₦airaland Forum

soroptimist: Nigeria! Oh Nigeria!

Despite the fact that these soldiers have been shouting themselves hoarse over their parlous condition owing to the monumental corruption the Jonathanian political Halleluyah boys have always told people to shut up.

To the TAN boys,saying the truth by anyone and exposing the cluelessness of their C-in-C is tantamount to political propaganda despite the heart rendering news of consistent massacre of these soldiers by the cursed BH sect

These are the same Neighbour-2-Neighbour evangelists who said Chibok abduction was a scam despite the fact that GEJ was later exposed for his leadership naivety by a 17yr old Malala

When is GEJ going to act presidential for once and fight corruption which is at the heart of everything evil that is bedevilling Nigeria?


What am i even saying sef..................He has told us all........He doesn't give a damn!!!

olapluto: 480!!! WOW!
Well, when they wont get salary on time, have to beg for bullets, and not assured of their family welfare in case they die in action, I dont blame them.
But 480 is an alarmingly high number. The president is not even bothered. He is setting a very very very disturbing precedence here in Nigeria. Never have we had so many deserters.
It is a shame that in a time of war, our leaders are weakening our army.

soroptimist: Lying OP........

Joshua Chibi Dariye is a member of Labour Party....he has never been a member of APC

There was no reference to Dariye being a member of APC in that article

Senator[edit]
In April 2011, Dariye was elected Senator for Plateau Central on the Labour Party platform. He received 189,140 votes, defeating Dawuda Gowon of the PDP, younger brother of former head of state Yakubu Gowon, who received 160,106 votes.[1][7]

AZeD1: Debt is not a bad thing. It becomes a bad thing when the debt to GDP ratio is high.
N167 billion of the debt came from bond issuance and i don't know if the interest yield on the bond is included in the total debt.


PS: before this turns into a pdp vs apc thread, i suggest all those who know nothing about finance to avoid commenting on this thread.


http://businessdayonline.com/2013/11/lagos-raises-n87-5bn-bond-in-book-building-exercise/#.U_sbQvldXdA

EdCure: True said, Obasanjo.
But Jonadunce is one of your inglorious legacy, and you should take full responsibility for this mess.

ibedun: No point arguing with these Morons.
Analysis is badly flawed and has ethnic (Igbo v Yoruba ) connotations.

Descartes: Not correcting him really but the way he was sounding abusing the poster ,does that make him learned
Wisdom is a principal thing.

GeneralBadman: Please stop bullshitting.

Go to the first page, press your calculator, sum up all the debts for SW states and calculate the percentage for SW.

When you get that right, then we can converse.

Enjoy the thread while the fun lasts.

Cheers.

Atouke: Stop leaving living in denial, I take it that you are from one of the five debt affected state, The issue is whats your strategy to repay the loan? N8,480 per person no be joke o. and that does not include interest on the loan.

tell us how you and your family are going to get out from under such huge debt.

Atouke: You and every member of your family owe N8,480 courtesy of your governors you better start strategising on how to pay your debt. assuming there are 5 people in your family ie you wifey and 3 kids thats about N50,000 minus interest

Atouke: Chei please we should reign in our south west governors before they borrow the whole country to death. These APC governors sabi borrow too much

skyfall: If you look at it properly, religion is no problem for the politicians - they have a way of understanding and settling one another. They only use it to control the masses. It's the masses' reaponsibility to look beyond religion when choosing leaders.

egift: The game is on. Bring it on. I see Jonathan having nightmare and relocating to Adamawa State

Sloan: Ribadu better win the election! I mean getting the PDP ticket will not be enough because if he fails, he has ruined all his phantom goodwill, locally and internationally. Even after he wins, he would have to keep such a clean profile, no allegation of corruption or nepotism must ever be charged to him or his government. If he fails in any of these, he is permanently done. All his goodwill finished, and will be in the same category as Ibori, the same man he did all he could to bring to justice. Bode George, Tafa, etc all indeed would have had the last laugh and be will be ashamed.

Adamawa By-election: Atiku Plots To Capture The State For APC As Crisis Hits PDP

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Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Following the crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has begun moves to capture his home state for his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship election billed to hold next month. It has been gathered that Atiku is banking strongly on his growing profile as the undisputed leader of the APC in the state which has blossomed with the impeachment of former Governor Murtala Nyako and the defection of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to the PDP last Saturday to test his political might in the forthcoming governorship by-election in the state.
A source close to the state chapter of the APC told our correspondent that the party leaders have turned to Atiku for direction in the battle to capture Adamawa by ensuring the choice of a formidable candidate who would take advantage of the confusion created by the defection of Ribadu to the PDP. He said the crisis generated by the alleged bid by the national chairman of the PDP, Adamu Mu’azu and the principal personal secretary to the president, Hassan Tukur to impose Ribadu on the party as its candidate for the October 11 governorship poll, some elders in the state have approached Atiku to lead the way and give a sense of belonging to the generality of the people of the state to ensure equity and fair play.
The source said the former VP has cashed in on the crisis rocking the PDP in the state and is believed to have thrown his weight behind Barrister Boss Mustapha, a Christian from Kilba ethnic group for the governorship race. It was further gathered that Atiku’s resolve to support Mustapha is based on the request of some Christian leaders who met and pleaded with him to give them a Christian candidate as a form of compensation.

BRAV0O: APC will only make sense if buhari and atiku could be scrap for the 2015 election , and jonathan pdp is not it any way, so there's still more time ... Apc think!

obiajuru01: This picture fray is getting out of hand, every state in nigeria has its own flaw, posting them online isn't the way forward, we are the youth, we should be able to strategize possible ways of getting rid of these problems, no wonder our politicians easily trample on our gullible sense of reasoning. We attach tribalism in everything we do, southwest isn't developed, southeast also isn't developed, there's no need looking for the fart with the worse odour, y'all should get a life.

mogentle: OP. pls don't run away from your thread as you will soon have to regret creating this thread and your sponsors will call for 100% refund. . More pics, we dey wait.

mogentle: OP, you will need to try harder if you will bring down the indefatigable Amosun whose achievement in 3 years is more than that of OGD's 8 useless, fruitless, and nothing to show years. You even showed Olumo Rock. Pls bring more. It will soon fall back on you.

Ogun Infrastructural Development is Rapid and Fantastic - US AMBASSADOR

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United States Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle has described the infrastructural development under the Senator Ibikunle Amosun government in Ogun State as rapid and fantastic.

Entwistle, who said this during his official visit to Abeokuta, the state capital yesterday expressed satisfaction at the quality of infrastructures being put in place to transform the Gateway State.

He noted that the expertise used by Amosun in achieving so much in less than three years could be needed in helping the United States develop better.

“What I see is fantastic, rapid development in Abeokuta. The roads, the bridges, the flyovers are very, very impressive. I have just told the Governor that we need his expertise to come help develop us in the United States”, he said.

The ambassador further revealed that one of the US biggest companies, Procter and Gamble would open up a factory in Ogun State in about a month’s time and that, “a lot of our investments are in Ogun.”

He added that the United States had interest in Nigeria’s next general elections, stating that, “we want Nigeria to have a transparent, credible and non-violent elections.

oduastates: Who appointed anyone leader.
Tinubu was never a leader of the odua nation neither did he claim or aspired to be one .
However ,I am on his side in his war against subjugation and the foolishness ,the greed and the myopic attempt of afeniferawon to sell the yoruba nation down the river .
I see APC and I can see the heart of ACN beating and firing on all cylinders.
If the situation requires,ACN can easily peel away from APC.

EDITORIAL: Yoruba Fascists, Rigging and Militarization Of Elections


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odua


The aftermath of the Ekiti and Osun elections have brought out the full manifestation of Yoruba fascists hiding behind the mask of Yoruba autonomy and nationalism. This manifestation is predicated on the fascists’ approval of any methodology by the central government to wrest political control of Yorubaland from our current leaders in the APC, with Asiwaju Tinubu in the forefront. Among the major political actors in Nigeria, Asiwaju Tinubu was the first to query Goodluck Jonathan’s intentions as far as his National Conference is concerned. In 2011, the ACN submitted a memo to Jonathan on Restructuring after which Jonathan began to distance himself from the party and began to woo the totally reactionary political elements in Yorubaland in order to enthrone them on us as his preferred de facto leaders.
Goodluck Jonathan’s methodology consists of utilizing the Nigerian State’s military apparatus to effectuate his grand design. The Yoruba fascists latch on to this methodology since their political fortunes have nosedived and have become politically irrelevant on their own which is why they have not been able to create a political party of their own to fight their political battles, hence have to ride on the back of whoever is in power in the center.

The problem Yorubaland has with the center is in the fact that Yoruba political aspirations have been clearly defined by its social democratic essence, which, since the dawn of anti-colonial struggles, have pitted us against the center and such center had always tried to neutralize any political formation that we create to maintain our political choices through what we now refer to as “rigging”, which is actually the only way the center can have its way.

This has happened in all elections organized by the Center and when the Western Regional Government attempted to utilize similar methods in 1965, the result was the descent of Nigeria itself into unnecessary chaos. Similar scenarios manifested in subsequent elections, where, by 1983, the massive rigging employed by the central government almost led to a revolutionary, mass action, in collaboration with the alliance of opposition parties that would have overthrown the then NPN government, a situation which was saved by military intervention.

This December 1983 military intervention created the template for complete military domination of Nigeria’s politics, such that, now, the same military is being touted as the only guarantee against “rigging” or manipulation of elections. And this is what the Yoruba fascists are touting; totally oblivious of the fact that what the military is supposed to guarantee is precisely its own preference—central control of not only the West but all of Nigeria; the difference being that the West has refused to tow the center’s political choices hence it is at the receiving end of the center’s machinations.

Thus, when these fascists insist on the necessity of using the military for the security of elections, what they are saying, in effect, is that we, as a people should surrender our settled political preferences for whatever is imposed by the center. But they have forgotten that the people are able to withstand any threat of terror personified by the military as had been shown over and over again.

In Edo State, the opposition party won in spite of militarizing the electoral process. The party won, not because of the presence of the military, but in spite of it; for, prior to the election itself, Goodluck Jonathan, as he is wont to do, visited the state to campaign for his party, but the highly revered Oba of Benin shunned him in a very public manner, thus sending a message to the people that Goodluck Jonathan’s party and its candidate is not wanted. That is an expression of leadership which emboldened the people to defy any intimidation tactics of the military and trooped out to endorse their own choice.

In Ekiti State, the leadership limited its electoralism to its manifest and provable achievements in office, thinking that such, alone, is enough to withstand the coming onslaught, even when Goodluck Jonathan was in the State to threaten and blackmail the state into submission. The presence of the military witnessed massive harassment and intimidation of opposition political leaders where even the governor was told in no uncertain terms that he has no authority on the security forces on ground. Because the methodology of rigging had passed from outright ballot snatching and all other 19th century tactics, the Ekiti people were unprepared for the high-tech tactics accompanied by massive intimidation that was at play.

Having learnt its lessons, the opposition leadership made adjustments to its tactics and placed the entire electoral process in the hands of the people with the leaders playing their roles, such that by the time of the Osun election, the people were undeterred, having made known who their preference was, thus making the military tactics null.

What all of these show is that peoples’ power as a way to resist rigging must be an a-priori determination and not an issue to be left hanging; for the fascists rely on the formal structure of the central government where the military sees itself as obeying whatever command is issued to it by its own relevant authority, even when, at one time, its commander, Salihu Ibrahim once called it an army of “anything goes”. And he was right, in the sense that no one can claim ignorance of the motivations of a central government in trying to muscle the opposition out of political reckoning, especially when accompanied by the arrest and harassment of only members of the opposition.

In all of these, it is the military that will suffer continuous denting of its image as a protective force not to be respected, especially once its myth as the defender of the sovereign territory is shattered through peoples’ resistance to its being used as a completely biased electoral empire.
Such denting of image, already an experiential fact among Nigerians, is now being transferred to the anti-Boko Haram engagement where even international agencies and foreign governments have derided the military as an inconsequential participant in the effort based on not only lack of equipment, of which there is no reason; but also the military’s strategic lapses such that even the wives of those to be deployed have begun openly resisting such deployments plus the ease with which Boko Haram is not only able to embark on its bombing campaigns but now transitioned into seizing and holding territories.

When these Yoruba fascists now depend on this military for the security of its electoral choices, questions are bound to be raised as to the fascists’ real intentions for Yorubaland. Of course, because they are fascists, their intentions cannot be noble and this can be seen in the choice of their candidates as well as their justifications for the abuse of presidential powers.

Having seen the cul-de-sac which has been their lot so far, they are now trying to rebuild by recruiting those they consider as having the required, reasonable name recognition to fight the remaining electoral battles for the land. Thus the attempt to foist acceptance of militarization as a necessary adjunct to the electoral process which is a direct insult on not only our sensibilities but also on our capacity to regulate out political lives without coercion.
The quest for the control of the center has its basis on central control of resources, which was the major aim of military intervention in Nigeria’s politics and which led to the breakup of Nigeria into powerless state administrations which is now being increased from 36 to 54. As long as the center controls the revenue, so long will it be necessary for it to manipulate elections in its own favor; hence any structural change in Nigeria must revert back to what obtained pre-January 1966 with adjustments made to satisfy some areas that require such.

This, coupled with the Jonathan Conference’s acceptance of having only one central electoral commission for the entire country show clearly the fascists template for electoral control; for a single electoral commission is not only a negation of Federalism, it also gives an open check for manipulation by the central government intent on dominating the entire country.

And when this is viewed against the backdrop of the fact that the military, as an institution, with its control flowing from one faction to another, has been responsible for the negation of Nigeria’s Federalism; making such military the custodian of democratic electoral choices is tantamount to handing over the entire country to whoever is in control of the military at any point in time, which will end up making the fight for the center more dangerous and more vicious. And the Yoruba fascists would have been prime movers of this existential, Federalist anomaly. But only if we allow them to.

eaglechild: Don't get yourself all worked up.

I have been to water treatment plants and the pictures I see their remain shabby.

Maybe it is camera but I am simply not impressed.

barcanista: You have spoken excellently. The people on the other side of the divide are used to mediocre performance of their principals. They play politics with EVERYTHING. They usually and shamelessly try in vain to talk down performing Governors and leaders because they see such performance as threat to the political existence of their overlords. Most unfortunate of it is that they realise within themselves that they are wallowing in self-delusion. It's a pitiable misery that they are in and most shamefully, they are not willing to change ground even when it stares at them. All we have to do is help them by reaching out to innocent minds so as to kick-out the overlords of these people and cause them to be politically and mentally rehabilitated.

eaglechild: Your epistle will not make the project any less shabby.

barcanista: Please Chief Gbawe, with due respect Sir, You can replace the emboldened with "A section of Nigerians" that are resistant to good things of governance

eaglechild: Why can't we do anything standard in Lagos?

What is this shabby contraption I'm seeing?

Louislewis: Fashola...more grease to your elbow. Can other leaders and representatives see what "Providing Water" for the masses is all about? It is always a shame seeing governors, chairmen, etc, commissioning 14th century projects called "Borehole" in the name of providing water for the masses. What a backward shame to this nation.

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Construction of Adiyan Waterworks Phase II

Name of Project:
Construction of Adiyan Waterworks Phase II

Country: Nigeria
Client: Lagos Water Corporation
Total value: € 250 million
Start of works: July 2013
Expected duration: 36 month


The project, located in Adiyan near Lagos, involves the construction of an intake station situated on the right bank of the Ogun River, complete with a vertical pumping system which conveys the untreated water in a spheroidal cast iron pipe 1,600 mm in diameter and approximately 8 km long.

The pipe carries the water to the purification plant comprising two parallel treatment lines and the sludge line. The purification treatment includes the flocculation, flotation, aeration, filtration with sand and activated carbon and disinfection with UV rays.

When the water has been purified and rendered fit for drinking it is sent by a pumping station in two 80 m diameter circular tanks, 12 m tall, and introduced into the aqueduct.

barcanista: It is just too bad. Many people come here to eFight and derail issues other than discussing politics. It is laughable that some people decided to turn my truce thread against me and even created thread. It's so sad and I may switch to guest mood/deactivate my account anytime soon