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Hopefully (a big hopefully), individuals will be more sincere and honest before pushing (selling) candidates.

You do not throw a stone into the market place

It's not her fault.

One man's insatiable lust for power and money at the expense of the lives and dignity of many Nigerians (who ironically helped) got her pops in power.

Yeah right, and it takes him 3 weeks and counting to read a report on two of the most ludicrous cases of corruption in his government, albeit one of those cases involving no one less than the Secretary to the Government.

anyaekekehinde:
That is what you dont understand, you can't generate without not feeding it into anything.
In Power system engineering, before you generate, there is someone downstream to consume it.

When you say they generate 7000MW, it means the grid is drawing 7000MW from all generating stations.
If anything happens or the grid develops fault. All those generating station will go off or Trip immediately.


To even think you asked me to go to school over a topic you dont understand is sheer arrogance.

I just dey look dey giggle.

Over the last couple of pages misinformation has been wilfully and arrogantly spread. Misinformation debunked by the daily report shared on the first page. All answers are in that sheet. It is from the Ministry itself not me.

This is either wilful ignorance
Or wilful deceit

Okay,

We however need ethnic RE-orientation. The events of the recent years and indeed the past few days has shown beyond measure that there is an insidious ethnic division among us for no reasons beyond the fact that we have been wilfully manipulated to think the worst of our neighbours so long as they are 'not one of us'. We cannot make progress like this.

There are those being paid in cash and kind to divide us. In the coming days, many entrepreneurs who success we have applauded and who we have looked up to will make their stand known (don't be dissapointed, they owe the sponsors of their enterprise their mouths).

Nigeria can be truly one nation of diverse people. We cannot let them divide us for selfish gain.

Before traveling out

vedaxcool:
True like one salad guy on nairaland who lies he does not have light for weeks as if he lives in a jungle

When you see it you will modify this post.

Deceit

When some said Fashola's legendary success in Lagos was largely due to media packaging many scoffed.

Now they know better.

No worry, light full everywhere for Naija na haters no dey see am.

#SayCHEESE!!! #SARCASM

This morning, my team member, Oluwatobi Soyombo and I sat in the office, and discharged our final responsibility to the Buhari Campaign Organisation – we changed the bio of the Muhammadu Buhari account across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and everywhere else to ‘President of Nigeria’.

I asked Tobi for the privilege to do this myself, with my own hands.

Then, as he looked at me, shocked, the tears began to follow.

After sending out the tweet for the new president of Nigeria (personal tweets from him are signed –MB), I took to my own private account and shared: ‘@MBuhari better not disappoint us. This is too important. This is too important’.

My team and I were offered the job to handle the communication for the Buhari campaign in November 2014. I couldn’t believe it. We had never been close to the All Progressives Congress; I had never even met Buhari. Even the ‘closer’ Tinubu, I have not met since that time in 2002 when I served him tea as a production assistant at the Nigerian Television Authority.

I had a few weeks before declined a meet to discuss youth communication for the Goodluck Jonathan campaign because I no longer had any faith in his leadership, but I was almost certain he was going to win anyway.

In May 2014, I had arrived Abuja to speak at a #BringBackOurGirls event. But I had hardly left the airport, when someone high up in the government called me: “If I see you up on that stage with Oby (Ezekwesili), you are finished in this country.”

So, I wondered, was it wise to finally set up enmity with the government for the next four years by working directly for its opposition?

All through the time my co-founder, Adebola Williams worked hard with the team of Uche Nnaji (OUCH) and Kelechi Amadi-Obi to shoot the photographs that redefined Buhari’s image, all through the period the team was assembled from Tobi to Alex Yangs to Kathleen Ndongmo, I couldn’t move. I was transfixed in fear, in hope that dared not speak. Could Nigerians actually unseat a seating President from the People’s Democratic Party?

I wondered if the rage I felt was worth the sacrifice I was about to make – putting my life, my relationships and my business on the line in a country where the biggest advise our richest man has given entepreneurs is ‘never fight with the government of the day’?

All of that is history now. What looked like a mirage then has become reality. The job became a mission. After four months of the most emotional campaign in my lifetime, sleepless nights at the StateCraft Inc headquarters, from the campaign office in Abuja, supervising the setting up of billboards, fighting TV stations that didn’t want to air our ‘Is This Transformation?’ promos, Adebola following the candidate around the country, and rewriting speeches in the dead of the night because the candidate knew exactly what he wanted to say, we are here now. Nigerians have unseated a 16-year monopoly.

So, this morning, I shared a story on my Instagram page that I haven’t spoken about in public before.

In 2013, six of us friends including Adebola Williams, ‘Yemi Adamolekun, ‘Gbenga Sesan and Kola Oyeneyin came together and decided that, beyond mobilising citizens, leading protests and using the media to drive conversation, Nigeria needed our passionate, sustained prayers. A year before, after our active involvement with #OccupyNigeria, and the events after, we were beyond disillusioned.

And so, every Saturday morning, we went from the houses and offices of one to the other and we would cry, and we would scream, and we would pray for country. Ah, we prayed. Nigeria’s future looked so bleak. It looked so dark, didn’t see any logical pathway to change. So we went to God with our hearts, we went to him with our disappointment; we went to him with our pain. We asked him, “What should we do? How should we do it?”

One day, as we prayed, in an office on the Lagos Island, I was so overwhelmed with despair I fell down on the floor and began to speak in frenzied tongues, tears streaming from my face, banging furiously on the cabinet in front me. My heart was desperate; just desperate for something to give way.

I didn’t know my friend, Kola, had the gift to interprete tongues. But then he began to interpret what I was saying. And it frightened me, because he was absolutely right. He captured the fears in my heart, and the requests I was making. He said, paraphrased, ‘God says He will change Nigeria. It looks like it won’t happen, but He will do a new thing and it will spring forth. We won’t understand how He will do it, but He will.”

Two years later, God has kept his promise.

I do not know what the future holds. I cannot even say with certainty that this new dispensation will fulfil the promises it made to us when it called us on board and to you when it asked you to vote.

But I know one thing: I spent the past four years giving the Jonathan government the benefit of the doubt, willing it to succeed. Yet each time it failed, I was on the street, passionately denouncing it. And when, finally, after the Chibok girls went missing, I lost hope in it, I put everything on the line to join Nigerians in punishing it.

Things have changed.

I have invested faith that Buhari will be different, not just because he is a new president today, but because I have been priviledged to sit in the same space with him, I have listened very carefully to his wisdom and his depth. I have counted the cost and I have overwhelmed faith that he is the leader we need.

But we, and he thankfully, know this: he cannot play with our future. He cannot play with the future of our children.

We have cried for this nation, because it has failed us too many times. We have worked our fingers to the bones, and our ‘bloods’ have boiled because we believe in its potential. Therefore, our tempers will be short, our forgiveness will be costly, our reactions to real and perceived failures will be swift.

Our hearts our broken, our spirits burdened. We desperately need the promised change, and we need it to start immediately.

Nigeria has suffered enough.

*Jideonwo is managing partner of Red Media Africa, ‘the media group to reach and inspire the largest number of African youth at any time’. One of its companies, StateCraft Inc, was official communication agency to the Buhari Presidential Campaign

http://saharareporters.com/2015/05/30/why-today-%E2%80%93-and-president-buhari-%E2%80%93-made-me-cry-chude-jideonwo

You know what? Anytime I think a thought that attributes a negative trait to any Nigerian tribe I substitute it with random other tribes and think - could this tribe be known for this trait? Most times the answer is Yes.

We are the ones that build negative stereotypes of tribes and people.

Meanwhile Seun what's this about?

Tried replying to this post and got this....

Seun, Lalalsticlala, Mynd44 kindly remove the declaration from my profile

I can't remove it

Personal59 how far? How can I remove it?

Ahtallll

This is all sorts of sad given the individuals involved.

APC is a sick fraud

So he can hide and ignore it like NIA DG and Babachir Lawal's?

So he can hide and ignore it like NIA DG and Babachir Lawal's?

They say bring the case, you say no be only ya own you been dey talk about.

You reading this, abeg who do you think is running this country?

Or is this Buhari's idea of getting Nigeria to compete globally in the 21st century?

From autonomous vehicles to autonomous countries?

akelicious:
The organization specifically urged the president to sack the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola for making more noise than he worked since he came on board.

akelicious:
It also recommended the immediate removal of the minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, her petroleum counterpart, Ibe Kachikwu and the AGF Abubakar Malami.

The Minister of Petroleum nko?

No light for a week and counting

In some countries candles are hard to come by as barring their use for romantic overtures and considering the obvious risk factors they are hardly sold.

Some argue that she (a staff of a goverment agency) MUST NOT criticise the Vice President online. As she risks being sanctioned.

Others argue that the constitution guarantees freedom of association.

So, the point is she is free to criticise but risks being sanctioned however ANY such sanction can be competently challenged in court.

Don't worry Lagos will soon be paying more than Nigeria to service debt monthly.

fergie001:
That man,
Worse than a serpent.

Serpents will protest oh!