₦airaland Forum

"He left Ashley Cole on his backside".... Kaiii!

Proffdada:
And tweaking sexily while giving him lap dance. I hope your children will like to see and play same way

...And he will go to jail for what charges exactly?... keypoint to note here is "going to jail", this issue has nothing to do with my kids. Are we just trying too hard to be ridiculous here or what?... Why dont you better suggest he should be apprehended and given 100 strokes of the cane (shariah style) for dancing with girls on bikini in public?

Go to jail because of women on bikini?.... Some people are high on cow dung.

Kingosytex:
The fulanis are the architect of their woes, the insults and the allegations meted out to them. They have set a lot of bad antecedents, the fulani herdsmen are killers, thieves, rapists and land grabbers.

...and the Fulani elite, leaders and rest of the non-violent ones have never for once attempted to caution or condemn the acts of the marauders; instead they're always on the defensive, insensitively attacking those calling on them to call their kinsmen to order. The Fulanis totally brought this upon themselves and it's ridiculous that even the educated/enlightened ones still dont see any wrong in their actions.

judgementyard:
Am not understanding,she was rescued by the police and according to her testimony,sh prayed that her captors should fall asleep of which they did and she escaped?
........Fulani herdsmen being her abductors?
pls someone should help me out .

gnykelly:
She needed to allude her rescue to miracles to assuage her faith... Meanwhile the police did the job

Believe the Nigerian police at your own peril. If the police rescued her, how come they couldnt rescue others? I'm far more inclined to believe the testimony of the woman that she escaped when she found a window of opportunity (created by GOD). She probably ran and ran and ran into the arms of policemen or a police station; that explains why the police are claiming 'rescue'.

Mrshocker:
Sowore shouldn’t have run for presidency if he truly want to fight for Revolution as an activist and not Power hungry strategist After loosing presidential election. Went to seek the supports of the aggrieved Kanu and Shiite, probably some support from Atiku to form mega protest against the government. #whyNOW that you loose an election and very unwise of him to use his Political Party logo “AAC”........ #ignoreoppositionprotest

We truly need a revolution but politicians can’t lead the protests because of there political interest. NO NO NO

There is nothing wrong with Sowore contesting that election and there is bothing wrong with him leading this protest. Contesting in that elction was already part of the protest against the useless system.

Chrisbeks:
The kidnappers will just move them to another location now. The Nigerian police can be very stupid

Nbote:
Seriously our Police force is embarassing and have become a laughing stock... U have geolocated where dey are being kept but U are trying to b tactical and professional in rescuing dem? And yet U are running ur mouth to d media already to let dem know U know where dey are?

The police isnt as stupid as you guys loosely assume.

The reason we can never have a revolution in Nigeria is because we all dont share common interests.

The goals which Mr A views as ideal are totally different from the ideas of Mr B. All tribes seem to have different ideas on what a better Nigeria should look like and everyone also has different sacrosanct suggestions on how we should get there.

If a revolution starts today, the useless leaders dont even need to do anything, the revolutionaries would clash against themselves and self implode.

winterfell007:
No. The project is actively funded and managed by the NSIA through the Excess Crude Account (ECA) which is apparently under their management.
, the Federal Ministry of Works is only a partner and supervisor since they partly funded the project by paying up their counterpart funding

Partly funded the project?.... The explanation Fashola gave during the screening was that there was difficulty getting the private investors for the project, so the project is currently fully funded by FG through the NSIA (whatever that is). Too many complicated grammar involved in all these...

winterfell007:
There hasn't been any cancellation. PMB is just following up the process as planned by his predecessor. FG during GEJ's tenure had a already paid up their counterpart funding. The project is under the active management of the NSIA

I understand PPP plan for the bridge has been cancelled and the contract renegotiated. The FG now funds it fully; Fashola even made mention of this in his ministerial screening when taking questions just this Monday.

Dave0116:
if its true then its fine. But trust any nigerian government at your peril

Well, government policies do change with time. Another government could come in tomorrow and decide to toll the bridge and other new roads/bridges across the country. If the money received from the tolls would actually be used to maintain the roads/bridges to global standards, then tolling shouldn't be a bad idea. But you and I know how Nigerian governments operate, the money realised would certainly be diverted even whilst the roads/bridges degrade without maintenance.

Dave0116:
While you're deceiving them with a bridge pls don't fail to tell them that you're not funding the bridge but a toll will be placed on the bridge for at least 50years to refund the company funding the bridge..... #StayWokeNaija

The tolling was the original idea when the bridge was conceived in 2014. But the current government cancelled the tolling arrangement; the bridge is currently being built by FG alone, no more PPP.

theenchanter:
The question is..... since they can sandfill the construction site for heavy trucks to move materials, why can't they just sandfill that very place and build the road on it without building the bridge?

Won't it save more than building the bridge?

Hehehe.. haba! You want them to totally block the path of a major flowing river like the Niger? If they block it completely, the flowing water will always find a way to keep flowing till it empties into the Atlantic. The only problem is that the new path which the river river will inevitably create may just go through people's houses and communities; it could swallow entire cities.

Meanwhile, boats and ships still need to pass that route.

Even though we do not practice a proper kind of federalism, the truth is that Nigeria is still a federation whether we agree or not, and governors are mini-emperors, just like the president. Unfortunately, most governors still do not recognize the kind of powers they wield, that's why everyone still sucks up to Abuja.

We keep hearing that Shiites are bad, Shiites are terrorists, Shiites are violent, Shiites are related to Iran etc etc. But if we trace back Nigeria's history, there has never been any single case of Shiites causing any trouble or disturbing the peace for anyone any where. Every single case of terrorism or religious related violence we've had at least in the last 30 years were perpetrated mainly by Sunnis or Sunni based groups.

Yet these people somehow want us to believe that Shiites are the dangerous people we should be worried about?... These people want us to believe it is right and sensible to proscribe Shiites even whilst they desperately protect, defend and pamper herdsmen who have murdered (and are still murdering) over 10000 innocent Nigerians?

How can companies meant to produce and sell some of the most valuable products in the country continue swimming in losses?

What exactly is wrong with the black man? Why exactly are these refineries still owned by govt?

grandstar:
Dangote wants an end to fuel importation and at the same time informed the FG that he's going to sell his refined products at the international price hence no preferential treatment to Nigerian consumers.

If government decides to deregulate (which I doubt), then government should allow importation with a low tariffs because deregulation without competition will lead to him fleecing local consumers as there are no alternatives.

Deregulation should have been carried out long ago as any attempt to deregulate would be seen as government purely trying to serve a billionaire's interest to the detriment of other Nigerians.

That's already a no no.

But that's exactly my point; that thing you called a "no no" is exactly what's going to happen in 2 years.

grandstar:
I'm impressed.

Thank God he is focusing on the product the country has comparative advantage in.

Shame he is still demanding that government bans the importation of refined fuels. That's just plain wrong as he would have monopolistic and risk free profits.

A ban is therefore unnecessary but rather import duty of 5% should suffice.

No need for these rhetorics, Nigerians need to brace up for the worst. When Dangote completes that refinery, NNPC will stop importation of fuel and the govt would fully deregulate the downstream sector. Implication is that Dangote would be a full blown monopoly as the single supplier of 90% of Nigeria's petroleum products, and the Dangote we know will not sell his petrol even for N200.

Dangote is on the verge of holding Nigeria by the balls but unfortunately, both the govt and other Nigerian businessmen are all sleeping. When the time comes, the wailing and the bad-belle will be epic.

I shared the very same thoughts when I saw the other thread exposing the so called stolen properties. Any human with half a brain would instantly realised that the things in those containers are definitely abandoned properties meant for disposal. Just imagine the picture of those rugs; I wouldn't even let someone bring those diseased rugs anywhere close to my compound, yet these are the things they could bring up as recovered stolen properties. Why don't they go for money, vehicles etc?

AZeD1:
The Minister said for every aircraft.......

I am not arguing about the indirect jobs but the direct jobs as claimed by the minister.

The man is a former commercial pilot and also served as the minister overseeing the entire aviation ministry. I believe he's in a better position than the both of us to reel out such statistics.

Mustsucceed:
The word stupidity is an understatement for you ...do yur homework .pantami is highly intelligent man.. Even PDP knows this go and find out what he did in the parastatal he was heading
He was lecturing outside the country before being invited back ..you think he needs Nigeria 's money .you must be dumb

Ahhh!...

After reading this post, I had to read and re-read the post from @Awol1 which you were responding to several times trying to discern the reason behind your unfortunate vituperations, but I couldn't connect the dots. It then made me realise that more than ever before, we have to take the issues of mental health seriously in this country.

Awol1:
Let me tell you something about Nigerians...

Our only problem is divisive leaders, aside that, we are really not tribalistic.

Look at how every Nigerian has spoken in unison as to the brightness and potentials of this guy. No one cared to know where he's from, we just saw he's good.

It's the same way we saw what Fashola could do, and loved him.

Same way we saw what Nuhu Ribadu could do and loved him.

Same way we saw what Dora Akunyili could do and loved him.

There's hope for Nigeria after all, when all these divisive dinosaurs shall have been dead and gone.
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Are you sure we aren't all tribalist, divisive and just petty at the same time? Everyone applauds this man's intellects in unison here simply because he's only being appointed as a mere minister. If this man had been contesting for a coveted position like the presidency, you will be shocked at how the mood of these comments would have changed.

AZeD1:
Are you saying for every new aircraft Air Peace buys, they employ at least 300 people?

Huh?

I really wasnt expecting this kind of question even if were just for the sake of arguments. Go back and re-read my post and you may also want to read any available articles or economic materials which explain generally how job creation works. Maybe if you will do that, you will probably then understand that when for instance University X is sited at a community and is said to create say 5000 jobs, it doesn't necessarily mean University X directly employed 5000 people.

AZeD1:
How efficient is Arik?
Are those urchins supposed to be there?
How many airlines have died in Nigeria because of mismanagement?

Nobody starts a business to create jobs, people start business to make profits. The jobs created are a side effect.

For a country that spends over 70% of its budget on recurrent expenditure, no government official should be talking of starting a new venture unless it's profitable.

PS: you do know Arik was taken over by AMCON right?
PS: Have you asked yourself why this same minister went to Bahrain just to design a freaking logo? How come he didn't think of jobs it would create in Nigeria?

Do you realise you're actually veering totally off point?... This is what happens when people just speak/nag out of emotions and prejudices.

A quick reminder to what my comment was about... the man said a single aeroplane in the aviation sector can translate to up to 300 jobs and he is totally right about that; end of discussion!


Whether AMCON owns Arik or Arik owns AMCON, or whether the man failed in a attempt to start an airline, or whether urchins should be at airports or not, all that is totally irrelevant to the correctness of his statement that a single aircraft can create employment for up to 300 persons, both directly and indirectly.

Regarding the launch of a national carrier, I read in that statement that the plan is for it to be totally driven by the private sector; and that is a very very good idea whether you agree or not. The previous plan where govt was to have substantial stakes was shelved, that explains the current suspension of the Nigeria Air idea.

Finally you said the essence of business is to make profit, not to create employment. May I remind you that the person being screened was being interviewed for a govt position. Just in case you do not know, or have forgotten, it is the business of government to care about whether people are employed or not.

BuhariIsBURIED:
My friend shut up.. that ekuke dog is that one a justice? in a saner country he won't even smell a common government teacher in a school, CJN that was brought in based on nepotism and you are writing rubb1sh

Based on who's nepotism exactly? You do know he wasnt made CJN by buhari right?

I agree with you though; the entire Nigerian judiciary and the entire NJC must be entirely useless to have promoted an 'ekuke' from the ground up to the level of being the 2nd most senior judge of the entire judiciary.

Fabnaija:
But Buhari has the power to disobey the Court order?

Which court order?... has he been granted bail on the second charge?

aolawale025:
Very funny. Just obey court orders then

Which court orders exactly?

I dont know how the legal system or bail works, but if someone is accused of more than one charge by different authorities in different jurisdictions and he is granted bail on one, does it automatically mean he has been granted bail on the other too?

AZeD1:
“One aeroplane in Nigeria is equal to 300 direct jobs to start with."

Buhari and his clueless people..

The airplane is not made in Nigeria, it would not be serviced in Nigeria, so how would one airplane produce 300 direct jobs?

4Pilots , 10 crew members and let's be generous and give him, another 30 support people, we are still not at 50 so where did he get 300 from?

Arik air as an example has less than 20 functional planes but employs over 1500 direct staff. When you factor in the indirect staff, and the indirect-indirect staff (e.g. those urchins at the airport stand that rush to help you with your bags when you get to airports, the caterers that prepare the snacks you get on flights etc), you will be shocked at the sheer number of mouths that are being fed by the mere existence of Arik air.

Sometimes people ought to exercise restraint in the way they rush to insult people because more often than not, you may just risk sounding more clueless than the people you insult.

somehow:
Please, be very careful and pay attention to details. I said, no one was killed at the Ojota protest, all that you posted, none said there was a casualty there. I never said there was no death elsewhere.

We are talking about the peaceful and organized protest here, not the one people get to vandalize properties, stop others from moving or burning of properties/debris everywhere.

I hope i am clear now?

Lol.. smh.. Such a poor attempt at being clever! If you go back to my last post and read till the very last sentence, I already did mention that you would surely shrink back to your shell with the weak defense that you were referring to just Ojota. Protesters were killed in Lagos, Kano and Kwara, but your argument is that no one was killed at Ojota?

So because no one was killed at Ojota, is that the reason you quoted me originally to challenge my post about trigger happy Nigerian policemen?

somehow:
Nobody was shot in Ojota oga.

Any well-organized protest won't record casualty worldwide, it has nothing to do with Abuja or bubunja.

Why do you sound so much like the Nigerian police with this your bizarre denial? Are you a policemen?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16464922

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/09/nigeria-fuel-protests-one-killed

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-strike/nigerian-fuel-protests-grow-13-killed-in-attacks-idUSTRE8091B120120110

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-strike/nigeria-fuel-protests-turn-violent-two-killed-idUSTRE8081NM20120109

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/01/201213135855591893.html

https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-01-10/nigeria-news-fuel-subsidy-protests-turn-deadly-three-people-killed

https://www.france24.com/en/20120103-lagos-nigeria-end-petrol-subsidy-riots-clashes-police

Within a second in google, about 20 different reports on fatalities across Nigeria during the #OccupyNigeria protests popped up; on last count, it was over 12 fatalities, some of which were in Lagos. I know your next line of argument would probably be, "I meant in Ojota alone"

somehow:
How many people died at Ojota?
How many at all the BBOG protest?

1. BBOG was a very very organised protest, but that doesn't mean they weren't teargassed on several occasions.
2. BBOG was mainly in Abuja where the police are a little bit more civilised than the rest of the country.
3. Again for BBOG, the world was watching with keen interest; it would have been disastrous if the security forces tried the usual madness.



As for Ojota, I remember one person was fatally shot live on camera in the usual Nigerian police tradition (to fulfill righteousness).