₦airaland Forum

OrlandoOwoh:
Wailing wailers always wailing.

While the dullardist are showing their prowess

A virtually empty treasury indeed

Obiagelli:
After listening to the president complain about the status of the national treasury, I thought to myself "what was baba expecting" but for the recent revelation of the Excess crude account ECA at $2 billion and LNG payment at $2 billion got me wondering how low the people can go.

In Buhari's exact words, "I met huge debts, virtually empty treasury ”

From my dictionary, definition of the word virtually
adverb
1. Almost but not quite.
2. Without exaggeration; literally In essence, but not in fact

ECA + LNG payments = $4 billion

I have read a lot from Nigerians including the leaders of the pdp saying the president lied us, I have read threads on Nairaland asking where the president is getting money for bail out from. I wonder who the real illiterate is, is it that we no longer understand simple English? should the President communicate with us in pidgin from now on?

$4 billion in savings for a country with a population of 170 million people is what? if not virtually empty treasury.

Little history

It is on record that former president Obasanjo left the country with $22 billion its excess crude account 2007, how did the Yar’Adua/Goodluck and Jonathan/sambo administration squander this savings despite record oil prices from 2010 - 2013?
our budget benchmark was $80 PB (highest) while crude oil sold for $132 (highest). Where was the excess going to?

forgive the disjointed nature of this write up.

$4 is virtually empty?

Stop taking Zimbabwean weed

Keneking:
Great move

".......the group complained that some principal officers in the seventh Senate changed the Senate Standing Orders 2011 as Amended withOUT the inputs and contributions of other Senators".

*PDP =**FRAUD

Olodo
D clerk has d right to cum up with terms to be used for the election

0lumide:
If the money to fund Buhari's election was stolen from the people, JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You called yourself mentally infirmed Even autocorrect knows the truth!

U get skunk for head

0lumide:
Any bias person out there still believe Buhari and the North is behind Boko Haram?


PDP is still bitter they lost the election. no matter how you try to look at it, Nigeria has not been better than 16 years ago.

Where did all the money go to? Who has been involved in oil bunkering the most? Who has the money to fund terrorism in Nigeria if Boko Haram is a Nigerian creation?

It's simple! PDP has been in charge of our half a trillion dollars gathered since 16 years ago and all that money went away.

Buhari started showing PDP he will show them pepper and bombs started going off.

Who will Buhari probe APC? or PDP that has been in power for 16 years?

Tanoids and wailing wailers should please have an objective mind for once. Did Jonathan do well? HELL NO!

This administration is just a month old and you really want a magic wand to solve the problem of 16 years?

Why are you guys reasoning like this? it is sad!

Did PDP rule Nigeria for 16 years yes or no? Did Nigeria get better?

Buhari should by executive order sack all senators/reps with corruption charges PDP and APC alike!!!! if found guilty, go to jail! JAIL THEM ALL IF YOU REALLY MEAN CHANGE.

Nigerians did not vote Buhari to be a man of the party but a man of the people! Atiku is corrupt and needs to be jailed! All corrupt persons should be jailed! Investigate them, if found guilty, give lengthy years to keep them away from our politics for years! put them where no contact with the outside world would be allowed so they don't plan a coup from jail.

Lock them all away no matter who they are. Nigerians thought you were brutal and that's a major reason we voted you! JAIL THEM ALL PDP AND APC ALIKE! This will bring the people to your side. Jail with no contact and seize their ill gotten wealth and businesses and nationalize them.

if Buhari's administration should fail like jonathan's the next thing in Nigeria is violent uprising everywhere simple!

The reason the west supported Buhari was to calm nerves already tensed in Nigeria while putting moles in APC to make sure Buhari is not as brutal as he was (My opinion) . Saraki a senator? A senate president? ... That man ought to be in jail!! Buhari, Nigerians have given you power, use it ooo !!! use it !!! b

Please don't fail us cause if you do, Nigeria is over!

D3(D Daura President) need to probe ARO for allowing a mentally infirm Lyk I to escape

Where are you wen Saraki single handedly deliver ilorin +funds +time +energy he contributed to the victory of dullard kunu addict
Where are u wen Atiku was playing his part

Nw food is done
Dey are nw corrupt

0lumide:
I pity your kind who support the type of treatment Nigeria has gone through for the past 16 years in the hands of PDP!!

WE NEEDED CHANGE AND WE ARE GOING TO GET IT!!

Alatenuje!

Lol With half of pdp in APC

Lolz

Demdem:

so u are no biafran.

Am from igbomina land

Complete Yoruba

bigerboy200:
He might not be the most powerful..but Afenifere{who were beneficiaries of GEJ's dollarized campaign) can't dust the shoes of Tinubu and OBJ...they are pained old Mofos who have outlived their importance..immediately they endorsed GEJ for continuity I knew old age had impeded their common sense..

Stories for the dogs
Every 1 that support GEJ has been bribed

Demdem:
Biafran Ibibio, are u ok?

Biafra?
U must be high on gutter aroma

Jaideyone:
lmao the same afenifere that couldn't give jona sw votes?

where was afenifere when tinubu kept the opposition alive in Nigeria?

tinubu remains the most powerful politician in this country. he lost out of nass but he's in control of the whole APC machinery south of the country.

who else can boast of such influence? does the afenifere as a whole have that kind of influence?

Most powerful what?
U must be high on Zimbabwean weed (cheap weed)
Even here in south West
We know d boss BTW Obj Nd tinubu

Ike nothing do you

lalatisclala Jo maa dull me
FP this thing kii Awon ruffians yii comment


Demdem (ruffian)
NgeneUkwenu (Shameless Well)

Cum and see

THE Nigerian Union of Pensioners has lauded the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for approving the payment of three months pension arrears to pensioners.

Wike had on Saturday ordered the Accountant General of the state to commence the payment of the pension arrears owed retirees in the state.

The State NUP Chairman, Mr. Edward Festus-Abibo expressed gratitude to Wike for showing love to pensioners in the state.

Festus-Abibo, who described the immediate past administration in the state as unfavourable to pensioners, lamented that while some pensioners in the state died heartbroken as a result of the non-payment of their pension arrears, a few others had taken ill over the situation.

“The governor’s order that our three months pension arrears be paid is a very welcome development. This shows that he (Wike) has sympathy for the elders, who have spent most of their lives working for the state.

“The immediate past era in the state were the dark years and dark days of pensioners. Posterity will judge the immediate past administration. As I speak to you, some pensioners have died while most of them are hypertensive. The non-payment of their pension worsened their condition.

“We as a group will make out time to visit the governor to thank him for remembering pensioners and ordering that their pensions be paid at a critical time when it was reported that he (Wike) met an empty treasury,” the state NUP chairman said.

Wike had earlier in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Sir Opunbo Inko-Tariah and issued on Saturday said it was callous and insensitive to owe pensioners, who had served the state creditably.

The governor recalled that pensioners in the state had been owed for months, adding, even the protests embarked upon over the non-payment of their pensions did not get the immediate past governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to pay them.

According to the statement, “The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has ordered the accountant general of the state to pay pensioners their three months arrears owed them by Rotimi Amaechi



http://www.punchng.com/news/rivers-pensioners-laud-wike-over-directive-on-arrears/

bayusdipe:
change we seek and we are yet to feel the change

Check ur dictionary

VirginFinder:
Tinubu and his boys should go and rest jor.

They should stop embarrassing us Yorubas with their childish tantrums.

The Yoruba ethnic nationality is pleased with the current political climate.

Abi ooo

Eni a wifun oba jio gbo
Eni a roro fun oba jio gba
Ai wii gbo
Ai fo gba
Lomu ara oko San bante woja



They were warned b4 hand dey z GEJ dollar is the 1 working

alaoeri:
In case things fall apart for Tinubu & the center can't hold water anymore, he will run back to regional politics.

Sure
Most of his stronghold in south West
Can't afford to go into opposition (fight) against Fg
Like my state osun...won't Dey switch aligence

Come to think of it
Is Dino wants d crisis to persist Cuz as long as the crisis linger his faction will always have their way

OPCNAIRALAND:
Tinubu is already strategizing forward to 2019. If he plans on defeating the small boyz who want to be President by all means, 2019 is the battle date. He has no time for them at moment, he is busy planning ministerial appointments and bringing foreign investors to the country. . The ministerial appointments will be the anti-dote for small boyz.

But d 'small boys " could kill the ministerial dream

alaoeri:
Is Tinubu holding any political post, so why must he suffer?
As for Dino, they will wait for him by 2019 APC won't give him a return ticket & PDP will reject him technically its over for him.

Nt really
But tinubu really need to find a way to get the media off his way
He's always in the news

Just pray tinubu is nt finally taken out before 2019

D BoT Chairmanship is going to be another tussle
Where we finally knw who is who


Mind u gbaja and Dogara are yet to reach a compromise
Goto punch d news is dre

Pangea:
Tinubu don suffer!
Anyone that can not even impregnate their wives will also blame Tinubu.

Let him take over from GEJ nw
GEJ too suffer no be small

The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, on Sunday alleged that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had decided to offer support for Senator Smart Adeyemi, who is currently challenging his electoral victory at the Court of Appeal.

Melaye, an APC senator, told journalists in Abuja that Tinubu had contacted the immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), to take over the legal battle on behalf of Adeyemi.

He also said that Adeyemi, on the request of Tinubu, had forwarded details of the suit to Adoke, asking him to look for a judge in the Court of Appeal that would offer assistance.

But Tinubu, in his reaction, had asked Melaye to look elsewhere for people to blackmail.

Tinubu, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Mr. Sunday Dare, said it was nothing but a “kitchen of malicious lies.”

Dare said, “This is another lie from their kitchen of malicious lies. They are all over the social and traditional media, spewing lies and planting stories. We are not about that. Nigerians are not as gullible as they think.

“He is aligned with people who want to kill the party, and we wish him luck, but they will not succeed because the party belongs to the Nigerian people.

“This blackmail, like other ones, will not work. It cannot stick. Adoke? Who is he? Tinubu cannot recall when last he saw him or even spoke with him. Dino should look elsewhere for people to blackmail.”

Melaye had claimed that he incurred the wrath of Tinubu after refusing to back down from supporting the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, during the recently concluded election of presiding officers of the 8th Senate.

But Melaye said he had no regret over his role, leading to the emergence of Saraki as the Senate President.

He said, “I have no regret supporting Senator Saraki and my electoral victory was ordained by God and not by man. Therefore, no mortal can reverse it. In God I trust, no matter how desperate they might be.

“I am privy to an electronic mail sent to Adoke by an Abuja-based senior editor who is close to Tinubu in which he forwarded the court papers filed by Smart Adeyemi at the tribunal to Adoke.

“In the said e-mail, Adoke was told to look for a trusted justice in the Court of Appeal who would be useful for Smart Adeyemi.”

It will be recalled that the Election Petition Tribunal in Lokoja had upheld the election of Melaye who was elected on the platform of the APC.

The tribunal had dismissed the petition filed by a former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and former chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Adeyemi, because his lawyers filed their defence too late.

Delivering judgment in the suit, Chairman of the three-member tribunal, Justice Akon Ikpeme, described the petition by Adeyemi, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, as “incurably defective.”
http://www.punchng.com/news/tribunal-melaye-accuses-tinubu-of-backing-adeyemi-at-acourt/

ideology:
This episode have been concluded with Tinubu lannister losing again.

Here are highlights in pictures
Cc:firefire, mizmycoli, barcanista, dearpreye, hzrf

Lol

Maybe not

Cc lalatisclala ishilove mynd44 afam4eva

ATHENS — Greeks delivered a shocking rebuff to Europe’s leaders on Sunday, decisively rejecting a deal offered by the country’s creditors in a historic vote that could redefine Greece’s place in Europe and shake the Continent’s financial stability.

As people gathered to celebrate in Athens’s central Syntagma Square, the Interior Ministry reported that with more than 90 percent of the vote tallied, 61 percent of the voters had said no to a deal that would have imposed greater austerity measures on the beleaguered country.

The no votes carried virtually every district in the country, handing a sweeping victory to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, a leftist who came to power in January vowing to reject new austerity measures, which he called an injustice and economically self-defeating. Late last month he walked away from negotiations in frustration at the creditors’ demands, called the referendum and urged Greeks to vote no as a way to give him more bargaining power.

While Mr. Tsipras now appears to have his wish, his victory in the referendum settled little, since the creditors’ offer is no longer on the table. There remains the possibility that they could walk away, leaving Greece facing default, financial collapse and expulsion from the eurozone and, in the worst case, from the European Union.
Mr. Tsipras went on television briefly to say he would resume negotiations immediately. He said that the vote was not a mandate for “rupture” with Europe and that it would strengthen his ability to negotiate a “viable’’ future for Greece in the eurozone.

“The people today replied to the right question,” he said. “They did not answer to the question in or out of the euro. This question needs to be taken out of the discussion, once and for all.”

At stake, however, may be far more than Greece’s place in Europe, as experts have offered wildly differing opinions about what the referendum could mean for the future of the euro and the world’s financial markets.

Even before the voting was over, some European leaders began making efforts to contain the potential damage. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she would travel to Paris on Monday to meet with the French president, François Hollande, for a “joint assessment of the situation after the Greek referendum.” Later, the two leaders called for a European Union summit meeting on Tuesday.

To some, the vote was virtually a point of no return. Germany’s economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, who is also the leader of the Social Democrats, said it was now hard to see how talks could resume on a bailout deal.

“Tsipras and his government are leading the Greek people on a path of bitter abandonment and hopelessness,” he told the daily Tagesspiegel, adding that they have “torn down the last bridges on which Greece and Europe could have moved toward a compromise.”

The vote took place under what some analysts called a financial carpet bombing. The European Central Bank severely limited financial assistance to Greek banks, forcing them to close a week before the referendum, making it hard for retirees to get their money and raising widespread fear here that people would lose their deposits.

The news media, dominated by Greek oligarchs, saturated the airwaves and the newspapers with stories about losing gasoline and medicines, while the plight of elderly pensioners was afforded far more attention than in the past, media experts said.

Nonetheless, many voters, tired of more than five years of soaring unemployment and a collapsing economy, said they could not accept the terms of the European offer, which imposed yet more pension cuts and tax increases, without any hint of debt relief.

As word spread of a likely victory for the no vote, people began gathering in Syntagma Square. They streamed out of the metro — which is free in this week of capital controls — and drove by, honking horns. Vendors sold Greek flags, and there was a peaceful, celebratory atmosphere.

People made speeches. Some remembered that at the beginning of the crisis in 2011 Syntagma became a gathering place for protesters. But in those days it was a scary place, they said, in contrast to Sunday night.

While there had been speculation about Mr. Tsipras stepping down in the event of a yes vote, the man he succeeded as prime minister, Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy Party, announced his resignation, saying “I understand that our great party needs a new start.”

For some voters, the week of hardship — they could withdraw only 60 euros, or about $67, a day from A.T.M.s, and already some pharmacists were refusing to fill prescriptions — only strengthened their sense that Greece needed to stand up for itself.

After five years in which unemployment soared beyond 20 percent and the country’s economy contracted by 25 percent, many said that a no vote was at least a vote for hope, the possibility of a new deal, rather than following the mandates of creditors who had failed to set Greece on a course to recovery.

For others, the hardship proved only that Greece, like it or not, was in the hands of its creditors and could do little but take whatever terms were being offered — the alternative of default, financial collapse and withdrawal from the euro being unthinkable. In many cases, they blamed Mr. Tsipras’s young government for having returned the country to recession when it had shown small signs of recovery just before the January elections.

At a polling place near the archaeological museum in Athens, turnout was low, poll workers said. And people coming out of the voting booths seemed split.

“I voted with my heart and also my mind,” said Marie Triadafillou, who works in transportation logistics and voted yes. “I believe when you are in a union you cannot leave. We say in our country if the sheep leaves the flock it cannot live.”

Yet others felt that the referendum was not about staying in the eurozone but simply part of the long negotiations between Greece and its creditors, which broke off more than a week ago when a frustrated Mr. Tsipras left Brussels and called for the referendum.

Since then, European officials have refused to negotiate further and to extend a deadline for the last bailout program, setting up a decision by the European Central Bank to cap its emergency support to Greek banks. This forced the government to close the banks for fear of extended bank runs.

At a polling station in a middle-class Athens neighborhood, Baizar Tazerian, 76, said that she was angered by what she believed had been European interference in the ballot and that she had just voted to reject the deal in the referendum.

“No, means that we don’t have to say yes to whatever they are saying,” Ms. Tazerian said.

At a polling station in a southern neighborhood of Athens, Pantiotis Andrikopoulos, 33, a student, said he planned to vote no “because I don’t like being blackmailed by the E.U.” He did not buy European arguments that a no vote meant Greeks wanted to leave the eurozone. “I’m for Europe but against the memorandum,” he said, as he stood in a long line of people waiting to vote.

He also was not worried that Greek banks would remain closed if the no vote prevailed. “I don’t believe that,” he said. “They’re trying to terrorize people with such talk.”

In Ilisia, another middle-class neighborhood, the poet Titos Patrikios, 87, voted at a school that was surrounded by pink and white oleander.

Mr. Patrikios seemed to embody much of his country’s modern history. As a teenager during World War II, he took part in the resistance against the German occupation. After the civil war, he was imprisoned for his leftist sympathies. And after the military seized power in 1967, he was forced into exile.

Mr. Patrikios said he was voting yes, but urged others to vote their own consciences. “I vote yes because the real dilemma is inside or outside of Europe,” Mr. Patrikios said. “In Europe, things are difficult sometimes, they are critical. But outside Europe is the catastrophe. So we have to choose between catastrophe and difficult.”

He added that the most important thing was to avoid pitting Greeks against Greeks, but that he was not too worried: “I suffer from one illness, and that is incurable optimism.”


Athanasis Chryssochoidis, 76, a pensioner, said Greece was being made an example in case other Southern European nations tried to challenge the dictates of the eurozone.

“Tsipras and all of them want to negotiate,” Mr. Chryssochoidis said. “But as soon as they said yes to something, the Europeans put up more demands. The issue is that Syriza is a left party and they don’t want such mischief.”

“We’ve reached our limit,” Mr. Chryssochoidis said. “This is not a society of beggars.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/world/europe/greek-referendum-debt-crisis-vote.html

guardsman:
EKWEREMADU HAS QUESTIONS TO ANSWER!. On d floor of d red chamber, Senator Kabiru Marafa on two occasions accused Ekweremadu & d clerk of NASS of changing d standing Rule of d 7th Senate which states dat 4 any presiding officer to emerge, he must score 2/3 votes of d number of d senators & not 1/3 as was used 4 d election of d 7th of June. Ekweremadu could not defend himself & he was shouted down.
d amended Senate Rule of 2015 is a fraud & d person who did it has to be brought to book.
WHODUNNIT! Ekweremadu has been cited along wit d clerk of d NASS. He will hav to answer questions.

So dey should wait for ur senators because Na u elect dem mcheee

After testing the water and realise Itz shallow
Dey quickly back track

Na owelle talk so?
Abi Na another person
Owelle Don gather sense ooo

Tbillz:
GMB was assumed to be sponsoring or subscribed to the idea of BH back then.... If its true, the question is i.] can he be sponsoring terrorist against his own government?

Really
Did you bother to ask ursef
This same question wen GEJ was there?

NovusHomo:
I wish a Nigerian president will be half as crazy as Russia's Putin

Nt only u
Ooo

zizytd:
U haven't asked urself, why will bh suddenly reappear, I thought u said he was bh. I remain on my stand, some pple in last government know abt bh.

Lol
U think the North aren't regretting
Dey allow it to fester Cuz it's christians dat were gotten hit at first
Soldier tried to whip dem up
Buahri Nd others said itx war against North
Nw chicken has come to roost