₦airaland Forum

eddiebruk: Why should a whole state be relying on funds from FG, it is only when they want something that's when they cry foul, but when the FG wants something from them, they call it oppression and suddenly want the FG out of state issue, deal with it with state funds, you might get the funds promised by the FG but don't hope.

The issue is not about state govt relying on FG, afterall the state govt has already used its own funds to sort the issue.. but the FG has already promised 200m... now the issue is an issue of accountability on d part of the FG.

If only u will remove the politics log from ur eyes it should be clear to u that the issue raised here is on the accountability of the FG, something we never care about in Nigeria

Adikam: gibberish

What is gibberish about what he said?

New day, new denial... Even though I do not still believe this second attempt at damage control by the presidency, I must say it is a better and more coherent explanation than the first silly stories shared by Reuben Abati yesterday that "GEJ just bumped into Sheriff at the airport"...

Sometimes however, silence is golden. I would not subscribe to the presidency admitting that it committed a blunder but all these responses and denials aimed at damage control are unnecessary. Nigerians forget very easily and if not for the senseless denials popping in daily from the presidency, this issue would have been long forgotten by now...

He added that the militants assembled in Bama for the attack

A military officer said that only the APC, which most likely carried a senior boko haram militant, was able to escape towards Bama.

“We’re now preparing to pursue the militants further into Bama and beyond,” said the officer

From these responses, it seems BH still has a stronghold at Bama?... I thought they said it was false news when it was reported that BH overran Bama?

chudionu58: If it's not Apc vs Pdp, what is it then? APC should have come out to distance themselves from an alleged Boko Haram sponsor! Not PLAY THE OSTRICH then suddenly start crying wolf immediately he defects to PDP! So Mr (wo)man it's all politics!!!!!!

Guy, are you okay?... what has APC distancing itself from anything or anybody got to do with the fact that the president is romancing around internationally with a person under investigation?... Did you see the topic of this thread?

You have simply spoken like your life depends on the petty stomach politics of PDP vs APC as practised in Nigeria but I am not surprised...

I'm sorry I can no longer argue with you because I am not a politician...

chudionu58: Very convincing! "He has always being a suspect" yet APC(saints and angels) gleefully left him in their fold without uttering a word Wow!! "He quickly joined the PDP"...From where?? Hmmm "Nigerians should be saddened about the unholy romance"....But same Nigerians should be clapping and dancing for all the time he has being in the APC!!! Kai these guys sabi evade questions eh! Continue deceiving yourself selectively shouting up and down.

Mr Man, not every Nigerian you meet is as petty as you to think and see everything as politics of APC vs PDP. What has this issue got to do with PDP or APC?... If you choose to mortgage the rest of your life to the mercy of criminals because you think every issue has to be APC vs PDP, then so be it... You have already made up your mind

Rijes: Who told u he enter inside the meeting hall were u there......
The pix depicts that he met him outside...
Biafra 2015

That he is in his entourage doesn't mean he must travel in the same plane with Jonathan; there is something called an advanced team that goes ahead to prepare the way for the presidents visit and the advanced team also welcomes the president when he arrives... Please stop limiting your reasoning ability all because you feel you have a duty to defend an inexcusable action of Jonathan... Everyone has a right to support his chosen candidate but defending an inexcusable blunder sometimes makes you just look desperate and silly, my apologies!

By the way, I am tired of posting this picture on this thread; Stop pretending like you haven't seen this picture.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1696569_sheriff_jpeg7d1a9ef68c5bf32b0929fc2730368df9

Can you also now tell me that this picture of GEJ meeting with the Chad president was also at the airport where he accidentally bumped into Sheriff?

Hallelluia!!!!... Nigeria is now ebola free

Kirinwa: Being in the front seat will give you opportunity to bond with your girl. You don't wanna put her in the background unless you don't have plans of marrying her even at that, give her that attention she deserves. This is not even an issue.

The issue isn't who the front seat actually belongs to... Rather if a GF who hasn't been married yet can be this domineering to the extent of commanding the sister who was already seated at the front to step out, haba! .. There's nothing right about this girl

Timileyin: Got to settle some really big fight few days back when preparing to go to a cousin's wedding. I left home with my sister, with the intention of picking my Girl friend alone with way, When we saw her, she demanded my sister, move to the back so as she could occupy her so called space. Which ended been a big fight and they caused a really big scene. Who do i support?

For such trivial nonsense to actually become an issue, I feel very sorry for you... Common girlfriend that hasn't been married claiming this kind of right is beyond my imagination.. and to even think that the GF actually started the squabble?.. Even if it was the other way round and the sister initiated the disagreement, a reasonable GF would humbly go to the back seat for peace to reign, knowing full well that the front seat belongs to her and the guys sister wouldn't be there always... In summary, you have a very unreasonable and immature GF whose present behaviour has all the trappings of a nagging and controlling wife..

Run for your life boy... except your life is worth nothing to you... A word is enough for the wise

Rijes: Who told u he enter inside the meeting hall were u there......
The pix depicts that he met him outside...
Biafra 2015

Stop arguing blindly... The more you try to defend this despicable romance, the more you continue to encourage our leaders to take us for fools... here's your picture of your president seated gracefully with Sheriff and the Chadian president.. Now tell me Sheriff is also still welcoming GEJ by sitting there
www.nairaland.com/attachments/1696569_sheriff_jpeg7d1a9ef68c5bf32b0929fc2730368df9

Rijes: Cant u understand.......
Sheiff was already in chad. He just came to visit presido

He just came casually to greet the president and he was allowed into the chambers where GEJ was having a security meeting with the Chadian president??... Of all the people that make up the presidents entourage he only chose to walk into the meeting with a person who gatecrashed?... not just anyone but actually a person who has always been a prime suspect?...

Be honest to yourself, do you belief that trash?... _{you dont have to answer my questions}

Whether GEJ invited Sheriff or whether Sheriff invited himself, it is a blunder of monumental proportions for the president to be seen in public hobnobbing with someone under investigation for terrorism... Everyday I wonder who even advises GEJ or how the man reasons; He always acts, then later goes back to think of his actions... How can a person like this be a president of such a great nation?

The people always supporting every action and inaction of Jonathan even when it is clearly indefensible, I wonder how you guys actually sleep at night or how you actually reason

unic: We really have bunch of dumb ass on this forum, has anyone accusing GEJ taken a look at the legs of Sheriff as seated to understand that the picture could have been superimposed on that scene. Also, why is it that all the while this guy was in APC he was not a BH sponsor until now that he moved over to PDP? his been a BH sponsor came to light.

Very silly analysis... APC photoshopped a picture and gives to Reuben Abati to post online?.... Even the presidency in their denial did not say Sheriff wasn't there... How can you be this dumb and yet you are the one accusing others of being dumb? ... It has become very obvious that attempting to defend the indefensible actions of Jonathan just makes his supporters to think like infants

chudionu58: Please guy, if you or any other person can answer this very simple question(s) I will be very happy for the rest of the day even without eating!... 1.WHY WAS SHERIFF NOT ACCUSED OF TERRORISM SPONSORSHIP WHEN HE WAS IN THE APC? 2.DID HE JUST START SPONSORING TERROR AS SOON AS HE DECAMPED FROM THE APC? just simple answers.

Stop asking silly questions which you should already know the answer.... If you are so ignorant of happenings in Nigeria you have google to check for information... Sheriff has always been a suspect and there has been calls by various groups for him to be arrested. GEJ being a weakling has never been able to arrest him and only recently, when the pressure from those calling for his arrest grew strong, he quickly joined PDP so he would never be prosecuted... Today Sheriff enjoys unlimited immunity from investigation or trial for being under the bosom of GEJ... GEJ even had to rub it in the faces of Nigerians by sitting down in an international security meeting with a suspected terrorist; thereby bringing shame to the office of the presidency and drawing up questions as to the political will of the president to fight terrorism.

Except you have wilfully decided to be an irredeemable dolt, my explanations should answer your questions and also let you understand why any sensible Nigerian should be saddened by this unholy romance.

Thewhizzkid1: :
Yeah..Me too..I think d reason why some state schools have been somehow underrated over d years is because of the change of name..For example AAU, MAULAG and others..I think these universities would have been more recognized if they still retained d name of their state..Imagine delsu being changed to Onanefe Ibori university..#lol..

I almost choked on my morning coffee while reading this.. James Onanefe Ibori University

WHAT NONSENSE!!!....
He wasn't on the presidents entourage and he was allowed to sit gracefully on the front row ALONE with GEJ and the president of Chad even while the others in the room had to sit on the side stools?... What else is the definition of 'entourage' according to the Jonathan dictionary?

If he isn't with GEJ in this picture, can someone please tell me Sheriff is now an aide of the Chaddian president or maybe the meeting took place in Sheriff's house in Chad?... or maybe Sheriff gatecrashed the meeting of both presidents and he was gracefully allowed entrance?

How can GEJ just accidentally meet Sheriff at the airport in Chad (as they want us to now believe) and he suddenly decides to abandon the other members of his entourage and he takes Sheriff (who wasn't in the plan) along into the meeting room with the Chadian president?... does that even make any sense at all to you guys on this thread who have happily chosen to believe the gibberish denial from Abati?

Why do these our leaders always think the people they rule are iidiots they can tell anything?...

I'm sorry to say this but it is only a capital iidiot that would see this picture and still say Sheriff isn't there with GEJ

Just as always, the man always acts before he thinks... Then Abati would have to be the one to bear the brunt

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1696597_1410460420595_jpegc037b2e33f93c45cfd9de886b787a54e

BetaThings: Only in a backward thinking country can damage control become a political asset
Going by your argument, Jonathan can dramatically improve his approval rating by mandating every minister to
come up with 2 fiasco each which he will proceed to deal with or reverse like a compassionate grandfather
Isn't that the way to go when you are the only saint and every member of your uncoordinated team is a bungler

Lol... Are you a new comer?... From all we hear and see everyday does Nigeria remotely resemble a 'forward' thinking country?... Sometime last year GEJ visited a bomb scene and also visited the surviving victims in hospital.. Abati his mumu media adviser afterwards posted pictures online with a very tasteless caption, "Jonathan visits blast victims.... a president that cares"...

This may not be the first time the charlattans that rule us will try to score cheap political points by correcting the after-effects of their own ineptitude..

Thewhizzkid1: Exactly, it isn't a wise decision at all...Employers abroad will be afraid of that name@Odumegwu Ojuku..The school will be so underrated as people will consider it local..They are jux endangering d employment opportunities of the graduates of the school..It is not fair...The name doesn't sound too sweet to pronounce..How will they mention the name to their peers from other schools self? If it was given Chukwuemeka Ojukwu university of science and technology that would have been better..But that Odumegwu in d name...It really sounds local...Hope m not offending anyone..Jux speaking my mind..

Odiegwu!
But seriously, I hate when they have to name universities after people, most especially when it involves renaming an already existing university. The other time I think it was Udenwa or was it Ohakim that renamed Imo state university to Evan(s) enwerem university.. and following the same trrend, GEJ came with the MAULAG disaster, Moshood Abiola Unibersity
Chaii!

I seriously detest when the name of an already existing institution is changed in a bid to honor someone... Are there not other ways to immortalise people besides renaming universities and causing long term confusion and embarrassment to the alumni?

Imagine brandishing the certificate of a school called 'Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Univeristy'... In my opinion, that's a very disgusting decision on the part of the jobless and clueless lawmakers..

retepmurt: NATIONAL Youth Service Corps, NYSC, yesterday, explained that the N4,000 fee imposed on prospective corps members for printing of call-up letters on-line was for services and infrastructure to be deployed by the collaborating firm.

Director General of NYSC, Brig-General Jonhson Olawumi, said the money was neither for the scheme nor the corps producing institutions as it was being alleged by some quarters.

NYSC, in a bid to improve its operations in line with global cutting-edge technology, went into partnership with a private company, Messrs. SIDMACH Technologies Nigeria Limited, for the full computerisation of the mobilisation process.

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/nysc-speaks-n4000-fee-printing-call-letters/

Arrant Nonsense!... N4000 demanded from unemployed graduates to print a letter?... What kind of country are we running?....

Anyway, an opportunity for GEJ to shine; issues like this should be seriously protested and I trust Johnny to reverse this and claim some lost glory

This is very good news... Every time I walk into a grocery store in the UK and I see bananas with labels 'imported from Cameroon,' 'imported from Ivory Coast' etc, I just keep asking myself if I would ever see anything imported from Nigeria

I don't think the message posted by the Op is complete. However, taking a look at the BokoHaram situation, it is only a politically/ethnic/religiously biased and myopic person that cannot deduce that BH is a creation and machinery of politicians who presently belong to both the APC and PDP...

It is plain silly for anyone to just say BH is PDP or BH is APC...

The reason GEJ has not been able to tackle BH is because his ill advisers who make money out of every misfortune keep telling him that BH is his opposition APC and he totally swallows the rubbish and even comes to say it on TV without any evidence or conviction. This is just a self indictment of his leadership ability and a serious setback on his ability to crush BH.

The ONLY reason why our military is unable to destroy BH is because of corruption at the top... When Nigerian military goes for UN missions, they perform excellently but in Nigerian missions (where they get to control their budget themselves), corruption just like cancer eats away their might..

Nigerians on the other hand don't help matters as they ignorantly follow the deceivers (politicians)... A politician who is interested in his own pocket tells you the problem of Nigeria is the other politician and yet a lot of people myopically believe the deceivers and begin to fight themselves while the politicians embrace and loot on..

thunder74: What he is saying is that reports should be balanced and not one sided. Why reporting only when the Nigerian Army are down but turn blind eyes when they are up. Let me quote you in reverse, "imagine nobody tells us about the army's victories, we would have thought all was not well".

Naaa... on the contrary what he's saying is that the BH attacks should not be reported at all cos if reported, it instils fear in people and thereby boosts the morale of the terrorists...

Now I will attempt to answer your own concern which is why SR reports are usually imbalanced... Do you know what SR is?... Do you know what they stand for?... Do you know the idealogy behind SR?... Do you belong to the category of people who regard SR as a 'normal news' website and expect them to report 'normal news' professionally?

Since inception (right from Obasanjo's regime), SR has always been focussed on reporting only stories which no other media outfit dares to publish... and yes! their focus has always been on the filth of the government in power.... You don't expect them to report that a road has been fixed, they would only report the story when the road is bad... There are too many other media outfits out there to report when the road is fixed... Likewise in the case of BH, when the military takes over, besides the victory statement from the military spokesman, there are too many other media outfits in the country that would report the 'good news.' Just the same way you dont expect to see a healthy person in a hospital ward, you can't expect to see SR reporting 'good news.' Most of their stories even come from journalists and investigators working for the other mainstream media bodies but who dare not publish the sensitive stories. I hope I have been clear enough?

Ayed44: 'capture' has to do with occupation. Boko haram have no plan of occupying territories. They only go to towns where they would encounter minimal military resistance and cause maximum destruction and move on to the next vulnerable town.

In war situations, that is the definition of capture

shizzleStar: the point he made is very simple and doesn't need to be argued. Ok, coming to your capture and recapture ish, can you proffer an answer to this: why is sahara reporters always quick to report their is a capture, but hardly ever reports a recapture?

Many people are asking this question including this poster who commented after you>>

The question any wise person should be asking is if the report by SR is true or false... For once in Nigeria why can't we be more interested in what is true or not, instead of dwelling on the silly politics of "why is he saying this?"

Ayed44: boko haram never took any town, don't give in to all the rubbish coming frm those corrupt media. What is happening is that boko haram would move to a vulnerable town and attack it and hold the civilians therein hostage until the military men would come and dislodge them. That is not taking a town.

So in your wisdom, if what you have written is not 'capture', then what is the definition of 'capture'?

Afroconnect: U re sounding like a real kid here man...
What good will abusing Nigerin soldiers bring you?
Its not about talking,its talking what helps or doing what helps.

Soldirs are there fighting so you live free,what are you doing to help in the fight?

The least you can do is boost their morale,not believing all that sahara and BBC writes,forgeting that these people spend time projecting their interests and that bad news sells, hence media wiill carry the bad news more.

Do you know all the reporters of sahara,do you know their interests?

Have you not heard or don't you know videos are doctored?

Nigerian army is not a news outlet,the army is pre-occupied with a war here,the least we can do is support them by boosting their morale and talking to the political actors to spend our money well so we see results.

coming online to demoralise them,you are doing the Nigerian army and the war against boko no good.

Do what is needful,what helps...there is a war going on out there,you need to support where you belong,not talking trash.

Just like I said earlier on this thread, choosing not to believe a story or not to report an ongoing atrocity does not automatically make the atrocity to stop... Also I do not see how informing people of an atrocity equates to being sympathetic with the perpetrators. Or are you saying the reports of BH taking over those cities is false?... If that is the case how come the military comes back the next day and tells us the cities have been re-captured?.. Do you have relatives or friends living in those troubled areas?... Do you have friends or relatives in the military?.. If you hear first hand stories of the atrocities going on presently in the northeast, you would weep and you wouldn't be here on Nairaland saying rubbish because you probably think this is politics of APC vs GEJ. We get to hear less than 10% of the real stories on the news and you suggest it should remain so?

Look, I agree with the logic of reporting less of the atrocities of BH and reporting more on the victories of the NA to boost the army morale. However, not reporting the atrocities of BH at all just like the FG has instructed Nigerian media is arrant nonsense... SR seems like the black sheep today because all other Nigerian media outfits have been gagged leaving SR to be the only ones reporting the 'bad news.' Imagine they didn't publish those reports at all, the entire Nigerian populace would have been smiling in their homes thinking everything is fine until a day when we would all be consumed... Whether you like it or not, Nigeria is in a full scale war against terrorists and I would rather be informed of what is going on than remain in absolute ignorance... They say ignorance is bliss but that is arrant nonsense when it comes to my security... If you choose to be ignorant, SO BE IT!!..

tokunboh: That is your opinion, you are entitled to it. For us that can see through their lies, we know 80% of news that emanates from Sahalie reporters is junk.

Well, just like you said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and my own opinion is the exact opposite of yours... 80% of the ridiculous stories published by saharareporters usually turns out to be true... and yes, I can confirm this as an ardent follower of the site since 2006

Something else I do not understand however is how the people who hate sahalie reporters so much will not just keep away from the website which they so believe propagates fake news. Do you like junk news so much?.. Why cant you just stick with NTA and AIT?

tokunboh: Go back to most of the news they have reported on Boko Haram and point to one they did not sensationalize?

Sahara reporters is still reporting that Boko Haram is in control of Damboa, whereas they are not. They are still reporting that BH is in control of Bama, of course they are not. They were also insinuating that Mubi has been attacked, Mubi was never attacked. I can go on and on about the many lies and propaganda from sahalie reporters.

Put away your emotions and try to be logical... You go to their website and pick up a news report published 2 weeks ago and draw your conclusions that they are 'still reporting.'

Whatever the case, when it comes to news in Nigeria, I trust the authenticity of the rubbish published by sahalie reporters (as you call it) to the 'beautiful news' published by every other media houses and government spokespersons. If you are a Nigerian who follows events closely and who is devoid of unnecessary emotions or sentiments, you will understand the reason behind this my statement

ochejoseph: Wonderful News ! But don't be sad if you don't see it as broadcast message on your BBM , retweeted on twitter, posted to Facebook or shared on Nairaland.


Social Media has turned many of us into Weapons in the hands of the Enemy


1. Without knowing it, many of us have taken over the role of Abu Qaqa

2. Transforming personal Blogs, twitter handle and social media spaces into platforms for propagating terror

3. How will you feel if that Video you are sharing and broadcasting is that of someone you know, sharing such Videos and information that massages the ego of the insurgents in the height of insensitivity!

4. Supporting our troops is a civic responsibility

Supporting their families while they are in the front lines is a duty we must all embrace

Supporting the families of fallen soldiers is a debt we need to start repaying !


May God help us to help ourselves!

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

www.twitter.com/ochejoseph

Not reporting bad news does not automatically solve the problem. Not reporting the atrocities of bokoharam will not automatically eliminate the existence of BH.

We sit in the comfort of our homes and choose not to hear or discuss the activities of BH but that does not change the fact that the common man living in the north-east faces hell every day. People in other areas of the country do not hear up to 10% of the atrocities of BH. The FG has forbidden all media organisations from reporting what's really happening over there in order not to 'boost the morale of the terrorists.' That may be a good decision, but for once, try and imagine you were from the north-east.

..And by the way, SaharaReporters isn't regulated by the govt, that's the reason why they seem to be the only ones carrying bad news... but just like I said, not reporting bad news does not automatically make things alright

tokunboh: Sahara Reporters will never carry any news like this. I guess their 'sources' are not privy to this information.

Not accepting there is a problem does not make the problem to disappear.

Apart from the so called Sahara Reporters that you hate so much (simply for reporting the filth of the govt which no other media body dares to report), is there any other media house in Nigeria that reported the fall of these cities?... If no cities fell to the terrorists as you would like to delusionally believe, then why is there a report that the military has re-taken the cities?... Can the military re-capture a city that never fell?

Common sense isn't too common these days indeed.