The Vulcan PE fund associated with Paul Allen is not known to be involved with this MOU. No news alerts, disclosures or other communications have been made to Vulcan's investors, stakeholders, limited partners or other interested parties on this venture.

There are many entities that share a similar sounding name, any of which could have signed the MOU with FGN.

For the avoidance of doubt, an MOU is not a contract and neither is it a commitment (contingent or actual) as has been portrayed by local and foreign press.

News agencies have been informed to correct, withdraw or update their reporting.

[Rafiu, popularly called "Otto".]

I see that's the quality of defectors..... Ha ha ha ha ha

I will give him the beating of his life (for a full 19mins), within an inch or two of death.

Then tell him that's what his policies are doing to Nigerians on a daily basis. With many Nigerians dying as a result.

I see GEJ still can't differentiate his buttocks from his elbow!

Maybe the 40 laptops crew can help him out!

Who is the commander in chief, that parades himself in army, navy and airforce uniform?

Who controls the NSA, NPF, SSS, Customs and borders?

Who's the head of a party that has been in power since 1999 and dominates most state govts?

Who declared a N1trn security budget, but six months in insecurity prevails?

Who controls our seas, demands our airspace is suspended for VIP movements and closes roads in our commercial city because his wife is visiting?

Who claims to know the sponsors of our daily torment but freezes to name them?

Who hires, fires and generally has his way with the leadership of our security agencies?

Who is able to suspend the laws of state by fiat?

Who is it that is comfortable sending 3,500 troops into peaceful Edo state for elections but cannot visit Borno state?

Nicely put, OBJ is the godfather of the buffoon, and his league of buffoons currently in power.

Katsumoto:

You give OBJ too much credit. He is crafty self-serving monster.

OBJ has spent his lifetime protecting his legacy; and to that he had to ensure that those more capable than him did not get to positions of power.
He joined others in preventing Awo in 1979 and he also came up with the Interim National Government in 1993 to prevent IBB from handing over to MKO after General Ishola Williams gave IBB a final ultimatum.

In his second stint as president, OBJ found credible and competent ministers from other regions such as El Rufai, Ribadu, Okonjo-Iweala, Oby, Dora but could only find Yoruba dullards such as fani kayode, Aborishade. He also, notoriously found the illitrate thief, Patricia Etteh. Worse still, OBJ selected a gang of thieves and thugs for all the South Western states such as Daniel, Oyinlola, Akala, Fayose, Bode George, etc who did more damage at a regional level.

Lastly, to protect his legacy as president, he ensured that the slow and dying Yaradua as well as the cowardly and incompetent GEJ would take over from him when there were more capable hands such as Donald Duke (who I wasn't too impressed with but who nevertheless would have proven more capable than those selected by OBJ. It is no wonder that despite squandering the economic ascension that Nigeria started to reap from democracy, OBJ is still regarded as the best president Nigeria has had. What a shame when you consider that OBJ stole in excess of $16B meant for the power sector, an act that has ensured that Nigeria cannot keep up with developmental progress of other hitherto 3rd world nations.

No sir, there is little to be admired or liked about OBJ.

Can this page be cleaned up:

https://www.nairaland.com/983062/three-killed-30-vehicles-burnt/6#11361315

Louis88: You are a prophet of doom,it won't work for you,your plan has failed.

If I'm a prophet of doom, GEJ is death's condom. GEJ is completely useless as a leader, hopeless as a man and pathetic as a tribal king.

GEJ does not have a single achievement he can point to since 1999, even now instead of doing one single thing he is setting up yahoo yahoo boys to invade the Internet and blogosphere with their foul manner.

The dead and dying during his regime will see that justice prevails and their deaths are avenged.

Warning, do not disturb:

"Election stealing in progress"

"PDP about to kill the electorate in order to [win] the state, "rule" Edo and then not give a DAMN!"

Mandelaguy: Are you not getting your answers? Rabble raisers,this page will not be enough to give you updates on developmental strides,expositions on corruption and directional leadership. The problem is that Nigerians want over 51 years of error and bad leadership to be fixed overnight,it will not work for us. We have to pull down the bad structures,before erecting solid ones. That is how renovations are done,but in our Naija case,it is total overhaul and demolition of old order before we can move forward and I see this man sincerely doing that,with opposing forces fighting to bring him down.

GEJ is a buffoon. He has been in govt since 1999 and federal govt since 2007. He has been substantive president since May 2010 yet jokers and Psycophants keep saying overnight.

GEJ has roughly completed 2 years, with nothing to show for it.

The problem with Nigerians is that we are too docile, hence this pack of vermin would have been chased away as they only come to steal and destroy.

If GEJ does even half of those things I will open bottles of Bollingers and Crystal for pro GEJ people, but I know that he wouldn't, and that the situation will even be worse with even more poverty, more dead, and more terrorism.

On a per capita basis the oil rent seekers are richer than the agriculture workers, that is obvious. But on a total economy basis then agriculture is bigger.
Bear in mind that agriculture includes a vast array of things. Insults withdrawn as not deserved.

Oil revenue is a source of fx and is what the lazy govt and its Psycophants are dependent on.

However agriculture is the major employer and main contributor to Nigeria's economic output.

Our GDP is being rebased, according to NOI, and once this is done the GDP should "rise" from under $300bn to around $400bn. Most of that "increase" will not be oil related as oil's addition to GDP is easily ascertainable.

Only buffoons will think that 160m people live off oil alone, especially when the value from oil is captured by the IOCs, Govt and their lackeys.

muami: The government sends a 'large' delegation to Brazil, we condemn. The government sends no delegation to Olympics yet we do not commend.

Why should we commend? Do you clap for a 52 year old man just because he has learnt to differentiate his buttocks from his elbow?

Let's wait and see, I'm sure some clowns somewhere will still find an event they will want to visit in London!

Brain teaser questions:

As already commented above the trick here is to use approximations, also:

1) ask questions as the interviewer may give guidance;
2) make assumptions and announce them eg: the bus has a square shape and no seats or passengers and a length of x, width of y and height of z;
3) make assumptions about the golf ball;
4) let the interviewer know if you're making simple but useful assumptions eg: the golf balls are in the boxes they came in and each box holds 10 golf balls, each box is of length a, width b and height c; and
5) the key here is not your answer but the logical process and thinking steps that you demonstrate.

Best of luck.

Her mouth doesn't smell at all.

Nicely put.

T9ksy: Both OBJoke and MKO would never be considered as “omoluabi” in the proper Yoruba cultural context hence when OBJ was jailed by his partners-in- crime, the yorubas didn’t shed any tears for him. They remembered how OBJ rigged the ’79 election in favour of his hausa/Fulani puppet masters.

Same thing transpired when Diya who comes from the same LGA in ijebuland as my good self was held on a trumped-up coup plot. Yorubas never forgot how he (diya) looked the other way as abacha-his boss, sent many Yoruba sons and daughters into exile or 6ft under.

Ditto, MKO who was neck in with the northerners in the late 70's and was actually vilifying the old sage to the great amusement and benefit of his northern allies but unfortunately our detractors who don’t understands us failed to appreciate what really transpired during the june 12th saga.Despite his magnamousity, MKO had trampled and rubbished the yoruba culture to the extent, he could not be placed in the same mould as an, "omoluabi". The yorubas weren’t exactly fighting for MKO per se but rather for the fact that, here was a man who majority of the populace voted for, to be their next president so no group of people(in the country)had the right to then arbitrally scuttle the election just ‘cause it didn’t fit in with their ulterior and sinister motive.

Its akin to how the yorubas fought for the drunken fisherman with no shoes during the “yar adua-can-rule-from-his coffin” shenannigan that saw turai relegating Badluck to her bag-lady.

It’s all about fairness and justice(to all)which forms part of the bedrock of the yoruba cultural identity and norms.

Not one single coherent statement or sentence from this buffoon.

Please God watch over Nigeria directly because we don't have a President. The buffoon in Aso Rock is of dubious intention and thinks us all beneath him.

Should you choose to relieve Nigerians of this buffoon, please do it quickly and painlessly.

This guy is a waste.

GEJ is a buffoon. There I said it, and his sycophants are even much bigger buffoons. May the ill his buffoonery is causing Nigeria follow him.

Why I won't declare my assets publicly - President Jonathan



The president says the public declaration of assets is not right and that he won't do so no matter the criticism

President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the mounting calls on public office holders to publicly declare their assets while in office, saying such clamour by Nigerians is not right, as officials should be allowed to determine whether making their assets public agree with their principles.

He made it clear his own principle disagree vehemently with allowing the people he governs know how much he is worth and what he really owns.

Fielding questions on Sunday during his third Presidential media chat at the Aso Villa Abuja, Mr. Jonathan said when the matter camme up during his time as Vice President to late President Musa Yar’adua he made it very clear that it was not a right decision to take.

Asked why he has refused to publicly declare his assets as an example for members of his cabinet, the President said, “The issue of public asset declaration is a matter of personal principle. That is the way I see it, and I don’t give a damn about it, even if you criticise me from heaven. When I was the Vice President , that matter came up, and I told the former President (late Musa Yar’adua) let’s not start something that would make us play into the hands of people and create an anomalous situation in the country.

“The law is clear. A public officer should declare his assets, and if there are issues, then the relevant agencies would have a basis to assess whether you have amassed wealth or not. When it is said that people should declare their assets in public, it is not only the President or the vice President, it includes everybody, incluidng Ministers.

“When I was a governor in Bayelsa state for about a year before becoming vice president, I was investigated thoroughly. I have nothing to hide. But, because I was under somebody and it was becoming an issue, because of the media, and because my boss had declared, it was said that the vice President must. I declared, not because I wanted to."

Mr. Jonathan continued, “Initially I said they can talk about it from morning to night, I will not. I said it is a matter of principle. It is not proper. If one amends the law to say that only the President and the Vice should declare assets publicly, fine. But, presently everybody who is holding political office is expected to do, and I say it is not right. Those who made the law knew why they put the law that way. I could be investigated when I leave office.

“You don’t need to declare assets publicly, otherwise you are playing to the gallery.You don’t need to publicly declare assets. That’s a matter of principle. If I have to declare publicly, it means every polictical office holder will have to declare publicly. And it is not the right thing to do. That is my believe.

“It is not the President’s declaration of assets that would change the economy. There are challenges secuirty, power and revolutionising agriculture. These are areas we should be interested in . Whether Mr. Jonathan publicly declares his asstes or not is not the issue.

On the controversial trip to Brazil for the Conference on Sustainable development, the President said he had no regret for attending the summit in spite of the instability in the country.

He said he could not afford to boycott the summit because of the country's internal challenges, as doing do would have sent wrong signals to the international community.

He explained, “I have no regrets travelling to Brazil for the Rio Conference lat week. The issue of Boko Haram is very pathetic. I sympathise with people who have lost relations and property. People feel unsafe, and I feel the pain. As the president, if one person dies, I feel so sad.

“A lot of Nigerians who were worried that I traveled to Brazil did so out of ignorance. One of the tactics of terrorists is to strangle governemnt . If they hear that the President, Vice President or Ministers could not travel because of their activities, they would celebrate.

“The government of Nigeria must not stop for a second because of terror. Let the relevant security agencies ocntinue to do their work and allow governemnt to continue to function. The day government stops functioning, it communicates very serious negative signals to the international community. If governemnt stops to function, we would have played into the hands of the terrorists.

Boko Haram and their sponsors cannot and will never stop the governemnt from moving. All the arms of governemnt will continue to keep faith with their national and international engagements . They cannot bring us to our knees. We must continue to fight to bring Boko Haram to an end.”




Source: http://premiumtimesng.com/news/5741-i_wont_declare_my_assets.html

They claim to be doing their best and will deny knowledge of all that is bad.

On the hard questions, they claim initiatives are being put in place to resolve these but either:
- 1) infrastructure is not on ground; or
- 2) social will, lack of know how or vested interest are frustrating things.

Politicians met and questioned: Minister for trade and 2 ambassadors.

Presidential media chat is:

- GEJ's trogolitic aides provide talking points
- Media clown then has to craft pre-approved questions around the talking points
- GEJ crams talking points and pre-approved questions, but still messes the whole thing up.

Children Look, A Slow President.

FORUM

June Deadline: Knocks, Anger As Jonathan Fails To Cage Boko Haram

On March 28, 2012 in faraway Seoul, the South Korean capital, President Goodluck Jonathan boasted to the international community that his administration would end the menace being posed to the nation by the vicious Boko Haram sect by June this year. The sect was incensed. It quickly replied Jonathan in an angry tone, threatening to devour him and his administration before the deadline. June is about to end and the menace of the sect is almost getting out of control. SONI DANIEL takes a look at the seeming invincibility of the virulent sect and government’s inability to checkmate its nefarious activities.

At last, June is coming to an end. When President Goodluck Jonathan declared three months ago that he would stem the tide of Boko Haram by the end of June, hopes were high that something was being done by the Federal Government to ensure the safety of the endangered citizens, who have been terrorized and traumatized beyond measure by incessant bombings.

It was an assurance that Nigerians had been waiting for. That perhaps, aptly explained why many Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief as soon as the President made the promise. They could at least sleep with their eyes closed.

But three months after the presidential assurance, the spate of bombings appears to have been intensified and the number of deaths arising from the blasts quadrupled, rendering Mr. President’s promised a mere rhetoric.

Many Nigerians have been shocked by the level of brutality and the voracious scale with which the destructive elements have gone in trying to prove the government wrong.

In the main, they have made it clear to the world that the Nigerian government has no idea of what to do to curtail their excesses or that even if the government knows what to do in a bid to stop them from further damage to the nation’s psyche, it does not have the political will to move against them for reasons yet to be made public.

Jonathan had in the interview with South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, said, “We have the belief that in the middle of this year; in terms of security of individuals, we will have full control. The danger is limited to some parts of the country. It does not extend to other parts of country.”

But Jonathan did not even return home when the militants fired back at him and his administration, threatening to consume them before the expiration of the deadline.

“You, Jonathan, cannot stop us; instead we will devour you in the three months like you are boasting,” Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, reportedly warned in a video entitled “Message to Goodluck Jonathan”, posted on Youtube. He was flanked by four masked men holding rifles as he spoke.

“We are proud soldiers of Allah; we will never give up as we fight the infidels. We will emerge as winners … we will finish you and end your government,” Shekau said in Arabic and the Hausa languages.

Shekau vowed that it must destroy Christians and Christianity in Nigeria particularly those killing Muslims in Nigeria just as it said it will also kill all Muslims aiding the arrest and harassment of its members.

“If death is your worldly gain, for us, it is eternal victory to die working for Allah. Our joy is to die in Jihad for Allah against infidels like you…

“We are also aware of some Muslims using our name to make money, we will say nothing but let them continue, and they will meet Allah in the last day,” Shekau added.

And to make real its threat, the sect has systematically coordinated and executed many deadly bombings since March that have disfigured several states in the north and claimed many innocent lives, mostly Christians in the north.

Shortly after its leader vowed to down devour the government, their fighters descended angrily on the Bayero University Kano, while the worshippers were assembled for their service and killed no fewer than 20 persons, among them two professors.

While the relatives were still mourning their loved ones, the sect went to the ECWA in Kaduna and detonated its lethal weapon, brutally terminating the lives of 38 persons in the process. As if to prove a point that its men had taken over the nooks and crannies of the north, the Boko Haram hatchet men trailed the Taraba police commissioner’s convoy and opened fire on him. While the police boss escaped unhurt, 11 others were killed and no fewer than 20 injured.

They were not yet done with their suicides missions. On April 26, 2012 took their fight to the doorsteps of the media, by attacking the Abuja office of ThisDay Newspaper, killing six persons by the time they left the premises.

On the same day, supporters of the sect threw bombs into a building in Kaduna housing three media establishment. Their explanation days after the attacks, was that they were sending a warning to the affected media houses to desist from working against them. The sect contended that the offending media houses had been reporting its events out of context and giving the world a wrong impression of what they were out to do.

A few days after they attacked the media houses, they sent their fighters to Bauchi, where they almost leveled the EYN Church and killed 15 worshippers before retreating.

The evil men moved from there and plied their weapons on the Church of God in Nigeria, COCIN in Jos, killing three persons while some of them were at Biu in Borno State, killing and maiming other worshippers, as if a religious war had been declared in the northern part of Nigeria against Christians.

While the nation thought they had seen the worst, loyalists of the sect, took their assault to Kaduna on Sunday, June 17, 2012 destroying three churches and killing scores of people with several bomb blasts that shook the city and its environs to its foundation. The bombings together with the reprisals that followed, left no fewer than 80 persons dead and hundreds wounded.

The sect might have taken its luck to the extreme when it assumed that it would kill, destroy and get away with it in Kaduna, as it has been doing in other places. But its calculations misfired and almost consumed the fighters.

Just as the dust in Kaduna was about to settle, the unrepentant militants, swooped on Damaturu, the Yobe State capital and left behind a tale of woes, tears and blood. They relatives of the victims of the blasts are yet to recover from the devastation. They may never recover from the sorrow that has enveloped them.

They had expected the government to protect them in line with the provisions of the Constitution, which makes the protection of lives and property, the cardinal duty of any government. That has amply been provided for by the Nigerian constitution but the leaders hardly give a serious consideration to that sacred responsibility.

As Jonathan personally confessed while in Seoul, the government appears to have been overwhelmed by the level of violence that has gripped the nation, having not prepared for it. As it stands, many believe that the militant sect has somewhat succeeded in making the north almost ungovernable through unrestrained bombings without appropriate response from the law enforcement agents.

The President had admitted recently, “But regrettably, we did not know that terrorism was coming. Now we are faced with the reality.”

“Our security architecture never expected suicide bombings and therefore was not prepared for it,” Jonathan confessed, saying however that something was being done to confront the malevolent elements. But whatever is being done, has not translated to any sense of security and safety for the ordinary Nigerian and there is no hope that the situation will soon change for the better.

A forlorn hope now pervades the nation as far as the security of lives and property is concerned.

A top military source, confirmed to one of our correspondents that the military establishment is as ruffled by the Boko Haram sect as the citizens of Nigeria, since they were taken unawares by the violent sect.

The source said that it was impossible for the military to prevent bombings in all parts of the north.

“The Nigerian Army is as confused as all other Nigerians on how to handle the terrorists who appear set to provoke ethnic and religious war in Nigeria,” the source said but assured like Jonathan, that the military would contain the rising insecurity in the land.

Apparently angered by the seeming inability of the Nigerian government to checkmate the pervasive crisis that has the potential to consume the whole nation, two former governors of Kaduna State, Col. Hameed Ali and Alh. Balarabe Musa, have flayed President Jonathan’s poor handling of the festering security situation in the country.

Their grouse stems from the fact that the government appears to have been overwhelmed by the magnitude of the attacks unleashed on the north by Boko Haram and therefore unable to proffer any solution.

Apart from the angst over the governments failure to curtail the rampaging Boko Haram sect, the Nigerians are also miffed that Jonathan jetted out of town to attend the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil when Kaduna and Yobe States have virtually been overrun by the sect. Many Nigerians are upset that the President has opted to treat an inflamable matter that affects lives and property with terity.

“The President is fooling Nigerians; he says one thing and does another and he is not matching his words with actions. The government of President Jonathan is careless about the happenings in the country; it is not concerned about the bombings and killings of innocent lives. They are not taking steps to curtail what is happening,” Ali said.


Aligning with the former governors, Shehu Sani, who is the President of the Civil Right Congress of Nigeria, said that the unfolding security challenges in the country called for dialogue and not tall promises.

“The security agencies deceived the President that they were going to end the Boko Haram activities in three months, but as it is now, innocent people are being killed by both the Boko Haram and the security agencies.

“The President is insensitive to the suffering of the people; as there is no comprehensive plan that will end the bombings in the country. The President does not have the will to fight insecurity,” Sani said.

But Dangiwa Umar, another former governor of the state, defended the President’s handling of the security situation in the wake of the Boko Haram onslaught.

Umar said, “It is clear that the activities of the Boko Haram are beginning to give way. We have recorded 80 percent of success in the fight against the insecurity. The security situation is improving.

“Nigerians need to join hands with the government to ensure adequate security in the country because the issue of security cannot be left to the government alone.

“The security situation will improve very soon. I will appeal to all Nigerians to join hands with the federal government to fight the insecurity. The federal government has done a lot to curtail the activities of the Boko Haram,” he said.

Whether Nigerians will be patient and patriotic enough to heed the advice of the former governor, is left to be seen. But the government itself may also need to take at least a modicum of measures to protect the endangered citizens, particularly in the north, to give them the hope and courage to begin to support its actions against the enemies of the people.

That may be the best starting point of restoring hope in a nation that has been enmeshed in a war that has neither a clear direction nor an altruistic shape mission. Whatever the sect does is sure to spell doom for the rest of the nation.

Source: http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/28038/2012/06/23/june_deadline_knocks_anger_jonathan_fails_cage_boko_haram.html

The man Dasuki


The new National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Mohammed Dasuki, comes from the royal family of Sokoto: He is the son of the former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmed Dasuki, who was deposed by the military regime of the late Gen. Sani Abacha.

[b]Believed to be close to former dictator Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Abacha dismissed Dasuki and some military officers in 1993. Dasuki’s closeness to Babangida was said to have come about from the fact that he was once the dictator’s ADC, and he was actively involved in the 1985 coup that brought Babangida to power.

Dasuki later fled to the United States in 1995 after he was accused by the Abacha regime of being a party to a coup plot allegedly led by retired Col. Lawan Gwadabe.

On his return, former President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him as the managing director of the National Security and Printing Company at the behest of Babangida.

A director of Regency Alliance, an insurance company, Dasuki attended the Washington DC and George Washington University, where he obtained a BA in International Relations and MA in Security Policy Studies respectively.

He had his military training in several institutions in Nigeria and abroad including the Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Oklahoma, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth Kensas.

His major task is to arrest the Boko Haram insurgency, which is threatening to spread into other parts of the country, apart from the North.

He will also be expected to tackle militancy in the South-South, where Nigeria derives its main source of revenue.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/the-man-dasuki/

Hmm, the start of another ethnic bashing thread...

Is it this same National Assembly that is discredited by all, including Otedollar, that is the basis for calling the SEC lady all those disgusting names.

Sometimes people in Nairaland post comments like as if they want a "Rwanda" to happen in Nigeria.

For all you know Mr Bolaji Ibrahim Bello may not even be Yoruba but just someone with a Yoruba first name, which is becoming more common in Nigeria (e.g. Segun Aganga and Rotimi Amaechi). Even if he is Yoruba, being Yoruba does not automatically mean that he would not make a shameful exit in the manner of his predecessor.

How she got the name " Cindyrella" is legendary among the boys in her street! )

Society, what is society, who's society, where does society begin and where does it end? And can you change your society like you change clothes? If you do not see society everyday does society matter?

You do realise that Abiola had a Bookshop that sold bibles, christian books etc.

GEJ is too much of a big thief and a dense blockhead, his day of reckoning is coming and it would be best if his sycophants and hanger ons are close by when that day comes so they can drink of the cup.

Speaks seven languages and is an international adult film star.