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ZUBY77: Nnaji knows about electricity more than most of other bidders. Atleast we know that. He bidded for the plant in his home state indiirectly. His resignation will give him the right to keep bidding anyway.
I m sure that reason by the presidency is not enough to sack the only working minister. The presidency could have simply told him to withdraw from bidding since he was their best minister

Best Minister based on what? If the press has found the story and sensationalized it- you will be one of the people asking GEJ and Barth to step down.

1025: whether we like it or not, this naughty professor is working with jonathan behind the scene as they move closer to selling phcn to their private companies.
he has to resign to do the dirty work of his owner(jonathan).
why is abati and labrown marko not resigning?
we are waiting.

Sometimes I wonder where people keep their brains when they type/

mobillon: So I wonder. It's as if you do not get what I am saying. This is a question on police actions on the case. Don't you see? How can a girl be raped and murdered in a hotel room and her corpse deposited in a mortuary for almost 3 weeks and the cops did nothing to go after the murderers until her powerful family raised the alarm? The moment her corpse was in the morgue, the police should have use the CCTV records in the hotel to start a man-hunt and initiate a search for the girl's family.
So the case was in Yaba? How am I to know since I live in Jos, plateau? The way you write you give the impression you are an angry policeman who do not like my comments. Instead of the Police glossing and bragging that they have solved this case, they should be asking themselves questions. Since these murderous bastards have admitted they have drugged and raped other victims in the past, who knows, they might well be hiding the truth, since lying is their profession, and might well have killed more of their duped victims in the past and the cases have remained unsolved to this day simply because the police never did their job?
I beg you, if do not understand what I am saying you should better refrain from posting your irrelevant commends. Stupid Fool!

You are the silly fool here. LOL. Posting irrelevant issues on a thread or topic with no similarity. If you dont know the case is in court, what then do you know? Mumu.

Me a police man - u wish. Abeg - try to be current before trying to talk on issues, and learn to post comments on relevant topics.

ZIM DRILL: its not mandatory to buy a car with MOT and TAX but the car wont be allowed to be on the road, the same with a MOT and TAX only if you are not insured
the only difference with the above is that the car with MOT and TAX can be parked in public road, the one without MOT but with TAX can be parked in public road but can be driven becoz it doesnt have MOT which is a road worth certificate

on buying one without any of the two it depends on individuals eg DIY guy can get a car without MOT aslong he knows what failed on the car and the cost to repair it though the repairing bill will be added to total money you bought the car

whereas on average most people want a car with an average 5 months mot and tax so that s/he will just insure the car and s/he is on the road

Who says it is?

ebamma: when other countries are building rockets and travelling to mars,we are here clapping our hands for gej for repairing some molue trains.

LOL- comments like this make me laugh. And when we built satellites and sent them to space what did people like you say? You said Nigeria is not ripe for sending satellites to space. So - what do you want?

Suddenly Barth Nnaji is a good man in the eyes of NairaLand folks. Only few days ago they were shouting him down and calling him a lier for saying power has improved.

shut up OP- he resigned - and wasnt dismissed.

kodewrita: thats because Google also tracks you personally. Hence even if Facebook were to permit it, it would still show as long as you are Nigerian or you read Nigerian content.

Simple.

Is that not what i am saying? You are wrong to say it is or was an onslaught on NairaLand as if the ads were targeting NairaLand. Wetin u take this your NairaLand for self. LOL. Why do I even bother. We had discussed this issue on another thread two weeks ago.

https://www.nairaland.com/1022381/what-meaning-president-jonathans-adverts

kodewrita: My dear idiot, google this please: ---> Site targeted google adverts. You can create Google adverts and target them at a specific site.

Next time, ask questions before jumping cliffs with your mouth.

LOL - see response. Maybe you spend your 24 hours on NairaLand hence you only see it on NairaLand. I have seen that message on even Asian and even British websites. LOL.

Everything in Nigeria is not needed, not needed, not needed. So what is needed?

Mumu - so because it appears on NairaLand, it means your so called 40 Laptops have made an onslaught on NairaLand? Do you know what google adsense and adwords means?

Chiopatra: Look welepeleri,lets face the fact,the man is trying to gain favour from us.After treating Nigeria as shit,en eye don open,just because our relationship wit oda foreign countries are getting strong,not minding America.

Do you people use your brains before typing things? I suspect "US" includes yourself? What favour is he seeking from you? So you can vote for him or so you can feed him?

is the currency out yet?

Do you people ever use your brains before coming up with topics like these?

big deal 007: Seun Kuti, grandson of Funmilayo Kuti, one of the women whose pictures have been approved to appear on the proposed N5,000 note, yesterday said his grandmother would not approve of the image, if she were still alive.

He spoke while appearing on a television programme.

He said: “I do not have the power to stop the government from printing the note but I would want the government to remove my grandma’s face from the so-called note.”

According to him, the Federal Government did not officially inform the Kuti family of the intended action.

He said:  “It was through the radio that we got to know that her face would be used…we were not officially contacted.”

Mtcheew.

It is so amazing that Nigerians dont like anything good being said about their country. What type of human beings are they? I bow o. not to their supremacy but to their negativism.

Thats why when they go to church and hear, you will be blessed, they start raining insults on the pastor like say he don kill their mama.

kennz: Jonathan is a JUNK. evrybdy knw Boko Haram ain poor,bt i do hpe dey bomb eida jonathan hmself or hs famli first,den he'll knw wat action to tek.

Useless govt.

dunce

Euroclydon: if you like believe it or not...e no concern me.

LOL. Dont mind him. If d same source has said Nigeria is going down the drain, he would have believed.

mobillon: Something is very fishy here. The things we hear just do not add up. We are not hearing the real truth from the cops.
On NTA NewsLine, Cynthia's Mum in Jos said that she was surprised when her daughter called her on the 22nd July to tell her she had arrived Lagos safely to clear goods for her boutique that had arrived from Overseas. It was a surprise to the mum because Cynthia was supposed to be in school, Nassarawa State University where she was doing her master’s degree in public admin. A day after talking with Cynthia on the phone, the Mum once again called her but this time around it was a Man that answered the phone and told her that her daughter was sick and was in the Hospital. The mum believing that her daughter had been kidnapped reported the matter to the local police station in Jos and alerted relations in Lagos that her daughter was missing. The father’s testimony on TV made it clear that he believed their daughter had been kidnapped and were waiting to get the ransom demand. After 2 weeks of putting pressure on the Man with Cynthia’s phone, the guy yielded and told them to forget their daughter since she was already dead. It will appear that was what shocked the Dad, a retired general, into action to put pressure on the police to take the case seriously.
There are many things wrong with what we are hearing. The kidnappers of course have confessed to the killing of Cynthia but there are several things they have lied about. We all know some of the biggest ploy employed by 419 is to inform their victims that goods have arrived for them from overseas and their victims should bring the cash to clear them. I myself have received many calls from 419 claiming to be long lost friends from London and are sending valuable goods from Overseas which they want me to travel to Lagos and clear and help them sell it and remit some of the money to them, keeping my fat commission. I believe when the Killers knew Cynthia’s line of business they deceived her into coming to Lagos to clear some goods which they claimed to have ordered. One of the Killers claimed he paid for her flight ticket. This is false. 419 will not pay 30k for a lady to come to Lagos. If they had, they would have been at the Airport to pick her up and drive her to her hotel which they would have also booked for her. As it is, it was only after she arrived the hotel, booked a room for herself, that she called them and the CCTV evidence caught them going into the Hotel room with nothing and coming out with a big package.
The Killers claimed to have drugged her with rohypnol and had to tie her up when she came out of it. This cannot be true. Rohypnol is call the date-rape drug because it knocks their victims out for a minimum of 5 hrs and during that time it causes amnesia, ie memory loss, so that the victim has no idea that she had been raped. Some victims actually find themselves pregnant without knowing how it happened. If they had used rohypnol on Cynthia, there was just no way she would have come out of it and struggled with them. My opinion is that when they came to her hotel room she probably instantly suspected they ware fakes and probably refused to cooperate with them. Then they probably knocked her out unconscious and tied her up with the tape they came along with. Then the raped her to dead. As for the presence of the condoms in the hotel room, you might be surprise to learn that even rapists are scared of catching HiV since they do not know the sexual history of their victims. And as for the presence of the Virginal Vibrator which they claimed was brought by Cynthia, it is clear that experience would have taught the killers that the best sex is had if a woman is moist. A woman becomes moist only if she gives herself willingly, she loses the moisture if she is forced or becomes unconscious. The rapist can always use Vaseline but it is no substitute for the natural moisture. A vibrator is a very powerful genital massager; it will induce moisture even if a woman is unconscious under the influence of rohypnol or alcohol.
Now there are questions that I begged for answers. The news had it that one of the killers called the hotel to inform them that there was a corpse in their room and they should dispose it. It would appear that it was disposed successfully since Cynthia was eventually found weeks later in a mortuary. It should be clear to the hotel management immediately that the girl had been murdered. There is no mention about what the police investigations regarding a murder in a hotel room were. The mortuary that accepted the corpse no doubt would not have missed the fact that it was a murder case. What did the police do to track the murderers initially and what effort was made to trace the identity of the corpse?
It appears to me the hotel and some cops probably covered up the murder. The time for the police to start investigating the murder was when the hotel sent the corpse to the mortuary. That’s when they should have looked at the CCTV footage provided by the hotel and picked up the killers. In that way it would have been the police that would have notified the general of the demise of his daughter and not the killer after 2 weeks of Cynthia’s disappearance. And why is it that up till now the police have refused to release the name of the hotel to the press? Probably because money has exchanged hands and to re-cover up the initial cover-up.
Many aspects of the case have been hidden to us. It would appear that it was when the General heard that his daughter was dead that he initiated a search for her corpse which was eventually traced to an unnamed mortuary in Lagos. The records in the mortuary would have shown it was deposited by staff of a particular hotel and the hotel’s CCTV (thank God they have one) would have pointed to the killers.
Instead of glossing over their “Success”, the Police should be asking itself several questions. If the general was a man of little means, it would have been impossible for him to organize a search in ALL the Mortuaries in Lagos to try to identify his daughter’s corpse. Besides, having found the corpse, the police might then not pursue the case further. It’s on record from several families that whenever a murder of a loved one is reported the first thing the police does is demand money for an autopsy so that the cause of the murder can be established; it had even once happened when the victim had been shot in error by a mobile policeman…despite the fact that any fool could see the man had died of gunshots the police still demanded money for autopsy. So if Cynthia were from a poor family her corpse would have remained forgotten in an unknown mortuary to be eventually handed over to medical students for anatomy dissection practice. As it is, her father is a retired powerful General with the means to search and with powerful friends to breathe down on the neck of the police.
I hope the Press will thoroughly investigate this story and let us know exactly what happened.

Mr lawyer - what is the relevance of this story of yours to the title of the thread? If you think your own opinion supercedes that of the police - then go to Yaba court where the case has been arraigned and give your opinion as an amicus curie - friend of the court - instead of coming here to bla bla bla on an issue that is already in court.

aspabay: Werepe has been set loose again, we know you want recognition, but 40 man laptop team? I know you are not qualified. Try using some preservatives on your mouth.

Duncey Duncey - Dunce. Recognition from who and for what? Do you even use your brain before you type all these stup id things you say? Recognition from who?

topsywest: We have had enough of these rhetoric.

This could be likened to a university student who kept gallivanting and flexing and kept failing his exams from 100L through 300L and and only consoles himself that he will perform well in 400L/500L.

Robert Collier says, 'Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.' Am afraid, current administration is not doing much to place it on the path of success come 2013.

My advise to GEJ is to resign and apologize to Nigerians for taking us backwards and allow someone competent enough to step in after all he was never really prepared for this.. It only came by accident.

You may actually not be thinking when you wrote that.

LOL. Its true. The way some people abuse him - is that also criticism? Are those constructive criticisms? Has he offended them hence their resort to personal abuses? Criticize from today till you loose your life, noone cares - but personal abuses and name calling, haba?

Na GEJ cause all Nigeria's problem in some people's mind.

Lets see how many will call me names for the above.

Call me laptop number anything - na you get your stinking mouth.

Creative mind: GEJ's transformation agenda is real, atleast Abati has been transformed. I didn't know that reasonability could be bought out of patriots with cash and cheap political offices. Comparing Abraham Lincoln and the likes with GEJ is a time certified misplacement of priority. Please read this article title "THE SHADOW OF HOPE" by Creative mind at the literature section.

LOL. Promoting your cheap article.

[quote author=Duke_Nija]Let us all be considerate and show some empathy while dishing out our opinions. Its been only a freaking year!! What type of husband re-marries after a year of his wifes death? Jesus! What is wrong with humans? Even if you killed your wife, or had the worst marriage or love women to the death. You'll for the sake of her memories, your sanity and guilt wait for sometime. 12months is just the eye drying period. I don't know why we are all being hypocritical here because its a man wanting a new wife and not the other way round. What would people say, especially the wifes family. A woman you build a large and grown family with, only to replace her within 12months or slightly more of her demise is shameful. Opinions here are based on Ethnicity. Some are more liberal about marriages IMO. Remarriage isn't something you rush into. Bringing a new woman into the home requires prayers because it could be the undoing of the man and his family as a whole if he brings in the wrong woman. Finally, he doesn't need se.x cos he obviously didn't need it with your late mom. Let him get it where he's been getting it. Nonsense.[/quote]How long did it take Pastor Kumuyi to remarry? He is not a good husband.

violent: The picture provides a vivid description of the modern day Nigeria. Chaotic, Confused, Uninspiring, mutilated, depressed, irreparable and abandoned with a completely bleak future!

Why we as a nation, are so cursed, to thrive in such despicable filth despite the land flowing with milk and honey (what milk and honey?) is beyond human understanding.

LOL - haba. because of Market? Its a spare part market for God's sake!

Kinikini: I think Reuben Abati again got it wrong. I can imagine Reuben Abati is trying very hard to play himself back into the heart of GEJ with this write up. Unfortunately, the write up is absurd, uninteligent and completely fallacious and misleading. Reuben should remember there would be life after GEJ's Presidency and therefore should tow the path of honour. I duff my hat to Former Minister of State for Finance Remi Babalola who willingly resigned from GEJ government. I see many Minister's in this government who ought to know better to quit than continue to work with GEJ.
Reuben should get out of this government and find another job to do. Not even GOD would be able to defend the shortfalls of GEJ and his wife.

So sad. The worst write up I have ever read from Reuben Abati. How people change for a little pot of porridge. Very sad and hurting self distruction by Reuben Abati.

What is the point repeating that garbage you wrote up there three times? LOL

Your own write up is the one that is not absurd, unintelligent, not fallacious and non misleading, why, because it is still critical of GEJ - but because ABATI is not a GEJ critic - then his write up is unintelligent. Wither the intelligence in yours?

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THIS intervention has been made necessary, not by any personal dissent with the catalogue of issues and constancy of criticism of the President, but their stereotypically patterned style from a club of journalists and opinion article writers, who willy-nilly, have been levying a perpetual media war against the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

This club of journalists and writers has turned themselves into a diatribe monster against the President Jonathan-led Federal Government. They criticize the President destructively in everything.

For these ideologues, diatribe journalism has become an end in itself; a way of life. They have made themselves ready tools for discrediting and running down the administration, whatever that approximate.

It must be understood that our ‘newspaper professors’ whose pens drip with venom don’t see anything good about Nigeria. They contribute to and in fact, compound the issues bedeviling the country. The antics of these writers reasonably interfere with the fights against corruption, terrorism and insecurity, and in extreme cases, threaten the sovereignty of the Nigerian state. This is why it is often said that the Nigerian media are part and parcel of the Nigerian problem.

Arguably, the Nigerian media space has been callously abused and the press freedom ascribed to the Constitution itself has now been converted to a license for panel-beating the nation, especially the President. Is it then a thing of surprise that the administration too has naturally developed a thick skin to the unabating winter of criticisms directed at it? The danger in this is that even well-intentioned pieces of constructive criticism, however objective they may seem, are now being viewed with an eye of cynicism and suspicion by the Nigerian establishment.

It is fashionable for these Nigerians to brand themselves public affairs analysts, specialising of course, in nothing else but the ossified problems of their country. The funniest part of it is that they always want to prove to the reading public that they are ‘professors’ in the special craft of vitriolic and lambasting Nigeria.

That is sadly their benchmark of being good writers. They, therefore, feel vindicated by the negative things they write about their country.

They don’t offer any reasonable solutions to the multitude of challenges besetting the country. Reeling out Nigeria’s ailments week in week out, they write with gusto. Their pens drip with venom; their pieces are characteristically heavy on character assassination, and they want the world to believe that they are pen professors who specialise in destructive criticism of their country, especially of the President.



Secondly, this intervention has
also been justified by the compelling need to articulate that destructive criticism is no longer a mark of patriotism, courage, intelligence or nationalism as it once used to be taken for in the past, especially during the colonial era.

As it were, the Nigerian print media space has been poisoned and contaminated by invectives, sustained campaigns of calumny, propaganda, canards, mauling, mudslinging, buck-passing, name-calling, stereotyping, recriminations, and glittering generalities.

Destructive criticism in all its manifestations had never done any good to a nation in the long-run in that it is not a component of sustainable nation-building.

The use to which the Nigerian print media has been put in recent times calls for caution because it bodes ill for our democracy. It would seem that the freedom of the press is being abused by these writers who have turned themselves into ‘pen warriors’ against the Jonathan administration. Diatribe journalism, as media literati often calls this practice, has contributed to the collapse of governments. This is why media academics in the mass communication departments warn their charges that a print journalist who wants to positively contribute to nation-building should not make destructive criticism their habitual writing style.

The promoters of this smug campaign of attrition should realise that if they use the power of the pen to destroy this Fourth Republic, like the proverbial child which denied its mother sleep, it would conduce to a no-win situation for all, except those subterranean interests driving it. Dr. Jonathan, to whom this diatribism is directed, is not the architect of Nigeria’s problems that are as old as the country itself. Jonathan is Nigeria’s President today, but he is not the originator of Nigeria’s endemic corruption, even as a section of the Nigerian judiciary has made itself an accomplice of the corrupt.

The President who is doing his best to ensure there is peace and stability in the polity is not the originator of Boko Haram menacing the nation.

The Ghandian principle of statecraft makes it explicitly clear that knowledge without character destroys a society. Clive S. Lewis, the Irish poet and scholar, was probably guided by this time-honoured nugget when he said: “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make a more clever devil”. Therefore, it must be noted that the current trend in the Nigerian print media, if left unchecked, would crowd out intelligent discourse in the Nigerian public space.

In fact, the prevailing print media climate in Nigeria today once again brings into the spotlight the role of the media in a democracy.

This is an old question. It was an identical press climate in the 1940s that made Henry Luce, Time Magazine owner and publisher, to fund an independent commission of scholars, politicians, social activists, and legal experts to study the role of the press in society. Professor Robert Maynard Hutchin, then Chancellor of University of Chicago headed the commission. The findings from the study gave birth to the Social Responsibility Theory of the press in 1947. Is this club of writers being guided by this normative theory as a guide-post for their trade? Is needling the administration over every issue under the sun, even going as far as literally condemning the shape and size of the President’s nose, without an iota of respect for his person and office, part of media literacy? One doesn’t think so.

In literature, opinion is free; facts are sacred. However, being editorially responsible requires drawing a line between constructive and destructive criticism; between fair and malicious (libelous) comment. Nigeria, despite its challenges of governance, is not an animal farm; it is a society governed by laws and journalists and opinion article writers should always realise this when crafting their works.

Mr. DENNIS ALEMU, a journalist, wrote from Lagos.

MOT is Ministry of Transport Test - you take your vehicle in for check, if it passes all checks, it gets a MOT certificate - which is renewable.

TAX - Vehicle Tax i suppose. Every car on the road must have a Tax certificate - a road tax certificate.
You must buy a car with valid MOT certificate and TAX - if no Tax - u can Tax it yourself. IF no MOT, it may be faulty.

yohanna zack: Why gej stil kip pple like abaty around him? Oh, maybe it is becus he is a retardeen too. Mumu, wat abaty fails to knw is that nigerians on the streets/nairaland are more intellegent and informed than him. He also fails to knw that nigerians knw him as an empty person who speaks witout facts. If he thinks we dont knw wats hapenin, let him point at one achievment by this administration of retardeens and criminals like him, and nigerians wil point at 100s of their failure. My advice to abaty and his type is that, they shuld get ready to leave aso rock by 2015, walahi allah. Mumu abati and his pple.

LOL - intelligent indeed. Does that include yourself? Name the intelligent Nigerians on NairaLand. We are waiting.

aspabay: Is this Were guy a Nigerian at all? Tell me during OBJ, did we hear of any BH? Even the militants at that time he dealt squarely with them. OBJ knows, just like the Americans, that you don't negotiate with a terrorist.

LOL. Dunce. Do you know when BH came into existence? 1999-2001. This shows you are a kid, no need to tell you stories about BH. Did they tell you BH started with GEJ? LOL. Even primary school folks knows better. Mumu.

aspabay: Before leaving Office, OBJ told us that the power projects he initiated will take 5-10 years to fully materialize. So Oga Jona, stop saying you increased megawatts, don't reap where you did not sow.
Create your own legacies.
BTW how's Patience doing, has she resumed for work @ Bayelsa yet?

English Language is your problem. OBJ is still the one in charge of the projects and calling the shots - maybe.

so the problem of Boko Haram and the solution should lay on OBJ then, since the issue started right from OBJ's time?