₦airaland Forum

Jorussia:
Thank u jor.crime happens everywhere and there is no country that robbery and murder doesn't happen.If it was Nigeria that the recent las Vegas shooting happened, people would have start blaming govt.

Don't say that. The American government takes a lot of stick as far as gun control is concerned and even the gun lobbyists will have one or two things to say about Last Vegas PD. Government taking the stick is a global practice. They are the custodians of law and order.

SalamRushdie:
Yes I did because I fell for the myth without doing my own research ..If I knew what I know now there is no way I would have voted for him

And it means four years of lost opportunity for Nigerians to truly develop. I said it in the run up to elections. That the only way to guarantee progress and all the lofty promises made by politicians is for the people to be enlightened and empowered. It is the guarantor that power does not corrupt leadership, but we chose to cast all our lot with just a single individual and elevate all our hopes to such dizzying heights issues are bound to arise.

because there is no individual aspiring for leadership that doesn't have a background and history. They are of a religion, a tribe, a social class, a geo-political zone so they will have allegiances and leanings and tendencies. You cannot build a nation on such sentiments. so the people have to be able of checking these by constant demands for what is right.

But that is all sold out and we can only hope the man will do what is right. But hope is not what a citizenry should have. It should have a right, power and authority. Afterall this is a democracy and not an absolute monarchy.

brainpulse:
Goats what did you expect him to say, when you heard he has called for a meeting with Kachukwu and investigation has not commenced.

When Trump was confronted with the allegations that his agric sec was flying private he had something to say immediately. He didn't wait for a meeting with the accused or accusers before speaking. Just rest it abeg. I have always said when you are embarrassed by a false flag the only option you have is to remain silent and let the ill wind blow over.

and by the way Trump is not know for being ethical nor did he win by flying an ethical kite.

The Biafran agitation. Are you a learner. They have been told to chill out as any further action will push Nigeria over the cliff. Why do you think there was no push back in the north, not even protests against Ipob, pre and post Python dance. They didn't want to escalate the situation. They know the herdsmen menace is one of the reasons for southern resentment. They know what they are doing. When the heat cools they will be back.

misterh:
The eroding of due process by the FG has been revealed by this letter. Strong institutions is the best way to combat corruption but with this kind of work setting, it will be practically impossible to build strong institutions.

Fighting corruption isn't about setting EFCC after offenders only.

That is why we say restructuring is the only way out and fighting corruption in this setting is akin to using insecticide in a swamp.... just a waste of time.

Bolustical:
These allegations are weighty, Mr. President needs to keep critics mouths shut by addressing this issue promptly and without bias.

It is about time the President took actions concerning the suspended SGF as well as former DG of NIA, Oke. Any inaction by the President will come back to haunt him in the nearest future.

God bless PMB.

God bless Nigeria.

Nothing will happen. Ask how many ministers or military administrators that served under Buhari from 83 to 85 are in jail and today all of them dead or alive are multi-billionaires. Incidentally, including the husband of a certain ex-petroleum minister under investigation or supposedly under investigation. Abeg leave matter for toddlers to doodle about.

Thinking of Kogi, Kwara, Benue, Niger, Plateau and Nassarawa states and gently turning my head from side to side....which one of the drama kings do we want replicated at the national stage.....but how come we have had two presidents from not only one geopolitical zone but from one state, Katsina in the space of five odd years or so. Can Nigeria stomach another Ijaw president from Bayelsa even if he came from heaven with an angelic cabinet and divine mandate.

TonyeBarcanista:
Well, NNPC GMD, Petroleum Minister and Minister of State are political appointments. So, a lot of interest is involved and to politicians/interest groups, corporate governance comes second.

And interest is the corporate name for corruption. Can anyone be interested in a venture for which there is no gain. You can steal directly or by proxy and this is what most folks in leadership do.

When we say restructure it will put in place mechanisms by which those in leadership will jump through hoops to appoint complete strangers.

Who doesn't know Kupolokun stole for OBJ, Denzaini stole for GEJ and Baru is stealing for PMB. It is the system that guarantees corruption and it is the system that must be changed.

TonyeBarcanista:
Here is the catch...

NNPC GMD is the Boss in NNPC and all its subsidiaries. Petroleum Minister is the Boss in the Petroleum sector that supervises the NNPC and all other parastatals under it and ensure they all comply with government overall policies and directives.

The NNPC GMD is Bari

The NNPC Minister that supervises Baru is Muhammadu Buhari...

Kachukwu, the minister of state is more like a minister without portfolio. Yes, he carries minister title but in reality he supervises NO ministry. All he does is do as delegated by the boss- the minister.

Hence, the GMD can decide to work directly with the minister while the Minister of state whines like a crybaby. Pushing Kachukwu to minister of state was a "smart" move to have Baba and his kinsman control the sector.

Before you scream tribalism, this is like a norm in Nigeria....

Presidents always ensure that their kinsmen take FULL control of oil sector

When Obj was President, he was the Petroleum Minister and Gaius Obaseki, a kinsman of Stella Obasanjo was the GMD.. In his second term it was Funsho Kupolokun that was GMD while he remained petroleum minister.

Yaradua appointed Rilwanu Lukman (North) as Petroleum Minister. His NNPC GMD were Mihammed Sanusi Bakindo an Abubakar Yar'Adua

GEJ appointed Diezanni from Bayelsa like him as Petroleum Minister though he was "fair" to concede NNPC to the North

So what has changed from government to government. The same corruption theme runs through them all. Indeed by 2019 everyone will be demystified.

Rozaytee:
so if there is not water in d house dats now an excuse for a water closet to turn pit latrine abi...dere is no how dey cant get water to flush toilet...even if its to buy..dey are just dirty pple

Without running water it is much more difficult to maintain sanitary systems. They just go bad quickly. But this is terrible nonetheless.

Good thing my dinner is long digested.

By 2019 everyone will be demystified.

Can you imagine this. As long as you were actively involved in government you must give account of the power and privileges enjoyed. Nominations, contracts, lobbying all attract scrutiny. Not to talk about all the financial impropriety. Madam if Obama's wife did a fraction of what you did her husband will certainly not have finished his term in office and you will have long been in jail. The fact that you are not is just because of the covering your husband provides and the desire not to overheat the polity by a gentleman's agreement not to hound past leaders. The best thing you can do is to endure it till the end of the administration in absolute silence. For you to live a normal life now is just wishful thinking. You caused it.

theguvnor:
No Northerner?
This is marginalization.

And the first comment has to be racist.

naa...those crocs must be made of Styrofoam....what da...

Tecno66:
This are supposed to be private medical history. Whoever leaked this is unprofessional.

What is leak about that. The club conducted a medical and that is the result. He is a public figure and the club will have to answer to its board and its fans why it cannot (or can under certain conditions) sign the player. What should they have said....that he had a migrane or is high on crack.

Most sportmen who have had similar issues had their reports released by their teams', management company or agents. As a matter of fact if such details are hidden and later found out the club or team can sue the athlete heavily for damages because it pays a lot of insurance on behalf of the athlete.

When Kanu had the heart problem Internazionale Milano did not hesitate to disclose it. Who wants trouble. If Eboue collapses on the field tomorrow the club is in soup at autopsy.

Chuvin22:
And he/yu have to just conclude he got it through sex becos it's the most common.

Yes. 9 out of 10 cases come via un-protected sex. That is definitive enough to call HIV a sexually transmitted disease. More than the average person who contracts it made sex.ual errors.

yeyerolling:
Not a death sentence. Guys abeg stop nigga raw o

Career wise, perhaps. At his age, definitely. For someone who was not a Ronaldo, Messi or Tiago Silva, most certainly.

Stupid report. Does this look like a tow. Has the reporter opened dictionary before. The reading culture is just lost on this generation. Their life begins and ends on social media.

What happened. Drink, drugs or disease.

Must be like Nigerian magazines..... flashy covers.... then..... daz all.... straight to the puff-puff vendor.

GetMeRight:
Typical educated illiterate, probably from the southern region. Mr ITK.
A senator can remain in the Senate for a long time, if his people believe that he's representing them well in the Senate.
When people keep their representative in the NA for a long time, it is not always because they are poor and/or illiterates.
Check that attachment below.
1. 51 years
2. 49 years
3. 47 years
4. 46 years

See what I say. May you never come here to complain about anything your country is doing against your sanity since you insist on burying this show of shame.

If you frown at restructuring and scowl at those who want to chart a new course for themseives and still have the audacity to come here and grumble, then you need deliverance because you are an active shareholder in his life project and co-owner of this drifting ship called Nigeria. You should just smile and go to bed.

kjhova:
As we speak, at least 300 "Catalunyans" lie in various hospital beds as victims of the brutality of the Spanish state police. Many of the leaders who called this referendum have been rounded up and the referendum itself failed essentially. What was the point to these whole brouhaha again? To achieve an independent Catalunyan state or just to satisfy personal political chest beating?

No normal nation will willingly disintegrate. The state will be obliged to deploy all violent means to subdue the secessionists. It is the ignorant man in the streets of the so-called Catalunya or Biafra that will get smashed by security forces while their leaders "escape" or willingly surrender.

There is a lesson here for Biafrans (whoever are so-called). The much touted UN Charter on the rights of indigenous peoples is a doctrine set in the 1940s which no nation on Earth will ever commit her troops to enforce. There are many secessionist agitations on Earth and none has any serious UN support. The idea that the USA or the UN will eagerly back you to disintegrate Nigeria is borderline delusional and you must never blindly enter into war situation with Nigeria on such premise. Such foolishness has been contracted en mass before in the 1960s and then Biafra knly got support from dead and dying nations like Gabon, CIV, Haiti and Tanzania.

We have advised you before and will advise you again. Stop chest beating, quit the brawn and start utilizing your brains...and your agitation may one day see fruition.

Continue with the IPOB methods with tacit support from the many Abaribes in Eastern politics and realize only too late that such folly only brings death and destruction.

Just wasting your time. Read your history very well. There is none, absolutely no single desire for self determination that has ceased. If you think the Catalonians, the Irish, the Biafrans, Western Sahara, etc will go away, then you must be joking. Nations are held together by deals, not force or the threat of it. South Sudan left. The UK is leaving the E.U. What are you saying. It will never go away as long as the conditions which fuel the agitation remain.

Broke as.s country. If not for Messi, Ronaldo and Nadal who'd have heard of Spain. Sports must be like 110% of their GDP.

horsepower101:
This IPOB issue looks like it's not going away anytime soon. The little international support Nigeria gets is on the line.

Can someone tell me what python dance has accomplished apart from driving IPOB underground within Nigeria?

I rather face an enemy that I can see face to face than one hidden and waiting to strike.

As a country we should have learned the fundamental lesson from boko haram that the killing of a movement leader is not the same as killing an ideology.

Only God knows what will happen in the coming months to years.

How many times did we tell this government that lacks ideas on its fundamental responsibilities.

bigpicture001:
Obasanjo remains nigeria's best leader

The worst by a country mile. Read your history.

Nemesis1:
I argued severally that having less than or exactly 20k in account does not make you poor

Obasanjo farms was established in 1979 and despite OBJ being imprisoned his funds kept rolling in

But idiots believed he merely started his farm in 1999

He is a thief like all the others. His corruption portfolio is the largest amongst all ex-heads of state. Don't start what you cannot finish abeg.

So democracy is all about winning elections and amassing power. No single response as to what his government has been doing or not doing in the east lately. There is peace now.....so what, the agitations and desires of the peoples can go to hell.

Win elections and pay civil servants workers salaries, steal the rest. What else do they do.

Best phone ever. Must get a pair.

banmee:
You do realize you've not made any kind of sense right? There is a reason people wear uniforms for their profession. It inspires confidence and it does not create room from inconsistencies and cofusion. Why are you supporting what is obviously abnormal to everyone? Show me where in a normal society this kind of thing is done. And if i met a doctor at a children's party dressed as a clown i'd know we are at a party which means it is either a costume party or he just performing for the children for that day. Now if he's dressed as a clown in a hospital on a business day with no event happening i would have to scratch my head and wonder what the phuck is going on.

So what do you know is happening here. What certainty surrounds your conclusion about this unfortunate, hapless policeman.