₦airaland Forum

JuanDeDios:
You mean you can't be an enemy of the Kremlin and still expect a Jacuzzi bath. Putin's Russia is a rogue's paradise. Why do you think corruption in their public sector and judiciary is approaching Nigerian levels?

The rule of law is not the problem. It never is. It is the best thing that can happen to any society. And why do you think China "has become the envy of the Western world"? ha!

Your opinion.

Hmmmmmm

Rebranding is meant to promote a product that has been rejigged for better performance and/or satisfaction.

The major problem PDP will face will be who does the rejigging and who needs to be rejigged. Everybody in that party na oga operating on different frequency thereby generating asynchronous beats. If na lie ask AIT man and Metuh.

In APC, pre- and post-election, na Lai dey do the talk after which market go close. Everybody agrees as pronounced.

So PDPians need to understand what party supremacy is. At least, they should draw a good example from the travails of Saraki, who wanted to know more than, and attempted to control, his guardians in APC.

Progressive politics is propelled by sound ideology and sacrifice. Money can only give you a temporary momentum. If not matched with steadfastness and visionary goals, shipwreck don happen be that.

Na so I see am.

Paentera:
This is another concern - will States & LG adopt same? In a discussion with a friend, he was of the opinion that a carrot and stick approach can be used to get them to tow the TSA line.

Just forget Delta state in that scheme, my brother. It is a state where the CEO of the banks as well as the revenue agencies and their agents are ensconced in the offices and bedrooms of those in government.

Paentera:
This is another concern - will States & LG adopt same? In a discussion with a friend, he was of the opinion that a carrot and stick approach can be used to get them to tow the TSA line.

Just forget Delta state in that scheme my brother. It is a state where the CEO of the banks as well as the revenue agencies and their agents are ensconced in the offices and bedrooms of those on government.

Hmmmmmm

Rule of law sometimes becomes an ass especially where the rich and mighty are concerned. They embezzle, ad infinitum, from any privileged position, wipe their asses with our statue book, click their fingers for the attention of legal luminaries that are ready to lick their balls, and lock eyes with the custodian of our commonwealth and laws with a challenge to them to dare if they can.

Putin's Russia practises democracy but with a peculiar brand of rule of law. You cannot be a known rogue and still expect a jacuzzi bath in your comfy. . You either shape up or ship out.

Even China that has become the envy of Western world would not give infidels like Dasuki this latitude to hold its military institution in such low esteem. He would have been termed an enemy of the state, tried secretly, and executed secretly. That is what I call real deterrent

It is high time we re-appraised our approach to criminal issues and, more especially, matters of state security.

aieromon:
Exercise in futility. The accounts are meant to be zeroed at the end of each banking day.

Like you see in the banks,nobody dey go house if money no complete!

Very apt from personal experience.

Hmmmnmm

For the first time after a long while, you slept and woke up well with your head on a pillow unlike, previously, when you wake up with your feet hooked on the ceiling and your head in perpetual gyration as a result of partisan wahala.

Bravo, kudos!!

GenWOJUOLA:
Most states have more than 500 SAs, kaduna state under Yero had about 525 aides, made up of 30 special advisers, 45 senior special assistants and 450 special assistants. And an oil producing state has a total of about 130, isn't that fair enough?

What you become in life depends on how you appraise yourself. If you adopt regressive tendencies as your role model then your growth will become impaired.

GenWOJUOLA:
Please state with facts, all other governors in Nigeria have more than 100 advisers. This advisers do the jobs of commissioners where there can't be commissioners. Like the SA on project monitoring. Secondly, they are not SAs alone, they are SSAs, SAs and PAs. He is by law entitled to over 300, but because of the present economy, he hs limited them to a little above 100

Hmmmmmm.
A governor with 100+ SA and not a bad thing. He is even entitled to 300+. Lord have mercy.
This is Delta state so no need looking into the quality of the appointees. As usual, they can only be roguish politicians with little use to themselves.

TonyeBarcanista:
I'm speeechless

You don't mean it!

Those your guys are still sleep walking and are likely to continue doing so till 2019 and beyond.

I hate to see a one party race. A good contest is one with several potential winners. This brings out the best in all participants.

Gbawe:
Indeed. I personally think Buhari will have problems with this Senate because it is full of pro-corruption scoundrels led by Saraki. Why should Melaye rush to publicly declare that one single company is made N25 billion from TSA remittance when the total amount that has gone into the TSA is not enough to yeild a 1% fee of N25 billion? What is behind this sort of mischief when the Senate, even agreeing it has oversight function, should be a partner to the executive arm instead of the peddler of erroneous and false information?

Why would Dino not rush to 5-junction to proclaim his 'patriotism' when his calculated earnings from performing oversight functions on the TSA is being jeopardized. His perpetual stay in the NASS and affluent life style is obviously sustained with protection money paid by MDAs.

It is like the game played by Popto Holo in Hardly Chase's novel 'Like a hole in the head'

TonyeBarcanista:
The party will get over it. I expect them to present strong evidence in court

Another evidence after the fact? My elementary knowledge of law says otherwise.

TonyeBarcanista:
PDP legal team though.

Time you disown these imps for your own good.

Hmmmmm
Pls, somebody should stay close to Pa Chukwudi if he hasn't given up the ghost.





And the poster above me need careful monitoring for his own good.

luvinhubby:
Bros abeg google Premiumtimes of Dec. 13th 2013, what GEJ budgeted for 12months on maintaning PAF
was N743 million.
Shocking as Buhari spends N2.6 billion in 5 months.

Hmmmmm
What did GEJ budget for oil subsidy in 2011 and what was eventually spent?

Hmmmmmm

The many faces of our nation!
Rampant cheating in age grade competitions started with the 1987 squads when the full import of the rewards associated with winning in age grade competitions dawn on Nigerian football managers.

The 1981 U-20 squad of Stephen Keshi and Henry Nwosu were truly representative of their age. Both of them came back to write WAEC after participating in the 1980 nations cup.

The catalyst for cheating is the avariciousness of our officials. And, of of course, our players become willing accomplices for same reason.

Gbawe:
Really annoying. Next minute these same youths who are only interested in frivolous and petty news and gossip will say they are marginalised and excluded from leadership. Nigerian youths need to step up their game. If you want to have the money to attend Davido concerts then equally pay attention to the politics that determine your access to jobs, adequate transport, healthcare et al that will ensure there is a healthy balance between work and play.

Nigerian youths need to understand that it is still their civic duty to hold leaders accountable and play a self-determining part in the shaping of their own destiny. I would hope this sort of topic is put on the front page because I know political leaders view and even use Nairaland. We then move on the the next problem which is the reality of how Nairalanders, majority who are Nigerian youths by age, may simply not be interested in this topic as they are about who Tonto Dike's new boyfriend is.

My brother, I just can't but pity the person who wears the crown in this country at the moment. The greatest challenge facing us as a nation, I think, is the deranged psyche of the populace. Wahala de o!!

I am surprised this has not hit front page while 'Davido sits in first class' remains there forever.
Seun, Mods you're acting too slow for the change phenomenon.
Do the needful, pls!

mazeltov:
Civilization is taking a bold steps in our society
. Our culture and tradition has been diluted with civilisation thus, it is eroding the power and respect of our traditional rulers

Civilization should not necessarily results in extinction of our culture. Whatever new we may adopt is usually someone else's culture.

whitecloth:
@ op doacadams, nice job for the copy and paste, but one things you guys have not come to term with is the discretion of the western world to Africa story and our own mindset, how I wish I could talk more on this but my hand is paining me already,

Note that the article was written by a Nigerian. You cannot exclude yourself in this instance; we imbibed their culture, copied their religion, adopted their system of government, and imposed their educational system on ourselves. With all these, do you expect your story to be told differently?

Hmmmmmm.

Our traditional institutions cannot be said to have evolved in tandem with our political milestone. One can only look back with nostalgia when our traditional rulers were held in high esteem and their pronouncements were orders to be obeyed. But now, they are challenged with impunity, reprimanded, suspended, or sacked by 'lesser' mortals.
Painfully, the institution is slowly heading towards extinction.
But then, can anything be done to salvage it?

[b] by Sola Odunfa
2 Nov, 2015


For the last week there has been great excitement in Ile-Ife,
the centuries-old city in south-west Nigeria that ethnic
Yoruba people regard as their spiritual home.
Residents have been celebrating the appointment of a
successor to the throne of Ooni of Ife, which became vacant
in July on the death of the incumbent, Oba Okunade
Sijuwade.
Political, religious and social leaders from across the
country have been sending congratulatory messages to Ile-
Ife on this new epoch.
And on 28 October the people of Ile-Ife turned out in their
hundreds of thousands to receive their son Adeyeye Enitan
Ogunwusi, who left home for Lagos several years ago in
pursuit of economic opportunities.
He returned not only as a real estate tycoon but also as
Ooni of Ife - their paramount ruler and the spiritual leader of
all Yoruba people at home and in the diaspora.
The Yoruba are the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria.
As I watched that event on TV I found the communal joy
infectious and I swayed in my seat to the beat of gangan
drums and, especially, the voices of old women chanting the
praise of the forebears of the king-elect and the founders of
Ile-Ife.
I was happy for them and, as we say in Yorubaland, for
myself.
Ooni of Ife:
The Ooni of Ife's kingdom is in present-day Osun state
in south-west Nigeria
The monarch should be a direct descendant of
Oduduwa, who is a Yoruba god
Practice of burying someone alive with a king who dies
has long been abolished
But for the Ooni-elect the public fanfare has now ended.
He is in total seclusion, being attended to and spiritually
strengthened by traditional priests.
When, after 21 days, he emerges, after meekly following
secret religious rites, he will be another being - the Ooni
proper, second in rank to the Yoruba deities.
State employees
But I can only hope that the obeisance being paid to him as
Ooni Ogunwusi by Nigeria's high and mighty will not lead
him to really believe all he might hear about his "highness".
Indeed the Ooni of the 21st Century is not comparable in
power and majesty to the Ooni of the days of yore.
Today the Ooni and other traditional rulers nationwide are,
when push comes to shove, senior employees and under the
authority of state governments.
They are paid salaries and allowances from the public
purse.
Country of kings:
They vary in hierarchy and importance; some like the
Ooni of Ife and the northern emirs rule large areas,
others are traditional rulers of a village or town
See the full gallery: Nigeria's many monarchs
If in doubt about the traditional king's place in the modern
scheme of things in Nigeria, drive down to Onitsha in the
south-east and talk to the Obi, who was a close friend and
confidant of his own predecessor Ooni Oba Okunade
Sijuwade.
The late Ooni and his two friends - the Obi and the then-Emir
of Kano in the north - took a holiday to Israel at their own
expense; when they returned for their trip they were
suspended from office for travelling without obtaining
government permission.
They were lucky - they could have been sacked from their
gilded thrones.
Up to a few decades ago an Oba, the Yoruba word for a
king, could send his servants or chiefs to summon any
woman - young or married - and when that woman reported
to the palace, the king would pronounce her one of his wives
and that would be the end of the matter.
These days hardly any of Nigeria's hundreds of kings would
attempt that.
These monarchs do perform useful functions.
They hold court in their palaces daily, settling matrimonial
issues, land matters, minor chieftaincy disputes and other
not-too-serious matters among their people.
They are also very useful for the vanity of their subjects and
friends as they award chieftaincy titles at their discretion -
though at times these are given on inducement, meaning
such honorary titles perhaps do not garner the respect they
once did.[/b]

www.bbc.com/news/world/africa

Op, as you are at the moment, will you make heaven? You are not sure. Even the Pope can not be sure of his eventuality.

With the exception of sins against the Holy Spirit. all other sins are equal in severity. Nothing like small or big sin. Fornication and murder are sins of equal magnitude.

In the final analysis, salvation is individualised, everybody for himself and God for all.

It must have been a herculean task writing this article. To put down a sentence on one quality of GEJ, a thousand failings and weaknesses will forcefully compete for attention.

Hmmmmm

How many people ever own up to their misdeeds? A highly celebrated personality for that matter.

Most times, it is the side effects or remnants of the evil that give one out.

In her case, excessive swimming in crude oil has left its effect - CANCER. Beware everyone! Crude oil causes cancer.

Nigerians are wont to claim their innocence even in the throes of death. They will wail continuously till in the presence of God hoping to convince him of their innocence.

Do what you must do while still alive.
Prayer for the forgiveness of sins after death is irrelevant to God.

Still looking for fuel to buy.

menxer:
Democracy is about strong institutions to check excesses of government not a one-man, strong mouth "tout" that has found his voice in opposition.

Did he speak up against the PDP maladministration?

Ask them for me.

Enahi:
What makes you think he cant be groomed? Anything is possible if he puts his mind into it.

Hmmmmmm.
Well, a trial will convince us.

Acidosis:
Fayose is not alone. I am not afraid of Muhammadu Buhari. When necessary, he would receive some strokes of offensive criticism and insults from me.



I just can't wait to get my PDP membership card.

Good, bon voyage.

Enahi:
Yeah I would really like to see him deliver a greet speech to world leaders.
I do like Fayose, I just wish he can groom himself more.

The PDP should hold on tightly to Fayose, he will go places

I can't imagine Fayose delivering a lecture without the usual agbero posturing and insults.
As to grooming him, mission impossible.