₦airaland Forum

knightsTempler:
Op, shut up please. You buffoons always pop up in support of criminals and call white black without blinking.

Go and lie to fools and don't forget to inform the thieving crabs you represent that Nigerian are not deceived.

Yes, boko haram is all about 2015 and the maintainance of a grip on illegally acquired oil wells. For that reason, Arewa elders do not care if their people die like chickens under boko harams unslaught.

Caseless:
You see how shallow-minded some Nigerians can be? If a bomb goes off in a church, they want one to go off in a mosque too, if a preacher speaks violently in a mosque, one pastor is expected to do same in a church, if a church is demolished, a mosque is expected to fall too, if a church is robbed, a mosque is expected to be robbed, if a muslim president dies, we wish that a xtain president dies too, if mecca is visited , we expect jerusalem to be visited too, if an imam is killed, we expect a pastor to be killed too and, now we have those asking imam to pray in a church simply because they've seen a pope pray in a mosque.
Has religion taught us to be this vindictive and stuupid?
OP, you are a ponce!

ammyluv2002:
Mehn, see mean face

knightsTempler:
Civil right group by asś, BH are busy feasting on the blood of innocent Nigerians, causing unprecedented carnage never before witnessed in the history of this nation.

What do these people really want from us?

JackBaueress1:
He can make top 100 influencial people on earth without any qualms but frowns at his name included in the top 10 richest african presidents. Isn't he going to protest against the latter?

mikeansy:
Sahara reporters should remember that they started this madness when it goes out of control

Because for every politician and his supporters there is an opposition

If what Saharareporters wants to test is whether wherever Buhari and APC goes to campaign there can be disruptive opposition then they must know that we have them arround the country in abundance

If Sahara reporters are a responsible outfit what they should champion at this moment is for all opposed to any candidate to make their voice heard at the polls

Producing evidence of people protesting against the President while he is on campaign is simply injecting bad blood and violence to the process and Nigerians will remember how it all started when it goes out of control!

barcanista:
Mr. Cramjones why are you hell-bent on giving APC a bad name? When did Buhari campaign team pay you? Why are you trying to paint Buhari as someone who uses funds donated by patriotic Nigerians to pay trolls? Why are you denigrating APC and Buhari? You are a shameless liar and it is high time the progressives see to your covert mission on nairaland. Tell whoever sent you that your mission is an exercise in futility.


Btw: you haven't promoted any APC article here since you joined pdp as ffk. Get a life.... Troll

harde2lah:
Seconded. This is a case of Make believe.
They would do anything to do the bidding of the their pay Master. What is the difference now between the SUG and the Nairaland moderate rotCompromised set of people who have no integrity and core values. They ve been trying to so hard to brute force us into believing he was not booed. If the students hadn't done what they did yesterday it means they approve the way the PDP led govt had been ruling us. Nairaland only bring to front page articles which sing praises of gej to high heaven. OK, we ve heard. He was not booed. Can we have a better front page topic now other than this OAU vs gej ish.

SailorXY:
why don't you present your own proof that GEJ was booed or assaulted if you believe he was

emperorchedda:
Excuse me sir!

That you didn't take the picture of when GEJ's convoy was thrown sachet water doesn't mean it didn't happen.

You can only make us believe you by posting a comprehensive video which covered the WHOLE event

stanech:
mossad is baddest of them all and then CIA comes second

biafranqueen:
Rubbish

Descartes:
Hmmm....

Facts are Sacred

THE United States government’s recent
report on the role of the government in the
proliferation of corruption in Nigeria offers
a fresh and undeniable insight into why
graft is so deeply entrenched in the Nigerian
system. If the government that should
stamp out corruption is now actively
protecting corrupt individuals, then no
amount of posturing will produce results.

However, for a government that is
responsive to constructive criticism – a
government that means well for the people
– the report is an opportunity for the
Goodluck Jonathan Administration to act by
taking firm, honest and decisive steps to rid
Nigeria of the perennial tag of one of the
world’s most corrupt nations.

[b]In a detailed and frank assessment that
could only be described as stating the
obvious, the report, entitled, “Corruption
and Lack of Transparency in Government,”
confirmed the often-stated view that the
efforts of the anti-graft agencies are
deliberately stymied by the government. The
allegation of deliberately emasculating the
anti-corruption agencies brings to mind
reports last year in which the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission confessed that
it was broke.

In one of such reports, the EFCC Secretary,
Emmanuel Adegboyega, told the Senate
Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial
Crimes and Anti-Corruption in December
last year, “We (EFCC) have been complaining
that no money has been released to us for
operations. As of now, we don’t have up to
N2 million. If we can afford to pay salaries
this month that is all.” For an agency whose
functions are defined by the number of
arrests and prosecution of corrupt
individuals across the country, how can
those functions be effectively discharged
without money for legal fees and travel
expenses? How can they be motivated if
salaries are not paid?[/b]

Interestingly, one of the other cases of
corrupt practices the US report cited was the
curious state pardon granted a former
Bayelsa State governor, Diepriye
Alamieyeseigha. Aside from his conviction
for treasury looting and money laundering,
Alamieyeseigha, who is still a wanted person
in the United Kingdom, served time in
Nigeria and also had his tenure as governor
truncated, paving the way for Jonathan,
then his deputy, to replace him. The state
pardon implies that the former governor,
who, as an ex-convict, could not occupy
public office, whether appointive or
elective, can now do so. Indeed, Jonathan
has nominated him to the ongoing National
Conference. That is a dangerous signal to
the outside world for a government that
professes commitment to fighting
corruption.

In a similar damning report last year, the
then US Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence
McCulley, reportedly told the Nigerian
government to demonstrate more courage
and conviction in its crusade against graft,
insisting that it was the only way to “send a
clear signal that the country is indeed
committed to good governance, to the
security of its citizens, and to its rightful
place as a significant actor on the global
stage.”

Unfortunately, corruption has been
identified as the major reason for the
arrested development in the country. It is
responsible for reduced public spending,
which results in huge infrastructure deficits,
especially poor roads, lack of electricity,
inadequately-equipped hospitals and low
quality of education. It is also fingered in
the pervasive insecurity in the country, low
quality of governance and general poor
standard of living.

Under the current administration,
corruption has become particularly daring,
even more than anytime before. Even when
the President stated clearly his readiness to
fight corruption, the government had been
less than convincing in its manner of
handling corruption cases. For instance,
after ordering a series of probes into stolen
oil subsidy money in which the country lost
more than N2 trillion, an amount far in
excess of Nigeria’s capital budget for this
year, nobody has been convicted more than
two years after.

Faced with brazen and self-evident
corruption case in the purchase of two cars
for N255 million for a former Aviation
Minister, Stella Oduah, it still took the
President four months to reluctantly fire
her. He initially set up a committee to
investigate a straightforward case,
apparently to find a way to avoid sacking
the minister.

The US report alleges that, in Nigeria,
“Massive, widespread and pervasive
corruption affected all levels of government
and the security forces.” While alleging that
judges were not left out of the massive
corruption ring, the report accused the
government of not implementing the law on
corruption effectively, thus deliberately
allowing “officials (to) frequently engage in
corrupt practices with impunity.” These are,
possibly, part of what the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal,
saw when he cried out that the President’s
“body language” encouraged corruption.

Indeed, the US report went far, but only to
the extent of the period it covered, which
was 2013. Since the beginning of this year,
there have been allegations of missing
funds, meant for the Federation Account,
and for further distribution among federal,
state and local governments. But, for
alleging that about $12 billion – later $20
billion – had not been accounted for, the
Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, was
placed on suspension and a forensic audit
ordered later. Why the hurry in suspending
the CBN governor instead of investigating
his allegations first? The government says
the suspension will pave the way for the
investigation of allegations of financial
recklessness against the CBN governor.

Although both the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation and the government
said only $10.8 billion was unaccounted for,
it is still a huge sum of money. Only a
fraction of that money can build the Lagos-
Ibadan Expressway, the East-West Road and
the Second Niger Bridge. It is money that
could have staved off the prolonged
university teachers’ strike that nearly cost
the institutions a full academic session.


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