₦airaland Forum

predear:
Makarfi wil always beat sherif bcoz he is D duelly recognised PDP caretaker chairman

rightly said bro

I have been an ardent supporter of defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD) right from 1998 till when it metamorphosed into the defunct ACN. I became a active supporter even on diaspora during the merging process of today’s deceit known APC.

I contributed actively and financially to the reelection campaigns of two South West ACN/APC Governors while in diaspora and even joined the caucus that visited these two Governors.

I have all my life developed enormous hatred for PDP as a party not because of the ideological believe of the party but because of some personalities whom I knew only meant good for themselves and not the nation.

Social media brought me in contact with one guy known as Prince Deji Adeyanju during the abduction of the Chibok Girls. We both tackled each other, Deji changed and gave me reasons to believe the #BringBackOurGirls campaign was not what was really meant to be.

He privately forwarded a 14-questions the immediate past First Lady asked those actors that were present during the viral “Na only you waka come, there is God o” video.

That singular email changed my political orientation till date.

I have found a new house and am happy I became a member during its renovation process. As PDP embarks on the renovation of her ideological building, people are already showing interest to be landlords to various unit under this gargantuan building. Am so happy that our energetic, strong and reliable Adeyanju Deji has also joined the race to be a unit landlord. Many are contesting for different positions in the forthcoming PDP national convention, which of course includes Prince Adeyanju, who is contesting for the post of the party’s National Publicity Secretary.

I am particularly concerned about Deji and would want to implore all the delegates not to vote for him based on the following:

PDP is presumed dead. The ruling class and those against PDP, are working assiduously to making sure the once acclaimed biggest party in Africa, dies prematurely. With a personality like Adeyanju, with his passion and strong will, he will use his last drop of blood to see that the party doesn’t go into oblivion. Him being elected would see a lifeline into the party they want dead.

Electing Deji as the image-maker of this PDP, he will end up injecting fresh, dynamicity and innovations into the image of the presumed dead party. The ruling party we currently have in the country would not want any opposition to be virile. The asset, younger class band that are rooting for Adeyanju both home and abroad, would further increase the membership of PDP.

Adeyanju is definitely a known threat to NOT those in the ruling party, with his boldness and daring attitude, but to those with the party who do still want PDP to be ran like the parties of the old. His domineering influence on Social media is undoubtedly a threat to many.

At a time that most people are so afraid of being intimidated or harassed, this young man from Kogi state, not only held the PDP online supporters as a formidable force against intimidation but won the party more supporters both online and offline. It is also known that he became more vocal while the major stakeholders within the party went low.
He even visited some of those in EFCC custody or Kuje prison.

Some PDP members would not want him to win because of his disposition in not wanting to play the political tricks. Many of us that have been privileged to work with Adeyanju, know him as a great Team player and upright soul. Why would a sane politician go against personality like Adeyanju whose hatred for our known “Dirty Politics” is visible and exceptional? He had never been found wanting in all the responsibilities bestowed on him in the past. He with others even fought for the recognition of the office of “Directorate of New Media” under the NPS office.

Those that see no need in making PDP a modern party among its contemporaries in world should make sure that Deji Adeyanju is not elected.

Those that have strong love and passion for PDP and want it to die prematurely, just as the ruling party desires, should as a matter of urgency, stop him from transforming the publicity aspect of the party.

Those that do NOT desire more members within PDP and really appreciate this retrogressive CHANGE we have in the country presently, should ensure Prince Deji Adeyanju is schemed out and should not be voted for.

To every available position in any setting, candidates would apply but we have to realize that there are candidates and there are CANDIDATES, Adeyanju belongs to the league of CANDIDATES. His calm, bold, intelligent approach to issues differentiates him from others, why should PDP miss this great asset? A million naira question, pardon me, Dollar and not Naira.

Contact Shomoye Taiwo via Twitter: @BlessinAbundant

http://www.signalng.com/op-unedited-deji-adeyanju-not-deserve-pdp-nps-taiwo-shomoye/?wt=3

Alexander Okere, Benin

‎Retired civil servants, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, on Monday staged another protest over the non-payment of their pension arrears by the Edo State Government.

The aged protesters, who defied the heavy rain, carried various placards bearing inscriptions which read, “give us our pensions benefits,” “pension benefit are economic and human rights of retirees” and “pay us for God’s sake”.

Spokesman for the pensioners, Aigbedion, who lamented that the unpaid entitlements spanned over 42 months, threatened that members of the union would boycott the September 10 governorship election, if their demands were not met.



Aigbedion said, “We all have decided that unless Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole pays us our pension arrears, we, our children, wives and families will not come out to vote for this government.”

‎He explained that many pensioners in the state were faced with the daily challenge of providing for their families, in addition to huge financial indebtedness.

“We have been told that we will be paid but that is coming only to deceive us to vote again for this government.

“We want our money; let Oshiomhole pay us as he said he admitted owing us, though not up to the months we are demanding,” he added.

even people that claim to be youth advocate, wanting the party to appoint youths into top position are the the ones endorsing these this old man that is over 50

melvinjames:
Gbam Madam give this man 5 bottles on top my head.

thank you

all this old daddies should go and rest, Where were they post 2015 election when the party was in disarray, only Deji and few youth stood with the party online and offline to fight for the party. I stand with Deji and Lere candidature anytime any day

na WA ooo

by Roqeebah Olaoniye

Sitting in my living room on 29th May 2015, I posted an info-photo on Instagram that read how excited I was about the new administration. You see, I was one of those in the majority who had bought the dream of “Change”. I was excited and hopeful amidst many other positive feelings.

Today, 1 year, 2 months and 12 days on, I am sitting in my living room writing this so you know that not much has changed. The only apparent changes are nothing to be excited about and now I find myself of all the ways Buhari hasn’t changed much since 1984.



Here are five of them:

King of the over 500 percentile increments
I hear he had promised that bread will become 10k only for bread prices to rise to 70k. This feels all too familiar. How much is a dollar today?

Rumour Change, Buhari, 1984, 2016, Tunde Idiagbon has it he and Idiagbon were nicknamed the “deaf duo”
You know who had to go see the doctors about a “persistent ear infection”? Yes him! Buhari.

He still doesn’t seem to be listening to public outcry
Okay so maybe my last point was a little too literal. It might actually explain why the President doesn’t seem to know what the streets are saying because why else hasn’t he addressed this padding issue and a myriad of other things we’ve been screaming about like: WHERE IS MY CHANGE

Chief resister of foreign aid and advice
He still won’t take any foreign aid with respect to the economy or monetary advice from IMF or any other such body and investors world over aren’t surprised about this. I happen to think this might not be a bad thing so maybe it’s not all gloomy.

The war against indiscipline scheme
I hope this one truly spells change and we start to act like adults that we all are in public spaces. Yes men! Stop peeing everywhere!

http://ynaija.com/buhari-1984-2016/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

by Feyi Fawehinmi
2 days ago, the minister of agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, released the following statement:
The Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development — Chief Audu Ogbeh has threatened to shut down any fertiliser plant that denies local farmers access, while exporting the same commodities. The minister made this known following allegations that one of the two big urea plants in Nigeria is producing for export while selling to Nigerian farmers at skyrocketed prices, making affordability and accessibility difficult.
“Two urea plants are big enough to run the Nigerian demands. We know their capacities. But where there are allegations that some people are exporting instead of putting in the Nigerian market, and prices shot to N10,000 per bag of urea, we became extremely angry with them. Thank God now, many of them have started producing and putting into the market. The price is already dropping,” Chief Ogbeh observed.
“But, we are warning against the future. There can’t be any priority but the Nigerian market. If there is a surplus, they are free to export. But, unless and until there is a surplus, we can’t sit by and watch people selling fertiliser beyond the shores of Nigeria when the local farmers have nothing to buy. And we are saying the same to others. The priority is the Nigerian market.”
According to the minister, “Nigeria is a good market for fertilizers, therefore there is no reason to side-track this market and create difficulties for farmers. The government is giving every support it can to people who want to manufacture locally; and we will always give. So, we need absolute cooperation from all of them.”
There has to be a point where you say ‘enough’. And for me this is it. To the extent that I can afford to have some principles, I cannot have anything to do with people who are so openly hostile to enterprise and who speak the language of Venezuela to the economy.
You can run a simple google search on ‘maduro threatens to shut’ and you will see results where the Venezuelan president is using the same language as Audu Ogbeh to threaten businesses. It did not start with Nicolas Maduro — it began with Hugo Chavez who conveniently died before oil prices crashed. Today, Venezuela is a complete humanitarian disaster that is on the brink of complete implosion.
Whether or not Audu Ogbeh carries out his threat, he has publicly shown the type of person he is and the kind of government he is part of. If you run a fertiliser business, you will have to find some way of protecting yourself just in case he actually carries out his threat. There is no way this can be good for consumers. If it was as easy as ordering prices to come down which country won’t be doing it? Why will some countries bother with the hard work of allowing markets do the job of bringing down prices?
For one year, some of us tried as hard as we could to get the government to leave the currency alone and let markets work. They only agreed to do it after they had tried everything else and it didn’t work. But even at that, they cannot help themselves. The first month was spent on trying to rig the market to keep the naira at N280. When that failed, they tried all sorts of things including mandating oil companies to only sell their dollars to oil marketers —an idea so foolish that even they quickly backed down from it.
The latest idiocy is to tell people like me that I can only use Western Union or MoneyGram to send my own money to Nigeria. I have not used Western Union to send money in close to 5 years now and I don’t know anyone who still uses them. We abandoned them for a reason. For the CBN to try to force us to go back to something we walked away from is so laughably idiotic that I will give them a few weeks to reverse themselves again.
Now they are telling BDCs that they are only allowed to add a 2% margin to forex sales. In a couple of months time, the forex landscape will be such that no one will remember that these same people ‘floated’ the naira a couple of months ago.
A few weeks ago, the CBN governor was in New York to meet with some investors and try to convince them to return to Nigeria. One of the big fund managers refused to meet at all. Please understand this — the CBN governor was in their city and they refused to meet him. Nigeria has less than zero credibility in the eyes of foreign investors right now. And less than a month later, he has proved them correct by constantly fiddling with the rules and trying all kinds of shenanigans. They know he is not reliable so nothing that comes out of his mouth can be believed.
The logic of floating the naira some of us campaigned for was simple — a transparently priced currency would give investors confidence to bring their money into the country after they all ran away. The inflow of forex would then reduce the pressure on the naira and make life a little less painful for Nigerians who are exposed to forex through the price of imported goods.
When the government then goes back to its vomit by fiddling with the market. When it keeps a CBN governor who has less than zero credibility with the people we are trying to entice back into the country. When the agriculture minister is openly threatening private businesses based on the idea that everything you have is only yours because the government allow you to have it. When the government is directly increasing the suffering of Nigerians even though it claims to be doing the opposite.
One must say enough.
It is possible that I convinced a couple of people to vote for Buhari and the APC. I owe them an apology. I never expected this. The instincts of these people is to run with their expired ideas directly in the face of all the contrary evidence i.e. the 21st century. In fact, they are not interested in evidence, they are so convinced of their own foolishness. A bunch of undercover communists and unreconstructed socialists.
I have nothing in common with such people and yet I somehow donated money to them and canvassed people to vote for them. I will freely say that this is one of the biggest lessons I have learnt in my life so far.
Was the evidence there all along? Possibly. The adrenaline of changing a government we were tired of closed eyes to the obvious. Sometimes there are no good choices and with or without me, Buhari and his APC co-travellers would have won anyway. I doubt I can swing 10 votes in a Nigerian election.
But what I should have done is to have been more skeptical. Ideas should have been interrogated a lot more. Even if it ended up not making a difference, it would still have been important to do so. Not just so one can say ‘I told you so’ but perhaps to have forced a few concessions and to make them know we were watching closely. If enough of us had done this, perhaps the APC would not have the confidence to be walking away so blatantly from the product it sold during the campaign as it is doing today.
It is hard to see where respite will come from. Unless oil prices go back up significantly, there is really nothing coming out of the government that gives you any confidence they know what they are doing. The ‘smart’ people who were supposed to lead sensible reforms and drive the change agenda have been reduced to actors in a silent movie.
In place of a change agenda that was promised, Nigerians are now offered a daily dose of high drama and the redefinition of extant words. ‘Padding’ now means a different thing from what it used to mean.
If I convinced even 10 people to vote for Buhari, then I owe them an apology. For not properly interrogating the people who offered themselves as the solution to Nigeria’s problems. Not because it would have made a difference but because it was the right thing to do. Nigeria was always the point.
I feel sad and ashamed at the way things are unfolding. I speak to people in Nigeria and the level of sadness without even the outline of a vision of a better tomorrow from the leadership fills me with despair. I speak to some people in government and even they know that things are not working. The government that promised change is now so bound up in politics that changing anything is practically impossible even when they know the thing is not working.
This has been a chastening experience for me. There are hard lessons to be learnt here.
So, even if you were 99% convinced of voting for the APC last year and you read something from me that finally pushed you to 100%, I apologise. If you overcame your skepticism because you thought the arguments that people like me made carried some sense, I also apologise.
All that is left to do now is try as much as possible to keep the government from tipping Nigeria over the cliff. It is already standing at the edge and is determined to jump off. And more importantly to start a process of ensuring that mistakes made last year are not made again in the future. It is the right thing to do.
Sorry

http://www.thescoopng.com/feyi-fawehinmi/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

A total of fourteen airlines have reportedly withdrawn their services from Nigeria due to the increased fall of the nation’s currency against the greenback.

The airlines cited low patronage and the current state of economy as the reason behind the latest development.

Some of the listed airlines which were said to have lost about N64 billion following the crash in the nation’s exchange rate and currency value hence the pull out include Spanish-owned Iberia airlines, United Airlines and Air Gambia among others.

The President of the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Bankole Bernard, while speaking on the development said the new policy initiate by the Central Bank of Nigeria coupled with the current economic crunch in the country had severely affected travel agencies and airlines.



He further noted while speaking at the Aviation Round Table, ART, breakfast meeting held in Lagos that more airlines might pull out of flying Nigerian routes soon.

He further disclosed that more travel agencies are considering moving business to Ghana where “their policies are consistent”.

Further speaking on the matter, Bernard blamed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for its inconsistent economic plans especially in the area of naira devaluation.


Read more at http://www.herald.ng/14-airlines-withdraw-service-from-nigeria-as-naira-suffers-continuous-fall/#MVWvBQKmoilVtIA7.99

i'm so proud to be an indigine of Ekpoma. we are not foolish the only institution in Ekpoma, AAU has been destroyed by Oshiomole. he increased the school fees and did not even improve the structure in the school. Oshiomole did not construct any road in the whole of Ekpoma, and he expect the people to cheer him. more disgrace awaits him on Ovia

Dear Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,

Though I was one of those who made the system “hot” for you when you were in office through endless articles and criticism on national dailies and online blogs, however, I regret to say that just within 13 months that you relinquished the insignia of power, the prices of essential commodities have gone out of the reach of common people.

Things are so bad that Nigerians now steal pot of soup on fire. Nigeria is now drifting towards the ABACHA era. Nigerians have watched and still watching in aghast as things suddenly gone awry. No essential basic amenity is working in Nigeria as I write.

Your successors have refused to tar a kilometer of road since you left and those roads that you constructed, rehabilitated and reconstructed have been abandoned. The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has been technically scrapped.

Of course, things were not rosy under you but today, the situation is worst and pathetic.

Dear Goodluck Jonathan, I want to concur with your critics that you presided over a festival of corruption but common people never had it bad this way when you were in Abuja. We thought the economy was bad then, but today, it is hemorrhaging. The only thing working presently in Nigeria is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s massive probe of your party’s CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

Nonetheless, the purpose of writing you this epistle is just to inform you that the Kaduna-Abuja Rail that you constructed and the train you bought for the use of Nigerians which WE called Locomotive product was commissioned by President Buhari a week ago.

Dear Dr. Jonathan, history will be kind to you for being the only President Nigeria ever had that has no skyscraper anywhere on the world. While your predecessor, Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar built private universities for themselves and their families, you built 12 and 6 public universities and polytechnics respectively for the use of Nigerians

Thousands of Nigerians got gainful employments through the aforementioned institutions.

The national minimum wage that you gave to Nigerians is now being taking away by those who took power from you. Prices of petrol, cooking gas and kerosene are no more within the reach of common people.

Yam, pepper, onions, rice, beans, garri and even corn are gradually becoming the food of the ELITES in Nigeria.

The federal teaching hospitals that you built and upgraded are now at the mercy of “no drugs”. Medical personnels are now working without motivation. It’s stories of strike actions everyday in the health sector.

The situation of power supply in Nigeria has gone from bad to poor. Massive jobs lost now pervade the organised private sector. Entrepreneurs are now wailing as businesses shutdown everyday.

The automobile motor plants that you facilitated to Nigeria are now returning back to when you brought them from.

Sadly and most Unfortunately, the media industry that connived with your opponents to send you out of office and still in conviviality with the government of the day, aka the ELITES, to the detriment of the common people.

Dr. Jonathan, please note that you are not a saint but time and events have proven that majority of your critics are empty barrels. They are noisemakers. Time has showed that they are worse than you.

The rights to speech and expression that we enjoyed under you has now moved from rights to privileges. Your wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, was derided as “local”, but she never called a sitting governor a MAD DOG.

Let me just stop here, Sir.

I’m Adeyemi Adeleye writing from Aafin Compound, Ilogbo-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

http://www.thetrentonline.com/open-letter-goodluck-jonathan/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

see these Ekpa's Oshiomole has being the governor of Edo state for over 7 years the only foreign investment was his wife Lara.

Atleast wike have commissioned some projects, what have buhari done

emperorkay:
First what breed of dog is that? Secondly does she have fat in her bloodline? Like is her parents or grand or great grand parents fat and big? Brother if they are not, then I don't possibly see how this one can be fat. But if they are and yet she's not fat and you want the dog to be fat? I'll give you some tips. Hola me when you are ready

how can learn too, on details to make a dog fat

Fayose is my kind of politician anytime any day

i zon zie

change don turn chain

okay

NgeneUkwenu:
PDP Will struggle to win beyond Uromi...

PDP will buried after September 10....

Okorocha and Adams Oshiomole Do not Lose elections...

you stay in abia after collecting money from APC, you'll come here and type rubbish. We Edo people will collect Oshimole's money and vote for Ize Iyamu.

we know Oshiomole's plan, watch out for what will happen on election day

The only favor Edo people ask from Buhari, is to give Both parties a level playing field, same way GEJ did in 2012. Edo state is pdp

Tonye God bless you, this should have come long ago, I don't know what PDP is waiting for, this was one reason why they lost the last election, as there was no Social Media Directorate. while APC had a cordinated social media arm, PDP only relied on the like of Deji and co.

@OP the piece by you is awesome, but don't forget Barcanista has right to his own opinion, besides his write up was written before Ribadu decamped.

Lolzzzz him eyes Don dey clear. thank God.

Mynd44:
Whol up whol up whol up

Didn't the PDP guys say and I quote "elections are not won on social media"?

The problem y'all have is not that you dont have enough youths handling your social media business, it is that the yoots handling the busines are really unprofessional and to be frank, not doing a good job.

Go on Twitter, the top PDP yoots are busy stroking the embers of ethno-religiois hatred and threatening people with violence.

Seriously, you have yoots like Deji Deyanju, DOluwasegun, Nedunaija, Ohimai (he ssid he resigned but yeah right) and the likes spewing bile everyday and you think you can win any poly religious or poly tribal election?

Did you guys forget how Former Vicer President Sambo said Vice President is a pastor and was going to "christianize" the country?

With every appointment the president makes, the same PDP yoots on social media go on a tribe seeking mission or a religion seeking mission and that goes on forever.

When have you seen someone like Ayourb or Jagbros talk about tribe or religion?

The problem is not the lack of youths, the problem is that the youths have turned into yoots and are too busy forming think tanks to use to spew bile.

You said the APC won because they engaged the youths more, but does the APC even have a youth wing or office? Have you seen or heard of such? But they were able to present their case with ease and sway voters.

The problem is not that no youth is involved in the decision process, it is that the youths are not potraying the party in good light. Heck, look at Bint Moshood, Muslim lady and able to hold her own and appeal to the young female Muslims, who does the PDP have?

What is the PDP's response to Ayourb?
What is the response to Jagbros?
None. Just a bunch of people spewing hate upandan social media.

Nuff said abeg, my fingers hurt

And come to Nairaland, goodness……it is choking.

all these things you said were pre election matters and that is the past. with the current reality on ground. PDP needs to restructure itself and also recognize the youths who have been on social media, marketing PDP and demarketing APC

APC was able to when the 2015 election, because they had good media team and structures. i think now that PDP has find itself in opposition, it should re-organize its media team and even have an online media directorate, where it will recognize its supporters from all social media platform. i pray this write up gets to the appropriate quarters, because this is the best way to go.

ok

this is the best and most transparent election at least it was not declared inconclusive and we have a winner

BAILMONEY:
THEY WILL SOON BE HERE TO DEFEND THE MASTER OF STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE

Na so we see am

Fedayeen02:
I know Remi sniffs Tinubu drugs thats why she acts weird online

you can say that again

alade112:
From the link i saw 2008? dz stuff is old jare. Give us 2016 stuff

whether 2008 or 1982 is it true or false?