Obama…the future is not black gold, Jonathan (caption ours).
Kaduna Nzeogwu…thunder can break again!
Whilst President Obama is into strategic and futuristic thinking, repositioning the US economy, the now Fundraiser-in-Chief of Nigeria is using State resources and privileges to help his native Otuoke to the utter disregard of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, putting other communities in Nigeria at a disadvantage…nepotism, favouritism and tribalism were three of the five core reasons Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu adduced in 1966 as the motive for the first military coup in Nigeria. Here’s a man without a sense of history showing complete naivety and gross lack of statesmanship and vision in governance coupled with his lack of understanding of the complexity of the Nigerian polity. The story of a misfit without a mustard seed - knowledge of his country’s Constitution, nay, a man who does not know he has been standing on a sinking sand since coming into office
As the USA under President Barack Obama steadily and strategically turns its eyes off oil, countries like Nigeria that have become mad and stupid since the discovery of oil at Oloibiri in 1956, thinking the black gold is forever and have been indulging in an unbridled ostentatious lifestyle, may now get serious and start the process of diversifying their economy. But we doubt very much that their very visionless, clueless, purposeless, very corrupt and dodgy President who has recently demoted himself from the exalted combined post of Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the lowly position of the Fundraiser-in-Chief and the Clan Head of his native Otuoke in Bayelsa State of Nigeria deploying State apparatus and resource to psychologically hoodwinked his equally very corrupt and dubious ‘lieutenants’ into raising over N6 Billion is ever foresighted, strategic and futuristic in any least way to re-focus the country’s polity and the economy positively.
MESSAGE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON
How we shift America off oil
America's auto industry is in the midst of a change for the better. Right now, car dealers are offering customers twice as many hybrids as they were five years ago and seven times as many cars that can go 40 miles or more on a gallon of gas. Last year, General Motors sold more hybrid cars than ever before and Ford is working hard to keep up with demand for its fuel-efficient vehicles.
That trend is a key example of how innovation helps to drive business success -- and creates jobs for the middle class in America. But it's one thing to make a car more fuel efficient. It's another thing altogether to move cars and trucks off oil entirely.
And that's the next step. Here's how President Obama is proposing to get us there:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographic/energy-security-trust
At a time when the sequester is forcing laboratories and science facilities across the country to scale back on their work, we need to keep investing in research.
Because if we can meet this goal, the benefits are clear. We'll help diminish the burden of spiking gas prices. We'll reduce our reliance on foreign oil. And most importantly, the kind of technological breakthroughs the Energy Security Trust will work to produce won't just create jobs -- they could create whole new industries.
So if you think the Energy Security Trust is a good idea, will you share this graphic?
***Sent from the White House, Washington to Vigilance and published unedited
PART TWO
Enter:
The dubious Nigerian officials:
Outrage over N6bn donation to Jonathan’s hometown church
There was outrage yesterday after over N6 billion was donated in Lagos at the fund raising in aid of St. Stephen’s Anglican Deanery and Youth Development Centre, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, home town of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The event attended by the president held at the high brow Civic Centre, Victoria Island. The highest donation was given by Prince Arthur Eze, a business tycoon. He donated N1.8 billion.
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State made a donation of N230 million on behalf of the newly-formed PDP Governors Forum .
He was recently made chairman of the forum which was created as a separate body from the Nigerian Governors Forum headed by Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Another N100million was donated by Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State on behalf of South- South state Governors.
Governor Seriake Dickson pledged to build the nursery school and cancer diagnostic centre components of the project at Otuoke as the contribution of Bayelsa.
The church came into national consciousness in April last year when Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Limited, an Italian construction firm donated the multi-million dollar building to President Jonathan’s home church. The donation of the building provoked a hail of criticism against the president with many calling on the anti-graft agencies to step into it.
Several PDP governors were said to be unaware, last night, of the donation made on their behalf by Akpabio.
Their spokespersons said their bosses were not consulted on the donation. Courtesy: The Nation, March 17, 2013.
****Nigeria’s dodgy President has not declared his assets in accordance with the excerpts shown below from the CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, yet Nigerians and their crumbs-seeking press have allowed him to be ruling them!
140. (1) A person elected to the office of President shall not begin to perform the functions of that office until he has declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this Constitution and he has taken and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance and the oath of office prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution.
(2) The oaths aforesaid shall be administered by the Chief Justice of Nigeria or the person for the time being appointed to exercise the functions of that office
1. The Code of Conduct Bureau shall comprise the following members:
(a) a Chairman; and
(b) nine other members, each of whom, at the time of appointment, shall not be less than fifty years of age and subject to the provisions of section 157 of this Constitution shall vacate his office on attaining the age of seventy years.
2. The Bureau shall establish such offices in each state of the Federation as it may require for the discharge of its functions under this Constitution.
3. The Bureau shall have power to:
(a) receive declarations by public officers made under paragraph 12 of Part I of the Fifth Schedule to this Constitution;
(b) examine the declarations in accordance with the requirements of the Code of Conduct or any law;
(c) retain custody of such declarations and make them available for inspection by any citizen of Nigeria on such terms and conditions as the National Assembly may prescribe;
(d) ensure compliance with and, where appropriate, enforce the provisions of the Code of Conduct of any law relating thereto;
(e) receive complaints about non-compliance with or breach of the provisions of the Code of Conduct or any law in relation thereto, investigate the complaint and, where appropriate, refer such matters to the Code of Conduct Tribunal
Seventh Schedule
Oaths
Oaths of Allegiance
1, ………. Do solemnly swear/affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
So help me God
Oath of Office of President
I, .............. do solemnly swear/affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will discharge my duties to the best of my ability, faithfully and in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the law, and always in the interest of the sovereignty, integrity, solidarity, well-being and prosperity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that I will strive to preserve the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy contained in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conduct or my official decisions; that I will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that I will abide by the Code of Conduct contained in the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that in all circumstances, I will do right to all manner of people, according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will; that I will not directly or indirectly communication or reveal to any person any matter which shall be brought under my consideration or shall become known to me as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, except as may be required for the due discharge of my duties as President.