₦airaland Forum

God will never inflict Jonathan on this country as our president again. The man has no clue on how to run a complex state like Nigeria. He says he is going to privatize PHCN which is the only thing that made me fall in love with the man but recently he has been singing a different tune. He is now talking of the country needing to invest close to 4 trillion Naira by 2020 before we can generate enough electricity to power the nation. What an arrant nonsense. Why would the government need to invest in an industry they are about to privatize? I don't like Buhari because of his religious comments but I think he will make a better president than Goodluck. But to be able to win, he need to curry the favour of the south west. If only Ribadu can step down for him, then it will be smooth sailing to Aso rock.

I blame the Asiwaju for this pigheadedness of the Igbos in Lagos. Give a man an inch and he will ask for ten miles. The Yorubas are too accommodating; this is one of our problem. Can any of the Igbo governor in the south east give a Yoruba man a cabinet appointment? No way. These people are inviting another OPC related problem. Why don't they shut up and face the only thing they know how to do best. Igbos should not think we are fools. These group of trouble mongers should shut up before they start a war of hate between the Yorubas and the Igbos. Who is stopping them from fielding their own candidate if they think they are more than 50% in Lagos state? These Ohanecrazy guys should stop living in fool paradise and face their commerce.

I would like to do a master in Creative Writing. Is there any university here that offers the course or anything close to it? Doing it online is too expensive for me, even though I've gotten a couple of admissions.

I agree it is not reasonable to to hear one side of a story and jump to conclusion. The man aroleolu gave an an e-mail address in one of his postings where you can contact this man. I checked the website that address is linked to, it operates from Mike Adenuga's headquarters. The address is from his towers. I am sure any e-mail sent to that address will get to him.
info@mikeadenugafoundation.org

sexybaby22 what you heard is a fact. I worked in National oil for 15 years, 2 of which I worked with the man when he bought into National oil. He sacks people at the slightest excuse and even base on hearsay. When he was told the those who works in the depots and aviation are all swimming in millions, he sacked all the staff in one day. That was the genesis of his problem with the staff he met in National oil. The two unions told him he cannot do such thing. We fought him to a stand still. Whenever any of us comes to ETB for transaction we are hailed as a hero because we did what they dream about but can never do. He told all of us to reapply for the job most of us had been doing for twenty years or more. We told him he only bought the company but not us. He hated the fact that NUPENG and PENGASAN to which I was a member existed in the company. The man is a tin god. We told him he has the money but we have the experience of running a marketing company after all we were among of top five. He did not like it. At one of his meetings with the staff, he told some of his executives that since his sixteen years in the corporate world he had never been humiliated like those rascals in National oil did to him. This was because a staff told him an idea he wanted to implement would eventually backfire. He hated people expressing opinion however good. He would sack all of us. He eventually did by way of his 'voluntary severance' that was not meant to be voluntary. Those who shun the offer were sacked eventually. I had only two years to qualify for retirement before I was told to leave. How about that? Proo1 you can defend the man from now till eternity, I have facts which you don't have unless you one of his paid apologists.

The real reason behind prediction is to prepare us for the future so as not to be caught napping. What really scares me about this is that the problem after the election will come from Lagos. When one considers the comments of big wigs in the PDP concerning their desperation to capture Lagos at all cost, one cannot but be scared. May the good Lord save us from all this desperadoes who don't care about us but their political ambition. Amen

The New Year prediction in my church today is like nothing we ever heard before. Most of the predictions of past years come to pass. This is what scared everybody. My church is Life Apostolic Church. It is in Owutu in Ikorodu West LCDA. It is not even a big church. The revelation is a compilation of all the members that God speaks through in December. Some concerns individual but it is the one that concern Nigeria people are interested in.

The pastor said those that come from Delta state should pray very hard because the place would become another battle field that would make Boko Haram look like a child-play. He said the bloodshed would happen anyway. He said there would be serious trouble after the April election. The trouble will start from the most unlikely place-Lagos. He said many people will be killed. He said if we can survive till August, there is hope for Nigeria but our survival look almost impossible. The good news is that there will be plenty of food and dollars will fall to a level the will surprise everybody.

I don't think I want to agree with pro01 prognosis that all rich men are evil. If this is so, it means we are all in deep shit because the poor will always be with us. The fact is, there are many humane rich guys we read about. I have even interacted with few of them. The trouble is, many of them like Mike Adenuga are just heartless. The money we are talking about is not even his money. Granted that the BPE made a grave error in transferring the money to his company when he bought into National oil, what stops him from releasing the money to their rightful owners since he is not interested in pension. I just pray that God will one day strike people like Adenuga and his ilk down and this world will become a better place for all of us. Amen.

We took Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr. to court two years ago when it became obvious he is not interested in any increase in our pension. Many of us are over 80 years old. We served his company for many years. How many years more do we have left? All we wanted is to be able to enjoy the fruit of our sweat for the remaining time we have left. N3000 naira a month cannot guarantee this. We took our case to the newspapers but unfortunately, no Nigerian newspaper will touch our articles with a ten foot pole. I guess we are too small to fight a man of Dr. Adenuga's stature. The newspapers would not want to lose Dr Adenuga advert patronage! What a country.

How can someone who can afford to spend millions on his daughter's wedding and billions to sponsor football refuse 12% annual increase to a man that earn less than N4000 per month in his company? Some people forget that they can only oppress for sometime. There is someone above that will never permit oppression to go on indefinitely.

When the Dr. is celebrating his Christmas, he should remember there are group of pensioners in his company who will not even know it is Christmas.

Write me a personal letter on ajibola4olutisr@gmail.com and we'll take it from there. I am about to procure my own keyboard to facilitate my learning. Let me know how much it will cost for the two months if you have to come to Agric where I live and how much it will cost me to come to your place. Also where do you live? I 'll like to see all the variables to be able to arrive at a decision.

If you know you are a very good singer and can sing in Yoruba language, contact me at ajibola4olutisr@gmail.com or reply to this post. The person we are looking for must be able to speak the language very well to understand our songs. Please don't write if you don't understand the language very well. Whoever we choose will be adequately paid.

Can someone help me with this problem? My system started giving this message sometimes ago." Microsoft Feeds Synchronization has encountered a problem and need to close. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost" This message comes at intervals of about 30 minutes or so. It is very annoying for one thing and also I am not sure if this problem persists it would not have effect on the system. I have used my windows XP SP2 to repair the system twice but the message continue. I am not keen on formatting the system. Any suggestion?

I recently applied to some oversea university for online MFA in Creative writing. I would have applied to any Nigerian university but no Nigerian university currently run any course close to it. My problem is how to pay for the course when I am admitted which I don't doubt I would be because I am qualified. Is there a way I can transfer my school fees from here without much hassle?

Well, I play the guitar but I want to learn how to play the piano so that I can play in my church. Where do you take the lessons? Do you take home lessons? I live in Ikorodu and I don't like going far away for lessons on anything. Finally, how much will the two months cost.

We are presently seeking a lady who can sing in Yoruba and English very well to feature on my coming album which will also be used to lunch our music label (Big Dream Communication). If you have the big dream give us a call at ajibola_olutisr@operamail.com or ajibola4olutisr@gmail.com. The lady we are looking for must be versatile in both languages. The person we finally choose would be adequately remunerated.

I personally don’t care how the so called business mogul spends his money but what pains me is that this same Adenuga pays some of the pensioners in his company Conoil only =N=4000 Naira per month from money that does not belong to him. Shell set up this fund long before he bought into the company. The fund is supposed to be independent of the company. This was the sate of affair before his misadventure in Conoil.

Mike Adenuga refused to implement the annual 15% increase which has been the norm before he took over the company. He has been using the over a billion Naira in the fund to trade without paying a kobo interest into the fund. He has not added any value to the fund since he illegally took over the fund about seven years ago.

This infuriated the pensioners some of who are well over eighty years old. They took him to court where he grudgingly agreed to their request to liquidate the fund and share the balance in the account among the 450 pensioners still alive. Many died because of Adenuga’s nonchalant attitude to their plight.

The negotiation started May last year. Conoil has been frustrating the negotiating teams move to end the issue in time because our fund is a source of free money to him. I am writing this because many of you think this man is a saint. He is not. I don’t think there is anywhere in the country where pensioners are paid =N=4000 in a month. I rest my case.

To my fellow Nigerians who expected this year to be a happy one I am sorry to disappoint you. This year is going to be the most turbulent year this country will ever witnessed.  It is either going to be the end of this contraption called Nigeria or the beginning of a new dawn.  If we still have a country after this year, it is going to be different from the Nigeria we all know. Call me a prophet a doom if you like. I don’t care.

The dream I saw for this country is far from palatable.  Forget about prayer. God will never intervene in the affairs of this country until we are ready to confront our oppressors head on. Governance has practically collapsed in the country but our leaders are playing the ostrich. Where else but in Nigeria will a country continue to run itself without a leader for two months and the party in power continue to behave as if nothing is amiss? No one except the president immediate family knows the true condition of the president health. The Saudis are not telling us anything. Forget his speech on BBC interview service. If we must disbelieve the U.S Observer then he president must speak to Nigeria through NTA or FRCN. The country is on the brink of a revolution but our lawbreakers are still busy sharing Ghana- must- go bags. It is only in this country that petrol being sold at 65 Naira the previous day will sell for 100 Naira the following day and people will shrugged and say “at least we dey see am buy.”

Where else in the world will a group of people who want to hold on to power at all cost foist on us a  supplementary budget purported to be sighed by a sick president who cannot even address his nation on a New Year day and all hell will not break loose? If this is not obtaining under false pretence then tell me what to call their action. No matter how many times they perfected their evil plan for the military to take over and hand over to them, they will fail. Don’t these people ever learn? Abiola made this same mistake; he paid the supreme price for it.

It is only in Nigerian a vice president  gives instruction to an ordinary minister to postpone a foreign trip because of crisis emanating  from his ministry as a result of his incompetence and the minister will shrugged and say ‘to hell with you’ and proceeded on the trip.  It is from this nonentity's ministry despite persistent fuel scarcity that many ships laden with fuel were on the high seas waiting to offload but has been unable because of his bureaucratic nonsense. These ships incur about $35,000 demurrage daily. Anyone who doubted me can go to the Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) who has been pressurizing NNPC to stop this wastage and let them use their ships to offload these cargoes to no avail. Some of these ships have been on the high seas for more than four months!

Something must be wrong upstairs with those saddled (?) with the task of running the affairs of this country if they can put such a fool in charge of the most important ministry in this country. The man may be a professor or a formal Vice Chancellor. So what ? Many professors in this country are by quota so means nothing. The man is too old for the all-important ministry he heads. He is bereft of new ideas. His ministry keeps telling us they have enough fuel to go round but for saboteurs who are making things difficult when all evidence on ground points to the contrary. The sad truth is that the marketers who imports more that 70% of the petroleum products consumed in this country stopped importing. They vowed not to import again until government pays them about 75 billion bridging claim it owed them, make a categorical statement about its deregulation policy and allowed them unfettered access to bank loan. No matter how many filling stations DPR closes, the scarcity will continue. The marketers have the government by the balls and they know it. The government is desirous of deregulating but is afraid of the aftermath because NUPENG and PENGASAN have vowed to make the country ungovernable if government did not put some things in place first.  They want importation of fuel stopped. They want the refineries fixed and new ones built.  Minimum wages must be increased to at least =N=53,000 per month, which I think is chicken feed considering that a federal legislature’s total package without unaccountable incomes excluding Ghana must go and all is not less than 100 million Naira per year. They also want NEPA or are they PHCN now to give us at least 18 hours of uninterrupted power supply daily, which is reasonable. After all Ghana provides her citizens with 24 hours of uninterrupted power daily.  The government knows they cannot meet these conditions because they either are bereft of ideas on how to accomplish this or lack the will the do so. I have always been a fervent believer of democracy but ten years of PDP have changed my opinion. I now realize Abacha regime is better than what we have presently. To hell with all politicians in Nigeria. They have failed us.

Nigerians don’t believe in this country and will never fight for any common cause. One event lends credence this assertion. Contrary to popular belief outside Nigeria, we are no cowards. Nigeria needs to belief in something before they act.
After the Babangida shenanigan that led to the political stalemate in the country at that time, the lame duck man who the military selected to do the hatchet job of the cabal who arrogated to themselves the sole right to rule this country increased the price of petroleum products. PENGASAN (of which I was a member) and NUPENG in conjunction with NLC called all Nigerian to a sit- at-home strike. The NURTW who are also members of NLC were the first union to break the strike by working in the evening after buying fuel at exorbitant price from the black market. While we were home and sometimes at our union headquarters perfecting strategies to further the cause of checkmating the military, many Nigerian were trekking to their offices and places of business everyday. I really suffered during those weeks. While my family and I were practically starving, many Nigerian were smiling to the banks by selling fuel (sometime adulterated) in the black market.  From then on, I knew it is worthless to fight or die for any cause in this country. Everybody except few Nigerians already know this is not a country but an amalgamation of nations waiting to implode. 

Obasanjo had the greatest opportunity to put this country on the path of progress by righting all wrongs. He could have given the country the type of constitution it desired if he wanted because he had already checkmated the so-called power cabal and became the country maximum ruler. His word was law. He had the opportunity to write his name on the sand of time of this country but he chose not to. He instead went on his ill-fated jamboree called third term adventure. He is now one of the most hated Yoruba man alive. 

Back to why I said this year will mark the beginning of the end of Nigeria if not the end. Election would be held in Anambra state in February 6 and against all odds, PDP will repeat the Ekiti magic by declaring Soludo the biggest crook we once hailed as the saviour of our banking world as the winner. All hell will brake loose. Unlike in Ekiti, the loser will not bother to go to court this time, as they know from experience this is a useless option. The Uba brothers will join hands with the other political parties. The aftermath will be a child play to the operation wetie of the so-called wild wild west.  The police will not be able to quell the mayhem. Soludo will run to Abuja like Omoboriowo of old Ondo state. Soldiers will come in. Many people will be killed. The world will be aghast at the display of brutality by the soldiers. Those in power will be afraid. The military would lose its remaining credibility because many of them will support Yaradua. I don’t mean the one in Saudi. Two things will either happen. The North will quickly rally some southerners that still have credibility left; convey a national conference to work out our differences or radical soldiers takes over and kill thousands I mean thousands of people. Either way, we are doomed.  The conference will end up in a fiasco because the seed of distrust already sown would be heightened.  The north will experience what both the west and the east once experienced.

At the end of the day, the only solution may be to your tent O Israel.  The radical
soldiers will not last few weeks before another one takes over and another and another.  Abuja will become a battlefield.

Before I forget, those who forged the president signature on the supplementary budget will try to replicate it on the 2010 budget. The move will backfire. This will mark the beginning of the crisis that will engulf the presidential villa. This crisis will consume them and all their cronies. Obasanjo might have used Yaradua to spite us for rejecting his third term folly, the imposition is now his nemesis. Head or tail Nigeria is jinxed.

So what? Maybe our legislators will now stay home and do what they are 'selected' to do.

I don't think Temin really understand the level of frustration in this our land. If he does, he would not be making his kind of statement. Fasola is growing too big for his shoes. At the rate he is going, I can guarantee that the sophisticated Lagos voters will dump him in like a useless baggage come 2011 if he does not retrace his steps. A word is enough for the wise. I hope he is one of them. Awo is regarded as the greatest Yoruba to walk this nation because of what he did. He did not kill us with taxes. I am a product of his school. I should know. Fasola has not done a fraction of what the great man did and people are already complaining about his agonizing tax regime. I beg make you trek softly o before you burn yourself out.

I have always cautioned people about praising the Fasola guy too much. The praise has gone into his head. He now sees himself as better than everybody. He thinks he can do no wrong. Awo the greatest Yoruba that ever lived did not cause us much pain like this. Fashola should not take Lagosians for granted. Else he will regret it. Those who care to can read the article I wrote on How Fashola can derail his second time chance on Saharareporters .com some months back. The article has to do with the land charges you people are talking about now. Many readers castigated me then. Many of them saw me as a PDP apologist. The trouble with with Fashola is that he sees Lagos and the people in it as one giant corporation. The man is not a politician. He will soon burn himself out. It will be a pity if he should let the PDP take over Lagos because of his insensitive policies.

I am a novice where satellite dish is concerned. I want to buy one of these large dish which a seller told me I could use to watch most matches shown on HITV and DSTV. Could this be true? If this is true, would I not be committing an infringement if I use this to show matches in my viewing center? Can HITV sue me for this? I intend dumping HITV because of their constant threat to close down centers or pay 20k. The guy told me I only need to buy two cards that will cost 36k and 30k per annum respectively. What is the position of law on this?

Right now any alternative even the detested military will be a welcome relieve to the state of near anarchy we have presently. We don't have a government at the moment because while Yaradua is busy attending to his health problems, the national assembly is busy looting the treasury. Let something happen dear God. Anything but what we presently have.

There are other options open to me in my public viewing center but has HITV has the legal right to stop me from using these alternative to their services to show football to members of the public if I so wish? What regal option is open to me if they try to stop me from using other services like Al Jasera to show football here in Nigeria to the public?

Can HITV sue if we use other services to show football at our centers?

I was shocked by the news carried by one of the major daily newspapers that the Federal government was contemplating pegging the price of petrol at #105 per liter after its much talked about deregulation of the oil industry. This is wrong. Why peg the price of a product you want to deregulate? Government should let market forces dictate the price if they are serious of deregulating. Is the government afraid that the price of petrol may hit the roof after deregulation? This should not worry them. After all they did it with diesel oil and heaven did not fall. It is only the chicken hearted companies that could not afford the price of diesel that closed shop and turn tail to Ghana. Why should this bother the government? Did we die after they left? Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let them go, in fact they can all relocate to Ghana for all we care, we will still survive.
Did not the central bank governor assure us the price of petrol will only rice in the short run? The prices of other good and services may rise; we should not worry since it is in the short run. We should all bear the pain even if the cost of transport from Ikorodu to Ketu rises to #200 and look forward to the long time benefit of when the price of petrol will fall below #10 per liter. Have we not been assured by our indefatigable president that the price will definitely fall? We are all living witnesses to the free fall of GSM prices below #5 per minute. Why should we doubt the sincerity of a man who has done so much for the country that the first lady cannot bear the thought of his contemplating not running for a second term? What does it matter if the man falls down every hour in Aso rock? How could he even be thinking of not running for a second term when we are ready to give him what we denied Obasanjo? Who else can do what the president is doing for the country? Who could else have done what the president did in the Niger Delta without resorting to the Odi treatment?
Don’t mind cynics like Okah who says the amnesty will fail. He is only jealous because he missed out in the deal of the century. Who else can give us a seven point agenda and start implementing them all at the same time? With our able president in the saddle, we should all go to sleep and leave him to pilot this great nation to the Promised Land.
One cynical fellow who does not know his right from his left said prices of goods and services will go up after deregulation and people may begin to die from the hardship that may be the fall out of deregulation. What a pessimist? Don't you watch NTA news? Even if that happens, is it not only in the short run? Anyway the population is too much. The country can do with a reduction in population. But for the bloated population, electricity would be steady by now. Look at Ghana; they generate only 3,000 megawatts of electricity while they needed only 2,000 megawatts while Nigeria generates less than 4,000 megawatts but needs about 18,000. But thank God by December electricity will be on for 24 hours all over the country courtesy of our hardworking president.
Back to the issue at hand, there is no room for price fixing in a deregulated economy. It is the market forces that determine the price. The government should not be afraid of the consequence of it action. It is for the good of the country. It is part of its delivering the dividend of democracy. The great NPN sorry PDP has achieved what other party before them including the military failed to achieve. There is peace in the Delta. Billions of Naira is being spent to transform the Delta to another Abuja. More money will flow into the treasury. This will translate to more money for our sagacious legislators for their constituency projects. Imagine a simultaneous development in all the federal constituencies in the country. We would not need to wait for 2020 before Nigeria overtakes even Japan in development that will make her the envy of the present developed countries of the world. Some hardliner says the money will end up in pocket of our legislators. I beg to disagree. They cannot embezzle the billions that will flow from the treasury to them. The little that will trickle from their table will be enough transform their constituencies to paradise. Even if they failed to deliver, seeing them in their new state of the art cars will be enough for us. In any case, too much development can put bad ideas into our heads. We might even begin to contemplate of changing the government through the ballot box just like some are clamouring for electoral reform. I wonder what they want electoral reform for when they have the perfect man in government house. What would then become of our president and his out of this world seven point agenda? We don't need a change of government at this time? Why should we change a winning team?
Some of our detractors say deregulation will worsen things because many companies are already closing shop and relocating to Ghana. I say let them go. Good riddance to bad rubbish. They are the unpatriotic ones. The ones that love us will stay. Even if all companies relocated to Ghana, deregulation must go on. Nothing should be allowed to slow down our wheel of progress. The vision our able president has for Nigeria must be allowed to come to pass. God bless our great nation and its good people.

I have tried unsuccessfully to install a software called stylewriter. Each time I received this message: There was a problem sending licensing information over your network
Cause: The program "ckserve" is not running on your computer.
Suggestion: In order to run this program over a network, ckserve must be running on the network server. Talk to your network administrator.
If you are running Windows NT ckserve must be running on the server or your computer even if you do not wish to share licenses over a network. Reinstalling this program should install the ckserve.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled this program several times. I still get the same message. I am not on a network either. Could someone please help me with this problem. A search over the Internet have not given me much clue in solving this problem.

You guys are trivializing a serious matter. What has the man's grammar got to do with what he is asking? What you must do is not link your major account with your ATM. If you already done that, transfer the bulk of your money to another account. Always leave little amount that cannot harm you if stolen in your ATM linked account. It took me the hard way to realize this. I was not that lucky as the guy who had his money refunded. You can imagine the pain the loss of my money cost a poor pensioner like myself. ATM that is to transform lives and save time has been turned into a nightmare in Nigeria. God help this land. This is one of our legacy as good people and great nation.

I thank you all for your advice. I'll try some of them most especially the$4 mail services. I think you are right that I have subscribed to too many services. I think I've now learnt my lessons.

You all got it wrong. Let's first dispatch all our present tormentors to the great beyond like Jerry did in Ghana and all our problems will be solved. The ones coming after them will be too scared to touch talk less of carting our money to Switzerland. O pari.

I receive tens of junk mails which I delete everyday. Many of them are downright stupid. I don't know how the writers of these mails thinks we would fall for many of their hare-brain offers. Initially I used to be amused at the stupidity of these writers but of late, I am angry as these mails increases everyday. Does anyone have any idea how I can stop these stupid mails from getting into my mail boxes. I have four mail addresses because of the antics of these irritating scammers. I still receive their idiotic mails in all my mail boxes. I am fed up.

You guys are not helping much. Which of the service provider will not give one hypertension cause I am tired of Visafone and multilinks. I want to be sure before I invest my hard earn money on another service provider.