₦airaland Forum

omoalayo:
Group Managing Director, Energy Group, Jimoh
Ibrahim has warned President Muhammadu
Buhari to be wary of the IMF’s current visit to
Nigeria describing it as an economic bait that will
do Nigeria no good.
This is even as he enjoined President Buhari to
learn from the pitfall of Nigeria’s former Military
President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babagida (IBB),
when he handed over the economy to IMF by
taking specific loan only for the economy to be
destroyed with IMF’s painful colonial
conditionalities, reports National Mirror.
According to Ibrahim, the visit of IMF’s Managing
Director, Christine Lagarde is a means of
campaigning for economic conditionalities even at
a time when Nigeria, like some oil producing
countries, needs assistance and support to
continue to put into implementation government
policies.
He said that IMF boss’ statement on the economy
is traditional and full of strategic
misrepresentation adding that the IMF boss had a
full day creating an atmosphere for re-colonizing
Nigeria’s economy and advises the government to
run away from such unsolicited advice.
His words: “I enjoin President Buhari to learn from
Ibrahim Badamosi Babagida’s pitfall when he
handed over the economy to IMF by taking
specific loan only for the economy to be
destroyed with IMF’s painful colonial
conditionalities. The government of IBB was
simply put to an end in economic terms by the
Structural Adjustment Programme, an IMF baby
which remains the foundation of Nigeria’s
problem.”
He also describes the statement made by IMF
boss as uncalled for and a waste of time.
Ibrahim said: “For IMF to advise Nigeria not to be
rigid in Economy Policy is an indirect way of
asking for devaluation of naira and campaigning
for ‘about to come’ IMF conditionalities, knowing
very well that Nigeria may ask for assistance

Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/imfs-visit-learn-from-ibbs-pitfall-jimoh-ibrahim-warns-buhari/

at least some history for some kids on nairaland that were not born then..cod the records this ibb laid the foundation for nijas economic wahala and cofuption..we have had shonkan,abacha,abdulsalam,obj,yaradua non of them did anything to improve our economy and yet many todlefs in this forum wants crucify gej whenever they hear that name as if he's the first president of nija.

kozmokaz:
Editor’s note: For the second time the Nigerian army soldiers who
do not want their personalities to be revealed reach Naij.com with
an open letter to the Nigerian government and military authorities.
This time a soldier deployed in Bita, Borno state, in close vicinity to
the Sambisa forest, the Boko Haram stronghold, exposes the truth
about the living conditions, fighting capacity and morale of his
fellows.
The “daily routine”
We are not the only soldiers in North East.
We came to Adamawa state, fought hard and recaptured all lost
territories from Boko Haram. After two months of recess we were
given a task to capture Bita, a community located in Borno state – a
stronghold of the Boko Haram terrorists – and hand it over to the
troops of the seventh division of the Nigerian army. The task was
successfully completed. Ever since then we have been anticipating
to hand over to the seventh division only to hear that we have been
deployed operationally under the seventh division and
administratively under the third division.


This is our eighth months in Bita, a very strong Boko Haram enclave,
and today is worse of it all. Today, January 10, 2016, we have come
under a heavy terrorist attack, and lost four soldiers; 17 are badly
injured. With no air support and little resources we have endured the
attack lasting for four hours, and completed it successfully having
destroyed much of the enemy’s equipment

.
Soldiers need help
Please, the army authorities should render us support because
we are fed up, and some of our soldiers are beginning to go insane.
The day we pull out of Bita the Nigerian army will start all over
again. The duty of the Nigerian Air Force is to provide air support for
ground troops in combat, and also aid in medical evacuation of
casualties. But that has never been the case in operation Lafiya
Dole.

When soldiers are injured what you hear is that the zone is not safe
to land, but whenever the so-called generals feel like or are
compelled to come to front lines, they come with choppers and
heavy gunship escorts. Does it mean that the 114 task force
battalion with the troops deployed in Bita is no longer hamans? We
have the soldiers wounded as a result of the January 10 attack,
however, what they say is it is not secure for the choppers to land
and evacuate them for prompt medical care.
Is security a myth?
Are we not secure enough? How many minutes will it take to a
helicopter to land and take off? Now the wounded have to go
through the bad roads and gallops linking to Bita, which are not safe
from mines and enemy ambush. On several occassions we have
requested mine sweepers from the theatre commander, the general
officer commanding and the seventh division; all to no avail. The
equipment is worn out. We have only survived by God’s ultimate
love and grace. After 14 months of fighting and eight months on the
hostile ground our numbers have reduced drastically owning to
the killed and wounded in action. If we are not rotated by the time
the soldiers revolt, we will ensure Boko Haram recaptures all the lost
territories both in Adamawa and Maiduguri. Then they will know that
Boko Haram is still very strong in Nigeria, and they will stop
decieving Mr President.
This is our ordeal. Ensure I remain secret, as I have got the
opportunity to send this because I am the one of those escorting the
casualties to the medical centre in Yola. There is no mobile network
in Bita.

https://www.naij.com/692717-bita-soldier-discloses-bitter-truth-nigerian-army-boko-haram.html

sorry soldier pmb is too busy with dasuki and burtai is pre occupied with pressups..quietly leave ur rifle in the camp and find ur way home.

Ginoo:
Look at the big amount the are mentioning always. Apc and Pdp have destroyed this country the are looting the country money without any mercy

look at the way everyone is demonizing gdj as if HDS fhd one that laid foundation for this corruption...I believe there is a big difference between 2billon$ and $16billon,and yet they played a blind eye towards that..a certain gen.looted $12billion dollars oil money nobody talk o.
The harliburton scandle is still there yet oud new sherif choosed a soft target because he comes from a very naive region were they will tose the soo cslled patriotic bulshit to and they buy it but will throw away the same patriotism to the winds when it involves them...if buhari is keen about probing let him start with the sale of nitel,nepa,pdobd the nnpc and lets see if his cohofts wont be involved.leg him not forgot to probe the sponsors of boko haram and carryout an open trial of captured boko men lets know the extent of dasukis father christmas...besides all fhis you guys should leave gej alons.

Philistine:
Jonathan is the worst human disaster to have ever befallen this country. He is the most corrupt, evil and insensitive leader to have ever governed Nigeria.

I don't blame you .,I blame the ijaws.and we Niger deltans...

kropotkin2:
yes I agree with you that the president ought to congratulate Dickson on his victory, but I don't think his failure to do so is out of pride. It could be that it might not go down well with his party who will most likely challenge the result at the tribunal. Who knows?

well I agree with you but, let APC understand that all eyes are still on nija.

It's rather surprising and unethicle for pmb to not have congratulated governor Dickson on his recent victory at the polls..one should taught that the change which the APC preach should be manifested in every sphere of it's political activities as we nigerians expected the APC to improve on the political tolerance and lack of bitterness introduced by president Jonathan which has attracted a great deal of respect to our countries political judgement by the international community,but the reverse is the case and this leaves every sane Nigerian with this was question,..are we going forward or backward as a nation? if gej could congratulate other oppositions that one governorship seats In his tenure and did the same to pmb,why should pmb avoid doing just that?

Onijagidijagan:
Why is it more yorubas fighting this bokoharram sect all d time than other tribes? Are there no hausa, igbo, fulani e.t.c in this country to be taken to war fronts?
Anytime a name of soldiers appears in the news tend to be frm kogi, kwara or south west.
Well we all know where the best soldiers are always frm sha while d coward ones are getting bribes in the street.

sorry o the Hausa's are learning fast..no more cook and steward roles for the Yoruba solder unlike the civil war were the north has the crop of the casualties while ur kinsmen are flexing behind the lines...so the party is over.

Real2020:
Niger Delta oil money at work...developing Abuja. We ND are the biggest idiots I have seen. Our children will never forgive us for our monstrous stupidity.

don't worry,just tell ur children the right lie by blaming the Igbo's as usual...tell them the igbos siphoned all ur oil and took it to abuja,tell them the Igbo's caused the oil spillage in ogoni and they are responsible for the under development in ur region.

hoseamatoh:
A former military governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Jafaru Isa, has refunded N100million of the N170 million he allegedly received from embattled ex-NSA, Sambo Dasuki.

Mr. Isa, a retired brigadier-general, was arrested on Wednesday by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, at his Asokoro residence in Abuja.

Mr. Isa, a political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, was grilled for several hours in connection with about N170 million he received from Mr. Dasuki.

A reliable source familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES the APC chieftain and member of the 19-man Buhari Transition Committee was released after refunding N100million to the anti-graft commission.
The source said Mr. Isa pledged to return the remaining N70million soon.

“We let him go after returning the sum of N100million. We are expecting him to return the rest soon,” the source said.
According to him, some of the suspected recipients of the slush funds who claimed they had no idea the money sent to them was taken from the public till were handed opportunities to return what they got from the former NSA but refused.

“We offered them the chance of returning the money honorably but they keep deploying tactics to avoid prosecution, while also going away with the loot,” he said.

A close associate of Mr. Isa told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Dasuki lodged over N100 million into Mr. Isa’s account in instalments to buy a house, located on Mohammed Mohammed Avenue, Kano, for the former NSA.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that deposits were in turn made by Mr. Isa to the owner of the house, Ali Tukur, in two instalments.
However, the house purchase deal collapsed as a former Minister of Finance, Yarima Ngama, reportedly offered to pay the sum of N150 million cash when Mr. Dasuki reneged on the payment agreement.

Those familiar with their relationship say Messrs. Isa and Dasuki have been close friends since their cadet days at the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA) and had spent four years together while on military training in the United States.

The Peoples Democratic Party had on Sunday protested the release of Mr. Isa barely eight hours after his arrest while its own spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, remained detained.

The PDP, in a statement signed by its National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwon, said there could be no clearer indication that the APC-led administration was on a manhunt against PDP leaders, and that it had a personal grudge against Mr. Metuh, ostensibly for his stance as opposition spokesperson, particularly his recent exchange with the government and the APC over their dictatorial activities.

“The release of Jafaru Isa, a known associate of the President and chieftain of the APC eight hours after his arrest while our spokesman remains in detention even when the two are being investigated over the same allegation clearly shows that the President Buhari-led APC government is not fighting corruption but using the much hyped crusade as a cover to persecute PDP leaders and decimate the opposition, a project the EFCC has clearly yielded itself as a willing tool,” the statement said.


www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/196591-dasukigate-buharis-associate-jafaru-isa-returns-n100million-to-efcc.html

I weep for nija.it has always been the case with the north whenever in power they do things with alacrity and no one dares to ask why cos we southern as have sold our right for a plate of amala,akpu,or starch.

kenonze:
Bad one for Bayelsa

see mumu so you will be glad to see nija as a one party state..tomorrow u will call itself a patriot.

Ugomba:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
WE HAVE A NEW CLOWN IN TOWN.
Ikechu1278, Fr3do, Onenaira3, Rose2014 come in o and watch this idiot.

this barcarnista of a guy should be performing in a circus in any of the us states...the guys calling is comedy.

Ugomba:
in a time we should be working to unite Nigeria, he want to sow the seed of Igbophobia in South South.
As an Anioma guy from SS(Delta), its an insult he wants to take too far, he forgot that Ijaws are historical land grabbers and Dictators.

my brother thanks for addressing that idiot..personally I choose to ignore him cos I know ijaw is no match with the igbos in every ramification...so leave the dog to bark.
mind you am from rivers state isiokpo.

brize:
Pray for who? I rather pray for Idi Amin or at worst pray for satan

guy u harsh o..you just sent me rolling on the floor

brize:
Pray for who? I rather pray for Idi Amin or at worst pray for satan

guy u harsh o..you just sent me rolling on the floor

abduljabbar4:
This one that you are reffering to the Yorubas as cowards, have you forgotten how ojukwu dressed like a woman and fled the country when the heat was too much for him?

at least its better than a general knelling down before a mere major crying like a baby....he's also better than the one that hardly differentiates between ogogoro and otapiapia.

HopeAtHand:
Ewu gambia, i am from Rivers state and we dnt disturb the peace of NL with noisy threads. This Anambra industrialisation thread is much ado about nothing in particular.

anu mpama who gives a huit about were you come from...this the reason why i dont comment on nairaland cos kids like u that are suposed to be busy with there cartoons come here to deril matured threads.
the op said the most industralized state indeginiously in nija..you and i knew that anambra state deserve that award.am also from rivers state,tell me how many companies in rivets are owned by tivers indegines? the other idiot tslking of igr should tell us how many indeginiois compsnies owned by yofubas are in his state.
yes you guys talk of huge igr but it does not reflect in ur states,anambra has one of the least poverty rate in nija...so the soo called huge igr psraded by osun and rivets states what are the impact on the citizenry...nigeria cliams its the largest economy in africs yet south africa has a more sound economy than nija,tunisia and morroco are doing better than nija....all na paper economics so kids like you should travel and learn,for uf info ask ur mum the xmas cloths shs bought for you were did it come from,then you will undetstand better.

henryanna36:
Ahead of Bayelsa state rerun election,military gunboats were spotted in the creeks of Southern Ijaw local government area.The soldiers are expected to foster peace and prevent Southern Ijaw voters and INEC materials from thugs and militants who may wish to create violence and hijack election materials in tomorrow's Bayelsa State election.

source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/01/bayelsa-rerunmilitary-gunboats-spotted.html

shakara.

HopeAtHand:
If Anambra is a big as you guys paint it, let her IGR speak for her. Look at Lagos and Rivers, the stats dont lie. The IGR is a reflection of the massive economic activities going on.

ode u forget to mention osun,kwara,and Ogun.

agarawu23:
will u shutt up there and stick to what you Blv in instead of condemning other ppl's religion.

Dolt

if you call Islam a religion then you need to double check ur head.

OsusuMustFlow:
The Secretary General of African Iron and Steel Development, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi has accused erstwhile Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy in the President GoodLuck Jonathan administration, Dr. Okonjo Iweala of conniving with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to write a phoney audit report on the Ajaokuta Steel Company.

He said the report, which adjudged the company as lacking in prospects was to serve the interest of powerful nations, especially the West, who markets their iron and Steel in Nigeria and other African countries.

Speaking with DAILY POST in Abuja on Tuesday, the Scribe lamented that it was the fourth time international finance organisations would capitalize on corrupt tendencies of Nigeria government officials, who were always ready to compromise and write-off Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Company, despite its huge prospects of being Nigeria’s biggest revenue earnings and employer of labour.

“There was a lot of sabotage going on and I have four different report which were initiated by World Bank against Ajaokuta Steel Company”, Sanusi said.

He added: “another group, which has links with World Bank and IMF were invited from Britain by Bureau of Public Enterprises; they came and condemned Ajaokuta, and when we the stakeholders pointed out their mistakes, they left and never came back to Nigeria up till date”.

Dr. Sanusi also recalled that he faulted the power point presentation of another group, which were brought in by the former Minister of Finance, Dr Okonjo Iweala known as “Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facilities”.

“There is another one the former Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo Iweala brought in called Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facilities and after two weeks tour of our steel Facilities, they assembled some officials of the National Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and Solid minerals and other stakeholders; before you knew it, they reported that their head team had travelled back to Canada”, he added.

Sanusi who admitted that the Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi was in touch with the Iron and Steel Association, commended President Buhari administration for his concerted effort at revamping the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel steel.

He advised Buhari to personally pay a visit to the steel industry for what he called a first hand information, noting that it would help his decision rather than waiting to be briefed.

“It is not enough that Mr President should be briefed by anybody. I advise him to pay a visit personally with some of his cabinet members so that when he is taking a decision, it is based on facts rather than waiting to be briefed”, Sanusi maintained.

lalasticlala

http://dailypost.ng/2016/01/05/okonjo-iweala-connived-with-world-bank-imf-to-write-off-ajaokuta-steel-company-dr-sanusi/

you northerners are bunch of jokers.so what happened to ajaokuta since 1979..what haappend to it during abachas era and objs.
the point is buhari,apc and his co hurts always playing the blame game since 10 AD. my uncle retired from ajaokita as a g.m and i know much about ajaokuta...heaping every blame on gejs administration for every issue in nija is just wicked and mallicious.rember,for the records purpose no govt is immune to blame and crictisisms and no bastard should cry wolf when its bubus turn to recieve the blames by then only pray for nigerians to be fair in there barages.

Old2020:
Yoruba..always disturbing themselves with a cause that has absolutely nothing to do with them. They run to Shia threads and interfere, they run to Biafra threads to interfere. MIND YOUR EFFING BUSINESS!

and yet they flee from the thread that reported the Yoruba nupe clash o.
you will never see them there but they choose to die on top Biafra mata,why?

courage54:
Note!!!

We in Niger-Delta don't no anybody by the name Playboy. Even the few someone's that threaten Nigeria with fire and brimstone if GEJ should loose the last election have all gone into hiding because no one plays with the GENERAL and go scoot free if you think am lieing you can ask DASUKI and KANU who will be spending their eternity in either KUJE or KIRIKIRI maximum prison.

Read My LIPS.


Nobody dictates for us in the region because we are NIGER-DELTANS not Biafra.
And we Niger-deltals are firm in our support for any measure the president will use in curbing corruption and ensuring the return of our looted funds by the enemies of the country and anybody who is not happy with that will join their DILECTOR in KUJE PRISON.


GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS NIGER-DELTA
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUHARI

confused Yoruba man you will die on top biafra mata one day...make sure u see a doctor cos cardiac arrest immenient.

Drchristian:
biafra and shiites are d same thing(Terrorists), now i know why biafrans are in support of these shiite members on their facebook pagebiafra and shiites are d same thing(Terrorists), now i know why biafrans are in support of these shiite members on their facebook page
i'm not mad but u are d one mad here.

I never knew that Oshogbo weed will be this destructive.

Anticabal:
Ayatollah, whatever action you are going to take please do not come down south, grab a nigerian map, the sunnis live in the core northern states of sokoto, zamfara, Katsina, Gombe, borno, kano, kaduna, jigawa, adamawa and more.

Find them there and do whatever you wish with them, just keep the Christian south out of your Sunni Jihad vs Shiite Jihad wars. We in the south are not interested. We are not one people.

but mate u for got to mention there allies in the west or are they not Sunnis there too

Sall:
How did we get here. Were are the raining day fund. Jonathan will never no peace with the way he destroyed this country.

my friend shut ur dirty mouth if u don't know what to say...is gej the only president that ruled nija since 1999?

ibb1993:
Don't doubt anyone who said boko haram cannot codinate any attack again, they knew what they are saying because the deed is already sealed. Boko haram will be resurrected again when buhari is done until power returns to the not again.

op the truth will not hide for long..the worst is that we southerners don't know the dsngrrs of allowing the north yo get away with this boko attrocitrs.

whatit:

I hope u didn't include the Yoruba's in that 90% cos they are the ones crying more than the beriefed.

bettercreature:
Celebrating no xmas bombing for the first time in 6yrs
BOKOHARAM IS DEAD
The bad news you PDP bandwagon and APC plastic fans are waiting for,will never happen

you guys should not regoice.buhari has finally reached an aggrement with his boys...if buhari say his hands are clean let him constitute a trial for book hsram,let him probe the sponsors, and the ones arrested why did their trials stopped or why were they not sentenced yet?
Yet this is an organization that was responsible for 30000 Nigerian deaths.painfully the president is still asking for there amnesty...shame.