₦airaland Forum

okosodo:
This woman is so miserable. She should name one thing that jonathan did wrong apart from the usual broken record of some yoruba people, she should do it with undeniable proofs. The only thing i see with buhari is that his only plan for nigeria is nepotistic selection of people in position without recourse to the knowledge of what they are to face. This alone has killed nigeria for ever

Meeting over $42bn in foreign reserves and leaving less than 29bn after overseeing 5 years of unprecedented oil income boom.

Meeting less than 5bn in debts and growing this astronomically to unprintable levels. Ironically this debt was grown in 5 years of unprecedented oil income with nothing tangible to show for it besides hundreds of abandoned projects.

Your love for gej must be divinely divine for you to really think those things above are positive achievements which could not have contributed to our present recession.

Edwinmason:
this woman should just bow her head in shame and go back to her village

Why should she bow her head in shame?... just give one reason.

fourthworld:
Your obsession with Chidimma requires an immediate medical attention. Just zoom off anything igbo and face your dilapidated animal species

I understand some Nigerians can be extremely petty, but never for a second did I imagine that any normal human can be shamelessly petty enough to turn the viral chidimma/ cucumber joke into a tribal matter. You need serious psychological and possibly mental help but you obviously do not know it.

By the way, I am supposing you mentioned me wrongly cos I am still wondering where you got that bizarre impression from that I am obsessed with Chidimma.

FAKE NEWS... fake Vanguard site, opposition politicians have taken this imbecility to the next level, cloning the Vanguard website.

zero8zero:
5℅(Ben akabueze) are bent on messing up this government... Udo Emmanuel take ya time..
Onitsha-enugun media is dangerous.

Truth is mine*

Fake news from fake Vanguard site.

Wonderful!! Chidimma should be there to receive an anointed version

Blue3k:
I know you directed question at op but I like to answer since I read this topic alot.

1. Regulations of electricity market for many years creating many distortions on market. Then nigerians have issue allowing free market to work. (They want failed governmen to run industry)

2. Natonal grid is in disrepair like refineries. The transmission loss is as high as 35%.

3. The foolish regulations that have us sharing. Just like federal allocation system it makes many states lazy because they don't benefit from their work. Instead of generating power locally where it most beneficial it's shared and lost on bad lines.

4. Pipelines vandalism.

5. Our hydro power is very intermittent and we have to kick back a sizable percentage to our northern neighbor Niger so they don't block the dam up north.

6. Untapped resources of coal power. Then Buhari went to sign climate bill.

7. We simply don't have political will. Instead of fixing issue they use generator for decades.

8. The wrong people are appointed the position of power minister. Instead of have a competent electrical or power engineer as head. We get a Lawyer by trade to do it. Lawyers are smart but the aren't enginers. Would you appoint enginer to be Attorney general or Supreme Court Justice?

9. We don't know how much power the country really needs or uses.

I could list solutions but you didn't for that.

I dont completely agree with Number 8 on your list for at least the Nigerian case. Over 90% of the problems bedevilling the power sector in Nigeria today aren't really technical, rather they are administrative issues.

Heads of agencies, the minister for state, permanent secretaries etc under the power ministry may need to be technocrats, and whilst it will be a nice-to-have thing for an engineer to be the power minister, the most important requirement for the Nigerian situation is someone who is intelligent and with the ability to think and organise and mediate on the thousands of legal and other disputes which have stalled the progress of the power sector over the years. In summary, what the sector needs is a good administrator.

chiefobdk:
because mere commissioner visited?


we have hosted sitting president. u dey talk mere commissioner

What are u talking about?... I'm saying Inno has made Nnewi popular, what has that got to do with president or VP?

NOETHNICITY:
Is there any link/proof to buttress the fact that less than N20b was budgeted for roads in 2015. The figure is unbelievable small.

2015 was declared a year of austerity / standstill and pay only worker salaries. It's sad that till date, a lot of people ignorantly put the blame on Buhari for contractors abandoning site for lack of funds in 2015.

https://www.nairaland.com/2188155/fg-slashes-works-ministrys-budget
http://yourbudgit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2015-Publication-BUGET.pdf

Meanwhile in 2014, less than N50bn was released to the Ministry of Works for capital projects, but somehow, people still find a way of blaming PMB for the hundreds of abandoned projects that litter the nation.

http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/03/2015-budget-why-federal-ministry-of-works-will-perform-poorly/

That one out of the several parties contesting in an election has been unable to put its house in order, is this a reasonable reason to cancel an election?

nnokwa042:
Nnewi people i hail una this a man who served his master at nnewi got settled by his master at the same nnewi now this same guy have made it possible for a former president and current vice president with ministers and senators to visit his village when i say not every one made his or her money in lagos they will ban me, some business men in the east what takes them to lagos is just to take thier goods from port nothing more

Absolutely, Oga Innocent has just stamped Nnewi on the Nigerian global map.

lordhugo:
My simple question is , "What do politicians gain from telling outright lies?"

They do it to excite their gullible followers... People like Reno know their audience very well.

Hope the pastor was given some Hero Beer...

deejerrydee:
Nigerian Air Force says it was an incident, not a crash

Barely two months after the presidency handed over two aircraft in the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force, an investigation has revealed that one of the ballistics defence capable aircraft has been seemingly, poorly managed and crashed at the Nigerian Air Force base, Makurdi.

[url]TheNewsGuru.com[/url] gathered from a top, reliable source that one of the aircraft, Agusta AW 101, a medium-lift helicopter specially designed for military operations, got crashed less than a month after the Nigerian Air Force took delivery of it from the presidency, due to poor training of crew members saddled to man the operations of the aircraft.

When contacted, the Nigerian Air Force, P.R.O., Group Captain Dele Famuyiwa, denied the report that one of the aircraft crashed.

In a telephone conversation with TheNewsGuru.com, Famuyiwa said that the aircraft was not involved in a crash but an incidence of little effect.

[size=18pt]“It was not a crash. I wouldn’t call it a crash because it just fell on the ground in Makurdi.”[/size]

http://thenewsguru.com/presidential-aircraft-crashes-a-month-after-handover-to-nigerian-air-force/

It didn't crash, it just fell on the ground...

https://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Black-Man-Laughing-In-The-Bath-Tub-Drinking-a-40oz-Beer.gif

PRXPERT:
your sucking and piercing syndrome on bubu have deprived you a lot of senses.

That is not the issue, comment on the bloody issue if you truly have any iota of the sense you claim to have.

Originalsly:
I'm just amazed at the infantile comments and suspect these are coming from our university students.... the supporters and product of these lecturers. I wonder if they even read the article before commenting or is it they read but can't comprehend. Was this allowance owed by the present administration only? The FG is willing to pay a certain amount but the books need to be audited.... which they should be.... so why are aren't the universities cooperating? ...any idea? These lecturers that we are so solidly supporting.... we need to stop blindly respecting their title and look at the quality of education they are imparting. Yes you have graduated.... is your certificate/degree accepted outside of Nigeria?...why not? But yet... students are fighting for the lecturers instead of fighting for themselves. University students are always in the forefront for change through protests.... sit ins... USA...China ...but here we are... can't even protest the deplorable state of the universities but can run off our mouths on behalf of the undeserving extortionists lecturers. Like someone quoted earlier...Emancipate yourself from mental slavery for none but ourselves can free our mind.

You need to understand that in just about every topic of national interest raised on this forum, 95% of the commenters just find a way of myopically moulding it into the politics of GEJ vs PMB. For instance, GEJ supporters believe they owe themselves a responsibility of supporting anything or anybody who is a loggerheads with the govt and vice versa. As crazy as it may sound, this is what we have become.

Funnicator:
Babachir Lawal spent millions of Naira in mowing lawns at Aso rock and we can't spend millions to upgrade our educational institutions, this happens when an a Tyrant is in power.

Are you aware that whooping amount was agreed between ASUU and FG when oil was selling at over $100 under GEJ (who you claim is not a tyrant), but as usual, the non-tyrant never paid a dime of it. Now you think Bubu is being a tyrant for being unable to afford cleaning this huge mess of your oga even at a time of depression?... RECEIVE SENSE!

Icecomrade:
You don't expect me to know how much they were paid.

Government pays mobilisation fees on contracts, subsequent payments are made as the work progresses.

To say these pictures were taken few months before elections is to show how limited your knowledge is about these areas.

I ply that route and I can tell you alot of work was done on that road.

Road dilapidate over periods of time.

If what will give you satisfaction is that GEJ did not work on the road, enjoy your illusion.

If Buhari is your Nigeria Champion, enjoy your illusion.

I ve educated you enough.

Take what you want.

Chapter closed.

I am a Nigerian who has a fair understanding of how things have worked at least in the past 3 decades of my existence and I can tell you categorically that you have educated me on nothing. Being a Nigerian, I know that what matters is seeing the job done on ground, not on paper. Your love for GEJ and your hate for Buhari seems to be muddling your knowledge of how things work in the country.

The very simple point is that GEJ did not fix the road any better than OBJ or Yaradua who were b4 him did, so I am yet to see any reason why GEJ should get any praise better than those b4 him who also ACTED like they wanted to fix the roads, but ended up leaving office with the roads still being the age long mess.

Now the present govt has resumed the same old trend but we are watching. I wouldn't come out to start praising anyone yet until I see substantial/tangible progress on the roads. Have a good day!

erico2k2:
Bro as much as had been said, let us calm down and see waht happens next,the FG are well known for all talk no action this is inclusive for every o ne of them since 1960.I like teh idea of what we use to have in Delta state.Direct labor Agency.No contracts.

Of course na sidon look we dey, looking at them on 3d to see what they can achieve; almost 2 years already gone and we yet to see anything completed.... But then, it becomes annoying when some people start peddling weird stories of the past admin which should have been forgotten already; how some people still have the face to extol them everyday even in the face of their glaring failures in terms of infrastructural projects (like these all important roads) still beats my imagination.

Icecomrade:
Am from Abia state, looks like you know nothing about that road. The links below should help

https://www.nairaland.com/2187228/pictures-reconstruction-enugu-port-harcourt-express

https://www.nairaland.com/2187228/pictures-reconstruction-enugu-port-harcourt-express


After reading these you will know how wrong you ve been.

You don't need to appease this useless government by making reference GEJ each time someone raises a valid issue.

Bro, the only question I ask you is, how much did he (GEJ) actually pay to the contractors?.. and if indeed he really paid substantial money to those contractors, why then did the contractors stop work immediately after elections?

It's not enough to share N10 million mobilisation fee each to several contractors for several projects around the country whose costs are in the realm of billions all in the bid to get the trucks of the contractors to site, take pictures and then use same for election campaigns. The pictures in those links you posted above were taken in March 2015, less than 1 month to the general elections then. I'm sure you know exactly what i'm talking about even though you may bluntly refuse to agree for sentimental reasons.

If there is anything we all know, after May 29th 2015, Buhari did not run around the country asking contractors to bring back the moneys GEJ's government had given to them for road construction. It is not a hidden fact that next to nothing was budgeted for the ministry of Works in the 2015 budget and this lack of payment is what forced several contractors to abandon site (even as political jobbers dubiously used that opportunity to blame it on 'incoming' government).

I know you hate Buhari so much and love GEJ so much but please let's be rational in apportioning blames here, GEJ only used those roads as election bait, if he was serious about fixing them, he would have done so early enough.

Meanwhile you claimed that I always make reference to GEJ, please i'm confused here cos you were the one who mentioned GEJ's name and falsely claimed he made payments for projects but Buhari came in and stopped the projects.

PedroJP:
Please Mr, when will you start critisizing Buhari for the good of the masses ? Is Buhari infallible ?

I am a natural critic of every government, but the only reason I'm still finding it difficult to 'openly' criticise buhari's government is because the overly loud supporters of the last admin have totally refused to accept there was anything wrong with GEJ's presidency.

PedroJP:
Only paid zombies compile lists of "i wills" as this governent's achievement. Nigeria will sink the more unless the unjustice upholding her is destroyed and uprooted sincerely to enthrone justice

Lol... While an 'I will' project is certainly not an achievement, may I remind you that some dumb jonathanians (even on this thread) actually still count roads like this onitsha-enugu road as Jonathan's achievement all because Jonathan awarded the project on paper ( even though it is an established fact that the project was a bad 'I will' project).

Hardtalkjoe:
OKIGWE -ARONDIZUOGU -ONITSHA ROAD, JUST ABOUT 45KM ROAD NEEDS ATTENTION, IT'S BEEN A DEATH TRAP FOR THE PAST 24 YEARS
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Oba - Okigwe road, does that road still exist ?

Icecomrade:
GEJ awarded the contract during his tenure. The work was still in progress when your Dullard Buhari refused stopped payments.

The road has further dilapidated over this period.

When next you are not sure of what you are about to write, get aid from google.

Ignorance is a disease.

Gej awarded the contract on TV, the question is 'how much did he release?... I remember OBJ also awarded that contract on paper but to what end?

You claim it is buhari who stopped the project, but the question is, who prepared the 2015 budget?... and was a single kobo allocated to that project and thousands of other projects which were only awarded on PAPER by GEJ to deveive gullible voters?... Please kindly remind us how much the total budget of the ministry of work for the entire country in 2015 under GEj was?... was it up to N20bn?

As at 2015 Gej used the entire money in Nigeria to prosecute an election which he lost. Even fuel importers were being owed subsidies for 9 months as at the time GEJ was leaving office and it took the new govt to come in and started clearing massive backlog of debts.

Kindly tell me what I have said above is wrong?

Bobby4090:
Illitrates with a poor sense of Geography. You can establish an inland port in Onitsha, but not in Aba or Enugu or Maiduguri as these towns have no major navigable river that links to the Oceon. I wonder if these bunch of goats ever read or do a survey before talking.

Don't be too quick to label people illiterates...

post=51274867:
The news was mischievously reported by afonja dude with the aim of ridiculing Sir Offor, same with what useless Sahara report fabricated today, that few government dignitaries came for the burial even gov Obiano didn't come.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/11/21/government-officials-dignitaries-desert-emeka-offor-father%E2%80%99s-burial

Quit acting like a kid who was raised to only think along tribal lines. I posted the link to the origin of that story and it had nothing to do with any tribe, it was a report by Vanguard newspaper. Except you are saying Vanguard is an afoja mouthpiece or tool of propaganda, I don't know what you're really all about.

hedonistic:
The problem is that Emefiele is forced to be a "Dundee' in order to retain his job. He has to take specific orders from cattle farmers in Daura with regard to monetary policy. Then again, he has zero integrity and he is a massive coward - otherwise he should have resigned and relocated abroad (to avoid witch hunting).

Nigeria's woes are just beginning. Zimbabwe and even Somalia are 'learners'. Many would still eat from dustbins. As long as the majority who are fools can't revolt against the bastards from Daura that are in power.

Anyone that still blames Jonathan or PDP for our ridiculously miserable situation now is a big fool. Our problems are Buhari policy-inflicted, NOT Jonathan inflicted.

At this point it is now difficult to believe that story of Emefiele being dictated to on every single thing he does... Regarding the issue of devaluation or not, oh yes he was influenced from above. But on all these other policies here and there, it is hard to believe he is being controlled, most of what we see these days are purely his ideas.

post=51271809:
Sir Emeka Offor never said he invited Trump or Buhari and others you mentioned, the media outlets that Reported the fake news on invitation of president elect of US without comferming from mr Offor or Anambra state government are just plan silly, tell me how such dignitaries will be coming to Anambra without informing the state government or relevant agencies. All I see are hand work of Afonjas, I have seen how you described him as controvacial contractor, same Afonja's wrote Emeka Offor is broke are the people peddling these lies, very envious tribe with evil hearts, same thing they did to NOI, Arunma Otteh, Stella odua, same rubbish they wrote aganist Anambra gaint strides in Agriculture, same people published how human meat been served in Anambra resturant, very disgusting people, their hearts filled with evil they think the best way to succeed is by pulling those on top down, that's the more reason no tribe trust them, same faith they suffered under GEJ same thing is happening to their leaders now. Ndi ara

Strangely the media house that originated that bizarre story was Vanguard Newspaper and I'm yet to understand how peddling such stories has anything to do with any trbe.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/buhari-american-president-elect-donald-trump-attend-sir-emeka-offors-father-burial/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/buhari-american-president-elect-donald-trump-attend-sir-emeka-offors-father-burial/

Now while the web address above conveyed the weird message, when you open the site, the main report never made any mention of Buhari or Trump. Of course as usual, all other copy and paste media houses and blogs simply did what they know how to do best by copying and spreading the weird story.

Vanguard has been in the business of creating this very sort of deliberate confusion for too long. They were also the ones who reported the falsehood of Buhari promising to make N1 = $1. But upon opening the main report, it didnt have any link with the weird title but then, the intention of selling falsehood had already been completed.

NgeneUkwenu:
What else do you expect from people who believed Buhari donated 500M dollars to Clinton Campaign

NgeneUkwenu:
25 hired miscreants with placardS can NEVER be regarded as Sokoto Youths..

We saw it in 2015....we cant be fooled again..

The miscreants even had to boldly print the name of their political sponsor on the placard (jubrin tafida group or something like that), yet some people still regard those ones as sokoto youths.

Till date, GEJ is still popular only amongst the same group of people who he gas always been popular to. But the truth is that even people who were indifferent during the last election would speak up this time around making sure no mediocre character leads Nigeria again.

How can any right thinking human ever want a character like GEJ to come back as leader when there are millions of potentially good candidates out there languishing in obscurity?