₦airaland Forum

Mariangeles:
Travel to Imo state and find out. You'd marvel.
No need for long talks.

I was at Owerri in December 2023 and June and July last year, I was confused. I could not recognize Owerri again. The development is so massive but I believe it must have started from Rochas because what I saw must have taken many years to build.

In those days Owerri was small and quiet. They called Owerri Civil Service town, we normally go to Aba and Portharcourt and traveling to Lagos through ONITSHA we see those crowded big houses. Now, what I saw at Owerri with Hotels, big houses, network of roads, I can say in all the Eastern States, Owerri is number one, I am not talking in commercial activities basis because of Aba and ONITSHA are there but in aesthetic design.

ValCon888:
The man may be a gun runner,but he's not a Reverend father. I know for a fact that the Catholic Church has no deaconess.

There is a poor lack of fact-checking in this story.
That police officer has to be an illiterate not to know that Reverend father and deaconess cannot coexist in the same sentence.

No Deaconess in Catholic church

JASONjnr:
Good intentions are enough. With time, things will fall into places.

Things will surely fall into places. I believe God is with Tinubu. Tinubu's case made me to know Divine forces are not sleeping and that human beings are naturally wicked and ungrateful and very unreliable.

Tinubu helped a lot of people by God's divine Appointment with those people. When those people got to Abuja instead of standing with Tinubu, they betrayed him and joined Tinubu's enemies so as to make more wealth and fame. They never thought Tinubu will become President.

Painfully to me, one of them was disgraced out of power as governor and he left government house broke as he has used all he has accumulated to seek second term but Federal Government power humiliated him out of power. He left power broke without any dignity and friends. That was during Goodluck Jonathan's government.

Later, he became an unofficial Personal Assistant to Tinubu for survival up to Chatham House, UK. Immediately Power came to APC . Tinubu empowered him and repositioned him for recovery. He recovered . He forgot his benefactor and joined the Power Bloc at the centre against Tinubu. All of them have become irrelevant to me. This man was a teacher in higher institution in an African country whose physical infrastructure is not even qualified to be a Secondary school in Nigeria but was financed and supported to power from nowhere by Tinubu the first time he became a Governor.

They don't have anything good to say. God has grounded them. Tinubu should never give any of them space around him.

TUTU147:
The level of wickedness in the state is so worrisome,the government and the people need to do something serious about it.i wish we can bring back bakasi boys.

Dear Governor Soludo, I sympathize with you on the state of Security in your State .

Few years ago while at ONITSHA there was the incident of gruesome murder of a member of Anambra State House of Assembly whose head was cutoff and disposed close to Chisco Park few metres to upper Iweka. This is another member of Anambra State House of Assembly again. What is happening?

royal231:
Connecting ports through rail..

1.. Dem Wan collect people land

2 since the ports are already connected by water why rail connections?? Connect 1 port to the hinterland and others will connect to that port tru waterways..

3.dem no really Wan do anything.. Normal cashing out

That is the best solution. Connecting Badagry to Tincan port is too clumsy. I think they just want to make money from the feasibility study.

NewHe:
If you are interested, when times comes you can bid for it! A good thinker will be-how do I have my own share of the project?

What is the status report on Badagry Seaport? Have they started work on the Seaport? Badagry indigenes threatened to take over the land if the project did not go on as projected few years ago. Sanwoolu promised them he would look into their grievances and pass message to FG. Also, is Intel Logistics still involved in the project? Badagry is a long distance to Apapa.

Badagry Deep seaport project has taken many years without completion.

maasoap:
Laughing. Just watch how USA influence and dominance over the rest of the world will wane with time and that's what majority of the governments all over the world wanted all along. It has always been a trade by barter, every country that receives aid, crumbs or handouts from USA equally loses part of her sovereignty, independence, integrity to US.

What happens to those countries that took loans through overblown and overbloated projects executed mainly by Chinese companies? Didn't they lose part of their sovereignty and independence to China?

osuofia2:
True, let China and Russia they love so much, shoulder the burden. God bless America. The land where dreams come true.
Who noticed that since the return of Trump, there have been so much silence from all the terrorists nation.
Hamas, Hezbollah even their papa Iran don go dumb

Thanks. This has been my suggestion ever since Trump became President. In Abuja, you have many USAID agencies and USAID funded or supported projects. Many Nigerians are working in these agencies. What stops China and Russia from taking over from US?

Imagineers:
To marry a bad wife could be managed. To marry a bad family is worse. The wife and her father are the same

Firstly, is it not the same Francis Van-Lare that have a computer company at Ikeja around Toyin Street several years ago? Yesterday, I noticed Dr Erinne attended Secondary school in Portharcourt. Today, I saw Francis Van-Lare in the picture. I suspect Francis Van-Lare is from Rivers State because the former staff of the company that was my friend is from Rivers State.

This man that has been posting nonsense on the internet about his escapades?

zero8zero:
Her father read the comments of Nigerian men slamming her daughter and he had to come out to set the records straight.

Firstly, is it not the same Francis Van-Lare that have a computer company at Ikeja around Toyin Street several years ago? Yesterday, I noticed Dr Erinne attended Secondary school in Portharcourt. Today, I saw Francis Van-Lare in the picture. I suspect Francis Van-Lare is from Rivers State because the former staff of the company that was my friend is from Rivers State

passion007:
Everyone is screaming $15k is too much. Keep in mind that the guy most likely earns more than $30k per month, because the court cannot ask you to pay more than half of your income as child support. It was his decision to take his own life rather than give half of his income to his children, but that decision was certainly not due to financial inability because he was well able to afford that.

Also it doesn't matter if you are not married. You will still pay child support.

I Know you are a lady. All your concern is that $15,000 to be collected by a lady effortlessly. Now that he has died the lady should go and be collecting the money from the grave.

Several years ago in Nigeria when a serving President son divorced his wife. The wife went to Court to request for the custody of the two children and long list of requirements which are more than $15K monthly commitments. She requested for ownership of a house in GRA Ikeja, domestic staff, medicals abroad, etc which the son of the President can never afford through his work. The lady said she made the request because her ex husband is a son of the President of the most populous nation in Africa and being the son he has connections and exposure to make money. Mind you, the lady married the President's son when the father became President. Which means if the man's father were to be in prison or an illiterate village man she wouldn't have married him.

That's woman for you. You said she chose death to giving his children $15K monthly. Now she can collect the money from grave. So the children are his children and not her children? To worsen the matter, DNA test might even show that the children are not his biological children.

nedekid:
I thought of that too, why not relocate to naija and start a new life? Well guess he was probably born in the US and may not know the Nigerian terrain. Also the US justice system may declare him wanted since failure to pay child support is a jailable crime. The 15k will just be accumulating, waiting for him. They could even issue interpol warrant. The Dr probably has hundreds of thousands in student loan debt now joined with 15k monthly igbese, his mortgage on his house his wife will collect yet he will still be paying, the cars nko, the monthly payment, all these join with his loosing his licence to practice. Hmm, wahala..

I bet you, once he escapes to Nigeria, no interpol can arrest him. I can assure you that. He was probably scared of returning to Nigeria because of how Nigeria is being painted on Social Media.

He has a good profession and from Anambra. In future he might even be supported to establish an hospital. It is very painful. If he had come home for Detty December he would have still been alive because he would have gotten a girlfriend whose thought would have reduced depression from his divorce scenarios.

I believe some Nigerians in US secretly undergoing similar situation should be thinking of coming home especially now that Trump is in power.

ogascomax:
Just a simple solution. Return back to Nigeria and start again.

He is a specialist - Cardiologist. Nigeria is not as bad as being painted on Social Media. Many Consultants working in Nigeria will be wondering why he refused to return to Nigeria. May his soul rest in peace.

mmsen:
People do not read the fine print when they get married in the States but this is what you agree to. When it goes badly the state, in conjunction with the woman, will join hands to clean you out. Not just from what you have acquired up until that date but for up to two decades. It is pure evil.

The judicial system is rigged in favor of the women.

RIP.

Waaoh! ! ! up to two decades after the divorce you will still be paying commitments to the former wife. This is suicidal. No wonder Microsoft man is regretting his divorce while the wife is enjoying herself.

God1000:
It's a complicated story, but here's is a brief history of this conflict

Tutsi is one of Rwandan subtribe living in Eastern DRC since the colonial period. They own properties such as land , houses , farms etc but they've complained of marginalization from the government of congo, accusing DRC of treating them as non- residents or aliens.

The eastern Congo where Tutsi occupies is well endowed with natural resources such as Diamond, cobalt and Gold

Technically Kagame benefits from the minerals through his tribe the Tutsi living in Eastern Congo, the reason for his involvement in the civil war happening in Goma and North Kivu.

We also have other local and international actors who are fighting for their own interest in DRC

Both the M23 rebels backed by Rwanda and Rwandan soldiers are fighting Congolese government in eastern DRC


Similar to what happened in eastern Ukraine when Russia invaded and took crimea in 2014, Putin felt the ethnic Russians living in eastern Ukraine were being persecuted by the government of Ukraine

But I don't support what Paul kagame is doing, he's destabilizing that region

Paul kagame is from Tutsi tribe

OK. I can now understand. Long time, ever since he became Rwanda President, I was thinking he is from Hutu tribe.

Africa problem is almost the same. My friend who is a senior official with AU in Addis told me few years ago when the late Ethiopian President fell sick about the ethnicity arrangement for power in Ethiopia. Till date, there is crisis in a part of Ethiopia

BreconHills:
The reserves are not simply a savings account. It is also the place from which we pay out foreign obligations such as bond coupons, interest payments, mnc dividends etc. If these payments are not made then Nigeria credit rating will drop which will increase the cost of business.

So the drop to $39bn is nothing to worry about and it is not due to defence of the naira.

Sir, thanks for the professional explanation.

PHIPEX:
You don't need to tell me about Soludo, he was my lecturer. I support and fancy his brain work but I dislike his politics.

For now there is nothing praise worthy in the news

Also, I dislike his politics but intelligent people recognize intelligent people and appreciate intelligent efforts despite the differences. I attended University in IBO land several years ago and I know about the behavioural pattern of the IBOS. I know you will not see anything praiseworthy in the news despite commitments by the government.

You failed to answer my question which indirectly is about the contribution of Jonathan government to South West when your people controlled the government.


Firstly, mention one project started or completed in South West in Jonathan's 4 year tenure when Ayim Pius Ayim was SFG and controlled Government machineries while your sister was the Minister of Finance and Peter OBI was the Honorary Senior Special Adviser to Jonathan on Economy and your kinsmen occupied strategic Ministry and Government Agencies? Remember, this period was the time Nigeria made the highest revenue in Africa from oil and still borrowed heavily. Mention one key project started or completed in South West despite estimated $100 billion looted. I am online, let us start from there. Anybody can reply me. I am waiting.

Streetinvestor2:
I should engage a SW ewu who only interests is envy and how to destroy igbos.The only interests of SE now is how to align with north to remove SW
President and revise all lagos monopoly to Abuja and all region.The worst enemy to igbos is SW.
Good luck is not as corrupt as SW president You should be worried how SW alone can make him president in 2027.The last election 5 million vote came from the North in his claimed 8 million vote.The north made him president and no SW

This is the reason KANU has remained in prison and IPOBS declared a terrorist organization. It is very painful to some of us that as intelligent people are making efforts behind the scenes to resolve issues, nonentities and foolish people are making irritated statements that often frustrate sympathy.

Firstly, mention one project started or completed in South West in Jonathan's 4 year tenure when Ayim Pius Ayim was SFG and controlled Government machineries while your sister was the Minister of Finance and Peter OBI was the Honorary Senior Special Adviser to Jonathan on Economy and your kinsmen occupied strategic Ministry and Government Agencies? Remember, this period was the time Nigeria made the highest revenue in Africa from oil and still borrowed heavily. Mention one key project started or completed in South West despite estimated $100 billion looted. I am online, let us start from there. Anybody can reply me. I am waiting.

PHIPEX:
They are praising g Tinubu for a project that had not even started?

Yes. They have to praise him. Soludo is an economist, a First Class economist. He was an Economic Adviser to Federal Government and Chairman, National Planning Commission and later, CBN governor. Soludo knows under the situation that Tinubu came to power with Fiscal and Monetary policies crises, it takes ingenuity to start new projects less than 180 days of assumption of power. Also, with his exposure they can read the direction of the government.

All the issues mentioned have been on ground without any hope of resolutions. The fact that there is development commission and there are people working behind the scenes to kickstart one or two of those project are success.

Streetinvestor2:
After reading the rubbish the op wrote. I was looking to see whr TPain will hang the head of seyi on the main bridge for SE to vote him.He is no longer building imaginary Road to calabar
The road we know will end in SW.He is drawing blue print na white cocain he is sniffing

This is the reason KANU has remained in prison and IPOBS declared a terrorist organization. It is very painful to some of us that as intelligent people are making efforts behind the scenes to resolve issues, nonentities and foolish people are making irritated statements that often frustrate sympathy.

Firstly, mention one project started or completed in South West in Jonathan's 4 year tenure when Ayim Pius Ayim was SFG and controlled Government machineries while your sister was the Minister of Finance and Peter OBI was the Honorary Senior Special Adviser to Jonathan on Economy and your kinsmen occupied strategic Ministry and Government Agencies? Remember, this period was the time Nigeria made the highest revenue in Africa from oil and still borrowed heavily. Mention one key project started or completed in South West despite estimated $100 billion looted. I am online, let us start from there. Anybody can reply me. I am waiting.

Saao:
that's why it was thrown out. Again police acts is subject to public service rules.
7 Rule 020810 of Chapter two (2) of the Public Service Rules (PSR) states that the compulsory retirement age for all grades in the service shall be 60 years or 35 years of pensionable service, whichever is earlier, and no officer shall be allowed to remain in service after attaining the retirement age of 60 years or 35 ... That guy won't survive it in court.

You are just talking nonsense. The Police Service Rules you mentioned here is the same for Armed Forces. The Service Chiefs may be retained by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and nothing will happen. He can carry out retirement and appoint those loyal to him and nothing can happen. If retirement is done and another set is appointed is it not the same?

Donald Trump can carry out appointment of all the heads of the critical US Security agencies loyal to his Security Strategy and there is nothing anybody can do because he is the Chief Security Officer of the US.

The time the Police Act is amended is of no relevance here. The IGP is an appointment by the President ratified by the National Assembly. The President is just taking his time. He can retire a set, and make an appointment of a competent trusted person as IGP.

ProfGday:
For some of those who don't understand what aids means. Is not a physical money but goods/services rendered.

US has been sending tons of drugs and some other products as foreign aids to African and Middle East countries for years.

African countries should rise and take care of their citizens and stop been wasteful by depending on developed countries.

Most of the people making comments on popular social media platforms are youths and mainly inexperienced and exposed. Having said that, consultancy services and money for running the overseas offices of the International NGOs under USAID are charged to the project. One of the good things is that those American International Agencies (NGO) administering these funds employ Nigerians and pay them very well. Also, local salary for the officials , logistics for projects and several funds for running the Projects and Project Management Office are paid directly in US Dollars . Aids that come in form of good and services now add to the project office cost.

Some Agencies under USAID also provide support to CSOs and government agencies, this is also in US dollars.

My concern is that US buys our oil. What is the amount of Aids received from China?

How much Aid has been received from China in the last 10 years? I am not talking of executing a project already inflated by 150%, then decided to give a grant to cover about 50% of the project while Nigeria only pays 50%. At the end, the 50% counterpart funding from Nigeria already covers the entire project.

owobokiri:
Let's see how much Chevron and Co stole through understating their crude and gas exports and through barefaced oil bunkering..
We are waiting..

How much Aid has been received from China in the last 10 years? I am not talking of executing a project already inflated by 150%, then decided to give a grant to cover about 50% of the project while Nigeria only pays 50%. At the end, the 50% counterpart funding from Nigeria already covers the entire project

oloshun:
You are right! I know that of KTU because my first can had that and I be Ikotun boy. I used to be a dango driver in Ikotun as a side hustle between 2003-2007.

OK. Thanks.

masseratti:
How can a whole chief of staff of a governor write uninspiring thrash like this?and a PhD holder for that matter..the whole thing just felt like am reading from a beer parlour..what's neo colonial in President visit to France ?what's deteriorating in not having anything to d with any county with military leaders?visa ban did not happen under tuggar but since Buharu administration,not holding brief foe the minister tho ..but why a whole PHD holder go dey write thrash like this tire me oo.

I don't know how that man became a governor . Anyway, we are supposed to be a Federation with Federating units running their government. He is the best person the majority of his people can present to represent them as governor.
During Buhari Regime, that man in his first term as governor made some remarks about using Nigeria resources for the good of Fulani from any part of Africa and some other statements you can only hear from a power drunk shallow thinking person. He has never made contribution to the development of Nigeria even as FCT Minister he was very disgusting. This is the man attacking an highly exposed and well composed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Wike. I have taken my time to find any standard of comparison between this man and the Minister of Foreign Affairs or Wike and found none.

lonelydora:
Ikotun is the headquarters of Alimosho LGA

Those letters are respective LGA headquarters.

Information is power . Just like several other people, I thought KTU is Ketu. I had wanted to draw the attention of the writer until I saw KSF
which is Kosofe. Another information I found useful is AKD - Ibeju / Lekki

GanagiBitrus:
This Cash Transfer scheme can never be transparent. Not in a country like Nigeria.
It's simply impossible to generate a genuine list of very poor & vulnerable citizens.

You are 100% correct. When I was using my personal account on nairaland (babaolofin) I have written extensively several times about several shady deals going on in the cash transfer scheme, school feeding program and N power. Humanitarian ministry of the last administration was a corruption bazaar.

CSOs are not exempted from corruption in Nigeria. Those who are very close to some NGOs know what is happening. I don't blame Governors at all.

What are the criteria for selecting those vulnerable Nigerians. CSOs cannot solely generate names. In the past, most of the NGOs that were funded by International Donor Agencies or organizations on good governance advocacy programs used such programs to enrich themselves. They collect BioData and account numbers of those ready to play games and those that can easily be manipulated. So many things happened.

Ykc2:
How much do nigeria as a country makes from selling oil now they came with imaginary orisa 5 billion dollars

You are not enlightened. Morroco made more money from Tourism than what Nigeria made from oil. There are some institutions in US that made more money than Nigeria made from oil.

TimeManager:
Ibiza tourism generates €4.5billon as at last year.
Morocco generated $10 billion from tourism. If you don't believe in your country, you can take a back seat and enter South Sudan.


-Kiss the truth!

They can leave Nigeria and move to South Sudan or Eritrea. The other guy (iwaeda) was referring to Lai Mohammed in year 2016 talking about revenue from a Masquerade in South East . That was during Economic depression and recession. Lai Mohammed was not talking about International Tourism where Nigerians in diaspora are participants.

https://www.nairaland.com/3083962/lai-mohammed-masquerade-create-jobs

The above is nairaland link to what iwaeda referred to. This is quite different from what Cultural organization is proposing.

For instance in IjebuOde, we have Bilikisu Sungbo Temple. Ijebu people in Ogun State believe that the Queen of Sheba is actually Bilikisu Sungbo, a wealthy and childless widow from medieval. A very respectable old IMAM was telling us in 2023 at IjebuOde while at Muslim Burial Ground which is few metres adjacent to the temple that what we have here is not valuable to us. He said this is similar to what they travelled thousands of kilometers with foreign currency to observe in foreign countries. We have a lot of these shrines in Nigeria.

Also, in decades to come, Shiloh (Winners) may become another Jerusalem in Nigeria. This is reason I support the Air Strip.

OgundeleT:
Lai Mohammed is not from Ile Balogun. His father came from Sanmora.

Why are you replying that imposter and time waster. Does he even know anything about Lai Mohammed.

I fully supported this cultural festival for the same reason I supported Air Strip for Living Faith Church

Gandollar:
Legendhero, resist the urge to shalaye.
If Tpain was a performing president, nobody would raise an eyebrow if he named every street and electric pole and wires in Nigeria after himself.

Is there any President in Africa that has performed like President Tinubu till date? It is your hatred that beclouded your sense of reasoning. We know your hatred and that was why Lagos State properties and Tinubu properties and that of Gbajabiamila were destroyed during the Endsars riots propelled by your people.

I intentionally avoided making references yesterday to barracks named after serving president for personal and professional reasons. I only made reference to the one named after Jonathan by Ihejerika as COAS because of my experiences in the University in IBO land several years ago. Till date the behavior has not changed.

It takes any government at least 12 months of coming into power to start any major project. Despite inheriting a government with 96% devoted to servicing debt and collapsed fiscal and monetary policies with comatose economy where cash is being sold by transfer of 8K to buy 5K cash and no physical cash for domestic usage except to queue for hours at Banks ATM to withdraw 2K, the Tinubu government kick-started projects less than 180 days of assumption of office and stabilized Fiscal and Monetary policies, serviced backlog of foreign exchange commitments to Airlines and multinationals and serviced debts while projects are going on everywhere.

No government in Africa has performed like this government. This is high level of ingenuity.