Politics › Re: I Haven’t Got Useful Tips From Jonathan – Buhari. by PhockPhockMan(op): 4:42am On May 15, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: I Haven’t Got Useful Tips From Jonathan – Buhari. by PhockPhockMan(op): 4:19am On May 15, 2015 |
sonOfLucifer: Foolishnes must be engrained in your DNA. It is only right that anyone leaving an office for another should offer advice and guidance to his successor. To talk true no dey kill o.... You need brain injection. Is it not the same Buhari who told the world that Jonathan has destroyed Nigeria economy? Is he looking for for advice on how to destroy the economy the more? |
Politics › Re: I Haven’t Got Useful Tips From Jonathan – Buhari. by PhockPhockMan(op): 4:05am On May 15, 2015 |
raumdeuter: Jonathan surely doesnt know what he was doing in Aso Rock. Meaning what? |
Politics › Re: I Haven’t Got Useful Tips From Jonathan – Buhari. by PhockPhockMan(op): 3:59am On May 15, 2015 |
Buhari, looking for clues from the clueless.
Mumu man. |
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Politics › Re: I Haven’t Got Useful Tips From Jonathan – Buhari. by PhockPhockMan(op): 3:14am On May 15, 2015 |
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has accused the outgoing Goodluck Jonathan government of not giving him “tips” on how to kick-start his administration on May 29. So Jonathan must teach you how to start your government abi? You must wait till eternity. |
Politics › I Haven’t Got Useful Tips From Jonathan – Buhari. by PhockPhockMan(op): 3:08am On May 15, 2015 |
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has accused the outgoing Goodluck Jonathan government of not giving him “tips” on how to kick-start his administration on May 29.
He spoke on Thursday when a committee from the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, presented a five-point policy document to him at the Buhari Support Organisation office in Abuja.
Hours before the event which held behind closed doors, the All Progressives Congress, insisted that the Federal Government was not cooperating with the transition committee set up by the President-elect.
“Buhari regretted that the outgoing government that is supposed to give him tips on how to take off has done nothing so far,” Garba Shehu, the Director of Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, told journalists after the presentation by the committee.
Shehu added that the President-elect “thanked the Obasanjo initiative for the gesture, assuring the committee that his incoming administration will be needing advice as time goes on.”
Areas covered by committee in the document include the economy, security, power, education and infrastructure.
He said that Obasanjo had set up a think tank to carry out a study on the challenges facing the country in the five key areas.
The study, he added, was started four months ago “so that the outcome will be made available to the incoming administration after the election.”
He also revealed that Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade, who headed the power committee, gave various stages of the proposed power sector development plan to include short-term, medium-term, long-term solutions.
Under the short-term solution, the plan seeks to raise the country’s power generation to 10,000 MW within a very short period of time.
He added that the president-elect described the intervention of Obasanjo and his team as a great impetus for the incoming government.
The vice-chairman of the committee, who is a former Minister of Finance, Kalu Idika Kalu, said, “We have looked at education, security, economy, power and Infrastructure. Those are the areas we have made recommendations and which we hope the new administration would be able to work on.”
He further explained that the president-elect was very happy that they had been thinking about how to help him hit the ground running.
The Chairman of the centre’s governing board, Akin Mabogunje. who also spoke to journalists after the event, said the committee had been working on a number of critical issues for the development of the country.
According to him, a delegation of the committee members involved in the preparation of the policy document was sent to present the report to the President-elect.
Earlier on Thursday , the APC described as untrue, a statement credited to the spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party, Oliseh Metuh, that the Jonathan administration was cooperating with the transition committee constituted by the President-elect.
It also described Metuh in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, as a man with “an incurable disdain for truth.”
The PDP spokesman had in the said statement accused the APC of raising a false alarm over happenings within the Jonathan and the Buhari transition committees.
However, Mohammed insisted that the uncooperative attitude of the Jonathan team had continued despite its public posturing.
The APC statement Read, “We say with all sense of responsibility that as of today, May 14, 2015, just about two weeks to the May 29 handover date, no shred of information as to the status of governance from any ministry, department or agency of government has been given to our transition committee.”
“If that qualifies, in Metuh’s lexicon, as cooperation, then there is a problem somewhere. We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to controvert the fact that not a line of handover note has been handed over to our transition committee.”
The APC also restated its earlier call to Metuh to urgently undertake a course on how to be an opposition party spokesman so that he would not talk or write himself into avoidable troubles in the days ahead.
It equally admonished him to always verify information available to him in order to separate rumours from facts.
The statement further read, “Metuh decided to put his foot in his mouth when he latched on to the statement made by our Transition Committee Chairman, forgetting that in making his statement, the chairman was only advising him against anything that would put the Federal Government in a bad light.
“A discerning party spokesman, rather than a rabble-rousing one, would have understood the elder statesman’s stand for what it is instead of using it as a peg to issue a needless, hollow statement that puts his party and government in a bad light.”
The APC said it had decided to allow bygones be bygones, but now that Metuh had stirred the hornet’s nest, it was time to put out the facts for Nigerians to judge.
It added, “What happened was that, following the request by our transition committee to meet with them, they invited us to what was the first formal meeting between both transition committees.
“But the meeting was a mere photo-op, as it yielded nothing concrete as far as handover notes are concerned.
“In fact, what we met at the so-called meeting was far worse than what we had thought. Whereas we had hoped to get their handover notes on May 14th (the date they had indicated to us informally), they told us point blank that the notes won’t be ready until May 24th.
“Because this date falls on a Sunday that means we won’t be getting the handover notes until May 25th, just four days before the May 29th handover date.
“How do they honestly expect us to peruse thousands of pages of handover notes, ask pertinent questions and seek necessary clarifications within four days? Because we want a smooth transition, we asked if we could meet with some of the ministers pending the release of the handover notes, but they said no.
“When one of their members even suggested that the whole process be fast-tracked, they did not budge.
“Despite this setback, we decided not to put the whole issue in the public domain, until the babbling Metuh decided to look for trouble, describing the deliberate stonewalling by the Jonathan Administration as cooperation.” http://www.punchng.com/news/i-havent-got-useful-tips-from-jonathan-buhari/ |
Politics › Re: I Love Nigeria But I Feel Pain When Other Nigerians Say Igbo Will Not Rule by PhockPhockMan: 7:24pm On May 14, 2015 |
IyaIode: Go school, u no gree. Accept your folly and move on. |
Politics › Re: I Love Nigeria But I Feel Pain When Other Nigerians Say Igbo Will Not Rule by PhockPhockMan: 6:43pm On May 14, 2015 |
IyaIode: Igbos just like any other tribe will rule Nigeria when they play their cards right. You can't keep fighting the 2 of the 3 largest ethnic groups and expect their support. Which one is the 3 largest ethnic groups Igbos are fighting again? Mtcheeeeeeeewww. |
Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by PhockPhockMan: 5:55pm On May 14, 2015 |
asha80: Sometimes abagworo talks like a mischievous person.. expecting individuals to build skyscrapers when it is well known that it is govt and companies that do so...even if single individuals decides to embark on building skyscrapers what about the running and maintenance of the buildings? He's mischief personified. |
Politics › Re: Buhari, Sanusi, APC Should Stop Deceiving Nigerians- Barcanista by PhockPhockMan: 2:50pm On May 14, 2015 |
dan55: . Just to show you,,, that is a cheap scam xcept u show the link.. Quoting somthing the person did not say. Don't mind them. |
Culture › Re: Amazing Pictures From Nigeria's Past by PhockPhockMan: 2:36pm On May 14, 2015 |
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Culture › Re: Amazing Pictures From Nigeria's Past by PhockPhockMan: 2:21pm On May 14, 2015 |
Lagusta: King jaja was not an Igbo man bruv.....
@mzjackbaueress nice thread, following, please more pics please Sharrraaaaap. Jaja was from Igbo extraction. He was believed to have been born in Amaigbo in the present day Imo state of Nigeria. He was later enslaved during the slave trade era and ended up in Bonny in the Niger Delta area. Although he was a slave, he became a member of the Anna Pepple House. Anna Pepple House was a political cum economic structure where some group of individuals within Bonny established a common understanding towards advancing their common business goals and interest. He was able to work up the ladder in the Anna Pepple House because of his well known and dynamic trading capability. He later became the head of the House. Under Jaja, the Anna Pepple House became very wealthy. This growing prosperity became a thing of envy from the rivals. To avoid and conflict because of the envy, Jaja pulled out in of the Bonny area in 1869 taking with him more than half of the components of the Anna Pepple House. He found a new coastal settlement named Opobo not too far from Bonny. http://www.africablast.com/2013/05/king-jaja-of-opobo-and-his-relationship.html?m=1 |
Culture › Re: Amazing Pictures From Nigeria's Past by PhockPhockMan: 1:44pm On May 14, 2015 |
MzJackBaueress: Enugu Municipal Offices s building in Enugu 1959 Beautiful edifice. |
Culture › Re: Amazing Pictures From Nigeria's Past by PhockPhockMan: 1:32pm On May 14, 2015 |
Demdem: Chai, Ojukwus nemesis. Mumu. |
Politics › Re: Posterity Shall Judge Me Right – Jonathan. by PhockPhockMan(op): 12:57pm On May 14, 2015 |
ahaz: no wahala madam we re waitng for u to usher in ur professional presidency |
Politics › Re: I Urge Seun To Sensor The Word Biafra And Biafrans by PhockPhockMan: 12:50pm On May 14, 2015 |
Op, you're right but you forgot to add APC, Buhari, Tinubu, Oduduwa, OPC, Arewa etc on your sensor list. |
Politics › Re: Constitution Amendment: Senate Makes A U-turn On Jonathan’s Veto. by PhockPhockMan(op): 11:48am On May 14, 2015 |
Taylor86: dnt understand
U-turn as in round about?
sometimes i wonder y someone will be awake by 4:23am posting topics
maybe ur doing ur witchcrafting IT
good luck @bolded
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Politics › Constitution Amendment: Senate Makes A U-turn On Jonathan’s Veto. by PhockPhockMan(op): 4:23am On May 14, 2015 |
The Senate on Wednesday rose from about two-hour executive session and announced the suspension of its threat to override President Goodluck Jonathan’s veto on the Fourth Alteration Bill 2015 which seeks to amend the 1999 Constitution. Senate President, David Mark, who addressed the members after the closed-door session, said that as lawmakers, they owed it a duty to abide by a Supreme Court decision that the status quo be maintained. Mark said,” I think it is proper for me because of the importance of the issue, to make a very simple but straight forward unambiguous statement. We are lawmakers and we will not be law-breakers. “We are not just lawmakers, we are very senior responsible citizens and very senior lawmakers and this is the apex of law making in this country. “Therefore, on the issue of the current constitution review that is before the Supreme Court, we want to assure Nigerians that we will not break any law in this country. “We will take appropriate action that will ensure that democracy survives but I will also want to warn that we should not be taken for granted by the executive but once more let me assure Nigerians that as lawmakers, we will not be law-breakers.” The Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma – Egba, who addressed journalists after plenary, said the Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, had the privilege of briefing the Senate in plenary after President Goodluck Jonathan had vetoed the document. He said the Senate would challenge the ex parte injunction by the Supreme Court asking it to maintain the status quo on the matter despite the fact that the necessary procedure for amending the constitution was followed by the National Assembly. He said, “We have a legal option to vigorously challenge the order of the court which was made ex parte; it was made without us being put on notice. I believe we can get the court to quickly determine that and we intend to pursue that option. We should expect this legal challenge as soon as possible. On the issue of four-fifth, Ndoma-Egba said the Executive was wrong by claiming that the National Assembly did not form the required quorum while amending certain sections of the constitution which required four-fifth votes. He said, “It is not correct that we did not form the four-fifth quorum, our records are very clear, the votes and proceedings are there and we have gone through the records again and we certainly met the constitutional requirement of four-fifth. “The Attorney-General of the Federation who is alleging that we did not meet that constitutional requirement has not exhibited any document to show that we did not but from our records we clearly did. “We are to conclude that we are suddenly confronted with this ambush.We think it is in bad faith and it is regrettable. We are going to court to challenge the court order. “We were not put on notice; we did not have any notice and we were not represented. We are lawmakers not law-breakers; if you look at the 1999 Constitution, the Jurisdiction conferred on the Supreme Court did not include this kind of situation where one arm of government is having an issue with another arm of government. “That jurisdiction was conferred by an Act of the National Assembly in 2002, which means it is a jurisdiction that we voluntarily gave to the Supreme Court and because that jurisdiction came from us, we must be seen to be obeying the laws of the land. “The constitution has given the judiciary the power to adjudicate in situations like this and the matter is before the judiciary, we acknowledge that.So the best way out is to go pursue that order and vigorously pursue its being set aside and that is exactly what we are going to do immediately.’’ The senators had on Tuesday vowed to begin the process of overriding the President’s veto today (Wednesday) by taking the first reading of the bill to adopt the gazette of the controversial amendment bill. Jonathan had in a letter dated April 13 addressed to Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, announced his decision to reject the Constitution (Alteration) Bill 2015. He had cited deliberate attempts by the lawmakers to whittle down presidential powers and their failure to strictly adhere to constitutional provisions on the amendments to Section 9 of the constitution by observing four-fifth majority support in each chamber before it could amend it. The president also claimed that the National Assembly only observed two-thirds majority support for the amendment instead of the four-fifth stipulated by the constitution before amending the section. The proposed amendment to the section strips the President the power to sign an amendment bill before it could become effective. Following the President’s letter, the Senate on April 15 demanded the return of the bill to the National Assembly. http://www.punchng.com/news/constitution-amendment-senate-makes-a-u-turn-on-jonathans-veto/ |
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Politics › Re: In Response To "Ohanaeze's" Recent Claim Against Jonathan by PhockPhockMan: 2:26pm On May 12, 2015 |
IyaIode: Take it to your ibo forum. This forum is called nairaland not Oduduwaland. |
Politics › Re: In Response To "Ohanaeze's" Recent Claim Against Jonathan by PhockPhockMan: 2:09pm On May 12, 2015 |
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