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Politics / Re: Before You Cast Your Vote - A Message From General Buhari by chemali: 9:39am On Mar 25, 2015 |
hardbody: Being deaf or blind isn't an abuse. People living with disabilities are respected. Same as saying your patron is clueless isn't an abuse. 48 Likes 3 Shares |
Politics / Re: In Celebration Of Jonathan's Exit by chemali: 9:33am On Mar 25, 2015 |
OREMUSSANCTUS: Why are you pained? Does your allowance stop 11:59pm on Saturday the 28th of March cos of GMB's victory? 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Before You Cast Your Vote - A Message From General Buhari by chemali: 9:26am On Mar 25, 2015 |
hardbody: Either you must be deaf or blind! 165 Likes 14 Shares |
Politics / Before You Cast Your Vote - A Message From General Buhari by chemali: 9:20am On Mar 25, 2015 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJCakj6xUjE "Allow me prove to you that in your lifetime you and your children can be proud of this country" - GMB 377 Likes 51 Shares |
Politics / In Celebration Of Jonathan's Exit by chemali: 9:04am On Mar 25, 2015 |
By Monday next week - to be precise - the son of canoe-carver-born former university teacher would have bitten the dust. Results of the presidential election would have humbled him. It would be the heaviest political fall from grace to grass where he was wrath primitively on the luckless nation. If he wins by default, through deceitful manipulation of the poll or announce himself as the winner of the election, he would have succeeded in manipulating Nigeria out of herself, in the same token. The relief of President Goodluck Ebele "Azikiwe" Jonathan's exit from the nation's top job would be profound in many ways. If he loses, it would mean that the nation's participatory democracy has attained some appreciable level of liberal maturation. It will explain that the country's democratic experiment has taken the will of the electorate into account. It will also give credence to the fact that the era of deploying dollars to buy people's votes is over. It would again means that no criminally corrupt government as Mr Jonathan will ever force itself on the nation, indefinitely. However, there are no indications Mr Jonathan wouldn't be tempted to use the military to its ultimate destruction, given the thickheaded and irresponsible egoism of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with their politics of cattle trading where national interest is utterly subordinated. This still cannot deters a people's resolve that the highest and truest expression of human spirit lies in the volition to determine their existence. It could come by blood and iron. Another issue is the deceptive propaganda which sullen whatever reputation Mr President has mustered. The president expects Nigerians to watch the minimal dents his Administration made on airports renovations, road rehabilitation in televised advertorials in a country where power stability is less than an hour per day after trillions of Naira was looted in the name of power generation! He even swore to go on self exile if he failed to complete the Second Niger Bridge by 2015. It's now the butt of joke on 'Instant Media' and elsewhere, where the president's minders regularly ask those against him to go and hug transformer. The responses of those against the president now come with pictures of young boys and girls hugging transformer with the saying, "I been hugging this transformer in the last twenty hours without electricity". That is how deep in the abyss of national wreckage the nation has sunk. We are in this horrible state because from the beginning, Mr Jonathan has confused himself with the role propaganda can play in modern days society. He seems to believe propaganda creates leaders! Such terrible assumption has robbed him of the earlier empathy which was wrongly ascribed to him by Nigerians who were deceived by the merest of his simple appearance, but coated in slyness, spinelessness, infinite shrewdness, serpentine slush and gross deception. In 2013, before Jonathan finally submerged into morbid corruption, a catalogue of President Jonathan graft was submitted to the United States Congress by the Secretary of State, John Kerry which stated categorically that Mr Jonathan Administration levitates corruption beyond what is humanly acceptable, even in stone age. The document titled: "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012" was prepared by the Department of State using information from US embassies and consulates abroad, foreign government officials, non-governmental and international organisations, and published reports. In the report under the chapter on Nigeria in Section 4, which deals with "Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government," states: "Massive, widespread, and pervasive corruption affected all levels of government and the security forces." Noting that though Nigerian law provides criminal penalties for official corruption, the report said, "government did not implement the law effectively, and officials frequently engaged in corrupt practices with impunity." The judiciary was not left out: "There was a widespread perception judges were easily bribed and litigants could not rely on the courts to render impartial judgments. Citizens encountered long delays and alleged requests from judicial officials for bribes to expedite cases or obtain favorable rulings". The report further stated: "On April 18, a House of Representatives Committee led by Representative Farouk Lawan and charged with investigating the fuel subsidy programme from 2009 to 2011 released a report showing massive fraud, corruption, and inefficiencies in the operation of the program. The report alleged misappropriation of nearly half the subsidy funds, with poor or nonexistent oversight by government agencies. "The report estimated government money lost to “endemic corruption and entrenched inefficiency” amounted to 1.067 trillion naira ($6.8 billion). The committee recommended reform of the oversight and enforcement mechanisms and further endorsed investigation and prosecution of culpable officials." It further stated: 'In July the government released a list of those who had benefited illegally from the subsidy programme, which included relatives and colleagues of key government officials. In late July the EFCC began arraigning suspects, first with a group of 20 indictments, including six oil companies and 11 individuals. "By year’s end the EFCC initiated prosecutions of approximately 50 cases related to the subsidy scam. The majority of these cases involved companies and individuals who had fraudulently received subsidy revenue. Investigations and trials had not produced any convictions by year’s end." It also recalled the twists in the subsidy probe, noting that in June (2012) "allegations and a video surfaced, allegedly showing Lawan accepting a 94.2 million naira ($605,000) bribe from entrepreneur Femi Otedola, who had advised Lawan on the investigation but whose company had not received fuel subsidy payments." The report stated: "After Lawan solicited the bribe from Otedola, the latter approached the SSS to record the hand-off as part of a “sting” operation. The attorney-general referred the case to the police for further investigation. The allegations initially overshadowed the committee’s findings, but the EFCC continued with investigations at year’s end." It also cited the stealing of 32.8 billion naira ($210 million) Police Pension Fund, which led to the arraignment of six suspects including a director at the Police Pension Office, Atiku Abubakar Kigo, who later rose to become permanent secretary in the Ministry of the Niger Delta, and the criminal charges against former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, for laundering close to five billion naira ($32 million) of funds belonging to state. Noting that the charges were instituted on February 24, 2012, the report said the court adjourned the trial until January 2013. Other corruption cases cited in the reports were the arrest of former minister of Works and Housing, Hassan Lawal, for 24 counts of fraudulently awarding contracts, money laundering, and embezzlement of 75 billion naira ($480 million); arrest of Mr. Dimeji Bankole, former speaker of the House of Representatives, and Deputy Speaker Usman Nafada for the alleged misappropriation of one billion naira ($6.4 million) and 40 billion naira ($256 million) respectively; arrest of former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, former Oyo State Governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, former Nasarawa State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, and former Gombe State Governor, Muhammed Danjuma Goje. "The four (governors) allegedly misappropriated or stole 58 billion naira ($372 million), 25 billion naira ($160 million), 18 billion naira ($115 million), and 12.8 billion naira ($82 million), respectively. Their trials began in December 2011 and continued at year’s end", the report noted. It also cited the guilty plea entered by former Delta State Governor James Ibori in the Southwark Crown Court in London to charges of money laundering and other financial crimes totalling 12.4 billion naira ($79 million) he had committed during his eight years in office. The report shrilled further: "Soon after the court announced Ibori’s conviction, the EFCC issued a statement it intended to pursue a case against Ibori in Nigerian courts." On the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), signed into law in May 2011, which allows any person to request information from a government office, the report said "Civil society groups continued to introduce an increasing number of cases at the national and state level to test the FOIA during the year. Despite the number of cases introduced, there was only one reported successful prosecution during the year." The report also contained the controversy over declaration of assets by Nigerian public officials noting statutory provisions that provide that, "Public officials, including the president, vice president, governors, deputy governors, cabinet ministers, and legislators (at both federal and state levels), must comply with financial disclosure laws, including the requirement to declare their assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) before assuming and after leaving office. Violators risked prosecution, but cases rarely came to conclusion." In conclusion, the report: "In June the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and other groups demanded President Jonathan disclose his assets from 2007 to 2012. On June 24, the president refused the request.” Nigerians can now know where Mr Jonathan is coming from and the composite ruin his Administration visited on the people. Any gain saying it's unknown to him that corruption is the greatest problem confronting the powerfully endowed nation and that frontally combating the hydra-headed monster is the CHANGE Nigerians need? How else can Nigerians celebrate themselves than Jonathan's rustication? It will be a celebration of an end to his tartuffery government and hollow platitudes http://saharareporters.com/2015/03/24/celebration-jonathans-exit-erasmus-ikhide 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Jonathan Unveils Vision For Next Four Years by chemali: 8:56am On Mar 25, 2015 |
Two days to elections and he suddenly has a vision. That's cluelessness 54 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Photos From Damasak Where Boko Haram Unleashed Terror by chemali: 8:45am On Mar 25, 2015 |
This should never have happened! The president played politics while Nigeria burned 48 Likes |
Politics / Re: Promoter Flays Fashola Over FG’s Contribution To Lekki Port by chemali: 8:06am On Mar 25, 2015 |
dunkem21: “NPA is a regulator and equity partner in the project. The equity part of Lagos State has been fully paid and the NPA is contributing their equity,” Managing Director of Lekki Deep Seaport, Haresh Ascoani, said yesterday, during a visit by the Managing Director of NPA, Mallam Habib Abdullahi to the facility.Open the link and you will see the above quote. This clearly means NPA still owes in equity contribution and Lagos has fully paid. Shut up if you can't comprehend. |
Politics / Re: Promoter Flays Fashola Over FG’s Contribution To Lekki Port by chemali: 7:52am On Mar 25, 2015 |
Is it so hard to comprehend for some people? This is a direct quote from the article: “NPA is a regulator and equity partner in the project. The equity part of Lagos State has been fully paid and the NPA is contributing their equity,” Has NPA paid its equity contribution? Answer is No and this means Fashola is right. NPA is still contributing their equity and this is stalling the project! 1 Like |
Politics / Re: PDP Threaten Nigerians Against Rejecting Jonathan On Saturday by chemali: 7:33am On Mar 25, 2015 |
M4gunners: Why are you dense? Did you present a credible candidate and Nigerians didn't rally round? Or should we have a clueless and callous person as president and you expect us to support him? |
Politics / Re: Agbaje Promises To Reduce Cost Of Land by chemali: 6:12am On Mar 25, 2015 |
Just Kidding |
Politics / Re: While Tinubu Starved Us, Jonathan Gave Us Multibillion Naira Pipeline Contracts by chemali: 6:06am On Mar 25, 2015 |
Jonathan's action is callous, wicked and a clear display of incompetence and shortsightedness. OPC has lost their voice for the past 8 years and he's resurrecting this monster to terrorise the South West. |
Politics / Re: Robbery Near National Stadium, Lagos; Over 30 Cars Vandalized by chemali: 5:29pm On Mar 24, 2015 |
Damn! Your car just got transformed. 44 Likes 3 Shares |
Politics / Re: President Jonathan Commissions Phase 1 504MW Alaoji Power Station, In Abia- Pics by chemali: 5:19pm On Mar 24, 2015 |
Why don't I have light? He wants to dress like Buhari to win votes too. Chei 37 Likes |
Politics / Adoke In New Shady Oil Deal by chemali: 3:29pm On Mar 24, 2015 |
Nigeria will lose at least N549 billion ($2.8 billion) in oil royalty and petroleum tax if what appears a shady and absurd deal the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, is negotiating with the Nigerian subsidiary of Chinese-owned Addax Petroleum, sails through, a joint investigation by PREMIUM TIMES and THE WILL has revealed. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/179015-investigation-attorney-general-adoke-in-shady-deal-that-may-rob-nigeria-of-n549billion-revenue.html |
Politics / Re: Court Orders NCC, Telecom Firms To Pay APC N500m by chemali: 3:16pm On Mar 24, 2015 |
bankyblue: This is a judgment against NCC. Or are you admitting that NCC = PDP. PDP has compromised ALL our institutions 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Court Orders NCC, Telecom Firms To Pay APC N500m by chemali: 3:14pm On Mar 24, 2015 |
PassingShot: The reign of impunity is about to end |
Politics / Election Uncertainty, Oil Price Kill Construction In Nigeria - Reuters by chemali: 9:35am On Mar 24, 2015 |
Political uncertainty over Nigeria's election on Saturday and economic turmoil from low oil prices have delivered a double blow that has slashed revenues and triggered layoffs for businesses across Africa's biggest economy. But while some, such as consumer goods firms, are less exposed to Abuja's troubles, others like construction firms heavily dependent on government cash are facing frozen projects, unpaid bills and mass redundancies, putting badly needed infrastructure development on ice, industry sources say. "The situation is terrible and there is more ... to come," one construction industry source told Reuters. "There is a desperate lack of funds." The fall in world oil prices to $55 a barrel, half what they were in June, could not have come at a worse time for Africa's biggest producer. The run-up to an election is traditionally when government finances come under huge pressure from election spending on advertising and patronage. Standard and Poor's ratings agency downgraded Nigeria to B+ from BB- last week. The naira has fallen 20 percent since being devalued in November. Because this vote is expected to be so closely fought, much more money has been needed to fight it. Capital spending in the budget has been slashed and a source in parliament said government contracts are massively in arrears because it is easier not to pay contractors than to hold back salaries. The top 10 construction companies in Nigeria accounted for 70,000 jobs a year ago but since then their workforces have been cut by a third, industry sources said. "Most of the companies tightened their belts because of no payments, while overheads are getting higher," expatriate civil engineer Daniel Hazim said. "That's why the majority of construction companies are passing pink slips to their employees ... expats and locals." DEVELOPMENT ON HOLD Thousands of job losses are bad timing for President Goodluck Jonathan's re-election bid, but they may do little to sway an electorate divided along regional and ethnic lines. Jonathan, a southern Christian, faces main opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler and a northern Muslim. Yet the job losses are also a reminder that whoever leads Nigeria after the election will need to end its dependence on oil as the motor for the economy. "We have neglected agriculture, solid minerals, we have neglected human empowerment, we simply sell oil," political analyst and lawyer Onyebuchi Emenka told Reuters TV on Monday. The country needs a candidate who will diversify the economy, he said. In the meantime, contractors are suffering. A spokesman for the Ministry of Works said it had received only 44 billion naira out of 98 billion naira allocated last year. The minister, Mike Onolememen, was quoted in local newspapers as saying that contractors were owed about 230 billion naira between 2011-2014 and that 177 projects lacked sufficient funding to move forward. Leading construction firm Julius Berger and several other large firms have all stopped working on projects such as roads and bridges because the government is not paying them, industry sources say. Firms with a smaller presence, such as Italy's Salini Impregilo, which is building Abuja's glitzy Millennium Tower, are in similar difficulties. Julius Berger declined to comment and Salini officials were not immediately available for comment. Government infrastructure projects always moved slowly, but firms were forced to scale down to skeleton crews last year and several are not expecting to resume work in 2015 at all. A project to rehabilitate the 340 km (200 miles) Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri railway to transport iron ore and coal, crucial to revamping an ageing steel mill, restarted work in August 2014 but was shut down again when funds dried up, a source close to the project said. Now it will remain on hold until the government can fund it. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/us-nigeria-election-business-idUSKBN0MJ1WM20150323 |
Politics / Re: Atiku, Kwankwaso Are Buhari’s Greatest Enemies – Gov. Lamido by chemali: 8:10am On Mar 24, 2015 |
As one diplomat put it: “People that might help him win an election are not necessarily the ones to help him govern.” |
Politics / Re: The Rivers. Debate 2015 On The Way. by chemali: 7:52pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
phantom: As in... I guess the policemen see oil bunkerers in action and say "no arrest am o, courts no dey work. Make he steal comot". The courts should function but its not an excuse 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Obama Speaks Directly To All Nigerians by chemali: 7:18pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
kpolli: I am talking in the context of the speech Obama made and not in the context the pro-Buhari supporters you referenced used it. Obama is talking to all Nigerians and not Jonathan. Hence the book is Nigeria. A chapter is a different administration. |
Politics / Re: The Rivers. Debate 2015 On The Way. by chemali: 7:16pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
Chei, allowing Wike to respond first is making it obvious he has no plans. Nobody to dub from! Poor man. Cluelessness runs in PDP. Lagos seems to be the what they look up to. Dakuku trying to adapt the Lagos security trust fund to Rivers and Tonye continuously mentioning Lagos state. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Obama Speaks Directly To All Nigerians by chemali: 7:06pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
kpolli: Exactly. The book is Nigeria. The previous chapter is GEJ and the next chapter is GMB. |
Politics / Re: Obama Speaks Directly To All Nigerians by chemali: 6:52pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
kpolli: Flawed analysis. What does a new chapter represent in a book? |
Politics / Re: The Rivers. Debate 2015 On The Way. by chemali: 6:50pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
davo3286: Yes they are. Wike used his alloted 3 mins and 2 mins for response to respond to Dakuku. He has used his alloted 3 mins again to respond to Dakuku. I'm waiting for what he will say with the remaining 2 mins. |
Politics / Re: The Rivers. Debate 2015 On The Way. by chemali: 6:45pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
sluvy4tune: Exactly Wike has no business with this debate. He's responding to Dakuku when the time slot he is on is to respond to the questions. 6 Likes |
Politics / Re: The Rivers. Debate 2015 On The Way. by chemali: 6:39pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
Dakuku seems to have a better grasp of governance and more articulate in his plans for Rivers State but he's talking in a condescending manner to his opponents 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Buhari Leads In All Opinion Polls Conducted Except One by chemali: 4:24pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
feelamong: That's why Obama released that video - He's saying GEJ give yourself brain and do the needful |
Politics / Re: Obama Speaks Directly To All Nigerians by chemali: 1:33pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
This election is this important for Obama to make a statement to Nigerians. Interesting. Vote Change They can smell the change in US and they know that change rarely comes around except by violence. They want the change too that's why he is sending a veiled message to GEJ that the elections must be free and fair and he must abide by who wins and not instigate people to violence! 211 Likes 6 Shares |
Politics / Obama Speaks Directly To All Nigerians by chemali: 1:29pm On Mar 23, 2015 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBY1H6o5d1E "Now you have the historic opportunity to help write the next chapter of Nigeria's progress" "..To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done" - President Obama 96 Likes 7 Shares |
Politics / Re: Buhari Very Heartless by chemali: 11:48am On Mar 23, 2015 |
francizy: I'm tired of disputing the same old lies. $2.8billion missing? This was investigated and was found to be a ruse. His activities as PTF boss has received wide acclaim. Contrast that to Sure-P. Retrenchment is what happens in a downturn and it's what will happen after the elections. For the past 4 years of GEJ admin, despite high oil prices, we've been regaled with stories of banks downsizing. With the current economic situation, companies are waiting for the election to be over to downsize. Let's assume he retrenched 200,000 which I don't take as fact, doesn't this show he had a firm grasp of the economy and was willing to do what needed to do to prevent it from collapsing. Or why do you think Obama presided over very high jobless rate numbers in his first few years? You say he rendered 70000 youths graduates jobless cos there were no jobs. Contrast that to today where every family in Nigeria has at least one jobless graduate. Millions are on the street. I won't be surprised if you are one of the millions. Where are the facts you have mentioned that are on Wikipedia? You just regurgitated bunch of lies that's littered all over nairaland. The only places you will find these lies is nairaland and dodgy websites when you do a google search. Talk about Jonathan. Very high oil prices, no accretion in foreign reserves. Sanusi as CBN governor couldn't understand why, that's why he cried out about the $20bn missing which Soludo estimates as much as 30trn naira is missing. Talk about his handling of terrorist. He said its our turn to experience terrorist attacks rather than act tough. He denied MEND as responsible for Oct 1st bombing only to claim 5 years after that they wanted to assassinate him. I've done a thread about corruption in GEJ's government and it's mind boggling. I don't need to repeat those facts here. He's a weak, ineffective leaders. He's sectional and divisive. Explain why he's giving a separatist organisation contracts? We can't be deceived. Change is coming. |
Politics / Re: Buhari Very Heartless by chemali: 9:43am On Mar 23, 2015 |
francizy: Failures of GMB as a military head? A man that spent less than 2 years as military head? After 5 years of unbridled corruption in Shagari's administration? And yet he still acted! You want to compare that record to a man that has spent 60 months as President and additional 24 months as VP? Presided over unprecedented oil revenues? I will leave you with the title of a UK telegraph article: Nigerian election: 'Better an ex-dictator than a weak president' 2 Likes |
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