₦airaland Forum

lielbree:
Bragging with another man's legacy.
Ameachi iscariot the biggest thief ever!
The number one evidence that buhari fight against corruption is a scam!

LRNZH:
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Former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff

Some ministers, who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, have threatened to leave the Peoples Democratic Party if Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff is not removed as the national chairman of the party.

They said “imposing” the former governor of Borno State on the party by some of its influential members was meant to portray the party as unserious.

They added that the plan to reposition the former ruling party ahead of the 2019 general elections had failed with Sheriff’s emergence.

Spokesperson for the former ministers and a former Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, said this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday.

Sheriff was selected by the members of the party’s National Executive Committee at their meeting, which was held in Abuja on Tuesday.

His selection has attracted divergent views from members of the party, including its many organs.

For example, the Board of Trustees of the party and its Senate Caucus have kicked against Sheriff’s choice.

In his reaction, Suleiman said it was obvious that the plan to rescue the party had failed.

He said, “Our rescue mission has failed; the redemption boat has capsized and our journey to recovery has come to an end.

“Whosoever partook in the decision does not mean well for the party and democracy in Nigeria.

“It is obvious that the fifth columnist has hijacked the party and they are hell-bent on sinking it deeper into irrecoverable level of the pit.

The ex-minister added, “Some of us would rather review our membership than subject ourselves to selfish interests of some cabal whose main goal is political profiteering. After all, our umbilical cord is not tied to any party.”

Asked if his group was planning to move to either the All Progressives Congress or form another political party, Suleiman said the decision would be taken soon.

“Some people will go to the APC while some will form their own political party if they so desire.

“Sheriff’s emergence is a setback for the party trying to build its image. Credible members and younger ones are going to leave the party.

“If his emergence is not reversed in the next one week, there could be massive exodus from the party.”

Suleiman said though the former governor had not been identified with Boko Haram, he argued that the perception of many people about him on the Boko Haram issue ought to have been considered.

He said, “For several times, he has been identified with the issue of Boko Haram, though he has yet to be indicted. But perception matters a lot. We can’t be defending that toga now. We don’t have such time.

“Remember also that he has problem with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Such a man shouldn’t be asked to lead a party that is trying to regain power.”

With the former governor’s emergence, he said the general notion that the party consisted of only people, who had no interest of the country at heart, would be reinforced.

The PUNCH, however, gathered that one of the reasons the former governor emerged as the party chairman was the argument that he was going to negotiate with some disgruntled elements in the APC.

One of the governors of the PDP said Sheriff had promised that he would negotiate withand bring back to the PDP his colleagues who were not happy with the way they were currently being treated in the ruling party.

He was said to have listed the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, as one of the key chieftains of the APC who were described as the angry elements within the ruling party.

He said, “We know that there are many members of the APC who are not happy like Saraki and others. You could see what is happening in the Senate.

“Our chairman has told us he would speak with them, bring them to the PDP and from there, we would know how to take back power come 2019.”

The PDP has, however, asked Nigerians not to label its chairman as a Boko Haram sponsor.

Its National Auditor, Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju, who stated this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, challenged anybody with concrete proof on Sheriff’s culpability to speak out or shut up.

Adeyanju said the allegation against the party’s new national chairman was being raised by those he described as faceless people and part of the plot to discredit the PDP before Nigerians and the international community.

He said, “We are very much aware that some elements are jittery over the PDP’s decision to pick him as its new chairman and the only way out for them is to label him as a Boko Haram sponsor.

“They cannot succeed in their new plot because the government would have arrested and charged him to court as done to a serving Senator in the National Assembly during the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. That trial (of a serving senator) is still in progress.”

Adeyanju wondered why Sheriff was not called a member or sponsor of Boko Haram when he was a member of the APC.

http://www.punchng.com/sheriff-jonathans-loyalists-threaten-to-dump-pdp/

thunder74:
You cant understand what she is saying until you work in Federal government agencies where mediocrity is promoted on the alter of tribe and nepotism. Like I said yesterday, many Northerners, (Few of my northerner friends are hard working) even in their states do not work yet collect salaries (Remember yesterday's story where 30 drivers collect salaries over one working car). Let us call a spade a spade, we cant grow as a country if our appointments are sentiment, religious and tribal based.
As an insider, our leaders need to wake up and stop pampering our brothers from disadvantaged states on mediocrity.

neoapocalypse:
Guy abeg swerve , Tuface can't win a Grammy with the kind of songs he sings , the only artiste I can think of coming close to winning is Asa.

OrlandoOwoh:
The Singapore we commend today and wish to visit was once like Nigeria. It took Lee Khuan Yew some illegal means, means that were not conventional, to reform the country.

CyberWolf:
Did I hear illegal? ... But we have enough legal means to get the money back na..

tuale4u:
Responding to questions on the repatriation of funds stashed in European Banks, Mr. Gauck advised Nigeria to adopt a model used by Germany when they were in a similar position. He said they had used illegal means to get the information needed to track the funds.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/198317-boko-haram-eu-donates-50-million-nigeria.html

LEGALAide:
Chai!
Nigerians have really fallen sick.
Everyone shouting probe probe.
What's happened to our economy?
EMPTY HEADS have taken over Nairaland!
So help us God.

dotcomnamename:
Here is a video of Nnamdi Kanu finally agrees to let his handcuffs finally be removed after his lawyer pleaded with him to let the handcuffs be removed.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEOQnuAM_nU

TeOwl:
If there is oil in Chad basin, French companies would have been drilling the oil in Chad (our neighboring country).

kulikuli26:
Has the owner of this property been convicted? Why ground this company while investigation is still ongoing? I don't think people should be thrown out of job this crucial time. If the person is found to be corrupt, why not FG appoint a new management for the hospital to keep workers job intact and the profit from the hospital remitted to FG account. We need to seek better ways of fighting this corruption. 0

dammytosh:
Fayose claimed they steal cow and arrest those who steal rat.

Same PDP ideology. "They are thieves but call us thieves as if they are not stealing"

Nobody comes out to say we are not thieves.

Bunch of useless leaders

kolnel:
There's nothing wrong flying first class
What's wrong is over shooting your mouth
I have friends who fly first class steadily and you won't expect them to start flying economy because they are holding a political post

GreyLaw:
Governments the world over are known to be economical with the truth. I'd be worried if you believed this government so much as to reject any opposing voice. Again, remember the kind of minister of information we have on our hands.

jaybee:
So it's the senator Garbai that is truthful here? how do government and Boko haram share control of local Governments? does a terrorist attack implies territorial control? there has been bomb attacks in Abuja can we now say Boko haram is in control, or sharing control of Abuja?

Let the senator name his source of information.

GreyLaw:
If only our leaders can care enough to be truthful. You don't have to tell us you're winning the war, just do your best and let Nigerians gain confidence from that, not media half-truths and quarter lies.

ELVISHOT:
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has spoken of the tensed moments he faced on March 28, 2015 ahead of his decision to concede victory to President Muhammadu Buhari after that year’s presidential election.

“I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015”, he said.

Jonathan also narrated why he relinquished power to Buhari, saying he did not want Nigeria to slide into a theatre of war, with his fellow county men and woman dying, and many more pouring into other nations in Africa and beyond, as refugees.

“I never knew that the human brain had the capacity for such enhanced rapid thinking. One hundred and one things were going through my mind every second. My country was at the verge of collapse. The tension in the land was abysmally high and palpable, in the months leading to the election. The country became more polarised more than ever before, such that the gap between the North and the South and between Christians and Muslims became quite pronounced”, the former President said.

“In fact, it became so disturbing that some interest groups in the United States began to predict indeed, many Nigerians did buy into this doomsday prophesy as they began to brace themselves for the worst.

“As the President, I reminded myself that the Government I led had invested so much effort into building our country. I worked hard with my top officials to encourage Nigerians and non-Nigerians to invest in our country to be able to provide jobs and improve the lives of our people.

“We worked hard to grow our economy and to improve and bring Nigeria up as the biggest economy in Africa, with a GDP of about half a trillion dollars”.

Jonathan told his story, last week, during a dinner in his honour by Cercle Diplomatique, Geneva, Switzerland. The former President also spoke about his foray into politics, the allure of power and future plans.




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Jonathan and Naomi King



He began: “ As you can see, I have not come here with a prepared speech, since what I consider appropriate for this occasion is to just thank you all, members and everyone else in attendance, in a few words, for the dinner and the award, in order not to make the evening look boring. But having said that, I am still tempted to note that if I were to present a written speech, the title, would probably have been “Power Tussle in Africa: A Stumbling Block to Economic Growth.” When Mr. Robert Blum, your President, made his very interesting opening remarks, he introduced me as the former President of Nigeria. He was absolutely correct.


My foray into politics

“However, I believe that not many of you here know that the story of my foray into politics has a peculiar ring to it. I entered politics in 1998 and, barely one year after, I got elected as the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa, my state. I later became Governor, Vice President and eventually got elected as the President of my country. I remain the only leader in my country to have travelled that route.

As the President, I served out my first term but, as Mr. Blum had pointed out earlier, I lost the bid to be re-elected. I am encouraged by the fact that many of you here appreciated my decision not to reject or contest my loss at the polls, not even in the courts as many people had expected.

The allure of power

“Again, I have to agree with Blum that it was not an easy decision to take. This is because the allure of power and the worries about what would become of you after leaving office constitute an irresistible

force. It has an attraction so controlling and powerful that it takes a man who has the fear of God and who loves his people and nation to relinquish power so easily in Africa.

Alone in the valley

“I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I never knew that the human brain had the capacity for such enhanced rapid thinking. One hundred and one things were coursing through my mind every second. My country was at the verge of collapse. The tension in the land was abysmally high and palpable, in the months and days leading to the election. The country became more polarized more than ever before, such that the gap between the North and the South and between Christians and Muslims became quite pronounced. In fact, it became so disturbing that some interest groups in the United States began to predict that Nigeria would disintegrate in 2015. And, indeed, many Nigerians did buy into this doomsday prophesy as they began to brace themselves for the worst. As the President, I reminded myself that the Government I led had invested so much effort into building our country. I worked hard with my top officials to encourage Nigerians and non-Nigerians to invest in our country to be able to provide jobs and improve the lives of our people. We worked hard to grow our economy and to improve and bring Nigeria up as the biggest economy in Africa, with a GDP of about half a trillion dollars.

Posers I had to contend with

“Should I then, for the love of power, watch Nigeria slide into a theatre of war, with my fellow country men and women dying, and many more pouring into other nations in Africa and beyond, as refugees?

Should I hang on to power and tussle with my challengers, while the investments of hard working citizens of the world go down the drain? I then said to myself, NO!

Resisting the lure of power

“I promised my God that I will not let that fate befall Nigeria under my watch, hence the historic telephone call I put through to congratulate my challenger even when the results were still being

tallied. I believe that for a country to be great, both the leaders and the led must be prepared to make sacrifices. This is why, everywhere I go, I always advise that the new generation of African leaders must think differently. We can no longer afford to wilfully sacrifice the blood of our citizens on the altar of dangerous partisan politics. It is not worth it. This reminds me of one of my campaign statements to the effect that my ambition was not worth the shedding of the blood of any Nigerian. Some people took it then as mere political slogan but I knew that I meant it when I said it.

We must all fight for the enthronement of political stability in Africa, for in it lies the panacea for sustainable growth and development. For Africa to record the kind of advancement that will be

competitive and beneficial to our citizens, we must have stable states supported by strong institutions. That appears to be the irreducible minimum that is common to all developed societies. Africa’s political odyssey can distinctly be categorised into three eras, and probably another that would later signpost its classification as a developed continent”.

Challenges

“Some may doubt this, but it is no fluke that Africa is growing and rising. However I will admit before you here that we still have challenges. That is why people like us did all we could to ensure that

Nigeria, the biggest black nation on earth, would not drift into anarchy because such a situation would have spelt doom for the rest of the continent. It would have affected not just Nigeria alone, but the

GDP and economy of the entire West Africa. And if the economy of West Africa crashes, it would definitely affect the performance of the economy of the whole of Africa. As you know, the GDP of Africa is less than three trillion dollars, with only six African countries able to boast of nominal GDP above $100 billion. Even for those in this ‘elite’ category, you can’t really say that they are rich countries. Apart from maybe South Africa that has an industrially competitive economy, the rest are still mainly commodity exporting countries. Even the case of that of South Africa is not very encouraging, because we have a situation which we could refer to as a first world economic performance, yet the ordinary people live the life of the people in the so called third world.

In the case of Nigeria which is even the biggest economy on the continent, the reality is that we have an unenviable per capita GDP of $3,203, which is the World Bank average for a period covering 2011-2015.

Africa’s future is bright

“Even then, I still believe that Africa has a bright future; a promising prognosis that is supported by the fact that the continent remains a very fertile and attractive territory that yields irresistible returns on investments. I believe that in the next few years many more big investors will be jostling to come to Africa, if only we will do the right thing. The process of getting it right has already started with a democratic and increasingly democratising Africa. But we have to deepen and strengthen our democratic credentials through regular, free and fair elections. This will in turn bring about the stability necessary to improve the infrastructure that promotes rapid economic growth. These are the guarantees that would lead us into the next period which I would like to call the era of a developed Africa. I have no doubt in my mind that we will get there some day.

My future plans

“I will be applying myself diligently to two key areas. First, is to work for good governance by promoting credible and transparent elections. This will bring about the strengthening of our institutions

and the enthronement of stability. I also believe that there is the urgent need to create jobs for our

teeming young population. This is another area that will be receiving my attention. I recall that the Vice President of your association made reference in his speech to my achievements in that regard through

what we called Youth Enterprises with Innovation (YouWin) and the Nagropreneur programme which encouraged young people to go into agriculture. I believe more programmes like that should be established to promote youth entrepreneurship. That way, we reduce their reliance on paid employment. We will not only teach them to become entrepreneurs, they will also acquire the capacity to employ other people. We will be paying special attention to this segment of our society, especially young people and women. We will develop programmes that will inculcate in them business skills to be able to set up micro, small and medium enterprises. We shall assist them to access take-off grants when they acquire the relevant skills and capacities. There are many areas that they can go into; food processing, light manufacturing and the services sector are just some of them. I can tell you from experience that this works. As we speak, Our Nagropreneur programme, to promote youth involvement in agriculture

value chain, is being scaled up by the African Development Bank presently. It is already being replicated in 19 African countries because of the success of the programme in Nigeria. I invite all of you here today, cabinet ministers, diplomats and private sector people to remain committed to the cause of improving lives, especially those lives in Africa, and making our world a better place. For those of you that will be sharing in this vision for Africa, I assure you that you will not be disappointed. I am very optimistic that if we encourage young men and women in this continent to develop businesses of their own, the story of Africa will change within 10 years”.

source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/real-reasons-i-conceded-to-buhari-jonathan/

raayah:
Nov 2014 was already too late to make this statement.

NavierStokes:
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21689584-cheap-oil-causing-currency-crisis-nigeria-banning-imports-no

Mods, I hope you will do justice to this as well, will be interesting to see this and the other thread calling Jonathan a "buffoon" go head to head,
Same article but different perspectives

WAECFlyer1:
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The PDP National Publicity Secretary regained his freedom this evening. He’s pictured having dinner with his family tonight. More photos after the cut… [img]http://2.bp..com/-2MFNxtg_bzQ/Vqp1yyIxkZI/AAAAAAAIKIw/INdZIQz6rgQ/s1600/b.jpg[/img]
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http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/01/photos-olisa-metuh-having-dinner-with.html?m=1

Lakeshizu:
It is time Schools should add Corruption Studies to their curriculum. this generation is forever corrupt.

asadike:
Only in Buhari's regime. After all, they are his flesh and blood

tpiaobsession:
besides, I dont see why they would say that when he was featured on the Jan 2015 cover:


https://www.sott.net/image/s11/222070/large/leadeconomist.jpg

EgunMogaji:
Noticed how they started from CAD and not just copied a Dodge Charger?

redcliff:
U guys are honestly sick.. somebody designs a toy car and the camera make it look real and folks are on here blabbing.... wow. Ignorance is really bliss!

Mrchippychappy:
INNOSON DON TURN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

Bitterleafsoup:
GEJ brought Kia and Nissian in they signed contract to build manufacturing plants in Nigeria.
The first thing Buhari did is cancel them.
GEJ brought in over 200 Chinese Corporations
Buhari frustrated them out of business.
GEJ told Mobile and Shell your contract is up on the oil block now you have to partner with indigenous companies..
US funded APC they made it in power and the oil deals resigned for another 100 years ...

US taught APC well how to master propaganda to gulliable, unsuspecting citizens. 2016 go show us pepper!

Kjking:
My goat don graduate since o..... na masters him one for go for... pls help recommend any school abeg..

OZAOEKPE:
THEY WONT BLAME JONATHAN FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT IF IT IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND THEY WOULD WAIL TILL THY KINGDOM COME?

IamChuzzy:
[img]http://2.bp..com/-z3QNYn8tays/Vqdi-T2fUrI/AAAAAAAIIPk/lPjRwxV2iI8/s1600/5.jpg[/img]

This 1953 Rolls Royce owned by the Emir of Kano palace was once used to carry the Queen of England when she visited Nigeria. It's packed at the garage of the Emir's palace. It was shared on twitter by British High Commissioner to Nigeria who was there last week. See more pics below


[img]http://2.bp..com/-z3QNYn8tays/Vqdi-T2fUrI/AAAAAAAIIPk/lPjRwxV2iI8/s1600/5.jpg[/img]

Source: http://www.chuzzysblog.com/2016/01/checkout-photos-of-1953-rollsroyce-in.html

Pidggin:
Is it a crime to have a house in Dubai?

Realdeals:
This report is not comprehensive enough

Gaborone:
Their response is condemnable, but at the end of the day, their refusal to help is a symptom of a disease. The disease here is the victimization of helpers by the Police. You hear of cases where those who help accident victims, etc are detained and treated as criminals.

The society will keep presenting those symptoms, till we cleanse the system and take care of the disease ravaging the Nigerian Police.

May her soul rest in perfect peace.