₦airaland Forum

If he's the naija guy doing the goal celebration on the Supersport raggae flick 'champions' then he's cool. But what's with the recurring injuries to our forwards. Uche, Osaz, Martins, the guys at Everton, Hoffenheim sv, and just left Portsmorth what's their name now and even the super villan Yak the Slack, all before the ripe old age of thirty.

I think it all depends on location and more importantly what you use the net for. Some want speed (transporters), others need stability (gun slingers), while others need reliability (hairdressers). I tell you no provider has these in absolute terms. I've tried most and the GSM operators score lowest, the independents overrated. I left Starcomms a few years ago and today I'm back. Guess the green grass theory again. Very unfortunate all the abandoned hardware.

Ibro Yaya:
I strongly agree that inec needs more funds, but this is as a result of the unprofessional manner the whole exercise was handled at the beginning.
Jega didnt do his homework well before commencing this exercise.  There should have been  a proper forecast of the exact time it will take to complete the registration. This would have been done by conducting a mock registration  to checkmate all the hitches in the process before commencing the proper exercise. If these were done earlier, he wouldn't have been asking for extension or more funds.

The fund should be given to him, because we just have to get this process right. Jega should be more professional.
This is just registration . What of if the main election comes? will be asking for extension or more funds?
Jega learn from this experience and move the nation forward.

I don't quite agree with you here. Pls refer to the pictures posted by Violent on page 1. If I'm not mistaken are those not INEC materials dumped in a heap in full view of the public. Are they not supposed to be items of high security value. If someone drives in and helps himself with a truck load what will Jega say. Accountability and probity is non existent here and Jega does not deserve a cent more, credible elections or not. We should not accept a gun to our heads because we think INEC alone can guarantee credible elections. This waste has got to stop. If he feels he is serving this nation, then he and his men have to roll up their sleeves, work hard and make the necessary sacrifices for that to happen. They should not milk the nation dry because of our desperation. Utter rubbish. Free and fair elections ko, fee and fare elections ni.

safari SA:
@ Dranoel,

Thanks, at least i have a confirmation from my side i am not a loner on this position

@Reference

The best challenge, criticism of my position came from you, kudos. and you know why, your position was devoid of abuse, toxism and slander of character. On that note, I add your opinion to mine and I will keep weighing the 2 (mine and yours) till April, even though PDP is not a consideration for me, even If Buhari & Ribadu join the party

@Limaoscar,

The problem I have with you is you cannot discuss issues without abuse. and I think it is you that should take learnings from @ reference. Intellect does not recongnize abuse, use of foul language. I follow you no where, Mr or Mrs.  Ramblings, needs to up his intellectual bla bla, completely clueless, are not good words used in intellectual discourse. people come here to discuss, not to attack. It is with the same 'ramblings' I have won to the side of Buhari, people at senior managerial level in my office - a multinational, mutibillionaira, alcholic beverage company. so while you see them as ramblings, some see them as convincing enough, it is your choice. maybe you are a director in a company, and the intellect at that level overwhelms that of my office.

Thanks Safari SA that was very sweet of you. A breath of fresh air. Now that Ribadu is in the picture I think Nigeria has the best ever shot at redemption. Though I believe the structural problems in Nigeria today are the foremost challenges we face and the presidency going to the south-south is fully justified, you simply cannot ignore the attraction of a presidency of progressives led by either Buhari or Ribadu. While Buhari may bring experience to play, he may carry excess baggage as well in addition to the much vaunted anti-corruption posture which is a 1983 version long outdated. Ribadu on the other hand is young, dynamic and perhaps carries the updated anti-corruption anti-virus. Version 2008.

Most of us really resent the ruling PDP. It is a hotbed of all manner of evil practices and none that dine and wine with them can claim immunity. Its just that they are at the cutting edge of change. If Nigeria will change they will be the big game players. We are happy with what happened at Eagle's square. I repeat all political parties, all politicians of goodwill and Nigerians in general can feel inspired that peaceful change of the old order is possible. Let the ACN, APGA and other parties feel  that Nigeria belongs to them as well. For now let us peg our noses to the PDP filth and hope for better down the line.

Cheers

safari SA:
Limaoscar!

only an illerate, ethnic bigot will naturally transfer allegiance from Atiku to Buhari, even Babangida will dare not. And it is even encouraging that we use Atiku but we can't find a corrupt adulterated name for Buhari. He remains Buhari, no stains!

Hmmm Safariman, easy on this Buhari "whiter than snow thing" He is not averse to corruption. He may be a great disciplinarian but when you begin to flog some issues you might just awake the memories of those who are perhaps a bit older and remember what happened when he was oil minister, then the period he was C-in-C and later what transpired in the PTF. Believe you me there was a lot going round. By today's standards he may be a saint but he is not absolute and remains untested by the deep rooted 2010/11 version of the corruption virus.

I personally don't have anything against the man but I think in the present scheme of things we have to permit what happened in Eagle Square yesterday to run its full course. Whether we like it or not the issue at hand is the North-South political chasm and what GEJ proved is that a Southerner can stand toe to toe with a powerful northern political heavyweight on an absolutely hostile basis and win. It has destroyed the psyche of many who have felt for ages that Northerners own power and give it whenever they want. Don't get me wrong, Northern delegates voted GEJ but we know they have more political millage to cover in breaking with their traditions and beliefs to do this. We hope the days of we "gave" OBJ was the Presidency are gradually receding. The maturing has come where GEJ has fought for it and succeeded. The final quantum shift will be when a Southerner will ascend from nothing (outside government) to become. Perhaps that is when the technocrats and the whiter than whites will have a genuine shot at changing this country.

GEJ may not be the best man from the South-South or the south for that matter but what we saw In Abuja last night was a nobody, a bloody civilian, from a minority tribe in a marginalised region contesting and beating the established order of political thought. That is our victory. So Safariman do not feel hurt. His victory is for all Nigerians. He may not be as white as Buhari but we will take structural change first then seek perfection later.

Thanks.

euomenka:
yes, what we call kwangala
like this

Is this ancient Rome, Ephesus or the hanging gardens of Babylon. Even AIG no go insure this one oh.

On a serious note why are people getting so worked up here. Someone advised someone to cut his coat and the fellow is upset. We know real estate generally appreciates with time, the obvious exception is abandoned projects. They depreciate, total waste of money if you cannot complete your project within a reasonable time-frame. Build what you can afford, start earning income and move to the next gear.

By the way in engineering the prime consideration is safety. Functionality comes second. Cost is the third consideration. You do not generally ask whether x amount can yield y product. This puts professionals involved under unrighteous pressure turning them to non-professionals and in Nigeria this is a recipe for problems believe me. The right question should be what can x amount get. Engineering differs from manufacturing in this regards.

Ha, for 15 million you will get a minature pyramid of Giza complete with six self contained burial chambers. A simple analysis dividing 15 mill by 8 flats by 35 or 40 years ROI (depending on taste) will give you what you are permitted to earn as rent pa.

50,000 per annum for a 2 bed block of flats will fall flat that is why I suggested a pyramid first. Too low.

And please do not build with occupancy. It is unethical and very, very dangerous. Believe me. If the cash is short, scale. Go for something small like poultry cages. You know singles or studios. You will always get customers and the type you can handle without 'you will hear from my lawyer'.

Another idea is to partner with a like minded developer and entrust ownership to a reputable Estagency to manage.

Cheers, goodluck.

No build pyramid or anthill oh.

Absolutely yes, we want to know every titbit about banks and all bankers not just ICB. We want to know what they say, what they think, what they eat, das right, even when they go to the can we will send the tissues for analysis. If and only if I had cared to act on contents of the flip side of the so called rough sheet that was given me at customers service to present my details for a transaction enquiry, which turned out to be an Inter-bank memo, I would have promptly closed my account there and sold all my banking shares. But I just laughed at the memo when I got home thinking it was just impossible. Those were the days of awards and the season of ratings. Well the rest is history. My portfolio was cut into three. Madam and pastor took one third each. Thank God for deposits bailout or not.

My friends I will never, never again ignore any information about banks no matter who says it and no matter which bank is involved even if it belongs to my brother.

Until we develop a culture of honesty in this country you and I better live by sight not by faith. Let those who profit from these institutions labour to win trust. They owe us that.
For all I care the fellows flushed out may be stubborn non co-operatives perhaps bent on whistle blowing. Who knows.

If Pat wants to be considered a credible candidate then he requires a complete overhaul, a kind of mental retrofit. We can see from the VWN and PHB experiences his ability to influence corporate decision making is highly questionable. If you cannot do this in a board of say ten to fifteen, how do you handle a five hundred strong house, this three hundred tribe clap trap, a hundred and forty million hungry people. This is the reason his type are at home with smaller parties of distinct character where his limited political and inter.relationship skills cope. Unfortunately the bulk of the electorate will not understand how and why such purported competence is not popular.

A better balance between intellect and politic is needed from him. You place honesty and intellect on the table. I will pick honesty any day. You can always find competent men and women anyday.

At the risk of sounding unsympathetic the events leading up to the shooting were somewhat unfortunate. Maybe for those who have not been to this country or stayed away since independence the police is hardly an enigma. We know what they are and what they are capable of so why don't we rather expend our energies debating reality in the form of survival and defensive techniques.

The fellow was attacked and his friends moved in to support. People who truly understand the police will predict nothing but an escalation of the situation with few possible outcomes. I tell people no matter how right or on the side of the law you may be, the only two things you have as assets when faced with a situation are time (to assess the players involved) and money to buy your way out. Nothing can compensate for life or limb. If you do not have the money to buy your way out immediately then you better take your chances getting other policemen involved (the law of numbers may work for you).

If I was the fellow I would have told my friends to stay back and follow if I'm taken period. I would go to them and make an immediate assessment. If they are pliable I will call for back up. If they are not then I would seek other cops who are. It is obvious that if the police have officers with any virtue whatsoever they do not deploy them on the streets and in contact with the people they are meant to serve.

My friends don't argue with a man with a gun. This is a simply and over-flogged cliche.

Sorry, you can't regain trust in any relationship. Its one of those things that are beyond human.

He, he, he. Una no read the one for yesterday 'Punsh'. Gofme wan sell Olorunsogo and Omotosho for buyout deal to Chinco. Wetin hapan. Workers for NEPA the leper no fit handle am. Dey say efritin dey write am for chinco so when chinco write 'off' leper go put am 'on', when chinco say 'up' leper gown push am 'dowm' and the plant wan dabaru.   .

Messed up government run by dummies. Kai, this country is a comedy series. Unfortunately the tickets are becoming unbecoming. Since coming in after the holidays a good part of my two days spent in Lagos has been between the gas station, the generator and the change over switch. Wishing you guys the best o!!

You're angry . Caveat, peruse the breakdown of the bomb with your physician. Honestly speaking there must be a resident evil in government houses that defies logic. This is an institution that we expect should be independent. With these types of demands how can you be independent. How can you be independent if you cannot fast to be lean and mean. They want to be like the executive and enjoy the profligacy of the house. They want to drink the wine of fools yet remain gods. Well there goes the elections, I guess it is now up to us to fight for this one.

The principle/policy is right, the execution has been very flawed. When I returned from my holidays and saw the advert in Punch a couple of days ago I was a bit skeptical about the outcome medium term. In the first instance if the Lagos state government wishes to make concessioning, PPP or private ownership of government assets a policy framework for infrastructure delivery then it has to establish an agency to regulate such activities. This agency will be saddled with the responsibility of setting technical benchmarks, regulating tolls, interfacing with the public, etc just like the NCC (should be) is doing for telecom operators. It has painfully become evident that the executive arm of government and by extension Tinubu/Fashola (whoever is governing) is too close to the project or its patrons for Lagosians not to suspect some degree of collusion. Clearly good roads are required but the principle must be understood not absolutely enforced. I could not remember people reacting so negatively when MTN entered into the market with cut-throat prices on inception. I think this was because a lot of pre-launch work had been done in protecting the end users after-all in any business the customer is right. I sense here some sort of artificial shielding of this highway investor (if truly it is) by the powers that be. If this is he case you may then ask what happens if and when the governor or the party ceases to be in power what happens. This should be the concern of all stakeholders. So it should be regulatory body first and investor interface second. The investor lays out his plan the people counter it and a balance is struck. Right.

As for those who condemn the principle of private partnership/ownership, concessioning, whatever they should understand one thing. When the days of oil is over and cheap undeserved money is gone then we will understand what it means to build a society. I am not backing the government because the more money they ask for the more accountable they will have to be (which is a good thing for us, and which is why I was again vindicated albeit annoyingly by this 'never allow the flash point to be reached' phenomenon amongst our willy politicians who will always place personal interest over ours) but we need to develop the culture of paying for things and ASKING FOR A RECEIPT. If I do not want to pay for roads I may as well decline to pay for power, water, fuel, education, etc because in various societies round the globe some of these services are virtually free. We simply cannot afford free stuff in Nigeria. We are very poor and poor people should work hard. You cannot buy your way out of poverty by subsidies just as Americans have found that wealth cannot be sustained by credit. Lagos state is poor. It is a big man working in Shell with sixteen children. What you have now is a governor who has tried to cut his coat by giving away one of his children, the most advanced one to work so he can cope with others. He reasoned that Lekki has a large population of mid to wealthy individuals who may be able to cope. Tell me fellows do you expect him to concession a road in Bariga (no offense intended).

Finally taxes are great if most people pay, the rates can be adjusted easily and they can be collected quickly, but this is not the case. Secondly you simply cannot build or maintain infrastructure on taxes. The draw down is simply too powerful. Someone says he pays three million per annum. That is commendable but the fact is that how many pay up to that amount anyway and when you consider that three million will probably overlay 250 metres of single carriage at base price the picture becomes clearer.

Good principle, very shaky and uncertain practice.

He must complete the job he started. Break the old order and change the political equilibrium in Nigeria. Power shift not rotation. The only other person who can do this is Abdulsalami but he is not an insider. So for the good of this country he is going no where yet.

Eziachi:
Not until Nigerian get a leader or leaders ready to live by their salaries or live even moderately poor, things will never change. It is impossible for some one with ambition to be rich to fight corruption, as he cannot have the clean conscience required to do so because he has his own skeleton.
Buhari/Idiagbon succeeded to a certain extent because they are both not materialistics persons, hence they can go after someone without having to feel guilty about their own skeleton.

Quite true but that is where phase two kicks in. After those two the establishment realised in order to prevent a recurrence it will do one thing. Crush the middle class, weaken education and depress the bottomline and I tell you what this would do. Split collective reasoning. It is only the middle class that can work independently of government. The top patronizes them for wealth and sustenance, e.g the Dangote's, Bergers, etc. The bottom would do anything to survive even physically carry the loot to the aircraft as they escape for stipends.

Now for the middle if you severe education and opportunity they become empty barrels, lots of noise, no power, no influence. That is why IBB went after both the middle class and education with equal venom. That is why private universities are promoted at the expense of private ones. Control. That is why (sorry to say so) the north does not have a middle class and is a dead wing when it comes to education despite the billions appropriated and stolen by its leader sons. How can you check bad leadership without these two pillars of society - the educated and the liberated (financially). It is deliberate. That is why they say the north is unified and politically weighty. Sure, there is no discord, no views, no opinions just plain old feudalism. It is the south I pity. You know the taste of food but are deprived from feeding. This is worse. But all these are known factors.

The big question is how to get out of the cycle. How can we like Eziachi say resist the money bug. How can we see the cheques they send from government house and if we cannot stop it, make a copy and send to AIT, EFCC, Wikileaks or CNN instead of smiling and expecting a tip, then coming here to moan and moan. HOW?

Haba, so if the PDP fellow is of a better character, has a better manifesto and a track record to go with it. So if the electorate trust him, it is taboo all because he belongs to the hated party. Kudos to those who preach equity here. Me I know no person nor party, just the common good for all. And I know one way to ensure it. Allow political pluralism. Power corrupts and the more powerful the ACN becomes, the more corrupt and inefficient it will become. With an all conquering ACN, cross-carpeting cannot be avoided and those who do wrong will still find their way to power. We cannot have it both ways.

1. You can chose what school you go but you cannot chose what is taught you, if you press yes, but you cannot chose who teaches you, if you insist, fine but can you cannot chose how you are taught.

2. If you want someone who thinks and acts like you, then you might as well marry yourself. I'm sure his nose is different from yours so how do you expect his brain (a far more complex organ) to be the same as yours.

3. Anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger, wiser, richer. You are the only one I know who wants to remain weak, dumb and lean.

4. The law of relationships states that 'a union (of any type: marraiger, business, religious, political, etc) only works when one party is prepared to be cheated, short-changed, undermined, cowered; and remains in that state with a broad smile. Anything else is from James Cameron.

5. Love is giving and not getting.

6. Marraige is not trading where both sides seek an advantage over the other. In any case who said you are losing. If the ship cracks up today who gains, who loses.

This is one question I have been asking in other words without much of a credible response. Perhaps because I love practicality and it hurts somewhat. Once again for example, where were the average, hardworking, ethical, professional bankers looking when the pastor and madam were robbing their banks, great institutions they collectively built, eh? Did it have to take the incarceration of that young man for Tafa Balogun's misdeeds to be exposed. James Ibori, Lucky Igbinedion, Bola Tinubu, Joshua Dariye, etc endless list. Shell petroleum, Julius Berger, Dangote, PHCN, Nigerian Customs, the Judicial Council, etc. The list is endless. If you work in Nigeria, I mean earn an income in this country, you perhaps could lengthen the list and perhaps are of have enabled someone corruptly enrich himself, transfer loot, hide it or expend it positively or negatively. For which you have benefitted directly or indirectly from the transaction at the expense of someone else or the society in general, KNOWINGLY.

I really want to know the extent of social (not legal) complicity and I once asked the question, if I was dispensing burgers at a stall having made no sales that day whatsoever and James Ibori (no pun intended) walked by with a ten dollar bill for a coke what will my response be. Or my sister was engaged to his cousin will I gladly break open a bottle of Moet on the happy day. You see these are the questions we face daily and have to come up with the kind of responses that match or rhetoric and most of all desire for change. If I can't help it I may as well not talk about it.

Unfortunately what annoys me most is that the structure of society is such that the flash point (the point where people wake up and realise what they are doing to themselves by aiding this corruption vortex) is never reached. For example. IBB pressed and pressed, when the thing was about to explode he let go, the carnage remains, institutions are still in their infancy but we are just glad to have a democracy (in name alone) so we let him live. The NLC will protest and hang on, when someone in government realises that the lid on their jumbo salaries and pipeline for their ill-gotten wealth is about to be breached they let go and the masses return to the offices to push files, that ultimately push the loot to Geneva. And here you are wondering when we will ever stage a protest on mismanagement or financial injustice.

I personally think Nigerians and perhaps blacks in general are great individals but no doubt when it comes to what makes for a functional society we are pretty useless. Call it a legacy of colonization, something sown by the whites to make collective progress unworkable and you may have a point but except if it is uranium surely such devices would have decayed by now.

This is serious. Same price as an 06' E320.

Manhole ?? This one kinda looks like an abandoned WWII bunker. Not the right place for historical artefacts BRF, se the local museum instead.

Merry Christmas luv, wishing you and all the guys a great holidays and looking forward to a more positive new year. Just having a quiet holiday in Dakar. The weather's great, the beach is fantastic. My thoughts go out to residents of Jos. Remember the message of the season as you grieve. God will surely comfort you. Sometimes when things are this dark you know the sun is round the corner. Stay blessed. Cheers.

Chaircover dear, you've said it all. I mentioned it five pages or so ago. It appears these fellows are boyfriend and girlfriend not husband and wife. For one thing knowledge of themselves is zero, perception of their environment bad and communication worse. This marraige is built on quick sand. The type founded on fantasies, you know the riding into the sunset thing. The poor fellow doesn't know marraige is like being in a submarine diving to great depths. The world around is just waiting to crush it and the tinniest of leaks implode the whole thing. The bulk of men here confirm the sex thing is a huge challenge and someone is saying the man is/has/will fail(ied) his wife by admitting same and neutralizing the threat. Chaircover, if your man told you at that event, 'baby I'm under threat, let's get out of here' will you reply 'darling you have failed me, why can't you resist or I'm shocked you can be tempted'. That is crazy. These are not kids, they are adults that live in the same house and share a bed and you pretend to your wife that you are what, superman.

Ujujoan, I respect your point of view and the personality of your boyfriend but you are very mistaken and I advice DONOT push your luck. Become pro-active, start communicating fast, test his tolerances properly, and pee around to mark your territory. He may delete the memory of that girl for now but I tell you as a man, the recycle bin is never emptied. It will only take one disagreement, one rush of blood, one extra drink, one serious attempt by the lady for him to push the restore button. You ladies have your own vices and so may not understand the 'sex thing' but the threat is very real and is damn serious.

Those who permit their girls - inlaws, househelps, guests roam about the house wearing whatever they like are already divorced without knowing it. Who told you women don't know what they are doing.

Good coach, bad coach, these are very ambiguous terms. A Mac. F1 may be great in Saudi where the streets are clean and gas is cheap but will be a nightmare in Mushin (no disrespect intended) where the inner streets are not so great , mechanics are wonderful and gridlock masks its potential. So when comparing apples and oranges we should look not at the tools but the thinking. No whether I am good or bad but whether I did the right thing with the players I bought/trained, the clubs I managed, the opportunities I had and in Rafa's case the media and the club's president who was my boss.

In this case I will call him (Rafa) a very critical failure. And here I would compare him (permit me) to his more succesful nemesis Jose Mourinho. First and foremost if he was wise knowing he was stepping into a club that had just recorded unprecedented success he would have anticipated a blow back. The previous coach was well liked and left a tearful locker room behind. We have most of us experienced it. A popular and well liked teacher leaves and someone takes over. I tell you the new fellow needs more than technical skills to win over the hearts and minds no matter how professional those players are and their psychological state is a big, big factor in their performance. So what you do is to lower expectation on all fronts, and send the right signals to your players but no. The first thing Rafa did was to further disenfranchise his players with his incessant call for new players knowing this is a team that has been built for years. You donot 'change a winning team' is a saying that has a reason behind it. What he shold have done was to emphasize areas where he needs improvement without mentioning names. Mancini is another coach who is fond of picking on his players in public and most of them are not playing with passion for that reason.

Mourinho on the other hand did not reject any players he inherited. He rather brought in his own and injected them into the team leaving the Madrid management (technical director Jorge Valdano) with the unenviable task of trimming the squad (for operational, financial and regulatory reasons). Most players left on their own fearing no first team action. That is what yo do. Benitez is always blaming his squad for bad performances. This is bad. When Mourinho was thrashed by Barca he did not lambast his squad, the club president, the technical director or the previous coach. He rightly said 'his squad was a work in progress' and they were all learning. That is how a tactful, 'good' coach speaks. He said same the first season when Inter was dumped out of the CL., and see what happened the next time. By talking like that he bought the sympathy of fans, the press and earned the respect of his 'inherited' players and president Moratti.

Benitez should have distinguished his approach from that of Mourinho as the reason for the slow start because that is the truth. They are from different schools of football so the players need time to understand his own culture just as Jose has to purge the 'Galactico' culture out of the 'Merenges' without destroying the fabric of the team. It simply takes time. I understand the part reason Benitez had not operated with a full squad was because a number of players were getting frequently injured due to his training regime which they were not used to. Then he turns around and says he needs new players. That is simply disgusting. Its like an award winning teacher comes to a new school and sacks his class after one season because they cannot pass. Haba what is his job.

I am not saying coaches donot need to make changes but the good, better and best ratings are proportionally administered in any sphere of human endeavour to those who achieve the most is the shortest possible time using the least resources available. On this basis we can rate Benitez, Mourinho, SAF, Mancini, Arsene Wenger or even Samson Siasia.

Thanks.

I disagree with those reaching for the escape hatch. We have perhaps over three hundred languages and dialects in Nigeria of which english fortunately or unfortunately is accepted as our lingua-franca. It is not the language of my ancestors neither is it of yours but we must if we have to communicate. Now we know communication is critical for public office holders so her office/staff should be aware of the grave implications of not getting the message across effectively. Blimey, people will be laughing their heads off at the expense of what she says. This is a big minus to her social bank, a big no, no in my opinion. I can't confirm this but some seem to have noticed an improvement in her speaking or speech making over time but when you consider the period her husband has spent on the political stage - I would start from his position as a commissioner to the presidency - a good six to eight years now ?? PCMIW, how can you justify this. I hardly call this progress. Please, please, please, let us not call English a borrowed language. It is our language. Do we expect her to speak to Nigerians or the world in Ijaw? And if Angela Merkel, Sarkozy, Medvedev, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can learn and communicate in english Madam First Lady has no excuse whatsoever. For goodness sake she wasn't born before the British colonised the Niger.

Well I think all the time (over ten years ) was enough to determine the extent of his complicity. Whether his actions were philisophical or spontaneous. Then based on sound evidence a proper trial conducted. I mean if the push for his incaceration was by those who believe in human rights and democracy then I expect the moral and legal foundations on which they stand to be severely undermined. I can't imagine how you can justify this sort of thing.

Out of sync however, if the school of thought that says you're legally liable for your bosses actions is correct and credible then we are opening a real pandoras box in our society that could potentially deliver us from many, many societal evils, primarily the don't ask, don't see, don't tell attitude and I will be rubbing my hands in glee hoping the next stop will be every bank worker that aided those executives steal and siphon billions abroad, those workers in oil companies that aid their bosses bunker stolen crude, those personal aides of politicians that snatch ballot boxes and print fake results on their behalf and the very police orderlies that shield them, perhaps companies offering services would be required to verify the state of their clients before advancing goods or services. You know you could go to jail for selling James Ibori a bottle of beer at a pub when you know his income is questionable.

Wow what a rush.

One of the most enterprising initiatives. Kudos to the LASG. If they won't obey let them pay. I tell you Nigeria can be run on the proceeds of law enforcement alone. Who needs crude oil. Crime is one big resource and we all all in control.

Guy if your woman has no clue of your sexual tendencies and/or prefrences then consider yourself in courtship not marraige and should you consider proceeding without a structural change in relations you are a sure candidate for divorce no matter how you straddle this.

With all the women walking around the streets naked you both fail to communicate. You don't watch movies together, read magazines, haba wetin you dey call this.

Sorry COMPAQ your request is simply impossible, whistle blower, for where. That is why change is so, so slow in Nigeria and revolution nigh impossible. I asked this question months ago, no reply - bad topic. We get inundated with cries of injustice and we are perpetrators, unwilling collaborators. The case of the airline you describe is just like banks. No single banker out of a job today saw or heard evidence of wrong doing, massive wrong doing until Sanusi. No one in Oceanic or Intercontinental saw or heard the CEO's transferring massive amounts illegally. Madam and Pastor did it all alone from their bedrooms eh.

It is either these bankers have questionable insight into their profession or were willing accomplices to these crimes. I could remember complaints about some of those banks by fellow forumites on various issues of maladministration months before the crisis but they were repeatedly shouted down and asked to 'produce evidence' like EFCC does when it has a vested interest in not acting. Well the evidence has finally come and na poor man dey suffer.

It is the same reason why the NLC will continue to strike for all the wrong reasons - money instead of accountability so that when the money comes mismanagement steals it back. We need to change that attitude and develop the courage to react. When the man down the street emerges out of nowhere in millions he is probably doing so at someone's expenses. We need candid camera in this country to develop the fear of wrong action. See what the British tabloid did to Amos Adamu. Can it ever happen here. If we inundate AIT with cellphone video of cops at checkpoints, or customs officers turning a blind eye or government workers trading in their offices or PHCN staff tampering with transformers you can imagine the awareness that will generate, the lives it would change and perhaps the jobs it would save.

Good, let it fall. Why should you use export proceeds to prop imports instead of investment. This oil business has made us slaves. Its time to start looking inwards productively like the India someone has so illustrated.

Hmmm, THE ART OF WAR.

And the irony of the post is that the complaint against Arik is non-remittance of pension deductions when really its very rare to see anyone retired from the Nigerian airline business cos most fold up as quickly as they take-off. Though I hope to see the exception, the rule here is that the airline business cannot succeed in Nigeria no matter who runs it, owns it or finances it. If you urgently seek bankruptcy invest in aviation.