GambaOsaka: Criminal Saraki wants to be president.... Oloshi, Ole, 419..... Self-centered human. We are wiser now. We can't be deceived by your gimmicks.
Tonimagnificent: he must ve tried in convincing this youths da he would make a great leader tho I know he's far beta than Buhari but d nigga is still a criminal in disguise. election time don reach u kon remember say youths dey exist. Nigerian politicians are just our worst nightmares.
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How many politicians will come out nd talk like this?
shox: Resume kii you dia Well can you mention where he dey work or the present job he is doing or any other hustle wey he dey do Hospital he no get Industry nko? No Na only politics be the guy hustle I'll rather vote aboki wey dey shine shoe
Buterflyle0: Hope he told them why he cut the budget of the Lagos Ibadan rail by 30b.
The guy is desperate to be accepted
Dont be ignorant man. The Executive had a budget of about 120bn for a road but didn’t release up to 10bn. The following year, they submitted a budget of 160bn but are yet to release up to 5bn of the 160 bn, yet people think Saraki is the problem.
tempest69: You mean CUT Critical infrastructural budget and GROW National Assembly Budget..
Mesujsmba mesmerizing the brains of those gullible foolish youth who believes in the CUT and GROW theory
This is the most profitable road in west Africa. That road is unviable for public funding with private equity investors falling over themselves to build it.
tempest69: You mean CUT Critical infrastructural budget and GROW National Assembly Budget..
Mesujsmba mesmerizing the brains of those gullible foolish youth who believes in the CUT and GROW theory
His entire point if you take the time to watch the video and not go by hearsay is that Nigeria as a nation cannot get infrastructure right without stable funding
jaxxy: Yes bt I believe like Buhari situation, if saraki wins and becomes president all eyes will be on him both from Nigerians and the opposition. He can’t afford to act funny and not pay for it like Buhari has.
I'm sure he'll step up to the plate. At least we know that he knows what he's doing
Jabioro: Jude Ndukwe was like Saraki himself,both of them rans away from the truth,How can you tell the upcoming generation that Saraki contested for senate president and won,the Op is a history manipulator like Saraki did in the house therefore l'm nt surprise at all.Tell the Kwaranites and they shall explain to your better hearing how he shortchanged the state wealth to his personal property..Say the truth and your mind shall be at rest.Saraki is a tore in his own political voyage,he will remain hunted by his past deeds forever, you can't changed history in this modern days.
Rells: Who exactly are these guys 'liking' comments like this? How did they go from being the insensitive and minor part of the majority to the 'popular opinion'. Nawa o, abi Dem don share money give boys to dey canvas for Buhari and like their comments?
Obviously na. I dont think any sensible intellectual would see all what's going on in this country and still stand behind this guy
Yes on paper all you say is what all we intellectuals k ow is the only way out of this .
But we are tired of seeing weak corrupt.leaders with so called good intentions allow the nation's wealth be looted on the alter of trying to achieve a noble motive .
I listed so many corrupt cases what is the out come ?
A leader who doesn't respect tthe rule.of law is no leader to be praised by intellectuals
Or is it because Dasuki isn't our relative that we should say despite the Court granting him bail that the government should disregard this and keep him imprisoned? It could be you or I tomorrow!
A leader whose officers have been indicted in seevral.corrupt cases with hard ore evidence but truns a blind eye says in these are the only people I can use to achieve my aim? Are you kidding me? In a nation of over 150.million people buhari couldn't find a.minister if finance that wouldn't forget nysc? Or an efcc boss who hasn't been receiving brines with properties in Dubai? Oh I forgot he had to be fulani?
Listen my friend you cannot build paradise on a foundation of blood! You cannot be a so called man on integrity yet you ehibit nepotism, religious intolerance and TRIBALISM, it's not possible.. the mind set title takes to indulge in these vices doesn't stem from one capable of.producing integrity in character.
It's like the serial.killer been gacey saying though I was a serial killer I can also look after kida.?
Please let us in this country learn to speak truth
How can a leader who has refused to tag herdsmen as terrorists yet attacked the igbos in their region calling their ipob terrorists How do you prescibe such a joke of an organization terrorists and leave killer herdsmen whom the world has labelled terrorists?
You can't be a wife beater and come out to say you are a man of honor these are two very distant mindsets that produce very different character traits
Buhari should never ever be an option for enlightened intellectuals
I have to stop here work becjo s
Enjoy your day my.brither
Now he's forcing himself on us. Dont know we're gonna get out of this rut. Too many innocent lives have been lost.
Babygiwa: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has announced he will run again in the 2019 election. He has just started his work on important reforms — but that's exactly the problem, says DW's Thomas Mösch.
President Muhammadu Buhari's election victory three years ago was a moment of joy for many Nigerians. For the first time since the country's independence in 1960, Nigeria had succeeded in electing a new president to replace the incumbent. Buhari's ambitious plan was to make Nigeria safe again, to tackle corruption and take into account the interests of ordinary people.
But in the meantime, a feeling of disillusionment has risen across different parts of the country. Over and over you hear from locals that life under Buhari has become more difficult, rather than easier. No victory against terror
On the issue of security, it first seemed like Buhari could actually turn things around. The extremist group Boko Haram occupied entire tracts of land by the end of former president Goodluck Jonathan's term in 2015. Within the course of a few months of Buhari's presidency, Boko Haram were forced to retreat to parts of the remote forest regions and the mountains. But in their central zone in the area around Lake Chad, Boko Haram continues to spread fear and terror with suicide attacks and raids. These attacks have been increasing of late.
In other parts of Nigeria, the outlook is even gloomier. In particular, the states of Taraba and Benue in the center of the country have been experiencing massacres on an almost daily basis for a few months now, with clashes mostly taking place between Muslim nomads and Christian farmers, who make up the majority of the population in these regions. Buhari's government there seems to be as helpless as Jonathan's was in his fight against Boko Haram.
Even in the immediate vicinity of Buhari's own hometown in the northwestern state of Zamfara, murderous gangs rage almost completely unchecked. Only recently did the president finally send military reinforcements to the region. Small progress made towards tackling corruption
The second main theme which helped Buhari win the election was the struggle against corruption. Today, anti-corruption campaigners are less restricted in their operations than they were under Buhari's predecessor. But so far, Nigerians have waited in vain for court rulings. Nigeria has been languishing in the bottom third of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for years — it is currently ranked 148th out of 180 countries. Buhari may have the goodwill to solve the problem, but he lacks assertiveness over the issue. Meanwhile, the economic balance sheet under the first three years of Buhari looks very poor. Granted, he took over in difficult times. The price of the country's most important product — oil — had dropped and Nigeria's treasury had even been looted. But Buhari has not yet offered a convincing strategy which would relax the country's dependence on oil. Fuel shortages paralyze Nigeria on a regular basis, even though Buhari himself runs the oil ministry — so the issue is a top priority. Even the notoriously poor electricity supply has barely shown any improvement. No wonder, then, that Nigeria's stock market fell following the announcement that Buhari would run for office again. Physically and politically weak
In addition, the 75-year-old president failed to govern for several months in 2017 because he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in London. Now, he is seeking another four years as head of state — by the end of which he would be 80 years old. Nigeria deserves better than an old, ailing president, whose leadership style is characterized by hesitance rather than courage. In the Muslim-majority regions in northern Nigeria, Buhari still enjoys support. But he won the election in 2015 largely because he managed to convince Nigerians in the central and south-western regions of the country — including many Christians. However, the desperate security situation in the central states and ongoing poverty makes it unlikely that the people there will support Buhari for a second time. Now the opposition — that is, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which was voted out of office four years ago — needs to produce a convincing candidate who will pose a serious threat to Buhari. So far, there appears to be no suitable candidate. Thomas Mösch (im)
Thomas Mösch is the Head of the Hausa Service at Germany's DW
Babygiwa: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has announced he will run again in the 2019 election. He has just started his work on important reforms — but that's exactly the problem, says DW's Thomas Mösch.
President Muhammadu Buhari's election victory three years ago was a moment of joy for many Nigerians. For the first time since the country's independence in 1960, Nigeria had succeeded in electing a new president to replace the incumbent. Buhari's ambitious plan was to make Nigeria safe again, to tackle corruption and take into account the interests of ordinary people.
But in the meantime, a feeling of disillusionment has risen across different parts of the country. Over and over you hear from locals that life under Buhari has become more difficult, rather than easier. No victory against terror
On the issue of security, it first seemed like Buhari could actually turn things around. The extremist group Boko Haram occupied entire tracts of land by the end of former president Goodluck Jonathan's term in 2015. Within the course of a few months of Buhari's presidency, Boko Haram were forced to retreat to parts of the remote forest regions and the mountains. But in their central zone in the area around Lake Chad, Boko Haram continues to spread fear and terror with suicide attacks and raids. These attacks have been increasing of late.
In other parts of Nigeria, the outlook is even gloomier. In particular, the states of Taraba and Benue in the center of the country have been experiencing massacres on an almost daily basis for a few months now, with clashes mostly taking place between Muslim nomads and Christian farmers, who make up the majority of the population in these regions. Buhari's government there seems to be as helpless as Jonathan's was in his fight against Boko Haram.
Even in the immediate vicinity of Buhari's own hometown in the northwestern state of Zamfara, murderous gangs rage almost completely unchecked. Only recently did the president finally send military reinforcements to the region. Small progress made towards tackling corruption
The second main theme which helped Buhari win the election was the struggle against corruption. Today, anti-corruption campaigners are less restricted in their operations than they were under Buhari's predecessor. But so far, Nigerians have waited in vain for court rulings. Nigeria has been languishing in the bottom third of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for years — it is currently ranked 148th out of 180 countries. Buhari may have the goodwill to solve the problem, but he lacks assertiveness over the issue. Meanwhile, the economic balance sheet under the first three years of Buhari looks very poor. Granted, he took over in difficult times. The price of the country's most important product — oil — had dropped and Nigeria's treasury had even been looted. But Buhari has not yet offered a convincing strategy which would relax the country's dependence on oil. Fuel shortages paralyze Nigeria on a regular basis, even though Buhari himself runs the oil ministry — so the issue is a top priority. Even the notoriously poor electricity supply has barely shown any improvement. No wonder, then, that Nigeria's stock market fell following the announcement that Buhari would run for office again. Physically and politically weak
In addition, the 75-year-old president failed to govern for several months in 2017 because he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness in London. Now, he is seeking another four years as head of state — by the end of which he would be 80 years old. Nigeria deserves better than an old, ailing president, whose leadership style is characterized by hesitance rather than courage. In the Muslim-majority regions in northern Nigeria, Buhari still enjoys support. But he won the election in 2015 largely because he managed to convince Nigerians in the central and south-western regions of the country — including many Christians. However, the desperate security situation in the central states and ongoing poverty makes it unlikely that the people there will support Buhari for a second time. Now the opposition — that is, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) which was voted out of office four years ago — needs to produce a convincing candidate who will pose a serious threat to Buhari. So far, there appears to be no suitable candidate. Thomas Mösch (im)
Thomas Mösch is the Head of the Hausa Service at DW
Nothing amazes me anymore in this Nigeria. If the government can
- shortlist dead people for appointment - Lock up a journalist for 2yrs without trial - still not disclose the amount spent in treating Buhari - Give 5k to ghost poor people..
What then should amaze us in the NPA awarding contract to banned companies?
Babygiwa: ALEDEH.COM Revealed: NPA Awards N717 Billion Dredging Contract To Banned Cypriot Company Rilwan Adetayo Balogun 1 day ago Share Google+LinkedInWhatsAppTelegramShare via Email
The Nigeria Ports Authority has landed itself in crisis after it awarded huge contracts to a company known to have received bans from conducting any business in some parts of Europe.
Anti-corruption non governmental agency, Cardrell has revealed the extent of corruption that has gone down at the NPA.
Cardrell’s investigations, made available to ALEDEH revealed that the company was awarded a contract of $70million without bidding at all and that some senior figures in the NPA enjoy special benefits.
It was also revealed that foreign news outlets have reported the case of the Cypriot Dredging Company and had gone all out for the NPA in their reports, but quite alarmingly, the agency still went ahead to sanction a deal with the banned company.
According to an investigative assessment by Cardrell of NPA’s involvement in the high-ground corrupt practise, it said;
“Sometimes in February, 2018 we stumbled on a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport to the Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement, requesting the issuance of a Certificate of No Objection for the award of contract on remedial works at Escravos Channel-Replacement of Aids to Navigation and Minor Dredging at Delta Ports, Warri, to enable it award the said contract to Messrs Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited at the sum of Forty-Four Million, Eight Hundred and Sixty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety-Six US Dollars ($44,861,596.81).
Upon investigation, we discovered there was indeed a previous bribe for contract scandal involving the NPA, and the said company. Surprisingly, the said scandal was conspicuously reported in major news in Nigeria, Overseas and various online news portals, ranging from; Vanguard Newspaper of 24th August, 2017; Tribune Newspaper of 17th October, 2017; Punch Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Thisday of 30th July, 2017; Nation Newspaper of 12th October, 2017; Premiumtimes on the 18th of June, 2017; newtelegraphonline on the 24th of August, 2017; businessandmaritimewestafrica.com on the 17th of October, 2017 Even, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – an International Online Magazine – reported it thus; NPA awards dredging contract worth US$70,000,00 Seventy Million US Dollars each year to Dredging International Services, without competitive bidding, as required by the Nigeria Laws.
And till date this convicted company is believed to have won jobs worth at least (N717 ,000,000,000.00) Seven Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira (US$2,280,000,000.00) Two Billion, Twenty Eight Million US Dollars from NPA.
We immediately wrote a letter dated the 6th day of March, 2018 to the Director General of the BPP drawing his attention to the notorious fact that the company they were about awarding a contract to, Dredging International Services Nigeria Limited, was convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction in Switzerland, and that awarding the contract to the said company would be contrary to clear provisions of S. 16 ( (e) & (f) of the Public Procurement Act 2007. Sometimes in April, 2018, we got a call from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Lagos office that our petition to the BPP has been referred to them for investigation. We immediately visited the EFCC office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where we made statements and submitted documents and were also grilled by a group of investigators, who then promised to get back to us, if the need arises. We have subsequently visited the office of the EFCC severally thereafter, and they have promised investigations into the matter was still ongoing.”
The investigations also involved a publication by This Day Newspaper where members of the public were invited to a public hearing by the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement over the case.
“By a Thisday Newspaper publication dated the 13th day of May, 2018, the House of Representative Joint Committee on Ports, Harbours & Waterways and Public Procurement in exercise of its investigative/quasi-judicial powers, as defined in S. 88 & 89 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) invited members of the public to a public hearing/investigation into the matter and called for memoranda/position papers from the general public in respect thereof. We prepared and presented a position paper to the House Joint Committee on the 31st of May, 2018 where we reiterated our position and we urged the House to invoke her powers under Section 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to request NPA to reverse the award of the contract on the ground that the foreign company, the contract was awarded to, Dredging International Services Ltd, was a sister company of a convicted company (Dredging International Services Cyprus, both subsidiaries of DEME Group Belgium) having been convicted upon an investigation by the office of the Attorney General, Department of International Affairs, Switzerland on allegations that the company and some officials of the NPA were alleged to have been involved in a bribe for contract scandal of Twenty Million U.S. Dollars ($20,000,00) and subsequently convicted on the 2nd of May 2012 and fined One Million Swiss Francs, by the court for bribing Nigeria officials. We also prayed the Committee to blacklist the said convicted company from Bidding for or executing contracts in Nigeria in accordance with S. 16 ( (e) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.”
The Dredging company received the contracts despite many sanctions against them and are still convicted in Europe for illegal transactions with Nigerian companies and other criminal offences.
Hahaha, things they've been doing since! Guys please lets open our eyes, lets remove these thieves from power before they take our Country down the drain
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(e) & (f) of the Public Procurement Act 2007.