₦airaland Forum

Depilot:
Akala is definitely not my cup of tea.
But what do you guys expect from him? This is nothing but pure politics; right or wrong, Akala is doing what a good politician suppose to be doing.
This is Ibadan people we are talking about. It doesn't take much to turn them against anything. These are the same people that made it clear during last election that no 2 terms governor in Ibadan and that was exactly what happened. These are the same people that worshiped and followed Adedibu until he died. One has to be careful dealing with this group of people, they play a totally different ball game. They are not Lagos people and definitely not Ogun state people, they are from a land where Amala can do miracle.

My advise for Ajimobi is not to totally ignore Akala's comments (right or wrong), no need to present himself as classy and educated, no need to be a gentle man. It won't work in Ibadan. He needs to continue to be loyal to Ibadan people and go head on to tackle Akala blow to blow. Or else pretty soon Ibadan people we start saying this guy (Ajimobi) is not better than what we were getting (Akala).

Akala's one and only job is to do whatever needs to be done to frustrate Ajimobi and turn him against Ibadan people. And this strategy is called "good Politics". It works all the time.

VolvoS60:
^^^^

what have you just said? In 4 lines you have:

1. advised people never to insist on their rights where armed uniformed men are concerned,
2. questioned the dead man's family planning ability,
3. admitted that a lot needs to be done about human rights in Nigeria.

I hope you can see the contradiction.

mbulela:
In an advertisement congratulating Governor Akpabio for the “great feat”, one message enthused that “the little boy who could not gain
admission to the Nigerian Military School, Zaria, has today obtained a Doctor of Science in Management from the NDA.” In the case of Mrs. Madueke it was touted to be yet “another first for the Amazon” being the first woman ever to be so honoured by the military academy. Her other first was being the first female Petroleum Minister. Now, if one was not a governor and the other Minister of Petroleum, would the NDA have honoured them? [b][b][b][b][b][b]Incidentally, in June this year, the University of Port Harcourt awarded a Doctor of Science degree to the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.[/b][/b][/b][/b][/b][/b]

But on the same day and at the same venue, Vice President Namadi Sambo, who represented the president, announced a N3 billion special federal government grant to the university. The timing and place of the announcement of this “special grant” raises serious moral questions.

she had been outstanding with her mind blowing grammer na, widowed 1st lady.

Sweetnecta:
this dude needs to take that silly hat off his head and let fresh air get to brain. and somebody needs to tell him he is the president of a nation, so free your hands, instead of putting your arms on the back as if you are being arrested, when you are talking to anyone.

you are religious, do your job and ask God to actualize it.


Alhamdulillah i am not an inner circle of this guy. i would have told him off though, or quit in protest of his incompetency.

he is so slow that he is annoying considering that he has seen tremendous hardship in life. hardship should have made him strong, not jelly like.

Sweetnecta:
this dude needs to take that silly hat off his head and let fresh air get to brain. and somebody needs to tell him he is the president of a nation, so free your hands, instead of putting your arms on the back as if you are being arrested, when you are talking to anyone.

you are religious, do your job and ask God to actualize it.


Alhamdulillah i am not an inner circle of this guy. i would have told him off though, or quit in protest of his incompetency.

he is so slow that he is annoying considering that he has seen tremendous hardship in life. hardship should have made him strong, not jelly like.

informatix:
[size=16pt]'Ina ruwanku? idan hausa da Fulani sunyi fada?.'[/size] means 'wetin consine you if hausa and fulani Fought?.' Hausa and Fulani cannever Kill anybosy except they are killed. we all know igbo,hausa,igala,gwari and fulani are the most peaceful people in Nigeria. Southest go and face your armed robers killing you every day in Onitsha. OPC. and Cultist are your main problem in the west. Nigerians are very Peaceful we need to discourage the Violent one among us. as a hausa man i believe igbo is more peaceful than Yoruba. i Never heard any Violence starting from Enugu it only start from Lagos when hausa cant find Yoruba in kano they decend on Igbo then the Igbo lagos will tell yoruba to stop fighting Hausa. Yoruba are also peacful but aggressive in their Land.

CLASSMAN:
7000k i fear o

Kolababa:
I dont know why people compare Nigeria with US and UK when it comes to the issue of petroleum deregulation. An average briton and american do not know when the fuel price goes up or down since their transportation system does not depend on petrol or deisel. Trains are there that is very cheap. Elecricity is stable, no headache of fuel for my "i better pass my neighbour". They use gas and elecricity for cooking. Manufacturing sector does not depend on fuel for power. But in Nigeria, all our economic life revolves round the fuel and any slight change in price of fuel in Nigeria will surely take a toll on every areas of the economy.
Pls leave theory you read inside book for your children at home, we all know the theory. Abi we sha go to school.
In UK and US, no matter the tuition fees, that one is not a problem, study loan is there for you but in Nigeria, even bursary award, government will not pay.
Government will give scholarship, the money will be given to the children of big men. When Obasanjo was giving out federal government scholarship, there was a guy that used to sell his blood to the hospital to pay the school fees, the guy applied, he was not given but his classmate who has a uncle in the federal ministry of education got the money and she used part of the money to buy rechearge card and the remaining for birthday.
So comparing Nigeria with US, UK and others, KO JO ARA WON RARA.king. Manufacturing sector does not depend on fuel for power. But in Nigeria, all our economic life revolves round the fuel and any slight change in price of fuel in Nigeria will surely take a toll on every areas of the economy.
Pls leave theory you read inside book for your children at home, we all know the theory. Abi we sha go to school.
In UK and US, no matter the tuition fees, that one is not a problem, study loan is there for you but in Nigeria, even bursary award, government will not pay.
Government will give scholarship, the money will be given to the children of big men. When Obasanjo was giving out federal government scholarship, there was a guy that used to sell his blood to the hospital to pay the school fees, the guy applied, he was not given but his classmate who has a uncle in the federal ministry of education got the money and she used part of the money to buy rechearge card and the remaining for birthday.
So comparing Nigeria with US, UK and others, KO JO ARA WON RARA.

chelseabmw:
pls go for the toyota camry 2001 model

because of ladies honda accord

Ima Ima:
i dont agree with mustpin, i think  agitator makes sense. when these companies are privatizd, d situation seems to worsen. instead of nitel getting better, new telecoms companies sprung up.i think it myt be the same case with PHCN, altho they hv bn positive changes but they are not enough.maybe what will work is (if its possible) for private companies that supply electricity to emerge and supply on private basis to people but i bet that will be expensive.but again, what do i know?am just a novice in this area.

COMPAQ:
It is the responsibility of the government, not mine, to ensure that it pre-qualifies and pre-selects only competent investors who are willing to operate the companies on the guidelines as set out by the government ab inito!! If whoever bought Ajaoukuta bought it with the intention to break it up and sell the pieces for more money and our government in its usual stupidity didn't put a clause in the transaction that the companies were to be operated for Bleep number of years, can you blame the company!!? The company has done nothing illegal. Asset stripping is actually a normal part of business. We need to decide which form of economy we want to run - communist, socialist or capitalist!! In a capitalist economy, I can decide to buy a non performing company for whatever reason. Ideally, if i want I can buy NiTEL not for the purpose of operating it, but for the purpose of gaining access to all their landed property all over Nigeria and selling all those for a profit. It is only illegal if the sale contract expressly forbids it! Or the laws of the land forbid it!

I am unashamedly in support of privatisation and deregulation. The private sector is 1000 times better at capital formation and efficient allocation than the government. An investment decision that takes the MD of a private company 1 hour can take government 6months. Even the Minister of Power admitted as much when he said a few days ago that isn't it odd that even the new plants built by govt (Geregu, Omotosho etc) are operating at less than 40%, while the IPP's built by Shell (Afam 6) and Agip (Okpai) are operating at 85-90%!! Doesn't FG have Afam 1-5 at the same location as Shell!!??

Think of all the government companies that have failed over the years Nigerian Airways, NITEL, Hotels, Banks, PHCN, NNSL, NRC, and so many more. How come private airlines are working, GSM companies are working, thousands of private hotels across the country are working, private banks are working et al!! Think how many jobs would have been created if a private NRC (railway corporation) was working today?
Not to mention lives that would have been saved as the roads would be better since so much of the haulage destroying the roads would have been transported by rail!!

Dude, I rest my case,

COMPAQ:
No doubt the masses will cheer this news, but this is just probably one of those populist announcements that governors like to make. While reducing fees is not a bad thing, but where will the money to run the university come from?? Contrary to popular belief in Nigeria, university tuition is not free in the UK or US. UK university tuition for British citizens is anywhere between £3000-£5000 per session. Yet we make noise here over increases from N25,000 to N50,000. No doubt, scenarios are different, but we need to put our money where our mouth is. If we want a very good education, we have to understand that it won't come cheap. We Nigerians talk with both sides of our mouth:

1.We want 24hr electricity, but we don't want to pay for it.
2.We want a deregulated downstream petroleum sector, but we want the prices to remain at N65.
3.We want jobs to be created in this country, but we want govt to hold on to every sector because they are strategic to "national security"
We want corruption to reduce,but many of us who work in corrupt ministries, agencies and parastatals have never thought to copy these documents that clearly show illegal transfer and send them to efcc anonymously.
We all want to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.
We cry out about flooding and filth, yet we citizens throw gala wrapper and rubbish unto the roads without thought.

We are really a largely illiterate and hypocritical society.

COMPAQ:
No doubt the masses will cheer this news, but this is just probably one of those populist announcements that governors like to make. While reducing fees is not a bad thing, but where will the money to run the university come from?? Contrary to popular belief in Nigeria, university tuition is not free in the UK or US. UK university tuition for British citizens is anywhere between £3000-£5000 per session. Yet we make noise here over increases from N25,000 to N50,000. No doubt, scenarios are different, but we need to put our money where our mouth is. If we want a very good education, we have to understand that it won't come cheap. We Nigerians talk with both sides of our mouth:

1.We want 24hr electricity, but we don't want to pay for it.
2.We want a deregulated downstream petroleum sector, but we want the prices to remain at N65.
3.We want jobs to be created in this country, but we want govt to hold on to every sector because they are strategic to "national security"
We want corruption to reduce,but many of us who work in corrupt ministries, agencies and parastatals have never thought to copy these documents that clearly show illegal transfer and send them to efcc anonymously.
We all want to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.
We cry out about flooding and filth, yet we citizens throw gala wrapper and rubbish unto the roads without thought.

We are really a largely illiterate and hypocritical society.

noblezone:
This is why we need to sit down and nagotiate Ngieria. The diffrrent ethnic nationalities are yet to see themselves as Nigerians. Why the pretence?

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cardoso111:
Drifta works well in the city.mine works quite well when i am in the heart of the town.whenever i drive back home which is out of the central business district,reception becomes nil.

obowunmi:
Buncha bullocks --- why not spend more time trying to fix the educational system with influential policies --- anyways, I wish I got the contract to organize this. That's almost 10 million or so to waste, while number children don't have food to eat or access to good education. #Uuumph

Goodcare:
PLEASE WE STILL NEED MORE PICTURE ON THESE ISSUE even if you look at it you will agree with me that these pictures was taken when the rain stop please LET'S SEE (NOW when the rain started AFTER when the rain stop and NOW how many death was recover after the rain )
PLEASE IF YOU KNOW ANY WAY YOU CAN DONATE KINDLY DO SO CHEERFULLY i have someone that lost 4 different family to these unanticipated rain
MAY THE LORD GRANT THEM THE HEART TO BEAR THIS LOSS, PLEASE DONATE TO ANY ONE YOU KNOW IN THIS

Obijulius:
@bukkny; your filthy fat yoruba mum with her shapeless a.s.s and weak p.unani really passed it onto u. D apple fell reali closr 2 d tree dumba.ss
Do u know your dad? Lols. ask your mum, u,ve bin livin a lie all dis wyl.
I'll publish your dirty lineage here s.cumbag.

buffny:
its your mother that is a filthy LovePeddler. when did your filthy mother start wearing clothes bastard, now u want to talk down to us.

felifeli:
@OP
Why are you unable to sleep in church ? Maybe you need valium

Beaf:
Its unfortunate that people have to begin making such far-fetched excuses for Aregbesola. That guy is the worst thing to have hit Nigeria's political scene; the man is totally, lazy, indolent and incompetent. The people were carried away with his out of this World promises, its so sad.

Its funny that a party man is now ascribing god-like powers to him for keeping the rains from Osun. I mean its damn crazy!
I posted this elsewhere in the past. Osun is in for a very long ride.

fuke:
I agree that the claim is foolish. What stopped him from advising Ajimobi to take such
precautions knowing that Ibadan is more prone to flood.after all they are both in AC

I do not think Aregbesola has done anything to prevent such calamity we experienced in
Ibadan if the heavens should open up on Oshogbo or Ife or Ilesha  as it did in Ibadan on that black Friday.

Be that as it may, To call Aregbesola a lazy man is the acme of unfairness and misjudgement unless
Beaf has new meanings for lazy and indolent. This is the guy that managed works ministry for Tinubu.
Even his detractors cannot but agree with the fact that he is hard working.
.

Beaf, I like the way you craft words and your incisiveness but sometimes you get so carried away and
get so unfair and partisan and sacrificed truths to achieve your goal.

You will lose some friends if you choose to close your eyes to the truth all the time.

gmyguy:
the flatuliability induced from ingesting this legume is incorrigible

maleinter:
[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Report indicting the peaceful rain or refered to as downpour is unfair and unethical in the profession of journalism. [/font] As a Water Engineer of repute with much of international experience, what happened in Ibadan on friday the 26th of August 2011 was not justifiable and people do not deserve this treatment.
From observation, the so call flood was induced and can be categorised as CATHERSTOPHIC FLOODING which happened suddenly either by 2 of the factors, 1. man made (induced) through opening of the dam gate or 2. Breakage of dam wall which is as a result of lack of maintainance of dam.
Lastly, when the dam volume has been overtaken by silt, then, the need to desilt the dam is important which still REFER to management default. So, let us not relate the story to flooding but rather be specific and dont play politics with your news by just copying others , be professional in your news reports. i have found all the news laughable. please lecture the public by hitting the nail on the head.


ALE Hydro Engineer
IBADAN
+234 8033798443

Kobojunkie:
Again, he DOES NOT have to be CONCLUSIVE. He did not tell you he is an investigator. He simply stated that by his observation, what happened had nothing to do with the rain. He even went on to suggest possibles. IF you feel his is wrong, then show it! I am not certain what part of what I posted you do not get.

Anywho,if you had done some googling/clicking yourself, you would have discovered his assertion was not far from the truth

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/aug/29/newsbreak-29-08-2011-001.html

Kobojunkie:
^^^ Those he have to do it all? I mean why don't you, yourself, attempt to verify or debunk his assertion there??

mekaboy:
what they simply want us to know is that the shot an nysc member, we don't know if it was a mistake but they have called him member of boko haram. When will the nigerian forces ever catch someone alive to confess? Nigerian army appears at the scene- robbers open fire? 3 gunned down- other drop their weapon , and run away with gun shot wounds- so an armed robber with gun shot wound can run faster than a soldier, Imagine how fast they r without wound. The guns had marks of security agencies they won't name. Their news is always shady.

maleinter:
Report indicting the peaceful rain or refered to as downpour is unfair and unethical in the profession of journalism. As a Water Engineer of repute with much of international experience, what happened in Ibadan on friday the 26th of August 2011 was not justifiable and people do not deserve this treatment.
From observation, the so call flood was induced and can be categorised as CATHERSTOPHIC FLOODING which happened suddenly either by 2 of the factors, 1. man made (induced) through opening of the dam gate or 2. Breakage of dam wall which is as a result of lack of maintainance of dam.
Lastly, when the dam volume has been overtaken by silt, then, the need to desilt the dam is important which still REFER to management default. So, let us not relate the story to flooding but rather be specific and dont play politics with your news by just copying others , be professional in your news reports. i have found all the news laughable. please lecture the public by hitting the nail on the head.


ALE Hydro Engineer
IBADAN
+234 8033798443

philip0906:
@paraphrase and mustphin or whatever
d both of u r sick and obviously live in zombie land else your comments would have been more sensible or prolly your fadas r policemen