₦airaland Forum

Jostoman:
even your governor himself knows that he is scamming us with his covid-419

can you follow me to an isolation centre to hug a covid 19 patient? If you can't, you a coward, stop sitting in your house spewing rubbish

mikeaims:
Anyone comparing opening market with opening churches needs to have his head checked.
Churches has no economic benefits but so kind of emotional benefits.
Even if the people contact d virus via markets, it better than go to church and infect urselves thereby insulting ur God.
lastly, once religious centres are opened, many covid19 patients will abscond from the isolation cemntres to visit their fraudulent healing houses endangering more lives.
For now worship ur God in ur homes. remember that
God is everywhere at the same time

Don't mind them, comparing the house of God to an ordinary market

Righteousness89:
The Governor should tread carefully with this so he doesn't cause more harm to Lagos...

The Governor should seek for Spirtual guidance from The Servants of GOD on this.

GOD is not Happy with this. His House should be opened!

You are not serious, go and open your church nah

8stargeneral:
And u don't think that reopening of church will add more, people are going out to find what they will eat, are they sharing money or food in d church?

Help me ask them o

Izanghi:
LASU, remembered 100 level make be say I got don leave house around 7 am to go for CHM 101 for SL edu for a lecture of 8 and you go still sit for floor or stand for a 4 hours class.

Cultism nah regularly thing, them no born you well make you wear one shade of color all through except you belong. I remembered when Hussein wahala start too when them go put ritual for front of admin block 1, people no gree pass there because rumors say one a lizard pass there and him die.
But in terms of education, lasu graduate are very sound, a 3rd class, 2.2 student dey boss some other first class for postgraduate in other schools.

I remember when dem post students name make them send away for school that year because of poor results some where even in final year, them even post am for newspaper see as parents dey call their wards say make them dey come house.

This is very correct!

Deocle:
Lasu is now calm, cultists are on a lowkey now

especially when Fashola increase the sch fees astronomically, na ajebos full the sch now

bigseank:
if you finished from Lasu in the 1990 & 2000, years of bababunmi, akesode, leigh & Hussein. Nothing, i mean nothing can shake you in this life. The school has really changed and am a proud alumni. i remeber vividly the academic and non-academic staff protests during leigh and husseins regime, see Juju placed allover the administrative buildings, i can still remeber someone throw a stone at hussein and it met him square on the forehead, or the different cult hits in broad daylight at the school ojo front gate. The tunde salau brutal macheting and all the saga that followed after. i remeber vividly the fall of damilola, i was on campus not too far when damoche fell at the gate. That school made me.

LASU in those days make you know the clear difference between a gun shot sound and a busted tyre sound. Your head go correct by force and your mind go strong wella especially with the very wicked lecturers all over the faculties. LASU graduates are also very brilliant especially when they go ahead to do postgraduate courses in other Federal unis here in Nigeria and abroad cos your will is stronger to succeed.

azpekuliar:
The Jakande government had already awarded a contract for a subway system before Buhari’s coup truncated it. Matter of fact Buhari’s regime still went ahead to pay 70% of the contract sum as penalty for cancelling the contract!
Did the initiators of the project and the contractors not know back in 1982 that the “water table is too low for underground tunnels”?

so you want it now after how many years? Are you aware Lagos is sinking?

Tunde835:
New York 's Manhattan is an island nd Brooklyn and Queens ar part of a larger long island nd dey all have subway tunnels

we are not advanced enough for an underground tunnel pls, common drainage issues we can't fix, is underground tunnel you want to do and do you know how many buildings will have to go because of the tunnels, you can go build tunnels in a developing city but not in a too densely, poor drainage system city like Lagos

uunwanaobong3:
As for the protest in America is good oooooo,. BUT it is a good protest at a very wrong time. Here are my reasons;

1) over thousand and millions of people have gather in America and other parts of the world to protest,,,, have we even realize that this is a pandemic period that we should be isolating.......... Because of Floyd's death, I can see more than 500,000 covid infection and more than50,000 people dying due to Corona virus infection within the crowd..... Democrat and CNN will not talk about this repercussion, they want to blame everything on Trump.
U wouldn't see the WHO coming out to warn the people about the dangers of large gathering and protesting world wide at this dangerous times of covid19 ............................. Also i feel that state governors in USA and other world leaders like in Canada, Britain etc purposely exposed their people to contact more covid infection and death, by standby and watch while the people gather in large number. Whatever evil intension those leaders have, right it is only God that can serve those mass protesters....... This action alone can bring about second wave of the virus which will be fatal

2) the world is under great economics depression and in America alone there are 50million job losses, ... The protesters who are vandalising and burning down businesses all in the name of protest and are being encouraged by CNN and Democrat governors, have they realize that this rascal behavior will lead to more recession and job lose for innocent citizen........ I know they want to blame everything on Trump.

3) the whole thing has turned political through CNN and action of Democrat governors.
First, it was about impeachment of trump, they failed.

Then come Corona virus, .....instead of the press to tackle china and WHO for the spread of Corona virus in the world, the press world wide were tackling Trump as if Trump is the president of the world and as if Trump was the one that brought the virus to the world...... In Democrat state like new York, governors freely allow the people to get infected, so as to blame Trump for the numbers of the dead, the media we're insulting the president up and down with stupid questions during presidential press briefing....,.over 100,000 Americans have died mostly in Democrat state.. again they have failed because U.S have done x10 more tests than any country, more ventilator and PPE than any country........ CNN have realized that people are no longer buying the lying stories about Trump, so if you observed, they no longer report on covid stories gain, they have now shifted their attention to racism....

thank God Trump has taken U.S out of WHO.
Let me see how China will fund WHO.

What police did was wrong, and the policemen were duly sacked, arrested and charged with murder, ..... But the press and CNN chooses to feed on the story, encouraging voilent protest and destruction of public/private properties....
The Democrat state governors and states police chooses to standby and watch public properties going up in flame without taking any action to stop the vandalism....... And when Trump condemned their weakness and conspiracy, they begin to criticized him...... To an extent that CNN decide to send a black reporter on a Frontline between police and riot protesters, when the reporter was arrested for endangering his own security (he could be hit by stray bullet bottle, stone, fireworks etc) they changed the narrative to racism.

Finally Trump is not perfect oooooo, infact he can't talk as a president, he is so unpolished in his act, but believe me Democrat, press and other world leaders are trying to destroy Mr Trump, using the poor masses as collateral damages.

America racism problem is a systematic one, it is not based on a particular president..... Racism has infiltration the Constitution, police acts and other key institutions in the USA.
When the protesters shifted the blame from institutional failure to protect them (such as police act, Constitutional amendment and judicial baise) to Donald Trump speeches, I immediately know that the protest was quickly hijacked by Democrats..............., Obama was a black man and a good orator but more blacks were killed in his administration than any other president.
The problem is not the president but the system.

If there is one thing I know, Trump really care for Americans but doesn't give a shit about outside world,... Americans should indeed appreciate their president because he loves them.

Trump is the most insulted president in the world, even a the Tweeter owner, get the guts (mind) to remove a presidential tweet or address to the nation on Tweeter......... That is the highest level of disrespect to the office of the president of United States of America.............. If I were Trump Tweeter would have paid heavily for every bit of that disrespect.... The tweeter owner would have stayed alive and watch helplessly as his billions becomes thousands.

Even a Chinese jornalist get mine to ask Trump a very stupid question about trump Corona virus competition, ..... a question that even she dare not ask Chinese president xie.

It was so disgusting to watch a police inspector yesterday on CNN telling a whole US president (Mr Trump) that if he does not have anything to say "HE SHOULD SHUT UP"... simply because Trump criticized them for allowing vandalism to take place.......... ..I am not sure any president in the world would have taken this lightly from a public official.....he wasn't even warn by CNN to at least respect office that Trump occupied.

CNN has loose all credibility, they have shown that they are media wing of Democrat party by reporting loop sided stories. E.g when the protesters were disperse at White House so that Trump could have access to the vandalized St John's Church... the media says that the protesters were peaceful, but the question is if the protesters were peaceful, why was that church vandalized in the first place........... there is a lot of cover up in the media so as to carried out their evil intension of misinforming the world.

Honestly I must commend the endurance of Mr Trump, u really try to endure them

Black community should be very careful in this crises, they start on a positive note ..... But when the going get bad and urgly, they (black) will be blamed for everything that happened. Nobody will mention the white, Chinese, Hispanics or other ethnic groups

Rubbish, am sure if it was your brother that was killed, you would have mentioned same abi, America is simply in turmoil because their baby President has said nothing about the issue but threatening to roll out the military against US citizens. CNN is not the issue but Trump

pls be informed, Lagos water table is too low for underground tunnels

ogaontop:
My friend keep quiet and condemn what is wrong, even if Jonathan made all these appointments, does that make it right? Call a spade a spade and save your self the stress!
Btw, was there a time in Jonathan's regime that all service Chiefs were from the South?
Just like what is happening now

why do you guys lie a lot? are all the current service chiefs from the north?

kingzizzy:
All 3 of them went to secondary school together, they attended CIC Boys Enugu. Chimaroke went on to study Medicine while Ekweremadu and Chime studied Law. Chimaroke returned from America, where he was practising Medicine, in 1998 to aspire to become Senator for Enugu East constituency. As faith would have it, the then God father of Enugu state politics, Chief Jim Nwobodo, decreed that the next Governor of Enugu should emerge from Enugu East. Nwobodo convinced Chimaroke to drop his Senatorial ambition and go for Governor with his full backing. When Chimaroke became Governor, he remembered his old secondary school class mates, Ekweremadu and Chime. He made Ekweremadu his chief of staff and Chime, his attorney general. Chime would succeed Chimaroke as Governor while Ekweremadu would become deputy Senate president. The rest is history

This got me, very good friends I must say. friendship at its best!

chaloskyx:
Really what does the church have to offer people who have lost their jobs who are hungry. you have not solved that now you want to open the church so that they can compound their problems with death abi. the only thing the church offers people is hope and guess what thats not enough because its that same hope we have clinged to praying for Nigeria to be better and paying to its political officers that is why we are on a downward spiral economically things are only getting worse. so guess what keep your message of hope we need action to change things and survive and if such action means we have to close the churches down to avoid death then so be it

Am a believer and I agree and also approve this post. Most of our pastors still don't know the reality of the times we have entered into.

Montlab25:
Nigeria is arguably the only country where some clowns see Covid-19 as a scam. This shows how poorly enlightened Nigerians are. They just don't get it. This has further reinforced the school of thought that says the society is the problem NOT the leadership. Some do not even understand how the government is losing millions by implementing partial lockdown; All they think of is the billions that are supposedly looted. Why will any government be deliberately losing money because they want to loot lesser amounts?
No wonder Fashola conducted sanity tests on some Nigerians when he was governor.

our religious leaders worsen the situation with their unguarded utterances, most Nigerians believe them than the govt. Two of them openly condemned the use of face masks with one saying we look like masquerades. The whole states need to ban religious and social gatherings from now till the end of the year before things go out of hand.

We are in the rainy season already with the coming floods that will easily serve as a medium of spread. Offices and industries than can work from home should continue to do so. shit is becoming more scary

And they renewed his contract, this guy is a shaky shaky daddy coach. An agbaya

Sanchez01:
Some of these Northern elites deliberately stoked and sponsored terrorism in their region, not just for security votes but also on religious and highly political grounds.

Mohammed Yusuf, the founder of Boko Haram, was sponsored and backed by some Northern elites to destabilize a non-Northerner's administration and to resist Western education, just so Shari'ah can gain recognition. Buhari was one of the most vocal clowns who supported the propagation of Islam and Sharia'ah through the Boko Haram sect.

First, it was the killing of Southern Kaduna folks just because they chose a different faith and perhaps resisted El rufai during the guber. Then seeing that Boko Haram had kept our military boxed, they found a need to invent a mobile militia that would move around the country and wreck havoc for expansion sake.

The irony of it all is that Buhari was voted by some based on his antecedent with the Maitatsine uprising. Today, not only has he failed but has also turned the once-powerful Nigeria Army that was the cynosure of West Africa; the same that wrestled South Africa from bondage into a boy scout group. Our soldiers are not only poorly treated but under-equipped to tackle the insurgent head-on.

Chadian soldiers now command more respect than the Nigeria Army while crime has become hydr-headed more than ever. We judged wrong. Sinzu money is not interested in the welfare of Nigerians other than borrowing money from the IMF and World Bank or take to begging on Twitter.

Some key Northern players are greatly profiting from the chaos in the North and the only way to curb it in the South is to put up regional security outfits to defend themselves because Buhari's scorecard has shown that he is a failure, most importantly on security.

you are a mumu, boko haram started during the Yar Adua' tenure, so who sponsored them to disrupt Yar Adua's tenure? you guys just love to spew lies and you think some of us will swallow such?

Drainage??

this is where we needed the palliatives not distributing food up and down, the price would have remain why Govt subsidize the rest

Egoveen:
The only state that doesn't buy the covid 19 bullshit.

are you bold enough? let us go to an isolation centre and I leave you there for a few days

is there any award for a covid free state?

mvem:
oga if Buhari appointed family members into his kitchen cabinet won't you and others cry wolf

don't waste your precious time on hypocrites abeg.

olumide4christ:
Wait for the report of the independent investigation panel first before concluding. We all know that the average Nigerian and Nigerian official is corrupt, nepotistic and a flouter of due process...so I will rather wait. If Adesina is found culpable, he should go for it. I will never support corruption, nepotism and all associated evils, even if it's perpetuated by my father or blood brother, how much more Adesina. He sabi me before? He has been President of AFDB for 5 years and Nigerian Minister of Agriculture for 4 years...did he know me then or give me anything all through that period? Even if he did, evil is evil...I will not support it.

The average Nigerian loves to support evil, that's why we are still backward today

you see our problem, must someone be our personal person before we stand up for them? Has he not served well, don't think of yourself alone, he's being afdb head has brought lots of benefits for Nigeria as afdb largest shareholder, other african countries want our money but are not ready to give us our dues as a Nation Let's always think National interests first. Lots of projects in Nigeria are being funded by afdb including electric power projects to improve our power and lots more. Am not a big fan of the man but his presence in that office is giving Nigeria lots of gains which our african brothers are not happy about. Think Nationally first, he doesn't have to be your family member

olumide4christ:
The comments from many people here is the reason why I always say that the problem of Nigeria is not just about it's leaders, APC, PDP, Buhari, etc, but also the followers/the masses.
See people jumping to support Adesina despite the weighty allegations levelled against him in an international organization, not Nigerian organization, without waiting for the independent panel to probe, investigate and present their report before taking sides.
It's the same way our people are quick to defend their kinsmen who are govt officials but were exposed in corrupt practices simply because " he is our brother".
For me, if Adesina is found culpable, he should resign & be held accountable and if otherwise, he should continue in his re-election bid.

Se fini!

oga, they want adeshina out simple as nobody holy pass, other african nations are just eyeing the seat to do theirs as well, get the drift. There is no fair hearing anywhere in this world, if you are strong to be stopped, they simply dig out your dirt and you are out. This is the painful part to see a diligent Nigerian no longer heading a prestigious body like afdb and watch out how Nigeria will be disadvantaged when the guy is finally out. This is our pain. Let's not be too legalistic

AhoadaRivers:
What this case tells us is that if Buhari, osinbajo or Tinubu are given international appointments they can't survive 1 week on that appoimtment. Because they are both nepotism walking on two legs.
They fill every position with their family members, friends and concubines.


Nigerians have taken it as a norm, that's why they are crying foul about this American intervention to call them to order on the international stage. Unfortunately, hopefully they can learn a thing or two from Adesina's impending downfall that nepotism is ethically and morally criminal.

Americans didn't build their country on nepotism but on meritocracy. If they did, you won't be fasting and praying to get their visas.

Unfortunately Nigeria are too thickheaded, they'll never learn from this.

and what is Trump doing, meritocracy? excuse me

GeorgeTheCoder:
But our nairaland experts are saying the allegations are damning !

Article 9 shows what the real problem is. Some players feel bypassed by Adesina and eclipsed by Nigeria's prominent role in the bank.

this the real beef, nothing more. If we think our colonial masters alone don't want to rise, we have more opposition in our African brothers, they hate to see us shine wherever.

Nigeria have to be careful else we may start playing second fiddle to countries like Togo and Malawi but when they are in turmoil, they know how to run to their big brother but to see us well ahead na there yawa dey

lhurd:
This allegations are in bad faith. If you ever had an opportunity to work with regional organizations, you will be amazed at how Nigeria as a whole are not just marginalized, but seriously maltreated. Nigeria been the highest donor to the afdb, to me should be properly represented. The only sin Adeshina has committed is not dancing to the tune of France, the overlords of francophone countries. If the US were downtrodden in global bodies like the UN, you all know what would happen next. Enough of the rubbish.

Am with you on this

[quote author= post=90016326]THE TAAT ALLEGATION Against Adesina
The whistleblowers claimed that Mr Adesina impeded efficiency in his management of a $120 million Technologies for African Agriculture transformation (TAAT) programme after he allegedly used his “political weight” to compel a reluctant Board of Directors to award the initial grant of the programme worth $40 million to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria.
“One has to remember that the President worked for IITA and AfricaRice, and both institutions were to benefit from the grant. The mastermind behind the project, Mr. FREGENE, is also an IITA alumnus and the task manager, Mr Mude, is an alumnus of ILRI, another institution financed by the programme.
“In 2018, IITA, the implementing agency, proceeded to purchase through direct procurement USD 5.46m worth of pesticides from a multinational company, while the grant contract specifically prohibited such procurement method. Fortunately, the fiduciary controls of the Bank stopped the process, but Mr. FREGENE went ahead and personally negotiated the price directly with the supplier and asked for the shipment of the pesticides. When confronted by senior management, he tried to launch a competitive bidding process to cover up the direct purchase. The fiduciary controls of the Bank worked once again, and the payment of the supplier’s invoice was blocked for non-compliance with Bank rules.
“When informed, the President himself requested the payment to be released to the supplier,” the petition stated.
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR NIGERIA AND AWARD RECEIVED
The whistleblowers also alleged that under Mr Adesina’s presidency, the bank’s organisation chart was altered to promote Nigeria to an almost full-fledged region.
“Admittedly, Nigeria is AfDB’s largest shareholder with over 9%, but it’s not clear if this justifies a preferential treatment. Nigerians have also been particularly well treated in the massive recruitment drive that was launched due to the restructuring of President ADESINA between 2016 and 2018. When roughly 9% of new recruits were Nigerians (or dual nationals of Nigerian origin) – in line with Nigerian shareholding –, they made up roughly 25% of the newly recruited managerial functions. It is not clear if this preferential treatment was justified by a previous under-representation,” they said.
They also accuse Mr Adesina of using the bank’s funds to cover associated costs in two major awards he won – the World Food Prize (USD 250,000) and the Sunhak Peace Prize (USD 500,000) – 2017 and 2019 respectively and wondered if the awards were not made to the bank why did the bank cover the associated costs of the awards?
“Dozens of people, Bank staff, executive Directors, former Head of State, entertainers or family members attended the award ceremonies at the Bank’s costs (one in Des Moines, Iowa, the other in Seoul, Korea). If these awards were private, why did the Bank support associated costs? If they were awarded to the President of the Group of the Bank were the awards returned to the Bank?”
POLITICAL LOBBYING AND USING BANK RESOURCES FOR SELF-PROMOTION
The whistleblowers described Adesina as “the unchallenged travel champion” of the bank and accused him of using the opportunities of his travels to meet regional heads of States and making financial promises to obtain their support for his re-election.
They also accused Mr Adesina of recruiting a biographer, Leon Hasser to write his authorised biography: “Against All Odds. World Food Prize Laureate Dr Akinwumi Adesina and His Drive to Feed Africa” (ISBN: 9781728315386) with the bank’s resources.
“It is unclear why the Bank paid for this biography, which was not officially promoted by the Bank, nor translated to the other official language of the institution. It primarily focuses on the accomplishments of the President when he was Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria and only received some limited publicity in Nigeria. More surprisingly, the terms of reference of Dr HESSER’s mission state that “all outputs delivered under this consultancy contract will remain the property of the protagonist of the book (Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina)” in contradiction with the usual Bank provision on intellectual property which states that “all proprietary and intellectual property rights (…) will be vested in (…) the Bank.”[/quote]guy, any african would have done same for his country who supported his ascension to become afdb president, I think some fellow africans are just jealous, I have been in many african conferences and i can tell you there is this bad belle stuff towards Nigeria, they see us as very loud and proud which is not our fault but the way God wired us. Whatever Adeshina did, any african would have done same for his country. I bet you if he was a Cameroonian, no one will say all this shit. We all knew how issa hayatou was CAF President for so many years despite all the favouritsim he showerd on his country, till today TV rights on afcon and other matches are still being held by his son, don't know if the present CAF board has stopped that. Am not really a fan of Adeshina despite I have even sat in meetings with him when was former agric minister but when I see a Nigerian that has done well for himself, his country and the continent winning a coveted world food prize, I can never pander towards petty allegations on him and if that will cost him a second term shot, no wahala but Nigeria need to stop these silly african countries that can't match us in any way driving a backward agenda for africa. doen't make sense while another african who may not be as intellectual as adeshina takes the seat

[quote author= post=90015825]Adesina was also accused of directly contracting and appointing Mr. Victor Oladokun, whom they described as Adesina’s childhood friend, in violation of the bank’s code of conduct.[/quote]Oladokun has since retired from the bank so why are they bringing it up now, bad belle things

aperture11:
This is where the real problem is. World Bank has issues with the bank because they are not given the opportunity to impoverish us further, rather another is.

The terms of loans of AfDB is a lot more favorable to African Nations than World Bank and they don't like this.

The downside is just that they can lend you much and African Leaders will borrow to embezzle anyways.

at least it shows africa trying to slove its problems in a indigenous manner rather than relying on western parasites, yes i call them parasites cos why are they pained that african nations are getting access to funds too quickly

[quote author= post=90015555]See how you are fighting for your tribe's man asking Africa leader to come together, if he was Igbo man, once you guys hear American is investigating him, the whole western media houses will carry the news like gala and blackmail him more without knowing his side, now you're asking for African leaders to unite because he's from your tribe Bunch of hypocritical beings [/quote]was adeshina not a shining light in your beloved gej's administration? he is no longer good in your eyes abi you guys keep revealing who you truly are

seunmsg:
Nigeria cannot fight the US alone. Africa leaders need to come together to save the bank from US and European control. AfDB is becoming too strong and providing support for African countries and the west are not happy about this. Adesina is also dismantling French control over the bank and indirectly over Francophone Africa countries. These are part of the reasons why they are against him.

This french conspiracy from the francophone block has always been a set back for the proper integration of the African continent. Wish Adeshina good luck, something always goes amiss when a non francophone heads a continental organisation in Africa, i don tire for dem, they are ones holding west africa back and ditto the entire africa. countries like Nigeria, south africa, kenya and even Ghana are ready to shape the entire continent for better but for these francophone goons