₦airaland Forum

JackBaueress1:
oh! I should have known that.

Saraki has betrayed his party out of desperation.

So sad!

NgeneUkwenu:
57 present, The Senate need 73 for quorum to be formed. Constitutional crisis ahead.

Saraki Cannot Survive This! Mark it!

PassingShot:
You are completely wrong.

David Mark, until then, was no longer a senator let alone the senate president. Their tenure ended on June 6th and they were all senators-elect until when the NASS was inaugurated again today.

PMB never wanted to be involved in the power struggle. If not, he would not have asked the Clerk to convene the House. He is the only one who can give that directive under the constitution.

PassingShot:
Ekweremadu will win this. Many APC senators are absent.

Saraki has done another "Tambuwal" here.

wonderfulman:
quorum was not formed in this election,57 out 109 senators,what happened to the others

PassingShot:
Where is the substance in the news reported? I mean where are the details?

This is another low for Vanguard for reporting such a weighty news without any substance.

georgechisom:
If dis news is actually true, then is not good for our democracy. This is because thr is no reason 4 such postponement. Am yet 2 see a clear difference btw dis new govt n d past govt. Because What we are witnessing now is still d old way n manners in which our govt pilot d affairs of d country. God help Nigeria!!! Is this d change we asked 4?

Obiagelli:
I honestly don't like signs this government is showing

Imanuelle:
ñua ara, until ebiebi.
I'm good, you?

Imanuelle:
Wtf are all these? Didn't mention you because of the topic,

I dey shout your name because Ara babes dun carry you go. 1diot! You dun forget your father ba?

funshint:
U̶̲̥̅̊ seem not to know anything about Abacha..there's a diff btw power play and outright wickedness. This guy was in the league of pple like Idi-amin and Mobutu. Their wickedness has no rivalry. Bloodthirsty vampires. And talking about the economy; it was simply in shambles despite the huge revenue being made from oil at that time. This guy looted Nigeria blind even till now the total billions of dollars syphoned by this man to other countries is yet to be ascertained. His yearly address to workers is always "We must tighten our seat belt" while the minimum wage at that time was N500. Wonder how U̶̲̥̅̊ survive with that. The economy was simply on a standstill with infrastructural decay, armed robbery was the order of the day *thank God for groups like OPC,Egbesu boys, etc. May his soul never find rest wherever he is now!!!

Imanuelle:
Where is obayaya?

ChaleeBendel:
PT: Let me be more specific. With the terrible condition of the economy, and the high expectations of Nigerians on the new government, what practical steps should Buhari take to create jobs speedily?

Soludo: I told you I do not want to discuss specifics now. (In layman term this means, I don't know.)

Chinum:

Chinum:
This thread seems to be pulling out my fellow nwa nsukkas. I hail o

Herzumpther:
So you be omo Nsukka? Nice.

cococandy:
in my eastern part, we use big mortars and pestles but if it's too large to be pounded by hand, we take to the palm oil mills.

I've not seen this before. (But then how many people's homes have I been to in the village before)

hayorbaami:
OMG . These pictures are disgusting. The picture in the Op's original post, I can deal with but the ones posted by coogar and cococandy! Oh no !

I remember when I stopped eating locust beans because I saw one dirty looking woman dancing in a mortar full of unprocessed locust beans all In the name of processing it. I got home expressing my disgust and told my mum I was never gonna eat 'iru' anymore. She smiled and said only if I knew how palm oil is being processed but I shrugged.

I really can't believe what I'm seeing! It's not about the dirty legs and body anymore but the disgusting and extremely dirty pits and environment it is being made! Looks like they are recycling shyte in a soak away! Please who knows what's next after this mess. I mean, how is that fine finished product gotten?

Sweetlemon:
People like me did not start hating on GEJ just like
that. He had an easy ride to aso rock with so much goodwill. In fact, we didn’t start active mobilization against him until after the 2012 New year gift he gave us.

wisehuman156:
Halliburton scandal for which the US oil service giant was indicted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and US Justice Department, and was compelled to pay fines running into hundreds of millions of dollars.

In 2010, Nigeria indicted former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, who was CEO of Halliburton before he was elected, only to later clear him when Halliburton worked out a $35 million settlement.

Leaked records from HSBC, a huge global bank based in
Between 2009 and 2011, the consortium members paid penalties totalling more than $1.5 billion for their roles in the bribery scheme.
Source:http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/leaked-files-link-abdulsalami-abubakar-chris-garba-to-182m-halliburton-bribery-scandal/201454/

Dygeasy:
Calm down will you?

Obiagelli:
I sincerely hope not, i have never been scammed in my life but the traces i am seeing since Friday is scary.
I will wait and see o

justwise:
It's what it's, when one man, one family, one tribe stays in power for 40years, monopolised the whole country resources, killed, jailed anybody who dare to challenge him then when he is gone there will be chaos.

justwise:
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I beg to differ

justwise:
If you knew that I can hurt you as much as you can hurt me then you will less likely to try and attack me.

justwise:
Sagamite is probably one of the most sensible nairalander here unlike some of you with single brain cell.

justwise:
Everybody feel the pain now, unlike before when one man does the killing because he can.

ROSSIKE:
Do you think our imperialist influenced, BBC conditioned brethren here know anything about these details? They don't actually realise Mugabe is very popular in his country especially in the rural areas where the majority live, whose lives have been transformed for the better by the land redistribution program. That's why they keep voting him in. BBC always accepted those results until Mugabe began the land redistribution program. Thereafter all his electoral victories were "rigged" according to them.

justwise:
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Violence, intimidation, harassment and rigging toke place.

Why haven't his people thrown him out? The same reason Iraqi or Libyans could not throw Saddam or Gaddafi out for many years

Shymm3x:
Journalism isn't about heckling and harassing dignitaries, especially leaders, at an event. There's a place and time for everything. And is he a diplomat or Nigerian politician? That's the leader of a sovereign country, and if they (sahara "primitive" reporters) have "pertinent questions" to ask him, they should wait till he's on a working visit to Nigeria, when he's taking questions from the journalists - not the plebeian way devoid of any professionalism they went about it. Even during the annual UN summit in New York, with all kinds of leaders in attendance - do you see journalists act the way these uncivilised oafs acted in that video? They look so crude it's not even funny. Anyway, sahara reporter is more or less a paparazzi medium that deals with gossips...so it shouldn't be shocking. My bad for taking that rogue news paparazzi outlet seriously.

He shared power with Tsvangirai because of external pressure, and Mandela was influential in that deal. If majority of Zimbabweans had a problem with him, especially with the millions of dollars both the UK and US keep pumping into that country to support an uprising - there would have been an uprising there time ago. However, there has been none - and to ordinary Zimbabweans, he's better than what the opposition has to offer. Yes, he has stayed in power for too long - but can you expatiate on how he brought Zimbabwe to its knees, and not the crippling sanctions imposed by western countries due to land issues?

Erm, let me correlate Nigeria under GEJ with Zimbabwe, to buttress my point. GEJ was a terrible leader, far worse than Mugabe. However, based on ya logic, the fact that there was no uprising during GEJ's scandalous regime means that the people were suppressed, no? And despite how terrible GEJ was, didn't he have popular support from two sections of the country, and a decent amount of sympathisers in two other regions? Now, correlate that with Zimbabwe and Mugabe's Shona ethnic group (in which he enjoys popular support), who make up about 82% of the country's population. When you do that, you'll see why he keeps winning elections in that country, hence I asked if you have an understanding of how Zimbabwe's politics work.

Buhari won an election, just as Mugabe keeps winning election in Zimbabwe. However, I correlated the two because Buhari once ruled Nigeria as a dictator, and he's part of the same bandits who have been ruling the country post civil war. And the same folks are still the power-brokers in the country - the untouchables. Ditto the recycling of the same politicians from one party to the other since 1999. So how is that different? Different faces, but the same old story.

Anyway, you just added credence to my argument about the farce that "democracy" is with the Bush-Clinton dynasty in America. Then again, America isn't a democracy - it's a constitutional republic. In "democracy" you just have to keep going with what the majority want, and the majority in Zimbabwe are the Shona people, hence he stays winning. That's the same reason why Angela Merkel has been ruling Germany since 2005, and she might end up ruling Germany till she dies cos there's no term limit for German Chancellor. So you'll agree with me that Mugabe is no different from these other folks albeit his only crime is that he ought to keep changing the faces of the puppets, and fall back into the background as the puppet-master, no?

P.S: the world isn't celebrating anything, the last election was won and lost based on the natural fault lines in Nigeria that have been there since the country was created. They just wanted regime change for reasons I don't want to digress to, and they got it. Only Nigerians are caught up in their own delusions. Yes, he should perform far better than GEJ (anyone will), but it's going to be window-dressing - with no fundamental change in the systematic structural defects plaguing the country. same ol same ol.

ECOTERRORS:
My governor will rather receive investors from North Korea than a Malian President that came to beg for alms