₦airaland Forum

adino: How I wish you were a muslim, you would have since been married off, saving us all of the bad attitudes you display here.

Demdem: Really, retardeen is indicting himself. Whose responsibility is to make sure such doesn't happen? US, Russia
He just told the whole world he isn't competent. Shame.

Obiagelli: Those that built the railway initially the were forward thinking and did things that are futuristic not taking us 30yrs back with locomotive technology 2013.

KenGali: What! How dare Michelle enter Airforce one before Obama, they are even officially dressed?
Even Obama's child wants to come down Airforce one before him?
Obama must be a woman, he has no balls!
He is sheepishly following the directives of even his daughter?
Poor Americans, their president must also be a retardeen!

oyb: You no dey fear to post pics of the obamas to butress your argument. All i saw was a sleek, classy educated woman compared to an obese sleazy hippo. Maybe we should post the pics together

Bensonite: Thanks for this comparison, at least we have balance view. Though one would think it ws wrong but clearly even michell Obama alighted the plane before Obama. Why are peole now adding handshake is what I don't understand because the earlier complain was she been in front.

Standing5: Did Obama or Turai greet the people recieving them first?

oyb: Are you lot so daft that you cant see the obamas are dressed casually? That it is not an official trip they are on?

Keep licking the anus of the hippo

francisbiz: We are all IDIOTS chasing shadows!
When am sad I come here to laugh.
When am happy I come here to weep.

Longeria: I pity some people who are following Bola Ahmed Tinubu ( BAT) sheepishly to slaughter slab ( Arewa people's council) APC. PDP is no where near perfect but by far better than all the MERGING NUISANCE. Not all change is good, a change from frying pan to fire is actually a change but not desirable. Close your eyes and imaging a Nigeria under Buhari and Tinubu. God forbid.

Omen100: U better shutup ur disgraced common criminal mouth dere, na watin go enter ur belle u dey hustle 4 so,scumbag.

Find Out!:
I was born when Babangida was president, & from then till now, all thru Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami & Obasanjo, despite their obvious looting, i have never heard as much ''the government is broke'' talk/rumor/fact as I have heard since Goodluck Jonathan came into power just over 3 years ago. In 2012, as a youth corper, our April salaries were not paid nationwide, (i received mine in May & some never received theirs), and rumors were abound that the FG was too broke to pay corpers that month. Of course, everybody pro-GEJ from the FG to their foot soldiers on Nairaland to the clueless supporters denied it.

Now, Okonjo has confirmed it.

My question is WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE TO?

We pump oil EVERYDAY thanks to the apparent ''peace'' (bought with billions of naira) in the niger delta, this same Okonjo Iweala told us recently that oil money now accounts for less than the usual percentage of our earnings meaning that apparently, more money from non-crude oil sources is now flowing in.

Last year, Sanusi cried out that the goverment was borrowing too much money, GEJ just finished borrowing more last week.

Where is our money? What about our other resources?

- Why are we broke?
- Is somebody looking the other way while several people are stealing the country blind? *subsidy fraud appears to be small time con compared to what seems to be going on in Abuja now*
- Is somebody amassing as much wealth as he can for 2015 to buy elections, create chaos and attempt country division?
- Is somebody's destiny really to bankrupt Nigeria?
- Is somebody doing anything to drastically shed excess luggage and steer the country back on the righ path?

Has Nigeria improved??

Is it not clear now that anybody, anybody who is campaigning for GEJ in 2015 either doesnt know what is going on (many nairalanders and off nairalanders), is being paid for it / deriving some huge benefit from the govt ...which may not be unconnected to our broke state... (the ''ex-millitants'', the greedy AGIPS, some nairalanders), or is just a sentimental tribal bigot (those things put us in this mess and will continue to immerse us deeper in it).

Nigerians, wise up abeg.

Sentiments aside, frankly speaking, fair assessment, Goodluck Jonathan is seriously a top contender for PRESIDING OVER the WORST GOVERNMENT in Nigeria's history.

May this nonsense stop before or by 2015!

elampiro: I thought they said Sahara reporters were telling lies.

taharqa2: This is for those peeps who are Educated and who do not have an eye problem and can properly see d article they are commenting on: NOI is talking about d FG's BUDGETARY funding having Cash-flow problems cos of d way d National Assembly moved around some budgetary items, esp the about #74b which was removed from some key capital heads and payment of salaries of certain categories of civil servants, to their Consistuency projects and other issues. This has been the disagreement bw d Executive and d NA over d budget since January of this year. This was d main reason the President initiali refused to sign d budget for more than a month early this year, until he did and sent sm Amendments to the budget which d NA is still dealing with (d main reason why NOI was called b4 their budget committee now). NOI and Sanusi warned of d possible difficulties in funding d budget later on if these 'anomilies' were not rectified. The cock has now come home to roost, I guess. All these are not helped by d fact that Oil production (which was overtly optimistic at 2.5m barrels per day) has gone there since early this year cos of problems associated with Oil theft, etc. This DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE ECONOMY ITSELF IS CASH-STRAPPED (at least not yet) OR EVEN NEAR 'BROKE'. Only Ignoramuses would say so...

Sincere 9gerian: You'r correct. That law has not been passed. It is yet to get to the federal executive council. It has just been approved by BPP/BPE. From there it will move to FEC and then to the NASS. We run a very bulky bureaucracy in this country. We can only hope that it can be passed next year. Meanwhile, little concessions here and there (like the one in the report) can still take place, notwithstanding the law. Even the obsolete railway act even forbids state gov from building railways. But state gov with resources have embarked on building railways with tacit approval of the FG, notwithstanding the laws. Massive concessions like the entire Lagos-kano railway will wait till the law is passed.

Degis: I hate Lies especially when told unashamedly. Where is the Input of the Goodluck administration in all these, especially the funds committed into this project by GEJ?. This is just a joint partnership between the Police and the Private Developer, without any direct input of the Administration.

Rhino.5dm:
Sai Jonathan 2015!

naptu2: Gosh! I've got a lot to say about this, but I'm very busy at the moment. I'll summarise.

1) The rail line to Apapa (or at least one of them) was rehabilitated and has been conveying passengers from Iddo/Ebute-Metta since late last year/early this year. Apparently they've now rehabilitated the section that goes to the port.

2) There are a lot of factories in the Ijora and Apapa area that can use these trains to move their goods inland.

3) This line goes as far as Ajaokuta, Osun, Kano, etc. This means farmers, manufacturers and mining companies upland can move their goods straight to the port (no bribing police on the roads, armed robbers, bad roads, etc).

4) Less trailers on the road = less wear and tear on the road, accidents caused by trailers, traffic jams caused by broken down trucks, etc.

5) It'll probably be cheaper.

I'll be back with more.

Maxymilliano: It doesn't make any economic sense to continue keeping 10 aircraft for a government that is serious in curbing fiscal profligacy, the cost of maintenance and associated charges in keeping 10 aircraft is not healthy for the economy

Ihe grossly under-perforimg and under-productive legislatures should also wake up to their responsibilities and provide a semblance of checks on some of the activities of the executive rather than just serving as leeches and getting paid for doing next to nothing ...

take dat: Why can't Yinka do us the favor by filing a petition against him(Tinubu) to the EFCC just as he did with Akala, or those are just unfounded allegations?

Tinubu is a thief, while Odumakin is an hypocrite and a Master blackmailer. Did he not tongue-lash the Yoruba elders, and called them all sorts of names when he left Afenifere to start the Afenifere Renewal Group? But now he defends them after his political misadventure with Buhari. How come his new political and business associate is Iyiola Omisore, a man accused of involvement in the unfortunate murder of Bola Ige, another Afenifere Chieftain? What of the accusations and counter-accusations between him and Nduka Obaigbena? Did OBJ not placate the Late Chief Abraham Adesanya by appointing his daughter as a federal minister after he, (Adesanya) and other Afenifere Chieftains helped kill the AD in the South-West? I am very sure we will hear less of Yinka once Tinubu settles him. All the cry is just to win concession.

There is no difference between our rogue politicians and members of some self-serving sectional groups.

take dat: During OBJ and Yaradua presidency, a section of the Yoruba elites occupied top positions but what significant difference did it make to the ordinary Yorubas? Their cry of marginalization is self-serving, pushed and politicized by the political elites who have failed to gain ascendancy at home in order to win concessions at the center.

Abagworo: I'm happy an Igbokwe has spoken with his conscience. Let me also add that Professor Ben Nwabueze has also spoken.

mojounited: Admiral Boer, who is the Admiral Superintendent of Naval Dockyard Limited, added that NDL was in the fore front of technological breakthroughs and innovations in the Nigerian Navy. He further stressed that NDL is diversifying efforts into various aspects of activities that would include marine construction and fabrications in the maritime sector and the offshore operations of the oil and gas industry.

http://www.nigerianpilot.com/nigerian-navy-to-build-another-warship/