₦airaland Forum

I doubt if the Governor meant business when he visited the affected village! How can he leave the traumatized villagers to 'storm' the forest long after the herdsmen had fled! Also, going there with a podium for speech making does not portray seriousness!! Our leaders should learn to be practical!!!

It will serve this government better to stop talking about what it plans to do, but lay more emphasis on what has been done, the impact and steps initiated to fine tune such policy actions for enhanced results. Nigerians are tired of statements of intention after more than 15 months of this administration, but rather want to hear statements of action!! God bless Buhati and his team

I hope Reno Omokri is reading this? Babatope, a respectable experienced elder in PDP has just referred to Fayose as a 'mad' boy governor! So, Aisha Buhari was right about her recent tagging of Fayose as a'mad dog'!! These two eminent personalities couldn't have been wrong in their assessment of Fayose, only that Reno Omokri in his submission yesterday, was playing silly infantile politics with the issue by faulting Aisha Buhari's position. Fayose is what these people say he is, chickena!

The boys represented Nigeria up to the point of collecting bronze medal won for the country. Any event after that is no longer official but personal! So, the gift from the Japanese was after the team's final official outing at the tournament and so needed not pass through official channels. Pinnick and Dalung were only exhibiting 'Zika Virus Dollar Infection' by attempting to make the gift 'official'!!! After all, they have no control over the boys if they decide to go back to their respective clubs from the venue of the match! Abi, no be so?

So what will happen to the Judge in Port Harcourt who enterained an ex parts motion without serving the defendants and gave his ruling?! Also recall that the matter was already before Abang in Abuja High Court before Sen. Ben Obi ran to the Port Harcourt judge to obtain an injunction!! Yeye Nigerian judiciary!!!

But I did not see Coach Siasia celebrating with the team after the final whistle! Hope all was well!! Can someone help with explanation please?

I totally, unequivocally and unrepentantly disagree with Reno on the Aisha Buhari aspect of his submission! The Governor (i.e Fayose) deserved to be called a 'mad dog' for his unreasonable attitude and for daring to publicly assert that the wife of another man (i.e Aisha Buhari) is a fugitive from American justice in Halliburton case which has later been found to be a big lie from the pit of hell! Fayose even deserved to be called a worse name, so Reno Omokri should fear God and be truthful in this instance! I would have expected him to condemn someone who recently donated a chimpanzee to a zoo and named it 'Patience'. Or is it that he didn't hear about that incident?

PDP should be ashamed of the poor economy it handed over to Buhari! The mindless looting that took place in different sectors by PDP appointees and the serious padding of the budget by the National Assembly under Jonathan watch should make the party ashamed! We all knew the real interest rate then was double digits. The party frittered away the windfall from high oil prices then as well as the healthy external reserves and excess crude account robust balances. We all know Buhari had to deal with the challenges of taking over from a roughish hostile opposition party as well as plummeting oil prices and mindless attacks on oil installations in the niger delta leading to low crude production for export and worsening power supply. Give it to Buhari, he has demonstrated courage and commitment to service in the face of local and international distractions, especially from bitter PDP thieves. Things can only get better! I'm affected by his economic restructuring policies, but I'm hopeful that good days are around the corner. So, PDP should stop the meaningless noise about performance. It is satanic!!

A minor issue is being blown out of proportion! Giving a dog any name should not be an important issue to grace the front pages or serious enough to engage the Police to the extent of charging the man to court! Have the Police arrested the people threatening to kill the man? We celebrate mediocrity here in Nigeria while tiny poor nations like Jamaica are making global headlines in sports and other sectors. It is time we got serious as a country, please!!

I don't believe this at all! Has he sought Federal Govt's permission for access to the team? He can't donate one dime to them while in Rio without following due process!! Except he plans to give them after the Olympics outside the games village!!! My people should reason nah!

Something is wrong about the above letter! Why is it addressed to the Japanese if the intent is to introduce him to 'whom it may concern', in this case, the Nigerian Team!! This is like playing on our collective intelligence. The letter is fake!!!

I pity the poor hijab-ed Saudi lady! She has only succeeded in disgracing her country by coming 7th!! She should be flogged for associating hijab and by extension, Islam, with failure! I'm not impressed!!!

The obviously ill informed educated illiterates on this platform should realize that the nation's quantum of foreign reserves and inflow of forex are key factors that determine the exchange rate of the naira. Buhari should not be blamed! Naira will not appreciate as long as the abysmally low international price of crude oil and the mindless blowing of oil pipelines by the avengers in the Niger Delta persist! Also, naira will continue to suffer if we continue with our stupid taste for imported items, including holidays (how many senators and members of House of Representatives holiday in Obudu or Yankari or anywhere in Nigeria? They are all abroad!). Until the economy is diversified and we stop celebrating looters of the treasury who steal enough to mop up available forex in the official and black markets and take same abroad including Dubai to throw beach parties and buy expensive items for girlfriends. Nigerians created the current mess, so Nigerians should be ready to clear it and stop blaming Buhari!! It is ungodly!!!

I keep saying it that Jonathan and his marauding gang, including Okonjo Iweala, brought Nigeria to this sorry pass! They messed up big time and the effect will surely take time to clear. Just recall how Jonathan came to South West early 2015 spending dollars like a drunken sailor!! Nigerians blaming Buhari for the current mess have a short memory indeed. They should turn to Jonathan and ask him to bring back all the dollars frittered away including the ones shared to Niger Delta Militants as alleged yesterday by MEND. Jonathan should stop parading himself as a Stateman or a respected leader of the Commonwealth Election Monitoring Group. It is sickening. We are all in this Jonathan inflicted mess, so we should roll up our sleeves and support Buhari and Osinbajo to revive the economy. Indeed, we should stop importing items we can produce here so as to save the naira! Ironically, I will say to all those complaining - Goodluck to you all!!!

What a country! An unproductive thug, Dino Melaye, is enjoying 'holiday' with his family abroad, Dogara and his band of thieves are padding the budget, Saraki is doing azonto in CCT and the Federal High Court, a clueless NFF led by Pinnick desperately scheming to hire a white coach, even if an albino, and the ever corrupt judiciary officers are away on leave, all of them wasting Nigerian money! Yet, a hardworking SiaSia has not been paid for 5 months, out patriotic athletes could not access funds for pre-tournament training!! What a country!!!

Fake news! If OBJ refused to speak with anyone at the venue, can't anyone there speak with somebody? Abeg, yarn me another story joor!!

I beg to disagree with Garba Shehu on his statement! I recall that about 41 items were banned from official forex window about 3 months ago simply because of scarcity of dollars. I recall fuel importation was deregulated around the same time due to forex scarcity. Around the period, notable foreign airlines threatened to abandon Nigerian route due to lack of forex to repatriate their profit. Just about the same period, manufacturers cried out for help to source forex to import critical raw materials to keep production going and save jobs. Indeed, about 3 months ago, students abroad could not access forex at official rates to pay school fees, to the extent that a parent broke into tears in a banking hall out of frustration!! To now hear that Mr President approved 197 for pilgrims around the same period cast a big doubt on our priority as a nation!!! No wonder foreign investment and forex inflows have remained elusive! Outsiders see us as a bunch of unserious people!! Garba Shehu should spin a more credible yarn or admit that the policy is terribly bad!!!

I don't blame the idiotic Ayo Fayose, a celebrated bastard Yoruba man! Yorubas respect married women from my interaction with them. However, I blame his lawyer, Ozekhome! He has allowed his stomach to push him to defend a bastard over such a baseless and irritating allegation about Mrs Buhari! With the turn of events, Mike Ozekhome has lost the respect of many great Nigerians like me!! I wonder why his wife or children cannot advise him to drop Fayose so as not to taint his image further. Can he tolerate a loose canon like Fayose to murder his wife's character without putting up a fight? Let him answer the question and act appropriately!!!

The time has come for CBN to give account of all the bailouts and intervention funds it has given to various sectors of the economy! Jimoh Ibrahim says he did not benefit from the Aviation sector intervention fund, so who did? Very soon, Tunde Ayeni will deny ever receiving any bailout from CBN for Skye Bank!! A lot is wrong with our public service mentality in this country. Until a government institution like CBN is doggedly requested to account for how our money is spent, this practice of profligacy will continue un-abated!! Yet, we are sweating about high interest, inflation and exchange rates!!! More stupid spendings will soon be forced on Nigerians. Pity indeed!

Dishonourable Members, end time 'LAWBREAKERS'! They are still sharing dollars as inducement when manufacturers don't have enough to import raw materials for production and keep people in employment!! Dogara and his gang of legislative terrorists should be given Boko Haram treatment!!! They are infidels!

Lesson to learn from Dogara-gate - never engage in power show with someone who knows the quantum of skeletons in your cupboard! Saraki should learn from this and handle Dino with caution!!

Fashola is a lawyer but shamelessly championed the flouting of court order on the hike in electricity tariff last February! I recall that the court ruled against the increase, but Fashola and his gang of DisCo shylocks and NERC ignored it and hiked the tariff. Now that another court has reversed the illegal hike, they want to appeal the ruling! But really, they will be doing so on a weak plank! I pray that the Appeal Court should insist on the reversal to pre-February status, just to enforce compliance with the court order that NERC should not hike the tariff last February!! The DisCos are simply exploiters and are too lazy to collect debts from customers. I detest their deceitful operations fully supported by fake progressives like Fashola!!! It is ungodly and wicked!

The story sounds stupid and unbelievable! Abeg, I went to school and I'm educated enough to know that the story has obvious gaps that have discounted its credibility!! So, EFCC has an office in Ibadan according to the story?! Strange indeed!!!

I wonder at times why Nigerians, especially women are so docile! In a sane climate, series of lawsuits would have been slammed on the bastard ass licker Dino Melaye, letters would have gone to international bodies and countries branding him a threat to women and protest march would have happened with womenfolk leading!! By now, Dino should be feeling sorry for his thuggish behavior. But Nigerians are too tolerant and unconcerned!!! Shioor!

I dare Dino to as much as touch the helm of Mrs Tinubu's garment! He will live to ever regret his stupid imbecilic action! And to think that women in the Senate such as Mrs Olujinmi from Ekiti cannot rise in solidarity with one of their own under physical threat from Dino speaks volumes of their thuggish nature. In fact, Olujinmi's bill on equal rights for women is meaningless and deceptive. I wonder what Nigerians are waiting for not to have marched on the National Assembly and sack the useless looters claiming to represent the people. Very unserious overfed adults seeking immunity for their principal officers, forgetting that all Senators are equal on the basis of election, and since immunity in the constitution is for critical elected officers, all Senators should be entitled to it, and not a few principal officers not elected by Nigerians!!! Saraki was only elected as a Senator by the people of his Senatorial District in Kwara State and not as Senate President. Stupid Senators!

If I remember the 53 suitcases said to have been brought in illegally by an Emir during the naira currency change in 1984, without the Buhari led junta punishing the act, something tells me that this alleged corruption against Buratai will also go un-investigated by EFCC! Has anything been done about illegal, corrupt and satanic recruitment in CBN, FIRS and Prisons Service by government thus far? From the look of things, more acts of corruption will still be committed by 'anointed sinners' without any punishment from government. It is that bad!!

Ooni is stylishly refusing to help! Omisore has plenty skeletons in his cupboard o! I pity the man. He is on his way to kuje proper except he vomits the meat he chopped!

Dele, as usual, has not said anything meaningful! Sectional appointment in a multi ethnic setting like Nigeria is an invitation to avoidable agitations. Dele can say he doesn't care about balancing in federal appointments. He can reason that way since his investments are mainly in Ghana and London!! He should allow those who have real stakes here to talk to speak on matters of national importance, please.

No power supply, so many went there to enjoy free air-conditioner, recharge their phones and take selfie! That is what Nigeria has turned to!! APC, why now?!!!

I don't believe these pictures! They are fake. They are similar to the fraudulent pictures Fayose was said to have taken in China talking to investors which turned out to be a superimposition and totally manipulated to sell a dummy to undiscerning Nigerians! Fayose and Lere Olayinka are fraudsters and ought to be arrested!!

Stupid Ekweremadu! Did he write to the international community when his Senate allocated jumbo allowances to themselves, bought exotic cars for themselves and attempted to 'forge' the constitution to enjoy immunity they don't deserve!! His attempt to whip up ethnic sentiment at the trial failed woefully. He should just reserve himself to fate and learn how to cope in prison. He caused himself this embarrassment!!!

He only created space for incoming high profile prisoners being expected next week Monday! Naija, full of drama and suspense!!