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Chidi Lloyd flashback
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[size=13pt]Nasarawa Lawmakers Fight Over Appointment Of Sole Administrators[/size]
Some members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Friday engaged each other in a fight during plenaries, as issues surrounding the appointment of local council administrators divided the House.

After a two-year tenure of the chairmen of 11 local government areas in the state ended on March 24, the Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, appointed and inaugurated sole administrators to man the affairs of their local government councils pending when elections would be conducted.

During the inauguration ceremony, Governor Almakura gave the assurance that elections would be conducted as soon as possible.

The swearing in ceremony of the administrators held at the Conference Hall of the Government House was graced by traditional rulers security personnel, members of State Executive Council.

The Governor’s decision, however, did not go down well for some lawmakers, as they had earlier resolved to conduct elections immediately after the expiration of the tenure of the local government council chairmen.

Six out of the 24 lawmakers alleged that the other lawmakers had received money to go against their resolution.

The allegations may have prompted the House leader to move for their suspension, a motion that resulted to chaos.
The suspended members prevented the sitting and exchange harsh words and then, a fight began.

One of the lawmakers took hold of the mace, the symbol of authority, but the custodian of the symbol requested that he should be given the mace. He handed it over and ran towards another lawmaker for a fight.

After some disagreements, one of the lawmakers moved for the adjournment of the sitting.

However, few minutes after the adjournment, some lawmakers convened another sitting and moved the motion to suspend six lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress indefinitely for alleged violation of the rules of the House without allowances but half salaries.

Shortly after, one of the suspended lawmakers, Makpa Malla, told reporters that they would seek redress in court before they drove out of the assembly complex angrily.
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http://www.channelstv.com/2016/04/04/nasarawa-lawmakers-fight-over-appointment-of-sole-administrators/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbxz4cw47ec

The dude with the table obviously wants to break Chidi Lloyd's record

VivaDeAngelo:
This VP has no real job,that's the open secret if you don't know.
I see you probably live in a cave,where do you usually see other world leaders? Have you ever seen Joe Bidden attending social gatherings in quick succession?
If you have chosen to be gullible then that's entirely your choice. The fact remains Nigeria is in trouble and these two are grossly inept in propelling our economy to the right direction period...!!!.

You are the one dwelling in the cave of irredeemable ignorance. Swerve!

Here we go again with these idiotic threads... Threads like this really reveal how dull some people can really be. Common sense is really very uncommon in this our Nigeria.

The simple question I have for PDP, for the 16 years they ruled Nigeria, did the CBN or FIRS ever for once advertise vacancies?

If Nigerians are complaining, the diabolic imbeciles called PDP are also complaining. Yeye dey smell!

MarieSucre:
The other way around... I don't understand. You mean telemundo should ban El Rufai.

All join

xpensivNas:
saying rubbish

You ended up doing nothing here but 'saying rubbish.' Speaks volumes of your person

I think the answer to the question raised is already in the write-up. Excessive gra-gra cost Murtala his life in 6-months. Excessive gra-gra cost Buhari his seat in 18-months and he additionally had to cool his heels in prison for 40-months afterwards. 30-years later, Buhari is now being restrained by democratic bureaucracy and the fear of the repercussions of excess gra-gra (would be silly to repeat the same mistakes again).

247frolicboss:
This photo shared by Nairametrics (@ugodre) on twitter today says that Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Aeronautical Information Services, Ibadan Airport has prohibited staff and non-staff from watching the popular Telemundo programme with immediate effect.
http://www.newshelm.com/2016/04/nigerian-airspace-management-agency.html
cc lalasticlala, mynd44

I think it should be banned completely from the Nigerian airwaves. These are the kind of things ElRufai should be banning and not the other way around

yaki84:
go tell that to tinubu, buhari n the other saints.
I find it appalling when someone of okorocha go even dey follow blame pdp.
short ngige n el rufai too deh follow blame.
bros if democracy was sustained by now youths would hv taken over, we for no get carry over politicians. maybe na senate some old thieves for still dey but interms of governorship n presidency na new faces we for see.
go advice tinunu to stop blaming.

Hahaha... I knew you were going to hit back like this

But then, dont you think you are doing the exact same thing you are criticising these people of?... In fact you are doing it in a more ridiculous way.

yaki84:
30yrs of failure championed by the man some section of people will think is the best thing after agege bread.
why am I sahing this, the 1983coup championed by muhamadu buhari changed the course of nigeria democracy totally in the wrong direction.
checkout what lateef jakande achieved in his first four yrs of administration, I believe by 1987 creative n critical politicians would hv emerged from other states cos of the precedents set by jakande.
nigeria would hv evolved till we get a true leader who would hv taken us to the promise land.
30yrs of bad leadership....n someone will only single out jonathan to criticise.
yes in his tenure crude oil was sold at 100 to 140 dolls per barrel, also in his tenure nigeria experience the worst form of terrorism.
I watched documentary of 9/11 lastnyt n I realise the only people that ģain in war against terror r the terrorist and contractors who supply arms to the govt.

Drop the blame game bro.... if the blame game starts, it is enough to go round to everyone. We should be thinking of the way forward.

BlackBaron:
Looking at the current situation,
I think Nigeria should start critiquing leaders that have aspirations to rule at least a year or two before elections via way of primaries after numerous debates.

Let them begin to state their policies and blueprints of how to alleviate the many problems plaguing this country. Seems like people with just enough clout throw their hats into the ring whenever its time for elections and end up getting there, then they just continue with whatever orientation is best.

All we've had are a 'postulating leaders' and 'accidental leaders'. The rest don't even have a clue how to solve the problem and are there because they're just known!
No fuel, nor modern railway, even harmonised clean pipe borne water(every one has boreholes instead) is a mirage many years after democracy. Roads are in shambles, corrupt politicians are in power, insecurity, no electricity. Just a barely functional society!!

This is actually a very good idea and for it to work, our journalists have to take the bull by the horn and ask candidates very daunting questions when they least expect. But then again, the misfortune of tribalism and the hunger/greed for a few coins tossed at individuals would render this brilliant idea almost unworkable.

SonOfEl:
My dear, cross river and akea ibom are "south east". Take a good look at the map again. Igboland, which encompasses SE and SS states are more of " south central "

Anyway, for the sake of politics, let's leave it at that, but pls when talking about igboland, it cludes anioma, and upland rivers (obigbo/oyigbo, egbema, ndoki, igwuocha)

Under the Nigerian geo-political arrangement, akwa-ibom falls under the SS geopolitical zone; this isn't an elemetary geography case where you just draw 4-compass points of north-east-west-south. We also have zones like north-central and formerly mid-west which don't really tally with the elementary geography compass points. Then again, talking about Igbo land, Anioma and the Igbo speaking areas of Rivers are obviously Igbo land, I doubt if anyone has ever disputed that. But when it comes to the present secession plot, are the non-SE Igbos willing to jump on the boat with the larger Igbo population?.. That is a question for another day.

kYjelly2:
Yet you guys wonder why you queue for petrol every year,

why you don't get electricity in 2016,

why your streets are littered with beggars and hawkers,

why you can't even get ordinary water from taps in majority of the houses in Nigeria


Nigerians looove their ignorance and sheer stupiditty, like the pigs love their stinky mud, Nigerians wallow in their cozy blankets of stupidiity.

How can google not even recognize a term like "Southsouth", yet ignorance loving, no electricity having, perpetual "queuers" of petrol, nigerians, claim to know more about the cardinal system?

Enjoy your ignorance Nigerians, I'm sure in the year 2030, your president elect will be saying:

[size=18pt]"I promise to give you Electricity in my first two years"
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dumbfvks

Your emotions are obviously running on overdrive. We are not here to argue semantics or origins of the word south-south. The words in your so called dictionary or your so called 'google' were all created by humans. Similarly, south-south is a 'geopolitical' term, just the same way we have the north-central or the way we had the mid-west; it is a simple geopolitical coinage. That the existence of the word 'SS' doesn't suit your present political argument, that does not mean the people who use the word are stupid, so watch your mouth.

Furthermore, erasing the term 'south-south' and lumping it into the SE does not automatically erase the maladies of fuel scarcity, power failure etc. which you highlighted. So quit spewing words out of sour emotions.

kYjelly2:
If you don't mind me asking, can you explain to me exactly what you mean by SS (South South)?

When you did cardinal points in geography throughout you school years, did you ever come across such nomenclature?

How come Nigerians never mention such acronyms as NN (North North), WW (West West) or EE (East East)?

However, when it comes to the oil region with is clearly located in the SE (according to the world renowned cardinal system), you guys then begin to conjure up such things as South South.

What really is South South?

You ought to be ashamed of yourself and if you indeed attended anytype of school, then you ought to be doubly ashamed of yourself.

Bro, no need to get emotional about this, there's no need to go into the semantics of the meaning or origins of the word 'south-south.' It may make no sense according to your elementary geography but then, remember it's also political, hence it's called a 'Geo-Political' zone. The last time I checked, the people from this 'mystery' zone are happy with this classification and I believe they have a right to maintain their own identity.

Without any further arguments on semantics, I'm sure you now understand what I mean when I use the word SS?.... Most of the people from this region who have voiced their opinions about the disintegration idea have clearly stated that even if they were to leave Nigeria, they would rather be on their own republic than join in Biafra. It is a known fact that the SS zone owns the resources which is used to spoon feed all other 5 geopolitical zones in Nigeria. If the secessionist must include the SS, proper negotiations and agreements have to be reached first instead of just lumping the SS together with the SE in the secession plot. The people of the SS are humans too and should be respected and allowed to speak for themselves.

Finally, this thread is about an economic and political statement from Pastor Bakare, let's not turn this to another ipob thread.

Bakare is right about the fact that the government needs to look beyond the oil price woes and focus on other ways to boost the economy vis-a-vis, diversifying the economy. It would be obviously silly for the govt to fold its arms waiting for oil prices to rise before it takes proactive steps in diversification.

This doesn't change the fact that the oil price crash is responsible for the present economic woes. The solution to the problem however lies beyond oil.

Achuwa1:
SW & the North can reconcile to live together.
but SS & SE has decided to part ways with this unholy union called Nigeria.

Why do some of you secessionists keep deceiving yourselves that the SS wants to leave with the SE?.... This 'by-fire-by-force' attachment keeps getting more and more ridiculous by the day and even the SS keeps getting more and more suspicious of this special love.

'Ochicha' na person name?

Agwoden:
How long will his official visit to Nigeria last.

The visit lasts for one week cos he's off to China next week.

Lol...

Oma307:
Quote me if am wrong, i barely see the vice president performing government functions rather i see him in events such as Birthday, Wedding Ceremony and Burial etc

VivaDeAngelo:
Seems there isn't any job for this VP to do rather than attending chains of social gathering? Hian! At this stage our economy is in state of comatose.....!!!!
#WhatOsibanjoWouldAttendNext
#And This Government Is The True Definition Of Clueless

What exactly is government functions?... do you expect the VP to take pics when he's working in his office?

Mboi:
@obailala, I said it before that any right thinking person in Nigeria today knows Buhari and APC has failed woefully. All the things they used against past govt, we now see they do worse. Even now that Nigerians are suffering, no fuel, no light, food prices very high, people loose jobs everyday, business are not moving because of Buhari's bad economic policy, yet you claimed you don't see anything wrong with this administration. I then said that if to you things are better now in Nigeria than as they were under GEJ, it means either you are not normal or you are paid to do what you are doing but you said that you don't even live in Nigeria.

So I now ask you, how come you don't live in Nigeria but you claim things are better now in Nigeria than before?

I did not say things are better in Nigeria. But anyone with a little education and enlightenment can see from miles away that all the things you suffer today vis-a-vis los of jobs, currency crash etc are purely the effect of crash in oil prices and the attendant cash crunch. It has nothing to do with any buhari's economic policy. A mono-product economy is bound to sink if the value of the only product we sell sinks. Everything you use as your indices today to score Buhari was equally as bad (and even worse) in the last 6 months of GeJ so wake up from your slumber. If you must compare both men, the only reasonable comparison is to compare buharis regime with the last days of GEJ.

authority2006:
People are confused about this subsidy removal and reintroduction. Subsidy was removed because landing cost was fell bellow N86 but now the landing cost has gone above N86, that explains reintroduction. Its previous removal had nothing to do with economic policy. Buhari government doesn't appear like one that will remove subsidy permanently. So ,wailing wailers should stop confusing themselves.

Thank you very much for this very simple explanation. The simple concept is that price modulation is still in place. For some months, landing cost of fuel was less than the official price hence the FG saved the excess in an account. Now the landing cost is more than the official price and the FG is paying the difference obviously from the funds that were saved in the preceeding months. How on earth can this be too difficult for these wailing zombies to understand?

The level of daftness displayed on this thread is absolutely shocking. I cant believe how an entire generation of Nigerian youths can just be so dumb not to understand a simple concept. Sometimes I wonder what these people do with their brains.

Chaiiiiii!

This is fatality!

PreyingMantis:
Like those budget padders that planned to steal from source... You need to smell the coffee my friend.

TheArchangel:
Can you give me a case of suspected corrupt practices buhari have solved or acted on.

Oh yes, just like the budget padding case. It's public knowledge that the president called for investigations immediately and vowed to punish any culprits. Consequently, several directors and staff of the budget office were summarily removed (with investigations still ongoing) while the NASS was left to scrutinise and clean the budget. Now even with the NASS cleaning and passing the budget, PMB has still refused to sign it pending when he personally scrutinises the figures again ministry by ministry. This was all in the news so I wonder why you both claim to be oblivious of this.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/2016-budget-ll-reviewed-ministry-ministry-give-accent-buhari/

A similar case was the TSA saga with systemspecs taking large percentages. Buhari is not an omnipotent and omniscient god who can wave his hands and perform miracles for all corrupt practices to stop. Nigerians are naturally corrupt and will always look for loopholes to play a fast one. But as soon as the case/allegations was raised, an instant directive was given for investigations to commence. Systemspecs was made to return the chunk of cash they had received and the contracts were re-negotiated. That is the only reasonable thing I expect of a leader. It's not rocket science folks.

Gentle2015:
** (it is in our nature as Nigerians to steal)**...You mean you can't be trusted? You shouldn't have generalized it. Maybe sidelining it to your family alone would have been better. I am a trustworthy Nigerian. God bless my country.

If there are 10 red balls and 3 blue balls in a basket, I wouldn't be wrong is I refer to it as 'the basket with the red balls.' There's nothing hasty or wrong about such generalisations. We know ourselves.

What the Op has described concerning power bill happens in Nigeria all the time. NEPA gives estimated bills for a while, then when they eventually come and read your meter and it is discovered you have over-payed, the amount is moved forward as 'credit.' The Op probably never paid nepa bills in Nigeria.

TheArchangel:
Your reasoning is becoming more nauseous as the day goes by.
More looting under PMB than under GEJ and this is the best you can do.
Stop being a pathetic syncophant.
This is about Buhari making the same mistake more than GEJ, if he is not called to other then what's the essence of the change chants. Most we wallow in the same system that almost crippled our country in the last dispensation to show our blind solidarity.
Buhari should clean up this mess and he shouldn't have allowed it in the first instance.

Like I told the person who called me out, I am more confident that under a Buhari, cases like this would not be allowed to be easily swept under the carpet as was the case in the past; that's the simple essence of the change chant and what I say has nothing to do with sycophancy.

Once again, just incase it is too complex for you to understand, Buhari is not an omniscient or omnipotent god who can wave his hands and all corrupt practices will dissappear (that is obviously what you expect him to do). Nigerians by nature love corruption and there will always be corruption. However, the simple point I made is that when discovered, cases like this will be treated appropriately and attempts will not be made by the president to hide or cover it up. That is definitely a good thing!

PreyingMantis:
Obailala what sayest thou?

Haha... Once again, may you be reminded that nothing could possibly be worse than Jonathan in terms of the proliferation of corruption. Unlike GEJ who jumps in at a moments notice and starts defending irregularities such as these, the difference today is that a Buhari will call for an investigation and appropriate actions would be taken if any is found wanting.

That Buhari is the president does not mean some animals will not still try to steal (it is in our nature as Nigerians to steal), the difference between today and the past is that when these irregularities are identified, they would be investigated and any culprits punished accordingly.

The biggest sin of GEJ which earned him the boot was his disturbing nonchalance, tacit approval and his glaring institutionalisation of corruption. I understand the urge by you Jonathanians to prove that PMB is also as corrupt. But just save your breathe, cos no matter how hard you guys try, you cannot rope Buhari into that messy lifestyle. I would leave you with a statement by Prof Soyinka...

"Those who are neck deep in the sewage of corruption ensure that they splatter sewage in all possible and improbable directions"

macluvph1:
Obailala i see nothing can convince you even if i make more points but can you vividly tell me what we have achieved as a one NIGERIA.

My point is this, the problems which have made us unable to achieve anything as one Nigeria, those problems will not be solved by splitting, we would only add more complications to our problems. The grass always looks greener on the other side though, but this is just my opinion based on the way I see things; I may be wrong, and you may also be wrong. Another thing I would like to point out is the haste with which the entire secession plan is being processed, I think this recent widespread secession campaign is driven purely by emotions and without deep thought; emotions of anger fuelled by last year's election. No reasonably progressive decision can be made out of emotions.

godoluwa:
the question now is will buhari led FG implement the confab report?

The fact is, no president can unilaterally do it. A GEJ couldn't and wasn't going to do it, a Buhari can't and wouldn't (for obvious reasons). If it must be implemented, the different groups in favour of it have to come together and push for it to be implemented.

godoluwa:
have you read the judgement about Enugu indigene that clash with fulani terrorist over the abduction of their people by fulani terrorist? each of the 76people arrested by Nigerian Army paid 200k as bail sum while those fulani kidnappers are yet to be arrested. the fact is that hausa/fulani has the mentality that they are greater than Nigeria & Buhari is in their support through his actions.

The only reason why they appear greater is because they have come together. The fulani menace is suffered by the SS, SE, SW and mostly the middle belt. If these groups come together, the northern hegemony would be crushed instantly. But we've failed to realise this since 1960. Today the SE wants to 'run away' and it plans to drag the SS along. The SS has been feeding Nigeria for decades and is still feeding Nigeria; the fact is that nobody, no zone, not even the SS would agree to move away with the SE. It is almost an impossible wild goose chase. The only solution is unity of the south, if not for other things but at least to fight for the implementation of those confab reports.