₦airaland Forum

ahaika23: Absolutely! I have refused to join the bandwagon of those scouting the whole internet for BAD news about our papa land all in the name of politics and religion.

The agric sector has never been better. actually, making real money. The Minister has all to do with the complete revolution in the sector.

APC supporters, is now mourning season bah, see as Goodluck and the army dey use your boys to show their toughness and shine. Wasting them with smuggled arms ; Una eye go see pepper. On one Nigeria we stand, all janjaweeddds must be crushed by as many bullets as their bodies can contain. No to any almajiris caliphate

Without any doubt, this Minister is a great pride to Nigeria.

jmaine: And your sad point is ?

Her side is losing,

Just beware of NL Ijaw resident and his 50M monikers. The baga is a congenital liar.

][s][quote author=size38]Joseph Evah playing on the intelligence of Indigbo here. Ijaws needs votes from the Igbos. Niger Delta people needs ur votes, south-south people need the votes of the Igbos for their son GEJ to complete his tenure. because I don't think Evah has forgotten how Biafran Soldiers entered the Niger Delta to slaughter Niger Delta people during the civil war b4 d arrival of the Federal troops.[/quote[/s]

ogb5: In Buhari's voice "this killing of Northerners by Jonathan must stop"

When em em em the Niger delta people were doing their own they gave them amnesty, they sent them abroad on scholarship, they paid them money monthly.

This is not fair, Jonathan should give them amnesty and send all of them to Sudan for further terrorist studies

Amnesty nobi beans.

Unions and their wahala. May God save us from them.

tokunboh: Sources privy to the goings-on in the counter-insurgency efforts in the northeast said the statement released by the Nigerian Military on the missing Alpha Jet may have served as an unintended bait for Boko Haram insurgents.

The insurgents having been made aware of the missing jet mobilized over a thousand men last night to attack Konduga with the belief that there would be no air cover for the Nigerian Army and CJTF. Alas, they met an element of surprise! The MI25-M attack helicopter! As we speak, hundreds of haramites have been reunited with their 72 virgins!

Beautiful news, sounding like Mozart in my ears. May we see more days like this.

egift: Boko TANiods and Arms Smugglers lamenting since baked cake

I hope your bullet wounds heal, before you lead the next operation. Those smuggled arms will be locked and loaded, waiting to blow your brains away.

As a witness to Rev Idahosa's and Pastor Ayo's last public crusade on the grounds of Urhobo college in August of 1987. That statement by the observer newspaper, printed in Benin was silly. Pastor Ayo was already his own man in Warri in 1987. The Church of God's mission was too small for both of them.

chukwudi44: chai heavier casualties!!! we shold be looking at maybe 400 or 500.I hope Egift is not among today's casualtuies shaa

He escaped with massive injury, you will soon hear him crying like a goat.

lakpalakpa: Atwireles

I'm a full-blooded Deltan so your baseless rants are inconsequential. In your jaundiced opinion only those who join you in kissing the asses of Uduaghan and his gang of thieves are Deltans.

Uduaghan has only succeeded in impoverishing Deltans. With Delta's huge allocations what is on ground is very shameful to say the least.

Thank God the basin-headed fvcktard is leaving office in a few months time.

Be whatever you want, by their fruits we shall know them. An almajiri will always be an almajiri.

jared007: Of a truth u don't know me becos i hardly comment on issues. Concerning Delta, i usually see ur comments filled with hypocricy. You criticize Uduaghan when talking with ur kinsmen but quickly praise him when talking with a perceived outsider.

Claim whatever you want, but keep me out of it. I don't know you and you don't know me. Above all, NL SS resident, claiming SS, just to insult the people of SS should never quote me.

jared007: Atlwireles stop embarassing me with ur silly comments as an advocate 4 Uduaghan. Uduaghan is a chronic failure and u know. Am a PDP fan just like you and u are not more Delta than us. REMEMBER OUR DELTA REMAINS A RURAL STATE IRRESPECTIVE OF THE HUGE REVENUE ALLOCATIONS!

Who are you? where do I know you from. Delta ko, delta ni. NL deltans are unknown to me. Carry your madness somewhere else

arresa: With this silly and meaningless dancing around, it's safe to conclude that you are incapable of answering the questions..

Be dismissed...

Bloody liar, your lies are dismissed.

arewanationz: No wahala.....Make una prepare for nemesis! .

You are bullsh1fting with the wrong negro. Try, you will find out whose name is called nemesis. Your boko haram brothers will be a joke.

arresa: [s]Answer that question and and watch me leave NL for good...

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How many of your monikers do you promise to retire?

arewanationz: I'm glad we know who the real Boko haram is. Tell your criminal brother Ayo to quit camouflaging with the miserable Shekau and show his true face instead of ridiculing the christian community.

Alamjiri, you have to define the word ridicule for us again. Like I said, Ayo is and will forever be above you roaches pay grade. You people never jam.

arewanationz: You mean Ayo the criminal and gun runner?

His criminal act is demolishing the kingdom of boko haram, their janjaweeddd and almjiris roaches. We provide guns for you to kill yourself till infinity.

arewanationz: This troll definitely has nothing to say.

Almajiri, Ayo is above your pay grade.

The almajirs have shown up here too. how many hospitals were commissioned in delta state in the last 18 months., how many new roads, Also water treatment plant. I will leave the picture posting to you people. Keep making your noise, as delta moves forward.

lakpalakpa: Leave the TAN oafs. They don't know I'm Deltan and won't accept any senseless, baseless propaganda from the Basin-Headed Governor.

Baseless propaganda, is that not all you do here daily? You are a deltan ko, you are a Warri man ni. Alamjiris have never been needed in delta state, we reject you.

The fear of pastor Ayo is the beginning of wisdom for these almajiris. Pipo, no shaking, anyhow you guys want it, so shall it be. When you dumbasses messed with Ayo, you picked on a wrong target. You will not be able to take the return fire. So call off your madness before you people enter market. Nah one Nigeria, devil baptist una.

The boko haram supporters and their janjaweeddddd social media crew, have nothing on Pastor Ayo, you people can make all the noise you want. We have the cure for blood sucking alamjiris, when you roaches get out of hand

patimore: Didn't Pastor Ayo tell us that the jet is strictly for his pastoral duties, so when was it converted to a commercial airline that gun runners could lease?

Pastor Ayo is now a full time businessman.
'EAGLE Air'
'EAGLE HEIGHT University
EAGLE Micro finance Bank etc

And by his grace,

Eagle Bank
Eagle petrochemical
Eagle realty and resorts

will all come to pass.

jmaine: Is this supposed to be your silly way of saying you can't counter my claims on this thread . . . It is fools like you that will go to town blaring to the whole world that Imam Shekau is a born again Christian fronting as a muslim to inflict the most unreasonable havoc using the Quran . . .

I wonder who recruits the APC maggots online to propagate the most abominable idiocies . . . . .

They are not recruited, they just reproduce themselves like roaches. Just keep your can of raid close to you.

egift: If you have nothing to disprove that the market has been closed for 5years, then quiet

Disprove You expect me to get into an argument with you? Boy, sorry, you don miss road.

egift: lakpalakpa has proved beyond every reasonable doubt that the Market has been ready since 5years ago. After your failure to disprove him, you are now calling him someone else. atlwireles how low can you TANiods go in your lies and deception.
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Did not expect anything less, from an almajiri like you. Keep your lies and propaganda to APC. Go back and check, who was the gov of delta state 5 years ago.

It is an open secret that President Goodluck Jonathan would seek another reelection as we approach the 2015 elections. That the machinery of the Peoples Democratic Party on whose platform Jonathan is seeking a renewal of his mandate has also set to ensure a smooth ride to the party’s ticket for the President is also glaringly obvious. Then, there is another open secret that the President’s seat of power in Aso Rock Villa is being highly- and rightly too- coveted by elements within the ruling PDP and the Northern divide of the country.

And there is a historical dimension to all these agitations. Once upon a time, not too long ago, a wave of pro-democracy activism swept across Nigeria. This movement, heralded by the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola by then military President Ibrahim Babangida, was largely led by compatriots from Southern Nigeria who felt that the entire process of the annulment was an affront to their continual claim to Nigeria. Gen. Sani Abacha, the immediate beneficiary of the political crisis, became an object of national and global focus during the ensuing period. There was a calculated barrage of criticisms against anything the Abacha junta represented by NADECO, PRONACO, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afenifere and several other platforms whose main aim was to return civil democracy and common sense to Nigeria and to ensure that justice was done to the people of the South-West who were feeling greatly alienated from the political scheme of things. As all these continued amidst a national atmosphere of apprehension, Abacha thought it wiser to perpetuate himself in office against the consensus of the people of Nigeria to return our beloved country to the path of national reconciliations.

Just as we are witnessing today with the emergence of all manner of groups purportedly canvassing for President Jonathan to remain in office beyond 2015 “and set the record of the longest serving president in Nigeria’s history by 2019,” as one of such groups recently affirmed, there were series of sinister moves by many prevailing on Abacha to transmute unchallenged from military to civilian presidency. As a matter of fact, all the existing five political parties then adopted the dark-goggled despot as their “consensus candidate in an event of any presidential election”! Though Abacha was later to pass away in controversial circumstances thus paving way for a transition to democracy superintended by the amiable Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar who took over as Head of State, history had passed its verdict that when a particular divide of the country begins to express frustration in an unfair political arrangement, there must be a resort to reason.

Northern Nigeria has contributed immensely to national consolidation in terms of human and material resources. The North, through her influential leaders like the venerable Sir Ahmadu Bello, Mallam Aminu Kano, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Senator J.S. Tarka, et al collaborated with their counterparts from southern Nigeria to bequeath a nation filled with hopes for the future. That handshake across the Niger River, though with all the peculiarities and limitations, was what brought out the Giant of Africa status that we today parade. The ravages of the Civil War notwithstanding, we have continued to relish the glory of those days gone by.

Jonathan’s presidency which came to be from the demise of President Umaru Yar’Adua shares a lot of peculiarities with the Abacha junta. As people of the south felt shortchanged, that Abacha wouldn’t have popped up if Abiola was inaugurated as President, so also is the feeling across the North today that Jonathan has served his best in these last six years and should extend another handshake across the Niger to further consolidate on our national unity. History has it that Chief Olusegun Obansanjo was widely supported from the North as a form of solidarity to Southern Nigeria to pacify their aggrieved interests. The Obasanjo years were a reprieve from the debauchery that ensued during the intervening period.

The cacophony of “endorsements” of President Jonathan for another term in office by all manner of people are reminiscent of the experience of Nigerians during the Abacha years. Like Daniel Kalu and his “Youths Earnestly Ask for Abacha” who set to pull a one million-man march to register their endorsement of Abacha for self-perpetuation, the strides by groups like the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria who are collecting obviously fictitious signatures to pave the way for President Jonathan’s declaration of intention for reelection, do not bring good tidings to our President. These groups could make Jonathan further lose public goodwill.

The people of Northern Nigeria today greatly feel alienated from the ‘Transformation Agenda’ of Jonathan. Like the Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, rightly reminded Nigerians, the President has not effectively carried the people of Northern Nigeria along in terms of development projects in line with his transformation agenda to deserve a worthy endorsement. Lamido has set an example on how to truly transform a state with his numerous people-oriented projects across Jigawa and thus posses the wherewithal to challenge the shortcomings of the Transformation Agenda and salvage our national heritage.

The PDP under the leadership of Adamu Mu’azu could do better by providing a level-playing ground for all those aspiring to halt Nigeria’s macabre dance to the brink. The party’s chances in next year’s elections are further enhanced when the people of Northern Nigeria are given a fair sense of belonging.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/the-north-jonathan-and-verdict-of-history

An article that should be celebrated turns into a cursing match. Nigeria needs investors, Ghanaians are free to come and dominate whichever sector they chose.

A row is brewing between Zambia and Dangote Cement, a major employer in Africa’s second largest copper producer, after a government minister accused an executive at the local unit of the company of attempting to bribe him.

The dispute appears to be the latest in a string of incidents in which the southern African nation’s government has resorted to strong-arm or unorthodox tactics against foreign investors it believes are circumventing labour laws.

Dangote Industries Zambia (DIZ) has 400 workers building a $400 million dollar cement plant, a staff count that should rise to 2,000 when production starts in November, deputy industry minister Miles Sampa told Reuters.

During a tour of the plant in Ndola, 300 km (188 miles) north of the capital Lusaka, labour minister Fackson Shamenda said a Nigerian executive seconded to the Zambian unit tried to bribe him at a hotel a week ago.

The company described the allegations them as “malicious misinformation”.

“For the record, DIZ categorically deny any claims of corruption and bribery and reserve our rights on this matter,” it said in a statement.

Shamenda did not specify what was offered by the executive and said he rejected it because he had critical labour issues to sort out with the company – owned by Nigerian Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man – and did not want to be compromised.

“He told me that it was a tradition in their culture to give someone a token of appreciation. Maybe his idea was that I turn a blind eye to what is happening at Dangote,” Shamenda said, according to local media reports.

Shamenda also said DIZ should offer workers at the company permanent employment and allow them to join unions.

“There is no union and according to the reports I have received those who have attempted to join unions have had their contracts terminated,” Shamenda told Reuters on Tuesday.

“I have asked the labour commissioner to investigate and tell me all the categories of employees because the reports we have received indicate there are no permanent employees.”

DIZ said in its statement that Shamenda had made four surprise visits to the cement plant in the last four months, prompting the company to complain about his conduct as it felt that the minister was deliberately looking for wrongdoing.

“DIZ was beginning to feel harassed and unwelcome in Zambia and immediately brought this to the attention of the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry,” it said in the statement.

A year ago, Zambia revoked the work permit of the chief executive of Konkola Copper Mines, owned by London-listed Vedanta Resources, and threatened to rip up its mining licence when the firm announced plans to lay off 1,500 workers.

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/09/zambian-minister-accuses-dangote-industries-of-graft