₦airaland Forum

django1: Will you then stop supporting jonathan or find another excuse for him? These bloody retar.ds will drag the country to its death.

You piece of sh1t, why not stay on topic. All your silly attempts to belittle the Nigerian army, will never come to anything. Look for another institution, where you can direct your hate and wicked propaganda.

Ibnsultan: anonther sick jonathanian on the loose

Another boko murderer, we know you people. Tell your friend to name his dad. Army deaths are public record.

EasternLeopard: Why won't I be crazy to you just because I asked that he should be cross-examined properly before crucifying your most hated enemy GEJ

I know you will believe him because his comment paints GEJ as a culprit

You proved to be the only sane mind on this thread. Op, Name your dad and tell us his army serial number, your story will be verified within an hour. I have followed all your comments on this thread, people like you are clearly more deadly than boko haram.

No matter where they find themselves, women will always be women.

Nuhu actually thought he had a chance to win the PDP primary in Adamawa State Smart move to remain in APC, you will not add a single value to PDP in the state, rather you will cause more problems. Nyako was a transplant, see where he got us.

texazzpete: Ironically, you'll probably get paid for this inane post. That's cool.

Just by the same crowd paying you. That's cool too.

OrlandoOwoh: Rubbish! Don't quote me any more.

Bigot, you supporter of APC, tell us why you come here to your spread Hausa/fulani hate?

OrlandoOwoh: You've not made any point. Abi no be you?

You know your gang, go seek them out. Become, yoruba, Ibo, Ikwerre, ijaw, etc to spread your hate. That is your sole purpose here..

OrlandoOwoh: Atlwireles is one of the people I hate engaging on this forum because of their shallow reasoning ability. How can the image maker of the DSS be vomiting such on a live programme?

You don't get far me, because you know your lies and pretentiousness gets exposed. An Alamjiri pretending to be a southerner, just to spread hate on NL. Go and worry about Boko haram killing your people in the name of your God.

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texazzpete: I'm not a paid hack like you. Nobody on Nairaland can ever accuse me of that. Wasn't it two days ago that I was lambasting Fashola for his neglect of Ejigbo LGA?

I'm a patriot. I love my country. I want my country to be great. I want to leave a strong Nigeria for my kids to inherit. I oppose anyone that is taking action to damage this country. That includes APC, PDP, LP, CNN, Yahoo Yahoo...anyone! My post history can attest to that.

You on the other hand leave absolutely no doubt that you're an induced mercenary. Either you're paid in cash or kind, nobody can be that stupid to blindly support ALL senseless policies from this administration. At least nobody can, with all clear conscience.

In other words, you're a modern day Esau. Congrats, you'll explain to your own kids your role in the Nigerian project. For now, care to tell us what the 'porridge' (that you're selling your conscience for) is?

You failed to answer a simple question, who is paying for your post? What become of my kids is not your problem. The kind of country I choose to live in, is my personal responsibility and not yours. Do you self a favour and learn to respect people point of view and stop acting like a teabagger. Your senselessness is somebody's else common sense. Keep your pride, patriotism, the great country you seek, and whatever else you choose to call it to yourself.

texazzpete: Did she really say this? On live TV?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This is a banana republic

Now I know why the likes of @atlwireless that have no ounce of self-pride, no dignity can easily accept a job description of being a paid-per-post propaganda and FUD spreader on Nairaland.

Self pride? I am not a chest beater, that I can tell now. So, who is paying for your post?

Anybody born in this country right from our NSO days, then SSS/ DSS. Will tell you, our secret police have been involved in all matters in Nigeria, elections included. No government in Nigeria's history abused the powers of the secret police more, than Buhari. In 1983-85 the fear of the NSO, was the beginning of wisdom. He should advise members of the APC regarding the secret police/DSS today, he understands their functions very well..

Obiagelli: well lai Mohammed just spoke.

He needs to head to court to enforce, whatever rights, the DSS took from him. Then I will take his noise serious.

Obiagelli: and who are those deserting? Femi Fani Kayode? Lol.

When he sold insults for your side, you people were proud of him. Abi?

Obiagelli: well if you see nothing wrong with all these, so be it but no matter what part of the divide we stand, we should speak for right always.

I am actually disappointed the APC is letting all these slide.

Ask yourself why. APC never saw a political situation they did not exploit. So, why are they quiet.

Obiagelli: ^^^^ did she actually say all these? Goodness me.

Nigerians know APC, there's a reason people are deserting from your party left and right.

Obiagelli: does this even make any sense? Had no business in osun? He is the spokesperson for the opposition from God sake.

So what if he is from kwara? Are we now restricted to our state of origin?

12am in the morning, is there some kind of curfew in the state? The APC could have held meetings till late in the night.

The DSS did their job, if you have a problem with any of their actions, the courts are wide open. Liar mohammed or any other APC member should go there to seek redress.

The dust of the just concluded Osun governorship polls does not seem to be about to ebb, going by the string of accusations not only between political parties, but between political parties and the Department of State Security (DSS).


Today on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, the spokesperson of the DSS, Marylin Ogar , wondered why there was no bomb blasts after the Osun governorship election which was won by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ogar did not specifically or directly accuse the APC of complicity in the bombing, but still wondered why there were bomb blasts in states where other parties apart from the
APC won elections.

Ms Ogar noted that there has been no bombings since the apc won in Edo and Osun elections.
She said that “we had provided security for Edo and at the end of that election, permit me to say, there was no bomb blast.
“We moved to Ondo and the Labour Party won in Ondo, there was bomb blast. We moved to Anambra; APGA won in Anambra and there was a bomb blast”. She said
She however noted that when they “moved to Ekiti and PDP won in Ekiti, there was a bomb blast” and “thank God we were able to deploy appropriately (in Osun), the results came out, the APC have won and thank God there was no bomb blast”.
Asked if she was insinuating that the opposition party was responsible for the bombings, the DSS spokesperson noted that “we should thank God that since after the Osun elections, there has been no bombings” warning that “it doesn’t mean that there should be a bomb blast after i leave the (channels tv Abuja) studio”.


She noted that the DSS does not come out to make such accusations all the time, adding that “we are not meant to intimidate, we are not meant to cow, but we are allow the Nigerian people know that there certain things we know and we keep quiet to work underground to ensure that we dont want to put people into our parts.
She also urged every Nigerian to know that security operatives should not and never be dragged into politics.
There had been allegations that the DSS operatives on duty during the Osun election showed some excesses in the discharge of their duties, an allegation she was bent on debunking.

According to her, while she could understand a political party being bad losers, the Osun matter only meant that bad winners also existed.

She stated that the DSS had not done anything unusual in Osun State, explaining that as a fall-out of the Ekiti election, security reports had revealed that political parties, particularly the PDP and the APC had vowed to outdo each other in the Osun State election and based on security reports, the security agencies “had to deploy adequately to be able to forestall any threat or anything that will pose contrary to free and fair election in Osun State.”

Alleged 14million Naira Offer

It has been reported that the DSS alleged that a political party offered the Security Service a bribe, leading to the Osun election, and she was asked to name the persons involved, so that they could be prosecuted.

She said that prior to the election, an APC member had invited the DSS Director, who was coordinating the election “to come and collect 4 million Naira for himself and another 10 million Naira for the same masked people.

“It was an offer and she said no, that she didn’t think it was necessary because when it has to do with logistics, as far as the Service is concerned, they would definitely have placed everything that would make for a successful operation.

“The rejection of that money on Tuesday brought on a lot of things that ordinarily we had not seen before anywhere.”

On the demand for the identity and prosecution of the persons involved, she said, “The duty of the SSS is to detect, prevent and deter” and using the President’s carrot and stick analogy, “It is not every time that you go out arresting people.”

She said further, “If this same process has been turned down when it had to do with other political parties, and they never took offense, why is it that the APC is taking offense? For me, its like pre-empting and presuming that ‘maybe this people are going to go to town with this stuff so we must be able to cow them to a point where they would be unable to expose what we were trying to do’.

“The person that made the offer knows himself and he knows that we know him.” She insisted that security agencies should not be dragged into politics.

She also clarified the issue surrounding the 14million Naira offer and being referred to as “bribe”.

“I’m sure the people that were doing the offering didn’t see it as a bribe, and I had never mentioned the word bribe. The media has used the word bribe in order to make it sensational.

“I could make you an offer and say this would assist you in what you are doing. Its either you take it or you refuse.

“I did say here that they offered us money to assist us and we said no.”

She added that if indeed the DSS was not accommodating to all parties involved in the election, “the Executive Governor of Osun State wouldn’t have written inviting us to come.”


http://www.channelstv.com/2014/08/14/dss-ponders-politics-and-bombings-in-nigeria

The DSS Spokesperson has been speaking on the arrest of the APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, during the governorship election in Osun state.



Speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Miss Ogar explained that Mr Mohammed had no business in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, on an election day and that he was arrested for wandering.

“As per my last account, I think Alhaji Lai Mohammed is from Kwara State. That’s not to say he has no rights, there’s freedom of association and all that, but we know about the time he was picked up, it was a few minutes to 12AM in the morning.

“With all due respect and intent, was he supposed to be roaming about the streets when he knows that security was on alert?

“He talked about being thrown into a black bus. Let me tell you truth, you know when Nigerians find themselves in a free environment, they talk in such a manner that you will take them as champions, like they can wrestle the lion with their bare hands.

“When he was taken to the office, I am told, he was totally disoriented because of fear and could not even utter a word.

“He said that they told him to enter a bus and he refused, nothing like that actually happened and he wasn’t kept for two hours. I think the highest he spent within our premises was 45 minutes.

“It was the Director that graciously asked the senior officer to take him because he was just asking ‘where am I? What am I doing here?’

“If he wasn’t physically conscious of where he was and what he was doing, what was he doing outside?” Miss Ogar said.

Miss Ogar was reacting to an earlier Channels Television interview with Mr Lai Mohammed, during which the APC Spokesman accused the DSS of being biased during the Osun State governorship election.

http://www.channelstv.com/2014/08/14/dss-says-apcs-lai-mohammed-held-loitering

phantom: jonathan is an i.mbecile. i ve just confirmed it. dude is r.etarded honestly!!

the only president in the world to sack his doctors.... in the face of a medical emergency......laughable!!!

Coming from a pest like you in need of fumigation, I will call it a compliment to the President. Mor0nic retarddeddddd you are, and will remain so forever.

otokx: A world class stadium without railway and bus connections must be a joke, take a trip to Wembley.

The mor0n on this thread finally spoke. You are suppose to be in darkness ediot.

The problem is the crazy Unions in Nigeria, not doctors. Unions in this country need to be severely restricted to market women and Okada drivers only.

The ball is now rolling, I really appreciate their boldness with the sample drafted constitution.

PDP should never make the mistake of the past and hand Nuhu, the gov's ticket. I expect him to lose by a wide margin in the primary. All these turncoat decampees, must be kept at arm's length. Where was Nuhu last August when his demonic party APC was celebrating our demise. This kind of non committal members, e.g wamamkko, Nyako are the ones that almost ran this party down.

Annkio Briggs is a firebrand advocate for resource control. Recently, she took her campaign to the National Conference, a platform to further canvass support for the contentious issue. In this interview with Grace Alex and Emmanuel Bello, the award winning human rights Amazon made a good case, as usual, for resource control. Excerpts:


The conference ended abruptly in a way. People say that the conference that you participated in did not serve its purpose and that it was not, in any case, what Nigeria truly needed.
I wouldn’t say that it was a waste of time. The president was very clear when he spoke to us on the 17th of March, that we were there to find a way forward for Nigeria. That we could not go about doing the same old things, if we want new answers to the lingering problems that have besieged Nigeria for a very long time. But there was certain area that was a setback, like the setting up of twenty committees. Personally I believed we didn’t need all those and we would have made the conference more structured to talk about the burning issues. Like today, it has ended up just being political restructuring and the issue of resource ownership and land issues. But we didn’t do that and that doesn’t make it a waste of time; especially when it comes to the derivation issue where a lot of inequality has eaten deep. Imagine a state having an unproductive 44 local government areas and is getting a chunk share from the revenue because of the size of its local governments whereas in the same country a state has 8 local government areas and is given less amount.

There are people in the north who will say that there have been a lot of institutions set up to augment the current derivation figures you are getting and if you pull them together, and it’s getting close to 40 per cent. What is the South-south doing with all these money?
It’s an insult for somebody who does not own the thing to ask me the owner what I am doing with it. It’s not your business. The resources of the Niger- Delta belong to the Niger Delta region. It always has been; it always will be. The fact that the Federal Government controls it came after the war. It was controlled to execute the war.

There were times when we had other resources especially agricultural resources, and the allocation and sharing formula at that time, nobody complained because it was fair, but today its oil and gas, and you find a region of six states and another region of two states, producing oil and gas. And I insist that there are 26 states that are benefitting from where they are not contributing any quota, particularly the north-east, the north-west and the north-central. The little they are getting, what are they doing with it? People behave like corruption is only limited to the South-south. The north governed this country during the military and civilian time for 38 years, and impoverished their people. When the north says that the people from the north are uneducated did the South-south prevent that from happening?

First, isn’t it unfair to make these demands and not take into consideration that we should be one country and secondly what is the essence of staking everything in the South-south and depriving other regions?
Let me assure you that the north has more wealth in terms of resources than we do in the south. But what exactly do people mean when they say to us that have produced the resource that they are using to develop the north, there is not a single development carried out in Abuja that has not come from oil money. They are building an eight-lane road in this capital and yet we don’t have a two-lane road going in and out of the Niger-Delta. They are building a second airport now in Abuja with a second runway while an airport like Port Harcourt that was already established before Abuja was made a capital is neglected and not finished. So when people say we are depriving them, is it rather ok that we deprive the Niger-Delta people, so that the rest of Nigeria can develop? There are resources in the north that are illegally mined and exported.

You spoke about history earlier. Going back memory lane, even the discovery of oil, was backed by the north, and prior to the discovery of oil, the nation was being fed by the resources gotten from the agricultural produce of the north. It came up on the floor at the confab that the first budget of this country, when the country became independent in 1960, a chunk of the first budget of 30 million pounds came from the north.


It’s not true; there are facts in 1908 before the amalgamation of 1914, a German company was exploring and exploiting oil, and stopped when the First World War started and then in 1937 a second attempt was made, by a company and stopped in 1940 due to the Second World War. And then in 1946 both companies came together and established a company named Shell BP and they discovered oil in Oloibiri in I956.

Now unless these companies got funding from the North, and investing it in their business, but if that’s not the case then that puts paid to the claims. In 1914, by the colonial annual report written in pounds, cocoa gave 117,000 pounds, cotton 50,000 pounds, Hides and Skin 505,000 pounds, groundnut 179,000 pounds, Tin 706,000 pounds, Timber 86,000 pounds, Palm Oil, 1, 571,691 pounds. When you look at all of these knowing that palm oil is coming from the south, the claim as of 1914 that the north was using its resources to feed the nation is no longer true. Even if their claims are true the amount they have gotten from the Niger-Delta has more than paid for it.[b][/b]

What has been the impact of the institutions such as NDDC on the lives of the Niger Delta people?
The very people that set it up are the very people benefitting from it. Senators, instead of doing their jobs in the senate have companies that are applying for jobs in NDDC and they are getting those jobs and they are not from Niger Delta. The corruption is coming from the top.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/briggs-it-8217-s-insulting-to-question-niger-delta-8217-s-spending/186253

SMART moves by the chairman of the national conference, Justice Idris Kutigi (retd), saved the plenary on Wednesday from possible anarchy and unnecessary fireworks.

Kutigi, in a veiled statement, told the northern delegates that the leadership of the conference had no ulterior motive for the inclusion of draft new constitution in the final reports distributed to delegates for consideration.

The northern delegates, under the umbrella of Northern Delegates Forum (NDF), also on Wednesday, came under heavy attacks by the delegates from North-Central, South-East, South-South and South-West over alleged plot to sabotage the final consideration of the conference reports.

Prior to the proceedings of Wednesday, core northern delegates had drafted a proposal, rejecting the inclusion of draft new constitution in the final reports to be considered.

Sensing that there was going to be trouble, Kutigi told delegates that the conference should be adjourned for some hours to allow delegates submit their observations, corrections and grievances on the draft reports earlier distributed to them on Monday.

Accordingly, his suggestion received applause from southern and Middle-Belt delegates, but northern delegates kicked against it, insisting on raising the issues during the plenary.

Based on majority decision, the conference was adjourned till today for consideration of the final reports.

Kutigi, in his brief remark, told the conference: “I welcome you back after the break of the past two weeks. We are in our final lap of the conference. I apologise for the inconveniences you might have experienced for the shift in date of our resumption.

“When you look at the heavy volume made out of the draft report, the notes and proceedings, as well as the 1999 Constitution, with amendment, proposed by you, then you will understand the amount of work we undertook in preparation for this week’s meeting.

“Let me at this stage stress this point. We have prepared this draft report to the best of our ability and with all honesty. But we are human beings, who can make mistakes.

“We are, therefore, making available copies of the draft so that if we have any doubt about any issue, you can cross check. If you have any doubt about the veracity of any issue, you can cross check with the votes and proceedings and then raise the issue and corrections will be accepted.

“Let me repeat. We have prepared the main report with all honesty and diligence. Any mistake will be due to human error and not with any ulterior motive.”

Kutigi also announced a fresh meeting with regional leaders, in a move to break any hiccup that might arise today when delegates reconvene.

“I will be meeting the leaders of the different delegations while other delegates write their comment on the report. Let us make it tomorrow (today) so that the secretariat can tidy up the report for a final consideration,” he announed.

Soon after the adjournment, southern leaders and their Middle-Belt counterparts held a press conference where they condemned plans by any section of the country or individual to sabotage the successes recorded so far by delegates.

At the press conference were Chief Olu Falae (South-West), General Ike Nwachukwu (South-East), Chief Edwin Clark (South-South) and Mr John Dara (North-Central).

The regional leaders unanimously agreed that no individual or group inserted anything into the draft documents, as being rumoured by northern delegates, adding that those making the arguments were mischief-makers bent on keeping the country hostage.

General Nwachukwu (retd) said the conference had succeeded in liberating minority groups in the country and had also placed every Nigerian on the same level.

The regional leaders said they were solidly behind the leadership of the conference, adding that anyone who felt aggrieved should formally write to the conference leadership.

Chief Falae said delegates from certain section of the country were angry because the conference had succeeded in reversing the status quo.

With the new marriage between southern leaders and their Middle-Belt counterparts, core northern delegates are now in the minority.

Other prominent southern delegates who attended the press conference and supported the position of the conference leadership included Professor Anya O. Anya, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Chief Charles Edosonwan (SAN), among others.

Meanwhile, delegates representing Ondo State at the conference, on Wednesday, distanced themselves from any plot to guarantee third term for President Goodluck Jonathan or any other political office holders in the country as alleged by northern delegates.

Leader of the delegation, Remi Olatubora, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, on Wednesday, said the allegation was an attempt to smear the good work done by the delegates and leadership of the conference.

“Let me state clearly that we, as delegates of Ondo State, are not part of any third term agenda. We came to represent the government and good people of Ondo State and we have no mandate on the third term or tenure elongation.

“We are basically asked to come here to be part of the process of re-engineering and reconstructing Nigeria,” he said


http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/13380-confab-i-have-no-ulterior-motive-kutigi-meets-with-zonal-leaders

Is the IMF Going to Save Ghana’s Troubled Economy?


This is a guest post by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, a journalist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Long hailed as evidence of Africa’s growing political and economic stability, Ghana is suffering a reversal of fortune. One week ago as President John Mahama arrived in Washington for the U.S.-Africa Summit, his government finally admitted it needed urgent help to fix its faltering economy and contacted the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance.

“The ultimate objective is to stabilize the cedi (Ghanaian currency) in order that domestic prices will be brought under control,” Finance Minister Seth Terkper told a local radio station Joy FM.

Indeed, despite being rich in natural resources with plentiful oil, gold, and cocoa, West Africa’s second largest economy has been in disarray, its problems laying bare many of the challenges facing the continent as a whole. Ghana’s oil production levels remain stagnant and gold prices are languishing, yet the government has drastically increased its spending. Critics charge that it has overspent on pricey offices and golf courses, as well as public sector wages and subsidies for utilities and fuel. The result: investors have lost faith in Ghana’s ability to pay its debts.

Ghana’s cedi is the worst performing currency in the world this year. Its value has been nearly cut in half against the U.S. dollar, sparking a significant rise in the cost of living. Inflation, at 15 percent, is at a four year high and economic growth is slowing just as the nation faces a double digit budget deficit as a percent of GDP.

The economic crisis has led to a series of labor protests. News reports recount five separate demonstrations organized against Ghana’s government in July alone with the largest gathering thousands in the streets of all ten regional capitals. More protests are reportedly planned.

Yet an IMF bailout may not provide any immediate relief. Instead, it is likely to inflict marginal pain on Ghanaians as the IMF demands faster spending curbs that will impact public wages, subsidies, and taxes.

Moreover, Finance Minister Terkper told reporters that Ghana will continue to extend its borrowings, despite expensive terms. Bond yields are near 10 percent. Yet he said Ghana plans to seek over one billion dollars from international investors to fund new infrastructure projects and pay down debts. Terkper predicts an IMF package would increase the bond offer’s appeal, signaling that the IMF believes Ghana will improve its macroeconomic management.

But is that assumption correct? President Mahama has been a poor economic steward and stubbornly refused to go to the IMF amid claims that Ghana could fix its own problems, which it did not, or could not. And Ghana has been here before, having tapped the IMF multiple times.

Ghana had a golden opportunity in 2005, when as part of a global relief plan for poor nations, most of its debt was cleared. Yet today its economy is in shambles. The question remains: Is Ghana a stable and favorable investment destination, or is it a cyclical economy, beholden to a few volatile commodity markets with a government unable, or unwilling to exercise fiscal and economic restraint?[b][/b]

Maupe

Ovamboland: You have been on Nairaland for some years now and i have read your comments, being a supporter of PDP need not make you think like GEJ/PEJ

Is that all?

Ovamboland: Mr man it is comment like yours that glorify mediocrity and incompetence in our body polity.
If DSS is unable to obtain a simple thing like evidence of the attempted bribery with all gadgets their budget provides, is it ordinary citizens that are expected to be able to prove such crimes.

The silly lady is even saying 'thank God' they failed to carryout one the duties to are paid for , to investigate and expose crime, another way of using religion to hoodwink us. I wonder which part of the DSS operational handout gives a role or office to 'God'.

The whole intention of the craftily worded media release is clear with many cretins here shouting APC is this and that.

So, what exactly have you said