₦airaland Forum

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]Nairaland mods have copied and credited a robot for his same report on the homepage.
Why are some people so evil and wicked?[/size]

He posted his 4hrs before you did.Technically,you're the one who copied,not him.

jomoh:
Clearly not all ND indegenes share your sentiments. If we are to blame anyone for the mis-classification into SS/SE it is definitely not the North but the people that cancelled the regions as classified by the colonianists through their coup plot.

Obviously Nigeria never had problem before that unfortunate incidence but everyone knows the subsequent events that unfolded after the incident. Ever since that unfortunate incidence, Nigeria has never been the same again.

Prior to that incident, each region survives basically on what it produces/generates.

The North had no business with oil as they survived on their nuts and other things they produce.

The East which included Large part of the SS survived on coal and palm produce

While the west survived on its cocoa.

Had the country being left alone to remain the way it was till the discovery of oil, the North or west wouldn't have had anything to do with the ND oil which would have belonged exclusively to the Eastern region. We wouldn't have had this problem we are currently facing.

Remind me please,who was it that split the regions into non-functional states as we have now?.

TheFreeOne:
Like you said all he wanted to do is

I see he has taken to his heels after being called out.

Gbawe:
Bruv, you yourself know that GEJ is a crook who abetted the horrid looting of Nigeria by his cronies. What "sentiments" am I whipping up when GEJ is out of office, irrelevant and powerless? I just want him and his crooked and heartless minions to pay for destroying Nigeria. There is no serious nation of the world where a deterrent system is lacking. I like to put issues like this in the public domain so that Buhari does not become complacent and 'benevolent'. There should always be conseqeunces for wrongdoing otherwise no one would hesitate to commit crime and to harm others.

An out-of-court settlement that was approved by a High Court judge no less and for which none of the parties involved had cried foul,no EFCC investigation whatsoever,not even a pip from the presidency as we've come to expect,yet you would malign not only an innocent-of-the affair businessman as Emeka Offor,but go further to try to taint the reputation of the judge by insidious allusion and you expect any right thinking man to applaud you.
Why hasn't the deal been cancelled or the present NNPC gone on appeal of the judgement?.
Why has no one been invited for questioning over the deal?.Has any petition against the judge been sent to the NJC?.And for Christ sakes,can you tell me why Offor,who has little to no link with the deal,was dragged into this story,if not to achieve some primordial political purpose?.
You know,that dead horse your ilk has been beating,about Jonathan,Easterners and corruption.

So,I read through all this twice and nowhere was Emeka Offor linked,either to this deal or the parties involved.
Subtly trying to whip up primordial sentiments to serve political purposes again,ain't you Gbawe?

obailala:
Is 'Buhari' the same thing as 'PremiumTimes'?... okoko!

You high this morning?.
Was it Premium times that invaded the government house or operatives of the department of state security,under whatever guise?.
Do allow an optimum booting of your brain before allowing your fingers run away with you.

In other words,they found nothing cos this particular story cannot be verified and is easily denied,but the one of arms they will have to prove with concrete evidence.
Someone seriously goofed and the DSS is now doing some sort of CYA,damage control.
Come to think of it,this is an armed invasion of the seat of government of a properly constituted State.PDP is right,it is a sort of coup.
For supporters of this idiocy I would ask,how would you feel if armed police invade the premises of the presidential villa on one excuse or the other?.What will you call such act,bearing in mind the govt of the federation and that of a constituent state are coordinates?

olawalepopoola:
Ibadan will never destroy those parts of the city! It is our heritage! Although amenities such as good roads and bla bla can be provided. They should concentrate on areas like Apata, Basorun, Moniya, Iwo road etc

No one is saying totally destroy,but the whole of Bere,spread out to Yemetu n environs need a makeover.
Heck,the way those houses are packed,coupled with the makeshift markets that spring up,from Sapati down towards Paadi for instance,make that area a nightmare for road users n residents alike

olawalepopoola:
This na Oke Aremo east of Bere, West of Yemetu, North of Oje, South of Oke Paadi. The home of Galaxy TV.

I'm glad you're proud of the city,I am too tho it needs a lot of upgrading.
A nice city,all in all.Welcoming people too.

italo:
Chysam,

Who said "Jesus is not coming again?"

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI or Pope Francis?

And when and where did he say it?

You will have to wait till Kingdom come for an answer,Syncan took him out already

OP,amend the title of this thread.Spain does not have a president.The King is the executive head of state,according to the Spanish constitution,with the Prime minister,drawn from the party with the highest no of seat in the parliament,leading his government.
Even so,the king can lead without a pm,if he's of the mind,as that office was not exactly established by the constitution,but by tradition.
Just saying all this so you don't mislead the typical nairalander,who only read the headline,before spewing out rubbish.

raumdeuter:
Disobeying the law of the land

Keep your personal belief to yourself. Some peoples personal beliefs doesnt support eating pork, killing cow or can marry girls from a young age

If your faith is in conflict with your job then resign

She wouldn't resign,the pay is very good,nor allow any of her deputies to issue the licences.
This is just licence to wed we're talking about here,not conducting the wedding itself.Yet,she swore an oath to carry out all her duties without fear or favour.

Jeromejnr:
I didn't see where you quoted that.

Of course,you didn't.You wouldn't. There's none as blind as he who would not see.

Afam4eva:
Adisa Bolanta is from kwara state while Balla Magaji is from Nassarawa state. Those are Northern states.

Bala Magaji Nassarawa is from Kebbi state,northwest,not Nasarawa state.

Gbawe:
I don't understand people like you. All for partisan politics and perhaps sectional bias you fail to condemn what is wrong and must be condemned. This is why many think Nigerians are "somehow" . We have a warped way of being comfortable with and even promoting criminality or what is outright wrong. What Fayose is doing is very reckless and dangerous. It is divisive and incendiary antics which threatens the peace of Nigeria. If you do not know, Fayose is a glorified thug who used to drive a Taxi in the UK. There is nothing historically special, whether previous employment history or talent, about him that makes him merit his status as Governor.

It was Obasanjo who made him a Governor because of his 'thug value' since OBJ, at the time, only dealt with ruthless thugs he felt would help him take over and continuously control the SW politically. Sani is very correct that Fayose is a 'relic' harking back to our dark days of "do or die" politics. He should shut up and face his job. His sort will be replaced by the next generation of well-bred, individually successful, administratively talented and sophisticated Yorubas by the grace of God. His mates like El Rufai and Ambode are getting on quietly with their jobs while Fayose is ranting disgracefully and divisively. Overall, there is nothing praiseworthy in what Fayose is doing. His antics should be condemned by all sane and sensible Nigerians irrespective of ethnic or political affiliation.

Did you just mention Ambode in the same line you did El-Rufai?.What alternate universe have you been living in?.The idiot is yet to find the way to his office,talkless of getting on with any job.
And while I may not necessarily agree with Fayose,I didn't see any logical response to him from Sani's diatribe.His language is uncouth and not beffiting a Senator of the Federal republic,yet you don't see anything wrong in that.

Btw,what do you mean by Buhari "summoning" Fayose to abuja to read him the riot act?.This is a democratic n federal republic for chrissakes,both of them are coordinate chief executives.
Could it be said even you have no idea what that mean?.

How much are Kogi and Osun's 2015 budget that they're collecting #50b & #35b respectively,just to clear salary arrears?.
Why then do we have them as states if they can't substantially take care of themselves?

I'm not seeing Ikwerre listed as a tribe. Btw,there are native Igbo in Edo,Akwa Ibom and C.River too.

TheAdvocate:
Abu Ibrahim, Kabir Marafa, Ajayi Boroffice, Olugbenga Ashafa and Suleiman Hunkuni, applied to withdraw the suit not because it was overtaken by events but because they got juicy committee appointments.

The offence was for forgery of Senate Standing Rules abi?

Can a crime be resolved or overtaken by events?

There was no crime in the first place,which is why the Police tactically dodged being deeply involved

asha80:
I believe fg repaired that rd not udenwa.
I can still remember ararume appealing on that rd then..
How sure are you that is federal rd?

Ararume may have had it done as constituency project.Note it wasn't all of the road that was repaired,but part the portion falling under Okigwe zone.The road is a state road

kennynelcon:
You need an optician... check d list 138>134

Anambra is 139,not 138.That's Imo

asha80:
my friend I went to sec school in okigwe for 5 yrs and like 7 mins after passing anara junction you get to ihugbe..from that ihugbe to okigwe town is supposed to be just 10 mins but back then before 1999 it could take 30mins because of a very bad stretch of about 3km and the terrain is difficult with red earth...anybody that went to absu then from owerri knows the area I am talking about...it was repaired by obj regime but I am not sure how it is now

Don't know if it was OBJ that repaired the road n why,but Owerri-Okigwe rd is a state road,not federal.Oba-Nnewi-Okigwe is the federal road n that one too has k-leg

RepEnugu:
enugu has the highest cut off mark...check again

Enugu is 134,Imo 138 n Anambra 139.Which is the highest there or there's a new way of checking rest of us dont know about?

janus05:
Stop being in denial. Western education is haram for the north. I served in one of the northern states. And I experienced raw WAEC malpractice backed by the school principal. Solutions to questions were solved by "machineries" and written down on the blackboards in the exam halls. The problem was that almost all the candidates couldn't just copy.

Oh,you experienced that too?.Quite annoying,it was.And to think that some will even write their names backward,from right to left,as if they are writing in Arabic script

Baba Buhari's trip to America was bound to
have positive and negative effects. I think one
negative effect is that he learnt a thing or two
about the philosophy of tokenist diversity in
that country.
If you complain too loudly in America that the
picture is too white in a particular office, they
find one black or Asian or Latino employee to
mix things up a bit and keep you quiet.
Diversity accomplished.
Every time President Buhari parsimoniously
makes appointments he does not want to make
- I think the President prefers sole
administratorship - he works from the
American script of tokenist diversity and
throws in one name selected by ballot from
below the Niger - which he drowns in a sea of
upper Niger appointments.
No problem. Ko si wahala. However, a few
points must be made for the record so that it
shall not be said that those who want him to
succeed kept quiet while he was digging
needless graves for himself:
Tokenist diversity may quieten the storm in
America where President Buhari studied the
script, in Nigeria, it sets a fire and pours petrol
into it. It causes disaffection. It makes
governance difficult or impossible. It causes
endless distraction from more urgent issues.
More urgent issues like corruption - which is
what we mainly hired President Buhari to do.
Fight corruption and restore integrity to our
system: that is the primary job description we
gave you, President Buhari. Everything else is
secondary. You cannot do that if you make
every appointment from Daura.
As is, Nigeria is one of the most unfair and
most unjust countries on the face of the earth.
To fight corruption, you have to work very
hard to increase the feeling that fair and just
have begun to return to the polity. How are
you going to increase the fortunes of fair and
just in Nigeria when even your most ardent
supporters will have to assume that other
Nigerians are stupid to be able to defend,
justify or rationalize these new appointments?
Baba Buhari, ta lo gun 'yan fun yin to ni t'obe
o soro? There is a level of national consensus
and goodwill you need to fight corruption. It is
difficult enough as it is: Peace Committees,
Jonahideens, and all sorts enemies of progress
have become veritable obstacles to the anti-
corruption war. The distraction that the
enemies of the anti-corruption war are causing
is massive. And there is also those who support
anti-corruption so long as it does not touch
those they have turned into saints in APC. We
need to work on those psychologies and
convince them that anti-corruption must not
have any exception. How can we do all these
when you are making lopsided appointments -
the easiest way to "heat up the polity" in
Nigeria!
How do you create a critical mass of support
for the anti-corruption war when you always
deliberately worsen your perception problems,
arm the enemies of the anti-corruption war
with the infuriating ethnic lopsidedness of your
appointments? Baba Buhari, why is it that
every time your supporters and those of us
who are genuinely investing our souls in this
anti-corruption war want to go to town with
your efforts, you take a Kalachnikov, aim it at
your own head, and open fire?
Baba Buhari, why do you always take a petrol
shower whenever your enemies are ready with
matches?
Here is how it goes, Baba Buhari. I'm all for
merit and I dream of a Nigeria where it would
be all that matters. We shall get there and one
leader must be bold enough to set us on that
course. I think you could still be that leader
but there are foundation stones you are
ignoring.
Come with me:
I am realistic enough to understand that we
will have to take baby steps, careful steps,
towards that Nigeria of the future. That Nigeria
where quota shall be a thing of the past; where
all 36 Ministers can come from Isanlu and it
wouldn't matter, so long as they are competent
and meritorious.
But our leader must understand that the
building blocks towards that Nigeria involve a
great deal of national healing, of national trust
building, of national confidence building, of
atonement, of appeasement, of addressing
unaddressed grievances and silenced tragedies
of our past. These things need to be done
methodically and painstakingly so that
everybody will come to have a patriotic stake
in Project Nigeria.
You cannot frog march Nigeria to this
destination overnight by making all your
appointments from Daura. The enabling
psychological atmosphere of confidence in
Nigeria - built on a system which the majority
of our people see, feel, and agree is just and
fair - must be put in place first.
For now, you must do things, bearing in mind
the fact that:
We need our first eleven in appointments.
There is no ethnic nationality, no geopolitical
region without competent and meritorious first
elevens. For the sake of the anti-corruption
war and to avoid the distraction we do not
need, stop this lopsidedness in what is left of
your appointments and try to create a sense of
fairness, justice, and balance by looking at first
elevens beyond the north.
There is no conceivable excuse for the
Secretary to the Federal Government not to
have come from the South East or South-
South. Haba!
There are some things that some of us who
support you will not allow you to do to
yourself, to do to Nigeria.
Baba Buhari, not even you, have the right to
put needless and unwanted problems on the
path of the anti-corruption war that is now in
motion. Lopsided appointments can derail the
anti-corruption war faster than Jonahideens
and Peace Committees by poisoning the
national environment with perception issues.
This is about Nigeria.
I have said my own o. Ehen.
Owo mi ma re o funfun nene.
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31520:%EF%BB%BF%EF%BB%BFpresident-buhari-s-yankee-problem&catid=221&Itemid=233

43% to the Northwest alone and 0 to the Southeast?.Haba mana!
The military appointments should be amended,out of 6 positions 3 went to the Northeast and again 0 to the Southeast when it could have gone round the zones

Rilwayne001:
You as a pastor are not expected to be lying around. What's with the gay rubbish you posted up there??

He struck a nerve,didn't he?.Quickly go and reinforce your closet,that deal won't be happening soon

mcvaeey:
Edo state government has reported on Thursday that they had discovered 1 billion barrels of oil off its coast. A significant amount compared to neighbouring Nigeria’s reserves, but which could boost the small country’s economy.
“We have discovered oil in a significant commercial quantity with Sapetro Company which works on Block 1 of the sedimentary basin off Seme Podji coast”, Energy Minister Barthelemy Kassa reported.
Sapetro is a Nigerian gas exploration and production company.
The Sapetro Chief Executive, Daisy Danjuma, wife of a former Nigerian Army Chief Theophilus Danjuma, said that first commercial oil production will begin in late 2015.
According to Kassa, the discovery would help to finance the country’s development projects.
“It is a historic discovery for our country because this will enable us to finance our development projects,” he stated.

And the fool from so-called "Oriohimwon" doesn't know Benin Republic is nowhere near Edo state.

IbnSultaan:
It is better to chose a A man to lead my village than to chose a man from my village


Following the New appointed my our Rankadeedee to fill critical positions, Some individuals who never believe in PMB or CHANGE are shouting ,wailing about a so called Agenda. President Buhari believes that credible candidates for appointments are available all over Nigeria but we must not forget how important it is to have persons who believe in your Agenda an policies for the new Nigeria as part of your inner circle, so also the should be persons you have confidence in, Jimmy carter I believe used his navy comrades to run Government in far US of A.
President Buhari has an obligations to respect federal character principles and he shall uphold that, Gej ex President was from otouke but today his people are complaining about lack of drinking water, So would you prefer a Man that supports positive change or a Man that allows THE GOAT AND YAM PHENOMalsou

Denial is not the river in Egypt,wake up

neoapocalypse:
Well said. If he turns the economy around and jobs are created , basic amenities and infrastructure are provided , improved health care , security is provided and the educational sector revived ( the five basic duties of any government to its citizen ) , then how he does it shouldn't be our worry , who cares if he appoints Chadians as ministers , let him improve the welfare of Nigerians.

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria cares.That is why it made specific provisions against such boneheaded moves.Last I checked,the president swore an oath to protect and give effect to provisions of that same Constitution.
When are you guys going to get your heads out of the sand?

Obiagelli:
God bless you.

Hey Ostrich,read the law you asked for yet?.Or you're trying to turn a blind eye to it?.

Whynotthetruth:
Thanks bro...Can you plz provide full content of that part of constitution here too plz?

14 (3) The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty,thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few State or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of
its agencies.

Section 8 of the Third Schedule,Part 1C establishing the FCC:

8. (1) In giving effect to the
provisions of section 14(3) and (4)
of this Constitution, the
Commission shall have the power
to:
(a) work out an equitable
formula subject to the
approval of the National
Assembly for the distribution
of all cadres of posts in the
public service of the
Federation and of the States,
the armed forces of the
Federation, the Nigeria Police
Force and other government
security agencies,
government owned
companies and parastatals of
the states;
(b) promote, monitor and
enforce compliance with the
principles of proportional
sharing of all bureaucratic,
economic, media and political
posts at all levels of
government;
(c) take such legal measures,
including the prosecution of
the head or staff of any
Ministry or government body
or agency which fails to
comply with any federal
character principle or
formula prescribed or
adopted by the Commission;
and
(d) carry out such other
functions as may be
conferred upon it by an Act
of the National Assembly.

(2) The posts mentioned in sub-
paragraph (1)(a) and (b) of this
paragraph shall include those of
the Permanent Secretaries,
Directors-General in Extra-
Ministerial Departments and
parastatals, Directors in
Ministries and Extra-Ministerial
Departments, senior military
officers, senior diplomatic posts
and managerial cadres in the
Federal and State parastatals,
bodies, agencies and institutions.

(3) Notwithstanding any
provision in any other law or
enactment, the Commission shall
ensure that every public
company or corporation reflects
the federal character in the
appointments of its directors
and senior management staff.
Modified:
It's Part 1C,not 1B.Pardon the mistake

Whynotthetruth:
Constitution ties him up as par ministers, so he may not have options there...but seems silent as par other areas hence he instead of promoting unity of the country...keeps living to his tag of a sectional warlord...

So why won't people feel discontented?... Why won't people agitate to move away from Nigeria?...Not with statements like 95%/5% and acting it out this way too as well as cancelling projects in 5%regions...

Section 14(3),as well as Third Schedule,Part IC 8(1),(2) &(3),totally tied him up on these ones as well.Thus far,he'd breached those sections of the Constitution with his appointments
Modified:
It's Third Schedule Part 1C,not 1B.Do forgive the mistake.1B establishes the National Council of State,while 1C deals with Federal Character commission and it's work