₦airaland Forum

talk2rotman:
There is too much conscious or unconscious coddling
of graft by this President. If former Head of State, Gen.
Ibrahim Babangida, believes that his administration
should be considered an angelic being regarding
corruption compared to Jonathan’s, then this
administration must be the unrepentant Lucifer of
larceny and a dashing baron of daylight robbery that
ever existed in the annals of Nigerian history. We all
remember Babangida and his men. When the President
said that corrupt government officials will not see the
four walls of a prison under his authority, it was an
announcement that depraved minds will always have a
free pass with him. Incarceration of those adjudged
corrupt, Mr. President, is a very powerful deterrent for
those who steal public funds.

My dear it doesn't deter anything. If you want to use Buhari as a case study the facts are: there were scandals immediately they introduced the import restriction regime (or whatever it was called). If you were an importer and you had to see this person and that person it involved heavy bribery and several cartels in rice, cement, wheat similar to what we have with the fuel subsidy thing. The customs went haywire and many of the billionaire ex-customs officers were born then.

I admit this government has done next to nothing in tackling corruption in any way but if you think it will die down because a 'select few' are jailed then abeg lower your Buhari fuelled expectation. Nothing fundamentally changed in 1983-85. Nothing changed during the PTF years. The carparks and offices of Afri-projects resemble that of say NDDC today, like the floor of the stock exchange, trading contracts, privileges and rent seeking.

At the end of the day if he gets into power your excuse (and this is as certain as a central bank cheque) we will have heard before and it goes like this. 'IT IS NOT BUHARI THAT IS CORRUPT, BUT THE PEOPLE SURROUNDING'....when you see that things still do not work.

The change you seek is in collective values for the common aspiration of all Nigerians. Jail may deter the undecided. They don't change the criminal.

ChinemeOkpan:
Governor Amaechi is acting within the law

The stadium is not yet completed. A president with a so called PhD should know the health & safety implications of conducting a campaign in such a venue.

Unlike him and his cronies, the APC will not endanger the lives of Nigerians like he did with Immigration recruitment exercise. The APC values the lives of Nigerians.

The PDP can campaign on the streets like they have been doing so far.

In your haste you didn't read the part where it said your party has used it twice already. Even if work was still going on it will have been more dangerous then Mr. APC agent.

My take on these petty squabbles is simple. You simply reap what you sow. Two double terms of unbridled 'PDP in power' has set the stage for this. Even people now wish to return to Egypt and Pharoah Obasanjo when they see a very different President. It is the all-action APC that has cashed on this. Once more civility suffers but since people are so hungry, Pharoah appears a decent chap after all....and the viscious cycle extends.

torkaka:
NOTICE the cartridges painted in Nigerian police colours

Yes and I also noticed how 'sophisticated' they are or will appear to be in the eyes of a coward masquerading as an infantry man and in the minds of silly Nigerians who believe any tale emmanating from fifth columists ever ready to stroke their politically egos. Nonsense people.

Just look at the fallen, these are less than teenagers a grown a-rs.e soldier will be scared shitless to confront with an AK. What is indeed happening. I know. They see the bosses stealing and drving BMW's round Abuja and they prefer to live just in case it becomes their turn. So they refuse to fight but want to remain in the army, get promoted and perhaps a few medals courtesy of the likes of Fashola campaigning on their behalf. Useless people.

iyobs7:
PDP acting like kids mstcheeeeeewwww... Picking holes and fault with everything APC does, abeg make them face their campaign jare

Then better steer clear of political office because the honeymoon is over. Politics is about trading popularity for power, fiction for facts. Once the APC assumes power expect a rise in criticism. Opposition trash talk is cheap.

eleojo23:
Don't laugh o. He is very hardworking.
By the time he sells all the fowls (or the meat) and buys a car (probably) or becomes rich, nobody will remember that there was a time like this in his life.

So get busy with something that will earn you money too.

Started well but like everything Nigerian crashed at the end. You just confirmed that the will all, in all, for all, by all is money and riches. There is a better and higher purpose to life and living. I certainly won't do that if the only promise and reward was money.

Nten:
The revolution in Nigeria is starting from the military, a time bomb waiting to explode. If about 200 soldiers are protesting thier dismissal, about 40 challenging their unjust execution sentence and other mutiny offences because their senior officers pocket the money meant for sophisticated weapon and yet give them command to go and die. A trained gallant soldier pushed back to civil life at the peak of his career means danger to the populace.

And how many are they compared to the thousands in active service and in active combat. There will be casualties in any significant conflict anywhere in the world and rebellion within the ranks of any armed force any country can muster. It is human. Acts of bravery, acts of cowardice, acts of sacrifice, acts of revolt. Those who win will take risks. I repeat again. No soldier, airman or sailor in any force anywhere in the world did not wish he had better equipment in the heat of battle. Most armed forces grow to meet their challenges.

3,000 sailors and scores of ships were lost at Pearl Harbour and in the early years of the Pacific conflict no one could stop the Japanese advance. Many soldier diead, many rebelled but the American armed force stood resolutely, learnt, adapted and today is the biggest war machine ever.

They grew, they learnt through conflict, through many wars, through suffering, through loss not in peace time, not in plenty, and certainly not in rebellion.

Let those who want to rebel do so. The armed forces will outlive them and survive their cowardice. Prunning is necessary for growth. Their CO was right. Dismissing them at home is better than cowardice is battle. I cannot have a traitor, a coward fight beside me. That is one too many enemies to fight.

Nimen:
This is high treason the said soldiers should be identified and charged for treason, no matter what happens soldiers shouldn't come out to international news agencies and say anything without the approval of their leaders. This is why this country is the way it is. Strong head people everywhere doing things the way it seems right to their interests not according to protocols

When people are stronger than the institutions meant to serve and protect them this is the result. In Nigeria everything is personalised and we wonder why nothing works to unified interests but that of individuals. As the top shots steal funds meant for kits for personal gains the ratings sell the little that gets to them.

omenka:
People don't even see the bigger picture.

Tompolo has a subsisting security contract with the government for the patrol of our water ways and "importation of arms" (according to NIMASA).

Nigeria's army is underfunded and outnumbered, yet we hear trillions have been spent on defence!!

How much arms has been made available to state actors through Global West Ltd??

Who has been the beneficiary of the imports made by the company above when we are sure it is not NIMASA, the NN, the NA, the NAF, or the NPF??

Is Jonathan deliberately making the Nigerian Army handicap while he equips the militants using state funds through GWL


Think about it guys....

The military is an institution bigger and older than the government itself. Its hands cannot be tied by any individual in it. Stop all these irrelevant speculations. This war simply cannot be won by force of arms alone. It is ideological.

Ologunjude:
Over one trillion in defence budget in the last 4years. Where is this money bike? The governor of Bornu State complained one time that our military can't match BK and people shouted him to shut up. We have seen or soldiers fled to Cameroon and Niger. That's the result of corruption. It a pity people here are still defending this govt reasons best known to them.

No one is defending anyone. Cut through the clutter and go for facts. For example the military has a medical corps and some of the best equiped hospitals in the country and some of the best specialists working there. And they donot have industrial unrests. As for personal kits the army at least provides a standard set but a serving soldier can pay to have additional ones made for him which the military is always wary about due to misuse and abuse. Yes they keep kit circulation tight. These are facts.

Because they have politicised the conflict everything concerning military procurement and logistics normally clandestine to keep the adversary guessing is lost and we say we are not the architects of our problems.

mamagee3:
[color=deeppink]Nice photos!!!

She's lucky to have been there[/color]

She's much more than that. Diligent, hardworking and posesses an excellent mindset. All of us have one opportunity or the other and one gift or the other. Not one is born and dies empty. Maximise your gifts. Its more than luck.

That's where excellence takes you not squealing money, money, money, oink, oink, oink like some hungry piglet.

'See a man (or woman) diligent in his work. He shall stand before kings and not the hopeless masses going oink, oink, oink'.

Nihilist:
From where to Calabar?

OluObasanjo. That should be in Portharcourt. I don't think there is any one in Uyo, the nearest state capital to Calabar. And that is a four and a half hour drive on a good day.

blackbee:
To imagine this guy as our president is a nightmare. Nigerians should be careful with who they choose.
They should have fielded someone else to run vs Goodluck Jonathan.
The change I see that's coming is a change going anti-clockwise.. Beware

Like I said, we are always spoilt for poor choices and nothing more but he still remains the best candidate the APC can put forward. The truth is that the coalition of opposition groupings did not emerge early enough (say immediately after the last general elections) to enable proper structures and mechanisms to be put in place for a better candidate sellable on the national stage to emerge. If you pushed back the election by one year for instance I bet Buhari and Osibanjo will fall down the ladder of choice.

For now he remains the best foot forward and it can only be good for our democracy as it has shaken off the complacency of the ruling PDP which should hopefully translate to good governance for us all.

I am so pleased that the advocacy on both sides remains strong. It is great fun. Just don't let it get bitter and violent.

And yet they will deny that they are s-e.x objects and have an accentuated sexuality by default. Always concerned about private parts. Nonsense.

drlawizle:
I know of a choir sister that wears long flowing gown in the morning to church but stands at the bus-stop in Bubbles with the baddest mini-skirt ever using what she

possess to possess her possession in a possessed process..

Nutshell its whats in the heart that matters not all this hypocrisy....

It is the effect it has on others that people and the church is concerned about not what the state of mind and the intent if the wearer. In a nutshell, If you want to go to hell, please do so alone. Don't take others with you.

TreQuartista:
https://i.imgur.com/4WFYiZX.jpg

Not even close.

CR7 polled more than Messi and Neuer combined!

Double post.

TreQuartista:
https://i.imgur.com/4WFYiZX.jpg

Not even close.

CR7 polled more than Messi and Neuer combined!

And since no major senior international tournaments this years (if I'm not mistaken) the leagues and champions league will be the decider and for now Real Madrid and CR7 are riding high

Fair enough in the circumstance, certain better breeds than most of those there right now but once again, certainly not the best. We always have to stomach bad food in Nigeria, why?

Edusouls:
generation of lost girls, greedy to the core,huzzling more than men with all vices, looking for money to satisfy their endless list of wants and their insatiable greed for material things..example of this mutated type of women nowadays is this liar and a runs girl following a stranger to an unknown building after negotiation, runs went bad then we heard it, note that it was not her first runs,just that this one went baad and nearly took her life,..one girl with over a thousand friends on fb, more than 200 contacts on phone, 250 on wats app, 500 on badoo,850 on eskimi..chai black africans everything about us na total black..tufiakwa umu nwanyi...

You can say that again. Greed and sloth, a powerful cocktail of death.

Francon:
Mumu gals falling for cheap scam since 40B.C.

You must be a good risk taker. 18 story building and you survived it? Thank your God.

Girls don't seem to amaze me. After Cynthia's case, some girls haven't learnt. The kind of interrogations I will put you through before you see me. But its definitely not with a stranger. Trust me.

This one na long throat

'The kind of interrogations I will put you through before you see me....' hmmm nawa. Serious business.

Aystarz:
Well I bet Ivorien fans are watching this one, especially with Yaya Toure and their other superstars playing.

Yeah, making the botched Nation's Cup thingy much harder to swallow. It won't sell here at all.

natureblack:
In other news,Ivory-Coast vs Nigeria is still 0-0

In what...darts or crochet because believe me, no one gives a hoot. Nigerian footy is on sabatical.

natureblack:
I don't know what the hell is wrong with him .....his hunger for goal-scoring has diminished .

He was the Madrid raging bull for the bucks. Now he's got it...

xynerise:
Di Maria is lost in this game

Don't worry we will find his black box.

Olasoonky:
lol! 1 bag of cement ke...haba, guys dont weigh that much o.

Haba. A bag of cement weighs 50 kilos. Any man weighing that low will not attract a woman to marry.

Well Mr. Thompson this is a double-edged sword that may just become a tin opener to some pandoras box. Of course it is good and right to forgive but in Nigeria that is often what people lament about. That people do all sorts of things here and time simply erodes the evidence, the facts and the will to act in seeking redress. That it has been the singular factor responsible for recycling leadership and preventing the establishment of institutions.

Are you saying that in 30years all the 'sins' of the present administration be forgiven and GEJ be given another shot at leadership. We know that because this is a nascent democracy and the paucity of competent candidates has thrust Buhari on us but we also stand to risk it all if we cannot found principles now. It will certainly promote or sustain one form of impunity or the other.

Finally, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and a couple of other Latin American countries passed through similar situation, brutal military dictatorships that violated on the platform of nationalism and patriotism. Though they felt they were doing the right, their societies have not forgiven them and even today 40, even 50 years later, many are still going to jail.

It may not be our desire to see this because we have this x-factor that continues to plague our polity, society and country. That is, we are never, never, ever spoilt for choices. Rather we are always, always between and betwix having to choose the lesser of two evils. Always managing leadership.... Why?

Nothing wrong with it in the least. They are just having fun. At that age the child knows not right or wrong, cannot remember it ten minutes later and I assure you as long as breast feeding continues needs no further immunity from infection. Its positive. Its a go and is far better than the harsh treatment we see babies go through in the hands of their frustrated parents these days.

eleojo23:
We thank God for the life of these men.
While it is recommended that we listen to them, let us not idolize any of them because they are humans like us. They are not infallible and that's why the Bible remains our sure reference point with the Holy Spirit as the best teacher.

And if you notice, each of these men emphasize a certain truth in the bible and when you bring their messages together you have a balanced christian. So it is not advisable to listen to you pastor alone because he will only emphasize the truth which he has received much light on. The christian life is not only about deliverance from Satan and sicknesses, neither is it only about prosperity, neither is it only about dealing with sin nor any other thing that the preacher emphasizes. It is God's will that we be delivered from the hands of Satan and sin and it also His will that we prosper. So you see that listening to only one person makes you strong in only what that preacher emphasizes.

I believe that God has a purpose for giving each pastor a point of emphasis. He wants each truth to be fully developed so that his children can benefit from these truths. But most Christians fail to see the big picture and that's why there is inter-denominational 'war' and 'my pastor is better than yours' syndrome.

Like I said earlier, as you listen to them don't forget to test what they say with the Word not in the spirit of antagonism but in the spirit of one who is on a quest to lay hold on truth.

This is a fact that I've tried hard to reproduce. Indeed even the bible says it. The body has different parts. I listen attentively to them all. They have all inspired me and I am proud to say I have found myself in their congregations at one time or the other. God is indeed colourful and has beautified this country with his riches in these men we are privileged to have in this generation but so often mistaken. It is when they are gone we will realise how much God has blessed us with.

Raiders:
I am not been sentimental but been rational. in a football match, when the team fails to perform its the coach who gets all the blame because its his job strategies and control his team. GEJ is like a coach in a football team; he is the boss of the army for over 6 years so if the army fail to do their job he is to take all the blame. GEJ has failed woefully in terms of security and has failed to keep his oath to protect the lives of Nigerians.

So how many months or years are you willing to give Buhari to stop every suicide attack if he becomes President. Answer.

princemillla:
Wait ooooo, during Obasanjo regime... Nigeria sent soldiers to somalia to end insurgency in that country and it was victory. Same Nigeria is facing same challenge today and even our own hero army could not curb the challenge.... What seems to be the problem......


We want change in Nigeria.

Because Shekau holds a Nigerian passport that's why. It is much harder to kill your own citizens and reduce their homes to rubble. You generally have empathy for your pals who comit crimes don't you. C'mon even you cannot admit your political role models and benefactors are corrupt. Yes you. Have you ever asked yourself why you cannot deal with yours the way you deal with others oh Mr. Average Nigerian.

Alleinad:
Any Christian who votes for buhari is a traitor. APC wants to islamize us. APC want to make sharia law the only law in Nigeria. Let us not use our own hands to kill our fellow Christians. This election is a religious thing. vote for GEJ.

Except you want to make it a religious thing and you are able to make all Christians abandon their faith because of Buhari if not it is impossible to islamise Nigeria. And for your information, of the nine key leaders of Nigeria only 3 were Christians: Gowon, Obasanjo and Jonathan. Six which represents two-thirds were moslems yet Christianity as a faith in Nigeria is growing. Try another scare tactic. It doesn't work like that.

If you are a knowledgable Christian you will realise the key biblical scripture controlling governance is the one that says, 'righteousness exalts a nation (a body of peoples with common heritage) but sin is a reproach....'. This I believe is a law because it is old testament (given before the church age) so it applies to all peoples, nations, nationals and Nigerians.

If the people of Nigeria are righteous in good number and choose a righteous leader then the nation will prosper and God will be pleased. Remember He is the creator of all.