₦airaland Forum

234GT: You cannot blame Reuben Abati so much. When he was at Guardian, he was writing for the masses against the government. Those in power knew the solution. They called him to power so that he would have a share of the national cake. You know, when your mouth is full of cake, you can't really talk much.
And when you manage to talk, you will only talk in favour of the person who gave you the cake.
That is the law of” chopping”.
Seriously, I was surprised that Abati accepted the job of Presidential spokesperson.

fr3do: though fuel price is high.electricity supply has never been this stable,i've been using my gas since december because there is almost always light to use my electric cooker..
Forget tribalism,give the man some credit (atleast for being relatively good)

pro01: Many people are mentally, psychologically, and spiritually disturbed. . . .it's just that they often do not evince visible signs. This is yet another pathetic example.

bjjbam: English players will do anything to wear d three lion shirt including playing for free. I am not saying they shouldn't be well remunerated but when ur motivation for playing for ur country is money. Something is wrong somewhere.

userlist: Somebody is talking about patriotism, what about those fat cat politicians
that does nothing but go home every month with tens of thousand of dollars.
GEJ consume almost $20,000 food a day without nothing to show for it
and you expect those that labour for this country visibly to go home
with peanut. Let us all be realistic.

aremed: Everybody has history,mko might av done somtin bad,but he was generous to nigerians...wat has dis useless man done....stupid talk....bastard

Afam4eva: Whether it was a payment of his evil deeds does not distort the fact that he won the election and ought to be crowned. If the Nigerian populace decide to vote in satan as their president, who are we argue otherwise. We're in a democracy.

Ngwakwe: I can see your criticism of the Government includes your hatred of female members of GEJ's Cabinet you wish to demonize as to drive home your points just to deceive the gullible if not the silly ones in this board.

Ngwakwe: What a myopic statement you just made in the quoted comment.

If I may ask, does turn around maintenance require out-sourcing or provision of original spares for replacing damaged ones and refurbishing /restructuring the existing system for optimum performance?

If my company where outsourcing to foreign firms as the norm is taken as a case study, I will confidently tell you that those Expertrates are most times below our standard in terms of competence and technical-know-how.

To cut the long story short, the foreign firms still sublet the contract to us Nigerian Engineers who deliver an impeccable job within the time limit required for the job to be commissioned.

STOP bad-mounting Nigeria Engineers for over valued foreign firms.

ignis: This man still have his right. He is not an animal for crying out loud. Why must he be humiliated this way? What he did was wrong if the story is anything to go buy. The fact still remains that he doesn't deserve this animal treatment. The girl and his so called neighbors should be brought to book for taking laws into their dirty hands.

Okija juju: I just purchased a 20kva Cummins gen last month for 1.6m (plus commisioning) for my main home.

Will be purchasing another 5kva by July ending for my annex home.

Save money and purchase a big diesel generator.. They last longer than fuel generators and require less servicing.

Mogidi: No need to refute this badly structured editorial from a newspaper known for eating out of Tinubu's hands.
Does anyone still read Punch? I just hope they keep spewing their rubbish and another 3yrs Punch would seize to trade.

Maxymilliano: At least, there's an acknowledgement that the government is doing something here.



Agreed the taxpayer, critics and opposition groups are also entitled to assessing those who occupy public office, I disagree on the bold part. Granted the economy is not where it should be but the journey of a thousand miles always begin with a step, the crux of the assessment is to show that someone somewhere is making attempt at correcting the ills in the country, hence the purpose of the mid term report which clearly spelt out remarkable strides taken by the current government so far in revamping critical sectors of the economy.

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The issue of boko haram was never a matter of ineptitude and Its disingenuous of the writer to lay the blame of insecurity solely at the doorstep of the President without sparing a thought for the Chief security officers (The Governors) of the affected States, who enjoyed quantum percentage pf the State budget in the guise of security votes.

Alluding insurgency in some of the State in north to buttress insecurity in the country clearly betray the hatchet job the writer is trying to do.

No gainsaying the fact that there's general insecurity in the land, there's no better approach at curbing insecurity in the northern part of the country than the current approach by the government.

One of the grievance postulated by boko haram is the killing of Muhammed Yusuf and which is already a subject of litigation with the arraignment of the law enforcement agents involved.



There is every need for chest beating. The rot in the education sector did not start today, and expecting the situation to be arrested within two years shows insincerity and ignorance on the part of whoever is applauding this gibberish! The writer can do well by highlighting the assessment claims by the government to make reasonable deduction.



May be I should remind the writer of this article that life expectancy index of Nigeria has shot up from 47 to 51 in the current release by the quoted body. This signify a considerable improvement from what it used to be.

The health care delivery system is improving by the day and there was a thread a while back on this forum of some of the teaching hospitals getting upgraded and some new ones established.



Importation of refined crude oil has being the order of the day even during military era, and the current power supply is more than 4,000 mega watts.

4,000MW is nothing to celebrate but there is concerted effort to ensure it increased to 10,000 with December, 2013 as deadline. Is the writer expecting a non-exisiting miracle to take place with the current decrepit power generation and distribution system



All over the World, Government don't provide jobs but providing enabling environment for private establishment to thrive and absorb the teeming unemployed population. This, the government is doing and that's why Nigeria is now destination of choice for investors ahead of South Africa.

Full Employment, a basic macro economic tool is what all government aims at, and it is not about eradicating unemployment 100 percent but reducing the scourge to barest minimum. I agree there is high level of unemployment in Nigeria but there are other organs of government that permeate the grassroot to compliment the effort of the government at the central, afterall, the FG is not operating in isolation .




I seriously doubt if the writer have used some of the listed roads, Abuja-Lokoja is undergoing massive transformation like never before, just like the East-West road which is under construction and additional lane to booth. Sometimes. You can't just fault Abati when he referred to some folks as medieval ignoramus!

I used this roads recently, and I make bold to say the government is making concerted effort at putting the roads back into shape.



To quote the finance minister, "We audited NGN1 trillion in the subsidy and found NGN232 billion questionable, so far we have recovered about NGN14 billion. We have tightened the payment process."

The statement may look insignificant but part of the steps taking so far is to reduce the number of fuel importers to desirable level, hence the by the FG to slashed number of oil importers from 128 to 38.

The whole essence is to curtail sharp practices while the refinery is undergoing a complete turn around.



I'm a Nigerian and the government has not failed my assessment test, and talking about delusion, the writer need to get a copy of the 234 page of the mid-term assessment of the president and make critique of it rather than penning beer parlour gossips and innuendos which is far from the government claim to mislead gullible folks.



Punch una try ...

sexymoma: They look older than their age, it a pity.... i was reading this thread and i was like Gosh how would a normal parent with their reasonable sense allowed those gurls of that age go clubbing, even the driver is 20yrs, their friend too was just 19....too much freedom can be dangerous sometimes. They just wanna make me cry am also a twin cant imagine I and ma Twin sis in this kind of situation, Their mother Lost two Precious Gifts.

in that case, you will get a cage for your twins while i pay to watch them

justsayemma: The project is very much on course,I even saw workers there on Sunday morn. Nobody has asked abt d mono rail in Ph,whch is a smaller project,or east west road,dat d project money has been reviewed upward several times,or d 2nd Niger bridge dat we ve bin hearing about.there's nothing u people wil say,dat will take away Fash credit.make una try get sense small.

sheyie2007: Oil contributes just 14% to our GDP bro... So, we don't entirely depend on it
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria

agriculture: 40%; services: 30%; manufacturing: 15%; oil: 14% (2012 est.)

sheyie2007: No oil sales = FG invests more in RND / Agriculture = increase in HDI

billyoung: well if this is the case, lets have pictures of the skill acquisition centers and the people who have acquired the said skills. It just seems like the project has lost steam, which would be rather unfortunate considering the faith people had in it and in Fashola.

Ilaje44: Look at everybody blaming olopa and olokada while leaving out the Major culprit in this case. The truck Driver who did not secure his haulage bears the brunt of this catastrophy. If the haulage was secured, this wouldn't have happened even if he has to brake suddenly as it happened. There is just too many cases of haulage/Containers falling off a truck in Nigeria. In countries with 1000000times more haulage, this rubbish rarely happen, because a situation like this is always anticipated in vehicular traffic. The government should enforce proper security of haulage in Nigeria. This is an unnecessary accident irrespective of Okada or the Police chasing it. And the Major Person to blame is the truck Driver and the haulage Company.

Abo oro temi re.

kaorama: 'SAKA' exhibited an attitude that is common with his people. Backstabing!

toprealman: Her name is Dr. Ezinne......very good wife material. Problem is that she is in very serious relationship so guy back off!

Lilimax: A little act of kindness from well meaning Nigerians will raise the much needed funds for this seperation.
Good to know they have separate heart and different abdominal organs.
I pray that God will keep them alive.

Abujafood: It seems his wealth has gotten to his head that he doesn't even realize that money can be spent doing more reasonable things than filing a frivolous lawsuit.

Good Luck to him

spoilt: @Ogb5
Excuse me but who else will help him hide his loot in an account that his name is not on? Trust me it will be wifey of many years. Men do know when they need you. They know on which side their bread is buttered.
And yeah after all the s&!t he put me through, damn right I wont be thinking of any legitimate business. Are you joking?
It wont be the end of the world though. He probably will have enough stashed elsewhere to feed his army of whores whose existence he can deny till kingdom come. As for me. . . . I will be fine!