₦airaland Forum

emvico:
OP did you just called them "three wise men these are not three wise men, but three ritualist. those people that collected money from them are doomed except God intervain
*modified*
very very i said unto you, you can never smoke oshogbo weed and remain thesame. if you think am lying, ask this guy below me

Polyphony:
Pastor, just admit it.
"it's all true". you'll lose a lot of sheep but at least hbp no go do you again.
Pasta Pasta... Pasta Freesam hehehehe

WeNoGoDie:
Pastor Sulaiman and his wife earlier mentioned in their own version of the story that they sent quite some money to Stephanie when she cried for help from the man of God regarding her ugly plight in Canada.

Stephanie has to prove its not the same transaction. I mean she has to show something Suleman's camp cannot defend if she is to be truly believed.

This is my opinion and I'm not taking anyone's side. I'm just being objective.

Omooba77:
It will be Madrid derby today; years ago this match would have generated lots of heat, but today Atletico is a shadow of its self. A win for Atletico may proof decisive and slow down Real.
Looking forward to illtempered game anyway.

VULCAN:
You did not adequately respond to his assertion that APC is made up of many former top PDP players who partook in the 16 yrs misrule

profhezekiah:
Why r U dis gullible or probably U are an hypocrite so after everything that is againt melaye apart frm the sahrara reporters, U can still come out abuse someone on what was glaring, ur delusion is mastery

Billyonaire:
In my early days, I was in charge of records, and I will not mention where. It is digital age and every data input goes to the server directly and the President can access these data and formulate policies to guide the country. This President does not even know how to work with basic electronic data interface, and I do not even know if many Nigerians understand that we fail because we have no knowledge of data science and the use of data for planning.

Now, let me say this; The chief policy thrust of this government has been Anti-corruption and Recovery of Stolen Asset. One would have thought that there is a data bank where every photograph of every recovered asset, every digit of every recovered funds are entered using a timeline, such that the President can sit down his command center, and query the database to have a panoramic view of the state of the Economy and welcome briefings after making personal studies of the data stream. You do not run a country like you are running a zoo and every Wednesday they sit down to discuss rubbish while the citizens are committing suicide. Why you are you supporting these ignorant people ? I hope you are not ignorant.

Billyonaire:
You have no idea how naive you sound to my little nephew reading your post. He is laughing at you even though he is in the kindergarten. I have already expounded on data archiving and management in a post above to one of your lucid ignoramus, I wont repeat it cos its a waste of my knowledge and wisdom on those who prefer to have sex than study algebra. This is not in reference to your ignorance on the import of data management but totally because I cant seem understand how naive Nigerians are on such issues as Macro Economy.

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National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

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Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement

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Billyonaire:
You are defending the President, right ? Okay, what really is his job Mr. Ass-Licker.

Billyonaire:
Seriously ? Are we saying he is not aware of how much has been recovered ?

What really is his job since he came on board ?


Oh, I guess, its reading cartoons.

cktheluckyman:
You people keep recycling this 16 years hogwash forgetting that 70% of what we have in APC today participated in that period of our national life.Besides throughout the 16 years of PDP,things were never as bad as there are now

eyeview:
BMC people will post a topic, BMC people will still flood the topic with their comments with their multiple monikers to give a semblance of 'Nigerians' talking.

Nonsense and confused people.

Meanwhile has anyone noticed that there is no clear cut difference between APC supporters and Sheriff supporters. They are usually one and the same people. That will truly tell any discerning mind who and what sheriff is all about in PDP.

As for sheriff, he always claim that he is in interested in a free and fair process and doesn't habour any sinister political interest, yet anytime anyone or any committee asks both him and makarfi to step down for a free and fair convention, he will walk away. This goes to show that the PDP leaders were right when they stated that sheriff can not be trusted. Some of us remember how he presented himself as a willing tool to be used by abacha to backstab his fellow politicians and perpetuate abacha from a military president to a civilian president.

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele to provide a detailed submission on amount of monies recovered so far by the anti-graft agencies, in its anti-corruption war, since the inception of this administration in June, 2015.

Also directed to do same are the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr. Lawal Daura, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta and the National Security Adviser (NSA), General Babagana Monguno.

The agencies were also directed to submit a detailed inventory of assets seized, including vehicles, jewelry’s and other valuables, latest by yesterday, Friday April 7, 2017.

They were ordered to submit the details of recovered monies and assets in their possession also by yesterday. THISDAY checks revealed that most of the agencies except the EFCC have since complied with the deadline given by the president.

As at the time of filing in this report yesterday night, it was not certain if the EFCC Chairman, had complied with the directive which lapsed yesterday.

THISDAY gathered that the directive by the President was issued to the agencies two weeks ago.

The source said that the directive was informed by the need to “place a value on the total recoveries made by the government, whose anti-graft prosecutors have been accused of being unable to secure convictions, but have been quick to announce their seizures, even temporary ones to the public.”

It added that the President needed the inventory to ensure transparency and accountability as rumours of untoward practices continued to swell round the recoveries.

There have been allegations that some of the seized valuables like land documents, cars and vehicles had been stolen by some officials of the agencies that seized them.

The source said: “In fact, in several yards across the country, vehicles seized by EFCC like Range Rovers, Jaguars, Prado jeeps, and expensive cars are decaying. The cars are allowed to rot, leading to massive waste.”

“Also remember that certificates of occupancy seized from the home of an ex-governor were found in the market, where some EFCC officials were allegedly trying to sell them. The case is now with the police. Also at the Senate hearing for his confirmation, Magu was unable to put a figure or an estimate to the amount of monies, local and foreign currency, he has recovered so far, or provide a value to properties, cars and jewelries that have been seized,” the source added.

When THISDAY contacted Senior Adviser to the President on Communication, Mr. Femi Adesina on details of directive, he stated that he was unaware of it but that the president had been receiving series of briefings since he returned to the country and that the said directive would be nothing out of the ordinary.

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has vowed not to attend any reconciliation meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan, stating that reconciliation has died in the party.

The former Borno State governor was speaking on the botched reconciliatory meeting called by the former President in Abuja on Thursday.

He accused the former President of deviating from agreements he said he had with him before they agreed to be part of the meeting, which was held at the Yar’Adua Centre.

Sheriff, who walked out of the meeting when he was denied the opportunity to preside over it, said that there was no way the party would be meeting and he would sit as a mere spectator when he remains the only person recognised by law as the authentic national chairman of the party.

Speaking to our correspondent in a telephone interview through his appointed Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh in Abuja on Friday, Sheriff also said he would not appoint anyone to join the 40-member committee the former President promised to set up on the reconciliation.

Rather, he said he would stick to the recommendations made by the Peace and Reconciliation Committee headed by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson.

He said, “We will never attend any peace meeting to be called by the former President on reconciliation anymore. No. Never! We won’t go there. We are no longer interested in such reconciliation.

“We will not attend any other meeting to be called by him. We would cut off every leprous hand in the party. The former President can only chair a committee on his private foundation, not that of the PDP when we have a national chairman.

“We are not happy with the way he handled the failed meeting on Thursday. He did not respect the Court of Appeal judgment which pronounced Sheriff as the national chairman of the party.

“He (Jonathan) has no legal backing to chair PDP Stakeholders’ meeting when we have a sitting chairman. The former President does not have such a right. The failed meeting had scattered all the good works achieved by the Dickson committee.

“We hail our governors, except the duo of Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states respectively, who worked against the meeting.”

However, the National Caretaker Committee of the party headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi disagreed with Sheriff, saying the former President had the right to lead the meeting.

He said since the initiative to call the meeting came from the former leader, it was his right to preside over it and also dictate how the meeting would progress.

He said it was wrong for Sheriff to have wanted to preside over a meeting where issues that would affect the party’s leadership would be discussed.

Makarfi, who spoke through the spokesperson of the caretaker committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, described Sheriff as being selfish.

He said in order to give peace a chance; the caretaker committee agreed that Sheriff would speak at the gathering before Makarfi, but regretted that instead of being at the gathering on time, Sheriff decided to come late to the meeting.

Adeyeye said, “Jonathan conveyed the meeting and he had the right to chair it, because it was for reconciliation. If it was not called by the former President, more than 90 per cent of those in attendance would not have been there.

“You cannot preside over your own case. It is like a quarrel between husband and wife. There is no way either of them would have presided over a meeting where such disagreement would be discussed.

“We agreed that he (Sheriff) would speak first after the former President. But instead, he came late to the meeting, hours after it had started. He was to speak after the former President, but he came when the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin, was almost done with his speech.”

Adeyeye added that in order to avoid crisis, Makarfi who was to speak after Sheriff was asked not to because Sheriff was not at the gathering then.

“He came late to the meeting, which is even against the protocol. So, instead of Makarfi to speak, the BoT chairman took over the podium,” he added.

Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, said the gathering also agreed with the position of Wike and Fayose that Sheriff should not be allowed to lead the meeting because “it was a reconciliation meeting and that we needed an impartial person to lead.”

He said Sheriff remains a “disputed” chairman of the party until the Supreme Court makes a pronouncement on it, adding that both Sheriff and Ojougboh “are illiterate because they don’t know the genesis of the party and what it stands for.”

He added, “Sheriff should leave our party for us and should not destroy it. He does not have the support of more than 10 per cent of members of the party. He is a disputed chairman. As for us, we will continue to respect the former President because he is the leader of the party.”

Also reacting to the development, the Governor of Ekiti State, and Chairman, PDP Governors’ Forum, Mr. Ayo Fayose, in a telephone interview with Saturday PUNCH, described Sheriff as an impostor and someone sent by the ruling All Progressives Congress to destroy PDP.

Fayose said, “I will not work with him. He is a betrayal of confidence and does not represent peace and hope. I will not be part of any meeting with such a person. If I may holistically respond to his statement on no reconciliation, the statement is good riddance to bad rubbish.

“His (Sheriff) alliance with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and PDP destroyed All Peoples Party and All Nigeria Peoples Party. He is at it again but this will be the last of the series. I regret my association with him and bringing him forth initially.”

Fayose alleged that anyone supporting, promoting or financing Sheriff is an enemy of Nigeria. “Our country will not end up in a one party system which I imagine is the reason why his business with the APC is thriving,” he added.

Also in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose was quoted as saying, “It is now obvious that he (Sheriff) is working for enemies of former President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP.”

The governor said; “From what Ali Modu Sheriff did yesterday, it should now be clear to all well-meaning Nigerians that he is not acting on his own. He is an agent of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and by extension an enemy of democracy in Nigeria.”

“If he (Sheriff) cannot sit with the leader of our party, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, I am also telling him that we in the PDP are also not interested in holding any discussion with him. He is a virus that has infected the PDP and by the grace of God, he will be cured permanently.”

In a similar development, Fayose, who spoke on a programme on Channels Television monitored by one of our correspondents, said he was not bound to remain in the PDP as he could decide to pursue his political ambition elsewhere.

The Ekiti State governor said that nobody could make him remain in a place if he does not truly wish to be there.

Fayose accused Sheriff of insulting leaders of the party with his attitude, describing him as an “impossible character who nothing can change.”

Meanwhile, Ojougboh said that Sheriff and his team would soon commence a nationwide mobilisation of members of the party with the hope of preparing them for the national convention.

Asked when the convention would hold, Ojougboh said the members of the National Working Committee would announce the date and programmes “as soon as we are done with the nationwide tour.”

emeijeh:
What's up with men of God and 2017 headlines?

mandax:
Another black African, with slave mentality let loose from the zoo.


Was there any country created to be indivisible?

A country can only exist as far as it is serving the needs of the people who came together to agree to belong to the country.

It is even suspected that the British man did not say what was credited to him in Kogi state. Even if he did, don't believe that Britain shall send army to fight Biafra for your Muslim/Fulani Empire Nigeria. That's like fighting together and sending arms to Islamic terrorists.

US and Britain will NEVER sell weapons to your Muslim/Fulani army to fight Biafra in today's world. No British or US soldier shall side with your quasi Boko Haram Janjhaweeds forces to fight Biafra.

Love peaceful Resolution of Issues - Use Referendum, as the British used it in Brexit and in Scotland.

It's stupid your dependence on war. After war, issues that caused war are still settled on the negotiation table.

BMedia:
This means several things:

1. The US is also in support of one Nigeria because the UK and the US are long standing allies that never go against one another, especially on issues of sovereignty.

2. The UK and US are the most powerful members of the UN with veto powers, so a UN sponsored/supervised referendum is out of the question; it's just not happening.

3. In the event of military engagement in the quest for biafra, the UK and US will be on Nigeria's side again and defend her sovereignty (through sale of weapons or outright participation in the melee) like they did in 1967.

4. The Nigerian government now has even more impetus to prosecute and punish Nnamdi Kanu, a Briton, with this renewed UK support for an indivisible Nigeria.

5. The IPOB propaganda to paint Nigeria in bad light through fraudulent claims so as to gain the sympathy / support of the international community, has failed woefully.

What a sad day for the Liepods.

Taeewo:
Y is he prostrating?

GogetterMD:
Herald.ng
Wehdone. Nigeria's number 1 fake/speculatory news website

chinybelle:
We are our problem
The witches and wizards are Nigerians

sarrki:
How Do you know it's failed health?

Are you God ?

It's only God that can decides the future with certainty

The forces that arrested, sabotaged and underdeveloped Nigeria in the past 24 years are still on the prowl, ravaging and looking for others to devour.

I was shocked to the marrow when I heard that some All Progressives Congress (APC) senators asked the National Working Committee of the party led by the National Chairman of the party, Chief Odigie Oyegun, to prevail on President Buhari to drop all charges against Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct corruption trial. Words failed me when it dawned on me that this potentially dangerous demand is coming from some APC senators who are supposed to be the agents of change we promised Nigerians while seeking their mandate in 2015. This prompted me to reflect on the events of the past 24 years, starting from the 1993 election of Chief MKO Abiola to bring hope to Nigerians and how he was crushed and decimated by demonic and satanic forces after five years struggle to defend and sustain the mandate. Time and space will not permit me to recall the quantum of energies expended to defend the mandate for five years, the wars, on the streets, the casualties - including MKO Abiola and the late wife Kudirat Abiola, among others - the damage to the national project, the devastation of our economy, the balkanization of the political entity called Nigeria, the alienation by the international community making Nigeria a pariah nation, and the ethnic division it visited on Nigeria.


After killing Chief Abiola on July 7, 1998, the same satanic and demonic forces still bent on decimating Nigeria further decided to foist the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the retired General Olusegun Obasanjo on Nigerians. In sixteen years, from 1999 to 2015, the same forces wasted huge resources running into hundreds of billions of dollars earned during the oil boom. The unconscionable looters and unrepentant thieves diverted and stashed away these huge resources into private pockets. These funds have been traced to private accounts both at home and abroad, traced to real estate both in Nigeria and abroad, and traced to farms. The rest is now history.

In 2015 Nigerians elected retired General Muhammadu Buhari who promised to bring change in the way we live, the way we work, the way we reason, the way we do business and the way we manage our affairs as a nation. The real meat of his campaign was to reduce corruption to the barest minimum. Before then, corruption had ruined and destroyed a country blessed with both human and material resources.

By the time President Buhari took over in 2015, our infrastructure, hospitals, universities, and national air carriers were in ruins. Our power, agricultural, and manufacturing sectors went underground. President Buhari planned to tackle these numerous problems by fighting corruption.

As a consequence of all this, it now behooves the government to manage the little that we have, but the satanic, demonic and greedy Nigerian politicians will not allow the system to work. They are governors, judges, law makers, ministers, and political appointees, serving and retired, who do not want the system to work. They work together to circumvent and destroy every step taken by the President to move Nigeria forward. Come to think of it, President Buhari dissipated all the energies he would have deployed to matters of governance to run for the exalted office in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 (12 years). In fact, he cried in 2011 when he missed it again believing that it was all over, but man is not God. God has a reason for making Buhari the President at a time like this and at this present stage and age to begin to reinvent and reposition Nigeria, but the forces that stopped Chief MKO Abiola in 1993 are at work again. For 24 years they held Nigeria hostage. They steal all our money and they will not want to be investigated. They bribe judges and lawyers to get their freedom. They present forged certificates and false assets declarations and ask you to go to hell. They decide how much they must earn and the type of vehicles they want. They blackmail the President and try to twist his hands to yield to their criminal demands forgetting that he has the mandate of 150 million Nigerians. They steal people’s money and ask you to go to hell. The satanic and demonic forces in Nigeria have no conscience, no souls, no love, no hearts, no brains, no heads, no eyes, no common sense, no life, and no shame.

They can still repeat what they did to MKO Abiola on July 7, 1998. They killed the Hope 1993 project and they are ready to repeat the same with the 2015 Change project. The other day I saw Senators Saraki and Dino Melaye in a group photograph with the former President Babangida who democratized corruption and corrupted our democracy since 1993. Instantly, I figured out that the forces of darkness are gathering momentary again. IBB represents our ugly past. To pose with Saraki and Melaye - the known enemies of the Change mantra - speaks volume that they can repeat the ugly events of the past 24 years. The forces that arrested, sabotaged and underdeveloped Nigeria in the past 24 years are still on the prowl, ravaging and looking for others to devour. They can kill President Buhari just to have their way. The President and his handlers must be very careful as we are dealing with reprobate minds, these cultural savages and workers of iniquity.

Granted that we still have some small number of responsive ,responsible and accountable Senators in the 8th Senate, I still share the opinion that the Red Chamber is no longer useful to Nigeria, all things considered. It has become a den for treasury looters and unconscionable characters. Nigeria must borrow a leaf from Senegal and Venezuela. Given our dwindling resources and the monumental problems facing Nigeria as a political entity, the Senate has become a burden and a house of cards. To all intents and purposes and with every sense of responsibility I think that Nigeria can do without the Senate. For now, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is of zero consequences. Let the Senate cease to exist.

Joe Igbokwe writes from Lagos.

The Nigerian president has according to fresh reports began plans to make a return to the United Kingdom on health grounds.

This comes weeks after the president returned from his earlier extended medical vacation to the United Kingdom which lasted a total of 51 days.

Buhari who had upon his return from the medical trip noted that he will return to the United Kingdom for further checks was reported by Sahara Reporters to have purchased air tickets for a 6-man advance party in preparation for his travel.

The alleged move by the president comes after the presidency debunked rumors that it was bringing its team of medical experts from the UK to Nigeria for the president’s treatment.