₦airaland Forum

anonimi:
Acted reasonably by neglecting the P&ID case after being sworn in and with no ministers for six months then offering $600 million that was rejected. All of which has made the amount balloon and now doing their usual propaganda to save face?
How does all that amount to acting reasonably please

Let me put my opinion of the the current FG having acted reasonably in proper perspective:

The timelines for the FG vs P&ID is summarized below:

1. FG and P&ID signed a contract in 2010
2. Contract was that FG would provide pipelines and other infrastructures and deliver natural gas to P&ID
3. P&ID was to build a processing plant
4. P&ID was to provide free processed gas to FG for addition of 2000 MW of electricity
4. Government did not fulfill it's side of the bargain
5. 2010 - 2012, FGN refused to reasonably engage P&ID
6. 2012: P&ID dragged FG to arbitration tribunal in London.
7. 2012-2015 FG made no offer for settlement to P&ID
8. July 2015, the arbitration tribunal concluded on Nigeria's liability based on repudiation and judgement was reserved.
9. Jan 2017, the tribunal read the judgement it reserved in July 2015 by ordering Nigeria to pay $6.6 billion.

The foregoing is to put issues in perspective.

Now between May 29 2015, that Buhari was sworn in and July 2015 that judgement was reserved, there was little or nothing FG could have done.

And after reserving judgement, parties to the suit would have to wait to hear judgement to know their next line of action.

The guys who acted unreasonably were those in government from 2010 to 2015.

anonimi:
Confessing to the helplessness and hopelessness of El Dullardino of Aso Rock


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Hate Buhari all you want, it is your inalienable right. However, cut the man some slack for uncovering this heists and fighting hard to make sure that the country does not pay some dubious contractors and their collaborators.

Now, if you ask me if I am completely happy with Buhari, it will be a capital NO.

But the truth is that, with respect to PID and this other case mentioned herein, the government of the day has acted reasonably.

Politics must be set aside when the need arises in the interest of the nation at large.

celebgistz2:
We need police reformation in this country

More importantly, we need a reformation of our minds as Nigerians. The policemen are just a reflection of the Nigerian society - if you sack all the policemen in Nigeria today and replace them with another set of Nigerians, there is a high probability that they will turn out to be as bad.

WizBLANCE:
Start being an American By leaving this sweet niraland for nigerians.

If your type were born white

Racist would be worst than it is now.

Please don't be offended by his comments. What some Nigerians do in the U.S will make you dissociate yourself from them.

If you are not careful, they can even implicate you, when the long arms of the law catch up with them and their accomplices just to get lighter sentences.

fairfora:
Only God knows what's wrong with us. Some years ago, Solgas, a US company left, followed by wilbros. I think our leaders are to blame for inflicting hardship on us. Not everybody can endure it. Fraud must be condemned at all levels but the government too must do their best to provide jobs to our youths whom he guaranteed 3m jobs every year during campaigns else, things could always get worse. Over 9m graduates are out of jobs. Shame.l! Even the national orientation agency saddled with the responsibility of public enlightenment and orientation has gone comatose under the Buhari-led Administration. Everybody's eyes are becoming clearer now. A vote for Buhari was a wasted vote. Na so,so corrupt people and armyroba full im govt.

The problem with us is that Nigerians may end up dribbling themselves into a corner.

What do we do to ourselves. Even when we as Nigerians set up businesses here some fellas end up trying to be too smart, this has led to a number of businesses folding up. I am talking about businesses that were founded by Nigerians. So I ask, how the hell would there be jobs?

PhilipGallagher:
That jenna bourgeois dey somehow. I remember when he made some very demeaning remarks about employing Nigerians.

He should carry his company and go. Which dirty global firm. Firm wey be like one man business mtschew

Trust me, tiny drops of water make an ocean. This does not bode well for the teeming youths.

IGBOSON1:
Anyone caught, tried and convicted should pay for his crime! This is the main thing!

Trying to draw attention to their ethnicity is for what? If your country had provided them with opportunities to earn a decent living i doubt we would be here discussing this today! This issue of getting gov't to be accountable and work for the people is all what IPOB is about! If you have a problem with their modus-operandi then start your own movement to change things....just like Sowore tried to do before they silenced him!

Bro please this excuse is not tenable for these people's crime.

Granted that the Nigerian leadership over decades have continually failed their citizens, but the fact is that these guys got visas to the U.S and refused to make the best of the opportunities that they had, rather they chose to be criminals making things hard for their country folks through negative profiling.

When Nigerians complain about lack of job opportunities, I laugh because of the way the same 'disadvantaged' youths destroy the opportunities for global employment via telecommuting because of the get rich quick syndrome.

On upwork.com alone, some citizens of other countries earn as much as $10000 or more per month while providing various services but most Nigerians working on that platform have to use VPN to hide their identity to claim nationality of other countries - this act itself of claiming who they are not is even wrong - but they do so because nobody wants to do business with Nigerians!

Because of the inherent smartness of Nigerians, we ought to have been some of the greatest beneficiary of the internet through LEGITIMATE means such as freelancing, remote call centre services, international business partnership and telecommuting but - through their illegitimate dealings - these job opportunities are being destroyed daily by the youths who complain daily about lack of job opportunities! Nothing can be more ironical.

Elexdallas:
why is he not in jail?
why are they not investigating him?
who is supplying the weapon used? (top secret)
does it mean the government, someone in the government, the military are sponsoring this guys?
would Niger delta militants be treated this way?
Or is it because he is fulani?

But Niger Delta militants were given amnesty before now. As a matter of fact, people like Tompolo, Asari, Tom Awake and their followers were paid monthly salaries.

This attitude of rewarding armed struggle champions has continued today with the Fulani herdsmen and bandits.

More and more people in this country are being encouraged to go into arms struggle; government ought to punish criminals and not to negotiate with them.

FroshJaynex:
Anyone saying his demanding too much is sick in the Brain, Is the government not doing too much already by holding him captive against the court orders? Na when this man die na em una go hear am, till date bokoharam is still technically defeated with more technical killings till date, I repeat anyone saying this man is demanding for too much has brain tumor

This false narrative of the government holding him against court orders have been going around for too long and I believe that a lot of people believed the narrative innocently.

The facts are that El-Zakzzaky had different cases in Abuja and Kaduna; while the court in Abuja had granted him bail, the Kaduna court had never granted him bail until some days ago when it granted him bail on medical grounds.

fasho01:
Too much crime in this country..


And it's saddening that it involves ripping off the man next door rather than ingenuity

Very sad issue. They would tell you that they rip other people off because 'country is hard', but I keep wondering if the country is not hard for that poor man or woman that falls for the acts of these criminals.

Sadly, the police to citizens ratio is very poor and I keep on wondering why our citizens choose to overwhelm the security operatives to their own detriment; because when they are overwhelmed with sundry financial crimes, how do we get them to focus on securing lives and properties of the citizens.

Something must be genetically wrong with some Nigerians! They give the bad leadership in Nigeria as excuse for their criminalities; they go to better organized countries, in search of the proverbial green pasture and they continue with their criminal attitudes thereby rendering their excuse of bad leadership useless.

As Nigerians, we need to begin to reevaluate ourselves and retrace our steps.

ednut1:
lord knows am doing ivf for gender selection. na only 2 boys i need abeg

Having boys these days is not a guarantee against parental hearbreak. Some boys' turn out to be gays!

Just ask God for good children regardless of their gender and do not abdicate your parental responsibilities.

GrabHisBalls:
I didn't even speak my mind and you're complaining. Was I supposed to lick his ass?

No jare, you were not supposed to lick his ass. Perhaps acting out your monicker by Grabbing His Balls would have jolted him into reality. �

Mk12:
there is nothing to suggest that there was more than one shooter.
there will always be shout of witch-hunt when criminals from a certain part of the country are treated with kids gloves

The El Paso Police department clearly spoke about having reports of "multiple shooters" via its tweeter handle.

That clearly is actionable intelligence.

See the highlighted part of the attached image for your kind attention.

Mk12:
if it was your Nigeria, the suspect will still be moving around looking for his next victims

But only one of the suspects has been caught, the others are still moving around looking for their next victims. Infact, no one has shouted that the only suspect caught is a Californian, Texan, New Yorker, Republican or Democrat.

Nigerians always shouting about insecurity but quick to shout witch hunting when suspects are taken into custody.

The less we politicise security issues and other matters of national importance, the better for us.

soberdrunk:
The biggest problem in Nigeria is our mindset, just imagine the level of foolishness these people are displaying just because of ordinary adultery one person is dead and another one homeless, so how does this solve the situation?

Thanks for this beautiful contribution; until Nigerians accept individual responsibilities for the mess we are in, there won't be any way forward.

It is not about OBJ, GEJ or PMB. These guys just reflect who we are as a people.

Bbbwings:
That lady talking is very irritating And is definitely sexually frustrated.
These people are mad
Are they really naked? because I think they tried just by covering the most important parts of their bodies
Mtchewwww.
Avert your eyes and mind your goddamn business.

What about children being driven via that route, would you tell them to avert their eyes too?

Stillthebest:
Nigerians re now so absorbed on internet and social media like we are the first one to experience the evolution of the internet.

Real revolution won't start from Twitter. Those people are never serious. Real revolutions will start with a few peoples match prompting others to follow. Just like Sudan where only 5 people started without online sensitivities then became 50, to 500, to 50000 and more.

Two days time if sowore is yet to be released Twitter warriors would have started trending with another thing.

All these our leaders know.. they always know that we are not ready for the fight. Buhari didn't call us lazy youths because we lazy about but because he knew we can never fight for our rights.

And that we aid and abett the leaders to steal.. followers are the real problems in NIGERIA leaders are only getting into the sordid situation because we stand for everything.

A bad follower can never make a good leader. Most followers who think they are Saint today just give them the opportunity watch them become worst...

Truer words have never been said.

Debaiz:
It may not be hypothetically but it actually is in this age and time.


Degree gives you access to some things that ordinary SSCE would never give you access to. You get to work in formal environment and know how to manage people and how they think not to talk of the economics of managing an economy’s finance. The process of getting degree its self has a learning curve that is not obtainable anywhere.

The probability of a non degree or its equivalent holder performing far better than a degree holder is like zero.

Basically the intricacies and mental comprehension of a degree holder can never be compared to that of a school cert. holder. There is limit to the kind of exposure a school cert holder can have.

Well, your submissions above should hold true but some Nigerian graduates are actually a disgrace to the institutions that graduated them.

I have seen some school cert holders trounce some degree holders in their own fields.

Like all things in Nigeria, the tertiary educational system is bastardized. It would shock you to know that some of them cannot even string together a sentence in English which is the official medium of instruction.

NOC1:
Apart from joke, it is laughable. in a refined country it can't happen. i know people will be asking what about Zleneski of Ukraine and Weah of Liberia. this people are not of same level with Ademola Adeleke, they are intellectually sound unlike that dancer.

The comparison with George Weah is not even applicable because he went for further education after losing the presidential election to Ellen Sirleaf on his first attempt.

Before he became Liberian President, George Weah had bagged both First and Master's Degrees.

feda01:
I was at the kegites world gyration that night, all the way from mother shrine Ibadan, it's was indeed a bad day, rip to all the dead. Yemi Ajiteru a great kegite comrade...Rip

That incidence in comradium inspired the statement "ife '99 awa da. Eni ori yo o dile" It was a sad day! Rest on 'Africa'. Respect to archivarian world chief "Dexter".

Timil:
I've been thinking of this but when I think of how much we love each other and how young the relationship is I feel like staying in the relationship.

Which do you value most; your life or the love you have for her? In any case since you feel like staying in the relationship, our advice may not be meaningful.

Kingosytex:
Buhari's refusal to release Elzakzaky will certainly set this country ablaze. Nigeria is yet to recover from the boko haram menace and Buhari is already inviting another trouble


Those shiite guys are deadly!!

Those guys have always been deadly. GEJ had some issues with them too.

Telkart19:
The fact that a pastor violated his marital vows should be a source of concern to Nigerian Christians

My brother the way fellow Nigerians glorify the misdemeanors of people in authority is shocking.

Handsomebb:
May be with their skills if harnessed into proper channel could better the country, just few days back a woman was caught producing peak milk.......WHAT DO U THINK.

Who should harness their skills? They are entrepreneurs, they are the ones to channel their skills properly. Besides, I do not see any skills in faking other brands just by coloring ethanol and packaging same.

These are criminals and their likes should never be encouraged. It would shock you how much money they have made while "selling" kidney and liver diseases to people.

buharitill2023:
they are not lying, the idiotic pig pastor actually has sex with more than 30 of them, but it was not rape

Well, if you admitted that he had sex with all 30 of them you can't say he didn't commit rape because in Bisola's case she was 17 hence she was below age of consent (18). As the law stands, anyone who sleeps with anybody below 18 is committing statutory RAPE.

I think that Nigerians have a very limited understanding of what constitutes rape and that is because the law enforcers and our courts are not treating this scourge with the attention it deserves.

jrusky:
But the question is who is the person that started this nonsense news? But there are Eze Igbo everywhere nah beside this fulani of a thing has be existing in Lagos for a while so what is the fuss now

The intention of these purveyors of fake news is to cause a civil war. My message is that everyone loses in a war among brothers.

blackpanda:
Watch how ignorant bigots will start attacking the woman to protect the perpetrator

Our problem in Nigeria is very complex

Followership is a bigger problem than leadership in Nigeria, in my opinion.

I feel sorry for this country when I read such comments where the lady being the victim is being vilified.

Most of the cretins making jokes out of this lady's ordeal are closet rapists.

israelmao:
Are the Yahoo boys armed?

Their victims at home and abroad wouldn't find this funny.

The victim who went into bankruptcy and became heartbroken as a result of their actions would not find this funny.

israelmao:
I will continue to say that arresting these guys cannot fix the problems,Yahoo business gained more ascendancy and became more rampant because youth unemployment is alarming that is not to make an excuse for them but honestly Nigerian worsening economy is one of the contributory factors.FG can just gather those that have been arrested so far and train them in positive ventures that are ICT-related and also patronize their services or products as the case may be.This is one out of a thousand ways to refocus or redirect their minds from fraudulent acts.

If FG were to gather the yahoo yahoo boys and retrain them, what should be done with armed robbers, kidnappers and the rest. "Country hard" is not an excuse for criminality. Get rich quick syndrome is the bane of our society.

Alexis11:
Lol... Give a dog a bad name so that you can kill it easily.

what is the proof that it is Nigerians that are committing those crimes

Sadly, you may not need proof to know that Nigerians committed those crimes.

We make it easy for people of other nations to stereotype us because even the crimes we commit here and glorify on the altar of "country hard" no be for here.

As Nigerians we must consciously shun crimes and condemn such whenever they occur so that we can earn our respect in the global village.

Alexis11:
Lol... Give a dog a bad name so that you can kill it easily.

what is the proof that it is Nigerians that are committing those crimes

Sadly, you may not need proof to know that Nigerians committed those crimes.

We make it easy for people of other nations to stereotype us because even the crimes we commit here and glorify on the altar of "country hard" no be for here.