₦airaland Forum

The car is beautiful and looks solid. You've got to respect the Germans.

What if it's raining? Did they give him a nose-brella? How does he bathe?

I think this matter can finally be laid to rest. Though he lost weight but Tinubu is in no critical health condition.

His haters can hate all they want, but Tinubu is important to the SW people. If every region has someone making exactly the same efforts Tinubu is making in enthroning performing governments, we would only move even faster towards national development.

Shortwave radio has started again. Empty-headed noisemaker.

SSS is silent on all these treasonable call for violence, but if a reasonable person grants an interview and bares his mind now, they'll "invite him for a chat."

Who are the jobless journalists granting this buffoon interviews sef?

I had power last while going out on Monday morning and today is Thursday. I live in Lagos. Can't wait for these investors to perform their much-expected miracle.

If na im father born am make e go arrest them now. Basket mouth!

They don't sound like marriage "materials." They're just looking for men to dump their wahala on.

solomon111: stop making generalization,you brainwashed ninny.
Where have you seen me fighting and dying for a US visa?
I am even grateful that the DV lottery has been stopped.
Those americans have turned thousands of our citizens to pseudo-Nigerians,all in the name of greener pastures.

I mentioned your name? That's all you people know how to do - abuse. I guess it gives you a high. I don't know who you are and I don't care. If the internet started from your almighty Russia, would you have the freedom to sit there typing this rubbish on your computer?

Bidam: 1. House of Representative to lose some members to death, prayers needed
2. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur will be the last united PDP Chairman, as there will be great in-fighting in PDP.
3. There will be major boom and breakthrough in the agriculture this year
4. CNN will lose major staff.
5. Nollywood will keep losing people unless prayers are made and repentance; Many have gone fetish and there is high rate of immorality. I see three major stars dying this year unless prayers are made.
See more after the cut...

6. Many barren women will become joyful mothers.
7. Emir of Kano Alhaji (Dr) Ado Bayero to pray against attempt on his life. He will lose some men.
8. Molester will be on the prowl. Molesting women little children and even pregnant women. watch where your kids go..
9. A sec deadlier than Boko -Haram is being trained and prepared.
10. South Africa to mourn a hero. They should pray for former South African president Dr Nelson Mandela and Arc-Bishop Desmond Tutu.
11. I see a Governor dying.
12. This year, the looting of National treasury will be on a massive scale.
13. President Goodluck Jonathan's own men from his place will fight him.
14. Igbos should forget about presidency.
15. In 2015, an opposition will lose, PDPD will fail.
16. I see the crisis in PDP widening more and more.
17. A yoruba movie actor to die surprisingly.
18. A year judgment for politicians and wicked leaders.
19. There will be scarcity of money in 2013, but food will be in abundance.
20. Chief of Defence Staff to be retired.
21. There is vacancy in Aso Rock.
22. Prayers to be made because I see the National flag flying half mask.
23. I see NUJ lose notable member through accident.
24. President Goodluck will lose someone precious to him either this year or next.
25. Auchi my hometown to pray against serious flood disaster.
26. A member of the United State of America's senate house will die.
27. President Barrack Obama's life will be attempted.
28. Alhaji Aliko Dangote will have issues.
29. Central Bank of Nigeria's governor will be made an Emir, but he needs prayers.
30. MTN needs prayers.
31. Massive retrenchment in Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), but prayers needed to avert it.
32. I see something happening in a foreign country ( natural disaster) and people could not fly in or out of that nation for days.
33. Nigerian Music entertainer Tuface Idibia will face blackmail and scandal.
34. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal ( Speaker) should not contest for presidency. If he goes for governorship, he will win.
35. Dame patience Jonathan will have health issues unless prayers are made.
36. Kidnapping will start in South Africa.
37. HID Awolowo, it is well.
38. The governor of Ondo to pray against poison.
39. President Robert Mugabe, I see death around him, he needs prayers.
40. Abuja the Federal Capital City will experience high scale attacks this year.
41. I see Traditional Rulers die.
42. Omega Fire Ministries (OFM) will witness worldwide recognition that will shock everyone.
43. Lots of Nigerians will be repatriated from African nations.
44. Oil will be found in a state
45. I see a new president.

Quoting this just in case.

America has a lot of its bad sides too but it's definitely not in Putin's place to criticise them. He's a bloody HYPOCRITE and a criminal. He and his corrupt friends are running a mafia govt. Do you know the no of journalists in Russian prisons?

I totally support what Ed Snowden did (and is doing) but Russia granting him asylum is just a publicity stunt.

I laugh when I read all these comments condemning America here. Coming from Nigerians o. Do you know the no of you hypocrites apply and are ready to die for a US visa on a daily basis?

Why don't you apply for Russian visas?

chima12: What is el rufais business with christian association of nigeria CAN?
If he knows he cannot criticise the sultan and northern emirs,then he should be honourable enough not to criticise christian leaders.
A lot of people especially southwest christians who are been subjected to political domination by yoruba moslems fail to realise that orisejafor presidency of CAN is a blessing to christians in nigeria. Oritsejafor belongs to the fire brand pentecostal group of christiandom which encourages christians to play active roles in politics.as an adage goes,when good men stay away from politics,bad men take over the political space and rule over everyone.
The moslems have always been encouraged to partake seriously in politics and in fact never allow christians to rule over them.the reason these moslems criticise Oritsejafor is that he encourages active participation of christians in politics unlike previous CAN leaders.the fact that they criticise Oritsejafor shows that Oritsejafor is doing something right.
If you see your enemies and those who hate you but pretend to love you ever clapping for you,then you need to check yourself,either you are doing something wrong or something must be wrong with you.
A look at the yorubas can be used to illustrate the impact of different religious ideologies on political life of a people.the yoruba moslems encourage their faithfuls to partake in politics and occupy leadership positions,while the yoruba christians have lackasaidal attitude to politics,some viewing politics as a dirty game meant for dirty people.the result is domination of politics in southwest by the moslems while at thesame time the moslems in the southwest use ethnic affinity to close the eyes of the yoruba christians in order to maintain islamic domination of southwest politics and way of life.There are many appointments and positions in the southwest even among the yorubas which they cannot get unless they are moslems.This is the type of islamic domination which people like el rufai want over all christians in nigeria which is why they are very confortable with the likes of amenable onayekan while they are unconfortable with the likes of Oritsejafor who are into radical pentacostalism.But their plans will never work on the rest of us christians in other regions even if it continues to work in the southwest.With or without Oritsejafor,nigerian christians must play active roles in politics and never see politics as been meant for dirty people but they must see politics as an avenue to impact positive change on the society.

Stop this wate of time. There's nothing like Yoruba Cristian or Yoruba Muslim. We're all Yoruba. Don't create any divisions where there aren't any.

While Pastor Oritsejafor chose to be a subaltern to power, other men of faith rose to stem division and help the country achieve peace, efforts for which Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan and the Sultan of Sokoto were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Such an esteemed global honour is a measurement of leadership quality and character; as distinct from Oritsejafor who prefers earthly gains and ostentatious lifestyle of private jets! Everyone can recall that November morning in 2012 when Oritsejafor accepted the gift of a private jet in the presence of a smiling President Jonathan.

Observers of Oritsejafor’s record should pause and ponder why the Catholic leaders took the recent unprecedented decision to temporarily opt out of CAN! It is not because Christians in Nigeria today are markedly different from those that lived in the days when Okogie, Akinola and Mbang led CAN honourably, it is because the Oritsejafor style has driven the organisation into the ignominious politics of hatred and division.

Due to how sensitive any discourse about religion has become in Nigeria, many have refrained from pointing out the errant ways of Oritsejafor, but if we are to build the Nigeria of our dreams, we must have the courage to point out transgressions against all Nigerians by people masking themselves in religious toga to create strife in the country. The truth is that Oritsejafor is neither a personalization of CAN, nor an example of the compassion, grace and modesty Christianity teaches.

A case of the descent into toxic politics is evident from the statement purportedly issued in CAN’s name in defence of Oritsejafor. The language of the statement is very similar to the gutter language usually spewed out of the Presidential Villa whenever any citizen expresses the right to question the corruption, impunity and incompetence of the Jonathan administration. The sudden attempt to assume the role of political adviser to General Muhammadu Buhari, a person that Oritsejafor has done everything to malign and smear, amounts to everything a religious organisation should not be. When purportedly religious leaders or organisations become brazenly partisan, they should not complain directly and through surrogates when they are responded to in like manner.

God’s work cannot be reduced to petty electoral calculations. Neither should those who claim to be on the Almighty’s mission indulge in base blackmail and falsehood, or encroach on God’s prerogative to bestow grace, provide final justice and avenge wrong.

Let the leaders of faith show good example when they step into the public arena. The merchants of religiosity, those who specialise in distorting the sobriety of faith into wares to be traded for political and commercial favours, should not be allowed to divide our country or to derail the diversity of our creeds and tongues into a reason for strife. Above all else, we are all human, sharing the same biology and deserving to be free and secure, whatever our beliefs and ethnic origins. In the final analysis, the needs and wants of a less privileged Christian destitute in Abia is not that much different from that of a Muslim Almajiri in Zamfara.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/144948-oritsejafor-worst-can-president-years-says-el-rufai.html

Many in Nigeria today may not remember the name of Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, but if there was any opposition to the military regimes of the eighties and nineties, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) under him definitely represented a voice of resistance to those governments’ excesses. At a time when many people kept silent in the face of human rights abuses, Okogie faced down the military government and told them some home truths. It didn’t matter if the victims were Muslims or Christians; it didn’t matter whether they were from the north or south; CAN fought for all Nigerians. Okogie had the moral authority to act, and did so with dignity, to the admiration of all of us.

Okogie’s bravery was not unusual for CAN leaders; if anything, in the turbulent history of this country, there is a proud tradition of leaders of CAN who spoke for and stood by the people of this country. They used their moral authority to defend the rights of all Nigerians even during the most brutal military dictatorships or corrupt and inept civilian administrations. The courage of the likes of Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Archbishop Peter Jasper Akinola, the Reverend Sunday Mbang and Cardinal John Onaiyekan, for instance, are shining examples of faith in action, with compassion for the oppressed and chastisement for the tyrants.

It is a mark of the sad and uncertain times our country faces that we have to be reminded that previous leaders of CAN have used that platform for nobler purposes than we currently see. In spite of the corruption that blights much discourse these days, it is evident that a clear distinction exists between CAN as a body and the individual that leads it. Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor cannot be allowed to conflate himself with CAN. He bears personal accountability for the conduct and utterances that portray him as a messenger of the powerful, or as an active soldier of the ruling party. Except for the informed, the casual observer may mistake Oritsejafor for a minor protocol official of government, so pathetically has he cheapened the erstwhile integrity of the CAN presidency.

Pastor Oritsejafor’s utterances and behaviour amount to repudiation of the moral authority, fair-mindedness and high standing his predecessors invested in that office. While they spoke truth to power in the exalted prophetic tradition, he cossets and pampers the government of the day. He even champions their politics of ethnic and religious division by making unfounded allegations against opposition leaders. How else can any neutral observer rationalize his two calls for General Buhari’s arrest? In contrast, Oritsejafor was dead silent when persons that are Jonathan’s sidekicks threatened the nation with violence if he is not voted president in 2015! The dissonance between the glorious past and now is rather loud.

Idiotas! Even almighty Germany imports foreign cars.

jmoore: Why do some folks lack comprehension? The tweet CAN was talking about was posted on January and El-rufai has taken it down

The OP gave a misleading title, it should have been "CAN gives El-Rufai 7 days to reveal source of Oritsejafor’s private jet" which is the focus.

God bless you! Whoever wrote this headline is a potential terrorist. S/he wrote it with the sole intention of causing trouble and i believe when the trouble starts, it'll be limited to their family.

CAN is one of the most irresponsible associations in Nigeria as of today, and they should cover their faces in shame (if they have any).

How did giving his opinion about the gangster-like Oritsejafor become an abuse of Jesus christ?

Even if Elrufai insults Jesus, do they have to attack Muslims because of that? Does it mean that he's speaking on behalf of all Muslims? What kind of agbero CAN without any sense of decorum is this? Do they want to start another religious conflict?

I have said it my times; if corruption & tribalism do not destroy Nigeria, religion definitely will.

This statement by CAN is proof that they're Jonathan's extension of PDP.

Meanwhile, they left the important question Elrufai asked; where did he get the money to buy & maintain a private jet?

The pope is driving a 20-year-old car but Nigerian pastors are driving Rolls Royce and flying private jets.

#200MillionMumu

Lunatics!

But I think Nigerians actually deserve it. Some of these empty-skulled students & their parents would still vote for the same PDP again in 2015.

I want to believe that there are intellectuals in Enugu to see this issue till the very end. But if the BPE is allowed to hand over the company to an incompetent bidder, well it's the people of Enugu (and SE) that'll suffer. I'm from and i live in the SW.

This has to be a joke. I don't believe he has the capacity to pull that off. He'll most likely be consumed by it, due to his selfish reasons. I wish to be proved wrong though.

And children...who told you that an SNC means Nigeria is breaking up?

Love or hate Elrufai, but he always speaks the truth. His interview is right on point.

It's just a shame that such an incompetent oaf as Jonathan is the one leading a complex country like Nigeria.

LOL too much rubbish on this thread. If you don't understand why the SW does not support Jonathan then your brain must be very primitive. It apparently can only detect ethnic & religious bigotry. The SW people have evolved beyond that level. They did exactly the same thing for Obasanjo and successfully voted out his party from every state in the region. It's called objectivity and this is how democracy is meant to be practised.

If you still don't get it, sorry. Maybe in another 1000 years your 12th generation will evolve up to that level. In the meantime, revel in your usual we-against-them, it-has-to-be-my-brother village mentality.

That's a parable meant only for the intelligent ones.

Even if Mother Theresa comes out to contest the seat, some goats will still continue to spew their usual rubbish.

To them I say... if Keyamo is not good enough, tell your father to go and contest or shut up forever.

This is a very BOLD move and you guys should keep up the spirit.

Nobody gives you your rights freely; you have to ask and possibly fight for it. The rights we enjoy today were all fought for by somebody.

But please stay away from politicians. They'll recognise that you're a powerful interest group and will try to buy your executives. Do not give in to them.

Best wishes!

I love the way the APC is attracting the best guys from all over country. They may not be perfect yet, but we stand the best chance with these guys who have always stood on the side of the masses.

Any people that refuse to vote in the good guys will only stand by biting their fingers while the good guys' people are enjoying the dividends of their wise decisions. The same way many are envying the SW now.

Only greedy people fall for these cheap scams. I personally don't pity them. Sometimes it's good to learn the hard way.

chukwudi44: You people should stop bandying lagos population figures as if Fashola do feed the residents of Lagos.The huge population of lagos rather is a plus for the state because of the huge tax derived therein.

That's not correct. A large no of the population of Lagos is unskilled labor who earn an informal income that's very difficult to tax. To start with, a lot of such immigrants engage in illegal activities (such as street trading) and barely feed from hand to mouth. What % of the regular income earners even pay tax?

The consequence of having such unskilled labor is the overstretching of public utilities such as roads, waste disposal systems, environmental abuse (opening up shops in every available space), high crime rates which necessitates huge investments in security etc.

The best thing a serious national party (definitely not the irresponsible & chaotic PDP) can do if it comes to power is to engage in aggressive development of the states so as to discourage migration to Lagos, Abuja and PH.

There are simply too many people in Lagos for its space and resources.

It's Porsche Cayenne Turbo S

http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/cayenne/cayenne-turbo-s/

PDP had 14yrs but what have they done about the police? Nothing!

It took Channels TV to scream out for them to hypocritically start the renovation of the animal pen call Police Training College in Ikeja.

And it's these same people they give guns to follow them about.

Aborigines are at it again

They should build it in Otueke, Bayelsa State. Those jobless militants will be staffed there.