₦airaland Forum

Kingspin:
Ok. Is the same atmosphere for boko haram i guess. Infact some people can be funnier then monkey.

lol, Madman! Boko Haram isn't winning. They no longer have the strength to face our soldiers. As u can see, they ve resorted to guerrilla warfare(Hit-and-run).

And recently, we ve bn recording victories over them(reclaiming of a territory, uncovering some of their hide-outs, cutting their supply routes and all). Well, I guess u are in burundi, so u might hav nt heard.

Nice 1, brother.

Some can argue that GEJ should take the credit for fixing our refineries. Its allowed. They can f00l themselves as much as they want. This is democracy. Its only annoying that these pple will blame Buhari for every ill that befalls Nigeria, regardless of where it stems from..buh when good things happen, they ld luv to refer us to the past.

Adeshina was interviewed yesterday concerning this same issue and here is what he said "There is something called the right atmosphere. I believe that the right atmosphere is responsible for the improvements that you are talking about all over the place". ..Now this is what I feel about the whole issue. When the head is good, the body will definitely function well. Buhari as we all know, is a no-nonsense man. No one dare plays "hanky-panky" games with him. He wld expose and deal with you without hesitation.. And that is why things are working perfectly well under him.

What is happening now shows that during GEJ's regime, we had what it takes to fix the refineries... but instead of doing the needful, the cluelesswicked one saw it as another ample opportunity to scam us(Nigerians)...I am sure if the man had won for a 2nd term, the "dribbling" would have continued. And more billions of dollars would have gone down the drain(to him and his co-horts)..

Buhari's victory is a clear proof of God's love for us.

joseph1832:
Your head dey there bros! Dat na the way to do am, but make you no say your pikins go fit get 2 left leg oh! LOL.

hahahhahhaaha..you are wicked!

joseph1832:
Imagine! Dem just dey use style dey form opposition so dem fit dey ta si their self.

How your babe wey get two left leg nau? ECOTERRORS, I hear say the babe na Igbo? Better you be prepared oh because I heard their bride price na gbosa!!!.

looooool..No mind them. U need see d way dem attack me wen I say I wan friend ecoterrors.

Chai! Why u dey finish my ecoterrorist na? Oboi, na to give am belle b4 I marry am o! If she don get belle for me now and I choose not to pay that their heavy bride price, I go see wetin dem go do.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Genea is exclusively ma product

joseph1832:
Chisos! You share the same stuff with his royal Mumuness?

hahhahahaahahahahaahahahahahhahaa

Genea:
missing u too my boo

Oremussanctus's property is my property. We are very good friends. How are u my boo?

RichDad1:
To all the the Wailing Wailers, may your tears never dry.

joseph1832:
Someone tell me, is this the thread where the supporters of GEJ and the PDPians come to declare their corrupt and looted love for their selves?

Midolian, Passingshot am I mistaken?

looted love

Na only PDP dey get am true true

chuna1985:
Everyday I see fooools on nairaland.

This my punch line hit my guy!

omolami:
That Is a direct threat from Adesina. What will Buhari do to an alleged corrupt person more than charging him to court? Any attempt to use the DSS to harass a suspect is illegal and infringement on such person's freedom . Let it be known that we are in a democracy therefore Buhari should allow institutions to work. He cannot even influence the judiciary bec judiciary is a separate arm of govt.

na wa o! See direction wey u dey carry matter go. *spits*

Where is the threat here? Adeshina is only trying to say Buhari will spare no one.

This is the reason why i once said democary is not meant for Nigeria! Pple are just abusing and misinterpreting it anyhow. You say a clear statement and they ll try to make something outta it all in the name of democracy. Some even hide under the shade of this so called democracy to perpetrate their evil deeds. Even person wey dem catch with fresh human head dey say make we go court.

Fvck Democracy, mehn!

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina was until his appointment the managing director of Sun Newspapers and concurrently, the president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE.
 
In this interview, by  Bashir Adefaka, the presidential spokesman responds to issues on the pace and pattern of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Excerpts:


How do you think the press and the executive arm of government can collaborate to move the country forward?


I think that cooperation is very, very important. You see, recently the relationship between the First Estate and the Fourth Estate had been downright adversarial and if it was not adversarial, it was suspicious. It is better today than it has ever been in the history of the country. We know that the country had been under long military rule during which the executive and the media were never friends.

We still have vestiges of that even now, but then things are fairly better than they have ever been. And I believe that under this administration, it will be a lot better. Don’t forget that the very day that President Buhari resumed at this Presidential Villa was also the day he visited the State House Press Corp in the gallery where they stay. It was some sort of wonderment for them because I heard a lot of them say openly that they had been covering this Villa for six, eight years and that they never received the President.

So, for President Buhari, to on the first day of his resumption in the Villa, to have paid the press people a courtesy visit, so to say, I think it foreshadows what is to come. It is going to be a pleasant relationship in the months and the years ahead.   I read the column of one of them, I think Lekan Adetayo of The Punch, he narrated an account of the day they stayed very late at the Villa because there was a political meeting going on and when that meeting finished in the wee hours, the President (Buhari) passed by and he stopped by to greet them.   He said members of the Press Corp appreciated that a lot because in the past, presidents would just walk by and would not give them a glance.

It shows that we are in for a good relationship. It does not mean that they will see the truth and will not talk. No, they are still going to be independent, they will report truly and factually but they are going to be treated as decent professionals.   And it is going to be good for our country.  Enough of adversarial relationship between the press and the executive!


What would be the signature programmes of this government?


Right from the campaign you knew the things that were dear to the heart of the president.   I sat at an interview he also granted a television station and he reiterated those programmes. Of course you know that one of these is anti-corruption. He has always said unless Nigeria kills corruption that corruption will kill Nigeria.
So, anti-corruption is going to be very dear to his heart. I told some people privately that I pity the first person that President Buhari will catch in his anti-corruption drive (laughs). I pity the first person who is going to fall into this anti-corruption trap and that person is not going to find it funny.


And has he not caught the first person yet?


No.   When he catches the first person, you will know publicly that there has been a catch, and he will look for more. If you have evidence that somebody has taken any major fund anywhere, and it comes to the knowledge of the President, you can be sure that he will also be dealt with.  Gone are the days when people would be accused of stealing billions and trillions of Naira and it ends there and nothing comes out of it. You can be sure, not with this President, because anti-corruption is very, very dear to his heart.


Then, one thing that is also very dear to his heart is generating employment.   He is concerned about the rate of unemployment in the country.   He has said that about 60 percent of youths are unemployed.   Youths that are the life blood of the economy, about 60 percent of them are out of jobs, or they are underpaid or disgruntled.

So, he looks forward to a situation where the country will be so fixed that jobs will be available, particularly to the youths and that also is tied to the economy.   When the economy is properly fixed, it will reflect in the employment situation.   So, he plans that the economy must be fixed and Nigeria will become robust. Now when the economy is robust, there will be opportunities aplenty. That is also very dear to the heart of the President. I have so many
references about things that are dear to his heart to be achieved for the good of Nigerians. One day I was talking with the President, if you hear what he expressed about power, he said, “Ah, if this government can fix power, it will touch every aspect of the lives of Nigerians. It will touch the artisans, touch everybody, touch industries everywhere.”   And   saw the passion with which he was talking about that power and I know that he will make it.


Nigerians are saying that power has improved even when it is believed that the Buhari administration has not started working on power. What does it portend?


You can say that he has not done anything yet about power and the refineries, but then, the truth is that things are falling in place. So if things are falling in place naturally, you can then imagine, when he unfolds policies in those areas, you can imagine how better things will get. There is something called the right atmosphere. I believe that the right atmosphere is responsible for the improvements that you are talking about all over the place.


There is apprehension that the failure to appoint ministers may be contributing to economic difficulties especially the slide of the naira?


Before, the talk was that there were no service chiefs but as we sit down and talk today we have service chiefs. Few days ago, we would have said there was no National Security Adviser but as we sit down and talk today there is an NSA.

That shows you that appointment is work in progress just as people expected new service chiefs, and it happened; they expected a new NSA and it happened, the same way ministers will come. It is constitutional to have ministers and this President will never violate the Constitution. He knows that it is constitutional to have a cabinet but this Constitution does not prescribe the maximum or minimum number of ministers for him to constitute his cabinet.

The Constitution, I assume, believes that a President is a responsible person and he will do what is needful. And, for now, things are moving because what the President has done is to empower the Permanent Secretaries to run the bureaucracy. So, all
the ministries are moving.   I was with him when he instructed a permanent secretary that, “What your minister should have done, you must do now that the minister has not come.”   So, he has empowered the permanent secretaries to take decisions but that is not to say that ministers will not come at the soonest of time……


Some are rejoicing that the civil service is getting strong…..?


(Cuts in)   The civil service should be strengthened. The bureaucracy lubricates the system. If the bureaucracy is hampered in anyway, the system will be affected.   So, it is good that the bureaucracy is strengthened.   So, when ministers come, the bureaucracy can work with them, advise them properly and then things will move better. Not that the bureaucracy should be relegated to the background.
So it is good that the President has strengthened the bureaucracy and what ministers will then do is to collaborate with the bureaucracy and then move on. The second part of that question bordering on devaluation or no devaluation of Naira, you know that kind of decision is not a one-man decision.   There must be an economic team which will also come and when the economic team sits down they would articulate a thrust. That policy thrust will determine the direction to take.


What is your reaction to insinuations that the president has tilted the appointments he has made towards the north?


Well, what I would say is that the North is part of this country just like the South is. No part should be marginalized. In the South, South-South, South-West, South-East should not be marginalized. In the North, North-East, North West, North-Central should not be marginalized.   There should be fairness and equity in the country. If there is any President that believes in fairness, it is this one.   He believes in being fair to everybody. The mandate he received is a national mandate.

Thankfully there is that portion of our Constitution, which makes it impossible for somebody, who has not scored popular votes, who has not scored enough votes in a broad section of the country to become President.   Before President Buhari emerged, he satisfied that part of the Constitution. So he knows that he has a national mandate and he is going to exercise that mandate nationally.
Before the new service chiefs were appointed, the talk was that there had been nine appointments and only one was from The South.   Ahead we are close to 500 appointments because, Federal boards alone are populated by 601 people. So, all those boards will be constituted, there will be cabinet of which the Constitution says at least one from each state, then ambassadorial postings, there are going to be personal aides, there are going to be so many appointments.   So, when the President has just got nine, it is too early to cry woe!


One would have thought that the recent removal of the service chiefs would also affect the police boss.  Why was he retained?


IGP (Solomon Arase) is one of the best, in fact, the very best in the force now and by virtue of being IGP he is going to be one of the best.   And you know that the IGP is not just holding that office, he is an outstanding officer.
A lot of people pay tribute to him. So, for the President to have retained him, it shows that he knows his onion.   I also pay tribute to him as a man of honour. He is a fantastic officer, and for the President to have retained him, I think it was a good decision.  The President has the prerogative to change anybody  he wants to change.   For him to retain the IG, it means that the IG simply merits being retained.
 

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/anti-corruption-buharis-first-suspect-wont-find-it-funny-says-adesina/

abduljabbar4:
We are now equipped enough to beat those heartless animals. Death to boko haram and its members/supporters

Amin

hinwazaka:
The senate president wasn't present at the EFCC because of the sleaze that will be put on him by your likes.He has to respect the sanctity of that office and so Dino had to step in. Mr Dino has no exalted office though he is a constituent representative.

Mr Hinwazaka, na who turn u like this?

Happiness87:
To hell and lagoon with hate campaign and bring him-down syndrome because he's not licking tinubu's ass

ok.. I hope u are doing great

Happiness87:
that was the first meeting after recess, besides saraki needed to be there to physically appoint principal office holders

Gbenu e soun! Physically kor, spiritually ni.

Happiness87:
yes, saraki was presiding over a session same day, he couldn't have shut down the assembly to attend to his wife, if he spoke to his loyal friends to ensure that his wife was not intimated and the accepted to accompany her, good and that's their business.
Btw are you a saint, did you write all your exams from primary school to university alone without copying or compromising.


hypocrites

Are u trying to say Ekweremadu wouldn't have done bukola's job perfectly well in his absence? Na so u dumb reach? Babe, use ya brain na.

Happiness87:
it is called loyalty, how many lawyers and politicians followed tinubu to court when he was tried.

big wiggs and Senior Advocates of Nigeria stood up to greet him.

to hell with bring him down syndrome because he's not licking tinubu's ass

loyalty my f00t! These lawmakers left their lawmaking duties to "escort" the wife of a fellow lawmaker, who couldn't accompany his own wife there because he had to attend to national issues.

joseph1832:
Never underestimate the Power of the Kitty-Cat and the power of M.O.N.E.Y! Both can make a man deny his own mother.

hahahahaa.. True that, the power of punny must nt be underestimated too. Dino can always get what he wants from Saraki through Toyin

hinwazaka:
It's an insult that friends and ally's escorted an individual to an invitation by an investigation agency?Don't friends and families escort a loved one to a hospital. We should stop being emotional about issues and start being practical. Dino melaye has not said he is against the corruption campaign by his party. He simply escorted a friend to render his support. Toyin saraki has been accused not convicted

in short, u see nothing wrong in the lawmakers leaving their statutory(lawmaking) duty to escort a suspected criminal to the EFCC? SMH 4 u, Mr Hinwazaka.

The Husband of Toyin himself(Bukola) didn't go with the wife cos he couldn't have left his legislative duty for that. And u still see nothing wrong in what Dino and co did. SMH again

You and I know Bukola could have if it was necessary. Ekweremadu, his assistant is always there to lead the house in times like that.

Height of sycophancy! Dino why?

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I tort u guys said dino was a saint before.

My broda, time, money and power changes people. I remember Reuben Abati to be incredibly good b4 GEJ colonised him. In the case of Melaye, bukky has colonized him. This height of sycophancy displayed is all about juicy juicy things... He has gotten 1 of it.

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), has lamented the calibre of the large entourage that accompanied Mrs. Toyin Saraki, wife of the senate president, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The agency had invited the former First Lady of Kwara State for questioning over alleged fraud.

CACOL noted that the entourage “mainly of the nation’s ‘honourable’ law-makers from both the higher and lower chambers”, was disturbing.

Temitope Macjob, CACOL Acting Media Officer, quoted Debo Adeniran, the Executive Chairman as saying the group “is particularly disturbed and miffed at what it termed not only a show of shame and gross irresponsibility but a clear anti-thesis of what their primary constitutional duty is.”

Continuing it said, “one cannot but wonder how far President Buhari would be able to go in his avowed war against corruption in this country, if the very lawmakers, who are expected to give him the needed support through the provision of enabling legal frame-work with which to successfully prosecute the war, are openly, though tacitly, fraternizing with corruption by turning themselves into bodyguards of a suspected criminal.

“Press reports have it that a total of twenty-five legislators abandoned their statutory duties to follow Mrs. Saraki to the office of the EFCC and most of who waited for over the six hours that the exercise lasted.

“They are doing the jobs Nigerians didn’t elect them to do. Although they have the right to presume that she is not guilty until convicted but do not have the right to portray her innocent of the allegations made against her, even before being interrogated.

“Their conduct presupposed that they are determined to intimidate the EFCC in its task of tackling corruption. It’s sad that they choose to abandon their statutory role of law-making while playing the meddlesome interloper, thereby diminishing the exalted chambers they represent.”

Adeniran likened the incident to that witnessed during Olusegun Obasanjo’s days, “when Bode George was accompanied by shameless praise-singers who had to roll out drums, clad in ‘Aso Ebi’ and danced in and around the court premises in solidarity with the accused each time he appeared in court to answer to corruption charges. What a society; what a mentality?” He wondered.

CACOL observed that, “this singular act by these legislators, is a clear indication that certain members of this very important arm of government, if not called to order, are out to make the job of eradicating corruption or at least, stemming it to the barest minimum, by Buhari’s administration, more complex and difficult than ever envisaged.

“The Coalition calls on Nigerians to get ready and be set to confront anybody, group or institution, that is out to frustrate President Buhari’s efforts at wrestling to submission this gargantuan, seemingly untamable monster, called corruption and save Nigeria from its destructive tendencies.

“We should share President Buhari’s assertion that ‘if we fail to kill corruption, corruption will kill us’. It must be seen as a collective responsibility; Buhari can’t do it alone.”

Debo Adeniran concluded by asking Nigerians not to spare corrupt characters, whoever they may be, but adopt CACOL’s slogan to “name, nail, shame and shun corrupt leaders, anywhere, everywhere”.


http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/01/its-a-national-shame-that-melaye-others-escorted-toyin-saraki-to-efcc-cacol/

oluwalfa:
Why is the beautiful girl holding onto the castrated man?

To kill him. #Werey ...The beautiful girl in this case isn't Nigeria, buh the "freedom" u seek

Lol..you call it a zoo, yet u guyz fight for political appointments in the "zoo".

Pple clamouring for Biafra? If you ask me what I feel about it,.. is like a castrated man trying so hard to woo a beautiful girl. The question one wld be forced to ask is, 'what will he do with her'?

frankyychiji:
Blind bat! So you didn't see Roachas on camera tickling the shy and uncomfortable Lara Oshiomole with his leg while sprawling on his seat to reveal the bulge under his pants? Ok! Rochas is a mad man and I can understand his fashion sense. His supporters on this infamy are mad as well!

you are a clown!

horexy:
E pain am

This just proves u are extremely stuuuuuuuuupid !

Who's d wailer now?

Goat!
Goatie!
Goatiiiiiieeeeee!
Oya kill urself

lol.. Even as I be goat so, I still get taste. I no fit climb person like u wey get face-me-i-face-u leg so. And mayb u have hairy chest too.

Bye

horexy:
Be damn stuuuuupid and quote me again!

ya fada!

frankyychiji:
Midolian, who are you? Friend or foe? Why do you keep embarrassing my piggy governor with this kind of banal and meaningless quotes? This governor photocopied his hands because Obama shook them!
This governor erected bill boards in my town with him shaking hands with Obama and called it democracy dividend.
This governor broke all fashion rules when he wore a flying jacket, shirt and tummy with a native cap to cap it up.
This same was caught on camera seducing Lara oshiomole!
Aren't these enough already? Must you rub it in?

hahahahahahaha! I swear u mumu no b small. Iara forte na ya wife? Why do you hav to lie to make a point? In fact, all that u ve typed are blatant lies! And u know it.

Those billboards u see doesn't really hav to b done by the governor. You know how politicians do things for their superiors in other to gain favour in the future.

Okorocha broke all fashion rules? Everybody has got his style of dressing. Okorocha has made it! He can choose to wear whatever he feels like to the public. You are just a frustrated hater. I have seen pple like u praising celebrities in tattered and revealing wears.

ECOTERRORS:
NL is now boring with good for nothing Okorocha rants everywhere

I know the kinda news that interests you na. "Over 50 killed in Another suicide attack", "President Buhari goofs again, calls Obama Osama" and the likes. Hmm, e-terrorist, why u dey beef the game changers na?

goodmorning40:
Before nko, wetin Obama wan call am in his presence

Nna, na lie. Integrity and honour are rare qualities in a man. Very few leaders possess it.

If you observe, even the sycophants surrounding GEJ when he was in power never called him a man of honour and integrity, let alone, pple from the outside.

Mancity26:
mtchhh! Billboard advert! #funnyNation
comedian...

horexy:
Mstcheeew...
Was his mouth stitched?

thekingsmen:
Agboho Hausa

See them.. e-Wailers

Well, like I'll always tell u guys, "The lagoon is ever accommodating"

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has explained why the United States Government did not support the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, especially in its fight against the Boko Haram terrorists.

Okorocha said the US government outrightly snubbed the immediate past administration because it (the US) did not trust Jonathan.

He, however, said the American government had promised to assist Nigeria in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.

Okorocha was among the dignitaries who accompanied Buhari to the United States.

The governor, who spoke while interacting with journalists in Owerri, the Imo State capital, said the meeting between Nigeria and the US would enhance robust relationship.

Okorocha said, “The US made it clear that it could not support the government of Jonathan because it was not comfortable with it.

“Now the American government has promised to help us fight the Boko Haram sect and provide for the Internally Displaced Persons.”

While describing Buhari’s visit to the US as the best so far made by any government, Okorocha said he was happy when the US President, Barak Obama, described Buhari as a man of integrity and honour.

He said, “I felt like singing the national anthem when Obama described our President as a man of integrity and honour; the trip to America is the best outing any President has made outside Nigeria”.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/01/i-felt-like-singing-national-anthem-when-obama-called-buhari-man-of-honour-okorocha/