₦airaland Forum

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At least The Tribune is better than Sahara Reporter - purveyor of fake news.

kodewrita:
If we follow your timeline then we have another 18 months to wait before any action occurs. Unfortunately the situation deteriorates so fast that there's not time to be twiddling your thumbs deliberating.

There's no excuse for tardiness.

Well, that appears the case here, so if you dont like the way the president is running his government forward march to Aso Rock and tell him; you can only win sympathizers from the Buhari apologists, and I tell you they are very few (of course loudest). But those who have actually being in position to run things, manage people and project, know how difficult and challenging it can be meeting with timelines, objectives, and deliverables.

And were are not even talking about a corporate project, we are talking about a bastardized, tribalized country, with extensive problems stemming from geo-political and economic challenges, and now serious security problem bring the country to a brink. In fact in another world and age, the president will actually spend more time trying to keep the country one, for what it is worth, leaving to so-called development at the mercy of the elements. fortunately that is not the case.

On that note, only naive, foolish and extremely ignorant people will expect a miracle in 18 months. Fortunately I am not one of those, I understand the complexities of politics, governance, and challenges the president faces. So I rather laugh or pity those unfortunate souls who run their temperature high, and swear and curse the president at every chance and turn. I sometimes suggest in extreme cases that they can actually do themselves a favour viz they should either summon courage and march to Aso rock like the Save Nigeria Group, or go hug a high tension wet transformer at one of the power stations.

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A green snake in a ACN green grass

Question is, why are the worker on strike if indeed he has paid?
Anyone one with an answer?

Beaf:
Every process has a beginning and this one started with Ibori and Bankole, now it is Tinubu's turn. If you don't like it, hang yourself, rope is cheap.

I agree.

Ileke-IdI:
I dont know how true the allegations are. . . . but if tangible evdence are presented, then I see no reason to not give his prosecutors the benefit of doubt.

By force by fire, we must clean up this nation.

All allegations against:

1. Patience Goodluck
2. Tinubu
3. OBJ
4. Ngozi iweala
5. etc

must be thoroughly investigated

Seconded!

okada_man:
As long as we also investigate arrest and jail GEJ ( after immunity removal)

Patience

OBJ

IBB

Danjuma

Buhari

Anenih

Odili

Bankole

Gbenga Daniel

Chris Uba

David Mark

E.T.C all based on allegations against them, then this is will not solve anything major. All these criminal looters need to be punished. I hope Tinubu goes to jail and gets stripped of his money if found guilty. Same for the rest of them.

May they all Witchhunt themselves to death!

Without wasting any seconds. Let the probes and investigations begin!

blacksta:
Lol - Unfortunately this does not apply to Nigeria - concept of sharpening the tool is totally absent. Infrastructure promises here and there yet no plans on how to achieve such plans.

No plans!

Some are saying there are too many plans and no action, now you are saying no plans? Na wa oo. I tire for Nairalanders.
Did you really mean to say that or you rather just want to add your name to this debate, by saying the first thing on your mind?

kodewrita:
Any laws passed recently?, (silence)

Any sacred cows put to the sword?, (even more silence).

Any major pending projects commissioned and completed ?, (the silence is getting irritating).

Any new major forward-looking policy changes in sports, (sound of the breeze)

In power, (still silence)

In mining, (silence).

Main output: Plans, communiques, retreats, strategy sessions, intentions, goals, aims, reasons, motives, anything but action.

Those are seeds he was talking about. He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax”. Abraham Lincoln

Pukkah:
Does it mean that anyone that is not happy with the way Jonathan is steering the ship of the country is a Buhari apologist?  I even think it is Jonathan's own apologists that should be most unhappy so that those who opposed GEJ would not be vindicated.  

Those who speak the bitter truth against Jonathan are his true friends who want him to succeed and not the boot-lickers who see nothing wrong in him.

True. But not those who also fail to see the truth in his effort; the perpetual and profession pessimism mongers!  

I don’t have oil block with Andy Uba – el-Rufai
By Friday Olokor, Abuja
Monday, 12 Sep 2011

A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has described the allegations contained in the posting by the whistleblower, WikiLeaks, as “fairy tales and lies.”

Specifically, el-Rufai said he neither had a joint ownership of any oil block with Senator Andy Uba nor had seven upscale property in Abuja as alleged by WikiLeaks.

He also said contrary to insinuations, he had no interest in any oil block owned by Uba, a former aide to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.

El-Rufai argued that he “had nothing in common” and was “barely on speaking terms” with Uba when they were both in government.

A statement by the Media Advisor to el-Rufai, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, challenged anybody in the American Embassy to prove that the former minister possessed seven upscale properties in Abuja, by showing their locations so that he could repossess them.

He said, “Those with oil blocks like General T.Y. Danjuma happily engage in philanthropy, and el-Rufai would wish to do the same with the ownership of oil blocks, but the fact is that el-Rufai has no oil well.

“Mallam el-Rufai refutes all the falsehood about his status prior to his entry into public service, and his record as BPE DG and FCT Minister. He acquired his first house in 1988, in Kaduna where he had been in professional practice as a quantity surveyor since 1982.

“He never had any contact with any US embassy official until he applied for an American visa in 1988. There is no official, named or un-named, in the US embassy who knew El-Rufai personally eight years prior to his appointment as minister in 2003.

“He has had no need to seek any loans or to consider importing a taxi ever from anywhere, let alone from the United Kingdom, which has a different driving system.

“On Chika, one of the 49 villages along the airport road that are meant to be relocated, the FCT authorities acted to remove illegal settlements after the unauthorised settlement refused enumeration for future relocation.”

The former FCT minister also denied claims that he influenced the award of the Ministry of Finance contracts worth $50m to the brother of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

According to Adekeye, el-Rufai was not in charge of that ministry, adding, however, that he was aware that the entire capital budget of the finance minister was not close to that amount.

As regards other reports that the said contract was for waste collection in the FCT administration, he said, “None of Okonjo-Iweala’s siblings or their company was amongst the dozen companies selected via advertised competitive bidding to handle waste collection in Abuja.”

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201109126132085

House Leader: We'll Abide by PDP Decision, Says Tanbuwal

12 Sep 2011
By Hammed Shittu

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal at the weekend said members of the house would not go against the decision of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the selection of Leader of the House already zoned to the South-west by the party.

Tanbuwal, who spoke with newsmen at Ilorin International Airport after his two-day visit to Kwara state, said that was the only position yet to be filled by the House.

“There is no cause for alarm as the house would sincerely look at it and conclude on it when the House resumes on Tuesday," he said.

Tambuwal, however, said the selection of the Leader of House would not create any problems as members were united and would not do anything that might hinder the peace and unity of the country.

The speaker, who pledged that the lower chamber of the National Assembly would pursue people-oriented agenda when it reconvenes, said Nigerians should expect a vibrant parliament.

“We'll discuss issues that affect our people dispassionately for the common good of Nigeria,” he said.

It will be recalled that acting national chairman of the
PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, had said in a recent interview in Ilorin that the position of the Leader of the House had been zoned to the South-west, thereby foreclosing a return of the position of the Speaker of the House to the geo-political zone as was being campaigned for by former President and chairman of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

Obasanjo had in a meeting in Ogun State recently said the zone would reclaim the position of speaker of the House originally zoned to the region by the PDP.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/house-leader-well-abide-by-pdp-decision-says-tanbuwal/98269/

Gbawe:
When non-Nigerians call us 419ners we then flare up in anger !!! look at how , decietfully, the fans of GEJ have been going around saying we cannot judge GEJ only 4 months into his Presidency !!! What should history do with the 12 months he was President before gaining a new term on May 29th 2011? Na wa for some Nigerians.

God ahead then. Judge him. Let me laugh in judge! Bunch of Buhari apologist! From losers corner!

Nigerians have no iota of doubt on the integrity of Mrs. Okonjo Iweala. We believe her efforts to tackle corruption in high places will be successfully. The challenges she is facing now is usual - when you fight corruption, it fights back according to Ribadu.

Demdem:
Leaving the crux of the matter and tendering to mere speculation. The fact remain that GEJ so far has been a failure. Why is that so difficult for you to grasp  

The fact is that GEJ has a four-yea[/b]r mandate, he can't be a failure in less than[b] four month. What kind of examiner are you? To hasty if you ask me.

nateevs:
You are one hell of a person. . .

Get behind me. Can't you see from the Ondo Satellite picture, musiwa is right.
He will rule over you with satellite picture, if you fail to go to school.


@Musiwa, I can see the satellite picture that Ondo has built three Space Centres on the mountain, where the woman was standing. Now can you show me the one build on the plane in Akwa Ibom.

You lost me there musiwa,
Please show me satellite picture of the G force, and another satellite picture showing the difference between telescope on plane land and and another one mounted in only Ondo.

@manny4life, and dabrake, please midnd yourselves oo


Over to u musiwa, the satellite picture pls.

@Musiwa,

Don't listen to that Cold of a guy, he is too cold. I can see everything from the Satellite pictures, and that pretty white woman. Em, is she from Ondo State? Will she be the one to man woman, the Space Center if built in Ondo state. I can see her screaming madly at GEJ for the decision to favour Akwa Ibom.

@topic

@Topic,
They should start like their counterpart from the south: Send children to school, to acquire functional education. Islamic schools have its benefits, and certainly more disadvantages in a secular county like Nigeria. Northern leaders, nay, discerning parents from Core North, need no rockets scientists to tell them so. Take a look around. Most Core Northerners cannot rub shoulders with the peers from the South, in education, intellect, and quality of live. This is not disparaging, and besides I am quoting their leaders.

The SE/SS has long closed the educational gap, that existed after the war, with the SW to the benefit of Nigeria. NC is catching up fast! Where are you oh NE, NW, where are your children? What are you waiting for, another Presidency? To do what exactly? You cannot have political power forever, in fact you dont need it, it is distraction! Besides, your continually seeking for political power is creating unease with other part of the country. SE/SS at the peek of marginalization embraced education, as the choices where limited. This is your chance to do something for the next generation, focus on the next 25 years, not on 2015!

Northern governors and leaders should start pushing for free and compulsory education of western up to secondary levels for their next generation. The Almajiri system has exploded literally in their face, it is not beneficial in 21st century modern Nigeria, and world. Dantata, Dangote, etc should start scholarship schemes like Rochas (even if it means helping only northerners); as a matter of fact, they should sponsor train the trainer (Teacher's Education) for willing and dedicated people. In the South, people send money for our siblings school fees and that - so Dangote's assistance may not be directly needed.

Political power has not benefit the North, rather, it has disenfranchised and pauperized them . To continue to do the same thing the same way and expect a different result is the beginning of insanity. North must change strategy! Insistence on political and religious power as an end by itself is their greatest undoing. The SE has over the years built capacity - intellectually and economically (and are still building). SW has been on top of their game many years ahead of their peers; aided by the fact that unlike the SE/SS and North, they didn't lose hundreds of thousand of their sons, let alone millions, during the civil war as their sons and daughters were getting educated while the country smoldered in the bitter war!

If the North fails to hearken to the need to upgrade the gray matter of their children with functional education, and continue to use the game of numbers - politics- as a tool for relevance and dominance, it is only a matter of time before the worse happen. And when it does, they could find the rest of Nigeria unforgiving and unfaltering. They would then have to play their last card, and hope that it be a Joker!

And on a lighter note, I am tired of the Southern (SE, SS, SW) intellectual war on Nairaland, when are we going to square off with droves of (core) Northern intellectuals? Hopefully they will be around to confront our children in intellectual banter. Hopefully. . .

@Topic,
They should start like their counterpart from the south: Send children to school, to acquire functional education. Islamic schools have its benefits, and certainly more disadvantages in a secular county like Nigeria. Northern leaders, nay, discerning parents from Core North, need no rockets scientists to tell them so. Take a look around. Most Core Northerners cannot rub shoulders with the peers from the South, in education, intellect, and quality of live. This is not disparaging, and besides I am quoting their leaders.

The SE/SS has long closed the educational gap, that existed after the war, with the SW to the benefit of Nigeria. NC is catching up fast! Where are you oh NE, NW, where are your children? What are you waiting for, another Presidency? To do what exactly? You cannot have political power forever, in fact you dont need it, it is distraction! Besides, your continually seeking for political power is creating unease with other part of the country. SE/SS at the peek of marginalization embraced education, as the choices where limited. This is your chance to do something for the next generation, focus on the next 25 years, not on 2015!

Northern governors and leaders should start pushing for free and compulsory education of western up to secondary levels for their next generation. The Almajiri system has exploded literally in their face, it is not beneficial in 21st century modern Nigeria, and world. Dantata, Dangote, etc should start scholarship schemes like Rochas (even if it means helping only northerners); as a matter of fact, they should sponsor train the trainer (Teacher's Education) for willing and dedicated people. In the South, people send money for our siblings school fees and that - so Dangote's assistance may not be directly needed.

Political power has not benefit the North, rather, it has disenfranchised and pauperized them . To continue to do the same thing the same way and expect a different result is the beginning of insanity. North must change strategy! Insistence on political and religious power as an end by itself is their greatest undoing. The SE has over the years built capacity - intellectually and economically (and are still building). SW has been on top of their game many years ahead of their peers; aided by the fact that unlike the SE/SS and North, they didn't lose hundreds of thousand of their sons, let alone millions, during the civil war as their sons and daughters were getting educated while the country smoldered in the bitter war!

If the North fails to hearken to the need to upgrade the gray matter of their children with functional education, and continue to use the game of numbers - politics- as a tool for relevance and dominance, it is only a matter of time before the worse happen. And when it does, they could find the rest of Nigeria unforgiving and unfaltering. They would then have to play their last card, and hope that it be a Joker!

And on a lighter note, I am tired of the Southern (SE, SS, SW) intellectual war on Nairaland, when are we going to square off with droves of (core) Northern intellectuals? Hopefully they will be around to confront our children in intellectual banter. Hopefully. . .

@Topic,

Bakare should stand beside him.

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Show us from the Satellite pictures. Crazy mofo!

^^- There are four or thereabout.

MTN, AirTel, OneTouch, Tigo (all GSM), Kasapa (CDMA), and Glomobile (Work in progress since 2006)

ACN are incapable of corruption, they are mainly a crop of saintly people, not from the usual Nigerian politicians. I wont be surprised if that Ikuforiji guy is from PDP. 

pinkrex:
Who else amonst d indigenes went for the bidding?

So what are you suggesting?
Im only defending this becAUSE i'mnot so pessimistic as others.

lol. I am not pessimistic either. They are discussing with other interested party, but keeping glo on their radar.

My suggestions have been made earlier, but let me reiterate.

1. They should consider the other firms

[s]The decision to give it to Globacom despite the fact that[/s] some other firms like Brymedia, the third place bid winner of the terminated bid and other firms were offering double what Globacom is offerings[s] was because it will turn the ailing entity around for the benefit of Nigerians.[/s]

There is no guarantee that glo will deliver. They have not delivered in Ghana after 5 years of incursion.

2. If they finally, sell Nitel to Glo, then they need to correct the imbalance (monopoly) by awarding the Second National Carrier license to another operator.

That's what I said.

greateros:
Madam.  is fighting corruption part of your portfolio?

Fighting corruption is the collective portfolio of all government officials, nay, all Nigerians.
Since corruption mostly involved money, who better spearhead the fight other than the fellow who holds the purse, and co-ordinate other officials? I think the Finance Minister know what she is about.

Another hatchet job, by Buhari apologist, and sore losers. 

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Word!

pinkrex:
It is a national carrier not because its owned by the Govt. but because its owned by a Nigerian citizen.

The crux of my point is that, the advantages of being designated as National Carriers should not be left in the hands of same man, same management, in the name of different company. It is called monopoly.

Monopolies do not favour consumers!

pinkrex:
What are you saying? If glo is the second national carrier aside Nitel and with their market competition competence, why cant they be an Indirect merger between the two companies especially when its owned by the same person with the same drive? Indigenization is also a commiserate development for a growing nation. It cant always be capital flight because either way, we lose.

The term - National Carrier is pregnant with a lot of meaning. And that is where the monopoly lies. If Glo were to buy Nitel, then another company - Airtel or MTN should be given National Carrier (whatever that entails) status. Otherwise, Government will be creating unneeded monopoly.

^^^^

That is the oil power curse. The more you hold on to political power (Presidency), the more underdeveloped and poor you become. The reverse is the also true (in Nigeria by the way). Funny, illogical, but sadly true!

pinkrex:
Monopoly emphasis is killing me. why can't we hope for the good sometimes. The government can always intervene if the market becomes excessively monopolistic. What are the NCC's and other monitoring agencies for?

Why does Government need to intervene to curtail the excesses of a monopoly, when it shldn't be creating any at all. The reason Glo was given a Second National Carrier status was to break Nitel's monopoly., hence there is no need creating another. Between government intervention and market forces, I choose market forces.

From the news

The decision to give it to Globacom despite the fact tha[b]t some other firms like Brymedia, the third place bid winner of the terminated bid and other firms were offering double what Globacom is offerings [/b] was because it will turn the ailing entity around for the benefit of Nigerians.

Now if these other companies show evidence of technical competence why not concentrate on them rather than glo. By the way, Glo has been in Ghana for over 5 years without rolling out a single line. Are they not overrated, even though that is beside the point?

efisher:
@Gbawe, when has it become a crime to use the word "we" in this context?

Save yourself from unnecessary heartache. 2011 election is over and your candidate did not win! Get used to it for your own good and stop chasing people around like a rabid dog.

Another GEJ/PDP apologists, by all knowing, infallible Gbawe's opinion is born! Welcome to the club brother.