₦airaland Forum

hazyfm1:
The Nigerian Police Force have long been under staffed. Additional 100,000 is a welcomed idea, but I will also like PMB to also focus on these 4 issues

1. Cleansing the Police Force by flushing all the bad and corrupt ones
2. Training and sensitization of the old Police force, to avoid bad eggs corrupting new recruits
3. Equipping the force by installing video & audio cameras on their patrol vans to record their daily activities, modernized weapons and also a total ban of the Black Uniform
4. Lastly freedom of civilians to record video or audio conversations with any member of the Police force, mostly at check points..

Bravo,U get sense just like APC supporters

Bluetooth2:
There's nothing unconstitutional in recovering money and properties people acquired but can't account for. These people deprived millions of Nigerians the dividend of democracy and I wonder why any sensible person(s) could even pity them or condemn any process put in place to recover the stolen money and, bring these unfortunate thievies and their accomplices to justice.

We tend to have sympathy for corrupt officials whenever they are caught either due to tribal leanings, religious affiliations, our own tendency to act in their manner when we get to such position or utter stupidity but no one remember the millions of Nigerians that continue to be regarded as poor because they live on less than $2 per day, millions who have lost their lives in the hands of Boko Haram including soldiers due to the diversion of money meant for purchase of arms, ammunitions and other things needed to fight the war, no one remember the reason why education in Nigeria is crap; why the hospitals are like an awaiting mortuary because the ministers kept diverting funds meant for development; why there are millions of youths without jobs yet we feel and tend to abuse or criticize the way someone leading the country on how to go about setting things right.

What part of the constitution says a civil servant should steal money and own 18 properties ? What part of the constitution says a minister who declared less than 10 million naira after his appointment should worth over 1 billion dollars on completion of his tenure ? If the ministers didn't follow due process that come with the discharge of their responsibilities ; why should they need any due process when they are asked to account for their stewardship ?

It's time we left the path of pitiness of known corrupt officials and do whatever it takes to bring them to justice so that it will serve as deterrent to would-be ministers and also an indication that it's no longer business as usual in Nigeria.

On this premise, I say no to Abdul salam, Bishop Kukah and whosoever have sympathy for corrupt politicians.

May God bless you jare,just my thought the earlier we all realise this,the better for allof us

Let's the intellectualas keepdruming it into their ear that sympathy for the corrupt make you an acomplice

Ahmeduana:
AM A MUSLIM, HAVE KNOWN ABOUT BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH MORE THAN 20 YEARS NOW AND THE MAN AS WROTE A LOT OF BOOKS, THEIR IS THIS CENTRE FOR RESEARCH THAT HE BUILT IN ABUJA I THINK LAST YEAR OR LAST TWO YEARS! THAT SWINE CALL NGENEWHATEVER DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE TALKING ABOUT AND HER NAME SHOULD BE miss mischief!

What kind of Muslim are you? The one that support those who plead for corrupt Gej?

Islam is against corruption,so stop tarniishing our image with ur "am a muslim"

chukwudi44:
Mumu he is not advising wrongly.Rather he is just telling the dullard the true

Retrd,is that how to advise on anti corruption in your village?

The Verdict By Olusegun Adeniyi;
Email: olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com

The president and chairman of the governing council, Chartered Institute of Project Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Dr Victoria Okoronkwo recently estimated abandoned projects in Nigeria at N12 trillion. Listing the projects by geopolitical zones, Okoronkwo said the South-east has 15,000; South-west, 10,000; South-south, 11,000; North-west, 6000; North-central, 7,000: North-east, 5,000 and Abuja, 2,000.
Such level of waste and mismanagement of scarce resources speaks volume about our country. But it is all the more unfortunate that President Goodluck Jonathan, who in March 2011 instituted a Presidential Projects Assessment Committee (PPAC) headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Bunu, jettisoned the report eventually submitted on the issue. He treated the findings in the cynical manner he treated reports of several other committees he established (more than 60 at the last count) which were never implemented. Yet, according to the Bunu committee, 11,886 abandoned projects that would cost an estimated N7.78 trillion to complete littered the country at the time they completed their report! And here we are talking only of Federal Government projects.
Against the background that the committee actually calculated the cost of the abandoned projects by using the sums at which they were originally awarded and not today’s rate, it stands to reason that we may be looking at a cost worth many times more. But this waste is not restricted to the federal government because there is hardly any state today where you will not find hundreds of such projects in varying state of execution, abandoned for years. And when you calculate the money that had been expended on them, it runs into several billions of Naira.
What compounds the situation is that in a crazy system where many public officials often think more about their cut than in service delivery, even completed projects are sometimes abandoned to start new ones at astronomical costs. While that disposition is more prevalent at the state-level where most of the governors are so petty-minded that they would not want to touch projects commenced by their predecessors, Abuja also has its own peculiar situation which the unfortunate story below perhaps epitomizes.
In my book, “Power, Politics and Death”, I explained how, at my instance (based on advice from respected sports journalist, Mr Dudu-Orumen) the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua constituted the Presidential Taskforce for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He also appointed me as a member. Chaired by former Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, other members were: Dr. Patrick Ekeji (Secretary); Mr Segun Odegbami, Mr John Masteroudes, Mr Austin Jay-Jay Okocha, Dr Larry Isamuje, Col Abdulmumini Aminu (rtd), Mr John Fashanu and Ambassador Buba-Ahmed. The then President of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Mallam Sani Lulu was also appointed to represent the body before he was replaced by Aminu Maigari who succeeded him.
At our inauguration on 21st May, 2009, the late president said because it would be tragic if our country failed to participate in the first FIFA World Cup to be hosted on African soil, he had to make a “critical intervention to ensure that the national team not only flies our beautiful flag in South Africa but also does it in a way that pays fitting tribute to the Nigerian spirit”.
With experienced sports administrator, Alhaji Abba Yola, as head of secretariat, the committee went to work. We raised the funds, about a billion Naira, and eventually succeeded in qualifying Nigeria for the tournament. Thereafter, we assisted the NFF in their preparations for and participation in the January 2010 African Cup of Nations tournament in Angola. We also deployed part of the funds in hiring a foreign technical assistance to prosecute the World Cup while we raised the match bonus for Super Eagles players by 100 per cent throughout the entire period just to motivate them.
By the time our assignment ended in July 2010, following the conclusion of the World Cup in South Africa, the committee still had about N350 million remaining in its account. We had several options on what to do with the money, which most committees in similar situation would have shared among members, especially since it was raised mostly from the private sector. But we decided to deploy it to building a befitting secretariat for the NFF.
I remember that at the time, only few people believed that we could build a house in Abuja (where the cost of such projects is usually in billions) with N350 million. But after a long and painstaking process and having held several sessions with prospective contractors before picking one, we delivered the “Sunday Dankaro House”, right at the National Stadium Abuja in July 2013. The conditions for the contract were very stringent with an undertaking signed by the contractor, Messrs Paul-B Nigeria PLC, that under no condition would there be a price variation.
Standing on two floors, the edifice, built on a gross floor area of 2,000 square metres, boasts of a helipad, a courtyard, a penthouse and a manicured park. The ground floor of the building has a conference room and 12 self-contained offices with associate conveniences while the first floor has 14 of such offices. It also has a big conference hall and the office of the Secretary General. The second floor is the penthouse which accommodates the office of the NFF President with two conference halls. The complex also has a 200KVA generator, a borehole with ground and overhead tanks for 20,000 litres capacity and it has a parking space for 110 vehicles.
At the commissioning on 18th July 2013, former Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo handed the keys to the offices to then NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, after which he planted a commemorative tree. But now to the all-important the question: What has happened to this building, more than two years after commissioning? Nothing! The NFF simply abandoned it. Even when their rented office, the “Glass House” went up in flames last year, nobody has had the good sense to take possession of the house specially built for football administration in Nigeria.
Why have they not done so? I learnt all kinds of requisitions have been made for some jumbo sums of money to furnish the building and because such funds have not been given by the federal government and the NFF fat cats cannot take from their FIFA allowance to buy chairs and desks, the building can go to ruins for all they care. Let me not even go to the matter of some “emergency builders” within our football administration who were disappointed that their companies were not given the contract that they probably would have abandoned. Of course, Nigerians now know that such matters in Abuja are usually about “goat and yams”!
So, for more than two years, that edifice on which many of us sacrificed our time and energy has been lying fallow and I will not be surprised if it is already being vandalised from inside. Very soon, I am almost certain, someone would cart away the generator and other valuables and may be in another two years, there would be a line in the budget for some billions of Naira to buy or build a “befitting” house for the NFF. That is the way we are in Nigeria.
I have gone to this length on the “Sunday Dankaro House” not only because I am involved but also because it tells a compelling story about our country and the kind of waste that has become the defining feature of our public life. Of the thousan[b][/b]ds of abandoned projects that lie fallow all over the country, many were actually completed before some people decided, for whatever reason, not to put them to use, like it is the case with the NFF building.
I have said it before and I want to repeat myself: President Buhari has several reports to work on because all that his immediate predecessor did was to establish committees, collect their reports and keep them in his drawers. In the instant case of Ibrahim Bunu’s PPAC report, I believe that President Buhari can make use of it by putting together a small team of professionals that will give him some clear directions on the way forward. He can also ask the Prof. Itse Sagay-led advisory committee on anti-corruptionhe just constituted to come up with a legal framework that would discourage such waste of scarce resources in future. To the extent that at the heart of most abandoned projects is monumental corruption, it is important that we enact legislations that would curb the antics of those who have perfected the art of wasting public resources in the bid to feather their own nests.
On the ones currently abandoned without completion, the president should seek specific solutions to each of the projects, even if it means giving some of them away to stakeholders in the private sector at bargain prices so that they can, at least, be put to use and in the process, add some value to the economy. On the specific case of the “Sunday Dankaro House”, I hope the minister of sports (whenever one is appointed) will direct the NFF to move in because if they don’t, in another year or two, some people may be asking for billions of Naira to “rehabilitate and furnish” an edifice built with just about N336 million!
On the whole, the ultimate lesson is that, as a nation, we cannot continue to waste scarce resources the way we are doing and expect any meaningful development.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun

May Allah forgive his shortcomings and grant paradise amin

I hope we will all learn. To take things easy in this world,be more conscious. Of hereafter iincrease in worship to the only creator,be good to fellow human being and repent


To those whoare yet to embrace the right religion,pls embrace it now cos tomorrow may be too late

invisibility:
Am I the only one seeing that those 2 people aren't the same.

I tot am the only one too

Poo,

how does this contribute to anti corruption war

Tokunboh wife

I pity the guy,person wey don expire naa ime dey jubilate for,I hope she will stop all her bad behaviour cos yoruba inlaw no dey take nonnsense

Christianity condone all this kind of rubbish,and some idiot members of the useless church will be clapping for this nicompoo pastor

No shame again,how will the husbnd of this shameless woman feel seeing this?

Some women are very daft

Xetima:
What is he working on Propaganda, a man that was asleep at 10.00 am on June 9, while APC senators-elect and members-elect were waiting for him, thereby allowing Saraki to "overthrow" him, has suddenly become workaholic that sleeps for just 3 hours. Rumour had it that he was also asleep hours after IBB took over in 1985. They only woke him up after the coup.

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Heartless boy,just 24 nd he's so dsperate lik this,wht will happen when he turn 34,go onn killing spree?

fuckerholic:
And that's the only thing he knows how to do since he went in there..olodo

See person wey get sense.....ode oshi

boboLIL:
Na so? What's new?..... Always snapping unnecessary pictures,,, making unnecessary headlines..... Soon una go strt to de picmix una pictures.... Blind supporters....don't quote me pls

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thorpido:
These are the words of your perfect Allah;

I will cast terror into the heart of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them- Quran 8:12(Note their offence is that they don't believe).

HYPOCRITE

*Modified.I just learnt idrismusty97 is an atheist.My post was to him because I thought he was a muslim.

Oya. Remodify your post and remove the Quran verse you lifted and post heree out of context

YerYer:
I don't support crime, but some of our youth are too damn gullible and their thirst/desire to travel abroad is mind boggling. From the looks of things, it seems like these girls and their parents knew what they were getting into hence the reason they followed this lady to the shrine. Just a few weeks ago, I read an article here on Nairaland about another girl who was promised a better life abroad by two men who turned out to be human traffickers. They paid for the girl's flight ticket while promising her greener pastures overseas. Why didn't the girl and her parents question why total strangers would offer to pay her flight ticket to travel abroad, are they philantropists, or angels sent by God?

Use your brain and don't let the pursuit of money clog up your thought process.

Very apt my bro

Boss13:
Where is the whistle blowers Act promised by Buhari. This man's bravery should not go down the drain. He needs to be protected. I could read fear and the urgency to disclose quickly from his letter.

Jimoh Ibrahim must be brought back to answer this petition. If he is also sick, both him and his doctor should be given a first flight ticket to Nigeria

Na umaru dikko treatment he desrve,haul him inside crate jare

mentorandfriend:
We can't tell finish all the impunity that went on under GEJ. It makes me sick each time I go through all these, and it makes me question the sanity of those defending PDP's 16 year satanic rule.
I'm out of here biko.

I wonder some wailerned brain formatiing

Just like the day the result of 2015 epresidential ele ction was declare and Gej lost,come and see celebration across the country

May we never seee the type of Gej goveerment in Nigeria again amin

@OP,spot on

Its only the naïve that will say ambode is not doing anything,just yesterday he was in badagry to iinspect ongoing workon the site on the badagry seaport,he has been visiting diffrent project site since inauguration to seee them physically,

Last week he was at the dilapidated ikotun-igando road and promise work will start on the road by this week and work has started on the road

Relief compensation has been paid to the victims of petrol fire victims and also the crisis in the state university has been resolved

What else do you want in just two month?

Is the man appointed not from the region?

I hope Everyone can see now that these people are their own enemy

Just like Orubebe embezzle billions of money voted for the construction of east/west road which is meant to serve people of the region

N/Deltans neeed to look beyond their nose and identify their real enemy who are the elites,politfians and the useleess militant like Asari,Tompolo,Ateke etc

A b d e e f g gb h I j k l m n o o p r s t u w y

FTC without sweat.soq

NUC Repudiates Online Degrees, Condemns Maryam Abacha University!!!

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has warned Nigerians against patronising online universities and other degree awarding institutions operating online saying that any certificate obtained from such institutions would not be recognised.
Speaking at a press conference at the headquarters of the commission, Thursday, Director, Information and Public Relations, Ibrahim Usman Yakasai stressed that degrees obtained online were not accepted in the country.

He said, “Nigeria will not recognize online degrees. Online degrees are not accepted in Nigeria at the moment.”

This was as he also warned Nigerian students and parents against patronising Maryam Abacha American University, Niger Republic, noting that the commission had been inundated with enquiries from some Nigerian students who had been offered admission in the university.

He disclosed that the concerned students were offered admissions on part-time with a graduation time of four semesters for programmes like Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science, Public Health among others.
“In Nigeria the duration for a full time degree programme is not less than three years for direct entry and at least six years for part-time, while professional programmes in Science, Engineering and Health Sciences including Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science and Public Health are not offered on part-time basis in Nigeria. Also, all part- time cross boarder education in Nigeria is not allowed,” he explained Yakasai further lamented that the university admitted Nigerian students who did not have the basic requirements to gain admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions in addition to running courses such as Nursing, Medical Laboratory Science on part-time basis which, according to him, was not acceptable.
While disclosing that Ghana National Accreditation Board (NAB) had banned 53 tertiary institutions in Ghana some of which Nigerian students run to from advertising and admitting students due to lack of qualification, Yakasai noted that all countries were at liberty to accept or reject certificates from any foreign university they felt was operating below their
acceptable standards.

“We wish to restate that as the only quality assurance agency for universities in Nigeria, the NUC is maintaining its stand that degrees from Maryam Abacha University will not be accepted in Nigeria,” he said

Source: http:// leadership.ng/ news/449045/ nuc-repudiate-on line-degrees-co ndemns-maryam-a bacha- universit y

In as much as I don't sanction that kind of act between a bossand the secretary,I thinkyoutootake it a bit far

They waited for everyone to close and theeman even use his office and not your office,you heard moan,yet you refuse toknock as courtesy demand before you enter,what if its a kind of ritual that the man is doing,thatis how you will use your head carry bad thing

I think you should just have a chat with your oga about it,seek for his pardon for iintruding his privacy and be friendly with the secretary after you must have seek her pardon as well,then let bygone be bygone.

Then stop staying beyond close time again,except its very neccessary

Good,

This will teach other retards a lesson by the time the court splash heavy fine on for the poo they publish inthe name of journaliism

The fools think everyone is Gej who can challenge the media in court cos of his corrupt past

The first comment cap it all,I hope Femi Adeshina will learn from it


Abati=lost integrity

InvertedHammer:
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Go back to your creek and continue drinking your destiny away.

ND will remain a pit toilet that it is.

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

Federal roads in ND are in shambles. GEJ couldn't fix any of them in 8 years. Yet you ret.ards gave him a heroic welcome. Well, generations to come, no outsider will fix ND. Your stupidity has got the best part of you degenerate alcoholics
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May God bless you.leave the eediot to continue their useless ranting,I think Gej know beta that PMB is not like him,so he just have to caaution the fools before they incure the wrath of the general and the region become another Somalia

Atlantian:
Religion was a useful weapon of control in the early centuries. Religions are just traditions ritualized and customs spiritualized. The intelligence of each religion has more to do with the knowledge base of their inventors.

Islam happens to be more barbaric, Christianity is less barbaric, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism etc are a little less barbaric and eccentric. But in all of these religions there are multiples of lies interwoven to cover other lies.

If Jesus is coming back, that means he is presently somewhere doing press-up and waiting for the alarm bells to ring. My question is, which planet is Jesus. I have heard so much about heaven and I ask, which planet is heaven. Most answers says its spiritual and I ask then Jesus is spiritual and has to be born into human flesh for us to see him, so he cant possibly descend from sky.

I read those days that Jesus ascended to the sky, and I ask, oxygen is not available up there and no planet around is habitable by human body, where is he ?

Hell fire issue is another one that puzzles the mind. Can fire burn spirit, cos I believe we only go to hell when we die and live as spirit. So, fire can burn spirit.

I have given up on religion, I cant actually chose to be stupid when I know better.

Yes Islam has to b barbaric to drain dead like you

You said how could ffire burn spirit,somone has asked an islamic scholar simiilar question that howwill fire burn satan since he was created from the same fire,and the shaykh respond by simple logic,human being were also from clay,but when one beat the other,he feel the pain,so also will satan feel the pain despite he was created from fire

Am enjoying the debate,though am a muslim