While addressing the 54th Annual Conference of the Nigerian
Economic Summit that held in Abuja yesterday, president Goodluck
Jonathan blamed the level of corruption in Nigeria on the society. He
said instead of punishing corrupt people, we reward them.
“When you talk about corruption, the private sector is
involved; the public sector is involved; even the individuals, including
other societies, and I wouldn’t want to mention names so that I will
not be attacked. But I know that if collectively all of us don’t
reward corruption, people would not be attracted to corrupt practices,
but when we all reward corruption, then of course, we will be tempted to
go in that direction.
“I want a society where all of us will frown against people who come up with what they are not supposed to have. If
a young man who just started a job and within six months or a year
comes up with a car of N7m to N15m and you clap for him, then you are
rewarding corruption." the president said,
“So for us as a nation to bring corruption
down in Nigeria, it’s not just blaming government or blaming police, but
all individuals must frown at people who have what they are not
supposed to have, who live in houses they supposed not to live in; who
drive cars they are not supposed to drive and who wear suits more
expensive they can afford.
“And until we, as Nigerians are able to
do this, then invariably we are all rewarding corruption and until we
stop that, I don’t think we will get to where we want to go. We
believe that we should not create an environment where people would be
tempted to take what belongs to the public because that is why even in
the fertilizer business we talked about electronic wallet, e-Wallet, so
that funds are not exposed to corrupt people"
Happy birthday to music superstar 2face Idibia. Wishing him many more
successful and happy years ahead.
P-Square got nominated for the 2013 MTV EMA and now another nomination
at this year's Soul Train Awards. They nominated alongside Iyanya for
the 'Best International Performance' category.
Best International Performance (CentricTV.com)
Differentology - Bunji Garlin
The Fog - Machel Montano
Next To Me - Emeli Sande
Personally - P-Square
Ur Waist – Iyanya
Kendrick Lamar leads the Soul Train Awards with six nominations, including new artist and song and album of the year;
he's closely followed by Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke, Miguel, Chris
Brown and Tamar Braxton, with five each. The award will be taped Nov. 8 at the Orleans Arena.
A meeting between
the seven governors of the new Peoples Democratic Party faction, and
members of the House of Representatives has ended after fighting broke
out.
The governors, alongside the chairman of the
faction, Abubakar Baraje, met first with senate president, David Mark. A
follow up meeting at the House of Representatives with Speaker
Aminu Tambuwal, and members of the House, degenerated into chaos with
supporters of the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP jeering at remarks made by Mr
Baraje.
The chaos soon escalated after two members, Dagogo Peterside and
Henry Ofongo, from Rivers and Bayelsa states respectively, went up
against each other.
Mr. Baraje told Mr. Mark that President Goodluck Jonathan must give up his ambition for a new term.
