Okah accepted the amnesty that was why he was released.

Akainzo

Okah supplied arms to mend that you have to understand.
Okah is a saboteur.
The Niger-delta struggle was fought by tompolo and co.
Okah is been used by Northern elements.
How can you belive aljazera an arab station.

ibime man i think say you wise but now man am beging to think otherwise.
Do know any member of mend.
The people like tomoplo that did the fighting have come out to say they did not do this act.
Now let me ask you if there is a fraction of mend that did not take amnesty don't you think right now that the people that did take it they are going to tell the government what is actually happenning in the creek and those that planned this act will be fished out.
Now you people will know the lion has balls.

Who is mend can you name one person that is a member mend.
Tompolo says mend does not exist.

Kobojunkie

The people that formed mend have come out to say they did not carry out the bombing of abuja so why are you behaving so ignorant and silly.

How can you belive a faceless character that claims to be mend.

People like tompolo are telling you they did not perform the act but you do not want to belive.

You no wan wise.

Those that did the bombing will be treated as terrorist.
Their will be no hidding place for them.
The cat is out of the bag.
IBB and co are scared stiff.

Mend is runned and owned by tompolo they fought the government okah is just an arms dealer,so stop saying rubbish here.
You daft heads now reason this how can someone from south africa say rubbish and you belive him more than someone that has intels at his disposal telling you the truth.
Nigerians you cannot stop to amaze me with your i too know attitude.
What can i say we have too many internet baboons here.

As Seal wowo reach im wife fine pass ur mama.Na wowo dem wan chop.

What a daft trend na who ugly pass nai u dey find abi mugu tend,in just u wan know u ugly pass na ur papa nai ugly pass mugu people.

Former National Democratic Party (NDP) chairman in Kaduna State and campaigner for General Ibrahim Babangida presidency, Hassan Mohammed Jallo, is threatening fire and brimstone. Currently a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, he is warning the party not to allow Babangida to lose the party’s primary.

He said that if Babangida does, PDP will lose the 2011 presidential election.

Ironically, Jallo says Babangida will not relinquish power if he wins the 2011 presidential poll. This, he said, would be a punishment for Nigerians who say that zoning of the presidency is undemocratic
Hear him: “What I am saying is that if zoning fails, the price we are going to pay later in life is going to be great. If they say they are jettisoning zoning, the North will not have anything to lose because I know once we grab the power, we will never allow it to go.”
Jallo did not stop there. He says politicians have failed the nation and that only the military regimes in this country have done well. As far as he is concerned, President Goodluck Jonathan is a “ non-starter “ in Nigerian politics.
Excerpts.

As a die-hard supporter of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), how would you rate his chances in the 2011 presidential race?
He has a very bright chance because he is going into the contest with a non-starter in Nigerian politics. His numerous achievements, when he was military president, are also added advantage.

Who is a non-starter in Nigerian politics?
The President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is a non-starter; if you should compare him to IBB. Compared to IBB, Goodluck Jonathan is a non-starter. IBB is more popular.

Don’t forget that IBB was a military president. Would you say he was a democrat?
He was the president, a military democratic president because if there is any Nigerian leader, dead or alive, who has done so much for democracy and democratic institution in Nigeria, that person is Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. He introduced two-party system in the country. He organised the best, freest and fairest elections in Nigeria.

But that election was annulled?
IBB was even a democrat when he was in the military. The fact that June 12 election was annulled doesn’t mean anything. We have had worse elections in Nigeria than June 12. The 2003 election was worse than June 12. Again, the 2007 election was worse than June 12. It was a stolen mandate. Obasanjo’s election in 2003 and 2007 were stolen mandates. He was not elected by Nigerians. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) brought Obasanjo to power for two consecutive terms. So, what are you talking about? Is stolen mandate not worse than June 12? It was worse than June 12. And mind you, people are just looking at one side of the story. About three courts declared June 12 election inconclusive. Even before its conclusion, the court had stopped government from holding that election. The then chairman of INEC defied the order of the court and went ahead to conduct the elections. So, June 12 presidential election was done in violation of the court order that said the election should not hold. So, the military government of that day acted on the orders of the court.

Why do you want Babangida as the president of Nigeria?
IBB has good presidential quality. He is a marketable presidential material anytime, anyday, anywhere. He ruled Nigeria for eight years, and there is no Nigerian leader that has matched his record of achievements. None has touched the lives of the people, like IBB. There is no aspect of human life that IBB has not touched. When you look at the political, economic and foreign policies on ground, all the policies we are practising now were brought about by IBB. He formed the NDDC, in the Niger-Delta region. This government just changed the name. When you look at People’s Bank and community bank, this government came and changed it to microfinance bank. What is microfinance bank? He created almost 400 local governments in order to bring government closer to the people. At least, there is no state of the federation that IBB has not left a legacy, a landmark achievement, visible projects that people can really go and touch. With the meagre resources that the regime had, they were able to turn Nigeria around.

What do you have now? Apart from corruption, what do you have? There are booklets that contain IBB’s achievements, sector by sector. Tell me one regime after IBB that did better. Tell me one civilian regime that has done so many projects that have touched the lives of the people. When you look at the second phase of Kaduna Refinery, the petrochemical sector, it was constructed and commissioned by IBB. The Eleme Petro-Chemical Company Limited in Port Harcourt was built during IBB regime. Fertilizer company and third mainland bridge in Lagos were built under IBB government. He created 11 states, over 400 local governments and two political parties.

You are talking about the positive side of IBB. You mean he has no negative side?
There is no man, whether a leader or not, whether a leader or a follower, whether a husband or a wife, who people will not say he has negative side. There is no regime that does not have a negative side. The regime of Goodluck Jonathan is spending more money on power generation than even the Obasanjo regime. They said Obasanjo regime spent 15 billion dollars on power. This present regime, by our calculation, has surpassed even the 15 billion dollars. Where is the power? So, there is no regime, being the local government, state government, Federal Government, even individuals that will not make mistake. Mistake in government is natural because they are ruling people. And mind you, Nigeria has over 300 ethnic groups, so many nationalities. So, you don’t expect a leader to please everybody. Some will feel pleased; others will feel aggrieved. But IBB is the best Nigerian leader. He is the man to beat in 2011 elections. He is going to win the PDP primaries clean and clear.

What is your conviction?
Is it not delegate election? Wait and see.

There was this Northern Political Summit …(cuts in)
No, no, no, stop talking about Northern Political Summit; that was not Northern Political Summit.

What was it?
That was government arranged political forum. They selected delegates. If you went there and your name was not among the selected government delegates, they never allowed you in. Did you see any prominent northern politician in that forum? Only selected people, greedy politicians. They are hungry, looking for money. These are outdated politicians that are looking for money from government. So, government was using them to deceive people that it was Northern Political Summit. It is a lie. You cannot hold Northern Political Summit and leave behind people like IBB, Atiku Abubakar, and Sule Lamido. You cannot hold Northern Political Summit without people like General Muhammadu Buhari. When you are talking about Northern Political Summit, all northern politicians must be contacted, must be consulted, and must be invited because you are talking of the North. And if you are talking about the North, you are talking of Nigeria. So, it was a government-arranged summit, which failed woefully.

How did it fail?
It failed because at that summit, they expected the delegates to adopt Jonathan for the 2011 presidency. Mind you, our boys were there. Most of the delegates did not even know the agenda of the summit. More than half of the delegates went out of the conference hall even before the event was concluded. It was a failure. So, you cannot hold Northern Political Summit without the key northern politicians. Why is it that IBB, Buhari, Atiku were not invited? When you are talking of the North, forget about political parties. When you want to build a nation democratically, you put your political differences aside because they said it is Northern Political Summit, not PDP Northern Political Summit. None of the prominent northern politicians was invited because they knew that they would not dance to the tune of government. Zoning must stay. Presidency was brought to the North not for Umar Yar’Adua and Jonathan. Zoning was brought to northern Nigeria, not for Umar Yar’Adua. The fact that Obasanjo gave the ticket to Yar’Adua did not mean that it was only for Yar’Adua. It is for the North and we will not allow it to go.

What organisers of the Northern Political Summit said was that Jonathan is now the symbol of Yar’Adua ticket, since it was a joint one?
It is not a joint ticket. If it is a joint ticket, why did Jonathan bring back two ministers sacked by Yar’Adua for corruption? Yar’Adua’s aides were removed from government after his death. This government is now witch-hunting Yar’Adua’s family. This government has also sacked Yar’Adua’s Chief Security Officer. His ADC is being haunted. Most of the projects started by Yar’Adua have been stopped by this government. So, if you are saying that this government is a continuation of Yar’Adua’s government, why are they witch-hunting his ADC, his family?

Do you have the evidence to back all these claims you are making?
We are in Nigeria. Ask the government. Why did they sack CSO to Umar? Why is it that his ADC was nominated for a course in London and for no reason he was recalled and posted to Jaji? Why did they stop the dredging of River Niger ?

They have not stopped it?
They have stopped that work? Go and find out. Why did they remove Turai’s brother as the Chief Executive of a parastatal of NNPC immediately after Umar’s death? Why did they bring back the two ministers sacked by Umar? Where is the seven-point agenda of Umar? They have turned down the seven-point agenda. They are now running under zero point agenda because they don’t have agenda. The only agenda is to succeed themselves.

You mean Jonathan’s administration has not achieved anything?
This administration has achieved nothing and it will not take Nigeria to anywhere. This administration must go. They don’t mean well for the country. If they said the government is the continuation of that of Umar, where is the seven-point agenda of Umar? Why did they stop it? Take your mind back to General Murtala’s regime. When Obasanjo succeeded him, he (Obasanjo) did not change any policy of that regime. Obasanjo did not sack anybody in that government. He continued with the same Murtala/Obasanjo government. That is why it is still being called Murtala /Obasanjo regime. We cannot, today or tomorrow say this is Goodluck Jonathan /Umar Yar’Adua’s regime.

Is it not constitutional for Jonathan to succeed Yar’Adua?
Death can happen to anybody. Government is government, whether democratic or not. When you are in government, you don’t need government. Government is of the people, by the people and for the people. So, government is government. The business of government is to better the lives of the people, whether military or civilian. Military happened to be the best system of government that has ever run Nigeria well. Politicians, from 1999 till date, have failed us woefully. All the meaningful projects we have today were done under the military rule.

What are IBB’s chances when the South-South and some northern states have pledged their support for Jonathan?
Forget about the people of South-South or South-West. Mind you, these zones held series of meetings, and IBB loyalists told them point blank at that meeting that they will vote for IBB. At the first meeting, Obasanjo did not want any drama because the press was there. He just overruled everybody and said the South-West was going for Jonathan. I told him that even at gunpoint Gbenga Daniel, Olagunsoye Oyinlola will go for IBB. Secondly, we are talking of delegate election, not the previous delegates of the PDP. Each delegate has to go and cast his vote. IBB is very popular in the South-West. And I assure you, without fear of any contradiction that the South-West will vote for Babangida. Thirdly, Obasanjo is not a democrat. He is just a selfish politician. How can he take side as the BOT chairman of the PDP? He has taken side even before the PDP primaries. Obasanjo is supposed to be a leader, a father to all aspirants. It is only after the primaries that he can support a candidate. Both Obasanjo and Jonathan are party leaders. They are not supposed to take sides.

What do you think Obasanjo has against IBB?
Envy. Obasanjo is envious of IBB and he is afraid of IBB.

Why?
He is envious of IBB because he knows that if IBB comes to power, he will perform better than him (Obasanjo) because he did it before. Tell me the achievements of Obasanjo. Of his eight years as the Nigerian President, tell me, what did he achieve? Is it corruption; the wasting of money on the National Stadium, Abuja? What did Obasanjo achieve in Nigeria? They sold all our assets, bought all our assets. Go to Abuja. You appoint ministers, no government agency for them. National Assembly members, no government houses for them. What kind of country is this one? Now, they are trying to start building houses for National Assembly members. Obasanjo sold all the houses. What is left for Obasanjo to sell was the Aso Rock in Abuja. But where is the money? Where is the Abacha loot? Obasanjo claimed he recovered Abacha loot. Where is the Abacha loot he recovered? So, Obasanjo is the worst leader Nigeria has ever had, and now he wants to rule the country through the back-door, another third term. No way; he must give way.

You mentioned only two governors in the South-West. What of others?
Mind you, other states are not PDP states, and IBB is going to meet every delegate from each state. Every aspirant is expected to meet every delegate once he has the offer to run in 2011 elections. It is not enough for you to sit in Abuja because you are president; you want to rule. What have you done when you were given the opportunity? Now you are ruling. Goodluck Jonathan, what has he achieved? What has he done? We can show you the visible projects of Umar Yar’Adua.

Will you say the same thing of Nasarawa State governor who went with all officials to Jonathan, likewise Benue and Plateau states?
It is because you are a supporter of Jonathan; that is why you are telling me about the states that are in support of Jonathan. Have you spoken about how people were chased away in Katsina when they wanted to hold a rally for Jonathan? Have you talked about Kaduna when Jonathan’s rally failed? Kaduna journalists were there. Some of the newspapers said Jonathan/Sambo rally in Kaduna failed. Why are you not giving these instances? They could not hold rally in Katsina. Let them go and hold Goodluck Jonathan rally in Kano. What about Borno? They were chased away.

We understand IBB rally flopped in Ibadan? What do you say?
It is a lie. It is a lie. That is what I told you initially, that every leader has positive and negative sides. Even if you are a husband in the house, your wife and children will always complain about your negative side and commend your positive side. Even if you are a local government chairman, you will have your negative side. Some will like you, others will hate you. That is natural. What is happening to world leaders? What I am saying is that this zoning, if we don’t insist on it, the price we are going to pay later in life is going to be great. If they say that they are jettisoning zoning, the North will not have anything to lose because I know once we grab the power, we will never allow it to go. We said zoning should be allowed so that there can be equity, every section of the country should taste power, should be able to rule this country.

That is why IBB said the Igbo should be allowed to produce the president in 2015, so that we put the civil war behind us. If Shagari regime could pardon Ojukwu, I don’t see any reason we should not put the civil war behind us. The Igbo are Nigerians. They are part of Nigeria. Civil war is part of our history. So, they should be given another opportunity to rule Nigeria. But when you say there should be no zoning, Igbo are not going to rule for the next 30 years because this man will say he is spending Umar Yar’Adua’s four years and he will start his own eight years; that is 14 years. Then it will come back to the North again for another eight years. When you go back, South-West will say it is their turn. Where are you placing the Igbo? Do you mean Igbo are not Nigerians or they are not going to rule? In 2011, power must shift to the North. In 2015, power must shift to the South-East.

Where does it shift to after 2015?
When you get to the river, you know how to cross it. We cannot talk about what happens after 2015 because we have not got there yet. But for equity, justice and fair play, North should rule for only four good years, 2011-2015. After 2015, it should be given to the South-East.

Which means that you are not satisfied with the PDP position that everybody is free to contest?
That is too ambiguous. PDP is hypocritical about this issue. It is not telling Nigerians the truth. Go and read the constitution of PDP and see what it said about zoning. They brought the issue of zoning into PDP constitution for peace to reign in Nigeria. But today we have a leader that does not want peace in Nigeria; we have a leader that wants Nigeria to disintegrate; we have a leader that wants Nigeria to crumble upon his head.

Will it crumble?
At the rate we are going, if anything happens to Nigeria now, the whole blame will go to Goodluck Jonathan because he is the president.

Is it likely to crumble with what is happening?
With what is going on, we are heading to that because this zoning issue we are talking about is not a small matter. You need to go to the masses and hear their comments. People have taken the zoning issue between North and South as a matter of life and death. Come on election day, we must insist on voting our northern candidate. So, what I am telling you is that they are setting a bad precedent for Nigeria. Before we worked with anybody based on equity, justice and fairness, and that was why MKO Abiola won election in Kano, Kaduna, Zaria, Borno, and Bauchi. But now the zoning issue has polarised the system, corrupted our people. It will not happen again.

Edwin Clark said the other day that no northerner raised the issue of zoning when Victor Attah, Donald Duke and Peter Odili, all from the South-South, campaigned for the presidency. Why now?
Nobody raised the issue because the PDP, as a party, knew that at the primaries only northern candidate would emerge. That was zoning. In 2007, a lot of people came out, and at the primaries, the PDP knew that only a northern candidate would emerge. It was an arrangement. When you say you are zoning to a particular zone, people will come out to contest; but at the end of the day, a candidate from that particular zone is the one that would emerge as the candidate of the PDP. A lot of people emerged because the constitution of Nigeria gives them the right to emerge. But you cannot read the constitution of PDP without reading the constitution of Nigeria. The two have to be married. Secondly, people get the constitution to guide the day-to-day function of their association. So, why can’t PDP respect its own party constitution and respect zoning for them to retain power? I am telling you, without fear of any contradiction, that only IBB can win election for the PDP. If PDP risks giving its ticket to another person, it will lose the presidency.

Then who will win?
We haven’t come to that yet. I cannot tell you because at the end of the day the North will present a consensus candidate, who, I don’t know for now. Nobody in PDP can win election for the PDP if not IBB.

Between IBB and Atiku, who should step down for another?
With their maturity and the way they are going now, two of them may not go into the primaries. The better of the two will emerge and the other will support him.

You mean Atiku should step down for IBB?
IBB and Atiku are two gentlemen. They are friends and they really love Nigeria and the North. At the end of the day, one of them will step down for the other. Two of them will not go for the primaries. The better will always emerge. And I am for IBB. Atiku is a democrat. He knows what is right. He knows what is the best for Nigeria. And at the end of the day, Atiku will step down for IBB.

You mean Atiku will step down for IBB?
This is my own feeling. This my own belief.

You are convinced that IBB is the best?
In Nigeria of today, IBB is the best across all the political parties. We are not afraid of any government candidate or any incumbency. Power belongs to God and He gives to whoever He wishes at a time He wishes. Mind you, IBB is looking for this thing from God, not from any mortal. Only God will stop IBB in 2011.

What will happen if IBB loses the primaries?
IBB will not lose the PDP primaries.

If…(cuts in)
I don’t work with if…, and I don’t work with assumptions. IBB will not lose the PDP primaries. He will win clean and clear. IBB is the man to beat in 2011 because he is the most popular, most acceptable and the most democratic.

What’s your Plan B, in case he fails?
We have plan ABC. When we are through with plan A, we go for Plan B; but definitely, we are not thinking of Plans B and C. What we are after is Plan A because we are 100 per cent sure of getting the PDP ticket. It is a delegate election. We are going to seek for votes from the delegates. We are not talking of any Plan B. IBB is not thinking of any Plan B because we are sure that PDP, being a principled party, will do what is right and IBB will pick the PDP ticket at the primaries. We have no fear of any contradiction.

They are invoking memories of the civil war which i belive is very bad, If you look at todays papers all you hear about is how to pacify the igbo's.

Now i want you to read this.

This is from todays sun news paper.

Ojukwu, IBB to meet.

A few days after officially flagging off his presidential campaign, former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has scheduled a meeting with former Biafran leader and Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, as part of his mobilization programme.

The meeting, scheduled at Ojukwu’s residence in Enugu, holds tomorrow.
Saturday Sun gathered that Babangida, aware of the way Igbo regard Ojukwu, sent words to the former warlord asking for meeting, to impress it upon him that he is sincere in his promise to work for the emergence of a South easterner as president in 2015.

Sources revealed that Babangida deemed it necessary to meet with Ojukwu since he said only the election of Igbo man as president would completely bring an end to the civil war.
“IBB said that it is only when an Igbo man becomes president that his people would believe that the civil war has ended. Since Ojukwu is the symbol of the civil war in Igboland, he therefore, deemed it necessary to meet with him and explain his intention. He is serious about his promise,” a source said.

Although Ojukwu is not a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it was gathered that Babangida believes that if he buys into the Igbo 2015 Presidency dream he would reach out to delegates who would participate in the South East zonal presidential primaries scheduled for October 18.

It was learnt that even before publicly indicating interest to contest the presidential election, Babangida intimated Ojukwu, just as he did other political leaders across the country. Sources revealed that the duo have been in touch on phone. Tomorrow’s meeting would be the first time they are meeting in a long while.

In April, Ojukwu had said that there was nothing wrong with Babangida’s aspiration to return to power.
In an interview he granted Saturday Sun, which was published on April 7, 2010, Ojukwu x-rayed former leaders who want to return to power and said that Babangida was welcome.

He said in the interview: “I don’t know that he wants to come back. But Babangida happens to be the one I know a little bit about. If for nothing else I like his sense of humour and I believe that a man endowed with such openness might have something to offer.”
Asked if he would not mind Babangida coming back, Ojukwu said: “Oh, yes, why not. In fact, anybody who wants to have a shot at the presidency is welcome, provided they go the right way. Don’t come back to office through the wrong way, such as a coup d’tat; then I will tell you that you are cheating. But if you are going through the elections, campaigns and get people to vote for you and they say you at the man, that’s ok by me.”

He did not see anything wrong with the fact that Babangida was in power for eight years, as military, and still wants to return as civilian president. He said of this: “I would even go further to say that if 16 years were possible provided the man is healthy and his senses are still intact and his coordination is still alright, then he should offer himself for the job and if the people want him, so be it.”

After visiting Ojukwu, Babangida will also meet with former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme. There is also a plan for him to meet with PDP bigwigs in Anambra State.

Informed sources revealed that the former military ruler, in the next couple of days, would personally hold meeting with PDP chieftains in the South East, including governors and former governors.
To accompany Babangida in his campaign tour of South East are members of his campaign organisation, former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani and former Rivers State governor, Dr. Peter Odili.

You dey look jona and he dey go like joke like joke he go cross the finish line you go still dey there dey look like lukas.
Jona is a student of Sun  Tzu.

You dey look am e dey go

What a Senator Earns In Nigeria - N29,479,749.00 Per Month

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

LISTED BELOW IS THE BREAKDOWN OF THE AMOUNT A SENETOR TAKES HOME PER
MONTH.

Basic Salary - N2, 484, 245.50.
Hardship Allowance @ 50% of Basic Salary - N1,242,122.70 (I love this
kind of hardship)
Constituency allowance @ 200% of BS - N4,968,509.00
Furniture Allowance @ 300% of BS - N7,452,736.50
Newspaper allowance @ 50% - N1,242,122.70 (Which kind newspaper be this
shey na online or hard copy?).
Wardrobe allowance @ 25% - N621,061.37
Recess Allowance@ 10%: - N248,424.55
Accommodation @ 200% - N4,968,509.00.
Utilities @ 30% - N828,081.83.
Domestic Staff @ 35% - N863,184.12.
Entertainment @ 30% - N828,081.83.
Personal Assistance @ 25% - N621,061.37.
Vehicle Maintenance Allowance @ 75% - N1,863,184.12.
Leave Allowance @10% - N248,424.55.
One off payments (As advised by SagamiteSeverance gratuity) @ 300% -
N7,452,736.50 (Once they get fired.)
Motor Vehicle Allowance @ 400% of BS - N9,936,982.00 - Every Four Years
Senators Salary per month. - N2,456,647.7
Total = N29, 479, 749.00
* 109 Senators Grand Total = N 3,264,329,264.10
A feeding frenzy!!!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Salary U.S. President: $250,000/yr.
GDP U.S. Economy: $13Trillion/yr.


Allowance Nig. Senator: $1,500,000/yr


GDP Nig. Economy: $45 Billion/yr.

Hello friends,

My letter to you about our Great Country Nigeria,You see today Nigeria has been ruled by people that have no vision this people you and
i know them but we are scared to admit it.You know what am talking about if you don't know then let me give you some clues then Which part of the country has been in control of the government
of the federal republic of Nigeria since independence.

I got this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Nigeria.I want you to read it and see for yourself.

On October 1, 1960, Nigeria gained independence from Britain. An all-Nigerian Executive Council was headed by a Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. On November 16, 1960, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, became the first Governor-General of a Federation of three Regions of the North, East and West, with Lagos as the Federal Capital. Each of the Regions was headed by a Premier with a Governor as Ceremonial Head. On October 1, 1963, Nigeria became a Federal Republic and severed whatever ties were left with Britain. Nigeria decided, however, to remain in the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Governor-General's position was, therefore, re-designated as President.

In January of 1966, a group of army officers, led by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, overthrew the central and regional governments, killed the prime minister, took control of the government, and General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was named Military Head of State.

In July 1966, a group of northern army officers revolted against the government, killed General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and appointed the army chief of staff, General Yakubu Gowon as the head of the new military government.

In 1975, Gen. Yakubu Gowon was deposed and General Murtala Mohammed was the Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria until his assassination in 1976.

In 1976 Gen. Obasanjo was made head of state in a meeting of the Supreme Military Council. Keeping the chain of command established by Murtala Muhammed in place.

In 1979, Nigeria adopted a constitution that was modelled on the Constitution of the United States, with provision for a President, Senate, and House of Representatives.

In October 1979, after more than 13 years of military rule, Nigeria was returned to democratic rule. The National Party of Nigeria emerged victorious in the presidential election and Alhaji Shehu Shagari was elected President.

December 31, 1983, the military overthrew the Second Republic. Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari emerged as the Chairman of the Supreme Military Council (SMC), the new Head of State.

In August 1985, the Gen. Buhari government was peacefully overthrown by the then Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. Babangida became the President and chairman Armed Forces Ruling Council.

In 1993, General Babangida steps down in August and chooses interim government. Ernest Shonekan was named as interim president. Gen. Sani Abacha seizes power from Shonekan in November 1993, he became the president and Chairman Provisional Ruling Council. On 8 June 1998, General Abacha dies at the presidential villa in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Maj. Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar became the new president and Chairman Provisional Ruling Council.

In May 1999, Maj. Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar steps down and the former military head of state Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the newly elected civilian president. Gen Obasanjo served two terms in office.

In May 2007, Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua was sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the 13th head of state of Nigeria. Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010 in the Presidential villa, in Abuja, Nigeria.

On 6 May 2010 the Vice President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the 14th head of state.

Now that you have read this piece of information now i want to ask you some questions.

Since they have been in power what developments has Nigeria had and gained and now i want you to compare the the regions that have held
power for brief periods and that of the north when has Nigeria been on the part of progress.

Why do we still want this region to come back to power when we know quite well that they do not mean well for the country.

Why are the other parts of Nigeria scared of this region.

Is Nigeria an estate.

Please i need answers.

We are the future, we must make a stand come 2011.

As they say deal or no deal.

Regards

Bombay

You people under rate obj he knew what he was doing right from the start, he set the whole thing up.
I must say he his a real general to the core a master tactician.

Only if my ibo brothers and sisters could be as smart as niger deltans things would change for the better.

A Managing Director of US international investment bank Goldman Sachs, Mr. Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, has said Nigeria's budget deficit is not bad in itself as long as the money is spent on projects that will positively impact the economy.
Aganga is one of the 38 new ministers confirmed by the Senate yesterday, and is tipped to be the new Minister of Finance.
Responding to questions on the economy and sustainable economic growth during the screening, Aganga said: “Let me start with the economy because that is one of the questions I have been asked by a number of people.
“Sustainable economic growth – there are so many strategies all over the world in terms of how you achieve a sustainable economic growth.”

He identified the three main ingredients which affect and contribute significantly – the first capital, the second labour and “the third is what we call factor of productivity and that contributes 60-66 per cent of the economic growth”.
He continued: “When we talk about the capital, we are talking about resource and the allocation – this could be international and domestic. Thank God we are going to the international market this year to raise a $500 million bond to fund the budget deficit.
“So the idea from the international scene is to make sure that we regain their confidence and there are a number of initiatives which we’ll hopefully put together if this house decides to confirm me.”
Aganga stated further: “The second is allocation, and that we have dealt with in the budget. I note that there has been an increase of about 50 per cent or thereabouts in the budget and we are running a budget deficit of about 5 to 6 per cent of the GDP; that itself is not necessarily a bad thing to do.

“What is more significant is that money is allocated to projects that will deliver strong social and economic returns and which means that the emphasis is going to be now on implementation, making sure that the qualities and the efficiencies of spending are looked at strictly.
“The second is on labour – it is about quality; it is about quantity. We have quantity advantage like China; like India, we have quantity advantage of 150 million people.  We also have one advantage which we appear not to have tapped enough into.
“Nigerians are one of the most entrepreneurial, innovative people in the world.  I will tell you a story; we have a programme at Goldman Sachs.  We are trying to empower 10,000 women all over the world; so we have this programme all over the world working with universities.

“The most successful programme to date is the one we run in Nigeria at the Lagos Business School and that is because of the type of people we are.  I hope that we will be able to harness this and use it in the most effective way.” 
He added: “Quality, we need to work on. Productivity is all about scalability, it is all about technology; it is all about infrastructure and we talked about infrastructure gap question.
“Of course, out of infrastructure, the biggest one is power. I am excited that this administration intends to focus completely as much as possible on power.

“I have heard your questions most of today and yesterday; a lot of questions were on power; it means that we are focused on it and that means that if we can all work together - the Executive and the National Assembly; we can get there. Our people demand it of us and it is our duty to deliver it to them.”
On the global meltdown and getting Nigeria out of it, Aganga said: “I think it is difficult to remove Nigeria completely from the global economy. The reason why it is difficult is that most of our revenues come from oil. Global economic crisis will affect the demand for oil and therefore will affect the volatility of the price.

“In fact, that is one of the things we should be looking at in the budget on how we should protect that revenue and risk manage the volatility in the oil price. That will come in there. That affects the budget; it affects the revenue and productivity.”
On the capital market crisis, he stated, “When you talk about issues about the capital market, most of it are homemade issues and that is the fact that we were too fast, but I think some of my colleagues are already taking actions to correct that and we need to focus on both the banking and capital market reforms.”

On his part, former Minister of National Planning, Dr. Shamsudden Usman, who defended his stewardship at the screening, reviewed the banking sector reform and concluded that it was on course.
His name had been withdrawn on Tuesday but was surprisingly returned yesterday.
According to him, “The banking reform, as somebody who has served in the central bank for eight years, I will say in its entirety, is very much on course.

“What is being addressed is the issue of risk. That is a very critical factor in bank and the focus on assessing risk; you notice internationally every country is reviewing its banking regulations to ensure that the kind of recklessness and the kinds of financial problems that were created for the whole world are avoided.
“It is happening in the United States; it is happening in Europe. In fact, in a way, we are probably ahead of the curve.  So overall, I think there may be certain issues that need some adjustments, but overall I will say it is very much on course.”
He said while in the ministry, he developed “a National M and E framework which is to be used for the evaluation of Ministries, Departments and Agencies’ performance, the performance of the Federal Government itself as well as the States and Local Governments.

“At the end of the day, it will give us an opportunity to also do a country performance for Nigeria so that issues like the 6,000 megawatts of electricity, we need to begin to monitor the extent to which we are able to implement those and especially to remember that by 2020 to have a minimum of 35,000 megawatts.
“I also worked on the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics which is to generate the data for national planning. In this wise, we have established an electronic data base for the whole country in the National Bureau of statistics and so far 24 States are connected to this national data base.

“There are also 12 MDAs that are connected, including the critical ones like NNPC, Nigerian Custom Service, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) so that key data for planning and economic policy making are generated.
“The last of the four items that I did was to actually develop an evaluation of a number of key policies; for example, since the beginning of the 7-point agenda, nobody had done a proper evaluation of this policy. But in the last two months we have actually produced the first evaluation of the 7-point agenda.”
On correct and realistic national planning, Usman said: “We are taking Nigeria back to a culture of planning. The vision 2020 is a long term plan. Then the work that is being done under the Central Working Group chaired by Chief Philip C. Asiodu, will actually finish this week.

“They will produce a four-year implementation plan.  So that is our medium term plan for the country; then the annual budget becomes the short term plan; actually what is needed now going forward is to find a way of integrating these three plans.
“From 2011 hopefully, our budget must be derived from the medium term plans and from the Vision 20:2020. In fact when the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the Vision document, Mr. President said with effect from 2011, the federal budget itself must derive from the details of the implementation plan and the vision.

“So we are back on course. Luckily, it is not just the federal government that is doing it. We have worked closely with the states and, as I speak to you, every state in the federation, the 36 states plus FCT,  also under our guidance and support have drawn up their own vision documents and medium term implementation plan; so the whole country in moving in the right direction.”
Usman, who was reported to have had problem with the National Assembly prior to his screening appearance, dismissed the reports as unfounded.
He said: “With the permission of the Senate, I will like to use this opportunity to correct a terribly wrong impression that was created when I was Minister of Finance.

“The public perception was that the National Assembly was my enemy or I was the enemy of the National Assembly. Far from that, Mr. President and Distinguished members, I am student of Public Finance; I taught Public Finance in three Nigerian Universities and one overseas.
“I was Director of Budget in Kano under Governor (Abubakar) Rimi, before I became Minister of Finance. So, I will be the last person that anybody would expect not to understand that the budget is both an economic document as well as a political document.

“To say that I do not recognise the primacy of the National Assembly given by the Constitution, given by the National Assembly to be the one that decides appropriation, I mean if anybody accuses me of that, this will be completely out of order.”
He continued: “So certainly, if you are in public office, unfortunately, because in my work as Minister of Finance, I had taken on perhaps to my chagrin, I had taken on so many mafia; I had taken on the customs mafia; I had taken on the tax concession mafia who are draining this country out of its revenues.

“Everybody knows the committee I set up under Senator Udoma saved this country billions of naira. I took on the oil importation mafia; I took on the ports system mafia because I was trying to achieve 48 hours clearance.
“When we looked at… we were clearing goods in this country in 15 days, and we wanted to bring it down to 48 hours. Before I left Finance Ministry, we had brought it down to six days from 15 days.
“Now those mafias are very entrenched as you know; so it was in the interest of many of them to create a rift between me and yourselves. But I want to correct this impression.

“You know that before I left the Ministry of Finance and I have witnesses here, the way I worked with many of your committees, especially the final one where the budget was being reconciled between the 2009 budget under the leadership of the Deputy Senate President, we worked night and day.”

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18 Platoon you no wan hear word abi you still dey look uche face na cry u dey find very soon e go reach where you dey.
Aboki una no get brain at all people dey warn una small small una say na gra gra una dey find.
Pikin wey say e mama no go sleep him too no go sleep o.
U no wonder say since una dey fight to rule nigeria una life don better alarmist like you.

You are a slowpoke

Screw all the aboki's in nigeria they are in for a very big poo.This is not 1960 or 2009.
For there own interest they should let peace be if they know what is good for them.
Come 2011 they will not belive what will happen they are always screaming they have large population one thing they should remember is this that population they are screaming about can be wiped out of the face of the earth.
This is the 21st century anything is possible.
Everything is in there hand to loose.

The northerns feel that they butchers well let them understand that the Nigerian army could not stand the force of the niger delta fighters then imagin if the east,west and south combine forces  to face the north who will loose.

Aboki take time o make dem no wipe yeah family comot from the face of the planet.

I think hell is the new heaven plenty of wine and beautiful women what more can one ask for.

Guard 18 Probably it is a robbery that went wrong which most likely it is.The police should look at the case properly and people should nopt just make stories up.
They should look into his financial dealing and into his family life something smells fish in there.
Guard 18 make you take time with this your isreal and hamas level no dey carry mis yarn o.
NNPC oil big deals hum plenty money suspect.

We need to make regulations for kidnapping so that any dick and harry would not just come in to spoil the show.

Nigerians they have suffered so much that they think everything that happens now happens for a reason.

One question the god nigerians serve and the one the white mans serves are they the same.

Guard 18 you be miagaidi abi watine you be.
Guy think well o ,abi u dey look uche face,  aboki you no know say dem no dey look face for waffi  u do anyhow u see anyhow u like make una vex reach heaven comeback nothing go happen.
Guy no tranga for here o no be jos be dis this na waffi land of the brave.
Abi u don forget say u no sabi swim ,so take time no go yarn trash make i no go trash you anyhow.

Yardul is drinking kunu with me at the moment after that we are going to check some yarinya's for some bashing later on.
Long live yardul.

Nigeria situation is this Pastor is chairman of office and the congregation is maga while the church workers are the office boys and gals pulling the magas in.
Don't you know maga must pay 
This na the ultimate office.

This story is a fat lie

My guy dem no dey do otokoto for wafi u never hear anyway sorry for your loss.

Hausa/ fulani you never see anything yet fire go soon start make una start to run ooooooooooooo.