₦airaland Forum

modath:
I stand corrected... I read some where that some inlands are calculated alongside with Alaska's landmass, guess the opinion is wrong & need to condition myself to the thinking that there is a place double naija's size.. Waoh.

Yes my sister, USA and China are equal to a continent, come to think of it China is about 1.4billion in population and Africa is 1.2billion, one good thing I like about china is they used their population to their advantage, some 15 years ago china was not the second economy but Japan but they have not just overtook them but doubled them, this is where I want Nigeria to take a cue, we are the china of africa and we can follow the china model for growth taking advantage of our population and natural resources, the most important resource among resources is human resources which Japan, china and USA are making a good use of.

modath:
There is not one of state or province in both countries that is bigger then Nigeria, almost in size? Of course but not equal nor bigger.

Alaska(USA) is 1.7M sq km
Xingian(china) is 1.66M sq km
Tibet(china) is 1.22M sq km

And

Nigeria is 923k sq km


That is talking land mass, talking about economic size is going another long story

datola:
This is more authentic coming from IMF unlike the other time when the government of the day did the calculation and were jumping around celebrating like empty barrel.

See levels:

The United States, China and Japan maintained their spots as the largest economies in the world, with a GDP of $18.561 trillion, $11.391 trillion and $4.73 trillion respectively.

USA and China are suppose to be continents not countries, there are state in both countries that are more than Nigeria, my respect goes to Japan, despite it small size it is the third largest economy, largely due to utilization of human resources

Justnice11:
Wow. So in the train, no body guard? What if they harmed him

He was with 3 other men obviously assistants and guards in plain cloth, even played with my daughter when she passed him while playing in the train. They don't expect any harm they trust their system and really they are good in security furthermore they don't have reason to hide from the public since they are not known for embezzlement but that does not mean that they are not guarded against unforeseen enemies.

Former Mayor of London who was like the governor of London(Boris Johnson) ride around London on bicycle, how about that

See her face sef,

Justnice11:
Is it when he was still the pm?

Yes precisely in August 2008

I once entered same train with uk prime minister( Gordon brown) we were in first class and I can remember only two range rovers and a police car came to pick him no siren at all

Mopolchi:
cant believe that he is 23

I can vividly remember Emeruo as a student of GSS Gwarinpa,he wrote his ssce in 2005, his teacher then was a friend.

If he is now 23 that means he wrote SSCE in 2005 at 11 years old

As the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop the airing of the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview a few days ago, I had the privilege of listening to the interview before it was fully aired.

My good friend, the Head of the Abuja bureau of the BBC, Naziru Mikailu, invited me to his office to comment on the interview, and directed that it be played to me before the recording of my comment.

Listening to the president’s wife passionately expressing herself on how her husband runs Nigeria left me cringing. Reading between the lines, I realised Mrs. Buhari was sending an SOS to Nigerians to save her bewitched, servile husband from the clutches of the Aso Rock witches, popularly known as the “Aso cabal”.

The Buhari I knew before the last presidential election was not the obtuse person we have today as president. The Buhari I promoted during the campaign had no nepotistic, despotic or tele-guided tendencies. The Buhari I voted for was not this pliable. Forgive me if my knowledge of him was superficial.



Aisha Buhari might have pitched the nation a curve ball, but her interview is actually a deafening echo of what we’ve been saying for ages about her husband. When I first raised alarm on the dangers of the influence of the numero uno of the cabal, Mamman Daura, on the Buhari administration barely three weeks after the president took the oath of office, I received all manners of insults and invectives. Today a lot of my predictions have come to reality.

But if actually the Mamman Daura cabal is the one running this country, then it appears to be a very unintelligent lot whose mastery does not go beyond the art of nepotism and crafts of plagiarism.

This cabal has kept both the nation and the president under spell, leaving the economy to slide into recession, our currency to crash beyond salvation and impunity to reign supreme. This cabal has suffocated a mega political party that Nigerians from all regions laboured and united to build.


From the appointment of ministers to heads of agencies, there are either portfolio misplacements or the elevation of disturbing cronyism and incompetence by this cabal, which started from the outset of the present administration.

It always saddens me to realise that our president has been turned into a puppet, managed by some half-witted puppeteers, who are mainly adept at turning his feet toward Europe, America and Asia; stretching his hand in perpetuation of nepotism or opening his mouth to goof.



From the appointment of ministers to heads of agencies, there are either portfolio misplacements or the elevation of disturbing cronyism and incompetence by this cabal, which started from the outset of the present administration. This same cabal gave plum appointments to progenies of the famous Kaduna mafia members, some of who even served the immediate-past administration or openly campaigned for the PDP.

A leading member of the cabal, who is the present Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as a member of the Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Task Force in 2012. A year earlier, Kyari had turned down Buhari’s offer to serve as the secretary of one of the CPC presidential campaign committees – perhaps because Buhari had little chance of winning.

Take the case of the Sokoto ministerial nominee, for instance. Any loyal party man will not be happy to see the daughter of Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, the late Kaduna mafia member, Aisha Abubakar, appointed minister from Sokoto State. Aisha openly campaigned for the PDP governorship candidate in Sokoto, and her brother, Aminu Abubakar Alhaji, who unsuccessfully vied for the Tambuwal/Kebbe Federal Constituency ticket on the platform of PDP.

Again, no one who wishes the APC well will be happy to see Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, the daughter of another Kaduna mafia member, Yahaya Hamza, appointed minister from Kaduna State. Zainab headed NEITI under Jonathan and contributed to the PDP during election.

Any card carrying member of the APC will be saddened to see Mohammed Bello, the son of Mamman Daura’s friend, Musa Bello, appointed minister from Adamawa State. Mohammed Bello headed the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria under Jonathan but was given the plum FCT ministry by the Aso cabal. I believe if he had gone against PDP, he would have been removed immediately after Jonathan lost the election.

But consider how the cabal dumped loyal party members in Enugu like Osita Okechukwu to appoint Geoffrey Enyeama, who had hitherto never met Buhari nor worked for the APC, as minister of Foreign Affairs.


One basic fact a lot of fanatical supporters of Buhari forget is that he rode on the saddle of a political party to power. The fortunes of the party are diminishing and those who laboured to build the party and ensured the emergence of Buhari as candidate have been relegated, while political ambulance chasers take the centre stage.

Or, will any APC politician be happy with Senator Ita Enang, a top Jonathan campaigner, as Senior Special Assistant to the president on the National Assembly (Senate), or Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, also a top Jonathan campaigner, as chairman of the almighty Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), while loyal party men like Senator Magnus Abe were kicked backstage. Senator Abe was even shot by the police during the election in Rivers.



Aisha Buhari might have been wondering where loyal Buhari campaigners were, like Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Faruq Adamu Aliyu, Dele Alake, Barrister Ismail Ahmed, Architect Waziri Bulama, Yusuf Tuga, Yakubu Lame, Dr. Hassan Lawan, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Umaru Dembo, Ubale Hashim, Umar Dangiwa, among others.

The president’s wife and party supporters will also be incensed to see appointees of the past government still heading a number of agencies and departments. The cabal should know that party men are piqued that the 12 agencies of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources are still headed by the appointees of the past government, as well as a minister, Engr. Sulaiman Adamu, appointed not for his political contributions to the success of Buhari, but due to close family ties.

Now take a cursory look at the re-appointment of Umaru Ibrahim as managing director of NDIC. Ibrahim was appointed in December 2010 by Jonathan but was reappointed by Buhari to serve another five years, as if there are no competent persons for such within the party fold. One still wonders why the Director-General of PenCom, Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, is retained despite the fact that her appointment was initially done in violation of the law. Does Buhari think his party is happy that Malam Sani Sidi, a protege of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, is still the head of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)?

Whoever wishes the president and APC well must feel strongly about this. As someone who stood by her husband during the election, Aisha Buhari has the right to complain when certain forces take over her husband or when things go wrong in the party. I still believe she loves her husband more than those who are insulting or mocking her. She is still the best authority on the president’s mental and socio-physical state.



One basic fact a lot of fanatical supporters of Buhari forget is that he rode on the saddle of a political party to power. The fortunes of the party are diminishing and those who laboured to build the party and ensured the emergence of Buhari as candidate have been relegated, while political ambulance chasers take the centre stage. APC’s growth is inorganic, and so needs some therapy to strengthen it’s fragility.

There is concern about the political future of Buhari and APC. As it stands today, barring any miracle, Buhari could either be the first incumbent Nigerian president to lose a party ticket at the primaries or the second president to lose re-election in Nigeria’s political history.

Jaafar Jaafar, a public affairs analyst and media practitioner, writes from Abuja.

If the Nigerian government want they can break DSTV monopoly, Nigeria has about 60% of their subscribers outside SA, with that Nigeria government can insist they either share there content for a fee with other get totally blocked, then the government and other private station can bid for only Nigeria populace say from skysport.

The truth is if the government want to break DSTV monopoly it can but the problem is we have mediocre private sectors players, do you remember when Hitv got the epl right for Nigeria, the only reason people bought there decoders was for the football, others are only mediocre channels, while dstv having realized the may lose out they decided to expand there content on Documentaries , entertainment and movies, they also introduced channels like afmag Hausa and yoruba, they also introduce pocket friendly charges, like the dstv family and access, as a matter of fact dstv increased it customers when they lost the epl right. Immediately Hitv entered problem they regained the right for epl and till date they are the satellite to beat, imagine we have startimes, which I also considered not a competition to dstv, consat as well is just there.

Now if you want to beat dstv you sit down and compete with them channel by channel, any channel they don't have exclusive right for you also buy and those that you they have exclusive right for you get a close subtitute.

The most important factor in breaking dstv monopoly in Nigeria is breaking Nigeria or west africa as a separate zone like the north africa and not lumped together with east and southern africa, and you must be grounded in government to achieve that


Also don't forget pricing should be competitive and there must be massive promotion and reach

ikeadewole:
You are a fool.the only people that have shared border with the chad basin is Cameroon and chad.

Mumu, olodo, go and check your map to see which countries are in the lake Chad basin,

Mumu, check this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Basin

Witchcraft is real, forget it at your own peril

Glorified prostitutes

This thread is stinking with jealousy and hate from children of hate, well my advice to you is your hate should be directed at your creators as natural resources like oil are not planted but put there by God,

The same God that gave Niger delta oil is the one giving the Chad basin oil.

By the way finding oil there is a no brainer as Chad, and Niger have all found oil in their part of the basin

Most people talking in this tread don't know that there is a law banning cash transaction of N500k for individual and N3M of corporate bodies.

The maximum cheque to be issued is also N10M, anything above must be done through a bank draft or transfers.

The question now is what is Justice Ademola doing with $300k and N90M at home?

HungerBAD:
Interesting.

The Kaduna Government placed a ban on their activities, the Kano Government did the same thing, ditto Plateau State. So, my question is, what exactly about the Shiites scares everybody?are they the extreme wing of Islam?

Ironically they have not banned the violent sect of Islam, ISIS, Boko Haram, Alqaeda, Alshabab etc are all sunni but is Shia this people are banning, obviously fighting a proxy war for Saudi Arabia.

By the way am a Muslim and don't belief in any sect

jobsat34:
Govt will definitely extend d ban to sea import but not before there is assurance that local production is sufficient for us..
Meanwhile, local production will by every means cheaper than import due to high duty.. So without govt banning sea import, importers will find it not profitable to bring in rice

My brother, last week I went to a local market in Kaduna, farmers are all happy that they are making good profit from their produce, a bag of maize that sold for last year at harvest for 4k is now 10k, similarly despite the large production of rice farmers sell it for 6k last year now sell's for 10k.

This is motivating a lot of youth and okada riders want to go back to farm since is profitable

I want the ban to be extended to the sea import too, we love rice in Nigeria believe me if we don't see the imported one we will grow it locally, but as long as there is a way the foreign rice comes in, some people will never eat the locally produced ones. So ban rice importation totally

Baba no send Aisha and her wailings


Are we sure the evil spirit that tormented reuben Abati in the villa are not at work again?

Every language evolves with time, the English being spoken today is not what was used in the 19th century, furthermore, there is British english, American English, Australian English and there is Nigerian English.

And please know that Nigeria is 5th largest English speaking Nation in the world, after US, China, India and UK

The present English itself is completely a stolen language from, German, French, Latin and Anglo-xason

This was how in 2007 one useless police man entered my car that I have beaten the traffic light by Iluobe filling station Wuse II, I just drove off with him and He started making distress call to his colleagues by the time I reached near Aso drive and made U turn to enter Lungi Barrack He started panicking especially when he saw the military police controlling traffic hailing and saluting me, I wanted to carry him to quarter guard but I pitied him at the last minutes, He apologized and alighted from my car

Hmmm Aisha alhassan, then known as Aisha Bage was a very Corrupt cheif registrar of FCT high court that was where she made her money, I can remember how she used even clerks to Launder Millions.

In 2005 Nuhu Ribadu chased her and prosecuted her but the courts discharged her.

So Boko Haram were as close as Ladin buta, for those who don't know Ladin buta is very close to Maiduguri, infact you can say it is at the fringes of Maiduguri

Character, Cash, Capacity, Conditions and Collateral are the 5Cs of credit, the question is how many of this CS can a Nigerian student fulfill in real

Up gunners, Arsenal stars saving Nigeria since the days of Kanu papilo

Good one no room for thieves in robes

Einl:
They said it was a "sting" operation...not an emergency... so if they had information they would have shared it with the NJC or Nigeria Police or ICPC or EFCC.

The NJC that is filled with old corrupt judges too that will padi padi or the police that will inform them before hand to hide any evidence as they did in PH. The most important thing is having a valid search warrant which they had

Please if you don't have atleast N2million don't think you can set up a bakery, to be honest 50k cannot set up a restaurant talkless of bakery.

Even Nafdac registration is 31k


Anyone thinking of setting up a bakery should go through this website

http://bakerybusiness.com.ng/Bakery-Business.php

Well said Mr President

The war is on corruption and not judiciary

yinkard4me:
No time...
My Pastor asked me how much I bought my iPhone!!! And I said ₦20,000 instead of ₦150,000 cos I don't want him to shout and ask how much I give to God as tithe . Then he gave me ₦40,000 to buy two for him and his wife.
Now am confused what should I do? Pls advice....

Simply return his money and tell him it is out of stock in the market

This is sad news, I met Erasmus as a lieutenant at Guards Brigade in 2008, He did gallantly as a Major. RIP.

First it was Ayangbesan now Erasmus all officers I knew that were killed by the savages called Boko Haram.

RIP

I was a staunch Buharist but to be honest am very disappointed with him, instead of forging ahead he always talks about blaming others.

When Obasanjo took power from the military He also met a terrible government, he also met oil at about $20 per barrel but did not keep lamenting but hit the ground running, till he turned around the economy, He increased wages, paid all the debt accumulated by the military, he also saved money in excess crude account but iin the case of Buhari at every given opportunity he laments about how he met the government.

Is very true Buhari met Nigeria in bad shape but he made it worse in less than 18months, for now even if he will take us to how he met us we will be happy. Buhari major problem is his sturborness and vendetta.

However the only visible success Buhari has is in the fight against Boko Haram which we commend but he is totally zero in managing an economy

Obviously God knew the kind of leader Buhari will be that is why He could not be president on three occasions but when we insisted He answered our prayers to see the reason he was not successful three times.

Government owns only 10% of Nigeria GDP, so to a good manager of economy even without government money the economy can thrive through good policies for the private sector but as it is his policies have made business to suffer while foreign investors ran away buying forex at whatever rate to repatriate their capital thereby giving the naira pressure and it lost it value significantly,

One thing I learned with Buhari presidency is it takes more than integrity and incorruptability to be a good leader and manager of economy.