₦airaland Forum

Give weapons to soldiers commanded by bad commanders and the result will remain the same.
There are no bad soldiers , just bad commanders .

For example . You can trek into most of The military military bases in the theatre of operation without encountering anything close to a barrier or fortifications.
I have seen houses in Ikorodu which are more fortified than the bases from which the unfortunate troops to operate .
Alex Badeh was never a soldier. The man personally alerted the terrorists that they knew the location of the chibok girls. Live on TV.

abuayman:
Oh My God.
Different figures from different angles.
Only God knows the amount of Money stolen from this nation by our thiefing politicians.

Allah ya isa.

Nigeria made $500 billion dollars under Jonathan. What is on ground in terms of capital investment is probably less than $50 billion . Much of the rest was stolen.

In actual fact , the igbos leaders hate their own people.


Fatal flaws

1 A majority ethnic nationality perpetually behaving like a minority. Even the ijaws ,who are a minority ,bark harder and bite like a majority.

2 A society without the mechanisms , whether historical or at the present, to moderate itself or check the excesses of some of her citizens ( e.g they allowed a man of about 30 years to drag them into a dumb war. Apparently, there were no adults in the room) .

3 A lack of perceptiveness of their environment and the need for discretion . Do not know when the social climate in their immediate environment changes . ( one


4 A general lack of empathy ( boko haram was basically running riot , Fulani herdsmen were murdering people in the middle belt , yet they still thought the absentee CinC was the best thing to happen to those being murdered)

5 Self-centred and self serving politics and politicians

6 voyuerism : they basically wants what others have without trying to the leg work or grunt work required to get it .Because of Jonathan, the presidency will probably never be given to those who expect it to fall on their lap unprepared.In people's imagination, babangida simply decided to build third mainland bridge and not because of the pressure from SW elites who could have asked for a contract instead .

7 General lack of enlightenment even amongst those who are supposedly educated.

8 Too many with suspicious educational credentials . Let us be honest , many ( more than any other part ) in the SE carry degrees which they cannot defend and this always comes back to impact their society in other ways. E.g the SW virtually dominate the private sector because the credentials of many from the south east cannot get them past the aptitude tests.

9 The society Is only moderately questioning of suspicious wealth or income . In many cases , such is applauded praises

10 Everything said including rumours ,falsehoods etc are taken as the gospel without any form of fact checking.even when debunked, it keeps getting repeated.(e.g Most of Biafran propaganda was actually directed at the Biafran people)

11 the society hates collectivism , operates at a primitive clannish level and this creates all sorts of problems down the line. E.g the inability to use their numbers to lobby for federal investments.Create a society where there are boundless opportunities. Everybody wants to take , very few want to give .

12 as a result of 11 , there is little or no collective advocacy .

13 as a result of 12 , the society is tolerant of corruption. Little or no protest during the fuel subsidy fraud . They continuously defend or protect people whose hands have been caught in the cookie jar.

14 the society suppresses dissent . Rev Mbaka offered an alternative narrative during the election. Instead of stimulating a debate , the man was ostracised. Soludo gave a opinion on iweala , the following day , the elders attempted to turn it to a village matter.By the way, obasanjo is on Soyinka's case right now , no oba has called him to shut it up . It has stimulated a debate just like when Soyinka called obasanjo out .
You can take a visit to iweala's Facebook page and check out the comments .


15 ) as a result of 14 , should Nigeria break up ,the society is probably going to end up as a military or civilian dictatorship.

16 they have an innate ability to conjure dishonest stories from nowhere to smear people . This leads to mistrust from others .



I can go on an on .
The above are some of the impression I got not only from my interactions with the igbos, early Igbo history, Nigeria's pre and post independence history/politics ,account of the Politics before and during the Biafra war , foreign observation of life in Biafra ,but also from spending time in Igboland .
You have exceptions here and there made up of igbos who were born or grew up away from that insular worldview, or those whose parent allowed to freely express themselves .
The fact that the people ( excluding the women ) have not being able to break out of their medieval way of life and clannish view of the world will continue to hamper development .
No society is special , none is without it's flaws but there is no disputing that the psyche of igboland is as insular as Ekiti. There is a lack of diversity of opinion , lack of credible voices (apart from ekwesili , pat utomi) whom I will happily vote for ) in regards of engagement with the wider world .

The beautiful ones have already left home .

Now can someone tell me what igboland benefitted from Jonathan apart from a few token projects without long lasting legacy and temporary appointees who have already been kicked out . Even the SW Jonathan was antagonising created avenues to benefit more . Ogun state alone has over 70 new manufacturing companies and Lagos is getting a new port , a new refinery, a dry dock and on and on

baby124:
I hope they go after the criminals of Oceanic, PHB, and others banks too. Who got favorable judgments from fraudulent judges. A lot of judges also need to be probed and retired

Apart from those who aided and abetted theft, going after the private sector is much more difficul.
You deal with the private sector with sanctions , fines , license withdrawal ,regulations etc

House cleaning begins .
The children of corruption can continue to wail .
Drop the sledgehammer on their head

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How much do those emerging market contribute ?
The reparations that Nigerian based from Texas alone dwarfs those so called emerging .
In fact ,those emerging market bleed us out of money.
People go to those countries to import craps we have the capacity to make or stiffs we do actually make.
Buhari need to get the country's regulations up to date .
e.g Abestos for instance is a known cancers causing material . It is treated like Ebola elsewhere but many homes and offices in Nigeria are full of it .
That is why he needs to appoint ministers who are up to date with modernity

Let them keep wailing

Are you from Lagos state or was fashola the governor of your state?
Is Tinubu your president?
What exactly drives people away from their states to migrate all the way to Lagos ,ogun , oyo ?
Why does a local government in Osun have more functional public schools and public hospitals than many states ? The same in ondo?
Why do some states have to piggy back on other states by sending all their poverty over ?
When you find answers to the question , you will know why Tinubu , fashola ,amusing are superior to all the idiots governing your states .

No wonder they keep declining the offer of assistance from USA .
Hopefully, we can get them to come and use the pirates as target practice.

Nothing more than Stupidity of the practitioners of the false prophets of Islam and Christianity.
Have you ever seen traditional religion adherent causing trouble .
They think they have seen the light but they are essentially blind and insecure.
Let professor smalle break it down for you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_14sd9GmKSE

You can go further and learn about ancient africa


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLUFY6aMlcw

A few clueless people do not even know the meaning of what was written there .
Bl this does not even include revenues stolen at source (Over 50% of government revenues).
Taking loans to buy pots and pans .
Now , 24% of all federal revenues have to go towards repaying loans used to buy pots and pans

is it the same TI headed by that guy?

"No fighting in public , na village matter " after the exchange of kola."
Someone who was not asked but had to say that he did not have $5000 in his account.
That alone sent the alarm bells ringing .
Transparency international during Jonathan regime became an equivalent of Ngozi iweala POLL (NOI).
TI Nigeria became as relevant as iweala's claims of 20% unemployment .
Especially in a country where over 51% of national income did not even get into the federation account. All stolen at source .

Rigged and not trustworthy .

The same TI came out afterwards to claim that Nigeria has the most corrupt political parties in the world
How do you reconcile the rating with the one above
TI needs to sack their current representatives and come over to conduct a real poll.
No doubt in my mind that Nigeria was the most corrupt country in the world under Jonathan and still remains so.

By The Associated Press
Nigeria's president has kicked off a mammoth effort to immunize 80 million children against polio in 23 African countries, described by international health experts as "the single-largest public health campaign" in history to wipe out the disease.

President Olusegun Obasanjo led health workers in giving dozens of children oral vaccine drops in the mainly Muslim northern city of Kano, Nigeria, where until recently Islamic leaders had opposed immunization, inadvertently allowing the virus to spread in the region.

The campaign is being coordinated by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which includes U.N. health agencies, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Rotary International.

The effort will get under way in earnest starting Oct. 8, when local and international health workers are due to go door-to-door in an effort to immunize every child under age 5 across west and central Africa as well as war-ravaged Sudan.

A statement by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative called it "the single-largest, public health campaign in history."

Fears fanned by some Islamic preachers that polio vaccines were laced with the AIDS virus and anti-fertility agents in a U.S.-backed plot to depopulate Muslims prompted authorities to suspend polio immunization in three states in the mainly Muslim north in August last year.

While other states rejoined the polio eradication campaign within weeks, Kano state governor Ibrahim Shekarau maintained his vaccine ban until late July, when he said he was satisfied with vaccines obtained from the predominantly Muslim nation of Indonesia.

The 11-month break saw a resurgence of the polio virus, as strains traced to Nigeria re-infected 12 previously polio-free, African countries.

Shekarau -- whose 1-year-old daughter Zainab was vaccinated by Obasanjo on Saturday -- supported two earlier polio vaccination rounds in Kano state. Those campaigns, held in July and September, immunized 4.6 million children.

Polio usually infects children under 5 through contaminated drinking water. It attacks the central nervous system, causing paralysis, muscular atrophy, deformation and, in some cases, death.

"Polio anywhere is a threat to children everywhere," said Rima Salah, director of the UNICEF in west and central Africa, welcoming the African Union's efforts to halt its transmission in the continent.

Nigeria and its northern neighbor Niger are among six countries in the world where polio remains endemic. The others are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt.

By Aug. 24, the World Health Organization reported 602 cases of polio globally, with 476 in Nigeria alone. India recorded 34 cases, Pakistan 23, Niger 19, Afghanistan three and Egypt just one.

Elsewhere, Chad has reported 12 cases, Ivory Coast has nine, Burkina Faso has six, Benin six, Sudan five, Central African Republic three and Mali two. Guinea, Cameroon and Botswana each have one case.

By Kunle Aderinokun
Abuja — President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday performed the groundbreaking ceremony of foundation laying of the Light Railway. The value of the project is in the excess of $841 million with a completion date of four years, which is a complementary factor in our bid for the Commonwealth Games of 2014."

The President who was on official tour of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja had earlier in the day commissioned the permanent office of the Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS) and the Area 11 Neighbourhood Centre, Garki, inspected the Urban Shelter Ultra-modern Market and thereafter cut tapes at : the Rural Telephony projects situated within the premises of the National Assembly; the Mabushi Interchange; Jabi Lake Resort; Wupa Waste Treatment Plant and performed the ground breaking foundation ceremony of the Abuja Rail Mass Transit Project as well as commissioned Accra Street Park in Wuse Zone 5.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/200705080011.html

Jonathan did nought but steal and share money

eleko1:
Truth but Yah Adua isn't here to defend himself.Had Jona himself listened to Baba than Clark/oda sycophants that railroad him into destruction.just maybe

The records are there .
Yar Adua even cancelled the 1000km Lagos- Kano ,600km East -west modern gauge railway project for which , the Chinese were ready to extend a facility of $2.5 billion out of the $8 billion cost.
We would have had a more modern rail system today.
However the ultimate fault remains obasanjo's. He saddled the country with 2 lepers.
The only nationally significant thing I can remember yaradua for are
1 maintaining OBJ's excess crude account
2 appointing sanusi during the bank crisis

We would have had a modern railway system if that mumu called yaradua had not cancelled the contract which Jonathan later came in to squander and steal .
You can also see the evil iweala people in the world bank do. They are never there to block the looting of funds but you can always expect them to sabotage anything which would benefit the people .


Assitant Editor The Presidency is in a fix over the $8.3 billion contract for the modernisation and expansion of rail lines awarded in the dying days of the Obasanjo administration.

A committee set up to review the project submitted a report that did not favour its continuation. So also is the report of the World Bank on the gargantuan project.

The Federal Government had paid $250 million mobilisation fee to China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCEC), the main contractor of the project which involves the construction of a standard gauge rail covering 1,315 kilometres from Lagos to Kano with a loop from Minna to Abuja. The $2.5billion loan promised by the Chinese government is yet to be consummated.

Shortly after assuming office last year, President Umaru Yar’ Adua stopped the project and set up a committee headed by Finance Minister Shamsudeen Usman to review the funding options already planned for the project.

A source in the Presidency told The Nation that the committee’s report recommended the suspension of the project.

The committee, which also has Minister of Transportation Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke and her counterpart in National Planning, Senator Sanusi Daggash, as members, cited “procedural errors” in the award of the contract, such as lack of competitive bidding and inflation.

The Usman-led committee advised the government to ask the contractor to stop work for a proper feasibility study to be conducted, renegotiation of the contract sum and loan terms as well as involving the private sector in its funding and execution.

But the President whose seven-point agenda accommodate the revival of the ailing rail system is in dilemma over the committee’s report, which he does not want to set aside, it was learnt.

On one occasion, the President was reported to have emphasised the need to resuscitate the rail system in the shorttest possible time to allow the railway have the desired impact on the on-going economic transformation of the country.

The indecision of the Presidency is not helped by the international politics that has come to bear on the project. A source hinted that some world powers have shown interest in the project as they are getting worried over the growing influence of China in the Nigerian economy.

The source cited the World Bank report which he said had dampened the government’s morale. The bank advised the government to go about the rehabilitation of the railway system systematically by restricting the job for now to the Eastern and Western rail. The report advised that the East–West line connecting Lagos to Enugu/Umuahia (800km) and Calabar to Aba (150km) should be evaluated for financial viability based on projected traffic volume and preferably built on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis with minimum support from the government to fill the viability gap.

It added that the Ajaokuta -Warri standard gauge line with interchange with narrow gauge system at Baro should be evaluated for financial and economic viability.

According to the report, the narrow gauge connection between Apapa and Tin Can Island (seven km) and between Port-Harcourt and Onne (19km) should be constructed either on PPP basis or funded by the Federal Government after a financial and economic viability evaluation has been carried out.


http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20080319201221zg/sections/other-peoples-essays/obasanjo-s-8-3b-rail-deal-unsettles-yar-adua/

Buhari is gradually raising up the silent professional elites . The ones who will replace the criminal elites we have today.

Tolexander:
Dino Melaye is fast losing the respect people have for him!

The earlier he stops this nonsense, the better!

You had respect for him before ?
Dino is a bread and butter politician with questionable judgement . Stands for nothing other than materialistic acquisition of wealth and power .The other okun guy ,smart adeyemi is equally useless and even worse in many respect .
People like him slipped through the crack of the Buhari juggernaut .
With some fine tuning , he is going to be discarded at the next election.
That I can assure you.
By the way , Buhari should make sure that he starts dismantling the Trojan horse being assembled in the APC by atiku and Saraki .

barcanista:
Saraki is a Progressive, same with Dino Malaye, Tinubu, Atiku, Toyin Saraki and Buhari. Why are they complaining?

APC... The only party that is playing the role of ruling and oppositing at the same time

What progress has Saraki or dino ever brought to any matter ?
Tinubu is definitely the closest thing to a progressive politician in that god forsaken country .

gesundheit:
The ooni will not be missed, he never stood for the ideals of the Yoruba nation. he tagged along anywhere is intrest will be achieved and attained. The gun running during the modakeke-ife crisis was well documented couple with the active support to various PDP government causing havoc in Yoruba states and the country in general. the Yoruba nations need a worthy son on that sacred stool and not a greedy felon.

First sensible comment. This ooni was a contractor .
We need an ooni grounded in culture , tradition and one who will be a true custodian of our values system ( omoluabi) and religion ( neither a Christian or Muslim ).
It does not matter if he is a freaking poor illiterate, as long as he is not materialistic and is grounded in our value system , yorubaland will be liberated from the shackles of colonialism and grow at an astronomical rate.

The next Ooni must neither be a Christian or a Muslim .
if they cannot find an ooni who bows only to the true God (olodumare ) and does not bow to a foreign god , they should keep the sit vacant .
yorubas need a true custodian for their ifa ,religion , culture ,tradition and values
Those 2 materialistic religions ( one a land stealer and history destroyer ;the other ,a wealth stealer ) are a people stealer.

We are getting somewhere gradually.
The corrupt gangsters in the PDP have admitted that the instincts of those who voted for Buhari was right while those who voted Jonathan were wrong( the joke is on them).

Now let us get into the nitty gritty.
You can deduce from the difference in the voting patterns not only matters ranging from the issue of tribalism,religion ,bad governance etc, but also the level of enlightenment and the standard of education.
Many a times , you hear stuffs like
1 we do not depend on government
2 No federal presence
And so on from the other side

1) But what they are actually defensively saying is that their government,the one they have consistently voted for , is practically non-existent or exists at the basest level . Beyond security , law and order , education and health comes next.
The quality of government and governance is exactly why people are migrating Because that is what creates a conducive atmosphere for prosperity exists.

2) No federal presence
The jokes they vote into power to do advocacy on their behalf, practically go to the centre to stuff their faces with illicit gains . They build business empires with their states' money and direct their mugus to blame somebody else .
Lagos state did not wait for the federal government to start the process of building the Lekki port .
Ondo /ogun did not wait for the FG to conceptualise the olokola oil and gas zone ( which Mimiko has messed up )

Now a proper schooling
In a choice of two evils , less bad is alway better .
That choice gives you the opportunity to last and survive a bit longer before you are destroyed by those evil , or a chance at survival

In Nigeria , a critical thinker can easily see that corruption has grade . While a places like Lagos or ogun is creating millions of jobs ,functional institutions,seeing improvements in service delivery leading to mass immigration from other places ( many of them lawless and unstable ) etc , many other places are stuck in a time warp .
While port harcourt consolidated her place as the oil capital with amaechi investing on her strength (expansion of living space , human capital development) , Warri which used to be the it-place ,has continue to degenerate. Some state governors with more money than sense continue to put gloss over an humanitarian and social disaster .
In others words , some states are moving their people in the right direction ;albeit slowly , while others are stuck in a rot .
Those moving in the right direction get my vote all the time until all vermins have been eliminated from the polity . That is why Tinubu is better than them all and the world knows .

What will a half literate drunk do if left in a warehouse full of beer for a week .
Answer:
He would probably drink himself to a stupor and fall asleep while thieves rob the whole warehouse .

That my friend is the story of Jonathan. He ran the country the only way a drunk would .
Stella oduah alone ran a debt of $1 billion dollars which the National Assembly never appropriated.

Who was suppose to do this verification and due diligence before it got out of hand ?
our so called "world bank expert " iweala who you would not trust to run a poultry

Nothing more than funnelling money to fronts and acolytes.
Barawo.

Buhari should adopt the Georgian approach
Simply give all the irredeemable agencies the pink slip . Most of them got their jobs via quota and mago mago anyway.
They do nothing and would not be missed .

A Muslim / Christian alaafin or ooni is definitely not leading the people .
There is an urgent need for the reformation of ,and a new Age of Enlightenment in the kingdoms of the yorubas
These kings are bowing to an ancient sun god (Islam ) and a god ( xtian) whose lore was taken from the story of Osiris ,while million of believers in their God - given religion are waiting to be led .
Do they even know what a grand temple for the yoruba religion and a grand university for the propagation of the body of knowledge of ifa would do for Ife and oyo respectively.i am talking about the social and economic impact here.

Ptwwnnnn
Poshe
If you did not do the crime , you will do the time.

The TI rating for Nigeria was rigged throughout . The resident representative should be sent packing .

adconline:
What did the north do with all their allocations and having been in power for about 40yrs?? How come we have 10 millions children not enrolled in school??

They are enjoying the repercussions today the same way everybody is enjoying theirs

Good job by oba otudeko .one of a handful billionaires who made their money the right way