₦airaland Forum

phraoh:
Which National Assembly is doing the impeaching,is it the Nigerian own or UK own.Have you seen any of them sayng anythng about this sudsidy removal.Crooked bunch they all are.

They should go with Jona.

I'm not sure one should expect much from the senate, given their past. The reps, on the other hand, if newspapers reports are anything to go by, have vowed to take the executive on, once they reconvene.

lets wait and see.

Fuel Subsidy Removal - We Will Block It Legally - Reps

The House of Representatives will do everything legally possible to stop the removal of fuel subsidy, Deputy Minority Leader Rep Suleiman Abdurahman Sumaila (ANPP, Kano) has said.

Reacting to the announcement of removal of subsidy by the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) yesterday, Sumaila said when the House resumes from the Christmas break on January 10 the lawmakers will examine the situation and take necessary action.

"We will use the law to stop this inhuman act. It's another form of terrorism against Nigerians that are already impoverished. We will not fail to salvage them from this bondage and enslavement," Sumaila said.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201201020013.html

ignis:
Again I day'Enough is enough'.

are you sure? this appears to be just the beginnning

the script is evidently playing out successfully, so far at least.

just to be clear, once the reprisals begin to spread to other Southern States, and then the militants up North intensify their attacks against Christians, in, as they will claim, response to the reprisals down South,  . .what next?  

bodejohn:
Garri with milk, fried/dried meat? I guess all these were before deregulation, [b]now you will either have to soak your garri overnight [/b]or soak in the morning and come back after work to enjoy it
.

LOL! that one na still garri?

candid questions demanding answers

The cretins in the Jonathan administration imagine that by seeking to drag the judiciary in the mud, they can avert the general strikes, rallies and mass protests that will begin on Monday 9th January, 2012.  They cannot make the simple analysis that the whole populace is angry and that Nigerians do not need any group to ask them to protest an evil policy that seeks to impoverish them.

Sounds like a typical NLder.  

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has advised the National Assembly to begin impeachment moves against President Goodluck Jonathan, if he fails to return petrol subsidy.

The umbrella body of lawyers also ordered its members to embark on nationwide strike from Monday.
This is in line with the mother of all strikes declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to protest the removal of petrol subsidy by the Federal Government.

In a statement yesterday in Kaduna by its President, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), NBA said the “much-touted palliative” measures reeled out by the government will “destroy what is left of the lives of Nigerians”.

The association regretted that “government took advantage of its people’s distress arising from the Christmas bombings and killings by the Boko Haram terrorists and insensitively caused the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (a creature of statute) to announce the withdrawal of petroleum subsidy”.

“If government should apply half the vigour with which it has pursued the issue of the removal of subsidy to the eradication of corruption in all the arms of government and in society in general, then trillions of naira would be freed up for developmental projects”, it said.

In the statement, entitled “Holding Government Accountable and Responsive to the People”, the NBA said the Justice Belgore Committee raised by government to negotiate with the labour and the civil society organisations is a waste of time “because there is in reality nothing to negotiate”.

“The minimum position is the immediate reversal of this provocative and uncalled for increment of petrol”, it stated.

The association recalled how it cautioned government against the subsidy removal and advised it to adopt a different strategy.

The statement reads: “The impression given by government was that the issue will be debated and the views of Nigerians properly considered. Government led its people to believe that the earliest time any possible action would be taken in the direction of subsidy removal was the  April 1,  2012. Instead, government took advantage of its people’s distress arising from the Xmas bombings and killings by the Boko Haram terrorists and insensitively caused the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (a creature of statute) to announce the withdrawal of petroleum subsidy, thereby escalating the price of PMS from the already suffocating N65 to the unbearable range of N141-N250.

“Nigerians have in the past four  days reacted angrily to government’s action described above. It is considered not only premature, but wicked and insensitive. Nigerians have now concluded that their leaders are truly detached from the reality of economic hardship endured by Nigerians. This is so because virtually all high government officials and their families feed and live off tax payers’ funds, yet they enjoy outrageous salaries and other emoluments. In some cases the amount budgeted for feeding and catering is as much as N1 billion. Government officials travel limitlessly round the world for the flimsiest of reasons collecting estacodes in billions even where the object of most of these journeys can be achieved by simply browsing the Internet. Consequently Nigerians have reacted spontaneously to this unwise and ill-motivated manoeuvre by demonstrations and other forms of protest nationwide.

“Government clearly does not understand the seriousness of the situation. It has failed to understand that all governments, be they dictatorial or otherwise, enjoy power because the people allow it to remain in power. No government can outlast the will of the people. It is clear that Nigerians do not and will not tolerate subsidy removal under the terms and conditions set out or laid down by government. Any removal of subsidy based on the importation of petroleum products is unacceptable to Nigerians. Government must create the infrastructure for the refining of 100 per cent of petroleum products in Nigeria and by Nigerians. It had been done in the past, it was sabotaged, and it can and will be done again.

“The response of government has been to say that there is no alternative to the removal of subsidy; with all due respect there are many alternatives.


http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/32353-nba-urges-national-assembly-to-impeach-jonathan.html

The article gave the impression that the killings took place in Kano, when it actually occurred in Mubi.

Abeg OP, modify that title

“Today, some friends and relations of one of those killed in the attack gathered in his house (obviously located in Mubi) to mourn his death. Unfortunately some yet to be identified gunmen arrived at the house and shot dead 17 mourners.”

Other residents gave a similar account. A rescue official speaking on condition of anonymity said local residents told him three people were killed on Thursday night and either 16 or 17 on Friday.

they should start by removing the subsidy in Aso Rock, simple!

Carlmax:
It is no rumour, there was serious clashes @ the central moque this morning, Lots of soldiers here right now, Situation Calm

hope it remains so

2mch:
"Paid SS" man (Beaf and company) calling SEners for Civil war. Mu che che che che che che. New strategy. Mu che che che che che. Who even told Boko Haramites when and where Igbo people were having meeting. Mu che che che che che.

is anyone really in doubt that this is the aim of BH?

The gun attack followed a warning from violent Islamist sect Boko Haram published in local newspapers on Tuesday that Christians had three days to leave majority Muslim northern Nigeria or they would be killed.

Analysts say it looks increasingly likely the group - or factions within it - wants to trigger reprisals from Christians against Muslims to bring on a full religious conflic

http://naijanet.com/news/source/2012/jan/6/1000.html

^^^ no be lie o!!

not encouraging being a Nigerian in these times.  

subsidy removal, protests, insecurity, boko haram. . .Now rumors of war?

how did things suddenly become so bad?  

warri no dey carry last indeed!

my mouth actually began to water reading the responses.

the funny thing is that I've not taken garri in almost 3 yrs

I suspect GEJ is really in a tight spot.

Hmmm, this na total economic shutdown

it's a worthwhile sacrifice, IMO

xwolverine:
@ topic, is Beaf's middle name now Samson?

@Beaf, how did you escape? I thought you are fearless in defending you boss?

Teee hee!

k2kay:
Not true cos as we speak the IG is demanding for police permit before the labour strike can hold on monday, what a nation  

the permit is for the planned demonstrations, not the strike. . .(I'm tempted to believe   ).

Jarus:
'Slain Corpers' have been inducted into Nairaland Hall of Fame for 2011, joining Sanusi Lamido Sanusi(2010 inductee)

beffiting

kayci_d77:
NL ha s become a place of extortion, not just selling  used cars at exorbitant price but also doing backyard business. A lot Niaraland car dealers buy their car in NL( eg rollyfemmy)  and sell it also in Nl thus doubling the price. Others are just too greedy , taking advantage of NL popularity to sell cars at outrageous price. Many ppl do not go to auto section again when everybody knows the way to Cotonou

I'v noticed it too

. . .AS IN NINTY THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED??

hmmmm. . .

talk is cheap MFKER!!

He revealed that the attacks are meant to avenge the “mass killing of Muslims carried out by Christians with the connivance of government” in northern towns like Kaduna, Zonkwa, Langtang, Yelwan Shendam, Jos, Tafawa-Balewa, and Numan, as well as in Shagamu and Ikoyi, Lagos in the south. The latest of such killings, according to the group, took place a few months ago on Eid el-Fitr Day in Jos, the Plateau state capital, during which non-Muslims cannibalised the burnt corpses of victims.

WTH are these zombies talking about? didn't they claim responsibility for the blast?

cogitoErgo:
they are bombing church, they are bombing mosque, what really is their aim? I am really confused here

some people are clearly after the downfall of this government. It is becoming clearer by the day.

make it look like a religious war, but their real intention is for the crises to approach a point where a military intervention becomes glaringly inevitable.

and what better way to achieve that than to get Christians & Muslims and go after each other.

I bet they (whoever the are) will be pretty disappointed that other than the isolated incident in Delta State, there hasn't been a more ferocious retaliation to the Xmas bombing.

valacious:
To all you southerners condemning this attack, i say you are hypocrites, i know in your heart of hearts you were waiting to read report of how many muslims were killed. I read your mind, right?because your heart cries for justice in the murder of your brothers up north, but you cant publicily admit it.

guy speak for yourself. anyone rejoicing over the death of those innocent children should have his head examinied

slap1:
We have way too much public holidays in this country. . .damn! I hope GEJ will not start listing the public holidays as the achievements of his administration?

LMAO!!

but you can never tell. . .

@OP I'm tempted to believe the word you were looking for is ADVICE.

he country now has to live with the consequences of the actions of PDP government in collaboration with INEC, police and security services over the last 10 years. A country on the brink of developing into the major continental Power in 1999 is now a fractured society, corruption everywhere, violence everywhere, a sense of helplessness and hopelessness nearly everywhere. [size=14pt]While the country is sliding into this chaotic state, PDP governments at the centre and in the states are engaged in massive and mindless plunder of the country’s resources in total disregard of the suffering masses[/size].

thank you sir. may live long.

kizito96:
Go and tackle the Boko Haram issue

abeg tell am