₦airaland Forum

jadakiss213: well,that's YOUR problem..let's leave it at that.

jadakiss213: and what's wrong with UNIPORT's BSc ? Huh?

ballabriggs: This is to show you how fraudulent Nigerian leaders are. A President's speech is meant to give the citizens hope. Our own President's speech is designed to mislead and deceive the people by feeding them with lies.

Heads should roll in that Jonadunce media team put together. This is unforgivable. This is a crime against the Nigerian people. It is tantamount to arm robbery.

inspirenet: What difference would it make if he apologizes?

maclatunji: Hahahahahahaha! How can we trust a leader who cannot get his facts correctly in an address to the country on our national day? This is a national embarrassment of monumental proportions. Is it not the same President who "doesn't give a damn " about what people are saying? He has been copying and pasting from Newspapers- what a shame from our PhD. holding President!

Mind you, he said the same thing at the Independence Church Service at the National Christian Centre on September 30 - would Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and other Christians come out to condemn Mr. President for practically lying in church!? Your guess is almost as good as mine.

Pukkah: Honestly, this should attract an interest level that is wider than the Reps. It should even interest the EFCC as this 'sudden payment of large and long outstanding loans' appears 'suspicious' and thus calls for investigation. Every knowledgeable fighter of crime and graft who has been schooled in Anti-Money Laundering tactics knows this.

Jarus: Of all the ones I have listened to, Fashola and Fayemi are the most articulate and eloquent.

afam4eva: This is really embarassing for the president of the largest black nation in the world.

Jarus: Perhaps, it's the 'maturity' that makes me to ignore some things that gives you the audacity to insult me and expect to get away with it.

ACM10: You temperament is on par with that of your friend, Sanusi. Birds of the same feathers fly. . . .

MY DEAR JARUS/ FELLOW NAIRALANDERS

In such a discuss, personal relationships will always becloud a persons views and opinions. This is the case with JARUS I am sorry to state. And yet, a vibrant society must always have debates and these are always better when conducted on the basis on what one stands for, his stated opinions, actions and spoken or written statement. And that is how I judge SLS. I do not need to have met him or enjoy a personal relationship to know that he what he stands for. In my earlier post, I merely stated that Oyewale threw away, outright all Momodu wrote.
I again submit that some salient points were made. I agree that SLS rightly threw out corrupt Bank Managing Directors. But after that, how did he handle the taking over the affected Bank's which saw the worst shedding of jobs ever experienced by a major employer of labour and still shedding at the last check.
Have we ever in the nations history seen the crass and unilateral doling out of the Country's money based on personal whim? Someone here accused me of not believing in our customs and affirming that SLS appearing in office with his Prince of Kano garb was right. Really? Why does he not announce his presence at work with turbaned horse riders in Durban outfit then? So as to affirm that he is a firm believer of where he is from.
I do not begrudge SLS his ambitions be it Emir of Kano or the Presidency but he who seeks a higher office should not first destroy that which he presently occupiers. A great many others have been on that seat and a great many others will do so in future. He should accord his position the respect and honor which it deserves.

Good one. You read me well.
Couple of months back, I was discussing with a friend, who like me also has a soft spot for SLS. I told him I'm somehow regretting becoming too close to SLS. Now, it's difficult for me to hit him in the public.

On the currency restructuring proposal, I wasn't so convinced with the arguments for the exercise. It may not take away anything from the economy (it wont lead to inflation as widely believed), but the fact that it doesn't add much to it makes it something ill-advised to me. T[b]he coin part is especially difficult to accept[/b]. You can see I was unusually quiet in the debate. I was forced to call SLS and asked him to convince me on the exercise. He sounded optimistic and passionate about the exercise, but I still wasn't convinced, but I felt we can give him benefit of doubt. That was why I just pasted his clarifications on NL here and never made any further comment - because it was hard to defend.

That said, tens of articles have been written on this currency restructuring exercise, but I picked Dele's for response because of his reference to the sacked bank chiefs. I had wanted to reply Dele since I read an article he wrote in 2009 on the 'sacked 5', justifying the ridiculous. His reference to the same issue again actually ignited my response.

jp philips: even his pr team is more confused than himself.

You fired beaf to enthrone dead brains like billy the f00l and Nazi Dedeike, confusion everywhere.

Was it not the same platform (social media) you told us how corrupt Atiku was?
Was it not here you shouted you had no shoes and used the same political media to coerce gullible Nigerians that ''if you can make it, they can make it''?

Sorry sir!! Your sins are before you, Resign!! Resign!! Resign!!
To rule Nigeria is not by force.

obailala: The moment GEJ took the oath to be president, that's the moment he lost his right to privacy. As a president of a supposedly democratic nation, he becomes a commodity of the general public. The nation has the right to know the whereabouts and wellbeing of its president. That's how it works in sane societies. _{Although we know we don't have a sane society but at least we deserve a bit of sanity.}