Can't wait for the next Season..........

emiye:





What point are you lots making? That Daily trust fabricated numbers and apportion it to south east states? Are you people incapable of rational thinking?

Daily Trust's historical reporting has breached that trust. There is little investigative journalism in the report, just an attempt to stir up or inflame tribalistic passion. When done in this manner it is quite irresponsible.

When their editors carry out proper investigative journalism with well researched facts then they can report under a *Trust* banner until then I remain skeptical of all their reports.

What's the current composition of this agency?

Daily Trust has an agenda and a broken clock is right at least twice a day but it's still a broken clock that uses funny information to obfuscate.

That list is not complete and it's difficult to say what the list actually is..

GEJ, always in a haste to disgrace himself and embarrass the nation but slow to implement any progressive or positive policies.

At this pace this clown is going to reap a multitude of whirlwinds!

manny4life:

What are you looking to update?

Do a roll forward to capture 2013....... either a Four year trend (2010 to 2013) or a three year trend (2011 to 2013).

That would effectively capture GEJ's budgets.... and take out the last Yar'Adua year. On the assumption that it is accepted that the budgets for 2011, 2012 and 2013 are all GEJ's....

Thanks - was looking to update it but havent found the time yet.......

IF anyone has updated numbers or can be bring further clarity please update......

GEJ never misses an opportunity to disappoint.

Pot calling kettle black.

Great!

Except, the kettle is also a kleptomaniac liar.

Horse apple.... what a load of bull. The chap who made this comparison should be crowned King of the lobotomised.

presido1: They new all along that the Igbos are not their enemy but were deceived by their real enemy to believe such. Now that they have seen the light the truth is coming out.

So are their mums their real enemies?

Congratulations.

Should the question not be: Why does Nigeria fail miserably in Science and Technology Development? Nigerians as individuals and smaller non-state collectives are not doing too badly.

After almost three years in charge (May 2010 to Dec 2012), GEJ still can't tell his buttocks from his elbow.

Goodluck, Goodluck, Goodluck, he is quite probably the dullest man that ever walked this earth.

Congratulations to Katsumoto

Always what GEJ will do, never what GEJ has done.

Stomach supporters.

Hall of Fame = Fashola (despite his many limitations the infrastructure growth in Lagos is extremely positive)

Hall of Shame = Doyin Okupe (no true words pass this man's mouth)

Gbawe

Mods

There is a picture in the dirty disgusting celebrity section purportedly showing child abuse, namely a child with a man's reproductive organ in her mouth.

Photoshop or not, I strongly advise you to remove it and ban the uploaders before Nairaland is labelled a child abuse site and its servers blacklisted internationally.

I trust you will act on this promptly, before enforcement action or actions are started. Regrettably I cannot link to it here as the image is disturbing.

Best regards

Voodoodoll

Update - pictures now appear to have been deleted. Thanks Mods for putting this right.

What a pointless article!

OBJ monitoring elections:

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Chinua Achebe has fallen apart.

Sounds like justice being served on a cold dish.

Naija policemen shoot for fun and sport, time for him to stretch his long throat one last time!

No Justice, No peace.

Course of action and next steps are needed.

This is a sad story, how many widows, widowers, orphans and distraught parents must our police force make and get away with.

This story is soo sad. I did not know him personally, but we have soo many mutual friends.

It is sad that so many people are willing to consider tarnishing him in death and forgetting that Nigerian police men are quite careless with their guns. Naija police are not strangers to accidental discharge (two bullets are not hard to accidentally discharge from a Semi-Automatic AK47).

Please, justice must be done. Standing by the road side or any other allegation does not warrant death.

Floreat Collegium

RIP Ugo.......

What does "to commence operation by 2012" mean?

Is there an airport there now - Yes or No?

Has construction started or finished - Yes or No?

Do we need "spin" to acknowledge what is a good development - Yes or No?

Any truth to this story?

No leadership in Aso Rock.

No going back on Bakassi, N5000 note – FG


ABUJA—The Federal Government, yesterday, rebuffed criticisms against the introduction of N5,000 note in the country, insisting that there was no going back on the decision.

Similarly, the government insisted that, notwithstanding fresh facts that have been unearthed by the Vanguard to prove that Bakassi peninsula belongs to Nigeria, and which were concealed during trial, it will not appeal the 2002 verdict of the International Court of Justice which ceded the oil-rich peninsula to Cameroon.

Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, conveyed government’s position on the issues, Tuesday night in Abuja, while speaking as a guest of People’s Forum, a programme organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ.

His position was in apparent response to the resolutions of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Nigeria Bar Association which had variously urged the Federal Government not only to appeal the ICJ judgment but also halt the planned restructuring of the country’s currencies by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

Maku also said those who have so far commented on the issues at different fora, were expressing their views, noting that expression of views was the fundamental right of every citizen in the country.

He said the resolutions of the two chambers of the National Assembly on the issues, asking the Federal Government not only to appeal the ICJ judgment on Bakassi but also direct the CBN to stop its proposed structuring of the country’s currencies, were not binding. He argued that only the law made by the National Assembly was binding on both the government and its citizens just as he said that the apex bank, being independent, should be allowed free hands to do its work like others in the developed world.

“A resolution by the National Assembly is not an Act. The National Assembly makes laws but the laws are different from resolutions. While the laws made by the National Assembly are binding on the government, including citizens, the same is not with resolutions. Resolutions are not binding on government as they are just positions of the legislators. The government can say yes, we have seen your position but this way is better”, he said.

On the Bakassi peninsula, the minister said shortly after the ICJ verdict, the Federal Government had since signed agreement with Cameroon not only to concede the Bakassi to it in accordance with the ICJ verdict but assist in resettling, as well as give protection to indigenes of the area who wish to remain in Nigeria.

“It is surprising that this issue is coming up again, this case was in the International Court of Justice for long and after years of legal arguments by both Nigeria and Cameroon, a judgment was passed in favour of Cameroon, and Nigeria, in respect to the ICJ judgment, came out and signed an agreement that it had honoured the judgment. Nigeria and Cameroon are neighbours and have a good standing relationship. The two countries have been living together and will continue to live together for ever. They have been peaceful with each other for long. It is not at this time that they should begin to have problem over issues that should have been amicably resolved. So, I think Nigeria’s position is still in conformity with the outcome of the International Court of Justice”, he said.

The minister charged people to try to harp on issues that would promote peace and harmonious co-existence instead of those that tend to cause unnecessary tension, saying what Africa needed for rapid growth and unity was peace among member countries. “Between Nigeria and Cameroon, there are several communities which members are Cameroon and which members are Nigerians; so I believe we have a duty to promote peace among ourselves, between the two countries”, he added.

[b]Speaking on the planned restructuring of the currencies, the Information Minister said the CBN, which is responsible for the planned action should not be crucified as, according to him, its head, Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had not misled the country in any form.

He said the CBN boss meant well for the country, citing the action he took few months after mounting the saddle, which, he noted, had reformed the banking sector today and built customers’ confidence as well as provide efficient service delivery in the banks.

“I think the way the Central Bank of Nigeria has been able to manage our economy without borrowing, is quite commendable and should be appreciated”, he insisted.

The minister said no action of the apex bank as regards currency restructuring in Nigeria’s history had come without criticisms, saying at the end of the day, the same people who had stood against it would see reason and begin to applaud the development. “When the N20 note, N500 note and N1000 note were introduced, people said they were not good for our economy but after the whole thing, they began to see reasons”, he noted.[/b]

He said the Economic Management Team endorsed the restructuring bid after the CBN boss was able to convince the team with his explanations on what the country stands to gain in carrying out the action, and urged every other citizen to do same.

“I think we should allow the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide leadership, give us what they are to do, it is not a matter of opinion poll but it is a matter that the experts know what they are doing. See the way he (Sanusi) took us through the period of financial meltdown, we were able to survive the situation without borrowing. The Central Bank has exuded a lot of confidence that we should give them support”, he charged.

However, there were insinuations that President Goodluck Jonathan may agree to reverse his administration’s plan to introduce the 5,000 naira note. The President was said to have met with the leadership of the National Assembly hours after the stormy sessions of the Assembly on Tuesday and assured that any “approval given in this regard can be reversed since it is the wish of the people”. It is unclear whether the president has issued a directive to that effect.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/no-going-back-on-bakassi-n5000-note-fg/

A good overview on the faults, but does he have any specifics for dragging the nation out of the quagmire?

Ok, that sounds like positive progress. Well done to all involved and I do hope they actually invest the amount quoted.