hatchy: Very loaded and beautifully crafted. This goes a long way to show how OBJ is intellectually endowed unlike the dullard occupying Aso Rock who have never written any book or delivered any intellectual speech in his life to benefit mankind.
A President who doesn't have ordinary standard six certificate and does not even know his actual age, is that one a President?
You actually described OBJ during his reign, Obj had nothing academically throughout his reign. Your ignorance is epic, national open University established by OBJ gave him his first degree after he left office.
Masternostra: Many people say what they don't have Idea of here. During the presidential election, there was manual collection of result as well as e-collection of results.
The results were collected electronically from all the RAC centers/local government across the country and sent to Abuja that night after voting. There was a dedicated server by INEC to collect results electronically, before the arrival of manual results. This was done to avoid altering the manual results as it being transported to Abuja.
So there is a server for collection of results meant for INEC alone.
Quote the section of the 2015 electoral act that empowers Inec to do e-collation of results?
Which Inec budget paid for the server or the server is a creation of god?
Answer these questions with proof then you will understand how dumb pdp sounds. That reminds me, how about the Nrol CIA spy satellite they hired for the election? Stop taking ediots seriously.
First they said they had access to the CIA spy satellite until we explained to them the rules for deploying those satellites, our revelation exposed the depth of their ignorance and outright stupidity. So they switched their Antenna of ignorance to Inec server, apart from the server hosting Inec's website which most times may not be owned by Inec, there is no part of the electoral act that suggests Inec should maintain such server whether its for hosting their official site, election results collation, nor was it budgeted for by Inec from the breakdown we saw. The fact remains that PDP is fast embracing the idiocy of Ipob, let the good people of Nigeria continue remembering pdp in prayers.
vascey: First saw the Marauder when it was reviewed by the trio of Jeremy, Richard and James on Topgear. Certainly not a military hardware show but the marauder was impressive. Did some entertaining stunts like barging through a wall but the most impressive feat of all was withstanding a pack of explosives that blew a standard hummer to bits. You can't fake that. Or maybe you can but they didn't.
Marauder was bought by the Airforce for their special forces, for those saying it will end up with Boko haram, when was the last time Boko or Iswap had a successful hit on the Airforce? 2013! They are more professional than the army. Wish Sadique Abubakar will be appointed CDS.
abc115: President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday launched a micro pension plan for self-employed Nigerians.
The launch took place at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.
Mr Buhari launched the programme by supervising the registration of a Keke NAPEP operator, Sagir Shawai, a resident of Karu village of the Federal Capital Territory.
The president said the programme was conceived for Nigerians in the informal sector of the country.
He appealed to trade associations, workers unions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the informal sector to join hands with the government in enlightening their members on the importance of the scheme. “This initiative will capture those that are not fully captured in the existing pension scheme.
In the past three years, we have provided loans to farmers and others in the informal sector. The micro pension plan is the next step,” he said.
Poor people will truly miss this man once he exits office. He lives for the poor. Its pretty difficult to understand Buhari if you are worth 50m and above.
oilPUSSY: To APC, what they mean by Politics of one basket is that they are indirectly telling you that they are against democracy.. Meaning that there should be no opposition in Nigerian politics . Everybody must vote and follow APC in order to be seen as people that are politically matured.. Lolz. I can remember in 2015 when Adesina came out and said that the reason APC didn't zone the SP to SE is because there was no ranking senator from SE even from SS. Chris Ngige came to Awka and started insulting people of Anambra Central why they didn't vote for him, that if they had voted for him again like they did in 2011 hé would have become the Senate President. Ngige said all sorts of unprintable things I can't type here all because of politics. Fast forward to 2019 , SE has 2 APC ranking Senators (One Imo man and Orji Uzo Kalu from Abia state .. Yes Kalu could be seen as ranking Senator because he has spent time in House of Reps before ..Both chambers are called NASS)
Now, the same APC is giving another reason why SE should not be given the SP because they didn't vote for Buhari.. Like seriously ? PDP zoned the the position of the speaker of Reps to SW in 2011 despite not being the stronghold of the party. (Though Tinibu had to sabotage it and willingly gave it to Tabuwai with his conspirators in order to justify his marginalisation wailing and his hatred for Jonathan ) What happened that day is still still fresh on our minds.
In as much as many Nigerians including those on nairaland won't be benefiting or will benefit from this NASS leadership brouhaha, but at least it's good to do something that is right for prosterity sake.. Internet never forgets. Most of all these activities will turn back and hunt those that orchestrated it. May all of us be alive to witness such.
Meanwhile, APC should not be confident about NASS leadership victory come June 2019.
Igbodefender, Abagworo and other APC Igbo clowns on this forum should hide their face in the sand.
OilPUSSY don talk finish !
Some of these APC members are very horrible.
You are better off with your pü§y buisness than discussing what you don't understand.
Omooba77: Nigeria’s former ruler Olusegun Obasanjo has said democracy is taking root in Africa but warned that rising political stars would struggle to unseat old leaders unless they join forces during elections.
Obasanjo, who was a military ruler for three years from 1976 and then a civilian leader from 1999 to 2007, said African countries were making progress towards democracy, but much more remains to be done.
Speaking to AFP following the launch in Johannesburg on Wednesday night of a book he co-authored on democracy in Africa, Obasanjo said: “Yes we are (making progress)” towards democracy. “Africa will get to where it needs to be,” he predicted.
“Thirty years ago election was an aberration in Africa, today no election is an aberration,” he said in the interview. “Even those (rulers) who want to remain (in power)… they still go through some form of election.
“It’s what somebody called autocratic competitiveness. They are still autocratic, but they try to show that they are competitive through election.”
But Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema said that despite democratic progress registered elsewhere on the continent, some countries in the southern African region were moving backwards.
“We have a re-emergence of authoritarian regimes, and there is regression in the democratic space in our region. We need to reverse this very quickly,” he told AFP, mentioning Zimbabwe and his own country Zambia as examples.
Obasanjo, 82, also urged young and upcoming African politicians to get their act together if they are to unseat old African leaders — many of them septuagenarians and octogenarians who have been holding on to power for decades — through elections.
“If the youth think that they will get into power on a platter, they are not getting it right,” he said in the interview. “They will have to snatch it, those (ageing leaders) will not go.”
Obasanjo co-wrote the book “Democracy Works — Rewiring Politics to Africa’s Advantage” with Zimbabwe’s ex-finance minister and opposition leader Tendai Biti and two other authors.
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who also spoke at the event, said Africa had “come a long way”, but that there was still room for improvement as she bemoaned “the recycling of the same leaders
Can someone show me where the article mentioned "Buhari" or "Nigeria" While at it, please what is the name of the so called "world leaders" that attended?
bidexiii: #ISWAP Improvised rockets launchers used against Diffa Airport where some Nigerién and Nigerian air assets used against the terror group in the Lake Chad region are based.
Are these not the missiles for our BM21 MLRS they stole sometime ago?
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SternProphet: Sikorsky was an American. Sikorsky is a US company. I am sure a bigger company has bought them up now. I am not even sure he was ever a Russian for more than ten years as a child. He was brought into the US and became a successful airplane and chopper designer.
ugo4u: I agree they won't sell to Nigeria, not really because of the reason you stated cos in the first place The black hawk is owned by a Russian coy, Sirkozky won the contract to build a reliable bird that would replace the Huey in Vietnam. I believe the reason why they won't sell to Nigeria is cos of human rights palaver/politics cos even more sophisticated american birds like the Apache have being sold to some Asian countries close to China, so I don't really think technology theft could be the reason for them not selling to us.
What rules guided the Military in governing the country after the suspension of the constitution?
Renowned professor of constitutional law, Professor Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government to help Aguiyi-Ironsi consolidate the powers of the regions.
It is surprising today, that Professor is shouting regional and fiscal restructuring, a system of governance that he helped to destroy with the Unitary system he drafted and was promulgated into law in 1966 to aid his kinsman consolidate power.
Fact Check!!
The regional government was unified under Decree 34 promulgated by Aguiyi ironsi not Prof. ben Nwabueze, it is silly to think that the military used a constitution.
According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of mis-governance. At the start of the 1954 London Constitution Conference Chief Obafemi Awolowo tabled a motion to the effect that this secession clause be inserted and over a full day debate, Awolowo drove home his points referencing the Soviet Union and Western Australia. In responding, Dr Azikiwe made his points using the expression “the indivisibility and perpetuity of the Federation” with references to United States.
At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they did not stop proposing secession clause for the future.
Before independence, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe supported the motion with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the spirit of allowing a secession clause to be enshrined in our constitution, perhaps, Nigerian leaders would have known the checks and balances that ensured fair play for all ethnic groupsin the amalgamation.
Instead, he played into the hands of the British Colonial Masters who took advantage of this difference and supported Azikiwe’s position therefore forever enshrining the clause of “indivisibility and perpetuity of the Federation” in our constitution.
There are no records documenting the disaffection of other South East members, present at parliament and Constitutional conference in which Azikiwe opposed Awolowo's secession clause motion, against Azikiwe’s position.
Mummy Iya Basiri beer palour talk!!
Claim 3
The South East and Igbos at large are being stopped from seceding because they have a smaller mass of land and population.
Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria believing that they had the most educated crop of civil service, teachers, soldiers and professionals and this fuelled the thoughts of their elites hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession as indicated in their quotes:
"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).
"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeama. (1949)
Fact check!! Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was a nationalist, he was never crazy, about Igbos ruling Africa, it was actually Nigeria ruling Africa not igbos, he said that during a PAN African summit in Addis Ababa. that was the Genesis of that phrase "Giant of Africa"
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Dr. Azikiwe was to deliver the keynote address. When the D-day came, Azikiwe failed to show up. Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the impromptu job perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned the British Colonial Government.
Declining to speak publicly on a process that requires tact and finesse meant he didn't support independence? Your conclusions are so dumb that I wonder how you make sense to yourself, let me remind you that Zik, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Leopold Senghor of Senegal, and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, were leaders in the Pan African Movement at the continental level at the time, who will be excited to play local league with the likes of Enahoro? Nnamdi azikiwe was playing his independence card on the global table while Enahoro was playing local league, its like asking Mbappe to play for Enyimba, Azikiwe must have felt insulted, no doubt about that!!
However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview where he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exuberance.
Isn't that clear that the man zik had a formula and workable approach unlike the over zealous Enahoro? its like going to negotiate independence with a lunatic like Nnamdi kanu. Do you sincerely think that Zik wouldn't get Biafra if he really wanted Igbo dominance over others? Zik was a nationalist, beer palour gossips cant rewrite history!!
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In this piece, historical facts helps to dispel many of the false claims about how the Igbos have been unfairly treated over the course of the years within Nigeria and instead throws light on how the decision of their elites, knowingly or unknowingly, brought thrust Nigeria into its current abysmal state.
Claim 1 Igbos claim to have always been cheated out of juicy positions in Nigeria thus the clamour for regional and political restructuring where they are unable to secede from Nigeria.
The Fact 1.1 While Tafawa Balewa presided as Prime Minister of Nigeria, several positions, now famously considered “juicy”, across the country were led or headed by the South East.
Security Chiefs 1) General Officer Commanding (today’s equivalent of Chief of Army Staff) was Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi from Umuahia in present day Abia State (1965 - 1966) 2) IG of Police was Louis Edet from Calabar in present day Cross Rivers State (1964 – 1966) Executive & Cabinet Ministers 1) Governor General & First President was Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was from Enugu State 2) External Affairs (today’s equivalent of Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Minister was Jaja Wachukwu from Aba in present day Abia State 3) Education Minister was Aja Nwachukwu from Ebonyi State
Education Leadership 4) First Unilag VC was Professor Eni Njoku from Ohafia, Abia State. 5) First Nigerian Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan was Professor Kenneth Dike from Awka in present day Anambra State.
Northern Leaders led by Sardauna Ahmadu Bello however resisted same from occurring at Ahmadu Bello University insisting that the North will prefer to have a foreigner head the school until the North had produced a qualified administrator.
The reason for this was that by the late 50s and early 60s South East dominated the senior ranks of the Northern Civil Service after the British colonial staff rushed to leave the country as agitation for independence grew louder. What is obvious is that as each region attained self-determination, leaders of each ethnicity sought that its people lead or head these institutions located within their regions.
Dissatisfaction of the way the polity was run by politicians across Nigeria culminated in a mutinous coup executed largely by senior ranking South Eastern officers who executed Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa, Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Brigadier General Maimalari and a host of the crème of the North’s leadership as well as Chief Ladoke Akintola, the Regional Head of the South West region.
The plan of the mutinous soldiers had been in the works since 1964 and Major Nzeogwu gave the instruction that led to mayhem and blood-letting on the morning of January 15, 1966. Reading the details of the main actors involved, it is surprising that they failed to see how skewed those they eliminated largely represented a certain demographic of the growing nation.
Of all the senior ranking officers in Nigeria at the break out of the 1966 coup, there were fifty five (55) officers (officers as at June 1959 are listed below), the SE had thirty seven (37), with the exception of Lt-Colonel Arthur Unegbe (Quartermaster-General of the Nigerian Army when the January 1966 coup broke out) no other Igbo man was killed.
Of the eight ( officers from the North, six (6) were killed while of the ten (10) officers from the South West, two (2) were killed. Note that the Igbo Majors as at 1966 who were the primary brains of the coup did not join the Army until the early 60s and are junior to those listed below.
In an awkward twist of fate and curiously, the headship of the government when the coup failed, fell into the laps of another Igbo officer, J.T. Aguiyi-Ironsi, (being the most senior military officer in the country) despite not being one of the coup plotters. Aguiyi Ironsi with help of a leading legal expert, subsequently imposed a unitary system of government on the country.
Fact Check! Zik was from Onitsha in Anambra state, Jaja nwachukwu was Speaker house of reps while Nwafor orizu from anambra state was Senate president.
Chepos1: How did we get to this place as a country? One will hear one story in d morning, and hear a direct opposite in d evening, which one are we to blive now?
When you give m0r0ns like Jackson Ude a twitter account, what do you expect? The big for nothing red cap imbec!le started the rumor this morning!
zamirikpo: Oh oh, I just confuse......my biggest yearly TB investment failed and now stanbic is saying 12% for 358days. Maybe I should do 90days and see if the rates rebound, the fear is it may even be worst by that time.
Locking down now will mean me taking a loss of 600k. Why didn't stanbic just manage the 14.37 Like that eh...
I just confuse, and I have already budgeted and started borrowing to spend in anticipation of a sure deal. I say last last 14% go reach my hand. This life is just funny, anything can just happen anyhow.
I will either open a first bank account and manage their 13.9% or I wait for the next auction with HOPE.
omazus: They have started again. Their winner takes all mentality that will bury Nigeria. SP and DSP from N/E and S/W; speaker and deputy speaker from the same zones. What of North Central, SE and SS? Gradually they have started nudging Buhari towards sectionalism. Too early to be too bad.
Now hear this.. 1. name any country that attracts foreign direct investment on a sector still regulated by the government.
Government owned FDA regulate food and drug administration in the US, GSK operate in the US, is that foreign investment enough for you? You can see you don't know what you are talking about. Government regulate every sector world over and it doesn't stop foreign investors. What has it got to do with the subject anyways??
2. No thanks to corruption, businesses run by the government ain't profitable..
NNPC is not a business you dumb oaf!! Explain the financial chain of procuring a made in US shirt in Nigeria, that's what you were asked if you don't know it, then you are not qualified to discuss the NNPC.
3. Nigeria is blissfully unaware of what is about to hit it next decade. We keep on fooling ourselves that Atiku's plan to privatize NNPC is not the right thing to do... U.S. crude production (millions of barrels/day) 2018: 15.423 2019: 17.458 2020: 18.889 2021: 19.692 2022: 20.316 Kachikwu estimates Nigeria's crude oil production will reach 2.5 million bbd this year - but that is less than the INCREASE in US production between 2018 & 2020... Between 2018 and 2022 (4 years), we are talking about an increase in US production alone close to twice Nigeria's production figures. We aren't adding discoveries in South Africa, Cameroon, Guyana or Brazil's production increases. Nigeria has a looming fiscal crisis - forget it... "Nigeria's crude is light, sweet and low in sulfur content". Sorry, that is no longer relevant. It was relevant 10 years ago, but the Shale Oil boom means that the world is awash in light, sweet crudes. Now, let's not even talk about the crazy drive for green energy. topic for another day.. 4. An unpredictable industry plus lack of viability coz of corruption in the industry..
How did your made in China shirt arrive in Nigeria? That was the simple question you were asked, but look at what your response is; utter rubbish, if I call you a r@tard, you will feel insulted but once you are given an opportunity to answer a question, you give dumb answers, bros, go and read for your Jamb.
5. You have to stop with the unnecessary insults, else we won't have a meaningful discussion.. Peace
You want to have a meaningful discussion with this level of cluelessness? You called Shale crude, light & sweet crude, and you want to have a meaningful discussion with who? Stop creating problems for reasonable people. You guys are nuisance in our population.
greenmonk: Even grid does not require to run on every square kilometre of a country. Grid means links to power stations where distribution takes off.
You don't know the difference between a power grid & railway yet you are positioning your ignorance for a debate, do you empty folks have any shame? When you see a subject you know nothing about, keep quiet.
1.) More Foreign Investors Warming Up to Return Back To Nigeria will Kill That Plan!
Now if you have been following global financial reports on emerging and struggling economies, you ought to have noticed that most reputable financial experts and institutes have been rating Nigeria negative, and thereby indirectly signaling foreign investors to desist from investing in Nigeria but rather consider some African emerging economies like Ethiopia, Kenya, etc.
If you made the above comment then respond with the comment below
And most foreign investors as far as I know where expecting a regime change in Nigeria to consider returning back to Nigeria and new ones who were also considering the idea of investing in Nigeria will kill that desire immediately with the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari.
It shows that you have no clue what Nigeria's current rating is, again you need serious education on foreign creditors (Lenders) and Foreign investors. You cant foist your ignorance on anyone, you have no such right on Nairaland!! for your enlightenment, Nigeria's present rating by Fitch in Nov 2018 was a B+ with a stable outlook. The previous year in Nov 2017 Moody's rated Nigeria B2 with stable outlook Standards and poor rated Nigeria B with stable outlook which other rating do you refer to that rated Nigeria low?
I understand the heart attack you received on the victory of PMB, i hope it is not beginning to affect your brain.
Remember, crude oil value is fast dying in the international market, so Nigeria relying on crude oil for sustenance is very risky at this time....we ought to be finding ways to woo foreign investors into Nigeria not by spending taxpayers money junketing around to their various countries to go beg them to come invest in Nigeria....nobody invest his or her money where it is not safe just because he or she wants to pity the other party...so going about begging foreign investors to come to Nigeria to invest is a fruitless effort, the best way is to attract them through making favorable policies, making FOREX stable...stop fixing figures, stop using force to influence the FOREX market, allow it to take its natural course.
When oil loses value as expected, you start paying heavy taxes like those countries without oil, after all most of you asked why PMB couldn't revive the economy at dwindling oil price? now is the time to walk your talk!! he was borrowing to save your ignorant arse, now we have nearly capped our borrowing limit, its time to pay real taxes in this country. Anyways you are just one of those jobless illiterates parading their ignorance on Nairaland.
chemgee: I get your point sincerely, but now let's think: mention any successful and profitable government business in Nigeria, from oil and gas to transport to hospitality to education then we can begin
Explain to us the financial chain of purchasing the shirt you wore today, that will explain better if NNPC failed or not. Apparently I opened a thread for empty people, mtchew!!
nairalandankrah: MR Erudite professor of economics i hail thee i'll advice you save that 'your vast knowledge on how the world works' because you will be needing it in DAURA keep hiding behind your android phone to type Nonsense #buharimustgo
Mr cluelessness, seems my Daura trip ended in Jada Adamawa state, unfortunately, Atiku was in the Trunk.
Politics › Re: Inside The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Complex. Pics. by jpphilips(m): 11:18am On Mar 31, 2019
officers from the North, six (6) were killed while of the ten (10) officers from the South West, two (2) were killed. Note that the Igbo Majors as at 1966 who were the primary brains of the coup did not join the Army until the early 60s and are junior to those listed below.