Saharareporters has learned that the Umaru Yar’adua regime has budgeted $5 million in an elaborate effort to create and sponsor “friendly,” pro-government websites.
Details gathered during a two-week investigation found that the bogus “rebranding project” designed by Information Minister Dora Akunyili was taking a turn into a scheme to undermine top foreign-based Nigerian websites and blogs critical of the Nigerian leadership. Several sources within the Yar’adua government told our correspondents that Saharareporters.com was at the top of the regime’s “targets.” In the words of one security source, “The whole idea is to do everything to ensure that websites like yours and others are stopped from taking root in Nigeria.”
Three security sources, who are privy to the plan, revealed that Yar’adua last week approved the covert operation to stop websites and bloggers from influencing public opinion in Nigeria. The president's Chief Economic Adviser, Tanimu Kurfi will source the funds for the operations.
A major plank of the Yar’adua regime’s “anti-bloggers project “ is to fund the setting up of new websites designed to deceive unsuspecting readers with “patriotic rhetoric.”
“The government has decided to mobilize a few individuals to set up online forums that promise to extend the frontiers of online journalism,” said a security source. He added that, in the initial stages, these websites would release a few detailed and seemingly credible stories calculated to garner credibility for them as well as a wide readership. “But the ultimate objective is to fully divert the websites to the task of acting as attack dogs for the government’s online critics,” said a source. She added that the government plans to fund and roll out about 50 of such new websites between now and the beginning of serious campaigns for the next round of elections scheduled for 2011. “The idea is to use these websites to counter negative publicity trailing the Yar’adua regime preparatory to the 2011 elections,” said the source. She said Yar’adua’s handlers were aware that negative publicity linked to poor performance would affect his chances of winning the election due.
“The amount of $5 million is going into the project to create the impression that the president is popular among Nigerians,” said one of them. He added that part of the plan was to recruit 700 Nigerians at home and abroad to counter a growing critical blogging culture that is taking the Nigerian nation by storm and effectively replacing the mainstream local media.
We learnt that the government has already enlisted more than 200 people in Abuja, Port Harcourt and Lagos, amongst them local journalists, to register on popular Nigerian listservs, chatrooms, comments sections and website forums to counter negative publications against the Nigerian authorities by presenting opinions that appear neutral and demanding “objectivity in the reports of bloggers.”
Our sources disclosed that the paid commentators are given cyber café tickets as well as blogging allowances based on the number of comments they are able to make daily.
“The only good thing about this program is that it has provided a small source of income for many unemployed youths,” said one of our sources. He said many of the hired online writers stay overnight in cyber cafés and use various e-mail addresses and chat-room handles to make comments that defend the Yar’adua government against growing negative publicity or question the objectivity of websites and blogs that articulate widespread dissatisfaction by Nigerians who have found the internet as a free avenue to air their views.
One of our sources revealed that the Yar’adua government was persuaded to try this strategy of “hiring friendly online writers” after Akunyili was briefed that numerous state governments had long employed it.
Our sources said that such state governors as Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano, Akwa Ibom’s Godswill Akpabio and Ogun State’s Olugbenga Daniel are notorious for deploying “anti-bloggers” to counter negative reports in Internet chat-rooms and commentary sections of websites. Speaker Dimeji Bankole of the House of Representatives was also reported to use a well–funded anti-bloggers unit to counter negative publicity.
Our sources said numerous Nigerian PR consultants have also designed anti-blogging services that are marketed to an increasing clientele of politicians for a good fee. Some of the consultants regularly print out reports of their activities as proof of their effectiveness.
Human Rights Watch and other monitor groups have accused the Yar’adua regime of intolerance of free speech and undemocratic practices. In October and November 2008, security agents of the regime arrested and detained two US-based bloggers at the Lagos and Abuja international airports respectively. The State Security Service (SSS) keeps a list of so-called “internet warriors” who are supposed to be arrested and summarily detained whenever they are seen at any Nigerian airport or other point of entry into the country.
The regime also drew widespread local and international criticism when it closed down two television stations, African independent Television (AIT), and Lagos-based Channels TV for reporting “unfriendly stories.” Late last year, Yar’adua invoked an obsolete law dug up by Attorney General Michael Aondoakaa to sue Abuja–based the “Leadership” newspaper for alleged criminal libel.
A senior official in Yar’adua’s government also revealed that the regime encouraged Paul Orhii, an acolyte of Aondoakaa’s, to file libel lawsuits against Saharareporters. Last December, Orhii instituted a multi-million dollar libel suit against Saharareporters in Texas. Shortly afterwards, he was appointed as the director general of the Nigeria’s National Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC). The agency is mandated, among other duties, to combat the influx of fake drugs and other hazardous products into Nigeria.
A Federal District judge in Texas later threw out the lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction.
Shortly after the lawsuit in Texas was settled in favor of Saharareporters, Ephraim Emeka Ugwuonye, a Nigerian-born attorney based in the State of Maryland, sued Saharareporters for millions of dollars for alleged libel. Before filing the suit, Mr. Ugwuonye had written a letter to the Federal Government asking permission to sue Saharareporters, even though he claimed that confidential information pertaining to the Nigerian government could be divulged in the course of the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is progressing, but Ugwuonye is resisting a motion by one of the defendants to subpoena the records related to the attorney’s work in the sale of properties owned by the Nigerian government in Maryland. Ugwuonye is claiming that the information contained in the transaction ledger sought by the defendant, Mobolaji Aluko, a Howard University professor, would put the Federal Government in bad light.
In addition, Ugwuonye has made several efforts to amend his original motion, but the Federal District judge denied his motion to enlarge the pool of Nigerian citizens who have engaged in discussions regarding the controversial sale of properties owned by the Nigerian embassy. Ugwuonye has also tried to expunge from his original motion allegations he made against the publisher of Saharareporters, Omoyele Sowore. He had alleged that an Abuja-based businessman believed to be Terry Waya bribed Sowore to write negative reports about former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Timi Alaibe.
In written correspondence with Saharareporters as well as telephone interviews, Alaibe denied ever retaining Mr. Ugwuonye to act as a solicitor.
The Maryland Attorney Grievances Commission once suspended Ugwuonye from the practice of law in three jurisdictions due to misconduct.
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Good Boy
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... These questions are for the Government's agents who have been employed or in the process of being employed as bloggers to counter what is obvious to most Nigerians- the truth. And I'm anxiously waiting to read from you guys. (1) How much were you paid or being offered? (2) Are you in the Diaspora or at home? (3) Is it an hourly pay rate, weekly wages or monthly salary (4) Is the pay in Naira or Foreign Currency (Please I don't mean the Zimbabwe Dollar) (5) Were you trained or being trained on a short crash course? (6) Do you work from home or in the office? (7) If from home, are you provided with an mobile internet service or have to go to the internet cafes (  Are there incentives in addition to your take-home pay like 'travelling' to Aso Rock, House of Horror (Oh Assembly) for sight seeing or the Niger Delta for eco- tourism (9) How many days of leave/sick pay am I entitled to? Need to know this because I don't want the EFCC to be after me if I over spent my leave or statutory sick leave as it seems they are even after a fly that flies in the wrong direction (10) Are the vacancies or opportunities opened to the public or only to the Government's cronies? If my questions are satisfactorily answered then I shall definitely apply as this may be the only chance I will ever have to work for the government albeit against my conscience and soul. |
www.thewholeworld.biz
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... The NIJA, a country everybody is used to the constitution code no 419 and that is the online war gaining approval by the government scrapping the law and supporting the game to go on for yahoo boys. |
ubong
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... I am glad i can log on this site every day. the last hero i had in naija was MKO Abiola. Chinua Achebe is still there, and maybe, Kanu Nwankwo. the pretenders will be exposed daily. tnx 4 being there. |
RICHARD AYODELE FRANCIS
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... Is a pity that people act against their conscience as long as they are going to get paid, such is the lots of Dora. we all know that Dora is only making noise to create awareness for herself. if she indeed serious about the rebranding, why did she not start with the corrupt official in the past and present administration in which she's part of them, or is she deaf to what people are saying as regard harliburton issues? what about the huge amount spend on power during past administration in which she is part and nothing to show for it. pls Dora say something else........ we are not deceived. |
R A Akhigbe
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... I wonder at times what Akunyili is rebranding. They should rebrand themselves first before selling the idea to us. I short, i beleive is just another avenue to siphone money. Am higly disappointed in Akunyili, just like know other Nigerians do. SR is the place to get the real news. Let them set a thounsand bloggers, it won't make a difference. |
RICHARD AYODELE FRANCIS
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... Can smbody tell me what number is Yar'adua on his 7 point agenda? if he use the $5 million on one of his agenda, will there not be impact? at least little impact will do. Infact, this really shows that his a confused person. |
RICHARD AYODELE FRANCIS
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... Nigeria is a comical country, where we have a lot of sychophants and hypocrites who are mortgaging there lives and that of their children just for the pea nut that will get to them from the looted funds their father has stolen. but posterity will judge them. However, those who are acting as bloggers just because of what they are getting from the government should know that they are shooting themselves in the leg. I will not be surprise that the Yar'dua administration did not approve the freedom of speech that was proposed just because of his administration inefficiency. In addition, if the government can buy all the news paper in Nigeria to their side, they should know that they can't buy sahara reporters ooooo. |
Adeniyi Fadahunsi
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... Prof Dora Akunyili has changed her spot immediately she was nominated and appointed the Minister for Mis-information. She should have rejected the portfolio knowing fully well the antecedent of the people that held that post in the past no matter how good they were before appointment. From time immemorial we know that even if the Minister for/of Information has any opinion different from the Commander-In-Thief, he/she has to agree at all cost and feed Nigerians with what ever the Pre-in-dent wants her to say. It is never too late Aunty Dora to resign otherwise, this present government will bring to a state of disrepute all the things she has achieved as the NAFDAC boss. She should learn from Ngo Okonjo Iweala! |
Abiola Buoro
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... phew!!!!! isn't that something? I do believe in the creating of a proper image for the country in and outside the shores of this country.And i also believe that concrete steps should be taken towards making the lives of the masses better than ever, what i can stand is making the creating of a false image when nothing is being done to physically back up these images we are trying to create. The only way we can solve all these is by feeding on the truth for strength and the shaping of our values and a better self concept ...one day we will stand up to all our corrupt leaders, by then it will be impossible for anyone of them to stop us... saharareporters! keep dishing us these truths as u see them, one day we shall overcome! |
Okohia
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... Haba Prof. Akunyili has proven time and time again she is on the side of the people. There is not truth to this stoy and she will not support such an action. It is clear Sahara R hates this government, but cooking up a story designed to embarass the Information Minister is not the way to go |
Okorie Chioma
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... Why would anyone want to mess this poor woman up. I wonder why Nigerians no like better thing! ok ,accepted lots of things have go wrong but can we right thngs by constant criticisms? branding every govt bad. We all have a roll to play and negative reports will not help our image at all. Lets look at our positives instead of the negatives. Some one has put her life on the line for trhis course the little we can do is be supportive. If everyone sits back and folds his arms and just complains who cleans the mess. |
teymee
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... they can find five million dollars to fight bloggers .. can they not spend this money on things that will HELP nigeria??? ah ah... five milion dollars to fight govt critics ?/?? i thought nigeria was a democracy which allowed for the fourth estate to be free??? |
itia00us
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... can someone including SR tell me who a good leader is? Obj was not good .... Yar Adua is worse... who do we need? how do we know when we have a good leader so that he does not pass us bye... and lastly I agree to all the comments made above.... but we need to identify the solution and start working at it if we are to honestly expect a different result in the future.. I am in nigeria and doing my bit... what are you all doing besides these commentaries? perhaps we can combine... remember talks do not get things done..... food for thought and a word for SR .... please be careful....you are doing a nice job.... but we could be more constructive... of cause not in the likes of the beyonce "NewsPaper"....cheers |
ME
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... YOU CAN'T CLEAN UP YOUR MESS BY REBRANDING, RATHER GET RID OF THE BAD EGGS AND LOOK FOR HONEST PEOPLE TO RUN A BETTER NIGERIA THAT WILL NOT NEED TO BE " REBRANDED" |
IKMAN
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... I PROPOSE A NEW REFRESHING SLOGAN FOR OUR RE-BRANDING MOVE- NIGERIA GOOD PEOPLE BAD LEADERS  |
alexander
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... Let Yaraslow and his gang of criminals know that their is no place in this world that they will wash and spread their dirty linens, cos we the oppress people of Nigerian will be watching them and pointing it out to the rest of the world to see. |
Pipeline Achuzia
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... SAHARA REPORTERS- is too big for those nit-wits we have in government- Aware that most of the said hired bloggers have already started work. But you can know them from the (AKAMU) arguements they often present.They were at work in Punch, and often sent in their comments under different names-knowing that Nijas, do not complain-whether there is no light, water, or good roads, we just dont care- we can eat cow dung-and stil come out to sing the praise of the person who provided us with the worms as manures for our empty tommies-- if not, how can a nation that has remained without electricity for 50yrs, spend $5m on such a wasteful venture? somebody once said that the only thing Dora can -rebrand is her pillow case and bed spread-its all about-(chopooo) this is your time to eat-for your time will sooon expire-so chop-that is what Naija is all about-chop |
OD, Ibore Uneah
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... SR must know that some friendly govt agents, though self employed are also here. Please, don't be deceived if some persons say its glorifying updating us about govt's activities, mostly the negative ones. It is a lis. Continue reporting the news and be rest assured that you are read all over the World. That Yara Adua is a monumental failure has long been detected by some us, so to us, it is stale. What should agitate our minds now is how MEND will be able to do their job real fast. Nigeria may have to start from the scratch. From Ibore Uneah. |
Lofofo
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... Kudos to SR and I want to personally say that Yara Adua and Dora be allowed to float the said websites and possibly buy some “friendly” agents to counter any of our contrary opinions. We are well on air and we shall kidnap the websites for from them. I really wonder what Yara Adua's friendly agents will comment when the whole country is still engulfed in crisis, no electric supply etc. May be they will be there to comment on Siemens and Halliburton's scams. We shall see Lofofo should be informed as well. |
Collins T.O
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... When and if the chameleonic and confused Alhaji Go-Slow has failed woefully in the governance of this blessed country, how no earth did him think he can succeed in this planned satanic war and propaganda against SR and her teeming readers? Umoru will always leave the substance and go for the shadows if only to distract Nigerians. He has failed woefully already and we all are waiting for the next gimmick he would use to cajole us in 2011. SR must continue to survive and thrive no matter what they choose to do. We are entitled to news, Umoru and Co. |
Coco
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... Let Yar'adua bring it on... we are ready to battle him in 2011... Infact woe betide him and his advisers... |
VICTOR WESLEY
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... AM SURE CORRUPT AUTHORITY GENERAL A.K.A BARR. I DONT CARE,WE`LL MAKE GOOD MONEY FROM THIS FOR ONE OF HIS NUMEROUS RELATIONS. I PITY THIS COUNTRY,I THINK WE`RE HEADING FOR THE PRECIPICE AND ITS ONLY GOD ALMIGHTY THAT CAN SAVE THIS GOD BLESSED GOOD COUNTRY OF BAD ROGUISH CULTIC LEADERS. INSTEAD OF HIM TO TRACE HIS STEPS,IMPROVE ON HIS PERFORMANCE AND MAKE NIGERIANS HAPPY ,HE IS BUSY CHASING SHADOWS.NO WONDER OF ALL THE BLESSED BRAINS THE COUNTRY HAS ,IT IS ONLY AN ISLAMIC ALMAJIRI BANKER LIKE SANUSI THAT HE CAN APPOINT TO MANAGE OUR ECONOMY 50YRS BACKWARD. SHAMELESS PRESIDENT. SAHARA REPORTERS Y DO U GUYS KEEP WAISTING UR TIME IN PUBLISHING WHAT THIS CONFUSED REGIME WANTS TO DO TO BLOGGERS,DONT YOU KNOW U ARE GLORIFYING THEIR MISGOVERNANCE? PLEASE KEEP THE GOOD WORK ,WE AHEAD AND BEHIND OF YOU, BUT GOD ALMIGHTY WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND UR COAST. GOOD JOB GUYS,GOD BLESS U ALL.  AM CRYING FOR THIS COUNTRY PROFUSELY. |
Konga
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... it's a nice idea for the Government to even contemplate this stuff, provided our army jobless youth would find something doing, rather than hiring half-baked consultants from America. As per the acceptability of their PR stunt, Nigerians knows better! www.smsamic.net |
Yomi Adebote
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... If I were Dora, the first thing I will do is to get a feedback on the text message " Nigeria, good people,......" she sent to Nigerians. How did people react when they got the message? Perhaps she does not know people rained curses on her and her sponsor. It is just unfortunate that Nigerians will keep on doing things that are against their conscience as long as they are being settled; you can ask AYOKA ,Ekiti electotal officer and the fools that marched for SANNI ABACHA then. Yaradua should better face his unrealizable 7 point agenda and not add to it by trying to fight this MASS MOVEMENT. To the press,my advise is to do people's journalism and stop showcasing BEYONCE and pampering this comatose Yaradua's government. Long Live Sahara Reporters. |
Barth
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... @ J. Balogun: There is nothing to grumble with those criticizing the government of Nigeria. These criticism had been objectively based and with alternative suggestions on what to do in those circumstances. Those who travelled home with good ideas have been coopted into the mess. The Iwu's et al should tell you better. The Nigerian cabal who had held onto power do not need any pro-government online media outfit or anti-Sahara websites to change our perception about it and our desire to have a change of guards. All we are saying is give us good governance. The $5 million budget for this nonsense will do a lot to change many lives in the Niger Delta by providing them with good drinking water @ Burutu and her neighbouring communities, employment to many of the jobless who had been hijacked by the criminally minded politicians, build more libraries, laboratories or buildings in our schools, tar some kilometers of roads especially the Ondo State section of the Benin - Shagamu Road. Any of these actions will give the Nigerians an impression that our governments are becoming human. It will encourage Nigerians to think themselves as GOOD PEOPLE OF A GREAT NATION. Mere slogans and jingles will not do the magic. WE NEED ACTION. That is why I appeal to Prof. Akunyili to resign NOW before the lame duck and crimininal-minded Yar'Adua will rubbish the remaining credibility she still possess. |
S. Njokede
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... The Online counterforce is one programme that´s going to hell if it ever get started. Most Yaradua´s programmes in the past two years have either never got started or left the drawing board because of laziness and indecision or they´ve gone straight to hell because of his deceptions. The reggae legend Bob Marley once sang: ' ... darkness can never mastermind light...' Yar´dua would-be Internet propagandist and mouthpieces would try, but they´ll meet brick walls and very tall and daunting hassles. Ethics and moral values have so much been bastardised for political and leadership expediencies that, the Nigerian people have now turned to doubting Thomases for good. It has become suicidal to to believe and trust Yar´dua and his gang of PDP outlaws. Yar´dua should concentrate and do the write things that are progressively and collectively universal to uplifting the wellbeing of man. He should give Nigerians the goodies of good governance: human dignity, amenities, employment, human rights, free speech and suchlike. These, and more are what it take to gain endearment from the ruled or led if you like. There´s no short-cut. Yar´dua must sack Mike Aondokaa and the rest who´re misleding him into these backward policies of Old Stone Age. It wont the long when Yar´dua gets out of power or power get out of him before the Aondokaa and Mike Iwu group started condemning him. He should learn from how soon those who bedfellowed president Obasanjo during his powership started to curse and wish him harm´s way. |
Peeping Tom
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... As the "ABAMI EDA" would rightly say.... "EVERYTHIN SKATA SKATA.... CONFUSION EVERYWHERE...". Isn't it funny how the administration of Umoru "Go-Slow" Yar Adua shamelessly exhibits a knee-jerk reaction to what it considers a threat to it's perpetuating itself in power??? Instead of reacting with similar alacrity about the alarming rate at which Naija "our Blessed Country" is descending down the slope of anihilation, by even pretending to be performing its role as a caring government, Aunty Dora (who is fast losing all the respect she acquired for herself in her previous offices) along with her cohorts in the dark tunnels (oops; I mean corridors) of power, are busy chasing ghosts that will not let them sleep at night... Shame, shame, shame. As the good book says, "...there is no peace for the wicked!!!". May confusion be the lot of all you wicked people in Government; today and forever more... AMEN. Long live SR, as through them we shall continually know the truth, and the truth shall set us free... |
Fubara, S - (USA)
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... This is a sickening impostor government that will stop at nothing to hold on to power. The caliber of people whom he romances with says a lot about Yar’adua’s agenda to continuously perpetrate himself and his ilk in power. I hope they are all gearing-up for the show-down that will trail any subsequent election abracadabra as we have all witnessed in the past 3 elections. What is happening in Iran today proves there is a limit to human endurance. People can only take so much. So the political cabals who have nothing to offer the people but to corruptly enrich themselves while engaging in cheap blackmail and clampdown of people with genuine interest of the people, should equally be prepared to face the wrath of real Nigerians – Home and Diaspora in due course. The battle line is drawn Obviously the battle line is drawn. No scheming and strategy they employ will cow good men, except for a select few opportunist fat cats who feed from deceit and corrupt tendencies. Enough is enough! |
Adeniyi Fadahunsi
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... I visit SR to get genuine updates on events at the home front especially on politics and leadership, while i visit Nigeria based media websites to laugh at their foolishness. A visit to PM News online will give you a comic releaf as nothing serious or objective is ever posted on that website. The Sun News Online is another place where Nollywood stakeholders should visit as they are sure to get stories fit for home video production. Please do help me tell the "Commander-In-Thief" that our minds got changed 8 years ago and we don't need a de-re-orientation of the highly values re-orientation we have now. To Omoyele Showore and his SR crew members I say, The sky is not your limit but the beginning of great things to come. |
Adeniyi Fadahunsi
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... home front while i visit Nigeria based media websites to laugh at their foolishness. A visit to PM News online will give you a comic release as nothing serious or objective is ever posted on that website. The Sun News Online is another place where Nollywood stakeholders should visit as they are sure to get stories fit for home video production. Please do help me tell the "Commander-In-Thief" that our minds got changed 8 years ago and we don't need a de-re-orientation of the highly values re-orientation we have now. To Omoyele Showore and his SR crew members I say, The sky is not your limit but the beginning of great things to come. |
meniru
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... www.icheoku.com says that mr. slowman will fail as usual in this ill-advised attempt to mount a counter war on bloggers. they can only try but will surely fail as the inferno known as e-media has taken root and information shall never again be the exclusive preserve of the government of nigeria any more. let the war begin and let us see who shall win. madam re-branding, dora akunyili is becoming as entrenched as any of them - the inept leaders of nigeria; and with a still-born operation re-brand nigeria, now she is trying another thing that will be dead on arrival. if they are smart, they should call for a truce and see how they can use what is to achieve their objective; but instead they are threatening anybody who returns to nigeria with an arrest? but who really cares about a place rated as one of the ten unsafest places on earth where armed robbery and kidnapping is the order of the day. to the authorities in abuja, www.icheoku.com says, please keep your nigeria and remain there until hell freezes over!  |
olamide
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... He's a sick man. Educated but the dumbest. WHat do you expect of him? He is a confused human being |
Paddy
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... Nothing to worry about i guess.Hot Nigerians will still flood into those proposed websites with their war of tongues and those sponsored elements will hide their face in shame when the real truth are made known to them.Nothing can compromise the real truth,billions can be spent,but the truth shall reveal itself. |
fortunengr
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... I can assure madam Dora that we going to launch 10 websites for every 1 the govt launches. What is happening inIran should be an eye open to Dora but seems she cant see. Fashola did not did bloggers b4 we got to know he is performing. Spend that $5M on schools and drugs and stop being stupid Dora..... |
MG
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... The venture will fail! If the Yaradua government were to be a Parliamentary form of government, it would have been dissolved long time ago for corruption and ineptitude. If it were to be a real democracy, President Yaradua along with his entire cabinet would have been impeached for the same reasons. So, they can continue to waste money as always, these facts won't change! Thank you Saharareporters for exposing this futile exercise. |
oc
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... what least do we expect from a sick president surrounded by sick head ............Catastrophy. |
Carl Kash
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... What these guys dont understand is that ..........Sahara Reporter is not a person, but a MASS MOVEMENT, we shall wait and see their ANTI PEOPLE website + bloggers. Instead of using $5million to better the lots of suffering Nigerians, they are using it to fight the MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA PEOPLE. My Grandfather always says, A MAN CAN COOK FOR THE VILLAGE, WHILE THE VILLAGERS FINISH THE FOOD AND DEMAND FOR MORE...........................................BUT WHEN THE VILLAGERS COOK FOR THE MAN....................WE ALL KNOW HE CANNOT FINISH THE FOOD. We are cooking for them |
Niger Deltean
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... Clean water cannot flow out of a dirty fountain. Yaradua is dirty, evil and a disaster. |
Jason
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... Yar'adua would soon turn to an hardline president placing a block on internet access in Nigeria especially to anti-government websites. Sahara reporters would soon been blocked on all Nigerian IP's thus starving people of The Truth. |
J.Balogun
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... “ The bogus re branding project” as it 's stated here above does n't necessarily have to be a bad thing for Nigeria as a country. Out of all the foreign-based Nigerian websites and blogs critical of the Nigerian leadership, which one of the founders has packed his bags to go help rebuild the country we all love so much? If the present administration has being wise enough to at least invest in trying to propagate the reputation of their government, then we should give her some kudos. 'Cos a lot of people don't realize is a better image of the government increases the possibilities of attracting international investors.And automatically the economy. Food for thought for those who can really see beyond their noses. Don't think am paid to write all this ços am not. I don't even live in the country or work for the Nigerian government. So let the truth be told!  |
nawafordem
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... There is nothing to worry about. Saharareporters shall always be an original. It's like the Mercedez Benz. It is always in a class by itself. No amount of spin can change the fact that Yar'Adua is a lousy lame duck. If it quacks like a duck, walks like a lame duck, looks like a lame duck, but can't fly at all, yeah! you guessed it, it's a lame duck. |
changenigeriamovement
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... Like other similar plans before it, this one will also fail. The only solution is to start performing immediately by providing electricity, water, security etc Nigerians are too smart for this crap. They will figure out the websites in a jiffy. Who told them THISDAY and NTA were the mouthpieces of PDP? The anti-blogging bloggers should take the money and do nothing. Afterall, it is their money and if this is the only form of employment the government can provide, why not take it? Somebody near Yar Adua is going to get rich from this and the president's image will not improve. What is mind boggling is why the president cannot start performing if he is this worried about what Nigerians think of him? |
changenigeriamovement
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... This has been tried before and failed woefully. This will fail again. It is not very difficult to figure out a " sponsored website" Nobody told Nigerians about Thisday and other sources - they figured it out themsleves. The only way to stop SR from taking roots is to start performing immediately. |
S
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... Na Wa Oh!!!! Yaradua...although i know your election was rigged i was still hopeful that you would do as you said on the day of your inauguration. I was hopeful... I should have known better. How can evil give birth to good.. |
Grace007
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... Whatever they do I'll still visit SR because it's one of my prime source of news. Is this the first step of the FG in following the footsteps of China and Iran in monitoring and disenabling websites from operating or being viewed in Nigeria? Long live free speech! |
