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That guy has facts and he could have disgraced prof chukwu.
Imagine Labour Minister saying that nigerians dont know why they are on the streets protesting. are we children?

Ngozi is an Igbo woman.
She CANNOT resign from such a juicy position in a country like Nigeria

they have started to enjoy the removal of the subsidy by awarding contract for this buses.
Every FEC meeting must be to award contract. period

Amid growing public anger over housing costs and spiralling income inequality, Singapore's prime minster, Lee Hsien Loong, has agreed to take a 36% pay cut – but he will remain the world's best-paid leader.
Lee's office said he would accept the recommendations of a government-appointed committee to reduce his salary, as well as those of his ministers and the city-state 's president.
Lee appointed the committee after a disastrous parliamentary election in which his party faced historic losses. The committee recommended that Lee's salary be cut by 36%, to 2.2m Singapore dollars (£1. 1m). Lee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.
The president, Tony Tan, faces a potential salary cut of 51%, though many observers may consider him well paid, at 1.5m dollars for a ceremonial post that requires him to perform only minor duties.
Salaries for government ministers will be reduced by 37% to an annual 1.1m dollars.
Despite the pay cut, Lee's salary will still be
three times that of the Hong Kong chief
executive, Donald Tsang, the world's next
highest-paid political leader, who earns about
£353,000 a year.
By comparison, Barack Obama, as president of a
country of 312 million people that also has the
world's most powerful military and the top
economy, earns £256,000.

m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/04/singapore-prime-minister-lee-loong?cat=world&type=article

she should start preparing her resignation letter because the mother of all strike will commence from monday

May his soul rest in peace but a doctor can verify if there is a bullet hole or stab in his body.

Majority of the people protesting in those areas mentioned are Igbos.

Goatluck adminisration cannot afford money for the fuel subsidy but they can afford bribe to buy people to support this ugly propsal

PPRA announces the removal of fuel subsidy with effect from jan 1, 2012.
source: NTA news

Thank God he didn't tell us not to panick and we should go about our normal business and that the perpetrators will be brought to book

It could have been better if the state of emergency is declared in the whole state of Borno because they will now relocate to another LG

Lets have lists of activities that happened in 2011

Revolution in Egypt
Boko haram bombing in UN house in Nigeria, Police Force hq, Cath church, etc
Death of Ghaddafi
Death of Steve Jobs
Death of North korean president
Nigeria eagles lost all their chances in football

BH wants to deviate attention from xtians preparation against them but they cant deceive xtians. 42 died in church and properties destroyed whereas 4 died in mosque.

In Nigeria, its only shrine that is save now?

most of the importers actually get their products from local refineries and when they get to the Lagos waters, they discharge same into another vessel.

I thought they said that none of the local refineries are working

They should organise their own Town Hall meeting in Lagos and enlighten us

and some people are afraid of going to church.
I hail una courage.

The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation's coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude into the Atlantic Ocean. An investigation into how the spill of less than 40,000 barrels - or 1. 68 million gallons - happened remains ongoing, though company officials acknowledged workers only discovered the leak after seeing a sheen of crude in water surrounding its Bonga offshore oil field.
Meanwhile, Shell officials say the company will clean up another spill it discovered while containing its own - highlighting how prevalent pollution remains in oil-stained Nigeria after more than 50 years of production. "We can undeniably say we traced our oil , and stopped it," said Cliff Pain, who manages the Bonga operation for a Shell subsidiary.
Shell organized a helicopter flight Monday for journalists to see the Bonga field - controlled from a large ship as opposed to a stationary rig - about 75 miles (120 kilometers) off Nigeria's coast. There, waters appeared free of the oil sheen as ships continued to patrol along the underwater lines linking the vessel to oil fields and transfer buoys for filling tankers.
The leak discovered Dec. 20 came from a break in a flexible line about 360 meters out from the vessel that sends oil to tankers, Pain said. While the vessel has a variety of gauges to check pressure on the line, it wasn't until daylight broke that workers noticed a sheen surrounding the Bonga vessel, he said. It takes about 25 hours to fill a waiting tanker with 1 million barrels of oil from the vessel, Pain said. That means the leak could have spewed for hours before being noticed. At its height, Shell statistics show the sheen spread across about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers), matching an estimate earlier issued by an independent watchdog group called SkyTruth.
Nigerian government officials previously said the spill only affected an area a third that size
Using ships and aircraft, workers spread chemical dispersants to break up the oil, which also
evaporated in the region's warm water and air, said Steve Keedwell, a Shell employee who helped oversee the cleanup operation. Shell ultimately stopped the sheen about 11 miles (18 kilometers) before it made landfall, Pain said.
However, workers then discovered a separate oil spill around the mouth of a river in Delta state, said Mutiu Sunmonu, Shell's Nigeria country chairman. Sunmonu said samples of the oil showed it came from a different source, though the company would clean it up as well.
"When I sighted it myself, my initial reaction was anger, but I told myself: 'You know, you just cannot afford to be angry, just deal with it,'" Sunmonu said.
The Nigerian group Environmental Rights Action, which monitors spills around Nigeria's oil-rich
southern delta, has blamed Shell for the new spill. Nnimmo Bassey, the group's executive director, could not be immediately reached for comment Monday night.
Shell operates the Bonga field in partnership with Italy's Eni SpA, Exxon Mobil Corp., France's Total SA and the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. It produces about 200,000 barrels of oil a day - around 10 percent of production in Africa's most populous nation. The field remains shut down and Shell officials offered no estimate Monday of when production could resume at a field vital to Nigeria's government finances.
Nigeria, an OPEC member nation producing about 2. 4 million barrels of crude oil a day, is a top
supplier to the United States. However, pollution from spilled oil stains its Niger Delta region, with crude lapping against beaches and leaving a black ring around creeks in an area about the size of Portugal.
Some environmentalists say as much as 550 million gallons of oil poured into the delta during Shell's roughly 50 years of production in Nigeria - a rate roughly comparable to one Exxon Valdez disaster per year. Many blame Shell and foreign companies working in Nigeria for the pollution. However, Shell in recent years has blamed most of its spills on militant attacks or thieves tapping into pipelines to steal crude oil, which ends up sold on the black market or cooked into a crude diesel or kerosene.
Talking with journalists, Sunmonu acknowledged that the limited spill, open ocean and favorable
weather had helped Shell quickly contain the spill. If it had been on land, the oil could have sunk into the soil, remaining there for years, he said. It also would have pushed Shell into negotiations with village elders to clean up the spill, something it often contracts other companies to handle. Many view the company with hostility after its years in the delta, and its employees remain targets of kidnap gangs and militants.
"You don' t have communities to contend with" on the ocean, Sunmonu said.

They are looking for international recognition, sponsorship and more importantly, amnesty

MOG, you said it all. Not those that will tell us to keep praying whereas the house of prayer isn't safe anymore

may their soul rest in peace.

Also yesterday, it was learnt that 17 Boko Haram suspects behind the Boko Haram (western education
is a sin) bombings in Damaturu, Yobe State have been flown to Abuja

I hope they will not be séntenced to 3yrs imprisonment

Upon all the bomb blasts in this country, the Defence Minister Dr. Bello H. Mohammed (former Ag. chairman PDP that brought fresh into power) has not uttered a word.

I thought he should be the one championing the fight against boko haram just like petroleum minister on fuel subsidy, education minister on ASUU strike and labour minister during the minimum wage.

Pharoh:
^^^^

The same question i asked on the other thread and i was almost crucified for that, boko haram said they will throw bombs on Christmas day at churches so what was the point going to church on that particular day.

They will surely throw bombs on new year day and you will see people gathered together to be blown up by their bombs in churches and other places.

you mean that all the xtians in the north should not go to church again and only the muslims should be going to mosque freely.
we are cowards. we should be thinking on how to avenge and split this country as they wish. remember israel and pakistan

I dont know why govt cant read the handwriting on the wall. a parasite said that he dont want us to be together again, is it not better for us to split this country as they wish?

13volts:
it was not a blast but a gun shot from a mopol who was responding to a threat by some hundloms to snatch his rifle. the incident occurred near mountain of fire around British American junction. believe me am there right now.

There is great difference between gun shot and explosion. the news is saying explosion. we need to be cleared

Odechukwu just closed frm church now

dell_net:
Another in Jos?

just heard it from aljazeera but needs confirmation.
nairalanders in jos pls confirm this

And our no. 1, crezident Jonathan still dey for sanctuary dey dance when his xtian coleaguez are in mortuary. He should leave that place and address the nation

so you have been waiting to hear it from someone before you recognise your status.
Anyway, its true he told you and if you dont like it, do what he says or rather SECEDE

On Xmas day!!! These people are barbaric and deserves nothing but death penalty

Front page pls!

recycling. they borrow money with left and they loot the money back with right

^^^he will be ready to sing all his albums

Thank you for the info. I've been trying to use my Gtmobile since morning and it was not responding.

Is that how we will do the cashless society?