jabbok:

[size=15pt]Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Azikiwe[/size] [size=15pt]| Awolowo Belewa[/size] soon to be appended = [size=15pt]Inconsistency incorporated![/size]

Zimbabwe economy on mend, 7 pct growth seen in 2010
Wed Dec 2, 2009 9:08am EST

HARARE, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's battered economy is on track to expand for the first time in a decade this year and to grow by 7 percent in 2010 as key sectors such as agriculture and mining start to recover, the finance minister said on Wednesday.  . .

Zimbabwe economy 'forecast to grow by 8.1%'
(AFP) – Sep 24, 2010

HARARE — Finance Minister Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe's economy will grow by 8.1 percent this year on the back of increased tobacco production, up from his previous forecast of 5.4 percent reports said on Friday. . .

Kay 17:

its too obvious you have a lot to share.

egift:

I have said it before Jonathan is a disaster waiting to happen, Why:
- He is not consistent
- He is more of a window dresser than being committed to work towards a goal.
- He is surrounded by some of the biggest crooks in Nigeria

Kay 17:

^^how do you read? upside down?

What I was trying to say is Abiola is not a Mandela to sweat over, IBB felt it was within his powers to set up an election and it was also within his powers to annul it for whatever reason he had! Simple.

Abiola was favored by being one of the two candidates, thats absurd! either i vote between IBB two choices, that is not election.

jabbok:

Mumu, you have talked like your paymaster Jonathan. Talk first and think later. So you are sure of where MEND is getting their bomb from. Noted.
Help us here with one question: Who bombed GEJ's house in Bayelsa?

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jabbok:

@ Beaf, Who bombed Jonathan's country home in Bayelsa? Can you refute the fact that all the illegal bombs in Nigeria are from the creeks of Niger Delta?

[size=14pt]Union leaders suspended for exposing missing explosives[/size]
From EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, Lokoja
Thursday, July 08, 2010

The end may not have been heard on the recent sudden disappearance of 100 cartons of explosives in the National Iron Ore Mining Corporation, Itakpe. This is because the union leaders who allegedly exposed the disappearance of the high calibre explosives were recently handed letters of indefinite suspension from office.

The Interim Management Committee of the company was said to be infuriated over the petition written by the union leaders to the office of the Minister of Mines and Steel and for causing it to be published in some newspapers.
Daily Sun had in June reported the sudden disappearance of the explosives from the stores of the company and the alarm raised by the union members on the inherent dangers it posed to the society especially in the next year’s general elections.

In the petition sent to the Ministry of Mines and Steel and copied to some security agencies, the union leaders raised suspicion on certain officials in the company and called on the Federal Government to institute a panel of inquiry to get to the root of the disappearance of the explosives.

But rather than investigate the allegations, the Interim Management Committee of the company recently slammed an indefinite suspension order on the affected union members all in a bid to sweep the allegations under the carpet.
In a letter signed by Musa Bello, co-ordinator, (Admin), on behalf of the vice chairman of the Interim Committee and dated June 10, the suspension notice was conveyed to the union members.

Those suspended were Abdulmaleeq Mohammed (ISSAN chairman), Abdul Ganiyu (SEWUN) chairman, Ilesanmi Julius (ISSAN Secretary) and Yusuf Mohammed Omeiza (SEWUN secretary). The letter of suspension also conveyed a notice to the affected union leaders to appear before a disciplinary committee to defend their actions and urged them to hand over all the company property in their possession to the appropriate quarters.

Part of the letter reads: “Management finds the said petition and publication to be false, made without authority and in complete disregard of the company’s rules regarding settlement of grievances.” The suspension letter also alleged that the union leaders had failed to respond to an earlier query issued to them by the company’s management.

But in a swift reaction, one of the union leaders was quoted as saying the said query letter had since been answered and conveyed to the appropriate authority and alleged that the management was only trying to victimize the union leaders instead of fishing out the thieves. The union leader said the allegation of the disappearance of the 100 cartons of explosives was not false as claimed by management saying theft actually took place in the corporation.
Meanwhile, Daily Sun gathered that security agents had swooped into action to unravel the sudden disappearance or otherwise of the said explosives.

jabbok:

Beaf, it is very shameful that you are peddling such propaganda against Buhari. You continue to clone yourself or rather mask as your boss who is also a member of MEND. If not, how would he know minutes after the bombings that MEND was not responsible. Who bombed Jonathan's house in Bayelsa? The bombs have been following him from day 1.
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[size=14pt]Everybody in Nigeria knew that Abacha was an usurper, and that he was uncontrollably corrupt and was also involved in state sponsored murder, but Buhari who you paint in such glowing colours, still agreed to serve under such a man as the chairman of PTF. As chairman of PTF, he made Salihijo Ahmad's Afriproject the sole consultant for monitoring and assessing the value of contracts. Afriproject consortium was so corrupt that at the inception of  Abdulsalami's regime, fearful of exposure, the sole consultant committed [b]suicide [/b]in his office. When the books of PTF were opened, the can of worms was so much that Haruna Adamu said he felt [b]sickened [/b]by it. One body determined the contracts to be awarded, the payments to be made and whether the contracts had been satisfied.[/size]

jabbok:

GRIDLOCK indeed.
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9ijaMan:

I kind of like you better as Beaf than Faeb. Beaf though behave like a toddler, he gets some real sense knocked into him. Faeb is just incorrigible. Show us bank statements and tell us where Midland bank is. Mind you, stop peddling rumors from half baked reporters like the one in thewill!

era Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch.  Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.

9ijaMan:

Ever since Tompolo et al accepted the amnesty offer they all seized to be members of MEND. Tompolo the the rest of the criminals GEJ invited to tea are all Ex-MEND _{(emphasis on "Ex")}, hence they can no longer speak for MEND since they're no longer members of MEND. Stop turning logic on its head.

snakova:

'They are terrorists not MEND'. Tompolo said, 'we are the real MEND', implying that 'terrorists' not MEND were behind the attacks. Ara Oko, you are a real ,  Its a waste of time trying to insult a lump of cow dung. i can't really understand how 'people' can be so block headed.

Kay 17:

. . .
Fela had always distrusted Abiola. Abiola was just another crony of the military regime.

Kobojunkie:

Correction ---> I DO HAVE TO BELIEVE Okah's statement; I don't have to because there is no reason here to BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE . . . If you know me well, you will know that when it comes to issues, especially pertaining to Nigeria, I HATE TAKING SIDES . . . I find it is one of the biggest mistakes we make as a people and a nation.

The way the law works is simple. You have one side of the story and until you are able to disprove or prove the validity of that version, all you still have is that version to go with.

So far, what we have is Okah's version of what happened to work with. Not a single person, not even officer has come out to say "No, it did not happen that way" or  put forth a definite on what happened instead. All we have heard or been fed with from the other side are shoddy grounds on why Okah is probably(not DEFINITELY) wrong or Okah is likely guilty or Okah never said anything. Not even the president himself, even after his debacle with MEND over the week, has been quoted as saying Okah is guilty of charges or never made the interview.

Again, he owes you and I nothing at this time ; if you want to believe he is guilty, then maybe you would think he owes you and others answers or something. I am operating on the grounds that he is still innocent until proven guilty on this one because I have yet to read of the evidence proving he had a hand in this one.

Abagworo:

Buhari is without doubt a disciplined man.@beaf,You seem to be a drowning man looking for every possible ways to drag down some people with you.Buhari's war against indiscipline and corruption was so legendary that though a baby then,I am very much aware of it.Buhari remains the best President we may never have.

TewMuch:

hmm, na wa oh. Seun better do something about protecting his posters. That is some bullshit. So sorry about that, everyone is free to air their views and opinions and we are free to disagree. Government should leave people alone. What ever happened to transparency? Seun better do something about that. Otherwise, people will leave this site.

Buhari's government passed a law to the effect that if you publish anything that even if true was in the opinion of the chief of staff supreme military council, capable of embarrassing any public official, then you had committed a crime. When the nation thought he was joking, [size=14pt]he sent two journalist, and a cartoonist to jail for publishing materials which were TRUE[/size], but which Buhari found uncomplimentary.

All our military heads of state were largely [size=21pt]insensitive, corrupt, almost illiterate, self-appointed tyrants[/size] who seized their stripes of honour (dishonour is probably more appropriate) through coups rather than the rigours of formal training, experience or war.

[size=14pt]Do you know PTF estate in Wuse? The sweetheart deal that Buhari's PTF made with the contractor was so sweet. Not only would the contractor collect rent from PTF, but after 8 years, the place would be his to own![/size]

[size=14pt]Everybody in Nigeria knew that Abacha was an usurper, and that he was uncontrollably corrupt and was also involved in state sponsored murder, but Buhari who you paint in such glowing colours, still agreed to serve under such a man as the chairman of PTF. As chairman of PTF, he made Salihijo Ahmad's Afriproject the sole consultant for monitoring and assessing the value of contracts. Afriproject consortium was so corrupt that at the inception of  Abdulsalami's regime, fearful of exposure, the sole consultant committed suicide in his office. When the books of PTF were opened, the can of worms was so much that Haruna Adamu said he felt sickened by it. One body determined the contracts to be awarded, the payments to be made and whether the contracts had been satisfied.[/size]

Sam Omatseye, writing about Buhari in the Sun newspaper at the time said: “He (Buhari) uses Sharia to justify his worldview; to justify a certain selfish view of the world that serves his interest at a particular time. He played that card in the presidential election in order to secure a base for himself. But he needed more than his northern base to become president. You must be flexible to pull non-sharia base with you and the man has no flexibility in his bones so when he tries to play the chameleon, he fails. He tries to carry a veneer of a man of principles but falls short when selfish interest is involved.”

He almost succeeded in launching his Jihad. The alleged taped sermon of an unnamed pastor at an unidentified church in Adamawa claiming that: “Whether Muslims like it or not, Obasanjo must continue” and that “any Muslim who does not want that, can die or move to Niger” was obviously a blatant forgery. It was very likely to be the handiwork of the ‘Crater of Dikko brigade. For a start, the language of the sermon was too brash to be true, especially coming as it was claimed, from a Christian minority likely to bear the brunt of the consequences of the offensive sermon in a predominantly Muslim state. The Christian minority would have had to be mad to the last man, to call for their own annihilation in such a careless and irresponsible manner.

It is not logical that the Christian cleric would send hundreds of his suicide sermon tapes, not to Christians, but to Muslim clerics and the media around the country. Someone who desperately wanted to kill Nigeria must think we are all morons and I suggest we look for him at the backyard of our current number one Jihadist. Where else to look when Buhari was threatening he must occupy the Presidency whether he won the election or not. We begged him to go to the Electoral Tribunal to settle the matter but he insisted that he would rather clubber us to death, with religion than subject himself to the in indignity of being judged by another man. That is how badly he cares about our welfare and survival.

One is not always sure if he is truly a Nigerian because let’s face it; no true Nigerian would hate Nigeria so much as to threaten her with a Jihad. May be the problem is of a mental nature considering the gutter snipes often credited to the supposed statesman on the Hausa service of the BBC and other foreign media about his fatherland. He seems to love to speak before he thinks. There is something definitely troubling about the mind of this crater genius because it is probably not just Nigerians that he hates but life itself in its totality. In other words, we are probably all trapped in the vicious grip of a cool and calculating sadist. In fact, I am told that no one has ever seen him smile or laugh.

Buhari’s ‘War Against Indiscipline’ was obviously a swathe to camouflage his moral decadence.  He did not see anything wrong with the over 50 suitcases an Emir smuggled through the Murtala International Airport without routine checks.

[size=14pt]Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter and expose the rogue military head of the NNPC soon after the 1983 general elections. [/size]

Kobojunkie:

Dude, that he read the PURPORTED text message out loud IN NO WAY IMPLIES he had his cell phone with him in Jail. He could have EASILY written the text message on a PIECE of paper or memorized it and READ IT back from memory to the interviewer . . . .

You are desperate to prove nothing here, aren't you? ROFLMAO!!

NEXT asked if his phones were not seized by the South African authorities, and he responded that "I have saved the message on another phone. Shortly after I got the text message, Dopkesi (IBB's campaign manager) was arrested. I will not release the message now because if I do, the next thing they will say is that someone/IBB has paid him to do this. As they continue to sour my name the more, I will release the message."

dappssee:

[size=24pt]Think guys think![/size]

No one goes into prison custody with a communication gadget. If that was the case, people in detention can communicate with accomplices while in jail.

Even if a prisoner or anyone detained makes a call, it will be monitored and certainly not to the press.