₦airaland Forum

SmartProf:
Bright minds and leaders know that they need to operate at a certain frequency with men of great pedigree and qualification to achieve efficiency. Soludo isn't the type that will appoint a herdsman with NEPA bill into his government because na him village person.

Your herdman with NEPA bill qualification analogy is completely out of place.

While I agree that Soludo has to bring aboard bright minds, having a PhD and professorial does not make anyone a bright mind.

Are you saying that you haven't seen people with PhDs and professorials, who going about sleeping with teenage girls on campuses and constituting nuisance in the society?

I know you were referring to Buhari when you mentioned NEPA certificate. Buhari will be commissioning the 2nd Niger Bridge in few months, the single must important infrastructure in the Southeast; something a PhD holder could not get off the drawing board.

These things aren't about PhD o.

lexy2014:
I didn't make any guess. I asked a direct question: who owns alpha beta?

With regards to roads, I stumbled on this: http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/jonathan-constructed-more-roads-than-any-other-nigerian-president-fashola/

If I remember vividly, Jonathan started and almost completed the abuja Kaduna rail

https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-obasanjo-jonathan-buhariwhose-is-the-abuja-kaduna-rail-line/amp

But let me ask, what is the standard of living in Nigeria now compared to the Jonathan era?

On Alpha Beta? I won't answer you. Find out yourself.

As for the comment credited to Fashola, the news source is little known and I can't comment. However, this was in 2015, and the assessment, if true, couldn't have included the current administration that hadn't kicked off then.

As for standard of living, that will depend on where you are coming from, and who is making the assessment. As for me, I do not see any good living standard in throwing monies around without infrastructures and improving key sectors, especially agriculture.

Let's make it easy, name key infrastructures built under Jonathan, with incontrovertible facts to back them up.

Please, leave the 'nearly completed' ones.

flokii:
Who get am?.. I dey suspect mama peace. there is God oh.

Lol!

after4:
just like the nonsense you typed their, your hypocrisy stinks. so you know they front for corrupt politician and you call them business men but onyema is not a businessman because he front for politicians? just get out

Where did this idiot come out from?

Where did I call Dangote and co. businessmen in my post?

You no well at all. Mind you, Allen Onyema is from my state...onye iberibe!

lexy2014:
You made a great point here bro But who owns alpha beta?

How was Jonathan clueless and infamous?

Your guess is as good as mine on Alpha Beta.

What would you call a man who couldn't complete a water project meant for his own people....but had to wait for a Fulani man to do so?

A man whose administration sold crude at over $100 for a significant part of its span, yet couldn't fix our roads, bridges, rails etc?

after4:
but dangote is a business man right? and is not fronting for your fulani thieves? who gave tifnubu bullion van? how did he make that money?

What is this one saying?

Who in Nigeria does not know that Dangote, Adenuga, Elumelu etc, are fronts to a group of corrupt politicians?

How did Fulani or Tinubu come into the discussion? Common, don't be petty in your needless attempt to justify Allen Onyema.

obedugo:
In every big business man , there's a shady deal

Allen Onyema is no businessman.

He is only a front for a group of fantastically corrupt individuals connected to Nigeria's immediate past and most reckless administration, led by the infamous, clueless President Goodluck Jonathan.

No be Allen Onyema get Air Peace sef.

Max24:
I am beginning to have a lot of respect for Wike. To be fair to him he has been one of the most consistent and courageous governors from PDP. While others were romancing Buhari he stood firm in opposition even at the risk of losing elections. Its obvious he is a principled man unlike most of those other governors who are only interested in their belly. 7years after Jonathan left office he is still on his side. Not once has he betrayed Jonathan or PDP even when under pressure. Principled men like him are what Nigeria needs, not those LIARS and PROPAGANDISTS. So many Nigerian politicians are Judases but not Wike.

Oga, Buhari has proven not to be interested in imposing governors in states.That is the type of president he is. Otherwise, Wike no reach.

We all know how petty and brutish Obasanjo and Jonathan can get over such issues.

Buhari was not even interested in having his brother-in-law as Adamawa governor, despite pressure from his own wife. Na part of wetin make Aisha talk wetin she talk for that her famous interview wey make Buhari come give am the landmark 'za oda room' response.

Wike is uncouth and reckless. Forget being governor or not, Wike and Obaseki no dey the same class. Obaseki pass am for everything.

Na so so quarrel Wike dem quarrel with everybody...e don fight Okupe, FFK, Dokpesi, Amaechi, Fayose, Tambuwal, Atiku, Secondus etc.

Is that what you call consistency? If you want to see a professional liar, go and meet Wike. He is a serial betrayal. He is unintelligent. He is too dominating.... infact, he is everything negative.

Lubumbashi:
As Governor, Obaseki is leader of the party in Edo state just like Wike is the party leader in Rivers state. Wike cannot win this battle, the best he can do is to scatter everything which will ensure that APC recaptures Edo state

I taya for Wike stupidity sha.

Obaseki is a governor just as him, what makes him believe he has more stake in the party.

Wike is being used and he doles out Rivers money recklessly. Perhaps, this is what makes him think he has more stake than anyone else.

Wike is just making a fool of himself.

Nwodosis:
Supreme Court Governor reading the scripts written for him by his Supreme masters!

What Uzodinma said is 100% correct.

Name any past president of Nigeria and their landmark accomplishments across the six geopolitical zones in the country.

You guys need to go to Bonny Island to see the Bonny-Bodo Bridge project to appreciate what Buhari has done.

These are landmark projects that have been on paper and recurring budgets for decades.

Imagine, common Zik Masoleum project, Jonathan couldn't complete in 6 years, despite being an inherited project by his party men (Obasanjo and Yardua). It took a Buhari to complete it, but his wife, Patience, completed a multiple billion naira hotel (Aridolf) in Yenagoa, in less than 3 years. Should we talk about the Ogbia Regional Water project in his very own place which he abandoned?

Hisbah21:
yeah Wike is feeling as if he own the PDP. but i dont blame him, cos wike and his co are the true sons of PDP. They didnot defect even doing its failure. Not like Obasaki that defect few years back

Is there a law that criminalizes defection?

That does not justify his being disrespectful of others.

Wike talks anyhow, and acts like a tout.

BluntCrazeMan:
So, impromptu but well executed yearly plans without a clear direction towards some long-term goals would be it??
And we want to be like saner climes??
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Long term plans that underwent good feasibility studies and with detailed workable implementation methods can never be ignored by subsequent governments.

Are you an African?

Is this the first of such document to be put together by a state in Nigeria?

How far with Nigeria's Vision 20: 2020 Plan; Plateau State Development Plan 2019 - 2023; Borno State 25-year Development Farmwork etc.

Abia state recently launched their own long term development plan. Are the absence of these plans the reason why Nigeria is still grossly developed? Is it responsible for the incurable, massive corruption?

What sort of 'clear direction' does anyone need to fix bad roads, enhance the healthcare and education sectors, combat corruption, improve security, create industries and factories, grossly mechanize agriculture, expand transportation options, develop mining and solid minerals etc...

No two leaders understand the priorities of their people in the same way. So, I think it makes no sense developing a development plan for leaders of several generations to come, especially in a world where global realities change everyday.

For instance, what Soludo and his team that developed the development document, understands as the priorities of Ndi Anambra, are not what I or anyone understand as our collective priorities.

BluntCrazeMan:
You have not seen the document yet.
You have not read and digested it.
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Why the hasty conclusion naa?
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Meanwhile,, there had been yearly budgets, and it's not going to stop.

I am very certain that those details won't be contained in the document. I am from Anambra, and I know these people very well. It is evident that it is an unworkable document. First, what are Anambra's comparative advantages? How have the administrations of the past aligned their programs, including the one that commissioned this document, with these comparative advantages? What is the composition of the Committee that produced this document, in terms of representation from every nook and cranny of the state? Was the document ratified in all the LGAs that constitute the state? Do they even understand the 'seriousness' of that document? If they did, it would not be used as a tool for a 'last minute show' by the outgoing administration.

I do not need to read the document to know this.

You didn't get my view on yearly budgets. My point is, if yearly budgets are well articulated, designed to meet prevailing human needs and wholesomely implemented; what is the need for a 50-year long development plan that successive administrations are unlikely to adhere to?

todaynewsreview:
Good one. Even the FG needs a good template to work on. Though all still depends on successive governments. Thankfully, Soludo is next in line.

All these are waste of precious time and resources.

While it is good to have a governance, if you like, a developmental guide for a state, the big issue is, is there any law that criminalizes deviation from such development plan.

What will happen if a governor emerges and decides to execute his own programs outside of the state's development roadmap? That is the issue. It is not all about having a development plan.

What sort of development plan disenfranchises its people by not conducting LG elections and allowing the people choose their leaders, at the lowest level of government?

Shey, you can see that the document is nonsense? Does the document address the lack of transparency in IGR collection and utilization?

These are nothing but facades. I prefer a yearly, thorough prepared, high human impact, and strictly implemented budget to all the compilation of intangible hogwash being paraded all over the media.

plaetton:
Lol.
The church and mosque are already the mud pits from whence Nigeria's politicians are molded.

You dey mind am.

Pastors and politicians....who better pass?

Pastors even worse pass sef.

Unruly7:


Anambra is moving on the right track honestly

How exactly?

I dey Awka now, and I am not happy at all with the condition of the roads.

Yes, the airport, Convention Center, Women Development Center and Stadium projects have been completed....but there still exist alarming gaps in human capital, road infrastructures, agriculture, security, transportation, road infrastructures etc, in the state; and these are the lifeblood of any society.

IGR collection is still shrouded with corruption and the LGAs remain grossly inactive, owning to the deliberate illegal refusal of successive administrations to conduct elections. I expected these to form the pillars of the pre governorship election debates. Anambra is a total mess. You will not understand. There is no real governance structure in place.

Obiano could have done far more. Soludo has so much to do, and I want to believe that he understands the real situations beyond what he has put together on paper as manifesto.

I supported Soludo because I didn't see a better candidate from the array of contestants. However, I still have my doubts about him.

He seems to be a man readily given to controversies, hence could easily be distracted. His leverage is obviously his intellect and known prudence, but whether he has the 'will power' to break the strong chain of 'political gluttons', milking the state, is a key issue.

Zonefree:
Eguavoen should invite Finidi George, Kanu Nwankwo, and Taribo West also.

And maybe recall Segun Odegbami and Etim Esin too.

YorobaPIGS:
and you that do, see the way you are supporting and showing the trust by throwing obi under the bus while other gladly show their trust by supporting their own


I thought you were cursed, but now I know you are cursed

Nkita ara

Onye mkpurummiri!

How is Obi my own? If he cared about anyone from Anambra as governor, he would have done his best to fix Anambra.

Go and see all the roads he constructed across the state. They have all become death traps, and you are there talking nonsense.

Mooh247:



Obiano is 1000% better than Peter Obi

Visible legacy projects not economical bullshit stories


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Who be Obi again sef?

Obi is one of the worst things that happened to Anambra...

E no fit conduct LG elections sef. Which e say him save Anambra money sef? Fidelity abi....which people get am?

With him yeye woman voice and Chinese roads wey potholes don destroy finish.

Na real Obi Pandora!!

mrvitalis:
The reason Igbos love obsanjo , yaradua and Jonathan is simple they carried everyone along everyone ,they never showed hatred to any tribe

Imagine if in 2015 Buhari flew to anambra or Enugu called Igbos leaders ...I know u don't trust me ,I know u are scared I would marginalise you but election is over let's all come together and build Nigeria ...no part would be marginalized we are all one Nigeria and show it by action

So same for south south


Trust me Nigeria would have been different

What is this one talking about?

Don't we have Igbos in Buhari's administration?

Oh, I didn't know Onu, Ngige, Onyema, Ogah, Ikeazor, Nwajiuba etc are Fulani.

It is people like you that would talk about the entire North as a single region, and then compare it with the Southeast.

Na your type dey argue say Hausa / Fulani don rule taya...Are Babangida and Gowon that ruled for a combined 17 years Hausa or Fulani?

Buhari does not need to call Igbo or Southsouth leaders to convince them about anything.

Mention one Nigerian president that has outperformed Buhari in the South East or the entire Southern Nigeria?

Trust you ke...do you even trust or know yourself? If you did, you write what you wrote.

[quote author=surebona post=110859450]Chai which kind capping be this one na.
Me no wan involve with man self o[/quote)


My guy, when death don come...dem no dey fit hold am.

See you....see death.

surebona:
Take am easy wisdom,
Na my pikin na, but she dey beg me say make I help her, she no wan leave the guy. Make I do her the favour of impregnating her ni... Abi u no code the Yan?

How you dey take mix wetin you dey take?

DozieMartin:
Toll gate in the East

So what?

There are toll gates around the world.

If this is what will drive infrastructural development....why not?

Na make the roads be death traps naim you prefer?

foryourmindlol:
What's there to celebrate?

Did you see the massive toll gates they mounted there while building free railway and roads to Buhari's bandit brothers in Niger Republic?

This bridge is not free. Igbos are paying for it. Chinese investors were told to build it with their money and mount toll gate for next 25 - 40 years. What a wicked country.

So I should start jumping up for a loan I'll pay at ridiculous rates for decades? Even unborn Igbo kids will pay for it and I should be happy?

To the kids saying railway is not free. Niger Republic bandits that travel on trains are only paying for train ride which is about 50% subsidized by Ministry of Transportation. They don't pay for building the railway.

Meanwhile Igbos will pay for transport to ply on the useless bridge and still pay extra for toll gate. If you're traveling with your car, you'll pay for car, buy fuel and still pay tollgate. Are you people daft or something?

Your illiteracy and ignorance are incurable.

You are so foolish that you couldn't imagine that any Nigerian could use the rail to Niger?

Do you know how many traders from Southern Nigerian that do business between Nigeria and Niger?

So, it is only Igbos that would use the 2nd Niger Bridge? E be like say kerosene pour inside your brain.

Do you think the old Niger Bridge would be tolled or dismantled because of the new one?

This one think say toll gates no dey abroad.....if you no wan pay toll, you use alternative route. No be fight.

You no how much wey gridlock for the current Niger Bridge dey cost (manhour losses) the country?

For your information, na Julius Berger dey provide the most fund (over 80%), and also dey build the bridge. I no no wetin carry Chinese investors come 2nd Niger Bridge.

obanioluorun:
stop it please, never trust a man that always praise himself for little job done, the man does that is a fool, faliure and clueless, Fashola cannot do better than Buhari because they all believes and focus on oil from niger delta aside from this no other ideas or initiative for economic growth and development.

Who is this please?

Praise himself? How? He is a public officer for crying out loud, and therefore owes the people updates on his stewardship. Is that why you call praising oneself?

They depend on oil from Niger Delta you said.... that certainly shows how uninformed you are. How then was Nigeria able to come out of recession even when your oil sold for less than $30 per barrel? How were they able to embark and execute more projects than your Niger Delta brother and co-oil owner, Jonathan, while he was president?

Fashola and Buhari are the two best things to happen to Nigeria. Did you say they have got no ideas? Perhaps, you meant that you are not informed about their programs and projects. Go and read about The Presidential Infrastructure Tax Scheme. That ingenious idea grossly tackled corruption and gave birth to the completed 8-lane highway from Apapa through Oshodi down to Oworonshoki in Lagos. This was done by the Dangote group.

The same idea is birthing the first ever land access to Bonny Island in Rivers State, valued at over 100billion... likewise the Onitsha-Awka-Enugu Expressway among others. What do you even know about the Niger Delta? You are a defender of Niger Delta abi? Where were you when billions accruing to the NDDC was swallowed by your brothers? What did your uncle Jonathan do in the Niger Delta? Are you aware that Buhari has signed the FID for NLNG Train 7 project?

You think that they are clueless yet they fixed the rail infrastructure, which was hitherto abandoned for over three decades, from Warri, passing Agbarho, Ughelli, Agenebode and Agbor (all in the Niger Delta) to Itakpe in Northern Nigeria. They 2nd Niger Bridge that provides stronger link between the SE and SS is nearing completion. Lagos-Ibadan Railway is up and running.

If these are what you call cluelessness...then we need more of it.

africanpride1:
I just love this man, many that are condemning and abusing him won't achieve half of what he achieved if given chance to be in his shoes. Besides, we all know that Leaders rise from among the followers, if Nigerian masses want better Leader, they should change their greedy mentality first.


Obviously, you don't know the person that Buhari loves and trust most. You don't know that the most favoured and trusted Yoruba for Presidency is Babatunde Fashola, Buhari is a Man of Vision who loves Fashola so much because of what he saw him do in Lagos and dedication to truly uplift the Masses as well as infrastructure. That's why he handed over 4 Massive Ministries to him at same Time! Have you ever heard of such happen before in the whole long History of Nigeria? Did Buhari ever give 4 Ministries to even 1 Fulani Man to Control?! Buhari is truly a good man surrounded by wicked Souls who advice him wrongly, I wish he had many more of the likes of Fashola around him, Nigeria would have been a very sweet Country by now. Those that say Buhari is a tribalist or nepotic don't see far into what has happened, he is a good man who believes that Nigeria should make great Progress. Fashola proved his Visionary Leadership Capacity by taking Lagos to greater heights. Tested and trusted. It has also become glaring that the Nepa Technocracts Powers-that-be and Generator Importing Cabal are the ones that have behind the Scene fought tooth and nail to scuttle his Relentless Effort to make Electricity stable in Nigeria. As President, he would have enough Authority to deal with them and flush them out, Fashola would be the best Nigerian next President. Like if you agree, Share if not.

Fashola is most likely Nigeria's next president.

abeyaktech:
Seriously speaking, this man didn't have human feelings. Scarcity of fuel, ASSU strike, bad electricity no solution to all these how can these people go to bed and sleep. All of them will not die well. They have destroy this country beyond repair. All of them will not have rest mind. Amen IJN, Insha Allah, thunder will strike them ni oruko sango.

Oga, the fuel scarcity issue isn't Buhari's fault. Nigerians are panic buying and terribly greedy. The NNPC has come out to say that there isn't shortage both in storage and supply.

There are fuel stations that still sell at N165. Citizens have the right to jettison greedy marketers of petroleum products.

As for power supply, we dey get light for my town for, at least 22 hours, a day. Infact, light could stay for 1 week, 2weeks or more without an outage, except, of course, there is an issue. Abi no be Nigeria my town and several other neighbouring towns dey?

As for ASUU, those people aren't serious at all.

revived2:
#100 onions omooooo

I am on the north also but I only get 5pieces of Onion for #100


Modified: omooooo #200 tomatoes, well e go be shaa

No be only 'on the North' na 'at the North'.

SarkinYarki:
He will be the best to address the insecurity but outside that I don't see much

Wike wey no sabi himself naim wan address insecurity....

Anyways, na joke u dey sha.

How safe is Rivers State?

LegendHero:
— Fashola delivered second Niger bridge to the East

—Amaechi delivered Lagos-Ibadan rail to the West

Bawo ba ki’ funi, awo n’ki fawo pada.

Muhammadu Buhari bridge. I hope IPOB terrorists will not blow up the bridge due to hatred for the name.

Lol.

Person wey no like Buhari, make e go hug transformer jare.

LeoDeKing:
So you mean this bridge has finally left the map to the ground?

Anyway, let's give the credit to patience Jonathan who completed the bridge only for jubrin to cover it with taupoline, then start opening it gradually so we praise him.

Besides, did jubrin even do it with his money? This is something Jonathan planned to construct with his own salary, but jubrin wants to take credit for doing it with govt money.

Above is how disjointed and incoherent a typical ipob pig will react.

Lol.

You sabi dem well.

Dem no well at all.