₦airaland Forum

Obiagelli:
You mean 23 million cattle endorse the zoologist? Its only natural.

Calling those Fulani herdsmen "cattle" is uncalled for. Whatever happened to politics without bitterness?

barcanista:
Only a slowpoke will believe that 25m herdsmen up north will vote gejas for you running away, that will actually be a good riddance to bad rubbish

23million Fulanis won't vote GEJ but you expect Ijaws to vote Buhari.

You try too hard to warp rationality into something completely different.

[size=13pt]Fulani Cattle Farmers Endorse Jonathan For 2nd Term[/size]

Cattle farmers in Nigeria operating under the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Socio-cultural Association on Tuesday canvassed for support for President Goodluck Jonathan in the run-up to the 2015 election.

The pastoralists made their position known when they paid a visit to the Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Rufai Alkali, in Abuja Tuesday.

Speaking on behalf of the group, its the national secretary, Saleh Hassan, said his members are also ready to support the government in bringing peace between the cattle breeders and farmers across the country.

“We are willing to partner with the government in the transformation agenda, especially in the area of agriculture,” Mr. Hassan said.

Read rest of story here:http://metropolexpress.com/index.php/politics/item/4259-2015-fulani-cattle-farmers-endorse-jonathan-for-2nd-term

This is great if true but in other news a whopping 23million votes are ready for GEJ courtesy>Fulani cattle breeders. Seems Buhari hasn't been able to convince his kinsmen.

You can continue to sell a bad product but don't fault those who refuse to buy it.

You marketed this bad product in 2003, 2007, 2011 and no one bought the lie. Thinking anyone will buy same shiit repackaged bad product is height of cluelessness.

Pergrace:
Please, send me the link..

Google exist for a reason, I suggest you learn to use it to make informed judgement on matters of great importance.

Asoozy:
It's amazing to see that a lot of you didn't bother to click on the Op's link to realise that what is housed there is not a link to the video or the story but just a picture of the abducted girls. Had you clicked on the link, you would have wondered what the op's true intention were and questioned if the original report had not been doctored to skew the real truth.

Anyway here is the link to the channel 4 video. Hear hear that Stephen Davies who was said to be in Abuja at the time of the interview re-iterating that Alimodu Sherif is the politician sponsoring boko haram and not the APC like this disingenuous person and sunnewsonline are trying to make us believe.

Furthermore, that the government knows the location of these girls but dragging its feet.

http://www.channel4.com/news/everybody-knows-where-boko-haram-are-hostage-negotiator

I did click your link and learnt from the interview that the opposition to Goodluck was preventing the girls from being released.
This is an APC approved kidnapping.

ayindejimmy:
This's blatant propaganda at its peak. The link is as false as they come, and the write-up, unintelligent.
I can believe some coments i'm readin. People actualy believin this crap without verification. This hightlighted the high level of gullibility and prejudice amoung Nigerian youths. Some simpletons have even started calling APC. Which Admin approve this misinformation in the first place? So any1 can come here and post libels against another person and it'l get approved? Worst, some some parochialized people wil actualy believe it witout verification?

What link is false? You can as well click the link above yours and ascertain the truth yourself. It was clearly reported by channel4 TV that the reason the girls are not released is [size=13pt]due to the opposition.[/size] You're just ranting because Stephen Davies did not adjust his rhetoric (like he did in the past) to appease the APC. It was clearly stated in the interview.

You should also post Buhari's 2011 pledge that he would never run for elective office again.

Iceking1:
bro... Do u mean it?

Yes na...most people think am Igbo because I support PDP but am Esan proper. Anyway I think Onolememe is doing great for Uromi, I predict he'll end up the "Ambrose Ali" of Uromi, not to talk of Yakubu.

Very soon Uromi would rival Benin.

akinsadeez:
Na wa o. Its obvious you didn't even read the article before rushing to comment. The article says that the Siamese twins have since been buried. Which ''expert medical care'' can you give to babies who are already dead and buried?

Couldn't bear to read the article, I felt uncomfortable looking at the picture, anyway I presume you can now avail yourself the expert medical care I referenced. Thank me later.

Sagamite:
Another account of one of these fuuktards:

https://www.nairaland.com/1916318/nigerian-politicians-employ-internet-warriors

Nothing worse than a re.tard calling someone a fuuktard, I presume you're being self referential? I don't indulge re.tards, other retards should have warned you. Now use whats left of that brain to conjure up a way to choke yourself.

berem:
I have been hearing about this Ben Carson guy but I have never deemed it necessary to google and find out who he is. Its good I just did and he's a black guy!

Wow!

A friend brought it to my attention last year, what an achievement, what a brain.

They'd be biting the tail of a sleeping lion if they do, the PDP has the means to remove most of their governors.

Opeyemi Bamidele na correct guy.

achi4u:
Ben Carson comes to mind -The Gifted Hand.
God help ur people.

Yes bros, Ben Carson remains a pioneer in neurosurgery.

Another killer punch to the opposition, Fresh air everywhere chai.

Mr President should declare interest whenever he wants, am sure most supporters are looking forward to that glorious day. It will be a good day for Nigeria.

Roads left for decades are steadily being revamped, this is coming after the Benin-Lagos route, good news and fresh air all round.

Siamese twins I suppose, hoping a philanthropist steps in to send mother and baby abroad. They would need expert medical care and I think our hospitals are not equipped to deal with medical phenomenon of this nature.

Rikidony:
IN AREWA REPUBLIC

Quick quick you catch am

How Nigeria stopped Ebola but the USA can't curtail it from The Chicago Tribune

By David Francis, Foreign Policy,
Foreign Policy
October 21, 2014, 11:20 PM

WASHINGTON — When the first case of Ebola was discovered in Nigeria this summer, Jeffrey Hawkins, the U.S. Consul General in Lagos, said that an outbreak there could become an "apocalyptic urban outbreak. The last thing anyone in the world wants to hear is the two words, 'Ebola' and 'Lagos,' in the same sentence," Hawkins said in July..
Contdhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-wp-wp-frgnp-bc-ebola-nigeria21-20141021-story.html or https://www.nairaland.com/1961569/ebola-nigeria-got-right-everything#27354764

No virus will prosper in this country as long as GEJ governs, not even the e Bola Ahmed virus.

[size=15pt]Parts of GEJ's achievements in[/size]:
Aviation, Agriculture, Education, Road infrastructure and the Power sector reform

By George Kerley

I read, with keen interest, the opinion of Simon Kolawole published on September 14, 2014, tilted "My Grouse with President Jonathan". I found it very interesting, cheery and at the same time depressing. Those of us who read Kolawole regularly know that he does not join the mob in canvassing his opinions. He is usually even-handed and non-partisan. While this is a virtue in an environment polluted by politically biased columnists who have turned President Goodluck Jonathan into their favourite punching bag, I beg to defer with Kolawole on some of the issues he raised.


After accepting that the President has recorded remarkable achievements in aviation, agriculture, education, road infrastructure and even the power sector reform, Kolawole relapsed into the popular line that former President Olusegun Obasanjo fought corruption but President Jonathan is found wanting in this area. However, the truth be told, the same reason no President after Obasanjo has been acknowledged as fighting corruption is the same reason we have not been able to tackle corruption efficiently. Until a President engages in scape-goating and public execution, he is not seen as fighting corruption. I would not expect Kolawole, an expert in governance and development, to toe this line of argument.


Democracy is about institutions. That is what makes it strong and enduring. America's democracy is over 300 years old. Most of the things we celebrate about America today came about because institutions were built and allowed to function in the course of their history. The "strongman democracy" that Kolawole seems to favour is the same reason democracy is in fits and starts in many countries across Africa. But it is only democracies where state institutions are strong that can endure and flourish. To remove a minister for corruption is the least of the problems. Now, if removing ministers could solve the problem, why did Obasanjo have to be sacking ministers on a yearly basis?


There are various ways of fighting corruption. One is to resort to public spectacle. Remove ministers and shame them publicly. Put them in handcuffs for the cameras. Get the anti-graft agencies to blackmail lawmakers to impeach the governors. You can even get six lawmakers in a 24-member House of Assembly to remove the governor illegally in the name of fighting corruption. This public execution strategy will get you a resounding popular applause and you will win awards around the world. But, let's be honest about this, Kolawole, it cannot last. It cannot work in a democracy where people have a right to seek redress. This approach to anti-corruption can only be sustained by a dictator who cares little about the laws of the land.


By the way, President Jonathan has also demonstrated that he can fire ministers. He has done it again and again. Kolawole did not acknowledge this fact while heaping praises on Obasanjo for firing ministers at the slightest provocation. President Jonathan has demonstrated clearly that he too can fire ministers, even if not at the slightest provocation. However, it is not his style to engage in playing to the gallery. He believes things should be done orderly. When he declared his assets, he was being put under pressure to make it public. But he refused. The law does not stipulate that. He did not break any law. It is a public document that can be accessed through due process.


You can fight corruption by playing to the gallery. That is just one way. I'll show you a better way, Mr. Kolawole. You can decide to fight corruption sustainably by adopting administrative, policy, legal and moral suasion strategies. Administratively, some measures have been adopted by President Jonathan that have saved the country tonnes of money previously being pilfered. There are two ready examples here. The fertilizer subsidy cost Nigeria in excess of N800bn over a period of 30 years. Only about 10% of that actually got to the farmers. The President came and put a stop to the fraud. Farmers are getting their fertilizers today and their productivity is unprecedented in Nigeria's history. Billions of naira have been saved in fraudulent fertilizer transactions. It may interest Kolawole that no previous government has tackled this fraud like this administration. That is a way of fighting corruption. It will endure beyond the Jonathan administration.


Another administrative measure to combat corruption is on the payroll. There were thousands of ghost workers who were on the payroll of the Federal Government when President Jonathan came to power. For years, this issue had not been addressed. We all knew that some senior civil servants were milking the treasury mercilessly. Billions of naira were being stolen yearly. However, since President Jonathan's administration introduced the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), over 50,000 ghost workers have so far been identified. Indeed, over N139 billion has been saved. Now, you ask: is that not a neat and sustainable way of fighting corruption? This will endure, you can take a bet on that.


To fight corruption in a less glamorous but enduring way, the President has also adopted policy strategies. When the President sought to end the waste and fraud in the fuel subsidy regime, it was opposed by the same interests that are now saying the President is not fighting corruption. Because of this unfortunate opposition, we are still wasting hundreds of billions of naira on fuel subsidy that could have been better utilised in other areas of the economy. All studies and analyses have shown that the best way to tackle the subsidy fraud in the petroleum sector is to take away the subsidy itself. The money is too much and this creates perverse incentives for the beneficiaries to continue to corrupt the system.


For Kolawole, a journalist of no little standing, I would have loved him to talk about the Freedom of Information bill which was gathering dust on the shelf before President Jonathan came to power. If we are talking about transparency and anti-graft war, FoI Act is one of the most potent instruments to employ. If Jonathan was not interested in fighting corruption, he would certainly have avoided signing the bill into law. Obasanjo did not touch it in his eight years in office. Yet, all countries that we call developed today have this law in their statutes. The citizens use it to hold government accountable. FoI is a legal strategy that President Jonathan has adopted. It does not carry the glamour of handcuffing politicians in public, you can say that, but it is an institutionalised instrument that will outlive the Jonathan administration.


Space will not permit me to list all the measures the President has adopted to combat corruption. His own style is markedly democratic and a departure from the autocratic way some Nigerians want. These measures will surely outlive his administration. We should stop equating anti-graft with EFCC. We think it is when you are publicly executed that the government can be said to be fighting corruption. But it is more than that. Except something catastrophic happens, those ghost workers can no longer return to the payroll. The farmers will continue to get their subsidised seeds and fertilisers. Nigerians will continue to have the FoI to hold government accountable and transparent. These are the institutions that will last.


My grouse with Kolawole is that he refused to acknowledge the various steps the President has taken to combat corruption. He also failed to accept that the President is constrained by the rule of law. President Jonathan has no power over what governors do with their state resources. Even if he removes a minister, he has no power over the justice process. The judges are there. The smart lawyers are there. President Jonathan cannot go and sit in judgment over any accused person. So many cases in court are being frustrated by clever lawyers and those who know how to play the system. You cannot hold the President responsible for that, let's be fair. We make it look like the duty of fighting corruption starts and ends on the President's desk. Let's be careful what we pray for.


I know Kolawole is a fan of Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, having followed his column over the years. But he should be assured that even if Buhari becomes President, he cannot combat corruption the way he did as a military head of state. As a military head of state, he had executive, legislative and judicial powers. But in a democracy, he will discover that there is a National Assembly that he has to contend with. He will discover that he cannot fire a commissioner for corruption in any state. He cannot do anything to lawyers and judges who collude to frustrate cases. It looks easy on paper to combat corruption. But the reality is that there is a lot of work to be done if corruption is to be crushed. President Jonathan is on the right path. Time will vindicate him.


On the issue of Boko Haram, which Kolawole also listed among his "grudges", I think it is very glaring that the issue is very complicated. We want quick results, no doubt. It is a very present trouble that needs a quick solution. But President Jonathan met a lot of rot in the system. The military had been systematically decimated. The air force, which is the key military arm in war fare in modern times, had been systematically incapacitated for decades because of fears of coups. Our intelligence gathering had not stepped to the challenges in a democracy.


All these are enough impediments to confronting the monstrosity of terrorism. But the President also has to grapple with the politicisation of the war against terror. The military has been accused many times by President Jonathan's political opponents of committing genocide by those who would not as much as say a negative word against Boko Haram. The war against terror, as if it is not a major task already, has been compounded by the impression being created by power-hungry politicians who are making things worse by the day. Every step the President takes is being frustrated. If not that President Jonathan is a courageous man, he would have been overwhelmed by this attitude.


In all the mess, we have recorded progress. Many people think the simple solution is to unleash the military and destroy all the villages in the territories being tormented by Boko Haram. Military action alone will not solve the problem. That is why, even though he has authorised military action, President Jonathan has embarked on a major initiative to address the salient issues of lack of access to education, poor infrastructure, environmental devastation and several other negative preambles to the flourishing of insurgency in the North-East. He has launched the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to address these issues, and has scaled up investment in agriculture, infrastructure, education and health to achieve a long-term winning strategy.


I would like to conclude by emphasising that President Jonathan has delivered the goods. Let his opponents judge him on the basis of facts and figures and not sentiments. He certainly has not solved all Nigeria's problems (not even a magician can do that in four years) but Nigeria is clearly better than it was in 2011. Check all the facts and figures: infrastructural development, power sector reform, education, agriculture, water resources, economic management, etc. Let us compare the data before 2011 and in 2014. An honest opinion would be that he has done well.

[size=15pt]ONE GOOD TERM DESERVES ANOTHER[/size]

TEAM Fresh Air
Winning Buhari since 1999

Won Niger east senatorial election in August
Won again on Saturday in the North in a place called Buruku



[size=15pt]GEJ till Buhari becomes a Catholic priest.[/size]

zimoni:
Is it a crime to build a State University?

In Buhari's mind yes, no need for universities nor schools or colleges, that's the Taliban mind of his that many people loathe.

Check what his friends did in Afghanistan to educational establishments, burnt all schools, fvct it.

torkaka:
That settles, you go with Denrele, I go with shaft kapish?

No wahala.

torkaka:
I was referring to Fedora hat man

And I implied frog-eyes.

torkaka:
You just couldn't resist mentioning the M.oron could you?

I prefer calling him e Bola, ok if your pet name for him is mo.ron.

NgeneUkwenu:
Deluded soul! Keep jogging fictions to console your self! Jobless fool!

You no well.

No virus will prosper in this country as long as GEJ reigns not even the e Bola Ahmed virus.

Rochas, Adamu Oshiomhole and even Amaechi have since realized they're being used. Unfortunately there may not be positions for them in PDP.
PDP has issued directives to states to reward loyalist and not cross-carpeters.