₦airaland Forum

kobikwelu: One thing i took away from this is that Amechi is too blind to see his own contradiction

he said that the president should have nothing against his ambition.....

and yet later, he said that Wike his former chief of staff should not be president because wike has no leadership skills

soooo tell me what makes him different from GEJ??

The difference is that Nyesom Wike is 'fighting' Amaechi, and the ogas at the top are fighting Amaechi (evidences abound)! Do you now get it?

excelkoms: Ayo Fayoshe, DSP Alameiseigha, J. Ibori etc hav all threaded in dis path b4 and dey neva came out clean frm it. In as much as we dnt d political tension in R/state, make dem tell dis man say, U CANNOT FIGHT D COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES.........

I really get worried about your types! Who has been ruffled the most in all of this? It is Amaechi! 1.His plane was harrased
2. The NGF election he won was not recognized by the oga at the top,
3. The Rivers State House of assemby show of shame - that has caused perpetual damage to those harrassing gov Amaechi - why do you think the dame is suing for peace? The whole world have watched that and shame is greatly on the sponsors of that shameful attempt! Bipi should be recalled by the good people he is supposed to represent!
4. The commissioner of police is not in tandem with the chief security officer of the State!
5. Only Chidi Lloyd has gone to the police - he didn't start the July 9 fracas in the Rivers House of Assembly! The other five are yet interrogated even with video evidence of Bipi claiming to have dished out blows!

Please people it is high time this country moves forward! The show of shame is just unbearable! Do not sell your sense of reason cheap!
Rotimi Amaechi has been pushed to the wall. He is an ELECTED governor (Patience Jonathan is not the governor of Rivers State! Amaechi is, and has proven his mettle in all ramifications)! He has delivered on many fronts! There was a governor from 1999 - 2007, he did nothing! That governor only donated to his cronies......!

We practice a democracy and all elected public officials should learn the tenets of democracy!

TechyGuy: No one needs a crystal ball to tell the region you are from.

My friend it is not about regions. It is the quest for good governance!

What is shocking is that a lot of people seems to have been paid to defend what cannot be defended. I am at a total loss for the lack of objectivity I see in forums these days! My sincere wish is that we have to be objective to liberate this nation Nigeria from the shackles of corruption and incompetent leaders. I pray we seize the opportunity at the ballot box and vote right irrespective of where the candidates are from! Let's vote in people who will reverse the
status quo and bring Nigeria out of the doldrums.

By Rotimi Amaechi
On Saturday June 15 and Sunday June 16, reports in the media credited to my brother governor, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State announced that he has called for a Nigeria Governors’ Forum meeting. Ordinarily I would have ignored these reports as I do not imagine that as governors who hold our people’s mandate through the democratic process of free and fair elections, we would do anything to impugn our integrity.

However as chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum, elected by my colleagues to safeguard their integrity and that of the forum it has become imperative for me to request my brother and Governor Jang to remain within the confines of decorum and cease to impersonate me and to stop parading himself as NGF chairman. There is only one chairman of the forum, duly elected by a vote tally of 19: 16 on Friday, May 24, 2013.

For the avoidance of doubt, I as chairman of the NGF have not called for any Governors’ Forum meeting for Monday, June 17, 2013. The only meeting scheduled for Monday June 17, is a meeting of all Governors with His Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan scheduled to hold at 9pm at Aso Rock Villa. All governors should please ensure attendance at this meeting with Mr. President.

I wish to reassure my brother governors that this storm shall pass and we all will be reunited as one family committed to our nation’s unity and supporting Mr. President in his vision for a Nigeria that safeguards the rights of all its citizens to good governance and democratic norms.

Governor Jang is my brother and friend and I harbor no ill feelings against him, but it is important that he stops this impersonation, as it could threaten all the good work we all have done together.

May I remind Governor Jang that there is a legal action that has been instituted against him by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State from parading himself as the chairman of NGF. As leaders elected by our people, Nigerians are closely watching us. We must comport our selves according the dictates and principles of democratic and lawful practices and norms.



CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI

Governor, Rivers State/Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum(NGF)

http://saharareporters.com/press-release/press-release-no-nigeria-governors-forum-ngf-meeting-monday-amaechi

Mistade Regal: What the heck are you posting? Why not open your shut eyes and stop taking wrong sides!

Acidosis, I am sure that you have seen that there's a lot wrong with the way you think! Many people saying the same thing about you means you are wrong! STOP BEING BLIND! Get more education so as to defend you paymasters better! Shuo!!! Ntoooooooo!!!!

Acidosis: I hope y'all will not kill yaselves because of nothing.

If a common student could afford a brazillian hair worth N80,000, a phone worth N100,000 who are we to condemn her for whatever she spends her money on...?

Why not wait for EFCC, Police and the responsible bodies to do their jobs?

Why the hatred?

The problem with you all is, you sit back in a room in Lagos (or any other place) and condemn things going on far away... so many things y'all know nothing about.

I passed through about 3 states last week... and I saw the various on-going Federal projects have never seen in my life. Massive road construction, everywhere! BUT each time I come online esp on nairaland, the only thing I see is kids pouring out their anger...

When people fail JAMB - its GEJ

When there is no power in your room - its GEJ (Even when the PHCN in your locality purposely switch off the source)

When you sleep all day with nothing to eat at night - its GEJ

When SS2 students can not solve simple quadratic equation - its GEJ.

I'm waiting for the day this innocent man GEJ would hand over to the saviour everyone is crying for I just hope they'll not regret again..

Another offpoint post by Acidosis. Shame! I weep for you! I am sure you have a problem comprehending posts. Stop whipping up sentiments. Read with an open mind and pray you understand!

Eko Ile: You want him to use his brain? Are you not asking for too much since we all know he has non.

It is obvious that some are paid by others to be stupid! People posting very irrelevant arguments are posts, and arguing blindly shocks......... Black can never be white, no matter the amount of bleach!

Acidosis: and you are quoting the no1 drunkard/indian hemp smoker ever in the history of Nigeria.

and you are quoting a man who sleeps with anything that starts with letter F & W

and you are quoting a noise maker who did nothing but spread HIV and AIDs around the country

FELA (whether you like it or not) is and will be forever more respected than those that you blindly support! The loot will never reach you, so open ya eyes and brains and think well.

ifihearam: yes sir>
Thats FAVOR.
favor does not choose the qualified,it qualifies the chosen ones.
And patience Jonathan is one the microscopic few selected by favor.

Favour? think of what legacy she will leave behind with all her agbero moves......... Do you pray to get to a level of incompetence?

Acidosis: To you poverty means humility... where are you from?

You infer so wrongly! If Dame was Obama's wife? Thinking...................

Humble? With the kind of stupendous wealth? I hear her english has improved - money answereth grammar problems

Billyonaire: So many illiterates on Nairaland these days. I didnt see where the First Lady, 'blasted' Amaechi

Billyonaire or whatever your name is. Your are the worst illiterate! You are a blind acolyte period. Your support for GEJ and Dame stinks, 'cause you just support with your eyes punctured. Your support reminds me of one of FELA favourites
hits sung in the early 70's........ Who remembers the song..... It starts with a Z

teniyi: Please, who born this Senator?

This guy is talking crap. 'Let him who has no sin cast the first stone'.

dulphines: What do we do to them now?

Their political career should die!
Anti - democratic forces now posturing as pillars of democracy. All they have is 'interim' success.Shame to the killers of the people's wishes. That's why Nigeria is still in darkness. We watch and await their shames.......

Mogidi: HYPOCRITES SHOULD SHUT UP
[size=16pt]90% OF YOU CASTIGATING HIM WOULD DO EXACTLY THE SAME[/size]

Talk for yourself Mogidi! To be two-faced ain't easy!

[quote author=Delafruita]Dame Patience, our president’s darling wife


Sincerely, I really do not think it bad that Reuben Abati works for the govt in power. But my challenge is the manner with which he now discharges his duties. He vituperates! He does not constructively address issues! Reuben seems to have lost all manners of decorum as he has taken to revilling as his favourite past time. Like an attack dog, he barks at anyone that criticises his paymasters even when such criticisms is constructive and good for national development.

My greatest worry for him, is how he will integrate back to society after 'destroying' all he has built for himself over the years in 8 years (maximum). How will he face the men and crew of Patito gang?

This news is so disheartening. I am so shocked of the intolerance by Kalusha and the FAZ. The penalty in the Nigeria - Zambia game was really soft. And Mamadou Gaye was right in saying so. The officiating in the 2013 AFCON tournament has been really awful! So many examples abound to show this. It is high time CAF upped their game, else they would lose 'value and credibility (see the Ghana vs Burkina Faso match).

And why must Issa Hayatou remain CAF president come March 2013? Let Africa think about this.

Damilare, please send the pack to me: arinteniola@gmail.com - I will be grateful. My test is on the 2nd of June. Thanks in anticipation of your quick response.

RUBBISH! Real Crap from a drunken fisherman.

[color=#000099][/color]The nation is really a challenge to me! Like one has rightly observed, we have left politics to thugs, rogues and retired force men! These guys have no knowledgeable clue to manage anything (but their cronies) not to talk of discussing the intricacies of the financial market.
Arunma Oteh is clearly superior to the committee inundated with the task of probing her organization (SEC).
These politicians are really taking Nigeria for a ride! The situation is not improving and may not improve.

I remember the recent 'Occupy Nigeria' protest, GEJ and his cronies bullied us to submission! People were killed, the price of PMS was raised, the product (PMS) is still scarce everywhere! Previous protests against such price increases was National! But now our South-South and South-East brothers saw it as a ploy to topple the new 'Azikiwe'. The people of this region are suffering the PMS scarcity the most. In Port-Hourcourt the product once sold for 400 naira / litre! What a shame.

We have a lot of disillusioned leaders and the more they loot the treasury the more they get the likes of Asari Dokubo to tell us crap!
It is time we defended our votes! It is time we elect leaders based on competence! It is time positions are filled with people with the right qualifications and not where the persons are from.

It is time to call the members of the National Assembly to order. They have taken us for a ride to far! It has taken a woman (ARUNMA OTEH) to put them to check. And they have shamelessly asked Hembe's committee to pack up and have inaugurated another committee!

NIGERAINS, AREN'T WE TIRED OF ALL THE DRAMA THAT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ALWAYS PUT UP? The whole world is laughing at us! President Obama recently declared Ghana's democracy a model democracy. Are Ghanaians more intelligent than us?
Enough is enough of incompetent and corrupt leadership!

Linda is a class act! Her blog is simply the best. Congratulations dear.
I am happy for you and I pray that you find utmost happiness in your planned union

GTB is one of the best banks (if not the best) in Nigeria.
The e-banking platform just had a glitch, and it has been fixed. This does not mean that the bank's e-banking is becoming lousy.
As I write outstanding transactions are being posted.

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 00:00 Phillip Eyam-Ozung

Nigerians first heard the name ‘Boko Haram’ sometime in year 2009 when the group reportedly attacked a number of Churches and schools in Bauchi on the grounds that Western education is sin! After security forces somehow flushed the group from Bauchi, it relocated to Maiduguri where it unleashed an orgy of violence that took Nigeria’s military the better part of a week to quell after so many lives had been needlessly lost.

Since then, Boko Haram has continued to insist both that ‘Western education is sin’ and that ‘Nigeria must be totally Islamized’ and to underscore its seriousness, the sect has rapidly grown more sophisticated and audacious in its terrorist attacks which reached their climax with the attack on the UN House in Abuja in August 2011 which claimed the lives of many innocent Nigerians as well as foreign nationals who were UN staffers!

While Boko Haram has not relented in its terrorist acts despite the global outcry that greeted its attack on the UN house in Abuja, its all-out war against the ancient city of Kano which claimed as many as 200 lives a fortnight ago left no one in doubt that it portends greater danger to Nigeria’s security and stability than many had hitherto imagined! Shortly before it launched its Kano mayhem, Boko Haram upped its game by uploading a video on Youtube in which its new leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau, sat between two AK 47 rifles in an Osama Bin Ladin-type posture. In the said video posted on Youtube, the leader of Boko Haram reaffirmed their religious agenda which seeks the creation of an Islamic Nigeria in which Sharia education will replace Western education with absolute finality! As if to leave no one in any doubt about its religious agenda in pursuit of which it’s waging a religious war on parts of the nation, when President Jonathan challenged Boko Haram to identify itself and define its demands so as to give the government a basis of engaging its members, the group posted a new video on Youtube in which its leader called President Jonathan a coward and insisted that dialogue could only take place if the president repented and became a Muslim!

Thus, while we can still speculate about who the real brains behind Boko Haram may be, the group has repeatedly made it abundantly clear that it’s mission is 100 percent religious and not economic as the CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi claimed in his recent Financial Times interview in which he expressly linked the emergence of Boko Haram to stark imbalances in the distribution of national resources. saying ‘There is clearly a direct link between the very uneven nature of distribution of resources and the rising level of violence…when you look at the figures and look at the size of the population in the north, you can see that there is a structural imbalance of enormous proportions. Those states simply do not enough resources to meet basic resources while some states have too much money…This imbalance is compounded when the cost of an amnesty program for militants in the delta is included together with an additional 1% for a special development body for the Niger Delta! Why was Sanusi more concerned about rationalizing Boko Haram’s emergence (which he completely blames on the uneven distribution of national resources)than condemning its terrorist acts? This question is especially pertinent given that Sanusi’s linking of the emergence of Boko Haram to the so-called skewed allocation of resources to the Niger Delta region flies in the face because in the 80s when oil-producing states didn’t receive special derivation and there was neither a special budgetary allocation for the development of the Niger Delta nor militants requiring an amnesty budget, the Islamic Matasine Sect terrorised many parts of the North to the point where the then military government had to dispatch combined military/police teams to battle them especially in Maiduguri, Kano and Jos!

It’s most unsettling that rather than seize the opportunity presented by his Financial Times interview to denounce the Boko Haram terrorist group’s misguided cause and the extreme violence and international embarrassment that it’s visiting on Nigeria, Sanusi chose to rationalise its emergence which he blamed on the uneven distribution of Nigeria’s oil revenues which he considers to be disproportionately in favor of Niger Delta states! Sanusi even demonstrated that he was both fully-prepared for his Financial Times interview and intent on publicising a carefully- articulated pro-Boko Haram position by backing everything he said about the uneven distribution of resources between the oil-producing states of the Niger Delta and the states of the North-east region with official statistics!

The question is, why did Sanusi spend so much time and energy attacking the economic fortunes of the oil-producing states of the Niger Delta region while saying little or nothing about the atrocities of Boko Haram? Why should Sanusi plead the 13 percent derivation accruing to the oil-producing states of the Niger Delta region, the expenditure on the amnesty programme for former Niger Delta militants and the budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission as the prima facie reasons for the emergence of the Boko Haram group when the group itself has never pretended that its mission is economic?

In view of the unmistakable clarity with which Boko Haram terrorists have repeatedly proclaimed their religious agenda, why was Sanusi desperately attempting to re-engineer the Boko Haram agenda from a purely religious cause to an economic cause as a means of mischievously equating the Boko Haram terrorists with Niger Delta militants whose cause was 100 percent economic/environmental? Truth is, no matter how many press statements Sanusi issues in his feeble attempt to force a harmless interpretation of the position he canvassed in his Financial Times interview on a bewildered Nigerian public, it’s self-evident that he’s both insinuating that ‘what’s good for the Niger Delta militants is good for Boko Haram terrorists’ and giving voice to the predominant mindset of most Northern elites and leaders who have all along refused to openly condemn the terrorist exploits of Boko Haram prior to its attack on Kano! This is the kernel of Sanusi’s patently-flawed Boko-Haram economics!

Finally, Sanusi’s Boko-Haram economics is historically-flawed because it’s all too well-known that the stark economic differences between Nigeria’s North and South predate both the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914 and Nigeria’s discovery of oil in 1957. As a matter of fact, it’s this North-South economic imbalance that Sanusi is rationalising in year 2012 as the reason for the emergence of Boko Haram that started in 2009 that influenced Lugard’s amalgamation decision way back in 1914 as it’s reported that ‘The amalgamation was done for economic reasons rather than political-Northern Nigeria had a budget deficit and Frederick Lugard sought to use the budget surpluses in Southern Nigeria to offset this deficit and also believed that administration of the whole area would be easier if united, especially since Northern Nigeria had no access to the sea. At the time, neither Lugard nor other British administrators, nor Africans, considered Nigeria to constitute a potential national unit-in fact, the North and South were considered culturally radically different-and the merger was an economic and administrative convenience. Under an umbrella administration for all Nigeria, the North and South continued to have their own separate administrations, and each had its own Lieutenant-Governor answering to Lugard and his successors.’ Whether as an economist or as a scholar, Sanusi cannot claim ignorance of this well-known fact of Nigeria’s history!

Oh Beaf, where have you been?
I think you are more frustrated!. Everyone on NL knows you are the 'Any Government In Power (AGIP) in this forum.

I ask again,
What has oil derivation got to do with the menace of Boko Haram? Is it only in the NE that there is poverty and unemployment?
Why try introduce Islamic banking with the religious tensions and suspicions in our land?

How come many have lost their jobs? When is there light with the policies of SLS?
I am very well to do if you want to know? I just do not yet see progress under SLS period

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS) became CBN governor sometimes mid 2009 and he came heavy a few months later on the banking industry telling the whole world how bad our banks were.
The Nigerian Banks had been prunned from about 89 to 25 in number in the consolidation programme by his immediate predecessor - Chukwuma Soludo.

Immediately Sanusi resumed, he claimed he wants to re-structure the banks, hence the Nigerian economy.

1. He told us the banks were very weak
2. He sacked the MD and ED of some of the banks
3. He appointed 'successors' to the very bad directors of the bad banks.
4. He bailed out the banks with very huge amounts of Nigerian tax payers money
5. He established AMCON and started buying 'debts' of the failed banks
6. He shifted dates at will and liquidated three of the bad banks

But three years later, where are we? Has our economy improved? Is there any hope in the near future that the economy will improve?
Is Sanusi the best Nigeria has to be the boss of the Apex bank? Don't we have 'gentlemen' who are can perform better? Don't we have men and women who do not raise alarm taht causes more harm than good to the Nigerian economy.

What has happened to the stock market under SLS?
1. SLS has caused confidence to be lost in the market. How? he has said the stock market is a place for 'gamblers'
2. Sanusi has defended the naira to the detriment of the Nigerian economy (?)
3. Sanusi has increased interest rates to an unreasonabl ehigh level to defend his unsustainable policy, and this has stiffled growth and investment. Businesses have not grown as banks do not lend, and even when they do, the rates have sky rocketed!
4. The return from the stock market have been poor since Sanusi assumed the mantle of leadership of the Apex bank. This invariably implies that bussinesses and the economy has been statis under SLS

FUEL SUBSIDY?
Sanusi supported this subsidy with his blood, telling Nigerians that the proposed 141 naira / litre was it for the economy and nothing else! But when the masses reacted, Sanusis quickly started singing a new tune of dialogue.

Sanusi's Religious and Ethnic bias
SLS has a masters in Islamic Studies from a University in Sudan! Can he be unbiased?
He tried to introduce Islamic Banking to the Nigerian State where there is a strong ethnic and religious divide. Thank goodness this was foiled. Who knows what would have happened if this policy had succeeded withthe new menace of Boko Haram
His recent comment that BH started as a result of poor oil derivation to the North Eastern states with some funny statistics on population et al. soundsed funny, biased and pale! Has Sanusi been to the Delta? Does he know the level of poverty and degradation here?
Is this his statement in support of the wanton (no basis) destruction wrecked on the Nigerian nation by Boko Haram? Boko Haram is recently asking for the whole Nigerian state to be ruled under the Islamic Sharia law? Isn't this funny and pale (I learnt the use of the word 'pale' from SLS)

Who is Sanusi? What is his drive and direction for the Nigerian economy / State?
Can Sanusi be unmasked?
Is he the best that this nation can have as the CBN governor? Has his result favoured the average Nigerian - where so many have lost jobs in the banking sector and alot of businesses have stiffled for shortage of funds?

NOVAK is champion in MELBOURNE for third time in the longest grand slam match ever!. Time was 5 hours and 53 minutes
Congratulations Novak Djokovic. - winner of the Norman Brooks challenge cup.

This is his fifth grand slam final title.

Enjoy the closing ceremony and think of how a Nigerian will be on the podium one day in any of the four annual tennis grand slam events - Abi na only oyinbo dey play tennis?:
1. Buy your kids a racket,
2. Watch tennis with them,
3. Motivate them by registering them in tennis clubs
4. If you have funds, travel to any of the grand slam events and you will be glad you did. It is so much passion out there.


One day soon, a Nigerian will win a grand slam.

Once more congratulations Novak Djokovic, the great champion

When will Nigeria have these sort of champions. Our population is over 150 million, and yet,
Policies just have to be right.

I am sure a lot of Nigerians are glued to their TV sets watching the Spaniard, RAFA and the Serbian NOVAK making their nations proud.
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Let us think this deep.
All that is required is interest, focus and belief. Just catch them young,

Enjoy the most pulsation grand slam final ever!
Assume it  was a Nigerian palying this final (?)

Let us applaud this two great men! [color=#550000][/color]
Tennis cannot be better than this.

I love this sport like crazy, and NOVAK DJOKOVIC & RAFA NADAL are true ambassadors.

This is will beat the record of Ivan Lendl and Wilander  (4 hours 59 mins - 1988 US Open final) for the record of the longest grand slam final ever.
Vamos Rafa! Great Job from Nadal. But Djokovic has RAfa's medicine

Toughest final I have watched in years. Match time thus far is 4 hours 39 minutes. Djoko just blew championship point opportunity

We love tennis so much, the thread in this post shows this.
When will there be a Nigerian in a Grand slam final?

My child in 20 years. I am so sure of this.

When will Sanusi be sacked? His comments on national issues are very biased!
Has he really helped the economy?
Imagine linking i.e. justifying the deaths of nearly 1000 people (as a result of BH insurgency) to Oil Derivation. This is so distasteful to my palates and pale if anything.

Is that why the Channels reporter (May his soul rest in peace) was killed?
These sort of comments shows SLS's true colour.

If GEJ can't sack SLS, then the masses can by ensuring he explains this message better and asking or his resignation now!
How I wish he has lost a close relative to BH, he would be more careful with his loose tongue.
God does not sleep and He surely will expose the JIHADISTS in our land.