₦airaland Forum

Nightmareo07:
No need for this long rants, let him beat wilder

Same Wilder who ducked Klitschko and needed a rabbit punch against an old gassed out Ortiz with heart issues and was cleared hours before the fight?
Wilder couldn't beat Ortiz cleanly and was outclassed and Ortiz is the only quality fighter in Wilder's resume.
Povetkin and Dillian Whyte will have unskilled Wilder for supper.

ukoshadi:
That Donald Duke’s Gaffe on Ayade

Former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke was recently in the news for a very wrong reason when he referred to professor Ayade as an undertaker who had come to bury the state. This gaffe left many wondering whether the erstwhile governor really made that statement. But since it was an open statement and he has never denied it, the question then is, what could have prompted such a gaffe from a man many thought, despite his many glaring failures as the state governor, was at least respectable for the very reason that he had refuse to interfere in the affairs of succeeding administrations.

His very choice of the word, “Undertaker”, is absurd as it implies that the state was dead by the time Ayade came in.

But if this be the case then, happenings in the state since 2015 have proved that Ayade has managed to raise up the dead instead of burying it. Then Ayade deserves kudos rather than knocks from all and sundry, least from a man who plunged the state into debt through economically unviable projects executed at inflated costs. It was his debts that could have crippled the state that Ayade’s government is paying now at 1.5 billion naira a month.

Objective comparison of Duke’s and Ayade’s administration reveals a yawning gap. Putting the two on scale, it would take at least hundred times of Duke’s achievements to balance up with Ayade. Firstly, Donald Duke was governor at a time when the state was still reaping fortune from the over seventy oil wells which were later given to Akwa Ibom State via a Supreme Court judgment. This was as a result of political shortsightedness of Duke who failed to see the potential danger ahead.

The obudu cattle ranch and Tinapa projects of Duke are of no economic impact on the common man, instead they are drain pipes on the state’s meager revenue.

In the area of Agriculture, Duke also failed woefully as the plantation system he met were in shambles by the time he left office.

His administration concentrated huge resources on tourism which was under social services heading in his budget planning process.

This perhaps is a reflection of his flippant character and his natural inclination to funfair to the detriment of real development.

On the contrary, Ayade has delivered in three years and from nothing the most spectacular performance of any governor in the history of Nigeria.

His industrialization projects including the Garment Factory, Calabar Pharmacy, The Cotton Farm, Ogoja Rice Mill and a host of many others show a mind serious about the development of the state. Well-thought out and meticulously executed projects which have direct bearing on the economy of the citizenry are hallmark of Ayade’s government.

Infrastructures have witnessed unprecedented attention under Ayade touching the home of the erstwhile governor in particular. Welfare of the people is another area where Senator Ayade has performed brilliantly.

Civil servants in the state as well as the general citizenry will attest to this. Salaries are being paid as at when due. Ayade runs an inclusive government that empowers thousands financially.

Unlike Ayade, Duke sold all the assets of the state like the liaison office in Lagos, metropolitan hotel,all the state's estates and government houses in state housing .

In addition, he sold the state's doctors quarters ,all government houses in the federal housing estate and government land.

While Ayade is building assets for the state and expanding agriculture with several revolution in the areas of palm,cocoa rice,banana and yellow maize.

Ayade is establishing industries in the state to ensure a solid future and has improved human capital development of the state.

Ayade has also brought innovations to curbing crime and criminality in the state by adopting hi-tech security approach in the state and has created massive youth employment for the teeming young population in the state unlike Duke.

Ayade has further shown he is a true leader as he is not bias as regards location of projects.

Most of his major and key projects are not located in his senatorial district as Duke's senatorial district are the greatest beneficiary of most of Ayade's projects.

But the question still lingers, why would Duke commit such a public blunder? This question is assumes more importance when one recollects that the whole world has been celebrating Professor Ayade as the best thing to ever happen to governance. A more recent testimony is the public acclaim for Ayade by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, which lauded his leadership style and quality. Why would Duke then not be afraid of swimming against the tide of public opinion?

The answer lies in the fact that Duke knows that at the pace Ayade is going he will be totally erased from the political consciousness of Cross Riverians soon.


Under Duke the budget process was incremental budgeting otherwise known as one item budget which means yearly increase of the budget eg under Duke tourism had the highest allocation and it was captured under social services rather than economic.

Duke budget was not ambitious and was not committed to industrialization rather about creating infrastructure to boost tourism .

He didn't require much, he made the situation worst by internal borrowing at commercial rate, resulting to leaving the state indebted to the tune of 98 billion naira which he left behind which became due for collection in 2007, leaving a time bomb for Liyel lmoke where 1.5billion naira was been deducted monthly from the state account to service the loan .

In addition, Duke still collected Ecowas loan for the Tinapa project at 18billion naira, after which the state lost bakassi and its 76 oil wells.

For that singular action by Governor Duke, Ayade is still paying for that loan till date .

Imoke also paid part of it.The loans collected by Duke is responsible why the present government of Governor Ayade is operating under budget deficit where 1.5billion naira is deducted monthly to service the loan.

In agricultural sector, where Governor Ayade is currently making huge impact, with his banana,cocoa,rice and yellow maize projects, Duke was a massive failure as all his projects in that areas never made head way.

His biggest presence in the agricultural sector was his pineapple project that couldn't see the light of the day.

Governor Duke met a plantation economy, rather than sustain and improve on it he couldn't handle it as they all failed.

Duke has a lot of Gratitude to show to Ayade, as he brought him back to political relevance in the state,after his self styled political exile.

Governor Duke 7 years in office cannot be compared to Ayade's 3years as he waited till one year to leaving office before most of projects were crystallised .

But in the case of Ayade under 3years most of his projects are adding values to the lives of Cross Riverians already.

On the state's reserved fund, Governor Duke left one billion in the fund and when he was leaving power, influenced the passage of a very selfish law that nobody should touch the money till 2023 when he knows power will return to back to his senatorial district but the house of assembly in their wisdom and in the interest of the state amended the law to ensure some of the funds could be used for certain interventions.

Such interventions resulted to some projects like IMT ugep, CRUTECH medical college okuku campus,CRUTECH auditorium, and 3 nursing schools across the state.

Unlike Duke, when Governor Imoke left office he was able to save 5billion in the reserved fund for the state .

The huge loan incurred by Duke has today made it very difficult for the state to borrow and governor Duke is the only governor in the state who enjoyed federal government guarantee for his loans.

The idea for the reserved fund is saving for the future.

Governor Ayade believes in prosperity agenda for cross river state, he is an intellectual deep Person , an intellectual with an eye for the future showing in all his budgets .

The budget deficit that he is paying today were as a result of Duke's action .

It is important at this stage to know that You don't plan according to your pocket, the Tinapa project was bigger than the budget of cross river under Duke .

The debts he left was bigger than the state despite the deficit, Ayade is managing the internal deficit by bringing a lot of intellectual intervention which have today delivered garment factory,rice city,tooth tip factory, cocoa factory,calapharm, ogoja rice mill,agricultural revolution with the banana plantation,yellow maize, and cotton e.t.c.

These were projects Duke's incremental budget cannot handled.

In 7years his achievement in office cannot be compared to Ayade's 3years .

To this end, Governor Ayade has learnt from his failures because of his huge debt incurred for the state, today the state cannot borrow.

Duke was the only Governor that had guarantee from federal government for loans and he did commercial bank rate putting the state in further financial challenges.

If Liyel Imoke that was the political pathfinder learns to respect Duke ,he should learn to respect Liyel and Ayade.

LMAO. Dumbest shit I've read.

Underwent an eye surgery, it was successful, checked my mail only to see FBN success mail as far back as April 9. Got 2 more mails on the 13th and 23rd. Just hope I'm not late.

The 28-year-old boxer who went shirtless at the beach was also spotted with his brother's girlfriend Sam as they all frolicked in the waters together on Monday.

Seems some people glanced through the article just to respond else, how on earth did people miss the part in bold?

I am dating a Yoruba lady and I'm from the down south but I do not want a case where she will stand against our union so few weeks into the relationship, I told my mum I wasn't interested in God and Christianity anymore. Then I deliberately changed for the worse in all attitudes. My mum was concerned and troubled. (She wasn't aware of the relationship)
Then I changed after a while and I told her I met this lady and she was the one who lead me to Christ and I am trying to live right.
My mum approved of her straight.

leye4u:
where is your church.......in my church people now give as much as 100percent.....lol....The Lord is good .....let the freezeer continue his work

LMAO. Clown.

Love Machine:
A very troublesome customer who had once walked away with my company's money after making purchase came to make another purchases again at my workplace few days ago.He gave me two hot slap simply because I demanded for payment before service.I retaliated by giving him a blow in his mouth.And the management queried me for retaliating.They said customers are always right.Dont I,as a staff have right too?My grievance with all this employers is that when a customer walk away with their money,the employer will not say the customer is right for running away with payment.They will quickly deduct the money from the staff salary at the end of the month.But,when a staff argue with a customer who refuse to pay after service,they will say customers are always right.They can even fine such staff.Well,i have resign sha.

You were queried for defending yourself? You should have given the idiotic customer the Undertaker/Randy Orton's finishing move.
Customer is always right indeed.

Real analysis.
Dumbest course I've ever had to deal with. Wasted hours of my life on it.

Newsprex:
Olamide Again? Efe Again? Wetin dem dey sing? Mychewww...

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When I played the music on my Media player,

I only heard this:

"Efe don come again, Warri
Olamide don come again, Warri!

And the rest goes like this:

Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri, Warri,

LMAO. Falls from mast.

Johncuppa:
If Labour Party ought to be the next option in Nigeria, having Mike Omotosho as her Chairman will not make it to be so.
I used to think this man is the answer to Kwara POLITICS until I fell into his hand.
Only 2015 Nigeria corpers that did his scholarship test can understand.

He made me lost believing Nigeria politicians

LOL.
My girl then and her Corper girlfriends then chop am and to think I advised against it, . . .
Today, he wanna act like the messiah.

Kobicove:
We need to hear the other side of the story...but then there is no justification for hitting another person

God will bless you for this. Leave all these people trying to look good in the book of ladies. Ladies will complain of domestic violence but will have no problem with assaulting their workers and nannies.
Violence of any form should be frowned at irrespective of the offending gender and the victim.

Willie2015:
His price is a G - Class

“Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.”

The G-Class is of far greater value than the wife. I'll exchange an adulteress wife for a Camry 2.2 sef.

If it's not ABC or GIGM, I no travel.

Vic O, Speed Darlington and Efe got better tracks.

Harmonyemerald:
Lol....

Still have those jeans?

Harmonyemerald:
Lol....

Still have those jeans?

Lol. Of course not.

Harmonyemerald:
Hehehehhehe at them baggy jeans? Are you sure it's 2009? And not further than that? You cleaned up nice though

LOL.
2009. Was an undergraduate.

tosyne2much:
Egbon, the kind transformation wey befall you no be small one oooo

LOL.
That dressing was top notch back then.

2009

2017

Nawah oh.
And we were high school classmates.

Flaghouse1:
SO YOU THINK,BET THIS GUY WILL BEAT ANTHONY JOSHUA,PLAESE WHEN THE DAYCOMES DONT FORGET. TO SEND ME A MESSAG,DONT SAY I AM. MOT PATRIOTIC ,

THE GUY WILL WIN JOSHUA.

Same Pulev who started kissing the canvas 71 seconds into his fight against Klitschko? Dude was Tysonized by Klitschko from the word GO and you feel he will kill AJ.

SMH


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZrvNRi-ro

PqsMike:
I'm not hating bro ......but Eedris Abdulkareem was the first artist to charge a million naira per show...

.....Just an addition

God bless you bro. I was surprised to read his epistle. I'm 53578% sure Eedris was the first. In fact, he is the reason people stopped paying artistes peanuts nor treating them like thrash.

PrinceMario:
Oga mi... Noe be the same Loyola wey dey abj ni There students are good; no doubt about that. But saying an O'level Loyola leaver will compete with with a uni or polytechnic graduate is overhyping at it peak.
Knew a couple of them in my faculty, they are good but not to the length of competiting with an undergraduate talkless of a graduate. None of them is in faculty top 5-10.

Let them handle ordinary 4×4 matrix or basic Lagrangian and let's see if dem go still dey alive to tell the story.

Baba, take am easy nah. That's not fair.

Will be ordering more very soon @ dockeypeace. Thanks madam

Very insightful and educative piece @ dockypeace. Few honest people exist and dockypeace is one. Saw her advert on a site, called her up, made a deal with her without expecting much. To my surprise she delivered. Truly with you, quality isn't negotiable.

Why him necktie escape from suit in the second picture?

I and Sarah were classmates/colleagues back in university. Same department, same level. I remember how many of us do diss her for dating Nathaniel especially the females. Statements like "No be even quality boyfriend. Him dey claim upcoming artiste. Gospel artiste for that matter. Gospel dey sell?"
Then, from nowhere, gospel 'hurricaned' its way into the music industry with Frank Edwards and Nathaniel Bassey leading the revolution and Sarah immediately rose far above our level.
The rest is history.

The reports reached a very strong probability of 5.0 yesterday with some sources stating he was having his medical. It became a reality when Arsenal started teasing fans on instagram earlier today. And now it's confirmed on their twitter account.

Bros, take am easy nah. Probability of 5.0 kwanu? How?

You stole a post from Facebook without recognizing the owner.

[quote author=stillwendy post=57749655][/quote]Yeah, you're right. We were classmates back in secondary school.