₦airaland Forum

@ Sagamite
I note your anger which did note allow you to note my closing statement:-

[b]That is democracy for you. You have just exercised your right to post in Nairaland and we are also
using our rights to comment.It is terrible and frustrating[/b]

I have already told you what to do if you feel too strongly about his ambition and if you cannot do that

your media crusade is the last option and you are doing so here.

@ Beaf

Most respectfully, i will appreciate it if we discuss this matter shorn of some of your verbiage.
I will not be dragged into ND matters in this instance. You are the expert in that area.

Having said that, by concerted efforts at all levels of government, i expect that the political parties
despite their ineptitude should have a policy position on matters like this but their failure to fully address
the ND scenario does not give me confidence. In the same vein, not much can be expected from the
civil service as the minister has demonstrated.

The point remains that each state must determine the enormity of the problem and in the process come up with
strategies and dilligently allocate resources. Currently, I doubt if there is any state that is anywhere near the
figure recommended by UNESCO . If the strategy involves linkages with programmes from other states and the
federal govenment, such platforms should be encouraged.

In the final analysis, the solution lies in legislation at all levels of government, financial discipline at all levels of government
and traditional institutions that are closer to the people. I am sure our friends like Beaf will prevail on his associates
from the north and prick their conscience so severely . This is what I can think of on the spur of the moment. Nigeria cannot
afford to wait at all. We must be in ahurry to regain lost opportunities. Abi?
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@ Ally Emeka

It is better to believe in something than to believe in nothing. Anyone who calls Almighty Allah's name
in vain knows what awaits him in the hereafter. Let him keep his faith. Who are we to judge him?The
justice system here set him free in Nigeria.

You have two options, 1) Challenge him in the election he wants to stand for
2) Register in his ward and refuse to cast your vote for him

That is democracy for you. You have just exercised your right to post in Nairaland and we are also
using our rights to comment.It is terrible and frustrating.

@ Mikeansy
You are too precious for some of us in NL . Please put ice block for your head. E be like say you take purge
and di result dey come from mouth instead of from your back side.

I would prefer you move to Soludo;s website and edit it. It is more respectful

While I am not in a position to query those figures, I must admit that there  is an immense gap
in our expectations and this no thanks to elite delinquency that has bedeviled the north for a
considerable number of years. As a matter of fact there is a performance deficit way beyond expectations and
this blame can only traced to the elite.  

Having said that, there is an urgent need to find a solution and  admittedly, this cannot come from the state
governments , for obvious reasons. There must be a concerted push from both federal and state governments and
other states of the federation.This assistance can only be meaningful if the affected states recognise , in the first instance
that they have a problem which they do not seem to be doing. They are all politicking and spending scarce resources
on projects that do not have any connection with the problems in hand.

Even more distressing is the fact that northern elite is rather young. By this I mean, there is no single family unit that can trace its
wealth/education and influence beyond 2 generations. This means that they are not too far from the people they are neglecting. How could
they forget so soon? There is no governor who is giving as much as he received free for his education . There is no civil servant who is giving
the same or even remembers that the primary school he attended has no roof or teachers.

If you want to see the mess that these guys have made of social services in the north, you only need to go to Barewa College. With all the
stream of the Gpwons , the loquacious el Rufa'is and  of all people Yar'adua as old students, the students have no water and other conveniences.
The reason can be traced to the latest fads- private schools here and abroad. Their children are no more there. It is a shame.

I urge all Nairalanders who have friends ,political and business relations  with these the elite to ask them why they are so mean.

You dey mind them, everything na foor summit e dey end,

As someone said earlier, anybody promising 24hour electricity in this country is a joker.
Imagine 1) Mr Akala has only

- c of o of his house - no budget, no oil well and no gas pipe line or even govetnment don fail us.

Please tell him to review his manifesto, except if you tell me he is sponsored by PDP, then I will understand.

It is better he comes to tell us more on this Electricity Corporation of Lekki or else we shall mobilise against him with all our might.

We shall not allow aspiring eaglet politicians to start on the wrong footing. Small time di man go begin campaign for

LG chair and bigger post. Make e start well.

Me I no understand, de man show?
E give d lecture?
Thats all

@Ujujoan
These guys want to rig massively and surgically too. It was tried in Ekiti and
he was the arrowhead. By now, he must have got his act in place with
a'' righteous '' returning officer in place.

We not talking about anyone else. THIS IS PDP

@Beaf/Presido

1) There is a political process--- despite its flaws-- and I said so, read my post again.
2) And might never be done-- glad you have some hope
3) Whatever wrong they claim to be victims of, and you too if you have any, accept
4) Presido -show me your monument, like the Jewish wailing wall, I will wail with you
5) Show me the building blocks and I will follow you to build

@ Texzzpete &rusellino    ----       Cheers

We all have grievances against this country, truth be told. Having these grievances means that things have not
been rightly done in all aspects of our national life. If they were done the right way, we should not be where we are today.
Having said that,we have confidence that solutions must be found today and in the future. If what Eziachi &co want is acceptance
of historical facts, no one has denied them, they happpened . But things also happened to others. In tracing the genesis of these
sad events, every side has its own interpretation but what we are saying is that we have all wronged each other and have learnt
our lessons. So the portraying a victim /villain posture in a situation of collective guilt is not reasonable.

Since all those unfortunate events and the end of the civil war, people have gone back to the chores of eking out a living and Nigeria has
produces a generation of people who only hear of the past. Their lives are regulated by interpersonal relations in all aspects of life based
on prevailing circumstances in commerce, schools and love. They are busy forging a new dispensation. Then you have all these soil sports.
If to appease them we have already accepted the past, what else do they want?

I think it is time for these guys to now channel this anger into doing well for themselves and building social structures and relationships
that will ameliorate past wrongs and make  sure they never happen again. That is what we are saying. Otherwise, I have no objection to anyone
extolling the virtues of his clan because I know that we are first of all human beings before being anything else. If extolling such virtues makes him
feel good, why not. All these copious quotes that are subject to perception/interpretation, papers , positions/views quoted and of course diplomatic
positions of France, Tanzania , Britain US, etc have all gone into the archives and some Nigerians are still dinosaurs on the subject.In addition their
intransigence has not stopped the political process as I believe, despite its flaws, the political process is alive in Eastern Nigeria, and Nigeria as a whole
and the people exercising the franchises are doing so freely. They have refused to let the past hinder them from moving ahead in a democratic manner.
Absence of people like Eziachi',Oko1  and co in the Senate or House of Representatives  speaks volumes.

This is not denying anyone his day in the sun. This is freedom of speech and there are more people out there worried about how to build than whether
there was a Biafran army or Ogbunike whatever.

Our servant leader/governor/ chairman of governors forum happens to be around.
what is his score card. What is the governors forum doing?

It is a challenge to northern elite.  There is no fool who is in position today that does
not have rural roots and by projection direct filial relationship with these unfortunate
kids. Where is our conscience?

@ Beaf,

Lucky you, just keep away from him from now on. You know Toronto dey near North pole and
Becomrich is surely going to meet a white Christmas, In your struggke at Seme border the man abandoned the
hot peppers and spices. Na tabasco sauce e go take grill him turkey. Unless google show whether Eskimo degrow ata rodo.

Any way nice day, mo ti close.

No Igbo have already claimed it. Hausa and Yoruba should search elsewhere and you know these people, when they grab someting

@ Beaf ,
as you and becoomrich don begin play draught and ludo, so tay e dey open
door for you for internet and reserve seat , na him i dey refer too. If the two of
una no friend again make we know. Abeg no vex.

Becomrich don read those papers see, na only for akara and clean poopoo.No dey
keep dat kind paper, Na him all these bigots dey misquote full Nairaland. As
harmattan dey come now abi na winter for yonder, make u take them warm bodi.

Ha, bibiking,

don't call Becoomrich here please. He has created his own threads so people meet him there. Just
go through the threads and you are home. If this man comes here, we r finished. The last time i checked, he was
volunteered to open communication lines with Beaf. So they may be trying to merge Benin Republic and the
North Pole. The map is yet to be published.

IF becooomrich jam this jjc to naija, na confusion break bone be dat :ot

By JOSEPH USHIGIALE, 06.27.2009
It’s been seven years since a highly connected Chadian seized 62 haulage trucks pooled together by a Nigerian haulage consortium, Ralph Enterprises Limited. In this report JOSEPH USHIGIALE reveals that the Chadian, Nasiri Dien confiscated the 62 trucks under the guise of partnering with the Nigerians to execute a multi-million dollar pipeline haulage contract for Wilbros, an oil service company contracted to construct a pipeline linking the oil fields in Southern Chad for the transportation of crude oil to Kribi seaport in Cameroun
The three men sat huddled behind the skeleton of what used to be an ornate table. Their countenance was a mixture of both retired resignation and hope. For seven years since 2002, the trio had lost hope that 62 haulage trucks of different models comprising Mack, Iveco seized from them by Nasiri Dien, a cousin to the Chadian President, in a haulage lease deal brokered through the Nigerian Embassy in N’djamena would ever be released despite innumerable interventions from the Nigerian Government.
Even in this unfortunate state they still nurse the hope that, with a stroke of luck, the administration of President Umaru Yar’Adua would intervene and kick start the process of first providing an interim respite of compensating them while negotiating with the Chadian authorities to bring their years of agony to a fruitful end.
As they sat across the table from this reporter, they cut a visible picture of a group that has been to hell and back literarily. “We have exhausted virtually all avenues to recover our trucks but our efforts have met a brick wall because of the belligerent attitude of Nasiri and the Chadian Government.” Mohammed Dili, spokesman of the group began his narration.
In their distraught situation, the meeting with this reporter started on a suspicious note as the following encountered unfolded:
Dili: Where do you say you write for?
Reporter: In THISDAY, the corporate headquarters in Lagos.
Dili: Do you know Nosike?
Reporter: Of course, the Group Political Editor you mean?
Dili: Yes, but he doesn’t seem to know you and has called your office in Abuja and no one seems to have heard about you?
At this point, this reporter flashed his identification card before them and then fished out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed Nosike’s mobile number simultaneously with Dili. After several rings without a response, the reporter suddenly realised and announced that “he could be in an editorial meeting.”
Dili: Why are you interested in this matter because we have done everything we could, even invited BBC, Deutshwelle and other international media houses who accompanied us to N’djamena and nothing came out of it?
Reporter: Well this is THISDAY and I have an interest in bringing this story back to life; perhaps, the international press missed certain salient points.
With these explanations, the group now relaxed and began a blow by blow account of its seven year ordeal in the hands of the Chadians authorities. Ostensibly, from their corroborated accounts, the ordeal of the group, comprising Ralph Oragwu, Mohammed Dili and Sabo Haruna that floated the Ralph Enterprises Limited, the company name used to secure the haulage contract with the Chadians, is a double jeopardy. According to the group “Nobody believes us now. We are viewed as accessories after the criminal act notwithstanding what we, as individuals, are going through. Our agony is compounded by the fact that those truck owners who entrusted their trucks to us in good faith are on our necks. They believe we have ruined their businesses and families. They are right but we had good intentions not evil. What we were doing was for our common good and for Nigeria.”Making of a Deal
From all the documents made available to THISDAY, the haulage contract laid out by the Chadians to their Nigerian counterparts was a done deal, as businessmen are wont to say, it was signed sealed and delivered. But with human nature, where greed rather than responsible business ethics rule the business firmament, the deal could as well have been sealed and delivered in hell as the Ralph Group was to discover shortly afterwards that what you see is probably not what you get ultimately.
According to the group, in July 2002, Mohammed Dili was contacted by Mr. Agbilabor, first counselor minister in the Nigerian Embassy in Chad through Mohammed Bashir who invited the Ralph Group to Chad for a possible business deal. The deal in question was a World Bank project which involved the haulage of crude oil pipeline materials from the port of Douala, Cameroun to the newly discovered oilfields in Southern Chad.


Dili reportedly contacted Ralph and Haruna in Lagos and between them it was unanimously agreed that Ralph Enterprises Limited be used as the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for the transaction. The group then traveled from Maiduguri to N’djamena, and was received at the Chad-Camerounian border by representatives of TRANS–REGIONALES S.A, a Chadian company earlier introduced to them by officials of the Nigerian Embassy in N’djamena.

For details, go to source http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=147163

WINDMILL OR NO WINDMILL, LIFE MUST STILL CONTINUE

@ Naijaking,

Please yourself, this trip you have embarked upon has been aborted. Please go back and come up with
another angle on your Sanusi bashing, iy is your right. My proverb on Mohammed Fawehinmi is appropriate.
The new born antelope begins to run at birth because that is what the mother does and that is the only
way to escape predators. We expect Gani's kid to also run like Gani. Did I say anything different from what my
initial statement is conveying?

I have a sneaky feeling tnat Naijaking may have connection with some funds allocated by a bank or some banks that
has not been detected by the EFCC and is trying all he can to throw get them off his trail and it is no more possible.
He is not happy with Sanusi for all this wahala.

@ Sapele guy,

Bros, you pass this levels na. CBN has been doin this for some time now and it is for the golf club.
If there was prior commitment, it cannot just be thrown away. Next time you go anytown, no pass
any street wey dem name after anyone wey you no like. A beg lef this one.

Mr. Billy muse abi mouse,

Which one be ya own. This is a dialiogue betwee husband and wife, dem never call inlaws yet.

Na poke nose you dey do, come take others join. Keep away.

Wher you come fronm sef?

@ OMO IBO

Na fatigue, madam has been very busy this weekend- see the number of posts

Sorry to interrupt, but what is the currency of Ukraine and what is the exhange rate to dollar?

Make dis  boy no take small pikin sense spoil him papa name o.

Na true say antelope no go run and di pikin wey him born go crawl.

But his handlers in that chamber should be very careful.

Is it the man or the sport? You could have stripped all the cities of Nigeria of streets and stadia
named after IB B, OBJ or Abacha. Nigerians sha