APC had taken up any major policy issue by the PDP and offered Nigerians how it intends to do it better if it ever had the chance to govern the country. Statement after statement, all the APC pours out are bile, hate insult and low-quality propaganda from the stable of its Goebbelian ilk and Chemical Ali breed..." - Olisah Metuh

What manner of PROGRESSIVE can one call this? Sure the Lai Mohammed (aka Chemical Ali) of a man seems not to respect his age. By his statements, he ends up giving small children opportunity to call him names. Olisah has now renamed him Chemical Ali of Nigerian politics.

Somebody is doing a good job . He counted how many times APC has issued statements. I'm impressed

IYANGBALI:
why their names dey end with chi now,as in chin chin

Congratulations to Ebonyi people. Onyebuchi will perform better than Elechi

asha80:
this ifeanyi ugwuanyi that pdp(chime) has adopted what is his pedigree?

My brother I don't know and one or two persons have asked this same question but still no answer

smallJagaban:
YOU SURE.

YES

Jummeee:
Am currently on holiday in Kaduna(south of course) and the OP is absolutely right. The Southern part of the city is fast developing and most of the businesses are moving southward because of the feeling of safety of life and property. [/b]And the marginalisation by the current government is something else, if I may add[b].

My Chongai friend was complaining about it last time we saw and I asked him if Late Yakowa marginalised the north, he said no that they've always been marginalised

smallJagaban:
IBO AND FOOLISHNESS.

[/b]WHAT'S THE IBO FATE AFTER GEJ TENURE[b]

We'll continue to progress as usual.

Sirniyeh:
NO TO SUBSIDY REMOVAL: Ndi-Igbo Cries Out

An Igbo man said, I don't really know the reason
why we Igbos are hardcore supporters of GEJ even when it's obvious that he has failed everybody. I have observed that Igbos defend GEJ even when his own people IJAW are condemning him.

Have you forgotten the Nigeria governorship forum election in which Rotimi Amechi got 19 votes while Jonah Jang got 16?...GEJ refused to recognise Amaechi for reasons best known to him. Have u also forgotten the fuel subsidy?..were u nt happy when u bought a litre of fuel for #65?

Just lately, the price of gas also increased. Are we not all suffering it? When Sanusi Lamido revealed the whole story about un-remitted oil money, GEJ sacked him and we igbos were seriously calling Sanusi names just because he is a Northerner even though we knew that sanusi was right...

TODAY, we all have to pay #65 for withdrawing from an ATM different from d banks we operate in. Nobody criticized the present CBN gov just because he is an Igbo man. Let me ask us, didn't we enjoy using ATM when Sanusi removed #100 charge?

When he became President some of us were rejoicing that finally a lecturer, teacher and PhD holder is now a President but under his watch ASUU went on strike for 6months, ASUP 10 months, COEASU 11 months the longest in history, which future of thousands of Nigerians youths were toyed with.

The most recent one is the $ 9.3m GEJ took to South African. Do you know that the money is up to 1trillion naira? In this modern age, what will make someone to carry that amount of money from country to country....when did South Africa become experts in production of fire arms...why didn't they go to Russia if they really wanted to buy fire arms.

Another 1billion naira loan was approved to fight the same insurgency. Who is deceiving who? Must we need N1b to fight insurgency? Spending N100Trillion on insurgency will not put an end to it, until GEJ does the right thing. He knows the sponsors, let him prosecute them.

Coming down to Igbo land, what has GEJ done? Enugu to Onitsha road and Enugu to Port hartcourt roads are nothing to write home about. Just because the election is around the corner, he remembered 2nd Niger bridge. Political propaganda...

Talking of Igbo presidency, an Igbo man cannot become a president under PDP in 2015. PDP use zoning pattern to pick their presidential candidate, the zoning is between North and South and never
among all the 6 geo-political regions as many of
Us think. So what it implies is that after GEJ, the
zoning will shift power to the North. So igbos should forget presidential seat till 2027.

Just after 2011 elections, on 1st january 2012, GEJ
announced the fuel subsidy, saying that he wanted to use the money to build refinaries but up till now, Nigeria is still importing refined oil because non of the refinaries is working.

In case u don't know, The present govt is planning to removed remaining subsidy on fuel which means that u will have to pay #190 for a litre when its finally
removed. Just as He did in 2012 after winning in 2011, he may also give us a surprise on 1st jan
2016 if he wins in 2015. Will you vote for prospective hardship?

Keep sentiments apart and rate the present govt, u will see that GEJ has failed the igbos. Let's vote him out.. Vote GEJ out! !! !!! He had kept on promising without reality.

He is mentally exhausted. He lacks discipline, he promotes corruptions, he promotes marginalisation.. Imagine a Phd holder proving theory of 16 greater than 19! We Igbos can not be associated with such misleading permutation.

[/b]Can you remember WAI (war against indiscipline) in Nigeria? Can you remember the man that introduced WAI in Nigeria?[b] Yes we need political discipline and rule of law to be effective. God bless u all.


Chukwu Emeka

Now this is funny

Can someone post the old "Nigeria we hail thee" anthem please.

GreatFatherson:
Are there no engineers on Nairaland to educate ignorant folks here that hydro power plants cost much more than fossil fuel power plants because dams are massive civil engineering undertakings. However hydro power plants remain very attractive because the raw material (water) is completely free and these plants have by far the longest useful life span of any type of power plant (up to 100 years vs 30 years for the very best steam turbine power stations and 20 years for gas turbines.)

GEJ basically doubled the capacity of all the gas power stations started by OBJ and completed by GEJ such as Omotosho, Geregu etc by turning them into highly efficient combined cycle (gas and steam) power stations.

For the folks that are talking about power transmission projects, dozens are ongoing both in NIPP and TCN. Many are awarded every year and smart local and foreign contractors are hard at work building these substations and transmission lines and smiling to the bank while some folks are here on Nairaland talking ignorantly.

It is painful that many of these projects have been delayed almost endlessly by outrageous compensation demands by indigenous groups who keep on planting cashew crops the moment they hear that the government wants to build transmission lines or substations in their towns and villages even in virgin forests. They then turn round to demand N5k for each crop that is hardly 6 inches tall under the guise of economic trees.

Yes corruption is a big problem in our dear country and it must be fought much more decisively. Unfortunately the opposition is even more corrupt than the ruling party. If not, why do we have somebody affectionately called Thie^f^nubu. And what happened to the dollars Farouk stuffed into his cap. What did our Speaker do about it. And this is the guy that wants to be our president.

The opposition have every right to try to get into Aso Rock but it should not be done through bloodshed, intimidation, blatant lies, white lies, abuse and silly students as e-warriors.

Enough of my long speech. Lucky Dube sang:

If you stand for the truth, then you will stand alone
For these that stand for the truth stand alone!

Last bullet: Easterners say the truth, Westerners manage the truth.
Ponder on it.

Naija will be great. ... sooner than later.

U too much joor

kel4soft: So how does his defection to PDP today is of important to this discuss? Greg defection is unfortunate. But, in Politics, he has to be replaced. Lets see as things unfold.

Do you know how one can register as a distributor?

Thanks

passion007: I often go back and forth on my choice for the senate: Ekweremadu or Chime. As Lawmaker and ECOWAS deputy speaker, Ekweremadu is very useful to Igbo interests. Chime has distinguished himself with his characteristic quality infrastructure. Whoever becomes senator among them has deserved it.

However, I had hoped that Chime will give fresh life to agro-allied industries. I was particularly sad when I learned that our Heneke pineapples will be exported to Europe, rather than be processed here. I understand funding is another issue. May be [/b]Mark Chidi Obetta[b] will give the agro industry a jump start, since the road infrastructure is largely in place. Don't ask me how I know he'll be governor. (7 years ago I saw the shadow of Chimaroke behind Chime and he won; today I see the shadow of Chime behind Obetta.)

Abeg who's Mark Chidi Obeta? What's his occupation now?

I never hear of am before

basilo101: Our next governor is here

Who's he

I thought it was either going to be Asogwa or Speaker Odoh

Rumour also has it that Itanyi is interested

bushdoc9919: Maybe someone....like YOU?

My G

lakesider: shame to Ffk, all Pdp e rat,shame on tribalist and religious bigot,if nigeria must prosper ,we must do away with all this people

And let who take over?

Seems like every country hates us. From South Africa to Ghana.

Issokay

We will get the money back through diplomatic means. The Zuma led SA government have done the main harm which is humiliating us before the world. I believe that is their main goal.

deeobserver209: It's obvious the EU needs alternative gas supply in case the Russians decides to turn off their gas pipes. Unfortunately the Nigerian gas sector is grossly underdeveloped, no thanks to unfavorable energy policies of past administrations. The National Assembly as a matter of urgency need to rise up from it's slumber and pass the PIB bill with immediate effect.
Nigeria's gas sector when properly developed has the capacity to not only generate huge revenues but also provide thousands of jobs to citizens.

It's quite painful really

We can assuredly say that most of the program's critics are supporters of the opposition party