₦airaland Forum

9ousky:
why Ar people just writing rubbish and nonsense nowadays on nairaland. I watched d 7pm news at channels, they didn't even show d side at which Buhari speaks, it was Obama's side that was shown. Then 10pm news on channels again, the two sides were shown and at no time did Buhari even mention APC or d nonsense u claim He said, He only mentioned "our party" and dats in regard to the party major things to tackle security, economy and corruption... Pls let's stop all dis nonsense attitude

Jesusloveyou:
which war? After gej have send people to kill he, in order not to expose gej

eazydon:
Femi Adesina, the special adviser of media and publicity for Buhari is keeping us up to date on everything being discussed between President Buhari and Barack Obama.


Stay with us as we keep updating the latest from the "world changing meeting" and remember to keep refreshing this page so you can get the latest as it happens.

Follow the jump for all of the scoop as it unfolds:

Buhari, a man of integrity, says Obama
— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) July 20, 2015

Wherever Nigeria goes, Africa goes. The continent's destiny is tied to Nigeria's, says Obama
— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) July 20, 2015
Combine military action against Boko Haram with social and economic programmes, Obama tells PMB.
— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) July 20, 2015

A divided country never succeeds. Turn the diversity of Nigeria to source of strength, Obama tells PMB.
— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) July 20, 2015

Obama to PMB: U.S willing to stand with Nigeria as long as Nigeria remains on course.
— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) July 20, 2015

Obama urges 5 accompanying governors and others to work with PMB. Okorocha pledges support on behalf of others.
— Femi Adesina (@FemAdesina) July 20, 2015


http://www.trendtopix.com/photo-see-what-obama-called-buhari-during-their-meeting/

midolian:
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Washington DC warned close aides not to smuggle anyone into his official meetings with US officials.
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SaharaReporters could not ascertain how many Nigerian businessmen have arrived in Washington ............ but a source told our reporters that controversial and flamboyant businessman, Terry Waya, as well as Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, have been seen around Buhari's delegation.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/20/don%E2%80%99t-let-nigerian-businessmen-my-meetings-us-president-buhari-warns-aides

All hail our no nonsense president.

Sai Buhari!!

Ndeewonu:
It appears you have not been in the country. Expecting Buhari to deal with Boko Haram is like expecting a father to kill his child for your sake!

kenonze:
Funny.
Op, u dont know the difference bw office seal and letter head paper?

ayindejimmy:
This Ops is daft!
Is this a seal! ?

Abbeyme:
Am sure it's the invitation people that designed that I for the occasion. At least Mrs Aisha Buhari didn't sign that document!

emmasege:
Jonathan lost election in March while Buhari had two solid months to prepare his own mercenaries. A prepared man would have got his mercenaries in place before May 29 & swung into action immediately. It's almost two months since buhari assumed office. If it took a civilian president less than two months to bring BH to its lowest ebb, it shouldn't take a "military" president more than that period.

For Christ's sake, it's almost four months since he won the election. PMB should've built on GEJ's little success in that regard, but he chose to discountenace what his predecessor achieved in a bid to score cheap political point and please his G-7 bosses. What's the rationale behind dismantling those road blocks which had hindered the movement of those animals hitherto?

The military had boxed them into a corner & restricted their activities to s small region, a success the president could've taken advantage of. But what did he do?, he broke the siege which enabled them to disperse, regroup & re-strategise attacks in areas that had rested from BH attacks.

patriotic007:
what troubles me most in not the fact that boko haram still remains in existence because it will be unfair to expect buhari to perform miracles.......but what troubles me most is the fact that the army has not even made any concrete step since buhari came.....only meeting upon meetings with different people buhari has been embarking on......by now we should be counting the number of raids by our army on BH positions .....
we should be counting the number of airstrikes by our airforce on BH...we should be counting the number town liberated from them.......but nothing...instead we are counting suicide bombs and raids by BH

dayo23:
Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo visiting the victims of Gombe bomb blast at the Federal teaching hospital, Gombe.
RIP to the Death

dunkem21:
The Picture you painted got me reeling on the floor with laughter ..

I can remember that guy telling the oyibo man "Mgbo piafukwa gi isi"

Ichoku na d bomb.

pasol4real:
No Wonder he is going to the usa with amaechi n the rest of them.
So they can serve as interpreters to Obama.

jieta:
If we nigerians cant understand buhari english, i pity obama

dunkem21:
Chineke ekwekwala ihe ojoo

Ha si na onye isi ala anyi agbajighi choku ka o foduzia itiwa sleti

Ka anyi choro ya interpreter "nwa DC"

..Ichoku

baralatie:
But they can approach the House Of Assembly!

fulanimafia:
Nope there is a clear difference. Our excess crude account balance is still intact for the rainy day, while the recently remitted funds by NLNG were used to solve the immediate biting problems of the average Nigerian that is going hungry due to unpaid salaries.

That is called purposeful leadership.

Yehman:
Booked

Source: Vanguard

ABUJA — The Federal Government has appointed Mr. Mordecai Danteni Baba Ladan, as the Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to take over from Mr. George Osahon whose tenure elapsed June 19, 2015.

According to a statement on the website of the DPR, Monday, the memorandum dated June 19, 2015 stated that the appointment was with immediate effect. Ladan, according to the statement, is a Petrochemist by profession, who joined DPR on November 23, 1987 as a Senior Analytical Chemist and was deployed to the Safety & Environment Branch under the then Technical Services Division. The company noted that Ladan rose through the ranks to occupy various key positions within the organization, including Zonal Operations Controller, DPR Kaduna. The DPR said, “Having attained the rank of Deputy Director, he was appointed Head, Downstream Monitoring & Regulation Division October 2005 – June 2013. “Thereafter, he was appointed Head, Gas Monitoring & Regulation Division June 2013 – May 2014. And then Head, Safety, Health & Environment Division May 2014 until his recent appointment.

“Mr. Ladan is highly accomplished both professionally and academically; he is Fulbright Scholar (Hubert H. Humphrey, North-South Fellow) where he bagged a Certificate in Environmental & Regulatory Policy / Public Affairs June 1991. M.Sc. Petrochemicals & Hydrocarbon Chemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, United Kingdom March 1986. “He also has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria July 1982; West African School Certificate – Federal Government College, Kano June 1978. He was born on the 24th of June 1957 and is married with children.

Osahon, the immediate past Director of the DPR was appointed June 19, 2013, for a two-year renewable tenure, making him the first Director in DPR to be appointed on such terms. It was reported that Osahon had, few days to the end of his tenure, turned in a letter giving notice of the expiry of his tenure. Osahon’s appointment to the DPR was trailed with controversy, especially as he had been in and out of the government for decades. He was retired twice while working in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. Prior to his exit from office, Osahon had handed over to Ladan, who was the most senior executive of the DPR.

Boss13:
Nice comment. There is need for intense scrutiny, else we are setting a bad precedence. The money spent by these governors must be reviewed thoroughly.

Source: Bloomberg

President Muhammadu Buhari has denied that the Excess Crude Account (ECA) will be depleted further to pay government debts, including civil servants’ salaries, Bloomberg reports.

The government will instead use a $2.1 billion dividend paid into the Treasury by Nigeria LNG Ltd., Africa’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas, to pay wages, Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, said Tuesday in an e-mailed statement from the capital, Abuja. Nigeria’s 36 states and local arms of the government will also be able to draw “soft loans” from the central bank and have some debt restructured, he said.

The comments seek to clarify statements made by Nigeria’s Accountant General Ahmed Idris on Monday that the Excess Crude Account, which holds the nation’s oil savings and has a balance of about $2 billion, will be drawn down by $1.7 billion. The funds will be shared by the federal, state and local governments to meet their financial obligations, Idris said.

Bollove:
By the time MNJTF is put into action with support from western allies and the eastern power bloc, this insurgency ravaging Northern Nigeria would be stories of the past.
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You can't build good house on poor foundation and while destroying illegitimate foundations the environment would have to bear some inconveniences.

God Bless Nigeria.

Blakjewelry:
Source

ISSUE OF PARTY SUPREMACY

However, one very thorny issue within the embattled APC remains the definition of the leadership as occasioned by the new mantra of supremacy.

It would be recalled that, penultimate week, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, issued a statement stating that Tinubu was the National Leader of the party; the ink on the paper which carried the statement had not dried before the Presidency issued a counter statement insisting that Buhari remains the leader of the party, without prejudice to whatever contributions made by those who were the founding leaders.

Sunday Vanguard was told by a Tinubu loyalist – and correctly so – that the issue of party supremacy, as espoused by the former Lagos governor and Buhari, is good for the growth of the APC.Privately, some of the leaders of the party, who are obviously not on the same page with Tinubu, like Saraki; former Governors Danjuma Goje,Sani Yerima, Kabiru Gaya; and former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh; as well as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, are said not to be comfortable with the connotation that presently exists on the term, PARTY SUPREMACY

Verily, in the event that the APC takes a “position, that position should be binding on all”, the Tinubu loyalist insisted.

However, other leaders of the APC are insisting on the need for the party hierarchy to define the concept of party supremacy.

At the Friday APC NEC meeting, the issue could not be discussed because of what a source described as “some sensibilities that were not to be ruffled”.

The growing consensus among party leaders across the three divides – Buhari, Tinubu and Atiku – is the need for the party to quickly determine “who and what constitute party supremacy which would be codified”


BOT CHAIRMANSHIP: THE FIRE NEXT TIME

The ruling party may be heading for another round of crisis in the contest for who becomes its Board of Trustees, BoT, Chairman.

Whereas it was a known “fact that Tinubu, while lobbying Atiku to support Senator Ahmed Lawan for the Senate presidency, with a possible pledge to assist Atiku clinch the BoT slot, some loyalists of Tinubu are now proposing that he should become the BoT Chairman”, a party source told Sunday Vanguard, “but that may be a far shot because Oyegun is from the South and appointing another person from the South to be BoT Chair, would not be fair. In fact, that was why Oyegun’s job was in jeopardy because it was part of a grand agenda”.

But this argument may not hold water because Buhari is from the North just as Atiku is also from the North.

If the report of Vanguard is anything to go by, then the crisis in the governing party, the All Progressives Congress (APC, may just be far from over as its says President Muhammadu Buhari and a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are yet to agree on the way out of the crisis.

The crisis came to being with the leadership tussle in the National Assembly where Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara defied the party to emerge Senate President and Speaker of the House of Reps respectively.


According to the report, part of the reasons for the seeming prolonged process of resolving the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, may be the slightly differing positions of President Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Specifically, the sources disclosed that the Friday NEC meeting of the party “brought to the open the seeming centrifugal positions of Mr. President and Asiwaju.”

One of the sources added: “At the meeting between the governors and the warring parties that followed the APC NEC parley, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, was mandated to chair a committee of three that would come up with possible resolutions to the crisis.

BUHARI’S POSITION
“It was an open discussion at the NEC meeting that whereas Mr. President has consistently expressed his dissatisfaction at the truncation of the party’s procedure for the emergence of the leaders of the National Assembly, the position he has since taken has been one of reconciliation and not outright antagonism to the leadership of the National Assembly.”

Sunday Vanguard was told that Tinubu’s position, which had been misconstrued in many quarters as antagonistic, was merely a reflection of the need to enforce party supremacy at all times.

One of the arrowheads of the Tinubu group told Sunday Vanguard: “Asiwaju is not being rigid. He just believes it is not proper to kick off a government on a note of disobedience to party position by members of the National Assembly. It sends a wrong signal”.


WHAT TINUBU WANTED

For instance, it was gathered that one of the conditions put forward by the former governor of Lagos State was that both Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara “should not be invited to the meeting”. Investigations into how the Friday meeting of the APC NEC went the way it did suggest that whereas Tinubu gave some conditions, those opposed to him ensured that his position did not hold.

A top APC member privy to the happenings in the ruling party told Sunday Vanguard: “”The second condition he put forward was that in the event that the two leaders of the National Assembly were invited, they should be made to commit to an apology letter to the party.”

That way, it was learnt, it would be on record that both men went against the grain of their political party.

“Unfortunately”, the top party leader said, “none of these could be achieved.

“And you should understand. This is a time when members of the party should engage a cohesive mode rather than one that would alienate more members. It is bad enough that we already have a crisis on our hands. To further entrench positions would not be in the interest of the party.”


BUHARI LOYALISTS TAG WITH ATIKU

Sunday Vanguard was to further learn that already, “there is a groundswell of coalition between some party faithful loyal to President Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar”.

The source went on: “Mind you”, it is not for the love of Atiku. But it is gradually becoming imperative that whoever within the party that would attempt to ring-fence the President with people that would become malleable should be checked”.

Indeed, it was discovered that when APC’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, held talks with the President, last week, the fears of the former were assuaged by the latter on the insinuation that he (Oyegun) could lose his position following his acceptance of the emergence of Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and House Speaker.

“In fact, Mr. President told our party Chairman not to lose sleep; that the rumours about his possible removal from office can never happen”.

Sunday Vanguard was told that that was why the party reposed a vote of confidence in its Chairman at the Friday NEC meeting.