₦airaland Forum

mukina2: kaka makes it 2

Funkymallam: Na dat one u dey watch?

Seun: If people are involved in fights, I guess we can block them from seeing each others' posts.

solomon111: You Sir, are a fool!

Beaf: Cross River does not produce oil, dummy.
If it was about oil, would be just Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Delta. Relative to these states, others produce negligibly. It is about deeper things like Onlytruth mentioned.

Now, run along; this space is meant for progress, not vultures and winshes.

ffo: I am not actually impressed with the members of GEJ cabinet. None of them (Apart from Min 4 Agric) has really brought anything new since their assumption of office.
Which of them do you really think is outstanding? Opinions please

Honestly, u are a clown. what do u expect from a government headed by the retardeen and boko member (VP)? The head is rotten and u still want the body to dey kampe, na winch?

adadivvy: Sometimes I wonder why people insult others. What have u achieved with ur brain. FG did what they had to do but what did our governors do and those we elected. Did they visit their nothern counterparts since they know that the Igbo's are there to talk. Did they write to the president or seek for anything to be done. U will say is it only the Igbos that are affected. No but we know that we have the majority casualties at any point they strike. We seek for bread anywhere unlike others. Families where wiped out while coming home to seek refuge. Is it that we cannot send for buses with adequate security or are we talking one Nigeria when they specifically gave us time to leave their state. U saw nothing so pls don't say a word. Talk people saw thing and the Igbo casualties involved. U lost no one so say whatever u want.

Goddex: My brother forget those dumbhead guys. I no longer read their posts.
I even suspect one idiot is behind those two user-IDs.

luvinhubby: Nigeria is not a 'SECULAR' but a multi-religious state, building a church is definetly a corporate social responsibility fulfiled, ACN should rather focus on how to stop Asiwaju Tinubu from converting a quarter of the 300billion naira internally generated revenue in Lagos to his personal fortunes. He that comes to equity should come with clean hands and ACN don't have clean hands

mcfestgee: Demdem and Dayokanu are most stupid and idiotic, reterded follows I have
I have seen on Naira. You guys are demented fellows to be insulting
your president. Animals.

gregg2: Gitto has vast presence in the Niger Delta states including
Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers etc .
As governor of Bayelsa, GEJ awarded the almighty
Tower Hotel, Gateway Road and GRA Estate to them.

I see nothing wrong if Gitto has to give back to the people.
It is part of their corporate Social responsibility. [/b]Unlike the Obasanjo Library
or IBB's Minna Mansion that Julius Berger donated to him, the church does not
belong to Jonathan but the entire community, unless "Lie Muhammed" does not know the
meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Infact, ACN can take a swim in the athlantic because nothing will happen.

johnie: I thought there are ACN members in the National Assembly?

Why not ask them to move the motion for impeachment instead of asking Lai to "make noise" about the matter (as usual)?

Playing to the gallery again(no pun intended!)

BlackPikiN: The party said the National Assembly would have the opportunity to investigate the matter and also reach the appropriate conclusions, since the President, by his own admission and without any prompting, had violated the constitution.

To know the gravity of the President’s self admission of soliciting the church ‘gift’ from the Managing Director of Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Limited (GCG), one needs to understand Section 6 ofthe Code of Conduct for Public officers embodied in the First Schedule of the 1999 Constitution and the Code of Conduct and Tribunal Act (CAP C15) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

DTaj: Guys, I think it does us all a lot of good to be dispassionate about debates. I am not a member of ANY political party in Nigeria, because I essentially see them ALL as largely identical. However, please read a summary of Tinubu's profile (culled from a web search) below and read my posers thereafter:

"On his arrival in the U.S. in 1975 and with the support of an ever-adoring mother, faced with an unflinching zeal to succeed, took on such menial jobs as dishwashing, night-guard and cab-driving to see himself through the initial difficulties of school at the Richard Daley College, Chicago, Illinois.

The brilliance of this young Nigerian showed in his ability to make the honours’ list of Richard Daley College. He subsequently transferred to the Chicago State University, Illinois, graduating with honours in 1979 and earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Accounting and Management). During his first year in Chicago State University, young Bola was given the rare privilege to partly teach other students of his Faculty remedial tutorial classes. Most of his colleagues and contemporaries at the university attributed their improved grades to his tutorial lectures.

Throughout his undergraduate years, young Bola was on the Dean’s List and was honoured with the Outstanding Student’s Award, the University Scholar’s Award and the Certificate of Merit in Accounting and Finance. He was also awarded the prestigious Sumna cum laude for scoring 3.54 out of possible 4.0 GP.

With his successful academic profile, young Bola contested and won his first political election as the President of the Accounting Society of the institution in his final year at the University.

Upon graduation with honours and several awards, Bola Tinubu cut his professional teeth at the American-based Arthur Anderson, Deloitte Haskins and Sells (now called Deloitte Haskins and Touche) and GTE Service Corporation - the largest Communication and Utility Company in the United States of America.

Meanwhile, at Deloitte Haskins and Sells, the young and professional Bola broadened his experience by participating in the auditing and management consultancy services of General Motors, First National Bank of Chicago, Procter and Gamble, International Harvester, GEC and other Fortune 500 firms.

On his return to Nigeria and with his international experience in Financial Management, young Bola joined Mobil Producing Nigeria as a Senior Auditor before he retired as the company’s Treasurer".

My posers:

1. As an ex-employee of Arthur Andersen (myself), I KNOW that T inubu couldn't have been employed in that foremost firm if he had questionable academic qualifications!

2. Having been an Accountant and having rose to the position of the Treasurer at Mobil Nigeria, he couldn't have had a phoney background! Mobil is a well respected multinational for God sake and the Treasurer position in most organizations- banking, manufacturing, FMCG, etc (let alone a MOBIL is a top management position)!

3. A man who scored a CGP (American format) of 3.54 out of 4.0 (equivalent of British First Class!!!) couldn't have been the 'agbero' people easily ascribe to him!

4. Again, Tinubu couldn't have worked in these highly respected global companies if he was a moral and intellectual nincompoop: Deloitte Haskins and Sells- now called Deloitte Haskins and Touche- (where he did auditing and management consultancy assignments for top organizations- General Motors, First National Bank of Chicago, Procter and Gamble, International Harvester, GEC and other Fortune 500 firms), GTE Service Corporation.

5. If one did a deliberate study of the people Tinubu's party, ACN, brought up as candidates, you cannot but respect the man! For instance, Gov. Fayemi of Ekiti has a Ph.D. from University of London and has remarkable international recognition among civil society groups; Gov. Ajimobi of Oyo was MD/CEO at National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company, a subsidiary of Shell; Gov. Aregbesola of Osun is a Chartered Engineer; Gov. Oshiomhole of Edo needs no introduction as Nigeria's most pragmatic and eloquent (and probably the most briliant) NLC President bar Hassan Sunmonu, and is a self-made man who attended Ruskin College, Oxford; Gov. Amosun of Ogun is an ICAN Fellow-FCA- (since 1996!) and has an accounting firm which he established in 1990!

6. Also, a man associated with Jimi Agbaje, Opeyemi Agbaje, Bolaji Akinyemi, Wale Edun, Yemi Cardoso, Dele Alake, Prof. Osinbajo, and so many other leading lights could not have been a fool! A look at Tinubu's cabinet (1999-2007) shows that he couldn't have been the clown people so derisively call him.

Hate him or like him, I think Tinubu is one of the remarkable characters in Nigeria, especially when one considers the dangers a one-paty state portends and his role in avoiding that debacle.

Should the hate mob begin their attack, I say: I have never met or seen Tinubu (either in full glare of the public or in private), and the closest I have ever been to his protégé, Gov. Fashola, was to see him speak (as a member of audiences) at four professional events.

PointB: Better to stand up and be counted to the live in obscurity!
Lady Bianca has hit the nail on the head; the response of the SE Governor especially at the initial stage of the Boko Haram menace, when for all intent and purpose it appears Igbos were the target, was appalling.

Secondly, to those saying it's Nigeria affairs and she should have spoken for the other victims, the point remains that 'charity begins at home.' She has to represent her constituency foremost before others. Let's not lose sight of the fact that we are in Nigeria, where the first nationalist coup was viewed with sectional microscope! Lady Bianca is wholly, and fully on point here. Haters should embrace Ojukwu Bucket!