₦airaland Forum

Austine.E:
....what a shame,a terrorist group threatening federal roads,this is the lowest ebb anybody can ever descend to...they are always seeking for soft spots or is this how they intend to islamize Nigeria!soon they will threten the sahara desert or rather the federal sahara desert!....this islamic clowns are only good for comic relief!and if i may ask,which of the boko haram issued this threat,the islamic boko haram(Mohammadist) or the political boko haram(APC) or the criminal boko haram(bank looters)!God bless the good people of Nigeria..'victoria acerta'.

The situation is too bad...

ceo4eva: The name "Mama Peace" delves into a problematical approtuzoa which may not be articulated due to economicated vouldavitation,
propertuated baberically through out the geographical atomicable panderison. In Summary, Madam Jonathan should accoutuate an outrageous theologicolism to be punctuated intermittently and holistically.
Abeg, no ask me the meaning of wetin I write here, cos I don't even know.

LOL.....

DARREG: MTN 8345 2790 7200

Thanks bro. I got this one. May God continue to bless U richly!

IdJack: There is Sense in every Nonsense......let us look deeply on what OBJ said. although he had his own flaws..

God bless U. OBJ is not a saint, but Some people won't see anything out of his statement because their sense of reasoning is beclouded!

It's Well with you!

Mr. Maku said the North must wake
up to the new political reality in
Nigeria.
The Minister of Information, Labaran
Maku, in Kaduna on Tuesday said
President Goodluck Jonathan’s
administration was the best thing to
have happened to the North since the
Yakubu Gowon government that
ended in 1975.
Mr. Maku said this in Kaduna during
a town hall meeting organised as
part of National Good Governance
Tour of Kaduna State.
“There has been a denial, a political
denial that President Goodluck
Jonathan is not developing the North.
“And there has been an agenda of
deceit and propaganda, which is
carried out mainly by people and
political opinions in some quarters in
the north that continuously want to
deny the imprint of this
administration.
“The truth is that, never since Gowon
days have you seen the Federal
Government that is impacting
significantly in the development of the
North as President Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration,” he said.
The minister challenged those “with
contradictory view” to a debate,
saying he would back his assertion
with facts.
“We have gone round a number of
Northern states; we have been to
Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina and we are
now in Kaduna state, the political
headquarters of the old Northern
Region.
“And in all the places we have gone,
the evidence is very clear, contrary to
those who believe that we are into
partisan politics and not discussing
the development of the north.
“The evidence is clear that the
Yar’Adua/Jonathan’s presidency,
since 2007 has placed the
development of the north in the
uppermost part of its own attention,”
he said.
According to him, it is not only a
northern president that can develop
the region.
Mr. Maku cited examples of projects
executed under the Goodluck
Jonathan administration as typical
example that there was no
discrimination in the running of the
administration.
“It is not true that only people from
the north can develop this region, and
at any rate it is no longer possible for
the leaders of the country to come
only from the north.
“Nigeria has changed, today the story
is different. The Presidency will go to
every part of Nigeria, whether we like
it or not.
“And the earlier the north recognises
the reality and plans its development
so that whoever is there, let us go
with our agenda that person will
attend to us.
“Power will reside only in one part of
the country, is history. It will not
happen because Nigeria has
changed, awareness has come.”
He reiterated the commitment of the
federal government to develop every
part of the country.
He listed some of the major projects
undertaken by the Jonathan
administration as the dredging of
River Niger, construction of bridges,
dams and ports, as well as the
revitalisation of the rail line and
education infrastructure.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/151240-jonathan-best-thing-since-to-happen-to-northern-nigeria-since-gowon-maku.html

ABUJA— Indication emerged last
night that the House of
Representatives would not change its
position on the $79 per barrel as the
oil benchmark for the 2014 budget.
Findings by Vanguard revealed that
the Presidency was upset with the
resolve by a majority of the
lawmakers to ensure that the $75 oil
benchmark being proposed by the
Federal Government did not see the
light of the day.
It was learnt that in a bid to
checkmate the stiff opposition to the
$75 per barrel being tabled by the
government, some lawmakers loyal
to the Presidency had been trying to
lobby their colleagues to support their
position.
The lobby, however, appears to have
failed to sway the majority, Vanguard
was told last night.
A member of the National Assembly
leadership confirmed, yesterday, that
the lawmakers were not ready to go
below the $79 per barrel benchmark.
The lawmaker said that it would be
wrong for the people that were elected
by Nigerians to accept something
that was inimical to their progress
and well being because it was being
proposed by the President.
The source said: “The plot to recruit
sympathisers of the Presidency to
talk to us concerning the oil
benchmark has failed woefully
because the protagonists of $75 per
barrel cannot justify what they will do
with the excess funds arising from
rising oil price which at all times is
above $100 per barrel.
On $100,000 bribe
“It was when they failed to impress
their logic of stagnation on us that
they went to town with the allegation
that the Presidency bribed us with $
100,000 each.
“But they have forgotten that we are
not children who can easily be
hoodwinked.
“Now, if the Presidency claims it gave
us the money they are talking about,
how come that we insist that the oil
benchmark must remain at $79 per
barrel?
“Let me assure all Nigerians that even
if the Presidency gives us the money
today, we won’t soft-pedal on the $
79 benchmark,” the official added.
When contacted, the spokesman for
the House, Mr. Zakari Mohammed,
said those peddling the rumour of $
100,000 bribe were agents of
blackmail, out to cause disaffection
among the members and derail them
from serving Nigerians.
Mohammed pointed out that no
amount of blackmail and intimidation
would sway the lawmakers from
doing what is right and in the interest
of the people that elected them.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/reps-jonathan-accept-79-benchmark-forget-2014-budget-2/

Help her do the shaving while she's asleep. Or better still, let her be!

Apparently leaving no stone unturned
in their bid to clinch political
positions in the 2015 general
elections, politicians from all walks of
life are now trooping daily to a
prophet on a mountain in Kaduna to
seek power to win elections. They go
to the mountain at dusk under the
cover of night for prayers and
blessings for smooth sail in the
general elections, leaving at dawn
after a hectic all-night prayer
session.
The holy mountain, located off
Patrick IbrahimYakowa Way in the
Eastern flank of Kaduna metropolis, is
a beehive of activities, particularly on
Fridays when people go there to seek
deliverance during vigil. This much
was disclosed by the General
Overseer of Christ’s Vision Ministries,
Rev Samuel Taiwo Deji, who told
Saturday Sun in a chat that he has so
far spent three years, living on the
mountain, all alone as directed by
God to deliver and heal people who
are suffering from one problem or the
other. Reverend Deji, 59, who is a
Professor of theology in Christian
education, said he decided to name
the mountain, Jesus Mountain,
“because nobody comes here without
receiving one miracle or the other”.
According to the Ekiti State- born
man of God: “Politicians from every
part of the country come to me on
this mountain; they keep vigil here,
praying to God for blessings in the
next elections and other blessings in
their lives. “They normally leave at
dawn after the vigil, and I have
assured them that their prayers have
been answered by God, but warned
them that political party differences
will cause bias against the
commoners, and, therefore, they
should work for the sole interest of the
common people and the unity of the
country. “I always encourage
politicians to come here for
deliverance because all of them are
under heavy spiritual attack. In fact, I
advise that President Goodluck
Jonathan, even the American
President, Barack Obama should
come to this mountain for prayers,
and they will meet the Lord.
“I am not a prophet of doom, so I
cannot say that 2015 elections will be
bloody, and interestingly enough, God
has not revealed it to me that it will
be bloody. If God has revealed to
anybody that the election will be
bloody, my duty here on the mountain
is to cancel such looming doom in
the name of Jesus”. However,
speaking with an aura of confidence
and total belief in the efficacy of his
prayers and visions, Prophet Deji,
who is married with seven children,
said the first one year he stayed on
the mountain, he was tormented by
wild animals, particularly lions and
snakes.
He, however, disclosed that like the
biblical Daniel in the lion’s den, he
was never hurt by any of the wild
animals, adding that on several
occasions, scorpions have invaded
his resting place, a container, on the
mountain. Apart, from the menace of
reptiles and wild animals, he said
hoodlums also invaded the place
each time he was away, carting away
some of his personal belongings in
the day time.
“I want to tell you that I have so far
spent three years on this mountain,
but the first one year was full of
challenges, a lion confronted me here,
focusing its eyes on me as if it is
halogen light, it walked away. I don’t
have gun, God is my gun. “Also,
snakes, scorpions and other reptiles
entered my resting place and clothes,
but they did not harm me. “Apart from
these animals, sometimes bad boys
whom I will call hoodlums come here
to loot my resting place, remove my
valuables like mattress, handsets
among other things. But may God
forgive them for they do not know
what they are doing.”
At the time of having this interview
with the prophet, our correspondent
met some people who came for
deliverance as well as to appreciate
the man of God for the efficacy of his
visions and prayers. One of them,
Adebiyi Salami said: “I was down
with unidentified illness and I had
been to several hospitals, no solution,
I couldn’t drive my car. But when I
came to the mountain, I was healed, I
can now drive my car.
This is why I have come to appreciate
the prophet”. For Martha Emmanuel,
a mother of a child, “the prophet sees
vision very well, his prayers are
working, and he healed my child of
headache with just a handkerchief”.
Another worshipper, Charity Bature
said: “This is my second week that I
have been coming to the mountain. I
am no longer worried about my
problems because God has assured
me through the man of God that my
problems are over. I used to be too
worried, but I am now relaxed”. John
Toluwalase said: “God has been able
to deliver me from a lot of challenges
since I have been visiting the man of
God on this mountain.”
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/exposed-kaduna-mountain-politicians-seek-power/

Members of the National Association
of Parents Teachers Association,
South West chapter, have threatened
to embark on hunger strike if the
Federal Government and Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
failed to reconcile their differences
soonest.
Chairman of the association, Julius
Olaribigbe, after inauguration of new
executives of the Osun State chapter
of the body in Osogbo, told newsmen
that the current face-off between the
Federal Government and ASUU was
embarrassing to the nation.
Lecturers in public universities have
begun an indefinite strike since July 1
over non-implementation of an
agreement they reached with the
Federal Government in 2009.
The universities have remained shut
to academic programmes since then.
And while the industrial dispute
lingers, the Federal Government gave
members of ASUU up till Monday
next week to resume for work or
consider themselves sacked, an
ultimatum the ASUU described as
laughable.
But the PTA in the south West warned
that “the over two million parents
across the 36 states of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria will embark on a
national hunger strike if this situation
should continue”.
Olaribigbe believes that the Federal
Government needs to accede to ASUU
demands in the interest of the
students who are the country’s future
leaders.
He appealed to President Goodluck
Jonathan to constitute a committee
to dialogue with ASUU to end the
ongoing face-off between the two
parties.
“When two elephants fight, the grass
will definitely suffer. This time
around, it is the parents that are
suffering. We are left with no other
option than to appeal to the two
parties to see reasons why the strike
should end. But if the strike persists,
we shall embark on hunger strike,” he
added.
Olaribigbe blamed the Federal
Government for allowing the strike to
reach the present level, stressing that
government has a duty to ensure
qualitative university education for all
Nigerian children.
Also on Thursday, Presiding Bishop of
Victory International Church, Taiwo
Adelakun, called on government to
back down from its high horse and
embrace diplomacy rather than the
military approach towards resolving
the crisis.
Adelakun spoke at the press briefing
at Rehoboth Cathedral of the Church
at Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, to formally
unveil the 2013 Rehoboth Festival
holding next week under the theme,
‘The Lord of Host’.
The clergyman, who announced that
the proposed Dominion University to
be owned by the Church would take
off as soon it receives the final nod
from the National Universities
Commission (NUC), lamented that
the continued closure of the nation’s
universities due to the ASUU strike
had compounded the problem in the
sector.
According to him, “there is a problem
in the sector already and the non-
resolution of the crisis is
compounding the problem and this
calls for the necessity for the two
parties to come to terms on the need
to resolve the matter in the interest of
the country”.
Chairman of ASUU, Institute of
Agricultural Research and Training
(IAR&T) of the Obafemi Awolowo
University (OAU) chapter,
Olufunmilayo Ande, also spoke on
Thursday, appealing to President
Goodluck Jonathan not to allow
some of those working with him to
mislead him to drag Nigeria back to
the dark days of “Abacha regime.”
The don gave the advice while
addressing members of the IAR&T
ASUU after a procession organised to
honour former National President of
the union, late Professor Festus Iyayi,
who died recently in a motor accident
along Lokoja-Abuja road.
Ande, the union’s Deputy Chairman,
Adesina Tiamiyu, and Secretary, J.
Olaide Saka, had led scores of the
union members in the procession,
after which they were addressed by
the Chairman and the institute’s
Executive-Director, James Alabi
Adediran, who described Iyayi’s
death as a great loss to Nigeria.
The ASUU chairman argued that the
struggle embarked upon by the union
is a struggle to liberate the country’s
public universities and the entire
education sector, urging Jonathan to
immediately honour government’s
agreement with the union.
Ande said since Nigeria currently
claims to be running a democracy,
the President should not adopt threat
to force the striking ASUU members
to go back to the classroom without
the guarantee that the agreement
reached with them will be honoured.
Academic staff at the Edo State
owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU),
Ekpoma, on their part also on
Thursday vowed to continue with the
strike until government agreed to fulfil
all the things that ASSU is asking for.
The lecturers also called for the
immediate sack of Supervising
Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike,
over what they described as
incompetence.
They said Wike lacked the intellectual
capabilities and competence to
handle the education system in the
country.
They made their position known in a
communiqué after an emergency
meeting on Thursday.
The communiqué signed by Chairman
and the Secretary of ASUU-AAU
chapter, Fred Esumeh and S.
Omoikhoje, respectively, described
the ultimatum by the Federal
Government as unfortunate and ill
conceived in a democratic rule.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/12/parents-threaten-hunger-strike-ASUU/

Aviation Minister, Mrs. Stella Oduah,
has declared that the Nigeria
Aerotropolis project will generate an
estimated N100 billion annually for
the country.
She also disclosed that the United
State, China, Turkey and other
European countries have shown
interest in the Aerotropolis project.
The Minister said that the project will
provide at least 10 million jobs for
Nigerians, especially the youth, in the
first two years of its take-off.
The Minister spoke during the Public
Hearing organised by the House of
Representatives Ad hoc Committee
investigating the FCT Land Swap in
Abuja.
The Federal Ministry of Aviation is
participating in the land swap for the
Abuja Aerotropolis project.
The minister explained that the
projects which will be sited in Abuja
and other major international airports
across the country, has a value chain
with the potential to transform the
Nigerian economy and the living
standards of the rural farmers
through perishable cargo exports.
Explaining further, she said that the
initiative is private-sector driven with
20 per cent equity holding by
government through the Federal
Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN),
adding that value chains would span
the agricultural, health,
manufacturing, culture and tourism
sectors of the economy.
Already, she said investors from
Nigeria, the USA, China, Turkey and
other European countries have
embraced the initiative and that the
Federal Capital Development
Authority (FCDA) has endorsed the
Abuja Aerotropolis for which
documentation is being finalised for
the land acquisition.
Oduah further disclosed that that the
FCT has already incorporated the
Aerotropolis project into its
development master plan.
She equally allayed fears that
compensation will not be paid on the
land acquired, saying while the land
would be acquired at the going
commercial value, all due
compensation would also be paid
promptly.
However, she stressed that the
greatest compensation Nigerians will
get from the initiative will come in the
form of millions of jobs that will be
created for the teeming unemployed
youth population.
According to Oduah, ‘’The
development of airport cities
(aerotropolis) is a 21`st century
phenomenon that is gaining ground
all over the world. It is no longer
fashionable to have an International
Airport without the support facilities
and amenities such as shopping
arcades, hotels, packaging industries,
Residential Estates, modern airline
offices and recreational facilities. The
proposed aerotropolis will definitely
boost the Nigerian economy and
generate the much-needed
employment for our teeming youth”
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/12/aerotropolis-will-generate-n100b-annually-oduah/

OK

Following the envisaged mass
defection by federal lawmakers to the
opposition All Progressives Congress
(APC), as a fallout of last week’s
dumping of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) by four governors, the
battle for the control of the House of
Representatives may have
begun. Daily Sun gathered that
Speaker Aminu Tambuwal is under
pressure to resign over fears that
some of his colleagues, especially
members of the PDP, who are not
interested in defecting to APC, may
pass a vote of no confidence in him
as well as frustrate his leadership of
the House.
It was gathered that the lawmakers
after Tambuwal would, among other
reasons, accuse him of
masterminding the insistence of $79
oil benchmark for 2014 budget
projection.
Sources revealed that some
legislators who have enlisted in anti-
Tambuwal project have been meeting
and trying to enlist as many
supporters as possible. It was
gathered that they are working with
some chieftains of the PDP.
Daily Sun gathered that his
supporters are also preparing to
defend him, especially over the oil
benchmark, since they have the
support of governors of their states.
The lawmakers are backed by their
governors, who also encouraged and
influenced them to support a $79
benchmark because of the cash
crunch that lesser benchmark would
cause the states. Many of the states
are having financial problem owing to
a drop in revenue allocation, which
has made it impossible for them to
pay salaries and meet other
obligations.
Meanwhile, it was gathered that the
main anxiety is that there may be
commotion in the House, if some
lawmakers trying to pass a no
confidence vote in Tambuwal.
Some lawmakers, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, expressed
fears that if there’s commotion in the
House, security agents may take over
the National Assembly, causing the
House to adjourn sine dine .
“We are not afraid that they would
succeed in passing a vote of no
confidence in Tambuwal. Our fear is
that in an attempt to do so, there may
be commotion in the House, which
could give those after the Speaker to
send in security agents, just as it
happened in Rivers State,” one of the
lawmakers stated.
He contended that if this happens, it
may be impossible for the House to
meet and perform its functions,
adding: “I suspect that the
government is afraid that if APC takes
control of the House, it would be
difficult for it to get approvals on
certain things. Therefore, they may
not want the House to sit.”
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/tambuwal-pressure-resign/

plaindealer: lol...And this is the best to lead the people of Anambra?


Anambra people don suffer sha....

IGNORED

ceo4eva: I believe APC will try to get UNDESERVED ATTENTION from this.

Exactly!

Check this out:
Anglican Church Honours Jonathan
https://www.nairaland.com/1540093/anglican-church-honours-jonathan

Nice gesture from the Governor. Check this out:
Anglican Church Honours Jonathan
https://www.nairaland.com/1540093/anglican-church-honours-jonathan