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I am yet to read or hear about the President in the history of this country that has been so much maligned as Jonathan! The media were indeed used by Jonathan's enemies to tarnish his image, thank God the guy is working!!

Igbo Presidency is long over due, I can't wait to see ONE come 2019! I am patiently waiting as my Odogwus put their acts together and come up with a reliable and competent candidate

Mogidi: Great news but where are the haters? Busy burying head in sand i suppose.
Fresh Air 2015

Sometimes I wonder aloud to myself how Nigerian youths think, the 'spirit of collective amnesia' has taken over most of their thinking faculties! I am yet to see any Presidents (be it living or dead) that has done so much within the limited time (2years) as Jonathan despite the insecurities pressure staring him in the face! Trust me when the time is ripe again I will mount the rostrum and campaign for this 'Great Achiever'! Nigerians and Psychobabbles

Six packs, six this, six that I wonder what's wrong with young men why they can't accept the good bodies God has given them! For all those 'noise-makers' in here who just want to please the opposite sex on top nothing just remember that one day you will end up like this man here....

One of the best brains to have come out of Africa in the 'Musical field'! He bestrode his generation like a true Colossus, I can never forget his hits; so long too long, send down the rain, Majek Fashek in New York, Genesis and all other hits he dished out way back then, that was the era music made sense and Majek was part of that era How I wish he can be fully delivered from this sorry state to his normal self, this is indeed pathetic!

wasiudvd: U no go sharraap? Improvement in electricity ko, electrivillage ni.
Mtcheew!

Seriously, are you a Nigerian?

Friends will either make or mar you, just choose your friends carefully!!!

OC cool: Hmmm, I wonder wat he's going 2 say :-/

Trust me, he got vibes and he will definitely deliver

....and Jonathan is not working so says 'haters' , no matter what you do in life haters will still hate Well-done Jonathan, you are coming back come 2015!

Success is not tied to when you are mega-rich but the ability to, "do what you can, with what you have, where you are" is seriously lacking and we need to work on that because time as they say waits for no one! Like someone said in her signature, "Be Important, not impotent"

seunfly: We all know their leaders are to be blame for every crime their boko haram boiz commited in Nigeria, both political, traditional and religious leaders are to be blame because they could have stoped it had they not been sympatetic to their cause due to this northern mentality of we must rule.
The truth must be told Goodluck Jona must be blame for failing to control and give it proper managments @least he is the sitting president.

You always have a way of bringing me into sensitive topics like this even when I choose not to Did Obasanjo bring about peace to Jos when he declared state of emergency during Dariye's tenure? No! Did Obasanjo achieved that peaceful resolution he longed for when military men were sent to Odi and Zaka Biam? No! Was Obasanjo faced with the level of insecurities Jonathan is faced with now? No! If Jonathan is the sitting President, his job is to disburse the necessary funds to the appropriate quarters so that insecurities can be fought to a stand still and that is what he has been doing but the GOONS (those northern bastards and Kaduna Mafias) are hell bent to frustrate this innocent President, can't you read the 'handwriting on the wall'?

CHESSBOARD: No he is a Pilot, just got employed by a Virgin

Real good sense of humour!

* N45bn raised for tenure extension lobby - * Ex-President offered VP slot to Masari,

Former FCT minister Nasir El-Rufai has alleged that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo badly wanted to extend his stay in office beyond 2007 such that he told his aides: “No third term, no Nigeria.’
In his 627-page memoir titled The Accidental Public Servant, scheduled for public presentation on Thursday, El-Rufai also defended the dollar salaries paid two of his aides when he was minister of the Federal Capital Territory in 2003-2007.

The former minister said when rumours of a third term plot began circulating in 2005, he confronted Obasanjo who responded thus: “Do you think I am looking for a job? I came out of prison, I was on my farm, I was begged to come and do this job. Now that we are about to finish this job, do you honestly think I would be looking for another job?” He added: “I am looking forward to May 29, 2007, I will go back to my farm and that is it.”
But, according to El-Rufai, as time went on he was convinced a third term plot existed and so he confronted Obasanjo again who now said “if the National Assembly wishes to amend the constitution it was not my business.”
El-Rufai said later in February 2006, in the gardens of the Presidential Villa, Obasanjo said to him, “No third term, no Nigeria,” a threat the president repeated to then-chairman of the EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu.
He said in May 2006 in the heat of the third term debacle, he along with three other cabinet members met Obasanjo’s chief of staff General Abdullahi Mohammed and asked him to lead them to confront the president and persuade him to drop the tenure elongation idea.
But Mohammed told them the president had consistently denied to him of the existence of any such plot, and so there was no point leading them to him on that.
“I told the chief of staff that Obasanjo had admitted it to me and Nuhu (Ribadu) confirmed that he had had similar conversation in which the president even used the words, ‘No third term, no Nigeria’,” El-Rufai said.
Still Mohammed declined leading the delegation but instead pledged to talk to the president on the matter, “just two old soldiers talking.”
El-Rufai said among the things Obasanjo did to canvass support for third term was to hint different people that he would give them the vice presidential slot.

“For instance, he hinted to the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari, that if he supported the third term project, Obasanjo would pick him as running mate and prepare him to be the next president. Surely, the speaker could not have been the only one Obasanjo made this pitch to,” he said.
He also said the third term lobby team, funded by Lagos-based billionaires, raised more than $300 million (equivalent N45 billion) “by Nuhu Ribadu’s informed estimate.”

El-Rufai claimed to have worked behind the scenes to help defeat the third term project, by working with especially Senate President Ken Nnamani, Masari and Dr. Usman Bugaje, who was then a member of the House of Representatives.
He said he feared that if Obasanjo lost the tenure elongation bid, he could turn into a “bull in a China shop” and may even consider declaring a state of emergency so as to remain in power.
El-Rufai said because of that, he consulted major northern leaders including General Muhammadu Buhari and former President Shehu Shagari and advised them to be in touch with Obasanjo such that in the event he tries to run wild, they could talk to him.

He said he told Buhari: “As national leaders you have a duty also to engage with him, and be talking to him, so that in case he does not get it, you would prevent him from becoming a bull in a China shop of the Nigerian state. He could destroy everything. He could endanger our democracy, he could make wrong choices or unleash vengeful policies that will negatively affect the people of Nigeria as his revenge on them for openly opposing his third term bid.”

He said Buhari agreed to re-establish communication with Obasanjo which had broken off since 2003.
El-Rufai said after losing the third term gambit, Obasanjo picked Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan because they were weak and so would be servile to him.
He said sometime in the run up to the 2007 elections, Obasanjo said to him: “The next four years—2007 to 2011—is just a transition period…. Well, nothing will change. I will be in Ota but we will be running things. Everything will remain the same, you know, you will remain in the government, the economic team will remain. Nothing will change. Only I will move to Ota and Yar’Adua will be here but we will be running things.”

Dollar payments
During his tenure at FCT ministry, El-Rufai had running battles with the Senate, including when he was accused of paying huge amounts in US dollars as salaries and allowances to his aides.
In his new book, El-Rufai defended the payments, saying he initiated a program of recruiting the best brains when he was in the Bureau of Public Enterprises and that the ‘consultants’ were paid by funding from international donor agencies.
He said he would not write much on the matter because the then Senate public accounts committee chairman Mamman Ali who raised dust on the payments is dead and no longer in a position to defend himself.
But in the appendix to the book, El-Rufai included documents showing how his two aides—Dr. Abdu Mukhtar and Aishatu F. Kolo—were paid N10.29 million and N9.73 million respectively as arrears for 156 days’ work.
A memo initiated by El-Rufai’s protocol chief to the permanent secretary said “under their terms and condition of engagement, they were to draw their remunerations from the World Bank Loan Facility, under the Economic Management Capacity Building Credit Scheme which does not exist with FCT, as previously done in Bureau of Public Enterprises.
“Under the arrangement the officers receive the following: 1) Dr. Abdu Mukhtar - $437 daily. 2) Aishatu F. Kolo - $412.91 daily. Accordingly, the officers have worked for a total number of 156 (one hundred and fifty six) days without pay.
“In view of the above, you may wish to consider the granting of an advance to the officers in order to alleviate their problems which will be reimbursed by the Federal Ministry of Finance: Dr. Abdu Mukhtar - $437 x N151 x N156 days = N10,293,922.00; Aishetu F. Kolo - $412 x 151 x156 days = N9,726,600.00. Grand total = N20,020,522.00”

‘Obasanjo wanted Buhari/Ngozi in 2011’
El-Rufai said in the run up to the 2011 elections, Obasanjo had plotted to stop President Goodluck Jonathan by seeking to pair and support Buhari and Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
He said on January 25, 2011, Obasanjo invited him to a meeting in Abuja and “said that he concurred with my earlier belief that Jonathan would not make a competent President and that the best presidential candidate of the whole lot was Buhari.
“He expressed willingness to support Buhari and go public with it if CPC and Buhari are willing to consider his suggestions and implement them. Obasanjo suggested that I should convince Buhari to pick Ngozi as his running mate, enter immediately into an alliance with the ACN and ANPP, and then offer the Senate President’s position to the South-West to secure Tinubu’s support.”
He said when he delivered the message, Buhari asked for his opinion, to which he replied that he thought Obasanjo was honest in his recommendation on merger with other parties but he did not think he would help Buhari in any way.
“I also added that Obasanjo’s faction of Ogun PDP had just lost all their tickets to contest the next elections and should this situation change, Obasanjo would renege on everything he had committed to. Obasanjo may also be making another strategic move of removing Bakare’s name from the ticket, in addition to responding to Jonathan’s failure to ensure that his faction got the ticket by hook or crook- something Jonathan simply refused to do, preferring to support the state governor Gbenga Daniel and his faction.
“Buhari restated that he thought long and hard before deciding on Bakare and would not change his mind. However, we all agreed to continue to engage Obasanjo and encourage contacts with Ngozi while pushing to see real movement towards the financial and other political commitments made.
“The same evening I returned to Obasanjo to brief him. He was excited and promised to contact Ngozi, Labour Party, the ANPP leadership and a few wealthy benefactors,” he said.
But as the courts reinstated Iyabo as a senatorial candidate of the PDP, Obasanjo backtracked, El-Rufai said.
“By then (February 2011), a weird Federal High Court ruling had restored the tickets of Iyabo Obasanjo and other members of their faction in Ogun State. So true to form, Obasanjo simply backtracked, rejected the roadmap he had asked us to prepare, and said we should now explore ways of ‘remedying Jonathan’s weaknesses’ and supporting his candidature.”

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/top-stories/49908-el-rufai-says-in-new-book-obasanjo-told-us-no-third-term-no-nigeria

Eko Ile: 5 billion, 150 million, what difference does it make? Is budgeting money for prostitutes the the new embezzlement scheme?


Wonders shall never end. Is their anything under the son that you people don't budget for? What's next, money to rehabilitate okada people, gay people, big bele people, tolotolo people....


PDP are animals I swear.... lmao

Not only PDP, include all the rest of them as well (ACN, CPC, ANPP etc) the only difference is that they are not as big as PDP!

Before n ko, I just laugh at goons in the house when they keep branding their President 'Retardeen, Jonathan and all those ugly names' when the Northern Leaders have not hidden their intentions to make the Naton ungovernable for Jonathan should he emerge as the President way back 2010, Nigerians and 'collective amnesia'

Can any Igbo in the house gives credence to this?

pheesayor: Please don't mis-educate us.
He was a bright student, a dull person couldn't have started the pyrates confraternity which other confraternities are trying to emulate . His fearless attitude made the authorities witch haunt him hereby making him graduate with a third class degree which he rubbished when he went to study abroad.

Sorry may be I was wrong I thought I heard he graduated with a 'pass' degree before he proceeded to Leeds University in the United Kingdom. I know of Gani, Femi Falana graduating with Third Class, well that is history now!

The History of the Nigerian Army at a Glance!

It is generally believed that Ugboma was commissioned in the forties before Wellington Bassey but he left the army before the "N" system began. According to this view, that is why Bassey is now commemorated as Nigeria’s first commissioned officer when in fact he was not. Likewise, Umar Lawan was commissioned with Maimalari at Sandhurst in 1953 but was discharged soon after. Onuaguluchi was commissioned in 1956 but died soon after. Like Ugboma, neither of these men was listed on the roll when the "N" system began. Hence it affected the order and numbers of all other Nigerian officers before and after them in the West African frontier force whose names were transferred to the new "N" register.

Going by Lt Col. Mac Nzefili’s account on the recruitments and the order of the then Army of Nigeria, he said, “My first Army Number in the Gold Coast (Ghana) at the Regular Officer’s Special Training School as a Cadet, was N/A 18151047. At the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, H.M. Queen Elizabeth II commissioned me into the British Army. Our numbers will be found in the British Roll. We passed out on 19 December 1957. Nigeria was still British Protected then. On being posted to the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF), now dissolved, I had a new number, WA 64 (West Africa 64). When Gold Coast became Independent as GHANA, the remaining British West African Countries went their different ways and a further change in Military Numbers took place. My new number became N25 (Nigeria 25). Note that N/A and N before the military numbers did not mean the same thing. "N" is for Officers and "N/A" for other Ranks including Cadets.” Lt Col. Mac Nzefili, a 1957 graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, was among the first 30 Nigerians ever commissioned into the Army. Therefore, he belongs to that unique pre-independence first generation of officers.

What is known today as the Nigerian Army was, before 1966, a part of the British West African Army called the Royal West Africa Frontier Force (RWAFF). This force included the armies of Gold Coast (Ghana) Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Gambia. At this time, there were eight indigenous Nigerian officers in the entire force, the rest being British officers. The role of an army in a developing country was not fully realized by the nationalist leaders struggling for independence, hence, there was no effective pressure on the British Government to train Nigerian officers in preparation for independence. Even at this stage, it was clear that the future stability of a nation such as Nigeria depended to a large scale on the existence of a reliable army. One result of this short - sightedness was that the first Nigerian to command the Nigerian Army - Maj Gen. J.T.U. Aguiyi Ironsi, was not appointed until 1965, nearly five years after independence.

At independence, it was also obvious that only the group that controlled the Army could aspire to run a stable Nigerian government. Either by coincidence or by design, almost all the military installations were concentrated in one area of the country - The North. To illustrate this fact, below is a list of major military installations in Nigeria and their locations before the January 1966 coup:

Northern Nigeria:
1. 3rd Battalion - Kaduna
2. 5th Battalion - Kano
3. 1 Field Battery (Artillery) - Kaduna
4. 1 Field Squadron (Engr.) - Kaduna
5. 88 Transport Regiment - Kaduna
6. Nigerian Defense Academy - "
7. Ordinance Depot - "
8. 44 Military Hospital - "
9. Nigeria Military Training College -"
10. Recon Squadron & Regt - "
11. Nigerian Air Force - "
12. Ammunition Factory - "
13. Recruit Training Depot - Zaria
14. Nigerian Military School - "

Western Nigeria:
1. 4th Battalion - Ibadan
2. 2 Field Battery (Arty) -Abeokuta
3. 2 Recon Squadron -"
Eastern Nigeria:
1st Battalion - Enugu

There were no military units in the Mid - Western Nigeria and those in Lagos were either administrative or ceremonial. Recruitment of soldiers into the Nigerian Army was based on ethnic quota system. Under this system Northern Nigeria provided 60%, Eastern and Western Nigeria 15% each and Mid - Western Nigeria 10%. This was done to encourage the Northerners who had not been interested in joining the Army initially. The standard of entry into the Army was as well lowered to favor the Northerners. As a result the North in 1966 had the absolute majority within the rank and file of the Army. The standards fell within the Army and the soldiers became more politically conscious. Madiebo pointed out "In order to ensure the loyalty of the military thus established, the criterion for promotion and advancement was based more on political considerations than efficiency or competence. (Madiebo, Alexander A.: The Nigerian revolution and the Biafran war)!

The involvement of the Military in politics took a turn for the worse during the Western Nigerian elections in October 1965. The politicians openly courted the friendship of top military officers. Due to the chaos that characterized the general election of 1964 and the Western Region election of 1965, it had become clear that Nigeria was overdue for a change. By October 1965, rumors of an impending coup were already circulating in the country. It was therefore not much of a surprise when the coup was finally staged.

Truly, everybody need friends! There is no disputing the facts that some friends are closer than one’s family and not forgetting that they (friends) have also contributed positively to someone’s success in life even more than what many of our parents, siblings, cousins, nephews, nieces, aunts and uncles have done. It must also be noted that the current predicaments most of us find ourselves in was as a result of advises we buy from our friends right from; teenage pregnancies, secret cult memberships, armed robberies, kidnappings, divorces, ritual practices, fraudulent practices, drunkenness, womanizing, abortions and other vices you can imagine!

The truth is, we cannot do without friends, because no man is an Island! The question is, how do you choose your friends? What are those qualities you are expecting to see in your friends? How many friends are enough at a time? Do you revere your friends’ advices above your parent’s? Considering all these questions, you should be able to identify between true friends and the fake ones. Remember, when everything is smooth with you, they are always many but when the table turns you are on your own, except for very few ones (mostly in rare cases) who will still stick with you!

Beware, friends will either make or mar you, choose them carefully!

I am happy for this 'Adonis', although could be lousy and controversial sometimes ,however he has maintained his 'star status' in his field for a long time. Congrats homeboy!!!

Akinwande Oluwole omo Soyinka, you are the true son of your FATHER! 'Our Own Soyinka' More fruitful years ahead! How I wish this man is a CHRISTIAN!!!

horlatunde: and who will fix the System 4 us. who fixed the murital and buhari.The failed Edo state system was fixed by who? The failed Ogun, Ondo, OYO, Akwa Ibom, Cross river etc dat are now working and are Models 4 other states and even d F.G to emulate are fixed by GOD? Abeg dis GEJ is really a clueless and unprofessional Mechanic..... Let us Make a Change.

So those States u mentioned are fixed? Son, stop taking fito its not helping ur case

I am loving this 'arrangement' with the whole of my heart, indeed if Nigeria will still b one beyond 2015 it is very obvious that this 'arrangement' is a prelude to an Igbo Presidency in the not-too-far-distance! Initially, the 'Military Might' of this country was wrongfully placed in the hands of the core North where out of the 18 security outfits then, 14 was located in d north and then follows d sly quota system in d recruitments exercise of d Nigerian Army favouring d northerners massively!

@Virgin Finder, I hope u are ok? You rant and reason like someone who needs to die and be reborn 7 times to really understand this country! So if by Providence an Igbo emerge as d President, what would you do? Commit suicide? Hausa elite class ra.ped dis country for 38 solid years and now a Biafran (Jonathan) is systemically removing their stranglehold on us all and all u can mutter is this? Please go back to ur virgins finding job! If Nigeria wil stil b one, an Igbo wil b President in dis country

@ OP, you have spoken like an ORACLE, this has been the problem of Nigeria of today and will remain perennial unless we fashion out a better alternative to it, you may read up my stuff here;https://www.nairaland.com/964274/tale-country-multi-coloured-system-government

But Baba is really behaving badly these days, OBJ spent eight years with nothing palpable to show for it, if he is not fighting Atiku, he was busy Junketing around the Globe aimlessly, he will still be the one withholding Lagos's share of the federation account in the name of 'why would they create additional 37 LCDAs, he purportedly set up EFCC to chase and intimidate his political foes while his corrupt close associates were never embarrassed, he was illegally 'The de-facto minister of petroleum for 8 years, he kicked against the rule of law like an autocratic ruler, villages were ravished militarily, there were spate of bloodshed all over the country, insecurities pervade the land (are we this forgetful?), corruption got to its peak in the history of this country under Obj, and many others too numerous to mention He should allow Jonathan to work for goodness sake! Haba Baba Legba go and rest now!

Elvin001: There’s no better way to catch a
cheating wife/girlfriend than using mobile phone call recording software. It’s such a powerful way to know exactly who som1 is talking to and also hear all their conversation.
This will save you the stress of hiding behind the door to listen to what they are saying on phone.

PROCEDURE:
1) Buy atleast a symbian s60v3 phone and hack it.

2) Download and install TOTAL RECALL call recorder from the link below.
http://www.plunder.com/KillerMobiel-TotalRecall-v5-2-S60v3-S60v5-S-3-Anna-Belle-SymbianOS9-x-UnSigned-CracKeD-By-cGiPDA-download-57a1186e53.htm

3) Finally, present the phone to your wife/girlfriend as a gift.
Note: every call she makes with the phone would be recorded secretely and you can listen to the conversation when you open the application... Its password protected.

Do you really need all these? I think the last time I did my cross-checking on your procedures, I discovered that they are the main reasons so many guys develop high-blood pressure - stroke - total paralysis - premature death
Bottomline: You don't need all these procedures, they are death-traps in reverse

Dede1: I guess you should remember the quotation that involved starvation, weapon of war and Nigeria/Biafra war. Allison Ayida was one of the main exponents of the policy.

Esteemed Dede1, you just hit the point!

TouchDown: Allison Ayida was a Benue man.

My Bad, I was meant to talk on the South-infiltrated Civil Service he was presiding over at that time, the error is regretted, thanks