₦airaland Forum

Yes. They shouldn't have been paid in dollars at all. Especially that Okonjo woman that publicly declared that should could not accept the Naira as a legal tender. I was irritated.

Well, that's all dead and gone now. The Presidency should be made to refund that money because at the end of the day, Okonjo was like the Central reason why we could shed about $30 billion of debt.

Guy, free me!

You people should not look at things from their surface value and don't believe everything you hear.

It was the presidency that was at fault in approving those amounts. Naturally, OBJ would not employ Okonjo but for the fact that he needed her for the IMF and world bank to believe that we were ready to fully imbibe their policies with this their new inside-woman as Minister of Finance.

So we see that after our debt problem was taken care of, the woman was booted out immediately. That woman is good, but she's not good for Nigeria.

Whatever happened though is the fault of the President which at that time was OBJ. But since he's no more there, the President still needs to be held accountable so Yar'Adua should pay. This is what we want to see when we talk about when we say continuity in government.

I did not like the fact that Okonjo PUBLICLY stated that she would not accept her country's currency as legal tender, but all the same, she rightfully earned every penny. The Presidency should be made to return that money from it allowances.

What OBJ needs is a full time job that will take his time. He likes travelling. Why can Nigeria join heads with the United Nations or African Union to make OBJ the ambassador to elderly presidents so that he can go around the world trying to convince Hosni Mubarrak, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Ghadaffi, Castro and Kim Jong Il to cede presidency to some young protege of theirs.

And idle mind is the devil factory.

Bill Clinton is nice to the sight. He looks sincere, has a lot of charisma and he's an ordinary man. He never sat on some high horse and try to look down on his electorate.

The man is a real politician. He was open to ideas and change and was not particularly fixated on anything.

It's not me O!

Automated gate wey dey private individuals house for Magodo? So you think an automated gate should be more expensive than your laptop? Does an automated gate perform better functions than your laptop?

Anyhow, attempt to buy an automated gate on the internet and see how much the retail prices are.

If an automated gate in costs $300,000 then there won't be enough money left to build the mainhouse.

What?! I didn't say her father was Egyptian. I said her mother!

October 22nd 2005 marked the unveiling ceremony of the restored statue of Emperor Haile Selassie at Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon.

@doyin13

you are a lover of art. Art did not stop Italians from using chemical weapons on Ethiopians. Selassie was a poet to a large extent. You should see his speech on February 28 1968 in California. Bob Marley made an entire song out of it.



Just for clarification, Mengistu is not a "common" Soldier.

Nigerians are yet to even agree that humans can achieve perfection. They go about chanting "no man is perfect".

I've started thinking maybe Nigerians see Germans as gods.

Okay, take care.

I don't know the first name.

Maybe if I go to the library on Monday or see anything substantial on the net.

But to consider a man who helped win World War II, mobilised the independence of most of Africa and the formation of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U) that gave rise to the AU we have today. Please, there are very few human beings worldwide that can compare to Haile Selassie I.

By the way, I'm not one of those that worship him. I'm following his track record.

How many Africans in the history of mankind have ever given "hope" to Europeans or even been respected so much.

I must say, I laughed when I saw your list. To compare Wole Soyinka to Mandela is really something.

In 1970, he condemned the sale of weapons by Britain to Apatheid South Africa and made it clear that Africans were prepared to stop this even by means of violence.

He was time magazine man of the year as far back as 1930.

He was usually given precedence over other heads of state at international events. These include events of foreign countries such as the celebration of 2500 years of the Persian empire, JFK's burial and Charles de Gaule's burial.

Emperor Haile Selassie I successfull negotiated an end to border Conflicts between Algeria and Morocco.

He pursued a firm policy of decolonization of Africa which at that time was still largely under European rule.

In 1954, he became the first head of state to visit West Germany at the end of the Second World Was, signalling the acceptance of Germany back to the world as a peaceful nation.

He donated blankets made by the Debre Birhan Blanket Factory in Ethiopia to the then war torn Germany.

Emperor Haile Selassie I spent his at Fairfield House in the city of Bath, UK which he bought. After his return to Ethiopia, he donated he donated it to the city of Bath as a residence for the aged, and it remains so till today.

Don't mind these people. Removal of Immunity clause combined with the creation of state police will definitely result in civil war.

I'm not trying to explain it. I'm just wondering why you guys have no problem with it. But you'd have a problem with it if it originated from Nigeria.

Emperor Haile Selassie I mobilized for the Unity of all Africans. From South Africa, West Africa, to as far as the Caribean.

Then why didn't you profoundly think about both sides before posting rubbish?

@ono

No! You cannot safely say that. Follow the link below to see the claim of the contract to Amboy Nigeria Ltd. This claim was made when the MD of Amboy was asked to explain the several transfers between his company account and that of Santolina.

Thank you very much.

http://www.wetlandnews.net/alams.htm


Now, back to the issue of the gate, the price of automated gates cost about $1,000. Why does Alameseigha's own have to be more than $300,000? Or does the Government House in Bayelsa have 300 gates?

If you want to know the difference between $1 million and GBP1 million, I'll suggest you go to your bank and loan GBP1 million, I'll go to mine and loan $1 million, then we'll exchange.

And by the way, Andy Uba didn't take up to $1 million to the USA. It was $170,000.

Don't mind them. They blew up the World Trade Centre to have an excuse to exterminate Arabs. And some Africans are supporting them.

By the time they will need an excuse to exterminate Africans, they'll just go and blow up the United Nation's Headquarters. Then the South Americans will join them to condemn our terrorism.

When they need an excuse to exterminate the South Americans, they will blow up the World Bank Headquarters.

Any graduate man that is still a virgin shoul be cast into a garbage can or the lake of fire and brimstone.

Do you know how dangerous that is? You want to remove the immunity clause. Now, if the governor of Lagos state gets arrested in Togo for questioning, you will know what you have done.

If the governor of Abia State gets arrested by the police in Kano, you will see the effect of your handwork.

Immunity did not jump into our constitution it was there for a reason.

@ono

you want me to provide concrete evidence that N40 was collected for gate building? When it was Alams and the contractors who claimed this themselves. Is it not madness for the prosecution to be providing evidence to back up the defence's case? I have no evidence. It is Alams that should produce evidence.

For somebody to quickly admit that he used N40 million to construct gate, then I believe it may have been more.

Then you're talking about gadgets in a gate. What kind of gadgets? Does the gate serve cold beer on Sunny days? Or does it give the guards a back massage? Please stop it!

Do you know what it means to carry GBP1 million cash? That means you have much more where that came from.

Andy Uba wasn't carrying up to $1 million cash when he went to the USA.