₦airaland Forum

kingaruoture:
Mohammed Calm down. na una promise the people dey use take dey judge una. next time make una promise wetin una go fit do.

According to Lai Mohammed, BBOG is now an "opposition party". Kai, Oby Ezekwesili has really suffered.

The Federal Government has urged the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group to see government as a partner rather than adversary in the quest to secure the release of the Chibok girls.

In a statement in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the BBOG’s continued portrayal of the government as an adversary and the needless firing of darts at President Muhammadu Buhari, were ultimately counter-productive.

Mr. Mohammed said the president was doing his utmost best to bring the girls back home safely.

“The Federal Government has bent over backwards to carry the BBOG along and to show transparency in the conduct of the search for the girls,” he said.

“The recent invitation extended to the group to witness first-hand the search for the girls by the Nigerian Air Force is a clear indication of this.“However, it came to us as a surprise that in spite of its initial positive report on the tour, the BBOG has too quickly reverted to its adversarial role.

“BBOG should stick to its role as an advocacy group rather than pretending to be an opposition party. “The synonyms of the word ‘advocacy’ do not include ‘antagonism’, ‘opposition’ or ‘attack’, in fact those words are the antonyms of ‘advocacy,’’’ he said.

The minister said it amounted to needless grandstanding for the BBOG to say it would no longer tolerate “delays’’ and “excuses” from the president on the release of the girls, as reported by the media.

According to him, such “impudent’’ language should have been reserved for those who did nothing in the first 500 days of the girls’ abduction, and not for Mr. Buhari.

Mr. Mohammed said President Buhari has presided over the liberation of all captured territory, the opening of shut schools and roads, the safe release of some of the abducted girls and the decimation of Boko Haram.

He assured Nigerians that the efforts to bring the girls back safely were continuing, but sought their understanding for not divulging any further details so as not to jeopardise the intricate process.

“Let me say unequivocally that the people involved in the negotiations are working 24/7. “The negotiations are complicated, tortuous and delicate.

Any wrong signal is capable of derailing things. That’s why the less we say, the better for all.

“We need a huge amount of confidence-building, the kind of which led to the release of 21 of the girls. This has been lacking for years, but right now we are confident that we are on the right track.

“We won’t do anything to jeopardise these talks, irrespective of the pressure or provocation from any quarter,” the minister said. (NAN)


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/221372-nigerian-govt-rejects-bringbackourgirls-impudent-language.html

Though Garba Shehu has oftentimes displayed traits of illiteracy, crudity, senselessness and incivility, I would still believe his account was hacked. However, if these uncouth vituperations are indeed from him, then his entire education is a waste.

miqos02:
Is this fair? i think this Insult was uncalled for



http://www.panumo.com/2017/01/garba-shehu-insults-ex-president.html

Though Garba Shehu has oftentimes displayed traits of illiteracy, crudity, senselessness and incivility, I would still believe his account was hacked. However, if these uncouth vituperations are indeed from him, then his entire education is a waste.

plainol:
I just have this feeling that Trump and Buhari belong to the same Society. They think and behave the same way.

Like AIT, LIKE CNN.

That's not true. It was obvious that CNN was biased pre and post the US elections. Their choice of words, news lines and selective interviews (with in-house correspondents and political analysts), were too hostile to Trump's presidency. Even the election polls were carefully crafted to aid Hilary Clinton's electoral success.

On the other hand, AIT despite been accused of spreading "hate speech" against Buhari, still gave a level playing ground to both PDP and APC.

Imagine CNN giving Donald Trump a 49% approval rating few days to his oath of office. CNN is just disgusting.

That said, I think Donald Trump shouldn't have banned them outright.

vatiqan:
When the head is sick, the whole body can never perform. A man with dead-brain.

No matter what, let's just wish the president well.

What APC and their jingoists dubbed as hate speech in 2015 is staring them in the face right now. Lies may travel for 200 years but it takes a day's journey for truth to catch up with it.

seunmsg:
It is only right for the presidents media team to clarify the falsehood Deji and his fellow hate filled wailers are spreading all over social media since some people truly believed he was snubbed for Jonathan.

Americans can never invite a corrupt scumbag like Jonathan to their presidential inauguration. It would have been a crass endorsement of corruption.

The presidency deems it necessary to refute Deji's tweet very swiftly but takes ages to react to other pressing national issues such as herdsmen killings. You guys are just pathetic.

Besides, as of today, no court in Nigeria has convicted Jonathan for corruption. So, direct your tirade to Buhari under whom N270m was spent in cutting grass.

drss2:
in sane climes wia tins work, buari would have been disqualified from contesting elections on health grounds.

Let's hope this forms a basis for future election questions. This is not about Buhari but the fate of the nation when governance is disrupted by leadership frailty.

dealslip:
i understand but the challenge here is that, this decision was taken almost 2 years ago and it cant be reversed until another two years. Nigerians must brace themselves for more challenges, because he is getting older and the frequency of his medical visits will increase with age. after this Nigerians will learn that you don't cut off the head to spite your face. he wasnt the solution to Nigerias myriads of problem and complexity. His spirit may be willing but his flesh is definately weak. Even young men like Fashola and Obama became completely grey haired within 8 years due to the heavy toll of duty. Nigeria is not for the frail.

That's exactly the crux of my post. Nobody is inciting the nation to cry over spilled milk but a wakeup call for all of us to access issues critically before criticizing people for their opinion.

Many took Fayose's opinion as hate speech rather than the truth it tried to establish.

dealslip:
at that age, a regular visit to the doctors cannot be rued out.

That's true but the nation suffers and pays for it. Critical and prompt decision making are often impaired by any President's ill-health.

Do you know why the president has not been able to react swiftly to national issues including visiting disaster venues? It's probably due to his health.

luwiizy:
So What is this one one you are posting for

Sorry, the post is not for kindergartens. Matured minds are invited here.

In the heat of campaigns toward the 2015 elections, one of the people that took flaks for placing emphasis on Buhari's age, health and fragility was Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State. Fayose in his ever blunt mannerism drew the attention of fellow citizens to the danger involved in electing a septuagenarian Buhari as the Commander In Chief of the most populous black nation on earth. In one of Obasanjo's numerous interviews, he critically highlighted the rigours involved in administering a nation as big as Nigeria. Obasanjo made an exposé of how he had to hold official and party related meetings into the wee hours of the night, sometimes as late as 1.00am and still found his way to the office by 10.00am the next morning! That's how cumbersome and energy sapping the presidency can be. Without holding brief for Fayose, it's now evident that the rigour of office has started taking a negative toll on our President's health going by the spate of breaks he had embarked upon less that two years into his tenure.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/05/04/i-am-not-abusing-buhari-he-is-too-old-to-rule-nigeria-fayose/

At this juncture, it's not completely out of place to infer that the President's age and presumed failing health are responsible for slow response to pressing national issues. One often wonders why it sometimes takes ages for the president to issue prompt statements or perhaps appear on national screens to address the citizens on matters arising.

Sentiment aside, no human being is immune from sickness but those who condemned Fayose for speaking the truth about Buhari's age and health in the buildup to the 2015 elections need to do some restitution.

God Bless Our Nigeria

Cc: Lalasticlala

OP, stop bothering us with unnecessary epistle. Friendly fire and accidental bombings are common incidents all over the world but Lai Mohammed, Buhari, Tinubu, Fashola, El Rufai, Ameachi and the entire APC heirachy did not think of this when they used similar mistakes to ridicule PDP and Jonathan's govt. They even went to the extent of mocking the same military at every slight occasion. Don't go too crazy when your team beats an opponent 5-0 because you might be whipped by the same team 8-0 in the subsequent season.

sarrki:
As no money to share again shay ?

Baba is doing fantastically well

All enemies of our dear country will be put to shame

God Bless Muhammadu Buhari

God Bless Federal Republic Of Nigeria

I have a strong feeling that something is not just right with your thinking faculties. It's either you're programmed to act like a robot or simply lacks commonsense.

Can you tell Nairalanders the deference between a govt that "shared money", yet the masses could afford to buy beans, rice, kerosene etc at ease and the one that "fights corruption" and "plugs leakages" but brings untold hardship on the citizenry.

No amount of your propaganda can wash Buhari from his spots of bigotry, selective justice, deceit, cruelty and tribalism. All his past and present evils would continue to trail his steps now and in the future. Buhari is simply evil.

OZAOEKPE:
I am too educated to be deceived by an ani mal called bu ha ri, he is looking for a cheap point to score. i just they laff cause Nigeria to me is a big joke..

Honestly, APC and Buhari have turned Nigeria to a joke.

OP, life has taught me that power only comes from God and not from man. Buhari was destined to become president in 2015, not necessarily because of "packaging" from the likes of Tinubu, Fayemi, Ameachi, Obama and co., but simply because Heaven had chosen him to lead the country. So, if Buhari and his "packagers" think NPOWER and some muchroom tokenism can make him the president in 2019( if he chooses to contest), a great shocker awaits them. Idi Amin also did one or two "good" things in Uganda.

talktimi:
When I talk, people will insult me. I said site maintenance due to the hack a few days ago and someone said Yele pays me... Smh for Nigerians, sometimes let's leave politics and reason logically instead

Forgive them, it's probably due to recession.

The controversial online news medium-Sahara Reporters earlier reported to have been shut down is now up and running. The Website was unexplainably unaccessible some hours ago.

WorldRichest:
Yes, you are right, only Ibos abused and cursed the fathers and mothers the same way Fayose said that Buhari wears diapers just like his own mother.

I am surprised this recession has not formated your brain to see the reality. How has Fayose abused Buhari by exposing his anti people policies? For your information, Donald Trump's critics during the US elections are been approached for political appointments while your saviour (Buhari) is here declaring war on both the opposition and the masses. Leave Fayose alone.

Hate or like him, Rev Kukah has just hit the nail on its head by saying the obvious truth. These waton killings in the name of religion and tribal grandstanding may consume Nigeria faster than the most dreaded terminal disease. A nation goes into extinction when elders keep quite in the face of nepotism and religion-induced murder.

ukenke:
Key question is, was that Wike's voice?

It's the responsibility of the police to unravel whether it's his voice or not. Let them do their discrete investigation with less noise.

kopite:
I love Wike's guts any day. This present government keeps trying to force APC, a weak party on rivers people with a commando style operations and expect d people to play dummy. Election one-one-one in rivers state, Apc can't win a ward. Amaechi n co are d problems of Apc in rivers state. Remove Amaechi, and Apc will hv a new face n logo. But for now, bring all d armies of Nigeria, Wike will floor them. You can only rig where yu are popular.

Even Buhari knows APC is not popular in Rivers but typical of a tyrannical govt, they would always want to try their luck but met a concrete wall in Wike.

TheFreeOne:
Yeye kangaroo panel.

It's a repeat of 1983/84 malady. May God not allow these powermongers to truncate this democracy.

Ten12:
"Even you as the chairman of the panel cannot say from your conscience that you are not biased." them still get leg waka commot for that government house after dis face2face with reality?

Now that's real TKO. Wike is a bad man.

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has berated the Nigerian Police Special Joint Investigation Panel on the Rivers rerun legislative elections. The governor stated that the committee was established by the Inspector-General of Police with the aim of assisting the All Progressives Congress(APC) at the election tribunal. He made the pronouncement while receiving the committee members at the Government House, Port Harcourt earlier today, January 11.He told the committee that his government has since challenged the setting up of the panel in court, with the chairman of the panel, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Damian Okoro as one of the defendants.

He also notified them that the people of the state will not participate in the activities of the panel since the matter was already in court. The governor said:"I must tell you with all honesty that my people and I will not participate in the sitting of this panel. We have challenged the setting up of this panel in court."Let there be a judicial pronouncement on this matter. It will enrich our jurisprudence. This panel has not shown us that it will not be biased."All these activities are orchestrated so that APC will use the materials therefrom at the Tribunal ."Even you as the chairman of the panel cannot say from your conscience that you are not biased."The governor berated the Police High Command cover-up of the video evidence that showed the invasion of Rivers East Senatorial District Collation by an officer, Akin Fakorede and his SARS personnel.

He also wondered why the police has refused to make public how DSP Alkali was killed, simply because the person indicted was a commissioner under the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. His words:"The same Akin Fakorede who was caught on video after he invaded the Rivers East Senatorial is the one who is arranging witnesses for the panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police. "Nobody is investigating the case of Rivers APC printing fake result sheets which the police is trying to sweep under the carpet "He continued:"We believe that the Panel has already taken a decision. We are convinced that the essence of the panel is to witch-hunt our people and we have evidence to show. We cannot because of one man's interest, destroy the state."Already, you have dismissed policemen attached to me without even hearing from me. This is the same panel that claims it is investigating the conduct of all policemen during the rerun legislative elections."


Earlier, Chairman of the Nigerian Police Special Joint Investigation Panel on Rivers Rerun, Mr Damian Okoro said that the panel was in the state to interface with the governor on what transpired before, during and after the rerun elections. He added that the panel will also examine the role of security personnel during the rerun legislative elections.


https://www.naij.com/1082081-wike-tongue-lashes-igp-panel-rivers-rerun.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C7667354496

Alariwo2:
Useless GEJ was just picking up random Northerners, labelling them BH and killing them off..
he even sent yoruba soldiers to die in the North without arms.. Bastard tribalist

Thank God for PMB, things are fast changing

If there's anything that's pitifully useless, it's your head that fails to function optimally. Which part of the report says the freed suspects were all arrested during Jonathan's reign? Were these not the same set of people Buhari's govt used as political stunt to give the impression of been serious with arrest and prosecution of Boko haram members and Nigerians were hailing them? Did your head ever care to know why this adminstration failed to prosecute those found to be culpable in the act of terrorism in the last 18 months? Remain gullible for the rest of your life.

We can only hope that Ghana's Democratic gains over the years are not exchanged for mediocrity and populism.

A case of show me your friend and I would tell you who you're. Opposition parties are only good at bringing down the sitting government but often run short of ideas, ingenuity and innovation at the helm of affairs This is the story of Africa.

Ghana's new president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has begun his tenure on quite an embarrassing note after being fingered in plagiarising his inaugural speech.The president who gave the speech on Saturday, January 7, 2017, appears to have picked quotes from the inaugural speeches of former US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush in 1993 and 2001, respectively without giving intellectual credit. Akufo-Addo, 72, was sworn in alongside his Vice-President, Mahamudu Bawumia, at the Independence Square in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. The Ghanaian president first lifted a portion of Bush’s January 20, 2001 speech where he said:“I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.” Similarly, he also used quotes from Clinton’s speech delivered on January, 20, 1993, where he said:“Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people. And we must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us. ”The similarity of the two speeches was brought to the attention of the public by an NDC activist, Stephen Kwabena Attuah on Facebook after the president’s inaugural address. Meanwhile, the Director Of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin has apologized for what he calls a complete oversight in the inaugural speech of President Akuffo-Addo. He said:"My attention has been drawn to references being made to a statement in the speech delivered by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at his swearing in on Saturday, January 7, 2017, which was not duly acknowledged. I unreservedly apologise for the non-acknowledgement of this quote to the original author. It was a complete oversight, and never deliberate. It is insightful to note that in the same speech were quotes from J.B Danquah, Dr. K.A. Busia, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and the Bible which were all duly attributed and acknowledged. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari about five months ago apologised for plagiarizing President Barack Obama’s 2008 inaugural speech. Buhari had been accused of plagiarism following similarities between his speech and President Barrack Obama of United States speech. He blamed it on a media aide, saying he will be punished.



https://politics.naij.com/1081414-president-akufo-addo-ghana-caught-plagiarism-scandal.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3673853301

AllTheWayUp:
Wike has already promised to do more than that yesterday


Each of the policemen will become proud owners of a fully furnished house.

Their children's Education will be sponsored by the Rivers State Government.

The policemen will become millionaires in the coming days courtesy of Rivers State Government and other Human Rights Groups and concerned citizens.


The policemen will also be put on monthly salaries by RVSG

They policemen will be far richer than their colleagues who are still in active duty.


Buhari and his recession infected Government have already been put to shame

Oh! I didn't know the governor had made those promises already. Great.

Ghana's new president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has begun his tenure on quite an embarrassing note after being fingered in plagiarising his inaugural speech.The president who gave the speech on Saturday, January 7, 2017, appears to have picked quotes from the inaugural speeches of former US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush in 1993 and 2001, respectively without giving intellectual credit. Akufo-Addo, 72, was sworn in alongside his Vice-President, Mahamudu Bawumia, at the Independence Square in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. The Ghanaian president first lifted a portion of Bush’s January 20, 2001 speech where he said:“I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.” Similarly, he also used quotes from Clinton’s speech delivered on January, 20, 1993, where he said:“Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people. And we must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us. ”The similarity of the two speeches was brought to the attention of the public by an NDC activist, Stephen Kwabena Attuah on Facebook after the president’s inaugural address. Meanwhile, the Director Of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin has apologized for what he calls a complete oversight in the inaugural speech of President Akuffo-Addo. He said:"My attention has been drawn to references being made to a statement in the speech delivered by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at his swearing in on Saturday, January 7, 2017, which was not duly acknowledged. I unreservedly apologise for the non-acknowledgement of this quote to the original author. It was a complete oversight, and never deliberate. It is insightful to note that in the same speech were quotes from J.B Danquah, Dr. K.A. Busia, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and the Bible which were all duly attributed and acknowledged. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari about five months ago apologised for plagiarizing President Barack Obama’s 2008 inaugural speech. Buhari had been accused of plagiarism following similarities between his speech and President Barrack Obama of United States speech. He blamed it on a media aide, saying he will be punished.


https://politics.naij.com/1081414-president-akufo-addo-ghana-caught-plagiarism-scandal.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3673853301