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 Politics › Re: Thugs Destroy President Buhari's Posters In Taraba (Pictures) by knowme(m): 11:28am On Feb 07, 2019 |
JasonScoolari:lolz keep giving yourself temporary joy, who has totally rejected him ? we do not have an alternative at the moment so we stick with Buhari instead of a known thief. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: What El-rufai's 'body Bag' Statement Will Do To Buhari's Government - Ben Bruce by knowme(m): 8:13am On Feb 07, 2019 |
Rotimi47:like I said we have selective amnesia in this country the second man said it and it was meant to destroy Nigeria but the enemies of Nigeria would not see it its a person that said if theses interference something will happen that we are after its obvious we select what to condemn and what we support as much as the tone was bad i'd expected we all had condemn Uche Secondus the same way everyone is after the governor |
| Politics › Re: When They Tell You The APC Brought Suffering To Nigeria Show Them These by knowme(op): 11:48am On Feb 06, 2019 |
1StopRudeness:like I said earlier we are not where we want to be but we are at least taking small steps towards there, We cannot deny him credit dementia or not dude is resolute on building a better Nigeria, he might lack the capacity but he is better than someone whose aim is to drain the purse and to further draw us back to where we were heading. |
| Politics › Re: When They Tell You The APC Brought Suffering To Nigeria Show Them These by knowme(op): 10:58am On Feb 06, 2019 |
EdoBoyJazzie:and who is shifting blame we just stating the facts this issue with Nigeria did not start today. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › When They Tell You The APC Brought Suffering To Nigeria Show Them These by knowme(op): 10:43am On Feb 06, 2019 |
800 companies shut down in 3 years, says NACCIMA https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/99757-800-companies-shut-down-in-3-years-says-naccima.html 85 Companies Delisted From Nigerian Stock Exchange In 14 Years http://www.dailydigest.ng/85-companies-delisted-nigeria-stock-exchange/ Privatization, Atiku and the tales before https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/privatization-atiku-and-the-tales-before.html CBN Plans Revival of Moribund Manufacturing Companies with N500bn https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/12/10/cbn-plans-revival-of-moribund-manufacturing-companies-with-n500bn/ I just do not understand why as Nigerians we have selective amnesia we choose to forget what we want to forget and remember what we choose to remember, the present government is absolutely not made up of saints but they are better than the previous ones and even if we have to sack them it is not for us to go back to the PDP, the people that destroyed our commonwealth cannot be called upon to fix it again, we did not have the youths on a good platform this year but we must admit that the man has done way better in the four years than the PDP has done their whole existence. its a choice that we must make not to go back to the years of the canker-worm 4 Likes 1 Share
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| Politics › Re: Leak Tapes: Oshiomhole Reacts To Amaechi’s Alleged Criticism Of Buhari by knowme(m): 9:50am On Jan 09, 2019 |
Vtrd:I listened to the tape several times and we are aware of the antics of the PDP, bro, if we are going to go for a change it should be something different not the same set of people in evil there are are greater evils even in doing good there is what is called a greater good. The APC is way better than the PDP with their imperfections. |
| Politics › Re: Leak Tapes: Oshiomhole Reacts To Amaechi’s Alleged Criticism Of Buhari by knowme(m): 4:40pm On Jan 07, 2019 |
Vtrd:He did not have to deny it as reasonable people know that the tape was worked on, and misconstrued, no one wastes times on such liers 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Saraki: Banning Of IPOB By Military & South-East Governors Is Unconstitutional by knowme(m): 1:09pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
Like honestly I have not read all the comments on here so I can't be very sure that no one has talked about this for me though I do not see why they should be called terrorists, their activities can be banned but designating them with the terror label does not sleep well for me, and for Nnamdi Kanu I do not understand why someone who claims to be education cannot take a leave from what has been happening around him, Kanu ought to have tried out his popularity and desire to get out of Nigeria by going through due process, shey himself and the East want to leave Nigeria ? start a party with the IPOB tag, lets see who joins, then get people to run for elections into the federal legislative arms if he is so popular all his guys will get elected, when they get to Abuja they can start a constitutional amendment and in the process include BIAFA as one of the agendas, so there will be a provision for referendum incase a group is tired of being part of Nigeria, once that goes thru he will use the machinery of the constitution to get the referendum he so badly wants and if the majority of Igbo people want BIAFRA then am sure Nigeria will have no choice but to let Biafra be, so first he must become a politician |
| Politics › Re: Public Officials Took N400bn Bribe In 1 Year – NBS by knowme(m): 12:46pm On Aug 17, 2017 |
Keballl:Bro what am against is you saying that the fight against corruption is a sham, I agree there is corruption in the system and its not the making of this administration for corruption to get to this extend, if there was something to compare against then am sure we would have been able to tell the difference but as it is we at least have something to compare to with time |
| Politics › Re: Public Officials Took N400bn Bribe In 1 Year – NBS by knowme(m): 11:32am On Aug 17, 2017 |
baralatie:Same thing Sagay said, and what am even standing on is the fact that we atleast have a report of some sort 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Public Officials Took N400bn Bribe In 1 Year – NBS by knowme(m): 11:10am On Aug 17, 2017 |
BroZuma:that was actually meant for the person that quoted the guy not you, I guess should have quoted the two of you, its in saying that the dude is the chief statistician so he can say anything to defend his figures |
| Politics › Re: Public Officials Took N400bn Bribe In 1 Year – NBS by knowme(m): 11:08am On Aug 17, 2017 |
Keballl:I asked two pertinent questions that you refused to answer or choose to ignore, what are the statistics from the years before ? and May 2015 was not the start of this regime it started from May 29 2015 so please check things properly before you start to insult people I did not call anyone a fool and I am making sense the last administration did not care he said it on TV that stealing is not corruption so it was not relevant to have known the statistics cos am sure it will be worst 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Public Officials Took N400bn Bribe In 1 Year – NBS by knowme(m): 10:57am On Aug 17, 2017 |
BroZuma:lol check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemi_Kale |
| Politics › Re: Public Officials Took N400bn Bribe In 1 Year – NBS by knowme(m): 10:50am On Aug 17, 2017 |
Seguntimmy:Its not about this administration, its about the Nigerian system the administration is trying to curb it but its not going to be an easy task, the report was from May 2015-May 2016 so it started even before this administration came into power and have we seen previous reports ? NO because at that time it was not a crime 1 Like |
| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Air Force Recruitment Screening In Lagos: Soldiers Punish Defaulting Applicants by knowme(m): 1:53pm On Feb 23, 2017 |
OgidiOlu3:when a person behaves like an animal you treat them as such, I always want to weep for our generation just to cross the pedestrian bridge you find serious disorderliness and when treat as animals they complain, anytime the police are there slapping and kicking them you find people complying so please lets not support them we saw what the OP said they were disorderly and when you are getting into the armed forces you are supposed to be disciplined and very orderly if you miss one of those then you do not belong there. |
| Family › Re: Between A Guy And A Girl Begging For Alm (Photos) by knowme(m): 4:29pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
The Nigeria of our Dreams, nice one OP, the needy will always be there its our duty to help in anyway we can. |
| Family › Re: People Please Have Mercy On Me Before I Die by knowme(m): 7:11am On Oct 17, 2016 |
It's been an interesting read, I just hope I don't get to work in the field today cos I might just sleep and fall from a mast lol I deprived me sleep to see how it all ended a lot of you did really well in brokering peace between this girl and her parent which was actually the main help she needed and I will suggest someone keeps a close tab on her so she wouldn't go Astray again. 2 Likes |
| Family › Re: Solved by knowme(m): 2:11am On Oct 01, 2016 |
People seriously do not seem to see things the way the poster is seeing them, she should continue with the attitude and watch her marriage crumble, we come here looking at other peeps culture and forget we gave ours I know lots of women do not like it when men talk about culture or traditions in marriage but there are things expected from a woman, you cannot keep your hubby away and then start doing mundane things he has mentioned something points that no one is addressing the fact that she idles away with her phone and no one sees anything wrong with that he is human for Christ's sakes and he deserves some attention too I've seen women who busy their asses up even after delivery and 5months for that matter she should sit her lazy ass up and begin to work whats the official maternity leave period ? She should better sit up and stop being lazy, I've had an experience and its not a good one. Story for another day . 4 Likes |
| TV/Movies › One Room A Movie To Watch by knowme(op): 10:21am On Jun 22, 2016 |
From the producers of Lekki wives 1 to 3, and This thing called Marriage comes another block buster Movie "One Room" watch the Trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItylVt8P8g Want to stream the whole movie ? go to www.bconceptnetwork.tv and you are going to have fun.
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| Politics › Re: PDP Replies Aisha Buhari On Twitter by knowme(m): 8:36am On Jun 22, 2016 |
PhockPhockMan:This was way back 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/business/yourmoney/29lobby.html?_r=1 |
| Politics › Re: FG Is Right On Fuel Subsidy Removal by knowme(m): 2:43pm On May 13, 2016 |
LadyExcellency:Lol, accept that your man was too weak to run this country simple |
| Nairaland General › Re: You Do Not Know Where You Stand In The Fuel Subsidy Issue ? Please Read This. by knowme(op): 2:21pm On May 13, 2016 |
Those names you are calling are names that I would not call if I were you, its the duty of the last administration to have handled them, GEJ was not a saint when it comes to brute force, he used that a couple of times and that earned him the Nebuchadnezzar tag, so please. if this government fails us we have a chance to send them packing soon , so let us give them the benefit of the doubt and see how it goes, while we ready ourselves for another change in 2019 |
| Nairaland General › Re: You Do Not Know Where You Stand In The Fuel Subsidy Issue ? Please Read This. by knowme(op): 12:44pm On May 13, 2016 |
DesChyko:Name calling is something I do not agree with, but that aside, it takes a courageous person to face a monster and kill it, and that was precisely what was missing in Jonathan, like Tolu said Nigeria was capable of subsidizing at that time and what was the excuse ? because the government allowed too many leakages so much so that they lost control of the situation, then they wanted to bring it down on the masses and it was what we rejected, we heard of arrests but uptil now none of those has been convicted, GEJ lacked the Political will to deal with corruption and it was what got him outta there. |
| Nairaland General › You Do Not Know Where You Stand In The Fuel Subsidy Issue ? Please Read This. by knowme(op): 11:53am On May 13, 2016 |
http://www.thescoopng.com/tolu-ogunlesi-where-i-now-stand-on-the-fuel-subsidy-removal-debate/ By Tolu Ogunlesi I was a fervent believer and participant in the Occupy Nigeria protests of January 2012. The issue I had with the removal was less with the subsidy itself than with a number of important issues surrounding it, which I shall outline in the paragraphs below. The main anti-subsidy argument was that Nigeria could not afford a $6 to $8 billion annual expenditure on its appetite for petrol – an appetite that, as the argument went, owed a lot more to the car-owning middle class than the country’s Bottom Millions. As the premise for a fuel subsidy debate, I found that $6bn figure deeply dishonest and unacceptable. I felt-and still do-that the fuel subsidy conversation in Nigeria was actually a $2bn issue, not a $6bn to $8bn one. Before former President Goodluck Jonathan entered the picture, it was a $2bn issue. That it swelled three- to four-fold under him was Jonathan’s problem, not that of the subsidy. It should never in the first place have been a $6bn or $8bn conversation – that price tag was simply the adulterated product of a government that was bent on conferring a “GCFR” on government impunity. I also felt that the corruption-is-so-bad-we-need-to-abolish-fuel-subsidies argument didn’t make much sense. When did the primary response to corruption become “scrap”, not “probe-punish-and-reform”? If it is to be considered a sensible line, then we must also consider scrapping the civil service because of the “ghost workers” and contract inflation scams that make it significant more for what it consumes than it produces. If all we did was abolish the subsidy and divert the spending elsewhere more “productive”, would the unchecked criminal impulses not simply have taken on a new identity, followed the money, and dragged us back to square one? The Jonathan government did not only look the other way when the madness was going on, it actively created a conducive environment for all those subsidy fraud criminals, with a topping of incentives to boot. First, there was the scaling-down, under Jonathan’s watch, of the conditions that needed to be met to qualify as a fuel importer. This allowed the number of fuel importers to swell from 36 in 2009 to a whopping 140 in 2011, within the first year of the Jonathan administration. One hundred and sixteen of these 140 got fuel importation licences predating their application for such. In January 2012, I considered all these issues at length and became totally convinced that President Jonathan lacked the moral authority to preside over a removal of fuel subsidies. With no apparent remorse for the madness that had just taken place under his watch, he deserved every bit of the flak he got for the cowardly, kick-the-problem-down-the-road decision he took, or allowed to be taken in his name, in January 2012. Now, more than three years on, the fuel subsidy debate is back on the table. This time round, the clamour for its removal is much more insistent than it was back then. So where do I, an unrepentant Occupy Nigeria protester, now stand? I am proud to declare that I am now very much in support of the removal – on account of the fact that there’s a new order; one that, on account of the messaging of change, it rode into office on, and of the pedigree of the man on whose table the buck stops, has the moral authority to make that all-important decision. But I will insist that we must realise and never fail to emphasise that the challenge ahead of us is about a lot more than merely stopping a subsidy regime. It is also about the following issues: One, accountability and the punishment of impunity. Two. The domestic refining debate. According to a former Petroleum Minister, Tam David-West, Nigeria once produced enough petroleum products to feed the export market. Alongside the “Why is Africa’s leading economy producing only 3,000MW of electricity” question, “Why has Africa’s largest oil producer not been able to get its refineries running at optimal capacity” – is perhaps the most persistently disturbing conundrum to be tackled by the new government. The House of Representatives report on the subsidy fraud highlighted that the 445,000 barrels allocated daily to our four existing refineries would, if fully processed, be enough to meet Nigeria’s daily petrol and kerosene consumption, and 75 per cent of our diesel needs. Three. The application of the proceeds to be derived from the subsidy removal. There’s no point going through the pain of transferring billions of dollars from #Transformation thieves only to hand them over to #Change bandits. So, what can/will President Muhammadu Buhari do? He could put it back into the federal spending system, through a Supplementary Budget, and use it to boost the meagre 10 per cent of the 2015 federal budget allocated to capital spending. Or he can create his own special intervention fund (like Gen. Sani Abacha’s Petroleum Trust Fund – which he, Buhari, ran, between 1994 and 1998; and President Jonathan’s Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme), to be used for a specific set of projects. Going with the argument that Nigeria’s poorest citizens – more than 100 million currently live below the poverty line, according to official data – deserve the billions spent on subsidising petrol, it would make sense to prioritise the savings for funding the Conditional Cash Transfer promised by the All Progressives Congress in its manifesto. The eventual goal is to cover 25 million of the poorest Nigerians in this scheme, but the party has hinted at a phased approach. The new government could roll out, as soon as is practicable, a CCT granting N5,000 per month to five million poor Nigerians. Bolsa Familia, Brazil’s version of this programme helped it lift tens of millions of people out of poverty in the last two decades. The obstacles to this would be the documentation; in the absence of a comprehensive national database, how do you manage a large-scale welfare scheme for citizens? Without individual income / earnings data, how do you determine those who are most eligible for a cash transfer? How do you safeguard it from the spirit of “ghost workers” and of subsidy theft? How do you make sure that two years down the line, you do not have a fraud on your hands that makes the fuel subsidy crisis look like a piggy bank accounting error? All these questions will need to be answered for a CCT to work successfully. Let me close by restating my stance: Today, more than three years after I joined the tens of thousands of Nigerians who took to the streets to protest the Jonathan’s government handling of the fuel subsidy, I think this change of government offers us the best opportunity in decades to end the subsidy. And it should be one of the first actions to be taken by the new government. The President himself should announce the removal, and should on the back of this publicly commit his government to a series of far-reaching reforms focusing on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Petroleum Industry Bill, Domestic Refining, and prosecution of the 2010 – 2012 class of subsidy thieves. Anything less and it’d be easy to doubt that he means business. It is sad and exasperating to find social media laden with simplistic narratives of the opposition to the removal of fuel subsidies in 2012. I find arguments that “You people fought Jonathan when he wanted to remove this subsidy” not only shallow but totally missing the point. Jonathan did not care about real reform; he was simply a man panicked by the noise being made about vanishing billions and looking for a short cut out. Real reform is a completely different concept, requiring not just political will but also the moral authority, or at the very least the absence of a moral burden. It is that “real” reform that Nigerians will be counting on President Buhari to spearhead in the weeks and months ahead. – This Best Outside Opinion was written by Tolu Ogunlesi/Punch. Follow this writer on Twitter: @toluogunlesi I know some people have a different argument please if you do say it out not name calling. |
| Politics › Re: The Notable Difference Between Jonathan And Buhari's Subsidy Removal by knowme(m): 11:35am On May 13, 2016 |
hazyfm:the right answer there, am loving this debate. |
| Celebrities › Re: Why I Think Mi Abaga Is The Best Rap Artiste Ever Been Comes Out Of Nigeria by knowme(m): 10:38am On Apr 19, 2016 |
Been wondering why dudes on Nairaland do not talk about MI Abaga or are we afraid of good Music ? dude is the best outta africa jor |
| Politics › Re: Omojuwa Turns Wailer Blasts Buhari by knowme(m): 10:43am On Apr 07, 2016 |
swtdrms:Like you rightly said, if they do not perform we have a legal way of sending off ASO Rock, we are mostly on the same line but the only thing I do not agree with you on is the issue of being a wailer, am sure if you understand who a wailer is you would not want to be part of them, because they are irrational beings that do not see anything good in anything outside of their region. |
| Politics › Re: Omojuwa Turns Wailer Blasts Buhari by knowme(m): 12:30pm On Apr 06, 2016 |
swtdrms:Lol you are too shallow minded and I would not want to join issues with you, that someone complained about how the system is running does not now suggest that he has become a wailer, wailers are people that cried for corruption to remain, while some of us just wanted change, that change is not happening does not mean that its not going to happen, and if it does not happen we have laid the foundation for change we are going going to change the changer and if the one that comes in does not perform then we will change him too until things change in this country. |
| Politics › Re: Family Announces Alamiyeseigha's Funeral Arrangements by knowme(m): 10:41am On Apr 04, 2016 |
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| Politics › Re: Dokpesi : Dasukigate Is Witch-hunt, Doesn’t Exist. The Cable. by knowme(m): 7:57pm On Jan 06, 2016 |
Tabon:So PDP did not have a financial secretary or accountant, but Dasuki abi ? |
