₦airaland Forum

noblezone:
Nigeria is too complex, Nigeria is a joke.
This tribal/ethnic/religious politicking will surely continue without end till dooms day.

Let us come together, sit down and negotiate Nigeria.

that is exactly what we should do

each time we try to develop, a group of people keep dragging Nigeria back

WE SHOULD KNOW IF WE WANT NIGERIA OR NOT

Beaf:
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Lol! I'm not a GEJ adviser, [s]but I'm sure he will transform Nigeria, North, South, East and West. [/s]

yes u are related to GEJ

and u know it

why is jonathan not saying anything

some people are here insulting the emir

why is sambo late ? it is very unculture of him to be late and keep someone waiting even if it is not the emir

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can u give it up already, it is starting to annoying everyone

Johndoe100:
Why? We are talking bout DE ACTION GOFNOR. In addition to this and all the other things said by posters, I heard he walks on water and went to a place where people were hungry and fed them with 2 loaves of bread and five fish, boy isn't he great? Or am I thinking of someone else?

come on don't be stu,pid

T[b]he South-south Parliamen-tary Caucus in the House of Representatives Sunday threw its weight behind the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the zoning of the position of Speaker of the lower chamber of the National Assembly to the South-west geo-political zone.
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T[b]he support came just as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Caucus in the House denied working against the interest of the South-west in the selection of a new speaker.
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Chairman, South-South Caucus, Hon. Andrew Uchendu, who made the position of the group known in a chat with THISDAY, said the resolve to support the decision of the ruling party on zoning was borne out of the need to ensure party discipline and supremacy on the issue.

Uchendu disclosed that the decision to abide by the zoning was taken after the Caucus met and had an exhaustive deliberation on the matter.

“On the particular issue of choosing a new speaker for the House of Representatives, the Caucus resolved that we will not challenge any position, which the PDP has approved as the zoning arrangement for the allocation of public offices in the National Assembly including the office of the Speaker.

“We are mindful of the fact that we are products of the PDP and we will ensure that the party instils discipline among its rank and file. We expect the various zones to lobby for any position. The South East and all the other zones are free to aspire to any position and to proclaim what they want, but as soon as the PDP makes public its position on where the pendulum will swing to, we in the South-South Parliamentary Caucus will abide by whatever decision the party takes on the matter,” Uchendu said.

The caucus leader also debunked insinuations in certain quarters that the party’s zoning of the office of speaker amounted to an imposition of a particular candidate on the parliament.

According to Uchendu, the expanded national caucus of the PDP did not in its decision endorse any of the aspirants but merely zoned it to the South-west as a guide to its members in the House of Representatives.

In a separate interview, Chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa (ACN/Lagos), denied the reports in some national allies that the ACN Caucus in the House was working against the zoning of the post of speaker to South-west lawmakers of PDP extraction.

She said there was no truth in reports alleging that the party’s caucus in the House had ruled out the two PDP candidates of the South-west who are aspiring to occupy the post of Speaker.

Members of the ACN Caucus, Dabiri-Erewa said, were not opposed to the aspirations of Hon. Ajibola Muraina and Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola because "both candidates are eminently qualified" to lead the House.

“We are studying the candidates and we think that both Mulikat and Muraina are eminently qualified to lead the House. We have not taken a decision on whom the caucus will back but, of course you know that most members of the House are not interested in any candidate with baggage of problems.

Meanwhile, a meeting of newly elected senators and members of the House of Representatives summoned to discuss “crucial issues of national and mutual interest” ended in a fiasco Sunday as some political thugs stormed the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja venue of the meeting and forcibly dispersed the first term federal legislators just before they could commence their deliberations. The meeting, THISDAY gathered, was convened by a group linked to a serving state governor who was recently elected to the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly. The said governor turned senator-elect is said to have been nursing the ambition of becoming President of the Senate in the next dispensation and wanted to use the meeting to mobilise the first term legislators to further his cause.

A source privy to the agenda of the meeting told THISDAY that the conveners were supposed to use the forum to sensitise the new members of the yet to be inaugurated parliament on the need for them to push for a reversal of the recently amended Senate Rule on ranking and its equivalent in the House Rule.

Some new senators-elect had opposed the new rule since it was made public and had consistently sought a reversal. The opposition mounted against the amendment of the Senate Rule was borne out of the feeling that the new order was discriminatory against new legislators and barred them from aspiring to positions of prominence in the parliament.

Unlike in the previous meetings convened by the new legislators themselves, Sunday's meeting was convened by one Alhaji B.Y. Sabo of no known group or political affiliation.

The notice of the “joint meeting” of senators-elect and members-elect published in some national dailies was signed by the said Sabo who left two phone lines as his only contacts.

When THISDAY called one of the lines on the newspaper advertisement, a male voice, who identified himself as an aide to Sabo, confirmed that the meeting was disrupted while his boss had gone to another meeting outside the hotel.

In a related development, the aspiration of the Senate President, David Mark, to lead the seventh session of the Senate remained on the upswing Sunday as the rule on ranking and the goodwill he enjoys amongst his colleagues appear to have put him on the lead.

Similarly, Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola appeared Sunday night to be gaining upper hand in the race for the post of Speaker of the House, while the battle for the Deputy Speaker may be a three horse race among Hon. Farouk Lawan (PDP/Kano); Hon. Yakubu Dogara (PDP/ Bauchi) and member-elect and Chairman of the 7th Assembly Green Initiative, Hon. Abdul Jibrin (PDP/Kano). Under the current zoning arrangement, the post of deputy speaker goes to the North-east which makes Dogara eligible, but there were speculations that the PDP may shift the position to the North-west to further pacify the zone that has been most critical of President Jonathan’s emergence as replacement for the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua who hailed from the North-west geo-political zone.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/speakership-s-south-caucus-backs-zoning-formula/91883/

how can a vice president make an appointment and yet come late

sambo is silly, i must say, this is nigeria when people make appointment and come late for it

ridiculous and sad

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gbammmm

beaf no go kill pesin here oooooo

see leisure resort

is this what gej taught u

Beaf:
Fashola is an excellent governor, but 10MW is not much more than a few big generators can produce. Its still a great move though, cos it can always be expanded.

pls brother, what is GEJ doing about electricity

pls tell us

Andre Uweh:
Risikat stated that she was only helping the owner of the bag to bring it into the country.
She may not be the guilty person.

u didn't reply to my post

i said

Andre Uweh:
Some nairalanders will really do well if appointed as Ministers e.g:
Dayokanu---minister of sports.
Ezeagu--Minister of Culture and Tourism.
Beaf--Minister of Niger-Delta affairs.
R.Black--Minister of External affairs.
Mikeansy--Minister of Internal affairs.
Aloy-Emeka--Minister of Information.
Houvest---Minister of Natural resources
Udezue--Minister of Agriculture.
Obiagu--Minister of Justice.
Okunoba---Minister of Powe and steel.
Aisha2--Minister of women affairs.
Onlytruth--Minister of Finance.
Nuzo--Minister of Health.
Seun Osewa--Minister of Science and Technology.
More to come soon.

andre, where are you in uk, i am coming to uk next week

i would like us to meet and discuss on igbo affires in borno state

Andre Uweh:
Not really.

later u will be screaming foul well continue

fashola, please put to shame fresh air

and make us proud of you

lastly after u do this please MAKE SURE U DEPORT THOSE SS AND SE PEOPLE THAT VOTED PDP

PLEASE THIS WOULD GO A LONG WAY INTO DEVELOPMENT

YES

God bless the SW and Yoruba people

texazzpete:
So you're telling the whole world now that there are NO unemployed graduates from the Niger Delta who have never taken up arms against their own country?

There are hundreds of thousands out there, man! These people are more deserving of foreign vocational training that these 'reformed' criminals.

please don't mind the LAZY mo.ron

what happened to extra fund from the fg being given to them because they are from ND

what happened the the extra fund ggiven to them by this oil companies

what about the ND people that are employed in this companies

fresh air !!!!!

beaf and others SE and SS people, goodluck to u all enjoy fresh air and PDP

hmmmm
blazay, u are one crazy woman

am really going to love this thread

PapaBrowne:
Because they own the oil that pays the salaries of almost all Nigerians!! It runs in their backyard and for ages they've been denied the benefit. Right now we have to do anything possible to pacify them!!

you are very silly for that statement

what oil are u talking about, Nigerians oil or niger delta oil

very stu.pid statment

niger/delat own no oil