₦airaland Forum

brightmexy:
since Buhari did not say it withhis mouth then it will be better we wait for him to declare the asset by himself because tomorow u and Buhari will deny this declaration as u are denying this one

Yesterday's statement was issued by the president's spokesman in response to all the "100 days miracle" proponents. It was clearly stated that the full asset declaration will be published by the CCB after all verifications are completed. The full CCB document should contain the finer details of the assets that everyone wants to see. If it doesn't, then we can shout.

Till then however, I do not see the point of all the unnecessary debates and i will not be dragged into one.

All I asked for was a proof that Buhari claimed he was living in a rented apartment in Abuja during the campaigns. Provide one if you have it, or move ahead in peace.

staymore:
GEJ never did because he was not ready to deceive the same people he was leading as a President.

During the APC campaign Buhari publicly said he is leaving in a rented apartment in Abj, now he has declared one.

The questions is "did he just buy it after becoming the President?

Do you have a video of Buhari saying he lives in a rented apartment in Abuja? Or can you at least state what state he was campaigning in when he made that claim?

Thank you for posting this video. I have the full video of his session at Chatham house and I have been looking for a way to crop it to this portion that is relevant.

What the President tried to do in this interview was to manage the overtly high expectations of Nigerians that all of Nigeria's issues will be resolved as soon as he gets into office.

He was saying that Nigeria's issues will be resolved...but not with the wave of the hand and definitely not within 100 days. He went as far as describing the 100 days target as a fraud that he would not like to be involved in.

I think we all should exercise some patience and give this government some time.

Lagos = Eko = Oko (Farm)

Benin = Bini = Binu = Ile Ibinu (Literarily "Land of Anger) = Ubinu

I leave the rest to the discerning mind.

Suffice to say that Nnamdi Kanu is either ignorant or deliberately twisting history to suit his agenda.

This is another allegation in Fashola's ongoing trial by media and as usual, Nairaland has ruled him guilty until proven innocent.

Hate him or like him, one thing I know about the man is that he is too intelligent to award fraudulent contracts and then have them published on a publicly accessible website.

I wait for Fashola's usual well worded explanation of the latest allegations.

Like Buhari's pre - election travail, if Fashola's hands are clean, God will see him through these trying times. He will come out clean and his detractors will only have succeeded in making him more popular.

Only silly mischief makers like the writer of the article will claim they are unaware that the BBOG campaign is still alive and well...but then we all know there are a lot of silly mischief makers in our country nowadays.

"PDP Nomination Form" you mean?

@ Barcanista

Sometimes in your attempt to sound very intelligent to your adoring fans, you come across like one of those half educated village teachers who mouth off grandiose words whose meanings even they don't know, to the awe, cheers and adulations of the village maidens. You pen these really long essays which end up proving or saying very little if anything at all.

With all due respect to Bishop Kukah, what is the difference between a Probe and and an Investigation I have taken the liberty to research both words and found as follows...and I do apologise ahead for the length of this post.

Probe[/size][size=8pt]
prəʊb/

noun: probe; plural noun: probes; noun: space probe; plural noun: space probes

1. 1.
A blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body.
o a small device, especially an electrode, used for measuring, testing, or obtaining information.

2. 2.
A thorough investigation into a crime or other matter.
"A probe into city hall corruption"
synonyms: [b]investigation, enquiry, enquiry, examination, scrutiny, inquest,exploration, study, research, analysis, scrutinization
"a probe into alleged financial irregularities at the club"[/b]

3. 3.
an unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transmit information about its environment.

4. 4.
a projecting device for engaging in a drogue, either on an aircraft for use in in-flight refuelling or on a spacecraft for use in docking with another craft.

verb
verb: probe; 3rd person present: probes; past tense: probed; past participle: probed; gerund or present participle: probing

1. 1.
explore or examine (something), especially with the hands or an instrument.
"hands probed his body from top to bottom"
synonyms: examine, feel, feel around, explore, prod, poke, check
"hands probed his body from top to bottom"

o enquire into someone or something closely.
"what right had he to probe into her personal life?"
synonyms: investigate, conduct an investigation into, enquire/enquire into, look into, study, conduct an enquiry/enquiry into, examine, scrutinize, go into, carry out an inquest into, research, analyse, dissect, search into, delve into, dig into; More



Investigate[/size][size=8pt][size=8pt][/size]

ɪnˈvɛstɪɡeɪt/

verb

verb: investigate; 3rd person present: investigates; past tense: investigated; past participle: investigated; gerund or present participle: investigating
1. carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth.
"police are investigating a claim that the man was beaten unconscious by a gang"
synonyms: enquire into, look into, go into, look over, probe, explore, scrutinize,conduct an investigation into, conduct an enquiry into, make enquiries about, try to get to the bottom of; More
o carry out research or study into (a subject or problem, typically one in a scientific or academic field).
"future studies will investigate whether long-term use of the drugs could prevent cancer"
synonyms: enquire into, look into, go into, look over, probe, explore, scrutinize,conduct an investigation into, conduct an enquiry into, make enquiries about, try to get to the bottom of; More
o make inquiries as to the character, activities, or background of (someone).
"everyone with a possible interest in your brother's death must be thoroughly investigated"
synonyms: enquire into, look into, go into, look over, probe, explore, scrutinize,conduct an investigation into, conduct an enquiry into, make enquiries about, try to get to the bottom of; More
o make a check to find out something.
"when you didn't turn up I thought I'd better come back to investigate"[color=#000099][/color]


Please notice how both words are used recurringly as synonyms of each other.

Seeing therefore that both words can and are often used interchangeably, why then do Bishop Kukah and the OP want us to believe that one is supposed to occur before the other just so as to cast doubts on the war against corruption embarked upon by the government of the day?

engineerboat:
Sometime one begin to wonder how we reason, The question is did GEJ government purchase this Jet or Not

Ok hold it bros. Those jets are Alpha jets and the NAF has had them like forever. Those weren't procured by the GEJ administration.

GEJ's government indeed procured some choppers for the NAF as stated by the former NSA. He also procured some tanks and such other hardware. The navy also got a look in with the delivery of 2 ships donated to us by the Americans. Then there were 2 or so locally built gunboats for the NN also.

Still far from desirable given Nigeria's global status...but definitely not "Zero"

atlwireles:
This is the Buhari we know, so no surprises. Only the facebook generation , will be worried by the statement. Unfortunately for him and his almajiri sai chanters this is not 1984.

Even you?

The DIA at no time in the past or present had anywhere near 100,000 operatives on its pay roll.

That false claim already calls into question the credibility of the other claims.

The next few months will tell if General Monguno's appointment was a masterstroke or not.

Until then, I say kudos to the President for taking his time to effect the change of guard at the Defence headquarters.

FAYOSE DRINKING PALMWINE AT APATA GANGAN JUNCTION!!!

FAYOSE RIDES OKADA TO FOOTBALL VIEWING CENTRE!!

FAYOSE EATING BUSH MEAT AND ROASTED YAM WHILE PLAYING DRAFT WITH HIS PEOPLE!!!


Please is this governor working at all or just faffing around? When will we begin to see headlines of Fayose commissioning roads and other public infrastructure?

I admit I know very little about the progress the state may have made under Fayose so please correct me if I'm wrong: Is Fayose running a government of "feferity" in Ekiti State??

Good to probe the past...provided it is done with a view to mapping the way forward. If that is not the case, then the probe is nothing more than a witch hunt and a bloody waste of time.

Governor Wike is known for his brash tactics....but I doubt if even he would go this far or be this petty. This is probably the handiwork of a senior official of his cabinet or the party out to settle personal scores with Madam ex commissioner.

It would be a great shame if the governor actually ordered this unlawful act.

I was quite taken aback by WS' write up on the bill. It was clear to me that he'd either not read the bill at all or had read a distorted copy. I'm happy the ex - senator has respectfully responded and I hope the Professor will retract that article with full apologies.

Between churches, mosques and beer parlours, Lagosian are slowly going deaf....

Mosques are no better. There is one right behind my house with horn speakers facing every direction. They make so much noise even very early morning.

The annoying thing is that if you peep into the mosque, you will see only a handful of worshippers inside the mosque so I always wonder why they need such a loud PA system.

Used to be quite a bother but I have lived dere now for so many years that I've kinda gotten used to the noise.

LASG needs to enforce the law against noise pollution.

The PDP had the opportunity of taking the Senate. All that was needed was for one PDP senator to nominate a David Mark or any other ranking senator from the Party and it would have been a clean sweep. What those renegade APC senators did was akin to a dangerous game of Russian roulette. Thankfully, the hammer slammed home on an empty chamber this time...but like every true gambler knows, it is only a matter of time before it all goes south. Senator Saraki needs to use this recess to mend fences with his party before his treacherous act comes back to bite him in the behind.

otiigba1:
dont be a hypocrite, its okay for people to die from tanker accident but not okay to die of alchohol consumption? One would have thought that its most importantly about saving lives, so in your book some lives are more important than others... come on! MAN! am sure you can do better than this, i think coca cola should be banned too it kills more

Ok

ebamma:
Nigerians in many states have died from tanker and bus accidents, he should also ban tanker and buses too

A bit obtuse of you to compare alcohol to fuel actually. But since i must break it down to you like a 5th grader, we cannot do without fuel so we have no choice but to continue to mitigate the negatives that come with making it available. Ogogoro on the other hand we can do without.

Hate David Mark or like him, he was a very good senate president. He and Tambuwal had those brigands in the Senate and HOR on lock down through out their tenure.

If all else fails, I won't mind seeing him back in the seat of the Senate president. I would rather he than Saraki with his vaunting ambitions.

naija2dabone:
The Rivers state House of Assembly has paved the way for the state Governor, Nyesom Wike, to dissolve the local government councils reconstituted by the former Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, six days to the end of his tenure.

The assembly, in its sitting on Monday, declared the May 23 council elections in the state illegal and passed a resolution directing the state governor to dissolve the state Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC).

The assembly also directed the governor to sack the state Judicial Service Commission (RSJSC) for its role in the protracted crisis in the state judiciary.

The resolutions came after principal officers of the RSIEC and RSJSC appeared before the lawmakers following their summons.

Twenty-nine out of the 32 members of the 8th Assembly took the resolution after grilling the officers for hours, about their activities in the commissions.

Speaker of the House, Ikuinyi Ibani, who stated that the assembly would remain "thorough, fair and clear in its proceedings", divided the House after the submissions of the Leader, Martins Amaewhule, and his deputy, Lolo Denabari, that the officers violated their oaths of office.

Ibani cautioned: "There are certain things you don't have to let to occur while you hold a position of trust. It is my belief that any decision we take on the floor of this chamber is true and in the best interest of the state. It is not witch-hunting. The documents we have showed a different thing. We must deepen democratic values as lawmakers.

"Going by the resolution of this House, we do resolve that the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, is hereby given the power to remove the members of the Rivers State Judicial Service Commission (RSJSC) from office.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rivers-assembly-declares-local-govt-poll-illegal/211483/

I doubt very much that the Rivers States House of Assembly has the power to order the dissolution of the LG. Methinks only the courts are empowered to do that. I may be wrong....

ejobona:
I hope the law is not meant to enrich the law enforcement agencies who will close their eyes to the unauthorised manufacturers because of stipends and start chasing innocent consumers.

Both the sale and consumption of ogogoro is banned. If you are caught consuming ogogoro, you are not innocent.

Nigerians in 2 states have died and have had their deaths traced to ogogoro consumption. Government both at the state and national level has done what any responsible government should do....protect human life.

It is hard to believe that there are actually people here that see something wrong with this move.

But then again, this is Naija....where common sense is in short supply.

Mogidi:
Nigeria is a free country, why should Christians not be allowed to drink alcohol because it offends the sensibilities of Islam? Rubbish!!

You can ban alcohol in the North but do not meddle in our way of life over here.

Bros try sell am na make oskee hand touch you.

Mr. "Christian" the ogogoro drinker.

Shame no even catch you to talk dat kin tin. Way of life my big black ass!

dtruth3:
The much talked about change has come, what more could be said that hasn't been said already during the campaign. "i will do this, and i will do that; just give us your mandate and things will automatically change for better"
Prominent amongst them is the promise of ONE SQUARE MILL FOR EVERY NIGERIAN CHILD EVERY DAY!

But barely 24hours after our mandate has been given, the story has changed!

The story now is...
*We need time, things will not happen over night.

Inasmuch as time is required, but the question is how much time, does the proponents of change really wants from Nigerians, before they can bring the magic wand promised during the campaign?

Note: there was no time request during the campaign, the change proponents painted a picture of an AUTOMATIC change once voted in. It was based on this Nigerians voted.
Now its been days, and running into weeks, yet no sign of any change in place. No mill for our children in schools as promised, not even a half pack of Indomie is prepared for them, instead it's still business as usual, or even worst than before.


#Babaonechance give us Our daily mills!

The word is "meal" and not "mill" please!!! Haba!!!

The man never said he was poor.

Been a man of modest means does not necessarily mean you are poor. Even if we do not yet have a clear idea of what is contained in his asset declaration form, we do know by his own admission that he owns a thriving farm in Daura with at least 150 heads of cattle. We also know he owns at least one house in Kaduna and another in Daura.

We also know he draws pensions from the army as a retired general and from the government as an ex-president. We also know that he was a rallying point and enjoys a lot of goodwill in the northern part of the country. That does not strike me as a man who is poor in the true sense of the word.

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Firefire:
[size=18pt]Scandal: Buhari’s declared asset close to N900Million,but allegedly borrowed N27Million from the Bank to be able to pay for his nomination paper as a candidate..”[/size] —Dr. Wumi Akintide


I am predicting that the Buhari Government are going to have the shortest honeymoon with Nigerians and many of their ardent supporters in the mainstream and social media and rightly so. Unless Buhari changes his current lethargic and snail speed approach to governance, he is going nowhere but down to put it bluntly.

There is no way Buhari is going to meet the huge expectations of Nigerians if he continues to drag his feet and simply look the other way all because he wants to be too careful and painstaking in taking decision. I know there is a limit to how much we can expect from a 73 year old man who is probably going to fall asleep or take a fall climbing the steps like 90 year old Robert Mugabe has been doing lately to the total embarrassment of Zimbabwe because the man does not know where to draw the line and call it quit.

Nigerians fully understand that Buhari is not a Houdini or Professor Moshudi Peller, Nigerian greatest magician. Buhari himself has tried to lower Nigerians’ expectation on that score because he probably knows his limitations. Some of you might think it is too early to start passing judgment on Buhari but I am going to do it because I care too much about the man because I knew him in his prime as an incorruptible leader with very low tolerance level for corruption.

I was a little bit taken aback when the man recently declared his asset. It was close to 900 million Naira. Here was a man who had to borrow 27 million from the Bank to be able to pay for his nomination paper as a candidate. Nigerians now know that the man is far much richer than he wanted Nigerians to believe when he started his campaign. That asset compared to any of his peers like Babangida, Sani Abacha, Obasanjo, Abdulsalam Abubakar, and Ebele Jonathan has to be viewed as only a drop in the ocean. I sure get that but I am still a bit surprised. The asset he declared was done like the old one where he could not be charged for perjury or over-up if he or his Vice President had lied in the declaration. It was nonsense pure and simple…

I am aware that other African leaders like Mobutu Sese Seko, Houphet Boigny, and Emperor Jean Bokasa were far much richer in their life time than most of our leaders, but you still have to wonder how our leaders plunder their countries to get richer the whole country. Ebele Jonathan the shoeless canoe man of Otuoke is almost as rich as Bill Gates or Dangote today if you add the wealth of his power-drunk first lady.

I fully understand that Buhari who has voluntarily dropped his title of a General in the Nigerian Army is proceeding with great caution because he does not want to look like a dictator or being blackmailed or stigmatized as one by the PDP, and even by some elements in his own party who want to act and behave like the PDP did for 16 years of total impunity and recklessness in Nigeria

I concur that Buhari needs to proceed with caution but caution is one thing and lethargy, sloppiness and foolhardiness belong to a different kettle of fish for a man who was a former Head of State for 20 months from August 1983 as a military dictator. They constitute a different ballgame and for a man who has sought the office of a civilian President for 12 consecutive years and should have been fully ready to know some of the things he wants to do, and some of the individuals he would need to get the job done. He ought to have known what the Nigerian Constitution would permit him to do with the consensus of his party majority in both Houses of Parliament. He does not come away now like a man who has gone thru that baptism of fire and conviction. He does not look to me like a proactive President right now. He looks like somebody waiting to react to events as they occur which is not good enough.

You accuse the man of owning a property worth 2 billion naira in one breathe and accuse him in the next of declaring assets with almost a billion naira. Please make up your mind already.

BERNIMOORE:
so also the president and governors are not immune to trial and can be joined in lawsuits, the topic is focused on the nigerian soveregn immunity enjoyed by kashamu here in Nigeria which makes his extradition as a senator more difficult now

Bros, sovereign immunity clause only covers the President and the vice president and the governors and their deputies. Mr. Kashamu as a senator....even if he becomes senate president, can and shall face the courts and be extradited to face justice if necessary.

BERNIMOORE:
no immunity clause for a Nigerian bonafide senator? How old are you before I come back here to post the clauses from our constitution.

Senators are not immune from prosecution while in office. Mr. Kashamu shall have his day in court very soon.

Even at the 11th hour, President Jonathan still doesn't get it.

As always, he makes everything that befalls Nigeria and Nigerians about himself. He sees every situation as a ploy to bring down his government and adopts a "siddon look" posture until the issues escalates.

That was how it happened with the Boko Haram crises, the Chibok girls, the ASUU strike and now the current fuel crisis. Even if you conclude that the issues are attempts to "sabotage" government, shouldn't a responsible government move to rescue the situation and evolve proactive measures to forestall future occurrences?

Naval choppers rehearsing for the swearing in ceremony...nothing to worry about.