₦airaland Forum

We now know why they are not at par with the Executive.

Tinubu the Emperor is responsible for the wasted years of Justice Ayo Salami in the Judiciary.

@ Ismhab,u still alive?Thought you may have been shot in one of your bomb planting activities for Boko Haram.Pls,tell us where Shekau is before the whole of your blood sucking brothers are gased with Hydrogen.

We praised Fashola as if he is the only person runing Lagos State.Do we mean to say all his Commisioners are dead wood?Revenue and allocation acruing to lagos is very huge.There are Many areas in Lagos that are struggling with infrastractures which Fashola has not fixed and we are talking of ruling the country.Let him fixed every part of Lagos before we can talk of Nigeria as a whole.

Culprits should be tried in a special court and sentence to Jail.

It is not news that Billions of Naira is allocated to both Arms of the National Assembly for Counstitunecy Projects which ends up in the pockets.Execept you guys are new or playing to the Gallery like your cohorts in the National Assembly.

We dont even need the National Assembly.David Mark who is the Arrow Head of this smear campaign should point to one project he has excuted in his Constitunecies since he became a Senator.Those that live in Glass Houses should not throw stone.

Pls,leave ang go to a country that is not finished.slowpoke

MIMIKO Campaign Organisation, on Wednesday, asked the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to pay more attention to its “leaky houses” in the South-West, where it is holding sway, adding that governance in the states is now at its lowest ebb.

Speaking against the backdrop of crises that bedevilled the states while the leadership of the party concentrated attention on capturing Ondo State, the organi-sation noted that such a development reeked of double standards.

According to the campaign organisation, it was a thing of shame that while the people being governed were suffering, the party had levied and bullied governors of the states and their local government areas, causing them to cough up billions of naira to capture Ondo.

In a statement signed by the director of publicity and media relations of the organisation, Mr Kolawole Olabisi, it regretted that ACN had embarked on a wasteful venture and a sure journey to perdition in Ondo State.

“A look at the south western states as of today shows a sorry state of thing, owing to the desperation of an emperor and his minions who, while wanting to conquer all, have left government ships to go aground.

“In ACN states, crises of sack of workers, students’ protests over hike in tuition fees, scrapping and merging of existing tertiary institutions that they inherited from their predecessors abound. These are the precarious situation in ACN states that they have left unattended to, while they strut about, boasting that they must add Ondo State to this kind of misery,” the statement read

Nigerians are among the intending pilgrims to this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia queuing to receive donations of food from native Saudi philanthropists in the holy land.

The Nigerian pilgrims were often seen forming incredibly long queues and pushing against each other intolerantly to reach the distribution points. Our reporter observed that the Nigerian pilgrims would normally converge in a vast parking lot attached to the grand mosque of Prophet Muhammad (SAW) waiting for the arrival of large trolleys containing foods, despite the baking heat from the midday sun. It was also observed that the process of distributing the food was always marred by occasional brawls which break out among the beneficiaries, causing the native Arabs serving the foods to harass, humiliate and disgrace them. At some instances, the food packages are thrown at them. Some of the pilgrims said they chose to join the queues not because they had exhausted their basic travel allowances, but because they needed to cut down their cost of feeding.

Driving a Manual in a city like Lagos is Suicide.

They forgot to Include Otedollar

Our Hearth grief as we mourned the saddend loss.Parent also have a total responsibility to monitor their children and bring them up properly.Going by different stories we heard about the incidence,we can not wholly rule out the fact that they are engaged in some shady activities.The following questions comes to my mind.
1.What were they doing at Allu?Was Legal to harras a friend that owe you money when they should have reported to the police.How many of them were owe money and why did they go their in group?

We should not be quick to condern those involved even though they do not have the right to take the Law into their hands.Let's wait for a painstaking police investigation to unravalled what was responsible for this acts before we take our position.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The incursion by an unmanned aircraft into Israeli airspace at the weekend exposed the weakness of Israeli air defenses, an Iranian military official was quoted as saying on Monday.

The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.

Jamaluddin Aberoumand, deputy coordinator for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the incident indicated that Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system "does not work and lacks the necessary capacity", Fars news agency reported.

The Iron Dome system, jointly funded with the United States, is designed to shoot down short-range guerrilla rockets, not slow-flying aircraft. It intercepted more than 80 percent of the targets it engaged in March when nearly 300 rockets and mortars were fired at southern Israel, the Pentagon said at the time.

The drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean near the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel, said military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich. An Israeli warplane shot it down above a forest near the occupied West Bank.

Israeli parliament member Miri Regev, a former chief spokesman of the military, wrote on Twitter it was an "Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah", referring to the Lebanese Shi'ite group that fought a war with Israel in 2006.

Israeli defense officials have not confirmed this.

Aberoumand attributed claims the drone was made by Iran to a "psychological operation" by Israel, but did not confirm or deny them. "The Zionist regime (Israel) has many enemies," he added.

On at least one occasion, Iranian-backed Hezbollah has sent a drone into Israeli airspace. And in 2010, an Israeli warplane shot down an apparently unmanned balloon in the Negev near the country's Dimona nuclear reactor.

The Israeli military released a 10-second video clip of what it said was Saturday's mid-air interception, showing a small aircraft just before a missile from a fighter jet destroys it.

Israel has threatened to bomb Iran's nuclear sites if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the nuclear work it believes is aimed at getting weapons capability, a charge Tehran denies.

Iran has responded with threats to attack U.S. military bases in the region and retaliate against Israel if attacked.

Choi,Another collection for Tinubu

My Cousin paid 250k to get a job recently.Some people were even paying 1000000 Niara for Customs job.They are posted to the Boarders,Airport and Port after their trainings.

You can imajine if they will serve their fatherland if they have to pay to get jobs.

There should be a thorough investaigation into all recruitments that were given out without advertisement and let all those invloved be brought to books to serve as deternats to others.

The United States’ embassy in Nigeria seems to have perfected the art of denying well-meaning and legitimate non-immigrant Nigerian mothers visa for reasons best known to it. At the end of visa interview sessions, what one hears is, ‘’You are not qualified at this time’’! Women of child-bearing age are asked questions such as: Are you pregnant at this time? How many children do you have? Do you plan to have more children? And if the response to any of these questions is in the affirmative, then the next set of questions may be: Do you plan to have the baby in America? Can you afford to pay the medical bills? You are probably asked to show evidence and even after showing evidence you are told mostly that you do not qualify at this time or that you should reapply after having your baby.

Please note that there have been cases when female applicants did not even know they were pregnant during the interview and later discovered in the weeks to follow! Obviously, a married woman who is sexually active can become pregnant at anytime even with the use of contraceptives. Asking these kinds of questions during interviews is not a way to determine the purpose of the interview, which is to determine if the visa applicant is an intending immigrant. Finding out if an applicant is pregnant or plan to become pregnant soon, has nothing to do with the application but is an unnecessary invasion of privacy.

Moreover in Africa, questions like these are very sensitive as people like to keep such information private until the pregnancy becomes advanced. If one may ask, is the visa meant to be an agreement to celibacy in marriage? In my own case, I had used my American visa many times for holiday and even business before deciding to make use of the medical facilities available in the US to have my baby. I also decided to do this because I developed some complications during the pregnancy and decided to seek better health care. Why then would a consular officer overlook all the business transactions done and deny an applicant for the simple reason of having a baby in America?

Is it wrong for a mother to seek better medical treatment for herself anywhere in the world if she can afford it? Or, could it be that it is a crime under American laws? Let us examine the major issues in this matter because I really do not understand the thinking.

The B-1/B-2 visitors visa is for people travelling to the United States temporarily for business (B-1) or for pleasure or medical treatment (B-2). Generally, the B-2 visa is for travel that is recreational in nature, including tourism, visits to friends or relatives, medical treatment and activities of a fraternal, social or service nature often the B-1 and B-2 visas are combined and issued as one visa: the B-1/B-2 visa.

So, can we safely assume that if you are issued a visa in the B-1/B-2 category, you can use the visa for any of the purposes stated above during the duration of the visa (which is usually 2 years validity) without fear that you will be denied another visa during renewal for using it for any of the above stated purposes? Let us say, for instance, during the interview, you stated to the consular officer that you were travelling to America on holiday. If sometimes during the validity of your visa, you use same visa for business purposes or medical purposes, should you be penalised?

Using one’s visa for medical treatment can be in form of the following: Any form of surgery both medical, cosmetic surgeries , having a baby or any gynaecological related procedure, general medical check-up e.t.c

I have tried to find out several reasons why mothers are being denied visas to the US. Could it be because there is a law in place saying people cannot have their babies in America? In fact, I can say after much investigation that there is nothing like that. Everyone is allowed to go everywhere in the world for medical treatment so long as they can afford it. Nigerians still go to South Africa, the United Kingdom, and other European countries to have their babies so long as they can afford it and they do so because they believe they will get better medical care.

Could the issue be that the women that are having babies in America can cause overpopulation in the future? I still do not think that is the issue as the American government still runs the visa lottery every year in which thousands of people all over the world are granted immigrant status to live and work in America.

Denying mothers of American citizen children visa’s during renewal is indirectly denying the American citizen child entry to America because the child cannot travel unaccompanied at a minor age without either of his or her parent.

INCUMBENT Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, may become Nigeria’s next Chief of Defence Staff.

If appointed, Ihejirika would be making another history as the first Chief of Defence Staff from the South -East. He is the first from the zone to be made the Chief of Army Staff in 2010.

Investigations revealed that the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin, who has put in 35 years in service, may soon vacate the position.

Besides Ihejirika, the other service chiefs are Vice-Admiral Ola Ibrahim of the Nigerian Navy and Air Marshal Diko Umar of the Air Force.

According to military sources, the new change may be announced on October 4.

Petinrin and the three service chiefs were appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan in September, 2010.

Investigation revealed that Ola, the current Chief of Naval Staff, and Ihejirika are the two topmost contenders to the highest military position in the country.

Although, the Naval Chief is the most senior of the three service chiefs currently, military sources said Ihejirika had better chances to take over from Pentirin.

The sources were, however, silent on the odds against the Navy Chief.

It was learnt that the President, in appointing the CDS, is usually guarded by certain factors such as seniority and an unwritten principle of rotation in the Armed Forces.

According to the source, Umar has very slim chances apart from the fact he is the third in terms of seniority among the service chiefs.

Umar’s chances are further said to diminish as Pentinrin and the former CDS, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, who handed over to him in 2010, came from the Air Force.

Before Petinrin’s appointment, the expectations were that Dike was going to hand over to a Naval officer but that did not happen.

Between 1999 and 2012, the country has had six Chiefs of Defence Staff out of which only one is from the Navy.

While the Army has produced three CDS, the Air Force has produced two.

The former Chiefs of Defence Staff are Admiral Ibrahim Ogohi (1999-2003), Gen. Alexander Ogomudia (2003-2006), and Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, June 2006 – May 25, 2007.

Others are Gen. Owoye Azazi (May 25,2007 –Aug 20, 2008), Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike (August 20, 2008-September 8, 2010 and Petinrin, September 8, 2010 – date.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The surrounding mystery of the man behind the crudely produced anti-Islamic video that sparked violence in the Middle East took a strange turn after he appeared in court and gave yet another name in a string of aliases.

Arrested on Thursday after authorities said he violated his probation from a 2010 check fraud conviction, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula told a judge his real name was Mark Basseley Youseff. He said he'd been using that name since 2002, even though he went by Nakoula in his fraud case.

The full story about Nakoula and the video "Innocence of Muslims" still isn't known more than two weeks after violence erupted in Egypt and Libya, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others were killed in Benghazi. Violence related to the film has since spread, killing dozens more.

Citing a lengthy pattern of deception and the potential to flee, U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal ordered Nakoula to remain in prison without bond until another judge can hold a hearing to determine if he broke the terms of his probation.

"The court has a lack of trust in this defendant at this time," Segal said.

Prosecutors noted Nakoula had eight probation violations, including lying to his probation officers and using aliases. He could face new charges that carry a maximum two-year prison term.

After his 2010 conviction, Nakoula was sentenced to 21 months in prison and was barred from using computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer, though prosecutors said none of the violations involved the Internet. He also wasn't supposed to use any name other than his true legal name without the prior written approval of his probation officer.

Three names, however, have been associated with Nakoula this month alone.

The movie was made last year by a man who called himself Sam Bacile. After the violence erupted, a man who identified himself as Bacile spoke to media outlets including The Associated Press, took credit for the film and said it was meant to portray the truth about Muhammad and Islam, which he called a cancer.

The next day, the AP determined there was no Bacile and linked the identity to Nakoula, a former gas station owner with a drug conviction and a history of using aliases. Federal authorities later confirmed there was no Bacile and that Nakoula was behind the movie.

Some of the false statements in Nakoula's alleged probation violations had to do with the film, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Dugdale said. Nakoula told probation officials his role was just writing the script, and denied going by the name Sam Bacile in connection with the film, Dugdale said.

Before going into hiding, Nakoula acknowledged to the AP that he was involved with the film, but said he only worked on logistics and management.

Nakoula, a Christian originally from Egypt, then went into hiding after he was identified as the man behind the trailer, which depicts Muhammad as a womanizer, religious fraud and child molester. He met with federal probation officials two weeks ago, led out of his home in suburban Cerritos in the middle of the night, flanked by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and cloaked in heavy clothing to protect his identity.

The public got their first good look at Nakoula on Thursday, although the news media was banned from the courtroom and reporters had to watch the proceedings on a TV in a nearby courthouse.

Nakoula wore beige pants and a collared shirt when he was led into the courtroom handcuffed and shackled. He appeared relaxed, smiling at one point before the hearing and conferring with his attorney.

Nakoula's attorney Steven Seiden sought to have the hearing closed and his client released on $10,000 bail. He argued Nakoula has checked in with his probation officer frequently and made no attempts to leave Southern California.

Seiden was concerned that Nakoula would be in danger in federal prison because of Muslim inmates, but prosecutors said he likely would be placed in protective custody.

Lawrence Rosenthal, a constitutional and criminal law professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, said it was "highly unusual" for a judge to order immediate detention on a probation violation for a nonviolent crime, but if there were questions about Nakoula's identity it was more likely.

"When the prosecution doesn't really know who they're dealing with, it's much easier to talk about flight," Rosenthal said. "I've prosecuted individuals who'd never given a real address. You don't know who you're dealing with, and you're just going to have very limited confidence about their ability to show up in court."

Enraged Muslims have demanded punishment for Nakoula, and a Pakistani cabinet minister has offered a $100,000 bounty to anyone who kills him.

First Amendment advocates have defended Nakoula's right to make the film while condemning its content. And federal officials likely will face criticism from those who say Nakoula's free speech rights were trampled by his arrest on a probation violation.

In arguing that Nakoula is a possible flight risk, Dugdale said Nakoula couldn't even reveal something as fundamental as his real name.

"He's a person who simply can't be trusted," he said.

@ Pataki.U are big Goat.How can you be so wicked to wish other People Ill-Luck?What has she done to you that warrant such curses?You can easily end your misery by huging a Transformer.walahi

@ poster,u and your Hero (Shekau) will soon be gunned down.

Nigeria’s largest local carrier, Arik Air, Thursday morning announced that it is suspending all its domestic operations indefinitely over the “persistent hostility of the Ministry of Aviation and Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) management.”

Arik airs claim of suspending its local operations differ from reports that the airline was officially shut by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, over an N18 billion debt the airline owes the aviation authority.

Thousands of passengers across Nigeria are already stranded at Nigeria’s airports where Arik operated from, particularly the Lagos, Abuja, and Port-Harcourt airports.

@Dgr8tosyn,I just drove through Oshodi and I saw Agberos smoking weed under the Bridge.How come your Majical Fash couldn't tame them?Lagos state speaker has a corruption case hanging on his Neck under Fashola watch.Gov.Fash has a Female Deputy Governor forced down on him by Tinubu.I can go on and on to respond to your comment.If Fashola is ruling Lagos with the Factors I mentioned above,what would be become of Nigeria if he is the President?So many Lazy Sycophant like you and your Brothers in Oshodi will litter Abuja smoking Hemp.The same people that are crying for FEG neglect are the ones now rejectn the good hand extended to them.Sycophants.

@ Nuezha,u guys are loosing the world.You are one of the Boko boz hiding.pls,come out and face JTF and let's see if u will last a day.slowpoke.

Happy Birthday to 2baba.

SORRY my Brother DK,i was responding that slowpoke called Kposite or what ever he called himself.

GeJ ,2015.carry go.Northern Govs(Boko harams),go and hug transformer.@ poster,u spokeman for your Northern parasite,u will commit suicide wen GEJ wins again.we will all vote to him to show your types that you can drag us back.we want to move forward.

I wish the Chinese Exim bank would loan Ibadan some cash to change the roof sheets of their houses. That way it can look like a city at least.
@Tuskky44,my belle wan burst for here with Laugh.hahahaha.U got it right man.

This Northerners just won't understand that power will never return to them again.They still want to give it a shot.

I got this message from a friend and I decided to share it.Modertor,pls,move this to front page.The hatred between both Religion is getting extremerly dangerous.This may calm some nerves.