₦airaland Forum

By 2019 everyone will be demystified, period.

tstx:
11months salary is bin owed workers and kogi is still standing... why God, why are Nigerians cowards. What happened to the culture of protest in this country... All things being normal all state workers for suppose come out enmass shut down the state with a protest... but they'd rather stay at home and take their problems to God in prayer

Most are stunned to silence by the disastrous choices they made at the polls in 2015 and cannot come to terms wigh the failure of the dividends to show up after so much hope. I told them then that strong institutions were the way to go but they preferred idolatry. This is the result and the shame of such bad choices oft drives them to do unthinkable things. We who knew how things work in Nigeria viz how nations are built, having been crying for restructuring were more prepared than them because we knew no fundamental improvement will happen under this structure. Without oil prices hitting the dizzing heights of 2012 - 15 (which is unlikely long term) the fortunes of our economy and public finances thus salaries of civil servants will not improve fundamentally.

Weshould all cast aside our preferences, religious and ethnic sentimentality and do what is right to hold government accountable not just to repair but to fundamentally restructure this country. A CALL FOR RESTRUCTURING IS NOT A CALL AGAINST THE APC OR THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT BUHARI. IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO TO MOVE NIGERIA FORWARD.

Nice one but he's lucky the mafia does not do robberies if not...

Eaa247:
for the fans of Murphy IJEMBA, d radio paparazzi dat was formerly wit BRILA FM u can check in the new station, Max Fm

He left Brilla ?. What happened.

autotrader014:
To all the APC members suffering in silence yet can't complain because of party loyalty, accept our heartfelt condolences.

hmmm .... indeed. Between a rock and a hard place called the PDP.... but I didn't say Aso Rock.... just rock

Vado:
Lol...the nerve of these guys.

I tell you. Power is worse than vodka on the body. More like ethanol down the throat. You begin to garble bull before passing out and then a certain death. Such is their fate.

NaijaMutant:
I'm not saying that the girl is a gold digger o

But I think the girl has just struck a gold mine

She's now a gold miner

Soon to be a widow at what age. If some could only consider their acts for a while instead of placing glass ceilings over their lives and destinies.

Letslive:
100% RIGHTLY SAID.NOT JUST ABEBOYE OR WHATEVER THEY CALL HIM, ALMOST 99%.
MY BRITISH FRIEND HATES GOING TO CHURCH CUS OF THESE FAKE AND ENDTIME SO CALLED MEN OF GOD WHO CALLED THEMSELVES AND BE FORMING THAT GOD CALLED THEM.
THEY DON'T PRACTISE WHAT THEY PREACH AND ONLY PREACH WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR. Bleep THE 99% AND KUDOS TO THE 1%.

They didn't write the bible and ask you to follow God not themselves. What is so hard in that..... oh yes, faith. Christianity is a faith not an unsolvable mathmathical equation.

PierreDeFermath:
but the anointed can touch your money as they like abi? abegi,leave Falana baba Falzi alone,let him keep spitting the truth he came to this world to spit

You give your money to a government you do not like, probably did not elect to do with it things that eventually oppress you. Yet you don't have any problem with that... but when it comes to the kingdom of God its despicable to you.

Yes, they are in the business of creating God's kingdom here on earth. Jesus said, 'I am about my Father's business...'. Christianity is more than serious business. It is biggest venture any man can undertake. What is his own ideal image of the church by the way.....

NGO - they are big businesses today and have to be to be effective....

Seminaries - they are being converted to museums and archives everywhere.

What exactly is his idea because if you are not at the cutting edge the devil who owns the world will overrun whatever you think you are doing.

Dangote should have a life sized portrait of this at his front office of 'how not to make it through life'. Across the pond the whole lot of them will be under criminal investigation for a myriad of slave labour offences. These are folks who employ all manner of aids to get better productivity than this and still live far longer than us. Pity.

DutchBruh:
Does it mean the sense of shame has been completely lost in this country by people holding positions of trust in and around government? How do you reconcile that some highly-placed individuals can come out to say there were no issues of contract awards raised by the Minister of State Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, in his leaked memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, who also doubles as the substantive Petroleum Minister? The broad day lies being dangled by the government and its agents to change the actual color and content of the leaked memo - is it not outright corruption in itself?

If the arrangements previously referred to as Offshore Crude Oil Processing Agreements (OPAs) and Crude-for-Products Exchange and now known as Direct Sale-Direct Purchase Agreements (DSDP), are not contracts for crude oil lifting in exchange for imported petrol and diesel, what are they - cha cha (gambling) abi?

What exactly is transparent in a deal where crony local companies obviously connected to politicians in the ruling party are paired with multinationals simply to collect rent and share with political elites in government?

Just see the fumbling of a mendacious bunch: Kachikwu, in his memo, alleged that Baru awarded contracts worth about $25 billion without recourse to the board, or Federal Executive Council (FEC).

Buhari ordered Baru to respond to Kachikwu’s allegations. The NNPC boss, in his original response, did not deny awarding the controversial oil contracts but rather insisted that he does not require Kachikwu’s nor the board’s approvals to enter into such contracts which are part of daily the running of the nation’s apex oil concern.

Spokesperson to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, either was pushed or willingly accepted to announce that his boss, Prof. Osinbajo actually approved two of the controversial oil contracts while the president was attending to his ill health in London. The Vice President came out few hours later to deny what his spokesperson said and disclosed he never approved any oil contract but loans for Joint Venture cash calls which is even an entirely different story and a discussion for another day.

The last scene thus far was that the Presidency last Sunday, totally dismissed reports that $25bn worth of oil contracts were awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), saying, “a closer look at each of the said projects indicate clearly that these are not procurement contracts.”

Is this story not becoming increasingly interesting? First version, Buhari signed the contract while in London; second version, Osinbajo signed the contract; latest version, Presidency says there is no contract anywhere. Haba! How did we get to this point in the governance of this country?

Even Baru admitted awarding the controversial contracts, while Osinbajo clarified the role he played. So how come spin doctors are coming to tell us there were no issues of contract awards with the associated fraud and corruption thereof?

As my Warri people would say, Bros see explanation by the Presidency: “When you look diligently at the referenced projects/transactions one by one, you will see, as NNPC has shown, that none of them was actually a procurement contract. Take the Crude Term Contract and the Direct Sale, Direct Purchase (DSDP) agreements, for instance, these are not procurement contracts involving the expenditure of public funds. It is therefore wrong and misleading to refer to them as though they’re contracts involving the expenditure of NNPC funds, or public funds of any sort.” ‘Chai, who do Nigeria this’?

You see our country! So Kachikwu lied in his memo; Baru lied in his initial response that Buhari approved with dates the contracts while in bed in London; and the vice president through his spokesperson initially lied or made a mistake in saying he approved two of the contracts? Couldn’t it have been better if Nigerians were dished with one turn-key corporate lie rather than these pockets of unintelligent rations?

How could the presidency say there were no contracts procured by NNPC based on the leaked memo by the Minister of State for Petroleum? Saying that such impressions were maliciously created was an outright insult to our sensibility as a nation. Did Osinbajo not read Kachikwu’s letter with the itemized sub-headings under contracts? Was it maliciously created by the press or the opposition? Was it not Kachikwu who in his memo described these deals as contracts? So the minister does not know what a contract is? How can you then turn around to say it was maliciously created by the press and the opposition? The deals highlighted under that heading, if they are not contracts, what are they- cha-cha?

The fuel subsidy scam of the Jonathan era, were they not mostly crude oil lifting deals similar to these ones by Baru? And you are telling us these are not contracts. Any business transaction between entities more especially the government is a contract because there are contractual obligations to be fulfilled by the parties and profits/benefits to be derived from such arrangements.

Ibe Kachikwu listed concerns up to the tune of $25 billion and the only thing Baru and the Presidency could do is to paint a cover up. If Osinbajo agreed that he signed for Baru some loan deals for joint venture cash call obligation, how much exactly did he approved and what percentage is the approved money (loans) in the $25 billion sum total of the secret contracts? How much is the vice president’s approval covering for these scams? As the VP has agreed he approved N640 billion which is just about $2 billion for JV cash calls, who approved the balance of over $23 billion for Baru and his NNPC?

Saying that these contracts are not about public funds is outright rubbish. It is not about public funds, it is about deals that has remained the drain pipe of the massive corruption in the NNPC and the entire Nigerian oil sector. Does anybody get into a deal without expecting to make profit and it is in these “profits” that our oil monies have been stolen massively by those in and around government. So by telling us that these deals are not paid for in cash is simply insulting our intelligence.

A lot of these deals are paid for through crude oil liftings. You ask a contractor to come and lift the oil equivalent of his money in the deal, is the contractor going to discharge the oil in his recreational swimming pool? Is he not going to sell the oil to make money to cover his expenses and profits? Everything we call corruption in Nigeria come from deals like this where people in and around government build-in their criminal interests rather than our collect interests as a nation.

Meanwhile, the substantive minister of petroleum who should take responsibility and account to us what really transpired has remained dead silent on this matter.

It will shock Nigerians to know that what is involved in this racket is over 600,000 barrels of crude oil on daily basis being picked by international traders in exchange for imported petrol and diesel alone. This is the same NNPC that wants us to believe that the nation’s three and half refineries have been working at over 65 percent cumulative capacity utilization.

Now that the bubble is bursting in the ongoing fraud, the NNPC has come out to inform us that the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries have been shut down for Turn-Around-Maintenance. Has it ever happened in this country that the three plants will be shut down at the same day for TAM and does it even make a sound engineering management sense? The truth is that the refineries were not working in the first instance. That a plant is flamed -up like what Kaduna does daily does not mean it is processing anything. Of course, how can our refineries process anything when it is more lucrative in Nigeria to do deals and collect rents. God help Nigeria!
http://saharareporters.com/2017/10/19/nnpc-25bn-secret-oil-deals-and-buhari%E2%80%99s-dissonant-lying-game-ifeanyi-izeze

Exactly what I was saying. Thieves everywhere you go. I told them severally to burn down that NNPC. That it will ruin any masquerade in anti corruption toga. See now.

I still insist intercity rail links remain the best way the transport sector can help grow the economy. Presently the high cost of transport makes our economy uncompetitive for production, consumption, imports and exports. If you had medium speed cargo trains and high speed passenger trains then it doesn't matter where airports are located and the technology to build and operate rail systems are far less demanding than air transport which is proven over the years has little economic momentum of its own. Nigerians are clearly not strategic thinkers by nature. Very few know how things actually work in developed societies.

2019 and the run up will surely be eventful. If the APC by any chance allows the PDP return I see a bloody vendetta of truly horrific proportions. We should play politics objectively and maturely abeg.

This is bad, really bad.... bringing the church into disrepute.

Oh my goodness. Not children. This is bad. Really bad. Nononono...kai. The parents will be inconsolable. My heart goes out to them.

[quote author=Tamass post=615keys71502]Just take a look at the environment...chaii![/quote]hmmm....the folks who litter and denigrate the environment are worse vectors than the monkeys responsible for the latest health carnage.

tyson98:
24 bawo this one wey don old like the land of Galilee

Abeg. Am wearing a white shirt and drinking ma afternoon coffee. Don't cause me problems you hear....hahahaha

MhizzAJ:
Only in Lagos

You mean Barbaria...

Much respect sir. Farewell.

SolexxBarry:
Hmm dats one of d reasons I can't do without a nanny when I get married

I think you read that the baby won't let her be. I suppose this includes allergy to house helps and nannies. First day at school for this one will be season three of prison break .

Possesive little terrier. You wan mama out of shape for her real man eh.

Smart, strategic move by Tinubu. Make alliances along the western front and mop up all resources potential political invaders will have at their disposal when the 2019 battles begin. Let us see where APC-CPC division will perch in the west.

chesterlee:
Governor of the people!!!

future President!!

hahaha...of which country abeg... abi na future Real Madrid president.

Hunger is fast dehumanizing folks in this country, turning them to animals daily. I mean for a grown up lady to steal biscuits is almost close to the 'eating from the dustbin' cliche of the late Umaru Dikko of the Shagari regime. The fact that she could be so dehumanized for that shows the shop owners are no better placed economically. Gone are the days you go follow your parents to the shops and receive a free candy from the attendants. Whether we like it or not, this country is on a downward spiral. A terminal decline only restructuring can slow and halt.

'.... saying anything you like' is taking a shade at Fayose who has jumped the gun in the 2019 presidential race much to the irritation of his party not exactly known for its internal discipline. Seems this recurrent disease will be the Achilles Heel of the party once more at the polls. So sorry for them. Wasted two years of huge political capital that is the ruling APC's floundering at every turn.

Teewhy2:
Is that a damage control or was the Twitter account hacked? . With politicians you never can know when they are telling the truth.
Gov. Rochas even called me today that he wants to make a status of me at orlu roundabout but I told me he should give me half of the N520 million he will use to do the status while I stay there myself.

Teewhy2:
Is that a damage control or was the Twitter account hacked? . With politicians you never can know when they are telling the truth.
Gov. Rochas even called me today that he wants to make a status of me at orlu roundabout but I told me he should give me half of the N520 million he will use to do the status while I stay there myself.

Its bedtime mbok...don't kill me wit rafta....hahahaha

Middle belt and misgovernance sha. The region is like the skimmer of a swimming pool.... where all the political debris gathers to be evacuated... perhaps its has something to do with the rivers Niger and Benue.

Senator 'pepper dem' in action once more...just love it. More pls...

Even the Senate President couldn't get him into a suit.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but just for fun, who has watched the GodFather series... Hope the good Mr. Ibe will not wake up with a frothing horse head on his bed

Oven fresh steak and kidney pie.... Thin crust... anyday.