₦airaland Forum

Your dog is old, everything wrong with him is due to his old age. Average lifespan of a dog is 10 to 14 years. Stop worrying about the dog and try to make the remaining time he has left as comfortable as possible.

If you're very sure that you are in love with her then you already have your answer. Every other thing is incidental including her two kids and your parents' feelings about the relationship. Just remember, you might never have the opportunity to be in love with another woman as long as you live.

OP if you're confused please don't come and confuse other people as well. Obama's budget is 4 trillion dollars which is very much in line with his budgets from previous years. Buhari's budget is 6 trillion NAIRA (that's about 20 billion dollars). It's about 2 trillion naira higher than Jonathan's last budget which did not capture all of the federal govt's spending.
There was a very high rate of extra budgetary spending under Jonathan. Through the TSA programme Buhari is trying to ensure that every single naira spent by his govt is captured in the budget.
The principle is good but unfortunately this budget is extremely padded because they failed to implement their zero budget plan effectively.

krendo:
How do u know this?

Is there a government regulation to set prices for goods and services?

It's a free market!

You have no idea what a free market is. In the instance that the government is the payer for goods or services there is no market not to talk of a free market. If Metuh was a private citizen paying out of his own pocket then fine he can pay whatever he wants. But when the money is coming out of public funds then all payments must meet the best practices standard of whatever industry the goods and services provider is operating in. The government has a legal, moral and ethical duty to spend public funds as wisely as possible.

krendo:
Lol they want to print money! Secretly!

Which recovered loot? They will not even recover 1 trillion anytime soon let alone 6!

Nigeria is heading the direction of Zimbabwe

We will soon need one Ghana must go of money to buy 1 bag of rice in the market!

It's obvious you don't understand what a budget deficit is.

alexy147:
If I am the presiding Justice,I will tell this Dabo man,I am very disappointed in you. You were legitimately contracted for a job which you carried out,pls what's the need for the return. If he is in anyway telling the truth,I believe Metuh
should be the one to pay back the funds.


I smell conspiracy

Based on the testimony recorded the so-called job the man did could not have warranted a payment of 25 million.

playtheblues:
Keep talking.


When some Governors sell off Government properties are you called as a witness?

No. And neither are you.

playtheblues:
Do you know how much Rivers State generates internally annually?


Do you know how many multi national companies that pay tax to the Rivers State Government monthly?


Do you even know anything about internal revenue ?


It's quite easy for you to believe that people stole so long as they are not APC saints.

Like I said earlier: I will never take Buhari's anti corruption war serious till he probes his corrupt supporters especially Amechi.


Let me go back to my work. Keep the insults pouring in, afterall that's APC's trademark.

Lagos state has the highest IGR of any state in the country. It averages about 20 billion naira a month. In 2014, total IGR for Lagos state was 276 billion naira. Rivers state was second with almost 90 billion naira. The annual federal allocation to Rivers state was about 240 billion naira that same year. So the total money available to Rivers state was 330 billion naira. Multiply that by 8 years just for convenience sake and you have 2.64 trillion naira. So even if Amaechi stole every single kobo of Rivers state money in 8 years and he neither paid any salaries nor did any projects it still doesn't come anywhere close to the $3 trillion lying amount which you quoted.

Now I've given you facts and figures, but I don't expect you to retract your statement because people like you are motivated not by facts but by emotions. What you do not realize is that those people you're complaining about like Amaechi and Tinubu have already been probed, in some cases several times. Yes they have a history of being corrupt but they're also very clever about it. It is the careless ones who leave a trail of damning evidence lying around that will be indicted and charged. After all, Tinubu was charged to court under GEJ but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.

playtheblues:
All or part?


Fake people.


Anti draft war by Buhari will NEVER make sense to me till he probes his corrupt supporters especially Amechi who stole $3 trillion from Rivers State.

This is why nobody can take ignoramuses like you seriously. Amaechi stole $3 trillion from Rivers state in eight years right? That's well over 600 trillion naira which is the entire budget of the federal govt of Nigeria for about 150 years, but Amaechi stole all that from Rivers state in only eight years. The man must be a money manufacturing magician.
If you have any evidence that Amaechi stole $3 trillion pls forward it to EFCC in a formal petition. When they have finished laughing in your face you can come back here and continue to wail.

hinwazaka:
Every commentator on this thread is as stup1d as Aluko. $14million my A5s. Where is jafaru's recovered loot. Silly zombie youths everywhere

Jafaru's loot has already been paid into EFCC's account for onward transmission back into the national treasury.

adconline:
Point of correction: no one owns land out rightly in Naija. U r given a C of O( certificate of occupancy not certificate of ownership) C of O lasts for 99 yrs

Fair enough, but it doesn't take away from anything I said.

kernel501:
WHY DO YORUBAS GET ANGRY WHEN IGBOS REFER TO LAGOS AS "NO MAN'S LAND" SINCE IT WAS DEVELOPED BY OUR COMMON WEALTH, WHILE THEY DON'T FIND IT OFFENSIVE TO REFER TO NIGER DELTA OIL AS "NIGERIAN OIL"?

LETS NOT INSULT OURSELVES, THANKS.

This is not a well thought out question because you are making the wrong assumption that there is any equivalence between a piece of land, its surface structures and the natural resources under that same land. In other words, it is possible for one person to own the land and another person to own what is underneath the land. For example, according to Nigerian law, a person can buy a piece of land today and have a valid C of O or legal title deed. But if oil is found in that land tomorrow that oil automatically belongs to the federal govt, the owner of the land cannot legally lay claim to the oil even though they are the rightful owners of the land.
In other countries the law may be different. Indeed in the US, each state gets to enact its own laws governing the ownership of lands and their natural resources. As a general rule, in the US the owner of a piece of land whether private or government also owns whatever resources lie underneath that land. In some states a different person or institution can claim ownership of oil or other natural resources found at varying depths under the land. So one person can own anything found up to 500 ft below ground and another person can lay claim to what is found between 500 ft and 1,000 ft below ground and so on.

manutdadex:
wat is dis one saying? So its only yankee that things are done according to d law?now i get y d ipob calls her d Zoo

Use your brain my friend. There is no law in Nigeria requiring warrants before law enforcement can conduct a search. That law exists in America and some other countries but not in Nigeria. EFCC acted according to the law of Nigeria by searching Sambo's office if they believed that a crime had been committed there.

manutdadex:
Searching the office of an ex vice president....without warrant...?? Efcc walking d path of destruction

Warrant for what na? You think say na yankee be dis?

OkwaIfugo:
I don't think so.. even red handed?

If he is caught red handed and refuses to resign then he will be impeached for prosecution to take place. But one of those two must happen first before he can be charged to court.

shachris02:
you can't try a sitting governor in court....unless he's caught red handed.

Actually you can't try a sitting governor in court unless he resigns or is impeached first. It doesn't matter what he is accused of doing or if he is caught red handed.

Love Machine:
What about the 2 bullet proof jeeps that dasuki gave buhari?Are they unprovable?

One SUV was bullet proof but the other was not. And they are constitutional entitlements.

Ghandi12:
Are you absolutely sure of this?

I think they mean in the history of Imperial College London.

orisa37:
The Igbos ruined PDP and GEJ can't really claim innocence. I believe we are still bungling to reconstruct the party until the Registration is handed back to Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ahmadu Ali etc.

You must be joking o. Those three names you mentioned are the grandfathers of corruption in Nigeria. It will be very hard to find people that are more corrupt than them.

Dijaga:
Metuh. Will never get to jail...he did a private biz,so what's the fuzz,...All propagandist will sure be put to shame..
Metuh my vocal mentor....CARRY ON joor.

Ok, so what was the private biz that he did? Who was the client, and what goods or services did he provide that was worth 400 million naira?

krendo:
The only thing I don't understand is why EFCC is more interested in media trial of Metuh than convicting him in court

If Metuh has done anything wrong then so has jaffaru isa

Why is he not in jail

"Cooperation" is not immunity

This your statement is so embarrassing. The case is already in court, it's a real trial not media trial. What you're reading about online is a witness testimony from the court proceedings. Jaffaru Isa has returned the money he was accused of stealing that is why he's not in jail, Metuh has refused to do likewise.

krendo:
Metuh's silence is frustrating the fools at EFCC

If they have evidence they will be in court and not the media

Metuh should ignore these guys

They are already in court. Stay tuned for the verdict.

Ekehwinz:
they should start working already and stop the blaming game.

There is nothing wrong with apportioning blame where it is deserved. In this case much of the blame is very much deserved. We all as Nigerians will judge whether the current administration has been working or not at the appropriate time. If they also fail then they will be kicked out.

Ekehwinz:
these guys should know that they in power already and stop playing opposition.

You mean they should stop embarrassing Oga Jona with revelations of corruption not so?

The Yorubas have a saying, "the witch cried yesterday, the child died today. Who does not know that it was the witch who killed the child?" A day before these recent bombings began Tompolo cried out that some people were planning to bomb oil installations and frame him for it. He also asserted that if the Niger Delta doesn't know peace than President Buhari would also not know peace. I think the evidence though circumstantial clearly shows that Tompolo knows more about these bombings than his strident denials suggest.

lielbree:
Yet u celebrate obj and buhari. Examine your own head first.

Obj and Buhari have never been convicted of any crime but Ibori is a well known convict.

Stolen:
@TonyeBarcanista Even if the Ijaws decide to join Oduduwa, that is fine, Igbos will continue as Biafrans.


No wahala, we are not Oduduwa, Arewa or Nigerians.

You and every other person from the South East are Nigerians whether you like it or not. There is no such country as Biafra, at least not any more. The UN Secretary General has laid the issue to rest, he has said that the so-called Biafra is not qualified to be recognized as an independent territory for the purposes of sovereignty and self-governance.

CR77:
Mr. Ex President .

Lol. Once a president, always a president. It's just a title that applies to any president current or former.

Reyginus:
Guys, I also want to know. The insults will not not help.

There is no disparity. I was in Osun state last week and I bought fuel for #120 per litre. Major marketers are selling at the approved pump price but smaller marketers are selling for #120 - #150 all over the country. It's the same all over, north, east and west.

Wow. Such a beautiful baby. Congratulations to Mr. President, his daughter and their family.

Ecoterrorism:
Its not possible because the constitution will need to be reviews and exploration of solid minerals will be removed from the exclusive list but if they insist why is the FG budgeting billions of naira for oil exploration in Sokoto and Borno

We're talking about solid minerals now and not oil. There is a big difference between those two things.