₦airaland Forum

muykem:
Confused fellow. PDP primary is Friday and the rule is that you can't become candidate without participating in primary.

If Obaseki is not careful he will create complications for himself that will come to haunt him in the event he wins re-election under either APC or PDP.
For example his resignation from APC, the coming PDP primaries and issues raised for his disqualification by APC are all potential landmines.

galaxy2020:
Buhari will tell you he's not aware of any killing...

Banditry and killings in Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna. Book Haram decimating Borno, Yobe and Adamawa...
Hmm... If the North are not careful, they are setting up themselves for a very cold and stormy winter night should Nigeria split along geographical lines.

Edojoma:
Guyman is preparing himself for soft landing.

The only soft landing for him is to relocate himself and his family abroad just like Ambode. Losing the election will just be the beginning of his travails!

AntonVince:
Nothing could be further from the truth.
He'd never do that, lest he awards the governorship to the APC even before the election day.
Obaseki using the SDP platform + the PDP also fielding a candidate (divided votes) = an easy APC win.

What he needs to do now is sit and talk with the leading PDP aspirants, mollify them to close ranks, drop their ambitions and support him with the promise to put them in the scheme of things should they win the election.

Would you as a PDP aspirant trust and believe the promises of someone who betrayed his godfather who made him a Governor?!

Obaseki should simply retire somewhere safe like Ambode. He messed up big time.

Tolumiide:
You mean Obaseki served at different high capacity, even with APC, became a Governor without certificates?
This life, ko level. Ko balance

Nigeria politicians like people with skeletons in their cupboards because they can always use the skeletons to keep them in check and also against them when necessary. To assume Obaseki was clean when he was with Oshiomole in APC and his credentials were not being questioned is a Big Stretch of Imagination!

Lamasta:
Politics is sweet when it favours You but sour if its the other way round

Na sooo! Internal party democracy was murdered for Obaseki to be Governor in the first instance. Politicians with double speak. When it favours you, it is not haram but when others get it, it becomes haram!

olaric:
The same whip being used by Adams Oshiomhole to sweep carpets off his enemies is waiting for him in the nearest future. His fall will be tragic.

Obaseki did all he could oust and disgrace Oshiomole as the National Chairman. This is someone that same Oshiomole brought from nowhere to be Governor. If Obaseki had succeeded, Oshiomole today would be a nobody. So when Obaseki lost the battle to ruin Oshiomole politically, it is stupid of him to expect a different treatment.

Politicians only forgive when they have something to benefit or use you for, and currently Obaseki doesn't have any value to Oshiomole.

Blitz4real:
Very big scam,there is nothing like that in abia state. These whole result thing is all lie abegi.

Even after the Governor of the state confirms that he himself is positive and hands over to the Deputy Governor so he can go into isolation and get treatment? Oga, who you be?!

Juliusmomoh:
Then covic 19 does not exist , if 800 people can die a day and someone there knew nobody.

Your population is 200 million. 13,000 out of your people have tested ostive to Coivid and 350 have died.

1. What is the mathematical probability that you will now someone who has died from Covid-19?

2. What is the mathematical probability you will know someone who knows someone who has died from Covid-19?

The answer is that the probability is very low, quite lower than the probability of you getting infected.

So keep safe and stop asking those types of questions.

Gracealone:
The rate at which so many pastors strive to be politically correct and accepted on social media these days scares me.

The situation simply reveals the calling of such Pastors. Tithing and offering are carried out by genuine Christians in obedience to God and the leading of the Holy Spirit and not because a Pastor says so.

The Bible has warned about conformity with the world and situations where so-called Pastors struggle to trend with non-biblical appeals to people is nothing short of conformity!

calculator123:
I don't support their actions but if that's the only way they can get the attention of their government to fix this nonsense, fine!!!

You don't get any positive attention in civilized countries from looting on the pretext of demonstrating against injustice. This black way of thinking cannot be justified at all!

Tedpgrass:
Thanks for a well written premise..

The rejoinder to that includes the following..

Are the internal rules of the organisation being flouted by the request for an external investigation.. Yes

Is there evidence of a flagrant disregard for due process.. Other than the assault allegations not charges against his protégé.. I would argue No..

As its common to headhunt into sensitive positions, I'd be conducive of his efforts to get the best heads and hands on board to aid his tenure.

Has the call for an external investigation followed due process... No.. Let there be a change in internal processes or code of conduct and then external bodies can start sticking in their noses after following due process, not before.

I'm poorly tolerant of meddlesome behaviour of some countries who often don't have the moral justification. This smacks of such an initiative.
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I am pleased by your topical response and approach to addressing the issue based on applicable rules and regulations.

I have taken time to read through the 16 allegations against Adesina which are clearly damning. The 16th allegation against him of politic activity for private gain is particularly dangerous because of its capability to undermine the mechanism for all checks and balances institutionally designed to keep him in line at the AfDB. The AfDB Board of Governors are appointment or elected from people put forward by the member countries and organizations. If the Heads of States of the countries are lobbied and compromised, the Board is automatically compromised. It is also little wonder from such perspective that Adesina is unopposed in his reelection bid.

If there is strong likelihood of the AfDB Board of Governors being compromised and the President is being accused of weighty allegations capable of undermining the institutional integrity of the bank, what do you think is the best thing to do?

The USA's request for an independent investigation and the support by Germany and others for it is clearly an expression of lack of confidence in the AfDB Governing Board and mechanism for internal discipline of an erring President.

In the instance of the foregoing, to label the call for independent investigation by the USA, Germany, etc as meddlesomeness is tantamount to saying so about shareholders calling the CEO and Board of a company to question outside the purview of the company and the Board. They clearly have rights to do so.

In my opinion, Nigeria has no moral right to call out USA on the issue because a similar scenario played out in the challenges of the NJC beibg able to sanction an erring CJN, (a problem that had been echoed earlier by Musdapher, a retired CJN) and Buhari's approach to addressing the matter relating to Onnoghen is well beneath the USA approach. We should not also forget that it is in this Nigeria that Ibori was acquitted of 107 charges and yet convicted on less than 30% of those charges in the UK with a prison sentence.

Adesina's defense against the allegations is more of an appeal to technicalities and the dimensions of racial and regional sentiments being introduced are capable of setting very dangerous precedents that may well sound the death knell for accountability and integrity at the AfDB.

iwaeda:
He was exonerated EARLIER, why this probe again?

Because it is easy to compromise Governing Boards in Africa generally. Ibori was acquitted of 107 charges in Nigeria and yet convicted in the UK on less than 30% of the charges!

There is no need to fear any probe if you are innocent. Getting another clean bill of health only adds to your integrity!

It is only in Nigeria and Africa that a probe is always synonymous with ulterior motives and the handiwork of enemies and we have to do everything from raising sentiments to lobbying to kill the probe.

seunmsg:
This is a welcome development. Africa must unite to stop the attempt by US to impose a stooge as president of the bank. Kudos to president Obasanjo and the FG of Nigeria for this promt intervention. Hopefully, ECOWAS and Africa Union will also take similar position as the FG of Nigeria. This is a fight for the development, progress, and freedom of Africa and not Adesina’s fight alone.

What I see in most of the "Africa unite against American imposition" crusade on the Adesina saga is nothing more than a sentimental angle to a purely ethics and corruption matter. I am not surprised because it is a common defence strategy in Nigeria against allegations that we would rather want swept under the carpet than addressed.

Furthermore the allegations against Adesina are nothing but "normal way of doing things" when you are in positions of power to Nigerians and most Africans in general. After all what is power if you cannot use it to help your friends and family even if it is against the code of conduct?

It is high time we understood that what makes the Western world tick and do far better than ours is their understanding of rules and regulations that foster all inclusive growth and the ability to separate such thinking from the untoward influence of sentiments be it religious, racial, ethnic, tribal or what have you.

I am not for or against Adesina. In fact I would love to be for him as a fellow Nigerian. However, I am more for the sustainance of strong institutions and the corresponding values rather than the cult of personalities that have kept Africa perpetual in hell holes. Adesina's credibility will be better off surviving the independent probe rather than deflecting it with sentiments!

pillarmaria:
The police is at fault on all grounds, he has no right to search the boy's phone talk more of slapping him, I like guys with guts. A coward dies 4 times before his death, na people wey dey fear too much naim dey die too much.

Nonsense!
Police always on the news for every bad reason

One of those bad reasons is shooting unarmed civilians of which the boy could have been one. Stupidity could sometimes be likened to courage when you get away with it.

Aflix:
That's going to be really expensive and time consuming

Misguided priorities driven by personal agendas.

There are lots of underdeveloped and undeveloped areas in same Lagos State that could be well developed and linked with excellent transport network instead of embarking on humongous expensive projects with long term environmental impact issues.

olaNL:
Hmm. Though the money seems quite large, but there are two ways to look at it. You might want to say that the salaries of the DPR staff is on the high side for civil/public servant and the same goes for other high paying public institutions like NNPC, FIRS etc. But you also have to look at the practices of the industry under which the institution operates. The oil industry is known to have high salary benefits to its employees all over the world. So if DPR and similar government agencies decides to pay it's staff what non oil related industry are paying, it will not get required technical manpower to perform it's operations most especially in the top management level and it will generally have a high employee turnover as its staff will port to private oil companies that pays will at any given opputunity.

And the writer of this piece does not understand what upfront payment is. It's an accumulation of benefits that is given once a year and at the beginning of the year and it varies across the seniority level. So it doesn't mean that all the employee got similar upfront some might have gotten more while other got less than what was stated in the article above.

Trying to justify bogus and lopsided salaries in some Government Agencies from the perspectives of efficiency, competitiveness and job turnover is far from the reality on ground.

1. No available fact or data shows that agencies paying bogus salaries are more efficient and productive that their lower paying counterparts.

2. In a system riddled with corruption and nepotism, what politicians simply to is to fill most of these high paying agencies with their relatives and wards on man-know-man basis and not based on any competitive hiring or recruitment practices aimed at increasing productivity or efficiency.

3. In developed countries, the Government has salary scales that cut across with variations typically of exceeding 30%. Entry level engineers in the USA for example earn between US50k to 65k per annum and that cuts across Government and private sector. You can't have a Government engineer in one agency earning USD 250k entry level and try to look for stories to justify such loopsided salary compared to fellow engineers. Are the other engineers sleeping or with inferior qualifications? If anyone wants humongous salaries, Government is not the place to earn it. Go to private sector!

All these lopsided salaries and allowances for public and civil servants is nothing but blatant corruption right in our faces!

For example are we paying our Senators one of the highest salaries in the world so they don't port to better paying jobs? What were most of them earning before they became Senators and what do they earn when they leave? All these bogus salaries are just ways to institutionalize corruption!

nairavsdollars:
the guy said nothing but the truth

The approach of using insults and unproven allegations and then circulating it in a recorded medium qualify for a defamation suit.

jom28gy:
the amended act of 2004, is a bandage cover, which still have colonial mentalism

Completely removing colonialism and its vestiges from the Nigeria Police would require more than amending the Police Act to the point of uprooting the entire enterprise and reconstructing it. It was the Native Authority Police that graduated to Nigeria Police and the NA police brought its mentality and training that has persisted down the line till today.

jom28gy:
Thanks police act need amendment for very long time now, what police is currently using is an old law made by colonial Masters, which has no good for the police

The Police Act was amended also in 2004 and also before then. So it is not colonial.
Stripping the Police Service Commission (PSC) of some of its powers and adding them to those of the IGP will not help the Police and the country as whole.

Furthermore saying the Governor as the Chief Security Officer of a State cannot talk to the Police Commissioner is not going to help the security of the State.

ProfAmaben:
Hmmmm, this is a terrible way to run a country. The ministers were put there to get quick results in relatively short duration and most of them just want that. If they can't fire or threaten to fire those under them, then you've removed all the powers from them. I'm not saying that a free and fair trial shouldn't be observed but I'm sure that no minister would fire any CEO without extremely concrete evidence. Trials and hearings can take several months and these criminals would keep looting and enjoying our Common wealth

Your assumption is not necessarily true. A Minister should not be able to unilaterally fire the Head of an Agency that has a Governing Board without any input from the Board. Ministers are hardly chosen for their expertise but political patronage.

AdaoraNK:
He said he does not report to the nation.

Lets remind this prof that all works he'll be doing there is all about the nation, I thought they said he is intelligent?

With this response, he'll be worse than late Kyari.

The Chief of Staff to the President is not an elective post. He is appointed at will by the President to serve the President just like the President's other staff. He is a STAFF of the President and that his where his loyalty should ideally be.

How many people know GEJ or Obasanjo's Chief of Staff? It is just Abba Kyari and his Boss that popularized the position.

kutchs:
Police wants to interrogate him for his flamboyant life style? When did it become an offence to live flamboyantly if you've the means to sustain it? Why haven't they also probed the abject poverty of millions on the streets of Nigeria?

It has always surprised me when people ask why Police or EFCC don't probe poverty as a way to deflect attention from the probing of questionable wealth.

Government and security agencies are interested in rich or wealthy people for several reasons such as:

1. Taxation of their wealth is revenue for the Government and evasion, avoidance or underpayment of tax is consequently loss of revenue to the Government.

2. The inordinate desire for wealth is the foundation of several criminal activities and it makes sense for Government to be interested in knowing if your wealth derives from criminal enterprise.

Now can you tell what Government stands to gain from investigating the source of anyone's poverty?

bigtt76:
You lockdown, the count was not zero so why mull lockdown again? Instead of another lockdown, improve enlightenment and allow some cases to teach the people lesson on not adhering to the rules. People may have to learn the hard way.

Learning the hard way with Covid-19 is not an individual affair. A bus driver driving dangerously if left to learn his lesson may carry not only the people in his bus to the grave but also other road users.

You can ask the Brazilians the effect of toying with Covid-19!

LibertyRep:
Then Nigeria Government and indeed Africa should return the favor

The same China that lent billions of dollars to Nigeria and is constructing several rojects for the country using Chinese companies? The borrower is at the mercy of the lender and should be ready to stomach many insults.

muykem:
19.6b for six months and you don't want probe. Fair God ooooo

The Court should fine the lawyers that agreed to file the suit on behalf of Ihedioha just like they did for Afe Babalola and Wole Olanipekun when they asked the Supreme Court to reverse itself.

It is the height of judicial rascality to ask the Judiciary to stop the Legislative arm from doing their job because one man is afraid of being exposed for financial malfeasance.

maimalari:
Am sure this man will sue the Govt.

The man should sue the Rivers State Government. Wike is a lawyer and knows clearly he acted outside the ambit of the law. You can't be the accuser, the prosecutor and the judge on the same case. What Wike did is wickedness and flagrant abuse of power!

Iamundisputed:
About time... I see Africa on the verge of something great!

Madagascar is definitely doing something right. 193 Cases and 0 death! Mo fọ!

Instead of blaming invisible 5G, Bill Gates and the antichrist like Nigerians on social media, they developed a local solution to a global problem.... Africans wise up!

I'm not critical of your response because it is encouraging for Africans to look inwards for solutions to their problem. But we should not premise conclusions on faulty conjectures masquarding as facts is my take on the Madagascar issue.

Madagascar has carried out less than 4,000 tests amounting to 143 tested people per 1 million in the country and has 193 confirmed cases with zero death with 1 critical case.

Rwanda on the other hand has tested 42,425 people amounting to 3,276 tested people per 1 million population and has 284 confirmed cases with zero death and zero critical case.

Vietnam has 288 confirms cases and zero death despite testing 261,004 people amounting to over 2,700 tests per 1 million people.

In fact Reunion Islands have the highest testing rate of over 19,000 tested people per million and 436 confirmed cases with zero death.

With all the above statistics, there is nothing special about Madagascar to warrant any claims ascribed to their so called organic drug! Their testing rate is horribly low as to border on the irresponsible and they seem to be more concerned with making money from the pandemic than stamping it out of their country.

SeverusSnape:
Every sector under this administration is going down the drain.

In fairness most of the sectors or agencies have not been profitable since their creation. Nigerian Governments right from the 1960s have always been wasteful and lacking in focus. That was why Gowon could say in the 1970s that money was not the problem but how to spend it.

Now that money is the problem because the oil boom is over, the Government is saddled with liabilities!

Davash222:
So, FG legit want every State to test positive for Covid-19

There are reports of people dying in Kogi State with symptoms similar to Covid-19 and you are saying that FG should just listen to Yahaya Bello's claims that Kogi State is Covid-19 Free? Particularly when the same Kogi State has refused to send samples for testing?

Silentgroper:
.. As in the niggar had me.
i was still even reading the write up to find out the name of the school.




op this is very brilliant but like someone wrote the heading is deceptive

If the heading is deceptive, it is a big turn off because it may very well predict the character of the producers or marketers of the product.
The story in itself is a lie and a big fabrication intended to sell a product without regard for other factors such as internet availability from various end points, electricity and bandwidth requirements that may make ROI on the investment difficult.

FlordFlorez:
I totally disagree with u. Before u make this your claim public why don't u ask yourself what would be his gain in doing so. This is an opportunity presented to state governors to cash but he doesn't want to do that. I'm not a fan of Bello but this isn't enough reason for me to be delusional in judging him.

1. Have you read the Premium Times report of happenings at FMC Lokoja and Kogi State relating to Covid-19? I have first hand information from medical personnel in Kogi State that verified the report. If you have not read the report, please do and see if it does not warrant urgent action.

2. Can you state any commendable steps taken by Bello to fight Covid-19 in the State? Each state is expected to send cases of respiratory infection or diseases to NCDC for testing to rule out Covid-19. For months now NCDC has not received a SINGLE sample from Kogi State. Are we saying there has not been any respiratory cases in all hospitals in Kogi State for so long? Medical personnel says it is not only unlikely but impossible. So the lack of sample being sent to NCDC is deliberate.

3. It is clear to any observer that the Governor's response to the NCDC team is confrontational. Is he smarter medically than the NCDC that gave the directive he is trying to quote? If he has cases can he treat them himself or is it not this same NCDC he will rely upon?

Let us all join to condemn bad actions and attitudes instead of making excuses for them.