It makes the ruling or governing party to sit tight
Having said that for a caliber of reno he should
Have respect for the office if not the person of
Why should you respect a LIAR? Why call for a LIAR to be respected? Could it be that you are also a LIAR yourself The DullardPoo of Daura said he met the treasury empty bla bla bla yet the navigator of their Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC said he met at least $30 billion in foreign reserves. Haba, how can a man of integrity who said that he is fighting corruption tell so many LIES Haba
futurenix: If only you are aware of what Reno and his cronies benefited from subsidy under GEJ, you will go look for him and deal with him.
When you hear of fuel subsidy fraud, I mean not even bringing any fuel and and creating a long list of names claiming they imported fuel and then get paid for it.
In a saner climes, this man and his whole properties should be sold even his bathroom slippers.
In saner climes will Buratai and his whole properties not be sold instead of commanding our soldiers HYPOCRITES everywhere you go!
General Buratai Bought Second Dubai Property Days After Appointment As Chief Of Army Staff
General Tukur Yusuf Buratai bought a second choice property in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, days after his appointment as Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), an investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed.
More Details Emerge On Nigeria Chief Of Army Staff General Buratai’s Dubai Properties
An ongoing investigation by SaharaReporters into properties acquired in Dubai by Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Tukur Buratai, has revealed more details about the officer’s real estate acquisitions estimated at N160 million at the minimum. Our investigators found out that, when not occupied by General Buratai or members of his family, the units he acquired in Dubai are rented out to guests for as much as $500 a night.
anonimi: The same Nigerians who elected Okorohausa as a governor in their state two times. Did you say Africa's foremost nation I laugh in Swahili Is that based on HDI ranking, corruption index or per capita GDP or what exactly
Billyonaire: And what is your duty as a Nigerian ? To sit down and read other people's research ? Nigerians are very lazy people. All we do is sit down and even want others to be the opposition while we read and laugh.
Then when they get into power without any assistance from us and want to recoup their "investment" by stealing and looting us dry we start to shout corruption. Unlike in the US, Canada, UK etc where ordinary citizens DONATE their time, efforts, talents, skills, money etc as VOLUNTEERS for political campaigns at the local, state and federal elections! WE are our own worst enemies! WE deserve the leaders looters that we get, surely!
The concessioning of the East-West rail lines of the Nigeria Railways [size=13pt]is close to being completed,[/size] with General Electric-GE as the concessionaire, several government officials have said. The deal would see GE invest $2 billion in the Nigerian economy, including refurbishment of the single-gauge lines abandoned for over a year. Under the deal, government would receive a hefty signature fee in foreign currency, as it would in other asset proposed for concessioning.
Little by little the LIES, propaganda and fraudulent stories that propelled the Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC and their "expired" leader DullardPoo into power are being revealed for what they are.
Splashme: The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.
Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.
The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.
Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”
The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.
Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.
He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”
Kingsley1000: Okorocha/ngige the greatest igbo men.........most of us hate him simply because he is in apc.....
and we embrace and worship a stranger GEJ
Indeed Okorocha is the greatest Igbo man for shaking Obama's hand even though he may be owing salaries to workers while buying N600 million Christmas tree. SMH!!!
As the apc government is too clueless to know what to do, change them is the answer.
PDP was there for 16 years they failed woefully, then apc was elected as replacement we thought they have better things to offer the country but everybody have seen it that they have nothing special to offer.
I generally agree with you and I am sure if we keep at this democracy while increasing our involvement and those of our folks & friends in the political process things will slowly but steadily get better. InshaAllah! God willing!! Amen!!!
Strictly speaking, it is LEGALLY impossible for a woman to rape a man. Why? Rape is defined as forceful/unwanted PENETRATION of the sex organs of another. Biologically, a woman cannot penetrate a man.
juman: We dont have leaders like korea and china. We have very clueless unserious people as "leaders".
So agriculture is a step forward for now.
Look, the way the useless apc government dey move they have nothing to offer this country. They are too unserious people. They are people without wisdom.
I hope that you will consider that WE the people allow the leaders represent us either they are elected, selected or shoot their way to leadership. They reflect our aggregate values. So if they are unserious, it is largely because we are even more unserious as their ordinary citizens and followers. Otherwise we will find ways to change them and replace them with those who reflect our collective values better.
Let be realistic with ourselves. This is a destroyed country with no regular electricity, agriculture is a shortcut to get money by the government and the people.
Korea and China were equally destroyed and in bad shape before they made the bold step to sacrifice and ensure everyone is educated with a focus on science and engineering. Rudimentary agriculture alone won't take us anywhere, surely.
lastpage: Read my last post maybe it can answer your question.
Y'all seem to be so focused on just that one paragragh about "fighting Buhari"? Are you all in a fighting mood?
The Fuel Hike protest is NOT a fight between "friends and enemies"....... its a protest about those who loot the treasury while foisting hardship on the people at the same time ( That is GEJ for you)
Lastpage!
Kindly remember that the 36 state governors that had many in APC were also looting their treasury. Not so
eaglechild: We can't complete Lagos light rail project
We obviously can't complete Lekki international phantom airport.
And you will be the biggest fool to think that we can complete Eko Atlantic.
Use your head people where do you think we are getting all the money we are using to sponsor Buhari
Firefire: Fellow Nairalanders, in response to Fashola comments below on not receiving enough support from the federal government to complete the Lagos light rail project.
[size=15pt] "Fashola said all over the world, when cities and states build municipal rails like what Lagos is doing, their central governments support them morally and financially"[/size]
[size=15pt]Lagos: How We Spent N160bn World Bank Loan on Light Rail Project[/size]
The Lagos State Government yesterday justified the N160 billion it borrowed from the World Bank, noting that the fund was channelled to finance its light rail (blue line) project.
However, the state government expressed disappointment at the progress of the project, which it said, was not executed as smoothly as possible, but was optimistic of its completion.
The state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said this shortly after inspecting the light rail terminus at the Orile-Iganmu part of the state alongside some members of the state executive council.
Speaking with journalists, Fashola said the project would have been completed in another 12 months despite that the project execution was not as smooth and speedy as he wanted it.
The governor raised questions on the intention of the federal government for publishing the state debt profile in the recent time, wondering what could have informed the decision to make it public.
He said: “I think it was the Debt Management Office of the federal government that published the report that we have a debt of about N160billion. I do not know the intent of the publication.
“But if it was to inform the public, I think we have always kept the public informed anytime we borrow money. If there are other intentions behind that, only those who make the publication would know what the intentions are.
“But you see, when people talk about debt of a state like Lagos, they forget that after Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and one other country, we have the fifth largest economy in Africa.
“When you are talking of about a billion naira debt to a population of over 21 million people; because if you are measuring the debt, you also have to measure the responsibility. Those are the things people keep in isolation.”
He, therefore, explained that the state government already “has in place, strategies to repay the loan. The federal government was in the know of the state’s decision to take the bond and it approved it.”
[size=15pt]He added that the truth “is that what they do not also say is that no state in Nigeria can borrow money outside, from any multilateral agencies without the approval of the federal government.[/size]
“What they did not say is that they approved it. No state can raise money by bond the way we have done without the federal government’s approval. [size=18pt]Both SEC and NSE are all federal regulatory agencies through which we must pass. If they said okay, it means there must be something good about the debt. [/size]
“Our rating as a state is the same as that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, BB minus-stable with a positive outlook. We are the only state in Nigeria that has that rating. The first bond that was taken during my first tenure has been paid; the first tranche has been paid.
“I think the second tranche will be settled around 2016 or 2017. We are already making provisions. The provisions that will be there will be in excess of what is needed,” the governor said
Fashola expressed satisfaction on the progress of the light rail project, though decried the petty delay that was encountered as a result funding, saying the project would have should have been completed in another 12 months.
juman: Oshiobaba is better governor than pdp governors but he is not a great governor.
The governor elect should try his best to be a great governor.
Agriculture is important.
........but EDUCATION is equally important or even more so. China & Korea moved from poor agrarian societies to today's industrial giants by sacrificing to ensure everyone was, is and continues to be educated. Why is that too difficult for us to do Too busy eating, feasting and fcvking as Trump is rumoured to have alleged is ALL that we do?
Do you know why DullardPoo did not follow this priceless example in the elections for Bayelsa etc? Anyway the current tenant of Aso Rock does not follow good examples, even when he has made a PROMISE to do so, such as with public asset declaration.
PhockPhockMan: But Buhari, in the document titled, ‘I pledge to Nigeria’ had also said that all his political appointees would only earn salaries and allowances as prescribed by the Revenue and Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission.
He said, “I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liabilities, encourage all my appointees publicly declare their assets and liabilities as a pre-condition for appointment. All political appointees will only earn the salaries and allowances determined by the RMFAC. I pledge, as Commander-in-Chief, to lead from the front and not behind in the comfort and security of Aso Rock, to boost the morale of fighting forces and the generality of all Nigerians.”
LastProphet: black leaders always fail to learn from Mandela, and that is the difference between blacks and white people - when to stop
Please permit me to amend slight to read - "that is ONE of the differences....." Another difference is that our leaders do not invest in our education massively. The only notable exception to this being Awolowo who transformed the Western region in six short years (1954-1960) from a poor, uneducated bunch of people to enlightened folks.
martineinstein: abeg,ask am...is tinubu a govt official? Or a civil servant?
Is he no longer the national leader of the ruling party, Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC Maybe una don sack am? Anyway, did you ask the JagaBandit this question recently =>
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Buhari Made a “Courageous” and “Necessary” Decision – Tinubu
sarrki: For the second year running, President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday marked the nation’s Independence Day anniversary inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja, amidst tight security.
The nation’s 56th Independence anniversary was marked with Presidential Change of Guards Parade attended by top government officials, former Nigerian leaders, members of the diplomatic corps and captains of industry
The nation’s 50th anniversary in 2010 was the last held inside Eagles Square, Abuja where it usually held.
The event was marred by bombings allegedly orchestrated by members of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta led by Henry Okah.
Since then, the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan changed the venue of subsequent independence events to the Presidential Villa.
Buhari did not change the trend as he celebrated the 55th independence anniversary at the same venue last year.
Wetin happen? So the retired General sef dey fear like this? I thought they said it was only the "weak" former president who ran away from the Square and Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC derided him so much for that as part of their demonisation propaganda campaign. So there is NO change afterall even for the DullardPoo who was packaged to us as a strong man
This is a man who understands exactly what to do. Has a track record of victories. And has the political will to keep Nigerians safe across the Federation.
Kidnapper, Terrorists, Militants, Arm Rubbers, Criminals - find something legitimate to do with your life. The next President of Nigeria is NOT into Military-Costume-Wearing. [size=13pt]He is a Retired Major General.[/size] Trained in Nigeria, India, United Kingdom and the United States. He is an over performer. He is not shy of the Facts. Our Senior Military Commanders will not eat Military budget and clean mouth under his watch.
Don't mind those that tell you that Nigeria Cannot be Changed. That things can't be better. They just want to keep looting. When they exhaust their lies, they will start mocking, insulting and posting cartoons.
While PDP are hoping to rig themselves in, Buhari and the entire APC team believe you have the capacity to elect Buhari with your votes alone. Let see who wins (PDP Rigging vs The Votes of the Masses).
This Change is Unstoppable. Sai Buhari. 5days to go!
desiigner: Why are they always laughing? I'm not understanding.
Do you mean that- "I don't" understand? As for our leaders looters they are always laughing because they know that we are their 200 million mumus and they can get away with stealing our money in the knowledge that there will not be any consequence!
Sermwell: Before I stopped going to church, I was living with a very stingy religious uncle who gives me #500 or #1000 for offering every sunday! But the truth was that I have never given the money to church! I had always removed the money and submitted empty envelops! Just this morning, our house was on "fire" just because I said I wasn't going to church again and in the course of the heated argument, I told them how I had never even paid offering even when the money was given to me! My parents became mad at me and saying that if I don't go and beg for forgiveness and pay all those money, that the cancerworm and caterpillars will "chop" all the money me and my generation will ever make! Personally, I just believe all those things are trash but the way my dad was saying it convincingly and trying to quote the bible makes me want to ask if those curses are true for "chopping god's money"
Why has canckerworm etc not eaten "all the money me and my generation will ever make" for Bill Gates, Dangote, Chinese billionaires etc?
onatisi: so because he won a primary and defeated tinubu candidate ,he is messing up,abi?
The first law of the Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC is that you must never go against the will of Ogbeni Ojuyobo. Otherwise you are cooked. How do you think he was able to put the entire Lagos and sout west plus Edo in his pocket, while the citizens were looking on like some random Lookman/Luke who is high on Lucozade
abuope2007: I have never met Asiwaju personally but I have seen him a couple of times in my dream. this shows my love and yearning for him. I can comfortably say I belong to his school of thought and I put him in the class of great leaders like obafemi awolowo. Though some people may hate him or like him but you can hardly ignore him. And I am proud to be associated with him even when I have only seem in from physically from a distance.
Please do you mind explaining to those of us who do not see the Asiwaju Asiwere in our dreams, what is his school of thought? Thanks.
angelTI: This Desmond guy is doing more of Nollywood than his house of representative job
He is actually in the LASHA- Lagos state house of assembly. If na you nko? If you have 200 million mumus as your constituents who don't mind paying you millions every month for doing NOTHING, won't you flex with their money? Their schools and roads can rot away with resultant UNEMPLOYMENT for people who could have worked on those roads and in the schools, e nor consigne you.
MathsChic: Some days ago, I was at a secondary school in Surulere (across the bridge from the Island) in Lagos for a friend's event where he is educating secondary students about the perils of peer pressure. I honestly wasn't expecting what I saw as the state of this secondary school. It left me wondering if this was a school or a dump yard. Why in heaven's name are Nigerian leaders looking the other way while the young ones study in this sorry environment?
The attached pictures are what I saw. This is no secondary school. It's a hopeless shanty. I hope this gets to front page and attracts the necessary attention.
nyben4eva: When a man is used and dumped like a useless rag that he is,his gullible and delusional low life followers would always give themselves false hopes and assurance just to avoid heart break.
No matter the kind of power a man exhibits,when the day of reckoning comes,he'll be reduced to nothing and his followers would have no other option than to look for another hero to worship.
What happened to MKO Abiola readily comes to mind That one also betrayed the Yoruba nation, using his Concord newspapers to demonise the late sage, Awo. Our born-to-rule brethren showed him their true nature in 1982/83 and in the June 12 debacle. As Bola Ige said after losing elections in 1983-
History has shown that Man does not learn from history
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.
The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.
It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”
Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.
Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close. The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.
But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.
It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.
Dutchboy: "The real enemy is the man that stole the city hall. The enemy is the Iragbiji upstart who seized the local government Secretariat at Glover street in Ikoyi. Our collective enemy is the greedy man who bought the old Nurses House, the Falomo shopping complex, the Lagos state Polytechnic property at Ojota, the stretches of acres at Lekki, the old Strabag yard at Alausa, the innumerable beach front properties long owned by the people of Lagos state, the billion naira Queen’s Drive mansion, the illegal Lekki Toll Gate, the First Nation Airline, the strings of media conglomerates, the Vault and Garden Cemetery, the vast Estates on the shores of Oniru beach , the endless choice hotels and high-rises, the shopping Mall in Ikeja and Lekki, and many great assets of our people this Iragbiji man has stolen with manic desperation. That is the real enemy we must chase back to Iraghiji.
With all these crazy and bewildering acquisitions , it is obvious that this Iragbiji upstart suffers from a disease called AFFLUENZA. It is an incurable malady which makes the pathetic sufferer to pursue blind, greedy, desperate and infectious craving for acquisition after acquisition. Here , the demented sufferer can never stop the craving for unnecessary endless accumulation of wealth. He does not know what is enough. Here wealth is glorified in place of the Almighty God. This is the dreadful disease Tinubu is suffering from.
Let us remove and dismantle the greedy contraption of Bola Tinubu from Lagos and the whole South West before the madness of the Iragbiji man corrupts the whole nation."
Politics › Re: Nigerians React As Reno Omokri Exposes Many Lies Of Buhari Independence Speech by anonimi: 3:25am On Oct 03, 2016
