₦airaland Forum

nwabobo: I keep saying that oil is the only thing sustaining Nigeria's unity. The day the oil well dries up, it becomes to your tent O Isreal.

They want to join up with General Buhari. But the
General Buhari that I know; his standing, his
personality, his commitment, his belief is exact
opposite to these characters here. So, sometimes I
get confused that General Buhari is sincerely talking
to these men. It is like a movie to me. It is like a
theatre house. How can water and oil mix? What he
has stood for in his life and what they stand for; they
cannot meet. They are like day and night.

Tinubu that was
governor of Lagos State for eight years, what did he
do?
Even the young man that is still running Lagos now,
Babatunde Raji Fashola has done much better than
him. Does he allow him to work? They say he is de
facto leader

The other one in Osun, who no longer calls himself an
engineer but ‘Ogbeni’, what is his performance

I wish one day that somebody
would bring him on the television for public debate.

enny5: Truth be told, Nigerians are now more enlightened. Gone are the days when uneducated abbokis will sit in the north and decide who d next president would be. I dont support jonathan anyways but the northern leaders have no huge impact on who is president anymore. not after their boko haram show for the past few years. They are just simply irrelevant. we have properlly educated, competent & peaceful individuals who have the rights to run and be voted for. So the northern abokis or leaders or wateva dey call demselves can do wat eva dey lik. we dont care. THEY ARE JUST TOO IRRELEVANT. They have the rights to vote and be voted for like every other free living nigerian. Nothing more.

Afam4eva: I'm heading to the Driest part of Nigeria and that is the north.

Afam4eva: Some people are busy arguing instead of preparing for the worse. As i'm typing this now, i'm on my way to Cotonou. But wait oo, Cotonou has a large body of water too, right? ***Turns back and heads to Maiduguri***

chukwudi44: The election trend is gonna be SS/SE/MB vs NE/NW/SW.Those bragging about the high population of lagos should take time and ponder what percentage of the populations are to be constituted by non-indigenes.

The 2015 elections would bring a lot of factors to light.

dasparrow: If you can come up with a business acumen that will give you a competitive edge over shoprite, trust me, shoprite will move back to their country without anyone reminding them. However until that happens, shoprite am afraid is here to stay.

Goddex: Fresh Air everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!
Fresh Air everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!
Fresh Air everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!

GEJ keeps shaming all these APC e-rats noisemakers.

Somebody should tell Fashola to provide Lagosians with pipe borne water first and halt all those ego-boosting, chest beating and white elephant projects such as the Airport and Seaport. Those projects cannot be given preference in a city where inhabitants depend on "Pure" water, MaiRuwa, Well water and shallow boreholes. The two FG owned Airports and the three FG owned seaports are serving us well at least in the meantime.

Run pipes all around Lagos and pump water to the neighbourhoods! What are the masses also gaining from these Alausa fraud stars sef?

At the end of the meeting, Prof. Jerry Gana, who briefed journalists, said the group, which rejected northern control and advocated constitutional solution to complex national issues,

fkaz: @op stop this hate or go to court

sazycul: Nothing like that for port harcourt, which day gej come port harcourt last, fake news

According to Mr. Abati, protocol required that when the President is in any state, the governor or his deputy should be on standby to receive him on arrival and see him off when he is departing, adding that since the President was passing through Port Harcourt to Bayelsa State or back, it was expected that Amaechi or his deputy should receive or see him off.

Prof Corruption: Clueless GEJ smiling innocently!

awodman: Lai Mohammed what do you have to say on this??..

By SaharaReporters, New York
A few days after bodyguards of Mr. Jonathan prevented Rivers State governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi from shaking hands with him at a presidential dinner last week in Abuja. Amaechi met President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the Port Harcourt International airport today and both embraced each other in the presence of a faction of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) led by a junior minister of Education, Nyeson Wike at the airport.
Mr. Jonathan was on his way to Abuja from Bayelsa  state where he commissioned a hospital and visited the federal university at his Otueke village.

By Abdulwahab Abdulah
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed October 16, 2013 for the commencement of trial in a N120 million copyright suit filed against popular music star, Innocent Idibia, a.k.a. TuFace, his wife, Annie Idibia and their manager, Anthonio Anifite over photographs allegedly taken at the recent traditional wedding of the musician and his wife in Akwa Ibom State.
Abuja based photographer, Emmanuel Okolo, who is the plaintiff in the suit alongside his studio, Papilonmexy filed suit against the defendants.
He is asking for six reliefs, two of which include N100 million in general damages and N20millionin exemplary damages.
At the resumed hearing of the case yesterday, neither TuFace nor his wife was represented in court. Anifite who is the second defendant was however represented by his counsel, J.O Uttute.
Meanwhile, a mild drama ensued when the judge openly admonished Uttute after the latter claimed that he had filed his defence when he had not done so.
The judge warned him not to come to this court again if he was not prepared for the case. “You told me that you have filed your response, but looking through here, there is nothing to that effect. And you are even smiling. Do you think you are here to joke? Never come to this court again if you are not prepared. You don’t even know when the case was filed and you are not prepared for it,” said the judge.
Also, the plaintiff’s counsel, Habeeb Oredola expressed worry over the defendants’ inability to appear before the court or be represented bya counsel after they were served with the writs of summon.
In the writ of summon, Okolo and his studio claimed they were contracted by TuFace’s wife through a third party, identified as Ms Chineze Anyaene to take photo shots at the traditional wedding held in Eket, Akwa Ibom state in March,2013.
The plaintiff said, he was reluctant at the beginning since the offer was coming through a third party, but later accepted after he was convinced that the offer was actually with the blessing of the first defendant.
Annie Idibia was said to have later contacted thephotographer after the wedding and demanded for the printing of 10 of the high resolution pictures taken.

By SaharaReporters, New York
Has troubled Nigerian businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim, moved from criminal to magician?
The controversial magnate is scheduled to be aguest speaker next week at an event organizedby the Nigerian police and the UK Metropolitan Police in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Asset Management Corporationof Nigeria. In effect, he will be speaking to some of the very people who, in theory, are examining his nefarious activities.
The choice of Mr. Ibrahim, who is currently under investigation for fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for tax evasion, has set tongues wagging. Just a month ago in New York, Mr. Ibrahim was dragged to court by Aersale Inc., an aircraft leasing company, over nearly $8million he owes in leasing fees, interest, costs, and attorneys' fees.
Mr. Ibrahim entered into an agreement with thecompany as a guarantor to lease two Boeing 737-300 airplanes for his airline, Air Nigeria, which has since folded up.
A former staff member of Mr. Ibrahim's company described him as a man who has embezzled, defrauded and killed many companies in Nigeria. He said, "Mr. Ibrahim killed NICON Airways, killed NICON Insurance, killed Energy Oil, buried Air Nigeria - Nigeria's Flag carrier and best customer airline, buried Newswatch Magazine."
Recently Saharareporters investigations revealed that Mr. Ibrahim embezzled N36 billion from a federal aviation bailout fund administered by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The money had been provided to shore up the airlines. The FIRS also accuses Ibrahim of failing to pay taxes worth N3.5 billion and of embezzling employees’ cooperative funds, pension funds, tax deductions and tax revenuesaccruing to the Nigerian government.
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Fraud unit, Tunde Ogunshakin who is believed to be a close friend of Mr. Ibrahim, is responsible for putting together the weeklong "Corporate Fraud" conference from July 1-5, 2013. It is unclear if Mr. Ibrahim has magically done a deal to educate police bodies about howto prevent such fraud, including across borders.
So far, he continues to be investigated for fraudulent activities relating to corporate fraud in several courts and policing agencies in Nigeria.