₦airaland Forum

deedeedee1:
The igbo leaders should fight for referendum. I doubt that ekweremadu will do that though.
I keep asking myself this question, how can a country like nigeria not have referendum in its constitution? How can a people of over 180 million keep deceiving themselves about unity that never existed? I am a yoruba man and i say let us split. Even if into at least three countries. It will reduce tribalism and increase productivity.

The Hausa/Fulani wrote the constitution and they were wise enough not to include "Referendum" knowing fully well that the agitation for Biafra will never die...

Except the constitution is reviewed or UN intervenes then there will never be a Referendum in Nigeria...

Clueless bubu

Imagine.... So if i sit down for my house then police go come arrest me or force me come out... 9ja

History

A war is coming...

Which cult group's handshake is that?

If u dont know that means Wike is innocent...

If u do then qoute me and tell me the name of the cult...

Ameachi the fine boy who loves sailing...

If Mohammed is all powerful then why can't he fight for himself

Please muslims should respect Mohammed and shouldn't tarnish his legacy...

Peace


MOD if this news is fake then reward the OP with a year ban..

Bubu said the samething... We are seeing another thing..

Nothing for you Northerners.. NIGERIANS are now politcal active no more political apathy...

Another stampede

Cloud007:
wen a nobody enters Saudi and dress like dat without consequence then I will take you serious. Even in Nigeria we all know that sharia law was carefully and strictly written for the poor and nobody.

A cowardice law...
A Religious law is suppose to have no respect for persons but rather Equality in the things of God...

Extremism

whoThemBe:
THIS IS VERY SCARY,BUT I DON'T HAVE TO HIDE IT. THERE IS THIS MYTH IN ASO ROCK ABOUT A CABAL,YES THEY EXIST,BUT NEITHER DO THE MASSES KNOW THEM NOR YEMI OSIBANJO. THE CABALS REPORT DIRECTLY TO THE EMIR OF DAURA WHO IN TURN GIVES FEEDBACK TO SULTAN OF SOKOTO.THIS IS COMING AS A SURPRISE TO YOU. NO DON'T BE. IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT BUHARI IS GOING TO DIE BEFORE 2019,FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE,THE CABAL HAS FINGERED A GROUP OF PERSONS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE WITH THE ALLEGED POISONING OF THE PRESIDENT. THE SULTAN GAVE THE ORDERS THAT BURATAI SHOULD BE RED ALERT IN PREPARATION FOR THE TAKE OVER OF THE STOOL,BUT BEFORE THEN,HE SHOULD ALERT THE NATION OF AN IMPENDING PHANTOM COUP.THE REASON FOR THIS IS TO SEE THE PERCEIVED REACTION FROM THE POPULACE,IF THE REACTION IS NOT RECEPTIVE THEY CAN GO AHEAD WITH PLAN B,THE PLAN B,IS TO ALSO POISON YEMI OSINBANJO WITH A LETHAL POISON,WHICH WILL MAKE HIM DIE SLOWLY.IF TIME IS NOT TAKEN,YEMI OSINBANJO MIGHT DIE BEFORE BUHARI.I AM NOT KIDDING,PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.

DSS coming for u

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The souls of the dead Southern Kaduna people, Ipob people, Shi'ite muslems are speaking against him...

Looking at the other side when they were been slaughtered... He doesn't hide it..

Dead or alive he is still learning or has learnt his lesson...

He is an example of the reward for wicked people...

U must finish ur tenure... Healthy or sick... Finish the mess u started..

Devil who is the father of all liers is now so scared of Liar Mohammed... Devils record is in big trouble..

Devil right now be like

Chibok women...

Scam

Just imagine person papa

So what is Bubu doing in UK?

2kaybiel:
are the countries you mentioned christian countries? do they run ecclesiastics law like most muslism countries run sharia law?

It seems to me like America banned so many muslim countries from entering theirs... Over 80% are Christians while the rest at are Jews..

It seems to likw somewhere in England, a certain fellow called King James translatated the Bible after they broke out of Chatholism to start the Anglican Church..

Why should she dress like a muslim when the Suadi women will never dress like chriatians.. Is she a muslim?

Trying to imposs your sharia law on others.. What concerns christians and sharia law?

So obvious you are an extremist... People like u are in ISIS, Boko Haram, Caliphate etc...

At least she went there...

Have you ever seen Aisha Buhari dress like a Christian whenever she travels to America, England or any Western country?

They find talk where talk no dey

Take it to the grass root...

kingzizzy:
Can someone tell us exactly what happend? The Army moved in and beat them up or what?

The army came to play with them

The cabal has not started yet...

Pretend to fight corruption and steal the money...

Zombies!!!

APCmyheart:
Please can you mention GEJ achievement for me please, is it the 12 lane dual carriage that he construct leading to Otuoke and also all over South East? Is it the airport he repair? Is it the drinking water he provide for his people? Is it the Ogoni clean up...

Oh,, Maybe stealing is not corruption now become an achievement..

The Achievements are over impressive..

Read before you make fun of yourself..

Read and gain wisdom..

When you are done then you tell me what this present government has achieved so far...

People like fashola and Amechi has started saying the truth...



Limits of denigration

These days, the most discernible policy of the new APC government is to attack everything Jonathan. However, propaganda can only mask the truth in the short-term. It cannot destroy the truth in the medium to long-term. No matter what APC traducers say, the fact remains that Goodluck Jonathan was an exceptional president by Nigerian standards.

Now is the time to re-affirm this and to invite a more dispassionate reappraisal of the facts, away from the lies and fabrications of the election campaign. It can no longer be argued today that anyone defending Jonathan is a PDP contractor; a favourite line of defence of Buharimaniacs. Neither can Jonathan defenders be accused any longer of wanting to replace Reuben Abati as the president’s spokesman. “You can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.” No matter what the APC continues to broadcast about the Jonathan administration, the truth cannot be silenced.


Fashola’s gaffe: After six months of stasis, Buhari finally unfurled his ministers in the most anti-climatic fashion. These long-awaited saints and angels turned out to be mostly Santa Claus.

Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos State, is now the minister of Power, Works and Housing. At his maiden news conference, tagged grandiloquently: “Setting the Agenda for Delivering Change,” the same Fashola who spent the election campaign running down the Jonathan administration shocked his audience by revealing that, rather than embark on new road construction projects in 2016, he would only endeavour to build on Jonathan’s achievements.

Wittingly or unwittingly, Fashola gave the lie to APC propaganda that Jonathan’s years were wasted years? If Jonathan was as incompetent as the APC would have us believe, why could the party not launch its own superior nationwide road-building plan, as Buhari had promised in the heady days of the 2015 election campaign? Why rely on allegedly sub-standard PDP foundations?


Similarly, rather than jettison Jonathan’s power-sector reforms that APC derided volubly during the campaign, Fashola revealed that the government will be continuing with them. Jonathan completed 10 power-plants in Nigeria within three years; the first and highest of such record by any Nigerian president living or dead. The APC had accused Jonathan of awarding the power projects to PDP cronies and financiers who are incompetent and deficient. But rather than revoke those contracts, Fashola preached continuity. He also admitted that Jonathan‘s transformation in the power sector is above 50%, and that his job would be to build on this achievement.



Jonathan’s transformation agenda

Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, also had the same assessment of Jonathan’s achievements with regard to rail transportation. He pledged to complete all ongoing rail-restoration projects around the country started by Jonathan; as well as extend them to all parts of the country.

For his part, Audu Ogbeh, the new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, did not even pretend to have an alternative to Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda. Speaking at the launching of the Anchor Borrowers Programme in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Ogbe commended Jonathan’s achievements in agriculture, while also praising his ministerial predecessor for the innovations he introduced.

Thanks to Jonathan, agriculture now accounts for 22 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP, more than oil and gas which only account for 15.9 per cent. Under Jonathan, Nigeria recorded a more than 50 per cent reduction in food imports; from an import bill of N1.4 trillion to less than N700 billion. With the innovation of dry season rice-farming, Nigeria reached 60% self-sufficiency in rice production and became, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the largest producer of cassava in the world.


Anti-corruption hypocrisy

Rather than hit the ground running, the in-coming Buhari administration has spent the last six months on a campaign against Jonathan and his men, as if it is still shopping for Nigerian votes. This campaign has become a substitute for policy, leading to the conclusion that the APC never really expected to win the election and therefore does not know what to do now it has been declared the winner. What the party did during the election campaign was present pie-in-the-sky policies that were never intended to be implemented but were primarily designed to harvest votes.

This accounts for the government’s current embarrassment with its own party manifesto and the denial of its campaign promises. It has even led to APC legislators being constrained to vote against their own policy; the payment of N5000 monthly to the 25 million poorest Nigerians. In six months, the much-touted change of the APC has turned out to be counterfeit. What we have instead is a constant barrage of media trials pertaining to the alleged corruption of the Jonathan administration.

This anti-corruption crusade is clearly not addressed at curtailing corruption. Its primary objective is to kill and bury the PDP. Not even the most ardent supporters of Jonathan would insist that there was not rampant corruption under the PDP. What is unacceptable is the present government’s pretence that corruption in Nigeria is restricted to the PDP when, as a matter of fact, the APC is just as corrupt, if not even more because of its blatant hypocrisy.

The government’s anti-corruption crusade is already without legitimacy because it is unashamedly partial and selective. Allegations made against APC office-holders are procedurally ignored by the government’s anti-corruption watchdogs. Some of the APC chieftains accused of corruption have even been rewarded with major ministerial portfolios. Others have been nominated as APC candidates in governorship elections.

PDP members are labelled corrupt until they declare for the APC; then they automatically become saints. We are meant to believe that while the PDP used government funds to buy favours and votes during the election campaign, APC managed to spend massively to dislodge the PDP from power without doing the same. The truth of the matter is that corruption is not the exclusive preserve of any party or persons. Corruption is endemic to the Nigerian political system.

Selective maligning of the members of the former government will not rid Nigeria of corruption. Neither will allegations of corruption hurriedly put together for the sake of public consumption, which are then thrown out by the courts. Corruption has to be addressed systemically and structurally. But to date, there is little evidence that the government’s anti-corruption intentions go beyond the witch-hunting of the Jonathan administration.




Jonathan’s legacies

To the extent that the present administration can be said to have any policies after six months in office, they are all legacies of the Jonathan administration. The TSA is from Jonathan. The turn-around maintenance of our refineries is from Jonathan. The re-equipping of our military is from Jonathan. The improvement in electricity is a Jonathan legacy. On the other hand, the major policies enunciated in the APC election manifesto remain essentially pipe-dreams.

In spite of APC propaganda, Jonathan’s men keep matching on. Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, Jonathan’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development is now President of the Africa Development Bank (AfDB). Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jonathan’s Minister of Finance, and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, is now a Senior Adviser at Lazzard; a prestigious 167 year-old global investment firm. Arunma Otteh, Jonathan’s Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is now a Vice-President of the World Bank.

To paraphrase Marc Antony of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interrèd with their bones. So let it be with Jonathan. The noble APC hath told you Jonathan was clueless. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Jonathan answered it.”



1) CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW ABUJA – KADUNA RAIL TRACK: President Jonathan’s administration has constructed the new world class infrastructural project; the Abuja-Kaduna Rail is ready. [WATCH VIDEO ON YOUTUBE)

2) OPERATION AQUILA: Operation Aquila under President Jonathan has helped reduce up to 20 million litters a day in PMS subsidy fraud by using technology to track the movement of petroleum around Nigeria.

3) DRY SEASON FADAMA FARMING: Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of N26 billion for the 2015 dry season farming in the country, the scheme was launched in 2012 and has provided thousands of jobs. According to Mr President, ”not only is food produced, we are now processing food. Food production is rising rapidly and thousands of jobs are being created for our young people.”


4) FIRST EVER N970 BILLION CUSTOMS REVENUE: Over Nine Hundred and Seventy Billion Naira (almost N1 trillion) was realised by the Nigeria Customs Service in 2014. The highest any custom regime has ever collected and declared in the history of Nigeria. This was against the eight hundred and thirty-three billion made in 2013.

5) N120 MILLION NAIRA GRANT TO YOUNG FARMERS: One hundred and twenty two million naira grant has been disbursed to twenty seven young farmers, under the Youth Employment Agricultural Programme, YEAP on 2015, according to The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adeshina.

6) DEVELOPMENT OF A SATELLITE FOR SECURITY AND MINERAL DEPOSIT: National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is developing an indigenous Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite which will be helpful in the area of security, mapping out our solid minerals deposit and, also to monitor the coastal areas of Niger Delta.

7) ZERO CASE OF POLIO SINCE JULY 2014: Nigeria has not reported any case of wild polio virus (type one), since the last case was reported last July 2014 in Kano State as revelled at the Expert Review Committee meeting in Abuja.

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT & ICT; 2,000 WOMEN TRAINED UNDER G-WIN: 2,000 Women have been trained in ICT under the scheme G-WIN-by Minister of of women Affairs and Social Development – Hajiya Zainab Maina. PROPOSALS/ PLANS; The Nigerian government has unveiled a new Information and Communication Technology, ICT, paradigm for women. It would lead to a greater number of women and youths having unhindered access to IT knowledge for wealth creation and improvement of their socio-economic well-being.The process will provide available infrastructure for women and youths to have easy and strategic access to e-commerce, e-government, e-education and e-society, infrastructure .
200(1) Abuja kaduna rail track

9) CONSTRUCTION OF DAMS: The Kashimbilla/Gamovodam is part of the over thirty dams that have been constructed in this administration. Fed Govt has constructed dams to boost water supply across the country – by the Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe.

10) SOKOTO- YAURI- KONTAGORA ROAD: The Federal Government said has awarded contract for reconstruction of the 655-kilometre Sokoto-Yauri-Kontagora road.

11) GREAT GREEN WALL PROJECT: Curtailing decertification under the Great Green Wall Project (GGW) launched in Kebbi State by Mr President.

12) GRAINS SILO: Construction of 100metric tons of Grain Silos in Kebbi State.

13) REVIVAL OF COTTON INDUSTRY IN ZAMFARA STATE: Fed Govt. has resuscitated the moribund cotton industry in Gasau in Zamfara State. Fed Govt has built 15 ginneries in the State, the grinneries can hold up to 2,000 tons of cotton.

14) N320 BILLION RICE ECONOMY: Local rice production contributed 320 Billion Naira to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country in 2014 – the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina ( Source Fed Min. Of Info ).

15) RICE PRODUCTION 760,000 JOBS CREATED: Rice production has created 760,00 jobs, according to the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina ( Source Fed Min. Of Info )

16) FIRST EVER 2.9 MILLION METRIC TONS OF RICE PRODUCTION 2013: Based on the 2013 production of 1.9 Million Metric Tons of rice, the projected production for the 2013 farming season is expected to be about 2.9 Million Metric Tons of high quality rice milled from local sources. 202) Nigeria produces over 9m, making us 85% rice sufficientIn 2009, Nigeria was producing below 5 million tonnes of rice, today we are 85% rice sufficient. ?We are going to be the Thailand of Africa?. Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina ( Source Fed Min. Of Info ).

17) ESTABLISHMENT OF 13 NEW RICE MILLS: Miva Rice Mill is in Benue State, it is one of the thirteen rice mills that have been established under this administration. Before the launch of the Agricultural Transformational Agenda (ATA) in 2011, only one integrated rice mill was functioning in the whole of the country With the recent establishment of the 60,000 Ton Olam Farm due to be commissioned in June,2014, this will bring to 13, the number of local rice mills so far established by this administration. ( Source Fed Min. Of Info ).

18) ESTABLISHMENT OF GROWTH ENHANCEMENT SUPPORT SCHEME: This has ensured that rice is not just harvested but is also milled in Nigeria and sold directly to Nigerian consumers. Thus, it can be seen that the Federal Government under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan has been putting in place both policies and the enabling environment for the production of small, medium, and large-scale production of rice. This falls directly under the purview of the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GES) for the increase of value chain in the rice producing area of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda. ( Source Fed Min. Of Info ).

19) N25.32 BILLION LOAN TO FARMERS: Again, the Federal Government has come to the rescue, by providing access to funds, grants, loans and other assistance notably through the Bank of Industry (BOI) which was recently given a grant of N25.32 Billion for 986 enterprises to offset its expenditure, service farmers and industries with loan facilities, all in a bid to boost rice production. ( Source Fed Min. Of Info).

20) THE FIRST EVER AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT HIRING SERVICES (AEHE): Local farmers can obtain mechanised services through a scheme by the Fed Govt called the Agricultural Equipment Hiring Services (AEHE) for planting, weeding and harvesting. ( Source Fed Min. Of Info )

21) NIGERIA’S GAS SUPPLY HITS 2 BILLION CUBIC FEET PER DAY: The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says Nigeria has grown its gas supply market from 300 million to two billion cubic feet per day (cfpd).The Group Executive Director, Gas and Power, NNPC, Dr. David Ige, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. Ige attributed the achievement to successful implementation of the Nigeria Gas Master Plan by the Government of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. (source Voice of Nigeria)

22) NIGERIA ONE OF THE LARGEST PRODUCERS OF FERTILISER: Nigeria’s growth in her gas supply market from 300 million to two billion cubic feet per day (cfpd), has already positioned Nigeria to be the largest producer of fertiliser by 2018 and a major exporter.
SURE-P & ROAD CONSTRUCTION:

23) ROAD CONSTRUCTION- DUALIZATION: Dualization of five (5) key arterial roads – Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja Highway.

24) DUALIZATION: Kano-Maiduguri Highway,

25) RECONSTRUCTION AND DULAIZATION: Onitsha-Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.

26) RECONSTRUCTION AND DUALIZATION: Benin-Ore-Shagamu Expressway.

27) RECONSTRUCTION AND DUALIZATION: Lagos-Shagamu-Ibadan Expressway.

28) CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES: The new Loko-Oweto Bridge over River Benue linking Nasarawa and Benue States.

29) CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES: The Second Niger Bridge in Onitsha/Asaba linking Anambra and Delta States.

30) COMPLETION OF 62 ROADS ACROSS THE NATION: Oturkpo-Oweto Road (Section in Benue State
31) Completion of Otukpa-Ayangba-Ajaokuta-Okene Road in Kogi State

32) Completion of Ningi-Yadagumgume-Fuskar Mata Road (Phase II) in Bauchi State

33) Completion of Yana-Shira-Azare Road in Bauchi State

34) Completion of Wukari-Takum Road in Taraba State

35) Completion of Benin-Ofosu Expressway in Edo States

36) Completion of Enugu-Abakaliki Road in Enugu/Ebonyi States

37) Completion of Ogoja Junction-Ikom Road in Cross River State

38) Completion of Ado-Ilumoba-Agbado-Ikare Road in Ekiti State

39) Completion of the Dualization of Ibadan-Ilorin road section I (Ibadan – Oyo) in Oyo State.

40) Completion of the Reconstruction of Vom-Manchok road in Plateau State.

41) Completion of the Repairs of 3rd Mainland Bridge (Phase II), covering additional works for the replacement of 8Nos. Expansion Joints in Lagos State.

42) Completion of the Dualization of Onitsha-Owerri Road (Section I) and Onitsha Eastern Bypass, in Anambra State.

43) Completion of the Rehabilitation of Uba-Mbalala road in Borno State.

44) Completion of the Rehabilitation of Funtua-Gusau-Sokoto road (Section II: Gusau-Talata Mafara) in Zamfara and Sokoto States.

45) Completion of the Rehabilitation of Obiozora-Uburu-Ishiagu Road in Enugu and Ebonyi States.

46) Completion of the Access Road to Kaduna Refinery in Kaduna State.

47) Completion of the Construction/Rehabilitation of Gbogan-Iwo road in Oyo State.

48) Completion of the Rehabilitation of Owerri-Aba Road in Imo and Abia States.

49) Completion of the Rehabilitation of Katsina-Daura road in Katsina State.

50) Completion of the Rehabilitation of Ijebu Igbo-Ajegunle- Araromi-Ife-Sekona Road (Section II), in Ogun State.

51) Emergency reinstatement of collapsed section of Gombe-Potiskum Road, (at Km 12) in Gombe State.

52) Rehabilitation of road Spur from Onitsha-Owerri road to Okija-Ihembosi-Afor Ukpor-Ebenator-Ezenifite in Anambra State.

53) Construction of 15km Interstate road from Aiyegunle-Akoko Edo in Ondo and Edo States.

54) Completion of the Rehabilitation of access roads to Warri Refinery in Delta State.

55) Completion of the Dualization of Access Road to Onne Port in Rivers State.

56) Construction of Gombe-Bypass in Gombe State.

57) Rehabilitation of Odo Oba-Takie-Gambari-Otte-Oyo State border along Ibadan-Oyo Ogbomosho-Ilorin road in Oyo State.

58) Emergency Reinstatement of collapsed section of Wukari-Mutum Biyu road in Taraba State.

59) Reinstatement of Washouts at km6+750, km30+400 and km35+325 along Onitsha-Enugu dual carriageway in Anambra and Enugu States.

60) Emergency reinstatement of Washout/Gully erosion at KM127+000 at Auchi along Okene-Benin road and Km14+000 along Auchi-Agenebode road in Edo State.
61) Construction of Langtang-Lalin-Tunkus-Shendam Road in Plateau State.



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IamAirforce1:
Rubbish

This things don't move me

And u were the first to click and comment...

APCmyheart:
And how ils yaradua and GEJ?

How do u compare their achievements to these present one?

Hausa /Fulani don't like peace, progress and development rather dey love destruction and hatred...

Please let this country divide... Over 300 ethnic groups can't make a peaceful Nation...

Hausa/fulani if that coup should happen then civil war will happen...

We go turn this zoo called 9ja to Somalia.. In fact Somalia will see the destruction of 9ja (especially the North east, North west) and they will have hope...

Barbaric animals

Mayday Mayday!!

Who is the Presidency

Over

Mayday mayday maday..... Scam alert.... I repeat scam alert...

Over!!!

APCmyheart:
maybe samething that is wrong with US that voted a 71 yrs man..

How old was d previous president n the presidents b4 him?