₦airaland Forum

Ani Anne:
And who sponsored the Igbo, Ijaw and Edo guys that carried out the act? Have you ever asked yourself who sponsored them? When Dele Giwa was killed was there any direct link to IBB or the northerners that he was the one that killed him or the northerners? --NO there was no evidence linking IBB to his death, But we all know who killed Dele Giwa. The plane crash in Ejigbo that some Generals lost their lives, there was no evidence linking IBB too. So?
There is no smoke without fire, And for every rumour there is an atom or iota of truth, that is all i want u to knw, For all indication,the attack was sponsored by some rich men,
The President should not and will nt resign, For what?

This post says we DO NOT need evidence to decide the guilt of IBB

ADOGBEYI:
silly post!

Do you know what it takes in the law court to prove the link of any of the allegations you mentioned to GEJ?

Please post more meaningfully my dear! I believe we are all (to a large extent) reasonable, intellectual and mature people on NL.

This post says that we NEED evidence to establish the guilt of GEJ

Interesting
Convictions, in my opinion, should be based on evidence, not hatred

Ileke-IdI:
This thread makes no sense, sorry.

Are you not the same sets of people crying that nobody is standing up to the Abokis/Northerners. . . . now you got someone and you want him to step down?

During my few months in politics, I realize that most Nigerians are not meant to be taken seriously in terms of what they want. I just ROLL MY EYES all day long at you ppl sha.

Is Nairaland a forum for Southerners alone where they can strategise against the North
If yes, is standing up the same as fabricating text messages
Although the text messages were tangentially against IBB

But fabrication is an issue

Anyway GEJ is already standing up to other oil producing states and supreme court judgement/constitution

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/5631884-146/bayelsa_derivation_revenue_may_trigger_crisis.csp

blackmann:
[b]the very sad thing about serving people is no matter what you try to do, no matter how much you sweat, there will still be those out there who will criticize. Nigeria is not an easy country to preside over. i can bet my pair of balls that if goodluck was to be removed today and someone else placed there, the same will still be said.
[/b]

So Abacha too would say he has served and sweated, wouldn't he?
And BTW what has Johnathan done - please hard facts?

Nigeria is one the easiest countries to govern
  People praise average performance here - what is exceptional about Fashola relative to other countries?
  Somebody believes that we have an imperial president
  Where have you seen a parent enrol his child in a school without a curriculum with just a promise that the student  will be educated when he leaves school - no promise of passing WAEC with at least 3 As or 4 Credits because the school does not want to make empty promises like other schools that the parent had taken his child

Look at Obama, he is working his head off and he may lose the mid term election an dthe presidential election after
Yet Johnathan is on the way to winning presidential election without breaking sweat - no tangible performance even after being in government since 1999
He is just about getting it because we always ZONE the presidency to the incumbent no atter how undeserving
FYI Ojo Maduekwe supported Abacha - zoning to the incumbent

rebranded:
Where have you seen that a President is charged for a statement,

In American and the President was Clinton

MInd you I am not saying that GEJ mentioned Northerners

But he sure caused SSS to air FAKE text messages on NTA against his political opponents
That is not fairness - no American president would get away with that

I hope something good comes out of all these for Nigeria

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11560907

Brother of Nigeria militant Henry Okah arrested

Charles Okah, the brother of Nigerian militant Henry Okah, has been arrested in Lagos on suspicion of aiding two deadly car bombings in the capital, Abuja, security sources say.

The attacks on 1 October during celebrations of the 50th anniversary of independence killed at least 12 people.

Henry Okah was detained in South Africa after the blasts and is facing terrorism charges.

He formerly led militants Mend, who say oil wealth must be fairly distributed.

The group be now leads is believed to have split from the main Mend - the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta - which signed an agreement with the government last year to end years of unrest in the oil-producing Niger Delta region.

One security source told Associated Press that Charles Okah was detained during a raid on his home in Lagos on Saturday.

Charles Okah is also suspected of distributing information on behalf on Mend.

Charles Okah used the pseudonym Jomo Gbomo "to threaten and cause confusion" in emailed statements, the sources said.

An email warning of another bomb attack in Abuja was sent on Saturday and signed Jomo Gbomo, Reuters news agency quoted the sources as saying.

Henry Okah left Nigeria for South Africa after being freed from prison in July 2009.

He has denied links to the Abuja blasts but prosecutors say he was the mastermind.

Mend had issued a threat saying it intended to target the independence event in Abuja shortly before the two bombs went off, about five minutes apart.

Good news - Big Crook caught
Bad news - Nigeria again! last week - 3 Nigerians caught for drug use at commonwealth

asha 80:
You think that they care?With money rolling in?

They care - the swagger will reduce
People can just tell them that they are posing with stolen money and all
your cars are really Our cars
iPhone are [b]our[/b]Phones
etc

HUMANITYY:
If voters vote were to count no one will match GEJ,
steady petroleum product supply
reduced internet rates, i believe our economy is fast growing with him. let`s not forget it took 32years to decay, we may need up to 10 years to rebuild it.

HUMANITYY:
i may not know your location where you are writing from, same is GEJ he want to reach all the nook and crannies of this country, not relying much on pa`s and SA`s, All you owe is your constructive criticism, all the past leaders that ruled the country before, how many do you have access to, if you are not within the corridors of power. if you don`t consider GEJ as the most advanced, educated and dynamic president of Nigeria, it simple implies you wished we are in the old Nigeria, were mobile phones are luxury as our past leaders said, where if you can buy Eva water 100 why not make call for 1min/100, where an AGF will tell you blatant lies. Nigerians we should advocate for change, the Peugeot of 1980 can never be measured with 2010 Peugeot. so wake up and be dynamic, cause is constant

So since February Johnathan has initiated and concluded laying of over 6,500km of submarine cables from Europe leading to reduced internet rates?

This is the truth which shows your blatant lies
http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4924:globacoms-submarine-cable-lands-lagos&catid=77:telecoms&Itemid=337
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201005251222856

What policies has he enunciated and implemented to grow the economy since February
FYI inflation rate is now 13% . This has led CBN to increase MPR
If anybody says we are borrowing really for the economy, it is not whole truth

This is one of GEJ's blatant lies - he promised to fight corruption - that has turned to dancing on the spot
I hope you remember a gentleman called Bode George and where he is now!

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Crime/5630956-146/the_halliburton_bribe_cover-up__.csp

mubaraqqq:
some people are seriously getting paid by GEJ on Nairaland. Please let me know how to get in on the action.

This is becoming difficult to disagree with
GEJ is being portrayed as Misterrrrrrrrr PERFECT

Beaf:
You are funny. FATF is about money laundering and funding terrorism not about foreign investment.
For me, effectiveness is better than spoken English, however Ribadu's English and demeanour are much worse than Jonathans.

The EFCC was established in 2003, partially in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering  (FATF), which named Nigeria as one of 23 countries non-cooperative in the international community’s efforts to fight money laundering
Nigeria was listed as a non-cooperative country in 2001, and it took sustained efforts by EFCC to reverse that
The facts is that with FATF blacklisting, you miss out on foreign investment opportunities   
Why else would countries rush to join and comply with the AML/CFT guidelines
And Nigeria was so affected - just do some internet checks including on Nairaland

So who is being funny here - even in supporting GJ, facts should remain sacred

I only pointed out that GEJ is not immune from the issue of not being articulate and falsehood

Beaf:
Forget about Ribadu. Have you seen his interviews? They are shockingly horrible, totally disjointed, packed with falsehoods, gross exagerations and directionless. Don't get me wrong, Ribadu is a great dude, but he is just not ready. I don't judge leadership by spoken English, so please no comments on that; here is an excerpt of one of Ribadu's horrors;

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/nvs/candidate-interviews-2-mallam-nuhu-ribadu-unfiltered-full-text-and-audio.html

I thought Soludo was CBN Governor during Obj's time?
No be by force, Ribadu we still respect you. Please get some experience so you don't drag our hopes in the gutter.

Without Ribadu's work in getting Nigeria certified by the FATF, the amount of foreign investment would have been paltry
Please remind us of the experience of GEJ
And do you want me to reproduce GEJ's falsehoods and his broken English?

sley4life:
GEJ is the best candidate we have for now so he wud have more fans. Some GEJ haters are still much and i guess they are sponsored by IBB(International Bad boy)

Not liking the candidacy of somebody is not the same as hating him
Look at the post above yours
Is Beaf a Ribadu hater?

Please produce facts to show that the man is the best among the lot
because right now I know he is not!

And please don't tell me he has been there since May
he became Actg President in February

"On 9 February 2010, the Senate determined that presidential power should be transmitted to the Vice President. He was appointed to serve as Acting President, with all the accompanying powers"

bestman09:
In all sincerity, can Ribadu win as the governor of his state?

In all sincerity, can you win anything in your own state? I am afraid not
Is that a reflection of your ability? Not really

Nigerian youths must learn to say NO to entrenched interests

in 1979, Shagari was not the best candidate, but he became president
in 1999, Obj was not better than Falae, but he also became president

GEJ is not the best among the lot - he has state power to project all sorts, but he is not the best
So why don't we refuse to accept what they will call a fait accompli
and start campaigining for alternatives -if the only thing they have is sincerity and willingness to listen

We love Obama because he took on the establishment and won
In Nigeria, they tell you don't waste your vote
It is illogical - if GEJ is going to win without my vote, I would be foolish to cast it for him
I would rather give it to another person who values it more and also send a signal to PDP that we will not give up

zamalel:
I took time to visit the Head Office of this Bank today, spoke with some friends (I work around their H/O and an acquittance to at least 3 of the staff) It is quite unfortunate that what is being spread is unwholesome lies, malicious fabrications and selfishly crafted falsehood to taint some individuals and the organization.


I have a strong feeling that the masterminder is an insider, probably disgruntled and so determined to have a pound of flesh one way or the other, perhaps an ex-staff who feels unfairly treated.

Facts gathered in my short visit.

1. I was surprised to peruse the deceased staff statement of account, there was no denial nor reduction of staff pay at any point, her pay was constant at least from Jan to Sept as contained in the statement I saw. Why would some one quote that she was either on half pay or off pay in the past 3 months.

With due respect, the bank gave you access to another person's account?
while you are not the administrator or trustee of her estate?

HUMANITYY:
i may not know your location where you are writing from, same is GEJ he want to reach all the nook and crannies of this country, not relying much on pa`s and SA`s, All you owe is your constructive criticism, all the past leaders that ruled the country before, how many do you have access to, if you are not within the corridors of power. if you don`t consider GEJ as the most advanced, educated and dynamic president of Nigeria, it simple implies you wished we are in the old Nigeria, were mobile phones are luxury as our past leaders said, where if you can buy Eva water 100 why not make call for 1min/100, where an AGF will tell you blatant lies. Nigerians we should advocate for change, the Peugeot of 1980 can never be measured with 2010 Peugeot. so wake up and be dynamic, cause is constant

Can you please tell me the achievements of GEJ
The man has been in govt since 1999 (Dep Gov, Gov, VP, Actg Pres and President)
Prior to that he operated at the local government level

Given this most advanced, educated and dynamic status - you must have a lot to say about his achievements

ud4u:
How can we know that he will not perform, without giving him chance to work.

Chance!
What more chance?
He has changed ministers, followed with another cabinet reshuffle, got a budget approved,
He has had more chance than the ministers he reshuffled
He has changed the chairman of ruling party
he has changed NSA (2ce), NNPC MD (2ce), all service chiefs, heads of SSS and JTF

mohid:
bro hate to burst your bubble but comparing the state of corruption during the murtala years to what it is now(no thanks to the IBB years of legalized "chop i chop" movement) is like comparing the population of Benin republic and mainland China. At that time in Nigeria i doubt if they had a million people employed in the civil service(the main host of the corruption parasite)across all tiers of government. Besides murtala's word was law as military head of state and he did not have to put up with a perverse senate and being tied to the most corrupt political party on this side of the hemisphere,i still think he could make a difference, he only needs the masses to support him and thats what the corrupt elite is hoping wont happen.He is no Jerry rawlings or Kuan Yew Lee but i think like most Nigerians he actually means well.

P.S guy dont mention Abacha in the same sentence with OBJ,he makes OBJ seem like the Pope!

Since corruption is more pervasive now, then he can grab a number of people (much easier to find) and jail them
And the original question was - which leader (dead or alive) performed in 5 months?
My answer is direct
No fair examiner modifies the question after the answer is given

BTW Johnathan has been in power since Feb ie 11 months
I don't believe that fallacy of counting from May
Did he not change ministers and national security adviser as Acting president? Those are real powers
if being acting president is inconsequential, why did senate has to invoke the doctrine of necessity (to make him Ag Pres)

Some clarifications

Fayemi stays till 2014
All other elections (senate, House of reps, house oaf assembly and presidency) will hold in Ekiti 2011
This has nothing to do with the new constitution
It has always been in the consitution and was applied to gov Obi of Anambra

2 other things
Ayoka is not really a bad person
She just faced a situation that was beyond her
I understand that she wanted to declare the rue winner, but pressure was applied to her
She disappeared only to surface later
While she was in hiding, evidence of some corrupt acts of her son were presented to her
She had no choice but to play ball
This is the rumour that I heard and it seems to explain why she disappeared only to surface and declare oni winner
However, I believe she should have resigned and not be REC in Ondo state now
Especially as Iyabo's Obasanjo's mummy accused Ayoka in her (Iyabo's mummy) book of being Obj's girl

GEJ is proposing an amendment to the electoral act
Caucus will select candidates and
People can no longer go to court
If this option of going to court had been in place in 2007, Rotimi Amaech would not have been governor today
and of course Ararume of Imo would also not have contested
Another reason for me to dislike GEJ's candidacy
Of course these are the deeds of Obj
BUt GEJ has a choice

dappssee:
How dumb! Its just about half a year and if you've ever read anything in the news lately, you would have noticed that Nigeria was awarded the Category One status, there's been no fuel scarcity (never happened this long),and if you love this country one bit, you will support his blueprint on electricity.

No Nigerian leader has ever come up with such an approach and for the natural disasters you talked about,. They are unavoidable but once again, you've not been following his responses to them. They are the most human faced I've seen. Even if you've not been reading newspapers or read his posts on facebook, you could at least have asked what he has done before displaying your obvious ignorance

Please can you tell us the timeline for the category 1 status project
These are the requirements - this weakens the case for attributing it to Johnathan - just consider licensing
The eight critical elements, which are mandatory for the Nigerian civil aviation include legislation, regulation, CAA structure and oversight functions, qualified technical personnel, technical guidance, licensing and certification, surveillance obligations and resolution of safety concerns.

BTW has GEJ been in power since FEb or May
This is important because if Feb did not matter why the hue and cry about making him acting president?
GEJ changed National Security Adviser and ministers as acting president
I started counting since Feb - but correct me if I am wrong

We often forget that fuel scarcity reared its head last year after the expiration of Yaradua's promise to hold fuel price
Remember that Obj increased fuel price a week before he left office
Yaradua reversed it and promised to keep it steady for 2 years
Upon the expiration of that price freeze period, there was pressure on the government to remove subsidy
The government accepted and was preparing people mind for it when some events led to its several postponement
Eg the FG wanted to remove it in Oct but people said NLC would be on strike and this would affect the U-17 competition

Of course such speculation leads to hoarding

When you tell us that nobody has done this or that before, you leave GEJ open to massive rebuttals

As we have witnessed, somebody posted in April this year - less than 2 months after GEJ became Acting president - that he had solved power problem for ever

LeoMax:
All these poor people in Nairaland sef. When was it compulsory for Govt to generate electricity. Its a private enterprise thing. Besides, Govt hasnt stopped anyone from buying solar panels and building enterprise power plants. You all will die complaining, fellow nigerians if you dont stop complaining and doing something for your poor mental selves.

Johnathan was chairman of NIPP
It was set up by the government and Nigerian money was voted for, and spent on, it
Is it too much to ask for the outcome?
Pllease tell me that country in the world where there is epileptic power supply and the government says No, don't blame us, it is private scetor problem

And I am not sure that GEJ will be happy that we cannot discuss him without rancour

mohid:
even if you add the 5 months we ran on "auto-pilot" without a president,its still not been 1 yr.Any exaggeration of the truth becomes a lie.I understand its by far easier to pull down than build up but pls lets work with facts.
Forgive me, my history is not wat it should be,but do u all know any Nigerian leader dead or living that impacted the nation in 5 months of his coming to power.Facts and figures please.

Murtala Muhammed - 6 months
He fought corruption tenaciously
24 years after people still remember him with nostalgia

You forget that Johnathan was the chairman of the DEC 2009 10,000MW committee
Did he deliver? No
How longer did it take him to come up with a blueprint after he became acting president - 6months
That is a man who has been on the the NIPP beat since 2007 with a deadline for delivery by Dec 2009

And yet we are not allowed to criticise him - But it was ok when we criticised Obj and Abacha

wesley80:
^^^yea you're right, they all started under Yardua and surely we'll remember that 20 years from now!

No matter how much you hate Yaradua, the truth is constant
MEND started under Obj and he was the one who called the militants rascals


This is the time line of MEND's activities - Obj was president from May 29 1999 - May 28 2007
We still remember

2006

Nine officials for the Italian petrol company Eni SpA were killed when armed members of MEND attacked Eni SpA's security forces in Port Harcourt. MEND militants briefly occupied and robbed a bank near the Eni SpA base, leaving at about 3:30 p.m, about an hour after they showed up.

A company official stated, "Eni has temporarily evacuated staff and contractors from the area of the base affected by the incident and the situation is currently under control."

MEND issued a statement regarding the oil workers: "Be assured therefore that the hostages in return, will remain our guests, the hostages are in good health and have adapted fairly well to the conditions under which the people of the Niger Delta have been kept."

On May 10, 2006, an executive with the United States-based oil company Baker Hughes was shot and killed in the south-eastern city of Port Harcourt. At the time of the shooting, it was not immediately known if MEND had any involvement or not. Witnesses say the attacker appeared to be specifically targeting the US executive.

On June 2, 2006 a Norwegian rig offshore Nigeria was attacked and 16 crew members were kidnapped. According to the news agency Reuters, MEND has not taken responsibility for this attack.[13]

On August 20, 2006, 10 MEND members were killed by the Nigerian military. The members were working on releasing a Royal Dutch Shell hostage. In an email to REUTERS, MEND stated, "Our response to Sunday's killings will come at our time, but for certain it will not go unpunished."

On October 2, 2006, 10 Nigerian soldiers were killed off the shore of the Niger Delta in their patrol boat by a MEND mortar shell. Earlier that day a Nigerian/Royal Dutch Shell convoy was attacked in the Port Harcourt region resulting in some people being wounded.

On October 3, 2006, a militant group abducted four Scots, a Malaysian, an Indonesian and a Romanian from a bar in Akwa Ibom state.

On October 4, 2006, Nigerian soldiers attacked a militant camp, in the ensuing battle 9 Nigerian soldiers were killed.

On November 22, 2006, Nigerian soldiers attempted a rescue of kidnapped oil workers which resulted in one soldier being killed.
[edit] 2007

On May 1, 2007, at 4:15 a.m., MEND attacked Chevron's Oloibiri floating production, storage, and offloading vessel off the coast of the southern Bayelsa state. After one hour of fighting with security boats, resulting in the death of 10 people, MEND seized six expatriate workers, consisting of four Italians (Mario Celentano, Raffaele Pasceriello, Ignazio Gugliotta, Alfonso Franza), an American (John Stapelton), and a Croat (Jurica Ruic). On the same day, MEND published photos of the captives seated on white plastic chairs in a wooden shelter around the remains of a campfire.[14]

On May 3, 2007, MEND seized eight foreign hostages from another offshore vessel. The hostages were released less than 24 hours later, stating they had intended to destroy the vessel and did not want more hostages.

On May 8, 2007, three major oil pipelines (one in Brass and two in the Akasa area) were attacked, shutting down oil production and cutting power to a facility run by Italian oil company Agip, part of the ENI energy group. An e-mail statement from a MEND spokesperson said, "Fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked and destroyed three major pipelines in Bayelsa state, We will continue indefinitely with attacks on all pipelines, platforms and support vessels."

On September 23, 2007, a MEND spokesperson named Jomo Gbomo announced, through a communiqué to the Philadelphia Independent Media Center, that media reports of his arrest and detention were false; and then further informed, through the letter, that MEND had officially declared war, effective 12 midnight, September 23, 2007, and that they would be commencing "attacks on installations and abduction of expatriates."

On November 13, 2007, MEND militants attacked Cameroonian soldiers on the disputed Bakassi peninsula, killing more than 20 soldiers; three days after this incident, a southern Cameroonian rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack.[15]
[edit] 2008

On May 3, 2008, MEND militants attacked Shell-operated pipelines in Nigeria, forcing the company to halt 170,000 barrels a day of exports of Bonny Light crude.[16]

On June 20, 2008, MEND naval forces attacked the Shell-operated Bonga oil platform, shutting down 10% of Nigeria's oil production in one fell swoop. The oil platform, Shell's flagship project in the area capable of extracting a massive 200,000 barrels of oil a day, was widely assumed to be outside the reach of the militants due to its location 120 km off-shore. This attack has demonstrated a level of prowess and sophistication never before seen by the rebels and it is now known that all of Nigeria's oil platforms are within range of MEND attack.[17]

On September 14, 2008, MEND inaugurated Operation Hurricane Barbarossa with an ongoing string of militant attacks to bring down the oil industry in Rivers State.[18]

In September 2008, MEND released a statement proclaiming that their militants had launched an "oil war" throughout the Niger Delta against both pipelines and oil production facilities, and the Nigerian soldiers that protect them. In the statement MEND claimed to have killed 22 Nigerian soldiers in one attack against a Chevron-owned oil platform. The Nigerian government confirmed that their troops were attacked in numerous locations, but said that all assaults were repelled with the infliction of heavy casualties on the militants.[19]

On September 27, a week after declaring an oil war and destroying several significant oil production and transportation hubs in the delta[20], the group declared a ceasefire until "further notice" upon the intervention of Ijaw and other elders in the region.[21]
[edit] 2009

MEND called off its ceasefire on January 30, 2009.[22]

Equatorial Guinea blamed MEND for an attack on the presidential palace in Malabo on February 17, which resulted in the death of at least one attacker. MEND denied involvement.[23][24]

On May 15, 2009, a military operation undertaken by a Joint Task Force (JTF) began against MEND.[25] It came in response to the kidnapping of Nigerian soldiers and foreign sailors in the Delta region.[26] Thousands of Nigerians have fled their villages and hundreds of people may be dead because of the offensive.[27]

MEND has claimed responsibility for pipeline attacks on June 18–21 on three oil installations belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta. In a campaign labeled by the group as "Hurricane Piper Alpha", Chevron was also warned that it would "pay a price" for allowing the Nigerian military use of an oil company airstrip.[28]

On June 18, MEND claimed they had blown up a Shell pipeline, as a warning to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who was arriving to Nigeria the next day and to any potential foreign investors [29]

July 6, MEND claimed responsibility for an attack on the Okan oil manifold. The pipeline was blown up at 8:45 p.m. (3:45 p.m. ET) Sunday. The militants claim that the manifold carried some 80 percent of Chevron Nigeria Limited's off-shore crude oil to a loading platform.

In a separate action on the same day, the group said that three Russians, two Filipinos and an Indian were seized Sunday from the Siehem Peace oil tanker about 20 miles from the southern port city of Escravos.[30]

MEND carried out its first attack in Lagos late July 11. Rebels attacked and set on fire the Atlas Cove Jetty on Tarkwa Bay, which is a major oil hub for Nigeria. Five workers were killed in the strike.

As at 17th of Oct, reliable sources stated that The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) would resume its hostilities against the Nigerian oil industry, the Nigerian Armed Forces and its collaborators with effect from (no time specified) hours, Friday, October 16, 2009," the group's spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, said in the statement.[31]

Oct 25 MEND announces unilateral truce and accepts the government's proposal for reintegration.[32]
[edit] 2010

Jan 30, MEND called off its unilateral truce and threatened an "all-out onslaught" against the oil industry.[33]

March 15, Two bombs exploded at a Government House of Nigeria during the Post Amnesty Dialogue in Warri. The bombs killed eight people and injured six more. The explosion damaged the Government House and other buildings in the area. MEND claimed responsibility for this attack.

October 1, Two bombs exploded at Abuja during a parade. 12 killed 17 injured. Bomb was 1 KM away from president Goodluck Jonathan. MEND claimed responsibility and also claim to have sent warning in the form of an email to a journalist half-an-hour before the bombs detonated.

True Naija:
Mikeansy and co, with all due respect. I think you really do not have much to do. You come on here every time trying to insult the President. Have some respect men. Even Barack Obama and Bill Clinton who are great with words still make statement or speech blunders. And you never see their citizens calling them dumb. Be a proud Nigerian and respect the symbol of authority.
You guys seem hell bent on bringing GEJ down. Maybe cos he is a gentleman who tries to listen and make things work. You guys are all over him as being weak.

You see when IBB went to campaign in a south west state some people went to protest cause they did not like the man and the wrong things he did in Nigeria.
You remember the SNG rallys during the Yar Adua health saga
You see the comments, round tables , meetings by people that support GEJ, (starting from the Governors who brought his nomination form) to the various groups
on the other side you hear the unfortunate remarks from Ciroma, Kanti Bello, Kaita and Yakassai ( People who have not made an impact in one persons life throuhg out there public life
All the scenerios above are examples of how it is done. The way you go about with your operation bring GEJ down makes it look that you guys are on a paid mission. Why don;t you organise a meeting, press conference rally or send an open letter to the press or president instead of being an internet warrior. For the fact you are contributing to this thread and forum show that you guys are people of vision. So stand up and be counted and make your contribution instead throwing insults from the sidelines

Yaradua died in May
This is what somebopdy - an avid supporter of Johnathan said in April
No GEJ supporter said he should not abuse the then president
He of course called Yaradua ex-president
And of course he was trying to brainwash us about GEJ's performance as far back as April this year
Why do you think people do not really trust those who are trying to hypnotise us?

We have always criticised Obj, Abaca and others
Why should it suddenly become a crime to "extend the same honour" to Johnathan

BTW , I personally don't believe in calling anybody names

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-433272.0.html

Jakumo:
Much has been said about the DRAMATIC improvement in the supply of grid electrical power to Nigeria over the past few months, but a new thread is still in order, since Jonathan Goodluck has slayed a monster that NO OTHER Nigerian head of state DARED tackle at any time over the past 30 years.

It began virtually the instant President Goodluck took over from the long dead and entirely worthless Ex-President Yar Adua, with lights and electrical appliances flickering to life all over Nigeria for the first time in the living memory of any person less than 30 years old, and now, there flows near 24-hour stable electrical power over vast, long forgotten swathes of a land formerly condemned to permanent darkness.

Evidently, President Goodluck single handedly confronted, defeated and uprooted that profoundly evil gang of criminals who held on to key jobs in the national electrical utility company, exploiting their access to the key equipment for the devious purpose of profiteering from Nigeria's electrical blackout by making sure all electrical outlets remained permanently dead. With President Goodluck now DIRECTLY running Nigeria's electrical power sector, all the worn-out excuses for the perennial blackout have miraculously vanished overnight. This accomplishent is almost beyond comprehension, and is without equal in Nigeria's entire history.

If there is a minor regret most Nigerians may quietly harbor in the wake of this astonishing development, it would probably be that those squalid, greedy saboteurs of the country's power supply capability cannot simply be lined up against a wall and shot to pieces in a hail of machinegun fire before an exultant crowd.

All in all, Jonathan Goodluck ALREADY qualifies as Nigeria's MIRACLE MAN, for he has accomplished the seemingly impossible in virtually no time at all. Bravo Johnny ! You is da MAN ! Take my wife, please ! I would be greatly honored.

abasi.bles:
president Jonathan is d best for this country b/c i could remember when I.B.B rule dis country that was when we started to experience bomp in this country, is that nt sooooooooooooooo. if God say that, that site is for Goodluck nothing will stop him from being a president, if d person, like let him bomp the whole world, what i know, what God said concerning Goodluck must surely come to pass in Jesus name a-m, e, n,

What about kidnapping - under whose rule did it start?
What about armed robbery - under whose rule did it start?
What about fake text messages against citizens - under whose rule did it start?
And the numerous bomb blasts in the ND - under whose rule did it escalate, subside and resurge?

BTW, what did God say about GEJ?
When did He say it?
On what Ocassion?
In whose presence?
What if God says that GEJ will not win in 2011, what will happen or is that beyond God too?

Goodluck is NOT the best for this country. He is not even the best that the ND can produce

The problem we have is that we like to zone a post to the incumbent even if he did not get there strictly by merit
Abacha was adopted by all the then 5 parties and we were told he was the best!

Whoever thinks Obj means well does not reall know him
People should always remember Anambra and Bakassi whenever they are discussing this person

Iyabo's case with EFCC is not concluded, yet the man is promoting her
and if Olurin dies, what happens - another Yaradua scenario

The zoning thing in Ogun state also states that Obj lies whenever he says there is no zoning
We should note that if people in Ogun state - virtually all Yorubas - insist on zoning
why should Igbos allow Yorubas, Hausas, Ijaws rule forever
We will continue to need zoning until most Nigerians see quality rather than ethnicity as the basis for assessing ourselves

Beaf:
No. This is strictly Dokpesi's party. What we are wondering is how a grown man that purportedly runs a responsible multi-billion Naira business could tell such conflicting stories. We can't speculate on the outcome of the SSS investigations, they are the experts.
I can't help but wonder if they only let Dokpesi out to hang himself in public as he is doing very effectively now.

What we are also wondering is how a president (in control of SSS, DMI, NIA etc) will present FAKE text messages against a ctizen on national television
But refuses to go to the court with the evidence
Anyway it is a PDP thing - there is NOT A SINGLE TRUTHFUL PERSON is in PDP

rashylous:
whats the abbreviation for INDEPENDENT BOMB BAST,

Somebody has beaten you to it

GJ - Gbomo Jomo
IBB = INNOCENT OF BOMB BLAST

Check the previous posts around NL before posting

al-qaeda:
I DON'T SEE WHY WE KEEP ARGUING THIS ISSUE OVER ND OVER AGAIN. ALL THIS IS RUBBISH. BY MONTH'S END, NO ONE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS MATTER ANYMORE. IT'LL BE SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET. MARK MY WORDS.

Guess you are right
Nothing has been heard or done about the dead
Only TV-covered visits to the injured

What happened to the March bomb blast in Warri - was that not a crime because nobody from PDP had declared to contest against GJ then

stiyke:
Reading through all your posts prove that "A PEOPLE DESERVE THE KIND OF LEADERS THEY GET". Nigerians deserve the kind of leaders they get. Surprising most ppl on this thread choose the words of a know Gun runner and outlaw over that of an elected leader (even though the election is flawed). At least give your president and CinC the benefit of doubt till he prove himself. No one challanged George Bush while in office that the reasons for invading Iraq was negative. They all stood by him even when there was rumour there were no smoking guns in Iraq! So you ppl now choose Henry Okah over your president. Dont be surprised some one like Henry Okah rule you ppl come 2011.

Over sabi charlatans!

We did not give Abacha the benefit of doubt!
We did not give Obj the benefit of doubt! Especially people from Anambra, Bakassi, Odi and Zaki Biam will not
So why should we give a CinC who airs fake text message the benefit of our doubts?

We are talking about a CinC who refused to do anything about a bomb blast in March this year because he could not milk it for political purposes

redsun:
The moment dokpesi publicly identified with IBB is the moment he lost his sanity and humanity.He has identified with evil at the expense of good and evil will be his enclave,it is a natural phenimenon.

How does this secure a conviction in court
I remember that Obj was drafted into the presidential race by IBB
Although the whites wanted OJ Simpson convicted, they could not secure it outside the court

I am not Dokpesi or IBB's fan - I DETEST all those PDP people
But the security agents frame people all the time - it can be my turn tommorrow - we need to protect  our laws

Beaf:
^
How does the above meandering collection of personal wishes and emotions straighten Dokpesi's weak story?
Una de fall my hand! Defend your man with some logic or abandon the topic.

Please let us not be abusive
I will not abandon the topic - this is Nairaland (for Nigerians )
The challenge is simple = charge Dokpesi (like every criminal) to court if the evidence is overwhelming
 and please tender the text message in COURT, not on NTA

Beaf:
Isn't it just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo strange that your beloved Dokpesi knows "exactly" what the money in the so called, "FAKE text messages" was for for?

"I don't know about the text message, the text wasn't sent to me, I don't know the owner of the phone; in short, I don't know fck all. . .  But the 4 million the phone call talked about wasn't for the bombing! That very same, exact, one and only 4 million was downpayment for our Bayelsa office.
I still don't know fck all!" Sharap and stop it right there sir, we're getting angry now!

Hellooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! Wheel up an come again selekta!

We know that convictions are secured on the basis of evidence
2 points stand in the way of your case
The people who have "SOLID" evidence know that their evidence cannot stand in court
Otherwise they would have gone to court
DR GEJ and his people doctor evidence

The idea of  "Truly knows ABC and ABC is a criminal, so Truly is automatically a criminal" does not stand in court
Otherwise Atiku would have been guilty of all the sins of Obj
and Obj would have been guilty of all the sins of Atiku

Haha - my beloved Dokpesi
My only beloved is my country which sadly is being run by people who while claiming to be a new face
are no better than their predecessors including Abacha who was arranging bomb blasts and blaming them on NADECO

I hope you can also see that the Warii Bomb balst of March this year has never been investigated because
there is no political capital to be made out of it

BTW With all the claims of solid evidence, intelligence, etc
One would have expected arraignment by now

I hope we realise that we don't have the official number and names of the dead
Politics has taken centre stage
Are we being fair to the victims and their families

My suspicion was aroused when Mr President seemed to imply that the case was solved within 24hours
We know it is not normal for criminal cases to be solved, let alone been solved in 24hours
When the police "solved" the murder case of the SSS man and his wife and daughters (in Kano) within 48 hours, we were rightly unconvinced

Note that nothing was done about the Mar 16 bombing in Warri
Of course there was no political enemy to implicate then

Vindy:
DoKpesick is capable to do anything for money.

That statement would not convict anybody at a magistrate court

Beaf:
You are towing the Yakasai, Ciroma, Bello, IBB line by politicising a moral argument and a deviating from a very serious criminal investigation. What has winning Bayelsa got to do with apprehending the perpetrators of the Abuja bombing?
With the other stuff you talked about, you mean the bomb blast investigation should be aborted to chase shadows and petty issues?
How about we find those who set the bombs that led to the deaths of several innocent people?

GEJ politcised the matter by bringing FAKE text messages to implicate his political opponents
This is interference with investigation and he would have been insome spot of trouble were he not the president