₦airaland Forum

blueAgent:
Expecting a Zombie to be honest and logical, is like passing a cow through the eye of a needle.

Very useless set of ppl.

So it's not logical to ask why a contract bypasses all processes of the constitution and law right?

Well done.

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Bitter kola

Is this your response to everything?

Any Nigerian who doesn't know that what is allegedly saved will be whacked, cannot be a day over 30.

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Bitter y[color=#990000][/color] Bitter kola

Enjoy.

Hussein035:
WE know that you are a useless UGM family members and you hate progress and I pray you will not progress in life until you leave this country and move to Kenya

When your dullard Messiah manage to become president tell him to award contract to his enemies

You people are amazing. Someone complains about completre abuse of process at a level that should shock you, and the only things you can think of are UGM and PO. Your minds are twisted. Does it even occur to you that someone else came second in that election? Who tells you I am Ibo. Who tells you I am a PO supporter. Your generation really has a problem oh. God will help you.

Looking4Trouble:
You expect him to award contract to Bitter Obi or Atikulation Abubakar. When you become the President of your village association, you can feed your enemies and starve your friends

Mehn. You cant even see anything abiut the process in what I said right? No NASS, No Bureau of Public Procurement, right? All you can see there is "Bitter Obi?"

What a country. What people. Your walk is long.

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Bitter kola

Enjoy oh, if you feel thats the way to run a country. Enjoy.

Basic123:
Na that name BAT in that post dey make you convulse like this 😆

God help you if you feel what I mentioned is ok for your country so long as its a president you like. No worries. Enjoy.

AntiChristian:
Na this BAT era all these refineries go work!

Na this era Nigeria go get am right!

May thunder from the Almighty strike all those who are against the betterment of Nigeria!

May thunder also fire anyone who agrees with the award of a N15 Trillion Contract to a Lebanese paddy of the president without appropriation, BPP Processes or any public tender.

Yet you alone steal more from Nigeria than the entire cost of the said subsidy.

Anyone who doesnt know all this already is simply a fool.

BreconHills:
I see.

Being heckled is no sign of serious enquiry. Just like Nigeria the US press are politically polarised and as such questions are questions are efforts to affirm or embarrass.

The real forum for questioning our leaders is at state and LG level. Unfortunately we have a fixation about the Federal level. Probably owing to conditioning by military governments. In the US and UK local concerns are pushed significantly

Completely fair comment and I understand. I just want us to hold them accountable. Bless bro.

Please and please if subsidy removal is an effort to fight corruption, why is the government not prosecuting those who were corrupt with subsidies?

nairalanda1 and the teenage girl naptu2 (who will run to her dairy to cry) please think about this for once!

Jakumo:
No be lie o.

Na because nobody buy my book I kukuma come write am put for Nairaland, say make unu come dey read am by force.

Did you write a book. Please I will buy it. And send it to my friends to buy. Drop me a link to the book if you wrote one.

Jakumo:
My heart was beating faster as I read your summary of how to navigate the perilous minefield that road travel has become in Nigeria. Within the living memory of anyone over 30 who is familiar with Nigeria, all the roads cited in your generously compiled crime rate comparison would have ranked among Africa's safest. Now those very same roads that crisscross a growing list of Nigerian states BEYOND the north, are essentially war-zoned by a rising tide of fundamentalist terrorism funded by kidnapping for ransom.

Many moons ago before Islamic terror swept into Nigeria's arid northern hinterland, I traveled the Abuja to Kano highway and marveled at the flawless road surface for mile upon mile of arrow-straight dual carriageway pointing to the distant, semi-arid horizon. Keeping my SUV rolling on the safe side of 80 mph, we were frequently buffeted by the slipstream of sleek new Mercedes and BMW vehicles conveying the northern Nigerian moneyed elite, whose chariots would swoop past going considerably faster, bound for Zaria, Kaduna, and Kano beyond.

So sad to see the Balkanization of Nigeria unfolding chapter by heartbreaking chapter. Before the eyes of history, Nigeria is today in 2024 beset with all the essential prerequisites of militarized anarchy as witnessed in Somalia and Sudan, those long-established portals to Hades in East Central Africa.

Sit "That"! I hail. Perfectly written as always.

Okoroawusa:
Nigerian constitution is responsible for large cabinets by presidents. It states that at least one minister must come from each state of the federation.

So thats 36. Why does he have 49/50?

Ellapthia:
It's his business

Tommorow is Christmas, and up till now, I don't have a grain of rice or any foodstuffs that myself and younger siblings can survive on. It's a terrible situation.

Bros DM me.

tnerro1:
I wonder if he switched off his own lights to manage electricity, 🤔

Deepest comment ever.

kettykings:
How can he possibly achieve this when weighed down by liabilities rather than assets? As I write this, most eateries are struggling to stay afloat, even during what should be a peak season. The shopping malls fare no better, echoing the same tale of dwindling patronage and strained operations. The only industry that appears to show signs of life is content creation, while even the telecommunications sector, once a beacon of resilience, is now on edge. His lackluster team is clearly out of their depth and in dire need of direction, expertise, and help.

Very well said. Will they listen?

kettykings:
Sometimes I really pity this man. Imagine carrying so much liability and retrogression and refusing to make amendments.

The issue here might be more of a complicated mindset issue.

Na CIA Agent.

PARADIZEPRIEST:
Even if she wore only paint,it will still not move anybody,bone bone every corner,wetin be the noise.

GBAM! Nothing to touch.

meobizy:
They take cocaine so they can be confident in these types of dresses. Sadly, that substance lasts only thirty minutes.

Oh have you taken it before?

placeofallure:
You're the one with insufficient IQ here. There's no way a sitting president will ignore the state TV house for a TV station in the private sector. What message will the president be propagating? The most they can do is have a mix of anchors like they have done in this case. They want to convince us it's not preempt or premeditated; surely we know better of course! Just know there's no amount of conviction they'll wanna give, that will make them opt for Arise TV or Channels TV when NTA is functioning. The Press Chat in itself is a propaganda, a calculated attempt to bamboozle everyone into lending credence to the present government.


I didn't watch. To stay on insta streets will give me more succour. Ish!

Well fair comment. The Chat was not impressive at the end of the day sha.

BreconHills:
Question time? Are you still mixing up Presidential and Prime ministerial systems?

Not at all bro. Please its Xmas. Do I have to explain everything? I know "Question Time" has a meaning with regard to a PM answering questions. However I simply meant that Presidents in the US also take questions from the Press and they are aggressively heckled in such sessions. Biden (due to old age and dementia) has stayed away from it, but many former presidents (including Trump) faced it. They didnt run from it as our leaders do.

Jayhome24:
You are still not answering my question. You claimed you or someone is under slavery and I asked how?

Not me oh. I said with reference to a poster who does hot expect his leader to be constantly interrogated, that he is enslaved.

BreconHills:
First of all, the press does not heckle the President while he is speaking. And he invites only a few questions at the end. It seems you are adding the press secretary briefing to your analogy just as you are interposing UK's PM question time which is a unique to the UK and has not been a feature of our constitution since 1966.

First line - they do. Many times. During question time.

As to the rest, you miss the general point about the leader having to accountably explain himself constantly. Whereas in Nigeria they scarcely bother. I believe Buhari had only one or two such media chats in his entire eight years. And this one is just having a carefully managed first one after one and a half years. If you can't see the problem with that, good luck.

Jayhome24:
Your last sentence really got me angry. Who put you under slavery?

I am frighteningly liberated, sorry to disappoint.

phemray:
Pls read your comments again and again slowly and imagine millions of intelligent people worldwide with distinction level of reasoning are reading your comments. What will be the majority conclusion about you.

Who gives a screw what millions of people think. Sorry, I don't live by validation. Probably you are one of those people who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and worship your oppressors.

Sannisege:
One thing is sure. Tinubu is smarter and greater than all igbos living or dead.

This tribalistic thing you guys insist on only makes you look small.

Kukutente23:
You sound really pissed
I don't get
Did you expect better?

I only watched it when I realised there was a mix of private sector journalists present. The total result was a carefully calibrated session in which soft ball questions were asked timidly and tremulously. All of the major burning issues were studiously avoided. No one could dare ask him for instance if the N15 Trillion Lagos Calabar Road Project went through any prior appropriation and if that is not illegal. No one could ask if it went through procurement processes. No one could ask his relationship with the contractor Chagouri. In a real democratic society, no one will let the president rest on this issue alone. But here, there is the silence of the grave yard on it. Something that is manifestly impeachable.

No one could drill him on the effect of subsidy removal at the same time as devaluation of the naira. No one could pointedly speak to the price of rice jumping from under 10k to almost 100k and ask if that is humane. Abati faintly tried by mentioning the cry of "ebinpawa" but that was all, and it was almost in passing.

No one could challenge him on the purchase of a new jet at this time. No one could ask him about the "palliatives" given to the NASS and the N160 million SUVs they all got.

No one could ask him why prices of PMS should go up two-three weeks after a national protest regarding same.

Too many questions to ask.

Angelfrost:
Lol... Freedom of the Press is a farce in Nigeria na.

Anyone that dares to go CNN or AlJazeera on Mr. President is begging for a minimum of 2 years vacation in Kirikiri quarters.

Do you see the way the press heckles even an American President in a press briefing right in the White House? Do you see the way the British PM has to be fast with his facts and on his toes every wednesday in parliament?

But here, we serve a royal and imperial president, before whom jouranlists must sit tight and behave.

This clown just said "I am not prepared to reduce the size of my cabinet."
Wonderful!