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It has been long established that a criteria to be a diehard GEJ worshipper is for the individuals to mortgage their brains for akamu. Since when has the personal achievement of an individual now become a political achievement of another?... What's even wrong with the youths of today?

Seems like these folks are just in desperate search for what they can pin as achievement to GEj seeing that his only clear legacies were creating rogue billionaires out of criminals and then conceding defeat after losing an election.

The other day Adesina was elected AfDB president, and jonathanians went wild in celebration of the appointment as GEJ's achievement. While I thought that was weird, the same gang have returned with the same crude mentality celebrating Amina's personal success as GEJ's achievement again; what makes this even weirder is the fact that Amina was actually appointed by OBJ and unceremoniously sacked by GEJ.

God help our youths, the so called leaders of tomorrow.

Shame

JoeBlocks:
Wrong! Even if you need the coal, that doesn't mean you neglect the families of those who lost their lives as a result of working in the coal mine. Neither does it mean you neglect the damage the coal mine has done to the environment.

Instead of you to canvass for the families of those who lost their lives not to be neglected, you are calling for total closure of the mine even whilst it is your only source of income. That is what happens when you approach issues purely out of emotions.

Before oil, agriculture was totally it. What happened? You speak of t country needing 'many money' in diversifying the economy, yet this same country pumped money into oil exploration in the north.

If you ask me, I'll say, the sensible thing to do is put a halt into any further search for crude oil, we have enough functioning oil wells already.

Yes the country needs a lot of money to diversify, it needs MONEY + TIME.... And for your info, just in case you do not know, it is not the N38bn spent on oil exploration that is preventing diversification, a lot of people seem to mix this up. Like I said before, Diversifying does not entail abandoning a proven source of income; it means 'adding to your source'.

It takes money to make money and for every single oil well feeding the nation today, money was spent to explore and exploit it, and money is still been spent as we speak to further maintain them and sink new ones to be able to sustain our production levels. You (just like many others) obviously have a particular reservation against this case simply because it is in the north, not anything else.

I read somewhere (I'm not sure where) that the government doesn't know how many oil wells we have in the country. If this bit of news is correct, you'd ask yourself why this same government is still seeking for oil.

Just a reduction in oil prices tumbled Nigeria's econony and here you are still asking why the government us seeking oil. Probably you are one of those who believe the present recession and untold hardship in the country is just buhari's doing and has nothing to do with oil?.. else I wonder why anyone would be asking this question you put up there.

Wherever you read about government not knowing how many oil wells we have, you can do yourself a favour by going back to read the content of the report (not just the title).

Nigeria and reactionary measures are like 5 & 6. The government of Lagos and other concerned authorities are waiting for the inherent disaster to happen before they react; the Uyo church issue is still fresh on our minds.

Dem dem

kinibigdeal:
Do not cry when the consequences becomes revealing. I do not expect you to understand or convincing you to agree but soon, you will get my point

Lol.. Jesu Christi!

You actually think you made a point?... Here I am thinking your post was just sarcasm or a joke but I was obviously wrong. Chukwunna mere unu ebere..

Is there any law that prohibits Magu from heading EFcC in acting capacity for the next 5 years?

kinibigdeal:
You are too young to understand my message

Lol... I dont think I need to understand it cos it is meaningless, it can only make sense to a particular set of people whose brains have been moved to a particular realm.

JoeBlocks:
Even when that source of income has crashed And doesn't give you money like it used to?

I still smile when I see people don't understand what it means for one to look beyond a source of income that has caused nothing but trouble since day one.

Rejoicing about a thing that causes trouble at the expense of lives isn't worth it, at all. Not to talk about the environmental degradation that source of income brings.

Nope! you are wrong and you apparently see things from a naive idealist perspective... That I work in a coal mine and that the coal mine has killed people and brought sorrow, that doesnt mean I dont NEED the coal and the income that comes from it; at least until I can get a suitable replacement. The sensible thing to do under such circumstance is to keep looking for ways to eliminate/reduce the troubles and sorrow that comes with the job.

Oil currently produces up to 90% of Nigeria’s income, it is a proven source of income for the country even at its current low price. Whilst the nation needs to diversify, it actually needs a lot of money to do that and for now, oil is still he only source; it cannot be wished away.

kinibigdeal:
There is a evil romance between white house and Aso rock. No wonder Obama lost is bid on Hilary Clinton. If not that Trump won, Obama is ready to enslave the southerners. Amina cannot get to that position without the intervention of that evil white house. But PMB and Obama should try hard, their evil agenda wont see the light of the day

Lol.. are you for real abi na joke you dey joke?... If you are being serious with this your comment above, just one question for you, 'abeg wetin ipob and RB dey give some of una smoke wey dey sap brain cells like this?

Omoakinsuyi:
We wish her well but hope Buhari won't list that as part of his achievements

Lol.. you go fear achievement na... just the same way some numb-skulled jonathanians listed Adesina in AfDB as Jonathan's achievement.

JoeBlocks:
What's there to be happy about? The in-thing to be asked is how have the oil been beneficial to the host communities and nigerians at large.

I find it funny that aa country shouting about diversifying her economy is still shouting and making merry about crude oil discovery.

The country needs to diversify doesnt mean it is not worth celebrating when we find means of getting more money from oil. Diversification doesnt mean outright abandonment of your previous (proven) source of income. It is strange that a lot of people don't understand this common-sensical fact.

frankyychiji:
So since PDp did that, you and your paymasters now decided to fine tune it and do the worse? Is this the change you promised?

Nope, I was only simply pointing out the glaring one-sidedness and hypocrisy of your analysis.

When next you want to label the players as criminals, you should do well to acknowledge that both camps are criminals, and you should also even point out the bigger criminals in the whole game; last year Wike used both soldiers, police, army, militants, cultists and INEC to intimidate, bulldoze and even murder anyone who stood against his interests. Today he has lost control of army and police but he's still utilising militants and cultists in the state 100%, he's also involved in massive bribery of INEC and threatening their lives if they don't deliver to his instructions. THat is the sort of desperate lawlessness from Wike which you conveniently seem to ignore even as you heap the entire blame on Amaechi alone.

frankyychiji:
what with senior police officers shooting Pdp agents and snatching ballot boxes!

The ones pdp won, wasn't it with the use of creek militants and renown cultists who have been on a murdering spree since last year?... As a compensation for their loyalty, several renown militant commanders now have seats in the Rivers state house of assembly. What do you have to say about that?

Just the same way Gov Amaechi was begging GEJ for the redeployment of Mbu back then

mamabomboy:
God will punish Kachikwu and Buhari for the many lies and false promises. Their families will never know peace, bastards.

AfonjaStinks:


HOW WAS THE DEBT INCURRED ??

WHAT WAS THE MONEY USED FOR ??

THIS RAT JUST RUINED THIS COUNTRY IN LESS THAN 2 YEARS

BUHARI

YOU WILL NEVER GO UNPUNISHED

The debts talked about are debts which were incurred specifically by your fallen HERO GEJ (even at a time when the nation was making a killing from high oil prices). How about that?.. who exactly is the rat and who is the maggot here?

https://www.ft.com/content/24d02f5a-a4e5-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd9d1

Nigeria has reached an outline settlement to resolve a protracted dispute with western energy companies, under which the groups will be paid $5bn to cover exploration and production costs in Africa’s biggest oil-producing nation.

Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Eni, Chevron and Total have signed deals relating to this settlement of costs incurred between 2010 and 2015, as they also seek to forge new financing arrangements for their joint ventures in Nigeria....

Buhari/Kachikwu even at this time of low oil prices and low production (thanks to the pipe bombers you support) are now struggling and struggling to clear the monumental mess and debts created by GEJ/Diezani at a time when the nation enjoyed excess; and here we are, some ignoramuses still have the guts to blame and insult PMB out of the abundance of their ignorance.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4474326_38616583839589prisonwarderdeypursuethemandflogjpegjpeg13b3310c7796a67dc03b6a1527418d4a_jpegc9ec3c6c355a8e3ca9253e0429a99e32

Lol.. very dumb attempt at rebuttal; just the same way our beloved chidimma claimed her face was photoshopped into a video.

Amen!

Hiploko:
see ur doctor

You are still unable to explain the sense in your last comment where you mentioned religion in a most disconnected topic.

Without any explanations coming forth from you, I can conclude you are definitely the one in urgent need of psychiatric help.

Hiploko:
religion has tampered with your brain

I'm actually wondering what has ruined your own brain to actually think that my statement has anything to do with any religion.

...Or could it be that you responded to the wrong person/message?

With her extensive work experience and achievements, it is definitely only a typical black man, an African and indeed a Nigerian that can be bothering himself with what her first degree certificate has in it.

wxyz1:
Ever since former President Goodluck Jonathan made that call to President Muhammadu Buhari congratulating him on his “victory” at the last presidential polls, and following the enormous goodwill that has attracted to him worldwide, it is fast becoming a norm in Africa for incumbents to easily accept defeat at the polls and congratulate the winner. Yahya Jammeh, the outgoing President of Gambia, was on his way to making history as one of the very few African presidents who would follow the enviable example of Nigeria’s former president and Africa’s hero of democracy, Goodluck Jonathan, by conceding defeat as an incumbent to an opponent in a political contest.
However, with his sudden u-turn on that stand, Jammeh, it seems, is about to throw that tiny West African country into a needless and avoidable turmoil. After having been commended by major political players and the media worldwide, what could have caused Yahya Jammeh to retrace his steps just less than a week after conceding defeat and hailed the process that saw his closest rival, Adama Barrow, an otherwise political neophyte, emerge as the president-elect of Gambia as “the most transparent election in the world”? Jammeh had told Barrow while conceding defeat to him, “I’m the outgoing president; you are the incoming president”.
Also, in a telephone call to the president-elect, Jammeh was reported to have told Barrow, “I wish you all the best. The country will be in your hands in January. You are assured of my guidance. You have to work with me. You are the elected president of The Gambia. I have no ill will and I wish you all the best”.
He repeated the same thing in a televised statement when he said, “I take this opportunity to congratulate Mr Adama for his victory. It’s a clear victory. I wish him all the best and I wish all Gambians the best.
As a true Muslim who believes in the almighty Allah I will never question Allah’s decision. You Gambians have decided”. Even the Head of Gambia’s electoral commission, Alieu Momarr Njai had said: “It’s very rare that this present situation now, in Africa, that this happens” The question on the lips of everyone is, why would Jammeh suddenly make a volte face after what seemed like a firm resolve to hand over power to the winner of the election, Adama Barrow? The answer to this puzzle may not be far-fetched. Jammeh took his cue of conceding defeat from Nigeria’s Jonathan, he must have also thought he was making a mistake going by the happenings in Nigeria today.
With the relentless vindictive persecution of Goodluck Jonathan’s family by the Buhari administration, the unending vendetta against Jonathan’s former ministers and government officials, the use of the military, secret police and other security agencies to harass, intimidate and even kill innocent, harmless and helpless citizens in droves with little or no provocation, high-handedness in dealing with sections of the country that did not support the emergence of president Buhari, it probably became obvious to Jammeh the enormity of risks he is taking by conceding defeat.
His family members must have reminded him that there is nothing good in conceding defeat in Africa. They must have reminded him of what is going on in Nigeria despite the magnanimity of Goodluck Jonathan. Even his cabinet members might have become apprehensive. They must have become afraid of being witch hunted and persecuted.
Some of them might even be ready to face prosecution should there be any need for that, but then, they realize that what their counterparts in Nigeria are facing is more of persecution than prosecution. They must have all brought Jammeh’s attention to al the atrocities going on in Nigeria. Jammeh gives all these a long and hard thought, and then thinks it is not worth it in the end.
This is only just a part of the many consequences of Buhari’s tyrannical approach to governance in Nigeria. The message of his style reverberates across Africa. The goodwill and novel approach of incumbents conceding defeat in the continent is being endangered rather than being engendered. Consequently, Buhari’s style of leadership is rolling the political progress of Africa kick-started by that famous telephone call from Jonathan and his peaceful handover centuries backward.
Even Nigeria’s electoral system that was beginning to make tremendous progress under Jonathan has suffered unwarranted grievous attacks under Buhari. The nation’s electoral system has been so bastardised within the short period Buhari’s administration has lasted that electoral malpractices have been given an official toga.
Not even the ECOWAS court has been spared the torrid experience of having its court orders disobeyed by the Buhari administration as it concerns its pronouncement on Sambo Dasuki, Nigeria’s former National Security Adviser under Jonathan.
It is therefore even more shocking that the same ECOWAS would rely on such a man to be a mediator in the political logjam about to befall Gambia. Well meaning Nigerians have continued to warn that the autocratic manner Buhari is running Nigeria has very grave implications not only for the country but also for Africa. Gradually, those implications are beginning to unfold right before our very eyes.
The UN that is asking Jammeh to accept defeat and hand over power to Barrow seem to be only interested in treating the symptoms of a disease without looking at the root cause of such a disease.
No one is saying that governments should not prosecute past governments where and when necessary, but everyone would want such prosecution not to degenerate into persecution, intimidation, harassment and vindictive pursuit of family members and officials of any previous government. Diligent and civil prosecution of anyone would always encourage peaceful handover of power from one government to another in Africa. But first, the ECOWAS, AU, UN and other such international bodies must also not look away while any government deals with its people with an iron fist under the guise of fighting corruption and or other such otherwise noble guises.
Until this is ensured, there are likely to be many more Jammehs in Africa than anyone can imagine.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/buhari-jonathan-jammeh-gambias-u-turn/

The author of this artucle has done nothing but defend corruption and corrupt practices. Since when has corrupt practices become virtues that should be condoned and even celebrated?.... Now even those who are opposed to corrupt acts are being vilified and long articles like this one are written to heap blames on the head of people who speak and move against corruption.

What message exaclty is the author trying to pass on to the world with this long article?... Why are are some Igbos just hell bent on ridiculing the Igbo nation by continuously supporting and justifying corrupt practices?

E be like say this man go dey Kuje till 2019 oh...

A plea on behalf of the new speed trains, if Nigeria wants the new high speed train system to work, it should be concessioned to the private sector, anything run by government dies.

Of course, this is exactly one of the biggest problems we're having today in the power sector. Power assets were hurriedly sold to people who have no clue and who have no business managing them. The power sector has been privatised but every year the government still has to cough out billions to fix and improve assets which already belong to private individuals and establishments.

This is typically what you get when the govt sells gifts public enterprises to its friends and cronies.

This is preposterous! Rochas why?!

Rad1cal:
Your cover up isn't successful. Continue supporting Amaechi to engineer a resistance that might engulf your family.

Your fam u mean?.... Gerrarrahia mehn!

Rad1cal:
You have been preaching nonsense all through. Your useless love for Buhari/Amaechi shouldn't make you support brazen acts of using security personnel to assassinate lawful citizens.

Your family isn't immune you know. So desist from posting nonsense.

No my family is immune because I dont support of glorify the violence perpetrated by the useless politicians and militants like like you do. Because of your hatred for buhari/apc you totally turned a blind eye and blind brain to the wanton killings, maimings and destruction perpetrated by Wike and his militant boys on anybody who choses to support ApC in Rivers state. All you and your ilk can see from the whole Rivers situation is amaechi this amaechi that. You havent for once acknowledged the genocide perpetrated against apc people in the state. Kontinuu!

OlajumokeBread:


I don't want good/improved electricity

I don't want good economy

I don't want good roads

I don't want anything good

All i want is Buhari to rule Nigeria for 100 years

I want to see the zombies suffer till death

The folly of your current position is that if you are asked what your hero did with the over $8billion and 5 years he spent on the power sector alone, you will have no response. But somehow your brand of brain thinks Buhari has failed more in terms of power.... And then one begins to wonder how someone with your sort of reasoning ability can possibly be calling some others zombies.

Rad1cal:
There is no need being scared and unduly prayerful. if you support the shamelessness of Amaechi using the security operatives to assassinate lawful citizens guiding the rights simply because you are far away. Your family might be engulfed in the flames you are brewing.

That is what karma does and not the nonsense you are typing.

Like I said, go learn to read and comprehend, and when you do that, you can go back and read what I've been preaching about on this thread.

A message for you too, if you support the shameless diabolic acts of Wike and his gang of blood thirsty militants who have murdered the peace in Rivers state and have been assassinating APC members since last year, karma may also be visiting, and you and your family may be engulfed in the devilish carnage which you glorify (all because you hate buhari/amaechi).

engrfcuksmtin:
Seriously

Tosinayoko:
Let Baba Obasanjo mind his business.... Na who he epp sef? Who is a Jesus among the politicians?

It is what it is oh... Atiku is a smart and intelligent criminal and would have made a better president than the likes of gej and buhari; but OBJ ensured he successfully poisoned the minds of Nigerians towards Atiku and buried his present and future career

kenex4ever:
who is more relevant between the two?


U cant kill some1 more relevant than u. Obj is a falling or may b fallen hero looking for something o hold onto.

Hahaha... you are joking right?... Atiku more relevant than OBj?... you must be a kid in the Nigerian political realm not to understand the weight the old soldier pulls.