₦airaland Forum

kettykin:
I personally don't like this governor but he is really trying

So why don't you like him?

Are you from Abia or
Is it because he's not APC
Or have you had a personal deal with him that turned sour
Or are u just a natural hater ?

I concur. I do not support looking, looters should be prosecuted.

However, they are distracting Nigerians with stories of looted and recovered funds. Recession in Nigeria is caused by poor economic policies of present administration.

They are gathering sympathy from Nigerians to cover Buhari's health issues and failure of his administration to make good economic decisions.

Good

Rip to dead soldiers

We wish him safe return. If he doesn't return, shame on all APC frauds. If he returns, he needs to address the nation to ascertain his state of health.

If the president is really physically healthy and they refused him granting interviews, it only means the man is no longer mentally OK.

Let it be known we won't be ruled by a mad man or his kitchen cabinet.

These APC ediots think that Nigerians are dummies. They are just playing with our sensibilities. They started with propaganda and won, and think they would continue to deceive gullible Nigerians? Buhari's govt plunged Nigeria into deep recession and this ediot still has the audacity to open his dirty orifice to spew thrash.

Seriously, it makes no difference. Next is to remove, tear down his kitchen cabinet, sack all his ministers except a few. Emefiele and Adesun should leave with immediate effect. Daura and Co should be jailed not just sacked.

The guy is waiting for his concubine wey dey sell roasted plantain

Akainzo:
Your ilk are so bigoted that you immediately look for ethnic or religious connotation in happenings.

So it is the Yorubas that should learn their lessons simply because they voted along the same lines with the Notherners, but the South Easterners and South South that have been perennial Hausa companions since the 1959 elections are now to be praised abi? As usual with you guys, you assume history started in 2010.

BTW, the cabinet of the present Government has a larger percentage of Christians, that is a verifiable.

Call me what you want, the world is moving towards self preservation. You see Brexit, Trump election, etc.Google Frexit , France will vote a nationalist next election, pull out of EU and ban countries supporting Terrorism like Trump is doing. Enough of political correctness. Non violent Muslims should rise up and stop terrorism, else the world will leave both the calm and violent ones behind. It is coming, it has begun.

Whether Igbos are Jews or not doesn't negate their productivity and resilience. Igbos are people to reckon with in Africa

Osinbajo will need as much southerners as possible to counteract Buhari's fulani muslim filled cabinet. The same ediots that keep quiet when Christians are subjugated in the North, killed mindlessly without any protection. I have lost faith in Fulanis, nobody will ever vote them again except their brothers. Northern votes will always be shared between Christians and Fulanis, in the south here they get zero vote. I hope Yorubas have learnt their lessons once and for all.

Even though South fight one another, they regroup when they are needed most.

Southern Nigeria's mumu don do

Adminisher:
AT least you tried by admitting that you are posting a lie. You listened to some rumours, put two and two together and used your imagination . Thank you for your hohesty

I didn't put any two and two together, in fact I removed some details in order to avoid suspicion, the source tight, not normal beer parlor gist. All the same, it's still a rumor since it's not coming directly from the Presidency.

MakeADifference:
No source? Aren't you mesoprogress a/the source?

If you have a more authentic version, drop it so we can analyse.

Buhari is alleged to have collapsed and afterwards has been on life support. His condition is said to be critical. His inner cronies are buying time to see if he will get better. Inside source believes he may not survive.

Northern oligarchs are said to be already pressuring Osinbajo to resign. The options are clearly against them, Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara, and even the Chief Judge of federation is not an option. They are seriously worried about power leaving Hausa/Fulani Muslim domain.

Alleged letter from Buhari was said to be written by his cronies buying time. Femi Adesina, even Vice President does not know Buhari's actual state. Only DSS Daura , a few inner circles are aware of his real condition.

I never believed all these stories, until yesterday's failed return. This is the most logical version of stories I have been hearing since this brouhaha

Seems you don't know what's happening. Pray he comes back safely on the London journey before contemplating 2019 election

Post conjugal pictures

We will be identifying them one after another. We will keep record of those we can trust in SE, definitely not political prostitutes who are after their own pockets

Some people are still sympathetic to this group, that's why they keep succeeding. I stand with Trump. I wouldn't allow these vermins to near my country

Trust them at your own peril

Hilarious!

N power is a scam, they should create sustainable jobs for Nigerian youths

Scam government

Attention seekers

These are the best schools in Port Harcourt.

Mmm is not morally right

Hope this is not true. It's him that doesn't understand. What has the north benefited by playing politics? Boko haram, poverty etc. Igbos are doing well for themselves, Nnamani is only after his pocket. The whole lot has nothing useful to offer Igbos.

All Igbos rushing to APC at this hour are all traitors and cannot be trusted. They know they will fail woefully in election. The West were not part of PDP, yet Lagos developed exponentially. We do not need to join APC to develop Ala Igbo. Please let us all mark any Governor, others joining APC at this time, they are all traitors and after their pockets

They are aligning for their pockets, not for southeast zone.

What's wrong with hotel business? You can remove club side and concentrate on lodging and conference hall aspects.

Those countries are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. More countries coming in.

It has begun

Video At a Pentagon ceremony Friday, President Trump announced executive actions calling for a “great rebuilding” of the U.S. military and a more stringent vetting process for refugees.

STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and HELENE COOPER
JANUARY 27, 2017


WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries.

In an executive order that he said was part of an extreme vetting plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists,” Mr. Trump also established a religious test for refugees from Muslim nations: He ordered that Christians and others from minority religions be granted priority over Muslims.

“We don’t want them here,” Mr. Trump said of Islamist terrorists during a signing ceremony at the Pentagon. “We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country, and love deeply our people.”

Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump explained to an interviewer for the Christian Broadcasting Network that Christians in Syria were “horribly treated” and alleged that under previous administrations, “if you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible.”

“I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them,” the president said.

In fact, the United States accepts tens of thousands of Christian refugees. According to the Pew Research Center, almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) were admitted as Muslim refugees (38,901) in the 2016 fiscal year.


The executive order suspends the entry of refugees into the United States for 120 days and directs officials to determine additional screening ”to ensure that those approved for refugee admission do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States.”

The order also stops the admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely, and bars entry into the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries linked to concerns about terrorism. Those countries are Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Additionally, Mr. Trump signed a memorandum on Friday directing what he called “a great rebuilding of the armed services,” saying it would call for budget negotiations to acquire new planes, new ships and new resources for the nation’s military.

“Our military strength will be questioned by no one, but neither will our dedication to peace,” Mr. Trump said.


Graphic | How Trump’s Executive Order Will Affect the U.S. Refugee Program The order cuts the number of refugees to the U.S. in half and bars those from Syria.
Announcing his “extreme vetting” plan, the president invoked the specter of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Most of the 19 hijackers on the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., were from Saudi Arabia. The rest were from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon. None of those countries are on Mr. Trump’s visa ban list.

Human rights activists roundly condemned Mr. Trump’s actions, describing them as officially sanctioned religious persecution dressed up to look like an effort to make the United States safer.

The International Rescue Committee called it “harmful and hasty.” The American Civil Liberties Union described it as a “euphemism for discriminating against Muslims.” Raymond Offensheiser, the president of Oxfam America, said the order would harm families around the world who are threatened by authoritarian governments.

“The refugees impacted by today’s decision are among the world’s most vulnerable people — women, children, and men — who are simply trying to find a safe place to live after fleeing unfathomable violence and loss,” Mr. Offensheiser said.

The president signed the executive order shortly after issuing a statement noting that Friday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an irony that many of his critics highlighted on Twitter. The statement did not mention Jews, although it cited the “depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.”

Mr. Trump’s actions came during a swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, a former Marine general. Standing in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon, Mr. Trump hailed the members of America’s military as “the backbone of this country” and described Mr. Mattis as a “man of action.” The president mistakenly referred to Mr. Mattis as a “soldier,” a term abhorred by Marines.

Mr. Trump has been deferential to Mr. Mattis, who has quickly established himself as a top aide whose advice the president is willing to take. On Friday, Mr. Trump said he would let Mr. Mattis “override” him by banning torture during terror interrogations even though Mr. Trump believes the tactics do work in getting information from suspects.


In a remarkable show of deference to his own subordinate, Mr. Trump said during an earlier news conference Friday morning with Theresa May, the British prime minister, that he would let Mr. Mattis decide about whether to use torture in interrogations. Mr. Mattis has said he does not believe torture is effective.

“I don’t necessarily agree, but I will tell you that he will override because I’m giving him that power,” Mr. Trump said. “I’m going to rely on him. I happen to feel that it does work.”


Mr. Trump appeared to be struggling with the issue even as he spoke, returning several times to his own belief in the effectiveness of torture even as he stated that he would let Mr. Mattis decide.

“But I’m going with our leaders,” he said. “We are going to win, with or without.”

Then he added, “But I do disagree.”

Mr. Mattis spent his first week as defense secretary trying to reassure not only American allies, but also military rank and file, that the United States will not abandon a national security structure that has stood in place since the end of World War II. He has told officials in the Pentagon building that at an uncertain time, he intends, as defense secretary, to provide an even-keeled, measured approach to national security issues.

Before the signing ceremony, Mr. Trump met with Mr. Mattis and his military chiefs for about an hour. The meeting — which took place in a Pentagon secure room known as “the tank” — included introductions for Mr. Trump to his military chiefs of staff. The meeting was attended by Michael Flynn, the national security adviser; Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and the chiefs of the four services and the National Guard.

The men discussed how to accelerate the fight against the Islamic State and North Korea and how to deal with a host of global challenges, said a defense official who was not authorized to talk publicly about the internal talks. The leaders also discussed how to improve military readiness.

The newly sworn-in secretary of defense also gave Mr. Trump a little of what the president has been asking — or tweeting — for. On Thursday, Mr. Mattis ordered a review of the controversial F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, which has been criticized by Mr. Trump for its cost overruns.

Mr. Mattis also ordered that plans for a new Air Force One — another project that has come under fire from Mr. Trump — should be reviewed, “with the specific objective of identifying means to substantially reduce the program’s costs while delivering needed capabilities.”

The F-35 review, Mr. Mattis said in a memo, will also look at how to reduce costs while still meeting requirements set out for the fighter jet program.

During his confirmation hearings this month, Mr. Mattis defended Twitter messages from Mr. Trump criticizing the F-35 program. Mr. Mattis said at the time that Mr. Trump had “in no way shown a lack of support for the program,” adding, “He just wants more bang for the buck.”

The cost of building the F-35 next-generation fighter jet has been an issue at the Pentagon for several years. At an estimated $400 billion over 15 years for 2,443 planes, the fighter jet is the military’s largest weapons project.

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I really don't understand this country. A set of people will kill fellow countrymen, all you hear is :
1.Let's settle the case
2 . Don't go on reprisal attack
3.Lets find the root cause etc
They will even have a spokesman (their head, miyety allah etc) that would give reasons for the attack, and then ask for calm, and also promise that there would be no future attacks. Most times it's an empty promise.

My question is, is killing not committing murder? Why is government forces not arresting their heads to produce their boys committing these atrocities and prosecuted?

pressplay411:
This is a very complex issue. It goes beyond just saving a child:s life. It also exposes unprepared mothers to health risks even death if not properly done.and

Everyone knows abortion is bad just like every other vice. But we do not live in a perfect world. I don't believe any mother with the wherewithal to raise her unborn would abort it.

We know he's just attempting to save money by withdrawing America's financial support across the world. I just think there are more important issues Trumps administration should concern itself with.

Let God be the judge of Abortion.

Abortion should be abolished except where the mother's life is endangered