₦airaland Forum

frosbel: You missed the point again !!

The leaders are drawn from the populace, the mere fact that we have always produced bad leaders is a verdict in itself of the quality of our people.

Again, stop pushing away personal responsibility to the government, we all have our part to play - Fact !!

BlackPikiN: How can it be the worst when you had Obj's regime?
You know how many plane crashes happen during his time, eh Alh harem.

How many death happen during Abacha and IBB time. You must quit smoking pepper!

henryskywalker2003: To all of you saying congratulations, you guys are still living in the 18th century else can you tell me how that fishing boat looks like a warship to any of you (Beaf and cohorts). For your information Warships are categorized in the following 7 categories, Aircraft carrier, Cruiser, Destroyer, Frigate, Corvette, Submarine, and Amphibious assault ships. I will include pics of the 7 categories to let you guys help me classify where that "fishing boat" falls under. Warship my foot, even pirates have better boats than that. Mscheeeeeew. But on a serious note, that looks more like a patrol boat than anything else.

The following are pics of aircraft carrier class ships.

fm7070: I thank everyone who has contributed to this thread in a mature way.
for those who contributed rudely, I just wish you know more about courtesy

tpia@:
that's interesting. Gives a clearer picture of those days. No wonder the north was allowed to vote for him en masse. I always wondered about that.

jcross19: what ever u sow,u reap.he betrayed awolowo,defraud the nation in 70's that was how he became rich,a drug baron that was the closeness btw him and ibb.a man that was trying to islamised nigeria if he become president but God messed him up.[b]abiola never in any sense fought 4 democracy or masses.people loved him because he threw money arround.poor nigerians,he was trying to buy nigerians.[/b]please guy,the death of abiola was victory to poor masses.

okosodo: Mko died because he wanted to be president. He did not die for anybody. The truth should be told

[size=18pt]GBAM ! [/size]

Beaf: This is a very nice development indeed! Up Nigeria!
May we use it to immediately conquer Cameroon.

gonzaga: THOSE LOUSY NAIRALANDERS THAT NEVER SEE ANYTHING GOOD WITH GEJ/NIGERIA ARE NOT MAKING ANY COMMENT AT THE MOMENT. SHAME ON YOU ALL! I KNOW WITH TIME GEJ WILL MAKE US PROUD. ALL ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT, AND PRESENT GEJ AS INCOMPETENT WILL CERTAINLY FAIL.

wesley80: Then shout it let them all hear you! Tell them to stop pretending and rather acknowledge OBJ as the greater hero.

Deep Sight: If we have Obafemi Awolowo University, Tafawa Balewa University, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Ahmadu Bello University. . . and these are all pre-eminent institutions, then it is CLEAR that the principle of naming an eminent Federal Institution after an eminent national hero is not in question. The only question is therefore the eligibility of MKO for such an honour. For that, I will not argue: history speaks: I will only say that any person who thinks MKO does not deserve such an honour is a person who is not fit to breathe the air of democratic liberty that we today SO ungratefully and hypocritically breathe. PEACE!

warrior101: I watched it live ~ I gotta say "nice speech there Mr. President"... Your words were sound and understandable by the comon person...

Our president talks like Abraham Lincoln

LagosShia: a very irresponsible remark unfit for a leader that is how i'd describe this man's comment.the comment also shows that the reverend is as ignorant if not more than boko haram.he needs to find out the meaning of jihad.boko haram,like their wahhabi aka salafist fellows the world over,are ruthless and barbaric even killing their fellow muslims (both sunni and shia muslims).boko haram try to justify their bad and criminal behaviour by bringing religion into it and twisting islamic beliefs.the criminals are doing so,but why should a leader also do the same thing by making inciting speeches based on ignorance? a leader should be enlightened and responsible enough to promote peace,unity and justice.he should not make ignorant speeches that would embolden the criminals and find them sympathizers.now,the ignorant reverend that other ignorant folks also revere has launched a verbal attack that even muslims (in their overwhelming majority in nigeria) who oppose and condemn boko haram would feel bad about.why alienate every muslim and attack his islamic beliefs because boko haram criminals are abusing religion to justify their injustifiable acts?

boko haram like all wahhabi oriented groups of fanatics have carried out attacks against muslims everywhere including nigeria,syria,iraq,pakistan,afghanistan,e.t.c.my question to the ignorant man in sheep clothing is this:if boko haram is carrying out a jihad against christians,is it also a jihad they are carrying out against their muslim victims?

it is so obvious now more than ever that there are people who stand to gain or seeking to gain from the boko haram menace.they are using this issue with the help of the media to spread more hatred and division.obviously,if they dont stand to gain,they will not make wreckless and ugly statements of incitement.this man is indeed a wolf in sheep clothing.he is playing the victim and over-generalizing with religious and tribal statements to pretend he is innocent.haven't christians and muslims alike committed crimes against the interest of nigeria?boko haram is far off from islam and far off from leading a jihad in the true meaning of the word in islamic terminology.

ZUBY77: we already know that. We just want a solution to that.

shymmex: Only cowards would respect a thieving, and clueless scum - because they're scared of the repercussion..

Why should I respect a man with no dignity, and self-respect?? Once you don't care about your dignity, and you don't respect yourself - you can't expect people to respect you, period...

Beaf: Is it not funny how this is about to turn into another ethnic warfare thread? Lol!
That is the practical proof that the GEJ insults are driven by ethnic bigotry.

Many are very uncomfortable that a man from the long suffering Niger Delta (where the goose that lays the golden egg, oil is located) is on the seat of power; they are deeply scared it would wreck their evil gravy train.
This set of animals have the deep pockets to finance ethnically bigoted campaigns in the press and on the internet. There are also many enough fools to take the bait.

A few ACN dolts have mentioned on this thread that I call Aregbesola "AregbeRASCAL!" Lol! He is one of those actively sponsoring ethnically bigoted, Nazi style attacks on GEJ and the rest of the country, yet he (like his NURTW type followers) is a thoroughly empty, ill-bred and corrupt fellow with not a single acheivement to point at in two useless years of claiming and renaming every FG project, globetrotting and living in Lagos. What kind of governor abuses a political opponnents physical attributes on TV saying they have funny eyes? Who aside from someone from the gutter like Aregbesola? It is easy to see why his NL followers come across as creatures of the toilet floor.

Nutin do una! Make una continue jare! Ill-breeding is like gold, it can't hide itself.

Beaf: After some time children outgrow childishness and fools outgrow foolishness; those that won't will be shamed by events.
Let those who are ill-bred display their ill-breeding.

jason123: So happy for Anambra state!!!
Nice one!

Dis Guy: Any particular reason why NCC is doing its own registration?


seems they are just looking for more excuse to delay the number portability exercise, 12 months, 6months, till 2018
thye will start the whole process again just like the Identification card saga

cogitoErgo: When u have a carcas, all kinds of scavengers will be seen feeding n it!

Demdem: The retardeen simply wont seize to amaze me. The govs earlier supported based on the lies they were poisoned with from Ngozi, Madueke and Sanusi. they were told if they dont support it Nigeria will crash and no additional money to share from federation account.

The civil society stood up and gave the govs the antidotes to these poisons and after being cured they realized they were being foooled by the retardeen. They soon realized that one of the reason why they have few money to share monthly was because NNPC with the express permission from Madueke (retardeen's minister)has been involved in a lot of fraudulent practices as regards the federation account. The antidote is even so powerful that some are even doubting if there is subsidy at all.

The govs are much more enlighten now also with the help of the House of Rep. This explains why the Retardeen is currently Mad.

miky_mouse: Very safe, Diamond bank or GTB

lastpage: Thank you very much!
I was expecting this sort of analysis from peeps here instead of the usual "tribal rants" we are getting.
It seems we under-rate the "efficacy of RESEARCH" in our daily progress and life in general.
A Naval research institute IS NOT A WASTE OF FUNDS.

For example, most military hardware and new technologies used in warfare/defense and even deterrence, are products of "research institutes".

Even if the Naval Research Institute succeeded in coming up with say for example, a prototype to build "small boats with advanced Navigational facilities on board", it has justified its existence because such boats can be used as Ferries for our inland waterways transportation (as of today, you have to import one), such boats can be used by sea-going fishermen, such boats can be used for "shallow sea" search and rescue, e.t.c.

And l am sure that with the level of intelligence of Nigerians and some strategic foreign collaboration, such research institute can serve as a basis for much development not to mention the amount of jobs it could create (in terms of ancillary services as well)!

I dont care where it is sited, (at least we dont expect it to be like the Nigerian Ports Authority that was moved from Lagos, to a "dry zone" like Abuja!), as long as the "objective of setting it up" is maintained.

By the way, like someone said, the Senator needs to tell the nation why she thinks "its a waste of fund", not just make some silly assertion and then conclude that it should be scrapped.

At this stage, this nation needs a lot more research institutes and the "inventions" of such institutes needs to be funded and commercialized ASAP.
Go to our universities and other tertiary institutions (research Institutes as well) and see how so many 'research products' lie on the shelf, waiting for commercialization!
No wonder we still import Bicycle from India, even the one for our kids, that an ordinary Iron welder can "put together" for peanuts!

How are we going to ever develop with this kind of attitude?

This is not about Jonathan, PDP or Bayelsa state, it is about creating the required infrastructure for future development.
Nuff said.

Lastpage!

Maybe the money should be "diverted into more allowances" for the Sin-a-tor's pocket ?

Omexonomy: is it true or false pleasd be honest and sincere

Arosa: Do all this Saraki supporters know that he is a thief?

Danka7777: You are right. They seem to know and get the news even before my people in Nigeria. This baffles me. The other day, Bombs went off in Afganistan and Iraq killing scores, guess what? None of the Major mainstream media carried the news, even if they did, it was only a leaflet on the bottom of the screen. However, that same day there was a bombing in Nigeria, my my my, all of the news jumped on it, even yahoo, like they already knew it would happen, like the news had been prepared before hand to run as soon as the blast went off. My people, this is a propaganda war, for them go to the UN, and make the contention that Muslims are killing Christians, and will need to send UN peacekeeping troops to go there and protect Christians! Nigerians, you guys don't know how the global government, blood suckers of Africans and colored people work. They are behind all these to destabilize Nigeria!

Jonathan may sack MDAs’ chiefs for distorting 2012 budget
By Agency Reporter

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that he would sack all Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who lobbied the National Assembly to distort the 2012 budget.

The President stated this in his remarks shortly after signing the 2012 appropriation bill at the State House, Abuja.

Jonathan said the attitude of MDAs lobbying for increase of their budget by the National Assembly had been responsible for the difficulties in budget implementation.

He said that he already had security information on some heads of parastatal agencies who lobbied the National Assembly to increase the 2012 budget, adding that he would make scapegoats of them.

“One of the greatest problems I have noticed from the day I assumed office as a vice president in 2007 till date is that Federal Government budgets have not been based on proper planning. `

`In most cases, when the budget comes out from the Planning Ministry and Finance along the line, people distort the budget, especially some heads of MDAs go to lobby the National Assembly to put figures that are not based on planning.

“And that is why it has been very difficult for federal government to achieve targets.

``This year, we clearly frowned at it and I am going to use some heads of parastatals to show people our new direction. I got security reports – that some heads of MDAs came to lobby for their budgets to be increased; I will use some people as an example. I will ask them to leave because we cannot run a country without planning.

“We cannot run a budget that is not based on planning because these figures don't just come from the blues, people sat down and compute figures and see how it fits into fiscal responsibility and other issues.

``So we will not allow a situation where one person, because of personal interest will distort the budget of a nation,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the president as saying on Friday.

He pleaded with the National Assembly to always resist overtures from heads of MDAs to increase their budgets
[quote]Jonathan may sack MDAs’ chiefs for distorting 2012 budget
By Agency Reporter

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that he would sack all Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who lobbied the National Assembly to distort the 2012 budget.

The President stated this in his remarks shortly after signing the 2012 appropriation bill at the State House, Abuja.

Jonathan said the attitude of MDAs lobbying for increase of their budget by the National Assembly had been responsible for the difficulties in budget implementation.

He said that he already had security information on some heads of parastatal agencies who lobbied the National Assembly to increase the 2012 budget, adding that he would make scapegoats of them.

“One of the greatest problems I have noticed from the day I assumed office as a vice president in 2007 till date is that Federal Government budgets have not been based on proper planning. `

`In most cases, when the budget comes out from the Planning Ministry and Finance along the line, people distort the budget, especially some heads of MDAs go to lobby the National Assembly to put figures that are not based on planning.

“And that is why it has been very difficult for federal government to achieve targets.

``This year, we clearly frowned at it and I am going to use some heads of parastatals to show people our new direction. I got security reports – that some heads of MDAs came to lobby for their budgets to be increased; I will use some people as an example. I will ask them to leave because we cannot run a country without planning.

“We cannot run a budget that is not based on planning because these figures don't just come from the blues, people sat down and compute figures and see how it fits into fiscal responsibility and other issues.

``So we will not allow a situation where one person, because of personal interest will distort the budget of a nation,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the president as saying on Friday.

He pleaded with the National Assembly to always resist overtures from heads of MDAs to increase their budgets

ekt_bear: So there are 3 levels of government in Nigeria.

Federal.

State.

Local.

So which is Carson castigating for lack of performance in the North?

Keep in mind that both state and local are fully controlled by that same north....