₦airaland Forum

Mc4larin:
The Igbo Internet thugs who campaign for
Goodluck Jonathan are an utter disgrace to
humankind. They are, indeed, a strange species of homo sapiens. Maybe, they are a hybrid of homo erectus and home sapiens!

Their actions are hardly compatible with those of people who have what the French call l’amour propre, self esteem or self worth.

A little over a year ago, Femi Fani-Kayode wrote a series of horrible articles well circulated in the
media against the Igbo. Falling short of calling for Igbo extermination, Femi confessed his great
admiration for Adolf Hitler’s Mien kempf,
probably the most racist book in world history.

All manner of people who called themselves Igbo Internet warriors were calling for his head. You would naturally expect them to kick against
Jonathan’s recent appointment of Femi Fani-
Kayode as the director of media and publicity of
his reelection campaign, thus becoming the face
and voice of the president, an Ijaw who has
strangely been portrayed as an Igbo. But far from taking exception to this sacrilege, the self-styled Internet warriors, whom Oby Ezekwesili
memorably calls Internet thugs, are rather now in cahoots with Femi! They quote him approvingly every minute. Why? Femi has a huge propaganda budget! Most of these Internet warriors are on his payroll, and their principal duty is to besmirch the integrity of Muhammadu Buhari, apart from raising cudgels, knives, daggers and guns against thoughtful Igbo people who raise questions about the propriety of their action. The Great Zik of Africa was fond of describing such irresponsible characters as knaves.

The knaves enthusiastically circulated a forged
hospital document alleging that Buhari has
prostate cancer. Just before this forgery, they
reported online that Buhari had fainted at a
campaign rally and was rushed to a hospital even when the same characters were commenting on Buhari’s ongoing campaign stumps in different parts of the country!

As Jonathan was about to visit Onitsha last week,
they circulated a picture of a bridge under
construction somewhere but mischievously
claimed that it is the so-called Second Niger
Bridge which becomes relevant to the president
only during electioneering campaigns. The
essence of circulating the false picture was to
deceive their own Igbo people into believing that
work on the mythical bridge had taken off in
earnest. How some Igbo Internet fraudsters
could have the courage to “419” or swindle their
own people in broad daylight in order to please
an Ijaw president and turn round to claim that
they are the champions of Igbo interests remains one of the greatest mysteries of our time.

It is revealing of the kind of ethics of the government in Abuja and their supporters all over Nigeria. It is also revealing of why some people in Nigeria and elsewhere think that the Igbo have too many Judas Iscariots, too many people eager to kill even their own family members for a mess of
porridge.

On a personal note, I am deeply worried about
the enthusiasm of a couple of professionals and
Pentecostal pastors in this forum to indulge in
this fraud in the name of politics. They need be
reminded in public that certain actions of theirs
do cause tremendous and eternal violence to
their personal and professional reputations, to
say nothing about their supposed religious
callings. They are advised to read up the idea of
the scandal of perception in Catholic theology.
Put succinctly, their utterances and actions as
ordained ministers of God or equivalent could
cause some believers to lose faith in God.


C. Don Adinuba.

Are u buhari internet warriors?

dunkem21:
You gree sef for 20%. Your guys say 0.005%.

Which area you dey stay? ..for UNIBEN here, we have guaranteed 15 hours light.

Many thanks to Oshiomhole, my man.

For our Office in Lagos 14 hours light daily

For house 10 - 14 hours light

superneutral:
President Goodluck Jonathan said on
Monday that his successor would not have
any difficulty fighting corruption because
of the technology his administration is
putting in place to fight the menace.
Addressing party supporters at the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, campaign
rally in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Mr.
Jonathan, who is the presidential
candidate of the party, promised to end
corruption in Nigeria, if given the
mandate to run the country for another
four years.
“I promise you if you vote for me and I
come back and serve this country in the
next four years, the next persons that will
become the president of this country will
not talk about corruption because we are
working on technology and we will use
technology to block all these areas through
which people are corruptly enriching
themselves,” he said.
Mr. Jonathan, who has severally accused
of condoning corruption, added: “Today
we are talking about IT. We are no longer
in the analogue generation. So we want to
deploy IT to solve problems and I tell you
in the next five years nobody will harass
the next president for not fighting
corruption because I will solve the
problem of corruption in this country.”
The presidential candidate of the All
Progressive Congress, APC, Muhammadu
Buhari, had promised during one of his
campaign rallies last week that he would
jail corrupt leaders.
However, Mr. Jonathan, who assured of
his commitment to stamp out corruption,
said he would not do so by sending
corrupt Nigerians to jail.
He said his administration has prosecuted
more people than any past administration
in the country.
He said, “But let me assure Nigerians
about my commitment and my method of solving the
problem of corruption or fighting is not the number of
people I tried and jailed.
“In terms of people I tried and jailed, maybe I will give you
the statistics on my subsequent outing because I have
asked them to give me the comprehensive statistics.
“We have tried more Nigerians. More Nigerians have been
jailed within this period, but we followed due process. But
I used to tell people that even if I tried 10 million
Nigerians and jailed five million Nigerians for corruption, I
have not solved the corruption problem.
“For you to stop corruption, you must use modern
technology to prevent people from stealing. And that is
what we are working on. The oil industry is a good area.
We are working very hard. I don’t just want to say certain
things. All these people have so much money that they will
do everything to stop us.”
Mr. Jonathan criticised Mr. Buhari for promising to abolish
the office of the First lady if he was elected.
The president said he would not do so because the office
and other women associations are used as a channel to
empower the country’s women.
He said, “They said they are going to ban the office of the
first lady, they are going to ban the office of the governors’
wives, they are going to ban the office of local government
chairman, they are going to ban the Defence officers
wives, army officers wives association, naval officers wives
association, police officers wives association.
“But me, having served as deputy governor, governor, vice
president and president, I can tell you that these offices
are helping us to mobilize our women. And these offices
are encouraged to set up NGOs. They money they spend
does not come from government budget. They run NGOs.
“Nigeria had a lot of philanthropists. They want spend
money and they use some of these channels to empower
our women. You don’t have to turn them to baby factory
alone.
“I promise the Nigeria that if we open international
magazines parading women I want to see Nigerian women
in those magazines. The Nigerian women on their own
have struggled to reach the highest positions in their
country. I am making deliberate effort to try to put you on
the international limelight. That is what I am doing. I don’t
believe that you are designed to pound yam for me.
“I don’t think your duty is merely to procreate. But you
cannot be a baby factory manufacturing children and doing
nothing because my conviction is that as a biologist, the
brain God gave men and women equally. Physically men
are more endowed but both men and women and equally
endowed in brain.
Mr. Jonathan said he had always believed that “any human
population that does not give equal opportunity to women
you are not exploiting 50% of their brains.”
He added, “For me we must exploit 50% of their brains for
the purpose of developing this country. That is why you
see so many women holding top offices in my cabinet and
we will encourage them the more. I don’t believe women
should not be given top positions. If that is the belief of
others so be it. A vote in 2015 is a vote to liberate them or
imprisoned them to the kitchen.”
Mr. Jonathan paid tribute to some Yoruba leaders,
including the first Premier of Western Region, Obafemi
Awolowo, the late Chairman of the defunct National Party
of Nigeria, NPN, Adisa Akinloye, a former governor of Oyo
State, Lam Adesina, a former Minister of Justice, Richard
Akinjide and the late Lamidi Adedibu, all of who he
described as “great men who have led the country and are
still leading.”
He added that “We want to model our leadership after
them because they achieved greatness.”
Mr. Jonathan described Ibadan as the political
headquarters of the South West just as he paid tribute to
the people of the region.
According to him, it was the people of the region that
encouraged him to convoke the 2014 National conference.
“Ibadan is a leading light to all parts of this country. South
West has played great in education. The south west
encouraged me to start the National Dialogue. I have to
give that accolade to the South West. You donated one of
yours who was the pioneer to set the agenda.



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/174816-ill-rid-nigeria-corruption-given-another-chance-jonathan.html

This is the best method of fighting corruption in a democratic setting. You can fight corruption by jailing people in a democratic government. You fight corruption in a democratic government by blocking the loopholes of corruption.

babaireti:
Did you know that in 1983, Chief Obafemi
Awolowo contested at the age of 74 while
Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe contested in 1979
at age of 75? Did you know that Ronald Reagan
became US president at the age of 70 and
served two terms of four years each? Just last December, Tunisia sworn in Beji Caid
Essebsi as their President. Did you know
how old is he? President Essebsi is 88 years
old. The election that brought him in as
president was the first free and fair
presidential election since the country (Tunisia ) gained independence in 1956. If
a 72 years old grand "Pa" (as the haters
called him) can give me constant
electricity, guarantee maximum security
(stop the killings up North), put food on
my table and stop corruption that a 57 years old young man who is suffering from
an inferiority complex can not give then I
will be a very big fool to refuse such
CHANGE. So those making noise about
BUHARI's age should shut the hell up and
give in for a great change. I'M SO PROUD TO BE AN ELEMENT OF CHANGE what about
you?
Vote BUHARI, vote CHANGE. Have a refreshing weekend and Happy Sunday!!!!

What is in age; out of 160 million Nigerians only an old weak man can lead a generation of talented and educated Nigeria. I beg to disagree.

What is in certificate: Of all the learned gentlemen scattered over the nation. The only leader a self style party could see was an uneducated Nigerian. I choose not to be lead by him.

What is in health; A sick body can never discharge duty properly.

murimoney:
I am writing this due to my opinion;
Nigerians are stupid bunch of people who know what they need but are blinded by religious and tribal sentiments. The reason I use the word "NEED" instead of "WANT" is because the first word singled out by me means Compulsory and the other means Desire!
I have watched political campaigns by many politicians, they use religion and ethnicity as their base of campaign to deceive blind gullible Nigerians.
I have always wondered what we have benefited from this stupidity.
From the demanding tribe from the east to the threatening tribe from the south. they demand foolishly from politicians and yet none has been fulfilled, but have being trading their votes foolishly in exchange for their silly willy demands which have never been fulfilled.
their so said messiah led them to war on 6th of July 1967 against Nigeria due to their foolish demands, which led to many death of their own and starvation of their young ones, Ones the war ended as a result of them surrendering on January 15, 1970 then their so called messiah fled the country not failing to be the moses of his people, guess God didn't appoint him nor supported him. Heard they are making demands now, hope it goes well.
The Southern Nigeria has been a home of threatening, bunch of toothless dogs instead they kidnap oil workers demanding ransoms some years back, thanks to amnesty, instead of threatening their leaders to get good governance since they say that's the way they know how communicate to the outside world "THREATS" instead they demand their own to rule and yet they have nothing to show for it, from series of oil spill which consists of land pollution to water pollution, to corrupt government and yet very lazy people!
the northern people and their religious fanatics shouting western education is a sin saying Allah promises them some certain numbers of virgins, need I say nuns? Bunch of idiots!
As for our government need I talk about the immigration scam nor the subsidy scam etc...
I can go on but I don't want to write an epistle.
What am trying to say is we can't keep going on like this, we won't last as a society we should stop demanding we should put our tribal and religious differences aside and put our heads together as one Nigeria. Bad governance is our enemy.
Note am from the south if you think I am being tribal here then you are wrong, Nigerians work for a better Nigerian not for our selfish reasons, let's leave the when my family is fine then am fine syndrome alone its One Nigeria!

Your view was nothing near non sentimental.

This is about a new generation of Nigeria - Goodluck Jonathan.

It is about us, the young people of Nigeria. Enough of recycled politicians.

Seun:
Most people have no confidence in the current government's plan to solve the problem of terrorism in Nigeria. However, it's important to try to find out whether the opposition has a better plan. For this reason, I went through General Buhari's recent interview with Thisday, and extracted the concrete statements he made about his plans to secure Nigeria and fight terrorism as the president of Nigeria.

Here they are, in his own words:

1. "What would I do differently? It is to make the military much more effective in their operations. If we get the opportunity, we will make the military capable again ... That is what we would do differently, to make Nigerian military capable again."

2. "Having known how the Boko Haram developed, what I would have personally done differently would be to get the Presidents of Cameroun, Chad and Niger together to say, ‘look our borders are porous and that we are not able to effectively protect them and monitor movements of people in and out of our territory, but please make sure that you do not provide training facilities or allow people to be coming into the county.’ "(technically, this is a statement about the past, but I'll allow it since he can do it when he gets into power)

3. "I think what I can do is appeal to the patriotic sense of the military."

4. "I think the situation needs a leadership that will give the military the backing in terms of sourcing the weapons and ammunition to fight. And Nigeria, no matter how oil prices have fallen, will source enough funds to fight the insurgents."

5. "This is what could be done differently, use intelligence, find out the leaders that are responsible and deal with them."

6. "Well, since they are stronger than the government, I think the government should negotiate with Boko Haram."

7. "If you do not cultivate a good relationship with your neighbours, it will cost you so much in terms of security and the economy. So you have to cultivate a friendship with your neighbours and then it goes on to ECOWAS, Africa and the rest of the world. I think this is a viable policy option."

8. "First of all it is important to debunk the notion being peddled by Boko Haram that Western education is ungodly. They go into schools and slaughter children both Christian and Muslim children. They go to mosques and explode devices, they also go to the churches and motor parks. So really, it is very easy to disabuse the minds of Nigerians on the wrong notion that Boko Haram is a religious enterprise. They are just simply terrorists. Having reduced them to that, then you can earn the support of the immediate communities for you to flush the insurgents out of the society. I believe that this will not take a long time."

9. "Then you discuss with your neighbours to make sure that weapons are not crossing the borders and that there are [no] training facilities for terrorists."

10. "I think that soldiers and police barracks and their armories must be strengthened to ensure that they are properly secured."

11. "I think that the air force has to be made more effective by acquiring more new aircraft and establishing a base in Kano so that the distance to cover is shorter and returning to base is made easier."

12. "You know there were problems with the Boko Haram leadership, there were some people that claimed to be leaders of Boko Haram and the sect disowned them. So we have to identify the real leaders of Boko Haram before you can negotiate with them."

13. "I am insisting on intelligence, which means gathering information and making sure that it is correct and you deal with it. Without intelligence you waste too much resources and lives."

The full interview (with numerous criticisms of the current government and stories about things that happened many years ago):
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-in-quest-to-secure-nigeria/196454/

What do you think?

What is different from what goodluck government has done?

Buhari is friends of corrupt politicians. Show me your friend and let Nigerians tell you whom you are.

Leaders of tomorrow were destroyed with due process

ISpiksDaTroof:
This whole paragraph makes no sense. Just a bunch of words strung together to confuse the reader. For example, tell me, who doesn't know that the airports are falling apart. And how the hell will airports or Apapa-Oshodi road improve tourism? Will foreigners go to your country just to stare at the road in Apapa, or what?

These are the kinds of dull clueless men that run Nigeria and people wonder why nothing works.

If airports are falling apart then you were not in Nigeria when aeroplane were dropping from sky like rain.

Nigerians really have dwaf memory

Under buhari
The automobile industry began to die

Implications
1. Increase in unemployment
2. Increase in the importation of used cars
3. Naira devaluation started
4. Smuggling became attractive
5. Increase in road accident due to to the uncontrolled import/ smuggling of dead and cars that are not road worthy into the country.
6. National value devaluation, Nigeria became a dumping ground

Under Good luck
The automobile industry was revived

Implications
1. Reduction in unemployment
2. Decrease in the import of used cars
3. Naira local circulation increase leading to naira stability
4. Smuggling is gradually being made unattractive
5. Decrease in road accident as cars that are not road worthy are gradually faced out
6. National values gradually being revived as we see ourselves worthy of the best no more junks

.... to be continued

Buhari was said to have fought corruption while goodluck is said to have encouraged corruption. Let's take a look at the economic situations of both government, with respect to the power at their disposal.

Buhari: Military; had total control of power, can do and undo. No one dare question him. He had absolute power.

Goodluck: Democratic; has limited control of power, his action are weighed by the nations constitution

Under Buhari
We lost our rail way system.

Implications:
1. Rise in unemployment
2. Over burdening of our road networks, leading to steady road damage, which result in accident, loose of life and property.
3. Increase in transportation fare
4. Increase in cost of living
5. Economic waste and sabotage
6.Slows national development and integration
7. Increase in social vices
8. Waste of national fund on road due to excess use
9. Steady increase in cost of goods, e.g cement etc

Under Goodluck
Rail way was revived

Implications
1. Reduction in unemployment
2. Less burden on national roads, result in longer life span of our road, less accident and less loose of life and property
3. Reduction in transportation fare.
4 Decrease in cost of living
5. Enhance national development and integration
6. Decrease in social vices
7. Proper utilisation of national fund for national development
8. Decrease in cost of good, e.g cement

More still coming.

remi4ever:
#I'm No Political Fan, or a Lover of any political Party whatsoever,as a Matter of fact, I IMPECCABLY Dislike Politics.
Even If I Had a Voters Card, am Definately not advocating for any aspirants, But I Guess am Curious, I Just want to Know Why some People still chooses to vote for Jonathan, Irrespective Of all The Higi-Haga In Our country Presently.
The One I Find Painful the Most, Is Our Naira Compared to Dollar..Over the Past few Years Our Naira has dropped drasticaslly and Has totally derailed from What I can Label as ''Valuable''. I dont want to Talk much on this.
#But Why Do People, Still wanna Vote for Our Failed president??
#OluwaReminisce
#2DAnimator and ComputerHacker

After reading the above, l saw a politician who was ccampaigning against the President.

You talk about devaluation of naira.

First let me open your eyes to the fact that for naira to have survived this far is a miracle. Because we are an import dependent nation. Buhari government had all at its disposal to set Nigeria on the right track of economic independency but choose otherwise.

As a military government, he could spend as much money on our refineries to make them work, but he choose to sell crude to Brazil and reimport fuel and kerosin.

Implications:
increase in unemployment
High cost of fuel vise a vice reducing our standard of living.
Setting naira up for eventual devaluation
Over dependent on dollar as a means of exchange as against naira.
Rot and decay of our refineries
Brain drain
Export of specialized human power
Poverty increase
Lack of raw material for other sectors of the economy

Our problems as a nation started with this man

menesheh:
THERE is a harrowing story told by Adekoya Boladale, which needs to be brought to the attention of Nigerians, especially the people of the South-West. In the middle of the night of 4th January, 1984, heavily armed men of the Strike Force of the Nigerian army invaded the Lagos home of Chief Olu Awotesu, the Minister of State for Agriculture. This military operation had one design, to put the minister under arrest.
However, Chief Awotesu was not at home, having gone to his home-town in Iperu, Ogun State. On meeting his absence, the soldiers descended on his family. His wife was dragged from the bedroom upstairs through the staircase to the ground floor, where she was kicked and beaten by the men in khaki. Her assailants laughed at her while she screamed and begged for mercy. The children were not spared either. They were also slapped and tortured in the bid to determine the precise whereabouts of their father. This ordeal apparently went on for over three hours. When Chief Awotesu returned from Iperu to Lagos and learnt that he was now a wanted man, he drove straight to Dodan Barracks, then the seat of government in Nigeria, to give himself up.
He was not only arrested, he was detained without trial for nearly two years. It was while in detention that he learnt about the ordeal his family had been put through by men of the Special Forces. Chief Awotesu was only released in 1985, even though the government found no evidence of any crime against him.
South-West is not for sale
The man responsible for this injustice is Muhammadu Buhari. He is now running for president and wants our votes. Paradoxically, a number of the kinsmen of the late Chief Awotesu are now charged with selling his candidacy to us in the South-West; and yet Buhari himself has never found it necessary to apologise to us for the human rights violations his regime inflicted on us. A unique opportunity was given to him by the institution of the Truth and Reconciliation panel under Justice Chukwudifu Oputa in 1999. However, Buhari showed his contempt for us by refusing to appear before the panel. Why then should people in the South-West give this same man their votes in 2015?
The fault is not Buhari’s. The fault is that of those now charged with white-washing his image. These people are obviously contemptuous of their Yoruba kith and kin. They have told Buhari that all he needs is a bit of cosmetic surgery. He should change from wearing an agbada to wearing a suit. He should choose a Christian Yoruba pastor as his running mate, and even attend a thanksgiving service in Lagos where he pretends to sing Christian praise songs. He should then mouth a few inane words about “change” and “anti-corruption” and all will be forgotten.
Somebody is being fooled but it is not the Yorubas. It does not matter how many curious onlookers are paid to come to Buhari’s campaign rallies in the South-West; the Yorubas will ultimately not succumb to this hogwash. Buhari has been rejected in the South-West three times. He will be rejected yet again. Out of over 4.7 million votes cast in the six states of the South West in 2011, Buhari could only get 321,609. That is less than seven percent. Nevertheless, some Yoruba bigwigs in the APC have gone ahead to strike a deal with Buhari on the grounds that they will deliver the South West to him in the coming election. It is not going to happen.
In the first place, who made these men spokesmen for the South-West? Who mortgaged South-West Yoruba interests to the political ambitions of Bola Tinubu and his associates? As a matter of fact, the 2015 presidential election provides a unique opportunity for the people of the South-West to break off the political shackles of Bola Tinubu by rejecting his new-found ally of Muhammadu Buhari. If for no other reason than the refusal of the Yorubas to be sold into slavery, Buhari must be rejected outright in the South-West and the APC must be kicked out of Lagos State.
With all the noise currently being made about Buhari’s candidacy, one important point is often overlooked: Buhari is not even well-liked by his own people. A lot is made of the 12 million votes he obtained from the North in 2011, conveniently forgetting that Goodluck Jonathan also obtained a sizeable eight million votes from the same North. Indeed, in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan won 428,392 votes in Buhari’s home-state of Katsina; to Buhari’s 1,163,919. That means Jonathan won 37% of the votes in Buhari’s backyard. Compare that to the situation in Jonathan’s home state of Bayelsa. Jonathan won 584,811 votes; while Buhari obtained a miserable 691 votes. That gives Buhari a measly 0.11% of Jonathan’s votes.
It is also instructive that in the primary election for the APC presidential candidate, Northern delagates did not vote for Buhari. Instead, they gave their votes to Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and former vice-president Atiku Abubakar. Delegates from Buhari’s North-West voted for Kwankwaso, while those from the North-East voted for Atiku. Buhari’s votes came primarily from the South-West, as well as from the South-East and the South-South. However, in 2011, out of over 38 million votes cast in the entire country, Buhari could only obtain 391,933 from the entire South-West, South-East and the South-South put together; that is 1.03% of the votes.
In short, Buhari was imposed on the North as the APC presidential candidate by delegates controlled by Tinubu. It was out of gratitude for this that Buhari gave Tinubu the sole responsibility for choosing his vice-presidential running-mate. Tinubu’s first instinct, of course, was to reserve the vice-presidency for himself. But the political pressures against a Muslim/Muslim APC ticket, led him to concede it to his political surrogate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
Buhari’s crimes
It is contemptuous of Tinubu and his Yoruba acolytes in APC to presume that they can deliver the South-West to Buhari in the 2015 presidential election, in spite of Buhari’s antecedents. Of all the people they could form an alliance with, Buhari is by far the least acceptable to the Yorubas. In over 30 years of being a fixture of Nigerian politics, Buhari has been decidedly and unapologetically anti-Yorubas and anti-South-West. It is a matter of public record that Buhari has never done anything for us. On the contrary; he has done so many things against us.
When he assumed power in 1984, he established a 16 member Supreme Military Council (SMC) to rule the country. In spite of the fact that the Yorubas are the largest ethnic group in the country; larger according to every statistical index than the Hausas and the Fulanis; Buhari could only find room for one solitary token Yoruba man: Brigadier Ola Oni. Buhari’s SMC had 11 Northerners to 5 Southerners.
Buhari locked up South-West politicians like Bisi Onabanjo and Michael Ajasin even though no case was found against them. Even after they were discharged and acquitted by the kangaroo courts he set up, he still kept them locked up and refused to release them. He pressured a judge to jail Fela Anikulapo Kuti for failing to declare foreign –exchange he had legitimately procured for the up-keep of his band on a foreign trip, while allowing the Emir of Gwandu to smuggle back into the country 53 suitcases during the currency-change exercise.
He did not just brutalise Chief Awotesu and his family. He did the same to Tai Solarin, who was denied medication for his asthmatic condition while in Buhari’s gulag; Ayo Oyewumi, who became blind in Buhari’s detention; and Busari Adelakun, who died of chronic ulcer, complications developed in Buhari’s jail. Buhari even seized Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s passport for no just cause, and thereby denied the old man visits to his doctors at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota, USA during the years when he ruled Nigeria.
He frustrated Lagos’ attempt to build a metro-rail system and, as PTF chairman, he discriminated blatantly against the South-West. It is no pathetic that, rather than insist he should apologise for these and other infractions, the Yoruba politicians that have decided to pitch their tent with Buhari are now trying to pull the wool over our eyes by trying to give him a cosmetic political makeover. It is just not going to wash.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/time-disgrace-self-appointed-godfather-south-west/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

Anytime South west get sense and stop bowing to their killers we will help them stand on their feet. I was told this ethnic group has the largest educated people in Nigeria. But a man without a common school certificate has dealt with them mercilessly over and over again with pride and unbearing sense of arrogance. Yet they continue bowing to him.

A king never a give appology to his subjects. The south west should never except apology from Buhari because, he buhari is a king to south west. Any day he makes the mistake to apologize to the south west he loses relevant in Nigeria.

eleven:
Daily Independence of January 20th 1985 headline report of conditions of our railway lines during under Buhari's leadership.

For those downplaying Jonathan's efforts in reviving our railway transport see what your progressive principal did to it in 1985. A problem Jonathan is solving now. This is aside the cancellation of Lagos metro line which would have added so much value to our transport sector by now.

Photo credit: @ikhide

Buhari left it to rot and decay, creating thousands of unemployment. Goodluck came took the rot and decay out and recreated thousands of job from it.

I prefer Goodluck the economy revivalist.

Kenai:
Numerous times, Buhari's propagandists have tried to peddle the lie that Buhari built 4 refineries on the pages of Tinubu's Nation Newspapers and Aregbesola's OsunDefender; and I'm thankful to the patriotic and brilliant Nigerians who took it upon themselves to actually research and expose those stories as nothing but the lies they truly are.
But I found something even more puzzling and quite damaging.

Did you know that under Buhari's administration, Nigeria signed a pact to export unrefined crude oil to other countries and then import the finished products afterwards?

This 1984 news article from The New York Times lays it bare!



http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/14/business/brazil-wins-nigeria-pact.html

Facts don't lie

I'd like to ask Buhari's apologists what happened to those phantom refineries of his in 1984.

Why did Buhari kill our economy and made our children jobless?

joseph1832:
Is that right? Your misconceptions are very well noted!. To answer your question, have you ever heard these words before "if you try and you don't succeed, try, try and try again".

Trying is not the issue. The issue is what is driving you to try?

Are you just trying to make history or change history?

Why is Buhari hidding behiding his vice?

Why is buhari who has contested and recontested over and over again not able now to tell us what has been driving him to contest and recontest election? All he does is hide behind his vice promises.

Why?

joseph1832:
Have you ever heard of Delegation Of Authority?'.

Chai! People, before authority are delegated. The delegator had done the Major job.

I asked, what was driving buhari to contest and recontest election? Let him tell us.

joseph1832:
This is exactly what Osinbajo is doing!. Supporting and he's doing it very well. It goes to show you that when GMB Becomes president, Osinbajo won't be as docile as Sambo is. Infact Sambo and GEJ are the most docile Vice Presidents ever!.

Do you know what support means? Osinbajo is campaigning why Buhari is watching by the side.

Who is making the promises?

Who are we going to hold responsible for all these promises?

DecemberIV:
I thought your worry was that PYO would be sidelined as VP...why the sudden U turn? You don miss road again?

I have never feared the above. But the question is, what was buhari's reason for contesting for election all this years if he can not tell us.

joseph1832:
Atleast he's saying and doing something, wish I could say the same for Namadi Sambo! Who is as silent as a dead Ram!.

V. P is a support post not the main post. Imagine your wife taking your place as a man.

I have never seen any government where the vice lead the pack. This seem not to be the case in Buhari/Osinbajo ticket. It is either Osinbajo is saying this or his saying that.

Please who is the President between Buhari and Osinbajo?

Will Osinbajo run the government for Buhari or what?

All the promises and visions are being relay by Osinbajo, what is buhari saying?

morason:
Does anybody know a good small scale manufacturing business that one can start with 8million naira capital apart from pure water?

Waterproof
Candle
Tissue etc

loconso123:
What typer of business can 3m do.

No business

RayCharles:
I disagree with you. MLM is the future. Most people confuse MLM with Investment and pyramid companies. I'll I can explain this to you via this forum

Yes

There was nothing abnormal in yesterday military protocol. Those who think otherwise has no regard for authority.

On our way to the stadium yesterday, a guy was called who was carrying a black waterproof bag and he was searched. When l looked black l didn't see the young lady we were going to the stadium with. As we turned back we saw her hand bag being searched. When she met us we were angry. Why should you come with your hand bag to a rally when security is a great concern to the nation.

We should be wise.

HenryDion:
Majority of the Igbos are against here. They just want to eat he's campaign money. On the D day, they will vote for their favorite candidate.

People like you who live on Nairaland think so. Without his campaigning in Abia he has 99% of Abians vote. People of Abia love the man. The ovation he received when he was walking round the stadium was deafening.
Try attending a rally, is an experience

oweman:
I dont understand what really is wrong with the Nigerian system ; in the north the igbo"s cry of not being fairly treated; in the west they are outcast and even in thier own easth they are treated like lepers .
Please i want to appeal to Nigerians lets treat the igbo people as a humans ;after going through the naration of this OP thrice i just felt sad for a reason i cant explain though i agree they act like kenkeso"s ( leece ) but these treatments are not fair God creted them too anyway .
Dia is God oh !

The op doesn't listen to radio because no office was opened in the entire city of Umuahia. Blame the poor op. Always be abreast of information

HenryDion:
"Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is coming to umuahia on Friday, 16th January 2015" Good and fine, how does that concerns me? Mitcheeeeew... I took my lesson bag heading to the usual spot where i normally get keke. I discovered something odd, some keke were empty and yet won't stop to give me a ride. "they have started their usual shakara" i said to myself. i finally got a keke and to my utmost surprise, the road to orpet leading to Abia state township stadium was lodged with logs of wood and patrolling police vehicles. The keke driver took another turn and it seems every road were blocked as some army officers where patrolling everywhere with their guns. The keke rider has to drop me and i paid him #30. I grab my bag and took the road to BCA [Broadcasting Corporation Abia state] and a call came in. I was answering the call when an Hausa Army officer in front of me ordered me to abort the call immediately. I hesitated and manage to abort the call frowning my face on him. I continued on my journey. Few minutes later, I got another call and i was answering the call when an Igbo police officer called me, he took my phone forcefully.
"who U dey call?" he asked with bloody eyes. It dawn on me that am in serious trouble. He seized my phone and i stare at him for a while as my heart pound against my chest. He said i should forget the phone and go. I noticed some other guys like me standing dejected beside the road. I shock my head in dismay, "this police officers will certainly make some cool money today" i concluded in my mind walking out on him but inside me, i don't want to lose that phone but i have no choice than to keep moving. I grab my bag and continue my journey once more as i felt an unusual feeling inside of me. He called me back with beckoning hands.
"Who is your father?" lolzz, what a question.
"My dad is the Chief Security to the Chief Justice of Abia State" i manage to spit out and he's eyes suddenly got wider and he handed me the phone.
"Don't answer call until U don reach where U dey go." he said as he handed me back the phone heading to he's post. I rumpled my face although deep inside, i was smiling. I look around and saw some guys lying wretchedly on the ground. Hmmmm. What an arbitrary use of power by the Nigerian police. Always finding unnecessary reasons just to make some money. Citizens were walking to their respective place of work including the pregnant and old because no vehicle were allowed to use the road. I bump on an Hausa Army officer and he look at me with uncertain eyes.
"una president coming.. Road blocking pregnant women walking walking on leg. Who I be? God? Calling him Goodluck when he's badluck" i had no option than to smile at the officer not because of the point he's making but because of he's grammatical construction. "these comedians are right sometimes lolzz". Honestly speaking, i Don't think ten percent of Abia state residents are going to vote for him cause everyone i met were either castigating the president or Abia state governor. T.A Orji. I reached Umudike junction with a new spirit of victory cause i thought my encounter with these Lawless beings are over, little did i know that my problem is just beginning. I met another patrolling police vehicle and they were searching everyone's, looking for bomb i guess lol. It got to my turn and the officer scan me with he's weary scanning eyes which sent shivering impulses within me.
"Stay here." he said ignoring me. What did i do wrong? I found myself asking as i walk to the platform of Badlucks cause i wasn't the only one. We wasted more that 2 hours and i found myself pacing around.
"All of you can go" the officer said after searching our bags the second time. What did i do in the first place? What went wrong? I couldn't summon enough courage to ask him that. In other to let sleeping dog lie, i went my way shocking my head profusely. Nigerian is beyond repair. Nigeria is beyond redemption. Clashes and shattering sound of glasses brought me back to reality only to see an Army officer breaking the glass of a hammer bus with he's gun.
"you crazy? Come down, i said come down" the Army officer said in range as the young driver came down and was greeting with a resounding slap and i guess, i saw he's head spinning around as tears drop down my cheek. What will happen if we are in Mlilatry rule? I comforted my heart with the hope of making Nigeria better in our generation. A better Nigeria. A better country.

I came from Aba yestaday to see some partners as we approached Abia tower we were told the road leading to bank road has been blocked. When l asked for the reason, the keke man told us the President was visiting. The tone of the keke man betrayed a little disrespect to the President. One of the passengers berated the keke driver for being disrespectful to the President. Immediately my anger disappeared. Everyone in the keke came back to their senses.

The roads in Umuahia was almost. I had to leg it from gate to Afara village. Later on my way from umudike where l went to see a friend, l legged it again from gate to opposite penco plaza beside azikwe road where l met another friend whom l went together with to see my President.

The were three groups of people at the stadium.

PDP members where where about 99.8% of the crowd.
Others who were 0.19% and
Business people who were 0.01%

The crowd at the stadium was really large. There was no sit to sit down and hardly and place to stand inside the stadium. Outside was another crowd.

Goodluck entered the stadium at 4:14 pm and left at 5: 46 pm. There is no other party in abia state except PDP. From morning the people came to see good luck, and they waited till that late. That was love. Myself l was tempted to leave before he came though l came late, thanks to my friend who pressured me to wait.

ifyalways:
that price is for a used keke, not a new one.

OK, u don't need a lawyer. Hire purchase for this kind of keke go need an extra committed driver.

Justcash:
State government revokes MoU with Igbinedion University
Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City

Apparently due to the report by the Independent Television (ITV) on the beating of a Catholic Priest by aides to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, which was considered unprofessional, the Edo State Government on Tuesday withdrew the accreditation of the correspondent and cameraman of the station attached to the Government House.

In a letter to the General Manager, Independent Television (ITV), Benin City, owned by Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Special Adviser to the Governor, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, said: “You will recall our earlier discussion with you on the series of fabricated and adversarial reportage of issues in the state which has continued to misinform, misrepresent and confuse the people of the state.

“As you know, these deliberate false reports which have become your editorial policy offend the ethics of broadcast journalism and the code of conduct spelt out by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).

“In view of the above, we are withdrawing the accreditation of your correspondent earlier attached to Government House with immediate effect.”

Also, the state government on Tuesday, terminated its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Igbinedion University, Okada.

Though sources close to the state government said the termination of the MoU was as result of the refusal of the institution to honour the terms of the agreement which amounted to N350 million, THISDAY gathered that it might not be unconnected with the disagreement.

A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation Mr. Louis Odion made available to THISDAY, stated that part of the terms of the said MoU was that the school would pay a token as concessionary levy annually to state government for the use of the state owned Central Hospital and Stella Obasanjo Hospital for which medical students pay fees to the university.

He said the revocation became necessary because upon assumption of office in 2008, Oshiomhole discovered that not only had the terms of MoU been mostly dishonoured despite being too generous to the university, no kobo had been paid to state government over the years.

According to him, “Whereas the MoU in question enabled the Igbinedion University exclusive use of the facilities at the state-owned Central Hospital and Stella Obasanjo Hospital with our highly skilled personnel paid by Edo tax payers, the state-owned Ambrose Alli University was denied accreditation for medical course by the NUC and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria for lack of a teaching hospital”.

Recalling the historical background of the MoU, Odion stated that the agreement in question was entered into on September 1, 2006, under the Lucky Igbinedion Administration to enable the institution enjoy the use of the Benin Central Hospital and Stella Obasanjo Hospital for the practicals of her medical students.

“It was part of the condition precedent demanded by National Universities Commission and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to grant the Igbinedion University accreditation to train medical students in clinical specialities,” Odion noted.

Consequent upon this circumstance, he said the Ambrose Alli University became an orphan who had to depend on the generosity of University of Benin Teaching Hospital at first, of the University of Jos Teaching Hospital and finally the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital for the sustenance of its own medical course.

Odion posited that consistent with the governor’s avowed commitment to the principle of probity and accountability, the state Ministry of Health in 2013 invited management of Igbinedion University to settle the outstanding liabilities as well as convey to the institution’s authority, a notification for an upward review of the annual fee to reflect current economic realities which amounted to N350 million as at 2013 at N50 million per annum which was duly conveyed to the university in writing.

However, he said the university wrote back and offered to pay a ridiculous N50,000 monthly for the use the facilities, adding that all concerted efforts made since by government to make the university management to pay the debt that had accumulated over the years and also agree to the upward review of the annual charge have proved abortive.

Odion therefore declared: “In that circumstance, the governor is left with no other option that to terminate the MoU in the public interest.”

The Ministry of Health has equally been directed to inform the NUC and MDCN that the Central Hospital and Stella Obasanjo Hospital will no longer be made available for the use of the medical students of Igbinedion University.”

But in his reaction, the Vice Chancellor, Igbinedion University, Okada, Prof. Ehosa Osaghae, said the university was yet to be informed about government’s decision.

Osaghae who spoke in a telephone interview said the university has honored terms in the MoU and wondered why the state government would rush to the press instead of writing to the university, adding “I am yet to be fully informed about the decision."

APC has not respect for Democratic due process