₦airaland Forum

Alexander001:
Ifeanyi uba can enter okija/ihiala and come out untouched. if they should try any rubbish, they will not only have Ifeanyi to deal with bt nnewi as a whole.

Teespice:
you did not even say something better.

anyway, it is not that. try harder.

Teespice:
identify my selling point.

Khalessi:
Lagos has no king Lagos needs no king......

Guidette:
Is he wrong though? The word Aba-made means fake. So he has a point.

4Play:
Is Pat Utomi a better economist than NOI?

MizMyColi:
You've been very low key...

Everything okay?

Herzumpther:
Omo this PDP man dey para o.

Now them don carry light.

tit:
they should brainwash the fool.
i no know say father dey get bank account before!

what happened o their vow of poverty?

mentorandfriend:
He will only pull such strings if GEJ wins this election. I've lost faith in EFCC since after the oil subsidy scam investigation when Femi Otedola and Farouk Lawan walked away free after. More so, Ifeanyi Uba of Capital oil is leading the TAN charge. Everything is possible under GEJ.

mentorandfriend:
Wrong analysis. What time has Mimiko to hassle and embarass him? Is Mimiko gonna get another four years to make his tenure twelve years so as to do all you've just said?

Mosesm:
When Mimiko himself would have been rendered impotent after Buhari victory? EFCC from Monday morning will ceased to be PDP errand outfit. [size=16pt]Not even Mimiko's mother, Alhaja will vote for Jonothin [/size]

Kulas:
This was the agreement he reached yesterday with Tinubu that He MUST be given the APC guber ticket in Ondo during the next Election on the CONDITION that he MUST decamp to APC before the election as way of making the public to see that APC is waxing stronger and counter the negative effect the defection of Rivers state deputy governor to PDP has done to APC.

Symphony007:
Die hard APC follower and media mogul has predicted how the country's electoral map will go on election-day, and he predicts the country going red(APC). Is he right?

APC wins(red)
PDP wins(blue)
Battleground states(green)

Imanuelle:
Ara has stolen my friend.

Goddex:
[size=13pt]1) The days of building groundnut pyramids are over.

Now, we must process the groundnut here in Nigeria and add value across the chain - GEJ
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MrEverest:
You are even very conservative with that number. The governor & the emir of Kano are on the same page & if the government & Emir should support PDP based on their popularity & the herd mentality of Kano people, then APC has lost it already

kestolove95:
If pdp gt 50 thousand vote from kano by march28....den d lord must b crazy

sleemfesh:
This is a non-partisan view on Nigeria.

Nigeria has a date with destiny as March 28 and April 11 draw near. These are two significant dates that, on one hand, present Nigerians with an opportunity to strengthen democracy through the ballot.

These dates, on the other hand, are also beaming scaring danger signals. No thanks to politicians who are beating drums of war, stumping across the country, making campaign statements full of fury, with little about issues of concern to most Nigerians. As is typical of Nigerian elections, the tension is thick in the air, so much so that the putrid smell of Armageddon has enveloped the country. Fears are palpable, generating serious concerns among Nigerians and within the international community.

Nigeria has traveled this route before, not once. There are however reasons for genuine and heightened concern this time. The last few years have seen widening cracks along the Nigeria’s well-known fault lines of religion and ethnicity. The security situation, especially in the northeast, has been a huge sore on the reputation of the Africa’s most populous country. The abduction of more than 200 girls from the Borno State community of Chibok nearly one year ago, and the perceived lack of enough effort from the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure they are rescued, are making the prospect of a peaceful poll a tall dream.

President Jonathan has had to take the blame for virtually everything going wrong in Nigeria. Admittedly, there are issues that currently feed this perception. They include the security situation, corruption and poor living standards of most Nigerians. Ordinarily, the buck stops at the desk of the president. The opposition seems to have succeeded in creating the impression that Mr. Jonathan merely wakes up on daily basis and does nothing. But things don’t always seem as they look in Nigeria.

That the president has been doing nothing would not pass the muster of nonpartisan scrutiny. What would be correct is that the president has actually done little to publicize the many things he has been doing. In the last six years, the government has been confronting more fundamental issues of growth and development with the type of vigor and single-mindedness uncommon in Nigeria.

The Jonathan administration would trump any previous administration in the effort made to tackle the near-complete collapse of infrastructure such as roads, transportation and power supply. The same can be said of employment generation and capacity development. Nigeria’s economy has not only survived major shake-ups affecting most advanced economies, it has actually also been growing in leaps and bounds, emerging as Africa’s largest.


He has perhaps taken an ingenious route to fighting corruption. He understands the difference between the symptoms of corruption and the underlying causes. While many had expected a frontal attack at the symptoms through demonstrative — even if unlawful — actions by deploying anti-corruption forces in a frenzy of mass arrests, media trials and public sentencing of suspects, Mr. Jonathan has chosen to allow the justice system the space to work.

He hasn’t stopped at that. He is, with the skill of a surgeon, identifying the underlying causes of corruption and taking them out one after the other. This is what he did with a fertilizer distribution scam, which had hampered food production and diversification effort for decades. Perhaps, he did not make enough noise on this, but the result of his approach is loud enough for the thousands of Nigerian farmers who now have easy access to fertilizer, completely eliminating the meddlesome middlemen. The action is equally loud enough for the vested interests to fight back and join the now-profitable president-bashing choir.

The security challenge is a bit more complicated. Mr. Jonathan’s emergence represented a paradigm shift in the Nigerian political arrangement. He was the first person with no strong political background or affiliation, and from a minority tribe to become a democratic president in Nigeria. He had not benefited from any of the important pillars of power such as the support of a major ethnic group. The template for success in the Nigerian environment requires much more than the timing of response to a security situation, such as the Chibok abduction saga. It requires the willingness of the players within the affected area to put the safety of lives and protection of properties of the people ahead of their own immediate political advantage. It is not going to be easy trimming the hair of someone who continues to run. It could take time to either catch up with him or get him to willingly agree to the need to solve a problem. The ability to keep calm rather than adopt a knee-jerk and high-handed approach in the face of treachery and impunity is a great asset the president is endowed with. This, as the opposition is wont to do, can also be mistaken for weakness or incompetence.

Mr. Jonathan’s civilized approach to tackling issues is built around the need to ensure social justice, equity and the rule of law. This should, ordinarily, be worthy of global acknowledgment and commendation. But the concerted noise from the opposition camp and the penchant of some international observers to rush to judgment without taking full account of peculiarities of an environment are a bit deafening and blinding to the reality on ground.

As elections are getting closer, the president is faced with the facts that Nigerians are in a hurry. They’ve waited for too long. This is a situation that is being exploited by opposition leaders, who have been calling for mob actions as against the rule of law. Mr. Jonathan has equally shown that he understands that Nigerians are expecting a leader with a magic wand, who could with a snap somewhere, turn age-long and deeply rooted social decay into an instant state of bliss. But the magic wand could actually be a possibility if current efforts are allowed another four years to take root, grow and bear fruits.

• William Reed is president of the Black Press Foundation.


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GogetterMD:
Very bad situation that Osun civil servants haven't been paid for 5 months. And they refuse to go on industrial action. It's pathetic.
#GMB/PYO March 28 2015
Front page pls mode

midolian:
Lol..what a funny world!

Those that have concrete evidences to air a documentary as contained on this thread are not doing so..the corrupt ones are now doing it.

If APC was to air a defamatory documentary on GEJ, FFK, BODE GEORGE, FAYOSE, OBANIKORO, ALAMESEYA, METUH, CLARK and co, I wonder how long that documentary wld be.

*season film tinz*

babamadiba:
whoever is not happy about d defeat on bokoharam shall die a painful death. But my question now is where have these soldiers been all these year? Why have the government decided to be serious about curbing bokoharam only six weeks to the election? Is that they deliberately allowed our children, fathers, mothers to die all these years knowing full well what to do to calm the situation? It's so pathetic that some of us are blind to this fact. God save Nigeria