₦airaland Forum

youngalex:
May God help us,Lagos is fast becoming a den of criminals,Ambode needs to step up his Game,Governance is not about"swagger" and clubbing..He needs to summon all the area men and discuss with them,that was fashola's strategy coupled with efforts from other security agencies,

Ambode, the turn-up king.
Quilox ambassador!

yemaldo:
When minister of education children are schooling abroad, how do you expect him to solve our problems

Where his children school has no impact on his ability and performance.
Some people school in certain places due to several reasons.

UniqueGem:
Anyone who's child or children is not based in Nigeria gets authomatic disqualification. Thats how strict it should be. .

What sort of hatred and myopia is that?

southsouthman:
This is one politician I love but I must say that if this was his response to the question then I am so disappointed. Is he saying that he didn't take into consideration his state's monthly income and that of Akwa Ibom. This is just like saying a man whose monthly or yearly income of 200k building a house of 3m because he saw his colleague whose income is 7m having that structure.

An intelligent man like him should know that a govt house is no asset.
It can't be rented out nor can it be sold.
He should have added a caveat saying it was a decision he would not repeat if he had a second chance.
1.5 million naira bed?

dalu:
Actually no
In the 90s, STB, (which is now where springbank resides) next to the Anglican church ⛪ of Pentecost by 21 Rd was robbed quite a few times.. So also zenith

She is too young to remember those.

We do not really need technocrats as ministers in all positions, what we really do not need are questionable characters like Onyilola, Imo and the Kogi rumoured nominees who are being chosen to compensate certain individuals with no regard to credibility and competence.

He had better make all these questionable choices ministers of state.

MayorXB:
Bros am sure you are not expecting him to name the Ihediora's in law as the ministerial nominee from Imo if Okorocha is bared from doing so. You wonder if the president could possibly know anyone from that part of the world,I put it to you that you can't mention names fifteen residents downtown your hood. That how bad it could get at times. Let's hope the nominees work for the benefit of Nigeria and stop hating.

Let us stop sending th indefensible.
He could as well give a sheet of paper to all governors outside Katwina state to nominate a minister and this process would have ended in 24 hrs.
He has been contesting for presidency for over 16 years and the best he can come up with is Okorocha's in-law who is not known for any stelar performance.
No matter how you spin it, It does not look well.

Chanchit:
So you expect him to know people in every part of the country?

What kind of lousy watery excuse is that?
So how did he settle for Okorocha's in-law?
If this list is true, it will be the final nail of this govt coffin.

Simitrendy:





I wonder if Buhari knows how much Bola Tinubu and Akeredolu spent during The last election in Ondo .



Prolly 2012 I can't vividly remember the exact year Akeredolu is a disgrace as a SAN his manifestoes didn't make him sound as if he got the SAN qualification.



Even Olusola Oke who's just a mere Barrister manifestoes shows he is intellectual.




I won't go for Rotimi Akeredolu .





Everyone knows Oyinlola can't offer anything. He's just a candidate of Obasanjo.



His administration in State of Osun was a waste nothing to write home about.




Y'all knows how Osun was during Oyinlola administration.

I Like Nigerians who say the truth without any tinge of hypocrisy.
I am impressed with you, sir.
The Oyinlola bit is too funny but unfortunately it is painful.

Blood of God!!
Who appointed this teenage adult to be the manager of a national team?
If he wins a competitive match, he will probably dance sekem on top Enyeama mother's grave.
This man should disappear and not be heard.

texazzpete:
I think it's time we start attacking and calling out these accursed folks who defend thieves based on ethnic grounds.

Honest patriots are paying taxes and obeying laws, and jobless louts are justifying theft. Nonsense.

A classic example is this scum below.

Pls ignore the utterly disgusting ethnic jingoists. The irrationality of their argument is worrying.

babafirst:
The people of the SS don't like injustice,the average Niger Deltan hates being cheated,they are freedom fighters and that is why I am surprised they (including me cos my mother is from the SS)are putting up with some of these looters by defending them even on Nairaland.I bet you that if Niger Delta were to be a Republic people like GEJ,Ibori and Alams will not last 2 months in power when the no-nonsense people of Niger Delta discover they are short changing them.Infact they can't even win elections in an independent Niger Delta Republic.

I wish I could agree with you. Restructure all you want, you will still have to deal with these barbarians. Restructuring is not our biggest problem. Our biggest issue is with the process that produces leadership and the system that sustains same. A system that produces Ibori, Alams, Wike and TA Orji is faulty. Such bankrupt system will never thrive irrespective of the amount of restructuring.

As long as we celebrate thieves, there will be no change.
Ibori should know that we are not all gullible.
Forget Alamesigha. Ibori is attempting to rewrite the story if his life. We will not accept it. He can continue to delufe himself that he is a fighter of fiscal federalism and resourve control. Concepts he will not recognise if they smacked him in the face. Decades after democracy birthed and they have governed themaelv s, most of the Niger Delta is still nothing but swamp and wasteland. Their son was the n harge of the till and east west road that passes through four ND states is still uncompleted. Instead he empowered briefcase billionaires whose only objectives is oppressing their fellow ND indigenes with unearned wealth.
Ibori and his sycophants are entitled to their own truths but our sensibilities must not be used insulted.

BlackrulesDworld:
Apc anti corruption campaign is the biggest SCAM ever seen in the history of Nigeria democracy regime.

You and the four clowns who liked this silly post of yours lack basic English comprehension skills.

These two might be closeted homosexuals.
They should get a room and sort themselves out.
I refuse to accept that grown heterosexual men can be this much drama queens. Utterly pointless crap.

Mother of God!!!
Enough of this boring tale. Can we please move on? Not like he retired from life. It is an almost pointless national team, nothing more!! Both parties should stop acting like dogs on heat and seeking our undeserved attention.

Does she do anything else apart from taking pics?

I have heard it too many times how some of pastors in the new generation churches often hoodwink some of their members with some false prophecies that are often laced with impending dangers, just like the ‘white garment prophets’ will do.


But unlike the white garment prophets who would prescribe the purchase of many items, some of which are often bizarre and strange for some fetish-like rituals, the Pentecostal Pastors will call for a dry fast. And before the member will utter any word of complaint on not being able to fast, let alone dry fast, the pastor offers to fast for the member. It comes with a condition. The member has to drop some money with which the pastor can refresh each of the times he has to break the fast. That money could be any amount. That is the commercial prophet.


I had always sworn that pastors and priests from orthodox churches, especially my Anglican Church, will never engage in such pastoral entrepreneurship. But alas, I am wrong.

Last Tuesday, I read a small story in The Nation Newspapers, where the Jonathan administration was struggling to justify how it spent N333million on Independence Anniversay. The statement from the Jonathan aides explained that in three years, (2012 to 2014), “only N70 million” was spent on prayers. The story went on to give a breakdown of the sum spent to procure the prayers both from the Christian Interdenominational Services as well as the Special Jumat Prayers of Muslims. It was revealed that usually, there is a budget for such prayers either in the churches or in the mosques.


According to the story, in Year 2014, the prayer budget was increased by 50 per cent, causing both the Church and the Mosque to receive N15 million each for the Independence prayers. I am shocked and have been waiting for a refuttal of the story, but none has come.


So, are prayers said for the nation paid for? Who exactly receives such monies on behalf of Christiandom and Islamic faithful? Are these priests and Imams also prayer contractors? Did the proceeds from the said prayers get into Church and Mosque coffers? Ain't such underhand dealings often the theme of many sermons from such priests on the pulpit, who proclaim moral codes with magisterial authority?


Why do they have to be paid for praying for the peace and growth of their nation? Are they not Nigerians? Would services in the Churches and Mosques hold if there is no peace in Nigeria? If Priests and Islamic clerics cannot pray without financial inducement, then what is left of their ecclesiastical calling?


How many people pray quietly in their own closets for the peace and unity of Nigeria without any megaphone noise?

I fear that resorting to cash-for-prayer is not only unscriptural, it vitiates the canonical aura that should be associated with the anointed men of God.


It is acts like this that make many doubt both the messengers and the messages of such characters. Pray, did the scripture not declare that freely have you received, and freely shall you give?
I am perhaps not qualified to put our MoGs (Men of God) on trial, but I dare say that accepting money for praying for the nation does not sit well and does not bode well for the body of Christ. Too deeply, the politicians are corrupting the church and mosques, as the allure of lucre is becoming too strong to be resisted by people who should ordinarily be Spartan models.


Little wonder that the religious bodies have become patently partisan in such a way that they make open political overtures to people in government.


Earlier in the year or so, one of the top officials of the Christian Association of Nigeria, from Borno State, had revealed that the Jonathan administration doled out the sum of N7 billion to the body. The same may have been done to the Islamic body, all in a desperate bid by the Jonathan administration to woo them for political support. Those are monies that are hardly accounted for.

In all, I believe that the prayer of the saints is what is seeing Nigeria through. Prayers that are not procured, but said with all piety and sincerity. I should think that the age of such financial recklessness expired last March.

This is wole soyinka and obasonjo battle on another front.
You nloloa is just a tool in the process.

Enough of this pointless drama.

tolastikha:
Remember he said two state governments was involved. All in all, the bribery sum was 9B. If James pocket 4.5B, it means Tinubu make do with 4.5B. The man need to talk more or he should shot up .

It could also be Akwa Ibom state he was referring to. They also had shares.
You guys are too quick to see tinubu in your dreams.

cityAdventures:
No body shd listen to this crook called strive massiya..he came to nigeria with only his experience to run a telco. He came wit econet wireless international (EWI) while the nigerian investors-the oba otudekos, tinubu n ibori led econet wireless nigeria, EWN.

EWI had no dime and out of $285m contributed zilch. Yet EWI toook CEO,CFO,CTO and came wit 200 zims. Each earning almost $78k den. And all their salaries were paid into massiwaya's private account, for him to now pay them.

Ontop on all dis EWI had 90% shares EWN had only 10% and they EWN brought all the money.plus massiwaya was getting 3% of turnover...not even 3% of net profit.imagine.

After getting the licence,they needed $10m to roll out. Massiwaya n EWI still didnt have a dime n Delta lagos n otudeko got first bank to raise a 10m facility for econet.

yet massiwaya thru his zim appoinees was controlling the money(CFO), he was controlling the company(CEO) and he was controlling the technology (CTO).

how you go use nigerians head. In a board meeting, they now gave him an ultimatum, inject money or we whittle down your shareholding. Thats how from 90% ownership, he was cut down to 5% shares.

he packed up and left starting a 10year fruitless legal journey.

corruption didnt drive him out...his greed did. The man is such a coward..he mentions ibori but now refrains in mentioning tinubu..is it becos one is doing time in her majestys jail, as such he has nothing to fear from him n the other is hobnobbing with the president?

Yeye man

Finally found someone with some clue on this story.
I followed this story closely and I was typing an epistle when I saw your comment.
The men involved might be truly corrupt but that was not what chased Strive away. He simply did not have the deep pocket needed, especially when MTN started expanding. He repeatedly was unable to honour his right of first refusal.
Yes they abused court processes to hack him down but they would not have gone down that room if he brought the needed cash to the table.
He tried jobbing crooks and got his hands burnt.

dymphna993:
Study in Philippines any course of your choice

Philippines kwa
Has it gotten that bad?

flyforall:
As they both gave birth to the child,they should both make an unselfish decision that has the child's best interest.

Both should resign?

Pelmet:
Non should resign just yet...give it a couple o' months, save up and open a business. this is why entrepreneurship is the best(after saving up capital for a while of course) it gives you the opportunity to manage your time yourself, leave work, go for school run, cook and go back to work...sometimes, the kids could come around your office and be with you whilst you make your money...let them start saving and open a business...after a while non would want a "jacki" job anymore have tasted both waters

Every argument must not be settled by this your entrepreneurial epistle. Have you checked the entrepreneur success rate in our clime? Na dem borrow money from paid folks pass. Entrepreneurship is not a bullet for all crimes. Try and be a bit more open minded. Paid employment is not a crime irrespective of what all those motivational speakers tell you.

Badgers14:
Hope the governor is not eyeing another substandard airport.. It baffles me how these guys travel outside the country and see good stuffs but yet they come back and build rubbish.... (speaking of Asaba airport)

Anyways just observing them from on top of a speeding molué

Until he pays salaries, he should not even be talking of building motor parks.

You read some crap and silently wait for a disclaimer.
Governance in this country is appalling.
This is a man that has not paid salaries talking of building an airport.

This is becoming nauseating.
If he wants to indulge in this attention seeking disorder, he should get an English teacher.

Spactacle:
Hmmm..What can i say.
I only pray for a better Nigeria someday.

Enough of the prayer. Even as a Christian, I think this country is a lost case.