₦airaland Forum

Elueme: Source pls. Stop feeding me with ruse. If it's a gossip news indicate so we know what category of seriousness we attach to the thread.
By the way who is Fashola to seize OBasanjo's utility vehicle? He should know his limit and stop acting james hardly chase

Xris74: Typical Yoruba drama: dog eat dog; cat vomit swallowed rat

Too many lunatics on the loose on Nairaland as evidenced by these two dogs.

vivacious vivi: Mo gbe! "Comprehension a problem" kwanu Gbagaun!!!!!!!!

Where is the "gbagaun" in what was typed? Escaped mental patient!!!

rhema4u: I stand to be corrected, am not a United fan... Buh, when was the last time an African played under Ferguson Song just left arsenal, Newcastle has Africans, Chelsea does, Wedt brom too, Mancity has the Toure Brothers, United which? Ferguson should not kill ferdinand Oº°˚˚°ºO....#kickracismout ni..#kickracismout ko. Mtchewww.

So Man United must buy an African to show that it's not a racist club? God save us from escaped lunatics like yourself who think watching a match for 70 naira gives them the right to dictate to people who are not even aware of your pitiful existence.

2sexy: Well, I am one. It all boils down to how you look at it. For me, what one woman has that my woman don't? Boobs or Kini?

Pathetically, there is a difference between a woman and a girl.

WTF?

This has got to be the most idiotic and nauseating story I have ever heard, so this buffoon expects applause for this charade? What happened to the ecological funds he has been collecting for the past five years?

People should stop advocating for poverty, if you can afford it buy it, its your money. And for the foolish ones trying to show off: NAIRALAND is an anonymous social network where nothing is verifiable, your "perceived" wealth is as meaningless on this forum as spitting into the ocean.

Bia Sexkillz, Mukina, OAM4J and all these moderators, which kain "ojoro" be this; women create thread to see wetin dey sweet them for belle, una carry am enter front page, I create for the enjoyment of men, una abandon am for under bridge. Oya make una carry am put for front page make we men sef salivate over the aesthetic wonders created by the Almighty Father.

https://www.nairaland.com/1068519/too-much-negativity-nigeria-see

MegaMan2020: Igbos are ruining Nigeria.

The highlighted quote above, ladies and gentlemen is a classical example of why we must come together and fight the twin evils of free education and free browsing, it produces mentally challenged people like this.

Wow!!! For the first time in a long while, a front page post that has intellectual discourse as its thrust, better days are ahead indeed. I agree completely with Fashola and see reason with Obi, we have never had a problem making laws, our attitude being the main reason why we are where we are. For instance laws like the Federal Character and Quota System which are like the American Affirmative Action Laws are not bad in themselves but the mindset with which they have been implemented is the thing that needs to change. Let's say for instance that GEJ's seven year single term proposal flies; it downplays the need for constant electioneering leaving time for incumbents to work but with the Nigerian mindset of "steal but try" do you think anything will be left in the states or nation's treasury?

chally 02: d person that wrote this is a fool.....do this and spend ur eternity in hell....by d way who told u all nigerian pastor are fake and after money, 4 the fact that some are fake dosent mean that all of them are, ......mtcheeew

O boy, I hear there is going to be a clearance sale on intelligence at Maiduguri Central Market tomorrow, please avail yourself of this unique opportunity and buy some much needed grey matter.

Can't help feeling sorry for all the "tech savvy' cretins ranting on this thread; "BB is bad, Iphone is good"; who gives a rat's furry crack? None of you had any hand in producing or designing them yet you're screaming as if your sperm(s) were the essential ingredient deployed in creating or destroying these gadgets. He that wants a BB should get a BB, don't hate what you can't have, he that wants an Apple, Android or Samsung smartphone should do same. You are all Nigerians and when RIM, Apple, Samsung et al look at you, all they see are dollar signs. E.O.D!!!

*Walks in on thread, sees that it is a new version of the same tired of gibberish written by a lunkhead and adopted by dummies, swallows a bottle of Yoyo Bitters, pulls down pants and defecates on them all*

thelastPope: What do you own in Lagos? That face me I slap you apartment you live in? How much do you pay as tax? I am a hundred times more Lagosian than you! You better wake up!

O boy, you wear bra put for eye? . Your argument that Fashola has done nothing is incredibly pedestrian and to say the least, daft. In my area alone, Fashola has built Iju Road, rebuilding U.N.A school to the same standards as Tinubu built Ojodu Grammar School, has built a new state of the art Mother-to-Child centre at Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital e.t.c and these are all achievements in Ifako-Ijaiye alone. The OP is just the adopted son of Ananias and Sapphira, doctors are not working 24 hours in Lagos. If Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, Ozumba Mbadiwe Off Ramp are not new, pray tell, what is? Tinubu is criminally minded and an embezzler but to say he and Fashola have done nothing is beyond idiotic .

datola: We should not base test of intelligence on being able to speak and write good english language! It is not our language and as such we cannot afford not to make a mistake.

It is due to idiotic mindsets like these that Nigeria is in such a sorry state and the E.S.U.T scandal has become a national phenomenon. Growing up, our teachers gave the same tired excuse, today those children have grown up to be unfit for employment. Our phones,cars and everything we use in our homes, offices, churches e.t.c were not made by Nigerians so how did we acquire proficiency in our usage of these items and why can't same be applied to our educational sector? Like it or not, our local languages are not globally accepted but English is, so as a nation, we have no choice but to understand and use it effectively and efficiently.

http://omojuwa.com/2012/10/analysing-the-2013-budget-eze-onyekpere/

The 2013 budget proposal presented to the joint session of the National Assembly last week by continues with the tradition of the 2012 budget as a budget of Fiscal consolidation with inclusive growth. It is still anchored on four major pillars namely: macroeconomic stability, structural reforms; governance and institutions and investing in priority sectors. It is based on the following macroeconomic indicators: oil production of 2.53million barrels per day; a benchmark oil price of $75 per barrel; exchange rate of N160/US$; projected growth rate of 6.5 per cent down from the 6.85 per cent proposed in the Fiscal Strategy Paper.

Like the 2013-2015 MTEF, there is no projected inflation rate. The aggregate expenditure is N4.92tn which is a five per cent increase over the N4.7tn appropriated in 2012. It is broken down as follows; N380bn for statutory transfers, N591.76bn for debt service; N2.41tn for recurrent (non debt) expenditure and N1.54tn for capital expenditure. The capital budget represents 31.3 per cent of the overall proposal as against the 28.5 per cent for the year 2012 while the recurrent expenditure came down from 71.47 per cent to 68.7 per cent of the overall proposal. The fiscal deficit is projected at -2.17 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product as against -2.85 per cent in 2012. However, the leadership of the National Assembly was quick enough to point out that the revenue expected from gas was not reflected in the budget proposal while there is no indication as to the amount to be borrowed from external sources.

However, there are a number of positive developments in the proposal and these include that it was presented early, a departure from the practice in previous years. The proposed mainstreaming of gender concerns in five critical ministries of Agriculture, Health, Communications Technology, Water Resources and Works and the coordination of the initiative by the Ministry of Women Affairs is a very welcome development. However, the N3bn set aside by the administration as incentives to the chosen MDAs to deliver on agreed targets is just a token. The way forward in the future, if the administration is serious about gender issues in budgeting is to set targets, indicators and benchmarks for achieving gender-mainstreaming and these should be used at the MTSS, MTEF and budget preparation stages by all the MDAs

Further, the fiscal policies on machinery and spare parts imported for local sugar manufacturing industries, rice, aircraft and solid minerals and public mass transit buses are steps in the right direction. If implemented to the letter, they will improve local industrial capacity, enhance value-addition, create new jobs and result to greater corporate taxation for government. The fact that solid minerals abound in Nigeria, and have not been commercially tapped make it imperative to prime the sector to make larger contributions to the GDP. The current MTEF estimates of solid minerals contributing 0.6 per cent of the GDP over the medium term will likely be positively reversed if this policy is faithfully implemented. The aircraft policy will improve air safety while the mass transit bus policy will enhance public transport with its cost-reduction implications for other sectors of the economy. However, this discourse recommends that to make our entire automobile industry viable, government should extend this gesture to all vehicle CKDs to encourage local production and assembly of vehicles while discouraging wholesale importation.

On the other hand, contrary to the Fiscal Responsibility Act, there is no approved MTEF which is the basis for the preparation of the estimates of revenue and expenditure required to be prepared and laid before the National Assembly under Section 81 (1) of the Constitution. The MTEF is to be approved by a resolution of each House of the National Assembly. While the House of Representatives has concluded deliberations on the MTEF 2013-2015, the Senate has yet to conclude its consideration. Any discrepancy between the House of Representatives and Senate positions would ordinarily be resolved through harmonisation for the MTEF to have the requisite legislative imprimatur.

The issue of poor capital budget implementation was raised in the President’s speech although he offered no ideas on how to remedy the challenge. Only N711.6bn, out of a 2012 capital budget of N1.34tn has been released and the utilisation rate is 23.94 per cent. SURE-P did not utilise N93.5bn of its N180bn in the 2012 budget which will be carried over to 2013 to make the total expenditure for 2013 to come up to N273.5bn. This shows that the SURE-P will utilise only 48.1 per cent of the resources available to it in 2012. This is even very disturbing considering that a good number of SURE-P projects are augmentation of the regular funding of ongoing capital projects. What is the difficulty in releasing money to contractors to continue work on the Abuja – Lokoja, Benin – Ore Shagamu, East – West, and Port Harcourt – Enugu – Onitsha roads? If the contractor is not performing, he should be replaced.

The President’s account on the implementation of the 2012 budget is short on specific achievements. The 3.5million job creation aimed in agriculture is still a projection and there were no details of the number so far who have benefitted from YOUWIN and the Community Service, Women and Youth Empowerment Programmes under SURE-P. The airport modernisation projects appear stuck and very far from completion while the rail projects are more on the drawing board than having real impact on people’s lives.

The fiscal deficit for 2013 is projected at -2.17 per cent of the GDP as against -2.85 per cent in 2012. However, the challenge is not about the projection but the implementation of the budget to realise the goals stated in the budget speech. It will be recalled that the Federal Government does not stick to its fiscal balance projections. The fiscal operations of the government resulted in an overall deficit of N1,158.5bn or 3.3 per cent of the GDP in 2011. The important consideration for the budget should be for the Federal Government to exercise discipline in its fiscal management.

Unfortunately, there were no sectoral envelopes in the MTEF to enable a comparison between its budgetary allocations and the provisions. The allocation to education (even though it excludes allocations for Universal Basic Education Commission, Petroleum Technology Development Trust Fund, etc) is very low at 8.67 per cent of the budget. It has not met the international standard of 26 per cent of the budget. Coming at a time of the virtual collapse of every segment of the education sector, it needs to be upwardly reviewed. However, there is the need to demand increased transparency, accountability and value-for-money from the managers of educational institutions despite the need for increased funding.

The allocation to the health sector at 5.68 per cent is paltry considering the need for resources to meet the targets set nationally and internationally for the health sector requiring at least 15 per cent of the budget. Agriculture and Rural Development at 1.65 per cent of the budget is an extremely meagre allocation. Considering its contribution to the GDP projected at 38.4 per cent of the GDP in 2013 and the new concept of value chains improvement, the budgetary provision should be enhanced. However, the allocation to security (Defence and Police) of over 13.5 per cent of the budget appears like throwing money at national problems. Despite increased appropriations in recent years, the security situation has not improved a bit as can be shown in the rampant killings and crimes across the country in recent months. Thus, what is needed to contain the security threats may not necessarily be increased funding but the application of more intelligent solutions and greater value for money management of available resources.

Antivirus92: so everybody is now mentally ill in ur eyes?

Not so my brother. My words are directed at the ignoramus I quoted earlier who was calling himself names and the other one who referred to himself as the descendant of a slave. If it seems I insulted everyone, please accept my unreserved apologies. Abagworo and Afam made their points without resorting to insults and I reciprocated.

pazienza: We have no doubt that there were slaves of hausa and other ethnic origins that were allowed to stay in eboe town at the end of the slave trade. Please do not use our hospitality against us,any time you are tired of being igbo,you can go back to wherever you ancestor came from,it is not our fault that they decided to stay in ukwuani. Thank you.

Another escaped mental patient. SMH

Ngodigha: Castrated monkey, when are you gonna stop this stupidity you have been displaying here since yesterday. There is no particular group called Igbo but groups who speak closely related dialects are grouped as Igbo, monkey, why dont you get it. Shameless monkey, are you more Ukwuani than Power Uti the wrestler who till date maintains his proud Igbo stance.
If you are not Igbo, it is accepted, but it will be an outright stupidity to claim that Ukwuanis are not Igbo. Respect your silly head, bastard.

Its obvious that you were sexually assaulted by a leper in your childhood, that would explain the astonishing lack of functional brain cells in that cesspit you call your head. My comments were addressed to a sensible person: Abagworo not an ill-bred, sewer rat like you.

Abagworo: But are you aware that it was Aboh King that told the whitemen that they and all those that speak their language were Ibos? The evidences are everywhere on the net from accounts written as far back as 17th century. All the Kwale people I've met told me they are Igbos. I've not met any non-Igbo Kwale girl or guy.

I can provide you with enough links. Forget about all these revisionism that started during the
massacre of Igbos in the late 1960s.

Abagworo my brother, let's not get it twisted. We are cousins with Igbo, not Igbo. I have in my possession a dissertation written on the origins of Ukwuani, unfortunately its not online so I cannot provide a link for you. I have spent time translating the oral history of Anioma from bards and elder, none of them have denied kinship with Igbo but they stated without equivocation that we are our own race. Even now, elements of neighbouring Urhobo culture have been assimilated by Aniomas and vice versa hence names like Omene Onome. We are cousins but we deserve to be respected as our own people, not to be subsumed or spat out as mainstream Igbos will.

I reserve all my comments till I hear from Mmuo himself: Okija Juju.

[quote author=afam4eva]You've still not addressed the corrections he made about your ignorance about "Ukwu"...[/quo

I disagree with his assertion and I state that you and he are the ignorant ones. The Igbo "Ukwu" has always been "Uku" in Anioma hence names like Chukubeze not Chukwubeze. Are you saying the British were responsible for this one as well?. You know little compared to the village elders, bards, chiefs and others who use "Uku" instead of "Uwku". Will you now say Oshimili (Osimiri) was also Anglicized? Tell the fool not to use insulting words again, he can't take what I can dish out. I am done discussing this issue. Have a lovely weekend!!!!

afam4eva: You're not even ashamed to spit this nonsense. I'll address your ignorance later...stay tuned.

I'm back...

AREWA Consultative forum is a Northern group and not specifically an hausa group. So, anybody north of Edo state can occupy a position in the group. I remember Awoniyi once occupied a position in ACF. So, why are you comparing it with Anioma. The problem with some of you is that you will go to any length to deny your Igboness and tell lies but you won't even bother to a little research so that your lies will go smoothly without being caught.

The only thing i'll agree with you is the fact that Anioma people are not big on representing Igbo. They're not the kind of people that will go about telling people boldly that they're Igbo. I really don't know why...I met a woman from Agbor just 4 days ago and here's a comment i had with her...btw, i noticed she spoke Igbo once to someone and i wanted to be sure that she was one...

Me: Madam, you be Igbo?

Woman: I be Delta

Me: Where for Delta?

Woman: Agbor

Me: You be Igbo now...

Woman: Ok

Note that she didn't say that she's Igbo and she also didn't deny being one. If not, she would have said a capital NO when i asked her if she was Igbo and she would have dissociated herself from being Igbo whenever i called her Igbo.

Another conversation was also with another boy from Agbor...I asked him where he's from and he said Agbor and i said Igbo? and he said "I no sure oo. We dey speak like Igbo but i no Know. Some people dey call us Igbo". WTF!!!

I refer to myself as Anioma dude, if you don't like it or if it seems I am denying you, deal with it. Association is not by force. If Okene's headship of Arewa was of no consequence as you claim, so too Uweuche's leadership of Ohaneze since they i.e ACF and Ohaneze are one and the same thing. You are too young to remember how Okene and Awoniyi fought to defend what they saw as Northern interest, only to be cast aside when the Hausas got what they wanted. The Igbos may or may not do the same to the Aniomas. I am done discussing this, if you have anything to say, let me know ASAP because there is a statue of limitation on my tolerance for arrant tomfoolery.

Ngodigha: What sort of nonsense is this above. are you drunk this afternoon already?.
In case you do not know, the early missionaries spelt Arochukwu as Arochuku, Chukwu as chuku, Nwachukwu as nwachuku, Ogwashi ukwu as Ogwashi uku etc. But since independence, the destiny of Ndigbo is in the hands of Ndigbo and all those abnomalities have been corrected. Only a full will now write Igbo as Ibo, Arochukwu as Arochuku and Ogwashi ukwu as Ogwashi uku.
I hope this settles permanently into some little brains out there.

Who is this senile product of an incestuous relationship? Learn how to spell and then come back.

DANILSA: [/color] READ AGAIN AND TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT U ARE.

What would you like to know?

nnenna.1:
At least you are being honest.

Its the honest truth, there is no teacher like experience. Yorubas will use and dump the Okuns as circumstances demand, Hausa have done same with the Nupes and Kanuris and Igbos have done the same with us. Even on this thread and other similar threads, people have cast aspersions on us and insulted us for defining ourselves by ourselves.

afam4eva: Asaba, Agbor, Ndokwa, Ubulu-Ukwu, Issele ukwu, Ogwashukwu, Ibusa etc

Are you from Delta state?

Stop misspelling our names, there is nothing like "Ukwu", its Uku as in Ubulu-Uku, Issele-Uku, Ogwashi-Uku. Anioma people are Anioma people, the fact that Ralph Uweuche is Ohaneze president is merely political and not an indication of communality. Abdulrahman Okene was from Kogi, yet was chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum. Go to Okene, call them Hausa/Fulani and see if they won't behead you. Anioma won't go that far but we will claim Igbo when its politically or economically expedient and reject it when its not.

God fearing man (adjective)
definition:[i][/i]: A man (synonyms: Mumu, Fool, Ode, Onye Nzuzu, Tool, Pansy) who will spend all his money on a woman, abide by her decisions; not to have conjugal relations, cook for the man or do other things, refuse to look at other ladies and close his eyes to the woman's indiscretions because of the "fear of God' while also thanking the same God for blessing him with a "wonderful" woman.

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Okija_juju: Yup!! You are a pig.. thats all I am saying as well

Okija nwamama, may blessings cover your head. That kaodili is an escaped mental patient. Don't mind all those unintelligent latrine heads baying for blood, where was it written that the man was part of the mob? With all the lynchings that have happened in Lagos, why hasn't Lagos being described in the same terms as Aluu? Nigerians and their gutter mentality. SMH

What is 1% of 2.472 trillion naira? That is how much is allocated for Ecology in every budget. Governors, GEJ and ministries for the environment; what did you do with the money? The ecology fund has been used in the same way over the years as the PTDF: a secret, unseen cash cow for thieving politicians and civil servants. Have no issues with most of the names: Dangote, U.S.A.I.D, D.F.I.D, EU et al but like we all know: A committee is a collection of the unwanted, chosen by the unwilling to do the unnecessary". Am out!!!!

2012 budget is 2.472 trillion Naira, Ecological Fund is supposed to be 1% and is shared between the F.G and state governments. GEJ, governors and ministries of the environments nationwide should come and tell us how these monies were spent. As for the committee: 'A committee is a group of the unwanted, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary". Peace!!!!!!!!!

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