₦airaland Forum

thundafire:
shut up nd i mean shut up nd get sense over there hw many president have visited him or is it dat other president dnt ve enormous problem like naija

Keep quiet! Which hole did u crawl out from??

You think governance is about ego and pride??

So because nobody has visited me and I have issues in my country I should not step out to look for opportunities?? The way some of u guys think is mind blowing.

PMB went to US to relate with Obama so that he can facilitate the repatriation of Nigeria's looted funds. US has influence all over the world and if PMB succeeds in convincing Obama to help us, it go a long way in getting our funds back. We also need their military assistance and intelligence. These things don't come by displaying empty arrogance.

PMB was invited by German Prime Minister to the meeting of the G8. That is the 8 most advanced countries in the world. If he went and established a good relationship with them do u know the enormous advantage tht can be to the country as regards mutual cooperation in the area of investment & security?

He went to India based on Indian's invitation for a greater cooperation between Africa and India. There can be mutual benefits from such relationship if we play our cards well. India's economy is I think nos 4 in the world. Their military is nos 5 in the world. They are more advanced than Nigeria in medicine, technology, telecommunication technology and software engineering.

All heads of state gathered for UN meeting in US and u mofos think it will be appropriate for PMB to absent himself.

Same with the commonwealth heads of state meeting in Malta.

Same with his security centred visits to Benin, Cameroon and Niger republic.

He was equally with other heads of state for the meeting on climate change in France. Climate change is also affecting Nigeria. Part of the problems from the NE stems from climate change as reduction in the volume of lake Chad affected agriculture and fishing and has rendered a lot of people in that area idle and open to easy manipulation by the devilish Islamic sect. It is easier to brainwash idle and poor people.

The attention of the energy sector is being shifted to gas, and PMB took it upon himself to make himself available for the gas summit in Iran, which even provided opportunity to interact with Heads of state of countries like Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc whose major source of income is the energy sector.

Nigeria during the GEJ era has contracted a lot of our infrastructural projects to China and u think it makes sense to jaw China in an international rapport btw China and Africa.

That would be a diplomatic error. China is granting us a lot of infrastructural loans and if we mange the Chinese very well, we may also be able to replicate the success story of China here in Nigeria.

These trips are not fun trips. They are strictly business trips with very tight schedule. I even give PMB kudos that his health and physique can withstand the stress associated with regular air travels.

nikkiking:
you don't answer questions with questions!


Be genius, not mind reader.


If pdp did mismanaged this zoo Nigeria, is travelling round the world gonna fix it .

When one has serious issues with his personal finance, growth and development, the person does not just sit at home lamenting and hoping things will change on its own.

That is a very idiotic and lazy approach.

One has to go out! One has to step out of one's shell. One has to make new friends and build new alliances.

One cannot build investment relationship on the phone or through the internet. It has to be a one on one thing.

These trips are not vacation trips. It is maybe u have not been doing long air travel that u don't know how tiring it can be.

It will even be more stressful for him because of his age.

He is trying all he can to ensure we get maximum advantage from our relationship with other foreign countries.

Quit your individualism approach to breaking through. Those who make it exceedingly always do so through smart networking.

nicefaze:
Supreme court decides Saraki's case FEB 5. https://www.thecable.ng/supreme-court-to-deliver-judgment-in-sarakis-case-against-cct-feb-5

[size=14pt]CCT trial: S-Court decides Saraki’s fate Feb 5[/size]


By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA – The ‎‎Supreme Court, today, fixed February 5 to determine ‎the appeal seeking to quash the 13-count criminal charge that the Federal Government preferred against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCT.

A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, adjourned to deliver judgment on the appeal after it ‎entertained arguments from both Saraki and the Federal Government today.

Saraki is facing trial over allegation that he falsely declared his assets, contrary to the constitutionally requirement.

He was accused of deliberately manipulating the assets declaration form that he filed prior to his assumption of office as the Senate President, by making anticipatory declaration of assets, as well as, operated foreign bank account while in office as a public servant.

The offence was said to have been committed while Saraki held sway as a governor.

Whereas Saraki, through his team of lawyers led by Chief J.B.Daudu, SAN, ‎prayed the apex court to quash the charge for want of competence, the government on the other hand, sought the dismissal of the appeal, insisting it has successfully established a prima-facie ‎criminal case against the Senate President.

While persuading the apex court to allow the appeal by halting Saraki’s trial, ‎Daudu, SAN, relied on the provision of Paragraph 15(1) to the Fifth Schedule‎ of the 1999 Constitution,as amended, and argue that the Justice Danladi Umar-led panel of the CCT was not properly and legally composed to try his client.

‎He further argued that the CCT, not being a court that is constitutionally equipped with criminal jurisdiction, lacked the powers to dock the Senate President on the basis of the 13-count charge that is pending before it.

“An attempt to make the CCT a court having criminal jurisdiction will have far reaching constitutional consequences” Daudu contended, adding that the tribunal was not among the courts established under Section 6 ‎of the 1999 constitution.

Besides, it was his‎ argument that the fact that there was no substantive Attorney-General of the Federation as at the time the charge was filed, rendered it incompetent.

However, while praying the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal, government lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, relied on the provision of section 4(2)(b) of the interpretation Act, to insist that Saraki was properly charged before the CCT.

Rotimi argued that going by the provision of section 284(4) of the Constitution, the two-members of the CCT panel, formed a quorum that can hear and determine the criminal case instituted against the Senate President by the federal government.

After listening to all the parties, the CJN who headed the apex court panel, adjourned the matter for judgment.

It will be recalled that a previous panel of the apex court headed by Justice John Fabiyi who is now retired, suspended further hearing on the case pending against Saraki before the CCT.

The Justice Fabiyi’s panel which is now disbanded by the CJN, specifically directed the CCT panel to “tarry awhile”, to enable the apex court to hear Saraki’s appeal.

http://linkis.com/www.vanguardngr.com/uGW1x

Chai. Supreme court don fall hand. They have effectively rendered the CCT useless until they give their verdict.

londongal03:
When is he going to visit BIAFRA?
just asking...

Is Calabar no more Biafra? He was there in his first official assignment outside Abuja to flag off the construction of a super highway.

I thought they said no mosque was burnt??

The place looks so neat and serene. How I wish that is how all police stations all over the country looks like.

Good. But they must suffer some liability. All the Telcos treat Nigerian regulations with kid's gloves with the mindset that they can always settle compromised NCC officials.

They must pay some fine!

This will go a long way in instilling discipline in that sector.

The lawlessness of those Telcos are just too much!

After this current govt came on board, the Chief of Staff to the President met with the Telcos, while acting in capacity for the president and gave them stern warning to conform but that warning still fell on deaf ears. They thought it was business as usual. They didn't realise that there has been a regime change.

This Administration surely has the capacity to take Nigeria higher. I thought the meeting was just one of those usual rhetoric, but I can now see that indeed they forewarned them and they are now ready to bite.

Kudos to PMB. Pls continue bringing sanity to every sector of Nigeria. If your area of interest is yet to be touched, kindly exercise patience. PMB will surely get there.

okomogo:
This is getting serious, to me Buhari should release Nnamdi Kanu and let's have some peace. I remember radio Biafra has been existing for more than five years now, why should PMB take the issue personal.

You guys should leave Buhari out of this matter. The man made hateful, inciting and treasonable statements and he'll have his day in court for that. Nigeria is not a lawless country, he'll face the music of his actions.

Obiagu1:
Is One Nigeria by force?

It is by force until ALL the ethnic groups agree that it is time to go our separate ways.

Any attempt to blackmail or stampede others will not work.

ProfessorPeter:
Buhari is fighting Dokpesi for airing documentary of his evil deeds during the last general election. Niger delta will soon react

You defenders of looters. Your appeal to emotions will not work!

Which Niger Delta are u calling??

Which Niger Delta did the High thief Dokpesi share his 2billion naira with?

CACAWA:
By the way..where is Farouk Lawan?

One of the thieves the GEJ led PDP administration allowed to escape justice.

He was also a strong PDP charlatan.

If it will be established that he also participated in the looting of our treasury, be rest assured that this administration will surely go after him.

Obiagu1:
So because we have brothers in the North and Southwest, we should perpetually take it in the a.s.s whichever direction Nigeria gives it to us in our homeland? Hell No!

Those in the North and SW, have they used their position and placement to bring the desired infrastructure and real development in Igboland?
When some of them ran back to Igboland because of Boko Haram, how many of them survived here? Didn't they run back to the North.

Now tell me, why did they run back? Don't they know that people actually live in Igboland? Let them come back and take it in the a.s.s like we do in Igboland.

They are busy running after infrastructure and wealth in another man's land that are denied the Igbos in our homeland. They enjoy those infrastructure there, they are comfortable there, but have they ever asked: are my brothers in Igboland comfortable?

If they can't use their placement and FORCE Nigeria to stop denying us infrastructure in Igboland so that their brothers back home can feel comfortable like they are over there, then they are useless to us just like you, Abagworo, is useless to us.

If not, they can naturalize and leave those that bear the pain in Igboland to sort out the problem once and for all.

It's a pity that u didn't demand for this infrastructure from GEJ for 6 yrs and till date you lots still believe he is the best thing to happen to Nigeria. But it is Buhari which u hate so much that u expect to miraculously turn around the infrastructure of the SE in 6 months.

It's a pity that u are not demanding for this infrastructure from your governors who had been ruling u guys since the inception of democracy.

The entire country is poo and bedevilled by numerous problems of unemployment, corruption, infrastructural decay, lack of love and patriotism, etc

A lot of Igbos are just being brainwashed by people who tries to make this look like an igbo-only issue.

Go to every part of this country, u will observe these decays.

The day I realised Igbos are being brainwashed gradually was when I witnessed one loser lamenting.

It was in VI, in Lag that I went to purchase a petty item from a roadside vendor and this man just sat there lamenting and cursing Azikwe for supporting igbos stay in Nigeria.

This silly loser failed to look inwards for his failure but was looking for someone to pass the buck to. There are millions of highly successful igbo businessmen in Lag, but that one was still there blaming Azikwe. I just laughed and knew instantly that he is a fan of radio biafra.

That is what that radio does to the psyche of its listeners. It tries to make them think the failings and poverty in Nigeria is caused by a hausa/fulani/yoruba instead of the particular group responsible - the thieving elite.

The thieving elite are made up of all the ethnic groups.

They are made up of all religions.

I pray the enlightened Igbos shed the cloak of sentiments and emotions and tackle issues headlong.

Where are all the infrastructure GEJ built in the SE?

Where are all the infrastructure Anyim/Nnamani and the rest of them attracted to the SE?

Where are all the infrastructure the powerful ministers like Okonjo and the rest of them of Igbo extraction brought to the SE?

Where are the developments the Igbo governors brought to the SE?

PDP wailer paper has come again.

asis81:
Yesterday Senate President Bukola Saraki released a
statement accusing Sahara Reporters of falsely associating
him in the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal, adding that he
will be pressing charges.


The Founder of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore has
replied him, saying they are ready to meet him in court


“As Nigeria’s number three man, there is no need for him
to do legal tourism by going to courts outside the country.
He should believe in the system and go to any court in
Nigeria. We are ready to meet him in any court in Nigeria.


If he goes to court to challenge us outside of Nigeria, he
would be using the money he has taken (stolen over these
years) from the Nigerian people to pay expensive (pricey)
lawyers outside the shores of Nigeria whereas all the
evidence (s) of his corruption are based here in Nigeria.”

he told Premium Times

Serious uppercut for Saraki

cruzyteejay:
and they are trying to tell you that it was an error you are here putting up yours,a mistake is a mistake whether it started then,its still a mistake,and as we all know,the nation newspaper av always been a propaganda carrier because its owned by one of the most fraudulent Nigerian

What are you saying

It seems you just delved into this matter without having adequate information.

We are giving the information that National newspapers sometimes have different headlines across different regions of the country. I equally cited my own case where I bought a paper in Lag and its headline differs from the one I saw in Abuja on getting there. It is not about the type of paper, it is across board on most National papers atimes. And it is an acceptable practice, otherwise the regulators would have clamped down on them.

Which mistake are you talking about?

Those shops surrounding the mosque may actually belong to Hausas. And may be their target.

kITATITA:
I'm a Buhari supporter but I don't think Dr. Dokpesi has any issues. His company executed a contract it was paid for. It's not his business to question the source of the money.

Well, investigators will get to that shortly. No need for anxiety. All the knots they thought they tied on the looted funds to make them too complex to unravel will be gradually sorted out.


Btw

Nobody cares whether you are a Buhari supporter or hater

not4sure:
In a statement signed by the management of DAAR Communications Plc, he said that around 2.00pm that day, the Ag. Chairman of the EFCC, Alhaji Ibrahim Magu, through a phone call, invited him to the Commission.

On getting there, he was requested to, “shed more light on some payments that were made to him through the office of the erstwhile National Security Adviser to the former President, Malam Sambo Dasuki.”

Dokpesi explained to the EFCC officials that the N2.1 billion that he collected from the former NSA was payment for for publicity and media political campaigns during the 2015 General Elections.”

High Chief Aleogho Dokpesi “made his statement on the various media exposures and campaign transactions which were dutifully carried out based essentially on contractual obligations/relationship.”

The statement however did not explain how the office of the National Security Adviser became the cashier office for the payment of campaign expenses and the source of the money.

A special panel and the EFCC are probing how trillions of naira budgeted for defence were spent in the last eight years. An interim report by the panel already reported phoney contracts in excess of $2 billion.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/02/dokpesi-money-i-received-was-publicity-and-media-political-campaigns

I thought his half-baked lawyer said he didnt receive any payment??

This is getting more interesting. This Dokpesi guy may actually have a lot of skeletons in his cupboard.

I remember that his name also came up during the independence day bombing of 2011 (abi na 2012?)

cruzyteejay:
bros see your life
a national news is what you expect to have different frontpages?
do you think its a state newspaper?


must you defend APC in everything whether good or bad?
SMH for you shaa

You guys argue unnecessarily on nairaland. Instead of you to calm down and learn from those who have superior information, you are talking anyhow.

I have personally bought a National daily in Lagos and then traveled to Abuja and saw that same news paper with a different frontpage.

Try and make personal findings about issues before running your mouth.

southniyikaye:
hausas bombing themselves ,IBOs bringing war to their abode and the wise YORUBA MEN just dey one corner dey shake head for them

...while the two parties call him a coward. They foolishly believe being wise, calm and calculative is cowardice.

maupe:
The same Chinese that are knee deep in love with GEJ. Just watch the African segment of CCTV news, and you will know where the Chinese have chosen to pitch their tent. The President is simply going for another round of junketing.

Cant seem to make sense of what you wrote. Kindly elucidate.

obailala:
But newspapers usually have different frontpages for different regions... How is this a new thing?....The Vanguard or Guardian newspaper circulated in Lagos may typically have a different frontpage and different news content from the one sold in Owerri; this is not a new thing.

I am not aware of any violence or attempted violence in Rivers state yesterday however.

Thank u Bro. I have been waiting for the enlightened person who will state this fact.

The PDP goons on nairaland have this 'herd of goats' mentality.

They will just pick a news article and start foaming in the mouth about it. It is not only nation that features different headline for different regions.

I have seen other newspapers as well.

fammo:
Hmmmm, are they sure?
Some Nigerians just hoarded and sold subsidized fuel to fellow Nigerians at N400 per litres and the regulating bodies looked away. That to me is the Height of corruption at various levels.

That is an unfair criticism of the DPR. They have been sanctioning erring stations via free fuel distribution and seal up.

It's just that they don't have the manpower to be covering every inch of the country at everytime.

It is our people that are just being greedy and wicked to their fellow citizens.

This is where the regulator should come in actually, but the greed and wickedness is so widespread that it is beyond the workforce capacity of the regulator to tame.

It is also in this country that PMB tried to use the DSS to curtail the activities of this economic saboteurs when he first came in and he was abused and tongue lashed for using DSS after erring fuel marketers.

The CJN dey vex oh. He said

"No political will to prosecute high-profile corruption cases"


The CJN will likely use Saraki as a scape goat as regards the statement above.

Saraki's legal team has already boxed themselves by asking for a full panel of the supreme court. And it is most likely it is the CJN that will head the panel.

hedonistic:
Of course he came in with his own deputy, Tele Ikuru. But that is even beside the point. The fact is, he took his party hierarchy to court and fought them to a standstill until the courts proclaimed him governor.

Tnx for the info. I've been wondering.

Respecting party hierarchy does not mean one should keep quiet like a dullard when one's right is being trampled on.

I like Amaechi a lot for that. I also support Faleke on this. The case will even help strengthen our democracy and the legal aspects of it.

hedonistic:
Following your argument, Rotimi Amaechi would never have been governor if he had meekly towed the party line instead of vigorously pursuing his ambition in 2007.

Pls about that Rotimi Amaechi case. When he came in, did he come in with his own Deputy Governor, I mean did he nominate a fresh deputy on assumption of office? Or he carried on with the Deputy to Celestine Omehia?

The Government is actually trying to curtail the activities of these marketers. And all hands must be on deck to make this work.

The DPR needs to deploy more of their staff for monitoring and enforcement.

God bless Mr. President! Keep making Nigeria proud.

starG7:
Let me make one point clear here, tinubu should be politically wise enough to understand tha igala is majority and if they pullout of apc the party will crumble into a quagmire of its own making...as simple as dat

The major contender, this Bello guy is not Igala for your information he is Ebira.

Pavarottii:
My brother 49k can vote. Get ur info right b4 coming here.

The 49k cannot vote, only 35k has PVCs among them. It is you that needs to get your facts right and not the guy.