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like it or not, tinubu is the best man to run this country. He knows how to deal with the corrupt top brass we have in this country. if its not a witch hunt, why not immediately after his tenure as governor? why make it after cleansing the judiciary of the ruling party's main enemy

[quote author=fb_ude link=topic=762722.msg9175224#msg9175224 date=1316424436]Every body knows that Islam is among the world pressing problem.

A muslim man can never live in peace even with fellow muslims.

A religion of tears,bloodshed,violence and sorrow.A religion that kills

women and children in the name of jihad.A religion that has left trail of

bloodshed across world history.



Weather you arrest the sponsors of boko haram or not as far as we

are of the same country with these agents of satan there will be no

peace.Muslims can never live in peace even with fellow muslims.

Because 70% of world wars,crisis and violence has to do with

Islam one way or the other.The solution is separation.

Check this link to see how muslims kill each other indonesia

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=killing+of+muslims+indonesia&aq=f[/quote]In Indonesia it was christians killing muslims in Ambon. It seems like you are ignorant of your bible. The reason the crusades were fought by the christians, the slaughter of muslims in jerusalem, the killings by both catholics and protestants of each other in England are all justified by your holy book. At least muslims don't decieve you with missionary activities, only to turn your land into their colonies. I can't imagine that that the lord of the old testament is different from that of the new testament. There is no book more rife with senseless bloodletting than the old testament. maybe you don't even know the contents of the old testament. When the US kill and maim hundreds of thousands of innocent muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, its the US, not christianity doing the killing. But when A band of violent criminal muslims kill innocent people, its Islam that is put to trial. Read about the sabra and shatilla massacres in lebanon, see how jews and christians collaborated to massacre thousands of innocent refugee muslims, then we would know who is more violent. Hypocrite

Abraham AS is father to both arabs and jews. The biblical stories about Isaac and Ishmael are distorted to suit jewish agenda. You can access this truth by watching 'who wrote the bible' by robert beckford, an academic theologian. The bible is a great piece of edited stories, and personal ideology (paul's) as it was compiled more than 300 years after the ascent of Jesus AS to where God is preserving him. Books written by Jesus's brother's were removed from the canon just to suit the recently 'converted' roman emperor's taste, among which included the divinity of Jesus AS. I have read the bible and what strikes me is the admittance by the author's that some of the stories (like speaking in tongues) were later additions to the book by unknown personalities. How can a divine book be full of so much BS? As for bigotry and brutal massacres, all you need to understand them is to read the old testament, it is rife with blood thirst and senseless destruction. And in case anyone tries to decieve you by claiming that all the killing was in the old testament, just fast foward to the crusades, and the crusaders capture of jerusalem in the 1100's. Islam is always very clear when it comes to defending your rights and upholding truth. Its says fight those that fight you, or fight until there is no more oppression, but do not harm innocents. If some people try to justify wanton killing and destruction by Islam, they should come foward with proof backing their claims.

what are you doing man. take control of ur life. dont let a long stick ruin your life. she's running wild. Do paternity tests, report her to her folks, call for a family meeting, then decide how to move on. You have to consider the lil angels involved in this saga cos they are going to be the most affected, though the most innocent, thats why i haven't called for an outright sack. take care

hope u haven't been sending him any money. The fraudsters usually pretend to be into you initially, then you start getting monetary requests. When he feels he's had enough, he cuts off contact completely. take care

the guy wan bone that im wife co anchor on good morning nigeria, bad guy

JUNE 1998
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COUNTRY REPORT
NIGERIA 
Development: PTF - shining in the gloom
The Petroleum Trust Fund, headed by former President, Gen. Buhari, has confounded all its critics. As a development agency, it has succeeded spectacularly where all others failed. Pini Jason has the details.
The one silver lining to emerge from the current heavy economic cloud must be the performance of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF). In October 1994, General Sani Abacha hiked the pump price of petrol from N3.25 to N11 per litre, promising, with Decree 25, to set up a Petroleum Trust Fund to distribute the gains from the increase on social and infrasturctural projects. The board of the fund, headed by former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, was eventually inaugurated on March 21, 1995.

The Fund began with an initial capital of about N60bn in 1996. Its all encompassing mandate includes the rehabilitation of roads and waterways, educational and health institutions, providing textbooks and stationary, procuring essential drugs and vaccines, providing water supply systems, reviving crumbling agricultural sectors, connecting outlying areas to the national electricity grid, extending railways and telecommunications and ensuring consistent food supply.

The huge budget and all-embracing mandate earned PTF some criticisms. Some dubbed it "the alternative government," accusing it of duplicating the responsibilities of other existing government agencies. There was for instance an initial conflict about who should be tarring which road, between PTF and the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing.

Yet, for once, other Nigerians began to hope that here was an agency that took its work seriously. The question was: could it carry out its entire mandate, or even a part of it? Everyone waited to see what would happen.

Initially PTF awarded contracts for the rehabilitation of 12,000km of federal highways (including drainages) nationwide, and between 25-100km of urban road in major cities such as Gusau, Benin, Funtua, Zaria, Enugu, Kaduna, Aba, Lagos, Lokoja, and Port Harcourt. A N27.3bn contract was awarded for road rehabilitation in the first quarter of 1996. The sum of N1.328bn was awarded to 53 pharmaceutical companies for the supply of drugs, while the importation of vaccines cost N229.9m. As at December 31, 1997, funds available to PTF stood at N115.1bn.

One thing even the most uncharitable critic of PTF will admit is that it has evolved a new way of doing things. This is true to its mission statement which is 'to establish and operate an open, modest and efficient organisation for the purpose of achieving the honest and timely execution of carefully designed socio-economic projects.'

Right from its inception, the Head of State directed the fund to operate a lean bureaucracy. It depends therefore largely on consultants supervised by Afri-Projects Consortium, the management consultant to PTF. This policy has created jobs and boosted the confidence of Nigerian professionals such as architects, engineers and quantity surveyors.

In many other ways, PTF has thrown a lifeline to dying sectors of the economy. Most of Nigeria's pharmaceutical companies were failing, and the foreign multinationals were divesting. But through its drugs procurement programme, PTF has turned the balance sheet of most of them into profit. Equipment and car leasing companies are also benefitting from the multiplier effects of PTF operations.

Banks and insurance companies have also benefited. Nigeria has a history of contractors collecting mobilisation (advance) fees and not carrying out the contract. But not with PTF. Every advance payment up to N10m must be guaranteed by a PTF-approved bank, while other advance payments are covered by performance bonds issued by similarly approved insurance companies. This method, apart from increasing solvency through cash deposits, has created business for banks and insurance companies.

One of the insurance companies that has benefited from PTF as a provider of performance bonds is The United Nigeria Insurance Company (UNIC), a composite insurance company which provides both life and non-life insurance. The total assets of UNIC stood at N979m while it grossed premium income of N916m and settled claims of N263m in 1996. With a staff of 552 spread all over its nationwide branch network, UNIC is today one of the leading insurance company in Nigeria.

Another company that has done good business with PTF is IPWA plc, formerly International Paints (West Africa) Ltd. IPWA is today one of the biggest and most diversified paint manufacturers in Nigeria. The company product range spans automotive paints, building paints, industrial coatings and marine coatings. Others are packaging coatings, protective coatings and wood finishes.

Most PTF contractors, specialist advisers and consultants lease and use computers, fax machines, printers and photocopiers. This has provided a new market for computer companies like Leading Edge Ltd., headed by Mr Tony Edoro, the managing director. Leading Edge is foremost in cloning computers with parts from diverse companies such as US Micro-Generation, IBM Direct, Merisel and Gateway. According to Mr Edoro, a widely experienced computer systems engineer, the advent of PTF has been good for Leading Edge. The company's turnover has grown from N50m in 1995 to well over N100m in 1997.

Apart from energising several sectors of the economy, PTF is also setting the pace in another direction. In the words of Mr Salihijo Ahmad, of Afri-Projects Consortium, the twin objectives of PTF are to "rehabilitate infrastructures and reorientate the people." This the fund does through its insistence on transparency even though some critics still accuse it of lopsidedness in project execution and selection of consultants and contractors.

In a country dogged by lack of transparency, PTF is the first, and perhaps the only public institution in Nigeria to publish its annual accounts. Last year, when he presented the annual report and accounts of 1996, Gen. Buhari promised to present the 1997 accounts before the end of the first quarter of 1998. He fulfilled that promise.

The 1997 account of PTF shows that it disbursed N24.3bn on roads, N21.2bn on security, N7.8bn on health, and N3bn on other projects. Other disbursements include N2.2bn on water supply, N936m on food supply and N476m on education. It realised a total of N1.049bn from various investment activities.

Reviewing the success story of PTF, Gen. Buhari said: "We have consolidated our execution of the take-off projects for the previous year and increased our intervention within the sectors. There is no doubt that the years ahead will witness even more intervention, as reports of some of the studies commissioned are received and project execution commenced."

The fund has embarked on community education to sensitise and enlighten communities of its activities. The idea is to bring recipients closer to the objectives of the fund, so that they can participate in project identification and selection as well as eventual PTF projects in their areas.

One aspect of the overall project that the public has raised an eyebrow over is the Armed Forces PTF. According to Gen. Buhari, PTF is under instruction to allocate 20% of its funds to the armed forces, and another 1% to the Federal Capital Territory. The allocation to the Armed Forces is probably a continuation of a practice that started during Gen. Babangida's time when he used to allocate excess revenue from the projected price of crude directly to the commanding officers. But what worries critics of PTF is that the military is not accountable to anyone regarding its utilisation of funds. Moreover, critics question the wisdom of allocating such a huge chunk to the military (who also usually takes the lion's share of the budget) over and above food supply, education and health. Apart from roads, the allocation to all other sectors does not add up to the Armed Forces PTF allocation.

Nobody knows how long PTF, a purely intensive intervention agency, will last or whether there will be a place for such an agency under a democratic set up. That decision, Gen. Buhari said, will be up to Nigerians. For now his preoccupation is to rehabilitate infrastructure and reorientate the people towards a new, effective and efficient way of executing uninflated contracts without kickbacks and without consuming mobilisation fees. Said Gen. Buhari to PTF contractors: "If you perform well, you get a hand shake. If you perform badly, you get a handcuff."



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June contents
http://www.africasia.com/archive/na/98_06/abcr0604.htm

http://www.africasia.com/archive/na/98_06/abcr0604.htm
follow the link and stop making uninformed utterances. faeb, abi na beaf

No blood 4 oil. All dese jerk offs tinkin dey kno som'in. Oil is found after geophysical n seismic exploration n makin a LUCKY dig. 4 a geophysicist 2 make dat claim, it shd b afta studyin d data. Due 2 d cost involvd in digging, u nd 2 hope 1 of ur earliest trap digs produces a well or else u'd av despairin explorers on ur hand. Or mayb dey r just holdin out 4 dat n.delta oil 2 drain. I blieve oil wud b found so dat al dose c suckers frm d south go suck it. Jerks

koko master

Beaf:
Only ignorance causes foolish posts like this.
John Togo does not even claim to be in MEND and nowhere has it been written that he is in MEND. . . You see the depth of your ignorance? Spooky!

It appears you never read the whole article. Who is the government after? Not the same militants that kidnapped some expatriates some days back abi? IDIOTO

So where is that not-so-smart person called BEAF or FAEB that claimed that MEND no longer existed IDIOTO

Beaf:
The link wasn't posted by the OP, except we are seeing two different pages. The OP (Ikomi) simply asked for more info and another NLer (I think called xoxo_g) posted the old link.

I don't know why you think I am interested in gory news. A weak brain might make you think that the events in Warri are occurring on Mars and not affecting real people. Dude, I am a Warri boy; it doesn't get closer to one than that. While you watch TV and yarn crap, events are all too close for some others.

Okpe mumu!

. . .Now we can hug and shake hands.

Wait for the primaries. You think IBB escaped so many coup plots by mistake? Then you would see those shouting 'sai Jonathan' casting their votes the other way. Anyone remember third term agenda?

Maybe we are so dumb that common english is too hard for us to comprehend. I assumed MEND carried out the attack after their confession, only for GEJ to say its not MEND. He even invited ex-MEND to buttress his point. So, how come the confusion here and there, saying he did not exonerate MEND To the extent that some dimwits on NL started claiming that MEND did not exist any more. This country and sychophants, inseparable.
GEJ should have left the agencies to come out with their findings before making unguarded utterances, that his VP corroborated.

that your point blank news is full of horse sh*t.
@oyb
dont mind him, this faeb/beaf is a real illitrate. He doesnt understand english i.e. figures of speech.

Beaf:
^
Another shower of meaningless sentiment, instead of logic.

maybe if ya head wasn't full of poo, you would read between the lines. A group that is pro-zoning is castigated for a transfer of mere 4m? Do you know that one of the vehicles used in the bombblasts was a c-class benz? Even my poor boss controls a lot more than 4m.  And whole story you put up is so incoherent that i'd say you really make those vanguard editors look bad. Obj n his love-vendor Gej all want to push us to the brink. If you can give me the answer to this questions, maybe i'd pay more attention to your reasoning: who carried out the blasts in March when those southern elders were having a meeting? Why is it that the SSS couldn't fish out the perpertrators then? Why hasn't the real 'gbomo jomo' cone out to discredit the earliers posts by the group, since the real 'gbomo jomo' also has access to his e-mail? We know Gej has power to oppress, just don't try to justify his actions and stupefy us with all this your nonsense, brainless talk.

beejaay:
shut the be intimate with up and continue smoking your bestfriend. dindinrin oponu jati jati

read it again "they are terrorists not MEND. The name of MEND that operates in Niger Delta was only used"

'They are terrorists not MEND'. Tompolo said, 'we are the real MEND', implying that 'terrorists' not MEND were behind the attacks. Ara Oko, you are a real , Its a waste of time trying to insult a lump of cow dung. i can't really understand how 'people' can be so block headed.

@bee jaay
Of course we understand. Goodluck said on NTA network news, MEND did not carry out the attack. He then invited Ex-MEND to further his claims. Now they and mumu you are saying they are not exonerating anyone. You are the one to re-examine your brain cos its seems to have a lot of poo coming out of it. As for Dokpesi singing/squirming, what do you expect? This is a man threatened with death for something he might know nothing about. Don't you think Goodluck has the power to incacerate him without any trial or evidence? why do think he was released? I watched one very interesting show on politics on AIT that i enjoyed watching hitherto till yesterday's episode. Sully abu, Jonathan zwingina and one scared comrade were invited to shed more light on the whole bomb saga. What a lopsided composition. Even the usually critical host was finding it difficult to complete his sentences,stammering. So, you see, all this politics of intimidation should be stopped, rather if GEJ was more sensible, he should have set about winning the hearts of Nigerians, and turned the tragedy to his advantage. Instead, he chose to battle it out with an old war-horse, dishonoring the memory of my lost friend and classmate. As for your discredited 'phone call', i think we would all like to see 'credible' sources. Dimwit

And some have the guts to say MEND no longer exists. Its just like the US saying zarqawi did not exist in Iraq. All of a sudden in 2007 he was reported killed in a raid. Also Baghdadi was claimed to be non-existent, only for his body to turn up in 2010. A true militant respects his privacy and comes out only when his identity has been compromised. All those[b] EX[/b]- militants were around when MEND attacked that meeting in the south with explosions early this year. Why didn't they come out and say the attacks were not carried out by MEND then? Double faced snakes. If you want to continue chasing conspiracy theories, its a two way thing. But follow the facts at hand, then you'd see the bigger picture:
GEJ knew about the blasts
He did not or failed to take action
He came out to absolve a group that claimed responsibilty and have declared more attacks (Daily Sun)
He resorted to claims that Okah had been hired for the job, a claim Okah denies and implicated him
He made a mockery of himself by releasing purported un-intelligent text messages of the plotters
He then proceeded to use ex-MEND to cover up his opened nyash
just like someone had said, its best he returned to doing his job, some damage control wouldn't be bad. He has shot himself in the foot not more than once now. maybe he was misinformed, thus displaying his inability to read between the lines, and his gullibility.

Its just like the US saying zarqawi did not exist in Iraq. All of a sudden in 2007 he was reported killed in a raid. also Baghdadi was claimed to be non-existent, only for his body to turn up in 2010. A true militant respects his privacy and comes out only when his identity has been compromised. All those[b] EX[/b]- militants were around when MEND attacked that meeting in the south with explosions early this year. Why didn't they come out and say the attacks were not carried out by MEND then? Double faced snakes

Its just like the US saying zarqawi did not exist in Iraq. All of a sudden in 2007 he was reported killed in a raid. also Baghdadi was claimed to be non-existent, only for his body to turn up in 2010. A true militant respects his privacy and comes out only when his identity has been compromised. All those[b] EX[/b]- militants were around when MEND attacked that meeting in the south with explosions early this year. Why didn't they come out and say the attacks were not carried out by MEND then? Double faced snakes

The govt itself confessed to having contacted him through an aide. Now he's trying to explain to you what the contact really was about and you doubt him? GEJ knew for about a week the plan to bomb Abuja but instead of addressing the problem, he sought to use the incident and weaken the IBB campaign team, targeting his southern allies. Thats why he contacted Okah for him to absolve MEND of any wrong doing. But aye, am just saying. GEJ should be charged with complicity to murder.

Interesting. This is the first time people are actually questioning the possibility of MEND carrying out attacks they have confessed to doing. It makes me wonder how low people would stoop to defend very base sentiments. When the government said Okah confessed to being paid $100 million to carry out the blasts, no one reasoned that he's just a criminal that can lie for the right price. But now he,'in his own voice' has come out to clarify issues and everyone thinks he's just blabbing. Or you think a reporter like yvonne ndege would allow herself to be used in cheap propaganda. Try and watch her article on 'Nigeria at 50', maybe then some of you would get your reasoning caps on.

And here's MEND 48 hours prior to the attack
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2010/10/201010421352631881.html

Hear what Henry Okah has to say for himself all ye GEJ sycophants on NL
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/10/2010105115843516850.html

oyb:
so basically we have to discount all the emails that have been received from mend in the past, and any that will be received in the future

i wonder why the 'real mend' has not spoken up to deny any of these mails

i tire o.

I am pretty sure if IBB had a hand in this, there wouldn't have been lengthy warnings, and more warnings. On the contrary, there would have been clinical action, and GEJ would not have been around to give that speech at the ECOWAS meet, at least. case point: Dele Giwa. Why risk the trouble with a harmless bomblast when it's the same trouble if it was more devastating? My point, it seems more like a political statement from a militant group wanting the world to take notice, and they did.

[quote author=onye_ngbu link=topic=524139.msg6874762#msg6874762 date=1286217041]You people are working on the assumption that IT IS MEND THAT ISSUED THE WARNING
AND
HAS BEEN CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY AND APOLOGIZING.
What if it is not MEND that is doing all that?
Can you guys not tell me that one can steal anybody's identity and claim anything?
Have you seen any video of MEND militant claiming responsibility?[/quote]I saw a video on Aljazeera today of MEND preparing for attacks just 48 hours to the bomb blasts. Maybe GEJ and his cohorts saw it as an opportunity to witch-hunt political opponents, thus allowing it to happen and declaring it to be 'an inside job'. But why the loss of lives? I lost a secondary school classmate in those blasts. Maybe if you lost your family you'd see things a bit more clearly rather than chase conspiracy theories. Jomo Gbomo has always sent the e-mails to journalists when stuff like this happens. why should it be different now? Or the bomb blasts in the south at the elders meeting was during yar'adua's tenure abi? Why after 'MEND' informs you for about a week that they are gonna attack, you come up short and start blaming 'terrorists'? Why didn't you inform the public that 'terrorists' were planning an attack? At least the warning was a very open one that got to a number of journalists. All just a bunch of nitwits trying to defend incompetence, complacency, or culpability on GEJ's part. His advisers better put him on the right track before he turns our dear country into a war-zone because of his 'ambitions'. If you know how 'militants' operate, they always issue statements after attacks and[b] ALWAYS[/b] apologize for any innocent lives lost. But now it's IBB because he didn't attend a meet he wasn't invited to.

wat about 'nearly goals' like martin's?

osaze ;d

omo naija nimi