₦airaland Forum

Bankole01:
No mistake here gentlemen. The man Yar 'adua is a clean living man no doubt, but his association with and his less than honest assessment of the way efcc and inec has been treating opponents is less than honest. It has been alleged also, that the man himself is somewhat of a pansy, lacking the any macho characteristics of the guts to stand up to anyone let alone Obasanjo. The man was well chosen for the task of being an Obasanjo dummy on display in a ventriloquist play.

You simply have no clue what manner of man Umaru Yaradua is.

Big B1:
Where have you been?

I've done this 24/7 for many months.

Wake up, brother!

If after doing that for many months and people dont buy it, is'nt about time you had a rethink??

@Alabiyemi

You are simply deviating from issues, I am not wishing Yaradua death. I have only used this situation as a case study of the injustice pepertrated by Nigerian leaders on its people.

Yaradua as an individual has every right to seek treatment in heaven if he so wishes provided he can afford it. As a matter of fact who cares if Dangote does this, but Yaradua as a political leader, a serving governor for that matter can not provide services he is not happy to use to the Nigerian people. No life is more important than another, we can not continue to have a situation where all our facilities are in deplorable state for Nigerians to use while the likes of OBJ, Atiku, Buhari, Yaradua, Ngige who claim to be Nigerian leaders will seek the same services abroad.

Who wants to have a meal that even the cook can not eat

Developing nations will not remain developing forever, we can move from where we are if there is sincerity on the part of our leaders. This is not about patriotism or lack of it, this is about intentionally not rendering quality services and yet justifying the fact that you know the true perception of quality by seeking the same services elsewhere.

We can not continue to have this idea of I am a leader, the hospitals or schools are not good enough for me and my children but they are good for the Nigerian people.

Forget about who you are or how comfortable you are, only 1 week ago I posted somewhere on this forum that the Niger-Deltans who colluded with our ex-leaders to loot the zone in the 80s may not have envisaged that where they call home will turn out to be a war zone someday.

It is Bob Marley who said "you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the time".
The patience of the Nigerian people are obviously being stretched over limit, even Ribadu has said it today that if the insincerity of our leaders continue, our country may end up another congo, somalia or liberia.

As Ronald Regan will have it "No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women". And I add to that "no country or Government will succeed without the will and moral courage of the people". Then tell me how a leader who provides services, that is not good enough for himself and his children, will earn the support of the people??

may be you should go ahead and introduce Pat Utomi to us, let us know what he can do and why we should vote for him.

Wont be a bad idea either if you told us what IBB did and wants to do.

You can do your own bit inthe fight against corruption, by not accepting what those who try to blackmail the fight say. Ribadu has said that 60% of the media houses are owned by corrupt politicians who are bent on using their media outfit to blackmail his agency.

[size=24pt]Support Ribadu and corruption will be history.[/size]

Reading the news of Yar'adua's return today and how he was welcomed by a large crowd, I was filled with mixed feelings and could feel nothing but pity for Nigerians. Such a very patient and loving people even in the face of oppression. My people obviously deserve more than they get.

I am personally somewhat sympathetic to the Yaradua Presidency in that if power must shift to the north after 8years of being in the south lets have a shift in  generation, a complete civilian and someone reasonably educated. I also thank God for his speedy recovery so as to ensure the continuation of the transition programme but what am not sure of is whether going to the airport to welcome him is something I would have desired even if I was paid to do so.

This whole mixed feelings came up while I was checking up on Nigerian Newspapers over the internet as I routinely do. I was specifically reading about the report on Yaradua's return from medical treatment in German hospital and the jubilation that ensued  when I overhead a BBC news from my little radio criticizing Gordon Brown the UK Chancellor for seeking the services of a private medic and not the NHS (National health services).

Gordon Brown had sought the services of a private medic in the UK and he came in the spotlight  meaning that he is being accused of knowing that the NHS under his watch is not fit for purpose otherwise he would not be needing the services of a private medic. While Brown is being criticized for doing this, across the atlantic and in my homeland my people are celebrating the fact that a Presidential aspirant who has been a serving Governor for 8years had to seek the services of a medic not within the shores of Nigeria but  thousands of miles away in Europe.

Why is the health services in Katsina not working Why are the hospitals in Nigeria as a whole not fit for purpose So many who can't afford this trip abroad would have died of this same illness but here he is treated within days and able to join his campaign. How long shall we continue in this hypcrisy? It is even more painful that the same is even obtainable of the so called opposition, only in December Atiku went for medical check up abroad and the same can be said of all the elite politicians in Nigeria.

Guys I like to hear what you think, but for me I think this is the height of hypocrisy by the Nigerian elite class.

Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu has warned that the situation in Niger Delta may degenerate to a war situation like in the case of Liberia, Sierria Leone and Somalia if the crisis is not checked.
Ribadu gave the warning at the pre-convocation lecture of the University of Abuja where he stressed that societies that have failed to ask and answer important questions have found themselves in history books as failed states.
"What is happening in Niger Delta is not being taken seriously and is very sad. It may actually end up being bigger little by little. If we are not careful chances are that the 140 million Nigerians may end up like a Liberia or a Sierria Leone or a Somalia.
"When we are trying to fight corruption a lot of people are saying it must be business as usual. If you touch them, you are touching democracy, if you touch them you are touching the rule of law. But they will never succeed Nigeria will never be a Congo.”
The EFCC boss, while warning on the danger of ignoring the Niger Delta crisis gave the example of Mobutu Sese Seko who “severally raped his country of all its assets, he effectively under developed the country as most corrupt dictators do, and at the end he fled to Europe with about $3 billion after laying the basis for a civil war that has now cost his country of thousands and thousands of lives.”
He added: "You cannot be gentle on corruption… the terminal effect could be the life of the nation itself. Indeed the most ruthless and corrosive solvent that the history of the world has known is called corruption”.
Ribadu said the attack the Commission has been getting from the media is because the few corrupt elite owned 60 per cent of the media.
"The few corrupt elite, every public officer you see with interest in the media in both electronic and print media that have been attacking us control 60 per cent of the media,” he added.

not sure he is my choice but sure he is better off than atiku and buhari.

Iwu, who spoke in Abuja after releasing the names of the governorship candidates and those for state Houses of Assembly, said: “The commission has maintained that it will not disqualify any candidate. The commission has also maintained consistently that it is the constitution or the court that can disqualify any candidate. The judgement in question, we have received. The plaintiff asked for six reliefs; only one was granted with conditions.”
“And one of the conditions was that the court reaffirmed the power of the commission to verify the candidates and the documents submitted to it. I know that the media did not carry that, but it was there.”
“I can give you copies of the ruling. I am not talking about speculations. I am talking about what the court said. And the court said the defendant has no powers to disqualify candidates. We have never claimed that power. And the same court went to say that there is no way that INEC cannot be allowed to verify candidates,” Iwu stated.
He stated that, "The issue here is to seek further interpretation of the court. And I think that our lawyers are doing that. The court also made the point about section 32(5) of the Electoral Act which talks more of when people send us false information. And our lawyers are trying to seek for the interpretation or clarity as to what happens when somebody send us correct information. And the same person is not eligible.
"For example, if somebody is not a Nigerian. The person is sending us the correct information, but he is not eligible. We don’t make the rules, we don’t disqualify anybody.”

Atiku thinks Iwu will join him in filling up blank spaces on the constitution with un-existent laws that suit him.

A Judge rules that INEC has no powers to disqualify candidates but INEC has powers to screen or verify candidates. In the case Atiku prayed for 6 pronouncements he was granted only one which is that "INEC had no powers to disqualify anyone". A position which has always been maintained by INEC itself. Then INEC goes on to source the interpretation of that Judgement, Atiku runs to the media shouting he has won again and INEC is disobeying court orders. Does he think he can bully the INEC chairman

Atiku's victory on this case only exists in the media. He has won nothing.

well it will surely increase the cost of winning cases in Nigeria. Obviously buying over a Judge is cheaper than buying over ajury.

mahmood:
let all this people learn how to speach in public when it come to abuzing the muslim

Why will they learn how to speach when you have not acceptance naira.

If he likes he should win 20 cases, it absolutely amounts to nothing. That a corrupt politician has won 20 cases in a row in a corrupt justice system simply changes nothing. Who does not know that our justice system is a fraud.

i can see you have a problem with democracy,law and order

I simply have more respect for humanity and justice.

if they choose a lizard as their candidate and the lizard fullfills the conditions for the office, the lizard will contest

Who determines and implemets that clause is the issue.
Nigeria's definition of democracy is not what democracy is about. It simply does not represent what democracy stands for. Thats simple, people can not wallow in corruption hoping to pull a wool over our eyes in the name of protecting the tenets of democracy.

Democracy however you want to define it, if it does not guarantee protection of lives and property of the citizenry it is not worth practicing. People can not continue to exploit the naive and vulnerable Nigerians on the streets whom they have impoverished and denied quality education, People who they have taught to believe that poverty is their destiny, people who simply do not know the difference between what they want and what they need as a result of their clandestine activities.
At the end of the day you now say only these same people must decide their own future, that is simply practicing democracy for the sake it and I personally see it as the height of wickedness and irresponsibility.

but to act outside an existing law is pure rascality and that is what OBJ has been doing all this while which now makes a notorious person like Atiku look like a victim and attract public sympathy.

It depends on what you mean by the law, I think what should be law in this country is what the constitution says to the letter not what the AC post on media. Even this latest court judgement go and read it yourself, forget the interpretation given to it by AC.
The judge said INEC has no powers to disqualify Atiku but INEC has powers to screen or verify candidates. Now whose responsibility is it to implement section 137 of the constitution. There was no clause there suggesting that it can only be implemented by political parties.

Common sense should tell you that going by provision of section 137 ofthe constitution political parties owe it as a duty to their political party that their candidate for election is fit for purpose however INEC owe is as a duty to Nigeria and Nigerians that candidates standing election are fit for purpose.
Talking about rascality, the true rascals are Atiku and AC. They are simply re-writing the constitution.  Go and read the constitution of Nigeria yourself and you will see where am coming from.

People are just getting carried away, INEC has no powers to disqualify anybody only corroborates what Iwu has been saying. He has never pretended that INEC did have powers to do that.

But the fact remains that there is difference between disqualifying someone originally qualified and barring someone not qualified for elections as a result of the provision of the constitution This particular Judge held that INEC had powers to verify candidate claims, I wonder what the output of such an excersize will be if not to either clear or bar candidates.

Talking about the political parties being the only ones to verify and bar candidates I wonder what constitution of the world will intentional provide a tool to circumvent it. What this claim translates into is that lets say hypothetically that for any reason MEND metamorphoses into a political party. Nigeria and INEC will wait for MEND to screen out the likes of Asari Dokubo to take part in elections.  Ludicrous

Atiku should keep on bitting about the Bush, if he likes he should go to the world courts in the Hague he will not take part in elections.

I think rafael nadal gets good results with roger only on clay court. Dubai open was hard court

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nnenneigbo:
i remember that season well, arsenal almost had the title wrapped up until i think giggs did his magic. i still don't understand you sha, :oits like swapping one member of your family or something like that.

i fear youooooo

hahahaha, someone said if Iwas capable of doing that he wont be suprised to hear me change my wife in future.
I was like LOL, thats a different thing all together.

Roger is just a complete player though sometimes knowing he is unbeatable makes the game boring.

He tends to take the game to a new level each time an opponent poses a threat. Did you see the finals of the Dubai Open last week with the Russian guy??

Donzman:
I'm a local champion in table tennis, too bad I haven't played in 4 years or so.

Arsenal thinks every game is a joke or training, they play like the opponent will wait for them or something.

That must be sokoto state champion

nnenneigbo:
hmmm you should have seen me yesterday, i was asking them to shoooot but no way hosey.

i do indeed insist on dribbling everyone(not just the keeper) even when the post is empty they must continue to dribble and pass it still.

But how can you jump from one team to the other, to me that is impossible like Aru(an abomination lol)

I got attracted to Beckam that season and Man Utd also won the trebble, but wont change camps again. Will stick to man utd

nnenneigbo:
both, but lawn mostly

I can play table tennis but love to watch lawn tennis. Do you like the bully of the game? Roger federa?

as at 1999 I was an arsenal fan but got broken hearted that season so I changed camp. But I still love to watch them though.
Did'nt you see what they were doing against PSV they want to dribble keeper before they score.

They were simply having a laugh

what sort of tennis do you play lawn tennis or table tennis

Arsenal is obviously the most entertaining side in the premiership, but simply wont be their fan cos they are not as competitive as I like.

yea 27quid per match tnats not so expensive

let me make a guess

are you an arsenal fan??/

@4play

yes oh, especially jamicans

been a man utd fan right from naija, but do go to see my local club play sometimes i.e. Wolverhampton Wanderers

nnenneigbo:
there's noise and hassle everywhere dear, if you live in birmingham the worse and their accent will drive you loopy

you are right on that anyway

good for you 4play

me like woman

the noise and hazzle is simply not my thing

frankly, people have lost happiness in this country cos of bills. Nobody wants to let go anything for free.

Though I like the fact that london is fun to be as  it is bubbling, but the same reason I dislike lagos will not endear me to london.

good!!!!!!!!!