₦airaland Forum

When you have a kid and a wife at home, or an exciting future to look forward to, i doubt you'd want to be the camera man in the orange suit when the thugs come calling!----I wouldn't want to be one!

As long as people keep getting away with stealing ballot boxes, there's absolutely nothing you can do to mitigate against it!

I also deduced from your post that you assumed that the government will be interested in a free and fair election. . . if this was your assumption, then you are far from being ignorant!

Didn't the President promise state governors a second term ticket? you didn't actually assume he meant to buy those at an Argos store, did you?


Alternatively, if the camera appeared to be the only solution, organizations such as Save Nigeria Group could get their members at each polling booths to put on spy pens such the one in the picture below, however, i still fail to understand how this will STOP militants/thugs from carting away people's vote

Phate07:
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If i see one more dumb blackberry palaver thread, am throwing up.

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Is this meant to be a threat?

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if you were referring to my earlier post which has now been confined to the bins, i  later realized that seizing an individual's National passport, and demanding that he/she does things they wouldn't have done, could be argued as a case of arrest or intimidation as the case may be, hence the reason i withdrew my earlier argument!

not a good sign

Did you actually see the part which says "Romance section" before making posting your gibberish?

Yes o, Nigeria is really the happiest place on earth. . even amidst clashes and bloodsheds, our president saw the need to declare Jumbo Bonuses--- who says we can't party with an extra kobo even if our farms are set ablaze and our streets littered with bombs ? ---hell, we can always blame that on Demons!

We don't need a save Nigeria group, as Nigerians, if we get pushed to the wall, we simply scream a little, and keep moving----another bomb goes off and we read the usual
"Federal government mobilised a billion soldiers to xyz state, promises to prosecute all parties responsible for the unfortunate event, wouldn't leave any stone unturned"-
----this is all it takes for the average Nigerian to return to his/her happy state, and hail the messiah who will make all things good in his own time!

fstranger6:
She is old enough to be your mother!

seriously?

^^

You are right on the point you are making, what worries me however is the fact that we can't exactly call what we have a democratic system if the government has chosen to resort to using cheap blackmails and dirty politics to fight its own war of convenience.

It also becomes really dangerous to think that even the most corrupt ones are able to walk free as long as they are in the same party with the president. Silencing the voice of opposition will be the fastest train that will plunge Nigeria back into the deepest moments of dark!

The president must explain to all and sundry why the likes of IBB and OBJ are not being probed {even after the Haliburton document was released} and the likes of Tinubu are about to feel the sledgehammer of the law, just a few months to general election!

What is on the wall is no fair game, the handwritings are those of Mafia!. .

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Please what?

I'm not putting in a word for Tinubu, but it beats my imagination that the Federal government will be looking to arrest the AC leader while OBJ is playing "AYO" and eating bitter kola in his Otta Mansion!

This could be the PDP's big plot to regain south west!

For the second time in a month, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday accused the Federal Government of plotting to arrest and silence its national leader and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Federal Government, the ACN alleged, plans to put Tinubu out of circulation to check his rising political profile and demobilise the ACN ahead of April’s general election.

The party had on December 5 last year alerted Nigerians to "the surreptitious and dangerous moves being made to silence Tinubu."

A few days later, the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) chair, Sam Saba, said the CCB would dust up against Tinubu, a case of keeping a foreign account while in office. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had earlier investigated the case without any evidence against the former governor.

Spokesman of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told reporters in Lagos yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan had finally succumbed to the "unceasing pressure by signing on to the evil plan."

Mohammed said: "Now, we have it on a good authority that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, (Mr. Mohammed Adoke), has been under tremendous pressure to look for any offence, no matter how flimsy, to get Tinubu arrested and prosecuted – just to put him away." He alleged that the President "may sign a warrant of Tinubu’s arrest anytime from now."

He warned: "We will not sit back and fold our arms while those who fought for the democracy we are enjoying today are demonised and decapitated. We reject the targeting of Tinubu, who they see as the architect of the change that is threatening the PDP.

"Nothing must happen to this icon of democracy and good governance, so as not to set in motion a chain of events the end of which no one can predict."

Mohammed said the ACN’s phenomenal leap is making the PDP envious, hence the focus on Tinubu who is seen as "the architect of PDP’s deconstruction, who has to be stopped at all costs."

Apart from winning back its mandate in Edo, Ekiti and Osun states in the South-West where its candidates are now occupying the government houses, the ACN has also been making an in-road into other parts of the country.

Mohammed said internal democracy in the ACN and its discipline have attracted into the party the likes of Senator John James Akpanodoedehe (Akwa Ibom); Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and ex-Governor Achike Udenwa (Imo State); Former Transport Minister Abiye Sekibo (Rivers State); Senator George Akume (Benue State), Senator Saminu Turaki (Jigawa State); Senator Joel Danlami (Taraba State); five members of the National Assembly in Anambra State and the entire Congress of Progressive Party (CPC) structure in Bauchi State.

"As our party’s fortune rises, the prospect of the ruling PDP becomes dimmer and dimmer by the day.

"As the general elections approach, it is becoming increasingly clear to the discerning that we are the toast of all Nigerians seeking better governance and the deepening of democracy".

During the week, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was believed to have visited the national secretariat of the PDP to press the leadership to "do something about the crises in the party in the South-West so as to check the ACN" or he would quit.

Mohammed said those behind the plot to arrest Tinubu, in one of their meetings, "said everything must be done to stop the putative alliance between our party and the CPC, which they see as capable of ending the years of misrule by the PDP."

He then raised some posers: "Why the arrest of Tinubu at the time of the registration of voters? Why when there is a merger talk between the ACN and the CPC? Why when people are leaving the PDP in droves?"

He said the PDP men pressuring the President to get Tinubu arrested "are firmly of the belief that his arrest will destabilise the ACN".

Mohammed said there is a growing desperation by the PDP, saying the sum of $1billion "was secretly and hurriedly shared out to states from the excess crude accounts, just to secure support for President Jonathan and give his backers the necessary war chest needed to fight ahead of the April election." The money, he alleged, was shared in foreign currency to the detriment of the naira.

"In recent times, bombs have been exploding across the country in an unprecedented degeneration of security in a country that is not at war. Hundreds have been killed or maimed. Do we know those behind it? Do we know their motives? Could it be part of the end game? We leave Nigerians to judge."

But Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation yesterday dismissed the allegations. The organisation also said it was not true that six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors were made to donate N500 million each to the President's campaign.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the organisation, Mr. Sully Abu, in a statement in Abuja frowned at what he called "the recent penchant of politicians for broadcasting total fabrications in the garb of 'revelations'."

The ploy, according to Abu, is to "pile up one lie over the other with the hope that something murky would stick."

Describing Alhaji Mohammed's allegations as similar to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar's "tissue of lies", Abu wondered under what financial sub-heads the monies allegedly taken from states' coffers would have been released.

He called on the security agencies to investigate Mohammed's "outrageous claims" that "one billion dollars have been secretly and hurriedly shared out to the states from the excess crude oil accounts, just to secure support for President Jonathan and give his backers the necessary war chest needed to fight ahead of April's election."

Abu stressed that no amount of blackmail or wicked propaganda would distract President Jonathan from his focused march to keep a date with destiny in the 2011 elections

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/24085.html

maga1:
Before: mend member

Now: Clueless

Richchibuzor:
I tink he is okay,is fair compared to others.

Dump and Wicked

It is now apparent, the extent of the damage inflicted by the rot in the educational system.
Even Nairalanders don't understand the meaning of "two words"

North has no links with terrorists and yet the worst forms of massacres to have taken place on Nigerian soil were championed by Islamic extremists of Northern heritage.

while they housed faithfuls of Boko Haram who have never been able to hide their disgust against any form of economical development,  they {Arewa} intend to blame the presidency for refusal to address economic issues!----utter crap!

Arewa can kiss my fat unwashed árse!

haha. . suspend education for politics, very appropriate!

ayinba1:
Be careful what you wish for. I see that some anti-islam individuals are really excited about the name alqaeda and them being responsible for the bomb blasts in Nigeria. Even to the point of linking mend to al Qaeda. Wow, i read thru all the responses and olaedo is the only one with some clue as to what this could mean for us all.

Think about it. When Iraq was attacked, did the bombs selectively pick out Muslims for death and spare the Christians? Again, be careful what you wish for. I will be very cautious in agreeing with this submission if it truly came from the US investigators. I will look out for the lives and safety of Nigerians first. GEJ, munch o that for a sec.

. . this is no anti islam thread and it doesn't take rocket science to figure out that those islamic extremists share the same objectives with their al-qaeda couterparts. . . .we can't afford to resort to silence or too careful approach, we did that already

Ola edo:
The is no such thing as al qaeda. Its been proven to be just a name tagged on to islamic terrorist organizations. Everybody get ready for the U.S. to set up a military in Nigeria. Whenever they use the term 'al-qaeda' it means the US military is coming to your damn country,to "help fight terrorism".

you must be very sick in the head. . . now al-qaeda is a term designed by the US to forcefully take their military into other countries?. . .and what about Boko Haram? was that invented by the british?

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=580856.msg7478605#msg7478605 date=1294369317]Dude, Nigeria is not some wasteland like Afghanistan  

We don't need drones to sweep out terrorists or militants in the North. And I think a political solution will be more useful than immediate violence for dealing with the ones in the South (namely, more autonomy and higher derivations for their states).[/quote]dude Boko Haram killed over 750 people using machetes and axes in 2009, at what point in the death toll do we qualify to become another Afghanistan?

a political solution will NOT solve a problem that is largely religious, those guys were taught it is the acceptable, and honorable thing to kill infidels , and unless these teachings are stopped in earnest, they'd continue to kill faster than my neighbor can tell lies

Those religious schools should be closed already, it breeds only people who contributes absolutely nothing to mankind or the future, it enslaves and brainwashes the Nigerian child,  . .all we get from those shytty holes they call schools are kids who know nothing but rant continuously and are more than too eager to kill for the fun of it!

it's really pathetic that those skanky holes have been left unmonitored for so long,  . .and our so call leaders keep meeting on a weekly basis to fight tooth and nail over who gets an extra dollar,  . . .this is an end for naija, if they are not stopped now, they'd kill more people and the government will be forced to take the easiest and cowardly way out----Amnesty!

We needed those FBI agents since yesterday, it's high time we stopped guessing who placed bombs in our closets!

Here is an excerpt from a wikileaks source

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Obama-created-great-hope-in-the-Muslim-world-Saudi-King/articleshow/7009355.cms

Noting that the US presidency of Barack Obama has created great hope in the Islamic world, the Saudi King Abdullah told a top US official that he should restore America's credibility in the Muslim countries, according to a leaked State Department cable by WikiLeaks .

This was communicated personally by the King, to John Brennan, Obama's counter terrorism advisor, when the latter went to meet him in March 2009 and delivered a personal letter of the US President to the Saudi King. "Thank God for bringing Obama to the Presidency," the King answered, which has created "great hope" in the Muslim world

According to the cable, the King expressed hope the US would review its Iran policy and "come to the right conclusion."

Brennan responded that Obama was personally reviewing US Iran policy and wanted to hear the King's thoughts.

"Abdullah asserted that Iran is trying to set up Hizbollah-like organisations in African countries, observing that the Iranians don't think they are doing anything wrong and don't recognize their mistakes.

"I said (to Mottaki) that's your problem," recounted the King, the cable said.

"Abdullah said he would favor Rafsanjani in an Iranian election, were he to run.

He described Iran not as "a neighbor one wants to see," but as "a neighbour one wants to avoid."

Few months after, we had a container full of all kinds of grenades and rocket lunchers attempting to get through our ports.

. . . .yet a few months afterwards, we had deranged individuals blowing up churches in the name of Jihad!

It all points to either Hezbollah or strong Al-qaeda links.

a three storey for 15m? man, you re kidding right?
oh well, if you are not looking at safety, and quality materials, and the architect is a family member who's willing to draw up plans for you free of charge, and the neighbours are willing to work building labours without asking a kobo, and you don't give a shyt about flooring, boreholes, wiring, baths, etc then 15 million should be more than enough
you should also keep in mind that what you expect to earn from rent is directly related to what you spend on initial capital, no on will be willing to pay so much for a shabby looking flat.
but hey, i wouldn't take me seriously, so let the real experts come and explain how dope works

KnowAll:
Land is 2 a penny in d wilderness of Taraba bordering Cameroon, we are not talking Lekki here, most Nigerians are so short sighted, they hardly look beyond there noses. I remember once when I came to Lagos, and I told a friend I wanted to visit Akodo Beach in Lagos, d guy told me he had never heard of d place b4. I took d guy there & he was suprised a place like dat existed In Lagos, d water on d beach was so calm, in fact d calmest beach in d whole of Lagos. I am sure if u build a house on dat Beach I doubt if u would ever experience flood.

understandably it could be a potential good source of income, especially for the long term, one you ought to really consider , of course you wouldn't be looking to make a big break in 18 months.

Agriculture is not that cheap, especially if you are considering going into it on a massive scale {your best bet}, in most cases, the land is probably going to be your cheapest investment.  Cost of an harvester is enough to wipe out your entire capital. . .not to talk of preservation and packaging.

I don't think security is an issue you should worry about that much with regards to Taraba, but if quality of life is a priority, taking up this route implies you'd be locking yourself up in a Sharia Zone with limited exposure to the "real world"

^^ erhmmm. , ,1 k at the club please, i'd get some beer and a stripper with that!

This is egocentric chauvinism, juvilistic parukialism, epilpetic paraposim, and the country is in a state of disma pisma!

-Patrick Obahiaghbon

KnowAll:
Another Good idea is go[b] buy hectres of land[/b] in Taraba State & go into [b]Tea & coffee plantation farming [/b]with d view of exporting. Kenya & Cote de boîte live & breath by there Tea & Coffee. But all these Malo killing people in Jos & Maiduguri makes d biz un-attractive. I don't t want to be part of Boko Haram's unfortunate statistics , moreover this biz is too long term, I have not got d patience for it.

You have only 7.5million sir!

KnowAll:
THere is one stock I am eyeing " Tullow Oil " quoted in d London Stock Exchange, they are d one tapping Ghanian oil, I have this funny haunch the stocks would quadruple in d next 18 months. Abi make I just close eye bang d whole dough into this one, d Stocks looks like a dead cert.

it depends on what informs your "funny haunch". what is the company doing at the moment? what are their competittors doing, etc etc, such questions and many other fundamental factors need to be considered

A stock you might consider putting including in your portfolio is Conolog Corp, it has appreciated for a while and is set for a mild decline, so you could buy it when cheap. It has potentials for massive earnings as well, and retains a buy recommendation by seasoned analyst.

KnowAll:
One of the ideas I am toying with is selling 100 cars a year, at a minmum profit of £1000.00 or N250,000.00 after all cost have been deducted. It would mean selling 9 cars a month. What I find in Naija is most people want to make 100 times d money they invested, what then happens  is u see a car that is meant to be sold driven all over d town & probably sold for cost price or even at a loss 8 months after. Even if it is sold at a profit 8 months after d profit must be seen as profit/8 which in d grand scheme of things is not good enough. A good turn around is good for business.

This thread is not about me,  it is about our people changing there business culture. It is a shame most d big busineses of d 80's & early 90's have all packed up when they should be waxing stronger. How many of MKO Abiola's busineses are still alive today, we should have a new mind set.

By selling a 100 cars to needy families a year at rock bottom profit I am actually providing a service. So it is about providing a service to my people. I still  see Datsun 120Y plying d streets of Ibadan  as Taxis, a car built in 1976. I think entrepreneurs should see those eyesores on our streets as a challenge dat requires urgent attention.

This makes some sense, but when you line it side by side with your expectations of 100 million in 18 months,. . . .  boy!

Car dealership is an industry that is quite viable but laced with a lot of competition, you only need to take a sneak peak into the autos section to understand what i mean.  
You'd be competing with individuals who understand the ins and outs of the industry, you'd be facing customers who would not be willing to pay you up for goods sold on time, and if you strictly want to conduct your business on a cash and carry basis, then your expectations of selling 9 cars a month is a tall dream.

hey, hold on, did you say 9 cars a month?

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=579815.msg7468960#msg7468960 date=1294254460]Does the January effect still exist? I havent followed stocks that closely recently, but I thought the advantage is gone, since people noticed it many years ago.[/quote]dang!! man, you ve been loosing opportunities to make some mad capital gains, stocks flattened out at low levels in December 2010, only to rise to the highest peak since June 2008. . .

It wouldn't fade off easily because most portfolio managers would sell their stocks to take advantage of tax benefits towards the end of the year, and then buy it back at the beginning of the year. . .it's best to look into stocks with very low price/earning ratio as it is always considered very risky

Your expectations are rather too high considering you initial investments, your expected returns and your investment horizon, not to factor in the Nigerian climate.

With that kind of money, i would cleverly hand pick stocks in the UK that are selling for bargain and have strong long term earnings potential {value stocks} , the best time of the year to have done that would be in November/December in order to reap the full benefit that comes with January effect.

If you bought Google stocks at the rate of 450 dollars per share in September, that would have made you an estimate of 81,000 pounds on January 4. . . minus income tax, you'd still be netting around 75,000 pounds.

Do that a few times and register for a subway/McDonald's franchise. . if you consider your management skills good enough

The Nigerian case scenario, however, would not offer such an avenue to make such returns, except of course, you've got another full time Job offer by the side. . there's also a high possibility that the naira will lose value, stemming from the indicators such as high consumption, low production, high debts, etc etc. if anything, it's not the best time to lock your money in!

PS. wake up from your 100 million in 18 months dream, it's not going to happen!

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thnks for the link, no one seem to be talking about the amount budgeted for drugs and medical supplies, a total of 402 million!

someone has got to be a terrible drug addict! . . . an average fully equipped Hospital attending to over 200 patients a day don't budget such ridiculous sums for drugs

[quote author=jay_getta link=topic=578783.msg7466684#msg7466684 date=1294236516]@Haleonic and Violent: Ever heard of "Satire"?[/quote]and you mentioned me because?

do you not see that i deleted my earlier post after realizing i had made an error in judgement taking the caption too seriously?