₦airaland Forum

Come and see, American wonder! Come and see, American wonder!! La la la la , American wonder! La la la , American wonwder . Oh Naija, the land of wasted talents. With this type of power, why did he not borrow one goat, transform the one goat into one thousand and one goats? He will then return the one borrowed goat and have one thousand goats to sell and make his money. If he is so much in love with mazda car, he can then buy one without molestation and police wahala. In fact, I suggest that the "goat" be set ablaze. Maybe, he will transform back to human being. Ewu mmmeeeeeee!

Yes, Kaduna Nzeogwu was a hero. If you read the books "WHY WE STRUCK" by Adegboyega and "LET TRUTH BE TOLD" by Fredrick Forsythe, you will see clearly that Nzeogwu was a highly detribalised Nigerian who was out to flushout those polticians who were practicing nepotism, favouritism, godfatherism and collectors of 10% from contractors (the same things happening today). Unfortunately, his intention was twarted by some of his colleagues who failed to execute their own role in the coup plan. The failure of some of his colleagues to fulfil their role made the coup look lopsided which triggered the subsequent sectional coups in Nigeria. Adieu, gallant soldier, Adieu, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu.

This is a good development . It is my prayer that fuel dealers don't sabbotage this effort.

You aint seen nothing yet. This is Naija for you .

Kai , problems everywhere. Are chickens and goats or even cows, no longer acceptable by the gods This life don tire person self .

You see one of the causes of problem in Nigeria? Earthmummy, you are looking for trouble o o.

Please, I need prayer for Nigera and nigerians. Corruption is too much and poverty is taking over the land.

The governor is constitutionally right.

Life is like. Take heart .

This is a question that always come to my mind whenever I read the Political, Religious and Cultural Columns of Nairaland. Responses to opinions are interpreted based on religious and tribal/ethnic sentiments. Yorubas vs the Igbos, the Igbos vs the Hausa/Fulani. At times, allies are formed between tribes to fight the other tribe. On NL you see open loyalty to ugly incidents just because the perpetrators are from their "area"(tribal/ethnic group or religion). I tell you, the problem with Nigeria is found on NL - failure to see the truth and tell it as it is. Let's assume that Seun is President of the Federal Republic of Nairaland. Note that he is facing a corruption accusation now and investigation is on. Imagine Auwal87 being the Vice President and Kosovo is Senate President. Now, let's appoint Eartmama as the Speaker House of Reps, while Mai Suya , Uche2005, Nuxo, Becomerich and Abu-Mariam are ministers. babyDaddy, hubreality. Ifygurl,Ogaga4luv and bindex are members of the Senate while xtolove, MC Usman, Chidi4U, **Osisi, IGWUE USA, and Alam-Tara are House of Reps members. Now tell me, how can NL develop based on their comments and views in the Federal Repuplic of Nairaland? Assuming they are appointed to be leaders of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, will Nigeria fare better? Comments please.

The only truth is that you are a morally bankrupt retard and frankly the world would be better off without assholes like you.

Show me the morality in lesbianism . Out of 2 bad things, one will be preferable to the other, when given an option . Raping a lesbian is better than being a lesbian. So, understand my point of view, dear.

This is a welcome approach to curbing corruption in Nigeria. Those in authority must take the bull by the horn by checking corrution irrespective of status of the offender. These are actions worthy of emulation by other governors and appointment holders generally. Please, NL lets pray that God should protect Oshiomole from his enemies and courage to carry on with his anti-corruption crusade.

Nobody has the concrete reason why Atiku went to visit Obasanjo. So why the insinuation that Atiku is already lobbying to be president? Because Atiku and Obasanjo are in different political parties does not mean that they should be enemies to each other. This is one of the greatest problems of Nigeria. Everybody has been brainwashed that once somebody is not in your party(including religion), the person is as an arc-enemy. Surely, Nigeria can not develop with this type of mentality. How can Nigeria develop when no one agrees with the next man? For any meaningful developmwent to take place, we must take national issues seriously without biaise based on ethnic, religious and party affiliations. I know that every human being is a political animal. But must we play it dirty to the detriment of national interest? We seriously need to wake up to national consciousness instead of petty antagonism. Until then, Nigeria will remain a wasteland and an abode of wishful thinkers for a better Nigeria.

Let all Nigerians Think Nigeria. That is supposed to be the fuel to drive Nigeria to greatness. Unfortunately, Nigeria's growth has been stunted by the 2 societal vices of tRIBALISM and RELIGOUS ALLIGNMENT. These gave birth to other vices like favoritism, nepotism, mediocrity and finally corruption. For instance, Recruitment of any nature in Nigeria has become a show of strength among the so-called elites. Candidates must be SPONSORED by a religious godfather or a tribal godfather to get a job or even admission into schools . This corruption is so rife that candidates now do their homework by getting letters from godfathers before going for any admission or recruitment exercise to get assurance for success. Now tell me, how can someone sponsored to a position think Nigeria. The person will only think godfather, godfather and godfather. In fact, the situation in Nigeria now is to your religious or tribal tents oh Nigerians. Very very sad

Calm down brother. It happened to me. I t is natural. Just go ahead and marry but make sure you do your due dilligence on your madam to be. Don't rush into marriage. Let it be your decision to marrry. I wish you the best of luck!

Yea, it is possible if and only if the serpent has not yet visited the woman .

Ah ah . Earthmummy, wetin concern OBAMA & his FAMILY with Mbaise marriage? Abi Obama"s wife is from Mbaise? That picture confuse me no be small.

I am a hetrosexual consensus mutual rapist.

Our constitution isn't even that bad. What we need is a Stalin style purge against the godfathers and self interest old cronies. Toss them in camps somewhere in the northern sahara and let them rott there.

Confiscate their stolen wealth too.

That is it. I concour with this. The old cargoes have been failing us yet they refused to give chance to the fresh blood brains.

Too much monkey sense makes Nigeria what it is today.

Oshiomhole revokes PDP chieftain’s contract, orders refund
From TONY OSAUZO, Benin
Monday, January 19, 2009


Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, peeved at the substandard materials used in the construction of the General Hospital in Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of the state, has revoked the N98 million contract, awarded to former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state chairman, Prince Solomon Aguele and ordered that money already paid for project be refunded to government coffers immediately.

The Governor who revoked the contract after inspecting the project, also told the supervising engineer to contact the contractor in his own interest to return the sum of N34 million being the total sum of money paid him since the contract was awarded.

The governor, who visited the site after a reception organized in his honour by the people of Ewohimi who are also his in-laws, wondered how people did shoddy jobs and the supervisory ministry issued bogus certificates for the completion of such jobs.
Incidentally, the contractor, Prince Aguele hails from Ewohimi. So also is the supervisor who said he graduated from the University of Benin Law Faculty.

An apparently furious Oshiomhole after examining the quality of materials used for the job, while speaking to the contractor and the supervisor thundered: “Even my grandfather’s family mud house is stronger than this and you people from this community are part of this fraud? Is this what you will do for a community like yours? What is your background; Lawyer? As a lawyer, you know the meaning of agreement and specification? If you do this for your community, what will you do for other community?
“Look at the poor job. Profit already built into it and you are part of this fraud? Ask the contractor to return the money; there is no compromise at all.”

While addressing the ministry engineer handling the project, the governor said: “Is this job ok by you? On what basis are you supervising this job? You can only remain at work if you earn it. I am ready to dismiss anybody who is not ready to work and engage competent hands who are ready to work.
“Is this thing ok, engineer?,” pointing and breaking pieces of block with his hands.

“Money is spent and building collapses. Have you not heard of collapsed building arising from substandard materials? Those bad days are gone now that I am the governor. Why do you people deceive the community? When did Aguele become civil engineer to design this project?
“If you want to do bad job go far; not in your community. Government has given you hospital, look at it now. Tell the contractor to return the money for this contract in his own interest”, the governor ordered.
According to him; “We intend to ensure that there is no reason why a man who steals a goat and a secondary pupil who robs another guy of N5000 is sent to Oko Prisons and those who stole N98 million in the name of executing project go free. They must be punished.

“And when we start punishing them, let nobody say we are persecuting them because each day people steal public funds and run away and nothing happens, they are encouraging other people to resort to more stealing.”

Commenting on the Ewohimi-Ewatto-Ohordua project executed by the Osunbor administration, the governor also disclosed that the sum of N620 million was already expended out of the N1.3 billion budgeted before it was abandoned.

“We have to measure this figure because sometimes only half of the truth is told to our people. If money is judiciously spent on projects beneficial to our people, some of the cries that are carefully and eloquently presented to us would have been addressed by now.”
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/jan/19/national-19-01-2009-01.htm

OSHIOMOLE, OGBEMUDIA ON WAR PATH OVER GOVT VEHICLES
The directive by Governor Adams Oshiomhole requesting former governor and public officers to return vehicles allocated to them by the immediate administration of Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor is causing heat in Edo with a former Governor of the State, Dr. Sam Ogbemudia threatening legal action against the state government.
The chairman of the Assets Verification Committee, Mr. Elamah Oseni, had earlier apologized to Dr. Ogbemudia over the government's directive when it was discovered that the Ogbemudia ought not have been included amongst those to return their vehicles as allocation of vehicles to him was covered by law passed by the state House of Assembly.
But the state Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, insisted on Monday that Dr. Ogbemudia and former deputy to Governor John Oyegun, Rev. Peter Obadan, should return their vehicles to the state government within 24 hours, failing which they will be arrested.
"I direct Dr. Ogbemudia and Rev. Obadan to return those vehicles within 24 hours and if they haven't, we will either have them arrested or we will take other reasonable means to recover those vehicles.
"I do not want to do anything that will lead to some form of embarrassment but on the other hand, it will be far more embarrassing that people who are already very privileged are appropriating vehicles to themselves while majority of our countrymen cannot find panadol in public hospitals.
This is not negotiable. If anybody know them, they should just quietly return the vehicles before we take the matter to the Ring Road," Governor Oshiomhole said, shortly after he received the report of the Assets Verification Committee in Government House on Monday.
Continuing, he said: "I have heard stories that he (Ogbemudia) was a former governor. To the best of my knowledge, the law does not include former military governors.
If it does, all the former military governors who have been here one time or the other ought to have benefited. And if it is about his stewardship for three months, then, how do we explain that Chief John Oyegun, who was governor here for over a period of two or two and half years was not given any vehicle. And yet, his own deputy, Rev. Peter Obadan, was given vehicles. So, it is obvious that these vehicles were given merely as political patronage to friends of Prof. Osunbor."
The governor stressed that if there were other people who are in custody of government property, his administration will take every reasonable and legal means to recover those vehicles and put them to government's use, adding that records show that Dr. Ogbemudia was allocated three vehicles.
But Dr. Ogbemudia in a swift reaction on Tuesday through his Special Assistant, Mr. Iro Omorodion, recalled that two vehicles, a Toyota Prado Jeep and a Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep were allocated to him by the state government in 2007 in a letter signed by one O. Idahosa (Ms), who incidentally also signed the government's letter requesting Dr. Ogbemudia to return the said vehicles.
"We want to state categorically that the two vehicles mentioned above were, duly allocated to His Excellency, Dr. S. O. Ogbemudia, pursuant to his pension rights as provided for by law.
By Government's letters of allocation signed by the same Ms. O. Idahosa. Ref. No.401/3/2dated 19th October 2007, and Ref. No.A.401/2/T/135 dated 24th September 2007, the two vehicles were conveyed to Dr. Ogbemudia.
"The embarrassment your said libelous announcements and publications are causing Dr. Ogbemudia is enormous, and we are by this letter, demanding a retraction with due apologies within 48 hours. Meanwhile, we are passing your letter and publications, together with our title documents to our lawyer for further action," Dr. Ogbemudia's letter forwarded to the Edo State Government through the office of Head of Service, said.

Good jobs by the Action Governor! May God protect him from the political sharks in Edo State. Amen.