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[quote author=Oko_AGB]You are such a bitter young man. Why waste ur life hating?[/quote]Oko AGBero, how garage today

presher: SOME PEOPLE REASON LIKE A FOOL IN THIS FORUM ,U THINK EVERYBODY THAT SUPPORTS JONA IS A KID WAIT TILL 2015 TO FIND OUT

Some people speak like PEJ!!

mike404: THERES SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR HEAD

Oh really?? . Tell me about it!!

Just look at that woman's stomach!! Can't believe a nigga still rides all that blubber!!!

The president already told us "people can insult me FROM HEAD TO TOE I am not bothered" in his second to last presidential media chat.
Just like a roadside orange seller (no offence to orange sellers). He's such an irritant.

Nothing new here. Give that man just 10mins to have a spontaneous conversation without first having rehearsals and he'd release an album of incoherent gaffes. Wish I could meet one of his students to explain to me how he fared in front of the class.

chidindufrank: Low life toads like you would always crave to be noticed. Oya put on your dirty babariga and head straight to your hut Akpamu

Oga chidindumbfuck, he has a right to his opinion. State yours and move along or step aside.

payless: Is PEJ pregnant with triplet or what's in her stomach?

Are you a learner With a culinary bill of 1Billion yearly, what do you expect, six packs

amarilo: Too little too late. Your boys done the damage already.

And how many people did ur father, who is one of his "boys", manage to slaughter

I keep asking myself, if the aviation minister needs such armored vehicles, what can we then say of the finance minister whom Gridlock Jonathan has made naija's prime minister I bet she'd be needing a tank.

Goddex: So many reasons to beleive ASUU strike is
Politically motivated.

One reason to strongly believe you've got screws loose upstairs.

The day a senator almost slapped me for booking him into a hotel room he said wasn't as spacious as his bedroom, and asked me "is it your money", I thought to myself: it is finished!!!

This is the handwork of Tinubu!!!

Retardeen: dullard Since 1977.

By d way, na gongoni him wear for him leg dia
Shey him tell us say him been nor get abakpa

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Actually, neither the mods nor Seun can help the situation. Nairaland is not a charity organization, neither is it a non-profit NGO. It's a business enterprise and must be profitable. Profitability comes from advert placements. Adverts come for traffic generated by the site. And sadly, the very behaviors which the administrators proscribe are the very same elements that tend to pull crowd here!!! So you see, should the mods start a strict enforcement of these rules, you'd see threads generating far fewer comments and viewers! The site "may" ultimately lose its appeal, and then the rest, they say, would be history!!

I get this feeling from time to time that these "leaders" know what we all are oblivious of. I'm suspecting they know the end of this nation is at hand so they are all in a mad rush to get all they can so they can continue with their opulent lifestyle in a post-nigeria era. Just my thought.

"The President will at next Monday’s meeting
present to the ASUU leadership the
administration’s last concession for them to call
off the prolonged strike."

Oga Barney Jo, ASUU isn't asking for concessions, they say "IMPLEMENT" an agreement you were instrumental to forming. Jeez, I hate this government!!ew

I can see Tinubu and Buhari's hands in all these!!

Oga, OP "do the needful". Pay and post a proper advert, then perhaps, people may take you seriously.

And what purpose is this thread suposed to serve

Since when has "middle belt youth forum" become "middle belt"

Tonitelli: You have to be kidding me!!laugh no go kill me for this country!!

Kidding you I'd be damned if there's anyone who didn't know that most of those pro-odua protests and statements are just a sham induced by money from her office. No one with a disabused mind would imagine supporting a thing like this.

Just when you thought you've heard the worst of his gaffes... This is indeed the darkest periods in the history of this country!! And to think he nurses an ambition to stay beyond 2015...

One runs the risk of a heart attack thinking about what these criminals from the pits of hell do to this country daily!!

Imagine claiming vehicles imported were meant for a state govt just to obtain waivers when indeed they were meant for a Fed Govt parastatal. I thought waivers were meant for very essential materials like food stuffs, engineering materials, hospital equipments, and such other items. Why should govt grant waiver to a biznessman importing cars which he's gonna sell and make profit??

When did our govt turn santa claus?? How many waivers have ever been granted small time hustlers who import cars to sell to ordinary folks like you and I? Everything about this country is warped!! You import small, you pay duty, import big and you are waived (even when govt loses more)!!
Steal small, you are sent to the slammers, steal big and people protest in your defense and you are given a slap on the wrist and chieftaincy titles!!

To even cover their tracks, they hurriedly found a similar BMW for the inspection of the house members, but alas, the chasis number was different!!! This whole thing reeks of FRAUD!!! Somebody has to answer!!

Very funny. Reminds me of those days when I was doing my postgrad and supervising undergraduate exams. Caught a couple guys sitting on their lecture notes in the exam hall during the course of exams, sent them out of the hall (because I was very lenient) but they pleaded to be allowed back in. Guess what their defense was: "sir, we haven't used the notes"!!

It's a damn shame!

Billyonaire: This case is that of official embezzlement and possible but unproven kick-backs.

Aviation Minister has been effective in office, but this, is not supposed to be, the expense is beyond comfort zone.

Is this really coming from you

Job men, dem don tidy "Dame" add for her name sharp sharp, make Oga at The Top for see am den say: "oh, that sounds similar to my wife's name. Nobody must touch her!!".

franchizy: We also took a bold step to investigate the BMW Bulletproof car and we discovered that the minister was never involved in the transaction and as such she has no case to answer...

!! Naija for show!! LWKMD.. Nice comic relief for a humid morning weather.

I'm sure their painstaking investigation involved asking members of their forum what they know about the scandal.. LOL.

Perhaps she's contemplating setting up an auto mart after she leaves office.

Disgusting criminal.

One week gone without any work, the administrative panel asked to probe Stella Oduah’s acquisition of two exotic cars has a week to go.

The three-member panel commissioned Wednesday
by President Goodluck Jonathan to investigate the
purchase of two armoured cars by aviation minister,
Stella Oduah, at an inflated cost N255 million, has
yet to begin work a week after, reliable sources
familiar with the matter have told PREMIUM TIMES.

The committee, chaired by the immediate past Head of Service, Sali Bello, with the National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and Air vice Marshal Dik Iruenebere as members, has held no meetings, and has not even conducted preliminary examination of the controversial procurement.

The reason for the delay, officials who spoke to
PREMIUM TIMES said, was because the NSA, Mr.
Dasuki, was out of the country with Mr. Jonathan who is visiting Israel, and is due to return to Nigeria laterTuesday. The NSA, Mr. Dasuki, will also return
alongside the president, officials said.

The office of the NSA is serving as the secretariat for the committee and in Mr. Dasuki’s absence, no work has been done by panel.

The delay surrounding the investigation would
appear to further strengthen concerns over just how
much attention the government has accorded the
scandal that has outraged Nigerians.

With a two-week mandate from the president, the
committee is left with seven days to fully investigate whether or not the purchase was listed in the budget, and whether or not stipulated procurement due process were followed.

The panel will also confirm, officially, whether the two armoured BMW brands were indeed imported into the country with adequate security clearance from the NSA’s office, a requirement for all armour-fitted vehicles imported into the country.

Establishing that security compliance has become
central to the committee’s work amid growing
concerns about the possibility that Ms Oduah, and
the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, which
carried out the purchase at the minister’s directive,
may have spun a mere paper process as cover to
launder money.

PREMIUM TIMES has confirmed from top security
officials that the two cars are not listed anywhere by the office of the NSA as having been issued the End User Certificate, a compulsory permit for all
armoured cars in the country.

“We have thoroughly checked our list and I can
confirm that at no time did we issue end user
certificate to anyone to procure any such cars,” one
source told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday.

“It is a serious violation, and the minister and other people involved have a lot of explanations to make.”

Separately, the House of Representatives committee on aviation, which is also investigating the transaction, has confirmed that the contract was unauthorized and not approved in the budget.
The Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, has also made it clear the purchase was not openly bided for as required by law.

But while the House committee, which began its
investigation on Tuesday, has held one public
hearing and has scheduled a second on Wednesday,
the presidential panel has yet to sit.

Ms Oduah is expected to testify at the House hearing on Wednesday, having failed to attend the first hearing as she was also in Israel with Mr Jonathan.

President Jonathan has been criticised for allowing
the minister travel while under investigation, at a
time many Nigerian demand that she be fired or
suspended while investigations continue.

“The egregious act of putting the minister on his
entourage, at a time she is at the centre of a terrible
scandal, calls to question the President’s sense of
propriety and his commitment to the war against
corruption,” the APC said in a statement on Sunday
by its spokesperson, Lai Mohammed.”

This indecorous action of making a minister who is under investigation for monumental corruption and abuse of office one of the faces of Nigeria in a foreign land is an embarrassment to the country and its people, and a further dent on the poor image of the Jonathan administration.”




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A Senate committee holding hearings into the
aviation sector in Nigeria today shockingly heard
how the Aviation Minister Stella Oduah spent
$1.6 million on the purchase of two armored cars
today, also the committee received further
confirmation that the minister received several
other cars from another agency under her control.
George Uresi, the chief executive officer of the
Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN),
admitted before the Senate’s aviation committee,
led by Hope Uzodinma, that FAAN bought four
bullet proof cars for Ms. Oduah at N70 million
each. SaharaReporters, which broke the news of
how the minister forced the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA) to buy her two bullet-proof
BMWs at the inflated cost of $800,000 each, had
also subsequently reported that other agencies
under Ms. Oduah had also bought her extremely
expensive, overpriced cars.

Mr. Uresi’s testimony today confirmed our earlier
reports that the minister hauled in at least six
armored cars from a variety of aviation agencies.
Our correspondent reported that Mr. Uresi, the
CEO of FAAN, sweated profusely as he told
Senator Uzodinma’s committee that FAAN bought
four bullet-proof cars for Ms. Oduah. “He was
sweating bullets even though the committee
room was heavily air-conditioned,” said our citizen
reporter.

The FAAN boss’s testimony revealed that the
transaction resembled how the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority (NCAA) bought two BMW
armored cars for the minister at inflated price.
According to Mr. Uresi, FAAN bought two armored
Lexus limousine cars and two Prado armored
sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for Ms. Oduah.
Contacted later this evening, a member of the
Senate’s aviation committee told SaharaReporters
that he had heard rumors that the leadership of
the committee was looking for ways to cover up
Ms. Oduah’s car-buying scandal. “Some of us will
not allow anybody to cover up anything,” said the
senator.

Senator Uzodinma gave Mr. Uresi till Monday to
provide the paperwork for the purchase of the four
cars his agency procured for the minister’s use.
Meanwhile, a source who works at FAAN told
SaharaReporters that the deal for the purchase of
the cars was done through a company linked to
Ms. Oduah. “The finance department of FAAN was
not in the know of the purchase as the deal was
done at the minister’s office with Uresi signing off
on the deal.”

Although Mr. Uresi admitted to the purchase, he
refused to provide the Senate committee
members with details of how the deal was
finalized with a bank. He also refused to disclose if
Coscharis Motors Limited was involved in the
latest scandal. Coscharis Motors, which is owned
by Cosmas Maduka, was involved in the shady
deal for the supply of the two BMWs paid for by
the NCAA for the personal use of the minister.
SaharaReporters reported earlier that Ms. Oduah
received more than N100 million as kickback after
she arm-twisted NCAA officials to sign papers
certifying delivery of the two cars. No officials of
the agency ever saw the vehicles before signing
the delivery documents.

SaharaReporters had also reported that another
agency, National Airspace Management Agency
(NAMA), also bought four Toyota Tundras for the
minister. After our revelation, NAMA authorities
went on a desperate search for companies to
claim ownership of four limousines parked at the
aviation agency’s TRACON site in Abuja. Today,
the Senate asked NAMA officials to bring over the
supposed owners of the vehicles along with proof
of their ownership.

In the end, NAMA claimed that the vehicles
belong to a local airline, Overland Airways. But in
a clear indication of fishiness, some other
company had called SaharaReporters to claim
ownership of the limousines.

Ms. Oduah is expected to appear before the House
of Representative tomorrow (Wednesday) to
answer questions on the scandal of the $1.6
million she squandered on the purchase of two
armored BMW cars.

In the wake of our revelations of the minister’s
car-buying spree, she traveled to Israel as part of
President Goodluck Jonathan’s official delegation
to religious sites in that country. Mrs. Oduah
returned to Nigeria on Monday night a few
minutes after she attended a ceremony where a
Bilateral Services Agreement was signed with
Israel.







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