Power is Nigeria's major problem...if GEJ should make power stablished I will not only vote for him,I will campaign for him with all my strength.I don't GEJ is a bad,looking at alone,you will understand that he has good intentions Nigeria has been bruised a long time ago,fixing it is not a day's job,I think we should give him more time.

Bakare is a dangerous man,he is the kind of pastors that have commercialized Christianity making it a merchandised ,what s shame for a so called man of God to sad that.My problem with him is his evil tongue that he uses to abuse people people's personalities in the name of him been a a prophet,he is a desperado who when given a little space will make human beings slave...what an arrogant man....

The fight against terrorism is for all and sundry,when we leave the fight for security agencies alone we will never make headway,because for us to have a secured society all of us have roles to play,like what what happened in Kaduna some few weeks ago,when some youths captured a suicide bomber and handed him over to the the JTF was a laudable effort.Yesterday in Mali,young men in their numbers stopped a young man's hand from being amputated by the Tuareg Rebels who are strongly linked with Alqueda and dominated some parts of Northern Mali for the past months.If we as patriotic Nigerians can remove fear,and stand against the Boko Haram evil like the people in northern Mali did,we will ride ourselves from this evil people,because it is obvious that everybody is a target of this evil called Boko Haram.We must play our parts as true citizens by standing up against them within the confines of the law,we must defeat fear and make our society safe by helping our security agencies with information so that we can have a free and better society.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/08/mali-islamists-beat-journalist-after-backtracking-on-amputation.html

Well done D'Tigers we are so proud of you....

We are human beings,who are we to judge who is a better Christian btw these two,but I am highly disappointed in Pastor Tunde Bakare,I don't think he in touch with his creator,how Can a man of God be so abusive,it's so pathetic,President Jonathan is his leader whether he likes it or not...he shouldnt be disgracing his family and himself...it's so so childish...

This is a good result.....we need more.

jerseyboy: GOOD MUSLIMS ARE BAD PEOPLE. BAD PEOPLE ARE GOOD MUSLIMS
Boko Haram are GOOD MUSLIMS

[size=16pt]Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine[/size]

[size=20pt]ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION. IT IS AN INSTRUMENT OF TERROR[/size].

I totally disagree with you,people are just using the religion to do evil,we have good Muslims and bad Muslims like we have good Christians and bad Christians..pls stop generalizing issues because some of us Muslims are happy to what is happening in the name of our religion....

God bless you Shiek...these are the kind of statements we are suppose to be hearing...if prominent people will be coming out to condemn these evil Boko Haram people things will get better,we need more courageous people like sheik Gumi to come out and speak in strong terms..I am a true Muslim my position has never changed Boko Haram is a evil we must all fight we shouldn't have any sympathy for evil people...

Kudos to GEJ,this is very big achievement....at least we dey catch small fresh air...

Wetin them dey wait for since,abeg make dem jail that criminal.......

The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama yesterday made a case for unity and peace among Christians and Muslims during a visit to the Jos Central Mosque.

“I came to the Central Mosque first of all to dispel the notion that Muslims and Christians in Plateau State cannot meet,” he said during a meeting with the Chief Imam, Sheikh Balarabe Dawud.
“We are here to show that you are our brothers and sisters. Sometimes we have problems and tension but it is not by being afraid of each other that the problems will be solved.”

He emphasized that there is need for well-meaning Christians and Muslims to interact and neutralise the machinations of people who stir up trouble for no public good.

He added: “We will continue to preach that the only way to harmony is in our coming together. We have our differences in the way we worship but it is not enough for the violence that we witness. We have the same God and we should all behave as children of God.”

In his response, Sheikh Balarabe Dawud thanked the archbishop for his solidarity visit and assured him that he too appreciates the need for harmony among Muslims and Christians.

He thanked the Catholic cleric for identifying with Muslims each time they have any difficulty, making particular mention of the archbishop’s decision to present relief materials to victims of the recent flood disaster in Rikkos, Jos North Local Government Area penultimate Sunday in which over 30 people died and  many houses washed away.

Archbishop Kaigama later visited the camps of  the people displaced by the flood and donated relief materials.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/other-sections/lead-stories/173520-jos-arch-bishop-visits-mosque-urges-muslim-christian-unity

When the Minority Leader of the Nigerian House of Representatives Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila (ACN) gave the warning that “if by September 18th, the budget performance has not improved to 100% we shall begin to invoke and draw up articles of impeachment against Mr. President”, I chuckled under my breath and called it what it was. It was an empty boast that could not possibly materialise given the number of factors on the ground.

First and foremost is the question of whether the president is guilty. Is he guilty enough to warrant the invocation of the Constitution’s Section 143 (1) which states that the president or the vice president may be impeached whenever “a notice of any allegation in writing signed by not less than one-third of members of the National Assembly is presented to the  Senate stating that the President was guilty of gross misconduct”? Is this really the issue?

I tried instead to find out what the honourable members would really be so piqued over that an impeachment threat became necessary. Gbajabiamila was quick to site Section 143 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, to charge that the president’s “failure” to implement the budget amounted to “gross misconduct”.


It is necessary to take a simplistic view of it and put to lie the grand standing of the members of the House of Representatives, some of whose so-called oversight functions have turned out to be the means for alleged corrupt enrichment. Some of them are so discredited in their totality that it will take some cleansing before any holier-than-thou ploy works, and I dare say, that Nigerians are worried, that this may end up a storm that will be cleared by pecuniary compromise.

If the budget was passed in April, then implementation of capital projects may have begun in June or July. Thus we can safely argue that the budget is really only three months old. Minister of Finance and Coordinator of the Economy Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has tried to explain away the misunderstanding, and I can feel her frustration. It is a plus to have achieved even 36 per cent implementation in the months since the budget that was passed late in April. It seems the legislators dispute the minister’s figure of 56 per cent but it is really the difference between half-full and half empty.

No constitution is fashioned to make the executive tread carefully as if on egg shells in order to carry out his functions. The checks and balances proposed are meant for the operators to behave (and if need be drink) responsibly from the limits of the nation’s public tolerance of malaise, waste and decadence.


Then one may ask – can the threat fly? Where in the world’s democracies does a minority leader in a House dominated by 75 per cent members of the ruling party propose a motion as serious as even initiating an impeachment process? Worse still, can you even achieve that on charges you are hard put to substantiate – charges that the president can easily and quickly clarify?

The People’s Democratic Party controls 75 per cent of the House (and the members in the eye of our corrupt storm are from the party). The jitters visible at the Presidency are therefore hardly understandable, if Okonjo-Iweala is at such pains to explain how preposterous the demand from the House is.

In Nigeria the office holder easily becomes the proverbial dumb camel, dragged to a hole just because a hedge-hog gave pull to the reins. The mad House could dispose of an impeachment process before you can spell Goodluck Jonathan. But why is this so?

This is so because of the fraudulent practice of our democracy, in which a faulty home grown system compromises the best and uplifts the mediocre, bereft of any sense of patriotism, and it is evident at nearly all levels. This is so because of our acceptance of absurdities in the operation of the Constitution. Such absurdities as the legislators legalising outlandish incomes for themselves and costing the nation 25 per cent of its overheads should not have been allowed. Not done, we still have more absurdities as legislators apportioning constituency projects outside the budgetary purview of the executive were in the real sense intolerable in a transparent democracy, and should not have been permitted, and is today the weak and sensitive underbelly of our democracy. Some of the absurdities manifest onwards, beyond the fleecing of ministries and departments through oversight processes that are in truth a charade. We thus have a culture of political abnormalities that are in truth criminal in civilised societies.

It has become habitual for blackmail instead of mutual understanding to determine the relations between the Legislature and the Executive at all tiers in Nigerian politics. In 2009, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua faced similar crisis, with the House of Representatives at the time, threatening to rekindle the flame of impeachment over his alleged failure to fully implement the 2009 budget. The polity overheated instantly as has happened in this case.

Members were then unanimous that the claims by the Federal Government that the 2009 Appropriation Act could not be fully implemented on account of dwindling revenue. Yet when the members piped down, it was because President Yar’adua decided to call the bluff and refused to answer the charges through clandestine compromises. President Obasanjo before Yar’adua had related with the Legislature in a cat and mouse game that in the end peaked in the scuttling of Atiku Abubakar’s ambition and the failure of the third term gambit.


The impeachment threat is a totally unnecessary diversion from the pressing issues of stabilising the polity itself, restoring peace and security, and concentrating on the development of the country’s economy with the great promise this holds. Even if it were for the purpose of due diligence, it begs the issue to bounce to the extreme of threatening the president with impeachment on the questionable charge of non-implementation of the budget. We need to learn from the Western countries whose models we are copying. The issues that bind and divide are more patriotic than primordial.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/daily-columns/173161-impeachment-threat-just-a-threat

But sincerely if we go talk true,it may not be everywhere but there is improvement in most places...we don't expect magic to happen over,at least make we give GEJ that benefit of the doubt,if nothing happen then we go blast but to start condemning the man is counterproductive....

Me ma I dey suspect this people,I never hear them condemn this evil Boko boys,if they are sincere let them say something about this issue.....

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe said yesterday that no country achieves 100 percent budget implementation.

Okupe who is reacting to National Assembly-Presidency’s face-off over budget implementation, told reporters in Abuja that “there is no country in the world that clears the budget 100 per cent at the end of the year.”

House of Representatives had threatened to initiate impeachment moves against President Goodluck Jonathan over non-implementation of budget.

“I see the current misunderstanding between the members of the NASS and the Federal Government, especially the Minister of Finance as something that is not very healthy and not necessary.

“However, the statistics about the figure may not be so necessary because the government also means well. I know for a fact as of May this year, the president started an official ritual by calling ministries every week and drilling them on their budget performance,” he said. He said that though the budget was signed into law in April, between then and July 20, N404bn has been released and N300bn expended.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news/173386-no-country-can-implement-100--budget-okupe

The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) yesterday condemned the multiple bomb blasts and shootings that occurred in Sokoto, Kano and Kaduna States two days ago.  Secretary-General of JNI, Dr. Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, in a statement described the attack as dastardly and barbaric.

“JNI received with shock the news of multiple bomb blasts and shootings in Sokoto, Kano and Kaduna States. It is sad that despite the fact that we are in the month of Ramadan, some people are still causing chaos. We pray Allah to forgive those who died in the incident and grant quick recovery to the injured.  We also call on Nigerians to be security conscious, as security is the business of everyone. We must as a nation rise above board to nip in the bud this problem. The JNI commiserates with the governments and people of the affected states”, the statement stated.
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news/173313-jni-condemns-sokoto-kano-attacks

Adanyebe: Naija Is blessed no matter what. blessed with the good, the bad, and the ugly,
... See What they call rocket Launcher..... Unbelievable anyway.... I Just Hope GEJ Is aware
because diz guyz are still on Ramadam Break

Something is wrong with your head.......sick man.....

y2kaustin: .stop drawing up baseless conclusions

Should I praise them for a job well done,I don't the SSS is a scam oh....they have been giving us a lot of good results..haba let's be frantk to ourselves for ones now...

jude33084:

Thinking along that line too
SSS want to loose their integrity

I don't think so we are the ones mixing up theses stories....read the story again you will understand. The SSS is still better oh...

Whoever depicted our GEJ like this will never know peace,this is the symbol of Nigeria,some people are really sick....we have only one President in Nigeria and we must all respect him....

I always have a lot of confidence in the SSS,they are always making Nigeria proud....I believe that if people will be giving information even this boko haram nonsense will be the thing of the past..Well done SSS more grease to your elbow,at least we all know that you are working very well,I hope the govt will give them more funds so that de go catch people Wei dey spoil our society....

Sick people,there end will surely come soon......It's so heartbreaking that they don't even know what they are fighting for..Allah SWT will disown you and you will rot in hell if you don't repent.

Here they come again shamelessly claiming responsibility for killing innocent people.These people are evil...we should all rise up against them,they don't mean well for us,whatsoever they are looking for is evil...it breaks my heart when I hear people say that is poverty that has created Boko Haram,the dangerous they are using must be very expensive,they are just blood thirsty.Let us rise up against them...

UK Court Orders Akingbola to Pay Access Bank £654m

01 Aug 2012
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Former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank Plc), Mr. Erastus Akingbola

By Davidson Iriekpen

A High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, London Tuesday ordered the former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc (now Access Bank Plc), Mr. Erastus Akingbola, to pay Access Bank Plc £654 million (about N164 billion) for some sharp and fraudulent practices committed when he was in charge of the bank.

The money, which THISDAY learnt from a reliable industry source, was purportedly stolen directly from the bank used by Akingbola during his tenure to buy property in the United Kingdom and pay debts owed by his companies, among other uses.

Of the amount, £9 million has already been refunded by Akingbola to Access Bank, he said.

The judgment was delivered in respect of a civil suit filed in December 2009 by the defunct Intercontinental Bank before the court against Akingbola and some of his trust companies.

Upon the acquisition of Intercontinental Bank by Access Bank, Intercontinental Bank was substituted with Access Bank as the plaintiff in the matter.

The judgment delivered Tuesday by Justice Michael Burton showed that while Akingbola has been ordered to pay N145 billion for an unlawful share purchase scheme, he will also pay N16 billion for Tropics Securities Limited payments claims and approximately £10.5 million for Fuglers payments claims.

While Tropics Securities Limited is owned by the rogue banker, who is also on trial in Nigeria for money laundering and fraud, as well as his wife, Anthonia, and children, Fuglers is an English law firm that he used to transact businesses and acquire investments in the United Kingdom.

In the judgment, Justice Burton ruled comprehensively that Akingbola was liable to refund the money to Access Bank and consequently ruled in the bank’s favour on all of its claims against him.

While arriving at his judgment, the judge held that during cross-examination, Akingbola told “obvious lies” that he did not know that Intercontinental Bank was buying its own shares.

He held that the former bank boss in fact devised and oversaw the implementation of the strategy to buy the bank’s shares and thereby artificially increase its share price.

The judge stated that before Akingbola commenced the strategy to increase the bank’s share price and in order to benefit from it, he borrowed N9.3 billion and used it to acquire a large quantity of the bank’s shares for himself.

He disclosed that Akingbola’s strategy to buy the shares of the defunct Intercontinental Bank was a “substantial contributing factor to the collapse of the bank.”

The judge held that at a time when the bank was undergoing significant liquidity strain, the former bank boss misappropriated N16 billion of the bank’s money and paid it to his family-owned companies.

The money, according to the judge, was used to repay those companies’ debts to their bankers.

The judge noted that Akingbola paid £8.5 million out of the money he had fraudulently taken out of the defunct bank to his English solicitors to buy luxury property in London.

Access Bank Plc was represented in the suit by the English law firm of Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and barristers from the English chambers of Fountain Court which were supported by the Nigerian law firm of Olaniwun Ajayi LP.

The suit was principally aimed at recovering funds belonging to Access Bank, which was misappropriated by Akingbola while he was the managing director of Intercontinental Bank.

The defendants in the suit were Akingbola, Kayman Company Limited, Verndale Properties Limited, Jasmine Properties Limited, Caelum Limited and Sanami Limited. 
Last year, the same judge had ordered Akingbola to pay £130,000 to Intercontinental Bank by way of interim payment.

The court further mandated Akingbola to pay £750,000 by 4 pm on May 3, 2011 and another £5.5 million by 4 pm on October 1, 2011 into the Court Funds Office.

The court-ordered sums, according to Justice Burton, are to remain in the Court Funds Office until a further order is made.

The court also ruled that if Akingbola should default in paying the sums, there would be a final judgment for him to pay Intercontinental Bank a total sum of £68,110, 936 with interest to be assessed.

The orders were sequel to a suit instituted by Intercontinental Bank against Akingbola and some firms.

The court also gave the former bank chief up to 4 pm on May 16, 2011 to give standard disclosure in respect of any document at Tropics (his office).

Akingbola is also facing trial in Nigeria for charges bordering on theft as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting him and his wife for allegedly stealing depositors' money totalling N47 billion. 
Commenting on the judgment from a British court, an Access Bank official said the ruling was long overdue and hoped that the Lagos High Court would do the needful and arrive at a similar verdict for theft against Akingbola.

He said the particulars and evidence used by the British court are the same as those at the Lagos High Court, so it will be shocking if a local court passes a different

The two major political parties is NIgeria are PDP and ACN.WHile the ACN is predominantly western in character,PDP appears to permeate all regions of the country.Both parties however have representatives at various levels,formulating policies,implementing policies,criticizing policies,making laws and of course looting our treasure too.The question then is,between PDP and ACN which loots more?         
      PDP today is often faulted  because  it controls govt and has majority of appointees.Some of these appointees have been indicted.The ongoing  oil subsidy  scam for instance,where children of former chairmen  of the of the parties are involved. The ACN also has a fair share of its own.The vice presidential candidate in the 2011 elections FOLA Adeola,the chairman eterna oil was also indicted in the oil scam,the speaker  of the Lagos House of Assembly is currently being investigated of alleged corruption involving #500,000000) five hundred million Naira , Ajimobi the governor of OYo is said to have spent billions of NAira in security  as if  there is Boko Haram in OYo State.
        Who tops the chart in corruption?Given the opportunity  for ACN to form a govt,will they fare better? Or will their corruption be more agonizing?

At least Improvement dey now....maybe na siign of good thing to come oh......

Why they go invite am?the man wey come shame of them,we must admit that the House of Reps is full of dirty people,they are just looking for someone to blame...shame on them.

Why do some people always blame GEJ for everything when the press is cutting corners,looking for false info to sell their papers,don't we think that our press need a overhaul?if they don't stories let them keep quiet to be lies they go d fill us with,we don tire.

We are just copy cats in Naija,We want do everything,we must change our orientation for things to work out for us here oh.....

People too like money,nothing good comes easy in this life,but in Nigeria we like free things,we must learn to be contented with what we have,longer throat go kill person before him time.

torkaka: presidency has implemented 56% of the budget fellow nigerians have you noticed any difference in your areas? has your standard of living jumped up? has the number of graduates on the streets reduced?

NEWS HEADLINE: presidency has implemented 56% of the amount budgeted to be syphoned by political office holders

Torkaka,the 2012 budget cannot make everybody come of of poverty,governance is not that easy,govt cannot provide job for everybody even in the US we still have poor people.Let us just try our pars as good citizens,pray for our leaders when we are not satisfied we can vote them out when election comes,abusing them will change anything.

chucky234: Between SSS and the Police which one of them can you regard as a competent group?

Those guys are just bunch of lethargic goons receiving fat pay slips for nothing,unending excuses is all we hear from those incompetent goons.

My brother,it's not all about talking oh,everybody knows that the SSS is working,it's not the amount of money budgeted for,information is also vital,when must learn to encourage our security agencies so that they can work hard.