₦airaland Forum

DonDiego:
Maybe you should go read your Bible again. The OT prophets you listed were mainly Jewish prophets. We are christians and we follow the precepts of our Lord Jesus Christ. Do you remember what Jesus said when He was asked if His followers should pay tax to Ceaser? That should be the guide for all christian clergy, my friend.

chukwudi44:
I am an ardent Catholic and has been a keen follower of Father Mbaka over the years. On this, I am yet to rationalize the motive behind his volteface between November and now.He has a right to hold a political opinion but making such 360 degrees u-turn over a few weeks is very very disturbing to say the least.

If anyone is threatening him,it is unlikely comming from GEJ as people who have said worse things about him are yet to be harmed.

What ever he says will not stop GEJ from winning the east anyway nor stop me from still voting GEJ

BeeBeeOoh:
And some peeps will stil come out & say "SAIBUHARI".. Sum peep needs brain cleansing

Nothing is more unworthy of leadership than to degrade the system by which one attains fulfilment, and this is what the nation has witnessed time and time again in various parts of the nation, the recent affront against the legislative chamber being only the most blatant and unconscionable,

voltron:
As usual these semi illiterates think manifestos are about making promises. Show us how youbare going to realistically fulfil those promises. Oohh. Ambode. You left that out eh? You dumb piece of tinubus titss

nigerianvenom:
i'm not aware obj started any rail project.if actually he did,what was d term of contract?how much was awarded for d contract and which firm was it awarded to?

In October 2006, the Olusegun Obasanjo administration signed an US $8.3 billion contract with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), for the first phase of the rail modernisation project. That project, a 1,315 km Lagos-Abuja-Kano double-track standard gauge rail corridor, with a maximum speed of 150 km an hour, was to flag off a 25-year long rail modernisation project.

But no sooner had the Umaru Yar’Adua administration birthed than dissenting voices started thumbing down the project. The clear strategy has been scarecrow tactics: alleged inflation of cost hinting at sleaze, skewed process in the contract award, etc, etc.

nigerianvenom:
why do u defend urself even when u have been beaten squarely.haba! nawaoh

the penalty buhari paid as a result of cancelling that project was alarming

IGBOSON1:
^^^Yeah....like a Vice President Jonathan could have vetoed any decision Yar'Adua and his northern clique made at the time!

ochejoseph:
Only a semi literate person will cancel a project he knows nothing about!

A Projects costs 450 million dollars!


50 million Dollars have been paid already to the contractors leaving a Balance of 400 million Dollars


Yet this man went ahead to waste 550 million dollars as penalty and fines to terminate the project instead of paying 400 million USD to complete it

It's pure wickedness, Becos Lagosians and Nigerians are still suffering from that decision!

It's simply unexplainable!

Marvin67:
Pastor! Pastor! Pastor! Your number one assignment is to win souls and not votes. Did you attend the last let's go a fishing program, or were you busy "hanging out " with circular musicians? Did you preach the gospel to Olamide or did you tell him about votes?

I'm a member of RCCG, and I must confess that pastor Osibanjo hasn't made me proud. God help us.

When pastors now sit in the front row of circular concerts where girls come on stage to dance half naked. How would they preach to new converts in church?

Austerity weakens aggregate demand, deflating an economy already fatigued and against the ropes. Those with hefty portfolios, profit as the value of their holdings appreciates by the very dynamics of deflation. Those who don’t have, find money even dearer to come by. Jobs and commerce disappear. Debt climbs. Deflation turns a noble but poor household into a comity of beggars and street urchins. The austerity that the current administration offers is an insensitive, myopic policy that lends primacy of favour to meaningless accounting figures instead of to the material well-being of the people. Austerity undermines our economic pillars and breaks the spirit of the people. Austerity is the merchant of pessimism and hopeless futility. If you desire a nation of thralls, by all means continue this bleak path. If we want a nation of prosperity and economic justice, a different course is our due.

Let’s start with a tale from overseas: austerity policy in Britain. As you may know, back in 2010 Britain’s newly installed Conservative government declared that a sharp reduction in budget deficits was needed to keep Britain from turning into Greece. Over the next two years growth in the British economy, which had been recovering fairly well from the financial crisis, more or less stalled. In 2013, however, growth picked up again — and the British government claimed vindication for its policies. Was this claim justified?

No, not at all. What actually happened was that the Tories stopped tightening the screws — they didn’t reverse the austerity that had already occurred, but they effectively put a hold on further cuts. So they stopped hitting Britain in the head with that baseball bat. And sure enough, the nation started feeling better.

To claim that this bounceback vindicated austerity is silly. As Simon Wren-Lewis of Oxford University likes to point out, if rapid growth after a gratuitous slump counts as success, the government should just close down half the economy for a year; the next year’s growth would be fantastic. Or as I’d put it, you shouldn’t conclude that hitting yourself in the head is smart because it feels so good when you stop. Unfortunately, the silliness of the claim hasn’t prevented its widespread acceptance by what Mr. Wren-Lewis calls “mediamacro.”

Meanwhile, back in America we haven’t had an official, declared policy of fiscal austerity — but we’ve nonetheless had plenty of austerity in practice, thanks to the federal sequester and sharp cuts by state and local governments. The good news is that we, too, seem to have stopped tightening the screws: Public spending isn’t surging, but at least it has stopped falling. And the economy is doing much better as a result. We are finally starting to see the kind of growth, in employment and G.D.P., that we should have been seeing all along — and the public’s mood is rapidly improving.

A retired army general, Ishola Williams, has condemned the Nigerian Army for imposing the death sentence on 54 soldiers accused of mutiny, saying the soldiers were justified in refusing to join operations without being properly equipped.
Mr. Williams said the soldiers were right in disobeying orders that would lead to certain death as a result of the failure of their commanding officers to provide them the necessary equipment.
On December 17, 2014 after a secret trial in Abuja, 54 soldiers of the 111 Special Forces battalion charged with criminal conspiracy to commit mutiny and mutiny were sentenced to death by firing squad by Nigerian Army’s 7 division General Court Martial.
The military said the soldiers disobeyed the order of their commanding officer to take part in an operation to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from Delwa, a town close to Maiduguri.
Some of the accused soldiers testified that they refused to take part in the operation following the failure of the army to provide them with the necessary support equipment.
The soldiers were later transferred to Lagos where they await either the confirmation of the sentence, an appeal, a pardon or execution.
Military sources and the lawyer representing the soldiers, Femi Falana, told PREMIUM TIMES last week that they troops were held under deplorable conditions, and were denied food and care.
Contributing to a debate on an online group, AfricanWorldForum, about a statement by Governor Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers State, that the condemned soldiers had the right to protest the government’s failure to equip them, Mr. Williams, who resigned from the army as a major general, said the military hierarchy is prosecuting the soldiers to cover its failure.
“Those playing politics with the lives of these soldiers who were being sent to commit suicide in the name of fatherland and they refused, have to be ashamed,” he said. “The army’s top hierarchy is covering up its weaknesses by court-martialling these soldiers. The staff from the HQ (defence headquarters) and the generals are to blame. Period.
Mr. Williams was the Chief of Defence Operations, Planning and Training, at the Defence Headquarters before resigning in 1993.
“Anywhere in the world a soldier/soldiers is /are allowed to disobey orders which will lead to certain death because of poor officership and inadequate logistics,” he said.
According to him, in the military, “there are no bad soldiers but bad officers.”
Mr. Williams, a former honorary Secretary General of Transparency In Nigeria (TIN) and currently the executive secretary of a security research organisation, Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG), said while he was in the military the soldiers he knew were not mutinous and a good court would dismiss the death sentence.
“The South African constitution allows soldiers to protest. The Nigerian soldiers that I know and commanded during my career are not mutinous and will not be mutinous.
“You may wish to speak to CJTF(Commander of the JTF) in Maiduguri to be able to indict these soldiers. In a good court of law the death sentence will be not upheld,” he said. “Stop playing Politricks and Polifun with the lives of young men who were put in harm’s way without the method and tools in an environment in which demons are going crazy.
“It is sad and wicked to be unfair to them. Why were the Court-Martial (CM) held in secret? Even the presidency has not made any statement on this issue because it knows the circumstances in which these soldiers were operating. In other climes, before the CM, the Concerned Service Chief and Commanders would have resigned their commissions.”

SupremeTeam:
you [size=14pt]ʞɔnɟ[/size] head...

The document clearly stated that the NNPC's accounting system was non existent and that there were clear cases of financial misappropriation.

Why una dey hate truth?

In the wake of allegations of massive fraud, including an improper withdrawal of more than $4b from the corporation’s accounts in the late 1970s, the newly elected President Shehu Shagari (1979-83) in March 1980 instituted a tribunal to probe allegations. Although the panel found the $4b scam to be baseless

dhidden:
Yes, they did not condemn Boko Haram until Boko Haram turned against them too. @dbride then posted so many fb pages on nairaland where these Boko boys and their supporters were happy the Christians/infidels were being hit at; these supporters only started condemning Boko Haram when they turned against their fellow muslims. @dbride was banned from Nairaland and her fb acct was hacked for mentioning names of Boko supporters, then INCLUDING BUHARI. Communication was in Hausa and Arabic. After the expose, Boko supporters deleted their pages including their recruitment page. Now they use codes to communicate. BUHARI can NEVER condemn Boko Haram, he can only say "I WILL STOP BOKO HARAM' and this statement does not condemn Boko Haram because he is their hope of total implementation of sharia law in Nigeria and the final destruction of the constitution which negates ISLAM; nobody has stopped to look into that Buhari's statement. God said, in the last days even people who are supposed to know God (the elect, even pastors) will be deceived. HOW DOES ONE GET DECEIVED? Find out.

Am I deceived? NO. Am I worried about the elections? NO. Why? Because I Know that God is FULLY in control of Nigeria and for us who know this, we have PEACE that is beyond human understanding. NIGERIA WILL BREATHE AGAIN IN JESUS NAME.

SupremeTeam:
Shatap! idiot.

Can you deny what i posted is not contained in that document?

bloody usless janjawiid

SupremeTeam:
Shehu Shagari was sworn in on 1st October 1979.

The missing $4.4 billion dollars was discovered in early 1980.

The theft occurred during the periods of 1978 -1979.
Buhari was head of the Ministry of Petroleum.

Buhari should tell us about this missing money.

Who demands equity must come with clean hands!

SupremeTeam:
shatap!

http://bakerinstitute.org/media/files/page/9b067dc6/noc_nnpc_ugo.pdf

Report of Tribunal of Inquiry into Crude Oil Sales

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http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1942901

lazy stup1d generation

Credible attempts have been made to check corruption in the Nigerian oil industry since the malaise escalated in the late 1970s. The Buhari regime (1983-85) was marked by a general war on corruption. His petroleum minister David-West, who had announced the puncturing of a multi-billion dollar oil deal racket early 1984, declared mid-January 2007 what many Nigerians knew already: “While I worked with him, Buhari never interfered with me as Petroleum Minister. He never sent anyone to me for contract because he was not interested in contracts.”131 Another regime that showed significant interest in fighting corruption in the industry was the Shonekan interim government of 1993, culminating in the dismissal of nearly all the highest echelon of NNPC management for their role in a major scam. These efforts have been resisted by significant power centers. Commitment to anticorruption was probably a consideration in the overthrow of the two regimes. http://bakerinstitute.org/media/files/page/9b067dc6/noc_nnpc_ugo.pdf

owobokiri:
It was the first time billions were stolen at a go in this country. Essentially, massive kleptomania as we know it started under Buharii/Obasanjo guard. Together with the minna devil, these guys need to be fed to some wild hyenas.

Trut:
I want the Northerners to condemn and support the FG to fight terrorism. When arm robbery and kidnapping was rampant in the East, the easterners condemn and supported the FG. That is why arm robbery and kidnapping became something of the past.

The Northerners supported the activities of BH when they were bombing churches and Christian dominated area. Now, BH has turned against them, they blame GEJ and CAN for their woes.

The APC has never condemn Boko haram, instead they blame the FG and criticise our gallant soldiers who fight day and night to restore peace in this country.

Trut:
We blame APC, Buhari, Northern leaders, Northern elites, the Muslims etal because they don't condemn the activities of Boko haram, rather the blame the FG.

jamace:
And how much did Osibanjo steal in Lagos? :https://www.nairaland.com/2063845/osibanjo-transferred-rccgs-hqtrs-because

Obiagelli:
What? I need someone that understands hausa very well to translate this. This is unbelievable.

Joel3:
plans for federal toll gates and total remover of subsidy expect them next year if PDPI remains in power.

balladin:
Ribadu and Shekarau are not in pdp because of Jonathan's vision, please tell me why they are there. Don't say what you don't know. You are not shekarau or Ribadu's P.A. How does your brain work?

He said, “As for my next step in this political struggle, this would be made known in due time. For now, I wish to assure you that my defection is in pursuit of a good cause, and never out of any selfish interests as portrayed by a section.