₦airaland Forum

T-charged:
Why do these people keeping stealing and looting? Our dear country is being pulled down daily by some greedy people. Such a shame!

It is really painful that, this is happening on daily basis, and even now.

[quote author=afosam link=topic=386255.msg5371549#msg5371549 date=1264245741][/quote]I will suggest, issues are not being discussed based on tribal sentiments, else, our sense of reasoning will be clouded with partiality.

The situation depends. Can one be accused of stealing, if he takes his wife's money that was kept carelessly?

Men have always accused their wives of stealing their money. In our previous edition, we asked women what would make them steal their husbands’ money, and they gave various responses. However, women are also of the opinion that some men steal from their wives. As a result, we went round town to find out from men if women were right in saying that men also steal their wives’ money.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/kiss%20&%20tell/2010/jan/23/kiss-and-tell-23-01-2010-001.htm

nbem2008:
Guys PLEASE, this is a BILL and NOT a law yet. I see some of you are based in UK and USA, still you seem not to be able to differentiate these 2. So what the heck have you been able to learn all the while?

Mr. Nbem2008, do you know that, we have a similar law in existence already? What is the difference between this bill of yours and the existing law in the same state?

Oboma1:
David-West said: “That is a lie. Obasanjo is being economical with the fact and the truth, because when they said Yar’Adua was not well, Obasanjo said anyone who said Yar’Adua wasn’t well was the person not well. Now Obasanjo can’t play the Pontius Pilate. He can’t deny that he brought Yar’Adua. He imposed Yar’Adua and Jonathan, to the extent that Yar’Adua’s mother was taken to Otta farm to thank Obasanjo and I came out in The Sun to say Yar’Adua crated his old mother to go and thank Obasanjo. Now, Obasanjo cannot deny this.”

The professor said Obasanjo’s comments were reported by Daily Sun on January 4, 2007, with a headline: “Presidency: Dr Obasanjo certifies Yar’Adua medically fit.”
In the report, Obasanjo had said: “I know all about Umaru’s ailment and it disappeared since 2001. It was a miracle. So those calling him a sick man are the ones who are sick. After all, only God can tell who will be sick or not. I wonder how somebody can open his mouth and say a human being created by God is a sick man. I am sure he has proved to those who say he cannot stand stress that all that is not true.”

David-West expressed shock that Obasanjo could now turn round to deny that he ever knew.
He said: “I have my records. So, Obasanjo is a liar and Yar’Adua himself came out to say anyone who said he was not well, let him come and play squash with him. These are all records.






It really pisses me to read all the above, and yet, the man still lies at his age. Why did he build a church then, if his tongue cannot divorce lies?.

Even David-West, is he a saint? All of them are the same.

Oboma1:
According to him, “Obasanjo is trying to deceive Nigerians, because Yar’Adua is no longer in a position to talk and he knows that the man is incapacitated. How can he say that he wasn’t aware of Yar’Adua’s illness? When they were campaigning Yar’Adua collapsed; they rushed him abroad and Obasanjo was asking him, ‘Umoru are you alive?.”

“Obasanjo can’t claim not to know that Yar’Adua has health problem. As governor of Katsina State, he would stay abroad for six months on medical grounds. What he did was to use Yar’Adua to service his personal desire, thinking that he would die before the election so that he won’t hand over and elongate his tenure. That was Obasanjo’s permutation. So, for him now to be telling us that he wasn’t aware is a lie from the pit of hell. He should just shut up!

Obasanjo really used Yar'Adua for his personal interest. Had it been his scripts were really acted well, he would have been there till date. He cannot claim that he never knew the reasons why Yar'Adua travelled frequently abroad while he was governor. He is indeed, telling Nigerians, a huge lie!.

Whe you are talking about renting a house in Lagos, then you are in for it.

Check this out:

1. 3 Years rent.
2. Caution fee
3. Commision.
4. Agent fee.
5. Agreement.
6. Money for form collected.
7. Security fee.

Now tell me, how much are you going to pay for a 3-bedroom flat that is costing N250,000 per year?.

Uche2nna:
Very good development.

However, we know that reputable machines suddenly fail to work when it comes to Nigeria. Even the machine go accept bribe and give u fake results. Same thing that happened with the MRI machines brought in for bone density scanning during the U-17 tourney.

That is my greatest fear!. It is not the machine itself, but those operating the machine. I hope the machine does not chop bribe!.

selingel:
Meanwhile, most traders interviewed by newsmen were suspicions of the visit of the agency to the market, adding that they were not given any pre-information about the visit of NAFDAC as well as the new machine,
“We are still apprehensive of this unscheduled visit of the agency as well as the open test of our drugs; we hope that the agency is not planning to close down the market again,’’ a cross section of them said.

Any one that has clean hands, and is doing genuine business needs not fear. Those Okoro guys should stop feeding us with chalks, please.

NAFDAC’s fake drug detecting machine ar rives Onitsha market
From NWABUEZE OKONKWO, Onitsha
Thurday, January 21, 2010



Photo: Sun Publishing
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Palpable fear has gripped Onitsha drug dealers as the fake drug testing machine imported by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) arrived the Onitsha drug market yesterday. The machine is expected to be used for carrying out the first South East public test of drugs on sale at the drug market.
The machine simply called “True Scan Machine’’ was programmed to detect the condition of commonly used as well as faked drugs in the country they are to ascertain whether genuine or not within one to three minutes interval of its lesser laser beam scan.
NAFDAC Chief Regulatory Officer, Mrs. Leli Aigbomian who led the team to the market, said the machine also has the capacity to analyze tablets on the spot in order to ascertain the various quantity of its composition, adding, “if it is pure chalk, the machine will also detect and confirm”.

Aigbomian said that the machine was an improvement on the agency’s capacity to check fake and adulterated drugs on the spot; adding: “The machine will be mostly used at the port or point of entry of these drugs to the country so that the issue of fake drug importation will stop’’.
“Although, we have got a lot of stock of the machine for distribution, I will not say for sure whether it can go round considering the number of markets we have, she stated, adding, but for some states, the machines allocated to them will be sufficient, while others need more”.

The NAFDAC officer said that the True Scan Machine test conducted within the Onitsha drug market was successfully done. Aigbomian also said that the agency would partner with drug markets and associations on the need for them to acquire the product in order to give them the ability to access themselves and do easy internal verification of drug genuineness at any point in time.

Meanwhile, most traders interviewed by newsmen were suspicions of the visit of the agency to the market, adding that they were not given any pre-information about the visit of NAFDAC as well as the new machine,
“We are still apprehensive of this unscheduled visit of the agency as well as the open test of our drugs; we hope that the agency is not planning to close down the market again,’’ a cross section of them said.
Mr. Emeka Ezeanyika, Chairman, Onitsha Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers Union (OPPMDU), commended the agency and its Director-General, Dr. Paul Orhii for his focused war against fake and adulterated drugs in the country.

“I commend NAFDAC D-G, Dr. Paul Orhii for successful checking of fake and adulterated drugs in the country within his one year in office and the introduction of the new fake drug detecting machine.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/jan/21/national-21-01-2010-12.htm

safariman:
@Bluhazel
One of my Nigeria's Ambassador confirmed what you wrote. Most of the time, they use the visa and passport money to run the missions

Na wah oh!.

Really taking a critical look, can Islam as a religion be affiliated to Suicide bombing?

WHAT MAKES SUICIDE BOMBER THICK?

What brings a young Palestinian man to detonate himself amidst a crowd of teenagers? Is it a religious upbringing with promises of paradise in reward for acts of martyrdom? Is it the parental support he receives for his convictions? Is it brainwashing, or rather encouragement from a Palestinian society with no other means of fighting back against oppression and humiliation?

Yesterday the military wing of the Hamas, Izz al-Din al-Qassam, claimed responsibility for Friday night's bombing outside a Tel Aviv discotheque, which took the lives of 20 young Israelis. The suicide bomber was identified as 22-year-old Saeed Hotary, a Jordanian who had been living in Kalkilya.

"I am very happy and proud of what my son did and I hope all the men of Palestine and Jordan would do the same,'' Saeed's father Hassan told The Associated Press.

Family members could not supply information about Saeed's political affiliations. His brother said Saeed "was very religious since he was young; he prayed and fasted."

The typical suicide bomber
Since the signing of the Oslo Agreements in 1993, Palestinian terrorist organizations have sent more than 70 suicide bombers on missions against Israeli targets. Fortunately, not all succeeded in their missions like Hotary. Last month Yediot Aharonot presented a profile of the typical suicide bomber: 47% of the suicide bombers have an academic education and an additional 29% have at least a high school education.
83% of the suicide bombers are single.
64% of the suicide bombers are between the ages 18-23; most of the rest are under 30.
68% of the suicide bombers have come from the Gaza Strip.


In a column published today in the New York Times, William Safire writes that "the pride and joy of Arafat's arsenal is a weapon of mass terror that has no known defense: the human missile." Safire describes the suicide bombers as being 'brainwashed' and considers the efforts necessary to enable the launching of these 'missiles.'

"[Arafat] knows where the human missiles are being programmed and armed. Such fanatic indoctrination takes time and isolation; it takes teachers of terror skilled in evoking visions of a martyrdom and requires recruits from vulnerably infuriated families who are known to other cells. The brainwashing is reinforced with official broadcasts of films of a dead boy beckoning potential suicide killers to join him in paradise."
From the New York Times, June 4, 2001

In a report on MSNBC following the suicide bombing attack in Netanya last month, unnamed sources from Hamas admitted that suicide bombers undergo a process of indoctrination that lasts for months.

"The bombers believe they are sent on their missions by God, and by the time they're ready to be strapped with explosives, say the sources, they have reached a hypnotic state. Their rationale: that by blowing themselves up in a crowd of Israelis, they are forging their own gateway to heaven."
From MSNBC

The BBC reported that suicide bombers "are likely to be motivated by religious fervor." According to a BBC report, recruits are "picked out from mosques, schools and religious institutions. They are likely to have shown particular dedication to the principles of Islam… and are taught the rewards that will await them if they sacrifice their lives."

Islam reserves places in paradise
According to Islamic tradition, "he who gives his life for an Islamic cause will have his sins forgiven and a place reserved in paradise."

But Christine Huda Dodge, About's Guide to Islam, insists that suicide is forbidden in Islam. Though "fighting oppression is commendable," Dodge points out that "harming innocent bystanders, even in times of war, was forbidden by the Prophet Muhammad."

Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al Sheik, the supreme religious leader of Saudi Arabia, issued a fatwa (religious edict) in April that equated suicide bombings with suicide, which therefore is not allowed in Islam.

In response, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, a leading doctrinal authority in the Sunni Muslim world, wrote in Egypt's Al Ahram that "if a person blows himself up, as in operations that Palestinian youths carry out against those they are fighting, then he is a martyr. But if he explodes himself among babies or women or old people who are not fighting the war, then he is not considered a martyr."

The bottom line is not entirely clear among Islamic clerics. Sheik Yousef al Qaradawi, a moderate Egyptian cleric told the Qatari newspaper Al Raya in April, "They are not suicide operations. These are heroic martyrdom operations, and the heroes who carry them out don't embark on this action out of hopelessness and despair but are driven by an overwhelming desire to cast terror and fear into the hearts of the oppressors."

Combination of occupation and humiliation
Mouin Rabbani, director of the Palestinian American Research Center in Ramallah, claims, "Religious or ideological fervor appears to offer only a partial explanation." Rabbani says "Palestinian suicide bombers are neither products of a passive and unquestioning obedience to political authority nor pressed into service against their will."

Instead, Rabbani states that the common thread among all suicide bombers is the "bitter experience of what they see as Israeli state terror."

"Without exception, the suicide bombers have lived their lives on the receiving end of a system designed to trample their rights and crush every hope of a brighter future… Confronted by a seemingly endless combination of death, destruction, restriction, harassment and humiliation, they conclude that ending life as a bomb - rather than having it ended by a bullet - endows them, even if only in their final moments, with a semblance of purpose and control previously considered out of reach."
From Middle East News Online

Palestinians support suicide bombings
An unnamed Palestinian security official cited in today's Jerusalem Post said, "One of the problems in stopping [suicide bombing] attacks is the strong support for them among the population."

According to a poll conducted among Palestinian adults from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerusalem at the end of May by Dr. Nabil Kukali and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), "a substantial majority (76.1%) support suicidal attacks like that of Netanya [in May], whereas 12.5% oppose, and 11.4% express no opinion."

Palestinian psychiatrist Iyad Al-Sarraj, cited in a recent Reuters report entitled "Palestinians find ready supply of suicide bombers," said both religion and the humiliation of life under occupation were the key motives for suicide bombers bent on starting a better life in paradise.

"It is no wonder that some people are doing it. We should wonder why everyone isn't doing it," Sarraj said.


http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/security/articles/sec_0049.htm

ayinba1:
^^^^And just how did you arrive at this submission?

Naturally, Islam is a religion of terror, and no two way about that.

Xena15:
I have always said it that, if anyone must hold a political post, he or she must make do of local content. This should be enshrined in the constitution.

Shekinah!

flashgeek:
Death to all of them soludo ,obi ,ojukwu et.c

Anyone who is greedy must die!

Na wah for this kind prayer!. Which Nigerian leader is not greeder?

How drastic?

citizenY:
For all I care, no visa should be issued to any government official for any reason whatsoever.
afterall, in these days of emails and video conferencing, there is no difference between meeting
venues in Vienna or Beijing. They are just frittering away valuable time and money.

More annoying is this Bornu trip. I have not seen any evidence of government intervention in irrigation
in that state. All efforts are either by individuals or the federal government.

My Dear, dont you want these guys to collect estacode?.

This is someone's contribution from where the info came out from:


Only those who dont know Ibrahim Gaidam will doubt any story about him.He was so poor and wretched before becoming deputy governor, to the extent that he sold his hotel Kingimi in Maiduguri: which was used as base for homosexual activities by Yobe politicians.But this man shows his gladness for the death of Mamman Ali by embarking of looting.Just after two weeks of coming to power, he started buying properties all over the place.The front man Alhaji Ibrahim Tumsah is just an assistant director in the federal civil service. This same man, Ibrahim Tumsah is now the main contractor for every sector in Yobe state.

Indeed, the governor must be very corrupt!.

Xena15:
Sources told our correspondent that the commissioner for commerce, whose ministry equally has dealings with Borno government’s participation in the expo, was merely denied visa because he has ‘Imam’ which is a title for a Muslim cleric that leads prayer in the mosque as his surname. The commissioner comes from a popular family in Borno which has produced leading Islamic scholars including chief Imams who lead prayers in mosque. His father is a retired Grand Khadi of the Shari’a court. The commissioner is known to have in the past, been granted visa into different countries, including the United Kingdom.

I am beginning to look at the story critically again, where did the reporter get his own info from? Was he told this by the embassy's official behind the door, because the officials will never tell anyone that, they are denying one visa because of the name, "Imam".

On a second thought, even if it is a lie, it serves these extremists right!.

selingel:
Governor Gaidam became well-known in Yobe state when an investigation during the military era had him among what the people of Yobe state call '47 Wisemen', meaning 47 big thieves. During the tenure of Commissioner of Police Dabo Aliyu as military administrator in the 1990's, he and the rest of that infamous group were jailed for stealing.

While he was Deputy Governor, late Mamman Ali gave him Gaidem power to approve up to five million naira without recourse to him. But Ibrahim Gaidam proved incapable of running public funds without stealing them, as he embarked on false and fake expenditures that compelled Mamman Ali to withdraw the privilege.

However, upon being sworn-in as governor in January 2009, Ibrahim Gaidam legitimized corruption and embarked on massive looting of public funds. He started it all by demolishing his home in Damaturu - the house which was known to be his personal residence. It was originally a small-sized milk-painted bungalow with a black gate and was unnoticeably located metres away from a popular Sheikh Diyar mosque in Sabon Fegi. Investigations showed that the house used to have two units of two-bedroom flats for two of his wives, a chalet for children as well as a one-bedroom with a store, which served as the master chalet.

Since then, the governor has spent over 800 million on the mansion, into to which he is planning to relocate while in office, and claim rent from the government for its use.

He also has been buying expensive property in Kaduna, Kano, Lagos and Abuja. In Abuja, he bought a house worth 500 million on Enyadema Street in Asokoro district. His personal house in Maiduguri was also demolished and nieghbours were paid off. Now, the modest house stands as one of the most expensive building in Maiduguri. He also tarred the road leading to his house in Maiduguri, even though many parts of Yobe state have been without access roads for over 40 years.

That is the level of greed in Nigeria today!.

Governor Gaidem New House.

Yobe State: Governor Gaidam steals the people blind

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Written by Sahara Admin
Saturday, 16 January 2010 12:34


Before the death of Governor Mamman Ali almost a year ago, most people did not know Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, his Deputy who would then assume the office of governor. Alhaji Gaidam was only known to the people of Yobe state civil service, where he had risen to the position of a permanent secretary. But his tendency to steal public funds was manifest and known to all those who worked with him in that service. That was also the habit that earned him disdain of the two-time governor of the state, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, who did not consider him trustworthy for any public office.

Governor Gaidam became well-known in Yobe state when an investigation during the military era had him among what the people of Yobe state call '47 Wisemen', meaning 47 big thieves. During the tenure of Commissioner of Police Dabo Aliyu as military administrator in the 1990's, he and the rest of that infamous group were jailed for stealing.

While he was Deputy Governor, late Mamman Ali gave him Gaidem power to approve up to five million naira without recourse to him. But Ibrahim Gaidam proved incapable of running public funds without stealing them, as he embarked on false and fake expenditures that compelled Mamman Ali to withdraw the privilege.

However, upon being sworn-in as governor in January 2009, Ibrahim Gaidam legitimized corruption and embarked on massive looting of public funds. He started it all by demolishing his home in Damaturu - the house which was known to be his personal residence. It was originally a small-sized milk-painted bungalow with a black gate and was unnoticeably located metres away from a popular Sheikh Diyar mosque in Sabon Fegi. Investigations showed that the house used to have two units of two-bedroom flats for two of his wives, a chalet for children as well as a one-bedroom with a store, which served as the master chalet.

Since then, the governor has spent over 800 million on the mansion, into to which he is planning to relocate while in office, and claim rent from the government for its use.

He also has been buying expensive property in Kaduna, Kano, Lagos and Abuja. In Abuja, he bought a house worth 500 million on Enyadema Street in Asokoro district. His personal house in Maiduguri was also demolished and nieghbours were paid off. Now, the modest house stands as one of the most expensive building in Maiduguri. He also tarred the road leading to his house in Maiduguri, even though many parts of Yobe state have been without access roads for over 40 years.

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has been stealing without remorse, knowing fully well that EFCC and ICPC are nothing but shadows for dealing with the political enemies of the government. EFCC has been ignoring all the petitions about the sleaze going on on Yobe state, bacause it is alleged that the thieving governor has "settled" the leadership of the EFCC.

Governor Gaidam has been perpetrating all these crimes against the poor people of Yobe state with the help of an assistant director in the federal civil serive, Alhaji Ibrahim Tumsah- who himself has been corruptly rich. Alhaji Ibrahim Tumsah is now the front being used by Governor Gaidam to continue stealing Yobe dry. Alhaji Ibrahim Tumsah is presently constructing a road inflated at 4 billion naira, even though he never had anything to do with construction.

While the people of Yobe state wallow in poverty Governor Gaidam taxed the 17 local governments of the state the sum of 20 million naira each as a gift to him for the lavish wedding of his daughter which took place late last year.

http://saharareporters.com/news/4849-yobe-state-governor-gaidam-steals-the-people-blind.html

Otobroto:
I fear for the worst for Nigeria. The way corruption is now, it is peace-threatening!.

The so-called Arewa Forum needs to wake up and take the bull by the horn, by ensuring that their governors are made accountable to their subjects. This attitude of always contesting issues with the south, is not the problem of the nation. They (the north) are the problem of the nation. Look at what is happening in Jos; that is the situation of Nigeria today.

Oboma1:
Which good religion will suggest one to commit crime, because there are virgins waiting for him/her? What kind of gods will suggest that his/her subjects arise and fight for him/her, and now call it Jihad? If the gods was what he/she claimed to be, he/she should have sort himself/herself. Why worship a gods that cannot fight for himself/herself.

It has even gone beyond religion, but it is now embedded in our politicians to enrich themselves, once they have any political office. It is a blanket thing!.

Enjoyment1:
All these are stories my Dear, all these Hausa's will never contribute to the development of the north, rather, they will never stop in buying SUV and Honda to their aides, so that they can score cheap political points, while still impoverishing their subjects the more.

Yes, they are stories, because the kind of money being embezzled by Yobe state governor, is enough for any embassy to deny him and his co-horts visa. In the real sense, will all these embassies deny these guys? Are they too not interested in these monies?

edoyad:
And that their political class want them to remain poor illiterates, so they can use them to cause trouble at 50 Naira a head.

and it is so painful that, these people do not have a say even over their own lives. If an Islamic leader instigates them to go out and foment trouble, they will run out like morons, not minding the fact that, they can be killed.

edoyad:
Mix poverty, illiteracy and religious bigotry and what you get is what the hausa man is causing in jos. They migrate from their indigent states to cause trouble in other states, what a pity ?

It is really a pity. In fact, the case of Jos is the most annoying, and the root cause of the problem there is IBB. He wrongly created a local government there, which is now making the minority-foreigners to lay claim to another person's land.

Otobroto:
I love this video. That is exactly what our passport has turned into.

Whatever is happening to these guys from the north, is just their past hunting their present, and they better be careful, so that it does not hunt their future.