₦airaland Forum

DONSMITH123:
The pan Igbo socio political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo youth wing, has insisted that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is trying to convict wife of the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Patience Jonathan at all cost.

Recall that the anti-graft agency had recently confirmed that Mrs Jonathan is being investigated for money laundering, but no case has been instituted against her in any court yet.

The Commission took a step further in its ongoing investigations by freezing her personal account in Skye Bank Plc, titled ‘Patience Ibifaka Jonathan.’

In her defence, Mrs Jonathan claimed the money was meant for her medical treatment abroad, and asked EFCC to defreeze the account or face legal action.

But, Ohanaeze’s National President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, in a statement criticised the commission for subjecting its suspects to media trial without thorough investigations.

According to Isiguzoro, “The EFCC is simply persecuting ex first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. She has already been found guilty without trial in a court of competent jurisdiction. This is unhealthy for our democracy. EFCC is clearly running a campaign of calumny intended to convict Dame Patience Jonathan at all cost. The former first lady is yet to be tried in court, yet the EFCC has been treating her as a criminal. This strategy of trial in the media must stop.

“To fight corruption, the process must be thorough and not selective. EFCC is not a court and must submit to the laws of the land. The haste to rush to the media to vilify suspects is responsible for the low number of convictions recorded by the EFCC.

“If we may ask, where are the wives of former first ladies including past Nigerian leaders who were at various times accused of corruption? Why can’t they be investigated? We can only take EFCC serious as anti graft agency when it investigates the likes of ex-Presidents, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Olusegun Obasanjo, including late ones.”


http://dailypost.ng/2016/10/19/efcc-bent-convicting-patience-jonathan-cost-ohaneze-ndigbo/

PrinceEvolution:
rubbish?how much is 100usd to south african rand today?

Nigeria has been affirmed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the biggest economy in Africa — ahead of South Africa and Egypt.

In August 2016, Nigeria was reported to have lost its spot as Africa’s biggest economy to South Africa, following the recalculation of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

“A recalculation using current exchange rates put South Africa on top because the rand has strengthened against the dollar,” BBC had said in August.



“Based on gross domestic product at the end of 2015 published by the International Monetary Fund, the size of South Africa’s economy is $301 billion at the rand’s current exchange rate, while Nigeria’s GDP is $296 billion,” Bloomberg had also said.

But according to TheCable, latest estimates from the IMF however put Nigeria’s GDP at $415.080 billion, from $493.831 billion at the end of 2015.
The IMF World Economic Outlook for October 2016 puts South Africa’s GDP at $280.367 billion, from $314.732 billion a year earlier.

Egypt’s 2016 data was reported as not available, but its 2015 size remained at $330.159 while that of Algeria, one of the largest economies on the continent, was put at $168.318 billion.

The United States, China and Japan maintained their spots as the largest economies in the world, with a GDP of $18.561 trillion, $11.391 trillion and $4.73 trillion respectively.

These countries are being trailed by Germany, United Kingdom and France in that order.
The Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, said at the just concluded World Bank/IMF meetings that global growth had been too slow for too long.

“We continue to face the problem of global growth being too low for too long, benefiting too few,” she said after the world economic outlook was published.

The world expects an economic growth of 3.1 percent in 2016, reviewed from 3.4 percent.
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CHIJIOKE1314:
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Buhari remains a dead pig and no matter the amount of defence u put up for his ineptitude.. .he will always put you wrong..

He is a failure as a father, husband and has been a failure as a leader..

He is a failure even as a humanbeing.. He is a criminal and you are hypocrites.. Atulu![/s]

CHIJIOKE1314:
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[s]You hypocrite,

I'm not surprised you suddenly started dis-joining issues.. Continue pretending not to understand as your criminal paymaster go on constituting blunder per seconds..

Continue deceiving yourself with those deviants of they didn't save and ask how your brain dead hypocritical silly old criminal 'g'eneral has managed what he met..

You go about NL spreading vile and deceiving the deluded who couldn't see beyond their own nose..

Your criminality has dwarfed your reasoning, you now walk about nâked morally..You wakeup daily mumbling over what GEJ didn't do yesterday but, have started neglecting what the old criminal and his cronies of unrepentant cockroaches could do today, rather you bundged on any attempt by anyone to point out the truth that would send them to work..

Your case is worse because, from all the frustration you've been piling down on NL, it's obvious you degenerated into hating your own self but would rather hip it on other..

Buhari is a renowned criminal, he is mentally weak and unfit to be anything representing..

He is and would go down in history as the worst (not only president) but 'thing' that ever happened to this country..

While you are choking on these facts let me attend to my family.. Ewu! [/s]

CHIJIOKE1314:
I hope you have also seen this report and would opt silence there, instead point me out hoping for a meal ticket..

How can we have a system we don't belong with, how could this govt saperate it's citizens from our own affairs..

To them we are all fools and so couldn't wipe our anus properly, so we must always open it wide after every poo section for them to wipe it in our behalf and most importantly we dear not ask if it was adequately done..

I guess it made u happy and u also teased IPOd yoots at the return of 21 Chibok girls, then come this report..
How do balance this out?

https://www.naij.com/1012104-releasing-21-chibok-girls-boko-haram-kills-20-soldiers.html

CHIJIOKE1314:
Don't disguise your vile person and jump into my mention for portage.. You can only harvest scorpion at the end..

You and your shameless cronies with you unwavering support to the Chief brain dead criminal called Buhari are the reason thousands are dying for hunger as we banter each other here..

I hope u also heard that before end of the month Emirates airline would pack..

Please, drive your lane and avoided my mention on this board before I turn this charades to a real life headhunt..

CHIJIOKE1314:
The old buffoon wants to bow to the German soldiers holding parade in his honor..

Looking like a haggard criminal he is..

A dead beast called president.. Spits!!

Adagworo:
I am abagworo you know, this is Rochas construction companies at work. The same government house road is now a disaster.

Adagworo:
Owerri

Sweetguy25:
All you guys do is mention TSA.

Johnnyessence:
abegi umuguma road is federal abi abegi don't ever in your life support lies in the government here ok hmmmmmm.speak truth and not telling us lies here ok.most of d pics d op post are state and d local government roads.what is happen to local government roads hmmmm no tarred road in all d 27 local government in imo state except d focus roads in owerri which has now turned to pothole road now.talk truth ok don't celebrate mediocrity here ok.

Igboid:
When I first visited Owerri was in 2007, I was so astonished and taken by the beauty of Owerri. There were green and lively flowers all over the town, everywhere was neat, Owerri was the neatest town in the entire country, it even won an award, only Calabar could match Owerri in neatness those days.

Ohakim was not the best, but that man kept Owerri neat and clean, he was a full Igbo blood.

How exactly did we end up with a man whose half DNA is Hausa. A man not fully Igbo presiding over Imo stage. If he were performing well, we could ignore his alien genes, but Okorocha is not performing well. He has plunged Imo state into the abyss of infrastructural development.

Sweetguy25:
I know and admit that Nigerians cannot stop engaging in corrupt practices overnight.
My point is that this administration is not "fighting corruption". No new laws, institutions, policies, programs or acitivities have been instituted by Buharis's regime to actually "fight corruption". Going after individuals who allegedly stole public funds is not fighting corruption.
What has Buhari's Government done to ensure that within the next four years, corruption will be drastically reduced in critical sectors of our socio-economic and political life? The answer is none.

comos:
After about three years after completion of the Geometric Power Ltd, Aba, Abia State, one of the Independent Power Plants (IPP) licensed by the Nigerian Government, the Plant is set to switch on around April next year, according to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji.

Bogged down by contractual and other ancillary controversies, the Plant has been held down from switching on since completion. But Nnaji at the weekend revealed that all the issues have been resolved and the plant set for switching on in six months’ time. ...

culled from Guardian

Jokerman:
Can anyone please outline to me the benefits of the anti corruption fight to the common man...

The basic needs of man are food, clothing and shelter... other needs are security, social amenities et al...

Since Buhari started his commendable fight against corruption which has implicated and indicted a lot of big looters... what I will like to know is its benefits to we the common man...

Has it improved welfare?
Has it improved shelter?
Has it made food readily available?
Has it provided commendable security?
Has it made the common Nigerian stop corruption (financial, Moral,l etc)?
Has it curbed petty crimes etc?

If it hasn't really answered those questions in a positive answer, then of what benefits is the fight to the average Nigerian??

What can be done to make the anti corruption fight beneficial to the common man??

Since Buhari is a man of Integrity according to some people, Nigerians ought to feel the positivity of its anti corruption fight..

Again, what are the benefits, and how can it benefit the common man..

BarcanistaTonye, I would respect ur answer
Mynd44 too..
Anonimi
Firefire....

Sweetguy25:
How exactly is Buhari fighting corruption? Because Nigeria is the still as stinkingly corrupt as ever. Policemen, civil servants, custom and immigration officers, lecturers and teachers, judges and lawyers, pastors, businessmen and politicians are still as corrupt as ever. Nothing has changed. Nigerians still openly pay and receive bribes, extort money, steal, frame and commit a dozen other corrupt acts as much as ever.

Going after individuals who allegedly stole money is not the same as fighting corruption.

Doug07034780891:
Be sincere for once, Owerri is presently a messed town with no road, no planning, no infrastructure, filth everywhere. Call a spade a spade. Even abagworo will disappointed in you..LOL

Doug07034780891:
All the pictures he has posted are very recent like yesterday. See more below. We need to call a spade a spade for once. All the roads in imo state are terribly bad and unmotorable. See the crying of people on ground. These are real people with dates.

Jennynkk:
I have a believe that imo state is under a spell.

[b]What do our governors do with the money that percolates to Igbo land? Most of them use it to buy lands, houses and choice properties all over the world. Some of them travel all over the world at every opportunity. They owe pensioners and workers for months . They do not care about the youths. “We are now compiling the list of such politicians and we shall hand over the list to MASSOB for proper sanction while we shall also carry out our own sanctions.

The categories are former governors, some former and serving senators, failed contractors, about 3 serving Igbo governors, former and serving ministers, former commissioners, and those who benefitted from Jonathan’s election funds. “Infact, if by December this year, such failed politicians fail to turn a new leaf, they will leave Igboland for us because we cannot tolerate such people in our midst again. They cannot stay in Igbo land and use our resources to better only their lives and the lives of their girlfriends and hangers on while their subjects suffer unduly. “Igbo contractors also given contracts in Igboland who fail to execute such contracts creditably will also face the music.”[/b]

MadCow1:
Why stay shackled to a Man you are no longer married to?

demarc001:
I guess you have his phone number, so call him and ask.

akinegba1:
I am sharing my views concerning what i saw during my visit to owerri imo state

dfrost:
Nice business acumen he has, albeit I detest monopoly in a growing economy like ours.