₦airaland Forum

tensor777:
You need to stop talking nonsense and bringing up irrelevant issues. The main objective of the national guard would be to provide and maintain internal security.
Its as simple as that.

Beaf:
I think every Nigerian must be aware of the cards being laid down on the table. Nobody is giving ground to any fcker, especially to fckers like the Ciroma's and Kanti Bello's who hail from Nigeria's backwaters like Katsina and Yobe. Who do these people think they are dictating to?

I like the way you say "REAL federal character," it sounds totally mischievous . An easy way to kill the "argument" would be to emphasise both merit and the high tech angle, that way you knock off any unschooled people (and shame no go let pipul complain ).
The next step would be to do a thorough internal "reorganisation" of JTF, which is by far Nigeria's most powerful brigade; with sea, land and air components. After which they can be further beefed up with more sophisticated drones than they currently have, better personel carriers and desert fighting tactics.

Let the new National Guard alone, man Abuja. After all the above (and more, trusting more knowledgable security folk), Yakasai, Ciroma, Kanti Bello and the other members of their their gang of bats can be locked up and the key thrown away.

Ikengawo:
god you guys are RETARDED! lol
are you seriously AGAINST the idea of a national guard?!
wtf? why?
lets say the police force isn't good, how is having a national guard going to be bad!?
you people suck lol. you talk about the nigerian leaders being bad but you people have 0 ideas and 0 understanding of the real world and if put in their position you would be regressive and ignorant as death smh.
WOW. i was even wondering why nigeria didn't have a national guard and you guys are AGAINST that idea wtf is wrong with you?
what real country in the world doesn't have a national guard? quit being so ignorant.
ANYTHING nigeria does you people are against it.

Obiagu1:
^^^
IBB has vast ideas for this country and I'll support him till the end.

Onlytruth:
Another IBB brainchild. I wonder why every major Federal Govt policy must have been initiated by IBB. Na wa o.
In any case let's see how this one unfolds. May be good, provided it is done right.

Written by Jacob Segun Olatunji, Abuja, Oladipo Adelowo, Lagos, with Agency reports
Saturday, 30 October 2010

State Security Service (SSS) and Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) are set on warpath over seizure of large consignments of arms and ammunition illegally imported into the country by yet to be identified persons, with indications showing that heads may roll in Customs over the matter.

Customs had continued to lay claim to the seizure of the  consignments brought into Apapa Port, saying it intercepted the items since last July and was still carrying out investigations on how they came into the country.

However, findings show that the SSS has faulted the submission of Customs while laying claim to the actual seizure of the arms and ammunition, which came in 13 containers.

Sources at SSS, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Saturday Tribune that operatives of the security agency discovered the shock find in the course of investigations and immediately alerted the Federal Government and the entire world.

“Customs cannot in any way lay claim to the discovery of the huge weapons because if it was true that they intercepted them since last July, why did they not alert the appropriate quarters and what investigation have they done on the matter? And who have they arrested so far?” a source told Saturday Tribune.

Saturday Tribune gathered that the Federal Government is not taking the issue lightly as it is said to have resolved not to spare those that may be found to be involved in the alleged criminal importation and their collaborators.

Indications are that a shakeup is imminent in the Nigeria Customs Service with possibility of some top officers losing their jobs and facing prosecution.

The Comptroller General of Customs (CG), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, warned importers of explosives and their collaborators to beware, declaring that there was no hiding place for them in the country.

The CGC, who inspected the 13 containers laddened with arms and ammunition on Thursday at the AP Muller Terminal, Apapa Port, pinned the discovery to latest equipment being used by the force to detect such illicit cargoes even as he disclosed that investigations into the circumstances surrounding the illegal importation were ongoing.

Dikko visited the place along with some of his principal staff officers from Customs Headquarters, Abuja, at about 3.30 p.m. amid tight security.

He stated that his department was fully ready and fortified to burst importation of illegal cargoes into the country.

“I want to warn those who are into importation of arms and ammunition and their collaborators to stay away from the nation’s ports or the long arm of the law would soon catch up with them. When it does, the full weight of the law shall be brought to bear on such person or groups of persons. There is no untouchable as far as the importation of illegal arms is concern,” he added.

Meanwhile, the illegal arms shipment discovered in Lagos this week was loaded in Iran by an Iranian trader, the firm that operates the vessel that delivered it said on Friday.

“The shipment in question was booked as a ‘shippers owned container’ and supplied loaded and sealed by the shipper, an Iranian trader who does not appear on any ‘forbidden persons’ listing,” said CMA CGM, which operates the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel.

According to Agence France Presse (AFP), CMA CGM, based in France, said the containers were loaded in Bandar Abbas, a southern port city of Iran,  and discharged in Lagos in July.

According to the firm, last week, the shipper asked to have the containers reloaded and sent to the Gambia.

Clearance had been obtained before Nigerian customs intervened and halted the shipment, according to CMA CGM.

Iranian embassy officials in Nigeria refused to comment, saying a statement would be issued later.

An intelligence agency spokeswoman has said authorities were on heightened alert following October 1 twin car bombings in the capital that killed at least 12 people.

Ten of the containers opened so far contain an array of weaponry, customs spokesman, Wale Adeniyi said, despite being declared as building materials.

CMA CGM said it has been cleared of any involvement in the illegal shipment and called itself the “victim of (a) false cargo declaration.”

Two people have reportedly been arrested in connection with the cargo, but security officials have not confirmed the reports.

Authorities have publicly refused to speculate on the origins or destination of the shipment, coming just months before presidential elections, but have heightened port security.

“Certainly security at the ports has been beefed up and we are trying to move up ahead ,  and tighten our own systems to block such shipments,” Adeniyi told AFP.

Regarding paperwork for the shipment that contained the weapons, Adeniyi said “the documents were irregular,  and we felt that the names given on them were false.”

He added that the precise quantities of the weapons will be known after all the containers were opened.

So far, the 10 examined contained “similar contents — mortars, grenades, light ammunition and of course tiles,” said Adeniyi.

The ship’s last port of call before arriving in Nigeria was India’s Jawaharlal Nehru port near Mumbai, the customs service has said. The vessel berthed in the Nigerian port on July 10 and sailed out on July 15.

becomrich4:
This story can never be true. The nigeria custom do not check cango going to other countries. but only cargo going into Nigeria. Any ship making transit in Nigeria do not off load thier cargo for check. And the nigeria claim some days ago. A form M was missing, which  you need if you want to bring cargo into Nigeria.

What it means is they were trying to bring it into nigeria. why were the people trying to check in the cargo into Nigeria, if it was going to isreal.

naijaway:
tru dat! we should investigate but at the same time learn everything about the making of such weapons structually, materials, and through investigations (as per finding the culprits mentality). We should document them and see if we can begin mass production. More should please come through naija including f-anything, black hawks, etc. Those iranians should be threatened that they will be deported to israel while the iranian govt should be told the bail money ($500,000 per individual). Israeli investigators or any investigator should not be allowed one on one interrogation. We should use ecomog clout to patrol the coast lines of west africa in other to seize more of these from anybody. Any arms seized equals more weapons, more tech, and more bail money.

D-sense:
What's next to do

babapupa:
Why is this man not the president of Nigeria?
Day after day, hour after hour, it's like Lagos state is becoming a separate country inside Nigeria and I'm feeling more and more Lagosian and not Nigerian and Nigeria is fat becoming irrelevant.

jason12345:
the question is:
1) when atiku contested in 2003, if he had won, are we still going to talk about zoning or we are going to annul an election
2) when he was in the position of power, did he create the ground for zoning (before abacha did a coup)

Written by Johnson Babajide, Lokoja
Thursday, 28 October 2010

Former military president and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), General Ibrahim Babangida, on Wednesday, led his campaign team to Lokoja, Kogi State capital, with a warning that the nation may be plunged into troubled waters if the party jettisons the zoning arrangement, which it agreed on in 2002.

Babangida dropped the bombshell through his campaign director, Dr Raymond Dokpesi, who made presentation to the state governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, and the people of the state at the banquet hall of Government House.

Babangida, who reminded the governor of the 2002 expanded meeting of PDP where it was agreed that the South should have the presidential slot for eight years, which he said was later ratified by the party’s Board of Trustees headed by Chief Tony Anenih, saying that this gave the then president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the second term in 2003.

According to him, “Your Excellency, you were at the expanded meeting in 2002 where an agreement was reached that the South should have two terms of eight years. The decision then gave President Obasanjo the second term of office, and later in 2002 Section 14 2 C indicated the reality of the rotation in the party because the then chairman of the  Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, presented this decision which was ratified by the party.”

He stated that the issue of zoning was what made PDP strong, “because it gives equal right to every one and if the party jettison this path, it is only trying to bring misfortune and disadvantage to the nation”.

“Already, USA warned that the nation may disintegrate in 2015 and I think we are now paving the way for this,” the campaign coordinator warned.

He said that the present administration had failed the nation, stressing that the ominous sign in the country had shown that the nation’s security was porous, citing the October 1 bomb explosion in Abuja.

LouisThoro:
^
hahahah
Only retrogressive societies punish seditious publications and outright fabrications.
"Not everything a journalist writes will be true" How can someone make that statement? Is that what they teach in journalism schools? LOL.
hmmm.

Omo_Tier1:
^^^Exactly! Articles such as these makes me feel there should be a punishment for these journalist, however I am not exactly sure what sort of punishment it should be as any action taken against journalist these days is  seen as oppression of some sort. Beside come to think of it, when a Dr or an Engr does not live up to the expectation of the ethics of his/her profession, most times they get struck off the list of practising profesionals but I can not recall when ot where a journalist has been struck off or made to pay for their careless mistake by any body whatsoever!

Adamu: Runsewe calls for caution
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Monday, 25 October 2010

AS Nigerians mull over the cash- for -vote scandal involving Nigeria ’s Dr Amos Adamu, Director General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe has called for caution from Nigerians.

“It's important that we exercise caution in this matter. The truth is that the image of Nigeria is involved”, Runsewe who is yet to come to terms with the whole episode said.

“I was shocked when I heard the news and more shocking was the fact that the name of Nigeria would be dragged in the mud.

But we should be careful with the type of comments we make. Dr Adamu is a Nigerian and we should wait till the end of the investigation by world soccer-governing body, FIFA, before condemning anybody”,  he said.

Dr Adamu who was provisionally suspended last week by FIFA had maintained his innocence. In his first official reaction, he said, “whilst I wholly refute all allegations made, I fully support the inquiry since it is important that these claims are thoroughly investigated. Only by doing this will FIFA and the wider football community  be able to trust that it’s appointed representatives are beyond reproach”.

Eziachi:
Can someone remind Amaechi that democracy is all about freedom of expression and that include whether one wants to vote or not, whether one want to be a voter or not. He can't force anyone, especially a law abiding person, who pays the most important civic duty (Tax) that he cannot enjoy his tax levy from the government just because he possesses no voters card.

Please someone should remind him that this is not military dictatorship! It mirrors Buhari/Babangida era, when some military governors took it upon themselves that no civil servant will recieve his/her salary unless they can sing the national anthem correctly.

Col. A.K Adisa went even further in Imo state as acting governor, he decided that all civil servants must give blood before any salary because there are no blood in the state's blood bank. A good citizen is a law abiding tax paying person,not one with a voters card.

ode remo:
this yor gej is a lame duck,never fought an election in his life and will never win one in his life.the fact is here in nija for those with eyes to c.we r far behind inanything call development.

jason12345:
the point i'm trying to make is, the yorubas never betrayed the igbos. we were neutral until ojukwu invaded mid-west.

jason12345:
i just want to bury this biafra - yoruba betrayal once and for all

auwal87:
Afterall, you should know that it isn't in the Nigeria's constitution either for that to have happened.
Does that means that should the North also have oil, it will also retain and refuse to distribute nationally? No! It must do like the South East are doing, that is where the big problem starts, and we shouldn't pray this happens now. We should pray North gets its oil when it is fully independence from the present Nigeria.

Me_Aboki:
Pls follow this link  to the National Bureau of Statistics     (http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/).
Note that the latest figures (2009) indicate that AGRICULTURE is the highest contributor to the national GDP,at 41.84% followed; at a distant second by Wholesale & Retail, at 18.16%, then thirdly by Crude Petroleum ,at 16.05%.
Also note that Nigeria (whether you like it or not) is primarily an agriculturally based country and that the Northern States are major contributors to that sector; hence to the GDP that drives the economy - shocking isn't it ?

Quote from: honeric01 on October 22, 2010, 10:59 PM
see my questions here bro:
I would like to know the major contributions of the northern states to the growth of this country, what exactly do the northern states add to Nigeria? (economically)
just tell us what you guys have contributed (major)

Me_Aboki:
Pls follow this link  to the National Bureau of Statistics     (http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/).
Note that the latest figures (2009) indicate that AGRICULTURE is the highest contributor to the national GDP,at 41.84% followed; at a distant second by Wholesale & Retail, at 18.16%, then thirdly by Crude Petroleum ,at 16.05%.
Also note that Nigeria (whether you like it or not) is primarily an agriculturally based country and that the Northern States are major contributors to that sector; hence to the GDP that drives the economy - shocking isn't it ?

We never experienced power outages as we currently do, as power supply was good during my regime and that of late General Sanni Abacha”, Babangida noted, saying that the records are there for anybody to see.

seanet02:
complete newbie, have you ever heard of CCTV?, seems you just heard what is called TECHNOLOGY YESTERDAY

Bawss1:
I think this is a good thing. If done properly this will help in reducing the level of rigging at the elections. However I know there will be a debate on how to fund the purchase of the cameras. If the government could afford to throw N10billion on independence celebrations that was not needed then what is a couple of more billions to ensure fair elections.