In Nigeria, it is when the powers that be have your time that you will be shocked at the number of laws, policies and regulations we have that are never enforced/implemented. As far as it does not favour them or give then an edge they will ignore but once they have something to gain, watch your back. That is what happened with Code of Conduct and former CJN; countless office holders never file their declaration of assets correctly or on time but no one cares until they need to score a major political point. CCB says they have no power to publicise the assets declaration of the President without his consent but they could do that of the CJN without his consent. Leave Naija o! Shitthole!

Judeerons32:
The good question will be have these comedians sacking others Sat for the mandatory 181days themselves? Obaseki out of desperation is just making Edo state a laughing stock.

We agree to disagree; I will not engage in any back and forth on the subject. My point is clear as is yours. Fact still remains that bad/failed governance provides the boost for the crazy, desperate criminality in the country; I do not exonerate perpetrators either but the root causes and enabling factors are clear to all.

frowland:


No, electricity does not pass through railline. I read pure and applied Industrial Physics. So I dont need any journals to explain that to me. There is overhead electric lines which the train touches, this converts electrical energy to mechanical energy. NO ELECTRICITY IN RAILLINE PLEASE. What you and your vandals are mistaking is that there might be an accidental bridge of some such which short circuits the overhead cable to the railline. This does not mean the railings itself is electrified.
Are you aware that there are stations passengers have to walk across the rail lines? Are you aware that rail lines passes across bushes and even roads?
The logic is simple, put current is railline and you will see dead wildlife (rabbits, dogs, snakes, forest animals and even livestocks) all over the place. Vehicles and their occupants will get electrocuted ones they climb railings that crisscross the roads. Does this make sense to you at all? So tell me, which journal again??

Secondly, let's assume electricity actually passes through rail lines, BUT the topic is referring to rail line that is still under construction! So I wonder how you want electricity to be connected to them when it's NOT YET OPERATIONAL?? Still doesn't make sense.

iamJ:
thought they said once ure a APC


ur sins are forgiven? hahahaha, buhari doesnt mess around with fools

Yeah, Southern fools. What happened to Danjuma Goje?

It takes only your brand of stupidity to insult a person who hasn't done such to you. It is only a myopic person that thinks that trains are for the poor while planes are for the rich when there are numerous pictures of prime ministers and other highly placed persons in developed societies using the trains daily to work. Go and use the train from Abuja to Kaduna then come back and tell me that it is for the poor.

ahiboilandgas:
u are very stupid ....the trains is made to ease the live of the poor ...rich people fly in planes

pfadom:


Leadership has nothing to do with inherent wickedness of an average Nigerian. Stealing clips and bolts can never be as a result of hunger and poverty, but sheer wickedness. Even in US, Canada and industrialized countries, you don't have to mount CCTV everywhere. I can bet it that they will even steal CCTV here to mess up whatever evidence to get the thieves apprehended..

If you have constant running water in your house, you are not likely to hoard water or be bothered with how to get water for basic needs simply because the government, your landlord or yourself, with available resources, have provided clean, potable steady water. Now, what do you think happens in areas without clean, steady water supply? If they steal or even bust water pipes to gain access to water and reduce stress of long treks to fetch water, will you blame those poor people or the irresponsible government that failed to provide basic amenities? Let's not talk of the avoidable illnesses and diseases they are forced to go through..

frowland:


You are trying hard!! Please electric train does not mean the rail line have current flowing in them.
Regarding CCTV, I guess you will put 1 million+ camera from Lagos to Kano to Bornu to Abia to Calabar.....and also put TVs to monitor all of them and employ as many eyes??Kindly read up, than exposing your ignorance online.

Mr frowland, take time and educate yourself. https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rail_Life_Safety_Guide.pdf
Read the information provided by this link specifically page 5 - 7 and understand that electrified rail lines actually have electricity running through them. In fact it gives a summary of statistics for vandals that lost their lives in the process of their crimes through other causes including electrocution. The crimes do not seem to stop but it is drastically reduced because technology plays a key role and my point is that successive Nigerian governments have failed the citizens.
Furthermore, like I mentioned in my earliest post, with the provision and maintenance of steady, reliable power, there will be far less persons interested in vandalism of this nature. Criminals remain liable but the government takes the greater share of the blame, take it or leave it.

Goke7:


someone who can steal bolts and clips on a railway traqck cannot be said to be an uneducated. That person is informed enough to know the value of those clips and bolts

Of course they know the value and that is why they steal it. The point is that they may not be educated enough to understand the possible far-reaching impact of stealing those nuts and bolts. They may never think of issues of possible derailment leading to mass deaths/injuries and that is where my concern is as to the quality of education in Nigeria which ordinarily should open the minds and broaden the horizons of even the least person. That is why majority are fixated on immediate gratification; it is also why they cannot ask questions of leaders who come to spray some money and foodstuff during elections; it is also why some of you keep supporting the same idiots that are trying very hard to block the few educated ones from asking questions in the name of social media regulation and hate speech nonsense. That is why the government will disregard court orders and no one knows what next to do because institutions are manned by the same gullible, uneducated, political lackeys. It is an endless vicious cycle which starts from bad, wicked, selfish governance.

NGpatriot:

We all know the difference between right and wrong, period.

Let us all join hands together to stop evil, unpatriotic, corrupt and deadly acts by the poor, the rich and the privileged instead of making excuses and coming up with counterproductive rationals.

Aha! Gotcha! Now you are all objective and 'hand-joining' just so that the truth about bad governance will not be said as it will impact directly on that which you support and adore (APC/Buhari) isn't it? Well done sir.

Perhaps they are not even educated enough or too shortsighted to realise the implications of their actions? They are likely misguided by hunger and quick gains without further consideration and that tells you the education system/well being of citizens is almost completely destroyed. You are one of those in rabid support for this government. This same government engages in photo ops with bandits and bokoharam criminals/murderers who claim to have surrendered after shedding blood for sport. They are merely called misguided youth, rehabilitated, provided funds and reintegrated into society. Why are you then not able to think the same way for petty thieves who are likely unaware of the possible effects of their activities other than maybe the thoughts that they are pillaging FG property as part of their national cake?

NGpatriot:




The sad irony, excusing away cruelty, deadly and dangerous sabotage against your own fellow Nigerians with your own brand of alleged injustice against Nigerians.

Where is the sense in endangering the lives of your own people and the general public just because you are poor?

Or killing people will make you rich?

For your information, the Nigerian masses have always suffered unjustified and avoidable poverty foisted on them by the ruling class and that is the case till date. Now there is impunity as well as brazen shamelessness but if we stop and think of the root causes, we will not be so quick to blame the victims of wicked leadership.

Jimi24:


Things were better in the mid 70s but Nigerians were still stealing aluminum bridge rails, overhead cables and traffic light stands. Nigerians are bad through through. Only Sharia government will work.

It would appear the border closure did not reach these areas to curb the banditry or these ones are perpetual enemies within...FriendNG, what do you think?

Hunger and lawlessness at play. Plus if we had a disciplined leadership from 1960 till date, we would have long had sufficient, steady electricity to power our trains and no goat or cow will venture there cos they'd be electrocuted. There'd also be functional CCTVs and honest, loyal, patriotic law enforcement officers that will man those cameras, arrest any would-be thief and have them prosecuted/rehabilitated. In fact with steady power supply and decent infrastructure, no one will be looking for bolts and nuts to scavenge off rail lines. They would be far more productive!

Bottom line: Nigeria has failed and continues to fail her citizens.

Tinubu stooge, I wonder why you quoted my post. Did you see Tinubu mentioned there? Why are you all in a huff to the point that you can no longer read and comprehend? Clearly the court order is against those earning atrocious 'pensions' while still actively working for the government in other capacities but if you were an objective, clear-minded person and not politically blinded with partisan slavishness, you would have been able to decipher clearly the feelings of Nigerians. Fellow citizens are outraged at the sheer greed and audacity of past governors/heads of assemblies that they arrogate life 'pensions' just for being elected to serve 4 or 8 years at the maximum; obviously such nonsense should not exist whether they become serving Senators/Ministers or not and that is why Tinubu and others like him are mentioned.

Now read this post you quoted again:

freeze001:
This is awesome! Enforcement is the next thing but with the way the cadaver president a.k.a Buhari and co are going including the airplane driving CJN and rubber-stamp NASS...hmmm

By February 2020, we will see what the report of enforcement from the FG to the Court is. The AG (Malami) has now been mandated by the court to take action and challenge those demonic laws. I hope he gets serious but again, we know the idiots we have in office now...

Barzinime:
Why mentioning Tinubu's Name?
Most of you just come here to say crap.
The mentioned only ex-governors that later became ministers and senators and still collecting pension as an ex-governor.
I see how the likes of FFK and Omokri deceive you lots cos you people only read the headlines and fail to comprehend the message passed across.

And this is why the state houses of assembly remain permanently useless! They are beholden to the Governor for everything and have no minds of their own until a more superior godfather like Tinubu in Lagos tells them to commence impeachment processes against the Governor! They suddenly then remember acts of gross misconduct against that Governor. This is such a shame really, not to talk of the sheer wastefulness of the exercise.

Not just on him, it has to be enforced against all past state governors who enjoy so-called pensions in the following states: Akwa Ibom; Lagos; Edo; Delta; Kano; Gombe; Yobe; Borno; Bauchi; Abia; Imo; Bayelsa; Oyo; Osun; Kwara; Ondo; Ebonyi; Rivers; Niger; Kogi; Zamfara and Katsina. I won't be surprised if they start their selective APC/Northern madness sha. Zamfara has only repealed their law but monies have to be recovered from those who have benefited.

itsme01:


I can bet you FG would enforce that court order on Saraki
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This is awesome! Enforcement is the next thing but with the way the cadaver president a.k.a Buhari and co are going including the airplane driving CJN and rubber-stamp NASS...hmmm

By February 2020, we will see what the report of enforcement from the FG to the Court is. The AG (Malami) has now been mandated by the court to take action and challenge those demonic laws. I hope he gets serious but again, we know the idiots we have in office now...

Was it Jonathan that perpetrated the so-called kidnap of the Chibok girls? Why were you all blaming him? If you think it is only when Buhari is seen to physically or directly initiate a process that he will blamed or bear responsibility for then you must be a joker. Is it Buhari that is building any road that y'all like to commend him for in the name of development? Rubbish!

Prompto:
Bigotry as ruined the life of many of you
Is it Buhari that introduced the bill.

Racoon:
[s][/s] Lai Mohammed has spoken on behalf of his government as his spokesman.

His wife & daughter have joined him too. Do zombiesm with some dignity bro.

The bold part is an impossible feat for them zombies o! It is a 'statutory requirement' for them to shed all sense of objectivity and dignity in order to successfully entrench and drive the zombie process from the next level to the permanent site.

seunmsg:
The 2017 auditor generals annual report has been fully completed.

Where is it and what is the outcome of the audit? Is there an improvement from that of 2016? What about the 2018 report? 2019 is almost gone, what's the status?

helinues:
Na war oo

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Na una people na, incompetence everywhere all the time!

Soon? It's already a failed, beggarly space. What else is left? Imagine El-Rufai and his tweets in 2012 now he has nothing to say.

It was just plain stupid to introduce a levy on all POS payments above 1000; how many payments are ever below 1k? This policy somersault and indecisiveness is a major minus from doing business generally in the country; the FG and its agencies need to be more proactive and better informed before rolling out/enforcing certain policies. The worst part is that they either ever do sufficiently wide consultations or just deliberately refuse to listen to sound advise until the negative outcome warned about actually begins to happen then they undertake reactionary measures and still find a way to blame ordinary citizens and they never take responsibility.

Congratulations to the beautiful lady

Only Buhari o! So that idiots can remain deliriously happy.

As na respect by force unto culture...what a shame

Really? Fake news? Accept the truth when you see it and be bold enough to address it!

johnmartus:
Do you need anyone to tell you news is fake. Please control your emotion.

Hehehe...nothing wey Emeka no go see for main market o! Musa wey dey gate never see anything sef...
He should have corrected El-Rufai during the campaigns na..though it wouldn't have mattered because he would still use federal might and thuggery to do what he likes. APC/Kogi una well done o!

The presidency and such high offices must be held to higher standards than any other, stop making useless excuses! They represent the face of Nigeria for heaven's sake! Social media is no longer a place for inanities and mere fun. Do you not see how Americans drag Trump when he misspells words on Twitter? And this is him tweeting personally, have you seen official tweets from the US Government riddled by such nonsense errors?

Sirjamo:
Nigerians are too connotative. That was an informal communication, and the intention of the message was clear. I don't think anyone should care about semantics!!!

So why were you worried that Papa Buhari your darling had not distanced himself from GEJ or prosecuted him in some way? Cry or moan all you want, between Jonathan and Buhari, Jonathan is a saint! He has never pretended to be what he is not or held himself out as better than others unlike Buhari with all his self-righteous posturing yet nothing to show. At least admit the truth to yourself even if not to others!

FrLukas:


where is the honour in sharing the same space with a privileged thief? or don't you know the meaning of honour?

So, because according to you, one is a greater thief, so that means we should sing the praises of the so-called "lesser thief"?

Where I come from, thieves are a pariah in society.

It is a hallmark of the educated and enlightened mind to judge situations without being influenced by undue emotions.

because of your abundant hatred for Buhari, you have decided to whitewash Jonathan and canonize him a saint.

Don't mention Jonathan and the word "honour" in the same sentence unless the word "lack" accompanies it.

Buhari distance himself ke? It is even a privilege for hm to share same space with Jonathan. Is he (Buhari) not a worse president and greater thief along with his appointees than Jonathan could have ever dreamed of being? That is the scam they used to deceive you people till you moved from frying pan to fire abi? I hope you know that as this monkey holds the cup y'all gave willingly, you can never retrieve it?

FrLukas:
In saner climes, the president will distance himself from the ex President who will either be in prison uniforms already of in the process of being indicted for numerous breaches of public office.

No be small thing

Beosten:
Next news feed: FEC APPROVED $1B FOR KANO CLEANUP

Oversense no go kill me

They will not bomb the area or kill the residents there o! If it is in the South (Niger Delta), they will arrange with Navy and military to come and bomb/destroy the area along with surrounding villages and persons resident there. Where dem see crude for illegal refining if it is not through pipelines laid from the same Niger Delta to that arid region? Or have they started accessing the one they claim to have found somewhere in the north?