₦airaland Forum

Great development. No reason why Igbos should not fly cargo planes directly to the East and develop their region more.

4Qbitch:
Is it now illegal to name ur dog simply becos a particular tribe might find it offensive & murder innocent Nigerians? And this murderous people must be protected at all costs?

Only days ago, 8 persons were murdered and the police watched it like a Spartacus movie; but a mere dog-namer has been served swift (in)justice. Is this really a country?

No. It's not illegal. Below is my post to similar thread earlier.

DropShot:
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Democracy doesn't bestow the right to cause public disturbance on anyone. Yes he is free to name his dog or goat Buhari or whatever. It is plain stupid and idiotic to WRITE BUHARI ON HIS DOG AND PARADE SAME AMONG THE HAUSAS. It is very offensive and provocative. He is very lucky the Hausas there are more rational and more reasonable than the average almajiris. If not, we for don read about his demise.

Like Dilector Kanu like this idiot Joe.

Quote me and come up with common sense arguments. If not you will be ignored to the extent you'll doubt your existence.

If we're not hypocritical, let's sincerely ask ourselves what IPOBs will do to anyone who condemns Kanu while in their midst? Pat him on his back and say well done?

Make una use una common sense abeg. At least it's free gift from God.

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ImperialYoruba:
So you do agree that if a Christian was in that immediate vicinity and did not hurriedly join to slurp on Shuh feet wash he risks being slaughtered?

Those who call themselves mainstream muslims need a jihad. That jihad should be an inward facing one to root out barsterds like this Shue who encourages his fellow humans to worship him instead of directing their worship to Allah, and make bad name for true and peace loving Islam.

Do you kafir not agree with me?

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This is very painful and barbaric. NA is full of criminals!

Civilians should learn how to relate with these animals in uniform to avoid stories that touch.

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Pidggin:
He is doing the job you are being paid to do on nairaland, the only difference is that he can defend his with facts and figures while you rely on propaganda

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chisky02:
Dropshot, can you please move on and stop given flimsy excuses for your failed economic team, we did not vote APC to tell us that the previous administration damaged economy
but to work, anything short of this is not acceptable.

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This boy called Deji Adeyanju has no brains!

What did wailers understand when their god NOI said "Nigerians should prepare for tough times"? And that was when the IB was still in charge but already borrowing to pay salaries at a time crude was $76 per barrel. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/171145-brace-tougher-times-ahead-okonjo-iweala-tells-nigerians.html

Do they think tough times means period of enjoyment or merry making?

PDP/GEJ brought us here whether we accept it or not.

And those mumus wanting the president to find solutions to the economic woes are same mumus opposing the president's plan to request emergency powers to tackle the economy. Talk of confused people.

The culprits of this dastardly act must be apprehended and brought to very swift justice.

Anything short of this is unacceptable even to Muslims. Those guys have committed heinous crime against humanity.

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evilapc:
Why can't people like you champion a country free from ugandans?

You types just murdered 8 people, who to your thinking behaves like ugandans, yet you evil likes never deem it fit totally separate from such infidels..

I thought your types said, the likes of Kerry are killing Muslims in middle east. ... don't you think Kerry came to kill northerners?

Well, I know Kerry is in sokoto to plan with evil people like you on how to totally destroy ND and Biafrans, and then take over their oil wealth... nothing more

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Let this country divide already.

Too many problems from the NE/NW and SS/SE already.

Let's hear what Ugandans have to say.

Any complaints this time around too?

NextGovernor:
Ok we Agree. Why did we vote in this government? To be showing us paper how the money was laundered abi?

We already know they embezzled money that was why people voted you to do what they felt the last administration couldn't do.

Don't know why they keep showing us what we already know instead of them to go and do the repair and work for the reason they were voted for.

Unfortunately there is no such money anymore. And it's necessary to reveal all this so people like you know how the money was looted by few individuals.

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Izonpikin:
you are still holding on to the past administration gibberish like a child..arent you grown up to think more than those lines...arent you tired of spewing that same rubbish like a programmed electronic device...so we should now give buhari extra powers like some power rangers to do the job he was elected for...and stop mentioning crude oil...let the herdsmannn think beyond oil...nonsense...you guys rallied around an old waecless man and now you want him to seek for more powers to control the damage he has caused for so short a time...

come back to nigeria and yeye here..anyone who takes you serious must have their brains checked...

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Seahawk:
Keep blaming the past administration.

If buhari can't save Nigeria, he shouldn't have asked for it. Not going in there to commence blubbering like a pleb with adamant zombie followers supporting him all through his tyranny and foolishness.

Kiddo, the president's term is four years.

No amount of wailing, teeth-gnashing, suicide attempt or real suicide and even bombing of pipelines will make him not spend the four years.

Swerve

You see!

LAGOS— The business community, yesterday, threw its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposal to assume emergency powers to revamp the nation’s ailing economy. But the political class was largely opposed to the proposal as most senators, whose opinions were sought, said the bill on the proposal was already dead on arrival, saying the bill, if allowed to sail through, would sound the death knell for the legislature in the country.

Members of the House of Representatives, however, expressed mixed feelings about the proposal. The proposal, according to sources, are being packaged by the administration’s economic team under the leadership of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The bill, when finally packaged, is to be entitled, “Emergency Economy Stabilization Bill 2016” and is being proposed to help stimulate the economy. Consideration of the proposal in the National Assembly, Vanguard learned, would be seriously interrogated by lawmakers, some of who lamented, yesterday, that even without emergency power, the President had started to act as a dictator, trampling on the power of the legislature. One of the senators, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “These are some of the bills we have looked at and bringing these new ones to us to amend would amount to dictatorship. “The President is already dealing with us with the laws he has, he will kill the National Assembly if we further add what he calls emergency powers to run the economy.“ Another senator, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, noted that some of the powers sought by the President had already been addressed by the Senate, including the procurement laws. We’ll respond when the bill is represented —Senators, Reps Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe, PDP, Abia South and Peter Nwaoboshi, PDP, Delta North, easily among the leading opponents of the President in the Senate, however, preferred to wait for the arrival of the bill before making their comments, even as they said it was within the purview of the President to make his proposals for addressing whatever situation the economy was confronted with. “I don’t see anything wrong in President Muhammadu Buhari trying to bring any new law; it is his prerogative. Until I see the law, that is when we can talk about it. Anything that will push the country out of the present economic woes, the National Assembly will support,” Abaribe said. Nkem Uzom-Abonta of the House of Representatives also spoke in the same vein. Senators Mao Ohuabunwa, PDP, Abia North and Senator Sunday Ogbuoji, PDP, Ebonyi Central also feigned ignorance of the intention of the bill and as such, promised to respond when the bill is represented.

It’ s a welcome development —LCCI The scepticism of the lawmakers was matched with the ringing endorsement of the proposals by the business community as articulated by Mr. Mudal Yusuf, Director-General, Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry, LCCI. He said: “The sense of urgency demonstrated by President Buhari on the need to fix the economy should be acknowledged. It is a welcome development. Although the details of the Economic Stabilization Act are yet to be released, a few indications of the government’s thinking have been reported. “In my view, some of the issues can be dealt with within the authorities of the executive; while others need legislative actions. I agree with the proposal to fast track the procurement process in order to quickly activate the stimulus spending by government. This should, however, be done without compromising the integrity of the procurement process.”

MAN hails FG - The LCCI was also backed by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, which said it was also in full support of the proposals. Reacting, Dr. Frank Udemba Jacobs, President of MAN, said: “It’s a step in the right direction. Something drastic has to be done by the government to rescue the economy from total collapse. “ Proposals not yet passed to Buhari —Presidency Meanwhile, the Federal Government, last night, said the proposals remained, at best, tentative proposals which had neither been passed on to the President nor to the Federal Executive Council. Spokesman for the Vice-President, Mr. Laolu Akande, in an email response to Vanguard said: “The Economic Management Team has, indeed, been considering several policy options and measures to urgently reform and revitalize the economy. “Some of these measures may well require legislative amendments and presidential orders that will enable the executive arm of government move quickly in implementing the economic reform plans. “As far as I know, this has not been passed on to the President, the Federal Executive Council or the Legislative arm of government. So at this point, there are no further details to share.”

Why Buhari needs emergency powers —Rewane Also speaking, Managing Director/Chief Executive, Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, said the proposals would help to move the economy out of recession. He said: “He needs to do those things, there is need to move rapidly as nothing has been happening. Everything has been slow. He needs intensity and speed. He has to do a lot, and he has to do a lot in a hurry. “Then we would begin to see the result, but he took a long time. There is need to do it now. There is a sense of urgency now, and there is a sense of honesty.” Rewane, however, said the President should first declare a state of emergency.

Falana, Etiaba react Meanwhile, Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, said: “Most of the issues raised in the economic Emergency Power Bill by President Buhari relate to existing law. If you take the UBE law, for instance, it is an Act of the National Assembly which requires state government to contribute counterpart funding before accessing the fund. “The state governments, many of them, have more than N54 billion that cannot be accessed. I think what the government is trying to do is to eradicate illiteracy and remove our children who are on the streets without education by allowing the state governments have access to the funds. “I would have preferred having regard to the criminal diversions of the ecological funds by some states and a lot of intervention funds by some state governments, it should have been better for the UBE to disburse the fund.

“Clearly, the President needs the law to tackle the crisis of underdevelopment in the country. I thought the type of amendment we should be thinking of is not the one that will empower contractors but the one that would allow the government to engage in direct labour. ‘’We have the best of engineers in the ministry and since the country is broke, why are you giving out contracts to fix roads that civil servants can fix? “I have studied the economic emergency powers bill and as far as I am concerned, it is far reaching enough. We don’t need a bill, but we have so many wastages in government which we need to curb to save funds. Reacting to the development, Emeka Etiaba SAN, said: “I think where we are today in our political history, we cannot afford such blanket approval of such emergency power by the President. That will also make a mess of the checks and balances as enunciated by the constitution in art of government. “Knowing that we are still young in our democracy, I don’t think we are ripe for the National Assembly to grant such powers or blanket approval to the President.’’

President can declare emergency on economy, but… —Labour Reacting, General Secretary of Ayuba Wabba-led faction of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said: “We know that there is need to revamp the economy, but whatever steps needed to be taken should be taken. “I do not know what constitutes emergency powers. Within the existing laws of the land, Mr President should formulate policies to revamp the economy. “Yes, he can declare emergency as far as it does not require any extral-judicial or extra-legal powers, it is alright.” Similarly, factional President of NLC, Mr. Joe Ajaero, said: “I am among the few Nigerians that are still waiting for the economic blueprint of Mr President. When that economic blueprint is made public or introduced, definitely there will be element of emergencies, given the economic recession that we are going through . “I do not know if the President has lost the powers to initiate economic policies. If he has not and he comes out with economic policies that will deliver us from this recession, I believe everyone of us will buy into it to make sure that the country is redeemed.” “But if there are other elements or demands that are contained in these emergency powers, we can only comment when we have a full disclosure on what he meant by emergency powers.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/emergency-powers-bill-lcci-man-nlc-others-back-buharis-proposals/

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I thought Nigeria's crude production would have ceased by now. That we're still at 1 million bpd is fantastic.

I urge the militant not to stop, they should continue the bombing and let see if their demands will be met.

You can't sow wind and not reap whirlwind!

Izonpikin:
na so the country u dey them dey run am......let the old man bring back our economy the way he met it....its not rocket science...let him apologise to the Niger delta so that oil can help out...

He wants extra power...rubbish...why didn't he mention it in his campaign....

I used to think you're possessed with some common sense thinking.

Was it Buhari that stole all the money that should have been saved by the IB?

Was it Buhari that made crude oil to now sell for $40 as opposed to above $100 per barrel during the Ineffectual Buffoon's reign?

Was it Buhari that allowed corruption to eat so deep into our soul?

Was it Buhari that wasted our earnings such that IB started borrowing to pay salaries even when oil sold far above the benchmark?

Mister, Jonathan killed Nigerian economy. Take it or leave it. I don't have any apologies for saying it.

BeClever:
I hate Islam, but you are correct today..

This happens with every faith.. People are being brainwashed daily in every religion. ..

Islam is the only true religion. Take time to understand it.

ImperialYoruba:


I want muslims to come and show me in Quran where Allah say scoop up the feet wash-off when Shehu whoever performs ablution.

If you muslims cant show this from the Quran you all are kafirs.

Come show me now now now..... i cant wait.

Bloody idiots!

Please check yourself into a rehabilitation centre.

@ topic, Just like their fellow brainwashed counterparts in the Christianity fold, these guys are brainwashed and have surely gone astray. This has no place in Islam. As such, they're on their own.

These are the type their Shehu will ask to kill people and they will.

chosen6:
Nigerian Army killing innocent citizens and lieing on them since 1914. This is a clear case of extra judicial murder. Arresting 'suspected' criminals, tying them hands back and executing them is a classic example of ISIS trademark not what is expected of a democratic government. ni

Cry us a river!

Wrong, sensational and misleading headline.

Journalism in Nigeria is very junk. How can personal opinion of a few senators outside the senate in session be made to look like the body of senators has officially rejected a bill not yet tabled at the senate?

greatgod2012:
Though, not in support of the proposed emergency powers for the President, it'll definitely lead to abuse of separation of power.




But why is this administration always confused? They're always denying what is already published in the dailies.

The report on seeking emergency power, was it from APC or the presidency?

You guys need to develop and mature at speed of light.

Better to seek and obtain such powers to tackle the challenges. At the end of the day, it's the wailers that will still blame you for not proffering solutions to the problems.

You have less than three years to find solutions by whatever means necessary. Leave wailers alone because nothing you do will please them.

It will take a confirmed mor@n to go back to the Poverty Development Party. The party that wasted our golden years of 2011 to 2015 but want us to believe APC that's working to right the ship is the cause. Useless party!

O you hypocrites and children of hate, anger and frustration, this man has bitten more than he can chew and he must already be regretting his action.

Democracy doesn't bestow the right to cause public disturbance on anyone. Yes he is free to name his dog or goat Buhari or whatever. It is plain stupid and idiotic to WRITE BUHARI ON HIS DOG AND PARADE SAME AMONG THE HAUSAS. It is very offensive and provocative. He is very lucky the Hausas there are more rational and more reasonable than the average almajiris. If not, we for don read about his demise.

Like Dilector Kanu like this idiot Joe.

Quote me and come up with common sense arguments. If not you will be ignored to the extent you'll doubt your existence.

If names are mentioned, wailing zombies will complain it's media trial and propaganda. Names not mentioned, wailing zombies still talk nonsense!

Can Nigerians ever be pleased? I doubt.

KwaraRat:
How do you expect a despot and tyrant to fit into a democratic setting?


This is what we warned you fools about Buhari but did you listen?

Kwara Rat, I guess your moniker is a reflection of your brain.

Just to attempt to help your obvious idiocy, be reminded that Nigeria is in dire situation needing urgent interventions and that is exactly what the president is trying to do.

What's the problems with you unpatriotic wailing zombies? If the president doesn't come up with ideas as this, you tag him Bab Go Slow; you call him names and say he lacks the ability to turn things around. And now that he's trying to fix our problems with the type of urgency required, you're talking poo here.

I give it to the president's democratic qualities for even seeking NASS approval and support. The Ineffectual Buffoon will have broken all known laws and do as he thought right or wrong without any recourse to NASS and the constitution. After all, the reps/senators are on the same page as him on corruption and they won't even question him about it.

The scAvengers and their sympathizers can continue cutting their nose to spite their face.

NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO HUNGER AND FAMINE. PIKIN WEY TALK SAY IM MAMA NO GO SLEEP, IM SEF NO GO REST.

PMB CAN NEVER BE BLACKMAILED. WE'RE NOT TALKING OF WEAKLING JONATHAN HERE.

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lytech1:
Tell me why you are quick to condemn my opinion even when you don't have a single point to defend your self.


Wise up dude,try make use of your sense before typing sh*t

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lytech1:
Maybe you just help in pinpointing 2 or 3 of his contributions rather than attacking personality here

I dont see the attack on any personality here.

I don't come to Nairaland to teach basic education.

lytech1:
This soyinka of a man have benefited a lot in this great country...
He his always active in every govt administration claiming to be an activist or humanitarian..

But I still find it difficult to figure out one of his core contribution to this great nation to deserve all this honor.

People like you will eternally find it difficult to understand his roles and others like him in shaping and helping our democracy. You know the reason? Bigotry if all kinds.