₦airaland Forum

Okija_juju: RIP hommie... Heaven knows the thought has crossed my mind severally as well at certain points in my life, just that I am too much of a coward to take my own life.. If there is an afterlife, I pray it welcomes you well and that your problems don't follow you there.

Same here...may his soul rest in peace!

Okija_juju: [b] My problems with this story..

1. 5 guys go to collect a debt from a 'Runs man'.. How much was that debt?!

2. Its already a known fact that the 4 of them who died were all members of the MAFIA CONFRATANITY.. How did Maf boys go lending a Vikings money?! And not just your average Vikings, but a notorious one at that.

3. They went to his house with a gun!! I dont believe that they were not aware that one of them was packing heat!!

4. I can believe that the guys who lynched them were Vikings boys.. Afterall, even Okada men are Vikings members.. Why would they risk going into a place like Aluu thats crawling with these miscreants to collect a loan armed with a gun?!




The part of someone raising an alarm, the guy with the gun escaping and all that I can believe..

The truth is that we all have lived and schooled in Nigerian universities and know how to detect bullshiit when we hear it. 5 guys going to collect a loan seems like overkill to me. Now 5 'runs men' armed with a gun going to collect an 'alleged' loan from one person sounds even more unbelievable. Anyone who knows Nigerian Unis well will tell you the same. I never one day believed that they were robbers. But the story of what they went to whoevers house to do can only be fully revealed by that fifth guy who escaped.. Last intel I recieved on that guy is that he has already fled the state.

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You are good!

jmaine: The ANPP is a popular platform in the North, yet he could only garner 6 million votes cos Yar Adua was also on the ballot paper . . .

This affirms my position that your "No other living Nigerian can form a party from scratch and poll 12m votes in a presidential election on the platform of the new party" has strong leanings on our embedded ethno-religious politics . .


P:S =====> Popularity in a selective zone of the country cannot guarantee victory or expressly equate to being much loved in Nigeria

My brother, I will like to meet you...I always love your analysis of issues. You come across like someone who pays attention to books and good books for that matter. I cherish you.

Any body can say anything they want, but the facts are:

1. If they were caught by the Vigilante...Vigilantes are established only after getting permission from the police
2. If it will be proved that the victims were cultists, the case will die a silent death. After all, the police are masters' at JUNGLE JUSTICE!

So, the bottom line is NIGERIAN STUDENTS stay out of "UNIVERSITY CULTS" while in School!

Allohrandy: why are you asking a stupid question? is it against the law to go in group of 5 to collect their money and is it also against the law to collect the money being owned to one o them by 5am?

Where they not other persons moving in groups that morning by 5am...going about their business, are they dead?

coogar: you're a pathological liar....
what has the modakeke/ife crisis gotta do with the students of oau? the school is located several kilometres away from the town and they don't operate off-campus hostels! there were no students killed in that particular crisis.....stop throwing lies around to score cheap brownie points!



you don't have enough wisdom! confraternity groups are registered in nigeria. i don't know the particular group these boys belong to so i would not assume like you're doing here. the wole soyinkas of this world started confraternity in nigerian universities - although it's now a sorry excuse but even then - are you justifying this killing because these boys were cultists? i am starting to think you are drunk! there's a due process to be followed if one is a cultist - why would a community decide to kill 4 students just because they were alleged to be cult boys?




why not?
there are violent debt collectors everywhere - if you owe someone, pay up or get smashed! the boys with axe did not attack anyone or did they?

Dear Coogar, I accept I don't have enough wisdom but I do have a good capacity to remember that the former President Olusegun Obasanjo then gave instructions to wipe out cultists in Nigerian Universities after the OAU Saga. I also remember that Professor Wole Soyinka has denounced Pyrates Confraternity operating In Universities (though, this may be disputed in reality). However, this also mean that they are not recognised. Coogar, if these boys were members of the JayCee or Rotaract or even "Keggites", they won't have died. If they were members of the Freemason or Reformed Ogboni Fraternity or Rosicrucian, they still would not have died in a University Host Community Mob orchestrated murder squad. This is my point. Believe you me, once and if the Nigerian Police can establish they were cultists, that is the end of this case.

May their souls rest in peace and may the "ever articulate, never shaking, Of the greatest gbigbi! Of d greatest gbagba !ever conscious gbogbo! Un intimidated gbegbe" of the Nigerian Student STAY OUT of CULTISM.

May God help us all.

coogar: you're a pathological liar....
what has the modakeke/ife crisis gotta do with the students of oau? the school is located several kilometres away from the town and they don't operate off-campus hostels! there were no students killed in that particular crisis.....stop throwing lies around to score cheap brownie points!



you don't have enough wisdom! confraternity groups are registered in nigeria. i don't know the particular group these boys belong to so i would not assume like you're doing here. the wole soyinkas of this world started confraternity in nigerian universities - although it's now a sorry excuse but even then - are you justifying this killing because these boys were cultists? i am starting to think you are drunk! there's a due process to be followed if one is a cultist - why would a community decide to kill 4 students just because they were alleged to be cult boys?




why not?
there are violent debt collectors everywhere - if you owe someone, pay up or get smashed! the boys with axe did not attack anyone or did they?

Dear Coogar, I accept I don't have enough wisdom but I do have a good capacity to remember that the former President Olusegun Obasanjo then gave instructions to wipe out cultists in Nigerian Universities after the OAU Saga. I also remember that Professor Wole Soyinka has denounced Pyrates Confraternity operating In Universities (though, this may be disputed in reality). However, this also mean that they are not recognised. Coogar, if these boys were members of the JayCee or Rotaract or even "Keggites", they won't have died. If they were members of the Freemason or Reformed Ogboni Fraternity or Rosicrucian, they still would not have died in a University Host Community Mob orchestrated murder squad. This is my point. Believe you me, once and if the Nigerian Police can establish they were cultists, that is the end of this case.

May their souls rest in peace and may the "ever articulate, never shaking, Of the greatest gbigbi! Of d greatest gbagba !ever conscious gbogbo! Un intimidated gbegbe" of the Nigerian Student STAY OUT of CULTISM.

May God help us all.

osamedia: Dis ur post make me dey feel quity, but u make me ves just now naim make me voice......u try.

You are most welcomed broda....a sad day indeed for UNIPORT and all decent Nigerians!

thegoodjoehunt:
Possibly the 5th is the debtor. Lloyd and Ugonna are cousins, Tekenna is a good friend of Ugonna and Aladdin is just a friend. That is why the 5th person escaped(the vigilante thought he was being robbed). Well these are all information coming out of UNIPORT. We have to wait for the official report from the investigation being carried out by the police.

True your guess may be correct. However, we must not loose fact that these boys were first humiliated before being tortured and killed. Now, whay didn"t students who were first hand witnesses of this sad but horrible and dastard act reach out to the SUG immediately?

thegoodjoehunt:
If the guy has been dribbling the person he owes, everytime he goes there, he isn't around. The best solution is to go to his house very early in the morning before he lives. No one goes to rob or overthrow a don at 5am or 5:30am. You would get caught.

Good reasoning there...but why go in a group of 5?

osamedia: May God deliver u from ur dumb condition................. who carry axe? probably some ALUNN people don send u fake and ilegal jists.

Accepted, they did not have axe or dangerous weapons, why will five students go out by 5am to collect money from one debtor?

Again note that ,it is not always good to call people indecent names no matter their views. I honestly believe that you are an intelligent person with a good heritage and a bright future, and I do know we can talk plainly as reasonably as possible. Please, no name calling. Thanks

superstar1: These OAU people should keep quiet. Where were they when Modakeke people killed their students during Ife/Modakeke war? You can never win any war with an indigene. The tales abound all over Nigeria. I attended UI, so I do not know how staying off campus life is. As a student,just face your books and graduate into the larger society that does not recognise all those your aluta jargons. Also note that people of 16/17 are in private schools graduating by age 20 nowadays and organisations will rather employ those dummies than you that spent donkey years in school. In as much as killing of the Uniport students was barbaric and savagery in all ways, the mission of the 4 students calls for more questions than answers. Even UNIPORT students knew who these boys were in school, they only met their waterloo or fate or woreva. To all you girls shouting because they are fine boys, pick the learning points ie know what your fine boy boyfriend is actually doing -- be it cultism/yahoo plus or robbery. i rest my case

On point Nwanne!

coogar: you must be very śtupid!
how do you stop confraternity in tertiary institutions! there are frat groups abroad too so stop mouthing nonsense. even if we agree these boys have been bad, is this the way to treat humans? the state governor of rivers is a bästard - he should not be voted in the next election if he doesn't go to aluu community and arrest their community leaders and their first sons for this barbaric act! how are these people different from boko haram?



oau students overwhelm the whole south west of nigeria! even obasanjo was kidnapped briefly by oau students in 1999 shortly before he became the president amidst his security agents! had that happened in ife, half of the houses there would be ablazed by now!

Let me pretend I did not read all your curse words. I only said, I don't agree with you and good, civilized people will know that this is not an insult. However, I still maintain that fraternities are different from these bushman cult groups in Nigerian Universities. University Cult groups are not registered, not even with the resident university authority, so under Nigerian Law, they are "outlaws". Please, educate me, those fraternities abroad, do they carry axes in the morning in a group of five to go and collect money from "one" debtor?

mskata: Collect money around 5am

My broda, the thing tire me sef and in a crowd of 5 persons too...5 persons went to collect money from "one" debtor by 5am in the morning

livingstoneony: ALUTA CONTINUA,VICTORIA ACERTA! *chanting God of aluta send down fire!....3ce* # dey should try it in jos and see war!!!...d villagers should be mounted on with the full weight of d aluta community! Of the greatest gbigbi! Of d greatest gbagba !ever conscious gbogbo! Un intimidated gbegbe!ALUTA CONTINUA

My brother take it easy...all those earth moving words only end within the four walls of the university. When you come out and face the realities of the actual world, you will forget "Of the greatest gbigbi! Of d greatest gbagba !ever conscious gbogbo! Un intimidated gbegbe!ALUTA CONTINUA". However, I must quickly add that in any scenario and in any part of Nigeria, Nigerian Students CAN NEVER overwhelm their host community. It is always better to thread more carefully. Otherwise, the authorities of UNIPORT will close down the school but who will close down the Host Community?

coogar: some universities are glorified secondary schools! i don't care if the boys were cultists or not - let the police/judiciary deal with their offences! however, to maim 4 students in broad day light like that is just barbaric and the student union of uniport should hang their heads in shame! they are püssies!

a good university should have a strong student union body who should have prevented the incident in the first place. now that students have been killed, they should be running riot in that community as we speak! yes, violence won't bring back the dead but it would send a statement to the people of that community that students should not be executed via jungle justice!

obasanjo knew rolling his tanks on odi community in 1999 would not bring back the soldiers that were killed in that community - but his action sent a statement to that community! till today, i doubt the people of odi would kill a goat without a cause, let alone kill human beings after the horror they witnessed in 1999. if the student union don't act now, this shyte would happen again in the near future!

I don't agree with you....the only thing that will stop this from happening in future in UNIPORT or in any Nigerian University is for STUDENTS to STAY OFF CULTS!

^^ It is not true! Bro, out here in the O/G, there are bigger and more relevant cult groups....not these toy bushman clubs in schools. However, membership of cults is not a guarantee of a good life!

So they were cultists and cultism is against the law. So sad indeed. Fact is, young people should try to resist the allure of becoming cult members. It does not pay. I have a silent feeling that this is the god called "nemesis" acting its superior script. Students, please, STAY AWAY FROM CULTS...it may take your life.

This is the effect of reducing Security Allocation! Security is expensive and demands thoughtful planning, it is not rational reactive "issuing" orders. It takes planning and resources. RAO has so many projects in his hands...another show of planlessness.

I wish Imo State luck....

PapaBrowne: ACN would do itself in if it merges with CPC. It would loose ground to PDP in its stronghold if it marries CPC.
Oshiomole knew better. The CPC candidate in Edo State dumped his ambition and threw his weight behind Oshiomole claiming that ACN and CPC are working together. He claimed Buhari was going to visit the state to campaign for Oshiomole.
The offer was rejected and turned down immediately by the oshiomole camp.
Buhari is a big liability in the south and the ACN should be ready to loose their fervour if they enter such a merger!

My broda, you are a true democrat and a juggernaut...greetings

GEJ...I believe!

Third Term for GEJ....I believe!

@Okija_juju

I agree with you that Rochas is going to fail and fail big time. Government is not by talking...it is by doing and doing a well thought out plan. This report says an MOU has been signed with an European University. The Q is what is the name of this European University, or country? Has the IMO assembly ratified this agreement? When Rochas was appoint Special Assisntant for Lagos Affairs in Lagos, we started raising our voices that this not the way to govern a state, NL shouted us down. Now, welcome to a new University in Imo State...IMO-European University! May be the European is "Kosovo" where he spoke in Igbo Language!

I rest my case

nagoma: I have not seen that respect for elders among Nairalanders who claim to be representing Christian opinion. Besides the term "Rogue Elephant " is not meant as an insult. It is a very appropriate description of this gentleman Pastor . I am sure you can check out the meaning if you are not sure.
Every criminal says he is representing Somebody and we ignore the criminal and inflict insults , agony and harassment on the somebody - it doesn't make sense.if you have a different agenda - just say so.

Did Ayo Oritsejafor say anything that is not currently happening in Nigerian and known to all, including you? How many times have Joseph Waku called out against BH by differing that all Nigeria cannot be Islam...who in the Muslim world of Nigeria has ever condemned that fact that BH keeps calling for all Christians in Nigeria to become Muslims. If you are a Muslim, do you not truly believe in your heart that all Nigeria will be Islam?

To my mind, Ayo Oristejafor spoke of "current affairs" in the country and I SUPPORT HIM on this! Enough of bombing of churches!

olabukola: This is unfair, Are we not the same country again? what the Govt shouda done is set the minimum price then the dealer or any garrage will add their transportation cost per litre. Govt will set the maximum price.

You just contradicted yourself! By the time the govt sets the minimum price, you can never buy at the minimum price!

Okija_juju: How?replay shows the the first goal was scored in the 5th minute of the match with the exposure of the transaction by team Otedolar.. Team Farouk put up a fierce counter attack with the denial and admitting but saying it was a move to entrap Otedola.. However.. Team Otedola resisted the counter attack and scored a brilliant second goal with a long range shot from the middle of their half of the pitch with the release of two audio tapes with the unmistakable voice of Farouk Lawan on it.. Team Farouk however quickly made a substitution and brought in the mercenary of the house of reps behind close door investigation hearing where the almost scored with a ball that rebounded off of the woodwork with a statement credited to one reps member that said Otedola had no video.. The first half ended with the scores at 2 - nil.. Now 2 minutes into the second half, team Otedola pushed and attacked straight from the whistle putting pressure on team Farouk and the house of reps with his request for a public hearing.. Well the pressure paid off with an own goal in the 50th minute when a defender on farouks team Jagbaja deliberately headed the ball into his net by threatening to sue his team captain Farouk for a rough tackle at the beginning of the match...

Game on..

Switch to Okija TV for live coverage of this historic match up...

^^^

RuuDie: Indomie. . .
that little girl wiggling her tiny behind cracks me up everytime!

Na True my broda!

Grasping at Straws


Like a lot of men of means, Femi Otedola is not liked by quite a few people. Depending on what side of the fence you choose to sit, the manner in which he made his money could even be deemed unethical. A few years ago, his dominance in the importation, distribution and sale of diesel had some of us shaking with fury at the cut-throat and anti-competitive tactics he employed to keep his competitors at bay. His proclivity for flaunting his relationship with those in power, though a conscious effort on his part to raise his personal brand equity, might also be off-putting for people with a more conservative outlook.


Still, his handling of his appearance before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ethic and Privileges last week had many of us doffing our hats for his courage and temerity. It was a well-thought out strategy by Otedola and his lawyers that gained him the admiration of the public that had grown tired of the scandal-prone National Assembly, especially its lower chamber.


For its latest assignment, the Ethics and Privileges Committee of the House had been directed by the chamber to investigate the bribery scandal involving Otedola and one of its longest serving members, Farouk Lawan. Prior to his appearance, Lawan’s lawyers, led by the rather loquacious Mike Ozekhome, had thrown down the gauntlet with their own version of the sequence of events of what might have transpired between their client and Otedola when money passed hands. They also dared Otedola to bring out the so-called recorded evidence he had against their client, if any.


But what Ozekhome and his colleagues did not bargain for was that they were dealing with a man with an ego the size of a mountain. You do not throw up that kind of challenge to a man of Otedola’s disposition without getting a bloodied nose for your efforts. He is the type that would cut his nose to spite his face.


Expectedly, he took up their challenge with relish. By Tuesday, on the day he was expected to appear before the Ethics and Privileges Committee, Otedola or the State Security Service had responded by releasing two audio recordings of the purported conversations between himself and Lawan. It was the stuff of Hollywood legend and had all editors rubbing their hands with glee at the dirty details of the alleged transaction between the Otedola and Lawan.


Unable to read the handwriting on the wall, the members of the Ethics and Privileges Committee lay in wait for Otedola. They had even leaked their intention to issue a warrant for his arrest should he fail to turn up at the probe panel. He didn’t give them that pleasure. He marched into the House with his retinue of lawyers and aides before the allotted time for the panel to sit and waited patiently for the lawmakers to start their interrogation.


As the questioning began, Otedola’s aides released a press statement to the hoard of pressmen waiting anxiously outside the meeting room that their principal would not be a party to a secret interrogation. His statement made it abundantly clear that he would rather face his interrogators in the open and in a transparent fashion, as he had nothing to hide. Inside, his interrogators did all they could to make him talk, away from the prying eyes of the public, but he maintained his position that the probe had to be open.


At the end, a stalemate ensued, compelling his interrogators to voice their frustrations, in the most indecorous manner, with Otedola for refusing to submit to the questions of the panel in secret. Instructively, the chairman of the committee, Gambo Dan-Musa, when speaking to the press, harped on the fact that his committee was a standing committee of the House backed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In consonance with the constitution, he said, the committee was within its rights to conduct a secret probe if it so wished.


Sadly, Dan-Musa and the House missed the point and effectively closed the tiny window of opportunity Otedola had handed them to redeem the image of an already battered legislature. By attempting to throw the book at Otedola, what the House failed to understand was that the businessman was not violating the constitution. He had complied with the tenets of the constitution and was within his rights to demand for an open probe. In fact, his position not only conformed to the spirit and letters of the constitution, it enhanced the all important document, which the legislators are in the habit of falling back on when it suits them.


Instructively, even after its Ethics and Privileges Committee had so spectacularly bungled this all important assignment, the House still embarked on an exercise in futility the next day and the day after. By Wednesday, its chairman in charge of its Committee, Media and Public Affairs, Zakari Mahommed, made a hollow attempt at defending the conduct of his inept colleagues. He also made the unfortunate mistake of stating that men of means cannot dictate the way an institution should conduct its affairs. Not done, he dismissed the audio recordings as a grand plot to distract the public from the fuel subsidy report of the House. The last point was reinforced by the deputy speaker, Emeka Ihedioha when the Human Rights Writers Association visited him on Thursday.


Again, the utterances of the lawmakers show that they have failed to read the mood of the public. Contrary to the House’s perspective on Otedola’s position, he was not, as a man of means, attempting to dictate to the legislature how it should conduct its business. He was simply trying to assist the probe panel carry out its work in a manner that would leave no room for doubt. More importantly, he was instinctively ensuring that his interrogation was not misrepresented by a panel that might have been working towards a predetermined conclusion.


But what is more bothersome about the events of last week is that the House has failed to read the body language of the executive, or rather, the presidency, whose responsibility it is to implement their so-called subsidy report, if any. As it stands, the House report, which it so erroneously believed it could hold on to as the joker in the pack, has been irredeemably destroyed.


Anyone with an inkling of the way the government works should have known that when the Federal Ministry of Finance in May quietly set up a technical committee headed by the CEO of Access Bank Plc, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, to verify the subsidy claims and the payments made thereof for the fiscal year 2011, the executive was sending a clear message to the legislature that it had no confidence in its public hearing on the management of the subsidy scheme.


In contrast to the Lawan-led committee of the House, the Aig-Imoukhuede committee conducted its investigation with professional restraint and was devoid of the public shenanigans that charactersised the House probe on the same subject. It entailed the sequestering, for weeks, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, a retinue of Central Bank of Nigeria examiners, experienced bank auditors and chief compliance officers of banks who scoured through piles and piles of documents before arriving at their conclusions.


No member of the Aig-Imoukhuede made a spectacle of being pressurised by oil marketers and importers to influence the outcome of the probe. And to boot, their work was carried out in record time and was devoid of fanfare. What was more interesting was the near-thoroughness of the committee’s findings, which contrasted sharply with that of the House. The Aig-Imoukhuede committee painstakingly highlighted the infractions committed by oil marketers and importers, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency, and listed all the marketers and importers that had purportedly committed the infractions without fear or favour. Indeed, no marketer was shielded from the embarrassment of having to clear its name from the findings of the committee.


Interestingly, it is the report commissioned by the finance ministry that President Goodluck Jonathan may have chosen to take seriously. The president, though reluctant, is obviously under pressure to clean up the fuel subsidy scheme and prosecute erring marketers. Accordingly, if the House would only spare a moment, it should be clear to anyone but the blind that what the president has been doing for weeks was to mouth the right platitudes about prosecuting the marketers indicted by the House report, while waiting for the real McCoy. The minute he got what he wanted, the president swiftly set up a presidential panel to verify and reconcile the subsidy payments unravelled by the Aig-Imoukhuede committee, a measure he never took when the House report reached his desk as far back as April.


Effectively, the House of Representatives has no one to blame but itself for trying to play politics with the subsidy issue and the shameful conduct and inconsistent tales of the chairman it appointed to oversee the subsidy probe. It has a very bad case on its hands and must stop beating about the bush. The only thing expected of a House that wants to salvage whatever is left of its image is for it to handover Lawan and others who may have been bribed alongside him for prosecution by the law enforcement agencies. By clutching so desperately to a report that is effectively dead on arrival and trying to cover up the scandal, it is sinking deeper and deeper into disrepute. Long and short, the House should stop grasping at straws by doing the needful.


Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/grasping-at-straws/119610/

Alxmyr: The major contending issue about the bill over the years has been the perceived "anti North" syndrome.
I remembered when the bill was first read on the floor of the Senate, many senators especially of the northern extraction
wanted the bill to be thrown out. The debate was very heated and it took the dexterity and experience of the Senate president
to rigmarole the debate and allow for the bill to scale first reading.
Before the second reading reading, different versions of the bill had surfaced. This is anomaly, because as an executive bill which has not even gone through second reading and have its principle debated, you rarely have alteration. But in this case, you have different alteration. And eventually, different versions of the bill.
Of course, the Minister of Petroleum, the Attorney-General of the federation and as well as Presidency as at then, kept quiet and rather than setting thing straight they play the "Northern Agenda" role and scuttled the bill. Needful to say, the bill was compiled and worked on by President Olusegun Obasanjo administration but was left for President Umar Yar'Adua administration to send to the National Assembly.
When President Jonathan took over, one of the first thing he did was to push for the passage of the PIB. It was rebuffed. I can recall also that Minister of Petroleum, Mrs Madueke lobbied vigorously the national assembly to ensure the passage of the bill before the expiration of last administration, but the lobby met a stone-walled opposition.
Now that we had subsidy brouhaha, the same elements that scuttled the PIB law will be forced to pass the law.
The challenge before all Nigerians is to ensure that the Nigerians do not play to the gallery and allow the National Assembly to smuggle, inseert and watered down the strength and legislation of the bill. The same way the watered down the power of the EFCC in the EFCC law and the Electoral Bills in the past.
I commend the president on this bold step and as well as Mrs Diezani Madueke for her doggedness; despite being in the eye of the storm always, she refused to be intimidated.

My brother from another mother...you spoke my mind! Nigerians failed to see that "northern connection" in the first bill then debated on the floor of the house. in fairness to you, I watched on TV then as one Senator from the north, said the bill will never see the light of the day because it will impoverish the north more. Let teh current bill get to the NASS, then Nigerians will know who their real enemies are!

Royalprestidge: Anyone that called Bakare fake is demoniac, all pastors can be the same, Jeremaih is referred to as prophet of doom because of the nature of his ministry, BAKARE is raised by GOD to fight corruption, illegality and evil in governance through sharp messages and prophecy

But he must not fight it in the temple! He claims he is called by God to stand before God's people...Prophets do not go into the holy-of-holies and raise prophecies against the romans, greeks, persians. In there, they pray for the people and for the mercies of God.

abdurrazaq: Pray for the government? Which government? Any Nigerian praying for the Nigerian government is DIRECTLY cursing him/herself.
Pastor Tunde Bakare is a Nigerian and, has all the constitutional rights to criticize/praise he so wishes.

^^^Agreed! But he should preach God's word on Sundays to God's people and not 'Hate Gospel' on the Lord's day. He is free to call a press conference the number of time he wants and lambast the government as much as he wants. But, he should keep the Lord's DAY holy by preaching Salvation, God's Mercy and Healing. This is what heaven conscious Christians are asking for.

abdurrazaq: Pray for the government? Which government? Any Nigerian praying for the Nigerian government is DIRECTLY cursing him/herself.
Pastor Tunde Bakare is a Nigerian and, has all the constitutional rights to criticize/praise he so wishes.

^^^Agreed! But he should preach God's word on Sundays to God's people and not 'Hate Gospel' o nthe Lord's day. He is free to call a press conference the number of time he wants and lambast the government as much as he wants. But, he should keep the Lord's DAY holy by preaching Salvation, God's Mercy and Healing. This is what heaven conscious Christians are asking for.

bayooooooo: We should respect tenure in public service. If someone is appointed for Four years, let the fellow spend four years.
If we must remove the fellow, let us have a cogent reason.

When you violated the tenure of executives in one swoop and then went ahead to praise them for job well done is to say the least confusing.

While I buy into your view, I must add that the only way for the NNPC to flourish is for government to fully divest her interests in the NNPC. These gentlemen know that their elevation is as a result of 'political' appointments but not career driven. So they will work as 'appointees' and not career men. For the system to be drained of corruption and revitalised, Government must divest its interests and that is what the FUEL SUBSIDY removal will achieve!