₦airaland Forum

Karm16:
A whole community is afraid? Even the young able ipod men?
What happened to the weapons Nnamdi Kanu had hidden for the war against Nigeria?
Una dey fear Fulani, but what happens when you have to face Nigeria?
Do they have Ivory Coast visa? They can hide there for now.

Bros you wicked oooo see finishing for IPOD miscreants

MirabelArode:
It seems the people with foresightedness in the south are not the yorubas as we have been erroneously made to believe.

When they voted the fulani leader of all herdsmen in West Africa and he won, they threw parties, denounced the word 'Southerners'. They even called themselves westerners and told the SESS to go to hell.
They mocked the SESS and claimed they made the best decision even though they were warned that it will turn out bitter.

Is the victory dance now shortlived?
Were they right to have voted a Bigot who have never hidden the fact that his loyalty lies to his fulani ethnic stock alone.
Will yorubas vote for another fulani in future?

Please lets discuss. No insults please. Insults will get you Banned!

If insulting you will get me banned I don't mind but I have to tell you you are a very Big fool for this rubbish post . I think it's you who deserve to be banned for this ethnic post that aims to malign an ethnic group . You all should get over your loss of the election . In 2011 it was the south west deciding to vote Jonathan that eventually gave him victory apart from the facts that it was mostly yorubas that fought for his being made the VP. Your hatred for Buhari is because you have skeletons in your cupboard
RUBBISH

tit:
so you dont need to know the amounts stolen and recovered ni?
stop being emotional.
this money is hard currency!
if magun does not account for it soon,
he will spend it on his girlfriend.

If he does that the law will deal with him , remember there is a new sheriff in town.

dunkem21:
Misguided statement. So, I should petition EFCC to get the amount recovered?? ..laughable

Why is the EFCC telling us that they recovered money from someone when they know that the next question will be how much?

Like I said, I have counted 7 trillion, if you have petitioned the EFCC, then give us the correct figure

Post a link to a press statement from EFCC stating they have recovered money and the amount was not stated. Not statements from unnamed source/ staff who wished not to be named because he was not authorised to speak/ usually relable source/insider. Like I said earlier at the appropriate time the list of people who have returned money and the amount will be made public and until then stop believing beer parlour gossips

dunkem21:
You now see why Fayose will continue to be our role model? ..

They recovered money, we don't know how much and where it is warehoused. My records conflict with yours as I have counted over 7 trillion with EFCC

It's because you keep counting amounts allegedly recovered from suspects according to an unnamed EFCC operative . Why not petition EFCC according to the public information act and get your correct figure. Though the government has repetedly told you that the amount recovered so far will be made public soon you still chose to believe unsubstatiated figures.
You have laws you can leverage on to know whatever you want to know but decide to rely on beer parlour gists only for you to later blame APC and this government.
Do the needful and stop disgracing yourselves online.

GworoChewinMaga:
But you e touts were already making threads claiming that falana's name was already etched in gold as the CJN before Buhari released his belated ministerial list.

On what premise did you and your fellow e touts come to the assumption that Falana would be appointed CJN?

Yeye

I really think you are getting it wrong , maybe Falana was being touted as a likely attorney General and not CJN. Or post a thread of such a story where APC was thinking of making falana CJN

onexile:
All those supporting this govt, May God, Allah and Amadioha rule your lives the way Buhari is ruling Nigiriya.


Please say Amen....?

And may the same Gods you mentioned ruin your life the way GEJ and his cronies ruined Nigeria and instead of uplifting the life of Nigerians made it even worse by embezzeling the money meant for the poor masses of this country.

Ganiyat72:
If igbos should reject PDP because they were not given the presidential ticket, but rather made to be the vice president?. What then is igbos still doing in a divisive party like apc? Which considers ndigbo in apc as inconsequential, hence the tag 5% . Or the hatred and total rejection of igbos tribe by buhari, who never deem them human enough to warrant any ministerial or notable post in his cabinet.

Where then lies the senses of these morally depraved igbo political jobbers in apc?. Isn't there a saying that a half a loaf of bread is better than non?

Under pdp igbos has attained every political post in the land, except presidency, which in due time will come, if this forced marriage still remain in one piece.
Apc is not for the igbos and igbos are not for apc, the earlier igbos understand this the better for them.

And you got 50 likes for typing this false assumptions . When in the last 16 years was an ibo man a vice president for you to now claim ibos attained every post except presidency during pdp rule. So you mean for consistently giving over 90% votes to pdp throughout 16 years No iboman is fit enough to be president or vice president .I bet you by the time apc rule for 8 years an iboman will be either president or vice president .
And you come here to rubbish great ibo man just because they did not belong to pdp ,you don't see Onu, enelama, kachikwu as ministers because of your blind hatred . The PDP you want to kill yourself for is more a Hausa party than an ibo party. One of the reasons Gej lost was because he was giving more posts and previledges to the ibos at the expense of the hausas that are majority in the party. Without the north there is no pdp and the party hierachy knows this.

Amberon11:
you're irredeemable.

If what he tweeted up there doesn't make sense to you then you need help.

What efforts did he make to make his party toe the same line when they were in power . The present government don't need his advice or opinion because they already have a roadmap . He wants reap where u did not sow so that if tommorow the government starts doing some of the things he said it will look like it was his idea. You need help to be able to know when someone is playing on the intelligence of gullible youths except if you are his kind then you are birds of the same feather.

Amberon11:
What has he said wrong? Ben Bruce is one of the few enlightened men in power today and more often than not he actually makes sense.

If you have a problem with this beautiful opinion of his, then Nigeria and Nigerians can't help you.

You mean he is exactly just like his peers in power? Does he eat locally produced Rice in his house ? How many local menu is served in his galleries ?
Yeye. If this is making sense than I wonder what you definition of making sense is . This is someone that has been dead mute for so long only to wake up the moment his party lost power. I'm sure someone will soon come up with pictures of him buying locally produced rice . Nonsense

Destined2win:
It is destined that I will lead this nation to her place of peace and prosperity, and by God's grace, I want to ascend that throne before 40. This is to enable me have all the energy I need to dignify this country. Be thou hopeful!

Now all I want you to do is to wish me well!

Your topic should have read "I WISH TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THIS NATION BEFORE 40

considering how old you are

Obamina:
Yet he saved ur life gra' son

He is your hero it's your life he saved

Obamina:
. He never see plane before abi, them dey show am so make he start d purchase of plane to Naija abi... You ain't sensitive just like him. Mtcheeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!

You are just blinded by hate to see what is obvious to anyone with brains . Get over it kid, your hero lost the election a year ago

Obamina:
And he's laughing over it. This is what you get when u gat nothing upstairs, whatever comes into the examination hall as expo you happily write it down either good or bad.

How old are you ? That's a company showing PMB their product. Your hate for buhari will eventually lead you to commit suicide if you don't stop and try to reason like someone with some brains

theshadyexpress:
The OP's intentions for opening this thread are not far-fetched,its just another cheap attempt by the APC zombies to keep smearing Jonathan/PDP with the hope that they'll be able to distract Nigerians from the visible failure of the APC led govt and also buy sufficient time for the govt using public sentiments and raising of pity parties. readers will notice that he tagged only staunch members of the zombie crew so as they can have a feast on this.

though im not fooled by the true scheming of the OP as regards the true intentions for opening this thread I'll go ahead to give a comprehensive breakdown of the economic policy of the Jonathan/PDP administration

ECONOMIC POLICY

1. De-emphasizing government ownership of business and encouraging full private ownership of means of production: people familiar with the GEJ government will always remember the quote "Government has no business in doing business"

2. Revolutionizing the Agric sector: the agric sector was transformed from been a social enterprise to been a fully commercial enterprise, the target for this sector was for Nigeria to be able to add an extra 20 million metric tonnes of food to its reserve

3. Full Privatisation of the power sector to encourage investments in power by the private sector: to this end there was a full privatisation of the genco's and disco's and a management contract for the TCN. those single policy saw the drastic reduction in the budget for the power ministry as the bulk of funding was to come from the private sector in form of investments

4. Complete divestment from all existing govt businesses: there were renewed efforts to resuscitate the ailing ajaokuta steel company and the government saw to the sale of the comatose Nitel/Mtel govt owned telecom companies.

5. Revitalisation of Railways and Airports to ease transportation for a smooth flow of economic activities: the already comatose railways were gradually brought back to life and new railway contracts were entered into with counter-part funding coming from Chinese state construction company CCECC and the govt also embarked on the construction of river ports on routes along the already dredged river niger while also seeking for privatise the already commissioned dry port in anambra state

6. Encouraging Businesses to expand so as to employ more people and also encouraging SME's to flourish with intiatives such as the SME fund and YOUWIN

i can go on and on but lemme stop here for now, Jonathan's economic direction was well spelt out in the transformation document at the inception of his administration and this provided a direction to investors on how to key into the agenda of government.

the results:

Nigeria became the No1 investment destination in africa with annual FDI of $10bn

Nigeria became the largest economy in africa

Nigeria had the fastest growing economy in the world second only to China



its obvious the Buhari team have no clue about governance,their trial and error methods keeps back-firing, For crying out loud Jonathan has left government for you for almost a year now yet you are yet to sit down and run your government, stop acting as opposition to your own govt and get serious


God bless GEJ

Though you made points but your opening paragraph protrays you as someone with an axe to grind in other words you sound like a sore loser . Let me ask if you had 16 years and was not able to do all you listed then would you have been proud of your party? The point is APC can not be compared with PDP just yet they need to prove themselves and that can't be done in just 1 year for Goodness sake that's why they have at least 4 years. I don't know where you are or how old you were in 1999 but I can tell you there was great sufferings during the first few years of PDP reign greater than we are feeling now but most Nigerians still kept faith up till now .

Ngozi123:
How would reading a sillier comment than your previous one enable me to broaden my knowledge? Wouldn't it have the opposite effect?

Suit yourself

Ngozi123:
This might just be the stupidest thing that I've ever read on the Internet.

That goes to show you should spend more time on the internet than you are currently and maybe you will be able to broaden your knowledge

drss1:
wetin dis one dey talk sef was buari voted to complain or to work
a man who's perpetually engaged in blame game is devoid of ideas. - wise man.

As far as buhari is continuing most of the projects left by GEJ he has every right to complain where needed . The trip to China you all are criticizing is to cement some of those projects started by GEJ. 16years is a long time for any party to waste

plaetton:
I totally disagree with you.
And I challenge you or anyone worth his weight in FACTS, to a healthy debate on the issue of the so-called 16 years of waste and corruption as you put it.

Pls , I sincerely want to debate anyone about the last 16 years of leadership in Nigeria, especially comparable to what we are seeing right now.

Fact no.1.
Before you say that something was bad, corrupt, wasteful, there first has to exist a standard by which there can be a fair comparison.

Therefore, before YOU or anyone can boldly state that the last 16 years of leadership in Nigeria was bad, horrible, wasteful, corrupt, etc, there must have existed prior to that, a golden era by which we can compare and contrast the last 16 years of PDP reign in Nigeria.

So, sir,
Can you kindly look at Nigeria's historical map, and point out the golden era of Nigeria's political and economic life that GEJ and co came and messed up ?

Thanks in advance.

I will reply you only when provide answer to my poser which is that you should avail us of the income that has accrued to the federal government in the last 16 years and compare with projects initiated and executed

If na APC governor by now the internet would have been full of wailers wailing their lives out but since it's their tin God wike it's all well and good . hypocrites

2cato:
why would such a person defend the killers of his people with strong passion

Because there are always two sides to any story but bigots like you only read one and make judgements . Were everyone to start taking revenge than no iboman will be alive again because we all will be killing ibos in revenge for every armed robbery we suffer or for everytime fake drugs kill our people. When Agatu people were killing 10000 cows , stealing thousands of cows and killing herdsmen in the process nobody was aware but the moment the fulanis stood up to defend themselves every fool found their voice.

Your analysis will not be complete until you tell us how much was realized by the government within this period and how much was spent on all you have highlighted. I assure you if you do that you will realize that all the achievements you listed will be only about 5% of what would have been achieved if the pdp curbed waste and corruption . So I'm essence Buhari is right to have called it 16 years of waste. Isn't it ironic that with all these FDI, growth rate and policies unemployment is still this high, poverty is still this high, corruption and waste is still this high, electricity is still not available and the most painful of all petrol I still not available. So having failed to address all these what then was achieved in 16 years

OLADD:
According to Cambridge English Dictionary, Change simply means doing something differently. In our contemporary day-to-day English, change connotes complete departure from an established position, norm, tradition, principle, attitude, behaviour, mentality etc. It also means moving from one particular state or position to another.

In the light of above definitions, admirers of the ruling (governing) party, most especially ardent supporters of President Buhari must come to term with the imperatives of realigning their mindsets to the Change Agenda of the APC government. Statements such as "did we complain when Jonathan did the same or similar thing in the past?" must be expunged from the thinking horizon and consciousness of those who truly wants Nigeria to move forward. If the main reason for rejecting PDP/Jonathan in the 2015 elections was to allow another party/president to chart a new course for our dear nation, Buhari and APC misdeeds or missteps must be laid entirely on their table instead of using Jonathan or PDP's similar aberrations as escape route.

If APC indeed promised a prudent and more purposeful governance, frugality and precinct must be seen to be their watchwords. Accusing PDP of running a wasteful and corrupt government while maintaining the status quo or even doing worst things is condemnable and hypocritical. Blaming Jonathan for deploying soldiers for elections and doing exactly the same in Rivers sounds incongruent. Accusing PDP of running a divisive adminstration but keeping mute in the face of Fulani escapades turns logics on its head. Spending millions of Naira on globe throttling while maintaining almost 10 Presidential fleet, a misnomer for which PDP was almost roasted by Lai Mohammed, Tinubu, Oyegun, Ameachi and Buhari, is nothing but festival of hypocrisy. Impoverishing the masses through oppressive policies as against ameliorating an already precarious situation does not depict positive change. The APC government must carve its own niche rather than recycling PDP's rejected ways.

Conclusively, justifying recklessness and mistakes of this adminstration on the premise of "Jonathan/PDP did the same thing" must end.

Cc:

lalasticlala, myndy44

If the present administration can continue some of the projects started by Jonathan there is nothing wrong in blaming the Jonathan government where needed. Among the projects this administration is continuing are the 2nd niger bridge, Lagos ibadan express, various airport modernization and the now contoversial Lagos calabar rail project which along with the Kano Lagos rail project is one of the deals the president went to China for. Identifying the cause of a problem is half of the solution to the problem .

asorocker:
Everything about Ojukwu was indeed first class, from attending the best primary school to the best secondary school in the world to the best university in the world to using the best cars, marrying the prettiest ladies, flying the best jets of his time, fighting for the best army (Biafran army ) leading the best country that the world did not want to see, to dying in the best hospitals and getting the best burials ever in Africa.

You left out running away to the best resort in ivory coast

fistonati:
As APC has gone down in the last one year of governance. If Fayose is listed in the stock market today, he will be far ahead of APC because his market value is high. His govt is better than borrow borrow APC govt.

Your username said it all.

And he owes workers salary? Better government indeed .

odikimi:
How market zombies, I learnt pdp is winning some L.G.As in the FCT election?

Mumu I thought you all said APC can never win anything in rivers how come they won some seat. Only a novice in fct politics will say apc will defeat pdp , fct has been a pdp stronghold except for gwagwalada area which is in Anpp now apc control

THIS GUY NOW SOUNDS LIKE A BROKEN RECORD EVEN HIS DIE HARD IPOB WARRIORS ARE NOW ASHAMED OF HIM.

henry49:
Those were the days of ignorance! We're not going to join forces with any other tribe except the Ijaws!

We all know it's because of their oyel ......Abi you want to claim the oil too and call it no man's oil just like you call some people's land no man's land

ehissi:
pathetic/pəˈθɛtɪk/
adjective
1. arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.
2. miserably inadequate.
3. relating to the emotions.

Pathetic is choosing to attack/slander someone for his/her opinion - as opposed to offering a weighted opinion of your own or simply disagreeing - and hope to arouse a pitiful following!!

Small wonder why Nairaland actually have rules against such behaviour/atitude!!

I see you are using nairaland to practice your writhing skills . Congratulations on your graduation kid hope you made good grades ,unfortunately for you nairaland doesn't give jobs to people who can write long meaningless essays .so concentrate your efforts elsewhere

ehissi:
Nuclear power isn't a concept alien to the Nigerian environment but harnessing Nuclear power to generate electricity, is; in any case President Buhari's presence in that summit was my grouse and not nuclear energy itself.

Any smart man watching President Buhari's travel log can easily observe that Buhari is doing what is typical of any military commander.

The man is simply undertaking a Global "familiarisation tour"; that's all. A fancy way students of International relations and diplomacy for "Yipeee!! Look at me!! I am the new guy in charge, abeg give me your BBM pin and whatsapp number so that we can chat on common interests later!!"

Unfortunately, that tour has no significant benefit for the Nigerian economy but is suited towards shoring up foreign support for the new political structure on ground. A support that Jonathan lost the day he sign a bill against gay rights, luckily for foreign powers, APC provided the right theme/points to withdraw that support - human rights abuse by the military and corruption - which is why Buhari has no issues calling Nigerians criminal abroad and insists that he will wipe out corruption and strengthen the military.

Is there anything wrong with President buhari travelling? No!! But at least, let us have trips that are strategically aimed at bettering the lot of Nigerians - short and medium term.

Considering our current economic position, new stance on corruption and security challenges, one would have expected that China would have been the first place he would have gone to, followed by south korea, india and russia then wait a while for US to come and greet him; they don't come, then look for an international forum to meet Obama and hold bilateral talks on the side there but not once has he even looked at these strategic countries. He is only just considering going to china now because he needs a loan to finance projects: see dull strategy.

He being in a nuclear summit in the US - with his government flashing pictures of him shaking Obama as progress report - at a time when Nigerians at home are buying fuel at #300 per litre is not leadership.

And since we are talking about heroes, 3 massacres undertaken by Fulani herdsmen over the last 2months have taken place. What did they profer as the solution to this problem?? Import grass from Brazil to create grazing areas so that fulani and their cows are not stressed from moving around nor fight indigent villagers anymore. No talks of identifying or bringing the perpertrators of these violent crimes to justice - why talk of that, when they don't want to make the new government look incompetent or bias to towards the presidents kinsmen!!

A government whose party never appreciated the efforts Jonathan made when the Nation came under the threat of Ebola - that had no clear cure at the time - but is struggling to contain common lassa fever that has clear testing and treatment regimen: with lives wasting away with the Health Minister's poor handling of the matter.

Well! Na God hand we dey, by His grace and mercy, we will get there!!

There were times Jonathan was in the country and hundreds of his citizens were slaughtered even right under his nose in Abuja what did his being in the country do to stop the killing? was he not in the country the times we had fuel crisis during his government? Was he going from filling station to filling station to alleviate the situation? He is back in the country now has the scarcity stoppwd?Now that you mentioned it I think Jonathan's inability to solve the persistent fuel shortage in the country was a failure him being from niger delta and all.
To think you wrote this essay just to implicate your hero shows how pathetic you are

ehissi:
Nuclear power isn't a concept alien to the Nigerian environment but harnessing Nuclear power to generate electricity, is; in any case President Buhari's presence in that summit was my grouse and not nuclear energy itself.

Any smart man watching President Buhari's travel log can easily observe that Buhari is doing what is typical of any military commander.

The man is simply undertaking a Global "familiarisation tour"; that's all. A fancy way students of International relations and diplomacy for "Yipeee!! Look at me!! I am the new guy in charge, abeg give me your BBM pin and whatsapp number so that we can chat on common interests later!!"

Unfortunately, that tour has no significant benefit for the Nigerian economy but is suited towards shoring up foreign support for the new political structure on ground. A support that Jonathan lost the day he sign a bill against gay rights, luckily for foreign powers, APC provided the right theme/points to withdraw that support - human rights abuse by the military and corruption - which is why Buhari has no issues calling Nigerians criminal abroad and insists that he will wipe out corruption and strengthen the military.

Is there anything wrong with President buhari travelling? No!! But at least, let us have trips that are strategically aimed at bettering the lot of Nigerians - short and medium term.

Considering our current economic position, new stance on corruption and security challenges, one would have expected that China would have been the first place he would have gone to, followed by south korea, india and russia then wait a while for US to come and greet him; they don't come, then look for an international forum to meet Obama and hold bilateral talks on the side there but not once has he even looked at these strategic countries. He is only just considering going to china now because he needs a loan to finance projects: see dull strategy.

He being in a nuclear summit in the US - with his government flashing pictures of him shaking Obama as progress report - at a time when Nigerians at home are buying fuel at #300 per litre is not leadership.

And since we are talking about heroes, 3 massacres undertaken by Fulani herdsmen over the last 2months have taken place. What did they profer as the solution to this problem?? Import grass from Brazil to create grazing areas so that fulani and their cows are not stressed from moving around nor fight indigent villagers anymore. No talks of identifying or bringing the perpertrators of these violent crimes to justice - why talk of that, when they don't want to make the new government look incompetent or bias to towards the presidents kinsmen!!

A government whose party never appreciated the efforts Jonathan made when the Nation came under the threat of Ebola - that had no clear cure at the time - but is struggling to contain common lassa fever that has clear testing and treatment regimen: with lives wasting away with the Health Minister's poor handling of the matter.

Well! Na God hand we dey, by His grace and mercy, we will get there!!

There were times Jonathan was in the country and hundreds of his citizens were slaughtered even right under his nose in Abuja what did his being in the country do to stop the killing? was he not in the country the times we had fuel crisis during his government? Was he going from filling station to filling station to alleviate the situation? He is back in the country now has the scarcity stoppwd?Now that you mentioned it I think Jonathan's inability to solve the persistent fuel shortage in the country was a failure him being from niger delta and all.

truthbastille:
If Jonathan's government is critiqued on different issues, it would be injustice for anyone to say they discouraged foreign direct investment.
Lots of economic growth was recorded under the last regime, such that investors was gladly pouring in their dollar into the economy. Even the stock market experienced exponential growth.
Immediately investors sensed a change of government was eminent, there was massive exodus which is still taking place because of incoherent government policies or lack of it.

What do you expect them to do ? The stock exchange TRADES in stocks in other words it's like a gambling house