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scopusng:
Account info pls.

sexkillz:
[color=#000030]Your dumbness is in Miles per seconds. . . Ode! I wonder if your brain has ever been used, cos i dont know how else you'll explain this dumb comment![/color]

pobey:
Must SEUN OSEWA always put issues about BISHOP OYEDEPO,ADEBOYE,OYAKHILOME ,TB JOSHUA on front page, What of their moslem or islamic counter parts,

if it is not SLAPPING, it will be riches or airplanes, IS THIS FORUM MEANT TO BE BELITTLING and castigating Men of God, What of the USTAZ,IMAMS and ALFAS??

Enough of this, or this forum will become history

nakedall:
The man that starts war and ran!

saintneo:
at least you are entertained.

rich_john:
Believing what NOI has to say is like believing the tortise in conceptof the stores we used to hear as children someone who wasn't honest enough to say the true value of what Naija ost during the strike. I really think NOI thinks Nigerians are f-ools

I know someone on NL who argues with throws abuses, never answers the basic intelligent questions thrown at him, but has a blind support for a government that has no clue about what ledership is all about and how to take the country out of the horrible situation it finds itself. His name is b**f He's just a character that never ceases to amaze me FROM HIM TURN AROUND He's got no truth in his mouth!!!!!

alj harem:
still no answer

na wa o

Beaf:
Stochastic gini?
Is that why Nigerians are poor? Like I said, are you just arguing to make your voice heard. Dude, nobody is concerned about "stochastic" stuff that wouldn't put food on the table of the citizen because the entire national structure is wrong.
Sensible Nigerians would rather fix the system by making it more equitable to all Nigerians, so that when the CBN announces reserves have gone up, it will be reflected in the food on the table, not as a "stochastic variable." Seen?

GEJ was not President in 2008. What was it when he became President (hint, hint, its on the CBN website).

mactonnyso:
you are the bloody sycophant here, you claimed you are a prof. of economics yet you are still living  very much below the middle class how would you explain this theory to your subjects. 'Sanusi  lack foresight, all the ministers in nigeria lack visions', educated illiterate.

Beaf:
Guy, what are you arguing about? Just to make your voice heard or what?

I will analyse the situation you are in for you:
A patient is severely ill with AIDS and is dying. Out pop a crop of Nigerian "experts" who begin to argue whether it is best to apply plasters to his wounds or to give him panadol for his headache. In their eagerness to display how "clever" they are, they are oblivious to the fact that the mans problems are much more serious than cuts and bruises or a headache (those are mere synptoms of a deeper malaise). What do you call such "experts?"

[b]Nigeria's external reserve fluctuates due to a much deeper problem, which is that we are a monoeconomy running on chaos.[/b]

On a lighter note, I will end with a popular Urhobo song :
Foolish man plant mango for main road o!
E suffer fo nutin o!
E suffer fo nutin o!
Wen e ripe, anoda man pluck am!
Odi' o ta me ren o!

Lol! The foolish man is the Nigerian "expert" who has thrown the countries only revenue source to a chaotic system that only wolves can take advantage of; yet they are hoping to reap benefit without TOTALLY RESTRUCTURING the system.

True federalism.

Beaf:
When was it 60billion?
Cos GEJ inherited about 33billion.

manny4life:
I know you were talking to the other guy but let me explain further one of the question he asked earlier. The theory of elasticity is simply the relationship reaction between two variables that are directly (most cases) relative to each other. In other words, changing one variable affects one or multiple variables and elasticity is measured in % so its easier to better understand the changes.

If you understand the theory of Demand and Supply, regard to the article and my response, $$$ is in high demand, while the supply of $$$ is low, therefore there's price elasticity between the $$$ and its quantity supplied. Take for instance, when $$$ was sold at say N152+, the demand was high say $1million, however, when Naira was devalued to 160+, the demand for $$$ shrinks slightly say $900,000 why because an average buyer of the $$$ will have to spend extra N8 more to purchase a single $$$. If you want to know how it's calculated, let me know

That's the reason why the said CBN used the reserve to buffer the demand regardless of our Crude Oil Revenues. This is in part because Nigeria DOES NOT have any major source of FOREX other than Crude Oil Sales, sad but true. We import more than we produce which isn't healthy for the economy.

manny4life:
In as long as there is demand for the variable ($$$), which affects quantity supplied, therefore $$$ is elastic. There's a FOREX relationship between the $$$ and the economy. Please let me know if my assertion is wrong about FOREX.

Beaf:
Dude, phuck off. I'm not interested in any ignorant debate with people who argue stup!dly for the sake of it.

Beaf:
^
The CBN is independent. It is not governed by PDP, CPC, ANPP, APGA or ACN, so I guess you need to reeducate yourself, sir.

uti-mayor:
[size=30pt]the man is a YORUBAH as Usual 'insatiable cream-in-als' as usual[/size]

Beaf:
The bolded is the major reason for the huge drops in our external reserves.

It is also the reason for the deprecation of the Naira against the Dollar. The demand for dollars in the forex market was largely driven by fraudulent subsidy requests; therefore, the sharp rise in reserves is directly connected to the removal of the old subsidy system.

lakesider:
A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE GENESIS OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENCE
(Note: this is not an attempt to justify the Boko haram insurgence which I and many other Muslim maintain is a transgression of the limits set by Islam. It is rather an attempt to understand the genesis behind the violent SinParties perpetrated by the group that is claiming innocent lives by the day, preventing peaceful coexistence and threatening the whole of Nigerian national security and unity).

Boko haram started in 2002 as a peaceful Islamic splinter group that nurtured a controversial ideology against western education. The group never called itself boko haram but was named by the public and given a raving attention by the Nigerian media when the sect leader Muhammad Yusuf declared and propagated that boko (western education) was haram (sacrilegious). Among the reasons he gave were some theories he regarded as contradictory to the priciples of Islam. An example is the theory human evolution found in western science books which excluded the divine hands of God in the creation of man and the universe. This, he explained opposed a fundamental principle of Islam which holds God as the omnipotent creator of the universe and all it contains. Other reason he sighted was the immorality that youths commonly engage in at western schools such as semi Unclad dressing, fornication, alcoholism and substance abuse etc. He also castigated the western education system as being deficient in solving the issue of joblessness among the Nigerian youths but rather robs them of the time needed to skill themselves in non white collar jobs.

His ideology was challenged by many Islamic scholars including his former teachers who regarded the western education as a thorny tree that has its good and bad side but maintained that Islam allows and encourages the quest for knowledge in its entire ramification. Although attempt to bring him to order by these scholars fell on deaf ears, he continued to lure many especially the youth who were mostly shackled by the bondage of escalating poverty and joblessness. Many were said to have dropped out of schools and took to menial jobs and trading. Many tore their school certificate although in an interview with BBC Hausa, he denounced the allegation of ever telling any of his members to discard his certificate.

The sect continued to propagate their ideology and also called for the creation of an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. They continued to operate as a benign and non violent group until when the police killed a number of its members (about 14) during a funeral procession on the flimsy ground of not using a helmet.

The sect leader wrote series of letter to the Borno state government and the Borno commissioner of police. He called for the compensation of the family of victims killed extrajudiciously by the police during the funeral procession. He followed his letter with practical visits to the police but all appeal fell on deaf ears. He then called severally to the IG of police and the Yaradua administration to intervene but to date, nothing was done to the culprits.

He began to send threat to the government and the police. He castigated the Yara’ dua government in an out and called Yaradua an oppressor and declared the government as unjust. For those Muslim leaders and scholar who opposed his threat against the government, he declared them as hypocrite and even declared some as unbelievers. He and his member began to arm themselves while receiving support from many who sympathized with them and had grievance against the jungle justice of the Nigerian police. He was said to have received sympathy even by some non Muslims who were alleged to have bailed him out on some occasions that he was detained by the police on the ground of perceived breach of peace due to his threats to the Yar’adua governement.

According to Dr. Aliyu Tilde “Possession of arms is a crime, a serious one for that matter, because if for any reason all the 165 million Nigerians will resort to possessing firearms, then there will be endless bloodshed that will not appease God in anyway. Government owes other citizens the responsibility to check the group. In checking any such excesses, however, government should have followed the law and respect the fundamental rights of citizens. It can arrest and charge BH leaders and members with treason, possession of firearms, etc. But Yar'adua regime did none of these; instead, it chose to exterminate the group. Had government adopted due process and patiently abided by it throughout its conflict with the group, things wouldn't have reached this level. But it chose to err first, and its error compelled the group to adopt the dangerous strategy of operating underground.

Dr. aliyu further said “Let us not forget the “finish them” order that President Yar’adua gave to the security forces that morning when he was leaving for Brazil. In fact, he even timed it that by 4.00pm that day, the job must have been completed. In Maiduguri, Government went for total extermination of the group without recourse to any due process. The world was witness to how their centre was leveled by soldiers; Muhammad Yusuf, their leader, was executed; Muhammad Foi, a former member of Sheriff’s cabinet, was executed on the street after his arrest”

Muhammad Fugu, the father in-law of Muhammad Yusuf who never part of the group was declared wanted by the police. He brought himself willingly to the police station where he was killed on the spot without any interrogation but for simply being a relative to Muhammad Yusuf’s wife. “The police and the military went about killing anyone that resembled their members to the extent that people started shaving their beards en masse; etc. A senior police officer was reported in the press saying that he cannot guarantee the life of anyone wearing such features. So many were arrested along with their wives. They remain in prison to date without trial. Extermination is still the strategy of government in dealing with the group. Video footage of Mr. Yusuf’s extrajudicial muder soon went viral, but no one was tried and punished for the crime”.

“When the group protested at a police station in Bauchi did not actually necessitate an all-out war against it. In Bauchi, it was estimated that over seventy members of the group were massacred at their centre behind the airport. Apparently, they were even unaware of the conflict at Dutsen Tanshi police station that started that morning. By evening, the state commissioner for special duties led a team of government agents that leveled the centre with bulldozers. Passengers at the Yankari Park in Bauchi also witnessed how eight unarmed members were arrested and killed instantly by soldiers as they were boarding a bus to Maiduguri. The governor, Isa Yuguda, would later claim credit for the “decisive way” in which his government dealt with the group in his state”.

The world condemned the actions of the authorities on the highhandedness they showed. The government apologized to the United Nations after it was condemned for the human right abuses, promising that it will bring the perpetrators to book. Actually, it did nothing. No disciplinary action was taken against anyone until when Boko Haram bombed the Police Headquarters in Abuja in 2010. Two police officers were then reportedly dismissed from service for the murder of the Boko Haram leader.

Since the government chose to negotiate with bullets and bombs, Boko Haram therefore went underground. It took time to heal its wounds, regroup and re-strategize before returning to revenge what Imam Shekau described as the “the injustice meted against it.” Seeking revenge, Boko Haram targeted the police, the military and local politicians

When it reappeared in 2010, Boko Haram started to selectively kill people that assisted the authorities in identifying them. The initial victims were grassroots traditional rulers- all of them Muslims, the lawanis as they are called in Borno. Among the high profile killings made in this category were those of the junior brother to the Shehu of Borno, the state chairman of the ruling party in the state and its gubernatorial candidate during the last elections. After killing the first few, Boko Haram issued a warning that it will go after all those that aided the authorities in persecuting them. These included a number of ulama, traditional rulers, and the three governors of Borno, Gombe and Bauchi states. It demanded pubic apologies from the governors and got it from the last two.

Immediately the group started its selective killings, the ulama realized their vulnerability and none of them dared again to condemn the group publicly or repeat to assign it the Kharijite nomenclature. At a point, Boko Haram also issued a warning that they will also go against anyone who publicly condemns its activities, including journalists who do not live by the ethics of their profession in reporting it's activities.

The very day their massacre started in 2009, the Bauchi State government sought and obtained from the ulama in the town a fatwa which served as a license for authorities to kill Boko Haram members without recourse to justice. Only the most elderly sheikh in town opined differently, insisting that in Islam no soul should be killed without a ruling from a judge. That is why some of the ulama fled the country when Boko Haram staged a return the following year. The governor too has abandoned the Government House and practically relocated to Abuja since he received the death threat.

The government has been unable to protect its informants and other citizens from these attacks. This partially explains the silence of the Muslim community over Boko Haram.

Whatever the case, None of this excuses Boko Haram’s killing of innocents. The group has swayed off the mark and has gone too far when it considered criticisms as attack. By so doing, they instill fear in the population and loose public sympathy. Appeal to its members to put down its weapons and negotiate with government and they will rebut in this standard format: “How can we trust any negotiation with people who are amassing arsenal to attack us

Jean Herskovits, a professor of history at the State University of New York had this to say “Instead, approximately 25 percent of Nigeria’s budget for 2012 is allocated for security, even though the military and police routinely respond to attacks with indiscriminate force and killing. Indeed, according to many Nigerians I’ve talked to from the northeast, the army is more feared than Boko Haram. Influential Nigerians from Maiduguri, where Boko Haram is centered, pleaded with Mr. Jonathan’s government in June and July not to respond to Boko Haram with force alone”

There is nothing, once said the UN Secretary-General after the bombing of UN headquarters in Abuja last year, which cannot be amicably resolved through dialogue. The government has to accept full responsibility and start a genuine process of reconciliation and rehabilitation. The Muslim society as whole must continue to condemn this baseless killings and check the activities of extremists – mainly youths who lack the wisdom to see things in different shades. They need to be guided accordingly by leaders of their sects and relevant authorities. Otherwise, they will continue drifting away from the centre until they reach a point where they dream of a whole world drowned in an ocean of human blood. Certainly, this will not please God who has described Himself as the Most Merciful.

(With Excerpts from The New Challenges of Boko Haram by Dr. Aliyu Tilde, in Nigeria book haram is not the problem By Hean Herskovits Published: January 2, 2012

tee2faith:
It seems as if plenty people dey envy the Bishop on nairaland sef! Or how can one explain it? If he talk-na wahala, if he keep quiet-na wahala!  If pastors don't talk, you will criticize them of supporting d problem, if they talk, you will criticize them of being ungodly! Una no dey get job? If he slap-na wahala! If he no slap-na wahala!
May God help una o! Better find something worthwhile to do with your time. My clothes are dirty-come and help wash if you are so jobless