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Tusky44: So he wants to be addressed as Chief? Hehehehe.... OBJ the ugliest president we ever had. A president who made sure the country endured the abnormally high rate of politically motivated assassinations. A man who only woke up to fight corruption when he was about to get the boot. Hear him suggest we address him as a chief - a chief in his hometown anyway cos for normal folks, he is a nuisance to society.

He wanted to use Wilbros to steal oil and gas from Rivers State. He wanted to get a huge stake in Bonny Island and did all he could through the NNPC. I have one question for the old and haggard chief......what happened to Marshall Harry, Bola Ige, The Igwes, OGB, our beloved Chuba Okadigbo, Funsho Williams, the helpless residents of Odi & Zaki Biam, and many more unaccounted for?

OBJ, some of us really hate you and your entire generation hence you are in my daily prayer. AGBAYA

Call him "General" and not "OBJ".

Siena: I don't know about others, but myself, my wife, my brothers and sister have just two names each. My children also have two names each.

And your names are Siena Toyota. Lol

Ways to successful establishment

The cosmic and axiomatic laws have never failed, these are what we call natural laws. For example, law of gravity, law of Karma, law of inverse, etc.

Once we start observing these laws, God owns the laws and it has never failed, never repealed, modified, adjusted, amended or nullified
The following can be of great help:

Be clean, purify your total being,

Be upright, do what is right to be done, never mince your actions.

Be factual, have specificity of your aims, target. Don't let you be distracted, when aiming for fish, never run to the desert. Know what you want and draw pathway to achieve it.

Be steadfast, see yourself going through all you desire.

Gladden your heart, a sad mind is rather destructive, never build, it's one of the reasons Christians say 'count your blessing', so you can still be happy. Excellent mind is like a photo lab that produces fine pictures. We can use our minds to fly objects and call it airplane, turn substance to light, make bush a food.


Stop assembly among people that are not clean except when you want to share part of what you have gained from your labour, and to give thanks to the Ruler of the universe. Do everything to rub body and soul with thinkers and imaginators, inventors, ingenious, and people that see positivity, irrespective of their current situations. Current situations do not mean one cannot move, it only shows origin and from where one reaches destination.

Never be afraid to approach anyone who has key to open doors that lead to your dream. Most people that say banks don't give load had never applied for one, and when they do, their faith diminishes faster than completing the short journey to their dreamland. Let your thinking revolves problems here and there, that's what makes money.

People making complex situations are simple have high significant chances of changing levels, usually upward.

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During the 1983 elections, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was hosted to a town hall interview in Abeokuta, where in addition to other pertinent topics of the day, he spoke on his role in the civil war, the 20-pound policy, starvation as a weapon, change of currency, abandoned property etc.

Excerpt: ((Moderator: Mr. Oparadike).

CIVIL WAR

Question: Chief Awolowo, your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it may have been to the Biafran people or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being cast as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the federal military government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being cast in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feels embittered.

Awo: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. In fact, whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo, and there’s no campaigning for elections on, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but Ojukwu is irredeemable so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you.I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point. I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betide those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly, very roughly.
That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as pieces, in Latin pieces mean Fish.
So I put pieces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matter. And then on top of it I write Eebudola. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but Awolowo school, omo Awolowo, the…… started in Urobo land, in mid-west in those days. They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools –brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place..”ah what kind of school is this? is this Awolowo school? Useless school” and when they saw the children..”ah this Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became blessing, and now they say “Awolowo children, they are good people” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the Eebu becomes honor, the abuse became honor.
And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call Homo Mortuus- dead living, oku eniyan, that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.
So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so Eebudola is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.
During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland- South Eastern states they call it, at that time..east central state, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they ….was librated I handed over the money to them- millions. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the executive council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the executive council at that time the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the executive council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention - 990,000 almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course- South eastern state, North central state, Kwara and so on.
But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given. I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as commissioner for finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

TWENTY POUNDS POLICY
That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them. Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt. We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there. Unfortunately, all the banks’s books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their saving books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.
I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central bank and the pertinent officials of the ministry of finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then make some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approve, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.
And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there.

STARVATION POLICY
Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort. You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcort, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things which I knew which you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, when I write my reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories and so on.
I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses- Air force dress, Army dress and so on, and went to the war torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never return from the place, so I went.
But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt. Then I enquired what happened to the food we are sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happen was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? and those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, its only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor.
You wont hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor? None of their children either, so they waylaid the foods, they ambush the vehicles and took the foods to their friends and to their collaborators and to their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most.

CHANGE OF CURRENCY
And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers has stolen from our Central bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.
So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now governor of Cross River, Attah and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any commissioner at the time say that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his own ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and starvation of his soldiers also defeated him.
These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me, when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who’s not well fed? But he has been taking the food which we send to civilians, and so we stopped the food

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ABANDONED PROPERTY
And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side, were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds rent which has been kept for him. All his rent were collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds.
So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies.

Moderator: After the question, this particular question from the interview panel we’ll move to the floor, and later we’ll go back to the interview panel for the final two questions. But before we move to the floor I call on Mr. Sonala Olumhense to ask the question

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CORRUPTION
Question (Sonala Olumhense): Chief Awolowo, I think it is fairly clear that the two major problems responsible for the failing of government in this country are inability or incompetence of officials to manage the economy and corruption. You have been reported on the campaign ground to have said that when you come to power on October, that you will not probe anybody. I haven’t heard or read of any denial of that statement. If it is actually true that you did make that statement, how is it that you plan to deal with the problem of corruption in this country? Or don’t you have any such plans?
Awolowo: The statement referred to is not new, I first made a statement like that, I believe, in 1969 during my convocation address at Ife University. I then demanded to know why the probe was confined to only the western region and parts of the eastern region. The other part of the country, there was no probe in the other part of the country. And then, they were probing civilians, but then soldiers have boldly begun to enter, to enter the area of those who should be probed. And I said, well, some trees have fallen on other trees, and they should start with ones on the top. Which means to probe soldiers, and who will dare to probe soldiers at that time? So I said they should call off the whole business.
And then a decision was taken that those who had stolen money and had died should not be probed, so it is easy for someone who wants to enrich his children to steal as much as possible, then commit suicide so that his children can live in affluence forever. It’s a far fetch illustration, but it can happen. So I said the best thing is to call off the probe. And how much have we earned in the process? How much have we got back? You remember that all the thing that Adebayo got in his own time he returned them on the eve of the 10th anniversary of independent. So there’s no point in continuing the probe, I said it at the time, and I repeated it at Ahmadu Bello University when I was delivering my second convo… address there.
So it’s nothing new, but people don’t border to read some of the things I say, but they go on criticizing me for saying this things. Anyway, I don’t want the UPN to embark on probes, first of all I believe that those who have deliberately stolen public money…we keep on saying government’s money, it’s our money, it’s your money, it’s my money. Those who have deliberately done that would dislodge them sooner or later, that’s the law of nature, it has to happen.
In the bible we are told God says “Vengeance is mine, and I will revenge” and I believe it. Then secondly, when you start probing, where do you begin now? The corruption has gone to a very high scale since the Army took over. They were to be corrective, then they became corruptive, and so on, where do you begin? And with whom? And with which part of the country? Throughout the country? You’ll need a large staff of people to do the probe, and then the probers themselves might be bribed and corrupted in the process, and so we won’t get any genuine report. And then would you also probe members of your own party in addition, because we are not perfect. There must be people who are probable even within UPN, but party pressure will make it absolutely impossible for you to probe anyone within your party.
So why start at all? And what is more, if you probe the past, it’s like going to a grave yard and exhuming the bodies and tried to see what was the cause of the death of each of the copses that you have exhumed. And when you have discovered that so and so who died 10 years ago was killed by what do you do then? Do you revive the body? You cannot revive the dead, but in the process you pollute the air, you pollute the air of the place.
Whereas, you can help the living. I’m interested in the living, and don’t forget that I’m 74 years plus now, and I don’t want to waste my years trying to see what happened in the past instead of attending to the problems of all these people in front of me, and millions who are listening to what I say. If they steal they’ll suffer, if they don’t steal, and you never can know all the truth, sometimes they say somebody take a bribe, then find out and see no bribe has been taken, and so on and so forth. As far as I am concerned, the past- that’s from 30th of September 1983 backwards sealed. But from 1st October 1983 onward, open.
There’s a saying, the past is a story told, the future will be rich in gold. And I’ve always said it that the future is like a wet clay. In the hands of a good potter it can produce very fine potteries. But the past is dead you can’t produce anything from it except acrimonies, exacerbation, hatred, and so on and so forth. So I’m not interested in the past, I’m interested in the future.
And you can correct corruption by examples more than by precepts. Many of us can say corruption is bad. Even the most corrupt person will say “corruption is not good”, but then to see what he can do by examples rather than by precepts and I intend, that’s what UPN has been doing, we intend to lead the people out of corruption into honesty and probity by example. That’s what we intend to do. But you must bear in mind; you can never stamp out corruption, you can minimize it considerably. In those days of the western region, in 8 years people will say no corruption, there might be, I didn’t know, but the important thing is that people ought to realize that there’s someone somewhere who must never hear that an act of corruption has taken place.
But when the boss himself is the chairman of the corrupt club, then there’s nothing you can do, like what happened, a simple matter, one member of the ministry of housing asked one of the officials to go and get 200 bundles of roofing sheets. Yes sir! And then he went and collected 2,200 roofing sheets. That’s a fair business, the boss wants 200 and he needs 2000. And the boss can’t pressure on him, on what ground? “You went to go and steal that….”, he’ll say “er master but you asked me to bring you 200…” that’s the trouble. So you get a lot done by example rather than by precepts, and that’s what we intend to do. The future may be rich in gold, like a wet clay in the hands of the good potter.

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The global village as they say shrinks every minutes, so are business tools, laptops, androids, blackberry and other smart gadgets. Most people use their laptop powered by direct current (DC), that is the laptop battery. Most of these laptop batteries are not up to the task, hence they need to be property catered for. I have replaced my laptop batter more than necessary. Nothing is frustrating like one's laptop is going off due to poor battery.

Here are steps to make your laptop batteries last longer:

TURN IT OFF
If you are not using the device, turn it off. For example, switch off the wi-fi transceiver when you are not using it.

HARD DRIVE SUCKS
Avoid necessaries using the hard discs, if your word processor is set to auto save your work every five minutes, consider changing it to every 10 or 15 minutes.

MUSIC TAKE MORE POWER
Resist temptation to place a CD while you work. Instead, covert your songs to MP3 and play them from your hard drive.

HEAT IS NOT GOOD
Find a comfortable environment. Extreme heat (over 80 degrees) makes your battery discharge more quickly.

LOW THE LIGHT
Turn down the light, use your laptop's power control utilities to automatically reduce backlighting when it runs on batteries.

CLOSE UNUSED PROGRAMS

PLAIN SURFACE
Use the laptop on a hard surface, this allows proper air circulation and prevents overheating.

STANDBY
If you are leaving your laptop for a few minutes, put it on standby. if you are leaving it for a longer period you should hibernate.

GRAPHIC
Limit the graphics use. Using a graphics or video card sucks more power.

This practice helps your batteries not to disappoint you, never forget to charge it fully before going for presentation. Have a smashing day.

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That's why ACN has broom now. What is the relevance of having failed party in South West, not just Lagos. We are yet to see states where the party has improved lives of the people.[/quote]

That's why ACN has broom now. What is the relevance of having failed party in South West, not just Lagos. We are yet to see states where the party has improved lives of the people.

Am relatively new Apple user and have been experiencing some difficulties using CorelDraw 11 on the Mac. Corel and PC are always excellent pals, but I think there might be more to get Corel11 working on Mac, is there anyone experiencing or that have experienced Corel11 and Mac conflict? I need help. Thanks.

A Nigerian newspaper editor who asked management to indicate how it intended to offset his salary arrears before he would hand over his official car upon his resignation has had his dismissal upheld by the company.
A Disclaimer was Monday placed on Mr. Simon Imobo-Tswam, erstwhile Abuja Bureau Editor of The Moment newspaper, by the publishers, True Moment Media Limited, Lagos.
In a full-colour quarter page advert published in the Metro Section of the paper, the management of The Moment announced that Mr. Imobo-Tswam is no longer in the company’s employ. “Anybody transacting business with him is doing so at his or her own risk,” the advert said.
As was exclusively reported by News Express on September 1, Mr. Imobo-Tswam’s ordeal started when he decided to leave The Moment, which has owed staff salaries since November last year. He had previously resigned at the beginning of the financial crisis at The Moment but was prevailed upon to rescind the decision by the Publisher, Mr. Moffat Ekoriko, thus making him to forfeit a mouth-watering offer from an Abuja-based newspaper.
However, fed up after eight months of no salaries, Mr. Imobo-Tswam submitted another resignation letter on June 22, which was accepted on August 13 but backdated to August 10. The story took another turn when the journalist asked The Moment to inform him of how they intended to pay him his accumulated salaries and other entitlements before he could return his official car.
Upon receiving the letter, The Moment wrote to Mr. Imobo-Tswam, informing him that he had been dismissed from the company.
A shocked Mr. Imobo-Tswam contacted his lawyer, Mr. Adewale Yusuf, who wrote a Demand Letter to The Moment Publisher, Mr. Moffat Ekoriko, giving the company two weeks to pay Mr. Imobo-Tswam’s accumulated entitlements of N1.104 million or face a law suit.
“We shall at the expiration of these 14 days, file a suit in the High Court of the Federal Capital territory (FCT) which would be further enlarged with claims for special damages,” said the letter copied the FCT Abuja Police Commissioner, Director of SSS and Chairman, Abuja Council of NUJ, Mr. Imobo-Tswam also vowed to hold on to his official car until he is fully paid.
Contacted for a reaction to the disclaimer put on his head, Mr. Imobo-Tswam told News Express:
“This is a well calculated attempt to smear my hard-earned reputation. The battle-line is now drawn.”
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Source: News Express

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