₦airaland Forum

ThoniaSlim:
If you read my post well, you'll see I said "estimated" time.

I still insist that you have not been in ABC recently.

ThoniaSlim:
Since the day Aero moved my flight from 7am till about 9 at night and finally got cancelled without any explanation or apology and still expected me to come back the next day without any guarantee that I'll leave in the morning, I gave up on local flights in Nigeria.

Except its an official trip, I'll rather peacefully go and enter my ABC transport and know I get to my destination at the estimated time than spend my whole day at the airport waiting for almighty aero/arik to decide when I'll leave.

You have obviously not used ABC in a long while.

IdiAmin1:
NAIJA and madness. Isn't there a better way to convey their message? Must we spill blood easily, are we vampires? Smh

As much as I do not condone violence, it is easy to denounce these passengers. Flights are postponed everywhere in the world but the ease with which our carriers postpone flights and the total lack of emphaty involved is disgusting.

What exactly is the point of pushing this man out to be ADB president when it is generally accepted that he has done a stellar job in Agriculture?
Why not make him continue?

Symphony007:
how this man Of questionable character and association became a senior pastor on RCCG shows how much of a joke churches in nigeria are!!

I am not Bola Tinubu's biggest fan but I take exception you maligning the reputation of Professor Osinbajo. Kindly back up such weighty accusations with proof or kindly retract. In the absence of either, we will consider your comment baseless.
Prof. Osinbajo is a man of impeccable character and reputation. I dare you to prove otherwise.

folks going to funny locations all in the name of studying abroad.
Who even gives these silly scholarships?

Taylor86:
ThankGod man is not God, and d lord gives mercy and sickness according to our account balances and sizes



very rare to see d poor or moderate man complain of cancer and other diseases meant for d rich


d bigger ur wealth, the bigger ur sickness/disease allocation

I hope you are being sarcastic and those liking your comment are too.

tchidi:

It just had to be my state!! Ike Unu a gwulam biko!!

Meanwhile, Happy birthday to Me!!!!!!
#shoki
#TurnDownForWhat?!

Have a blessed year.
Ogadiri gi nma.

walozanga:
Maybe the circumstances ant dsame.

Care to explain the difference?

chmod777:
Try to be civil and think educated. Was the advice a bad one? Was he a senator under GEJ?
Do not let hate deny you of precious things when they come.

Your comprehension skills are lacking and neither will you recognize civility if it slapped you in the face at noon.
What part of my comment was not civil?
Where did I allude to him being a senator under Jonathan?
Did you miss the part where I agreed that Buhari should do away with most if not all of the presidential fleet?
You definition of hate is personal and does not apply to me.

shinel:
I have started smelling that CHANGE also it's so interesting!

Baba is now elected, I now see electricity 2hours a day including 1day off instead of the 7 to 8hours before.

Baba is now elected, I bought fuel in the black market yesterday after almost a decade experience of things like this.

CHANGE is truly here!! I will keep watching in Tobago...

Do you have to expose your daftness in public?

Desric:
So you are this intelligent yet you didn't bother to advice your brother and "godfather" of high esteem to you and you were just looking at him after he spent five whole years living exactly the opposite of what you are prescribing for the incoming administration; need I inform you that you missed to also advice GMB to also put his wife on proper check to avoid the mistake your brother made during his time.

Don't mind the hypocrites.
As much as I want Buhari to sell off the planes in the fleet, I also want Ben Bruce to refuse to collect over 40 million quarterly for doing what amounts to exchanging banter with co-travellers while seating in cushy seats in Abuja.

eros:
Great advice with a bad topic. Those loyal and close to the General should please print out this piece and give it to him to study as a top priority.

Reading in between the lines, me thinks Mr. Bruce wants some adviser job with the General, which by every standard he deserves. He is intelligent and very aware of the real Nigeria problems.

All in all, God bless Nigeria and guide the General to make the right decisions that will move Nigeria forward.

Try and keep up with the times.
He has been elected to be a senator in the next Senate.

Very apt piece by Ben Bruce. I hope Buhari learns to take advice from both friends and foes.
Howevwe, I can't help but notice the dubious hypocrisy in the write-up. You have unfettered access to the outgoing president who has not done one of the several things you want Buhari to do, despite the fact that he had five years to do the. All he did was pamay around with his uncouth wife. Yet you declare uunalloyed loyalty to such a mediocre failure.
Ben Bruce,you are too intelligent to be unaware of the contradiction therein.

kaboninc:
And not Aregbe or Tinubu and Amaechi or Silva.

Well, I've noted your observation. Whether am an idealistic or you're an APC apologist, you've expressed your opinion.

If we did not miss the opportunity, then we did what? Probably you were not in Nigeria when the heat and tension was so high that it wasn't for the fact that leaders were wooing voters on the basis of their brilliant ideas but on scandals, propagandas, lies and deceits. An opportunity not missed?

Probably you did not notice that a Presidential Aspirant vehemently refused to participate in an election debate organised by several independent bodies claiming that the answers were rigged. Yes, you were MIA when our hopefuls were busy telling us how they intend to separate the goat from the yam but not how!

Probably you should also ask yourself why KOWA was badly beaten in the election even with their 'brilliant' ideas. And why even after the debate, the issues were never discussed but as usual the insults and useless messages continued.

Unfortunately, you and I can't have a discussion.
You do not see my point and come with pre-conceived notions about acronyms that mean nothing to me. You think discussing a battered polity is about taking sides. I way past such.
Even my point about KOWA you missed by a mile.
Check out my posts history, I have been calling out Amaechi's limitations like a scorned lover. Dude has not paid pensions since December and had body told pensioners not to expect any soon. March salaries are still owed to over 50% of workers. My discussion was not about performance but suitability of individuals for positions where ideas are needed. Comparing Amaechi to Wike portrays gross ignorance.
With all due respect, have a good day.

naijababe:
I just did, need to read part 1, part two a good read except for the sexist part

You too get wahala.
Feyi Is a political economic satirist. I will forgicevhim this time.
oby is not the answer, the answer is in jailing some yam eaters and you will be shocked how new goats will fall in line.

kaboninc:
Please eh,

Can you please package the spirit of purposeful desire for effective leadership as witnessed in the upcoming UK elections into a small box and send it down to us here in Nigeria through DHL or FedEx or Chisco?

Where both incumbent and aspiring leaders come together to tell us, how their ideas will take us to heaven while we fly with our flesh? I tell you, it is in dire need over here.

We missed that opportunity in our recently concluded election here in Nigeria but we (personally I) would be grateful if we can start now to inculcate these ideals, cultures into our national life.

Thanks.

Worried Patriotic Nigerian

I wonder why you were disappointed.
We did not miss the opportunity in the last election.
The last election was not for that purpose.
The problem is that you have an idealistic view. You can not got from hell to heaven in one trip. We are making some progress although it might not seem so. Did you see the minute traction that KOWA got? That minute traction would not have been possible 8 years ago. I know a few people who took out time to read that woman's manifesto and voted for her knowing that she stood no chance in hell.
The biggest problem besides the yam and goat issue I raised elsewhere is that our polity is structured in such a way as to throw up the very worst for positions of leadership. When you have clowns like Kashamu and TA Original making laws and thugs like Fayose and Wike in govt houses then you know that your desire for politics of ideas is a long way coming.

kaboninc:
Please eh,

Can you please package the spirit of purposeful desire for effective leadership as witnessed in the upcoming UK elections into a small box and send it down to us here in Nigeria through DHL or FedEx or Chisco?

Where both incumbent and aspiring leaders come together to tell us, how their ideas will take us to heaven while we fly with our flesh? I tell you, it is in dire need over here.

We missed that opportunity in our recently concluded election here in Nigeria but we (personally I) would be grateful if we can start now to inculcate these ideals, cultures into our national life.

Thanks.

Worried Patriotic Nigerian

Effective leadership?
Come see as goat don chop the whole yam for naija.
I hear say even God wey been dey look after the yam don tire for the brazen attitude of the goat.
We dey find lion to protect the yam from new goats.

http://aguntasolo.com/2015/04/29/this-yam-this-goat-this-country-part-1/comment-page-1/#comments

naijababe:
Aproko does not pay

Madam, you see my message for the other post?

naijababe:
So a handout now costs 300k?

Madam, please your attention is needed here;http://aguntasolo.com/2015/04/30/time-to-make-goat-meat-peppersoup-pwc-on-nnpc-part-2/

On a more serious note, we need a serious rationalization program in our tertiary education sector.
All these mushroom outfits masquerading as universities negate real development in the sector.
We need to reduce these things drastically.
University funding is not like running a kiosk. Which clowns are approving these things?

Michael and Cecelia Ibru University??
So there is still leftover from the Oceanic Bazaar?

agabusta:
Finally... Nice team. But what role will Chairman Oyegun serve on the committee? His presence on the committee doesn't make sense to me. Why is GMB leaving the VP elect lounging instead of deploying him to Chair this committee?

very good question

Ibime:
No reasonable person expected APC to keep these election "promises" just like no reasonable person expected GEJ to keep his. Both PDP and APCs manifestos were uncosted and designed to win the popular vote. . . . these are soundbites for the millions of illiterates, semi-illiterates and uninformed Nigerians.

No need digging into the figures. All we know is that we have a more serious Government in charge. Like it or lump it.

Gbam!!

PWC are a funny set of clowns.
If the info you needed to do an audit that meets acceptable standards, why not throw in the towel?
you collected money and wrote 199 pages based on incomplete disclosure.

CSTR2:
And are you going to feed the families whose livelihood will be taken away?
And not to forget that Ait is Nigeria's first private station.
You are a slowpoke.

Not like Dokpesi pays salaries. The man is an awful employer of labour.
There is no need to break the law (revoking his license) in a bid to make him irrelevant. Just ignore him and his organization. No adverts, do not appear on their programs etc. Let them just manufacture crap and keep airing it.

I understand the game Dokpesi is trying to play.
He wants to irritate Buhari enough so he will do something undemocratic and they can hang him for it.
All Buhari needs to do is just ignore the man and his organization.
There are economic ways of wrecking Dokpesi and AIT that do not involve breaking the law and can be done silently.
If we allow Dokpesi and AIT to go scot free, others will do likewise in future and believe you can do anything and get away with it as long as you have the govt of the day on your side.

TheGoodJoe:
I am from Akwa-Ibom state and I was born and bred in Port-Harcourt. So do not think I am talking because I am a Yoruba, Hausa or Fulani.

I am talking based on pure logic. A nation, tribe or region cannot grow if criminality is condoned and rewarded.

GEJ and his crew were crooks and they had no plans to develop the Niger Delta. The Amnesty program does not develop the Niger Delta. Money is reserved for crooks. Come on, think.

We need a full running Niger Delta program that will develop the region faster.

More schools in the region, more loans for medium and small scale enterprises. More power plants that are functioning. Not a policy that gives militants and terrorists money to flex,

Ignore them. Idiots who can't see beyond ethnic barbs and tribalism jingostic tendencies.

RAO1:
Jonathan, Sambo, others 2 get
3.24bn severance pay .....meanwhile , kogi just
reduced workers' salaries by 40%....workers r
suffering in many other state as a result of
reduction in state allocation ....my state as a
study ....osun gov is having a migraine in
paying workers

Very soon the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich.

Exponental:
this is terrible..... those who worked for 35yrs with little monthly take home are yet to get their gratitude and political office holder with bulk monthly take home are getting a pay off. is this constitutional and who the hell made this LAW?

Exactly. Amaechi had not paid pensioners since December but you can bet his severance package is already loading. These barbarians are not godly at all.

When such issues are raised apc and PDP close ranks. Total absence of any dissenting voice.
Like Pat utomi said a long while back, we need to make legislative duties a part time job. Let the rogues be paid sitting allowance and housed when in Abuja. Apart from that nothing else.
Thia Bazaar the Commonwealth is sponsoring,besides bankrupting us only attracts thieves, drug barons and touts who are not even suited to the delicate art of law making. I am almost giving up on this change even before it begins. Our foundation is horribly faulty.
Truth is, the politicians need the change more than they think. This coming dispensation is a last chance salon. Soon there will be no country left to loot.

If Buhari does not scrap the amnesty program 48 hrs after being sworn in, I will brand him a fraud.
No amount of threat and intimidation should sustain that monumental fraud.