₦airaland Forum

Jesusloveyou:
are u an apostle of change? U expect change, d same change u fought against, after ur clueless corrupt ogogoro hero grounded d economy for 6yrs

Sparkeez:
I thought He (PMB) promised to wipe out Book Haram in a Week.
We are Watching....

xpac01:
Nice one my president...
If it were to be one man occupying that office before, he could have been somewhere dancing shoki with a woman buttocks shitbox...

ziccoit:
Assembly. I am not impressed. Manufacturing, ok. QED.

deandavid:
Majority of Nigerians are very poor in reasoning and exposure, even some educated ones fall into this category, i dont believe in the statement, OBJ brought telephone to Nigeria or GEJ brought manufacturing of vehicles to Nigeria, reason being that Nigeria is a country that every wise investor will want to invest in, even before GSM company came to Nigeria, its already a technology that will eventually come, irrespective of who was the president then,so OBJ who fortunately was at the helm of affairs then shouldnt be regarded as the person that brought GSM into Nigeria, its a matter of technological advancement which will eventually come, even if Adolf Hitler was to be our president then, GSM will still come, its just a matter of time, so also this car manufacturing thing shouldnt be attributed to whether GEJ or PMB, it is a business that will be profitable to the company if they have their plant here, and not because GEJ developed the technology of car manufacturing. Lets start reasoning like civilsed people. people will be laughing at out comment and be thinking we are really inferior specie, if we continue to reason like this.

obeenah40:
Truth be told, the revolution of nigeria's automobile industry is a product of the Jonathan's administration.
I see a Bright future for nigeria

Congrats nigeria

lordofjustice:
Yes, the previous administration signed the agreement and that administration is implicated in this case but this present government that implemented the TSA without review equally has questions to answer.

GEJ tenure employed some people in DSS which was later disregarded by this same administration. There have been probes upon probes , reviews upon reviews on some actions and inactions of past administration including the current Col Dasuki arm purchase; so the question is: What stopped PMB to review this TSA as he has been probing and reviewing others before going ahead to implement. PMB administration is implicated too.

Demdem:
What is this useless nurse yapping about again?

scribble:
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Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari

The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.

One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.

He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”

One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.

Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.

It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.

Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.

According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.



Joe Francis wrote in from Port Harcourt.


http://www.theheraldng.com/dollarization-apc-primaries-amaehi-vanquished-atiku-saibuhari/

Kogi Guber: Audu will return the N11bn he stole if elected - APC Chairman

Kogi State APC Chairman, Alhaji Hadi Ametuo, has assured Kogi people that his party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship poll, Prince Audu Abubakar, would return the over N11 billion he allegedly stole while in office.

Audu is being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency, EFCC, for misappropriating N11 billion of the states’s funds while he was governor between 1999 and 2003.

Responding to the questions from the media regarding Audu’s 11billion naira EFCC case, he said “Nobody is a saint. No governor can claim he has not done any malpractice or stolen anything during his time in the office.

“We heard of Saraki’s case, even Tinubu is being accused of stealing funds but the truth is that Prince Abubakar Audu has pledged to return the money to the Kogi treasury when he gets elected on the November 21st, yes he will return the 11billion naira or even more than that and that will add to the Kogi economy”.

Ametuo, who rated Audu’s first term in the office more than the current government of Capt. Idris Wada, added that Audu deserved the electoral votes of the Kogi people due to his experience and achievements in his first time at the Lugard House.
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DailyPost Nigeria
http://dailypost.ng/2015/10/04/kogi-guber-audu-will-return-the-n11bn-he-stole-if-elected-apc-chairman/

MizMyColi:
How long do you intend to continue with the blames?
Does it make you feel better. The reality before you is that the government of the day is more inefficient than efficient.

Do you remember Jonathan's ultimatum to Borno Elders?
Do you remember Buhari's "anti-north" statement?
@Anonimi, please help me with those Newspaper snapshots.

Pidggin:
Was busy all day, but here is what you have been asking for:

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2014 Article IV Consultation with Nigeria
Press Release No. 15/91
March 4, 2015

On February 27, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation1 with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a large and diverse economy that has achieved a decade of strong growth, averaging 6.8 percent a year, and now accounts for 35 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). Inflation has remained in single digits for two years, and the banking sector, which has a strong capital base, is expanding credit. The trade surplus has been declining since the second quarter of 2013 on lower oil exports and continued strong growth of imports, and gross international reserves have been falling. Meanwhile, the general government fiscal deficit and public debt have been kept low. However, Nigeria still lags its peers in critical infrastructure and has high rates of poverty and income inequality. While the economy is diverse, with services accounting for over 50 percent of GDP in 2013, and oil only 13 percent, the oil sector remains a critical source for revenue and foreign exchange. With limited fiscal and external buffers ($2 billion in the excess crude account and $34.25 billion in gross international reserves, respectively at the end of 2014), the sharp decline of oil prices in the second half of 2014 underscores the challenging but compelling need to address remaining development challenges.
The authorities have responded to a sharp decline in oil prices. On February 18, 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria closed the Dutch Auction System (rDAS) window, unifying the rDAS rate with interbank foreign exchange market rate. On February 25, 2015, the Senate approved the third revision to the 2015 budget, tightening the fiscal envelope by lowering the budget benchmark oil price to $52/barrel.

Visit:http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2015/pr1591.htm to read more.

You and your kind will not succeed in tarnishing GEJ's image.

Ikengawo:
Nigeria's economic growth slows to 2.84 pct in Q3 2015 -Reuters

Read more at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/17/nigeria-economy-gdp-idUSL9N0WZ01J20151117#PzdWRqSCwPDk1WG4.99


LOL so APC will spin an economic crash into 'inches up'

PRYCE:
Is this dullard trying to fight corruption or get even?.... Completely throwing due process out the window, Blatantly disregarding court orders and totally trampling on Mr Dasuki's fundamental rights in A DEMOCRATIC setting....

Make no mistake, I'm on Nobody's side here... If this guy's found guilty, I hope the courts fry his Arrse... BUT ONLY THE COURTS!

WE USHERED IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED IMPUNITY!

How sure am I that the probe committee wasn't compromised, coerced into doctoring their report to serve Buhari's interests??

Frankiss44:
Men the way people are being retrenched now is not funny at all... Refinery in warri just dropped 402 contract staffs 2 months ago without giving them one naira.
This change is gradually turning into CHAINS

IlekeHD:
Buhari - Less than a year

Jonathan - 6 years

I'll reply you in 2023 when Buhari's term ends.

hunkydory:
The Jonathan government achieved a lot. So far this new government has done nothing new. We are yet to see the so-called change.

IlekeHD:
Sincerity in kini?

Nigerians, how soon we forget.

I wouldn't let GEJ shepherd my herd of dogs.

lastpage:
You are #WAILING for your belly!

Poor Soul like you!

Nobody "#Wails for a better Nigeria....

.... We SUPPORT the Government in Power and put our Mouth where our Money is

We criticize ... but we do it constructively!

Not blaming Buhari because one danfo driver was over-speeding!

That is #Wailing for chop-money, Anger, hatred and Bitterness over the last election![/color]

Now, Sod-off before l give you an E-Slap!


Lastpage!

lastpage:
#WAILER!

Lastpage!

lastpage:
Get a Life, this Eediot!

Seems you are suffering from "Mad Cow" disease!

Everything does not start and end with Buhari

Lastpage!

bodsibobo:
Portfolios are no longer given on quota basis....its now given on merit and performance......gerrit?

billyG:
D poser is a complete Dullard who never Read News content but headlines who told his BRF is d Minister of Housing,Work & Transport?half-bake Graduate.

axiliborha:
jealous pdpants because they know who fashola be that's why they are scared

AUGUST 10, 2011

The Lagos deal would be the first of its kind for the TTC. Decommissioned cars are usually sold for scrap metal and can fetch up to $1,500 dollar each. While Ross declined to discuss specific figures, he says the sticker price for Lagos is "significantly more" than scrap prices, putting the potential profits to the TTC in the millions of dollars.

It is not unusual for technology from western nations to end up in poorer countries. Marketplaces in Africa and Asia are flooded with North American clothes, computers, and even cars, but the purchase of larger technology like trains is rarer.

The cars will have to be significantly refurbished to fit existing infrastructure in Lagos, and some Nigerian media reports have lamented that the government appears to have settled on "tokundo," or used, trains instead of brand new vehicles.

Although half the cars are more than 30 years old, Ross is adamant they are perfectly safe and are only being decommissioned for capacity reasons. But he also admitted the TTC is not required to make sure the cars meet any safety standards before selling them.

"Once sold, it's up to the new operator to ensure they are in good working order," he said. "They do need to be maintained much more frequently than the new trains, simply because of their age. At some point they will run out their useful life."

Murtaza Haider, director of the Institute of Housing and Mobility at Ryerson University, said the age of the cars is definitely a cause for concern.

"We should be ensuring that there is some service life left in these vehicles and we're not going to be playing havoc with the lives of those who would ride these vehicles," Haider said. "There's metal fatigue, and that metal fatigue could result in dangerous conditions. I would be paying a close watch on this for the next ten years to see how many accidents do happen in Lagos."

More from: https://nowtoronto.com/news/next-stop-nigeria/

Lagos light rail’ll be ready in June – Fashola
JANUARY 9, 2013

The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said the first phase of the state Blue Light Rail project would be completed by June this year(2013).

He expressed confidence that Lagosians would start enjoying the services of the lrail project immediately.

The first phase would run from Marina and terminated at Okokomaiko area in Ojo Local Government.

Fashola spoke during an inspection of ongoing projects in the state which took him and his cabinet members to Orile-Iganmu, Alimosho and Ejigbo areas among others to assess the level of works being done by contractors.

The governor, who inaugurated the trackwork of the blue light rail at Alaba Suru, Coker-Agunda Local Council Development Area, said the level of work on the road and those of the National Theatre and Alaba-Mile 2 rail stations, would ensure early completion

He said, “In order to finish the project, the contractor did not go on vacation during the festive period. This will ensure that the project is delivered on time for the use of Lagosians.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-light-railll-be-ready-in-june-fashola/

How We Spent N160bn World Bank Loan on Light Rail Project
11 Sep 2014
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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.”

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.

“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. 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.

More from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-how-we-spent-n160bn-world-bank-loan-on-light-rail-project/188736/

Why I reached out to Igbo voters –Ambode, Lagos APC governorship candidate
APRIL 4, 2015
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When is the light rail going to be delivered, the project seems to be going on for years?

I just said it, it’s being funded by Lagos State and the Federal Government support is not there. But I believe strongly that we will create a financial restructuring that will allow us to deliver that light rail within the next 18 months.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/feature/hotseat/why-i-reached-out-to-igbo-voters-ambode-lagos-apc-governorship-candidate/

Rumpelstiltskin:

emilyone:
Fashola is capable

Rumpelstiltskin:
Rubbish.......Fashola is not overseeing the Federal Ministry of Works, Housing and Transportation. He is overseeing the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. All these half-informed literates sef!

Bambless1:
Corruption everywhere