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ayukdaboss:
Tell that to brainwashed Nigerians

Nigerians are not as stupid as you think though I would like you to comprehensively dispute everything in that article if you feel they're lies

ayukdaboss:
Nigerians are tired of this propaganda against Buhari, why not try something new...something more "spicey"?

facts can never be classified as propaganda. Propaganda is what APCankerworms are good at feeding the masses with

ayukdaboss:
OP edit the contents of your post to "Reasons why Nigerians should vote GEJ" and stop fooling around.

No I wont

Abacha was not corrupt

donphilopus:
What a bad balderdash from a Jonathianian whose job is to shamelessly sing praises of Atiku, so as for him to be disgraced by GEJ come 2015. Sorry, your plan won't work out. APC will not be so foolish to give their Presidential Ticket to Atiku.

does this thing you posted here make any sense even to you ? Please be honest

francleanflexy:
lol
u n ur tasteless jokes

I'm serious here

General Buhari show me your friends and I will tell you who you are

Buhari brought about this positive development

ON Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All Progressives Congress, APC, startled decent Nigerians when its national chairman, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun, announced that the party put the cost of its expression of interest and nomination forms at the cost of N27.5 million in order “to separate the men from the boys.” Another way of saying this is ‘to separate the wheat from the chaff!’

This statement which almost immediately reverberated across the nation through various blogs and television screens was widely reported in the papers the next day, Friday, October 17. As I write now (about 48 hours after it echoed in Abuja ), neither the APC nor its national chairman has even attempted to “clarify” the very unwholesome assertion or withdraw it in its entirety. This can only mean, therefore, that the party solidly stands by such an outrageous and unsettling statement by its topmost officer. What a sad, tragic development.

Now, to describe a grown man as a “boy” is to dismissively imply that he is immature, inexperienced, inadequate or, worse, irresponsible. And so, going by the statement of the APC chairman, the ability to roll out millions of naira is what qualifies somebody to be a “man” in the party. In other words, even if you are generously endowed with superlative moral, intellectual and managerial abilities, as long as you are not a multi-millionaire or have multi-millionaire friends who can throw the millions on your behalf, you are in the “progressive” thinking of the APC a mere “boy” – immature and irresponsible, and, therefore, not qualified to contest a responsible position on the platform of the party! For a party that has unduly strained itself to persuade Nigerians that it represents a healthy alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, this is indeed a most devastating disclosure and horrendous disappointment! What this, once again, demonstrates very clearly is that whereas the APC has deployed enormous efforts to tell Nigerians how bad the PDP is, it has been most unsuccessful in its attempt to allay growing fears (and conceal the stubbornly reoccurring indications) that it is, perhaps, even worse than the PDP. The APC chairman made this alarming statement when one of the party’s presidential aspirants, former head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, came to the APC national headquarters in Abuja to collect his expression of intention and nomination forms. The Vanguard of October 17 quoted Oyegun’s statement in full:

“Let me say that the N27.5m is to separate the men from the boys. It is quite clear. We know you. I don’t expect you have N27m under your bed. But I expected that there are Nigerians who will vouch for you any day and who are ready to stand for you any day and that is the result that we have obtained today.”

Very sad indeed! If the promotion of money over natural endowments and turning its aspirants into helpless hostages to godfathers and moneybags is the kind of “change” the APC is proposing to offer Nigerians, then this country is in deeper trouble than anyone had imagined. What Oyegun was telling Buhari that Thursday afternoon was very clear: there are several moneybags out there who would readily jump at the opportunity to pay this “small change” for you, so just ask, and you would get more eager sponsors (potential godfathers) to last you a lifetime.

And what happens after the elections, assuming Buhari wins? A re-enactment of the Ubah/Ngige saga in Awka, or the Adedibu/Ladoja version in Ibadan? Indeed, I would really like to see the term “progressives” completely banned in any discussion of Nigerian politics so as to save it from the egregious devaluation and debasement it has been so horribly subjected to for some time now by those claiming to represent the face of change. Buhari’s own statement at the event only helped to compound APC’s moral crises and confusion of values. This is what he said as reported in the Vanguard which captioned the story: “Buhari Took Bank Loan To Purchase APC Nomination Form”:

“It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this amount to be put down … I always looked left and right in our meetings but I could not read sympathy, so I kept my trap. But I felt heavily sorry for myself because I don’t want to go and ask somebody to pay for my nomination forms, because I always try to pay myself, at least for the nomination. N27 million is a big sum, thankfully I have personal relationship with the manager of my bank in Kaduna and early this morning, I put an early call (and) I told him that very soon the forms are coming, so, whether I am on red, or green or even black please honour it, otherwise I may lose the nomination.” Now, Buhari’s supporters in the APC have tried to sell him to Nigerians as a man with sufficient principles and courage to bring about ethical revival in the country. But here is the same man pitiably lamenting his helplessness at the very first opportunity presented to him to authentic the very credentials that have been widely advertised as his greatest selling points. If he could so easily flow with the crowd (in his own party) in a policy he has publicly confessed that he found very objectionable, what is the guarantee that if he becomes Nigeria’s president tomorrow, that he would be able to tame any party bigwig who might want to run foul of the law? Would he be able to contain the habitually troublesome moneybags whom his party chairman is advising him to run to for the bankrolling of his campaign? Wouldn’t he turn to Nigerians again and begin to mournfully lament: “It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this…”.

There is also the issue of his discussion with his bank manager in Kaduna. Do the regulations put in place by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to standardise banking operations in the country sanction the kind of transaction Buhari confessed he is having with his bank in Kaduna? What kind of “personal relationship” flourishing between him and this bank manager that could warrant the approval of loans for political activities without collateral? Can Buhari’s presidential run be rightly described as an “investment” except in the thinking of the APC which sees nothing horribly wrong in grossly monetizing its nomination forms and handing them over to the highest bidders? And how does Buhari hope to pay back this loan (and the several others he would take as his campaign progresses) if he wins the presidency?

Is it not even unbelievable that Buhari would seek to exploit some “personal relationship” to subvert banking regulations in order to pay for his party’s nomination forms whose prohibitive cost he finds highly unacceptable?

But despite these, the APC is still expecting us to take it seriously.

Indeed, both the CBN and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) should show more than a passing interest in this “personal relationship” in Kaduna and how far it has already gone to undermine efforts to standardize operations in our banks. It is also very sad and disappointing that in the whole leadership of the APC, Buhari could not find a single person that sympathized with his position that selling nomination forms for N27.5 in order “to separate the men from the boys” is very outrageous. Indeed, it represents undue, immoral emphasis on money over other edifying attributes that ought to count in decent and redeeming politics.

No doubt, it is another bad day for Nigerian politics. Many Nigerians daily bemoan the continued erosion of core values in our politics, and it is unimaginable that the APC, despite its noisy attempt to cast itself in the mould of a change agent, could be caught so fragrantly championing the same evils whose uprooting it has so loudly claimed as its mission. Of course, no rational being would buy the very naïve, puerile, pedestrian theory being religiously peddled by the APC (through its body language and even utterances) that even if you were the worst devil when you were in the PDP, once you decamp to the APC, you would automatically become a saint, an attainment you would immediately lose once you leave the APC again.

But despite these, the APC is still expecting us to take it seriously. Well, if the party and its presidential aspirant, Buhari, really wish to be taken seriously by Nigerians, they should publicly withdraw those very grievous statements made in Abuja last Thursday and apologise to Nigerians for brazenly and callously dashing whatever bit of expectation they may have succeeded in raising in some quarters by purporting to be something new and different. That is their only path of honour.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/n27-5m-forms-buhari-unravels/

Gej is at fault

El Rufai is a fo0l sha. He keeps confirming his idiocy everyday

Which kain half baked concoction be dat ? How can you benefit such an exalted position as head of state in the military if you didn't actively take part one way or another in a coup

I don't understand how someone can go round abusing and threatening people and yet accuse others of the exact same thing

Yeye dey stink

The Nigerian military is not fighting conventional soldiers but rather a "confused" guerrilla so therefore, conventional modes of operation should be dropped. These scumbags and their sponsors should be flushed out by any means necessary

APC exists only on sign boards in Rivers state

What is a Tunde Ajani

all4naija:
Nigerians don't build good houses. It is time they allow construction companies to build apartments and estates for sale through mortgages. That is the best way to go than patching buildings by individuals they will not complete in a year time or more and collapse after five years. Smh...!

and DaBullIT I believe its time for banks and other serious real estate brokers to invest in the property market and not single individuals. This is what will bring an actual drop in prices of real estate and not a drop in his the price of cement

CALEB AYANSINA

ABUJA – The Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has called for a change of tactics adopted by the Nigerian Troops in the fight against insurgency in the north-east.

The former CSO said unconventional approach remains the best option to fight terrorism war, noting that the Nigeria Military had been demonstrating professionalism since the fight broke out by adopting conventional approach.

Al-Mustapha, who is the President of Al-Mustapha Peace, Unity and Development Initiative (APUDI), a non-governmental organisation, gave the counter-terrorism idea during a pre-conference on “Community Conflict and Youth Militancy in Northern Nigeria: Challenge of a Democratic Practice”, in Abuja.

“Conventional approach to a conventional mode of fighting in any country is exactly what is required of the military and other agencies,” he said.

However, Al-Mustapha explained that the situation in Nigeria is peculiar, therefore, it calls for total cooperation of all and sundry, including the media.

“But where you have insurgency and such vices classified as or leading to low intensity conflict in any country, as we have in the North-east, the obvious thing to do is to maximise information and secrecy,” he said.

The APUDI President, who insisted that the country had over the years promoted causes of insurgency out of greed and selfishness, stated that peace and security should not be compromised in any way.

His words, “If you look closely at our environment, I will say because of ignorance from private and public sectors, we have over the years promoted causes of insurgency, some deliberately, some out of greed, some out of selfishness, some out of ignorance, this is a fact, but when it comes to apportioning blames, that is another thing entirely, and that is what I do not do.

“When a country finds itself in our situation, where damage control measures are of the essence, at that point in time, all agencies should now look very well at their limitations in terms of their primary and secondary assignments and find ways to address the problem.

“Peace and security should not be compromised in any way by any security agency.”

Earlier, the Director of Training and Reorientation, APUDI , Prof. Danladi Atu, raised concern over a group of youths, operating along side with the Joint Task Force in the north east, popularly known as ‘civilian JTF’, saying they could constitute another problem in future, if they were not properly managed.

He revealed that the forthcoming conference would address the problems of managing the aftermath crisis of demobilising the “Civilian JTK” in the North-east.

According to him, the APUDI Safe House programme that would be established in the crisis-torn areas would help to take care the issue of post-insurgency trauma of victims of the insurgency.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/boko-haram-al-mustapha-charges-security-forces-change-tactics/

DaBullIT:
House boom if you actually had money to buy

Besides. Those who sell will claim that they have the old # 1750 in stock. But its a nice move by dangote

you have a point there though people who buy in large quantities eg a lorry load upwards prefer to buy directly from depots at wholesale price

Joel3:
if the price can be crash down with about 45% all of a suden, then it means dangote cement has been overpriced all this years.

What happen to all the money looted through this cement overpriced? Nigerians are too foolish not to see all this loop holes and ask questions. Dangote cement in ghana is priced at 950 so why nigeria is not the same.

Someone is fooling some people, but the question remains who is fooling who.

cement in Nigeria has ALWAYS been overpriced

jmaine:
It's quite silly for people trying to politicize this development at all cost.

maybe they want us to believe Dangote owns all cement companies in Nigeria

Lets not simplify this development down to 2015 politics after all its only one cement company so far with this price slash. I believe this has more to do with business and frustrating the competition because if I remember correctly, there's a new FG policy on the use of cement for road construction which could be implemented by next year. Lets say Dangote is just preparing his nest ahead of time

The fact is cement is overpriced in Nigeria and so someone like Dangote can easily crash the price without it affecting his business.

Housing boom anyone ?

I own a school in France actually

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

LAGOS—LEADING cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc, weekend, announced drastic reduction of the prices of its cement.

The new price regime announced by the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, GMD/CEO, of Dangote Cement, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, pegged the Dangote 32.5 cement grade at N1,000 per 50 kg bag, while the higher 42.5 grade would sell for N1,150 per bag.

A statement by the company at the end of a management meeting said, however, that the new prices were exclusive of the Value Added Tax, VAT, representing about 40 per cent discount on the prevailing market price of the product currently sold for N1,700 irrespective of the grade, across the country.

Edwin said the move was in line with the company’s commitment to the nation’s dire need for the development of infrastructure and to boost the federal and state government’s ongoing effort to reduce the near 20 million housing deficit in Africa’s largest economy.

He said, “we recognize the need for an increased rapid response to the huge infrastructure and housing deficit in the country, and one of the ways of addressing the issue is bringing the price of building materials down to much more affordable levels especially cement which is within our control as part of our contribution to the transformation agenda of the Goodluck Jonathan administration and the attainment of key milestones in the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs.

“Since the commencement of the implementation of the backward integration policy for cement in the country over 12 years ago, the local production capacity of the product rose from less than three million metric tonnes per annum to about 38 million metric tonnes per annum. During the more than 12-year period of the backward integration policy, nearly $20 billion has been directly and indirectly injected into the Nigerian cement industry with Dangote Cement Plc accounting for 60 per cent of that spend.”

The GMD/CEO added that Dangote Cement Plc would continue to ensure alignment of its corporate social responsibility with its strategic business initiatives and will continue to evaluate its pricing regime in Nigeria’s best interest.

Meanwhile, the timing of the initiative has confounded industry watchers, who say that from experience, the cement market is on the verge of entering the accelerated demand phase as the raining season is tapering and the dry season which provides the opportunity for increased construction and building activities is setting in.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/dangote-slashes-cement-price-n1000-per-bag/

Tambuwal is flexing jor

Pictures or you know na

otokx:
If GEJ were worth his mettle by now there should be a mainland dual carriage way/bridge linking Nembe with Yenegoa, in fact it should be complete with standard rail guage running from Yenegoa to Warri then Aladja thereby linking it up to Ajaokuta then to Abuja.

The guy has not really done much for Niger Delta.

lets assume you have been to Nembe before, can you possibly explain how a bridge can be constructed from there right to Yenagoa ? That aside, do you know there's a road project from Amakalakala to Nembe under construction going on right now with 4wd vehicles plying that route NOW at one thousand naira per passenger ? Please focus on what you know about and leave the rest for others