₦airaland Forum

Such a pointless discussion.

[quote author=imhotep post=49254600][/quote]I'm not saying people are not dying. I'm saying that there is enough food/donations that have been provided. PMB released grains and other donors have sent goods but they aren't reaching the destination. Regardless of how many tons of goods are provided it will do no good if the devils of the NE keep diverting the aid. I say artificial famine because yes they haven't farmed in 3+ years but provisions are in place for them to not be suffering. The officials are bastards who have no shame.

This is an artificial famine. The food is there. The problem is corrupt officials diverting government donations. When 30+ trucks disappear something is wrong.

But it makes people feel better to just blame the president and his ministers.

https://www.thecable.ng/fashola-work-no-one-talking

BY MODESTUS UMENZEKWE

I have in the last few months been travelling to my hometown of Achina in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State at a high frequency for reasons which need not be stated here. I have been going by road because the road is today much better and safer than, say, this time last year. Another reason I travel by road is to have a firsthand experience with a view to reporting to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who always solicits for such frank reports with a view to taking appropriate action.

Whereas the Onitsha-Asaba-Benin-Ore sections of the Lagos to Onitsha Highway have in the last few years been generally good, the Lagos-Shagamu-Ore sections are in a mess. One is glad to report that tremendous reconstruction work is currently taking place in the worst of all the failed sections. Reynold Construction Company (RCC) has divided the Lagos-Sagamu-Ore sections into four parts and is working on them simultaneously in a rather frenetic manner, even in the rains. In a fashion reminiscent of the mass attack principle, RCC is reconstructing what remains of the Ondo State section of the highway, the Ijebu Ode part, the Shagamu end as well as the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. When I was driving from Anambra State to Lagos two days ago, I had to stop briefly at the Ijebu Ode site because what is going on there looks more like new construction rather than rehabilitation. Rev Sister Christy Okonkwo, an impressed Catholic nun who is from Nnewi in Anambra State and works with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Congregation at Epe in Lagos State, remarked after watching the massive deployment of equipment, machines and human resources: “There is still hope for Nigeria”.

In the past, such massive reconstruction which always resulted in the closure of at least one side of the highway had invariably led to traffic gridlock. Reverend Sister Christy narrated how she and her colleagues spent three hours on one spot while going for the funeral of a colleague’s relative. Like the rest of her colleagues, she consequently developed a phobia for travelling by road to the Southeast and South-south from Lagos. But this time traffic is directed professionally not just by the RCC workers and Federal Road Safety Corps officials but also by teams of police and army personnel whose presence injects discipline and order in the heads of commercial motorists, especially those of minibuses whose irresponsible driving exacerbates traffic gridlock. What is more, the conspicuous presence of soldiers in particular has driven away armed robbers and kidnappers from the highway. Capitalizing on the failed portions which naturally forced motorists to stop, kidnappers on one occasion shot an Igbo priest with the Warri Catholic Diocese in the hand and took away a young boy with him and on another occasion took away nuns of the St Louis Congregation in Ondo State who were travelling on a bus and hid them in a thick forest for a whole 10 days. Today all this criminal nonsense on the Lagos-Onitsha Highway is history.

Lest I forget, while driving through Benin, we noticed there were two awfully failed sections of this extraordinarily busy highway. One is directly opposite the NIPCO filling station on the Benin-Agbor section of the road while the other on the Benin Bypass. Mr Fashola was contacted on his personal phone, and he quickly began to ask questions about the exact locations and extent of the failed portions. It was evident that the officials of the Federal Ministry of Works and the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) had yet to report the state of the road to him. When he was satisfied with details of the failed portions, he promised to immediately get in touch with the contractor to assess the rehabilitation and revert to him. Talk of responsive leadership. Talk of working with passion and commitment.

One thing about Fashola is that he executes every assignment as though his life depended on it. He is, to a considerable extent, the face of what the Catholic Church has in recent decades popularized as the common good. He is also a considerable representation of the concept of servant leadership. A few weeks ago when it was brought to his knowledge that the Asaba end of the Lagos-Onitsha Expressway had collapsed, he immediately directed Julius Berger which was working on another project in the neighbourhood to move to the site of the failed part. Work is going on there right now. The rainy season has always been cited by various state governments and the Federal Ministry of Works as the main justification for suspending road construction or rehabilitation by this time of the year, but this explanation cuts no ice with Fashola who, as we have seen right from his days as the Lagos State governor, works all year round.

One has not in the last few months been travelling to other parts of the country, but one understands that road reconstruction is taking place all over the federation everywhere there is a provision in the budget for it. Even the most awfully failed part of the Okija-Ihiala-Uli-Egbu-Oguta-Ahoada linking Anambra, Imo and Rivers states which is not in the captured in this year’s budget is being rehabilitated because it is considered a national emergency.

It has to be noted that RCC, Julius Berger and Integrated Services Ltd are among several companies which moved to sites before the release of the first quarter of this year’s budget. They went to work without the payment of mobilization fees in these economically hard times because of their trust in the integrity of the minister. As management experts have long noted, integrity or character is a most invaluable asset in business transactions whether in the private or public sector. In other words, as more releases are made, both the scope and intensity of road work by the Federal Government will escalate.

Fashola assumed duties as the Minister of Power, Works and Housing only last November, that is, less than a year now. Before he could settle in office, take stock of things, make his own projections and then mobilise funds, critics had gone to town, with some wondering if he could run this enlarged ministry successfully. If Fashola could excell as the Lagos State governor in a way which earned him great praise and awards from the greatest global media and think tanks, he should be expected to continue on the trajectory of high service delivery. Now that work is going on even in the rainy season on federal roads, why have even the media been shy to report it? Well, if the media fail to report these developments, frequent road users like us who feel and experience the massive work daily cannot deny the evidence of our eyes.

God bless Nigeria.

Umenzekwe (modestusokechukwu661@yahoo.com, 08037202353) is immediate past president, Odunade building materials dealers association, Lagos

This is a major move. Much success.

Back when men were men. Peace to the king in the video. The gov better figure it out because it's getting hotter and hotter out here.

http://sunnewsonline.com/what-the-south-east-needs-is-economic-not-political-biafra-aguleri/

A socio-cultural philosopher, economic and public affairs commentator, Ogbuevi (Dr) Eddi Idigo Aguleri has taken his time to diagnose the actual solution to the raging agitation for the state of Biafra.
According to him, it’s not political self determination that the agitators should talk about, rather they should talk of having an economic blueprint that will solve the problems of the South-east.

What’s your recipe for a lasting solution to the struggle for Biafra?

Over the recent years, movements and campaigns for Biafrexit and other forms of ethnic agitations across Nigeria have persisted. In particular, the continued resurgence of the Biafra movements, both by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and most recently, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over 46 years after the failed separatist attempt at an independent political Biafra, underscore the life force of the Biafra ideology which can hardly be exterminated.
The Biafra struggle, just as any other ethnic agitation from various parts of the country, as well as the recent calls for the restructuring of the Nigerian nation, are direct consequences of the failure of the Nigerian state at various levels to gratify the political and socio-economic cravings and aspirations of the people.

Continued political marginalisation in the determination of the affairs of the nation; economic exclusion from the control of the nation’s wealth and resources as well as the resultant socio-economic poverty arising from maladministration, among other factors, have sustained these agitations and struggles. However, whilst the actualization of a politically sovereign state of Biafra may seem unachievable and inexpedient at this time, the creation and gradual building of an economically fortified South-east region remains the most plausible alternative to Biafra objectives and ideology.

Could you expatiate on building a South-east sub-national economy as an alternative to the Biafra struggle?

Fundamentally, the quest for political self-determination pursued through various forms of ethno-political agitation is ultimately aimed at enabling a people achieve wealth creation, economic empowerment and control of economic resources. This is supported by some perspectives in political economics that the achievement of economic wealth and social development remains a major purpose of the quest for political power and control. Alternatively, a virile and vibrant sub-national economy in the South-east region will provide the much needed purpose of a conventional political Biafra. Such a strong regional and sub-national economy in the South-east will create and bestow on the people greater hegemony and dominion over owned economic resources to create wealth and engender socio-economic prosperity; a development that will exterminate the increasing political agitations for self determination.

What are the imperatives for a strong sub-national economy of South-east Nigeria?

Adequate strategic socio-economic and political architecture must be crafted, executed and firmly entrenched as pre-requisites for creating an economically-powered South-east region that will generate the much-needed socio-economic activities that will maximally engage the abundant human energies towards the production of economic wealth. The current partially-liberalized economy provides the basic economic environment to achieve this objective. The most critical imperative however lies in fostering an integration of the economies of the respective states of the entire South-east and adjoining ones into a strong cohesive sub-national economy capable of advancing the socio-economic prosperity of the people. The truth remains that no state in the South-east can actually develop in isolation of the other given the fundamental strings of cohesion that weave the region geographically together. A strong coalition, commitment and co-operation between South-east governors is a condition sine qua non. The next major imperative lies in the re-crafting of a strategic socio-economic architecture and master plan for the provision of the basic infrastructural strategic economic catalysts that will unleash the requisite industrial and commercial activities for rapid re-development of the South-east region.

In essence there’s need for a strategic economic architecture and master plan for the South-east?

A strategic socio-economic architecture and master plan to achieve the desired virile sub-national economy of the South-east is indispensable. The primary purpose of this is to identify, encompass and integrate the entire broad spectrum of all major economic opportunities available to be harnessed to achieve and sustain the momentum of continuous economic wealth creation and prosperity. It will provide a roadmap for the redevelopment of the South-east zone. Essentially, such a strategic economic master plan must seek the creation of the requisite environment as well as the establishment and provision of the foundational framework upon which a new market economy and the various structures, superstructures and ramifications of economic, industrial and commercial activities can be built and developed. Some of the indispensable ingredients of the strategic master plan include:
Integrated transportation infrastructure

This is arguably the most fundamental pre-requisite for the socio-economic redevelopment of the South-east region of Nigeria. Whilst the South-east zone may be geographically more compact than others, it becomes even more germane to link and interconnect the major socio-economic and political clusters with the appropriate transportation infrastructure. Given the population density, there is need for a 10-lane dual carriage road to replace the existing three major arteries of: a) Asaba/Onitsha-Enugu-Abakaliki; b) Onitsha-Owerri-Portharcourt; and c) Enugu-Umuahia-Aba-Portharcourt. In addition, a cross-belt mainline highway should necessarily complement this cutting through Onitsha-Nnewi-Orlu-Aba. This will link the major industrial and commercial hubs of Onitsha/Nkpor, Nnewi and Aba. Along the line, Orlu will naturally come up as another potential major economic/commercial hub.

Besides road transport infrastructure, it is imperative to develop the maritime and rail transport infrastructure. The Onitsha River Port and the Aba (Isiala-Ngwa) Dry Port (Inland Container Depots) must be made to come fully on stream to serve the basic commercial needs of the zone. These two projects are economically and technically critical as they are respectively located in the two biggest commercial hubs of the region. Whilst River Niger facilitates the operation of the Onitsha River Port wherein light cargo can be shipped and cleared, the existing rail line will facilitate movement of cargo by rail from Port Harcourt ports to the inland container depot in Aba (Isiala-Ngwa to be precise). Already, the Akanu Ibiam International Airport at Enugu has become operational and with direct flight routes to many major economic cities of the world. Therefore, with the adequacy of road transport infrastructure as proposed, the Onitsha River Port; Aba Dry Port; the upgraded Enugu International Airport; and the existing Owerri Airport, there will be sufficient transportation infrastructure that will not only serve the growing social and economic needs of the South-east zone but indeed boost the region into a virile sub-national economy.

Development of agricultural belt

No economy survives without food security. The redevelopment of agriculture is imperative as it once formed the mainstay of Nigerian pre and post-colonial economy including the South-east. The Northern, Western and Eastern regional economies of Nigeria were anchored strongly on agriculture with groundnuts, cocoa and palm-produce constituting the respective major crops. In fact, in the early 1960s, the then Eastern Nigeria economy was rated as one of the fastest growing economies in the world because of its exploits in export agriculture.
There’s no need re-inventing the wheel but it’s imperative for South-east governments and people to join hands to revive the rice plantations at Abakaliki and Adani; the cashew plantation at Enugu and the palm produce scattered all over the region among other agricultural investments. The current efforts of the present Anambra State government under Governor Willie Obiano in the area of agricultural development is commendable and should be emulated by other states. The conscious redevelopment of South-east agricultural belts and zones across the entire region remains indispensable not just to ensure food security but to generate massive employment and create wealth.

Mining and cement production

Economic diversification away from merchandising is advocated. A virgin economic activity to tap into is mining of solid minerals which are abundant in the South-east. The respective governments of the South-east should collaborate to facilitate the mining of various solid minerals deposits across the zone not only for the purpose of improving their revenue-generating potentials but also to generate employment, create wealth and develop strategic industries. It is unfortunate that there is no where in the South-east that major mining activities are currently ongoing. Coal and cement production pioneered in Enugu and Nkalagu respectively, the first ever to be established in West Africa, have all gone moribund. Coal mining and production was one of the foremost industries in pre-colonial Nigeria but has been totally abandoned today. Similarly, cement production in the South-east has also been abandoned. The Niger Cement Company (NIGERCEM) at Nkalagu was the first cement plant in West Africa built in 1957 with 1.5m metric tonnes capacity annually. The plant has remained dilapidated and moribund for decades.
Today, cement manufacturing is going on massively in all the geo-political zones of the country except the South-east. The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria in Sokoto serves the Northwest; Ashaka Cement (now Lafarge) is in the Northeast; Lafarge Cement produces in Ewekoro and Sagamu in the South-west; whilst Unicem (Calabar) and Okpella (Edo State) are operational in the South-south. Of course, the giant, Dangote Cement operates out of Gboko and also operates the single largest cement company in the world at Obajana, Kogi State all in the North-central. There is none at present in the South-east even as the region represents a place and people with the highest level of cement consumption in Nigeria. It’s therefore imperative that the cement manufacturing plant at Nkalagu be revived, upgraded and expanded to re-commence production to serve the ever-growing construction needs of the region.

Re-development of strategic industries

The fate that has befallen NIGERCEM, Nkalagu, is not peculiar to the cement sector . It is regrettable to note that the once strong heavily industrialized South-east region of Nigeria which in the past boasted strategically diversified industries scattered across the region and which created massive employment, wealth and export earnings for the regional and state governments is today lacking in basic industrial investments. The prolonged neglect of these premier industries which resulted from chronic maladministration by successive state governments in the entire region have wrecked these industries, rendering them moribund and decrepit. They include Niger Steel Company at Emene, Enugu, which was West Africa’s first steel plant; Oji River Power plant; Nigeria Ceramics Industries at Umuahia; Golden Guinea Breweries; Premier Breweries and Anambra Vegetable Oil Products (AVOP). Today, there is no functional steel plant or steel rolling mill anywhere in the South-east. Conscious efforts must therefore be made to re-industrialize the region by not only revamping the major industries that are now moribund but indeed establishing new large-scale industries in the strategic sectors of the economy such as petroleum refining; power plants; steel rolling; cement manufacturing; fertilizer plants; flour milling; tomato and other agro processing plants etc. These large-scale strategic industries will consequently power a new economic dawn in the South-east region and trigger a new wave of industrial growth at the small and medium-scale levels that will directly and indirectly result in wealth creation and economic empowerment of the South-east people of Nigeria.

What are your comments on expectations of South-east leaders?

Actualizing a new nation of Biafra is therefore possible should there be a strong and sustainable consensus and commitment by all the governments and leaders of the South-east to economically redefine, redevelop and reposition the region to respond to the socio-economic necessities and aspirations of the people. This is achievable through the development of an integrated transportation infrastructure that is inter-modally connected; the re-growing of bourgeoning agricultural zones with vast yields of staple food and cash crops for local consumption and export; mining of the abundant mineral resources; development of strategic industries which will involve the revamping, upgrading and expanding of basic industries such as cement manufacturing; steel rolling mills; power plants; vehicle assembly; petroleum refining; fertilizer plants; agro-processing plants etc. These will bring about the much-needed control of economic resources, wealth creation and economic empowerment which the continued agitation and campaign for a political Biafra is ultimately intended to achieve.

Standing5:
Aside wasteful spending and stealing, what action did we see from PDP? No TSA, weak EFCC etc were the order of the day.

Don't bother.

This is why I wish every year has at least one gubernatorial election. CHAI!

http://leadership.ng/news/549362/militant-leader-to-avengers-stay-clear-of-rivers

Leader of a militant group in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State, the Aggrieved Youth Movement (AYM), Don Waney, has warned the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) and other militant groups to leave the state from their target points.

Waney, who gave the warning in his country-home, Aligu community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni area, while addressing journalists after officially accepting amnesty gesture from the state government, vowed that they would resist any militant group that attempts to cause crisis in the state.

He advised NDA and other militant groups to embrace amnesty as he has done to move the Niger Delta region forward, or they should carry out their nefarious activities elsewhere.

Speaking further, the militant leader stressed that the AYM was not a violent group, pointing out that their agitation was traceable to youth unemployment, lack of technical training for manpower development, scholarships for those in tertiary institutions, widespread poverty, lack of basic social infrastructure and others.

He said, “On a strong note, we are non-violent and we shall remain so in our collective agitation for a better ONELGA, Orashi and Rivers State. In the light of this, we call on the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) group to leave ONELGA and Orashi region out of their targets.

“We are against the bombing and destruction of vital oil and gas installations in our communities. We shall not allow them or any of their type to enter our land. We want peace and development and that is what we have signed with our father and governor, Nyesom Wike. Rivers State is peaceful and we do not want outsiders to cause crisis and general insecurity in our State again.”

Waney commended Governor Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike for his efforts to ensure there was restoration of peace in the state, and urged other aggrieved groups to toe the path of peace for the Niger Delta region to develop.

The militant leader said, “We have accordingly accepted amnesty gesture the government has granted us. We salute the governor for his love for the sanctity of lives of some young people, who may have been deceived in the past. We believe that the amnesty will go a long way to transform for good, the lives of these youngsters.

“We hereby call on other armed groups to embrace the amnesty programme and give up militancy, so that together, we can benefit from the development efforts of the Rivers State government.

“We also urge the Federal Government to look in our direction and ensure that the post-amnesty programme covers all oil and gas producing communities in the Niger Delta, since we, too, are major stakeholders”.

The Buhari administration has criticized the Jonathan government over its failure to settle a N65 billion debt owed to suppliers of fertilisers.

Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari said in Abuja on Monday that it was wrong for the past government to buy fertilisers worth N65 billion since 2014 and leave the bill unpaid.

He, however, said that the Federal Government had to pay off the debt so that the suppliers could begin to supply fertilisers again.

The presidential aide attributed the current food crisis in the country to some of the unpopular policies of the past administrations.
http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/09/06/buhari-clears-n65b-fertiliser-debt/

According to him, the current pain is due to the mismanagement of the past and that what Nigeria is currently experiencing was inevitable.

He said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was simply being honest with the people instead of piling up debts and concealing the truth by pretending all was rosy.

“This government believes that Nigerians deserve to know the truth. People stole unbelievable amounts of money. The kind of money some of these ex-officials hold is itself a threat to the security of the state.

“Since it is not money earned, they feel no pain deploying just anyhow to thwart genuine and well-intentioned government efforts.

“Sadly, even that which was not stolen was wasted. Government coffers were left empty, with huge debts unpaid and unrecorded (this government is working to quantify the amount owed).

“Even the current high food prices can be traced to past deceit. For example, the previous government purchased fertilisers in 2014, worth N65 billion and left the bill unpaid.

“In 2015 the suppliers could not supply fertilisers which resulted in a low harvest, shortages and high food prices.

“This government had to pay off the debt so that the suppliers could begin to supply fertilisers again.

Shehu expressed optimism that Nigeria had started witnessing another era of green revolution as Nigerians across the country were going back to the farms, from rice in Kebbi and Ebonyi to Soya and Sesame in Jigawa and Kano.

He said that at the same time, Nigerians were looking inwards to identify commercial opportunities from agri-business.

Hahaaa! It shall be well o! This is such good news. Just watch and see everyone will soon be smiling. We've been down but we shall soon be winning and grinning.

Sounds good to me.

Neoguru3:
If I slap you eh, e be like say hepatitis dey worry you. Afonja

I'm Igbo. What are you saying?

RIP

We are the same people. The only division is "culture" and where we have migrated.

Do you honestly think we could quarrel so tough with people who aren't family. When we remember who we are then we will truly make progress.

Yoruba Are 99.9% Genetically Identical To Igbos, Akan And Gaa-Adangbe – Study
http://newsrescue.com/yoruba-are-99-adangbe-study/

We have some strange people among us. I've never seen people gloat when their country falters. That's not opposition politics that's stupidity.

Good news.

Foxyn:
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Got you fam. I hope he wins!

CHOPUP411:
My people my people from yeast

Yeast side! You know we're always rising!

NameChecker:
The first step is road construction is to create drainage which is totally missing here.
My apology, but I don't intend to insult you

Apology accepted fam. I'm not an engineer. Now I know. If what you say is correct Wike should be flogged and beaten with a koboko. Building roads with no drainage should be against the law. Contractors and states should be held accountable.

Thank you for the awareness of road construction.

NameChecker:
https://www.reactiongifs.com/r/elnb.gif

These people praising Wike for this Road Construction without Drainage Facilities.
will blame Buhari tomorrow when Erosion occurs.

That is the reason why youth won't be given a chance to rule the nation.
The majority lacks understanding

Leaders Of Tomorrow Indeed

Don't quote me to write insults. The road isn't done. I won't jump to conclusions without facts. I won't comment on drainage without adequate info of road construction schematics. When have I blamed Buhari? Where have I praised Wike? I'm only stating my pleasure at seeing road work being completed.

printercry:
About 11 suspects who specialize in stealing and selling children across the country, were paraded on Wednesday by the Benue State Command of the Department of State Services, DSS, in collaboration with the State Security Council.
The kidnappers and child traffickers included one Adejo Ogiri alias Okala, Affonne Nwokocha, from Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State, Ezekiel and his wife, Amarachi.
While Nwokocha confessed to facilitating the buying and selling of children, Okala confessed to newsmen he had kidnapped four children and handed them over to one Ezekiel, a bus driver from Imo State.
Adejo said, “Each time I kidnapped children from any part of the state, I usually took them to Ezekiel who in turn, would hand them over to his wife, Amarachi, who specialised in receiving stolen children for the purposes I don’t know.
“I was paid.....http://www.realnewsmax.ml/2016/09/we-specialize-in-stealing-selling.html

May only terrible things befall them in this life and the next. Bless their victims.

PRGRESS! YES! Let's keep it going. We'll soon make it!

Whynotthetruth:
I can't be going back and forth with you...

1) You're still stuck in same empty rhetorics sold to little minds by punch, the nation, saharareporters etc...I trade on facts bro...not sentiments or blackmail...

2)Your company getting paid just now for a job it did when? And where they not paid before now? Are you part of the admin?... Clearing backlogs for which companies? Name them and name prices?... let's do facts here...drop yours... like National hospital that doesn't have even paracetamol now unlike under PDP governments?

3) Which useless spending? Name them plz...and what other option that should have been used...Prudent spending like Buhari rushing down to build helipad in daura? or maintaining executive jets even in recession? or moving on jamboree all over the globe? Plz where's the prudent spending bro

4)Name projects without counterpart funding? Abuja/Kaduna was FULLY paid by Jonathan...Enugu,Ph etc airport remodelling was FULLY paid for though not commissioned yet...2nd Niger bridge got its money...Lagos/Ibadan got fund etc...so which ones bro?

5)Which slush funds account? or you wanna replicate some zombified lies here TSA is good as used by Jonathan not as used by Buhari...btw Buhari is taking Jonathan approach now on same having seen the effect on the economy...

6)Which repatriated funds are missing? Why not advise Buhari to go pick up Nigeria's $180million lying fallow in US whose only condition is prosecution of the thieves who brought the money there... Do you know the names of those thieves? try Google

7)If they are sure of Dasuki case, why fight for secret trial for him? I will revisit it when Dasuki is allowed to open up and released from prison ...APC has always being LIARS...

Budget padding under who? How many people did Buhari arrest and prosecute for budget padding? Can you tell me what made the budget to be 6trillion plus even after all the so-called padded part was addressed? Because the 6trillion seem fixed...

9) Buhari has MORE MONEY than Obj government...so why the lie? Buhari sells more oil and earn more money than Obj government...so was Nigeria this bad then? ND attacks was product of BAD LEADERSHIP(97% & 5%)...so why cry? They seem to be defending themselves...

10)I challenge you again to name areas that Buhari has cleaned up since the noise and empty rhetorics... NONE!!! Prove me wrong with facts and I will show you facts of corruption under Buhari...NO EMPTY RHETORICS plz...

11)Even Soludo told Buhari blatantly that even fall in crude oil price is NOT and can NEVER be an excuse for any good government with ideas and plans... especially having rules for almost 2years...Go read the article to learn more bro...Quit being a sycophant and zombie

12)I am not saying PDP was heaven on earth...but ALMOST ALL bad elements of PDP make up APC and Buhari cabinet...The few good ones are still in PDP ... APC was formed on religion(CPC) ,& tribe(ACN) and PDP power desperadoes (nPDP)

13)If Buhari ever built on what he met on ground and corrected some mistakes of Jonathan... Nigeria would be cruising...but he(buhari) messed everything up!!!

You called me out on my statement. I've defended myself even after I said wouldn't give you the time. Now that I've swatted down your shots you insist on throwing more even after you said you won't go back and forth with me.

13 bullet points? Am I being screened for the ministerial portfolio of NairaLand? Believe what you want. Have fun bro. Stay blessed.

Whynotthetruth:
You are the one who's gonna stay mad bro...

Where's the honesty? Where is transparency? How has corruption abated?

...And if PDP stole for 16years and buhari isn't stealing... kindly show me where all the revenue is going or being saved by Buhari now, because the price of crude now is higher than half of PDP reign of 16years?

I'm not mad at all. A company I work for has in fact just gotten paid for work we did years back. I speak with authority that they are truly clearing backlogs of pay.

Honesty? You can't be serious! Look at all the useless spending that is being revealed from the past. Now look at the prudent spending moving forward. How many projects didn't receive the counterpart funding? How many accounts became slush funds? How did repatriated money go missing? Dasukigate? Need I go on?

Budget padding has finally been brought to light and publicly shamed.

The revenue has been slashed and you know it. A naira today isn't worth what it was yesterday. The ND attacks have brought our economy to a state of comatose. The same people who are cheering the attacks are the same ones complaining that the gov't isn't "doing" anything. But one can't be the love-vendor and the prostitute.

You're too smart to be pretending to be this daft. You reveal your intentions with your line of questions. If you like the PDP that's one thing but to pretend our current regime is not cleaning up the town is wicked. You and I both know better.

Goke7:
And how long will it take for this to happen, we always hear tunes like this whenever this issue comes up but the whole world knows that it will never happen. smh

Been there done that! Enugu became a municipality in 1956 with Umaru Altine its first mayor.

Igbo people have been accommodating since forever. It was only after the war that things changed and that's only due to not being fairly included and reintegrated post war. If people are saying they don't feel welcome anywhere else except their homeland and now some has broken ranks to make all people feel included I will laud the move and now look to other govs to do the same.

We have over 256 ethnic groups in the country. I'd love for the people from all of those to be in positions of power. Our present system of misrule is a direct symptom from politics of ethnic and religious chauvinism.

honeychild:
Really.....and you are saying g this with a straight face . The only result that will come out of this is "we own Ogun state"."without us Ogun cannot survive". "Ogun state is no man's land" etc etc

Obviously you are talking about Lagos. That was once the capital. It was built up with money from the entire country. Land is indiscriminately sold and settled. Foreign companies have set up shop. A plethora of languages are spoken. Lagos isn't even an indigenous word. If it was named Eko I doubt the same would be said.

Furthermore, the heritage of Lagos has and will always be respected as a Yoruba land. But in terms of national presence yes it is a no man's land due to the contributions of everyone in this country.

As long as we continue to fragment ourselves along these imaginary lines we will continue to lose. I mean no disrespect in any of my statements. It's all love.

Whynotthetruth:
1)This government is transparent where? In CBN or FIRS or Custom employment?...bigotry reigns...

2) Limited fund? how much was crude under Obj? Even early and later days of Jonathan presidency?... failure always have reasons and bunch of excuses...

3) Bigotry and nepotism reigns under Buhari...And Selective justice is injustice and corruption promoted...

4)That road is a patch work for a short distance...An individual talk more of LGA can do that same work without noise... Buhari is a failure so far...

5)Which people haven't been paid for contracts 3years? All glitch came with buhari... And he's achieved NOTHING...I challenge you to name a sector where corruption has reduced since they started making noise in the media... Jonathan without noise cleaned up Agriculture sector and civil service...where has buhari cleaned up since his noise

Normally I'd entertain these questions but you already know all the answers. I'm not sure if you are on PDP payroll but don't play dumb. We all know this gov has not been perfect but it has been honest imperfections in comparison to the last 16 years of looting which reached its height in the last 5 years. All of the questions you asked have already been answered and all your angles have been debunked. Stay mad if you want but this government is working. Watch the turnaround and then swallow your words.

solok:
Pls give name/s and portfolio of Yoruba wo/men that have been similarly integrated in any part of Igboland SouthEast. While you are at it, include also names of 'Yoruba Yoruba' pple that have land and/or market stall allocation direct from govt.

Why are you mad? A governor makes a laudable step to unite the country and all you can do is talk rubbish? Someone has to extend the hand of peace and in this case it is a Yoruba governor in the SW. What's not to like? Now in the SE the same thing can be done. And then it can spread to the rest of the country.