₦airaland Forum

doctokwus:
Have u verified that (1)that pic is recent(2)happened where it's claimed (3)was carried out by herdsmen?
For all u know this cud be victim of a communal clash,assasins or even domestic rage.
Fulani herdsmen commit atrocities,but when such news report comes from elombah,pointblank,breakingnews,or scan news,one had better err on the side of caution,less appear foolish,if the story is found false.

I understand your point about the authenticity of the accusation. However, the herdsmen have become a menace to every society they are found.

Ricky Tarfa is in for it.

The call logs are even a different matter that will aid in the prosecution of the original case, with him now being one of the accused, and no longer the defence attorney.

The federal government needs to do something about the terrorism of the Fulani herdsmen.

I recommend a 1week sit at home to call the attention of the government to this decade long menace.

If government refuses to do anything, then it is within the rights of the citizenry to terminate the menace wherever it exist.

And no grazing land will be supplied to any Fulani business man. Let them pay for rent like every other citizen of the country.

Nomadic pastoralism should have ended in the 19th century.

Adminisher:
There was no dwindling revenue. In fact Naira value should have been 90 to the Dollar under JonAthan. It was stealing and capital flight that kept the Naira down and that was before the oil price fell. We must not talk too much about Jonathan. The man was the most useless man ever to be president anywhere.

Exactly!

Why did Naira not rise against the dollar when the country's oil revenue was high?

hamilton62:
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Witch-hunting which is your so called corruption war and the economy which should be the premier in the scale of priority of the government? I can never take this administration serious because their ministers and others were PDP and are rogues like the others, Charity begins at home and a true leader lives by example...He who calls for equity must come with open hand... I dislike corruption but most of us here are not gullible...
Is this government thinking at all? Blocking the loose ends it good so that it won't sabotage the economy further when the attention is on it but not this witch-hunting now... People are hungry and very soon you'll see their reactions.

I hope their reaction will be to go occupy the homes of civil servants and military personnel who are building estates and structures that even the military command cannot build inside the barracks?

Who knows if they will find some more dollars inside the sewage tanks of more senior military officers and civil servants?

Anyone, like you, questioning why or how the present administration is fighting corruption, has not suffered enough.
You are the kind of citizen Jonathan hoped he could depend on for votes.
Even AVM Amosu and his wife Lara have a loaf of bread worth N250 to reward you for supporting their argument which is:
"Leave us to enjoy our stupendous stolen wealth and focus on the economy"

Guy, are you sure you are mentally stable?

excellentmomma:
So buhari, fashola and apc guys are all moro.ns, let them not hear that o, lolzz.

'cos they campaigned with fx rates then, fashola in Lagos speech asked the crowd, "how much is dollar now"?. They echoed.

They came with the promise to stabilize exchange rates but now it's going out of hand.

Didn't they know there was dwindling oil revenue?

As long as the Nigerian economy is still built on the foundation of oil, then we will prosper with oil and perish with oil.

Now we perish with oil, but where were we when oil was prospering?

Some were stealing the wealth and hiding it in sewage tanks for their 4th generation. Some were buying property all over the globe.

If we do not know what to do with our oil wealth, we deserve to suffer.

Juve4:
To be honest we are in deep trouble in this country. Dollar 335 it will get to 500 before march. And the poor keep get poor and the rich keep getting rich day by day. price of things have skyrocketed in the market. I don't know wia we head long in this country.

The more reason you should beseech the government across the 3 arms to show no mercy to those who have been found to have corruptly cornered the commonwealth and hid it inside a ground sewage tank.

EternalTruths:
Watch how the treacherous South exonerate one and ask for the head of the other.

We the better South, thank God we never fell for the scam called CHANGE

You continue to regurgitate your mantra on better south or terrible south.

Must you always try to compare with the SouthWest?

How many economic refugees from the SouthEast are daily feeding off economic asylum in the SouthWest?

You did not fall for the change mantra but rather insisted that the corruption and criminality of an administration that has daily been revealed as the epitome of ineffectual buffoonery be allowed to continue with its uselessness.

Anyone who believes our currency should be appreciating against the dollar at this present time with the present petroleum industry crises, qualifies as a world renowned moro.n.

It's akin to a shareholder in an oil company asking why the share value that has been dropping since mid 2014 has not returned to the previous high price value of a unit share, but rather continues to fall daily.

Everyone except a moro.n knows why the share value was very high prior to mid 2014 when a barrel of crude sold above $100. Now that a barrel of crude is struggling to sell above $30, it is no surprise that the unit price of shares in a company operating in such an industry will be very low relative to mid 2014.

Has the price of crude even began to appreciate already, that shareholders are anticipating a rise in the oil company's share value? Could this irrational expectation be because the oil company now also sells gold and diamonds, such that its annual revenue/profit has continued to rise despite the gloomy affairs in its oil department?

Now replace company with country, and consider that such a country had no significant investment during the oil boom, now that oil dooms, you are suprised the country's currency continues to depreciate? Really?

What role did the shareholders of this country play when news was everywhere that the executives and senior management were wasting funds on frivolities and on chartered flights costing N10b, or that significant funds were missing or did not accrue after due sales of company products?

Yet the same shareholders who wanted the sacked management to continue because they saw no wrong done by them, now want the new management to perform magic on a situation they hitherto refused to acknowledge its existence and enormity.


If you like, bring Adam Smith from the grave, he will only begin to diversify the economy and watch and wait till that begins to yield its benefits many years later for a new generation of Nigerians.

No matter the drug prescribed, this flu will run its course.

In the end, it is hoped that a people who have shown not to have a memory at all, would have learnt some economic lessons for the good of the commonwealth.

Why am I not surprised to see Snailspeed and TippyTop on this kind of thread? I've always known they were paid PDP goons.

They have come to see how bad the backlash is for their party.

These are the kind of souless vagabonds who come up with the propaganda that Dasuki embezzlement is a hoax.

Once they see any news on EFCC executing its statutory responsibility of fighting financial crimes, they begin to lament that the president should stop fighting corruption.

They are also the ones who are never happy with any investigative report by Sahara Reporters.

Why would a citizen celebrate a president who fostered corruption and mass embezzlement, but oppose the president who has shown a dedication to fighting corruption?

PDP is an umbrella of criminal minds.

Imagine their own supporters asking to be compensated by their corrupt overloads.

maasoap:
It is a shame that you couldn't see connection between massive looting of collective wealth and your poor living standard. It is equally a shame if you couldn't see the connection between recovery of looted fund and improvement in your living standard. Do you even realise that oil that used to sell for 120 dollars per barrel is now around 30 dollars? And if all this looted money is not recovered, where do you think money that will turn your living condition will come from?
If anti corruption war is boring to you, massive looting of public fund must have excited you.

Obasiken, do you feel stupid enough already with this succinct reply? Or do you need me to bring you out of darkness?

Sommyangel:
not really familiar with any of the songs but tnx for the info

He was only poking fun at you.

Future was on the DJ Khaled track "hold you down"

Also featuring August Alsina, Chris Brown, and Jeremih.

comos:
Fashola should do the work not talking
9 months is already gone

Even though your comment has already been addressed, it seems you're too stupid to understand the knowledge being communicated to you.

So I present it to you below.

The minister, who spoke on Tuesday while addressing a joint session of the House of Representatives Committees on Works/Power/Housing in Abuja, added that the government’s total commitment to roads was in excess of N2tn.He explained that the government had decided to prioritise road projects in the country by identifying major ones in the six geographical zones with a view to completing them.

I hope that henceforth, you will learn to understand why information disclosed by a public figure is compulsory to be disclosed?

Was he supposed to keep quiet because a moro.n on Nairaland doesn't want him to talk?
Did you get upset because he revealed that over N1Trillion was being owed to contractors by the last administration?

Fayose will sleep with a heavy heart tonight.

Yes!

I will still vote for the party that is willing to fight corruption over the one embezzling all the funds allocated for development.

Most importantly, I will not vote for the candidate who claimed his ambition is not worth the blood of Nigerians, but empowered militias like OPC with funds, who then brandished all manner of weapons while the police looked on in approval. Same weapons would have been used for inter-tribal violence long after the elections, with people wondering where such militias get their funding.

I could never have voted for the candidate who thinks fighting corruption is a crime. Or one who declares a group innocent of terrorism, only to accuse the very group of that particular terrorist act 4years later, even claiming he was the major target of that terror and he had foreknowledge of it, so he was quickly driven out of the venue.

Now that I know one of the candidates had his own private Santa Claus to share state funds to those willing to come under his umbrella, I feel very justified that he was sacked and will eventually be prosecuted.

What manner of man will I be if I had voted for such an enemy of the people and of the state?

Criminals everywhere.

Even those already earning millions will never give up a chance to steal just N20K.

Where can I find an honest Nigerian?

The handsome man beside OBJ is Andrew Jackson Young.

Former Atlanta mayor who ran unsuccessfully to become the 1st black governor in the US for the state of Georgia.

He was later US ambassador to the United Nations.

As a Reverend, he officiated at Toni Braxton's wedding.

acenazt:
EFCC THIS,EFCC THAT. Please when is EFCC probing herself because if she as an institution for combating curruption did her job when she was supposed to,this mess would have been averted. Instead she remained silent while those wicked individuals played games with innocent lives.

Now you know that Don Fortunato was a criminal mafia boss who stifled any anticorruption initiative.

Even EFCC did not have money to fuel their vehicles or even purchase office stationery.

Goodnews!

I stand with Buhari for his self discipline and patriotism.

I like this.

The guilty parties will be shitting in their military pants now.

In a Republic, the blood of all men have the same usefulness.

This E-Money dude sure knows how to make wealth look like a despicable thing.

Like a younger version of Esama Gabriel Igbinedion, he's not the richest of his peers but the most lousy with his wealth.

Even the previous pictures of his house have always appeared so chaotic like a riot of competing trophy accessories announcing that the landlord is the richest master of the kingdom.

Tochaigh:
You are a certified sycophant.

You are worse than those thugs politicians hire from the streets, those thugs are paid, but you, you are gullible in that they don't even have to pay you to be stupid.

I can see you are also one of those tribal bigots who have sworn that they must hate the president, and all government policies must be labelled an attack on a certain tribe that just loves being a victim of every thing.

You and those who reason like you have a mental disorder powered by hate.

It is your problem, and I can only wish you more sorrow and misery that you seem to be on a passionate quest for.

mekaboy:
If his friends are only from his region, then he should be a governor and not president.

Why won't he listen to pastor bakare and implement report of the National conference since he does not allow his tribe or religion affect his administration?

What stopped your ideal Nigerian president from implementing the report of the committee he instituted?

Enahi:
Lol you are funny o, you are comparing irrelevant Northerners to hardworking Nigerians abroad. Northerners don't even exist abroad, they have never made the country proud in anyway abroad so to me they don't even exist there.

Yes there are hardworking Nigerians and hardworking criminal Nigerians abroad.

If the North have never made the country proud which is your own opinion, it is equally a thing of pride that they are hardly mentioned when the malaise of the criminal Southern Nigerians become a topic of heated national debate in those countries.

I will help you put it in better perspective, there are many Northern Nigerians abroad, but unlike the South, the majority are not economic refugees in those countries.

mekaboy:
You said Buhari does not trust outsiders. So Other parts of Nigeria are now outsiders. Why then are u worried when I talk of North and south when he prefers North to outsiders (south) ?

I have already told you that Buhari does not allow his religion or tribe affect his job as an administrator.

Who he choses to be close to is his personal lifestyle. He picks his friends very carefully.

Pastor Tunde Bakare is someone he became fond of, same thing with the glove wearing minister.

plaetton:
The president is a tribalist, and few pretences about it.

Was it not he that said " an attack.on Boko Haram is an attack on the north " ?
Pls try and defend that.

Was Buhari not the one that said " Abacha didn't not steal any money " ?

Was Buhari not the person that stood for the 2011 election as " the Northern Candidate " ?
Pls try and defend that.

It's already news that ASO Rock is slowly becoming inaccessible to non- northerners. If this is true , we would not be surprised.

Recently, I had the unenviable privileged to defend the words of Buhari as regards Abacha being a thief.

Buhari knows just like we all do that Abacha stole state funds. The evidences came up after his death and I'm sure Buhari wasn't resident on another planet then. The statement credited to Buhari was at the probing by journalists who accosted him at the venue of an Abacha memorial event. Buhari simply made a diplomatic yet factual statement that Abacha wasn't convicted for theft by any authority.

Did you expect him to concur that Abacha was a thief at a memorial event where he was an invited guest of the Abacha family?

Buhari isn't the most sociable of humans, and that limits his friends to his own type of culture. He doesn't trust outsiders easily, I believe we all know that already also. His aversion to corruption has made him even more insular, as the majority of Nigerians are criminal and amoral, who hate the very thought of a friend or comrade displaying any form of uprightness or piety.

You might ask me how I know the majority are not upright? I was that kid who in the absence of a dust bin would keep my trash in my schoolbag to empty at home instead of indiscriminate disposal that was prevalent. I know because I have had to pretend right from secondary school to be like a regular Nigerian just to get along with people who hated me for not allowing them copy my answers during exams, or wondered if truly I have never impersonated a candidate at an examination for the reward of money, or people who hated the fact that I was always requesting for smaller cash advances to prosecute official tasks that they requested multiples of my own amount. I know the average Nigerian. Take a drive on the streets and watch how cars soon begin to face the oncoming traffic the minute the traffic begin to build up, only for them to beg to be allowed back into the rightful lane when things reach a head. Infact, a friend once confessed on how she embarrassed herself in Ghana when she requested that a taxi veer off the lane to take the side walk as traffic built-up. The perplexed taxi driver queried her, asking if she was a Nigerian. If a Nigerian were to be detected committing a crime abroad, I will be the first to call the attention of the authorities.


However you cannot accuse Buhari of ever allowing religion or tribe to influence his approach to administration.
He has asked many times for people who feel he had treated them unfairly as a result of their tribe or religion, to come forward and lay their accusations.

The past administration tried to label him a tribalist and religious extremist. There is no sin in trying to uphold your religious beliefs as an individual. The records show that as military president, Buhari upheld the secularity of the state. His ministers and state administrators were more Southern than Northern, and more Christian than Muslim.

People can stand for elections as whatever candidate they wish too. Buhari did not invent that. The 1st republic had each party leader standing as a tribal and regional candidate.

Even the ruling PDP claimed PDP was the true Northern party, with vice-president Sambo declaring that Prof. Osinbajo was a pastor who was building churches all over. Sambo further said that his name Namadi was core Islamic and he was a Quranic scholar.
Meanwhile the Southern PDP was portraying the APC as an Islamic party that should not be voted for.

Even Jonathan having exited power, still called PDP an Ijaw party that should be the only ideal party to be voted for in a state where every candidate and electorate is the same Ijaw.

On boko haram, headlines can be captioned in a way to attract interest and spur debate. The content of the story gives another perspective. Buhari only voiced his concerns that attacking boko haram had become an excuse to attack the North.

As for Aso Rock becoming increasingly Northern, I reckon only Obasanjo can be found innocent of the charge of tribalism within the presidency core staff.
Many equally accused Yar'Adua and Jonathan of having their kinsmen and tribal language pervade the presidential space in Aso Rock.

But I know that anyone who wishes the president well will surely be granted access to the president, regardless of tribe or religion.

mekaboy:
At least they speak up when a govt that promised to pay u 5k is collecting N50 from your account.

They speak up when govt increases the price of electricity without giving meter.

They speak about the lack of economic policy and direction affecting import and every aspect of our existence.

They speak up when our president goes out to say Nigeria is broke and expecting foreign investment.

They speak up when their so called president comes the country they reside and call them criminals.

I know all this only affect igbo's, but let's see how long igbo's can endure.

When next you want to accuse the president of tribalism, don't hide behind the toga of Southern Nigeria.

Be bold to let us know where you are coming from so we can objectively deduce where you are going to given your antecedent in the way you relate with the President's tribe.

It is nice they are now speaking up seeing that they were dumb in the last 5yrs.


Would I also be right if I said the "someone" is you but you were too timid to own up to your bigotry?

mekaboy:
compare the number of people who reside or do business in US and UK from the Southern part of Nigeria to the west with the north. Do the same comparison with dubai Saudi etc.

My happiness is that he did not say igbo are criminals but Nigerians and large population of Nigerian residence there are from the south.

If u like keep mute in everything going wrong with this administration and wait for igbo's to complain to call them victims. But u will still be sweating and shedding tears behind your screen from hardship as u type.

Was I right or wrong that the someone who could reason in such a tribal and bigoted manner is Igbo?

What have the Igbos ever gained from this warped manner of reasoning?

The someone who said so must be Igbo. The use of the term "South" was just an attempt to conceal the intended reference to themselves.

They always find a way to make themselves the victim of any situation however far-fetched it is. Every government policy is negatively targeted at them.

This has got to be a mental disorder occasioned by the trauma of the loss of the civil war. Must every government initiative revolve around the Igbo?

I reckon Northerners don't visit America or Western Europe?

It is no longer #Nigeriansarenotcriminals but #SouthernNigeriansarenotcriminals.

Yet we know the bulk of those who find every fraudulent means of going abroad to continue a fraudulent lifestyle are Southern Nigerians.

How many Northerners have been deported to Nigeria for fraudulent acts or illegal residency?