₦airaland Forum

andresia: To what purpose is this thread? An opening for tribal bashing? You need to get a life @op

ojofu: Mr president, part of your job is to ensure that corrupt people are prosecuted and not to point accusing finger and walk away. For christ sake your government has all the power to prosecute anybody that is corrupt. saying that corrupt people are pointing accusing finger at you shows that you are either a weakling or corrupt, maybe you dont give a damn.

Tigerhead: Does what you wrote even make sense to you? GEJ is both indecisive, impotent then ay the end of the sentence he is in a haste and has urgency of purpose.

This is the problem with you people you have spoken so much rubbish that you have confused yourself.

Sincere 9gerian: Maybe the president was indirectly referring to Buhari, Tinubu, Dino Melaye, El Rufai and co

Yorubaman40: So, it is mear concidence that immediately jonathan was declared the winner in 2011 every southerner/christian became easy target. It remains a pitiable fact that in this century a former president such as Buhari will still be giving a baboons- soaked -in- blood speech to the country.He was asked by BH to negotiate for them.He was fast to support amnesty for those comitting murder. His speeches from time to time is violence-inciting. His speeches were enough to deploy the hopeless and illiterate almarajis to blood letting. He is a notherner who knows how to exploit the weaknes of d almarajis.

(no rumours please, just facts)

creserve: It is so unfortunate the level of degeneration in this our beloved country!A thug is defining our ways.

alaoeri: Is he afraid that GEJ 'll lose come 2015?

dominique: What's all this yapping about by the auditor? Duh!!! Ofcourse he's qualified to run for second term according to the constitution, just that the masses don't want him to.

naptu2: I'm a little bit curious. Does Goodluck Jonathan = the people of the Niger-Delta? Isn't it possible for someone to disagree with the president and still be a Niger-Deltan?

Delafruita: is the bolded supposed to be an attempt at humour?

aurenflani: The guy is thinking about the future of this country and looser like you are busy talking like a clown. Tell me which part of the north or south that voted for pdp in the last election that didn't wake up with a rude shock and disappointment with bro jona?

Reality on ground suggests that gej may not even emerge a pdp candidate for 2015 let alone for pdp to win after all the messing up Nigerians that is happening.

nameo: LOL..... Is he no longer 'weak' again?

Anyways, who takes Lai Mohammed serious any more? Seriously!!

django1: There seems to be no hope for Nigeria, the youth are a wasted generation!


These journalists are full of shyt, whenever there isn't a story to report, they manufacture one. I mean one cannot and should not trust newspaper reports in nigeria, look at how they carefully misinform the gullible minds out here! SMH

Eko Ile: I honestly think they stopped teaching reading and comprehension in our schools or many on nl took the class but failed woefully....

RuuDie: Even if it is 10yrs. . .is that not too much for a case of phone theft!!?

Shuo! Abi you think sey 10yrs na 10 hours!

mikeansy: Just in case you did not notice

The article you posted says Buhari has been picked!

even your own headline says the same!

goldfish80: Wtf is this lunatic rambling about? If υ must be mad at someone it should be yo parents not me. Kapish?

talkmarkay: There are problems with some nigerians, infact you will see some educated peoples acting like illiterate.

Many people did not bother to read the content of the judgement before commenting. Some people do not even care to found out the background/past of the offender before bashing the jurgement.

May God save this country....
May God gives Nigerians the wisdom to be able to comprehend our differences
May God leads us to the pomise Land
AMEEN

Mr. Afolabi said the accused were charged to court on a- six-count charge of conspiracy to obtain money under false pretence, obtaining money under false pretence, stealing and impersonation.
“Although Ighodalo was granted bail by the Court, he jumped bail and attempted committing similar offence with another person’s GSM number but was caught in the process.
“He was later arraigned on the six-count charge and he pleaded guilty to all the six counts. The first three counts carry twenty years maximum term with no option of fine,” he noted.
Mr. Afolabi clarified that whoever committed this offence under Subsection (1) or (2) is liable on conviction to imprisonment for not more than twenty years and not less than seven years without an option of a fine.
The commissioner further recalled, however, that the Judge, while sentencing Ighodalo, exercised his discretion within the limited space allowed by law to sentence him to 10 years term on each of the first three counts.

“To say that Ighodalo was sentenced to 45 years prison term for stealing Aregbesola’s phone is not only misleading but unduly sensationalised, unfair to the court and the entire criminal justice system.
“I will only advise that Nigerians should refrain from trivialising or playing politics with serious financial crime more so when other members of the syndicate are still at large and any member of the public may fall their victim.

mikeansy: my brother please take it easy . . . .please recognise the question mark (?) in my comment and what it means . . . Happy Sunday

mikeansy: Gbawe are u really celebrating this?

if Buhari emerges APC candidate, PDP are smiling to the Bank

goldfish80: I hide My face in shame for Aregesola

2015: Merger parties pick Buhari •Fresh tension as CPC crisis lingers
Written by Taiwo Adisa - Abuja Sunday, 05 May 2013 00:00

Emerging revelations from the camp of merging opposition political parties have revealed that the leaders of the parties have now resolved that former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, should be given the presidential ticket come 2015.

Sources close to some meetings held between 30 April and 1 May by top leaders of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) hinted that the leaders had resolved that Buhari remained the most sellable of the presidential hopefuls within the party.

Sources told Sunday Tribune that while the feud between Buhari and a former governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, appeared a cog in the wheel of the opposition’s presidential challenge in 2015, the strongest aspirant in the midst of the opposition remained Buhari.

A source in one of the CPC meetings said that even the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Tinubu, had recognised that Buhari would give the opposition the popularity they desired.

The source further said that the leaders were thinking of looking inward because of the belief that importing any aspirant from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would indicate that the opposition was incapable of raising a candidate and that such a PDP import would automatically become the leader of the party as currently practised in the ruling party.

“While commenting on the choice of presidential candidate for the planned opposition mega party, ahead of 2015, many of the leaders concluded that Buhari remains the preferred choice, and that Senator Bola Tinubu himself had contended that it is only Buhari that can give the opposition political parties the popularity they so much desire,” the source said.

He, however, stated that one major problem against the Buhari candidature was the unresolved feud with Shekarau.

“I can assure you, however, that many of the leaders are concerned and the leaders of the three merging parties have agreed to meet before the planned national convention of the CPC and ANPP to resolve the feud between the two Northern leaders,” he said.

One other trouble raging in the fold of the merging parties, according to sources, is the unresolved feud within the ranks of the CPC.

“We are worried that the CPC crisis is unending as the party remains factionalised. While the ANPP has its own problems, the situation in the CPC is bad. Senator Rufai Hanga has refused to be reined in yet,” a source said.

According to another source, Senator Tinubu recently contacted the Hanga-led faction of the CPC, but the situation has remained stagnant.

“I can confirm to you that Senator Tinubu recently met Senator Hanga, but I cannot confirm we have found solution, even though Tinubu had met with Buhari afterwards,” the source said.

madone: People shiuld stop playing politics with serious financial crime my sh*t. I wish I can see you one on one and you repeat this same word and you would be surprised wat I ll do to you. how many political have stole billions and trillion and how many years did they go. Nigerians problem is not that Kelvin went to jail the issue is poor man can be so easily brought to justice in this country. All the million your governor made when he was a commissioner in lagos how many years has he gone for .nonsense the law is blind to the rich fools

“He was later arraigned on the six-count charge and he pleaded guilty to all the six counts. The first three counts carry twenty years maximum term with no option of fine,” he noted.
Mr. Afolabi clarified that whoever committed this offence under Subsection (1) or (2) is liable on conviction to imprisonment for not more than twenty years and not less than seven years without an option of a fine.
The commissioner further recalled, however, that the Judge, while sentencing Ighodalo, exercised his discretion within the limited space allowed by law to sentence him to 10 years term on each of the first three counts.

anonimi: When you provide how much Aregberascal has sunk into this project in his past three years, then we can have a wholesome discussion.

Airport Project On Track – Osun Govt
Osun State government has disclosed its resolve to go ahead with the execution of airport project to facilitate socio-economic activities in the state.
This was disclosed by the Special Adviser (SA) to the Governor on Works and Transport, Engineer Sabitu Amudah at this year’s ministerial press briefing held at the Local Government Service Commission, within the state government secretariat in Osogbo.
In his address, he disclosed that the project would be a medium-sized airport for passengers and cargo flight, adding that the state government has gained the consent of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) for the project.
The airport project, according to the Special Adviser, is to complement the Omoluabi Free Trade Zone of the administration.
Amudah disclosed that the administration has concluded the award of the design and preparation of tender, for the construction of road projects across major towns in the state.
The projects include; Osogbo East bye-pass, dualisation of Osogbo-Ilesa road, Osogbo-Ibokun road, Gbongan-Akoda road and the rehabilitation of selected roads in Osogbo town.
He added that tender for the rehabilitation of some roads in Ilesa, Osogbo and Gbongan-Orile-Owu-Ajegunle to link Ijebu-Igbo roads have already been concluded and just waiting for award to contractors.
Furthermore, the SA maintained that the state government has further entered into agreement with the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), which would enable the state government to provide coaches to convey persons and goods on the Lagos-Ibadan-Osogbo axis.
According to him, the administration in the state would ensure free flow of traffic in the state by next year, through the combined effort of Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) and officials of the Osun Traffic Management Enforcement Committee (OTRAMEC).
“The state is also to ensure massive road maintenance by using some members of the OYES volunteer corps, who are trained engineers, after the ministry might have given them professional training”, Amudah added.

anonimi: I can put your response to Aregberascal's aerodrome scam here into proper perspective.

Osun Airport House of Fraud


In addition to natural endowment, the state is superlatively blessed with that most vital of catalytic ingredient – human resources. With a resourceful enterprising citizenry, all that is needed is good, sensible governance. This, sadly is what is missing. To give one out of numerous examples, the seventy-four-year-old Ido-Osun airport presents a vital opportunity which if sensibly exploited, could have been a vital focal point with which to kick-start the state’s economy.

Unfortunately, this opportunity is once again being messed up. Far from exploiting a superb opportunity, sleaze has come into play. Far from being seen as a resource it has been added to the ever-growing list of ‘come and chop’ substitute for good governance.

The Ido-Osun airport is said to be the first airfield in the West African sub-region. Due to the famed lack of transparency, graft and ineptitude of the Oyinlola mob, there is nothing to show for the N5 billion so far sunk into its purported reactivation. Historically, the aerodrome, an airport in Ido-Osun was reputed to have airlifted Africans who were conscripted to fight in the Second World War. As a report in this newspaper recently pointed out, the airport came into being – “Thanks to the foresight of the nation’s colonial masters.

Under the British Colonial rule, with Sir Donald Cameron, the 4th Governor-General of Nigeria, a huge portion of Ido-Osun land was forcefully acquired in the expansionist interests of the colonial masters”. The aerodrome at Ido-Osun was part of the quick response of the British Governor-Generals for Nigeria to the problems of shortage of man-power, poor transportation system and lack of communication services in Nigeria.

Oyinlola certainly does not have the foresight that the colonial masters had. If he did, he would have seen in Ido-Osun a potential cluster of economic activity. Instead of being used as an economic proposition, what we have now is a focal point of looting. The figures are horrendous. With nothing on ground to show for it, the following clearly unverifiable expenditure has been incurred.
Difficult to comprehend, let alone believe, N9,435,402.00 has been expanded on bush clearing; N1,500,707,525.00 on office building; N10,225,115.30 on office fittings/furniture; N3,481,885,875.77 on meteorological laboratory and equipment including satellites; N1,009,322.65 on water supply extension and N2,105,211.00 on electricity extension. Wow!
Anyone who has been to the site will soon realize that this is even by Oyinlola standards the mother-of-all-scams. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has its work well cut out. A holistic no-holds barred investigation must be launched into this scam, the monies involved recovered and restitution made.

The opportunity cost involved is truly amazing. N5 billion naira is more than enough to have put together an airport from scratch. If N5 billion had actually been spent on the project, the multiplier effect on the economy of Osun State would have been salutary. On the other hand, if the state government feels that there is no need for an airport, a N5 billion investment in some other area of economic activity would also have been of immense benefit. Areas of alternative investments could include – industrial estates, agriculture and so forth.
The irresponsible squandering of N5 billion under the pretext of resuscitating the airport shows the criminal veneer entailed in the PDP’s ‘come and chop’ attitude to public life. From this little interlude in Ido-Osun, we can see that the PDP represents a grave and persistent danger to the economic and social wellbeing of the good people of Osun State. By the grace of the Almighty, the elections petition tribunal will soon put a stop to the collective misery of Osun State citizens. Amen!

Prince0500: Am presently in Delta state,u need to see the transformation that ibori brought to this place,if ibori conviction justified his acts while in office fine nd gud bt if dis is a case of victimisation then it is nt justice.And where there is no justice peace shld nt be expected.