₦airaland Forum

The electioneering process that led to the emergence
of President Buhari was a tortuous one.
Never in the
history of this country have we had two candidates
and parties with national colouration and
appeal. Some of us were happy about this
development and we tried to raise the caution that
we must not exceed the limits of reason in the way
we go about this campaigns. Our warning was not
heeded. I remembered referring to both Jonathan
and Buhari as a case of six and half a dozen (My
position has not changed still). The campaigns were
deadly and frontal. Each camp tried derobing the
other camp of any rag of honour it had while each
tried making significant the mootest of points. The
result of all this is that the losing side became the
WAILING WAILERS while the victorious side became
the WHINING WINNERS. Hence, when GEJ conceded
defeat and avoided the path of trouble, the WHINING
WINNERS didn't see it as anything special while the
WAILING WINNERS quickly labelled him the hero of
democracy.

Saddening enough, our country is split along the lines
of these WAILING WAILERS and their WHINING
WINNERS counterpart. Since the WHINING WINNERS
are the ones in POWER now, it is the turn of these
WAILING WAILERS to have their own pound of flesh-
rubbish any achievement of the present
administration while amplifying every single thing
that goes wrong under the new Sheriff.

These two
sides have forgotten that we are on the precipice at
the moment and this gunpowder could explode at
any time.

I am not a fan of GEJ and could not have voted for him
even if that election was conducted a hundred times, I am however not of the opinion that GEJ's
administration did not have any giant stride he took
while in government. Hate it or like it, his concession
of defeat was a tie-breaker during the election. Hate it
or like it too, Jonathan has something to do with this
renewed Biafran agitation, be it actively or passively.

If you ask my opinion, I feel his 'Fans' see it as a way
of getting even with the WHINING WINNERS (a typical
case of gboromiduneleru-crying more than the
bereaved) but sincerely yours, I do not see GEJ being
in the know of such.

I used to be a fan of President Buhari and even
campaigned for him fearlessly in 2011 (a time when
our now fanatic change advocates were singing,
Good luck for me,Good luck for you...). However,I
have said it over and over that the Buhari I know
before 2015 was different from the Buhari of
2015. Truth be told, Baba doesn't seem to have a clue
about what he wants to do and to make matters
worse, his vengeance-seeking cliques aint helping
matters. His anti-cotruption campaign is tainted ab
initio. Too bad,our WHINING WINNERS would still
want to pass the bulk of their failure on Boda Jona-
six months into the life if this new administration.

It is important we get our tracts together. The ruling
class is never divided!It is the oppressed that sings
discordant tunes. They are all shouting that the
country is broke and the masses are now meant to
bear the brunt of that. Let them reduce the salaries of
all public office holders, rather than remove
subsidy. Let Mr President sell his fleece rather than
cut the minimum wage. The Change mantra shouldn't
be hypocritical and selective. I remembered a song
we sing in times as this:
Awi funwon too,Awon loo gba oo
Ori naa to de leyi awon lo o gba ooo
(We warned them before hand but they didn't budge
On This issue at hand,they didn't heed our warning)

Written by: Amuda Bamidele Mosigbodi Plato

Okanokan:
You better get your facts right!

You are the one that need to get your facts right. Which South East people protested June 12?

ruggedboy01:
kill them all

But kill senator T.A orji for me 1st

Why should he kill T.A. Orji? The greatest Ibo man ever, greater than Ojukwu and Azikiwe combined.

NOBLEDANDY:
Lol... Stop being silly and foolish... Read meaning to my comments... Is simple and clear.

Oya sorry uncle drop in

Kyase:
Secondary cert or that ordinary pass you kill your self get?

Chai! Guy you no get CHILL at all. Blood dey your eyes.

NOBLEDANDY:
If I hear.... Make I show you my certificate Besides your acclaimed President doesn't have a certificate mind you.

Are you one of the drop outs?

A former Secretary-General of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Chief Frank Kokori, on Sunday described those agitating for a Biafra Republic as miscreants and dropouts, lacking any iota of what they were demanding. Kokori, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, also urged genuine Igbo leaders to speak out against the protest, which he noted, was a stage the country had passed. He said, “It is very unfortunate what the Biafran agitators are doing. They are not really serious about it. They do not know the enormity of what they are demanding. Those goading and pushing them into the protests are doing so for selfish reasons. They are playing on the intelligence of the agitators, who are mostly miscreants and dropouts. There are no serious persons among them. At this stage, the real Igbo leaders should tell them that we have passed that stage in Nigeria.” The ex-NUPENG scribe added that it was important for the Igbo leaders to speak out in order to end the manipulation of the agitators by those he described as selfish individuals. Kokori noted that the Boko Haram menace aggravated by the refusal of the northern leaders to speak out when it initially started. He added, “It is not that the pro-Biafra protests are anyhow similar to that of the bestial attacks of Boko Haram. But the Igbo leaders must speak out in time to check the situation. I do not think any serious Igbo will support their demands. The agitators do not even believe what they are clamouring for. The protests are even only within the South-East. Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and other states are not fully involved.” A faction of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the Indigenous People of Biafra have continued to agitate for Biafra Republic through a storm of protest. The Nigeria Police have also intensified actions to curtail the protests by arresting some of the agitators. Last week, the protesters stormed Imo State to demand the unconditional release of the detained Radio Biafra Director, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
punchng.com/pro-biafra-agitators-are-dropouts-says-kokori/

Prisons inmates across the country may be thrown into hunger from December if urgent steps are not taken to settle the outstanding bills of food contractors. The contractors, under the aegis of Nigeria Prison Service Ration and Gas Contractors, have already made their intention to stop supplying food and gas to prisons from December known in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari. A copy of the letter, dated November 13 and sighted by our correspondent on Sunday, was jointly signed by the association’s President, Chief S. K. Sanni; National Secretary, Mr. Eugene Agro; and the National Vice President (North West), Alhaji Ibrahim A. Asarakawa. The Minister of Interior and the Comptroller-General of Prisons, among other top government officials, were copied. The contractors informed Buhari that the Federal Government’s indebtedness to them currently stands at N6bn. They said with the outstanding bill, they no longer have the financial capacity to source for food and gas with which they could supply the prisons. They therefore appealed to the President and the minister in charge of prisons to intervene in the matter by ensuring that the backlog is cleared. They made it clear that if the debt was not paid by the end of this month, they might not be able to supply food items and gas in December, as they have exhausted not only their financial resources but also the sources where they have been getting the money to do business. The contractors stated that they have not been paid for the supply of food items and gas to the prisons since January this year. The situation, they added, forced them to resort to taking bank loans with all the accumulative interests, even as some of them sold their houses and other properties in order to meet up. In the years past, the contractors said the Federal Government used to pay them two weeks ahead of time. They wondered why the system changed to the extent that they were the ones using their money to buy the food items and gas for the prisons before they were reimbursed. They urged the President to act fast in order to forestall stoppage of food to prisons, a situation which they said poses a great danger to the fragile security of the country. The contractors advised Buhari to mobilise funds from any source to settle them in order to forestall the national embarrassment that hunger in prisons could cause his government which has security as one of its priorities. The letter read in part, “Needless to say that if prisoners and inmates of the nation’s prisons are not fed for two days, they could go haywire and the consequences are not good to imagine. “We do not want any national embarrassment for Mr. President and his new government. “We are therefore appealing to the Commander-In- Chief to mobilise funds from anywhere to settle our bill before it is too late, knowing that top on his priority is security. “We have endured long enough.”
punchng.com/food-scarcity-looms-in-prisons-over-n6bn-debt/

Hhhhhh

Be deceiving yourselves. John Trankil ko John Trammadol ni. You better face your useless religion and stop the carnage. I can sense happiness in all of you because of the name John. A j'egbodo yin n wa eni kunra ni. Every religion has it's own ills. One of the ills of Islam is terrorism. It's better you lots face it and stop playing the ostrich.

God did not create all the fingers to be equal; in His wisdom that is infinite, He has created them in different sizes and shapes and has bestowed upon them different functions and responsibilities. Some fingers, however, are more important than the others. The thumb, I think, is more important than the other fingers. Bible records that the thumbs and great toes hold pre-eminence. It is like in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” where all animals were equal but some still found a way to be more equal than the others. Little wonder, then, the grumblings that some were given “juicy” Ministries while others were not! In the time of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, they were labelled “Grade A”, Grade B” or “Grade C” Ministries. In the National Assembly, the commotion over “juicy” and “not juicy” committees is still festering among lawmakers. Truth be told, some Ministries are more “loaded” than others; there are Ministries that command hefty budgets and have many important agencies under their beck and call e.g. Defence, Interior, Education, Transportation, Petroleum Resources. My focus here today is, however, on those Ministries that I consider indispensable to effectively drive the CHANGE agenda of the All Progressives Congress-led Muhammadu Buhari administration if, truly, they mean the change they have trumpeted. Last Wednesday, the long-awaited Cabinet was inaugurated by Buhari. There are 36 Ministers in all, in fulfilment of Constitutional provisions. But there are a handful of the Ministers who, in my own reckoning, must bend over backward to perform since they will make or mar this administration. They are nine in number and as I name them, I offer my reasons. The first is Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture. Agriculture used to be the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy until crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity and we abandoned the land and became a “rentier state” which depends on the collection of rents\royalties from foreign oil exploring multinational companies. That unsavoury state of affairs began in the late 1950s and has continued till date. Hence, Nigeria’s economy is described as mono-cultural (i.e. depending solely on just one commodity or raw material, which is crude oil, for survival). Reliable figures are hard to come by here but by and large, crude oil is our major foreign exchange earner and accounts for not less than 80 percent of all monies accruing into the Federation Account. Successive governments have spoken of the need to diversify the economy (that is, promote other sources of income) but it had been all lip service. Thus, we have been at the mercy of volatile crude oil pricing in the international market. Besides, crude oil is a wasting\perishing asset; if we fail to make hay while it shines, it shall be dire for us when this cheap source of stupendous wealth dries up. If this government votes enough money into agriculture and pursues policies that will restore agriculture to its pre-1960 place of pride, then, it would not only have succeeded where others failed but also would have laid a solid foundation for our future prosperity. The second is Kayode Fayemi, the Minister of Solid Minerals. Nigeria is most blessed in terms of solid minerals deposits – but they have remained largely untapped for the same reasons that agriculture has been neglected. Yet, this sector, together with agriculture, holds the key to Nigeria’s greatness. We have always known this; we parrot it; but, again like in the case of agriculture, it ends there. I expect this government to vigorously pursue the exploitation of the country’s bountiful solid minerals resources to the benefit of present and future generations. We can never become an industrialised nation and Vision 20- 2020 (remember?) will remain a mirage if appropriate policies and funding are not put in place to turn our potentials in the solid minerals sector into actual realities. Using the analogy of a football team made up of 11 players, I consider Ogbeh and Fayemi as the two main “strikers” of Team Buhari; nay, Team Nigeria. Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, has been described as the “super-Minister” of this administration; technically, that may be right judging by the three big ministries that were collapsed into one and entrusted in his care. Power, especially, is crucial; since without regular power supply, not much can be achieved. Provision of infrastructure, especially road network, is also critical for national development. Therefore, there is no denying the fact that Fashola is a very important Minister; but I see his role as that of a “support striker” or as someone supplying the ball for the two main strikers upfront. A support striker can score goals on his own but the major task is to provide the enabling environment for the main strikers to turn in the goals. Where the main strikers are cut off or the support strikers unnecessarily compete with them for relevance, unity, coherence, and coordination may fail and the whole team suffers for it. The job of Fashola is to provide the enabling environment for Ogbeh and Fayemi to shine upfront for the whole team. Three other Ministers Kemi Adeosun (Finance); Udoma Udo Udoma (Budget and National Planning); and Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu (Minister of State, Petroleum Resources) are the engine room (midfield) of the team. Adeosun is to effectively manage our resources and makes funds available for Ogbeh, Fayemi, and Fashola. While Kachikwu is to bring in the funds, Udoma is to ensure that we put our money where our mouth is. Right from the point of budgeting, it shall be known whether or not this government is serious about diversifying the economy. I consider three Ministers as the central defenders of Team Nigeria; they are Dan Ali (Defence); Abdulrahman Danbazzau (Interior); and Abubakar Malami (Justice and Federal Attorney-General). No matter how good the strikers are; if a team’s defence is porous, much damage will be done. We have seen the effects of a porous defence with the Boko Haram insurgency; which continues to drain huge resources needed for meaningful development activities. The festering MASSOB campaign must be put in check (by the Minister of the Interior) and corruption\impunity curbed in the agencies under his watch. Corruption is, without doubt, the greatest leaking hole whacking this country; and we were all witnesses to how former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mohamed Adoke, did not help matters in this regard. Malami must be sold out to the anti-graft war; and he must realise that the average Nigerian believes that the Judiciary, the oft-touted “last hope of the common man”, is opaque and has to be straightened out. Although technically not a Minister, I consider Vice- President Yemi Osinbajo the “Sweeper” of Team Nigeria. Apart from being the stand-in for Mr. President, he is said to play a coordinating role on the economy. So we may not be far from the truth if we see Osinbajo as the Buhari administration’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala or Coordinating Minister of the Economy. And the economy, as we all know, is the main issue. What escapes the central defenders must not escape Osinbajo. Finally, I station Buhari in goal and give him the Captain’s arm band. Do not forget that he is also the de facto Minister of Petroleum Resources and Czar of the anti-graft war. From his very central position as goalkeeper, he can arrange his defence as well as bark out orders to his strikers and midfielders upfront. To make up my full list, I have the following on the bench (that is, substitutes): Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation); Adamu Adamu (Education); Adebayo Shittu (Communications); Okechukwu Enelamah (Industry, Trade, and Investment); Chris Ngige (Labour & Productivity); and Usani Uguru (Niger Delta Ministry). Amaechi will assist in the provision of critical infrastructure\shoring up the dwindling resources of the State; Adamu will ward off ASUU and other strikes in our institutions of higher learning\return the Ivory Tower to its glory days; Shittu has set himself the task of making his Ministry the country’s new cash cow. I cannot wait to see the funds tumbling in! Enemelah should bring in direct foreign investment; Ngige (who I would have loved to see in my 1st Eleven) should keep NLC, TUC, PENGASSAN etc. off the streets. Without industrial peace and harmony, not much will be achieved. Uguru’s task is to keep ex-militants off the creeks; our hands are full already with Boko Haram and restive MASSOB. Without discountenancing the other Ministers , I dare to say that if the above-listed Ministers succeed in their assignments, and the VP and President also succeed in providing effective leadership; reading out the Riots Act when necessary, then, the government will live up to the expectations of Nigerians. Otherwise, it will be “Not Yet Uhuru”; another “Paradise Lost”; and hope deferred! Gov. Ambode versus ‘The Economist’ Why was the otherwise highly respected “The Economist” so mercilessly critical of Lagos governor, Akinwunmi Ambode? Why was a publication famous and revered for its professionalism so irreverent and why did it throw all caution to the winds? Reading between the lines, it does appear as if “The Economist” had an axe to grind with Ambode. The paper’s criticism was vitriolic and it dripped with malice. Were the two-some fighting before? Otherwise, the matter at hand was not serious enough for “The Economist” to have so abrasively dismissed Ambode as a failure. After how many months in office – and while the governor had just inaugurated his cabinet! Certainly, there must be more to the magazine’s tirade than ordinarily meets the eye. There is nothing wrong in drawing Ambode’s attention to the issues at hand and the anxieties of Lagosians; we had also done so in this column as a “wake up” call; but it is damn too early to give up on Ambode and his government. And I can observe Ambode already rising to the challenge: Potholes on the roads are being mended; more presence of policemen everywhere is noticeable; and LASTMA is now more alive to its responsibilities. Last week, the newspapers showed Ambode, like Fashola before him, arresting an errant driver. That is the kind of “action” that Lagosians treasure. Let Ambode keep the new spirit up! Eko o ni baje o! .
tribuneonlineng.com/ministers-who-will-make-or-break-buhari

Oga o

Rossikk:
Go and sit down...Ordinary Palestinians they haven't dealt with. Na ISIS dem go kill?

If Israel start kicking Palestinian asses now una go start to they cry war crimes while una brothers go dey riot for Kano and Kaduna.

Gosh!

Ok

*coughs*

Eleyi gidigan

When will IPOB protest Nnamdi Kanu's arrest in Lagos? Since Yeboes own Lagos, they should stage a huge 1 million man march in Lagos nah. We are waiting for them.

When will IPOB protest Nnamdi Kanu's arrest in Lagos? Since Yeboes own Lagos, they should stage a huge 1 million man march in Lagos nah. We are waiting for them.

Oko

ARIZONA123:
. Radio biafra is broadcasting on lagos soil. Oya kill yaself. Yeribastardt

Radio, facebook, twitter; the only places where the yeeboes can vent their frustrations uninhibited. To your tents(erosion ravaged land) oh Yeeboes.

YoruBanger:
Ah, bros, e beru Oloun o. Shey.. e fe gba ije lowo awon omo yee.bo l'eko ni?

Need to manually reset some Igbos to function properly.

When will IPOB protest Nnamdi Kanu's arrest in Lagos? Since Yeboes own Lagos, they should stage a huge 1 million man march in Lagos nah. We are waiting for them.

Hehehehe