₦airaland Forum

eph12:
I don't think anybody is disputing the fact that Amaechi bought those helicopters. The issue on ground now is that why is the RSG unable to clear it at custom? Is it the same reason Amechi couldn't do so?

Wike has said the reason: Rivers State cannot pay the requisite Duties and accrued Demurrage charges.

Since Wike working with GEJ blocked the clearing since 2014 thereabout, the FG has changed its stance and now requires that everyone pays their fees.

Tomjazzy2:
The person that issued this statement should have atleast borrowed a clue from Wike and furnished us with facts, not mere allegations.


There should be copies of documents to show that attempts were indeed made to posses the said choppers, and that the Presidency declined them all.


Either ways, if we are to believe these claims by Ameachi, it then means that he equally worked to frustrate Wike's efforts at possessing the same choppers when he became Governor.

Talk more of political vendetta that is a key feature in our political landscape

Here is a link to the fact. This is a newspaper report from April 2013. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-east/129199-we-bought-two-helicopters-but-for-security-reasons-governor-amaechi-says.html

ndcide:
Is that the reason why the present FG refused to give the helicopters to RSG? Even when the governor had written to customs and the president?

So because of amaech.

Okay, the FG is no longer interested in the security of rivers state now.

The Govt simply said, PAY the duties! And since it has been with Customs for such a long time, you also need to pay demurrage for all these years that it had been left at the port. Waiver is a favour and not obligatory.

or whatever it is called

braino1:
Mayb d president nids to be told that in the bible it is stated clearly dat 'touch not my annointed and do my prophets no harm'...trying to arrest d
Appostle means trying to touch the prophet of GOD which simply means inviting the Wrath OF GOD Upon u. so therefore BUHARI, BEWARE nd BEWARNED.!

Did the Apostle register his church with CAC, while registering did he accept to be bound by the laws of Nigeria?

If he wanted to be judged based on God's law, did he not know how to go into prayers and register his church in the spiritual realm?

What happened to his prophesy from God that El Rufai would die within months and not see the end of the year? Was he lieing, was God wrong or was it that God listened more to the prayers of the Muslim el-Rufai than Apostle Suleiman's?

Ponder these things and you might come to see some light.

emi14:
Forget osibanjo. His a figure head. Freedom of worship have eluded Nigerians because of wrong choice based on tribal sentiments. A wrong choice indeed. Nigerians voted before thinking. Lord have mercy.

Please make that personal, YOU voted without thinking.

excel101:
What has the Govt. done to the alpha's, Imams or Islamic clerics that preaches to the Muslims in the mosques in the Northern region to kill Christian's.

Please, can you share a link to those videos or preachingS. I'd like to be able to share this with others.

magoo10:
DSS is about to make apostle Suleiman popular and draw sympathy from Christians around the world just as they did in nnamdi kanu case

But you didn't say this when El-Zakzaky was detained. Or doesn't he deserve to be made popular too?

manny4life:
But Dangote has access to that same supply right? The man hasn't accessed FOREX in 6 months for a company who has 150 lines of plastic manufacturing creating 4,500+ jobs, and you're claiming your economical nonsense, continue deceiving yourself..

Let me ask you this, if you were the CBN Governor and you have limited Forex, and fuel subsidy used to account for almost 60% of your Forex needs. You now have a Dangote building a refinery and a Innosson doing plastics, both companies need that your scarce Forex, please tell me, which of the companies would you allocate Forex to?

Note: I'm not saying this is how it's done O, just letting you see that allocation during scarcity times has different factors at play.

vani86:
doubt you have evr worked in your life, enough said. like i said you are a dullard, so innoson plastic management are incompetent, but are the biggest in west africa as well as erisco foods, or airtel that is about pulling out of naija or dangote tomato factory that shut down should i continue

dude abeg just hide your head in shame, you have been schooled

You are a clown! You have no understanding of business. Airtel would pull out of their biggest market in Sub Sahara Africa. Not everyone is as dull as you.

If you used your time on the web productively, you'd know that Dangote Tomato factory has been up since.

How can you that does not understand commerce be schooling someone!? I laugh in Spanish. Mtchewww

vani86:
OMG you are actually a hyper dullard.

If you actually read the writeup, it focused on its plastic factories which is the biggest in west africa, and yea naija aint developed fully to produce all materials needed for the factory hence the need to import. Besides the CBN has a 60% to 40% forex ratio where 60% go to manufacturers who need raw materials for their factory and 40% is for the rest. Now if someone as rich and connected as innoson cant even secure forex for the RAW materials his factory needs, what do you think is happeneing to the little manufacturers in nigeria.

My own factory have shut down as well cuz of this same issue, a factory that had over 1.5 billion revenues per month in 2015.

It is really sad.

If your company was making 1.5 billion per month in 2015 and it shuts down in 2016 because of Forex, clearly it was not a business built on any structure, it had no business plans or strategy but was being sponsored by "patronage".

The other reason would be simple, you or whoever is running the factory is a dullard!

ILIDEFI:
What you dont know is the worth of products manufactured from the $3 million. If they are worth $7 million for example, it means his company saves $4 million dollars for the country per month. I don't think it's a bad deal.
Remember that much of what is used in plastics production comes from our petrochemicals, and the plant is said to be the largest in West Africa, hence the need for large imports.

Bros, leave that matter!

ehie:
INNOSON IS NOT ASKING THE GOVERNMENT FOR AID BUT FOR THE ABILITY TO ACCESS MATERIALS WHICH HE CANNOT, YET YOU DENY HIM THIS,
WHAT HAS THIS FOREX POLICY BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE, IS IT THE RICE SELLING FOR 20,00 WHEN THE MINIMUM WAGE IS 15K..

IS IT THE SICK THAT HAVE NO ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE ABROAD , IS IT DENYING NIGERIANS THE RIGHT TO ACCESS QUALITY EDUCATION IN ANY COUNTRY THEY DEEM FIT,

WHAT HAS THIS GOVERNMENT ACHIEVED.HOW WILL HE INNOVATE WITH NEPA BILLING HIM 50 MILLION A MONTH,

WHAT DOES HE MAKE, THIS IS MAN EMPLOYING 450 PEOPLE, ALMOST A MINISTRY,

COUNTRIES YOU EMULATE WERE BUILT ON SMALL BUSINESS, BUT YOU RATHER DESTROY THE FEW ONES TRYING TO MAKE IT HERE, ALMOST ALL FOREIGNERS ARE DUMPING THEIR SHARES AND RELOCATING BUT NIGERIA IS KILLING THE FEW NIGERIANS WHO ARE PATRIOTIC, I DONT BLAME YOU, ITS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER EMPLOYED ANY ONE IN YOUR LIFE, NEVER PRODUCED A THING BUT A A PRODUCT OF A PARASITIC SYSTEM...
UNA TOO MUMU WITH NO ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN, NO WONDER YOU WERE BOUNCED BY ADESINA AND WORLD BANK MUMUS IN GOVERNMENT ..
WHEN U HAVE AN ECOMIC RECOVERY PLAN I WILL READ YOUR STINKING COMEBACK LINE LOSER (S)

You lack an ability to think rationally and logically, otherwise you would realise that when Forex is not available many that want it would not get it. If you had paid a little more attention at the Economic class in your secondary school, you would understand what happens when demand is higher than supply. No one is out to destroy Innosson.

BTW, if you need a jb, kukuma say you want one.

ehie:
since you are so learned, China pumped millions into their companies and gave them aid so they could grow ,that was in the nineties, and when America had it recession it pumped millions into banks companies etc, then why is the Nigerian government determined to kill its companies and not aid them when the government cannot provide jobs, security, shelter and clothing for its citizens?

There is a difference between pumping money into a company and giving it Forex! Forex is pumping money into a foreign company.

There are 2 things that makes you innovate, you are either forced or have a need to address.

The Govt may not have the money to pump into the companies (oil price drop in a mono-economy) and may thus depend on the scarcity of Forex to force people to innovate. Is it the best idea, No!; Is it workable, Yes.

stephenduru:
As shared by Innoson Motors media aide Cornel Osigwe...

1. Foreign exchange: He said as at that period, the last time CBN approved forex for him was 6 months ago and his companies need over 3 Million Dollars’ worth of forex monthly in order to sustain its production. There is a high demand for their products, but there is little he can do if he can’t access forex to get the foreign input needed for production. Hence the forex scarcity is a major reason why his factory has closed down over 85% of its production lines.

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/01/innoson-motors-closes-over-85-of-its.html?m=1

On the bolded part, if your company needs $3 Million dollars monthly to produce locally, then you are actually NOT producing locally in the true sense of it!

Your company should invest that N2.8 Billion ($3 mln * 3 *320) that it saved from lack of Forex into a local company that can produce that chemical that you need to import monthly! That is how local economy is developed, you can't be shipping out $3 million monthly from scarce Forex.

Remember, there was a time when the plastics you are producing were being imported, then your company was setup to bridge the gap, your company can finance or co-finance another company to produce the much needed inputs, that way more employment for Nigerians and less dependence on Forex.

989900:
How does one pay for service not rendered?

Provide the power first, then negotiate for increase in tariff.

You bought the companies after bidding, now put up or shut up.

Did you take the phone (Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry, Infinix, Tecno, etc) away before you paid the seller?
Did MTN / Airtel /Etisalat / Glo allow you make the calls before you bought the credit?

Without paying the right price for services, those services would not improve.

Recollect people paid upwards of 20K to MTN and Airtel to ensure that investments were made in the telecomms sector that has now made it affordable for people to buy it at N200. Nobody said the services should be available across Nigeria before MTN and Econet could sell their 20K+ SIMS back then, they were allowed to roll out in Lagos, Abuja, PH and Kano!

The question to ask Nigerians is simple: Where else are we paying the same prices we were paying prior to the oil price crash and devaluation? Why should we want to continue paying the same tariff for electricity as if that sector is not affected by happenings across the nation's economy?

dechriscool:
Lamed excuse from a misfit personality who studied English and linguistic but end up having a portfolio to double for minister of transport and Aviation.Where does he have the brain to think engineering.
What's the work of flood light at a construction site?All the construction work done by Julius Berger during the night. How many death has being recorded?
If your fear is to resign at any misfortune that occur during the night work at the airport tarmac.There you lied cos no politicians resign in this country for any death cause directly or indirectly by them.
Recent southern kaduna massacre comes to mind.No body made an attempt to arrest the perpetrator or prosecute the security agencies for lack of prompt respond to arrest the situation

It would be quite erroneous to think the Aviation minister would not have qualified engineers working for him or that he won't have taken inputs from them.

Let us do an hypothetical repairs as proposed by some smart Alec to work at night. Let us say the Abuja runway is 2Km, and we carry out repairs on a section, 100m at point 880m on the runway. Below are the issues that come up:

1. Would that section completely cure before the next morning?
2. If it is not cured enough, can it then support the load of a laden aircraft?
3. Would it be safe for an aircraft to be landing on a runway where you are not sure can support your weight?
4. Should the section give way and an accident occurs, would you not have to then close the same runway/airport?

Some things aren't rocket science, but it is the politics in Nigeria that is definitely the problem.

Cityguy:
South Easterners not selling their lands to Muslims to build mosques is reactionary. It has been the norm in core North of the country for decades. I'm not selling you 'noodles', it's fact I witnessed first hand there. What everyone is saying is that respect is reciprocal. Respect my right and I will respect yours.

How dishonest can you be!

The numerous Sabon-garis all over the North is majorly populated by whom, Ijaws or Yorubas or Igbos?
Where is the Hausa quarters in the South Eastern part of the country?

udumosam23:
Looks like religious leaders now support that the country should be divided for good. First it was CAN, then winners GO, now kukah apart from other renown MOGs.


Suddenly they realize we only have two cheeks, if you slap one and we turn the other and you slap it, there is none to turn again. The passivity of Christians during crises has been the major reason these animals won't think twice before they slaughter Christians in the north.

I have said it before, if you hurt me, I'll forgive you. But if my life is threatened or that of my family, I wouldn't mind picking up arms to defend myself, I'll not just kill you if it comes to that, I'll kill all your kinds that are a potential threat to live. I have the right to live as every other person.

If the muslims are hell bent on making this country terrible for the Christians, its high time we prove to them we have a choice. We aren't taking this shit any more.

If the govt has also proven that our lives are no better that the Fulani cows, then its high time we think of defending ourselves.

There is no need been hypocritical about this, if you want to do your Muslim agenda, divide this country now, but as long as this country remain one Nigeria, I have the constitutional right to live and practice my religion at any part of it.

This nonsense must stop.

So AFTER you divide the country, ALL native Christians in the North should move to where?

Seeing as you have parochially assumed that all Northerners are Muslims, what would happen to Christians in the North and also what should happen to Muslims in the South East?

BTW, seeing as you are claiming constitutional rights to practice your religion anywhere in the country, do you also believe that Muslims have that right? Have you also spoken out against the practice where South Easterners do not sell their lands to Muslims to build mosques?

This things go both ways you know!

Toosure70:
ask tafa balogun

jumpandpas:
Who arrested Tafa Balogun?

I am not sure Tafa Balogun was arrested while he was still the IGP.
To arrest the IGP, the Presidency has to issue a sack and then he can be arrested, but definitely not before then.

ChangeIsCostant:
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the government and people of the state will stand with the six policemen illegally dismissed by the Police High Command for political reasons because they committed no crime known to law.


He said: "They gave me policemen for my protection, but before I knew it, they have dismissed them. They think they are punishing them , but Rivers State will stand with them forever.

"By the time we finish, they will realise that they have favoured the so-called dismissed policemen. In Rivers State, we don't abandon people. No amount of intimidation, will make me abandon these innocent policemen ".

Governor Wike added: " The Policemen committed no offence. Simply because they followed their boss, they said they should be dismissed.

"They want to discourage policemen from protecting me. For me, I am not worried. I am a village man and a grassroots politician. Before you kill me, you would have killed so many people ".

How did Wike know the Policemen are Innocent? Was he part of the investigative panel, or is he just yarning dust as usual - like he did during the judge' house raid.

And here he is again, talking about killing , why is he so obsessed with people being killed?

BTW, isn't it the same Policemen and DSS personnel guarding him? Aren't these security personnel supplied by the same Federal Government? Make him stop all this ranting and hullabaloo.

dhardline:
. Am surprised Buhari is still in power.

The senate of a sane country would have impeached this man already. Just look at the level of suffering the masses are facing. It's Dec, Christmas is less than 2weeks from now but it looks like we are in May.

Let's say they impeach him and replace him with Ben Bruce from Bayelsa State, I believe the following will immediately happen:

1. Nigeria's oil income would immediately triple.
2. The Naira will make a u-turn and become 150/$.
3. Millions of job will be created as militants setup companies from the money they've been hoarding.
4. The price of rice would crash to 6K per bag as everyone is celebrating
5. The hardship in the country would just disappear fiam!
6. Nigeria would start to earn Billions of dollars from the export of Textile, Rubber, Tin, Cassava, etc
7. The vaults of the CBN would be filled with dollars


8. Nigerians would be smiling, happy, joyous and celebrating being the 3rd largest economy in the world!


NASS, let's do it!

Firefire:


“It is absurd for anyone to claim that this spill was a product of militants’ attack on the recently reopened line. As we speak, the people of Ogulagha Kingdom are swimming in crude oil. From what we gathered, the export pipeline has not been changed in the last 30 years since they opened it,” one of the sources said.


Who do we believe?

I guess we can expect all the above 35 years building scattered across the world to collapse since their bricks hasn't been changed in 35 years! Nonsense.

I guess the people swimming in crude oil in the community are swimming to go to work or swimming back home after a hard days work.


Until the Niger Delta people agree that all these act only destroy their land and affects the health of their own people, then they would start to reason well to find another way to address these demands. It is high time the various communities start to rise up against the degradation of their lands and waters by this kind of senseless acts.

dboss444:
i do not the reason why this govt fails to understand that we are no more in d industrial age that we are in d information age. money control is now electronic so its easy for money put in and put out. its happening everywhere in d world there is nothing they can do about it. just make d Nigerian investment space attractive to investors and they would leave their money here.

even if they have d law will u strt monitoring interswit ch transaction. its never possible except u want more recession

So you actually believe those scenes in movies where they just transfer monies across borders without issues? Sorry to burst your bubble, that is not how it happens!

There are restrictions to expatriating monies out of every developed country. Just try to get to a bank in US and want to transfer $30K out of the country, then you'd understand that it is not like in the movies. Common $5K sef MoneyGram and Western Union go ask you so much tori you go waka away or go to the banks, but for here in Naija, anyone can sit on his laptop and fiam, $30K don waka comot from Naija go US.

Ekpekus:
24hours x 10 days = 240hrs..

For 1.2BN. Is the money in #20 denominations

So when you are employed by a company, you will spend 24 hours of your life at the company! You won't go home, you won't have a family or you won't have friends. OK o.

YouthsPC0:
Fashola, Buhari and an Administration Bereft of Ideas

 By Reno Omokri

 
By building 12 new federal universities and 165 almajiri schools and renovating 507 additional secondary schools all over Nigeria through the Universal Basic Education Commission, the Jonathan administration not only increased access to education, the policy also had the intended side effect of putting hundreds of thousands of youths to work which stimulated the economy and contributed to GDP growth.


Reno Omokri

Reno is said to be a Pastor, thus all I ask, about the items bolded above, is for him to show me pictures of just 10 of the Almajiri schools and 20 of the renovated secondary schools with their locations.

Anyone that gets to Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states can be shown pictures of the schools that the Governors renovated, all is ask if for Omokri to show pictures ( and addresses/locations to back up his own claims.

The elections is over and it is time to start busting these nincompoops and their irritating lies.

kjhova:
Two pages into this post and all I'v seen thus far is jolly Buhari haters with little fact checking.

Donald Trump hasn't named his cabinet yet and will likely not until January 20, 2017 and beyond. He is selecting his Transition Team the same way APC named thiers within two weeks of their electoral victory.

What is it with us folks in Nigeria? All of these information is there within easy reach on your mobile phones and you are inundated with it on satelite TV yet you still allow some people to lead you down an inglorious path?

We can now conclude that something is inherently wrong with the education in Nigeria! When a former SSA does not know the difference between a "Transition Team", A "Kitchen Cabinet", and "Cabinet Ministers"!

Even if Trump has named his Chief of Staff, is that a Cabinet position? Many like Omokri and his supporters here, are just happy to praise him for being against Buhari, not knowing they are simply displaying how insanely clueless they are. What happened to their senses?

Where are the people to make this a case against Christianity? All I see constantly on Nairaland is scorn and denigration whenever underage sex is mentioned amongst the Northerners.

Can we all do the needful now and come strongly against our fellow brothers in Aba!

Where are the people to make this a case against Christianity? All I see constantly on Nairaland is scorn and denigration whenever underage sex is mentioned amongst the Northerners.

Can we all do the needful now and come strongly against our fellow brothers in Aba!

Nashoji:
have you been able to see even the photocopy of buhari certificate up until this time that he is the presedent

Nope, but how does that relate to 165 buildings not showing on the ground?

21. We established twelve conventional Universities and a specialized Maritime University. To assist the disadvantaged children in Northern Nigeria, we built 165 special schools known as "Almajiri School" that integrated Islamic culture into Western education.

Up till now, we are yet to see pictures of just Five (5) out of this 165 schools! Are they that hard to find and showcase?

Can someone , anybody just publish a list of the schools!

discusant:
Kwi kwi kwi kwi .. continue your tweets for absolute dictatorship for Nigeria under Muhammadu Buhari.

Unless you are a descendant of Othman Dan Fodio who boasted that Nigeria from the Sahel to the Atlantic coast, must be made an estate of his clan, that's how you are unable to see the bigger plot behind Buhari clan's endless attacks on the Judicial and the legislative arms of Nigeria's government of today. The clan hides behind fight against corruption to weaken the Judiciary and Legislature, as well as weaken opposition.

Didn't Buhari himself say that he wouldn't rest until Islamic Sharia Criminal codes are employed in all of Nigeria?

Is this not the first time in Nigeria's history that attempts are being made to insert use of Islamic Sharia Criminal codes into the country's constitution?

What's all the drive by Buhari and his clan to use executive arm of government to distribute Fulani cattle grazing fields to all of Nigeria, despite the refusals by many states in the country?

The grand plot by descendants of Othman Dan Fodio through Buhari now is: intimidate the Judiciary and the Legislature so that little or no obstacles shall be left on the road toward finally making Nigeria an estate of the Descendants of Othman Dan Fodio.

The process was started by

military dictators loyal to the descendants of Othman Dan Fodio through creating undue large number of states and consequent political representation constituencies in northern Nigeria by foul use of land mass as criterion.

That skewed political structure is why a man like Buhari would be president in the midst of thousands of younger and better educated and better qualified presidential materials in Nigeria.

What is playing out in Nigeria is a REVOLUTION by descendants of Othman Dan Fodio to stamp their authority all over Nigeria through democratic means.

You forgot to mention that the nation was a Regional entity with each doing its own thing until Ironsi (an Igbo man) came and meddled it all up by getting us into a unitary system that has been the bane of Nigeria till now.

When you take a decision, do not blame others for being smarter than you to exploit that your inordinate desire to their advantage.

bayelsaowei:
We have to restructure the goddamn nation..but many persons no go gree..

Can you share your thoughts on what you will like to see in a RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA. Just describe the restructured entity that you have in mind.