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Politics › Re: Protest In Abuja Over FG's Inability To Rescue Chibok Girls (Pics) by Banter1(m): 7:00am On Jan 17, 2016
johnmark1234:
my friend shot up I want to help u. what is scam?.I'm Dearing whit Gold and diamond.
go and scam your biafra brother not me. I should shut up? Seems you don't have manners.


And is "Shut" not "shot". No more response from me to you. #bye
Politics › Re: Dasukigate: Beyond The Last Abuja Yam Festival, By Gimba Kakanda by Banter1(op): 9:45pm On Jan 15, 2016
[quote author=INTROVERT post=42014425][/quote]H = Haram.
Politics › Re: Dasukigate: Beyond The Last Abuja Yam Festival, By Gimba Kakanda by Banter1(op): 9:38pm On Jan 15, 2016
Some people will not be happy that I comment 1st on my own topic.

May Almighty God give my bro luck tomorrow on LG elections. #MyHonorableCouncilor
Politics › Dasukigate: Beyond The Last Abuja Yam Festival, By Gimba Kakanda by Banter1(op): 9:38pm On Jan 15, 2016
My point is, our advocacy for a new Nigeria shouldn’t be a call for a nation built on a personality cult. For Nigeria to be rescued, what’s needed is civic vigilance of both patriotic individuals and the civil society organisations to “dictate” to the president what’s required and desired for a viable nation. These are strong institutions. As the hunt for those who took part in the festival of thievery organised by President Goodluck Jonathan between 2011 and 2015 continues, what haunts the mind of many observers is the perception that everybody who was loyal to the past government and had either offered a service or asked to “perform” one – even if a mere expression of moral solidarity with the government – benefitted from its gifts of Yam sent through the embattled former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
Statistically, that’s scary! Sadly, some of the people who participated in that brazen sharing of the N1 trillion security budget and other extra-budgetary “allocations” proposed for our country’s counterterrorism efforts had ended their allegiance to the GEJ-led administration a few days to, and after, the presidential election. And, they’ve built a new nest in the new ruling party.
This week, I saw a list of firms that had dealings with the Office of the National Security Adviser during the infamous festival, and it’s easy to tell that, if fairly investigated, the scandal may consume a sizable population of our political elite across all the political parties in the country, including the APC. Buhari, like GEJ, is just a personality who… will only exist on the pages of newspapers 100 years from now. He’s not an institution, not immortal, and neither is his leadership meant to be forever. He’s a man who also thrives on personal reasons, emotions and sentiments. He’s not infallible, that is. I know this son of a former National Security Adviser who’s notorious in Abuja for drag racing in an exotic Italian sports car that even his father couldn’t have afforded if Nigeria were an institutionally strong place. A boy much younger than I am could only afford that if, one, he experienced the “Mark Zuckerberg luck factor” or he’s a sports personality who’s secured endorsement deals with Automobili Lamborghini.
No, he’s not Dasuki’s son. This is why we must shift the date backward to see the evils of all the wolves who defected to the APC when the music of that Abuja Yam Festival stopped. The reason for the financial recklessness wasn’t because GEJ was weak; it was because our institutions are weak, because it would’ve been impossible for even the president to have such amount of money withdrawn for dubious purposes with the complicity of the Minister of Finance and the CBN Governor, if our institutions were strong and designed to resist fraud and graft. Buhari, like GEJ, is just a personality who, like all of us reading this, will only exist on the pages of newspapers 100 years from now. He’s not an institution, not immortal, and neither is his leadership meant to be forever. He’s a man who also thrives on personal reasons, emotions and sentiments.
He’s not infallible, that is. Aside from our dysfunctional institutions, the other culprit in the ruin of this nation is a compliant society. Our people, instead of frowning at obvious acts of corruption, celebrate the existence of the evidently corrupt. My point is, our advocacy for a new Nigeria shouldn’t be a call for a nation built on a personality cult. For Nigeria to be rescued, what’s needed is civic vigilance of both patriotic individuals and the civil society organisations to “dictate” to the president what’s required and desired for a viable nation. These are strong institutions. If our institutions were strong, President Buhari wouldn’t have considered it wise to frown at the judgment of the judiciary in the cases of Dasuki and Kanu. It’s not a personality cult that builds a sane nation, it’s the wisdom of its leaders to give up their illegitimate rights and selfish interests for all institutions to uphold the values on which they are built. Aside from our dysfunctional institutions, the other culprit in the ruin of this nation is a compliant society. Our people, instead of frowning at obvious acts of corruption, celebrate the existence of the evidently corrupt. And those who have escaped media trial are praised by their community as heroes of an unjust and bigoted system. “gofment money na our money; if you no steal am, another pesin go steal am. If you no gree take am, another pesin go take am!” The last time I was in Minna, a relative declared, “You should be thinking of building your own place.” And even though she was only being candidly concerned, it’s not her ignorance of my ability that made her say so. It was her endorsement of the path of dishonour on which many before me have made fortunes. We both know one “successful” neighbour who, occupying the middle-management cadre in the federal civil service, has acquired houses in Utako, Gwarinpa, and Katampe, alongside four in Minna. He is a role model in this material society. He won’t be judged, because it’s already established that the pathway to financial glory is the presentation of a fat proposal on the desk of a compliant principal or friend. I won’t be shocked to see that he’s a director on the board of one of the firms publicised as recipients of the presidential Yam delivered by Dasuki. This is so because it’s already a tradition for the heads of ministries, departments or agencies to form alliances and rush to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to register companies and bid for the contracts advertised by their offices. At the end, they invite nosy juniors, who are likely raise brows about the dubious procedures, to take shares of the blood money. Because “gofment money na our money; if you no steal am, another pesin go steal am. If you no gree take am, another pesin go take am!” May God save us from us!



Cc lalasticlala

Source: http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=170484
NYSC › Re: Bill Seeking Increment In Corpers Allowance Passed By House Of Reps by Banter1(m): 3:53pm On Jan 15, 2016
Ok continue
Politics › Re: Protest In Abuja Over FG's Inability To Rescue Chibok Girls (Pics) by Banter1(m): 5:14pm On Jan 14, 2016
johnmark1234:
if u want it I will send it to u from South Africa but u have to give my Bros the money
scam Alert!
Politics › Re: Protest In Abuja Over FG's Inability To Rescue Chibok Girls (Pics) by Banter1(m): 5:13pm On Jan 14, 2016
ajebuter:
Dasuki should know.
He's the one with the whole bucks
Sorry dude grin grin grin
hahahaha funny!
Politics › Re: Breaking!! 2016 Budget Has Been Found. pics Will Shock or cause u heart attack by Banter1(m): 10:46am On Jan 14, 2016
Funny nation.
Politics › Re: How Peter Obi Killed APC In The East by Banter1(m): 11:16pm On Jan 13, 2016
zendy:
We trust GEJ with reason. I'm not saying he ran the best Government imaginable but it was a choice between GEJ or Buhari. As an Igbo man, who did you think I was going to choose?
your brother of course.
Politics › Re: Wike Drops Charges Against Armed-Robbers by Banter1(m): 11:14pm On Jan 13, 2016
herbie27:
some of u said the same thing abt Bayelsa elections grin grin
some of them not me. I knew APC stands no chance in bayelsa
TV/Movies › Re: That Movie You Can't Get Tired Of Watching by Banter1(m):
1. The Last Don

2. Prison Break

3. Everybody Hates Chris.

4. Maria de los Angeles

5. The Dictator

6. American pie

7. Poetic justice

8. Jungle fever

9. Desparado

10. Godfather
Politics › Re: Wike Drops Charges Against Armed-Robbers by Banter1(m): 2:21pm On Jan 13, 2016
One thing I know for sure is that, APC will win Rivers! Like it or not, I rest my case.
Politics › Re: Chief Judge Bars Magistrates From Granting Remand Orders To EFCC by Banter1(m): 9:49am On Jan 13, 2016
I feel sorry for us in this country! This judges are not helping at all. People who have looted the treasury of this country, their right should be taken away, they don't deserve to claim any right.
Politics › Re: How Peter Obi Killed APC In The East by Banter1(m): 9:46am On Jan 13, 2016
zendy:
I read through the long epistle and found it to make no sense at all. What point was the writer trying to make? That Igbos rejected APC? As an Igbo man, Buhari abd APC have not shown me any reason to trust them. If anything, I trust them even less now that they are in power than when they were not. And I'm sure most of my fellow Igbos share the same sentiment. APC is simply hasn't got the support of Igbos and is likely never to. That's just the way it is
but you trusted GEJ without any reason? Smh
Politics › Re: "Nigeria's Budget Is Intact With Clerk Of The House Of Reps." - Yakubu Dogara by Banter1(m): 7:15am On Jan 13, 2016
AnnaKareninaFan:
Tweet-News:


The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has dismissed reports that Nigeria's 2016 budget proposal submitted by President Buhari to the National Assembly is missing. A tweeter @DemolaRewaju directed this tweet at Dogara: Regardless of conspiracy theories and bants about the missing bill, pressure must be mounted on @bukolasaraki and @doyakubu to find it." The Speaker replied saying, "1st April arrives too early this year on Twitter. 2016 Budget estimates Stolen @NASS?? Pretty funny stuff! It's in the custody of the Clerk to the House of Reps. I can confirm no one has broken into his office."



http://dawntodusknews.com/nigerias-budget-is-intact-with-clerk-of-the-house-of-reps-speaker-yakubu-dogara/
that @Doyakubu is parody. That @NASS is not National assembly handle, it belongs to an Arab man from Dubai.
Politics › Re: 8 Perm Secs Drag Wike To Court Over Compulsory Retirement by Banter1(op): 7:20pm On Jan 12, 2016
ThugNor Wike is Evil.
Politics › 8 Perm Secs Drag Wike To Court Over Compulsory Retirement by Banter1(op): 7:20pm On Jan 12, 2016
The Rivers state government has been
dragged by 8 permanent secretaries in
the state to the National Industrial
Court (NIC), over their compulsory
retirement from the state civil service,
The Nation reports.

Governor Nyesom Wike
The hearing on the suit commenced on
Monday, January 11, at the Yenagoa
Division of the NIC in Bayelsa state.
Tuduru Ede, the lawyer to the plaintiffs,
told the court that the reported
compulsory retirement of the permanent
secretaries was in contravention of the
civil service rules and is therefore
unlawful, urging the court to declare the
exercise null and void.

The permanent secretaries include: Sam
Woka, Kadilo Brown, Augustine Orlu-Orlu,
Muka Nwikosi, Minabelema Michael-West,
Ngozi Abu, Kingsley Hart and Justina
Jumbo.
The Attorney-General of the state, the
head of service of the state, the Rivers
State Civil Service Commission, and the
accountant general of Rivers, were also
joined in the suit.
Ede further urged the court to restrain the
Rivers state government from further
threat and harassment of the permanent
secretaries with eviction from their official
residential accommodation and seizure of
their official vehicles.

Justice James Agbadu-Fishim, who ruled
on the application for interlocutory
injunction to restrain the government
from harassing the permanent secretaries,
noted that the lawyer to the defendants
was absent.
The case was however adjourned to
Thursday, January 21, to hear the motion
for interlocutory injunction.
Meanwhile, a former commissioner for
Land and Survey in Rivers state, Ezemonye
Ezekiel Amadi dragged the Chief Judge of
the state, Justice Daisy Okocha to the
Supreme Court over the constitutionality
of her appointment and swearing in as
substantive Chief Judge of the state.
Ezemonye, a lawyer and staunch member
of All Progressive Congress (APC) and critic
of the administration of Governor Nyesom
Wike, served as the commissioner for Land
and Survey under the administration of
the immediate past governor, Chibuike
Amaechi.

Cc seun lalasticlala



Source: https://www.naij.com/693909-8-permanent-secretaries-drag-wike-court-compulsory-retirement.html
Celebrities › Re: Singer Banky W Poses With His Brothers by Banter1(m): 4:04pm On Jan 12, 2016
Am not Gay! So I don't know.
Sports › Re: Ronaldo Shakes Messi's Girlfriend, Neymar Gives Him An Epic Look..(photo) by Banter1(m): 1:37pm On Jan 12, 2016
Okaka27:
BANTER , if you want the balon d or , come and collet it

#pained
pained? What for? Funny kid.
Politics › Re: Metuh's Detention: Youths In Anambra Protest (Photos) by Banter1(m): 1:28pm On Jan 12, 2016
Daplux4:
Before ur mr saint starts to judge others let him return his own share from darsuki gate
All nigerian politician is currupt
1. I aint a saint! 2. Judge others? Where in my statement did I judge? 3. Do you comprehend my statement at all?
Politics › Re: Metuh's Detention: Youths In Anambra Protest (Photos) by Banter1(m): 12:53pm On Jan 12, 2016
alcmene:
They are not protesting his arrest but his continued detention without trial.

When will Nigerians quit bad belle and hypocritical comments in the name of tribal comments.

The judiciary has been emasculated hence the action of EFCC that now arrest and squeeze out imaginary looted funds their own way without recourse to court process.

The era of tyranny and military high-handedness is back for sure
I wanted to insult you so badly, but then again I remember my New Year resolution was to be a better me, and not to insult or answer to any Bs. Please let's. Join hands and support our president in fighting this monster called corruption. GOD bless us all. #peace
Politics › Re: Metuh's Detention: Youths In Anambra Protest (Photos) by Banter1(m): 12:43pm On Jan 12, 2016
This people from the otherside of the country are just Gullible and Jobless....smh.
Celebrities › Re: Davido Shows Off Condom Asks “who’s It Gon Be Tonite?” by Banter1(m): 12:36pm On Jan 12, 2016
Spoilt brat.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: FIFA Ballon d'Or 2016 On 11th January 2016 by Banter1(m): 10:12am On Jan 12, 2016
vindisick:
well,hug a transformer
it's 2016, I do not respond to insult. Stay blessed bro.


#BetterMe2016
Sports › Re: Ronaldo Shakes Messi's Girlfriend, Neymar Gives Him An Epic Look..(photo) by Banter1(m): 10:08am On Jan 12, 2016
Messi wife be like.......damn I should have married CR7 he's cute, handsome. Unlike my dwarf husband who's shy and doesn't socialise at all, always hiding at home.


#LittlePrick
Car Talk › Re: Amazing Nigeria Cars Used In The 90's(photos) by Banter1(m): 9:11pm On Jan 11, 2016
Mutuwa:
you love vintage cars I guess?
this is the type my dad had then.
Politics › Re: Gokana LGA Rivers Under Attack by Banter1(m): 8:54pm On Jan 11, 2016
Idontbilivi this crap.

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