₦airaland Forum

dustmalik:
If this is indeed true, then Fashola would be right to blame GEJ for the robbery, taken into consideration that the redeployment of Police personnel because of GEJ's visit was most likely the reason why the bank robbery was successful. The bank robbers knew that GEJ's visit would make it easy for them.

And this is the first time Jonathan visited Lagos in 7 years abi? Don't be an adulterated slowpoke abeg.

almostFamous:
Would u blame the lady? I wouldn't! Even if it were chinese guys who came with the fake cards and then a japanese comes days after(u can't tell the diff btw a chinese and a japanese),I will react the same way the lady did.

You sound stupid.
Wait until one agbero refuses to let you board a bus or buy something you well can afford without batting an eyelid based on someone else's behaviour and understand.

Least the stewpede girl coulda done was swipe the card for real. If she did she woulda come back with the slip saying it was declined. The burden of proof is on her. Etoo having seen it before knew what he was facing and took the step he took. It's both unwarranted embarrassment and serial stereotyping. You can't tell me the player went in there looking haggard or less than comely.

Inferiority complex.

Sometimes I wonder what the brains of these APC guys is made of: saw dust or amala.

Change2015:
Why can't the pdp sponsor a documentary on their transformation agenda achievements, or are they afraid to put their names behind a permanent record of lies and half-truths?

#change
#GMB
#APC

You probably sold your TV for a bottle of Orijin or you woulda seen several.

Nigerians appreciate yours, kai!
Smh.
Opposition has destroyed healthy politicking in our dear country. Foreigners mostly tell us how good we are and guess what, some of reject it. So sad.

CaptainAmerica1:
Stealing is not corruption - Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Stoning is not violence - President Patience Faka Jonathan

We're doomed

You are really doomed.

IbnSultaan:
with $400 million, Nigeria
could have purchased up to 40 brand new
helicopters.”
According to the source,

You guys are nincompoops. You think we are talking of a private jet or keke napep.
Pull up an attack heli on Wikipedia and guage the price. Mumu.
They bank on the stupidity of people like you to write this trash they always disseminate.

This for eg costs USD31mil and it's newer brother goes for up to USD100mil each.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15E_Strike_Eagle

Fools.

kastonkastrol:
You are a fool you silly madafu'cker... What did your fraudulent article said about the writer you m0ron ? Didn't your fraudulent piece of crap of an article just tagged William reed as the president of the black press foundation? A thorough search has just proven that there is absolutely nobody as William reed as a member/founder/president of any foundation. And as a shameless tyke that you are, you still have the impetuous to type gibberish at me with your skew thumb. And as for the other guy you called my "apc brother", I don't know where he got his own william reed story from but nevertheless that isn't my business

That's your stock in trade: insults in the face of clear truth. No go kill yourself o. Make e dey pain you.
You guys can't even present a unified lying front. Sorry.

kastonkastrol:
[b]blatant lies from the pit of hell... There is nobody with the name William reed in the "black press foundation"...

Your APC brother had this to say
" You can have this writer write anything for you just by paying his standard fee . $2000 - $4000" so who will be the official Liar Mo hear?

Meanwhile your small mind tells you a founder is always the President of a body. Poor little you. smh.

And come to think of it, a whole Washington Times is unaware of the scam. Well, APC is adept at lies. The rabid FFK has, thank goodness, sowed the seed of investigation especially from the disaster that is the Naija hotel pix sold for a London shot in us. But how you guys bastardize it. Kudos for the very sloppy try though. If you ask nicely for explanation you could get one instead of tour dead jango pose.

aresa:
^^^^^^

The media director for the president of Nigeria, the same man who is fighting corruption, the chief law enforcement officer in Nigeria is currently on trial for corruption.

The same man walks around Nigeria and in and out of the court with personal protection and armed police escorts provided by the same GEJ and the government prosecuting him for corruption.

Is the president of Nigeria associating, hiring and paying people under prosecution for corruption by his own institutions the so called ingenious route to fighting corruption?


The PDP's current chairman is still under investigation by the same president's EFCC for stealing N16 billion pension fund and he was personally appointed by the same corruption fighting president. Is this the ingenious route to fighting corruption?

Do you even mind telling us how many corrupt public official this president and his agencies have prosecuted and sent to jail even after saying stealing is not corruption, corruption is overstated for political reasons, corruption is our perception and imagination?


You people really need to keep quiet sometimes....

He is not the media director for the President. He is the media director for the PDP. Distinguish between party politics and our dear country. Stop allowing politicians becloud your judgement with all these their accusations and counter accusations.

aresa:
You can have this writer write anything for you just by paying his standard fee . $2000 - $4000

So why hasn't he written FOR APC? Politicians have killed the little sanity Nigerians would have had. Can you pick one or more of his points and disprove them?

When people have truth stare them in the face and they can't disprove it they descend to abuse. Your own cup of tea though. Forget PDP APC, route for Nigeria. That's the more important thing.

Ralphlauren:
Rubbish article full of lies and falsehood. The article mentioned the fertiliser scam but conveniently forgot the subsidy scam, pension scam and numerous other scams.

Jonathan is handling nigeria's issues such as corruption and insecurity in a "civilised manner"?? Is this article a joke or a lame attempt at humour?

Can someone please do a background check on this William reed dude? Is he from otuoke or is this reno or ayedee writing using a pseudo name?

Have you for once sat down and asked yourself whether these scams started under Jonathan? Then after that do you ever ask yourself how come under him all of them were brought to the surface. How come the past Admin didn't seem to discover it. It is in itself a plus. He tried to stop the subsidy scam but you and me matched against it and still have the temerity to blame him for its persistence. The pension scam was uncovered and tackled and today we know the thieves there and some faced and are still facing the music including the one that collapsed in the courts. Thier acts span to dates well before GEJ. So what are you telling me?

Some of us are just out to condemn everything mindlessly and full hate and lack of objective analysis.

This is a non-partisan view on Nigeria.

Nigeria has a date with destiny as March 28 and April 11 draw near. These are two significant dates that, on one hand, present Nigerians with an opportunity to strengthen democracy through the ballot.

These dates, on the other hand, are also beaming scaring danger signals. No thanks to politicians who are beating drums of war, stumping across the country, making campaign statements full of fury, with little about issues of concern to most Nigerians. As is typical of Nigerian elections, the tension is thick in the air, so much so that the putrid smell of Armageddon has enveloped the country. Fears are palpable, generating serious concerns among Nigerians and within the international community.

Nigeria has traveled this route before, not once. There are however reasons for genuine and heightened concern this time. The last few years have seen widening cracks along the Nigeria’s well-known fault lines of religion and ethnicity. The security situation, especially in the northeast, has been a huge sore on the reputation of the Africa’s most populous country. The abduction of more than 200 girls from the Borno State community of Chibok nearly one year ago, and the perceived lack of enough effort from the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure they are rescued, are making the prospect of a peaceful poll a tall dream.

President Jonathan has had to take the blame for virtually everything going wrong in Nigeria. Admittedly, there are issues that currently feed this perception. They include the security situation, corruption and poor living standards of most Nigerians. Ordinarily, the buck stops at the desk of the president. The opposition seems to have succeeded in creating the impression that Mr. Jonathan merely wakes up on daily basis and does nothing. But things don’t always seem as they look in Nigeria.

That the president has been doing nothing would not pass the muster of nonpartisan scrutiny. What would be correct is that the president has actually done little to publicize the many things he has been doing. In the last six years, the government has been confronting more fundamental issues of growth and development with the type of vigor and single-mindedness uncommon in Nigeria.

The Jonathan administration would trump any previous administration in the effort made to tackle the near-complete collapse of infrastructure such as roads, transportation and power supply. The same can be said of employment generation and capacity development. Nigeria’s economy has not only survived major shake-ups affecting most advanced economies, it has actually also been growing in leaps and bounds, emerging as Africa’s largest.


He has perhaps taken an ingenious route to fighting corruption. He understands the difference between the symptoms of corruption and the underlying causes. While many had expected a frontal attack at the symptoms through demonstrative — even if unlawful — actions by deploying anti-corruption forces in a frenzy of mass arrests, media trials and public sentencing of suspects, Mr. Jonathan has chosen to allow the justice system the space to work.

He hasn’t stopped at that. He is, with the skill of a surgeon, identifying the underlying causes of corruption and taking them out one after the other. This is what he did with a fertilizer distribution scam, which had hampered food production and diversification effort for decades. Perhaps, he did not make enough noise on this, but the result of his approach is loud enough for the thousands of Nigerian farmers who now have easy access to fertilizer, completely eliminating the meddlesome middlemen. The action is equally loud enough for the vested interests to fight back and join the now-profitable president-bashing choir.

The security challenge is a bit more complicated. Mr. Jonathan’s emergence represented a paradigm shift in the Nigerian political arrangement. He was the first person with no strong political background or affiliation, and from a minority tribe to become a democratic president in Nigeria. He had not benefited from any of the important pillars of power such as the support of a major ethnic group. The template for success in the Nigerian environment requires much more than the timing of response to a security situation, such as the Chibok abduction saga. It requires the willingness of the players within the affected area to put the safety of lives and protection of properties of the people ahead of their own immediate political advantage. It is not going to be easy trimming the hair of someone who continues to run. It could take time to either catch up with him or get him to willingly agree to the need to solve a problem. The ability to keep calm rather than adopt a knee-jerk and high-handed approach in the face of treachery and impunity is a great asset the president is endowed with. This, as the opposition is wont to do, can also be mistaken for weakness or incompetence.

Mr. Jonathan’s civilized approach to tackling issues is built around the need to ensure social justice, equity and the rule of law. This should, ordinarily, be worthy of global acknowledgment and commendation. But the concerted noise from the opposition camp and the penchant of some international observers to rush to judgment without taking full account of peculiarities of an environment are a bit deafening and blinding to the reality on ground.

As elections are getting closer, the president is faced with the facts that Nigerians are in a hurry. They’ve waited for too long. This is a situation that is being exploited by opposition leaders, who have been calling for mob actions as against the rule of law. Mr. Jonathan has equally shown that he understands that Nigerians are expecting a leader with a magic wand, who could with a snap somewhere, turn age-long and deeply rooted social decay into an instant state of bliss. But the magic wand could actually be a possibility if current efforts are allowed another four years to take root, grow and bear fruits.

• William Reed is president of the Black Press Foundation.


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obua:
The factory is closed so that means the company is cash strapped and probably bankrupt. The owner being a pastor does not give him the ability to print money.

You be mumu?
And being a pastor makes him able to make people come and work where he knows he cannot pay them. As a pastor he is expected to be more morally balanced and known it is not only bad but evil.

Guy if the people promise they will pay eventually and you think you can believe them (especially if there's no other work you can grab for now) try and stick around. The patient dog eats a fat bone. You never know.

And who tell you say no be d idiat wey post this stuff chop the X inside am smoothly, snap pic and transform am to air pie?
Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

sayso:
http://energymixreport.com/addax-retrenches-over-90-of-its-contract-staff/

Chinese company na waooohhh.

Guy do you know that it is Chinese companies that are upgrading the new rail networks in the US? wake up it is daybreak already.

Burger01:
Too crude.

Was Mandela too old at 78 when he became president That market woman of a first lady is a Twerp! How did we end up with agbero twerp like that!?

Give your hopeless self a personal slap for even thinking of comparing a fighter for democratic freedom with a raper of democratic freedom. You have no living cells in your brain.

tdayof:
God bless the NAF!

But op 4 air strikes? Four missiles launched?


Too small...
Nigerian air force us so so outdated still using alpha jets? Let say the South Africa air force breached our air space.. Are you telling me we will send in this toys?

Jonathan should for once try investing in our air force...

@least try getting some
Shenyang J-11
Sukhoi su-30MKi
Chengdu-j10
Or probably mig-35
From China or Russia

And when th e president asks for a billion for arms you start noise making.

Why will a paper editorial use 'must' in their heading? Shows how unprofessional they are in this country.

[quote author=1stola post=31254883][/quote]I hear you.

Maccoy1:
oya come drag me commot, shey be na papa buy the land....mtcheeew

Abeg help yourself. Grab a dictionary and find the meaning of idol. Don't carry religion about so much it makes you sound like mumu. That's the same thing Boko Haramites are suffering from.

1stola:
The daft and wicked Clueless Shoeless Terrorist can party while he still have time.
His days are numbered.
There will still be many miserable parties he will trow behind bars.

Everything about this guy and around him is just daft. Even his tailors.

O boy your mum news is quintessential. So you don't know a superimposed pix when you see one? Hate has killed the little dignity you would have had. It will finish only you. The man keeps shining.

VIPERVENOM:
He said he wanted to weaken boko haram so inec could conduct elections without any problem. That's why the election was postponed. Isn't it this same man that said he knew nothing about the postponement? Like seriously this guy had 5 years to do dat. This is just another silly excuse. Neva in my life have i seen a government play such bad politics even at the expense of the lives of the masses.

This all what you empty brains know: violence. You will all perish by it as you love it so much. It is already happening in the North East.

buygala:
Even though I hate GEJ with a passion, I must say that this is one thing that he has done right...



This singular act almost made me change my mind of voting against him

But his sins are far too many to be purged by this singular sensible act

I know u think u sound sensible not knowing it is more like delusional. Keep waiting for who will buy your gala as boys move to the next level. Use your passion and direct it to gala selling. It will be more useful that one than wasting it on hatred for someone who is very comfortable placed.

ego one?

abokikhalifa:
what about the result he showed? The matter is in court let see who is going to win the case...them looking for way to bring buhari down but God pass them

Thought it was the constitution that was the issue now it is court. You guys run from pillar to post. Neeeext!

No, let's not thank him, let's make the army leave off the offensive and Boko Haram to kill more 15k then we can thank him. Mumu.

Jonathan met your brain function at 40% today it is 19.

abokikhalifa:
uve not still produse the law...we ar waiting to see it.... Mr good man

“A person shall be qualified for election to the Office of President if: (a) He is a citizen of Nigeria by birth; (b) He has attained the age of forty years; (c) He is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and (d) He has been educated up to at least SCHOOL CERTIFICATE LEVEL OR ITS EQUIVALENT (emphasis mine).”

Oya, tell us another story.

Ymodulus:
If am not mistaking that should be the fence of Kure Market close to the post office on your way to Idris Legtibo Hall. Close to Bomas SuperMarket. Minna Niger State.

Man the printer of that sign Board is something Lawani Printers on same road, and i dont know why but he always have errors on some of his work. This is not from the APC Team but printer man Mistake. To buttress my point take your time and see some poosters even by the PDP Niger State Governorship Aspirant were wrongly mispelt, example of such sign post can be seen along the Justice round About coming from Kpakungu to Yahuza Sport on your way to Mobil, that book round about or whatever its called. Also check the sign post on the PDP Aspirant office, of the Evergreen, the same mistake before it was corrected. So please do not blame the APC Campaign Team

You are a dunce if you truly believe that you just said. If the printer makes a mistake there is at least a single supervisor who is a party person that should be able to detect it and insist on a corrected version. This is how mediocrity creeps into every facet of the nation and some lazy fellas will find reasons to explain it away. Tufiakwa.

Godmother:
I support o. Don't think you will be able to get drinks and food for 150k. A cow alone is worth close to that and except you plan on serving Limca to a low no of guests, like 100, that amount will go nowhere.

What are you doing with a whole cow?
Be real maen.

alaoeri:
Nitwit Jega will conduct & announce the result of this election after that he will bow out in June deal with it or relocate to sambisa.

Don't drink eat poison if eventually he marches on and out. Foolish people who can't use their ordinary thinking faculty, only waiting to be fed poison by parties who end up stealing them blind no matter the name they go by. Grow a brain.