₦airaland Forum

TonyeBarcanista:
What is media trial?

The same trial Gbawe and Ngeneukwenu put you through on Nairaland.

As far as Nairaland is concerned you were judged and sentenced hence the APC Caucus calls you an ex-convict no matter how well you fraternize and plead loyalty to APC by attacking PDP concerns and ideology.

Media trial is what destroyed your career.

After Oil, the common denominator for unity in One Nigeria is Igbophobia.

Igbophobia comes in many ways which include, attack on the sensibilities of the Igbos, targeting their business concerns, using quota system to limit their visions, hating on anything they support etc.

Must Igbos be directly or indirectly reprimanded by hungry and never do wells because of their choices, support or lack of it thereof?

Are Igbos responsible for Buhari's failure to stabilize "Oil Prices" or are Igbos responsible for inability of this administration to improve the purchasing power of naira as promised during the election campaigns.

All I see is frustration and insecurity on the supporters of Baba as they misguidedly vent their anger on the Easterners at every given opportunity with every failure and misfiring aimed at fulfilling peoples aspirations by PMB.

Is this not a felony if implemented without constitutional amendment?


From constitutional democracy to constitutional dictatorship.

Pray for Nigeria.

tomakint:
This is one big case why I hate the judiciary, Saraki with the magnitude of his fraudulent big case should by now be in jail and not this delay tactics. Imagine a confirmed rogue presiding over our Senate.......what a shame!

Bros, cool down. The least Nigeria owes him is fair hearing and that we must fight for to ensure that the accused have no more excuses before imprisonment.

Allow him to explore all legal means whatsoever available in our constitution/laws and to put forward his defense why he is not guilty as charge and let's allow judges to adjudicate on the matter without tying their hands through social media lynching and prosecution.

Seun:
Did you take any pictures? Pls post them, if you did.

What purpose will taking the pictures serve to warrant abandoning his mission there?

From the narrative he/she was actively trying everything within his/her powers to sort himself/herself out during the process and also to see that things are done properly?

sweetgala:
May I ask how old you are, I would like you to take a day o two, walk around your community perceive the poverty, anger, depression desperation, unemployment,bad infrastructure and then come back an read why you typed above and then reaon it again.

PDP did not generate jack, they simply collected money from oil revenues, your money,my money our collective money and rather than invest in our collective lives, build roads, build schools, hospitals invest in the future of you and my kids, some of them looted our future, this is not a crime peculiar to PDP because so many APC leaders did also, but for you to stand up and defend such an absurdity is a shame.

No I know why Nigeria is in a poor state, because of the poor state of mind of the electorate, you have just in one sentence excused the corruption of the past 55 years in Nigeria away.

I'm saddened by what you typed, leave PDP or APC our of it, what you just reaoned is below what is expected of an honest citizen of Nigeria

Stop being sentimental, the world bank and millennium development appraisal attest to the fact the PDP reduced poverty by half in Nigeria.

Your judgment is laden with hypocrisy and sentiment hence your ability to undertake a proper assessment is lost.

We have the indices for the assessments and we have the records and commendations from international bodies to attest to this.

Polio and many infants related diseases have either been eradicated or reduced to barest minimum. Spending power increase by 10,000% while the percentage of middle-class quadrupled.

Education is free to JS3 by the FG and many more. There are many scholarship schemes.


The statistics APC questioned when they were in the opposition is the same one Buhari boasted with when he was in UK and US last year, the same was cited during the last budget presentation by the President hence the hypocrisy was all about politics.

Can you imagine Amaechi saying he wasn't aware of the giant strides in rail transportation when he was flagging off train from Portharcourt to Aba recently. This same denial was/is typical of all APC sycophants and I have nothing to tell them than sorry.

sweetgala:
Ofcause PDP handed Nigeria over in a better state, what we had before then was a military government which looted our common wealth with reckless abandon.

What we should ask ourselves is did PDP do it's best, because being second last is never a place to be proud of, in 16 years we made progress but we should have gone much further; it is going to cost the FG & china $500 million to build the four new Int airport terminals, that is a quarter of what we now know Dasuki shared for election purposes, we still have the case of Deziani, we have the 12billion NNPC missing money not accounted for.Corruption did not start with GEJ, it was rampant during OBJ and Yar'adua too but at least it was somewhat modest

So please when you want to speak on success, be careful as the lives of many Nigerians depends on it.We don't have hospitals that work, I've lost relatives to poor healthcare system in Nigeria so please be careful, our roads are still suicide missions , there is high level unemployment and severe insecurity, people are still getting kidnapped all over especially in the SE and SS areas.

So when you talk of progress please be careful. Let's see what APC can do with their opportunity, otherwise we'll have a failed state.

We now have APC for comparison. Let's wait as we pray for success.

What we shouldn't entertain is excuses. If PDP generated the income they utilized and also embezzled then APC should stop crying like lazy child who blames his failures in life on the parent's inability to leave him with large inheritance and estates.

Nigerians should learn to accept responsibility for their actions and pay for their crimes no matter the outcome in the court.

The only thing I ask for is that the worst criminal be given a fair hearing in the court without unnecessary intimidation.

We should endeavour to hear from both the accused and the prosecutor before coming up with an opinion.

In law, it's better to allow hundred criminals to go unpunished than to convict one innocent person.

Proudlyngwa:
Marketers in the east will rather settle DPR with a million than sell at regulated pump price, even after adjusting their meter.
Instead of them to hold the marketers accountable, they will blame the government and by the time such marketers are arrested..the victimised people will come out and shout victimisation.

You don't know what you are talking about.

They Igbo spirit in business is invariably proportional to your claims. Prices of commodities in the east is a function of two things "cost price" and "competition". Scarcity drives the price up because they have been probably denied supply from government quota hence they themselves buy black market from government agents.

tsdarkside:
your people are greedy,dont you get it??...a nation wide prize was agreed and agencies were employ to enforce it.....your people want to earn more than nation wide allowed....

you by it at he deliverers for #60 and sell it for #85,you earn #25/l...your people want to earn more than #25/l....
maybe the have longer transport way,i dont know.....but i heard portharcourt is selling for #85/l......

Are you blind or what?

The people you are accusing of greed are on strike because they want to buy at the normal price as to sell to their customers at the government controlled price.

Gosh, who bewitched you people into absolute hate and bigotry that any iota of objectivity no longer exist?

NOETHNICITY:
Did u jus say that PDP achieved sometin in 16yrs! Ur education is shameful!

Another psycophant that can't form an opinion without being influenced by media propaganda.

Facts backed with Figures don't lie so say Economists and erudite scholars.

PDP Handed Nigeria Over In A Better State Than It Met Nigeria - Soludo


Every team serious about ‘change’ starts with a clear identification of the baseline from which it measures deviations/progress. Nigeria has had 16 uninterrupted years of democracy with the PDP controlling the federal government as well as majority of the states. APC is now in charge at both the centre and majority of the states.

A minimum standard for measuring ‘change’ is the extent to which APC government beats the record of the PDP in measurable terms. As the saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve/change it!

Government must strengthen the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and preserve its independence to produce and publish credible national statistics. It needs serious funding. I really wish our policymakers can be a little less careless or casual about the use of official statistics. I criticised the last government for relying on ‘estimates’ by World Bank staff instead of the NBS statistics. When I hear the narrative so far in the media by the new government regarding the economy, I take it largely as the kind of ‘usual propaganda’ new officials deploy to show that their predecessors “did nothing” and therefore lay the ground for claiming that they are “doing everything for the first time in our history”.

Fortunately also, there are many people as well taking a hard look at the numbers and recording scores. At AfriHeritage, we are developing a template for measuring government performance.

As Nigeria has largely evolved into a two party state in a democracy, I prefer to frame the discourse on the baseline as ‘PDP’s legacy and the APC’s challenge’!
Since it is the practice to blame the PDP for every ill that befell our country in the last 16 years (and there are many of them) it is also fair to credit them with the positive ones.

According to data from NBS, one outstanding legacy of the PDP is that in 16 years it held sway, it more than doubled the GDP of Nigeria (indeed with average year-on-year GDP growth rate in excess of 6% over the past 12 years, the GDP actually doubled within the last 12 years. It met average annual growth rate of about 2% and raised it to 6-7%, led by the non-oil secto[/b]r. Yes, non-oil sector, and the “diversification” reported in the recently re-based GDP happened within the last 16 years.

Will the economy more than double in the next 12 years under the APC? For me, if only the APC can double the size of GDP from about $550 billion to $1.1 trillion in 12 -16 years, and further half the poverty index, Nigeria will indeed be on course to be one of the largest 10 economies in the world by the end of this century.

As at 1999 when PDP came to power, Nigeria was largely a pariah state still lucky to have survived as one indivisible sovereign, especially in the context of the struggle by NADECO and restiveness in many parts of the country.

On corruption, Transparency International scored it 1.6 out of 10 and ranked 98 out of 99 countries in 1999. Nigeria was listed among four countries that were non-compliant on the anti-money laundering rules by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). We could not service our external debt and relied on stressful rescheduling, with all the intrusive donor conditionalities. Poverty was estimated at 70%, and unemployment at nearly 20%.

The 1990s will go down in our economic history as the decade of stagnation: when per capita income growth was zero. [b]Average oil price in May 1999 when President Obasanjo took over was $15.24 while stock of reserves was about $5 billion.

After 16 years, several challenges remain and some have even worsened (especially insecurity). Although President Jonathan’s regime had the worst economic management relative to the resources at its disposal, it must be stressed that tremendous progress was made in the aggregate 16 years of PDP government. Yes, it should have left more than $100 billion in reserves but left only $30 billion (still about six times of what it met).

We also wish that Jonathan’s team did not leave Nigeria with unprecedented rate of debt accumulation. But, according to statistics from NBS, the PDP handed over a $550 billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th in the world), with 7.5% unemployment rate (better than European Union, France, Sweden, Belgium, etc although the underemployment figure is much higher); 32%?? poverty rate (as claimed by the former Finance Minister, or 61%??: NBS needs to clarify this claim); a stock of reserves of $30 billion; GDP growth rate averaging 6% over last 12 years; a relatively more diversified economy, with ICT penetration from 0.2% to over 60%, and a new contributory pension scheme now with trillions of Naira in pension fund. Our external debt is down although total debt stock is escalating. Our Gini coefficient (degree of inequality) is not different from China’s. Nigeria has consolidated and stronger banking system that currently finances both government debt and the private sector, with a relatively vibrant capital market. The capitalization of the Nigerian Stock Exchange grew from less than N1 trillion to N12 trillion as at handover.

For the first time, Nigerian economy is now rated by credit rating agencies (Fitch, and Standard and Poor’s). Even on corruption perception, Nigeria is far better today than in 1999, and PDP created the two major anti-corruption agencies — ICPC and EFCC, and as at 2014 TI scored Nigeria 2.7 and ranked 136 out of 175 countries. PDP secured debt relief for Nigeria, thereby relieving Nigeria from the stranglehold of the IMF/World Bank policy conditionalities. APC does not have to negotiate with Washington on many economic policies. The list is long. PDP passed the 2015 Administration of criminal Justice bill, a perfect document in fighting corruption

The point therefore is that despite the fall in oil price, APC is starting from a much stronger base than PDP did in 1999 and the challenge now is to do far better. In the coming years, Nigerians will be asking APC to show us their figures!

sweetgala:
Gains of PDP ! , it is no more contested fact that olisah metuh was a the beneficiary of 400 million or that Dasuki shared 2.1 billion dollars for party interest pre-election.

These are crimes and have to be punished to deter others, only a few weeks ago a billionaire in China was declared missen by his company and the stocks of the company and his account was frozen, only for him to be released some days after, he'd been detained by the Chinese anti corruption agency and quized. That's where Nigeria need to be.

Screw democracy if it provides evil doers the opportunity to vandalise our common wealth

Actually I don't reply people like you in relation to the submission you quoted because you are part of the problem.

Yes, PDP gains are so glaring to be dismissed in every spheres of constitutional democracy which is not to say they were perfect and should be shielded from prosecution.

Justice is served better by following the rule of law.

PDP Handed Nigeria Over In A Better State Than It Met Nigeria - Soludo

Some excerpts from Soludo's 2016 submissions on progress made so far in Nigeria:

For the first time, Nigerian economy is now rated by credit rating agencies (Fitch, and Standard and Poor’s). Even on corruption perception, Nigeria is far better today than in 1999, and PDP created the two major anti-corruption agencies — ICPC and EFCC, and as at 2014 TI scored Nigeria 2.7 and ranked 136 out of 175 countries. PDP secured debt relief for Nigeria, thereby relieving Nigeria from the stranglehold of the IMF/World Bank policy conditionalities. APC does not have to negotiate with Washington on many economic policies. The list is long. PDP passed the 2015 Administration of criminal Justice bill, a perfect document in fighting corruption

The point therefore is that despite the fall in oil price, APC is starting from a much stronger base than PDP did in 1999 and the challenge now is to do far better. In the coming years, Nigerians will be asking APC to show us their figures!

tuale4u:
It is d seller in d east with thiet greed.

Here in PortHarcourt Total and othet big stations are selling 86.5 naira.
But local stations are selling 120naira

The same marketers that have been on strike since monday in Owerri protesting that they can't get the commodity at the control price to sell.

Sometimes, I begin to wonder why people like you comment on issues they are totally ignorant about. Is it bigotry, resentment, partisanship or outright ..............?

Gosh, give it a break.

It's unfortunate that in a bid to support justice, that the sense of revenge and attempt to score cheap political points have engrossed every element of institutional democracy we got over the years.

It's good to remind all and sundry that the worst constitutional democracy in Africa is by far better than any constitutional dictatorship in which Nigeria is now sliding into with the support of tyrannous majority whose aim is tainted with obsessive desire to discredit all the gains of PDPs 16 years administration.

Nigerians should learn to accept responsibility for their actions and pay for their crimes no matter how highly placed. Sympathizers should also refrain from condoning criminal behaviours by public office holders. Let's remember, Justice can always be served better with the rule of law.

datola:
Be killing your economy by importing all rubbish all in the name of SME. Go outside the country to find real meaning of SME.

What do you produce?

What do you know about production? Aba SMEs involved in production, manufacturing and exports are being grounded by the restrictions and you are here trying to form patriotic Nigerian.


Do you produce without raw materials even when the supplies can't be gotten from Nigeria?

After Oil, the next thing that unites component tribes/nationalities in Nigeria is hatred and fear of the Igbos (Igbophobia)



Who knows the maiden that will born the King?

arresa:
Are you saying former heads of state like PMB are given cash payments to buy there own cars instead of the FG giving them their entitled cars including their basic monthly allowance?

You are wrong of course, they get their cars directly from the FG on top of their monthly allowance.

Stop these lies. The benefits were all monetized to the last pin during Obasanjo's regime and it is paid annually according to SGF.

The only relevant argument Buhari had was that the SUVs were a compensation for the attack and damage on his convoy by suspected Bokoharam insurgents during the campaign but the president denied accepting compensation for the attack.

Come up with another lie. Why didn't Buhari declare the SUVs as his acquired assets from FG rather he said it was a gift from a "well wisher" to cover the crime having known the illegality associated with receiving the SUVs.


Both Jonathan and Buhari have questions begging for answers from Nigerians.

muhakeem:
Lol., but according to what I learnt about buharis own, I heard as a former head of state he is entitled by constitution to get such offer from incumbent government and also due to damages caused by people who tried to assassinate him the other tym





in case of Jonathan, I concur with u. as metuh has confessed he received certain amount of money from Jonathan over an undisclosed reasons, Jonathan should be invited so that he will tell us what the money given to metuh was for

The official position of the Government is that the entitlements of the former Presidents and Heads of State are monetized and paid by SGF.

There is nothing like physical assets again hence it was unlawful for Buhari to have collected the 2 SUVs after receiving his entitlements in Cash.

Until Buhari returns the two SUVs, Falae has a solid defensible point than the President who after receiving monetised benefits from SGF went ahead to collect SUVs from Dasuki.

All of them including Buhari should be made to return whatever they collected directly from Dasuki first.

No sacred cow.

muhakeem:
Lol... na u for be Efcc chairman fa

The EFCC Chairman is a complete lair for telling his mugus that there is no link so far to GEJ.

The EFCC believed that Metuh received N400m of the allegedly diverted arms funds, but the PDP spokesperson had reportedly claimed that the sum was for an undisclosed service he rendered to former President Goodluck Jonathan.


Why not arrest Jonathan to confirm and then detain him until he refunds the loot. While at it Buhari should be arrested too and force to bring back the two armour cars to FG.


All the goats should vomit the yams they ate from $2.1 billion farm owned by FG and managed by Dasuki.

Invitation?

Just arrest him and refuse him bail till guilty verdict is pronounced and sentence declared.

chudionu58:
Shut up please! why didn't he do that as Environmental sanitation boss.

The truth is that he was the deputy and was never the boss. Stop disseminating false information.

Please tell me what are the achievements of deputies are in Nigeria.

chudionu58:
Foolish set of idiots! How can they beat drums for commissioning a mere township road? Have you ever heard Sullivan talk despite building far better roads. Ugwogo to Opi Nsukka or the 4 corners to Udi? Far better roads built by reputable contractors! yet we didn't hear any word!
@ponponkon please stop displaying crass pettiness ... #Idiots

Have you congratulated Okezie Ikpeazu for setting Aba free from refuse and the perpetual decay of the city?

We no longer hear the chorus "Aba is a dirty town" nor do we see the usual pictures Aba was known for since Ikpeazu took over.

Ponponkon:
There was nothing as such and remember there's always 14days window for appeal abi you no sabi again.

Without a stay of execution, appeal has no consequences on court pronouncement.

Considering the court pronouncement to swear in Otti immediately then there is need for a stay of execution before appeal (exhaustion of window or door period) as the case may be.

Don't you think so?

Bevista:
I have consistently maintained that the CBN's current FX Policy is beyond ridiculous.
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It is obvious that the president is sentimentally attached to the value of the Naira, but I blame the CBN Governor more for the current situation. He doesn't look confident enough to man up to the president. If every oil exporting country (including Canada & Norway) has seen its currency value depreciate against the dollar due to decline in oil prices, then it is foolhardy for the CBN & the FG to grandstand.
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It is complete nonsense to allow private citizens & businesses (by extension the whole economy) to suffer simply because of attachment to strong Naira value.
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We will only know how bad things are when the NBS releases its economic numbers for Q4-2015.

How can he challenge a military dictator?

Give it to him for standing against the redesigning of Naira as a means to punish corrupt Nigerians when it would've also greatly affected businesses across the country considering the time limit attached to the project.

No Minister, Director or Chairperson under Buhari can outshine him without consequences. He wants to be seen, that's why Federal Executive Council was once called-off instead of allowing my Prof to chair the session.

I thought Appeal Court ordered INEC to issue Alex Otti certificate of return and consequently get him sworn in as dully elected Governor of Abia State.

What happened? Was there a stay of execution apply by Ikpeazu and granted by the Court?

Is this another form of disobedience to court order or that the Appeal Court Judges were playing to the gallery knowing fully well that guber election dispute ends in Supreme Court?

TonyeBarcanista:
You are WRONG Sir! In deregulation, government has completely washed its hand. The N86.5 per litre is the open market estimate(not approved pump rate). Marketers can sell higher or lower but market forces will come to play here.

It's like telecom sector. The coming of Globacom forced MTN and Econet(now Airtel) to drop the cost of acquiring a Sim card, call rate, as well as forced them to introduced Per second billing. Now, sim is as cheap at N50 to N150 with free N50 to N100 airtime on activation depending on the network.

Etisalat came and pioneered free MB on N200 recharge. It forced others to adopt free MB. In fact, SMS that used to be N10 per page is now N2 (MTN-2-MTN).

In essence, the market will regulate the price. Also note that with NNPC importing the larger share it means it will be difficult for independent marketers to hold Nigerians to ransome.

You are wrong again.

Please study broadly on each topic before misinforming your readers.

In Nigeria we have what we call Petroleum Equalization (harmonization) fund and there is an agency established by law in charge of this business in Nigeria hence the Government still control prices and also works to make sure that price of the commodity is even across Nigeria irrespective of distance from depot or point of purchase by Independent marketers.

This fund serves as logistics subsidy different from what is known as fuel subsidy (landing cost to selling price differentials).

For more information check www.pefmb.gov.ng/

politricks:
Then its obvious everybody in your house is ignorant including you. Please see links below.

http://www.answering-christianity.com/satan.htm

http://www.understanding-islam.com/q-and-a/islamic-beliefs/who-is-satan-5024

I don see am now for Koran. Thanks for the link.

I must confess I have negligible knowledge when it comes to "historic narratives" as recorded in Koran. Though a christian but still not an excuse.

My previous submissions were accounts based on the Bible.

politricks:
According to what i have read, God created Adam and asked Satan who was then an angel to prostrate to him but because of the pride in him, he refused to bow saying 'how can i bow to something that was made out of mere clay'. This action is what made God to punish him.

This your narrative is causing wahala for my house.


You want to kill me with laughter.

Who come tell you this kind story wey no dey for Bible. Even the book of Mormon and Satanic verses no carry am.

I tire for you

FisifunKododada:
scientific input? Bhuahhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa. All is required from you is basic reading comprehension and a copy of the map of Nigeria. Basic stuff that any fool (including you) can do without sweating your pea brain.

Are you this insecure to have already lost your civility than to accept mistakes by inherent limitations.

Bye