₦airaland Forum

semid4lyfe:
Heartland has already lost the cup by playing 2-1 in the 1st leg.

Carry this ya yeye post go ya Lubumbashi thread

otokx:
This is a very slim lead but they can still make it.

They will make it,the Heartland I know,will not concede in Lumubashi without reciprocating the "favour",Coton sports game readily comes to mind

gestapo:
We know that Ibori may get away with the crimes he committed against the people of Delta state for a while, but the long arm of justice will eventually catch up with him one day, and that day will be for the people.

As we say in Nigeria, “one day for the thief and another for the owner!”

GBAM
This is the only thing that gives me joy concerning the saga of the criminal,lying, double convict called james onanefe ibori

MrCrackles:
I think he is sixteen donkey years!

And how many calender years do we have in a donkey years please??

All for the undisputed IGWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Any ranking that has Luca Toni on it is a joke. WTF!!! did i just see pizarro. Fidel Castro had better channell cuba's money into better things!!!

Heartland should just arrive Lumumbashi,latest Thursday.Rest,train and win the trophy.Q.E.D

dominique:
@Geroge-D
we also have our share of the blame.
if the local leagues can get more support from the public, maybe "the times" wouldn't have moved past us. i flipped through local stations and DSTV channels looking for where the match was being aired but not one channel was showing it. CAF still have a long way to go to make the CL more prominent but they cant do it without the member of the public who are busy supporting European clubs than to give a damn about their local leagues.

Sadly true

Not sure what you mean by "story" . . .Is the term[b] psychometric[/b] tests new (or theoretical) to you?

Mm,mm the term psychometric is not new to me,just that I regard those tests in the same vein I do lie detector tests;they're not fool-proof,not infallible

End of story

Okay,end of story

BTW,with the number of hits you're getting on this thread,have you had some capitalist thoughts of late  ,you never know,some high networth client might just be out there

Why would I hate my country? this is the only country I have,even a of my friends that carries the US passport once confessed that whenever he's passing thru immigration when travelling to the US,he suspects that some of the immigration officers look at him in a way that makes him feel he's using a borowed property

If God had made me come into this world as an Afghan or Somali citizen,I could never hate my country,not to talk of now that I'm blessed to come from a less turbulent country

^^^^^^Food for thought

weirdklade:
so far so good,what has man city gotten? 4 draws in a row for a top 4 contender ?

That equals 2 and half losses,add it to their loss to Utd,that makes it 3 and a half losses(as 3 draws equals two losses).If Liverpool continues their woeful performance and drop out of the top four,then Villa or those useless spuds will finish 4th,so citeh will have to contend for the 5th or 6th spot.There's not just a missing link in ur club,but more importantly,there's a missing ingredient @ eastlands and until the two items are sorted out,citeh will remain a wannabe top-four club

McFadden is a goat to have missed that penalty

canuck:
You're welcome sir.

Absent a proper Psychometric Test, where you answer 30-50 behavioural questions (depending on the testing brand), I can only be in the vicinity of the bulls eye most times, and strike a direct hit a few times.

Story,but carry on,I'm loving the intrigue

Eight months after, cartel thwarts N1trn petroleum subsidy probe

Powerful interest groups and the cartel that had dominated the importation of refined petroleum products may have thwarted the bid to probe the rot that characterised the subsidy era at the ministry of petroleum resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). “That probe will not see the light of the day because very top and influential Nigerians are involved in the mess,
Over one trillion naira was spent as subsidy in what the presidency described as subsidizing corruption. On announcing its intention to remove subsidy on petroleum products, the Federal Government had vowed to audit all transactions in the sector to bring about sanity and efficiency. It particularly vowed to look critically into the activities of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) over fuel pump pricing in the country over the years. Top government officials and politicians who benefited from the bazaar are believed to have frustrated the planned probe of the sector. BusinessDay investigations revealed that seven months after the government promised to commence investigations into the monumental fraud nothing is on ground to suggest that the government is serious about the issue. “That probe will not see the light of the day because very top and influential Nigerians are involved in the mess. The powerful cartel that is involved has been frustrating the whole thing and as I am talking to you now, nothing is on the ground to indicate that the government is serious about the probe,” a cabinet minister who spoke on condition of anonymity said. However, a presidency source said the audit process had begun but has been bogged down by due process requirements. “I know there was a shortlist of international auditors and some local consultants and talks were on then there was issue of due process,” the source told BusinessDay. But Peter Esele, president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), described the proposed audit as a charade. He said the probe may have been swept under the carpet because “there is so much fraud in the system.” “A lot of government officials that benefited from the bazaar would certainly not allow the probe to be carried out,” Esele said. “What is presently going on with the importation of petroleum products by the NNPC is another sad development. We have said we do not want subsidies in the country but what is happening there is nothing short of what was going on when the subsidies were on petroleum products,” the source stated further. As at today, it was gathered that NNPC is paying an average of $25,000 every day as demurrage on 33 ships loaded with petroleum products waiting to berth at the ports. Sources at the petroleum ministry told our correspondent over the weekend that instead of liberalising the sector as earlier promised by the government through licensing more importers of the product; the corporation has resorted to the massive importation when it did not have the capacity to store the products. “What I can tell you now is that people are benefiting from this huge importation. It is the old racketeering that is going on because nobody in his right senses would resort to massive importation of the product when it does not have the storage capacity to do so,” one of the sources said. The source that spoke on condition of anonymity said the “NNPC does not have the capacity that it is telling Nigeria that it has. So the right thing to be done under the present circumstance is to further liberalise the sector by licensing more importers”. All efforts to get comments from Livi Ajuonuma, group general manager, public affairs, NNPC, on Thursday and Friday proved abortive as he failed to take our correspondent’s calls on his mobile phone or respond to several text messages sent to him on the issue. However, on Friday when our reporter was able to get through his line, a male who eventually answered the call told our correspondent that the NNPC spokesman would get back to the journalist but as at the time of filing this report, BusinessDay was yet to get his response on the controversial issue. It would be recalled that the Federal Government through Olusegun Adeniyi, special adviser to President Yar’Adua on media and publicity, in March 2009 told State House correspondents that those indicted in the monumental fraud that characterised the sector over the years would be brought to book. “There will be serious audit in the sector especially with regards to Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and some of these agencies. But I assure you that those issues will be looked at. They are actually being looked at because we just had a meeting now with the finance and petroleum ministers and those are some of the issues we talked about. There is going to be a process of auditing to find out how we arrived at the template they are using now to come up with the fuel price. “If people are indicted they will pay for the consequences of their actions, that I can assure because the president is determined to see this process through because we cannot continue under the current arrangement. “As the minister of finance said last week, we have been subsiding corruption, inefficiency and fraud in the sector and those are the things we are tackling. Because even the template of PPPRA, I mean there are issues there that are being resolve by government and labour,” Adeniyi said. Also Rilwanu Lukman, minister of petroleum resources, while announcing the deregulation of the sector told State House correspondents that “there will be no cartel because we intend to give licence to anybody who is competent to import products. A question of cartel will not arise because there will be no chance for anybody to form a cartel. “If we allow free importation of products and allow people to sell at going market price, there will be no cartel,” he said stressing that the deregulation will ensure “full competition in the market place”. “There are certain elements within the marketing fraternity who would prefer the situation we are in to continue. Definitely some of them are making a lot of money and if there is free importation of products and free movement of price, they will be making profits but the kind of huge profits they are making now will no longer be there. It will be normal profit that anybody in the business will be expected to make. Right now they are making abnormal profits. Therefore they will prefer the situation to remain like this,” he lamented.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6366:eight-months-after-cartel-thwarts-n1trn-petroleum-subsidy-probe-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18

The list has been there for so long but I know there's hope for Nigeria,we wont remain this way forever

kaydee:
Real bad!,real bad! Heartland.Why not score more since u're aware of the away goal rule

Sharrap dia,na so e easy?you for go score the remaining goals for them na ;DSeriously,are you aware they had to come back from a goal down to win 2-1?that says much about their strong character.I assure you one thing;Heartland WILL NOT LOSE in Lumumbashi

The trophy and $1,500,000.00 is coming home

‘Yar’Adua Is a Liar!’


So says the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Pipeline and Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary wholly owned by NNPC that is responsible for the marketing and distribution of petroleum products on behalf of the corporation. Both organisations have been at pains in the last one week to portray THISDAY Newspaper, as a lying, inconsistent news media organisation. Their seething rage stems from the expose published by this paper on Saturday, October 24 on the oil cartel that has been feeding fat from the multimillion dollar kickbacks resulting from the disgraceful importation regime of fuel products into the country. A regime, which I must add, has persisted for 15 years, making Nigeria the laughing stock of other oil producing countries and the whole world.
However, by stating that this paper fabricated the story that a clique within NNPC/PPMC receives N75 million in commissions for every shipment of refined products brought in by oil/commodity traders, NNPC and PPMC have unwittingly portrayed the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a liar. Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, it will be recalled, had during a press briefing on May 12, 2009, acknowledged that there is a powerful cartel that has been benefiting from the subsidy regime for fuel products. In an uncharacteristic flash of anger, the president vowed to crush the cartel, describing it as “the greatest institutional corruption in this country.” In the president’s opinion, this cartel had brought pressure to bear on oil marketers to resist the full deregulation of the downstream oil sector which the government attempted to implement at the time.
Before I continue it will be fair to put the president’s statement in proper perspective. It was made at the time fuel queues had resurfaced, following a decision by oil marketers from the private sector to stop the importation of products into the country over non-payment of subsidy claims. Alarmed at the unsustainable subsidy bill, the government reckoned that the timing might be right to lift the cap on fuel prices. The decision was further encouraged by relatively low oil prices which were hovering at $40 to $50 a barrel. To the surprise of the government, instead of getting the backing of operators in the sector, there was resistance to deregulation, prompting the reaction from the president that a cartel is feeding off the subsidy regime,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=158699

mbulela:
why was the board not sacked at the same time as the executive team?

Ask him,he was overly concentrated on making a personal statement against the CEOs,hence he couldn't see that the inept boards needed some sanitisation

Beaf:
Let the law take its cause, instead of Sanusi saying funny and dictatorial stuff to the press everyday. Why is Sanusi so concerned about condemning the CEO's before the courts (Sometin dey? ). In fact, if they have half decent lawyers, he has shot himself in the foot and prejudiced the case against them.

That Sanusi should be gagged.His intervention in the banks is welcomed,but his post-intervention antics is worrisome and may lead to some chaos in the boardroom in no time

Don Vito provided my favourite quote for the weekend;

"Ahhh,Friday night has back" --- Vito Mannone

http://www.arsenal.com/home

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I've been rueing the two points we threw away at Upton park last week;would've been an interestingly different proposition now,all the same,we're seriously in it this time around and I know that pretend as they may,the scummies and chavs aren't breathing easy now

Swine flu do una well oooo

*****yawns*******falls asleep******

posakosa:
my EYES------my EYES

LOL

Don Vito provided my favourite quote for the weekend;

"Ahhh,Friday night has back" --- Vito Mannone

http://www.arsenal.com/home

mukina2:
we went balls out

Hehehehehe,no comment

go heartland