₦airaland Forum

kenedy175:
Can't believe the presidency can indulge in negotiating with BH. After all the innocent lives they have wasted for no just reason.

Sounds very stupid to me. I winder the kind of deal that will be struck and Baba is ready to grant them all there requests .

This shows that Baba is sympathetic to them

He has been, all along. Forget the cosmetic speeches in public.

jmoore:
Boko haram are fighting for virgins, will you give them virgins?

Boko haram are fighting for islamization of Nigeria, will you force all Christians to convert to islam?

Nit only Boko Haram. That's what the Muslims are fighting for. I don't have any problems with that if they don't engage their foot soldiers, Boko Haram. If you want to Islamize a place, do it in peace and let your Allah prove his word.

We preach the gospel and let the people believe and receive it all by themselves. God has seen the bloodshed and His face is turned toward the Jihadists and their foot soldiers, Boko Haram.

DjAndroid:
So when will Iraqi govt begin talks with ISIS? Fruitless venture.

They want to squander money to appease their brothers. That's why they were against Jonathan; they said he was killing their people (Boko Haram) while the Niger Delta militants were enjoying amnesty. They forget Niger Delta Militants were not bombing everywhere and killing people up and down.
My prayer is that God will judge these evil doers and their sponsors and sympathizers.

Pascal181:
Will he crush his brothers?

They will spend billions of Niger Delta resources to appease those who have killed thousands of innocent Nigerians. God will judge them swiftly and His recompense is with Him for these evil doers. Any body that appeased them, God will punish severely.

EUROBOMBER:
It is.

It is not. These people drink from the same well and think they are fighting for Allah. So stop shifting the blame to other people. Iran is the major national sponsor of terrorism and we know what they believe and who they pray to. Take responsibility for your actions and go tell your people to stop the violence. You know where you people meet.

I never expected the man to go killing his people. That shows how wicked these people are! What a shame!! You don't negotiate with terrorists who have been bombing and killing the innocent. May God punish them and their sponsors and sympathizers.

Demmocrats:
Quick to jump into matters did you listen to his last comments in the video. Op na wa oh
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So what was the reason for the first statement? I consider that his actual feeling!

Beremx:
Na Dr. Emeka Ezeife own pain me pass! I was totally disgusted watching him along side with Edwin Clark clamouring for the sack of Attahiru Jega. It was very shameful.

He must be regretting his actions by now. So sad!

Are you not regretting clamoring for Buhari. Someone who doesn't understand simple interview questions and answers OOP?

segtak25:
Source : http://streetgist.com/nigerians-who-lost-their-reputation-defending-goodluck-jonathan/

In his myopic mind. Isn't it easier to defend Jonathan than Buhari now!

If all the electoral materials are inspected, you'd be shocked. So let APC accept where it was outsmarted, and let peace reign.

Emekamex:
Some history never changes

Wickedness is written all over his face. It would not be difficult to find is you look well.

cabaliciouscabal:
All u pple dat av bn supporting d man ar suffering from high blood pressure, ar u saying if he has a case to answer he should not be quiz? bcus he worked for jonathan, if he want to die he suld quickly do, Rouge.

He should not be denied his medications. That's simple practice in civilized countries, under civilized leaders.

free2ryhme:
No amount of media propaganda should stop this ongoing cleanup of our nation. This is only the beginning. All the thieves should be hunted and jailed. They should thank their God that we don’t have dead penalty for corruption yet in Nigeria.

I am sure you know Buhari is one of those thieves. He served under the most corrupt regime and yet said the regime was not corrupt. The Yoruba people will soon find out what they did to their unborn children.

fulanimafia:
Are you afraid your silliness will be exposed?

You clearly want PMB to go after the terrorists like a crazed man with a machine gun like the inexperienced Jonathan instead of a tactical, strategic and well planned assault and final elimination of the blood suckers. The beginning of madness is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result.

This is military experience at play. Buhari did it before when he eliminated Maitatsine in '84, and he will do it again.

Keep wailing.

You are a hypocrite.

unitysheart:
Interesting. So he is not enforcing sharia and islamizing Nigeria afterall. Where are the propagandists?

Keep quiet! What do you know?

cold:
The reasons to pray as alluded to by the op are peculiarities of a developing nation like Nigeria where you have to worry about the oppressive heat because you haven't had electricity for days,robbers,crooked policemen/women,kidnappers,crooked pastors,terrorists etc.
In developed climes where you're sure when you hit the switch the light comes on,you get to the train station and you know too well the train will arrive at 8:30 as scheduled or get into your car without any fear of the police trying to extort you or robbers making away with your valuables,no worries about kidnapping,the healthcare system is top notch,the intelligence services are on top of their game looking for tell tale signs of radicalised individuals that may want to harm others in the name of their god. The need for having to supplicate to a god constantly diminishes or becomes more and more redundant.

Life is spiritual and man is a spirit and must participate in spiritual activities, regularly. Prayer is one of such spiritual activities. If you take a fish out of water, it'd last for a moment and then dies. What you described above is like a fish out of water, alive for a moment. But the fish can't last that long outside water, it's natural habitat. See?

herald9:
So your God doesn't know his duty or he just forget it on purpose so you need to remind him all the time.

Isn't he your heavenly father again? imagine how it would be if you have to remind your dad every time to provide food for you!

Indirectly you're asserting he's suffering from dementia. Lol.

And please, you guys should Stop using the misfortune of others as a point in thanking your god. It's normal assumption that God loves everybody and doesn't segregate, then why thanking your god because 'you are not like the other guy who slept yesterday and never woke up'. That's hypocrisy.

In my opinion tho.

Thanks for your response.

Prayer is more than asking God for things. Many pray amiss because they don't understand the scriptures. When you grow in Christ, you'd find out you don't need to ask Him to give you anything because everything is already yours. Following from your analogy, when the kid grows up, he doesn't ask for food, he takes the food because it's already in the house.

And there are different kinds of prayers guided by specific rules. But we won't go into that at this time. And yes, God demands we pray not because He is forgetful or uncaring but because we are the ones running this world: He gave us the authority to run things here. And Prayer is an opportunity to superimpose spiritual realities upon/over earthly situations which may not, at the time, be what we want. Prayer is also an opportunity to make things better for us and for others, nations, etc.

So you see, prayer is much more than "Lord give me this and that. Do this and that for me". One can pray for an hour without asking God for anything.

Prayer is a subject most or us need to have an accurate understanding of. I prayer this morning for about a hour, mostly in other tongues, and I didn't ask God for anything. There are levels and like I said earlier, there are different kinds of prayers.

God bless you.

Buhari has time for petty vendetta but no time for government business. What a shame!

opiduri:
Please j1ail this guy

No need. Look at his face!

I know he doesn't mean what he is saying. Any Christian that is violent against Israel needs to be checked. It's 99% rare. Let him that readeth understand!

Excuses lie in the bosom on non - performers. The tool is always to be blamed for such people's laxity. If the DSS boss was your problem why didn't you fire him on May 30?

When you are a liar, sometimes, you forget that you may be talking to people who know better. APC machinery has come again. Even the US cannot kill 600 terrorists in 30 days. Here Nigeria is killing 600...

My response is not to the Man of God , but to the respondents here.

The tithe is not giving to a man, as it were, but to God. There is a difference between offerings, gifts, and the tithe. The tithe is not yours but God's and must be paid. A gift can be rejected, offerings and tithes should never be rejected because they are direct instructions fro, God to His children.

jemimaa01:
no one should negotiate with terrorists...they have passed that level where they could be negotiated with,right now,I suggest they be wiped off,brutally too.

Any chances of doing that is on hold until this guy is out of the way. Have you seen any divided kingdom that stood? You cannot fight your own. This guy has not even lifted a finger and he is already talking about Negotiations. Very vindictive behavior.

EMERITUS85:
but American dont negociate with terrorists

He should mention the civilized nations that negotiate with terrorists. Buhari cannot be talking about negotiations now when he promised to rout them within a few days. He accused Jonathan of not doing anything. These guys deceived a lot of Nigerians but some of us knew what they stood/stand for. They stand for the Abuja declaration of 1989, period. Anything else is just deceit! But God is bigger than them all.

Praise God, forevermore!

Dull heads always act spontaneously. He has not set up his cabinet but he is busy chasing cow and butchering. That's a man full of emptiness.

Hypocrite!

We have to be very careful with this. Can Nigeria manage the cons of hazmat storage and transportation? Can we ensure such materials don't get to the hands of terrorists. Remember, ISIS has identified with Boko Haram. Why is this happening now? Have we explored other non - hazardous options?

What is wrong with APC and this spokesman?

Please, someone should tell them it's 9:50 a.m. It's time to wake up from that dream!

Nonsense!!

omenka:
Good morning.

Ordinarily, joining issues with doomsday prophets is what I hardly do but on this particular occasion, I am compelled to write this in order to set the records straight.

There's certainly no doubt a lot of young lads with impressionable minds roam this site daily to keep abreast with the latest goings-on in our society. These guys have minds like a fresh canvas upon which an image or a painting should be made, most of which are indelible. When you try to erase the painting when the paint sets on the canvas, you wind up destroying the canvas itself- you destroy the mind.

On the flip side we also have genuinely ignorant adults who swallow whatever is served them hook line and sinker, most of them too lazy to go a bit further to verify information they are being fed with. They take the lies they read here, propagate them among their peers and younger folks who look up to them in the main street, and in the end, lies become staple to the general public.

This piece, belated as it may, is meant to be an eye opener to those who care to keep an open mind to divergent opinions as they relate to government and governance in this country.


1. Anti Corruption.

Regarding this, the Op made reference to Timipre Silva's and Murtala Nyako's cases, and said: "Buhari is yet to make any high profile arrest or prosecution since coming into power". He claimed both have been cleared. Haha. How bigger can a lie get?? Nowhere has Murtala been given a clean bill of health, but he lumped it up with Timipre's case in order to deceive gullible readers as to the "similarities" in both cases. Even the link he provided didn't say Nyako has been cleared.

Further, what kind of corruption case can be dispensed of in 12 days!!?? The op wants the president to make "high profile arrests and prosecution in 12 days. Are we in a military regime?? Isn't this totally laughable??

In which court can such be achieved?? What good is there making an arrest and charging one to court when you don't have your facts and evidence to build a water tight case and get a conviction?? Does the op have any idea the investigations going on underground (I'm not saying there are, but chances are there could be) which could possibly result in an indictment??

Now, here are the things I think the op deliberately ignored:

(a) Former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff has submitted himself to the authorities for onward processing.

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/184335-ex-borno-governor-modu-sheriff-hands-himself-in-to-efcc.html.

(b) Some officials of the immediate ps government have started returning stolen monies .

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/184721-jonathans-men-returning-stolen-money-el-rufai.html

(c) Oil Traders, NNPC Officials Interrogated,
Watch-listed in Major Investigation.

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oil-traders-nnpc-officials-interrogated-watch-listed-in-major-investigation/211388/

(d) EFCC arraigns CBN officials, others for N8bn currency scam.

www.punchng.com/news/efcc-arraigns-cbn-officials-others-for-n8bn-currency-scam/

(e) Buhari Reopens $182m Halliburton
Bribery Case, 3 Ex-Presidents May be Jailed.

m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/181746/1/nigeria-buhari-reopens-182m-halliburton-bribery-ca.html

(f) Buhar's Anti-corruption War Takes Off.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/buharis-anti-corruption-war-takes-off/

(g) 14 Foreigners Arrested For Oil Bunkering.

http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/06/10/14-
foreigners-3-vessels-charged-with-bunkering/

(h) Former police IG Mike Okiro in Court over Embezzlement.

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/184566-ex-police-ig-okiro-denies-stealing-n275m-says-own-aide-set-him-up.html

From the foregoing, there's no gainsaying the side to which this government is tilting in terms of sanitising and purging the system of corruption in whichever forms they may exist.

I challenge anyone to show me what the immediate past administration did in this regard within 12days!


2. Transparency.

From anti corruption, the op went on to touch on transparency, pointing to the president's "non declaration of assets publicly".

Here's what people tend not to understand about assets declaration.

First of all, Assets declaration on assumption of office is totally useless with non-disclosure upon exit from office. The purpose of declaring your assets on assuming office is for the authorities, and indeed the public, to know how much you are worth before being handed a position. After leaving the position, you are meant to declare your assets again. This is meant to reveal, as the case my be, how much you acquired over the period covered from your initial declaration. If what you declare is way and above what is deemed "acquireable" under the circumstance, then a case could be established against you for illegal acquisition of wealth. That is, you must have corruptly enriched yourself.

Now, when you declare your assets by filling the form from CCB, a time frame is given within which investigations are carried out by the body to determine the veracity or otherwise of the claims made therein. Most politicians declare their assets in liu of what is to be acquired. They might say they own "XYZ" estate in Banana Island with the hope that they could steal enough money to build same in due time. Eventually, when they happen to declare their assets when leaving office, the content of the form would appear the same as that which they submitted on assumption of office, giving the wrong impression that they've stolen NOTHING!

Therefore, it is very important that verification is being carried out on declared assets and liabilities so as to avoid the scenario described above. When this is done and the assets are not declared publicly or access is being denied the public by CCB perusal of the forms , then we can say the president has gone back on his promise. At this point, it is simply premature criticising them on transparency based on assets declaration.

3. Security.

On Security, the poster talked about non rescue of the Chibok Girls and the spike in Boko Haram activities.

Frankly, this is totally nonsensical, and made me laugh. I really don't know how to go about shedding light on this one but the poster was just being cheeky.

In the inaugural address by the President, he made particular reference to the Chibok girls. He stated that they've not been forgotten and everything within the powers of the government would be done to ensure the girls re rescued and re-united with their parents. The op expects them to be rescued in 12 days!! Wow. Even the Israeli Commandos would find this very laughable. I don't even have to mention the attitude of the immediate past government towards this issue, especially in it's initial stages- two weeks we heard it took the ex-president to come to believe the incident actually happened.

In addition, we've seen the president embark on painstaking trips, rallying our neighbours to form a common alliance to fight this monster head on. He's held bilateral and trilateral talks with some heads of states, brainstorming on how best to approach the knotty issue.

Countries have made commitments on assistance in this regard ( www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/g7-france-canada-germany-back-buhari-on-fight-against-boko-haram/) and hopefully, before long, we'd start seeing concrete outcome of all these

Since the op stated the number of deaths recorded so far (don't know where he got that figure from since he provided no links), here's a time-line of the terrorists related incidents since they barged their way into our consciousness.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Boko_Haram_insurgency

It is simply too early in the day to start condemning Mr President in this regard- come on guys!

4. Economy.

Here, reference was made by the op to the sale of PMS above the official price of N87.

To me, this is another feeble attempt at casting this government in bad light. There is no doubt the situation that obtains today represents a huge departure from what it was three weeks ago when the country was virtually brought down to her knees with an acute scarcity of PMS, and where available, sold for no less than N250 per litre- N400 in some cases I read! Not only was there scarcity and a price hike, electricity was totally nonexistent- the country was, simply put, on life support!

Now the situation has eased up. Even though we are not where we desire to be, there's been a remarkable improvement. No??

5. Governance.

In this regard, the op points to the non-appointment of heads of agencies and parastatals as a mark of failure- very very ignorant I must say. This issue has been thrashed time again but the PDP supporters keep harping on it. I just don't understand why.

Now, check this out. We know what a heterogeneous country Nigeria is with its many ethnic groups and power blocks. We know that a delicate balance must be maintained in the appointment of heads of government bodies so avoid a nasty situation where power appears concentrated in a particular region. Given what has played out in the National Assembly, shouldn't Nigerians be happy these appointments were not made earlier?? Had the appointments been made in such a manner the principals of the National Assembly come from the same regions, states, or ethnic groups as the appointees, who would have been the ones crying of marginalisation??- Nigerians- I hear someone say.

So, the president in his wisdom, refrained from making any official pronouncements of who is to oversee what, and I think that is commendable. Now that the NASS has been inaugurated, the picture appears clearer and such decisions can be taken in a more accommodating fashion.

Lastly, just so you know, "GOVERNANCE" is a sum total of the outcome of all the indices stated above and not just some appointments here and there

I challenge anyone to tell us what Jonathan, or any other president for that matter, achieved in their first 12 Days in office.

Thank you all.

Long Live Nigeria.

Long Live President Mohamadu Buhari.


Cc: Obiagelli, Demdem, Beremx, Midolian, Pendy69, Jarlons, Mynd44, Caseless, Gbawe, Egift, Donphilopus, Aresa, NgeneUkwenu et al.

Please, don't defend the indefensible. The man has snot started working. How can you work without first appointing key officials of a normal government. Until he does,I'd take it to mean he is not ready for business yet. This is not a one - man show. The VP is already being sidelined. So who is he working with?
All the things you wrote are not his achievements. Please, take note of that. They are just outcomes of the previous governmental process, which is continuous.

Mark you, the President is not the Judiciary and cannot prosecute anyone. So I don't think anybody is scared of him. This is a democratic government. The Legislature has organized itself and elected it's officials. The Judiciary does not have any issues with that. But the executive is still delaying appointments. So if you ask me, the Executive is delaying Nigerian ' s progress.