₦airaland Forum

Gbawe: Silly coward. "Bros" indeed. Are you not 'female' any longer? Effing coward. Man up. You think pretending to be female will give you an easier ride? Even under you main ID, you were always a weakling. Insulting others and begging not to be slapped back. Your routine was alway to insult others cowardly and say, as a gutless excuse of a man, "don't insult me because it goes back to you". That was what was constant about your pathetic persona. Retire this ID and man up. Puzzy.

What are you talking about? Be a man and talk without curses. What are you on about? Nigger? You are fighting me like a fisherman, come out and fight like a man.

Gbawe: Please go back to school and learn to spell. If you invest some time trying to improve yourself, instead of coming here to square up blindly with multiple ID's, you would not be reduced to being a coward, scared of other men, to the extent you have to come here pretending to be female. You are terrified of using your main ID that is not really hard to discern considering how you are not bright enough to see you leave 'signatures' like the cowardly antics of insulting others and asking them not to respond in kind because "it goes back to them". I wonder the cowardly male poster very famous for repeating that gutless antic here time and time again along with terrible spelling skills What a clown. I won't mention your main user ID. I will just let you you know I know who you are W. Ode oshi. 'Female' indeed. You are not even ashamed.

Bros, calm down o. Who I be before sir? I will like to know. Bros. your body too hot. calm down sir. Now face front and face the subject matter.

The red eyed Gbawe looses face once again. Looses his stipends as well.

LOL. Watch him in two days time scrounging the internet for something else to cry about. Searching for loopholes in anything GEJ, accusing him of corruption and speaks too many words to make a single point.

banki: LOL some people came here and told us how GEJ was completing THE LAGOS iBADAN eXPRESS another told us how he has constructed and completed lagos benin express way

Two questions to billonayre, ELeume, taharqa and the rest of the die hard GEJ supporters on naira land...

Did the president have to wait till the pressidential chat to cancel the contract?or was he not aware of the road before he had to face "nigerians"?

Doyin Okupe and Abati tell us somethings and GEJ tells us another does that mean people that speak for him are liars or is he a liar? or is he wasting our money employing special advisers

Daft. If you are current , you would have heard him say prior to now that they are looking into the concession and will take a decision soon. Now he took the decision and you are still questioning him. What did Okupe and Abati say on the concession? Tell us.

I guess you want him to have cancelled the contract without a proper legal review. How do you people think?

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VolvoS60: This thread shows how Nigerians have come to accomodate and embrace failure.

For years, Nigerians have been maimed and killed in their thousands on this expressway through wilful sabotage and sheer negligence. No doubt this will continue.

We are a people with no standards or sense of self. No real sense of our rights, duties or obligations. Shameful. Some of us really do not deserve to live as free men and women. That is the TRUTH.

How can Nigerians (excluding the hirelings of the federal government assigned to "work" on NL) put their fingers to their keyboards and praise the GEJ administration for "doing well" in cancelling the concession after all these years and the needless waste of human lives and material resources?

Where is your sense of outrage?

In some countries a consumer can buy a box of cereal and he/she is entitled to a full refund or a replacement if there is any defect in the original purchase - no questions asked. Such countries take contractual obligations seriously, in both the private and public sector. In THIS country, a PDP-led federal government (ostensibly acting on behalf of taxpayers) enters into an opaque agreement with an incompetent concessionaire to fix a public road. Years after the agreement, Nigerians do NOT have a road and have received absolutely NO value for the resources committed on their behalf by their so-called government.

If you are a taxpayer, I ask you:

Where is your recourse?
Where is your compensation?
What are the consequences for the concessionaire?

The GEJ administration, in its characteristically dubious manner has not indicated (however obliquely) that there will be any form of retribution for the failure of Bi-Courtney to deliver. And yet posters on this thread have been fulsome in their praise.

The hex of low expectations.

You indeed get what you pay for.

Very empty. Sense of outrage? At who? Retribution for the failure of Bi Courtney - ok, to sentence them to death or what? They failed a contract, and contract cancelled, now you want them sentenced to death or what? This was a PPP arrangement, what resources were spent by government? You obviously thought government gave them some huge sum of money or you dont understand the terms of a PPP? Please tell us what resources you are talking about.

I think you are making effort to be seen as a critic, but you end up writing too much English that you didnt even make a single point.

Demdem: Agreed. am never in support of the killing of the innocent however i agree with OBJ that after this invasion such an occurrence against security agents, such events went down drastically unfortunately
The retardeen is just being sttupid, i expect him then to withdraw military forces from borno and troubled places if he thinks military solution isnt it.
By the way, its the Retardeen aware that his current security forces are being accused of killing the innocent in their war against evil Boko?

I wonder what you will say if someone tells you your father is being sttupid. And I think we are right to say here that your parents are plain sttupid for not giving you proper home training on public discourse.

and these are the same people who at that time had cried that OBJ and the killings were wrong.

If the Odi kilings solved the militancy problem, why did Yar Adua had to still do all he did to solve the problem. Fani Kayode - try to talk objectively.

and Boko Haram is the same to CPC.

Some people will soon quote anonymous presidency sources as saying this is a lie.

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]OP: What's the point of this unnecessarily long ‎​Άnd incoherent write-up??..... [/quote]Did you read it. Asking your question simply means you were too lazy to read it.

IYA NGBALI: and so fokn what?who cares?

Haba. And what does this mean? The thing pain you say him love the President? Shuo. Some people/.

good for you. now you have learnt.

rubbish

rubbish.

A mall that has not even opened is already reported as the "highest and most expensive mall in the whole of Africa". LOL. Some people sha.

All they do is preach revolution on the internet, but then cant take the steps. I bet his family is abroad.

Rubbish

ehie: One of today's pet Indisputable Historical Truths is that the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler advocated the "Big Lie Technique" to discredit and confuse one's political opponents.

NOW WHAT TYPE OF PROPAGANDA DORENO OMKRI AND CO USE?

Ad hominem
A Latin phrase that has come to mean attacking one's opponent, as opposed to attacking their arguments.
Ad nauseam

This argument approach uses tireless repetition of an idea. An idea, especially a simple slogan, that is repeated enough times, may begin to be taken as the truth. This approach works best when media sources are limited or controlled by the propagator.

Appeal to authority
Appeals to authority cite prominent figures to support a position, idea, argument, or course of action.

Appeal to fear
Appeals to fear and seeks to build support by instilling anxieties and panic in the general population, for example, Joseph Goebbels exploited Theodore Kaufman's Germany Must Perish! to claim that the Allies sought the extermination of the German people.

Appeal to prejudice
Using loaded or emotive terms to attach value or moral goodness to believing the proposition. Used in biased or misleading ways.
Bandwagon
Bandwagon and "inevitable-victory" appeals attempt to persuade the target audience to join in and take the course of action that "everyone else is taking".

Inevitable victory
Invites those not already on the bandwagon to join those already on the road to certain victory. Those already or at least partially on the bandwagon are reassured that staying aboard is their best course of action.
Join the crowd
This technique reinforces people's natural desire to be on the winning side. This technique is used to convince the audience that a program is an expression of an irresistible mass movement and that it is in their best interest to join.


Getting What He Deserves.

The Lie
The repeated articulation of a complex of events that justify subsequent action. The descriptions of these events have elements of truth, and the "big lie" generalizations merge and eventually supplant the public's accurate perception of the underlying events. After World War I the German Stab in the back explanation of the cause of their defeat became a justification for Nazi re-militarization and revanchist aggression.
Black-and-white fallacy
Presenting only two choices, with the product or idea being propagated as the better choice. For example: "You're either with us, or against us...."

Classical conditioning
All vertebrates, including humans, respond to classical conditioning. That is, if object A is always present when object B is present and object B causes a negative physical reaction (e.g., disgust, pleasure) then we will when presented with object A when object B is not present, we will experience the same feelings.
Cognitive dissonance
People desire to be consistent. Suppose a pollster finds that a certain group of people hates his candidate for senator but loves actor A. They use actor A's endorsement of their candidate to change people's minds because people cannot tolerate inconsistency. They are forced to either to dislike the actor or like the candidate.


Demonizing the enemy
Making individuals from the opposing nation, from a different ethnic group, or those who support the opposing viewpoint appear to be subhuman (e.g., the Vietnam War-era term "gooks" for National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam aka Vietcong, or "VC", soldiers), worthless, or immoral, through suggestion or false accusations. Dehumanizing is also a termed used synonymously with demonizing, the latter usually serves as an aspect of the former.EG,BUHARI IS A TERRORIST,EL RUFAI IS CORRUPT,RIBADU IS CORRUPT,YARADUA IS TOO SLOW
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Half-truth
A half-truth is a deceptive statement, which may come in several forms and includes some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the statement may be totally true but only part of the whole truth, or it may utilize some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent the truth.



Labeling
A euphemism is used when the propagandist attempts to increase the perceived quality, credibility, or credence of a particular ideal. A Dysphemism is used when the intent of the propagandist is to discredit, diminish the perceived quality, or hurt the perceived righteousness of the Mark. By creating a "label" or "category" or "faction" of a population, it is much easier to make an example of these larger bodies, because they can uplift or defame the Mark without actually incurring legal-defamation. Example: "Liberal" is a dysphemism intended to diminish the perceived credibility of a particular Mark. By taking a displeasing argument presented by a Mark, the propagandist can quote that person, and then attack "liberals" in an attempt to both (1) create a political battle-ax of unaccountable aggression and (2) diminish the quality of the Mark. If the propagandist uses the label on too-many perceivably credible individuals, muddying up the word can be done by broadcasting bad-examples of "liberals" into the media. Labeling can be thought of as a sub-set of Guilt by association, another logical fallacy.

Latitudes of acceptance

If a person's message is outside the bounds of acceptance for an individual and group, most techniques will engender psychological reactance (simply hearing the argument will make the message even less acceptable). There are two techniques for increasing the bounds of acceptance. First, one can take a more even extreme position that will make more moderate positions seem more acceptable. This is similar to the Door-in-the-Face technique. Alternatively, one can moderate one's own position to the edge of the latitude of acceptance and then over time slowly move to the position that was previously.[10]



Lying and deception
Lying and deception can be the basis of many propaganda techniques including Ad Homimen arguments, Big-Lie, Defamation, Door-in-the-Face, Half-truth, Name-calling or any other technique that is based on dishonesty or deception. For example, many politicians have been found to frequently stretch or break the truth.

BEAF AND CO ARE CHAMPIONS IN THIS AREA


Name-calling
Propagandists use the name-calling technique to incite fears and arouse prejudices in their hearers in the intent that the bad names will cause hearers to construct a negative opinion about a group or set of beliefs or ideas that the propagandist wants hearers to denounce. The method is intended to provoke conclusions about a matter apart from impartial examinations of facts. Name-calling is thus a substitute for rational, fact-based arguments against the an idea or belief on its own merits.[13]
Obfuscation, intentional vagueness, confusion
Generalities are deliberately vague so that the audience may supply its own interpretations. The intention is to move the audience by use of undefined phrases, without analyzing their validity or attempting to determine their reasonableness or application. The intent is to cause people to draw their own interpretations rather than simply being presented with an explicit idea. In trying to "figure out" the propaganda, the audience forgoes judgment of the ideas presented. Their validity, reasonableness and application may still be considered.

Try to quote people's work. All the above can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques

Which one of you eats from El Rufai's table or from Reno's?


So you will kill each other because of these two? I bow for una mumu level.

Demdem: And when did he become an immortal that he cant retrace his steps especially when he realizes that he earlier goof. Anyway i said probably and its Elrufai that can explain himself better. When u say bad, what do u mean? Criticizing the retardeen IMO is in order and not out of place.

LOL. What can I say to this?

and so the matter turns to personality attack. While the El rufai continue to enjoy his loot and hob nobbing with the people who destroy Nigeria, you all stay here knocking each others head as if your existence depends on el Rufai or Reno. Shio.

take dat: Why is Reno so obsessed with El Rufai? Rather than concentrating on your job, you spend the whole time stalking El Rufai on social media and giving him undeserved attention. Why won't El Rufai feel he is larger than life when your boss seem confused!

Who is obsessed with who? You havent said that objectively.

Looks like none of you blaming Reno has gone to read El rufai's facebook page lately. Go and read how El Rufai talk like he is a saint here:

http://www.facebook.com/nasirelrufai?fref=ts


Back in time, El Rufai was veraciously against Buhari, right now, he is campaigning for the same Buhari. Explain to us.

wildorchid: Why the long grammar? The contract was revoked so that it could be reviewed by the govt. Simple

they will soon call you names for this.

Didnt I say so? They will ascribe it to their online rants. I can read through their confused minds. Old age doesnt mean wisdom, in this regard, it means poluted mindset. they will soon say they are victorious and begin to quote all manner of sources to justify their claims.

I just pray this does not reduce the funds coming to Mr. Gbawe. Dont worry. Read more newspapers and you will have another thing to scream about.

Just two in one week. Ribadu and Manitoba. Do more work so you can get more money.

They will soon say it was because of their online rants.

In a move certain to douse anxiety over the fate of the power sector reform and privatisation programme, President Goodluck Jonathan is still reviewing the management contract for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

Confirming the new twist in the $23.7 million management contract, which was awarded to a Canadian firm, Manitoba Hydro International (MHI), last July, a source in the Ministry of Power said the ministry was yet to receive notification on the cancellation of the contract, but what they understood was that the president had ordered a review of the contract.

Also, Manitoba said Thursday that although it had not received any official notice on the contract’s termination, it would seek for compensation from the government if it happens.

Chief Executive Officer of MHI, Mr. Don Priestman, who has been superintending activities of the firm at TCN, disclosed this in response to enquiries by THISDAY Thursday in Abuja.

An official of the power ministry said last night that the management contract might not have been cancelled as reported exclusively by THISDAY two days ago and was confirmed by the president’s Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, that same day when other media houses made enquiries.

He said the president had decided that the contract be reviewed by a team of experts, which will be concluded next week.

[b]In a bid to prove that Manitoba had not been shown the exit, the official said that its chief executive was at the Presidential Villa yesterday to meet with officials in the presidency.
He explained that the review was being done to ensure that whatever irregularities that needed to be corrected in the contract are effected.

“The president is a stickler for procedure and the rule of law. So the review is being carried out to correct any irregularity that has been noticed in the contract,” he said.

The official added that the reason a review was being undertaken was to keep the power reform and privatisation programme on course.
“The president remains committed to the programme and will do everything to keep it on course.

“He is also aware that there are some interest groups and politicians who want to derail the process.

“But it must not be hijacked by these politicians whose sole aim is to sabotage the programme for their own selfish gains,” he said.

Priestman, however, informed THISDAY yesterday that although the government had not formally communicated its decision to cancel the three-year contract, the company would certainly ask for compensation from the government, if it communicates its position as reported in the media.

According to him, “At the moment, we have got no official word from the government on the contract cancellation and everything we know about it has been from media reports which is a heck of a way to do things.

“We have no official communication from the government up till now and until we get some official notification to that effect, I guess we will have to wait to know the government’s position.

“But I’m still in my office at the PHCN (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) corporate headquarters, which houses TCN and our telephone lines have been shut down. I cannot make official calls outside of here but rely on calls coming in.”
When asked to clarify the current position at the state-owned transmission utility as well as Manitoba’s position, Priestman said: “We have to wait to take a decision to either demobilise.

“But right now, we are in a limbo. We came here in good faith to do our job but the mood here suggests otherwise and we reckon that we are not in a fight with anybody; we just want to do our job.”

On the possible legal action that might be taken by Manitoba, Priestman said: “The decision is not in my hands but certainly we have got a case, we are owed a lot of money and we hope to ask for compensation if we are communicated of government’s position that the contract has been terminated.”

The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), for several weeks, has been pushing for the cancellation of the contract on the premise that it did not pass through due process as provided under the Public Procurement Act.

Its Director General, Mr. Emeka Eze, had written a memo to the president recommending the contract’s termination and that the BPP be allowed to appoint a new contractor within 30 days, after it had been furnished with five names by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

But the president had approved that the power ministry undertake the job of appointing a new company to manage TCN within 30 days.
It is believed that he may have reviewed his decision to get the power reform programme back on track.

In a related development, it has emerged that it was a petition by the Power Grid of India, which faulted the process by which Manitoba emerged as the preferred bidder to manage TCN, that triggered the chain of events that led to the contract’s review by government.
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THISDAY discovered yesterday that Power Grid had written to BPE alleging that Manitoba’s selection was done before the financial bids were opened, a decision they saw as not being in conformity with the rules set out by the BPE.

Of the four firms that had expressed interest in managing TCN in 2007, Manitoba and Power Grid were the only two that had their bids prequalified when the process to select a management contractor for the transmission was restarted by the BPE in 2010.

The Indian company contended that it had won the bid in a rigorous exercise conducted in 2007, which made it the preferred bidder for the transmission company.

By yesterday, THISDAY learnt that the company was warming up to convince government officials of its readiness to manage TCN.

The management contract was signed between the BPE, on behalf of the Federal Government, and Manitoba in July, with a commencement date of September 1, 2012.

But owing to interference by officials in the Ministry of Power, the take-off of the deal was stalled, while the Canadian firm was prevented from effectively taking over TCN.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/president-still-reviewing-manitoba-tcn-contract/130808/

In a move certain to douse anxiety over the fate of the power sector reform and privatisation programme, President Goodluck Jonathan is still reviewing the management contract for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

Confirming the new twist in the $23.7 million management contract, which was awarded to a Canadian firm, Manitoba Hydro International (MHI), last July, a source in the Ministry of Power said the ministry was yet to receive notification on the cancellation of the contract, but what they understood was that the president had ordered a review of the contract.

Also, Manitoba said Thursday that although it had not received any official notice on the contract’s termination, it would seek for compensation from the government if it happens.

Chief Executive Officer of MHI, Mr. Don Priestman, who has been superintending activities of the firm at TCN, disclosed this in response to enquiries by THISDAY Thursday in Abuja.

An official of the power ministry said last night that the management contract might not have been cancelled as reported exclusively by THISDAY two days ago and was confirmed by the president’s Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, that same day when other media houses made enquiries.

He said the president had decided that the contract be reviewed by a team of experts, which will be concluded next week.

In a bid to prove that Manitoba had not been shown the exit, the official said that its chief executive was at the Presidential Villa yesterday to meet with officials in the presidency.
He explained that the review was being done to ensure that whatever irregularities that needed to be corrected in the contract are effected.

“The president is a stickler for procedure and the rule of law. So the review is being carried out to correct any irregularity that has been noticed in the contract,” he said.

The official added that the reason a review was being undertaken was to keep the power reform and privatisation programme on course.
“The president remains committed to the programme and will do everything to keep it on course.

“He is also aware that there are some interest groups and politicians who want to derail the process.

“But it must not be hijacked by these politicians whose sole aim is to sabotage the programme for their own selfish gains,” he said.

Priestman, however, informed THISDAY yesterday that although the government had not formally communicated its decision to cancel the three-year contract, the company would certainly ask for compensation from the government, if it communicates its position as reported in the media.

According to him, “At the moment, we have got no official word from the government on the contract cancellation and everything we know about it has been from media reports which is a heck of a way to do things.

“We have no official communication from the government up till now and until we get some official notification to that effect, I guess we will have to wait to know the government’s position.

“But I’m still in my office at the PHCN (Power Holding Company of Nigeria) corporate headquarters, which houses TCN and our telephone lines have been shut down. I cannot make official calls outside of here but rely on calls coming in.”
When asked to clarify the current position at the state-owned transmission utility as well as Manitoba’s position, Priestman said: “We have to wait to take a decision to either demobilise.

“But right now, we are in a limbo. We came here in good faith to do our job but the mood here suggests otherwise and we reckon that we are not in a fight with anybody; we just want to do our job.”

On the possible legal action that might be taken by Manitoba, Priestman said: “The decision is not in my hands but certainly we have got a case, we are owed a lot of money and we hope to ask for compensation if we are communicated of government’s position that the contract has been terminated.”

The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), for several weeks, has been pushing for the cancellation of the contract on the premise that it did not pass through due process as provided under the Public Procurement Act.

Its Director General, Mr. Emeka Eze, had written a memo to the president recommending the contract’s termination and that the BPP be allowed to appoint a new contractor within 30 days, after it had been furnished with five names by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

But the president had approved that the power ministry undertake the job of appointing a new company to manage TCN within 30 days.
It is believed that he may have reviewed his decision to get the power reform programme back on track.

In a related development, it has emerged that it was a petition by the Power Grid of India, which faulted the process by which Manitoba emerged as the preferred bidder to manage TCN, that triggered the chain of events that led to the contract’s review by government.

THISDAY discovered yesterday that Power Grid had written to BPE alleging that Manitoba’s selection was done before the financial bids were opened, a decision they saw as not being in conformity with the rules set out by the BPE.

Of the four firms that had expressed interest in managing TCN in 2007, Manitoba and Power Grid were the only two that had their bids prequalified when the process to select a management contractor for the transmission was restarted by the BPE in 2010.

The Indian company contended that it had won the bid in a rigorous exercise conducted in 2007, which made it the preferred bidder for the transmission company.

By yesterday, THISDAY learnt that the company was warming up to convince government officials of its readiness to manage TCN.

The management contract was signed between the BPE, on behalf of the Federal Government, and Manitoba in July, with a commencement date of September 1, 2012.

But owing to interference by officials in the Ministry of Power, the take-off of the deal was stalled, while the Canadian firm was prevented from effectively taking over TCN.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/president-still-reviewing-manitoba-tcn-contract/130808/

kopite: The thread states how the money was wired and not that GEJ wants to re-open the case again. but for all to know, our govt lacks the depth to re-open that case again. you should be asking...what closed the case in the first place? corrupt govt.

I sometimes wonder if people read the story they comment on.

Nonsense. so because we want to woo international investors, we should ignore whether things are done very well or not. Nonsense. Its you people who will still turn round tomorrow and blame government that they haven't done anything transparently. Is the grouse because the company concerned is international or what?