₦airaland Forum

Bifwoli:
He's a dark traitor and a political opportunist par excellence.Curse be upon him.

And fyi,the only change you'll see from Buhari is change of clothes.

Cry me a River



Hehehehe your cries will soon get to its highest crescendo of agony after he is named the SGF.

Greatken007:
Permanent total disability,.. Check d company accident record in six month time you will still see zero lost time injury (LTI). I can't really tell if PPE Was used, the impact here was really high

PPE is usually the last line of defence. And it's effectiveness is kind of limited in such types of crushing accident.

It is more of a procedural failure. It is either the machine guard was nonexistent or was disabled by the manager.

If it was disabled by the manager, then it means the machine started without the manager's knowledge. LOTO would have taken care of this effectively.

Another angle to this is the lack of proper safety training by the manager. He carried out an unsafe act and the end result is this accident.

Also the manager may not be designated as a repair technician, but he still went ahead to try and get the issue with a machine resolved. This is a serious gaffe in Occupational Safety.

The manager has my sympathies. We need to push for the Nigerian Occupational Safety and Health bill to be signed to law. It will put the beam light on organisations to put a priority on safety.

ikoyila:
so confused right now. house pls wch is advised: HSE or NEBOSH. nd is NISP d same as ISPON.

Don't be confused. HSE simply stands for Health, Safety and Environment. And u can describe it as a discipline or career.

NEBOSH stands for National Examination Board for Occupational Safety and Health. It is a body based in the UK that issues certifications to Safety practitioners and other interested persons after the successful completion of their courses (i.e. NEBOSH courses).

There are many different HSE courses, so you have to be specific in the one you want to compare with NEBOSH.

NISP stands for Nigeria Institute of Safety Professionals. Yes, it is the same body with ISPON (Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria). ISPON was formerly bearing NISP but changed their name to ISPON I think about 2 or 3 years ago. A lot of people still refer to them as NISP (their old name). ISPON also offers different HSE courses.

What an apt write-up. I so much admire that Amaechi.

Amaechi is the main Hero of democracy and not one desperate cluelessness personified, who is looking for a consolation price.

Amaechi played the critical role of ensuring the election was not a total North vs South contest. This is especially what pained the Tanoids as majority of them are unrepentant tribalists. To them, everything is a 'us vs them' thing.

Amaechi's role was highly democratic and especially good for the unity and democracy of the country.

That is the reason I'll continue to admire and appreciate the likes of Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha, Ngige, Ogbonnaya Onu, Dakuku Peterside, Magnus Abe and other APC guys in the SS and SE.

Those guys really swam against the tide in waters bearing sharks and other wild animals and they survived albeit some at the expense of their political ambitions.

Self deception, delusion and hypocrisy of monumental proportions is the hallmark of Tanoids and ironically they accuse the other side of same.

They prefer to label all the APC members in the SS and SE as traitors forgetting that we are in a democracy. They prefer to demonise these guys in their regions but prefers to idolise GEJ as one silly Hero.

They don't call Northern PDP staunch supporters of GEJ traitors for supporting GEJ against PMB and in the process crash-landing their own political ambitions. To them, it's only the SS/SE guys in opposing party to GEJ that are traitors. What a pathetic myopic set of bigots.

Amaechi, Rochas, Ngige and others are the real Heroes of democracy. They stood firm against authoritarianism in a democratic setting and they triumphed.

They will definitely be remembered and rewarded for their sacrifices.

kilokeys:
Sad
Pray senate signs the safety bill soonest.

Job hazard Analysis is lacking in that company

The senate has passed it since 2012. It has been awaiting presidential assent ever since. GEJ failed to sign in into law before the expiration of his tenure.

I hope PMB will perform better and sign it into law soonest.

dokyOloye:
Now,d plot is becoming clearer.
Remember this woman,her vice and d gateman all had daughters who were writing WAEC wt d kidnapped girls but their daughters somhw managed not to be present when d kidnappers came.
It's worthy of note too that d coordinator of BBOG campaign was also appointed as a member of d inauguration committee.

I hope u can see how silly and inconsistent u guys are. The OP referred to the Principal as a man and he even gave the name with a Mr but in your crappy write-up to support the OP, u re referring to the principal as a woman.

barcanista:
Nonsense! Buhari is only trying to pursue personal vendatta against DSS..


Same way he disbanded Mobile Police in 1984 because they attempted to foil his coup and killed Brig Bako in the process. Bako was his coup ally!

Baba should spare us the story and get to work

I'm seriously suspecting u re among the treasonous DSS new propaganda recruits at the beginning of the year.

I know they abound on nairaland.

Nigeria36:
I don't have time to educate you now, SSS performs 3 functions: intelligence (equivalent of the CIA), counter-terrorism (FBI) and close body protection (presidential security service, South Korea or US Secret Security Service) they don't av uniform but dresses on black suit (jacket). It is their responsibility to offer close body security to the President and Governors and their immediate family. They also maintain the mobile fleets of the President except the air fleets. The Guard protects the seat of power, the exteriors, but the DSS protects the interior of the buildings. When the President is on a move, the Guard acts as Vanguard in front and back of the convoy and can never ride with the President in side the same car, during functions they protect the perimeter of the event venue, while DSS maintains close body and the convoy. During emergency, it is the duty of the DSS to extract the President to safety while the Guard engages the criminals, providing cover for the evacuation of the President, and during the extraction, the DSS acts as body shield to the President until successful extraction while the Guard engages. The SSS is the best trained among them and also the best paid. The only commendable thing His Majesty will do is to separate those powers and vest it in different new and independent agencies to improve productivity. Thank me later

Nice explanation. But if you take a good look at the NSA act you quoted earlier, everything depends as the President deemed fit. All these explanation you just offered are not contained in the Act. You gave us the explanation purely on precedence or the happenings elsewhere. You are right that it is part of the duty of the DSS to protect the President, and others, but it is not rigid as you put it. The law did not say they MUST be the inner security layer. If the president decides to make them the outer layer, he has not run foul of the law. They are still offering protection to the president. The law simply states that they are responsible for protecting the President and others. If the President decides to make the Guards Brigade his inner security ring, he has not run foul of the law as well. Because they are equally responsible for offering protection to the president. And there is no rigid law stating they always MUST be the outer ring. Everything depends on how the Chief Security Officer of the President and the President himself see it best to protect the President.

Btw, it is the NIA that performs the duties similar to the CIA and not the DSS.

Nigeria36:
Stop misleading the Public. Go and read the NSA Act pls, the act estblishing DSS, DMI and NIA. The constitutional power to protect the President resides with the DSS.

So what is the duty of the Guards Brigade of the Nigerian Army which reports directly to the presidency and not the Chief of Army staff.

urchmanx:
Do you know why I am laughing at you? Because you didn't know shit about how things are done at the national assemble. APC needs around 74 senators to remove the Sp and the DSP and they didn't have that number.

You are funny. Why can't you make your point without telling me what you think I know. Some of you kids on nairaland ascribe too much to yourselves. And it is called National Assembly and not 'National Assemble'.

My post was explicit enough, it was directed at the Deputy SP. Who told you its only impeachment that can be used to make a Deputy Senate President vacate seat.

chigoizie7:
Please enlighten me the more, why 55?
I guess, the interpretation is that the half of 109 is 54.5 and u can't get 0.5 for human being, thus, the least u can get to win is 55 as against ur opponent having 54 , that is in the case of all the senators being present for the election, and in the case were they are not all present, the seat of the DSP should be vacant until they are all present so as to attain the 55 man least VOTE?


The moment APC understands NIGERIAN POLITICS and simple MATHEMATICS and INTERPRETATION of LAW the better for them and all NIGERIANS that ELECTED them.


This is the same thing that cost them the seat of SP, because they are all ignorant of the law, they don't know how things re done, they don't know simple addition and subtraction.

Arithmetic Is wat ruined their plans on SP. They all came out without thinking 1st and said that saraki's election is null and void. Until they went back and did their calculations only to realize that there is absolutely nothing they could do bout it other than accept him, otherwise they will fight until they are all tired.

They wan come do d same thing with ekweremadu? Ekweremadu has been in the senate b4 them, thus, knows better than dem all.


They should go and rest. They should be glad that PDP didn't go for SP, cos if they had gone for it, they would ve won and it will be bidding by law because it is constitutionally right.

The PDP knew if they went for the Senate President position, the 8 APC senators present would have refused to vote for them. It would have been an all PDP affair and thus easier to be overruled by the court. Moreover, the uproar that would have ensued would not be too good for the country.

They are able to pull this off just because to some extent Saraki too has some level of support in the APC. You'll soon see that at the end of it all, it is the Deputy senate president position that will be used for reconciliation. No need to talk too much. Just wait and see. It is at that point that the PDP will realise that Saraki just used them for his own ambition.

millionaireman:
Nigeria ever afraid of its shadow. In Western countries, no such ban of camouflage uniform exists.

Let Nigeria placate the restive areas of the country through political concessions, instead of Nigerian authorities being ever afraid of rebellion.

“With this development, the Ministry of Justice along with law enforcement agencies have been tasked to ensure that extant laws guiding the use of uniforms in Nigeria are strictly enforced.

Did you read the part I quoted for you? It is not a blank banning. It has a justification in our laws. It simply means that there is a subsisting law on the use of these camouflaged uniforms but it was disregarded. The era of impunity is over, everything has to be done by the book now. The western countries you are quoting is a society of law and other. Their police cannot just wake up one day and introduce camouflage uniforms. Then later immigration, customs, boys scout, etc with total disregard for the appropriate laws regulating their use.

I wonder why PDP goons keep blackmailing the APC over this drug baron's case. His case actually started under their Hero, Jona. This guy obviously must have done something that made Jona left him to his fate and ordered the AG to carry on with the request from the US govt.

The US does not forget crimes. No matter how long u stay away from the US. They'll always pursue the case if they have a way of bringing the accused back to the US. They persecute cases diligently over there because the nos of convictions gotten is the simple way the achievements of the District Attorney/Federal Attorneys are measured.

PDP guys pls stop blackmailing APC with Kashamu. His trial started and was signed by the Jona regime. Let him go and settle himself in US instead of playing hide and seek.

The NDLEA guys are the ones that made a mess of the case. Nigeria security agencies lack the penchant for due process. I do hope this will teach them a lesson. The mentality they inherited from the military regime, and sustained by desperate and unreasonable political leaders is really making them portray themselves as touts as against law enforcement officers.

They should have just put the guy under surveillance and then pursue their case to the letter before effecting his arrest. They just embarrassed the country with their crooked way.

As the main case comes up for hearing come upper week, I will like to see the legal obstacle Kashamu will throw in their wheel again. This is getting quite interesting.

Drama everywhere in Naija. I wonder why someone should go to court to file a case against his arrest for a suspected crime, instead of going to the court that has already started proceedings on the alleged crime to prove his innocence.

Kashamu’s extradition hearing begins June 25


Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed June 25 for hearing in the extradition application instituted by the Federal Government against the Senator representing Ogun-East in the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu.

The extradition application, with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/479/2015, was signed by the immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke.

It was filed before the court on May 28, 2015.

The application was predicated on a request by the Embassy of the United States of America seeking the Nigerian government to surrender Kashamu to face one count of drug related charge before the United States District Court for the Northern Illinois, Eastern Division.

An affidavit deposed to by the Assistant US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Diane MacArthur, attached to the extradition request from the US government was said to be dated April 27, 2015.

By the US government’s charge against him, Kashamu allegedly conspired with others to intentionally import “and did import into the United States” quantities of mixtures containing heroin between 1992 and 1995.

The offence for which Kashamu is allegedly wanted in the US is said to contravene section 952(a) of Title 21, United States Code, and punishable under Section 960 of the same law.

The penalty for the offence on conviction under the law, according to the charge, is an imprisonment of not more than 10 years or a fine of up to $10m in the case of an individual or both.

Adoke stated in the application that Kashamu, who is described by the US government as being also known as Alhaji and Kashmal, was a subject of a one-count Second Superseding Indictment in criminal case No. 94 CR 172, filed before the Illinois court on May 21, 1998.

The application added, “There are forfeiture allegations against Buruji Kashamu (a.k.a Alhaji and Kashmal) pursuant to provisions of Title 21 United States Code, Section 853, holding in Illinois Division, within the jurisdiction of the United States of America for the offences of:

“Count 1: Conspiracy to commit knowing and intentionally import and did import into the United States from places outside the United States, quantities of mixtures containing heroin, a schedule one Narcotic drug substance, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 952(a), punishable under Section 960, with a penalty on conviction of a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years, or a fine of up to USD $10,000,000 in the case of an individual or both.”

In a supporting affidavit to the extradition application, a state counsel in the Central Authority Unit (International Cooperation in Criminal Matters), Federal Ministry of Justice, Abdallah Mohammed, highlighted exhibits attached to the extradition request from the US government.

The exhibits, according to Mohammed, include a certified true copy of a one-count Second Superseding Indictment in criminal case No. 94 CR 172; a CTC of arrest warrant, dated May 22, 1999 against Kashamu, and a copy of the US laws or relevant statutes that provides for the offences and punishment to which Kashamu was indicted.

The exhibits also include “a certified true copy of a plea agreement entered into between the United States Attorney and defendant, Catherine Clearly Wolters (one of Kashamu’s co-suspect) pursuant to Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.”

They also include letters and residence permits issued by The Gambian authorities in respect of Buruji Kashamu, dated July 29, 1991 and April 2, 1991 respectively, and a letter of notification of withdrawal of study and request for refund addressed to the Bertitiz Language Centre and signed by Buruji Kashamu.

Other exhibits attached to the US extradition request, according to the state counsel, include “photograph representation identity of Buruji Kashamu and a copy of Buruji Kashamu’s Benin Republic’s international passport, issued on January 21, 1998 and expired in January 20, 2001 with passport number 97BD10871.”

They also included “arrest photograph of Buruji Kashamu; arrest photograph of Buruji Kashamu with Catherine Wolters and arrest photograph of Buruji Kashamu with Ellen Wolters.”

Copyright PUNCH




http://www.punchng.com/news/kashamus-extradition-hearing-begins-june-25/

Passingshot. This is a beautiful piece. More ink to your pen. And more intellect to your person. Keep up the good work of striving towards a better Nigeria. You'll surely reap the benefit. Peace

ammanison:
1.PRESDENT:Muhammadu Buhari(Northwest)
2.VICE PRESIDENT:Yemi Osinbajo(Southwest)
3.SENATE PRESIDENT:Bukola Saraki(North Central)
4.SPEAKER:Yakubu Dogara(North East)
5.DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT:Ike Ekweremadu(South East)
6.DEPUTY SPEAKER:?with all sense of belonging this office need to be allocated to South south in the spirit of unity and one nigeria.

Pls who is the Deputy Speaker?

Dangote smart businessman has strategically positioned his proposed refinery in Lagos. With this development now:

-easily he will get his raw material
-large market is already waiting for him viz Lag, other part of Nigeria and the entire West Africa hub.
-Human resources is abundantly available in Lagos.
-port facilities is available in Lagos
-Lagos is relatively peaceful and ideal for business.

With the start of oil production, construction of this refinery, construction of the Ladol oil rig/other heavy metal fabrication yard at Takwa bay, construction of Lekki deep sea port and completion of the Lagos Atlantic City project, Lagos is about to firmly reestablish itself as the unrivalled commercial capital of Nigeria.

Lagos oilfield to begin production this year

With the award of a rig contract to carry out the drilling and completion programme for the Aje shallow-water field offshore Lagos, the first oil production is expected to begin in the state by December this year.

The operator of the Oil Mining Lease 113 has, on behalf of the joint venture partners, entered into a rig contract with Saipem for the Scarabeo 3 drilling rig to carry out the drilling and completion programme for the Aje Field Cenomanian oil development, Panoro Energy said in a statement on Monday.

The joint venture partners led by Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited (the operator) had in October last year taken the final investment decision to develop the first phase of the Aje field.

According to the statement, the Scarabeo 3 rig is a semi-submersible rig currently stationed offshore Lagos. The rig will be moved 18 nautical miles to the Aje drilling location and will be used to carry out well operations for the first phase of the Aje Cenomanian Oil field development that includes two subsea production wells.

It said the well operations would comprise the completion of the existing Aje-4 well as a production well, and the drilling and completion of a new well, Aje-5, which would be drilled to the Aje-2 subsurface location.

The Aje-2 well is said to have demonstrated high reservoir productivity in a Cenomanian production test conducted in 1997, flowing approximately 3,700 barrels of oil per day of 41˚API oil under suboptimal well conditions.

Well operations are expected to commence in early third quarter of 2015 and are likely to take approximately 90 days to complete, according to the statement.

It stated that once well operations had been completed, subsea equipment would be installed and the wells would be tied back to the Front Puffin floating, production, storage and offloading vessel, currently undergoing refurbishment in Singapore.

The Chief Executive Officer, Panoro Energy, Mr. John Hamilton, was quoted in the statement as saying, “Panoro is very pleased to be entering into the rig contract for the drilling and completion of the Aje development wells. We have been able to achieve a lower rig rate than was expected when the Final Investment Decision was made in October 2014.

“With well operations expected to commence in the next few weeks, we will continue moving towards our incremental growth strategy of converting Panoro’s discovered resource base into commercial production and generating positive cash flow in 2016.”

Aje is an offshore field located in the western part of Nigeria in the Dahomey Basin at the border with Benin Republic, with the first oil targeted for December 2015, the statement said.

The field is situated in water depths ranging from 100 to 1,000 metres about 24 kilometres from the coast. The field contains hydrocarbon resources in sandstone reservoirs in three main levels – a Turonian gas condensate reservoir, a Cenomanian oil reservoir and an Albian gas condensate reservoir.

Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company is the operator, with 25 per cent interest in the field. The partners are Vitol, First Hydrocarbons Nigeria Limited, Energy Equity Resources Limited, Panoro Energy ASA and Jacka Resources Limited.

The JV partners had in January 2014 submitted the Field Development Plan for the Aje field to the Department of Petroleum Resources. The FDP was approved in March and is primarily focused on the development of the Cenomanian oil reservoir.





http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/lagos-oilfield-to-begin-production-this-year/

Not nice at all. I noticed that line in the earlier thread "What I Went Through For Believing We Could Defeat PDP – TINUBU", and I was patiently waiting for Tanoids to jump at it. They even have the time to move the story to their propaganda website before bringing the attention of Nairaland to it again. funny robots.

Back to the story, this is not nice at all. it seems Ambode has not come to the full realization of the enormous powers that has been handed over to him. One cannot blame him totally though, he is kind of new, with time, he'll be more confident and understands protocol better. I am quite close to govt circles, and I know new entrants are usually given regular briefs on protocol before they get accustomed to behaviours and mannerisms required for their new role.

I think this is a big goof sha and his protocol officer and Chief of Staff needs to be fired for this nonsense.

IbokUtoroh:
that means that rep from edo na dunce. Doesnt he knw a thing abt lobby, campaign or canvassing for votes?
So he cant boast of 55 apc votes for himself? Who go even support am for majority leader if he cant boast of common 55votes.........

The rep from Edo, Iriase earlier stepped down for Gbaja in the thick of the permutations.

http://www.punchng.com/politics/speakership-iriase-withdraws-for-gbajabiamila/

mployer:
The lawmakers already said they don't want a cool headed puppet. The want a president with independent mind and good leadership skills.


APC leadership forced Lawan on them, I wonder how they will do that in the NASS.

I just pray PDP play their card well. I'm very sure they will want to see Tinubu's influence cut down.

Chai u guys re funny. An election was conducted and you re still claiming they forced Lawan on them. Has PDP since inception ever conducted such?? Is it not tht they will select someone and every other person can go to blazes?

mployer:
Saraki can still win in the national assembly if has the support of pdp.


l am sure no single pdp senator will vote lawan.

Who told you that? The guy is very cool headed unlike Saraki and admired by a lot of people. Saraki's arrogance and hyper-behaviour will cost him that seat.

barcanista:
APC have no business with the Tuesday election. They won't be there to supervise nor campaign for the party's nominee.
With the 121 PDP members, Dongara need the 10 non APC/PDP members, 121 PDP legislators, and just 50 APC legislators to clinch the seat. It is possible

Whereas, Gbaja needs just 26 more votes to what he already has to emerge speaker. Given his experience as one of the longest serving house of rep member, this will not be difficult for him at all. As he would have built relationships that cuts across different parties. And also given the fact that we also have quite a nos of yoruba reps of PDP.

Stop hoping 'protection seeker' it's a done deal. Hon Gbajabiamila will be the speaker on Tue to your uttermost chagrin. Just as buhari emerged and you have not had peace since then.

You are very funny. You are analysing your own advantages without considering the advantages and resources of the other side. That is the effect of getting too emotional with issues.

chukwudi44:
PDP wold all vote for one candidate and I bet you it would not be Gbajabiamila.Now is time for PDP to liase with Dogara and re-enact the Mulikat-Tambuwal scenario

All your predictions has been wrong all along. What makes u think u'd get it right this time around old man?

BackDatAssUp:
Dambazou was behind the Yaradua impasse.

The man is a confirmed boko.

He moved troops at night without consulting the then acting President to receive Yaradua's comatose body at the Abuja airport.

The Brigade of guards reports directly to the presidency. And not to the Chief of Army staff. That is the only unit of the Army that does that. Your assertions therefore does not follow.

barcanista:
75% of these people are PRESENTLY in Buhari's camp and are insulting our intelligence by claiming to be"Change" agents. Today Buhari is telling us that Sylva wasn't corrupt by withdrawing every corruption charges against him. Today we are told that Gen Danbazau is the "soon to be" National Security Adviser (he practically follows Buhari everywhere and he was a Member of Buhari Campaign). Today, Obasanjo and Atiku are forming "Newbies" . While Obasanjo navigates, Atiku practically represent Buhari in the latters absence. Today, Buhari Spokesman (Garba Shehu) is the same Garba Shehu that served as Spokesman for Atiku and defended his shameless looting of PTDF.
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Barcanista or whatever u call yourself. You think you re smart but you are just a shameless writer.

What you usually do is to mix lies, half truths and real truths together and spin them together to justify your pathetic campaign. Many people don't have your time, so you can continue in your foolery.

When the actual time to assess Buhari presidency draws near, a lot of people will be back to separate lies from the truth.

When elections draw near again, a lot of people will be back to separate lies from the truth.

Let your dumb admirers keep salivating over your silly write-ups for now.

Now going back to your 'not so smart' reference to the write-up.

Get this into your thick skull. The write-up was done in 2010 when a lot of people still thought Jonathan was the messiah. ... a lot of people that fought for Jonathan to be conferred with presidential powers including Sahara reporters.

Some mofos who support ex president Jona, will be cussing Sahara reporters whenever they write against Jona, always fail to acknowledge that Sahara reporters once supported Jona and did articles to his advantage. Just like this one you put up there.

Going back to the article, as I said, Sahara reporters still wrongly assumed then that Jona was the messiah, hence they termed those that didn't want presidential powers to be transferred to him as enemies of Nigeria, 'the cabal'. A lot of people supported Jona then too! Including me.

The write-up centres mainly on that!

Jona was finally handed presidential powers and even went on to win elections and his presidency turned out to be a disaster. He has himself to blame for that.

Given the abysmal performance of Jona in office one can even say those people were justified by not wanting Jona to assume office as President. But, process is process. Order is order. The constitution must be followed and defended and it clearly supported the transfer of power to Jona and so must be followed and we therefore saw those opposed to that as villians. And hence the article.


You also made reference to this Punch article, and in your usual manner to hoodwink some dumb people, you quoted only a part of it that supports your propanganda. The part I quoted explains the reasons for the withdrawal of the case. I hope you also read that part.

[b]FG withdraws N2.45bn fraud suit against Sylva, EFCC kicks
[/b]http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-withdraws-n2-45bn-fraud-suit-against-sylva-efcc-kicks/

Ojogbane explained that the reason given by the DPP for withdrawing the case was that Sylva had similar charges pending against him before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the same Federal High Court in Abuja.

He said, “I can confirm that this charge is to be withdrawn this morning by the office of the DPP and the reason given was that there are two similar matters against the accused person in this court – one before your lordship and another one before Justice A.R Mohammed which has progressed more than the one before your lordship.”

It is good to have a vibrant opposition. But if u continue writing a very biased report, it's only your supporters that it will sway. Not majority of people.

Has it been officially announced?? Or some people think they can blackmail the presidency?

Truckpusher:
First and foremost I do not support the amnesty and I'm not Ijaw but you must be a complete iidiot for saying that Ijaw people has no brains.


Read my lips again ,you are a complete motherfuccker ,you passingshit


You deserve a bullet to ya fuccked up brain - Have you been to Ijaw land and see the environmental devastation caused by the parasitic nature of you and your backward lazy kinsmen that ran Nigeria to the ground since independence?

I piss on ya grave.

Chai, you have serious comprehension issues. He is referring to Vanguard and others who think it is Buhari that set a date for the amnesty conclusion.

helpee:
You started on a wrong note. A lot of change agent on nairaland assume that once you criticise buhari, you are a biafran so I don't want distractions. Now, let us agree security is a challenge but the approach of buhari was only emotional not tactical...at best a 1979 war approach. we are in the digital age. The soldiers don't make command centre effective, the Govt does. The command centre is made effective with technology not with relocation. You mean if Niger delta militant start bombing tommorrow again you will relocate again to bayelsa.? What if they are bombing Niger delta and maiduguru at the same time, we will create another command centre? Let us start challenging our politician we are intelligent. Moving command centre to maiduguri changes nothing. It is as good as saying because a plane crashed at the Atlantic sea, we should move control tower to the sea to be more effective. You mean buhari is just studying how to tackle power sector crisis after contesting for 16yrs. What was he thinking since that time? We should give him eight months to develop a policy? Why were they criticising jonathan policy when they had no alternative plan? He had no business talking about amnesty ending yesterday. He was sending a wrong signal on the ist day in office without providing a likely alternative. My friend...he wasted the ist 24hrs in office. let's wait wether he can redeem the next 24hrs

Ok, sorry for being hard on you with my opening. Bros there is nothing called old school when you talk about military strategy. You can call some equipment and gadgets old sch and outdated. But definitely not strategy. An integral part of military training is a study of different historical wars and the different strategies involved.

You definitely can not know a quarter of what Buhari knows about military operations and strategy. He was a career soldier with loads of domestic and foreign trainings and battlefield experience. He knows what he is saying. Infact I can even challenge you that you have never heard of a Command and Control Centre until this Buhari speech.

The Command and Control Centre (CCC) is that of the Boko Haram war. Don't get it mixed up. It is not as if he is moving the defence headquarters (DHQ) to Maiduguri. If a war is going on in the Niger Delta and the Commander in Chief feels that the gains made by the Commanders after a while is not much while having the Command and Control Centre (CCC) at another location, it makes perfect sense to change strategy by relocating the CCC of the imaginary Niger Delta war to the war theatre itself. Command and Control Centre is specific to a particular battle.

I agree with you that we need to challenge our leaders. But we must do this within the confines of intelligent criticism. Not just criticising for the purpose of having something to say.

The current govt has handed some things over to him, he needs to study them before blending the realities on ground with his own plans. During interview everybody can promise heaven on earth, after assuming the job you need a lot of study before you can properly blend what is on ground with your own plans.

Who do u think you are, saying Buhari has no business talking about amnesty. He is the C in C. Some of us wants to hear what is his plan as regards amnesty.

size40:
Lol..... we don't manufacture cars in Nigeria. we only assemble cars in Nigeria.

God bless you.

helpee:
[s]The funfare is over, the CHANGE is 24hrs old but the reality on ground and the body language of the president has not changed anything.

1)The last time we had light anywhere near alimosho axis of lagos was 10days ago straight. I expected the president to at least declare a state of emergency in the power sector even with his inaugural speech. I expected the president to tell us what the problem is with the power sector and then tell us how he intends to stop it. Is it generation, is it transmission? Is it gas, is it over centralisation of the power sector? We don't have time for frivolities. Moving the defence command from abuja to maiduguri changes exactly nothing. The world has broken the chain of communication. We don't need defence command in maiduguri for effective communication. We only need to upgrade our communications gadget.

2) this is not time for rhetorics...I don't belong to anybody is just a sentence that carries no weight. action will tell us wether or not you belong to somebody. Why am I still wondering where I will buy fuel this morning and at what price? The president speech yesterday could have solved the fuel crisis this morning. He could also have declared a state of emergency in the energy sector. Is he going to continue with subsidy? Is he going to pay marketers? For example, if he merely stated yesterday that he was going to pay the marketers the fuel will be flowing freely this morning. If he says he was going to stop subsidy after building the refinery within a space of 2 yrs, fuel will still flow cos marketers know they will get money for the one supplied. We don't want to start guessing what our president will do. We need change.

As a president, Jonathan attends redeemed camp, winners chapel at his leisure and we said we wanted change. However, buhari, from day 1, is abandoning state functions to go to mosque. Will this man not abadon Federal executive meeting to pray in the mosque. We want change not a change from patronising pastors to a change from patronising mosque especially during important state functions. The president can organise a thanksgiving on Friday but not while hosting president of other nations. He could have used that time to negotiate an important visa regime for nigerians but he started with frivolities. Don't tell me he put God first, remember what you said when jonathan visited winners chapel!

We need a deadline for power shortage and fuel crisis not amnesty programme. You can stop amnesty programme but how us that so important on the ist day if not for vendetta. It is so funny that nigerians are taking the peace in niger delta for granted now. When they busy bombing pipelines under general obasanjo, a senior to general buhari, you people were shouting. Now there is relative peace, the ist signal of the president is to stop it. Tell me how does amnesty significantly affect us like power and fuel to take prominence in the president first speech. Will this president not keep chasing shadows? We don't want a learning president. We need him to hit the ground from day 1.

So far so good, the president in action yesterday was still the president elect. No action yet just rhetorics. Even wike, A pdp governor immediately appointed chief judge, called back Julies berger and reinstated sacked people. That was a beautiful 1st day spent in office not a day spent in the mosque while we were watching with our generating set. Wether you like it or not, 24hrs is gone out of buhari's presidency and nothing, I mean nothing has changed so far. Today is another day though.

God bless MR PRESIDENT.

NB- I am yoruba, a non politician, a medical doctor with a business that needs light and fuel. Take note before you quote me. I am not a kid either so save that on your laptop and contribute intelligently only.[/s]

Trash! Who gives a hoot the tribe u hail from?
By claiming you ain't a kid, you definitely embarras people that always assert that with age comes wisdom with this nonsense u wrote up there.

Now lemme break it down for you:

We urgently need a solution to the power problem as u opined. But that is not the only problem we have. Mr President clearly shows wisdom by prioritising his roadmap. The first priority is the Boko Haram madness that is wasting human lives without blinking. And he has already taken a step in stating that the Command and Control Centre of the Boko Haram war should be relocated to Maiduguri. There is no room for underperformance by the commanders. Let their lives also be at stake in Maiduguri, then the seriousness of the situation will talk to them. The time of chilling in comfort zones in Abuja is over.

They should deploy to Maiduguri and perform, otherwise quit the stage. If the entire country is under attack will they need to move their command centre to a peaceful place like the moon before they can pursue the war?? If the entire country is the war theatre, won't they have their command centre in the war zone?? They are not getting the heat because they are in faraway Abuja chilling with chicks and politicians. When they get the heat at the theatre of war and action, they will definitely perform.

Now going back to your first point.

Mohammed Buhari clearly stated the seriousness of the power issue in his address. I quote

"No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation."

That is Buhari telling you that the main reason our economy is not growing as it should is because of the power sector. Which indicates he understands the urgency of the situation.

You said you expected the president to declare emergency and tell us all the problems bedeviling the power sector, his policies and solutions, etc. Mr Man, it is an inaugural speech we call it, not manifesto speech. And this is not the only speech he'll make for us. This is an inaugural speech!
He may later dedicate an entire session with the press to discuss Nigeria power problems. What he did intelligently in his address is to tell us the focal point of his administration and he did that brilliantly. Quoting PMB again on the power issue:

"Continuous tinkering with the structures of power supply and distribution and close on $20b expanded since 1999 have only brought darkness, frustration, misery, and resignation among Nigerians. We will not allow this to go on. Careful studies are under way during this transition to identify the quickest, safest and most cost-effective way to bring light and relief to Nigerians."

He clearly and emphatically stated that his administration will not allow this to go on as it is now. As a doctor u claimed you are, you should be aware of the importance of carrying out detailed study before implementation. That is the major key to success in any human endeavour. From what was transmitted to them, he has stated that a study is underway to discover fastest and safest way to deliver cost effective power supply to people like you. If after 8 months, they are yet to brief the country in detail as to their plans in this regard and then start implementation, then people like you can cry foul. I may even join you sef. But for now, all your assertions are childish and tantamount to calling a dog a bad name to kill it. I wonder why I'm even replying u sef. Well I guess it's because i'm kinda bored at the moment.
I wonder where u saw or heard Buhari stated that he'll end amnesty program if not that you lack comprehension skills. Buhari said and I quote:


"The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the Government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place."


By misquoting the above for your own trash, you must be a village herbalist and not a doctor u claim to be. MB stated tht the program is due to end! He didn't say he is ending it! It means the program already has a lifespan even before Buhari came on board and he clearly stated that his administration will build heavily on the programs.

Oh my world, some people are so dull and silly!

Amnesty did not take preeminence in his speech as wrongly posited by you. Security did. And rightfully connected to security is the amnesty program in the Niger Delta which he promised to pursue and sustain.
If there is no security of lives, properties and investments in the Niger Delta, I wonder how you'll get fuel and power which you want him to prioritise over Security and Niger Delta issues. Pls use your head.

APC settling their issues pragmatically and maturely , in Nigerian parlance, small small

We told some haters that APC can resolve it's issues, but their envy and dark soul will never make them agree. They have been predicting doom for APC since inception, and they have been pathetically disappointed all the way

When chairmanship tussle came up, they started salivating and gallivanting about claiming the demise of APC is bout to happen. The issue was resolved and the chairman eventually picked performed credibly well in managing the party.

When the choice of VP arose, these children of hate and anger was there as well with their evil wish of confusion. But God disappointed them by bringing forth his servant, a very intelligent gentleman and a thorough professional. I describe the VP Elect, Prof Yemi Osinbajo as the new administration's 'game changer'. All of u haters will see his sterling performance with your very eyes.

The haters are still not relenting, only God knows where haters derive their energy from. Dem no dey tire. They are already rejoicing that...yes! distribution of positions in the NA will finally scatter the APC but they are in for a rude shock.

APC is a child of destiny at these trying times. God allowed them the victory to use them to write a better story for Nigeria. And every sane Nigerian should support them.

Gbajabiamila is an intelligent and well experienced member of the House of Rep. He'll make a fine Speaker.

Haters should pls downtool and use their energy to pray for the success of the new administration as all of us, including our friends, families and acquaintances will be the beneficiaries of the good governance.

May God furnish MBuhari/PYO with wisdom and strength to take Nigeria far far higher than they met it.

Amen.