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Orlando Owoh: Must there be the phrase, "ceremonial president" in the 1963 Republican Constitution before you know there was something like that in the question? There nowhere in the 1999 Constitution that you find the phrase, "geo-political zones", yet it is used.
Your argument is watery.
You can keep your admission to yourself, I already have my BA, and pursuing an MA.

Those who imply are typical ninnies. I guess you do not discuss Goodluck Jonathan’s executive powers about something as trivial as “geo-political zone”. If you are remotely regarded as one of the cream of the crops from Nigeria, the country is perpetually co-signed to a dustbin

Ngwakwe: What a revelation. Anyway, more research needed

This is not a revelation but a real hard fact. There was an upright Yoruba officer who resigned his commission into Nigerian armed forces because Hausa\Fulani\Kanuri soldiers were in Southwestern region recklessly banging Yoruba ladies into stiffs.

[quote author=re@lchange]it is after ascertaining the veracity of this news that we can then ask the questions raised by poster below:



bros you forgot the aviation minister; our beautiful and sexy Stella Odua.[/quote]Stalla Oduah is the real deal period. She is beautiful and sexy. I would have been happier if she is married to an Igbo man.

Jodesky: Why are you wasting your time with people that never passed JAMB. Its a shame debating an issue that is rooted in our history which can no longer change. Its either you know it or not. These characters (Kezzman, DerideGull,& Co) are fixated in their world of ignorance with their sense of history already tinted, rather thoughtlessly by ethnic loyalty. Half education is a disease manifesting in these clowns, so leave them as its too late for them to learn.

If you really pride your silly self as one who studiously passed JAMB, I would want you to point out where it is stated in 1963 Nigerian Constitution that Nigerian President was mere ceremonial. Like anything Nigeria, reputation rather than character is embraced. It is unfortunate a dunce such as you still dwell on political sarcasm of yesteryears that Nigeria president was ceremonial.

Orlando Owoh: I'll leave you in your ignorance. If you've decided not to learn, who am I to stop you from disgracing yourself?

Again, I urge you to peruse 1963 Nigeria Constitution and tell me where the reference of “Ceremonial President” is made. You will never gain admission into the institutions where I have lectured. The issues surrounding 1960 Nigerian Constitution were very elementary because Nigeria was not yet a sovereign nation. In fact, executive powers were discussed under the Governor-General clauses in the aforementioned constitution.

abagoro: Funny report. I almost fell for the lies until I read the last paragraph. They should pay the fine and stop politicizing unnecessary issues. The Njemanze of a guy, has he built any structure on the said land which is suspect to me? How did he amass so much wealth to buy such land or he was given the land as a political gift? Government has right to withdraw C of O but will compensate on the infrastructure and economic trees in the said land.

Mr. Made-man, does the last paragraph includes”the Public Relations Officer of OCDA, Mrs Ada Okwara disclosed that the OCDA is undertaking what it has code-named Operation Show Your Building Permit”? I hope Mallam Rochas Okorocha will show his permit where Lemorde Hotel stands and stupid structure that stood adjacent to the hotel. How many residents of Owerri are affected by this deceitful Operation Show Your Building Permit?

Lilimax: Nwanne, the number of Ndi ugwu Aboki that I saw in Owerri the last time i visited was something else .
When I asked, i was told that he brings them emasse to the state and empowers them.
I'm still watching this man eziokwu?

They (Ndi ugwu Aboki) are the ones that bid for Mallam Rochas Okorocha’s murderous tendencies. Mallam Rochas Okorocha is a compound evil. The Imo State people were crying because one of their sons embezzled funds. Now they have got a devil that has not only embezzled the fund but will render their young girls infertile due to repeated abortions to support Stem Cell Reserch in USA.

Orlando Owoh: The 1960 Constitution does not give Nigeria the status of a republic but that of 1963. The Queen of England acted as the Constitutional Monarch or Governor General, who exercised the power of the Head of State just as she still does in Britain. She was however represented by Nnamdi Azikiwe. Just as Azikiwe was representing her in Nigeria, so is the present President of Australia representing her. The country is not yet a republic. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Head of Government.

I guess your comprehensible deficiency is acting up again. I commented about your obliviousness to 1963 Nigerian Constitution and you are rambling about 1960 constitution, Azikiwe, Queen Elizabeth and Balewa. Do you not know the differences between a Governor-General and President?

It is simply known as parasitic tendencies.

berem: Dede m, please could you elaborate further? Anu be m nke a before!

Nwannem Nwanyi, so you have not heard that Okorocha’s abortion law is linked to Stem Cell Research in USA? No wonder these moronic dingbats passing as governors and politicians take Nigerian residents for jokes. Of all the states in Nigeria, how come Imo State is where abortion law is contemplated?

This is typical characteristics of Mallam Rochas Okorocha. What does the fool know about stem cell research that encouraged him to put up young girls from Imo State as guinea pigs?

Donchyke39: From observation,Anambra is voting based on personality,Onwa is the man of the people,you need to see what happens everytime he arrives any function in the state.

If you think Ngige is a personality to brag about, I say you are as clueless as majority of rally attendees. Ngige is not only an embezzler of Anambra State’s fund, he is a traitor and cultist.

Orlando Owoh: Agadi nwoke, if I'm wrong, as you would want people to believe, I challenge you, point the area.

Agadi Nwanyi, I guess you did not read 1963 Nigerian Constitution. If you did, it appears your comprehensible alertness begs for treatment.

Orlando Owoh: If you're sensible, you won't see differing with the President as treachery. Everybody must not have the same view.

It is nice to allow dissenting voices in democratic settings. However, opposing views borne out of greed and personal aggrandizement are silly. Only nitwits such as you see Amaechi’s idiotic shenanigans as acceptable political vices.

Nationalism does not come with silly rhetoric and panhandling gesture. Amaechi’s nationalism comes when he fails to receive monthly allocation of fund from the central government and forgets about nationalism when derivation allocation resource is discussed. What is Amaechi’s stand on offshore crude oil revenue which should be shared equally among the federating states in Nigeria?

Jodesky: Note, I said Executive President. The great Zik was a ceremoonial President with zero executive powers under a parliamentary government with Tafawa Balewa as Prime Minister and head of Govt.
Can you now realise your level of ignorance. I dey laugh o!

You are a dunce. I suggest you read the constitution of the era in reference before making silly statements publicly.

Orlando Owoh: Nnamdi Azikiwe was a ceremonial president, representing the Queen of England up to 1963. From this time up to 1966, he was only carrying out ceremonial function.

You need better schooling than you have already had, olodo.

Bunch of deluded maggots!!

Orlando Owoh: What is treason here? I'm not surprised because old age sometimes comes with senility. Dede ndi nke ya.

I guess somebody in your household should demand a refund from your scholastic endeavor. If old age seems to generate senility, the young age you embraced seems to generate stupidity. Rotimi Amaechi has the ears of traitors and backstabbers suich as you. No wonder Rotimi finds a place in his name.

I could not believe few efulefu in Igbo land are actually waving brooms at a political rally. Ndigbo must endeavor to eliminate any Afonja among us.

Once a traitor, the person remains a traitor. Anybody from groups of people that doubt their ancestral lineage has no place in a healthy society. I guess traitorous tendencies are indications of personal weaknesses. Rotimi Amaechi is a deluded jackass.

[quote author=#1-stunner]By Chinedu Eze

There are indications that the Akanu Ibiam Airport in Enugu may be closed for international operations, as the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said the airport’s designation as international airport was not gazetted and therefore there was no white paper to give it legal teeth to that effect.

A dependable source told THISDAY that the designation of Ethiopian Airlines to operate from the airport was done by Presidential fiat so it was a temporary situation that could only subsist at the whims of the regulatory body and at the behest of the President that gave the order.

The NCAA source said only four airports in the country were gazetted and these include Port Harcourt, Abuja, Lagos and Kano airports, adding that tourists who always wanted to land directly from overseas destinations to the Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar were always denied the chance because the airport was not gazetted as international airport.

However, the Special Adviser (Media) to the Minister of Aviation, Joe Obi, told THISDAY that saying that the Enugu airport has not been gazetted as international airport is “very, very improbable.”

“It does not sound plausible because the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu is an international airport by all definition and once any airline or charter operator has the required clearance he can fly into the airport,” he said.

THISDAY learnt that last week a chartered flight from Accra, Ghana wanted to airlift investors from the Ghanaian capital directly to Enugu for business meeting and from Enugu to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, but NCAA refused to process the document for the flight’s clearance; rather, the Air Transport Regulation (ATR) of NCAA directed the pilot of the aircraft to fly first to Abuja before taking off to Enugu and from Enugu it flew back to Abuja and henceforth to Malabo, a tortuous journey and waste of fuel.

When contacted the General Manager, Public Affairs of NCAA, Fan Ndubuoke, was ambivalent, unable to authenticate or deny the position of the official from ATR, but said the person or organisation that wanted to process the flight from Ghana might not be the right organisation to do that.

He warned that charter operators and others should be wary about the companies they contact to process flights for them.

Also the General Manager, Corporate Communication, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Yakubu Dati, said he would investigate the matter, and noted that not only that Ethiopian Airlines is operating from the airport but other airlines have indicated interest to also operate from Enugu.





SOURCE: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QqQIoADAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thisdaylive.com%2Farticles%2Fncaa-may-close-enugu-airport%2F159425%2F&ei=kJY7UsuoCevJ0AX70IHwCA&usg=AFQjCNFa-2Fhn-EZV3CthAunEd8wY_Jcvg[/quote]The first paragraph of the above balderdash tells everything about the depth of Nigeria’s stupidity. If by chance the crap is remotely correct, I strongly suggest that Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) be scrapped.

An agency under the ministry of aviation, partially responsible for keeping regulations governing Nigerian airports, suddenly remembered that designation of an airport was not properly done. What a joke. Whoever stands as the director of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) should be fired. There will be no tangible progress in area known as Nigeria until the cesspit is disintegrated.

Is Nigeria inhabitable for human beings?

ifyalways: lol
Nwanna unto "ife bara aba abago ?"

@topic,dirty local politics for mgbekes.

Nwanne unto "ife dara ada adago.. ?" too.

[quote author=Mr. Aladin]Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Stella Adaeze
Oduah, has been accused of allocating funds
for multiple sham contracts ostensibly for
the rehabilitation and upgrade of eleven
airports across the country.
A petition by members of the National Union
of Air Transport accuses Mrs. Oduah of
touting the rehab projects as “quick-win”
strategies to burnish President Goodluck
Jonathan’s “transformation agenda.” In a
letter to the leadership of the Nigerian
Senate in July, the petitioners detailed a
series of scams at various levels in the
allocation process of the contracts.
Incidentally, the minister has drawn praise
from the Nigerian media for the ongoing
airport remodeling projects. But the
petitioners portray the exercise as an
elaborate scam and daylight robbery of
public funds. In the words of the petition,
the projects are “calculated to dupe [the]
unsuspecting Nigerian public.”
The petition discloses that the two-phase
projects have become a four-level scam.
The first part was the ministry’s allocation of
funds for “consultancy” service, which called
for select firms to draw up designs and
plans for the upgrade and rehabilitation of
the airports. The second part was the
allocation of the actual contracts to
predetermined companies through a rigged
tenders’ process that ignored advertising
the jobs to attract qualified companies. The
third and fourth segments of the alleged
scam involved the repetition of the first two
steps under a spurious tag called “Phase II.”
The petitioners alleged that, prior to the
award of the main contracts to “upgrade
and rehabilitate” the airports, Mrs. Oduah
had handed out consultancy jobs estimated
at N255 million. The contracts reportedly
went to three crony firms without being
advertised in order to attract bids from
qualified companies.
The petition also alleged that the
consultancy jobs were awarded without
first obtaining certificates of “No Objection”
from the Bureau of Public Procurement
(BPP), thereby breaching the due process set
out to guide the award of contracts.
According to the petitioners, Mrs. Oduah
“contracted three consultant firms to carry
out consultancy services for ‘urgent
upgrade’ and rehabilitation of terminal
buildings in the eleven airports in the
country. This, she labeled Phase 1 of the
airport remodeling exercise.” The unionists
added that, before informing the Tenders
Board about the allocation of contracts, the
minister had predetermined and given out
consultancy jobs to the three firms in a
selective tender mode.
“Messrs Ngonyama Okpanum and
Associates; Messrs Design Union Consulting
Ltd and Messrs Triad Associates Ltd were
awarded contracts for consultancy works
on the upgrade of the airports at the sums
of N99, 179,507.17; N60, 986,730.46 and
N95, 520,011.93 respectively without
advertisement, certificate of No Objection
from the BPP or approval by the tender’s
board,” the union stated.
The petition alleged that members of the
ministry’s Tenders Board were cajoled into
ratifying the allocations and to further
approve a “selective tender” method for the
award of the actual contracts. “The
Companies were awarded in ‘anticipatory
approval,’ with [a] plan that [the] certificate
of No Objection would be obtained (later)
from the BPP,” the petition alleged. Then
they contended that the minister’s action
amounted to “a criminal offense and had led
to impeachment of a seating senator at one
time.”
The petition alleged that Mrs. Oduah orally
informed the Aviation Ministry Tender’s
Board that she had approval from President
Goodluck Jonathan to adopt “selective
tendering” in awarding the contracts,
adding that such presidential approval was
non-existent.
SaharaReporters saw a correspondence
between the FAAN and the BPP where a
reference was made to the president’s said
approval, but the actual letter was never
seen, according to the union.
The BPP had relied on the virtual president’s
approval as the basis for approving the
selective tender mode for the ministry to
carry out the project. The BPP wrote: “On
the strength of Mr. President’s approval, Due
Process ‘No Objection’ is hereby granted to
Federal Ministry of Aviation to adopt
Selective Tendering Method for the urgent
Upgrade and Rehabilitation Works at Eleven
(11) Airport Terminals in the country.”
Based on the above, the Air Transport Union
insists that the minister’s use of “selective
tendering” to award contracts only to
companies that were predetermined by the
ministry, violated sections 40-42 of the
Public Procurement Acts. According to the
union, selective tendering is only acceptable
when a particular contract requires some
peculiar expertise available only to a select
few companies. “Renovation of terminal
buildings falls short of this requirement, but
BPP approved it for Selective Tendering
(notwithstanding),” alleged the union.
Meanwhile, the FAAN had cited “urgency” as
its reason for adopting the selective
tendering mode and had allotted six months
as the maximum duration for the projects.
However, according to the petitioners, the
projects, which began in 2011, have not
come close to completion, contrary to the
ministry’s hype.
An executive of the tender’s board told
SaharaReporters that the union’s petition
“has merit.” According to him, “They said it
was for urgency that they elected the
selective tender method and stipulated six
months, but it is over two years now and
you can see their basis for selective tender is
defeated. This is all fraud.” He added,
“Besides, what they called Phase II is
approval for second time on the same
projects they called Phase I.”
The union observed that the list of
companies proposed by the Aviation
Ministry to obtain BPP approval were
completely different from those the minister
eventually awarded the contract to, even
though she never sought again to ratify her
decision with the BPP.
Mrs. Oduah “got approval for the job using
some companies, but substituted the
companies later without writing back to the
BPP for fresh approval,” the petitioners
alleged, adding that the actual contracts, like
the Consultancy, were also not advertised on
official tenders’ journals or on any national
dailies. SaharaReporters learnt that some
members of the tender’s board had raised
questions during a September, 2012
meeting when the acting Managing Director
of the FAAN, Mr. Emeka Ezeh, had sought
their approval for said Phase II of the
project. Some board members reported
demanded a progress report on the first
phase they approved. They also questioned
the capability of the contractors proposed
by the Aviation Ministry to simultaneously
carry out a Phase II when there had not
been any significant progress on the so-
called Phase I. The union as well as tenders
board member who spoke to our
correspondent alleged that Phased II was
fraught with contract duplications from
Phase I.
“For example, Zakhem Construction Nig. Ltd
was awarded the contract for upgrade of
MMIA Lagos in the 1st phase at the sum of
N920, 191, 147.58. Curiously, [the] same
company was awarded another contract in
the tune of N981, 900,300.45 for ‘upgrade
and rehabilitation’ of MMIA Lagos, under a
spurious banner of Phase II.” According to
the petition, “the entire Phase II is sheer
duplication of Phase I.”
The union further alleged that the “various
contractors [were] still on site implementing
phase I, seven months after respective
awards, without any comprehensive project
status report to determine capability of the
companies, yet the Ministry awarded ‘phase
II’ jobs to [the] same firms.”
They also noted that the memos for the jobs
were initiated by FAAN, whereas the
contracts were for the ministry. The
employees also said the contracts had
always been awarded before the reports
were made. “The consultancy contracts
were merely [a] smokescreen to siphon
money,” the petition alleged.
In an exchange of correspondence between
the FAAN and the BPP, obtained by
Saharareporters, the BPP asked FAAN to do
more due diligence to ascertain that the
contractors had actual capability to
simultaneously carry on with another
project when they had yet to make any
significant progress in the said first phase.
The BPP had also requested that the FAAN
check with the Corporate Affairs
Commission (CAC) to ensure that the
companies it awarded contracts to were
“unrelated.” There was no indication that
the FAAN complied.
The petition stated that “most of the
contractors on site are not among those
approved by the BPP in the adopted
Selective Tender method,” adding a concern
“about the safety of patrons at the airports”
as well as the abuse of public funds.
In interviews with SaharaReporters, two
leaders of the union expressed
disappointment that the leadership of the
Senate had taken no action since receiving
their petition.[/quote]The above post is one of the reasons that urgently call for disintegration of the cesspit called Nigeria. Any good work borne out of unbiased philosophies is subjected to tribally biased criticisms. Certain section of Nigeria has not slept or rested since Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu saw the first international flight landed and took-off from the airport.

berem: You don't fail to disappoint......

It is true lovers are metaphorically blind not love. I cursed the day you stepped foot on Lagos.

Abagworo: Conspiracy theory. I wonder the kid that will fall for this ish!

There is no doubt most Nigerians are moronic panhandlers and have pair of eyes yet can not see a damn thing across the bridge of their noses. We are watching very closely the number of pupils reportedly missing from Okorocha’s deceitful and so-called philanthropic schools across Nigeria. Mallam Rochas Okorocha never had a decent paying job until propped up by evil doers. We are watching him closely.

Abagworo: You are very funny indeed. Anyone that has been able to follow my remarks on every issue will realize that I'm a man of truth and whatever I say is real and not in favour of anyone. if you notice, I've been off Nairaland for a while and its because I was doing a tour of the Southeast. My perceptions about so many issues has changed and so will it still change once the issues themselves are tackled.

A lot of new private industries are springing up in Imo State ad I believe so many factors could have led to that and not necessarily Okorocha. I've seen Rochas schools in close views, I've seen his roads in close views and I must say that I'm not impressed. Our leaders are all wicked set of people. They visit Dubai, New York and Paris but come home to construct disgraceful roads. I must admit that he has done better than Ohakim and Udenwa but as at now I score him 40% .

Chime of Enugu seems to have gone the way of our past by abandoning completed projects and leaving them to rot away. Most of those roads that were clean and marked as at 2011 when I went there last are gradually turning red and dusty .

In Anambra, Peter Obi did some good job at the Onitsha habour even though there are signs of it rotting away in a few months owing to same lack of maintenance. His rural roads are same with Rochas and quite disheartening. The roads Ngige did 8years ago look newer and more solid. New industries were also noticed.

Theodore Orji's Abia seems not as bad as people make it seem. Aba has changed drastically and the expressway is no longer dirty but green with wire demarcations and pedestrian crossings while several industries have sprung up along the highway. What used to be Osisioma market and park is now a garden.

I didn't visit Ebonyi as my tour was Port-Harcourt through Aba, Enugu, Onitsha and Owerri.

NB. Rochas is doing well in beautification and standardizing of Owerri in particular but why obstruct the highways with unnecessary roundabouts?

Mr. Truth, I have given up on your sycophancy about issues surrounding Mallam Rochas Okorocha’s performance as Imo State governor. Mallam Rochas Okoroch is fast transforming Imo State’s landscape into Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri and Nupe legacies by erecting idiotic entrance gates in all the urban cities within the Imo State. Can one remind Mallam Rochas Okorocha that Imo State is not part of northern region of Nigeria?

[quote author=$£yi]The bolded part justifies his action.
OP, there is no part in the article that says "I Filled Vacancies In My Ministries With More Yorubas", but rather Osun state indegeens[/quote]It is only in your fictional world that a person who had never worked or gainfully employed for years is well qualified for senior managerial position.

The moronic governors of the faction of the so-called Nigerian Governors’ Forum are representatives of everything wrong with Nigerian polity. They are bunch of rogues calling for resignation of NOI because the minister has erected roadblocks on the governor’s reckless spending habits.

I knew the dingbats from Rivers, Niger, Kwara, Osun, Ekiti, Ogun, Adamawa, Oyo, Lagos, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kano, Zamfara, Edo, Borno and Nasarawa are patented roguish governors.

grafikii: Clean up your dirt, why do you guys love refuse

If I say that Lagos is dirty, it is an insult to dumpsite. Mind you, I spent considerable amount of time in Lagos when Abeokuta, Ogun State was a one-road city.

It is crass irresponsibility on the part of Punch Newspaper to embark on slanderous endeavor such as branding “Enugu State” as dirty while, in fact, it meant the “City of Enugu”

In attempt to show measure of uncivilized loudmouth and inherent tribal bias, the newspaper used a forged Igbo name as the writer of the idiotic article. It is funny to read about one Mr. Christian Diru, who shuttles between London and Enugu, suddenly concluded that Enugu State is dirty because International Airport is now operational in Enugu City. I guess Mr. Christian Diru has not seen Lagos State while on the alleged shuttles between London and Enugu.

berem: Dede m, going to court and inviting the anti graft agencies, which do you think is better? Why going to court when an arrest hasn't been made? well, i stand to be corrected!

Nwannem nwanyi, the so-called “anti graft agencies” were not erected to settle contractual disputes between two entities. In addition, you do not need to execute an arrest before going to court. It is unfortunate Nigeria is a jungle and nothing is done in manner of civility. In civilized societies, cases of breach of contracts are settled in the courts of law. The both contractors and Imo State are entitled to approach the courts if breach of contract is detected in their dealings with each other.