₦airaland Forum

hayoakins:
From the tweet, it's obvious that APCnigeria only echoed a followers' resolution

#CHANGE2015

teufelein:
ab.oki, are you afraid to hear the truth...?

teufelein:
[size=13pt]Yorrobbers-Awusas and Foolanis[/size] Genocide General, Ab.oki Buhari is back..back to rule over dark foolish monkeys from oduduwa and arewa animal kingdoms...we thank all.ah of islam. did i forget anything?

anishe:
Who among them is Mocheda?

Ikwokrikwo:
This man has been wearing that same cloth for over 2 weeks now.
Is that a ritual?
What a dirty man!
Nigerians beware of a dirty President

[size=14pt]This is why I keep saying most of you GEJ supporters are dumb! You expect him to change clothes like onions just like GEJ Sorry, body language and dressing is a good way of assessing a leader and not wearing expensive Georges and expensive hats when it's obvious nothing is beneath the hat.[/size]

ageraGT:
beat her to the point of death but don't kill her bro!

He expressed disappointment at the practice of democratic rule so far, which he said, had created few affluent citizens in the midst of suffocating poverty.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said Nigeria’s peculiar challenges required leaders with requisite experience to tackle them.

He told guests inside the auditorium of his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, during the celebration of his 78th birthday and 2015 annual summit, that there were too many ‘think-tanks’ in the country instead of ‘do-tanks.’

The former President, who looked resplendent in a white flowing agbada, therefore prayed to “ God to give us leaders that occasion like this deserves.”

He said that West African countries and Britain were worried about developments in Nigeria.

Reiterating his commitment to the country, Obasanjo said each time he travelled to these countries, he was usually inundated with enquiries about Nigeria’s security, political and socio-economic challenges.

According to him, people in those countries always warn that any turmoil in Nigeria may have dire consequences on its West African neighbours and even Brittain.

He said, “We are about 180 million now, our brothers and sisters in West Africa are worried and when they talk to me and I ask why they were worried, they always reply that, ‘if half a million Nigerians go to Republic of Benin, we will overwhelm them.

“If two million (Nigerians) go to Ghana… Even Britain is worried, they are worried. They said their problem is that if one million Nigerians go to Britain, they said in 10 years, there will be 10 million Nigerians in Britain and they will rather keep us here.”

He said with enormous resources the nation was blessed with, no Nigerian child should lack access to education, food and employment.

Obasanjo lamented that the mismanagement of the nation’s resources had landed the country in the current mess.

He said, “My concern is that we have too many think tanks, we need more of do tanks. The point is, we can do and we have no reason why we can’t do and we have also seen that one individual can make a difference.

“There is no reason why any Nigerian child, at this point in time should not have a basic education, food and nutrition. Not only Nigerian child, no Nigerian should go to bed without food.

“We have the resources to achieve all that, that we are not achieving it does not mean we don’t have the resources. It is because we haven’t managed our resources well.

“Employment, if all other things are right, there should be no reason for any Nigerian who wants to be employed not to have the opportunity for employment.”

He noted that if the unemployment malaise persisted for the next 15 years, “and if all those things that all these young ones are expecting are not there, in 15 years time, they will be be good recruits for Boko Haram or its equivalent.”

Delivering a paper titled: Imperatives of a National Security Framework for Development and Progress of Nigeria,” a former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, condemned the involvement of the military in politics.

He warned that should the military abandon its primary responsibility and engage in politics, the country might be doomed for it.

Agwai called for transformation in the nation’s military system, stressing that the forces trained and equipped to defend the country had suddenly found themselves in a strange terrain.

He said, “The military has to be transformed and this becomes necessary from the point of recruitment, training and assuming leadership role. Our forces that are trained and equipped to defend us are now in a strange field.

“We must have security sector reform because everyone that has anything to do with security must be re-branded for professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness.

“The military has nothing to do with politics and if we allow it, we will run into problems.”

Agwai, who expressed fear at the emergence of ‘private armies’ in the country, said this had led to rivalry and created religious division.

He expressed disappointment at the practice of democratic rule so far, which he said, had created few affluent citizens in the midst of suffocating poverty.

“When you have a scenario like this, there will be insecurity,” he added.

He called on the government to diversify the economy and ensure that “no Nigerian child goes to bed without food in his belly. Farmers should have enough food to eat and sell.”

Agwai, who is the current chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, noted that religious bodies which should serve as checks on corruption had become “facilitators of corruption.”

The chairman of the ceremony, Prof.Akin Mabogunje, stressed the need for inter-dependency of all security agencies in tackling the security challenges in the country.

Mabogunje, who is the Chairman, Governing Board, Centre for Human Security, OOPL, identified intelligence gathering as key to addressing the issue of insecurity.

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, described the host as “a great Nigerian and a rare species.”

He said Obasanjo had played a significant role in the development of the nation and remained the only Nigerian Head of State to hand over power to a civilian administration and also ensured a civilian to civilian transition.

He said,”As far as he is concerned,issues concerning Nigeria are far beyond party affiliation. There is no way we talk about Nigeria that we will not talk about Obasanjo.”

The former governor of Lagos State and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, described Obasanjo as a “nationalist, teacher, disciplinarian and a tutor in dignity and boldness.”

He said though they have had differences in the past, he noted that Obasanjo was a man of value and wisdom.

He said, “Obasanjo is an open book, you read a line, you pick a paragraph, you learn, you comply, if you drink from that fountain of wisdom, you will see value in it, he is very, very committed to the Nigerian nation.”

The chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, described Obasanjo as “an icon, a father, a non- partisan person,and the very first in the history of this nation.”

Among dignitaries at the event were former governors of Ekiti and Osun states – Segun Oni and Olagunsoye Oyinlola , the Osile of Oke-Ona Egba, Dr. Adedapo Tejuoso, and the co-chairman, OOPL Board of Trustees, Ambassador Carl Masters.

Babygal4eva:
My apologies it's like a reflex action nowadays

Babygal4eva:
A young girl of 15 is emotionally immature to consent to haing a consenual relationship with a full grown man. A 15 year old girl still has stars in her eyes, still sees the world as a hramless place still sees herself as indestructable.

When I was fifteen I had a cute Maths teacher Oh boy he was hot(lol this guy made me know Maths aswear I jack am like mad) and if he asked me out and said I shouldn't tell anyone I would probably have agreed, that's what teenage crush is it doesn't see age as a barrier. The man on the other hand should know better, he ought to know that if he sleeps with a young girl that he is a pedo simple and short.

I don't care how mature a 15 year old looks ask for some form of identification or even by the way they talk you ought to be able to know how old a lady is. It's the law there really is no excuse.

And for a lady who will blame her parents for not educating her on sex in this day an age is like APC goons blaming Jonathan for not washing their car for them every morning, complete and utter rubb.ish. Abi they taught you how to spread your legs for the guy.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Res ipsa loquitor, and apc thugs will be saying its pdp. Useless people! Sahara reporters deceiving buhari thugs since 1983

The new demands — for the removal of Mr. Jega and the suspension of use of card readers — also came hours after the All Progressives Congress, APC, accused the Nigerian government of plotting to use some political parties which the APC branded as “satellite” organs of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to seek a fresh shift of elections.


Four Nigerian political parties have threatened to pull out of the March 28 and April 11 elections if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, refuses to suspend the use of card readers.

The parties also called on the chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega, to proceed on terminal leave, accusing him of exhibiting unprofessionalism and poor judgement.

“Since Prof Attahiru Jega has shown lack of professionalism and good judgment in his actions so far in the conduct of the 2015 elections and since he has about three months to the end of his tenure as INEC Chairman, we the stakeholders urge him to quietly consider proceeding on terminal leave so that a more competent person can handle the current election process,” the parties said at a press conference Wednesday.

The parties warned that the use of card readers, which INEC says will help check voting fraud, will negatively affect the credibility of the elections.

A statement containing the demands was signed by the national chairman of MEGA Progressive Peoples Party, Dare Falade; the presidential candidate of the Peoples Party of Nigeria, Kelvin Alagoa; and the presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, Rafiu Salau.

But the national chairman of Advanced Congress of Democrats, ACD, Onwubuya Breakforth, who spoke on behalf of the group, claimed that the three parties, alongside his ACD, acted as representatives of 15 political parties.

He later told PREMIUM TIMES the remaining 11 parties had declined to immediately disclose their identities for political reasons, but assured that the parties will soon identify themselves.

The chairman of the Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Yunusa Tanko, said the parties did not represent IPAC, the umbrella body of political parties.

Mr. Tanko, who is also the national chairman of National Conscience Party, said his party was not opposed to the use of card readers during the elections.

But Mr. Breakforth of the ACD said they consider the card reader a relatively new technology that should be sufficiently tested before use.

“… if the card reader should develop some technical problems, there is a possibility that the consequences of such development would affect about 40 (forty) or 50 (fifty) percent of the polling booths nationwide,” the group said.

“Because of the tendency of the card reader device to develop some technical fault any time during the voters accreditation process, that was the reason why all the Political Parties agreed with INEC recently, that the election should be postponed in polling booths where a substantial number of card reader defaults were recorded because it would disrupt the entire election process,” they said.

The parties advised INEC to manually confirm every voter during accreditation process.

The parties said while they are not against a faster and improved way of conducting the elections, but that it should not be used in the general elections.

The call by the four parties, some of the same organizations that demanded the postponement of the elections from the initial February dates, came a day after a Federal High Court in Abuja refused an application filed by four political parties to stop INEC from using the card readers during elections.

The parties that filed the suit were Alliance for Democracy, United Democratic Party, Allied Congress Party of Nigeria and Action Alliance.

The new demands — for the removal of Mr. Jega and the suspension of use of card readers — also came hours after the All Progressives Congress, APC, accused the Nigerian government of plotting to use some political parties which the APC branded as “satellite” organs of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to seek a fresh shift of elections.

The four parties did not however demand a reschedule of the polls.

But speaking separately Wednesday, the spokesperson for the Goodluck Jonathan campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode, said the PDP’s position on card readers remained that “the machine has not been tested in any election and there are bases for genuine concern over the use of the machine, for the first time, in a crucial election of this magnitude”.

In their statement, the four parties agreed with that argument, and urged INEC to suspend the proposed use of “the card reader for the March 28 and April 11 general elections or we may consider boycotting the election”.

Mr. Breakforth argued that delaying the introduction of the card reader device would enable the nation and INEC itself to properly ascertain its workability and efficiency.

He said the use of card readers now may lead to manipulation and massive rigging of the election while Nigerians may be disenfranchised.

“We also want INEC to respond to this emergency and also within 24 hours, approve our request because time is of the essence,” he said.

“This positive response is necessary so that we would be able to meet the demands of our party members and majority of the Nigerian voters who have expressed great anxiety and concern over this matter.”

Did anyone notice this part of the article

What is clear to all Nigerians is that the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan government has finally run the power sector aground. The country has been generating less than 4,000 megawatts of electricity, but the current Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo, a serving high Anglican priest, has been compelled to tell lies serially to the effect that 4,500MW is generated.
The amount of electricity clamed is still about 1,000MW less than the quantum of power the country was producing when Prof Nnaji left office in August, 2012.

diluminati:
see this dundee oh! abeg i dont need to waste my time on you virgin boy, someone else will clear your cluelessness for you

You're something else, seriously

harlos:
i understand your point that is why i said it depends on what we interprete it to be.
I actually interpreted it to be, what God is not involve in won't work against you.
Like any plan of the evil or any force against one

Mayor21:
If he likes let him barb punk, mo hawk e.t.c ..... He won't be nigerian vice p.

temitemi1:
Whatever you like barb, still Aso Rock no dey for you n your master(tinubu). GEJ till 2019!!!

And you both are supposed to be educated? Honestly, from my heart of hearts, you both need Change - academic Change, to be specific.

stephengee:
Just a few days back!!
Some guy with an APC sticker reading CHANGE in BOLD letters, beat a fuel queue so arrogantly and dint have the courtesy to look back and apologize for his corrupt act!!
With the fact that he had APC painted all over his car and his personality, I could only guess he's probably one of those who were chanting that GEJ is a fool and doesn't know wha he is doing, how can GEJ say "stealing is not corruption, corruption is corruption, stealing is stealing" and so forth!!
This clearly shows how the concept of CHANGE is not in any flimzy political party!! Helloww Wake up!!, smell the coffee, change starts from you!!
Beating a queue, isn't it corruption?
Jumping line, isn't it corruption, what did he steal!?
This chant CHANGE confuse me

How are we to believe what you posted above is real? Bearing that in mind, you witnessed an event with no venue and you expect us to believe Let's pretend I believe, jumping queue in Nigeria is not corruption. I need not explain because GEJ has the best answer to this. Beating a fuel attendant and the manager of the fuel station could not do a thing about it because they are customers

Ordinary beating is not corruption and so ordinary queue jumping.

On a more serious note, the Change should indeed start from us but there will always be bad eggs among the good ones. An example of Change so far is that of the ruling party that has become the opposition party overnight.

KissQ:
Uw deaarie n fankz for d love! So haws ur day going

KissQ:
Sanchez u welcome to d elites group,my name is maro n am d brain behind dis group, though we r 1 family here,with tym u will get to know sum peepz arund here meanwhile r u working or schooling?

tswitch:
Meaning you are "one" of such people with spurious claims and accusations with no facts or proof to back it up.
Noted.
Run along now.
This conversation is not for your ilk.

You sure are one to talk, kiddo