₦airaland Forum

victorjam:
d fact of d matter is that i am more educated than you, thats undisputed.

by the way am only sayin that der is no blogger in Nigeria that pays tax and as such no one shuld crucify linda for not doin same. i believe that seun d owner of dis website doesnt pay tax, thats another undisputed fact. idi.ot

You can't even spell correctly. What a shame!

Not surprised, otherwise how would someone who has not had a decent job for several years be able to afford his lifestyle?

hinwazaka:
This ignoble foolhardy plan by the FG, is due to the President's belief that his enemies are behind the Fuel scarcity. But the major catalyst is the opposition's hand in ruining the hidden loan application by the government, from the IMF. Yesterday, the IMF chief put the final nail in the coffin on the loan application. Now the President has no choice but to review his outlandish budget. The loan was meant to finance the budget and settle some influential Nigerians in the APC. Due to this burst bubble, the President is now breathing fire and brimstone on those who he believes leaked his illicit motives to top media hotshots, who were able to blackmail the IMF into dropping the FG's application. I pity the President and his party, because they are in hot soup.

Can anyone be so contrary? Where were you when all of those being questioned confessed to collecting money from the NSA for personal and political purposes? Or was it the President that spoke for them?

Rather than keep making noise and setting up investigative panels that are unrecognized by the constitution, the Rivers State govt should have charged him to court. Whether we like it or not, the punishment for embezzlement is not a mere indictment by a panel and the Rivers State govt rather than play to the gallery should have used the Attorney General's office to prosecute. Perhaps they didn't do that because the claims against Amaechi are unfounded?

light004:
A very nice write up but we still remain at the same spot. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew this error of judgement that was why He admonished us never to judge anyone and went further to state that the same standard will apply to others shall be apply to us.

The big question is by what standard are you judging the previous administration? In all fariness, if given the same circumstance will you agree that that same standard be applied to you? We react to issues based on the level of information available to us and our own perception which may atimes be inaccurate or insufficient. In my comment, I limited myself to facts and statements that are verifiable.

You talked about power, roads, traffic gridlock in Apapa, just to highlight the major ones that if the previous administration has done anything you will have noticed, thus, your not noticing means that nothing was done. Nothing is more subjective than this but let put the facts on the table and I need you to cross check and disapprove with facts:

1. GEJ administration build more power plants than any other govt in the history of this country. Investment in that sector was equally massive. The improvement in power today is solely the effort of previous administration.
2. We have more motorable roads in GEJ administration than any other administration.
3. The Apapa gridlock is hydra-headed and not the makiing of GEJ but failure due to lack of planning. Find out the road was reconstructed during GEJ tenure but obviously that won't solve the problem which is the congestion of the port and the over centralisation of port activiies to Lagos alone. Please find out the reason for the gridlock? Let me state GEJ will also share part of the blame.
4. On the railway, it's sad that you failed to appreciate the tireless effort to reactivate our railway system and add new standard guage tracks and build the Abuja metroline. Please, tell us which administration has done this much for our railway? Don't forget, GEJ met the railway infrastructure in a comatose state, i.e. dead. If other administrations have done this much, the whole of Nigeria would have been connected by rail tracks.
5. Do you want me to talk about Agriculture or the electoral reforms and the improvement in that system or the reviving of the dead automobile industry in Nigeria - today we have more than 12 companies manufacturing various types of automobiles or you want to hear about how he revived the dead oversee scholarship scheme that was designed to provide high skilled Nigerians to pilot the affair of this Nation in the future or the entreprenuer schemes of Youwin, agroprenuer, etc that empowered various youths across the country. So much for a man that was alleged that did nothing. God is indeed watching. For you, you need to refute this claims with facts and figures.
I take you again to the bible, it's not by error that it was stated that you test all spirits in your quest for righteousness and truth. Truth will not fall on your laps because you desire it but you must seek for it and make conscious effort to attain it with all the resources at your disposal. Judge everyone rightly based on facts not hearsay and if in doubt please keep your opinion to yourself. May God help us all.

It is interesting to expect me to confuse efforts with success. I am not comparing one administration with the other, rather I'm comparing spending with what other governments in different countries spend to achieve result.
If the administration achieved successes in power reform, please measure success with the set targets. Check the Power Reform Agenda of the Jonathan administration which set the existing megawatts at 4,500 as of 2011 and left it at substantially less when he left office. I read the agenda with high hopes and I was hugely disappointed when it failed due to poor leadership.
By way of comparison, Ethiopia got about $350m loan to improve its road infrastructure and within a similar period succeeded in increasing its road stock from 26000km to about 99000km. Are we not the same humans?
If the tireless effort on rail will only allow us travel from Lagos to Ilorin spending 11 hours for journey of about 300 km then we are in soup. By way of comparison, a journey from London to Manchester which is a slightly longer distance takes about 2hr 30mins. Why settle for less?
If you trumpet the successes on Agric, then ask why the food import bill is still high. The focal point was on rice production, with billions spent as incentive shared by corrupt politicians and acolytes of your mentor. Don't ask me why you still depend on imported rice. Or you want to swear by your Bible that you buy and eat only locally grown rice?

"[quote author=light004 post=41600450]A very nice write up but we still remain at the same spot. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew this error of judgement that was why He admonished us never to judge anyone and went further to state that the same standard will apply to others shall be apply to us.

The big question is by what standard are you judging the previous administration? In all fariness, if given the same circumstance will you agree that that same standard be applied to you? We react to issues based on the level of information available to us and our own perception which may atimes be inaccurate or insufficient. In my comment, I limited myself to facts and statements that are verifiable.

You talked about power, roads, traffic gridlock in Apapa, just to highlight the major ones that if the previous administration has done anything you will have noticed, thus, your not noticing means that nothing was done. Nothing is more subjective than this but let put the facts on the table and I need you to cross check and disapprove with

Please note that it was within his powers to decentralize the ports. Not to forget, he promised to clear the Apapa gridlock and awarded contracts as usual, with zero results.

light004:
Anything under the sun can be alleged and doesn't make it true either. I strongly believe like the popular saying goes when you want to hide something from a black man just put it in a book. If this is your deduction after reading this post then it's either you are completely blinded by prejudices or you never read it or you find it very difficult to understand the write up.you must learn to separate facts from friction. APC is a party of contradiction and it beat me silly when they remain the source of authentic information for some Nigerians.

The following from APC:

1. Jonathan spent six years in power. Same APC in different fora he spent 5years.
2. Jonathan did nothing in office for five years. Same APC, lots of roads constructed and many in different stages of completion (Fashola). I never knew trains were working in Nigeria (Ameachi). so many ongoing projects in the transmission sector and some are almost completed while others are in varying degrees of completion (Fashola). I met empty treasury
3. Subsidy is a scam and fraud. Same APC now in govt, paying half a trillion in subsidy.
4. The presidential fleet is too large, we will sell off most of the aircraft and leave just two. Same APC, using the same numbers of aircraft with a higher maintenance cost.

I can go on and on but the point is this cross check whatever information you get and never spread such until you get the facts.

It's interesting how surreal and transcendental the concept of good governance is to many Nigerians. Most of our youth seem to be satisfied with tokens and half measures given by successive governments in the name of serving the people.
I have not, in all my responses praised the current government; yet you see comments calling anyone that criticizes the last administration an APC apologist. My view, anyone that praises Jonathan as a good leader is a masochist that needs psychiatric help. That person, who probably cannot afford 3 square meals, has no good job and lacks the basic needs of life and still praises the last administration to high heavens needs to take a hard look at his/her life.
Don't get me wrong, I desperately wanted Jonathan to do well when he came into office, most especially because a performing President from the Minority would really cement the unity of this country, just as Gowon had the diligence and good fortune of building the most enduring legacies among the founding leaders of this country. Jonathan blew it and no amount of revisionism can erase that. If roads were built, we would have seen it. If he improved electric power we would have seen it, if he performed even averagely on railways the Apapa traffic gridlock would have been a thing of the past. You only deceive yourself when you put stones in the pot and claim to be cooking yam.
Just as well, I want this government to do well and I've set timelines for my expectations. I will criticize it if they don't perform within a realistic time and I think they are on track. I pay taxes regularly and I have a right to expect service. Perhaps those that do not see any wrong in a bad government should start from the basic payment of taxes and let's see if they'd still tolerate incompetence.

theshadyexpress:
lets assume whatever is on wikipedia is wrong even though we how know wiki gets thier articles but pls can u tell us how you arrived at yours that is different from that of Fashola the minister of works and his min of state for works and also wikipedia that most scholars use in their research work.

no matter how hard you wish u can change the goal post on this thread you'll end up making a dummy of yourself

It's simple, you can't claim to have increased the road kilometres from 4000 to 25000 without the people feeling it. You'd have seen quadruple the length of existing roads everywhere. Ask yourself, where are the new roads? The SS and SE didn't see upto 1000km, same with SW, same with the North.
For perspective, Lagos Ibadan Expressway is about a 100km. So imagine how many of that will give you 25k km.
Finally, if your lecturers used wikipedia for research work, then I'm not surprised at your quality of education. You should consider getting a refund of your school fees.

theshadyexpress:
now i can see your argument is motivated by unparalleled ignorance,how else can u justify that work was done than for the same person that 8months ago was ready to swear to a tin god that nothing of such happened now coming out unashamedly, without duress and using free speech to counter his earlier claims ? he's got to be lying right? can you now tell us why he will want to lie and if by any chance you have used some of the roads mentioned and theyre not motorable, even wikipedia states it clear that nigeria has 28000 km of motorable roads.

get acquainted with facts and stop living in perpetual denial of reality

You mean whatever is on Wikipedia is correct? You really are not very smart.

micayo:
So in one word, "You are Ignorant." Ignorant of the fact that Fashola really ascribed that success to GEJ. But when you do not read, how do I expect you to know. Fashola wrote an essay which you can still check online as his manifesto. Ignoramus.

2016 is here, change your ways.

Happy New Year

Please do me a favour, compare the report of Fashola's opening speech in the mainstream media with the others on Pointblank etc and come back and tell me if there isn't a difference.

luvinhubby:
Mister please stay off here if you do not have any sense to make.

It's understandable that you'll get angry when you get to the limit of your wits. I try not to insult but that doesn't mean I won't correct you. From your grammar, I can understand your limits.
I suggest that you try to be dispassionate and a bit more discerning.
If you are attentive, you'd find that my argument is that you can't justify the statement that GEJ built 25k km roads; not that he didn't build any roads. Further that it's puerile to justify that with an unverified quote from Point blank News. You'd have more intelligence when you pay more attention rather getting angry.

luvinhubby:
So if Point blank is not a Nigerian mainstream media, then saharareporters is? Am watching.

And reconstructing a failed road is not part of road construction from where you come from?

Just check the definition of mainstream media and educate yourself. I've not referred to Sahara Reporters as mainstream and I wonder why you are clutching at straws.
And please, there's a difference between 'am' and 'i'm'. You might want to mind that in your future comments.
Kind Regards.

luvinhubby:
Read it here.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/jonathan-constructed-more-roads-than-any-other-nigerian-president-fashola/

And yes, the federal road that passed my hometown was reconstructed 3 yrs ago.

Point blank News is mainstream media? Interesting.
Congratulations on the reconstruction of the road passing by your village. That means a previous administration constructed it originally, let's put that in context. Kudos to him for at least rehabilitating the road.
Remember the story is that he moved the road network from 4,000km to 25,000km. Your road was already included in the 4000km. Let's avoid double counting sir.

luvinhubby:
Look this one, your ogas in APC have acknowledged GEJ's massive success in infrastructure and you are here talking otherwise.

You can believe what you want. I can't expect you to think beyond your cognitive capacity. But then, try these elementary exercises.
1. Was any federal road leading to your house or village worked on during the GEJ administration?
2. If the quote the writer ascribed to Fashola was true, don't you think it would have been reported by mainstream media inclusive of Thisday where the writer works for as editor? Why would he be looking for a rebuttal if he heard from the horse's mouth?
Think please.

The writer must be insensitive to allege that 25k km was done by GEJ based on fabricated quotes. He should as a journalist be more investigative and list out the roads! If at all, none of the meagre successes of GEJ can justify the amount of theft and cluelessness of that govt. Please the writer should deal with that.
Using subsidy removal as an example, the argument now is different from those of 4 yrs ago. Now, it is glaring that with the fall in oil prices, removal of subsidy would not hurt the populace.
In the 2012 scenario, the argument was that removal would create money to fund infrastructure with the creation of SUREP. Please show us the infrastructure financed with the 50% removal (remember, subsidy was partly removed) other than private constructions by the subsidy thieves and their acolytes including Thisday journalists like the writer of the editorial. Don't also forget the manner of the removal; crude was selling at record high yet those that travelled to villages were left stranded as a result of sudden price changes.

Lytech:
Poor as expected...
He find it difficult to speak correct english,dats y he skip almost all d question

You can't even write correct English. Your tenses are all over the place and you have the nerve to criticise. Little wonder you couldn't comprehend what the President was saying.

victorjam:
so ppl pay tax for bloggin? how many bloggers do pay tax? abeg make una free linda jare... d only tax she needs to pay is d one for d purchase of her house. no blogger in Nigeria pay tax. linda cant be made a scapegoat. Nigerians and bad belle

Better you use the time spent here to get an education. How can you comment about a subject you don't understand? Just spend the airtime on learning rather than commenting. Once you generate income from any activity that is not tax exempt and you are not tax exempt, then you must pay tax.

MORNDEW:
Radio kudirat asked listeners to stockpile arms?
Asked listeners to kill other tribes they see?
That they should be violent against any Nigerian? Etc.
Besides I did not ask you to start a radio station alone. Anyone can. But to start it ND incite violence against a country. Hope you have comprehension abilities?

You are very correct. The Kanu guy was running a radio station under cover but using his real name. To compound it, he allowed himself to be caught on video soliciting for arms and then presented himself in Nigeria to be arrested. Who does that? And he wants to lead his people? Do you think if Abacha had got hold of the people behind Radio Kudirat he wouldn't have tried them? They were smarter than the charlatans behind IPOB.

RareDiamond:
THIS IS TO SHOW THAT APC GOVERNMENT IS FILLED WITH LIARS AND M0RONS WHO ARE ON A FAILED VENDETTA MISSION AGAINST DR. MRS OKONJO IWEALA. THE WHOLE WORLD CAN NOW SEE THAT THE ALLEGATION OF MISAPPROPRIATION AGAINST MR OKONJO IWEALA BY THE APC GOVERNMENT IS A COMPLETE LIE MEANT TO HOODWINK THE GULLIBLE PUBLIC. WHAT A SHAME !

Please check the meaning of 'misappropriation' before you pass judgment. Don't be ignorant and careless at the same time.

God bless Nigeria and God grant this government the ability and forthrightness to deliver on all these objectives.

VivaVivre:
You Mr are the one who is meant to go back and read my post slowly. My heart bleeds out of sympathy for them. Sympathy is a human emotion inclined towards pity, and compassion so how is that being judgemental? My pity for them is a fact based on what I ve seen over the years and what I feel as a human being. I believe it is not unconstitutional to have and exercise compassion. Your summation makes me laugh! What a ridiculous way to conclude on my post. I am a factual person and I stated the obvious fact. If I judged them (which I won't to your displeasure), I would ve said "bloody polygamists", " what a culture/religion of oppression", "what a foolish woman", "that man and his new wife better beware, because that 1st wife is venomous". These are judgemental statements. I owe you no explanation whatsoever, I had to put things straight in order for people of like minds as yourself not to misconstrue what I wrote earlier on. Have a good life. Perhaps, I am entitled to my opinion.

Symptise and pity them...? Hmm. .Are you female? They probably pity you too when your husband is being shared among different mistresses. .different perspectives, different strokes, different folks.

All of these people agitating for Biafra, please just put a coherent plan in place and it should address the following:
1. How many Igbos do you represent 
2. Is this clamour popular among Igbos the world over 
3. What happens to the Igbos in places like Lagos with thriving businesses....should they abandon their homes and resettle in your newly proclaimed Biafra? Or wouldn't they need visas to stay in Lagos or would they have dual citizenship I. E. Eat their cake and still have it?
4. How do you address even the internal wranglings among Igbos in several states in the South East. Case in point is Abia sending away indigenes of other South East States to make way for its own indigenes....or is Biafra going to break down further to accommodate these differences? 
These are just a few questions to determine if you have thought through this senseless clamour.

All of these people agitating for Biafra, please just put a coherent plan in place and it should address the following:
1. How many Igbos do you represent
2. Is this clamour popular among Igbos the world over
3. What happens to the Igbos in places like Lagos with thriving businesses....should they abandon their homes and resettle in your newly proclaimed Biafra? Or wouldn't they need visas to stay in Lagos or would they have dual citizenship I. E. Eat their cake and still have it?
4. How do you address even the internal wranglings among Igbos in several states in the South East. Case in point is Abia sending away indigenes of other South East States to make way for its own indigenes....or is Biafra going to break down further to accommodate these differences?
These are just a few questions to determine if you have thought through this senseless clamour.

Dannyset:
The Senate does not go against or encroach the Judiciary! Even the Committee on Ethics respect that fact when Amaechi told them that the case is in court. If there's truly a court injunction, they will gladly respect it(Separation of Powers). That is that on that.

@OP, you need to edit your topic. Your use of "PDP gets an injunction" instead of Livingston is just an assumption that hasn't been verified. Tho we know PDP is behind it all, but still, that heading is wrong.

You are wrong. The legislature cannot be injuncted from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities, just like the legislature cannot make laws ousting the jurisdiction of a court which has been vested constitutionally.
An important question is, if the Rivers State govt could go to court to apply for an injunction what stops it from commencing the prosecution of Amaechi if they are sure of their facts?

Acidosis:
You people should leave your village and attend more seminars, listen to more public speakers and stop this 'hypes.'

How can a man of 52 years find it difficult to answer simple questions pertaining to his area of specialization and experience? What baffles me is some of you attended universities where some 30-something year old Lecturers tutor you all on difficult subjects.

Please remind me again, what has Fashola said that Senator Ben Bruce can't discuss even better? What has Madam Aminat said that Senator Stella Oduah won't discuss even better? Have your nominees said anything Maupe Ogun of Channels TV won't discuss even better? Who among them can transform this nation better than "Sam Adeyemi", a public speaker if the criteria were to be comportment, statistical and business intelligence?

Well, you may need to compare the CV of Madam Aminat with that of Madam Oduah.. likewise Ben Bruce and Fashola. However, it's not just about public speaking, it's more about the thought expressed, especially from hands on experience; otherwise GEJ's humble voice should make him a good speaker. And please don't use motivational public speakers who cannot back what they teach with hands on experience. Talk is cheap!

You had better find something good to do. If you must school anyone, beg your nominees to tutor your PRESIDENT who's somewhat clueless of certain and key sectors of the Nigerian business.


Thank you.

Well, you may need to compare the CV of Madam Aminat with that of Madam Oduah.. likewise Ben Bruce and Fashola. However, it's not just about public speaking, it's more about the thought expressed, especially from hands on experience; otherwise GEJ's humble voice should make him a good speaker. And please don't use motivational public speakers who cannot back what they teach with hands on experience. Talk is cheap!

TonyeBarcanista:
The President should have understood the protocol before arguing with the AGF

Please read full report
Buhari faults Auditor-General on Lake Chad report
President Muhammadu Buhari
It was mild drama at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday when the Auditor General of the Federation, Samuel Ukura presented the environmental audit reports on the drying-up of the Lake Chad to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Having observed that the report presented did not reflect the feasibility study carried out by a team under the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo for which Nigeria committed about five million dollars, Buhari said he was disappointed at the report and asked the auditor general to explain the omission.
Ukura in his narrative claimed that the feasibility report was not made available to him for the purpose of the audit report, and swiftly passed the buck to the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) as the agency that ought to be custodian of that report.
Bewildered by the submission of the accountant general, the President asked that someone should interpret what he meant, and later asked the Executive Secretary of the LCBC, Ambassador Sanusi Imran Abdullahi, to give his side of the story.
The LCBC Executive Secretary, however, explained that the document in question was already in public domain.
Buhari said: “I have to digress here based on personal knowledge of this. I saw an article in a journal in 1978 that a professor in the University of London in 1925 had foreseen what we are just seeing.
“I handed over the article to Gen. Obasanjo and I understand that Gen. Obasanjo took the initiative sometimes ago, it is on record that he is the only Nigerian that has presided over the country for more than 11 years.
“He gave $5million to the study, and the study was that unless some of the rivers from the Central Africa Republic are diverted to empty into Chad Basin, Lake Chad will dry up.
“I understand that this report which was sponsored by Nigeria has been submitted. I am a bit disappointed that in the speech of the Auditor-General, there was no mention of this report, whether my own report was correct: that $5million was given.
“One of the recommendations was that at the time the report was submitted, the cost of diverting one of the rivers to empty into Lake Chad would be between $13billion and $15billion.
“I will like the Auditor-General to comment on this, whether they have received this report or the Ministry of Water Resources. I think this government will like to see this report and see how we can ask our foreign friends how they can help us.
“This is because if that river is diverted to empty into Chad Basin, I think it will affect at least, two million Nigerians and another two million from Cameroon, Chad and Niger to resettle and perhaps that will help us to stop Boko Haram around that area.
“This is because once we identified the enormous number of people there and their activities. We have to check desertification there.”
The Auditor-General then replied; “The report was not made available to the group, it was only made available to the Lake Chad Basin Commission, may be they will be in a better position to comment on it. It was not mad available to us during the study.”
Representative of LCBC replied; “The report is a public document actually, it has been in the public domain since the study was concluded. Departments of government of Nigeria and other member states have received copies.

“The situation is that the study had been completed. The cost estimate for the project is $14.5billion. We have been consulting the Congo Basin to allay their fears on the environmental impact assessment they want us to add and we need some additional political support to be able to convince them that it is also in their interest to see that this water is diverted to Lake Chad.
“We have made effort with the champion of Save Lake Chad, former President Obasanjo, to sensitize the international community, particularly Europe whom we perceived have some unfriendly attitude towards the transfer.”
In his remarks earlier, President Buhari, however, urged the National Assembly to expedite action with a view to ratifying the Lake Chad water charter.
He also stated that the country was committed to leading the war against insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin and would not waver in her support to the commission.
‪‪”Since the audit report has been fully submitted, to the Lake Chad Basin Commission Heads of States and Government, we will ensure that recommendations are considered for implementation.
“I am aware that the Lake Chad Basin water charter which was adopted by the Heads of States and Government summit on April 30th 2012 has not been approved by the National Assembly. I will urge our National Assembly to domesticate this all important Lake Chad Basin water charter,” the President said.
He also expressed delight at the existence of the Summit of Governors of Hadeja Jama’are, Kumadugu Yobe Basin Trust Fund from Bauchi, Borno, Kano, Jigawa, Kano and Plateau State, which was established on 8th June with take off grant of N100 million from each of these states with Federal Government matching grant of N850million.
He pledged to strengthen the platform to ensure sustainable and equitable water resources management based on integrated industrial principles.
“I acknowledge that the office of the Auditor-General for the Federation could not carry out effective re-organization to perform specialised audit based on international best practices without sufficient funds, I will therefore do everything possible within the law to ensure that you succeed,” Buhari stated. ‬‬
Earlier in his speech before handing the reports to Buhari, the AGF had noted that there was correlation between the shrinking of Lake Chad and the current insecurity in North East of Nigeria.
“It is believed that part of the root causes of violence and insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin which has not been adequately addressed is the crucial issue of weak water resources management which led to scarcity of water.
“A significant part of the increasing population from 30 to about 47 million had to move south in search of alternative livelihoods.
“Millions of fishing and pastorialist population qare worse affected by the shrinking Lake Chad,” Ukura submitted.
He said the audit report which was jointly undertaken by LCBC member countries including Nigeria, Cameroun, Niger and Chad had been presented to the National Assembly in August in line with constitutional provision.
According to the AGF, the key message in the report “is that Lake Chad is drying up very fast from 25000 sq.km in 1963 to just 1500 sq.km as at present. We must save Lake Ckad from extinction.”
He listed key findings of the report to include weak control of human activities on the issue of water resources in the Lake Chad Basin such as excessive extraction of water, dam constructions, diversions of rivers.
Others are that water resources management decisions were not based on water use data even as water use regulations exist but not enforced in the Lake Chad

Please tell us a country that has more unruly people than Nigerians? The solution to a problem begins when you know there's a problem. Only in Nigeria do we lie to ourselves this way
And let the bigoted writer listen to the speech again, Buhari never called anyone senseless or useless. He simply reminded all of us, both leaders and followers that the change we seek starts with us. Several generation of world leaders have delivered the same message without it been misconstrued but here, parochial sentiments just have to to be displayed.

homerac7:
These above quotes are shamelessly st.pid.

To maintain these wicked mindset in response to such misfortune of other people is proof that goats are more socially functional than some humans.

In bid to rush to comment, you all above have shown your gross ignorance of the society you are part of. You obviously don't know about socioeconomic life outside the streets where you live. Not only fulanis own cattle herds in the north. Even if this herd belongs to a Fulani, how can you not feel sympathy for this misfortune? Are you a better person than boko haram marauder by condemning him to misfortune simply because he's a Fulani man? Is he no more human? Now you have a clear proof that the Fulani man is also a victim in this madness, rather than showing sympathy, you gloat over his misfortune.

You lack knowledge, good judgement, wisdom and empathy. I hope this st.upidity is not borne our of some religious sentiments either, otherwise you deity of worship must be doubly embarrassed with this inhumanity.

God bless you. In a civilised society, their posts would be classified as hate speech. You won't hear any educated Fulani person spew the trash you find here... so let's ask ourselves who's less human? As it's often said, the death of a single individual diminishes the whole humanity, so don't ask for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for us all.

denko:
Yes because federal govt has budget for them (AIT, Channels) some talk out of ignorance

It's actually just making sense how you can be this daft...... You are obstinate and refuse to take correction. Not your fault really, especially as the past govt was paying for these stuff as a way of looting.

donc26:
"PDP is an Ijaw party and as such, let's give Dickson and PDP a chance for a second term. My reputation and that of my wife will be ridiculed if the opposition takes over Bayelsa"
There he goes again...always playing counter-productive ethnic card!

No thought, no coherence or substance to his speech. He could not even remember that he spent 5 years in office as president instead of the 6 he keeps shouting. It's always about him, all his 16 years in one government office or the other has not delivered one drop of clean water to his immediate constituency, yet he talks about his reputation as if that is all that matters.

May God never punish us with this sort of man as leader again.

He said, “I have stayed in government for 16years. I stayed with Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha for six years and stayed in the Presidency for another six years. And in all those years, I think I know much about what some state governors have done.


To imagine that the man does not even know how long he spent in office as president! can from 2010-2015 equal 6 years?

huangcheng:
Tap water is your analogy now? Wonderful!! Please do they build waterworks 600km from its extraction point? Do they also run pipelines from the refinery to you home? It is rather unfortunate that you'll compare tap water and oil just to make an illogical point seem logical. So how do you then transport refined products from Kaduna REFINERY to the FILLING STATION? Pipelines too!!

I don't know if you've ever done any real business in your life but you sound very naive. America and Canada does not build their refineries 600km away from extraction points, and countries without oil build their refineries close to the sea for easy transport. Petroleum is refined close to its source and transported via pipeline, rails, trucks and boats with pipeline taking short distances while rail does the long haul. Unless it is being transported across border.

Pick up a book and read how sane societies refine and transport petroleum distillates and stop trying to justify stupidity.

Continue to wallow in your folly. No use arguing with your opinion of yourself as the wisest in the land.