₦airaland Forum

HappyJoe:
N3.3 billion/month is not a whole lot of money, it will just cover the wages bill.

Faraidi:
Madness is when you spent six years in the university reading day and night at the end you vote for a 73 years old mallam without certificate.Senseless is when you think Buhari will fight corruption when his Benefactor own half of Lagos state.Voters be wise!

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Presidential Candidate of the All progressive Congress ( APC), General buhari in his campaign in Owerri on Monday promises to make #1 equal to $1 .

This statement is now tending on Social medias as Everybody is expressing their opinions about the promise.

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Sobeautiful:
Let's forget Okorocha's rented and mobilized crowd, after all he's the governor. When it get's down to business the Igbos surely know who to vote for and certainly not a man that supervised their massacre some years ago and boldly told the world he will do it again if the need arises. Good that the election is finally here so we don't keep deceiving ourselves. For those that have come to limelight again because of this election, l'll advise they enjoy it while it lasts 'cos the time that will soon usher them into oblivon again is ticking. Or usher them to tribunal which is as good as oblivion.

SLIDEwaxie:
That is GEJ's N7b speaking

organic973:
Less than one week to the general election, Christians in Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, under the aegis of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have raised the alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is aiming to disenfranchise them by cleverly keeping away the Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) from its members.

Addressing a press conference in Jos, the CAN coordinator for Bauchi local government area, Mr Mako Gwamis, who was flanked by about 14 other Christians, said: “Christians in Bauchi LG are facing threat of being disenfranchised if no action is taken to avert the evil plan.”

He said, “Christian dominated areas in the LG like Bayara, Yelwan Tsakanin, Tsakanin Bayara, Gwallameji, Doka, Kagadama, Yelwan-Tudun, Turum, Miri, Yelwan-Makaranta, Rafin Zurfi, Gudum Sayawa, Gudum Hausa, ECWA-1, to mention but a few, having a population of about 10,000 people, who took their time to stand under the sun and registered for the polls, but not up to 2,000 of them have got their PVCs due to INEC deliberate act to make the cards unavailable to their polling units for distribution.”

Gwamis said voters in these areas are asked to travel INEC local government office at Kofar Ran, a distance of about 40 kilometres to obtain their cards. He added that those who could afford the transport fare and travelled the distance only got stranded at Kofar Ran as they did not get the INEC officials to attend to them.

He queried why the distribution of the PVCs in Christian dominated areas had to be taken to a different location from where they registered, adding that the Christians are suspecting sabotage.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/inec-wants-to-disenfranchise-us-christians-in-bauchi-cry-out/204677/

ShowYourCertificate:
Buhari, the past will continue to haunt you. You committed many atrocities in the past. You joined the Army without certificate, you killed Igbos and Yorubas in the 1966 counter-coup. You violated human rights when you were head of state in 1984, you incited ur followers to kill corpers in Bauchi in 2011.

We have not forgotten.

ozoigbondu:
The present one is better,the red sun made it look childish.I would have prefered it if our coat of arms was permantly ingrained in the flag.It makes it look manly and overwhelms you with pride

adezt08:
DAMASAK, Nigeria — Boko Haram’s black flag is everywhere in the town of Damasak, deep in Islamist-held territory in northern Nigeria: It is painted on former administrative buildings and schools, and on the side of abandoned gas stations.

The other unmistakable sign of the Islamist militants’ recent presence is that practically none of the residents are left in a once-thriving town of 200,000. They have either fled to the state capital, Maiduguri, or been killed by Boko Haram. Every looted and battered storefront yawns open to the dusty roadside.

Mostly, the only sound in the hot, still air is from military vehicles, carrying soldiers from the neighboring countries of Chad and Niger as they make their way through the wreckage of the deadly five-month Islamist occupation of this Nigerian town. From time to time, the Chadian soldiers ululate to celebrate their victory against the militants in a fierce firefight that stretched into this week.

The Chadians ushered a small group of journalists around for a brief look at their handiwork this week, offering a rare glimpse into the group’s northern Nigerian stronghold, and into the dimensions, and difficulties, of a cross-border, four-nation fight against the Islamists.


Chadian soldiers in Damasak on Wednesday, only days after the town was liberated from Boko Haram militants. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Rather than a display of important regional cooperation in the battle against Boko Haram, the visit instead pointed out some of the confusion and resentment that are creating tension among neighbors. The soldiers from Chad and Niger had succeeded here, but there was not a single Nigerian soldier to be found. The force members were bewildered to find themselves as foreign liberators without any help from the Nigerians.

Even as the Nigerian government, with a national election looming, insists that its forces have chased Boko Haram fighters out of much of their northern territory, the deserted streets and all-foreign force here paint a different picture. Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians still cannot return home to towns that have been, nominally at least, freed from Boko Haram.

But the foreign soldiers here said they do not want to occupy somebody else’s country, and worry that the Islamist fighters will simply return if they leave and the Nigerians have not arrived to take over.

Hundreds of miles away in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, officials are expressing anger at the near-total absence of cooperation from the Nigerians in a crucial regional battle, even as Nigerian officials are discounting the extent of Chad’s role.

The disquiet of the Chadian officials was echoed in the words of the front-line Chadian soldiers here who wonder why they, and not the Nigerians, are holding towns like Damasak, several days after the last Boko Haram fighter has fled or been killed.

“We asked them to come, to receive this town from us, but they have not come,” said Second Lt. Mohammed Hassan, resting in the shade of the armored vehicle he had manned with his company.

“It is because they are afraid,” Lieutenant Hassan added, spitting out the words, his face half-hiddenagainst the 107-degree heat in a black turban.

Around him hundreds of soldiers from Chad and Niger were camped out under the broiling sun. The senior Chadian officers tried to shoo away a handful of journalists, but a few of the soldiers, like the lieutenant, still wanted to talk about the battle.

“We fought on the night of the 14th, and the last attack was on the 15th,” Lieutenant Hassan said. As for the Nigerians, “we called them on the 16th” — after the fight for Damasak had ended — “and told them to come; they didn’t believe we were here,” Lieutenant Hassan said.

More politely, his country’s foreign minister, Moussa Faki Mahamat, two hours away by military transport plane and helicopter in N’Djamena, offered a similar appraisal in an interview Thursday.

Soldiers from Chad played cards in Damasak. The force members were bewildered at having become foreign liberators without any help from the Nigerians. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Nigerian Army has not succeeded in facing up to Boko Haram,” Mr. Mahamat said.

“The occupation of these towns, this is up to Nigeria,” he added. “My fondest wish is that they assume their responsibilities.”

The soldiers around Lieutenant Hassan, savoring their victory over Boko Haram, displayed a pile of battered rifles captured from the Islamists, some with Arabic exhortations on the stocks. The men said they had thoroughly searched the looted town and its parched savanna surroundings in the past two days, and there was not a single Boko Haram fighter to be found.

The fight was definitely over, several of the men said with satisfaction, noting with wonder the strange fighting habits and beliefs of their opponents.

“You would say that these are people ready to die, to commit suicide,” Lieutenant Hassan said.


He recounted how, after the battle, a Boko Haram prisoner seemed terrified by the Chadians’ superior matériel — Chad has perhaps the region’s best-equipped army after decades of war, civil and external. The captured fighter insisted that the lieutenant’s armored personnel carrier was self-driving and ate its opponents.

As a convoy of military vehicles rumbled down the deserted main street, a solitary older couple could be glimpsed at the back of a mud-walled compound. The woman raised clenched fists to the sky, despairingly, as the trucks passed. The soldiers said that the handful of people left in Damasak were simply too feeble to move.

Boko Haram captured the town late in November, according to Nigerian news accounts. The fighters infiltrated Damasak’s extensive market — on the border with Niger, and close to Cameroon, it was until recently a major regional trading hub — and killed merchants there to sow terror in the population, its customary method. Another group of fighters was waiting at the town’s edge and overran government buildings as the remaining soldiers were occupied at the market.

Since then, Damasak had become a regional headquarters for Boko Haram, officials in Maiduguri said. “Damasak is where they were doing their planning and operational business,” said an official close to the governor of Borno State, of which Maiduguri is the capital.

The number of substantial buildings bearing the Boko Haram insignia was testimony to the town’s strategic role for the group. “They were coordinating and doing all their training there,” the official said.

Now Damasak, like much of northeastern Nigeria, is in a vacuum. Boko Haram has been chased away for now, but it is not clear that the Nigerian Army is ready to occupy and hold this and other towns.

“It is up to them to hold the town. Not us. Our role is offensive. Our mission is to chase the terrorists,” Lieutenant Hassan said. “But they are afraid,” he repeated angrily.

“Our biggest wish is that the Nigerian Army pulls itself together — that it takes responsibility in the towns,” said Mr. Mahamat, the Chadian foreign minister. “We are ready to disengage, right away.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/world/africa/nigerian-army-noticeably-absent-in-town-taken-from-boko-haram.html

sweetval:
I have been seeing this thing under construction along Owerri-Aba Expressway and no one seems to know exactly what he is building. Abeg make una follow me see...

myproperty:
Ukraine is at war how can they send mercenaries to fight in Nigeria when they are actually looking for eternal help.
South Africa refuse to sell weapons to Nigeria how come they have mercenaries fighting in Nigeria? Would a South African Soldier leave his duty in his home country to fight in Nigeria without the knowledge of the South African Army?

I hope this report from foreign media is not to look down on our Army that are winning the war for us. How come the natives that are seeing the war live are praising our Army

lalasticlala:
***Weapons captured from Boko Haram are seen in the recently retaken town of Damasak(Emmanuel Braun/Reuters)

***A Boko Haram flag is displayed by soldiers in the recently retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria(Emmanuel Braun/Reuters)



http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/boko-haram-nigeria-neighbours-chad-cameroon-niger-celebrate-victories-over-islamic-forces-1492699

ifyan:
The harsh economy in Nigeria caused by the fall in global crude oil prices might last much longer as the Federal Government on Tuesday declared that there was no end in sight with respect to the plunge.



According to the government, many companies in the oil and gas industry as well as in other sectors have slashed their respective capital spending this year as a result of the fall in crude oil prices.

The PUNCH had reported on Tuesday that the price of global benchmark Brent crude oil fell by about three per cent the previous day to a six-week low of $52.50 per barrel. This was less than a week after the National Assembly adopted $53 per barrel as the 2015 budget oil price benchmark.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, told participants at the 15th Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference in Abuja on Tuesday that the global fall in oil prices was last seen during the peak of the financial crisis in 2008.

She noted that the 2008 plunge in crude oil prices was due to a weak global economy, strong dollar as well as an over supplied oil market, but stressed that the current plunge was different as there was limited visibility as to how it would evolve.

Alison-Madueke said, “Crude oil prices have dropped by 60 per cent from about $110 in June 2014 to $40 by January 2015. Brent is currently trading at between $50 and $60 per barrel and there is limited visibility as to how this will evolve going forward.

“Most analysts agree that as oil producers, we should brace for extended periods of lower prices and increased price volatility. The resultant effect is that companies are slashing capital spending in 2015 as a response to this dramatic collapse in oil prices.

“According to Wood Mackenzie, relative to 2014, a total of $120bn has been cut from the 2015 upstream budgets of some 116 countries. This can go up to as much as 40 per cent.”

The minister said it was obvious that many oil producing countries, including Nigeria, were facing declining government revenues due to low oil prices, adding that this would pose challenges to funding of projects.

She stated that all accomplishments of the oil and gas sector were now been challenged by the current low price environment, which was characterised by dramatic revenue declines.

“This means that flexibility in capital expenditure and funding in general will be further constrained in 2015,” the minister stated.

Alison-Madueke said the persistent depressed oil prices might limit industry scope to manoeuvre in growing long term production and reaching the target of four million barrels of oil per day.

Source:http://nairausd..com/

enochnochi:
you are welcome my brother. actually, the pleasure is mine

enochnochi:
the dust was so much...I couldn't capture this shot clearly... sorry for the poor pix