₦airaland Forum

Keneking:
Great...

1. We need sniffer dogs to be on this site from yesterday till Saturday this week.

2. There is need to invite experts in security to supervise the decoration and installation of music systems, cleaning etc of the venue.

3. We do not need this expensive decors which i see in these pictures. Simple table and chair with canopy and public address systems.

4. Also there is need to have the National flag and armed forces flag handy.

5. Canopy, wooden chair and desk, standing fan to cool off the Chief Justice during the swearing-in ceremony

6. Holy Quran (Buhari's personal own would suffice), no need to buy new ones, or his family's quran in Daura.

7. A small car for the inspection of guards at the venue (not the luxury Mercedes Benz car)

8. Helicopters and police formations to be on standby and lock down this area in Abuja and environs and PDP controlled states from today.

9. An alternative venue for this ceremony depending on the mood of the in-coming president. Perhaps, a low-key event should be considered due to the mood of the nation.

I don't trust this outgoing government..................sef

10. Imagine a.c units (2 pcs) installed outside with no roof in the first picture. Cant they have standing fans in that roofless cubicle

11. I hope that glazing is bullet proof because i see a lot of military officers with guns. I don't trust them.

Nonsense, I repeat nonsense angry

GenBuhari:
[size=18pt]Why all this news about handover ceremony? may just be to mislead us all into believing that the PDP govt is genuine about plans to handover to Buhari.
America and her European partners who have been looting us blind for 17 years since they assassinated Abacha , they are even in the process of balkanising Nigeria.
So you can bet your house that they are not going to allow a competent government headed by Buhari to resume power and not only put an end to our economic exploitation, but expose their past thievery and genocide that they are perpetrating using the smokescreen of hired thugs they call Boko Haram.
May the gods of our great and noble ancestors punish America and all those planning to deny us Buhari.[/size]

theV0ice:
If true, i'll give them kudos for being a responsible media outfit unlike what AIT served us during the campaigns

It was wrong to call Wike a murderer without a court declaring him so just like the AIT hate documentaries were very irresponsible their very libelous nature.

We could talk about it in gossips and online banter without repercussions and get away with it but a news channel shouldn't be seen condoning it

If true, i say well done Channels

doublewisdom:
Everyone says it's because he's just a president elect, is that the reason he was left outside for almost one hour? Btw, wetin he go do for there? Who invite am?

dustmalik:
There is what is called photo op (Photo opportunity), that's what Buhari and Cameron were doing out there, and Buhari's aides couldn't have been present during their photo op.

The protocol is simple; Cameron and Buhari were supposed to do photo op, after which, Cameron was to go back inside, before Buhari's aides come out and meet him.

Now, the little waiting time between Cameron going back inside and Buhari's aides coming out, is what the unintelligent Tanoids are exploiting. Mind you, the waiting time could have been less than a minute, for all we know.

The point is, pictures do not tell the whole story.

PassingShot:
Yeah, Cameron left too early but that's not Buhari's making and couldn't have been termed an embarrassment by any stretch of the imagination.

PDP have proved not to know how to concentrate their efforts on real issue. They prefer dwelling on pity stuffs as this one.

Thank God we kicked their azz out!

PassingShot:
To buttress your points, the partial subsidy removal that eventually took place, were the promised palliatives provided?
The SURE-P program, as has been revealed just last week that the employee figure was inflated from 12k to 35k, is another evidence of the scam.
The buses that were promised, where are they today? The refineries, where are they?
Bottom line:
1. I believe there was no true subsidy in the first instance. What we had was an imaginary subsidy.
2. If there truly was subsidy, GEJ could have handled the removal in a more responsible manner than just announcing through the radio, on January 1st 2012, that subsidy was removed. No where in the whole world will such action go unchallenged. He needed to have discussed it with major stakeholders the need to remove subsidy. Ibb, Abach and even OBJ removed some subsidy and we witnessed how they handled it.
3. Nigerians, by rejecting the subsidy, were able to reduce/limit their loss had we allowed full subsidy removal.
4. Now that majority of Nigerians believe we have a more trust-worthy president in Buhari, they will accept a subsidy removal (if there was any) provided they know what they'd get in returns in predetermined dates.

socialmediaman:
I'm really tired of all these name saving for Jonathan. He failed, nothing short of failure can truly paint a picture of his performance.

This is the real story:

In 2012 January 1st, Jonathan announced an end to the petrol subsidy. NLC reacted and mobilized the masses who were taken by surprise. (This was not a party issue).

The NLC replied the government, "Fight The corruption in the sector first, you will have nothing to subsidize"... Jonathan never did this.

What are the corruption in the oil sector imports? There are thousands, but I'll name just a few outstanding ones:

1. Importers bring in petrol into the country and inflate the figures. Let's say an importer brought in 1 vessel, he brings a claim for 20 vessels, he is paid subsidy for the 20 vessels, no inspection to see if these vessels entered the shores of Nigeria, Nothing. They are just paid. This is crazy! No serious government will tolerate this, but Jonathan choose to ignore it

2. Importers bring in vessels into the country. After getting paid for subsidy, they divert these products to neighboring countries where the petrol sells higher, and they make double profits while we experience scarcity. It is noteworthy that these people do not fly these products into neighboring countries, they drive them, passing immigration and customs at our borders. Isn't this crazy? This is how people will be using our borders to import arms and illegal dangerous weapons, do we have a government, really? This was no problem for Jonathan.

3. NNPC imports products and intentionally delay these products from being offloaded for months so as to incur demurrage and share the proceeds with the vessel owners, they were indicted severally for these

4. Even with all these fraud and impunity by these oil marketers, many of them still get import waivers that cost Nigeria $20 billion dollars in revenue as pointed out by NOI in 2014.

Lots other crimes, this is just a teaser...

So what was Our apprehension?
NLC and Nigerians generally believed that unless you fight corruption in the sector, if you remove subsidy, these cabals will gang up and hoard these products so they become expensive again, what will the president do? If he could not fight corruption in the first place, how could he control impunity by the same greedy marketers?

Conclusion
This rubbish of leniency and kid gloves on sensitive matters such as embezzlement, fraud, impunity and corruption will end with President Jonathan's government. Nigerians deserve better. These cabals know we have a toothless president but they are yet to see the reward for their sabotage

Ps: I think Ifeanyi Uba is only being sensible and smart, they probably have got wind of the hurricane that will sweep them away in the coming weeks and it only makes sense to sacrifice and stay in business. These country hijackers haven't seen anything yet

chiefinalowo:
An Ijaw man told me yesterday that they cannot be in the same country with ibos should Nigeria disintegrates.
He said, we are better off in Nigeria than to be in a new country with ibos that have eyes on their oil.
He said, politically they can be allies but it won't go beyond that level.

gregg2:
Seriously, I'm tempted to call Junaid Muhammed a mad man.
[size=13pt]
Apart from Alison Madueke (who all the haters want to crucify) which other Ijaw person is in Jonathan's cabinet? [/size]

jorlons:
First you people said Nigeria was debt free under OBJ. Now it has suddenly become an accumulated debt from 1960 till date.

Madam headgear should tell us which to believe, whether Nigeria was at any point debt free or if she's suffering from amnesia, cause I don't see any reason why she should be lying or is she now the minister of lying affairs

mrking3:
I don't take any news serious from sahara and vaguard! How on earth did sahara get to know the happenings in the first class cabin? Was there any hidden camera or video that recorded their conversation?

socialmediaman:
2. NGF has said they have no 2 factions and they agreed that Amaechi was the substansive chairman of the forum, 16 isn't greater than 19, is it?

Was the other faction part of it? Yes, Akpabio, Uduaghan and the rest attended that meeting and they were the ones who championed the division of the forum with the backing of the outgoing president. They have denounced the fraud they perpetrated and the confusion they caused, so maybe Jang is probably chairman of a one-man governors' forum, it's allowed.

Come to think of it, Fayose wouldn't be doing this after-thought if he didn't agree that this was the real governors' forum, he would've simply dismissed them as a faction group

abitex577:
It is despeakable that, the Federal government is borrowing money to pay salaries. That goes to tell everyone that the economy has been run aground. It is so shameful of GEJ and Ngozi, with all the rebaselined indices they are showing to the world that, they have made so much progress.....alas in their pockets!

Boscojugunu:
thanks for d enlightenment... what happens when Obama leaves d office

MzJackBaueress:
If they actually did that,then it is wrong!

blym4real:
You don't need to be told this administration had more money to spend compare to other administrations.

This is the worst administration ever to rule this country.

As bad as people claimed obj is, with few money to spend, he still managed to leave behind a huge foreign reserve , which jonathan government squandered away and still went borrowing 3 thrillion inspite of having more money to spend.