₦airaland Forum

this is why NL will continue to be a village square palmwine joint forum.

really? You assume all the people in the crowd will go out there and vote?

When it is time for voter registration - you see trickles, but when it is campaign time, you see loads of crowd. Does it not mean they are just there for show?

really?

A vote for Ribadu means a vote for drug pusher and thief Tinubu

crowd level wins elections?

cheap talk from ACN

even if they say death sentence, you will still ask questions.

^^^^

LOL. What is this getto do with the topic?

lagerwhenindoubt:
I find a peculiar behavior that is common in most Nigerians when you bring up the issue of corrupt politicians, They ask for PROOF and will not even consider collateral evidence. If you say Tinubu is a Thief they want you to produce a signed confession from Tinubu himself that he stole money. Even if you give them a video showing Tinubu performing the act of stealing, they will discount it as Hollywood special effects  Where else would Tinubu have amassed the wealth he has. No one ever asks especially our intellectuals on Nairaland

It is a sad behaviour common with ra.pe victims who did not have the opportunity to see the face of their ra.pist,  They claim they were not ra.ped at all 

Classic.

temmytanny:
I can only believe you if you can prove it

First prove that you have only one head.

What proof do you have to call OBJ a thief. To call Jonathan a thief. To call everyone in PDP a thief.

You see how the table turns? have they been tried and declared guilty? Because Tinubu hasnt been tried. so we shouldnt call him a thief but we can call others?

temmytanny:
Is tinubu the owner of the hotel?

Its like asking yourself if you have only one head?

^^^

You obviously havent read todays papers or you are just coming online.

LOL. Abuse and insults are so outdated.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/18229-fg-appoints-acting-head-for-code-of-conduct-tribunal-to-begin-trial-of-bola-tinubu-others

Where did he get the money to build the hotel?

I guess its not our business then. Every public officer's business is none of our business.

When is the swearing in?

Oriental hotel is actually Tinubu’s hotel. That’s the only reason the road was realligned to accommodate the hotel. while other businesses were being fenced off the road, the hotel was given full access to the road and toll plaza was located after the hotel. Only a rascal would want his wife,daughter,son in law and sister in law in the legislature.Only a rascal would hijack the free public access road in lekki and want to toll it (dana dana).A rascal indeed.

temmytanny:
Do you know wat OBJ,JONATHAN AND co have in asset? why not shut up and think of how you would make your money instead of bad belly? Tinubu even we all see him as a thief remains innocent until proven guilty. Did you see his name in board of directors of oriental hotels?

I know people that built barges(3) with tank in them for patience jonathan to siffon oil in 2006 when GEJ was the governor. The building was temporarily suspended when he was about to be probed then but later continued.

Do you know how many farms OBJ has in the north and west nigeria? wat of transcorp, Harliborton deal, IPP projects.

Mr poster,you know nothing and please delete the post cos it wont make any impact here

Using your own analogy. Stop shouting corrupt OBJ, Jonathan and co because they also remain innocent until proven guilty.

Funny.

Gbawe:
Shocking how you fans of Jonathan all appear to uniformly lack class and finesse !!! Can you folks never speak the truth and shame the Devil? Damn !!!! Must you always attempt to demean everything , however laudable , because of how you prefer not to see anything good from those who oppose your messiah? You all should minimally acknowledge that this is an impressive turnout and move on. That would be the classy and mature thing to do . I will give you fans of GEJ free advice : If you want success in life acknowledge the success of others . If you want good things appreciate it when others have it . Even if you want a GEJ win you show you are all divisive and bitter individuals with how you attempt to ridicule rather than praise , even if grudgingly , the impressive efforts of others. If this were a turnout for GEJ , it is also you guys who will bore us to death about "the overwhelming turnout for fresh air".

Clownish. What is appreciative? A mere crowd means the election is already won. Ok. We appreciate it. When is the swearing in?

why are so called credible sources always nameless?

What is this crowd compared to the same one when Atiku campaigned in 2007?

I wish only pictures determine who wins elections.

Have you wondered. When they call for voter register, only trickles go in there. But when it comes to campaigns, you see huge crowds? Does it therefore not interpret, not every person you see in a campaign rally will vote for whoever is campaigning there?

Beside, this broom symbol is so outdated. Talk of vacuum cleaner, you are talking about broom. mtcheeeeeeew.

To prove that you know, and you are not shouting based on personality, religion, ethnicity and otherwise of the three major contestants in the coming election, let us see the significant difference or differences in what each of these three people is offering us and the way they want to tackle the following:

Economy

Power

Education

Corruption

Agriculture

Foreign Policy.


Lets see the significant differences in what Ribadu, Jonathan and Buhari is offering.

I bet not many people know really- we all seem to be shouting based on personality, ethnicity or religious belief of the contestant, if not, then lets see what you know and why you think what one is offering is better than the other.

Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms. Aruma Oteh, Monday called on foreign investors to take advantage of the economic and power sector reforms in the country to maximize their returns.

Oteh who made this known at the 2011 Standard Bank West Africa Investors’ Conference held in Lagos, stated that the reforms when fully implemented will reduce the cost of doing business in Nigeria by 40 per cent.

The SEC boss who described Nigeria as investors’ paradise stressed that years of democratic practice and economic reforms helped African countries to weather recent global financial crisis.

“Because of the debt relief most African countries received in recent years, a good number of them have better debt profile than most European countries. Inflation has been reduced to the lowest minimum in most African countries, privatisation and trade liberalisation has also helped to lift African economies.

“Most African countries have implemented reforms that have helped to lift their private sector. About $4 billion is spent a year on infrastructure. Funds generated from natural resource contributes only one-thirds of Africa’s income, the rest two-thirds is from telecommunications and other source of income,” she said.

She added that the expanding workforce in Africa will help grow its Gross Domestic Products (GDP), adding that in 20 years time the top 18 African countries will have a combined spending of $1.6 trillion.

Oteh, therefore, enjoined foreign investors to rethink their investment plan and focus on Nigeria and other African countries, stressing that Africa has a huge potential for growth.

“Because we are aware of this fact, we have strengthened our legal and regulatory framework so that we can create a world class capital market and ensure effective distribution of economic gains,” she added.

Earlier in his speech, Chairman of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc Mr. Atedo Peterside, said allayed investors fear of a possible spread of recent political development in North Africa to Nigeria.

According to him, “I do not hesitate to state that I do not foresee a similar occurrence here in Nigeria, because our circumstances differ vastly. In my opinion, what we are witnessing in North Africa and some countries in the Middle East is essentially a confrontation between angry populations and sit-tight autocratic rulers”.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/power-sector-reform-ll-reduce-cost-by-40-/87025/

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, is running amuck and has been allowed to do so for too long. Otherwise how can one rationalise two statements attributed to the former governor in a space of 24 hours last week? The first was the order that incumbent governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola should sack all striking doctors and dentists employed by the Lagos State Government and have them replaced them with new ones.

The second was his declaration that Fashola has no business appointing commissioners in the state he administers. That responsibility, he reckoned, lies solely with the ruling party in Lagos, the Action Congress of Nigeria. If these are not the utterances of someone who is getting high on his own sense of self-importance, then I need my own head checked.

This is not to make excuses for the irrational medical personnel in Lagos, who have been coddled and pampered by the state government and are currently being paid wages that millions of professionals in Nigeria would jump at. Still, calling for their sack in one fell swoop does not solve the problem.

For one, recruiting and placing hundreds of doctors and dentists in the right positions in Lagos will amount to a costly, energy sapping exercise that will take several months and years to execute. It would be a lot more cost-effective and faster to keep negotiating with the recalcitrant medical practitioners until an accord, suitable to all parties, is reached. Two, sacking all of them collectively would elevate the crisis, could attract the sympathy of their colleagues nationwide and other labour unions, and snowball into one of unmanageable proportions that Lagos State would later regret.

Three, shouldn’t the responsibility on how to handle the striking doctors in Lagos reside with the state Ministries of Health and Establishment and the governor, Fashola? Instead, Tinubu’s directive to sack the state’s medical personnel was littered with the pronoun “we”. As in “We have provided a conducive environment for them to work and yet they are still not satisfied…”, “We are not going to reinstate him (Dr. Ibrahim Olaifa) because the moment you subject the authority given by the constitution to blackmail, you are finished…”, ““We have increased the salary of doctors to 75 percent and what that implies is that the most junior doctors in the state today have their salary increase from N110, 000 to N170, 000”. Who are “we”?

As I write this, I am not aware that Tinubu is still the governor of Lagos State, nor is he a member of state’s cabinet. Neither is he a member of the state House of Assembly. What we do know about Tinubu is that he is a member of the ACN, a key member and financier, but nothing more, nothing less.

Even if the strike by the doctors and dentists in Lagos is politically motivated, as Tinubu has alleged, did he have the mandate of his party to issue the directive? Was it one taken by the stakeholders of the party that this was their position on the state they control politically?

Which brings us to the other bizarre declaration by Tinubu; that the responsibility of appointing commissioners and special advisers into the state’s cabinet resides solely with the ACN. Fashola, on the other hand, should accept whoever is thrust upon him, because according to Tinubu, “many trusted people campaigned with the governor on the field and hence should be rewarded.” In other words, if they are rogues, incompetent and complete imbeciles, they should be rewarded with appointments into the cabinet, just because the party (sorry, Tinubu), says so.

I wonder if Tinubu as governor had his cabinet members picked for him solely by his party. Obviously, since he picked most of the cabinet members in 2007, he reckons he can lord it over Fashola again in 2011. Poor Fashola! What on earth has he gotten himself into?

But even if we were to digress a bit from Tinubu’s unchecked meddling into the affairs of Lagos and contrasted his statement with that of General Muhammadu Buhari’s on what led to the breakdown of talks between ACN and the Congress for Progressive Change on their proposed alliance, it has become quite apparent that there is something amiss.

Whilst Tinubu has blamed everything blamable under the sun, including some alleged moles planted by the Peoples Democratic Party and former President Olusegun Obasanjo to truncate the proposed alliance, Buhari and his party’s response has been measured, reminding the former governor that it was his ambition that led to the dissolution of the proposed affiliation. Buhari’s statement was further corroborated by a member of ACN, Attahiru Bafarawa, who claimed over the weekend, that it was Tinubu’s desire to be Buhari’s running mate that led to the breakdown in talks between the parties. I wonder how Nuhu Ribadu, the “presidential” candidate of ACN must be feeling now that everything’s out in the open that he was merely a pawn in a grand design that fell flat on its face.

Clearly, Tinubu is exhibiting signs of someone suffering for a case of the god complex – a state of mind in which a person believes that they have supernatural powers or god-like abilities, and generally believes they are above the rules of society and should be given special consideration.

That they have taken this long to manifest is even a miracle. Quite frankly, anyone allowed to run around without control with the amount of power he wields particularly in Lagos and some states in the south-west would end up misusing it. Even those with some recollection of Chief Obafemi Awolowo at the height of his reign in the old western region and Lagos, acknowledge that the late sage was a lot more circumspect about imposing his influence over the dominion he controlled.

Privately, I have always expressed concern about the stranglehold Tinubu has over Lagos. Those blindly in support of his excesses have always excused them on the grounds that he made Fashola what he is today and has shielded the state from the marauding army of the PDP. Yes, he handpicked Fashola and has managed to “outsmart” the PDP at its own game in some sections of the south-west, but that does not mean that those of us resident in Lagos should standby and allow the governor to be turned into a zombie controlled from Tinubu’s private fiefdom in Ikoyi. The governor, after all, swore to work for Lagos and its people, not for Tinubu and Company Limited.

Contrary to the popular perception, Tinubu really had no choice but to endorse and support Fashola’s reelection bid as the ACN governorship candidate in Lagos State for the April poll. Though Fashola had to beg and kowtow to get Tinubu’s blessing, realistically the ACN strongman knew that the governor was too popular to discard and would have had a riot on his hands had he done so. What this implies is that even when Tinubu’s judgement is beclouded with the power and influence that he thinks he possesses, some glimmer of clarity occasionally shines through and reminds him that power actually resides with the people.

Historically and current events in North Africa and the Middle East all point to the fact that no strongman has ever survived a popular rebellion by the people. A revolt, in this case, does not have to translate to people rioting on the streets and clashing with constituted authority. A revolt can come by way of protest votes for another candidate or a plebiscite indicating that they have had enough.

Tinubu’s saving grace to date is that his successor is widely liked. He should also thank his stars that the other parties in Lagos have not offered us credible alternatives worth considering. This writer among millions of Lagosians on election day would most likely cast our votes for Fashola on April 16. But Tinubu needs to get off his high horse and stop pushing his luck. Otherwise he will wake up one day to discover that the emperor has been stripped bare.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/tinubu-s-god-complex/86979/

Chinese evacuated 29000 of their citizens and said over 1000 refused to leave Libya. So, these goons who find it better living in Libya, were they forced to hop on the plane and come to Nigeria?

Honestly. Some people are just not in their right frame of mind. The worst is, some people will use that to blame everything Nigeria because some fools fail to use their brains.

^^^

Wallow in your ignorance.

very true.

Heavy English, empty boasts, immature name calling, self elation etc. These are the hallmark of NL. Who takes such serious?

A forum where you are cursed and called names just because you have a different opinion from the one they share. What can come out of that kind? Nada, Nothing.

If you like, break down and cry because someone's opinion is different from yours, it doesnt change a thing. Its all talk.

UP you poster.

aisha2:
They are right. what are they coming back too?Bad everything and deluded followership who cant see between religion and ethnicity, Nigerians deserve worse for not being able to see beyound their stomach, tribe and religious affiliation to vote right people to get things right. We sit and continue to maon and pray for good leadership, while going to vote blindly for an obvious bad leader because of myopic reasons. I dont blame them abeg, foolish country

What makes up a foolish country? Foolish people I think.

ask them how much they paid Snoop. You are all so ignorant.

This title is very mis leading.

KAI - the man said they are thinking about concessioning the road to a PPP to build and maintain and they can now charge toll fees to regain their investment.

Poster. what are you out to achieve by twisting the intent of a story?

did they force dem to leave. human beings na wah.

he needs their money in my opinion.