₦airaland Forum

Nearly all the State Governors are extravagant and wasteful! They engage in white elephants such as needless airports, charter private jets, sponsor pilgrims to holy land, employ retinue of idle aides, corruptly embezzle security votes, lack clear vision and ideas on how to develop their states and travel abroad frequently looking for elusive foreign investors! They are simply prodigal leaders with a mindset to loot their states blind! Nigeria is in trouble with this set of governors. Osun State for instance should harness the tourism potentials of the state to earn handsome income to pay its workers!! Likewise many states sitting on gold mines, but still go cap in hand for bailout from Abuja! Shameful indeed!

It is time Buhari relieved all appointees of Jonathan of their appointments in addition to purging the military of PDP elements. They are all saboteurs and are out to sabotage this government. I watched the interview and the air force Officer actually indicated that they knew the location of Chibok girls. Very stupid and tactless claim! Same with the budget. Those padding the various Ministries budgets are PDP sympathizers and should be sent packing. Buhari needs to be firm and decisive in order to succeed. These people can't be trusted o!! Indeed, the 'parrot-like' airforce officer should be fired for leaking a sensitive information stupidly!!!

Wike knows in his heart of hearts that the election was a sham and could not stand the test of rigorous and Godly scrutiny! INEC was empowered by the electoral act to issue guidelines on the election and the Commission, in its wisdom, openly instructed that Manual Accreditation based on voter register will not be allowed, but only card readers and incident forms should be used! So, how can Wike be declared winner when his 'votes' were in excess of the figures produced by the card reader? Same for Akwa Ibom. Then, why did Supreme Court rule in favour of the election tribunal sitting in Abuja due to violence in rivers state and later turned around to give a verdict in favour of Wike, indicating free and fair election in the same state! It is bizzare!!

In addition to the banks publishing their official weekly forex applications, Importers should be directed to submit copies of their weekly forex requests to the CBN or it's accredited agents to monitor the time frame of final release of forex to overseas suppliers through the various banks. Also, invoices submitted by importers should be reviewed by CBN or its special agents to ensure that prices are not inflated to take forex out of the country. Banks should be compelled to periodically publish their Open Account transactions and dollar equivalent of withdrawals by Nigerians using naira cards overseas. Further, declaration of forex being taken out through the airports should be taken seriously and well documented. BDC should also submit their weekly forex transactions to CBN, showing sources of their forex stock and end users. The totality of these measures, among others, will reveal significantly the outflows from the system. Once we have this data, it becomes easier to see which bank or entity is engaged in forex sharp practices and the penalty should be hefty, including jail term for the internal audit staff of defaulting banks without option of fine! To complement the above measures, the federal government should outlaw the use of forex in any transaction within Nigeria and offenders should face serious sanctions including jail term.

CBN may wish to consider introducing the following measures in addition to directing the banks to publish their official weekly forex applications. Importers should be directed to submit copies of their weekly forex requests to the CBN or it's accredited agents to monitor the time frame of final release of forex to overseas suppliers through the various banks. Also, invoices submitted by importers should be reviewed by CBN or its special agents to ensure that prices are not inflated to take forex out of the country. Banks should be compelled to periodically publish their Open Account transactions and dollar equivalent of withdrawals by Nigerians using naira cards overseas. Further, declaration of forex being taken out through the airports should be taken seriously and well documented. BDC should also submit their weekly forex transactions to CBN, showing sources of their forex stock and end users. The totality of these measures, among others, will reveal significantly the outflows from the system. Once we have this data, it becomes easier to see which bank or entity is engaged in forex sharp practices and the penalty should be hefty, including jail term for the internal audit staff of defaulting banks without option of fine! To complement the above measures, the federal government should outlaw the use of forex in any transaction within Nigeria and offenders should face serious sanctions including jail term.

But why are we like this? Most people on this platform appear to have half education and so, cannot think reasonably. The source of the news is a television presenter and not a statement issued by CBN! So, why waste time making silly comments on a mere rumour? And for the records, official press release by the Presidency indicated that Buhari went on one week vacation and not for medical treatment. I wonder why some idiots, including the PDP end time television station, AIT, will read meanings into a simple vacation!! Your mumu don do o!!!

Walahi, I will help auntie Kemi hire ghost police to take the ghost workers before a ghost magistrate who will sentence them to ghost prisons since their ghost lawyer won't be able to secure ghost bail for them! The 23,000 convicted ghost workers will then serve jail sentences in ghost prisons nationwide at the rate of 638 ghost workers per state!! I am not a ghost o, but human being. So, I'm available for a contract with auntie Kemi the minister!!!

It is rather Dino that is high on cheap stuff! The CCT trial is about a thoroughly wicked, diabolical and corrupt Saraki, and the earlier he is sent packing, the better for the senate as an institution! OMG, clowns and cheap pretenders like Dino has no business in the senate; he will do better as a party agent in a remote community in Kogi state!! Enough of Dino's senseless outbursts; he lacks what it takes to be a senator!!!

It is a big surprise that even a senator from Borno could talk this way! He failed to tell us what efforts he has made to help Nigeria overcome the insurgents and how the menace can be ended! He is really an 'end time senator' with no appreciation of the reason he was elected a senator in the first place! Shameful!!

Fayose wants to remain in the news for just any reason! Even if Buhari coughs, he wants to politicize the cough just to get attention. Buhari deserves good rest and should use the opportunity to see his doctors who have been attending to him since the 70s for routine medical checkup. People take their cars for routine check and to change oil and filter, not because the car is faulty, but to observe routine maintenance. Fayose should get sense and attend to the damning allegations of electoral malpractices against him by Aluko, including the allegation that he was sleeping with Aluko's wife, thereby scattering the poor man's family!! Fayose told us last year that he had changed his name to 'Oluwayose', implying a born again personality. But his stupid outbursts and un-christianlike behaviors show that he is still his old self and a pretender! Very shameful indeed!

Ben Bruce is simply unserious and could be said to be in the same class of 'jester senators' like Dino Melaye! Bruce has yet to sponsor a bill to help the nation or his State, Bayelsa, or constituency. It appears he is just content collecting un-earned allowances in the senate and pretending to be a progressive element! I learnt he became DG, NTA, largely due to the influence of Stella Obasanjo. How did he run the finances of NTA and how much import waivers was he granted to bring in materials for his TV and radio stations and silverbird galleria? Rather than engage in unserious, gossip-like unproductive tweets, Ben Bruce ought to engage in constructive tweets, particularly on the economy and setting the tone for robust discussions on topical, non- partisan and non-personal issues!! C'mon Bruce, enough of time wasting tweets; it is time for serious business for which you went into the senate, either through election or selection or appointment!!!

Abati can never see anything positive in father Mbaka, given the role the catholic priest played in Jonathan's ouster from Aso Rock, which in turn, put sand sand in Abati's garri! Shame on Abati for pretending not to know that Father Mbaka later turned round to commend the posting and is even poised to do more for God in his new place.of assignment. Abati, the shameless sycophant and opportunist, is still hurting while Father Mbaka has moved on!! I will advise Abati to take residency in Sambisa and write his usual satire about Shekau and his fellow monsters created by the celebrated 'ineffectual Buffon' who vacated Aso rock recently. Abati knows the person in question!!!

Some of the comments on this platform are uncharitable and very stupid! Boko haram menace is our collective headache and all hands must be on deck to tackle it decisively. Suggestions on how to deal with the problem should be the pre-occupation of patriotic Nigerians and not senseless idiotic comments by some buffoons on nairaland!! However, it is high time the federal government unveiled the sponsors of this dreaded sect. By now, there should be enough information from BH bigwigs captured so far on their sponsors and mode of operation. Also, Dasuki needs to be seriously engaged to reveal all he knows about the sect. Further, intensive efforts are needed to gather intelligence in the various communities up north to thwart any planned attacks by the sect. Similarly, wearing of veil anywhere in the country should be outlawed temporarily to enable us deal with suicide bombers. Finally, government should register all almajiris in different Islamic centres up north and those parading the streets begging for alms and monitor them effectively, possibly through their various imam mentors. Nigerian army may have won the battle against BH, but the war is far from being over!!! I will also add that the federal government should stop any form of propaganda on BH matter, but silently work harder to win the war. God help Buhari, the Nigerian Army and the good people of this great country.

Lest I forget, I recall that snoopy doggy, the American rapper, once described Jonathan in a manner similar to the Economist's description of him as a clueless buffoon! Jonathan leaves no one in doubt about his intellectual inadequacies. Despite the recent challenge thrown at him to publicly tender his PhD thesis, he has not been able to!! Jonathan, simply put, is incompetent, timid, unconvincing and incapable of effectual leadership, even with hundred Reuben Abati around him!!! I like him as a person, but his pretence to sophistication is irritating.

The description of Jonathan by the Economist is painfully the truth! Jonathan should not be deceived that he is respected in the international circle by the series of cheap awards being given him. The oyinbos know him very well to be a weak, ineffectual and clueless leader. They know him to be dishonest, manipulative and wasteful while in power. He should just apologize to Nigerians for wasting a golden opportunity to take Nigeria to higher heights, when oil was selling at more than $100 per barrel!! I really pity him, because the Economist is a respected medium in the western world whose opinion is largely reflective of the western establishment leaders.

Dino is lamentably unfit to be a Senator of this great country. He is uncouth, unpolished, unserious and opportunistic. He lacks the aura of a Senator, judging by his outbursts and un-intelligent comments on serious national issues. Honestly, I fail to see the connection between the warning by Obasanjo on the satanic profligacy and insensitive looting tendencies of the eight national assembly and his reference to the rumored 3rd term bid of obasanjo!The message is simple: Saraki and Dogara should empathize with the suffering Nigerians and reduce drastically the cost of running their chambers, including the suspension of the planned purchase of vehicles to satisfy their greed!! I wonder why Dino, in his characteristic motor park tout outbursts, will attempt to divert attention from the message! Posterity can never be kind to rogue Senator Dino, who is ever supporting corruption in the National Assembly, bearing in mind his fierce support for the discredited Patricia Etteh in the House of Representatives few years back and now for Saraki in his CCT corruption trial!! Shame on Dino.

I watched the programme and honestly, I lost the respect I had for Onovo. He made wild, unfounded allegations which Maupe especially wanted him to substantiate. Unfortunately, he could not and then resorted to annoying antics of a year one undergraduate!! Give it to the Channels crew, particularly Maupe, they know their onions and should be commended. They punctured every wild claims made by Onovo. I salute them. I know Onovo will be more careful when next he is on Sunrise Daily programme to share his views on national issues.

Fayose has been trying to drag Buhari into a media war all this while, but has so far failed to achieve his goal! The crook is simply afraid of Buhari! His cup is full and he will have his day in court soon! Good luck to him while pretending to be bold, but in real terms, he is afraid of what awaits him once he leaves Ekiti government house. I don't envy Fayose, the misfit that manipulated his way to Ekiti Government House and is now afraid of his shadow!!

If Ayo Adebanjo in his old age cannot tell the truth, then he is shameless! He is protecting Falae because they both used Afenifere, along with Odumakin, for selfish ends, which did not favour the Yorubas! I wonder where he was when Falae, after collecting bribe money from Anenih, was dramatizing on national TV that SDP would carefully consider which party to support in the 2015 elections! That was fraudulent and deceitful, coming from an elder like Falae!! All these while, Falae did not tell anyone that there was an alliance between his party (SDP) and PDP or that he collected N100 million from Anenih!!! Adebanjo is a failed politician and a saboteur considering his role in the conspiracy by fake Afenifere elders, including Falae, against the well respected late Bola Ige many years back. I'm not surprised that he is defending an evidently corrupt Falae and that he is against an upright Buhari. He simply has no integrity even in his old age! Shameful indeed!!

Fayose as Ekiti governor is part of the disasters threatening Nigerian economy! His airport project in Ekiti is misplaced, satanic, wasteful, inordinate, unnecessary, irrelevant and an exhibition of shallow thinking!! It is another abandoned project in the making, as he will not complete it before the end of his tenure of office! He has no moral basis to criticize Buhari in any way. He lacks depth!!!

Thoroughbred professionals like Okonjo Iweala and Segun Aganga brought Nigeria into the present financial mess! Despite presiding over the Finance Ministry when oil sold at more than $100 per barrel, they failed resoundingly to make any impact! I have no respect for them! Madam Kemi Adeosun is like the biblical David that God will use to defeat the economic Goliath threatening Nigeria!! She should ignore the embittered PDP wailers and other satanic fifth columnists trying to distract her and remain focused and determined to deploy her skills prayerfully to revive the economy. Truth be told, major world economies are in recession, yet their Harvard and Oxford and World Bank financial wizards could not perform any magic!!! Buhari should stick with Kemi and ignore the idiotic groups making ridiculous demands. Nigeria will rise again!

It is a pity that Falae allowed his name to be soiled through cheap, opportunistic politics! I suspect Afenifere leader's recent resignation might not be unconnected with this scandal. This is one scandal Falae will live to regret for the rest of his life. He claimed to have distributed the money to SDP state chapters, but failed to explain if they were to account for the funds. How many votes did it translate to for Jonathan in the South West? Whichever way one looks at it, Falae either scammed PDP or joined Jonathan through Anenih to loot the treasury! He is therefore guilty as charged!! Pity indeed!!!

Despite the 'arrangee' awards from silly, ignorant and prejudiced organizations in Europe, Asia and America, Jonathan can never be a happy man until he clears his name in all the breaking treasury looting scandals and he truly seeks forgiveness from Nigerians for poor governance and the messy economy he left behind! He also needs to apologies for his inability to control his barely literate wife who was alternate 'President' with uncontrollable mouth and greed! Jonathan really messed up, truth be told, and Nigerians are suffering the effect now! I don't hate the man, but his deceitful character I really despise!

The writer is part of the PDP sobbing mob daring the FGN to take accused corrupt party members to court, knowing well that corrupt judges appointed by Jonathan's government are waiting to stall their trials! If the $2.1 billion arms scandal is a propaganda, why has none of the big time looters arrested denied receiving their share of the loot? EFCC should not be distracted, but should go after the idiots who stole our treasury blind and possess enough illicit fund to pocket the judiciary and get satanic judgement in their favour!!

Paid agents of discredited PDP corrupt politicians who have been wailing against the current Finance Minister are wasting their time! To many objective Nigerians, Kemi Adeosun is simply doing a wonderful job!! She knows what she is doing and is not the type to be led by the nose. She is a role model and a good advertisement for the Nigerian womenfolk. We should keep praying for her to surpass the past Finance Ministers, including the world bank mama with the notorious 'indigenous headgear'!!! We are proud of the young Finance Minister's simplicity, audacity and 'can do' spirit, which will surely facilitate her success by God's grace. Shame to detractors and satanic agents seeking to distract the innocent diva heading Finance Ministry. Indeed, God bless Buhari for his choice of the Ogun State indigenes as Nigeria's Finance Minister. Recall Buhari made Onaolapo Soleye, also from Ogun State, his Finance Minister in 1984! Need I say more?

Very sad indeed that adults with wives and children at home can talk like this! For crying out loud, was any agreement signed on the political alliance between SDP and PDP? Why was it not made public considering the publicity that accompanied SDP's adoption of Jonathan as their candidate for the 2015 presidential election? How was the N100 million shared? Any evidence of the sharing among SDP state chapters? How did PDP and SDP arrive at N100 million as 'purchase price' of their political alliance? Falae's explanation is rubbish!! He and his party should refund the N100 million if they still have any hon our left! The money apparently was not used for productive purposes, rather it increased money in circulation, thereby fueling inflation and naira depreciation and further impoverishing the poor masses! Baba Falae, you are a Yoruba elder! Yet, you allowed greed to rubbish your status! Shameful indeed!

It is indeed shameful that the Bayelsa election was like a war situation, yet some idiots on this platform are jubilating that PDP won! The culture of violence entrenched in the Niger Delta region by PDP is condemnable. The party might have 'won' the election, but it has not won the hearts of reasonable Nigerians!! Much of the blame goes to the ordinary citizens of Niger Delta who have been condoning PDP's poor performance in the region in the last 16 years! Go to Bayelsa and see people living in abject poverty, yet Dickson who presided over the rot in the state in the last four years has just been 're-elected'!! Niger Deltans should think again and emancipated themselves from mental slavery! It is appaling and shameful that PDP will rule the State for another four years! Very sad!!

I wonder why some shameless idiots on this platform are wailing about N82 million spent on an epic event of many dimensions by the former governor of rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi. Reasonable Nigerians believe the explanation given by the former governor. The expenditure is better and purposeful than the wasteful spendings by Jonathan and his 40 PDP thieves as well as the sharing of N100 million by PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Anenih, to corrupt parties, groups and individuals like Olu Falae! If empty-head Wike and his group of wailers mean business, they should charge Amaechi to court or publish the related documents on the N82 million expenditure! Amaechi still remains a saint until convicted by a competent law court in or outside Nigeria!

End time wheel chair ex-minister! Indeed, association of cripples will be happy to make him their new chairman, so that they can reap the dividend of Buhari's anti corruption drive!

Any evidence that Olamide did it? Some people commenting here should get sense for once, haba!

End time journalist Shaka writing rubbish! The same GEJ he is praising could not fix Lagos-Ibadan expressway or Jebba-Mokwa road, among many others, for 6 years! On subsidy removal, Nigerians did not trust GEJ to manage the subsidy removal proceeds well, hence the resistance to its planned removal! They were later vindicated given the fraud and corruption that rocked SURE-P implementation, to the extent that its Chairman, Christopher Kolade resigned! Further, the rate of reduction in fuel price by Buhari government can't be based only on international crude price. Other major cost items especially freight and insurance, are badly affected by the current regime of unfavorable exchange rate. I expect the obviously cash and carry writer to get some sense, do more investigation and get more facts before comparing the rate of GEJ's fuel price reduction with that of Buhari. It is like comparing an orange with an apple!