₦airaland Forum

They think we have forgotten. We shall meet at the races

skillmachine: You are getting things mixed up.
The edo state government fixed a large section of Sapele road and Akpakpava road. Kindly note that fixing a road does not merely involved putting bitumen on it. The state government constructed storm drains, sidewalk and expanded the road All these are captured in the edo state budget which is still online for your verification.

Other major roads in the state like sapkoba road, siluku roads and airport road have also been expanded to six lanes with sidewalk by the state government. If you look closely at the pictures posted above, you will notice than there are additional lanes on both sides of the benin ore road (withing benin). That was done by the state government and it will includ underground drainage and side walk.

You are correct that all the major roads in benin are motorable. Infact they are all six lane dual carraige way with drainage and sidewalk. These are Airport road, Apkapkava, benin Ore road, sapele road, siluku roads. Each of these roads are around 5 miles long. Work have already started or about to start on other not so major roads like Ekenwan road, first east circuler road, second east circular road, third east circular road and Adesuwa road.

That is not to say the federal government are not doing well too. They have done really well. Infact in edo state, its like the federal government and the state government are in a competition of building roads. The federal government have done well in the benin ore road and also for the work that have started in the benin- abuja road.

Look, I like Oshiomole, but what he did is a quick fix. He did well in some inner city roads but Aiport road is been on for ages now and sakponba road is now abandoned. He made too much noice and played too much politics out of the whole thing. I do understand why he had to do that though. He needed to get the people on his side and reduce Anenihs influence. But the problem now is that the people will now judge him on his own performance and that will be a problem because he has simply stalled on his developments. Partly because of funds though. He wasted too much on the last elections. People are beginning to complain and he has to sit up.

But one good thing Oshiomole did do is that he brought a lot of hope after a very docile 8 year rule of Lucky Ingbinedion. Edo state politics is very tough and hot. I have always believed that the best person to rule in Edo state is someone outside the Benin tribe. Anytime a Benin man rules, he tends to be very complacent as if no one can challenge him. Maybe that will be different now since the competition has stepped up

@OP, i commend you. I Just travelled through the road and enjoyed the ride especially between Ore and Benin which has always been the main problem of that road. Was even suprised at the road markings. Very nice. We didnt change lane once. It was all smooth ride. The only area where final work is still on going is after Ore to your right, if you are coming from Lagos. And it was just for like 5 km stretch or less. That road does need a complete reconstruction though because the original road was constructed in the 70s/80s. So I believe this is a great start before they start working on reconstructing it

[quote author=Okija_juju]Its not like that this time..

I want to know what would make Omosexy influencial?[/quote]These news houses just print what they like. A top 100 most influential people without Lionel Messi and Christiano ronaldo? very funny.

If Omotola goes to MUSON center today, can she fill it up? How is she influential? And it isnt just her but most of the people on that list cant even influence their towns and villages. I am not a nollywood fan but I can tell you any day that Mama G or Aki and Paw Paw will pull 10 times more crowd than Omotola. This is why I never take awards seriously. They are all arrangee.

It is funny when you see some folks here trying to sell Buhari as a saint and an incorruptible man. It is just laughable. Just because the guy looks like a gate man and talks like one, doesnt make him a saint by any stretch. Buhari belongs to that cabal that plunged this country into immeasurable backwardness and chaos. He has been there from the seventies contributing his quota to looting, bigotry and greed. From OBJ's military tenure where the first major oil fraud was carried out in Nigeria to his 2 years of misrule and truncation of our nascent democracy, sending us into 16 years of military retrogression, to 5 years of PTF squander of over 200 billion naira (that is over a trillion Naira in today's value) during the dark Abacha days. He didnt stop there, he continued to advocate for the islamization of Nigeria, a situation that has led to the present BH saga. Along with Yerima (the pedophile from Zamfara), he championed a sharia campaign to Islamize Nigeria, just like he did in 1983.

Anyone who thinks they can sweep history under the carpet and re-coat it with lies and propaganda is only fooling themselves. Here is a little excerpt from the past to show who Buhari is and has always been!



Calls for 'total' Sharia in Nigeria
2001-08-27 21:32
Lagos - A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of 'total' Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday.

Buhari, who ruled Nigeria from a coup in December 1983 to his ouster in 1985, told a seminar in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, at the weekend that the strict Islamic law code known as the Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria.

"I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in press reports.

"God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country," Buhari said.

Northern Nigeria is mainly Muslim but southern Nigeria is mainly Christian and has led criticism of the introduction of Islamic law in a dozen northern states in the past 18 months.

Africa's most populous country has been shaken repeatedly in the past by religious unrest. In February 2000 between 2 000 and 3 000 people were killed by Christian-Muslim riots in Kaduna over the introduction of Sharia.

Call for Sharia across the country

Buhari's comments were interpreted by the southern-based papers as a call for the imposition of Sharia all across the country, even in the mainly Christian south.

"Buhari calls for Sharia in all states," was the headline of the respected newspaper The Guardian.

Buhari's comments were defended by supporters as simply a call for the full implementation of Sharia in areas where Muslims predominated.

But the comments are the second by Buhari that have courted controversy after he called earlier this year for Muslims to vote at the next presidential elections only for someone who would defend their faith.

This was criticised by the press as a call for voting along religious lines, as well as an attack on the current president, Olusegun Obasanjo, who is a Christian.

Buhari made the latest comments at a seminar organised by the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, a newly set up body attended by northern state governments and Islamic scholars.

"It is a legal responsibility which God has given us, within the context of one Nigeria, to continue to uphold the practice of Sharia wholeheartedly ... and to educate non-Muslims that they have nothing to fear," he said.

"What remains for Muslims in Nigeria is for them to redouble their efforts, educate Muslims on the need to promote the full implementation of Sharia law," he went on. - AFP

SAPA


http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Calls-for-total-Sharia-in-Nigeria-20010827

ballabriggs: ^^^

Mr man close your mouth. Lagos Ibadan, Sagamu to Benin, Warri to Patani were motorable roads before 1999. The PTF road signs showing construction works were visible in those days- at least I can remember on Sagamu to Benin road very well. In my UNI those days we had PTF projects, water projects, PTF drugs for free, it was everywhere. That green and white logo showing the drop of oil was very visible those days.

At least we could get to PH from Lag in 9 hrs those days. Not until we were infected with PDP's demons did we start travelling for 18 hours just to get to PH from Lag.

You can earn your salary, tell lies to those who do not know your type. Biko avoid bringing those your lies to me.

Jona has budgeted over N9 trillion since taking over, what has he done with it? What have they done with SURE-P apart from give it to a rogue like Bode George to manage.

You are a shameless liar. A very shameless one at that. You have been laid bare for the world to see your azz lying with your 2 eyes wide open. Idiota! You think you wont be found out in a public forum?

There has been no significant construction in the Benin-Ore road since the eighties. Foolish liar! Only patch work and little expasions were done around shagamu town and ondo border when OBj brought in the toll gates. Lying dolt! Where did PTF squander over 1 trillion in todays value? shameless idiotas! OBJ took over a cuntry with complete infrastructural breakdown. Nothing was working. If Buhari and PTF had invested such some in the previous 5 years, wont we have seen it? How many years does a road last? Lying toad!

Did he build a power plant? Did he build an hospital? did he build a new university? Did he build rails? What did he do with the money? He didnt even help his almajiri army who he is now using religious sentiments to deceive into fighting for him. Why did he not build schools to take them off the street? Why! Why!! Why!!!

He simply joined the thieving cabals who stole our oil money and squandered it only for the idiota to now pretend he is a poor man. See job! 419!!! No wonder he qucikly declared Abacha corruption free, because he knows that a deep probe of Abacha will expose him. Why didnt he dare IBB? He knows IBB would have exposed him. yeye!

ballabriggs: PTF the best organisation headed by Buhari and Dora Akunyili (a great woman, who saved Jona from Turai) as the executive secretary. An organistion headed by two hardworking and disciplined minds and not drunken sailor fishermen.

Till date everyone keeps talking of PTF, why not SURE-P as established by President Jonafraud? Because PTF impacted. PTF drugs, PTF textbooks for students, PTF mass transit buses, I saw PTF roads being rehabilitated.

Below is an article written by Pini Jason Onyegbadue, a big time critic of Muhammadu Buhari. He wrote this article in 1998.



GBAM!!!

ABSOLUTE BULL POO!

Point to one notable standing infrastructure from PTF! What did PTF do in Agric, Roads, portable Water, Power, Health, Education, Rails. I dont need trash propaganda article. All the major roads in Nigeria were in a mess when OBJ took over. Benin-Ore, Lagos-Ibadan, East-West, Onitsha-Enugu, Benin-Asaba and so on. Where did he spend over 200 billion PTF money, simple. yeye!

Lest you forget, 200 billion in mid to late nineties, it worth over 1 trillion or more today. Criminals

musak27: As I always preach, if u utter just an iota of lie about another man to feel good or look witty, you are definitely a disguised failure. These accusations must be back with full proofs for your opinion to count. Your utterances on nairaland baffles me a lot,because you always describe events in first person view manner. I just want proof. If you want to be referred to as an intellectual ,talk like one,so no abuses and insults,let the facts speak.

What proof are you talking about? Proof that he hid behind Idiagbon? Or proof that he was kicked out without a fight? Or proof that there are no PTF infrastructure we can point to today? Or proof that he was PTF chairman for 5 years? or proof that he truncated our infant democracy? Exactly what proof are you asking for please? Maybe you need proof that NL exists.

thegoodjoehunt: What concerns, Al Pacino? LOL. Laughter wants to kill me. You mean that actor in God Father was really a gangster? That is some education. I must take first.

I just had to refer to Al pacino to give you a picture of how the gangs operated in the early 20th century in America. I am in generous mood.

thegoodjoehunt: Have you answered how in that time we were watching NTA news and Newsline, even Super Eagles like Kanu and Okocha without Generators and nothing working? Yet you say I'm a teenager.

Small pickin. You dey take style dey learn about naija free of charge from me and you no wan acknowledge. dobale before I give you more info. Oloshi!

thegoodjoehunt: Now you have gone to America. Please if the past Government of America were corrupt and causing the people harm and looting their funds, do you think the gunslinging Colorado Men and North Carolina men will sit down. Those guys are armed to the teeth and ready to rock.

The American democracy grew because of Good governance. Not by monumental corruption.

Look, I am doing you a free service by educating you for free here on NL. I will not be this generous next time. The USA between the 1920s and the 1950s was a gangter's paradise. Have you ever heard of Al pacino's the Godfather? New york and california were run and practically governed by gangs. The law enforcement agencies were all deep in it. You should try and calm down and do some serious reading before you come here to debate

thegoodjoehunt: How can you ask me that. Was I in General Buhari's government. All I know is that he didn't loot funds and he did a lot of work with it. Let us be fair with our questions.

How do you know he didnt loot funds if there is no evidence of what was done with the funds? Your are really confused. You are contradicting yourself. So you think he didnt loot funds because he said so? Or because he claims he has no property anywhere? Or because he dresses like a gate man? lol

Meanwhile your NOI and GEJ are going on CNN and lying that there was hardly no investment for Twenty Decades. I laugh in Bakassi and you concur.

General Buhari stayed about 2 years and yet you are pointing fingers at him for the crime of General Babangida. Yet you say I am talking nonsense. SMH and laughing.

When I said you are a teenager, you said I was insulting you and alas, I was right. Can you name one major power project built and commisioned between 1983 december and 1999?

To really show you are a teenager, you dont even know Buhari was PTF chairman between 1994 and 1999? SMH for you

thegoodjoehunt: I never justified a coup. I was debunking your claims of the Shagari government being a pedestal to greater heights.

Where did I claim anything about the Shagari government? na wa for you self.

It isnt about the shagari government being a pedestal to greater heights. It is about how the democracy should have been allowed to bud and grow and overcome its teething problems. What would America have been today if coup after coup have been the case when things were bad? Do you know how bad and corrupt America was in the 30s and 50s?

Buhari was a curse to Nigeria.

Afam4eva: Enugu and Cross River have never had a strong opposition and Donald Duke did well and Chime is currently doing very well. I even think it's the states with strong opposition that are not doing very for whatever reason.

I disagree. You can add chime to the list of those few but most others are from states with strong opposition. Edo state is a good example. The only way Oshiomole could fight his way into the hearts of Edo citizens was to show good promise in a short time. He would not have survived the fight if he didnt show such promise. Edo state was a locked down PDP state.

Akwa Ibom has a strong opposition that is very vocal. Okorocha is in the same shoes with Oshiomole. He had to show good promise in a short time. Rivers is another state with a vocal opposition.

thegoodjoehunt: Can you show me one proof that he embezzled PTF money. Please leave all those propaganda stuff. I wonder how you can call someone like Gen. Buhari foolish. Please that isn't mature. Let us not act like hooligans here.

I just asked you to show me one thing PTF did with over 200 billion in the nineties that is still standing to date and you are asking me nonsense question. If the money was not embezzled, wont you see the monuments and infrastruture it was used for?

What did PTF money achieve in health, agric, roads, education, etc. We know how things were when OBJ took over, so where did PTF money go?

thegoodjoehunt: The year 2013 calls for a sober reflection at the fairness of the overthrow of Shagari’s government in 1983. The first four years of that regime was characterized by unnecessary press war against it. Moreover, after many years of military dictatorship and the aftermath of the civil war, instruments of democratic governance completely collapsed. Four years could not be enough to restructure civil rule for representative government.

The mistakes of the first term could have been corrected during the second tenure. The military that became impatient to sack that government entrenched monumental corruption. Whatever they accused that government of was insignificant compared to increased corruption and displacement of priorities that followed. The Nigerian economy continued to witness an unprecedented downward slide.



http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/48823/2013/02/28/shehu_shagari_88.html


Note could have been corrected, not would have been. Also note, sack a government entrenched with monumental corruption. I know you are old enough and saw everything. Congrats.

Finally don't say he will fail. You are not God and you don't know tomorrow. Thanx.

I have told you to stop posting nonsense to justify a foolish coup by a power drunk idiota. There was no unprecedented downward slide. The military, starting from Buhari, brought any unprecedented downward slide. When Buhari took over, it was 1 naira to approx 0.9 dollar. By 1999, it was 95 naira to 1 dollar. When was the downward slide then?

In 1983, Nigerians didnt need a visa to travel to the UK and the USA. Infact, you could travel to the UK with a student ID. Stop posting nonsense. It was free education and you got a job immediately you graduated. Nigerians started travelling abroad for greener pastures from 1988/1989. About 6 years after the military took over. In 1983, a brand new Volkwagen beattle car cost 2,500 naira and ticket to the UK was 500 naira. You are talking absolute nonsense

thegoodjoehunt: Just like the democracy of Goodluck and OBJ, has made us great. Please.

If you are not a teenager, you would know that with all the challenges we have today, we still have made much more progress than the progress of the 16 years between Buhari and Abacha. When OBJ took over in 1999, nothing was working. Absolutely nothing. How many mega watts of power did OBJ inherit again? In the 2 years of GEJ, we have added more Megawatts than was added between Buhari and Abacha.

OAM4J: Most political parties and politicians are 'evil'; they are selfish, liar, corrupt, opportunists, etc, including the most advanced democracy in the developed countries. What keep political parties/politicians in check is the fear of being voted out of power by the people, so they try to do better than the other party for the people. That is why it is better for the people to always have a strong alternative.

It is in this light I strongly welcome APC. Even if they dont win (though I strongly hope they do), at least PDP will know it can no longer be 'business as usual'.

I totally agree! The states currently with the best performing governors in Nigeria are all states with strong opposition. By strong opposition, i mean that the incumbent is aware that the people can turn against him if he fails and he has no choice but to try and show some promise. The only governor I respect that performed without pressure was Donald Duke.

thegoodjoehunt: All your screams and rants after the bolded statement did not show or explain your statement.

I know you will gallop into hiding after posting trash about a foolish human being like Buhari. Can you show me one thing that they used over 200 billion PTF fund to do? Just one tangible one still visible today? nonsense!

[quote author=Neo-XVI]My thoughts exactly. I pray they succeed and become as strong as PDP.
I hope they are able to field exciting candidates with some pedigree in public or private service.
I hope that to a good extent they allow party process and primaries to pick the best candidates.
I hope they realize that we have high hopes that when they do get into power they will do better, much better to help us forget all the years of PDP misrule.

Their allegiance should be to the Nigerian populace.
APC over to you. Help awaken the sleeping giant that Nigeria is![/quote]No party will ever save Nigeria. Parties are founded on the selfish interest of people and regions. Nigeria will be saved by inputs from time to time of few good and revolutionary men who will beat the odds and perform. If these APC folks have not been able to save the states they govern, how can they save Nigeria?

thegoodjoehunt: [color=#000099]IMF gave Nigeria certain conditions which must be met. In 1984 when the naira exchanged for $1.34, the IMF demanded a minimum of 60% devaluation of it. Buhari refused, agreeing only to a "crawling peg"—a mechanism whereby government would realign the currency gradually, forestalling or minimizing economic and social dislocations because of such drastic devaluation of its currency. In addition to the devaluation of the naira, IMF demanded that government took other drastic actions:

When were you born that you are posting this nonsense here. We saw it with our eyes. Buhari, the illiterate sharia proponent was the beginning of Nigeria's economic mess and the decay we have today and he was a coward to boot. If he was a real man, he would not have hidden under Idiagbon's pants for 20 months. As soon as Idiagbon went for hajj, they kicked the fool out of office without a single fight. If that dolt had not truncated our nascent and budding democracy, we would have been a great country today. The idiota wanted to be a life president and had no single plan to return the country back to democracy. No wonder he never supported any of the struggle to return the country back to democracy throughout the 90s. Even people like Tinubu and Gowon at one time or the other learnt their voice to the call for democracy but Buhari was silent all along. Where was the idiotic Buhari when so many people came out to advocate to a return to democracy? He was busy frolicking and dinning and embezzling with Abacha and later declared Abacha corruption free. Now he wants to reap where he didnt sow. He wants to enjoy a democracy he vehemently truncated and fought against.

He will fail as he has always failed.

nice

Chilug: Which part of nigeria are u in? Or u don't eat staple foods to have seen the speed at which those priceS skyrocket. Let's be frank to our selves my friend. Sentiment apart.

Which prices are skyrocketing? You are the one not being frank with yourself. Prices in Nigeria go up and down from time to time. There is nothing like skyrocketing prices

ypzilanti: On a serious note sha. Any serious student of economics knows that there is an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation. Given CBNs harsh monetary policies that discourage lending, it is not surprising that inflation is down and unemployment UP.

Unemployment is simply a function of lack of production industries in comparison to population growth. Even is spain, italy, SA, Greece and germany. amongst other, where there is easy lending to industries, there is still very high unemployment. SA has a higher unemployment rate than Nigeria. The reason countries like greece are crashing is because the government is spending so much on welfare because of a high unemployment rate. That is why some senators in America is calling for reduced government spending to forestall an economic crash in the near future

billante: Are u so daft u can't comprehend wat I said!?

When 40 million people need jobs and 5 million jobs are created.... Will u say no jobs were created just because 100,000 people showed up for a 2000 job vacancies!?

Why do you bother replying the lad. He is just earning his pay. China has a higher unemployment rate than Nigeria yet it is considered a growing and prospering economy. He is only displaying his ignorance

Burger01: This is the handiwork of marketers and some Nigerians who would prefer to cash in on the gain of inflation drop as against the average Nigerians enjoying and benefiting from the progress of the country economically. Some Nigerian marketers and business people are just thieves and saboteurs in the making. Unless their is a regulatory body in place to check such sharp economy practises amongst Nigerian markers Nigerians would never feel the impact of inflation drop. No wonder people keep saying prices of commodities would never come down in Naija. A sachet of 'pure water' was once sold at 10 naira and now some sell for 5naira and most bad eggs sell for 10 naira. Now, who is to be blamed?

His post is a lie. There is no such rise in price. He is just a gloom and doom monger trying to promote his ACN sponsors with every post

miqos02: THANK YOU, they are all liars, economy is only improving in their pockets

Thanking him for lying,

chess guru: This is where your argument should have been directed in the 1st place.
I honestly can't vouch for this figures, but saying dat the figures are false based solely on the rise in price of commodities is wrong, and that was my issue with you.
The spending power is the real issue and not the rise in price, and this I believe is the real challenge any govt in nigeria will face.

The rise in price of commodities is only in his megative mind. He claimed that rice has suddenly gone up from 8500 to 12500. lol. How he got that figure from his supposed pechkam hideout is amazing. There is no such and has never been such rise in the price of rice. Not recently and not anytime in the recent past. The price of rice has hovered between 7000 and 9000 over the last 2 years. It goes up particularly during festive periods. These ACN cronies just try to throw negative stuff around to try to paint a picture of gloom and doom about Nigeria. They have been shouting this for a long time now and we still havent crashed yet. They are just rumour mongers. The economy of Nigeria is not different from other economies around the world. Infact, we stand a better chance and have a potential for growth if things like the power road map and rail projects can come good soonest.

With all the negativity coming from the ACN gang, you will think people are dying of starvation in Nigeria. lol. Have you ever seen anyone die of starvation in Nigeria? If things are hard, it is because the world itself is at an economic cross road and Nigeria is even far better than many cities in Europe. Did you see the video of people looting in America? You would have thought that will never happen since those governments are so perfect and are taking care of their citizens. But the truth is, it is all lies. There are very poor people in America. Spain has over 45 percent unemployment. South Africa has over 70 percent unemployment for people within the age bracket of 21 and 35 years.

Nigeria is still far better than many of these places. Apart from infrastructure like power and rails, there is nothing fantastic about many of those countries. The life there is very hard and all the diaspora Nigerians that are telling you otherwise are lying true their teeth.

This what you get from insincere arm chair critics that litter cyber space. They are only in it for their personal interests. Even if GEJ did not notify him duly

1. How can his personal ego take precedence over such a serious matter of national importance and life or death.
2. Why would he reject such a great opportunity to serve after having shouted his throat hoax over claims that he actually knows the solution
3. Why would he opt out of such a great opportunity to help his core constituency and save thousands of lives

Talk is cheap they say. We will continue to discover these hypocrite daily. Isnt it ironic that after critising all these while, when you are finally handed a chance to work a solution, instead of taking it as an opportunity to engrave your name in the sands of time and endear yourself to millions of Nigerians, you take the easy way out. You chicken out because you are actually a chicken trying to pretend you are a lion.

Shameless idiota!

miccodb: This simply means uncle Jona has done it again. Publicly naming a committee without prior consultation or pre-discussion.

Anoda mauling for anti-GEJs

This what you get from insincere critics that litter cyber space. They are only in it for their personal interests. Even if GEJ did not notify him duly

1. How can his personal ego take precedence over such a serious matter of national importance and life or death.
2. Why would he reject such a great opportunity to serve after having shouted his throat hoax over claims that he actually knows the solution
3. Why would he opt out of such a great opportunity to help his core constituency and save thousands of lives

Talk is cheap they say. We will continue to discover these hypocrite daily. Isnt it ironic that after critising all these while, when you are finally handed a chance to work a solution, instead of taking it as an opportunity to engrave your name in the sands of time and endear yourself to millions of Nigerians, you take the easy way out. You chicken out because you are actually a chicken trying to pretend you are a lion.

Shameless idiota!