stupidmod2:
u not in lagos? pm let me give u my acc wen i get d alert will go check for u

I've checked out the address I wrote here, I was told they moved.

I'll pay anyone that can give me their legit and current address. Thanks

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Please can anyone confirm their address?

I got this Address: 9 Acme Rd, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos. But by the time my subordinate visited, he was told they had relocated.

I will pay a little token(10k) for this as soon as the address is confirmed.

AFRICA: THE YOUTH, THE REAL CULPRITS AND BUNGLED ANIMOSITY


FACTS
It doesn't matter the parameters used in the assessment, the glaring fact is; NO BLACK NATION IS SUCCESSFUL...YET. FACT!!

Is it possible for all black nations to become developed and offer better basic amenities to their citizens?? YES!!!! And that a FACT!!!

In recent years, the youth have blatantly refused to participate in decisions that determine their future and have assumed a docile role, inanimate i like tool in the hand of a handyman. FACT!!!



THE REAL CULPRITS
All past leaders of all black nations are responsible for the state of things in all black nations.

The criminals masquerading as leaders are responsible for the slow rate or total lack of development. FACT!!!

The elites that chose silence over speaking against the obvious mismanagement of the vast, abundant resources in all black nations are as guilty as those that perpetuate these crimes.

Lastly, the docile and almost inanimate youth that feel the pain of the misappropriation of their future, but will not revolt, resist or at least, protest against it are equally culprits.


BUNGLED/MISDIRECTED ANIMOSITY
The continuous deterioration of all aspects of the black nations breeds frustration, loss of of hope and faith in a possible better future, deep rooted anger and in the end, animosity.

This intense negative emotions, birthed by frustration, in the minds of most black people seeks expression in diverse ways.

The worrisome thing is the mind bugging way the youth choose to express this anger. Instead of fighting the common enemy of the progress of all black nations (their leaders), the youth choose to fight their fellow victims.

They choose to accept crumbs instead of getting their well deserved rights.

The system is designed to empoverish the youth and keep them yearning for basic human needs; water, shelter and food. But the choice is yours to make, we either stay in this valley of all wrongs or do something about it and get what we deserve.

#WeCanDoIt

#LetsDoIt

AFRICA: THEY KILLED THE YOUTH

DEFINITION
The youth refers to people of ages between childhood and adulthood or generally, young people. Suffix it to say, the STRENGTH OF ANY NATION OR COMMUNITY.

FACTS
African leaders will rather chain it's STRENGTH (THE YOUTH) in the shackles of poverty for the sole aim of retaining power, and then use the youth as watch dogs to be unleashed on adversaries when necessary.

As the era of western hegemony gradually came to an end, and Africans had the opportunity to take the lead and determine their future, major players in the struggle of the emancipation of Africa, from western age-long extreme exploitation, suddenly became the drivers
and pioneers of the new era, where Africas will lead Africans.

A quick look at such pioneers as;

KWAME NKURUMA of Ghana- born 1909, aged 48 as at 1957 when Ghana got her independence,
NNAMDI AZIKIWE, born 1904, aged 56 as at 1960 Nigeria got her independence
will show that they were young men in pursuit of greatness and a spot in the sands of time.

A host of other notable African leaders in the 60s and 70s worthy of mention;
JULIUS NYERERE, born 1922, and at 39, became prime minister in 1961 and then president of present day Tanzania in 1963.
MAUMMAR GADDAFI, born between 1940-1943, already doing big things in 1969 in Libya.
IDI AMIN DADA born in the 1920s became arm commander in 1965 in Uganda.
GEN GOWON head of state of Nigeria at 33.
OJUKWU head of Biafra at 34 etc.
The above list is just a few out of many young Africans that had the opportunity, necessitated by a youth- friendly system, to actively participate in the formation of the post-colonial Africa.

At present, the average age of African leaders has become about 70 years.

HOW THIS CAME TO BE?

The generation that ruled Africa in the 70s and 80s developed a system that will ensure their extended hegemony that can only be disrupted by their demise.

This system is embedded in all constitutions across Africa, raising the eligible age limits into all offices in both private and public sectors, thereby successful locking out the youth in the scheme of things.

In the most recent population estimates in the world's most populous black nation, Nigeria, people below the age of thirty(30) accounts for up to fifty percent (50%) of the over one hundred and eighty million (180m) citizens of the country.

The systematic constitutional exclusion of the youth, 50% of the population of the country as in the case of Nigeria, from all government offices is the reason for lack of innovation or modern progressive and productive ideologies in Africa.

That was how they killed the youth.

CAN THE YOUTH RISE AGAIN?
It all depends on us.

#WeCanDoThis
#LetsDoThis

IFEOLUWAKRIZ:
Thank God I read this before commenting based on your title. Nice one,sir.

Thanks. So what was your first thought when you saw the title? Was it misleading?

AFRICA: OUR HOME, OUR ORIGIN



Africa is the home/origin of all black people. It doesn't matter if you're a black person in Africa or in the Caribbeans or an African American, where ever you find yourself, if you have black skin, your ancestors came from Africa, your roots can be traces straight to Africa.



Africa is massively, overwhelmingly blessed with beauty on the surface -in the form of it's people, exotic plants and animals, and also blessed underneath the surface- in the form of mineral deposits(wealth).



Sadly, there's no SUCCESSFUL black nation...yet. Success hear refers to the inability of all black nations to at least harness the vast resources at their disposal to provide it's people with the most basic needs that will make life have some worth or meaning.



Therefore, there's need to have a platform that is not the usual "pity party", but rather a platform where black people can bring themselves to focus, and critically assess the progress so far in all black nations and communities around the world, discuss all the issues that has hindered or still hinder our progress and, most importantly, proffer sustainable solutions to those issues.



#BlackIsBeautiful

#WeCanDoThis

#LetsDoThis

EDUCATION: THE MISEDUCATION OF THE BLACK RACE.



EDUCATION has been defined by many in many different ways, but most of the definitions basically agree that education refers to THE PROCESS OF ACQUIRING OR IMPARTING GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.



Simply put, whereever and whenever knowledge is being received or given, education is taking place right there.



MISEDUCATION, on the other hand, according to Webster, REFERS TO POOR, WRONG OR HARMFUL EDUCATION.



There's been deliberate distortion in the documentation of events of the past, history if you may, so much so that a lot of truths are lost in the process.



History, when left in the hands of adversaries, will most definitely be distorted to suit their narratives and cover the evils they perpetuated.



If miseducation is poor, wrong or harmful education, then it's right to say a lot miseducation has been going on in all black nations and communities around the world.



But I'll focus on the miseducation from among us.



Growing up, most black people may have heard one or most of these statements;



*Go to school so you can become great



*Fear the government



*Only a foolish man argues with the man with a gun.



*Alway be careful



*Why must you be the person to speak up when in a group?



*Respect your elders(even if the elder is talking absolute nonsense)



*Do not speak when older people are speaking



*Do not make your opinion known so much



*Do not look your superior in the eye, it's disrespectful!(I was always a victim of this one all through childhood, I couldn't stop myself)



*Always follow the dictates of the elders, because their focal length while they stoop is still much great than yours even if you were viewing from the tree top.



*You should be able to take a lot of pain and suffering, that is life.



*If you're uncomfortable, just manage(endure it)



*Government should never be challenged, they'll kill you and nothing will happen.



The list goes on and on. And most of the time, these statements come from people we love and respect so much. These ideologies are not just wrong but are capable of creating a very timid generation who may never break free and blossom.



While that miseducation is going on in black nations, their white counterparts are being groomed and told;



*You can be anything you want to be.



*The world is yours.



*I'd like to hear your thoughts/opinion on any matter.



*Are you comfortable?



*Do what you find happiness in



*The government should always listen to us



*Don't take my word for it, verify it.



The list goes on as well.



We must consciously resolve to unlearn these harmful ideologies and learn the complete reverse of all we've been taught.



How do we begin? We must begin to at least read history, about how other people fared through similar situations as we've found ourselves.



And as we read and learn, we must share our findings using all social media platforms and by word-of-mouth, spread the gospel of liberation and sensitize our people.



We must send the message hope and a possible better future. We owe that to children and generations to come.



#LetsDoThis

#WeCanDoThis

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The young man should have gone to see his Pastor to seek a biblical answer and not asking that loosed cannon called freeze.

The bible didn't explicitly mentioned Masturbation but it falls under sexual immorality which God abhors.

In Genesis 38: 8-10, Onan do spill semen on the ground in God killed him. God want us to control our sexual urges, that's why you should get married if you can't.

Modified: I never knew we have plenty bible scholars here on NL

I don't agree that God killed him because he spilled on the ground. The guy in question didn't want to have a child "for" his late brother so he chose the withdrawal method instead.

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The first day the APC released a statement claiming that buhari was scheduled to speak at Chatham house, I and many other Nigerians checked the website and saw about three events scheduled for the same 26th of Feb but there was none with buhari's name on it.

About a few days to the date, an event miraculously appeared on the site. So it is obvious it cost APC a fortune to effectively put up that show.

Nice one.

Cold water works

Topeakintola:
All these sponsored articles/ stories are getting boring by the day.

GEJ and his supporters are becoming paranoid to the extent that anyone that legitimately criticizes his administration is automatically an enemy.

This is the key issue- If GEJ delivered on his electoral promises, no amount of plotting will sway Nigerians from voting for him.

We need PDP sponsored articles to explain why the Dollar is now N201, we need explanations why the army failed in curbing BH in the last 6 years and less than 6 weeks to a postponed election, they are miraculously making inroads into BH controlled territories. We need insights as to why corrupt allegations against his Ministers have being ignored.

The truth is that Nigerians are tired of GEJ, we want change! The only alternative we have is Buhari

Sai Baba

Sometimes it takes that length of time to study such crisis to be able to fight it effectively.

If you don't know what or who you are up against, how on earth will you combat?

Now, the boko haram we all assumed were locally sponsored have turned out to be an internationally sponsored terrorist group, with even French men fighting with them on ground!

Then with the French govt trying to intimidate Cameroon to release their terrorist citizens, I don't think anyone needs to be CIA to interpret that body language.

While Nigerians were busy pointing fingers at each other, the west was making plans to destroy us from among us.

I've been pointing accusing fingers at US and their allies all the while. Some gullible and slow Nigerians, especially the ones in diaspora, kept defending the US and other foreign countries, asking the stup

Some people even blamed GEJ while others put it on APC.

While we were still at the accusing games, the US and france kept perpetuating their evil.

Let's continue the accusing game until they'll come back around to rule us again in this modern age.

Eight ISIS fighters wearing Iraqi Army uniforms infiltrated Al Asad airbase, the sprawling western Iraqi base where 300 American forces are training Iraqi troops, and attacked a facility on the base, officials said.


ISIS Attacks Iraqi Air Base With US Troops Inside

The ISIS fighters were killed as Iraqi forces repelled the attack. No U.S. military service members were affected by the attack. A statement released by Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve confirmed the attack.

“About 7:20 a.m.(Iraqi time, Friday Feb. 13) a small Daesh element attacked an Iraqi Army facility on the Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province,” read the statement.

Daesh is the pronunciation of ISIS in Arabic.

"The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) supported by Coalition surveillance assets defeated the attack, killing all eight attackers. The ISF have since re-secured their facility.”

Iraqi soldiers take part in a training session, instructed by American and Iraqi military trainers, at the Taji base complex, located north of Baghdad on Jan. 7, 2015.

The statement made clear that U.S. personnel on the base “were several kilometers from the attack and at no stage were they under direct threat from this action.”

A U.S. official told ABC News that initial indications are that the ISIS fighters had infiltrated the base wearing Iraqi Army uniforms. The official said the ISIS fighters attacked an Iraqi army headquarters on the base where senior Iraqi leaders were present at the time of the attack.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and several more were wounded as they repelled the attack inside the base.

ISIS controls major parts of Anbar Province in western Iraq where Al Asad airbase is located. The U.S. military is using the large 25-square mile base as a training facility to train Iraqi troops and assist with Iraqi training of Sunni tribesmen to fight against ISIS.

For several months the base has been a frequent target of ISIS mortar fire, though U.S. military officials say it is ineffective because the fire is not targeted.

U.S. officials also say that Iraqi troops were also making progress in clearing ISIS fighters from the nearby town of al Baghdadi, close to the Al Asad airbase.

On Thursday, ISIS fighters who had been besieging the town for months were able to make into the town and take over the local Iraqi police station. Also Thursday a U.S. military spokesperson confirmed that “there has been heavy fighting in the al Baghdadi area” -- but directed specific questions about what was going on there to the Iraqis.

The spokesperson also said “there was no direct attack on the Al Asad airbase” though there had been reports of ineffective mortar fire near the base.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-fighters-sneak-iraqi-base-wearing-iraqi-army/story?id=28944455

kestolove95:
But out off million youths dat are suffrn..gej picked few and change dia life becox of dat dey shud keep quite nd shudnt fight for d rest?..haba...mayb hhe had personl grudges against d president but I dntt see anytin wrng wit it

His life and that of other beneficiaries of the program were changed so they too can start employing other Nigerian youth and help build the nation. It's supposed to work like a chain reaction. Get it? It's really no rocket science.

xpac01:
This man sounds sensible, but hope he won't dissapoint when they get there.

Sounds sensible? With what he just said?

This is Aminu Muhammad.. His hubby on Facebook is lying to the world that president Jonathan is a failure. Mallam Aminu Muhammad claimed that the president of the federal republic of Nigeria has done nothing in terms of creating jobs for the unemployed or even encourage entrepreneurs.

"CHISOS", I ALMOST BELIEVED HIM UNTIL one CORRECT bird from YOUWIN archives whispered to my left ear, saying that this man won N500,000 award for best business plan in the North west for the 1st version of GEJ's YouWin.
My people no be only that oh President Jonathan also gave him the maximum correct cool N10,000,000, yes, 10 million Naira that CHANGED his life forever.
His Blood father NEVER did this to him. BUhari, who was a former Military governor of his N/East Zone, Never dreamed of such a Youth empowerment scheme.

My question is, why is AMINU hiding this testimony ? Goodlucj Jonathan's YOUWIN changed his life. Why call him an all round failure? For a presido that changed your life? Aminu is always on Facebook calling Gej and his government all sorts of horrible names.

What really do AMINU want ? is it really CHANGE ? (as I can see GEJ's scheme changed his life) OR is it just POWER BACK TO THE NORTH ?

Oya here is picture proof OF ONE OF THE HAPPIEST Moment OF AMINU's LIFE ..

Be careful of the kind of change they preach.
Oya Time to set Fire to the Rain.- by Chinenye Lauretta Onoh

This is the concluding part of this piece which was first published in our Friday edition.

NOW, writes Adeniyi, “As Sanusi resumed at CBN, his first mandate from the president was to examine the state of the banks, to ensure that all was well and that the fears being expressed in certain quarters were unfounded.

As it turned out, the fears indeed were not unfounded. As a former bank CEO with vast experience in risk management, Sanusi knew what to look for in the banks. After studying internal memos, various reports and correspondences, and also interviewing regulators, bankers, business persons, government officials and other stakeholders, he became convinced that some of the banks were, figuratively speaking, on life support.

“Sanusi’s review of activities in the Expanded Discount Window (EDW) particularly revealed some unsavoury details: some banks were almost permanently locked in as borrowers and were most often unable to repay their obligations.

Repayment of obligations
When CBN decided to temporarily shut the EDW to these banks, they, in desperation, turned to banks like UBA, which had excess liquidity, but such funds were lent at very high premium rates. Four banks were in this dire strait. A fifth one was also a frequent borrower on the EDW. While these banks were not the only beneficiaries of the EDW, the persistence and frequency of their demand, by Sanusi’s reckoning, could only be a manifestation of a deeper malaise, which CBN identified as a probable source of financial instability.

“In unraveling what exactly was going on in some of these banks, Sanusi gave clues to the CBN examiners with regard to the areas to look for and the questions for which they should seek answers. By the time their assignment was concluded, the preliminary report was just a validation of what he had always suspected: five of the ten banks whose books were examined were in serious trouble.” (pp93/94)

Did Chukwuma Charles Soludo know of the subsistence of this rot in the banking sector on whose consolidation he had been riding a crest of adulation?

Soludo claims, to this day, that there was nothing whatsoever to indicate that a malaise was domiciled in an industry he had charge over. But the evidence on the ground does not support his denial. As a matter of fact, they state in Bold and Capital Letters that Soludo habours a very serious credibility problem.

Adeniyi again: “Among the documents Sanusi met at CBN, copies of which he handed to the president, were an internal report as far back as December 2007 warning Soludo that banks were trading in their own shares and sitting on bubble capital with risks to the financial system; a letter written to Soludo by the NDIC (Nigerian Deposit Insurance Company) managing director, Mr. Ganiyu Ogunleye, in 2008 after a meeting between NDIC and the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), which proposed that a technical team be sent by CBN to examine the books of the banks and assess possible threats with regard to capital market exposures, and a letter from finance minister Shamsudeen Usman in 2008 following up on the NDIC letter. Sanusi said he met no record at CBN to suggest that any concrete action was taken”! (p95)

Manipulation of share prices
Thus, as the banking industry was disintegrating under his watch, Soludo, like Nero who fiddled while Rome burnt, continued regardless. Adeniyi, for the last time: “The report of the activities of five of the ten banks that were first examined was damning: several abuses had been committed in the name of banking, with depositors’ funds taken to speculate in the stock market and manipulate share prices while loans were given out without any expectation that they would be repaid. With scant regard for corporate governance, some bank executives had even set up Special Purpose Vehicles to lend money to themselves and cronies for stock market manipulation and to sustain their flashy lifestyles. The level of malfeasance was so much that the borderline between depositors’ money and their personal wealth seemed nonexistent to some promoters of the banks.

“One bank executive took money from the till to purchase private jets, which were then registered in the name of his son, another bank used depositors’ funds to purchase 80 percent of the bank’s IPO, paying N25 per share when the shares were trading at N11 on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, and these later collapsed to under N3. The CEO of yet another bank controlled over 35 percent of the bank through a crooked deal in which customer deposits were being borrowed. The pertinent question therefore was, how could all this have escaped Soludo?” (p95)

Another pertinent question is this: what would have become of Chukwuma Charles Soludo if he had generated and supervised all this mess while heading a central bank in America or Europe, or even Ghana or South Africa?

Indeed there are other pertinent questions to ask: Who should Nigerians be listening to in the matter of the state of the Nigerian economy? Should they be listening to Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala? Or should they be paying any attention to Soludo on account of whom the Finance Minister made these most telling of observations: “It is totally remarkable that Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the man who presided over the worst mismanagement of Nigeria’s banking sector as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria between May 2004 and May 2009, can write about the mismanagement of the economy.
“Nigerians must be reminded of his antecedents as CBN Governor, and even prior to that, as the Chief Economic Adviser to the President. The consolidation of the banking sector was a good policy idea of the Obasanjo Administration, but Soludo went on to thoroughly mismanage its implementation leading to the worst financial crisis in Nigeria’s history.

So what did Soludo do? After consolidation, the regulatory functions of the Soludo-led CBN were very poorly exercised. As Governor, he failed to adequately supervise and regulate the now larger banks – an anomaly in Financial Sector Supervision.

“In fact as every Nigerian knows, in his time there was very little separation between the regulators and the regulated, which is a violation of a key requirement of Central Banking success. This led to infractions in corporate governance in many banks as loans and other credit instruments running to hundreds of billions of naira were extended to clients without following due process, and several of these loans could not be paid back. This massive accumulation of bad debts, or non-performing loans as they are called in the banking sector, meant that our banks were ill-positioned to deal with the global financial crisis when it hit.

“In fact, the banking sector was brought to its knees and required a massive bailout by Nigerian tax payers. This bailout was done by his successor (now Emir of Kano), who cleaned up all the bad debts and transferred them to the newly-established AMCON (Asset Management Company of Nigeria), from where they are managed today.

Accummulation of liabilities
“So let it be noted for the record books that Soludo’s single-handed mismanagement of the banking sector led to an incredible accumulation of liabilities that will cost tax payers about N5.67 trillion (being the total face value of AMCON-issued bonds) to clean up. Let it be noted also that this amount, which is more than the entire Federal Government 2015 Budget, constitutes the bulk of Nigeria’s “contingent liabilities” mentioned in Soludo’s article.”

It is often counseled that those who reside in glass houses should desist from throwing stones. Remarkably, Soludo, an inhabitant of a glass hovel, has incessantly hurled huge rocks aimed at denting the reputations and professional distinctions of many distinguished Nigerians. In his latest “missing trillions” outing, he takes a new dig at Mr. Peter Obi, claiming that the man cannot write, as if a prerequisite for achievement in every other field of human endeavor is the ability to write like a Chinua Achebe or a Wole Soyinka.

If writing well is a sine qua non for political leadership, how come that every president in the world, and every governor in Nigeria, has a press secretary and a speech writer?

To extend this matter of scribal accomplishment a bit further, Soludo might be unaware of the fact, but his “first person” experience of invectives does not exactly situate him in the position of the greatest prose stylist the Black man ever came across.
Soludo’s problem with Peter Obi stems essentially from the drubbing the later administered on him in the February 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra State. Mr. Obi secured a majority 97,833 lawful votes to emerge victorious. Soludo, with some 40,000 votes less, came a dismal third in the contest, losing, despite his vaunted popularity, even in his Aguata Local Government Area. It is difficult to understand why Soludo cannot live down the experience. After all, he went into partisan politics with both his eyes wide open.

Partisan politics
He should have heeded former United States President Harry S. Truman who admonished, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Instead, he never turns away from any opportunity to call Obi a trader or an illiterate. This is ironic, given that Soludo is a staunch supporter of a presidential candidate who cannot provide evidence of his school certificate, who forgot the name of his running mate and who cannot remember his cellphone number, whereas Obi has a confirmed and genuine school certificate from Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha, and a degree in Philosophy from Soludo’s alma mater, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).

It is always advised that the wisest thing for someone deep in a hole to do is to stop digging. Unfortunately, Soludo appears to be eternally heedless. That explains why his attacks on Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are invariably frivolous and ridiculous. This is a Soludo claim: “I spent five weeks in the hotel with my team (as coordinator/chairman for drafting the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy, NEEDS). Some of the reform targets in NEEDS became the ‘conditionalities’ Nigeria was required to fulfil to merit debt relief.” This statement is deliberately misleading because its intention is to create the impression that NEEDS was Soludo’s baby and that the credit for earning Nigeria debt relief also devolved on him.

To properly explain the fallacy of Soludo’s claim, it must be said that the idea of a Presidential Economic Team was Okonjo-Iweala’s. Soludo was just one of the 13 initial members of the Team chaired by Okonjo-Iweala. Other members included Mrs. Nenadi Usman (Minister of State – Finance), Mallam Nasir el Rufai (Minister of the Federal Capital Territory), Mr. Bode Augusto (Director-General (Budget), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu (Head of EFCC), and Dr. Bright Okogu (Executive Secretary to the Economic Team and Senior Adviser to Minister of Finance.)

In Reforming The Unreformable: Lessons From Nigeria, a book published in 2012 by The MIT Press, Massachusetts, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala makes this point: “I solicited written inputs from members of the Economic Team already working on important areas of reform – privatization, budget monitoring, and price intelligence linked to public procurement reform.

For example, over a weekend, using their inputs, I produced a 17-page paper outlining the major economic and social problems and especially highlighting the problem of Nigeria’s huge external debt overhang, which was a drag on investment and economic growth. I proposed a set of macroeconomic and structural reforms focusing on budget management and priority setting; fiscal reforms; liberalization and deregulation of important economic sectors; privatization of important public enterprises; governance and institutional reforms, including public service reform; and anti-corruption actions, especially concerning public procurement.” (p13)

Public procurement
Soludo has read the book but has never questioned any of its contents. Unlike Okonjo-Iweala who gave credit to President Obasanjo, and to the Economic Team for NEEDS’ success, Soludo, the eternal Solution, has claimed to be the only Iroko tree in Nigeria’s economic forest, forgetting that a tree cannot make a forest. He would not give credit to Okonjo-Iweala for the debt relief that Nigeria received.

This is Soludo to the Finance Minister: “You alluded to debt relief in your response and tried to take credit. Well, your CV is honest enough to admit that your two achievements in office as Finance minister under Obasanjo were that ‘you led the Nigerian team that struck a deal with the Paris Club’ and that you ‘introduced the practice of publishing each state’s monthly financial allocation in the newspapers’. You are right about the two achievements. Let me put on record that Nigeria would have secured debt relief under anyone as Minister of Finance.”

Really? Did Obasanjo not have a Finance Minister in his first presidential term? If debt relief was a piece of cake, why didn’t that minister achieve it in four years? Elsewhere, Soludo addresses Okonjo-Iweala as follows: “Before you were sworn in as Minister of Finance, President Bush visited Nigeria and both of us accompanied President Obasanjo during the meeting. There, Mr. Bush promised to support Nigeria with debt relief and asked our president to ensure that he met the conditions of the Paris Club.”

Soludo’s objective in the opening phrase of the first sentence is to claim that he got into Obasanjo’s administration before Okonjo-Iweala. But that is not so. In 2000, President Obasanjo had requested that Okonjo-Iweala should return to Nigeria and be his Economic Adviser for six months. Soludo wasn’t anywhere around Abuja at this time.
Writes Okonjo-Iweala in her book on the subject: “My work in those six months focused on sorting out the extent of the country’s most important financial liabilities (including its US$30 billion in external debt), on getting the seven different offices managing different parts of the debt to cooperate with one another so we could begin to reconcile figures, and ultimately on creating a national Debt Management Office (DMO) to bring some clarity and rationality to debt management. This work laid the foundation for my return as Minister of Finance three years later.”

It is the work, commitment and patriotism of this woman of professional caliber and timber, as the inimitable Dr. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe of blessed memory would have put it, that Charles Soludo has indiscriminately been deriding without grounds. Okonjo-Iweala graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Harvard University in 1977, and a Ph.D. in regional economic development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981.

Ever since her formal education, she has held challenging and high profile positions at the World Bank and in the direct service of her fatherland.

Debt relief
Yet, Soludo found it fit to claim that her economics had become “a bit rusty”! He even professed to Okonjo-Iweala a belief that “Nigeria should have gotten far better terms than you negotiated. Of course, with your eyes on returning to the World Bank after office, I did not expect you to boldly stand up to the donor community in defence of Nigeria.” But Nigeria was not indebted to the World Bank. Apart from that, why didn’t Soludo, the only expert that had Obasanjo’s ears, move in with precision to earn “better terms” on Nigeria’s debt relief?

The most disingenuous aspect of Soludo’s latest outing is in the title: Okonjo-Iweala and missing trillions! This was obviously intended to titillate the gullible, and excite headline writers with an eye on bumper sales.

Nowhere in his political, not economic, epistle is to be found any sound reasoning in support of the trillions he claims are missing.
This means that the only thing actually missing is the word “empiricism”, which does not exist in Soludo’s dictionary.

More worrisome is that he is scandalously unaware of this disturbing shortcoming. Little wonder that, untenable as his position is, the man is proposing a debate with Dr. Okonjo-Iweala.
Iloegbunam (iloegbunam@hotmail.com) was a former Anambra State Government Chief of Staff.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/soludo-missing-trillions-2/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

A US Navy contractor admitted bribing Navy officials with cash, trips and prostitutes.

Corruption lives everywhere. It is not a Nigerian thing. Nigerian Navy has bag eggs, so does the US Navy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/navy-captain-enters-guilty-plea-in-massive-bribery-case/2015/01/15/b09688ba-9ced-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html

Whenever he's pumping fast like he's about to get there, look him in the eyes and tell him 'Don't even think about it!' *in my wife's voice* And watch stay on you all night.

gen2briz:


Am just growing up DAD. But sir, if you are not pleased with his campaign promises, there are still other candidate sir.

Lol...I respect your sense of humour and I glad you didn't take my joke the wrong way. That said, the major contenders are the incumbent and buhari/APC.

gen2briz:
Kindly visit the nearest GMB campaign office for perfect answer.

So every Nigerian, about 170 million people, should go to buhari's campaign offices to know his plans for Nigeria? How old are you, kid?

APC should at least organise a debate an address these issues to let Nigerians know the feasibility of these promises. Nigeria has grown beyond this level of politics.

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) has said that it is insisting on the participation of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) in a live television debate with President Goodluck Jonathan.

Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the PDP is ready to attend any debate, anywhere in the country with Buhari, even if that debate was organised by the APC spokesman Lai Mohammed and the APC itself, as long as it would be televised live.

Fani Kayode further said, “The decision of the APC not to participate in the debate organised by the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on grounds of alleged bias is baseless and absurd. The decision of the APC to boycott the debate provides ample evidence of their cowardice and their unrelenting contempt for the Nigerian people.

“The truth is that the electorate would like to see the presidential candidates of all the political parties square up in a television debate to answer questions on their blueprint for governance and national development.

“The PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation is interested in our candidate, President Jonathan engaging General Buhari in a robust and lively debate so that both men can speak about issues like corruption, insurgency, the fight against terrorism and the economy all of which are areas in which Buhari has grounded his unjustifiable and mischievous attacks on our candidate.

“Since the APC are not comfortable with anyone else handling and organising the debate and since they keep alleging bias on the part of any sensible and impartial organiser, we challenge them to organise the debate themselves. As long as the debate is live and they will allow our candidate to speak his mind on all issues, without any interruption and without cutting him short, we assure them that we will attend.

“Our candidates - President Jonathan and his Vice President, Arc Namadi Sambo – will take up the gauntlet and join issues with them anywhere in this country and at anytime as long as the Nigerian people can witness the event live and as long as it is done openly for the world to see.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/presidential-debate-pdp-wants-all-apc-panel-members-to-moderate/200651/

APC faithfuls and their decision on the economy should be based on economic backbone issues like the GDP, per capita, infrastructure development, availability of mass transit, interconnectivity of communities to the interstate highways, non oil revenue, food import bill, manufacturing sector etc.

Unfortunately, their commonplace argument is not about the issues but about old wife's tales. They hope to misdirected the narrative and make non issues to be the primary issues.

I want to know the "Hows" of GMB campaign promises, since his manifesto is empty.

- How- does he intend to feed 20 million school kids, one meal per day @N300 - N500/meal for 4 yrs, an average of N15Billion/day * 200 =N3Trillion days/year = ?

- How- does he intend to pay a stipend of N5, 000/month to all poor families in Nigeria for 4 yrs, about 40 million homes* 5000*12 =N2.4Trillion per year.

-How-does he plan to pay unemployed Nigerians N15k/month until they get a job?
How-does he plan to stop Boko Haram in 2 months?

-How-does he plan to create 3 million jobs in the unlikely event of his 1st year in office?
Let's elevate the discourse. Keep moving ‪#‎FORWARD‬ - Aiksmart

Rawani:
General Buhari's time has surely come. Who would ever have imagined that Ohanaeze Ndigbo would one day, be fighting over whose house our dear General will be welcomed into as he consults on how to develop Igboland.

Joseph! Wake up! You're dreaming again!

lozairio:
@Op your assessment of GEJ and GMB,condemned buhari but praise jonathan meaning buhari is all bad and jonathan all good don't forget our $20billion is still missing and the public have not been briefed about what is going on in the investigation and we will never be briefed because you and I know what happened to the money now I want you to ask yourself this questions if buhari was president would $20billion dollars be missing and would boko haram be on rampage, would $103million be given to a criminal to safeguard our waterways when we have a navy and would a criminal be allowed to bring six decommissioned warships into the country as an indvidual claiming to buy them to protect our waterways when even american defense contrators don't even have an armed weapon in their museum even as weapon manufacturers, yet you are talking about jonathan been good, jonathan is not better than buhari I beg you and to let you know I am from delta state from an oil producing area to be precise and I don't like jonathan because he is corrupt president so don't think am a northener or a muslim I am a christian and am voting for buhari. Let me make this clear u ppl say buhari is a military man and that he applied the use of force in his regime yes I agree buhari did the right thing in the wrong way.

I respect your opinion but let me ask; do you know that buhari ousted a democratically elected govt once? Did he prosecute members of that govt? No! he didn't cos if he really did, then what was the head of the same corrupt govt doing in his house while a select few were sent to prison? That in itself is the highest level of corruption.

Do you also know of some monies that developed wings and flew away under buhari's watch? Does 2.8billion ring a bell?

While he was PTF boss, under the most corrupt govt Nigeria has ever seen, why did he single handedly select the consulting firm without first deliberating with members? What was he desperately hiding?

He once argued that ACN leaders were corrupt, that they awarded 1km road for 1billion and now he's with same people baptised as APC and their sins are suddenly washed away and they are all 'CHANGE' agents now, using the corrupt monies they stole to support buhari and the party. Anyone who steals and anyone who uses stolen items are guilty of same crime. Suffice it to say Buhari is corrupt.

Now I'm not saying GEJ is the angel without sin sent to watch over us, but under his watch, there's been tremendous advancements in so many sectors and continuity is very necessary for consolidation of the progress recorded.

The 20billion you talked about was first raised by the then CBN governor, it was later cleared, by the finance ministry, that no such money was lost. I don't know how it happened and I'm sure you also can't say for sure too but you chose to believe the first report, well, it's your decision.

For every one criminal killed in the name of anti-corruption campaign, there's a million new ones motivated to try again!

Fix the system! Fix the economy and corruption and all other vices will die a natural death!

berem:
how do you clamour for the aviation sector to be better without a privatized national carrier? Corruption can seize to exist if the minister is serious or else its just a waste of time

Here's a picture; you fly from Lagos to Port Harcourt, and the plane is obviously bad all through the journey, plenty noise from the engines, everyone is forced to repent and commit their souls into God's hands, the pilot is as terrified as the passengers, the pilot finally succeeds in landing the plane after several attempts, the passengers get off the and GO HOME thanking God for bringing them 'safely' to their destination. Nobody takes to the internet to talk about it, no protest about it and so the evil continues

berem:
of course yes! It is a very good investment. We used to have National Airlines both public and privately owned. The corruption in the aviation sector didn't allow it progress.
The national carrier is our pride,we need it back!

I think we should rather be clamouring for the aviation system to be better. No matter how many National Airlines that is set up, if corruption still exists in that sector, the system will still collapse.

berem:
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THE NUMBER OF AIRPLANES USED BY ALL THE AIRLINES IN NIGERIA IS NOT UP TO WHAT BRITISH AIRWAYS ALONE HAS IN IT'S FLEETS.

Osita Chidoka wake up!

If your assertion is correct, do you really think it's good investment to still have a 'national airline'?

OrlandoOwoh:
OP, here is the conclusion, you studied nothing. Crap!

Ok son, sounding disrespectful is usually the best way a slow person communicates. So are you a slow person?