₦airaland Forum

jamoscofield:
lasser or no fever, me dey eat this one LIVE!!!

thundafire:
he looks sicker,even more in his cow skin portrait,I just imagine buhari in his youth days flogging cows all around

rolchi:
https://www.thecable.ng/economic-downturn-forces-fcmb-to-sack-150

opedaydydx9:
sharap..... Even graduates that want to impact are not employed, I was at the registrars office in a polytechnic and an application was written by a 2nd class lower candidate to lecture they rejected her without interview stating that a 2.2 graduate can't lecture nd no office job at hand meanwhile they needed lecturers.. I designed a potable water treatment plant for my school during finals without no supervision, now am a business man running a clothing line!!! This country is Bleep*ed! " so blame graduates with caution though our system don't hlp to produce sound graduates buh we engineers are still here!!

ojsmscom:
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/im-going-to-suffer-fr-mbaka/

Cornel88:
The power of the mind and how much it can achieve is seen in the act of Aghogho, a young man without a degree, who read how aircrafts are made and brought it to life.


http://www.channelstv.com/2016/01/28/inspiring-nigerian-without-a-degree-builds-mini-aircraft/

Babangida70:
See The Way This Okada Man Was Carrying These Goats... As Spotted In Onitsha

This one follow for animal brutality?

tolexy007:
Explosion has again rocked a major pipeline in the Niger Delta region, a few days after an attack on oil and gas pipelines in the Gbaramatu kingdom Delta state, dealt a deadly blow on the economy.

This time the attack occurred on a pipeline owned by the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Brass Local Government Area, Bayelsa State.

‎Persons suspected to be unrepentant militants were said to have attacked the pipeline located along Orukari, Golubokiri and Kpongbokiri communities in Brass

Panic was said to have gripped the communities following the disposition of the government against acts capable of worsening the bleeding economy.

It was learnt that the attackers committed the heinous economic crime on Thursday night.

The incident caused massive spillage of crude oil not the waterways and fishing camps.

A member representing Brass Constituency 1 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Isreal Sunny-Igoli confirmed the explosion in a statement he signed in Yenagoa.

Igoli said that ‎preliminary investigations into the incident showed that it was an act of sabotage carried out to hurt the economic interests of Bayelsa and Nigeria.

He said the latest explosion coming after bombing of pipelines recently in the same axis was worrisome and capable of forcing oil companies out of operation and adversely affecting the Nigeria’s economy.

Sunny- Goli called on security agencies to beef up security around oil facilities to prevent future attacks adding that economic saboteurs were bent on crippling Nigeria’s economy.

He said: “I want to condemn the latest attack on Agip pipeline at Kpongbokiri. This is a clear sabotage by economic saboteurs. Recently they blasted pipeline at Orukari and Golubokiri.

“I condemned this latest attack on Agip pipeline at Kpongbokiri in its entirety. It is sabotage against Nigeria in a bid to cripple the economy at a time the Nation is struggling with decline in revenue due to the fall in oil prices.

“It is common knowledge that because of the low price of oil which is our main source of revenue, many states can hardly pay workers salaries. This sabotage is capable of crippling the economy if not urgently curbed.

“If these attacks are not checked and the perpetrators brought to book and Agip decides to pull out of Bayelsa state it would be disastrous for us as a people.

“Bayelsa state is an oil producing state and our revenue from the federal government is based on our quota of production but this would be reduced if Agip decides to pull out because incessant attacks on its facilities are not stopped.

“I want to urge security agencies to probe the attack on Agip pipeline and ensure that the perpetrators are arrested and brought to book. Bayelsans especially those that have oil facilities around them should also be vigilant and report any suspicious movement to security agencies to prevent further attacks.”
http://thenationonlineng.net/explosion-hits-agip-pipeline-in-bayelsa/

emamos:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/605335/.

BankeSmalls:
This is disappointing! Am already waiting to see the start of the 3rd world war starting from Nigeria

resty4:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/why-i-visited-aregbesola-fayose/

kingzizzy:
I'm not talking about the politics of the colonial era. I'm talking about way before that. On who's mandate or authority was Nigeria created?

Let me use Zik as an example of what I mean. Do you know that Zik was not born a Nigerian? Zik was born in 1904, which means he was about 10 years when Nigeria was created. On who's mandate was an Igbo man like Zik made a Nigerian?

NavierStokes:
So in your opinion, by adding kick backs the figures would rise from 13.6 billion NGN to the over 400billion NGN?

Ask yourself how much is assigned as security vote to the ONSA in the budget of change.

The answer: 57billuon NGN

Integrityfarms:
Incompetent cum clueless and confused administration, making common Lassa a glorified epidemic. We are gone, what if the APC government saw Ebola?

IamChuzzy:
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These are dramatic scenes from the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday. According to Femi Ipaye, a photojournalist who witnessed it, IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu got into a face-off with a prison warder during his court appearance ahead of his bail hearing.One can't be too sure what was the cause of the disagreement, but there was tension while it lasted. See more photos below

https://cdn.pmnewsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Nnamdi-Kanu-in-face-off-with-prisons-wanders-at-Federal-High-Court-0n-monday-morning-1-474x336.jpg

http://www.chuzzysblog.com/2016/01/drama-as-nnamdi-kanu-quarrels-with.html

emmalezy:
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Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, today paid a courtesy visit to his Osun state counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola in Akure, the Osun state capital. See more photos from the visit after cut...


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source

http://www.reportnaija.com/2016/01/photos-fayose-visits-aregbesola-in-ondo.html

Flirtyjane:
Awww! Just imagine the eccentric feeling Olisa Metuh must have gotten when his wife hugged him..Anyway the trial continues...
http://www.metropillar.com/2016/01/wife-of-pdp-spokesman-olisa-metuh-gives.html

Pavarottii:
Which Nigeria? This buhari's cabinet?

I laff in french...
They should just give GEJ back the mandate and let him make this country prosperous once again.

boman2014:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/ignore-fayoses-outbursts-apc/

IlajeGal1:
The Executive Director, the Geneva Press Club, Guy Mettan has disclosed that former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will on Wednesday, hold a world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.The press conference, which holds at 3pm local time, is part of activities lined up by the Circle of Diplomats (Circle Diplomatique), Geneva in his honour, which would be concluded with a dinner same day at the Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva.



According to a statement by Guy Mettan, Jonathan will address two most crucial topics in Nigeria and West Africa at the press briefing: security and civil peace in Nigeria and West Africa; and improvement of health and education of children. Meanwhile accredited United Nations correspondents and Swiss journalists are expected at the press conference, which will most likely see Jonathan talking about Boko Haram activities in Nigeria and the fight against insurgency.






http://dawntodusknews.com/goodluck-jonathan-to-hold-world-press-conference-circle-of-diplomats-hosts-him/

IlajeGal1:
The Executive Director, the Geneva Press Club, Guy Mettan has disclosed that former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will on Wednesday, hold a world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.The press conference, which holds at 3pm local time, is part of activities lined up by the Circle of Diplomats (Circle Diplomatique), Geneva in his honour, which would be concluded with a dinner same day at the Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva.



According to a statement by Guy Mettan, Jonathan will address two most crucial topics in Nigeria and West Africa at the press briefing: security and civil peace in Nigeria and West Africa; and improvement of health and education of children. Meanwhile accredited United Nations correspondents and Swiss journalists are expected at the press conference, which will most likely see Jonathan talking about Boko Haram activities in Nigeria and the fight against insurgency.
what is d bug deal holding a press conference in geneva,who d hell is geneva press club.





http://dawntodusknews.com/goodluck-jonathan-to-hold-world-press-conference-circle-of-diplomats-hosts-him/

rozayx5:
that 2.1B$ figure is a scam cause the total figures i have heard are not up to 20 b naira, APC is using it as a distraction to their failures and jonzing in aso rock. enough of the media trials already get to work

Omenkata:
By Obi Nwakanma

The minister for justice just announced that judges found to be corrupt will be tried by this administration. This is problematic. Though this sentiment is much shared, it should not be left to the president and his administration to define “corruption,” or determine which judge is corrupt. For the avoidance of doubt the writ of this republic does not make the president the supreme authority of the land.

The constitution is the governing authority of this republic, and the president is, as are all Nigerians, governed by the Constitution. It would amount to overreach for the president to break the thin glass boundaries that established the separation of powers under the constitution. It would be power-grabbing, and the National Assembly and the courts must keep an eye on this president. In fact, it is about time that the National Assembly moved to reduce some of the powers granted the president, because one of the great sources of corruption in Nigeria is the enormous and almost limitless power granted the executive by this constitution designed by the military. Let me advert the minds of Nigerians to January 1, 1984: a military coup had just sacked the democratically elected Government of President Shehu Shagari. At the head of that coup was a tall, lean, unsmiling General, who came across as a Spartan, no-nonsense, missionary soldier, out to rescue Nigeria from political and economic collapse.

Shagari had just been re-elected in a very controversial election, which had the great Nnamdi Azikiwe spewing fire in his very prophetic, as it turned out, post-election letter to Nigerians, “History Will Vindicate the Just,” published widely in the Nigerian Press. It was clear that the election was riddled with irregularities. Yet, corruption in the politics of those years was the bread and butter kind. It was confined mostly in the political parties. The civil institutions were still intact: the public service; the judicial system; the entire bureaucracy of state governance which could put to check to the excesses of political leadership. And they were still all there in 1984. Then came Buhari and his dark-browed praetorian guard, sacking the civil government, and instituting a rule by decrees. The first order of business was to dismantle the credibility of the elected political leaders the soldiers had sacked. In very elaborate fashion General Buhari and his rubber-stamp Supreme Military Council authorized the arrest, detention, and prosecution of the discredited politicians. His Minister for Justice, Chike Ofodile quickly crafted decrees that established extrajudicial tribunals that evacuated the powers of the civil courts. Some of the trials were in-camera. But it soon became obvious that these arrests and detentions were skewered mostly against politicians from the South, particularly of the group that called itself the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) and by politicians from the Middle Belt. It might have been inadvertent, but the impression it created was of a partisan, regionalist witch-hunt of Southern politicians – some of them the most popular, and in fact, the more credible in their visible achievements in the four years between 1979 and 1983.

One of the most dangerous contributions of Buhari’s era as a military dictator was the erosion of the credibility, dignity and the aura of impartiality of the Nigerian judiciary, until then seen my Nigerians as the bulwark against tyranny; and most credible of the three arms of government, particularly with the sack of the parliament, and the seizure of executive power by military decree. The judiciary lost its independence.

Malleable and second-rate people were rapidly appointed to the bench. As the generation of solid jurists began to leave the scene by the attrition of time, a new generation of judges, the product of a corrupted judicature became more or less judicial executioners of the mandate of anyone in power. The corruption of the Nigerian judicial system, which had been subdued to military decrees began with Muhammed Buhari in 1984. The use to which he put the courts of the land was corrupt. This is the fear that President Buhari’s opponents are currently expressing in the current use of state power, in what is being increasingly seen as a partisan witch-hunt to suppress a political opposition. Again, the same method seems obvious: Buhari is arriving the scene of government again at a time when oil prices have dipped very dangerously, and perhaps more dangerously is that the era of hydrocarbon is rapidly coming to an end, which means, even more financial instability for nations like Nigeria that have long depended on oil to fuel their national economies. To all intents and purposes, as like in October 1984, Nigeria is broke.

Buhari has suddenly discovered that he is unable to meet the lofty promises of his campaign, and his political strategy now is to beat the drum of corruption ad nauseam, and blame his old political opponents for his own increasingly apparent inabilities to revive the economy, or lead. For a man who spent twelve years seeking the office he now occupies, this president does not seem to have any clear, alternative strategies, or able to deliver on the promises he made. Now, here is my worry: the arrest of the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, and his arraignment in handcuffs give negative optics to this government. Yes, Buhari claims to be fighting corruption, and Olisa Metuh is accused of receiving N400 million from Colonel Sambo Dasuki, allegedly from the $2.1 billion approved for the NSA for arms procurement, the question most Nigerians are now asking is: was Olisa Metuh awarded an arms contract which he didn’t deliver, or is it just about receiving money from Dasuki. Why lock him up, and bring him to court in handcuffs, when not even Sambo Dasuki was brought to court in handcuffs? Is this a ploy to intimidate, humiliate, and ultimately punish and silence the PDP’s spokesman who has so far been engaging the current regime and calling some oftheir assertions to question? Because even people like Falae received money, and have publicly declared that they’d not return it because it has nothing to do with arms procurement, and they have not been locked up or brought to the court in chains. While every Nigerian supports the president and his administration’s apparent resolve to investigate, prosecute, and retrieve Nigeria’s stolen funds from whoever embezzled such funds, we must continue to insist that unless it is all for show, the process must not degenerate into illegality of its own. It is both sad and distressing hearing distinguished scholars of the law like Itsay Sagay, and the Criminologist, Professor Femi Odekunle arguing in support of a “limited rule of law,” these days. It points exactly to what went wrong with Nigeria: a shiftless and inferior elite incapable of the hard, long view. If the argument were to be made about a limited rule of law, Abacha would have hanged Odekunle who was brought before a military tribunal accused with Diya of plotting a coup.

But in the convenience of his current elation, the good professor has forgotten. Buhari is not fighting corruption. He is enabling corruption by interfering in the judicial process. If he were fighting corruption he would have addressed the following questions: how did the system fail so much that Sambo Dasuki as the NSA could appropriate and dispose of state fund as though it were personal funds without oversight? What happened to the old system of financial control that required a vast and complex system of inter-departmental coordination?

What happened to the public tenders system? How come the police services, charged with crime prevention, did not anticipate and prevent this financial crime before it happened through its own police intelligence?

How come the EFCC is only just showing interest after the facts? How did the disbursement of this money escape the Federal Audit Department, the government’s official inspectorate arm, which ought to report all transactions and irregularities to both the National Assembly and the Executive, and if need be, to the police, in the event that any government agency is misappropriating state fund. What this president has been unable to do is understand that what happened here is beyond Dasuki, it is systemic failure. It is in part the result of some of the forces Buhari himself unleashed against the system in 1984. Corruption is not only the “looting” of public funds, it is the corruption of the institutions when they are turned to the private, and convenient tools of people in power – and they lose legitimacy and capacity.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/buhari-is-not-fighting-corruption/

obinna222:
Even D CEO of BMW drives a Mercedes Benz.

It's not a crime.