₦airaland Forum

RTSC:
Actually, apc has borrowed far more than the pdp.

That's actually not true but majority of Nigerians are unaware of this. We just have a penchant for swallowing info peddled by the crowd, notwithstanding its source. Go to the DMO website and obtain the breakdown of loans. Over 70% of the debt Nigeria owes China was obtained before 2015.

Ayemileto:
Lol. I got it from Nairaland.

if you can locate that thread where Buhari named the Railway after Goodluck, just read through the comments on page 1 and 2, and you'll see it there.

Apart from that, A lot of threads from politics section have also made front page in the last 5 years - especially around the time the project was commissioned, and in threads where similar projects were inaugurated. And in many of them, you'll find such comments.

UPDATE: from other people's comments, It appears you're one of the ZoneBs.

Sunnyja:
Aren't you the ZoneB here. You mean you haven't heard of "PDP did nothing for 16years"? How on Earth can you say "no one" in the world has ever mentioned that GEJ didn't build the Abuja-Kaduna railway, some touts even said PMB named a railway station after GEJ just to shame him.

So if someone says "GEJ did nothing", your brains automatically interpret it to mean, "GEJ didn't move even a finger for 5 years"?

The word 'zombie' must really have a different definition in Nigeria, cos even real zombies and illiterates understand basic figures of speech.

Centcanada:
This Amechi of a man will not End well ooo. Mark my word. Any saboteur always come back shamelessly.

Why exactly wouldn't he end well? He ends up being one of the only ministers Nigerians can see the physical evidence of his works but in the depth of your hatred and jealousy, you wish him bad?

Did you say saboteur? What or who did Amaechi sabotage?

You and your likes are obviously the ones that wouldn't end well, not Amaechi. Karma doesn't miss its target!

Ayemileto:
I hope Buharist who said Goodluck didn't do anything, can see this.

Also I hope those ZoneBs who claimed Buhari named the train station after Goodluck in order to shame him can now see that, in fact, he completed 80% of the project.

No one in this world has ever mentioned that GEJ didn't build the Abuja - Kaduna rail. The project was 80-90% complete by the time GEJ was leaving power. So only God knows where people like you get this your zombified information from.

gurunlocker:
This government is terrible!



Everything they do, they always compare to GEJ administration, even security situation.


They will be calculating or comparing the number of people that died during a bomb blast in the last administration and this administration

It's only natural that you reply an accusation when the accuser is even more guilty of the crime he accuses you of.

More than 80% of the debt Nigeria currently owes China was borrowed under PDP. So it's outright stupidity for someone of the PDP fold to try and accuse APC of borrowing 'too much from China.

Bizarre how almost every Nigerian on this issue expects the govt to default on the loan, and also expects zero consequences.... What kind of human borrows money and anticipates not paying back?

The Nigerian army I know can be really crazy, brutal and ruthless; the establishment at the top of the hierarchy also can be really predictable and even diabolical. But on this one, I doubt this story from SR. No matter how crazy they are, the craze can't get to this.

iyke4:
Bode George actually has a point; these Chinese claim to be very smart when doing business, they don’t love us but they are here for what they can gain; it’s better we take our time with them than to enter into something which we can’t recover from.

A lot of Nigerians just have difficulty understanding 'big' terms.

Why should Nigeria take a loan from China and refuse to pay back, and still expect nothing to happen? of course the deal is that China takes over the rail asset if we default on the loan. What else were we expecting? For them to give us a loan and leave us alone? Is it everything we have to make noise about in Nigeria? With the ongoing noise over this issue, it just seems every Nigerian, both leaders and ordinary citizens are already so determined to not pay back the loan.

majamajic:
Under construction
Rainy season

Work is going on the road , it's normal during raining season in all construction sites

This road has been under construction, and ALWAYS becomes like this every single rainy season since 1999. Tufiakwa!

SLAP44:
The only reason for the problems in the Niger Delta is the way Nigeria is milking them dry and using their money to develop other parts of the country.

If they get their own country, Dubai will be created in Africa.

So we still have people selling this (intentionally dubious or maybe just naively ignorant) narrative that the problem of development in the ND is because ND money feeds the rest of nigeria?

The funds accruing to NDDC, ND Ministry and the 13% derivation received by state governors for the last 2 decades, if only a measly 10% of those funds were used for what they were actually meant for and not outrightly looted away, the Niger Delta would have been a small Dubai by now.

The problem of the ND isn't that ND feeds the entire country, the problem is that ND leaders, past and present are desperately wicked to themselves and to their own people. Give the ND 150% derivation, the funds will still be fritted away by the vultures in power.

gunners160:
if this news is true, then it is best news of 2020
I wonder how people sit down to watch how some else live their life and even make a gossip out of it.
instead of watching this yeye big broda, I rather seat down and watch a blank Television screen

Because you do like a show, that doesn't make you wiser than others who choose to like it. The fact that you can't mind your business over what your neighbour likes or chooses to watch, speaks a lot about you.

The perfect definition of witchcraft (and wizard-craft) is when a person just feels tormented by merely knowing that their neighbour is happy (despite the fact that the thing which makes the neighbour happy doesn't even affect your life in any way).

Hashimyussufamao:
The 5th edition of the contentious reality show, BBNaija has kicked off on Sunday, July 19, with this year’s edition tagged ‘BBNaija lockdown’. Going by the number of streams, messages and traffics under hashtags, unarguably, it is Africa’s largest reality TV show.

The previous editions of the show have always come to light in the spring of academic sessions, when most kids are in school - but unfortunately, the train of this year’s edition took off while the whole world is home alone, and made to stay indoors due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.

As a show that has raised many dust in the past and still stirring opinions at the moment, BBNaija is undoubtedly, a controversial show. Many criticisms have been levelled against it by clerics, academics, parents and other well-meaning Nigerians, and this was borne out of nothing but its immoral and sexual contents; like live TV sex, kissing, romance, illicit talks, indecent dresses that reveals shapes, cleavages and lots more - all which would be improper for little kids to watch, especially in this lockdown period.

A terrible mistake parents should not afford to make for the next 10 weeks is sleeping with their eyes closed; hence exposing their child(ren) to this dangerous show, else, these innocent kids will have immoralities injected into them. And most of the things they watch on TV, they would love to give a chance to practice, such is just the funny power of their psychological programming. Imagine a situation where kids utter slangs, kiss, romance or practice other filths they have watched from BBNaija show.

Parents should, hence, keep a watch on their children by limiting their access to television or the remote control. Good channels where beneficial and educative programs are available should rather be what kids should be allowed to watch, and not a show that would shape their value system and behaviors in an illicit manner.

✍️: Hashim Yussuf LegalBard
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3162722623961209&id=100006705072056

Nigerians and their stuuupid hypocrisy! If you don't want your kids to watch the show, parental lock is there for a reason.

As expected, after the closed door meeting, the matter has been buried 12ft in the ground. Nigeria we hail thee!

A lot of Nigerians just have abnormal reasoning. What exactly was wrong or demeaning in what Ngige said yesterday to warrant these pointless reactions?

Queenlovely:
and this is an achievement?

In the 21st century, when China is building train track everyday, it's normal over here in China. now they have started the belt and road to build for africa. all track lead to China for stealing our resources.

we are a failed country.

these trains are so expensive the common man cannot use it. from idu railway in Abuja to airport is 2000, just imagine how much Kano to Lagos will cost

It always amuses me whenever I hear people make this "common man cannot afford it" comment. How was the common man traveling prior to the trains?

My dear, trains are not cheap anywhere in the world; they're expensive to operate, expensive to maintain and are always more expensive than road transport in every country I've been to. In the UK for example, inter city trains are even more expensive than flight on several routes....N2000 for that trip you talk about is a massively subsidised amount which already makes the trains an unviable finance draining liability to govt. In Nigeria, do we really want the govt to subsidise everything.

afube:
why won't you congratulate him,if I ask you to point to any equivalent project in the south east or even the south south ,you will start giving excuses.Justice and fairness is sublime and spiritual,it will speak for you or against you,it is left for those who think one Nigeria is the best thing under the sun to do the right thing.The evidence against the continued existence of this contraption is mounting in the throne room of The Most High Yah. una good luck !!!

Just a honest question... when GEJ from the SS built the Abuja-Kaduna rail in the north, did you harbour any animosity against him or feel marginalised that he didn't build the rail in the SS or SE?... You obviously didnt think there was anything wrong with it then... Why then is the judgement different for PMB for building the Lagos-Ibadan rail?

ghettokid1:
6. You are not using it but in suddenly turns on, that is a rare case.
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7. High data usage.
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8. There is a case that you find it difficult to shutdown your phone because of the barrier which is someone who has a spy app to prevent shutting down your phone.
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9. If there is a pop-up ads but you actually didnt use the specific app. It means that there is malware and suspicious in your phone.
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WARNING!!!
If you believe that someone is maliciously or illegally tracking your cell phone, contact the authorities and report your suspicions.

A useful addition to the list...
10. If you notice your wife always waits for you to doze off before she sleeps, then there's a high probability she's also monitoring your phone.

OyinO:
You spoiled the great comment at the tail end. Rwanda and Madagascar are working. They are Blacks too.

Lol.. you really believe all the media hype about Rwanda? I've personally met someone from Rwanda and had a long conversation. I believe Rwanda may be moving in the right direction (contrary to what the Rwandan I met thinks), but it's definitely not yet uhuru - a lot of it is hype. Most of the development you see in the media about Rwanda doesn't go beyond Kigali. But no doubt, they're better than most other African countries.

But then again, let's assume Rwanda and Madagascar are getting it perfectly right. Considering the microscopic size and population of those countries, you will agree with me that if they are the only ones with 'hope', then statistically, the black world is hopeless.

mrvitalis:
Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

How exactly do humans develop this kind of putrid mentality? Even educated humans?... Nigeria's really sick!

Was just discussing yesterday how physical and mental poverty has crippled the ability of Nigerians to ever hold leaders to account. Also mentioned how no matter the revelations from the NDDC probe, it will still be the suffering victims that would defend their oppressors, purely based on ethnicity. And now just legodi what this one is saying...

Let no one be deceived. The only reason these things keep going on is because the so called agitators and elder statesmen always get their share of the loot without fail. Agitation only comes when the flow is cut - the black man is indeed useless to himself.

chinae:
I just wasted my 'Read more'

I swear sometimes I wish I could catch the mumus who compose these useless headlines.

InvertedHammer:
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All of a sudden, Asari Dokubo and others (especially Niger Delta champions on Nairaland) have gone deaf and dumb. They leave the enemy within and are appointing accusing fingers at imaginary enemies.

Let Akpabio mention one NDDC contractor who is of Igbo extraction, the losers I mentioned above will start having erection.

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Thise fellows only speak or agitate when they aren't settled.

proeast:
Really?! The problem is not the leaders?? Are you kidding me??

Buhari and his entire cabinet are the leaders who are responsible for all these madness going on. It is purposeful leadership that will guide a country on the way to go.

How can you even turn around to blame the people while conveniently exonerating the kleptomaniacs and looters who have shown by all intents and purposes that they don't care about the masses?

Is it the masses that control the justice system? Is it the masses that control the EFCC, ICPC or the CJN?

Did Buhari not come to power with the promise to fight corruption? So why has he abandoned it?

This country is so hopeless and bastardized. Tufiakwa!!!

You actually missed my message. But yeah, you got me right when I said the problem is "us all". I'm not quite sure why you interpreted that to mean "leaders are excluded".

The leaders we have arent some extraterrestrial beings from Mars or Jupiter; neither are they from Brazil or Cambodia. The leaders are from amongst us; all tribes and ages and genders and ethnicities represented, and their actions are simply a reflection of our collective toxic morals as a people.

I was responding to a comment where someone suggested Nigerians should come together and take back power from the leaders. Some even suggest a bloody people-led revolution to kill all leaders and their families. But take this from me, the moment say the top 1000 or 10,000 leaders are wiped out, they will INSTANTLY be replaced by ordinary Nigerians with the absolute same rotten morals.

If only Nigerians can see the big picture, then we'd know the problem isn't the leaders, but rather us all.

gypsey:
sad truth and it will never ever get better until nigerians wakes up and take their country back from these crooks.

Who exactly are these 'ordinary Nigerians' that will take over the country from crooks? The ordinary Nigerian I know is already a crook, just waiting for their turn.

The majority of these guys bleeding the country today were ordinary Nigerians 10-20 years ago. Now they've taken over and we get this. The next batch of ordinary Nigerians are still waiting in the queue to take over.

Let's not get it twisted, the problem isn't 'the leaders' like we loosely always claim; the problem is us all. The leaders we have today arent from Jupiter, they are from amongst us, and their actions are a perfect reflection of our culture.

techmo:




If Gbajabiamila continues with this probe The Presidency and National Assembly may completely collapse, I see Nyemsom Wike in this messy "Entanglement" ,while the whole Niger Delta starts a serious revolution

*Probe Nigerian Army Procurement Office
*Probe TETFUND
*Probe NNPC


Kudos to Akpabio and Festus Keyamo

My major concern in all this is how Akpabio and Joy budgeted billions for Covid 19 palliative when submitting the budget in far back October 2019




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Sadly, nothing is going to happen after all this noise. This isn't the first time such revelations will be made in Nigeria. Meanwhile dont get it twisted, Akpabio himself is a kingpin in all these.

Poverty, both physically and mentally has crippled the ability of the masses to conduct any kind of revolution whatsoever. Even if the the culprits stealing these funds are exposed and publicly judged, their biggest defenders would still be those same suffering masses who they ironically steal from. The narrative would simply be "Hausa Fulanis" are stealing our oil and still trying to oppress our brothers"; even educated and exposed people would buy into this argument and hell will be let loose.

Nigeria is filled with people with bizarre mentalities; the country's a hopeless and helpless case! Only solution is a foreign invasion and colonisation. Even if it's a brutal takeover and enslavement, I'm certain the masses will get much bigger crumbs if that happens.

Keaton:
More money need to be made. Na their way
Covid is nothing but a money making scheme

Been a while since I opened any covid thread on this forum; didn't know we still have people who reason like this. May this money making scheme reach your family, Amen!

sapientia:
Before I clicked this

I was blaming the boy why he did not state it was a parody account

lo and behold, he did

Thats why I have been scared yesterday when High Court said FRSC can impound any car

I know our security agencies and over zealousness

Is Jonathan aware and did he ask for the arrest?



You clearly do not know what a parody account is

You dont

Yeah of course the excuse it that he put up a statement hidden at the bottom indicating it was parody, but how many people really get to see that?

Fake accounts like this cause a lot of confusion online. I've seen several people creating fake parody accounts for different agencies in Nigeria including the Army, DSS and police. Basic rule if you must make a parody account is to make it very obvious, e.g start by spelling the name visibly different.

Feraz:
Are we basing this based on allocations and revenue generated by the states or is there another criteria because I'd have expected Kogi, Abia, Enugu to be here

No my mentions were purely based on funds available to the governors. Kogi, Abia and Enugu are fairly poor states, so their governors can be forgiven.

spy24:
Anambra and Akwa ibom are the only two state in Nigeria that have governors that are working in succession

The rest are just there

And before anybody shouts Lagos
Tell me what Lagos governors have done in that state since the capital was moved from Lagos
Na maintenance them dey do for Lagos

As big as Lekki there is no general hospital

What exactly is the Akwa Ibom governor doing in your list? Both past and present, they're all useless.

A lot of Nigerians just fail to analyse performance of leaders with the right yardsticks.

Compared to Anambra and other states generally, do you know the kind of revenue accruing to akwa ibom yearly? They consistently gets the highest allocation of all 36 states every year. Meanwhile the state is made up of 90% forest. The fact that the few cities there arent close to Dubai yet, the fact that they till have schools with dilapidated classrooms, the fact they still have communities without clean drinking water and the fact they haven't been able to build the Ibaka seaport for the past 20 years, that already speaks volumes on how useless their governors have been.

Notable mentions of useless governors - Lagos, Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers.

Seetto:
Why posting the pictures of Kano, akwa ibom and some unknown cities...

Op nawah for you oo

Even one of the pictures is of Modotel roundabout Owerri... Just about all the other bridges and roundabouts posted existed since Odili and/or Amaechi days. I wonder why the title of the tread mentions 'Gov Wike'... The Op must be is high on cow dung.

Sammy07:
Pls, what is this?
Lassa Fever in 2020
foreign travels to where
stakeholders engagement

Maybe if a Fulani man head NDDC, our brain go reset.

What's the usefulness of those Niger Delta militants, can't they just go to NDDC headquarters and bomb them?

I dey vex self

The so called militants actually get their fair share of those funds. The black man is largely useless to himself.

NaijaRoyalty:
If to say Buhari no be president and grand patron of Miyetti Allah, Nobody for they hear about this blood sucking demons called fulani people .

rottennaija:
Buhari became president in 2015, are you saying this issues only started in 2015?

Between 2010 and 2014 alone, Fulani herdsmen militia brutally murdered over 3000 people in the middle-belt, and displaced thousands of others. Reason why in 2014, 'Terrorist Watch' ranked them the 4th deadliest terrorist group globally. But of course a lot of Nigerians down south never heard of herdsmen until May 2015 when Buhari became president (i.e. the time when politicians decided to start playing national politics with the crisis).

@NaijaRoyalty, you're actually right! people down south only started hearing of herdsmen in May 2015.