₦airaland Forum

aventura: please there is nothing like good governance in Edo state. Stop generalizing.

Dan Orbih pikin, you don chop even the blind can see good governance everywhere in a Edo state...

I bind the witches and wizards plus all the demons in the name of Jesus.. abi did the minister not say witches and wizards are responsible for power black outs in Nigeria? Oya, by thunder by fire.... Holy Ghost...fire fall on them ...

To think this man was once a VC at UNN is mind bugling and explains a lot why that university seems to have gone to the dogs lately..

Dem burrows: Gej is already on top of the matter, right now a gud number of them Generals are no longer in control of them battalions. So thou shall not weary of an eminent coup.
Sai Gej ©2015-2019 ..if you near.

Go figure out, coups are never plotted by generals, coups are always plotted and executed by subordinates and the generals only come to the table for dinner when the meal is ready .

Like they say, do not kill the bird the lays the golden egg.... Jungle don mature, are things going to fall apart? Only time shall tell.

CFCfan: No coup can succeed in today's Nigeria, as the massive uprising against such an action could lead to a 2nd civil war. Over 14 continuous years of civil rule shouldn't be torpedoed on the whims of some disgruntled, out-of-favor politicians.

I beg to disagree with you on this one. So long as Nigerians are hungry, coup will always succeed in Nigeria. Though I for one do not subscribe to it, however, the manner in which the current president has handled the affairs of the nation has no doubt sent the right signals to the exotic coup plotters to start thinking what next!

Nigerians love life too much so any bullet, followed by Ghana must go will silent their mouth forever .

I have said it here repeatedly, if GEJ continues with His die hard posture come Q1 2014, by Q2 2014, GEJ will be history as far as Aso rock is concerned and average Nigerians will not pity Him.

His greatest undoing was to polarize Nigeria along ethnic and religious line. Never has Nigeria been this polarized and I pray never again will it be.

Who listens to Yinka Oduamakin any more? Let Him come explain to Nigerians which formal job He has ever had and why He is never seen to be away from the gateman house of those in power!

He is a useless prolific contract prostitute that only knows how to praise sing those in power for His belly

IKEMBA NNEWI: Left to me, i think the minister should just let this issue go, the case is already dying a gradual death, she needs to stop opening old wounds!

Which natural death? FYI, NIgeria will be hosting high profile international summits next year and those are the venues these issues will resurface again. Do not be surprise at the protest that will follow these events and Oduah must go will be one of them..

Oduah is a confirmed thief, and she should be in jail. Convicted by two committees reports, sentenced by public opinion only to be kept by the Aso rock zoo keeper

Alikaxon: Are all these road pictures u re uploading projects? Uduaghan is deceiving u pple. How much did he pay u to upload this pix? If he didn't pay u, then u re waisting mb. Ibori the thief was better than Uduaghan Uduaghan is the worst thief now.

I second this motion! Even though Ibori stole a lot from Delta State, His projects doted every part of delta state and every sector. From sport to Agriculture to Health and Finance.

All of Uduaghan's projects are fantasies by the man maid Greeks .

Ngwakwe: However, I will advice you to comment on threads where you have something meaningful to contribute and stop jumping from one thread to another trying to prove unverifiable or non-existing claims or superiority.

Whilst I round up this work I have been up to tonight on this lappy, permit to say that I do not see you deem fit an individual what giving my ears to, let alone paying full attention to what you have to say.

You are very much inconsequential and a lackey that I would need you to tell me A or Z.

Perhaps first go learn to live without being innately corrupt, preach the message and be a firm believer that good always triumph evil, then you may have the audience that would have their ears on ground for you.

Ain't got no time of nonentities

Good night.

Seriously, why is this just hitting the front page now?

@ OP, do you really have interest in pursuing and developing your gift as hardcore engineer in aerospace with focus on design engineering? I need an honest answer from you and I will take it up from there.

I am really impressed by your old school fashion way to design, build and assembly. If I am honest with you, what you have done here is not all different to what design engineering in the civil aerospace is all about. All you are lacking is the advanced principles and exposure to cutting edge technologies to get an A1 size drone flying.

For once, I am really impressed by something on NL.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Good questions. I am willing to wait for the answers until after we've had regime change at the Presidential level. If the decamping of these people is in furtherance of that overall objective, its OK by me.[/quote]You know in ever deal, there is a legitimate expectation. Politicians are very crafty humans, and only very few of them are there to serve the people and not their bellies.

While APC strategy might be to weaken GEJ and Sambo based before 2014 Q3, and it appears to be working effectively to an extent, the question Nigerians will begin to ask APC from 2014 is this:

What are you bringing to the table with the old guards you have recruited and how are you going to use their know how to ensure good governance like you have done in Lagos, Edo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun, Oyo and to an extent Imo ?

APC must not only put in place strategy to regain the center, but more importantly, she must put in place a plan to build political and democratic institutions that would checkmate some of the nonchalant politicians who hitherto made PDP a den of robbers.

Without any shadow of doubt, Kaduna was for the opposition during th 2011 elections and the opposition only got rigged, so I won't be entirely surprise if they move their tent to APC.

However, it is not about decamping to APC, rather, are these people ready to turn the leaf and provide Nigerians with good governance? Are they prepared to embrace democratic values, ensure development and peace prevail in their respective LGAs? These are the pertinent questions that we should be asking ourselves instead of celebrating that they are leaving PDP to join forces with APC.

dlox147: that hotel was started about a decade ago!!!

Does your statement not lend further credence to how true the allegation is that she used tax payers money to complete that Hotel? That she spent 10 good years not been able to complete the hotel either by borrowing money from banks, friends, or business associates and suddenly when Her husband became number citizen ( I cringe to say this, as it does not augur well to think the number citizen is such an inept individual) that hotel is springing to life very quickly and nearing completion?

If truly she owns that Hotel, do you think any serious individual will take Her and Her husband serious when they talk about corruption especially when her antecedent right from the days as wife of the deputy governor of Bayelsa state,clearly revealed her as an exotic criminal? Remember the wife of a serving deputy governor who was caught with millions of Naira traveling to Dubai some years ago at MMIA?

Ngwakwe: You are sounding like unmarried Marriage Counsellor

Youthful exuberance is one thing, maturity is another, experience most times comes with age and period of exposures to empirical, logical, diplomatic or combination of two or three systematic problem solving skills.

Head knowledge is good but inexperience kills dreams.

Your one-way thought process needs twitching to keep you in tune with changing realities.

NB: I'm not in any way trying to underrate your intelligence rather bringing you to par with changing realities. On the issue of exposure to corruption, I remain 98% incorruptible even when I served as Labour Leader, I pulled through.

Having seen your irrational posits on NL, you are least to be taken seriously on issue of corruption. A man of integrity is known both in words and actions, and so far your antics and words in this forum has clearly marked you out as a very corrupt individual, therefore you claims that you are incorruptible may as well serve as a tale by the moonlight.

I am sure the so called changing realities is akin to screaming blue murder by the daylight while Nicodemusly deceiving the people by night at your various secret locations that dot the Nigeria landscape.

I dare ask you, in what capacity did you serve as a labour leader? Which company, state, congregation and/or union? Is it not on record that most of you labour leaders are even more corrupt than politicians, with the criminal dues you levy on your membership that are unaccounted for year in year out Please do not get me started with your type this evening.

Ngwakwe: It seems you are beginning to believe these absurd comments you make on Nairaland as factual or relevant rather?

Please grow up and find a profitable venture to develop the man in you and with time you will learn to reason positively without emotional attachment.

Who taught you success must be in arithmetic progression without considering the possibility of geometric progression?

What is the significance of compound interest over time?

Moreover, Patience Jonathan moved to the banking sector in 1997, where she established the first community bank in Port Harcourt called the Akpo Community Bank. She served as Marketing Manager of Imiete Community Bank plus other numerous connections.

No matter how you dislike her, it doesn't take away that she is a seasoned Entrepreneur.

A crass like yourself who have never lived or worked in an environment where corruption is sternly abhor will always glorify criminality.

I dare to ask you, what is the market capitalization of these banks you mentioned she started? How much is a marketing manager salary in Nigeria that she can as alleged by the article to be able to build an Hotel estimated to be N1bn or more?

FYI, I do not dislike Her, rather I dislike Her attitude for criminality and Her crass behavior at the expense of the tax payers.

Before Her husband got involved in Bayelsa state governance, why did she not use these 'invincible connections' you claim she had to build the same hotel? Why did She not use Her entrepreneurial skills then to build such Houses and Hotel?

Like Pastor Tunde Bakare said in His sermon last Sunday, what we currently have in Nigeria is a leadership who arose from a low life of lack, not prepared for leadership only to find themselves in leadership, hence their wanton looting because they are scared that when they leave, they are going to return back to poverty. This aptly describe PEJ, and if she is not careful, all she is doing at the moment will be enjoyed by those who never till the soil a day and people like you who worshiped Her for these evil will also not be spared.

Yar'dua's wife that was reported to have stolen over N1.7trillion from Nigerians coffers while Her husband was busy fighting for His life will tell you that even now, that money cannot afford Her a life free of cancer that she so earnestly desire right now.

Evestar200: What Delta Leisure park will look like after its complettion

Look like one of those Jehovah witness pictures of what paradise will look like ... ye ye dey smell

atlwireles: Your company is very free to make any decision. That is the power of the free market. Nigeria was corrupt before I saw born according to history. We are attracting our fair share in investments, the numbers are there for you. By the way, the integrity of most employees in Chevron Nigeria is unquestionable.

I would rather view it the other way. Free markets have puller forces that always attracts investors to come in and invest. In Nigeria, we currently have the opposite.

I will never forget a business meeting I attended which was hosted by the UK business secretary, where, to my utmost surprise, every company that identified themselves as having some links of business in Nigeria was seen as being involved in corrupt practices.

I felt so ashamed, really weak and left pondering throughout the session. My futile attempt to engage one of the CEOs to really understand why most of them felt that way was met with one word response: PERCEPTION. His response was, Nigeria and Nigerians is perceived to be innately corrupt and sees corrupt practices as the only way to a successful life. His conclusion was very apt, i.e. whether it is true or not, Nigeria and Nigerians are suffering big time as many investors will decide otherwise because they do not want to be linked with corrupt entities.

As for the investment, I think you should be more worried that Engineering and Manufacturing focused companies like ours are the ones shying away from investing in Nigeria, instead what you have pouring in are the services company who are there for the short term gain and are very quick to pull out of an economy once things are no longer as favorable as they expected.

We need to curb corruption, refused to condone corrupt practices, then invest our money wisely in infrastructure development and you would see the big names in Engineering and Manufacturing setting up their based in Nigeria. Why? The market and people are there, with a political clout of the Federal government that can influence things within the West African region and expand the reach of the products of these companies.

[quote author=Raggedy_Ann]One of the crucial ways developing countries try to reduce unemployment is to support SMEs. This government is doing that. But instead of sitting on their butts idling away, the Nigerian youths need to stop being lazy, get creative and productive. Stop being a liability to the country! We are where we are today because so many suffer from mental poverty. NIgerIans have many needs and you only need to recognIse one. why don't you start a business that caters to one of those needs today and employ one or two people? YOUWIN is still accepting applications till January 20- something. Please get busy, Heaven helps only those who help themselves.

And as for those 1.6m jobs, how can you refute the fact/allegatIon? My cousin was supported by YouWin (like several others) to expand her poultry farm and now employs almost thrice her original work force. These are not the kind of jobs nairalanders would want but they still count to the credit of the government.[/quote]Please stop mentioning that rag tag programme YOUWIN as something that Nigerians need to life them up. YOUWIN is a fraud just like several other programmes of her type that have been initiated by previous adminstration, it will die after GEJ leaves by 2014 or 2015 at the latest.

You claim that GEJ's government is supporting SMEs is one of the biggest lies and propaganda yet from this administration. Let me even leave that aside and ask they simple question:

Why can't GEJ's government curb corruption and provide basic security and ensure prudent justice system is in place? Most Nigerians will like to set up their own business in Nigeria, however, with widespread corruption, incessant killings and lack of a prudent justice system, which make many feel they can live above the laws of the land, many are put off going into business. These social factors which are needed in a business friendly environment for business to prosper.

A man who sets up a small electronic shop, after investing huge man hours into growing it, all of a sudden is attacked by a criminal neighbor or associate or family members, looses everything and there is no way the state can come to His rescue. How do you expect such a man to go all out again and do business? He would be relying on getting a job in government where He can steal knowing even if He is caught, nothing will happen because it is Nigeria.

kmariko: It is not the job of the government to bring the bacon to your dining table. It is you and you alone that can go out there and drag the bacon home, processs it and feed it to the members of your house hold.

The job of the government is to provide you the opportunity to do that. That includes a secure atmosphere, adequate infrastructure etc.

Nah only Bacon, if for be sausages, scrambled egg, baked beans, mushroom, hash browns and toast Ye ye dey smell

mascot87: See your mouth If one of your family member is a special advicer to the president on one stu*id or mumu matter ,you will say something that is different from what you are saying now and your thinking will be different.

I have no business being a Special Adviser to a lame duck president who does not command respect even amongst junior ranks in the international business circle.

My involvement in and with Nigeria is business, business, business with purely private investments that have nothing to do with any government at any level. You have to play by our rules, live by our terms of condition if you want to benefit by our business.

Hope you get that straight in your head

atlwireles: You have not worked in Nigeria before, no need wasting my time with empty talk. Have a happy new year

Contrary to what you think, I have worked in Nigeria and I know in and out how Nigeria system works both in the government and private sectors.

You really do not know the kind of damage criminal attitude like this is doing to Nigeria. I work for a FT 100 company who recently decided against investing $2.3bn over 5 years in Nigeria, instead they offered to invest that money in Turkey even though the estimated returns from Nigeria would marginally better than that of Turkey. The reasons cited for not going for Nigeria were based on amongst other things Germany, France, and UK government intelligence and advise against investing in Nigeria due to the hostile and corrupt system.

You really do not know how much people like me is pained when one come across such a lucrative venture that would have put real term jobs and food for thousands of Nigerians and open Nigeria up to greater international business connectivity which is lacking big time in Nigeria right now but are diverted elsewhere due to our seemingly 'love' for corruption and corrupt practices.

Lets stop glorifying corruption whether in the private or government circles. Your children and my children will one day come to learn how we had the opportunity to make Nigeria great by just simpling refuse to compromise our integrity through corruption but refused to do so.

Abagworo: History will have GEJ's era as the era of highest infrastructural transformation in Nigeria. However it has a lot to do with the persistent high price of crude oil in the past 8 years out of which OBJ took 2. Gowon was the only other President that witnessed oil boom. The question is how long will this boom last? Have we made good use of the excess cash this rainy day to alleviate the impending draught of shale gas? After Gowon and people ofhis era lavished all the money on infrastructure without planning, we ended up unable to maintain them and they turned out useless.

Owerri new Road. I don't know the name. Still under construction but looks like a tunnel.

I only challenged you and your likes to name the roads began and completed by GEJ. I gave list of five roads in Edo State alone that was either dualised completely or constructed from scratch during Obasanjo's time.

As a fellow south south man, I expected Jonathan to lay a very solid foundation infrastructure wise, so that whoever takes over from Him would know that the bar has been raised very high and He or She will have no option but to continue from there.

Lets be honest with ourselves, a sitution where most state governors are now the ones constructing the Federal highways through their state, those that not tell you something?

atlwireles: That thing you call house is what a senior staff at Chevron puts on the ground in Warri within 2 years of employment. Please tell me something I don't know.

The senior staff in Chevron you are talking about cannot afford to put up such houses on His base salary + allowances that is why they collaborate with government ministries to falsify contracts, crude oil figures, and steal from the common employee in their company by deny them what is due them in real terms.

Let stop deceiving ourselves and call a spade a spade.

This is how you people celebrated Ibori when He used Delta State money to buy Bolingo Hotels and Towers, same way you people celebrated Lucky Igbinedion when He used Edo State money to buy refinery in South Africa that the South Africa government is now enjoying at the expense of Nigeria.

Let me remind you this: You might think you are fortunate enough today, and therefore where you are will afford you the opportunity to join the league of looters some day, hence, why the fuss? But life is not just about today. There is always tomorrow, and if you allow this evil to persist today, it will grow into a huge monster that will consume you before the time God appointed you to return home.

When civil servant started stealing in large numbers with pens in the 70s & 80s, those that should have nipped that act in the bud were doing exactly what you are doing today. Fast forward few years down the line, some of those people who glorified those acts then are now the one protesting on the streets in their 60s, & 70s.

If this story be true, may the House of GEJ last beyond 2014

You need strong political institutions for men like the current governor of bank of england (Mark Carney) to give you double digits growth and real development year on year.

Mark Carney is a realist, a practical conservative and knows His onions. A man who led Canada during the recession and vowed that Canada would never see real term recession and that was exactly what really happened. Unlike Marvin King who theorizes like Okonjo Iweala, Carney knows how to turn theory into practical, growth into development!

Can Mark Carney survive in an atmosphere like that of Nigeria? Certainly not.

Will Mark Carney accept to work in a place like Nigeria? Certainly not.

Why? NIGERIANS AND NIGERIA ARE NOT PREPARED TO LIVE THE GOOD LIFE BY SHUNNING EVIL AND EMBRACING GOOD. We believe the way up is down

atlwireles: It belongs to a man from the SS, there must be complains and bad belle. While right under your noses, una god dey steal una blind. By the way Jonah needs to upgrade that house asap. A Senior chevron staff in Warri will not live in that building.

So because it belongs to a man from South South, it is okay for us not to question Him Jonathan said He is not corrupt in one of His first media chat when He became a president.

Now tell me, add all of Jonathan's salaries + allowances till date, deduct taxes if at all He pays any and tell me if He can afford such a house.

This is one reason Nigeria is in serious trouble. Many of us innately are criminally orientated and only know how to use our brain to steal what others have labored for.

I have said it and it shall come to pass. GEJ will go to jail after leaving office before 2015.

taharqa: Yr point been

STOP GLORIFYING CORRUPTION you simpleton You people should be ashame for once. A woman that could barely afford to buy wrapper is now building over N1bn hotel!

This is one reason we need to have REAL CHANGE THAT COUNTS in 2015 so we can luck up people like PEJ and you in jail liike Ibori is cooling off in jail in London at the moment.

DerideGull: The day I set my eyes on Mallam Rochas Okorocha in the November, 2011 afternoon at Owerre, I concluded that Imo State citizens have elected not only a criminal but a shameless comedian.

In fact, I have come to realize that Rochas Okorocha is better than his idiotic and sycophantic supporters. It is funny the dude is pointing at one form of corruption while dripping in other forms.

Old man go and sit down... . You could not even achieve a class prefect and you come on here to spew rubbish. If you have any evidence against Rochas, you have EFCC to petition! Afterall, EFCC is the first parking dog of your puppet GEJ

Chei! Dem don burst PDP e-rat blo.kus .. No christmas bonus for that insincere9erian

Ngwakwe: Inferior architecture. See what lack of money has done to a whole first family

Poor Mama Peace


See what other average entrepreneur built and compare it with PEJ's cartons

https://www.starwoodhotels.com/pub/media/3188/fpt3188ex.98558_md.jpg

Why did She not build that 'cartons' when Her husband was a lecturer Why did She not build that 'Cartons' when Her husband was a substantive governor

PapaBrowne: My family house is probably bigger and nicer than Jonathan's house. Most houses in Lekki look better than this. Many houses in GRA benin look better and bigger. Many houses in PH are better than this. Bendel Estate warri has nicer houses. Many villages in the east have nicer houses. If this is all someone who has been deputy governor, governor, Vice President and President can build, then he hasn't been stealing money.

Even LG chairmen in poor states like Ekiti and Ebonyi have bigger houses.

The foolish article is intended to paint a picture of of corruption because the president owns a house. Well this strategy might work in Ghana or Liberia not in Nigeria whee the society is awash with individual wealth.

Always try to use the brain God gave you! Instead of you to be comparing corruption to corruption, why not seek to do otherwise? You come across as very stu.pid most times when you try to justify one evil with another in several of your post. Even if the rest were doing like you allege, will the Jonathans be castigated if the lived by example and seek to do otherwise?

Only people of low life will seek to enrich themselves in position of authority as a President. Tony Blair is reported to have earned more money in the first few years after leaving office from speaking engagement and international consultancy than He did all the while He was Britain's Prime Minister.

While I am yet to believe this article in its entirety, however, Patience Jonathan's (aka Madam Piss) Abuja land struggle antecedent with Turai Yar'dua does indicate that She is capable of engaging in what is being reported in this article.

Let us assume that the Minister is correct, with an estimated 30% of Nigerians 'formal' unemployed, (which translate to nearly 48 million Nigerians, assuming the population of 160 million Nigerians is correct), does the 1.6 million jobs touted by the Minister not translate to a drop in the ocean?

Let us take it one step further, assuming the government sustain the tempo of creating a 'mere' 1.6 million jobs year on year, it will take Nigeria 30 years to formally absorb all of the 48 million currently unemployed - this also assumes that the population of unemployed remain stagnant at 48 million and population remain stagnant at 160 million.

It is very obvious that this government does not grasp the real depth of chaos this country is hedging towards, as she continue to elaborate and celebrate below par achievements!

With the enormous opportunities that abound in Nigeria, the Federal Government alone should be creating directly and in-directly at least 3 million jobs yearly!

The job figures clearly confirms what some of us have being saying: The Economy is not developing in real terms, but only growing on paper!

Looking ahead though, from the snippet of the 2014 budget we have seen, it is very glaring that the government has no effective and effectual strategy in place to create as twice of 1.6 million jobs by year end 2014.

Finally, can the Minister also tell us HOW MANY NIGERIANS WERE:

1. OUT OF FORMAL JOB IN 2013
2. MADE REDUNDANT EITHER BY COMPULSION OR BY IMPACT OF FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS POLICIES
3. TOOK VOLUNTARY JOB ABSENCE FOR OTHER REASONS.

luvinhubby: You forgot to tell us which loan and what percentage of it was released to Rivers state to acquire a N9 billion aircraft, did the certification and insurance and put it in the air.
If your economics is correct, in scale of preference, water comes way before aircraft.

I am not sure how well schooled you are. However, let me remind you that you do not join issues upon issues to resolve a thing. You raised allegations on an issue citing three others to buttress your point. I only asked you simple questions which ordinarily a smart person would ask Himself or Herself before putting out an opinionated piece in the public domain.

If your write up is filled with inconsistency and seemingly evading position when you should be straight to the truth, your piece would achieve nothing and only make people see you as bias.

Rather than ask more questions about the jet, perhaps let address the ones on ground first, then you can open another thread another day for the jet issue?

So now go back and address the simple questions I asked you

that DAYOKANU na badt guy ...now I know why on the other thread He was calling GEJ Humpty Dumpty . Hmmm! Fashola, I hope you are preparing to go higher to Aso rock because we need pragmatic brains like you there.

Humpty Dumpty nah primary school rhymes now