₦airaland Forum

another 419er people are just too gullible

beyonce will not allow J to hit her and get away with it. she is no dummy

MAMAJAMA werent u the guy that said that all that comes out of the nigerian newspaper outlet were all lies? (especially the sun newspaper) why are u now giving us a link to the newspaper out let u just discredited and said they are spreading nothing but lies and rumours? go and bring ur facts jare stop spreading rumours and lies.

may God destroy baba and all suppoters of babism

we think everything lies in u MAMAJAMA u are responsible for all this messssssssss.

if the report turns out to be true then OBJ is just being him self nothing more he is still the same old, backward thinking retarded, outdated and good for nothing baboon dons that knows nothing but how to exibit his stupidity all the time

Allah she kiya ye       this terrosist should stay clear, we don't want them any where near nigeria, because having them around will mean calling on US air strikes on our country

what is Nigeria turning into? na wa ohh so this terrorist don dey get ground for niaja again, things don dey go out of hand be that since dey don start to dey suspect nigerians for terrorism.


The Federal Government on Tuesday arraigned a director of the Media Trust Nigeria Limited, Publishers of the Daily Trust newspapers, Malam Muhammed Bello Ilyas Damagun, at a Federal High Court in Abuja, for being a member of a terrorist organisation called ‘The Nigerian Taliban‘.

He was accused of receiving the sum of $300,000.00 from a terrorist organisation known as Alqaeda World Network, Sudan.

According to count one of the three charges read to him, Damagun deposited the $300,000.00 which he allegedly received from the Alqaeda World Network with Habibsons Bank Limited at Windson House, 55-56 St James Street, London in account number 21067695.

Government alleged that the accused intended to use the money to carry out acts of terrorism, an offence contrary to Section 15 (1) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on bail.

The prosecutor, Mr. Abdulllahi Mikailu, a state counsel with the Federal Ministry of Justice, however, appeared not to be ready to prosecute the case.

Immediately the suspect pleaded not guilty, he (prosecutor) asked the court to grant him a three-week adjournment to allow him conclude investigation into the case.

He asked the court to adjourn the case for further mention.

But the suspect‘s lawyer, Mr. Abas Ibrahim, opposed the application for adjournment, saying that the accused could not be detained while investigation was still on.

He asked the court to release his client or alternatively strike out the case.

He said, ”This shows that the prosecution is not ready, the accused has been in detention for over 12 days.”

He further said that the charge did not contain proof of evidence.

Replying, the prosecutor said that the suspect was not brought to the court from detention but from his house because he had earlier been granted bail.

He, however, asked the court to take note that the accused was charged with a serious offence that involved an international organisation.


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20070117423292

personally i believe we have no country apart from nigeria if it changes for good we will be the ones to enjoy it, though i feel very sad when ever i go back to nigeria, i still remain opptimistic that one day things will get better and when it does we all will benefit from it, so lets keep hope alive and put our hands together to make it work cos as it is we only talk and we never act, a little positive act by every body will change things a lot.

lets wait and see it seems the 3rd term plot is still on, we are patiently waiting

stupid amala baboon

GNature:
What pains me the most is that the money is there to provide the amenities & infrastructure.

Oil prices have risen throughout Obj's term. Our benchmark is based on $22 per barel
and a barrel of oil goes for $59 per barrel the last time I checked.

We have about $41 billion in reserves and an average nigerian can't boast of 7 hours
of electricity a day. Is that pitiful or what ?

its hmmmm

it doesnt take much to know that this administration is not better than all the others in any way.
power supply is still the same no electricity every where
fuel prices are still high deregulation has not worked at all and the refinaries are still not working.
unemployment is hmmm lol lets not talk about that because it has never been this bad
all the hospital are still the same,infact nigeria is amongst the countries with the highest rate of infant mortality.people still go out of the country for medical check ups and treatment because of the decay in the health sector.
no sercurity in fact armed robberry has never been this bad. 15 police men killed in one week across the nation.open and day light robbery of banks and houses. its has never been this bad since when i was born. religious crisis every where  thank God it has subsided for some time now. corruption every where if u are in the presidents camp u can do what ever u like and get away with it.
no infasturcture no roads no nothing. bulidings are just collapsing all over the nation. we have never experienced as much air misharps as in this administration. soo much money spent on road yet nothing no roads on the ground.
the educational sector is still very bad no facilities in the universities. secondary and primary schools are still very very bad. soo many graduates with nothing to do with them with their half baked,quater baked and any how baked degrees.UBE never saw the light of the day.people are just running out of the country at an alarming rate cos of how bad things are.i went to nigeria some months ago and all my friends are out of the country i was like na wa ohhhh

it doesnt take much to know that nothing has worked and changed its still the same suffering and smiling. we don't want to know anything about debt cancellation and external reserves we want good roads,security,food to eat,good education,good hospitals, electricity , good water, shelter,fuel at affordable prices, employment and stability all we want are just the basic necessities of life nothing more but OBJ simply did not provide it for us in any way. too bad

i tire 4 OBJ ohhhh. he should go and rest we dont want him again. we are all tired of all his lies and madness

this problem has eaten too deep and i am afriad the authorities have no capacity to stop it. i was in nigeria some months ago and found out that a friend of mine was caught in lagos because of yahoo yahoo. few days later i meet him and he told me he paid 750,000 naira as bribe to the EFCC boys. so u see its all the same merry go round. Nigeria is hmmmm i dont know.

he has performed badly.in fact he is no different from all the others b4 him.

An article i found online from a writer i truly admire


"Nigeria, the land of the extraordinaire, a land where it all happens, a land that never ceases to amaze many, the land of Generals, from the good, the very good, sometimes the best, to also the bad, ugly and dirty, the land famed for the biggest fraud called PDP. A lot has been written about us, much more will still be written. We welcome another New Year, a year pregnant with events that would make or mar the future of the nation, but who really cares because we are again following the status quo, going the same old vicious circle. A circle of greed, corruption, bad leadership, docile citizenry, confused government, a badly prepared diet of rice, yam and corn with cocoa-yam stew, a meal prepared by a group of insane chefs in a kitchen that suffers want in the midst of plenty

What more for a populace that believes that 'god' is a Nigerian or that there is a Nigerian 'god' and somehow we feel, we will still scale through, call it faith, call it perseverance, call it foolishness, call it being politically naive, whatever term we apply, it is just that inherent thing that makes us Nigerians, because strangely we sail through, The Nigerian in Nigeria and the Nigeria in a Nigerian you might want to say,

Only at the tail end of last year I had resolved that I would take a more deeper and retrospective outlook to this never-ending experiment called Nigeria from as many positives that I can lay my hands on. The more I thought of it, the more sickening it was for me and I am sure a considerableamount of Nigerians feel the same way. I took a close look at the number of Nigerians both home and abroad that are doing well in various fields of endeavour, I took a census of the figures in both Naira, Dollars, and Pounds spent on Energy, Education, Healthcare, Infrastructural Development, Sports, Security, Roads, Info-tech, Transport, in the running of government I got stock as the figures defied my small calculator, the trillions that have gone in managing our democracy.

The enormous material resources, the natural endowments at our disposal and the colossal waste that greets it and I concluded that we are a nation of miscarriage before pregnancy.

I tried to make sense of the nonsense we have become over the years, in months we will be 47 years old and nearing a golden jubilee and still crawling, still sucking, and younger nations, lesser democracies are chewing the big bite of development, forward thinking, positive strategizing and we are making speeches and drawing plans on the board. I cannot but wonder what we are talking about, we just defy logical reasoning, we are a rule to an exception, the grossly unusual is usual to us, can anyone explain that a man buys a bag of beans at N5 and sells at N5000 and still is bankrupt, still complains about lack of business capital, continues to sell the infrastructure that the business depends on, this same man saves up money he calls foreign reserve for the future while the present is in jeopardy of collapse. The man sells his beans to other people that bag the beans and sells back to him, and then the man and his big 140 million family members suffer a lack in protein.

In the last couple of weeks into the New Year we have had to contain another fuel crisis, with the commodity being sold in places for as much as N150 per liter as against the N65 official rate, in far away places like Adamawa, Maidugiri down to Port Harcourt, Aba to Lagos it sold for as much as N1200 for a 4 Liter gallon and we say nothing is wrong, better put, nobody owes us an explanation, it is in this light that I ask Nigerians, what are we really talking about in 2007.

We have started the year in the business as usual style that has become our trademark. We have an election in the next couple of months and what are we really talking about, What are the demands of the electorates beyond the ordinary, Nigerians want the basics of life, good shelter, good food and affordable healthcare. They want a plan that can guarantee a future for them, they want to know that home is good. Nigerians in diaspora want to come back to a home that works. Those in the country do not want to leave. We want roads that are not death traps. A political structure that despite all the political munbo jumbo would still work.

What are really talking about, in terms of labour, the federal government is still insisting on its ill-informed right and down sizing but what do we really care. Would the present administration be able to pay up all the pension arrears it owes? All the hurried sales of our mutual heritage in the name of privatization, is it not a case of buyers beware? The government is awarding all sorts of contract from the supply of tomatoes to another FESTAC like drama, draining the national purse through unexplainable bazaars and it is striking that this is the same government that cancelled all contracts that its predecessor got into six months before.

We are all out analyzing the pros and cons of this and that candidate, arguing about whether Atiku should be sacked or Obasanjo should be impeached when in truth both men have abused the collective sanity of Nigerians. They have exploited our amnesia to their benefit, what are we talking about, they both rigged the 2003 election together, lets not forget that where there is Tom, Jerry is not far away. We are asking the President to follow due process in removing his Vice but what are we talking about, has Obasanjo ever followed due process, is it so difficult for us to see that we have a Supreme Court in Aso Rock where the Presiding Judge is Mr. President?

Nigerians on the street care less about all these squabbles, especially when it has no significance to the quality of life they live. The Vice President is on vacation in US when many Nigerians due to the hike in petroleum products could barely move from their homes to amusement parks, much more their respective villages. What are we talking about, will the present administration be able to achieve one thing, one basic thing, ? Rural electrification is zero, I pass through villages whose only claim to electricity is the high tension cables that pass through them. Others have transformers but no light. Water supply, Oh that I can tell better because I live in a city that literally has none.

Education in the last year was one of the most maligned sectors in governance but who really cared and who cares even today, and again I ask what are we really talking about. We have one President at the moment that has failed in that sector, and with several Presidential hopefuls, can we say that any of them has a master plan for success. A wannabe Presido promised a Ministry for Niger Delta Affairs, while the present President has remained the Minister For Petroleum, yet that has been in the performance index of Ministries one of the worst in terms of accountability.

We are all critics in our own right but have we really talked about what matters most, that while we have engaged in infinitesimal arguments that sometimes are as clear as the sun can be from the moon we have left out the very important. Is it far from the truth that we may say that somehow from a couple of Presidential hopefuls we may have an ideological base but that these men will still have to work with a system that is morally bankrupt, epidemically inept, grossly inefficient and already compromised despite all the noise of reforms.

We are all talking but the fact is that we have barely spared time to listen, away from the battle of the titans, PDP versus ANPP, the clash of riggers, PDP versus AC, the confusion that is called INEC, the deceit of free and fair elections, what exactly is at stake? What really are the campaign issues, is Nigeria all about reforms and "I jail my son if found corrupt"?

Has anyone thought about how we can be self sufficient as a nation, have we talked about our unity as a people, have we talked about how we can make the rural farmer happy to remain in the farm and feed the nation, how about primary health care, do we not see that we are millions of step backwards in industrialization? What are we really talking about when the telephone booth in the Nigerian Embassy in UK is not functional. What are really talking about in a system that habours the likes of Andy Uba, Adedibu, Madueke, gives honors to men like Ahmadu Ali.

Are we not even embarrassed by ourselves, we are governed by a lawless bunch, a 'confused' (and I beg for lack of words) Attorney General who makes a mess of the basics of primary law. A nation where due to lack of cohesion everybody has become an authority in constitutional law when the picture is as clear as water in a glass cup. For how long shall we continue this colonization of Nigerians by Nigerians and foreigners. When will our own slave trade end,

Its a New Year, some many months ago, a Chinese firm came into the country with aim of manufacturing mobile handsets, they set up factory, infact the then Minister For Communications commissioned the place in Abuja, few months later, the company rather than manufacture, simply was assembling, that was not too much of a problem, other than it was a breach of understanding that it was going to manufacture. At the commissioning, the government praised the "jobmen" for employing Nigerians and the usual niceties of such occasions. Today, the whole factory is full of dust, scattered debris or maybe handset spare parts. Those that were on hand as workers on the commissioning day were actually hired for two days and paid N2000 each as actors for the ceremony.

The above is just a tip, this is our story as a nation, while a set of Nigerians are toiling for the good of country, a set are working so hard to earn a decent living, another set called leadership exploits our lack of purpose and the circle sadly goes round and round, before the year which has already commenced in earnest goes far, can we again ask ourselves what are we really talking about as a nation, as a people, as individuals, Nigeria can be better, lets start talking about the real issues and put a stop to continuos decline. May the Almighty help us! "

[quote author=Afam link=topic=35527.msg817It is really disturbing the way and manner people talk about Nigeria as if its the worst place on planet earth.

its not the worst place to live but nothing they have said here is untrue, all they have said are what is happening in nigeria. no wonder nigeria was featured on bbc's weekend in the danger zone. how sad

is OBJ a mad man? why is he always starting what he cant finish? from UBE to deregulation to 3rd term now its removing atiku .OBJ is a total failure cos he has failed in all what he seems to be doing, all his policies have failed even his attempt to extend his tenure too has failed, his attempt to remove atiku too is now a mess what kind of mad man is that? may God save us from the hands of mad animals that call them selves leaders

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1658

The Court of Appeal ruled this morning that privileges stripped from Vice President Abubakar Atiku should be restored immediately. The Court also restrained the Federal Government from taking any step or further action that will affect the status of the Vice President as well as jeopardize the matter brought before it by the Vice President.

This order was made as the five justices formally referred the questions in the substantive suit to the Supreme Court for determination.

In the unanimous verdict delivered by Appeal Courtpresident, Justice Umaru Abudullahi, the Federal Government was ordered to maintain the status quo before the start of hostilities between the Presidency and the Vice President.

In making this order, the Court disagreed with the counsels to the defendants, all of who had earlier argued against the granting of this order.

Justice Abdullahi said that the counsels’ opposition to the interim injunction was “untenable” as they failed to show how their clients can be affected if the court made the order.

The Vice President has, by this order, again scored a major legal victory against the politically motivated onslaught from the Presidency to prevent him from offering himself as a candidate in the 2007 Presidential elections.

Thus, the purported sacking of the Vice President and the purported loss of immunity and attendant rights and privileges have been nullified.

The Federal Government is also expected by this injunction to restore to the office all sacked staff and all property taken away from the office and residence, including the use of presidential plane and all other entitlements.

Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had gone to the Court of Appeal to seek its interpretation of Sections 135 and 142(2), Sections 142, 143, 144 and 146 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on whether the President has powers under the constitution to declare the office of the Vice-President vacant.

He equally prayed the court to determine whether having regard to the clear provisions of Section 308 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria can withdraw, tamper or interfere with or violate the immunity conferred on the office of the Vice-President of Nigeria by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or order his arrest or prosecution?

By this court ruling, Atiku Abubakar still remains the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with all the rights and privileges of the office.

na wah ohh which kin life be this ? i don tire for thie old baba iyabo of a man. may God help us all

when will all this fraudsters stop? people should just shine their eyes well well this year else,

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1654

Finally the Man has be sentenced to death.

@donguji

U shut the Bleep up. we all know that all those almajiris wont be there if not for islam's sake. they are busy begging and causing trouble all in the name of learning the ways of the koran. armed robbery in nigeria has nothing to do with the people of the south the northerner are into it to so also is prostitution and what ever societal problem we have.

why should u be talking about where the dead might be?the answer is no one knows.

na wah ohhhh ahhh which kin life be this  God God God is all the mad goat was saying. which kin man be this i don die ohh see the kind of mad animal that is parading him self as the political God father.

  " I told my boys(thugs) to go out and bring down any thing that belongs to Lam Adesina ,i told them that if they see any oyo state vehichle they should size it.they should not allow them to move freely   "

this is a mad clown  he entertained me sha i like the way he made me laugh all through the interview