₦airaland Forum

There are some states APC will never/can never win. one of them is bayelsa, just like PDP can never/will never win Kano...

“It is only in Nigeria that one says because somebody has contributed to the success of the ruling party, corruption charges should be withdrawn against him. But if he falls out of favour tomorrow, then, EFCC will bring up the remaining charges.”

This is what the APC led government should avoid by all means in the fight against corruption, they(the APC) should provide airtight evidence against those indicted so we don't have people tagging the anti corruption crusade as political vendetta...

this will be interesting

benpedro:
Na wa oo.After all the shakara..You guys would've continued using force,sharing their petrol to the foolish citizens who voted in illiteracy against education!Since Buhari and his government is not willing to pay them the subsidy and the arrears owed them,the marketers have decided to be on their own,import petrol and sell with a price to make profit as every other businessmen.If you don't like the price,go to Aso rock and get a free petrol from the dullard y'all voted in!!!

Walahi you get bad mouth ooo...

likila:
beg?
this na money matter ooo.
Osunbade,
na beg you dey use fly that yar private jet?
no be money?
abii you think say feeling station owners no wan follow you dey enjoy private jet?

Begging/pleading is another definition of "CHANGE", i wonder if it was beg he used in fueling the presidential jet...

PappyMason:
Now they are begging.

Now they know why Jonathan wanted an end to subsidy

Idiotas have no clue but to go begging

peppyluv02:
Illiterate of the 21st century
Omotola is a HND holder but obviously none of the women in your family can stand her. I have NCE,BEd and masters in view but not as stupid as you and your likes to consider the University degree superior to others.

I guess he is the first person to attend a university in his family, hence the reason for the senseless comments...

HungerBAD:
Fayose attended the Poly Ibadan?

No wonder.

Maybe, just maybe, if he had by chanced attended the University, he might probably not be acting the thuggish way he acts now. Remember, those were the days when Poly required only 4 "0"Level credits to gain an admission.

Bottom line, Fayose was so very unintelligent that he could not make 5 "0" Level credits. I am not surprised he is acting the way he does, but what about his twin in Rivers State?i am sure you need to be of a sound mind, academically to study law.

But hey, what do i know?maybe special arrangements were made for Ikwerre people to attend RUST, without the basic qualifications. Nobody is telling me Wike, just like his brother Fayose has 5 "0"Level credits.

Anyway, the are both PDP Members. And PDP only welcomes mediocres, and those that celebrate mediocrity into their circles.

quit reasoning with your arse, with your university degree what have you achieved I attended a university and most of us don't come online to say trash like this...yeye dey smell

hmmm

PapaBrowne:
An average of $245,000 per day minnus presidential jet. Hmmm.
And the president has spent about 45 days offshore.

Oya mathematicians over to you...

chymystique:
Prayers without any form of action to back it up is almost Useless! PMB doesnt ve a clue on how to run the government and doesnt seem to care either.... He is busy Jamboreeing from one Continent to Another while his own home is on Fire

Omooba77:
If we had all pray for GEJ,the lies no gree us see truth..

Before 2019 nigeria will have more reggae artiste than jamaica, since most of them(nigerians) will be releasing different kinds of "wailing" songs...

In other words our "Junketeer-In-Chief" needs relentless prayer to perform, nigeria beans don done be that...

Farnsworth:
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala explained to the Bank
that N18.60bn was spent on roads; N10.83bn spent
on health; N7bn spent on education; N6.20bn spent
on water; and N21.70bn spent on electricity.

The ministers that handled the mentioned portfolio during GEJ's tenure should be called upon to account for how they spent the returned loot...

maupe:
Madam NOI is right. The question should be posed to the President, on what he meant, by Abacha not being corrupt.

Abacha is not corrupt - PMB

I wonder if it was his(abacha) ghost that stole all the refunded loot...SMH

He has also imposed dos and don’ts on the ministers including travel restrictions.

This got me laughing, he places travel restriction on his ministers while he turns himself to chief "junketeer"...

End Time Governor

Making End Time promises

When he is yet to pay End Time salary...SMH

The effort of the federal government to get the National Assembly to approve the N465.5 billion supplementary to enable it pay the importers was a step taken only when the scarcity had started biting, a fallout of the generally slow and non-proactive attitude of this regime to governance in general.

The self styled "baba go slow cum body language cum fullness of time cum junketer" merchant is trying to fix the fuel crises and other burning national issues as fast as he can, i see no reason why vanguard newspaper should be wailing, he is just 6months in power...

Our petroleum minister is "junketeering" around the world, while nigerians are spending several productive hours at the filling station queuing for fuel...SMH

hmmm

LastSurvivor:
Provide/Supply enough fuel and there wunt be any need for diversion or hoarding of the product instead of using the SSS n Co to coerce filing stations to sell below what they managed to buy..

I begin to wonder what the primary assignment of DSS is under this administration...SMH

This is getting interesting, whoever wins this election should be ready for court proceedings...SMH

This really becoming confusing, who are we to believe now Its high time the press up, snake charming general gets his act right, and stop all this face saving lies...

The same thing the army did during the last administration is what the army is doing in this administration, i begin to wonder where the so called "CHANGE" is...SMH

ajepako:
From a president that could not guarantee his own citizens security of lives and properties??

I dey laugh in Gujarati..

End time Buhari in Lasisi69 voice...

I guess he was been sarcastic when he made the statement...SMH

anigbajumo:
Awon werey,see where they put eyes....."Hence the MTN has accepted that they committed the offense and has apologised, and they are looking for leniency, we the governors forum decided to support the NCC to abide by the laws of the land and the laws of our land do not not give leniency to deliberate offense to our nation.”

Thank God for MTN's fine, set of clueless governors...SMH

And the change continues to spread...I never knew Nigeria is depending on MTN to pay their fine so that our government can fulfill it's obligation to the people...May God deliver us from this brand of change...SMH

Peter262:
1. We pilloried Jonathan's administration for
maintaining a wasteful 12-aircraft
presidential fleet (enough to constitute a
modest airline) despite the deepening
hardship and cash crunch in the country. In
response to initial misinformation from
overzealous Buhari supporters about
Buhari's decision to sell off most of the
aircraft, the administration came out and
firmly denied taking such a decision and has
continued to maintain the same presidential
fleet. This inexplicable resolve to continue
with what is universally regarded as a
symbol of executive profligacy is not
attracting any critical attention from
otherwise skeptical citizens. And I don't
want to hear the excuse that Buhari didn't
buy the aircraft, that he inherited them.


2. Staying with the aircraft theme, the new
Customs boss, Col. Hameed Ali, a key
Buhari appointee, travels around to conduct
official business in a cozy private jet, but he
is being praised as a man of action instead
of being criticized with the same vehemence
with which Mrs. Diezani Allison-Maduekwe,
former minister of petroleum, was criticized
for doing the same thing.


3. The economy is reeling from Buhari's
misguided, counterproductive, and
unsustainable policy of defending the naira
at all cost by placing primitive and
economically unsound restrictions on access
to foreign exchange. This currency control
has compounded a curious companion
policy of decreeing bans on certain imports
(both raw materials an finished goods) and
wishing that Nigeria would magically begin
producing them in spite of structural
problems like poor electricity, reliance on
imported heavy machinery, expensive
borrowing rates, a general poverty of
infrastructure, and a volatile policy
environment.
Our reaction to this
cluelessness has been either to stay silent
or to praise Buhari’s intentions, as though
his lofty intentions outweigh the real damage
that this policy is doing to various sectors of
the economy. The road to hell they say is
paved with good intentions, and we may
very well be headed to a figurative hell with
the pronouncement by the CBN that
Nigeria’s economy will enter recession next
year. We scrutinized all of Jonathan's
economic policies, taking them apart when
they did not make sense. But we seem to
have conceded to Buhari the right to make
as many mistakes as he wants even at the
cost of inflicting serious harm on the
economy at a time of low oil prices and a
resulting economic contraction. It's almost
as if we think that the old man knows best
and have suspended our critical faculties as
a result.


4. Several bomb blasts rocked the
northeastern states of Adamawa and Borno
in the course of two days, killing cores of
our citizens and puncturing our already
fragile security. It took the presidency an
entire day to acknowledge the tragedy and
offer words of comfort to a beleaguered and
traumatized nation and to the victims'
families. When Jonathan displayed similar
crass indifference to the nihilist violence of
Boko Haram and to the victims of the
carnage, we spared no outrage in criticizing
him and his team. Today, we seem to have
given Buhari's government an open-ended
benefit of the doubt on the same attitude.


5. When Jonathan failed to articulate a
coherent road map for defeating Boko
Haram, we rightly called him out on the
failure. Buhari has not clued the nation into
his grand strategy for ending the insurgency,
if one exists. Yet we have not demanded
that he communicate clearly with the nation
on this.


6. When Jonathan hired some South African
mercenaries to help drive out the insurgents
from Nigerian's towns and villages, many of
us saw that as a humiliating climb down for
our army and our country, a testament to
the failure to equip and motivate the army to
fight at their maximum ability. Then
candidate Buhari criticized Jonathan for
surrendering and violating Nigeria's
sovereignty, pride, and status as a regional
power. He said the Nigerian army was
capable, by itself, of routing the enemy if
properly equipped and motivated. Several
days ago, however, we read news, still
undenied, that the administration has done
exactly the same thing that candidate Buhari
angrily condemned. They have quietly hired
South African mercenaries to help combat
Boko Haram and to meet the December
deadline issued by the president. We are yet
to hear any serious critique of this decision
to continue with a previously criticized
Jonathan strategy.


7. When Jonathan travelled to Chad to try to
enlist the help of Idris Deby in combating
the insurgency, he was mocked for being
weak and for groveling before regional
minnows. The cantankerous Nasir el-Rufai
even suggested in a tweet that the former
president had gone to Chad to confer with
Deby on how to plan more attacks, an
outrageous nod to the conspiracy theories
circulating in the north about Jonathan's
complicity in, if not sponsorship of, Boko
Haram. Today, Buhari's most discernible
public gesture in the fight against Boko
Haram is his travel around the world and in
our region begging for foreign help and
corporation. And he seems to have invested
all his strategic permutations in the regional
force headquartered in Chad. He is, in other
words, doing what Jonathan did or tried to
do. But the reaction to his actions has been
decidedly and radically different. While
Jonathan was widely condemned, Buhari is
being praised for courting much needed
alliances for defeating Boko Haram.


8. When Jonathan appointed (and defended)
several people tainted by allegations and
revelations of corruption into his
government, we rightly expressed our
disapproval in very strident language.
Today, Buhari has appointed people plagued
by weighty and credible allegations of
corruption into his cabinet and into key roles
in his administration. Instead of dusting up
our anti-Jonathan criticism and applying it
to Buhari, we have now crafted a new
argument for rationalizing this brazen act of
self-contradiction by an anti-corruption
president. We now argue that the appointees
may have been corrupt but that, serving
under Buhari, they will not dare touch
government money. That may be so, given
the personal example of incorruptibility from
Buhari, but that does not invalidate the truth
that such appointments constitute a reward
for corruption — and a bad signal to corrupt
officials. Those who should be answering to
allegations and revelations of corruption will
instead be enjoying the prestige and aura of
high office in an administration purportedly
anchored on an anti-corruption ethos.
This list is not exhaustive. You can add to
it.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/26/giving-buhari-long-leash-setting-him-failure-moses-e-ochonu

food for thought...

donphilopus:
Noted. I believe the defence headquarters and the President would take the necessary action. What baffles me is that those people who castigated PremiumTimes and said they were lying for breaking/publishing this kinda news when Jonathan was President would still be the ones who would come here and start calling Buhari names. Hadn't been it was under Jonathan, they wouldn't have believed such news. But since it's Buhari, they wouldn't even bother to verify it.

May they be seen alive. Amen!

105 soldiers are missing and your major concern is whether they call PMB names/believe this piece of bad news Na wa ooo

I wonder when all this will stop, and someone claims to be winning the war, I guess he was been scarstic when he said that...SMH

Zuria:
As a Minister of Information & Culture, Lai Mohammed should educate Nigerians on government policies and resist the urge insult when responding to allegations made by opposition party members / Nigerians.

I remember previous Ministers of Information
educating Nigerians...he should emulate it to be a better minister of Nigeria / resign and go back as APC spokesman.....

Seconded, the position he holds is very sensitive, he should not throw decorum to the air when responding to national issues...

This will be interesting...

tobimillar:
Na wah oo.. When the hunter becomes the hunted...

This is why some of us were angry with GEJ, he knew this CCT chair was corrupt, he was adviced to write to the national assembly to get their two third approval but the Niggar did not . GEJ was might not have been corrupt, but he lacked the will power to tackle corruption

Well said...