₦airaland Forum

wifeesnatcher:
Tinubu said that? I want to believe his words was twisted, I await he denounce this news tomorrow


No one can force the legislature principals on the members elect, you can only persuade, appeal and lobby them for support

When a Tinubu statement is being reported by IgbereTV, you can bet there's a 99% chance the statement was twisted.

TonyeBarcanista:
He has nothing to offer forget about the packaging.

You still haven't given an answer. What exactly do you mean by "he has nothing to offer" and what exactly did other speakers (past and present), and the other current contestants have to offer that's unique?

iswallker:
But ogbeh became spokes man for BA, he should also answer when we don't get our orders..

Ancestors with no idea as minister

So if I say "some people are so vain to the extent that they even buy suya from Kano and have it delivered by Young Shall Grow motors to Port Harcourt," how exactly does that make me a spokesman of Young Shall Grow motors?...

I'm struggling to see the difference between this reasoning and the reasoning of the so called ancestor.

TonyeBarcanista:
You are joking right? Hahahha how will he win? You think it is APC Primary election?

Why exactly are you against Femi's ambition?... The man has been one of the most active reps since the past 12 years and there's really no major scandal rendering him unfit for the position; so why exactly do you feel a need to oppose his candidature?

amaniro:
Ogbeh... where is my pizza I ordered from London via British airline?

The Waterfront, Plot 5, Oyinkan
Abayomi Drive
Lagos - Ikoyi
Nigeria

That's the BA office in lagos. You can go there and lat any complaints. Ogbeh doesnt work for/with BA, and neither does he regulate their activities. Ehrn you get your answers, thank me later!

Gandollar:
Energetic on paper. He's 84yrs old.

My sister, I'm not blind oo... I see his pictures and videos and 67 doesnt sound unusual or unrealistic for a man like that. My eyes and my opinion though.

Ziggylady:
Tinubu reduced his age with 18years at the least....Dude is a fraud through and through.

67 years indeed.

Does Tinubu really look 85 year old to you?...

FortuneDeGreat:
Are you kidding? 70?

How come the first wife who died not quite long was 74?

How come gov. Oyetola of osun his nephew is 63, mind you he's the son of Tinubu's immediate elder sister.

If Tinubu is anything less than 84 then buhari's age forgery is a child's play.

IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW!!!

84 year old, wow! The man must really have special genes or must have spent a lot on cosmetic surgery to still look this young and energetic at 84.

SpaceTour:
Don't mind that fool

That you actually had to call me a fool for simply having a different opinion from you in a case that doesnt even concern any one of us, it speaks volumes of the kind of poor upbringing you had.

SpaceTour:
Stop yapping rubbish. Their branches are being shut down with attendant de-marketing occasioned by the picketing but you are still here yapping that 9b is nothing. Do you know the damage this shut down of GTB banks have caused to their image? Go and sit down

Okay no need for plenty talks, let's all just sit down and watch.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
The they should simply pay now

Stubborn organisations like that wouldnt even repay a customer N10k without a fight, let alone billions.

alezzy13:
You miss the point. Of course we all know they can shell out that amount without a sweat, but what happens thier cooperate image?

Entities like GTB that rely heavily on investors and depositors confidence simply cannot afford to be emeshed in such trending stories like these.

For instance,.what happens if everyone starts panic withdrawal?

Banks get involved in these sort of cases and litigations very often; they win some, they lose some. There's nothing special about this case except that some nincompoops decided to turn it into another of their igbo vs yoruba foolishness, while some others turned it to apc vs pdp.

Regarding the corporate image of the bank, you seem to forget we're talking of a Nigerian bank here; one of the biggest and most influential out of the pack. These big banks are like rogue organisations who enjoy a certain level of exclusivity and monopoly. They worry less about corporate image, so losing a N9bn case (regardless of how messy it was) would have little or no effect on their business.

Did you say panick withdrawal? Over N8bn? For fear that the bank is distressed or what?

SpaceTour:
They should pay up if it is a chicken change. It is a chicken change while their bank branches are being shut down, while you guys are the ones hyping them by telling us that the money is a chicken change. It is only GTB that wears the shoe knows where it pinches. To pay out 9b will be tough to them if not they would have paid it tonight.

N9billion is chicken change to all the mainstream banks in Nigeria. But that doesnt mean they would pay it without a fight; these banks wouldnt even pay poor customers 10k without a battle, let alone billions. But for anyone to actually think a N9b payoff or fine can get any mainstream bank in Nigeria distressed, let alone one of the biggest in the league (GTB), then such a person must really be swimming in deep ignorance.

SpaceTour:
This is getting serious

Forget it, this 9billion is such a huge sum that is capable of bringing GTB down if not they would not have wasted time to the point that their branches are being shut down anyhow.

Onitsha is the economic/commercial capital of the SE, so shutting down GT Banks in Onitsha will be so damning to the bank's fortunes and image in SE and Nigeria at large.

N9billion is chicken change for a large organisation like GTbank, paying that sum can be done without a single blink. But given that these large exploitative organisations dont mind extorting N50 and N100 from even their poorest customers, it's not surprising that they're fighting dirty to avoid paying Innoson whatever they owe him.

Sunnymatey:
Why cant a bank that post a profit of over N200b pay a debt or liability of N2.4b?
They rather drag that matter in court till interest rose to over N6b.
Senseless bank.
Persons in charge of their legal department should be fired if they survive this.

Nigerian banks that pilf N50 and N100 from even the poorest customers, you really expect these exploitative organisations to easily pay out N2.4b to a customer without a dirty fight?

SLAP44:
Actually nothing much has been done on that road. Nothing but the one Jonathan paid for in 2014.

I don't know where you got those posters to fake the posts up there but when you hit the ground, you will see the truth. Nobody uses the express again, people now drive through the old road done by anambra and enugu government.

I repeat again, this road is still a death trap for more than 95% of the road.

I'm sure in the mind of some people, Jonathan paid for the air we breathe today before he left office 4 years ago; heck! GEJ even paid for the sins of mankind too.

Hunger don wire this guy badly... kaii... Is this senselessly divisive tweet supposed to be a form of campaign or protest even after elections?... Meanwhile this is coming from a person who just few weeks ago was still gobbling on the poo of another fulani man.

clintz:
I am of the opinion that people should call these hoodlums perpetuating these crimes on our roads their real names “ Armed Robbers” instead of assuming them to be herdsmen. Sorry for your loss dear.

Truth is that you cant really call them any other name than herdsmen. The people doing these things are actually herdsmen who are heavily armed and who live in the bushes with their cattle. Whenever they please, they just step out into the highways and rob travellers; they are also known to be very brutal and cold blooded.

These guys have existed and have been committing these crimes for ages now (well before 2015) and have always been untouchable. In my opinion, the most potent solution to this herdsmen menace would be state or regional policing.

adecz:
So long as buhari remains in power,
Nigeria belongs to the Fulani to rape,
pillage , murder & do as they please in
any area of this country.

Just get used to it while begging God
to intervene in his mysterious ways.

No law enforcement agencies will ever
call these people to order, so long as their
brother remains C in C

Those herdsmen have been robbing and kidnapping and murdering people on highways long before your so called fulani man came to power in 2015. Until Nigerians learn to face issues for what it is and stop the meaningless politicization of everything, the menace will never stop. Receive sense!

Lol...

Oddsman:
When motor start dey give problem, uber can be frustrating o

Lol... that's why it's good to have a good car. But all things being equal, if the person doesnt have a car from hell, then some diligent UBER drivers actually earn more than bankers.

UBER drivers in Lagos earn well more than half of Nigerian career bankers who wear suits and ties and slave away. Nothing still beats being your own boss, starting work and stopping whenever you please.

Lush100:
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"but the amount was too high for that purpose"

alright since u know so much about the issue of grass(seedling) purchased from Brazil.

Thanks for information.

Regards sir.

I'm not aware of the price so i cant really speak on that. I only read about a plan to import seedlings of a highly nutritious and weather resistant grass to be planted and grown in Nigeria, I dont have any other details. I've only commented on this issue because I was just irked at the bizarre level of misinformation (both intentionally and unintentional) that has trailed and that still trails the announcement of that plan. A lot of people amusingly assumed the idea was to go to Brazil and import grass to feed cows in Nigeria; weird thing is that even those who should know better are actually the ones promoting the misinformation.

Lush100:
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sir, it might have been good to import special breed of grasses, but the amount was too high for that purpose.
besides we could be proactive like Malaysia did with our oil-palm seedlings. we take the seedling and come to our country, culture the "special grasses" till they attain good height and stature, and then naturalize them to our environment-the faculty of Agriculture or even IITA can handle these especially at a time we were in recession.

Regards sir.

Regarding the bolded above, what else did you think the grass (seedlings) to be imported was for?... Did you also think the grass in question was to be imported to just directly feed cows (as politicians were either ignorantly or dubiously making Nigerians to believe)?.... This was the exact reason I asked you in my earlier post if you actually read about the program before joining the crowd to mock what they didn't really know about.

anytexy:
How glaring?

APC didnt have a governorship candidate in Rivers. How could anyone not see that?

Lush100:
FULL SPEECH : Ogbeh made this known during a budget defence session at the National Assembly on Tuesday.

Lamenting that Nigeria imports almost everything, the minister said, “Let nobody take it lightly, these guys have seized this country’s economy, taken us hostage and they have no intentions of giving up. Because this is a huge and very sweet market and they have taken control.

“Every time you bring in a shipload of rice, you also bring in a shipload of unemployment, because you are transferring your wealth to sustain other economies. Somehow, Nigerians didn’t notice it, so we became a nation of importers.

“Toothpick costs us $18 million; tomato paste costs us $400 million to import. Meanwhile, a basket in town is less than N2000; the farmers are losing money because the processors don’t have enough funds to set up factories.”

He also said, “We import milk, sugar, toothpick, toothpaste, pencil, items we don’t make; Vegetable, lettuce, cabbage come from South America through Dubai and arrives here for sale.

“There are also Nigerians who would rather have the imported item if it is not imported, it is not right, it shows status, class, that they only eat imported things.

Ogbeh added that “There are Nigerians who use their cellphones to import pizza from London. That’s where we are, and it’s a very annoying situation.”
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why will we not import.
1. is the Govt. providing adequate power at a reasonable price to power up factories to make these items.
2. has government provided accessible roads and good railway/dry port (at reasonable price to income) to enable seller move their goods without damage to place of buyers.
3.has govt provided the enabling environment in form of tax holidays or harmonized tax regime or even subsides for critical goods especially agriculture.
4. has govt provided easily accessible financing for business at affordable rates to enable business make profit over long term.
5. does govt take the welfare of her work force as an important factor knowing that their income is what encourages consumer spending.
6. has government looked into their bogus allowances and see how these unnecessary luxuries increases affect overhead cost and budget and reduces money meant for infrastructure.
7. has government not looted the treasury including importing grass from Brazil , over inflating military equipment and siphoning money overseas rather than keeping it within our economy.
8. is govt making accountable money given to her including security votes, unaccountable money to senators.
9. does she publish her spending and make available the information to the public for accountability.

when u put all these together, u will see why we are in such a comatose state.

You polluted your beautiful writeup by you criticism of grass importation. Why dont you go read about what it was all about instead of just joining the crowd to criticise what you dont know about?.. What is wrong with importing a special breed of grass seedlings for the purpose of planting it in ranches in Nigeria?... You will probably ask if Nigeria doesnt already have grass, but are you aware the rice we plant today all over Nigeria are an imported tough breed which are resistant to a lot of things?

vioment:
Oga Reno, actually it makes sense to import grass, i just don't know about from brazil sha, but even at that it makes sense; except we get into a program where we can grow more grass in nigeria for cow consumption. Nigeria is too populated to have farmland and animal feed lands. Even the farm lands alone will not be sufficient.


I would prefer that we train to have the best food inspectors in the world because that will favor us more. I am very sure that Brazil is way more advanced than any african country especially nigeria, when it comes to food production and industrialized farming. I am cool with that, what i am not comfortable with, is the credibility of the inspections that will take place when it arrives in nigeria.


The only way out for nigeria is technological farming like most asian countries.

It just weakens me when I see educated Nigerians continually mocking the idea of importing a unique kind of grass to boost livestock production. Just the same way Nigeria imported a unique flood resistant rice seedling some years ago which happens to now be the bedrock of the current rice revolution. I imagine this is all just a combo of both ignorance and a desperation to politicise everything.

But why would anyone even need an explanation to know that the Amaech and Rochas cases are glaringly different?

Daviddson:
This man was initially fined ₦750k for a fraud of ₦32bn, and you want to tell me the Nigerian judges are not the biggest scammers on Earth? There's no judge Buhari will arrest today that I'll say anything in defence of of, even if they were illegally arrested or suspended! Why? Because I KNOW a lot of them compete with our thieving politicians in terms of wealth!

Lalasticlala come and see wonders.

The fault doesnt lie solely with the judges. You need to ask yourself what's wtitten in the piece of junk called the Nigerian constitution regarding cases like this. The judges can only read out the stated punishment in the constitution. We should actually be asking why the useless parliament hasnt done anything since 1999 to review the constitutional punishment for such corruption cases.

Shelumiel:
Stop placing me in the same category as yourself . Have you been to Yobe and Kebbi state to see the epileptic power supply there ? Do you know how some villagers are groaning there because of power outage. ...mtchww

I know someone from who lives in kebbi who has always said the light hardly goes off in her place. And this has nothing to do with politics, this was far back as 2009. Fashola saying there's constant power in kebbi might just be political sweet talk, but that doesnt invalidate my previous comment that most of those commenting on this thread didnt bother reading beyond the title.

By the way, I cant place you in the same category as myself cos I dont know you from Adam.

shugabasbn:
I read it and it was even a old news. So the Kebbi that he was even reffered to it is only in B.kebbi, Argungu n those areas have bn enjoyed stable light mind u not 24hrs before Buhari regime started, if u go to Yauri, Zuru, Suru and other part of the state u will know why I said he no sabi lie. Kebbi state is my second home town and I know the place like palm of my hand

Yeah but i was still right when i said most of the people commenting on this thread did not read beyond the title. Fashola talking of Kebbi and Yobe but majority of the people commenting here obviously didnt see that, they just read the buzzing title.

I havent been to Kebbi or Yobe, but I know someone who's from Kebbi (I'm not aware of the area). She's always said that the light in her place hardly ever goes off; and you're right, this was as far back as 2009.

Hofbrauhaus:
Mr man, there is no light in more than half of the local government in yobe, that is fact. Fashola is just making a fool of himself and Nigerians are laughing at him. Apart from a handful of zombies here and there, nobody takes the yorubaman fashola seriously.

Whatever you say here does not still invalidate my point that most of those folks I quoted earlier read only the title of the report.