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Crime / Re: Why Our Anambra Brothers Should Stop Drug Crime by tawa89(f): 3:13pm On Sep 22, 2016
DOA. Afonjas....When will Afonjas stop raping their daughters?
When will Afonjas stop fucking their daughters?
When Afonjas stop doing human rituals ?
When will Afonjas stop credit card fraud?
Who will Afonjas stop carrying drugs to Mecca and Saudi?
Enuguboy my ass

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Politics / Re: Aisha Buhari Is At It Again..... by tawa89(f): 11:32pm On Sep 20, 2016
They don catch am again. LMAO

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Politics / Re: PHOTOS: Hundreds Queue To Collect Food From Hon. Dapo Lam Adesina by tawa89(f): 7:17pm On Sep 11, 2016
Jesus.....See brown roofs everywhere!

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Politics / Re: Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 7:13pm On Sep 10, 2016
Politics / Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 7:12pm On Sep 10, 2016
Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine Following NDLEA Arrest


BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORKSEP 10, 2016

A drug trafficker who was arrested last week by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) excreted the final wraps of cocaine ingested this weekend, according to officials.

The final tally of wrapped packages excreted was 82 pellets, the NDLEA said.

The drug courier, who was on her way to Medina for the 2016 annual hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia, was identified as 55 year old Binuyo Basari Iyabo.

The spokesman of NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, confirmed that Mrs. Iyabo excreted the last wraps of the substance over the weekend while in their custody.

According to Mr. Ofoyeju, the total weight of drugs excreted by the suspect was 931 grams.

According to the spokesman, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, the anti-narcotics boss, described the action of the suspect as shameful and stated that the drug trafficker would be sanctioned in line with anti-narcotics laws.

He said, “It is a shameful and discreditable act for a 55 years old mother who is going on a holy pilgrimage to ingest narcotics. This is very shocking and a clear indication of her inability to effectively discharge parental responsibilities.

“The agency shall invoke the powers of the law against her and others caught indulging in production or trafficking of drugs."

Also commenting on the arrest, NDLEA Commander at the Abuja airport, Hamisu Lawan, said that Mrs. Iyabo had since been under observation in the NDLEA custody.

He added that arrangements had been concluded for her prosecution in the law court.

Mrs. Iyabo was arrested during the outward screening of passengers on an Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai.

If the suspect had been caught in Saudi Arabia, she would have been publicly executed according to the law of the land.

Mrs. Iyabo is said to hail from Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State and she’s married with three children and sells cosmetics at Dosumu Market in Lagos.

In her confessional statement, she owned up to the crime and also provided investigators with useful information.

She said that she desired to expand her business in Dosunmu Market and that pushed her to begin trafficking in drugs.

She further confessed that her sponsors, who she declined to mention, offered her the sum of N1 million to courier the drug to Saudi Arabia. She added that she had swallowed the drug in Lagos, but took a flight to Abuja in order to avoid detection in Lagos.

She confessed, "I am a trader in Lagos, married with three children. I wanted to expand my cosmetic business, but I have no money. My sponsor offered to foot my expenses to Saudi on pilgrimage. This was how I got involved in the act.

“I was excited until the issue of drugs was introduced. I wanted to decline, but it was late. Besides, I was offered one N1 million, which I accepted. I swallowed the drugs in Lagos and took a flight to Abuja on my way to Medina, but I was caught in the process.”



Binuyo Basira Iyabo, excreted 82 pellets of drugs
NDLEA
Crime / Re: Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 6:38pm On Sep 10, 2016
Lalasticala and Mynd44....Your attention is needed here.
Crime / Re: Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 6:36pm On Sep 10, 2016
If this case of Pilgrims trafficking drugs to Mecca is not handled well, Saudi Officials might start denying us visa for lesser hajj from next year oo
Crime / Re: Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 6:32pm On Sep 10, 2016
82 pellets of cocaine is a national record no?
Crime / Re: Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 6:31pm On Sep 10, 2016
82 pellets of Drugs This is a national record no??
Crime / Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine by tawa89(f): 6:27pm On Sep 10, 2016
Pilgrim Drug Trafficker Ingests, Then Excretes 82 Pellets Of Cocaine Following NDLEA Arrest


BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORKSEP 10, 2016

A drug trafficker who was arrested last week by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) excreted the final wraps of cocaine ingested this weekend, according to officials.

The final tally of wrapped packages excreted was 82 pellets, the NDLEA said.

The drug courier, who was on her way to Medina for the 2016 annual hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia, was identified as 55 year old Binuyo Basari Iyabo.

The spokesman of NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, confirmed that Mrs. Iyabo excreted the last wraps of the substance over the weekend while in their custody.

According to Mr. Ofoyeju, the total weight of drugs excreted by the suspect was 931 grams.

According to the spokesman, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, the anti-narcotics boss, described the action of the suspect as shameful and stated that the drug trafficker would be sanctioned in line with anti-narcotics laws.

He said, “It is a shameful and discreditable act for a 55 years old mother who is going on a holy pilgrimage to ingest narcotics. This is very shocking and a clear indication of her inability to effectively discharge parental responsibilities.

“The agency shall invoke the powers of the law against her and others caught indulging in production or trafficking of drugs."

Also commenting on the arrest, NDLEA Commander at the Abuja airport, Hamisu Lawan, said that Mrs. Iyabo had since been under observation in the NDLEA custody.

He added that arrangements had been concluded for her prosecution in the law court.

Mrs. Iyabo was arrested during the outward screening of passengers on an Emirates Airlines flight to Dubai.

If the suspect had been caught in Saudi Arabia, she would have been publicly executed according to the law of the land.

Mrs. Iyabo is said to hail from Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State and she’s married with three children and sells cosmetics at Dosumu Market in Lagos.

In her confessional statement, she owned up to the crime and also provided investigators with useful information.

She said that she desired to expand her business in Dosunmu Market and that pushed her to begin trafficking in drugs.

She further confessed that her sponsors, who she declined to mention, offered her the sum of N1 million to courier the drug to Saudi Arabia. She added that she had swallowed the drug in Lagos, but took a flight to Abuja in order to avoid detection in Lagos.

She confessed, "I am a trader in Lagos, married with three children. I wanted to expand my cosmetic business, but I have no money. My sponsor offered to foot my expenses to Saudi on pilgrimage. This was how I got involved in the act.

“I was excited until the issue of drugs was introduced. I wanted to decline, but it was late. Besides, I was offered one N1 million, which I accepted. I swallowed the drugs in Lagos and took a flight to Abuja on my way to Medina, but I was caught in the process.”



Binuyo Basira Iyabo, excreted 82 pellets of drugs
NDLEA

http://saharareporters.com/2016/09/10/pilgrim-drug-trafficker-ingests-then-excretes-82-pellets-cocaine-following-ndlea-arrest
Politics / Re: I Don’t Have A Twitter Account –adeosun by tawa89(f): 11:14pm On Sep 01, 2016
So all these people were following a parody account all these while? Even Digicoms handle tweeted at her. These people think we are fools. Kemi Adeosun is liar with cockney accent

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Politics / Re: Nigerians Blast Adeosun's For Editing Her Twitter Account by tawa89(f): 11:00pm On Sep 01, 2016
A parody account being followed by Garba Shehu, Kayode Fayemi, Abike Dabiri and co? Kemi (recession is just a word) Adeosun is a fraud with cockney accent.

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Travel / Re: Breaking: Aero Contractors Leaves Nigeria by tawa89(f): 1:56pm On Aug 31, 2016
Economic recession bites harder as more people will lose their jobs.
Travel / Breaking: Aero Contractors Leaves Nigeria by tawa89(f): 1:04pm On Aug 31, 2016
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja

Aero Contractors Airlines, Nigeria’s second largest commercial carrier, has confirmed an exclusive report of The PUNCH by announcing the suspension of its scheduled services beginning from Thursday September 1, 2016.



On Monday, August 22, 2016, The PUNCH exclusively reported that the airline was set to lay off some of its workers due to its worsening financial crisis.

The report also noted that the carrier was in talks with aviation unions on how to cut down on the number of workers in its employ, after sources from the sector revealed that Aero was contemplating a suspension of its scheduled flight services.

Confirming this in a statement signed by the carrier’s management on Wednesday, Aero stated that the suspension was part of the strategic business realignment to reposition the airline and return it to profitability.

It stated that this “business decision”, which is a result of the current economic situation in the country, had forced some other airlines to suspend operations or pull out of Nigeria.

The management of the carrier said the airline had faced grave challenges in the past six months which impacted its business and by extension the scheduled services operations.

These factors, according to Aero, are both internal and external environmental factors that have made it difficult for it to continue its scheduled services.

It stated that during the period in review, Aero witnessed epileptic operations and services to the external public that were caused by non-alignment of fundamental issue of the business, which in some cases had been frustrating and embarrassing to all parties including staff, customers and indeed all stakeholders.

As part of its resolve to ensure the airline survived unlike most other carriers that experienced short life span in the country, AMCON had appointed Mr. Adeniyi Adegbomire SAN as Receiver Manager in February 6, 2016, with the aim of turning the airline around.

Since AMCON’s intervention in Aero Contractors in 2011, it had provided support for the airline to meet working capital requirements and fleet expansion.

These were to ensure the airline remains a going concern providing services to various clients and the general public.

But the airline noted that unfortunately, the operating environment within and outside the Aero had hindered any possible progress especially in the last six months when the naira depreciated against the dollar thus making it impossible for the airline to achieve its operational targets.

It started that with these realities coupled with protracted engagements with all relevant stakeholders, the management strenuously reviewed and assessed options and opportunities on ensuring viability, safety and sustainability of operations during the period with a lot of sacrifices.

The airline said, “The impact of the external environment has been very harsh on our operational performance, hence management decision to suspend scheduled services operations indefinitely effective September 1, 2016, pending when the external opportunities and a robust sustainable and viable plan is in place for Aero Contractors to recommence its scheduled services.

“The implication of the suspension of scheduled services operations extends to all staffs directly and indirectly involved in providing services as they are effectively to proceed on indefinite leave of absence during the period of non-services.

It added, “We are aware of the impact this will have on our staff and our highly esteemed customers, hence we have initiated moves to ensure that we are able to return back to operations within the shortest possible time, offering reliable, safe and secure operations, which the airline is known for.”

http://m.punchng.com/breaking-aero-confirms-punchs-report-suspends-scheduled-services-2/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter
Education / Re: WAEC May/june 2016 Result Analysis, Breakdown And Statistics by tawa89(f): 6:49pm On Aug 12, 2016
5 southeastern states in the top 10.....Abia top of the pile followed by Anambra and Edo states respectively. What is really happening in Osun?
Education / WAEC May/june 2016 Result Analysis, Breakdown And Statistics by tawa89(f): 5:49pm On Aug 12, 2016
WAEC May/June 2016 Result Analysis, Breakdown and Statistics





This is the WAEC May/June 2016 Result Analysis, Breakdown and Statistics. It was learnt that a total of eight hundred and seventy eight thousand and forty (878,040) candidates, representing 52.97%, obtained credits in five (5) subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.



A total of 1,014,573 candidates, representing 65.70% obtained six (6) credits and above; one million one hundred sixty seven thousand four hundred and eighty four (1,167,484) candidates, representing 75.60% obtained five (5) credits and above.

One million two hundred and eighty two thousand two hundred and four (1,282,204) candidates, representing 83.03% obtained credit and above in four (4) subjects while one million three hundred and seventy thousand forty nine (1,370,049) candidates, representing 88.72% obtained credit and above in three (3) subjects.

One million four hundred and thirty eight thousand six hundred and seventy nine (1,438,679) candidates, representing 93.16% obtained credit and above in two (2) subjects.



Announcing this, Head of Nigeria National Office, Nigeria, Mr Olu Adenipekun also revealed that 137,295, representing 8.89% candidates have their result.

WAEC Result Statistics by States

It was learnt that Edo State came third with 38, 052 of its 62, 327 candidates getting five credits and above. While Rivers and Imo states came fourth and fifth respectively.

Lagos with 68, 173 out of 141, 963 candidates came sixth.

Bayelsa, Delta, Enugu and Ebonyi states came seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th positions.

Ekiti State placed 11th with 8,954 out of its 21, 333 candidates.

Kaduna, Ondo, Abuja, Kogi, Benue, Akwa Ibom, and Kwara states came 12th, 13th, 14, 15th and 16th respectively.



Ogun State with 75,994 candidates occupied the 19th position.

In the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25 positions are Cross River, Taraba, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kano and Borno states respectively.

Osun and Oyo states were placed 29th and 26th respectively.

Niger and Adamawa states were placed in the 27th and 28th positions respectively.

Yobe state came last with just 646 candidates obtaining five credits and above including English.

Seven other northern states took rear positions as follows: They are Zamfara (36th), Jigawa (35th), Gombe (34th), Katsina (33rd), Kebbi (32nd) Bauchi (31st) and Sokoto (30th).



- See more at: http://mypastquestion.com/waec-mayjune-result-analysis-breakdown-and-statistics/#sthash.AgBmmweA.dpuf
Health / Re: Nigeria Records Fresh Cases Of Polio by tawa89(f): 11:30am On Aug 11, 2016
Why is this on Health section
Health / Re: Nigeria Records Fresh Cases Of Polio by tawa89(f): 11:14am On Aug 11, 2016
Sissy3.....Dominique....Mynd44...Seun...This information is important especially to our people in Borno.
Health / Re: Nigeria Records Fresh Cases Of Polio by tawa89(f): 11:09am On Aug 11, 2016
Lalasticala....Mynd44...Seun
Health / Re: Nigeria Records Fresh Cases Of Polio by tawa89(f): 11:08am On Aug 11, 2016
This is a front page material
Health / Re: Nigeria Records Fresh Cases Of Polio by tawa89(f): 9:16am On Aug 11, 2016
They have scattered all the good work on polio done by the last administration. Buhari's government has the most stupid and ineffective cabinet in our history. Who is even the minister of health?

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Health / Nigeria Records Fresh Cases Of Polio by tawa89(f): 9:09am On Aug 11, 2016
Nigeria records fresh cases of Polio

Nigeria’s hope of being certified Polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO), next year, might have been dashed, as two new cases have been reported.

Health authorities in Abuja have, however, remained silent, with key officials refusing to be quoted.

The two cases of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) were discovered in Gwarzo and Jere Local Government Areas of Borno State, yesterday.


A top health official told The Guardian the country has decided to term it a ‘suspicion’, while it seeks the best approach to break the news to the public.
It was learnt WHO could announce the development at a press conference in Geneva tomorrow.

Last month, July 24, Nigeria celebrated two years without any new case of Polio.

http://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria-records-fresh-cases-of-polio/
Politics / Re: Feyi Fawehinmi: I’m Sorry If I Convinced Anyone To Vote For This Government by tawa89(f): 1:16pm On Aug 10, 2016
It's just remaining only Gbawe, Payless, etc...
Politics / Re: Feyi Fawehinmi: I’m Sorry If I Convinced Anyone To Vote For This Government by tawa89(f): 1:07pm On Aug 10, 2016
Politics / Feyi Fawehinmi: I’m Sorry If I Convinced Anyone To Vote For This Government by tawa89(f): 1:01pm On Aug 10, 2016
There has to be a point where you say ‘enough’. And for me this is it. To the extent that I can afford to have some principles, I cannot have anything to do with people who are so openly hostile to enterprise and who speak the language of Venezuela to the economy.



You can run a simple google search on ‘maduro threatens to shut’ and you will see results where the Venezuelan president is using the same language as Audu Ogbeh to threaten businesses. It did not start with Nicolas Maduro — it began with Hugo Chavez who conveniently died before oil prices crashed. Today, Venezuela is a complete humanitarian disaster that is on the brink of complete implosion.

Whether or not Audu Ogbeh carries out his threat, he has publicly shown the type of person he is and the kind of government he is part of. If you run a fertiliser business, you will have to find some way of protecting yourself just in case he actually carries out his threat. There is no way this can be good for consumers. If it was as easy as ordering prices to come down which country won’t be doing it? Why will some countries bother with the hard work of allowing markets do the job of bringing down prices?

[b]For one year, some of us tried as hard as we could to get the government to leave the currency alone and let markets work. They only agreed to do it after they had tried everything else and it didn’t work. But even at that, they cannot help themselves. The first month was spent on trying to rig the market to keep the naira at N280. When that failed, they tried all sorts of things including mandating oil companies to only sell their dollars to oil marketers —an idea so foolish that even they quickly backed down from it.

The latest idiocy is to tell people like me that I can only use Western Union or MoneyGram to send my own money to Nigeria. I have not used Western Union to send money in close to 5 years now and I don’t know anyone who still uses them. We abandoned them for a reason. For the CBN to try to force us to go back to something we walked away from is so laughably idiotic that I will give them a few weeks to reverse themselves again.

Now they are telling BDCs that they are only allowed to add a 2% margin to forex sales. In a couple of months time, the forex landscape will be such that no one will remember that these same people ‘floated’ the naira a couple of months ago.

A few weeks ago, the CBN governor was in New York to meet with some investors and try to convince them to return to Nigeria. One of the big fund managers refused to meet at all. Please understand this — the CBN governor was in their city and they refused to meet him. Nigeria has less than zero credibility in the eyes of foreign investors right now. And less than a month later, he has proved them correct by constantly fiddling with the rules and trying all kinds of shenanigans. They know he is not reliable so nothing that comes out of his mouth can be believed.

The logic of floating the naira some of us campaigned for was simple — a transparently priced currency would give investors confidence to bring their money into the country after they all ran away. The inflow of forex would then reduce the pressure on the naira and make life a little less painful for Nigerians who are exposed to forex through the price of imported goods.

When the government then goes back to its vomit by fiddling with the market. When it keeps a CBN governor who has less than zero credibility with the people we are trying to entice back into the country. When the agriculture minister is openly threatening private businesses based on the idea that everything you have is only yours because the government allow you to have it. When the government is directly increasing the suffering of Nigerians even though it claims to be doing the opposite.

One must say enough.

It is possible that I convinced a couple of people to vote for Buhari and the APC. I owe them an apology. I never expected this. The instincts of these people is to run with their expired ideas directly in the face of all the contrary evidence i.e. the 21st century. In fact, they are not interested in evidence, they are so convinced of their own foolishness. A bunch of undercover communists and unreconstructed socialists.

I have nothing in common with such people and yet I somehow donated money to them and canvassed people to vote for them. I will freely say that this is one of the biggest lessons I have learnt in my life so far.

Was the evidence there all along? Possibly. The adrenaline of changing a government we were tired of closed eyes to the obvious. Sometimes there are no good choices and with or without me, Buhari and his APC co-travellers would have won anyway. I doubt I can swing 10 votes in a Nigerian election.

But what I should have done is to have been more skeptical. Ideas should have been interrogated a lot more. Even if it ended up not making a difference, it would still have been important to do so. Not just so one can say ‘I told you so’ but perhaps to have forced a few concessions and to make them know we were watching closely. If enough of us had done this, perhaps the APC would not have the confidence to be walking away so blatantly from the product it sold during the campaign as it is doing today.

It is hard to see where respite will come from. Unless oil prices go back up significantly, there is really nothing coming out of the government that gives you any confidence they know what they are doing. The ‘smart’ people who were supposed to lead sensible reforms and drive the change agenda have been reduced to actors in a silent movie.

In place of a change agenda that was promised, Nigerians are now offered a daily dose of high drama and the redefinition of extant words. ‘Padding’ now means a different thing from what it used to mean.

If I convinced even 10 people to vote for Buhari, then I owe them an apology. For not properly interrogating the people who offered themselves as the solution to Nigeria’s problems. Not because it would have made a difference but because it was the right thing to do. Nigeria was always the point.

I feel sad and ashamed at the way things are unfolding. I speak to people in Nigeria and the level of sadness without even the outline of a vision of a better tomorrow from the leadership fills me with despair. I speak to some people in government and even they know that things are not working. The government that promised change is now so bound up in politics that changing anything is practically impossible even when they know the thing is not working.

This has been a chastening experience for me. There are hard lessons to be learnt here.

So, even if you were 99% convinced of voting for the APC last year and you read something from me that finally pushed you to 100%, I apologise. If you overcame your skepticism because you thought the arguments that people like me made carried some sense, I also apologise.

All that is left to do now is try as much as possible to keep the government from tipping Nigeria over the cliff. It is already standing at the edge and is determined to jump off. And more importantly to start a process of ensuring that mistakes made last year are not made again in the future. It is the right thing to do.

Sorry sad[/b]
Politics / Re: Feyi Fawehinmi: I’m Sorry If I Convinced Anyone To Vote For This Government by tawa89(f): 12:31pm On Aug 10, 2016
My people see Wailing oo shocked embarassed

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Politics / Feyi Fawehinmi: I’m Sorry If I Convinced Anyone To Vote For This Government by tawa89(f): 12:30pm On Aug 10, 2016
There has to be a point where you say ‘enough’. And for me this is it. To the extent that I can afford to have some principles, I cannot have anything to do with people who are so openly hostile to enterprise and who speak the language of Venezuela to the economy.



You can run a simple google search on ‘maduro threatens to shut’ and you will see results where the Venezuelan president is using the same language as Audu Ogbeh to threaten businesses. It did not start with Nicolas Maduro — it began with Hugo Chavez who conveniently died before oil prices crashed. Today, Venezuela is a complete humanitarian disaster that is on the brink of complete implosion.

Whether or not Audu Ogbeh carries out his threat, he has publicly shown the type of person he is and the kind of government he is part of. If you run a fertiliser business, you will have to find some way of protecting yourself just in case he actually carries out his threat. There is no way this can be good for consumers. If it was as easy as ordering prices to come down which country won’t be doing it? Why will some countries bother with the hard work of allowing markets do the job of bringing down prices?

For one year, some of us tried as hard as we could to get the government to leave the currency alone and let markets work. They only agreed to do it after they had tried everything else and it didn’t work. But even at that, they cannot help themselves. The first month was spent on trying to rig the market to keep the naira at N280. When that failed, they tried all sorts of things including mandating oil companies to only sell their dollars to oil marketers —an idea so foolish that even they quickly backed down from it.[b]

The latest idiocy is to tell people like me that I can only use Western Union or MoneyGram to send my own money to Nigeria. I have not used Western Union to send money in close to 5 years now and I don’t know anyone who still uses them. We abandoned them for a reason. For the CBN to try to force us to go back to something we walked away from is so laughably idiotic that I will give them a few weeks to reverse themselves again.

Now they are telling BDCs that they are only allowed to add a 2% margin to forex sales. In a couple of months time, the forex landscape will be such that no one will remember that these same people ‘floated’ the naira a couple of months ago.

A few weeks ago, the CBN governor was in New York to meet with some investors and try to convince them to return to Nigeria. One of the big fund managers refused to meet at all. Please understand this — the CBN governor was in their city and they refused to meet him. Nigeria has less than zero credibility in the eyes of foreign investors right now. And less than a month later, he has proved them correct by constantly fiddling with the rules and trying all kinds of shenanigans. They know he is not reliable so nothing that comes out of his mouth can be believed.

The logic of floating the naira some of us campaigned for was simple — a transparently priced currency would give investors confidence to bring their money into the country after they all ran away. The inflow of forex would then reduce the pressure on the naira and make life a little less painful for Nigerians who are exposed to forex through the price of imported goods.

When the government then goes back to its vomit by fiddling with the market. When it keeps a CBN governor who has less than zero credibility with the people we are trying to entice back into the country. When the agriculture minister is openly threatening private businesses based on the idea that everything you have is only yours because the government allow you to have it. When the government is directly increasing the suffering of Nigerians even though it claims to be doing the opposite.[/b]

One must say enough.

It is possible that I convinced a couple of people to vote for Buhari and the APC. I owe them an apology. I never expected this. The instincts of these people is to run with their expired ideas directly in the face of all the contrary evidence i.e. the 21st century. In fact, they are not interested in evidence, they are so convinced of their own foolishness. A bunch of undercover communists and unreconstructed socialists.

[b]I have nothing in common with such people and yet I somehow donated money to them and canvassed people to vote for them. I will freely say that this is one of the biggest lessons I have learnt in my life so far.

Was the evidence there all along? Possibly. The adrenaline of changing a government we were tired of closed eyes to the obvious. Sometimes there are no good choices and with or without me, Buhari and his APC co-travellers would have won anyway. I doubt I can swing 10 votes in a Nigerian election.

But what I should have done is to have been more skeptical. Ideas should have been interrogated a lot more. Even if it ended up not making a difference, it would still have been important to do so. Not just so one can say ‘I told you so’ but perhaps to have forced a few concessions and to make them know we were watching closely. If enough of us had done this, perhaps the APC would not have the confidence to be walking away so blatantly from the product it sold during the campaign as it is doing today.

It is hard to see where respite will come from. Unless oil prices go back up significantly, there is really nothing coming out of the government that gives you any confidence they know what they are doing. The ‘smart’ people who were supposed to lead sensible reforms and drive the change agenda have been reduced to actors in a silent movie.

In place of a change agenda that was promised, Nigerians are now offered a daily dose of high drama and the redefinition of extant words. ‘Padding’ now means a different thing from what it used to mean.

If I convinced even 10 people to vote for Buhari, then I owe them an apology. For not properly interrogating the people who offered themselves as the solution to Nigeria’s problems. Not because it would have made a difference but because it was the right thing to do. Nigeria was always the point.

I feel sad and ashamed at the way things are unfolding. I speak to people in Nigeria and the level of sadness without even the outline of a vision of a better tomorrow from the leadership fills me with despair. I speak to some people in government and even they know that things are not working. The government that promised change is now so bound up in politics that changing anything is practically impossible even when they know the thing is not working.

This has been a chastening experience for me. There are hard lessons to be learnt here.

So, even if you were 99% convinced of voting for the APC last year and you read something from me that finally pushed you to 100%, I apologise. If you overcame your skepticism because you thought the arguments that people like me made carried some sense, I also apologise.

All that is left to do now is try as much as possible to keep the government from tipping Nigeria over the cliff. It is already standing at the edge and is determined to jump off. And more importantly to start a process of ensuring that mistakes made last year are not made again in the future. It is the right thing to do.

Sorry sad[/b]
http://linkis.com/www.thescoopng.com/f/1RBbD

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Updated-New Job Vacancies by tawa89(f): 11:35am On Aug 10, 2016
Invalid email address Debbie
debbie:
I have an HR internship opening for 6 months in an energy company.(corpers may apply ) remuneration is basically allowance. Suitable for those residing in Ikeja . kindly send all applications to afr-recruitment-nigeria@afr.schneider-electric.com. Thank you .
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Updated-New Job Vacancies by tawa89(f): 7:40am On Aug 04, 2016
I can't even remember the position i applied for. Who else has been interviewed there in the past? How did it go?
tawa89:
Hello house, i got an invitation to Mactay consulting for an interview tomorrow, is there anyone who has been interviewed there in the past? Who is working there? Please what should i expect? Thanks guys
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: GMAT For Free Download by tawa89(f): 6:39pm On Aug 03, 2016
Please forward to jobberman89@gmail.com
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Updated-New Job Vacancies by tawa89(f): 6:33pm On Aug 03, 2016
Hello house, i got an invitation to Mactay consulting for an interview tomorrow, is there anyone who has been interviewed there in the past? Who is working there? Please what should i expect? Thanks guys
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Job Interview By Interns by tawa89(f): 10:14am On Aug 01, 2016
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