₦airaland Forum

Liberty90:
Started under Obasanjo.

Of course it started under Obasanjo, however it was not only allowed to continue, it got worse under GEJ. Hopefully the new guy on board would do something about it, if not for anything else, but for the want of revenue.

kingbasil:
So in essense you are positing that the practice continue

Read the last paragraph of what I wrote, I'm sure the answer to your question is well spelt out in that text. Thanks

kingbasil:
Though without a source, this is a nice submission by the writer. And this goes to show the unstructured pattern in which the markets are run on partiality and ethnic sentiments... and dvllard says he is fighting corruption

Liberty90:
Yeah what fair country. Dangote imports 500 tonnes of cement...pays zero kobo. Ibeto imports 100 tonnes...pays 100m naira. One Nigeria indeed!

Most of this rubbish was not just instituted but also allowed to flourish right under Jonathan's nose. GEJ continued to grant fraudulent import waivers to every 'big man' that promised to support his re-election, at a point, the Nigerian Customs was bitterly lamenting a loss of revenue in trillions of Naira due to these import waivers granted to big men and even NOI was not spared in their attacks.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/153709-nigeria-customs-service-indicts-okonjo-iweala-says-import-waivers-massively-abused-under-her.html

But while the NCS accused NOI, little did we know that the woman was not only innocent and just following orders from above, she at a point also began lamenting the same fraudulent import waivers being granted by GEJ himself.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/okonjo-iweala-huge-revenue-lost-to-fraudulent-waivers/208949/

But now some ignoramuses think it is Buhari's handwork and they even go ahead to paint an ethnic/religious/tribal colouration to it.

Anyway, I am very confident this mess would be stopped very soon the moment this government remembers it. If not for any other reason but for the want of revenue.

Dangote would soon take over from government completely. May God preserve the mans life and give him more wisdom. Sometimes I wonder whether he's the only 'big man' in Nigeria, why can't other big men do things like this? Why cant state governments champion massive projects like this?

TimothyNkenu:
I'm not going to dignify you with a response, sir.

Was $1million cash found in Amosu's residence or not?

I wasnt expecting a response anyway cos there's no response you could have made which would make any sense.

TimothyNkenu:
So they said that they found a bucket of cash in Amosu's home.
I decided to do a Google Reverse Image Search and guess where that same bucket was?
It was with a farmer that found it and it belonged to Pablo Escobar!
What a coincidence!
Cc: lalasticlala
Seun

The EFCC says they found $1million dollars cash in a soak away pit in Amosu's residence. Few days later, a picture of money in a bucket surfaces online by God-knows-who. Was it the EFCC that released that picture which you posted?

A lot of educated illiterates just litter the Nigerian lanscape.

Liberal2020:
Hope you know Igbo leaders , SS leaders or Yoruba leaders going to Abuja is useless. How? The North has majority in the House and senate. So if they say no to any bill raised by an Igbo, Yoruba or SS leader, that bill will not pass unless all the South in the National Assembly vote as one. But they the North know we are not one, so they are pretty sure any bill raised by a so-called southerner is dead on arrival. However to them...the North is one, so any bill they raise will certainly pass,worst case they get some yoruba to vote on it.

So when you say Igbo leaders should look after their interest in the House and Senate, technically you are right, realistically it's impossible. The north structured this country in such a way they will eat their cake and have it as well.

I thank God you pointed out a solution in you comment. If you agree with me that there's a solution, then it's obviously not IMPOSSIBLE. If everyone knows that the 3 northern zones always have their way whenever they come together, then the question is, what stops the SW, SS and SE from coming together when they want to achieve a purpose? Are we cursed?

Nicepoker:
u ave just given bh boys a clue on how to escape. Well done.

When a military announces its plans of invasion, do not go thinking you are smarter than the military that makes those announcements. Btw I wasnt the one who made the announcement.

tonychristopher:
Igbos don't do heard mentality
Igbos don't do flock mentality
Everybody won't like buhari
Everybody never liked Jesus
Everybody never like Muhammed
Everybody never liked budha

So buhari is just a mortal and he will be opposed and igbos are doing that job perfectly

The beauty of opposition is democracy


Now how is your kunu sipping gworo chewing god faring ...is he back in the country
Has he given you the 5k monthly promised
Has he made fuel 40 naira
Gas he technically defeated boko haram
Has he brought back chibok girls
Has he made dollar at par with naira
Has he balanced the governance in terms of age and tribes
Has he put square oegs in square holes


Has he....so many things



You must understand that there is opposition. And igbo are doing that



Do igbos even give a damn I doubt that

There is a clear difference between 'opposition' and endless 'nagging' like a scorned 2nd wife.
Everybody cannot like Buhari and nobody is asking everyone to like Buhari (elections are loooong over) but there is something called 'minding your business' or 'not giving a damn' when a person you don't like passes by.

If we must be honest with ourselves, the way most Igbos are carrying this Buhari's matter on their head today can obviously not be classified as 'opposition' or 'not giving a damn,' what we have today is clearly a case of people nagging and stressing themselves unnecessarily as if Buhari will rule forever - at most Buhari may only even rule till 2019. It is high time Igbos returned to the 'we dont give a damn' mode and stop some unnecessary nagging which may not be beneficial 'development-wise'.
This is just my opinion though.

As far as I'm concerned, the typical hausa-fulani man does not like an igbo man but if there is any special hatred or bias buhari has for igbos today, it is as a direct result of the way the SE has been treating him since the pre and post 2011 and 2015 election era all because of GEJ. It is high time the SE realises that elections are over now and that GEJ is no more; this is the time to go back and attend to our businesses and forget this buhari matter because buhari will not even be president forever.

The whole talk about buhari's PTF marginalising SE or any region at all or favouring the north is absolute foolishness and falsehood. I can beat my chest and say buhati did not harbor any particular hatred for igbos especially when he picked igbo running mates in 2003 and 2007. All these allegations and counter allegations are just GEJ sentiments stemming from 2015 elections.

And Umeh wins unopposed!. As long as PDP is extint, thats good news.

MayorofLagos:
Look, i cant stand dumb villagers mehn. What kind of shitty report is this? This news is meant for villagers consumption. Since when does an airline export agricultural products?

To add insult to injury you say Anambra State is a party to this crazy setup. Look, OP, you ought to be thrown in same cell with Kanu. What kind of bojuboju be dis now This deception is meant for Biafrans and supporters. Dont bring this kind of handicap into public anymore. This smells of abuse and corruption. Shhit!

Bro, the joke is on you, you are the dumb one here. In fact I didnt even know people could be this ignorant.

FYI, exported agricultural produce, especially the perishable ones are usually moved by air. The idea is to get them to the end users as fast as possible whilst still fresh. Imagine putting ripe paw paw or banana in a ship and sailing it to europe in a 2-3 weeks journey? There is a reason we have cargo planes and there is a reason the Sam Mbakwe airport owerri is an international cargo airport. The report clearly stated it that an air cargo company was involved.

Willie is working willingly

Sometimes it pays not to be in the 2 main political parties (apc & pdp). While others have been distracted by politics and elections, some others have been concentrating on governance.

Karlovich:
why the hell will the air force disperse to the media this kind of sensitive information

The idea 'may be' for the BH guys to see this report and then attempt to come out/relocate from their bunkers. The military is not stupid as many of us assume.

For the love of God, why on earth do our security forces in Nigeria always use live bullets on protesters? Isn't it time we started using rubber bullets or even tasers in this country?

God help us!

OLADD:
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However, more importantly, the dwindling fortune of global oil price started in Jonathan's adminstration but the then Finance Minister was able to professionally meander through it without hurting the nation. The difference now is a case of an ill-prepared, naive, incompetent and blame-drunk govt which cannot differentiate its left from right.
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(1) Between October 2014 and May 2015, the Naira fell from N166/167 to N220 to $1, meanwhile oil still sold at about $65/barrel as at May 2015.
http://abokifx.com/previous-rates-2/

(2) Between the same October 2014 and May 2015, the nation's foreign reserves dropped from ~$38.5bn to $28.7billion, that's a drop of about $10billion in 7 months, with oil still selling at about $65/barrel as at May 2015.
http://www.cenbank.org/intops/Reserve.asp

(3) Nigeria's GDP growth rate was maintained at an average of 6-7% but between October 2014 and May 2015 (2Q 2015), Nigeria's GDP growth rate dropped to its lowest since 1999 of 2.3%.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/gdp-growth-annual

(4) Due to a severe cash crunch occasioned by fall in oil prices, the Nigerian government had to borrow about $2.4billion dollars early in 2015 to offset salaries. This happened at a time when oil still sold above $65/barrel.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nigeria-borrows-to-pay-salaries-with-cash-crunch-worsening/

Now the 4 pointers above which I have raised happened right under the watch of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and she clearly warned Nigerians to brace up for worse economic situations because of the oil price. I do not know where you got your impression from that the nation wasn't hurt by oil price crash when NOI was still in charge. Obviously we all didn't notice the above because at that time, we were all engrossed in the election.

I do not need to remind you that oil now sells for less than half of what it was when NOI handed over, I believe I do not also have to inform you that even with the further collapse in oil prices, the present government through a serious struggle has been able to maintain the Forex reserve at basically the same level it met it almost 9 months ago in order not to plunge Nigeria into a full blown economic crisis. May I also add that without having to borrow or dip its hands into the near empty forex reserves, the present government has been able to pay workers salaries, bail-out state governments and pay-off arrears of fuel subsidies owed since August 2014 (under NOI). Unfortunately, while doing these things, the value of the naira has suffered but the government has been able to maintain the scarce forex reserves it met so as to be able to meet essential needs (hence the common man on the street is yet to feel the effect of this recession).

Finally if you have any understanding of economics, you will understand that this isn't an NOI vs kemi matter, there is absolutely no eceonomic voodoo Nigeria can do on the 'short term' to stop the economic crisis we are presently experiencing. Any wonderful economic ideas that can be implemented today, the positive effects can only be felt much much later. In all honesty I'm afraid the value of the naira may fall even beyond N500 to $1 except oil prices miraculously picks up.

Now Mr OLADD, I am not an economist and I'm sure you are not as well, but just a little advice, next time you want to get involved in an argument of this kind on the economy, just try and make an 'informed' argument based on facts and figures.

CC: knightsTempler

tolexy007:
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Similarly, the Committee on Foreign Relations declined to approve a proposal by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to spend N9bn for connectivity projects to link Abuja with all foreign missions.
http://www.punchng.com/apc-pdp-reps-clash-amaechi/

TThae Amaechi and NCAA ministry issue is even irrelevant. Can someone please explain what kind of connectivity will cost N9bn? Could it be a connection to heaven? or is this supposed to be N9million?

Noneroone:
like u said about kanu and he proved u wrong.
dont u guys have shame at all

What shame are you referring to?... Are the guys not resident in the UK?

tonychristopher:
A Yoruba friend asked an IPOB Friend this ---:--- under what conditions would you support One Nigeria and let go of the Biafra agitation and let it died down and finally laid to rest for good ?. Here was my response:

1. Close down Lagos ports and Open up PH, Calabar, Onitsha and Warri ports.

2. Cancel all direct and major connecting flights to Lagos and Abuja airports…only local connecting flights will be allowed. While this is being done, open up Enugu, Owerri, Asaba, Uyo and PH to international flights…direct and major connecting flights.

3. Ask all international and diplomatic missions to move their embassies and consulates from Lagos, Kano and Abuja to Enugu, PH and Calabar.

4. All federal governments’ agencies in Lagos and Abuja shall be relocated to Enugu, PH and Calabar. CBN, NNPC, e.t.c shall and must relocate to PH, Calabar and Enugu.

5. All multinational companies in Lagos and Abuja, shall and must relocate their offices to PH, Calabar and Enugu.

6.All oil companies must relocate their head offices to PH, as the oil capital of Nigeria .

7. Let the northern children gain admission into federal schools with 300 score points while the South Eastern Children should gain admission with only 20 score points .

8. Let all federal road projects in the North/SW should be handled by one local companies and the one in the SE/SS should be handled by Julius Berger and foreign construction companies.

7.. If these conditions can be fulfilled and implemented for 50years , we can try one Nigeria and let see if you the North and SW will like it for a month. Meaning, Yorubas and Hausas needing to get visas shall travel to PH, Calabar or Enugu to do that. Same with flying or connecting flights, same with shipping and importing their goods, e.t.c.

The Yoruba friend replied: you can’t be serious, this is wickedness. I said really? Don’t you think South Eastern part of Nigeria have been suffering and enduring this very same wickedness for over 50 yrs? He was quiet for a few seconds and said: wow, you are right but it never occurred to me. I said, that’s the problem with One Nigeria, those who are benefiting from it, love it and would love to maintain the status quo. Let each region develop at her own pace , with airport, sea ports , industries , major projects open to be develop in any part of Nigeria without government interference or strangulation due to tribalism and nepotism !.

Let Nigeria be fair to all irrespective of tribe, religion and place of birth. Let there be true federalism and resources control, with the elimination of quota system and federalism character in Nigeria .Let have equal respect for one another irrespective of where the person is coming from in Nigeria.That is what Biafra agitation is all about ..

While leaders of other zones are busy in Abuja scheming for development and economic activities to come to their zones, the million dollar question is, "what have Igbo leaders been doing all these decades in Abuja?" How can you overlook the failure of Igbo leaders and then put the blame on leaders of other zones who are simply hustling to better the lot of their people?? What have all the leaders of the SS and SE been doing for the past few decades that all the seaports in the eastern zone were allowed to collapse?? Now you expect the SW to sit back and close the Lagos seaports and handover all the business and customers to the SE or SS?? When would some people wake up and understand that just like in business, it has always been about competition?? The opponent/competitors will not win the coveted price and then just hand it over to you.

What were the leaders of the SS and SE doing when all the foreign oil companies ran away and relocated to Lagos??... Not too long ago I remember Amaechi fighting for NLNG HQ to be moved to PH and that battle was won, the big question is, what have all other leaders of the SE and SS been doing?? Now you expect the SW to sit back and allow the business customers they have managed to scheme to Lagos to be handed back to the SE and SS on a platter of gold just like that?? Meanwhile the Amaechi who did this is referred to as a Judas because he did not support election of GEJ (who ironically did not do anything for the SS/SE)

Youths from the SE and SS need to wake up from this long slumber and smell the coffee. We're in a rat race where the winners take all without mercy. In a football team, if your players are not good enough, you substitute them for better players, you don't sit back and blame the other teams for scoring goals.

tommykiwi:
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has alleged that the attack and killing of its members during a prayer session in Aba, Abia State by the All Progressive Congress, APC, led Federal Government will provoke the NdigbosIPOB into retaliation.

A statement signed by spokespersons of IPOB, United Kingdom Chapter, Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Iroanya

Meanwhile those giving the threats are comfortable with their families in the UK.

cokoduck:
THAT is what I hate about u people. Obiano is an ingrate, Whether u or he likes it or not, he killed the same people that loved him and I don't understand why u people always call emotions, Obiano is doing nothing in that state, I am from nnewi south, mom is from Ihiala both in anambara state, okay? Hobnobing with that evil man called gown and the child lover aka president is not gratitude. If u think he is doing anything just do a research on Sam mbakwe very well and u will understand

Whether you chose to agree or not, the fact remains that Obiano did not kill nobody. Secondly, it is not only the group of people who gathered for that your fellowship that voted for Obiano, stop patronising yourself.

You ask what emotion means? Emotions could either be hate or love or sadness or anger, and it usually has one simple effect; it makes the person blind to realities. First of all, that you hate BUhari is not a reason why Obiano and everyone else should hate him. Secondly, that your leader tells you Buhari is a paedophile does not mean Buhari is a paedophile; it's on record that he married his wife when she was above 18, only individuals who have chosen to block their brains (due to emotions) still think otherwise, wake up from your blindness. Thirdly, Obiano may not be as great as Mbakwe, but amongst the pack of SE governors, he currently leads.

Seems like we're back to the Abacha days when cash money was stored in GP Tanks. God help us!

cokoduck:
U were making some sense until u mentioned GEJ. Nnamdi Kanu actually told him openly that he will lose long before the election and he openly criticised GEJ several times on radio long before the selection. Nnamdi kanu initialli praised obiano to high heavens telling all other governors to imitate him and the people should support him whole heartedly only for obiano to tell the navy to kill ipob members in onicha on a certain Sunday evening when they were EVANGELIZING, so That is how radio biafra turned against him. Btw don't forget that IPOB played a critical role to elect him. I believe there are better ways to deal with that situation than to use hausa controlled forces to kill UR own brothers and sisters, just as u said, we should use brains to solve problems and not muscle flexing. If Biafra comes now do U think obiano will be seen as a hero?

Actually this is not really about nnamdi kanu, he may have been focused about his campaign and his disregard for GEJ or PMB, but let's be honest with ourselves, majority of the followers which kanu was able to gather are purely Igbos who were VERY ANGRY over the outcome of the 2015 election. That's the reason I made the statement about the present struggle being more politically driven than economic.

Regarding Obiano, it is not nice when people dwell on emotions; putting sentiments and emotions aside, do you in all honesty believe that Obiano ordered those navy men to go KILL ipob members?? Similarly just recently in Owerri a similar situation occured where protesting doctors were shot at, do you in all honesty believe that Rochas expressly ordered those policemen to go and KILL protesting doctors?? We should learn to stop allowing our emotions get the better part of us, or else we would believe anything we are told without consideration and we would most definitely be misguided into channelling our anger to the wrong enemy. Finally whether Biafra comes or not, every right thinking and rational Igbo man would still respect Obiano, the only ones who would't are those who have allowed emotions becloud their reasoning and who have allowed others to do the thinking for them.

This isn't the time for blame games, this is rather a time for the budget to be withdrawn and surgically overhauled.

Why does Saraki always look dejected any time he's close to PMB and Osinbajo?

lastsec:
OP! remove yorubas, I rather form alliance with North than yorubas and by the way yorubas are not south, they are simply west.

SS/SE all the way.

Stop acting like a scorned 2nd wife, on the broad scheme of things, Yorubas have done nothing to Igbos. If there is any region the Igbos should have any bad feelings towards, it is the north (for clear and obvious reasons). For a lot of Igbos like yourself today to detest the SW more than the north, that is sadly just a clear sign of immaturity and confusion; and such emotional directionlessness will take us nowhere.

49cents:
IPOB don't realise that they are actually fighting for the liberation of Nigeria and Nigerians from these cage territory with no sincerity to deliver prosperity and structures that will promote proper human development to the citizens.

They are paying the supreme price while other regions particularly the South West and South South scorn and scoff at them; these two other regions, under the tyranny of the North, would be glad if the North is shrugged of from their resources and lands yet out of fear they remain boot lickers!

Even if Biafra was redefined to the present day SE only, and if by some miracle SE becomes a sovereign state, SW and SS will ride on the same road paved with the blood of the IPOB youths whom they derided to become a sovereign state which they all secretly desire but are too cowardly to demand.‎

IPOB and it's sympathisers should have the sense to know that they are paying a price to high not for themselves but for their mockers.

Until there is an alliance by the south to break up from the North any solo move is foolhardy and the victory if ever won pyrrhic.

Igbos should be like the yorubas, who are enjoying the spoils of Nigeria till it collapses naturally; though Igbos are even making a lot of profit even in the present Nigerian State but in their folly they never 'think home'

Igbos have the greatest investment outside their domain yet they long for Biafra while living outside her, while not putting their money where their mouth is.

These overt eagerness by IPOB and it's sympathisers have provoked suspicion even from their SS cousins, who are the most spineless geo-political zones there is in Nigeria.

Governor Obaino has demonstrated that Igbo land can still be developed amidst the fake federal system which slows eager regions down economically; let us be like Obaino first then when it's time Biafra may meet us prepared. ‎


A proud but disgruntled Igbo Son

There is nothing truer than the bolded statement. I think there is something fundamentally wrong with fighting the external war when the internal clean-up is yet to be done. I have always believed that irrespective of the obvious problems of our current federal system, if we had visionary, focused leaders in the SE, tremendous progress can still be achieved, after which we can then start any fight with the central government. I thank God for a person like Obiano who is proving the naysayers wrong, just imagine if all other SE governors were like Obiano?... Or just imagine we still had leaders like Sam Mbakwe alive in the SE? The progress made would have been monumental and the whole lamentations about underdevelopment and secession would have been hushed, even as the SE flourishes and shames other zones of the federation. Finally, it is at that point that a call for Biafra would be meaningful; the heightened call for secession today is just an emotional reaction to the politics of GEJ vs Buhari and it is devoid of any proper economic reasoning.

BenBruce4Presdt:
...I advise the present administration to swallow its pride and instead of vilifying Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, should consider consulting her for advise on how she was able to coordinate the economy in such a way that Nigeria enjoyed seven years of economic stability in which our currency maintained its value and workers were paid on time and regularly too...

Sometimes I heap praises on this man for being able to stand out from the rest and reason progressively, but other times I'm just left at a loss for words at the way the man reasons like a basic unenlightened person. How can a man who claims to make common sense think that economic growth when oil sells above $100 would be the same as when oil sells at ~$30?? Probably he would tell us NOI was the reason why oil sold above $100 very soon.

Meanwhile when the oil prices began to crash and was still even above $60, almost all economic indices tumbled right under the nose of almighty NOI, the GDP growth which he brags about fell to its lowest ever since 1999 of 2.3% in the 2nd quarter of 2015 and the FG even had to borrow to pay workers salaries at the time. Today even though oil prices have dipped to even less than half of what it was as at the 2nd quarter 2015, the government is not borrowing to pay salaries and the GDP growth rate has risen to over 3%. Yet Ben Bruce who brags about common sense thinks NOI is an omni-science demi god who should be consulted?

This is a very simple bed design which can be produced by any of our steel craftsmen, we even produce much more complex things. However, this very bed whose picture was posted by the Op was not made in Nigeria.

This thread was opened yesterday and then was suddenly closed by the MoDs (mynd44) when it was confirmed to be a fake picture. I wonder which superMoD exhumed and threw this to the FP today.

Signed

Lemon12:
El-Rufai the unofficial VP

Okay did elrufai receive the German president?... Some of you need to grow up abeg.

Lemon12:
osibanjo is a clown cum puppet ... When this Abokiiii finish with am eeehn ...

Imagine the German president was received by Ambode and was kept in Lagos till buhari comes back .... And our so called Sophiscated 5days acting president was in state house eating...

Smh

"Osibanjo is a mere commissioner ---- saraki 2015"

The childishness of some of you wailers knows no bounds. Abeg wetin Osinbajo do you?? Is it his fault that he's the vice president and not the president? Tell me which VP since 1960 has been as active as this Prof?