₦airaland Forum

LEXYLOV:
Pastor Bakare is a Nigerian, and every Nigerians has fundamental right to express his/her view towards anything. If he call for clueless regime change in his own view he is right as millions of Nigerians have already knows that we have a ship captain like Francesco Schettino  and we need to raised the alarm before hitting the rock because no life boats or jackets on top of this 180milion passengers ship call Nigeria. If SNG has rappour with GEJ now and have their cake and now come back to say non sense on anybody they better go and seat down we all knows the truth.

Agbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
My waist o! See how a human is remorsely cracking kernels with English! Choi!

Bruv, I can just imagine you killing flies and mosquito's with Engrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiisss like kokolet Rita! Two of you should be employed in the USA's efforts in Aghanistan, to kill Taliban with the spoken word!

I found something from your wife. Henjoy!

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See me see trouble o! Shuuuuuuuuu! So na bros Fash been call di khaki boys? Na wa o!
Maybe somebody needs to "impeach" operation MESSA; we need a "revolution" against MESSA.
Aluta!

Pikin back go broke wit laf o!
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We have since learnt that it was Fashola that called in the troops.
Can we now give it a rest?

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Why do you always regurgitate the same useless old stuff like clockwork? Bros, you de make me weak o!
I prefer it when you quote from the bible, cos then we know you've derailled kpatakpata!

Please stick to the topic. Thank you.

Fashola is only playing games to save his skin in the hellhole called ACN. That place is not for a gentleman like him.

ono:
@beaf,
Man mi, I just dey o. Well done o, please keep up the good work. Nairaland has turned to something else. Where is GP, Debosky my good friend, Owo and the other correct people? Seun should do something about this quickly - abi na me don turn old member?And Jakumo hardly come around too these days. Miss his great sense of humor. Wonder what he's got to say about all these.

Na wa! These days the place has been overrun by so many crude types who are comfortable to haul insults and curses, even though they have zero knowledge of the topic at hand. I am not surprised that many of the older, intelligent and more engaging posters (like yourself) have left.
Jakumo still makes the odd contribution, but he too is insulted a lot these days.

9ja4eva:
Hopefully they don't sweep the case and the guilty under the table.

That is the fear one always has in Nigeria, judging by our past, it is a very legitimate fear indeed. This is a test for the sincererity of GEJ's transformation project, we also each have a stake in it. No phucker should be allowed to escape justice.

kingoflag:
Oh yeah, like you, @Renoomokri, was begging El-Rufai for rent and other fees but when he blatantly said "No", you ran off with GEJ like the typical Pros*titute?

Ah, Ok, I get it now!

Bitter people like you will always go around spreading falsehoods, cos they lack the brains, morality and mental fortitude to engage one on one at a civil level.

You always sound like something that was scrubbed off the floor of a public toilet. Why?
Dude, please tell me, do you get headaches from being so stup!d?

Failed, frustrated, lazy, awuf luv'n "revolutionary" phuck.
Animal go faint o!
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Several news websites are carrying the story as breaking news, we should have a clearer picture by noon.

ceah:
Kobo, are you teling me that you believe this story. The real SNG has never for ones disown Bakare, those 2 guys possibly have their own SNG, anything that is not on The SNG Facebook page are basically lies, these are plots by The likes of beaf to have a situation of "Napoleon is always right" and "all Animals are equal but some are more equal than others", The real SNG is going back to Freedom Square, Gani park at ojota this Saturday for Victory Rally and it's still being convene by Bakare, Those 2 guys mentioned are probably just some embittered members that fall out of The Group,


Beaf escaped from Yaba, we will get him soon and take him back,  

Beaf is your problem?

Sadly, people like you will remain fools forever.
You willingly remain ignorant and ready to be used like toilet roll. Your type never opens a newspaper to read, or researches events in their own compounds; you will hail and dobale for the man the man that breaks through your window, purloins your womans sacred fruit, and rains hot slaps on your phucking bald head.

For your info, you mud brained dimwit; this is the second time the SNG is disowning your false prophet and raider of the weak and poor. Check the date on the article below, its from last year. No?
Actually click on the link and visit the page, it will help to unscrew your mind and stop phucking cretins like you mentioning "Beaf." I hate stup!d people mentioning my name, cos we have nothing in common. Seen?

[size=14pt]Presidential Election: Save Nigeria Group disowns Bakare[/size]
On April 14, 2011 · In Headlines
By Kingsley Omonobi

As the nation nears the zero hour to  the Presidential elections,  the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), which Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Vice Presidential Candidate for Congress for Progressive Change, co-founded, has distanced itself from his presidential bid.

Acting National Coordinator of the group, Benedict Ezeagu disclosed to newsmen in Abuja that Pastor Bakare did not inform the pressure group of his foray into politics even when confronted severally after his moves as the leader of the group became suspicious.

However, the Publicity Director of the Buhari/Bakare Campaign Organization, Yinka Odumakin could not be reached  for comments but the National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Rotimi Fashakin dismissed the claims of the group saying their support is not solicited.

Recall that Pastor Bakare has come under condemnation for meeting with politicians before he was finally chosen as Vice-Presidential candidate.

Briefing newsmen after a meeting of the group on the on-going general election, Thursday, acting National Coordinator of the SNG, Benedict Ezeagu said the body had no support for Pastor Bakare’s ambition because it was not in the picture when he was making the moves despite persistent enquiry on some of his action before he picked up the presidential slot.

He said the smooth conduct of the National Assembly election despite some noticeable lapses was commendable pointing out that Professor Attahiru Jega deserved applause for the conduct which has offered a ray of hope that Nigerians can conduct credible, free and fair elections, which for some time have been elusive.

“The meeting therefore congratulates Nigerian electorates for coming out en masse to exercise their franchise and for conducting themselves peacefully and orderly”, Ezeagu said.

He congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan for living up to his promise of giving Nigerians credible elections, which he showed through his disposition, attitude, and non-interference with the operations of the Jega led INEC that made success of the NASS election possible.

“The meeting therefore warns that Save Nigeria Group will no longer allow anti-democratic forces, those who prefer the sanctity of bullet/violence to the sanctity of ballot to exploit the current environment of freedom in the country to try to truncate the on-going democratic efforts.

“Finally, the meeting calls on all national stakeholders and the Nigerian masses to use all legitimate means to guard this democratic process and ensure that the remaining elections in the country are held as planned in a free, fair, peaceful and credible atmosphere”, he stated.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/presidential-polls-save-nigeria-group-disowns-bakare/

Aluta!
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Many are gonna be roasted, if they like, let them sponsor a million "revolutions."
Aluta!

Fresh Air!

[size=14pt]‘Jonathan fighting corruption with subsidy probe’[/size]
By Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja 6 hours 40 minutes ago

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation of subsidy payments is an indication that President Goodluck Jonathan was prepared to eradicate corruption in the oil and gas sector.

The probe, according to an official in the Presidency also shows that the president is not prepared to shield anybody.

The source who does not want to be named also said the fraud revealed by KPMG report predates Jonathan’s administration.

By inviting EFCC to investigate all subsidy payments, the source said President Jonathan “has demonstrated that he is determined to clean the oil and gas sector and that is why he went ahead to authorise the EFCC to probe those responsible for the subsidy fraud”.

On the KMPG audit, the source said  the audit was commissioned by  Olusegun Aganga, the then minister of finance, following the controversies that trailed the subsidy payment. KMPG and Afe Afemike and Co were commissioned to carry out a forensic audit of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) between 2007 and 2009.

“If you look at the report critically, the auditors were specifically directed to probe the period between 2007 to 2009. This time, President Jonathan was not the president, Mrs. Dieziani Alison-Madueke was not the petroleum minister and Austen Oniwon was not the group managing director of NNPC,” the source explained.

Some of the findings of the KPMG audit report were that “production /commercial allowable volumes have been observed to consistently exceed Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota of 1,673,000 BBL/D for the six month period (April to September 2010)”, the audit panel also recommended a “Proactively initiate steps with OPEC to review and agree/ update current quota”.

The report also revealed that “non-compliance with OPEC quotas by OPEC countries could exert a downward pull on crude oil prices which results in reduced revenues for the government”, adding that Nigeria may be “fined for exceeding OPEC quota” and could “negatively impact on the country’s oil/gas reserves projections and plans.”

The auditors were very critical of the NNPC’s “poor data management” because there was “no centralised location for storing electronic copies of historical production and allocation data”, instead “the information are stored on personnel (individual) workstations” which may have resulted in the “potential loss of historical production information in event of staff turnover or system failure.”

On Pricing, the report observed “variances in crude sales price especially with regards to domestic sales to PPMC. Crude sales to NNPC were at lower prices (lower than approved Official Selling Price) than to other off-takers which is not in compliance with Government’s directive”, adding that the development was in “potential conflict of interest with NNPC’s Crude Oil Marketing Department (COMD), acting as agent to Government and being under NNPC who is also its customer.”

The report revealed further that “NNPC is invoiced in US$ for domestic crude allocations but is expected to remit the equivalent naira value to the Federation Account. However we observed that exchange rates used by NNPC were lower than the average exchange rates published by the CBN during the review period.”

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/33900-%E2%80%98jonathan-fighting-corruption-with-subsidy-probe%E2%80%99.html

ono: Reading through the article, I think she's got every reason not to step down just yet - and I think there isn't any reason for her to step down. The corrupt agency responsible for most of the problem of today - the PPPRA was merged with her ministry just eight months ago - well, except she's not telling the truth, because given that timeframe, not much would have happened.

I think we need to just be a wee bit patient with the President. I see something big and deadly coming the way of corrupt people generally and it's coming with some deadly force.

Now, as per the luxury life this minister is living, you guys forget she was once a director at Shell Petroleum Develpment Company. She's already a wealthy woman by every standard. Except this her lifestyle has grown so much that there isn't a reasonable correlation with what she's earning/have earned as an oil industry staff, then there is no need to make a lot of noise about her wealth

Hey! Ono! Longest time, how you keeping?

Thanks for your thoughtful post. It is curious that people are baying for the blood of the woman that is exposing the corruption in the oil sector, it is really curious indeed! Why are they less concerned about the marketers?
The sorts of comments many have made border on ethnic bigotry and blind hatred. I despair that so many people are afflicted with the herd mentality and never take enough time to read through articles and thoroughly educate themselves on what is going on.

Also, there has been a very large influx of amazingly crude sounding posters who avoid the topic, but rain curses and insults on views different to theirs. With the recent sponsored campaign of #Occupy lies, it is not difficult to conclude that the oil marketers are smarting from defeat and are engaged in a crude cyber fightback. They will fail, because regardless of anybody, our beautiful nation MUST develop and blossom.

We don't need the House of Reps. They and the police should be disbanded.

I pity those hailing Sowore. That man is for sale to the highest bidder, if the FG falls victim to his blackmail and decides to shift something his way, his turn around against the "revolution" would be of Guiness Book of records magnitude. We should be happy that the FG is not falling victim to scumballs and blackmailers.

Sowore is scum who goes about blaickmailling those who refuse to pay him for his "services."

[size=21pt]A false prophet, rejected in his hometown!
Pikin go wound o! Animal go faint o![/size]

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Dunno bruv, but if the story is true, then somebody definitely knew exactly where the punk would be and what his plans were. I guess that kinda negates the 50milla reward dosh. Questions and yet more questions would need to be asked off our police force.

24 hour ultimatum? Hmmmm! --Beaf scratches head--

I says! Dis shiits is a very biiiiiigggg shiits!!

Aluta!

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[size=14pt]Boko Haram bomber, Kabir Sokoto, rearrested[/size]
January 19, 2012 91 Comments
Ringim

An unconfirmed report has it that fleeing suspected Boko Haram bomber, Kabir Sokoto, has been rearrested at the Nigeria-Chad border.

Rumours in Abuja and a number of posts on Twitter said he was caught in unclear circumstances.

However, the spokesman for the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Olusola Amore, said he had not been briefed.

He promised to issue a statement if the story was found to be true.

However, some bloggers on Twitter expressed doubts that the real suspect was caught, especially as no picture of the alleged bomber has ever been released by the police.

Sokoto, who is suspected to have masterminded the Christams Day 2011 bomb blast at the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State, escaped from a police van last week while he was being taken to his residence for a search.

President Goodluck Jonathan had on Wednesday reporttedly given the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, 24 hours to produce the suspect or be sacked.

The Minister of Police Affairs, Mr. Caleb Olubolade, told newsmen after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Wednesday that Ringim had been queried over the suspect’s escape.

A number of senior police officers, including the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Mr. Zakari Biu, have been reportedly placed under house arrest and suspended for involvement in the incident.

More details later.

http://www.punchng.com/news/reports-claim-boko-haram-bomber-kabir-sokoto-rearrested/

okosodo: Even though nothing can be done, at least we should know

I very strongly disagree. This is exactly when we are supposed to turn on the heat. I do not see why a man should steal 5billion and be simply asked to refund it, while petty thieves die gruesome deaths with necklaces of burning tyres. This is exactly when our voices should be rising to a crescendo to strangle the bastar'ds that have defrauded the country.

Lets drop despondency for once and demand justice and punishment for crimes. If Ifeanyi Uba, or anybody else for that matter, is a thief, lets get them dealt with.

[quote author=A-ZeD link=topic=849707.msg9999934#msg9999934 date=1326979732]I'm all for resource control and regional government.
In theory, i subsidy removal is a good thing but removing subsidy in Nigeria is papering over the cracks and not going after the root cause of the problem.
E.g Why did GEJ no pursue a legislation that states that  by 2015, all crude oil drilled in Nigeria must be refined in Nigeria, dont you think Nigerians would have supported subsidy removal??[/quote]Such a resolution would have failed in the NASS. Those people are only there to get fat.

As for moving us toward true federalism on the sly, its about the only way Nigeria can move in the right direction. Look at the crazy magnitude of fraud in the subsidy system that is being discussed (and I tell you, we ain't heard nuthin yet) and you will quickly realise that corruption is almost an immovable beast in Nigeria. Anyone hoping to make even a small dent would have to take to some pretty hairy pathways.

Also, as long as the subsidy runs, the refineries will always be sabotaged, totally frustrating any goodwill and wasting our billions in an endless cycle of first, motion, then despair.

[quote author=A-ZeD link=topic=849707.msg9999887#msg9999887 date=1326979414]This is true but the constitution needs to change before this can happen. Do you think GEJ will want to make abuja weaker during his own tenure?[/quote]Thank you!
After all the bad blood we come to some sort of understanding.

As for GEJ being ready to make Abuja weaker, it is on record that he told the governors that he was only ready to change the revenue allocation formula to the benefit of the LG's and at the expense of states and FG. He made arguments about LG autonomy, part of that is visible in the abrogation of joint accounts between states and LG's. A lot is going on, bruv.

If you think GEJ is not ready for that, then let the next protest be about true federalism.

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And is it not working? Please make a point, the pushback to sentiment rather than logic is quite old now.

[quote author=A-ZeD link=topic=849707.msg9999843#msg9999843 date=1326979117]If your child's gets bullied in school an his lunch taken do you stop giving him lunch cos he doesnt get to eat it or you find another way to deal with the problem??[/quote]You have fallen into the usual trap of those who think the FG should feed them. Your LG and state should be the ones feeding you.

LadyT:
Her head should roll first shes responsible for the budget.  Have you seen that 75% of Nigerians money goes to goverment wages and allowance??

I am not saying it is right that so much should be going to salaries. But there are different levels of government, if we fight for local and state govts to be preeminent and productive, Abuja will lose its shine. There are 3 levels of govt and the LG and state should actually be of more importance to the individual, it is the failures in our system that make us forget that state and LG govts exist.
Lets have this in mind, so that after going at the FG, we know that we must next turn on govts local to us.

[quote author=A-ZeD link=topic=849707.msg9999766#msg9999766 date=1326978599]Dude you don't have a point beside how does removing oil subsidy move us closer to true federalism?
If you remove oil subsidy and you dont remove the corrupt people do you in your mind think those people will not find a way around the system??[/quote]Removing the oil subsidy removes the corrupt people as we are now witnessing. It moves us closer to true federalism because one of the greatest attractions of centralised power in Abuja is gone, another pillar of patronage that is keeping this fake federalism running has been leveled.

Ujujoan:
So you are still talking about a non-existent subsidy?

Are you just daft or do you make an effort tobe clueless  

Incase you are really just daft, the subsidy removal is NOT what is bringing about these revelations . .  the investigation is.

One would have thought that your President would have embarked on this 'investigation' before plunging millions of Nigerians into such dire hardship in the name of subsidy removal  . . .

And what brought about the investigation? Would there have been an investigation without the subsidy removal?
Madam, your argument is weak, tired and in need of subsidy. 2 + 2 = 4, Seen?

Lombroga:
Beaf is a retardeen, just as his master his.

You no even spare your keyboard with your bad accent? lol!
One day you computer will rise up and slap you! TAWAI!!

doctokwus:
What is comical about adults protesting about d presence of military men in a no-war or terrorism setting?Every person has d right to support GEJ based on ones own ctiteria,but certain democratic tenets must b upheld,fundamental of whc is your right to air your grievances in a non violent manner.I neva gave much stock to d presidents ability to logically analyse a situation& come up wt sth credible,giving his antecedents& his whole body language that conveys to me an inferiority complex,but he is d president& shud b able to at d very least,decipher all d advice frm all d cabinet members he has& come up wt something tangible,he doest need a Ph.d for that.That GEJ has failed to assert himself in d most critical area,amongts d cabinet is glaring.Advice such as d one to impose military presence in lagos state is one of such that does not bode well for his presidency.

If these are the things they are protesting for, then it is comical. The soldiers are there as a prevention against anarchy and that is borne out by the some people protesting that fact. Its like a person gets involved in a fight, only to protest the presence of the police.

All the talk about soldiers in Lagos not boding well for GEJ's Presidency is neither here nor there. When the govt says people should get off the streets, then they should. We always talk about the right to peaceful protest, but many forget that police permission is required for a protest to be legal. What permission do those people have? They will be teargassed and will go home, and since nobody loves tear gas, they are unlikely to make defiance a habit.

coded guy:
Leave the guy, him wan blend now when yawa don gas for people head.

all his rantings about how peeps would get tired of  the occupy protest and that it would lead to nothing

They led to nothing. They only ended up the smokescreen for what nateevs is pretending not to understand.

coded guy:
Chei With where u stood during the bruhaha am surprised you are saying this.

Where did I stand? I said those protesting where lazy phuckers who were unwilling to apply their minds or educate themselves about Nigerian realities. Does it seem like my stand is different today?

My arguments against the subsidy hinged around three things:

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[li]It would deal a mortal blow to the corrupt oil industry and move us another step toward true federalism.[/li]
[li]That people aught to be taking a lot more interest in what their LG chairmen and governors roles are in a federal system.[/li]
[li]The money saved could be channelled into productive areas of the economy like research and development, agriculture, education etc.[/li]
[li]It would create a level playing field that would allow the influx of private refinery builders.[/li]
[/list]

Our anti-subsidy arguments were far superior to those of the comical #Occupy brigade. In fact, all they had was sentiment; all tears, abuse and curses.
Indeed, all of us who withstood their torrents of insults and abuse stand vindicated today; every Nigerian is getting bombarded with tales of mind-fogging corruption, all in just a few short days. We should be prepared to be drunk with many more of such exposures even though the wagon has hardly left the courtyard.

nateevs:
Another campaign for GEJ. Have you asked, if subsidy had been removed and people did not resist, said YES IT'S FINE and went about their business, would we ever know these things?

I just cannot stand you. You have a stark penchant for skewing every fact in favour of someone. These things are being revealed 'primarily' because the people resisted not 'only' because subsidy was removed as you make it seem.

People would always have resisted. Many of us argued stridently that the removal of the subsidy would clear away massive levels of corruption in the system. That is excactly what we are witnessing now.

We stand vindicated. By the time this is all through, every man and his dog would regret ever paying N65 only to be so enslaved.

doctokwus:
Civil society has learnt d hard way that any change or agitation must b people driven;no organised labor can bring about that change,they can only agitate as far as their own personal/narrow minded interest go.They maybe crucified,degraded now by a some,mainly in govt,but this defiant attitude to enforce their fundamental right to a peaceful protest over an issue that is fundamental to federalism,imposition of soldiers in a civil society,will av far reaching ramifications,in d nearest future, on what becomes of this contraption we call a democracy

If a state of emergency is declared in Lagos, would they still protest the presence of soldiers on the streets in a democracy?
There is only so far people can pull a string, especially when there is nothing concrete they can claim to be protesting.

The whole thing has now assumed comical proportions.

If the subsidy had not been removed, would we ever have known these things?