₦airaland Forum

Ex Inferis:
because there isnt a conspiracy by the northerners against christians or southerners. once a while some group or other out of their own bizarre motivations go on a rampage; doesnt mean an entre tribe or religion supports or initiated it. do we hold the entire south south for the trsnagressions of the militants? do we hold igbos accountable for the actions of armed robbers who are mostly igbo, or the viperous insults of MASSOB?

every single concerted act that has a pattern must be the work of govt. most nigerians of whatever religious and political leanings are just trying to survive. the rest have their own agenda: BH, MASSOB, ND Militants, PDP.

dont let splinter organizations composed of touts and thugs define your perception of others. the igbos that prosper in the north wouldnt have done so if their exists a conspiracy to annihilate them.

some thugs, who may or may not be hausa, kill igbos/christians; doesnt mean every single muslim/northerner is involved.

so why not direct your anger to the so called group intead of the whole igbo?are you not seeing you are falling on your own advice?as for most robbers being igbo i am sure those fulani marauders on northern roads are saints to you

i also like as femi kuti called tinubu as one of those leaders that should be jailed although after he said that there were some arguments on the platform.

Ex Inferis:
open your eyes, you bigoted dolt. before one single igbo was killed, hundreds of muslims were slaughtered by BH. they killed imams, followers, policemen and soldiers irrespective of religion. they even killed the son of one of their patrons after obasanjos visits. on the issue of threats, how many times have the ND militants vowed to kill of northerners? didnt the OPC kill hausas and asked them to leave the southwest?

no one in the northern political system can control BH except the PDP. in as much as you live in fear of them, so do we.

if you want to lynch an entire tribe on account of the evil of some shadow group then by all means do go on. but say your prayers and write your wills first.

there has been retaliation in benin and sapele.why not attack them?the northerners here left even before this so called biafra guys gave their ultimatum.who was chasing them?have you heard of reprisal attacks in the south east.

jason123:
I have to commend the patience and long-suffering attitude of the SE. Northerners should be grateful to the SE for giving them time to leave. If what happened to the Igbos in the North, happened to the SSoutherners or Yorubas. OPC and Egbesu or MEND would have roasted your a55es without any warning.

Again, be grateful to the SE. They are indeed patient!

you dey mind exinferis.

Ex Inferis:
the north got the shorter end of the deal. before the economic mainstay came from the southwest and the north, but substantially from the north. then it was commonwealth. but now everyone is claiming their own economic fiefdom. there are more prosperous igbos in the north than in the southeast, they come and establish themselves and largely behave themselves until now when some losers back home in the east for their own selfish purposes want to destroy what their brethren have built in the north. you think BH doesnt kill muslims? they've killed more muslims than christians. BH is our problem too!

but lets forget all that. lets all retire to our tribal enclaves. but who loses more? the maigards and mai shayis in the east, or the spare parts sellers, hoteliers, beer parlor owners, computer people, electronics vendors etc in the north?

there are 50 muslims to each igbo, we outnumber and outgun you bastards, so bring on the war. ask your parents what the civil tasted like first.

i wonder what was your response when boko haram gave their deadline.see you saying bastards as if the easterners have retaliated the nonsense you guys are doing up there.i am sure if it was the other way round you guys retaliation would have been immediate.

i have always wondered about dino melaye and that his show with bicycle in abuja

hehe t.a.orji joining issues

DRANOEL:
@post
are you surprised its the north and west? [b]well both regions have always expressed their opinions at critical times of nigeria's history little wonder they determine a lot that happens in the country! [/b]as for the wise men in the east? now you know why they are always schemed out of things! let the true cowards stand up!

thank god that nigeria is now an eldorado.

i thought the south east is irrelivant?so what is the hullaboo about them not protesting?

Lord Naya:
@bluetoot unfortunately yarogba pipo in the north are also feeling de heat go to federal medical center and see 4 urself de names of pipo dat died from the attack of a deeper life in nasarrawo lga. 4 out of de six killed are yaribas while the pastor's wife nd 1 other are northerners. De names of yaribas on de list of the injured speaks volumes. In yola majority of de victims of Christ Apostolic Church(CAC) attack at jimeta are yarogba. Go to yola specialist hospital after school of nursing along de road leading 2 mubi roundabout and see de names of victims admitted. De amount of yarogba pipo dat even pay visit 2 dat hospital after de attack will convince u. Tank u stars dat dey didnt attack redeem church or living faith de numba of Yoruba victims wud be high. I wonda why de press didnt make it a yarogba attack jus as they did 2 de mubi attack. Nonsence set of stupi.d hypocretes. Yaribas hav bin removed from all important positions of govt and may remain dat way 4ever. Igbos dont hav 2 support subsidy protest 2 be president of nigeria becos dat will happen by God's grace in 2015. Hav NLC or TUC protested against boko haram in de north b4? Make una go sit down jare!!! Mtchieeew!!

you dey mind am

alj harem:
OP

YOU ARE SOOOO RIGHT

DON'T MIND THIS IDEEIOT ON NL

EVERYTHING THE OP SAID IS TRUE[b]

RIGHT NOW IN YABA 13 DEAD AS OPC AND HAUSA GO HEAD TO HEAD[/b]

MORE DEAD IN BENIN-CITY

EVEN MORE DEAD IN SAPELE

is this a joke?

ndi agam, agam.do it already !

seun kuti actually called tinubu's name as on of those people that have messed up nigeria that must be punished.he made that statement in ojota.

Otu nne:
@asha, i understand your concern about imo. The writer made some true and false comments above, but all i can tell u is that ppl are very very happy with rochas, that some are trying to block his presidential move that he should do a 2nd term b4 goin 4 presidency. Even though its too early to judge, the man is doing wonders administratively. 150 road projects at a time, am impressed.

which ones are true and which ones are lies?

as for the second bolded i do not have any problem if the average guy knows about the amount of allocation from abuja.will the writer be happier if the average person does not know about it?i think it is what you do with the information that matters.

as for the third bolded i honestly do not know which one should come first.declare the free education and go ahead with reforms and rehabilitation of the school system OR reform or rehabilitate the school system before declaring free education.

A week in Okorocha’s populist republic
Thursday, 22 December 2011 09:01 Okey C. Iheduru
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Until someone obsequiously intoned ‘Good Morning, Your Excellency,’ I didn’t know the person standing behind me on the bus conveying us from the gate to the aircraft was Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the Executive Governor of Imo State. Before boarding the 10: 25 a.m. Abuja-Owerri flight last week Tuesday, Okorocha passed through the same security checks like every passenger. There was no spectacle; no obtrusive aides in devilish dark glasses harassing passengers. No wonder he’s hailed as ‘the People’s Governor.’

The Owelle’s entourage heading home from the airport encountered an auto accident on Whetheral Road, Owerri. Okorocha, who was driving a coaster bus himself, stopped and invited the hapless victim whose banged up sedan was still stuck in the median to Government House, ostensibly for some ‘empowerment’ to get his jalopy back on the road again.

On Wednesday afternoon, traffic on the same Wetheral Road came to a halt, amid raucous drumming and dancing, marching bands covering much of the one-mile stretched from the Government House to the Dan Anyiam Stadium. The lead dancers were Governor Okorocha and his wife, en route a ‘homecoming’ reception by the Owerri senatorial district for their ‘adopted son,’ Governor Okorocha. Men, women, the youth, Keke drivers and shopkeepers all trooped out to see the spectacle.

Indeed, Okorocha is hugely popular across the board in Imo State. Even those who voted for his opponents last May confess that, in retrospect, Imo people made the right choice. They cite the numerous road projects in Owerri and other major cities and localities in the state. There’s a feeling of co-ownership of governmental processes by many people here. Okorocha sometimes jogs in the streets and stops to buy and eat ‘akara’ along with ordinary folk. People still talk about the monster block parties that erupted after his electoral victory, as well as the cans of petrol they had purchased, ready to burn the whole of Owerri had he lost.

Unfortunately, Okorocha’s populist rhetoric and style is morphing into a monster that could devour his administration and even make it difficult to govern Imo state in the future.  Populism as an ideology of mass mobilization generally pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice. Populist mass movements are irrational and introduce instability into the political process.

Mass mobilisation (of especially the youth) without robust institutional politics to channel this surge in political participation can lead to system breakdown. There’s a surge in democratic distemper or popular distrust of the very political institutions Okorocha needs to govern. Today, the youth has been told there’s plenty of money in politics. We should worry when plumbers and painters know more about the ‘allocations from Abuja’ coming to the state than the rudiments of their trade. To be a governor in the state in the future, you must henceforth ‘answer the call’ of the bishop’ (i.e., a public debate moderated by the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri). Any governor who fails to ‘perform’ will be confronted with cans of petrol and matches.

The biggest casualty of Okorocha’s populism is the democratic link between state and society. Okorocha dares not demand taxes from his petrol canister-bearing foot-soldiers. He’s unlikely to dislodge them from all the nooks and corners of Owerri which they’ve now converted into one massive messy bazar. The environmental protection programmes of his predecessor are perceived as elitist attack on the poor. Most major roads in Owerri are blocked to traffic because they have been ‘occupied’ by Okorocha’s supporters. ‘Double parking’, a serious violation with severe penalties just six months ago, is the order of the day. Similarly, with Okorocha’s laudable free education policy, the children of his supporters they will have to live with large classroom sizes, unmotivated and underpaid teachers, massive failures in terminal exams because there was no serious thought or debate about a credible universal primary and post-basic free education program.

Okorocha ‘Imo rescue’ project has yet to impress neither armed robbers nor kidnappers who still roam unmolested. The government is clueless about the continued abduction and periodic murder of medical doctors in the state. While Okorocha was dancing along Wetheral Road last Wednesday, Alpha Clinic in Orji, Owerri was burning. The state’s fire service made three trips—the first without water in their truck; the second with less than 50 gallons of water, and the third with two trucks after the second floor of the building had been completely razed and after neighbours had evacuated all the patients. Fortunately, by the time the two trucks arrived, some petrol canister-carrying youth—‘those who voted for me’ a la Okorocha—who had come to burn the fire trucks had left before the trucks arrived.

Governor Okorocha must de-emphasise his populist antics and develop concrete policies focusing on Imo State five to 15 years from now. He is missing a golden opportunity to structure the attention of the youth away from ‘allocations from Abuja.’ No society can survive, let alone develop, without order. Contrary to populist rhetoric, it’s the poor, not the rich that benefits the most from law and order. We will all lose if Imo State fails. The Owelles will always do well, but the petrol canister squad will always find demagogues urging them to ‘burn baby burn.’

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/analysis/columnists/31158-a-week-in-okorochas-populist-republic

Onlytruth:
This "Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos Branch" should not be making this statement, afterall there is the Ohanaeze MAIN headquarters in Enugu that should be making it, if at all this is important. They must not view Igboland with a "Lagosian" mindset.
Do we need another refinery in Igboland?
Do these people know the environmental impacts of a refinery?
How far are all parts of Igboland from the Orient refinery in Anambra, and the Port Harcourt refinery?

They should agitate for more important things like fixing federal roads and finishing the Enugu International Airport.
Since we are in Nigeria, we don't have to worry about any refinery in our backyard, unless of course they can prove that the economic gain is far more than the environmental impacts.

you dey mind them.

Rudebwoy:
@ Kasiem, remember Ngige stayed for only 3years, and was able to achieve such. Peter obi has stayed for 6years yet nothing to show for it. FYI, renovation of schools and solar powered boreholes are MDG's projects. Obi has been enjoying the freedom ngige never enjoyed yet he does not want to work.

hmm if they are i wonder why i did not see the same thing in imo state under ohakim.

what the hell?maidugiri and damaturu at the same time?

afam4eva:
I don't want to believe you've joined the bandwagon of praise singer that include Chino etal. In as much as i would like to believe you, no indices point to the fact that Anambra is making any headway. You can shut me up by posting pictures the way[b] our Enugu people have been doing.[/b]

seriously though enugu pics have been mainly enugu city infrastructure.what about places like udi,nkanu,igbo etiti,eziagwu,udenu etc?

arghhhh! andy uba again ( this country hates me)

ode remo:
Can some1 point me to any borrowing to fund capital projects here, cos am still reading the report. Stiill looking tho.

honestly i am not comfortable with any type of borrowing.

Gbawe:
Yes of course but it is still highly laudable that , in one year, recurrent spending has gone down from 76.4% under the PDP to 45.3% under the ACN. Fantastic also that capital spending has gone from a criminal 23.6% under the PDP to 54.7% under the ACN. These are the sort of very crucial statistics that enable politically sophisticated voters to make choices. Unlike other websites, we spend too much time talking about irrelevant issues here instead of focusing on what matter , together as Nigerians, to understand who (even if not saints) clearly hold the best deals for us currently. The PDP is entirely conservtive, gradualist and a fan of bloated democracies abetted by hideous profligacy from the centre. The ACN is progressive and touts, non-stop, the mantra of fiscal efficacy and the notion that States must increase IGR and develop sectors they have comparative advantanges. This sort of budget, that cuts down on waste massively and rightfully places emphasis on capital spending, is proof of how one Party is night(PDP) and the other is day (ACN).

do you trust ajimobi?

all these is just noise.nobody is going anywhere.too late for that.

issue is implementation and not really announcement of budget.

FG seeks loans from India, China, France to fund 2012 budget
On December 21, 2011 · In News

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

LAGOS - The Federal Government is to fund a quarter of its 2012 budget proposal with external and domestic loans with the third world country, India, for the first time giving a helping hand to the Nigerian treasury.

A total of $1.712 billion estimated at N265.36 billion is coming from countries such as India, China and France while the government is also expecting to dig N794 billion from the domestic market, bringing total borrowings for funding of fiscal 2012 at N1.059 trillion. The Federal Government spending proposal for 2012 laid before the National Assembly by President Goodluck Jonathan is N4.7 trillion.

Besides the N1.059 loan needed to fund government spending next year, the government is also expecting to borrow another N600 billion from the capital market to refinance matured loans.

$1.032 billion is to be sourced from India, Japan, China under new borrowings to fund the N4.74 trillion Federal Government budget, according to the budget details submitted to the National Assembly.

The new borrowings by government is besides $679.53 million in existing loan agreements that would be drawn down in the forthcoming budget year, according to accompanying details on the budget forwarded to the National Assembly.

The government is also expecting to actively borrow from the capital market in fiscal 2012 with a proposal to raise N1.394 trillion from the capital market. N794 .440 billion to be realised from the capital market is to be used in financing the 2012 budget while the balance of N600.4 billion is to be used in refinancing of matured Federal Government bonds.

The accompanying documents forwarded to the National Assembly with the budget proposal showed that the new borrowings in the coming year would come from France, Japan and India while China which already has a running loan agreement with the Federal Government would sustain its commitment to the Nigerian treasury in fiscal 2012.

Under the new borrowings, the French Development Agency is providing $159.69 million, the Japanese Overseas Development Agency is providing $150 million, $300 million is coming from the Chinese Global Facility, another $9 million is coming from a credit line from India.

Other sources of new borrowings are the International Development Association, IDA, an arm of the World Bank which is providing $343.5 million while the African Development Fund, a development channel of the African Development Bank is providing $70.5 million.

Ongoing funding commitments to be sustained to finance the budget would come from the IDA which is providing $319.53 million, ADF ($70.61 million), IDB supposedly the Islamic Development Bank ($16.34 million), the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD ($26.52 million) and the Eximbank of China which is providing $246.53 in ongoing funding for the treasury.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/fg-seeks-loans-from-india-china-france-to-fund-2012-budget/

ak47mann:
what is this fool talking about?nothing go happen,the governor made a very good decision,what have they done to improve our schools in anambra state?most schools in onicha was build-by missionaries in 1850s,they should mind their business foolish people,those schools will be well looked after by churches,and they are talking about secular states.

Nigeria is not a secular state, some state i cant worship freely or be treated the same as the indigenous,the funds for the maintenance of those schools are already handed over to churches,and is gonna stay that way,

i thought the same thing too.

NUT, Obi on warpath
…As body promises to make Anambra State ungovernable for Obi for handing over schools to churches
•Says decision is a criminal violation of the UBEC ACT
From ZION ZADOK, Abuja
Tuesday, December 20, 2011


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National Union of Teachers (NUT) has on Thursday reviled Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State for transferring 1096 basic schools to churches. While briefing journalists at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NUT in Abuja, the National President, Comrade Micheal Alogba Olukoya, described the action of the governor of Anambra State and the missions as a criminal violation of the ‘compulsory free universal education ACT 2004’ and a total disservice to the nation.

Olukoya said: “It is a parody and travesty of governance that as the world moves progressively toward mass education through public funding, the Governor of Anambra State is all out to returning education to elitist project, undeserving for the children of the poor masses.”

He noted that the situation in Anambra State assumed a dimension, which bordered on criminal violation of ‘the compulsory free universal basic education Act 2004’, which made intendments of section 18 of the 1999 constitution that “government shall direct her policy towards ensuring that there are adequate and equal educational opportunities at all levels” while Section 3 states that “the services provided in public primary and secondary schools shall be free of charge.”

The NUT President noted that the recourse to handing over basic schools to churches is an attempt at commercializing, by Governor Obi and churches who have custody of the schools compulsory, free and universal basic education and noted that both parties are treading the path of criminality in the face of the law.”

Comrade Olukoya scoffed at Obi’s statement while announcing the return of 56 secondary and 1040 primary schools to the missionaries on the 21st November, 2011 in which he said: “it is hoped that with the return of schools to their original voluntary agency owners, the aspect of moral depravity afflicting our society, child development will be addressed better than in the completely public schools in which morality is treated scantily” and challenged him to convince the public if majority of people in Nigerian prisons today and most of the ex-Governors and high profile public servants already heading for jail on account of money laundering, are not products of missions schools.

Speaking further, he also argued that it is also moral depravity to think that government is assisting religious bodies with the sum of N9 billion public funds to prosecute religious education while the country remains a secular state.
When reminded that the Minister of State for Education was there during the handover, Olukoya replied that “the Minister’s presence shows that the President sanctioned it and it is conspiracy par excellence and equally injustice that someone who is supposed to oversee activities in public primary schools should sit and watch while the schools are handed over to the missions.”
He warned that except Obi rescinds its decision on schools’ handover and stoppage of union dues’ without further delay, they will make the state ungovernable for him come next year.

“The union promises the state government a new year without fun, come January,” he said. “We shall make sure that teachers, whether in public or private schools, embark on strike. We shall close down schools and picket anyone that defied our order and remain open. In short, the NUT will relocate to Awka until justice is served.”
Lending its support to NUT demand, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) through its Assistant Secretary General, Comrade Nuhu Toro disclosed that NLC president has directed that “they relocate with NUT to Awka if the NUT demand is not met. We will mobilize the over 40 member affiliates to the state.”

In his remark, the Policy Advisor, CSACEFA, Samuel Wale, noted that in the course of neglecting education, the nation is now a country under siege, with government shying away from its responsibilities in the name of paucity of funds and, promised to, on behalf of civil society organizations to ensure that the fundamental human rights of children are not trampled upon.

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/education/2011/dec/20/education-20-12-2011-001.html

seven day adventist were prominent in ngwaland.that is why 70 percent of ngwas you meet are seven day adventists.

i wonder if the bread is imported.

seems like initial gra gra

suprised that no mbaise person has contributed here