₦airaland Forum

APChit but why?

An2elect2:
He has lost already

u are very pretty


_{can we tlk?}

bulldoza:


while their gullible followers are still living in penury
Joke of a religion. smD

and the other religion is busy killing its followers in thousand

lalasticlala this is new

not that our millitary are not doing well, they are waiting for their 15th warning to boko haram

DETERMINED to meet the December deadline to eradicate Boko Haram insurgency, the Federal Government may have decided to boost current military efforts to defeat the group by enlisting the services of mercenaries from South Africa.

Anadolo, a Turkishbased news agency yesterday said in its website that the mercenaries, estimated 250 personnel and hired from South Africa-based private contractor Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection (STTEP), are being deployed along with fighter jets in Operation Fire Force.

This is the second time South African mercenaries would be employed to help battle Boko Haram militants. Reports had it that the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan recruited the services of the same group of mercenaries. The government then denied the reports even as a retired colonel, Eeben Barlow, who heads STTEP, confirmed that his group of “bush warfare experts” were recruited in “top secrecy” in January to train an elite strike group within the Nigerian army.

According to Anadolo, a source at Nigeria’s defense headquarters said

on condition of anonymity that “The mercenaries have been reengaged and their platforms are being deployed. By platforms, I mean fighter jets, helos (helicopters), coms (communication), surveillance, medics, etc.”

Inspite of the combined efforts by the multinational force to crush the militants, the group has continued to unleash mayhem on the northeast region of the country and beyond to neighbouring countries.

Daily Sun could not immediately confirm the veracity of the report from relevant authorities but Anadolu said the Nigerian military did not respond to its request for comment.

Also, STTEP did not respond to the news agency’s emailed requests for com- ment.Criticisms trailed reports that the Jonathan administration had employed mercenaries to help fight the insurgents. Critics (including the opposition) accused the administration of wasting funds on mercenaries while starving the military of funds and equipment.

The use of mercenaries to battle Boko Haram militants became a cam- paign issue in March when President Muhammadu Buhari (then presidential candidate) condemned the practice, describing it as “shameful.”

Asked why the Buhari administration is again deploying mercenaries, the defense HQ source said it appeared to be the most practical option if headway was to be made against militants whose guerilla tactics are new to the Nigerian military, Anadolu reported.

According to the source, the Buhari administration initially terminated the mercenary contract be- cause it was “opaque and without accountability”.

However, a new agreement was reached to boost the counterinsurgency opera- tion.

“As it stands now, huge amounts of monies are owed to the contractors as fulfillment for the previous engagement,” “So they are starting a new engagement for an initial period of three months. As for their out- standing balances, investigations are being carried out to ensure everything is above board.”

However Anadolu reported that Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, denied the government was engaging mercenaries again. “It is true that the previous administration hired South African mercenaries to fight Boko Ha- ram,” he said.

“They, however, left with the government that brought them. Since coming into office, this government did not have any engagement with mercenaries of any kind and there are no plans to do so,” Shehu added.

Siphiwe Dlamini, a spokesman for the South African National Defense Force (SANDF), said his country did not have any troops in Nigeria but could not say if private mercenar- ies were operating there.

“I wish to reiterate there are no SANDF personnel in Nigeria fighting Boko Haram,” he told Anadolu Agency. “If there are South Africans who are there as you allege, they are not our members but private citizens. I cannot comment on what private citizens are doing in any part of the world.”

STTEP includes veterans from the South African apartheid era who will work with and train a Nigerian strike force, according to the source. Another army source confirmed the development to Anadolu Agency. “There is definite- ly something happening in that direction,” the source said, again on condition of anonymity.

According to STTEP’s official website, the company’s trainers and advisers are drawn from “conventional, clandestine, and covert units of the pre-1994 South African Defense Force”. It claims to have a proven track record of success in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and Central and South America.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/fg-enlists-services-of-south-african-mercenaries-to-combat-boko-haram/

Saudi death toll will increase by one now

hmmm

Rashe:
4 real? Y dem com plenty 4 our area doing house girl?

rasheed is that u?

because ur tribal girls are so dirty to be considered

prettysolid:
This man definately takes good care of his family meanwhile The kids definately took their dads look.

typical calabar man takes gud care of his family


ladies take note

mttcheeew....comiting blunder here n there like a first timer

mttcheeeew....sad

lalasticlala

When Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister, took office in December 2012 for the second time, (he first led Japan 2006-7) he introduced some radical policies now referred to as “Abenomics” to awaken the economy of the Far East country which had suffered stagnation for about two decades .

As a doctrine, Abenomics departs from the previous piecemeal measures of past leaders of Japan and antagonises powerful political constituents in a country that was the second largest economy after the USA, until it was overtaken by China in 2010 and relegated to the third position.

From an economic recovery prism, Abenomics is an aggressive set of monetary and fiscal policies combined with structural reforms geared towards pulling Japan out of its 20 years long economic slump which she descended into after attaining soaring prosperity heights in the mid-1980s buoyed by a property boom.

Like Japan (although to a far lesser degree), the Nigerian economy has dropped from its lofty GDP heights of between four and five per cent a couple of years ago arising from buoyant international oil/gas price, to its current position of a little over two per cent and like Abe of Japan, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a bid to give the Nigerian economy a shot-in-arm, following oil/gas price crash, seemed to be poised to ruffle the feathers of entrenched powerful political blocs that have ruled the country since her return to party democracy, some 16 years ago.
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Despite not officially having a standing economic management team, to reflate the economy and pull her out of the brinks, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, recently warned Nigeria could descend into recession next year if remarkable growth was not recorded. Quantitative Easing measures like the actions taken by the Japanese president are being introduced.

And that has been coming by way of bailout ($2.3m) distributed by the Federal Government to 27 state governments that had fallen behind in payment of salaries of public servants in addition to the Debt Management Office conversion of short-term money market debts of ailing state governments totalling N660m to long-term bonds to Deposit Money Banks.

In a bid to reflate the struggling economies at the state levels, so that Nigeria does not slide into recession, the CBN, like the Bank of Japan is also at the heart of the economic rescue mission, so she is also providing generous loans to the financially challenged states up to the tune of N338bn.

By way of comparison, at the end of the stimulus exercise, it is estimated that about N1tn would have been pumped into the Nigerian financial system with a GDP of about $516bn in less than four months, just as information gleaned from Reuters, Bloomberg Business News Africa, and Financial Times indicate that Japan has injected up to $210bn into her economy with a current GDP of $4.6tn in a space of about three years.

The aggressive infusion of massive funds into the Japanese economy, which is a sort of shock therapy, initially produced the desired results of modest growth of about 1.7 per cent GDP growth in the economy (keep in mind that economy has been in stagnation for two decades) during first and second quarters, although it has slipped in the third quarter.

Unlike the Japanese situation, the jury is still out on the effect of the generous injection of funds into the Nigerian economy by the Buhari administration in a bid to jolt it into a return to impressive growth trajectory again. Perhaps, a few months’ gestation period may be required for results to kick in; nevertheless, the administration appears not to be resting on its oars as other aggressive structural reforms are already being implemented to bolster the effect of the stimulus package.

One of such bold initiatives is the newly introduced Treasury Single Account and the soon-to-be adopted Zero Base Budgeting which would be the flagship economic policies of the Buhari administration and represent a major paradigm shift in public sector governance.

While the TSA is aimed at streamlining the Nigerian revenue into a single account at the CBN, to stem the financial leakages arising from maintenance of multiple accounts by the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, the ZBB initiative is expected to promote efficient and effective allocation of government funds saved through the TSA by adopting a budgeting concept that is hinged on cost benefit analysis and facilitates optimum utilisation of government’s scarce revenues, as opposed to building on historical experience which is currently the practice. In a nutshell, the ZBB is performance-based budgeting as individual budget items are evaluated for their merits or demerits before funds are committed.

Recall that when the idea of the TSA was first mooted, there was palpable fear by bankers that the exercise would result in about a N1tn public sector funds being pulled out of the banking system and it would negatively impact on the ability of banks to lend to her customers but at the end of the exercise, the GMD of Fidelity Bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo, under the auspices of the Bankers Committee has revealed that less than N1tn was actually mopped up.

The good news is that although public funds have been withdrawn, it has had minimum impact on availability of liquidity, so the anxiety by bankers was hasty, as the withdrawn funds are actually going to be re-injected into the financial system by way of payment to local contractors whom, according to information from the DMO, Nigeria’s local debt is in excess of N10tn. The fear of job lay-off by labour activists has also been allayed.

Regarding the ZBB, which Nigeria is bracing itself to adopt, it may be recalled that Jimmy Carter of the USA was the first to introduce the budgeting method into government when he was the governor of the state of Georgia at about 1971 and it had a salutary effect in the allocation of funds in government after. Peter Pyrr first mooted the idea in a Harvard Business Review article in 1970. Subsequently, Carter introduced it at the federal level when he became president around 1977. His predecessors , Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton retained it when they held sway as presidents of the US until the 1990s when the concept was discontinued.

Going forward in Nigeria’s public sector, when the ZBB is fully integrated, budgets will no longer be based on historical experience which entails building on the previous budget provision like adding 15-20 per cent to the last year’s budget but each project or venture in the MDA’s budget will be assessed line by line and allocated funds based on effective need and expected impact on the society.

No more would funds be spread thin across many budget subheads just to fulfil all righteousness which is presently the situation.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/can-buharinomics-pull-nigeria-back-from-the-brinks-1/

all forms of crime in this administration

cattle rustlers

Nnamdi Kalu

boko haram

olu falae

rape

etc

lalasticlala my inlaw come and see this

i thought they said its only PDP former Gov. petitions that reached EFCC

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders has threatened to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for ignoring the series of petitions written by it against former Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State.

The Executive Director of CACOL, Mr. Debo Adeniran, told our correspondent that he was disappointed that the Senate and President Muhammadu Buhari could find Fashola worthy of a ministerial appointment despite the series of allegations against him.

He, however, said since Fashola did not have immunity, CACOL would continue to pursue its case against the former governor.

He said, “We are concluding plans to take the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission to court. We will file an order of mandamus to compel them to investigate Fashola if they have not investigated him. They should make their findings public and ensure that they prosecute him depending on the outcome of their investigation.”

Adeniran, however, said his organisation was not sure of getting justice because anti-graft agencies usually look at the body language of the President before acting. He said Buhari was not as incorruptible as he was being branded because he appointed some people with corruption cases.

He said, “We do not think the system has changed. It is just the regime that changed from one party to the other. Power has changed from one corrupt administration to another.”

http://www.punchng.com/politics/cacol-to-sue-efcc-for-not-probing-fashola/

that's my problem with igbos....no unity

LOL

lalasticlala ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

ishilove oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

her moniker here is....

chai Obj.... see mockery

if you arrest Akpabio, then you have to arrest all Nigeria Governors, both former and serving

because

in eight years Akpabio built

Airport, Stadium, Independent Power Plant, quality roads with underground drainages, owe no single dime in salaries, construct and renovate schools

can u immagine dis Ape?

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria has said that Nigeria will win the war against Boko Haram the same way the country defeated Biafra secessionist during the civil war. The civil war which occurred from 1967 to 1970 was an attempt by some states to break away from Nigeria and establish an independent Biafra state.

According to Daily Trust, the former president expressed optimism that the country would put an end to the insurgency. He said this on Monday, October 12 after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on his delegation’s mission to study Columbia’s efforts in the fight against the country’s largest rebel group, FARC.

Obasanjo said it was not until every Boko Haram fighter had died before the country could claim to
have defeated the insurgency. Rather, Boko Haram could be considered defeated as soon as the army had the upper hand and other measures had been put in place.

Obasanjo said: “Oh yes. If we won the civil war, we can win this one. But like the Columbian said, we are not waiting until we kill off every insurgent to say we have won. I believe that once the military has the upper hand, other measures that have to be taken will be put in place. There will be measures of socio-economic development, education, employment. All that has to go into the process of eventually winning the war and saying here is Uhuru”.

He also said that the three month target that the president gave to the army to defeat the insurgency would help them to have a focus. “The president must give a target. When you give somebody a target, you give him something to aspire to, giving him an objective. Target is not cast in stone. I believe that if you are talking of getting the upper hand, gradually, we are getting the upper hand.
“We are not there yet, but we are getting close. And once we are getting upper hand, we move on and do other things.”

He also explained his reason for visiting the president: “I’ve come to see the president for two reasons. The first one is the one you’ve just seen. I brought a delegation of those of us who visited Columbia last year under the auspices of a foundation which I’m the chairman…We went to Columbia to see how the Columbian authorities were handling the issue of insurgency which had been with them for more than 50 years. As a result of that visit and the experience we had, a book was produced and I said to them that it would be interesting for us in Nigeria to learn as much as we can learn from the experience of Columbia.

“The second aspect of my visit was the work that both the president and the ECOWAS gave me in Guinea Bissau. The last time, we were able to resolve all the issues of getting a new Prime Minister. This time, we had also been able to resolve the issue of now forming a government.”

He added that he was enjoying his retirement: “I am enjoying it wonderfully well. Otherwise, I will not be here with you.”

President Buhari sent Olusegun Obasanjo to Guinea Bissau to resolve the political apprehension that was going on in the country. The move was considered a way to strengthen Nigeria’s foreign policy in Africa.

http://www.kevindjakporblog.com/2015/10/we-will-do-to-boko-haram-what-we-did-to.html#ixzz3oS4etqPr

Oyind17:
See your teeth, where u hide since

i deyoo....swit hat _{(never mind my spellingoo)}

werrin dey

Akwa ibom Ayaya....dakkada

UDOMA UDO UDOMA is as clean as Buhari

walemoney007:
abi o,,if them like make them bomb things wey they move,and the ones wey no they move for south east,no one gives a dam about it

okene no be south east ooo