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I thought the woman appointed chair after Ribadu was way too corrupt and complacent,
hence the justification of her sack before the due date of her appointment.
Then one Lamurde was appointed to bring back the so called 'glory days' and one hardly even see him (lamurde) on national TV telling us what he is or not doing and we dont get to read in the dailies which cases are prosecuted in court.
Has the EFCC gone practically dead or is it that corruption has been zeroed.
Maybe i'm not up to date but can somebody help me?

Abujafood: No one seems to be talking about Maria provoking Nicki minaj! Nicki is a highly temperamental lady and provoking her is bound to lead to an explosive encounter! Mariah Show you're bigger by being more mature! Manage your feelings better!

so? others got no room of expressing themselves cos some crazy lil b1tch is temperamental?

does this Tonto have an idea of what it means to manage ur image at all?
looks like somebody hacked her id to post these kinda sh1t and ouch her spelling really sucks.
did she finish primary school at all?

How can we be on our way up?
a lot of environmental issues are confronting Nigeria today and we cant even look at them cos the level of insecurity is alarming.
if the north is contending with boko haram, then issues of desert encroachment are behind the scene but in 5years when farm lands woulda turned dry, security will be more threatened.
if issues of kidnapping currently plague the east, hw about gully erosion sweeping through that subregion, nobody is looking at all these, the flood this year should be an eye opener of things to come.
we have to have a healthy enviroment before we can even talk abt fdi and nobody is even mentioning all these.
God help us we trully on our way up

PointB: Gowon is alive, and very articulate to boot! Let him speak for him self. I don't understand the unbridled propensity for slaves to speak for their masters!

Does it matter who speaks for who?
what is important is that he (Akinjide) has opened another chapter to a rather diverted perception that Gowon was the culprit.
even though i'm surprised that Gowon never came up to clear the air which is suspicious (maybe he's forming elder statesman)
i think bakassi people deserve to know the truth about who is directly responsible for their present situation.

paraga = short cut to highness.
when i was in lag and my friends used to advice me of the ailments it cures,
and i was always like we dont have all these where i come from and we are healthy.

Finally, Maku has shown us the big loud mouthed fool that he is.
y apologise to the senate when he was infact right by his statement.
If the national assembly's resolutions were not mere advise, subsidy woulda still been in place.
as it stands, the fg can still go ahead with the implementation of the 5k note and nothing go happen

lolz.
Clothes can change ur shape on the outer look,
but it dosnt reflect hw ur bones are shaped.
if the anatomy is true as u portrayed it, then its safe to say man is retrogressing back to the stone age

may d is a good singer but owning a record label?
i doubt he's got the expertise, neither is he mature enof.
bro, go back, take time to learn ur trade b4 u go all solo

Olodostein: Come to think of it. That was why he was made the Minister of Information; at least he got the guts to speak whats on his mind.

Besides, anything that pisses a Nigerian politician off to the core must have struck a nerve.

Nevertheless, they are birds of a feather.

So in this case as the judge; I say, Objections sustained !!!!!!!!

He dosnt have to speak what is on his mind.
he has to say what is right.
for Christ sake he's the govt spokesperson.

so which of the company's belongs to Barth Nnaji?
I thought that was among the reasons he resigned.

psalmizt: As much as I want to believe this story, I don't think it is scientific... Somehow, I feel it is likely going to be an error of generalization. No mention of his sample space, and the assumptions. I am sure he is just riding on the wave of the moment.... We need concrete proof, abi e hard to carry out survey?

what other proof do u need?
between january and october, 2011, at least 30million units of generators were imported into the country.
'i my neighbour alone ed for 30-34% of the quantity.
u may not believe it but some households have 3-4 different sizes of generators, each with its use at different times of the day.
we aint even talking about industries/SMEs yet.
believe me the statistics by Dr Kabir is even moderated.

I am not an ardent fan of SLS but i must it I'm surprised at peeps calling momodu's write up a brilliant one.
Momodu ended up saying nothing new, every thing he said, we've known and heard before.
Ordinarily a good write up should counter SLS economic policies with sound economic arguments.
everything momodu wrote about was either political or shallow argued, too bad even not as an economist he woulda taken time to research some economic policies and point out where SLS went constitutionally wrong.
like I said earlier am no fan of SLS, not just that, i hate lazy journalism.
Mr momodu next time try to say something new jor.

resit ke?
I neva heard that name through out my school days,
and the law isnt draconian, if u fail a course, u carry it over, reasob being that scripts are not immediately marked and compiled because of the bulk of work on lecturer's table.
so i'm wondering how the resit thing is executed, i think its fraudulent.

listening president indeed! y didnt he listen to the masses when subsidy was removed.
Abegi, make we hear word.

I love the prophet Mohammed at least from stuff i'v read about him.
I'm not a muslim, but i dread its extremist followers.
All I know is God is a God of peace, and is big enough to fight whoever blasphems Him.
Let these muslims stop fighting Allah's battle.
Let Allah fight his battle and be the judge.

all these american wanabes artistes.
I think what is worrying dbanj and his likes is low self esteem.
Fela neednt any american to sign him on b/4 he became a voice heard all over the world.
if he could sit here in Naija and yet his voice was heard all over the world, it means he was talented enof.
Today there's a broadway in his memory which the 'almighty Jay Z' is having interests.
With dbanj's style, he'll hardly break into the american industry, let him come back home and make fuji not efeezy humes in the US of A

The insecurity situation in the north has caused lots of set backs in many companies, not only PZ
lots of jobs lost, some voluntary resignations, lots of businesses closed and for a company like PZ whose largest sales were coming from lagos, maiduguri and kano depots, this dip is much expected.
Only hope situation returns to normal for a more prosperous northern future.

Nigeria’s first female Health Minister, Prof. Adenike Grange, opens up for the first time ever on the celebrated ‘N300 million unspent fund’ that led to her resignation. She spoke to TEMITOPE OGUNBANKE.
Your appointment on 26 July, 2007 as the first female Minister of Health was well celebrated, how did you feel when you became the Minister?
I felt challenged but I felt that I had enough experience, skills and . I thought that I had enough to be able to play the role that was expected of me to turn things around for the health system. I went into the ministry with a vision and to make a difference. We worked right from the beginning wanting to put logic into the system. I had a logical approach that the health system is for all the people and not just for a set of people.

I believe there must be equity and with that in mind we went on and luckily for us an insurance scheme was already in place and many strategic plans were on ground for us to tap into and to bring all together as a comprehensive approach to reforming the health system.

You said you came in with a lot of determination to turn the health system around but you didn’t spend up to nine months in office before you quit. What do you think led to your exit from office?Several things went wrong. First, I would say that even the environment into which I was going was not conducive partly because nobody with my kind of background; a professional paediatrician had been there after Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti who had the full of the Head of State. But I served in a democratic dispensation and a lot more preparation needed to be made.

A lot more preparation in the sense that we needed to decide if we really all shared the same vision or not. I knew what my vision was and I tried as much as possible to illustrate and present it. In fact I had my conceptual framework in a power point and at every opportunity I had, I presented this framework.

As a matter of fact I was so aggressive about it but the very person (my boss, the President) I should have presented to, never got to hear from me. I never had the opportunity to present it to him.

While I was trying to do what was expected of me, it seems that others had different ideas, goals and objectives. Unfortunately for me, that was the first time of working in a ministry and I did not get those signals that people had different objectives and they were not ready to move along with me. So that was the main problem. The second thing was that there were various camps and I didn’t understand the landscape at that time; people were doing different things and some had thought that I was not with them in their camp.

The way I was brought up is that if you are a leader you bring everybody together; you cannot afford to be in one camp or the other. And it was that kind of philosophy that I adopted for everybody in my relationship but obviously they were not used to that kind of approach, so they became suspicious of me.

Also, the way the job description had been divided between the Minister and Minister of State did not make me feel that I was actually in charge. There was a document which had been prepared prior to our assumption of office about who should be managing what in the ministry of health. We had no choice in this matter. Unknown to me, this led to a strained scenario.

There again nobody wanted to accept that this tension had to be resolved. Nobody wanted to resolve it because it suited them to create confusion in the ministry.

Are you saying that power tussle between you and some top officials was the genesis of your exit from office?I believe that it contributed to it. If I may speak frankly, I can now see that if we had all been able to work together closely and we had all appreciated our different strengths and had complemented one another, we would have been okay. But here you have a paper that does not even take the interest of the ministry and the people into consideration.

The paper simply divided the roles along an arbitrary line whether one was capable of playing that role or not and that divided the ministry into at least two or more. I tried as much as possible to cope under that condition but the system did not give me the opportunity to achieve my goals and vision for the ministry and the health sector as a whole.

I believe the scenario that led to my exit from office could have been mitigated internally if the ministry had not been fragmented.

I called it a scenario because till now I don’t know the details about the alleged N300million unspent fund. All they were saying was that the ministry spent the money they should not have spent or whatever. I did not know anything about such a fund. I was made to believe that whatever money was left over in the ministry had been returned and there was a certificate of clearance to prove it. So having received that information at the end of the year, three months later it came as a big surprise to me that the ministry was alleged to have continued to spend money when it was not supposed to do so.

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the alleged N300million unspent fund that led to your exit from office?The incident was so mischievous because we did not even had N300 million in the at that time. I had nothing to do with internally generated contracts because internal contracts are usually managed by other authorised officials of the ministry and subsequent decisions are based on their recommendations. There are also internal and external auditors who check the s at stipulated intervals and at the end of the year we were given clearance that the s were in order.

So, the issue of an alleged N300 million being spent came to me as a big shock. The reason I won my case was because all investigations did not reveal my involvement in such a thing which you will it is a staggering figure which cannot be hidden anywhere. So the issue of alleged N300 million came to me as a big shock to me, my family and friends.

Everything I spent while I was a minister was from my salary and savings which were declared. It really hurts that nobody was interested in finding out the truth before jettisoning two ministers of high integrity.

It has never happened before. Having done that I was no longer able to even see the President, I was now tossed between the president’s aides and of course they had their own agenda. So because that case was in court, there was nothing I could say prior to the trial. The case had to be judged first of all.

The media did their job but they could not get at the truth even if they had tried because some people had already made up their mind that they would get rid of me through this obnoxious pathway.

Why do you think some people wanted to get rid of you?
I came as a stranger to the whole thing. I think they expected somebody who would play along with them. Somebody that would dance to their tunes.

Are you saying that your refusal to play along with the powers that be led to your exit from office?
As far as I am concerned, I thought that I was playing along because I thought we had the same vision but I didn’t know that in actual fact they had other reasons why they thought I wasn’t playing along. I am not blaming anybody per se but the system. It is that system that does not allow anybody who wants to change the system to function. A system that does not allow anyone who wants to change it to make it function will obviously have to get rid of that person.

Is it right then to say that Nigeria is where we are today because people are not allowed to change the system?Exactly; people are not allowed to change the system because many people want to maintain the status quo of corruption and other social vices. While coming to office I thought I could actually make changes and my reasons were that I did not ask for the job; I never lobbied for the job. I was called because they knew my profile and antecedents.

I had worked extensively both in Nigeria and abroad, and somehow they thought that I would help to change things. What I believe is that the President honestly wanted something to change positively in line with his Vision 2020 but somehow there were people around him that did not want the change and unfortunately his health failed him.

So, my own calculation was that when I was being asked to come on board, I thought they genuinely wanted me to come and do good work but along the line politics took over and I am not a politician.

While coming to office as Minister many people saw me as a round peg in a round hole and that I would do well. I did not know that they had prepared the way that whoever was coming in would not be able to change things because what was the essence of splitting my role in a way that I could no longer have full authority of the health system.

What actually led to your resignation from office considering that in Nigeria it is rare for ministers to resign from office?What led to my resignation was that it became impossible for me to lead the ministry after I had been charged to court. I could not be in court and be in the system at the same time. So I had to resign for the matter to be settled in court. Also certain things that were happening at that time were not supposed to be happening.

People were not speaking out because there was nothing like ‘Freedom of Information Bill” then, so people were not willing to speak the truth. Many people refused to speak the truth because they did not want to get into trouble with the gladiators behind the crisis.

How were you treated by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) during the crisis?EFCC did their own investigation as expected of them. So I was treated like any other person that could have been in my position.

So I did not have anything against them except that they were an instrument to perform whatever it was expected of them.

What I have discovered is that if government made a mistake, they would not want to it their mistake and certainly not at that point. I know that and that is why I also went to court to fight my cause. As far as I am concerned, I believe that that case was a total distraction.

You have blamed the system for some of the problems in the country, how do you think we can change the system?I have come to believe in “evolution” and that is why I went back to the grassroots and I am running an NGO – Ade Grange Child Foundation.

I believe there is a need to build critical masses who would share the vision of a better Nigeria. Another way is by “revolution” but revolutions always leave behind some level of destruction, which may take a long time and huge resources to rebuild.

We must not forget that some countries which have developed through the process of revolution are still languishing in misery today.

So a revolution to me is not an option. I still believe that there is need for the youth to see how they can influence one another to follow a path towards rebuilding this country and achieving the Nigeria of our dream.

http://www.informationnigeria.org/2012/09/first-female-health-minister-prof-adenike-grange-how-the-cabal-gets-rid-of-anyone-that-wants-to-change-nigeria.html

Nigerian politicians are like prostitutes with no ideology.
Loosing a primary election alone is enough reason for a member to cross the carpet.
IMHO, same rogues in pdp are same we find in acn, if acn were in power, we really wont be having it different.

that brenda girl is such a cheap liar, how could she claim to be 16, and how the hell did she get into the show at that age. thought the show was for adults.

i only look at the mirror when am at the barber's place.

@op
is may d a super star already?

Video of the year goes to we found love?
is it because of all the bans that trailed the video?
isnt starships an even better video?

bigass: That all men will have access to cassava bread

lol, that's so small now

In the other discussion, https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/1040214/bill-clintons-speech-2012-dnc
the op was trying to compare Bill Clinton's speech with that of GEJ's promises and how it suited the 'Nigerian dream'.
I was surprised as to whether we have a dream in Nigeria at all and i tried to ask but nobody responded.
Help me out folks, will like to know if there is anything like that of we can as well start forging the nigerian dream in here.

pelezico: Unfortunately what we are led to believe is that we need more Government something that Obama advocates. What Nigeria need is not more Government but less. Nigeria should not adopt Americas US economic policies because its riddled with failure. Governements do not have the know how or expertise. Its the people not Government that fix economies thru industry. Perhaps one of the reasons why the US economy has not collapsed is because of the woes currently going on in Europe. But it will collapse especially when China wake and realise that billions of dollors it has bought is worthless.

Governments do not have the expertise to fix economies after all look at the broken US economy which is partly if not wholly due to Government spending due to its over reliance on fiat currency. This failed policies are artificial lowering of interest rates, reliance on the property market, bailouts, tax increase on the rich, war in various countries exacerbating what little money the US have, over reliance on China, a communist Nation to fund its dept by buying Government bonds, etc, etc)

Nigeria must rely on individual industry and not US rhetoric, celebrity and empty politics. We need less Government not more.

I find ur post quite amazing, when the government allowed the people to run /fix the economy, what happened as a result is the depression we are into right now.
Have u ever asked urself y china is been strong all along?
its because their economy was/is a regulated one.
if u leave it in the hands of the individuals, they'll only think about themselves and greed'll take the center stage.
i dont mean to be persimistic but not everybody will become rich, not everybody will own a business - if not nobody will work for nobody and u cant do it all alone.
if u are rich, u must have a driver, steward, barber, gardener, clerk etc. without which ur richness will not last.
question is what plan is on ground for this group of people?

@op,

I'v read ur piece and u got me wandering if there is anything like the 'Nigerian dream' which u claimed is captured in the vision 2020 blueprint.
will u be kind enof to share with us the 'Nigerian dream'
I never thought we had one.

"we were so young, so in love and so in debt"
Ouch, this part rings a loud bell to my ears.
How sweet it is to look back to those long hard days and see how all has changed for the better.
Speeches like this gives hope even to the dying.

i hope this award finally settles the cold war btw messi and ronaldo

What pained the government was that it had assured the international community of a transparent process?
so its about the international community and not we Nigerians abi?
even if sambo sacked nnaji as the poster claims, i think nnaji compromised the entire process and just got what he rightly deserved.
too bad though, he had a vision and he knew where he was heading to.
all this phcn staff go let person hear word now.