Nigeria's economy is growing at a steady rate and its inhabitants are industrious.

Musa

Luke from 2LiveCrew!

Is actually GEJ procrastinating. Abeg return to work!

Lives in Mongolia but commutes to Iyana Ipaja on a weekly basis.

Moshood.

^^^ Has been to the moon, twice.

The number of 1.4m he gives is even woefully inadequate. He doesn't even say in what sectors the jobs were "created" or whether there was any seasonality and whether he is counting the "NYSC" and other people involved in the 2011 elections process as part of his total. This is the level of obfuscation we've come to expect in Nigeria so I'm not surprised.

Nigeria probably needs twice the number quoted just to maintain our very high unemployment rate:

- 160m people in Nigeria with 70% under the age of 30 gives 112m.

- Assume half of 112m are above 18 but under 30 gives 56m. A growth rate of people reaching the age of 18 annually and who are not in full time education of 5% of 56m gives us 2.8m people. So based on the above needs to produce 2.8m new jobs every year just to stand still.

- We all know a good majority of the 18 to 30 are unemployed and a majority of those turning 18 (not in full time education) will also be unemployed.

Abacha was just another vagabond with uncertain parentage, in a long line of vagabonds with uncertain parentage. Seem to be a key qualification to become a political leader in Nigeria (present vagabond included).

Hmmm. This one is hard to believe and take oh.

I really don't think a plane with a distress call would be told to "hold" and I also doubt a pilot of a distressed plane would accept to just "chill".

Abeg, this one appears to be a distraction but knowing the big man mentality in Nigeria it sounds plausible but is improbable.

kandiikane: Seriously, That's about $625 for each victim's family. What a big fat joke!

I believe the article said $100k each, implying each passenger's family is due $100k. What that means to families with multiple members on the plane (or on the ground )is one for the experts.

1) Has cause been proven (especially as Nigerian investigations never end or see the light of day);
2) Can a bankrupt make payment; and
3) What about the dead people on the ground just going about their day.

aasog1: This really troubled me. Watching him weep like this.
GEJ, you need to be a man. Crying publicly doesnt mean you are less of a man. But you could still salvage things. You need courage, lots of it at this point.
You need to stop feeling like you dont deserve to be the president! You need to start acting like YOU CAN Be the Best President this country ever had.
Stop pointing fingers. Use the stones the oppositions are throwing you to build a monument....JESUS!!!! I feel like I should shake the president a bit
Fire all those political jobbers who are presently appointed on the basis of favoritism. Theyve stolen enough. And yes, we all know you employed those people because they campaigned and politiked for you during the past election.
Corruption is killing Nigerians, not witches and wizards! For crying outloud, who the hell is Bokoharam in any nation with a good security agency.
Everything is falling apart sir. You need to for crissakes: Man UP!!!!!!! Stop acting WEAK!!!!!

This is what GEJ's people should be telling him, somehow I doubt it!

Chai, the man had time to go for a manicure before catching a flight.

GEJ, it's not your tears that will stop the deaths but an unrelentless pursuit of truth and justice in all areas and walks of life.


We are still mourning our dead and are worried that the next flight could be our last one. Keep your tears to yourself ok.

Jon Gambrel of AP Press (Associated Press) has tweeted that Reuben Abati claimed that @Abati1990 is a genuine account:


Follow this link: https://twitter.com/#!/jongambrellAP

Unless various tweeter accounts have been hacked.

GEJ changing UNILAG's name at a whim shows a lack of seriousness and even understanding of due process, common courtesy and priorities.

Of all the problems facing Nigerian Universities, the name is not one of them. People are dying in teaching hospitals needlessly, faculties are nothing more than senior secondary schools and some female hostels are brothels while the male hostels are fraternity hangouts.

Why would a right thinking person ignore serious issues, ride roughshod over the legal due process, illegally change the name and then insist on standing on this illegality.

- has he tamed Boko Haram;
- has he started to resolve the power issue;
- has Nigeria's poverty level been reduced;
- has he united a continuing fractional country; and
- has he arrested the "petrol cabal".

He has done none of the above but instead chooses to do this.


Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining. GEJ is a disaster!

NIGERIA IN HISTORY:
The Coup Speech of Major Orkar
On this day, April 22, 1990.

"Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vatsa, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.

The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.

Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.

They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.

It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.

Anything that has a beginning must have an end. It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.

For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration. The reasons are as follows:

(a) To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria's life president at all costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life. In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.

Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:

(1) The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.

(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.

(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.

(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.

(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.

(6) Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.

Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of himself as a minister of defence, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.

It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990's, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.

(b) Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few. This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians. This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.

This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.

This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.

Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:

(1) The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.

(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida's administration by the all powerful clique.

(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.

(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.

(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.

(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.

(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.

(c) The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as the circumstances may dictate.

In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.

The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:

(i) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people's choice.

(ii) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practised in any part of the Nigeria state.

By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.

They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today. They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.

In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria. A word is enough for the wise.

This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.

We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God. All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.

The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.

A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.

All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.

All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.

Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all."

Major Gideon Orkar

jmaine:

Yes, the same PDP controlled force that was used to daze the Lekki toll gate protesters in an ACN stronghold in Lagos . . . What do you have to say to that and what presumed derogatory term should be used to address you . . .


You deflected your attention from the sad political intolerance via thuggery and violence displayed here . . To calling some other person an animal . . .well your correct . .biologically . . .we are all animals . . Including you . .

If in your haste to post you failed to see this caricature of an excuse of an apology of a human form making jest and hilarity that the police force, paid for with tax payers money are being used to attack people then you can stand in his shoes and collect my tirade directed at him.

Fashola and Lagos ACN were despicable in their use of the PDP controlled police force in attacking the Lekki demonstrators, that does not make this despicable act any less despicable.

Beaf: Lol! Did Asiwaju run?

On a serious note, the police watched? Damn!

You are worse than an animal for laughing at such a despicable act by the PDP controlled police force. May your days be influenced by your words and actions.

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Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fuc,,ing Head Off....PDP - POWER!

Nairaboi: The truth is the populace has never rejected Buhari, but the corrupt people in power. If truth be told we all know the powers that be do not want that man to come into power because his zeal to stamp out incompetency and corruption in this country is still as strong as ever. Some of us who complain that he is an extreme islamist, i have a question for u, during Buhari and Idiagbon's regime, how many christians were ordered to be beheaded or when did he do something that was anti-christainity? We all knw this is a man that can help this country with the little he can by purging out corruption. But illogical reasoning do often becloud our sense of judgements. Thereby making our quantitative reasoning become couered by both religious and ethnic sentiments.

That's why I had the "rejected" him in "quotes". I am not a Buhari (or GEJ) fan, I have seen him speak live and he showed his age very clearly. If he can find a credible replacement and he oversees a truly national campaign then maybe GEJ gets a true challenger in 2015.

Since "losing" the "election", has he visited the East, South-South, South-West, and Middle Belt to receive feedback? Has he reached out his hands to some zones who I understand would rather vote for anybody (including a plank of wood) but him?

Nigeria needs new blood. A sign of leadership is the ability to groom new leaders. Unfortunately, Buhari insists on being the only one his party puts forward.

If Buhari runs again, then he may just secure GEJ's second term.

Can't people tell the General to groom a replacement. How many times would the populace "reject" him?

Swear an affidavit with a lawyer if you're worried.

You could report it to the Police as well.

Robert Mugabe is said to be fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital.

Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is said to be fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital.
According to the Zimbabwe Mail a senior official of the 88-year-old's ZANU-PF party, said the President was undergoing intensive treatment in Singapore and that some members of his family had joined him after boarding a chartered private jet on Saturday. The alarm was raised yesterday when the government postponed a cabinet meeting set for today.

Mugabe spokesman George Charamba said in a statement: 'The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda, wishes to inform all members of cabinet that sitting has been moved from Tuesday, April 10, to Thursday, April 12, 2012.' Mugabe had been in Singapore to oversee his daughter Bona's enrolment in a postgraduate course at Singapore University.
A U.S. diplomatic cable, from June 2008, released by WikiLeaks last month suggested Mugabe has prostate cancer that has spread to other organs.

It also stated he was urged by his physician to step down in 2008, but he has remained in the job.
The news comes amid reports Mugabe had agreed to hand over power to his feared Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Yesterday The Tehran Times said Mugabe had entered into a 'gentlemen's agreement' to hand over power to Mnangagwa, 65, who assisted in orchestrating Mugabe's battle against white rule in the seventies.

Mugabe appointed the former head of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation as his campaign manager by Mugabe during the 2008 presidential election.
He was widely blamed for the shocking brutality after his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, edged ahead in the first round of voting.
Mnangagwa also received notoriety for his role in the brutal crushing of the Zapu party in the 1980s, in which thousands of civilians were killed.
The Zimbabwe Mail quoted a British-based Zimbabwe analyst, who wished to remain anonymous: 'Mugabe's health impacts entirely on Zimbabwe's political landscape. Everything revolves around his health and his age


Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127394/BREAKING-NEWS-Robert-Mugabe-reportedly-fighting-life-Singapore-hospital-undisclosed-illness.html

Negro_Ntns: Lots of thoughtful inputs suggesting a reinvention of the wheel. Not that doing so is bad, but without eliminating the root cause of why Igbo has been kept out for this long, the reinvented wheel will work for a while and then in the long run end up in just the same dead corner that you find yourself now.

I am sure the North and the West are sensitive and they understand the situation and can reasonably comprehend the injustice of presidential politics without Igbo people. However, which one of you know for a fact that Hausa/Fulani will yield the spot for an Igbo president to emerge or that Yoruba will sit out a turn so an Igbo person can become president? It is not going to happen! You, ndigbo must not ask for any of the other people to sit out their turn or yield the spot for you; that will be a hopeless expectation. Ndigbo have some strengths but you also have some weaknesses and unfortunately politicking happens to be one of those weaknesses.

Ndigbo or the East has produced more vice presidents and senate presidents than West. So in actuality, you had been in executive power far more times than West. . . . so what has prevented your emergence into the top position? I refuse to believe that the North and West colluded to block your entrance, you were already in.

West has produced only one vice president and its the same person that has been recycled twice as president. Sonekan was an interim president and his term was short lived. West has never produced a vp under a civilian regime for any of the republics since our independence. So in actuality if any region deserve the presidential spot in 2015, its West, barring which the vp position must come to West irrespective of which non-Yoruba zone produces the president.

. . . .so, truly, ndigbo needs to search inhouse and pinpoint what you are doing wrong. Why are you so close, yet so far away from the top?

Well said.

Slavery's last stronghold

Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die.
The usually stoic mother wept when she saw her child’s lifeless face, eyes open and covered in ants, resting in the orange sands of the Mauritanian desert.

The master who raped Moulkheir to produce the child wanted to punish his slave. He told her she would work faster without the child on her back.
Trying to pull herself together, Moulkheir asked if she could take a break to give her daughter a proper burial. Her master’s reply: Get back to work.
“Her soul is a dog’s soul,” she recalls him saying.

Moulkheir, who is in her 40s, told her story to CNN in December, when a reporter and videographer visited Mauritania - a vast, bone-dry nation on the western fringe of the Sahara - to investigate slavery in the place where the practice is arguably more common, more readily accepted and more
intractable than anywhere else on Earth.

Listening to her story, two facts became painfully clear: In Mauritania, the shackles of slavery are mental as well as physical.
And breaking them - an unthinkably long process - requires unlikely allies.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html

GEJ constantly aims for the lowest and most obscure target, and he misses everytime.

How one man can be in power or near power for 5 years and have absolutely nothing to show for it is truly soul destroying.

The number of children and innocents that have died through the sheer ineptitude of Nigeria's ruling political party and its elites have cost and is costing Nigerians the lives and future of their loved ones.

I don't care if the person that succeeds GEJ is cross eyed with green skin and from a cave, so long as he stops this corruption, stealing, unpatriotic acts and wide spread ineptitude, he or she will have my support. GEJ, OBJ, IBB are all the same.

Cue the boot lickers in 1, 2 ,: ...........

Here we go again: "the most nationalistic blah blah blah".

Can Nigerians not talk without claiming the highest anthill?

The topic is: getting a South Easterner into Aso Rock! There are many qualified South Easterners.

Instead of strategising, building bridges and understanding party and local politics, the "biggest anthill blah blah blah" comment is dragged out!