₦airaland Forum

ekenedegreat:
Where is your own pictures? oga holier than thou.

Mprepz:
This is wonderful
APC and change

richidinho:
Face ur ratchet life n leave GEJ alone

ArodewilliamsT:
Is Nnamdi Kanu faceless?, the guy who tore his Nigerian passport on youtube is he faceless?. As a muslim Barbarian that you are Why don't arrest and kill them and wait for our reaction. You are the coward here. Naff off! Bufoon!

offspec:
Not all igbos openly support Biafra. Like me, i don't go about shouting Biafra Biafra. Even i'm in midst of non-bianfrans i might chose to support the other side to get favour and to go home safely but bro deep inside me and every other igbo, we are fully in support of Biafra. Only negligible percentage of Igbos are indifferent. Dont be deluded my brother

richidinho:
GEJ will terminate ur first pregnancy if you don't mind how u mention him

Washington (AFP) - Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari warned Washington on Wednesday that a US refusal to arm his troops because of "so-called human rights violations" only helps Boko Haram.

The 72-year-old former general has been warmly received in the US capital on his first visit since his March election raised hopes of reform in Africa's troubled giant.

But he departs with little practical military assistance in his battle against the Islamist militants who have turned the northeast of his country into a bloody war zone.

The US government has vowed to help Nigeria defeat the insurgency but it is prohibited under law from sending weapons to countries that fail to tackle human rights abuses.

"Regretably, the blanket application of the Leahy Law by the United States on the grounds of unproven allegations of human rights violations levelled against our forces has denied us access to appropriate strategic weapons to prosecute the war," he said.

Addressing an audience of policy-makers, activists and academics in Washington, Buhari complained that Nigerian forces had been left "largely impotent" in the face of Boko Haram's campaign of kidnapping and bombings.

"They do not possess the appropriate weapons and technology which we could have had if the so-called human rights violations had not been an obstacle," he said.

"Unwittingly, and I dare say unintentionally, the application of the Leahy Law Amendment by the United States government has aided and abetted the Boko Haram terrorists."

He appealed to both the White House and the US Congress to find a way around the law -- introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy in 1997 -- and to supply his troops with high-tech weapons under a deal "with minimal strings."

Buhari, who ruled Nigeria as a military strongman between 1983 and 1985, returned to office in March as the country's first opposition challenger to defeat an incumbent in a largely fair poll.

His victory triggered a wave of optimism for oil-rich Nigeria, which has Africa's biggest population and economy but many deep and seemingly intractable problems.

Since 2009, Boko Haram has been trying to establish an Islamist breakaway state in a conflict that has seen 15,000 people killed and 1.5 million displaced.

The group's brutality and in particular the mass kidnapping and enslavement of schoolgirls has shocked world opinion, but Nigeria's own security forces also face criticism.

In June, rights watchdog Amnesty International said there is sufficient evidence to launch an investigation into senior Nigerian officers for war crimes.

In a detailed 133-page report, the group blamed the army for the extrajudicial execution of 1,200 people and the torture or arbitrary detention of thousands more.

Buhari insists that the charges are not proven, but he has replaced his senior military commanders and has promised to investigate the allegations.

cktheluckyman:
Saraki is more of a politician than Buhari.the like mind senators would always have his back.He would simply ground Buhari's government

ELTON123:
hahahah treasonable?go check ur dictionary

cktheluckyman:
Saraki has majority of the senators behind him and that is all that matters

cktheluckyman:
if you ithunt Saraki,he will retaliate and who will see who has more power.Except you don't want to run with ministers,service chiefs

TwentySeven:
Yes Boss. Don't mind the Wailing Wailers.
Nigeria will get better...one step at a time.

“I am going to go slow and steady. Nigerians should be patient to allow this administration put some sense into governance and deal with corruption.”

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday confirmed that he had started receiving some documents which indicted some former ministers and other top government officials of massive fraud, including oil theft.

Buhari said the documents revealed that some top government officials moved as much as one million barrels of crude oil per day for their personal purposes.

The President stated these while speaking at an interactive session with Nigerians in the Diaspora at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC, United States, in continuation of his four-day official visit to the country.

He alleged that such officials also opened as many as five bank accounts abroad for the purpose of laundering money.

While describing the amount of money involved in the shady deals as mind-boggling, the President promised that his administration would use the indicting documents and others still being compiled to clamp down on the culprits and prosecute them.

[size=16pt]He also said while many Nigerians nicknamed him ‘Baba Go Slow’ because of the delay in forming his cabinet, he added that he would prefer to be “slow and steady” in taking decisions.[/size]

He said by the time the process of compiling and identifying the shady deals and those behind them were completed, his administration would approach countries where the loots were kept to assist in repatriating them.

The President added, “We are now looking for evidences of shipping some of our crude, their destinations and where and which accounts they were paid and in which country.

“When we get as much as we can get as soon as possible, we will approach those countries to freeze those accounts and go to court, prosecute those people and let the accounts be taken to Nigeria.

“The amount of money is mind-boggling but we have started getting documents. We have started getting documents where some of the senior people in government, former ministers, some of them operated as much as five accounts and were moving about one million barrels per day on their own. We have started getting those documents.

“I assure you that whichever documents we are able to get and subsequently trace the sale of the crude or transfer of money from ministries, departments, Central Bank, we will ask for the cooperation of those countries to return those monies to the Federation Accounts.

“And we will use those documents to arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.”

Buhari faulted the mode of operation of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, saying his administration would check the excesses of the corporation.

The President restated his position on the removal of subsidy, arguing that would bring more hardship to Nigerians.

He however said he would study the debate and take a decision based on his experience.

Buhari stated, “Who is subsidising who? But, people are gleefully talking, ‘remove subsidy’. They want petrol to cost N500 per litre.

“If you are working and subsidy is removed, you can’t control transport, you can’t control market women: the cost of food, the cost of transport.

“If you are earning N20,000 per day and you are living in Lagos or Ibadan, the cost of transport to work and back, the cost of food. You cannot control the market women because they have to pay what transporters charge them.

“If there is a need for removing subsidy, I will study it. With my experience, I will see what I can do. But I am thinking about more than half of Nigerians, who, virtually cannot afford to live.

“Where will they get the money to go to work? How can they feed their families? How can they pay rent? If Nigeria were not an oil producing country – all well and good.

“Our refineries are not working. We have a lot of work to do.”

Buhari decried those he said had started calling him ‘Baba Go Slow’ because he had yet to form his cabinet, weeks after his inauguration.

He cited the example of previous government under the Peoples Democratic Party which spent more than two months to settle down during its 16 years of ruling the country.

He said he would prefer to go slowly and steadily in administering the country.

The President, however, said though his administration might be accused of being slow, it would be steady in fulfilling its campaign promises to Nigerians.

Buhari said, “Within the past two weeks, I am being asked when I am going to form my cabinet. And in some quarters, they are now calling me ‘Baba Go Slow’.

“I am going to go slow and steady. Nigerians should be patient to allow this administration put some sense into governance and deal with corruption.”

He also pledged to study the Diaspora Bill with a view to signing it into law as being demanded by Nigerians in the Diaspora.

The President advised those Nigerians in the Diaspora, looking for government jobs back home to suspend their ambition as the nation’s economy was in a bad shape and it would take his administration about 18 months or more to resuscitate it.

He, however, promised that some of them would be engaged by the Federal Government as consultants to enable them to contribute their quota to national development.

mkbessman:
oga... lemme advice you.... never try to be a pastor in your life, cos you'll be a centre/ headquarter of Antichrist!

what will it profit you in giving out fake information....
don't you have anything to do with your talent?
you don pass this thing na

kodded:

#BlindFollowers defending their mumu president

kodded:


chai




buhari mumu no be small

christinie:
NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT......!
Obama Travels To Kenya, Leaving Buhari Behind In US.
President Obama have left the US to Kenya for his African tour that will take him Ethiopia also, leaving the Nigerian President, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in the US.
International Diplomats were not perplexed about this unusual development, as they are aware that Buhari's visit was planned at his instance, through Mr David Axellrod (Obama former Campaign manager) and this overlapped Obama's long scheduled African tour.
Buhari's visit was described by the US Foreign office as a private visit and not an official one and there is no way it will interfere with Obama's official program.
The Nigerian President will not be coming back with any documented agreement with the US pledging any help on the Nigerian economy or the war on terror, implying that this N2.2billion tour succeeded in achieving nothing for Nigeria and is now another wasted journey.
Comment

Mogidi:
We all want a great Nigeria, should Buhari provide 24hrs electricity my criticism would become futile.

Mogidi:
midolian the mind reader, you don see inside my belle abi.

BraniacX:
I I shyte into ya numbskull

May it compute for you in place of ya dead brain matter

jaytee01:
OK, what?