₦airaland Forum

ElRazur:
I work in a predominantly white place.

I just feel some of these posters in this thread have a complex of some kind. A few would have been denied Visa back in naija and as such the Brits automatically become racist etc. It is scary if in almost 2010 people have this sort of mentality.

JustGood:
You have a good point. However, being married to a black person does not preclude a white man/woman from being racist and vice versa.

AjanleKoko:
Hey guys,
Nice contributions so far.
Any billing/OSS/CRM professionals in the house?

JustGood:
Please could you tell me where that law originated from in the UK? [b]There is no law in the UK for you to prove where you got money from if you have committed no crime. The legal position is that any amount over £1000 can be siezed from anyone if the police have grounds to believe that it is the proceeds of, or intended for, unlawful uses. Even when the money is siezed, it cannot be done for more than 2 working days without a court order.[/b]

Now, getting a court order means that there must be something evidently against you or the court will not grant the order. the onus is always on the police to prove that you have gained the money illegally or that you want to put it to illegal use.

agabaI23:
hahahaha abi oo.

Weather true or not.
How could the embassy have given him another passport. That's too bad for Germany!

KnowAll:
What I sense with this road is an un-healthy rivalry between the FG and Lagos State Goverment.

1. Fashola commences the 10 Lane lagos to badary road last week, this week FG and FCT embarks in the 10 Lane Abuja airport road. Yarardua is aware fashola is embarking on a lot of laudable projects in lagos.

proudly9ja:
I think I agree with the OP. It is possible if there's a will. In addition, Il like to add that the 2 bed flats should not be sold at all but rather rented out. This should eliminate the issue of availability and affordability. Also the rent should be affordable to the average Nigerian worker living on 10,000naira/month minimum wage (I hope Im right?). Therefore, if I was in charge, the rent wouldn't be more than 5,000naira per room per month so on average, govt will net in 10,000/house/month. For 36 million houses, that should be about 360 billion per month (Pls check my maths o, ). That money should be used towards maintanance of the houses and building an average of 10,000 additional houses per year. I think in due time, say over 12 years, with consistency, the housing problem will be solved.

proudly9ja:
Madam Ayoka's sudden turn around has showed us what we all are as Nigerians --- Cowards and people with no conscience.

I hailed her some weeks back when she refused to bow to corruption and rather resigned her appointment. I hailed her because another Nigerian in her shoes would have simply bowed to the highest bidder and done thier bid. Infact, I was so much proud of her that I wasn't bothered about her spilling the beans on whoever it was that was trying to or attempted to bribe her and stuff ballot boxes. I was willing to allow her resign and return to her children and grand children and live the rest of her life peacefully. However, in a matter of days and after a visit to her 'oga', INEC chairman, she has recanted and the same votes she herself accepted as illegal and thus she couldn't vouch for, she signed in and declared Oni as winner based on those votes.

Unlike a lot of us though, I do not believe this is a battle against PDP. AC is just as guilty as the party in power. They were only out rigged in this case. Thereffore in this Ekiti soap opera, the real losers are you and I, the people of Nigeria. It is the citizens who are felled by 'stray' police bullets and attacked by armed robbers while our leaders (both PDP and AC) continue to ride in their bullet proof SUVs. It is the citizens who will die in hospitals due to lack of adequate facilities and doctors strike while the leaders fly abroad to treat their common cold. Yes, the real losers in this drama ladies and gentlemen are the common men and women who have shed their blood, walked naked on the streets of Ekiti, spent endless time venting their spleens on NL and other forum and watched in disbelief as our ''heroine'' suddenly lost her conscience and her ''christian faith'' and signed that paper that declared once again that corruption has come to stay in our beloved Nation.

Is there any hope in all this? Do I have any right to ask Nigerians to continue to believe? Il answer that in one question. If you were in Ayoka's shoes, would you have done any differently? Your answer to that would help us know if we should continue to believe that the giant of Africa will once again rise from her slumber.

wirinet:
Nigerians have been known to leave you high and dry when it comes to the crunch. Ask the Abiolas, the Fawehinmis,  the Nwosus, the Umars, and so on. Nigerians would not put themselves on the line to support you.


[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]I personally know someone that was killed by bullet during the Abiola riot; Fawehinmi is still alive and Abacha is no more, doesnt that tell you something[/font]

How many political murders have gone unsolved in Nigeria, what did the people do to make sure the culprits are caught.  If Mrs Ayoka was attacked by" armed robbers" or "thugs", and killed, what will happen. If she was arrested and sent to kirikiri, what will the people do. Do people really think that a 74 yr old woman can stand the might of the Federal Government?
-The same 74 yrs old said her Christian faith doesnt not allow her to do stuffs; Where is the so called Christian Faith, lets not even go into the list of those that have died @ extremely young Age protecting their Christian faith, She is a Sham,  I said it here when it happened,

Eziachi:
Is she a heroine  or a coward? or just a cow?
Well! it depends about what time, day or hour that you read about her and her actions. Because one minute she has resigned because she doesn't want her name soiled along with election riggers and the next minute she reappeared and claimed to still belonging to the rigging family, everything is KAMPE, no shaking and she is going back to work she told us.

She is just a typical Nigerian, they know what the right thing is, will love to be heros of doing the right thing, will dream about it, will test the water of doing the right thing but when it comes to the crunch, boy! they are spineless.

Some of the lack of spine emanate from not knowing their rights, shaky principle, the mentality that executive powers of govt means the power of the almighty. If not, how on earth will a resident electoral commisioner happened to tender her letter of resignation to the president? For what reason? Was she appointed by ASO ROCK? If she knew her right despite her age, she should have written to the INEC as a body, not even Maurice. Even the law enforcer, Okiro threatening the poor cow with arrest, as if resigning from a job has become a criminal offence. Haba!!!
Even for Yar Adua to refuse he letter of resignation makes a mockery of Nigeria and it's version of democrazy. When he should have told her that she is writing to the wrong person or the wrong office, which was exactly what she did.   Maybe a copy of the letter to the presidency just for references, yes, but telling Umaru that she is resigning is pure ignorance as it has nothing to do with him.

Even when they refused her letter of resignation, if she really means business about her integrity, she should have turn around and tell them, well since you refused, then I quit. You cannot stop a person from quiting his job, not even in North Korea.
Now she is back to work, what is she going to do after all that she had  said about fake results?
She can't announce a result she told us was fake now, can she?
But Knowing Nigeria, that won't be impossible for her to do, it's a land were you can turn electric into candle and no one will notice.

Sky Blue:
Dora Akunyili's achievements in NAFDAC will always be there for all to see no matter what other ventures she goes into and y[b]es threats were made on her life and she still did the job[/b], etc, however I think comparing Dora Akunyili and the REC official who handed in a resignation later does not make sense.
Thats is the basis of my argument that Dora has earned the right to disagree that a fellow woman of older age can use the above as an excuse.


First of all, what is the job of the REC official? Does it include protecting ballot boxes from being snatched and fighting off violent, armed, hired political thugs? I really doubt if such is in the job description of an electoral commissioner, however as you postulated one of the duties of and REC is to announce electoral results, if this is what this woman is being castigated and called cowardly for not doing then I really don't get it. Do we just want hired zombies as public officials or don't we value the ability to analyse a situation and take required action anymore? Would it be better if she announced results which came from an obviously fraudlent election? You have reports of uprisings, people being arrested for massive thumb printing of ballots in residences, people dressed in police uniforms also partaking in electoral malpractices, and you feel the results should be announced? This is not necessarily about making this woman a hero but I think what she did was in order especially since it was done before announcing results, don't we want more public officials with a "concience"?
I had initially commended her stance- But her duty is to annouce the correct results for those place where the election took place without malpractices--cancel the results for those places where the result she has reason to be fake and state the reasons with evidence which according to you are widely available---This action will send the right message to the do -or die riggers and she then should go the whole hog by stating those who were compelling her to announce fake result and tell us which fake result she is being compelled to announce, How can you claim she is cowardly? Because you haven't heard from her in probably less than 24hours after her resignation even with all the reported threats on her person? Please let us try to be objective before jumping on the bandwagon.

It is 4days since the election took place, thats more than enough time, she and the political elite are not loosing nothing, spare a thought for the common ekiti citizen who cant go about their daily business cos of the uncertainty in the air.

Iranoladun:
In a country where millions refused to stand up for their rights under the excuse of security or fear(?)
Yeap-that was the excuse being bandied about as the reason she is not talking

In a country where millions refused to stand up for their rights choosing the path of selfish benefits/comfort instead
--Have you heard the angle that she was offered N200 million , lets not be in haste to make her a heroine yet.


In a country where millions refused to stand up for their rights but they'd rather be described as shoulda-woulda-coulda--Just like Mrs Adebayo, She could have gone the whole hog,



If only we are all half as courageous as Chief Adebayo, to look evil in the face and resign rather than partake in it, to know when to leave our various stages in life -when the ovation is loudest, then Nigeria would have been on the path to greatness.[/b[b]] What about confronting evil and fighting it--who will do that--

All the people who did not recognise the personal sacrifice that Chief Adebayo made, can you imagine the other alternative? If she had allow herself to be used and release the manipulated results[b]?- She didnt make a sacrifice, what she did was more like self preservation and @74 makes u wonder what is the point[/b]

Let us all pray for this Septuagenarian safety while we fervently wait for this whole drama being played by the Federal Government under the script directors (Ogbulafor,Yaradua, Dora, Iwu & co) to unfold! - I will rather pray for her to summon courage & tell us the whole truth and deal a decisive blow on the socalled "Evil Cabal" that not all us are without conscience