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Friday, 31 July 2015
It could be you @ 14
"Seven Things Buhari/Osinbajo will do" - APC Campaign team
"Chess-Master 2015, said "Decisions have consequences", he is right.
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, a non-executive member of the famous Citi-group is now Nigeria's Vice-President, The VP was one of the Speakers for Poju Oyemade's May 1st workers' day jaw-jaw in Abuja under The PLATFORM at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) International Conference Centre, Jahi. The Vice President in that event narrated a journey he had with the President Muhammadu Buhari during the recently concluded political campaigns. Inside the car, the VP was asked, "What can you see on their faces?" Excitement! the VP replied. "No.", PMB told him, "Look again?" he urge, and again the VP replied "They are happy, that's why they are shouting "sey Baba! sey Chanji.". And again PMB says, "No, What is on their faces is that they expect us to solve all their problems in two (2) days when we come in!"
It was from this background that Professor Osinbajo, Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria began his talk, "This Country needs immediate fixing... With change comes very high expectation... Nigeria needs one stop shop as solution point... Our people are completely cut off from the main stream of governance."
The VP sure knows this country and fervently believes that the creation and management of industrial parks, technological parks/gardens and righting the wrongs in the entertainment industry as well as protecting copyrights will be his focus. Aside his personal inclination, the present government promise to deliver on 7(seven) key issues during their campaigns. In what it called "Seven Things Buhari/Osinbajo will do" the APC campaign team categorically placed:
- the creation of 740,000 jobs within the first one year, graduates will be paid stipends for 1year under a vocational scheme where they will be trained on entrepreneurial and work place readiness.
- It said it will provide Universal Basic Healthcare with N500 naira annual contribution per family in the National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) while "APC Government pays the balance.
- Among other things the campaign promise of one meal a day for children in public primary schools while their parents are to receive monthly direct cash transfer of NGN5,000 to "25 million poorest and most vulnerable citizens, if they immunize children and enroll them in school"
- The government, it said will generate, transmit and distribute electricity on a 24/7 basis whilst simultaneously ensuring the development of sustainable/renewable energy by 2019.
- lastly, the campaign promises Nigerians if brought to power, "will embark on a National Infrastructural Development Programme as a public private partnership that will ensure 5,000km of superhighway including service trunks
- as well as building of up to 6,800km of modern railway to be completed in 2019
- and the completion of commercial airports in all the 36 states.
The promise indeed is great and between Professor Yemi Osinbajo and President Muhammadu Buhari is packed the dynamite that will either bloom or burst.
Please this is not another 7-Points Agenda, we mean 7 Key Issues! Can you spot the difference?
We hope that this decision works for the good of all.
Thursday, 30 July 2015
DidItMakeTheNEWS - BACKLASH
"Genreal Muhammadu Buhari once ruled Nigeria for 20 months (January 1984-August 1985). It was such a short time that he appeared not to have fully understood Nigeria and it's people. In contrast, he's successor, General Ibrahim Babangida, who ruled for 8 years, once boasted that he knows Nigeria very well.
Buhari's lack of knowledge about Nigerians have been demonstrated in his reaction to the Presidential election which he lost to Olusegun Obasanjo. Thundering (Mass action) and anarchy come 29 may, Buhari expected aggrieved politicians to rally round him and heed his clarion call to war. but he must have been sharply disappointed.
His sabre-rattling is being ignored even by his fellow party members who insist that the law must be followed and denounced his call for Mass Action. leaders of other parties who initially backed Buahri's stance have also a volte face. No one wants trouble. Nigeria must move forward.
Buahri is being told to embark on his mass action all alone. No Governor or representative it seems, wants to risk losing his seat in the possible anarchy or military interventions that may follow Buhari's mass action.
The mood of the nation seems to be, "let's accept the result of the election, warts and all." let's move on despite proven fraud. What a Country! What a people!" - TheNEWS Vol. 20 No. 19
In 2003, Buhari was left all alone to his machinations, the present state of the 8th National Assembly and his Inaugural statement " I am for Everybody, I am for Nobody" pres-supposes a lone-ranger approach to ending all grievance, Will it be a mother of all Mass Action" a rambo style now that he is in Power?
Soro
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
APC 2015 - Our Vision For A New Nigeria
APC Manifesto
When this democratic dispensation commenced in 1999, the federal government that emerged did not tell Nigerians what its vision was for the country; because the party that formed the government had none. And without a vision, that party at the centre has led Nigeria from one crisis to another, lurching deeper into political anarchy, economic decline and social disillusionment. A decade and a half later, nothing has changed. That ruling party has neither concrete plans for the security and advancement of Nigerians, nor the wherewithal to do so even if it had one. Suffice to say that it had thrived on the maxim; Promise nothing, do nothing.
The consequence of trusting power to a party that does not have the genuine interest of Nigeria and Nigerians are clearly manifest in our political and economic predicament today; tens of thousands of innocent Nigerians have been killed due to government neglect of security; poverty and unemployment have multiplied due to the perverse economic policies; corruption has been taken to new levels while health, education and job opportunities are all in free falls, the question on the lips of most Nigerians is: is there a federal government in Nigeria?
Yes, there is a federal government in Nigeria. A government that thrives on chaos, corruption, impunity, injustice and the systematic exploitation of ethnicity, religious sentiments and other primal instincts to divide and rule Nigeria. It is no wonder that at no time since the period of the Civil War have ethnic and regional sentiments been as raw as they currently are. Nigeria can, and must do better.
Since the historic merger that resulted in the birth of the All Progressives Congress, APC in July 2013, our intention has been to develop a set of guiding principles based on the needs of all Nigerians on how to collectively chart our future as a people and our destiny as a nation.
I am pleased to present this manifesto and invite you to share our perspective on how we can come together to free our country from the grip of the ruling party that clearly has no agenda for Nigeria beyond prolonging its lawless rule by all means.
In the past, political Manifestos in Nigeria were hardly different from mere platitudes and general statements to which parties could not be held accountable. The APC Manifesto is different. We have clearly stated what we will deliver to Nigeria when elected into office. Our focus is on six priority areas: National Security, Good Governance, Human Capital Development, Economic Development, Land and Natural Resources and Foreign Policy.
The APC Manifesto goes beyond broad proclamations. For each sector, we have articulated clear policy directions and accompanying strategies to indicate how our vision will be implemented. In addition to securing the territorial integrity of Nigeria, our plan for national security includes development of the capacity, capability and welfare of our security forces, with clear public accountability frameworks and the promotion of peaceful co-existence among all Nigerians.
The decay in Nigeria’s political and economic structures can be traced to poor governance and dysfunctional public administration. APC promises free and fair elections at all levels, respect for the rule of law, promotion of transparency genuine anti-corruption measures. We will implement efficient public financial management strategies and ensure true federalism.
In order to fulfil our social commitment to Nigerians, the building blocks for our human development plan will be implemented through coherent health, education and social welfare policies. APC will therefore promote a healthy lifestyle, availability of balanced nutrition and preventive and curative healthcare. We pledge to ensure the availability of quality education at all levels and strive to create a pool of skilled Nigerians that will form the bedrock of our economic development agenda. The manifesto also details our plans for youth development, sports and the entertainment industry, in addition to the provision of a sustainable social safety net beginning with the most vulnerable Nigerians.
Our manifesto also includes policies and strategies to reverse Nigeria’s economic decline by ensuring sound macroeconomic management and accelerated infrastructure development, especially in the areas of electric power supply and transportation. We will implement fiscal reforms that would build the economy from the bottom up – one small business at a time.
Moreover, the APC manifesto plainly spells out our plan for Nigeria’s land and natural resources including computerization of our respective land registries, providing affordable shelter for all Nigerians, promotion of agriculture, development of oil and gas, solid minerals, provision of water and sanitation facilities as well as protecting our environment from the threat of gully erosion, desertification, global warming and rising sea levels.
Finally, APC believes that with Africa’s largest population and economy, Nigeria ought to play a leading role in regional, continental and global affairs. Our party will therefore make the Nigerian interest the overriding factor in its foreign relations engagements, commitments, decisions and partnerships. We will also accelerate regional integration within ECOWAS and facilitate the emergence of a common currency within the shortest possible time.
I invite you to read our manifesto and share our message with all those who genuinely care about Nigeria. All Nigerians must join hands to actualize what is contained in this manifesto and hold us to account if we fail to achieve them. For us, this manifesto is our social contract with Nigeria. Please join us in a new party for a new Nigeria.
John Odigie-Oyegun
National Chairman
All Progressives Congress
Saturday, 25 July 2015
SOROFACT - SORO Congratulates Waheed Odusile
He is going to be a President like no other. He is going to work with a signed Bill known as Freedom Of Information Bill (FoI).
This Bill, sounds like a Pill. It is not easy to swallow.
Why? because he is now the custodian of that dangerous Bill, sorry, Pill.
His responsibility is more than that of our Honorables (Speaker) (President) in both Chambers of the National Assembly, his only limit, of course, is the sitting President who calls the words to order.
Will our own Odusile be a response to the change we seek? SORO FACTS will keep you posted.
SORODEY – Exclusive: MR INTEGRITY PMB, FACE GOVERNANCE!
The Ota Visit
Once upon a time, one
Ex-Military Head of State {EX-HOS) went to OTA Farm to consult his other
Ex-Militrary Head of State who also doubles as Ex-Presido. His mission was to seek
an Ex – support so that he too can become an Ex – Presido some-day.
The encounter was
hilarious as it was Exposing. Mr. Ex-HOS and Ex – Presido asked a simple
question;
“Mr Ex – Head of
State, in the handling of PTDF, is anything fishy in the Books?”
The Ex – Head of State
answered “Er. ..er… . Yes!”
Mr Ex-Presido, Ex-Head
of State, now asked specific question;
“How much did you sell
mosquito net? And why where you selling it N250 in some places and selling it
N400 in other places?”
There was no answers,
we dodged the question and the result is, we are living the foisted lies of a
supposed popularity on the subject of a stoic Who, instead of drumming up
solutions, we are BREWING problems and distractions.
Our problem as a
Nation is not the paper in our banks – our solutions cannot come from chasing
papers but on utilizing the human content. The earlier we stop chasing shadows
of INTEGRITY and get to the business of Governance, the better we will be on
our way to RECOVERY and set a road map for blocking identified leakages.
Let him who has not
sinned, be the first to cast stone, he who lives in a glass house should not
throw stone; do not throw stones into the market place for you know not who it
will hit. Integrity is not a name – it is pretense to cover all our shits. Integrity
like faith is an over-used terminology that man in his quest to outdo his
fellow man has risen it to a point of veneration.
is PMB stint in PTDF
all a rosy story?
Join #TheCoversation
@soromagazine.
Lets talk the talk.
Thursday, 23 July 2015
123. TTI-Nigeria Celebrates H.I.M Birthday
The Twelve-Tribes of Israel will today 23/07/2015, celebrates the birthday of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie 1.
The general public according to Ras Vincent Shekari Judah,is invited to listen to Reggae Music, Lectures and Dance.
The venue is House of Israel Garden, Behind B.Stabillini Construction Company, by Jehovah Witness kingdom Hall.
"No pictures" Ras Judah told SORO Magazine.
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