₦airaland Forum

Oga, look yourself in the mirror and be truthful. Admit to being part of the decades and decades of erosion of the public trusts in their own country. All rational and sane humans would naturally become doubtful and resemtful after many failed promises.

For instance, for many years, Nigerians (and prominently yourself) believed and propagated a theory that the magic wand that would transform Nigeria to the mythical Eldorado was the Petroleum Industry Act.

Nigerians of all hews; half baked commentators, barely literate but vocal analysts, intellectuals, researchers, businesspersons, just about anyone with access to the media boasted about the unproven magical powers of that singular act.

Anywhere you turned then, you must be met with someone reeling out 'data' on the subject.

But you are here now talking about knowing the reasons for the IOCs drawing down their investments in Nigeria. Why were these not considered when you people why making the solution only about the law. A similar thing is currently happening with the socalled Tax Bill.

If someone asked for explanation why those bogus postulations on the petroleum industry law have not materialized now you would write another long epistle to cover up.

Oga, if everything is so well with Nigeria, why has the law that you clamored/fought for not worked years after it was passed? Is it also part of some people itching to hear negative news about Nigeria?

He now used his fanaticism and overzealousness to affect the report he came to present (Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring).

How exactly will the tax bill even be beneficial to his constituent?

AllTheWayUp:

Lol
Maresk denied Tinubu and his fellow dirty Demonic propagandist zombies

Imagine what the first class accountants and finance gurus are doing.

This is really a very big shame to this country.

This company has existed since 1904. It is not likely that they have dealt with this kind of fake things in their 120 years existence.

It appears these people don't have regard for Maersk's shareholders' the way they don't have regard for Nigerians' feelings and well being.

They don't have any idea that the way they come up with random and very bogus figures to disorientate their Nigerian followers could sink any serious international business.

The value of Maersk could tank significantly due to the level of fake news like this.

These people don't even know that integrity is key to business and all information affects the value of a business.

Flammable and inflammable.

They actually have the same meaning but why do Nigerians like using inflammable over flammable?

They can't defeat him through democracy, obviously, so they have to invent another "COVID" to rig the elections once again.

Brilliant.

Begin the propaganda early.

Catch them young.

They don't need to feed well.

All they need is hope.

Tell young children that hope is better than food.

Best decision ever.

Wear your correct shoe size.

You don't have to impress anybody with the latest fashion if your size is not available.

Don't buy shoes because the vendor says you should buy them.

Your health is more important than how the society feels about you.

Take you time and select good shoes that match.

Give these ones away or sell them to get good ones that fit you.

DaddyJapan:
Why would a banker leave Nigeria in the 80s, travel to the UK in search of greener pastures, and then end up at a Bible college?

What unresolved tension or underlying mental health condition was he masking at the time, by using religion to self-medicate?

I wish Mr Ibironke well as he journeys to find renewal of spirit. We all deserve second chances.

There is no underlying anything. That's the way blacks are wired.

That is the most convenient way to avoid life's responsibility.

Give him one million chances in life is will end up the same way.

Did you not read him saying that the RCCG people too got fed up?

He started a programme in Unilag in the 1980s, he abandoned it for a greener pasture (a security guard).

Many Africans or blacks do not live for any meaningful purpose in life.

They just live to 'enjoy' life without even knowing what enjoyment mean.

Oh, my friends are traveling abroad, let me leave my work and travel too.

Ahhhh, my friend's misfortune is not my portion...

Most blacks around the world hardly take a thought of anything before they commit their lives and resources into it.

Black people are not guided by sense and thorough analysis but impulse and emotions.

We never take a stock of what would happen if we took this or that decision. What can possibly go wrong?
What would I do if my permutations fall off the mark? How quickly can I make those adjustments? What resources do I have?
What is the exit strategy? What are the social networks to help me cushion the impact? How long could this adventure take?
What is even the essence of it?

It happens till this day.

Just imagine people not bothering about handing 4 years of their entire lives to useless politicians and making projections for another 4 years to be similarly wasted.

For blacks, time, purpose, legacy, responsibility and critical thinking are not high stakes.

A typical black person's life revolves around food, partying, human and object worship, debauchery, vain glory, wild hysteria and shifting responsibility to some gods.

The man was going to Japan for business (if true) but he couldn't care what might happen during business down time.

He was just satisfied with being the 'only successful' black man in the white dominated county.

Just one Italian or Indian would achieve the same feat and the whole place will be filled with Italians or Indians so that they have a social security system and buffer against hard time.

Not Africans. Not blacks. The black man doesn't understand such concept.

All the time he was sponsoring his nephew through school, his own child was going through hard times.

He doesn't even know where the other children are in America.

SoNature:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/recruitment-army-woos-rivers-delta-indigenes-to-join-military/

The Nigeria Army in Rivers say it has commenced its recruitment campaign to woo indigent youths from the state to join the army.

Indigent youths in what sense? Why are they targeting indigent youths? Are you sure that is what they mean?

Just imagine this.

This is after Africans and Nigerian Progressives have argued against education subsidies and Healthcare for ages and encouraging building of phantom infrastructure - roads to nowhere.

This is what sociopaths do.

Instead of apologizing for his many despicable statements laced with complete lack of empathy for ordinary suffering masses, he is still going on with usual arrogance.

Oga you need rehabilitation. Find a good hospital and check in for medical help. It's not ordinary.

This is a very sad commentary. So upon all the malfeasance of INEC, brought to the court by the petitioners, the only ones you could write on are the ones concerning morals?

This is how people lose their credibility in the public.

Imagine!

You are using your platform to twist logic, while claiming to be impartial.

For any rational and unbiased observer of the course cases, only INEC's fraudulent vows to use technology and its failure to do so is enough to order the commission to redo the election, under a different chair and commissioners.

That would have been the most legal and logical thing to do. Even the APC itself was preparing for that possibility.

But you went on talking about 3rd place, 12th place irrelevances.

So, how did Hope Uzodinma come to be declared the winner of an election that he came 4th in? How are the same Nigerian courts currently disqualifying numerous candidates on account of certificate forgeries and declaring their opponents winners in their place?

You didn't tell your audience how the same Supreme Court sacked a governor elect because of the discrepancies in his running mate's names. Was that also based on your logic of not presenting irrefutable evidence?

Is it not the same Nigerian court that pronounced Rotimi Amaechi governor without filing for any governorship position with INEC?

You should do better, please.

By the way, your allusion to Atiku's 2019 case simply reveals your shift in loyalty. To any discerning mind, you are saying I supported Atiku in 2019 but I am now supporting Tinubu. End of story.

You have a right to support whoever you support, but you should be bold enough to do so.

sonofElElyon:
Government only needs to appoint professionals from the private sector to head the refineries and give them the freedom to hire and fire. Also give them the latitude to run the refineries freely without interference..

How many times will they do this?
Did you travel the last time?

Ibe Kachickwu was literally plucked from the private sector for the sole purpose of making the refineries work.

Did you forget the disaster? He was practically 'pushed out' of government at the end, leaving the refining capacity at 15% while promising to increase it to 30%.

Is it that we don't have any sense of history in this country, or people's memory is so shallow? It is not even up to 5 years.

Blazebond:
This man is Nigerias biggest problem,the country has given him and his family so much and all he does is find ways to control whomsoever is in power,he said he asked shel to run the refineries, is shell the only oil company in Nigeria? Are there no other investors that he could have liased with? Doesn't he know that with subsidy on ground that nobody would want to invest in the refineries ventures? Did he make any move to sanitize the nnpcl and their agencies then? Obasanjo is an evil man that always thinks that his way is the only way, shameful soul that could not make any of the refineries to be productive during his time while he was president and petroleum minister together,this man is a useless and egoistic man.

Anytime you hear the truth, which is different from the indoctrination that you have been fed, your body begins to shake.

Calm down.

How could you believe that Port Harcourt refinery would work in December? Did Buhari not say the refineries would work? In fact, do you know many times that Buhari said the plants would work?

Did you not remember Dr. Ibe Kachickwu's many vows and promises on those refineries? Are people so forgetful in this country?

Why are Nigerians so gullible? Why are they so easy to deceive. The same way they told you people that subsidy removal suffering would end in 1 month, then 2 months, then 3 months.

And instead of you facing the people lying to you squarely, you are offended that someone is telling you the bitter truth. Are you bewitched or something? Are you hypnotized?

Do you even realise that the same Obasanjo that you are castigating here built some of the refineries when he was head of state in the 70s?

APC cannot take 1% of what they dish out to others. They are less accountable to the people and would block anything that calls them to question. Their apologists use all manner of dubious arguments anytime they are asked to account for their actions.

Just imagine what would have happened if it was the other way round and Atiku or someone else that is with all these bizarre identity cum certificate issues.

Three APC members from Edo State, Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and Amedu Dauda Anakhu, went to court to challenge Obaseki's certificate from University of Ibadan.

Adams Oshiohmhole himself questioned how Obaseki could have got admission to UI with 3 credits, 'in those days'. It was an elaborate hysteria in the APC circles then that the governor must have presented a forged certificate.

Even when the registrar of the institution came out to confirm the governor's admission and graduation from the school, Oshiohmhole still held on to his belief till he was booted out of office as the party chair allegedly through the machinations of late Abba Kyari.

This is how far APC can go if they are the ones on the other side.

By the way, the same Oshiohmhole presented both primary and secondary school certificates of schools that didn't exist at the time he claimed he attended them.

nairalanda1:
Because for many years, under the guise of subsidy, we were selling fuel at a loss, and paying a subsidy to cover the loss...which it could never do adequately. That led to the refineries running down, and then we became an importer.

We could have gotten the refineries up and running again by removing subsides and privatising NNPC, cutting it off from free government money and forcing it to work for its money.....like a legit company.

But Nigerians kept saying no to subsidy removal, encouraged by people like Tinubu who is in power now. And right now, we are in so much of debt that we cannot pay for subsidies anymore. Not without going into even larger debt. Not without running out of money in the next 5 years.

It is either we pay the market price of fuel from our pockets, or we pay for it at IMF rate in a few years, at IMF conditions.

You don't have to like it. I don't. But for me it is either we suffer a lot now, or we get ten to twenty times what we suffer now in a few years...where the bank would be telling you you cannot withdraw money because there is no money.

Alagba, they are not even talking about subsidy here in the report. What the report is about is forex. Did you read it at all?

You are still talking about subsidy that has been removed? They have removed it for you as you have advocated.

Your 10-20 years projected suffering is foolish. You don't even have any idea what suffering entails. You don't even know what destabilization that would occur before next year or two and you are making foolish 10 - 20 year projections.

Try and reason like a human being who has higher capacity than lower animals. What exactly are the projections based on? Nothing but wishful thinking.

Have you factored in sudden international or even national occurrences that might happen along the line? War in the Balkan; Tension or possible war between US and China? NATO-Russo war? Massive global economic and financial turmoil? Another pandemic?

Did you know if there would be coup in Niger by this time last year, for instance? Have you considered that Nigeria might be spending so much money out of the socalled subsidy savings in prosecuting a needless war in the coming months?

These policies being implemented on a trial and error basis are those kind of things commuters in Lagos public vehicles and the callers on radio programs have been pushing for long without weighing the consequences.

Imagine basing your economic policies on commuters conjectures.

They are messing with people's minds.

Is she in opposition now?

Only people in "opposition" are complaining.

Remove subsidy on religious pilgrimage and let's see how that goes.

Fuel prices will continue to double in the Republic of Benin each time prices increase in Nigeria.

Fuel will continued to be smuggled to neighboring countries since prices will always be cheaper in Nigeria. Always!

It is a simple logic.

But Nigerian government and its international friends like the BBC will continue to cite smuggling in neighboring countries as an excuse to punish Nigerians.

Till eternity.

z07ion:
That Nigeria has remained an indivisible nascent democracy in eight years of deliberate and well-calculated military assault on the good and resilient people of
the geographic contraption in diversity by a very desperate but tired old soldier can only be attributed to divine providence!

The atrocities of crimes/criminalities of eight years filled with uncertainties and trepidations in respect of the horrible insecurity regime which was unleashed on the country from 2015-2023 can be best described as a combination of the WORLD WAR I and II combined except that the HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB WAS NOT DETONATED!

Conservative estimate of human casualties without exaggeration CANNOT BE LESS THAN A MILLION PEOPLE during Major General Buhari's inglorious eight-year tenure dominated by various acts of brigandage by Fulani Herdsmen, Boko Haram Terrorists, Bandits, Gunmen, IPOB & ESN TERRORISTS etc, due to incapacitation of the Commander-in-Chief's security forces which were overstretched and overwhelmed by the sheer audacity and superior fire power of the criminals!

Nigerians expected that a desperate Muhammadu Buhari, who attempted to be a democratic President of Nigeria on three occasions from 2003-2011 until he succeeded on the 4th occasion in 2015, would be very dedicated to serve the nation with all his track record experiences in governance as far back as when he was military Commissioner of Petroleum Resources as far back as1976!

But from all indications the old soldier never loved his country as he pretended to be. He is nepotistic, tribalistic, high-handed, domineering, clannish, a religious bigot, feudalistic, impunistic etc, ensured that he surrounded himself with people from his tribal enclave - especially the FULANI CLAN!

When retired General Olusegun Obasanjo alleged that Buhari had an agenda to FULANIZE and ISLAMIZE Nigeria We disagreed with him and told the world that Buhari was a TRUE DEMOCRAT - We have been proved wrong!

TESTIMONY OF 'AHMED 'BOLA TINUBU IN RESPECT OF BUHARI'S THREE LOST ELECTIONS!

"Buhari wept bitterly on national television after the third loss and swore not to contest again but I encouraged him to try the FOURTH time."
It is important to highlight the fact that the three occasions when Buhari lost elections, colossal and collateral damages which led to heavy human casualties in their hundreds, malicious destruction of government strategic installations disrupted economic activities especially in the Northern parts of Nigeria where he is idolized as a hero because of his DELIBERATE INCITEFUL SPEECHES!

Buhari always claimed that he was RIGGED OUT and instructed his supporters to patiently wait to witness the counting, collation and announcement of results.
In his words; "Because you haven't done this in all past cases you allowed them to turn your victories into defeats!"

Buhari lost the election for the third time in 2011 and within three days, violence which erupted in the Northern part of the country recorded about 700 deaths and thousands of innocent people displaced in the Northeast, Northwest and North Central parts of the country!

Following Tinubu's encouragement to try his luck once again, Buhari who has no respect for the SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIVES THREATENED THAT IF THE 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS NOT TRANSPARENT THAT "THE DOG AND THE BABOON WILL ALL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD!"

Everyone knows that government is a continuum and whoever aspires to occupy political offices must be genuine patriot spiritually, mentally, academically, and physically prepared for such positions of authority and pursue existing socio-economic policies of previous administrations with patriotism.

To serve and not to steal, to gather and not to scatter, to preserve and not to embezzle, to enrich and not to impoverish his constituency which is the entire nation of Nigeria, to lift and not to cast down the citizens ambitions and aspirations, to deliver dividends of democracy to the masses and not to enrich a few through inordinate ambitions through acts of NEPOTISM; and to remember at all times that they would be accountable and be judged by the Almighty God our Creator and posterity!

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS AN ADDICTED SOLDIER!

Soldiering had been Buhari's addiction from youth and when he successfully became military Head of State at 42 years he pretended to be possessed with the zeal of patriotism for rescuing the downtrodden during his short-lived 23- month tenure!

The aborted appointment vexed him sore and he purported in his heart to return some day to fulfill his inordinate ambition as a civilian President and on assumption of office in 2015 declared that he "would be for nobody, but for everybody"!

From that onset at 72 years, he left no one in doubt that he had hidden agendas because he carelessly allowed the opposition to perpetrate his administration due to nonchalant attitude to his constitutional responsibility in Chapter II Sections 13,14, (1-4) which emphasized that the security and welfare of the citizens are the primary objective of government.

BUHARI NOW SAYS, "I AM SORRY"! TO WHO?

There is virtually no family in the last eight years of Buhari's presidency that did not lose a family member to the cold hands of untimely and avoidable deaths!
Outside of the official condolences, has the soldierman ever bore the pains of the thousand of thousands of parents who still agonize over their children who have been mercilessly killed/kidnapped without respite from the custodians of their security and welfare?
NO NO NO! The following are the LACK - LUSTER CROCODILE TEARS OF THE lamenting 80-year-old General who knew from the onset that he was not up to the task:

"Those who that think that I have hurt them so much, please pardon me". The apology was made during his last Sallah Homage Reception at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday, 21st April, ,2023.

“So please whoever says I have done wrong to them, we are all humans. There is no doubt I hurt some people and I wish you will pardon me; and those who think that I have hurt them so much please pardon me."
But majority of Nigerians would have none of his antics especially when he claimed that the 2023 General Election was transparent, free, fair and credible and also claimed the outcome as his LEGACY!

THIS IS THE SECOND APOLOGY OF BUHARI TO NIGERIANS IN EIGHT YEARS!

During the Easter period in the year 2016 President Buhari apologized to Nigerians for dissolving University Governing Councils along with the Boards of Parastatals Agencies with the following words:
"We gave a blanket order which we had to rescind when we said all Boards were suspended or dissolved.
"We had to go back and lick our vomit.....
"So there is nothing wrong in saying sorry so we said sorry..... And allowed all these universities to continue with their councils
"So please try to bear with us as we reflect on where we found ourselves."

On the much-criticized issue of globe-trotting, President Buhari explained as follows: "Sometime you need to present your case on personal basis to your economic colleagues and neighbours because nothing is better than personal touch and I believe we are learning a lot and eventually the nation will realise the dividends of those strategic trips"

Nigerians could hardly wait for Buhari to pack bag and baggage and get out of the Villa so that the Citizens could enjoy fresh breath of air - especially if ICC OPERATIVES ARE ON GROUND TO ESCORT HIM TO THE HAGUE, TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIS EIGHT-YEAR STEWARDSHIP!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Shouldn't you be apologizing and seeking God's forgiveness for all the long epistles you wrote to burnish Buhari’s image for years on this same platform even when you were cautioned many times?

You were one of his ardent blind supporters who praise-sang and canonized him in the face of the evil policies and deliberate actions against Nigerians.

What does this say about your conscience now? Do you have any knowledge of God at all? This is a big shame on you Mr. Pastor. A very big shame!

You were one of the sociopaths who daily obsessed about Buhari’s imaginary powers of transformation through punitive measures. You were one of the many sociopaths who professed that Nigeria could never get better without the kind of brutality that Nigerians were subjected to by Buhari’s government.

If Buhari ever gets to ICC, there should be a way to join you and many of your type in the legal actions as enablers.

Ah!

Was this not the reason they asked you people to vote massively for Ashaaju?

Are the landlords already proving that they own the Mandate?

Time will tell.

Drought for agbado.

A section of the leaders in southwest has shown that all the pretenses to good morals are useless after all.

All the so-called southwest avowed moral high grounds are demonstrably useless as at today, as per the embrace of a morally deficient individual as their preferred candidate among the very excellent hardworking millions of Yoruba people across the world.

What these leaders are clearly saying to the youths is that yahoo yahoo, drug trafficking, fake identity and other deficient morals are irrelevant.

All that matters to this tiny section of individuals is just money.

The youths have mostly internalized this and are not interested in doing what is right again.

How this set of corrupt minds gained prominence in the southwest to drown the voices and influences of the very upright majority is baffling.

Coincidentally, other interest groups are awaiting the time when these particular leaders in the southwest would raise issues with anyone's morality in the country.

Afonja2:
PRESS STATEMENT

It is fake news: Tinubu never asked governors to disregard President Buhari

Our attention has been drawn to a fake viral news published by the Peoples Gazette, claiming Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate has asked APC governors to ignore President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast and enforce the Supreme Court ruling on the recirculation of old Naira notes.

The publication by the platform is fake .

Tinubu never issued such an order. Mr Dele Alake, the APC-PCC Adviser on Media and Communications never issued such advisory on behalf of Asiwaju Tinubu.

The message quoted by Peoples Gazette was being randomly shared on WhatsApp. Mr Alake was not the author.

Asiwaju Tinubu has been known, since the currency swap crisis started, to call for calm as the authorities try to find out a solution to the currency crisis. He has offered a six-point suggestion to lessen the anguish our people are facing in trying to get money from the banks.

He has also held several meetings with President Buhari, his leader over the matter.

It is thus inconceivable and unthinkable that he would instruct APC governors to disregard President Muhammadu Buhari’s order on the currency matter.

Governors who have so far declared this line of action said clearly that they were acting on the ruling of the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.

Asiwaju has had no influence in this decision.

Journalists, unless acting on the dictates of political opponents or prosecuting some agenda, should endeavour to confirm authorship of their materials from the Media and Publicity Directorate of the campaign. They can also seek confirmation from the Tinubu Media Office or Mr. Alake .

The Gazette should recant the story with immediate effect.

Bayo Onanuga
Director, Media & Publicity
APC Presidential Campaign Council
February 17, 2023

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Oh.
So, Tinubu is no longer the leader of Buhari?

Tinubu now has a leader?

Interesting.

BeardedmeatR:
Omenka you are still here.

God forbid BATing!

Buhari aged Tinubu by 20 years within just 2 weeks.

He turned 100 years old for just ordinary stopping his sole strategy of vote buying.

These are the kind of characters in APC.

Someone diametrically opposed to order and peaceful society.

Someone who always wants to destroy a system and create his own chaotic atmosphere.

This is what they are trying to install. So that the existing peaceful order in Warri would be destroyed and giving to him.

That is what they would do to many traditional institutions around the country.

To all whom it may concern.

To all the people of the world.

You can all see the rejection of APC across the length and breath of Nigeria.

You have seen real suffering people across Nigeria, the north, east, west, south rising up against tyranny and oppression of the APC.

In unison, Nigerians from all walks of life and all religious persuasions are saying they do not want APC.

If after all these rejections, there is somehow a "declaration" of APC as the winner of the forthcoming election, it should be clear to all that Nigerians did not give that mandate.

People of the world should make these people to let the wishes of Nigerians prevail.

There are no human beings anywhere in world going through extreme and harrowing suffering such as Nigerians are going through that would still give mandate to the same people inflicting pains on them.

Governments in Europe where they operate parliamentary system would have collapsed like 7 years ago, if a quarter of what Nigerians have gone through had happened there.

But Nigerians have persevered this long for an opportunity to exercise their fundamental human rights of choosing their leaders.

It is therefore important to let wishes of the majority of the people to prevail.