Nigeria @ 50: Waking Up The Sleeping Giant

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I wan laff jo! In 1996, Steve Barron's 'The Adventures of Pinocchio' hit the box office. Pinocchio (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas) was a piece of art carved from a tree by Gepetto played by Martin Landau. Some sentient force suddenly animated the piece of carving to the surprise of Gepetto. Let me fast forward to the point where Pinocchio had to lie and each time he did, his nose grew longer an...d longer.

Back to Naija. We have our own versions of Pinocchio in state houses across the length and breath of Nigeria.

I know one in particular with frog eyes who occupies the State House in one of the Northern States for which the INEC had declared a false figure of barely over 700,000 registered voters and he had threatened to sue the INEC and Jega manufactured over 900,000 additional registered voters to bring the value of registered voters to about 1.7m. The man tells so much lies in the Press about his phantom achievements. I did not mention anybody's name o. But each time he lies, his eyes get bigger. In Yoruba language, Oju means eye. He can be called 'Ojunocchio'.

I know another one too in one of the South South States who has a big head and who has failed to match the sterling performance of his predecessor. He was recently booted out by the Supreme Court and currently hibernates to return. He was known to have been involved in some 'magomago' in the power sector under 'Aremunocchio'. I did not mention any name o! Since he came to State House, his head had been growing bigger and bigger until he was kicked out, tumbling like Humpty Dumpty down the hill from State House in the land of where several rivers cross each other. The man had also been lying about his achievements while he held sway. I did not mention any name o. In Yoruba, Ori means head. He is, therefore, Orinocchio.

Ehen! How can I forget? Chai! There is another one in North Central Nigeria who has also failed to match the sterling performance of his predecessor and keeps lying all over the place. One of his first achievements was to use state funds to marry one President's daughter. I will not mention the president's name. I know you know. Oya, tell me the name if you really know you know like I know you do... You are the one who said it o. Np be me talk am o. Ehen! He even recently prostrated to Boko Haram. His eyes have been roving round the state looking for the latest 'Yanriyan' to tell 'Ina sonki' (I love you). Na de work wey im sabi do be dat. Chai! Dat guy fall my hand sha! In Hausa, Yanriyan means young girl. De guy eye no dey see woman. He go just kolo straight. He is, therefore, Yanriyanocchio.
Post Merge: February 09, 2012, 09:06:45 PMThey all settled down to their meals and ate with relish. While some ate with decency others were so noisy about it as they hit the plates hard with cutleries for each scoop and some chewed noisily. Some made irritating audible noise, belched loudly and gulped down gallons of water noisily. It was a gathering of the creme de la creme of society. Why do some 'big men' eat like animals?

Wait for the best part. One of the august guests his fore finger into his mouth, rumaging for remnants of food he had masticated. He brought out the finger soiled with food and sucked it, while I stared askance. He looked past, unperturbed by my shock, like he did not care.
Post Merge: February 09, 2012, 09:08:32 PMWhether the findings of Rt. Hon. Farouk Lawan subsidy Probe Committee and the recommendations implemented or not, the onus lies on this govenment to redeem its image and on Nigerians to ensure the culprits are brought to book. I am wondering why a woman who lied openly to Nigerians and breached or allowed operators to breach statutory provisions has not been fired and is constituting committees? What is her job?

If she was doing her job well, Nigeria would have been spared this mess and if she had told the truth instead of spinning figures and theories that just did not add up to deceive the public, we would not have recorded any death and pro-subsidy protest.
Post Merge: February 09, 2012, 09:10:01 PMSo you think you have the worst problems in the world. Unfortunately, many dwell on problems blown out of proportion by their thinking, sparing little time to laugh and have some fun. They end up with wrinkles, aging really fast. When was the last time you had a good laugh? It does not cost you a penny though it prolongs your life. Some of that headache that you have could be cured with a good laugh.

Who told you being miserable and looking frustrated and forlorn solves problems? They kill you instead, tucking your beauty and radiance away and project a certain ugliness and people who stumble on you will be uncomfortable being around you and somd will even take advantage of you instead.

Abeg laff jo!

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I really do not know how these guys do it but I see many, even designer suits wearing graduates embarass themselves so badly eating like they have been starving and like they could die the next minute. Gosh! You need to see the suicidal morsels they swallow! The worst part is they will demand for extra plates. Some invest all that they earn or borrow on food. That is the fastest route to poverty.

Life is not all about eating and drinking. You must learn to live right and remember you are not a beast but God's image. The Epicurean mentality of 'let us eat for tomorrow we shall die' is the reason many are poor. Please, do not be part of the wacky and die generation. As adults a little portion will do. We really do not need all those huge boulders we swallow. Or do you not read in the Holy Books gluttony is sin?
Post Merge: February 08, 2012, 06:40:00 PMThis is the piece of trash someone sent to my mail box a few minutes ago. What do you make of this? Sensible or just plain stupid?

"Segun Edward 11, I doubt if that is your real name, thank you for accepting my frienship. But may I ask you a question, what has the Niger-Deltans done to you to warrant all the insult you are dishing out to them, even trying to twist very well known facts about boko haram and blame it on the Niger-Deltans. I dont know who is pushing you or who your sponsors are but, but you are toeing a dangerous path. You dont eat someones food and still turn around and call him names else you will be constipated."

This is what the Niger-Delta militants always do. I can't count the number of death threats I have received from ill-bred monkeys who do not even own their lives neither do they know whether they would see tomorrow yet they threaten others.. This endangered-species mentality is really catching on.
Post Merge: February 08, 2012, 06:41:50 PMOh, I'm shivering! Askor o!
Post Merge: February 08, 2012, 07:35:05 PMThe other day, someone was trying to hack into my account from Port Harcourt. Thanks to Facebook security. He did not succeed but Facebook sent me a notification to that effect and urged me to change my password.
Post Merge: February 08, 2012, 09:30:11 PMAre you a Nigerian? Do you have bright ideas about business you would like to bring to fruition? Send a request to join the group, The King's Emissaries now on Facebook. You will have a chance to participate in a competition that would earn you start up capital and free mentoring for one year.

To participate, you must be from a very poor background and form an under-served community. Be prepared to present your detailed CV, a well-written and clearly defined business proposal and proof of your background as due diligence will be performed on you. You must demonstrate originality and ingenuity in your ideas as well as domain competence. If you are that Nigerian send the request now. If you know one Nigerian who ought to be part of this programme, please get him/her to send in a request to join the group.

Let's change lives together and let someone else out there feel the touch of love only God can give.

The competition kicks off in a couple of days. The rules of the game will be published in the next 3 days. Failure to comply with any aspect of the rules automatically disqualifies a contestant.
Post Merge: February 08, 2012, 10:25:37 PMA concerned Nigerian sent the following to my mail box a moment ago. I would like to appeal to the authorities concerned to consider the plight of Nigerians unlawfully laid off their jobs and short-changed by the present board of the NPC.

DAVID ADULUGBA AND NEPC SACKED STAFF

I am really amazed and have not fathomed why some human beings are very inconsiderate. Why is it that some people take pleasure in seeing others undergo avoidable pain and hardship when they are in the position to ameliorate such ugly situation? Why do some who cross the river suddenly want the bridge to break? Why do some people easily forget? Why do some human beings fail to realise that the position they occupy today is given them in trust and they are there today and gone tomorrow? In life nothing is permanent.
David Ibrahim Adulugba is the Executive Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC. He was appointed on 17 June, 2009, by Late President Umaru Yar’Adua on the recommendation of then Minister of Ministry of Commerce, now Ministry of Trade and Investment. Before his appointment, he was among the staff of NEPC sacked by the then CEO, Mrs. Gladys Modupe Sasore in her restructuring programme. The recall of some of the affected staff was after concerted efforts and prayers organized by David Adulugba and other staff relieved of their position.
When David Adulugba was eventually recalled and appointed the ED/CEO, many staff yet to be recalled heaved a sigh of relief that what Mrs. Sasore denied them will be restored to them. But their hope as events unfold seems to be in a very dark tunnel and a distant dream. Mr. Adulugba who gave assurances that he was going to recall the remaining staff asked for the reopening of the seven Zonal Offices that were closed during Mrs. Sasore’s reign of terror. His request was approved. Today, NEPC has thirteen Zonal Offices across the country. The NEPC boss brought up another argument that he needs funds to be able to recall those staff yet to join their colleagues. Budget was made and approval given. Again, he reneged on his promise and ministerial approval to recall the 125 affected staff.
To the chagrin of most staff of the Council, Mr.Adulugba insisted on employing new staff, many of who are alleged to be his kinsmen, but the Ministry, and Board members of NEPC and Directors working with him objected. He later pruned the number from 125 to 72 following the recommendation of a Committee he set up. Consequently, on 3 June, 2011, the shortlisted staffs were invited for interview. They came from across the country to Abuja. But sadly, the interview did not hold and Mr. Adulugba was not even available to address those he asked to come for written interview as prelude to their recall. Mr M.O. Ibrahim, director office of the Executive Director and Mr. Benibo Boma, deputy director Personnel, addressed those who came for the interview. They said certain something came up that necessitated the postponement and that they would be duly informed in due course. Those who risked the journey to Abuja left dejected without compensation for wasted trip.
Mr. Adulugba who boasts that the Senate President is from his State has published a list of only 17 names of the 125 awaiting recall as those who qualify for his magnanimity. He is alleged to have concluded arrangement to use his cronies to fill the slot of those in his black book to justify the outstanding arrears he is supposed to pay, which is said to have been misappropriated. Many of the senior and junior workers are apparently sad about the latest development but the name dropping of the Senate President by Mr. David Adulugba who hails from Benue State appears to have put them in a state of inertia.
But one is aware that the Senate President will not condescend to such pedestrian level as to support monumental injustice of Mr. David Ibrahim Adulugba who claims to be a pastor. One wants to believe that the Senate President may not have met the boss of NEPC let alone authorising such action of the Stone Age. That is why all men of goodwill should prevail on Mr David Adulugba to do the right thing and recall all the staff for which he got approvals of offices and money for their recall. Mr. Adulugba should use his exalted offices and leased authority well. He has a limited time on that position. He can be removed by natural or human reason. Let him do justice. Why has he forgotten so soon the solidarity of the struggle against Mrs Gladys Modupe Sasore? Why has he forgotten so soon all Chief Executives that had gone before him? One hopes that the Nigerian factor will not deny 125- 17 staff justice. O God, have mercy.

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As I write those 70 people David Adulugba employed are in Makurdi for induction.

[Davincii]

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I have been thinking lately that Nigeria was not created by accident of some fate. Some persons have advanced the argument that the British forcefully amalgamated the various tribes and tongues that make up Nigeria. It could have been anyone? God would have to use someone anyway. I want to believe that Nigeria would still have been formed.

If the argument is that we differ so much and the differences are irreconcilable, then that would be just what it is -  a blatant lie from the belly of hell! Come to think of it. There are really no differences among the tribes other than that we speak different languages and have different cultural institutions. But culture has never been static. Culture evolves as people evolve according to the dictates of the environment, both social and physical. I have never seen any Nigerian tribe whose culture makes the people less human or whose noses and eyes are at the back of their heads or who produce their young ones through their ears. Worldwide, all men are the same and are born equal.

Funny enough, the very ones who want Nigeria divided enjoy the comfort of other countries that have seen the gains of diverse cultures and vibrant multi-ethnic populations, birthed by the sacrifices and blood of citizens of those nations where they reside - nations built on the foundation of freedom and equality of all men and justice for all.

These same guys have seen the gains of regional integration with other countries and yet they want to break the bonds of love and unity among Nigerian ethnic groups consisting of persons they had lived with for ages. Many do not even realize that they are ECOWAS citizens already by law.

Each time I travel out and have to interact with fellow Nigerians out there of all tribes and from all walks of life, I see no difference. In fact, I see the remarkable unity and brotherly love that baffles me in view of what obtains here where we want to kill each other to fulfill the silly ambitions and selfish interests of a few lunatics who hold the nation hostage.

Go to our markets and see the bond of love among Nigerian traders from all parts of the nation. I see it also in sports, in Church, in the Mosque, at parties, dinners and corporate environments.

Let me tell you something: Nigeria is not an accident! Take a good look at this beautiful work of God again and you will see that Nigeria was specially crafted and packaged to impact the world. There is no nation under the surface of the Sun today that is as blessed as Nigeria is what with its abundant creative human resources and natural endowments that abound in every nook and cranny but for the mental laziness and wickedness of a few that surreptitiously spin catastrophic events and propaganda that emphasize our differences while they smile to the banks with the heritage of the people and even the bread of future generations.

The task of restoring our dear country seems daunting and onerous. But we must - I repeat - we must not let up. God is counting on us all to do our part and He has given us all that we need in tangible and intangible ways.

We only need to stand in the gap and partner with God - The King - to usher in right leadership and a generation of citizens who will not be cowed by the tricks of maggots and would unite in unprecedented ways to usher in a new era where righteousness, wisdom, fear of God, justice, equity, mutual respect and fairness reign.

Can God count on you?
Post Merge: February 07, 2012, 02:02:30 PMThis is sure one hell of a transformation going on. Methinks it is some sort of negative transformation and that naturally amounts to deformation instead.

How can a government that seeks to transform the economy fail to see the pivotal role of the Iron and Steel Sector? In fact, in terms of diversifying the economy, that is one sector that would ensure quick and steady returns apart from serving ...as a critical catalyst for myriads of small and medium scale enterprises that could rev up revenues by leaps and bounds.

Can you imagine that this government budgets N4.614bn representing 99.35% of total budget of Ajaokuta Steel Company and just N30m, representing 0.65% for Capital Expenditure?

This is a critical sector that government should even borrow to develop as it can diversify and transform the economy positively, spinning myriads small and medium scale enterprises, revving up revenues by leaps and bounds and putting the economy on a much sturdier footing.

In fact, revamping the Ajaokuta Steel Company and its ancillary company at Itakpe is sine qua non to the much needed development in positive directions we need so badly now in this nation.

I should think that if these guys really do have a conscience and are really serious about leaving a legacy, they should make sacrifices even of their ungodly allowances to provide a pool of resources needed to take those companies out of the doldrums and not to pay idle workers.

Aren't we ashamed of ourselves that in this age and time, we have people in government who have no ability to think anything through.

These are the kind of plans the government should be presenting to us and not nonsensical bills to elongate the tenure of leeches and destructive viruses around the corridors of power.
Post Merge: February 07, 2012, 02:32:48 PMEvery criminal group that springs up or that visits the nation with terror seeks legitimate grounds and tries to win the sympathy of Nigerians and presents a disgusting cause as a legitimate one.

It is in this light that I view with so much disdain, the propaganda spun by the killer Boko Haram (MEND) in trying to legitimize their criminal onslaught on oil facilities in the Niger Delta.

These guys have not minced words about their true ambition: to get another round table discussion in which Okah and the others must be set free as a precondition for peace. Every other thing they have said is balderdash. They are seeking another amnesty - this time for a well orchestrated act of wickedness and subterfuge aimed at ensuring this government has an excuse to muzzle the opposition - a plan which backfired due to the brazen lack of intelligence and coordination on the part of the executioners which include security agents as well as Niger-Delta militants.

No Nigerian should be under the illusion it is for a just cause at all. At worst, it is another act of subterfuge aimed at masking and diverting attention from the real intent to secure the release of proven criminals.

We have had enough of this nonsense. This is turning out to be a government of hooligans, run by hooligans and for hooligans ('Hooligocracy').

Haven't we had enough of these bullies?
Post Merge: February 07, 2012, 03:20:57 PMI think all Nigerians should tell the President to put a leash on his dogs who suffer so much from endangered species mentality. These guys are destroying the fortunes of the good people and law abiding Nigerians of Niger-Delta extract.

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I heard that Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal denied ever receiving any letter from Boko Haram. I guess you guys still do not see that the source of all these acts of subterfuge is the President's boys. Ladies and Gentlemen from all tribes and tongues in Nigeria, do not play into the hands of secessionists who want the country split at all costs through mindless killing and maiming of our brothers and sisters from all parts of the country. The earlier we all woke up to this reality, the better.
Post Merge: February 04, 2012, 07:44:35 PMI noticed that in the United States, the Obama Presidency is a a settled issue. So many Americans are not really interested in knowing the other candidates in the race. Many have not even bothered to know who they are and cannot even identify their photos neither do they know their names. Obama did not only seize a golden opportunity, he has vision and clearly defined plans and has out-performed the Republicans in terms of fixing the economy. Does someone over here need to be reminded nations are not run on good luck but by vision and clearly defined mission?

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The least costly strategy for any leader is to deliver good governance and responsible stewardship. It goes without the pains and bloodshed. I have been wondering why Nigerian leaders and their peer African leaders consider wickedness, tricks, lies, stirring up ethnic strife, stealing, murder, rigging of elections and irresponsible misappropriation of public funds as virtues they must preserve at all costs. Madness must have built a mansion in their livers!
Post Merge: February 03, 2012, 12:14:56 PMI hope you guys do recall that Valentine's Day is a day to reach out to the poor and needy. That was what St. Valentine stood for. It is not a day to be lured into senseless sexual orgies with gifts of Blackberries, iPADs, Teddy Bears and Synthetic Flowers with momentary scents. It is also not a time to go around getting pregnant irresponsibly.

One more thing, it is not a time to decide to date some knight in shining armor for as long as it takes to get you to bed just because all your friends are paired.

Ladies, make una use una senses o!

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The Killer Boko Haram - Not A Mystery (Part III)

By Segun Edward II

In Part II of this series, we established how well involved top level security agents as well as the Presidency is with the activities of groups masquerading as Boko Haram. We left it off where we focused on how top level officers of the security agencies compromise investigations and let go of suspects, the most prominent of which is the recent kingpin who disappeared into thin air by Hafiz Ringim and Biu’s magic, obviously on instructions from above. Hafiz Ringim and Biu know it was suicidal to their careers which were coming to a glorious end to allow such a costly slip and in a poorly executed manner that even children playing cops would not do, especially for a notorious suspect.



Another critical case in point that shows deliberate sabotage of investigative work of the field operatives is the fact that top level security agents, in spite of trillions of Naira expended since this menace began some of which are unknown to the public, have not deemed  it fit to kit up the field operatives with the right equipment including bomb detectors and surveillance equipment including the relevant training to defuse bombs safely. It is also critical to note that unobtrusive surveillance equipment could also have been purchased to aid intelligence gathering seamlessly across wide areas and difficult terrains as well as for policing the nation’s borders and managing trans-border crimes effectively. Someone high up there pursued personal gain at the expense of what was right and needful and of great priority in view of the nature of the attacks. The President and his agents surreptitiously purchased cameras just for the Three-Arms-Zone in Abuja. To execute that project, the FG surreptitiously obtained a loan of about $600m from NEXIM Bank of China without the knowledge of the National Assembly out of which it supposedly spent $420m on installation of cameras. Many Nigerians are not aware of the unfair trade deals and fraudulent financial deals which compromised the interests of Nigeria in that camera deal, clearly against laid down procedures in our Public Procurement Act as well as the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That is a discussion for another day.



Any right thinking person at the top level of a security agency should know how critical those equipment were to the field operatives. Instead, they are just sent out there to be blown to pieces while they in anger charge at innocent civilians, shooting at anyone who looked like a terrorist (What do terrorists really look like? Bearded persons?), while the main culprits get away. The real question is, how do those culprits know when to strike and when the security agents are most vulnerable and napping? The answer is not far-fetched. Their superiors compromise the integrity of their operations. They have superior ‘intel’ from above from persons in the know.



Place the sudden rise in arms importation and financing of outlaw groups side by side with dwindling productive industries and under-performing financial institutions and tell me what picture you see.



Then ponder over the fact that for a long time, the so-called invisible Boko Haram bombers were never caught and suddenly some are caught and they disappear into thin air.



Then check the billions of Naira spent on security gadgets that are not of priority at the expense of right tools which cost much less to equip security agents.



Make your deductions and place it all in the context of present realities we are faced with these days.



Another case in point that shows culpability of security agents cropped up in early 2010, when the then Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Mohammed Hassan in an interview with journalists in his office confirmed that Abubakar Shakau, the Second-In-Command of Boko Haram had been killed in the 2009 insurgency of the group. Has anyone bothered to ask how a dead man is suddenly being sought after now?



Despite all these glaring evidences of culpability, Mr. President and the National Security Adviser who supposedly have up to date ‘intel’ on happenings from the length and breadth of this country did not see any element of sabotage but kept the security machinery intact instead of doing a clean sweep of the security agencies. The real questions that crop up are, why would the government of the day choose to shoot itself so badly in the legs? Why would the government decide to ignore clear evidence of sabotage against effort at solving the most knotty issue it appears to grapple with and which constitutes a dent on its image and erodes its fortunes and goodwill? Could this government actually be part and parcel of this present problem? Could that be the reason the problem seemed intractable for this long – nearly two years now? As it were, the delays have only brought about increased sophistication in the dastardly act. From all you have seen, the answers are quite obvious to the discerning mind.



Recently, about two weeks ago, another cache of arms were graciously intercepted by the Ghanian Police authorities. There were persons and places mentioned during investigations. What has the Nigerian government done about it? Does it take forever to investigate such crime when the cargo impounded was found with the criminals? Which government official and group of persons ordered those arms including the ones that were to come in from the man arrested in the UK?



That brings us to the secessionist agenda and the role of Israel as well as the arms cartel consisting of persons within and from other countries of the world.



But first, let us establish some critical facts before we take on this aspect.
First, the North cannot work against its own fortunes. Commerce and Industries as well as agriculture are the main stay of the North. It really does not make sense that the North would choose to destroy its own people, its vibrant trade and infrastructure all because they have some religious grouse. The North has absolutely nothing to gain from tearing its own house apart.
Secondly, if the claim was true that they had some axe to grind with Christians, they know where Christians are predominant and they would take the battle there.
Thirdly, bombs have no way of telling who was Igbo or Yoruba or Hausa. When bombs go off, everyone within the area dies. Therefore, the claim by the Igbos that they were the target is unfounded. People from the North and other tribes have also died in large numbers.
Fourthly, there is so much money to be made. The culprits are paid in millions. That fact has been established. It has also been established that even persons from the South and even Christians have been know to be involved in these dastardly acts in the North. Recall Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s testimony in this regard.


What then is the crux of the matter?


Here it is. Someone out there is out to ensure the disintegration of Nigeria at all costs and they know that the two most critical groups to ignite ethnic conflagration in the country are the North and South East of Nigeria. They cannot take the attacks to the South East as it would be obvious what the agenda was and they would have been caught long ago. However, they realize that with the sustained attacks on the North and hitting Igbo targets, the bitterness of the last civil war would come into play in fanning the embers of internecine warfare. The real dramatis personae behind this onslaught are persons from the South South whose arrowheads are Mr. President and Gen. Azazi.



I remember vividly early December of 2010 when we woke up to find strange posts on popular Facebook walls that reek of tendentious propaganda and wickedness. Some guys of Niger-Delta origin claimed the North was up to something devious and would strike the South. This was in the heat of the debates during the Presidential Elections. I remember examining the post through and through and seeing the holes and mischief in it, I sent and e-mail to my friend on whose wall it was posted to delete the post and disregard it as it was posted by mischief makers and trouble makers who wanted to cause ethnic disaffection and cause the killing of Hausas and Fulanis in the South. We even followed the link they had provided to some site and we found nothing there.



There is clear evidence that the arms being imported, which act the Niger-Delta had perfected for a long time, were meant to cause mayhem, insurrection and to dismember the constituent parts of the Federation violently. The reason is oil which the Niger-Delta militants believe is theirs and must be controlled completely by them. We have heard so many seditious statements from that angle and we notice how their big brother in power has kept quiet. That is not to suggest that other parts of the country are not currently procuring arms under official cover. No one wants to be caught off-guard.
The Niger-Delta militants clinically orchestrate the persecution of the North and destruction of Nigeria and their activities are under official cover, hence the appearance of invincibility.  They have planned this out so clinically that our South East brothers and our brothers from the North are at daggers drawn and they are doing this at least cost to the Niger-Delta while the other parties suffer heavy casualty. That is the game.



Notice also that ever since this government came, we have witnessed the systematic depletion recklessly of our reserves and for fruitless and meaningless projects – some of them non-existent.



After wastefully expending what was meant for the rainy day in the Excess Crude Account, they suddenly remembered that that account did not have any legal backing. They simply liquidated that account instead of sending a bill to the NASS to legalize it. They sold fantastic lies to Nigerians why the account had to go when the real truth is that they had squandered all the money and then came up with Sovereign Wealth Fund with barely $1bn and hired some very pathetic analysts who are such a disgrace to their calling to tell us lies and many who hardly bother to follow up happenings in the economy and the polity applauded the magical 'abracadabra'. Having wasted all the savings, they cooked up lies - disgusting lies about subsidy - the very lies that have exposed them for what they truly are: a 419 president and a band of 419 ministers.



Last year, knowing their performance was poor, they attempted to adjust the GDP figure upwards magically even with ample evidence we were producing nothing new and most of the industries had died and oil revenues were systematically stolen like never before and this government, suffering from poverty of creative ideas kept on borrowing to do nothing but line individual pockets and simply achieved nothing in more than 2 years now and a pathetic puppy-tie-wearing graduate looks us in the eyes and lies so brazenly all is well with the debt profile. These falsified figures are what they give to the international rating institutions to get mind-boggling ratings that astounds us in the face of evidence the economy has been convulsing and writhing in death throes since late 2010.



These guys are tricksters and unproductive magicians. May God continue to expose them!



We have seen a clear demonstration that nothing good is coming out other than to spin crises that would tear the country apart.


The messages supposedly emanating from Boko Haram also suggest complicity of government agents.

Let us pause for a moment to examine some acts of subterfuge perpetrated by this government sponsored Boko Haram all with a view to laying the blame at the doorsteps of the North who are victims of circumstances.

1.   There was some post to the effect that Boko Haram revealed why they did not kill Obasanjo even though they had him within range since he arrived in Borno to negotiate with the group. The story also narrates how Baba Fuggu was killed by his own nephew who was a member. That was a purely a work of fiction and could not have originated from Boko Haram. Note the following holes in the write up. First, terrorists will not tell you their strategies. Second, terrorists will not reveal the identities of their operatives who had participated in monumental crimes.

2.   Boko Haram threatens to attack labour leaders for acceding to =N=97 per litre PMS pump price. This is clearly aimed at putting the opposition in a bad light as forces working hand-in-gloves with Boko Haram.

What a beautiful script? What a script full of holes and that stand logic in the head?


Is the Federal Government looking for excuses to muzzle the opposition?


These scripts are written by the most unintelligent people on the planet. The last time, it was some Alice in Wonderland fairy tale about why they did not kill Obasanjo and how Baba Fuggu was killed and how they were efficient marks men and who and who was funding them. Gosh!
Nigerians, please understand the times. They are indeed very dangerous!
2.   Boko Haram threatens to attack Judges should the death sentence on Major Al-Mustapha be carried out. Ask yourselves these questions? How many judges have been attacked by Boko Haram since many were supposedly arrested and detained in various police cells and prisons? Or are their members not worth fighting for? Or could it be that the wrong and innocent persons were arrested? Why would Boko Haram be fighting for an Al-Mustapha who had been sentenced for committing a crime and who had been in custody so many years before the group came into being?
Then check the following out.
If it is indeed true as the ACN alleges there is an attempt by this government to handover a sensitive thing as the security of our waterways to a firm run by a person with such damning ‘intel’ as having committed crimes against the state - a militant for that matter (drop the ex-; those guys are still in the business of terror) then if you cannot see the secessionist agenda of this government baring its ugly face even more boldly, you must be very blind.


For God's sake, what is the job of the Nigerian Navy?


Sentiments apart, this is a serious issue that lends further credence to the secessionist plot and it appears we are so willing to play into their hands.


A president that uses the Army against law-abiding citizens for demanding for what is legitimate is definitely not there to solve problems facing the nation.


Funny enough, every action and posturing of the president shows this is the grand plan. I have long ceased to be surprised all the industries have died. I have also ceased to be surprised we have been beating about the bush for more than two years now. Nigeria is being systematically murdered, taken apart and the treasury dried up and wealth transferred by hook and crook.
If this generation does not rise up to unite against these forces, Nigeria is on the brink.

Once again, duty calls. I will wrap this whole thing up with Part IV

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The Killer Boko Haram - Not A Mystery (Part I)

By Segun Edward II

I have seen several write ups highlighting the endemic poverty in the North of Nigeria spun by the political elite as well as high illiteracy levels as factors responsible for the rise of the outlaw group: Boko Haram. Granted that those factors, inimical to true development of the North caused by a few are veritable basis to join outlaw groups, Boko Haram was not formed on that premise. The true premise has to do with preserving the culture of a people fast eroded by Western Culture steep in moral lasciviousness and recklessness. It is also based on the premise that Islamic education also had its own intrinsic values and many societies had been successfully run on those age-long precepts.

The group maintained this benevolent posturing until their members were harassed and killed by the police for no offense of theirs even at Checkpoints and they could not get justice through the formal courts of law. In keeping with Islamic injunctions to fight back when Muslims are prevented from practicing their beliefs and they are killed for doing so, the group took up arms to retaliate the killings and injustices meted out to its members. We all saw gory pictures of policemen picking up little boys who were unarmed, laying them on a file and shooting at them like some game.

The breaking point was reached when their leader was killed in an extra-judicial manner. That was too much for the group to bear, knowing fully the reason he was killed was to keep a secret secret by top government officials, including Ali Modu Sherrif, the erstwhile governor of Borno State. However, the level of militancy took a worse turn when elements masquerading as Boko Haram funded by this government stepped in and capitalized on the opportunity made congenial by hunger, lack, perceived injustice, religious intolerance and political considerations.

As it were, the religious Boko Haram started by one Yusuf is not fighting or planting and detonating bombs. Hell no. The two other dimensions of the group who have capitalized on the factors I had previously listed are both funded surreptitiously by agents of the Federal Government and the security agents at the topmost echelons know them. They both claim to be Boko Haram each time they strike. It would interest you to know that the boys do not really know who they work for.

They leave unmistakable signatures in their wake each time they strike. Even the security agents who are not in the know do not really know what to look for or who they are really fighting. The government financed agents may be arrested occasionally by patriotic security agents who are not in the know and those in the higher echelons in the know let them vanish into thin air. The perception of invincibility the notorious groups masquerading as Boko Haram have is a function of the level of superior 'intel' at their disposal from top security agents.

However, what is still missing is the angle that has infused secessionist agenda and those who profit immensely from importing and selling arms and ammunition. There is a thriving arms market with cover from above.

At this point, I find it pertinent to examine critically happenings in the past that show how involved top government officials are with the groups in question on a killing spree.

First, recall October 1, 2010 bomb blasts in Abuja. Recall that when they occurred, Mr. President was quick to absolve MEND who had claimed responsibility and to lay the blame at the doorsteps of his co-contestants in the last Presidential Election. The drama that ensued with conflicting lies told my Mrs. Ogah, the Spokes person of the SSS and those by the Police Force lend credence to uncoordinated subterfuge carefully planned and executed by Niger-Delta Militants to the knowledge of Mr. President and the security agencies. Mr. President specifically told the whole world he knew the persons behind it but until this day, Nigerians have not bothered to demand to know them. As a fall out, Raymond Dokpesi was suddenly implicated by the SSS with some supposed Call Log with evidence of telephone conversations between him and the Niger-Delta culprits. Recall also that Dr. Raymond Dokpesi had moved over to head the Media Group of the Campaign Team of one of the contestants, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida to the chagrin of the Jonathan Campaign Group. Marilyn Ogah had told us so many times on national TV, Raymond Dokpesi was culpable. Surprisingly, as soon as Raymond Dokpesi moved over to jopin the Campaign Team of President Jonathan, all the charges fizzled out.

The real truth is that persons from the South East and the South South felt it was their opportunity to team up and punish the North for holding on to power all these years and also for the losses they had suffered during the Civil War and perceived marginalization. The clear agenda set for President Jonathan is the disintegration of Nigeria at all costs. I will come back to that shortly.

Why did those bombs have to off during the Independence Day Celebrations? The answer is not far-fetched. Silly persons like Adamu Ciroma, claiming to speak for the North when he was only speaking for a small cabal that had lost out in the power equation had made uncouth and irresponsible statements to the effect that the North would make the country ungovernable. This provided an alibi for unscrupulous elements around the present government to strike with a view to laying the blame on the opposition candidates and to whip up sympathy for this government and it worked initially despite the see-through lies.

Then came the December 31, 2010 bomb blasts also in Abuja. That bomb blast was strategically planned to coincide with one of the most valued days in the lives of Christians: Cross-Over Night. Remember also that Muslims are averse to alcohol consumption and consequently drinking places also. This provided another fertile ground for this same group to strike and claim to be Boko Haram. The Army Barracks in Nyanyan, specifically the Mami Market located within, was blown sky-high and a number of deaths were recorded. Recollect also how the bombers mysteriously disappeared into thin air. The aim of all of these was to stir up sectarian and ethnic clashes.

Government, as usual came on air (security agencies too) to talk tough claiming to be on top of the situation until this very day. Long after it was clear that security agents were involved, Mr. President only told the public in church this year.

Then came the event that truly revealed the neck-deep involvement of security agents: The Force Headquarters Bomb Blast. It was obvious to any right thinking person that that event was planned and executed as a diversionary measure.

First, we hear that a suicide bomber in an unmarked car rode for a very long distance behind the IG's entourage and the security agents were so daft not to notice. Then as the IG drove in, the policemen on duty at the gate did spot a vehicle without plate number traveling with the IG's entourage (a vehicle that does not usually travel in the IG's entourage) and an officer supposedly allowed the car go in and stopped the driver and asked him to go to the car park where the bomb was detonated. The pertinent question is, why would a suicide bomber be sent to decimate the IG and yet he travelled all the way with the IG for a very long distance and did not ram into the entourage at break-neck speed? Why would the suicide bomber on entry into Force Headquarters prefer to be stopped and asked to go to the car park when he could have simply revved his engine and ram headlong into the IG's parking space just before he got off the vehicle, killing everybody there? Recall also the lie Marilyn Ogah had told us that the 3 Arms Zone had special devices which jammed signals to prevent more bombs from going off on Independence Day (It was a blatant lie!). How come the signals were not jammed to prevent the Police Headquarters bomb blast from occurring?

I need to get back to work. Part II will give critical clues that will finally resolve the mystery.

Post Merge: January 30, 2012, 04:56:37 PMThe Killer Boko Haram - Not A Mystery (Part II)

By Segun Edward II

We had looked into the genesis of the Boko Haram group and factors that made the group amenable to the hungry and impoverished masses. However, there are other angles to it. The first part established that members of the religious group are not the ones killing and maiming innocent Nigerians but some other persons hiding under the mask of Boko Haram. We started to take a look at a series of events that show complicity at the highest levels of our intelligence agencies as well as the Presidency. This sequel builds on the facts presented in Part I of this series and will present ample evidence to the effect that the Presidency and the security agencies are economical with the truth and that we had been looking in the wrong places for the killers while the real culprits are persons in whose hands we entrust our lives and security but who have betrayed all Nigerians for pecuniary reasons.

However, in this series, we start by establishing certain grounds that form the premise of this write up.

Let me take you down memory lane again. Recall the cache of military-grade arms and ammunition that were intercepted at the port by patriotic men of the Nigeria Customs Service who clearly were not in the know. Remember how the NSA and other security agencies told us blatant lies about the military equipment. We were lied to the equipment were mistakenly sent to Nigeria and that they had been meant for another country. Remember also the role of Israel in all that mess. Israel claimed the deadly cargo had originated from them and they were meant for another country. Remember, how it was all swept under the carpet in the end.

It may also interest you to recall that Gen. Owoeye Azazi, while he was Chief of Army Staff, had previously been indicted in an arms scandal involving one of the Army Depots and the report was also swept under the carpet by him to prevent further investigations.

Please, note also, the Israeli connection as a notorious dealer in weapons of death and mass destruction.

Let us fast track to the UN House bombing. Recall, how the security agents were quick to tell us who was responsible for the bombing and as in all other occasions, some people were arrested and until this day, nothing has come out of the investigations. Recall also, the prowess of the SSS in supposedly tracing the calls in a log that supposedly implicated Chief Raymond Dokpesi in the October 1, 2010 bomb blasts. Is it not surprising to all Nigerians that the supposed spokesman for Boko Haram makes calls with a phone and issues threats and claims responsibility for the dastardly acts and yet they could not trace the calls to any particular location neither could they trace the name and address of the one in whose name and address the SIM(s) was or were registered.

Enter the Senator Ali Ndume saga. This was, perhaps, the most ridiculous twist to all the lies we have been inundated with by the security agents and the highly uncouth and uncultured and highly partial Mrs. Marilyn Ogah who is the Spokesperson for the Department of State Security Services. She had gone on national TV to tell Nigerians that Senator Ali Ndume was involved in terrorist activities and that they had established a ling between him and the Boko Haram along with another demised Senator of the Federal Republic. Much to the consternation of Nigerians, even the ones who were not learned Gentlemen, Ndume and the supposed Boko Haram spokesperson who had implicated him were taken to a magistrate court on frivolous charges that fell far short of terror offences. The parents of the supposed Spokesperson had 5told the Press their son had mental problems and he was persuaded to plead guilty and he was hurriedly sentenced without the court’s officials performing due diligence to ascertain whether or not the man was in his right senses or was truly insane. For all we know, a lunatic was sent to prison hurriedly. The most absurd part of the whole drama was played out by the almighty Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke. Despite all his years in the legal profession, he suddenly realized that the charges based on which Ndume was arraigned in a magistrate court were not adequate and decided to file another set of equally ridiculous charges that also fell far short of terror crimes in a Federal High Court in Abuja. Was Mohammed Adoke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who had put in several years into law practice, that stupid or was it just convenient for him to play stupid? Whose script was he playing out? Could the whole scenario and the ensuing frivolous charges and arraignments in the courts have been hatched and executed by the security agencies in connivance with forces in the Presidency and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation view a view to muzzling Senator Ndume for his anti-fuel-subsidy removal stance?

Now, let us once again fast track to December, 2011. Suddenly, Admiral Petirin, the Chief of Defense Staff, after a meeting with heads of other security agencies, pleaded with Nigerians to help provide information on supposed Boko Haram culprits they (the security agents) and Mr. President had persistently told us they knew and have failed to bring to book until this day. Mr. President claims he knows them but chooses to betray Nigerians by refusing to reveal who they are and to bring them to book immediately.

We had just survived the brouhaha on the ill-timed fuel-subsidy removal when we were greeted with some cheery news on how some patriotic security agents had successfully arrested one of the Boko Haram kingpins. We had also read in the Press how security agents complained about how cases they had worked hard on and made some headway with are bungled by their superiors. We saw an IG who did not know, in keeping with police tradition that the photograph of a fleeing criminal who had committed crimes of that magnitude ought to have been published on the very day he escaped but waited four clear days after the aided escape to publish his photograph, placing a N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira) prize money on his head, enough time for him to vamoose without trace. It is equally intriguing to know that the IG deemed it fit to hand the culprit to one Biu, a Commissioner of Police who had a damning ‘intel’ on him and was surreptitiously reinstated into the Police Force, having been dismissed by the Obasanjo Government, by the same IG and the Police Service Commission headed by Parry Osayande. We also saw the retired Navy Captain Olubolade, the Minister of Police Affairs, tell the Press the IG had 24 hours to produce the suspect or be sacked. Then we also saw how the National Security Adviser supposedly issued a query to the IG and a panel setup to investigate the mishap and the role of the IG and Biu. We also saw how the IG who was supposedly under investigation was allowed to return to his office and eventually retired with full benefits (he was already due). We also notice how Biu has not been arrested and detained. There were evidences linking the fugitive with top government officials as far as the Presidency and the senior officers of the police force.

The President shops for replacement for the IGP, Hafiz Ringim and decides to install one with an equally damning ‘intel’ on him what with his role in the 2001 Mayhem in Jos, Plateau State. I can confirm to you all that the new IGP who was then the Commissioner of Police in Plateau State had all that was needed in terms of men, resources and sufficient information from the public to have moved in to quell the crisis and to forestall the death toll more than four hours before it all took a deadly turn but instead chose to be partial and to take sides which act led to the death of many. This is the man the President deems fit to handle such a sensitive responsibility as the Office of the Inspector-General of Police.

I repeat, MD Abubakar was that Commissioner of Police whose partiality further escalated the Jos.crisis. The first crisis in 2001 which would have been curbed had he acted in good time and impartially, took a much more deadly turn due to inaction on his part. Concerned Nigerians, including yours sincerely, bombarded his office with calls and never got any action at the epicenter of the crisis by the police until more than four hours into the carnage and many lives had been lost.
From all indications also, there is ample evidence that the field operatives are deliberately hamstrung by their superiors from making any meaningful headway in solving the riddle. The following paragraphs show how and why.
 
Has anybody in the security agencies ever bothered to ask how the Boko Haram operatives get Amonium Nitrate in such large quantities to make and detonate Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)? Shouldn't rapid investigations have been carried out all this while? Or is it deliberate that the sources are left open to make it easy to access them?

Commonsense dictates that there is great need to curtail access to the materials. Even your Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer used for agricultural purposes is one veritable source.

What do we pay these top security agents to do when they can hardly think or is it deliberate?

I really do believe that if someone who should know is not compromised, that's one of the first things that needed urgent control and adequate documentation. I should think that everyone should revert to traditional manure and farming systems.

In view of the fact that the major weapon the Boko Haram operatives deploy was bombs, it would also have made more sense for the Heads of the security agencies to have acquired Large Vehicle Bomb Detectors as well as inexpensive miniature bomb detectors and software to help track bombs and explosives and to detonate them before it goes off. This would have prevented such massive distribution of bombs round Kano that claimed so many lives. As usual, Mr. President came to the public again to say that he would crush Boko Haram.

Meanwhile, while he left all Nigerians to the whims and caprices of security agents from within, he acquires top security protection for himself and family members from Israeli MOSSAD.

Enter the Israeli angle.

I will continue with this and also connect the secessionist angle as well as the vibrant underhand arms deals that are at the heart of the crisis.

Watch out for Part III.

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Could I be dreaming or what? Could any Nigerian for the love of fatherland please step forward and tell me why he/she thinks the Presidency is not behind the murderers called Boko Haram?
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 02:59:20 PMI'm willing to give someone a chance to prove me wrong. Where are these defenders? I am willing go learn from a different perspective.


Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 02:59:53 PM
What do you really make of this? The president and his team talk about transformation and tell us lies about facts and figures. They talk about transformation and there is ample evidence more and more players in the real sector are either dying out or relocating? They talk about transformatiin and they keep on appointing and reinstating persons with doubtful characters to sensitive positions requiring integrity of the highest order. Gen. Azazi, Biu and now MD Abubakar all have damning intel on their past records and shoukd never have been appointed. They talk about transformation and they wipe out all the savings for the rainy day. They talk about transformation, crimes become worse and take on deadly dimensions like never before and criminals hold sway and are the friends of government and even our territorial integrity would be compromised by ignoring the Navy and handing over the security of our waterways to individuals with past criminal records against the state (amnesty or not). They talk about transformation and criminals call.the shots and dictate the tune and others must dance. They talk about transformation and criminals held in custody for highly dangerous crimes against the state escape and no one is punished. They promised transformation and beyond mere verbose dry speeches, they fail to pursue policies that will provide jobs and put the economy on a solid footing.

Am I really the only one seeing all of these and that this transformation is so bad for us?

Hell No! This is no transformation! This is orchestrated systematic destruction of Nigeria by the president and his cronies who have been so insensitive to the murder, welfare and needs of Nigerians.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:00:45 PMThe turn of events in the nation has become even worse. In a country where a man is rewarded for failure, incompetence and gross negligence and in spite of records of past official misdemeanor, then there is indeed so much more than meets the eye over the Boko Haram issue and the role of thr Presidency.

Appointing a man in charge of the Zone where the Boko Haram operatives held sway and who could not do anything about it amounts to worsening an already bad situation. Appointing a heartless being who presided over the death of so many in Jos, Plateau State, when he could have stopped it speaks volumes about the government that appoints him.

But God will do what He will do. They will execute themselves with their own sword and Nigerians from all works of life will have the victory that only God can make possible.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:02:28 PMOne very critical trade off and a major precondition for ensuring greater devolution of powers to the federating units, including state police, resource control and the rest is removal of the Immunity of governors. That is the only way to ensure a sane society.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:03:10 PMSegun Edward II
If the Committee setup by Mr. President to reorganize the police force would succeed, they must not only be dispassionate about the assignment, the must get inputs from the public who have been victims and living witnesses to gross misconduct and incompetence on the part of policemen especially at the local police stations.

The issue of recruitment procedures needs to be given serious attention as it is currently a highly dubious process through which hardened criminals and persons with fake certificates get into the police force.

I really do not think Parry Osayande should have been the Chairman. He is part of the rot in the system. Except for political reasons, he should also go as his input so far to the development and welfare of police men and officers has been rather dismal.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:04:53 PMOh my God! I must apologize to all Nigerians for one serious gaffe on my part. Recall that I had taken a rather cautionary stance yesterday on the issue of the newly appointed Acting IG. I can confirm to you that the man on the saddle right now is the wrong choice after researching further into his records from the archives and putting several calls through to very senior officers at Force Headquarters in Abuja who confirmed this man was the CP in Plateau State when the first crisis in 2001 broke out.

This man does not qualify to be IG and in a country where the law works, this man ought to have faced a panel for aiding genocide due to his gross negligence and unmistakable partiality in the Jos crisis in 2001 and he should have been summarily dismissed from the police force long ago.

This man was in a position to have nipped the crisis in the bud, four hours before it took a deadly turn. Instead he took sides and today we are faced with the consequences of his gross negligence.

If the Presidency and Police Service Commission cannot perform due diligence on persons in the rank and file selected for appointment especially when there is a damning intel already, then I wonder how they can protect the lives of masses. It is the same level of negligence to perform due diligence on Biu by the Police Service Commission and its supervisory ministry, ths Ministry of Police Affairs that led to the reinstatement of Biu that has birthed this present disastrous steps for which someone with such a bad record has been appointed Acting IG.

Now, I do not know for sure if he is involved with Boko Haram or any terrorist activity. All I know is that this is the wrong man for the job of number 1 cop.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:05:23 PMWhat really is the Federal Government of Nigeria doing about revamping the existing refineries and to build new ones? Should this aspect not be dealt with expeditiously? Or are we just planning to plan forever?

We all know the economic value of fully functional refineries and how much positive impact it would bring to bear while we wait for the power sector reforms to fully come on stream and mature. Even if government has to borrow to do so, then let us work out the cost-benefit analysis and repayment terms and do that promptly. Borrowing for silly things shouldn't be the way to go.

I think government should be a lot more proactive with issues that border on the welfare of its citizens and the economy.

Or do we wait endlessly for the PIB to be passed into law? I believe a thorough job should be done on that bill to enable it stand the test of time. In the meantime, government can partner with private sector firms to proceed to build new refineries and provide guarantees and measures to mitigate risks to the private concern until they take over fully.

I think its a matter of urgency, to help jump start the economy again and put the real sector back on stream as profitable ventures.

Is someone listening?
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:06:14 PMMD Abubakar was that Commissioner of Police whose partiality further escalated the Jos.crisis. The first crisis in 2001, which would have been curbed had he acted in good time and impartially, took a much more deadly turn due to inaction. Concerned Nigerians, including yours sincerely, bombarded his office with calls and never got any action at the epicenter of the crisis by the police until more than four hours into the carnage and many lives had been lost.

Is this the man taking over? What about intel on appointees. If the security agencies cannot ascertain the records of their personnel, especially when such intel.is damning, then I wonder if they can curb any crime in the larger society. That man who should have been promptly dismissed from the police force back then for.his ignominous role and gross misconduct as he clearly took sides, should not be considered for.such job as the number 1 cop.

The appointment of this man would only further exacerbate an already terrible situation.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:06:59 PMIf Boko Haram threatens to attack labour for agreeing to accept N97 per litre, the logic is that it would be easy to lay the blame of Boko Haram's activities on the opposition and then it can be adduced also that the spontaneous crowd that sprung up all over the country was a function of the activities of supposed enemies of this government and so Boko Haram did not detonate any bombs throughout the period of the demonstrations.

What a beautiful script? What a script full of holes and that stand logic in the head?

Is the Federal Government looking for excuses to muzzle the opposition?

These scripts are written by the most unintelligent people on the planet. The last time, it was some Alice in Wonderland fairy tale about why they did not kill Obasanjo and how Baba Fuggu was killed and how they were efficient marks men and who and who was funding them. Gosh!

Nigerians, please understand the times. They are indeed very dangerous!
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:08:03 PMThe truth about amnesty granted to criminals is that it provides softlanding for the powers that be behind them to escape justice. But it is wrong for three reasons:

1. Other outlaw groups will spring up and would cite previous cases resolved by amnesty after killing so many innocent people.

2. Those who have lost their lives would not get much deserved justice.

3. Lawlessness would be given free reign and wicked men will kill and maim with impugnity and demand amnesty.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:12:27 PMHas anybody in the security agencies ever bothered to ask how the Boko Haram operatives get Amonium Nitrate in such large quantities to make and detonate Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)? Shouldn't rapid investigations have been carried out all this while? Or is it deliberate that the sources are left open to make it easy to.access them?

There is great need to curtail access to the materials. Even your Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer used for agricultural purposes is one veritable source.

What do we pay these top security agents to do when they can hardly think or is it deliberate?

I really do believe that if someone who should know is not compromised, that's one of the first things that need urgent control and adequate documentation. I should think that everyone should revert to traditional manure and farming systems.
Post Merge: January 27, 2012, 03:29:00 PMSome comedy for you.

President Jonathan: Fellow Nigerians. These are trying moments. I understand your pains. However, bomb blasts have come to stay. I want you to know that we are on top of the situation. To show you how serious this administration really is about putting an end to this mess, I have let Hafiz Ringim go to a blissful retirement in spite of evidence that he was incompetent and seemed so much to be colluding with the culprits. De guy don try. Make im go rest. In choosing his successor, I have had to look for someone with a record of official misdemeanor and gross incompetence and negligence in the 2001 Jos Mayhem. De guys sabi partia! In short, he is the best man for the job. While we brace up for more bomb blasts and increased sectarian and ethnic clashes across the nation, we urge you all to keep faith with us and keep on praying for us to serve you well. Who knows? The next blast may happen right inside your bedroom. The technology is getting better and better.

The truth is, we intend to dialogue with and grant amnesty to Boko Haram. But, we cannot dialogue with ourselves and grant ourselves amnesty. We are asking to do the impossible.

Fellow Nigerians, please bear with us as we transform our economy and provide a conducive climate for investment in bomb factories, arms and ammunition, kidnapping technology, bank robberies and general lawlessness.

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

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What really is the Federal Government of Nigeria doing about revamping the existing refineries and to build new ones? Should this aspect not be dealt with expeditiously? Or are we just planning to plan forever?

We all know the economic value of fully functional refineries and how much positive impact it would bring to bear while we wait for the power sector reforms to fully come on stream and mature. Even if government has to borrow to do so, then let us work out the cost-benefit analysis and repayment terms and do that promptly. Borrowing for silly things shouldn't be the way to go.

I think government should be a lot more proactive with issues that border on the welfare of its citizens and the economy.

Or do we wait endlessly for the PIB to be passed into law? I believe a thorough job should be done on that bill to enable it stand the test of time. In the meantime, government can partner with private sector firms to proceed to build new refineries and provide guarantees and measures to mitigate risks to the private concern until they take over fully.

I think its a matter of urgency, to help jump start the economy again and put the real sector back on stream as profitable ventures.

Is someone listening?

[Davincii]

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If Boko Haram threatens to attack labour for agreeing to accept N97 per litre, the logic is that it would be easy to lay the blame of Boko Haram's activities on the opposition and then it can be adduced also that the spontaneous crowd that sprung up all over the country was a function of the activities of supposed enemies of this government and so Boko Haram did not detonate any bombs throughout the period of the demonstrations.

What a beautiful script? What a script full of holes and that stand logic in the head?

Is the Federal Government looking for excuses to muzzle the opposition?

These scripts are written by the most unintelligent people on the planet. The last time, it was some Alice in Wonderland fairy tale about why they did not kill Obasanjo and how Baba Fuggu was killed and how they were efficient marks men and who and who was funding them. Gosh!

Nigerians, please understand the times. They are indeed very dangerous!

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If it is indeed true as the ACN alleges there is an attempt by this government to handover a sensitive thing as the security of our waterways to a firm run by a person with such damning intel as having committed crimes against the state - a militant for that matter (drop the ex-; those guys are still in the business of terror) then if you cannot see the secesionist agenda of this government baring its ugly face even more boldly, you must be very blind.

For God's sake, what is the job of the Nigerian Navy?

Sentiments apart, this is a serious issue that lends further credence to the secessionist plot and it appears we are so willing to play into their hands.

A president that uses the Army against law-abiding citizens for demanding for what is legitimate is definitely not there to solve problems facing the nation.

Funny enough, every action and posturing of the president shows this is the grand plan. I have long ceased to be surprised all the industries have died. I have also ceased to be surprised we have been beating about the bush for more than two years now. Nigeria is being systematically murdered, taken apart and the treasury dried up and wealth transferred by hook and crook.

If this generation does not rise up, Nigeria is on the brink.
Post Merge: January 23, 2012, 06:15:11 PMFailure is a choice. It occurs only when men choose to stop trying to pursue their dreams to a logical conclusion. You have to learn to keep at it to attain success. Unfortunately, many  throw in the towel and accept the next available alternative, not knowing that keeping at it makes you better and better and takes you many more inches closer to your desired goal.

You just may have given up just  because you did not see you were almost there. It's akin to a man who tilled the ground, toiled all day to water and nurture his crops only to abandon the farm not knowing that harvest time was only a few days away. That is highly pathetic failure.

Wanna be on the winning side? You've got to keep on keeping on! Don't quit on me now!
Post Merge: January 23, 2012, 07:34:43 PMThere is no state in the federation that ought to suffer from paucity of streams of internally generated revenues. In fact, all states are capable of self-sustenance if only the governors would quit playing dumb so they can see all the abundant vistas provided by nature as well as those opened up by Science & Technology and the largely unexplored infinite economic lands that consists of the sum total of the creative and inventive capacities of citizens, freely given, that abound in every state.

It is the duty of a state's leaders who have vision to increase, nurture and harness those capacities for the well being of society and not to deplete, eclipse and decimate them through irresponsible behaviour and purblind vision.
Post Merge: January 24, 2012, 07:16:29 AMNigeria is gradually being placed on the slaughter slab. Butchers are given free reign by the powers that be who pretend to be looking for them when they are the authors of the script. The victims are made to look like the culprits with well crafted tendentious propaganda laced with ethnic and religious sentiments and young men sell their souls to the devil. I insist that the central nervous system for this monster lies in the Presidency.

What beats my imagination is that the prophets and pastors are joining the fray claiming annointing to be stupid. It is so loud and clear that they never receive annointing to fight the rot in the system which they help nurture to.swell their congregations and their bank accounts taking over warehouses and factory spaces for mighty cathedrals - a sure sign all was not well with the economy and yet they turn a blind eye as their personal economy improves. Halleluyah, the Lord is good.

Utter nonsense! Where are those ones who give pregnant women babies? Where are those ones who predict death every year when someone would die anyway? Where are those ones who have turned God's house into a place for showmanship? Does God not speak to them anymore?

To make matters worse, the one who profits from selling gallons of groundnut oil and handkerchiefs turned into talisman by hapless worshippers who still keep their wickedness intact, prophesies he has been annointed by God to lead a Jihad and yet contradicts himself so much by saying that if - note, if - it was God's wish that Nigeria should split up, so be it.

He just told you guys he doesn't even know God's will and gullible people applaud. Besides, have you read about Jihad in the Bible? Does God annoint people to lead Jihad in the Bible?

When the spirit of error reigns in the church and in the mosque and consequently in the government (all those who are in government are members of one church or mosque), the nation's problems is further compounded. The religious teachers have failed Nigeria and I expect them to repent and retrace their steps so they can truly hear from God who has not gone deaf but is incensed at their ways.

Remember God's Word, 'My people perish for lack of knowledge.' Why is this so? The shepherds set over them have embraced the spirit of error and lascivious and reckless living. God won't speak to such polluted vessels.

The most funny part is that when God according His plans finally arrests the bastards, exposes them and routes them completely and the very obvious faces are finally made bare, some sickly people will come to the public and tell us their pastor prophesied it. Mscheeeeeeeeew!
Post Merge: January 24, 2012, 11:44:31 AMWhen you are at crossroads between saying the truth that you know and friendship, it is better for you to embrace the Truth. If it is the Truth, your friend may be angry with you for a while but will eventually have is conscience seered by the burden of truth and would come back to you. If you embrace friendship over truth, in which case you lied, then you are on a set course to self-destruct. The Truth can never be hidden. It is an explosive light that breaks any barrier to shine forth.

Even professional liars will not trust you if they found out you lied. But you will be respected if the found out what you said was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Post Merge: January 24, 2012, 12:15:33 PMIt appears to me thaf the dramatis personae in this Boko Haram game are begining to have a seered conscience, rethinking their position and are tacitly looking for the least costly measures to their interests to exit gracefully.

Tambuwal says Nigerians should forgive them and dialogue with them.

Petirin says they will soon run out of bombs when the truth is that we have not run out of Ammonium Nitrate in fertilizers with which they make the bombs.

They also say they will soon run out of suicide bombers.

How do they know all of these if they are not conversant with the inner workings of the group? If they knew all of these, why could they not cripple the group?

Or could the group be representing their interests?

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After wastefully expending what was meant for the rainy day in the Excess Crude Account, they suddenly remembered that that account did not have any legal backing. They simply liquidated that account instead of sending a bill to the NASS to legalize it. They sold fantastic lies to Nigerians why the account had to go when the real truth is that they had squandered all the money and then came up with Sovereign Wealth Fund with barely $1bn and hired some very pathetic analysts who are such a disgrace to their calling to tell us lies and many who hardly bother to follow up happenings in the economy and the polity applauded the magical 'abracadabra'. Having wasted all the savings, they cooked up lies - disgusting lies about subsidy - the very lies that have exposed them for what they truly are: a 419 president and a band of 419 ministers.

Last year, knowing their performance was poor, they attempted to adjust the GDP figure upwards magically even with ample evidence we were producing nothing new and most of the industries had died and oil revenues were systematically stolen like never before and this government, suffering from poverty of creative ideas kept on borrowing to do nothing but line individual pockets and simply achieved nothing in more than 2 years now and a pathetic puppy-tie-wearing graduate looks us in the eyes and lies so brazenly all is well with the debt profile. These falsified figures are what they give to the international rating institutions to get mind-boggling ratings that astounds us in the face of evidence the economy has been convulsing and writhing in death throes since late 2010.

These guys are tricksters and unproductive magicians. May God continue to expose them!
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 08:25:31 AMWhat beats my imagination is how these graduates in and around this government choose to make a mess of their callings for a very sick man. Can you believe it that the same Ngozi Iweala warned so many times about the reckless borrowing habits of this government when that disgraceful Aganga was Minister of Finance since late 2010 when she was still at the World bank? Even Sanusi warned vociferously too about this government's reckless spending habits and mindless depletion of the Excess Crude Account, a dangerous trend that peaked under the man who runs government business by luck and not by vision and commonsense. Dr. Chukwuma Soludo also warned and all these warnings fell on deaf ears.
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 08:35:42 AMIf you guys somehow manage to think Jonathan has plans to take this nation anywhere, then you need to have a rethink.. Na lie o. Tell me, what vision he has to do so. Please, show me any of his plans to move the nation forward that makes sense through and through. If you guys look beneath the Google materials used to write the Power Roadmap you will weep. Its all a farce and a fraud. Listen up, these guys have simply messed up everything and the one without shoes and his cronies steal recklessly with both hands, both legs and mouth. The one without shoes has been a reckless 'Molue' driver who even drinks the engine oil and transmission fluid, leaving the ship of state to run aground.
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 08:47:04 AMNgozi is simply struggling to do the impossible this time. President Jonathan and Aganga and the governors before the last eletions should be made to account for the magical disappearance of monies in the ECA.
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 08:48:18 AMDieziani Madueke too ought to be throughly investigated.
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 08:58:09 AMPlace the sudden rise in arms importation and finacing of outlaw groups side by side with dwindling productive industries and under-performing financial institutions and tell me what picture you see.

Then ponder over the fact that for a long time, the so-called invisible Boko Haram bombers were never caught and suddenly some are caught and they disappear into thin air.

Then check the billions of Naira spent on security gadgets that are not of priority at the expense of right tools which cost much less to equip security agents.

Make your deductions and place it all in the context of present realities we are faced with these days.
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 08:58:26 AMPlace the sudden rise in arms importation and financing of outlaw groups side by side with dwindling productive industries and under-performing financial institutions and tell me what picture you see.

Then ponder over the fact that for a long time, the so-called invisible Boko Haram bombers were never caught and suddenly some are caught and they disappear into thin air.

Then check the billions of Naira spent in securitg gadgets that are not of priority at the expense of right tools which cost much less to equip security agents.

Make your deductions and place it all in the context of present realities we are faced with these days.
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 01:28:15 PMExamine the following evidences and place them side by side with happenings in Nigeria and draw your conclusions:

1. Early 2010, the then Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Mohammed Hassan in an interview with journalists in his office confirmed that Abubakar Shakau, the Second-In-Command of Boko Haram had been killed in the 2009 insurgency of thr group. Has anyone bothered to ask how a dead man is suddenly being sought after now?

2. Sequel to the October 1, 2010 bombings, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan told Nigerians on national television he knew those behind it and was quick to absolve MEND   that claimed responsibility and had implicated government officials including Tony Uranta and it is instructive that the president turned a deaf ear and laid the blame at the doorsteps of his political opponents and all of a sudden, Raymond Dokpesi's name surfaced in a call log which Marilyn Ogah talked about and all of a sudden he was left off the hook as soon as he moved over to President Jonathan's Campaign team?

3.   Senator Ndume was arrested along with some Boko Haram spokesman who had allegedly implicated Ndume of complicity in committing heinous terrorist crime against the state and the Attorney General of the Federation with all the years he has put into law practice and after Marilyn Ogah and government had openly accused them of terrorist crimes on national TV, deemed it fit to arraign the suspects before a magistrate court on frivolous charges and the one said to be insane without the court doing due diligence to ascertain he was truly normal or not, was persuaded to plead guilty and he was quickly jailed and then the Attorney General suddenly realized the charges were not adequate and then filed equally ridiculous charges at a Federal High Court that had nothing to do with terrorist activities. The question is, was the Attorney General that stupid or was he playing out a script to implicate an innocent man? Who stood to gain by protecting a terrorist from facing the full wrath of the law? Or is it true Ndume was only being persecuted for his anti-fuel-subsidy stance?
Post Merge: January 22, 2012, 07:08:33 PMGod has put in them a spirit of confusion that they may expose and disgrace themselves openly. God will use them to execute themselves and make their minds go numb while He perfects His plans for Nigeria.

Nigeria will rise again! Just take a seat, grab some Pop Corn, cross your legs and watch the drama that ensues at the national level. This is a year of outstanding revelations. After that comes restoration.

They will be afflicted with strange diseases that make them very stupid and they will keep up the goofs and gaffes. No Pastor or Imam or native doctor can pray it away.

Boko Haram and thieves around the corridors of power, your end has come God will do what He will do. Nigeria will rise again!

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Is it true the wanted man has been re-arrested? Even if he was, how do Nigerians know they have the real suspect when they could not even publish the photo of such a high profile deadly criminal?   Then also, even if he was truly re-arrested, that does not lessen the crime of aiding and abetting the escape of a dangerous criminal neither does it lessen the offence of gross incompetence and embarrassing and costly negligence.

Besides, with the negative intel on Biu's person and character, how did Hafiz Ringim or whoever reinstate such an obnoxious and deadly person into the police force and even promoted him to the rank of Commissioner of Police and assignedhim to such a sensitive department as the CID? Who were the equally negligent persons in the Police Service Commission and the Ministry of Police Affairs who failed to carry out due diligence on him before reinstating him?
Post Merge: January 20, 2012, 07:26:24 AMIsn't it rather disheartening that after seeing the positive effect of standing up for our rights and demanding for good governance some still say that the findings of thr various probe panels will not have any positive impact and that it would go the way of previous panels that simply wasted national resources to buy airtime to give us some farcical Nollywood acts.

I, sincerely, believe the real question we should be asking ourselves is, would you and I let it go that way. It is even more pertinent for us, having been so well informed to think up measures to ensure these probes are not meant to entertain us but must deliver tangible results in vitiating, at least, the scourge of corruption, its various manifestations and crippling effectd as well as put its virulent and merciless foot soldiers in prison bonds.

Or are we really stupid? Time will tell.
Post Merge: January 20, 2012, 10:55:43 AMAre they really looking for this man? Why would it take until yesterday to release his photograph? Or was the plan to let him get as far away as possible? why on earth would the security agents think a high profile criminal like the suspect who managed to escape the iron claws of the law would be stupid to hang around even on the very day he managed to escape? Na wa o! Some people are just not thinking at all.

There is definitely more to this than meets the eye.

Even a co-founder of the Boko Haram sect, Aliyu Tishako, had previously escaped from police custody too.
Post Merge: January 20, 2012, 11:04:47 AMAfter 2 soldiers were killed by men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram cult in Maiduguri yesterday, the soldiers went on a reprisal attack wounding one of the suspects while the others escaped. They went to the area and opened fire killing over 32 innocent civilians in the area.

People in areas like Poppomari, dala and the worst hit area, Ajilari ward are locked indoors in fear as soldiers are every where.
Post Merge: January 20, 2012, 11:18:01 AMI no fit shout o! LWKMD! Please read the following excerpt from today's edition of the Daily Sun. Police wey dey do gra gra for people dey fear, Lol:

Meanwhile, following the sustained attacks on police and other security formations especially at the North-eastern flank of the country, some Squadron Commanders of the Police Mobile Force (PMF), have kicked against a proposed three-week training programme scheduled to commence at the PMF Training School in Gwoza, Borno State.

The police authorities had, through a recent wireless message, signed by the Commissioner of Police in charge of the PMF, Mr. Philemon Leha, directed all Squadron Commanders across the country to report at the Gwoza training camp on February 1, for the 21-day training programme. But some of the commanders have described the move as packaging the officers on a suicide mission, citing the recent killing in Yobe State of two senior officers, including one of their colleagues and an Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, both of whom hailed from Katsina State, as a serious operational blunder.

Rather than assembling the over 50 Squadron Commanders for training in Borno State, where Boko Haram had stepped up attacks in the wake of the state of emergency declared by President Jonathan in some parts of the country, the officers expressed their preference to undergo the programme at the PMF Training School at Ila-Oragun, in Osun State.

“First, it is not a good operational judgment to withdraw all Squadron Commanders from their duty posts at this time when there are a lot of security challenges. Besides, considering the fact that the situation is still tense in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and some other states, why should the authorities decide to hold such a programme in Borno, where the officers are vulnerable to attack.

The fact is that if Boko Haram members know that all the PMF commanders are in Gwoza, they could be tempted to strike there. And since we have an alternative, why not go there if the programme must hold now?” one of the commanders asked.
Post Merge: January 20, 2012, 11:28:56 AM'Inner light!', 'Oya Roger!' na im dem sabi and to dey fight law abiding citizens wey dey do peaceful protest against bad policy.

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It is the same level of rot in the petroleum sector, if not even worse, that bedevils the power sector. Fellow Nigerians, until we decide to do something really drastic about this, that sector will continue to remain a huge cash 'elephant' and a veritable conduit pipe for looting the treasury and each successive government will keep on telling us cock and bull stories.

That sector equally stinks so badly and the FG and all the criminally-minded ministers should, indeed, bury their heads in shame for  being such a monumental embarrassment to God, to themselves, to their children, to their children's children and to all generations of Nigerians who ever lived, are alive and yet to be born.

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Critical observations:

1. Labour actually sold out and betrayed the pact with Civil Society Organizations, pushing through only its argument for reverting to N65 per litre. However, long before that, government took note of some of the arguments of aggrieved Nigerians and decided to cut down the basic salaries in the Executive Arm of Government. Whether this has been done or not is left to be seen. Government also, in line with the demands of the masses instituted action to bring the culprits in the petroleum sector to book. Whether it is cosmetic or a whole hearted attempt for which government would give the EFCC freehand to carry out the job to a logical conclusion is what we ought to be concerned about and Nigerians need to keep up the pressure to ensure those who cripple development and persistently steal the nation's revenues or divert them to personal use fraudulently are brought to book.

2. It was in keeping faith with the pact with labour that civil society organizations who actually managed the crowd and ensured they did not overstep the bounds of a decent citizens protest, asked the mammoth crowds to comply with labour's agreement with government to call a two-day truce. However, government lackeys took advantage of this to prevent a gathering. It was clearly a ploy by government to redeem its bruised ego and do some grandstanding and to save face. The truth is, government could not have dared last week to send in the soldiers with the kind of anger one could see in the crowds though controlled. It would have been suicidal to the security agents.

3. Truly, seccesionist elements crept into the crowd and forwarded divisive arguments and sought surreptitiously to get more Nigerians to key into their arguments and use the opportunity to spearhead a bloody separation of the federating units along regional lines without counting the costs. It is the activities of these elements that were misconstrued or deliberately misinterpreted by government agents to mean some were calling for regime change. What majority of Nigerians did say, however, was that government must cut down on wasteful spending, streamline the budget proposals for effective constructive development, cut down on the ungodly wage bills of public servants.

4. To prove that labour did sell out and that government actually deliberately planned the two day truce as a ploy and also came up with strategy to prevent the formation of a crowd, examine following facts. Labour did not consult with the civil society groups or the other members of the Joint Action Committee before arriving at the decision to call of the strike. Secondly, the labour leaders were dodgy in answering the piercing questions from journalists. Omar actually lashed out at Pastor Bakare when a journalist had raised some point attributed to Bakare.  Labaran Maku persistently betrayed hatred for the opposition and was impatient with journalists interviewing him who tried to refute his views that the crowds were sponsored and not spontaneous. Same also Marilyn Ogah who could not help but show her bias and persistenly referred to those who organized the crowd and spurred them to demand for their rights as members of the opposition.

5. The decisions as to use brutal force on the crowds and for the FG to be recalcitrant were actually aimed at ensuring that the cabal who are public servants and their counterparts outside government who they use as stooges are not probed and consequently to prevent collateral damage to themselves.

6. What is founded on lies can never stand the test of time. It will fall like a pack of.cards. In fact, anyone who believes in government 'magic smagic' will be disappointed even more in just a little while. It is still deception and half-hearted measures all the day. In no distant time, we would be back to square one. Government will force N141.00   on Nigerians soon. Many have yet to see the long term negative impact this would have on all Nigerians and have not considered the dire consequences should the proceeds be mismanaged.

7. Finally, the direct involvement and high visibility of contestants in the last elections on the platform of opposition parties spoilt the struggle and gave government elements latitude to brand the struggle for change in our land an inssurection. But there are two critical questions I need to leave you all with: Are opposition party members not first and foremost Nigerians? Does membership of political parties remove from you the rights of citizenship to demand for good governance in a peaceful protest? Are the evidences presented about government's moral impropriety and financial lasciviousness facts or fiction? If they were facts, did the FG really have a right to demand excrutiating sacrifices from the masses in the face of evidence, so glaring and unmistakable, that the real problem with the economy is a giant vampire consisting of public servants who do not only earn ungodly income criminally allocated to themselves but also misapproriate state funds with impugnity, allocate in  indescribably callous manners additional monies to themselves under ridiculous and vomit-inducing headings in the budget? Is it not equally true that despite all these unpatriotic strategies of public servants to loot the treasury dry, we still pay for their feeding, fuel for their vehicles, we buy the long retinue of vehicles, we finance the education of their wards, we pay to keep imbeciles and economic parasites in choice hotels permanently all at our expense? We do so much more.

8. Nigerians raised genuine concerns about their fortunes. Until these issues are genuinely addressed, it is in vein that our communities are militarized. An angry man fears no mortal whether he is armed to the teeth or not. Besides, what makes the President so sure the weapons will not be turned on him eventually if security agents keep killing bonafide citizens who demand for.their just dues form a government they elected, the security agents knowing fully well these Nigerians they are ordered to kill are their blood and flesh, kith and kin? I think it is safer for government to sort out the issues and demonstrate capacity to take the nation out of the woods instead of building castles on quick sand.

8. A word is enough for the wise!
Post Merge: January 17, 2012, 09:49:54 AMI pity the militants who have chosen not to desist from a wayward lifestyle. A man who wins wrestling matches in his village thinks he is the ultimate champion until he encounters a stronger person from another place. I had thought those guys had been rehabilitated and reintegrated into a society of normal human beings. Little did we know they were being fed, accomodated and paid and kept together for a time like this as persistent liabilities and as state thugs by Niger-Delta President. At least, they made it clear to us he is their own and not the president of all Nigerians. I wish we could just put paid to this mess once and for all time.

It is interesting that criminals who commit brazen crimes against society and who killed, maimed, kidnapped for ransom and raped fellow Nigerians and who robbed banks got off the hook on softlanding and have become preferred friends of the government of the day and have their ears at the expense of what an overwhelming majority of Nigerians demand.

This is a very bad precedence and underscores beyond reasonable doubt why this government is unable to curb the rising crime wave in the land as Mr. President midwifed softlnding for his criminal constituency at the expense of majority of Niger Deltans and has lost moral rights to bring erring culprits to book from other places, all for political expedience. This is indeed a very dangerous phenomenon unknown in our clime that must be addressed. Why won't a Boko Haram bombing mastermind escape from custody?

This is exactly also what is happening with the anti-corruption war. Some people high up have their hands soiled with caked accretion from rotten pies.

Shall we say lawlessness has come to stay with pretentious rule-of-law posturing?
Post Merge: January 17, 2012, 01:58:14 PMJenny Shipley was the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand. Helen Clark became the second female Prime Minister of that same country. Despite being Prime Ministers, both women conducted themselves with decorum and lived exemplary lives worth emulating. I cannot recollect seeing any official 'mugu' walking behind them carrying their bags and phones. Please, observe Mitchell Obama too.They carry these things themselves. Where did we evolve such nasty tradition for an unconstitutional office as the Office of the First Lady of Nigeria or of states?
Post Merge: January 17, 2012, 02:09:44 PMBoko Haram is government tool to keep our tongues wagging and to occupy our attention in unproductive jaw-jaw while they loot the treasury to finance the notorious trade of an equally very notorious arms cartel. Government had so much in its hands, fearing an insurrection to continue to bomb places. They simply would have infuriated Nigerians the more. So do not be surprised there was no bomb blast throughout the period of the protests.
Post Merge: January 17, 2012, 03:06:50 PMI get your drift. But the injustice done to the Izon nation is not only to them. We all share the burden of addressing and nipping in the bud all the injustices done to constituent parts of this nation. In the link you provided earlier, Chief Bola Ige spoke for himself and not for the Yoruba nation. I choose to be different and I urge all my Izon brothers and sisters to join us in crafting and bringing to fruition Nigeria that works where justice, equity, fairness, righteousness and genuine and deep rooted unity reigns for the sake of this generation of Nigerians and for future generations. I am for resource control. But the truth is, we cannot address the issues rightly and defeat the forces at work, persistently crippling true all-round development, if we keep pandering to ethnic sentiments. The Gospel truth is, no one wanted to bring President Jonathan down, but we all realize his hands had to be forced to do the needful in favour of the masses and not a few mad men who hold him hostage. The resort to ethnic sentiments spoilt a good fight to route the enemies of this nation who are in every part of the nation from North to South and from East to West and to free us all to experience a new lease of life under the sanest atmosphere where the future of our children and our children's children is guaranteed and secure. We simply squandered a golden opportunity and played into the hands of elephantine Corruption Nig. PLC. You must realize that when we went to the polls, the desire for true change was at fever pitch and the emergent president was expected to fulfil our expectations along that line. The truth also is that the spontaneous reaction would also have occurred if it was a Buhari or Ribadu or Dele Momodu in power.
Post Merge: January 17, 2012, 03:30:48 PMIt is indeed very sad that in this age and time, tribes in Nigeria still engage in barbaric and brutal fights. It is, indeed, so disgraceful that the love of animals and farm lands and mundane possessions and other ridiculous items for which we fight, supersedes the sanctity of human life. Charles Darwin must be clinking glasses with other proponents of Evolution Theory in the great beyond, laughing at our professed love for God. All religions recognize the sanctity of human life.

It is equally so amazing that we attribute these bestial fights to religion when in actual sense, we are actually fighting over meat, land to plant Pawpaw, Mangoes, Palm Kernnel and Kolanuts and to control drill oil at the expense of channelling our inventive genius and creative skills towards productive ends.

Nigerians, shame!
Post Merge: January 18, 2012, 07:22:41 AMWhen a well read Minister of Finance and Minister of Petroleum cannot give the public correct statistics about the volume of petroleum products produced or imported and sold to Nigerians and to other nations and they keep eating their words about figures they had previously given based on which they sold transparent falsehood to the nation about phony fuel subsidy now that they are before an investgative panel claiming the figures they had given were supposedly estimates, a responsible president should fire them for embarrassing the government so much, unless there is something they are actually trying to cover up that involves him.

It is God who is causing them to disgrace themselves and He would put a sword in their hands to slaughter themselves and expose their wickedness to the entire public everyday so Nigerians can see the real Darculas sucking the blood of innocent Nigerians through all kinds of evil schemes.
Post Merge: January 18, 2012, 07:23:53 AMWhen a well read Minister of Finance and Minister of Petroleum cannot give the public correct statistics about the volume of petroleum products produced or imported and sold to Nigerians and to other nations and they keep eating their words about figures they had previously given based on which they sold transparent falsehood to the nation about phony fuel subsidy now that they are before an investgative panel claiming the figures they had given were supposedly estimates, a responsible president should fire them for embarrassing the government so much, unless there is something they are actually trying to cover up that involves him.

It is God who is causing them to disgrace themselves and He would put a sword in their hands to slaughter themselves and expose their wickedness to the entire public everyday so Nigerians can see the real Darculas sucking the blood of innocent Nigerians through all kinds of evil schemes.
Post Merge: January 18, 2012, 07:25:57 AMWhen a well read Minister of Finance and Minister of Petroleum cannot give the public correct statistics about the volume of petroleum products produced or imported and sold to Nigerians and to other nations and they keep eating their words about figures they had previously given based on which they sold transparent falsehood to the nation about phony fuel subsidy now that they are before an investgative panel claiming the figures they had given were supposedly estimates, a responsible president should fire them for embarrassing the government so much, unless there is something they are actually trying to cover up that involves him.

It is God who is causing them to disgrace themselves and He would put a sword in their hands to slaughter themselves and expose their wickedness to the entire public everyday so Nigerians can see the real Darculas sucking the blood of innocent Nigerians through all kinds of evil schemes.