₦airaland Forum

Its getting clearer how these MOGs view their respective churches.

The see it as an investment from which they must get profits. Modesty and Simplicity isn't in their dictionary.

Jesus, the Apostles and even the prophets of old were all very modest in their acquisition of material things.

Pastors and Politicians have a comparable level of greed...

I love how the reaction to Bakare's utterances reveal the shallowness and emptiness of the so-called MOGs..

The Church isn't an investment!!! How can a sane person compare a CEO of a company and a Pastor. A company is set up to make profits, but same can't be said abt a church..

If the man is really as corrupt as some people want us to believe, then it's a shame if he's still walking as a free man....

What is ur PDP-led FG doing to bring this "THIEF" to book...

Smear campaign isn't the way to go. If you've got proof that he's corrupt, then blame GEJ and Co. For not doing their jobs...

EFCC, ICPC, CCB, SSS, NPF etc are all controlled by the PDP-led FG, yet they do nothing about ur "thief"...

I think you f00ls should give up on the smear campaign, it isn't working. While the man may not ßξ a saint, he's definitely not as corrupt as you'D want us to believe...

Sirniyeh: Pleasee, i dont know may be you are seeing what I saw. OBJ is openly denying GEJ.
When people accuse him that he was the one who brought GEJ, he responded that they should not put blame on him(OBJ) that the masses voted for him.
This is a big denial. Or am i getting him wrong?

GEJ is a failure, any sane person will deny him... OBJ is a hypocrite anyway...

OAM4J: I dont know why OP picked on Tinubu, but am yet to know any other living Nigerian that has written or spoken for true federalism and regional integration like Asiwaju Tinubu. He started this campaign long time ago, while Obj was the president. He initiated Southern Governors Forum, before the North started theirs.

That Ohaneze is using constitutional amendment opportunity to make their recommendation for regional integration does not mean SW must follow same line or that SW is against it.

OP's claim will only be valid if he has any evidence of Asiwaju or SW opposing regional integration.

You knew this would lead to a tribal war, instead of changing the topic to something sensible, you put it on the FP with this STU.PID topic....

HYPOCRITESSSSS..

Wahala dey oooo

achi4u: gbam.
but obj would've do better in this situation.

See how OBJ was described.

The former External Affairs Minister was appalled by the hypocrisy shown by ex-presidents and ex-heads of state who had continued to preach what they did not practice while they were in office.

RIP.....

PHRESSHH HHAAIIRR!!!!!!

Elueme: A nonsensical appointment if I am asked. Obahiagbon doesn't fit in that position.. Is he going there to speak meaningful jagons or to keep the government house working. Let's see how oshiomohle's second coming goes.. I wish Edo state well.

Can you explain why you made the bolded statement??

Abi na BAD BELLE....

LASTMA officials and other security operatives are on ground to ensure that there was no fire outbreak.

The topic should be: "LASTMA OFFICIALS SAVE LAGOSIANS FROM MASSIVE FIRE OUTBREAK"

Or don't they deserve to be commended for a Job well done.....??.............

``The close circuit CCTV footage of First Bank Share, obtained from Kwara State Police Command, was carefully analysed and one Akindele Akinyemi who has been on the list of most wanted armed robbery kingpin in the command (Lagos) in recent time was identified.

Our Govt should focus on security surveillance. That's a way to ensure that we enhance crime prevention and control....

bilms: @Peck,watch your mouth or watch your keyboard..lol

Everybody now knows YOU ARE A SERPENT....

Meanwhile, ur spelling SUCKS.....

bilms: it is on guidian[quote author=bilms]it is on guidian news paper,it may not necessarily be online. Not all [b]news paper[/b]content are online.

afam4eva: Isn't this a demotion? From House of reps to Chief of staff. I guess he's waiting to take over from Oshiomole.

He has served his Country, now is the time to serve his STATE....

ochukoccna: Free the guy jo!
At least the man is looking for how to help out the okada riders even if he put the cart before the horse
Like GARRI(x7) said, , In this days of BH, visualize what those aboki riders can do if they pledge allegiance to terrorism

In my neighborhood, I know abt 4 Abokis who are taking care of themselves as well as their families (in the north) by doing legitimate business (e.g. as guards, shoemakers etc...) If there is no room for Okada in Lagos, move to Edo or other Okada-friendly states

or

better still, change professions...

take dat: they are not Lagos state Government pensioners, its the FG that does their verification exercise at the Old Secretariat. Its a shame to serve diligently for 30 years and all you get in return is this hardship. May God help this country

OP: Why not edit the topic, since u made a mistake??

ayotoyin: Am just disturbed at the rate at which the pensioneers in Lagos State are being treated all in the name of 'Verification Exercise', It was an eyesore at the Centre (Old Secretariat) yesterday, the queue was extremely long, the officials were scanty and getting angry for nothing at the aged healthy and sick ones that were present,is it not possible to have different centres and year brackets for easy exercise?
Suggestions are welcome please.

Please, moderator, i will appreciate if this makes the front page just for our voices to be heard and yes, my parents were there.

Thanks

logo77: Our leaders !

They like putting the cart b-4 the horse......Always.

He should have thought of this before sacking the okada riders off the road. :

They like putting the cart b-4 the horse.

He should have thought of this before sacking the okada riders off the road.

The Ban is in order......

That the Govt is concerned about the welfare of the Ex-Okada men doesn't mean the ban was a wrong....

The Govt cannot employ them all, hence the need for private sector partnership.....

The former External Affairs Minister was appalled by the hypocrisy shown by ex-presidents and ex-heads of state who had continued to preach what they did not practice while they were in office.

Guess he was referring to OBJ..

Show's how they've been taking FEC meetings unseriously.......

This is one of them...

http://www.facebook.com/negbemine#!/DameAbimbolaFasholaFirstLadyOfLagos?fref=ts

WARRI— Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, blamed the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan for allowing the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to grow into a monster that is now uncontrollable by his failure to act on a report submitted to the government.

The former president who spoke at a lecture delivered by Professor Bolaji Akinyemi to mark the 40th anniversary of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s call to ministry at the Word of Life Bible Church, Warri in Delta State, also tasked Nigerians to choose between a strong leader who might adopt unusual approach to tackle a problem or a weak leader who will leave the problem to fester.

Answering a question from a pastor from Borno State on how he could forge any form of unity with those who are perpetuating violence in the northern part of the country, Obasanjo went emotional, saying: “Boko Haram is an ill wind that blows nobody no good.”


He proceeded to narrate his experience when he went on a fact-finding mission to Borno State which was regarded as the base of Boko Haram.

He said: “They Boko Haram stated their grievances and I promised to relay them to the authorities in power, because that was the best I could do. I did report. But my fear at that time is still my fear till today. When you have a sore and fail to attend to it quickly, it festers and grows to become something else.

“Whichever way, you just have to attend to it. Don’t leave it unattended to. On two occasions I had to attend to the problem I faced at that time. I sent soldiers to a place and 19 of them were killed. If I had allowed that to continue, I will not have authority to send security whether police, soldier and any force any where again. So, I had to nip it in the bud and that was the end of that particular problem,” he said.

He was, however, careful to admit that all problems might not require that kind of treatment. According to him, “if you say you don’t want a strong leader who can have all characteristics of leaders including God fearing, then have a weak leader and the rest of the problem is yours.”

He argued that “the beauty of democracy is that power rests in the people, and every elected person would seek your votes to come back; if you don’t want him, he won’t come back. He noted that people had been saying that he brought President Goodluck Jonathan but what they have failed to admit is that he didn’t give all the votes that brought the man to power.

The erstwhile president therefore charged Nigerians to stand up and take their destinies in their own hands, reminding them of a Yoruba adage, “if you say it the way it is, you will die; if you don’t say anything at all, you will die, why don’t you say it and die?”

Akinyemi blasts former leaders

Earlier in his lecture, titled: “The Nigeria of my Dream: Towards the consolidation of national unity”, Professor Akinyemi had, among others, said emphatically that the way we can have a consensus in the country is to have a national conference.

The former External Affairs Minister was appalled by the hypocrisy shown by ex-presidents and ex-heads of state who had continued to preach what they did not practice while they were in office. “How does one explain revelations that from 1960, outflow of funds from Nigeria had got worse and yet the sanctimonious speeches about anti-corruption continue to rent the air,” Akinyemi asked, arguing that current attempts to amend the constitution would not solve the socio-political problems troubling the nation.

According to him, “we will continue to amend the constitution and further amend and there will be no solution until we all agree to sit down at a round table to write a constitution that Nigerians can truly identify with.”

The professor had argued that if, “at independence in 1960, the political elite had reached a broad consensus on the fundamental values that should be the overriding principles of governance in order to make life more abundant for all, to cater for the poor, to increase opportunities for all, to provide safety net for the widow and the orphan and to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, between the North and the South and between the haves and the have nots, they would have laid a solid foundation for stability in Nigeria.”

Obasnjo oppose SNC

But Chief Obasanjo disagreed with the argument people had often preferred to canvas for a sovereign national conference, saying there would be no room big enough to accommodate every Nigerian at a roundtable conference to find a national consensus, noting that he would rather want to see a Nigeria where justice, fairness and equity reign supreme.

“Only a mad man will fail to acknowledge that there is high level corruption in the country”, he said, stressing that the same World Bank that is always releasing figures about Nigeria’s poor state of economic condition, recommended a structural adjustment programme for the nation and nearly all the eggheads in the country bought it even when the political leaders at the time said it would be detrimental to the nation.

Obasanjo argued that the World Bank had been talking about corruption in the country and “I challenged them to tell me the names of the Nigerians who had stashed monies abroad but they were not forthcoming except for the case of the Abacha loot. We recovered a large chunk of that loot and they told us there was still over $1 billion from that family but my successors did not pursue any further.

SAP made us poorer — OBJ

“What I am saying is that it is the same World Bank that came to us with structural adjustment and some of us said it would make us poorer, you (Akinyemi) were in government at the time. We went for structural adjustment and we were poorer. And then they came up with an excuse that we didn’t do it the way they wanted us to do it. Many years later, they accepted that we were right and they were wrong,” Obasanjo stated.

Emphasising the need to tackle corruption in the country, the ex-head of state narrated an experience he had in Anambra State, saying the government signed a contract for turnkey project for carpets for $10 million, the money was paid but no job done and when I asked they referred me to the terms of the contract.

“I called World Bank, they said go and look at the agreement, and the agreement says they are not responsible for how the money is spent. The Word Bank then told me that is the agreement and there is nothing we can do.

“I don’t say that we are not corrupt, we are. But are we doing something about it? Once, people said, the fear of Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom. Then what happened to Ribadu? Then there was no longer any wisdom,” he stated.

Obasanjo also disagreed with Akinyemi on federal character. While the political science professor wants the nation to dump federal character as a means of choosing leaders, Obasanjo was of the opinion that every nation of the world has its own peculiar way of addressing its peculiar problems.

“I don’t see anything wrong with federal character if we want to wedge this country together because if you want to enter a place where there are 40 people and they require somebody and you are Urhobo and at the back you find somebody speaking Urhobo, the tendency is for you to go for that man. It’s natural. So there is some form of security in the application of federal character,” he said.

On the location of strategic and military assets which the lecturer argued are located on the Zaria-Kaduna axis out of mutual suspicion, and recommended that the nation must adopt the South African model of locating military formations across the nation, Obasanjo said: “If you look at the deployment of troops and formations in the country, it is fairly well spread.

“When I joined the army, there were five battalions, Enugu, Abeokuta, Ibadan and two were stationed in Kaduna. That was done by the colonial masters. Immediately after independence, our political leaders decided that there must be a battalion in Jos, Lagos, but as at today after the civil war there is a battalion in Warri and some other places.

“When we were doing that, we took into account the strategic interest of this country and don’t forget that there are certain types of trainings that you can get in certain parts of the country,” he pointed out.

Obasanjo, Akinyemi and the two other discussants including Elder Gamaliel Onosode, and Prof. Jim Omatseye extolled the virtues of Pastor Oritsejafor, praying that the 40 years he had spent in ministry would be like the 40 years of tutelage of Moses.“Your achievements in the last 40 years must be regarded as mostly time of preparations and now you are beginning again. Those of your flock who love you and believe in you will be with you all the way through,” they said .

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/boko-haram-obj-blames-jonathan/

LAGOS — Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday denied the involvement or existence of any Facebook account for his wife, Abimbola, the First Lady of the state.

According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media,, Mr. Hakeem Bello, the First Lady of the state does not operate a Facebook, Twitter or indeed any social media account

“Perpetrators of the criminal act should desist henceforth or should be ready to face the music when the long arm of the law catches up with them.,”the Special Adviser warned.

Describing impersonation as a criminal offence punishable by law, Hakeem warned unsuspecting members of the public should avoid falling victims of fraudsters impersonating the First Lady on the facebook or any social media outlet.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the First Lady of Lagos State, Dame Emmanuella Abimbola Fashola does not operate any Facebook, Twitter or indeed any social media account,” he stated.

The warning became necessary following the recent alert over the activities of impostors posing as the wife of the Governor of Lagos State.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/fashola-raises-alarm-over-wifes-impersonation-in-facebook/

A well deserved appointment...

[size=16pt]Sir, Pls name them


or


Shut up[/size]

See the small cake sef....

Modesty is something true MOGs must display!!!

1025: uncle, between u and the OP, we know who the bastard here is. no matter what happens, nigerians are learning by the day. whether we like it or not, nigeria is a war torn country and in war times like this, propaganda is a tool and any weapon even those of mass destruction is need to remove this vampires(pdp) from govt for nigeria to move forward.
nigerians must unite to unseat these blood suckers called pdp that has no single agenda.
it is a shame that ppl still believe in pdp.

And what's this f00l saying

Hmmmm. Some member of the opposition is beside this report. We shall exposure them soon...DPJ

POL 412...... Tinubu is smart!!!

Gbawe: My guy, I don't know why folks continue to fall for the mischief of the OP. I can only conclude many Nairalanders are very easy to 'wind up'. OP is well known here for submitting the alleged utterances of others and then conveniently leaving out a link that can show the authenticity of his 'quoted' submission.

@OP. Provide the link for your 'article' and show you are not a deviant mischief-maker.

I'm trying not to call the OP a BASTARD... Oh God, Please help me....!!!

A game between a FOX and a HUNTER...

34th...

Spot On!!!

Pastors should be made to account for monies that are donated to the church...

They shouldn't account only to God, they should also explain to their members how monies received were expended.....

Lest I 4get, I'm happy. I am ____ to comment....