₦airaland Forum

Pennywise:
Don't waste your time with these nonentities. It's a continuation of propaganda for GEJ. This time the objective is to prevent him from going to jail over his atrocities.

Imagine Reno Omakri conjuring a special award in a discredited southern Baptist Christian assembly where he was employed as a preacher to give Jonathan award almost 1yr after he was sacked from asorock.

Now the plan is to suppress genuine mass horror over Jonathan's atrocities in the first 2pages of every headline considered averse to their interest.

The stolen billions very much at work. Jonathan should be stripped and all our money recovered before being sent to jail for life. No there has not been a precedent in this banana republic but his crimes are just too grave. The sky will not fall if he is sent to jail.

MR. ENTITY. And in your opinion you just made sense. Keep feeding on lies.

dederocs:
verify from realtors in Ikoyi and island, i know the realtors involved in the lease transaction.

So you want Nigerians to believe your cheap gossip and disbelieve Linda's cold hard fact backed up with pictures on her own blog? You must be high or something. And what's your business if the house is up for sale? Do you know if Linda's financial advisor had told her that living in that house was not the smartest finacial choice she could make? Did you even verify your claim before rushing to nairaland to do EXACTLY the same thing you are asking Nigerians to stop doing. Abeg comot joor.

“The president is also scheduled to meet with leading Saudi and Qatari businessmen in Riyadh and Doha, and invite them to support his administration’s efforts to revamp the Nigerian economy by taking advantage of the great investment opportunities currently available in Nigeria’s mining, agriculture, power supply, infrastructure, transportation, communications and other sectors,”

What a perfect timing. The ground is already prepared for easy take over. Wondering how many sessions were had with the leading businessmen in the West during the past visits. #WeAreNigeriansNotFools

SoNature:
Sorry, I'm totally apolitical. I was alarmed by the choice of words you were using to describe a man old enough to be your grand father...a man occupying a seat nobody in your family may ever come close to occupying in their entire lives. That was why I mentioned you.

Most of the youths we have nowadays have no respect for the elders. Mind you I am for a better Nigeria, and I wish Nigerians would vote for an entirely new party in 2019 so that we can end all this pdp/apc online madness. Mtcheeewww

It's obviuos you are confused. Which words were you attributiing to me, can you show it? With my handle please.

Obiagelli:
I you say we are moving back to 1984, what will you call this? Pre independence



Nigerian bank announces early closing due to fuel crisis

One of Nigeria’s biggest banks on
Monday announced it was shutting
branches early due to a lack of fuel,
in the latest sign of shortages
hitting businesses.
“The current shortage of petroleum
products in the country has limited
our ability to supply diesel to all
our branches in order to continue
normal branch operations,” GT
Bank said in a statement on
Twitter.
“Due to this we unavoidably have to
close our branches nationwide at
1pm (1200 GMT) from Monday 25th
May, 2015.”


www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/05/nigerian-bank-announces-early-closing-due-to-fuel-crisis/

I SERIOUSLY think you are insane, honestly. No offense intended. You should look into it.

hero2000:
Don't you know about the fall in oil price? Meanwhile let me give you an analogy:

Let us say you stay with your big brother who has been given all the funds for your university education. He has a job but things start to get tough financially. Rather than work harder or look for money elsewhere, he starts to take from the education trust. You don't know where money is coming from but all you can see is that he gives you money for clothes and gadgets and all.

Sometime later you moved to another big brother. All the remaining education funds have been transferred to the new brother. He sees that as things stand the money left won't be enough for your university education. He doesn't give you all the stuff the other brother used to give you. Rather he insists that you manage. You begin to wish you were with the former brother.

So among the two, who really has your interest at heart?

That is my answer to your question.

If you really believe this your analogy, then your case is lost already. In spite of all the daylight lies emanating from the government you are still reasoning like this?. Do you even know that all the FEC had to present from their last meeting was a flimsy agenda on climate change; and that's while the whole nation burns in economic inferno? What a pity. It so painful that folks like you don't realize that you are seriously bewitched. When are you going to see that all the claims about stolen trillions and billions are plain scam designed to thrill unthinking masses that are already delluded?

bewla:
It is foolhardy and unpatriotic to pray for your
president to fail. If the president fails it is the
country that fails and by extension we as a people
will fail.

SHOW ME YOUR POLITICAL COMMENTS IN THE LAST SIX YEARS AND PROOFS OF WHERE AND WHEN YOU PRAYED FOR THE GOVT OF THAT ERA TO SUCCEED, THEN WE CAN TAKE YOUR ADVICE SERIOUS.

SoNature:
Why are you people always bitter? GEJ lost and moved on but "ordinary supporters" won't move on even after months. What is wrong with you people crying more than the bereaved?

You got it all wrong. GEJ and his suporters moved on even before buhari's victory was confirmed. The only folks that have refused to move on in Nigeria today is APC and its crannies. They blame GEJ for eveything including the very air they breath. And I wonder how hypocrites like you could expect sane Nigerians to keep quiet and refuse to defend GEJ.

KINGinVAHALA:
Lol. i made up my mind frm inception to be a good husband to any woman i take to my home and call my wife. But i wont tolerate any trash if she pays my good with bad. To me on that, i live in the old testement bible where "FORGIVENESS WAS A SIN & THE WAGES FOR SIN THEN WE BOTH KNOW WAS DEATH".

Please dear, I'm seriously touched by your situation. Please don't listen to what some of the folks here are saying. Here's what I think you should do immediately.


0.

Go to another hospital and GET DOUBLE SURE about the timing of the pregnancy. If the report remains the same, then proceed as follows.

1.
CRY out to God for mercy, AND the purging of your conscience and grace to move on to the next phase of your life as happy woman, no matter what happens. Please start now and continue until you feel the burden lifted and a new dimension of peace envelopes your entire soul. Trust me it will happen. Your case is not as hopeless as that of Jonah or Mary Magdalene. Trust me God is so compassionate. And your case is not shocking to Him. In fact He has seen and forgiven WORST cases.

2.
DO NOT TELL YOUR HUSBAND ABOUT THIS.

3.
GO TO YOUR MUM AND OPEN UP TO HER, yes, tell your mother every darn thing that took place ( do it right now).

4.
Compel your mother to talk to your MOTHER INLAW as soon as possible.

5.
Stay with your mother untill the senior women are able to break the news to the man.

6. Stay with your mum until you are able to give birth. This will help give your hubby some space to think.

7.
If the senior women are able to prevail on the man and he decides to accept you and your child, good for you, if not, just move on and know that at least you did not live a lie for the rest of your life.

Just my opinion though, GOOD LUCK.



QUICK NOTE:
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YOUR EX SHOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS UNTIL YOU GET TO KNOW WHERE YOU STAND WITH YOUR HUBBY. If he chooses to remain with you, and you are willing to stay, then give him the previledge of deciding what happens to the child and your ex. And I must warn that if your hubby ever forgives this, and CHOOSES to remain with you in spite of it, then you must be ready and glad to remain grateful to him for the rest of your life.

hitman2015:
He sat and watched a few "privelledged" nigerians cart away trillions, and millions die with abject poverty. Yet u said he aint bad.

Yet you forgot that your god earmarked nearly 2 BILLION naira for his annual household upkeep in 2016 only. Yet that was the same set of expenditures GEJ made due with about 500million. STILL YOU ARE HERE TALKING CHAFF. Don't you have any shame?

hitman2015:
He sat and watched a few "privelledged" nigerians cart away trillions, and millions die with abject poverty. Yet u said he aint bad.

If you are not chronically silly, you would have known that (just like the 2016 budget) the claim of phantom but unproven embezzelments is a scam designed to keep misserable folks excited.

OP, all I see here is a RAW SILLY statement evidently produce by SHALLOW THINKING. Don't you know the meaning of EPIC? Why use the word then?

Businessideas:
This is commendable and sign of humility. Greatest Akokites are noble and very intelligent (to get 6 credits in one WAEC sitting for admission into UNILAG is a lot of hard work).
Please sheathe the sword. I am sure the Senator truly respects you and would live up to his words.
I am proud to identify with you and my my alma mater.Greatest of the Greatest Akokites. Please accept his apology and invite him to your annual Departmental week programs. I am sure he will make it up to you.Today is his day, consider your acceptance of his apology as your birthday gift to him.

You had better start telling those kids the truth. Life does not revolve around social media.

tpiar:
your points are understood but few things to note:

1. If they were expected to be the social commenters at the event, that should have been expressly stated and understood by all parties involved. Besides, I dont think that's how these things work.

2. Why would their job chances be threatened simply because they voiced concerns? Be careful of such statements. If they dont work in their field, then they should be able to work in another field.

3. I dont know about the powerful contacts factor. A celebrity/VIP's time is not random like that although perhaps it might be occasionally but I seriously doubt it.

4. Ben Bruce can throw another party for the general public to celebrate with him.

5. Nigerians do not take class mixing lightly.

6. In any case, the organizers are the ones to be contacted over this.


my opinion.

Glad it's your opinion but I beg to differ.

1. They do not NEED to be told to do the needful. If they are TRULY information based STUDENTS then where was there instinctive initiative and drive? Telling them CLEARLY to report the event would have made their report SOCIALLY UNAUTHENTIC.

2. The OP put his job chances at stake when he naively took to the social media to ATTACK and call for MASS HATE against a man that gave him an opportunity which he never EARNED. (4 out of 5 employers are likely to checkout your social online behavior prior to giving you a job). And I assume someone like you won't want someone like op in your company - unless he changes his attitude.

3. And who says that a smart communication student cannot sieze that rare opportunity to make a lasting impression on, say, one of the VIPs?

4. Of course, I'm talking about Ben finding time to party with this particular group of students if they had been smart enough to help him promote his book instead of LEECHING for a royal treatment with ZERO value adding initiative.

5. You sure do not expect a student body to sit around the same table with senators and other VIPs in that kind of event, do you? Besides, to me, the sitting arrangement was very normal it's just wrong thinking that's giving it negative interpretation.

jerrybay:
Funny how you'd ask questions and answers them yourself. Why ask at all. I was present at the event and we did everything possible to make sure a note gets to Bruce and it got to him. We highlighted our pains and he just swerved. Nothing happened

You had no business sending note to BEN. HE WAS NOT IN-CHARGE at that event. You should have engaged POSITIVELY - with ZERO sense of entitlement - with the folks that were in-charge.

Again, did any of you ever bother WHY Computer Science and Mass Communication depts. got invited and others were not? Did you ever stop to ask why you were located at a place that gave you awesome view of the event? What you are doing here is like looking at your neighbor's house through a dirty window, no matter how clean his house is, it will still appear dirty to you.

I was not at the event, and I do not know anyone who attended, but from your narrative, it is clear that you guys were expected to set The Social Media on fire with live feeds from that event - you had the chance - but you all missed it. And you all missed it because, in your funny way of thinking, you wanted to be SPECIALY recognized for doing NOTHING.

If you and your friend had been smart enough to do what was expected of you, you would have gotten some powerful contacts you may never be able to get going forward, you may have secured an internship at Silverbird group or other places. Ben may have hosted you guys to a special welldone and a little pat-on-the-back get together. But you guys missed it all. And now you are also trying to kill your chance of ever getting a job in the near future. Or do you think any employer will be in a hurry to hire someone like the OP having seen how poor his atitude is and how much of an uncreative ingrate he really is?

rhymesmith:
Sigh!

Lack of intelligence tells on you sir.
If you do not understand the reason why the students see this as a despicable act, then I guess you never went through the University (and even if you did, you refused to gather the knowledge you were meant gather).

And btw, for your information, you have successfully painted Sen. Ben Murray Bruce in a worse light than these poor students have.

Go and learn how to be more creative instead of just looking for cheap publicity with your #NotSoCommonSense post.

YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A BIG ISSUE - A SERIOUSLY DEEP ROOTED ISSUE. You guys were at such an event - you had the chance to enter the hall - yet had zero creative will to make anything good out of it, you know why? Because of your collective deep-rooted inferiority complex masqurading as silly sense of entitlement.

By the way, did anyone of you bother to find out who was the organizer? NO.

Did you make any effort to air your percieved anormalies to any of the said organizers while the event was on? NO.

Did any of the so called MC students seek out opportunity to talk with or interview any of the special guests? NO.

Did you even know BMB's Twitter handle or find out if there was any LIVE harshtag for the even? NO.

None of you probably thought of engaging REASONABLY and respectfully with the event , but here you are showcasing how dirty your mind is by ridiculing a Man that had honored you.

LRNZH:

It is in the main article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_naira

By this reference, it was in 1986 that the black market rate got to around 4 Naira to a USD. Since you experienced it, I defer to you.

As I earlier stated, it doesn't change our conclusions on the subject matter.

Maybe you need to know that Wikipedia is NOT an authoritative source of information. Any dick can edit any content on Wikipedia. And Wikipedia does not maintain an archive or history of edits that I know of. Don't be suprised if the stuff you are citing now is not there again tomorrow.

bigerboy200:
u could make your point without resorting to insults..by God's grace,it is too late for me to be poor let alone dying in poverty..

Of course, Nigeria said the same thing in 1977. Wealth is fleeting my dear and pride goes before a fall. This is not meant to wish for your down fall though, on the contrary I want you to be bouyant all the way. However, it seems to me that sound unbiased reasoning is critical requisite to STAYING wealthy.

efilefun:
you got time replying the lying ineffectual buffoon, it was actually frustrated by those who were running private accounts in their ministries and not because they did any stvpid research or whatever on it. At first when it was implemented they were all screaming its GEJ's idea, and here they are twisting their words already.

All the Mary-Kay make up they were using to deceive everybody had been washed away and now we seeing the real facts they kept hiding just to bring back that clueless zoologist who should have been in the zoo instead of aso rock

Only fools argue blindly against common sense..

lordizak:
The rate of illiteracy in Nigeria is going high by the day. The rise in dollar is affecting many economies in the world, it's not restricted to naira alone. Many countries however, have devalued their currencies. PMB does not want to do same. He has concrete reasons, you can check the effects of currency devaluation. I just have more reasons to love pmb for his resilience. Wailers wake up every wanting to hear bad news, and they just keep getting heartache. God bless Nigeria.

Of course you are smarter than Sanusi, and more literate than Soyinka, but I'm sure, from the way it's going, by his 12th month you would have ran out of your canned excuses, that's asuming you still have any sense of decorum left up stairs.

kolmart:
That was a political tone how can you judge PMB who is just spending just about 10 months in office with PDP who destabilized Nigeria for a whole 16 years? the different is clear. it is easy to damage but difficult to repair. we are reaping the PDP damages now so we need to give APC to do the repair. The problem of Nigerians is that we always in a hurry and we don't allow a good leader to fix the country. Many people are shouting hunger hunger hunger and that it was PMB that caused it. If I may ask this set of people are the one crying of hunger since inception of PDP ruling for the past 16 yrs. who now cause the famine in the land? Let give PMB a chance to fix Nigeria especially we masses no condition is permanent we need time.

The price of oil was less than $20 when PDP took over? So what's your point?

don4real18:
Take him to rule your house and watch crumbling in 3d.
Mention what GEJ has done for the benefit of this economy

The fact that you pose that question shows you are clueless. You are asking what GEJ did for Nigeria economy? You must be a felon from Sudan.

santos247:
Let Jonathan and his co-travellers go and sit down. They brought our nation to its knees by what they did and what they failed to do. If we had built our reserves during rainy days, we would be able to insulate against the dwindling prices of crude in the world market. THose who claim Buhari and the CBN are wrong, i dare ask...What alternative policies do they suggest
As a lay man, i have considered this:
Devaluation of naira: Genuine importers of raw materials will buy dollar at 350-400 naira, price of their finished good will increase. Purchasing power of everyone will drop. including the masses who dont deal with forex, BDC etc.

What is the proportion of Nigerians that is affected by 1 dollar = 350 naira today compared to when naira is devaluated??
With the current regime, Every demand for forex outside genuine importers of raw matertials buy at black market (including those of us who buy cloths from Aliexpress, ebay etc..), including those who enjoy luxurious Dubai travels. Does the current regime affect Mr Salako who eats Garri (ijebu), Tomatoe (Kano), Onion (Sokoto), and Beans (Adamawa) and palm oil (Ondo) Does it affect the cost of taking the average civil servant from his house to work Does it affect the cost of buying 1 bag of Dangote cement to continue his 2 bedroom bungallow
Am sure tie and dye from Abeokuta or Aba made Jeans shoudnt be affected. So who are the real victims of this current regime of FX over-demand in the market?? My lay man perspective you may say.........

You are SERIOUSLY confused. What's happening in your head is WAY out of sync with what's going on in the streets of Nigetia right now. So quit distorting reality. Just go to the streets and check out prizes starting with RICE, BEANS and OIL. Then you can come back and talk.

Seun:
It worked marvelously in Argentina, Greece, and Zimbabwe. Why not Nigeria? /s

What exactly worked in those places. I really want to know. And how exactly is the current administration applying it? And what are the proofs that the corelations you might be hinting on were the actual causations of the results you talk about?

YOUR SARCASM IS CLASSIC THOUGH.

greenguy:
Mr. Bruce, this time, you have not made sense. Nigeria's economic team is doing fine, perhaps a little change is required. Nigeria is not alone in the current economic turbulence; we're better compared to some greater nations who have relied on oil too. It's a pity we are in a country full of educated illiterates. Mr. Bruce, seek not popularity, but seek to be useful - that's common sense.

Why not, I believe you live in the new Aso Rock where domestic economy is booming and income increases by 300% in one year. Of course you have no clue about what the common Nigerian is experiencing right now. So you will talk crap about "doing fine" in the face of this worst economic downturn in our recent history as a nation. You will praise your god and his qausi agents even when the whole world knows they have zero economic policy but are busy squandering our foreign reserve on shadow chasing. But I am sure the stream will soon dry even at the rock, then you will understand the tune your fellow Nigerians are currently singing.

skademzy:
As much as a good economy is important, a good image is more important. Build your image, change perception of outsiders about you, build the potentials of your country and you shall see that better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof... We've had enough of this common sence, what we need now is an uncommon sence to bring a solution rather make mere noise. The common sence he couldn't employ when we needed it most few years back. Or is it that he just purchased it from someone?

Few years back BMB was not in public administration.

But to answer your question:

Few years back $1 was NOT = to #400 Now that it is, we need ALL the common sense we can get, which, by the way, is not common at all, else this government and its citezens would have been using it.

birmingham04:
An enemy of Nigeria, negative thinker,hopeless person, futurless and nonentity will still take Gej as his hero. Gej is most #1 enemy of Nigeria because is the most opportunist among all our leader the most poorest, the most local product but at the end he misbehaved. Dia rise God oooooo.

BITTERNESS. It KILLS. You are full of death hormones. Please DENOUNCE partisanship and live. The last time I checked this thread was about the ineficiency of this administration and the need to handover the economy boat to the experts. Neither the headline nor the deatails mentioned GEJ but drunken fellows like you will always bring him into the picture as a perverted fix for your chronic amnesia. Get a life.

By the way, The Bible says that: "When the wicked rules, the people mourn." This is just the begining, unless the wickedness in high places is taken away by those it affects most. But with folks like you, the journey is sooo long.

Speechless3:
Is it love or God that keeps marriage. A MOG for that matter. God cant be this careless with his ministers.

Why bring God into a choice that a man and woman made for themselves? God gave eve to adam but was it God's job to make family decisions for them? EVEN IF GOD GIVES YOU AN ANGEL FOR A SPOUSE YOUR MARRIAGE WILL STILL CRASH IF EITHER OF YOU REFUSES TO MAKE IT WORK.

mascot87:
Not like the useless tribalistic Onyeka that was shouting "" i was sacked because i am Igbo"" I am sure the people she is working with will even be happy she is going. Sebi this is someone going and his workers are shedding tears on his behalf which shows that she has a great personal relationship with the people he is working with.

Either you have issue with comprehension due to carelessness or you are just plain mentally sick. Onyeka did not say she was sacked because she was igbo, on the contrary she said she was looking up to leaving the office, and it is within the right of PMB to ask her to leave, and even if it was not, the office was not hers, and that she had a great career before and still look forward to getting busy with it after taking the office as DG.

What she did say was that during her tenure she had to contend with some influencial tribalistic colleagues who thought that Nigeria Civil Service was their tribal birthright.

lookandlaff:
months of perfecting it you say? and who were the people he was perfecting it with all those months, no be civil servants? Was it not this same civil servants he was dealing with when he told us ministers are noise makers? He trusted the civil servants and they embarassed him. On your valid point about senate, well I can't answer that because this is not the 1st time dubious budgets have been presented to them and sailed through...maybe the senate this time finally decided to do it's job, dont forget this is a new senate.


On your final point I actually do think people are pathetic because if you cannot see that the civil servants are at fault here then it means your biases, either ibo v hausa or Pdp v apc is clouding your judgement. it's an embarrassment to the government no doubt but the incompetence/fraud cannot be put at the doorsteps of the ministers or Buhari. Like I said Buhari is going to screw up many things before his term is up and we will have the opportunity to objectively lambast him but this is not one of them, this is solely the result of a institutionalized corruption in the civil service.

Sorry, you got it all wrong.

HERE IS MY OPINION

1. If it took the senate no time to discover the fraud, then any decent president should be able to discover it much faster. And Buhari did. He only went on to present it because it was his design.

2. Refusing to appoint ministers for six months was not an experiment, it was a well thought out strategy. And the aim was to eliminate every outside interferance in the production of the fraudlent budget. This also was the reason for the senate crisis - the need for absolute control so that this scam budget would scale through undetected. Unfortunately the whole thing has crashed.

3. The civil servants you talk about are just being used as scapegoats to divert public attention.

4. In reality however, these folks are not getting sacked due to the scam budget (in fact the label that's hung on most of them was their loyalty to PDP and their alleged corruption in 2015 elections - that's the old DGs). The ACTUAL reason for their sack is to create political rooms for APC loyalists.

5. An executive council that has the national interest at heart would be discussing ONLY economy AND security right now, but to show how clueless and heartless this one is, the priority is climate change. I would have laughed out loud, if not that this is so DIABOLICAL

6. Why do you still excuse this government?

obailala:
Where would the power come from when the power companies claim they dont have enough revenue to even operate the present facilities, let alone improve?

I would rather say, "pre-paid meters before increment." With that, we know we only pay for what we use.

MONEY IS IN THE BANK