₦airaland Forum

Long over due, Anambra state shld follow suite, and FG shld implement the policy for all state to have a grazing reserve

dhammyg: ONLY A IDIIOT WILL BELIEVE THIS LIST.HOW CAN KASTINA,JIGAGAWA AND EVEN BORNO HAVE THAT MUCH VOTERS

because they want to vote in 2015 election, i don't think Ediot like u even register and u are here complaining

2cato: If lagos and kano like let them register 10 million voters each they are just but 2 states out of the 36 and gej needs only 2/3 of the entire states which he has already gotten.

Wawa statement

darlingtonNYIG: so you cannot read abi? The minister categorically stated it wasn't her that was discharged. What you assume was an false news that exhumed from nowhere.

Which doctor was discharge then?

What happen to naosilver or the DAAB2 or what ever they call it? Is there no drug yet for Ebola? This govt is full of lies.

jemigold: NIGERIAN DOCTOR WAS “NOT”
CURED OF EBOLA
(The Doctor NEVER had Ebola. World Health
Organization & U.S. FDA Issued Confidential
Warning Against Nigerian Health Minister,
Onyebuchi Chukwu, For Spreading Rumours Of
False Ebola Cure.
--Attorney Patryk Utulu
The W.H.O. and American FDA Have Issued Joint
Statement That:
(1) Nigerian Doctor rumoured to be cured of
Ebola was NOT cured of Ebola because the doctor
NEVER had Ebola. (Initial test result was a
“FALSE POSITIVE” which occurs in 1 out of every
150 tests).
(2) U.S. FDA warned U.S. firms for targeting
African nations and falsely marketing “dietary
supplements” as Ebola cure. USA threatened
penalties
(3) W.H.O./FDA issued “Confidential NOTICE” to
Nigerian Health Minister, Oyebuchi Chukwu, for
endorsing an unproven U.S. nutritional
supplement” and "thereby promoted false
rumours of an Ebola cure." (WHO threatened to
block Health Minister’s accreditation if he spread
false rumours again)
(4) W.H.O. affirmed its ruling this week that the
experimental drug, ZMapp, can be used on Ebola
victims where available. WHO stated
categorically that ZMapp is NOT a cure for Ebola
and that EBOLA HAS NO CURE.
WHO’s “Confidential Notice” condemned Mr.
Chukwu as “irresponsible” for saying that
unidentified Nigerian scientist living overseas
had arranged for Nigeria to get experimental
medicine. Chukwu identified it as "NanoSilver,” a
supplement offered U.S. firm, Natural Solutions
Foundation, NSF.
FURTHER, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
SAID THAT:
(1): NanoSilver is NOT accredited by FDA. It's
products are "dietary supplements, NOT DRUGS"
and has NOT been tested by FDA
(2): NanoSilver is for sale on a website along with
India Hemp (marijuana) oil, ear candles, and
chocolate. (LOL. Tufiakwa!!!!)
(3): Natural Solutions Foundation is NOT an
accredited science laboratory
(4): On July 20, 2014, NSF’s medical director, Dr.
Rima E. Laibow, posted an Open Letter to
Presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Nigeria and Ghana claiming that NanoSilver
cured Ebola. Dr. Libow claimed to have addressed
47 African health ministers at a 2007 conference
and to be in touch with West African
governments and their advisers. W.H.O. said
THESE CLAIMS ARE FALSE. Dr. Laibow HAS
NEVER BEEN TO AFRICA.
(5): The New York Times repeatedly has tried to
contact Dr. Laibow who claimed that her drug
cured Nigerian doctor but Dr. Laibow is nowhere
to be seen. Agents of the U.S. FDA are hunting for
her.
(6): Assistant Director of W.H.O., Dr. Marie-Paule
Kieny, said fraudsters are targeting African
nations “AND SUCCEEDING BECAUSE OF LARGE
NUMBER OF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ANXIOUS TO
CLAIM MIRACLE HEALING.”
(7): FDA’s Dr. Caplan said the same people who
marketed fake HIV cure-drugs to Africans for 30
years are now marketing fake Ebola cure to
Africans “BECAUSE OF THE STUPIDITY OF
AFRICAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS WHO ARE TEMPTED
TO CLAIM MIRACLE CURE.”

National conference is a waste

http://www.punchng.com/news/confab-wants-non-graduates-barred-from-contesting-for-president/

If the proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution by the national conference sails through, the presidential ambitions of some notable Nigerians may come to an abrupt end.
Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja showed that the proposal that whoever wants to be the President should have a university degree may become an albatross for such politicians.

Among the politicians that may be barred are a former Head of State, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.); a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido.
Section 131 of the present constitution spells out qualifications concerning anyone who is aspiring to be a President.
It says, “A person shall be qualified for election to the office as the President if (a) he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth; (b) he has attained the age of 40 ; (c) he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by a political party; and (d) he has been educated up to at least school c ertificate level or its equivalent.”

Although the proposed amendments did not alter the section significantly, it adds that anyone who aspires to be a President must have paid his tax as and when due and must be a university graduate.
The proposed amendments in the Section 131 of the Principal Act is altered by:
(A) inserting a new subsection (c) as follows:
“(C) he has paid his tax as and when due” and “(d) he is registered to vote”
(b) deleting the word “and” in paragraph (d) with the following and renumbering same as paragraph (e)-

“(e) he has been educated up to at least the university first degree or its equivalent”.
If the amendments are carried out, a clean copy of this Section of the constitution will now read, “A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if :
(a) he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth, (b)he has attained the age of 40 , (c) he has paid his tax as and when due(d) he has registered to vote and (e) he has been educated up to at least the university first degree level or its equivalent.”

Meanwhile, delegates to the conference have expressed divergent views on whether this aspect of the amendment should be implemented or not.

A delegate from the northern part of the country, said the provision was aimed at stopping some notable presidential aspirants from the zone.

The delegate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, vowed that the zone would mobilise and “stop the offensive aspect of the amendment at the National Assembly.”

“We are waiting for them. Let them put whatever they want to put and see whether that will pass through the National Assembly,” he added.
But another delegate, Prof. Isaac Albert, said there was nothing wrong with the provision, adding that it would be wrong to assume that the section was amended to punish the North.
He said, “No, it is wrong to assume that we are targeting northern politicians. In fact, there are many professors in the N orth.

“What we did was an attempt to improve academic standing of those who want to lead this country. We indeed have enough graduates in the region.”
Another delegate, Chief Paul Enebeli, who is the President General of Ndokwa Nation and member representing the South-South, said Nigerians would be deceiving themselves to think that the people from the northern part of country were not educated.

He said most of the people who attended best schools outside the country were from the Norh.
Enebeli, who defended the provision, said, “Having a degree means you will have experience to govern and lead.
“Look at the quality of the delegates from the north who attended the conference. Majority of them are degree holders. We even had professors among them.”

But a delegate from the North, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, disagreed, saying that though it was good to be well educated, having degrees might not necessarily mean you could lead better.
He said that some Nigeria’s past leaders whom he scored high were not university graduates.
Mohammed said, “We have had those who didn’t go to the university and have done well as our leaders.
“And we have had and still have those who went to the university and are leading us as if they never went to any school.
“At the level of the Presidency, what you do is mere management and consultation, which having degree may not be necessary .”

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thewarrior72: To start with, are u circumcised?

Go and ask Ms kalu, Ify, Ebere & co to know

thewarrior72: In your dream abi?. Last thing an igbos lady will do is to befriend an uncircumcised aboki

Shut up ur dirty mouth there, don't say what u don't knw

Orji uzor kalu hand work

egift: "IBB is my Political God-father" - President Jonathan

IBB and GEJ successfully kicked Gen Andrew Azazi out and killed him. Jonathan went and pick col Dansuki Sambo, who was IBB former ADC and appoint him as national security adviser. Since then boko haram is getting stronger, so why would IBB support negotiation, when he is benefiting from the crises through his boy.

The best governor with intellectual so far in nigeria

Why all this jubilation by the SE, when places like aghenebode in Edo, Idah in kogi, baro in niger, warri in delta, lokoja in kogi have completed their own or in advance stage. What is the big deal on a naval base? Ask anybody in onitsha whether he knw the job of naval officers in onitsha there. Those guys are meaningless, the main reason why all naval base where created, is the river port, which has been abandoned by jonathan administration after the death of ya'ardua. So u better use ur limited for better things, because no development will be carried on the land. ok

smudge2079: Dis is not the ryt time to judge. Lets' wait and see if all deir recommendations will be approved.

Approve by who?

the conference is talk show right from day one, national assembly already has most of their resolution, Sending it to national assembly is just repetition and notting more. National assembly shld through out their resolution because it is meaningless, nobody elect on behalf of nigeria to come up with a resolution.

Since it has been change from "draft constitution" to resolution, no problem. They should send their resolution to national assembly for proper deliberation, because nobody elect them to draft a constitution for nigeria

samflexxy: GEJ for 2015

Mr man don't say GEJ for 2015 alone, always put it GEJ/SAMBO for 2015 because the VP is a humble leader, who don't interfere with other peoples problem

http://www.punchng.com/news/chibok-girls-fashola-faults-parents-invitation-by-jonathan/

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, on Thursday faulted President Goodluck Jonathan, for inviting parents of abducted Chibok schoolgirls to the Presidential Villa for the purpose of sympathising with them.

He described the development as lack of empathy, saying Jonathan’s leadership style “has re-defined empathy by inviting the bereaved parents to the presidential villa for commiseration.

”Fashola stated this in Abuja while delivering a lecture on ‘The challenge of Democratic Governance’ as part of activities to mark the 50th birthday celebration of a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva. He insisted that Jonathan’s attitude was

“Truly strange and Truly unAfrican”He asked,

“How does this sound? ‘

Hello neighbour, I heard you lost your child to abductors. Please come and see me at home so I can sympathise with you’.

“This is my paraphrasing of what has so far transpired. As if this was not bad enough, the event had been followed by another round of lies about whether or not they tried to give money to the bereaved parents. For me, it’s a low point for leadership, it suggests lack of empathy.

”According to him,
“The first lie when the news of the abduction broke was that all the abducted girls had been retrieved.

When that was exposed, the next lie was to raise doubts whether they were truly missing.

“When that was not enough, they are now telling us that they know where the children are. We are prayerfully waiting that they will bring the children home.”

Fashola, who had earlier canvassed for the active involvement of the elite in politics in order to provide necessary professional skill to drive the nation’s development, said,

“Until recently, we all used to think that our national development was inhibited by the fact that we never had a university graduate as leader of any national government in an executive capacity.

“This perhaps alludes only faintly to the issue of the elite consensus, but it is not the same.

Thankfully, the myth of graduate leadership as desirable as it is, has been exploded now.“We have two graduates (one zoologist and an architect) and I think the majority of Nigerians will tell you today that their lives are worse off than they were four years ago.

“So there is more to leadership than a university degree and educational qualification.

There is character, vision, courage, empathy, compassion and many more attributes that you simply will not find in a classroom or school.

They are in homes, in communities and also in the value system of society.”Fashola therefore encouraged politicians to make politics interesting and worth being participated in by the professional elite.He said,

“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is still regrettable that the majority of the members of our political parties and politicians do not yet include the critical elite of our society.

“Whether we like it or not, history has shown that the elite of any society, especially its professional cadre, and the very best of them decide the direction of the nation when they come to a consensus about the pathway for their nation, even if they belong to different political parties.

Where are all the people who have built things with their hands in our society?

Where are the founders of the big banks, businesses, telecoms in our body politic?

Are they just content to finance and yet remain unwilling to take the plunge?

“Are they willing to identify with the ruling party in Abuja, and the party in Government in their states when they get to their bases for fear of reprisals?” he asked.

Why would somebody still come to defend this kind of accusation

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN,
on Thursday faulted President Goodluck Jonathan, for
inviting parents of abducted Chibok schoolgirls to the
Presidential Villa for the purpose of sympathising
with them.He described the development as lack of
empathy, saying Jonathan’s leadership style “has re-
defined empathy by inviting the bereaved parents to
the presidential villa for commiseration.”Fashola
stated this in Abuja while delivering a lecture on ‘The
challenge of Democratic Governance’ as part of
activities to mark the 50th birthday celebration of a
former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre
Sylva. He insisted that Jonathan’s attitude was “

Truly
strange and Truly unAfrican”He asked, “How does
this sound? ‘

Hello neighbour, I heard you lost your
child to abductors. Please come and see me at home
so I can sympathise with you’.“This is my
paraphrasing of what has so far transpired.

As if this
was not bad enough, the event had been followed by
another round of lies about whether or not they tried
to give money to the bereaved parents.

For me, it’s a
low point for leadership, it suggests lack of
empathy.”According to him,
“The first lie when the
news of the abduction broke was that all the
abducted girls had been retrieved.

When that was
exposed, the next lie was to raise doubts whether
they were truly missing.

“When that was not enough,
they are now telling us that they know where the
children are.

We are prayerfully waiting that they will
bring the children home.”

Fashola, who had earlier canvassed for the active
involvement of the elite in politics in order to provide
necessary professional skill to drive the nation’s
development, said, “Until recently, we all used to
think that our national development was inhibited by
the fact that we never had a university graduate as
leader of any national government in an executive
capacity.“This perhaps alludes only faintly to the
issue of the elite consensus, but it is not the same.

Thankfully, the myth of graduate leadership as
desirable as it is, has been exploded now.“We have
two graduates (one zoologist and an architect) and I
think the majority of Nigerians will tell you today that
their lives are worse off than they were four years
ago.“So there is more to leadership than a university
degree and educational qualification.

There is
character, vision, courage, empathy, compassion and
many more attributes that you simply will not find in
a classroom or school. They are in homes, in
communities and also in the value system of
society.”Fashola therefore encouraged politicians to
make politics interesting and worth being
participated in by the professional elite.He said,

“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is still
regrettable that the majority of the members of our
political parties and politicians do not yet include the
critical elite of our society.“Whether we like it or not,
history has shown that the elite of any society,
especially its professional cadre, and the very best of
them decide the direction of the nation when they
come to a consensus about the pathway for their
nation, even if they belong to different political
parties.Where are all the people who have built
things with their hands in our society?

Where are the
founders of the big banks, businesses, telecoms in
our body politic?

Are they just content to finance and
yet remain unwilling to take the plunge?

“Are they
willing to identify with the ruling party in Abuja, and
the party in Government in their states when they
get to their bases for fear of reprisals?” he asked.

size38: If the North is not ready, the south should move on with the draft constitution bill. Simple.

To where

They will surely reject 2015 president election when president Ebola jonathan will be kicked out of Aso rock

http://www.punchng.com/politics/pdp-rejects-osun-gov-election-result/

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the election result declaring Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of the governorship poll.

The PDP agent in the election and State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Bola Ajao, distanced the party from the result after the announcement of the outcome of the poll by the Returning Officer, Prof. bamitale Omole,on Sunday morning, in Osogbo.
Ajao refused to sign the election results form given to agents at the INEC office.

The party spokesman faulted the process of the election, saying some of the figures published were unacceptable.

He said the party had earlier written a petition to INEC, complaining about the election process in some units.

He said, “I cannot sign. We cannot accept the outcome of the election. My principal,
Iyiola Omisore, knows the next line of action. We will decide what to do. We have earlier written a petition to INEC to establish our complaints.”

Hahaha the liberia-american man patrick sawyer cloths will be sold out to prospective buyers in nigeria

ImperialYoruba:

Kogi is about to own the oil in Aguleri. Are you aware Yorubas are majority in Kogi and are about to benefit from the windfall of petrodollar in Aguleri?

This should be your headache, not Ilorin!

No wonder the deputy governor of kogi state arch yomi awoniyi who is behind state boundary issue is not loosing sleep, yomi has vow to claim back the area back to kogi

ITbomb: All the lands that the Igbos are acquiring everywhere do they wait for government to allow them?
If you get your money, pay for the land and pay the taxes, not waiting for free grazing land to pest on.

Sell land to muslim worshipper to build mosque, you will not. Ur people igbos hate other tribes and u like to stay in others land. U will surely pay for this disaster mistake u are making

Tumbigiwa

It will be nice, if only ibos will allow fulanis herdsmen to have land to settle in their eastern region

U should know president ebola don't need u before now, he is only using fish brain