₦airaland Forum

Justiyke4u:
They will get tired one day

CecyAdrian:
Who go suffer am pass

Rubbish!!

sholadunju:
thats what u get when the president is a Herdsman

bayinq25:
after blaming Jonathan,poor sango comes in.God is watching in 7D

Yinkay:
Is Fashola now blaming Sango instead of the usual scapegoat GEJ and the Avengers?

veekid:
How can a lawyer do the work of an engineer?

Buhari sef

mightyhaze:
that's wot it looks like to me !

All of a sudden electricity became rocket science,..and spurring so many grammar and philosophy to mask the obvious

jneutron4000:
what incompetency are you talking about Na him body or fluid for him body him go use generate power?

Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says Sango, despite being the god of lightning and thunder, does not have the capacity to generate a single kilowatt of electricity.

Delivering the convocation lecture at the University of Benin on Friday, Fashola urged the graduands to free their minds from fear, and stop deifying resources that can be harnessed for the good of the society.

“Traditional medicine, from herbs, roots, and other endowments of nature have their place of pre-eminence in the assurance of our well-being and good health. I cannot say the same thing about divination and sacrifices,” he said.

“We must choose to work our iron ore to produce steel and build skyscrapers, machines and tools like others do instead of worshipping the god of Iron.We must use engineering to manage and control flooding and erosion.

“We must probe the treasures of our forests and depths of our oceans as bastions of possibilities that we must manage and dominate instead of worshipping the god of the sea.

“If we continue to fear the sea, oceans and waters we will perpetuate the practice of sacrifice, instead of undertaking the enterprise of understanding; and dominating them for energy and transport.

“We must approach our rock formations as treasure troves of building materials like marble, tiles and granite rather than treat them as totems of salvation that require animal sacrifice.

“We should stop deifying the moon and stratosphere beyond the visibility of our eyes out of fear. Instead we should develop the courage and resolve to send men and women to land a space craft there.”

He said prayer is good when combined with hard work. He added that all the divination and sacrifices made to Sango, the god of lightning, has not generated a single kilowatt of power.

“I urge you to free your mind from fear, reach for the skies, choose by conviction and not by fear; trust in your abilities and God given talent, take responsibility, work hard and pray if you believe.

“Yes, Sango is the god of lightning and thunder, but all the sacrifices made to Sango has not generated 1 (ONE) kilowatt of electric power.

“Electricity is produced by using nature’s gifts , such as gas, water, solar and wind, harnessing their capacity through turbines made from steel to serve our energy needs, not by making animal sacrifices.”

Fashola also urged his audience to “look for the book titled ‘Start Up Nation’ by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, saying: “It would provoke your thinking as it did mine.”

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has described CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele’s suggestion of three-minutes’ call surcharge on telecommunications consumers as economically wrong.

ATCON President, Mr Olusola Teniola, told newsmen in Lagos on Saturday that the proposal was technically and economically wrong.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emefiele had suggested that government should impose taxes on phone conversations that lasted more than three minutes as an alternative source of revenue for it.

Emefiele suggested this option during the 2016 Annual Bankers’ Dinner organised by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

He also suggested the introduction tax on properties as a way of increasing revenue for the government.

Teniol said that the stakeholders in the telecommunications industry were not consulted on the issue before the pronouncement.

“Contrary to the CBN governor’s believe, it is the poor people who make more calls than the rich.

“So, the proposal is not targeted at the middle or higher class.

“I have not seen any industry where you don’t want people to use your products or services more.

“We want people to be speaking longer,’’ he said .

Teniola said that the CBN governor’s proposal that people should cut their phone calls after three minutes had not been founded on any theory.

“In fact, you will now see that people will be cutting their calls.

“It does not make sense, not only technically but economically, to apply that kind of thinking as a tool or solution out of the present economic recession, it is not going to work,’’ Teniola said.

He said that ATCON had already proposed to the Senate a one per cent VAT increase across all sectors.

“This is a more realistic measure toward getting more revenue for the government,’’ Teniola said.

The ATCON president said that the ICT industry had been envisaged to help the country gets out of recession.

“But the sector should not be killed with over taxation,’’ he said.

He suggested other ways the country could raise additional revenue to finance the increased expenditure that could engender fast and sustainable growth of the economy.

“I think we can consider introducing a negligible telecom surcharge to be entirely borne by the initiator of a call in order to protect the poor and vulnerable amongst us.

“ We could structure it to only take effect after the third minute of talk.

“Some analyses have indicated that the government could earn about N100 billion per annum from this alone.

“Obviously, this surcharge will mainly be borne by middle and upper class people since I do not know many poor people who make calls for more than three minutes,’’ he said.

TrajansKong:
I agree,I would also kill my child but I would do it without hesitation. Joyfully and unflinchingly. God's will is my will. Selah!

Tony Anenih, former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) board of trustees, has called it quits with politics.

Anenih, who is fondly called ‘Mr Fix It’, announced his decision to retire from politics at the launch of his book entitled, ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’, in Abuja on Saturday.

“I am persuaded that I have no more ambition nor any point to prove in politics. I am, therefore, glad to declare that, from today, I shall be withdrawing from active partisan politics,” he said.

“I shall, however, continue to avail the country of my experience, give suggestions and offer advice, as a statesman.”

He urged Nigerians to support the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in his effort to make Nigeria a better place.

“I must not end this statement of gratitude without acknowledging the fact that our country is going through difficult times. It is a national predicament which we must confront in unity, irrespective of our partisan commitments, whether PDP, APC, AD or Labour,” he said.

“I, therefore, want to urge all Nigerians to persevere and hope for a better tomorrow. We must support and pray that God will give President Muhammadu Buhari the wisdom and vision to steer this country away from recession to prosperity.”‎

The former minister of works and housing under former President Olusegun Obasanjo is 83 years; he was born on August 4, 1933.

He is a trained police officer, and he was once an orderly of Nnamdi Azikiwe, first governor-general of Nigeria.

He had a political career which spanned decades. He was the state chairman of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) from 1981 to 1983, and he was instrumental in the emergence of Samuel Ogbemudia as civilian governor of then Bendel state.

Anenih was the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1992 to 1993 — the platform on which the late MKO Abiola ran for president.

He joined the PDP, where he worked as the deputy national coordinator of Obasanjo’s campaign in the 1999 and 2003 elections, and he earned the moniker ‘Mr Fix It’ for his ability to provide leadership and solve knotty problems.

In May, he was rumoured to have died in a London hospital after he slumped in his home.

When he heard the news of his death, the statesman fired at tale bearers, wishing them what they wished him

“If I am dead, will I be talking to you? I am in London; I am alive and enjoying myself,” he said from London.

“I am not going to issue any press release to debunk the rumour. God will punish them, and I believe that they will die before me.”

Anenih joins Bamanga Tukur, Edwin Clark and other PDP bigwigs who retired from politics after the party lost the 2015 presidential election.

wayceguy:
na bobby go kill u 1d107

yinkslinks:
Bro boobies right? We fan alike

K9Uneet:
My brother, you sef see the thing wey I see?? Those things are to die for wallahi!

K9Uneet:
Me sef dey look those things o. Chai! The guy dey suck better oranges o!

dunkem21:
Or Sabo ngeri in Kano

EmeeNaka:
How can you prove that that place is Onitsha? With Women on Hijab and Arabic inscription on the building, it's clear that place is not Onitsha.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

baybeeboi:
These people are just funny, why not be sure Boko Haram has been completely defeated before fixing dates for the closure?

That is how they deceived those people to go back to their homes and villages last time with the belief that boko Haram had been defeated only for them to be slaughtered like rabbits.

Beebeeóoh , what do you have to say about this?

The Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, says all Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in the state would be closed down by May 29, 2017.

Shettima told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Maiduguri, the state has nearly two million displaced persons.

He said the government had placed priority on the reconstruction of communities destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents, to facilitate the return of IDPs to their towns and villages.

“We have reconstructed Bama by 25 per cent; my target is to reach 50 per cent by the end of this year and 75 per cent by first quarter of 2017.

“I want to close down all IDP camps latest May 29, 2017, because the IDP camps are becoming a huge problem on their own.

“If we allow the entrenchment of these IDP camps, they are pregnant with loads of challenges of early child marriage, prostitution, drug abuse, gangsterism.

“And we will be confronted with huge social challenges of an entitlement complex of people feeling that they are entitled to be catered for.

“So in as much as we observe the Kampala convention, we will not compel anybody to return to their communities.

“We know our people better than any other persons and it is not for somebody seating in Abuja, Paris, London, US and any other places to dictate to us on how we should live our lives.

“Our people in spite of their poverty, still have some pride left in them, a lot of them will rather go back to their communities and eat the guinea corn and millet than to eat your rice and chicken in the IDP camps.

“This is why we want to restore the dignity of our people by rebuilding their homes, rebuilding their schools, engaging them in gender empowerment initiatives so as to enable them return back to their homes, ” Shettima said.

According to him, “by December we are taking back all the people of Kaga Local Government Area.”

Shettima believed that with time, Nigerians would appreciate the modest accomplishment of the state towards the resettlement of the IDPs.(NAN)