₦airaland Forum

For sake of peace on this thread, change your silly headline.

The future is bright for lagos PDP.

This is a supply and demand issue. We don't need government regulations where. Just produce more cows for the pomo lovers and the hides/skins industry.

bibelo: All those applauding dis move are shameless. Is it wen election is near dey should start making empty promises? Let me refresh ur memory a bit it was during d campaign of 2007 election ur president now noticed d road to d lagos airport frm oshodi needs fixing bt he visited lagos severally and never deemed it fit to fix it despite d repeated cries and appeal for d repair. Another buffon said fashola is busy collecting tax and not fixing d roads. Mr eagle child please ask ur president that out of all d money lagos generates into d federal govt purse, wat % of it does lagos get? How much does each state generate. Tell your idiotic president to visit d parents of d chibok gals rather than than attending political campaigns.

Sometimes its better to hold one's peace, than spew boat load of crap. Nigeria has 36 states, go and research how many roads the federal government is constructing for other states. Even states that generate, 300% times more revenue than lagos.

Orlando owoh what is your gain with all these hate spewing monikers you create? No matter what you call yourself, reading through three comments, one is able to ID, your regular nonsense. Why is an Aboki so obsessed with tribes outside your zone? why

ilugunboy: You see! This is the problem with an average Nigerian.....always eager to shift their responsibilities and shortcomings on others....never accepting responsibility for anything.

So you believe that the congestion is caused by Lagos and the people of SW inadvertently ?

Why put words in my mouth? Moving vessels to other ports will decongest the ports, but at the same time, the economic impact on the Lagos axis will be grossly negative. Saying its shifting responsibility is simply turning a blind eye to the reality in the country. The congestion was never caused by Lagos or the people of the SW, but a policy,that was advantageous to them for a long time and today only produces more headache than they ever expected.

ilugunboy: Who is going to decongest Apapa ports? The tanker and trailer drivers?

Keep dancing around the issue.

I'm not dancing around the issue. Sometimes government is tired of the tribal and zonal exchange such decisions bring. You want people to now accuse the government of economic sabotage against Lagos and the SW? That's why we live with problems in Nigeria that have simple answers.

States are even going the extra line to create business in their ports, by punishing exporters. Because government policy makes apapa the only gateway


A disagreement over a levy imposed by the Cross Rivers state government has halted Cocoa shipments in the last week from the state.

Nigeria’s second-largest cocoa grower introduced a charge of N5,000 ($30.90) per tonne of cocoa on exporters who ship beans through ports other than the state’s Calabar seaport, which diminished its viability, a Reuters report credits a trade body as saying.

Godwin Ukwu, spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, said on Wednesday about 500 tonnes of cocoa due for export were held over the week after the local government refused to comply with a court order that it discontinue the duty.

Taxes on exports including cocoa are usually collected by the federal government.ONLY AT THE APAPA PORT
“The levy came into being in 2011 … but we went to court to challenge it and we got a judgment restraining the government from collecting the money,” Ukwu said, noting that shipments will resume once the levy is cancelled.

Officials from the state government were not immediately available to comment.

Cocoa exports from Cross Rivers are usually destined for Europe.

Abundant rain and sunshine in the two main cocoa areas of Ondo state and Cross Rivers last month have helped the crop but there are fears that a lack of sun may allow diseases to spread hurt bean quality.

Ukwu said the logjam could affect output this season as farmers approach the main crop with export delays. Nigeria typically produces around 250,000 tonnes every year. Official figures for 2013/2014 cocoa output have not yet been released.

Cross Rivers is the second-largest grower with annual volumes of around 60,000 tonnes, in the world’s fourth biggest cocoa producer.

The state aims to generate revenue through its seaport and compete with more established seaports in the commercial capital Lagos. Farmers said they paid around 300 million naira last year to the state government in levies.

oldenglish: Everything thing boils down to over crowded the port is. Decongest the port by making use of other ports around the country but some part of the country will die to see it happen. The same thing is happening at MMA. If their is a functioning port in benue I don't see the reason why a farm produce from Kano or sokoto should risk his life and produce driving to Lagos to export his produce, same goes to people from the east and south.

People hate the truth, expect them to disagree with you. Decongest Apapa port, by sending cargo and vessels to other fully functional ports, this gridlock in Apapa will go away.

chamboy: who provides electticity.

depends on your state.

rail

SPECULATIONS over the fate and future of Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State finally came to a halt Tuesday, July 15, 2014, with his impeachment by the State House of Assembly.
It was in all respects a fall long foretold. It also brought to an abrupt end, weeks of intense politicking and wheeler-dealings as Baba Mangoro -as Nyako is fondly called- sought, fruitlessly, to extricate himself from the political noose into which he roped himself.
Considering the manner in which Nyako conducted himself in office, nobody appears to be shedding tears on his downfall. In fact, it is expected that the large number of political heavyweights he sidelined or trampled upon since becoming Adamawa governor in 2007, may be clinking good wine glasses now.
Now that Nyako is gone (never mind his promised face-saving recourse to the law courts), it is safe to reduce his eventual downfall to three major reasons: bad governance, plain stealing of public funds and wrong-headed politics as exemplified by his ill-fated decision to join the All Progressives Congress, APC and embark on a solo journey to political uncertainty.
For the past month, Adamawa has been on the boil which got to a head in the past week after the Chief Justice, consequent upon the resolution of the House set up a seven-man committee to investigate the 20-count allegations against Nyako. The governor and his deputy, Bala Ngilari, were last month served notices of impeachment by the House which alleged that they indulged in gross misconduct, corrupt enrichment, official malfeasance and nepotism.
Nineteen out of the 25 members of the Assembly signed the notice following a motion moved by the deputy speaker, Mr. Kwamoti Laori who represents Numan Constituency. Some of the allegations against Nyako included diversion of N2.3 billion workers’ salary for September and October 2011, and illegal deductions and diversion of N142 million emoluments of workers in May 2014. He was also alleged to have squandered N4.8 billion and N7.1 billion in 2012 and 2013, respectively, through the office of the Secretary to the State Government against budgetary approvals.
When you add the alleged diversion of huge amounts of the state’s Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, local government funds and the N500 million Federal Government intervention fund for the 2011 flood victims for personal use, the picture of the financial rape of the state becomes even clearer. Yet, analysts say they are just a tip of a big iceberg. The report of the seven-man investigative panel had, as expected, indicted Nyako who did not make any attempt to defend himself.
Facing imminent impeachment, Ngilari had resigned shortly before the House made its verdict public, thereby evading the stigma of impeachment. With Nyako’s impeachment, the House Speaker, Alhaji Umaru Fintiri, is now the acting governor, a position he will occupy until a substantive governor is elected within 90 days.
Stories are told of humongous amounts being siphoned from public coffers to finance the many political battlefronts he opened as well as a lifestyle that was increasingly lavish. For a man who cared less about the poverty ravaging his state, his ouster is welcomed as good riddance to bad rubbish.
His politics may be as distractive as it was divisive. Not bothered by the debilitating insurgency ravaging his state, Nyako would rather gallivant across the country along with other colleagues in the name of ‘progressivism’, depleting his state’s lean resources in funding the bottomless pit called APC. Beyond those, however, what raised concerns within Adamawa State and across Nigeria are the reports consistently linking Nyako to the rising security challenges in the North East, and which he has never really bothered to explain. Rather with each passing day, the spate of incendiary statements had increased, going from bad to worse since he joined the APC, a party that has been linked in some quarters with the Boko Haram insurgency.
Though certain Northern leaders have in the past vowed to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Jonathan, the dimension of Nyako’s opposition to the Federal administration goes beyond the ordinary. It remains an unproven allegation but Nyako’s links with the ongoing jihad by so-called Fulani herdsmen raise concerns within security circles, especially after hundreds of imported Fulani ‘herdsmen’ were linked to him. They were imported, according to reports, ostensibly to work in his vast multi-purpose Sebore Farms.
The breakdown of governance in Adamawa has been no less amazing than the controversies surrounding the governor himself. For a man who boasted 20-strong Peoples Democratic Party members in the House, he was unable to convince even one of them to accompany him in his ill-fated journey into the All Progressive Congress. To make matters worse the five APC members that received him into the party, abandoned him soon after for the PDP. So did the party’s erstwhile leaders like Buba Marwa.
Nothing better illustrates Nyako’s naivety than his pillar-to-post efforts to stop his impeachment. A man who has for the better part of his tumultuous tenure sidelined top politicians in the state, he had suddenly started courting the likes of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and Malam Nuhu Ribadu. He had rushed to Atiku whom he had abandoned even during their days in the PDP, along with former PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to draft him into the peace effort. They tried, no doubt, but their efforts were too little too late as the House members were committed to make the old man pay for his sins.
His departure is indeed a good omen for Adamawa to start anew, away from unnecessary distractions. It is a time for the traumatized people to turn attention away from a man who, for the better part of his tenure, engaged in all sorts of shenanigans at the expense of governance and the people’s welfare.
HAMISU ABUBAKAR, a public affairs analyst, wrote from Kaduna, Kaduna State.



- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/nyakos-fall-morning/#sthash.MaeObKbD.dpuf

shakaz: reading some comments here I laugh the level of ignorance being displayed by Christains. Bunch of media puppets(controlling ur mind body and soul). The Isrealis you all are screaming our brothers has %73+ Jews %16 muslims and less than %5 christains... Ever spoken to jew before? Ask him what he sees jesus as.

A bastard he would say.

Why is that your problem?

Mogidi: Yea right only two monikers, arithmetic may not be your strong point because I know of another 12 handles associated with you.

He is the aboki speaking, igbo, yoruba, itsekiri and God knows how many more languages

Rossikki: Yawwnnnn............. 24 hrs light or not, the average American is grossly IGNORANT of the world outside America.

Outside america is even going too far, outside their county might be more realistic.

eaglechild: Who builds flyovers that way in the year 2014?

Must we defend incompetence.

You can see regular rods and hollow blocks only fit to support small homes being used in a structure that is meant to support thousands of tons during traffic jams.

Na so Julius Berger or even Arab contractors dey take build flyover?

Dey go first use mason put block, then use iron benders, put rod, then use other labourers pour concrete, then come break the blocks haba!

Maybe this is not a flyover.

hakunamatata1: its necessary it rises as high as the main girder(beam) & its not any form of support @ all. Its just to create an opening where pple can pass thru after its torn down

I'm trying to see your logic here, but you seem to make things more complicated. If the blocks are not a form of support, why use them

Operation clean sweep is now on override.

This is what you call operation clean sweep.

ISpiksDaTroof: [s]Stop being rude.

Your President just recently helped provide job security to Americans by giving Levick $1.2Million for PR job. And, for this nice gesture we express our gratitude to him.

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Evergreeen123: Gej is the one playing the game the Niger deltans cant win. He has placated all the northern PDP big wigs with the promise of oil blocs in other to garner their support against his re-election ambition.

Do you know the number of the northern PDP stalwarts that own oil blocs in the Niger delta?
Bamanga tukur, Adamu mu'azu, Theophilus Danjuma etc.

If Gej wins the presidency next year, get ready to forfeit more oil blocs to the Northerners

You are too immature to comment on a topic like this. Please restrain yourself.

ISpiksDaTroof: Do you read at all? Do you have a comprehension problem? When you argue with people do you "Listen" or you just "Hear" what you wanna? Like I said You hate America and D.C now, but the firm your beloved GEJ is on his knees begging to clean up his image is in that same District of Columbia.

P.S: Bore "you"? Did I single you out with this article or did you choose to come in on your own free will to comment? Stop being annoying...and a hypocrite.

Dumbass, I repeat again, before your DC friends and jackasses worry about Nigeria, ask them to educate you people about your own country.

They have refused to listen. They are playing a game they cannot win.

Nothing like a woman after 40, they are just a complete different group of people. I know you will read this comment, so it is directed at you.

By Shola Oyeyipo

The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, has made an appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan, not to re-contest the 2015 presidential election in the interest of Nigeria.

Igbokwe, who insisted that he was expressing his personal opinion as an activist and participant in the struggle for the entrenchment of democracy in Nigeria, averred that the yet to be announced second term ambition of the president is generating considerable tension in the polity and that it is capable of breaking up the country.

“It seems to me that the harassment of the opposition, Boko Haram insurgency, and impeachment of governors are all geared towards the 2015 presidential election. Now, President Jonathan must be persuaded to step down,” he said.

Buttressing his position, Igbokwe said since former president Olusegun Obasanjo from the south ruled Nigeria for eight years, it was expected that the late president Umaru Yar’ Adua, from the north, will rule for eight years. But he died after two years in office. But when President Jonathan, the Vice-president from the South then took over the mantle of leadership, it was expected that he would complete the first term of Yar’ Adua’s tenure and step aside for the North to complete their eight years.

“Against protests from the north, President Jonathan sought another term and got elected. By 2015 he would have ruled for six years. Seeking another term of four years will endanger our politics and create ethnic and religious tension as we are witnessing now. We are in a democracy and if we are still in one country there is need for equity and justice. President Jonathan’s ambition to rule for 10 years may break Nigeria,” he said.

He also alleged that following the decision of the APC members to provide alternative government, “intimidation, subterfuge, brigandage, suppression, oppression, repression, force and harassment” are being used to fight the opposition party.

The APC spokesperson who described the sixteen years of the ruling PDP at the national level as “unmitigated disaster”, also expressed the view that the ruling party is only making political gains out of the issue of Boko Haram by labeling the opposition party as the sponsor of the terrorist sect.

“Every right thinking Nigerian knows the genesis of Boko Haram. The late National Security Adviser (NSA) to the president, General Patrick Azazi, told the world that Boko Haram and the overwhelming state of insecurity in Nigeria is a product of the PDP’s infighting and struggle for power.
“What happened to the independence day bombing in Abuja, which introduced the evil of bombing in Abuja? Even as MEND claimed responsibility for the bombing, the Jonathan government claimed that it was his Northern enemies. We dare ask, what happened to the investigation on that incident?” he asked.

While noting that the president has not performed well to seek re-election, Igbokwe bemoaned President Jonathan’s style, stating: “Jonathan’s handling of the Nigerian state is disastrous and tragic. His stellar performance in growing corruption, exhuming convicts, murders, those facing corruption charges, and rehabilitating them with limitless illicit resources to go and wrestle states and liberalise illegality and gangsterism for the purpose of annexing states and remaining in power has crashed the economy of the nation, it is certainly going to crash this democracy if men of goodwill do not stand up and confront this brigandage,” Igbokwe suggested.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/igbokwe-urges-jonathan-to-jettison-second-term-bid/183816/

ISpiksDaTroof: Right, but when the same Govt you love so much wanted to clean up its tarnished image it turned to a firm in D.C.

Stop being a hypocrite.

Hypocrite? the average american does not have a clue what's happening in their own country. You are coming here to bore me with what they think about Goodluck? Dude, get a life.

jmaine: Such a sad tale. I still admire his courage to accept the menial offer to cater for family.

That's the spirit. I really like your comment.

The average american bah You have to be kidding. Let's change the name of French fries, to punish the French. Keep your average american crap in DC.

iwonbaoko: No! GEJ is not the worst head of state we have had and so his followers are no more myopic or ethnocentric than the followers of others before him,the problem is that the born to rule clique view this particular ethnic group as undeserving or unworthy. A quick recap of Yar'adua cabinet will remind us what ethnocentricity looks like. As far as betraying others go he is ,again, no different. He is not in any way unique as far as all his negative qualities go and yes they are many. He is a typical Nigerian head of state and the main problem is his ethnicity. How i he more self serving than OBJ or IBB by which metric. We were all alive when OBJ tried THIRD TERM STUNT,stopped funds for Lagos,flogged a policeman etc
I am not a fan of his at all but am not persuaded that any of his most vocal critics would be any better.
It is not obvious that he will hand over to the north and even less so that that will assure "self preservation". In Nigeria where everything is viewed through ethnic lenses it is impossible to move against a former president without invoking memories of January 1966 if such movement is not spread to all sections.There is nothing stopping him from ensuring that his succession elections in 2019 are free and fair and no guarantee that the north will win then.

What else is there to say. You have not only demolished this thread, you have spoken like man living in Nigeria. Not the dreamers and pretenders on this thread.

NgeneUkwenu: The fight is between )(j)onathan and the North! Average Northerner would only vote for a Northern presidential candidate regardless of the party he comes from. They are indifferent in other elections, thereby allowing PDP to win some, while APC takes the rest.

Remember it is (j)onathan VS The North/Southwest/Rivers/Edo State.

Nothing has changed. Let him declare his intention to vie first You all would see politicking!

Your mind has been playing tricks on you, since 2010. You will be set free in 2019.