₦airaland Forum

Don't read too much into it, it's all for the cameras, politicians when not aligned by party or interest genuinely hate each other.

Racoon:
Just imagine! A place where crucial decisions about our national life is being deliberated upon? This is what he has reduced the so called hallowed chamber of the lower house of the national assembly into-a place for self aggradizement of his over bloated social life.

Please wail responsibly!!!

Oh what a horrible watch that Lionheart film was, took 2 hours of my life that I can NEVER get back.

It's not rocket science, the duty on cars is too high, lower it to a more reasonable rate and it is certain Cotonou and Lome will become ghost towns.

cwale044:
Hahahaha, don't make me fall with laughing. Those that knows knows I have never seen the possibility of The North Forming aliance with the southeast..

There is nothing special about the North/Southwest alliance, if need be, to stay in power the North would gladly throw the southwest under the bus and form an alliance with the southeast. Maybe the new normal might be an alternation of the vice presidency from southwest-southeast-southwest-southeast........etc.

A thin red line they say between bravery and stupidity.

Biafra is dead, of all the noise this Kanu made he ran away like a common rat, hmmm reminds me of some Ojukwu fellow that did the same during the civil war.

Real captains never abandon ship, they are the last to leave or they sink with it.

There is hope though.... an Igbo presidency is possible come 2069. Good things come to those who pray and follow it with action.

Ikem11:
If he leave Abuja for u will you leave south oil for south and survive on your own?

Most of Nigerian oil is offshore, is the Ocean part of South-South too?

Stop vowing and just do it, they are not boko haram, nobody among them wants to die, hit them hard and they will wave the white flag. Regardless of whatever strength they have they do not have an Army, Navy or Airforce.

JAGABAN JAGABAN JAGABAN!!!!

chriskosherbal:
Fayose VS Buhari

Did you ever hear Buhari reply Fayose?

So its Fayose against himself.

Shit only stinks when you give it attention.

If a book claims divinity then it MUST be free of error. Google errors in the Bible and see for yourselves, it is a book written by men full of inconsistencies and errors

viktor01:
Last time I checked, Buhari promised to stabilize it or was he high on Oshogbo weed when he made the promise?

Guy calm down, we'll get there, not N1=1$ but we'll recover. The administration is still in its early stages, holding your peace is only fair as the PDP govt which you obviously a support has been there for 16 years without achieving much.

EternalTruths:
By the time you guys are through blaming Jonathan, 2019 will be over

The truth has to be said my brother. I'm not a blind PMB fan, I will judge him im due time but I'm very optimistic in his potential.

Nairaland is indeed infested with idiots who know next to nothing about the economy. If you talk you only speak of what you know, and if that is next to nothing well sorry for you, if you listen on the other hand, you might just learn something. GEJ might be gone from power, but his colossal looting and financial mis-management of public funds is indeed the sole cause of the present Nigerian financial predicament.

iconaus:
Baba go slow will do this very fast because it is a road that connects to the north through which the north will use to Invade the South South quickly

HOPELESS IS TOO KIND A WORD FOR YOU MY FRIEND.

SirWere:
You can't blame him. The way some Muslim women cover themselves even during the hellish heat makes you wonder if they are somewhat reptilian. No offense

HELL IS A LOT HOTTER MY FRIEND!!!

So Mr. Clark according to you gentlemen don't fight corruption? PMB na agbero abi? Isssokay.

WHY LIE ABOUT BUHARIS SPEECH JUST TO CREATE HATRED FOR THE MAN. HE IS PRESIDENT ELECT NOW AND NO LONGER AN ASPIRANT. DEAL WITH IT UNTIL IT IS DEALT WITH.

FOR THOSE THAT CARE THIS IS THE FULL TEXT OF BUHARI'S UN SPEECH.

ADDRESS BY MUHAMMADU BUHARI
PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE 70TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
NEW YORK, 28TH SEPTEMBER 2015.

President of the General Assembly,
Secretary–General

Your Excellencies Heads of State and Governments

Distinguished Delegates

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like, Mr. President, on behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria, to congratulate you and your country on your election to preside over the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

2. May I also express appreciation to your predecessor, Mr. Sam Kahamba Kutesa and the Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon both of whom worked tirelessly to ensure proper articulation of the post-2015 Development Agenda and to maintain the focus and commitment to the ideals of the United Nations. I thank Mr. Ban Ki-moon for his recent visit to Nigeria when we held very useful discussions.

Mr. President,
3. Fifty-five (55) years ago almost to the day, my great predecessor, Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa stood on this forum to declare Nigeria’s desire to develop and maintain friendly relations with all countries. He also assured the world of our country’s commitment to uphold the principles upon which the United Nations was founded.

4. Mr. President, my country, Nigeria, has lived by this conviction, even when judgement went against us in territorial disputes with our neighbours. We respected those judgements and abided by them as a mark of respect for the rule of law and the charter of this organization. Nigeria’s record in the U.N. peacekeeping is second to none. I myself as a young officer in the Nigerian Army did tours of duty in Congo and the Lebanon.

5. Nigeria has contributed to U.N. peacekeeping efforts in Ethiopia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Darfur. Furthermore, we are proud of our contributions to other activities of the U.N. including the Peace Building Commission, the Human Rights Council and security sector reform.

Mr. President,
6. We are gratified to note that most countries have pledged commitment to the post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their means of implementation. The successor frameworks of the MDGs have come, Mr. President, with lofty aspirations and if I may say so, heroic assumptions! Nonetheless, they target development cooperation by the international community up to the year 2020. And they deserve universal support.

7. This is because the SDGs mirror the hopes and aspirations of much of the world.

8. I should stress that for the newly adopted SDGs to be truly global, they must be practical. In this regard, the SDGs’ core objectives of poverty eradication and reducing inequalities must be met within the framework of a revitalized global partnership support by concrete policies and actions as outlined in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.

9. Luckily, these two core objectives of the SDGs are precisely at the centre of Nigeria’s new Administration’s agenda. It must be emphasized, Mr. President, that Foreign Direct Investment supplemented where suitable by Official Development Assistance as outlined in the Addis Ababa Agenda are necessary, though not sufficient, conditions for accelerated development in countries that are trying to catch up.

10. In this connexion, I would like to appeal to industrialized countries to redeem their pledge of earmarking 0.7% (nought point seven percent) of their GDP to development assistance. With the sole exception of the UK, all concerned countries have, I am told to meet the UN requirement. But, Mr. President, with SDGs we have the opportunity to improve the lives of people not just in the developing world but in all nations.

11. The Secretary General himself has grouped the SDGs into what he calls six “essential elements” namely:
• Dignity
• Prosperity
• Justice
• Partnership
• Planet
• People
As a prerequisite to these and as we look at history and remember the terrible events that gave rise to the birth of the United Nations in 1945, I would like to propose a seventh:
• PEACE

12. Peace, Mr. President, is close to the hearts of Nigerians, as we are in the front line in the war on terror. Boko Haram’s war against the people of Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon may not attract as much worldwide attention as the wars in the Middle East but the suffering is just as great and the human cost is equally high.

13. This is a war about values between progress and chaos; between democracy and the rule of law. Boko Haram celebrates violence against the weak and the innocent and deplorably, they hide behind their perverted interpretation of Islam. Boko Haram is as far away from Islam as any one can think of.

14. Many of my colleagues attending this forum would want to know how our new government intends to tackle the huge problems the government has inherited. Friends of Nigeria and foreign investor partners will be encouraged to know that the new Government is attacking the problems we inherited head-on.

15. We intend to tackle inequalities arising from massive unemployment and previous government policies favouring a few people to the detriment of the many. We intend to emphasize quality technological education for development and lay foundation for comprehensive care of the aged, the disadvantaged and the infirm. But for now terrorism is the immediate problem.

16. Accordingly, Mr. President, Members of the General Assembly, the new Nigerian Government which I have the honour to head, moved with dispatch to put in a bold and robust strategy to defeat Boko Haram. Nigeria and her neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger plus Benin are working together to face this common threat within the regional framework of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. We have established a multinational joint task force to confront, degrade and defeat Boko Haram.
17. We have driven them away from many of their strongholds, killed or captured many of their operatives or commanders and freed several hundreds of hostages.

18. Mr. President, one of our major aims is to rescue the Chibok girls alive and unharmed. We are working round the clock to ensure their safety and eventual reunion with their families. Chibok girls are constantly on our minds and in our plans.

19. Mr. President, terrorism is by no means the major or the only evil threatening and undermining the wellbeing of societies around the world.
• Corruption
• Cross border financial crimes
• Cyber crimes
• Human trafficking
• Spread of communicable diseases
• Climate change
• Proliferation of weapons

are all major challenges of the 21st century which the international community must tackle collectively. Let me reaffirm Nigerian government’s unwavering commitment to fight corruption and illicit financial flows. By any consideration, corruption and cross border financial crimes are impediments to development, economic growth, and the realization of the wellbeing of citizens across the globe.

20. Nigeria is ready and willing to partner with international agencies and individual countries on a bilateral basis to confront crimes and corruption. In particular, I call upon the global community to urgently redouble efforts towards strengthening the mechanisms for dismantling safe havens for proceeds of corruption and ensuring the return of stolen funds and assets to their countries of origin.

21. Mr. President, the world is now facing a big new challenge: human trafficking. This is an old evil taking an altogether new and dangerous dimension threatening to upset international relationships. We in Africa are grieved to see on international networks how hundreds of thousands of our able bodied men and women fleeing to Europe and in the process thousands dying in the desert or drowning in the Mediterranean.

22. We condemn in the strongest terms these people traffickers and will support any measures to apprehend and bring them to justice. At the same time, we are very appreciative of European governments notably Italy and Germany, for their understanding and humane treatment of these refugees.

23. Last year, our continent faced the dreadful occurrence of Ebola. We sincerely thank the international community for the collective efforts to contain this deadly disease. We are not out of the woods yet but we would like to record our appreciation to the United States, United Kingdom, France and China for their outstanding assistance in arresting the spread of Ebola and care of those infected in collaboration with host countries.

Mr. President,

24. Nigeria fully subscribes to and fully endorses Goals 13, 14 and 15 of the SDGs regarding Climate Change. In Nigeria, desertification and land erosion and degradation leading to biodiversity loss are real threats to our environment and we shall propose under the auspices of the Lake Chad Basin Commission a regional approach to combat these environmental challenges.

25. We look forward to the UN Summit on climate change in Paris in December 2015. This summit should provide optimism to humanity on addressing the looming threat faced by many communities around the world.
Mr. President,
26. We are witnessing a dreadful increase in conflicts fuelled by availability of small arms and light weapons. I call upon all member countries to demonstrate the political will needed to uphold the UN charter. For a start, a robust implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty will guarantee that small arms and light weapons are only legally transferred. Arms traffickers and human traffickers are two evil species which the world community should eradicate.

Mr. President,
27. As we engage in these annual debates, we need remind ourselves of the principles that led to the founding of the United Nations. Among those are peaceful coexistence and self-determination of peoples. In this context, Mr. President, the unresolved question of self-determination for the Palestinian people and those of Western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle.
28. The international community has come to pin its hopes on resolving the Palestinian issue through the two – states solution which recognises the legitimate right of each state to exist in peace and security. The world has no more excuses or reasons to delay the implementation of the long list of Security Council resolutions on this question. Neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade

Mr. President, delegates of member countries,
29. UN is 70 years old. It can count many more than 70 major achievements as the world’s forum and family reunion. It is my hope that in the next 70 years, it will achieve control of climate, help to eliminate communicable diseases, eliminate major and local conflicts and therefore eliminate the problem of refugees, take major steps towards reducing harmful inequalities between nations and within nations and above all, eliminate nuclear weapons.

30. Mr. President, as this is my first address in this Assembly, I thank you and the delegates for listening so patiently.

OHANAEZE OHANAEZE!! WHY TALK SUCH ELEPHANT DU DU!! WE ALL KNOW YOU AND APPOINTMENTS HAVE A RATS/CHEESE, CAR/PETROL, PENCIL/CLEANER, TV/REMOTE RELATIONSHIP!!

MAKE NO MISTAKE PROBE WILL COME TO EDUCATION AFTER THE OIL MESS BY GEJ & DIEZANI IS FULLY ADDRESSED & WIKES MONUMENTAL CORRUPTION WILL CATCH UP WITH HIM.

cjmike704:
ass hole.. terrorist like you

Name calling is the lowest point of an argument. Its your own way of saying you don't know shit.

LEAVE ISRAEL OUT. THEIR EVIL KNOWS NO BOUNDS!

We do not appreciate the wild in Africa, A pithon is huge but not poisonous, if it was up to us, all animals will be extinct by now.

"Patience of the public"... pls stop using that P word which has become a bad word in many Nigerians dictionary courtesy of mama piss, use understanding, indulgence, tolerance, consideration... whatever, anything except the P word.

Wike is the epitome of hypocrisy. This man when education was under uis watch would award contracts to himself and even have the audacity to inspect the contracts to ascertain work done so that he can pay himself, every education head of parastatal and even most employees know how corrupt and uncivil he was and still is. Wike and integrity are mutually exclusive, Rivers deserves better.

People want to secede yet almost all of their wealth is in the part of Nigeria they intend to disown.

Is this independence of a thing from the Igbos really thought through? You have 5 states not bigger than Borno or Niger, who happen to be landlocked & @ the moment none of them can support themselves without the help of the federal govt allocation which also relies heavily on oil of which Biafra has NONE!!!

The most successful Igbos do not stay in Igboland meaning even Igbos run from Igboland


If Biafra does become a reality just know staying in Nigeria is going to be very very expensive.

I do not harbour any hatred for the Igbos, their business acumen and enterprenural skills cant be taken away from them however I'm sick and tired of this empty threat of renouncing Nigeria.

omonnakoda:
I think it is clear who is loosing losing focus. This is a current affairs topic. Education . Not the dressing of women or who was sending men to planet Mars in the 8th Century but what is happening now. The PRESSID programme has run for several years. There are threads on Nairaland going back at least to 2012. Do not come here and tell us that the North was schemed out.That is just an insult to our intelligence. You are the one that started talking about you arrested conquest of Nigeria and who is in power now. I am interested in a strategy that bridges the educational gap not out of altruistic instinct but so your region is no longer a liability and a security threat to our development. Rather than be honest with your self you talk about how you meet Southerners and are not impressed. I do not need to meet you to tell you from what I have read so far if you and I sat any aptitude test you will be at LEAST two Standard Deviations behind. That is not an idle boast. There is no tradition of academic competitition in the North,all you have to do is just turn up whilst we are used to making the extra effort only to discover that one of you folk got the scholarship,got the job got whatever on the basis of "federal character" .Can we continue like that in harmony and friendship. Why don't you learn from what the Ibos did last year whenthe SW dominated the PRESSID.In fact not just last year but since it started. This year I gather there was a computer database of questions so it was not so much an aptitude but a cramming test. You cram a few thousand questions andwho crammed best prevailed!
Personally I do not like that approach but it is still objective the real danger is when hundreds all score 100%
Instead you come here to tell us how the GREEKS gave the world Geometry whilst the Germanic people were in caves. Well what is happening today? You are the one losing focus. Stop restricting the education of women and stop marrying them off as children.IF you do not educate your women you will forever remain backward
We are used to not getting anything from government whereas you folk go around with a sense on ENTITLEMENT through quotas. What next will you be asking for quotas in the Super Eagles? Go and do some research. This is not a new programme.It was very well publicized with several threads with dozens on contemporaneous pages around the time of application and testing.Then when you FAIL as usual you start shout TRANSPARENCY. Why are you so afraid of competition

Hahaha, I've hit the bullseye. Empty threats, baseless arguments, counterproductive contradictory assertions, my Yoruba friend your sanity is debatable as u have lost it totally. I have no intention of further dialogue with a person highly infected with the stupidity virus, its contagious and I reject it.

Good riddens.

omonnakoda:
I seem to have hit a nerve which explains your need to lash out spitefully. I talk only about education as it is today .The facts are not a secret to anyone. Before Nigeria there was no North South politically and so many of your premises are flawed. I do not state what I say out of hatred for you.We are in the same country and I tell you what I do out of love ,truly. Today in 2015 as far as education is concerned Your region is backward.Emotional tirades will not distort that.
The issue of women ,dressing and morality is a strange and bemusing addition to the discussion
No one is asking you to accept anyone as superior just face the data that has been overflogged as far as education is concerned.
You talk of complex empires people running around naked and all that and in the same breath want to dispel conceptions of the north as backdated. Okay LET US TALK ABOUT THE PRESENT AND FUTURE. IT is funny . I am Yoruba proudly so. We are complete . We do not look across the ocean for validation. Your idea of civilization coming to you on camel's back across the Sahara is quite revealing
We Yoruba have a proud history that does not need external validation. Do not hide under NORTH be specific please
So you are in Power lol. Well you have been in power for most of our history much good it has done you .It only holds our development back,
You can boast all you like but you contribute NOTHING to Nigeria you only take Whether your ancestors sent spaceships to the moon is of no relevance in 2015.Why are you afraid of separating from Nigeria since you have it all.Today you are not sending rockets to the moon but women to blow themselves up in markets is that something to make anyone proud of the Nigerian passport?
I would very gladly school you about all the rubbish you wrotewith regard to history but let us focus on Education.The north is a liability and a parasite and to change that you need to educate your folk.

Watch what you write as you are loosing focus and simply all over the place. if Hausa-Fulani have held your country back as you claim, please go on and claim that all past, present and future southwest governors, senators, members house of reps, local govt chairmen are all hausa fulani, yes, we have mismanaged all federal allocation to the southwest from inception to date.

The truth is besides the education advantage the southwest is no America or Europe, Ibadan has the crown as the dirtiest city in West Africa, that's a lot to be proud of.

So of all your shenanigans besides Lagos which is Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa territory, no southwest state can support itself without the help of the federal government, your education has always been useless in terms of wealth creation that can impact on reasonable economic growth.

Your assertion that the Yoruba don't look across the ocean for validation is laughable and stinks of hypocrisy. Did the Yoruba make western education? Answer is that affirmatively western education made the Yoruba, ironically that is the root of your amusing arrogance which you passively downplay.

Poverty, parasites, backwardness bla bla bla in the North, calm down... the southwest isn't really that great.

omonnakoda:
did you see last year's list ? It is on Nairaland. Look for it . It was dominated by the SW with almost 50% the next zone which was the SE was about 20% . This year the gap has closed. That is what the North should aim to do instead of whining like spoilt brats.What does population have to do with anything. The educational gap between the North and South is well known and documented. China should dominate world football based on their population according to your "LOGIC". The reality is in the south we have learnt not to expect eductional assistance from the government unlike in the North where for many years under military governments .The state government could still afford University scholarships.In Unity schools those students travelling south from the North got grants from their state governments.There was no such thing in the South.
Somebody today was talking about "JEGA" as if he is some great scholar. He may be so in the North but down south he would be average and unremarkable. At any level where there is academic competition from primary to University the North CANNOT compete with the South and when we say south we mean SW and SE not by a mile for that to happen based on what is on ground now you will need another 50 years because we are not standing still. What happens is you get privilege after privilege in Nigeria. How many Northerners with Phd s are unemployed ? You will find that number in just one state. Already Buhari is taking photos with one Youth leader Adamu because he has a Phd. He can be assured of fast track career and that makes the rest of you complacent and entitled in your thinking. There was an aptitude test and you were outclassed,deal with it and stop moaning. The Minister of Education was from Rivers state and the President Bayelsa. I did not see any names from Bayelsa though there may have been(ARGUABLY) a few Ikwerre names. I don't think the North are ignorant but at the top,top level you are not there. No matter how much you stamp your feet in protest

You are operating on a pretense that is both backdated and simply non existent regarding your image of Education in Nigeria. The south after the coming of the white man embraced both his education and way of life (that is why your women have lost all modesty in dressing). The North was too advanced back then having complex empires that backdate to when your ancestors were running round stark naked, the trans saharan trade route has been around for over a 1000 yrs, so ur inferiority back then gave you the advantage that you have this day.

What is with this south that you speak of? Do we not mingle in both the private and public sector? I will never accept a southerner in this day and age as a Northerners superior except in drug dealing, 419, Internet fraud, kidnapping et al. Things that make me ashamed of carrying the Nigerian passport.

Do not take the population that I talk of in the wrong context, it is just to stress the abundance of skilled, semi skilled and unskilled inhabitants.

There is a reason why the North has more than 75% of the nation's landmass, back then the south was no challenge and the only reason we didn't stop at the coast engulfing all of Nigeria with conquest was because the terrain made mobility very unfriendly.

So ur not sleeping? Well neither are we.

Lastly sir if you've forgotten.... were back in power!

eCollynzo:
There are thousands of first class graduates in the country, they have to go through a series of tests to select the best 100 from the thousands.
Those you saw there are the best 100 of the first class graduates that applied.
Hope you understand now?
Your poor reasoning already shows why northern names are few there.
Did you expect all the first class graduates in the country to be in a list of 100?

All of your likes that talk of the North do NOT know the North, most have never been there but comfortably sit behind a keyboard and talk rubbish like yourself.

Even if Federal character is pushed aside and whatever criteria is deployed in a selection process, the north will have ample representation. The population is superior to all other geographical zones, regardless of poverty and almajiris that wonder about, a decent portion can challenge on an international level talk less of national.

This stereotype of ignorance in the North and intelligence in the South which you promote says alot about how poorly wired you are my friend.

The PRESSID list is unacceptable and it stinks of foul play. Mark me next years list is going to be very very different.

CaptainOjemba:
Mr quota system no, let's do thing on merit

170m Nigerians with a geometrical no. of ethnic groups? We have to share things to the best of our ability for fairness to prevail, there exists a balance of equality and competence for your info. The criteria for pressid is a 1st class degree and its not too hard to find in any part of Nigeria.

FOR ALMOST 3 OR 4 YEARS NOW THE HAUSA-FULANI AND OTHER NORTHERN ETHNIC GROUPS HAVE BEEN CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT ON THIS PRESSID LIST, FOR FAIRNESS WHY DONT ALL STATES PROVIDE 2 CANDIDATES? NO SHAKING THOUGH WERE BACK IN POWER SO THIS IS THE LAST TIME WELL SEE A TRIBALISTIC AND PARTISAN LIST. GMB BE REST ASSURED WILL GIVE ALL CORNERS WHAT IS DUE.