₦airaland Forum

Olukat:
The scene looks like he was killed by somebody.
How can he be wrongly accused and he also committed suicide?
The story don't add up

Honour is something a typical Nigerian just cannot understand.
My friend just admit... that our society is remarkably different.

A system that places 300 million naira in the hands of any one public official is at fault, nit Mr Ehindero I'm afraid. If you cannot cut the grass round your compound who are you to blame mosquitos. Those who have refused to support a call for the restructuring of this country are equally complicit in the pervasive corruption destroying Nigeria.

If you don't make money via your looks just don't bother. I will eat what I want when I want till the day I leave this earth. I have no problem burning calories. I'm not a desk ornament or a couch potato.

Okay... so how many miles can it go before completely falling apart....made in China.... stuff we love to hate.

Impressed....Republic of Living Faith Ministries loading.... a country within a country like Monaco the principality in France... no pun intended.

Xzellentgraphic:
Our president come 2023

He is not a politician. I doubt it.

SunnyskyTG:
Nobody likes chaos, but we don't want a Yes Sir kinda NASS.

It is good for Nigerians to taste both sides of the principle. They had endlessly complained about the Saraki leadership, I hope this time they put someone who will lead a rubber stamp for the Executive simply so that perceptions are converted to reality. If the APC had not been elected to office in 2015 we would have doubled our complaints against the PDP government by now. After four years of the APC as a matter of fact complaints have halved, simply because reality has set in.

My understanding of demicracy is entirely different because I watch it practiced all over the world and know that the only way to guarantee government peformance is to put it under strain. But we are a different bunch. The black man doesn't easily learn from others but from himself, his tragedies.

[quote author= post=76959929]God bless you so much for this sensible comment sir.
With youths like you, the future of our country is bright.
Slow and steady we will get to the NEXT LEVEL.
God bless our President MUHAMMADU BUHARI and his amiable Vice president Prof Yemi OSIBANJO.
God bless Nigeria.[/quote]Exactly what is sensible about that senseless comment. Four years is gone, supervised the addition of only 150Mw or so. Busy doing historicals. Exactly when will you people get to work and do what you were elected to do...

This is really getting disgusting.

With the strong showing of the PDP in the recently concluded polls coming after near total anihilation in 2015, it appears the dawn of competitive multiparty polics is finally at hand. What progressive minded folks should now expect from the political class in some form of interparty stability and the gradual demise of cross carpeting. I cannot see the need for any of the leading politicians to change allegiances at any time before the next polls in 2023. They should instead stay within their parties and fight for the ideals they want to project unto the greater polity.

For someone like Saraki in discourse I should not see him returning to the APC after being soundly and roundly beaten in his power base. He should consolidate and offer strong opposition in local Kwara politics for the benefit of the peoples of that state. I am glad he is taking it in good faith so far.

SillyMods:
And Wike and Ikpeazu and Bala Muhammad (Bauchi) who still has an ongoing case should all not have been disqualified?

Should Atiku with his well-documented looting escapades should not have been disqualified by PDP?

See someone who has a log of wood in his eyes pointing at a particle of dust in another's!

Your party and your government came to power on the mandate and rhetoric of anti corruption and probity. Now you justify retaining power on the basis of comparisons with the government that was replaced primarily for that very reason. What is wrong with you fellows. The least you and fellows can do about candidates like Ganduje is to remain silent. That is what embarrassed folks do.

Ganduje SHOULD, SHOULD, SHOULD be an embarrassment to the APC in normal climes.

At the least they cannot say anti corruption was one of the achievements in this dispensation. We still have a very long way to go.

dre11:
https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/198052/

Goodluck Jonathan continues to be the gold standard for what democracy needs and should mean in Nigeria. His actions in placing the wishes of Nigerians and the demanfs of institutions above his personal interests will continue to be referenced for decades to come. No doubt posterity will rate him as the best President Nigeria ever had because he acted appropriately when and on what really matteted. Few of his good deeds have been replicated. All of his misgivings have been multiplied several fold ever since.

Officialgarri:
Call me wicked but he died where he ought to die.

What else were the military supposed to do if they had no war to fight ?
Sit in their home and get fat , or get on the street and beat people up when bored ?

Most Soldiers recruited since after the Nigerian civil war have only gone through trainings but never saw action to put their training to use .

Very silly and misinformed comment.

Lagos is a monarchy or at best a patrimony. Describing what happens there will make the ancient Greeks laugh and the Romans go green with envy. Forget politics there. Nothing to inspirational.

Look at Kano. There is no way the state will not rapidly progress no matter who wins because the axe is set at the base of the tree. For Lagos it will always be a tale of a better yesterday Ambode worse than Fashola, Fashola worse than Tinubu.... Olu worse than Ambode??

There is just no drive, no impetus, no need to raise the bar. Sanwo Olu's successor is already probably in the wings... and no matter how he plays his hand he is likely going to lose at the next polls

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theoldpretender:
They can't source funding because

1.Laws force them to sell power below production costs


2.A large percentage of people and govt don't pay bills

3.Which bank would give cash under that circumstances?

Read the first and second line of the second paragraph.

Going by some comments here, I think we may be heading in the right direction, another benefit of democracy. A few years ago the overwhelming blame for poor public services has always been borne by government, especially the poitical class and the President in person. Having changed government for quite a while now for what they thought was a better option and seeing scant improvement, introspection has kicked in to the real challenges facing Nigeria.

Today folks realize just how important the citizen is as opposed to the government in power and how much responsibility the average citizen bears in making things work well in the country. Today folks are waking up to the reality that government is not a magician that conjures up the indices for life and living. That to make things work money has to be made and invested. That to make money the average citizen has to pay his share. That government is simply a collation centre for the productivity of the totality of Nigerians... that we are poor because the average citizen produces far less than he needs to consume... that we donot have stable electricity because we are not paying properly for it.....

That we can pay is without a doubt. We buy and operate electricity generators and manage our consumption remarkably efficiently but when public utilitues are on we leave the lights on all night long and the airconditioners at home on all day long while at work but when the bills come we kick, cheat, steal and in some sad cases rwact violently against those offering us a service that costs a lot to setup and maintain.

We just hope in time to come that as our elected superhero governments flounder at the public demand to square circles we will take another look at how much we pay for fuel, how much we pay for education, how much we pay for healthcare, how much we pay for insurance and how much we pay for law enforcement amongst many others and decide as aa nation to raise our productivity to enable us escape from this jungle mentality and live decent lives similar to the climes our people often flee to for refuge and to escape reality... but where they pay the bills... the right prices.

On the political front this is four years of this administration. It has barely done anything to stimulate capacity. At ghe end of this coming term it will have spent half of the time the PDP was in office. My projections are not looking good. It has been all hot air and rhetoric., scant action.

On the industry front, I think it is time to think outside the box to sort out the energy crises. We need new ideas and legislation to completely open up the industry to attract investment. We cannot afford to wait on industry operators who are unable to source investment funding to expand capacity on one hand and a general public who are unwilling to pay right the prices to make power production a viable business on the other.

gbagyiza:
He actually did the right thing. So, people on nairaland expect him to abandon his family for this thing. I pity this country because youths r the problem of themselves.

I just donot understand their reasoning on the need to handle such with levity when they cannot appreciate the degree of seriousness he takes his personal relationships.

I am an advocate of 'critical perception'. If it looks bad, it is. If it looks tempting, it is. If it looks good, it is. If you project your backside as your persona then thay is what you sell. There is no basis of negotiation there. He is not interested in that and promptly slams the door before avarice creeps in. He wants to shut her down fast not negotiate for a soft alnding that has landed many men in peril. He wants to anger her to terminate contact. That is what proper men do. It is not rude. It is proper.

Unekwunice:
I think he over reacted.. the endowment is her nature she can't do away with. For all i care she may be a very intelligent woman without any intentions of what he anticipates ..don't judge a book by the cover.

Oga, whatever a person projects is his or her selling point. Intelligent people will pass across an entirely different persona from what the lady laces on her profile. And he has every right to turn it down forcibly for the sake of his personal relatiinships. He comes across as a person who guards his family jealously. If she cannot understand that but chioses to act publicly then she should expect nothing less than this. Intelligent people simply donot seek embarassment on an open forum. She saw his kids.

Congratulations to the team in their pioneering efforts. May it lead to greater things in the gentleman's game.

Kwakwanso is giving this man a torrid time.

izzou:
I don't know, but this answer of yours just made me dislike Jaguar

So Range Rover na Tata product?

It is in name only. Like Dangote buying up Arsenal will not have made it a Nigerian club.... or Chelsea a russian club because Abrahamovic owns it..... King Power Stadium, Thai owner, Asian off season promos..,,still Leicester City, an English club.

Landrover is a typical British brand and will be for the forseeable future. Anyone can own anything and make it anywhere. The DNA of the product or service is what matters.

I said it before the elections that it was a bad idea to deploy the military to the centre of what is essentially a civil exercise. He (Gen Buratai) did not help matters by his 'situation room' and the grandstanding akin to conducting war games then Mr. President's shoot at sight order which left many dead.

Now they are running from pillar to post to blunt the angst in the comity of international best practices and obviously weighing the consequences of their actions to their future liberties and the damage it has done to the reputation of the military as an institution.

It has never been this bad. You could possibly excuse all of this in 1999 when the footprints of military jackboots were still fresh in the sands of time but to go back to the military 'for help' 20 years down the line is a major failure of not only this government but of all ever since who have serially failed to institutionalise the processes of democracy and with it strengthen law enforcement and jurisprudence.

The sequence is clear. Violators at previous electoral exercises have never been prosecuted because of political expediency. This has created an escalating impunity that has overwhelmed the normal channels of law enforcement requiring the sheer brutality only the military can provide. Government has escalated what should be civil criminal cases enforcable by simple batton wielding policemen and magistrate courts to all out war requiring the deployment of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles to streets, polling units and collation centres.

Is this success?

SternProphet:
That thing in the picture is not what Buhari is buying. Buhari is buying six of the militarized version. He slso bought 4 heavy attack helicopter, the MI 35M for about $35m each. One of the very expensive MI 35M has crashed this month or last . This light helicopter military version will do almost the same thing and it's only $6.3m. The NAF only uses it for operations against lightly defended herdsmen and bandit camps. It's also useful for some operations against Boko Harem. It is a very brilliant decision to juggle the numbers of this helicopter instead of a few maintenance intensive MI 35M.

Oga not true. The Augusta will NEVER be cheaper to operate or maintain. And if its munitions are not compatible with the Russian aircraft (which is highly unlikely) then it is not a wise decision. You cannot mix and match or operate multiple incompatible weapon platforms when finances are dire. Fetch another excuse.

SternProphet:
NAF is not buying A109 Power. They are buying A109M LUH. It's the military version of the stupid picture you posted here that they are buying. It will have an armoured cockpit, an auto canon, heavy machine guns, IR/EO for night attacks, rocket pods. It would be able to fire precision guided hydrarockets at targets.

Okay, slightly better but if you can get an Augusta there is no reason why you cannot get a better combat helicopter. The Americans and Russians build the best combat helos in the world. Sorry, I don't buy this tale until seen.

My two cents is that it is actually for VIP transport and PR wants to score cheap points branding it an airforce combat aquisition. Its been ages since Nigeria bought European weaponry.

It ia not a combat gunship. It ia not a troop carrier. It ia not built for aerial surveillance
I doubt if it is armoured at base specs..

Yes they have bought or ordered a helicopter but for the war against insurgency... that is just poppycock....

By 2019 everyone will be demystified....corruption everywhere..... nothing has changed.

Is there any aspect of life and living in Nigeria that is corruption free .... a train station for heavens sake. Why are we so bad.... and a lady for that matter.... disgusting.. totally in support ofthe Minoster here. She shoukd have been instantly dismissed. The job market is saturated. She will not be missed at all.

Boeing's fault.... according to some nitwits.

quentin06:
you should ask yourself that question? Boeing is being banned all over the world, the quality process that was used to certify Boeing aircraft is being audited in the US, an airline that truly cares for passenger safety will wait until the outcome of the audit instead of launching an unsafe plane.

but off course , ignorant people like you make their day.

You are the ignorant one. Its only the Max 8 and possibly 9 that is being pulled. Boeing manufactures several other model aircraft in massive quantities. They remain the biggest aircraft manufacturer and have been top dog for decades except for a few years in the 90's when Airbus made more planes.

And for your information the Max 8 in question is the latest iteration of the famous and massively successful Boeing 737. The 737 is without question the most successful passanger aircraft in history. Every airline that has ever existed has bought one at some stage. Over 11,000 have been made since introduction several decades ago and over 4,000 are still flying around the world. It is the Toyota Corolla of the aircraft world. Somewhere around the globe a 737 is either taking off or landing every five minutes round the clock. It is the cash cow of Boeing.

And because it is the most successful it has enjoyed the most variations and upgrades (more than 12 variants) and because it is the most successful it has engaged the most research and development. Boeing has continued to push the boundaries to improve efficiency and this push has fonalky caught up with it.

I can understand, appreciate and identify with that because I push boundaries myself everyday to stay ahead of my competition. I take massive risks on my products and projects. I donot always play by the conservative books and try to rewrite the laws sometimes. You have to, to become a genius, to be different. It can go wrong and there is a price to pay, but it is worth it.

Boeing is a success. The world will keep it that way. One failure does not define a destiny.

Catastrophe1:
We are all sleeping on peace airlines. I remember my last trip to Banjul they were the only airline with affordable fare to Banjul morning flight and their customer care are very responsive and friendly.

Affordability and air transport are not symbiotic. Please we need to tread very, very carefully here. Budget airlines should be the exclusive preserve of developed nations that have the financial capacity, the technical expertise and managerial acumen to pull it off safely.

In Africa as we have often seen budget procedures naturally means corner cutting. The cost of doing business remains high due to lack of capacity so quality naturally suffers when pressure is placed on prices. We have seen buikdings collapse, roads erode for this same reason.

There is simply no way an African airline can charge less than a typical American or Mid Eastern airline without something giving. You simply cannot comoete with an airline having 300, 400, 500 planes simply on scale alone. You know, I know that if you operate a single taxi cab you cannot compete with a firm commanding a fleet. You will either have some ground breaking, cost saving idea hitherto not known to man or you will be digging your grave the way all Nigerian airlines have done since independence, offering unrealistic, unsustainable ticket prices that bankrupt them within a decade after the usual cost cutting induced tragedies.

Only Dana has survived this and this is because they were more than just an airline.

Nigerians must be prepared to pay properly for services to create a sustainable industry that will serve them for generarions to come and help develop the nation.