₦airaland Forum

abu12: So you people believe saharareporters, hypocrites

Firefire: Point of correction, respond maturely without showing your graphic acts.

my friend do you need Ifa oracle to tell you you have been stole blind

I have ask you to check around U and come share what impact your Local Government or if yours is Development centre has done in your area since the last election.

Do you pay your taxes ? If yes, did U get adequate returns or investment in your locality. From government to reconcile your dues .

State and federal legisloooters installed by Tinubu, what have they delivered to the masses since they assumed office despite the constituency allowance

How is Lagos state IGR been managed What percentage do you imagine goes to Tinubu monthly through Alfa-Beta

What percentage of LG monthly allocation goes to Tinubu ? Do you know? Money meant for local development.

The guy called Tinubu has stolen too much from us and he shall return them.

Tiii oba. Aye kobalemu Tinubu, Oba Orun, aamu lojokan.
Ase gbe kan, kosiii, asepamo lowa.

Le Ostrich: And what was Tinubu's net worth pre-1999?

FreeGlobe: my only problem is when you tinubu slaves feign ignorance over the level of Tinubu's corruption. Its a pity. This is one of the instances of Tinubu your master in action

Lagos State To Cough Up N1 Billion To Fund Tinubu's Birthday Celebration

http://saharareporters.com/2012/03/25/lagos-state-cough-n1-billion-fund-tinubus-birthday-celebration

Firefire: Good. We got alot of people also creating wealth through employment using clean money.

The burden of Tinubu on the general common wealth of SW is burdensome.

His monthly returns on LG, States in SW, And all imposted officials on his party platform is robbing the masses of electoral dividend of democracy

In simple terms, the money meant for development in SW is going for sharing and the largest shares goes to Tinubu which he eventually use to set up all this.

Check around you if you live in Lagos or SW and tell me what your LG or Tinubu imposted politicians has done and come back here to share the good stories.

Firefire: What shall it profit a man, to gain the whole LAGOS and loose his soul

Vanity upon vanity...

liberty300: glorifying a criminal?..how low can one sink?

I know you don't like GEJ but this your level of ignorance is at a all time high

eaglechild: Why is someone who has stolen so much from his people, still worshipped by them?

Nigeria-based pay-TV platform, Continental Satellite Limited (CONSAT), launched its services in the country earlier this week. The new entrant aims to cut through the monopoly in the Nigerian pay-TV market and provide more ‘content at a fairer price’.

CONSAT, which is owned by former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is seeking to offer satellite TV for middle and low income earners, by allowing subscribers to only pay for the channels they want to watch.

“We operate from Nigeria, have cutting edge technology, are affordable and provide compelling content for our viewers” said Mayokun Okunola, CEO of CONSAT.

CONSAT decoder is available for NGN 14,999 (USD 92) with a two month free subscription and free installation. The pay-TV platform initially has 55 channels with international and local channels for news, music, sports, religion, documentary and movies. However, the pay-TV platform plans to increase its channel portfolio to 70 by the end of 2014 and later to over 100 channels by 2015.

“Our content providers are very passionate, we plan on developing our own content. It is our mandate to air contents from Nigeria and take it across the world, we will continue to invest in content,” said Addy Awofisayo, Director of Content at CONSAT.


http://talkmedianigeria.com/

brownlord: Secret of business expansion and investment on tax payers money, while you are sending account number to nairalanders begging for top up.

Smh for you.

Nihilist: Hahahahaha

You mean he got dissed by the same paper he wrote an editorial in?

Olololo

Marotzke: If you can properly edit your post, I might proffer some explanation. Obviously you either don't reside in Nigeria or you are ignorant of the hierarchy, modus operandi and command structure of Nigeria's Defence ministry. what ever you do, drop that Pentagon, Chuck Hagel stuff. You are not impressing anyone. last note no single Nigerian soldier is deployed from the barracks, without a written consent from the commander in chief.

Marotzke: Now this one takes it overboard. Chuck Hagel? I was under the impression you guys are having a healthy chuckle, but it seems you have taken the matter beyond joke.

Please for the records, Nigeria 's minister for Defence is General Aliyu Gusau. Musiliu Obanikoro is Nigeria ' minister of State for Defence; more like an assistant minister not Deputy or alternate minister.

His job schedule might involve but not limited to barracks rehabilitation, soldiers re settlement and pensions. Diss President Jonathan for all I care, but don't mis inform your self or dwell in blissful ignorance.

gregg2: Loads of magnificient but silent developement projects are going on in Bayelsa although the state chose to be silent about it. I saw lots of flyover bridges, giagantic road projects (by Julius Berger), Housing Estates etc springing up from different corners. Ignorant folks here should travel out of their enclaves before opening their stinking mouths

otokx: if only you know the millions involved in that ceremony?

ibietela2: Ok... Tell us who to take serious

Chigold101: it is not if people registered for WAEC, but if they are actually mising. WAEC said 500 & something students registered in that school, even boys in an all girls school. But the issue is that WAEC has the pictures of registerd students not missing students. The USA has come & ran away given excuses with so many complains cos they discovered something they cant disclose to the masses. They came with so much noise and left unnoticed. I still stand that Shetima know where the girls are if any is missing...period

hardywaltz: Weren't those the pictures provided by their family members when Asari and his likes claimed no one was missing??.
This Asari and his Niaraland followers are just dull.
Who said it was WAEC that provided these photographs?
Who takes a WAEC picture turned sideways like some of the girls.
Asari is just a big Fo0l, even the Presidential committee setup by Mr Clueless has confirmed that indeed 219 girls are still missing so Asari can jump into Abonnema wharf for all I care.

Le Gull: stop sniffing her panties and get a good regular girl

Le Gull: she is his cumdumpster and you keep sniffing her panties

why man?

Le Gull: I am trying to grapple why you want a whiff of Tinubu's d1ck tissue

obayaya: The doctor's strike isn't a demonstration of government's ineptitude but a manifestation of Doctors' greed.

A Professor who does not understand the electoral dynamics of his own country and does not appreciate that no single region or nationality can produce the President without widespread support from other groups deserves not only pity but his academic title ought to be withdrawn. Chief Awolowo himself characteristically once predicted in one of his books that “One day the best of the progressives and the best of the conservatives will come together to rule Nigeria”. The sage must be terribly embarrassed in his grave as regards Aribisala’s infantile reasoning that the South-West must remain in political isolation.

Le Gull: why are you always sniffing this woman's panties?

There are speculations that you are running for the Lagos State governor in 2015?

Even to run for this office, it is this press that started it. So, don’t start it oh! Truly speaking, it is never my ambition to run for governor of Lagos State. Remember, my husband did it for eight years and I was not outsider to it. It is not a place for the tender-hearted, it is a lot of work to govern Lagos and I am not the type that don’t put hard work into whatever I do.

I don’t think I have the strength to say that I want to govern the present state of Lagos. There is still a lot of work to be done in Lagos, a lot of work. It is not a child’s play. I am still in training as far as I am concerned. My first love is charity work. So, I don’t have such an ambition.

“Instead of choosing public servants, elections in Nigeria have been basically to select a new aristocracy, an elected royalty.”
POVERTY AND TERRORISM THREATEN THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY
I thank all of you for participating in this maiden Freedom House lecture on democracy. I want to express special appreciation to Professor Larry Diamond for honoring us by accepting to deliver this inaugural address. It is my fervent hope that what we embark on today shall become a perennial institution, a permanent feature of our democratic landscape.
Such lectures are needed because our nation needs a broader, deeper appreciation of democracy in all of its complexities and ramifications. To state it bluntly because I know of no other way to state it, we do not understand enough about democratic governance and practice.
What we practice is often not democracy. How this nation is governed is a hybrid process where democracy is often the junior partner and minority attribute.
As such, the system of governance we practice has not yielded the desired results – the dividends of democracy have been painfully elusive. How could it be otherwise? It would be wrong to anticipate a pear to grow from apple tree or a dog to give birth to a goat. Thus, it is wrong to expect this current form of governance to produce the fruits of democracy when it is the wrong type of tree.
To think otherwise is not to be optimistic. It is to engage in unproductive wishful thinking that precludes us from doing the heavy and hard work needed to transform “what is” into “what ought to be.” This lecture series is a modest contribution toward this benign change.
Since the 1999 transition from military to civilian rule, we have effectively limited our definition of democracy to the holding of elections with little regard to the quality thereof. There are two jarring problems with this self-imposed constraint.
First, most members of the Nigerian political class was weaned on the rancid milk of dictatorship and the imperial mindset upon which it is based. Fairness and openness of process and outcome discourse and debate, and compromise and conciliation have no place in this realm. In this authoritarian world, the ends justify the means and the only ends pursued are those that increase the power and wealth of the people wielding them. It is a top- down world where the top dictates the tune and everyone dances to it or gets kicked into the shadows.
Most adult Nigerians have spent the majority of their lives under military, or its antecedent, colonial rule. Neither one is a good primer for democracy. Nigerians are smart people and learn fast. Too bad, our history has presented bad governance role models to us. We have learned much. Sadly, most of it has been the wrong lessons from the wrong textbook.
Thus, the conduct of elections during the past fifteen years has been basically an unbroken trail of malpractice and connivance to steer Nigeria to a contrived result with scant connection to the popular will.
Instead of being the periodic celebration of democracy, elections in Nigeria have generally mocked the very notion of democracy they are supposed to uphold.
Worst has been what comes after elections. Since the winner often is not chosen by the people but by some subterranean process, he continues to dishonor the people while resorting to that subterranean process in how he rules. Generally, these office holders believe they have the inborn right to rule instead of have been given a duty to govern.
For the most part, elections have become a perverse form of modern coronation. Instead of choosing public servants, elections in Nigeria have been basically to select a new aristocracy, an elected royalty.
Government is run like a medieval court, full of intrigue and an excessive number of jesters and unproductive courtiers whose only reason for being is to use their proximity to power to extract rents from the improper operation of government.
One can only find rhyme and reason in governance to the extent one can decipher or anticipate the whim and caprice of the man in power.
Thus, we call ourselves a new, growing democracy yet we retreat further into the old ways. We slip into authoritarian darkness.
Faced with a growing number of state governors in the opposition party, the federal government arbitrarily has reduced the revenues flowing to the states in order to punish the political opposition. In effect, the federal government has imposed economic sanctions simply because some political leaders have the temerity to belong to another party. That the people are made to suffer means little for the people are not why they entered into governance. Power and privilege are.
This is why they shut down newspapers recently and restricted freedom of movement by prohibiting key APC members from travelling into Ekiti state prior to elections. This is why they deployed more security people to hover over the elections in Ekiti than they do to protect the people and tackle the security challenges in Borno state. The Minister of State for Defence has spent more time in Ekiti than he has in Chibok. This is not responsible democratic governance. It is a hoax.
This brings me to the point where I would like to say a few words about the topic of today’s lecture: Poverty, Terrorism and Democracy. In my view, the first two concepts have intertwined to form a terrible union against the third, against democracy.
Some claim the rise of Boko Haram has nothing to do with poverty. They blame it all on ideology. Some go as far as implying that Islam is at fault. Those who say this can be excused to some extent for they are as ignorant about Islam as Boko Haram is. However, Boko Haram cannot be excused. They are violent murders of both Muslim and Christians. There is not one word in Islam that supports the evil they do.
It is obvious that Boko Haram terrorists have lashed themselves to a dangerous and desperate ideology. But we must ask who does such a thing and why do they seem to have so many adherents and supporters?
Poverty is a big part of the answer. Poverty often distorts a person’s humanity. The destitute and the ignorant, casting about on their last strand of hope, are susceptible to a mean and wicked interpretation of the world that labels everyone not in that group as expendable sacrifices and objects of terror.
Again to put it bluntly because I know of no other way, Boko Haram is an extreme manifestation of the chronic and acute misgovernance that has spread gross injustice and mass poverty across the face of our beloved nation.
All nations have their wayward souls. However, in better governed, more prosperous societies, the number of anti-social actors is much less and even their extremism is somewhat muted. Because of their low numbers, they are confined to being a law enforcement problem.
But here, abject poverty swells their ranks. Here, they have become a small army. With that, they are a national security threat and a political challenge to a free and open society.
We must deal with them decisively yet wisely. Also, government must also be cautious in not using the fight against terrorism to truncate otherwise legitimate political activity by a legitimate and peaceful political opposition. Also, government must restrain itself from striking indiscriminately against people in the affected areas, in the process committing human rights abuses that undermine democracy and that become a recruiting tool for the terrorists.
As such, poverty and terrorism are truly a compound threat to democracy. Not only do those who manufacture terror undermine democracy through their direct actions. We also must take care that government’s response is not such a heavy-handed and indiscriminate one that it undermines civil liberties and chases people into the camp of the terrorists.
I shall end here that we may soon come to the meat of this gathering; Professor Diamond’s address.
Again, I thank you all for coming today that we may use this lecture to take a step toward the democracy we truly seek.
(The speech was delivered as opening remarks by Bola Tinubu, former Lagos State governor, at the inaugural lecture of the Freedom House democracy lecture series held at Muson center, Agip hall, Lagos on June 30).